The Foothills View
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fiWDNER IV£BB COLUGE LIBRART
THURS., SEPT. 2,1982
BOILING SPRINGS, NC
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The End Of “The Thing’'
John, Jim and Walter Taylor
Local Men’s
Mother Dies
Firemen from the Shanghai department check to make Thing belonging to Mike Harrelson of Boiling Springs. No
certain flames are out in the engine of a 1974 Volkswagon one was injured in the fire, but the vehicle was destroyed.
It was the routine business of being a parent Thursday
night for Mike Harrelson, a biology professor at
Gardner-Webb College and a Boiling Springs resdient:
Harrelson’s son, Kent, had called for a ride home after
the family Volkswagon developed engine trouble.
Harrelson was driving east on Highway 150 about 9:30
p.m. to pick up his son. “Then I saw the firetrucks and
the lights,’’ he said. “It was real scary.”
The Harrelsons’ vehicle had caught fire minutes after
Kent had gotten out of it to call his father. No one was in
jured, but the 1974 Volkswagon Thing was a total loss.
Shanghai Fire Department chief Dennis Hamrick said
a broken or loose gas line spilling fuel was the probable
cause of the blaze. Heat from the engine or a spark from
a plug likely ignited the gas, Hamrick said.
Minutes before Shanghai arrived a can of oil exploded
at the back of the vehicle. The explosion sent a spike of
fire higher Ihah the oak trees beside the road, more than
30 feet jn’the air.
In other police news,
a car reported stolen last week from the Gardner-Webb
College campus was recovered Sunday by Polkvills
police. The vehicle was found abandoned, apparently
pushed off the side of the road. There were no arrests.
Campus police also reported the theft last Monday
week of three amplifiers from the college’s convocation
center. Their value is approximately $5500.
When Weather’s
Junior Miss
Finalist
Contrary, How Does
Garden Grow?
Nancy Justice Taylor
taught three grades at a
time, at a two-room
mountain school near
Franklin, while she raised
five sons, three of them
now Cleveland County
residents.
One of those five sons,
Crest High School football
coach John Taylor,
remembered those school
days after the funeral
Saturday for Mrs. Taylor,
74. Taylor went to school to
his mother in the primary
grades:
“She was probably
tougher on me than she was
the rest of them,” he says.
But the teacher’s lot, he
also remembers, was not
for the frail of spirit.
“We used to all get up
and get there early. She
had to make the fire. The
state would send a little
coal or wood, but she’d take
her classes out in the woods
and they’d pick up sticks
for the stove.” Drinking
water had to be brought
from the spring.
Mrs. Taylor had retired
after 30 years in the
classroom and was
teaching only the ladies’
Sunday School Class, at
Holly Springs Baptist
Church in her native
Macon County, when she
died last Thursday.
“I remember her kind
ness, her attitude, and her
ability to keep going on,”
John Taylor said, after his
return from the funeral
service in Macon County.
Survivors include her
husband, Walter C. Taylor;
sons John and Walter
Taylor Jr. of Boiling
Springs, Jim Taylor of
Shelby, and Joe and Jack
Taylor of Franklin; two
sisters, Emma Smart and
Estella Setzer, of Franklin,
a brother, Butler Justice,
of Franklin, and eight
grandchildren.
Memorials may be sent
to the Nancy Taylor
Memorial Library of Holly
Springs Baptist Church, in
care of Rita Ferguson or
Mrs. Bob Taylor, Rt. 7,
Franklin, N.C., 28734
The completion of
harvest does not mean that
vegetable gardeners
should forget the garden
Ten finalist were chosen
in the 1982-83 Junior Miss
Pageant held August 27-28
among contestants from
Burns, Crest, Kings Moun
tain, and Shelby High
Schools.
Carmen Creach is the
1983 Junior . Miss. Carmen
is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. George Creach. First
runner-up is Kristy Lynn
Whisnant, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Dean Whisnant;
second runner-up, Mary
Rebecca Lamb, daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. Robert
Lamb.
