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Twenty-Five Cents In Homecoming Win
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VOL. 98 NUMBER 44
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1985
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
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\ : Photo by Gary Stewart
HOMECOMING QUEEN - Gretchen McHone, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Cager McHone of Kings Mountain, was
| crowned ecoming Q at Kings Mountain High
Lions Club White Cane
Drive Slated This Week
and Saturday, Oct. 10-12, dur-
ing a street sale in downtown
Kings Mountain.
Wear a White Cane and
support the Kings Mountain
Lions Club project for the
blind.
That’s the plea of local
Lions Club members who will
be offering the lapel pin to the
public on Thursday, Friday
‘Working for the blind and
vision impaired is a major
project of local clubs and
ions International.
Houston, Finger, Phillips
Lead Tickets In Primary
A total of 1,518 voters went
to the polls Tuesday and gave
no clear majority to any can-
didate for three seats on the
city board of commissioners
but unseated one incumbent,
District 5 Commissioner Curt
Gaffney.
Incumbent District 2 Com-
missioner Humes Houston,
political newcomer Fred.
Finger in District 5 and
former commissioner Harold
Phillips, District 6, were the
winners by narrow margins
and will face second runners
Leonard Smith, District 2,
Ruby Alexander, District 5,
both political newcomers,
and Incumbent three term
commissioner Jim Dickey in
District 6.
Becky Cook, chairman of
the Kings Mountain Board of
Elections, said the run-off
election will be held Nov. 5th
and that second runners in
Tuesday’s election must file
written intention of calling
for a run-off with her by noon
Monday.
All second runners said
after the gount was taken
Pp r, 3
votes to oar the race against
three-term commissioner
Humes Houston. Smith
HOUSTON SMITH
Harold Phillips
received 653 votes. To
Houston’s 714 and Gilbert
Hamrick ran third with 118
votes.
In District 5, where incum-
bent and first term Commis-
sioner Curt Gaffney was
defeated, two political
newcomers ran neck and
TUESDAY’S PRIMARY LEADERS
ALEXANDER
FINGER
Unofficial Election Returns
City Commissioner Race
District 2 West Kings Mountain East Kings Mountain Total
Humes Houston 528 186 714
_ Gilbert Hamrick 75 43 118
Leonard Smith 414 239 653
District 5
Curt Gaffney 262 151 413
Fred Finger 360 192 552
Ruby Alexander 403 "128 531
. District 6
Jim Dickey 341 144 485
Jim Childers 197 70 267
Totals include 1 transfer vote Houston; 1 transfer vote Gaffney; 2 transfer vote Dickey: 1
4 transfer votes Childers; 5 transfer votes Finger; 5 transfer votes Smith
PHILLIPS DICKEY
neck in the voting. Realtor
Ruby Alexander, with 531
votes, placed second to fron-
trunner Fred Finger, who led
the field with 552. Gaffney
received 413 votes.
In District 6, Harold
Phillips, a former city com-
missioner in the Glee A.
Bridges administration in the
1950’s, led the four-candidate
field where the incumbent
commissioner Jim Dickey
placed second with 485 votes
to Phillips’ 507. Former two-
term commissioner Jim
Childers received 267 votes
and Jan Deaton, who was
defeated by Dickey in a run-
off four years ago, received
242.
School Satellite Program Helps Hearing Impaired
impaired offers very strong
BY LIB STEWART components of parental in-
available to all children from
birth through five years at no .
NEWS EDITOR volvement and language cost to parents, funded by
development. Department of LL
Resources an .C. Schoo
; : Dr ae Henderson, for the Deaf at Morganton.
A normal hearing child go- SUPeLIIEICAT © FH ear The training also includes
ing into the first grade has home-based activities as well
i enough language and
vocabularly to get through
the remainder of life if
necessary. That’s a lot of
language and vocabulary to
have. Simultaneously, it’s a
lot of language and
vocabulary not to have...not
having that language and
vocuabulary is the situation
deaf children are in at age six
without early interventions
like the preschool satellite
program for hearing im-
open house planned b
in
which sponsors the local
class along with classes in
Salisbury, three in Charlotte,
and one in Asheville, was in
Shelby last week to attend an
parents for stafters and said,
“I'm not suggesting that the
early intervention will result
ese deaf children and
hearing children being on
equal basis at age six. To sug-
gest that would be to ignore
existence of the deafness and
the adverse impact of that
as activities inside and out-
side the classroom.
