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Big July 4th
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The Parks and Recreation
Department invites everyone to
come spend July 4th enjoying an
action-packed enjoyable “In
dependence Day” Celebration.
A schedule of events for the
Day is in today’s Herald. (Char
coaled hamburgers and boiled
com win be on hand for those
who want to leave the kitchen
alone on July 4th). “Come have
lunch with us,” said a
spokesman.
To be eligible for the Special
Drawings, special tickets will be
given with any single purchase
of $1.00 or more at the conces
sion stands.
“Come join the fun, who
knows you may win a ride in the
7 stories high, 60 feet wide,
WLOS Thirteen BaUoon with
Bill Norwood,” said Parks &
Recreation Director Mike Nap-
pi.
MORNING FESTIVITIES
DEAL POOL
9:30 - 11:30 a.m. - Channel 13
Balloon Rides with Mr. Bill Nor
wood (rides by special drawing
only)
lOOO a.m. - Diving Contest.
•Circus World Ticket Drawing.
•Drawing for Balloon Rides.
10:30 a.m. • Watermelon
Carry. •Carowinds ticket draw
ing. •Drawing for Balloon Rides.
1100 a.m. - Cannonball - “Big
Splash.” •Circus World Ticket
Drawing.
12.00 Noon - Special “Inner
Tube Race”. •Biltmore House
Ticket Drawing.
100 p.m. - Penny Drive.
1:1S p.m. - Hobo Water Race.
1:30 p.m. - Message From
Commissioners/Atlanta Braves.
Ticket Drawing.
200-300 p.m. - Crowning of
Miss Dbtie Youth 1980.
200-500 p.m. - Public Swim
ming.
2:30 p.m. - Water Slide - Front
Lawn - Community Center.
FIELD EVENTS
LOCATION: DEAL ST.
ISLAND AREA
200 p.m. - Pie Eating Contest.
•Circus World Ticket Drawing.
2:30 pjn. - Hole in the Barrell
- Old Little Field. •Biltmore
House & Garden Ticket Draw
ing.
300 p.m. - Watermelon
Eating Contest.
3d0 p.m. - Greased Pig Chase.
400 p.m. - Horseshoe Pit
ching Contest.
4:30 p.m. - Dixie Youth
Games.
500 p.m. - The Fantastic
“Chicken Chase.”
5:15 p.m. - The “Bunny Am
bush” Rabbit Chase - Girls Only.
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. - North
Carolina Free Style Qoggers
-Old Tennis Courts. •Biltmore
House & Garden Ticket Draw
ing.
6:30 p.m. - NRPA Ken-L-
Ration Kids Dog Show - Rib
bons.
RELAY RACES
700 - 800 pjn. - 3-legged
races and sack races. (1) Mom &
Child (Age 5-8, 9-12). C) Dad &
Child (Age 5-8,9-12). (3) Mon &
Dad.
8:30 p.m. - Water Balloon
Toss - Any couple, any age.
900 p.m. - Egg toss. •Biltmore
House & Garden Ticket Draw
ing.
1000 p.m. - Fire Works Ex
travaganza!!!
SPECIAL EVENTS
300 - 600 p.m. - Champion
ship Putt Golf Tournaments.
1000 a.m. - 900 p.m. - Open
Air Flea Market. Kiddie Rides
all day. Parking lot - next to Lit
tle League Field.
•Spiecial drawing tickets are
available at concession stands,
with purchases of S1.00 or more
at a single purchase.
Auxiliary Opens
Billy Putnam Fund
The American Legion Aux
iliary opened a Billy Putnam
Fund account this week at First
Union National Bank and
citizens wishing to donate to the
special veteran’s fund may for
ward contributions to Mrs.
Arlene Barrett, treasurer, 202
Park Drive.
Members of the Auxiliary
voted at a recent meeting to give
assistance to the family of Billy
and Marcia Putnam who have
experienced financial problems
since Mr. Putnam bKame ill
with leukemia and has been
unable to return to his construc
tion job. Medical bills for their
young sons, both of whom are
afflicted with cerebal palsy, have
also drained the family budget.
Several fund-raising events are
planned by the Auxiliary during
the next several months to aid
the project.
