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Letter To The Editor
In Praise
athryn
Dear Editor,
I have intended for some time to write a letter to you to express my
thanks for publishing the “Farmer’s Wife” each week. After reading
this week’s column, I decided to put it off no longer.
I am sure I speak for the rest of the readers of the Foothills View in
saying we are fortunate to have such a gifted writer in our community.
I have clipped several of her articles and sent them to my family and
friends.
I both enjoy and admire her ability to take every day happenings
and make such interesting articles which we can all relate to.
When I read her column I have no doubt that she is a “super mom”,
a devoted wife, a very religious person and most definitely a talented
writer.
I say thanks again for Kathryn’s articles and all the rest of the
Foothills View each week.
G-W Fastest
Growing
Kathy Sneed
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Compliments, complaints, or in-between - if you have an
opinion you want to share with our readers, write the Foothills
View and we'll put in on the front page. Our address is Box 982,
Boiling Springs, 28017.
The same recent snows that slicked
roads and swelled and muddied streams
spread a blanket of beauty over lower
Cleveland, this past weekend. In the
doleful eyes of the beasts of the field,
though, if green pastures must wait till
spring, it is a little bare, warm brown
grass too much to ask?
The fanciful snow-deer {at right)
sculpted by students on the Gardner-
Webb campus seems to be watching the
gray horizon, perhaps for some faint sign
of coming spring. Good news for him, or
bad? He melted.
When Did They Nlove The Church ?
The sight of a double-wide
trailer being hauled by a truck
slowly down Main Street recent
ly reminded one onlooker of
another mammoth moving job
-the day about 60 years ago an
entire church building made the
journey down Main Street from
in front of Gardner-Webb col
lege to the site of Green Bethel
Baptist church.
Willie Blanton, 84 and a
deacon at Green Bethel, recalls
how gasoline engines and pulleys
were used to move the church
building, which had been sold by
the congregation of Boiling Spr
ings Baptist to the congregation
of Green Bethel. Boiling Springs
Baptist, then located at the pre
sent site of the G-W chapel, sold
the structure after deciding to
build a new church.
The move was described in a
history of Boiling Springs Baptist
as “a gigantic task for their
modern day equipment”; but
now, approximately three-
quarters of a century after the
move, there is a catch; no one
can remember exactly when the
gigantic tug took place.
“1 remember it was after my
grandfather died in 1917,” Blan
ton says; but neither he, other
townspeople, nor the histories of
either church can fix the year or
date.
Boiling Springs Baptist had
built the church it later sold to
Green Bethel in 1906, according
to a history at Boiling Springs;
on April 15, 1921, the Shelby
Daily Star reported “on last
Sunday morning the first session
of the Sunday school in the new
church (at Boiling Springs Bap
tist) was largely attended.”
But between 1906 and 1921
the histories and the newspaper
are blank on the move.
The “gigantic move” ap
parently went unreported in the
months preceeding and follow
ing the April report in the Star
of the first Sunday school ses
sion; and an examination of the
conference records at Boiling
Springs Baptist shows no men
tion of the move.
It may have been overshadow
ed by the soft-drink controversy.
The conference records for
Sept. 6, 1913, one month after a
committee was formed to con
sider enlarging the church house
at Boiling Springs Baptist, show
the main order of business was a
decision to “call on the town
authorities to close the cold
drink shops on Sunday.”
Furthermore, the conference
decided to “prohibit con
gregating on Sunday of two or
more boys or young men near
those places where drinks are
dispersed.”
Although the churchmen may
not have prevailed against the
MM
For the third straight year,
Gardner-Webb College has set a
new spring enrollment record.
Figures for the 1983 spring
semester show 1697 students
enrolled, compared to 1696 in
1982 and 1534 in 1981.
Over the past five years,
Gardner-Webb’s over-all enroll
ment has increases by more than
440 students, nearly 33 percent,
making it North Carolina’s
fastest growing private college.
“We started out with more
students in the fall semester than
ever, which certainly contributes
to the increased enrollment this
spring,” said Richard Holbrook,
dean of admissions and enroll
ment planning. Traditionally,
college enrollments drop in the
spring. But, Holbrook said, “Our
retention rate has been very
good for the spring, due to a
number of factors.” One, he
noted, is a new developmental
program designed to aid students
who lack sufficient high school
backgrounds in math, English or
reading.
Also a boon to the college’s
steady growth is the GOAF
(Greater Opportunities for Adult
Fearners) program, which offers
classes at 13 satellite campuses in
communities as far awar as
Surry County.
The college is continually ex
panding and diversifying its
academic programs. The
Broyhill School of Management,
begun in the fall of 1982, a four-
year nursing program initiated
this spring and a program for the
blind and visually-impaired, set
to begin next fall, promise to
highlight Gardner-Webb’s
1983-84 academic year.
Bike-A-Thon
Present-day building at Green Bethel.
To Begin
Rolling
Sunday sipping of soft drinks,
they did achieve something more
substantial: the 1913 committee,
having decided to build a new
church rather than enlarge the
old, appointed another fundrais
ing committee and they succeed
ed- in collecting $65,000 - an
enormous amount for the times.
After the sale of the old
building to Green Bethel and the
construction of the new church,
the first service was held in the
new building March 6, 1921, ac
cording to the Boiling Springs
Baptist history. Attendance was
estimated between 600 to 700.
