Pag* 8A-K1NGS MOUNTAIN HERALD'Tburtdoy. D*c*mb*r 31. 1911
1981 Year Of Triumph And Tragedy
From Pag* 5-A
A record $12320^00 budget
was approved by the City Board
of Commissioners, and the board
maintained the ad valorem tax
rate of 50 cents per SI00 valua
tion.
Rev. M.L. Campbell appeared
at a city board meeting to ques
tion why the city hires from out
side Kings Mountain at what he
termed “the expense of qualified
workers within.”
Dr. Paul E. Hendricks, 68,
well-known Kings Mountain
physician, died of a heart attack
while on a vacation trip to
Pawleys Island, S.C.
Rev. Kenneth E. Looney,
who grew up in the Grover-
Kings Mountain area and was a
member of the Kings Mountain
Church of God, assumed
pastorate duties at the Kings
Mountain Church of God.
James Meldeau Stoll Jr., 54, of
1015 Sherwood Lane, a former
KMHS teacher, died.
Martha Wright, director of
Child Nutrition Services for the
Kings Mountain Schools since
1972, was elected President of
the N.C. School Food Services
As.sociation.
JULY
Franklin Ware, 65, Kings
Mountain native, retired after 35
years with the Employment
Security Commission. He was
manager of the Shelby office for
14 years.
The Kings Mountain Herald
announced that it would return
to a weekly publication. Herald
Co-Editor Lib Stewart was nam
ed editor of the Cherryville
Eagle.
The City Commission approv
ed a $218,248.32 bid from P&M.
Construction Company of
Shelby to build a gas transmis
sion line from Transco to the ci
ty regulator station.
Grover Mayor Bill McCarter
threatened town council
members with a “friendly suit”
after the council voted
unanimously not to reimburse
him for some seeding work he
had done on Carolina Avenue.
Dr. Jeff Mauney and Jim Lee
Y arbro were elected as two new
. members of the Kings Mountain
Hospital Board of Trustees,
replacing John L. McGill and
Carl F. Mauney.
Dr. Philip Grover Padgett, 70,
of 605 North Piedmont Avenue,
died. He practiced medicine in
Kings Mountain from 1940 until
he retired in 1978.
Dr. Everette Bernard Thombs
announced the opening of his of
fices for the practice of internal
medicine at 103 West King
Street.
A weekend break-in at
McGinnis Furniture resulted in
the loss of six Zenith televisions
valued at $2,428.
The Herald learned that the
State Utilities Conunission had
been trying since 1971 to get the
city of Kings Mountain to up
date its gas system.
Dr. John C. McGill of Kings
Mountain was one of five per
sons elected to six year terms on
the Board of Trustees at Erskine
College.
Clara Martin Merck, 51, of
Kings Mountain, was shot to
death in what police called an at
tempted murder suicide. Her
husband, Charles Merck, died
later.
New box numbers for rural
mail route customers went into
effect.
Kings Mountain Sertoma
Club received its organizational
charter.
City commissioners approved
advertisement for bids for an
estimated $65,000 water project
in District Four and a $10,000
project in District Three.
John F. Cissell, a Kings
Mountain National Park ranger
who was credited with saving
the life of Grover School student
Kelli Harry last December, was
honored in special ceremonies at
the Military Park. Robert M.
Baker, National Park Service
Southeast Regional Director,
presented Cissell with the Red
Cross Certificate of Merit, the
highest honor given by the
American Red Cross, and signed
by President Reagan.
Wade H. Tyner Jr. and Nancy
Seism were elected to the Board
of Directors at Home Savings
and Loan.
Six-year-old Tracy Black,
thought to have been lost or kid
napped, turned up safe and wide
awake after spending the night
in the attic of her next door
neighbor’s house. She apparently
left her home during an argu
ment between her mother, Deb
bie Black, and her boyfriend,
Jerry Lawson.
AUGUST
Asheville defeated Kings
Mountain for the championship
of the Senior Babe Ruth State
Tournament at Lancaster Field.
A 25-year-old Kings Moun
tain man, Joseph Lee Morrow,
was beaten, stabbed and left for
dead near Myrtle Beach, S.C.
