! ||| |KM's BRYAN JONES
wins ACC tennis tournament
Baseball legend toiry Frazier
he special guests at Monday
banquet and induction ceremony at
7 p.m. at the Community Center
‘to Kings Mountain, played several
Association in the 1940's. He was
Satchel Paige for several years
"Slow" Robinson will be among
night's Kings Mountain Chamber A
of Commerce Sports Hall of Fame
seasons in the Negro Baseball
the catcher for the legendary W
‘with the Kansas City Monarchs w
‘Robinson, who recently moved j
Nine of the 11 Democratic candidates on the May 5 ballot for
Cleveland County commissioner participated in a forum Tuesday
night at City Hall. From left, Jerry Adams, Doyne Allison, Bob
The stars are coming out for Monday night's fifth
annual Kings Mountain Sports Hall of Fame Banquet
at 7p.m. at the Community Center.
Art Weiner, a two-tiine All-American end at the
University of North Carolina and the newest inductee
into the College Football Hall of Fame, will be the
guest speaker.
This year's inductees are former professional base-
ball stars Eugene Goforth and Hugh Ormand, KMHS
and Florida State basketball standout Otis Cole and
former KMHS football coach Everette L.
Carlton.
The Kings Mountain High soccer team, which won
its first-ever Southwestern 3-A Conference champi-
onship last fall, will receive the Special Achievement
Award.
Weiner, who now lives in Greensboro, joined with
HB TICKETS - Tickets for thc Hall oS J dinner
and induction ceremony arc $10 cach. They may be
purchased at the Kings Mountain Chamber of
Commerce, Kings Mountain Herald, Champion's
Contracting or McGinnis Department Store. Tickets
will also be available Monday night at the Community
Center.
"Shu"
Weiner was All-Southern and All-State for the Tar
Heels in 1946, '47, '48 and '49 and was first team All-
American his junior and senior years when he led the
nation in receiving.
Weiner is regarded as one of the best past-catching
ends of all-time. Wally Butts of Georgia, onc of the
game's winningest coaches and himself a former end,
his best friend Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice to bring
Carolina football to its finest hours in the late 1940's.
Chadwick, Cecil Dickson, Coleman Goforth, Sam Gold, Gale Kirk,
Robbie Morgan, and Jack Spangler (not shown.) Three seats on the,
five-member board: are up for grabs
candidate is pushing for enlargement from five
to seven members on the board.
Cleveland County mayors sponsored the
second forum of the current political season at
Kings Mountain City Hall Tuesday night. In
spite of a power outage, the program went on as
scheduled with assistance from firemen who
provided emergency lines and power for about
wide recreation.
commission members.
v are oe Bonds method of sales tax distribution
to municipalities and the question of county-
Most of the candidates said that recreation
needs should be settled by individual cities and
if a countywide recreation system is proposed
that voters should make the decision, not the
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revenue. These two methods are the per capita
method and the ad valorem method. The board
of county commissioners has the option of
choosing the method of distribution from the
state which collects the sales tax and distributes
it back to the county and its municipalities. The
county sales tax grant program is scheduled to
be eliminated this year.
All agreed there is no early solution to the
Mark Cedel to direct symphony
Under the baton of Assistant
Conductor Mark Cedel, the
Charlotte Symphony Orchestra will
perform Thursday night, April 30,
at 8 p.m. in Barnes Auditorium.
Tickets are on sale at all schools
at $6 for adults and $3 for students
and senior citizens or from the KM
District School's Office on Parker
Street.
Hallie Blanton, president of the
Kings Mountain Concert
Association, said that businesses
and organizations are invited to
buy tickets to distribute to friends
and school students. Blanton said
that prior to the concert and at in-
termission the public can view art
‘work by Kings Mountain students
in the auditorium lobby.
Leo Dreichuys is music director
for the Orchestra Which will per-
form "Capriccio Espagnol” by
Rimsky-Korsakov; "A Jerome
Robbins Broadway" by Lowden,
"Pops Hoedown" by Hayman,
"Blue Danube Waltz" by J. Strauss
r.,. "Old Timers Waltz" by
Hermann, "Hungarian Dance No.
5" by Brahams, Anderson's "Blue
Tango" and "Big Band Fantasy" by
Kincaide.
Members of the Orchestra will
present a program for elementary
students the morning of April 30.
For the past several weeks Lynn
Echols, elementary music teacher,
has been teaching the history of the
string ‘section and demonstrating
instruments to the students in her
music classes who are also learning
to dance the minuet. Orchestra
members will be playing violin, vi-
ola, cello, harp, flute, oboe,
English horn, clarinet, bassoon,
French horn, trumpet, trombone,
tuba, and keyboard.
Cedel joined the Charlotte
Symphony Orchestra on September
1,1990. He previously was assis-
tant conductor and principal viola
of the Charleston, SC Symphony
Orchestra.
