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Vol, 1 No. 28
Kings Mountain, N.C. Wednesday, March 8, 1972
10 Pages Today
WSftiS
Mirror To
Change
Press Time
Beginning with next week’s
Issue, the Mirror begins
operating on a new press
deadline.
The newspaper will be out
each Wedne^ay as usual, but
will be on sale just before
noon on Wednesdays, Instead
of late Tuesday night as pre
viously.
The new schedule change Is
being made in order to extend
our deadlines for accepting
news and advertising. Our
new deadline for all submit
ted copy Is 10 a.m. Tuesday.
We request that this deadline
be observed whenever poss
ible in placing news Items
and advertising.
Mailed subscriptions will be
sent out as soon as the paper
Is off the press Wednesday
morning, just look for your
paper a little later than be
fore.
By coming out with the Mir-
row a few hours later each
week, we hope to be able to
put a little more Into It, so
you, our readers, can get
more out of It - while still
being first with the news Kings
Mountain wants to read.
Cookie Chairman for 10 Years
Local NCAE
Unit Elects
Officers
In their March 1st elections, the Kings
Mountain unit of the North Carolina Ass
ociation of Educatorselected the following
officers and delegates;
President - William Hager, NorthSchool;
Vice President - Angela Lackey, Kings
Mountain High; Secretary - Beckey Plonk
North School; Treasurer - Jerry Hoyle,
Central.
Delegates to represent the Kings Moun
tain unit at the state convention in
Greensboro April 6-7 are Bill Bates,
Past President; William Hager, North;
Angela Lackey, Kings Mountain High; Suz
anne Wise, Kings Mountain High; Virginia
Raymer, Kings Mountain High; Mar
guerite Powell, Central; Bernice Brown,
Central; Kay Wilson, Bethware; Richard
Hamrick, North; and Carol Hendrick,
North.
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Is This Any Way To Treat A Puppy!
Chances are this little one wouldn’t argue with all the pampering he's getting from Cin
dy Robinson, daughter of Dr, and Mrs. Sam Robinson of Sherwood Lane. The pup is just
one of a litter of 14 delivered a couple of weeks ago by the Robinson’s mama dog, with
the appropriate medical name of '^Fracture". All this individual attention is not re-
cpilred, but It’s hard to resist. See a picture of ttie mother and other siblings inside.
Mirror Photo by Rodney Dodson
March 16-17
Plant Tree For Tomorrow
Free From First Union
If you happen to be in a First Union Nat
ional bank office in the next few days,
you’re likely to see some posters and
badges that indicate the employees have
"green thumbs’’ from things other than
dealing with greenbacks! The posters
read: "Plant a Tree for Tomorrow’’,
and L.E. (Josh) Hinnant, City Executive
in charge of the Kings Mountain office of
First Union National, says the hank, the
Weyerhaeuser Company and the Boy
W'
Scouts are givingaway 150-thousand pines
seedlings in a couple of weeks. The pro
gram, developed by First Union with the
help of Weyerhaeuser and the scouts, is
aimed at emphasizing the importance of
trees to our environment.
"We sincerely hope that the people of
the state will join us in this program’’
said Mr. Hinnant. "North Carolina is
observing the 100th Anniversary of Arbor
Day this year and we feel this program
will help emphasize the role trees play
in our everyday lives.’’
The trees will be given away, one to a
customer, at First Union offices across
the state on March 16 and 17.
Student
Force Needs
Members
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Political Talk
Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Pat Taylor was in Kings Mountain Wednesday dur
ing a tour of the county. At city hall the Lieutenant Governor chats with Major Hugh Lo
gan, Bev. Paul K. Ausley, and State Sen. Ollle Harris. (Photo by Jim Belt)
The Task Force on Student Involvement
is looking for 16 new members for the
1972-73 school year. The Task Force,
sponsored by theState Department of Pub
lic Instruction, is an organization through
which students work with state and local
officials to promote constructive change
and improvement in the educational pro
cess. The policies and priorities of the
Task F orce are determined by the students
themselves, according to Sarah Swearing
en, Adult Director of the Task Force.
Any rising sophomore, junior, or senior
in Kings Mountain is eligible to apply.
Genuine concern about the educational
process and a desire to work for con
structive changes and development are the
primary criteria for membership.
Sixteen students from across the state
will be chosen for membership on the ba
sis of written applications and personal
interviews. They meet regularly in Ral
eigh to work with state education officials
in planning projects and activities in which
student input and participation will be val
uable. Mrs. Swearingen adds that school
districts across the state often invite
Task Force representatives to visit them
to discuss student Involvement with teach
ers, students, and administrators and to
exchange information and ideas.
