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VOL. 97 NUMBER 47
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1984
41,000 Registered In County
An estimated 9,000 voters
from Kings Mountain and No. 4
Township are registered to vote
in Tuesday’s general election.
Polls ‘open at 6:30 a.m. and
close at 7:30 p.m.
The local voting places are:
East Kings Mountain at the
Community Center, West Kings
Mountain at the Armory,
Bethware at Bethware School
and Grover at the Grover
Rescue Squad Building.
Voters will receive six ballots
in the Kings Mountain and
Bethware area and voters at
Grover precinct will receive
seven paper ballots. Grover is
the only polling place in this area
Center
Receives
the N.C. Division of Aging for
$40,000 to expand classroom
space, according to announce-
ment by Aging Director Teresa
Melton.
Ms. Melton said the expan-
sion will increase and broaden
the services of the Center for Ag-
ing at the Depot.
City maintenance crews will
provide the labor for the renova-
tion project which will include
creation of a centralized en-
trance, removal of walls and the
utilization of moveable wall par-
titions for space. The renovation
will begin immediately.
Ms. Melton said that par-
ticipation in the Kings Mountain
Senior Center has increased
since 1982 to 814 percent to cur- .
rently serve 67,033 units of ser-
vice annually and to serve 1,166
“individuals in various classes and
programs.
The building alterations will
sufficiently. serve the current
enrolled participants, she said,
and allow for growth.
A nutrition site currently uses
3,696 square feet of the center,
prohibiting senior center activity
until 1 p.m. each day because of
the need for serving of meals.
The lower level of the dining
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agrant from
where voting machines are not
used to tabulate the vote.
In Cleveland County, a total
of 41,000 people are registered
to vote in the general election
which is expected to see a heavy
turnout of voters who will help
elect the next President of the
United States, the next Vice
President, the next Senator from
North Carolina, a U.S. con-
gressman from North Carolina,
state officials, including a new
Governor and Lieutenant
Governor, and three members of
the Cleveland County Board of
Commissioners, in addition to
other county and state officials.
Election officials in this area
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Northshores Landing, a 90
-unit condominium project
estimated to cost $7.5
million,will begin construction
on Moss Lake in about six
weeks. :
The general contractor with
the apparent low bid of $2.5
million for the first phase of con-
include: East Kings Mountain,
Margaret White, registrar and
Denise Falls and Grace Talbert,
judges; West Kings Mountain-
Becky Cooke, registrar, and
Lewis Hovis and Gerry Myers,
judges; Grover-Mary Birskovich,
registrar, and Jackie Rountree
and Martha Fortenberry, judges;
and Bethware, Hilda Goforth
registrar, and Ruth Gamble and
Jack Anthony, judges.
Candidates on the ballots in-
clude:
For President:
Reagan, Republican;
Mondale, Democrat.
Ronald
Walter
For Vice President: George
Bush, Republican, Geraldine
Ferraro, Democrat.
For U.S. Senator-Jesse Helms,
Republican; Jim Hunt-
Democrat; Bobby Emory, Liber-
tarian; Kate Daher, Socialist
Worker Party.
For N.C. House of Represen-
tatives: Jim Broyhill,
“Republican; Ted Poovey,
Democrat.
For Cleveland County Board
of Commissioners (three to be
elected) Democrats Gene
LeGrand, Joyce Falls Cashion
and Jack Spangler. Republicans
~ Charlie F. Harry, Billy Davis
and Ruth Wilson.
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Rogers, Democrat, unopposed.
For District Court Judges,
three to be elected, all unoppos-
ed. George Hamrick, John Gard-
ner and James T. Bowen.
For Governor
Carolina: Democrat Rufus Ed-
misten, Republican Jim Martin:
Libertarian Fritz Prochnow;
Socialist: Worker, Gregory Mc-
Cartan.
For Lieutenant Governor of
North Carolina: Bob Jordan,
Democrat; John Carrington,
Republican.
For Secretary-of-State: Thad
Eure, Democrat; Patrick Dorsey,
Republican.
