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ABC Election Set For Tuesday
Kings Mountain voters will go to the polls
Tuesday to vote on four issues in an ABC
referendum which comes a little more than
three years after voters turned it down by a
mere 100 votes.
City Elections Board Chairman Becky
Cook estimates that 5,100 citizens are
registered to vote and that more than 700 will
be new first-time voters.
Polls will open at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday and
close at 7:30 p.m. Inside-city residents will
vote at two precincts: West Kings Mountain
at the National Guard Armory on Phifer
Road; and East Kings Mountain at the Com-
munity Center on Cleveland Avenue.
Mrs. Hilda Moss will be registrar at the Ar-
mory polling place and Mrs. Joyce Dye will
be registrar at the Community Center polling
place. Mrs. Becky Cook will be at City Hall
all day and results of the voting will be
tabulated at City Hall and posted there in the
lobby of the new Governmental Facilites
Center, she said.
Mrs. Cook said there have been some ques-
tions about transfer voting. She points out
that even if a resident of the city has changed
addresses since the last election that person
can still vote if he or she still resides within
the city limits. ‘If you have moved, you must
go back to your old precinct on Tuesday
where you are registered and ask for a
transfer slip. The registrar will give you the
transfer slip. You bring the transfer slip to
City Hall and I will handle the transfer and
allow you to vote at City Hall” she explained.
Voters will vote on four issues:
Off-premise sale only of malt beveraages.
On-premise sale of malt beverages by
Class A hotels, motels and restaurants and to
permit off-premise sales by other permit-
tees;
On and off-premises sales of unfortified
wine; and
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VETERAN OFFICER RETIRING - Kings Mountain Police Chief J.D. Barrett, above at his
desk at City Hall, announced his retirement Tuesday. Barrett, who joined the force 31 years
ago as a patrolman on the third shift, was promoted
24-member department.
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through the ranks to become Chief of the
Police Chief J.D. Barrett
Is Retiring On January 31
Police Chief J. D. Barrett,
55, is retiring after nearly 31
years with the Kings Moun-
tain Police Department.
He tendered his resignation
to the city board of commis-
sioners Tuesday night, effec-
tive Jan.3L
Barrett joined the force as
a third shift patrolman April
3,1956 and served under six
chiefs before taking the
chief’s job about three years
ago after serving as acting
chief on several occasions.
and as acting chief about
seven years after former
chief Earl Lloyd stepped
down. He was hired by the
late Hugh A. Logan,Jr.,then
served with Martin Ware, the
late Paul Sanders, Tom
McDevitt, William Roper,Jr.
and Earl Lloyd.
“It was a big decision but I
plan to enjoy my retirement
years’ ,said Barrett, who is
an avid deer hunter and
fisherman.
Mayor John Henry Moss
said Barrett “will be difficult
to replace and has done a
tremendous job for Kings
Mountain citizens.This
department has come a long
way under his leadership. We
wish him well.”
Chief Barrett said one of
his reasons for retiring now is
to take advantage of a change
in state law which allows
some police officers to collect
larger pensions than before
even if they have not served a
full 30 years. The N. C.
legislature made the change
in its recent short session and
numerous law enforcement
officers in the area have an-
nounced plans for early
retirement.
A native of Kings Mountain
and son of Mrs. Daisy Barrett
Queen and the late T. R. Bar-
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rett, Chief Barrett came to
work with the city shortly
after a four year tour of duty
with the Navy in World War
I1. He was 24 and had worked
a short time for Davis
Heating. He recalled that he
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Operation of an ABC Store.
Citizens for Legal Control, headed by
Claude Suber and Kemp Mauney,circulated
petitions in the Fall and presentd 1800
signatures to the Elections Board in October.
State law required 1100 valid signatures and
Mrs. Cook verified that more than 1100
signatures on the petitions were those of
registered voters of the City of Kings Moun-
tain.
The new petition came three years after
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The Positive Action Leagueheaded by
David Lawing, Rev. Eugene Land, Rev.
Pruella Kilgore
formation rally
voters went to the polls and turned down a
measure to allow the off-premise sale of beer,
wine and liquor and establishment of an ABC
store by less than 100 votes on each measure.
By law, three years must have passed since
the referendum.
~ Tuesday’s election will be the fourth time
in 16 years that ’dry’”’Kings Mountain has
voted down an alcohol referendum. Similar li-
quor votes were turned down in 1948 and 1975
by larger margins.
An updated study on Kings
Mountain school facility
needs and approved Monday
night by the Board of Educa-
tion calls for $9,394,544 over
the next six years and is be-
ing forwarded to the county
board of commissioners.
