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VOL. 96 NUMBER 6 THURSDAY, February 3, 1983 - KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH ( N 2
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Elections Board Sets The Date : Su
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Board Asked To Rescind ABC Vo
By GARY STEWART
Editor
The City Elections Board
Monday afternoon approved
April 12 as the date of a referen-
dum for the establishment of an
ABC store and the sale of unfor-
tified wine and malt beverages in
the city limits.
However, there is a move
underway by some citizens to
persuade the City Board of Com-
missioners to rescind their action |
of last week which called for the
election, and require “wet”
forces to submit legal petitions
containing at least 25 percent of
the names of the registered
voters inside the city limits.
Attorney Scott Cloninger, co-
‘chairman of the Kings Mountain
Citizens for Legal Control, ap-
peared before the board at last
week’s meeting and asked for an’
Bloodmobile
To Visit
KM Friday
The Kings Mountain Com-
munity Bloodmobile visit will be
Friday from 12:30 until 6 p.m. at
First Baptist Church.
Goal is 175 pints.
Local PTOs and civic clubs
are helping sponsor this visit.
The Blood Center in Charlotte
has sent notice that the mobile
“lab will be sent to Kings Moun-
tain’ to process platelets for
_ cancer and leukemia patients. It
i even donors lo get enough
platelets per pint of blood. Some
cancer patients require 30 or
more platelet transfusions per
week.
The Kings Mountain Jaycees
help provide loading and
unloading help for. all Kings
Mountain bloodmobiles. Other
civic clubs and PTO members
are invited to help with loading
and unloading Friday. Members
need to be at the site at 11 a.m.
to unload and at 6:30 p.m. to
start loading.
Homemade vegetable soup
will be served to the donors.
‘ABC election. The board ap-
- proved by a vote of 5-1, with
Commissioner Norman King op-
posing.
Since that time, some citizens
who are opposed to the sale of
alcoholic beverages, have been
contacting Mayor John Henry
Moss and commissioners asking
them to reconsider their stand.
Rumors have been widespread
that the board will have a special
called meeting to rescind the ac-
tion, but members of the board
who were contacted yesterday
said they knew nothing of such a
meeting.
Mayor Moss, when asked if
the vote would be rescinded,
commented, “I haven’t heard
anything about it. I can’t speak
for the board.”
. But Dr. Tom Patterson, pastor
of Macedonia Baptist Church,
MISSION SUPPER
Dr. Jess White of Newton,
former medical missionary’ to
* Haiti, will speak at the annual
Witness Season program Satur-
day at Dixon Presbyterian
Church. A covered dish supper
will be spread at 6:30 p.m.
followed by Dr. Whites pro-
gram. The public is invited to at-
tend. : ;
KIWANIS CLUB
Dr. Frank Sincox will discuss
the “Wide Spread Effect of
Bacterium” at the weekly
meeting of the Kings Mountain
Kiwanis Club Thursday at the
Holiday Inn.
AUXILIARY
The American Legon Aux-
iliary will meet Thursday at 7:30
p.m. Mrs. Arleen Barrett will
present the program on
“Americanism.” Hostesses are
Mrs. Myrtle Christenson and
Mrs. Ruth Gamble.
: FREE CHEESE
The first cheese distribution
for 1983 is scheduled for Thurs.,
Feb. 17 from 9 am. until 4 p.m.
at the Cleveland County Office
Building auditorium at 130
South Post Road, Shelby.
Clients certified for Food Stamps
for the month of February must
have their green ID card. Others
who wish to apply must have
proof of income received so far
in the month of February.
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I NFORMATION
MD CONCERT
A concert to benefit the
Muscular Dystrophy Associa-
tion will be held Sat., Feb. 12 at
8 p.m. in the auditorium of
Ashbrook High School, New
Hope Road in Gastonia.
Country-rock singer Jadi and his
band will perform. For tickets
call 332-5101.
MEN'S DAY
Ken Page of Cherryville will
fill the pulpit for Baptist Men’s
Day services Sunday at 11 a.m.
at Second Baptist Church. The
service was postponed from
January 23 because of snow and
ice. Jerry Milwood will preach at
the Sunday evening and
Wednesday evening services.
PINTO BEANS
The Senior Citizens of First
Wesleyan Church on Piedmont
Avenue will sponsor a pinto
bean supper Wed., Feb. 9 from 5
until 6:30 p.m. Plates will cost $2
for adults and $1 for children.
EXERCISE CLASS
An exercise class will be held
at Chestnut Ridge Volunteer
Fire Department February 5
through March 17. The class will
meet each Thursday from 7-8
p.m. The fee is $10 for the six
weeks or $2 per week. For infor-
mation call 739-4060 or
739-5853.
said he talked with the Mayor a
week ago and has written letters
to the Mayor and all six commis-
sioners. He said those letters
were put in the mail Tuesday
morning.
Commissioners Norman King
and Jim Dickey both said they
had not heard anything about it
either, but both hinted they did
not understand that their action
was an official calling for an
ABC referendum. They said
they understood that the city
board was only voting to pass
the petitions along to the Elec-
tions Board.
Cloninger, when appearing
before the board, explained the
steps by which an election could
be called. He noted that the
referendum could be requested
by the City Board of Commis-
sioners, or petitions containing
names of at least 25 percent of
the registered voters could be
presented directly to the Elec-
tions Board. “I’m not asking the
board to make a statement about
the issue, but merely asking the
board to recognize the rights of
the citizens to vote on the issue,”
Cloninger stated.
The procedures for calling an
ABC referendum were also ex-
plained the Thursday before the
board meeting in a front page
story in the Herald.
Commissioner King, who was
the only member of the board to
speak out that night, said the
board was “misled. We were told
that we were simply voting to
send it to the Elections Board.”
