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MAGAZINE STAFF—Eddi* Hammott, cdoov*. i* oditor of the
literary magazirre. "Expectations", and loyne Lybrand is
managing editor. Journalism students at KMSHS are inviting
public support for iinonclng of the 48 page publication.
‘Expectations’
To Be Printed
Twenty-five KMSHS jour
nalism students will publish
within the next few weeks their
first literary magazine, “Expecta
tions.”
Editor Eddie Hammett said
the magazine will include short
stories, feature articles, recipes,
and various new stories from
almost every area of campus.
The book will be a 48 page edi
tion and will sell for one dollar
per copy.
Hammett said that school pro
jects, including a hot dog sale,
financed the publishing costs of
PAM HATCH
BOB SMITH III
Hatch, Smith Selected
To Governor’s School
VOLUME 94, NUMBER 32
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1981
six newspapers, ‘The Moun
taineer” during the school year.
“With increased costs we find
that we must ask public support
of the magazine and invite per
sons who would like to make
contributions to mail donations
to Kings Mountain Senior High
School,” he said.
Jayne Lybrand is managing
editor of the magazine and
designed the cover and selected
the name.
‘This is a very ambitious pro
ject for our students”, said Mrs.
Mary Taylor, school advisor.
Two Kings Mountain
students, Pamela Hatch and
Robert Lee Smith III, have been
selected to attend 1981 Gover
nor’s School June 28 through
August 8.
Miss Hatch, daughter of
George Hatch, and Smith, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Smith, are
among II students from
Cleveland County high schools
who will attend the program
operated by the State Board of
Education through the Division
of Exceptional Children, N.C.
Department of Public Instruc
tion.
Chestnut Ridge Sets
® Annual Membership Ihive
Second annual membership
drive of the Chestnut Ridge
Volunteer Fire Department will
be kicked off Saturday at a “poor
man’s supper” to be served from
4 until 8 p.m. at the Community
Hut of Chestnut Ridge Baptist
Church.
For persons who purchase
memberships, the meal is free,
but all other members of the
family accompanying the head
of household, and the interested
public, plates are $2. The menu
will include pinto beans, slaw,
combread, cake, tea, coffee, milk
and chicken and dumplings.
Volunteers will be calling on
residents of the community to
offer a “red flag” and member
ship at a cost of $15 to the
‘Ma Bell’ Educates
Smith will study social
sciences and Miss Hatch will
study math.
The Governor’s School,
located on the campuses of
Salem College in Winston-Salem
and St. Andrew’s Presbyterian
College in Laurinburg, is the
oldest statewide summer residen
tial program for gifted and
talented rising seniors in the na
tion. The program is funded by
the General Assembly and offers
stimulating curriculum for 800
students in a variety of academic
areas.
homeowner, $10 to the rentor,
and $5 to the owner of a rented
home.
Fire Chief Michael (Gene)
Weaver said that the member
ship canvass will continue
throughout the month of May.
He said that applications for
firemen are also being accepted
from interested men and women
and boys and girls over 16 years
of age.
Assisting in the fund-raising
effort are Assistant Chief Rosco
Lingerfelt and Rev. Mitchell
Pruitt, chairman of the board
and pastor of Chestnut Ridge
Baptist Church.
Chestnut Ridge Volunteer
Fire Department was organized,
a year ago. •
Grade K Through 12
Dorothy Williamson, who
recently completed her 14th an
niversary with Southern Bell’s
Gastonia District as a “school
rep,” gets alot of ‘ribbing’ from
her grandchildren about being
“Ma Bell.”
Mrs. Williamson, of York,
S.C., was in Kings Mountain this
week talking with school ad
ministrators about the free ser
vices that Southern Bell’s educa
tion program offers for K<ollege
grade levels.
And she relishes the contact
with educators that the job br
ings her.
“I enjoy letting them know
that Southern Bell is interested
in them,” she says. It has been
h“r experience that most Kings
Mountain area teachers are very
enthusiastic about Southern
Bell’s program and pass the en-
thusia.sm on to their students.
Proud of her job and what her
company is offering the com
munity, Mrs. Williamson adds,
“I like being known that
telephone lady when I walk into
a school.”
As an ex-service officer with
the U.S. Air Transpon Com
mand in Washington, D.C., Mrs.
Williamson explains why the
school rep’s job is directed to
working with the faculty. “They
know their students better than
we do and they know the kind of
materials they can \^ork into the
programs.”
Her goal on the job is to
establish a personal contact in
each school in Cleveland, Lin
coln, Gaston and Rutherford
Counties, including the Kings
Mountain and Shelby city
school districts. She says the pro
gram has grown steadily since
1966 and last year reached
51,317 students.
Mrs. Williamson, widow of
Barron P. Williamson, joined
Ohio Bell Telephone Co. in 1940
and worked in the business office
before joining the service during
World War II. She served as a
records clerk in 8th Air Force
Headquarters Command in
England and Washington, D.C.
and in England was the only
enlisted person in General
Doolittle’s office. She recalled
that her job was to dispatch the
motor pool, answer the phone,
and serve as a general “gopher.”
