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DANCERS IN SENIOR PLAY—The large cast of dancers, pictured, are included in the 60
member cast of ‘‘Headin For The Hills”, the KMSHS Senior Play which will be presented
Thursday and Friday nights at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at Barnes Auditorium. From
left, J errial Smith, Bryant Wells, Jennifer Hamrick, Kevin Champion, Mary Bridges, Aubrey
Hollifield, Jerry Jordan, Cynthia Ivester, Shannon Sellers, Jamie Belcher, Kimberly Moretz
Rick Willis, Paris Floyd and Stephen Mauney. ; :
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OLb MaIDS AND CY—The Old Maids who are chasing after Cy are pictured in a scene from
E nel or The Hills , the senior play which a cast of 60 KMSHS seniors will present Thurs-
9 y and Friday evenings and Sunday afternoon in Barnes Auditorium. From left, Linda
reen, Kimberly McGinnis, Melissa Wooten, Rick Stone, Margaret Donald, Jennifer Becton.
Headin for the Hills, a three-act hillbilly
farce, will be presented by a cast of 60 Kings
Mountain High seniors Thursday and Fri-
day at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at
B.N. Barnes Auditorium.
The play, by LeRoma Greth, will be
directed by Betsy Wells. Admission is $3 for
adults and $2 for students, children and
senior citizens.
The story centers around Cornelia Well-
ington Heister (Chris Shelby) and her sister
Dorthea (Kamie Wiggins), wealthy orphans
whose only living relatives are a hillbilly
family who run a general store in Lone
Mule, Tn. Their father’s will directs that the
girls are to spend their summers in Lone
Mule with the uncle, Cyrus Goolus (Rick
Stone). Being a bit spoiled and accustomed
to luxuries, Cornelia in particular hates the
arrangements. Dot thinks it might be fun.
Cyrus is a miser who sees a chance to make
himself some money. He makes life so
miserable for the girls he hopes they will
run away and he will inherit all their for-
tune. in an avalanche of fun and laughter,
Cyrus is also engaged in running from two
spinsters, Miss Oggie (Melissa Wooten) and
Aunt Sukey (Margaret Donald) and the
Widow Squiggins (Crystal Willis) who want
Cyrus to accompany them to a hoedown and
select one of them as his bride.
In addition to slapstitch humor, a large
cast of dancers will present a dance routine
choreographed by Michael Buckner of
Gastonia and will be dancing and singing to
“I Like Lovin Best.”” Members of the dance
team are Paris Floyd, Jennifer Hamrick,
Cynthia Ivester, Shannon Sellers, Kim
Moretz, Mary Bridges, Aubrey Hollifield,
Jamie Belcher, Paul Hendricks, Rick
Willis, Kevin Champion, Bryant Wells, Rick
Stone, Julie Horn, Lew Dellinger, Jerry Jor-
dan, Jerrial Smith and Stephen Mauney.
The Squiggins children are Linda Ham-
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bright, Kini Moretz, and Wayne Jenkins,
Zeke and his Maw are Shane Cole and Kim
Moretz. Ncil White portrays Cornelia’s
boyfriend, Slim Hawkenshaw, and Mark
Wyte is the local gunman, Horseface. Rich
Bailey has the role of the lawyer. Debbie
Brooks, Greg Conner, Rhonda Willis and
Nicole Gnandt are Cyrus’s children.
When the sisters discover Uncle Cyrus’s
game they turn the tables on him and the
real fun begins and what happens to Uncle
Cy after they get through with him
shouldn’t happen to d adog. A real live dog
and a real live skunk are included in the
cast.
Other characters include the teenagers,
Paige Scarborough, Christie Pruette
Ramsey, Tracy Horton, Candi Wellman,
Buffy Hutchins, Rick Willis and Patrick
Hamrick.
David Whetstine is the preacher and
musicians are Phil Greene and Chris Bar-
rett. Other characters include Linda Bec-
ton, Kimberly McGinnis, Jennifer Becton,
Lew Dellinger, Amy Stewart, Stephen
Mauney, Jerrial Smith, Jerry Jordan, Scott
Crocker, Todd Fleming, Rusty Bumgard-
ner, Amy Smith, Laura Ramos and Jean
Van Dyke.
SPO President Danny Hamrick will serve
as announcer and 70 percent of the large
senior class is involved in some phase of the
production, including painting the set,
which is a log cabin; costuming of dancers
and mountain folk; set construction, stag-
ing and makeup.
Committee chairmen are Shanna Robin-
son, tickets; Kelly Huffstickler, publicity;
Tina Hunt, makeup; David Whetstine and
Patrick Hamrick, staging; William Ledbet-
ter, stage manager; Lenny Rayford and
Mike Woods, lobby managers; Duane
Short, lighting; and Aubrey Warmoth, set
construction.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1987
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA ol
Aging Director Named
Officers Who Fought
Fired By City Board
Suspended city police of-
ficers G.W. (Stretch) Boll-
Inger, veteran dog warden,
and Ptl. Don Johnson were
fired by the city board of
commissioners Tuesday for
‘‘violation of rules and
regulations of the KM Police
Department and violations of
the city personnel policy”
upon recommendation of Ac-
ting Chief of Police Bob
Hayes. :
The unanimous action
came during a four-hour-long
| executive session in which
the board also voted
unanimously to offer the posi-
tion of city clerk to one of the
two applicants the board in-
terviewed during the special
called session at City Hall.