KMHS teacher Kenneth Blan
ton and two other men were in
dicted by a federal grand jury in
Charlotte on three counts of
violating federal weapons laws.
Kings Mountain police in
vestigated a break-in at Herald
Publishing Company.
Kings Mountain Convales
cent Center was awarded a cer
tificate of accreditation by the
Joint Commission on Accredita
tion of Hospitals.
Jerry L. Eskridge and Col
eman W. Goforth were nanmed
to the local board of directors of
First Citizens Bank.
Dr. Thomas Breeden,
gynecologist, of Gastonia, an
nounced he will be alternating
the use of an office with Dr.
John Brooks, allergy specialist,
at 608 West King Street.
Filing began for the October 6
election of three Kings Moun
tain city commissioners.
The City Board approved a
$36300 traffic signalization pro
ject and temporary detouring of
truck traffic onto Cansler Street
until the bypass work on Pied
mont Avnue is complete.
Senator Ollie Harris was re
appointed to a two-year term on
the Mental Health Study Com
mission.
Kings Mountain School Board
approved a 10 cents per plate in
crease in the price of school lun
ches.
O.C. Kiser, chief operator of
the T.J. Ellison Water Plant, was
named Clas B Wate Plant
Operator of the Year in North
Carolina.
James Dickey, Jan Deaton,
Johnnie Caldwell and Curt
Gafhey filed for city commis
sioner seats.
School opened for over 4,000
Kings Mountain district
students.
Kings Mountain commis
sioners approved a natural gas
reduction of seven percent, but
Commissioner Jim Childers said
‘St should have been more.”
Kings Mountain Hospital an
nounced an increase in room
rates of approximately $28 per
room.
District Two commissioner
Humes Houston filed for re-
election.
William Steven Wells, Kings
Mountain teacher, assumed the
presidency of the N.C. Associa
tion of Classroom Teachers.
Lt. Gov. Jimm Green an
nounced the appointment of
Senator Ollie Harris to a two
year term on the Child and
Family Service Interagency
Committee.
SEPTEMBER
Kings Mountain United Fund
kicked off a $62,150 fund drive.
William Orr and Johnny A.
Ross filed for city commissioner
seats.
Cleveland County Unit of the
American Cancer Society com
pleted its annual fund drive and
reported donations of $40347.
The goal was $40,000.
The city board passed a resolu
tion authorizing Mayor John
Moss to ask the N.C. Housing
Finance Agency to set aside $3
million to assist city residents in
mortgaging of new homes.
Jacob G. Hord, 78, of Shelby
Road, died. He was a retired
groceryman and a member of
the first Kings Mountain High
football team.
Jerry Ledford announced that
he would run for the Kings
Mountain Board of Education.
Kings Mountain Baptist
Church held dedication services
in its renovated sanctuary.
C.A. (Gus) Huffstetler, Chief
Deputy of the Cleveland County
Sheriffs Department, died after
several weeks illness.
Jim Testa, owner of the Kings
Mountain Truck Plaza and Jim
Testa Racing Team, announced
that he had purchased Jerry Na
tion Chevrolet and had tegun
clearing for construction of a
new facility on York Road.
Bill McCarter filed for re-
election as Grover Mayor and
Grady Ross field for one of five
seats on the Grover Town Coun
cil.
Kings Mountain Board of
Commissioners approved a plan
which would re-align East and
West Gold.
Richard Greene resigned as
Central School principal to take
a newly-created position as Ad-
minstrative Coordinator of the
N.C. Alternative Energy Cor
poration Electrical Load
Management Program.
A hunting accident was fatal
to Louis Sabetti Sr., 59, well-
known insuranceman and com
munity leader.
The City Elections Board
learned that John Ross lives in
District Six and would have to
run for a District Six commis
sioner’s seat. He earlier filed for
the District Five seat.
OCTOBER
The City Board adopted the
hydro-electric plant project for
Moss Lake and authorized
Mayor John Moss to develop a
financing plan.
The late Louis Sabetti Sr. was
posthumously honored as
Volunteer of the Year by the
Cleveland County Unit of the
American Cancer Society. His
son, Lou Sabetti Jr., accepted the
award.
The city board learned that
the re-alignment of Gold Street
would cost over $300,000.
