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We like to Ud Don Kistler on
his appearances on the PTL
Qub b^-a-thon, especiaily in
view <A smiling Jim Bakker’s
current legal troubles.
We keep asking Don when he
plans to start his on TV show to
get those coins rolling into the
Positive People Worldwide
organization, based here in
Kings Mountain.
“Never,” is his answer.
“If Jim Bakker wants people
to send him money, let Ito do
what we do at Positive People;
offer people something for their
donations. Don’t keep telling
people God loves them. They
know that,” he said.
For those not yet acquainted
with Don Kistler, here is a clue.
He’s a pint-siz^ dynamo of
energy and ideas. He’s a
“trouble-maker.” He talks and
causes people to go to the
“trouble” of reading their
Bibles just so they can argue
with him on religious concepts.
Mr. K. also has a sense of
humor and he has learned to
laugh at himself. That’s
something smiling Jim doesn’t
show us on the tube. Ask Don if
Bakker strikes him as he does
you (you wouldn’t shake hands
unless you could count your
fingers afterwards) and nine
will get you ten Don will grin and
nod.
A sample of Don’s humor was
witnessed a couple of weeks ago
when a gent told him that he
“sinned a little bit ever day.”
Don feigned seriousness, threw
iq> his hands and said, “Don’t
get around me, then, because I
don’t sin!”
Don came to Kings Mountain a
few years ago and setup a shoe
repair business in the back of a
bus. Blackie Oates let him stob
down the bus on the corner of his
service station {n-operty. Don is
out of the shoe repair business
now • as a business - but for a
donation to Positive People, he
might consider taking on an odd
job or two. The bus is now
parked n the properfy owned by"
M*WW on Cleveland Ave.
We wonder if smiling Jim
would half-sole shoes to raise
funds for PTL?
Have you yet browsed through
the Positive People
headquarters? You ou^t to.
For curiosity-sake, if you need a
big excuse. ’There are scads of
books on religion and characters
fi'om religious history; natural
foods and cookbooks showing
how to prepare these foods; and
herbs and herb teas for health to
be found there.
Tell the truth. Does smiling
Jim offer such tangibles?
We throw all of this at you at
the “Top O’The Momin’ ” just to
give you a closer look at another
individual making up the
community of the historical city.
Sign-Up Now
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Cailing ail bass fishermen!
The second ani^ual Bass Fishing
Tournament on Moss Lake is
' scheduled for Sat., April 14 from 7
a.m. until 4 p.m.
# Again sponsored by the Kings
Mountain Fire Department Toys
For Tots project, ‘ ‘Bass-2’ ’ is open to
7 team fishermen only.
] The entry fee is ^ per boat and
registration will be cutoff after the
I first 30 teams and boats are signed
* up. Registration fees are in advance
and entry forms are available
Wednesday t^rwgh Sunday from 8
a.m. - 5 p.m. qi ^ lake office.
Anglers will go after black and
large mouth .bass only from their
I boats and official weigh-in time is 4
p.m. One pound per minute will be
deducted from the total catch up to
4:05 p.m. Any teams checking in
after 4:05 will be disqualified.
A total of 60 percent of the purse
will be awar^ in prizes (first
^ through 10th place) and a special
prize of one percent of the purse goes
for the largest black or large mouth
bass caught during “Bass-2.” Ail
prizes will be awarded winners
following tbe final team weigh-in.
I Deadline for entering the tourney
is 5 p.m., Fri., April 13.
Proceeds above the purse prizes
go into the fire department’s annual
toys for tots program for Christmas
1979. Last year the first tourney
raised over $300 for the project.
H«ag !c Song
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KiriG9 MOUMTMM MIRROR
VOL. 90 NO. 28
TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1979
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Jim Potter, New President
Chamber Moves To New Offices
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Jim Potter, general manager of
Park Yam Mills, has been elected
president of Kings Mountain
Chamber of Commerce and Mer
chants Association for the coming
year.
Other officers are John Major,
vice-president, and Dan Honeycutt,
secretary-treasurer.
Members of the Board of Direc
tors are Glee Bridges, vice-
president; Tom Weldon and
Charlene Ellis for the year 1979 and
Tom Grayson, Jerry Nation, Lee
McIntyre and Hugh Lancaster for
the .year 1980.
Members of the Association staff
held open house in handsome, new
offices at KM Community Center
last Wednesday. Receiving friends
who called between 1 and 3 p.m.
were Linda King, office manager;
Kay Little, bookkeeper and Lucille
Williams, credit reporter.
The Credit Bureau, which is'
maintained by the association staff,
handles 75,000 files of members and
processed nearly 10,000 reports last
year. Members of the staff also
conduct consumer interviews of
citizens who are denied credit and
apply for a review of their files. The
offices are open Monday through
Friday from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.
The Association offices are
decorated in a yellow and rust motif
with yellow walls and rust carpet in
a modem decor with a spacious area
for three desks and ample filing
cabinets and facilities. The offices
are located at the front of the new
addition to the Center on Cleveland
Avenue.
