Ellen Carpenter
Celebrates 100 Years
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Crusade
Begins
Sunday
Evangelist Clyde Dupin
will open his eight-day
Crusade for Christ Sunday
night at 7:27 p.m. in John
Gamble Memorial Football
Stadium.
Services will continue each
evening through Sunday,
Aug. 23.
Forty-plus churches in the
Greater Kings Mountain area
are sponsoring the Crusade
which will kickoff on Sunday
afternoon with marchers
starting at the overhead
bridge on West King Street to
the Stadium on Fulton Drive.
+A Crusade téam working in
the Kings Mountain area this
week will include Evangelist
Dupin, his wife, Grace Dupin,
their sons, Wes and Ken
Dupin, and other guests who
will present special music
and give testimonies, in-
cluding Suzanne Johnson,
former Miss American talent
winner on Monday night;
musicians Phyllis and Rick
Webb of Cherryville on Tues-
day night and Delona Wood of
the Wood Brothers racing
family on Saturday, which is
Youth Night. At each
Crusade, special emphasis
will be placed on area towns
onday is Sunday School
Night and Shelby Night;
Tuesday is Youth Night and
Cherryville Night; Wednes-
Participating in the services.
’
day is Family Night; Thurs-
day is God and Country
Night; Friday is Bring A
Friend and Bessemer City
Night; Saturday is Youth
Night and Gastonia Night;
and Sunday, Aug. 23 is the
closing service. Grace Dupin
will be the inspirational
speaker for morning leas at
DR. CLYDE DUPIN
weolunteering as counselors;
10 a.m. each day of the *
Crusade at First Baptist
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Church. More than 300 choir
members from various chur-
ches will compose the
Crusade Choir, under the
direction of Delores White,
will sing special anthems;
and hundreds of people are
ushers ln other aspricts of the
ade, "Kings Meonntaintsy
Three more school board
candidates filed this week,
bringing the number to seven
the number seeking the two
November.
Filing before the deadline
Friday at noom were Billy
F.King, Priscilla Mauney
and Dale A. Hollifield. Others
filing previously were incum-
bent Doyle Campbell, Susan
H. Belt, Floyd
Sanders,Jr.and Steve Wilson.
board, June Lee, did not file
for re-election.
In filing statements this
week:
Billy F King, 37, of 1304
Merrimont Ave. said, “I think
we have something very
special in the Kings Mountain
School System However, we
must make the right deci-
sions now to insure that we
continue to have the best
school system possible. The
purpose of the school board is
to establish sound policy and
as a member of the school
board I will spend the time
necessary to study the issues
in order to make fair and
responsible decisions and
would work closely with the
administration to help imple-
ment those policies. I think it
is important to insure an en-
vironment where every stu-
dent and teacher would have
the opportunity to reach their
full potential. I believe great
things can be accomplished
with an enthusiastic attitude
toward education in Kings
Mountain and would ap-
preciate the opportunity to
serve the citizens of the Kings
Mountain School District.”
King is married to the
former Linda Pearson of
Kings Mountain and they
have two sons, Brian, a third
grader at West School, and
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seats open on the board in
The other incumbent on the
BILLY KING,JR.
King, Mauney, Hollifield
Join Race For School Board
PRISCILLA MAUNEY
Thomasson Resigns Post
As KM City Attorney
George B. Thomasson,
veteran Kings Mountain city
attorney, announced his
resignation, at Tuesday
night’s regular meeting of the
board of city commissioners.
Mr.Thomasson, Kings
Mountain lawyer, will com-
plete his duties Sept. 1.
Thomasson tendered his
resignation to Mayor John
Henry Moss July 25.
He was appointed by the ci-
ty board 11 years ago almost
to the date that he tendered
his resignation.
Thomasson is the son of a
former Kings Mountain
mayor, C.F.
Thomasson,Sr.,and he and
his wife, Marion Arthur
Thomasson, reside on Phifer
Road. They have one
daughter, Anne Thomasson,
who is employed by the Mint
Museum in Charlotte. The
GEORGE THOMASSON
Thomassons are active in
First Presbyterian Church
and Thomasson is also active
I ge Kings Mountain Lions
ub.
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John Moss Not Running :
For Mayor Or City Mar
Mayor John Henry Moss
said this week that he is not a
candidate for the city
manager position in Kings
Mountain and would accept
“under no circumstances,’’ if
offered the job.
“If I had wanted to con-
tinue on a day to day basis as
city administrator I would
have filed for re-election for
another four years’, he said.
The Mayor announced
Thursday he is stepping down
after 22 years in the Mayor’s
job as chief executive officer
of the city to pursue other in-
terests.
The city board of commis-
sioners Tuesday unanimous-
ly adopted resolution of intent
to change the form of govern-
ment from mayor-council to
city manager-council and set
public hearing for Aug.25th at
7:30. p.m. in Council
Chambers.
The action came without
discussion except for ques-
tion by Commissioner Fred
Finger if he could offer a
substitute motion after mo-
tion had been made by Com-
missioner Humes Houston,
seconded by Commissioner
Irvin Allen. City Attorney
George Thomasson said the
motion and second had to be
considered first.
