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a oa mer rapmi gre. | Ww Net ig Gg 3 C*u3pn shut 2S10:0:0 VOL. 95 NUMBER 48 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1982 TURKEY TIME - While most of us are eating turkey Thursday, lovely Donna Wright will be representing Kings Mountain in the annual Carolinas Carrousel Parade in Charlotte. She posed with these two baby turkeys at Jim Yar- bro's farm in the Bethlehem Community. These two won't be big enough to grace a Thanksgiving table, but their time's coming soon. Donna is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wright of Kings Mountain and is a ‘senior at Kings Mountain High School. where she voted Homecoming Queen as well as Car- rousel Princess. { Photo by Gary Stewart Joint Service Held For Neisler Couple A double funeral service was held Sunday at 3 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church for Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Ramseur Neisler Sr. of Hilton Head Island, S.C. : Mrs. Anne Lutz Neisler, 73, died suddenly at 5 p.m. Friday and Mr. Neisler died at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at Kings Mountain Hospital following several weeks illness. The Neislers lived in Kings~ Mountain until the early 1960’, when they moved to Hilton Head. Both were active in church and community activities in both towns. Mr. Neisler, son of the late Charles Eugene and Ida Pauline Mauney Neisler Sr, was a retired executive with Neisler Mills of Kings Mountain. He was a charter member of the First Presbyterian Church of Hilton Head Island and a former member of the First Presbyterian Church of Kings Mountain, a charter member of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis Club, Lake Montonia Club and ‘Kings Mountain Country Club, a former Kings Mountain City Commissioner, a large land owner in Bladen County, and an avid hunter and golfer. He was educated in the Kings Mountain City Schools, Blue Ridge School in Hendersonville, Davidson College and Philadelphia (Pa.) School of Tex- Rev. Campbell To Get Human Relations Award Rev. M.L. Campbell of Kings Mountain has been named the recipient of the North Carolina Human Relations Council’s an- nual Community Leadership/n- volvement Award for 1982. The award will be presented at the N.C. Human Relations Council’s 20th anniversary celebration January 14 at Meredith College in Raleigh. Any persons desiring to ac- company Rev. Campbell to Raleigh should call him at 739-3352. Rev. Campbell serves as pastor of Rudisill Chapel AM.E. Zion Church in Cherryville and is active in a number of com- munity activities. He taught school for 36 years, retiring from Turn To Page 6-A REV. M.L. CAMPBELL tiles and Designs. Mrs. Neisler was the daughter of the late Theodore Henry and Donna Patterson Lutz of Shelby. She was a member of the Hilton Head Island Presbyterian Church and a former member of First Presbyterian Church of Kings Mountain. She was a: charter member of the Kings Mountain Garden Club and a former member of the Board of Trustees of Mauney Memorial Library. She attended Asheville Nor- mal School in Asheville and was a graduate of Mary Washington College in Fredricksburg, Va. The Neislers were married for 51 years. id They are survived by one son, Hunter R. Neisler Jr. of Gastonia; one daughter, Mrs. John Oates (Patricia) Plonk of Kings Mountain; four grand- daughters, Mrs. William Boone of Washington, N.C., Mrs. Gary Ball of Lenoir, Mrs. Bob Slin- cham of Princeton, N.J., and Miss Amy Stevens Neisler of Gastonia; three grandsons, J.O. Plonk III and Mrs. Carl Neisler Plonk, both of Kings Mountain, and Hunter R. Neisler III of Gastonia; and three great- grandchildren. Mr. Neisler is also survived by one brother, J.A. Neisler Sr. of Lake Waccamaw, N.C.; and three sisters, Mrs. H.R. (Margaret) Hunnicutt and Mrs. Harry E. (Grace) Page, both of Kings Mountain, and Mrs. W.F, (Pauline) Brewer of Henderson. Mrs. Neisler ‘is also survived by two sisters, Mrs. Paul W.’ (Lena) Wellman of Morganton and Mrs. Henry (Faye) Overton of Rocky Mount. Turn To Page 3-A Your December electric bills will be higher. ~The city board of commis- sioners Monday night authoriz- ed an increase in wholesale power cost from Duke Power Company, the city’s supplier which has upped rates regularly in recent months. City customers will feel the bite of the increase, however, in their January bills, probably about the first of the new year. City Clerk Joe McDaniel, Jr. said after the meeting that December bills will be going out soon to customers but the customers will be seeing the in- crease in their January statements. “The citizens are again con- fronted with a utility increase and it is beyond anything that the governing body can do about it”, said Mayor John Henry Moss. ~~ Gordon N. Drum, of Charlotte, the city’s consulting engineer with Southeastern Con- sulting (Engineers, In¢., concur- red. He said the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has ap- proved; subject: to. refund, the proposed . revision of Duke Power Company’s schedule No. 10 to be effective for service rendered on and after Nov. 2, 1982. The purchased power costs will be increased by ap- proximately 9.3 percent which the city could recover, he said, with a 7.0 percent increase. However, the