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KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA 28086 THURSDAY, MARCH 13,1975
Polls Open 6:30 A.M. - 7:30 P.M.
ABC Referendum Tuesday
ByTOMMclNTYRE
Editor, Mirror-Herald
,ill next TMesday’s ABC
erendumtealopsidedvic-
, one way or the other.
f will it be too close to
2ofboth“w^s”and
«»feel the count will be
very close. Both factions have
worked equally as hard get
ting Kings Mountians out to
register, but neither has made
any great public appeals to
vote for or against the issue.
The registration books indi
cate 1,164 new voters reg
istered for this special election
Mar. 18, raising the total count
of voters to 4,128. Mrs. Betty
Mercier of the Kings Mountain
Elections Board, said, “That
official figure might be off one
or two because we found a
couple of names listed twice,
but the overall count will not
be affected to any great de
gree.”
Just how many local voters
OFFICIAL BALLOT NO^
Special Elec^i^^^
City of Kin unfain,
orft Carolina
18th, 1975
OR CONTROL STORES
Instructions
1. To vote for or against the establishment of^ municipal
liquor control stores, make a cross (x) mark at the left of your
choice.
2. Ifyoutearordefaceorwrongly mark this ballot, return it
to the registrar and get another.
VOTE FOR ONE
FOR, MUNICIPAL LIQUOR CONTROL STORES
AGAINST MUNICIPAL LIQUOR CONTROL
STORES
THOMAS L. BENNETT, Chairman
Kings Mountain Board of Electicms
OFFICIAL BALLOT NO. 2
Special Election^^^
City of Kings ModtimJn,
North
(^FF^^^SE) sale of
BEVERAGES AND
^ UNFORTIFIED WINE
INSTRUCTIONS
1. To vote for or against off premise sale of malt beverages
cLice make a cross (x) mark at the left of your
^^^***’ tearor deface or wrongly mark this ballot, return it
‘0 the registrar and get another.
VOTE FOR ONE
FOR (OFF PREMISE) SALE OF MALT
leverages and unfortified wine
against (OFF PREMISE) SALE OF MALT
beverages and UNFORTIFIED WINE
will go to the polls next Tues
day is open to conjecture, ac
cording to many residents who
remember the ABC referen
dum back in the 1960’s.
The special election next
Tuesday, unlike the ’60’s elec
tion, was forced by petition
bearing 25 percent of the total
number voting in the last mu-
nici{Ml election. This was
possible under a 1%9 General
Assembly session law.
Voters next Tuesday will be
handed two ballots. Number
one is for or against an ABC
package store. Number two is
for or against sale of off-pre
mise malt beverages and un
fortified wine. In this election
voters could pass both issues,
defeat both issues, or pass one
and defeat the second.
Voters should note that the
two ballots given them next
Tuesday will read “For” in
the first block and “Against”
in the secorld block. All of the
ballots will run this way with
out being alternated.
The polls open Tues., Mar.
18 at 6:30 a. m. and close at
7:30 p. m.
As in other elections, voters
will cast their ballots at poll
ing places in their respective
wards. Polls, registrars and
judges by wards are:
Ward one (City HaU): Nell
Cranford, registrar - Mar
garet White and John White,
judges; ward two (American
Legion Post): James Adams,
registrar - Mrs. Fred Dixon
and Mrs. Humes Houston,
judges; ward three (East
School): Mrs. Dick Ware,
registrar - Peggy Hord and
Mrs. Roy Pearson, judges.
Ward four (North School):
Francis White, registrar -
Annie Murphy and Clyde
BlackweU, judges; ward five
:Armory): Becky Cook, regis
trar - Matoka Campbell and
Katherine Wilson, judges; and
ward six (KM Senior High):
Betty Spears, registrar - Alma
Sellers and Audrey Dickey,
judges.
THOMAS L. BENNETT, Chairman
Kings Mountain Board of Elections
For Public Housing Units
City Applying For Solar
Heat demonstration Grant
Chamber
Bylaws
In Mail
The combined members of
the Kings Mountain Chamber
of Commerce and Merchants
Association will soon receive a
set of revised by-laws for the
merged operations.
Also the meihbership will
receive the nominees to serve
as directors for the coming
year.
Carl DeVane, chamber
president, said “we expect flie
members to report bade by
the end of this month on the
bylaws and director nomi
nees. The bylaws must be ap
proved before the directors
can be elected and the direc
tors must elect officers prior
to the annual meeting.
