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State fans celebrate NCAA victory... |
By GARY STEWART
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Fantastic. Overwhelmed. |
Dream come true. Those are just :
some of the words N.C. State
fans in Kings Mountain used to
describe the Wolfpack’s last-
second 54-52 victory over
Houston Monday night in the
NCAA championship basketball
game.
Most Kings Mountain fans
were glued to their television |
sets, but at least two Kings i
Mountians were a part of the fa
live crowd which witnessed one
of the greatest NCAA cham-
pionship games of all time in
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Mark Sanders, son of Linda
and Bill Sanders of the Wood-
bridge Community, is a senior
chemical engineering student at
State and plays the trumpet in
the State Stage Band. He has :
literally flown all over the coun- | - i
try in recent weeks following the
team, which came to be known NO
as the Cardiac Kids for its ability i
to win on last-second shots.
Allen Dixon, a former history ik
teacher at Kings Mountain High |
School, made the trip by car to
Albuquerque to witness a North
Photo by Gary Stewart
WOLFPACK FEVER - Patients going into Durham-Lee-
Crowley Medical Clinic in Kings Mountain Tuesday had to
feel better after meeting nurse Linda Sanders. She dressed in
red and white, and greeted the patients with a State pom-pom
in one hand and a needle in the other. Mrs. Sanders’ son, Mark,
is a member of the State Band and followed the team in its
NUMBER ONE - Zeb Plonk of Kings Moun-
tain, an N.C. State graduate and former
Wolfpack baseball and football standout.
college basketball team in the land. Kings
Mountain fans joined with Wolfpack followers
all over the country in celebrating Monday's
quest for the NCAA championship.
points with pride to the tag on the front of his
car which proclaims the Wolfpack as the top
54-52 victory over Houston.
Turn To Page 9-A
~ Mountain District Schools Spell-
ing Bee Wednesday at the
Schools ~~ Administration
Building. we
Jennifer will represent the
district in the Regional Spelling
Bee April 22 in the Charlotte
Observer Auditorium. The win-
ner there will travel to
‘Washington, D.C., to compete
for the national championship.
Jennifer is the daughter of Ed-
die and Donna Hamrick of 603
Southwood Drive, Kings Moun-
tain. She is a member of the
cheerleading squad at the junior
high and recently won first place
in the school talent show.
Other contestants, who
qualified by winning their in-
dividual school spelling bees,
were Amy Turner, Bethware;
Shane Farris, Central; Benna
Elliott, East; Lisa Droz, Grover;
Arthur NaNaKornpanom,
North; and Tina Nicholson,
West.
Mrs. Martha Bridges was
General Supervisor of the con-
test. Judges were Mrs. Sara Grif-
fin, librarian at Kings Mountain
High School; Mrs. Jacqueline
Lavender, Assistant Principal at
Kings Mountain High . School;
Jennifer Hamric
Kings
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JENNIFER HAMRICK
and Connie Allison, Principal of
North School. Mrs. Griffin ex-
plained the rules as set forth by
the Charlotte Observer, sponsor
of the spelling bee. Mrs. Charles
Mauney served . as the pro-
~ nouncer.
After a warm-up period, the
contestans were asked to spell
such words as aquatic, nuclear
and lingerie. The final two con-
testants were Arthur
NaNaKornpanom and Jennifer
Hamrick, and after Arthur
misspelled “sapphire”, Jennifer
spelled that word correctly, and
then spelled “pendulum” to be
declared the winner.
Turn To Page 5-A
Kindergarten Screening
Slated In KM Schools
Children who will enter
kindergarten this fall will be in-
volved in a screening program at
their respective schools in May.
To be eligible the child must be
five years old on or before Oc-
tober 15, 1983 and must be a
resident of the school district.
" The screening will be con-
ducted by a team of school per-
sonnel including teachers,
psychologists, speech therapists,
the school nurse, the social
worker, and the principal at each
school. Three sessions are plann-
ed for each day with fifteen
children screened at each ses:
sion. The first group will be
screened at 8:30 a.m., the next at
10:30 a.m., and the last at 1:30.
p.m.
Parents should contact the
school in their district to secure a
registration form and make an
appointment for the screening.
Appointments are made on a
first-come first-serve basis. If the
parent does not know which
school his child will attend, call
the District School Office,
739-4589, for that information.
Screening sessions will be held
as follows: Bethware, May2-3;
Grover, May 4-5; West, May 6;
North, May 9-10; East, May
11-12.
