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day, Friday, and Saturday
nights at 7:30 p.m. and Sun-
day at 3 p.m. on ‘“Mash’’, the
KMSHS senior play based on
the well-known movie and
television program with the
same name.
Performances are in B.N.
Barnes Auditorium and
tickets can be purchased at
the door.
Mrs. Betsy Wells is direc-
ting the production and stage
managers are Jack Arnold
and Tamara Godwin.
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eniors maiists
next week.
The city manager may not be hired until May or June
but the first of four finalists for the job was interviewed
Tuesday night by the city board of commissioners. Mayor
Kyle Smith has declined to release the names of the final
four candidates among 31 who applied because he said
their present jobs may be place
employers discover they are seeking other employment.
Smith said the list of four will be narrowed to two after
the interviews of all four candidates are completed.
The second man will be interviewed Thursday night and
the third and fourth will be interviewed on the same nights
The Mayor said all four candidates have similar
backgrounds. In addition to being public administrators
elsewhere in North Carolina, they all have degrees in the
field and all attended institutions of higher learning in
North Carolina. The mayor said all are ‘‘top notch ad-
ministrators and from North Carolina,” of which he is pro-
For City
Manager
in jeopardy if their
make up the cast which in-
cludes dance numbers
choreographed by Michel
Buckner of Shelby to well
known 40’s tunes.
Dancers in the production
are Sciandra Robinson,
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DANCERS IN “MASH”’—These seniors will
perform as dancers in ‘“Mash’’, the annual
KMSHS senior play, which opens Thursday
night for four performances in Barnes
Auditorium. Kneeling, from left, Mary
Ferebee, Deana Gillespie, Tina Anderson,
Jennifer Boheler and Charlotte Taylor. Top
PHOTO BY DARRIN GRIGGS
row, from left, Pam Thombs, Scinadra
Robinson, Laura Allen, Candace Carswell,
Heather Bradshaw, Holly Mercier. Second
row, from left, Thomas Feemster, Ron Ruf-
fin, Dallas Stacey, David Long, Jason Dover
and Phil Robbins.
TV Evangelists Are Messengers, Not ‘The Message’
Pastor Urges Christians To Give To Their Local Church
ud. None of the four candidates is from Cleveland County.
During former Mayor John Moss’s 22 year tenure, he
was the chief executive officer as well as mayor. Moss
stepped down last year and the city moved to inaugurate
the city manager-city council form of government. Until a
city manager is hired and on the job, Mayor Smith serves
as the chief executive officer as well as mayor.
Local church members ought not to send
their tithes to television ministries, says a
former minister of the Assembly of God,
Rev. Elwood Barnes.
Rev. Barnes, now chaplain of Kings Moun-
tain Rescue Squad and pastor of the local
Assembly of God for four years, says local
Christians are not following the Bible when
they give their tithes to support a ministry
other than a local church.
He said , however, that local churches can
learn a valuable lesson from TV evangelists
like Jiminy Swaggart and Jim Baket. They
are ‘messengers, not The Message.”
Swaggert, probably like the most widely
watched television evangelist, Sunday
publicly confessed to moral failure and
stepped down from his pulpit. it was the se-
cond sex scandal in a year involving a ma-
jor religious figure.
Both Barnes and former KM Assembly of
God pastor David Engle praised Swaggart
for admitting he was wrong and placing the
blame on himself alone. Barnes said
“things might have been different for Jim
and Tammy Bakker today if the same can-
dor had been used’, referring to Swaggart’s
public confession of moral misconduct.
The state council of the nation’s largest
Pentecostal denomination ordered Swag-
gart Tuesday to stop preaching for three
months and undergo a two year rehabilita-
tion and counseling program.
Barnes quoted scripture which said
that...things done in darkness shall be
Jerry Rose, president of the National
Religious Broadcasters, who said that there
will be more damage and the credibility of
those in Christian broadcasting will be hurt
a little bit more by the scandal of sexual
misconduct involving Swaggart.
