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VOLUME 94. NUMBER 69
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2S. 1981
KINGS MOUNTAIN. NORTH CAROLINA
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Thanksgiving Service
Set Wednesday Night
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Photo by Gary Stewart
TURKEY TIME - Tomorrow is Thanksgiving,
and a time to enjoy a turkey dinner and wat
ching pretty girls in television parades.
Grover's Dawn Hambright, pictured above
with her Thanksgiving turkey at Jim Yarbro's
turkey farm in Kings Mountain, will represent
Kings Mountain High School in the 35th
Carolinas Carrousel Parade in Charlotte.
Dawn is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Hambright of Grover.
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The annual C'ommuniiy
Thanksgiving VN'orship Service
will be held Wednesday ai 7:30
p.m. at Macedonia Baptist
Church in Kings Mountain.
Rev. Clyde Bearden, pastor of
First Baptist Church, will bring
the message.
The service is sponsored each
year by the Kings Mountain
Ministerial .Association.
Miss Delores White, music
director at Macedonia, will
direct the Macedonia Choir in
special music and w ill also direct
the congregational singing.
Ministers from the Ministerial
Association will also take part in
the service.
Rev. Bearden’s sermon topic-
will be “The Grace of Ciratitude"
and will be taken from Luke
17:11-19.
Rev. Leroy Cox, president of
the Ministerial .Association, will
welcome worshippers on behalf
of the assiKiation, and Dr. Tom
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REV. CLYDE BEARDEN
Patterson, pastor of Macedonia,
will give the welcome from the
host church, and also gi\ e the in
vocation.
Christmas Parade Is Sunday
]ILL LORRAINE RANKIN
The annual Kings Mountain
Christmas Parade is scheduled
for Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
Ninety units are entered in the
event, co-sponsored by the Kings
Mountain Fire Department and
the City of Kings Mountain.
Former Cleveland County
Sheriff Haywood .Allen, a Kings
Mountain native, will serve as
Grand Marshall, and Miss South
Carolina, .lill Lorraine Rankin of
Columbia, will also ride in the
parade.
Mayor .lohn Henry Moss, Ci
ty Commissioners, Senator .1.
Ollie Harris and other
dignataries will take part. All
dignataries will ride near the
front of the parade lineup and.
after completing the parade
route, w ill view the remainder of parade committee, point
the parade from a reviewing
stand in front of Kings Moun
tain Baptist Church.
Kings Mountain fireman Pete
Peterson, chairman of the
is out
several added features to this
year’s parade.
The W BTV Channel 3
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PARADE ROUTE
The parade route will be
reversed from past years,
and is as follows:
The parade will lineup
on West Mountain Street
and will proceed east
across the Southern
Railway tracks to Bat
tleground Avenue.
It will turn south on Bat
tleground and proceed to
East Gold. It will travel
east on East Gold to
Cherokee Street, and go
north on Cherokee back to
Mountain Street.
It will then go east on
East Mountain Street, past
the reviewing stand in
front of Kings Mountain
Baptist Church, and will
continue to Gaston Street,
and disband in the area of
Mountain Rest Cemetery.
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HAYWOOD ALLEN
Singing
Program
Is Friday
The first annual
Thanksgiving Country and
Gospel Music Festival will be
held Friday at 7:30 p.m. at
B.N. Barnes Auditorium.
The program is being spon
sored by WKMT Radio and
the Kings Mountain Herald.
Admission is $3.
Several top groups and in
dividuals will be on the pro
gram, including The Pilgrims,
country and gospel recording
artists and the backup group
for Grand Ole Opry star Ar
chie Campbell.
The Pilgrims feature Kings
Mountain’s Rusty Cloninger
on the drums and Kings
Mountain’s Keith Griffin on
the bass guitar (See feature
Story on page 2-B).
Others performing will be
Peggy Townsend of the Dot-
tie West Show, Joe Franklin
of American Bandstand fame.
Kings Mountain’s Jonas
Hayes and his Marty Robbins
sound, and the talented
young Pioneer doggers of
Kings Mountain Junior Fligh
School.
The program is geared for
the entire family and will in
clude only good, clean enter
tainment.
Volunteers Help Schools
By C.A. ALLISON,
I.C. SCRUGGS
AND PAT ANDERSON
Unquestionably, parents and
others concerned about educa
tion can make a valuable con
tributions to schools as
volunteers. Many people are
w illing, ab|e, and often eager to
contribute in some way, but are
unsure of what role to pursue
beyond a stated offer to help.
Teachers need adequate time
to plan for volunteer help, so
that whatever help is offered
may be used to the best advan
tage. The volunteer who shows
up unannounced may end up
feeling awkward and the teacher
may feel frustrated. A classroom
volunteer has to know what is
there, where it is Kx'ated, and
something of the teacher’s pur
pose before he or she can begin.
Otherwise, only a distracting in
terruption will (X’cur.
For this and other gtxtd
rea.sons, the best volunteer pro
grams will have a strong coor
dinator. Such a person might be
a former teacher, a housewife, a
retired person, someone with
time, patience, energy, concern,
and enthusiasm. A gotxl ciwr-
dinator will also be creative, en
during, willing to lead, will know
what is help and w hat is not, and
will recognize that a teacher at
his or her best will need
reasonable freedom in the
classroom.
