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VOL. 95 NUMBER 43
Pledges
Nearing
$50,000
Kings Mountain’s United
Way pledges for 1983 are in-
ching closer to the goal of
$66,000, but volunteers have a
lot of work to do if the goal is
reached by the target date of
November 8.
As of Monday of this week,
pledges totaled $49,435, or 76
percent of the goal, according to
- President Lavon Strickland.
A final report luncheon is
scheduled for Mon., Nov. 1 at
the Holiday Inn. The annual
Victory Dinner is scheduled for
Mon., Nov. 8 at 7 p.m., at which’
time Dwyer Sump, executive
director of the North Carolina
United Way, will be the guest
speaker.
Thus far only one division has
exceeded its goal. Kings Moun-
tain ‘Hospital, with a goal of
$3,000, has raised $3,529.60, or
128 percent of its goal. Tina
Henderson headed that suc-
cessful drive.
Kings Mountain District
Schools is also close to its goal of
$3,000. Schools pledges total
$2,864.29, or 95.5 percent of the:
goal. Grover School exceeded its
goal of $380. :
Kings Mountain United Way
“has exceeded its goal for eight
consecutive years, The last time L
it fell short was in 1974, when
the nation was experiencing a
recession similar to the one it’s in
now.
The bulk of the United Way
funds come from the Industrial
Division and Kings Mountain
has experienced a number of
plant closings and layoffs in the
last year. Thus, that division is
short of its goal of $44,250. Thus
far, Industrial Division pledges
total $35,116.
“We've still got a long way to
go,” said Ms. Strickland, “but
we're going to get there. It just
may take a little longer than
usual.”
The United Way funds several
agencies in the city, county and
state. Agencies, and the amounts
they will receive this year in-
clude the Grover Rescue Squad,
$5,000; Kings Mountain
Ministerial Association Helping
Hand Fund, $10,000; American
Red Cross, $13,000; Piedmont
Council Boy Scouts, $6,200;
Pioneer Council Girl Scouts,
$7,000; Kings Mountain Rescue -
Squad, $5,000; Cleveland Coun-
ty Shelter Home, $5,000;
Ministerial Association
Chaplain, ' $1,000; CODAP,
$2,500; Salvation Army, $2,000;
Mental Health Association of
Cleveland County, $1,000;
Kings Mountain Boys Club,
$1,000; and North Carolina
United Way agencies, $5,857.
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By ELIZABETH STEWART
Paul Hinkle McGinnis. Sr. has
been working all his life and he
doesn’t plan to quit.
His secret of longevity, he said
modestly this week as he
reminisced on his 75th birhday,
is due to an hereditary factor
from a big family who lived long
lives. His many friends in Kings
Mountain affirm that his love
for God, the church , his family,
hard work and caring for his
fellowman have attributed to his
young at heart. His good humor,
his keen memory, his affection
McGinnis Department Store and
C&S Mart, belie his 75 years.
North Carolina Lutheran
Men took the occasion Sunday
to present McGinnis and
honorary life membership citing
him for his “long years of
outstanding service to the
Church of Jesus Christ, his ex-
ample of honesty and integrity in
business and civic affairs, his
love for family and concern for
others.”
The citation was presented
during the 11 o'clock worship
services at Resurrection
Lutheran Church by Carl Webb
of Cherryville, a leader in North
for those he meets everyday at.
Carolina Lutheran Men Of The
success in business and kept him .
“stands today), he actually grew
HONORED—-Paul McGinnis, second from
left, was honored by North Carolina Lutheran
Men in special Sunday ceremonies at Resur-
rection Lutheran Church. Making the presen-
Church.
A Kings Mountain native,
Paul McGinnis is the second of
13 children of the late W. Hinkle
and Iva Harris McGinnis.
Although his home was located
on North Piedmond Avenue
(where the P.G. Padgett home
up on a farm. In those days
everyone in Kings Mountain
raised their own crops and had
cows, hogs, and chickens. His
father came to Kings Mountain
in 1898 as a tinsmith and roofing
contractor and later founded
McGinnis Furniture Company.
