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KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA 28086 THURSDAY, MARCH 27,1975
Board To Study Water Rate Proposals
Commissioners are
ted to act on recom-
ations concerning water-
at the Apr. 14 board
ing In the interim
ussioners will study and
3S the proposals sub-
d by the mayor’s utiUty
study committee.
Frank Sincox, com-
■e chairman, attended
day night’s council
ng to present the
,sais and answer
tions. He reminded
lissioners the report has
in theirhands for several
5 and requested “the
1 w ...-ve r; cific action
ht (Tuesday).’’
But before the Apr. 14 date
for action was set a lengthy
discussion took place in which
one motion to have the
committee rethink and
redraw the rate fee schedule
to include rate reductions for
residential water users was
made, passed and rescinded.
way I can consider reducing
rates for business and in
dustry is for the residential
users to also have a reduc
tion.”
industry back to what to
where they were prior to May
1974. Instead, we suggest the
increase not be as much as it
was.
were not affected in the May
1974 increase. It’s hard to
make a reduction on rates that
had not been increased in
1974,” he said.
percent while other utilities
have shown less than 30
percent profit,” Sincox said.
motion gave Amos and thi
other commissioners that
opportunity.
Commissioner Don McAbee
made the motion based on his
understanding that a promise
had been made to residential
users prior to the construction
of the John Moss Lake and
plant that as soon as this was
done rates would be reduced.
Commissioner Ray Cline,
who was on the board prior to
the lake construction, said, “I
don’t remember any promise
like that. I do seem to recall
that the board at that time did
promise citizens a rate
reduction following retire
ment of the water bond tee.”
“This has not been done,”
McAbee said. “And the only
Dr. Sincox pointed out to
commissioners the commit
tee’s recommendations did
not “want to reduce rates for
Sincox also pointed out that
it was not the job of the study
committee to make such a
decision as far as reducing
water rates below what are
presently being used. “If you
(commissioners) wish to re
duce rates, then reduce them.
This committee was formed to
study the rates as they applied
after May 1974, not the in
creases made prior to that
time. “The residential rates
Commissioner James Amos
asked Sincox if he didn’t agree
that prior to the May 1974
industrial rate increase that
was a need for such an in
crease. Sincox said he did not
agree. “Butit all boils downto
your point of view and a
decision as to just how much
profit you wish to make from a
service.
Amos wanted to know if the
recommendations, if ap
proved by the board, would
not in fact lose money for the
city. Sincox said it would not.
He indicated it might cut down
slightly on the current profit
margin.
“Water operation profits
has been something like 90
Amos said he didn’t know
whether the current rates
were fair, but he wanted an
opportunity to sit down with
the full board for a thorough
discussion before he made a
decision. McAbee’s second
Sincox told commissioners
as far as he was concerned
there were no more facts for
the committee to study and
nothing else for the committee
to consider in revamping the
proposed rate fee schedule. He
did commit the committee to
attend any special meetings
the board may have on the
matter in order to fully ex
plain the wheres and whys of
the recommendations and
assist in any way the board
decides.
DR. SINCOX
keds For 20 Years
lOng-Range Sewer
Underway
By TOM McINlYRE
Editor, Mirrm-Herald
kn hour’s discussio, ^ues-
^ night by City Engineer
ffiiiis Fox informed dty
ipimissionersofthe progress
Bing made in the 201 sewer
ijilities planning for Kings
Buntain, its perimeter and
feioj .i.iuniy:
fhis project is to set up a
title plan for sewer up-
fog and construction for
le next 20 years and the
t come will affect to what
ent, if anv, the federal
ternment will participate
ith funds in the future,
fox explained that seven of
)e 12 steps in the planning
aVe been completed, in-
luding delineation of plan-
|ig areas; preparation of
ian study; the establishment
f water quality and other
rater management goals, a
eview of pollution sources,
fete loads and water quality
information, inventory of
existing waste treatment
systems and flows, inventory
of environmental conditions
and estimates of future waste
loads and flows.
“The planning urges each
governing unit to act in
dependently, but the overall
' iXTiX he id td ...i. i.
and greater benehv of the
entire planning area ’’ Fox
said.
Inone phasenf thesludy, for
instance, Fox gave the board
several alternative {dans of
action that could be taken
concerning the McGill
Treatment Plant. One would
be more pumping stations to
divert part of the flow to the
Pilot Creek Plant on the north
west side of town. Another is
to relocate the McGill plant
east of 1-85. Still another plan
is to update the present McGill
plant, but here costs might be
objectionable, and yet another
plan is to go into a regional
situation with, perhaps Gas
tonia and-or Bessemer City.
The 201 plan is to be
designed to anticipate the
needs in all areas of the dty
and perimeter over a 20 year
period with updates every five
years.
