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KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA 28086 MONDAY, OCTOBER 6,1975
OFFICIAL BALLOT
CITY OF KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C
Tuesday, October 7, 1975
Tovotefor a candidate on the ballot make a cross (X)
irk in the square at th e left of the na me.
1 Mark only with pencil or pen and ink.
!. II you tear or deface or wrongly mark this ballot, return
lothe Registrar and get another.
For Commissioner District I
(Vote For One)
[J James A. Childers
[J Ray W. Cline
[j Hugh A. Logan, Jr.
For Commissioner District 2
(Vote For One)
[J W. S. (SeimoreJ Biddix
[J Lloyd E. Davis
[J Humes Houston
[J Major William Loftin, Sr.
[J Elizabeth S. Lynch
[J Jerry M. Mullinax
For Commissioner District
(Vote For One)
[1 James (Jim) Guyton
[j Corbet H. Nicholson
[J Everette H. Pearson
[J Ernest Rome
[J Jerry Ross
[J Bill Sellers
[J Charles T. Smith
[J Wayne Worcester
For Commissioner District 4
(Vote For One)
D Samuel Hammett
[J Tommy King
[J W. Norman King
[J Poul W. Ledford
[J Don McAbee
[J George Ross
For Commissioner District
(Vote For One)
EJ James E. Amos
O Hugh D. Byrd
O Taft (Tab) Clark
EJ Bill Grissom
EJ H. H. Shipp
For Commissioner District
(Vote For One)
EJ Jonas Bridges
EJ James J. Dickey
EJ Charles W. Parker
EJ M. C. Pruette
EJ Boyce Tesenair
O Fred J. Wright Jr.
To Battle Anniversary Celebration
Welcome, Mr. Rockefeller
ByTOMMcINTYRE
Editor, Mirror-Herald
The eyes of the world will
literally be focused on Kings
Mountain Tuesday when
Mayor John Henry Moss wel
comes Vice President Nelson
Rockefeller to the city’s cele
bration of the 195th anniver
sary of the Battle of Kings
Mountain.
The city expects to play host
to an estimated 30,000-40,000
visitors Tuesday coming here
to see a large, colorful parade,
then to fill Gamble Stadium to
hear the Vice President of the
United States deliver the
principal address of the cele-
bratioa
Mayor Moss commented
today, “We are extremely
pleased and highly honored
that Vice President of the
United States Nelson Rocke
feller has accepted our invita
tion to make the principal ad
dress at the ceremonies
commemorating the 195th
anniversary of the Battle of
Kings Mountain.
“Vice President Rockefeller
is one of the world’s outstand
ing business and political
leaders and it is indeed an
honor to have him here for this
very special historic event,”
the mayor continued. “On
behalf of the citizens of Kings
Mountain I am hajpy to wel
come the Vice President to our
city.”
In addition to Vice President
Rockefeller, Mayor Moss will
also welcome North Carolina
Gov. James Holshouser, U. S.
Congressmen James Broyhill,
Roy Taylor, and James Mar
tin from North Carolina, and
U. S. Congressman James R.
Mann of South Carolina.
Also U. S. Senators Robert
Morgan and Jesse Helms of
North Carolina and U. S.
Senator Ernest F. Hollings of
South Carolina.
The VIP list of dignitaries
includes the mayors of 25
piedmont North and South
Carolina cities and towns,
including Mayor John Belk of
Charlotte.
Also on the VIP guest list
are John Ingram, N. C.
Commissioner of Insurance,
Jacob Alexander, secretary of
N. C. Department of Trans
portation, James Harrington,
secretary, N. C. Department
of Natural and Economic Re
sources, David Flaherty,
secretary, N. C. Department
of Human Resources, Richard
Ellis, director of the N. C.
Bicentennial Committee and
Richard Barnwell, director of
HUD-Greensboro district.
Former Congressmen
Charles R. Jonas and Basil
Whitener have also accepted
invitations to attaid Tues
day’s festivities.
