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KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
_ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1987
_ United Way To Begin $110,000 Campaign
to have our goal met by that time.”
In addition to hearing two presenta-
tions Friday, the volunteers will view a
film about United Way.
“Business is better, and everybody
seems to be working this year, so we
hope we’ll have the best year Kings
Mountain United Way has ever had,”
said Davis. “We're rather excited
about the possiblity of going over our
goal without having to extend the cam-
_ The $110,000 goal
is the biggest ever
for Kings Mountain
United Way. Last
year’s $106,000 goal
was reached on the
last day of the
year.
Kings Mountain United Way will
kickoff its $110,000 campaign Friday at
noon at the Holiday Inn.
Bill Davis, campaign chairman,
urges all campaign workers and
members of the board of directors to
attend.
The group will talk about campaign
strategies and representatives of two
UW agencies will make presentations
of their services. Rev. Dewey Smith,
‘“We hope that won’t DAVIS
be the case this !
chairman of the Ministerial Associa-
year,”” said Davis, retired Supt. of
paign.”
Kings Mountain Schools. ‘‘The purpose
Officers for the campaign, in addi-
tion’s Helping Hand Fund, will
tion to Davis, are Ted Kostek, presi-
describe services of his organization,
and a representative of Cleveland
County Hospice will discuss services it
of Friday’s kickoff meeting is to pro-
vide motivation for people to get out
and get started. Our last report date is
dent;
Marvin Chappell, secretary-
offers to the terminally ill.
scheduled for October 16 and we hope
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’
Sanders
Withdraws
From Race
A misunder-
standing of
the city’s per-
sonnel and
policy rules by
Mike Sanders,
candidate for | :
District 4 = SANDERS
commissioner, has forced
him out of the race. The Per-
sonnel Policy, however, per-
mits him to run.
Sanders told Elections
Board Chairman Becky Cook
Tuesday that he is pulling out
of the race because he is a
part time employee of the ci-
ty and he has been informed
Photo by T.C. McKee
CLIMBERS - When Paul Brown of Kings Mountain
plants Big. Boy tomatoes, he intends on getting Big Boy
tomatoes.,.and vines too. He grew these Big Boys 16-feet
up the side of his house and had to use a step ladder to pick
them.
Zoning Board
Rejects Request
The city zoning board mobile home sits on the pro-
unanimously rejected Rick perty.
Moore’s request for rezoning Moore has asked for the
of property from R-20 to general business zoning to
General Business last Thurs-
day during a' regular
meeting.
The petition for rezoning was
returned to the city board of
commissioners who will pro-
bably act on the request Oct.
13th after proper advertise-
ment required by law.
Fran Black, secretary to
comply with use rights to sell
beer and wine in Ole Country
store, for which he has been
granted permits by the city
and state.
Present at the meeting, in
addition to Moore, were Zon-
ing Board members Wilson
Griffin, chairman; James
Adams, James Crawford,
and Paul
the board, said that the peti- M.C. Pruette,
tion was rejected because a Owens.
he is ineligible to run.
According to the city per-
sonnel policy adopted by the
board of commissioners in
1984, Page 1, “Subject To
Regulations,’”” The provisions
of these rules shall be ap-
plicable to all employees as
except provided below: No. 1,
elected officials; No. 2 part
time officials appointed by
the beard of commissioners;
and persons on advisory or
special boards of commis-
sions; (3) Temporary,
seasonal or emergency
employees who work less
than 40 hours per week or for
less than six months dura-
tion.”
On Page 7 under ‘‘Part
Time and Temporary
Employment:”’ **A part time
or temporary employee shall
not be eligible for paid vaca-
tions, sick leave, paid holi-
day, insurance or other
benefits that accrue to the
permanent full time
employee. Part time and
temporary employees may
be hired and paid, subject to
the availability of funds, at a
HARDWARE SOLD-—Bridges Hardware business. From left, Tim Miller, manager of
Company was sold Monday to Wayne the new firm; Beachum, Glee E. Bridges and
Beachunt of Charlotte by Glee E. and J.C. J.C. Bridges.
Bridges, partners in the longtime family
Photo By Red McKee
Bridges Hardware, a fami-
ly owned business for over 60
years, was sold Monday to
Wayne Beachum of Charlotte
‘who will continue to operate
with the same name and
staff.
