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VOLUME 94, NUMBER 17
TUESDA Y, MARCH 3, 1981
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
American Concept
Being Challenged
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Photo by Lib Stewart
ROTARY SPEAKER — Dr. Charles Blair, left. Bobby R. Porter, who was guest speaker at
program chairman, greets Brigadier General Thursday's Rotary Club meeting.
Calling lor a national commit
ment the like of which hasn’t
been seen since World War II,
Brigadier General Bobby R.
Porter Thursday told KM
Kotarians that the American
Eagle’s concept has been
challenged in every corner of the
world.
He said the continued build up
of Soviet forces in South Africa
and Latin American countries is
frightening and declared that the
Soviet Union wants to dominate
the world and overthrow
capitalism. However, he said a
bright side to the picture is that
American voters called for a fun
damental change in U.S. defense
and foreign policy when they
went to the polls last November.
“Today’s focus by people like
you Rotarians is on defense,” he
said.
General Porter said that the
Communists have established a
Red Band across the northern
edge of South Africa and this
area is essential to the U.S. for
raw materials.
Over 200 Participate At Junior High
Moretz Wins Science Fair
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By GARY STEWART
Co-Editor
Jimmy'^Moretz, an eighth
grader, won first place honors in
the third annual Foote Mineral-
sponsored Science Fair last week
at Kings Mountain Junior High
School.
Moretz’s solar observation
project was judged the best of
over 200 entires by judges
Howard Bryant, assistant
superintendent of the Kings
Mountain District Schools; Sher
rill Toney, science teacher at
Central School; and Hilton Ford
and Greg Sharpe, engineers at
Foote Mineral.
Second place honors went to
Steve Plonk for his solar panel
used to heat a swimming pool.
Third place was a tie between.
Tracy Bess and Christy Justice,
who . invented a wtxxl stove
pedal-powered clothes dryer, and
Robert Appling and Jeff Whis-
nani, who .built a model of a
solar-heated house. Bess and
Justice won a coin flip for the
third place trophy.
All four winners will represent
the school in the annual Lenoir
Rhyne College Science Fair on
March 26. They will compete
with junior and senior high
students from five counties.
Two hundred and 13 eighth
graders and three ninth graders
participated in the project. They
brought their projects to school
during the past two weeks and
displayed them for the entire stu
dent body in the library.
In addition to winning
trophies and a trip to LR, the
four winners also receive c.xtra
points for the current nine-weeks
grading period.
Among the persons vifewi.ig
the displays were science
teachers and students from Crest
Junior High School.
Moretz used his solar project
to compare the temperatures of
solar and non-solar heating
units. He u.sed tin cans to collect
heat in two 12” by 18” units and
recorded temperatures during
the weekends of January 24-25,
February 14-15 and February
21-22.
Moretz’s heat-collecting
materials were water, sand and
gravel.
“1 found that gravel heated
the fastest, but also lost heat
fastest,” he said. “Weater heated
the slowest, but lasted longest.
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SCIENCE WINNERS — Th* Kings Mountain
Junior High sludonts picturod abovs finished
in the top four in the annual Foote Mineral
Science Fair held lost week at the school, and
will represent KMJH in the Lenoir Rhyne Col-
Little Miss KM
Photo by Gory Stewart
lege Science Fair March 26. Left to right are
limmy Morets, first place; Steve Plonk, second
place; Tracy Bess and Christa Justice, third
place; and Robert Appling and Jeff Whisnant,
fourth place.
Registration Saturday
Registration for the third an
nual Little Wee Miss and Little
Miss Kings Mountain beauty
^pageant will be held Saturday
|[from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. at B.N.
arnes Auditorium.
The pageant, sponsored by the
lings Mountain High Booster’s
Club, will be held on March 28
at 7 p.m. at Barnes Auditorium.
The pageant is under the direc
tion of Mrs. Tina Wright.
Registration fee is $5. In case
of bad weather, registration will
be held on Sat., March 14, from
10 a.m. until I p.m. No registra
tion will be taken after Sat., Mar.
7, or Sat., Mar. 14.
The Little Wee Miss pageant
will include girls ages three, four,
five and si.x. The Little Miss
Kings Mountain pageant will in
clude girls ages seven, eight, nine
and 10.
The sand stored the most energy,
therefore, it was the best."
Moretz kept temperature
charts, recording the
temperature in both the solar
and non-solar units. “The dif
ference in temperature will be
the stored energy,” he said.
He recorded the outside
temperature by keeping a cons
tant check with a time service in
Gastonia and learned that the
temperature inside his solar unit
was exactly double the outside
temperature.
Plonk built a four by eight feet
solar panel, using aluminum ab
sorbent plates, one-half inch in
sulation board and copper tubing
to heat the water.
The copper tubing, he explain
ed, picked up heat off the absor
bent plates, therefore, heating
the water inside the tubing.
The panel. Plonk said, is the
exact size needed to set by the
side of a pool and pump water
out of the pool to be heated.
“1 ran an experiment,” he said,
“and heated one gallon of w ater
up to 212 degrees in one hour.
You would have to have two or
three panels to keep a ptx)! warm
in the winter, but one would
help you get started .swimming
earlier in the spring.”
Bess and Justice ran vent
hoses into an old wood stove,
and used an old bicycle and
dryer drum to make their pedal-
powered clothes dryer.
The drum will hold about 10
pounds of clothes. Justice said,
and it would take about 80
minutes of pedalling to dry a pair
of pants and 50 minutes to dry a
load of towels.
Appling and Whisnant con
structed a one by two feet model
solar home and used a fish tank
pump and lamp to pump heat
through tubing along the top of
the house and the solar panel.
