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1977: It’s Triumphs And Tragedies
(From Page 2A)
SEPTEMBER
Two more incumbenia and
one former candidate have
flled to seek commissioner
seats In the Oct. 11 municipal
election. They were William
R. Grissom and Fred Wright,
Jr. district five and six, and
Jerry MuUinax.
lUrtieth annual Bethware
Fair is slated for Sept. 14-17.
Five more candidates file
for commissioner seats,
James Dickey, W. S. Blddx,
Uoyd Davis, Jim Amos and
Tom Barnette.
ResidenU of W. Gold St.
have been promised action on
their requests for regulatory
measures to slow down
motorists along the streets.
The current argument over
emergency servicea in the KM
area could force the county
into complete ambulance
service.
Voter registration for the
Oct. 11 election ended at 5 p.
m. Monday, Sept. 12.
KM Emergency Services,
Inc. began a fund drive to
equip an ambulance.
Third in a aeries of one-on-
one local government
meetings was hdd at Mount
Zton Baptist Oiwch.
KM'S United Fund Drive for
1977 seeks $45,000.
OCn'OBER
County Comm. Josh Hin-
nant says a public hearing of
the board and members of
rescue squads brought no
solution to the growing
problem of how to pay for
ambulance services.
More than 4,000 registered
voters in the city will have
opportunity to elect three
commissioners to four year
terms next Tuesday and one
dozen candidates seek the
three seats, including Humes
Houston, W. S. Biddix, Uoyd
Davis and Jerry MuUinax for
Diatrict Two; GUbert
Hamrick, WUliam Grissom,
Jim Amos and Tom Barnette
for District Five; and Fred
Wright, Jim Dickey, Chariea
Parker, and M. C. Pruette for
District Six.
A spate of last-minute filing
produced two more candi
dates for KM District Board of
Edication seats and seven
more candidates for council
races in Grover.
Less than one third of regis
tered voters went to the poUs
to re-elect Comm. Humes
Houston and WiUiam Grissom
for four year ternu. The same
electorate gave the incumbent
Fred Wright and chaUenger
Jkn Dickey the opportunity to
meet again in the Nov. 8 runoff
dsctlon.
KM Board of Education
learned that the system wUl
receive a CETA grant which
will enable the schools to
Health Tips
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expand its extended day pro
gram.
KM'S United Fund Drive is
over the top with drive leaders
reporting pledges and con
tributions of over $51,282.85,
more than $8,000 over the
campaign total of $43,000.
KM Jayoeea are offering
citizens of aU ages a chance to
charge the old batteries OeL
21-31 as they present “The
Haunted House.”
The Cameron Ware famUy
was honored as Cleveland
County's Farm Bureau Farm
Family of the Year.
Voting citizens can quiz the
candidates hwe at a forum
sponsored by Cleveland
County Voter Registration
Asaociation.
KM Appearance Com-
misMon set Nov. 17 as target
date to receive final plans for
construction of a mammoth
beautification project on both
■ides of the railroad from Gold
to Mountain to the overhead
bridge in Uie downtown area.
Hm dty win contract with
the State Department of
Transportation'to improve
traffic signals at two raUrodd
crossings.
Grover Town Board
executed contract with DOT
for construction of flashing
signals at the double track
croaaing on Carolina Ave. in
Grover.
Don't forget to turn clocks
back one hour because we're
going back on Eastern
Standard time
NOVEMBER
An expanded, stronger
provam of vocational educa
tion is needed in the KM Dis
trict Schools say aU five KM
Board of Education candi-
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VVom Wilson OrUfln,
Gout, a form of arthritis'
that affects Joints of
Angers and toes can be
dramatically helped by
eating cherries, states
Texas Reports on
Biology and Medicine. It
cites case histories of
gout patients cured by
eating cherries, canned
or fresh, soir or black.
No side effects (except
perhaps mild diarrhea)
It may be worth a try to
gout sufferers.
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Kings Mountain
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dates and one city com-
miasioaer candidate.
Regina Patterson was
crowned as KMSHS
Homecoming Queen.
Annual Christmas parade is
set for Nov. 29 at 4 p. m.
KM Baptist Church for
mally roquested its bid be ac
cepted for the redevelopment
commission property adja
cent te the church on W.
Mountain St.
First Federal Savings k
Loan of Siriby has made
application to the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board in
Atlanta to open a branch office
in Kings Mountain.
