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VOL. 98 NUMBER 2
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1984
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAnU waives
KM Gearing For
Spottiness in textiles is
reflected in plans for industrial
holidays during the Christmas
season.
The announced work cessa-
tion ranges from two days to a
week.
Concurrently, several firms
are making vacation payments
and bonuses to their employees,
and holiday parties are being
held on the various shifts at
numerous plants this week.
Clevemont Mills will close Fri-
day night and reopen with the
third shift on Jan. 1. Christmas
Eve, Christmas Day and New
Years Day will be paid holidays
Hang In
There!
Maybe the United States should have lost World War 11.
. The countries who did, seem to be better off in many
respects, than we are. They ought to be. We rebuilt them.
We gave them our technology. We sent over our experts
to help build back their bomb-shattered nations. We loan-
ed them money at low interest and in some cases no in-
‘terest (some of which has never been repaid.) We showed
them how to build automobiles and how to produce textile
products, loaned them the machinery with which to pro-
duce those products, and the money. Now they
are threatening to put our own people out of jobs by sen-
ding those same automobiles and textile products into our
“country - to haunt us. :
The average textile worker in this area doesn’t unders-
tand textile import quotas, foreign government subsidies
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and the like. All he knows is that he might be out of work
because some other country can sell a T-shirt cheaper than
his company can.
__ Why should a country who tried to destroy us, now
threaten to dominate us? If the federal government writes
off the textile industry—who will be next? What foreign im-
-port will threaten some other American industry - fur-
niture? Cameras? We have got to make the rest of the
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for employees. Gifts will be
distributed to all employees this
week during Christmas parties
planned in the various depart-
ments of the plant.
Parkdale Mills will close at 11
p.m. Friday and reopen at 7 a.m.
on Jan. 2. Bonuses will be paid to
all employees based on length of
service. A Children’s Party was
held Saturday at Depot Center
and Santa was on hand to
distribute stockings and toys to
the children of all employees.
Park Yarn Mills will be closed
all next week for the Christmas
holidays and employees will
receive vacation pay. The plant
ristmas
will reopen Dec. 31.
Employees of K Mills will
receive bonuses based on length
of service and Christmas gifts.
The plant will be closed for the
holidays Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday.
Anvil Knitwear will close for
the holidays at end of operations
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"CANS FOR KIDS- Celitral School students collected 894 Cans of food for the needy as a
Christmas project and the food will be distributed by the Kings Mountain Ministerial
‘Association's Food Bank this holiday season. From left, Cindy Wood. 6th grade teacher
whose homeroom students collected the most cans at 180; Carmen Smith, Student Council
President: Rev. George Simmons and Rev. Fred Wells, local ministers, and faculty advisor
John Pettus.
KM Board Of Realtors
Gets National Charter
Ruby Moss Alexander’s
dream is now a reality.
The National Association of
Realtors has approved the ap-
plication of the Kings: Mountain
Board of Realtors, Inc. for
charter status as a constituent
Member Board.
Mrs. Alexander, wife of
former KM Postmaster Charles
Alexander, has been working
hard—and a driving force along
with . other - local realtors, for
several years and actively for 15
months to gain the national ap-
proval, which came at the recent
convention in Honolulu,
Hawaii.
PHOTO BY GARY STEWART
MAN OF YEAR-Jett Cloninger, left. accepts the Kings Mountain Rescue Squad Man of the
Year Award from Captain Charles Martin at the squad's annual Christmas party Monday
night at Paul's Seafood. Cloninger was voted the honor by his fellow rescuers.
Mrs. Alexander, who has been
in the building related business
for 20 years and before that
worked for many years at Elmer
Lumber Company, was chair-
man of the local group which
petitioned for release last Oc-
tober from the Cleveland Board
of Realtors to form ‘a Kings
Mountain Board. Only two
votes ‘separated the “yes” and
“no” but the local group became
officially the Kings Mountain
Board of Realtors and elected
Mrs. Alexander as its first presi-
dent with Larry Hamrick as
secretary and Bob Maner as
treasurer.
