BESSEMER CITY
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BC Recreation Dept, Expresses Thanks
Success
A special ‘thanks’ is
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extended to Miss Holt Anthony
and her art students at the high
school who prepared over
twenty name posters to place on
floats.
floats, thanks are also expressed
to members of the Area Patrol
for helping polcie to direct
traffic and to the ones who
helped in lining up the line of
march, Sandie Stinnett,
Ross, Becky Smith,
Margaret Henson.
Donny Kincaid is City
Recreation director and Janice
Costner, Recreation Supervisor.
They headed the parade com
mittee.
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VOLLME 22 - TIMBER 24 - WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1979 - BESSEMER CITY. NORTH CAROLINA
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Christmas Parade Is Big
ARADE—MARCH!!. . .Police Chief Robert
olvin is pictured above as the lead car L
essemer City’s annual Christmas parade
, Photos By Ervin Absher
ITTLE RAYS
OF SUNSHINE. . .Two cousins
it in rays of sunshine during the cold, cold
ay of BC’s parade. They were Tonya Boone,
eft, “Wee Miss Sunshine” and Tracy McGinley.
I Little Miss Sunshine.”.
Sports Boosters
Set Goal At 200
The City Recreation Depart
ment wishes to make a public
expression of appreciation to all
the persons and groups who
helped to make the 1979 City
Christmas Parade a great
success.
Appreciation is expressed to
the ones who sponsored parade
entries, the ones who par
ticipated in the parade line-up
and the thousands of spectators
who came to view it.
Schools, churches, merchants,
clubs, etc. joined in helping to
make the parade one that the
city and its citizens were proud
of.
In addition to the merchants
who sponsored commercial
OLE SANTA GREETS BESSEMER CITIANS. .
.Santa Claus riding in the Bessemer City
Christmas Parade seemed to be telling
everyone, “Better things are yet to come,”
hinting that Dec. 25 would be a great day for
Bessemer City youngsters. Children viewing
the parade shivered and a shook from frigid
winds while waiting for Santa's float to ride
by - but it was all worth waiting for they say
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Sports Boosters have
organized and are currently
conductinga membership drive.
The goal set is for 200 members.
The goal was set at a meeting
held this past Thursday night.
Another meeting has been
scheduled for Thursday,
December 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the
Optimist Building.
Officers have been elected.
They are Joe Butler, president;
Reggie O’Brien, vice president;
Jimmy King, secretary; and
Boyd Morgan, treasurer.
The purpose of the Boosters is
to assist sports programs at both
Lincoln Junior and Bessemer
City High Schools.
Although the group plans to
give assistance to the entire
athletic programs of the schools,
for the 1980-81 school term, the
Boosters say they will con
centrate on helping to build up
the football programs in the two
schools to make them more
competitive in the Southern
District 7 Conference.
Because of the lack of time
that prevents the group's raising
funds through financial
projects, President Butler says
the main source of money for the
treasury at this time will come
from membership dues.
Membership fee for the first
year has been set at twenty
dollars. To date over 25 persons
have joined the Sports Boosters.
Butler says it is essential for
the organization to secure
members by January of 1980
because money raised through
membership dues will go toward
supplementing pay for football
coaches at the two schools.
Before any supplement can be
offered, Boosters say, the
money has to be in the treasury.
Persons interested in seeing
sports programs at the schools
become more competitive in
their conference are urged to
attend the meeting on the 13th.
All Boosters are serving on the
membership committee in
securing Sports Boosters
members.
Band/Chorus Concert Dec 16
The annual Christmas concert
presented by Bessemer City
High School band and chorus
members will take place on
Sunday, December 16, at 3 p.m.
Mrs. Becky Rhyne is chorus
-director and Julius Barkley,
band director. Both the chorus
and band were rated "superior”
in music festival ratings. To
date, the band has received four
trophies for the current school
year. Its most recent honor was
being judged second runner-up
in the Charlotte Christmas
Carosel Parade in com
petition with 27 top high school
bands.
The last honor received by the
chorus was being the top choral
group in competition last school
term at Carowinds.
For the first time at this
concert, the band and chorus
will join for a combined selec
tion. The program will close
with the two musical groups
presenting “Christmas Songs
For Winds and Voices.”
The sixth members of the
chorus will be featured first on
the program. Both secular and
sacred songs will be included.
Among the selections played
by the 70-members of the band
will be “Sleigh Ride,”
Know What I Know?’
Yourself
Christmas,.
A Merry
Do You
“Have
Little
‘Adeste Fidelas,”
and “Snow Bells.”
One dollar admission for all
will be charged.
Eury “Turns On”
Women At
Book Club
ndre Littlejohn Wins
5
i'20” Savings Bond
; Andre Littlejohn is the winner
a twenty-dollar U.S. Saving
Mid for having sold the largest
hount in dollars of citrus fruit
f the Band Boosters annual
lanelal project.
the 7th grade students at
ncoln Junior High sold the
nount of $879.50. He will be
esented his savings bond
Hing the annual Christmas
and Chorus concert on
y afternoon, Dec. 16.
Ire is the son of Mr.
Harvey Littlejohn.
and
i tach week the top salesman
I ceived ten dollars.
