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North Carolina Press Association
Vol. 108 No. 14 _
Kings Mountain citizens will join Christians from
around the world Sunday in celebrating the resurrec-
tion of the Lord with special Easter sunrise and wor-
ship services.
The community-wide Sunrise Service, sponsored by
Church.
Many individual churches also plan special services
throughout Holy Week. They include:
the Kings Mountain Ministerial Association, will be
held at 7 a.m. at Mountain Rest Cemetery. Rev.
Douglas Petersen, pastor of Boyce Memorial A.R.P.
Church, will deliver the message.
Members and staff from area churches will have a
part in the service. Special music is also planned.
"We encourage our community of faith to join us as
Briefs
Bloodmobile set
at First Baptist
The Cleveland County Red
Cross Chapter will sponsor a
bloodmobile visit to First Baptist
Church in Kings Mountain April
4 from 1:30-6 p.m.
Other bloodmobiles during the
month of April include:
April 9, 1:30-6 p.m., Shelby
Presbyterian Church.
April 17, 12 noon-4:30 p.m.,
Boiling Springs Elementary
School.
April 29, 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m.,
Gardner-Webb University.
Sandi Bolick, Director of
Blood Services, said the need for
blood is urgent and she invites all
donors to support the visits.
KM Hospital gets
grant from Duke
Kings Mountain Hospital has
received $6,693 from the Duke
Endowment which has awarded
more than $3.9 million to 208
hospitals and children's homes in
the two Carolinas.
Hospital grants are based on
uncompensated days of care pro-
vided to patients.
Crawley Memorial Hospital in
Boiling Springs received $939
and Cleveland Regional Medical
Center in Shelby received
$35,036.
Founded in 1924 by North
Carolina industrialist James B.
Hunt, the Endowment's assets
now total $1.6 billion. It provides
assistance to eligible colleges,
hospitals and children's homes in
the Carolinas and to United
Methodist Churches in North
Carolina. In 1995, the grants
topped $51 million.
Parent conferences
set April 4 at KMHS
Parents of Kings Mountain
High School students may have
conferences with teachers
Thursday, April 4 from 3-7 p.m.
Appointments are not neces-
sary as parents will be able to
schedule conferences on arrival at
school.
If parents prefer to prearrange
appointments, they may do so by
calling 734-5647.
Student report cards for the
third nine weeks grading period
will be available for parents to
pick up.
Library reception
to honor Mrs. Fryer
Hometown author Hazel Fryer
will read poems from her book
"One Brash Mockingbird" and
sign personal copies April 14 at a
tea and reception at Mauney
Memorial Library.
The reception is from 3:30-5
p.m. and the public is invited.
The King Mountain Historical
Museum Foundation is sponsor-
ing the celebration to honor
Fryer, now of Hendersonville,
who donated 100 books of poetry
to the Museum Foundation to
sell. Proceeds will help finance a
new roof for the future home of
the Museum at the old Post
Office.
Herndon helped organize com-
munity leaders and founded the
Museum Foundation as a tribute
to her love for history and her
hometown. She will also discuss
the background of her interest in
writing about her life experi-
ences.
Thursday, April 4, 1996
we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ," said
Rev. Olin Byrum, pastor of Kings Mountain Baptist
Grace Methodist
Grace United Methodist Church will host a number
of Holy Week services.
meditation.
Holy Communion will be celebrated Maundy
Thursday at 7 p.m. Rey. Patricia Stone will lead a
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Good Friday services will be held at 7 p.m. in front
of the outdoor crosses, weather permitting.
An Easter egg hunt and Kite flying will be held at 2
p.m. Saturday for children of the community.
Grace Methodist members will be served breakfast
at 8 a.m. Sunday at the church.
The Easter Sunday morning worship service will be
held at 11 a.m. Special music will be presented by the
choir.
Macedonia Baptist
Macedonia will have an Easter sunrise service at
Teresa Williams and Bill and Melissa Marcellino are pictured in the new offices of Edward S. Jones
Investments in downtown Kings Mountain. The offices were recently refurbished by George Lublanezski
and are part of the old Belk building.
