Football Winner!
Mickey Gregory
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VOLUME 91 ■ NUMBER 63 - TUESDA Y, SEPTEMBER 23,1980
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GETTING READY TO ROCK-Audr«y B*U, Uft, Rogw Graason.
middla. cmd Mauraan Lows odmira tha T-ahirt that thay hopa
to win in this waakand'a Rock-A-Thon lor Cystic Fibrosis. Tha
Friday Rock-A-Thon will kick-oil tha Kings Mountoin Calabra-
tion ActiTitias. Tha studants will rock for 24 hours with pladgas
baing mada ior aach hour. li intarastad in rocking or in pladg-
ing monay to tha Cystic Fibrosis Foundotion, contact Tom
Franks at 739-3601 Ext. 436. Photo by Katrana McCall
Dance Slated
For October 3
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A street dance with disco
music by “D.T. Express” will be
an added attraction at the
Celebration Rock-A-Thon. The
dance will begin following the
KM-Crest football game at 10
p.m. Oct. 3 at the KM depot, site
of the Rock-A-Thon.
Dis Jockeys Roy Rosen (Big
Ways) and Jeff Wicker and John
Boy (WBCY) will be on hand to
help run the rock-a-thon Friday
and Saturday,Oct. 34.
More entertainment will be
provided by the Kings Mountain
Pep-Raiid-Sat.r®«.-4th ae-»:9©'
p.m. and they will be followed
by the Buffalo Creek Bluegrass
Band. A dunking booth and
celebrity pie throw are included
in other fun events. Invitations
have been sent out to dignataries
and other guests to make this
event a memorable occasion,
said a spokesman.
Pledge forms for the rock-a-
thon are available at KM Senior
High and KM Junior High or
may be obtained by calling Tom
Franks at 739-3601, Extension
436. Registration is limited to
100 entrants and the pledge
forms are moving very well, ac
cording to Franks. Participants
tnMt supply thdr own rocking
chair, conventional or standard.
A “I did it” shirt will be
presented to all entrants who
raise $25 or more.
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Kings Mountain Citizens
To Join Overmountain Men
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Mayor and Mrs. John Henry
Moss, KM National Military
Park Supt. Mike Loveless and
Lunch Tickets
Are On Sale
Tickets are on sale at the
Celebration Headquarters
downtown for a Oct. 7th
Celebration Luncheon to be held
at 11:30 a.m. at the Cafeteria of
KM Senior High School.
The ticket costs $5.00 and the
public is invited to attend.
Three hundred tickets will be
sold, according to Supt. William
Davis, luncheon chairman.
Mrs. Loveless, Gary Everhart
and Jim Ryan will join the Over
mountain Victory Trail Mar
chers during their encampment
in Virginia and Tennessee
Wednesday and Thursday.
The KM delegation will meet
with Tennessee Governor
Lamar Alexander at Sycamore
Shoals at 1 p.m. Wednesday and
will join Virginia Governor
Dalton and the Virginia group
for a Muster Ceremony Thurs
day and remain for a banquet at
Washington Inn in Abington,
Va. Thursday evening. Thurs
day events will include a parade
by Virginia and Tennessee mar
chers from Carter County Cour
thouse in Elizabethton to
Sycamore Shoals State Park.
Meet Three Candidates
Cleveland County Associa
tion of Taxpayers have chosen a
slate of three write-in candidates
to oppose incumbent county
commissioners in the Nov. 4
general election.
Duran Johnson, 54, of No. 11
Township in Lawndale, will op
pose Incumbent Hugh Dover,
Bobby Joe Crawford, 46, of No.
Three Township in Shelby, will
oppose Incumbent Coleman
Goforth and John Caveny, Jr.,
33, of No. Four Township in
Kings Mountain, will oppose
county commission chairman
Jack Palmer.
ACT President Bruce Seism
made the announcement and
said, “These three candidates are
well qualified and respected.
They are concerned, not only
about taxes, but about other
things too.”
The three candidates told the
Herald Monday morning that, if
elected, they will work toward
budget reductions and lower
taxes.