The board promoted In-
terim Directory Monty
Thornburg to Director of the
KM Aging Program at $15,000
annual salary and hired a
new administrator book-
keeper at Senior Center over
the objections of the Center
Advisory Board which
recommended the hiring of
Barbara Ledford, a former
employee. In a split vote,
with the mayor breaking the
tie, the board employed)
fms Hope Wells, daughter,
teve Wells of the Dixon
Foymunity, at annual salary
of 1s1.000 Miss Wells
reported to work Wednesday
morning.
Bollinger, animal control
officer for nearly 11 years
and #4 KMPD employee since
Dec. !11, 1973, and Johnson,
who {joined the force Nov. 5,
1984, were suspended with
pay hy the board of commis-
sioners Jan. 27, 1987 while a
local and SBI investigation
was underway into a fight
which occurred between the
two at the Cleveland County
Law Enforcement Center
about 5:30 p.m. that day after
Johnson had arrested Boll-
inger’s son, Phillip G. Boll-
inger, on traffic violations
and was booking him at a
Cleveland County
magistrate’s office. On
March 3, District Attorney
William Young dismissed
charges of felonious assault,
resisting arrest and running
a red light against Phillip
Bollinger. An SBI investiga-
tion showed there was insuffi-
cient evidence to proceed
with criminal investigation.
“How can a police officer
be fired for doing his job?”’,
asked Johnson’s aunt, Pat
Herndon, after Mayor John
Moss announced the board's
decision to fire the two
suspended officers. Mrs.
Herndon also asked how the
board voted. Mayor Moss
turned to Commissioner Nor-
man King and said, ‘It was a
Crusade Kicko
Tuesday At KMHS Cafeteria
A kickoff banquet to in-
troduce Dr. Clyde Dupin to
area churches planning an
August 16-23 evangelistic
crusade will be held Tuesday
night at 6:30 p.m. in the Kings
Mountain High School
cafeteria.
Dupin will lead the in-
terdenominational crusade to
be sponsored by 40 area chur-
ches at 7:30 p.m. each even-
ing at John Gamble Stadium.
More than 200 reservations
have been made for
Tuesday’s banquet but
Publicity Chairman Ronnie
Hawkins siid that promoters
would likelio greet as many
as 500 citizens at the kickoff
which can be attended by
purchase of a $5 ticket.
Bob Webster is banquet
chairman. Bob McRae is
crusade chairman.
Because Dupin has never
led a revival in Kings Moun-
tain, the banquet is an effort
to introduce him to campaign
leaders and volunteers.
Dupin will be asking people to
pray for the upcoming
crusade and to get involved
and become revitalized
because of their participa-
tion. “Where people are in-
volved a new church can be
formed within a church
because the people have got-
ten excited about the word of
God,” Dupin has told his au-
diences in Shelby and
Gastonia at area crusades. In
his ministry, Dupin has
preached to almost two
million people and seen
thousands of people commit
their lives to Christ. He said
he has seen what the Holy
Spirit can do in a community
when people join together to
work and pray.
In addition to introducing
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unanimous action, wasn’t
it?’ Commissioner King
responded in the affirmative.
The vote was taken in closed
session and was 6-0, accor-
ding to the Mayor.
The Mayor said that Boll-
inger and Johnson will
receive earned benefits as of
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the religious community to
Dupin, the banquet will pro-
vide an opportunity for peo-
ple to volunteer their services
and pledge financial support.
The crusade will soon begin a
publicity campaign. ‘‘A
Clyde Dupin crusade is hun-
dreds of people working
together to make Christ
known in their community,”
said Hawkins. Hawkins said
there will be numerous
events leading up to the
crusade, including spiritual
preparation rallies.
Dupin, 53, has been an
evangelist since age 19. He
was born in Elizabethtown,
Ky., and attended United
Wesleyan College and the
University of Evansville in
Indiana. His Clyde Dupin
Ministries Inc. was founded
in 1974 and is based in
Kernersville. Known as a Bi-
ble preacher, he is the author
to two books, ‘New Life In
Christ’ and ‘‘Wake Up
America.” His biography,
“The Evagelist”’, was written
by Bob Hill and published by
Cross Roads Books in 1980.
Chris Ingram, West School
5th grader, correctly spelled
the words rehearsal and quo-
tient to win the Kings Moun-
tain District Schools Spelling
Bee Monday afternoon.
He will represent the school
system in the Regional
Charlotte Observer-
sponsored Bee where the win-
ner advances to national
Competition in Washington,
D.C.
East School 5th grader
Shanon Caveny placed se-
cond in the competition in
which Cynthia Ann Ware, 4th
grader at Bethware; Becky
Brackett, 5th grader at
Grover; Holly Faye Paul, 5th
grader at North; Kathryn
Goforth, 6th grader at Cen-
tral; and Christa Nicole Sur-
ratt, 8th grader at the Junior
High, also participated.
After all the students were
Ingram Is Spelling Champion
eliminated except Ingram
and Caveny, both students
misspelled the words incle-
ment, parallel, rapport, and
solitaire before Ingram
emerged as the winner. In-
gram is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Cecil Ingram.
Mrs. Charles F. Mauney
was pronouncer and judges
were Mrs. Wilson Griffin,
Mrs. W. Eugene McCarter
and C.A. Allison.
SPELLING BEE—These seven school winners participated in a spelling bee Monday to deter-
mine the winner of the district-wide spelling bee. Front row, Chris Ingram, West School 5th
grader and the champion speller, with second place finisher Shannon Caveny, East school stu-
dent. Back row, from left, Holly Faye Paul of North School; Cynthia Ann Ware, of Bethware;
Christa Nichole Surratte of KM Junior High; Becky Brackett of Grover; and Kathryn Goforth -
of Central School.