The original committeemen of
1913 were: Rev. Baylus Cade,
chairman; W.J. Francis; Rev.
A.W. Crabtree; and George W.
Green.
Do you remember when Boil
ing Springs Baptist moved its
church building to Green
Bethel? If you can remember,
you can help the historians at
each church by sending your
recollection of the move to the
Foothills View, P.O. 982, Boil
ing Springs, NC 28017. We’ll be
happy to publish what you
remember about the great move.
Miss Cheryl Ann Washburn,
has been appointed Chairman
for the annual “Wheels for Fife”
Bike-A-Thon in Boiling Springs,
to benefit St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital. The event is
scheduled for April 16, 1983,
with a rain date of April 23,
1983.
This institution is now the
largest childhood cancer
research center in America.
The Best And The Brightest
Students named below have
earned honors at Crest Senior
High by maintaining a straight-
A or A-average, according to the
school.
The Crest High honor
students are:
12th - Straight A's
Jeff Cooper
Derek Greene
Mary Famb
Robert Lamb
Deana Latham
Pam Rollins
Suzanne Sanford
Becky Proctor
Lisa Willis
Tammy Pruett
12th - A Average
Yvonne Carter
Wayne Cogdell
Deborah Cooke
Rhonda Cooke
Carmen Creach
Sandra Crowder
Stuart Dysart
Susan Greene
Allyson Hamrick
Sharon Harbison
Sandy Hastings
Mark Horn
Pam Hoyle
Lisa Johnson
Lana Jolly
John Kennedy
Dennis Lankford
Susan Lavendar
Charles Little
Tammy Long
Jimmy Lovelace
Melon! McGraw
Mitzi McGraw
Art Mauney
Tommy Pegram
Rachel Rice
Eric Rumfelt
Susan Stahl
Julia Walker
Robert Weaver
Tony Wray
Berietta Woods
Julie Blackburn
Katrina Blair
Melissa Mathews
Renee Melton
Jeff Owens
Wendy Patterson
Pam Sharts
11th - Straight A's
Bobby Allen
Lisa Deaton
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11th - A Average
Kevin Blanton
Lori Bell
John Cabaniss
Amy Carpenter
Shawn Carpenter
Lori Duncan
Ann Fitch
Angie Fender
Denise Furr
Regina Gentry
Catherine Hicks
Molly Holmes
Karen Hord
Mary Jones
Norma Jones
Kim Lail
Kevin Laye
Patrick Litton
Beth McKee
Vernon McCraw
Beth Maloney
Brian Long
JoAnn McSwain
Marie Moore
Lydia Perrin
Pamela Plank
Julie Rhinehardt
George Sheppard
Matt Walker
Sheila Webb
Aleta Withrow
Alex Smith
Angie Stepp
Lance Strange
10th - A'Average
Tammy Allen
Tammy Booth
Melissa Brown
Bridgett Buchanan
Tracy Curry
Rhonda Greene
Tommy Hamrick
Tracye Hamrick
Lisa Humphries
Amy Jones
Marilyn Kelly
Renee Larrieu
Wayne Lewis
David Lowery
Joe Maddox
Nelson McDaniel
Jeff McEntrye
Sherry Mclntrye
Lori McSwain
Angela McGinnis
Dejuana Parker
Steve Putnam
Mike Rabb ■ ■
Shannon Scoggins
Mark Smith
Madeline Snikes
Jackie Walker
Jennifer Wallace
Randy Watts
Melissa Waters
10th - Straight A's
Richard Acuff
Sandra Bailey
Christie Brabham
Bruce Cabiness
Emily Jones
Beth Lamb
Lynn Lavender
Chris Melton
Angie Morehead
Caleb Nolley
Robert Queen
Patti Rollins
Craig Scruggs
Brad Stamey
Beth Towery
Carol Weaver
Star Editor Hall
Addresses Retirees
Myers T. Hambright, Presi
dent, presided at the February
luncheon meeting of the
Cleveland County Chapter
Retired School Personnel held
Tuesday at the Holiday Inn.
Virginia Raymer gave a brief
devotional urging members to
look up for there are things for
us yet to do. We have only to
look for opportunities. The
treasurer, Jeanette Surratt
reported a present membership
of 203.
Mr. Hambright expressed
thanks to Mr. Hall and called on
Virginia Raymer to introduce
Mr. Ted Hall, Editor of the
Shelby Daily Star, since
August of 1982. He is a native of
Rutherford County, having at
tended Chase High School and
Isothermal College. He
graduated at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
in 1972.
Mr. Hall said he was born at
Cleveland Memorial Hospital
and at fifteen had played on a
Shelby baseball team. He ex
pressed chagrin that the Shelby
Daily Star Under his editorship
and after its many years of
publication had for the first time
missed getting the paper out on
its publication date. It happened
on the recent icy Saturday when
because of power offage the
paper could not be printed until
Sunday. He was happy to come
to speak to the group because he
was new in his position and felt
it was important to know people
and people to know him,' and he
was glad to tell some of his goals
for the paper. His two main jobs
with the paper are to supervise
the news department and to
write editorials daily, usually
two. He said he had to make
many decisions daily. The pur
poses of his editorials are to
foster public opinion and to
serve the readers of the paper.