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- KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
Photo by Gary Stewart
KEVIN S CORNER - Ons ord of the Mack Homose room in Kings Mountain displays awards
£2 an momentos from Kevin Mack's outstanding high school and college football career. He
~ closed out his collegiate season Christmas Da
fensive Player for the Gray team in its 17-
: Classic in } Monigomery. Ala.
ty by being selected the Most Outstanding Of-
13 win over the Blue in the annual Blue- -Gray
‘Mack Voted Best Back
In Blue-Gray Classic
By GARY STEWART
Managing Editor
With a successful four-year
career and record-breaking
senior season behind him, Clem-
son football standout Kevin
Mack of Kings Mountain is now
looking forward to a possible pro
football career.
He’s anxiously awaiting pro
football tryouts in January and
February, the USFL draft on
January 4 and the NFL draft i in
April.
Mack feels his best shot at
making the pros will be at
tailback rather than fullback, the
position he played his Bast three
years at Clemson.
“I'd prefer to go to the NFL
he said while relaxing at home
over the Christmas holidays.
“But it really doesn’t matter.
Both are real good leagues and
the USFL is beginning to sign
a
some big name people.”
Mack has been contacted by
numerous pro scouts and all of
them say he’ll be drafted. “All of
them say I'll definitely be a
tailback,” he says. “That makes
‘me happy.”
Mack was a record-setting
tailback his senior year at Kings
Mountain High, when he gained
1,585 yards. He was recruited as
a defensive back by Clemson,
but he never practiced nor -
played a play on defense.
“l really don’t know what
made them change their mind,”
Mack said. “I would rather have
played tailback in college, but 1
had to play what was available
to me at the time. I'm not disap-
pointed that I was moved to
fullback.”
Mack gained 862 yards
rushing this past season to break
the single season rushing record
for a Clemson fullback. Fred
Cone gained 845 yards in 1950.
He topped the 100-yard mark in
three games and had a career-
high 186 yards against
Maryland. 3
He closed out his career
Christmas Day by helping lead
the South team to a 17-13 win
over the North in the annual
Blue-Gray Game in Mon-
tgomery, Ala. He gained 36
yards rushing in four carries and
caught twa passes for nine yards.
He was voted the outstanding
back of the Gray team.
“Pm glad 1 got to play,” said
Mack, who started at fullback
for the Gray team and gained 18
yards on the first offensive play
of the game. “But if I'd had my
choice, I would rather have gone
to a bowl game with the rest of
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By ELIZABETH STEWART
As the strains of Auld Lang
Syne, traditional harbinger of a
brand New Year ring out in
Kings Mountain Saturday night,
Kings Mountain area citizens
can look back on 365 news-filled
days in which they could recall
good times and bad, happiness
and sadness.
But, generally Kings Moun-
tain area citizens had their share
of good news during the year
which ends at midnight Satur-
day.
Headlines of The Kings
Mountain Herald recount again
the major news events of 1983.
The New Year brought an
upswing in industrial activity
and more people were working
in December 1983 than in
December 1982 with the
economy taking a turn for the
better. And, the State Highway
Department officially opened
the U.S. 74-85 interchange east
of Kings Mountain, although
the weather slowed the opening
in December of the Cansler
Street section of the mammoth
project, there were indications
the project would be completed
by the end of January 1984.
Kings Mountain citizens
elected a new city commissioner
from District 1 in the person of
Irvin M. (Tootie) Allen, Jr. and
returned incumbent Mayor John
Henry Moss to his 19th year at
City Hall. For incumbent Com-
missioner Corbet Nicholson, it
was a close victory as he narrow-
ly defeated political newcomer
Ronnie Franks in a run-off elec-
tion. Jim Childers was defeated
in his bid for re-election to
District 1 after serving the city
eight years.
The Kings Mountain Board of
Education faced a money crunch
in 1983 and some teacher con-
tracts were not renewed. It was
also an election year for the KM
District Schools and Doyle
Campbell became the newest
school trustee while Bill
McDaniel was elected chairman
of the board.
There were many deaths dur-
ing 1983 and residents were sad-
dened by the passing of a large
number of prominent citizens.
The yearend review from
January-December!
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Citizens Awaiting
Arrival Of 1984
Kings Mountain citizens were
preparing this week to welcome
the arrival Saturday at midnight
of the New Year, A.D. 1984.
Housewives were purchasing
blackeyed peas and hog jowl for
the traditional good luck piece de
resistance, and numerous other
citizens were getting ready for
the customary New Year’s Eve
revelry.
Club and private parties are in
order for Saturday evening with
the arrival of the New Year
signaling the end of the current,
busy holiday season,
Post 155 American Legion is
sponsoring a New Years Eve
dance, open to the public, on
Saturday evening from 9 until
midnight. “The Legend” is book-
ed for the club dance and ad-
vance ticket sales, which are go-
ing good, are $12 per couple. Ad-
mission at the door is $15 per
couple. Club Manager Butch
Broome says citizens planning to
come to the dance need to arrive
early to ensure good seats and
that after 100 couples purchase
tickets that no more will be sold
to avoid overcrowding of the.
ballroom.
Majority of Kings Mountain
citizens resumed regular duties
Tuesday though others, in-
cluding the school population,
had another week for rest and
relaxation. KM District Schools
reopen on Tuesday.
Generally speaking all of
Kings Mountain industry will be
back in action on Monday, Jan.
2:
Some merchants reopened the
day after Christmas and faced
plenty of work. Business has
been brisk all this week, in-
cluding both sales and exchange,
and merchants are advertising
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REP. JIM MARTIN
Jim Martin
To Speak
U.S. Congressman Jim Mar-
tin, a Republican candidate for
Governor of North Carolina,
will be guest speaker at the
Thursday, Jan. 5th, meeting of
the Kings Mountain Kiwanis
Club at 6:45 p.m. at the Holiday
Inn.
