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“Come see what we’ve found,” Don Lovelace said, when he and Sherrill Ledbetter
were cutting April grass by the town’s watertower. A rabbit’s warren lay concealed
among the hay, full of “off-spring” like this young fellow. A few months from now he’ll
be the bane of someone’s garden, but for now he’s a handful of beating heart, and Sher
rill carefully replaced the young back into the burrow, and re-covered it with grass.
They're Winners
Two Gardner-Webb senior football
players will be reporting to National Foot
ball League camps this May because of the
recent NFL draft of college players.
Defensive tackle Ralph Warthen, 6-5, 255
pounds, was picked in the eighth round by
the Washington Redskins and defensive
back Charlie Harbison will be signing a
free agent contract with the Buffalo Bills.
Harbison, 6-1,185 pounds, would have been
drafted in the 12th round by the Bills but
last-minute phone problems prevented
them from contacting Gardner-Webb head
coach Tom Moore for a final check.
The odd part of all this is the fact that the
Bills drafted tackle Tony Suber in the 12th
round instead of Harbison. What makes
this odd is that Suber attended Gardner-
Webb College in the spring of 1978 and 1979
but never played for the Bulldogs during
the fall seasons. He left Gardner-Webb in
May of 1979 and recently played football
for the Carolina Chargers of the American
Football Association.
Warthen was no surprise when he was
picked in the 8th round by Washington. The
big man came to Gardner-Webb as a
transfer from the University of Georgia in
1980. His 91 solo tackles in 1980 is a record
and he made the SAC-8 conference and
District 26 first teams. Warthen also was
selected as NAIA 2nd Team All-American
in 1980. In 1981, Warthen made 77 solo
tackles and 37 assists and made 1st Team
District 26 and 2nd team SAC-8.
A knee injury in the fifth game of the
1981 season kept Warthen from breaking
his own tackle record at Gardner-Webb as
that injury kept him out of action for
almost three games. Warthen will report
to the Redskin’s rookie camp May 9.
Bulldog head football coach Tom Moore
stated: “We’re tickled to death that both
Ralph and Charlie are going to get a
chance to play professional football. It
shows the progress we’re making in our
program here at Gardner-Webb.”
Chapter Two
For Cable TV
Which Cable For
Boiling Springs ?
Town council rewrote its cable television
ordinance Tuesday night, and at least one
cable company liked the second version
well enough to reapply for the town’s fran
chise.
Floyd Williams, representing Vision
Cable of Shelby, indicated that his com
pany will reapply when council considers
the ordinance again May 25. If council
grants a franchise to Williams’ firm at that
time, final approval of a cable franchise
could come as early as June 1.
Another cable businessman, Jonas
Bridges of Kings Mountain, had
withdrawn his bid for the town’s business
under the first ordinance, characterizing it
as “too stringent.” Bridges did not in
dicate Tuesday night if he plans to reapp
ly-
Williams had asked the council to recon
sider its first ordinance entitling Boiling
Springs to collect three percent of “any
and all” of a cable company’s revenues in
exchange for a franchise to do business.
“Here’s a very small town with a (cable)
ordinance that’s worse than Charlotte,”
-Bridges said after the first ordinance pass
ed, explaining why his company withdrew.
The city of Charlotte requires its cable
franchise to pay back three percent of fees
collected from basic subscriptions and
such pay services as Home Box Office.
Council amended its three percent to in
clude only subscriptions and pay services,
as Williams had asked. It also amended
the ordinance to allow a cable company to
increase its rates without council ap
proval, as the first ordinance had re
quired.
The amended ordinance is similar to
those under which Vision Cable is franchis
ed in other towns in Cleveland County.
Williams had argued that in fairness to
those towns the ordinance should be
uniform.
In writing the first ordinance town at
torney Michael Kennedy pointed out that
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VISION CABLE OF
SHELBY: 26
channels at $11 per
month three
pay stations — Show
Time, Cinemax, and
The Movie Channel
— at $9 each.
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the Institute of Government has recom
mended a first draft “favorable” to the
town, and that it was easier to delete items
from an ordinance that to add to it.
The Federal Communications Commis
sion in 1977 ruled that communities may
collect three percent on “any and all” of a
cable company’s revenues, and the In
stitute’s recommendation appears to be
modeled after that ruling.
Should Williams’s firm receive a fran
chise under the new ordinance, he propos
ed offereing the town 26 cable channels in
cluding three pay services.
Bridges’ firm before withdrawing had
offered the town 12 subscriber channels
and nine pay services.
Following public discussion of cable
s on to discuss real estate acquisition and
personnel matters.” No action was taken.
In other town news:
Boiling Springs police reported an arrest
on Cove Street early Sunday morning on a
charge of simple possession of controlled
substances.
And So Are They
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A ladies exercise class will be offered
May 10 at Boiling Springs Elementary
school gym. Class registration fee is $12.
The class will meet for five weeks, Monday
and Wednesday nights from 6:00 to 7:00
p.m.
Annual homecoming will be celebrated
at Beaver Dam Baptist Church on Sunday
at 11:00. The program will feature recogni
tion of mothers, a baby dedication service,
a special building fund offering, and lunch
at 12:30. Former members and friends are
invited.
Dr. Vann Murrell, chairman of the
department of religious studies at
Gardner-Webb College has planned a 12-
day tour this summer to Rome, the Middle
East, and Jordan.
The group will depart from Douglas Air
port in Charlotte on Monday, June 14, and
return June 25.
In Rome the group will see the Mamer-
tine Prison, believed to be the place where
the Apostle Paul was kept until he was
beheaded. In the Middle East the group
also will visit the major places where
Jesus went including Bethlehem, the Sea
Lonnie Proctor, professor of physical the college last Thursday, coaches Olym- Anyone interested in the tour should con-
education at Gardner-Webb College and pic participant and winner Garytact Dr. Murrell at 4343-2361
organizer of the Special Olympics held at McMurray.
PHOTO BY LISA PETTUS
Friends
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Shannon Pearson carries on an acquain
tance with this mallard drake at the Boil
ing Springs Elementary School carnival.
The petting zoo was one of the popular ex
hibits at the carnival, which school of
ficials said Tuesday grossed over $3000 for
the school. Sally Thompson, her back to
the camera, wants to change the pecking
order in this relationship. Shannon and
Sally are first-graders at Boiling Springs
Elementary. ,