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BOILING SPRINGS, NC
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Grew Up Together
Each day in 1925 the six-year old
boy looked out the window at the
grown men sawing boards, hammer
ing nails, and laying brick for the
building next to his parents’ house.
Over half a century later in 1982 he
realized he was looking at history.
Maxwell (Mackie) Hamrick was
the little boy who watched the
building, later to be named for his
grandfather, E. B. Hamrick, be con
structed on the Gardner-Webb Col
lege campus. This month the college
received notification the building
has been accepted into the National
Register of Historic Places.
“I was born in a little house right
next to the old Hamrick building,”
Mackie Hamrick remembers. His
father, the late O.P. Hamrick, had
moved with his family to the campus
when O.P. Hamrick became bursar
and English instructor at the school.
Few would have expected the
teacher’s little boy to have been pre
sent to watch the building in 1925.
‘‘My second son, Mackie, took col
itis,” O.P. Hamrick later wrote in
his autobiography. Born At The
Crossroads. “My father and oldest
brother who had accompanied my
wife to the hospital thought there
was no chance for his recovery.”
“They bought a little coffin for
me,” when he was one year old,
Mackie Hamrick says.
Hamrick is now 63 and appears in
excellent health.
The store where the coffin was
bought belonged to Mackie
Hamrick’s grandfather, Elijah
Hamrick, who contributed generous
ly to the school that later became
Gardner-Webb College.
Above at right is the E. B. Hamrick building as it
looked to young Mackie Hamrick afterjiscom-
pletion in 1925. Most of the oak in the
photograph still stand
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torn down.
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“Granddaddy fed ’em pretty well
during the Depression,” Mackie
Hamrick recalls with a smile.
Elijah Hamrick marked $4000 off
his books which the College owed
him during the 30’s. Gardner-Webb
President J. L. Jenkins later recall
ed that during those hard times “if it
had not been for Brother E- B.
Hamrick and Boiling Springs Bap
tist Church, the College would have
closed down for good.”
On May 30, 1943, a dedication ser
vice has held as part of graduation,
and the building, which had been
known as the Memorial building,
was formally renamed the E. B.
Hamrick building.
E. B. Hamrick Hall is now the
oldest building on the campus of
Gardner-Webb. The Department of
Cultural Resources in Raleigh
recognized the building as being
significant to the early history of the
college and the community of Boil
ing Springs.
The building was originally called
the Memorial Building in honor of
the graduates of the school who serv
ed in World War I.
The Hamrick building is still an
important part of the college’s life.
It currently houses the foreign
language laboratories.
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At The Crossroads
Could you help a friend if
he were choking to death?
A child that’s snakebit?
What if you burned
yourself while cooking sup
per?
Answers and what to do
in these emergencies will
be taught at five classes on
emergency first aid May 27
sponsored by the Cleveland
County 4-H office and the
Boiling Springs Lifesaving
and Rescue Unit.
The workshop is planned
especially for youth 9-12
who are current 4-H’s and
for non-members. Classes
begin at 7 p.m. at the Boil
ing Springs Rescue Squad
building on North Main
Street. To register call the
4-H office at 482-4365.
Boiling Springs Rural
Fire Department will help
with parking at the rodeo
this Saturday and Sunday
at Barry Potter’s arena
just south of Boiling Spr
ings on the Camp Creek
Church Road. Action gets
underway Saturday night
at 8 p.m. and Sunday after
noon at 2 p.m. All monies
raised from admission will
go to defray expenses for
area youngsters going to
the national rodeo competi
tion at Douglas, Wyoming.
graduate from Gardner-
Webb College and a native
of the Bermuda Islands.
Donna’s comparison of
British and North Carolina
secretaries and their pro
cedures is on our page
three “Commentary” in to
day’s View.
Isabell Shuffler Setzer, in
termediate education.
“Celebration of Life” is
When in England, you’ll
come to a “full stgp” not in
a car but a typewriter says
Donna Baptiste, a
secretarial science
Joining Donna at last
Saturday’s graduation at
Gardner-Webb College
were these Boiling Springs
graduates:
Rachel Blanton Jolley,
nursing; Roger Derrick
Mack, management, with
honors; John David
Hamrick, religion; Nancy
Bridges Freeman, in
termediate education;
the theme of the 1982
graduation exercises for
350 seniors on May 28 at 8
p.m. in the Crest High
School stadium.
Lisa Piercy is the student
speaker on “Celebration of
Individuality.”
We have our own
celebration from local mer
chants to recent graduates
from Crest High School and
Gardner-Webb College
beginning on page two of
this week’s View.
Council Okays
Cable Here
“We now have an or
dinance for granting a
franchise” for cable televi
sion said mayor Jimmie
Greene after council
members unanimously ap
proved the second reading
of an amended ordinance
Tuesday night following
two months’ negotiation
between the town and cable
companies.
Visioncable of Shelby,
the only cable company to
have continued negotia
tions with the town, im
mediately made applica
tion under the new or
dinance.
The council’s vote and
the company’s actions
mean that a franchise may
be awarded and work
begun for cable television
in Boiling Springs as early
as the end of June.
Visioncable has agreed
to pay the town 3 percent of
its gross revenues on
subscriptions and pay ser
vices such as Home Box Of
fice under the ordinance
approved Tuesday night.
Council had earlier asked
for a percent on any and all
revenues, and for the last
two months the company
and the town have been
negotiating the difference.
Two other cable com
panies which had asked the
town for its business drop
ped out of competition dur
ing the negotiations.
Council took the cable ac
tion at Tuesday night’s
called meeting to hear
public comment on plans to
spend the town’s estimated
returns of $23,089 on
revenue sharing.
“In the past we’ve been
using our revenue sharing
primarily for capital ex
penditures for water and
sewer and fire,” coun
cilman Max Hamrick told
the other council members.
There were no public
suggestions on other plans
for the money.
In other action, council
accepted the low bid of
$3,009 by Asphalt Paving of
Shelby for paving the road
into the newly-contructed
Artex plant
Council then went into
closed session for one hour
and forty-five minutes to
discuss '“personnel and
real estate acquisition.”
USDA Down
On Dairy?
ASCS NEWS SERVICE
Secretary of Agriculture
John Block proposed
legislation this month
which would give the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
(USDA) discretionary
authority to reduce milk
price support levels in
order to bring down pro
duction.
Block said the legislation
“will begin to bring the
huge public cost now plagu
ing the current program
under control.” Without the
legislation. Brock said the
USDA anticipates spending
$1.94 billion during fiscal
1983 on milk price supports.
Other featuress of
Brock’s plan not needing
congressional approval
are:
establishing more str
ingent guidelines for
Farmers Home Ad-
ministration loans made to
dairy producers;
increasing distrubution
of surplus dairy products in
domestic feeding pro
grams; and
adopting higher milk
standards for fluid milk
sold in the United States
markets to increase the use
of milk solids.
Shots Fired
Into Truck
Police are looking for the
driver of a “light, four-
door” car for questioning
in the shooting of a truck
parked in the Turner
Trucking lot early morning
last Thursday.
Residents near the lot
told police they heard
“about 4 or 5 shots” around
3 a.m. May 20, and police
found the windows shot out
of a white, Peterbilt semi
truck parked there.
The driver of the truck
told police he had noticed
the car and and an occu
pant across the street
before the driver parked
the truck and left it about
2:30 a.m.
No one was hurt in the
shooting, which police say
was by a large caliber .38
or .44 pistol. Damage to the
truck was about $150,
police say.
Talmadge Turner, owner
of the truck, asked anyone
with information to call
him at 434-6095.