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VOL. 98 NUMBER 34 THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1985 KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
City Candidate Filing To Begin August 16
Three Deaton Says She’ll Run
Seats For City Council Seat
Jan Deaton, who was defeated by Jim Dickey in a runoff for
District 6 Commissioner four years ago, will throw her hat in
the city political ring this fall.
Mrs. Deaton wants to become the second woman ever to 3
serve on the city council and thinks she is the person for the by
job. The late Maude Walker served on the commission by ap-
pointment after the death of her late husband, Ward 5 City :
Are Up
Filing period for the Oc-
tober 8 city election opens
August 16 at noon and closes
September 6 at noon.
Three seats are up for
grabs with the terms of
District 2, District 5 and
District 6 commissioners ex-
piring.
All incumbent commis-
sioners, Humes Houston of
District 2, Curt Gaffney of
District 5 and Jim Dickey of
District 6 are expected to
seek re-election. Gaffney,
who is completing his first
four-year term on the board,
said this week that he
definitely will be a candidate.
Gaffney is an East Kings
Mountain barber.
Although there has been lit-
tle outward political activity
in the community, the rumor
mill has been grinding out the
names of several prospective
candidates for the three seats
and the newly-formed Open
Citizens Forum is expected to
encourage participation from
all three districts.
Former Commissioner Jim
HUMES HOUSTON
Childers is expected to op-
pose incumbent Dickey in
District 6 and Jan Deaton,
who was defeated by Dickey
in a runoff four years ago,
has said she will definitely be
a candidate for what she
thinks will be a ‘three or
four-person race.”
Other names mentioned
have been those of Leonard
Smith in District 2, Ex-
. Commissioner Bill Grissom
and Herald General Manager
‘Darrell Austin in District &,
X missi Kings Mountain at the Na-
Harold Phillips in District 6.
and Ex-Commissioner
CURT GAFFNEY
Becky Cook, chairman of
the Kings Mountain Board of
Elections, said that no new
registration will be held.
Citizens who have moved
from one ward or district to
the other during the past four
years can contact the
Cleveland County Board of
Elections for instructions on
changing their place of
voting.
The polling places are East
Kings Mountain at the com-
munity center and West
tional Guard Armory. The
New Wing Going Up At Junior High
School Begins August 20
School bells will ring for the
1985-86 term on August 20th
and teachers will report for
optional work days Aug. 12th.
Supt. Bill Davis said that
all faculties are virtually
complete but several posi-
tions are yet to be filled at the
Junior High School and one
position is yet to be filled at
Central School.
Davis said that a full
KM Man Faces Drug
Charge In South Carolina
Robert William Eng III, 29,
of 864 E. Gold St., was charg-
ed with trafficking cocaine,
conspiracy to traffic cocaine
and possession with intent to
distribute marijuana Friday
morning, along with four
other people arrested in
South Carolina in connection
with the trafficking of an
estimated $5 million worth of
cocaine.
Eng was also charged with
firearms violation after a
machine gun was found in the
truck he was driving at the in-
tersection of Highways 18 and
211 just inside the Cherokee
County line. Officers found
the machine gun but no drugs
in the truck he was driving.
Other suspects, all of whom
were jailed in Cherokee
County Jail on $50,000 bond
each, are Donald Clark
Holcomb, 41, of Rt. 4, Gaff-
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schedule of classes will get
underway on Aug. 20th with
exception of Kindergarten,
where those students will be
dismissed at 11:30 a.m. on
Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, Aug. 20-23. For the
JIM DICKEY
registration books close
September 9.
Candidates filing for
District 2, District 5 and
District 6 can do so beginning
August 16 at noon at the home
of Mrs. Cook at 717
Meadowbrook Road.
Filing fee for commis-
sioner is $5. A person must be
a registered voter in the city
and live in the district he
©. seeks office for at least six
‘months prior to {filing to
become a candidate. Salary
is $385.99 per menth plus in-
| surance coverage by the city.
first time, Kings Mountain.
Senior High students will
begin classes at 8 a.m. with
the dismissal bell to ring at 2
p.m. to allow working
students to go to jobs and
other students to take part in
numerous sports and extra-
curricular activities.
Optional workdays for
teachers are Aug. 12, 13 and
19. Mandatory work days for
teachers are Aug. 15, 15 and
16, said Davis.
Barry Gibson will succeed
Blaine Froneberger at Kings
Mountain Senior High as
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Commissioners :
‘receive retirement benefits.
do ‘not
Commissioner 0.0. Walker.
Wife of Clarence Deaton
and mother of four sons, Mrs.
Deaton thinks the council
needs ‘‘new blood’ and said
she would encourage younger
people, and especially
women, to become interested
in city government.
A Kings Mountain native,
she is the daughter of Elvin
Brown of Kings Mountain and
the late Margie Gladden
Brown. She is a former
employee of Phenix Plant of
Burlington Industries, where
she worked for 14 years, and
Sadie Mills, where she work-
ed for 18 months. She is now
employed by the N.C. Divi-
sion of Prisons in Shelby. The
family resides at 700 Bridges
Drive-and is active in First
Wesleyan Church.
Clarence I'eaton works for Burlington Industries Frag jo rg
25, is employed with the Department of
a
plant. Son Rodney,
~ JAN DEATON
the Army and he and his wife, Susan Ward Deaton, live in the
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Buckle Up!
KM Senator
Voted Against
Seat Belt Law
When the N.C. General
Assembly adjourned last
Thursday after 118 days, J.
Ollie Harris of Kings Moun-
tain was glad to come home
but the Senator said he was
proud of the work ac-
complished by legislators.
“It was a difficult session
but most productive,’”’ he said
this week.
Harris pointed with pride,
he said, to the appropriations
for the elderly, the indigent,
and particularly in the pro-
grams approved for children
and youth in the state, fun-
ding for day care centers, in
articular, and victories won
or education.
He also rated passage of a
$16.4 million budget and the
biggest tax cut package in
state history as the most
significant accomplishment
of the N.C. General Assembly
and said he was pleased that
Cleveland County received
$164,000 in Pork Barrel funds
for local projects with more
than half the funds going to
programs for the mentally
and physically handicapped.
Harris, who serves as
chairman of the Human
Resources Committee, said
he is quite proud of bills pass-
ed to take care of the elderly
and indigent of the state. He
also said he is pleased with a
$450,000 reduction in state-
funded abortions.
He said he was quite pleas-
ed that the “right to know”
law was raised by legislators
this year and that he did not
opppose it. He opposed the
seat belt law because he said
OLLIE HARRIS BUCKLES UP
...5ays Seat Belt Law Has No Teeth
there is no teeth in the or-
dinance. Harris said that
adult drivers and front-seat
passengers are required to
wear seat belts after Oct. 1
and violation of the law will
mean a warning ticket only
until January 1987 when
violators will be fined $25 but
there will be no points off
your driving record, no court
costs or court appearances as
a result of the ticket, and
your car insurance costs
won’t go up.
“That’s the only way that
bill would pass,’’ he said.
Harris said that a total of
793 bills and resolutions were
ratified during the first ses-
sion for Republican Governor
Jim Martin and that some
other major issues included
authorization of a November
1986 referendum on guber-
natorial succession; raising
the drinking age for beer and
wine from 19 to 21 on Sept. 1,
1986; and passing of major
changes to the state’s Ad-
ministrative Procedures Act.
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