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The Kings Mountain Herald | www.kmherald.net
August 15, 2012
Names sought for Veterans memorial wall The local chapter of Vietnam Veterans is seeking the names of area men who died during the Vietnam War 1961-75 to add to a memorial plaque to go up by Veterans Day downtown. “We know there are those names we may not have and we want to remember all who were unable to come home. “All gave some, some gave all,’’ said Jim Medlin, a member of the local group that meets monthly on second Mondays for breakfast at 9 a.m. at Mountain View Restaurant on W. King Street. The group now numbers more than 30 members. Medlin said that all Vietnam veterans are invited to join the group for
breakfast each month. Names of those veterans who lost their lives during the Vietnam era 196175 can be turned in to Jim Medlin, PO Box 277, Kings Mountain, NC 28086 or telephone 704-739-4321. Currently, the Vietnam Veterans chapter has the names of 10 men killed in action who “gave their all.’’ They are: Christopher Eugene Brooks, Army, July 3, 1966. Dudley Carroll Hughes Jr., Navy, Dec. 23, 1967. Harold Hugh Welch, Army, Jan. 29, 1968.
Roy Benjamin Cochran, Army, March 16, 1968. Gregory Wayne Thomas, Marine Corp, May 21, 1968. Robert Larry Dellinger, Army, Oct. 27, 1968 Charlie Melvin Ellison, Navy, Feb. 27, 1969 William (Pete) Dale Small, Marine Corp, July 15, 1969. Sammy Ray Morrison, Army, May 24, 1970. Michael Allan Graham, Army, Oct. 7, 1970. Amanda Stacey and Christopher Boheler
■ BUILDING PERMITS July building permits issued by the City of Kings Mountain during July had a grand total valuation of $201,364.61 with $4,948.00 paid to the city and issued to the following in a variety of permits. ACCESSORY STRUCTURE RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS - 610 Sipes St., $8,000 valuation, homeowner contracted; Bowen Construction, $30,000 at 140 Oak Forest Dr.; 121 Parkdale Circle, $3,000, homeowner contracted. POOL PERMITS - Residential - 117 Dillon Rd., $30,000, contractor Innovative Design Inc. 1400 Merrimont Ave., $28,800, contractor Award Pools & Spas; 101 Heatherton Lane, $28,500, Custom Pools of Shelby contractor. BUILDING MASTER COMMERCIAL - 235-37 Cherokee St., $30,000, J. M. Lambert Contractors; new construction at 149 Countryside Rd., $200,000, Building Company contractor; new construction at 209 W. Gold St., City of Kings Mountain doing work, no estimate on costs; new construction 407 W. King St., Carolina Artisans Co. contractor,
$750,000; MASTER BUILDING PERMIT RESIDENTIAL 738 Canterbury Rd., $40,000, homeowner contractor; 103 Butternut Dr., $114,000, Builders Construction contractors; 1003 Sherwood Lane, $15,000, homeowner contractor; 131 Kristie Lane, $20,000 homeowner contractor; BUILDING PERMIT COMMERCIAL - 855 New Camp Creek Church Rd., $10,000, Thomas Wilkinson contractor; BUILDING PERMIT RESIDENTIAL - 119 Country Creek Dr., $2700, Terminix Services contractor. EP-C ELECTRICAL PERMIT COMMERCIAL 1439 York Rd., $800, Simmons Electric contractor. EC2ELECTRICAL PERMIT - 114 Hardin Dr., $25,000, W. H. Electrical Contractors. EPR-ELECTRICAL PERMIT RESIDENTIAL 517 RHODES AVE., $4800, All City Electrical contractor; ER 9- 211 Stowe Acres, $250, Nes Electrical; ER1, 109 Blanton St., Burch Electric, $500; ER 6- 612 Meadowbrook Rd., $4,000, Electrical Service; ER 5- 408
Gold St., $800, Crutchfield & Sons. FENCE PERMIT RESIDENTIAL - annexed - 115 Landrum, Clark Fences, 508 S. Cansler St., $1810, Gaston Fence Co. contractor. IRRIGATION, BACK FLOW DEVICE - 701 Oakland St., $3750, Horne Construction & Design. MOSS LAKE RESIDENTIAL BUILDING PERMIT - Accessory structure, $3,000, Thomas Wilkinson contractor; 104 Kester Dr., $17,000, homeowner contractor; 158 Oak Point Dr., $25,000, Joe Ross contractor. M A N U FA C T U R E D HOME RESIDENTIAL PERMIT - 335 INDUSTRIAL LANE, $17,400, BAKER'S MOBILE HOME MOVERS; 138-1 Putnam Lake Rd., $42,000, Oakwood Mobile Homes contractor. MECHANICAL PERMIT - commercial Fairview Lodge, 801 Landing St., $3500, Carolina Fire Systems contractor; Family Dollar,108 E. King, $15,000, Solutions contractor; 830 Church St., 7800, C&C Heating contractor MECHANICAL PER-
MIT - RESIDENTIAL 1251 Phifer Rd., $4500, C&C Heating contractor; 109 N. Watterson St., $4800, C&C Heating contractor; KM Housing Authority, Baker St., $2500, C&C Heating contractor; 1305 N. Piedmont Ave., $1600, Bob's Repair Service; 810 W. King St., $5600, Condrey Heating & Air contractor; 400 Plantation Dr., $7595, Carolina Heating & Cooling contractor; 106 Morris St. Apt. 10, $2995, Carolina Heating & Cooling; 1506 Bethlehem Rd., $3550, C&C Heating & Cooling; 1204 Bethlehem Rd., $4500, C&C Heating & Cooling. PLUMBING PERMITS COMMERCIAL - 405 S. Cansler St., $990, Moore & Seagle contractors; 210 Cleveland Ave., $2075, Bath Fitter contractor; 210 Cleveland Ave., $2045 and $1965, Bath Fitter contractor. PLUMBING PERMITS RESIDENTIAL- New construction 1008 N. Cansler St., $975, Bollinger Plumbing contractor; 131 Lake Montonia Rd., $990, Joe Leat Plumbing contractor; See PERMITS, 7A
