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BIKE-A-THON — Thirty-alx area youngsters trail closely behind
Clerelond County SberiU Dale Costner at the beginning of the
St. Jude's Wheels for Life bike-a-thon Saturday at Kings Moun
tain High School. Bikers rode a 20-mlle route through Kings
Photo by Gory Stewart
Mountain State and National pork property to benefit research
into cancer and other childhood diseases. A total figure on the
amount raised will be announced in about two weeks, as
riders now begin the task of collecting their pledges.
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Miss KM Winners Named
Jennifer Payseur, six,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Greg
Payseur, is Little Wee Miss
Kings Mountain, and Traci
Lynn Johnson, eight, daughter
of Ms. Judy Johnson, is Little
Miss Kings Mountain.
The two young beauties were
crowned during the third annual
beauty pageant sponsored by the
KM Booster Club Saturday
night in B.N. Barnes
Auditorium.
Runners-up were Erika
Hollifield, age five, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Stewart and
Skip Hollifield, and Candy
Taylor, 10, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Michael E. Taylor.
Twelve semi-finalists in the
Little Wee Miss Pageant, in
cluding young ladies ages 3,4, S
and 6, were Jada Brown, April
Putnam, Regina Ratley, Miran
da Smith, Chastity Moss, Jen
nifer Payseur, Kim Dellinger,
Erika Hollifield, Wendy Carroll,
Randi Carroll, Cynthia Taylor
and Paula Eckard.
Thirteen semi-finalists in the
Little Miss Pageant, which in
cluded young ladies 7, 8, 9 and
10, were Lee Ann Masters, Traci
Johnson, Candy Taylor, Misty
Whetstine, Tanya Willis, Tonya
Hawkins, Candida Black, Kerry
Rhyne, Amy Putnam, Dawn
Gainey, Michelle Hester, Tracy
Lemmons and Amy Carrigan.
Local talented young people
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presented entertainment during
the pageant in which the
youthful beauties paraded in
dress up costumes before the au
dience and judges.
All proceeds from the show
are earmarked for athletic equip
ment for the schools.
Traci Johnson is grand
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Garvis
Ross, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hardin,
and great-granddaughter of Mrs.
Lonnie Ross. Jennifer Payseur is
granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Bobby Bowen and Mr. and Mrs.
William B. Payseur. Candy
Taylor is granddaughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W.R. Taylor of Clover,
S.C. and Mrs. Virginia McCurry
of Bessemer City and great-
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BEAUTY WINNERS - Winnara of th* LittU
Wm Min and Littl* MIm King* Mountain
pag*onts or* pictured obov* oftor claiming
thoir titlM in compotition Soturdoy night at
Photo by LG. Aloxandor
B.N. Barn** Auditorium. Loft to right or# Erika
Hollifiold, Jotmifor Poytour. Tracy Johnson,
and Candy Taylor.
Symphony Chapter
Kicks Off Drive
The Kings Mountain Chapter
of the North Carolina Sym
phony kicked off its season
Thursday at a planning meeting
at KMSHS Home Economics
Department and announced that
ticket sales are now underway.
President Andy Neisler said
that tickets are $5.50 for adults,
$3.50 for senior citizens and
students 16 and older, and $2 for
students 15 and under for the
May 12th 8 p.m. performance to
be held at B.N. Barnes
Auditorium.
Tickets are on sale in the of
fices of Supt. William Davis on
Parker Street, at the high school
from Band Director Donald
Deal, and from all committee
members. Ticket orders can also
be obtained by mail from PO
Box 192, Kings Mountain, N.C.
28086, the address of KM
District Schools Administrative
Office.
It is the second season for the
N.C. Symphony in Kings Moun
tain which will feature great
repertorie, fine artistic direction,
and highly trained and fully pro
fessional musicians. The N.C.
granddaughter of Mrs. Lizzie
Talbert, Mrs. Maudie Roberts
and Mrs. Lela Owensby. Erika
Hollifield is granddaughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hollifield of
Kings Mountain and Mr. and
Mrs. Jimmy Sharks of
Smithsville, Va.
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Symphony will also perform for
third, fourth and fifth graders in
the school system on the same
day and Mrs. Darrell Austin is
chairman of this phase of the
program.
Artistic Advisor and principal
guest conductor for the KM con
cert will be Lawrence Leighton
Smith and associate conductor
will be James Ogle.
Civic groups are being con
tacted for sponsorship of blocks
of seats for the May concert.
KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C.
Teachers Vote
On Bargaining
Are Reported
City firemen were called to
the scene of five grass fires dur
ing the weekend which resulted
from trash burning and dropped
matches.
