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VOLUME 9S, NUMBER 11
THURSDAY. MARCH 18, 1982
KINGS MOUNTAIN,
INA
THE nEUUS
in BRIEF
BAND CONCERT
The Kings Mountain Senior
High Blazer Band and the Kings
Mountain Junior High Ninth
Grade Band will present a public
concert on thurs., Mar. 18 at 8
pin. in B.N. Barnes Auditorium.
The program will consist of State
I A ^ Contest Music Festival selec-
" " ^ tions. Admission is free and the
public is invited to attend.
TALENT SHOW
The East School Talent Show
will be held Thurs., Mar. 18 at 7
pjn. at the Central School
Auditorium. Admission is 50
cents. The winners will advance
I A annual Kiwanis Gub
Talent Show. Willard Boyles will
be the Master of Ceremonies,
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RUMMAGE SALE
The Kings Mountain Fire
Department will sponsor a rum
mage sale on March 27 in the
field across from the fire depart
ment. In case of rain, it wU be
held inside the fire department.
^ A Clothes, furniture, cakes and
pies will be sold. All proceeds
will go toward the construction
' of a roof on the fire museum.
Anyone with items to donate
may call the fire department at
739-2SS2. Items may be brought
to the fire station or firemen will
pick them up,
TALENT SHOW
^ The West School Talent Show
will be held Thurs., Mar. 25 at 7
I; p.m. at Barnes Auditorium.
I Steve Baker will be the Master of
' Ceremonies and special enter
tainment will be presented by
Kate’s Skating Rink of Gastoaia.
Admission is one doUar for
adults and 50 cents for students.
fy.. ORIENTATION
P Kings Mountain High School
t will have an orientation meeting
for rising 10th graders and their
parents Mon., March 22 at 7:30
pjn. in B.N. Barnes Auditorium.
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Fund Drive
Westover Baptist Church of
Kings Mountain is beginning a
fund drive for a 12-year-old
Shelby boy who was injured
when struck by a car last week
on Highway 150 south of
Shelby.
Marty Dover, a seventh
grader at Crest Junior High, re
mains in a coma in the intensive
care unit of a Charlotte hospital.
He suffered a broken leg and hip
and other injuries.
The family has no insurance
and the boy’s father has been
unable to work since the acci
dent because of the need to be by
his son’s side.
Anyone wishing to make a
donation may send their check
to the Marty Dover Fund, in
care of Westover Baptist
Church, 1370 Westover Drive,
Kings Mountain, N.C. 28086, or
call Rev. Roger Webb at
739-2187.
SPAGHETTI SUPPER
The Grover Rescue Squad will
have a spaghetti supper ^turday
beginning at 5 p.m. at the squad
building. Plates are S2.50 for
adults and $1.00 for children.
Spaghetti, roll, salad, tea and cof
fee will be served. For carry out
orders, call 937-7632.
TALENT SHOW
The North School Talent
Show will be held Thursday at 7
p.m. in the school auditorium.
Admission is SI for adults and
50 cents for children. Shirley
Austin will be the emcee and
special entertainment will b^
provided.
HOTDOG SALE
Chestnut Ridge Volunteer
Fire Department will have a
grilled hamburger and hot dog
sale Saturday, March 27, from
11 a.m. until 6 pjn. For carry
out orders, call 739-1416.
Phenix Closing
Burlington Industries has announced that it will phase out
operations at its Phenix plant in Kings Mountain because of
drcreased demands for the yams produced here, plus difficulties
in further modernizing the 96-year-old multi-story plant.
Plant Manager Charles Kelly said at the same time that as
many as 100 of the 245 employees at Phenix would be offered
opportunities to transfer to the company’s Mount Holly plant
which is modernizing and expanding its facilities. The Mount
Holly pitmt produces polyester-cotton yams for outside yam
sales, and those yards continue to be in good demand.
