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“i? Gardner-Webb College Library uFecial Collections P*0. Bok 836 jf-^oilin^ Sf-rinds? NC 26017 The Foothills View DEC. 23,1983 boiling SPRINGS NC Bk. PoMage Paid Permit No. ir> • Address Lorrcciion Requested SINGLE COPY 15 CENTS s*r P1W1 *,* ‘^4 i4 • It’s icy Outside, But There’s Warmth Inside Noted Deacon Dies In Wreck % James an m iS?r- 9 i As ice blanketed the trees and streets of Boilinc Springs warmth still radiated from homes up and down Mam Street, and nearby, as Christmas lights went on in homes and decorations welcomed visitors I and cheered passers-by. The joy of the season radiated from manger scenes and doorways and windows all over town. A. r r m "J ■ r t fi I I I' iii.i; .III 'i.HM iSir' -r The death of Albert Hickman accident on Highway 160 Monday left a grieving church congregation, as well as family and close friends. Hickman, 41, a deacon and former Sunday School superintendent at Hop per’s Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Shelby, was killed when he appar ently went to sleep at the wheel of his 1976 Chevro let and crashed through a barbed wire fence and into a tree. The wreck, which happened near Shuford’s garden store and greenhouses, occurr ed about 10 a.m. Hickman had worked that morning at his third-shift job at the PPG plant at Washburn Switch. “He had come by our new church we’re building on Graham St., and he was on his way home,’’ said his minister. Rev. Wade Wallace, of Hopper’s Chapel. “He was very, very active in the church. He had a real close family, and they all worked in the church. We all are heart broken,” Rev. Wallace 8®id- “K’s been one of the most upsetting things W that ever happened in our church.” The Hickmans have lived in the Boiling Springs area for several years. Their current home ~w is at 111 Victor Drive, in Phillips Heights. Origin ally from Darlington, S.C., Hickman was the son of James and Eliza beth Hickman. Several of his relatives live in the Boiling Springs-Shelby area. The family met with friends Wednesday night at Hopper’s Chapel be fore leaving for funeral services Thursday at Dar lington. The funeral was conducted by Rev. Wal lace at the Round-0 Baptist Church. Burial was in the church cemete ry- Surviving are his wife, Carrie Williamson Hick man, of the home; one son, James Albert Hick man, of the home; three daughters, Carolyn Hick man and Carrie Burnette Hickman, of the home, and Valerie Davis, of Darlington; three bro thers, James Edward Hickman of Boiling Springs and John and Bobby Hickman of Dar lington; seven sisters, Bertha Gattison, Kate Poole,' Lucille Williams, Mary E. Hickman and Wilemenia Williamson of Darlington, Barbara Rich-- ardson of Philadelplpi'^ and Ethel Mae Bs Shelby. Withrow’s Home of Kings was in charge o^ ments. i t** Merry Christmas From The Foothills View Staff Christian Youtl Set At G-W Deck The Halls With,,,Termites? All Christmas memories of our homefolks in Boiling Springs are not bound up in snow and mistletoe. In the case of Gaines Washburn, he does remember the tree. It was a little pine, and it sat, probably wilting, be side a fireplace where there was no fire - nor none needed. If was summer, that Christmas, in that part of the world. It waa 1979, the year that the Washburns spent in Zambia, as volunteers to help Baptist mission aries build some houses. They also got caught up in the building of a Baptist Church. It was not exactly the kind of structure that would pass the building inspector in Cleveland County. “But it passed all right over there,” Gaines remembers. “The way they’ll do, they’ll dig a trench the size they want a building. Then they’ll stick up sticks in it, and put the dirt back in around ’em. They’ll use forked sticks, and lay cross poles in ’em, and lace it all together with strip of bamboo.” The surrounding fields of elephant grass provid ed the traditional roofing. The harvest always pro vides a double yield, Gaines said. “Sometimes they’ll burn off the grass and make the mice run. They’re rich in protein.” Mice are part of the local diet, as are termites and the other good pro tein source, a long cater pillar. “Looks like a tobacco worm,” Gaines recalls. Town Offices To Close For Flolidays It is not clear whether Gaines partook of that particular staple. One young missionary, a new comer, did try to be one of the natives by helping himself liberally at what he thought was a termite hill. “They bit him back,” Gaines remem bers, with not too much sympathy. “He said, ‘What did I do wrong?’ Somebody said, ‘You ate the wrong ants.’ ” The unforgettable Christmas . dinner was hosted by missionaries on a farm developed by the Baptist Church to lead in the improvement of local crops. None of the local delicacies were served that day, but the fare was unusual, in the Wash- bums’ eyes, all the same. For one thing, supplies were hard to come by. Guerillas, or someone’s army, were always blow ing up bridges, in local strife. There was no friendly grocer on the corner. So, the host bargained with a native for a suckling pig. Then he dug a pit and barbe cued it. “That’s literally the first time I ever say a whole pig on the table, head and all. No apple, though — they don’t have apples there.” But they dp have ba nanas and oranges and papayas and passion fmit, ana the women all make bread, and the food that day was excellent, as well as memorable. Washburn The services in the church also made a long-lasting impression, “’fhe pews are poles about six inches in dia meter. You take an American, sittin’ two or three hours on a six-inch pole...” The barber shop was under a tree, next to the chicken plucker’s. The village market was near by, where you could buy a hand of bananas or a tow sack of little dried min nows. The nearest hospi tal was a bush operation staffed by Seventh Day Adventist missionaries, 30 miles away. That is where Gaines had to go, when he developed a painful her nia. “A 76-year-old visit ing specialist did the surgery,” he remembers. “He did a spinal (ane sthesia) and didn’t give me so much as an aspirin afterward. And I never did hurt.” Gaines’ wife Lela Belle had some second thoughts, though, as she swatted sever8il hundred mosquitoes in the cubicle with a broken window that would serve as the “recovery room.” Another unrelated ill ness brought Gaines, an Atomic Energy Commis sion retiree and now proprietor of the local Radio Shack, and his wife, home a short time before their planned year was up. The Boiling Springs Town Hall will be closed Friday, December 23 and Monday, December 26 in observance of Christmas. The town office will also be closed Jan. 2, the Monday following New Year’s Day. Garbage ser vice will be one day late both weeks. The post office will be closed Monday, Dec. 26 and Monday, Jan. 2. “We’d like to be back over there,” he says now. As the ice rains down on Carolina, the warm Afri can sun and gentle people are nice to think about. filKi The Gardner-Webb Col lege campus will open to young people of all ages on Saturday, January 14 when the college’s B.E. Morris Academy for Christian Studies spon sors a Christian Youth Celebration. A variety of activities are planned for area church youth groups, be ginning with the 2 p.m. registration in the Kath leen N. Dover Theatre and concluding with the 7:30 p.m. basketball game between the G-W Bulldogs and the Mars Hill Lions. “The afternoon will pro vide a mixture of enter tainment, devotions and sports,” said Garland Hendricks, director of the B.E. Morris Academy. “We want to introduce young people to the broader aspects of life. We also want to let them see what college life in a Christian atmosphere is like.” College faculty, staff and students will partici pate in the program, which according to Hen dricks, “will both teach and inspire” the young people who attend. A presentation by Gard- ner-Webb’s basketball coaches and players along with inspirationeds and devotions by college min ister Monk Ashley, G-W religion professor Jack Partain and the associate director of admissions, Randy Kilby will high light the afternoon’s ac tivities. In the evening, follow ing dinner in the college cafeteria, the young people will have the opportunity to see both the men’s and women’s basketball teams com pete. At 6:30 p.m. the Lady Bulldogs of Gardner- Webb will meet the Mars Hill Lady Lions followed by the men’s game. The cost of the Youth Celebration is $4.60 per person and covers the entire day’s activities in cluding dinner and the sport events. For more information about the Youth Celebra tion or to register, church '■youth directors may call Garland Hendricks, direc tor of the B.E. Morris Academy at 704-434-2361 or write Gardner-Webb College, P.O. Box 328, Boiling Springs, N.C. The closing date for registra tion is January 10.
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