Kings Mountain case, the
majority of the study will have
to be applied to the northwest,
west and southwestern areas
adjacent to the city. Fox said
the area to the south, because
of its present heavy industry
and mining operations, holds
little chance of much
development as far as the dty
is concerned.
Foote
Jumps
Wages
Foote Mineral Company,
Kings Mountain Operation,
has announce da general wage
increase for all hourly em
ployes effective Mar. 31,1975.
This is a 13 percent adjust
ment in employes wages, and
is complemented by substan
tial improvements in the total
benefit package.
Foote is presently con
structing a new chemical
plant at its present facilities,
and will begin hiring addi
tional personnel to staff this
plant in October of this year.
SCOUT CIRCUS
Passage of such a com-
Auxiliary To Organize
ings Mountain Hospital
A|xiliary will be formally or
ganized next ITiursday morn
ing (April 3) at 10 a. m. at a
ifineetingof all interested wcxn-
en volunteers in the Board
im of KM Hospital.
Mew officers will be elected
at the meeting, dues will be
set, and charter and by-laws
will be ready for approval by
members.
Mrs. George Scharf, co-
chairman of the steering
committee, said all interested
women are invited to attend
the initial meeting.
!20.000 Goal
let By KMUF
prehensive plan will mean a
much clearer picture of where
Kings Mountain possibly will
grow and develop. It will also
mean more stringent controls
on affluent processing will be
applied, according to Fox.
Leslie Hall Jr. of Hen-
nington, Durham and
Richardson of Charlotte, lead
engineer for the Cleveland-
Gaston complex in the 201
study, also present Tuesday
night, said, “Back in the 1930’s
master plans were developed
to take care of long range
planning and they were like
concrete. Not flexible at all.
The proposed update every
five years is to be able to
handle whatever comes up
without destroying the overall
initial plan.”
Mayor John H. Moss said,
“This board has already
authorized a water study in
our perimeter areas to be done
in association with the land
SEWER PLANNING - City Engineer Dennis Fox discusses
the current 201 sewer facilities plan study underway in Kings
Mountain and Gastm County with Charles Carpenter, an in-
Photo By Tom McIntyre
ferested citizen who attended Tuesday night’s commissioners
meeting. The plan is to ultimately affect this area for the next
20 years.
St. Matthew’s Lutheran
Church Cub Pack 91 will spon
sor a Circus at the Community
Center Monday. The Scouts
will “dress up” for the pro
gram to which the community
is invited.
Rabies Clinics
Here Saturday
Rabies clinics are scheduled
at three locations in the Kings
Mountain area Saturday by
Dr. Jacob Mauney, vet
erinarian.
Vaccines will be given at a
reduced rate, $4, at Grover
School from 9:20 until 10 a.
m.; Bethlehem Fire Dq)art-
ment from 10:15 to 10:45 a.
m.; and KM City Hall from 11
a. m. to noon.
Final Hearing On CD
Spending Is Tuesday
Sunrise
Service
Planned
Third and final public
hearing for citizens to
recommend how the city will
spend $4,160,000 in federal
monies will be held Tuesday
night at 7:30 at City Hall.
iM United Fund directors,
_Jving to fight the economy
pinch which has hit hard the
United Fund Cam{)aign,
Binday night took upon them-
sdves a mini-drive to raise
♦20,000 within the next two
;ks.
specifically, each of the of
lectors will call on local
iustry to obtain pledges
„Pe Secretary Becky Seism
address and mail 77 let-
to professional people in
^e area who may not have
■en contacted earlier in the
^paign by UF volunteers.
, Peadline is AprU 14 when
^e officers and directors
peet again for a wrap-up
“ssion at First Union
ntional Bank Conference
Bill Bates, leader of the
pnganization effort, showed
.mparison figures from last
par of giving by the two
Jzen-plus plants in the area
revealed that the UF has
hard hit by inflation,
jany lay-offs and closings of
Inf ^ reasons
Bates to
, Deices CO
tct the campaign were
Tom Tate, Grady Howard,
Scoop Peeler, John Cheshire
Marvin Teer, J. C. Bridges
and Jim Herndon.
“We think we can live with
this realistic figure of
$20,000”, explained John
Cheshire, who noted that goal
the 1975 United Fund in
Kings Mountain for 14
agencies is $35,100. Of this
total, only $8,922 has been
reported, meaning som of the
agencies may be cut in
requests for 1975, he : >lded.
Mr. Bates said citizer,.o not
contacted by a UF volui.teer
may forward their con
tributions to Mrs. Becky
Seism, UF TVeasurer, PO Box
192, Kings Mountain, N. C.
