"VOL. 98 NUMBER
Shelby At Kings Mountain
Friday 8:00 P.M.
John Gamble Stadium
Politicking Quiet As
With Kings Mountain’s city
election only 12 days away
and at West Precinct at The
: Humes Houston is being
National Guard Armory.
registered to vote in the Oct. 8
challenged by political
election.
candidates were pumping
hands, putting up placards,
but otherwise, outwardly
quiet.
Three seats on the city
board of commissioners are
up for grabs on Tuesday, Oct.
8th, and voters will go to the
polls at the two precincts in
town - at East Kings Moun-
tain at the Community Center
Political observers predict
that District 6 will see the hot-
test race with two former city
~ commissioners, Jim Childers
and Harold Phillips, and a
woman candidate who he fac-
ed in a runoff, Jan Deaton,
challenging the veteran in-
cumbent Jim Dickey for the
seat he has held for 12 years.
In District 2 the incumbent
three-term commissioner
newcomer Leonard A. Smith
Sr., former retired Sadie Mill
lant manager, and by
ormer mayoral candidate
Gilbert Hamrick.
In District 5, first term
commissioner Curt Gaffney
is being challenged by Fred
E. Finger and by Ruby M.
Alexander, both political
newcomers.
A total of 4,500 citizens are
In political advertising the
incumbents say they are run-
ning on their records and
want re-election to see com-
pletion of programs begun in
office.
In political advertising the
challengers are asking for a
change at City Hall and are
saying they have ‘‘No axes to
grind” but want to see more
open communications in city
Traffic congestion and
several wrecks occurring in
the East Gold-Gaston Street
area where the new U.S. Post
Office and where 48 apart-
ments are under construction
have heightened the city’s
plans for a traffic control
study.
. Major street im-
provements, which could
fort $134,788, are also plann-
ed.
The city board of commis-
sioners
Postmaster Fred Weaver on
the traffic study and heard
presentation by ‘Ollis and
Kimbrell of proposed
signalization of S. Bat-
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Buy your Christmas bows
and all-occasion ribbon from
a member of the Kings Moun-
tain Senior High Band and
Band Parents.
That’s the plea of Band
Parents who are sponsoring
the sale of bows at $3.50 for 10
bows in beautiful pink, gray
and blue colors and in an
assortment of holiday colors
just in time for the upcoming
City commissioners voted
unanimously Monday night to
apply for a license to con-
struct a $1.3 million
hydroelectric plant on Moss
Lake.
The action came after a
30-minute presentation of
drawings and project discus-
sion led by the consulting
engineer for the project,
Charles Mierek, who said
that filing for a license could
be done as soon as one more
environmental study is com-
leted downstream. “We're
ooking at three to four
weeks,” he told the board.
which has been talk
Power would also
peak electricity deman
among city residents.
—Band students, above, open boxes of colorful 1-
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they aFe selling to fin
City Applying
Mierck said the Sooject
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holidays. :
The bow project is the first
fund-raiser sponsored by
Band Parents who hope to
raise $10,000 to support the
annual KMSHS Band Trip to
Disney World in Orlando,
Fla., April 9-13.
“Qur sale is going great,”
says Amy Austin, KMSHS
correspondent for The
Herald, who says that the
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Commissioner James
Dickey, chairman of the
city’s energy committee,
opened the discussion by
reiterating that the city
would follow “the full licens-
ing route,” instead of possi-
ble shortcuts available in the
licensing procedure which
had been discussed in prior
meetings. Dickey named
numerous agencies which are
cooperating in the project, in-
cluding N.C. Wildlife
Resources, N.C. Department
of Resources and Community
Development, N.C. Public
Works Commission, U.S.
Department of Energy, U.S.
by the Department of Interior, U.S.
board for several months, in- Army Corps of ‘Engineers,
volves the construction of a Fish and Wildlife Associa-
powerhouse near the spillway tions of Raleigh and Asheville
of the existing dam. Two tur- and Office of Environmental
bines, one 850 kilowatts and Protection, among others.
one 350 kilowatts would be us-
ed to power certain city pyilt four feet above the lake
operations such as the waste evel and there would be no
water treatment plant.
He said a tower would be
fluctuation in the level of the
be Jake in peak periods which he
generated for daily periods of sajd biti be early mornings
Monday through Friday in
the winter months and on
ribbon-bow is ideal for using
on your packages now and
then reusing again. The uni-
que ribbon makes a bow easi-
ly and then can be reused by
a touch of the bow and stored
by folding it up.
Band students in grades
10-11-12 have the bows or they
can be obtained at the high
school or by contacting any
Band Parent.
