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ty Elections Board Chairman Campbell are expiring on the
Becky Cook and ends on Aug. school board.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1987
Kings Mountain Area Industries,
Businesses Close Down For Fourth
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORT
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Majority of Kings Moun-
tain area textile employees
will enjoy a week’s Fourth of
July holiday, and with pay.
A survey of industry shows
that the holiday period will
vary from one day to the full
week of July 4th.
Since Independence Day
falls on Saturday, most
downtown businesses will
shut down tight. However,
major grocery stores, Harris-
Herald To Close Friday
~The Kings Mountain Herald will be closed Friday through
Sunday for July Fourth.
The office will be open through Thursday at 5 p.m. and
will re-open Monday at 8:30 a.m. :
Deadlines for women’s news will be 5 p.m. Thursday.
Deadline for sports and regular news and advertising will
be 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Dependable Knits and
Kings Mountain Knit Fabrics
closed Friday night at 11 p.m.
and employees will return to
work on Sunday night.
Bonuses will be paid based on
length of service.
Sadie Mills closed Saturday
night at 10 p.m., reopens on
Sunday, July 5th, at 10 p.m.
Bonuses were paid based on
Teeter, Food Lion and Winn
Dixie will be open for
business as usual.
Banks and savings and loan
offices will also close on Mon-
day.
City of Kings Mountain of-
fices will also be closed on
Monday.
Kings Mountain Post Office
will be closed Saturday but
will be open on Monday.
Mauney Hosiery Mills
employees will be closed the
full week of the Fourth,
beginning on last Friday, and
will receive bonuses based on
length of service.
Cleveland Hosiery and
Lyn-Tex Mills will also close
from June 29th through July
5th, returning to work on July
6th. Vacation payments will
be made
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inventory. Vacation pay will
be made.
vacation pay. SRE
Knit will be clos-
Mauney, 89, of 1351 Robin-
wood Road, Gastonia, who
died Friday in Covenant
Village, were conducted Mon-
day morning at 11 a.m. from
First Presbyterian Church of
which he was a member and
Elder.
officiated at the rites and in-
terment was
Rest Cemetery.
Mr. Mauney was a retired
textile executive and a turf
grass developer. He had been
active in the Kings Mountain
son o
Alice Poteat Mauney. He was
married to Lillian Ramsaur
Mauney, who survives.
Paul Mauney, 89, Is Dead
Funeral services for Paul
His pastor,Dr. Eric Faust,
in Mountain
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wife, are three sons, Dr. Scout troop formed in Kings
Jackson Mauney of Tempe, Mountain, Troop 1, and was
Arizona; Lt. Cmdr. Fleming still active at his death. Dur-
Mauney
Springs,Col. and Col. William
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Ruddock of Jackson ,Miss.;
three daughters, Mrs. Alice
Betty Snow of Kings Moun-
tain, Mrs. Pauline Kellam
and Miss Sue Ruddock, both
of Charlotte; 15 grand-
children and eight great-
grandchildren.
He was a veteran of World
War I in the Old Hickory Divi-
sion and served in France. He
was a past Commander of
Otis D. Green Post 155,
American Legion, a member
of the North Carolina
Association of Nurserymen
and North Carolina Land-
of Colorado
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Four year terms of Mayor
John Henry Moss and Com-
missioners Irvin Allen, Jr.,
District IT; Corbet Nicholson,
.District III and Norman
King, District IV, are expir-
ing.
Candidate filing fee is $10
for mayor and $5 for commis-
sioner. Persons filing for
commissioner must reside in
the district for which they
seek office. To file for office,
a person must have resided in
the city 30 days before filing
for office.
Candidates must file with
Mrs. Cook, who resides on
Meadowbrook Road.
