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Press Association
VOL. 99 NUMBER 44
- WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1986
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
Local People In Several Races
A total of 8,316 Kings Moun-
tain area citizens are
registered to vote in
Tuesday’s general election
which will decide county,
state and national races and
the fate of three proposed
constitutional amendments.
Polls open at 6:30 a.m. and
close at 7:30 p.m.
The polling places in No. 4
ip are:
chool at the Kings
Towns
East
Mountain
Center.
West School at the Kings
Mountain National Guard Ar-
mory.
Grover area at Grover
Rescue Squad Building.
Bethware area
Bethware School.
An estimated 38,000 voters
are registered in Cleveland
County to vote in the Nov. 4
election.
Community
at
Prime interest in Kings
Mountain is centered in the
local races involving local
citizens, including Incumbent
Senator Ollie J. Harris who is
running for his 8th term in the
N.C. Senate. Incumbents
Harris, Helen Rhyne Marvin
and Marshall Rauch, both of
Gastonia, are being challeng-
ed by Republican Gene
Spicer of Forest City.
In the race between Lester
Election Is Tuesday
Roark of Shelby and Cass
Ballenger of Hickory for the
10th District Congressional
seat vacated by Jim Broyhill,
candidate for U.S. Senate,
there is local interest also in
the race since Roark is a
native of Grover.
In the race for 48th N.C.
House, the three incumbent
Democrats, Jack Hunt of Lat-
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OLLIE HARRIS
Grover
Boosts
KM Fund
A company donation of
$3,000 from Grover Industries
brought the Kings Mountain
United Way campaign to 71
percent of its goal this week.
Charlie Harry, treasurer of
Grover Industries, presented
the check to Lavon
Strickland, co-chairman of
the Kings Mountain cam-
paign which seeks $105,000.
‘Because we are aware
that the Kings Mountain cam-
paign has been extended to
allow its completion and that
funds are badly needed,
management at Grover In- A
dustries decided to make this
donation to the KM cam-
paign,”’ said Harry, Grover
Industries’ 222 employees are
giving $13,000 to Cleveland f
County United Way, with
JOHN CABINESS
Kings Mountain citizens,
along with their Cleveland
{| County neighbors, wili elect
two commissioners from four
candidates, two Democrats
and two Republicans, in
Tuesday’s general election.
The commissioner race
will attract majority of local
voters to the polls.
The candidates include
first time candidate John
Cabiness of Shelby,
Republican; Charles Harry
III, of Grover, who ran for
commissioner two years ago
on the GOP ticket; former
“God is good to his own. All
lived.” :
This statement by Liz
Lynch summed up what all
nine passengers from the
Kings Mountain area aboard
Piedmont Flight 467 said
after an exciting one day trip
Saturday to the ‘‘Big Apple”
culminated at 8:09 p.m. when
something went wrong with
the big jet and it skidded off
the runway at
Charlotte/Douglas Interna-
tional Airport.
The only passenger from
Kings Mountain hurt in the
Bloodmobile
Here Tuesday
The Industrial Co-
Operative Training Classes
of Kings Mountain High
School will sponsor a Red
Cross Bloodmovile visit on
Tuesday,November 4, in
Barnes Auditorium.
The hours for this visit will
be from 8:30 a.m. until 2:00
p.m. The goal for this visit is
125 pints.
Recent organ transplants
in Charlotte have put a
severe strain on blood sup-
plies throughout the
Carolinas Region. All area
donors who are eligible to
give at this visit are urged to
do so.
Call Bill Wellmon, ICT
Instructor if you wish to
make an appointment to
donate.
COLEMAN GOFORTH
Four Seek Two Seats On Cen
board chairman L.E. (Josh)
Hinnant of Kings Mountain,
Democrat, who has served
almost 16 years on the board;
and former commissioner
Coleman Goforth of Shelby
who has served 16 years when
he was defeated in the 1984
Democratic Primary.
The candidates appeared in
an open forum sponsored by
The Shelby Star Tuesday
night at the Cleveland County
Law Enforcement Center and
talked about issues.
The electionof commis-
sioners by districts remains
accident was Nancy Ross,
KM Post Office employee,
who was discharged Monday
night from Charlotte
Memorial Hospital after suf-
fering a fractured vertebrae.
Several local passengers said
they were ‘‘shook up’ and
soiled their clothing when
they were evacuated from
the plane, along with the
other 112 passengers and five
crew members.
They arrived home about
midnight, without their
belongings except for purses
L.E. HINNANT
one issue on whieh the cén-
didates are divided.
