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VOL. 104 NO. 47
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Thursday, November 19, 1992
Kings Mountain, N. C. 28086 «35¢
Thanks
service
Nov. 25
The annual community
Thanksgiving service sponsored by
the Kings Mountain Ministerial
Association will be held
Wednesday night, November 25, at
7:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church.
Rev. Patricia Stone, pastor of |
Grace United Methodist Church,
will bring the message, "Attitude of
Gratitude." Her sermon will be a
dramatic presentation of
Thanksgiving from the perspective
of its first celebrants, the Pilgrims.
The service will feature a sym-
bolic "Dressing of the Table" with
representatives of the participating
congregations bringing various
items to complete the table setting.
Appropriate scripture passages will
be read as each item is presented.
There will be a joint choir under
the direction of Rev. Morris
Jordan. Anyone who sings in the
choir of one of the local churches
is welcome. Contact Jordan at First
Baptist Church for details on the
music. The combined choir will
practice together at 6:30 p.m. prior
to the service.
The offering from the communi-
ty service will go to the Kings
os th welfare of the hk among
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CHRISTMAS TIME IN THE CITY
for ict a tree Dian ceremony on December 1. The
succumbed to the Southern Pine Beetle. ;
By Elizabeth Stewart
‘of The Herald Staff
Bill Bridges, 68, has cut plenty
of hair in 32 years in Kings
Mountain
The popular barber has operated
his own shop for 20 years at 409
Walnut Street near the old Phenix
Mill. Before that, he worked with
Baxter Wright at the old Wright's
Barber Shop downtown.
Although hair styles have
changed drastically since the early
days of his business the com-
raderie shared by customers who
visit his shop remains the same. -
Short hair was stylish in the ear-
ly years and the barber trade
boomed. Bridges recalled that he
wo keeps customers happy
had a steady stream of customers
for his barber chair and often peo-
ple were waiting at the door for
him to open. Recent years brought
new hair styles among men and
women and nowadays the male
population sports long tresses, even
longer than some women.
Bridges got out of the Margrace
Mill and Pauline Mill quiller and
twister rooms and went to barber
school after a short stint with
Uncle Sam's Army in World War
II. Drafted at age 18, he received
a medical discharge. His health
problem left him with a facial
paralysis.
"I can't enjoy a big smile or
laugh at some of the jokes custom-
arily attributed to barber shops,” he
said, as he reminisced about some
of the comical incidents in his bar-
ber shop.
Bridges never nicked a face
while shaving but he came close
while shaving his regular weekly
customer, the late Dan Stewart.
"Dan and Marriott Phifer got here
about the same time every
Saturday morning and I didn't
know when I started to shave Dan
that Wright had given me a razor
with a broken handle," said
Bridges. "Dan's whiskers were
tough as copper wire and I had put
a new blade in the razor. I took
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BILL BRIDGES
KM Crisis Ministry
gears for peak season
With the holiday season ap-
proaching the Kings Mountain
Crisis Ministry gears for a peak
season, says Director Sherry
Hamrick.
The late fall and winter finds
people with increased power and
fuel bills and the flu season means
more medicine with the resources
of the elderly and unemployed be-
coming more and more strained,
she says.
Hamrick says requests for help -
have increased this month and by
Christmas the needs will surpass
previous years.
Individual contributors, local
church congregations and civic
clubs support the Crisis Ministry, a
strictly [ocal helping agency over-
seen by a local governing board
helping local people and staffed by
volunteers with exception of one
part-time staff person.
Hamrick says that although the
Crisis Ministry will receive 25 per-
cent of the funds collected in the
October CROP Walk that it will be
some. time before all the pledges
are sent in.
In December, members of the
Kings Mountain Ministerial
Association will be ringing the bell
at local grocery stores to support
the Crisis Ministry. Contributions
to Kings Mountain United Fund al-
so play an important role since that
organization is a generous and pri-
mary contributor to the Crisis
Ministry organization.
In October, 76 families visited
the Food Bank at the Community
Center. During two weeks in
November 50 people had received
staple food items there.
