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VOL. 98 NUMBER 50
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1985
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KM’s Hinnant Loses
County Chairmanship
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KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
102 Units Set For 2 P.M. Start
Christmas Parade Is Sunday
Santa Claus is coming to
town Sunday in the annual
Kings Mountain Christmas
and Dilling and proceed west
to Battleground. It will turn
Santa Claus Is Coming
To Town In Sunday’s Parade
parade which will feature 102
units to officially kickoff the
Christmas season in Kings
Mountain.
Marvin E. (Gene) Mor-
rison, incoming Potentate of
the Oasis Temple, will be the
Grand Marshal for the
rade and will be guest of
onor of the White Plains
Shrine Club, which is co-
hosting the parade with the
Kings Mountain Fire Depart-
ment.
Potentate Morrison will ac-
companied by the Shriners
Drum and Bugle Sorps.
The parade will form on
Highway 74 (East King
Street) at Carpenter Street
south on Battleground, east
on Gold Street and disband on
East Gold in the vicinity of
City Hall and Lake Street.
Units are expected to line
up beginning at 1 p.m., accor-
ding to Assistant Fire Chief
Bud Ware.
Kings Mountain Fire
Department Color Guard will
lead the 102-unit parade
followed by patrol lead cars,
city of Kings Mountain of-
ficials, the Shrine Drum and
Bugle Corps and Grand Mar-
shal Gene Morrison, Shrine
Queen Gina Stone, and
members of the White Plains
Shrine Club.
Other units, in order of ap-
pearance, include: South
Carolina Southeastern
Queen, Tex-tiler David
Cooper, Little Miss Kings
Mountain, Piedmont Pistons,
Rudisill Enterprises, Gaston
College float, Jane Campbell,
Patsy Parker float, Miss Spr-
ing Festival, Oasis Band of
Shrines, Jane McClure, Tem-
ple Baptist, 38 Truck, City
Employee float, 1985 Fire
Truck, 1924 Fire Truck,
Scuba Float, 1960 Fire Truck,
1985 Wee Miss S.C. Shrine
Queen D. Chapman, Crissy
Bolin, Shriners Most
Beautiful Queen float, Tem-
ple Baptist Church, Bank
Branch and Trust Co.,
Cleveland Tech, Joe Burch
Liquor Still on Wheels, Em-
manuel Baptist Float,
Brownie Scout Troop 73, Boy
Scouts Troop 2, Cub Scout
Troo 92, KMSHS
Cheerleaders, Kings Moun-
tain Senior High Band, Car-
rousel Princess Pattie
McGinnis, Comedy Group,
Homecoming Queen,
Cosmetology Club Float, Asa |
Nord Swedish Exchange Stu-
dent, Miss North Carolina
American Coed, Future
Homemakers Float, Drama
Club, Joan Baker Modeling,
Central United Methodist
Church float, Carolina
Freight old truck, Lisa
Whitener, Peach Queen,
Smokey Bear, Joy Show, Kel-
ly Anderson, Bag Pipe Band,
Savings & Loan Float, Hajas
of Gaffney, Frederickson Old
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King, Gaffney Oppose Action
Board Hires Codes Head In ‘Hurried-Up’ Vote
In a surprise action which
required the reconvening of
the city board following ad-
journment of a called
meeting Tuesday, city com-
missioners, by vote of 4-2,
hired Bob Davies as the new
codes director.
.» City Commissioners Nor-
lan King and Curt Gaffney
objected because they said
they had not been given time
to study Davies’ qualifica-
tions for the job. : :
Commissioner King said
that commissioners were
handed an unsigned resume
sheet just prior to the opening
of the special noon meeting
and he had not had time to
read it. “In 20 years at City
Hall I have never seen the
board hire a department
head without conducting in-
terviews and I am not against
the gentleman. I don’t know
him’’, said King after the
meeting. During the meeting,
King was the only commis-
sioner voicing opinion. “This
is just not the proper time
and we don’t know his
qualifications’, said King.
King said that normally ap-
plicalions are taken by the
oard for department head
positions and that interviews
are conducted by the full
board. ‘I would have ex-
pected the board to go into ex-
ecutive session - to discuss
personnel but this was such a
School Board
Meets Monday
The Kings Mountain School Board will hold its regular mon-
Junior High library.
' thly meeting Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the Kings Mountain
Superintendent William Davis said the board will receive
the keys to the new wing at the junior high, which is to be
completed this week, and be given a brief tour of the new
wing.
The half-million dollar addition the junior high includes
eight new classrooms, including four for math and four for
science. Davis said the math classrooms will probably be oc-
cupied as early as next week and that the science classrooms
will be occupied after the Christmas holidays.
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MAUNEY MEMORIAL LIBRARY
FIRST PLAYOFF GAME IN
Stephens and Donald Mauney,
Brevard team prior to the 8 p.m.