Cabaniss, 38, would expand
‘the board from five to seven
members with four to be
elected within their district
(KM, Shelby, and Burns and
Crest School districts) and
three would be elected at
large. He gives us his reason
that he wants to see more
people get involved and that
district representation would
give all groups fair represen-
tation.
Harry, 49, also endorsed
they held in their hands when
Piedmont Flight 467 touched
down on Runway 36 Right,
ran off the end, ripped
through a fence and slid
about 100 yards through a wet
field before crashing into a
railroad tracks’ gravel em-
bankment.
Thirty-four people, in-
cluding the pilot, co-pilot and
two flight attendants, were
taken to two Charlotte
hospitals for treatment and
observation.
The 34 member local group
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TURN IN PETITIONS—Claude Suber,
left, and Kemp Mauney, right, co-chairmen for
CHARLIE HARRY
nty Board
Tine idea of district represen-
‘tation.
Hinnant, 62, said if there
was any way to equalize the
township he would support it
but that when the idea was
previously researched by the
oard it proved unwise
because Shelby wound up
with a majority of the seats.
Goforth, 60, says he sees no
point in saying the commis-
sioner has to live in a district.
He likes the present arrange-
ment.
made the trip with Bradley
Tours of Cherryville.
Kings Mountain people on
the New York trip, in addition
to Mrs. Ross and Mrs. Lynch,
were Fredia Ledford, Sue
Jean Ledford, Rev. Buddy
Freeman, Edith Lovell, Jodi
Carson, Liz McDaniel and
Alma Sellers.
Mrs. Lynch said she was
ready to fly again. Not Mrs.
Ross, who said she wants to
wait “while.” Alma Sellers
wasn’t frightened, she said,
until she looked at the
Citizens For Legal Control, present petitions bearing 1,800 signatures, more than the re-
quired number of signatures to call for a special vote on beer, wine and liquor sales and
operation of an ABC Store, to Board of Elections Chairman Becky Cook, center.
JIM BROYHILL
TERRY SANFORD
KM Citizens Survive Charlotte Plane Crash
damaged plan, but she said
she would fly again. Sue Jean
Ledford said she was glad no
one was hurt and agreed that
God was “looking after us.”
Despite her ordeal, Mrs.
Lynch says she knows air
travel is safe and she won’t
cancel plans for another
flight she has scheduled in
the next few weeks.
In an effort to calm her
nerves, after she called her
children and assured them
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$546.50 in pledges going to
Cherokee County United
Way.
Harry said he wrote letters
to 222 employees asking them
to designate on plodge cards
the recipient of their gifts,
which are payroll deductions,
and that no employee
designated the Kings Moun- |
tain agency. ‘“This was fur-
ther evidence to me”, said
Harry, ‘‘that Kings Mountain
and Cleveland County should
seriously consider merging
their agencies since all of us
give to the same causes with
the exception of four special
causes the KM Agency sup-
ports which could be incor-
porated into one drive”. “We
regret that Kings Mountain
collections are not ‘“‘in’’ and
hope that again this year the
KM United Way campaign
goal will be surpassed’, said
Harry.
Mrs. Strickland said that
the United Way Campaign
appreciates the industry gift
from Grover Industries. The
Kings Mountain goal of
$105,000 includes a budget of
$68,500 from industry, or 65
percent of the overall goal.
“We still have some big
plants to hear from but we
feel the industrial quota will
be met, and we are hopeful
the overall goal will be sur-
passed’’, said Mrs.
Strickland.
The drive continues
through November.
KM Rescue To Begin
First Responder Service
The Kings Mountain
Rescue Squad becomes the
prim ory responder for am-
ulance service, beginning
Saturday, and continuing
every weekend from 7 p.m.
on Saturdays until 7 p.m. on
Sundays.
The squad’s request to
resume ambulance service
on the weekend was granted
recently by County Emergen-
cy Services Director Abbey
Ledford and County Manager
Joe Hendrick.
Last November the local
Squad asked the county to
take over the ambulance ser-
vice because of unsufficient
personnel. Since then,
Cleveland County EMS has
provided ambulance service
24 hours a day, seven days a
week, from its base at KM
Hospital. The local squad has
provided rescue and back-up
ambulance service.
KM Rescue Squad, as the
result of a recent member-
ship campaign, has 11
emergency medical techni-
cians and four ambulance at-
tendants and met recently
with Mrs. Ledford and they
agreed that the local squad’s
volunteers will replace the
two county EMT’s on duty
during the weekend hours
and back-ups will be provided
by other rescue squads.
Hendrick said the county
has provided the Kings Moun-
tain area with excellent ser-
vice but tha: the local squad,
which is all volunteer,
“deserves an opportunity to
show that they can. We'd like
to see them (KM) take it over
and handle it 24 hours a day.”
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