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Thursday
Volume 94, Number 38
Thursday, May 14, 1981
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Kings Mountain, North Carolina
Succeeds Myers Hambright
Mrs. Gamble Named
Vocational Director
PRE-SCHOOL SCREENING-Jackie Seism, lelt,
and Barbara Ormand, far right, serve punch lo
students registering at North School Tuesday. The
students, from left. Holly Faye Paul, Larry Dale
PHOTO BY LIB STEWART
Smith,Jr., Crystal Jewel Weathers and Victor Sim
mons. The final pre-school clinic will be held Friday
at East School from 9:30 a.m. until 1 p.m.
Board Has Brief Agenda
Mrs. Betty R. Gamble, a
Kings Mountain teacher for 28
years, was elected the new Direc
tor of Vocational Education for
KM District Schools, by the KM
Board of Education Monday
night.
Mrs. Gamble, widow of the
late KMHS Football Coach
John Gamble, will succeed
veteran retiring Vocational
Director Myers Hambright. Mr.
Hambright is retiring at the end
of this school year.
Mrs. Gamble came to
Bethware School as Home
Economics teacher in the county
system in 1953. She subsequently
joined the KM Schools the
following year at Kings Moun
tain High &hool. She holds both
a bachelor’s and master’s degree
in Home Economics and is an
alumni of Appalachian State
University. Her son, John Gam-
ble,Jr.,is a student a the Univer-
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BETTY GAMBLE
sity of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.
In other teacher elections
The city board of commis
sioners acted on only six items in
a short 20-minute meeting Mon
day night at the Governmental
Services Facilities Center.
The board approved a resolu
tion directing City Clerk Joe
McDaniel to investigate a peti
tion for annexation from Wesley
Kiser and wife. Pearl, on Lin-
wood Road.
The board also proclaimed the
week of May 10-16 as Municipal
Clerk’s Week and recognized
McDaniel, who is one of only
four certified Senior Clerks in
North Carolina. McDaniel has
held his position here since 1952.
In other matters, the board:
•Approved advertising of bids
for a truck for the Animal Con
trol Officer.
•Forwarded to the Planning
and Zoning Board a request
from Wallace C. Bradley of
Rev. Patterson Earns
Doctor Of Ministry
The Rev. G. Tom Patterson,
pastor of Macedonia Baptist
Church, has received his earned
Doctor of Ministry Degree from
the Luther Rice Seminary in
Jacksonville, Fla.
A native of High Point, Dr.
Patterson was more than 300
graduates at the Seminary’s com
mencement service on may 8.
Luther Rice offers external
study programs to students in
every state and in 55 foreign
countries.
Dr. Robert Witty, President of
the Seminary, conducted the
graduation exercises for the
20-year-old institution in the
Jacksonville Auditorium.
Dr. Patterson serves as
secretary-treasurer of the Kings
Mountain Ministerial Associa
tion. He is married to the former
Daisy Puris of Morven, N.C.,
and is the father of three
children. He holds a Bachelor of
Arts Degree in Psychology from
Bradley Builders to rezone pro
perty at his business from R-20
to Light Industry. The property
is located on Highway 74 West
in the one-mile perimeter.
•Approved the transfer of two
taxi franchises from Frank R.
Price to Rufus Woods, 308 Fair-
view Street.
•Tabled action on awarding
termite control bids after Com
missioner Norman King told the
board he felt there w as a mistake
in a bid from Orkin of Gastonia.
Bids were received from Orkin,
Nixon of Gastonia and H&H
Pest Control of Shelby for ter
mite control at the Moss Lake
Office and the Depot Center.
H&H was the apparent low bid
der with a bid of $875 and $100
annual renewal fee.
DOT Public Hearing
Slated For Thursday
Kings Mountain area citizens
are invited to attend a public
hearing to be conducted by the
North Carolina Department of
Transportation Thursday at 2
p.m. at Kings Mountain Com
munity Center.
Priority and urban needs in
the area, including the timetables
for construction of the U. S. 74
Bypass of Kings Mountain, are
among topics to be discussed.
The public is invited to provide
input.
Since a review and reassess
ment of primary and urban
highway construction priorities
across the state have become
necessary because of the
Highway Department’s increas
ingly limited financial resources
the program is quite timely and
of considerable interest to Kings
Mountain citizens.
The Kings Mountain meeting
is one of 14 meetings slated to be
held by officials of the North
Carolina Department of
Transportation in April and
May.
Youth Program Slated
REV. TOM PATTERSON
High Point College and a Master
of Divinity Degree from
Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary in Wake
Forest, N.C.
Dr. E.A. Fitzgerald
To Speak At Central
Dr. Ernest A. Fitzgerald,
Senior Minister of the
3800-member Centenary United
Methodist Church of Winston
Salem, will be the guest preacher
for the Stewardship Rally and
Festival at Central United
Methodist Church Sunday at a
6:30 p.m. dinner meeting.
Dr. Fitzgerald was appointed
pastor of Centenary in 1966 and
has led the congregation in a
broad range of ministry covering
the total community of Winston
Salem. The church had
developed a vital ministry for
children, youth, young adults,
and older people.
