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VOLUME 94, NUMBER 45
TUESDAY, June 9, 1981
Kings Mountain, North Caroiina
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Mills Construction Company
of Shelby will begin construction
on 10 homes in the redevelop
ment area off Cansler Street by
the end of this week.
Mills has acquired option on
all 39 lots in the area and wilt be
conveyed more lots upon suc
cessful progress of the current
project.
All 39 tots are designed for
single-family dwelling and a
10.78 acre greenway has been
set aside to serve as a park, ac
cording to Mayor John Moss
and Community Development
Coordinator Gene White.
Fred Mills, owner of the Mills
firm, said the homes would
average 1100 square feet with a
price range from $35,000 to
$39,500. Three of the homes will
have passive solar heat included
into the heating design system.
Financing can be arranged
through conventional sources
and the Farmers Home Ad
ministration through Mills’ of
fice in Shelby, and, depending on
a person’s income, size of family,
and other factors, monthly
payments may be as low as $ 105.
Mills was awarded the bid on
the project only two months
ago, and he credited Moss,
White and the City Board of
Commissioners for their help in
getting the project off the
ground so quickly.
“They have been very
helpful,” he said. ‘They handled
- this program very speedily. They
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Photo by Lib Stowart
want to see housing developed as
soon as possible.”
Rut Moss and White said the
project included years of study,
and all builders interested in the
project were carefully screened
and their housing quality exten
sively evaluated.
‘The original idea came about
1965, when Mayor Moss first
went into office,” said White.
‘The city really started thinking
of it as a very long-range
picture.”
White entered the pictured
several years later, when he
came to Kings Mountain as
Director of the Redevelopment
Commission. That commission
oversaw the acquisition of the
property and demolition of the
old homes in the area.
“As far as the redevelopment
process, this will be the culmina
tion of the re-cycling of property
back into the hands of the
private citizens,” said Mills. ‘The
property will again produce
taxes for the city and county.”
Of the first 10 homes con
structed, one will be on Watter-
son Street and nine on Campbell
Circle. All are within a block of
the Kings Mountain Schools Ad-
minstrative Office.
Mills said all homes will be
equipped with heat pumps, will
be three bedroom and one baths
homes. Some will have kitchen-
den combinations and living
rooms and others will have
kitchen-den combinations and a
great room. All will be brick-
veneer homes and all will have
concrete drives.
“We will custom build on
some of the lots,” Mills said.
“We want to try to be as flexible
as possible.”
Mills also said he will use as
many local sub-contractors and
suppliers as possible.
Mills hopes to have some of
the homes completed by mid-
August and anticipates the en
tire 39-home sub-division’s com
pletion in 24 to 30 months.
“We’ve built and developed
sub-divisions in several
counties,” Mills said, “and as far
as the physical typography is
concerned. I’m as excited about
building here as I’ve been in
some time. For homes in this
price range, the demand is
definitely here.”
Mills said any interested
buyers may coi/act his office in
Shelby, and it will take loan ap
plications and process them.
Qualified applicants may receive
Farmers Home Administration
loans at interest rates ranging
from one to 13.4 percent, and
Mills also predicts that conven
tional interest rates will be com
ing down by the end of the year.
“If anyone wants to apply, the
only thing it will cost them is
about 30 or 45 minutes of thtir
time,” he said.
I
NEWCOMER—Dr. David McDaniel U pictured with a patient.
Mrs. lohn Brooks, in his new offices at Kings Mountain Eye
Clinic which opened recently in Professional Park on King
Street.
A New Man In Town
Dr. David R. McDaniel,
newcomer to Kings Mountain,
A got in the contact lens and o|>
" tometry business in Maiden in a
family practice operated by his
older brother. Dr. J. O.
McDaniel, Jr.
Son of former residents Mr.
and Mrs. J. O. McDaniel, Sr.,
David McDaniel opened Kings
Mountain Eye Clinic on May
5 th in Professional Park and
specializes in contact lens and
primary eye care together with
0 treatment of exterior eye
disorders.
The Clinic is designed especial
ly for Dr. McDaniel and features
a pre-testing room where pa
tients are tested for glaucoma via
a computerized tonometer and a
retinal camera quickly diagnoses
eye problems. Two examination
rooms are stocked with a bio
A microscope which is used to
^ remove foreign bodies in the eye
and to fit contact lens and a
frame dispensary has mirrors on
both walls lined with a large
variety of glass frames for all
ages of patients.
With advanced trends in con
tact lens. Dr. McDtmiel said that
patients can now be fitted with
extended wear lens which do not
have to be removed for as long
as two weeks and all soft lens
which correct astigmatism. A gas
peimeable semi-soft contact lens
is also popular and the Federal
Drug Administration has just
recently approved the extended
wear lens. The Clinic features
more sophisticated instrumenta
tion which photographs and
measures the eye. An Autoplot
measures the visual field of a pa
tient and with the biomicroscope
and automatic chart projector
the optometrist can detect blood
pressure, diabetic and other con
ditions and can compare the pa
tient’s progress by referring to
the charts. In laboratory Dr.
McDaniel tints lens and works
on contact lens. His mother-in-
law, Mrs. Joan Belton, is recep
tionist and a reception area and
business office are carpeted and
decorated.
