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GROVER - The controversy over video
sweepstakes gaming continued Monday
night and as tempers flared at the town board
meeting Mayor J.D. Ledford called a halt to"
the "city recognition portion" of the meeting
> but not before Don Johnson, who rents his
buildings on Main Street to sweepstakes par-
+!lors and Dennis Moss, who operates Cyber-
= line, had their say.
Pryor i in hospital
after getting
struck at church
Mom seeks prayers
for both families
Samuel (Junior) Pryor, 62, of 106 Misty Lane, remains in
Intensive Care at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte
where he underwent surgery Tuesday after being struck by a
car Sunday night by off-duty KM police officer Bob Myers.
'Pryor’s mother, Kathleen Pryor, said that her daughter-in-
law, Debbie Pryor, is staying at the hospital with her husband
who may have more surgery later in the week. “He is doing
well but we need your prayers,” said the mother.
According to Kings Mountain Police Ptl. K. A. Wajda the
accident happened at 7:02 p.m. Sunday night in the parking
- lot of First Baptist Church on West King Street. Bobby Mau-
rice Myers, 73, of 124 Dixon School Road, had just let his
The discussion came minutes before the
baard unanimously set a public hearing for
Feb. 6 to consider a moratorium on issuing
conditional use permits for video sweep-
stakes. The change in the ordinance requires
public notice and a public hearing.
"We just want to operate our businesses
and not be harassed by police," said Johnson.
Deputy Roy Dyer, a new councilman, took
issue and denied the accusation.
"It's against the law to operate against the
conditions of conditional use permits and po-
wife, Martha, off at the entrance to the church and was driv-
ing through the parking lot to park his 2008 Ford. Samuel
Pryor, 62, of 106 Misty Lane, had just dropped his wife, Deb-
bie, off at the church entrance, parked his car and was walk-
ing back to the entrance.
See PRYOR, 7A
Hutchins, Hawkins
announce run for 2012
we ELIZABETH STEWART
lib.kmherald@gmail.com
A week into this new year and local
candidates are eyeing 2012 elections.
County Commissioners Johnny
Hutchins and Ronnie Hawkins an-
nounced jointly this week that they are
‘in the race for re-election in 2012.
Hutchins, chairman of the county .
board, is running for a third four-year-
term, and Hawkins, vice-chairman, is
running for a fourth four-year-term on
the commission's five member board.
Both Hutchins, 65, and Hawkins, 59,
said their experience and common sense
approach to government have made
them a part of a hard-working, progres- |
sive team that has worked successfully
See COMMISSIONERS, 7A
Martin Mongiello, of the American Revolutionary War Living
HUTCHINS
: KYRAA. TURNER
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Civil War soldier,
William Madison Wright,
has found his final resting
place 128 years after he was
first buried. His descendants
were there to carry him
home.
The remains of 14 graves
were unearthed and moved
from the old Bostic-Wright
Cemetery off of West Dixon
Boulevard, December 30, to
clear land for the new 74 by-
pass. Wright and his two
wives are now buried among
their kin, other Wrights,
Bostics and Washburns in
the cemetery of Double
Springs Baptist Church,
where Wright’s son, John B.
HAWKINS
tery for foal construction.
== EMILY WEAVER
i Editor
Part 1 of 2
Once upon a time a man
named "King" lived on a
mountainside near a creek. It
was King’s Mountain, near
King’s Creek; or so the story
begins.
The apostrophe has since
faded into the murky annals
of time, but studies done by
the American Revolutionary
Snapshot of Kerr's 1882 map
History Center looks for King’s Mountain on an old state map.
lice are doing their job and our two auxiliary
policemen work for ftee," he added. "I per-
sonally don't want that kind of element in this
town but the bottom line is that we don't want
criminal activity in this town, we had rather
have nothing."
The two uniformed auxiliary and part
time officer stood at the back of the meeting
room and the chief of police sat at the table
with council members. =
Chief" Eric Buff said a police car was
parked for a day or two in the parking lot
across from the sweepstakes parlors because
of complaints by a citizen of traffic viola-
tions,
"We're legal," said I Dennis Moss of Cy-
berline. "Do you want business in this town
or a ghost town?" to which board member
Brent White responded, "We want business
that is legal."
Johnson said that the town was stagnant
before new businesses opened on Main
See GROVER, 7A
vision
811s
American
Dream?
Wright attended.
Wright was a Confeder-
ate "Soldier with the 56th
North Carolina Infantry
Company F in the Civil War.
He married Susanna Bostic
Wright on May 12, 1859.
Susanna “was born July
18, 1832 and died in child-
birth in October of 1863,”
wrote Wright’s descendant
Jeffrey L. Martin on the Web
site genealogy.com “My
great-great-grandfather
William Matison Wright
came home from the Civil
War to find his wife, Su-
sanna, had been pregnant
when he left for war and
both her and the babe were
lost,” Martin wrote.
‘See SOLDIER, 6A
William Madison Wright's headstone and grave, along with
his two wives and 11 others who are unknown, is shown at
their final resting place, Double Springs Baptist Church
Cemetery, after being moved from the Bostic-Wright Ceme-
KYRA TURNER/HERALD
Whose King of the Mountain?
War Living History Center
reveal it did exist on maps
and in journals — once upon
a time.
The National Park Serv-
ice, which now claims the
mountain, reminds visitors
that its land was not named
for King George III, al-
though it may have been set-
tled by George King I. The
will of George King (Senior)
‘
was recorded on February
26, 1796 and is held in York
County, South Carolina. Ac-
cording to his will, George
King, husband of Mary King
and father of George,
Samuel, Benjamin and John,
had already given a “planta-
tion” to his eldest son
George and his heirs and
asked that the rest of his land
be divided amongst his other
three sons.
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tain.
enter.
What is your vision of the American
You can win big prize money if your
photograph on the above subject is cho-
sen as one of the three winners in the
2012 Dr. Martin Luther King Photogra-
phy contest Monday, Jan. 16 as the fea-
ture of the ML King celebration
sponsored by the City of Kings Moun-
The first place winner will receive
$150 in prize money. Second place will
win $100 in prize money and third place
will take home $50. There is no cost to
Each entry must be a photosraph, re-
flect the theme, and in color or black and
white. Entry forms are available at City
Hall and deadline to submit an entry is
Friday at 5 p.m. Email your entry to
‘See CAPTURE, 7A
Civil War soldier finds final
g Ising place 128 years after burial
He signed his will: “In
testimony whereof I have
hereunto sett my hand and
seal this twenthy six day of
November — In the year of
our Lord, one thousand,
seven hundred, and ninety
two and in the twenthenth
year of the sovereignty and
independence of the United
States of America.”
Innkeeper of the Inn of
‘the Patriots and ARWLHC
founder Martin Mongiello
said that they are studying
the original King family to
uncover its ties to the battle
fought on King’s Mountain.
The ARWLHC plans to
commission a painting be
done of the long lost “King”
in their series of local heroes
of the Battle of King’s
Mountain.
Although only a King by
his last name, this early set-
tler’s namesake spread far
beyond his first realm on that
mountain near that creek.
The entire range of that spe-
cial geologic formation now
carries his name — the Kings
Mountain Belt. The battle
that historians say “turned
the tide” of America’s Revo-
lution and spoiled the Loyal-
ists’ plans to conquer the
south went on to inspire the
new name of a town and one
of its main streets.
Where would we be with-
out the King?
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