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VOL. 100 NUMBER 28 WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1987 KINGS MOUNTAIN LINA
PASSING THE TORCH—Chuck Carpenter, above, son of
Marion and Charlie Carpenter of Kings Mountain, runs with
the Olympic Torch, above, as the Olympic Spirit came to
Kings Mountain Tuesday night and crowds of people
welcomed the runners for a special program in front of the
Library.
Smith Files For Mayor,
Calls For Limited Term
Kyle Smith, Kings Moun-
tain citizen and school board
member, made it official
Monday that he seeks the of-
fice of Mayor by filing with
Elections Board Chairman
Becky Cook.
He will challenge 22 year
incumbent Mayor John
Henry Moss, who has not yet
announced his filing inten-
tions but is expected to seek
another four year term.
Smith said in a filing state-
ment:
“For the past two years I
have been encouraged to seek
the office of Mayor of Kings
Mountain and I am today an-
nouncing my candidacy for
this office.
‘““My sole intention for
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KYLE SMITH
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presenting myself as a can-
didate for this postion is to
lead the City of Kings Moun-
tain in a positive manner. I
have no vendetta of any sort;
and I have no plans of runn-
ing a negative campaign.
“I am 59 years old. I have
been a resident of Kings
Mountain for the past 21
years and am a retired Navy
veteran serving during World
War II, the Korean and Viet-
nam Conflicts. I am married
to the former Mikie White. I
have three children, Michael,
Karla and Mark. I attended
Marshall University in Hun-
tington, West Virginia. I am a
member of First Baptist
Church, Kings Mountain. I
am a member of the Gaston
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County Personnel Associa-
tion and was the first presi-
dent of the Kings Mountain
Personel Association with
over 25 years experience in
the personnel field. For the
past 10 years I have been a
member of the Kings Moun-
tain District Schools Board of
Education.
“I have a number of issues
to which I would like to ad-
dress my campaign. First of
all, I feel 20 plus years is long
enough for one man to hold
the office of mayor. I certain-
ly give past administrations
credit for the progress made,
but I also feel very strongly
that now is the time for a
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Joe King, Jeff Gregory File
A contest has already
developed in the District 4 ci-
ty commissioner race with
the filing Friday of Jeff
Gregory, 29, of 214 Fairview
St., and on Monday by Joe
Stephanie,3, and Jeffrey
Michael,nine months. They
are active in Chestnut Ridge
Baptist Church.
Joe King, a detective
lieutenant with the Cleveland
County Sheriff’s Department,
King,34, of 608 Mica St.
Both seek to unseat veteran
also feels he can serve well in
the District position and is
also a cousin of Commis-
Hugh Holland, West School
principal the past school
year, was unanimously
elected Monday night to suc-
ceed Ronnie Nanney as prin-
cipal of Bethware School.
Their decision came after
an executive session follow-
ing a special meeting.
Holland came to Kings
Mountain from Gastonia
where he was assistant prin-
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HUGH HOLLAND
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cipal of Hunter Huss High
School and where the year
before had been named Assis-
tant Principal of the Year in
Gaston County.He succeeds
Nanney, who, was Kings
Mountain and Morth Cagolina
Principal of £#§Year aijd has
taken a news positica as
Director of 'taff dejelop-
ment for Cledeland County
Schools. ay
In other per: onnfy actions,
the board announced; that
Tim Echols, fdrmer filiance
officer with thg city, is mov-
ing to the high school as a
math and computer instruc-
tor and also announced the
hiring of Todd Eugene Camp,
social studies teacher at
KMSHS, and Cheryl
Lutz health teacher at Cen-
tral School, and accepted the
resignation of Donna
Southards as math and
science teacher at Central
School and resignation of
Lynn Ledford, guidance
teacher at Central School.
ons.
Both Gregory and King are
entering the political arena
for the first time. Also ex-
pected to file for Ward 4 is
former Chief of Police J. D.
Barrett, of 202 Park Dr., who
has announced that he will
seek election as city commis-
sioner.
A Kings Mountain native,
Gregory is the son of
Spurgeon and Sally Gregory.