The McDaniels are moving
this month to Kings Mountain.
Mrs. McDaniel, the former
Paula Belton, is a kindergarten
teacher at Startown Elementary
School and will receive her
master’s in early childhood
education in August. The
McDaniels are Baptist and Mr.
McDaniel enjoys photography,
sports, and music as hobbies.
A native of Gastonia, Dr.
McDaniel is a graduate of the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill and Southern
California College of Optometry
in Fullerton,California. Before
moving to Kings Mountain he
practiced in Maiden.
“We appreciate the welcome
that Kings Mountain citizens
have given us and invite the
public to visit our new facility on
King Street,” said Dr. McDaniel.
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LOOK OVER PLANS-Fred Mills, second from
left, of Mills Construction Co. of Shelby, points
to the drawing of the planned sub-division in
the Cansler Street REd'evelopment area.
Construction will begin this week. Looking
Photo by Gary Stewart
on. left to right, are Bill Hager of the City's
Housing Committee, Linda Neal of Mill's com
pany, Community Development Coordinator
Gene White and Mayor John Moss.
Fishermen Drown During Storm
A 33-year-old former Kings
Mountain man, David Ray
MuUinax, and his 18-year-old
nephew, John Alexander
Hearold, both of Gastonia,
drowned about 10:30 p.m. May
30th after their 12 foot fishing
boat capsized during a
thunderstorm.
Their bodies surfaced on Lake
Wateree in Camden, S. C. June
3rd, ending four days of sear
ching.
Double funeral services were
held Friday afternoon at 2 p.m.
from the Chapel of Harris
Funeral Home in Kings Moun
tain. Rev. Homer Wilson of
ficiated at the rites, and inter
ment was in Mountain Rest
Cemetery.
Hearold, son of Mrs. Nancy
MuUinax Hearold and grandson
of Mrs. Easter MuUinax, both of
Gastonia, was scheduled to
graduate last Friday night from
Bessemer City High School.
MuUinax, son of Easter Sut
ton MuUinax and Stacy
Watch
Program
Citizens of Canterbury Road
will organize a Community
Watch Wednesday(tomorrow)
night at 7:30 p.m. and will
gather in the yard of the home of
Mrs. Don W. Blanton. In event
of rain, the meeting will be mov
ed to the home of Mr. and Mrs.
John Pipier.
Lt. King of the Crime Preven
tion Unit of the Gaston County
Rural Police will lead the
organizational meeting.
“We invite all citizens of the
Canterbury Road area to
attend,” said Mrs. Blanton.
Firearms
Course Set
A Firearms course for women
begins Saturday, June 13th and
continues on ^turdays from 8
a.m. until noon at the Kings
Mountain Firing Range.
The 12-hour class will be in
structed by Chief o' Police
Jackie D. Barrett. The class ends
June 27 and registration is $5.
There is no registration fee for
senior citizens.
The class is co-sponsored by
Cleveland Tech and the Kings
Mountain Community Schools
Program.
lOHN HEAROLD
MuUinax of Gastonia, ws. vice-
president, secretary and
treasurer of MuUinax Construc
tion Company. Also surviving
are three brothers, Don
MuUinax and Alexander
MuUinax, both of Gastonia, and
Edward MuUinax of Kings
DAVID RAY MULLINAX
Mountain, and five sisters, Mrs.
Nancy Hearold and Mrs.Patsy
McMillan, both of Gastonia,
Mrs. Mildred Bridges of Kings
Mountain, Mrs. Novella Barnes
of Chattanooga, Tenn. and Mrs.
Dorothy Brown of Manassas,
Va.
Juanita Goforth Retires
As KMHS English Teacher
The Sophomore Class of
Kings Mountain Senior High
School paid tribute to retiring
English teacher Juanita MeS-
wain Goforth on the closing day
of school Friday.
Mrs. Goforth, wife of Ben T.
Goforth, completed her 32nd
year in the classroom on her
retirement from the system this
week. A Kings Mountain native,
she joined the KM schools as an
eighth grade teacher after
graduation from Appalachian
State University. She has been
teaching for many years at K ings
Mountain Senior High.
“It is the opinion of the
students that the school will suf
fer a great loss when Mrs.
Goforth retires,” said the Tenth
graders.
Representing the KMSHS
Sophomores were Lynn Bolin,
Joan Finger, Karen Ledford,
Clayton Ollis, Dean Sarvis,
Kevin Dixon, Laura Hendrix-
son, Hamilton McGill, Tim
Plonk and Jay Scronce.
The students wrote The
Herald:” The Sophomore AT
English Class would like the op
portunity to publicly thank Mrs.
Goforth for all her help in the
past year. She has been an
outstanding teacher and equally
importantly a wonderful friend
MRS. JUANITA GOFORTH
to all of us. The Class would like
to thank '•er for making learning
enjoyable and interesting, for
finding a way to eliminate the
monotony of reading, writing
and research."
“Now the year is coming to an
end and we must aU move for
ward. We would like to make the
following dedication to a superb
teacher: The time has come that
we must part, and go our
separate ways, but you’ll be
always in our hearts through all
the coming days.”