Old Belk building renovated
The U.S. Marine Corps brought
Boston native and Captain Bill
Marcellino to North Carolina six
years ago but his investment busi-
ness took him to Kings Mountain
nearly three years ago.
Marcellino and his wife,
Melissa, fell in love with the Kings
Mountain area when Bill joined
Edward D. Jones Investments as a
stockbroker and they opened of-
fices first in Kings Mountain on
Mountain Street.
Marcellino's love for the Marine
Corps led to his wife's signing up a
year ago as a wireman in the
Reserves where he also is a re-
servist.
Thursday the young couple held
open office in a brand new building
on S. Battleground Avenue in the
heart of the business district. Part
of the old Belk building, owned by
George Lublanezki, has been trans-
formed into a suite of offices which
include a spacious reception area, a
big private office which houses the
brokerage firm, a full-size bath
with shower, plenty of storage
space and blue carpeted floors.
As part of the grand opening, the
firm sponsored an art contest for
third grade students in Carla
Bennett's ciass at West School on
the subject, "Why I Like Kings
Mountain" and the art was dis-
played on the walls and visitors
were asked to help judge them and
register for door prizes.
Refreshments were also served.
The third member of the firm is
Kings Mountain native Teresa
Dixon Williams, branch office ad-
ministrator.
The front of the building with
two white doors and paneled win-
Kings Mountain People
Gene Bumgardner is at home at the piano or on stage directing his
students in musical productions. "Made In America" will be presented
by the Kings Revue Thursday.
dows at street level are a conversa-
tion piece for visitors and adds to
the decor of the building.
Not only are the newcomers dec-
orating a new office but they are
decorating a new home on Fulton
Street they purchased from Tim
Plonk. The home is commonly
known as the Viola White home-
place.
"We used to have an office in
Charlotte when I first joined
Edward Jones and Grady Howard
actually recruited us to Kings
Mountain,” said Marcellino as he
chatted with Howard at the open
house. The former Kings Mountain
Hospital administrator sent
Marcellino cards and information
about the city and Marcellino de-
cided to visit and liked what he
saw.
See Jones, 5-A
When the curtain goes up
Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Barnes
Auditorium on the glittering musi-
cal, "Made In America," Kings
Mountain's "Music Man" Gene
Bumgardner will be out front
beaming with pride for his stu-
dents.
After 17 1/2 years at the helm of
Kings Mountain District School's
choral program and a total of 19
years working with students,
Bumgardner has earned his reputa-
tion as a professional.
He started rehearsing 16 mem-
bers of The Kings Revue in
September for the show the group
will perform Thursday morning for
1,000 Kings Mountain elementary
students and on Thursday night for
the public and he is sure audiences
will love the results.
« It will be the first time that
Kings Revue has performed a solo
show without the assistance of the
120- plus in the Show Choir
Bumgardner directs and 120 more
Kings Mountain Middle Schoolers.
"The Kings Revue has the total
program and wow what a pro-
gram," he exclaims.
The show will begin on the big
Barnes stage with a 40 feet
American flag in the background
which was given to the school be-
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Kings Mountain to pause for Easter
8:30.
vice.
7:30 a.m. at the church. Breakfast will be served at
Sunday School will begin at 9:45 and morning wor-
ship at 11 a.m. There will not be a Sunday night ser-
A "March for Home Missions" will be held during
ing.
the morning service. All members are urged to take
their Easter egg filled with the Home Missions offer-
The Annie Armstrong Easter offering goal is
$1,500.
See Easter, 5-A
Armed robbery suspect
arrested in 10 minutes
A quick-thinking plain clothes
policeman was credited with the
apprehension of a suspect within
10 minutes after a reported armed
robbery Friday at 1 p.m..
"Witnesses at the scene and two
men walking in the area were
quick to praise Vice Det. Sgt.
Melvin Proctor who averted a bad
situation," said Chief of Police Bob
Hayes.
Captain Richard Reynolds said
police booked Jeffrey Scott
Morrison, 36, of York Road, with
four felonies after the 1 p.m. armed
robbery at Mike's Citgo on
Battleground Avenue.
Morrison faces two felony
counts of kidnaping, robbery with
a dangerous weapon, and assault
on a police officer with intent to
kill. He was also charged with re-
sist, obstruct and delay and damage
to city property.
