Robbery And Rape In Ashville
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Trouble compounded this
Week for the suspected kidnap
per arrested last week as he tried
to elude law enforcement of
ficers in Boiling Springs.
Four additional warrants were
served Tuesday in Cleveland
County jail on Lee Thomas
Pegues Jr., of Charlotte, in con
nection with the rape and rob
bery of an Asheville woman.
The Asheville crime occured
September 14, five days before
the kidnap and rape of a
Charlotte woman and the theft
of her automobile, which led to
Pegues’s arrest here.
Charges against him are also
pending in at least two other
counties. Bob Fortenberry, in
vestigating officer for the Coun
ty police said Wednesday. Detec
tives from Thomasville have
questioned Pegues in connection
with a recent robbery there, and
Mecklenburg County is prepar
ing charges in the kidnapping
and robbery of the Charlotte
drugstore employee who was
later raped near Kings Mountain
and put out of her car on
Flighway 216.
The car led to Pegues’s arrest
in Boiling Springs in the early
hours of Sept. 20. Boiling Spr
ings policeman Dennis Theis was
on his way home from a law en
forcement class at Isothermal
Community College when he
heard a description of the rape
victim’s car on his police radio.
Minutes later he saw the car in
the Boiling Springs business
district and kept watch on it and
its occupants as he waited for
town and county police to assist
in the arrest.
Pegues was apprehended as he
fled from the car at Varsity
Square Apartments toward
Memorial Drive. A Mooresboro
woman in the car with him was
booked for resisting arrest after
officers said she tried to kick
open the doors of the police car
and swore with considerable
vigor. The woman was later
released on bond.
In the Asheville case, the war
rants changed Pegues with rape,
kidnapping, robbery and assault
with a deadly weapon with in
tent to kill. The female victim
was abducted, robbed, raped and
stabbed, but did not die. The
Thomasville case involved the
larceny of an automobile, and
the victim there was reportedly a
man.
The serving of warrants in the
cases is being spaced,
Fortenberry said, because each
case must come to a hearing
before a judge within 96 hours
after charges are filed.
Pegues, described by lawmen
as a tall, slim, clean-cut 20-year-
old black man, lived in
Charlotte. He had been
unemployed for about a year.
Fortenberry said. League’s
brother has been in Cleveland
County jail for about two mon
ths, Fortenberry said, charged
with the armed robbery of the
Shelby Sky City discount store.
It was not known whether the
two have friends or relatives in
this area.
Peagues was charged in
Cleveland County with the rape
of the woman abducted in
Charlotte and the theft of her
car, because those crimes occur
red in the county, near Kings
Mountain.
The FoothiUs View
Friday. September 30, 1983
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Hot-Footing It For The Frisbee
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When you’re five, and have
spent a beautiful September mor
ning getting used to classroom
etiquette, a good run is its own
reward and excuse. But these
Boiling Springs Elementary
kindergartners are learning the
fine points of frisbeehasing.
“Some of them had never held a
frisbee before,” says teacher
Martha Blackburn, delighting in
the great form her students bring
to this new and complex subject.
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Where’s A Friend When You Need One ?
Try The Stacks At The Library
A former chancellor of UNC-
G, James Ferguson, once said,
‘The support and interest of
friends can mean for a library
the difference between mere ade
quacy and genuine excellence.”
It is for that same purpose that
the organization. Friends of the
Library of Gardner-Webb Col
lege is being established.
“1 am excited to be a part of
the new organization of the
Friends of the Library,” said
Rosalynd Gilliatt of Shelby, who
is chairman of the organization’s
board of directors. “In the first
place, I need stimulation for
growth and I feel I shall definite
ly get this. In addition to this we
hopefully can mean something
to the college.”
According to Ms. Gilliatt, the
organization’s primary objective
is to enhance the quality of ser
vice the John R. Dover Library
provides to Gardner-Webb and
to the community.
The organization hopes to ac
complish this she said by: bring
ing guest speakers to the cam
pus; identifying opportunities for
acquisitions of books and collec
tions; and by aiding in the pro
duction of exhibitions, lectures
and occasional publications.
In addition to enhancing the
services provided to the com
munity, the organization will
also provide special activities to
its members as well, including
book reviews, lectures and
booksales.
Membership into the Friends
$30,000 Contribution
G-W Enrollment Sets Record
For Sixth Year In A Row
For the sixth consecutive year
Gardner Webb College has set
an all-time high enrollment
record.
Figures of the 1983 fall
semester show that 1860
students enrolled at G-W, a 6%
increase over the previous high
recorded in the fall of 1982,
when 1749 students were enroll
ed.
