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July 25, 2012
The ‘Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’ is already benefitting Americans
Letter to the Editor:
* As a volunteer for the Seniors’ Health In-
surance Information Program sponsored by
the North Carolina Department of Insurance #
I am kept updated with information concern-
ing the “Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act”. It is helpful for all of us to know
how this reform is already benefitting the
American people.
- Lets millions of young adults stay on par-
ents’ insurance until age 26.
- Ends insurance company power to cap the
amount of care a person can receive in their
lifetime.
- Stops insurance companies from canceling
coverage when someone gets sick.
- Lowers the cost of care for those on
Medicare and helps seniors save nonsy on
their medication.
- Requires insurance companies to cover pre-
ventive services like mammograms free of
charge.
- Strengthens and protects Medicare by in-
creasing penalties for fraud.
- Stops insurance companies from denying
coverage to children with pre-existing con-
ditions.
- Ends insurance company power to jack up
rates without justification.
- Provides Americans with rebates from in-
surers who spend too much on CEO bonuses
or ads.
- Gives tax credits to small business owners
so they can afford to offer quality health care
- Builds and improves hundreds of commu-
nity health centers.
- Gives hard-working Americans tax credits
so they can afford insurance beginning in
2014. ;
- Ends discrimination against adults with pre-
existing conditions beginning in 2014.
For years we have, by law, been required
to buy liability insurance to own and operate
a motor vehicle and homeowners insurance
when buying a home. The healthcare law is
no different in that respect, and it will cover
millions who are being denied coverage.
If someone chooses not to buy health in-
surance, they will still have to pay into the
system (by way of the IRS) so that those who
do buy coverage will not be charged more in
order to cover the inevitable care someone
uninsured will need.
This Act is not a “healthcare takeover”,
nor is it a product of “dictatorship”, as. some
would like us to believe. It could probably be
called “democracy”; affording every citizen
an opportunity to get health care when they
are sick.
In January 2011, the nonpartisan Con-
gressional Budget Office estimated that re-
pealing the health care reform would
increase the deficit by a total of $230 billion
over 10 years.
Other useful information about health
care reform can be found at healthcare.gov
Molly Savage
Kings Mountain, NC
- Few misconceptions in
last week’s letter
To the Editor:
I read with interest the letter in the July 4th
edition of the “Kings Mountain Herald” con-
necting the Declaration of Independence with
the urgent need to defeat President Obama in
November. The writer is entitled to his opin-
ion, but his letter contains a few misconcep-
tions about our history.
First of all, the Revolutionary War was not
fought because of “unfair taxation.” In the
Declaration, Thomas Jefferson condemns
King George III “For imposing Taxes on us
without our Consent,” which came to be
known as “taxation without representation.”
We do have representation today, in the form
of the U.S. Congress.
Second, “freedom of religion” was fot a
cause of the war. The Declaration doesn’t
mention religion until the final sentence:
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“And for the support of this Declaration, with
a firm reliance on the protection of divine
Providence, we mutually pledge to each other
our lives, our Fortunes and our sacred
Honor.”
When the U.S. Constitution was written in
1787, religion was also not a factor. The first
mention of religion was in 1791, when the
First Amendment (“Congress shall make no
law” establishing a religion.) was added.
Many of the framers of the Constitution were
descendants of the Pilgrims, who immigrated
to America in 1620 to escape religious perse-
cution by the Church of England, which was
headed by the King.
The statement “religious rights have been
lost to those who are unreligious” makes no
sense to me. Freedom of religion means we
are free to practice any religion without fear
of persecution — or, if we so wish, no religion.
Furthermore, if we do not like the way our
elected representatives “think” for us, then we
are of course free to vote them out of office.
Cerese B Feagans
Kings Mountain, NC
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ARRESTS
JULY 12: Milton Fitzgerald
Huskey, 44, 310 Waco Rd., in-
jury to personal property, com-
municating threats.
JULY 16: William Anthony
Day, 41, defraud innkeeper, two
counts probation violation,
$2500 bond, secured.
JULY 16: Amber Sloane
Fortner, 19, 312 Fulton St., con-
spiracy breaking and entering,
conspiracy commit larceny,
both felonies, $2500 bond, un-
secured.
JULY 17: Frederick
Alphonso Nixon, 43, 1202
Northwoods Dr., larceny, two
counts, and second degree tres-
passing, $7500 bond, secured.
JULY 20: Dustin Scott Mar-
ion, 24, 312 Fulton St., felony
braking and entering, felony lar-
ceny after breaking and enter-
ing, and conspiracy breaking
and entering building, $10,000
bond, secured and conspire to
commit felony larceny.
JULY 20: Brian Dwain No-
blett, 29, 915 Second St., ob-
structing justice, intimidating
witness,both felonies, $25,000
bond, secured.