On a recent afternoon a young
father was at the Food Bank to re-
ceive staple food items for his wife
and two children from volunteers
Bobby Smith, Carrie Martin and
See Ministry, 2-A
_ when he, alo g with Councilman
Guyton: Another employee not needed
Gouncilman keeps
eye on Recreation
Ward 2 Councilman Jim Guyton,
completing his first year on Kings
Mountain City Council, sees his
role as a watchdog of city depart-
ments.
"When I see a department I think
needs improvement I intend to
speak up," says Guyton, who says
majority of his co-Council mem-
bers don't agree with him about
how he thinks the Recreation
Department, in particular, should
be run.
"The recreation director told us
at the recent board meeting that the
department was run by. loosely or-
ganized citizens groups in the
past,” said Guyton. "I take issue
with that assessment because if it's
ever been operated loosely it is
now. This is the first time ever I
know of that teams played softball
for a whole season before they paid
their entry fees."
David Hancock's statement
came in a report presented to the
city council which detailed the ac-
tivities of the department and the
work assignments of the staff. "The
hiring is the beginning of the city's
commitment to directly supervise
all activities conducted on city fa-
cilities," the report said in part.
Guyton's = flap = with the
Recreation Department surfaced at
last month's city council meeting
munity Center. The City
‘Council voted 4-2 to fill the posi-
tion.
"We got out of the personnel
business four years ago when we
went to the city manager form of
who is being hired but I don't think
government,” said Councilman
Fred Finger. He said the council's
job is to make policy. Mayor pro
tem Norma Bridges agrees.
Parks & Recreation Chairman
Bridges said that board voted 4-0
to ask Council to fill the Center po-
sition. "Some of the board was
skeptical but since the money is
budgeted we felt there is enough
work for the third person to do and
went along with Recreation
Director David Hancock's request.”
"We don't need another employ-
ee. What will he do?" asked
Guyton who said that only three
outside activitiés are scheduled
from August 1992 until March
1993. He said the fall softball pro-
gram is run by CJ. Holland, the
little boy's football program is run
by the Optimist Club and boy's
soccer is handled by the county.
"Two people can run
recreation program,” he said.
Guyton said that $105,000 was
spent for salaries for the Center
and Early Field from January-
October. He said the recreation di-
rector is the fourth highest paid
city employee.
"We're paying top money and
there are areas that need improved
and I have called these to the
Recreation Department's attention
and have seen little results,” said
Guyton. 4
© “The rest of the board was im-
pressed wiih the report they got at
the
the job is justified,” said Guyton.
Guyton said he operated 18
men's teams and 13 women's teams
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Jill Jimison to represent
KMHS in Carrousel Parade
Jill Jimison, KMHS senior, will
represent Kings Mountain in the
1992 Carolinas Carrousel Parade
Thanksgiving Day in Charlotte.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Mike Jimison was chosen
Carrousel Princess by the student
body at the high school. The 17-
year-old brunette hazel-eyed beau-
ty ranks No. 2 in a class of 262 se-
niors.
Active in campus activities,
Jimison was nominated for a
Morehead Scholarship, Duke
Power Scholarship and
Congressional Scholarship . She is
active in the National Honor
Society, Beta Club, High Q Team,
and was a Junior marshal. She
earned academic excellence and
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Carrie Martin, Bobby Smith and Ethel Tignor, left to rigt, stock the shelves at the Food Bank at the
Kings Mountain Community Center. The Crisis Ministry is gearing for a peak season.
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JILL JIMISON
Contest
deadline
is Friday
Friday is the deadline for enter-
ing the President's Photo Contest.
If you snapped an unusually
good photograph of President Bush
during his Whistle Stop tour
through Kings Mountain, you
could win up to $100.
The contest, sponsored by the
Herald and Mayor Scott Neisler,
will pay $50 to the winner, $30 for
second place and $20 for third
‘place.
The pictures are due in the
7Herald office no later than 5 p.m.
Friday. They. will be judged over
the weekend and published in next
week's Herald. After that, they will
be displayed at City Hall.
Black and white and color pho-
tos of any size arc acceptable.
They must have been made in
Kin; : Mountain or Grover. Only
am: ur photographers may enter.
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