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By GARY STEWART
Managing Editor
Kings Mountain teenager Aubrey Hollifield didn’t eat all of
his supper Monday night, and his mother didn’t mind a bit.
Hollifield, a senior football standout at Kings Mountain
High, learned on the 6 o'clock TV news that he had been
selected to play in the 50th annual Shrine Bowl football game
at Charlotte’s Memorial Stadium on December 13, thus
becoming only the fourth gridder in the school’s history to be §
selected for the prestigous game.
“I was eating chicken when the news came on and all of a
sudden my name flashed on the screen,” Hollifield said. ‘I
Souls eat another bite. It was shocked. I wasn’t expecting
it.
been nominated for the honor by the KMHS coaching staff.
But he felt like the selected players would have been notified
otore hand, so he wasn’t expecting to be included on the
eam.
“Mr. (Bud) Bumgardner (A KMHS teacher) had told me
earlier in the day that it would be coming on the news, so I
uy watching,” he said. ‘But I didn’t have any idea I'd make
it.
The selection comes as no surprise to local sports fans who
have seen Hollifield perform in a number of sports since the
little league level. He loves sports as much as anyone who's
ever played, and more than most.
‘“He’s just a unique individual, and if anyone deserves the
honor, he does,” said his head coach, Denny Hicks. “I've
never met a high school athlete that is so dedicated.
‘“He’s an exceptional athlete but also one who has worked
very hard for everything he’s received,” Hicks added. ‘‘He
loves all sports. If you’d let him, he’d play every sport.
‘“He’s a competitor,” Hicks went on. “If you want to play,
he’ll play. It doesn’t matter what the sport is. It’s great for
someone like him to get this kind of recognition. It just goes
to show that hard work does pay off.”
KM Shriners Have Big Year
Hollifield knew that he and some of his teammates had i
‘blockers. He was All-Southwestern 3-A Conference on both of-
IN SHRINE BOWL - Kings Mountain High football stan-
dout Aubrey Hollifield, right, pictured here with Coach Den-
ny Hicks, has been selected to play for North Carolina in the
50th annual Shrine Bowl December 13 at Charlotte’s
Memorial Stadium.
Hollifield has been the defensive leader for the Moun-
taineers, who have posted a 20-4 record over the last two
years leading into Friday’s state playoff game against Swan-
nanoa Owen. A 6-3, 220-pound linebacker, he leads the Moun-
taineers in tackles with 105 in 11 games, and also plays the
tight end position on offense and is one of the team’s best
fense and defense last season and is a leading candidate for
Conference Player of the Year this season.
Hollifield says playing in the Shrine Bowl is ‘“‘something
I’ve dreamed about ever since I was a little boy. However,
I’m hoping I don’t get to because that would mean we’d be
playing for the state championship the night before. But if we
don’t do that, it’ll be a big thrill.” ;
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White Plains Shriners, with a
check for $27,123.00, placed seventh
among 72 clubs reporting donations
to burned and crippled children dur-
ing the annual Oasis Temple
Western Carolina Ceremonial in
Asheville Nov. 7-8.
Noble John Grant of Kings Moun-
tain presented the check, which
represented contributions of area
citizens from two barbecue sales, a
donkey basketball game, a softball
tournament and a jail lockup during
recent Mountaineer Day festivities.
The grand total of contributions to
Shriners Hospitals totaled’
$945,256.14. First place unit was
Hendersonville with $81,548; second
place was Gaston County Shrine
Club with $47,000 and third place was
Piedmont Shrine Club of Shelby with
$36,515. i
The local White Plains Shrine Club
was chartered in September 1982
under the leadership of the late Paul
Kirk Falls, Sr., president from
1982-83. During its first year of
organization, the local Shriners
reported over $13,000 from local
citizens to Shriners Hospitals. Dur-
ing ifs second year of operation
under the leadership of Tommy Tin-
dall, Shriners reported $17,000 and
duringits third year of operation
under leadership of Carl Champion,
Shrines 1 eported $25,000.
