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THURSDAY, JANUARY 9,
1986
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Kings Mountain’s Kevin Mack was named Tues-
day as the United Press International’s Rookie of
the Year in the American Football Conference,
fulfilling the 23-year-old’s goals of rushing for over
1,000 yards and being named rookie of the year in his
first season in the National Football League.
Earlier, Mack was a close second to Eddie Brown
of the Cincinatti Bengals in the voting for NFL
Rookie of the Year.
Mack, who played his college ball at Clemson
University, gained 1,104 yards rushing, rushed for
eight touchdowns and caught three touchdown
, passes to lead the Cleveland Browns to the AFC Cen-
al Division title. The Browns lost to the Miami
Dolphins 24-21 in the opening round of the NFL post-
season playoffs last week. Mack rushed for 55 yards
in that game. .
The Kings Mountain native’s first year in the NFL
was one of the best ever enjoyed by a rookie. He
broke the Browns rookie rushing record of 942 yards
which was set in 1957 by Hall of Fame great Jim
Brown. He and teammate Earnest Byner, an East
Carolina University product, became only the third
duo in NFL history to rush for over 1,000 yards each
out of the same backfield. Byner had 1,002 yards
rushing, breaking the 1,000 yard mark with a seven-
yard run on the Browns’ last play of the regular
season. ;
Mack was fourth in rushing in the AFC and led the
entire NFL with a five yards per carry rushing
average. He was the only rookie selected to play in
the annual Pro Bowl Game which is scheduled for
February 2 in Honolulu, and he was Honorable Men-
tion All-Pro.
Mack has been a record-setter throughout his foot-
ball career which began as an 11th grader at Kings
Mountain High School. After playing linebacker as a
junior in high school, he began shining in high school
track and was moved to the tailback position his
senior year. He set school records for most yards
rushing in a single game (287) and most yards
rushing in a single season (1,585). :
From KMHS, Mack moved on to Clemson where
he earned a starting position as a freshman before
suffering an ankle injury midway through the
season. His sophomore year, he was the starting
fullback in the Orange Bowl game in which the
Tigers defeated Nebraska 22-15 for the national
SHE plOnSH) . His senior year at Clemson, he set a
record for most yards rushing by a fullback
and had the highest per carry rushing average in the
Atlantic Coast Conference. He played in the Blue-
Gray All-Star Game in Montgomery, Ala., and was
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Kevin Mack AFC Rookie Of The Year
named Most Valuable Player.
Before the NFL draft, Mack signed a pro contract
with the Los Angeles Express of the United States
Football League. When he arrived in L.A, the Ex-
press was in last place in its division but finished as
division champions and advanced to the semi-
fianals of the league playoffs. Mack set Express
records for longest touchdown run from scrimmage
(71 yards) and most yards rushing in a single game
(146).
Even though Mack had already inked a pro con-
tract, the Browns were so impressed with his
abilities that they drafted him in the first round of o ‘ Lo
lemental draft, and the move paid id
the NFL’s sup
ided to give the NFL a try and made
off. Mack deci
his mark on the pro football world.
KEVIN MACK
KM Woman Has Ear Implant
Six weeks from now Beuna (Dimp) Law-
ing, 63, of 113 North Cleveland Avenue,
hopes to be hearing again the sounds of
birds and doorbells as well as other un-
familiar noises she hasn’t heard in 15 years.
The Kings Mountain woman underwent
. successful surgery Tuesday in Charlotte
Eye, Ear, Throat Hospital for an artificial
ear implant of her right ear, the first ear
implant surgery in North Carolina.
“We're all just delighted as are the doc-
tors’’, said her husband, David Lawing.
“We have high hopes' that Dimp will be
home in about three days and then there
wil be a period of recovery, more tests, and
in about six weeks she will return to the
hospital where she will get an outer hearing
device, a sound processor, that can be
operated with batteries to wear underneath
her clothes and give her the necessary help
to hear with the artificial ear.”
Mrs. Lawing has only 14 percent hearing,
with aid of a hearing aid, in her left ear and
has no hearing in her right ear, said her hus-
band, although she has reared a family of
five children and worked along with him at
R.L. Stowe Mill in Belmont.
Clanging noises in her head which had the
sounds of bells ringing had worsened in the
last months and the family were searching
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KM Historical Museum In
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. Jane Oaks,
Grover, that he wanted her to
Grover Teen’s Heart
Used In Transplant
A 17-year-old Route 1,
Grover man’s heart was im-
planted in a 30-year-old
woman, North Carolina’s
third heart transplant reci-
_ pient, at Charlotte Memorial
Hospital Monday.
The woman subsequently
underwent a second heart
transplant when the first
- developed problems. She was
listed in very critical condi-
tion. ;
“About ‘a month ago; Allen
Philbeck told his mother,
of - Route 1,
donate his organs if he ever
became brain dead. Mrs.
Oaks carried out his wishes.
On New Year’s Day around
8:30 a.m. the van in which
Philbeck was riding to work
from Fallston to Charlotte hit
an icy patch in the road. The
vehicle ran off the road, down
an embankment, and over-
turned.
