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VOL. 96 NUMBER 5
City Board
By GARY STEWART
- Editor
The City Council Monday
night voted 5-1 to request the Ci-
ty Board of Elections to call for a
vote on the establishment of an
ABC store and the sale of malt
beverages and unfortified wine
for off-premises consumption.
Attorney E. Scott Cloninger,
who along with Carl DeVane
chairs the Kings Mountain
Citizens For Legal Control, ap-
peared before the board with 77
petitions containing the names
of over 1,300 people. Cloninger
said he and DeV ane had verified
about 1,000 of the signatures as
being registered voters.
District Four commissioner
Norman King cast the lone no
vote.
Cloninger suggested that the
date of the election be set for
April 12. He said state law re-
quires that the election be held
“no less than 60 days nor more
than 120 days” after the request
is received. :
Cloninger said he appeared
before the city board to ask that
the issue be put before the peo-.
ple for a vote. “I'm not asking
the board to make a statement
about the issue, but merely ask-
C Stmissioner
THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1983 -
ing the board to recognize the
rights of ‘the citizens to vote on
the issue,” h
By law,
e said.
an ABC election can
be called by one of two ways.
The city board can file a written
request wi
Board; or, petitions containing at
least one-fourth of the registered.
voters within the city limits may
be presented directly to the Elec-
tions Board.
Cloninger said he chose the
first. option and was using the
petitions “as supportive evidence
of w hat we're asking the board
th the
King asked
alls For ABC Vote
by a vote of 1471 against to
1,310 for. In a vote for malt Equipment Inc.
the petitions are registered beverages and wine, the vote S.€.
voters. Cloninger replied “They count was 1,499 against to 1,267
don’t have to.” for.
No other commissioners spoke
about the issue. Commissioner
Curt Gaffney made the motion
that the request be granted and
Commissioner Corbet Nicholson
seconded. Commissioners Jim
Childers, Humes Houston and
Jim Dickey also voted in favor.
This is the third time in 16
years that the ABC issue has
come before the city. In 1967, it
failed by a vote of 1,411 against
to 1,091 for and in 19735, it failed
Cloninger if the Elections Board
will verify that the signatures on
In other action Monday, t
board:
Elections
Street
*Approved a resolution prais- Business)
ing the city departments and
volunteers for their help in
restoring power to the city dur-
ing last week’s snow and ice
storm.
*Viewed an audio visual
presentation of a side-load gar-
bage collection system by Joe
lection system,
Ice Puts
KM Area
Powerless
Cleveland County.
Snow began falling Thursday
night and it was followed early
day, the heavy weight of the
lines.
Most area citizens were
without power most of the
were still in the cold as late as
Wednesday.
Cleveland County emergency
personnel set up an emergency
: people from
all over the county to the shelter
for warmth and food.
Gene Waldroup of the Kings
Mountain Electrical Department
estimated damages in the city at
“at least a quarter of a million
dollars.”
Very few people in he county
had uninterrupted power.
“At one time we had more
than 90 percent of the town
without power,” Waldroup said.
“It was like fighting fire.
Everytime we thought we had it
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A snow and ice storm last
week resulted in a loss of power
for over 90 percent of the
citizens of Kings Mountain and
Friday morning by sleet and
freezing rain. By nightfall Fri-
freezing rain was breaking power
weekend, and a scattered few
shelter at the County Office
Cutting limbs off lines...
Powerless!
Linwood residents complain
over loss of electricity...
By GARY STEWART
Editor
Some Linwood area residents
who were upset that an electri-
cian was called off a near-
completed job in their,
neighborhood and sent
elsewhere during the weekend’s
power. outage appeared before
the City Council Monday night
to air their complaints.
Clavon Kelly, representing
several citizens, said the lineman
was “13 minutes: from being
through” when he was called off
the job by Mayor John Henry
Moss. Kelly said the power was
off for nine more hours. "ic bi.
p . pe
Moss and several city commis-
sioners . defended the Utility
Department’s handling of the
crisis, and at the close of the
meeting several = citizens and
commissioners agreed that there
was a ‘communications’ pro-
blem existing” in the city that
should be corrected in case
another such emergency arises in
the future.
Several citizens also charged
- that the city hired only four elec-
tricians from other towns when
40 were available. Moss and
MAYOR JOHN MOSS
‘other city officials also denied
that claim. :
Kelly said the Linwood area
has always been “the proverbial
red-hcaded step children of
Kings Mountain. We pay the
same tax rate as everybody else
and can’t understand why the
man was pulled off the job,” he
said. “We want to know why we
don’t get roads repaired and gut-
ters fixed, and why we don’t get
gets for nothing.”
priority because
Bluegrass
Jamboree
At Grover
The Grover Rescue Squad will
sponsor a big bluegrass jamboree
Saturday at 7 p.m. at Grover
School.
Featured will be Nelson
Young and the Sandy Valley
Boys, the Leonard McSwain
Band, The Roustabouts, Manuel
Houser and the Country Ram-
baleers, Ben Stegal and the
Crusaders, and Harold Murphy.
Refreshments can be purchas-
ed at the concession stand.
Proceeds from the event will
go toward the purchase of a Kin-
man rescue tool which costs
$4,100.
INTERIM PASTOR
Rev. Wray G. Barrett has
been called as interim pastor at
Oak View Baptist Church.