For Hydro License
Sunday in late evenings with
six hours of peak energy an-
ticipated. A transmission line
would run from the water
filter plant into town and
every kilowatt produced by
the unit would used. He
said one settling basin was
already in operation and that,
as time permits, sediment
would be taken from the up-
per reaches of the lake.
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large symbolic key given b
the architect to the churc
building committee and from
the building committee to the
church trustees. :
Represented in the con-
gregation were many former
members, representatives
from the various companies
that participated in the con-
struction, and several former
church staff members,
Mountaineer Days
Entries Invited
A two-day Mountaineer
Days celebration is planned
in Kings Mountain Oct. 4 and
5 with events planned in the
downtown area by the Kings
Mountain Fire Department.
Entries are now being ac-
cepted in the parade to be
held on Friday afternoon,
Oct. 4th, and those interested
should contact Fire Chief
tignor as soon as possible.
Forty-eight exhibitors are
preparing booths for a big
Crafts Fair to be held in the
lobby of the new City Hall.
Others interested in obtain-
ing a booth should contact
Mrs. Irvin Allen, Jr. for
details. The Crafts Fair will
be open on Sat., Oct. 5th,
from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.
government.
Filing by candidates for of-
fices in the Nov. 5 election
ended Friday.
In the Kings Mountain
area, incumbent Paul Hord
Jr. is seeking re-election to a
Kings Mountain school
district outside city seat and
is being challenged by Ann
Corry and Phil Bouchard.
In Grover, Bill Camp,
whose four year term on the
tleground and Gold and pro-
posed improvements of East
Gold from Gaston to York
Road which would result,
when finalized, in a four lane
street all the way from
Cherokee and Battleground
to York Road with major im-
provements, including curb
and gutter, water lines,
storm drainage, etc.
“This has really been an
on-going thing,” said Kim-
brell, “but with the build up
of traffic now in the East
Gold-Gaston Street area, it’s
become an immediate need
and I really think that Gold
carries as much traffic as
King,” he declared.
12th Division Traffic
Engineer Bob Jenkins of the
Department of Transporta-
tion (DOT) is working with
city officials on plans for the
i on of the Main
nals, bringing all
to uniform as for
channeliza
portions of the old city
downstairs for storage. The
which includes
Election Day Nears
council is ending, filed for
election to fill the two years
remaining on an unexpired
term. That seat is now held
by Don Rich, who filed for a
full four-year term. Also fil-
ing for the four-year terms on
the council were Harold
Herndon, a former commis-
sioner, and incumbents
Grady Ross and Jim Howell.
A total of 62 seek municipal
seats in Cleveland County.
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It’s Official! Broyhill In Race
+ It’s official! U.S. Con-
gressman Jim Broyhill has
ended weeks of speculation
,and has announced he will
seek the U.S. Senate seat be-
ing vacated by Senator John
East.
~The veteran 10th District
Congressman said in making
his announcement Friday
that ‘President Reagan
needs a strong candidate on
the ticket in North Carolina to
keep the U.S. Senate seat in
the conservative column for
the Republicans.”
Broyhill, a 12-term con-
gressman and Lenoir fur-
niture executive, who has
represented Cleveland Coun-
ty since redistricting in 1968,
said his candidace would “‘of-
fer the people of North
Carolina some choices.”
With the seat he has held
for more than two decades
-now up for grabs, several
area people have said they
may consider running from
the 10th District on the
Democratic ticket including
Gastonia Marshall Rauch,
Democrat, who had previous-
ly been considering a run for
the U.S. Senate and Lat-
timore dentist Jack Hunt.
Both Rep. Hunt and Senator
Rauch serve in the North
Carolina legislature from this
area.
REP. JIM BROYHILL
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Howell Wins Third Herald Football Contest
S.S. Howell, of Route 2, Cherryville, edged Winners and her tiebreaker guess was 38
out two other contestants to win the $100 prize
in the third Pick The Winners Football Con-
Howell predicted winners in 17 of the 20
games and guessed the tie-breaker in the
Georgia-Clemson contest would be 34 points
scored. (The total score was 33). Assistant
Police Chief Bob Hayes predicted 16 of 20 in
the area high school and college games and
his tiebreaker guess was 31. Diane Caldwell,
304 Somerset Drive, also predicted 16 of 20
points.
The fourth of 10 weekly contests is inside to-
day’s Herald. Pick the most winners and get
us your entry by 4 p.m. Friday and you’ll join
Howell, Tracy Sullens and Robert Murphree
in the $100 winner's circle. Mail your‘entry to
Football Contest, P.O. Box 752, Kings Moun-
tain, N.C. 28086, or bring it by our office on
Canterbury Road. Remember, whether you
mail your entry or bring it to us,
have it no later than 4 p.m. Friday. ©
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