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VOLUME 93, NUMBER 83
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1980
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At least six Kings Mountain
churches will hold Candlelight
services on Christinas Eve and
the congregation of Trinity
Episcopal Church will hold a 9
ajn. Worship Service Christmas
Day,
First Presbyterian Church, St.
Matthew’s Lutheran Church
and Resurrection Lutheran
Church will hold the traditional
11 pjn. service, First Wesleyan
Church has arranged a Watch
Night service from 11 until mid
night, and Dixon Presbyterian
Church and Boyce Memorial
ARP Church will hcdd 7 pjn.
services.
At First I
a Family Chrid
plaimed at 71
children of thei
enact The
under the dire
Cheshire, Mrs. I
and Mrs. Jerry |
pjn. the
Communion I
special music
under the (
rell Austin,
will include
ship Thee”
Bum”, featu
Good Sign: Kelli Hj
Squeezes Father’s
The condition of nine-year-old
Kelli Harry remained unhanged
Wednesday but her grand
mother. Mrs. BA. Harry, said
the youngster squeezed her
father’s hand but has not regain
ed consciousness in Charlotte
Memorial Hosintal.
Kelh, a fourth grader, was
critically injured Thursday when
. she waaatruck by a i^k up tmek
in front of Grover Schod. The
youngster reportedly ran bet
ween vehicles waiting to pick up
gjt children at the school and into
the path of a pickup truck
operated by Amos ^ear of
Grover. The incident took place
about 2:45 pjn. on Carolina
Avenue in front of the school.
There is no crossing guard at
the elementary school.
Kelli is daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Philip Harry of Grover.
John Cisseil,
National Milib
credited by schq
Scruggs with
girl’s life. CissellJ
school to pick
administer^
resuscitation
started breathin
Uic rcKUc squad’s arriva
Scruggs wrote Park Supt.
Michael Loveless praising the ef
forts of Cisseil, a licensed
medical technician who had
operated the ambulance service
for Mammoth Cave National
Park in Kentucky prior to com
ing to the military park.
"We iqipreciate the concern of
so many during this trying time
and know there are prayers be
ing. said for Kelli all over the
country,” said Mrs. Harry.
• Identification Process
Still Not Completed
A skeleton found last summer
in York County, S.C., may be
that of a Kings Mountain
woman who has been missing
for several years, but positive
A identification will not be known
~ until after a dentist has com
pleted his identification process,
a spokesman for the Y ork Coun
ty Sheriffs Department said to
day.
Medical experts at a Spartan
burg hospital have been working
for seve^ months on creating
sculptures of two faces of
o
skeletons found in that county
since July.
Kings Mountain police took
photographs of the first two
phases of one of the sculptures,
and both sculptures have been
shown on area television stations
as law enfcncement officials ask
ed for public assistance in the
identification process.
A Charlotte television station
repotted last Friday that the
identification of the first
sculpture will be announced
within a week, but York County
officials said the report was in
correct.
Hamrick Elected
C Of C President
O
Larry Hamrick, Jr., Kings'
Mountain businessman, has
0ibeen elected president of the
^Chamber of Commerce-
Merchants Association for the
coming year.
Mr. Hanukk will succeed .Km
Potter.
Other new officers are Burris
Ramey of Sadie Mills, first vice
president; W.S. Fulton, III of
Fulton’s, second vice-presidait;
and Dan Honeycutt of First
Union National Bank, treasurer.
New directors are Doyle
Campbell of McGinnis Depart
ment Store, Gary Whitaker of
First Federal Savings and Loan
Association, Larry Wood of
Foote Mineral Company, Andy
Neisler of Cloninger & Neisler
Attorneys, and BUI Grissom of
Ben T. Goforth Plumbing.
Holdover diiecton are outgoing
It Jim Potter, of Park
Yam MUls, John Major of
Eaton Corporation and Allen
Propst of CoroweU Drug Com
pany.
President-Elect Hamrick is a
1974 graduate of Kings Moun
tain High School and a 1978
graduate of Wake Forest
University where he was active
in Delta Kappa Epsilon fraterni
ty. He joined Warlick and
Hamrick Association in the in
surance and real estate business
in 1978 and is active as an agent
in both insurance and as a
realtor. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Larry Hamrick, Sr. of
Kings Mountain. Active in Cen
tral United Methodist Church,
he serves on the administrative
board. He is secretary of Kings
Mountain Jaycees. Hamrick is
married to the former Florrie
Pulley of Fayetteville and they
reside at 403 West Maountain
St.
