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Vol. 1 No. 30
Kings Mountain, N.C, Wednesday, March 22, 1972
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It Takes Two Buttons...
It takes two campaign buttons to spell out the name GallHanakls,
and two pretty ladies to smile while they display the buttons for
DemocraUc candidate for the U. S. Senate from North Carolina.
Helping Hand Fund Seeks
Contributions For Needy
The Ministers Association of Kings
^Mountain has many aspects to its duties
Pand responsibilities. But one of the most
Important areas of service it to help the
sick and the poor who stand in real need of
this help.
In a meeting of our Ministers at the Cen
tral Methodist Church recently, questions
were asked and answered on how we could
best serve our community and their needs.
Mr. Frank Shirley who has been the cus
todian of our funds for this project has or
ganized a system whereby each minister
examines the genuine ne^ of any person
seeking help. This is to discourage those
who are "floaters” or drifters and who
have no desire to help themselves. But
a co-operative program of helping peo
ple in an emergency was Inaugurated many
years ago by the ministers, and they
receive some apportionment from the U-
nlted Fund for this very important service.
It becomes the duty of the ministers,
therefore, to examine the requests which
come into our hands that they may be pro
perly sifted and guided in meeting the
needs of the people of this community. All
of the churches participate in the City-
wUe program. Certain individuals give to
this cause. But this program of carefully
examining each applicant for his need
keeps us from having problems which often
arise when one man will ask for help and
then go down the street to another minister
and ask for further help. In this way we
have a clearing house and a record is being
kept of the help that is being given to any
► individual for any cause. This is a part of
the church’s work and we think it is one of
the best ways to carry on the Lord’s busi
ness in the matter which He spoke to His
Disciples when He said, "TbeLordye have
always with you.”
Anyone desiring to help in this worthy
work, please send contributions to Helpi^
Hand Fund in care of Rev. Frank Shirley,
611 Gantt St, Kings Mountain, N. C.
Inside
The Mirror!
MORE PHOTOS of Nick Gal-
ifianakis campaigning in KM
... See Page 2.
GROVER NEWS - A new Mir
ror Feature - on page 5.
MIRROR SPORTS focuses on
Baseball - See Sports Sec
tion.
Meetings Set For Philmont Trip
Parent and boy meetings will be held
for Boy Scouts and Explorers interested
in going to Philmont Scout Ranch in Cim
arron, New Mexico this summer, it was
announced today by Mr. Joe Hartsell,
Scoutmaster of the contingent
The first meeting will be held at the
Shelby Savings and Loan building, Monday,
March 27th at 7:30 p.m. and the second
meeting will be held at the Resurrection
Lutheran Church in Kings Mountain Tues
day, March 28th at 7:30 p.m.
The Philmont Expedition is an exper
ience of adventure in sky-high country of
the old west for Scouts and Explorers in
the Piedmont Council who will be at least
14 years old by September 1st. Phil
mont, near Cimarron, New Mexico, is
an outdoor camping empire covering over
138,000 acres of cold mountain streams,
evergreen forests, mountains that poke
holes 12,000 feet into the clouds, and
traditions of the pioneer explorers of the
old west.
The contingent will depart from Schiele
Scout Reservation on June 2Stband return
on July 15th. The tour will cover the
Redstone Arsenal in Alabama, New Or
leans, Houston, Texas, the Alamo, old
Mexico, Carlsbad caverns and 12 days
at Philmont, Along with Mr. Hartsell
will be Mr. Gene Tlgnor from Kings Moun
tain and Mr. S. P. Mauney from Cherry-
ville.
City Easter
Services Set
The Kings Mountain Easter Sunrise Ser
vice will be held in Mountain Rest Ceme
tery on April 2 at 6:00 A.M. The service
is sponsored by the Kings Mountain Mini
sterial Association. The public is Invited
to attend the service.
