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VOL. 97 NUMBER 43
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1984
~ Mountaineer Days
Slated Saturday
The “biggest and best ever”
Kings Mountain area Moun-
taineer Days celebration is how
Kings Mountain Fire Depart-
ment is advertising Saturdays all
day celebration.
Fire Chief Gene Tignor said
that citizens attending the
Celebration will find a variety of
family fun and entertainment.
Rain or shine, Saturday’s
events will be held and will get
underway at 10 a.m. in the area
of the Kings Mountain Parking
Plaza with on-stage and off-
street activities that will delight
visitors to Kings Mountain.
“Whatever you like in the way
of entertainment, you’ll find it in
Kings Mountain on Saturday”,
says Tignor.
There will be singing groups,
dancing groups, cloggers, enter-
tainment and novelty acts,
costume contests, and all capped
-off with a big street dance Satur-
day evening at 8 p.m. Conces-
sion stands will be manned by
Kings Mountain firemen and
Kings Mountain Shriners and on
Schedule Of Events
Kings Mountain Mountaineer Days Celebration will be held
Saturday, Oct. 6th, rain or shine. All activities will be held in
the vicinity of the Kings Mountain Parking Plaza. Below is a
list of the day's activities.
ON STAGE ACTIVITIES
Saturday, Oct. 6
10 a.m.-12 noon - High Landers
12 noon-12:30 - Hayes Gospel Group
12:30-1 p.m. - High School Pep Band
1:00-1:30 p.m. - Kathy James Cloggers
1:30-1:50 p.m. -
Senior Citizens Exercise Class
1:15-2:10 p.m. - Patsy Parker Exercise Class
2:30-3 p.m. - Break Dancers, Senior High
3:00-3:30 p.m. -
30-4 p.m. -
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6:00-6:30 p.m. - Gospel Group
-6:30-7 p.m. - Rev. Russell Fitts
:30-6 p.m. - Lisa che Singer
Senior Citizens Band
‘High School Show Choir
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7:00-7:30 p.m. - Becky Davis Cloggers
7:30-8 p.m. - Jane Campbell Dance School
8:00 p.m. - Street Dance
ON STREET ACTIVITIES
Quilt Display. Apple Cider
Making, Horse Shoe Contst,
Blacksmith Shop. Basket Weaving, Wiley's Fitness Center,
Kings Mountain Concession Stand operated by Kings Moun-
tain Fire Department; Shriners
Concession Stand: Ice Cream
Parlor; Old Farm Equipment; Dunking machine; Bingo;
Miniature Golf; Gospel Singing; Blue Grass Band; Woodwork-
. ing; Car Show by the Spartanburg Class Auto Club; Communi-
ty Awareness; Puppet Show; Churning Butter and Smokey the
Bear.
BESIDE FIRE DEPARTMENT
Hay rides, cattle fair, fire truck rides, Greene's buggy rides.
COMMUNITY CENTER
A big Craft Fair will be underway all day at Community
Center.
BEHIND POST OFFICE
Boy Scout exhibits and Girl Scout exhibits will be open to the
public.
Bill Bates Resigns
Superintendent’s Job
Former Kings Mountain
educator Bill Bates has resigned
his position as superintendent of
Hendersonville City Schools.
Bates resigned last week on his
doctor’s advice. He is recovering
from a heart attack he suffered
in June.
Bates had served the Hender-
BILL BATES
sonville unit since 1978 and was
credited with developing a dual
school bus system so elementary
and upper grade students would
not ride the same buses, as well
as moving the system toward
state accreditation and initiating
computer education programs.
Bates served the Kings Moun-
tain system for 22 years as a
teacher, coach, and assistant
principal at Kings Mountain
High School, and as assistant
superintendent. He came here in
1957 after a two-year tour of du-
ty with the U.S. Army.
Bates is a native of Spartan-
burg, S.C., and was a three-sport
athlete at Cowpens High School
and Gardner-Webb and Wofford
colleges. He also played Army
football in Germany.
He joined the KMHS faculty
in 1957 as a teacher and assis-
tant football coach. He was
elevated to the head football
coaching position in 1962 after
the retirement of the late John
Gamble. Bates coached the
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the street a number of exhibits
will remind citizens of the “good
ole days” in Kings Mountain.
Quiltmaking, cidermaking, an
ole timey blacksmith shop,
woodworking, an auto show,
churning butter, horse shoe con-
tests, and various exhibits will be
free of charge to the public.
Youngsters can take hay rides,
fire truck rides and buggy rides
and citizens can also enjoy an all
day craft fair and student and
scout exhibits.
“Tell all your friends about
Mountaineer Day and bring
your whole family to town
Saturday to celebrate the Battle
of Kings Mountain Anniversary
and join in the fun”, said Chief
Tignor.
White Plains Shrine Club will
sell barbecue Saturday during
Mountaineer Days Celebration
and all proceeds are earmarked
for the Shriners Hospital for
Crippled Children.