Dr. Fitzgerald has been in de
mand as a speaker to college
groups, laity Conferences, civic
organizations, and evangelistic
missions. He has served effec
tively on boards of different in
stitutions. He is presently a
member of the Board of Visitors,
Duke Divinity School, member
of the Board of Trustees, Pfeiffer
College, and was a delegate to
DR. FITZGERALD
the 1980 General and Jurisdic
tional Conferences.
The Stewardship Rally and
Festival is sponsored by the
Finance Committee, Central
United Methodist Church, with
John O. Plonk, Jr. as chairman.
The Mayor’s summer youth'
program will get underway for
the 13th year May 22-23.
Franklin L. Ware,Jr. and Rev.
M. L. Campbell w ill serve as co-
chairmen of the committee,
which also includes Mrs. W.
Eugene McCarter, Mrs. Joel
Marable, Rev. Bill Tyson, Mrs.
School Band
Concert Set
The annual spring concert by
the Kings Mountain District
Schools Bands will be held Tues
day night at 8 p.m. in B. N.
Barnes Auditorium.
The Central School seventh
grade band, the Kings Mountain
Junior High ninth grade band
and the Kings Mountain Senior
High Blazer band will perform
under the direction of band
directors, Donald Deal and
Christopher H. Cole.
The public is invited to attend.
Admission is free.
KM Chorale
To Perform
The 125-voice KMSHS
Chorale and Ensemble and the
KM Junior High Ninth Grade
Chorus will present the annual
spring concert Thursday night at
8 p.m. in B. N. Barnes
Auditorium.
Gene Baumgardner will direct
the groups in a rendition of both
sacred and secular music. Piano
accompanists will be Lynn
Peeler and Jerri Patterson.
There is no admission charge
to tile concert and the public is
invited to attend.
LITTLE THEATRE
Kings Mountain Little
Theatre will hold the annual
meeting for election of new of
ficers Thursday night at 7:30
p.m. in Park Grace Auditorium.
President Ray Holmes said
that all members and prospective
members are encouraged to at
tend.
Charles Alexander, Miss Nina
Oliver, Jerry King and Mayor
Moss.
Young people are invited to
complete application forms for
summer employment at the
Governmental Facilities Center
on Friday, May 22 from 1 until 5
p.m. and on Saturday, May 23,
from 9 a.m. until I p.m.
Mayor Moss said the summer
program has been most suc
cessful because of “cooperation
of industry and business in pro
viding area high school-age and
college-age young people with
summer employment”. During
the 12 year history of the pro
gram more than 2,200 young
people have supplemented their
family income and earned cash
to complete their schooling by
working in local industry
business.
Lanier
Earns His
Masters
Rev. Sidney Lanier, pastor of
El Bethel United and Hoey
United Methodist Churches,
received his Master of Divinity
degree in commencement exer
cises May 10th at Duke Univer
sity in Durham. He had com
pleted requirements for gtadua-
tion in December 1980.
Rev. Lanier is married to the
former Patty Redmond of
Statesville and they are expec
ting their first child in August.
Monday night, the Ixiard elected
Dennis Martin to fill a vacancy
in the Agriculture Department
at Kings Mountain Senior High
School and elected Dorcas
Beasley, Polly McCoy, and
Marcelle Hamrick to interim
teaching positions. The board
granted a leave of absence to
Ann Mauney.
In other matters, the board ap
proved elementary school zone
lines which have been used by
the system in pupil assignment
since desegregation. The board
had approved a narrative
description of the zones at last
month’s meeting but had asked
for a clarification of the boun
daries. Assistant Superintendent
Larry Allen said that none of the
lines had been altered and the
board again voted unanimously
to approve the narrative descrip
tion of the zones.
Fou'teen requests from
parents asking permission for
their children to attend
kindergaten outside their atten
dance zones were approved after
discussion and in an appeals pro
cedure to the board’s policy
which states that students begin
ning Kings Mountain schools for
the first time next year will at
tend schools within their own at
tendance zone. In a related ac
tion, the board approved 31 re
quests from parents asking that
their children be allowed to con
tinue schools outside their atten
dance zone through grade five.
Under the new policy, which the
board adopted in March, makes
this provision unless class size in
equities between schools make it
essential to transfer students
back to the schoolf of their own
zone. Students who were the last
transferred are the first sent back
to their own attendance zone if
the schools become overcrowd
ed. Students granted transfers in
the past have had to renew their
and requests each year.
REV. SIDNEY LANIER
TO PERFORM - Th« Kings Mountain High
Choral*, picturod above, will present a spring
concert tonight at 8 p.m. at B.N. Barnes
Auditorium. Also participating in the be*
public concert will be the ninth grad* chorus
and ensemble. The choral* members include,
front row left to right. Louisa Wood. Ariuana
Curry. Trina Hamrick. Sophia Owens.
Priscilla Odums. Rusty Morrison. Clayton
Ollis. loh.i Grant. Kelli Goodson. Iolanta
Milewski. Kathy Moore. Mary Feemster. and
Gen* Bumgordner. dbector. Second row.
Faith McCullough. Kristin Gatts. lerri Patter
son. Carla Seism. Tom Potter. Dal* Summers.
Mark limson, Mark Canip*. Ioanna Rushing,
Toni Nicholson. Kelli Kiser ond Teresa
Leonhart. Back row, Susan Ollis. Tyrone
Byers. Bryon Norris. David Grant and Trina
Lovelace.