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Second Vets
Day Planned
Veteraeiu organlzatloiu In Klngi
Mountain and acroos North Carolina
will stick to tradition and observe
Veterans Day on November 11.
It will be the second observance of
the event In leas than one month. The
national date and holiday was
decreed by Congress to be October
26.
Rick Moore, commander of Post
166 American Legion In Kings Moun
tain, said on November 11 veterans
organisation members will place
flags on the graves of servicemen In
Veterans Oarden at Mountain Rest
Cemetery.
North Carolina Is the only state In
the nation to stick to tradition In
observance of Veterans Day. In 1977
the national holiday date returns to
November 11. An act of Congress
last March, at the Insistence of
veterans organizations meeting In
convention In the Capitol, re-set
November 11 as the official ob
servance date.
Originally, the observance was
called Armistice Day. In 1926
Congress passed a resolution setting
the date as November 11. The
historical significance of this date
was the fact that World War I ended
at the eleventh hour of the eleventh
day of the eleventh month. Armis
tice Day became a national holiday
In 1988 and the name was changed to
Veterans Day In 1964.
In 1964 the holiday was broadened
Into a day to honor all the nation’s
veterans, both living and deeul, from
an wars.
^ Heavy Vote
Goes Carter
Photo By Gary Stewart
DEPOSlTtNO BALLOTS — Harry Page of Kings
Mountain deposits his ballots In ballot box Tuesday at
the Kings Mountain Armory as other citizens await
their turn. Local citizens turned out In huge numbers to
help elect Jimmy Carter as the new President of the
United States.
Cleveland County got out the vote
Tuesday and helped elect Jimmy
Carter President, Jim Hunt
Govemor and Jim Broyhlll as lOth
District Congressman.
From a total registration of 31,073,
the polls show that 22.949 voters
exercised their rights Tuesday.
ITiere was some bitter news with
the good when county school district
voters vetoed a 10 cent per $100
valuation supplemental school tax
referendum.
It was estimated the 10 cent tax
could have raised about $410,000 as
supplement pay for educators In the
Cleveland County schools. A
referendum asking for 40 cents was
defeated in 1969.
The vote this Tuesday was 6,134
against 4,743 for the measure.
Countians re-elected County
Commissioners Jack Palmer Jr. and
Coleman Goforth and elected a
former commissioner, William
Hugh Dover. Mrs. Margie Rogers
was elected register of deeds by a
landslide vote. She garnered 16,547
UF Awards Tompkins Chairs JA Program
PAUL WARE
Ware Rites
Were Held
^ , On Sunday
Funeral services for Paul Edward
Ware, 64, owiier and operator of
Community Grocery on Waco Rd.
for a number of yesirs, were con
ducted Sunday at 3 p. m. from
Central United Methodist Church of
which he was a member.
His pastor. Rev. Robert Boggan,
officiated at the rites, assisted by
Rev. Frank Shirley, pastor of
Temple Baptist Church and In
terment was In Mountain Rest
Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Robert
Goforth, James Alexander, RusseU
Putnam, J. W. Rayfleld, Goldman
L Bridges, H. O. Williams, John C.
. Smathers, Scott aonlnger, ayde
Whetstlne, Cicero Falls, HllUard
Black and Claude Gantt.
Mr. Ware succumbed Friday night
In Kings Mountain Hospital after
several month’s Illness.
Son of Mrs. Ersula Ware and the
late John Fletcher Ware, he was a
graduate of Kings Mountain High
School and veteran of World War n.
He was married to the former Doris
Ctonlnger.
Surviving, In addition to his wife
and mother, are two daughters,
Jean Elizabeth and June Kathiyn
Wai«, both of the home; two
brothers, Belvln Ware of Easley, S.
C. and George Ware of Charlotte:
and two slaters, Mrs. Holland Dixon
of Shelby and Mrs. Margaret Wrape
of Burilngton.
Fete h Set
November 18
Due to conflicting dates of several
United Fund campaigns In this area,
♦h» wjS. Mountain UF final report
lias be>n delayed until later this
month.
larry Wood, campaign chairman,
said the awards banquet has also
been rescheduled for Thurs., Nov. 18
ax 6:30 p. m. at Kings Mountain
Junior High cafeteria,
'Ihe banquet was briglnally set
for Nov. 11.