Students interested in working with the
Task Force on Student Involvement should
contact their guidance counselor for fur
ther information and application forms,
or they maywritetheTaskForceat; Task
Force on Student Involvement, State De
partment of Public Instruction, Raleigh,
North Carolina 27602.
Wilma Bunkowski Keeps
House Amid Cartons
By SYLVIA HOLMES
Mirror Staff Writer
This week the Mirror is happy to be at
home with Mrs. Kenneth Bunkowski. For
merly from Minnesota, the Bunkowskl’s
have now lived in Kings Mountain for
twelve years. Kenneth Bunkowski is a
field engineer with American Cyanamld
and before that he was with Lithium Cor
poration of America.
Home is on Meadowbrook in Kings Mount
ain and during the next three weeks a bright
red sign will hang at the end of the drive
way proclaiming that this house is the Girl
Scout Cookie Station. Countless carsand
station wagons will cautiously back up the
narrow sloping driveway between low
brick walls in order to pick up a load of
brown cartons. Each carton contains
twelve boxes of Girl Scout Cookies and
leaders (or motherswhoactascookiesale
chairman for a troop) make frequent trips
to replenish the stocks of their youngand
enthusiastic salesgirls.
The bigdaywasFrlday,MarchSrd, when
1,115 cartons were delivered to the Bun
kowski carport. It was "wall-to-wall”
cookies as those cartons contained 13,380
boxes of cookies in five different flavors.
However, by nightfall most of those car
tons had already been picked up by troops
from Kings Mountain, Grover and Besse
mer City. Remaining cartons were then
carried into the Bunkowski den by Senior
Girl Scouts and the family manages to
live around a fluctuating wall of cartons
for twenty-one days.
Experience helps and Wilma certainly
has that because she has been the local
cookie sale chairman every year since
she started in 1963. She is an expert with
the paperwork and has now developed the
fine art of cookie carton stacking so that
the T.V, screen remains visible from the
dining table!
Two-years ago, the local GirlScoutlead-
ers presented Wilma with a handsome en
graved plaque in appreciation of her hard
work. The plaque slates that Wilma has
been "cookie chairman from 1963 to ?”
This is the tenth consecutive year and
every year has seen a steady growth in
sales volume meaning more cookies and
less living room in the den. ltdoes make
things a little easier now that just Wilma
and her husband are the only ones at home.
Son Kenneth, Jr., graduated from N. C.
State with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering
and is now working in the Research and De
velopment department of Formica in Cin
cinnati. Daughter, Dianna, spent two years
at State and business college and is em
ployed as a secretary at Train Air Condi
tioning in Charlotte.
So while most of us are comtemplatlng
the spring cleaning jobs to be done and yard
work awaiting, Wilma Is busy counting
cartons, checking her arithmetic and
opening the door countless times with a
never-failing smile and cheery word.
Four Arrested For
Cutting Teacher’s Tires
Four teen-age youths were arrested F ri-
day and charged with malicious damage to
personal property in connection with the
cutting of a teacher’s tires on the Kings
Mountain High School parking lot.
Charged were Barry Jackson, 16; Phil
lip Brown, 18; Fredrick Wilson, 17; and
Leon Norris, 18, all colored male students
from Kings Mountain.
The cutting of teacher Hugh Putnam’s
tires occurred on Thursday and arrests
were made on Friday,
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Complications are caused by an escaped patient from the Peaceful Hollow Rest Home
pUyed by Mike Muscat in the Little Theatre production "SURPRISE’’ to be presented
Friday and Saturday night.
Spring Revival At Oak Grove
Oak Grove Baptist Church is having a
Spring Awakening Revival March 12-19th,
with guest evengelist. Max T. Furr, South
ern Baptist Missionary.
Sunday, the 12th is Missionary Day, and
the 13-19th is revival emphasis week.
Max and Joan Furr are missionaries to
Peru, South America. They were appoint
ed by the foreign Missions Board in 1967.
Services will be at 7 p.m. each evening
at the Oak Grove Baptist Church, Russell
Hinton, pastor.
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Cookie Station
Mrs. Wilma Bunkowski attempts to keep track of hundreds of
boxes of girl scout cookie^ for which her home becomes a store
house each year. 1,115 cartons were delivered to her home last
Friday. (Mirror Photo)