Revitilization Committee Named
Improving The Town
W.S. (Corky) Fulton, III,
manager of Fulton’s Department
Store in downtown Kings Moun
tain, will co-chair with Mayor
John Henry Moss the newly-
formed Business Revitalization
Committee.
Fulton sees the co
chairmanship as a challenge and
says he is excited about working
with other young and energetic
men of the business community
in gearing up a promotion to, not
only encourage Kings Mountain
area citizens to spend their shop
ping dollars at home, but to im-
July 4
Celebration
Scheduled
The clock will be turned back
to the turn of the century during
the Second Annual Old Fashion
ed Fourth of July celebration
held in the Courthouse Square in
downtown Shelby on July 4
from 10 a.m. to 3'30 pjn.
The event sponson^l by the
Cleveland County Historical
Museum, area individuals, mer
chants and organizations, will
feature some of the “Good Old
Summertime” entertainment
such as square dancing, clogging,
magic shows, “pickin’ and grin-
nin’” and new this year a Barber- .
shop (^artet Contest.^
According to MuseuJn Direc
tor, Jim Marler, “everybody has
an old-time “fiddKn” contest,
which is fine, but we wanted
something different, something
that is fun - and what’s more fun
than a Barbershop Quartet.”
Also included will be a best-
dressed Old Fashioned Girl and
Boy Contest, a Girl and Boy
with the Most Freckles Contest
and, of course, the popular Pie
Eating and Watermelon Eating
Contests. Last year, these last
two were a sight to behold.
Homemade ice cream and
cake will be provided by the
Shelby Jaycees and hot dogs by
Jocko’s with many of the
downtown stores being open to
help make it a safe “Old Fashion
ed 4th” for the whole family in
downtown Shelby on the Court-
square. This event is not in com
petition with other area com
munity Independence Day
celebrations, but is for the entire
county area, just like the “gold
old days.” For advance entries,
contact the Museum, 482-8186.
Pageant
Is Slated
The curtain will go up July
18-19 in B.N. Barnes
Auditorium on the city’s first an
nual Afro-American Dream
Epiphany Pageant.
At least two dozen contestants
are rehearsing each Thursday
evening at KM Community
Center for the competition
which will feature talented
young men and women perform
ing a variety of skills. Prizes and
scholarships will go to the win
ners.
Mrs. Emma Blalock, general
chairman, said that considerable
interest in the pageant is
evidenced by the response of
contestants and she invites local
businessmen and industry to
sponsor a pageant entry. Call
739-2459 or 739-3698 to sponsor
a contestant.
The show will be presented at
8 p.m. on July 18 and 19, said
Mrs. Blalock.
KIWANIS PICNIC
In lieu of a program and
regular meeting Thursday night,
members of the KM Kiwanis
Club will gather at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Ledford on
Scotland Drive for a family pic
nic.
prove existing businesses and to
help build new ones.
“Merchants need to be aware
of what each firm has to offer
the public and I hope this com
mittee will provide the necessary
citizen input to organize and
recruit new businesses,” said
Fulton. One aim of the commit
tee will be to find the means to
help small merchants finance im
provements and build new
buildings, said Fulton.
Mayor Moss says he envisions
what he terms “total develop
ment of the business
community” to reach out and br
ing into the community those
things which may not be readily
attainable now. Fulton says he
will be pointing out to his com
mittee that he had already deter
mined via a survey of his own
that 75 different services are
available in the immediate
downtown area to the communi
ty-
After organizational plans are
complete, Fulton said a survey
will be made of the business
needs of Kings Mountain area
merchants and one of the ques
tions asked on the survey will be,
“what do you want to see in the
way of improvements in the
Kings Mountain business com
munity?” “If we get some
criticism from this survey that
will be one helpful tool in mak
ing our plans,” said Fulton.
‘There are a lot of negative al
titudes now,” Fulton continued,
“and fact is that our industry is
growing at a faster rate than
other cities around us but retail
sales are moving at a much
slower rale. There’s a real need
for improving the image of the
retail shopping district,” he con
tinued.
Mayor Moss concurred with
Fulton and pledged his 1(X) per
cent support in “seeing this pro
ject to completion.”
“Kings Mountain is in a quite
enviable position to attract in
dustry,” said the Mayor, and the
next 50 years in this area will see
some of the results of your plan
ning today.”