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These five boys were winners in the Optimist Club’s tnnunl or
atorical contest. Speeches were composed by the boys on the
subject "Our Challenge—Involvement.” They are left to right
Reggie Perkins, Ricky Morrison, Preston Short, Glen Roberts,
and Larry Ayers,
The competition was sponsored jointly by the Kings Mountain
and Grover Clubs. Glen Roberts, representing Kings Mountain,
and Preston Short representing the Grover Optimists were first
place winners, and represented the clubs in the district contest
in Llncolnton Sunday, photo by Jim Belt
School Board Gets Warning
Atkinson Supported
By Citizens Group
They are Evle Goudy (left) and Kay Tignor, employees in the
attorney offices of Davis and White. The candidate toured Kings
Mountain Friday afternoon, (Mirror Photo by Rodney Dodson)
By Rodney Dodson
Editor, The Mirror
The Kings Mountain school board, admin
istration, and the whole social and eco
nomic structure of the community came
under attack Monday night following a show
of support for High School principal Mr. J.
C, Atkinson at the board of education
meeting.
Jim Amos, spokesman for the Atkinson
supporters said, "1 think it’s a castrophy
that we in Kings Mountain had to have this
situation arise, but that’s the way of the
free. 1 and 635 citizens feel that Jake
Atkinson is the man to help us do the job.”
Amos said the petition carried the signa
ture of citizens of all races and creeds. He
told the board, "We all want what’s good
for all of us. I’m willing to work for it, and
I’m sure you are... .we pray that race will
not be an issue in Kings Mountain again.”
Amos pointed out that a large group of stu
dents also feel thatAtldnsonlsthemanfor
the job.
No delegation opposing Atkinson showed
up at the meeting.
Board Chairman George Mauney recog
nized William Orr, who is chairman of the
adult advisory committee.
“I’m not concerned about the principal of
, Kings Mountain High School—you could
bring any principal in here and he’d still
have the same problems and trouble as
now--lay the fault on the system—not the
administration--the system that requires
blacks to file a report to the Federal Gov
ernment to get a decent job. We had to
file a suit a tew years ago to get jobs
here.”
“White students are being taught that
they’re superior to the black man—told
you can get jobs where the black man can’t.
We have people here with Masters degrees
who can’t get jobs in the school system.
“You board members must wake up and
hire more blacks in the school system, we
have them here—1 say you need them out
there. The best kids in North Carolina go
to Kings Mountain High, we’re at fault, not
those kids.”
Orr continued, “People who have lived
here all their lives have denied blacks op
portunity, Look at downtown Kings Mount
ain—one of the most segregated cities is
downtown Kings Mountain. Go downtown
and see how many blacks are working! I
think the system in Kings Mountain needs
to wake up—City Hall in Kings Mountain is
a segregated institution.”
“ Until the system wakes up, ” Orr admon
ished, “we’re going to be in the same pre-
dicimate.”
“One more point I’m concerned with as
a parent,” Orr said. “A report came to
me within the last few days of a teacher
kicking kids—you don’t kick kids for pun
ishment. This is wrong and brings on our
trouble. Black kldsare pushed in a corner
now--all heU will break loose unless we do
something.”
Rev. William Scott of New Bynum Chapel
raised the question, “Do we have a pre
judiced, segregated administration?” He
asked the board to emphasize to the prin
cipal the necessity ofall students learning
and suggested that the board’s recent “get
tough” policy might not be the answer.
The board members suggested that “get
ting tough” was not the proper term, that
they were only enforcing the rules which
existed.
William Orr again addressed the board,
“Our biggest trouble here today is hat
red—not with the kids out there, but too
much hatred between white and black.”
Orr suggested that the answer is to all join
together “to wipe away this hate.” Orr
said, “I know each board member here, I
hope you’re in harmony with your brot
her.”
Board member Alex Owens suggested that
it all goes back to the home, and can’t all
be learned at Sunday School or school.
Luico Wilson made an appeal to the board.
“My boy has been dismissed from
school--cut completely off--just like a
school board member said, this boy was
caught on the short end of the stick. What’s
it going to do to these boys if they’re not
admitted back- -will that help the situation.
I think the action was taken too quickly at
a time when this thing wasn’t settled down.
