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VOL. 98 NUMBER 21
THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1985
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
_ “Our Band Does It Better”
is the philosophy of teaching
that Donald Deal has practic-
ed during 35 years as a band
director, 17 in Kings Moun-
tain as Director of Band for
KM District Schools.
Mr. Deal is retiring at the
end of this school year but he
won’t give up his love for
good music.
Kings Mountain Band
students will miss the
popular band director who
has directed a balanced in-
strumental . program where
musical excellence is top
priority and where his first
duty to his students is to meet
the school and community’s
obligations.
Deal, who adores jazz and
serious music, has instilled
his love of music in hundreds
of band students over the
years, many of whom who
have gone on to college and
become band directors
themselves. His students
have played at every Moun-
taineer home football game,
for parades, including the
Kings Mountain Centennial
and Bicentennial celebra-
tions, and most of his
students, at one time during
their high school careers,
have played at Disney World
in Orlando, Fla., a trip plann-
ed especially for band
students, with assistance of
band boosters.
Deal’s students have made
him proud of them by con-
sistently earning superior
ratings the past nine years in
the different grade 6 state
competitions and superior
and excellent ratings every
year that he has served in
Kings Mountain. Long hours
of rehearsal, in addition to
fourth period class schedule
in the band room, earned for
them high praise from Deal
and concert-goers who heard
them play “William Tell
Overture’’ by Rossine,
“Tulsa” by Don Gillis, ‘‘1812
Overture’ by Tschaikowsky
and ‘‘March Slav’’ by
Tschaikowsky, their most dif-
ficult pieces.
Deal tells his students when
they report to the first session
at the opening of school: “If
youre not going to work
hard, you're wasting your:
time. You must work hard to
achieve.” Since Band is an
elective subject at KMSHS,
Deal feels that most band
students have a real love for
music.
Deal inherited his musical
ability from his mother, Mrs.
KMHS Losing A Good Deal
Harold Deal, Sr. of Hickory, a
former piano and voice
teacher but he went to Lenoir
Rhyne College and majored
in Business Administration
and Accounting because
Band was not then offered on
campus. After a hitch in the
Navy during World War II, he
‘returned to Lenoir Rhyne and
majored in music education.
“I liked band and had played
in both high school and col-
lege, so it was just a career
natural. I like all kinds of
music if it’s good, well done
good quality of music,” he
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DONALD DEAL
Two Die
In Wreck
Bonnie M. Ruffin, 68, and
Flora Ruffin, 66, of 151 Enon
Church Rd., Smyrna, S.C.,
were killed instantly shortly
after midnight Friday in a
head-on collision near Kings
Mountain that left two others
injured, according to the N.C.
Highway Patrol.
James R. Sherrill, Jr., 37,
of 1233 Grove Read; Kings
Mountain, and Phyllis Evans,
39, of South Point Road, Bel-
mont, were hospitalized at
Kings Mountain Hospital.
‘The wreck occurred about
12:07 a.m. on N.C. 161 about
one and one half miles south
of Kings Mountain. Accor-
ding to the Highway Patrol
reports, Bonnie Ruffin was
driving South in a 1972 Dat-
sun pickup truck when the
vehicle swerved across the
center line and smashed
headon into the 1979 Ford
pickup driven by Sherrill.
Both trucks were traveling at
55 miles per hour at the time
of the crash and no one in-
volved in the crash was wear-
ing a seatbelt, according to
the reports. :
PHOTO BY JEFF GRIGG
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ART CONTEST WINNER—Himpaphanah Souksavath, left, senior at Kings Mountain Senior
High, won the Superintendent’s Art Show Contest and displayed the winning exhibit, above, as
he is congratulated by Schools Supt. Bill Davis. All
at the Capitol in Raleigh and at the Supe
rintendent’s Conference in
school systems enter the winning exhibits
Asheville this summer.
Harris Proposes Referendum
Seventy-five Bethlehem
area citizens voiced a variety
of opinions Friday night, for
and against annexation by
Kings Mountain, and planned
another meeting in four
weeks with Senator J. Ollie
Harris to discuss further
their ideas of incorporation.
Senator Harris introduced
legislation to incorporate the
community of Bethlehem
after receiving petitions from
500 citizens of the area. He
said purpose of his meetings
with citizens is to find out if
“incorporation is actually
what they want’ before pro-
ceeding further. Harris in-
troduced a bill for incorpora-
tion of the Town of
Bethlehem, with no text,
merely a title. The details of
the bill, if carried through,
can be added later, he said
last week.
Harris said that although
the General Assembly could
incorporate the Bethlehem
area through a local bill, he
would propose that the bill
call for a referendum on the
issue. Such a referendum on
incorporation could be held in
November, he said.