John Gamble Stadium. The game,
|_taineers’ first playoff game ever at Gamble Stadi
Photo by Gary Stewart
KM - Kings Mountain High football co-captains, Calvin
left, meet with game officials and captains of the
kickoff of Friday’s third round state playoff game at
which Brevard won 3-0 in the rain, was the Moun-
um. Game details are on page 1-C.
hurried up thing whichI don’t as members of the press and
appreciate”, said King after City Clerk Joe McDaniel
the meeting. prepared to leave the Council
The special 12 noon Chambers, Commissioner Ir-
meeting was called by the vin Allen asked that the
board to hear a report from board reconvene to consider
the communications commit- a personnel matter. The
tee headed by King and to Mayor told the board that in
amend the city’s personnel order to reconvene an ad-
policy, changing it to read, journed rieeting a majority
that “unused sick leave shal’{ vote was required. After the
be cumulative with no limita- | board (approved | ihe
tion to the maximum ac- reconvening of the meeting,
cumulation’ effective Dec. 2, . Allen made the motion that
1985.” The personnel Policy ~ the city employ a codes direc-
had previously stated that tor.Commissioners appeared
sick leave shall be uncertain of the motion and
cumulative to a total of 30 Allen restated the motion to
days. hire Bob Davies as the new
Mayor Moss adjourned the codes director. Corbet
called meeting at 12:15 and Nicholson seconded. Salary
WSOC-Channel 9 news an-
chorman Doug Mayes will be
guest speaker at a Ladies
Night Banquet Saturday at 7
p.m. at the First Baptist
Church fellowship hall. The
fete is sponsored by the First
Baptist Men’s Brotherhood. .
Mayes is host of the ‘“Mid-
Day With Mayes’ program
on Channel 9 and is also a
member of the station’s an-
chor team.
He has been in television
news in Charlotte for a
number of years, having
worked previously with
DOUG MAYES
Funeral services for
Charles Hunter Moss, Sr., 80,
of 305 West Mountain St.,
retired textile superinten-
dent, were conducted Mon-
day afternoon at 3 p.m. from
First Presbyterian Church of
which he was a member.
His pastor, Dr. Eric Faust,
was assisted by Assistant
Pastor Lonnie Darnell and a
former pastor, Dr. Paul
Ausley, in officiating at the
rites and interment was in
Mountain Rest Cemetery.
Mr. Moss died Saturday
morning at 8:30 a.m. in the
Kings Mountain Hospital.
He was a native of Gaston
County, son of the late John
F. and Amanda Sneed Moss.
He and his wife, Mary Led-
ford Moss, had been married
64 years.
Before his retirement from
the textile industry, Moss
was superintendent of the old
Margrace Mill in Kings
Mountain, where he had
will be $333.02 weekly and
Davies is expected to move
back to Kings Mountain in the
next several weeks. Connie
Putnam, secretary in the
codes office, has operated the
office since Jerry King left
the city in September to open
his own appraisal business.
Dzvies served as plant
superintendent for U.S. Gy
sum Co. in Kings Mountain
from 1968-74 and since that
time has worked in Georgia,
Kentucky and Virginia. From
1974-75 he was maintenance
superintendent of C.E.
Minerals Div. of Combustion
Engineering, Inc.,
Washington, Ga. and from
WBTV-Channel 3. His first
broadcast was at the age of 16
in his hometown of Nashville,
Tn. Since that time, he has
shared microphones and TV
cameras with some of the
world’s most successful and
interesting people.
- Mayes is active in church
and community work in
Charlotte. He’s been a Sun-
day School teacher for 25
years, and has received
state-wide recognition for his
radio and television inter-
views with religious leaders.
In the 1960’s, he accompanied
January to August 1976 was
East Kentucky regional
manager of purchasing,
trucking and maintenance
for State Contracting & Stone
Co., Elkhorn City, Ky. He
was mine superintendent of
Virginia Lime Co. from
1976-78, operating the plant
through an 18-mouth strike
with mine operations main-
tained \ and left to. accept
employment with Eagle Mine
Products, Narrows, Va.
where he was general
manager three years. He
worked for Hydro-Tex Co.,
Dallas, Texas, as a salesman
until Nov. 1983, moving to
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Mayes To Speak Here
a minister of a missionary
journey to Alaska. He is ac-
tive in Denver United
Methodist Church in Denver
where he chairs the commit-
tee on communications.
He is on the Board of Direc-
tors of the Salvation Army in
Charlotte and is a 33rd degree
Mason and Past Potentate of
the Oasis Shrine Temple.
Mayes is an alumnus of
High Point College and Nor-.
thwestern University. He and
is wife, the former Ruby
Vaughn, have two children
and one granddaughter.
Charlie Moss, Former Textile
Leader, Dies At Age Of 80
Morganton and Patterson,
N.J.,
Master Crafts of
CHARLES H. MOSS, SR.
worked 40 plus years. After
retirement, he assisted in
screening personnel at the
opening of at least two Kings
Mountain plants, Eaton Cor-
poration and Commercial
Shearing, and was a consul-
tant for six years for Jac-
quard Beverage Co. of
Rutherfordton, and Johnson
and Johnson of Cornelius, Ga.
He was manager of personnel
for Eaton Corporation when
they opened on Grover Road
and worked for the firm for
two years.
Surviving, in addition to his
wife, are one son, Charles H.
Moss, Jr., of Greenville, S.C.,
one brother, B.C. Moss of
Jacksonville, Fla. and two
sisters, Mrs. Lillian Wright of
Kings Mountain and Mrs.
Ruth Masters of Salt Lake Ci-
ty, Utah; three grand-
children and two great-
grandchildren.
A daughter, Marie Moss
Kezziah, died Oct. 14, 1978.
Active pallbearers were
Bob Maner, J.B. Falls,
Mayor John H. Moss, Fred
Finger, Jerry King and
Henry Neisler.