He is a native of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania and studied for two
years at the N.C.School of Arts and
then went on to the renowned
Curtis Institute of Music in
Philadelphia. He was a distin-
See Symphony, 3-A
GETTING READY FOR BARBECUE -
Members of the White Plains Shrine Club clean the grids for
Saturday's big Spring barbecue at the vacant lot on York Road and East Gold. Shriners will begin selling
barbecue at 10:30 a.m. and will continue until they sell out. Shoulders are $30, plates are $4, and two
sandwiches are $4. The event will be held rain or shine. Left to right, Joe Wallace, Larry Carringer, Bobby
Bridges, Bob Ramsey, and Ralph Grindstaff.
See Forum, 3-A
MARK CEDEL
A late-afternoon storm knocked
out electricity in 1,000 homes in
the Kings Mountain area for over
six hours Tuesday.
Utility Director Jimmy Maney
said that lightning hit a set of
switches on Rhodes Avenue, a tree
fell across power lines on Grace
Street, and the new breaker capaci-
ty trip devices at the new Gaston
‘Street electric Substation malfunc.
was back on.
Most of the outage was in the
- northern section of the city in
Northwoods, the Linwood section,
Grace Street, and North Piedmont
Avenue. There were some outages
reported in the western section of
town and the electricity was also
were brie periods: when the power in
called Weiner "the greatest pass-catching end I've cver
See Hall of Fame, 10-A
Storm puts
KM in dark
out at city hall. Traffic signals were
also out.
The city started receiving calls
at 4:30 p.m. The city hall switch-
board was jammed with callers
witnessing a tree fallen on a line
and traffic signals out on 161, King
Street-and Picdmont Avenue.
"The problem was widespread,"
said Maney. Enginecrs are at the
Substation doing repairs to get the
Maney says city. crews appreci-
ate calls about power outages but
reminded citizens that they can get
information by tuning into a bat-
tery powered radio. "Everytime
there is a storm and power is
knocked out we call the local radio
See Storm, 2-A
Forum format criticized
The format of the second county
commissioner candidate forum
sponsored by county mayors was
‘criticized by one voter at the Kings
Mountain forum Tuesday night.
"You're asking all the questions,”
said Rev. Charles Rudisill of
Shelby to moderator Rick Howell
of Boiling Springs.
Rudisill, pastor of Vision Baptist
Cathedral, wanted to pose a ques-
tion to each of the nine Democratic
hopefuls but signaled out incum-
bent Jack Spangler after he was
told the format didn't include ques-
tions submitted by the audience.
Howell said mayors submitted
questions to him recently and he
questionnaires submitted to all 11
* candidates for three seats up for
Kings Mountain People
grabs on the county board. He said
the questions to the panel focused
on the major issues the mayors see
in the upcoming years for munici-
palities and candidates were given
several days to study the questions
before appearing at the forum.
Rudisill strongly disagreed with
the format.
More than 50 people were in the
audience but no other citizens
asked to be recognized.
Spangler said he agreed basical-
ly with Rudisill's statement that
government should stay out of pri-
vate business as much as possible
but sometimes the county boards
could not. Although neither man
claborated on the issue in question,
See Format, 2-A
ELIZABETH STEWART
f The Herald Staff
Service with a smile is one of
he trademarks of Richard
Barnette, who has sold furniture
or 52 ycars and doesn't plan. to
quit.
3 ~ The personable Barnette, who
‘was hired for two weeks by the late
Harold Coggins in October 1940
10 collect bills, soon moved up the
i ladder in the trade to president. He
Bought the business in 1979.
Summer weekends find Barnctie
ite his wifc, Rene, at their favorite
camp site, Buck Hill on the North
Toc River in Linville. It's their
"home away from home" and they
love it.
‘Relaxing and fishing, Barnette
never frets about business at the
store. He says his loyal employees
and customers have made the
Railroad Avenue furniture business
RICHARD BARNETTE
a success despite a sluggish ccono-
my.
Barnette’ affection for his em-
Plisons and customers is evident.
Under the glass top of his office
desk arc ycllowed clippings of
anccdotes and words of wisdom
contributed over the years and
started by Octavia Coggins in the
carly ycars of the business.
Originally ' Kings Mountain
Furniture Company in 19385, the
Coggins family bought the D. F.
Hord Furniture Company in 1948
and changed the name to Cooper
Furniture. As the years went by, the
clippings increased and proved to
be very valuable to salesman
Richard. Waiting time was more
pleasant when the customer could
sit in the big rocking chair and cn-
joy a chuckle as he read the + various
clippings on the desk.
Richard Barnette and Rene
Leigh met on a blind date arranged
by her sister, Eva Moss, and were
married in December 1939,
See Barnette, 3-A