Glee Edwin and J.C.
Bridges, brothers and part-
ners in the hardware store,
announced the sale.
Tim Miller of Charlotte,
son-in-law of Beachum and
also associated with Chantil-
ly Village Hardware in
Charlotte, is the new
manager. Miller is married
to Shearra Beachum Miller
and they and their two-year-
old daughter, Rebekah, are
moving to Kings Mountain as
soon as housing is available.
Beachum will also continue
to own and operate the
Charlotte store.
Bridges Hardware Com-
in the summer of 1974, up-
dated and expanded their
merchandise and continued
their Service Star dealership
they had begun in the early
1960’s in the old hardware
building on Battleground
Avenue they had bought in
1951 from their father, the
late Glee A. Bridges who
operated a partnership with
David R. Hamrick from early
’30s. Growing up as stockboys
in the store, Glee and J.C.
Bridges unloaded tons of fer-
tilizer from box cars, sold
plow | points and other
Bridges Hardware Is Sold
was time for younger people
to take over and we feel
Bridges Hardware is in good
hands with the Beachum
family. Mr. Beachum came
up in the trade just as we did,
was raised in the small town
of Oakboro in Stanly County,
and five years ago built a
hardware business in
Charlotte.”
Bridges Hardware has a
long history with several
name changes over the years
but one man remained as an
institution until 1951. That
man was the late Glee Actor
agricultural products, big Bridges, father of J.C. and
sellers in the hardware trade Glee E., who had left his
in that period. family farm near Shelby in
“We never got the hard- 1916 and moved to Kings
ware | business out of our Mountain to live with an un-
blood| and Kings Mountain cle, R.C. Gold. His sons
has been good to all of us”, recalled that ‘‘big Glee”
said Glee E. Bridges, who crossed the Atlantic in troop
said the decision to sell was ships 11 times during the
‘‘with mixed
pany built a 16,500 square foot made
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uilding on S. Cansler Street emotions.” “J.C. and I felt it
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Football Contest
In Today’s Paper
You can wii $100 in the Herald's football
contest which begins today.
Each Wednesday for the next 10 weeks,
the contest will feature 20 games from the
area high school and college ranks. The per-
son who abides by the rules and predicts the
most winners will receive the money.
In cases of ties, the person who comes
closer to predicting the total number of
points scored in the tie-breaker game will
be declared the winner. If a winner cannot
be determined by the tie-breaking method,
the money will be divided. If more than two
persons tie, a drawing will determine the
winner. ; il
Always, the decision of the judge is final.
This week’s contest is on page 8 and 9-B.
Read the rules carefully before entering.
Bring us your entry no later than 4 p.m. Fri-
day or mail it to Football Contest, P.O. Box
BRANDON MOSS
Brandon’s Battle
5-Year-Old Doesn’t Let Illness Take Away His Cheer
Brandon Moss, 5, is a happy, cheerful lit-
tle boy in Ann Lefever’'s class at North
School.
He likes school and hates to miss his Mon-
day class but every Monday his mother
picks him up for his weekly visit to Duke
Medical Hospital in Durham. Each Tuesday
he returns to school, all smiles, says his
teacher despite undergoing chemotheraphy
the previous day.
A good student and bright, Brandon
doesn’t talk about his illi.css, plays with his
friends on the playground and talks about
his new toy that his grandmother gave him.
Brandon has acute lymphacytic
leukemia, a form of cancer that at times
turns him from a happy little boy to a sick
boy. His family takes him to Duke Medical
Center for treatments and he has had to re-
main there for a length of time due to symp-
toms associated with his illness.
Concerned friends in Mt. Zion Baptist
Church have set up a fund for little Brandon
at First Union National Bank to help his
family pay mounting medical bills.
Margaret Smith and Geraldine Dye, co-
chairmen of the fund drive, said ‘‘because
of Brandon’s illness his mother, Marilyn
Felicia Falls, of 301 Campbell Circle, was
advised to quit her.job and devote her time
to caring for him. Brandon’s grandmother,
in addition to helping care for him, has had
the responsibility of paying her daughter’s
rent and car payments as well as providing
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769, Kings Mountain, N.C. 28086.