A concession stand will be
operated at the corner of Gold
Street and York Road and also
in downtown Kings Mountain
offering barbecue sandwiches,
barbecue plates and whole
shoulders.
PHOTO BY LIB STEWART
CITY TO TEST ENERGY PROTOTYPE AT LAKE - Stanley Sherno, left. who build the first pro-
totype Energy Conversion Device at Moss Lake, Energy Commissioner Jim Dickey, Mayor
John Moss and Pers President Ed Baddour. right, inspect the model the city will test at 2:20
p.m. Thursday.
Hydroelectric Unit
To Be Unveiled
The city will unveil what
energy commissioner Jim Dickey
and Mayor John Moss hope will
from falling wal
totype piston drive hydroelectric
unit at Moss Lake, in collabora-
tion with Pers Cororation Presi-
dent Edmond Baddour of
Laurinburg, and at 2:30 p.m.
Thursday the public is invited to
see it in operation and attend an
open house from 2:30 until 5:30
p.m.
Representatives of area media
and such industries as
Westinghouse, General Electric
- and Allis-Chalmers, have been
extended invitations to attend
the first formal testing of the
unit which required three mon-
ths to construct.
The city board of commis-
sioners entered into agreement
with Pers Corporation, Inc. June
11th to erect the first Energy
Conversion Device unit, at no
cost to the city, and the city
reserved the right to acquire an
operating model unit at a later
date on competitive bid, accor-
ding to Energy Commissioner
Jim Dickey. Dickey said that
members of the Energy commit-
tee, including Commissioners
Curt Gaffney, Irvin Allen and
Norman King, had inspected
several units and visited the
building site at the lake on
several occasions and had been
told by engineers that a 300
KVA unit is available but that
city acquire two units, one a 300
KVA and the other a 800 KVA,
alternating use of them during
wet and dry seasons and using
both during wet seasons.
be an avenue to extract energy
engineers are recommending the
“What makes this Pers theory
so attractive is that you can ex-
tract more energy out of the
same amount of water. They are
more energy we can produce the
more revenue the city can save
its power customers", said
Dickey. ;
Sherno said he reviewed
RAY AND LIB CLINE
Ray Cline Receives
Moose’s Top Honor
Former seven-term Ward 1
City Commissioner Ray W.
Cline, 76, received the Loyal
Order of Moose’s top honor, the
Pilgrim Degree of Merit, in the
House of God, Mooseiteart; 111.
recently.
The surprise presentation
honored the Kings Mountain
man, one of eight North Caroli-
nians and 196 from all over the
world who received the coveted
honor. Over two million men are
active in the Moose Order na-
tionwide. Moose Heart, or Child
City, Ill, is the haven for many
widows and children of deceased
Moose members.
Mrs. Cline accompanied her
husband to Illinois.
All members of the Cline fami-
ly of six children, 21 grand-
children and 17 great-
grandchildren, attended a special
Robing and Tribute ceremonies
held by Shelby Lodge 427 on
Cline’s return from Illinois.
Active in the Fraternal Order
of Moose for 30 years, Cline was
a charter member of the Kings
Mountain Lodge in 1954 and
served as Prelate, Junior Gover-
nor, Governor and Junior Past
Governor. When the local lodge
disbanded he transferred to the
Shelby Lodge 427 in 1966. In
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Hayes Contest Winner
Sue Hayes of 807 Rhodes Avenue, Kings Moun-
tain, predicted 16 of 20 winners to take the $100
* prize in last week’s Herald football contest.
Mrs. Hayes edged out S.M. Echols of 1504 Nor-
thwoods Drive, Kings Mountain, by coming closer
to the tie-breaking score of 29 points in the Shelby-
South Point game. South Point won 21-8. Mrs.
Hayes predicted 28 points on the tie-breaker and
Echols picked 33.
The two misfired on four different ballgames to
tie for the top spot. Mrs. Hayes missed South
Point’s win over Shelby, Maiden’s victory over
Cherryville, Army’s win over Duke and Virginia’s
win over VPI. Echols missed Kings Mountain over
East Rutherford, North Gaston over/East Gaston,
Hunter Huss over Hickory and N.C. State over
East Carolina.
Winners of last week’s games were Kings Moun-
tain over East Rutherford, South Point over Shelby,
Burns over R-S Central, Crest over Chase, North
Gaston over East Gaston, Ashbrook over South
Caldwell, Fred T. Foard over Bessemer City in dou-
ble overtime, Maiden over Cherryville, Clover over
Newberry, Statesville over East Lincoln, Huss over
Hickory, Lincolnton over South
Iredell, Georgia
Tech over Clemson, Maryland over Wake Forest,
N.C. State over East Carolina, UNC over Kansas,
Army over Duke, Virginia over VPI, Texas over
Penn State and Auburn over Tennessee.
This week’s contest is inside today’s Herald. To
enter, fill out the contest blank and return it to us
by 4 p.m. Friday. Bring it by our office on Canter-
bury Road or mail it to Football Contest, P.O. Box
752, Kings Mountain, N.C. 28086:
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