The notice of the public
hearing is published in
today’s Herald in a legal
advertisement.
The consideration of adop-
tion of the ordinance will be
made by the board at the
Sept. 8 meeting at 7:30 p.m.
in Council Chambers.
Commissioner Finger said
he had no qualms with the
first four dates proposed in
the resolution but said insuffi-
cient time was given by set-
ting date of adoption on Sept.
8. Finger, however, voted
with all other commissioners
on the resolution to amend
the town charter to change
the form of government.
Kings Mountain is one of
only three cities in the state
that operate with a mayor as
the chief executive
officer. Mayor John Henry
Moss, who has served in this
position for eight terms or 22
and one half years, has an-
nounced he will not seek re-
XIVIGIT TVIye
election and will pe cum-
pleting his duties with the ci-¢
ty Dec.8.
Amendments to the town
charter will be spelled out in
the resolution to be published
ten days following an-
ticipated adoption on Sept.8.
Tuesday’s meeting is only
the second time in the Moss
Administration that the ques-
tion of a change in form of
government has surfaced.
Some months ago citizens at
a regular board meeting
brought up the matter and
asked for a show of hands of
interest in changing to city
manager form of govern-
ment. About 40 hands went
up. Kings Mountain voters
turned down a proposal in the
late 40’s.
Board members discussed
44 items on a long board
agenda Tuesday night, gave
approval to a computer
feasibility study and approv-
ed Robert E. Lee Country
Creek Sub-Division, Logan
Park Sub-Division and tabled
request of Marion Dixon for
approval of Deerwood Sub-
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21 Candidates File
Last-minute candidates for
city municipal elections in
October swelled the number
to 21 of those seeking three
seats open on the city council.
The last-minute announce-
ment by incumbent Mayor
John Henry Moss that he
won’t seek re-election. to a
ninth term at the helm of city
government added three
more candidates, bringing
the total to six those sekving
the top slot at City Hall. Fil-
ing for mayor were Commis-
sioner Irvin Allen of District
1; Commissioner Norman
King of District 4; and Steve
Russell,Belt, 33, who is a
newcomer to politics.. Filing
last Wednesday merning was
Edward James Carroll and
filing first in the lineup was
Kyle Smith.
In the commissioner race
in District I, where Irvin
Allen dropped out to run for
mayor, five are vieing for the
seat. Filing before the
deadline Friday were Lyn
Cheshire, Al Moretz, a
former city employee, and
Marshall Mullinax who join
former citizens Carl Goforth
and former city employee
Ken Jenkins, who filed last
week.
In the commissioner race
in District 3, where Commis-
sioner Corbet Nicholson is
STEVE BELT
running for re-election,
Clayvon Kelly, Ronnie
Franks, Robert Poston, and
Earl Wayne Worcester filed
before the deadline Friday.
All ® challengers are
newcomers to the political
arena.
In the commissioner race
in District 4, where Commis-
sioner Norman King dropped
out to run for mayor, are all
newcomers to politics and
three former city policemen,
including Jackie Dean Bar-
rett, Mike Sanders, and Joe
King and Jeff Gregory.
Several of the candidates
made filing statements and
they are as follows:
Edward James Carroll,
For Four City Seats
E. JAMES CARROLL
candidate for mayor, is a life
long resident and native of
Kings Mountain and has own-
ed and operated Carrol
Trucking and Grading Co. fo
25 years. He is the son of
Essie Wilson and F. O. Car-
roll of Kings Mountain. Car-
roll said, if elected, he wants
to recruit more industry and
improve uptown business. ‘‘I
promise to be fair and honest
in all my business dealings
and I am proud to be a Kings
Mountain businessman.‘‘,he
said.
Steve Russell Belt, of 600
Oakland St., candidate for
mayor, is a Kings Mountain
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All Mayoral Candidates
Support City Manager
All six candidates for
mayor say they favor a city
manager form of government
as do virtually all 21 can-
didates for four seats up for
grabs this election year in
Kings Mountain.
But even if the city’s form
of government is not changed
by Dec. 8th, three new faces
will be on the city council: a
new mayor, new commis-
sioners from District 1 and 4.
The wide open race for
Mayor developed Thursday
when eight term Mayor John
Henry Moss announced at a 4
p.m. news conference he
would not seek re-election.
Two commissioners,
Irvin(Tootie) Allen,65, of
District I and Norman King
59, of District 4, immediately
threw their hats into the ring,
withdrawing from their ward
races. Steve Russell Belt 33,
filed just before the deadline
Friday. Filing previously for
the mayor’s job were Kyle
Smith,59, and Edward James
Carroll,56, of 415 Bat-
tleground Ave. and Gilbert
Hamrick, 46, of 408 Oriental
Ave.
Allen said after the press
conference that he is running
on the assumption that the ci-
ty’s form of government will
be changed. Commissioners
King, Fred Finger and
Harold Phillips had already
said they favored a change to
the city manager-council
form of government.
Mayor Moss said after the
meeting that the city board
has the power to make the
change without a vote of the
people and that a tie vote will
not change the charter. Dur-
ing the past 18 months the
Mayor has broken about a
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