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CHARLIE CASH
...ON 90th BIRTHDAY
You Can Set Your
Clock By ‘Mr. Charlie’
makes his rounds, and employees at City Auto and Truck
Parts set their clock by him. When “Mr. Charlie” doesn’t
out what happened to his longtime friend.
“Mr. Charlie” celebrated his 90th birthday Monday and
employees of City Auto & Truck Parts and other friends
decorated birthday cake.
After he left City Auto driving his yellow Dodge, Charlie,
his daughter, Helen Cash Davis, and their good friend,
Lithia Lankford, were going by other familiar places in
town to see longtime friends and on Tuesday Miss
Lankford and Mr. Cash were planning to deliver ‘meals on
wheels’, a project they both have been involved in for
some time. Thursday evening they all plan to have dinner
with Sarah Beth and Cecil Pendleton and on Saturday 21
members of the Cash family are gathering at the Cash
home to celebrate Charlie’s birthday again.
It’s going to be a full week for the active senior citizen
but that’s the lifestyle Charlie Cash enjoys.
Cash, who retired at age 81 from Cash Brothers Grading,
a partnership with his younger 79 year-old brother, David
‘Cash, has lived in Kings Mountain 55 years. He and’ his
brother were in the theatre business here from 1933-53,
operating the old Dixie and Imperial Theatres, then the
Joy Theatre, and two other theatres in Mount Holly. They
also operated a mica mine at one time and hauled sand-and
gravel for many years. Charlie’s wife, Lee Cash, died in
1979 and their daughter, Helen Davis, moved in with her
father eight years ago when Cash retired.
Born in Chesnee, S.C. Nov. 2, 1897, Charlie Cash got in
the theatre business at the old Imperial and Dixie
Theatres, putting in all hes fupment Charlie recalled
that the Cash brothers trained a number of local people
over the years and then when the old Mountain View Hotel
was torn down 40 years ago the new Joy Theatre was built
and became the fifth theatre to be operated by the Cash
brothers. Coincidentally, The Herald carries a story in this
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Every morning at 9 a.m. sharp for 20 years Charlie Cash
come in the door Bob Bridges gets on the telephone to find |
dropped by for a piece of Charlie’s blue and white
Ellis Wins
In Grover
GROVER —-Sandra
Spangler Ellis will become
Grover’s first woman com-
missioner when she takes the
oath of office next month
along with incumbent Ronald
Queen.
Mrs. Ellis and Mayor Pro
Tem Queen, along with in-
cumbent Mayor Bill Mec-
Carter, who was unopposed,
were elected as 107 Grover
citizens went to the polls to
vote in the town board elec-
tion and 203 voted in the
school board election at the
Rescue Squad Building.
Voters ousted incumbent ®&
Bill Camp. 1
Mayor Pro Tem Queen was "EEE.
the top vote getter with 83
votes. Mayor McCarter
received 79 votes,
received 44 votes and Mrs. Tuesday’s election. Mrs. Ellis ouste
Ellis received 66 votes. Queen retained their seats.
Unofficial returns from a
heavy turnout of Kings Moun-
tain voters Tuesday at the
polls gave the victory to two
second runners from the
Primary, Al Moretz and Nor-
ma Bridges, and Jackie Dean
Barrett a slim margin of vic-
tory, 35 votes, for three city
council seats.
The election of three new
. commissioners and the new
mayor, Kyle Smith, who beat
out five opponents Oct. 6, will
mean four new faces in the
new administration at City
“Hall on Dec. 8th.
Mrs. Bridges, who led the
entire ticket with 1,046 votes,
becomes the first woman
elected to the city board since
the 1960’s when the late Mrs.
0.0. Walker was first ap-
pointed to her late husband's
seat in Ward 3 and then was
elected to a one year term.
Mrs. Bridges could also be
named as the city’s first
woman Mayor Pro Tem, an
honor usually given by the
board to the top vote getter.
Al Moretz, former city
engineer, who placed second
to Lyn Cheshire in the Oct. 6
election, pulled ahead and
Photo By Gary Stewart
received 1,013
Cheshire’s 825 in District a.
Norma Bridges, who trail-
ed Franks in the primary,
polled 1,046 to Franks 810.