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million and is “something we
need fo look seriously at,”
said Supt. Bob McRae in
presenting the study which
was done by the ad-
ministrative staff and the
state Division of School Plan-
ning in conjunction with
Governor Jim Martin’s pro-
posal for a state-wide bond
issue for school construction.
McRae said the new cost
estimate is $3 million more
than a 1984 study on facility
needs. The new study calls
for replacement of metal and
mobile units at estimated
cost of $526,440; replacement
of obsolete buildings at
estimated cost of $6,570,484;
renovation of old
buildings,$600,000; excep-
tional children’s
program, $111,000 for renova-
tions of bathrooms, ac-
cessibility for handicapped
and an elevator at the high
school;energy
conservation,$220,500; com-
munity schools and central
office, $500,000 and other
needs, $866,120, including aux-
hit
NEW PLANT TO LOCATE ON GROVER ROAD—Frank Dombrosky, above, manager of the
new Sheller-Globe Corporation plant to be constructed on Highway 29 south of the city, points
out features of the new truck cab manufacturing facility.
; Updated School Facility
Study Approved By Board
iliary PE gym at the high
school, close circuit system at
the high school and new traf-
fic patterns at North School.
The 1984 study reflected the
total rebuilding of Central
school on a new site and also
included the addition built to
“the Junior High
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School as a classroom facili-
ty, additions to other
schools,and the conversion of
Central for uses such as com-
munity schools program,
maintenance and central of-
fice,assuming the present ad-
ministration office building
was sold and also system
owned Park Grace School.
sponsored several public informational
rallies, purchased anti-liquor advertisements
in the local newspaper and conducted a
telephone poll of voters in recent weeks. The
group invited Coy Privette, director of the N.
C. Christian League, to address the public in-
Barnes auditorium.
_ outwardly quiet, the upcoming referendum
is expected to attract record crowds to the
polls on Tuesday. The ‘“‘wets’’ have maintain-
ed the ABC referendum “‘purely an economic
issue for citizens which will help the com-
munity’ noting that ‘‘dry’’ Kings Mountain is
surrounded by ABC stores in nearby Shelby,
Cherryville, Bessemer City and Gastonia.
The “‘dry’’ forces disagree.
and Miss Delores White, has
on a recent Sunday at B. N.
McRae said that those work-
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ing on the study were hopeful
the Central auditorium could
be utilitzed by the Little
Theatre and others. McRae
said that expansion at the
present Central site would be
impossible
ep
next month will re ;
ty needs at junior and senior
high schools.
The board has reviewed
facility needs at each of the
schools in the system at mon-
ly meetings in recent mon-
S.
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KM Jaycees’ DSA Banquet
Scheduled For January 26
Kings Mountain Jaycees
will honor citizens for
outstanding achievement
during 1986 at its annual
Distinguished Service
Awards Presentations Mon-
day January 26 at 7 p.m. at
the Central U.M. Church
Fellowship Hall.
Presentation of the coveted
‘‘Distinguished Service
Award” will highlight the
awards presentation. The:
award honors a young
woman or man under the age
of 35 for exhibiting
meritorious service to
her/his family, community,
and nation during the past
year. This award represents
the highest award presented
by the Kings Mountain
Jaycees.
Presentations of Outstan-
ding Service Awards will be
made to Kings Mountain
Outstanding Youth Educator,
Outstanding Young
Teenager, Boss of the Year,
Outstanding Former Jaycee,
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New Plant To Build
Cabs For Mack Trucks
Sheller-Globe Corporation
of Toledo, Ohio announced
Thursday morning at a press
conference in Shelby that it
has selected Grover Road as
site for its new truck cab
manufacturing plant.
Kings Mountain city of-
ficials,Mayor John Henry
Moss and Cleveland County
officials welcomed the news
as ‘‘a great day for Cleveland
County”’at a luncheon after-
wards at Cleveland Country
Club. :
In making the announce-
ment, Chester Devenow,
Chairman, President and
Chief Executive Officer, said
his company will make a ma-
jor investment, reportedly
about $10 million, in the new
state-of-the art manufactur-
ing facility to produce the
new line of Class 8 truck cabs
for Mack Trucks, Inc. early
in 1989. The Grover road loca-
tion, across from the new Du-
Pont plant, is located 75 miles
from Mack Truck’s new
truck assembly plant in Win-
nsboro,S.C., assuring daily
delivery of cabs ready for
direct transfer from the
specially designed, enclosed
trailers to Mack’s chassis
assembly line.
Construction of the new
facility is expected to begin
early this fall with operations
scheduled to begin erly in
1988.
The plant will employ in-
itially 80 to 100 people with
employment expected to
reach 130 to 150 by 1993.
“We are very pleased to
welcome Sheller-Globe to the
Kings Mountain area’’,said
Mayor John Moss who said
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