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A committee to study the
feasiblity of consolidating the
three Cleveland county chamber
of commerce will be established
by the Shelby Chamber of Com
merce.
During the April 19 meeting
of the board of directors of the
Shelby Chamber of Commerce,
Don Shields was appointed by
the board to form and chair the
committee.
“By combining our efforts we
can have a more effective
chamber,” said Shields about the
consolidation proposal. “1 totally
beleive in and am committed to a
consolidated chamber.”
According to Shields con
solidation could enable the one
chamber to expand staff to in
clude an expert in the field of
seeking new industry. None of
the chambers now have such a
position.
According to Shields, the com
mittee wilt consist not only of
Shelby chamber directors but
directors from the two other
chambers as well. The selection
of the committee members
should be complete by the next
scheduled board meeting on
May 17.
“1 haven’t heard any opposi
tion,” said Shields. “As it seems
now I think we could have a
consolidated chamber by
January of 1984.”
Bigger does not necessarily
mean better, according to Randy
Williams, president of the Upper
Cleveland County Chamber of
Commerce.
“People here are
independent,” said Williams. “1
think the general feeling of our
members is that they would not
want consolidation.”
Williams feels the Upper
Cleveland County Chamber can
accomplish more under its pre
sent organization. The chamber
there is currently involved with
establishing a produce mart in
the area. According to Williams,
farmers in the upper Cleveland
area now just carry their product
to a distributor in Hendersori-
ville, N.C. The chamber hopes to
encourage a distributor to locate
in upper Cleveland County thus
eliminating the long drive by the
farmers. According the
Williams, the Shelby area would
not share their interest in issues
such as this.
“There has always been
animosity toward Shelby,” said
Williams. “Consolidation would
increase the power of Shelby. 1
don’t think a consolidated
chamber would be interested in
the welfare of upper Cleveland
County.”
According to the chamber
relations office of the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, it is not
unusual for chambers to con
solidate.
“Iri the last ten to fifteen years
it has become more popular,”
said a spokesperson for the
chamber relations office. “1 have
talked to three or four chambers
in the last month who are con
sidering a region-wide consolida
tion.”
According to the chamber
relations office most chambers
cite duplication of service as the
main reason for consolidation. A
problem or issue may affect the'
whole area and can be better ser
viced by one main chamber then
several smaller ones, said
spokesperson.
Talk of consolidation comes at
a time when the Shelby chamber
is considering construction of a
new office building. Chamber
directors agreed during the April
meeting to purchase the proper
ty located at the corner of West
Warren and South Layfayette
streets for future development.
“1 don’t know if the new
building has anything to do with
the consolidation effort,” said
Mike Chrisawn, executive vice-
president of the Shelby Chamber
of Commerce. ‘This would offer
a good situation to handle the
added staff is needed.
that takes place in the county,
will be felt by the entire county,
such as a plant closing or a new
industry coming in.”
More efficient service was the
main reason the Catawba Coun
ty Chamber of Commerce was
established in 1972, according to
Ron Leitch, executive vice-
president of the chamber. Before
consolidation, Catawba County
had two chambers, the Greater
Hickory Chamber of Commerce
and the Eastern Catawba
Chamber of Commerce. Because
of both chambers interest in the
furniture market and the
Catawba Valley Hosery Associa
tion, it was felt the county could
be better served by a con-
solidated effort.
“It (consolidation) makes bet
ter sense than what we presently
have, I firmly believe anything
According to Leitch, con
solidating the chambers was not
an easy task, “Discussions had
gone on for over 20 years,” he
said, “in 1960 when Hickory
built the new chamber building
there was a great deal of discus
sion’'
Leitch feels that there is a
natural tendency for people to
be hesitant about such a change.
“Anytime you have an organiza
tion, you have loyalities,” he
said.
According to the chamber
relations office, consolidation
has proven to be a lengthy pro
cess everywhere. ‘There has to
be ratification of new bylaws,
consideration must be given to
working out new membership
and there are the problems of
staffing,” the spokesperson said.
