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VOL. 96 NUMBER 47
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1983
- KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH
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Incumbents Win Local Races
Campbell
First Time
Winner
Incumbents Paul Hord Jr.,
Kyle Smith and Bill McDaniel,
and newcomer Doyle Campbell
won seats on the Kings Moun-
tain District Board of Education
in Tuesday’s election.
All posted landslide victories
in one of the biggest school
board elections in years. Because
of two recent resignations, four
seats were available instead of
the usual two.
Hord, who was unopposed for
the remaining two years on the
outside-city limits term of
Harold Lineberger, secured
2,037 votes, far and away the
largest margin of any candidate.
Hord was appointed last spring
to serve in Lineberger’s place un-
til this election. Lineberger
resigned to move to Gaston
County.
Bill McDaniel, running for his
second term as a representative
from outside the city limits, won
by 190 votes over Grover drug-
gist Quint McCoy. McDaniel
polied 975 votes to 785 for Mc-
Coy and 681 for Dianne Davis.
Kyle Smith won his second
six-year term, defeating Carol
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RICKY HALL
DOYLE CAMPBELL
KYLE SMITH
School Board Winners
BILL McDANIEL
PAUL HORD
A seven-year-old Bessemer Ci-
ty boy who was struck by a car
while riding his bicycle Friday
died Sunday after doctors at
Charlotte Memorial Hospital
disconnected him from a life-
support system with the consent
of his family.
Grady Ricky Hall Jr., son of
Grady Ricky Hall Sr. and Wen-
dy Adams Hall, suffered severe
head injuries. He was riding his
bike on East Washington
Avenue about 5:50 p.m. when
he swerved in front of a car
driven by Rodney Scott Payne,
22, of Route 2, Bessemer City.
The car skidded more than 110
feet but was unable to stop
before striking the lad, police
said.
Weekly ACC Column
By DeVenzio Begins
“Inside Stuff,” a weekly col-
umn on Atlanta Coast Con-
ference basketball by Dick
DeVenzio, will run for 26 con-
secutive weeks in the Herald.
DeVenzio will be providing
you with an inside look into
ACC basketball-with informa-
tion on the players, on coaching
strategies, recruiting, team per-
formances, and ways of seeing
basketball that you've never
before considered.
With his diverse background
in basketball and his special in-
terest in literature (he was an
English major and has written
DICK DEVENZIO
several novels) Dick DeVenzio is
in a unique position to offer in-
sights you won’t find anywhere
else.
Dick was a Parade Magazine
First Team High School All-
American player in Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania in 1967, and he
was recruited heavily by legen-
dary basketball names like John
Wooden, Bob Cousy, Vic Bubas,
and Dean Smith. Dick choose
Duke University where he
became an all-ACC performer in
1969, and an Academic All-
American in 1971.
He went on to play and coach
in the European pro league, and
has taught basketball in five dif-
ferent languges.
Currently, Dick is director of
the prestigious, nationally
recognized all star camp, Prep
Stars, and founder of an in-
novative youth basketball pro-
gram called D.R.I.B.L.
His recently published book,
“Stuff! Good Players Should
Know,” is a bestseller among
sports publications, and this
year, for the first time, Dick will
be a TV personality—doing a
halftime show called (what else?)
“Inside Stuff,” during each
televised ACC game.
Look for Dick’s Column each
week. It is one you won’t want
to miss.
2 Wreck Fatal To Lad
The accident is still under in-
vestigation.
Ricky was a first grader at
Bessemer City Primary School.
In addition to his parents, he is
survived by his grandparents,
Carolyn and Robert Adams of
Bessemer City and Elsie Hall of
Kings Mountain; a newborn
brother, Jeremiah Hall; and a
two-year old sister, Jessica Hall.
Funeral services were con-
ducted Wednesday at 3 p.m. at
Wesleyan Church by the Rev. F.
Dick Whitener and the Rev.
Wade Easom. Burial was in
Westview Cemetery.
Bell Dies
Following
Car Wreck
Radford Charles Bell, 26, of
Route 4, Kings Mountain, died
Wednesday in Charlotte
Memorial Hospital from injuries
received in an automobile acci-
dent Tuesday in Lincolnton.
A native of Cleveland Coun-
ty, he was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Bell Jr. and was
employed by White and Fox
Construction Company of
Granite Falls. He was a member
of the Board of Trustees and In-
spiration Choir of Long Branch
First Baptist Church in Grover.
In addition to his parents, he is
survived by his wife, Jacqueline
Garner Bell; a daughter, Tiffany
Bell of the home; his grand-
mothers, Marveter Bell of Kings
Mountain and Lottie Ross of
Blacksburg, S.C; three brothers,
Irvin Bell and Kenneth Bell of
Kings Mountain and Vernon
Bell of Grover; and two sisters,
Angela Smith of Grover and
Rachel Reid of Kings Mountain.