They did not record the
temperature, but plan to do so
before entering the Lenoir
Rhyne fair.
Other students finishing in the
top ten were Davie Lovelace,
Liza Blanton, Gary W'yte, Wen
dy Kuykendall, Rocky l.utz,
Tim Biddix and Joan Grant.
Students were judged on
creative ability and originality of
the projects, revelance of the
project to the students and socie
ty’s concern of today and future
problems or concepts, and scien
tific thought.
Greg Paysour and David Hef
fner, science instructors, express
ed appreciation to all students
who entered, and to Foote
Mineral Company for sponsor
ing the project for the third
straight year.
“The Army’s greatest strength
today is the national interest of
people like you ail over the coun
try who realize the need for a
strong defense,” he added.
General Porter said he “sees
no need” for a draft as long as
young people feel the Army is a
part of growing up and
volunteer. He said America can
be proud of its all-volunteer
force of one million soldiers but
said there is a serious shortage of
high school diploma graduates
and those entering the Reserves
and National Guard. Many op
portunities for advanced educa
tion exist in the armed forces, he
said, noting that the G.I. Bill was
replaced with Veterans Educa
tion Assistance Program w here a
young enlistee in this area can,
after two years of service, have
$9200 without contributing a
cent himself, to continue his
education. After four years, and
provided the soldier has invested
in savings, he can reach $19,100
for educational benefits and at
the young age of 22.
General Porter predicted that
the decade of the 80’s will see
challenge, change, crisis, con
frontation and confiict with the
scope directly affected by the
capabilities of the Armed Forces.
“Armies don’t fight wars, na
tions do,” said the General, who
said the Army must be fully
prepared to fight today and
tomorrow for the flag of our
country.” We need to attract
good men to the military where
all sorts of professions are
available, including doctors,
lawyers, mechanics, pilots,
aviators and adventurers. The
service provides good leadership
and training,” he added.
Present as special guests with
the General were Warrant Of
ficer Doug Aslett, piloting the
General’s UHIH helicopter, Lt.
Mark Crew, his aide. Bill Shultz,
public information officer and
Sgt. James Rowlett, the area’s
Army recruiter.
While the General addressed
Kings Mountain Rotarians at
KM Country Club, his pilot had
the aircraft on display for
students at K.MSHS and to
answer any questions concern
ing the aircraft.
General Porter is attached to
the 82nd Airborne Division,
Assistant Division Commander
Support, at Fort Bragg.
Woman In Good Condition
After Saturday Shooting
Frances Quinn, 62, of the
Compact Community, admitted
to Kings .Mountain Hospital
Saturday night with gunshot
wounds, was reported in “good
condition” Monday morning by
a hospital spokesman.
Mrs. Quinn was reportedly in
jured during an argument with
Mrs. Hattie Barber at the home
of Mason Castle at 9:20 p.m.
Saturday, according to the
Cleveland County Sheriff’s
Department, which investigated
the incident.;
Deputy W’oody Allen said he
responded to the call at the Cas
tle home where Ma.son Castle
and Harold Roberts reported
that Mrs. Quinn was shot with a
pistol in the back.
No charges have been prefer
red pending further investiga
tion.
Kings Mountain Firemen
Battle Five Weekend Fires
Kings Mountain Fire Depart
ment responded to five calls dur
ing the weekend.
Firemen were dispatched to
N.C. 161 Thursday at the gap of
the mountain to put out a woods
and grass fire. Also responding
to the alarm were Bethlehem
Fire Department and U.S.
Forestry Service. Local firemen
reported that a small bank of
grass burned.
Two grease fires occurred Fri
day at Pine Manor Apartments.
Firemen reported to Apartment
70 where damages were
estimated at $500 and to Apart
ment 4 where Brenda Collins
sustained burns and w as taken to
Kings Mountain Hospital by
KM Rescue Squad personnel.
Firemen also stood by at a
w reck scene on West King Street
and put out a grass fire on Falls
Street.
VIC A Club To Sponsor
Car Show On April 11
The Kings Mountain High
VICA Club will sponsor the an
nual Kings Mountain High car
show on April 11.
Registration will be held from
8 a.m. until 11 a.m. Entrv fee is
$10.
Judging will begin at 12 noon
in eight classes, including street
rides, vans, 4x4 land vehicles, 4
X 4 trucks, 1954-and below
stock, 1955-1974 stock,
1975-1981 stock and speed four
custom.
Three trophies will be award
ed in each classification and
trophies will also be given to the
most outstanding entry and to
the car which came the longest
distance.
■Admission is $1.50. A refresh
ment stand will be operated and
car prtxlucts will also be sold
there.
All proceeds go to VICA ac-
ti\ ities.
In case of rain, the show will
be held on April 12.
Shelby Man Is Charged
With Break-In At Clinic
Harold (Bubba) Darnell, 33, of
Shelby, has been charged with
breaking into the McGill Clinic
Friday night and is in the
Cleveland County Jail on
FIRE MEETING
A general meeting of the
Chestnut Ridge Volunteer Fire
Department will be held Thurs
day at 7:30 p.m. in the recreation
building at Chestnut Ridge Bap
tist Church. A board of directors
w ill be elected and other business
discussed. All interested persons
are urged to attend.
$100,000 bond.
According to Dr. F.J. Sincox
of the clinic, a value of possible
stolen goods had not been deter
mined but it appears to be
minimal. He said the amount of
damage done to the clinic is pro
bably higher than the amount of
goods stolen.
Sgt. Houston Corn and
Reserve Officer J.D. Barnett ap
prehended Darnell on the scene,
according to KMPD reports.
The incident occurred at
10:30 p.m.