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Vol. 110 No. 45 Thursday, November 5, 1998 Kings Mountain, NC Since 1889 *50¢
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.
Joe Williamson hopes for a
big game for Kings
Mountain's Mountaineers as
they end their regular season
Friday at North Gaston.
Friday
7:30 p.m. - High school foot-
ball, Kings Mountain at North
Gaston, Trudnak Stadium.
Saturday
12 noon - American Legion
Fifth Division meeting at Post
Herald’s Lib Stewart retiring,
but can’t get ink out of blood
“Newspaper ink won't come out
“of clothes and when it gets in your
blood it’s there forever,” said The
Herald's News Editor Elizabeth
Stewart on her official retirement
this week from The Kings Mountain
Herald.
“I tell everybody the stork
dropped me off here because I have
been here just about all my life,”
said Stewart, who is affectionately
called “Lib” by a score of friends
and associates.
Herald.
Although Stewart says she may
be able to stay on for a whileasa
contributing editor, she will be away
from Kings Mountain for at least a
year beginning in September 1999
when she takes the oath of office as
business.
National President of the nearly one
million member American Legion
Auxiliary, the largest women's patri-
otic service organization in the
world. She is currently that organi-
zation’s vice-president. :
Stewart has seen many changes in
the newspaper, from the “hot type
days of the 1950's to the modem
computerized equipment of today’s
As a “green” reporter looking for
a summer job to go to college she
stepped off the farm to earn tuition
money and soon found she wanted
to make a career in the newspaper
typewriter to do that and for years
typed up stories on typewriters and
the stories were set by Linotype op-
erators.
“I soon learned that birth, mar-
riage and death are three important
events which should be right in the
paper, because simple typographical
errors can play havoc with news
stories when they appear in print
and corrections can be even more
embarrassing,” she said.
The Herald was the training
ground for many reporters and back
shop people who went on to bigger
papers. Stewart was offered jobs on
several daily newspapers but Kings
Mountain and The Herald was
Her first assignment was to write home.
an obituary and she used a portable
See Lib, 7A
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Retiring Kings Mountain Herald news editor Lib
Stewart receives key to the city from Mayor Scott
Neisler
State Champs!
Accor advances
in bid to win
commission seat
Tuesday's election was sweet victory for one
Grover resident and a big disappointment for an-
other.
155 in Kings Mountain Winning a nomination to the county board of
commissioners in her own right had a special
| Monday feeling Tuesday for Mary Accor, Bethware School
7 p.m. = Kings Mountain:
School Board at Central Office,
Principal. She was previously appointed to the
commission as a ‘minority representative. Accor
and former county manager Joe Hendrick of
105 East Ridge Street. Shelby, a former city clerk
: in Kings Mountain, again
Wednesday led the field of
10 a.m. - Veteran's Day ser-
vice at Mountain Rest
Cemetery, Kings Mountain.
Inside
|4A
| Grover’s first
| female fire-
jfighter,
Wendy
§ Wright, is just
following in
her father’s
footsteps.
10A mis
students say
he’s cool, and
Eas t
Elementary’s
Jerry Hoyle is
Kings
Mountain’s Principal of the
Year. :
1B Kings Mountain
High's football team wraps up
its third straight Southwestern
3A Conference championship
with 30-14 win over South
Point.
Deaths
Photo by Gary Stewart
Kings Mountain High's girls volleyball team celebrates its first-ever state championship Saturday night at
Independence Arena in Charlotte. The Mountaineers defeated East Chapel Hill in four sets for the NCHSAA 3A
crown. For stories and more photos see page 1B.
Alzheimer’s knows no boundaries,
affects over 1,600 in Cleveland County
By Alan Hodge
Alzheimer's Disease is a tragedy that makes no
distinction regarding social status, race, age, or sex.
A devastating illness that costs the nation $100 bil-
lion a year, Alzheimer's currently afflicts four million
* Americans. As high as that number may sound,
things could get worse. Estimates are that in another
20 years, as many as 12 million Americans could be
stricken with Alzheimer's if no cure is found.