Assisting in the classroom
are Martha Hamrick and
Christine Hayes, the latter
who has a son, Michael, who
is enrolled in the program.
In each of the satellite
classes there is a teacher and
teacher aide. Additionally, in
one of the Charlotte classes
and in the Shelby class there
is an additional teacher aide
due to the presence of some
deaf/blind children.
Mrs. Pruess said that four
of the 11 children enrolled in
the local class were
premature babies not
weighing more than two
pounds and it is believed that
caused hearing impairment.
Most deafness in children has
been believed to come from
Rubella during a mother’s
pregnancy, she said. :
Mrs. Pruess, who taught in
the Greensboro school
Jsiem before coming to
Shelby, said that North
Carolina has the most ad-
vanced preschool program
and the best equipped pro-
gram for hearing impaired
children in the nation and she
is quite proud, and rightly so,
of the equipment and pro-
gram tools in the Shelby
school. Some of the children
leaving the Shelby school go
into the regular public schoo
classroom, others go to Sher-
wood Elementary School in
Gastonia and Cleveland
County Schools for hearing
impaired classes and others
go to N.C. School for the Deaf
in Morganton and live on
campus in a more com-
prehensive program.
Youngest child in the
Shelby Pre-School Satellite
program is seven-months-old
Hunter Caldwell of Kings
Mountain, son of David and
Teresa Caldwell, and the
oldest child is five-year-old
Sandi Diane Perry, daughter
of Jessie and Penny Perry of
Kings Mountain.
Dr. Henderson, born and
raised in Kings Mountain,
joined the NCSD faculty in
1 1970. In addition to serving as
director, he is also
superintendent of the school,
and serves as an instructor in
the teacher training program
area of the deaf, at Lenoir
Rhyne College in Hickory. He
is the son of Mrs. Ray
Henderson of Kings Mountain
and is married to the former
Betty Ledford of Kings Moun-
tain, daughter of Mrs. I.W.
Ledford. Mrs. Henderson has
also been active in the NCSD
faculty for a number of
years. They have two
children and a grandchild.
paired children.
deafness on language ac-
quisition.”
Coe Moms se 00 pcb sl Butcher Wins Football C
cleveland County. area qc, Phere ther in ox. utcher Wins Footba ontest
preschoolers can enroll in ; : : :
such a class—free to them aan jor) Juans Devoil Butcher of Route 6, Box 165, Kings ed for last week but was re-scheduled
an| its—at First | 0 “the envy of the states Mountain, turned in the first perfect card of because of nationwide TV coverage, was not
Ba | Shelby. hich don’t ha b the season to win the $100 prize in last week’s counted since the game had already been
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1:5 von Kings them for a long time, says Butcher correctly picked Kings Mountain _ Butcher, a popular local baseball umpire,
MS 03 et seh ge Batbars. «(B.J.) Preuss over Chase, Ashbrook over Crest, Olympic has been entering the Herald football contest
So 2 S as tor director of the Cleveland over East Gaston, South Point over North ever since it started in the early 1970’s and
a RN om g od County school, who comes to Gaston, East Rutherford over Burns, Bunker has come close to winning several times. He
ha fs. 2 ii p d Cleveland County from Ohio. Hill over Bessemer City, Newton over Cher- was involved in a drawing for the prize
233 joa ped Mrs. Pruess is in her seventh ryville, Independence over Hunter Huss, money once last year after three contestants
pr YB, an : Sco year at the Shelby school Shelby over R-S Central, Kentucky over tied.
pa So = Ontas ne which operates Mondays Clemson, Virginia over Duke, Georgia Tech The sixth contest is inside today’s Herald.
Bl & = zat ‘earl i through Fridays from 8:30 over UNC, Maryland over State, Tennessee Pick the most winners and get us your entry
fel . = 3 ice children am until 12:30 and offers a over Wake Forest, Air Force over Notre by 4 p.m. Friday and you will join Butcher
> Lx Re . aren otal communication pro- Dame, Pitt over South Caroina, West and several others in the winner’s circle.
ea edo Pence a 1€ tam. includin Sian Virginia over VPI, Auburn over Ole Miss and Mail your entry to Football Contest, P.O. Box
re 220 40) only 7, ime. hee : oll H Illinois over Ohio State. The Alabama- 752, Kings Mountain, N.C. 28086, or bring it by
== ~ ym Ny Spesch a d lip rea ey i Georgia game, which was originally schedul- our office on Canterbury Road.
the for hearing auditory training, and is