For State Treasurer:
Architect’s Drawing Of Condos
90-Unit Condo Planned At Moss Lake
struction is Dixie Lumber Com-
pany of Cherryville. In Phase |
are 17 two-bedroom units and 16
three-bedroom units.
David Faunce of Kings
Mountain is developing the pro-
ject and said the entire project is
expected to take three years or
less to complete.
Local People Seek Seats
On Board Of Commissioners
Three Kings Mountain area
citizens are among the six can-
didates for three seats up for
grabs on the Cleveland County
Board of Commissioners which
voters will decide on Tuesday at
the polls. ;
The local candidates are Joyce
Falls Cashion, Democrat, former
Chairman of ‘the Democratic
Party, and long active in County
and State politics and a Kings
Mountain grocer; Gene
LeGrand, former Shelby in-
dustrialist who is now retired
and resides on Moss Lake; and
Charlie Harry, native of Grover,
Republican, an official of
Grover Industries.
Other candidates are; Jack
Davis
Spangler, Democrat; and Billy
and Ruth Wilson,
Republicans, all of Shelby.
Two women, Mrs. Cashion
and Mrs. Wilson, are running for
the commission seats for the first
time.
All candidates have been busy
pumping hands and campaign-
ing in the Kings Mountain-
Grover-Bethware area and all of
them answered questions from
the public during a forum con-
ducted by The Shelby Daily Star
Tuesday night at the Cleveland
County Courthouse.
Mrs.Cashion led the field of
candidates in the Democratic
run-off in May and placed se-
cond to Gene LeGrand among
13 candidates in the May 8
Democratic primary’.
In the 25th North Carolina
Senatorial District, Incumbent J.
Ollie Harris of Kings Mountain,
Helen Rhyne Marvin of
Gastonia and Marshall Rauch of
Gastonia are unopposed for re-
All incumbent Democrats are
unopposed in the 43rd House
District where Edith Lutz, Jack
Hunt and Charles Owens won
nomination in the May primries.
The Cleveland County com-
mission race expects to get high
voter interest in this area with
three Kings Mountain area can-
didates in the field which insures
this area a representative on the
county board for the new term
Faunce Realty owns the eight
, acre tract, site for the condos, on
the northern edge of Moss Lake
between Cherryville and Shelby.
Faunce and Shelby Architect
Jerry McGinnis have been
developing the project .for about
18 months.
Plans for the project will be
of office. The hotly contested
Presidential race between incum-
bent President Ronald Reagan
and Democrat Walér Mondale,
the hotly contested Senate race
between Governor Jim Hunt,
Democrat, who is challenging
the incumbent Republican
Senator Jesse Helms, and the N.
C. gubernatorial race between
Democrat Rufus Edmisten and
Republican Congressman Jim
Martin are also expected to at-
tract many voters to the polls on
Election Day.
Cleveland County Elections
Board officials predict a heavy
turnout of voters at the polls on
Tuesday.
submitted to Cleveland County
and Kings Mountain Lake
Authority for approval.
List prices for the condos will
range from $73,000 to $94,000.
Each brick veneer condo will
have front and rear decks and
each will be on the water. Also
planned are a sheltered swimm-
tennis
ing area, courts, a
JOYCE CASHION
of North.
Election Is Tuesday
Democrat Harlan Boyles, unop-
posed.
For State Auditor: Edward
Renfrow, Democrat; James E.
- Hicks, Republican.
For Attorney General: Lacy
Thornburg, Democrat; C.Allen
Foster, Republican.
For Commissioner of In-
surance: Jim Long, Democrat;
Richard Morgan, Republican.
For Commissioner of
Agriculture: Jim Graham,
‘Democrat; Lee O. Tew,
Republican.
For Commissioner of Labor:
John Brooks, Democrat,
Margaret Plemmons,
Republican.
For Superintendant of Public
Instruction: Craig Phillips,
Democrat; Gene Baker,
Republican.
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clubhouse, swimming pool, and
jogging trail.
Faunce said the building of
condos on Moss Lake give an
alternative in single family dwell-
ings and he has found ‘a definite
interest from people in this
area.” “I think it’s going to be a
tremendous plus for the citizens
of the Kings Mountain and
Shelby area.”
GENE LEGRAND
RS