Striving to make everyone more aware of this
Democratic candidates
along with Shelby police
officer Willie McIntosh
who was top vote getter
again.
But Grover’s Dean
Westmoreland, a retired
Kings Mountain teacher,
lost in his bid for a nomi-
nation to the 48th House
District.
Kings Mountain incum-
bent House representa-
tive John Weatherly has
also apparently lost in his bid for reelection but
Debbie Clary, also a resident of Moss Lake, and
incumbent Andy Dedmon of Earl have apparent-
ly swept the field.
Based on the numbers at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday -
with two precincts still to be counted - Lattimore
and big Shelby No. 2 — two Democrats, newcom-
er Jim Horn of Shelby and Dedmon, and
Republican Clary are headed for the General
Assembly for the next two years. The outcome for
Dedmon is not likely to change. The unofficial re-
sults from the Cleveland County Board of
Elections Wednesday morning gave Dedmon
11,791 votes; Horn, 11,524; Clary, 9,749, and
Weatherly, 8,967.
A Democratic-controlled House of
Representatives, however, will change things for
Clary and Dedmon. Dedmon said he looks
forward to a key committee chairmanship. Clary
said she would lose her committee chairman-
ships, Health and Human Services and appropri-
ations.
Democrat incumbent Dan Crawford easily won
reelection over David Morrow in the race for
MARY ACCOR
Henry Gilliland, 87 medical challenge facing us, the Alzheimer's sheriff of Cleveland County. With 23 of 26
Kings Mouniain Association has declared November National precincts reporting at 11:45 p.m. Tuesday,
Hattie Jenkins, 94 Alzheimer's Disease Month. Through education and Crawford had 13,656 votes compared to 4,047 for
Shelby involvement, Nat.onal Alzheimer's Disease Month Morrow - almost 75 percent of the total vote.
Tee Patterson, 43 hopes to bring about understanding of the chal- _ Both party races were headed down to the wire
Kings Mountain lenges faced by Alzheimer's patients and their fami- in the nomination for county commission. There
Jack Jones, 48 lies. were 14 candidates in the primaries for five seats
Shelby The facts concerning Alzheimer's Disease are stag- up for grabs in January. With votes yet to be
Doris Foster, 40 gering. Not only does one out of every 10 persons counted on Wednesday, only two Republican can-
Grover : over the age of 65 have the disease, 37 million didates could cautiously claim victory.
Elbert Hutchins, 84 Americans know someone with the affliction. As Incumbents Joe Cabaniss and Jim Crawley took
Blacksburg, SC many as 10% of people who have Alzheimer's got it commanding leads. Cabaniss polled 75 per cent
Forrest Wright, 85 before the age of 65- there have even been docu- of the votes cast Tuesday with Crawley came in
Shelby ¢ 87 mented cases in people under the age of 40. just behind with 74 percent. Incumbent Ray
Thomas Biggersiaft, 8 Once a person gets Alzheimer's Disease, the out- Thomas took 71 percent but his lead over former
Boiling Springs look is difficult. People with Alzheimer's carry on an commissioner Charlie Harry of Grover was slim.
Ebb Allen, 86 average of eight years after the onset of symptoms, 3 Thomas had 68 more votes than Harry did. Harry
Grover but can live with the disease as many as 20 years. : orn took 70 percent of Republican votes in the prima-
Boyd Canipe, 95 The stress on family members and Alzheimer's care- ACROSS THE GENERATIONS- Sarah Starrett of ry. Newcomer Jerry Self held a slim lead over
Kings Mountain givers can be overwhelming, and can even create Cramerton visits her grandmother Doris Mims at Norris Hastings. Veteran commissioner Ralph
Hazel Cloninger, 81 psychological problems such as depression. EdenCare assisted living facility in Kings Mountain. Gilbert was trailing in his bid to win one of the
Kings Mountain See Disease, 7A ; five seats for the Democratic nomination.