After graduation from
Officer’s Candidate School she
served as an orientation officer
in Washington, D.C. She met
her husband in the service and
after working with Chesapeake
& Potomoc Bell in Washington,
D.C. and serving as a stewardess
for American Airlines she retired
to the farm where the couple
raised three children. The
Williamsons were married 32
years before his death and their
family includes two daughters
and four grandchildren. .A son
was killed in an automobile acci
dent two years ago.
Mrs. Williamson rejoined
Southern Bell after her
husband’s death and enjoys
traveling from school to schixtl
in a four-county area.
She designed one of the many
tools she distributes to pupils, a
program on following steps to
improve handling of complaints
by telephone. Materials are used
by business departments in high
schools and colleges in this area.
The “Teletraining for Business
Studies,” also free like all her
other materials, includes
filmstrips, cassettes, teacher’s
guide, wall charts, atid books
which provide role playing and
student activities for all age
students and can be adapted to
almost any class discussion.
The programs also feature a
business phone trainer designed
to simulate an office arrange
ment, four six-button phones
connected to a central unit with
loudspeaker and recording
capabilities. For the Junior High
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SCHOOL REPRESENTATIVE-Mr«. Dorothy
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Southern Bell Telephone Compony in this
Photo by Lib Stewart
area and yisits the schools on a regular basis
to present free educational materials.
students there are decision
making simulation exercises in
economics and careers, for in
stance. The students gain greater
insight into the world of business
by actually setting up, owning or
operating their own corporation,
on pafter.
Telezonia is a complete
package of multi-media aids on
communications for classroom
use for K-6 grades. This equip
ment consists of two telephones
linked to a central unit which
produces ringing signals, dial and
busy tones and amplification of
conversations for class evalua
tion. There is also a special sec
tion on career awareness and
game-simulations for use in
liberal arts, business, etc. Smaller
children learn good telephone
habits with a unique directory,
“City of Nowhere” where even
the kindergarten student can
learn how to find telephone
numbers and use the yellow
pages.
Mrs. Williamson is also
available to present local pro
grams to civic clubs and recently
returned from a trip to China.
She teaches a circle Bible class
and is active in First
Presbyterian Church of York.
Mrs. Williamson pointed out
that her job is not to promote
sales. Her title is officially the
staff associate for educational
relations. She said the program
came from a need to train people
to use the telephone effectively
and that Bell has expanded its
aids to education to help build
vocabulary and career aw areness
of many youngsters on a day-to-
day basis.
She describes herself as a
resource person to the school
principal with materials from
filmstrips, illustrated talks,
workbooks and an assortment of
materials for the asking.
Bell’s “Look It Lip Program,”
which attracted 18,734 students
last quarter in this district, is a
popular tool. When students
complete this segment, they also
know how to use a card catalog,
an index, an encyclopedia, and
the telephone directory.
Public Hearing Slated
Kings Mountain city commis
sioners will hold a public hearing
during its regular meeting Mon
day night at 7;30 on a proposed
sewer ordinance which will in
volve a user’s fee for city
residents.
Ralph Johnson of the W.K.
Dickson Company, the city’s
consulting engineers; Joe
Ogborne, of A.M. Pullen Com
pany, the city’s auditor; and
Walt Ollis, supervisor for the ci
ty water and sewer system, will
make the presentation.
Mayor John Moss said the
sewer ordinance now in effect
must be updated so that it will be
in compliance with rules and
regulations of the Environmen
tal Protection Agency and the
North Carolina Department of
Baccalaureate
Service Set
For May 24
KMSHS baccalaureate service
for graduating seniors will be
held May 24th at 8 p.m. in B.N.
Barnes Auditorium. Finals exer
cises will be held on May 29th at
8 p.m. in John Gamble
Memorial Football Stadium.
Rev. Tom Patterson, pastor of
Macedonia Baptist Church, will
deliver the baccalaureate ser
mon. Senior officers will lead the
commencement program.
Natural Resources.
Moss said the consultants
have not reached a proposed
figure yet “but it will be com
parative to Shelby, Gastonia,
Bessemer City and other
neighboring towns,” he said.
In another matter to come
before the board Monday, the
commissioners w ill consider bids
on urban renewal property in the
downtown area.
Kelli Harry Improving,
In Cleveland Hospital
“She’s eating and can say 1
love you, 1 love you but she’s got
a long way to go.”
In that statement Kelli
Harry’s grandmother, Mrs. B.A.
(Miss Bessie) Harry gave a pro
gress report of the Grover
School second grader w ho is im
proving from serious injuries sus
tained when she was struck by a
truck in front of Grover Sichool
Dec. 18th
Kelli, who remained in a coma
for eight weeks, was moved last
Friday to Cleveland Memorial
Hospital in Shelby and occupies
a fourth floor room.
Mrs. Harry said that Kelli’s
parents, Phil and Maria Harry,
accompanied her home for a
brief visit Friday. “It was
Christmas and Easter all in one
day”, said the proud grand
mother who said she delighted in
seeing Kelli’s enjoyment over
Christmas presents and Easter
gifts.
"Everyone’s been mighty
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good to us and we appreciate
their thoughtfulness and con
tinued prayers for Kelli’s com
plete recovery”, said Mrs. Harry