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Worship cus |
Wednesday night ;
A community-wide religious
service Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at
First Baptist Church will highlight
the Kings Mountain celebration of
| Thanksgiving.
Rev. Patricia Stone, pastor of
Grace United Methodist Church,
will deliver the sermon, "Attitude
of Gratitude."
The service is sponsored by the
Kings Mountain Ministerial
Association. The public is invited.
Stone's sermon will be a dra-
matic presentation of Thanksgiving
from the perspective ofits first cel-
ebrants, the Pilgrims.
Joint choirs under the direction
of Rev. Morris Jordan will sing
Thanksgiving anthems. The choirs
will \ rehearse at 6:30 .m. prior to
the worship service.
The service will feature a sym-
bolic "Pressing of thé: Table" with
representatives of the participating 4
congregations bringing various
items to complete the table setting.
Appropriate scripture (passages will
be read as\each item is presented.
An offering will be received for
Family get-to-gethers, early
church breakfasts, hunting and
television viewing of parades and
football games will be the order of
Thanksgiving Day for most Kings
Mountain citizens.
School pupils will get a long
holiday, from Wednesday until
Monday. Wednesday will be a
teacher's work day.
Most of the city will be closed
down tight.
Anvil Knitwear will be closed
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and
Sunday for the holidays.
Clevemont Mills and Mauney
Hosiery Mills will be closed
Thursday and Friday.
City offices will be closed on
Thursday. Emergencies will be
routed through the police depart-
ment, 734-0444.
Jill Jimison, KMHS senior and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mike
Jimison, will represent the city in
the Carolinas Carrousel, annual
Thanksgiving Day parade, in
Charlotte. WBTV will televise the
afternoon parade.
For some, the day will be just
another work day, especially at
some area plants and service sta-
tions where work schedules will
continue as normal. Grocery stores
and super markets will be closed
Sa
Every day is Thanksgiving for 2 1/2-year-old Brittany Floyd, espe-
cially if she gets to go to grandmother and grandfather's house.
Brittany, is the daughter of Al and Dana Floyd, and granddaughter of
Jack and Mona Scism of Kings Mountain. The Scisms own and oper-
ate Jack Scism Fagm, where they grow thousands of turkeys ranging
in age from one to 20 weeks. Brittany gets a big kick out of playing
with the birds and all the other animals on the farm.
for the holiday.
Sidney's a good listener
By ELIZABETH STEWART
of The Herald Staff
His favorite customers often
don't want a haircut. They want to
"borrow my ear,” says Sidney
Dixon, ;
The = popular © Bethlehem
Community resident is a barber by
profession but a Christian first, he
tells his congregation, whether he's
leading a Bible Study for summer
campers at the Battleground, teach-
ing the Adult Men at First Baptist
Church, or filling in for the preach-
er at Dixon Presbyterian Church.
His expertise as a listener gives
him the inspiration to help people
through volunteer service. He
gives the credit to God for his inner
feelings and for his ability to speak
from the pulpit without notes.
Reading the Bible, and he's read it
through more than once, is the only
study tool he requires.
"I felt called to teach Sunday
School and I started teaching
Junior Boys at Bethlehem Baptist
Church a long time ago,” said
Dixon, 70, one of nine children of
the late Ira and Mattie Dixon.
The house he shares with his
wife of 38 years is two miles from
the farm he was raised. It was the
first house built 29 years ago in the
beautifully-developed White Plains
section occupied now by more’
than 100 families. Dixon's modest
Radio personalities
are parade marshals
Bob Lacey and Sheri Lynch, co-
hosts of the Sunny 107.9 moming
radio show, will be grand marshals
for the Kings Mountain Christmas
Parade December 5.
The parade, featuring pretty
girls, floats, marching bands and
Santa Claus, will wind down Kings
Mountain streets at 4 p.m.
Parade Chairman Denise Falls
said another highlight of the event
will be the high stepping
Livingstone College Band.
"Our goal is 100 units for the pa-
Hardee's
building
Hardee's of Kings Mountain is
constructing a new $800,000 "light
and bright" building at the back of
the present facility on East King
Street.
Grading has been completed at
the site by Brawley Construction of
Mooresville, general contractors
for the 90x44 feet building.
- Weather permitting, the new
Hardee's is expected to open on
January 15,1993.
The old structure will be torn
down after January 1 to make room
for an expanded parking lot.
Terry Sowers, director of con-
struction, said Hardee's has out-
See Hardee's, Page 11-A
rade and we hope the public will
turn out and help us celebrate the
opening of the Christmas season,"
said Falls.
