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AT ERSKINE— William A. Butler of Green-
ville, one of 50 distinguished men and women
to serve as interviewers recently for the E.B.
Kennedy Scholarship competition at Erskine
College. chats with two of the outstanding
high school seniors who participated in the
competition for Erskine’s highest scholarship.
skine.
(Photo by Dick Haldeman)
From the left are Butler, Liz Burke of Gray
Court, S.C.. a senior at Laurens District 55
High School. and Tracy Bolin of Kings Moun-
tain, a senior at Kings Mountain High School.
All participants in the competition are being
considered for academic scholarships to Er-
Tracy Bolin Competes
For Erskine Scholarship
Due West, S.C.—Charles
Tracy Bolin, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Bolin, 606 Landing
Street, Kings Mountain, par-
ticipated in the recent E.B. Ken-
nedy Scholarship Competition at
Erskine College.
To be eligible for the competi-
tion, students must have
outstanding high school records
and College Board scores and be
nominated by their principals or
guidance counselors. Sixty-eight
semifinalists in the E.B. Ken-
nedy Scholarship competition
were interviewed by fifty
distinguished men and women
from throughout the south and
east.
Bolin, a senior at Kings Moun-
tain Senior High School, 1s a
member of the Beta Club and
band. He is chief junior marshall
and an academic achievement
award winner.
To be selected as a semifinalist
in the E.B. Kennedy Program,
through which four full
academic scholarships are
awarded annually, is considered
an honor 1n itself. All
semifinalists are considered for
other academic scholarships at
Erskine ranging in value to more
than $4,000 per year. Approx-
imately fifty members of each
Erskine freshman class receive
academic scholarships.
Recipients of scholarships to
Erskine will be announced later
in the 1983-84 year.
Erskine, founded mn 1839 by
the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian Church, was South
Carolina’s first four-year
denominational college. It is a
four-year coeducational liberal
arts college offering majors and
preprofessional training in ap-
proximately thirty fields.
Art Classes Slated
Charlotte artist John Brady,
who has been in Kings Moun-
tain to conduct art classes for
A.B. Snow Studio for a number
of years, will return to Kings
Mountain Tuesday for classes
for children and adults, which
are free and open to the public.
The children’s class will be
held at 4:30 p.m. at A.B. Snow
Studio, 3600 Margrace.
The class for adults will be
held at 7:30 p.m. at Depot
Center. All citizens interested in
forming a Working Artist Guild
in Kings Mountain are asked to
be present for a short business
meeting prior to the art
demonstration. Local organizers
hope to fund the project through
a Grassroots Grant for which ap-
plications must be made by
March 1. The Guild would hold
regular meetings at Depot
Center and would be sponsored
by the city.
“You don’t have to be an ar-
tist to belong or to participate in
all those programs”, said a
spokesman.
After Christmas Sales Set
After-Christmas sales will be
held by downtown stores Mon-
day, including Fulton’s Depart-
ment Store and Plonk’s.
Stores in the two shopping
centers will also be open as usual
and both TG&Y and Mack’s
Variety will resume regular
operation on Monday.
Several merchants are
undecided about opening on
Monday, which is a legal holiday
for banks, the city post office,
the City Hall, and most financial
institutions. Local grocery
stores, including Winn-Dixie and
Harris-Teeter, will operate Mon-
day.
Kings Mountain district
school children are enjoying a
long holiday, which began last
Friday.
74 Inspection Set
N.C. Department Transport-
ment officials will be making a
final inspection of the new U.S.
74 By-Pass between Cansler
Street and I-85 on Thursday.
IT'S A GIRL
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
McDonald of Route 4 proudly
announce the birth of their
daughter, Laura Beth, on Thurs-
day, Dec. 1. Laura has an older
sister, Renee, who is 11.
Grandparents are O.H. (Duke)
Ernst and Pauline Dotson Ernst
of Kings Mountain, Mrs. Shirley
Oliver of Kings Mountain and
the late Ralph McDonald of
Gastonia. Nina Hendren, also of
Kings Mountain, 1s Laura’s
great-grandmother.