Wood said, however, this year’s
United Fund drive continues at a
commendable rate. He said Spec
trum Textured Fibers, Inc. again
leads In the Industrial division
donations.
CARWASH
The Kings Mountain Junior midget
football team will wash cars for
donations of $2.60 or more Saturday
from9a. m. until 6 p. m.atHAB Oar
Wash at 206 East King Street. All
proceeds will help qionsor the
team’s trip to Clewlston, Fla. Nov.
17-20 for a bowl game.
Ron Tompkins, Eaton Corporation
executive, has been elected chair
man of the newly-formed Junior
Achievement program In Kings
Moiaitaln.
RON TOMPKINS
Business and Industrial leaders
meeting Thursday morning for
breakfast at Kings Mountain
Country Club made plans to
organize the new program, the
nation’s oldest youth economic
education program which teaches
high school students the principles of
the American free enterprise
oystem by helping them run their
0 vn small businesses.
lOngs Mountain’s program will be
open to all lOth, Uth and 12th grade
students and will be organized Into
groups of 20 with adult volunteers
called advisers. Bach group will
function as a small business,
meeting one night a week for two
hours, to sell stock to capitalize,
elect officers, choose a product to
manufacture or a service to offer,
keep books and map out marketing
plans, pay salaries, rent, and taxes,
as approrprlate, produce, promote
and sell their company’s product or
service. At the end of the school
year, they liquidate their company,
publish and annual report and
return dividends to stockholders.
Bill Morris, Executive Director,
Mike Williams, Program Director,
and Tim Helms, Junior Achiever, sill
with Junior Achievement, Inc. of
Charlotte, outlined the program and
showed slides of some of the ac
tivities of young members. Inviting
questions and exhibiting products
and record systems.
Attending were Mayor John Moss
and representatives of KM Savings
A Loan, Eaton Corporation,
Spectrum, First Citizens Bank A
Trust, Belk Department Store,
Burlington Industries, Sadie Mills
and Kings Mountain Mirror-Herald.
Firemen^s Toy-
Repair Quarters
On S. Cherokee
Santa’s toy repair shop has moved
from the Kings Mountain Fire
Department to the former offices of
Durham Life Insurance on S.
Cherokee St.
Fire Chief Gene TTgnor said the
toys will be repaired In the back and
put on display In the street window.
Firefighters are again asking for
citizens to donate new or repairable
toys for distribution at Christmas to
the children of needy families.
Any donations may be made by
either calling 739-2662 for pickup, or
delivery to the fire department or
the S. Cherokee St. office.
to her opponent’s 3,693.
Voters In Cleveland and the other
six counties In the lOth district
returned James Broyhlll to
Ooigress for an eighth term over
Democratic opponant Dr. Jack
Hunt. Broyhlll led Hunt by a narrow
margin throughout the district.
Kings Mountain area voters
turned out In big numbers ’Tuesday
to follow the national trend of
electing Democrats to office.
In East Kings Mountain precinct,
of a total 1,911 registered voters,
1J216 cast ballots. Jimmy Carter was
the favorite over President Gerald
Ford 819 to 390.
West Kings Mountain has 8,103
registered voters suid voted 1,966.
Here Carter garnered 1,194 votes to
President Ford’s 733.
Bethware and Grover voters were
turned on by Tliesday’s election.
Judging from the numbers that
turned out at the polls.
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City Plans
Recreation
For Winter
Recreation activities at the
National Guard Armory are planned
during the winter months beginning
Mon., Nov. 8, at 6 p. m. announces
Recreation Director Roy Pearson.
Mr. Pearson said the community
Is Invited to participate In all the
activities which will be held from 6
until 9 p. m. Mondays, Wednesdays
and Thursdays throughout the
winter months.
Grover Yule
Parade Is Set
December 3rd
Grover’s annual Christmas
parade will be held Frl., Dec. 3, at 4
p. m. and the star of the show will be
Santa Claus.