seven percent will only recover the increased pur- chased power cost, and the city Guyton Service Is Held Otto Guyton, 65, of 1003 Groves Street, Kings Mountain, died Wednesday at 12:06 p.m. at Kings Mountain Hospital following a two-week illness. A native of Kings Mountain, he was the son of the late John J. and Frances Cobb Guyton, and was retired as manager of the Krispy Kreme Company of Col- umbia, S.C. He was an active member of Grace United Methodist Church, where he was chairman of the Administrative Board. He was a Mason and Shriner. He is survived by his wife, Norma Mayhew Guyton; one son, John Banks Guyton of South Bend, Ind.; one daughter, Mrs. Harry (Priscilla) Melton of Belmont; two sisters, Mrs. Ruth Williams and Miss Lottie Guyton, both of Kings Moun- tain; four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Turn To Page 3-A 9808 ¢ ‘DAY JUOWPDTd £xexqTT TeTIowdW AdUnen - KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA Duke Increases Electric Rates may need to increase their rates more than seven percent to off HERALD CLOSED Good morning! Because Thanksgiving falls on our regular publishing date, you are receiving your Herald a day early this week. We'll return to our regular publishing schedule next week. The paper will be printed late Wednesday afternoon and will carry a Thursday date. Advertising deadlines will return to 5 p-m. Tuesday. The Herald will be clos- ed Thursday and Friday, re-opening Monday at 8:30 a.m. Happy Thanksgiving! set and additional increases in their cost of operation. “This is ridiculous on the part of Duke Power Co.,” said Comm. Norman King who reluctantly made the motion to pass the seven percent increase on to customers. “Basically we have no control”, he added. Commissioner Jim Dickey added that “the city has written letters before to the utilities commission complaining about higher rates. Duke gets a license to do most anything, it appears. It appears to me that some of our regulatory commissions need to be changed. I don’t believe there’s a utility company around that’s run efficiently.” Commissioner Jim Childers -added, “It’s the man on the street who's paying the bills and it’s not right. We need to get behind our Turn To Page 8-A Thanksgiving Service Set Wednesday Night Rev. Eric Faust, pastor of . First. Presbyterian Church in Kings Mountain, will deliver the annual Thanksgiving sermon Wednesday at the community- wide service to be held at Temple Baptist Church, 612 North Cansler Street. His topic will be “Thanksgiving: A Source of Power.” A special message in music en- titled “Marvelous and Wonder- ful” is to be presented by members of the host church choir, with Bill Childers conduc- ting. : The special event, to which everyone in the area is invited, is sponsored by the Kings Moun- tain Ministerial Association, which is an inter-denominational and inter-racial group of pastors of churches in the Kings Moun- tain School District. Others participating will be the Rev. Gerry Davis, host pastor, the Rev. Allen Jolley, Dr. Tom Patterson, the Rev. Har- wood Smith, the Rev. Dwight Edwards, the Rev. Sam Murphy. and the Rev. Paul Horne. The special services commit- tee of the ministerial association, which planned the program, "hopes to have at least 500 per- sons present for this service of worship and praise which is to begin at 7:30 p.m. The offering to be taken, as in former years, will be for the Helping Hand Fund, which pro- vides assistance with food for those in desperate need. Hun- dreds of families are assisted each year. This fund is carefully managed by the pastors and a staff person, Mrs. Diane Davis. It is supported by, in addition to the Thanksgiving offering, the United Way, the churches and individuals of the area and the funds collected during the Christmas season when pastors receive donations at the shopp- ing centers of Kings Mountain. This fund is the only agency in the Kings Mountain area render- ing emergency and short-term assistance to the citizens. The current trend in the national and local economies has caused a dramatic increase in the demand upon the program. KMHS Band Director Gets Excellence Award Donald Deal, band director at Kings Mountain Senior High School, received the Award of Excellence at the North Carolina Music Educators Association In-Service Con- ference held in Winston-Salem November 7 - 9. Selected by the North Carolina Bandmasters Association Board of Directors. Deal was cited for outstanding leadership in the field of music education. A native of Hickory. Deal earned the A.B. degree at Lenior Rhyne College and the M.A. degree, from Appalachian State University. He has taught in Dallas, Granite Quarry, Lincon- ton, Bessemer City, and Kings Mountain Schools. His bands have earned Superior Ratings at contests in each locale where he taught. Deal has been an -acive member of several educational organizations, including North Carolina Educators Association, ' serving as treasurer of the South Central District, and the American School Band Directors DONALD DEAL : “Association, in which he served as state chairman.He has served as instructor at summer music ‘camps and has been an ad- judicator at junior high contest- festivals and solo and ensemble contest. } 1 | b
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