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A Community Newsweekly
Vol. 7 Number 42, July 2, 1981
Second Class Postage Paid In Boiling Springs, N. C. 29017
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Natural Gas May Be Found
In North Carolina
INDEPENDENCE
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chapel hill. . .Hidden in the hills of western North
Carolina - far below the black bears, the moonshine
stills and the towering pine trees — may be significant
reserves of natural gas, according to a geologist at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. John M. Dennison said the Blue Ridge and Great
Smoky mountains sit atop a layer of sedimentary rock
of a type known to trap methane gas.
Dennison is spending his summer compiling information
■ that will enable him to predict the nature and extent
of sedimentary rock that may be encountered during
deep drilling.
In October, he will submit a public report on his study
to the North Carolina Energy Institute which is supporting
him with a $30,000 grant.
In October, he will submit a public report on his
study to the North Carolina Energy Institute which is
supporting him with a $30,000 grant.
“We’re quite confident that the geology of western
North Carolina is similar to western Virginia and Tenn
essee which are now being very actively explored for
oil and gas,” Dennison said. “We think it’s unlidely
that any oil will be found in our state, but we’re fairly
optimistic about the possibility of finding natural gas.”
Twenty-Four
Students Participate
BOILING SPRINGS, N.C...Twenty four high school
students from the Shelby area were among the 54 students
who participated in a “Learn About Business” week
held on the Gardner-Webb campus last week.
The workshop, for rising seniors from a five county
area, was to help students better understand and appreciate
the free enterprise system.
Students roomed in the dormitories. During the day,
the students attended classes and were trained in com
puter operation. Field trips to Broyhill Furniture, Lowe’s
Builders, Hamrick Farms, Heafner Tire Company and
Spindale Mills were part of the week’s activities. Morn
ing lectures were given by Vicki Woy, “Merchandising”;
Hubert niomas and James Lawing, “Furniture”; Frank
Beam, “Retailing”; Max Hamrick, “Food Production”;
James Apple, “Banking”; Ann Gaither, “Wholesale Dis
tribution”; Jack Vincent, “Free Market”;SteveMcBrayer,
“Textile Manufacturing”; Christie Blanton, “Public Utilit
ies”; J.W. “Josh” Green, “Free Enterprise”; Pete Daniel,
“Reading the Market Page”; and Jack Marsh, “Free
Enterprise.”
Area students included; Esther Perrin, Paul Huggins,
Rusty Washburn, Judy Lutz, Ann Schenck, Pam Hartis,
Sharon Denise Bell, Sandy Bltoton, James Gibson Nolen,
Amy Harris, Patricia Peterson, Sue Kelly, Lisa Piercy,
Mary Leith Raney, Kimberly Lail, Lisa Lovelace, Tim
Vinesett, Catherine Childrez, Lydia Von Poston, Scott
Eastman, Laura McWhirter, April Denise Carr, Eric
Blankenship, Phillip Keith Larsen, and Tamara Vanderford.
The week-long workshop was sponsored by Gardner-
Webb College’s Broyhill Academy.
Director of the Broyhill Academy and coordinator of
the “Learn About Business” week was Dan Moore.
Wiles Announces Seven Recruits For 198F82 Season
BOIUNG SPRINGS,N.C... Ga;^iiier-Webb head basketball
coach, Jim Wiles, has officially announced the singing
of seven recruits for the 1981-82 season.
With ispecial help from assoicate coach Tommy Gaither,
the Bulldog head coach continues to bring in very talented
players into the Bulldog program.
Two years ago he recruited 6-7 Frank Streater and
Streater has made the North Carolina District 26 First
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standing in front of the Lutz-Yelton Convocation Center
building site are three new Gardner-Webb Bulldog basket
ball recruits. They are (1-r), head coach Jim Wiles,
John Spencer, Rick Einney and Eddie Jordan. The new
building in the background will be the new home of the
Bulldog basketball team and completion date is expected
in January of 1982.
Team in both his freshman and sophomore years. Last
yeai' Wiles brought in point guard Buck Lanham, wing
Don Cox and post Eddie Wilkins. These three players
along with Streater were the nucleus that led the Bulldog
basketball team to a NAlA District 26 Championship
last season.
Now lets take a look at what the Bulldog coaching
staff is bringing into the Gardner-Webb program this
year.
David Creech, a 6-4, 180 pounder from Caribou Maine
will be used at a wing position. This young man averaged
22 points and 11 rebounds a game during his senior
season.