JULY 20: Michael Shane
Hall, 41, 306 Blanton St., disor-
derly conduct, $2500 bond, se-
cured.
JULY" 20: John Fitzgerald
Ross, 46, 105 Braton Lane, sec-
ond degree trespassing.
JULY 22: Joseph Emmanuel
McDaniel, 29, Lincolnton, as-
sault on female. :
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County Jail without bond.
Cannedy in custody
Tyrone Cannedy, 23, wanted in the mur-
der of Latry Jabar Hall, 29, of Kingstown,
was arrested July 19 on Faye Street in Gas-
tonia by Gaston County Police.
Captain J.W. Human said the Kings
Mountain man fled the residence out a *
back window when officers arrived at the
house but was apprehended a short dis-
tance away in the woods. Cannedy was jailed in Gaston
Human said that on June 28 at 10:20 p.m. the Kings
Mountain Police Department responded to a possible
shooting call in the area of Kings Road and J.E. Herndon
Access Road. Upon arrival they discovered the victim ,
Larry Jabar Hall, lying beside the roadway dead. It was
later determined that the location was actually a short dis-
tance outside the city limits of Kings Mountain. Gaston
County Police responded and assumed the investigation.
On June 29 a warrant for first degree murder was ob-
tained on Tyrone Marcus Cannedy for the murder of
Larry Jabar Hall and Cannedy had been on the run. Au-
thorities had considered him armed and dangerous.
Police said Cannedy used a network of people who
provided him aid during the past month and charged a
Cleveland County man with accessory after the fact for
allegedly aiding Cannedy in hiding.
Jarvis O’Neal Adams, 34, of 1820 Boyce St,
Kingstown ,was charged on July 8.
Tyrone
Cannedy
Hutchens, 18, 109 George
Lewis Rd., probation violation,
a felony, resist, delay, obstruct,
two counts breaking and enter-
ing vehicle, felony, no bond.
CITATIONS
JULY 16: Tommy Lee Hen-
dricks, 27, Shelby, speeding.
JULY 17: Al6-year-old fe-
male, a 17-year-old female and
a 16-year-old male were cited
for trespassing.
JULY 17: Dontarius Adams,
18, Gastonia, trespassing and
possession drug paraphernalia.
JULY 18: Noe Saravia Ter-
cero, 20, Shelby, no seat belt."
JULY 18: Shea Grigg, 22,
914 Second St., expired tag, no
inspection.
JULY 18: Thomas Jay Jack-
son, 57, Grover, speeding.
JULY 18: Anthony Shane
Smith, 41, Rock Hill, SC,
speeding:
JULY 18: Dennis Dean
Bingham, 59, Fallston, speed-
ing.
JULY 19: Timothy Messick,
29, Grover, speeding.
JULY 19: Latesha Johnson,
27, Bessemer City, revoked li-
cense, no child seat belt.
JULY 19: James Leak, 21,
Shelby, no seat belt, unsafe
movement,
JULY. 20;
Vance, 36, Sherrills Ford, no in-
surance.
JULY 21: Jonathan Harris,
21, Dallas, revoked license.
JULY 22: Joshua Williams,
28, 113 Lois Lane, strap not
property secured on helmet
while operating a Moped.
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KINGS MOUNTAIN - Charles Lee “Charlie” Mash-
Starlene Cooke Baker Bridges, Lora Ann Crawford burn, 70, of 1717 Shelby Road,
77, of 802 Katherine Avenue, SHELBY - Lora Ann died July 20, 2012 at Kings
died Friday, July 20, 2012 at rd : Mountain Hospice House. He
Kings Mountain Hospital in s SY Stamey was born in Bryson City to the -
Kings Mountain. 4,3 ¥ Funeral Home 13t¢ Jesse “Ed” Mashburn. Mr.
Born April 10, .1935 in ~~ —%e& Mashburn served in the United
Cleveland County, she was a
daughter of the late Grady Lee
Cooke and Hattie Beatrice
Poole Cooke. She was a mem-
ber of Second Baptist Church
in Cherryville. Starlene had
worked for Hudson Hosiery
and retired from Timken in
Lincolnton.
In addition to her parents
she was preceded in death by
her first husband, Walter “Red”
Baker and second. husband,
Everette “Buck” Bridges ; two
brothers, Danny Ray Cooke
and Jack Cooke; son-in-law,
Harold Evans; granddaughter,
Missy Evans and sister-in-law,
Pat Cooke.