Johnson, a sales represen
tative for Quality Forms of
Charlotte, is a graduate of Pied
mont High School and received
his A.A. degree in Accounting
from Howard Business College.
He is a veteran of two years ser
vice with the Army during the
Korean Conflict and has been
married to Helen Queen of
Casar for 25 years. They have
two children and are active in
First United Methodist Church
of Lawndale.
Crawford, who is employed
by Security Forces, Inc. of
Charlotte, is a graduate of No. 3
High School and Cleveland
Technical College with AA
degrees in industrial manage
ment and agriculture science. He
retired after 22 years service
with the USAF and has been
married 26 years to Sarah
Deaton of Shelby. They have
four children.
Caveny, a Kings Mounttun
native, is a graduate of Kings
Mountain High School, attended
Duke University and received
his B.S. in chemistry from
Western Carolina University. He
has completed three years of
graduate study at the University
of Florida and N. C. State
University. A member of Cen
tral United Methodist Church,
he teaches a young adult Sunday
School class and serves on the
Administrative board. He has
been married 10 years to Beth
Peeler, formerly of Charlotte,
who is attending Sacred Heart
College and serves as a teacher
aide. They are parents of two
daughters. Heather, age six, and
Shannon, age four. Caveny is
president of Caveny Fabrics in
Kings Mountain, a family part
nership with his father, John
Caveny, Sr.
Cleveland County Associa
tion of Taxpayers was organized
by a group of citizens to fight
higher taxes resulting in proper
ty revaluation. Protest petitions
bearing the signatures of 6,500
Cleveland County taxpayers
were presented to a recent
meeting of the county commis
sion.
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ACT CANDIDATES — Picturod or* the three
write-in candidate* that the Association of
Cleveland County Taxpoyers are fielding ior
county commissioner to oppose the three in-
Photo by Gary Stewart
cumbents. From left, lohn Caveny Jr., Bobby
loe Crawford, Duran Johnson and Bruce
Seism, leader of the tax protest movement.
More Committees Are Named
Additional committees have
been appointed by Mayor John
Henry Moss for the 2(X)th
celebration of the Battle of Kings
Mountain.
Comm. Corbet Nicholson is
chairman of the city decorations
committee which includes W. S.
Fulton, 111, James Crawford,
Selma Crawford, Ava Dixon,
Lewis Hovis, Victoria Bess and
Lee Putnam.
Comm. Jim Dickey, Paul
Falls, Jim Tate and Jim Ch:un-
pion are cenrhairmen of the con
cession committee which also in
cludes A1 Moretz, Z. R. Shull,
Gerald Witherspoon, Joe
Stockton, Harold Payne,
Thomas Tindall, Brad Tate,
Danny Dilling, David Dilling,
Mike Neely, Bob Bridges, Louis
Sabetti, 1. C. Davis, Rick
Wallace, Tom Franks, Corky
Fulton, David Dixon, Bob
Maner, Jr., George Blalock, KM
Junior High Cheerleaders, Keith
Falls, Kirk Falls, Jerry Sneed,
Ray Hallman, Douglas Burch,
James Amos, Robbie Howell,
and Larry Hamrick, Jr.
Tommy King is chairman of
the Boy Scout committee which
includes Rev. Harwood Smith,
Aubrey Mauney, Wayne S. Put
nam, William Sellers and Charles
P. Herndon.
Allen Jolley heads the music
committee which includes
Donald Deal, Shirley Austin,
Rev. Bob Boggan, Juanita
Goforth, B.S. Peeler, Myrle Mc
Clure, Margaret McGinnis, and
Ellen Elam.
Joan Baker will coordinate a
fashion show to be held on two
days of celebration week.
Jonas Bridges is chairman of
radio and television publicity
committee which includes
Willard Boyles, Jim Ryan and
Mike Brown.
Comm. Norman King is chair
man of the church open house
committee which includes Mrs.
Clyde Bridges and Rev. Eugene
Land.