KIWANIS CLUB
Ken Mauney, State Highway
Department engineer, will speak
on the Highway 74 bypass pro-
ject at Thursday’s meeting of the
Kigns Mountain Kiwanis Club
at the Holiday Inn.
Y OUR
1 NFORMATION
SENIOR CITIZENS
Attorney Mickey Corry will
discuss wills with the senior
citizens: of Macedonia Baptist
Church at their monthly covered
dish luncheon meeting on
February 1.
BP CHECKS
Because of the snow, the
blood pressure services have
been rescheduled to Friday,
January 28, at the Kings Moun-
tain Multi-Purpose Senior
Center. This health service is
available to senior citizens from
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the depot.
SAT., JAN. 29
The Committee for the Disabl-
ed will sponsor a yard sale begin-
ning at 9 a.m. at the Depot
Center. Anyone with items to
donate should call 739-9112 or
drop them off at the Disabled
Committee’s office at the Com-
munity Center.
SAT., JAN. 29
The. Chestnut Ridge
Volunteer Fire Department will
sponsor a spaghetti supper from
5 until 8 p.m. at the fire depart-
ment. Spaghetti, salad, bread
and beverages will be sold.
Band Clinic At KMHS
The South Central District
Band Clinic will again be held at
Kings Mountain Senior High
School on January 28 and 29.
"This clinic is one of six in North
Carolina sponsored by the North
Carolina Bandmasters Associa-
tion, a division of the North
Carolina Music Educators Con-
The South Central
District consists of students from
Cleveland, ‘Lincoln,
Cabarrus,
Gastonia, Mecklenberg, Stanley
and Union counties.
students were selected for this
clinic at auditions at Bessemer
"City High School on January 8. 0
There are two clinic bands. One A
band is made up of ninth and :
tenth graders, and the other
band is made up of eleventh and
twelfth graders.
This year the ninth and tenth
grade clinic band will be directed
by Ed Benson of Charlotte, N.C.
Benson is a native of Rocky
Mount, and is a graduate of East
Carolina University. He received
his MA degree from Columbia
University in New York. He has
served as band director in New
Bern, Fuquay-Varina, Asheville
and Charlotte. He
music supervisor in Asheville. At
present he is Music Instrument
Co-ordinator of
Mecklenburg Schools.
has served as clinician and ad-
judicator in other areas, and is
highly respected by his profes-
sional peers.
eleventh and
grade band will be under the
baton of Alberto Romen Aser-
Catawba,
Rowan,
Philippines.
These
Co. of Elkhart,
ED BENSON
AL ASERCION
cion, Master Chief Musician
(USN, Ret.) Asercio served as
solo clarinetist, concert master,
and associate conductor of the
United States Naval Academy
Band in Annapolis, Maryland.
During his tenure in the Naval
Academy Band, he was awarded
the Navy Achievement Medal
for his outstanding contribution
to the professionalism, public im-
age and morale of that organiza-
tion. He has taught at Old Domi-
nion University and Frederick
College, and has served as Prin-
cipal Conductor of the Virginia
Beach Symphony. Asercion is in
wide demand as guest soloist,
clinician and adjudicator. While his class. A native of the Philip-
in the navy he served for several pines, his musical training began
years in the Armed Forces at an early age under the
School of Music in Norfolk, tutelage of his grandfather, who
Virginia. While there he served taught him solfeggio, violin,
as reed instrumentalist instruc-
tor, head of the reed instructors,
rehearsal conductor, head of the
rehearsal division, conducting in-
structor, head of the advanced
course instructors, audition
supervisor and conductor of the
Armed Forces School of Music
Wind Ensemble. Prior to his
assignment to the Armed Forces
School of Music, Asercion sery-
ed a tour with the Seventh Fleet
Band, traveling extensively
throughout the Far East. He
also studied clarinet and also sax-
ophone with Nick Annase at the
Armed Forces School of Music,
where he finished number one in
was also
Charlotte-
Benson
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some services. ever body el
Gene Waldroup, head of the
electrical department,
called the man off the job
‘because there was a live wire
down in another part of the city.
He said he gave the other job top
it created a
“dangerous situation.”
said he
drums, mellophone, cornet, and
finally clarinet. At age fifteen, he
won “Best Soloist of the Year”
award in the Philippines. He also
served as soloist with the famous
Banda Matanda and the world’s
finest Philippine Constabulory
Band. While in the Philippines
he was principal conductor of his
hometown band, and performed
with major symphonies of the
He attended the
University of the Philippines in
Quezon City. Asercion is now
retired from the United States
Navy and resides with his family
in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The
clinic is grateful to the Selmer
Ind. for their
unselfish assistance in providing
Asercion’s services.’
These two bands will rehearse
for two days and then perform in
concert ‘on Saturday night in
Barnes Auditiorium at Kings
Mountain Senior High School at
7:30 p.m. This concert is open to
the public, and admission is free.
The Kings Mountain unit of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars is
planning to purchase a memorial
plaque to honor all Kings Moun-
tain area servicemen who died in
the Vietnam War.
The VFEW needs the names,
rank and other pertinent infor-
mation about the men.
Family members of those who
died in Vietnam are urged to call
the VFW at 739-9935 after 3
p.m. and supply the information.
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