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North Carolina
Press RE
VOL. 100 NUMBER 41
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1987
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
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KYLE SMITH
Outdistances Six-Man Field
Smith Elected Mayor
Kings Mountain voters overwhelmingly
elected Kyle F. Smith, 59, to succeed retir-
ing John Henry Moss as Kings Mountain
Mayor Tuesday in a six-man race in which
Smith beat out all candidates and second-
runner Irvin Allen by nearly 2-1.
Smith picked up 52.5 percent of the vote as
2,204 citizens went to the polls.
Voters ousted three incumbents with long
terms on the city board, making it a clean
sweep for four new faces on the new city
council to be sworn into office Dec. 8th.
Second runner Allen and third finisher
Norman King, both commissioners,
withdrew from their ward races on Aug. 6,
the day before the filing deadline when
Mayor John Henry Moss shocked the town
with his announcement he would not seek
re-election to another term. Moss had been
re-elected every year that he had offered
for the job for the past 22 years. He is the ci-
ty’s chief executive. A week after the
Mayor’s announcement city commissioners
moved to hire a Kings Mountain city
manager for the first time in decades since
Kings Mountain has operated as a mayor
board of commissioners form of govern-
ment.
Smith’s vote of confidence comes as the
city prepares to change its reliance on a full
time mayor and moves to the city manager
form of government which Smith first sug-
gested when he announced for the office in
July.
“A lot of le worked hard the past six
months to do this”, said Smith, tears well-
ing in his eyes as he and his wife, Mikie, and
their family watched the election returns
come in at City Hall. It was apparent from
the early returns posted about 8:45 p.m. by
East Kings Mountain precinct that Smith
had a big lead in the mayor's race.
The Kings Mountain Board of Elections
will meet at City Hall Thursday morning at
11 a.m. to canvass the vote.
A 10 year veteran of the Kings Mountain
Board of Education, Smith will be resigning
that position.
Smith has pledged to study the pay scale
of city employees, to implement a city
manager form of government with a part
time mayor in the role of a public relations
man and to cut salaries of elected officials
in line with the mayor’s salaries and com-
missioners’ salaries in towns of similar
size. He has said that annexation should be
pursued only on a large scale and has said
that a good city manager can run the city
business the way it ought to be run.
Smith was personnel director for Duplex-
Reeves Brothers from 1966 to 1972 and most
recently became the recruiting manager
for Combustion Engineering.
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Runoffs November 3
In Commissioner Races
District 4, did not have a ma-
Run-offs will be held in all
three city commissioner
races where front-runners
Lyn Cheshire, District 1;
Ronnie Franks, District 3,
and Jackie Dean Barrett,
jority.
VOTING DAY—Ardie Jolly, above, casts her vote in the
mayor and commissioner race at East KM Precinct at the
Community Center, Tuesday. Mrs. Jolly and her husband,
Okane Jolly, 87, are lifelong voters, voting in every city elec-
tion.
Retired Police Chief Bar-
rett led the voting in the com-
missioner races Tuesday
with 1,045 votes compared
Vivian Latham
Football Winner
Vivian Latham of 411 East Pennsylvania
Avenue, Bessemer City, predicted 18 of 20
winners to take the $100 prize in last week’s
Herald football contest.
Ms. Latham won on the tie-breaker over
James Hood of 56 Charles Street, Kings
Mountain, who also picked 18 of 20 winners.
Ms. Latham predicted there would be 48
points scored in the East Rutherfor -South
Point game (won by South Point 42-21) and
Hood predicted 38 points. |
Latham misfired on Shelby’s victory over
Kings Mountain and North Gaston’s over-
time win over R-S Central. Hood missed
East Gaston’s win over Olympic and N.C.
State’s victory over Georgia Tech. |
The sixth of 10 weekly contests is inside
today’s Herald. Pick the most winners and
get us your entry by 4 p.m. Friday gn you
will win $100. Mail your entry to Football
Contest, P.O. Box 769, Kings Mountain, N.C.
28086, or bring it by our office on Canter-
bury Road.
with secon; runner Joe King,
481, a (deputy with the
Cleveland County Sheriff’s
Department and a former
Kings Mountain policeman.
Jeff Gregory received 481.
