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This Week Thursday 12 noon - Kings Mountain Rotary Club at Ramada Limited. 6:30 p.m. - Kings Mountain Kiwanis Club at Central United Methodist Church. KMHS Assistant Coach Dave Farquharson gets line- man Frank Hopper fired up for Friday's Southwestern 3A Conference football clash with South Point at John Gamble Stadium. Friday 5-7:30 p.m. - Rotary Club spaghetti supper, KMHS cafe- teria. ; 7:30 p.m. - High School foot- ball, South Point at Kings Mountain, Gamble Stadium. Saturday + 5 p.m. - KMHS vs. East Chapel Hill, State 3A Volleyball Championship, Independence Arena, Charlotte. Monday 7 p.m. - Grover Town Council, Grover Town Hall Tuesday 6:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. - Election. Inside 4A No smoking policy at Gamble Stadium would proba- bly violate state law. 7A KMHS students make a difference in community. 1B Kings Mountain takes * over first place in Southwestern 3A Conference football race with 14-7 win over East Rutherford. 5B Kings Mountain cross country runner Chad Pearson . wins Southwestern 3A Conference title and now sets his sights on State Championship. 7B Davidson School | Alumni celebrate renaming of their school. 3-A Deaths 5-A Ethel Bush, 80 Kings Mountain Ike Patterson, 48 Kings Mountain Floyd Smith, 68 Clover, SC Beverly Leigh, 52 Blacksburg, SC Ruth Curley, San Mateo, CA Eloise Smith, Kings Mountain Thomas Cash, 66 Kings Mountain John McCullouch II, 71 Shelby Joseph Dorton Jr, 68 Chapel Hill Citizens want alcohol out of KM : Thursda October 29, 1998 50 Rs) Council votes unanimously to ask County Election Board to call for referendum Kings Mountain citizens could vote as early as March on whether to return the city to a "dry" city and abolish alcohol sales altogether. More than 200 people packed city hall Tuesday night and af- ter an emotionally-charged public hearing initially set to debate Sunday beer and wine sales City Council voted unani- mously to request the Cleveland County Board of Elections to set a referendum. City Attorney Mickey Corry said after the meeting that if the referendum passes that the plug would be pulled on all alcohol sales in town, including the ABC store, and sale of beer and wine which had been approved in a 1987 referendum by a slim margin. Corry said the vote could be called within 60 days after the Board of elections receives an official notification by council and not later than 120 days which could mean an early spring vote by Kings Mountain voters. The U. S. Justice Department must clear the elec- tion. "My ultimate goal is to elimi- nate all alcohol sales by referen- dum," Councilman Gene White said in making the motion. The vote was unanimous and the crowd went wild, cheering and applauding and quickly clear- ing the room for the rest of the meeting which lasted until after 10:30 p.m. The issue started several months ago when local busi- nessman Ken Hamrick ap- peared before the board twice to request the expansion of Sunday sales of beer and wine to include all convenience stores. Four businesses can serve alcohol now on Sunday because they meet state require- ments for a restaurant although the city has a Sunday Blue law and the state law overrides the city ordinance. Even as early as an hour be- fore the meeting there were few parking spaces at city hall and the crowd spilled over into the lobby where chairs and a TV monitor and speaker system had been installed and some people were standing. Mayor Scott Neisler rapped the gavel for order several times. : 5 FALL SCENE - Trey Ballard, left, 16-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Ballad, and Jared Belcher, 15-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jamie Belcher, enjoyed the fall scene at the Women's Club Fall Festival Wednesday. | Fourteen running for County Board Kings Mountain citizens will join their neighbors at the polls Tuesday for the general election and for primary elections for the county commission race Director of Elections Debra Blanton is predicting a turnout of 40 percent of the registered voters of 53,000 in Cleveland County. Polls open at 6:30 a.m. and close at _ 7:30 p.m. at the four Kings Mountain polling places: Kings