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Reaganomics Working In Boiling Springs?
ANNA TAYLOR,
VIEW STAFF
At The
Cross Roads
“Reaganomics,” the term coined for
the President’s economic policy of
reduced spending for social services, a
July tax cut, and an increase in defense is
on the minds of people in Boiling Springs
as well as Washington.
Tom Webster, general manager of Ab’s,
Inc., believes President Reagan’s
economic program is working, but thinks
“a tougher policy is needed on imports,”
including foreign manufactured fabrics.
Webster doesn’t think such imports are
over-taxed.
“There will be a psychological help for
the lower wage earners on tax cuts” in
July, Webster said, and he is willing to
accept higher unemployment as a trade
off for reduced inflation and economic
recovery:
“With everyone hollaring about
unemployment,” Webster declares,
“there’s ho law that says everyone has to
be employed.”
Virginia Harris, owner of Boiling
Springs Drug Co., also is “willing to bite
the bullet” with reduced government
services, but thinks some of the
pro-Reagan.
“By the end of summer,” she says,
“things will look a little rosier on the
outlook of all businesses. I hope.”
In other news At The Cross Roads:
“There's no law that
says everyone has to
be employed. ”
President’s cuts in social service budgets
went too far. “But of course I’rn a
Democrat,” Mrs.'*parris adds.
Catherine Sneed, bookeeper for Ole
South Ham & Biscuit, also has
qualifications, but is more pronouncedly
An all-game horse show will be spon
sored by the Boiling Springs rural fire
department March 28, Sunday, at 1 p.m.
The show will be held between Boiling
Springs and Gaffney, South Carolina, on
the Camps Creek Church Road off High
way 150. Children under six will be ad
mitted free, and tickets for adults are
$6.00. Refreshments will be sold on the
showgrounds, and spectators are asked to
bring their own chairs.
For more information, call the rural
department at 434-6881.
The Foothills View
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THURS., MARCH 25,1982
BOILING SPRINGS, NC
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Miss Ollie” Speaks
Winn Funeral
F'lvo It Set Thursday
Talk About History
BY MELANIE MESSER AND
TOM RABON, VIEW STAFF
“My ancestors were brought from Africa, they
were sold in Virginia, from Virginia they came to
this area. Here is where I have my roots and I am
proud of it.”
Thus Miss Ezra Bridges, retired Shelby school
teacher, began her “Personal Storehouses of
Memory,” an oral history panel held Thursday after
noon in the seminar room of the John R. Dover
Memorial Library at Gardner-Webb College.
Miss Hamrick talked briefly on her ancestry which
in Cleveland County dates back to 1725. “The Indians
were terrible back then in Cleveland,” she said, and
told of her great-great-grandfather William Holland,
who one day propped his gun against the bottom of a
fruit tree and climbed it to pick its fruit. Indians
came by, grabbed the gun, shot and killed him.
“That sounds fancy, but that’s fact,” she said.
Dr. John Hamrick spoke of the significant changes
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“Oral history determines
the color and vitality of
our civilization."
— Dr: Wyan Washburn
Tuesday morning Evelyn
Lovelace blinked back tears
as she handed starched shirts
and pressed dresses over the
counter of the Nu Way
Cleaners. The usually cheery
Mrs. Lovelace ' just had
learned that her former
employer and long-time
friend, Mrs. Rebecca Bridges
Winn, died that morning.
Mrs. Winn, 68, will be buried
Thursday at Cleveland
Memorial Park after services
conducted at Boiling Springs
Baptist Church at 3:30 p.m.
She had died after a short
illness at Crawley Memorial
Hospital.
“She loved to work,” Mrs.
Lovelace said, recalling how
she and Mrs. Winn operated
Winn’s Cleaners in Boiling
Springs, located where Ab’s
Inc. now stands,
“After she went home from
the cleaners she’d sit up half
the night if it pleased her
working on draperies and
quilts,” Mrs. Lovelace said. “I
used to get after her
sometimes for doing so
much.”
Mrs. Winn retired after
operating Winn’s Cleaners for
almost 25 years. But with her
love of work she soon took up
another vocation: she became
a nurse’s aide.
Mrs. Winn worked several
years at Shelby Convalescent
Center, Mrs. Lovelace said,
partially fulfilling a girlhood
ambition to be a nurse.
“She used to tell me when
she was a girl after she had
finished high school she had
always wanted to go on to
nursing school.”
Her parents were the late
Everett and Clementine
Bridges.
Mrs. Winq was a member of
the Flint Hills Chapter of the
Daughters of the American
Revolution, Boiling Springs
Baptist Church, and the
Gardner-Webb College
Womens’ Club.
Survivors include her
husband, James Odus Winn; a
son, James L. Winn of Boiling
Springs; a brother, Norman
Bridges of Shelby; and two
grandchildren.
PHOTO BY LISA PETTUS
Hit-And-Run
About 50-60 people heard panel members Brooks
Piercy, Miss Ollie Hamrick, Dr. John Hamrick, Miss
Bridges, and Dr. Wyan Washburn relate personal ac
counts of Boiling Springs’ past. Lansford Jolley, pro
fessor of social science at the college, moderated the
panel.
Brooks, a retired agricultural teacher, recalled
tractors were rare when he came to Boiling Springs
in 1937.
“Miss Ollie,” as Dr. Jolley introduced Miss
Hamrick, “has probably seen more history in the
making than anyone else in Cleveland County.” Miss
Hamrick, 107, is Boiling Springs’ oldest resident.
“She doesn’t dwell on ancestry because (she
believes) it’s what you do yourself that counts,” Dr.
Jolley said.
he had seen concerning health care, such as in
dustrial plants taking out hospitalization insurance
on their employees.
Dr. Wyan Washburn, a chief founder of the
Cleveland County Historical Museum and a physi
cian in Boiling Springs since 1946 called these songs
and legends the “wonderful tradition in this county of
oral history,” that will “determine the color and
vitality of our civilization.”
Following the panel, a town meeting was held that
night in the Dover Chapel. The speaker was Dr.
Horace Traylor, vice-president for development at
Miami-Dade Junior College.
The project next will meet at Kings Mountain on
April 20.
Reported Here
Police are looking for a
“silver colored” car that
reportedly struck another
vehicle and then drove away
on Main Street early Sunday.
No one was hurt, according
to police, but damages to a
1977 Volkswagon totaled $225.
The driver of the
Volkswagon told police she
was turning left into Varsity
Square apartments about 10
a.m. Sunday when she was
struck by another car passing
on the right. The second car
then continued down North
Main, she said.
She described the second
car as “about the size of a
Vega” with three male oc
cupants.
Boiling Springs police of
ficer Dan Ledbetter is in
vestigating. '
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