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Vol. 108 No. 7
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Chamber plans
memorial trees
The Kings Mountain Branch
of the Cleveland County
Chamber of Commerce is spon-
soring a downtown beautifica-
tion project called "Believing in
the Beauty."
The project will enable resi-
dents to purchase a Nachez
Crepe Myrtle in honor or in
memory of a loved one.
Phase I will include the plant-
ing of 25 of the white-flower
trees. The trees will be $50 each
and will be a mature height of 18
to 20 feet.
Downtown sites have already
been selected. Each person pur-
chasing a tree will be notified of
the location of their tree.
For more information or to re-
serve a tree, call 739-4755.
Health Council to meet
The Kings Mountain District
Schools Health Council will
meet Thursday, Feb. 22 at 6:30
p.m. in the Teacher Center at
Central School, 105 East Ridge
Street.
The council will continue its
review of the ninth grade health
curriculum.
Head Start applications
Cleveland County Head Start
is accepting applications for the
1996-97 school year.
The program is designed for
children who will be four years
old by October 16, 1996.
Families with low to moderate
income, regardless of race, sex,
religion, national origin, or spe-
cial needs/disabling conditions,
are eligible.
Schools providing Head Start
are Bethware, Fallston, Grover,
North, Number Three, Union,
Washington, and Shelby Middle
School; and there are four class-
rooms at Graham, James Love,
Jefferson and Marion.
For more information or an
application, call the Head Start
Office at 734-5660.
Check deteciors
The Grover Fire Department
will check and/or replace smoke
detectors for people living in
Grover and surrounding areas.
For more information, call
Shannon Sanders at Grover
Volunteer Fire Department (937-
7321).
Grease at KMHS
The Kings Mountain High
Drama, Choral and Band pro-
grams will present the musical
"Grease" March 1-2 at 7:30 p.m.,
and March 3 at 3 p.m. at B.N.
Barnes Auditorium.
The prices is $5 for adults and
$4 for students and senior citi-
zens.
Director is Betsy Wells and
Music Director is Eugene
Bumgardner.
Scouting for food
Pack 92, sponsored by First
Baptist Church of Kings
Mountain, will be collecting for
the annual Scouting for Food
Drive Saturday, Feb. 17.
Grocery bags were placed in
neighborhoods last Saturday.
Anyone who did not get a bag
can take their food contributions
to the Scout Hut, located in the
lower parking lot of First Baptist
Church February 17 between 9
a.m.-12 noon.
Scouts will pick up bags on the
doorsteps where they were left
last week.
All food collected will be do-
nated to the Kings Mountain
Crisis Ministry.
Auxiliary to meet
Winners of the recent DAR
history essay contest will present
the program at Thursday night's
meeting of the American Legion
Auxiliary.
Hilda Goforth is program
chairman for the 7 p.m. meeting
By Elizabeth Stewart
of The Herald Staff
C. Senate.
friends.
Former 10-term North Carolina Senator J. Ollie Harris, a
Cleveland County mortician for 64 years, was eulogized by his
friend and former Senator Marshall Rauch at funeral services
Monday as a man who genuinely cared for his fellowman.
"If you were his friend Ollie was your friend for life," said
Rauch, choking back tears as he recounted happy days of
rooming with Harris in Raleigh and serving beside him in the N.
Harris, 82, died suddenly Friday of a blood clot in his left
leg. But even as he lay in his hospital bed from Tuesday until
Friday he was talking politics and business on the telephone with
The nearly 800 people in the First Baptist Church sanctuary
wiped tears and laughed together at the memories.
The dignity and sensitivity that was a trademark of Ollie
Harris-conducted funerals was evident in the 45-minute service
which featured the American flag-draped closed casket flanked
by one bouquet and the North Carolina flag. His former
employees sat on the front row facing the casket and family
members were in special pews along with people who served
with him and friends from all over the county.
Rauch said Harris earned a reputation as Mr. Mental Health
as chairman of a number of Senate budget committees on health
SWINGING INTO SPRING
Thursday, February 15, 1996
services and was credited with helping bring more improvements
in the state's institutions for the mentally handicapped.
Citing Ollie's comforting support at the death of his own
father 18 months ago, Rauch said that Harris and Paul "Bill"
Roberts drove to New York with the body of the senior Rauch
when because of religious beliefs that dealt with embalming the
family could not have it transported by common carriers.
"Ollie said he was going anyway and the rest of our family
flew to New York and he and Bill drove the car carrying my
Dad's body."
age."
great friend, Ollie Harris
Recounting fun times in Raleigh, Rauch said that Ollie
usually dreaded hearing tests which were given annually to
members of the legislature. At 80 the senior senator from Kings
Mountain was told his hearing "was just as good as anyone your
"We kidded each other that we were both going to have to
buy a hearing aid one of these days," said Rauch, recounting that
he had lunch with Harris Wednesday at Gaston Memorial
Hospital.
"Ollie said he guessed we were both too vain to wear a
hearing aid and besides they were too expensive."
Rauch described Harris as an organized person and said he
got that trait from the funeral business.
See Harris, 3-A
While temperatures aren't breaking records, they are inching up into the 50's and that's getting young-
sters excited about getting outside to play. Zach Chambers, left, and Whitney McDonald found their fun
on the swings on the playground at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church Preschool.
Dr. John Charles Stuart Dawson,
43, has assumed a new family
practice in Kings Mountain with
Kings Mountain Family
Physicians, the Carolinas Medical
Group in Professional Park
Building 2 near the local hospital.