The others among the ten
finalists are:
Rhonda Cooke, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Don Dill
ingham.
Julia Lynn McMurry,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John E. McMurray;
Donna Marie Wright,,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Wright;
Pamela Lynn Rollins,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James V. Rollins;
Lana Darlene Jolley,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Lansford Jolley;
Mary Lynn Magness,
daughter of Mrs. George
Magness;
and Lisa Kelli Dills,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert F. Dills.
Miss Creach will com
pete in the North Carolina
Junior Miss finals in
Greensboro in January.
site until next year. In
stead, county extension
agents say, good gardeners
shoudl begin garden
management practices.
heap if the gardener
desires. However, if the
residue material is com
posted, the compost should
Funeral For
Mrs. Lancaster
not be used in the vegetable
garden until it is complete
ly destroyed, the agents
caution.
As soon as the vegetables
have been harvested or
killed by frost, agents say,
the plant residue should
either be removed from the
garden or tilled into the
soil. This management
practice not only reduces
disease or insect problems
in the residue, the agents
report, but also improves
the appearance of the
garden as well.
The crop residue that is
removed from the garden
may be added to a compost
Most compost piles will
reach temperatures high
enough to destroy most
hramful pathogens present
on or in vegetable residue
added to the pile. However,
if enough time is not allow
ed for complete decomposi
tion to occur, there exist
the possibility for the sur
vival of some pathogens in
side the plant tissue, agents
say.
A cover crop of rye or
wheat should be planted
after the garden cleanup to
help hold the soil in place
and reduce wind erosion
during the winter.
Rev. Max Linnens
remembered Mrs. Maude
Hamrick Lancaster’s bir
thday last month when she
gathered with her three
sister. “She kept us in
stiches with humorous
stories from her girlhood,”
Linnens said.
Mrs. Lancaster died Sun
day at Crawley Memorial
Hospital after a three-week
illness. Linnens spoke at
Boiling Springs Baptist,
where she was a member.
Burial followed at
Cleveland Memorial Park.
Tuesday he recalled that
birthday party at the
funeral for Mrs. Lancaster,
82, as part of what Linnens
said was her “functioning
faith.”
“Maude’s faith was func
tional,” Linnens said. “It
got her through good times
and bad times, through
hurt and happiness.”
Church To Net Members
September Morn
Mrs. Lancaster is surviv
ed by her husband,
Clarance Lancaster; a
daughter, Mrs. Herman
Marjorie Bridges of Boiling
Springs; two brothers from
Kings Mountain and Spar
tanburg; and three sisters:
Mrs. Myrtle Hamrick of
Boiling Springs; Mrs.
Selma Harris of
Mooresboro; and Mrs.
Sudie Crocker of Cliffside.
By Kathryn Hamrick
Special To The View
“Fishing for Choir
Members” is the theme of
this year’s choir carnival
at Boiling Springs Baptist
Church next Wednesday,
Sept. 8, from 2:45 to 3:45
p.m. at the church grounds.
According to Mrs. Nancy
Blalock, children’s choir
co-ordinator, the entertain
ment at the carnival will be
games related to the theme
place outdoors.
Refreshments will be serv
ed. Mrs. Barbara Greene,
choir parents chairman, is
helping plan the activities.
music director.
Attendance at the car
nival and enrollment in a
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of fishing and will take
During the carnival choir is open to all children,
children will be able to regardless of church af-
enroll in the appropriate filiation. Rehersals are
choir: the K-lst grade held each Wednesday
choir, Mrs. Nancy Blalock, afternoon from 2:45-3:45
director; the 2nd-3rd grade pm- with the church pro
choir, Mrs. Wilda Perrin, viding transportation from
director; and the 4th-6th school to the church. These
Hu^VsTrecto Dr"pM ftonlTnd^trforZfeviJai ^ September momtogs gone by, this hay'raker, of the style used
Perrin is the church’s times each year. ’30’s and 40’s, sits in a field on a misty morning in Cleveland County.
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