Eat Barbecue
‘With The Shriners
Saturday
10 A.M. ‘Til 6 P.M.
York Road - East Gold Street
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VOL. 99 NUMBER 40
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1986
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
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White Plains Shrine Club
OFF TO JAIL—Ptl. Jimm West, cenfer, handcuffs City
1. Commissioner Norman King, left, and Kings Mountain
Fire Chief Gene Tigner and prepares to put them in the
| White Piains Shrine Club Jail. The ‘‘Lock-Up”’ will be all in
fun Friday afternoon and Saturday during Mountaineer
Days in the city.
Lock-Up
To Benefit
Children
A $10 bill to the prosecutor (Gene Stone) and the cops
will pick up your best friend or enemy Friday afternoon
and Saturday and throw him in the pokey.
It will cost the ‘‘jailbird” $25 but not before everyone
sees him behind the bars of the White Plains Lockup.
It’s all in fun and a feature of annual Mountaineer Days.
_ All proceeds are for crippled and burned children. The
Lock-Up is sponsored by the White Plains Shrine Club.
Shrine Club members will start drawing up warrants for
arrests on Friday afternoon at 2 p.m. in front of the old
bank building in downtown Kings Mountain. Gene Stone
will serve as prosecutor and judge for the Friday after-
noon and evening Lockup will be the city’s newest lawyer,
David Thornton. Saturday judge will be lawyer Scott Clon-
inger.
Kings Mou#itain pelicemen will assist in picking up the
suspects, handcuffing them and escorting them in a city
police car to the lockup. Shriners have constructed the
small jail in the heart of the business district. The main
street of town will be closed to traffic for the big celebra-
tion and the jail willbe in the center of the festivities.
Shriners will also operate a BBQ stand at several loca-
tions “during the festivities Friday and Saturday
celebrating the Revelutionary War Battle of Kings Moun-
tain, Oct. 7, 1780 when the frontiersmen at Kings Mountain
trounced the Brittish loyalists in a battle which was con-
sidered the turning point of the Revolutionary War.
Monty Thornburg, Assis-
tant Director of the city’s Ag-
ing Program, was Monday
night appointed Interim
Director.
The city board of commis-
sioners, after an executive
session of two hours while
two dozen senior citizens
from the Aging program
waited in Council Chambers,
made the appointment after
accepting the resignation of
Director of Aging Teresa
Melton who handed Mayor
John Henry Moss her
resignation Thursday to ac-
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Robert Morgan To Speak
At KM Mountaineer Days
SBI Director Robert
Morgan, former six-term N.
C. Senator and two-term At-
torney General, will make
the keynote address at 11
a.m. ceremonies Saturday
celebrating the 206th birth-
day of the Battle of Kings
Mountain.
Mountaineer Days Friday
and Saturday will feature a
variety of family fun and
entertainment.
The big day is Saturday but
gospel singing groups will be
on the stage in front of the
Blazer Building on S. Bat-
tleground Avenue beginning
at 5 p.m. Friday. A big street
dance will begin at 9 p.m.
Kings Mountain Fire
Department, sponsor of the
the area of Railroad Avenue
and Gold Street will be hot air
balloon rides, and fireworks
displays.
On-stage events, under the
direction of Betsy Wells, will
follow this schedule on Satur-
day: 10-10:30 a.m., Swinging
Mountaineer Band; 10:30-11
a.m., Kings Mountain Senior
High School Band; 11-11:30
a.m., Opening; 11:30-11:40
a.m., Costume Contest; 11:40
a.m.-12:10 p.m., Joan
Baker’s Fashion Show;
12:10-12:50 p.m., Kings
Mountain Little Cloggers;
12:50-1 p.m., Tina Hollifield;
1-1:45 p.m., Vickie Arrowood
and her dancers; 1:45-2 p.m.,
Arnold Clayton; 2-2:45 p.m.,
annual celebration, and the i
Kings Mountain Police
Department will rope off the
streets from the overhead §
bridge to Gold and Railroad
Avenue and /Souvth 3a
tleground and all evenis will
be in the downtown area.
Fire Chief Gene Tignor
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said that on-stage events will §
begin at 10 a.m. Saturday in
front of the old Belk building
and in the area of the Old
Belk building will be bingo,
quilting, an ice cream booth,
‘antique car show, White §
Plains Lockup, pottery mak-
ing, concession stands and
popcorn stands.
In front of the Old First
Union and inside the building
will be various exhibits: Girl
Scouts, corn meal grinding,
puppet show, petty zoo, com-
munity awareness exhibits,
cider making, music by Tony
Blanton and a car show.