Other VIPs are chairmen of
county commissioners Jack
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Polls Open 6:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m,
Tuesday Is Election Day
Kings Mountain citizens will
go to the polls Tuesday for the
biennial.city election to decide
contests for mayor and six
city commissioners.
There are 4,149 registered
voters in Kings Mountain.
Hours of voting are 6:30 a.
m. to 7:30 p. m. at two polling
places: Kings Mountain Com
munity Center where resi
dents of districts one, two and
three will vote and the Na
tional Guard Armory on
Phifer Rd. where residents of
districts four, five and six will
vote.
A central office for tabula
tion of the ballots will be the
Kings Mountain Mirror-
Herald, 204 S. Piedmont Ave.,
instead of City Hall, Elections
Board Chairman Luther
Bennett reminds.
The largest candidate list in
recent history of Kings Moun
tain elections finds a field of
four candidates for maycr and
34 candidates for six commis
sioner seats.
Most political observers
predict a record turnout at the
polls despite the historic 195th
battle anniversary celebration
which brings Vice-President
Nelson Rockefeller and other
dignitaries to the city tomor
row for a big parade and other
festivities.
OFFICIAL BALLOT
CITY OF KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C.
Tuesday October, 7, 1975
1. To vote for a candidate on the ballot make
a cross (X) mark in the square at the left of the
name.
THOMAS I.. BENNETT. Chairman
Kings Mountain Board of Elections
2. Mark only with pencil or pen and ink.
3. If you tear or deface or wrongly mark this
ballot, return it to the Registrar and get
another.
FOR MAYOR
(Vote For One)
EJ Al Franklin Brackett
jJJ Tom Dellinger
EJ Gilbert (Pee Wee) Hamrick
EJ John Henry Moss
THOMAS L. BENNETT, Chairman
Kings Mountain Board of Elections
For the first time. Kings
Mountain voters will choose
commissioners for four years
and two years staggered
terms and elect a mayor for a
four year term.
The three candidates (in
three separate districts) re
ceiving the hipest number of
votes are the four year
commissioners and the three
(in the remaining three dis
tricts) gamering the next
highest vote count are the two
year commissioners, explains
Elections Board Chairman
Luther Bennett.
A run-off election may not
be necessary even with 38
candidates seeking seven
positions.
Yet another change voters
are facing in this 1975 year
election is that boundary lines
are different and those in
doubt about being affected by
the boundary changes are re
minded to pick up a copy of the
new district map available in
the office" of City Clerk Joe
McDaniel at City Hall. A copy
of the map is reprinted in this
special edition of The Mirror-
Herald.
The run-off election date is
Nov. 4.
Mayor John Henry Moss,
seeking his sixth term at the
helm of city government, is
challenged by three new
comers to city politics, Al
Franklin Brackett, Thomas
Dellinger and Gilbert Ham
rick.
District One Commissioner
Ray Cline, sedting his eighth
consecutive term on the city
commission, is being
challenged by Hugh A. Logan,
Jr. write-in candidate in 1973,
and J ames Childers.
In District Two, incumbent
Lloyd E. Davis is challenged
by Mrs. Elizabeth Lynch,
Humes Houston, W. S. Biddix,
a former commissioner.
Major Loftin, Sr. and Jerry
Mullinax.
Incumbent District Three
Commissioner Corbet Nichol
son is challenged by Bill
Sellers, Everette Pearson,
Jerry Ross, Earl Wayne Wor
cester, Jim Guyton, Charles
T. Smith and Ernest Rome.
Incumbent District Four
Commissioner Don McAbee is
challenged by Tommy King,
Norman King, ex
commissioner, Roy Samuel
Hammett, Paul W. Ledford,
also a onetime commissioner,
and George Ross.
Incumbent Commissioner
Jim Amos of district five is op
posed by Rev. Howard Shipp,
Bill Grissom, Taft Clark and
Hugh D. Byrd.