Members of the Grover School
Parent-Teacher Association will
sponsor the sale of hot dogs at the
school cafeteria after the parade.
Mrs. Sand! Rhea Is chairman of
the event and for Information on
entries, call Mrs. James Stevenson,
937-7633.
Legal Firm Wants ^To Grow With City’
construction began this week on a
Spanish-Medlterranlan style
building to house the law firm of
Harris, Bumgardner and Corry.
'nils is the second new office
facility construction In the central
business district this year on
property sold by the Kings Mountain
Redevelopment Commission.
The building la located on the 4,100
square-foot lot at the comer of S.
Battleground Ave. and W. Mountain
St. and Is expected to be completed
by Christmas.
Tim Harris, senior partner In the
Gastonia-based law firm, said,
"Weather permitting, we will oc
cupy the offices by the first of the
year.’’
’Ihe original design of the one-
story 1,728 square foot building was
close to that of Lewis Dellinger
Jewelry store. But, according to
Harris, the design has been
drastically altered to reflect the
Spanish-Medlterranlan style.
"lam building a new home In Gas
tonia using this style,’’ Harris said,
"and I liked It so much I thought the
style would be different and In good
taste for downtown Kings Moun
tain."
Instead of toe slanted redwood
planking and slanted copper roof
and brick veneer sides, the building
will now be of hand-placed stucco
with exposed beams ^ixig toe roof
edge. The exposed beams will also
be seen Inside the building. Harris
said the basic design of the Interior,
however, has not been altered.
The plans call for a reception —
client waiting area, two legal of
fices, a conference room with a
small kitchen and bath facility. One
of the offices will also have a private
restroom facility. On the south side
(W. Mountain St.) there will be a
lease area with Its own private
entrance. Harris said the lease area
Is large enough for two medium-size
offices. At present the law firm has
no leaser for this space.
"At this point we are not sure
whether we will need that q>ace
also,’’ Harris said.
Parking spaces will also be
provided on the Battleground side
where the main entrance Is located.
Harris said he has found an 80-
year old artisan from Dallas who
hand places the stucco facade. He
has employed the man and his ap
prentices to work on his home and on
the new office building. ‘"This Is
almost a lost craft, I understand,
"Harris said. "The old gentleman
from Dallas Is teaching young
people the art so It won’t die out In
this area.”
The preoperty now owned by the
law firm was purchased by the
redevelopment commission In
September 1972 from Royster Oil Oo.
of Shelby. On the site at the time was
Gamble Gulf Service. The property
was redeveloped by the commission
for ressde for business use. In 1974
tor the city’s Centennial celebration
the property was paved and
renamed Centennial Square. It was
toe site for the rocking chair
marathon, the Kangaroo Courts and
tor musical concerts. The site was
used again this October for the 196th
Battle of Kings Mountain annlver-
Photo By Tom McIntyre
INVESTING IN THE CITY - Attorney 'rim Harris, senior member of
Harris, Bumgardner and Corry, is Investing In Kings Mountain. Con
struction began this week on the law firm’s legal offices In the central
business district.
aary celebration.
Harris purchased the site for
$7,686 under a sealed bid process.
"I worked In Kings Mountain
about eight years ago,” Harris saild,
"a member of toe law firm of Davis,
Short, Harris, Bradley and Powell. I
really did like the town and felt that
someday I would like to open an
office here."
Someday came back In June when
Harris, his partner Don Bumgard
ner and attorney Mike Randall
opened offices on E. King St. Ran
dall left the firm recently to serve In
toe public defender’s office In Cleve
land County. Shortly afterwards C.
C. (Mickey) Corry Jr., a Kings
Mountain native, was taken Into the
firm.
Harris said "Mickey will man the
Kings Mountain offices for the fir-
m.” Harris and Bumgardner work
out of their Gastonia office handling
mostly trial work. He said the Kings
Mountain office handles a general
law practice.
'"’The two reasons we decided to
open an office here la that we felt
there was a need for siddltlonal legal
service and that In the next three or
four years there is going to be a
progressive explosion In Kings
Mountain. This is a very progressive
explosion In Kings Mountain. TTUs Is
a very progressive city. We want to
grow with It," Harris said.