Stacey, Boheler to wed Sept. 8 in KM Dallas and Jennifer Stacey announce the engagement of their daughter, Amanda Brooke Stacey, to Matthew Christopher Boheler, son of James and Toni Boheler. Both families are of Kings Mountain. The bride-to-be is a 2011 graduate of Kings Mountain High School, attended Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs and is a student at Cleveland Community College. She is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Rhoa
Hamrick and Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Stacey and the late Maria Stacey. The prospective bridegroom is a 2009 graduate of Kings Mountain High School and is currently in the United States Air Force. He is the grandson of Bob and Mary Boheler of Kings Mountain and James and Mary Kirby of Arkansas. The wedding will be an event of September 8 in Kings Mountain’s Macedonia Baptist Church.
Family Camp opens in Casar South Mountain Family Camp, formerly known as South Mountain Retreat & Conference Center, has been organized at 132 Mace Road in Casar, registered with the N.C. Secretary of State and officers elected and by-laws adopted at a meeting of supporters at Jackson’s Cafeteria in Gastonia August 10. Esther Mullinax is executive director and chairman of the board, Wendi Beam is secretary, Linda Hardin is treasurer, and board members are Myrtle Greenholz, Susan Johnson, Ruth Cook, Lou Gardner, Jerry Brantley, Darren Poteat, Bobby Kincaid, Jim Land, Irma Guyan and Ron Rider. Grounds and facilities at the 155 acre campus, located at the foothills of South Mountain, can be viewed on the website: southmountainretreat.org.
By JIM MILLER Editor
How to Verify Your Social Security Benefits Dear Savvy Senior, When my neighbor applied for his retirement benefits last year, he found that Social Security had made some mistakes on his earnings record in past years, which caused him to get a monthly benefit check that was lower than it should have been. He never got it straightened out. How can I make sure this doesn’t happen to me? Paranoid Paul Dear Paul, The best way to keep an eye on your Social Security benefits and avoid any possible mistakes is to carefully review your Social Security statement, which you can now do online. Just go to ssa.gov/mystatement and answer a few questions to verify your identity, and then print your statement out on paper. If you’re age 60 or older and not yet receiving benefits, your statement will actually be mailed to you about three months before your birthday. Your Social Security statement lists your earnings record for each year of employment, and estimates the benefits
you and your family may receive as a result of those earnings. Once you get your statement in front of you, take some time to verify its accuracy by comparing the earnings listed on your statement with your own tax records or W-2 statements. And if you spot a discrepancy, follow these steps: • Call your nearest Social Security office (see ssa.gov/locator or call 800772-1213 to get the number) to report the error. Some corrections can be made over the phone, or you may need to schedule an appointment and go in with copies of your W-2 forms or tax returns to prove the mistake, or you can mail it in. • If you suspect a discrepancy but don’t have backup records, the Social Security Administration (SSA) may be able to use your employment information to search its records and correct mistakes. If the SSA can’t locate your records, you’ll need to contact the employer to obtain a copy of your W-2 for the year in question. • Once your earnings record is corrected, SSA will send you a confirming letter. If you don’t receive the confir-
Other Mistakes Social Security earnings miscalculations can also happen if there’s a mistake in your current mailing address that the IRS has on file for you. Check your federal tax returns for this possible error, especially if you’ve moved recently. To correct your address, contact the IRS at 800-829-3676 and ask them to mail you the “Change of Address” form 8822, or print it off at irs.gov/pub/irspdf/f8822.pdf, fill it out and mail it back to the address on the form. Other factors that can cause mistakes are if your name or date of birth in the SSA records isn’t the same as it appears in the IRS files. Name mistakes most often occur for women who have changed their name following a marriage or divorce. So double check your
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