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Local supporters in Raleigh today for House Speaker’s election
KIW's Tim Moore’s rise in politics expected
ELIZABETH STEWART
lib.kmherald @ gmail.com
Kings Mountain attor-
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44, first
visited
Rep. Tim Moore
Car -
olina
General Assembly as a teen-
age page.
He returns today as the
youngest speaker of the N.C.
House in a quarter century,
probably the first in recent
history in Cleveland County,
and in one of three of the
state’s most powerful posi-
tions.
The North Carolina
House and Senate recon-
venes in Raleigh today
(Wednesday) for the 2015
legislative session. Among
the first order of business on
the House side will be to for-
mally elect Rep. Tim Moore
of the 111" District repre-
senting Cleveland County
to the Speaker’s post. With
Republicans holding a 74-46
majority, the GOP has the
votes needed to carry the
vote.
Moore’s family, includ-
ing his parents, city council-
man Rick Moore and Mrs.
Moore, his two sons, Wilson
and McRae Moore, Kings
Mountain Mayor Rick Mur-
phrey and Mrs. Murphrey,
City Manager Marilyn Sell-
ers, and six city councilmen
will be among those in the
gallery observing the pro-
ceedings. Kings Mountain
supporters will also attend
a luncheon with Speaker
Moore after the morning leg-
islative session.
He succeeds Thom Tillis,
who was elected to the U.S.
Senate in November and who
appointed him as chairman of
the prestigious rules commit-
tee which he has served as
well as chairing the elections
and the House select commit-
tee on UNC Board of Gover-
nors..
Moore’s rise in politics
was expected by his father,
Ward 5 city commissioner
Rick Moore.
When Tim was 10 he
put up signs for Ronald Rea-
gan. As a youngster he got
his taste for politics behind
the counter at the former
Rick’s Ole Country Store
and at every opportunity
offered his opinion in polit-
ical discussions. He visited
the US Congress in high
school. Classmates at Kings
Mountain High voted him
“most ambitious.”” At 20,
shortly after transferring to
UNC Chapel Hill, he became
speaker of the student Con-
gress. He was elected to the
student government at two
colleges and interned for a
state senator. In 1997 he was
elected Cleveland County
GOP chairman. He also ran
for the UNC Board of Gov-
ernors and at 26 he became
the second-youngest member
ever elected. He was elected
to the State House of Repre-
sentatives at 32 in 2002 and
has been re-elected seven
times.
After his nomination for
speaker by the Republican
Caucus, Moore said he was
“humbled.” “I’m the same
guy I’ve always been,”” he
said. If there is a secret to any
success, he added, it is that “I
always treat others the way I
would want to be treated.’’
Moore returned to Cleve-
land County in 1995 with a
law degree from Oklahoma
State University. He joined
Flowers, Martin, Moore
and Ditz from 1995-2009
in Shelby, opening his own
practice on King Street in
Kings Mountain in 2009. His
office, which he shares with
another lawyer and two legal
secretaries, is in a former ren-
ovated home. He had initially
hoped to move his office into
the old First Union National
Bank building in downtown
Kings Mountain but his rise
into state politics keeps him
busy.
Volume 127 ¢ Issue2 o Wednesday, January 14, 2015 15¢
Rep. Moore is known
as one of the most effective
conservative members of the
House, consistently ranked as
one of the top supporters of
lower taxes, growth, limited
government, and individual
liberties. He has worked on
legislation to help bring new
jobs to Cleveland County and
to the state, working directly
with local small businesses
to help preserve and expand
jobs for Cleveland County.
As speaker, jobs will be a
priority.
Moore has successfully
sponsored several laws
designed to make children
and families safer. He was
primary sponsor of the Jes-
sica Lunsford Law which
increased the punishment
for sex offenders and im-
posed monitoring and other
See MOORE, Page 8
School calendar,
foreign trips OK’d
DAVE BLANTON
dave.kmherald@gmail.com
The Cleveland County
Board of Education met
Monday evening to approve
two overseas trips by stu-
dent groups at an area high
school and to adopt a school
calendar for the 2015-2016
school year, among other
items.
Due to updates, school
employees are now enti-
tled to 11 holidays during
the school year. The cur-
rent 2015-16 calendar only
designates 10. That means
that additional holiday will
needed to be designated.
To that end, school officials
had to eliminate a planning
day.
The school board ap-
proved the elimination of
Good Friday as a planning
day. It becomes an annual
leave day. The change also
means that Memorial Day
will be changed from an an-
nual leave day to a regular
holiday.
State law mandates that
the school calendar must
contain 215 days total, in-
cluding workdays, holidays
See SCHOOL, Page 8
Mother, newborn die in
wreck despite heroic efforts
Newborn Riley Andrew
Williams lived only a few
hours after a wreck took the
life of his mother, a Kings
Mountain woman who was
kept alive just long enough to
deliver her only child.
Two Highway Patrol
troopers and a nurse’s aide
performed CPR on Rebecca
Williams for more than 15
minutes alongside a highway
after a wreck last Tuesday
morning in hopes that she
could deliver a healthy child.
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Rebecca Williams
The 7-pound, 5-ounce
boy had a strong heartbeat,
according to rescue person-
nel on the scene. Neverthe-
less, baby Riley needed to be
See MOTHER, Page 8
Celebrating the life of the slain civil rights leader Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., the city of Kings Mountain and
Bynum’s Chapel AME Zion Church have special events
planned and the public is invited.
The city is sponsoring a photography contest on the
theme “Hope” and offering cash prizes to winners in both
the adult and student divisions. Friday at 5 p.m. is the
deadline to submit your entries on the theme, “Hope” at
city hall. See cityofkm.com for more information about
the contest.
ML King Day
A photography exhibit and breakfast highlight Martin
Luther King Day in Kings Mountain Monday. Friday at 5
p.m. is deadline for photographs on the theme “Hope.”
Bynum’s Chapel members will sponsor a breakfast
at 8 a.m. Monday at the Bynum Chapel Family Center,
file photo
See MLK DAY, Page 8
Maude McCarter, 100
ELIZABETH STEWART
ib.kmherald @gmail.com
Maude Lee Owens Mc-
Carter, 100, credits her long
and happy life to laughter
and a keen sense of humor.
And growing up on a
farm with four brothers
and two sisters, her love of
“fatback” and home-grown
vegetables meant there was
plenty of food on the table
and to feed the livestock
even during the Depression
years.
McCarter, the last sur-
viving sibling of John Cray-
Enjoys laughter, humor
Maude McCarter
ton and Rhettie Whisnant
Owens, celebrated her cen-
tury of life on January 3 at
See MAUDE, Page 8
Ride-along with a KM cop
Officer J.L. Dee stands next to KMPD police SUV on
Friday.
On the force for almost four years, Dee gives us a glimpse
of the daily routine of a city patrolman.
: DAVE BLANTON
#0 dave.kmherald@gmail.com
After five years of work-
ing in a grocery store, J.L.
Dee wasn’t satisfied. He
didn’t care for the monot-
ony of stocking shelves
and knowing what each day
held for him ahead of time.
It was around that time that
a friend and co-worker told
him that he was going to
pursue a career in law en-
forcement. He was inspired
to do the same.
Fast forward about five
years and we find Dee
See RIDE-ALONG, Page 6
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