Mountain No. 1 at Second Baptist Church, 120 Linwood Road; Kings Mountain No. 2 at Kings Mountain Community Center, 208 N. Cleveland Ave.; Kings Mountain No. 3 at the National Guard Armory, 200 Phifer Road; and Kings Mountain No. 4, the American Legion Post 155, 613 E. Gold Street. Other polling places in the area are Bethware at David Baptist Church fellowship building, 2300 David Baptist Church Rd., Grover Town Hall, 207 Mulberry Road in Grover, and Waco Town Hall, 200 A. W. Black Street, Waco. Interest centers locally in the two pri- maries for the 14-candidate county commissioner race. The second prima- ry, if necessary, will be held December 1 and the general election in this race will be Tuesday, January 12. Voter reg- istration for the January election ends Friday, December 18, at 5 p.m. * Local interest is also centered in the 48th House District race where six ‘people are running for three seats. Incumbents John Weatherly and Debbie Clary, both Republicans, and "Andy Dedmon, Democrat, face chal- "lenges from Democrats Jim Horn oi Shelby and Dean Westmoreland of See Alcohol, 7A Grover and from Republican David Rogers. In the 37th Senatorial District incum- bent Walter H. Dalton is challenged by Dennis Davis of Lattimore. Incumbent Cleveland County Sheriff Dan Crawford, Democrat, is chal- lenged by Republican David C, Morrow. Local interest is also centered in the U. S. Senate race between John Edwards, Democrat, incumbent Lauch Faircloth, Republican; and Barbara Howe, Libertarianand in the 9th Congressional District where incum- bent Republican Sue Myrick is op- posed by Rory Blake, Democrat, and Alvin Jeffrey Taylor, Republican. ; A total of 14 people, eight Democrats and six Republicans, seek the five seats open on the county board of commis- sioners January 12. The candidate list includes : Incumbents Joe Cabaniss, Jim Crawley, and L. Ray Thomas, Republicans, and Democrats Ralph Gilbert Jr. and Willie McIntosh and Joe Hendrick, John R. McBrayer, Mary S. Accor, Bobby C. Malloy, James W. Carr and Charles A. Carrigan, all Democrats, and Norris C. Hastings, Charlie Harry, Jerry Self, Republicans. A federal appeals court threw out a 1994 agreement the county entered into with the NAACP that put Bobby Malloy and Mary Accor on the board as minority representatives. The ap- peals court ordered Judge Stanley Sporkin to work out a schedule for electing commissioners. He ruled that ] the commission would return to the See Election, 7A Getting used to the USA Foreign exchange student living in Kings Mountain Swiss student Brigitte Struchen's 16th birthday present in America was a new family. The Kings Mountain High School junior came to America two months ago from Switzerland as an exchange stu- dent sponsored by the EF * Foundation for Foreign Study and local guidance counselor Melanie Ballard. "I had two tickets when I got to Charlotte and I thought my final destination was Fletcher and I was prepared to change planes briefly with Mrs. Ballard. Struchen's new friendship with Kings Mountain High sopho- more Kerri Brutko began at First Presbyterian Church and Kerri invited her to a sleep over at the home of Kerri's parents, Shirley and Mal Brutko. On Brigitte's 16th birthday October 16, Shirley and Mal Brutko sent her a card and invited her to join their fam- ily. Kerri and Brigitte enjoy the top floor of the spacious Brutko home where Scottish terrier Mac Neal is a frequent visitor and the Kerri Brutko, left, and Brigitte Struchen carve a Halloween pumpkin as Struchen prepares to celebrate her first Halloween, a custom new to the Swiss exchange student. | L Kings Mountain for Asheville when Mrs. Ballard surprised me and I came to Kings Mountain," said Struchen who then enrolled for the fall term at Kings Mountain High and lived 1300 W. Mountain St. 739-4781 two girls enjoy Brigitte's special form of music, Teckkkno, an elec- tric form of classical rap. Brigitte calls it "real modern." Brigitte's See Student, 7A° HOMECOMING QUEEN - Kristie Brinkley, daughter of Mr. . and Mrs. David Brinkley, was crowned homecoming queen during half- time of Friday's KMHS-East Rutherford foot- ball game at John Gamble Stadium. *
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