“I don’t know that much
about the consolidation proposal
yet,” said Bill Grissom, president
of the Kings Mountain Chamber
of Commerce. “We’ve talked
about it as a board and the
response was mixed. I’ll have to
learn more about it before I’ll
know how I will feel.”
“Anything that would make
our area a better community,
I’m for it,” smd Horace Ledford,
president of the Shelby chamber.
“But I’m not for bigness just for
the sake of bigness.”
The Foothills View
FRIDAY, APRIL 29. 1983
BOILING SPRINGS NC
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No Wimps From Space
Change Of Pace
For Earl Owensby
“This will not be another red
neck, blood and guts type
movie,” said Earl Owensby
about the horror film Tales of
The Third Dimension.
Owensby announced Wednes
day that Regency Productions of
Shelby will begin filming May 16
of Tales, a segment of which
Earl Owensby will direct.
John Brock and Charles
Heath, partners in Regency Pro
ductions, announced that the
motion picture, which is being
produced in cooperation with
The Earl Owensby Studio, will
involve a total of four directors.
“We’re real proud to have Earl
making his debut in direting on a
Regency Production film,” said
Brock...“It lets us know that he
has a special interest in our
films.”
The film is divided into three
short stories. Moderating during
the entire motion picture is a
mechanical skeleton. Owensby
will direct this portion of the
film. According to Owensby,
special emphasis has been placed
on the use of special effects in
the film. ‘The skeleton will ap
pear to come out into the au
dience,” he said.
Worth Keeter III is the super-
■ vising director on the project.
Keeter has directed seven films.
He was the screen writer for the
motion picture Wolf man and is
' also the author of “The Guar
dians,” the short story in Tales
of the Third Dimension of
which he will direct.
Thom McIntyre, the script
writer for many Owensby pro
ductions, wrote a segment of the
film titled, “Young Blood,”
which he will direct.
“Visions of Sugar-Plums” was
written by Todd Durham and
will be directed by Durham.
Durham is the screenwriter of
Wimps From Space and
Poison Apples.
Irl Dixon, an expert in the
field of 3-D filming, will be the
director of photography in
Tales of the Third Dimension.
This is the second Regency
Productions film with a third
film projected to be announced
in the summer of 1983. Regency
Productions’ first film was titled
Hit the Road Running.
From Treasured
Recipes To
Treasured Life
Special Olympics
Finance Workshop
At G-W College
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Julius Hoyle of the Boiling Springs Rescue Squad accepts a
$500 check from Miriam Glenn of the Boiling Springs Exten
sion Homemakers Club. The money comes from the sale of the
club's Treasured Recipes cookbook.
It Rash To Call Poison Ivy
An Ivy, Says NC Botanist
This native plant pest has
been spreading rampantly, much
to the distress of susceptible peo
ple; there are very few who are
truly immune.
Poison ivy is not an ivy at all,
although! it is capable of at
taching itself to posts, walls and
trees and climbing to great
heights. It belongs to the sumac
family and like its cousins,
poison oak and poison sumac,
contains in all its parts a sticky
resin capaUe of creating irrita
tion.
Gardeners frequently may
develop rashes from contact
with poison ivy roots not other
wise visible. Smoke from burn
ing of these plants can also be a
source of very severe irritation.
While some people claim to be
so sensitive that they develop a
rash and itch without ever
touching poison ivy, the
likelihood is that they have, in
fact, made a secondary contact
with pets, work clothes or shoes
that have touched the plant and
contain the toxic resin. The resin
remains for months, and dead
plants can produce irritation for
a year or more.
There are many remedies for
the itching and rash of poison
ivy including some uncertain or
dubious ones long honored in
folklore: smearing the orange
flowers, leaves or stems of jewel
week on the affected skin, or the
application of the sap from a leaf
of aloe vera, a common house
plant. A paste of moist baking
soda can relieve the itching, and
marly commercial preparations
based on calamine, or more
recently containing cortison
ederivatives, are found in the
drugstore's. Those excessively
sensitive may require immuniza
tion through injections available
from their physicians.
The most important aspect of
poison ivy control is to prevent
its establishment in the garden or
at the edges of driveways and
roads. There are effective weed
killer sprays sometimes requiring
two applications a week apart
for vigorous plants. Care in ap
plication is necessary to avoid
killing desirable plants nearby.