Services were conducted
Saturday at 3 p.m. at Long
Branch First Baptist Church by
Dr. R.D. Abbott. Burial was in
the church cemetery.
Nicholson
Has Close
Victory
Incumbents Corbet Nicholson
and Norman King were returned
to office Tuesday in the Kings
Mountain Board of Commis-
sioners runoff election.
Nicholson, who has served as
District 3 commissioner for 10
years, narrowly defeated first-
time political hopeful Ronald
Franks, while King, who has
been the District 4 commissioner
since 1963 except for a brief two-
year term in the early 1970’,
won a big victory over the Rev.
ML. Campbell.
They will join Irvin “Tootie”
Allen, who defeated incumbent
Jim Childers in the October 11
election, and Mayor John Henry
Moss, and commissioners Jim
Dickey, Humes Houston and
Curt Gaffney on the board. Gaf-
fney, Houston and Dickey were
not up for re-election this year.
Nicholson received 945 votes
to 906 for Franks, who ran se-
cond in the October 11 election.
Franks led the voting at the Ar-
mory, 635 to 616, but a strong
329-271 advantage at the Com-
munity Center swung the vic-
tory for Nicholson.
“I'm glad it’s over,” Nicholson
said while accepting congratula-
tions from his supporters outside
the Community Center Tuesday
night. “I'd like to thank all the,
people for their support. My sup-
porters stuck with me during
both elections.”
Nicholson, who led Franks by
a much larger margin in Oc-
tober, said, “I figured it would be
close. Ronnie’s a good boy and
ran a good, clean race. I had to
work much harder during the
runoff than I did before, and a
lot of my supporters worked
hard.”
The votes at the Armory were
counted before the ones at the
Community Center, and Franks
felt good when the tally showed
him ahead by 19 votes.
“I’m a little disappointed but I
feel good that it was a good,
clean race,” Franks said. “I don’t
feel embarrassed for my first
time out.”
King, who led Rev. Campbell
by only 95 votes in the October
11 election, won a 257-vote
margin Tuesday. King tallied
1,070 votes to 813 for Campbell.
King led 759 to 527 at the Ar-
mory and 320 to 286 at the
Community Center.
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NORMAN KING
City Board Winners
§
CORBET NICHOLSON
All Incumbents Win
In Grover Election
Turn out was high, citizens
were involved, and candidates
campaigned to the very end as
voters turned out for the Town
of Grover Municipal Election on
November 8.
Eighty-four percent of the
registered voters turned out to
voice their opinion as to who
would serve their community.
After the votes were cast and the
ballots were counted, W.W. Mc-
Carter would once again serve as
Mayor for another four year
term. His opponents, Martha
Byers received 84 votes, but it
wasn’t enough to overcome Mc-
Carter’s 123 ballots. Quay Moss
placed last in the Mayor’s race as
he received one write-in vote.
Dennis McDaniel and Ronald
Queen both received 150 votes
in the Commissioner’s race, plac-
ing them in the two four year
term seats. The three candidates
with enough votes to place them
in the remaining seats for the
next two years were M. H
Camp, 142 votes; Grady Ross,
135 votes; and J. N. Howell, 115
votes. Juanita Pruette received
BILL McCARTER
88 votes and Kenneth Anthony
received 86 votes. Juanita
Pruette received 88 votes and
Kenneth Anthony received 86
votes. Several other Grover
citizens received a few votes on a
write-in ticket-including: Tom-
my Keeter, 2 votes; Elsie Ross, 1
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Vet Day Memorial
Service Slated Friday
A special memorial for
Veterans will be held Friday at
11:00 a.m. at the Veteran’s
Garden at Mountain Rest
Cemetary.
Local veteran’s organizations
will participate in the special
“Wreath Laying Ceremony,” in-
cluding members from the Odis
D. Green American Legion Post,
Frank B. Glass Veterans of
Foreign War, and the Ladies
Auxilary. The Legion Chaplin
will open the service with prayer,
Mayor Moss will deliver a
speech in honor of the veterans,
and the VFW Chaplin will close
the cermony with prayer.
The public is invited to attend
this special memorial to be held
Veteran’s Day.
RECEIVES AWARD - Larry Wood. right, personnel manager of Foote Mineral Company in
Kings Mountain, receives a business award for his plant's involvement in science and
mathematics education at a recent luncheon in Raleigh. Making the presentation is Gover-
nor James Hunt Jr., who formed the Business Math/Science Committee in 1982. Looking on at
left is Bland W. Worley. Chairman of the committee.