It's election day again as
citizens go to the polls and a
total of 6,249 persons are
registered to vote in the KM
District Board of Education
election which finds five
candidates campaigning for
two seats. They are William
McDaniel, Fain Hambrigbt,
Dr. Joseph Roberts, Kyle
Smith and Charles Mauney.
Grover citizens also are going
to the pells to elect a mayor
and three council members.
Only oac of the candidates,
Dean Westmoreland, is
aasured of election lailess a
rumored strong write-in
campaign for incumbent Bill
McCarter weets the scales.
Candidales for Council are
Martha Byers, Harold Hem-
don, Tommy Keeter, Karen
Moss, Ronald (lueen, Ray
Cash and WendeU White.
Jim Dickey, former two-
term comnmissioner, was the
wkmer In Tuesday's run-off
election for the district six
board seat in Kings Mountain
defeating Fred Wright by a 47-
vote maagin. Kyle Smith and
William McDaniel were the
top votegetters to win the two
vacant seats on the board of
education for the next six
years.
Bill McCarter won a write-in
campaign to defeat Dean
Westmoreland for the
mayoral position in Grover
and Tommy Keeter, Martha
Byers, both incumbents, and
newcomer Harold Herndon
were elected to the city
council there.
Kathy Fleming, Miss North
Carolina, will be guest of
honor in the KM Christmas
parade.
KM United Fund led all
other campaigns in North
Carolina in the percentage of
the 1978 goals achieved.
Mrs. B. M. Jarrett of Shelby
made the address at Veterans
Day ceremonies in Kings
Mountain.
City employes can look
forward to bonuses for
Christmas following action by
the city commission.
Franchise agreements
between die county's existing
rescue squads and the county
are in effect.
(jot any ideas for Christmas
decorations? Your ideas could
be worth cash.
The new mayor and board of
commissioners took oath of
office at Grover.
Harold Carswell, 42, of
Granite Falls, was charged
with murder in the shooting
death of William Leslie Beane
in Kings Mountain.
John W. Majors has suc
ceeded Ron Tompkins as plant
manager at Eaton Cor
poration.
City Commissioners
Houston, Grissom and Dickey
took the oath of office in cere
monies at (3ty Hall. Bill
McDaniel and Kyle Smith are
sworn in and seated on the
board of education.
With few exceptions, most
Kings Mountain industrial
employes will begin a week's
(Christmas vacation and with
pay.
Sgt. Bob Hayes, 16 year
veteran of the Kings Mountain
Police Department, was shot
four times while assisting
another officer in making an
arrest. The KM police officer
underwent successfully
surgery for removal of three
of the four bullets and con
tinues to improve He was able
to be at home for (Christmas.
Arson is suspected and
investigation is continuing in
the burning of two abandoned
houses south of Kings
Mountain.
The collection of fees for
amhulance transports in the
partnership between KM and
Shelby Rescue Squads and
Cleveland County is not
working as well in reality as it
did on paper and the county
commission has agreed to
garnishee wages, if
necessary, to erase a deficit in
the program.
Bob Jones has resigned as
head football coach at KM
High but will remain on the
faculty as a physical
education and driver's
education teacher.
The city commission gave
approval to a 196,000 down
town beautification program.
Grover officials will
negotiate with the City of
Kings Mountain for treatment
of the town’s domestic waste.
U. S. Congressman James
T. Broyhill toldKM Kiwanians
Thursday night that the
number one problem facing
Americe today is inflation.
Dorothy Gill and her two
children escaped death by
minutes when their mobile
home was destroyed by fire.
Family Dollar Stores will
open a new store here Dec. 1.
A Grover man, Billy Ray
Bowen, is being charged in the
shooting death of his father,
Ira Bowen, 61.
Church services, hunting,
and feasting will feature
traditional observance of
Thanksgiving for KM area
citizens.
The CUss of 1927 of KMHS
had a nostalgic evening as 11
of the 38 graduates returned
for a first-time reunion.
The Council on Aging of
Cleveland County was
organized at the Depot Center.
DECEMBER
Comm. Norman King and
William Grissom head a
special committee appointed
this week to design a firm rate
on fuel cost adjustments on
monthly power bills.
Grover's water im
provements system is now 100
percent complete and in
operation.
Citizens are urged to attend
the first Community Develop
ment Block Grant hearing.
Everybody loves a parade
and KM'S Christmas parade
attracted crowds to Kings
Mountain.
Mayor John Moss answoed
story published concerning
the N. C. Department of
Natural Resources levying a
civil penalty of $500 against
the city for wastewater
inadequacies.
Shelter Home of Clevdand
County and KM Ministerial
Association Helping Hand
fund have been granted
operating money by the KM
United Fund.
