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Folk festival
set Saturday
The place to be Saturday is downtown Kings Mountain for the first-
ever Community Folk Festival,
Thirty crafts exhibits, 15 food vendors, and community performers--
from church choirs to bands and magic and clown acts--will entertain
starting at 8 a.m.
The community stage will be set up in a roped-off area on Mountain
Street between Cherokee and Gaston Streets. In addition, tole painting,
wreaths, handmade items by Jane Vickery of Matthews, woven baskets
by Frank Anthony of Grover, wax flower candles by Joseph Banks of
Asheville, teddy bears, lace baskets, pillows and mailboxes will be ex-
hibited and for sale inside the Woman's Club.
Other arts and craftsmen setting up booths in the downtown area will
be Mary Cullingford of Charlotte, wreaths, crafts and lampshades;
Sharon Johns of Cramerton, sculpture; Gene Davant of Charlotte, wood
turning; William Flood of Gastonia, pottery; Hilda Murphy and Lyn
Paysour of Dallas, handmade hairbows and stools; Jack Herning of
Monroe, pottery; Kay Cloninger, 406 Maner Road, is inviting festival-
goers to sign up for free drawings at her jewelry booth; Jerry Gilbert of
Belmont, woodworking, shelves, etched glass; Anne Abernethy of
Stanley, painted T-shirts; Margaret Bradley of Grover, wood and fabrics;
Karen Gillespie of Belmont, custom clothing; Ruth Miller of Kings
Mountain and Linda McCall of Dallas, quilts, pillows, dolls; Shelby
McDonald, pins; and Rick Williams, Gastonia, animal rights advocate.
Festival T-shirts will be available and there will be informational
booths manned by representatives of Kings Mountain Herald, Kings
Mountain Star and Kings Mountain Chamber of Commerce, co-sponsor
with the City of Kings Mountain for the festival. Kings Mountain
Rescue Squad will also have a booth on the vacant lot near the police
department to register kids in the new Junior Rescue program.
Kids activities will include train rides, a sky walk, radar ball throw,
face painting and clown face painting,
Kings Mountain Baptist Church will offer baked goods for sale.
City officials will open the festivities and Kings Revue from Kings
Mountain High School will open the entertainment at 10 a.m. followed
by Carl Cartee.
Terri Bagwell will present her clown magic show at 10: 45 a.m. and
2:30 p.m. At 11 am. Tonia and Tonie Anthony will present comedy
sketches followed by Sam Williams on keyboard and Theatre Art stu-
dents from KMHS who will mime sketches.
"Clogging Station" will perform at noon for 30 minutes followed by
the Blacksburg All Male Choir at 1 p.m. for 30 minutes. Eng School of
Game room hearing Tuesday
Faced with numerous complaints
over the past year, Kings Mountain
city council is considering revok-
ing the operation licenses of two
downtown game rooms, Mike's and
- Friendly Billiards.
Concerned business leaders on
West Mountain Street led by real-
tor Ruby M. Alexander say the
game rooms have become breeding
places for trouble, including van-
dalism of nearby property.
In a letter to city council last
month, Alexander asked council to
control the "hangouts" or close
them.
City council will hold a hearing
on the possible revocation of the
game room licenses Tuesday night
at 7:30 p.m. at city hall.
Both game room owners, Mike
Heath and Chick Dixon, plan to be
at Tuesday's meeting with a group
of people supporting their busi-
nesses, said Heath, who is adver-
tising his West Mountain Street
building for sale and has sold eight
pool tables. He says he isn't leaving
downtown because of the contro-
versy. Heath already operates a
game room on Piedmont Avenue
and is building a convenience
store in Grover. Heath supports
game rooms "because teenagers
need a place to go." Heath con-
tends the trouble is not inside ei-
ther game room but on the outside.
Beach may be re-opened
Moss Lake Beach will be open
again this summer if city council
approves, as expected, recommen-
dations of Moss Lake Authority to
transfer recreation area manage-
ment and supervision from city po-
lice to the Parks and Recreation
Department. 3
Because of decreased revenues,
council voted recently to ban
swimming and initiate a vending
machine operation to eliminate
staffed concession operation.
However, since the swim beach
and bathhouse were constructed
with federal land and water conser-
vation grant monies, one require-
ment is that a facility must be kept
open as a swimming area.
David Hancock, Director of
Parks &q Recreation, presented the
options for keeping the Beach open
Monday night and member of the
lake board approved.
Swim hours would be reduced to
32 hours weekly: from 1 p.m.-6
p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays; 11
a.m.-6 p.m. on Saturdays and 1
p.m.-6 p.m. on Sundays.
Hancock suggested that three
lifeguards rotate the duty with two
assigned to the waterfront and the
third guard handling admissions as
a break from waterfront duties and
See Beach, 5-A
Junior rescuers to organize
Cindy Johnson, the only female
member and a EMT on the Kings
Mountain Rescue Squad, got the
idea for a Junior Rescue Squad af-
‘er she attended hurt and sick kids
on her job as a nurse in the
Emergency Room of Kings
Mountain Hospital.
The mother of three children,
Johnson saw kids coming in the
hospital who may have helped
themselves had they known basic
first aid or CPR.
