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I - 'i.rnAifs witUir. •■'•-i'sif; <*!•'' s -j ^>’ni>W«,. -', lv<’ ♦■-Wi IWWf Kt<iBNt1WM HgRiM.D.^aNgS MOUNTAIN, N. 'ffiunday, OcloBar 5,1^*72 MORE ABOUT KMHS HOMECOMING MORE ABOUT COUNTY FAIR PARADE LINE-UP The homecoming parade wil! form on West Gold street, turn on Railroad Avenue to the ovei- head bridge, proceed down King street to Piedmont and from Piedmont to Mountain, Irom Mountain to Battleground and from Battleground to Gold street where it will disband. Members of the Homecoming Court, senior football sponsors, and members of the 1922 f ootball Team wil! lead the parade throughout downtown strirets which will include 12 lloats and the Kings Mountain h.gh school band. Players from the 1922 team who are being invited to paitici- pate in Friday evening lostivities include ■ Fred Plonk, J. M. Mc Ginnis, Howard Pursley, Plato Goforth, Jake Hold, Joe Lee Woodward all of Kings Moun tain; H. Tom Fulton of Tennes see; Herman Hayes of Florida; Hoyt Mattnews of Chariotte; Odell McGinnis of Gastonia; Tom Saunders of Virginia and Clcm- onsee Boone of Radford, Va. the Great Boros, aerial thrill champion and the Circus Band. Burger's Animal Revue will per form at the Monday through Sat urday evening grandstand shows. Monday night’s show will foa- ture Lonzo and Oscar, the Blue Ridge Quartet and the Mark Four, in addition to the acts ap pearing each evening. Wednes day night, the special attraction will be a Demolition Derby, “World’s Greatest Thrill Specta cular.” Fireworks {^isp!ays will be presented nightly following the grandstand shows by the New York Fireworks company. Spe cial guests to appear on stage at the Tite.^day evening grandstand show will be the North Carolina Dogwood Queen, LeAnn Kenner of Statesville. On .Wednesday night local beauty queens have been invited; Miss Shelby, Marla Alsohrook; and Miss Black Cleve land County, Denise Dillingham of Shelby. Also appearing on Wedne.sday night will be the North Carolina Rhododendron Queen, Marcia Patrice Burton of Hickory and she will he guest of the fair again on Thursday and Friday nights. Sponsors for the Senior players are: Queenie .Mackie for Ilarly Davis; Vickie Farris for Jacoo Bridges; Lynn Jones for John Bridges; Sharon Plonk for Lanny Thornburg; Marlene iBoyd for Allred Ashe; Oehbie Plumbiey for Tommy Shirley; Kathy Led ford for Chris Johnson; Terry Davis for Jay Von Smith; Shelia Toliver for Marcus Floyd; Becky Scruggs lor Jerry Valentine; Janet Bridges for Mark George; Vickie Putnam for Myron George; and Roxanne Rhea lor Dennis Trout. .Stock car races wil! be held Saturday, October 7, and Srtur, day, October 14 with the grand stand opening at 12:30 p. m. and race time scheduled for 2:30 p. m. on these two dates. Bridges Chain Dog Committee LEHER TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir: Ward V Commissioner Jonas Bridges has been named chair man o£ an eight-member ntayicral committee to study the city’s present dog ordinance and work with the county in establishimen cl a dog pound. Mayor John Moss made the ■appointments yesterday. Other committee members are Mrs. Otis Falls, Sr., Joel C. M'arable, Mrs. Maude Walker, Gerald D. ’Thom- asson, Mrs. Thelma Moniroe, Lar ry Bryant and Chief Thomas Mc- Devitt. Aim of the committee is three fold: to study present ordinances ,and ordinances concerning stray degs; work with the county oh ordinances and policies and sup port the establisb.-nent of a coun ty dog pound. lobs Wanted For Handicapped Visitors wiil be invited to tour the fieldhouse at the close of the ceremonies and a homecom.ng dance will be heUr in the school gymnasium honoring the Queen and her court. This year the fair will opc-ata on Sunday (Oct. 8) from 1 p. m. to 6:30 p. m. All rides, exhibit halls, cattle barns and food stands will bo operating. There will he no games or shows in op eration Sunday afternoon. The Cleveland County Fair Associa tion wi'I present free at 2 p. m. in the grandstand a 2 1-2 hour pro cram of good gosnel singing un der direction of Bill Bridges of Shelby, and featuring the favor ite gospel singers from North and South Carolina. COUNT~ ; 1..USIC ENTERTAINER HONORED — Loretta