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OPEN HOUSE—Members of the sUff of the Kings
Mountain Chamber of Commerce and Merchants
Association held open house Wednesday in new offices
at the Community Center. From left to right. Kay
Photo by Tom McIntyre
Little, bookkeeper, Linda King, office manager, Jim
Potter, the new president of the association, J.L.
Wilkie, insurance representative and Lucille Williams,
credit reporter.
Construction Begins In May
Broyhill Will Speak
At Diabetes Meeting
The Cleveland County Chapter of
the American Diabetes Association
will hold a public meeting on Tues.,
April 17 at 7:30 p.m., at the
First Bypass Contract Let
The first of three major contracts
for construction of the Kings
Mountain Bypass has been awarded
Troy Smith Construction Co. of Mt.
Airy.
The $6,329,733.54 contract,
awarded last week by the N.C.
Department of Transportation
board, covers construction from
east of secondary road 2244 to east of
Walker St.
Board member David . Hoyle of
Dallas said the first contract calls
for a four-lane freeway with a 68-foot
median of the new location. The
contract includes grading, drainage,
utility construction and related
structure work and some paving on
roads crossing the project.
Work on the four-mile project is
scheduled to begin in May and is
expected to be completed in August
1981.
“The remaining two segments are
scheduled to be advertised for
contract bids in November of this
year,” Hoyle said.
The bypass contract was one of 12
approved by the NCDOT Board on
April 6 at Morehead City. The
contracts involve 11 counties and 30
miles of roadway and totaled more
than $44.7 million.
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Cleveland County Health Depart
ment in Shelby.
The speaker for the evening will
be lOth District Congressman James
T, Broyhill. Rep. Broyhill will give a
report on the proposed saccharin
ban and what is being done in
Congress on the issue. He will also
speak on other diabetes-related
matters before Congress.
All persons with an interest in
diabetes are invited to attend the
meeting. Memberships to the
(Cleveland County chapter will be
accepted at the meeting. For more
information about the American
Diabetes Association, Cleveland
County Chapter, write: Diabetes.
P.O. Box 1647, Shelby.
There will also b« a board of
directors meeting just prior to the
April 17 meeting at 6:30 p.m. All
members of the board of directors of
the Cleveland County Chapter are
reminded to attend.
Health Fair Set
For Senior Citizens
Photo by
Tom McIntyre
. .SINGING OUT—Gene Bumgardner directs the Kings
Mountain Senior High Choir as they perform for the
students at North Elementary School. This was one of
several free concerts for the local schools planned by
the senior high singers. Bumgardner succeeded Mrs.
J.N. McClure as director when she retired at the end of
1978.
JOHN FREZELL
Older American’s Health Fair
Day for citizens over 50 to receive
free blood pressure checks, low
blood (anemia) tests, and a variety
of services is slated for Sat., May
5th, at the Cleveland County Health
Department.
For transportation to the Center,
call Rev. Kenneth George at KM
Aging Program or 482-3488 and 482-
8509. For pre-registration which will
expedite the service and give the
patient a schedule to arrive for
testing, call 482-3488 or 482-8509.
Mrs. Brenda Causby, director of
the Council on Aging, said the
program is co-sponsored by the
Council on Aging and American Red
Cross with medical volunteers from
the county to conduct the testing
irom 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Vision
tests, health exhibits, and coun
seling and referring will be offered
and optional blood tests may be
obtained for a donation of $5-$7 to
cover lab fees. Patients desiring the
additional blood tests for diabetes,
kidney disease, liver disease, gout,
cholesterol, triglycerides, iron,
thyroid disease, plus over 10 more,
should fast for four hours before
visiting the clinic.
Additional free tests are hearing,
tuberculosis, pap smear, oral
cancer, glaucoma, foot
examination, breast cancer and
colo-rectal bleeding.
Mrs. Ub McKnight, of Shelby,
representing the national neaitn
screening council for volunteer
organizations, is chairman of Older
American’s Health Fair Day.
Two Services Set
Two services during Holy Week
are scheduled by First Presbyterian
Church.
Maundy Thursday communion
service will be celebrated Thursday
from 7 until 9 p.m. with worshipers
invited to enter the sanctuary and
celebrate the Sacrament of the
Lord’s Supper.
Good Friday Tenebrae Service is
scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday. This
service, featuring music and
scripture, will retrace the last few
days of Christ’s life on earth, leaving
Him in the tomb. The service will
regress from light to darkness as a
symbol of the rejection Christ en
dured. Worshipers will depart from
the church in darkness. Special
anthems will be sung by the choir,
under direction of Mrs. Darrell
Austin.
Rev. Gary Bryant and Miss Pam
Daniel will lead the worship service,
to which the community is invited.
John Frezell
Takes Post
In Bellhaven
John Frezell, inspector-estimator
in the city’s Housing Rehabilitation
program since Nov. 1, has resigned,
effective April 9, to join the Town of
Bellhaven, N.C. as Town Manager.
Announcement was made by
Arnold Gordon-Wright, Community
Development Co-ordinator.
Mr. Frezell is a graduate of the
University of South Carolina. He is
married to the former Anne Finger,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ^rl
Finger of Kings Mountain.
Mr. Wright said the city is
receiving applications in his ^flce
for the position being vacated by
Frezell.