Nationally, volunteerism has
sustained many worthwhile pro
jects. .At its best, it has con
tributed mightily to the fabric of
the nation. Volunteerism at its
worst, on the other hand, can be
dismally unrewarding, due to
such factors as poor coordina
tion or - ix'casionally - the
“Vicarious Volunteer” who uses
volunteerism as a fulfillment for
unresolved personal conllicls. A
good coordinator will be aware
of the possibilities and the pit-
falls which come with the ter
ritory, and will be sensitive to
the needs of students above all
else.
In areas where a single coor
dinator is not possible, a commit
tee might serve the same func
tion.
The contributions volunteers
can make are virtually endless.
Grad mothers have long been
valuable contributors to the
classrooms, with services from
rrxsm decorations to food for
special events, or even an extra
coat or tw o for outdoors on cold
days for those who may have
forgotten theirs.
Being a part of I’.T.O. F. I ..A.
is another way of participating.
Substitute bus drivers perform
an urcent functions. Volunteers
PARENT QUESTIONNAIRE
1. Do you know your child’s teacher? 't es No
2. Do you know your child’s grade level? 3 es No
3. Do you know the Frincipal’s name? 't es No
4. Do you know if your child is working on grade level in Reading
Yes No
Do you know if your child is working on gr.idc level in Math.’
Yes No..
6. Do you kttow the Supt. ol Kings Mountain Disinct Scluxvls?
Yes
No .
7. C an you name the five school hoard nx'inbers? Y es Nv>
8. Have you attended a 1’.1.0.1’.I A. meeting this schov'l year.’
Yes No ' .
9. Have you contacted, by telephone, contcrenee. letter, etc., yv'ur
child’s teacher this school year? Y es No
10. Have you offered to participate in any scluxvlactivity this school
year? Yes No
If you answered all ten questions yes you get an A.
If you answered nine questions yes you get a B,
If you answered eight questions yes you get a G.
If you answered seven questions yes you get a D.
If you answered less than seven yes you tailed anil need to do your
homework.
might also act as monitors on
schixvl buses for greater safety.
The importance of crossing
guards cannot be understated.
C haperones on field trips are
needed and welcome. Boosters
for athletic programs arc in
valuable.
Y olunteers might assist at
lunch time and/Or playtime on a
regular basis. This would give
teachers much needed diversion
time and would increase theii
overall effectiveness, for it is the
intense pace of teaching that
makes it an often grinding pro
fession.
Clerical duties, such as using
the duplicating machine for
those teachers who have no
aides, atid artistic projects, such
as seasonal classrixvm decora
tions and posters, are other ways
of volunteer participation.
Perhaps the most significant
voluntary participation of all. in
the end, is that which parents
can make from home. Fhc at
titude of parents toward books,
learning, the scluxvl, and basic
consideration for others will con
tribute greatly to the success or
failure of their children in school
and in life.
The importance of good
parenting has been pointedly il
lustrated in a sermon Dr. Cecil
Sherman of Asheville’s First
Baptist Church. Referring to
Jonathan Fdwards and his wife.
Sarah Pierpivnt, who had eleven
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Rev. Paul Horne will lead a
Prayer of Ihanksgiving, Rev.
Gerald Weeks will lead the con
gregation in a Responsive
Reading. Rev. Kenneth Looney
will read the scripture and Rev.
Cox will have the benediction.
Area ministers will receive the
offering, which will go to the
Ministerial Assixiation’s Help
ing Hand Fund, and Rev.
George Sherrill will speak briefiy
about the function of the Help
ing Hand F und.
The Helping Hand Fund is us
ed on a year-round basis to assist
needy families in the area. It is
used to purchase food, medicine
and fuel. The fund is running
low this year and worshippers
are urged to give freely to
replenish its supply.
Dr. Patterson, the host church
and the Ministerial .Association
encourages all area persons to at
tend and participate in the
Thanksgiving service.
Board
Discusses
Contract
City commissioners huddled
behind closed doors for an hour
Monday ngiht to discuss a con
tract.
.After returning to regular ses
sion in the City Hall council
chambers. Mayor John Henry
Moss announced only that ’’we
have been reviewing a contrac-
tural matter, discussions were
conducted and are to be con
tinued for further study."
District Four Commissioner
Norman King called for the ex
ecutive session at the close of the
regular bi-monthly meeting of
the board, and Mayor Moss and
most of the other commissioners
seemed surprised.
.Although there w as no official
word on what contract was be
ing discussed, the general feeling
among other persons at the
meeting was that it dealt with a
gas line the city is to construct
on Highway 74 YYest to serve
Reliance Corporation and
Bethw are Schixvl.
That contract between the Ci
ty and the kings Mountain
Development Corpivration. was
approved at the board’s meeting
two weeks ago. At that time.
Commissioner King asked
several questions of Mayor Moss
and Tom Tate, President of the
Corporation, and expressed
disiatisfaction that he and other
members of the board had not
been furnished copies of the
plans.
King said following Monday’s
meeting that he was not at liber-
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Firemen Need
Toys For Tots
The Kings Mountain Fire
Department is sponsoring its
Foys For Tots program for the
eighth straight year, and is in
need of toys which can be
distributed to needy children at
Christmas.
The firemen are also in need
of funds with which to purchase
parts to repair used toys.
Any persons with new or used
toys, or funds, to donate should
contact Chief Gene Tignor at
the Fire Department, 739-2552.