“We tre grateful for the support of
Kings fountain citizens and we en-
courage you to contact any member
of the White Plains Shrine Club with
names of children under 18 years of
age, regardless of race, color or
creed, who may need the services of
Shriners Hospitals,” said Tommy
Tindall. “A crippled child’s smile
makes it all worthwhile,” he said.
Ex-Angel Now Doing God’s Work
By Lib Stewart
News Editor
Drugs, life and death.
Barry Mayson talked about
all three Tuesday morning to
820 KMSHS students and
several hundred more faculty
members and visitors during
an assembly program in
Barnes Auditorium.
He knew the subjects well.
Mayson, 42, is a former
Hell’s Angel motorcycle club
member. He is the former
president of the South
Carolina chapter and was
groomed, he said, to be one of
the organization’s ‘Filthy
Few”, a killer and explosives
expert.
Mayson said because he
left the club he is marked for
death.
“That's the only way out
once you're accepted,” he
told his attentive audience,
some of them who remained
long after the 60 minute
assembly was over to talk
some more. Jones Intercable
Manager Rob Bridges in-
troduced him to Kings Moun-
‘tain citizens.
Mayson said his member-
ship with the Hell’s Angels
lasted about three years, en-
ding Oct. 27, 1976 after he was
ordered to kill some rival
East Coast club members. He
refused. Now he is minister of
Central Park Church,
Richardson, Texas, concen-
trating his ministry on
prisons and youth centers.
As he took the stage dress-
TALKS WITH STUDENTS—Barry Mayson, above, talks with
KMSHS students after an assembly program Tuesday in
which he talked about effect of drugs and alcohol on the body
and related his experiences with Hell’s Angels.
ed in shirt and jeans and his
everpresent black corduroy
hat, he told the students “I'm
not here to preach to you but
this is serious business. I
want to talk about life and
death.”
And he did.
The message was clear.
Drugs lead to mind control
and life filled with pain,
physical and mental. And
death was part of his
message too—drug overdose
and murder.
“Today there’s a war going
on and the battleground is
right here”, he said, pointing
to his head. He said motorcy-
cle gangs want mind control
through drugs and satanism.
“A true Hell's Angel doesn’t
use alcohol and drugs. He
wants you to use them and
control your minds.”
Flicking through slides,
Mayson told stories about the
people pictured.
“This young woman at age
14 was locked up for prostitu-
tion, a heroin addict, and is
now serving 10 years in
prison’, he said.
The next slide showed a
oung woman beaten until
Fo eyes were swollen shut,
“She wanted out and she
didn’t make it’, she said.
“Her head was bashed with
concrete after she was
brutally beat and raped,” he
said.
“Junkies don’t start out
sticking needles in their
arms. No, they are introduc-
ed to drugs by someone they
know, a friend, and then the
crank (amphetamines) and
other drugs cook their brain
cells.”
He explained another slide.
“Look at this woman. She’s
24 and looks 44 after using
$200 to $300 worth of stuff a
day. Her brain is fried and
she is in a mental
institution,” he said.
Another slide showed two
men, found slain in a car
trunk.
“They wanted power to get
to the top of the organization.
There is no top, people.
What I'm telling you is real.
There is no top.”
Mayson said he became in-
volved in motorcycle gangs
after watching a movie,
‘“Hell’s Angels On Wheels’'.
He said he thought the idea of
freedom, jammin down the
highway with wind blowing in
his hair, was exactly what he
wanted as a 22-year-old. It
became an obsession for him,
he told the young people.
He bought a motorcycle
and joined a small motorcy-
cle club in Atlanta and soon
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A 103-unit Christmas
parade will kick-off the holi-
day season in Kings Moun-
tain Sunday afternoon at 2
p.m.
The parade is under spon-
sorship of the Kings Moun-
tain Fire Department and
will feature WBTV News
general assignment reporter
Rachel Bagley of Gastonia as
grand marshal.
