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VOL. 97 NUMBER 6
DR. PAUL H. McGINNIS, JR.
Scholarship
To Honor
Dr. McGinnis
The Dr. Paul H. McGinnis, Jr.
Scholarship has been established
by the late Dr. McGinnis’ fami-
ly. The scholarship is to be
awarded to a Kings Mountain
Senior High School senior who
plans a career in the field of
math or science. Preference is to
be given to students planning to
attend N.C. State University and
study engineering. 3
Dr. McGinnis was. graduated
High
McGinnis worked in the field of
Chemical Engineering. He died
on May 28, 1983 in Baton
Rouge, Louisiana.
Through this scholarship his
family wishes to assist a young
‘person in their pursuit for a col-
lege degree. The scholarship car-
ries an award in the amount of
$1,000. Interested applicants
should contact the Guidance
Department of Kings Mountain
Senior High School.
The late Dr. McGinnis is son
of Mrs. Ethel McGinnis of Kings
Mountain and the late Paul
McGinnis and brother of John
McGinnis and Anita McGinnis
Campbell, both of Kings Moun-
tain. The scholarship is given by
Mrs. Paul McGinnis, Sr., Mr.
and Mrs. John McGinnis and
three daughters and Mr. and
Mrs. Doyle Campbell and two
daughters, all of Kings Moun-
tain.
Well, you win some and you
lose some...
That old sports saying holds
true today for Kings Mountain
area ACC basketball fans, who
briefly were seeing extra ACC
basketball games on cable TV
for free.
But, ESPN, which originated
a 23-game “season ticket”
package several weeks ago, an-
nounced’ late Tuesday that it
would cancel the remaining 27
games (including the ACC tour-
nament) on the special package.
Kings Mountain and
Cleveland County subscribers
who had not paid the $64.95
price which ESPN and cable
systems tacked onto the
package, got to see last week’s
UNC-Maryland game and Tues-
day night’s Wake Forest-Duke
game courtesy of District Court
Judge George Hamrick, who
issued a restraining order last
week that prohibited local cable
systems from charging extra for
the games.
Harris
Six-term Kings Mountain
Senator J. Ollie Harris made it
official this week that he will
seek re-election for his seventh
term in the North Carolina
Senate.
He paid his filing fee to the
. Cleveland County Board of Elec-
tions Tuesday afternoon.
Also making his candidacy for
re-election official was another
incumbent, Marshall Rauch of
List Taxes
Until Jan. 31
It’s almost too late to avoid
the last-minute rush, county tax
listers said this week.
Listing business has picked up
considerably at City Hall but
many people have yet to list pro-
perties for 1983 taxes.
Deadline for listing is January
31. Tax listers are at City Hall
Monday through Friday.
Memorial Services Held
For Gary Fisher, 41
Memorial services for Charles
Gary Fisher, 41, son of Charles
M. and Louise Fisher of Kings
Mountain, were conducted
Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m.
from El Bethel United Methodist
Church, interment following in
the church cemetery.
Rev. Sidney Lanier officiated
at the rites.
GARY FISHER
The family has designated
memorials to the Cemetery
Fund of El Bethel United
Methodist Church, Route 4,
Kings Mountain.
Mr. Fisher died in an airplane
crash in Hardee County, Florida
last week. For a number of years.
he had worked in Miami and liv-
ed at 1244 SW 13th Court.
A pilot, Fisher was a graduate
of Bethware High School and
completed a seven year tour of
duty in 1970 with the United
States Navy as a Lieutenant
aboard the USS Saratoga and the
USS Roosevelt. :
A graduate of Georgia
Southern College with a degree
in Business Administration, Mr.
Fisher was employed as a pilot
for a charter service in Miami,
Fla.
~ Surviving, in addition to his
parents, are two brothers, James
Fisher of Miami, Fla. and Philip
G. Fisher of Morehead City; and
one sister, Mrs. Glenn (June)
Werner of Newman, Ga.
Harris Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
Seeking
THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1984
ESPN subscribers in the five-
state ACC viewing area were
having to pay $64.95 to see the
games while subscribers in other
parts of the nation were seeing
them at no extra charge.
Suits were springing up all
over North Carolina and all
judgments issued thus far were
in favor of the plaintiffs. So,
ESPN decided, rather than
“fight”, they’d “switch” the
games Off.
Judge Hamrick’s order last
week required that Vision Cable
of Shelby and Jones Intercable
of Kings Mountain must show
the games free until January 22.
A hearing had been scheduled
for Friday to settle the issue.
Jones Intercable was not par-
ticipating in the “season ticket”
promotion because officials of
the company felt that charging
their customers $64.95 for the
package would be unfair, since
they’d already paid for basic
ESPN programming.
Gastonia, who also filed on
Tuesday in Gastonia.
The announcement by Harris
and Rauch brings to four the
number of candidates seeking.
three seats up for grabs this year
in the 25th Senatorial District
which includes Lincoln, Ruther-
ford, Gaston and Cleveland
Counties. Incumbent Helen
Rhyne Marvin of Gastonia filed
recently and Bruce Scism of
Kings Mountain filed for the of-
fice last week. All four are
Democrats and running for elec-
tion in the May primary.