Wesleyan ChurcR. ‘Vihelee
Phillips Missionary Society is
sponsoring the worship program
and service of carols.
Dixon Presbyterian Church
will hold a CandeUght Commu
nion service at 7 pjn. Christmas
Eve. Special music will be
present^ by the Choir. The ser
vice will follow the iM'esentation
of a live nativity scene on the
front lawn of the church which
has continued four evenings
under the direction of Mrs.
Graham Wood. The sanctuary
will be decorated with a
Chrismon tree, candles, and
poinsettias.
Boyce Memorial ARP Church
will hold a Candlelight service at
7 pjn. and special music by the
Choir will be featured. Mrs.
Lynn Echols will serve as
organist-director and will accom
pany Miss Frances McGill who
will sing the Christmas anthem,
*0 Holy Night”. Mrs. Charles
Blair will be at the piano.
A 11 pjn. Eucharist service
will be held by St. Andrew’s
Episcopal and Trinity Episcopal
Qiurches on Christinas Eve at
the Bessemer City church. The
Christinas Day 9 ajn. worship
service wiU be held at the Trinity
Emscopal Church in Kings
Mountain.
Mrs. Ruby M. Alexander,
Kings Mountain realtor, got an
early Christmas present from
Santa this week in the form of a
letter from the U.S. Department
of Agriculture, Farmers Home
Administration, advising her
that her loan request has been
approved and funds reserved for
a new housing complex for the
elderly in Kings Mountain
estimated to cost S300,000.
The Kings Mountain woman
probably holds the distinction of'
being the only North Carolina
female ever granted a loan for
construction through this agen
cy.
Mrs. Alexander said that she
had been pursuing federal finan
cial assistance for nearly three
yeas. The city board of commis
sioners in April 1977 authorized
construction of 12 single
bedroom apartments for the
elderly, giving approval to the
N.C. Housing Finance Agency
and Alexander Realty, Inc. of
Kings Mountain to build 12
single bedroom units for the
elderly at the northeast comer of
Gantt and Morris Streets. The
N.C. agency will be built by
|ison, gonerol
sper, discuss
[ Kings Moun-
Pboto by Lib Stowcut
iplex Okayed
Alexander Realty. The units will
be rent subsidized and the loca
tion of the proposed housing will
be convenient for senior citizens,
said Mrs. Alexander.
Groundbreaking is. expected
to be held at the one acre site on
Jan. 12th. Carl Morrison of
Shelby is general contractor £or
the new construction and Mur
phy Martin Associates of Shefcy
are architects.
Alexander Realty, a Kings
Mountain business citizen for
many years, has over the years
developed 13 acres of single
family dwellings in the Linwood
Area and in the area of KMSHS
and has constructed two apart
ment complexes on Mountain
and Junipter Streets in recent
months.
Morrison said the new hous
ing will be composed of four
brick veneer buildings with four
units to each building. The one
bedroom apartments will be
energy efficient.
The Morrison firm has con
structed numerous public
buildings in town, including
Western Auto Store, First
Federal Savings and Loan
Association, Indeptendence Na
tional Bank and the American
Legion.
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tho Klagu Mountain Qiombor oi Conunorco
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You’ll Get Your Herald
On Wednesday Next Week
The Herald will be on the streets and in the mail on Wednesday
again next week.
Because the New Year’s Holiday falls on one of our regular press
daysi the paper will publish only once.
Deadline for news and advertising for the paper will be 5 p.m. Mon
day.
The paper will carry a Tuesday dateline and be published late Tues
day afternoon.
Board Meets
Monday Night
A Special, Called Meeting of
the Board of Commissioners has
been called for Monday, Dec.
29, at 12 Noon for the purpose
of reviewing the Pre-Application
of the Small Cities Application
for Grant to be submitted to the
Department of Housing and Ur
ban Development, Greensboro
Area Office.
The Pre-Application is to be
submitted by Jan. 1.
Minor Damage
In House Fire
Kings Mountain Firemen
responded to two fire alarms dur
ing the weekend.
Depot Stop and Go reported
fuel spillage Sunday morning at
9:25 a.m. No damage was
BL u r' e reported.
Photo by Gary Stowort ^
on fire at a residence at 4 Ben-
Ramoy, Tico-prosidont. Lorry Hamrick. Ir.. nett Dr. Sunday afternoon at
proaidont. and W.S. Fulton IB. vie* proaidont. 2:15 p.m. Firemen reported
Not pteturod la Dcm Honoycutt, trooaurar. minor damage.