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Kings Mountain was officially
honored as a Governor’s Com
munity of Excellence by Gover
nor James B. Hunt, Jr., in
Raleigh Wednesday during the
Governor’s Second Annual Con
ference on Economic Develop
ment.
Governor Hunt presented the
award to Mayor John Henry
Moss. Jerry King, Director of
the Kings Mountain Office of
Economic Development, and his
assistant Connie Putnam, also
attended the ceremonies.
“I am proud of the progress
which communities like Kings
Mountain have made during the
past year,” Governor Hunt said.
“It is an achievement which they
can look upon with great pride.
But more importantly, the work
which has bMn done in qualify
ing for this honor also represents
a big step toward better job op-
portunities."
To qualify for the award.
Kings Mountain had to meet the
basic criteria_reqiured_by new in
dustry. Among other things this
included establishing an
organization to maintain infor
mation on the town’s story.
Tuesday
VOLUME 93, NUMBER 70
labor, industrial sites, financing
and access to markets.
A total of 100 communities,
all with populations of IS ,000 or
less, received Community of Ex
cellence Awards. Thirty-five of
the recipients are first time win-
jtersj^his year.
Highway signs noting the
honor have been provided.
Jerry King, of the sponsoring
organization, the KM Economic
Development Office, said that
without community support the
award would not have been
possible. He stated appreciation
to the following citizens who
headed up various steps on the
program leading to the citation;
Connie Putnam, community
journal; Charles Hamilton and
Dan Honeycutt, research, client
identification; Darrell Austin,
promotion materials; Jerry King,
marketing; Humes Houston and
Corky Fulton, downtown
revitalization; Josh Hinnant,
sites and buildings; David Bain
and Robert Raiteri, transporta
tion; Franklin Ware and Gerald
Grigg, labor availability; Mayor
Moss and Joe McDaniel, taxes
and government; Ted Huffman
and Walt Ollis, utilities; Tom
Tate, finance; Bill Davis, educa
tion and training; Norman King,
livability; Ruby Alexander, com
munity profile; Mayor Moss,
community planning; John Ma
jor, who served on the develop
ment team and gave them a tour
of Eaton Corporation; Gary
Stewart, who made the slides for
a slide presentation narrated by
Jonas Bridges and took pictures
for brochures distributed, and
Garland Atkins, Publisher of
The Herald, and Darrell Austin,
who assisted in preparation of
the brochures presented to the
development team which visited
Kings Mountain. Larry Smith, a
member of the city fire depart
ment, served as a chauffer for
the group on its site tour of the
city.
GOVERNOR'S AWJUiD — Mayor John Henry Carolina communities to get the coveted
Moes receives Kings Mountoin Community of oward during the Second Jknnual Governor's
Excellence Awcad from Governor lames B. Conference on Economic Development in
Hunt. Jr. Kings Mountain was one of 100 North Raleigh on October 29th.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1980
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KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
Area Citizens Will Help Elect Leaders
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Kings Mountain area citizens
go to the polls Tuesday (today)
to help name a president, a vice-
president, a governor, and other
state, district, county and local
officials.
Polls throughout North
Carolina open at 6:30 ajn. this
morning and doss at 7:30 pjn.
tonight.
Gaining considerable atten
tion is the Qeveland Association
of Taxpayer’s eHbrts to elect
three write-in candidates to
replace the three incumbent
Democrats in the race for
Cleveland County Commis
sioner. Bruce Seism, chairman of
the Association organized as a
tax revolt, has purchased
newspaper space in area
newspapers alerting No. 4
Former Grocer
Township and Cleveland Coun
ty citizens how to write in the
names of John Caveny Jr., who
opposes Jack Palmer Jr., Bobby
Crawford who is opposing Col
eman Goforth and Duran
Johnson who opposes Hugh
Dover.
Grover citizens will also be
voting on whether or not the
town will approve the off
premises sale of unfortified wine
and beer and receive this ballot,
along with other ballots, at
Grover Rescue Squad Building.
A total of 288 Grover citizens
are registered to vote in the beer
and wine referendum.
