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PRESENTS REQUEST —Mrs. Melvin Mountain Thursday conducted by state DOT
Whitesides, above, presents her request for oiiicials.
road improvements at a hearing in Kings Photo by Lib Stewart
Mrs. Scarborough Quits
Mrs. Tinky Scarborough, a
secretary to Community
Development Director Gene
While, resigned Friday and has
accepted new employment, she
told the Herald Monday.
Mrs. Scarborough was
suspended for seven days
without pay after a letter she
wrote criticizing local govern
ment appeared in last Tuesday’s
Herald.
The letter of resignation was
submitted by Mrs. Scarborough
last F riday to K M Development
Director Gene White, to Mayor
John Henry Moss and to
members of the board of city
commissioners.
The letter read:
“1 do regret that you, as my
employer, have been upset by
my action taken in an effort to
express my opinion toward a
public matter-a right which all
citizens have. I met and worked
with many people whom 1 great
ly admire and respect and will
surely miss. However, due to my
suspension, the possibility is very
great that 1 would no longer be
able to perform my duties in an
impartial manner. For this
reason, 1 am tendering my
resignation to the City of Kings
Mountain effective this date.
May 15, 1981.”
Mrs. Scarborough said that
she was suspended by her
employer because she didn’t
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BY ELIZABETH STEWART
Co-Editor
Linwood Road residents
presented a petition with
signatures of 257 citizens propos
ing the reopening of the area,
closed due to By-Pass construc
tion work, but DOT officials at
'Thursday’s public meeting said
that the By-Pass project is “far
too advanced to change it now.”
Linwood Road is near the By-
Pass interchange with the in
terstate highway and the inter
change has been designed in
such a way that a connection
with Linwood is not practical,
according to Assistant Division
Engineer T. G. Brooks, who
along with other officials of the
state Department of Transporta
tion were at Kings Mountain
Community Center to conduct
the public hearing for counties in
Highway Division 12.
J. W. Hardin, a resident of the
area, presented the petition and
said that closing of the southern
ponion of Linwood has cut off
the area from Chapel Grove Fire
Department that now must
travel either through Kings
Mountain or Bessemer City to
respond to any fire in the area.
The closing has added, he said,
about 15 to 20 minutes travel
time for emergency vehicles
responding to the area. Hardin
said that travel time has also in
creased for persons of the area
going to Gastonia and school
bus and mail routes have been
changed due to the closing.
The Linwood request was the
major request submitted by
Kings Mountain citizens but
Mayor John Henry Moss, who
welcomed the visiting group to
Kings Mountain, said that local
citizens are concerned about the
by-pass progress. Officials after
the meeting said that completion
of the by-pass is still scheduled
for 1983 but availability of funds
could schedule the schedule.
Division Engineer Ken
Mauney of Shelby and Bill
Cadell, chief of planning for the
DOT staff and chairman for the
meeting, said after the meeting
that the schedule calls for com
pletion of the interchange in Fall
of 1983 with various phases of
the construction targeted for
earlier completion. Mauney said
the Bethware section of the pro
ject is expected to be completed
in 1981, the center section or
area near the Community
Center in 1982, and the big 85
gnd 74 interchange in the area of
Canterbury Road in 1983.
Pat Campbell and Pearson
Stewart, also of the Raleigh
staff, assisted in conducting the
hearing attended by 40-50 peo-
ple.The meeting was one of a
series scheduled in each of the
state highway divisions to begin
the process of updating the
1980-86 Transportation Im
provement Program. The
meetings this year were held
against a backdrop of a highway
funding crisis w hich officials said
could have a severe impact on
highway construction priorities.
The Transportation board
staff pointed out that only two
major Cleveland County pro
jects are scheduled in the im
provement program through
fiscal year 1986. Scheduled for
funding that year is $3.25
million for paving of the bypass
and $2.3 for construction of the
South DeKalb Street Extension
to Highway 150, south of
Shelby.
According to figures provided
by the board projects scheduled
for the coming year will cost
$534 million that has not been
allocated and with revenues
estimated at only $86 million.
Mrs. Melvin Whitesides of
Kings Mountain asked for pav
ing of Rural Road 1403 and
complained that eight families
“are eating dust and would like
something done about it.”
Sue Murdock, of Cherryville’s
Economic Development Com
mission, said that Cherryville’s
first priority is the widening of
Highway 150 to Lincointon.
Some $10 million in funding for
the project is scheduled in fiscla
yers 1986 tnd 1986 and Mrs.
