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U.S. Senate
Erskine Bowles (D)
Elizabeth Dole (R)
Sean Haugh (L)
Paul DeLaney (write-in)
«Congress 10th District
Ron Daugherty (D)
Cass Ballenger (R)
Christopher Hill (L)
District Attorney (27-B)
Bill Young (D)
Colin McWhirter (R)
NC Senate (46th)
Walter Dalton (D)
John Weatherly (R)
Tony Brown (L)
NC House (110th)
Debbie Clary (R)
NC House (111th)
Andy Dedmon (D)
Tim Moore (R)
NC House (112th)
Bob England (D)
David Rogers (R)
Ralph Haulk (L)
Cleveland Co. Sheriff
Raymond Hamrick (D)
Richard Hill (R)
County Commissioners -
Kenneth Ledford (D)
Willie McIntosh (D)
--} John McBrayer (R).. ,
Jerry Self (R)
(Vote for2)
Clerk of Court
Linda Thrift (D)
Count roner
Ralph Mitchem (D)
Superior Court Judge
Forrest Bridges
James Morgan
(Vote for 2)
dee of District Court
John K. Fonvielle
Charles A. Horn Sr.
Soil & Water District
T. Paul Davis
David W. Peace
William Walker Jr.
(Vote for 2)
(Note: There are also
numerous races for NC
court offices, and one
Constitutional amend-
ment on the ballot).
Vol. 114 No. 43
Tuesday is election day
By GARY STEWART
Editor of The Herald
Kings Mountain area voters will
go to the polls Tuesday, November 5
to help elect candidates to numerous
local, state and national offices.
Polls open at 6:30 a.m. and close at
7:30 p.m. Polling sites in the area are
Bethware at El Bethel United
Methodist Church fellowship hall;
Grover at Grover Town Hall, 207
Mulberry Road; Kings Mountain #1
at Second Baptist Church, 120
Linwood Road; Kings Mountain #2
at Boyce Memorial ARP Church fel-
lowship hall, Edgemont Drive;
Kings Mountain #3 at First Baptist
Church Christian Ministry Center,
605 W. King Street; Kings Mountain
Since 1889
#4 at American Legion Post 155, 613
E. Gold Street; and Oak Grove at
Oak Grove Baptist Church fellow-
ship hall, 1022 Oak Grove Road.
Only two Kings Mountain resi-
dents are on the ballots this year.
Attorney Tim Moore, a Republican,
is challenging longtime incumbent
Democrat Andy Dedmon in the
111th NC House District, and
because of redistricting former
House member and Republican John
Weatherly is running against long-
time incumbent Democrat Walter
Dalton in the 46th NC Senate
District.
Grover resident R.D. “Richard”
Hill won the recent Republican pri-
mary for Sheriff of Cleveland
County and will be opposing long-
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time Cleveland County deputy
Raymond Hamrick, the winner of
the Democratic nomination.
Although he is not a Kings
Mountain resident, Hamrick is mar-
ried to the former Mary Francis
Jenkins of Kings Mountain.
One of the other local races draw-
ing a lot of interest is the Cleveland
County Board of Commissioners,
which has two openings on the five-
member board. The current chair-
man, Willie McIntosh, and former
Cleveland County School Board
member Kenneth Ledford are the
two Democrats that survived the
recent primary, and Jerry Self, who
was appointed to complete the term
of the late Charlie Harry, and John
See Election, 3A
LIGHT FOR A DREARY DAY
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GARY STEWART / HERALD
City of Kings Mountain electrical department employees like Todd Hughes (in
bucket) were out in the damp, dreary weather Tuesday replacing burned out street
lights to make the way a little brighter for citizens. This maintenance project was
taking place on Highway 216 across from the Depot Farmer's Market.
at Hickory
this Friday
1B
50 Cents
Arts Society
to move into
old KM depot
By ELIZABETH STEWART
Republic Newspapers
By vote of 4-2 Kings
Mountain City Council
Tuesday night accepted the
offer of Southern Arts
Society to lease the Depot
as the Kings Mountain Arts
Center.
The motion by Gene
White, seconded by Dean
Spears, came before a
standing room only crowd
and after over an hour of
~discussion.by supporters of
‘the Southern Arts Society = |
and the White Plains Shrine
Club. Howard Shipp and
Carl DeVane supported
White's motion and Rick
Moore and Clayvon Kelly
voted against. “They are
both good organizations,”
said Moore.
Speaking for the Arts
Society were Pat Childers,
Shirley Brutko, A.B. Snow,
Karen Bunch, representing
the Kings Mountain
Woman's Club, John
Reavis, representing the
Kings Mountain Lions club,
and Jewel Reavis. Members
read letters from individu-
als and presented petitions
signed by over 400 people,
some of whom had won art
scholarships and some who
had attended workshops
and participated in the local
program started by Alice
Betty Mauney Snow nearly
20 years ago.
Jonie Blanton, past presi-
dent of White Plains Shrine
Club and chairman of the
See Depot, 3A
if
the biggest
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citement will
lections Board
Director of Elections
City of KM
employees
to receive
pay increase
City employees expect-
ing a 2 percent cost of
living raise in their pay
checks Nov. 3 will get a
‘surprise. . k
By unanimous action
Tuesday nighton
{ motion by Councilman
| Carl DeVane, City
{| Council voted a 3 per-
cent hike.
The item of business
was at first listed under
the consent portion of
the long agenda to
approve budget amend-
ments in all operating
funds but DeVane asked
that the matter be dis-
‘cussed.
Responding to ques-
tions, city manager
Jimmy Maney said the
cost of living raise was
delayed simply because
the city didn’t know if it
would recoup any
money from the state in
franchise taxes and
whether county commis-
sioners would approve a
half cent sales tax
increase. The city
received its first check
from franchise taxes in
the amount of $117,000
See Increase, 3A
VERA BEDSOLE
KINGS
85-year-old Vera Bedsole
still plays piano for church
ago. Determined that she would play
again, Vera exercised her left arm and
was back in church at the piano in
three weeks. If she has ever heard the
tune, she can play it.
By ELIZABETH STEWART
Republic Newspapers
Vera Bedsole, 85, started playing the
piano at age five when she couldn't
reach the pedals.
At nine, she played "Rock of Ages"
and other hymns for a funeral service
and recalled that her knees were shak-
ing because she had never played for
a funeral but there was no one else to
do the job. "I was dirty from playing
in the yard but Mother washed my
face and said I had to do it," she said.
That determination to succeed led
Bedsole to play in many churches in
the Kings Mountain area for over 75
years. Her proudest performances are
playing in church for her son, talented
vocalist Jerry Bedsole, to sing.
The remarkable pianist taught her-
self to play, never uses a hymn book
or a sheet of music and tickles the
ivories despite a stroke several years
Before
age 21, Vera Ramsey started playing
the piano and organ at Second Baptist
Church and couldn't reach the pedals
on the organ. That didn't stop her
from turning out music. Her parents,
she married Mexie Bedsole at
See Bedsole, 3A
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