Lynn, r ' ... bi Country Music, was honored with a plaque recognizing her as "Entertainer of the Decode" by Crossroads Music Fork in the Oak Grove community Sunday. Making the presentation is Kings Mountain Mayor John Henry Moss, right. M.’ss Lynn and her “Coal Miners" band (in background) presented two shows to capacity crowds. A television personedity and stor of the Grand Ole Opery of Nashville, Tennessee, she is a housewife and the mother of twin girls. (Herald Photo by Walter Bess, Jr.) This is “Hire the Handicapped Week” .as proclaimed toy Governor Rooert W. Scott. KM Native Harvey Bumgardner Is NCSU Director Oi Peru Project The Mayor’s Committee on Em ployment of the Handicapped met recently at the Employment Se curity Office in Shelby. Franklin Sare, the Local Manager, wel comed the Committee and ex pressed appreciation for this con cerned group of citizens who give uaselfislily of their time and tal ents to help increase the ci .'/or- tiinities for handicapped per sons.” Having read the Gastonia Gaz ette’s Editorial page of Oct. 1, 1972 Caption: POW’s finally freed; now what will they testi fy? Also having read by Robert Betts, ol Copley News Service, Captioned: Despite Claims To Contrary POW’s Remain Politldal- ly Held. As follows — ‘Medieval tortures are nothing in compari son to the afomic age brain washing. A priest who was a prisoner of the Communiist far three years is thus quieted in a study recently put out by the U. S. Library of Congress entitled. Communist Treatment ol Prison ers of War: An Historical Survey”. The priest. Father Paul Jeandel describes the kind of ipersuasion that amputates your soul and grafts another one upon you . . . The victims must approve and justify in their own eyes the measures wihich crush them. They must recognize themselves guilty and ibelieve in the crimes which they have not committed. He continues: I have seen men leave; camp 'Who were dead and did not know it, for they had lost their own personality and had become slogan-reciting robots. I myseJf nearly lost my reason. The study shows there is noth ing really new about Hanoi’s maltreatment of American and allied POW’s. The methods fol low much the same pattern as that established by the Soviets in World War 11 and continued by the Chinese and North Koreans in the Korean War. That such a continuity should exist is not sur prising, the report states, because in the eyes of Conmmunists every where POW’s are not human be ings but political pawns—to be broken psychologically so that they can be used against their own country and to be exploited withour pity of any kind, as in struments of political warfare di rected against their own fami lies. The U. S. government has submitted a list of more than a dozen violations of the Geneva Convention, by North Vietnamese. Prisoners have been tortured pub licly paraded through the streets, pres-sured fntp mailcing broadcasts of alleged confessions and denied medical treatment. There are sev eral documented cases of prison ers who have not been listed as POW’s in accordanc* with the prime requirement of the Gene va Convention. End of Quote; Since time and siplace will not permit, it behooves each Ameri can to take another look at one’s self and ask ourselves, ‘‘Has it really been worth the price in which America has had to pay such a great price for so many American lives In and for a na- cult question to answer. Since we the American public, doesn’t have whatsoever an inkling as to the real reason and purpose for this heil’sh war which has ■been cre ated for and against the will of the poo.ple of America. Only those whom are and were in power really have the answer. Was it due to an expected recession? Or perhaps an expected depression? Bltom a plea of the nation which was divided in its self? In Which America has lost many lives. On ly time and history will ever have the true known facts. Why not the readers voice their per sonal opinions? It just may help someone to come up with the answers. Respectfully, 'Everette 'H. Pearspn Yule Parade Entry Invited Plans are shaping for the tion so small? Which is a dlffi- third annual Kings Mountain Christmas Parade which will be ■held Friday, December 1, at 4 p.m, Chairm^an of this year’s parade, sponsored by the Kings Mountain Merchants Association, is Bob Smith. Anyone wanting to make an entry in the parade are urged to contact Mr. Smith at First-Citi zens Bank & Trust Company or President Jim Downey at Western Auto Associate Store, MORE ABOUT UNITED FUND the response we’ve had,” he con tinued. “A lot of people are will ing to work and this is what I’m real appreciative of.’’ Bates added that any persons who have not been contacted who want to make a contribution may do so by contacting him at the City Schools Administration of fice, 739-45S9. The United Fund workers will spend the rest of this week with concentrated efforts to raise funds and will then spend anoth er six weeks of follow-up. A'l visitors to the fair wil; be eligible to register one time each day in the new livestock barn for a guarnsey heifer calf, do nated by the Cleveland County Guernsey (Breeders association, to be given away before the grand stand Friday evening (Oct. 13) at 8 p. m. Fair visitors are also in vited to register one time each day for a free bale of cotton to be given away by the fair a.sso- ciation before the grandstand Sat urday evening (Oct. 14) at S When Dr. Harvey L. Bumgard ner left his native Kings Moun tain as a high school graduate, he had no definite plans for the future. p. m. Club Festival Plans Underway The Woman’s club is promising its most fabulous collection of fall festival items ever assem- y bled under one roof at the 69th community fe.stival October ISth. Format of the fair will fol low those of former years with both lunch and the evening meal to be served. Fair-goers may se lect any number of goodies at a bazaar section in the lounge of the club house and view a variety of decoupage, flowers, crafts, paintings and children’s exhibits in the auditorium. Mrs. Ben T. Goforth, chairman of arts and crafts, said entries are invited and women placing entries may report their name and entry, if they prefer, to Ben T. Goforth Plumbing during the day or at her home during the . evening hours. V All entries in all divisions • should he displayed at the Wom an’s club the evening before the show from 2 until n p. m. and from 7 until 9 p. m., re.minds Mrs. Haywoodp E. Lynch, club president. Mrs. Lynch slated appreciation to Griffin Drug company anti Kings Mountain Drug company who are supplying free ice cream ior the two meal-s. Mrs. Paul Maunev. Mrs. Char les Maunoy. and Mrs. Helen R. Blanton have planned the menu for the festival and women are busy preparing bazaar items. All persons 75 years of age and over will be admitted free to the fairgrounds every day. They wil! he asko<l to register, and a drawing will he held Saturday evening (Oct. 14) for a valuable prize. All public school children in this .section will be admitted free to the fairgrounds on Fri day (Oct. 6), Tuesday, (Oct. 10), and Friday (Oct. 13) on tickets they will secure from their re spective school pr’ncipals. There will be reducc<! rates on all rides for chi'dren till 7 p. m. on these special school days. Many attractions await visit ors to the 49th annual Cleveland County Fair -interesting exhibits and displays wi'I fill the exh bit buildings -the best in rides and shows will be on the midway plus entertaining grandstand programs Sunday afternoon and each night except Sunday night) and the big stock car races Satur day afternoons. Six Winneis To Chariotte Kiwanis To Tap New Officeis Six local punt, pass and kick winners will go to Charlotte Sat urday to participate in district competition. Winning in last Saturday’s lo cal Jaycee-sponsored competition were eight-year old iMark Cham pion, nine year old Todd Blalock, 10 years old Eric Dixon, 11 year old Barry Ledford. 12 year old Roy Pearson Jr„ and 13 year old Richard Eddins. The district competition on Saturday will begin at 10 a. m. at Bryant Par'.<, behind WBTV on We.'