Philbeck was transferred
from Cleveland Memorial
Hospital to Charlotte
Memorial Hospital Sunday
night. Lengthy tests deter-
mined the heart donor-
recipient match and the
transplant operation began
on Monday at 3:30 a.m. by
surgical teams in a seven
hour operation on the mother
of four children. Only two
other heart transplants have
been performed in North
Carolina, both at Duke
Univesity Medical Center
last April. One of those reci-
pients is still alive.
Funeral services for young
Philbeck. were conducted
Wednesday morning from
Masters Funeral Home
Bloodmobile
Visit Slated
Kings Mountain city
employees will sponsor a
visit of the Red Cross Blood-
mobile at First Baptist
Church on West King Street
Thursday, Jan. 9th.
Donors will be processed
from 12:30 to 6 p.m.
This is a regular Kings
Mountain visit. All donors
who gave at the Kings Moun-
tain High School visit on
Thursday, Nov. 14th, are
eligible to give.
Kings Mountain Historical
Museum Foundation has
been established in Kings
Mountain with a slate of of-
ficers recently installed and
with plans to acquire a per-
manent building in the
downtown area to display
historical items relating to
the city’s long history.
“We are happy to tell you’,
says Mrs. Hazel M. Fryer,
the Foundation’s first presi-
dent, ‘‘that the Foundation
Committee has secured four
upstairs rooms in the former
City Hall building (now the
Police Station) at 110 South
Piedmont Avenue as an office
Nanney Nomin
Bethware principal Ron
Nanney is the Kings Moun-
tain NCAE’s district nominee
for the coveted Terry Sanford
Award. This award, named
for Terry Sanford, North
Carolina’s education gover-
nor, is presented annually to
an educator who has
demonstrated creativity and
innovativeness in education.
This year’s theme is ‘‘multi-
disciplinary teaching and
learning.’ :
The Instruction and Profes-
sional Development commit-
tee of the local NCAE cited
many programs and projects
created or implemented by
Nanney. Among these are a
holistic approach to reading -
and collection center for any
items which local citizens
may wish to donate.”
Items appropriate for
display which reflect the
history of Kings Mountain
and this area might be anti-
que farm implements,
military or war memorabilia,
transportation, railroad or
mining items, local business
and industrial information or
histories, old diaries, pic-
tures, personal items such as
clothes, over 50 years old,
shoes, hats, accessories, toys
and collections of any kind
reflecting life in Kings Moun-
tain in the past.
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LK
RON NANNEY
Anyone having items to
donate to the museum should
contact one of the officers. In-
terested persons wishing to
volunteer their ideas or ser-
vices are also invited to do so,
said Mrs. Fryer.
The new Foundation grew
out of the desires of the 1981
Kings Mountain Centennial
Committee to utilize for the
benefit of all the remaining
funds generated by the suc-
cessful celebration of the one-
hundredth birthday of the
founding of the town of Kings
Mountain. Last year the
Centennial Committee divid-
ed the remaining monies by
ated For Award
Wheeler, Ka
Roberts, an
are members of the local IPD
committee.
‘Nous parlons francais,” a
French awareness program
for first graders was started
last year by Nanney with
Doris Wallace’s first grade
This year,
Wallace is continuing the pro-
gram with her first graders,
and Nanney is teaching the
twe remaining first grade
classes. The program in-
tegrates culture, music, art,
and stage programs to the
study of French vocabulary.
year’s
instruction, an affective self-
concept emphasis called
“Every Student a Winner,” A
Washington, D.C. trip for
fifth grade students, staff,
and parents which correlates
to fifth grade social studies, a
student opportunity em-
phasis in art and public
speaking, the creation of an
elementary French
awareness program called
‘““Nous parlons francais,” and
innovative curriculum pro-
grams in music and physical
education which emphasizes
the integration of other con-
tent areas. It is the last three
areas that the IPD commit-
tee of NCAE is recognizing in
Nanney’s nomination. Carol
Mrs.
class.
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making equal distribution to
the Mauney Memorial
Library, the Kings Mountain
Indoor Pool Foundation, Inc.
and the newly organized
Kings Mountain Historical
Museum Foundation.
Officers
Mountain Historical Museum
Foundation (KMHMEF) are
President,
Fryer
(739-4828) ;
President,. Mrs.
Baker (739-2147); Secretary,
Lynne W. Mauney
(739-5181);
Thomas A. Tate (739-8015).
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for the Kings
Mrs. Hazel H.
Vice-
Ruby H.
Treasurer,
Jolley, Susie °
Carol Parker
Mrs.
students
FIRST BABY OF NEW YEAR—April Ellen Morrison is held
in the arms of her mother, Judy Morrison, in Kings Mountain
Hospital where she was born on Jan. 2 at 2:25 a.m. and is the
first baby born at Kings Mountain Hospital during New Year
1986. Weighing seven pounds, 12 and one half ounces, she is
the second daughter of Judy and Phillip Morrison of 1008 W.
Gaston Avenue in Gastonia and granddaughter of Rev. and
Mrs. Jonathan D. Ramkissoon of High Shoals and Mr. and
Mrs. Melvin E. Morrison of Kings Mountain and great-
granddaughter of Mrs. Sonia Ramkissoon of Trinidad, West
Indies and Mrs. Ethel Mae Davis of Old Fort. The baby’s
father works at Bost Baker in Shelby. Other member of the
Morrison family is 20 months old Rebekah Christiana. Dr.
F.K. Chen was the attending physician.
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