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Thursday, October 5, 1989
something for everyone.
fireworks extravaganza at 10 p.m.
heritage.
White Plains Shrine Club.
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are $30.
The events on Saturday will include contests, enter-
tainment by a wide variety of talented people, bands,
crafts by 30 exhibitors, 20 displays by public aware-
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People
Victims of Hurricane Hugo have
not been forgotten by East School
second and third graders, firemen
of Kings Mountain Fire
Department and other agencies
who are collecting desperately
needed donations for Hugo vic-
tims.
This week and next week, fire-
men will be accepting non-perish-
able foods and cash which they
will deliver to fire departments in
Summerton and other smaller in-
land South Carolina communities
which they say are in great need
and have not received the publicity
that Charleston,S. C. has received
since the hurricane hit Sept. 22.
Firemen stress that only non-
perishables, canned goods, and
cash will be taken. Checks, which
are tax-deductible, should be made
- payable to Hugo Relief Fund.
This week local firemen will
drive to Manning, a distribution
center for several of the small sur-
rounding towns hard hit by Hugo,
and talk with local fire chiefs about
distribution of gifts where they are
badly needed.
See People, 8-A
MAUNEY MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Mountaineer
Days Slated
Mountaineer Days on Friday and Saturday offers
The annual celebration on the 209th anniversary of
the Revolutionary War Battle of Kings Mountain will
begin on Friday afternoon with a jail-a-thon sponsored
by White Plains Shrine Club and end on Saturday
evening with a street dance from 8 to 12 p.m. with
Mayor Kyle Smith will officially open-Mountainer
Days at 9:45 am. Saturday at the main stage area in
front of City Hall. Music will be provided by the
KMHS Band and 200 colorful balloons will be
released by the Parks & Recreation Department, spon-
sors for the historical celebration of the community's
For $10 you can lockup your friend (or enemy) in
the pokey, the makeshift jail, in front of City Hall, all
in fun and all for benefit of community projects of
Baliffs for the jail-a-thon will be Marty Blanton and
Linda Haynes of the Kings Mountain Police
Department and local lawyers will conduct mock trials
and hand out sentences after local volunteer police fa
bring suspects to jail. Some suspects can look for stiff
penalties, says Chairman Karl Moss. ;
Shriners will also sell barbecue plates and shoulders
at the York Road parking lot across from the American i
Legion for benefit of Cri, Hled Children's Hospital.
Plates are $4, sandwiches are two for $4 and shoulders
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City Manager, George Wood, in the Moun
Karl Moss looks on. The fun starts Friday aft!
FOOD FOR HURRICANE VICTIMS-Second and third grade
MOUNTAINEER FUN — Chief Warren! Goforth, left, locks up Mayor Kyle Smith and
ineer Jail downtown as Jail-A-Thon Shriner
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students in Mrs. Cindy Kiser's classrooms collected canned food for
victims of Hurricane Hugo in Charleston, S. C. last week. Pictured
with the collection are front row, from left, Nekisha Hillman, Stacy
Elgin, Torez Leach, William Holmes and Ricky Husky. Back row,
from left, are Terri Martin, Jeremiah Moore, Dione Jarrett, and
Mrs. Kiser.
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United Way
Everhardt
Gary Everhardt, superintendent
of the Blue Ridge Parkway, will be
the featured speaker at the 209th
Anniversary of the Battle of Kings
Mountain program on Saturday,
October 7.
Everhardt, a native of Lenoir, is
a career. National Park Service em-
ployee who has served previously
at the Parkway as a civil engineer,
at the Park Service's Southeast
Regional Office (then in
Richmond, Va.), at the Southwest
Regional Office in Santa Fe, New
Mexico as Regional Chief of
Assistant
Maintenance, as
_ Superintendent of Yellowstone
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Kings Mountain citizens will go
to the polls Tuesday to elect three
councilmen for three seats open on
the city board of commissioners.
Polls will open at 6:30 a.m. and
close at 7:30 p.m. at the city's two
voting places: East Kings
Mountain at the Community
Center on Cleveland Avenue and
West Kings Mountain at the
Armory on Phifer Road.
City Elections Board Chairman
Becky Cook said that 4,800 people
are registered to vote. She predicts
a voter turnout of about 30% since
the commissioners race usually
doesn't draw the crowd to the polls
as does a mayoral election.
Since the city will be using auto-
matic voting machines for the first
time, the election results are ex-
pected to be posted at City Hall by
8 p.m. Members of the Election
Board will be at City Hall all day
to answer any questions of voters.