We’ve got to give these things some
thought.”
Superintendent Donald Jones replied that
specifics were involved as far as Wilson’s
son was concerned, with personalities in
volved and should not be aired out in a pub
lic meeting without first going through
proper channels.
Chairman George Mauney read a resolu
tion from all Kings Mountain principals
stating that “J. C. Atkinson has our sup
port in his effort to promote peace, har
mony. .Mauney said the petition car
ried the signatures of all the principals,
as well as some supervisory personnel in
the school system. He added that he was
not asked to sign.
Police Seeking Witnesses
To TV Theft Saturday
Thieves stopped in front of Bridges Radio
and TV Company on N. Piedmont Avenue
Saturday night about 9 p.m., and according
to police picked up a large chunk of cement
block and threw it through the plate glass
window.
The thieves then proceeded to set two tel
evisions out on the sidewalk and loaded
them into the trunk of a car, and proceeded
north on Piedmont, with the trunk open, and
people following,and in front. One witness
has reportedly identified the car as yellow
with a black top.
Chief of Police Thomas McDevltt is con
ducting an exhaustive search for the car,
and issues a request for anyone who might
have been in the vicinity at that time Sat
urday night and seen the car to contact the
police department.
School Easter Schedule Revised
—Next Year’s Approved
The Board of Education has revised the
current school calendar to have school on
Good Friday, March 21st, dismissing at
11:30 without serving lunch, thus having 5
full days that week, and not having to come
back the Friday following Easter to make
up a day lost tor snow.
The board also approved the 1972-73
school calen^, ad^i^ two days as teach
er work days at the beginning of school,
August 21st, 22nd, 23rd. August 24th is
pupil orientation day, and August 25th is
the first full day for students.
There will be a Labor Day holiday, 2 days
for Thanksgiving, and dismissed Decem
ber 19tb thru January 2nd for Christmas
Holidays. Spring holidays are scheduled
2 days before Easter and 1 day after. Three
days are set aside for incllmate weather.
Macedonia
Revival Set
Macedonia Baptist Church, Kings Mount
ain, N. C, will hold revival services begin
ning Sunday, March 26 at the 11:00 a.m.
service. The Sunday evening service will
begin at 7:30 p.m. and continue through
Friday, March 31. Rev. Eugene Land will
be the evangelist.
The pastor. Rev. L. D. Scruggs, invites
the public to hear Rev. Land along with
gospel music, solos, duets, quartets, and
choir members In a special musical un
der the direction of Miss Pam McCall.
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June 1st is the last student day and June
4th the last day for teachers.
In other action Mr. Joe Hedden, Princi
pal at West School, has ask^ to be
relieved of bis bond duties, having been
working as part-time band director. His
request was accepted.
Pre-School
Registration
The Kings Mountain City Schools regis
tration and orientation program for pre
schoolers starting school in 1972-73 is as
follows:
On April llthatBethwareSchool, 1-2:30;
April 13th at North, 1-2:30; AprU 14th at
East School, 1-2:30; AprU 19thatGrover,
1-2:30; and at West on AprU 20th from 1-
2:30.
Registration forms are being distributed
through the above elementary schools and
the Kings Mountain City Schools office.
Parents are asked to complete these
forms before orientation and also present
the chUd’s complete shot record, birth
certificate, and physical exambythefiim-
ily doctor at the registration program.
For additional information please con
tact the principal of the school your cbUd
wUl attend.
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Kings Mountain firemen (above) answered a call to Craftspun Yam Co. Friday around
5 p.m. According to the Kings Mountain Fire Department approximately 350 500 lb.
bails of cotton were damaged in the blaze which was confined to a warehouse. The spri
nkler system had the fire under control but it took almost 5 brs. for firemen to put out
the small fires on each baU. No cause was determined.
Firemen answered another call Tuesday morning at Dixie TraUer Park around 1:05.
A traUer owned by Warren Reynolds and occupied by Danny Parton was completely de
stroyed by fire. (Mirror Photo by Lem Lynch)