The parade is sponsored by the
Kings Mountain Parks &
Recreation Commission.
Lacey hosted PM Magazine on
WBTV-3 in Charlotte for 10 years
before joining the Morning Show
three years ago. Lynch, a former
producer for Jefferson Pilot
Broadcasting Company, joined the
See Parade, 11-A
gray barber shop is nearby his
handsome brick home.
Dixon learned how to cut hair
from his parents, who cut hair
during the Depression. The front
room of the Dixon farm was the
community barber shop in 1935-
36.
Dixon attended Bethlehem
School and Grover School. At age
20 he joined the Navy and served
six years from 1942-48 during
World War II in the Pacific Theater
of Operations. Every year he at-
tends a reunion of the 1300 living
sailors who served aboard the USS
Montpelier.
See Dixon, Page 11-A
“Bob Lacey and Sheri Lynch,
December 5.
Sunny 107.9 radio personalities, will
be grand marshals for the Kings Mountain Christmas Parade
SIDNEY DIXON
The Christmas holidays will of-
ficially begin for Kings Mountain
citizens Tuesday when they light
the Christmas tree at 7 p.m. at
Mauney Memorial Library.
Although the 18 feet tall new
Cryptomeria Japonica is not the
traditional White Pine which stood
on the grounds for many years, city
officials and Friends of the Library
hope the tree lighting ceremony
will be meaningful.
"We've been told the new tree is
fast growing and that it will soon
begin to fill in at the bottom," said
Librarian Rose Turner, as she is-
sued an invitation to the public to
come out and sing Christmas carols
and kick off the holiday season.
Kings Mountain United Fund
has passed the half-way mark in its
1992 campaign, with pledges total-
ing 51 percent of its $121,500 cam-
paign goal, or $62.420.
"We've reached an important
milestone in our campaign, and the
momentum is continuing,” said
Chairman Maude Norris. "Many of
our large industries are in the midst
of their United Fund drives and
we're upbeat about the remaining
days of the campaign. Now more
than ever, the 16 agencies funded
Steel beams are going up at
Kings Mountain Business Park, the
site of the new multi-million dollar
Bridgestone-Firestone plant.
Weather perniitting, twisters and
looms will be installed by April
1993.
Firestone Controller Charles
Ford, in a presentation before
Kings Mountain Rotary Club
Thursday, said the onc-story,
417,000 square fect precast con-
crete structure will be equipped
with the latest in tire-cord produc-
tion cquipment as the company's
goal is to be a world-class manu-
facturing unit.
Charles Ford, controller of Bridgestone-Firestone, shows a drawing of the proposed new plant to mem-
bers of the Kings Mountain Rotary Club. Rotary President Dr. Bob McRae is at right.
Carolina Steel started putting up
the steel this week. Ford said the
See Thanksgiving, 11-A
Treellighting set
Tuesday at library
eo Mayor Scott Neisler will dedi-
cate the tree. Yule carols will be
sung by children of Dot's Day
Care, adults of First Presbyterian
Church Choir and youth volun-
teers from J.S. Mauney Memorial
Library. The public will also join in
the singing of familiar carols.
Boy Scouts from Troops 91, 92
and 95 willl trim the tree with white
lights, assisted by crews from the
City of Kings Mountain.
After the ceremony on the lawn,
the public will be invited to Weir
Auditorium inside the Library for
refreshments and a visit with Santa
Claus. Friends of the Library, of
which Marie Brinkley is president,
will serve refreshments.
United Fund reaches
50% of $121,580 goal
by the United Fund of Kings
Mountain need the support of the
good folks of the Greater Kings
Mountain area.”
Norris encourages division lead-
ers and chairpersons to finish their
work and make reports as soon as
possible. Some divisions are run-
ning neck and neck, she said, and
she expects that by the holiday sea-
son that most of the solicitation
work will be over.
Norris reminds donors that all
See United, 11-A
Bridgestone-Firestone
construction is underway
construction timetable in on sched-
ule.
Bridgestone, a Japanese firm,
bought the 93-year old tire cord
manufacturing plant on West
Second Street in Gastonia in 1987
and in July bought a 78 acre site
near Kings Mountain and started
grading. This fall. McDevitt Street
Bovis of Charlotte were hired as
general contractors. April 1993
will sec some of the equipment be-
ing moved from the old plant be-
ginning with a "ccll" of cight
twisters and looms at a time 0
maintain production schedules.
"We arc anticipating by next
Christmas Fircstone's new plant
See Firestone, 11-A}
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