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O' •ft Thunday. March 28.1874 KINGS MOUNTAIN MIRROR PageSA jir^ - mu Riddle Fabrics Well-Known Creek So.''‘\v4r. >“'• ', •?4 / KMOC OFFICEIU • Ragan IlMRar (left) hai been elected prealdent of the Klnge Mountain Country anb at the annual elockholderf meeting held laat week. Taking office abo were (left to right) George 'niomaison - vice prealdent, Tom Tate - treeanrer and Carl DeVane - aecretary. New directors named wereThomaason. Dan Finger, Mickey Powers and L.D. (Josh) Hbinam. Dfa«ctors remslnlng on the board include Harper, Tate, DeVane, Hoyle D. McDanbI, Grady Howard, Will Herndon, Bob Suber and Walt Harmon. ' (From page lA) ' Who Hired Tom Cox? had been hired temporarily.” Mayor John Moss then gave a (dironology explaining how Cox was employed. “On December 28, the Lake Authority requested an engineer be brought in acquainted with water use and control After a few phone caUs, thenameTom Cox came to our attention.” Moss went on to say, "on Jan. 12, Mr. Cox was invited to a Lake Authority meeting and on Jan. 26 he was unanimously approved for employment as consulting engineer.” The question then arose from Commissioner Nicholson, ‘‘how much authority does the Lake Authority have anyway?” Ward Five’s James Amos asked, “does the Lake Authority not have the right to operate within the framework set forth by this board?” City Attorney Jack White said, “the Lake Authority is a legally constituted body, however, you would be delegating your authority to them if you allowed them to hire and fire personnel.” Commissioner Davis then said, “I understand 0>x has been going out to residents around the lake and collecting money for his advice. I'd like to know where that 'money goes.” Mayor Moss noted “permits issued now carry the stipulation that a fee will be required later.” The mayor said no fee schedule for permits had yet been established. Moss then stated Cox had been asked to “review alt permits as they come into my office. I send them oik in the mail and be returns them as soon as possible with his recommendations attached” Again Davis asked, “where does the money go that Cox has been collecting at the lake?” Moss replied, ‘‘I don’t know.” Davis continued, “if Cox has been collecting money at the lake, I want to know why the chedcs haven’t been made out to the city or the Lake Authority instead of himself. I think if Cox is hired by the dty, then ail negotiations and money should come throu^ the city.” Corbett Nicholson then said, “the Lake Authority voted to get Cox but the dty board hasn’t hired him.” Jack White said, ‘;i in- derstand Cox hasn’t been paid anyth ing yet for his services. I don’t know what the agreement was between him a^ the4;ake Auliiarttyit'M., Nicholson said, “I thought he was only supposed to draw iq> specifications and designs for the Lake Authwity.” Attorney White then stated, “I think the best thing this board could do is to get together with Mr. Cox, either in closed or open session, and try to find out the details. You should probably have members of the Lake Authority present when you talk to him.” Corbett Nicholson made the motion the item be tabled until the board could contact Cox and Ray Cline seconded the motion. It passed unanimously. The matter went further when the board was addressed by lake property owner, Buford (nine. Cline talked at length about problems he was having with the city and then he made mention of paying Cox for advice. Cline produced a xerox of a cancelled check made out to 0>x in the amount of $2S. Cline said he had talked with Cox about a pier he was con- MINISTERS MEE'DNG The Kings Mountain Ministerial Association will meet at Central Methodist Church Mon., Apr. 1 at 10 a.m. WE ARE NOW IN OUR NEW LOCATION r A,;-: V Interior Of Peggy’s New Restaurant PIT WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE CITIZENS OF KINGS MOUNTAIN FOR YOUR TREMENDOUS RESPONSE TO OUR NEW OPENING WE ARE STILL SERVING OLE FASHIONED FAMILY STYLE COOKING. WE ARE LOCATED AT 415 N. PIEDMONT AVE. IN THE BUILDING FORMERLY OCCUPIED BY GAULT BROTHERS GROCERY. PEGGY’S RESTAURANT 415 N. Piedmont Avenue LORRETTA McDANIEL, Owner Open Mon. Thru Sat. 5:30 AM - 9:00 PM structing out of 12-inch con crete blocks and Cox said they would not be permissible. Chne said Cox told him a proper pier would cost around 82000 uiien he viewed (line’s situation. Chneering the $25 check to Cox, Cline termed it “coercion”. By JAY ASHLEY Mirror Staff Writer Riddle Fabrics has the imenviable position of being up a well-known creek without a paddle. Their “creek” is a sewage line problem and their only “paddle” would be a permit ftom the State Department of Water and Air Resources, which from alt indications, will be impossible to obtain. J.T. Malcom and Harold Riddle approached the dty board with their dilemma several weeks ago, and the situation was given to D.L. Fox, consulting engineer. Malcom, who is part owner in the new manufacturing venture on Second St. Ext., said the building had been erected with a promise that sewer service would be possible. The business is concerned with the manufacture of narrow fabrics (ribbons for label tape). Malcom said before he purchased the property, “the Mayor and several board members came to our site and guaranteed we could connect onto the city’s sewer line near the proposed building.” Malcom said with that in- formation, building proceeded. “We have sunk more than $125,000 into our business and recently found out we would need a permit from the State agency to hook onto the city's line like we had been promised” lntheirMar.il meeting, the city board asked engineer Fox to “work with the Riddle Fabrics people in obtaining a permit for sewage disposal.” The main problem, ac cording to Malcom, is that a sewer line is needed to allow the business to go into the “bleaching end of our operation.” Malcom said in the past their bleaching has been done by a firm in Greenville, S.C. and “we have to pay them to bleach plus pay the freight charges there and back.” “Ihe new place”, Malcome continued, “was deigned to accomodate bleaching and would save us a lot of money.” He said it is costing Riddle Fabrics “about$l0()0 per week to have our bleaching done,” From a letter to the mayor and city board dated Mar. 22 from D.L. Fox, it would ap pear Riddle Fabrics will still have to pay the Greenville firm to do bleaching for them while they sit in a new $125,000 facility unable to dump bleaching waste. The letter from Fox said, “pursuant to your request and action at the board meeting of Mar. 11, (concerning Fox’ directive to comminicate with the State Water and Air Resources agency about the Riddle problem) 1 did contact Mr. William Mull, Regional Engineer with the Office of Water and Air Resources in Asheville to see if there was any possible way that Riddle Fabrics could discharge their waste to the City Sewer Collection System. “Mr. Mull advised there is no way for such a discharge to occur without tremendous consecpiences. Even if the City of Kings Mountain could treat the waste satisfactorily. Riddle Fabrics would still be required to obtain a permit, in that a pumping station is involved. Mr. Malcom of Riddle Fabrics was advised of the permit requirements on Mar. 13. “In addition to the above, Mr. Mull advised that the Board of Water and Air Resources renewed the City of Kings Mountain ‘Assurance of Voluntary Compliance’ ffr the fourth and last time at its Feb., 1974 meeting with respect to discharges to the McGill Creek Plant. Fur thermore, the board of Water and Air Resources directed that any future significant discharges to the McGill Creek Plant be transmitted to their Enforcement Division which, in turn, would ask the Attorney General for prosecution in violation of GS 143-215.79. Such a violation carries a $5,(X10 fine for each event. 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