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sales. Mike, an engineering supervisor, started the
family on a unique hobby two years ago. They be-
came rock hounds. Now the family gets in the car
and travels to Franklin and other mountain places to
find agate, amethyst in crystal form, black onyxes,
-Australian crystals that change color, rose quartz,
Alexandrite, Ruby and blue Lindy star and quartz,
all of which become 14-Karat gold-filled rings and
necklaces for friends. Learning to make wire jewelry
is fascinating but tedious work because it's tough on
your eyes even with glasses and good lighting. Using
tiny pliers and wirecutters, the ring is fashioned to
size with choice of stone. The couple has also made
gem trees. Their hobby is quickly turning into a
business for them. When friends place orders for
certain designs the Bumgardners load up the family
and pets and head for the hills. Mike became inter-
ested in the hobby after becoming friends with
KING
From Page 1-A
Kings Mountain and for the last 12 years has worked
at the McGill Wastewater Treatment Plant for Walt
Ollis. King, senior employee on the city's 160-plus
payroll, likes his job, the people he works with and
the benefits that Kings Mountain employees receive.
When Claude and Sallie King and young Willis
moved to the Old Cora Mill village nearly 72 years
ago there were dirt roads in town and cotton mills
paid $9. 60 a week. King's first wages were 10 cents
an hour in the spinning room. He has seen Kings
Mountain grow over the years, and although he was-
n't born here has been a resident since the age of two
when the family moved from Sylva.
King is regarded by many of his friends as a "pret-
ty good ball player” back in the early years of the
American Legion baseball program in Kings
Mountain. King wanted to play Legion ball but when
the team opened here in 1934 he was a year too old.
Kids could be 16 but not 17 and King had just cele-
brated his 17th birthday in May that year. "My par-
ents were good Christian people and they wouldn't
fib about my age so I joined what was called the Ex-
Juniors, boys who had aged off the Legion team."
King played shortstop and he recalled great plays
from the American Legion playing field (where the
Post is today). The Ex-Juniors were sponsored by lo-
cal textile plants and if you could play ball you could
take your pick of jobs in the local mills. What it' was
was baseball fever and Kings Mountain had it, said
King, recalling that one of the best coaches in the
area was Pop Simmons of Mooresboro. "You've got a
habit of throwing that ball wide to first base,"
Simmons told young King. "Get out of that habit and
I can put you on any ball team in the country,” he
said.
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Harold Roper of Marble N. C., who owns a jewelry
business and also found the world's largest sapphire,
a 17 karat grapefruit size stone with floating star. The
sapphire is listed in the Guiness Book of Records
1991, has been on a touring exhibit but is now in a
vault in Dallas, Texas. The gem was cut in England
and certified. Mike and Harold have dug for sap-
phires in broomstraw fields and other sites and
Becky and Linda Roper have become fast friends.
Jewelry making has been a good learning experience
for the Bumgardners who describe it as a trial and
error experience but fun. Little stones are more diffi-
cult to mount, but there's no gluing but it's a time-
consuming process. Mike said he took a jewelry
making course in college but never thought he'd get
in the business.
A Kings Mountain native, Mike, son of C. Gene
and Frances Bumgardner, likes to fly radio-control
airplanes. Becky likes to make sweatshirts and is big
on ceramics and decorating and is also a Kings
Mountain native, daughter of Bill and Joyce Cashion.
Young Mike plays guitar and Beth loves to dance
They are all active in First Baptist Church.
Whatever they do, the fami’ «=~
Willis said he played for VFW teams and a little
for Western Carolina League but his first love was
playing with the Ex-Juniors for Cora Mill. The War
also interrupted any future days of glory on the base-
ball field.
King still likes to play ball with his two grandsons,
Billy Jr. and Brian King. He's the boys' biggest fan.
He is always in the audience when Billy Jr. plays
drums.
» King's long-time friends will also recall his love
for skating. Before World War II King taught other
kids to skate at a popular skating rink at Crowders'
Mountain. Those were fun days, he said.