Parents will need to bring the
child’s official birth certificate
(not the hospital record), his up-
to-date immunization record,
and a copy of the physical ex-
amination by the family doctor
or the health department.
k Wins gate Grant
" Development to use
KM Gets
Moss Lake and for water line
connections on several
downtown streets.
Mayor John Henry Moss said
he applied for the grant on June
- 14. “We're very happy to receive
it,” he said.
Moss said 60 percent of the
amount will be used for im-
provements of the dam, which
has been studied by the city and
its consulting engineers for over
a year. An improvement project
which will cost almost a half-
million dollars was recently ap-
proved by the Board of Commis-
sioners but it is currently on the
back burner to give the city’s
consultants, the W.K. Dickson
Company of Charlotte, more
time to study the safety aspects
of installing an underwater
valve.
The city has also been given
authorization from the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban
some
surplus federal funds on the pro-
ject. ;
Moss said the remaining 40
percent of the grant monies will
be used for making water line
connections on East Gold Street,
Ridge Street, West Gold Street,
Tracy Street and South Bat-
tleground Avenue.
Youth Must
Work For Town
A Kings Mountain teenager
who was convicted last week of
damaging Mountain Rest
Cemetery was sentenced to per-
form 400 hours of community
service and spend 10 consecutive
weekends in jail during his sum-
mer vacation. :
Judge Tom Bowen gave Lart-
son Joe Williams, 17, of 402 East
King Street, a two-year jail
sentence, suspended upon the
‘condition that he perform up to
400 hours of community service
for the city of Kings Mountain,
be placed on probation for two
years, and spend 10 comnsecutive
weekends in jail during the sum-
mer.
Williams will work under the
Turn To Page 7-A
Resources to be used toward
dam improvements at John H.
5
FRIENDSHIP FORCE - Members of the
Friendship Force committee met last week to
‘make plans for an upcoming visit of foreign
FF ambassadors to the Kings Mountain-
Friendship Force
Makes Arrival Plans
The Arrivals/Departure Com-
mittee of the Friendship Force
of Gastonia and Kings Moun-
tain met this week to make plans
for the arrival of friends from
another country to the Gastonia-
Kings Mountain area.
It is not too late for area
citizens to be a part of this effort
to make the area a center of in-
‘ternational peace and friendship
for 14 days this summer.
The Friendship Force invites
residents to be among 40 people
‘from the exchange city to in-
troduce the visitors to ‘the
American way of life, or to
become one of 40 people to visit
another country, eat their food
and savor their culture.
Interviews will be conducted
for those who are interested in
serving as either an Friendship
Force ambassador or host.
Anyone under the age of 18
must be accompanied by a
parent or guardian. Applications
‘are available at the Gaston
Public Library, Mauney
Memorial Library in Kings
Mountain, and at interview ses-
sions. The next interview session
will be Sat., Apr. 9 from 10 a.m.
until 1 p.m. at First Methodist
Church in Gastonia. For more
information, call Lee Crosby at
739-1120.
Chairman of the Ar-
rivals/Departure Committee,
Marion Carpenter, says her com-
mittee plans to make the arrival
of ambassadors from the ex-
change city a memorable one.
Her committee consists of Dottie
Southwell, gifts-kits; Jane
‘Shields, welcome ceremonies at
Photo by Betty Gamble
Gastonia area. Left to right are Marion
Carpenter, Ann Withers, Dottie Southwell and
Jack Steinwich.
Charlotte Airport; Jerry Werner,
welcome at First Methodist
Church, Gastonia; Ann Withers,
coordinator of ceremonies; and
Wade Tyner, transportation.
“Be a part of the Friendship
Force-take advantage of this op-
portunity for people of different
cultures to learn something of
their fellow man, to discover the
similarities of all cultures and to
find that basic human needs,
desires and concerns are the
same throughout the world,”
Ms. Crosby said.
Mayor’s Wife’s Father
Dies In Wisconsin
Leo F. Beilke, 89, of Wausau,
Wisconsin, the father of Mrs.
John Henry (Elaine) Moss of
Kings Mountain, died Thursday.
Funeral services were con-
ducted Monday at St. Mark’s
Lutheran Church in Wausau.
He was a retired dairy farmer,
In addition to Mrs. Moss, he is
survived by one other daughter,
Mrs.
Wausau; and two sons, Otto
Beilke of Town of Maine, Wis.,
and Rubin G. Beilke of Mount
Prospect, Illinois.
Richard Andrus of’