Rev. C.C. Crow, 81, of Kings
Mountain died. He was a long
time Baptist minister in
Cleveland and Rutherford coun
ties.
Humes Houston and Curt
Gaffney won seats on the city
board of commissioners but Jim
Dickey and Jan Deaton will
have a runoff on November 3.
Fiber announced that it would
discontinue the production of
textured polyester filament
yarns at its Shelby and Green
ville plants by December 31,
1982, and approximately 1350
Shelby and 260 Greenville jobs
would be eliminated.
Seventeen year old John Ferri
of Charlotte was injured when
he lost his footing and fell 50 feet
while climbing the Kings Moun
tain Pinnacle.
The N.C. Symphony an
nounced a performance at
Barnes Auditorium.
Martha Byers filed to run for
Mayor in Grover. Filing for
commissioners were Juanita
Pruitt, Ronald Queen, Quay
Moss, Edward Philbeck, Ken
neth Anthony, Bill Camp,
Thomas Childers, James Grind-
staff, J.N. howell, Dennis
McDaniel and Vickie Smith.
Glenda O’Shields was named
principal at Central School.
Kings Mountain Police Of
ficers Richard Reynolds and
Robert Dodge were awarded the
Advanced Law Enforcement
Certificate, the highest cer
tificate awarded by the N.C.
Criminal Justice Training and
Standards Council.
Kings Mountain teacher Ken
neth Blanton was sentenced to
18 months in federal prison after
pleading guilty to one count of
possession of an unregistered
firearm. He plead guilty to the
charge in exchange for dismissal
of two charges of aiding and
abetting possession of
unregistered firearms and aiding
and abetting transfer of an
unregistered firearm.
The three Cleveland County
school boards met in Shelby to
disuss the possibility of studying
a merger of the three administra
tions.
Governor Jim Hunt announc
ed that Kings Mountain was a
winner of the Governor’s Com
munity of Excellence Award for
the second straight year.
Twelve-year-old Scott Car-
rigan of Ocala, Fla., formerly of
Kings Mountain, died of
leukemia.
Kings Mountain United Fund
held ‘its victory diner and an
nounced pledges of $67 3 87.17.
Governor Hunt named Mayor
John Moss to the Governor’s
Crime Commission.
Judge Woodrow Jones chang
ed his mind on the sentence of
KM teacher Kenneth Blanton
and gave Blanton a suspended
sentence and a $5,000 fine for
his conviction of possession of
unregistered machine guns. He
was earlier sentenced tgo 18
months active sentence. The
judge said he had received a
number of letters and character
references and since Blanton had
no previous record, he felt he
should change his dgeision.
NOVEMBER
Incumbent James Dickey
defeated Jan Deaton for the
District Sbt seat on the Kings
Mountain Board of Commis
sioners and Jerry Ledford and
June Lee were elected to the
Kin^ Mountain School Board.
Bill McCarter was re-elected
mayor in Grover, defeating Mar
tha Byers by a vote of 100 to 98.
Vickie Smith, Ronald Queen,
Bill Camp, J.N. Howell and Den
nis McDaniel were elected com
missioners.
Grover Town Council approv
ed closing an 873-feet portion of
Maple Avenue at the request of
Minette Mills and Grover In
dustries, which anticipate future
expansion. Commissioners Mar
tha Byers and Edward Philbeck
voted against the motion.
Ed Gavin, attorney with the
N.C. Dept, of Natural
Resources, promised landowners
in the Kings Creek area south of
Kings Mountain, that the state
will begin an investigation into
what is causing fish kills, dirty
water and odors in the creek.
Shelby School Board went on
record as approving a study of
merger of the three county
school systems.
Kings Mountain Lions Club
presented District Governor
Neal Alexander Jr. a check for
$2,84 for its contribution to the
Lions annual White Cane drive.
Mrs. Hazel Fryer retired after
nine years as director of Mauney
Memorial Library.
Mrs. Sara Mae Beam, 82,
longtime Kings Mountain resi
dent, died.
Kings Mountain Commis
sioners approved of thecity and
the Kings Mountain Develop
ment Corporation entering into
a contract to construct a gas line
to provide natural gas for
Reliance Electric and Bethware
School.