King and Frances Mills King have been married
nearly 46 years. They are life-long members of
Second Baptist Church and King led the singing
there when he was a boy. Son, Billy, chairman of
Kings Mountain Board of Education, is married to
Linda Pearson. Daughter, Joan, is married to Steve
Baker. All are Kings Mountain residents. King's
brother, Ellis, was on the police force for a number of
years, as were his sons, Tommy, Joe and Jimmy
King. Willis has four living sisters, Reba Wilson,
Jeanette Kiser, Sadie Burton, and Mamie Roper, all
of Kings Mountain.
The 25th Infantry was the first division to go into
the Vietnam War and its brother, the 24th, was the
first to enter the Persian Gulf War, Wilis, said his old
25th didn't have the modern equipment that today's
fighting army has but it had the guts. "We were fight-
ing against great odds because many of us were un-
trained. We had to listen and learn the hard way and
we had to hunt the enemy like rats in the jungles," he
said as he wiped a tear from his eyes.
King is still the No. 1 fan of the American Legion
Juniors. During his baseball heyday in Kings
Mountain and his military service duty, he said he
learned about teamwork. "We have a good team
working for the city too," he said. "And teamwork is
what counts in the long run."
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THE BUMGARDNER FAMILY
Front, Beth and Mike. Back, Becky and Mike
RECREATION
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Community center. The clinic will
be conducted by Davidson College
Head Baseballs Coach Dick
Cooke. All coaches and interested
adults are invited. Refreshments
will be served.
A Double Dutch workshop in
jump roping will be held March 27
from 4-5 p.m. at the Community
Center co-sponsored by Parks &
Recreation and Pioneer Girl Scout
Council. Call 734-0449 by March
22 to register.
A babysitting clinic for students
11 years and up will be held April
2 and April 3 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
at the Community Center and reg-
istration fee is $5. Each person
completing the course will receive
a certificate. The course will also
cover first aid. Enrollment is limit-
ed.
Se TRANSEERS
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Board members seemed to agree
that the #1 priority would be hard-
ship in cases of medical reasons
and day care needs. Some board
members also suggested that par-
ents requesting transfers supply
documentation.
"I think documentation is the
key," Campbell said. "They need to
know that they have to bring docu-
mentation and that transfers can't
be granted just on their own word."
Some members also suggested
that transfers might be granted if
they positively impact the racial
and/or socio-economic situation of
the schools. The board will also
consider whether or not to allow
teachers to transfer students to the
schools where they work.
Supt. McRae pointed out that 28
employees had signed a petition re-
questing the board to allow teach-
ers to transfer their students. He
said there could be others who
would like to request it also.
"We've worked hard to make a
plan as fair as possible," King said.
"If we decide to allow teachers to
transfer their children it ought to be
based on whether or not it benefits
the system." King said such a poli-
cy could prove beneficial to the
system if it allows teachers to re-
port to work earlier and stay later.
"It could benefit a lot of children,”
he said. A
Hawkins said he sees the matter
as an "extra benefit" the system can
provide its employees. "But I can
also see why so many people are
against it," he said. "They see it as
something the teachers are getting
that they aren't getting. If we do it I
~ would favor just letting teachers
and aides do it and then just allow-
ing them to transfer their children
to the schools where they work. I
think we should look at transfers
for the general public first and
then, if possible after that, allow
it."
Campbell said he also sees both
sides of the issue but said if, "after
other requests are looked at and it
* doesn't disrupt the numbers, do it."
All transfers, the board pointed
out, would be contingent upon
class size, "We prefer not to have
COMMODITIES-The March
distribution of surplus commodities
will be held March 20 at Shelby
Armory from 8:30 a.m. until 3:30
p.m. Butter, commeal, flour, honey,
pears and rice are available.
combination classes unless abso-
lutely necessary,” McRae said. "It's |
reasonable to set limits above
.which you will not go."
. The board will probably include
in its policy a clause stating that
the board reserves the right to as-
sign future housing developments
and sub-divisions to schools out of
their present district.
"We have been subject to the
whims of developers for several
years," Hawkins said. "We need to
work together with: the county and.
city in order to make our school
system work."
Campbell noted that the reas-
signment plan has been a lot of
hard work for the board "and has
been disruptive and discouraging
for many people. If we allow the
new developments to move the tra-
ditional families out of their school
zone it's not fair."
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