^t Marolwad street. AH contestant.; -ire urged to arrive no later than 9:30 in order to prac tice. W. Lewis Dc'ltnger, Kings Mountain jeweler, will be install ed as president of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club Thursday night at 6:45 p. m. at the Wom an’s club. Dr. Frank Sincox will be in charge of an entertainment pro gram prior to the installation of officers. Other new officers are Donald Parker, first vice-pre.ddent; Mar vin Tcer, second vice-president: Donald Blanton, secretary; John McGill, treasurer; George West, assistant treasurer; and Lou Sa- bettie, past president and ex offi cio member of the board of di rectors. Wives Of Kiwanians are invited to attend. Midview Sets Gospel Sing Midview Baptist church will sponsor a gospel sing Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. The Maltha Familv of North Wilkesboro and the Doss Fami’y of China Grove will fe-itorc the program, lo which the interested community is hnilcd to attend. The local Jayccos had a record .59 youngsters to participate in last .Saturday’s competition. The complete list includes: EIGHT YFARS OLD; Mark Champion, Kevin Jone.s, Lindsay Davis, David Grant, Barry Low- ranee. .Lames Rikard, Gregorv In gram, Eric King and Bobby Lingerfclt. NINE YEARS OLD: Todd Bla- !o'‘k. Bryan Norris, Steven Craw ford, Rorlncy Cobb, Wally Davis. Johnny Grant, Dale Greene, Craig Roberts. Lee Neisler, Dexter Tate. Trent Thoma.s.son, Erie My- e>s. Eric l.ingerfelt, Duane King, Billy Keetor and James Neal. TFIN YFIARS OLD: Erie Dixon, ,Ietf Clonmger, Mark Hullcnrier, Srott Bueh.nnan, Craig Champion, Hry in Hardin. Lerrv Pearson, Jeff Ross, Dennis Wright, John Warlick. and Duane Brown. ELFIVEN YEARS OLD: Barry Ledford. Aaron Wi'.son, Jeff In gram, Robbie Biggerstaff, Tom my Buchanan. Kenny Lowranee, Mickey Lowrance, and Mike .Spear.s. TWELVE YEARS OLD: Roy Pearson Jr.. Andrew I.oftin Alan C'oninger. Joe Earle. Tim Greene, Christonher Holmes. Mike Howze. Joe Ayers. Jimmy Bridges, and William Navv. THIRTFFN YF.ARS OLD: Richard Fddins, Tom-nv Burke Kevin Tin.slev, Jim Baity and Steve Lancaster. That didn't stop him though. .Since then, he’s done a little of lots of things. Today, he holds the position of director of North Carolina State University’s Peru Contract. But in the years between high school and today; Bumgardner has been a student, marine, professor, re searcher, actor, poultry judging champ and a flower gardner. As director of the Peru Con tract, Bumgardner is head of a 17-year-old program carried on by N. C. State which is aimed at upgrading agriculture in that South American country, His job includes working with the Agen cy for International Development (AID), the principal funding agency for the project, recruit ing personnel to serve in Peru and keeping close contact with students from Peru studying in the U S. According to Bumgardner, the goal is to build institutions in Peru, such as the national agri cultural university at La Molina and the governmental ministry of agriculture, into organizations capable of solving their own nroblems. Since the program was initiated, NC.8U has sent, more than 130 professors, researchers and otho-.- ner.son-ncl from it.s own staff to Peril to work at the uni versity and the ministry of agri culture in training, research and extension programs. Profession als from other institutions have also participated in the project through N. C. State. The lion’s share of funding tor the Peruvian Contract has come from AID. While most of the money from AID has gone toward developing agriculture, funds from the V>ckefeller and Ford Foundations to the Peru Contract have teen used for study in the social sciences. Much of the w ^^ey granted for the program since (1955, which totals around $12 million, has been spent for training Peruvians to teach, conduct research and work in ministry progranis, says Bumgardner. Many Peruvians have earned master's and Ph.D. degrees from N. C. State and other U. S. institutions with funds made available through this con tract, he notes. According to Bumgardner, agri cultural production in Pciru has been on the upswing since the contract was initiated. Scientists have concentrated largely on the fertile coastal region and on major food crops including rice, potatoes, beans and livestock. Production of these crops has increa.sed, hut there remains mu^h room for imnroverncnt, ac cording to Bumgardner. Rice has shown the greatest increase ^ so much that Peru now produces all the rice the country needs. Po tatoes