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Lib Stewart
Jimmy’s Auction House
Busy Place On Friday
The busiest place in town now on Friday night is probably Moun-
tain City Building Supply (the old Winn Dixie Building on Cherokee
Street). 3
For the past four Friday nights, Jimmy Dickey, who owns and
operates the new downtown business, has sponsored an auction and
up to nine dealers have brought items ranging from kids bicycles and
toys to fine jewelry and antiques.
Marshall Leonhardt, of Cherryville, who is assisting Dickey in
organizing the auction every Friday night beginning at 7 p.m., thinks
an auction in Kings Mountain will be quite successful and hopes the
turnout this Friday and subsequent Fridays will be even better.
Leonhardt says that more than 100 citizens have taken advantage of
the bargains and others come to the auction just to relax in chairs in
the large auction area, and enjoy coffee and hotdogs from a concession
stand.
. Audrey (Mrs. Jim) Dickey, Jimmy's mother, says the auction site is a
good place for people to get together and it’s a good place to see
neighbors you haven’t seen in a number of years. i
“A couple times I held my hand to inquire about something and
found I had made a bid on one of the items up for sale”, said Audrey.
Lee Roberts of Shelby was doing the auctioneering on a recent Fri-
day night and another popular auctioneer is Joyce Lee, of Kings
Mountain.
“We want everyone to know they are welcome to use our facility to
sell their goods. There is a minimal charge to help pay for the utilities
but we have plenty of room here to display the wares and to offer the
public something different and new”, says Dickey.
And if you’ve never seen auctioneers at work it’s an experience in
itself.
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In Winternational Program
Two Kings Mountain students, Lindsay M. Cole, 505 Mitchell
Street, and Wanda L. Witherspoon, ‘Route 6, are among the 192
Wingate College sophomores who are back home from a visit to six
foreign cities in the college’s Winternational program. In this sixth
year of the unique study-travel program, 12 different groups spent 19
days in either London, Geneva, Parris, Munich or Moscow and Len-
ingrand. °
The travel portion of Winternational is the culmination of 12
semester-long seminars, one of which each student has selected for
study. This year’s selection of seminars was the first to include an op-
portunity to study and travel in the Soviet Union. Only sophomores
who have maintained a 2.0 or C average are eligible to participate in
the program at no extra cost beyond tuition.
Other area students in the program were Sheila C. Darnell, Route 1,
Shelby, Cynthia. Lowery, 1202 Meadowood Lane, Shelby, and
Christina M. Edwards, Route 2, Cherryville.
With Jackson Delegation
The daughter of a former principal from Kings Mountain was a
member of Jesse Jackson’s delegation that last week won the release of
Navy Lt. Robert Goodman, Jr., from Syria.
Thelma Davidson Adair, daughter of the Rev. Robert James David-
son, former Kings Mountain minister and former principal of David-
son School for whom the school was named, joined the Democratic
presidential candidate on his trip to Syria. Mrs. Adair is leader of the
national United Church Women and attended Barbara Scotia College
in Concord, Bennett College in Greensboro and Teachers College of
Columbia University in New York.
In the mid 1970’s Adair became the first black woman to head the
2.7 million member Presbyterian Church U.S.A. She was a trustee of
Johnson C. Smith Seminary in Charlotte, which moved to Atlanta in
1969, and is now a member of the Davidson College board of trustees.
All six children in the R.J. Davidson family of Kings Mountain
became doctors or educators.
Davidson School operated in Kings Mountain for many years as
Grades 1-12 before school consolidation. The school building now
houses the KM District Schools Administrative Offices on Parker
Street.
Dinner Party Honors
Mr. And Mrs. McCarter
A delicious three course din-
ner was served after which bridal
Mr. and Mrs. William Eugene
McCarter, Jr., newlyweds, were
Herald S ty le /
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January 12, 1983
—Classes At Community Center
Fitness Routines Look
If losing weight was your
Number 1 New Year’s Resolu-
tion the Kings Mountain Fitness
Program at the Community
Center may be an answer to
your problem.
Patsy Parker, who has
directed the Kings Mountain
Recreation Department-
sponsored program since March
1983, has enrolled more than
1,000 students for an hour or
two each week during nearly
two years of the 18 class pro-
gram she teaches Mondays,
Tuesdays and Wednesdays in
the Gymnasium of the Com-
munity Center.
She’s taking new enrollments
for the New Year now and
hopes to be able to schedule an
evening class for couples,
husbands and: wives, if there is
sufficient demand.
Because many of her students
work, Patsy has also scheduled a
class for those who wish to take
their lunch break at 12:30 and
, work out on the equipment in
the Community Center gym and
enjoy the choreographed
routines which look easy but are
quite difficult. “The first step is
making up your mind to start the
program and then it’s two weeks
of hard work and sore muscles.
After about six weeks, a person’s
body becomes tougher and you
get used to the calistenics, slim-
nastic routines, jogging and exer-
cising. My students say I’m hard
on them but I have to be to get
results”, says the petite inStruc-
tor who stands five foot two in-
ches tall and weighs 108 pounds.
Unlike some instructors, Patsy
Parker practices constantly the
same exercise routines that her
. students do and masters them 18
hours a week. She admits it took
her some time to be able to get
off the ‘“high” all that exercising
builds up in a person’s body. Pat-
sy said that she was extremely
underweight and out of shape
when she began her exercise pro-
gram and then trained for her
Easy But
job about 12 years ago. A former
beautician, she went to work at a
Gastonia Spa and trained for
four years while still serving as a
beauty operator. “I like the
fitness program and I feel so
much better myself and want my
students to feel good.”