Johnson joined the Rescue
Squad over a year ago and quickly
became active. After visiting
Junior Rescue Squads in Shelby
and Upper Cleveland, she talked
with Captain Jonie Blanton and
other officers about forming a local
Junior Squad and got their ap-
proval.
The first meeting of thc new
Junior Rescue Squad is set for
Thursday night at 7 p.m. at the
See Rescue, 5-A
Thursday, May 23, 1991
MIKE CROSS
Hopes to be a hit in KM
Self Defense will give a demonstration at 2 p.m. Jenifer Davison and
Nicky Oliver will clog at 2:45 p.m. and there will be more comedy
sketches by students. Teresa Lyman will present a acting routine and
Sha Patrick will also perform. Long Branch Youth Choir will sing at 3
p.m, followed by Heidi Hamrick at 4 p.m. and "Three Speed” at 5 p.m.
Chamber Executive Director Loretta Cozart says tickets to the big
Mike Tross cancert at 8 pv. at Join ‘Gane Syadium will beravaiable
at the Chamber booth for $8.00. At the door tickets are $10.00. A wide
variety of festival food will include a variety from fajitas to polish
sausage, funnel cakes to snow cones and cotton candy, homemade ice
cream, hot dogs and non-alcoholic frozen drinks.
Booths can still be reserved for the festival by calling 739-4755 by the
end of the day on Thursday. Local crafts persons are particularly encour-
aged to participate.
Popular bluegrass singer and storyteller Mike Cross will headline the
outdoor concert which concludes the all-day event.
Vicious storm rips through KM
A vicious summer storm wiped
out 50 feet of pipe in the city's out-
fall sewer line along Potts Creek
Thursday night and two local
plants--Spectrum Dyed Yarns and
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2- Community Services Director
8- Tom Howard said the bad break in
the 24 inch sewer line left Kings
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ily to discharge its sewer to Pilot
Creek. Friday industries were cut
back in discharge capability about
50 percent. Howard has ordered
the permanent pipes, which will be
put in by Kennedy Construction as
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service
Commencement exercises for
226 Kings Mountain High School
seniors will begin Sunday with
baccalaureate services and culmi-
nate next Thursday with graduation
exercises.
Both programs are at 7 p.m.
Rev. Dewey Smith, pastor of St.
Paul United Methodist Church and
Galilee United Methodist Church,
will deliver the sermon Sunday
night at B. N. Barnes Auditorium.
Officers of the Class of 1991
will lead the graduation exercises
May 30 in John Gamble Stadium.
Other ministers will participate
in the baccalaureate service. Rev.
Bobby Houze, pastor of Mount
Zion Baptist Church, will give the
invocation. William A. Alexander,
minister of religious education,
will read the scripture, Rev. John
Houze, pastor of the People's
Church, will introduce the speaker
and Rev. Morris Jordan, minister of
music at First Baptist Church, will
pronounce the benediction. Mrs.
Maggie Hutchinson will be pianist
and the KMHS Choral Union will
sing special music,
At commencement exercises
KMHS Principal Jackie Lavender,
assisted by Supt. Dr. Bob McRae
and Chief Marshal Jason Rayfield,
Sal prceent diplomas) Any, Tord,
class treasurer, will present the
class gift and it will be accepted by
Billy King, chairman of the KM
Board of Education. Brenton
Wilson, secretary, will recognize
honor graduates and Derick
Williams, class president, will pre-
sent the Class of 1991. Robbie
Wilson, president of the SPO, will
soon as they arrive.
"A storm like this doesn't hit our
area with this fierceness but once
every 75 years," says Howard, who
said the break was discovered after
city crews walked the six mile line
and then started opening man
holes. "We immediately told indus-
tries to stop discharging sewer and
after the temporary pipes wete in-
stalled cut allocations at a meeting
of officials of Anvil Knit,
Clevemont, Spectrum, and Mauney
Hosiery on Saturday morning."
Howard said local industry was
very cooperative and would be able
to operate at full speed once the
sunday
REV. DEWEY SMITH
give the welcome and Charity
Jackson will pray the invocation.
The KMHS Choral Union will sing
special music and the 9th Grade
Band will play "Pomp and
Circumstance" for the procession-
al.
Eugene Bumgardner will direct
he choral vamsin and Ohne Cole
will direct the band.
Other marshals are Aaron Allen,
Alexandra Ely, J. J. Downey,
Dawn Hardin, Gail Hardin, Angela
Hawkins, Kimberly Hoyle, Leigh
Kendrick, Douangchit Mounghane,
Danielle Nolen and Sengdeuane
Silapheth.
See Finals, 5-A
pipes are fixed, hopefully by
Friday. The city hired an emergen-
cy contractor to help put in the
temporary pipe and also notified
state environmental officials of the
break. :
City crews worked into the night
Friday repairing the break and also
on Saturday and inspected the site
Sunday. The outfall line serves
3400 sewer customers and indus-
try.
Howard said there were numer-
ous power outages during the
storm and city crews were kept
busy into the night Thursday mak-
See Storm, 5-A
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HOW HIGH'S THE WATER, GUYS?
Rain turned KM's John Gamble Stadium into a lake