Both Barnes and Dr. Eric Faust, Pastor
of First Presbyterian Church, said Swag-
gart should grow stronger from the whole
ordeal and Faust labeled as ‘“‘sad’’ that the
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Kings Mountain High's
Brent Bagwell has been
selected to play in the annual
East-West High School All-
Star football game July 26 at
Greensboro Grimsley.
The game, held on the final
night of the annual North
Carolina High School
Coaches Association summer
clinic, pits the best high
school seniors from western
North Carolina against the
best from the east.
Bagwell, a 6-3, 235-pound
tight end-defensive tackle
who recently inked a full
scholarship with N.C. State,
was selected to play defense,
but Kings Mountain coach
Denny Hicks, who will be an
assistant for the west, said
Bagwell could also be called
on for duty at tight end.
“One of Brent’s biggest
assets is that he’s a very skill-
ed athlete,” said Coach
Hicks. “He was highly rank-
RICK KEEVER
ed by many major college
coaches.”
Bagwell is one of five
players from the
Southwestern 3-A Conference
to make the western team.
Bagwell was the leading
receiver for the Moun-
taineers last fall and one of
the team’s leading tacklers.
He was All-Southwestern 3-A
Conference as a defensive
tackle. He also plays center
for the KMHS basketball
team, is the team’s top re-
bounder and number two
scorer, and is a pitcher-first
baseman on the baseball
team.
Bruce Hardin, a Shelby
native and head coach at
West Charlotte High School,
will serve as head coach of
the west all-stars. Assistants
are Hicks, Van Story of Burl-
ington Williams and Phil
Brintnall of Hendersonville.
Bagwell is the first Kings
Mountain athlete to play in
BRENT BAGWELL
the East-West game since
1986 when Edwin Sherer
played the split end position.
Sherer was a freshman red-
manifest by light.” He also agreed with
Bagwell Chosen For All-Star Game
shirt last fall at Mars Hill Col-
lege.
“It’s quite an honor for
Brent,” said Hicks. “I was
really amazed at the meeting
when the selection committee
picked the all-stars. I was on
the defensive committee and
they threw 350 name cards of
players at us and told us to
pick 14.
“The selection process was
long and tough, and there
were many outstanding
athletes to choose from,” he
added. “It’s quite an honor
for Brent to know that the
majority of the coaches pick-
ed him. Because of his rank-
ing by college coaches, they
had heard of him many times
before.”
Bagwell’s coaches have
continously praised him for
his hard work attitude and
putting team before self. He
was injured early in his
24-Hour Blitz On Friday Will
Benefit American Heart Association
Business leaders of Kings
Mountain will collect dona-
tions for the American Heart
Association’s 24-hour
business blitz on Friday.
This year’s business blitz
chairman is Rick Keever of
BB&T. His team members in-
clude Odus Smith, Chuck
Zimmerman, Ron Franks,
Claude Suber, George
Lublanezki, and Kevin
Queen. They will be contac-
ting local businesses between
9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on
Friday.
“The 24-hour blitz is a
quick, effective way to allow
local businesses to contribute
to the American Heart
Association,” said Keever.
The money raised goes to
support vital research at
universities such as UNC-
Chapel Hill and Duke. Funds
also help develop life-saving
educational and community
programs throughout North
Carolina.
Cardiovascular and related
diseases account for nearly
50% of all deaths in the
United States today. Keever
learned that in the Heart
Association’s most recent
statistical year, 397 of the 768
deaths in Cleveland County
were due to cardiovascular
disease; 52%.
Keever and his team
members are urging all local
businesses to make the con-
tribution on Friday.
Photo by Darrin Griggs
SUNNING—Gene and Mary Putnam’s cat took advantage of
Tuesday’s warm 73-degree weather to catch some sun in
Grover. The weather is predicted to cool down some the re-
mainder of the week but should still be comfortable and with
only a slight chance of rain.