“One gift works many
wonders the United Way” is
the campaign theme. Local
beneficiaries are the- Helping
Hand project of the Minis
terial Association, Boy Scouts,
Girl Scouts, American Red
Cross, KMHS Band, KM
Rescue Squad, KMHS Chorus,
the Salvation Army,
Qeveland County Association
for Retarded Children and
Qeveland County Community
Organization for Drug Abuse
Prevention.
use plans. Our board felt this
was very necessary. The two
go together.”
COUNTY COLLECTIONS
Cleveland County has
recorded a 3.98 percent in
crease over the 1973-74 year in
gross sales and use tax collec
tions for the same period in
1974-75. In the previous year
collections totaled $4,715,174.
For the year just past the total
was $4,902,783, an increase of
$187,609. The period runs from
February to January.
Mayor John Henry Moss is
throwing out the welcome mat
for “everyone to attend and
present his or her ideas.”
Kings Mountain will receive
the funds over a five-year
period, $1,040,000 for each of
the first three years, $693,000
for the fourth year and
$347,000 for the fifth year,
qualifying under Title 1,
Housing and Community
Development Act, 1974.
Tuesday’s public hearing
will follow format of the two
prior hearings, said the
Mayor, who said a formal
agenda has not been prepjared.
He said state officials will be
on hand to review the funding
program “up to this point”
and those who have appeared
previously to make requests
will be given another op
portunity to review them.
The mayor said he had not
been notified of any “new
requests”
and all.
but welcomed any
“What we anticipate”, he
said, “is the creation of more
and newer programs that will
benefit our entire community.
And this is where citizen input
at these pubhc hearings is
invaluable.”
File Photographer
Returns Next Week
With only one detour, C. W.
Robinson is returning to Kings
Mountain Tues., Wed. and
Thurs., Apr. 1, 2, 3 to shoot
photos for The Mirror-Herald
files.
Robinson was here last
UF DIRECTORS MAP PLANS FOR DRIVE - J. C. Bridges,
left, Marvin Teer, Bill Bates and John Cheshire plan strategy
for a mini-drive all the directors will conduct to raise $20,000 in
the next two weeks for the 1975 Kings Mountain United Fund,
suffering badly from the pinch of the economy.
Mom, Tues. and Wed., Mar.
24, 25 , 26, but the location was
changed from First Union Na
tional Bank conference room
to the Kings Mountain Wom
an’s Club. Eaton Corp. has of
fices set up in the bank build
ing and Robinson had to re
arrange his setup to the Wom
an’s Club, E. Mountain St.
On Apr. 1,2,3, Robinson will
have his camera ready from
9:30 a. m. until 5 p. m. to
record the faces of Kings
Mountians for The Mirror-
Herald These photos will be
used in connection with news
events and will not cost the in
dividual a single penny.
The M-H urges everyone to
make an ap{)ointment and
make it a point to sit for a por
trait-type photo for Robinson
either next Tudsday, Wednes
day or Thursday.
Kings Mountains are
usually active people and they
make the news. Occasions too
numerious to list occurred in
the past year where a photo
would have enhanced the
but in too many cases
M-H was without the
{jhotos.
Don’t let that happen again
in the coming months.
Have that face of yours cap
tured on film so we can have it
in our tiles the next time you
are a headline-maker.
news,
the
The annual Sunrise Service,
under the sponsorship of the
Kings Mountain Ministerial
Association, will be held at
6:45 at Mountain Rest
Cemetery Easter Morning.
This year’s service will be ,
unique in that it is patterned
after the nationally-
recognized Moravian service
at Winston-Salem. The basic
character of the Moravian
service will be experienced
except for modifications to our
locale. A selection of the
Moravian hymns will be sung
in addition to the triumphant
Easter hymns of Christendon.
Rev. Robert E. Allen,
chairman of the planning
committee for the Sunrise
service, said that “the
Moravian service is a very old
service which is deeply
significant from a spiritual
{Boint of view. The service is
one of true worship which
{X)rtrays beautifully one of the
most im{X)rtant evmts in the
life of Christ and in the history
of the world.”
Leading the service will be
the Rev. John C. Southern,
Rector of Trinity Episcoijal
Church, and the Rev. Robert
E.Lair, pastor of Grace
United Methodist Church. The
Brass Ensemble from the
Kings Mountain Senior High
School will play. David Lucas,
son of the Rev. and Mrs. R. D.
Lucas and a senior at KMSHS,
will be featured soloist. The
Brass Ensemble will play the
prelude in the Moravian style
of beginning at a {)oint away
from the site of the service
and then move gradually to
the designated locaticai of
worship. Members of Boy
Scout Troop 91, under the
leadership of O’Brien Brooks,
will distribute' worship!
materials.
In the event of rain the;
service will be cancelled.