Jackie Dean Barrett,
former Police Chief, edged
former city policeman Joe
King 35 votes. Barrett receiv-
ed 940 votes and King polled
905. King led Barrett at the
West KM precinct by 10 votes
but Barrett pulled ahead in
the East KM precinct where
he received 333 votes to
King's 284. At the East KM
box Barrett and Moretz
received exactly the same
number of votes, 333.
The results of Tuesday’s
election will be canvassed
Thursday morning at 11 a.m.
at City Hall by members of
the city elections board.
Mrs. Becky Cook, chair-
man of the city board of elec-
tions, said that the voter tur-
nout was 37 percent of the
registered vote. ‘‘It was a
great turnout,” she said.
TOP VOTE-GETTER—Norma Bridges (right), top vote- Cook said during the day
getter in Tuesday’s election in Kings Mountain, is all smiles Other members of the board,
as she watches the tally posted Tuesday night at City Hall. Willie Marable and James
She is pictured with her husband, Bobby, left, and daughter-
in-law, Cathy Bridges.
Pheto By Darrin Griggs
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11 Charged
In Tuesday
Drug Bust
A drug bust, the city’s big-
gest single raid by police in
several years, started Tues-
day night at 10 p.m. and
culminated with the arrest
® Wednesday of 11 people and
i confiscation of 142 grams of
cocaine, guns, and recovery
of thousands of dollars worth
of stolen property.
Police Chief Warren
Goforth said the raids were
t conducted by the Kings
| Mountain Police Depart-
ment, assisted by Blue Ridge
Task Force, the State Bureau
& of Invistigation, Cleveland
BIG DRUG BUST—Police Chief Warren Goforth shows part of the huge amount of drugs and
glins confiscated Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning by undercover and law en-
forcement officers in what may be one of the city’s biggest drug busts.
King, Campbell School Winners
Kings Mountain school
district voters elected Billy
King, Jr. and incumbent
‘Doyle Campbell to two seats
on the KM Board of education
Tuesday and King, 38, a
newcomer to politics, led the
ticket with 1,013 votes.
Priscilla Mauney placed
third with 844 votes followed
by Steve Wilson with 535;
Susan Belt, 358; Dale
Hollifield, 271; and Floyd
Sanders, 175.
Photo by Gary Stewart
HAPPY GROVER WINNERS—Mayor Bill McCarter, left, and commissioners Sandra Ellis
Camp and Ronald Queen are all smiles as they congratulate each other on their victories in
d incumbent Bill Camp while McCarter (unopposed) and
Only two seats were up for
grabs this year but school
board members will fill a
third seat at the December
meeting to replace Kyle
Smith, who resigned from the
board after he was elected
County Sheriff’s Department
and Shelby Police Depart-
ment.
Tracking dogs were used in
the early hours Wednesday to
track suspects eluding police.
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mayor of Kings Mountain.
School board members have
the option of choosing any
resident of the KM School
District as a school trustee.
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Former KM Commissioner
Tommy Ellison Dies Friday
Funeral services for
Thomas Jefferson Ellison, 79,
of 910 Church St., who died
Friday night at 9:45 p.m. in
Kings Mountain Hospital,
were conducted Sunday at 3
p.m. from Grace United
Methodist Church of which he
was a member.
His Pastor, Rev. Frank
Gordon, officiated at the rites
and interment was in Moun-
tain Rest Cemetery.
Mr. Ellison, who died of an
apparent heart attack, was a
native of Cherokee County,
S.C. He was son of the late
Thomas M. and Mary Coyle
Ellison and a retired
groceryman who owned and
operated Ellison’s Grocery
on Cleveland Avenue for a
number of years. He was also
a Mason and served as a city
commissioner for 18 years.
The Ellison Water Treatment
Plant on Moss Lake was nam-
si
T.J. ELLISON
ed to honor him.
Surviving are his wife,
Roberta Ballard Ellison; one
son, Donald Eugene Ellison
of Pfafftown, N.C., one
daughter, Mrs. Katlierine
Ware of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
two sisters, Mrs. Florence
White of Kings Mountain and
Mrs. Margaret Lingerfelt of
Astatula, Fla., four grand-
children and two great-
grandchildren.