“It’s totally unfair to the board
to say that they knew better,”
Policemen Jackie Barrett, left, Richard Reynolds check damage
the overturned = stones
King said. “We were told to for-
ward it to the Elections Board.”
: “I had a call or two from peo-
ple that didn’t like it,” Commis-
sioner Dickey said. “We were go-
ing by what the attorneys (Clon-
inger and City Attorney George
Thomasson) said. I understood
that we were not sanctioning
anything.”
Commissioners - Humes
Houston, Jim Childers, Corbet
Nicholson and Curt Gaffney
could not be reached for com-
ment.
Elections Board Chairman
Luther Bennett: said the board
has no other choice but to call
for the referendum when it is re-
quested by the governing body
of the city. If petitions are
presented to the Elections Board,
he said the board is required by
law to verify that at least 25 per-
AxexqT1 TeTAOWINW Aounen
cent of the name
voters.
“Several people have called
me and said ‘Don’t let them have
it.” But we can’t help but let
them have it,” Bennett said.
“What the city board did was ac-
tually vote for the election.”
Bennett said the Elections
Board received the city board’s
request in last Thursday’s mail.
He said the Elections Board
would write Mayor Moss advis-
ing him that it had complied
with the request.
Dr. Patterson said the “dry”
forces are gearing up for the elec-
tion and will name their chair-
man within a week.
“We had hoped the situation
would not have gone as far as it
has,” he said. “We wanted to get’
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Vandals Damage
Cemetery Stones
Vandals entered Mountain
Rest Cemetery sometime Mon-
day night, turning over 64 stones
and causing several thousand
dollars damage.
Acting police chief Jackie Bar-
rett, who is investigating the inci-
dent along with Detectives
Richard Reynolds and Robert
Dodge, said about 25 percent of
were
centrated effort to find the per-
sons responsible. “We feel like
there were probably two or three
persons,” he said.
Cemetery Superintendent Ken -
Jenkins discovered the damage
when he reported for work early
Tuesday morning. The cernetery
was closed for most of the day
while Kings Mountain police, a
monument salesman from York;
S.C.and insurance adjusters in-
vestigated.
“The good soft dirt and the
fow leads but will make a con-
wet weather we've been having
helped us,” Barrett said. “Most
of them just went over and dug
up into the dirt.”
But some of the monuments
which were broken were expen-
sive, and some urns which were
broken were imported from
France and cannot be replaced,
Heng Moss said to
knowledge this is the first time
such an act has occured at the
cemetery.
“It’s heartbreaking,” Jenkins
added. “We take a lot of pride in
the cemetery. This is the most
ridiculous thing I've ever seen. I
can’t understand how anyone
could get any enjoyment out of
doing something like this.”
There was no evidence of forc-
ed entry into the cemetery.
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Exercise-A-Thon Saturday
An exercise-a-thon to benefit
Cystic Fibrosis will be held
- Saturday from noon until 8 p.m.
at the Cleveland Mall in Shelby.
All funds raised will be used to
help fight Cystic Fibrosis. To
kickoff the event, WBTV Chan-
nel 3 will be doing a live broad-
cast for its “Top of the Day” pro-
gram Friday at the Kings Moun-
tain Neighborhood Facility
Center.
Saturday’s exercise-a-thon will
be just one of dozens being held
across the state to benefit Cystic
Fibrosis. Local sponsor is the:
Kings Mountain Neighborhood
Facility Center’s Ladies Exercise
Progra in cooperation with the
Cleveland Mall and the Greater
Kings Mountain Area Com-
munity Partnership Committee
for the Disabled. The event is be-
ing held in memory of Jeremy
Wray Brown of Kings Moun-
tain, who lost his lengthy battle
against Cystic Fibrosis on
January 22 at the age of five.
Funds raised will help support
. the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s
research, treatment and educa--
tion programs in North Carolina
and across the nation. Two CF
centers are located in North
Carolina, at the UNC School of
Medicine and at Duke Medical
Center.
Cystic Fibrosis is a fatal lung
and digestive disease that takes
the lives of half of its victims
before they reach their twenties.
CFE causes large amounts of
thick mucus to clog the lungs
and interfere with breathing and
the absorption of food.
Participants will be raising
dollars for CF by obtaining
pledges from friends, relatives,
neighbors and co-workers for
each hour they exercise. Hostess
for the day will be WBTV’s
Lynne Bradley.
A grand prize will be awarded
to the top fund-raiser. All par-
ticipants who raise $30 or more
will receive a CF “I Did It”
T-shirt and all who raise $75 or
more will receive a T-shirt and
tote bag.
For more information or to
sponsor a participant, call the
Kings Mountain Neighborhood
Facility Center at 739-3549 from
2 p.m. until 9 p.m., or stop. by
the center at room 102 at 208
North Cleveland Avenue. Co-
chairpersons for the event are
Patsy Parker, Ladies Exercise
Program Instructor, and Ray
‘Hurley, Director of the Kings
Mountain Neighborhood Facili-
ty Center.
The public is invited to attend,
spectate or participate.
It’s Still
Winter
Don’t get out your garden
tools and lawn mowers just yet.
We have six more weeks of
winter to deal with.
Our resident groundhog,
Kings Mountain Harold,
awakened from his long sleep
Wednesday morning and crawl-
ed out of his hole in the pines off
Canterbury Road.
The sky was cloudy and a few
drops of rain even fell on his
head. He was enjoying the
63-degree weather until the sun
broke through the clouds. He
saw his shadow and scurried
back to his winter abode. He
predicted more cold weather and
at least one more snow.
So, keep those snow shovels
handy, and just read up on your
gardening. It'll be a while yet
before you can put your skills in-
to practice.
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