Young Paul McGinnis’s first’
job was as a part-time delivery
“boy in the summer months for -
tation is Carl Webb, left, of Cherryville. Look-
ing on are Mrs. Paul McGinnis and Pastor
Gerald Weeks, right.
Finger Drug Store. He later
worked for the late Fred Finger,
Sr. as a soda jerk until Finger
died June 27, 1927.
“I really got a lot of experience
working for Mr. Finger at the
drug store. Nowadays boys don’t
work behind the soda fountains.
It’s a girl’s job”, he laughed.
From Finger Drug he went to
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the old Imperial Theatre and
worked for ‘the late C.T.
Carpenter, Sr. for two years.
After graduating ' from Kings
Mountain High, he wrote in-
dustrial insurance for a year
before going to work for the late
J. Bryon Keeter at the former
Keeter’s Department Store and
began a tenure which lasted 20
years. It was at a hish schol,
basketball game that he meet his
wite, Ethel Hamrick, and they
will celebrate in 1983 their 50th
wedding anniversary.
Paul McGinnis earned quickly
a fine reputation as a super
salesman of men’s clothing and it
was not long until he became
manager of Keeter’s Department
Store. He estimates that during
his 50 year career as a retail mer-
chant he has sold thousands and
thousands of shirts, pants, and
suits. In 1952 Mr. McGinnis
opened McGinnis Department
Store (then located above wher
Dellingers is today) and subse-
quently moved into its S. Bat-
tleground Ave. location 19 years
ago as a family-operated
business. In August 1977 Mr.
- McGinnis joined Lou Sabetti,
Jr., John McGinnis and Doyle
Campbell at C&S Mart, a family
owned and operated business,
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A AR HE 2
By GARY STEWART
: Editor
Being parents of handicapped
children, June Washburn of
Shelby and Melva Huffstetler of
Kings Mountain know all too
well the frustrations parents feel
when they think they don’t
know where to turn.
So, they’ve set their minds on
doing something about it.
The two recently attended a
two-day workshop in Hickory
which instructed parents on
where they could turn for need-
ed services and how to go about
getting the best education possi-
ble for their children.
Now, they’ve planned a
similar workshop at the Western
Steer Family Steak House in
Shelby on November 6, and
hope to see several thousand
parents of handicapped children
there.
The main purpose of the
meeting, which will last from
8:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m., is to in-
struct the parents on laws per-
taining to the education of han-
dicapped children. But they also
hope that out of the meeting will
grow a parents group which can
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~ Workshop To Help Handicapped
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get together on a regular basis
and share information and feel-
ings.
The workshops, which are be-
. ing held all over the state, are
funded by a federal grant and
sponsored by the Parents Educa-
tional Advocacy Center of the
Governor’s Advocacy Council
for Persons with Disabilities.
Toni Jones of the Governor’s
Council and Senator Ollie Harris
met with Mrs. Washburn and
Mrs. Huffstetler Tuesday to
organize the workshop.
The women are spreading the
word about the workshop
through newspaper and radio an-
nouncements, doctors offices,
drug stores and the three
Cleveland County school
systems,
There are over 3,000 school
age handicapped children in
Cleveland County alone, and
Mrs. Washburn and Mrs. Huff-
stetler feel the majority of them
may not be familiar with laws
regarding handicapped children,
nor where parents can turn for
help in other matters.
Mrs. Washburn found herself
in such a situation several years
Symphony Coming To KM
“The North Carolina Sym-
phony Chamber Orchestra,
under the direction of Assistant
Conductor Jackson Parkhurst,
will perform in Barnes
Auditorium, King’s Mountain
Senior School on Wednesday,
November 10 at 8 p.m.
The program includes
Warlock’s Capriole Suite,
Mozart’s Symphony No. 35 in
D. Major, Stringfield’s “Moun-
tain Song” and “Cripple Creek,”
Shostakovich’s Ballet Suite No. 1,
and Strouse’s Musical Highlights
from Annie. : ;
Tickets for this performance
are $6 for adults, $4 for senior
citizens and students and $2 for
children and are available at the
door on the night of the concert.