M. C. Pruette, Jr., incum
bent commissioner from dis
trict six, is challenged by
Jonas Bridges, a former dis
trict five commissioner, Fred
Wright, Jr., Charles Parker,
Jim Dickey, a former com
missioner, and Boyce
Tesenair.
Bennett said he is calling a
meeting of local election offi
cials tonight at 7 p. m. at the
community center for final
instructions.
Local officials are Betty
Spears, registrar, Matako
Campbell and Kathleen Wil
son, judges, Frankie White
and Vivian Rika rd, assistants,
in the West Kings Mountain
precinct.
For East KM officials are
Becky Cook, registrar, Peggy
Hord and Kay Davis, judges,
George White and Jack Mer-
cier, assistants.
County election officials
include Margaret White and
Geraldine Myers, registrars,
Connie G. Putnam, Grace Tal
bert, Bob Maner and Rebecca
Cook, judges.
“Those not registered to
vote in the Oct. 7 election can
still register and be eligible to
vote in the advent of a Nov. 4
runoff election,” Bennett said.
“The deadline, however, is to
day (Oct. 6) at 5 p. m. The
county election registrars
named here can register new
voters.”
Bennett also reminds voters
of certain laws governing the
local elections:
From the Election Laws of
North Carolina, revised
through Session Laws 1974,
issued by the State Board of
Elections, Alex K. Brock,
Executive Secretary-Director
No political banner, poster
or placard shall be allowed in
or upon the voting place
during the day of a primary or
election (1929, c. 164, s. 19;
1967, C.775, s. 1; 1973, C. 793, s.
s. 58, 94.)
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Vice-President Rockefeller
Parade Begins
Tuesday At Noon
Vice President Nelson
Rockefeller will participate in
a 57 unit parade on Mountain
St. beginning about noon
Tuesday.
The parade, perhaps the
largest and most cdorful ever
presented here, will line up at
E. Mountain St. and Gaston
Ave. The middle and tail of the
parade will be strung out east
on Gold St., which will be
blocked to vehicle traffic.
Police Chief William Roper
said on-street parking and
through traffic will be permis
sible Tuesday until 11 a. m.
After that all traffic will be re
routed, probably to Kings St.
(Hwy. 74) which will be kept
open. All vehicles parked on
the street will have to be
moved by 11 a. m.
“Vehicle owners may wish
to consider the fact that the
parade watchers might begin
fOling up the street early and
judge when to move their
cars,” Chief Roper said.
The Vice President will be in
the first 16 units, according to
Zeb Plonk, parade co-
chairman. ‘“rhere will be a
break in the parade after the
16th unit has passed,” he said.
“This allows the Vice Presi
dent and other dignitaries
time to get set up at the
stadium. They will view the
parade at the stadium prior to
any addresses to the crowd.”
At the stadium the parade
will move counter-clock-wise
to pass before the Vice Presi
dential reviewing stand,
completely circle the stadium
and out again.
The parade route is along
Mountain St. to Phifer Rd.,
then along Phifer to the
stadium road. Chief Roper
said the no traffic, no-parking
rule applies to the entire
length of Mountain St., from
Gaston Ave. to Phifer Rd.
PARADE UNITS
1. Police Escort
2. Grand Marshall
3. Kings Mountain High School Band
4. Vice Presidential Advance Car
5. Vice Presidential Limousine
6. Vice Presidential Follow Car
7. U. S. Senators
8. Governors
9. U. S. Congressmen
10. 82Nd Airborne Division Band and Drill Team
11. State Senators
12. State Representatives
13. Cleveland County Commissioners
14. Kings Mountain City Commissiona-s
15. Gardner Webb College Band
16. Police Escort
17. Police Escort
18. Appalachian State University Band
19. Kings Mountain Float
20. Lenoir High School Band
21. Miss North Carolina
22. McDowell County High School Band
23. Georgia Float
24. Freedom High School Band
25. South Carolina Float
26. Avery County High School Band
27. Clem son University Girls Drill Team
28. Rutherfordton-Spindale Central High School Band
29. Virginia Float
30. Lincolnton High School Band
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