A total of 7,083 No. 4
Township citizens are registered
to vote at the Township’s four
boxes - West Kings Mountain at
the National Guard Armory,
East Kings Mountain at Kings
Mountain Community Center,
Bethware at Bethware School
and Grover at Grover Rescue
Squad.
Indication of a heavy vote in
Cleveland County derives from
the fact that 3,000 m.-ire names
have been added to the county
registration books and Gay
Champion, County Board of
Elections Supervisor, said that
35,05 1 Clevelanders are
registered today to vote in the
RIDE TO POLLS
Kings Mountain Kiwanis
Club will provide a free ride to
the polls on Tuesday by calling
Jerry Ledford at 739-6385 or
Kings Mountain Hospital at
739-3601.
Grady McCarter Dies
Funeral services for Grady
Samuel McCarter, 75, of 162 N.
Oakwood Dr., will be conducted
Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. from
Boyce Memorial ARP Church
of which he was a member, inter
ment following in Mountain
Rest Cemetery.
Rev. William Tyson and Rev.
Charles Edwards will officiate at
the rites.
The family will receive fnends
Tuesday night from 7 until 9
pjn. at Harris Funeral Home.
Mr. McCarter died Sunday
morning at 11:30 in Gaston
Memorial Hospital. He was a
native of York County, S.C., son
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Meek
McCarter. He was married to
the former Harrie Lee Womack
McCarter and had been
employed as a salesman at B&B
Fo^ Stores and for the former
Margrace Store for many years.
Surviving are one son, Samuel
McCarter of St. Augustine, Fla.;
one daughter, Mrs. Gene (Jerri)
Patterson of Kings Mountain;
four sisters, Mrs. I.B. Goforth of
Kings Mountain, Mrs. Quay
Whiteside, Mrs. Brice Smith and
Mrs. Ev McDaniel, all of Clover,
S.C.
Harris Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
Mrs, Ledford Steps In
Mrs. Payne Resigns
Mrs. Sue Payne, Ad
ministratrix of Kings Mountain
Convalescent Center since the
124-bed facility opened in
August 1973, is resigning, effec
tive Friday, to assume new
duties of North Carolina Direc
tor of Operations For Health
Care Management, Inc. for all
facilities of 1,754 beds in this
state.
She will commute from her
home in Gastonia to offices in
Charlotte.
A native of Qeveland Coun
ty, Mrs. Payne is wife of Rev.
Flay Payne, pastor of Fairview
Baptist Church of Gastonia and
a former Kings Mountain
minister. She is currently serving
as state president of the N.C.
Health Care Facilities Associa
tion.
The Paynes are parents of two
children, Wanda P. Briggs, vice
president of Facilities Services
for Guardian Care Facility of
• Rocky Mount and Walter
Payne, a regional director for
MRS. SUE PAYNE
Cablevision of Gastonia. They
have one grandchild.
The state association, with
home offices at Virginia Beach,
Va., operates nursing homes in
North Carolina, Virginia and
Kentucky.
“My years at Kings Mountain
Convalescent Center have been
truly good and a rewarding ex
perience,” said Mrs. Payne, who
expressed appreciation for the
tremendous support given by the
community to the residents of
the facility.
Succeeding Mrs. Payne as Ad-
minstratrix of the local nursing
home will be Mrs. Vickie Wat-
terson Ledford, wife of Charles
Thomas Ledford, and a native of
Kings Mountain who received
her license as an administrator in
July. Mrs. Ledford joined the
local facility four years ago as a
social worker and was subse
quently promoted to assistant
administratrix. She is a graduate
of Kings Mountain High School
and the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte. She is
daughter of Erskine Watterson
of Kings Mountain and the late
Jessie Watterson.
general elections. Mrs. Cham
pion said that 2,000 last minute
registrations came in during the
final weeks of the registration
period.
East and West Kings Moun
tain precinct voters can look for
ward to spending little if any
time in long waits to vote this
year - thanks to the new elec
tronic voting machines which
are in use in the city’s two big
gest boxes. Voters are asked to
carefully mark their ballots and
remember to turn them over and
vote on both sides.