“We aren’t going to see a
change overnight,” said Fulton,
but he said that a working com
mittee of citizens who want to
become involved can reap
results.
Fulton said he will suggest
that renovations and new
buildings follow a uniformity of
theme and structure and that he
will work toward assisting mer
chants to afford the cost of
remodeling and building new
structures.
Twenty-five Kings Mountain
business citizens will serve on
the committee and include in ad
dition to the co<hairmen Jim
Porter, Gary Stewart, Pat
Cheshire, Sr., Grady Howard,
Steve Crosby, Larry Beasley,
James Adams, Wilson Griffin,
James W'are, Lynn Grayson,
Sondra Perdue, Mike Brown,
Doyle Campbell, Jack Crawford,
Allen Propst, Ronald Franks,
David Faunce, Dr. Terry Sellers,
Mack Lefevers, Mickey Corry,
Rev. J.C. Goare, and Commis
sioners Humes Houston and Bill
Grissom.
Said the Mayor in announcing
the appointments, ‘This is a
large committee which will be
broken down into sub
committees charged with the
responsibility of encouraging the
building, renovation and the pro
motion of the general business
community in a long-range
dedicated effort. This committee
will use various methods and ef
forts to encourage citizens to
work together to enhance the
community shopping area for all
our citizens best interest for an
inviting place to live and shop. I
am highly excited about working
with this dedicated group of
young men and women.”
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MOTHER AND SON GRADUATE - Francos
and Dais Covsny, obovs. look ovsr their
school records following graduotion from
Qeeelond Technical College. Mrs. Cayeny,
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Photo By Lib Stewart
who returned to school at age 36. received the
outstanding student award in education and
Dale won honors in the automotive program.
Big Day For Cavenys
it was a proud day on June
13ih when Frances Ruppe
Caveny, 39, and her 19-year-old
son, Floyd Jr., graduated from
Cleveland Technical College,
and with honors.
Mrs. Caveny, who quit school
at age 13 to go to work as a
waitress, has never regretted the
hard work of the past two years.
She received her Associate in
General Education degree and
her son was graduated from the
special program in auto body
repair.
Sam Caveny, who is general
superintendent at Kings Moun
tain Mica Co. and their younger
son, Dennis, 17, rising KMSHS
senior, were the proudest
families in the audience on Com
mencement Night.
Frances Caveny admitted to
being afraid that the course load
would be too much but after two
years and three months of
classes, she is ready to enter the
business world and will join
Masters Funeral Home as a
trainee for a funeral director
position.
Floyd, who is affectionately
called “Dale” by his friends, is
also excited about job prospects
and both are eager to put their
knowledge to work for them.
Mrs. Caveny dropped out of
school in the eighth grade to take
on a tull-time job as a babysitter
and then subsequently became a
waitress. She met her husband at
a square dance and they were
married 21 years ago on May
30th when Frances was age 16
and Sam Caveny was 21.
Mrs. Caveny enrolled at Tech
in the High &hool program in
1977, studied for two quarters
and then completed successfully
the GED testing and enrolled in
January 1978 in the general
education program. Dale
graduated from KMSHS in 1978
and began his course in auto
body repair in the fall of 1978.
At times both Mother and Son
were studying day and night.
For her first English composi
tion, Frances Caveny brought
home an “A” for a story on her
hobby, designing 18 inch Holly
Hobbie dolls. She also used the
dolls in a visual aids project and
brought home another “A." Mrs.
Caveny and Dale said English
was their best subjects.
Dennis Caveny shares his
family’s love for gardening and
travel. He recently returend
from a fabulous trip to France
with members of his French
class. Mrs. Caveny says Dennis
may have been bit by the travel
bug and may decide to go to
work for an airlines company
after high school graduation.
The Cavenys, who live in the
Bethlehem Community, enjoy
doing things as a family. Accor
ding to proud Mama, she was en
couraged to return to school by
her husband and sons. It’s hard
for a woman of 36 to return to
books, high school and college.
F ranees Caveny encourages
older adults to “never stop learn
ing. It’s the best years of your
life."
The Cavenys are active in
Bethany Baptist Church at
Grover where Mrs. Caveny
teaches a Junior High Sunday
School class and Dale is a Junior
Usher and is active in the Y oung
People’s Class.