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RUNNER-UP - Pictured above is the Rotary Club team which finished second place in the recent Dixie Youth Campaign in Kings Mountain. Front row, left to right, Travis Queen, Timmy Harrelson, Brian Ware, Dwayne Patterson and Deshon Hicks. Second row, Josh Newton, Dale Wilson, Bobby Petterson, Kyle Sellers, Brian Leftwich and Kelly Ware. Back row, coaches James Harrelson, Ray Lightsey and John Queen. pr—— © O O D..: Sr, ~ 1 eo = PRECISION.” Em CUT & STYLE rr BB Curl $43 PERMS $29.00 “Jheri Redding,” ‘“Zotos,”’ “Helene Curtis,” “Wella,” “TCB,” and “Revlon.” Now serving you with Perms e Tinting ® Relaxing ® Curls MONDAY-SATURDAY ; : 8:30 A.M.-5:00 P.M. ALICE LEACH'S NEW SALON! No Appointment Necessary! PRECISION CUT & STYLE UNISEX SALON 302 North Gaston Street — Kings Mountain Formerly “Eloise Marby Shop” 739-0368 (Formerly of New Image) KISER GHEVROLET Highway 150 E., Cherryville, NC Phone: 435-3271 Up To *750 Rebate On S-10 Trucks! 300 Rebate On S-10 El Trucks! 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Other matters dealt with in the 1988 session include economic development, the nursing shor- tage, taxes, the aging, driving while intoxicated, disposal of hazardous and low-level radioac- tive waste, and latchkey children. The 1989 Session of the North Carolina General Assembly will convene at 12:00 noon, Wednes- day, January 11. Old Movies Of Area Slated At Webb Theatre --Before VCRs. Before Steven Spielberg. Before ‘Dirty Danc- ing.”” Even before The Little Rascals -- there was H. Lee Waters and his movies. Waters is a photographer who traveled to Gastonia and more than 100 other North Carolina cities during the 1930s and 1940s making movies of ordinary citizens. The movies he made of Gastonia in 1937 and again in 1940 will be shown publicly for the first time in more than 40 years on July 21 at 8 p.m. at PlayStreet (formerly Webb Theater). First American Savings Bank, F'SB is sponsoring the public showing, which is free to the public. Refreshments will be provided to - enjoy during the movie. The movie represents a brief time in the history of movie mak- ing when the men, women, and children on the streets of Gastonia became the stars of the show. The movie feature footage, much of it in color, of Gastonia’s trolley cars, Cox Drug Store, youth groups at school playgrounds, Jolly Hotel, Firestone Mill, Summerow Fur- niture Company, and many more vintage scenes of Gastonia’s peo- ple during the Depression era. For six years, between 1936 and 1942, Waters traveled to small towns and cities in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee. His POntiac was equipped with loudspeakers and brightly- colored banners announcing the arrival of a professional cameraman to each city that he visited. It took him two or three days in each city to film a movie. During this time, he usually shot footage at public buildings, neighborhoods, school yards, mills, or any other gathering place where he could find a local face. Waters would return to the town about two weeks later to show his movie at the local theaters. He tacked his footage on as the second part of a scheduled double feature and was paid on a percentage basis from admission ticket proceeds. His movies were shown along with regular features which had stars such as Hoot Gibson, Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, and Norma Shearer. Waters, now 85, still operates his photography studio at the same Lexington location where he has had his business for more than 60 years. He said, ‘Theater managers were some of the nicest people to meet. We sometimes filmed three or four times int he same town. And we would pack the theater every time.” He noted that most people at that time had never seen themselves in any kind of motion picture. Waters said, ‘‘Seeing yourself in the movies was the thrill of a lifetime for people dur- ing the Depression.” “I didn’t make a lot of money making movies, but then if you made any money at all during those times, you were lucky,” he recalled. “I did it as much for the good times I had as any money I made.” Waters came to the towns arm- ed with the top-of-the-line equip- ment. He had the best 16mm movie camera that Eastman- Kodak made at the time. The photographer was proficient with the equipment and punctuated the films with in-camera effects, such as fast motion, slow motion, trains disappearing behind telephone poles, split-screen scenes, and reverse action. Motion pictures with sound had been available for about 10 years when Waters began his work. His movie camera made silent movies, so he played popular records in the theaters while showing the movies. ‘accounts, Waters quit traveling the state in 1942 when his daughter was born. ‘And, too, the studio was doing well enough by then that I needed to be there,” he said. By the end of his movie-making career, Waters had visited towns and cities such as Kings Moun- tain, Charlotte, Boone, Shelby, Belmont, Winston-Salem, Bessemer City, and Chapel Hill. The photographer’s talents and the local people of the 1930s and 40s will again fill the screen Thursday night at PlayStreet on South Street in downtown Gastonia. The Gastonia movie showing will be accompanied by music from the era and refreshments. This free showing is sponsored by First American Savings Bank, FSB of Gastonia. First American recently purchased the film from Waters and will donate copies of the movie to the Gaston County Public Library. 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