East and West precinct voters
will receive three ballots and
Grover and Bethware voters will
receive six with Grover citizens
getting an additional special
referendum ballot to vote
Methodists
Plan Annual
Pony Express
A Chuck Wagon dinner
featuring “Old West Grub” will
kickoff the annual “Pony Ex
press” stewardship program by
members of Central United
Methodist Church.
A western menu of barbequed
pork and chicken, slaw, baked
beans and potato salad will be
served at 6:30 p.m. Sunday in
the Church Fellowship Hall.
Special entertainment will
precede a presentation of the
church’s planned program and
budget for the next year and Jim
Potter, finance chairman, will
preside.
The stewardship appeal will
feature a one day Pony Express
Run of which Bill Russell will be
general manager. Trail bosses
and other key workers will be in
troduced at the kickoff meeting.
Under the Pony Express Plan,
each church family becomes a
route rider, relaying a Steward
ship saddlebag to one other fami
ly. Instead of igaking pledges,
the members will be filling in
cards on which they estimate
their giving to the church for the
coming year.
This year’s Stewardship pro
gram will be conducted in one
day, a departure from the past
several “runs.”
POSTPONED
Thursday’s regularly schedul
ed meeting of the American
Legion Auxiliary has been
postponed until Thursday, Nov.
13th, when a covered dish sup
per will be served at 6:30 p.m. in
the American Legion Dining
Hall honoring Gold Star
Mothers, Fathers, Wives, Sisters
and Daughters.
preferences in the beer and wine
referendum.
Outside of the presidential
contest, which pits President
Jimmy Carter against Governor
Ronald Reagan, Republican and
John Anderson, Independent,
top interest also accrues in the
race for governor where Gover
nor Jim Hunt is seeking his se
cond four-year term and if re
elected, will be the first North
Carolina governor elected to suc
ceed himself. Heavy interest in
this area also attends the 10th
Congressional race where Rep.
Jim Broyhill, seeking a 10th term
in the Congress, is challenged by
Democrat Jim Icenhour of
Hickory.
Senator J. Ollie Harris of
Kings Mountain seeks another
term in the N.C. Senate and he,
along with Incumbents Helen
Marvin Rhyne and Marshall
Rauch, face Republican opposi
tion from E. LaVerne Elliott.
Unopposed for re-election in the
40th District House race are
Represematives Edith Lutz,
Jack Hunt and Roben A. Jones.
U.S. Senator Robert Morgan
(D) is opposed by Republican
John East and F.W. Pasotto,
Libertarian, and Rebecca Finch,
Social Workers Party.
There is also interest in the
state races in which veteran
Secretary Thad Eure, 80, and In
surance Commissioner John In
gram are strongly challenged in
their bids for re-election.
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HEADS KIWANIANS - Jarry Lodiord, right, was installed
gently as the new president oi the Kings Mountain Kiwanis
Club. Left is outgoing president Lyn Cheshire.
Photo by lohn Cheshire
Underwood Will Lead
Christmas Parade Nov. 30
C.J. Underwood, WBTV per
sonality and director of the
popular “Carolina Camera”
feature, will be grand marshal of
the Kings Mountain Christmas
Parade.
The parade is scheduled for
the first time on a Sunday and
will be held on Sun., Nov. 30th.
beginning at 3 p.m.
The annual holiday parade
will be sponsored by Kings
Mountain Merchants Associa
tion and Kings Mountain Fire
Department.
Fire Chief Gene Tignor said
that all parade entries should be
directed to the Fire Department
and he is inviting floats, beauty
queens, marching bands and
other units to participate in w hat
is expected to be a large parade
officially opening the 1980
Christmas shopping season in
the city.
Santa Claus will, of course,
will be the star of the show.
TOYS FOR TOTS
Kings Mountain Fire Depart
ment will again sponsor the Toys
for Tots Christmas project. Any
persons with good toys to donate
to needy children should call the
fire department at 739-2552 or
dr<v the toys by the department
on the ground level of the new
Governmental Services Facilities
Center.