A grass-woods fire was put out
on Canterbury Road, a small
area of woods burned near the
KOA Campground and grass
fires were extinguished on Se
cond Street, one at 5J)4 p.m.
Sunday and the other at 7:13
p.m. Firemen also reported an
accumulation of smoke, but no
damages, on Cleveland Avenue
when a resident burning trash
reported the fire got out of con
trol.
HUBCAP THEFT
City police are investigating
the theft of four hubcaps from a
car belonging to Rebecca Smith,
1001 Princeton Dr., and from a
1978 Ford owned by Wade
Ford. Value to the hubcaps were
placed at $657.45.
SURVEY SET
Questions on spending for the
improvements and upkeep of
residential properties will be ask
ed of a sample of households in
this area by U.S. Bureau of the
Census interviewers Doris
Brooks and Janice Teeter bet
ween April 1 and April 15th.
By ELIZABETH STEWART
Co-Editor
Kings Mountain teachers
were voting this week on the
controversial subject of “collec
tive bargaining” but NCAE local
president John Pettus, Central
teacher, said that indications are
that the 10 delegates to Wednes
day’s state NCAE convention in
Asheville will cast “no” votes.
Pettus said that all teachers at
Central School are opposed to
what some have termed
“Unionizing” and that all but
three are opposed to KM Junior
High. Other ballots from all
other schools are to be counted
by Wednesday when the local
delegation goes to Asheville for
what may be a stormy session
expected to bring the matter of
unionizing attempts to a head.
Pettus took issue with recent
news stories which have “greatly
overemphasized” a collective
bargaining project being con
ducted by the NCAE Division of
Classroom Teachers of which
Grover teacher Steve Wells is
president-elect. The ACT pro
ject, headed by Jim Bell, a Wake
County teacher serving as ACT
president, and Peter Toggerson,
ako from W'ake County, who
serves as coordinator, was meant
only to inform NCAE members
about collective bargaining, said
Pettus.
He said that news stories have
contended that teachers are be
ing selected to make recurring
demands on school boards at
create confusion, frustration and
argument so that boards will be
more receptive to collective
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JOHN PETTUS
bargaining.
‘This is simply not the policy
of the NCAE, nor is it the desire
of the majority of the classroom
teachers of this state”, he said.
Loretta Martin, a Thomasville
teacher on leave as NCAE state
president, said that NCAE has
dkplaced coUective bargaining
from its current legislative pro
gram and has placed the matter
under the control of a special
committee of the Board of Direc
tors of NCAE, of which Dean
Westmoreland of Kings Moun
tain, a past state president, is a
member. Martin said the com
mittee’s task is to ascertain how
much support there is for collec
tive bargaining and to determine
is some system of guaranteeing
teacher input into decisions can
be developed.
‘The teachers of North
Carolina are professional per-
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Cancer Sunday
Opens Drive
Kings Mountain citizens will
kick off the 1981 Cancer Appel
on Cancer Sunday this Sunday
when ministers will offer prayers
from the pulpit and distribute
educational materiak to wor
shippers.
Local volunteers joined those
from all over the county Thurs
day night in opening the
crusade, “You Are The Keys To
Open Doors”, at a dinner
meeting at Shelby Elks Club in
which Judy Hamby, former
beauty queen, newspaper
woman, and a victim of cancer,
gave the principal address.
Kings Mountain Chairman
Lou Sabetti recognized leaders in
the drive, including Mayor John
Henry Moss, Rev. Leroy Cox,
Heart Sunday chairman, Mrs.
Lewis Dellinger, Mrs. Addie
were recognized by Jim
Weathers, county chairman.
Goal of the campaign in
Grier and Mrs. Rosalyn Brown,
residential chairmen, Mrs. W5.
Fulton, Jr. and W.S. Fulton 111,
downtown business chairmen,
Andy Neisler and Steve Crosby,
local bar association leaders, in
surance leaders Bob Maner and
John Warlick, and other
representatives of business and
industry, Lyn Cheshire, Bill
Grissom, Jake Dixon, Willard
Boyles, Lib Stewart, Supt.
William Davis, Dr. Scott
Mayses, Ed Guy, and Alex Mc-
Callum.
County and Shelby workers
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SYMPHONY GROUP SETS DRIVE - The King*
Mountain Chapter oi the N.C. Symphony 1*
beginning a *ub*crlptlon drive lor concert
ticket* ond m*mber*hlp*. From left, Chair-
Photo by Lib Stewart
man Andy Netoler, Mr*. JJI. McClure, BUI
Davl*. Shirley Auetln. Donald Deed, Sylvia
Holme*, Mary NeUler crad Connie Allleon.