All total, the Kings Mountain
Board of Realtors numbers 30,
including affiliates from Kings
Mountain lending institutions.
The Board plans to meet mon-
thly and Mrs. Alexander said the
Boards’ affiliation with the na-
tional organization will be of
much benefit to the citizens of
Kings Mountain and will iden-
tify the Kings Mountain Board
of Realtors throughout the state
as a strong body in the com-
munity.
“We have all worked hard to
achieve this goal and look for-
ward to Charter Night sonietime
in January”, said Mrs. Alex-
ander.
The local board received state
approval in May and the charter
application was just approved
from the national organization.
Kevin J. Milligan, Director of
the Member Policy Division of
the National Association of
Realtors, wrote Mrs. Alexander
that “we are delighted to
welcome the Kings Mountain
Board of Realtors, Inc. into the
family of Realtors and Realtor-
Associates. Your Boards con-
tinued progress and growth will
be an important contribution to
the purpose and objectivities of
organized real estate.”
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RUBY ALEXANDER
oy
Friday, Dec. 21, and reopen on
Jan. 2. Employees will receive
and
winter vacation checks
Christmas gilts.
Mauney Hosiery Mill will
close after the second shift on
Friday, reopening with the first
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Students
Collect
Canned Food
“Cans For Kids”, a Christmas
project of Central School Stu-
dent Council, will make
Christmas brighter and merrier
for the needy of the Kings
Mountain area.
The total collection, 894 cans
of food, is a project originated by
the students themselves because
they want to help those less for-
tunate.
The food was turned over to
the Kings Mountain Ministerial
Association Helping Hand Food
Bank this week just in time for
distribution to needy families for
Christmas.
Faculty Advisor John Pettus
said that each homeroom at Cen-
tral School participated in the
project and a contest was held
among the students. Mrs. Larry
Wood’s 6th grade homeroom
collected 180 cans of food and
won the prize, 3 Christmas arty
hosted by the sponsoring Stu-
dent Council members and held
on Tuesday, the last day of
school
holidays.
Council President
Smith said that all students in
the 6th and 7th grades took part
in the “Cans For Kids” project
and were eager (0 participate.
“We know there are many
children hungry in our area and
the Food Bank is in desperate
need of more food for the needy
especially at this holiday
season,” she said.
Rev. George Simmons and
Rev. Fred Wells, representing
the KM Ministerial Association,
said that the Central students are
to be commended for being such
caring young people. “They
heard of the need for food and
answered it. We didn’t ask
them,” said Mr. Wells.
Many of the children told
their teachers they had heard
ministers from the local pulpits
talk of the need to replenish the
Food Bank and they did just
that with “Cans For Kids.”
Funeral Services Held
For Mrs. Ethel Tindall
Mrs. Ethel Lee Tindall, 86, of
411 South Battleground
Avenue, died Wednesday at
Cleveland Memorial Hospital
after several months illness.
A native of Yancey County,
she was the daughter of the late
Thomas Poston and Illa McFalls
Cooper, and the wife of the late
Asa Ulmont Tindall. She was a
homemaker
Kings Mountain Baptist Church.
She is survived by two sons,
Nathaniel Tindall of Durham
and Thomas Tindall of Kings
Mountain; three daughters, Mrs.
Marguerite McKee and Miss Ed-
na Earl Tindall, both of Kings
Mountain, and Mrs. Melba
McWhirter of Shelby; one
brother, A.W. Cooper of Gaff-
ney, S.C.; I'l grandchildren; four
great-grandchildren and two
great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were con-
ducted Friday at 3 p.m. al Kings
Mountain Baptist Church by the
and member of
ETHEL TINDAI.I
Rev. J.C. Goare and the Rey
Roland I cath. Burial was in
Mountain Rest Cemetery .
before Christmas
Carmen