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¥ ww | a A gg eg KM Boxer John Houser Eyes Olympic Tryout John Houser, 14-year-old ninth grader at Kings Mountain Junior High, has been invited to compete in the Canadian-United States amateur boxing card Saturday, April 2 at Barnville, S.C: Houser hopes his performance in the fights will lead to a tryout for the U.S. Olympic team.” Houser, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Houser of Kings Moun- tain, has been boxing for the Gastonia Police Athletic League for three years and has won over 50 of his 70 amateur bouts. He’s 12-1 this year, his lone loss com- ~ ing last week in the Gastonia Golden Gloves. He competes in the 100 to 107-pound division and has traveled all over the Carolinas, . Georgia and Tennessee meeting some of the south’s best boxers in his weight class. He won the state champion- ship last year at Mt. Holly and has won Golden Gloves titles recently in Mt. Holly and High Point. In a short time, complished a lot. He’s confident the best is yet to come. He became interested in the sport at the age of 11, when his father took him to a Golden Gloves tournament in Gastonia. He signed up for the sport with the Gastonia Police Athletic League and learned quickly under veteran Coach Dean Huf- fstickler. He’s registered eight technical knockouts in his 13 matches this year. His lone loss was on a deci- sion against a fighter he’d beaten earlier. He admits he could have been looking past that fight to next week’s matches in South Carolina. Although he doesn’t know his competition yet; he figures the match to be the most he’s ac- John Houser important of his career. “If I fight well down there and win, it could lead to a shot at the Olympics,” he said. “I would come back home and train hard. Usually, a fighter would get a call and invitation to go to another international bout. If you win enough, it could get you a chance go to the Olympic Training Center.” Although Houser doesn’t ap- pear to be a strongman, he does have a big knockout punch. He says his quickness is his strongest asset. He spends at least two hours a day training at the Clay Street gym in Gastonia. “I run a lot, jump rope, hit bags, shadow box and spar a lot,” he said. “I run the mile on the junior high track team and that helps me a lot.” “Houser’s long-range boxing goal is to turn pro when he’s 18 or 20 years old. Junior High Team Is Rebuilding Kings Mountain Junior High’s baseball team opens Western Fonfsgnes. Dy March 28 at Grist. { 84 season but Coach David Hef-= fner lost all of his starters and faces a rebuilding task. “We're going to be real young and inexperienced,” he said. “We'll try to improve from game to game but we’re going to have to learn.” Members -of the team are ninth graders Paul Neisler, Thomas Breakfield, ‘Kent < ~Sanders," cemKeith Moris, Kevin.Champion....c.. «cus #afdd®Wayne Jenkins; and seventh graders Timmy Adams, Kevin Burns; May 5. East McDowell; Bobby Pearson; eighth graders Greg Anthony, Rusty Bumgard- ner, ‘Todd Fleming, Trent ‘Tommy ‘Chapman; THE SCHEDULE March 28, at Crest; March 31, West McDowell; April 14, at Burns; April 18, at East McDowell; April 21, Shelby: April 25, Crest; April 28, at West. McDowell; May 2, Bolin, David Ayscue, Monty Deaton, Brent Bagwell, Jody Champion, Donald Murray and Mason Blair. VR RR a a pa i Ay UA a | Thursday. March 24, 1983-KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Page 5A A’s Tryouts Thursday Night hibition games this weekend at Davidson Park. They'll face the Bowling Green Hornets Satur- day at 3 p.m. and the Mt. Holly Sluggers Sunday at 3 p.m. ing out for the team are asked to attend and see Coach Bubbles Brown. The Kings Mountain A’s will hold tryouts Thrusday at 6 p.m. at Davidson Park. Any persons interested in try- The A’s will host a pair of ex- EB Sass CLEVELAND MALL 1] 1 CRICKETEER The ae indispensable Blaser gaba Tine asics. suit. 2 Our Cricketeer : Season Skipper® Ours is beauti- is a fashionable fully tailored for hopsack weave us by Cricketeer - that you : with natural can build your shoulders, two * whole wardrobe buttons, patch - around. In an ar- and flap pockets ; ray of colors, this , and welted 7 AR is the blazer thal edges. The cool 2 1 : ~_cangoany- polyester and i where, do any- cotton blend is - thing, 'round the the perfect way. clock and "round to beat the heat. the year— $185.00 thanks to its practical nature. Fine detailing in . a polyester and i wool blend, $140.00 “Starting an IRA at our age Boheler, "Rodrick Boyes and May 9. at Shelby. Fn Fonurquare Gospel Churely : ~~ seemed a little useless until I talked to Home Federal.” P.0. BOX 91 Kings Mountain, N. C. 28086 “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will | profess unto them, | never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity”, (Mt. 7:22-23). Recently, | have been asked several questions concerning certain questional conducts on the part of various ministers and ministries. Those raising the questions have been given a bad picture of the Church and it's mission. | should like to clear up the picture painted by these questional ministries and/or ministers without attacking them directly. The Bible is a book ‘of Truth. | am so thankful that the Bible gives us the bad accounts as well as the good. Throughout the | Bible, we find honest dedicated men and women of God. On | the other hand, we find many dishonest men and women that { only have an appearance of dedication. When Christ cleansed the Temple, He was driving such men from the House of Prayer. He even called these men, thieves. Judas was not like the other disciples. Christ called him a devil. What shall. we do then? Destroy all churches, because history has shown that some men use the church for dishonest gain? And shall we disallow all disciples, because history has | shown that some men are wolves in sheep's clothing? NO! A thousand times, NO! Do you throw the baby out, with the dirty diaper? Do you burn down your house, because it needs painting? Do you junk your car, because it. has a flat tire? Ridiculous, you should answer. ; You are just as ridiculous as the above, when you throw out all churches, all ministries and all ministers--because a few are questional. Even if a few are known thieves and known devils and known hypocrites--all are not like these. There are thousands of Christ centered, Bible teaching and Spirit led churches; ministries and ministers in the world today. Many such churches and ministries are found right here in our area, also. Don't judge us all by the bad conduct of a few. | have my instructions to judge not. According to my opening . Scriptures, Christ tells us that many will be dishonest. On the other hand, He did not abandon the. work of the church and His followers, because of the bad ministers. Further, He will judge them. They will be cast into outer darkness having heard Him say, “Depart, I never really knew you”. Do not judge them, just be sure your hands are clean and your heart is right, when you stand before Christ for your judgement. P.S. “Let him that is without sin, cast the first stone, at these that they are judging”. account. I sleep a lot better at night knowing my account is insured to $100,000 by the FSLIC. With my Home Federal IRA I don't pay taxes on my contributions until I retire and my money's earning a high rate of inter- My retirement savings are growing faster than I ever thought possible. I won't be retiring any sooner now, but with my Home Federal IRA I'm looking forward to it a lot more than I used to. I'm in my fifties. Until recently I planned to retire on Social Security, life insurance and some money | have in savings. I figured it was a little too late to start an Individual Retirement Account. But I changed my mind after doing a little investigating at Home est. oo Federal. Opening an IRA is a lot easier than I thought. I put in as much as I want, as often as 1 want. They'll even draft my deposits automatically from my checking | Home Federal iii Savings and Loan Association Fader Sorgn § Lown isance Corp | Your Savmgs lasarsd to $100,000 KINGS MOUNTAIN AND BESSEMER CiTY = PASTOR: Rev. Oscar Stalcup, Jr.
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