That meeting has been
scheduled for Mon., Apr. 21 at
7:30 p. m. at Kings Mountain
Country Club.
Those nominated as direc
tors of the combined organiza
tions are Lyn Cheshire, Ragan
Harper, Charles Mauney and
Max Mayhue for terms to ex
pire in 1976; Charles Alexand-
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A FOGGY GRIND - Early Tuesday morning
the fog settled in on Kings Mountain and scenes
like this one with a truck straining up E. King
Set For Friday Night
Barnes Auditorium Dedication
Ceremony Is An Entertainment
Dedication ceremonies of
the B. N. Barnes Auditorium
at Kings Mountain Senior
High willbehdd Fri., Mar. 14
at 7:30 p. m.
The 1,000-seat theater is
named in honor of the former
Kings Mountain District
Schools superintendent.
“We’veplanneda somewhat
different dedication cere
mony,” said Supt. Don Jones.
‘We’ll have the usual welcom-
Lig talk and some informa
tional dialogue, but that’s
vhere the usual routine ends.”
Jones said the program,
vhich will blend visuals with
sound, live performers sing-
ng, dancing, playing musical
instruments, was designed to
“showoff the auditorium to
give the public some idea of
what can be done of an enter
tainment nature here.”
Members of the school
faculty, band, chorus and stu
dent groups will be working
with private citizens from the
community to put on the show.
The dedication program will
be the initial use of the new
facility. The junior high ninth
grade and senior high Blazer
Bands will perform in concert
there Tues., Mar. 18 and early
in May The Kings Mountain
Arts Couned, KM Little Thea
tre and Performing Arts Guild
of Rutherford County will pre
sent two performances of
“Carousel” on the 35 by 70 foot
stage.
“We’ve sent out invitations
to a large group of people and
we do have some free tickets
available to anyone in the
community who wishes to at
tend Friday’s program,”
Jones said. “We will give the
tickets on a first come, first
serve basis.
“We want the public to
make full use of the Barnes
Auditorium in the future,”
Jones said. “It is an ideal
place for programs of a crea
tive nature and could be a
cultural center for our com
munity.”
Kings Mountain is
filing application for a
demonstration grant for
solar heat designing and
installation in homes
. constructed by the local
housing authority.
“We’re one of the first
communities in the
United States to file
such an application,’’
said Mayor John H.
Moss. “And if approved
Kings Mountain would
be one of the first with
homes heated by solar
heat.”
The application is
being made to the
Department of Housing
and Urban Develop
ment, Washington, D. C.
Technicians feel solar
heat is the most
economical, most ad
vanced method of home
heating in America.
Mayor Moss said
should the grant be ap-
E roved the local
ousing authority’s
architects, Tomberlin
and Associates of Atlan
ta, would work closely
with HUD in designing
the solar heat system to
be installed in the public
housing here.
Tom Harper, housing
authority director,
expressed interest in the
system particularly for
the units designed for
senior citizens.
Bloodmobile
Visit Tuesday
The Red Cross bloodmobile will visit Kings
Mountain Senior High School Tuesday in a visit
sponsored by the Future Homemakers of
America, Key Club and Distributive Education
Qubs of America.
A trophy will be presented to the club at KMSHS
with the most donors.
Donors will be processed from 10 until 4 and all
citizens are encouraged to “give a pint of blood.”
Only 17 and 18-year-old students are eligible to
become donors and 17-year-olds only eligible if
parents sign a consent form, said a spokesman.
Photo By Gary Stewart
St. were common. Vehicles materialized from
the mists like ghosts following haloed headlight
beams.
KM Schools Employ 15 Under Job Bill
Kings Mountain District
Schools has received a second
allotment under the Federal
manpower act providing jobs
for the unemfdoyed.
Supt. Donald Jones was
notified a $16,468 ' allotment
has been released for use in
the local school employment
program.
The first sum totaled
$8,636.51.
The KM schools now employ
15 area men and women; 10 in
maintenance, two in clerical
and three in school food serv
ice. Employed in the mainten
ance department are Luther
Whitener, Reginald Lovelace,
J. K. Brooks, Luther Ware,
Benjamin Brown, Issac
Patterson, William Childers,
Robert Costner and Mark
George.
The two employed in cleri
cal duties are Delane Guyton
and Diana Allen.
The school food service
employes are Mary Greene,
Scott Owens and Jack Ben
nett.
The employment will last
through the remainder of the
school year.