Police said Morrison allegedly
entered Mike's Citgo armed with a
.22 rifle and robbed a male clerk at
gunpoint as two customers in the
store watched.
"Give me your money," he de-
manded of the clerk and he told the
two women customers, "Stand still
and don't move," according to wit-
nesses. Money was stuffed in a pa-
per bag from two registers and the
suspect left the store on foot head-
ed across the railroad tracks in the
direction of Oakland Drive.
Minutes after the robbery a citi-
zen spotted a man in a camouflage
outfit running on Hermitage Court
carrying a bag and along gun and
called police.
Proctor, the first officer on the
scene, spotted a pickup truck on
Hillside drive and saw a suspect
running toward it and place what
appeared to be a gun in the back of
the truck.
Bumgardner KM's ‘Music Man’
cause it needed a few repairs. The
flag is now brand new thanks to
Gene's. mother, Mrs. Gertie
Bumgardner, an accomplished
seamstress.
Beginning with country music,
the performance will take the audi-
ence from the 50's and 60's,
through popular gospel numbers,
and end with a patriotic medley.
Teacher volunteers are putting
the finishing touches on the cos-
tumes this week.
For the opening segment the
girls will wear black western dance
skirts and boots and Western blous-
es and the boys will be decked out
in Brooks & Dunn red and black
shirts and black pants. For the 50s
numbers the girls will wear poodle
skirts and accessories and the boys
will wear blue jeans. The sacred
numbers will see the group in choir
robes. For the patriotic section of
the show, the young people will
dazzle the audience with red and
white blue sequined outfits featur-
ing white tuxedo pants and white
circle skirts.
"It's really going to be a fabulous
show," says Bumgardner, as he di-
rected the students in rehearsals
this week.
"Say your words," he said over
and over to the boys and girls on
joying themselves with the music.
Proctor, who was not in uniform
and in an unmarked car, identified
himself and told the man to halt,
keeping his gun on him and not al-
lowing him to get his gun from the
back of his truck. A scuffle ensued
when the suspect resisted arrest
and tried to take the officer's gun.
"Go ahead and kill me," the sus-
pect reportedly told the officer.
Det. Lt. Houston Corn was the
second officer on the scene and
found the two men fighting.
Proctor received several scratches
on his hands and his car received
minor damages.
"The man resisted even when
officers had a gun on him," said
Hayes who said several cars and
officers arrived on the scene within
seconds of the report of the rob-
bery.
We were just so fortunate that
no one was hurt,” he said.
Police said the suspect was ar-
rested in Gaston County several
days ago for driving after his li-
cense was revoked and had report-
edly attempted to borrow money
on Thursday from the local store to
pay his fine.
Reynolds said the minimum ac-
tive prison sentence for armed rob-
bery is seven years.
He said since the suspect al-
legedly held a customer and the
clerk against their will that he
would be charged with felony kid-
naping.
"Our policemen do good jobs
and when something like this hap-
pens I like to give credit where
credit is due and I can't say enough
about Officer Proctor's control of
the situation which avoided what
could have been a violent situa-
tion," said Hayes.
An undetermined amount of
cash was recovered by police.
the stage who were obviously en-
Several solo and duet numbers are
also featured and the kids move to
the tempo in perfectly chore-
ographed numbers.
Bumgardner is a natural at the
piano and as a vocalist. He started
piano lessons at age six and later
took choral music from Myrle
McClure at Kings Mountain High
from 1968-72. He was a vocal ma-
jor at Gardner- Webb University.
He directs the Choir at New Hope
Baptist Church in Gastonia where
his whole family is involved in the
music program.
In fact Gene hails from a musi-
cal family of 14 members and is
the youngest sibling.
His father, the late Benjamin
Thomas Bumgardner, was born in
1880 and he and his first wife were
married in 1900 and had five chil-
dren. After she died in 1920
Bumgardner wed his second wife
and they had three children. After
her death he met Gene's mother at
a Gastonia mill where they both
worked. Gene's father was 62 and
his mother was 31 when they tied
the knot. Six children, of which
Gene was the youngest, were born
to that union. ;
See Bumgardner, 5-A