By ELIZABETH STEWART
News Editor
Sandi Shockley, 39, feels good about being
a candidate for Mrs. North Carolina-
America and the five foot nine 135 pound
beauty hopes to bring home the crown from
Wilmington Saturday night.
Wife of Danny Shockley and mother of
four children, Mrs. Shockley has been lif-
ting weights for the past several months
and working out on a regular schedule of fir-
ming up exercises at Wiley’s Fitness
Center, in addition to her daily workouts on-
the-job as a PE instructor at Grover School.
This weekend she will trade her tradi-
tional school costome, sweat shirt with
jeans and tennis shoes, for beautiful high
fashion clothes which accentuate her
slimness and her light brown hair and eyes.
Why has a Kings Mountain mother who
has the good looks of a model, entered the
beauty contest? ‘For my own self esteem
and well being’’, says Sandi, who said that
she will tell the judges during a four minute
interview that counts 50 points in the judges
eyes on scale of 100, that philosophies and
goals are changing. ‘I feel, basically, that I
have led and guided my four children in the
proper way to conduct themselves and be
responsible citizens and it’s now time for
me to think of my husband and myself and
to set new goals. I’ve decided there's much
to be accomplished after the child raising
years’’, she says.
When she told her husband, who owns and
operates East King Shell Station, of her
decision to enter the contest he said ‘Go for
it.”’ So did their children, Shane, 18, who will
enter the Navy in June; Doug, 17, a KMSHS
senior; Misty, 17, a KMSHS junior; and
Danny Shockley, 11, fifth grader at West
School.
She will have her own cheering section in
Kenan Auditorium at 8 p.m. Saturday night.
Sandi Shockley...Preparing For State Pageant
KM’s Sandi Shockley
In Mrs. N.C. Pageant
In addition to members of her immediate
family, Grover school friends in the au-
dience will be Shirley Valentine, Teresa
Williams, Ethel Crocker, Emily Harris, Joy
Ellis, Karen Howze, Glenda Crawford, Gail
Baber, Irma Lockhart, Debra Jones and
Sandra Clark.
Her happy outlook on life should be a plus
for Sandi, who also has a number of Kings
Mountain supporters rooting for her, in-
cluding East King Shell, Preparation
Machinery Services Inc., Wiley’s Fitness
Center, Jerry Ross Winder Service,
American Food Mart, Inc., Jim McGinnis,
H&H Termite and Pest Control, I.G. Alex-
ander, Kathy Mauney, Drs. Froneberger
and McCarthy, Shirley Valentine, Donna
Deaton, Susan Kiser, Ken's Restaurant,
Blackie Oates, Darrell Austin and Herald
Publishing House.
Twenty-three contestants will compete in
evening gown, bathing suit, and interviews.
There is no talent competition. Interviews
count 50 percent while charm, beauty, and
poise count 25 percent and swimsuit and
‘gown count 25 percent.
For the important interview categor
Mrs. Shockley will wear a Liz Claiborne si
blue dress which enhances her femininity
with black pumps. For the opening presen-
tation, she will wear a high fashion cocktail
length dress which features a long black
velvet draped waist with elbow sleeves and
flared skirt of black and white polka dot silk
draped with a large yellow bow, a Joe
Schaffhausen original. For the swimsuit
division she plans to wear a deep purple
bathing suit which will enhance a beautiful
tan figure and for the evening gown division
she will wear a regal white sheath gown
which will accentuate her slim waistline
and which is enhanced by seed pearl and se-
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SHRINE OFFICERS - Officers of the White Plains Shrine
Club for 1986 are pictured above. Front row, left to right, Tom
Tate, treasurer; Rick Moore, vice-president; John Grant,
president; Furman Melton, secretary; and Darvin Chastain,
president-elect. Back row, di
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Photo by Gary Stewart
rectors Fred Wright, Tim Glad-
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Democrats Plan
Precinct Meetings
Kings Mountain area
Democrats will join those
from all over North Carolina
on Thurs., Mar. 6 at 8 p.m. in
election-year precinct
meetings.
West Kings Mountain
Democrats will meet at the
National Guard Armory,
East Kings Mountain at the
Community Center,
Bethware at Bethware School
and Grover at the Grover
Rescue Squad. / j
Rob Deaton of Shelby,
chairman of the Cleveland
County Democratic Party,
made the announcement
from the party office at 212
South Dekalb Street, Shelby.
He urged all voting age
citizens to attend their
recinct meetings and
)ecome involved in the elec-
tion process.
“This is a very important
election year,” Deaton said,
“and we want to invite all
citizens to have a part in the
selection process all the way
from their voting places to
the top.”
Delegates will be elected to
the party’s county convention
to be held in Shelby at 11
a.m., April 5. There,
delegates to the party's
district convention will be
elected. Delegates to that
convention will elect
delegates to the North
Carolina convention.
Democrat rally and urged
Deaton also said that plans those interested to await
are being made for a county details.
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~ Voter Registration
Scheduled Saturday
Special voter registration will be held at all Cleveland
County polling places Saturday from 10 a.m. until 12 noon.
All persons who have never registered to vote and those
whose names have been taken off registration books for some
reason are encouraged to register.
Effective March 1, the Cleveland County Board of Elections
will be holding two registration drives
er year in the
precinct polling places. This program has been designed to
simplify registration for both the registrant and the elections
office. Hopefully this will also cut down on so many errors
when registering voters as they will be able to register at
their precinct polling place.
Plans at this time are to hold the drives on the first Satur-
day of March and September from 10 a.m. to 12 noon p.m.
Hilda Dixon, registrar for West Kings Mountain precinct,
said that there’s a good chance that persons who have not
voted in the past two Presidential elections are no longer
registered.
“We've had a lot of people come to vote in the past who
thought they were registered, but were not,”” Mrs. Dixon said.
Area polling places include West Kings Mountain (National
Guard Armory), East Kings Mountain (Community Center),
Bethware (Bethware School) and Grover (Grover Rescue
Squad).
Persons who are not able to register Saturday but would
like to do so by appointment may call Mrs. Dixon or the
registrar of their district. :
For more information, call Mrs. Dixon at 739-3332.
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MARCH IN KM - About 20 members of the Ku Klux Klan held a peaceful street walk Satur-
day in downtown Kings Mountain. The group walked about a six-block area of the city and
distributed Klan materials.
Shriners’ Donkey Game
Set For Saturday Night
For anyone who likes
thrills, spills and excitement,
the - Kings Mountain Com-
munity Center is the place to
be Saturday night.
The White Plains Shriners
will present their third an-
nual donkey basketball game
at7:30 p.m. in the community
center gym with Shriners
battling members of the
Kings Mountain Fire Depart-
ment.
Prior to the game, Shriners
will sell hamburgers and soft
drinks beginning at 5 p.m. In
case of cold or wet weather,
the food will be sold inside.
From 5-7 p.m., youngsters
will be able to ride donkeys
and/or have their photos
made with the donkeys.
Tickets, which are
available from members of
the White Plains Shrine Club,
are on sale for $2.50 for adults
and $1.50 for children.
Tickets at the door will be $3
for adults and $2 for children.
All proceeds will go the
Shriners Hospital for Crippl-
ed and Burned Children in
Greenville, S.C.