In Section C on City Street
in the area of Phifer Hard-
ware, there will be Boy
Scouts, a car show, Cale Yar-
borough Race Car, liquor
still, putt putt and horse shoe
pliching, A big auction will be
eld inside the Joy Theatre
with an Art Show by Robert
Hall from 2 until 2:45 p.m.
and a craft show under the
direction of Shirley Allen
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Those
exhibits will be in the area of
the Joy Theatre along
Railroad Avenue.
There will also be dried ar-
rangements, silk flower ar-
rangements, doll bassinets,
woodwork, quilting,
ceramics, crochet items,
wind chimes, folk art pain-
ting, glass etching, sewing
items, chair covering
demonstrations. and dolls. In
cept a similar position in
Cabarrus County.
Upon motion of Commis-
sioner Norman King, second-
ed by Commissioner Harold
Phillips, the board also
unanimously authorized the
Kings Mountain Aging Board
Advisory Board to search for
a new director and to make a
recommendation, based on
annual salary not to exceed
$18,000, stipulating that both
boards would meet together
to establish guidelines cover-
ing operational policy of the
program.
ROBERT MORGAN
N.C. SYMPHONY PERFORMS—Students from the Kings Mountain Elementary
+ Oliver Cloggers;
Robert Hall, artist; 2:30-2:50
p.m., Arnold Clayton’s Band;
2:50-3 p.m., Sonia Ross;
3-3:15 p.m., Sandy Wells;
3:15-4 p.m., Dance Reflec-
tions, Susan Horne, director;
4-4:30 p.m., Faithful Gospel
Singers; 4:30-4:45 p.m.,
4:45-5:15
p.m., The Hayes Family;
4:15-5:30 p.m., Jennifer
Davison; 5:30-5:50 p.m., Pat-
sy Parker and her exer-
cisers; 5:50-6:05 p.m., Holly
Robinson; 6:06-6:20, Pauline
Wright Singers; 6:20-7:20
p.m., New Country Unlimited
Band; 7:20-8:20 p.m., Jane
Campbell’s Dance Academy;
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Schools, above, listen attentively to a Children’s Concert by the N.C. Symphony Tuesday
in B.N. Barnes Auditorium.
Shriners Barbecue Saturday
To Benefit Crippled Children
Kings Mountain’s White Plains Shrine
Club will hold its final fund-raising event of
the season Saturday when it holds a
barbecue sale during the town’s annual
observance of Mountaineer Days.
All proceeds from the sale will go to help
burned and cripped children.
Barbecue will be sold beginning at 10 a.m.
at the vacant lot beside City Auto and Truck
Parts at the intersection of East Gold Street
and York Road. Shoulders will sell for $30,
two barbecue sandwiches
barbecue plates for $3.50. Tickets may be
purchased in advance from any member of
the White Plains Shrine Club or they may be
purchased Saturday at the site.
Persons holding tickets for barbecue
KM Aging Director Teresa Melton Resigns
Zeb PlonK;, spokesman for
the Advisory Board,
reiterated that the Advisory
committee felt that in Teresa
Melton and Monty Thornburg
the city has an outstanding
team leading and directing
the Aging program and that
every reasonable effort
should be made to keep them
satisfied and working in the
Aging program, recommen-
ding that the Aging program
upgrade the director’s salary
to $18,000 and the assistant’s
salary to $14,000 annually.
Mrs. Melton said her last
shoulders may pick them up between 10
a.m. and 2 p.m. Barbecue plates and sand-
wiches will be sold between 10 a.m. and 6
p.m. or until the barbecue is sold out.
Live entertainment will be provided by a
country and western band all day long.
Barbecue may be eaten at the site or taken
home.
for $3 and
children.”
day on the job after four-and-
one half years with the city is
October 8. ‘It is with great
sadness and much considera-
tion that I submit my resigna-
tion’’, she said in a letter to
the mayor and city commis-
sioners Thursday, ‘Kings
Mountain is my home and
shall remain.”
Mrs. Melton will begin
work October 13 as ad-
ministrator for the Cabarrus
County Office of Aging at
salary of $20,661 annually.
She was being paid $14,100 in
Kings Mountain and said she
“We’d like to invite everyone in the area
to come out and eat with us, listen to the
music and just have a great time,” said
John Grant, president of the club. “This is
our last big fund-raising event before turn-
ing in our money at the annual convention in
Asheville, and, of course, all of the money
raised will go to help crippled and burned
would prefer to remain in
Kings Mountain, rather than
commute to Concord. ‘So
many roadblocks were pu in
my way by city officials,’’ she
said.
Mrs. Melton said she quit
Thursday because she was
denied a pay raise by city
commissioners. In June, dur-
ing a public meeting, she ask-
ed the board why they had not
replied to two letters from
her requesting salary ad-
justments for herself, Thorn-
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