Survivors include two sons,
Marty Baker of North Carolina
and Mark Baker: of Maine; a
daughter, Kay Star Harley
(Oscar) of Charlotte; three
stepchildren, Karen Evans of
LA, Ray Baker of SC and Fern
Hoed, IN; five brothers, Del-
bert Cooke (Versey) of Shelby,
Ralph Cooke (Judy) of Casar,
Hal Cooke of Forest City and
Flay Cooke (Janet) of Fallston;
three sisters, Joyce Drum (Pet-
vie) of Cherryville, Judy Led-
ford (Arthur) of Lawndale and
Shirley Cooke of Shelby; four
grandchildren, Sissy Marcantel
(Mark), Shevaughn Greenlee,
Michael Baker and Benjamin
Baker; two great-grandchil-
dren, Martha Sue Evans and
Carveshia Guillory and numer-
ous nieces and nephews.
The family received friends
Monday from 12:30-2 p.m. at
Casar United Methodist
Church.
The funeral service was
conducted Monday, July 22,
2012 at Casar United
Methodist Church. Revs. Mike
* Staton and Bill Lovelace offi-
ciated and interment was in
Casar United = Methodist
Church cemetery. Memorials
may be made to Cleveland .
Rutherford Kidney Associa-
tion, 1017 Washington
St.,Shelby, NC 28150, Casar
United Methodist Church, PO
Box 190, Casar, NC 28020.
A guest register is available
at www.stameyfuneral
home.com.
Crawford, 33, 1815 Melrose
Dr., died Friday, July 20, 2012.
The funeral service will be
conducted Wednesday, July 25,
2012 at 2 p.m. at Clay-Barnette
Funeral Home in Shelby. Inter-
ment will be in Shelby's Sunset
Cemetery.
Steve Fortenberry
SHELBY - Steve Ray
Fortenberry, 67, 216 College
Ave., died July 17, 2012.
The funeral service was
conducted Friday, July 20,
2012 at 2 p.m. at Clay-Barnette
Funeral Chapel, interment in
Shelby’s Cleveland Memorial
Park.
Bette Glass
KINGS MOUNTAIN -
Martha Elizabeth Howard
Glass, 82, of Fairfax, VA, died
July 15, 2012 at her home.
The funeral service was
conducted Friday, July 20,
2012 at 2 p.m. at El Bethel
United Methodist Church, in-
terment following in the E
Bethel Church Cemetery.
Tonra Heffernan
KINGS MOUNTAIN -
Tonra Lynn Heffernan, 49, a
resident of Kings Mountain,
died July 16, 2012 at her home.
The graveside service was
conducted Saturday, July 21,
2012 at Mountain Rest Ceme-
tery officiated by Rev. Barry
Philbeck. Interment was in
Mountain Rest Cemetery.
Carrie Martin
KINGS MOUNTAIN -
Carrie R. Martin, 93, formerly
of Kings Mountain died July
24, 2012 at Summit Place of
South Park, Charlotte, NC.
Arrangements are incom-
plete at this time and will be
announced at a later date by
Harris Funeral Home.
Javier Martinez
SHELBY - Javier Martinez,
25, died July 13, 2012 at Hos-
pice at Wendover.
The funeral and burial serv-
ice will be held in Oaxaca,
Mexico.
States Army during Vietnam
and was past commander of the
American Legion Post 155 and
the VFW 9811, both of Kings
Mountain.
A graveside service was
held at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 22,
2012 at Mountain Rest Ceme-
tery, where interment followed.
Dennis M. Moss
GROVER - Dennis Marvin
Moss, 60, resident of Grover,
died July 15, 2012.
The memorial service was
held Friday, July 20, 2012 at 4
p.m. at First Baptist Church of
Grover of which he was a
member. Rev. John Barnhardt
officiated.
Memorials may be made to
his children’s educational fund
at any Wells Fargo Bank.
Jimmy Peeler *
KINGS MOUNTAIN -
Jimmy Peeler, 68, resident of
Kings Mountain, died July 17,
2012 at Cleveland’ Regional
‘Medical Center in Shelby.
The funeral service was
conducted Friday, July 20,
2012 t 11 a.m. at Westover
Baptist Church, interment fol-
lowing in Cleveland Memorial
Park in Boiling Springs.
Margaret Spencer
SHELBY - Margaret Mor-
rison Spencer, 84, died Friday,
July 20, 2012 at Cleveland
Pines Nursing Center.
The funeral was conducted
Sunday, July 22,2012 at 2 p.m.
at Clay-Barnette Funeral
Chapel in Shelby, interment
following in Shelby's Sunset
Cemetery.
Madge Turner
SHELBY - Madge Mcln-
tyre Turner, 99, died, July 22,
2012.
The funeral service will be
conduced Wednesday, July 25,
2012 at 11 a.m. at Shelby's
Second Baptist Church. The
family will receive friends
from 10 a.m-11 a.m. before the
service. Interment will be in
Cleveland Memorial Park.
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