Smith Managing Branch
Home Federal Savings &
Loan Association of Kings
Mountain has opened a
branch office at 283 W. Main
Street in Gastonia and Kings
Mountain citizen Joseph R.
Smith is manager and ex-
ecutive officer.
Offering full service sav-
ings and loan checking ac-
counts with interest, home
loans, installment loans of all
types and all types savings
accounts, the financial in-
stitution is located in the old
Gastonia Mutual Building in
the downtown financial
district of Gastonia. The of-
fices are open Mondays
through Thursdays from 9
a.m. until 5 p.m. and on
Fridays from 9 a.m. to 5:30
p-m.
Mr. Smith, who joined
Home Federal Savings &
Loan in Kings Mountain in
January of this year, said
that grand opening will be
held May 6-10 during regular
office hours and persons 13
and over can register free for
a $500 savings certificate and
children 12 and under can
register free for a $500 sav-
ings certificate. Free gifts
will also be distributed to all
visitors and refreshments
will be served.
The Federal Home Loan
Bank in Atlanta, Ga. approv-
ed the establishment of the
branch office sometime ago
and planning for the new
branch has been underway
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Harris said that to get the
proposed incorporation bill
introduced to the General
Assembly’s deadline for local
bills, he introduced the title
for incorporation.
Some citizens said at Satur-
day’s meeting they are
“against any future annexa-
tion by Kings Mountain, if
and when that should occur.”
Others said if Bethlehem had
to become a town, they might
as well be a part of King
Mountain.
“I don’t see Kings Moun-
tain annexing that area for
another 15-20 years”, Harris
told the group.
The area, as outlined on a
map at City Hall, is about a
mile in each direction from
Bethlehem Baptist Church.
The map gives citizens an ad-
vance notice that their area
could be considered for an-
nexation at a future time and
is part of Kings Mountain’s
resolution of intent, first
preliminary step in a lengthy
annexation process before an
area is even considered.
Harris said that citizens of
the Bethlehem, White Plains,
Crocker Road, and Midpines
areas had originally sug-
gested the name of White
Plains as name for their new
town, if incorporated. Harris
said there is already a White
Plains, North Carolina.
Blanton Is Accepted
In Air Force Academy
U.S. Senator John East an-
nounced today that one of his
nominees, Mary Elizabeth
(Liza) Blanton has accepted .
a fully qualified offer of ap-
paintment to the United f§
States Air Force Academy,
Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Miss Blanton, daughter of
Charlie and Hallie Blanton of
Kings Mountain, will enter
the USAF Academy July 5 to
study aerospace engineering.
Senator East's office said
that Miss Blamouorenpmie the
“only female from Clevelanan
County even to receive such
appointment.
Miss Blanton also received
nominations and was ac-
cepted to the United States
Naval Academy in An-
napolis, Md. from Senator
Jesse Helms and U.S. Con-
gressman Jim Broyhill. She
also qualified for full ROTC
scholarships from both the
Army and the Navy and had
been accepted at UNC-
Chapel Hill, Georgia Tech
and North Carolina State
University.
All service academy
spaces are competitive on a
national level. Good scholar-
ship, high test scores, leader-
ship and extra-curricular ac-
tivities are pre-requisites for
these appointments.
Senator East said, ‘‘Liza
has demonstrated impressive
determination and ability in
athletic and extracurricular
pursuits and has an outstan-
ding academic record. I know
that her family and friends
are just as proud of her as I
am, and join me in wishing
her the very best of success in
pursuit of a career of profes-
sional military service to our
country.”
A senior at Kings Mountain
Senior High, Miss Blanton
LIZA BLANTON
served as a page for North
Carolina Senator J. Ollie Har-
ris and North Carolina
Governor Jim Hunt and at-
tended the Presidential
Classroom for Young
Americans in Washington,
D.C. last year. She is a
member of the Cleveland
United Daughters of Con-
federacy, American Legion
Junior Auxiliary, and the
First Presbyterian Church
with 17 years of perfect Sun-
day School attendance. At
KMSHS she is active in the
National Honor Society, the
Beta Club, the Fellowship of
Christian Athletes, a varsity
cheerleader, is active on the
tennis, golf and track teams,
a member of the cast of the
Senior Play, and active in the
French Club, SPO, Human
Relations Club and a 12 year
student of McClure Dance
Academy. In April she
represented KMSHS on
WSOC Channel 9 ‘‘Outstan-
ding Seniors’’ television
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Customers of The Printing Press and Mountaineer Video
should enter the east side of the building from the Canter-
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