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Vol. 110 No. 41
Thursday, October 8, 1998
Kings Mountain, NC e<Since 1889 *50¢
This Week
Thursday
12 noon - Kings Mountain
Rotary Club, Ramada Limited.
6:30 - Kings Mountain
Kiwanis Club, Central United
Methodist Church.
7 p.m. - John H. Moss
Reservoir Commission, Kings
Mountain City Hall.
Friday
10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. - Kings
Mountain Booster Club
Barbecue, in front of Kings
Mountain High.
5-7 p-m. - Kings Mountain
Booster Club Barbecue, Kings
Mountain High cafeteria.
7:30 p.m. - High school foot-
ball, Burns at Kings Mountain
Saturday
11 a.m.-9:15 p.m.
Mountaineer Day, Kings
Mountain Walking Track,
Cleveland Avenue.
Monday
7 p.m. Kings Mountain Board
of Education, Central Office,
Ridge Street.
Inside
5A Rev. Chip Sloan and
members of Kings Mountain's
First Baptist Church dedicate
new $1.5 million Christian
Ministries Center.
SA Longtime Kings
Mountain business Timms
Furniture purchased by Rick
Moore.
9A This is Fire Prevention
Week.
1B Kings Mountain and
Burns battle in opening
Southwestern 3A Conference
football game Friday at 7:30
p.m. at KM’s John Gamble
Stadium.
2B Kings Mountain High's
girls volleyball team clinches its
sixth straight Southwestern 3A
Conference championship.
Deaths
Cecil Ingram, 62
Kings Mountain
Pat Layton, 56
Kings Mountain
Bill Wease, 84
Shelby
“Etta Tunstall, 88
Kings Mountain
William Moses, 82
Kings Mountain
Richard Wilson, 58
Shelby
Dr. John Kennedy, 66
Blairsville, GA
Charles Padgett, 81
Shelby
Marie Vasellas, 85
Shelby
3A
First Carolina Federal
Mountaineer Day
is Saturday in KM
Sponsors of Saturday’s annual Mountaineer Day
Celebration hope having all activities in a central lo-
cation at the Kings Mountain Walking Track will
make this year’s event the best ever.
Activities get under way at 11 a.m. with an opening
ceremony conducted by Mayor Scott Neisler. There
will be continuous events throughout the day, con-
cluding with a giant fireworks display at 9 p.m.
All of the past Mountaineer Day events have been
downtown, but activities have been spread out along
several streets. Everything this year will be set up in-
side the small walking track adjacent to the Kings
Mountain Community Center on Cleveland Avenue.
Recreation Director Tripp Hord said he hasn't re-
ceived any complaints about the change of venue,
and he expects the celebration to be well attended.
“I hope we're going to have a bigger crowd be-
cause of this,” he said. “There is so much more room
to do it down here. With the success of the recent
Relay for Life held here three weeks ago, I think it’s
going to be a tremendous success.”
Hord said there will be plenty of parking both at
the walking track and at the adjacent Recreation
Department complex. There will be continuous enter-
tainment on stage, and over 25 vendors - the most ev-
er - have already signed up to ell food, arts and crafts.
He said even more vendors will probably sign up be-
fore Saturday. :
“And, we won't have to worry about trains coming
through and closing off state roads,” he said. “It’s go-
ing to be much more convenient.”
Entertainment will run from 11:15 a.m. until 9 p.m.
and will include dancing, gospel music, magic shows,
and top 40 country, beach and rock and roll music.
Kids will enjoy games such as football toss, basket-
ball, spin art, froggy toss, and moon walk.
An antique car show sponsored by the Kings
Mountain Fire Department is expected to draw over
200 entries. The cars will be displayed in the pull-
through parking lot in front of the Community
Center.
Hord said city crews were working on paving new
parking areas at the Recreation Department base-
ball/ softball complex this week, so there should be
plenty of parking Saturday.