Christmas Day services
celebrated the birthday of
Christ.
Coincidentally, last year's
final edition of the 1976 year
carried the tragic news of a
fatality on downtown streets.
This final edition of 2977
carries the sad news of the
death of a Kings Mountain
woman in a highway accident
on Christmas Day.
OBimRI€9
MR& ELM A LONG
Funeral services for Mrs.
Elma Nance Long, 75, of RL 1,
Gaffoey, S. C., sister of Mrs.
Grace Baldwin of Kings
Mountain, were conducted
Thursday at 2 p. m. from
Shuford-Hatcher Funeral
Home Chapel in (Mfhey by
Rev. Bill White, interment
following in Cleveland
Memorial Paik.
Mrs. Long, widow of
Thomas R. Long and daughter
of the late M. Rufus and
Minerva Parker Nance of
Qevcland County, died a$ her
home Tueaday morning.
Also surviving are her
daughter, Mrs. Irene Camp of
Shelby; foia* brothers, Billy
and Richard Long of Fayet
teville, Kenneth Long of
Bennettsville and Tommy
Long of Gaffney; one brother,
Monroe Nance of Shelby;
another sister, Mrs. Mamie
Hatton of Middletown, Ohio;
nine grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
MRS. WINNIE AYERS
Ftmeral services for Mrs.
Winnie Moss Ayers, 77, of 105
Center St., were conducted
Tuesday at 4 p. m. from
Piedmont Baptist Church,
intarment following in
Mountain Rest Cemetery.
Rev. James Williams and
Rev. N. S. Hardin officiated at
the ritea.
Mrs. Ayers died Saturday
morning in Kings Mountain
Hoapltal after several week's
lllneas.
She was wife of the late
Birgan Ayers and a member
of Pietbnont Baptist Church.
Surviving are her son, Doan
Ayers of Kings Mountain; and
one daughter, Mrs. Betty
Merritt of Klnp Mountain,
and six pandehlldren.
MRS. HELEN ENGLBH
Fimeral rites for Mn. Helen
Smith English, 7$, of Hen-
deraonvUle, wars conducted
Monday at 2 p. m. from
Bethany Baptist Church of
Orovsr, of which she was a
member.
'Rev. James Sanders of
ficiated at the rites, and Intar-
mem was in Grover Ome-
tery.
Mrs. English died Friday in
Fletcher near Hendersonville.
She was widow of Erastus
English.
Surviving are four half-
brothers, Travis Smith of
Grover, 0-Neill Smith of
Kings Mountain, Leighton
Smith ef Atlanta, Ga. and
Everhart Smith of Nebo; one
■inter, klrs. Bessie Corn of
Hendersonville; two half-
sisters, Mrs. Henry McDaniel
of Grover and Mrs. Paul
Carter ef Atlanta, Ga.
Harris Funeral Home was in
charge ef arrangements.
MRS. BERTIE THOMPSON
Funeral services for Mrs.
Bertie Barber Thompson, 68,
of Rt. 2 Grover, were con
ducted Tuesday at 2 p m.
from Missionary Methodist
Churchsf (3ierryville of which
she was a member.
Rev. H. S. Scruggi and Rev.
Mike TUlman officiated at the
rites, and interment was in
Mountain Rest Cemetery.
Mrs. Thompson died Satur
day maming in the Kings
Mountain Hospital.
She was daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Barber
and widow of William Boyd
Thompson.
She la survived by she sons,
William Boyd Thompson of
Odessa, Texas, Donald Frank
Thompson of Union, S. C.,
Arnold Thompson of Alius,
Okla., Richard S. Thompson,
U. S. Air Force, Abilene,
Texas, and Norris D. and
Sammy Lee Thompson, both
of Grovar; six daughters, Mrs.
Dan Beheler of Grover, Mrs.
John Carswell of Uncolnton,
Mn. Diane Coggins of Cherry-
vUe. Mrs. Cedi Teno of Rock
HOI, S. C., Mrs. Gene
Delllnpr of Newton and Mrs.
M<«gle Patrick of Balling
Springs; four brothers, Ray
mond and Lawrence Barber of
Garionia, Frsd Barber of
Shelby and Josapb Barber of
BrookaeiUe, Fla.; two slsten,
Mrs. Stanley Grochoweki of
Baltimore, Md. and Mrs.
Jdnny WaU of Danville, Va,;
$7 grsndchlltkren and five
great-pan dchUdren.
Harris Funeral Home was In
charge of arrangsments.
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