He is the second Canadian doc-
tor to arrive in Kings Mountain in
recent months and was recruited
several months ago by Kings
Mountain Hospital. He is a mem-
ber of the active staff of the hospi-
tal.
A native of London, Ontario,
H. B. "Spec" Richardson, The
Sporting News Major League
Executive of the Year in 1978 and
a retired baseball consultant in
Columbus, Ga., will be the guest
speaker at Saturday's American
Legion Baseball Hall of Fame ban-
quet at 7 p.m. at Post 155 in Kings
Mountain.
The North Carolina American
Legion will induct four new mem-
bers, J. Elbert Jordan of Smithfield,
Wendall Rogers of Charlotte,
Harold Bowen of Lexington and
Gaither Keener of North
Wilkesboro.
The event, which begins with a
at the American Legion building.
social hour at 6 p.m., is expected
New doctor in town
Canada, he and his wife and three
children are residing at 702
Sandhurst Drive.
Previously he was in private
family practice in Orillia, Ontario
and on the active staff of Orillia
Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital in the
Department of General Practice
and Department Emergency
Services.
Dawson graduated from the
University of Western Ontario
where he also completed his
See Doctor, 3-A
Legion to host Hall of Fame
to attract 250 Legionnaires, guests
and athletes to the local Post.
Tickets are $20 per person and may
be obtained at the American
Legion in Kings Mountain or from
Linwood Restaurant, Cleveland
Avenue, which is catering the
meal.
Former Mayor John Henry’
Moss, president of the South:
Atlantic League, will introduce the
speaker and will be master of cere-
monies. Post 155 athletic officer
Larry Deaver is banquet chairman.
Commander David Lowery will
welcome the dignitaries. State
See Richardson, 8-A
DR. JOHN DAWSON
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H.B. RICHARDSUN
OLLIE HARRIS
Retired KM superintendent
Barnes dies i
Retired former Kings Mountain
Schools Supt. Bahnson Neil
Barnes, 92, died February 12, 1996
at Southeastern Regional Medical
Center in Lumberton.
Barnes was Kings Mountain su-
perintendent from 1934-67, joining
the system as a principal in 1927
after a one-year principalship at
McDonald Public Schools in
McDonald.
B. N. Barnes Auditorium is
named in his honor.
He was a charter member of the
Kiwanis Club and served as presi-
dent in Kings Mountain and
Lumberton. He was appointed
Lieutenant Governor and received
the Distinguished Lieutenant
Governor Award in 1971. For 43
years he maintained a perfect atten-
dance at Kiwanis meetings.
Since 1967 he had managed a
family farm business in
Lumberton, his hometown, and
was a member of the First Baptist
Church and a teacher of the men's
Bible class and a deacon.
Born in Lumberton August 29,
1903, he was a son of the late
Luther Belder and Lillie Pittman
Barnes. He was a graduate of Wake
Forest College with A.B. degree
and earned his M. A. degree from
the University of North Carolina.
He was promoted to superintendent
] in the Kings Mountain schools af-
n Lumberton
B.N. BARNES
ter eight years as a principal.
Surviving are his wife, Julia
Catherine Mauney Barnes; two
sons and daughters-in-law, Luther=
Bahnson and Sara Barnes of
Asheville and Kenneth Mauney
and Ann Barnes of Winston-Salem;
three grandsons, Andrew Kenneth
and Gregory Bahnson Barnes, both
of Winston-Salem, and Luther Neil
Barnes of Asheville; and two great-
grandsons, Taylor Alan Barnes and
See Barnes, 3-A
Joint school board meeting
Monday at Cleveland College
The public is invited to a joint
meeting of the three school boards
in Cleveland County Monday from
7-9:30 p.m. in Rooms 1138 and
1139 at the Cleveland Community
College in Shelby.
Future educational issues and
ways the three systems can contin-
ue cooperative ventures will fea-
ture the topics of discussions.
Facilitator for the meeting will
be Dr. Jack Hamrick, chairman of
the Shelby Schools Board of
Education.
Ronnie Hawkins, chairman of
the Kings Mountain Board of
Education, will open the meeting
by summarizing current programs
in which the three school systems
are cooperating, current areas such
as Vocational Education, student
services, exceptional children,
sports medicine, transportation,
staff development, Head Start and
ACTIVE.
Tommy Greene, chairman of the
Cleveland County Board of
Education and local superinten-
dents, Dr. Robert McRae of Kings
Mountain, Dr. Earl Watson of
Cleveland County and Dr. Steve
Curtis of Shelby will contribute to
the discussions as well as the 15
board members who will be pre-
sent.
No public input will be encour-:
aged from the public but those at-:
tending will be given handouts in
which they can give comments
about the meeting and make sug-
gestions which will be given to the
various boards for their discussions
at upcoming meetings. Hawkins
said responses and comments will
be made public to the media.
Other areas of discussion could
include such topics as early birth
education, jointly sponsored voca-
tional classes, support of the busi-
ness community, local funding and
merger issues since each board has
held meetings to plan agenda top-
ics and their representatives for-
malized an agenda at a recent
meeting.
The agenda is expected to in-
clude closing statements by board
chairmen, each of whom has been
inviting input from the public to
present at the meeting.
The meeting was proposed in
September by the Shelby Board of
Education. Both Cleveland County
and Kings Mountain school offi-
cials agreed to meet as long as all
board members were allowed to at-
tend and the meeting was open to
the public.
See Boards, 3-A