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Naming Nam es: Round l wo
Competition between two names for a road in
front of Beaver Dam Baptist Church has resulted
in a petition signed by 100 people last Monday week
urging county adoption of the church’s name.
Rev. Paul M. Sorrells, pastor at Beaver Dam,
acknowledged in an interview that the petition
drive came as a result of the county’s considering
Hamrick Road as the combined name for roads
1153 and 1158. Numbered roads are being named
by the county next month in order to speed mail
and emergency vehicles.
At a meeting Jan. 26 to consider tentative
names, county cOmmmlssioners orginally offered
Beaver Dam Church Road for 1153 and 1158, a 5.5
mile stretch of blacktop that runs from the Baptist
church northeast of Boiling Springs through the
town to its western boundry.
J.W. Hamrick, a local dairy farmer, then asked
the commissioners to name part of that highway
Hamrick Road.
“Ninety-nine per cent of that road comes
through Hamrick land or comes by it,” he told the
commissioners in January.
After the commissioners agreed to consider
Hamrick’s nomination. Rev. Sorrells organized
the petition, which he presented to them last week.
Final names will be fixed April 19.
Rev. Sorrells mailed a copy of the letter ac
companying the petition to the View. Here is the
letter:
“Dear Editor:
“We folks here at Beaver Dam Baptist Church
are thankful for all the publicity we have received
concerning the name of the road that runs by our
church. We too are interested in the road name, as
most of us would like to see it remain Beaver Dam
Church Road. Here are some of the reasons:
“1. The road has been known for some years by
fine people. However, if the naming of roads is to
aid in emergencies, confusion might result from
other roads with the name of Hamrick. For
example, there is a Hamrick Street in Shelby, a
Hamrick Avenue in Boiling Springs, and a
Hamrick Drive in Spring Valley here in Beaver
Dam.
“4. For emergency services, established land-
roads after churches: Mt. Sinai Church Road;
Flint Hill Church Road; Pleasant Ridge Church
Road, etc. So we hope they will continue the
tradition.
“6. We are in the process of constructing a new
building, and we think it will do honor to a road
designated as Beaver Dam Church Road.
“7. To support our position, we have submitted a
petition to county officials containing the names of
99 voter-age persons (many of them Hamricks)
“For emergency services, established land who are asking county officals to hear us.
Thank you for the responsible task you are
marks are more valuable than family '''
names. Beaver Dam Church has stood at
, . Disputes between surnames and landmarks
SR me PlRCe for 132 yeRVS. It is R appear inevitable in determining what to call
Jr •/ roads, but the man who picked the tentative names
well-known landmark in Cleveland Com-
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that name. Almost every week, we recive mail
here at the church addressed to Beaver Dam
Church Road.
“2. The road is already designated as such in the
Shelby phone directory.
“3. We understand that the name, Hamrick
Road, has been suggested, and the Hamricks are
marks are more valuable than family names.
Beaver Dam Church Church has stood at the same
place for 132 years. It is a well-known landmark in
Cleveland County.
“5. We might even feel county officials were
prejucied against us if they did not name the road
after the church! After all, they have named other
family names,” said Hunt Hannah of the county
tax map office. “But I’m dead against personal
names unless it’s a case where it’s real old, in use a
long time.”
Hannah originally picked Beaver Dam Church
Road as the name to present at the Jan. 26
meeting. He used church names whenever
possible in picking names for the county, he said,
in order to avoid duplicated or similar-sounding
Please turn to Names, page 6.
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THURS., MARCH 11, 1982
BOILING SPRINGS, NC
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Crime That’s
Churches Gather
Going ’Round
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Somebody out there likes them Chief Gordon Washburn says his department has a
What they like are expensive wire wheelcovers “partial ID” on the suspects,
and hubcaps that can average $400 a set — and that How to stop them? A wheelcover “lock” on
belong to other people. newer cars actually is just an unusual bolt that
Thefts of wheelcovers and hubcaps occur twice a requires a thief to spend more time with a wrench,
week in the county according to an average of The best preventive, according to Chief Washburn,
sheriff’s reports since February. Boiling Springs is is to engrave the wheelcovers with the owner’s
not exempt: the town has reported four sets of social security number
wheel and lug covers stolen in the past five weeks. Engraved covers will either prevent a thief from
and there have been several thefts from campus- taking them or aid in their recovery if he does,
parked cars at Gardner-Webb College. Washburn said.
“The problem,” said a Boiling Springs auto Gardner-Webb Police Department will have an
parts dealer, “is that they (thieves) can sell them engraver available to the public the week of March
for $50 a piece like this.” He snapped his fingers. 15 to mark wheelcovers and other valuables
In the snap of a hubcap a car owner also can lose Washburn said,
hundreds of dollars as learned by Gail Ernest The View will publish the time and place next
Jones of Boiling Springs, who reported the theft of week.