, Other tops salesmen with
jidre are Angela Goins,
;».75; Kris Darby, $596.25;
Jackie Barkley, $521.50;
ott Anderson, $459.50; and
His and David Hoyle, $448.25;
«ela Crisp, $368.25; Marie
^S, $345.00; Carren May,
28-25; Nancy Canipe, $322.25;
6 Mike McElveen, $317.25.
»rs. Carletta Adams is
faers president.
irs. Phyllis Anderson, vice
sident, served as citrus fruit
■ect chairman. Working with
J were Mr. and Mrs. Larry
Iveen and Mrs. Mary Ross.
d students who collected
when they took orders,
in their sales sheets and
y each Monday morning,
committee met Monday
nights to tally the sheets and to
determine the week’s top
winner.
The fruit was picked up at the
high school this past Saturday. A
trailer and a half load of fruit
was sold. This makes the largest
amount to date. In past years, a
trailer’s amount had been sold.
This year, Tryon band
students participated in the
sales project which helped to
boost the amount
Julius Barkley is band
director.
ANDRE LITTLEJOHN
Oops! We Goofed
In listing the names of
Bessemer City’s first Century
Club members, the name of
George A. Hook Jr. was inad
vertently omitted.
Century Club members are
persons who donate one hundred
iollars or more to the Bessemer
BC Choruses To Participate
In Programs At Eastridge
Choruses from the schools in
the Bessemer City area are
joining in with other school
groups on presenting Christmas
vocal selections at Eastridge
Mall.
Today, December 12, Tryon
Junior High Chorus will sing at 6
p.m. Mrs. Becky Rhyne is
director of the 45 voices
prising the chorus.
On Wednesday, Dec.
Lincoln Junior High Chorus
com-
19,
will
PTA To Present Program
The PTA of Lincoln Junior
High School will be presented a
Christmas musical program by
chorus and band members. The
program will take place
Thursday, Dec. 13, at 7:30 p.m.
The 9th grade chorus con
sisting of 58 voices, will sing
City Area United Fund, Inc.
This year marks the first time
that the UF has sponsored a
Century Club project.
Attorney Jim Funderburk is
UF campaign chairman. Ed
Goff is UF president.
sing at 1:30 p.m. Mrs. Thelma
Jenkins is director of the 58
voices.
On Tuesday, Dec. 11, the
Small Ensemble from Bessemer
City High School sang at 2 p.m.
Mrs. Becky Rhyne is director of
the 18-member ensemble group.
The BCHS Jazz Band will also
play on Saturday, Dec. 15 at 8
p.m. and will be stationed in
front of Matthews-Belk Store.
Julius Barkley directs the 19-
member band.
under the direction of Mrs.
Thelma Jenkins.
The Sth grade band will
perform under the direction of
Julius Barkley.
Mrs. Jackie Smith, PTA
president, will preside.
Leonard Eury “turned a
group of Kings Mountain women
on” when he recently talked to
them about “Contests” and
winning contests. His talk in
spired members of the Kings
Mountain Book Club to become
contest entrants.
Mrs. Rufus S. Plonk of
Bessemer City had charge of the
program. Her sister, Mrs. Irene
O. Simmons, introduced Eury
who is the retired head librarian
for Appalachian State
University at Boone, N.C.
Eury told the women how he
adopted entering contests as a
hobby which developed during
World War
stationed in
Air Force.
“I asked
II while he was
Italy with the U.S.
Burrell Snyder, a
bomber
type of
civilian
worked
in my squadron, what
work had he done in
life. He told me he
at Sheperd Contest
School. In telling about his work,
he gave me a contest to enter. I
entered it and won.”
Winning his first try at con
testing, Eury was like the man
who catches his first fish, he
became hooked on contest en
tering.
When he received his
discharge and returned to head
the university library, he con
tinued to pursue his contest
hobby.
“Right after the war, the
college did not receive much
money for its library so I had
plenty of time to enter various
contests.”
He not only entered contests.
Through the years he has won a
number of them.
“When I started, companies
offered skill contests - such as
‘complete this statement in 25
words or less' or 'name
product’.”
He added, “Now most
contests are sweepstakes -
this
all
the
winner wins purely by luck.” He
pointed out, “I don’t care for
them but I enter them and I
enter all skill contests I find.”
He may not be “hooked” on
sweepstakes but even in those,
he has been a winner on
numerous times. Recently, in a
week’s time, he won two
sweepstake contests by sheer
luck, an Atlanta Brave one for
$525; and then a few days later,
a Sylvania one for $250.
This information was the key
for turning the women on. They
expressed eagerness to start
trying their luck with contests.
Eury told the women that in
addition to the thrill of winning,
“It makes life interesting. Each
morning when I go to the Post
Office for my mail, I may get a
check as a contest winner.”
He hastened to add that for
contest winners, Internal
Revenue Services is a winner,
too. “On each contest, the en
trant must include his soc
ial security number with his
name."
Eury who says that reading is
still his main hobby, wistfully
commented, “I’d like to return
some day and review a book for
them.”
But Book Club members at
this point were ready to forego
the joys of reading for the lure in
contest entering.
Mrs. Virginia Warren was
Book Club hostess at her home.