Martin, a member of the U.S.
House of Representatives since
1972, serves as a senior member
of the powerful House Commit-
tee on Ways and Means. He has
been chairman of the
Republican Task Force on
Health and a ‘member of the
House Committee on the
Budget.
City Will
Absorb
Gas Hike
Kings Mountain natural gas
customers will get a New Year’s
present from the mayor and
board of city commissioners.
Mayor John Moss said yester-
day that he will recommend to
the board Thursday at the noon
meeting at City Hall that the city
absorb the recent six cents per
dekatherm hike to the city by
the city’s supplier, Transcon-
tinental Pipeline Corporation.
“We are happy that the city is
In a position to absorb this in-
crease so that we will not have to
pass the higher costs on to
citizens”, said the Mayor. “This
1s a New Year's present we are
very happy to be able to give”,
he added.
King Winter roared into
Kings Mountain and brought a
Christmas present that few peo-
ple liked, the coldest weather in
recent history.
Below-freezing temperatures
that began last Wednesday have
not let up since the weatherma
says the worst hasn’t arrived.
Zero degree temperatures in
this area on Christmas Day were
the coldest ever. Some citizens
were still experiencing frozen
water pipes this week. Freezing
rains last Wednesday caused
power outage in the Bethlehem
section of the community and
ice on bridges resulted in a five
car pileup on the KM RAMP
OF I-85 East coming into the ci-
ty.
Although winter officially ar-
rived at 4:30 a.m. Thursday,
Dec. 22, low temperatures and
winds caused icy precipitation as
early as last Wednesday.
The mercury hasn’t climbed
above freezing all week.
Christmas Day 1983 was a
sharp contrast to Christmas Day
1982 when temperatures were
near record highs. The high for
Dec. 25, 1982 was a balmy 72
degrees and the day’s low was
54.
The entire nation shivered in
the cold this holiday season and
more winter weather is on the
way.
City firemen doused three
chimney fires during the holiday
period. Lt. Bud Ware said
firemen were called Christmas
Eve to the home of Leonard
Wright, 821 Floyd St., on Dec.
26th to the home of Charles
Summers, 915 Sharon Drive,
and on Tuesday, Dec. 27th to
the home of Mike McDaniel,
608 Hillside Drive. No damage
was reported at either residence.
“I think they all built their fires
up too big”, said Ware.
Walt Ollis, of the city’s Water
and Sewer Department, said that
more people had called Tuesday
to complain of frozen water
pipes than at any other time dur-
ing the holiday period. He said
he had received as many as 20
calls on Tuesday and several
calls about frozen pipes on Mon-
day. He said there were no
power outages due to Wednes-
day’s ice but city crews had cut
limbs away from wires during
the past few weeks and this was
time well spent”, according to
Ollis. “We're just keeping our
fingers crossed that the winter
storm won't come as expected”,
he said.
Kings Mountain Rescue
Squad reported no serious in-
juries from wrecks occuring dur-
ing the holiday period. Three
people were treated at the
hospital and released early Satur-
day after their car ran up under a
tractor-trailer on Stateline Road
161, Lt. Roy Hammett said.
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The frigid temperatures on
Christmas morning resulted in
some inconvenience to citizens
attending church services. First
Presbyterian church congrega-
tion had no heat in the church,
so the pastor and members built
a fire in the Recreation Building
and sat around the fireplace for a
worship service. The pastor
reminded the congregation dur-
ing the children’s sermon that
Mary and Jesus had no place to
stay and had to have make-shift
quarters for the birth of the
Christ Child.
Quiet Yule Season
Reported By Police
Police reported no arrests dur-
ing the holiday period, answered
three larceny complaints and
reported slight damages and no
injuries in two accidents, neither
of which occurred on Christmas
Eve or Christmas Day.
“It was really a quiet holiday
in Kings Mountain”, said Police
Bloodmobile
Here Jan. 12
The Red Cross Bloodmobile
will be in Kings Mountain
Thursday, Jan. 12th, for a one-
day visit at First Baptist Church.
Donors will be processed from
12:30 until 6 p.m. Goal of the
collection is 150 pints of blood.
“Blood 1s in critical demand at
the holiday season and we en-
courage everyone to come oul
and support the bloodbank”,
said city fireman Bill Herndon.
Secretary Marti Blanton.
Police are investigating these
complains from citizens: Ken-
neth Cash, 308 Fulton St.,
larceny of centerpiece from hub-
caps, valued at $108; Pantry,
King St., larceny of cap valued
at $2.39; Patsy Jolley, Route §,
larceny of billfold containing
$80 in cash from a foodbasket af
Food Lion, and James Walker,
800 Linwood Road, larceny of
gun valued at $80.
Two automobiles collided in
the parking lot of Westgate
Shopping Center on Dec. 22
resulting in $900 damages to
vehicles. The cars were operated
by Jacqueline Goforth of
Charlotte and Kathy Clack of
Third Street.
Cars operated by
High, of
Melissa
Jacksonville, and
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Happy New Year!
List Your Taxes
January is just around the cor-
ner..and so is the time for all
citizens to list their taxes.
Tax listing for the city of
Kings Mountain and Cleveland
County will begin Monday at
the Governmental Services
Facilities Center.
Tax listers will be in the lobby
of the center each weekday from
8:30 until 5 p.m. to list area
citizens’ taxes. There will be no
Saturday listing in Kings Moun-
tain.
Tax listers will be in Grover
two Saturdays during the month
of January, on January 14th and
January 28th, from 8:30 am.
until. 1 p.m. at the Grover
Rescue Squad.
Citizens who do not list their
taxes during the month of
January will be subject to late-
listing fees.
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