Pulling up the poison ivy
plants also is a good method but
reqiures extreme care to avoid
contact with any part of the
plant by using heavy gloves and
long-sleeved garments.
Thorough washing with warm
soapy water after such work is
advisable.
Many people have learned to
recognize the poison ivy plant
from its characteristic compound
leaf containing three leaflets and
to differentiate it from the
harmless Virginia creeper, which
resembles it but contains five
leaflets. It is a good plan to know
the plant is all seasons and in all
its forms, including the rough
brown, rope-like vines growing
to the tree-tops locally.
The N.C. Botanical Garden
maintains some labeled poison
ivy plants on the nature trails
and in the Coastal Plain habitat
so that visitors may be able to
learn to identify the-and poison
oak and posion sumac as well-at
different times of the year.
Families also may wish to con
sider teaching their children to
recognize these toxic plants by
■ bringing them to the Botanical
Garden, thus reducing their
chances for sensitization.
BOILING SPRINGS,
N.C. — The tenth annual
Cleveland County Special Olym
pics will be held again this year
at Gardner-Webb College’s
Spangler Stadium on Thursday,
April 28.
The activities will begin at
9:30 a.m. with a parade featur
ing Hardee’s T.V. persontdity
Road Runner as this year’s
grand marshall. The Olympics
will conclude at 2:15 p.m. with
the presentation of the medals
and trophies.
Participating in the 20 dif
ferent events will be over 200
students from the Children’s
Center, the Mental Health Day
Care Center, the First Baptist
Church Adult Day Care Center,
along with the alumni of the
Children’s Center and the
physically handicapped students
from Graham School.
‘Teachers and parents both
have told me the children look
forward to the Olympics as much
as they do Christmas,” said Dr.
Lonnie Proctor, professor of
health and physical education at
G-W and co-ordinator of the
Cleveland County Special Olym
pics. In addition to the students
feeling a sense of accomplish
ment that comes from participa
tion, Mrs. Proctor feels that the
Olympics also brings the
students’ families closer together.
“During our first Olympics on
ly two families came to watch,”
said Mrs. Proctor. “Now the ma
jority of the families come even
if they have to get off work.
In other college news—topics
as varied as insurance needs, sav
ings plans and how to read the
financial pages will be discussed
during a family financial plann
ing seminar beginning Tuesday,
May 5 at Gardner-Webb Col
lege.
The seminar, sponsored by the
Broyhill Academy of Gardner-
Webb, will include five sessions
to be held each Tuesday evening
from May 5 until June 2. The
sessions, which are open to the
public free of charge, will he held
in the seminar room of the
Dover Library from 7 p.m. until
9 p.m.
The seminar will cover a wide
range of planning needs impor
tant to young couples just star
ting out, as well as couples near
ing retirement. The first session,
to be presented by Jake Garmon
of Investors Diversified Services
in Charlotte, N.C., will cover the
area of establishing net worth
and identifying financial goals.
Other sessions will include
William F. LeGrand of Shelby
speaking on insurance protection
and Dale Winn of Boiling Spr
ings First Federal Savings and
Loan speaking on savings plans.
Concluding the seminar will be
Sam Galloway of Smith Barney,
Harris Upham in Spartanburg,
S.C. speaking on investments
and Fritz Russell of Shelby’s
First National Bank speaking on
estate planning.
Persons interested in atten
ding the seminar should call the
Broyhill Academy office at
434-2361 ext. 261.
Gardner-Webb is a liberal arts
college affiliated with the Baptist
State Convention of N.C., offer
ing associate, bachelor and
master’s degrees. The college is
noted for its independence of
federal funding.
Crest Bazaar
At Country Place
The Crest Country Bazaar
will be held Saturday May 7 at
the Country Place from 8 a.m.
until 2 p.m.
The bazaar, which is being
sponsored by Barbara Kale, Lib
by Scoggins, Kathryn Hamrick
and Wilma Petty, will feature a
variety of hand-crafted items.
Baskets, lampshades and cross
stitched items are just a few of
the things to be sold. Baked
goods will also be sold.
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