Jackson Parkhurst, North
Carolina Symphony assistant
conductor and director of educa-
tion since 1980, coordinates all
North Carolina Symphony
children’s concerts, supervises
the Bryan Young Artists Com-
petition held each January, and
coordinates all symphony
ensemble programs and ap-
pearances.
Parkhurst founded the
Brevard (N.C) Chamber Or-
chestra five years ago and was
music director of the Lexington
Park String. Ensemble and direc-
tor of choral music at UNC-
Asheville during 1979-80. He.
was one of 15 conductors
selected from over 100 ap-
plicants to participate in the
American Symphony Orchestra
League’s Institute of Orchestral
Studies at Shenandoah]
Music Festival in 1975.
In addition to conducting or-
chestral music, Parkhurst is also
an accomplished conductor of
opera theatres. He was assistant
. conductor of Opera theatres at
Duke University from 1966-67,
the University of North Carolina
from 1968-69, and the Manhat-
tan School of Music from
1973-74.
Guest conductor of the Bronx
Opera Company in New York
City from 1974-75, Parkhurst
was also a participant in Boris
Goldovsky’s Opera Institute in
North Dartmouth,
Massachusetts, in 1976. :
During the summers of 1981
and 1982 Parkhurst conducted
the Brevard Music Center’s
Transylvania Orchestra and
Repertory Training Orchestra.
He was also coordinator of
Educational Programs and in
charge .of the Repertory Train-
ing Program.
ago. Her six-year-old daughter,
Tara, was born deaf and the
Washburns had been told by
professionals that Tara was not
deaf but severely mentally han-
dicapped. :
“Had we taken their word for
it, she would have been raised as
a mentally retarded child,” Mrs.
Washburn said. :
Instead, the Washburns had
her evaluated further and found
that she was deaf and had a very
high IQ. They took her to Duke
for schooling, only to find out
that one of the best schools for
deaf children--sponsored by
North Carolina School For the
Deaf-was in a church in Shelby
within a mile of her home.
Ms. Jones said part of the
workshop will deal with teaching
parents how to go into an educa-
tional institution and see that
laws are enforced.
“It’s one thing to know what
the law is and then go in and get
DISCUSS WORKSHOP —State Senator Ollie
Harris and Toni Jones of the Governor's Office,
center, talks over plans for an upcoming
workshop in Shelby which will teach parents
in the North
Carolina laws concerning education of han-
dicapped children. Cleveland County parents
of handicapped children
everything the law says enforc-
ed,” Ms. Jones said. “Part of the
training is to teach parents to go
in and get the services knowing
that they might hear about
budgetary problems.”
The workshop will also stress
the importance of parents fin-
ding out early in their child’s life
what his handicap is and doing
something about it.
Mrs. Huffstetler, whose nine-
month-old son suffered brain
damage at birth, considers
herself fortunate that she knew
of his handicap early. He’s been
in therapy since the age of two
months.
Mrs. Washburn said she had
to “push and shove” to find out
what was available for her child.
“A lot of parents seem to sit back
and wait and take the attitude
that Gf there’s a program out
there someone will tell us about
it’,” she said.
Ms. Jones said informed
parents “can make a difference
in what programs are available.
We need parents to keep what
we have.” She said parents work-
ing hand in hand with educators
to plan curriculum would make
a tremendous difference in the
education of handicapped
children.
The parent workshops will be
funded by the federal govern-
ment through June of 1983, Ms.
Jones said. At that time, the
hope is that the Parent Center
will become a non-profit
organization and apply for
federal grants on its own.
There are only 17 centers in
the United States.
“Any parents needing transpor-
tation or any other information
concerning the workshop should
call Mrs. Washburn at 4874973
or Mrs. Huffstetler at 739-3680.
who will be coordinating the workshop and
also striving to organize a parent support
group are Melva Huffstetler, left. of Kings
Mountain, and June Washburn of Shelby. Ac-
cording to the women, there are over 3,000
handicapped children in Cleveland County.