$350 worth of hubcaps from a car at the K-Mart
parking lot last Saturday.
Jones can take cold comfort in that thieves are
no respecter of persons. Councilman John Wash
burn reported the theft of four wire wheelcovers
In other police news.
a freak accident resulted in two cars’ being
from his car parked beside his home the night of damaged $300 each when a man-hole cover was
Peb.24. disjarred by traffic in front of Varsity Square
That night Gardner-Webb College police chased apartments Saturday night. The two cars hit the
two suspects on West College after students cover before it could be put back in place,
reported seeing two men removing hubcaps from a
car parked by a woman’s dormitory. Although the Craftsman tools valued at $2370 were repo
two eluded police, four hubcaps were covered and stolen Tuesday from the No. 1 Township.
For History
The fourth of six programs on “Cleveland
County in Transition” will take place March 18 at
Gardner-Webb College.
“Resources Churches, Schools, Helping
Agencies and Values: Continuity and
Change” is the fourth segment of the National
Endowment for the Humanities project coor
dinated by Cleveland Technical College.
The College’s library is one of five cooperating in
the project. Activities will begin at 10:00 a.m. with
a talk and discussion on families under stress from
technological change.
Displays of helping agencies Red Cross,
Cleveland County Health Department, and fire
departments from Boiling Springs, and displays
by the Episcopal women and the Salvation Army
will be followed by musical entertainment in
the library at 3:15 p.m.
A major event is the oral history panel at 3:45
with a group of the county’s elder citizens recalling
aspects of earlier days in the area. Lansford Jolley
of Gardner-Webb College will moderate the panel.
^he library also hosts a tour of its collections,
displays, and computer technologies, with a 5:15
p.m. film on libraries.
Following a dinner at Gardner-Webb (cost
$3.50 by reservation through Cleveland Tech, 484—
4000, by March 15), the Town Meeting will take
place in Gardner—Webb’s Dover Chapel at 7:30
p.m.
WBTV’s Diana Williams will be the master of
ceremonies, and the prinicpal speaker is Dr.
Horace Traylor, vice-president for development at
Florida’s Miami—Dade Community College.
After a sound—slide presentation on churches,
schools, and agencies, a panel of persons involved
with religion, education, and other services will
speak and respond to audience questions.
Panelists include: Rev. Herb Cale, associate
minister, Shelby Presbyterian Church; Mrs.
Martha London, retired schoolteacher, supervisor,
and pricipal, Cleveland County schools;
Mr. William Campbell, chairman, Shelby City
Board of Education; Mr. Worth Morris, retired
businessman, co-owner of Lee’s Home and Office
Supplies; Mr. Bob Canabiss, chairman, Cleveland
County Board of Education; Rev. D. A. Costner,
retired schoolteacher and minister, St. Peter’s
Baptist Church, Grover;
Dr. John Drayer, associate professor of religion,
Gardner-Webb College; Dr. John Bakita,
Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences,
and Dr.
Central Piedmont Community College;
Traylor.
Earlier meetings have dealt with land use, the
transitional familiy, and the impact of industry on
Cleveland County. The March program is ex
pected to draw a full house of interested county
citizens.
Area News
The Lucille Wall
Music Club met Monday
night, Feb. 22, at the
Boiling Springs
Methodist Fellowship
Hall.
The club also studied
‘‘The Parade of
American Music” this
month. Mrs. B.B. Big-
gerstaff, program
chairperson, discussed
church music in the
United States from 1494
to the present time. The
club sang hymns that
had been written and us
ed throughout the years.
Mrs. K. Kenneth Blan
ton was organist.
The ^rogam ended
w i t h ‘ ‘ I n
Rememberance” from
Celebrate Life with
guests Nelson McDaniel
and Jill Biggerstaff ac
companist. Hostesses
were Mrs. James B.
Doggett and Mrs.
Maurice Huskey.
The Leukemia Society
of America, North
Carolina Chapter, an
nounced today that the
1982 Cycle for Life
Chairperson for Boiling
Springs will be Mrs.
Nancy Blalock.
Cleveland Technical
College announced a
three-week mini-course
in Career Planning for
unemployed men and
women, displaced
homemakers, and
single parents. The
course will Include basic
job search skills
training and will begin
March 15.
For more information
and preregistration, call
Cleveland Tech’s
Department of Con
tinuing Education at
484-4014.
Editor’s note: “The drive hit me again to write,”
said the letter from Mrs. Carl L. (Lula) Hamrick,
enclosing a poem “listing what I deem some of our
little town’s assets.” The poem itself and Mrs.
Hamrick both are assets to Boiling Springs, and
we are happy to print the poem on page four,
thanking the author for submitting it to the View
and for her patience in waiting until we had space
to print it in full.
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