shou'tl become more plen tiful in Peru and all over the world as research developcs at the Internatiotfil Potat'' Center in Lima, an institution also spon- .sorefl by NCSU in the area where potatoes originated, he said. Bum- gardner a'so po’ntcd out that beans are being improved as a valuable source of protein in a country where moat production lags, as it docs in Peru. Scienti.sts have seen success in the training and re.search areas of the program, hut takipg the new information to the farmers of Peru through extension ser vices has not been easv, said ■Bumgardner. Learning the cus toms of a strange cidtarc and nvorcomino languaoo harr'o^'s are just two of the nrob'eros hamp ering progress through extension, he explained. The position Bumgardner held before assuming the director’s seat prepared him for his present duties. From 1966 until 1970, he lived in Peru where he served as Chief of Party, or head of the project. Four years at that post spelled out the program’s needs and gave Bumgardner an overall understanding that enables him to better direct the program’s future. A military take-over of the Peruvian government in 1967 briefly interrupted the work of Bumgardner and other scientists in Peru. According to Bumgard ner, when he wasn’t allowed to work in his office, housed in one of the Peruvian government buildings, he and his staff moved their work to their homes. As soon as the new -Peruvian gov ernment was recognized by the U. S., the scientist? were able to return to their offices with few changes apparent. ■Ml. Ware gave a review of the activities at the .Annual Goveru- cr’s Committee meeting -held in Charlotte. Due to accMents, ill ness and wars, he said, “wc have approximately 20 million handi capped citizens in our nation. This represents about 10% of our population. This is a minority group who make no demands or seek no favors but are deteiimin- ed to utilize theiir abilities in gain.ul employiment. North Caro lina is in the tep ten states in the rehabilitation of the handi capped.” Mr. Camipbell, the key note speaker emphaszed that em ployers can screen the handicapp ed into jobs by matching skills to jobs, remove architectural bar riers, and tell the good news to their friends. Bumgardner’s first assignment to Peru came in 1961 when he was sent there on a short term project relating to poultry, his specialty. In 1963, he was given a two-year assignment to Peru, which lasted instead for more than three years. *• In Cleveland County, 54 per sons are registered with the local Employment Security Office with various handicaps that must ^be considered as suitable job offej-s are made. The local staff wiil be contacting employers during Octo ber to assist these people obtain employment. Training opportunities provided by Vocational Rehabilitation were explained by Frank Hamrick. Mrs. Laney explained the train ing now in progress at Cleveland Technical Institute. He first came to N. C. State in 1955 as an assistant professor of poultry science. 'While w''rk- ing his way toward the status of full professor, Bum.gardner conducted research on problems in the hatching process. The imemters of the local com mittee are Mai Spangler, Victor Rossman, Roddy Eaves, Carlos Young, Richard Steeves, Frank Hamrick, Kyle Smith, Leonard Smith, Paul Hambright, Louise Laney, and Violet Dixon. A'lough he earned his three deuces — bachelor of science from iN. C. State, master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland — all in poultry scien ce, Bumgardner said that he does n’t like chickens, and turkeys less, he says. But like them or not, Bumgardner has an eye for prize winning chickens. He still wears a watch which he won for placing first in the 1950 national collegiate ponitry iudging cham pionship held in Chicago. Chad Hurt When Hit By Car Following graduation from Kings Mountain high school in 1945, Bumgardner went to UNC- Chapel Hill for a year before joining the U. S. Marine corps. After two years of service, he returned to Chapel Hill but couldn’t make up his mind on a major, so he transferred to N. C. State. Having grown up on a farm where cotton, poultry and livestock were raised, and where his father, the late H. B. Bum gardner