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Pag* 2ArKlNCS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Thunday. lanuaiy 7. 1982 McKinney In Running For Sheriff Filing for county offices in the May primary began Monday at the Cleveland County Board of Elections in Shelby and will con tinue until noon, February I. Buddy McKinney, 43, of Mooresboro, was the first local person to file for office. He will seek the County Sheriffs office, currently held by Dale Costner, who was appointed to the posi tion after the retirement of Haywood Allen in 1980. Costner has not officially an nounced his candidacy, but has said he plans to run. McKinney served 10 years in the Sheriffs Department but was fired a year ago by Costner. McKinney said he was fired because he had said he planned to run for sheriff in this year’s election. He began his career in the sheriffs department as a jailer, and was a detective sergeant in the narcotics division when he was fired. He attended numerous schools while with the depart ment and graduated with honors from Cleveland Technical Col lege with an associate degree in PLONKS After Christmas Photo by Gary Stowort WINTER SCENE - These icy limbs liniitg this country road in rural Kings Mountain were typical of scenes oroimd the area during the New Year's Eve ice storm which hit the coun ty. The ice storm and and thunder and wind storm early Mneiy morning dumped several inches of rote area and fallen trees and limbs kept lecciiility companies busy restor ing power to csKns. criminal justice. He has also at tended Gardner-Webb College. He holds an Advanced Law Enforcement Certificate and while with the Sheriffs Depart ment received three commenda tions from the Region C Criminal Planning Agency for felony apprehensions. He is married to the former Ruby E. Cash, a school tacher, and has one son. He is a member of Trinity Baptist Church in Number 2 township. Winter Comes ffo KM Mother Nature ended 1981 and began 1982 in style for Kings Mountain area residents by giving the area an ice storm on New Year’s Eve and a thunderstorm with evil winds early Monday morning. Both storms caused some residents the inconvenience of having their power knocked off Pharmacy Topics By RAY JOYE Some Chkogo hospitals offer telephone video hookups that enoble patients who ore porents to "visit" with underope children in the lobby. Sort of reassures everyone. Preliminory tests indicote thot vitofflin C will r»(|uce bronchosposm in pqtients with enorcise- induced asthma, if o large dose is token 1 Vi hours before exercise. Scientists report the synthesis of Contliaridin, o substonce thot removes worts without needles or knives. Noturol source of this substonce is very tore. Under-the-skin controceptive, soid to offer protection up to ten years, hos been developed , in Finland. Invlonted contoiners release progestin slowly. Government testing is due soon. Fki fighter- o drug thot treots flu patients effectively and seems to limit the spreod of the (Nseose wos studied in the Infectioos Diseases Unit of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, N.Y. Amontodine works ogoinst Influenzo A. ' Best wishes for o hoppy ond HEALTHY New Yeor from your friends at Roys. KM Plaza Kings Mountain Phone 739-8161 "Where Friends Meet" SAMPLE YARDAGE 227 Cherokee Street Kings Mountain, N.C. 28086 Telephone 704 - 739-4221 NEW YEAR'S SALE Through Saturday, January 9 You've Got To Come See Us! There's No Doubt About It! W« have expanded our space and inventory; there is so much more to see now...more cottons, woolens, some new spring fabrics and much, much more. Christmas prints, • tartan taffetas, velvets, woolens and many other items are mark ed down considerably. DMC floss is only 25* per skein. You don't wont to miss the great savings you’ll experience in our larger and well stocked store. We'll look forward to seeing you. Store hours: Monday • Friday 9:00-5:30 Saturdoy • 9:00-4:30 briefly, but neither storm resulted in major damages. Area residents awakened the last day of the year to find freez ing rain falling, and it presetted some slippery situations until the temperature rose to the early 40s around nightfall. By New Year’s Eve night, most of the icy spots had dusp- peared. Ted Huffman, supervisot of the City Public Works Depart ment, said city crews staycd^on the job until 8 p.m. New Year’s Eve restoring power and remov ing trees and limbs which fell or lines in several areas of town The most affected areas were the Southwoods sub-division neai Kings Mountain High School South Cleveland Avenue anc Crescent Hill. Upper Cleveland Cduhtji the hardest hit area. Lawndale area, several ' tre* were reported in the roads am on power lines. . A blown transformer and^ tree which fell on a power l^i caused power to be off in du Compact School area for aboRi two hours late Thursday after noon. Citizens awakened during tin wee hours of Monday momini to the sounds of thunder anc lightning, and accompanyini high winds resulted in more fallen trees and tree limbs whici caused additional power outages Limbs which blew into powe lines kncxked out the 4160 sul itation on North Gaston Street but city work crews restored power within an hour, Huffman >aid. Altogether, Huffman said, about IS to 20 trees fell in Kings Mountain, including sue in the front lawn of the Earl Siercy residence on North Piedmont Avenue. Huffman said there were three trees down at one time on Piedmont. A sub-division in the Bethlehem Community was also out of power for several hours, as well as many other smaller sections of the greater Kings Mountain area. Both the city and rural areas experienced some minor flooding. Many creeks were out of their banks and many city streets flooded because the drains could not handle the huge amounts Of wrgCFr. The storm* did Bring some gcxxl news, though. The water level, which has been down drastically since last summer’s drought, rose considerably and, according to television reports, is now only six inches bpibw nor mal. On Dean’s List Cathy Den|se Heavener of 203 Morris Street and William Eugene McCarter of 801 Cres cent Circle were among the 1,240 undergraduate students who were named to the fall semester Dean’s List at Ap palachian State University. Loses 212 Pounds Inspired By CoiTi) Diet Institute!!! UROL SNIDER spent a .5by childhood and went j.;-om there. ‘ty weight just kept climb- I'i in high school, college; ■ marriage and mother- il''xl." 'icouldn't find a diet that Ija/ worked for me until I ^'ed on The Conway Pro- ’■n in July, 1980.1 weighed f Mlpounds the night I started; rloil weigh only 141 pounds." onwa/s Ideal 1000 Cal orie Diet, which allows !>>meals a day plus snacks and the weekly insight » iars provided the know ledge and motivation I -i:ed.'' "The Conway Prograw ked for me. 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