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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER
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© The Lineup For Tuesday’s Runoff Election For Kings Mountain City Board
For District 1 Commissioner
For District 4 Commissioner
LYN CHESHIRE
AL MORETZ
NORMA BRIDGES
For District 3 Commissioner
RONNIE FRANKS
J.D. BARRETT
JOE KING
City Commissioners To Be Elected In Tuesday Runoff
Kings Mountain citizens will go to the polls
Tuesday to choose three new commissioners
from six candidates in a runoff for council
seats in districts one, three and four.
Polls open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30
p.m. at the Armory and Community Center.
The same election officials who served for
the October 6 election will work the polls and
oy Elections Board Chairman Becky Cook
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Voters elected a new mayor, Kyle Smith,
who beat out five other candidates, on Oc-
tober 6. Terms of District 2 Commissioner
Humes Houston, District 5 Commissioner
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HOMECOMING QUEEN—Jenny Reid, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Jim Reid, was crowned KMHS Homecoming Queen dur-
ing halftime of Friday night’s football game with South Point
at Gamble Stadium.
KM Zoning Board To Meet
Again On Moore’s Request
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Fred Finger and District 6 Commissioner
Harold Phillips do not expire this year.
Lyn Cheshire, 39, president of Patterson
Oil, and Al Moretz, 41, vice president of
Campco Engineering, are seeking the
District 1 seat now held by Irvin Allen Jr.
Cheshire has said that his management ex-
perience will lend itself to the transition of
mayor-commissioner to city manager-
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gineer and says that ex-
perience will lend itself to the new form of
government which Kings Mountain begins
with the new administration. He also calls
for continued progress within the budget,
Two seats on the Kings
Mountain Board of Education
will be decided by voters at
the polls Tuesday.
Polls open at 6:30 a.m. and
tional Guard Armory, Com-
munity Center, Grover
Rescue Squad, and David
Baptist Church fellowship
hall.
All citizens residing in the
Kings Mountain School
District, which includes
outlying areas outside the ci-
ty limits, are eligible to vote.
County elections officials
will conduct the school board
election and in the three poll-
ing places where the city and
Grover town beard elections
will be underway. Voters will
be voting on city council
members at both the Armory
and Community Center in
Kings Mountain and for
mayor and council seats at
the Grover Rescue Squad.
There is no runoff in school
board elections.
Running for two inside-city
seats on the board are incum-
bent Doyle Campbell, 46, of
112 Castlewood Drive, who is
associated with McGinnis
Department Store; Billy
King, 38, of 1304 Merrimont
Avenue, a marketing staff
manager at Southern Bell:
Floyd W. Sanders, 51, of 810
Landing Street, a
maintenance man and in-
spector at Spectrum; Susan
“youth, and
close at 7:30 p.m. at the Na-
Opens for citizens and a review of utility
costs.
Ronnie Franks, 38, First Federal officer,
led Norma Bridges, 55, for District 3 com-
missioner. Mrs. Bridges and her hsuband,
Bobby Bridges, operate Bridges Textiles.
Mrs. Bridges, who could be the first woman
elected since Mrs. 0.0. Walker, calls for a
better program for the aging, recreation for
a review of utility costs.
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In District 4, retired Chief of Police J.D.
Barrett led Joe King, 34, a former city
policeman and a lieutenant with the
Cleveland County Sheriff’s Department.
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Barrett, 56, says his long experience with
the city will help work for a smooth transi-
tion to the city manager form of government.
He says he wants to see the city commis-
sioners get out of the personnel business and
the day-to-day running of the city.
Barrett says that city department heads
should run their own departments and
answer to the city manager.
King says that as a former employee
tions for satellite annexations on an in-
dividual basis. He says that salaries of
elected officials need to be looked at and
reduced substantially.
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tions but said he would have to evaluate peti-
PRISCILLA MAUNEY
Two Seats
In Grover
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Kings Mountain Planning
and Zoning Board will meet
Thursday at 8 p.m. at City
Hall to consider for the se-
cond time Rick Moore’s re-
quest for rezoning property
on Highway 216, recently
satellite annexed by the city
from R-20 to General
Business.
The board recently denied
the request and returned it to
the city commissioners for
action. The commissioners
sent the request back to the
Zoning Board after Moore
said he would move a mobile
home which violates the zon-
ing ordinances.
Zoning Board chairman
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H. Belt, 33, of Oakland Street,
a homemaker and mother of
three daughters; Priscilla K.
Mauney, 38, of 119 N. Pied-
mont Avenue, a homemaker
and mother of two daughters;
Steve Wilson, 35. of 405 Fulton
Road, drug manager of
Kroger-Savon in Gastonia;
and Dale Hollifield, 44, of 807
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FLOYD SANDERS
Grover citizens will go to —
the polls Tuesday to elect a
mayor and two commis- #
sioners.
Mayor Bill McCarter, who
has served since 1975, is
unopposed but Sandra Ellis is
challenging incumbents Biil
Camp and Ronald Queen for :
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BILL McCARTER
BILL CAMP
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RONALD QUEEN