Star of the big parade is
Santa Claus, who will appear
at the end of a big lineup in-
cluding the Kings Mountain
Senior High and North
Gaston High marching
bands, beauty queens,
dancers, color guards,
cheerleaders, floats, Pied-
mont Pistons in go-carts and
antique cars, tractors,
horses, and much more.
“It’s going to be a good
parade and we hope everyone
will turn out,” said Fire Chief
Gene Tignor. Firemen are
launching the festivities to
open their appeal for Toys for
Tots for needy children this
season, said Tignor.
The parade route will be
the same as in years past, ac-
cording to Tignor. Marchers
will line up in the vicinity of
Hardee’s on East King
Street, the units forming on
Dilling and Carpenter Streets
and proceeding up East King
Street from Gaston, turning
left at the overhead bridge on
S. Battleground, proceeding
down Main Street (in front of
the old Belk Building), turn-
ing left again at Fred Kiser’s
Restaurant at the corner of
Battleground and East Gold,
moving in front of the new Ci- | 7
ty Hall and disbanding on
East Gold in the area of Lake
Street.
Mrs. Bagley, formerly Con-
sumer Reporter for WBTV’s
“Top O’ The Day’, joined
‘WBTV News as a general
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RACHEL BAGLEY
Mountain Fire Dept. Scuba
Boat, Piedmont Pistons,
Bethlehem Fire Department,
Brownie Scouts, Verlee
Mask, First Baptist Cub
Scouts (Pack 92), First Bap-
tist Troop 92, Central School -
Say No Club, Central School,
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REV. GEORGE SIMMONS
Special
assignment reporter in
December of 1985. She is a
1976 graduate of the Universi-
ty of Virginia at Charlot-
tesville, where she was Phi
Beta Kappa. Before joining
WBTY as a writer-producer
for “PM Magazine’ in 1984,
she worked in public rela-
tions and personnel develop-
ment and training at
Southern Bell, and as a free-
lance writer. Her husband,
Winston Bagley, is Coor-
dinator for Minority Affairs
at Gaston College. The couple
resides in his hometown of
Gastonia.
The complete lineup for the
1986 Christmas Parade:
State Highway Patrol,
Cleveland County Sheriff,
Kings Mountain Police,
Kings Mountain Fire Color
Squad, Kings Mountain Fire
Chief, Kings Mountain High
Band, Mayor John Henry
Moss, City Officials, City Of-
ficials, Carousal Princess,
Homecoming Queen,
Homecoming Court,
Homecoming Court,
Homecoming Court, Little
Miss USA (Chastity Moss),
Girl Scouts, Tex-Tiler (David
Cooper), Jane Campbell
Dance Academy, Patsy
Parker, Sparkey the Dog,
Smokey the Bear, Kings
Service
Slated
The annual community
Thanksgiving worship ser-
vice, sponsored by the Kings |
Mountain Ministerial
Association, will be held
Wed., Nov. 26 at 7:30 p.m. at
Kings Mountain Baptist
Church.
Pastors from different
churches in the area will lead
the service. Rev. George D.
Simmons, pastor of East
Gold Street Wesleyan
Church, will bring the
message.
“The Kings Mountain
Ministerial Association joins
together, in planning this ser-
vice, with the hope and
prayer that we will all come
together as God’s people to
give thanks and praise to God
in a spirit' of love and
oneness,”’” Rev. Simmons
said.
A special offering will be
taken for the Kings Mountain
Helping Hand Fund.
Special music will be
presented by Robert Collins.
The commurity is invited
to attend.
Herald To Publish Day
Early For Thanksgiving
The Kings Mountain Herald will publish ong day early
next week because of the Thanksgiving holiday.
The paper will be printed on Tuesday and will be
available at newsstands Tuesday afternoon and in the mail
Wednesday.
In order to publish a day early, all advertising and news
deadlines must also be moved up one day.
All social and church news must be received by 5 p.m.
Friday, and sports and regular news items must be receiv-
ed by 5 p.m. Monday. Any news events taking place on Mon-
day night may be reported until 10 a.m. Tuesday.
All display and classified advertising must be received by
5 p.m. Monday.
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