Eddie Jordan, 6-81/2 and 210 pounds, averaged 10
points and 7 rebounds a game for North Forsyth High
School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Ron Hargrave, 6-6 1/2 and 205 pounds, averaged 10
points and 13 rebounds a game for Central Davidson High
School in Lexington, North Carolina.
Rick Kinney, a 6-6, 180 pounder, is an All-State per
former from Smyrna, Georgia. Kinney averaged 23 points
and 12 rebounds per game in high school last season.
Richey McKinney, 6-7, 210 pounds, is from Marietta,
Georgia and he averaged 11 points and 8 rebounds per
game in his senior season.
John Spencer, a 6-6, 185 pounder, is from Reading,
Pennsylvania. He averaged 12 points and 12 rebounds
in his senior season two years ago. That was when he
was only 6 foot 3 inches tall. Spencer sat out a year
after high school and now he is ready to attend college
and play basketball.
Terry Camp, a 6-1, 160 pounder, from Rutherfordson,
N.C., is the final signee. He comes to Gardner-Webb
from Isothermal Junior College where he averaged scoring
33 points per game. Camp led all scorers in the nation
among junior colleges with his 33 points per game
average. i
■ About his seven recruits,' Wiles stated, “We have good
young talent and I really look forward to getting to work
with this group of ftien. Add these seven players with
Frank, Don, Buck and Eddie and I get real excited about
thinking of the potential this group can have.”
The geologist and his graduate student assistants won’t
be drilling the 15,000 - 20,000 feet required to reach the
gas, but instead will take samples of sedimentary rock
where it’s exposed on the surface. They’ll also review
past geologic studies of the region and attempt to con
struct maps of where the potentially gas —rick rock
lies,
Dennison said the geologic formation he is studying
is known as the Appalachian overthrust belt. It was
created between 250 and 450 million years ago when
Africa, which was connected to North an South America
pushed the Appalachians westward. '
' Africa moved east 190 million years ago, and the
Atlantic Ocean formed in the gap that resulted,” he
said. ‘‘The push it had given the mountains left them
at least 40 miles and perhaps as many as 400 miles
west of where they had been originally.”
In effect, the mountains were thrust on top of the
sedimentary rock and have sat there ever since.
“Until about three years ago, there wasn’t much evidence
that the sedimentary rock extended under the mountians,”
he said. “It had been assumed that the metamorphic
rocks that make up the mountains just continued down
to great depths, but now we believe that’s not ture.”
Dennison said it’s premature to fry to estimate how
much methane may be trapped in cracks beneath the
Blue Ridge and Smokies. There could be “important
amounts,” however, because the sedimentary rock is
estimated to be between 3,000 and 8,000 feet thick.
Any oil that was once present was probably cooked
off millions of years ago by extreme heat, he said.
Since the mountains have cooled and are not porous,
there is practically no potential for geothermal energy!
“The East hasn’t been extremely productive of oil
or gas even though the oil industry began in Pennsy
lvania more than 100 years ago,” the geologist said.
“Now, however, the eastern overthrust belt, which ex
tends from Alabama to New York, is considered one of
this country’s real frontiers for gas exploration.”
He said the gas resulted from the decomposition of
organic matter.
Boiling Springs Civic
Leader Sue combs
Saturday
James Landrum “Jim” Beason, 55, died Sunday at
10:30 a.m. at Cleveland Memorial Hospital.
An active civic leader in the town of Boiling Springs,
Beason was owner and operator of Cleveland Sandwich
Co. which was founded in 1926 by his father, Belton
Gibson Beason. The elder Beason made sandwiches
in a building on Main Street in Boiling Springs and then
sold them to concessions around the Carolinas, part
icularly in textile mills. That same year he opened
The Snack Shop, an outlet for the sandwich company’s
product. Beason grew up in the family business and,
product. Beason gres up in the family business and
eventually took over.
Beason was a Boiling Springs Town Commissioner
from 1947 until 1975. He was an active member of the
Cleveland County Democratic Party serving as president
of the Boiling Springs precinct for 25 years.
Beason was also former board chairman at Crawley
Memorial Hospital and served on the board at Cleveland
Memorial Hospital. He also chaired the fund raising
committee at Crawley Memorial.
A former trustee of Gardner-Webb College, Beason
was a director of the Bulldog Club and was named Bulldog
of the Year 1974-75.
He was on the board of directors at Independence
National Bank.
A Mason and Woodman of the World, Beason was former
president of the Boiling Springs Lions Club. He was
a Scout committeeman and member of the Boiling Springs
Baptist Church where he was a former R.A. leader,
a former deacon, and a member of Dr. Larry Sale’s
Sunday school class.
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