The host committee includes
Senator and Mrs. J. Ollie Harris,
Mr. and Mrs. Howard B.
Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. John O.
Plonk, Mr. and Mrs. James E.
Herndon, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Neisler, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
F.Mauney, Mr. and Mrs.
George Houser, Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Tate, Mr. and Mrs. John
Major, Mr. and Mrs. L.E. Hin-
nant, Mr. and Mrs. John
Cheshire, Mr. and Mrs. Grady
Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. Carl F.
Mauney, James A. Childers, Mr.
and Mrs. Humes Houston,
Mr.and Mrs. Corbet Nicholson,
Mr. and Mrs. William Grissom,
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Dickey, Mr.
and Mrs. C.A. Allison, Mr. and
Mrs. Jim Potter, Mr. and Mrs.
Gary Whitaker, Mr. and Mrs.
David Plonk, Mr. and Mrs. Joel
Robert, Rev. and Mrs. M.
L.Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Weaver, Mr. and Mrs. Garland
Atkins.
The Patriots Ball Committee
includes Mr. and Mrs. Humes
Houston, chairman; Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Falls and James A.
Childers, vice chairmen; Allan
Propst, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Hin-
nant, Mr. and Mrs. John
Cheshire, Mr. and Mrs. David
Plonk, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Dell-
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Outdoor Drama To Begin
CONSTRUCTION of tho stag* os ft op-
poorod last wook at Kings Mountoin National
Military Park, obovo. Tho ontiro stag* and all
sconory or* bolng constructod for "Thon Con
quer W* Must”, tho outdoor droma com-
momoroting tho 200th annivorsry of tho Battle
of Kings Mountain. Members of the cost and
technical crow include staff and students from
Limestone College and volunteers from o two-
stot* five-city region. The drama will be held
S*pt.26-28 and Oct. 3-7 at 8:30 p.m. Ticket in
formation is available by colling the
Chomber of Commerce.
Kings Mountain native
Suzanne Amos Grabus has the
lead role of Virginia Salter in the
outdoor drama, ‘Then Conquer
We Must,” which opens
September 26 at the am
phitheatre at Kings Mountain
National Military Park.
The drama was written by the
late Robert Osborne of Kings
Mountain and adapted by Tom
McIntyre, former editor of the
Kings Mountain Herald.
Ms. Grabus, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Jim Amos, also serves
as Choreographer. The drama is
being produced by Dr. William
J. Briggs, president of Limestone
College, and directed by Charles
Hannum. William Sutton is
technical director, Jerry King
company manager, Vicki Penn
ington assistant director, Connie
Putnam assistant company
manager, Catherine Mauney
music coordinator and Lisa Kl-
ing publicity coordinator.
Ms. Grabus, administrator-in
training at Kings Mountain Con
valescent Center, is an outdoor
drama veteran. While in college,
she played in "Wilderness Road”
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SUZANNE GRABUS
in Berea, Ky., and “Horn In The
West” in Boone, and also had
roles with the Winston Salem
Symphony Orchestra and the
Piereutte Players at Salem Col
lege.
‘This is about the proudest
thing I’ve ever done,” says Ms.
Grabus. “1 love Kings Moun
tain, and to get to play the lead
role in something this important
to the town, is important to me. 1
hope to see the show continue.”
Virginia Salter is a young
Charleston lady who flees from
Charleston and travels to
Camden. “She is very much a
patriot,” says Ms. Grabus, “and
meets Major Patrick Ferguson.
She initially decides that she will
serve as a spy and then falls in
love with him.”
Over 100 people are involved
in the production and have been
working six nights a week for
over a month getting ready for
opening night.
Dress rehearsals will be held
tonight and Wednesday and the
drama will open for school
children Thursday night. Ad
vance tickets are on sale at the
Kings Mountain Chamber of
Commerce.
Others in the cast, in order of
appearance, include Alena Wax-
ter, Jim Tanner, David Baldree,
Simon Locklear, John Grant,
Todd Morgan, Dan Drayer, Har
wood Smith, John Brock,
Gregory Madera, Robert Strat-
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