Tuesday
VOLUME 94, NUMBER 21
TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1981
KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA
State’s Firemen
Praying For Rain
Dry weather and March winds
have spelled bad news for
fireFighters in North Carolina
during recent weeks, but Kings
Mountaii}.has been lucky, accor
ding to Fire Chief Gene Tignor.
Over 150 grass and woods
fires were reported across the
state over the weekend, resulting
Area News
Bulletins
REVIVAL
Eastside Baptist Church of
Kings Mountain will hold
revival servics the week of
March 23 at 7 p.m. each night.
Rev. Leon Michaels of Elkin,
N.C., will be the visiting
evangelist. Rev. James Williams,
pastor, invites everyone to at
tend.
REVIVAL
Antioch Baptist Church has
slated revival services for March
22-27 at 7 p.m. nightly. Rev.
Raymond E. Crow, pastor, will
deliver the messages. The public
is invited.
CX>NCERT
The Kings Mountain Senior
High Blazer Band and the Kings
Mountain Junior ninth grade
band will present a concert at
Barnes Auditorium on March 19
at 8 p.m. The program will con
sist of State Contest Festival
music. The Senior High Festival
will be held at Garinger High in
Charlotte on March 21. The
public is invited to attend the
concert.
SHELBY THEATRE
Shelby Community Theatre
I will present “Lion In Winter,”
March 19th, 20th and 21st at 8
p.m. and March 22 at 2:30 p.m.
in the Intimate Theatre at the
Malcolm Brown Audiditorium
on Highway 74. Tickets are $2
and will be available at the door.
For advance reservations, call
434-9766.
EMPLOYMENT SURVEY
Mrs. Doris S. Brooks and Mrs.
Vera Morrison will conduct a
regular survey on employment
and unemployment in this area
for the U.S. Bureau of the Cen
sus the week of March 16-20.
GOSPEL SINGING
There will be a gospel singing
at Eastside Baptist Church,
Highway 29, Blacksburg, Satur-
I day at 7 p.m. Featured groups
include “The Goodnewsmen,”
“Hinkle Little and Sons and
Daughters of Faith,” “The
Keenan Family,” and “The
Hampton Quartet.” Rev. M.P.
Hampton, pastor, invites
everyone to attend. A nursery
will be provided.
in huge losses of propterty and
the death of one fireman in the
eastern ptart of the state.
Kings Mountain city firemen
have been idle since last Tues
day, and Tignor has his fingers
crossed that the good fortunes
will continue.
“We were hopping last week,”
he said. “We had five grass fires
in all and three in two days near
Pine Manor Aptartments. But
this has been a good week.”
Those fires are under in
vestigation by Cleveland County
Fire Marshal Delane Davis.
“Somebody had to do something
to have three in a row in the
same area,” Tignor said.
Bethlehem and Oak Grove
volunteer firemen battled a
woods fire for several hours
Sunday night off Highway 74
near Claude Harmon’s Store.
The fire began when a tree fell
on ptower lines and a live wire ig
nited the fire.
Heavy winds made the
fighting difficult. Duke Power
Company worked during the
wee hours of Sunday morning
replacing power ptoles and restor
ing ptower to nearby residences.
Bethlehem also battled a
chimney fire Sunday morning at
the home of William Bess near
Grover. No damage was
reptorted.
Meanwhile, the county has
banned burning ptermits at least
until the area receives a good
rain. The weatherman was call
ing for a slim chance on Mon
day, but at the Herald’s
presstim^. Kings Mountain had
received only a few scattered
dropts.
Burning ptermits, when the
ban is lifted, can be obtained by
residents of the Kings Mountain
city limits at the Kings Moun
tain Fire Department. Residents
living outside the city limits may
obtain ptermits from Bridges
Hardware.
Prayer Urged
The Kings Mountain Baptist
Association is urging all Chris
tians to make a sptecial effort
during the week to pray for an
end to the crisis in Atlanta.
Christians are asked to pray
for protection to the children of
Atlanta, their families and other
families of Atlanta, and the pter-
son or ptersons who are respxtnsi-
ble for the death of Atlanta
children.
The recommended time for
prayer each day is 12 noon.
The Baptists also urge all chur
ches to plan a spjecial time of
prayer from 12 noon until I p.m.
Friday. A devotional pieriod or
time of silent prayer is recom
mended.
Memorial Services Held
For Paul Hambright, 60
Memorial services for Paul
Roberts Hambright, 60, of
Grover, agriculture teacher at
Grover High and Kings Moun
tain Senior High School for a
number of years, were con
ducted Friday afternoon at 4
p.m. from Shiloh Presbyterian
Church of which he was an
Elder.
Rev. Harold Hutchinson of
ficiated at the rites, and inter
ment was in Grover Cemetery.
Mr. Hambright was a native
of Cherokee County, S.C., son of
the late Jacob F. and Ida Ware
Hambright. He was a veteran of
' service with the Marines during
World War 11.