King jag he will call for a
political
Cheshire led with 735 volo
Al Moretz, also a political
newcomer and a former city
engineer, was second with 554
and has called for a run off.
Former Mountain Rest
Cemetery Superintendent
Ken Jenkins placed third
with 517 votes. Carl Goforth
received 287 and Marshall
Mullinax received 64.
In the District 3 race, in-
cumbent commissioner Cor-
bet Nicholson was ousted.
Frontrunner Ronnie Franks,
who was defeated in a close
race with Nicholson four
years ago, edged second run-
ner Norma Bridges by 35
votes. Franks received 665
votes to Mrs. Bridges 630 and
Mrs. Bridges, a political
newcomer, has called for a
run off. Nicholson, who plac-
ed third, received 532 votes
followed by Clavon Kelly with
316, Robert Poston, Jr. with
18 and Wayne Worcester with
13.
City run-off elections will
time as the school board elec-
tion and at the same polling
places, East Kings Mountain
at the Community Center and
West Kings Mountain at the
Armory.
BILL CALLAHAN
FRANKS
BRIDGES KING
be held on Nov. 3, the same
MORETZ
UNOFFICIAL CITY ELECTION RETURNS
MAYOR'S RACE |
EAST KM
WEST KM
~ Write-Ins
BARRETT
TRANSFER
Total 2,204
DISTRICT I COMMISSIONER
Ga WEST KM EAST KM TRANSFER ‘TOTAL
Cheshire ee BY 216 2 735
Goforth 210 76 1 287
Jenkins 323 193 1 517
Moretz . 397 156 1 554
Mullinax 30 32 2 64
TOTAL 2,157
DISTRICT III COMMISSIONER :
WEST EAST TRANSFER TOTAL
Bridges TT eng 190 4 630
Franks 461 201 3 665
Kelly 200 116 — 316
Nicholson 352 180 — 532
Poston 9 4 - 13
Worcester 9 4 — 13
Write In Margie Johnson 1
TOTAL 2,176
DISTRICT IV COMMISSIONER
WEST EAST TRANSFER TOTAL i
‘Barrett - 679 364 2 1045
Gregory 328 15: 2 481
King 463 185 3 651
Write In M.L. Campbell
: TOTAL 2,178
He’s Walking For MIA’s And POW’s
By ELIZABETH STEWART
News Editor
The last American combat troops pulled
out of Saigon over 14 years ago but ex-Army
Sgt. Bill Callahan, “The Walking Man”, is
still fighting the war in Vietnam.
Only this time around, his weapons are
his legs. And his battleground has shifted
from the jungles of Vietnam to the
shoulders of countless federal, state and
county highways he has marched over 3,000
. miles since he got out of his wheelchair in
+1985 after his spine was shattered during a
rocket attack in 1972. ;
Callahan stopped in Kings Mountain
yesterday on his route to Washington, D.C.,
where 200,000 veterans will gather on
Veterans Day November 11. He left Atlanta,
Ga., on foot last Saturday and is sponsored
on this his third walk to spotlight MIAs by
Nike Shoes, Budweiser Beer: Co., Eastern
Airlines and Holiday Inn. He spent the night
at the local Holiday Inn and was welcomed
to the city by the Kings Mountain Jaycees.
His trek continues on behalf of 2,400
Americans listed as POWs or MIAs in Viet-
nam who remain unaccounted for.
“I fought for this country and I made it
back,” said Callahan, who lives in Atlanta
and served in Vietnam from 1968-72. “Now
I’m fighting another war for the POWs and
MIAs who didn’t make it back.
“I’m not a hero,” he said, “all l am is an
American who wants to convince people
there are MIAs and POWs. I want them
home. They’re my brothers.”
Callahan is also urging voter registration
so that the battle of the return of ser-
vicemen also will be fought with paper and
pen. He urges everyone he meets to write
their congressmen to exert pressure on the
Vietnamese.
Sour memories of an unpopular war have
haunted the veteran.
“I’ve had people throw garbage at me,
spit on me and I was hit by a car in
Philadelphia,” he said. “I lost a kidney
after my first trip in 1985 from Tampa to
New York City for a Vietnam veterans
parade that attracted 65,000 veterans. I
placed number 480 among 72,000 runners in
a POW-MIA run in Nashville, Tn.”
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