A 1976 graduate of Kings
Mountain Senior High School,
he was a chemical lab techni-
cian for a year before joining
the USAF and was stationed
in Okinawa for twe years. He
worked for Piedmont Airlines
for 18 months before joining
the U. S. Postal System at
Charlotte, where he worked
three months before being
transferred to Gastonia. He
has been a letter carrier in
the Firestone Mill area of
Gastonia the past four years
and is currently serving as
president of the Union branch
1512 which includes Gastonia
and Lowell, working up
through the ‘‘chairs’ of that
office and successfully
representing 100 postal
NEW INDUSTRY—David Beam, left, chairman of the Gaston County Board of Commis-
sioners, Hayward officials William Treene and Richard E. Garbee and Mayor John Moss are
pictured at an industry announcement by Hayward Pool Products which plans a $5 million
manufacturing plant in KM Industrial Park.
JOE KING
employees. He got his first
taste of politics in the Gaston
County union but also worked
on the Les Roark congres-
sional campaign in Gasten
County.
“I believe in aggressive
government with representa-
tion by the people’, said
Gregory, who said he would
push for a city marfager form
of government. ‘‘I feel that
now is the time for Kings
Mountain to change its for-
mat of government and leave
the policy making to the
board of commissioners’ he
said.
Gregory said he is Hefinite-
ly not running for ‘‘the
money’ and has no idea what
the pay scale is for city com-
missioner.‘ ‘Government gets
more complicated every day
JEFF GREGORY
and a commissioner’s role is
to represent all the
people’ he said. “A lot of
people have asked me to run
for office. The city’s goals
need to be explained on an in-
dividual basis. Explain issues
to the people and you” find
they will respond. I try to
listen to people, and although
I have only one vote, I would
try to get the answer back to
them. I am not running on
any issues. I was reared in
the Cora Mill district and liv-
ed here all my life. I know all
the people in my district and
am not running against
anyone, least of all Norman
King, who is a distant
cousin.”’, he said.
Gregory is married to the
former Sonya McAbee and
they are parents of
King has worke Wen:
forcement for 13 years and
got his start here with the
Kings Mountain Police
Department, working under
Chief Barrett. King favors a
city personnel department
and believes that changes on
the board are necessary for
the city to progress further.
He is the son of former police
officer Ellis King and Maude
King. At one time Joe King,
his brother, Tommy King,
and their father were on the
city police force at the same
time. King is a 1973 graduate
of Kings Mountain High
School and a member of Fair-
view Lodge, Cleveland Coun-
ty Law Enforcement Associa-
tion and Arson Investigation
Association. He is married to
the former Terri Cook and
they are parents of six-year-
old Wayne Cook.
Filing continues through
noon Aug. 4. Terms of Mayor
John Moss and Commis-
sioners Irvin Allen, District
2: Corbet Nicholson, District
3, and Norman King, District
4 are expiring.
Citizens go to the polls in
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Hayward Pool Coming Here
Hayward Pool Products,
Inc. of Elizabeth, N. J., an-
nounced Wednesday pur-
chase of a 162,000 square foot
facility on 11 acres in KM In-
dustrial Park to expand pro-
duction of its pool products, a
$5 million manufacturing
plant to employ 100 people.
“This is a great day for
Kings Mountain’’, said
Mayor John Henry Moss at a
press conference and lun-
cheon attended by about 50
industry leaders and
Hayward officials.
“On behalf of Governor
Jim Martin and our state
economic development team,
it's a great pleasure to
welcome Hayward Pool Pro-
ducts to Kings Mountain and
North Carolina’, said North
Carolina Economic Develop-
ment Board member J. A.
Dalpiaz. “The 100 new jobs
Hayward brings to this area
will cover a broad range of
skills and occupations and
will mean new economic op-
portunity for workers
throughout this area.”
The new industry is located
in KM Industrial Park in
Gaston County and Chairman
of the Gaston County Board
of Commissioners David
Beam expressed pleasure
that Hayward is the fourth
major industry to announce
plans for facilities in Gaston
County this year.
Hayward President
Richard E. Garbee said the
new plant expects to be
operational by October and
will provide additional
manufacturing and assembly
capabilities to meet the grow-
ing demand for Hayward’s
broad range of pool and spa
products. The firm also ex-
pects its new facility here will
give it added strength in the
southeast regional market.
Hayward has ordered new in-
jection molding equipment fo
the plant and work has
already begun to ready the
facility for production by Oc-
tober of this year, he said.
Hayward Pool Products
presently employs 800 people
in manufacturing facilities in
Elizabeth, New Jersey;
Pomona California;
Mississauga, Canada and Gi-
ly Belgium.
William E. Treene,
Hayward Pool Products
president, and Oscar Davis,
chairman of the board of
Hayward Industries, said the
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