He had been a teacher for
many years and retired recently
due tb a heart ailment. He died
Wednesday after declining
health.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Mildred Bonebrake Hambright;
two sons, Robert Hambright of
^ Syracuse, New York and Alan
^ Hambright of Statesboro, Ga.,
three daughters. Miss Ann Ham-
PAUL R. HAMBRIGHT
bright of Cowptens, S.C. and
Leslie and Jane Hambright of
the home; three brothers, Jakie
Hambright of Grover, Fred
Hambright of Chester, S.C. and
Myers Hambright of Kings
Mountain; a sister, Mrs. J.M.
(Sarah) West of Irvington, Va.
and three grandchildren.
The family has requested
memorials to Shiloh
Presbyterian Church.
Harris Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
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SKIPPING ROPE — These Central School students skip rope in
a special demonstration project before elementary students at
Photos by Lib Stewart
Grover School. March is Skip for Heart Month
youngsters ore skipping rope in PE classes.
Students Skip F or Heart
March has been designated
North Carolina Jump Rope for
Heart Month in a proclamation
issued by Governor James B.
Hunt Jr. and Central School
Physical Education student^s are
doing just that.
Jump Rope demonstrations
were given by the over 300 PE
students in Sara Whetstine’s 6th
and 7th grade classes at all
elementary schools in the city
system last week and team
techniques were demonstrated to
PE teachers throughout the
county to show how the activity
is a means of promoting body
building and beneficial exercise
through voluntary action among
our young people in their daily
lives.
The physical education pro
gram also demonstrates to fifth
graders in the system what they
can expect when they enroll at
the Central Middle School next
year. Ms. Whetstine said that
young people have been excited
about the program.
Central School students in PE
completed a unit in “Skip It” and
jump rope routines this week
and several of the students, Jen
nifer Hamrick and Tina Lawson,
will show off their techniques in
the Central School Talent Show.
Twenty-five more jump rope ar
tists will perform for a special
P-TO program.
Although the students have
not been jumping rope for
benefit of the Kings Mountain
Heart Fund, they encourage the
activity as good lung and heart
exercise as well as aerobics,
disco, and clogging, one of the
oldest forms of American folk
dances which is coming back to
life and is popular with the up
surge in country music and
cowboy westerns.
Popular exercise in the Cen
tral PE Classes, six classes of
seventh graders, and six classes
of sixth graders, or a total of 335
girls and about the same number
of boys, are clogging. Ms.
Whetstine’s girls gave clogging
demonstrations recently in the
elementary schools and Steve
Moffitt’s PE class of young men
demonstrated the art of wres\l-
ing. Mr. Moffett said that the
Wrestling Club is open to third
graders and up but he instructs a
seventh grade group of wrestlers
at Central and they
demonstrated their skills at the
elementary schools during the
past week.
“By going to the various
schools and letting fifth graders
know what to expect in the PE
Programs at Central we feel that
we are offering a valuable ser
vice to these young people,” said
both Ms. Whetstine and Mr.
Moffitt. Ms. Whetstine said that
prospective sixth graders are
often afraid of the Phy.sical
Education Classes but that the
demonstrations have been
received favorably by the
students.
The North Carolina Alliance
for Health, Physical Education
and Recreation is sponsoring
Jump Rope events throughout
the state for the benefit of the
North Carolina Heart Associa
tion and the Governor’s Council
on Fitness and Health has en
dorsed such programs. In some
areas of the state students solicit
donations for each minute their
teams jump, and the team w hich
raises the most money wins
prizes for each team member.
This program staned in 1978 in
Milwaukee, and the next year in
volved 2,900 schools and
300,000 students in 39 states.
This is the first year the program
has been implemented in North
Carolina, where over 300
schools and 25,000 students
were piarticiptating as of March 6.
DEMONSTRATION TEAM - These seven Cen
tral School Physical Education students have
been demonstrating rope jumping before all
elementary students in the system. Front row.
from left, Poris Floyd. Jennifer Hamrick,
Michelle Stewart. Back row. Tina Lawson,
Susie Moore, Sonya Leach and Lavonda
Grier.
KM’s Tripp McGill On Tour
With Erskine Choraleers
Tripp McGill, son of Mr. and
Mrs. N.F. McGill, 606 W.
Mountain St. in Kings Moun
tain, will tour with The
Choraleers, mixed chorus of Er
skine College, as they sing in
churches and schools of Florida
March 18-25 during their
twenty-ninth annual spring tour.
Highlighting the tour will be a
concert March 19 at Disney
World. The Choraleers will also
sing in Palm Bay, Melbourne
Beach, Lake Wales, Lake Placid,
and Bartow, Fla.
McGill is a tenor with the
group, a sectional accomptanist,
and a flute accomptanist. A
junior music education major at
Erskine, he is a 1978 graduate of
Kings Mountain High School.
The Choraleers are a
30-member chorus directed by
Erskine Music Professor Don L.
Lester. Over the past 29 years
the group has sung in virtually
every eastern seaboard state
from New York to Florida, as
far west as Tennessee, Louisiana,
and Alabama, and in Mexico.
Highlights of earlier tours have
included pterformances before
members of the U.S. Senate in
Washington, D.C., at the New
York World’s Fair, at Disney
World, at the Southeastern
Choral Conductors Convention
in Baton Rouge, La., and in A.R.
Presbyterian churches of Mex-
TRIPP McGILL