Phenix employees will be interviewed individually over the
next several days about their job run-out, possibilities of
transfer either to Mount Holly or other Burlington plants in the
area, or to other local companies. Those who cannot transfer
will receive severance pay, profit sharing and retirement
benefits for which they qualify.
Kelly said the company has no immediate plans for the
Phenix plant. ‘Trior to announcing the plant closing Burl
ington made an exhaustive study among other divisions to
determine possible utilization of the facility and equipment. We
will work with the local chamber of conunerce and other local
and state agencies to find a use for the building,” he said.
Dick Byrd, Community Relations Director, and Ed Murray,
Vice President of the Denim Manufacturing Division, were in
Kings Mountain Tuesday to announce the closing to the plant
employees.
They said a number of other divisions of Burlington looked
at the plant *70 try to find some other use for it. But nothing
has panned out,” Byrd said, “but we will continue to work with
the state. Chamber of Commerce and the City on possible pro
spects who can use the plant.”
Dan Grady, Plant Personnel Manager, said the Phenix Plant
has “a lot of good, well-trained people and we feel like we will
be able to place quite a few people.”
The operation will be pha^ out over the next two weeks,
depending on how the production mns out, Grady said.
‘That’s very regrettable news,” Mayor John .Moss said of the
closing. ‘The Phenix Plant represents a landmark as an in
dustrial citizen of Kings Mountain. The city will be doing all it
possibly can to find job opportunities for those who do not
transfer to other Burlington plants.”
The Phenix Plant was built in 1886 by the Freno Dilling
family of Kings Mountain and operated for many years as the
Dilling Mill. It was later sold to the Hamrick family. It was ac
quired by Burlington in 1946 and has been modified several
times over the years.
The Phenix Plant is the third mill to close in Kings Mountain
in the past two years. Neisco Industries’ Margrace and Pauline
plants closed in 1980, eliminating over 200 jobs.
Harris On DOT Committee
Lieutenant Governor Jimmy
Green announced today the ap
pointment of Senator J. Ollie
Harris of Kings Mountain to the
Special Committee to Study the
Department of Transportation.
Senator harris and Represen
tative Allen C. Barbee of Spring
Hope will serve as CoChairmen
of the ten member committee.
In naming Senator Harris to
the Committee, Green called
him “one of the ablest and
hardest-working men in the
Senate. His dedication to North
Caroiiita and especially to the
people of his district is uncom
promising. I very much ap
preciate his taking on this addi
tional responsibility.”
Senator Harris is president
and treasurer of Harris Funeral
Home, Inc., in Kings Mountain.
He has served five terms in the
North Carolina Sentate. During
TEACHER OF THE YEAR • lo* MoImt ol Duk*
Powar Company praaonta Morodlth McGill
^wlth a cortlRcato ci racogniUoa at Iko North
^Carolina Joyco— Awards Bonquot Fobniory
19 In Orooni^oro. MIh McGUl was rocognlaod
ior hor outstanding porlormonco In hsr prolos-
slon and community which lod to hor nomina
tion as ono of North Carolina's outstanding
young oducators. This is tho ninth consocutlro
yoor tho North Carolina powor companios
hoTO sponoorod tho OTont in connoctlon with
tho No^ Carolina loycoos.
Educator Of Year
Kings Mountain native
Meredith McGill was recently
^chosen by the Greensboro
wjaycees as “Outstanding Young
Educator” and represented that
city in state competition.
Miss McGill is the daughter of
Dr. and Mrs. John C. McGill of
Kings Mountain and is in her
fifth year as a teacher.
Miss McGill was selected as
Outstanding Young Educator by
.the Brooks Elementary School
v/aculty and was later chosen by
the Jaycees as Outstanding
Young Educator for the
Greensboro Gty School System.
She received her award at the an
nual Jaycees banquet on
. Febrary 3 in Greenstoro, and
during the state awards banquet
on February 19, she was
recognized as a regional finalist
in state competition.
Miss McGill has taught the
last two years at Brooks School
and previously taught for three
yean at Mclver School in
Greensboro.
