1981: The Year In Re vie
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Jimmy Greene celebrated victory Nov. 4 after a race
with W.T. Ingram for the mayor’s chair on the Boiling
Springs Council.
Fires at the Stroup dormitory and the Heunrick classroom building at
Gardner -Webb College caused serious damage to each building, but
neither fire resulted in any personal injury.
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The Foothills
Thurs., Dec. 31, 1981
Second Class Postage Paid In Boiling Springs, N. C, 29017
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Congressman James Broyhill came to Boiling Springs
and discussed tax cuts and Social Security with
residents, including Bob Beason (above, right).
$7.00, Per Year Sing.le Copy 15 cents
Two Charged
After Struggle
A late-night struggle with a Boilmg Springs policeman
last Wednesday week'vresulted m the arrests of A Cleve
land County man and his mother.
. Jailed for resisting arrest and aggravated assault was
James-Robert “Roscoe” Pruett. His mother, Ruth
Whittih^efPruett, was arrested for interfering with an
officer .'"Pruett also is charged with violation of NC drug
lews under a warrant issued earlier by Rutherford County
Ideputies.
Ruther^d deputies had attempted to serve the warrant
(in Pruett that Wednesday afternoon, but were unable to
find him at his Cleveland County home. That night about
2 a.m. Boiling Springs police officer Dan Ledbetter
recognized Pruett riding with his mother and another
male passpnger in a car on East College.
Ledbetter stopped the car and ordered Pruett out.
According to pdke, Pruett then broke and ran. The
^Scer caught Pruett aikl had leaned him against the
police car for a search when; according to Ledbetter, the
suspect’s mother approached him from b.ehind and yelled
I for htm to release her son.
- turned to face ber and Pruett “slipped out of
his coat and ran’’ again, according to the police officer.
Bask-ty poiic^ had arrived.and dogs were called in, but
ItM time Pruett eluded police.
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fsueft turned hunaelf in the next day. His mother had
beta arrested WZednesday night nnkreleased on bond.
fi)|i othwr police action. Boiling ii^rings arid Cleveland
piimSss police of^rs recovered a tractor reported stolen
moBS C.J. Hamrick’s last year (see picture and story at
Aa^Kiig ^rings Raacue reported a busy week answering
at eid»t aspende auto wrecks. Rural Fire reported
1 this weok, whiles city passed a quiet seven days
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Patrolman Dan Ledbetter stands by the 2040 John Deere tractor reported
stolen last year and recovered this Monday in the Midpines community.
Ledbetter, assisted by county detective Joe King, returned the $9,500
vehicle to the C. J. Hamrick company after a check of its motor turned up
the same serial numbers as were on a tractor reported stolen June 5, 1980,
from Hamrick’s. The tractor was recovered after it was offered for sale last
week to Hamrick officials, who alerted police after noticing the serial
numbers. An investigation is continuing.
Town
Busmess
On New Year’s Day
Ringing in the New Year will be done mainly on cash registers in Boiling Springs
as most local merchants elect |to stay open on New Year's Day.
Open for regular hours -vUl be- Campus CupboardJColiege Gulf Station, Fast
Fare, Hamrick’s Grocery, Humphries’ Grocery, Ingle’s, Mutt's, Snack Shop, and
the Wagon Wheel.
Closed 1,'ili be Lowe’s Grocery and the Moyie House Restaurant.
^ Area News
The Mountain View Baptist Church of the South .Fork
Association has established a scholarship as a memorial
*0 their beloved pastor.
The $1,000 Harding Caldwell Endowed Scholarship Fund
will provide an annual scholarship with lyicaity givet)
to a student from the Mountain View Church in Maiden,
N.C., who is preparing for fbll time Christian service
or a student from Catawba or Lincoln county preparing
for full-time Christian Service.
Gardner-Webb College has the largest number of students
among the Baptist colleges into church-related vocations.
Gardner-Webb is a liberal arts college affiliated with
the Baptist State Convention of N.C, offering Associate,
Bachelor, and Master’s degrees, ’Hie college is noted
for its independence of federal funding and promotion
of the free enterprise system.
Telecourses for college credit are being offered by
Cleveland Tecljnical College for winter quarter, 1982.
According to Mrs. Sandra Hardm, dean of instruetton,
the two telecougses to begin Saturday, January 16, 1982,
ai'e “Making It Count” and “It’s Everybody’s Business"
including computer languages, programming logic and
hardware/software flmdamentals;
‘It’s EveryboytTs Busmess”, a four-credit course, is
a survey of business operations including management
financing, production and marketing.
Both telecourses to begin, Saturday, January 16, 1982i,
will be broadcast on Channel 17, 33, 58 and Shelby Cab-
levjsion -8. Video tapes of the telecourses may be viewed
in the library on Cleveland Tech’s campus -- 8 a.m.
10 pa.m., Monday-Tfiursday, and 8 a.m. - 4 p.m., Friday.
Telecourse registration is scneduled for Monua^, Jan.
4 from 9 a.m., to 9 p.m. or by appointment with Mrs.
Maxine Romney, Telecourse Moderator, through January
15, 1982.
For further information, call Mrs. Romney, Cleveland
Technical .College, 137 S. Post-Road, Shelby, N.C.'184-4000.
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