“We were able to handle all the cars for the Relay
for Life, which drew over 400 people, and with the
extra parking lots open I feel like we will be alright
Saturday,” he said. ;
Car Show sponsored by Kings
Mountain Fire Department in
MOUNTAINEER
DAY LINEUP
~ 11:00 AM
Opening Ceremonies
11:15 AM- 12 Noon
Timberidge
12:00 Noon - 1:30 PM
Penny Dowda Dance
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Blaine Goad Magic Show
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Stagebrush (Top 40)
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Miracle Tabernacle Choir
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Blaine Goad Magic Show
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Carolina School of Dance
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Tradewinds Band
9:00 PM Fireworks
the Parking Lot of the
Community Center
Fair Time in Cleveland County
KM School
Board meets
on Monday
Name of Davidson School,
smoking issue on agenda
The Kings Mountain Board of
Education will consider a resolu-
tion to rename Parker Street
School to Davidson School, and
will hear a request from Kings
Mountain High School student
Amanda Johnsonbaugh to ban
smoking in all public areas of the
school and campus at Monday's
monthly meeting at the Central
Office.
The board voiced complete
agreement with renaming Parker
Street School at last month's
meeting.
Representatives from the
Davidson Alumni Association
went before the board two
months ago to ask that the school
be renamed Davidson. The school
was known as Davidson for a
number of years when it housed
Black students from inside the
Cleveland County Fair continues through Saturday
Fair attracts record crowd
By Alan Hodge
Staff Reporter
Celebrating its 74th Anniversary, the
Cleveland County Fair in Shelby will
continue through October 10th. Billed as
the largest purely county fair in North
Carolina, the Cleveland County Fair is
expected to have drawn over 160,000 vis-
itors before the gates close at 11 PM.
Saturday.
Dating back to 1923, the fair was start-
ed by the Shelby Kiwanis Club when for-
mer North Carolina Governor O. Max
Gardner was its president. Early fair
leaders also included Dr. J.S. Dorton and
AE. Cline. Dorton was especially cre-
ative in coming up with ways to save
money and attract new exhibits to the
fair. One story goes that rather than buy
expensive aluminum flagpoles, Dorton
used pine trees with mixing bowls at-
tached to the top. His contributions to
Cleveland County agriculture through
city limits. After integration in
the mid-sixties the facility be-
came the District Administration
Office. After the district office
was moved to Central School
three years ago, Kings Mountain,
Shelby and Cleveland County
Schools began an alternative
school at the site and named it
Parker Street because it was locat-
ed on Parker Street and a name
was needed on grant forms.
The non-smoking request
the fair included improvements to the
cotton crop.
Throughout the years the Cleveland
County Fair has seen some class acts. The
famous Rockettes made quite a splash at
early fairs. Later, automobile and motor-
cycle racing came to the fair. In 1954,
rodeos became part of the Cleveland
County Fair scene. Visitors to this year's
fair saw acts that included George
"Goober" Lindsey, The Catalinas, and the
Ocean Blvd. Band. Folks who fancy tak-
ing a spin on one of the fair's rides have
44 to chose from this year ranging from a
traditional merry-go-round, to a 114 ft.
tall Ferris wheel, to the rather intense
Tornado. New rides this year include the
"Yo-Yo" and "Pharaoh's Fury".
Besides the rides, sideshow amuse-
ments at the fair include the "Tomb of
Gloom" horror house, the world's small-
est woman "Little Gloria", and the Garcia
Circus. :
When you enter the gates of the
Kings Mountain
300 W. Mountain St.
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Cleveland County Fair, be prepared for a
case of sensory overload. The incredible
variety of smells, sights, and sounds is al-
most overwhelming. The aroma wafting
from food vendors makes you want to
throw diets out the window, the kaleido-
scopic effect of literally thousands of col-
orful lights is magical, and the sounds of
people on rides screaming with delight
combined with blaring music is high on
the decibel scale.
Even though the attractions that
Reinthoffer Shows has brought to
Cleveland County for 23 years are inter-
esting and exciting, its the local people
that give the fair much of its flavor. For
those into people-watching, folks sport-
ing everything from overalls and brogans
to teens with green hair can been spotted
strolling the midway.
See Fair, 6A
Gastonia
529 S. New Hope Rd.
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could bring about much discus-
sion by the board and in the com-
munity. Johnsonbaugh wrote a
letter to the board recently asking
that smoking be banned in athlet-
ic stadiums.
Supt. Bob McRae said, legally,
the system can probably ban
smoking from stadiums but en-
forcing the rule could be difficult.
He said one possibility might be
designating a smoking area at
stadiums.
"I've had several complaints
this year about smoking in our
stands,” he said. "From a legal
standpoint, we could prohibit it
but my major concern is enforc-
ing it. We will have to look at
how we can establish a rule not
just for rule's sake, but a rule that
we can control. I'm sure it will be
an interesting conversation.”
Several other items will be dis-
cussed Monday,
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