Harris, a Kings Mountain
mortician, serves as chairman of
the Human Resources commit-
tee and as vice chairman of the
Senior Citizens Affairs commit-
tee. He is also a member of com-
mittees on appropriations, ap-
propriations base budget on
human resources, banking
judiciary 1, rules and operation
of the Senate, University Board
of Governors, and ways and
means. In addition, he also
serves as co-chairman on study
committees of the Department
of Transportation and hazardous
waste labeling committee. He is
also a member of the Mental
Health Study Commission and
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COMMISSIONER GIVES PROGRAM -
Commissioner Norman King spoke before a
The first suit in North
Carolina was filed about three
weeks ago in Wilmington. A
judge there ruled that its cable
system must show the ACC
games to over 20,000 of its
subscribers.
Fans in two counties reaped
the benefits of Judge Hamrick’s
restraining order against Jones
Intercable. Because Jones had to
show the games in Cleveland
County, it also opened the
ESPN channel up to subscribers
in Cherryville, Crowder’s Moun-
tain and Chapel Grove. And
that made Jones Intercable
customers in other parts of
Gaston County mad.
Steve Walters, system
manager for Jones, explained:
Jones Intercable, which is bas-
ed in Lowell, operates two Earth
receiving stations, one in Kings
Mountain and one in Cramer-
ton. The Kings Mountain sta-
tion serves Kings Mountain, part
of Cleveland County, Cher-
ryville,. Chapel Grove and
MARSHALL RAUCH
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
ESPN Cancels Games
Crowder’s Mountain. The
Cramerton station serves
customers in eastern Gaston
County.
There was no suit filed against
Jones in Gaston County, thus,
customers who receive their pro-
grams from the Cramerton
receiving station continued to
have their ACC games blacked
out. :
ESPN has stated that it charg-
ed for the special package, which
was purchased from Raycom
Sports and Jefferson Pilot
Teleproductions, because the
games were being shown “in ad-
_ dition to” games scheduled for
basic ESPN programming.
Possibly the biggest slipup
made by local cable companies
which offered the season
package was that they put a
price tag on the games without
first getting approval from their
city or county governing bodies,
which actually own the cable
TV franchises. Franchise
agreements state that any rate
increases must be approved by
the governing bodies.
Judge Hamrick ruled last
week that cable systems in the
county could not change their
rates without a 30-day notice to
County Manager Joe Hendrick.
Robbie Bridges, Sales
Marketing Director for Jones In-
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Jaycees To Honor Eight
For Outstanding Service
Eight Kings Mountain
citizens will be honored for
outstanding achievement by the
Kings Mountain Jaycees Mon-
‘day night when the club hosts
ung Educ
the recipient of the 1
Distinguished Service Award,
the Boss of the Year, the
Outstanding Young Firefighter,
the Outstanding Y oung Rescuer,
the Teenager of the Year, the
Y oung Teenager of the Y ear and
ductor.
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the outstanding Former Jaycee.
Prior to the awards presenta-
tion, WBT radio personality .
H.A. Thompson of Charlotte
Sr fie LB wr leh
will preside and Jim Tate will
present the guest speaker. Jaycee
Tom Bennett is chairman of the
event. Various Jaycees will make
presentations of awards during
the evening.
Funeral Rites Held
For D. Hunter Allen, 81
Funeral services for David
Hunter Allen, 81, of 110 S.
Gaston Street, who died sudden-
ly Friday in Kings Mountain
Hospital after declining health
for several years, were con-
ducted Sunday afternoon at 3
p.m. from the Chapel of Harris
Funeral Home.
His pastor, Rev. Ivan
Stephans, officiated at the rites
and interment was in Mountain
Rest Cemetery. Active
pallbearers were Harry Wilson,
Howard Ware, N.M. Farr, Fred
Thornburg, James Leigh, and
. Warren Goforth.
A native of Johnson County,
N.C., Mr. Allen was the son of
the late William Riley and Min-
nie Elizabeth Allen. He was
retired superintendent of the Ci-
ty of Kings Mountain Electrical
PHOTO BY LIB STEWART
City group of Civics students at Kings Mountain
Senior High recently.
Department, having joined the
city July 28,1931. He was also a
former assistant chief of the
Kings Mountain Volunteer Fire
Department. He was a member
of Central United Methodist
Church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Inez Bennett Allen, of the home;
two daughters, Mrs. Frank
(Ramona) Richardson of Colum-
bia, S.C. and Mrs. Gail A. Hum-
phries of Charlotte, and four
grandsons. His son, Billy Allen,
died in January 1980. He is also
survived by three sisters, Mrs.
Lola Mae Strickland of Four
Oaks, Mrs. Ernestine Vaughan
of Atlanta, Ga. and Mrs. Hazel
Casper of Cummings, Ga.
Harris Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
Young People
Should Take
Active Role
District 4 Commissioner Nor-
man King told Civics students at
Kings Mountain Senior High
last Wednesday that he has no
plans now to offer four years
from now for re-election.
King made the comment after
inviting participation in city
government from young people
and said, “I'd like to see you all
run for city office at some time
and serve the city. It’s time we
gave some of our younger
citizens a chance.”
King was elected to the city
board nearly 20 years ago, in
1964. He was re-elected to a four
year term in the recent city elec-
tion.
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