Greg Payseur, eighth grade
science teacher at Kings Moun
tain Junior High, was named
assistant principal at Central
School.
The city of Kings Mountain
lost its two law suits in
Cleveland County Civil Court.
A jury ruled that the city must
pay $23,300 to Cecil’s Inc., of
Spartanburg, which built the
new city hall. Kings Mountain’s
counter suit of $65,000 was
dismissed by Judge John Friday.
Dawn Hambright of Grover,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Hambright, represented KMHS
in the Carolinas Carrousel
Parade in Charlotte.
Kings Mountain School Board
voted unanimously not to par
ticipate in a merger feasibility
study of the three county school
systems.
DECEMBER
Derrick Lewis Freeman, 23, of
Shelby, night clerk at the Holi
day Inn in Kings Mountain, was
robbed, abducted an taken to a
remote area of Gaston County
and shot. He escaped when his
two attackers became entaged in
some vines and fallen trees and
ran a half mile to a farmhouse.
Sunday’s Christmas parade,
sponsored by Kings Mountain
firemen, the city of Kings Moun
tain, and the Merchants Associa
tion, was well-attended.
1 ne new Grover Town Coun
cil took the oath of office, and
immediately made two ad
ministrative changes. Vickie
Smith was appointed town clerk,
replacing Gloria Horton, and
Mayor Bill McCarter was named
office manager and finance of
ficer. Mrs. Smith, who later
learned the duties of town clerk,
requested a special meeting to
resign the position.
Tim Echols was named
Bethlehem Fire Department’s
Fireman of the Year. Fred Tate,
former chief and chairman of the
board, was given a special ser
vice award and Don Graham,
outgoing chief, was given a
special appreciation award.
Kings Mountain City Board
approved a 12.1 percent elec
trical rate increase. Mayor John
Moss later named a special com
mittee to study a pay plan for
senior citizens.
Willard Jarbrough was named
Kings Mountain’s Fireman of
the Year at the annual Police-
Fire Christmas dinner.
Commissioners Jim Childers,
Bill Grissom and Norman King
attended the National League of
Cities meeting in Detroit.
Commissioners Curt Gaffney,
Humes Houston and Jim Dickey
took the oath of office. Houston
was elected mayor pro tempore.
June Lee and Jerry Ledford
took the oath of office for the
Kings Mountain Board of
Education. Mrs. Lee was elected
chtiirman.
Rev. Kelly Dixon was named
the first winner of the Kings
Mountain Sertoma Club’s Ser
vice to Mankind Award.
HOW
TO MAKE A
MILLION.
(Anybody can do It with an ira.)
1.
Suppose you
start planning \
for retirement '
at age 25, make
a deposit each
year (tax deferred
from your current
income) until
age 65.
2.
Assume an
average 12.0%
annual return
on investment
(current rates
may be higher.)
4.
Your monthly
income beginning
at age 65,
stretching IRA
income over 23
years in this
case. Your
account is still
earning Interest.
HOME FEDERAL SAVIHGS
INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT
ACCOUNT PROJECTION
(actual example, for
illustration only.)
Deposits each year:
1
Amount of deposit:
$1,000
Interest rate:
12.00%
Years to retirement:
40
Method of compounding:
Daiiy Interest
Total of your deposits:
$40,000
Monthly income after
retirement:
$3,858.77
Value of your IRA after y
40 years of deposits and /
tax-deferred interest: /
$1,065,020.86
Less total deposits, to
show interest earned:
$1,025,020.86
3.
Total of interest
and deposits by
age 65. You can
begin withdrawals
as early as age
59V2, or as late
as age 70Va.
^5.
Your Million
Dollars.
Congratulations!
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ABOVE IS AN ACTUAL
example of how a Home
Federal Individual Retire
ment Account (IRA) can
help make your retirement
years financially secure!
Any working individual
under the age of TO'/z can
open an IRA. And you can
make annual contributions
in any amount up to $2,000*
($4,000 for a working cou
ple). Thfere are no commis
sions or fees, and deposits
and interest earned are tax-
deferred until retirement.
Call or come by any
Home Federal office for a
projection of your IRA
benefits.
•New IRA regulations effective January 1, 1982.
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