The political rumor mill
has continued to grind out
names of candidates seeking
the four seats on the city
council, but only three people
have made known their inten-
tions to seek office. Kyle
Smith has officially announc-
ed that he will challenge in-
cumbent Mayor John Moss,
who has not yet announced;
and former Chief of Police
J.D. Barrett and former
KMPD officer Joe King said
last week they will challenge
District IV Commissioner
Norman King, who has not
announced. In District III,
Clayvon Kelly, who has not
officially announced, says he
will file for the office to
challenge Nlcholson, also a
veteran at City Hall who has
not made known his inten-
tions of running for re-
election. The name of former
commissioner Luther Ben-
nett has been mentioned in
Distret III. In District II, Carl
Goforth has been rumored as
a candidate. Commissioner
Irvin Allen’ has not said
whether he will file for re-
election.
Filing also begins Friday
for expiring seats on the KM
Board of Education and can-
didates must file with the
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Olympic Torch Run To Come Here Tuesday
“We honestly believe this
Torch Run, followed by the
festival, will be one of the
greatest events ever held in
North Carolina,” says Hill
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The U.S. Olympic Festival
‘7 Torch Run will come
through area cities next week
as part of a 26-day, 2,800-mile
journey through 400 North
Carolina communities. The
final destination is Raleigh’s
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Carter-Finley Stadium for
opening ceremonies on Fri.,
July 17.
The run, billed as the
largest single event in North
Carolina history, officially
began with a torch lighting
ceremony Sat., June 20 in
Colorado Springs, Colo. The
flame was transported by
airplane from the 14,110-feet
Pike’s Peak to the historic
port city of Wilmington
where the run began on Mon.,
June 22.
The run will ocver 88 of the
state’s 100 counties and more
than 4,000 volunteer runners
will participate.
Carolina Amateur Sports, the
local organizing committee
for U.S. Olympic Festival-‘87.
“Never before will a single
event have personally touch-
ed the hearts of so many €eo-
ple and so many communities
in our state.”
Highlights of the Torch Run
include:
*Special ceremonies in a
number of North Carolina
cities—-including Kings Moun-
tain and Cherryville--and all
five of the official “host”
cities of the U.S. Olympic
Festival--Raleigh, Durham,
Chapel Hill, Cary and
Greensboro.
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the U.S. Army, U.S. Marines,
U.S. Air Force and U.S. Coast
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ceremony at the Beirut
Memorial at Camp Lejeune.
*Torch bearers represen-
ting all 34 U.S. Olympic
Festival-‘87 sports, from ar-
chery to yachting.
*Stops at more than a dozen
state and national historic
sites, such as the
WrightBrothers Memorial,
Halifax, Bath and New Bern.
*Hang gliding with the
torch at Jockey’s Ridge on
the Outer Banks, parachuting
with the torch in Franklin
County,
canoeing and kayaking with
the torch down the Nantahala
River.
U.S. Olympic Festival-‘87
will be held July 13-26. Nearly
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Festival-‘87 the largest single Kings Mountain at 7:50 p.m.
event in North Carolina and a ceremony is planned
history. downtown. The torch will
The run will come through then proceed to Cherryville,
area cities Tuesday and arriving in Cherryville at
Wednesday of next week, 9:40 p.m. After a ceremony in
with special ceremonies plan- downtown Cherryville, torch
ned at several towns. bearers will spend the night
. in Cherryville and depart at 6
The run will leave 3m. Wednesday. /
Charlotte at 1:30 p.m. and The runners will cross the
cross the Gaston County line Cleveland County line at 6:10
at 2:20 p.m. It will come 3 m, Wednesday and go
through Mount Holly at 2:30, through Waco at 6:20 and
Belmont at 3:10, Cramerton Stubbs at 7:10. Runners will
at 3:20 and McAdenville at arrive in Shelby at 8 a.m.
3:50, when a ceremony IS where a.ceremony is planned
lanned. at Town Square. |
It will go through Lowell at From Shelby, runners will
4:10, Ranlo at 4:20 and arrive carry the torch west on
in Gastonia at 4:40 with a Highway 74 and go through
ceremony planned at City several towns in Rutherford,
Hall. Tt will leave Gastonia at Polk and Transylvania coun-
5:40 and go through Dallas at ties, and stopping in Brevard
6 p.m., Bessemer City at 6:50 at 10:30 p.m.
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