Murdock as 'd that the project
be kept in the i.. .'gram.
Also speaking at the meeting
were Jerry Lundy of the City of
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How Do You
Courage? S-C
(tD. NOTE; The follow’.ng ar
ticle was written by Bud
Crussell of the Ocala, Fla.
Stor-Baimer, about ll-yeor-
old Scott Corrigan, who is
battling leukemia. Scott is a
former Kings Mountain resi
dent. He is the grandson of
Arthur Corrigan of Kings
Mountain.)
Every pitch is a victory...every
day is a blessing.
And, so it is in the life of
11-year-old Scott Carrigan as he
seeks to mow down not only the
opposition on the baseball field,
but also to defeat another threat-
-leukemia.
Scott has been one of the most
outstanding players over the past
couple of years in the city’s
youth ba.seball program. Last
year, he was so effective as a pit
cher that he only walked one
batter the entire season. Such a
feat has to be a record. It is
nothing less than phenomenal.
This year promised to be an
even better year for Scott.
Another year of growth, and of
stronger muscles would make
him an awesome figure on the
mound for the 1981 season.
But, playing this year was
almost scratched when doctors
in December found that Scott
had a form of leukemia-the lym-
phobla.stic type to be exact.
The fact that Scott is playing
baseball again this year has to be
chalked up as one of those
miracles we hear about every so
often. He is pitching again for his
Barnett Bank team in the Clyatt
Park league.
He may not be up to 100 per
cent physically the way he
would like to be, but never
theless, he is there on the mound
throwing those fast balls by the
batters.
His family, Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Carrigan, and his brother and
sister are rejoicing about Scott’s
playing. His coach, Augie
Greiner, is amazed. And, the
medical people at Shands
Teaching Flospital in Gainesville
are flabbergasted.
From a medical standpoint,
Scott shouldn’t even be strong
enough to isarticipate in any
athletic activity, much less doing
something as strenuous as hurl
ing baseballs past batters.
But, he is doing it.
Last December, Scott’s
parents. Bill and Pat Carrigan,
suspected something was wrong
when Scott complained about
his jaw hurting and having a
numb lip.
That was December 8.
Thinking it might be a dental
problem, a local dentist was con
sulted. The dentist made an ex
amination, and then suggested
that Scott be examined by a
medical doctor specializing in
the eyes, ears, nose and throat.
The MD sent Scott to the
hospital for more x-rays. All of
this on the first day, and still not
a final diagnosis as yet.
The second day found Scott
back at the dentist, and then on
to an oral surgeon who perform
ed a gum biopsy. It was found
that Scott had three permanent
teeth loose because his jaw bone
was deteriorating. On the third
day, Scott went to a local clinic
for a blood test. On the fourth
day, a local specialist in
hemotology wanted Scott back
in the hospital for more blood
tests.
Two hours later, the doctor
called Bill and Pat with the
news-Scott had leukemia.
“1 felt like my world just stop
ped. It right then ended,” Bill
said.
And Pat.
“I was in a state of total shock.
I just couldn’t believe it,” she
stated.
The doctor then made ar
rangements for Scott to enter
Shands that day.
That same day, the Shands
people started a series of tests on
Scott. They had to determine
what type of leukemia it was.
Lymphoblastic leukemia is so
named because it just suddenly
“blasts” out.
“They told me that if he had
been examined two weeks
earlier, the leukemia might not
of even been detected. That’s
how quickly it acts,” Bill explain
ed.
After the first' week in the
hospital, Scott took a turn for
the worse. His kidney quit func
tioning properly, and his calcium
content dropped. He was under
a 24-hour watch. Apparently,
there was an over reaction from
the chemotherapy treatment
Scott was receiving.
He was in critical condition
for three days, and then he level
ed off. After four days in a
stablized condition, the doctors
said Scott could go home.
He went home on December
23.
“It was the best Christmas
we’ve ever had. It made a close
family even closer. We laid aside
other priorities for our main con
cern was for Scott,” his father
said.
Christmas day was a real bless
ing. Scott got up out of bed with
a ravenous appetite. Scott was
really home, and the family re
joiced.
‘The Man up there made it
possible,” Bill said.
Scott didn’t have to go back to
the hospital for any more over
night stays. He did have to go
back to Shands every day for
two straight weeks.
Then, there was more good
news. After 14 days of radiation
treatment, Scott went into com
plete remission. The treatment
was working and news of the
remission was another victory.
Since then, Scott has had to go
to Shands just once every two
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