Stretching, holding their
stomach in and pushing to the
music of “What A Feeling” and
“Work That Body”, the women
in the Parker class work hard.
They use bench presses, recliner
boards, and squat racks on a big
14 unit Universal machine in the
Gymnasium and put fun into
their dance routines which are
similar to aerobics.
The Parker students have lost
pounds and gained confidence in
themselves. :
Cost of the classes are a low
$10 per month and that means a
student may take 18 classes a
week but three classes are recom-
mended for good results. The
local program does not offer a
sauna and steam luxuries but is
designed as a community fitness
program. “We're all just like a
family”, she says.
Mrs. Parker doesn’t allow her
students to cheat on their exer-
cising program. “They may
cheat at home but when they’re
in class we work”, she declares.
One of the projects underway
by the group now is an Exercise-
A-Thon to be held at Cleveland
Mall for benefit of Cystic
- Fibrosis and. sonje students, are
now signing up sponsors.
Mrs. Parker is married to Son-
ny Parker, who is employed by
Owen Steel, and they have two
children, Holly, age 6, and a
married daughter, Lisa Bridges.
Mr. Parker took some ribbing
from friends because he stayed
at home on their 19th wedding
anniversary a few weeks ago and
allowed his wife and her brother,
Frank Harris, to take a week’s
trip. to Honolulu, and Kona,
Hawaii. Harris won the all
They’re Hard
Story And Photos
By Lib Stewart
BUSY INSTRUCTOR - Patsy P
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arker stays as busy as her
students in her Fitness Class at Kings Mountain Community
Center.
_expense-paid trip from Testa
Chevrolet Co., where he is
employed, and GMAC. Patsy
said it was their first trip to
Hawaii. They left Charlotte dur-
ing heavy rains, saw snow in
Chicago and 14 hours later were
in Hawaii enjoying temperatures
in the high 80’s. “It didn’t seem a
bit like the Christmas season”,
she said. Patsy said that as she
arrived in Honolulu airport, she
was given a+ lei from a
Christmass tree in the lobby.
The Fitness Program at the
Kings Mountain Community
Center opens at 11 a.m., 12:30,
3:30, 4:30, 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Mondays, Tuesdays, and
Wednesdays each week.
honored recently at a dinner par-
ty at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
John L. McGill.
The guests were seated at a
lovely appointed dining room
table covered with a pink linen
cloth and centered with an ar-
rangement of pink and white silk
flowers.
games were enjoyed by the
guests.
The host couple presented the
honored couple. with a gift of
silver in their chosen pattern.
Special guests were the
parents of the bride and groom,
Mr. and Mrs. David Hinson and
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene McCarter.
Uncles Honor Groom
At December Stag Party
William Eugene McCarter,
Jr., who married Sharon An-
nette Hinson on Dec. 3, was
honored at a stag luncheon at
the Holiday Inn in Kings Moun-
tain on Dec. 3 at 1 p.m.
Hosts for the luncheon were
Dr. Enrique Montero of Griffin,
Ga., and Bill K. Erwin of Ander-
son, S.C., uncles of the groom.
Upon arrival the guests were
served appetizers after which
they were seated at tables
covered with white cloths and
centered with arrangements of
holly and red carnations.
A delicious three course lun-
cheon was served to 15 invited
guests. The groom used the occa-
sion to present gifts to the
groomsmen and other members
of the wedding party.
Among the special guests were
the father of the bride, David
Hinson, the groom’s father,
Eugene McCarter, and Kenneth
Montero, of Richmond, Va.
cousin of the groom.
KELLY ANN GOODSON
ENGAGED—Kelly Ann Goodson and Lanny Dewitt Guyton of
Kings Mountain announce their plans for a June wedding. The
wedding will be at Patterson Grove Baptist Church June 9,
1984. Miss Goodson is the daughter of Mrs. Ann Puckett of
Charlotte, and Robert Goodson of Shelby. She resides with her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Hamrick of Kings Moun-
tain. A 1983 Honor Graduate of Kings Mountain Senior High
School. she is attending the University of North Carolina at
Charlotte as a Computer Science Major. Mr. Guyton is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Dewitt T. Guyton of Kings Mountain. He is a
1980 Honor Graduate of Kings Mountain Senior High School.
1982 graduate of Gaston College and presently a Senior at the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte majoring in Civil
Engineering Technology. He is a Second Lieutenant with the
South Carolina Army National Guard and is employed with
CFE Air Services at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
LISA RAYE PATTERSON
ENGAGED - Mrs. Helen T. Patterson of Kings Mountain, an-
nounces the engagement of her daughter, Lisa Raye to Dale
Jennings Green, son of Mrs. Rachel W. Vancil of Cherryville.
The bride-elect is a graduate of Kings Mountain High School
and Cleveland Technical College and is employed at Kings
Mountain Hospital. The prospective bride-groom is a graduate
of Cherryville High School and Nashville Auto-Diesel College
and is employed at Sterling Equipment of Kings Mountain.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wray
Thornburg of Kings Mountain and the daughter of the late
John O. Patterson. The wedding will be held February 4 at 3:00
p-m. at Oak Grove Baptist Church, Kings Mountain.