The enrollment figures reflect
increases in all academic pro
grams but indicate significant
growth in the college’s graduate
program as well as the Greater
Opportunities for Adult
Learners (GOAL) program.
There are 105 students enroll
ed this fall in the gradate pro
gram compared to 52 students
last year. The GOAL program
showed an increase from 492
students in the fall of 1982 to
550 students this fall.
“I’m not surprised at the in
crease,” said Dr. Gil Blackburn,
director of graduate studies.
“We’ve made a concerted effort
to recruit graduate students.. We
opened a' center in Statesville
where we now have 30 students
enrolled.”
Established in 1980, Gardner-
Webb’s graduate studies pro
gram offers master’s degrees in
education, and health and
physical education. The program
was expanded in the summer of
1983 to offer courses in
Statesville as well as on the
Gardner-Webb campus.
In other college news
Gardner-Webb College has an
nounced that George Blanton Jr.
of Shelby has made a $50,000
contribution to the college’s
comprehensive financial
development program “Getting
Ready for Tomorrow.”
The announcement came at
the conclusion of the September
23 meeting of the college’s board
of trustees.
‘George Blanton Jr. is giving
leadership to this major college
program by both example and
direction,” said Dr. Craven
Williams, president of Gardner-
Webb. “when he made his gift,
Mr. Blanton indicated that the
board should demonstrate its
support and lead the way. Clear
ly George Blanton Jr. is pro
viding this college with the
leadership and support today’s
challenges require. We are truly
indebted to him.”
Blanton, who is chairman of
the board and chief executive of
ficer of the First National Bank
in Shelby has already played a
vital role in the college’s new
financial development program
in addition to his financial con
tribution.
As chairman of the program’s
endowment development com
mittee, Blanton is coordinating
the fund raising activities
targeted at raising $15,6 million.
This represents the largest por
tion of the $28.6 million pro
gram “Getting Ready For
Tomorrow.”
Calls Keep
Shanghai Jumping
It 'was an achievement, but
not the type wanted by fire chief
Dennis Hamrick of the Shanghai
Fire Department. Wednesday
was one of the busiest days on
record for Shanghai as the
31-man volunteer department
answered three calls within a
nine-hour period.
One of the calls was to assist
in putting out a fire at the No. 3
Fire Station at Shelby.
The day began at 4 a.m. for
Hamrick and the other Shanghai
firement after a passer-by
reported a partially collapsed
barn on fire at Patrick Road, just
outside Boiling Springs.
The owner of the land decided
to allow the barn, which he had
planned to tear down, to burn
completely. “He said let it burn,
and we let it go,” Hamrick said.
Later in the day, however,
sparks from the burned barn
spread to nearby grass, resulting
in the third call of the day at
1:30 p.m. for Shanghai. Earlier
the department had assisted at
the 8:40 a.m. blaze at No. 3.
No one was hurt during any
of the three calls.
Re-Enactment Picks
A Fight At Mountain
of the Library is $7.50 annually.
Other Shelby area residents
joining Ms. Gilliatt on the
organization’s board of directors
are Joe DePriest, C.C. Guy,
Rebecca Hamrick, Forrest
Hunt, Margaret Kirk and Jessi
Ogburn.
For more information about
the Friends of the Library, in
terested persons may call Dr. Bill
Crouch, development associa
tion ta G-W, at 434-2361, exti
370.
Members from five states
(Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, and
Georgia) will reenact for the
ninth straight year the events
leading to the defeat of Colonel
Patrick Ferguson in the battle of
Kings Mountain on October 7,
1780.
The 12-day march began on
September 26 when the mar
chers set out from Sycamore
Shoals, near Elizabethton, Ten
nessee.
Following the original route
these modern-day Patriots will
arrive at Quaker Meadows near
Morganton, North Carolina
where they will converge with a
contingent from Wilkes and
Surry Counties, North Carolina.
They will be joined by additional
participants along the route, ar
riving at Cowpens National Bat
tlefield on October 6. Leaving
Cowpens National Battlefield on
October 6. Leaving Cowpens
National Battlefield on the mor
ning of October 7, the marchers
will arrive at Kings Mountain
National Military Park at 3:00
p.m., the time the battle began
on October 7, 1780. Their march
completed, the participants will
attend a program in the park am
phitheater at which Dr. Bobby
G. Moss of Limestone College
will be the main speaker.
The program will be followed
by a wreath laying ceremony on
the battlefield ridge at the
United States Monument. The
public is encouraged to attend
both events.
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Last Roses Of Summer
Given new life by cooler weather, the roses of the Dover
Memorial Garden on the Gardner-Webb campus are putting
on a glowing performance before frost closes the show. Partial
ly planted last spring, the garden, as yet unfinished, survived
drought to become one of downtown Boiling Spring's bright
spots.