groomed poultry- for ex hibiting, Bumgardner chose the poultry science curriculum offer ed in the School of Agriculture and Life Sciences. A seven-year-old Kings Moun tain youth was treated for injur ies at Kings Mountain hospital Sunday after being hit by a car when he rode his 'aicycle Into the street in front of his home at 802 Monroe Avenue. Kings Mountain ■police officers Johnny Belk and Richard Rey nolds said Rodney Lee Sellers, son of Mr. and Mrs. iBill Sellers, rode his bike into the path of a car driven by 16-year-old Joseph Curtis Salmon Jr. of 902 Boyce street. The mishap occurred at 11:15 a. m. Sunday. Damage was slight, only $25 to the car and $20 tp young Sellers' bicycle. Beyond the laboratory and the classroom, one of Bumgardner’s favorite interests over the years has been the theater. He has ap peared in several Raleigh Little Theater productions and has taken parts in theater workshops in Peru. During the summer of 1958, Bumgardner was chosen as Ra leigh's Community Ambassador to Po'and as oart of an exchange program called Experiment in International Living. Following that eventful summer, he was called upon to make approxi mately 209 talks to organizations in and around Raleigh relating his impressions of life in Po land. During the warm seasons of the vpar Bumeardner's home at 409 N, East Street is brightened with a garden of co'orfiil .flow ers ranging from Ftonivinn daf fodils to roses, recent'v won at tention in_a Raleigh nevyspaper. Police officers were also called to the scene of a pair of minor traffic accidents. Wednesday at 12:55 p. m., Ptl. C. A. 'Mauney investigated a one- car accident at the intersection of West King and Goforth streets. Howard Dean Belcher, 45, of 504 South Chestnut Street, told officer Mauney he was going west on King Street and met another car. He said the other car was across the center line and he had to swerve to miss it. When he swerved, his car hit a city utility pole, causing $200 damage to his car and another $200 to the util ity pole. Lillie Mae Moore, 37, of Route 1, was driving west on King Street Thursday at 4 p. m. when a car driven by Norman Graham, 33, of Reston, Va., hit her car. Investigating officer G. W. Ed wards estimated damage to Mrs. Moore’s car at $50 and listed damage to Graham’s vehicle at $150. Bumgardner’s mother, his .sis ter. Bessie, and brother. Don, still reside in Kings .Mountain. I COMMUNION The Sacrament of Holy Com- rnunian will be observed at the morning wor.ship hour Sunday at 9; 15 a.m. at Dion Presbyter ian church. Rev. Robert Wil son Will deliver the sermon. USoSavingsBon^ help keep todays plans ftrombecomin tomorirows bvtibndireanis. Ai Mrs. Burlin ment - borah Waynt Mrs. I ton. The of Mrs Kings of W school jjnr-'Rot mother Car Miss whose Falang takes i Kings was h( cently The »\lrs. D Fsister-i: ga. fami hom her her fam the houi atcc whi and whi Mis: Plec (» East vided noon ( of Mis Randy The the di Ihe R ister ( We all have plans. We plan for a vacation, plan to buy a boat, or a house; or send our children through college. And, in order to keep those plans from becoming broken dreams, we ne^ money. That’s where the Payroll Savings Plan comes in handy. When you join where you work, an amount you specify is set aside from your pay- check and used to buy U.S. Savings Bonds. It’s an easy way to save money and collect some interest at the same time. Ke^ today’s plans alive. Buy U.S. Savings Bonds through the Payroll Savings Plan. You won’t end up with a bunch of broken dreams tomorrow. i Mis: ganist tial n were The by he gown lace 1 ‘ signec with lar ai tilla lered to a ( orchic Mrs er, S. i Now E Bond* pay 5! i % inUmt when held jnnlurity of 5 years, lU months (4% the first year). Bonds are rt-plaaed if k>6t, stolen, or destroyed. When ne^ed they can be cashed •t your bank. Interest is not subject to state or local income taxes, and tbderaS tax may be deferred until redemption. Take stock in Americac Now Bonds mature in less than six years. a ma maids and ^ Moun Lenoi ■Doris All iengti empir ices ( peau. dress( arm 1 Tor and 1 beare The ■best r Usb Keith and I gan ( Th( after |fully IjarrU . :rs.
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