TWO FIRES
Fire damaged the Kountry
Cook Inn, the old Silver Villa on
King Street, and the roof of An-
vil Knitwear, city firemen
reported. Extensive damage was
done to the heater on top of the
Kountry Inn and the dryer
caught on fire at Anvil Knit
resulting in damages to the roof.
NATIVITY SCENE
First Baptist Church ‘of
Grover will present a live Nativi-
ty Scene in front of the church
Thursday and Friday nights
from 7 until 8:30 p.m.
Staff Engineer Jim Warren, of
the Shelby office, said that the
new stretch of road will not be
open to traffic until after the first
of the year. Mr. Warren said
that barring unforseen bad
Happy Holidays to
all our good patrons.
We enjoyed serving
you
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weather, the new road may be
open to traffic by Jan. 5.
Secret Santa’s
Identity Revealed
Lincoln Academy Communi-
ty’s Secret Santa is no secret any
longer. His neighbors have
spread the news that Benjamin
Woods, 63, is the jolly man in
the red suit and white beard who
has spread Christmas cheer to
the less fortunate for many vears
now.
With his station wagon loaded
now with several hundred
goodie bags which he carries in a
red sack, Woods has made sur-
prise visits at the homes of shut-
ins, elderly, and often stops kids
on the streets or at service sta-
tions to give them treats. It’s his
Christmas gift to the community
and it gives him a special feeling
inside. He calls it the Spirit of
Christmas.
Woods said that he got the
idea after retiring from a local
plant. “For years 1 had worked
as a public servant to maintain
the necessary requirements for
my family that life demands of
us, most often having put off or
forget some of the things I would
call as a hobby or enjoy doing
for lack of time and money. Now
that I have retired this is one of
the Christian projects that I en-
joy doing”, he said.
“1 still call my self a public ser-
vant”, he said, “but this time I
am a servant for Jesus Christ,
spreading good cheer during the
Christmas season and serving
those in need of my help
throughout the year.”
Starting a few days before
Christmas, Woods gathers a few
helpers, usually his family, and
starts wrapping gifts and filling
his Christmas bag with goodies.
Most of the expense Woods
takes care of himself. Sometimes
he receives donations from his
local congregation but usually he
spends about $150 himself on
cookies, candies, raisins, stick
candy, etc. He has already been
booked as Santa for several chur-
ches, including Vestibule AME:
Zion, Shady Grove, Humphrey’s
PHOTO BY GARY STEWART
SECRET SANTA - Lincoln Academy Community's Secret Santa,
above, has a reputation of spreading cheer to the less for-
tunate at this season of the year. Here he gets ready to go with
his sack full of goodies to distribute in town.
' Chapel, Galilee AME Zion and
Mt. Olive Baptist Church.
Janie and Benjamin Woods
live on Shady Grove Read. They
have three children, sons, Ver-
non and Reggie, daughter,
Machelle, and a three-year-old
grandson, Chris Seawright. They
are active in Vestibule AME
Zion Church and each Sunday
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he transports members to church
who have no means of transpor-
tation. Mrs. Woods works at
Kings Mountain Hospital.
Next Christmas Woods hopes
he’ll be able to go into the con-
valescent and nursing homes,
and jails, for isn’t Christ
everywhere?
CHRISTMAS GIFTS - Dr. John McGill of Kings Mountain ad-
mires over 200 gifts which employees of Kings Mountain
Hospital bought for needy children in the area for distribution
through the Kings Mountain Fire Department's Toys for Tots
project.
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Firemen
Elect
Officers
Thirty-two volunteers in the
Kings Mountain Fire Depart-
ment elected new officers Tues-
day night.
Fire Chief Gene Tignor said
the staff now includes seven paid
firemen and 32 volunteers.
The new officers in the
Volunteer Department include:
Bud Ware, Assistant Chief and
Public Education Officer; Bill
Herndon, Lieutenant, fire
prevention officer; Bill Ware,
water supply and training of-
ficer; Jackie Barrett, pension
secretary; Frank Burns, line
chief and new assistant chief of
volunteers; Johnny Caldwell,
secretary-treasurer; Brent Leigh,
training officer; Willard Yar-
brough, Sr., Captain, and John
Wright, Lieutenant.
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