Mrs. Cook said some confusion
may arise since school board can-
didates have posted signs along
those of the 10 candidates seeking
three board seats at City Hall. She
reminds that at Tuesday's election,
voters will be choosing three peo-
ple from 10 candidates running for
District 2, District 5 and District 6
commission posts. If a city run-off
is required, it will be at the same
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KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C. 28086
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HOUSTON GREENE
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FINGER NEISLER
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For Disaster Relief Money
The bad news is that Kings
Mountain will spend between
$600,000 to $700,000 to clean up
from Hurricane Hugo's fury.
The good news is that Kings
Mountain and Cleveland County,
along with Mecklenburg, Gaston,
Union, Lincoln, Brunswick,
Alexander, Caldwell, Wilkes,
Iredell, Burke, Catawba and
Cabarrus Counties, have been
cleared for public and individual
disaster relief by President Bush.
"For those of us who weathered
the hurricane and saw the destruc-
tion, this announcement by the fed-
eral government that we will be el-
igible for a range of federal
disaster relief programs is certainly
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good news,’
Smith.
State and Federal Emergency
Management officials-Buck Clark
of the state disaster office of FE-
MA and Jerry Dedmon of FEMA's
Corp of Engineers -were in town
Tuesday touring the area and as-
sessing costs to determine eligibili-
ty for assistance in clean-up of de-
bris. Other FEMA officials are
expected within the next few days
to assess cost of electrical system
supplies and contracted cost for as-
sistance by out-of-town electrical
crews hired to help restore power
to 3800 customers. Kings
Mountain city officials at a noon
meeting endorsed a resolution au-
said Mayor Kyle
KM United Way Drive
First report figures in the Kings
Mountain's United Fund's cam-
paign for $121,500.00 is at 11%,
volunteers reported to UF
Chairman Ruby Alexander
Monday.
Heading the effort was the ad-
vance gifts committee co-chaired
by Edie and J. C. Bridges who re-
To Speak At Park Celebration
National Park, Superintendent of
Grand Teton National Park, and the
ninth Director of the National Park
Service before assuming the
Superintendency of the Blue Ridge
Parkway in 1977.
Since his return to the Blue
Ridge Parkway in 1977, Everhardt
has been particularly effective in
establishing or enhancing favorable
relationships with Parkway neigh-
bors and other agency officials.
Through his leadership, a near-dor-
mant construction program was re-
vived and finished the final section
of Parkway motor road opened to
use in September 1987. Under
ported 50% of pledges "in." In sec-
ond place was KM Schools divi-
sion with 40% of goal reported.
Mrs. Alexander said another re-
port meeting will be held in two
weeks and encouraged division
chairmen to make contacts this
week.
Everhardt, management efficiency
has improved markedly, while in-
creased emphasis on visitor ser-
vices has resulted in more than 21-
million public visits per year.
Because of his accomplishments
with the National Park Service,
Everhardt on April 24, 1985, re-
ceived the Department of the
Interior's highest honor, the
Distinguished Service Award.
Everhardt and his wife, the for-
mer Nancy Marie Poovey of
j Granite Falls, live in Arden, near
the Parkway headquarters city of
Asheville. The Everhardts have
two children and one grandchild.
United Fund President Bob
McRae suggested that division
chairmen encourage employees at
out-of-city firms to designate on
pledge cards if they want to partici-
pate in Kings Mountain United
Fund for payroll deduction plans at
various plants in the county. "There
are a number of Kings Mountain
The program, which will begin
at 3 p.m., in the park amphitheater
with the arrival of the overmoun-
tain marchers, will be followed by
a wreath-laying ceremony on the
battlefield ridge. The marchers be-
gan their trek on September 24 at
Abingdon, Virginia.
On both Saturday and Sunday
the Guilford Militia, a living histo-
ry group, will be encamped near
the park Visitor Center and will
present an ongoing program on
18th century camp life.
There are no charges for any of
the events and the public is invited
and encouraged to attend.
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thorizing City Manager George
Wood to apply for help for the city
in meeting the extra costs incurred
by the city in the hurricane cleanup
effort.
Abby Ledford, county emergen-
cy services director, said officials
of the city, Shelby, and the county
will meet with her Thursday at 3
p.m. Ledford estimated the clean-
up county-wide could top $1 mil-
lion with the biggest property loss-
es occurring in Kings Mountain
and the outlying communities of
the Greater Kings Mountain area.
Ledford said that two types of
assistance, public and individual
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Begins
industrial employees who may
wish to designate their giving to
the Kings Mountain United Fund
but we need to ask them to make
their wishes known on the pledge
card that are distributed in the
plants,” he said.
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