She is a 1972 graduate of
Kings Mountain High School
and graduated from Ap
palachian State University in
1977 with a B.S. in Special
Education. She received her
Master’s degree in Education
Administration in 1981 from the
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro.
She is presently a resource
teacher for the educable mental
ly handicapped and learning
disabled.
the 1981 Session, he also Chairs
the Senate Committee on
Human Resources, and is Vice-
Chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Senior Citizens Af
fairs. He represents the 25th
Senatorial District which is com
prised of Cleveland, Gaston, Lin
coln and Rutherford Counties.
The Special Committee to
Study the Department of
Transportation was created by
the 1981 General Assembly. Its
review of the Department in
cludes revenues and expen
ditures; major personnel
changes; use of state funds in
relations to federal funds; and
the actions of the Board of
Transportation, among other
things. The other members of
the Committee appointed by
Lieutenant Governor Green are
Senator J.J. Harrington of
Lewiston, Senator Craig Lawing
of Charlotte, Senator Sam Noble
of Lumberton, and Senator R.P.
Thomas of Hendersonville.
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OLLIE HARRIS
Bearden Services Held
Funeral services for Rev.
William Clyde Bearden, 61,
pastor of First Baptist Church of
Kings Mountain, were con
ducted Wednesday at 2:30 at
First Baptist by the Rev. E.B.
Hicks, the Rev. Ray Linville and
the Rev. Cline Borders. Burial
was in Forest Lawn Cemetery in
Charlotte.
Rev. Bearden, a resident of
104 Country Gub Drive, died at
6 a.m. Monday at Kings Moun
tain Hospital.
A native of Oconee County,
S.C., he was the son of William
Robert and Hattie Orr Bearden
of Greenville, S.C. Also surviv
ing are his wife, Mrs. Essie
Jackson Bearden of the home;
one son, Harold Eugene Bearden
of Charlotte; three brothers,
Carlyle Bearden of Greenville,
S.C., Christopher Bearden of
Pelzer, S.C., and Wallace
Bearden of Anderson, S.C.; and
two sisters, Mrs. M.F. Ramsey
of Greenville, S.C., and Mrs.
Mildred Trotter of Greenville,
S.C.
REV. CLYDE BEARDEN
He attended Gardner-Webb
College, where he received the
Suttle Bible Award. He
graduated from Lenoir-Rhyne
College and Southeastern
Theological Seminary.
He was a member of the
General Board of the North
Carolina Baptist State Conven
tion and was a former trustee of
Gardner-Webb College.
He spent the first two years of
his ministry as an evangelist. He
served as pastor of Immanuel
Baptist Church of Greensboro,
Thrift Baptist Church of Paw
Creek, Mount Home Baptist
Church of Morganton, Balfour
Baptist Church of Asheboro and
Greenland Baptist Church of
Charlotte before assuming
pastoral duties at Kings Moun
tain First Baptist eight years ago.
In Kings Mountain, he was
active in numerous church and
community activities and was
president of last year’s United
Way Campaign, which set a
record for contributions.
Memorials may be made to
the building fund of First Baptist
Church, Kings Mountain.
Tolleson Services Held
Funeral services for Mrs.
George R. Tolleson of Colum
bia, S.C., were conducted Sun
day at 2 p.m. in Greenlawn
Memorial Park in Columbia.
Mrs. Tolleson, 52, was the
former Betty Lynch, daughter of
Haywood E. Lynch, former
editor and owner of the Kings
Mountain Herald, and Elizabeth
Simmons Lynch.
She was a native of
Goldsboro, N.C. She attended
Kings Mountain grade schools
and graduated from Central
High School in 1950.
She earned her A.B. in English
at the University of North
Carolina in Greensboro and
received her Masters of Educa
tion degree from the University
of South Carolina in Columbia.
She was in the final year of her
Doctorate in Education and was
given the position of principal
but was unable to accept because
of her illness.
She was a teacher at A.C.
Flora High School and WA.
Perry Middle School in Colum
bia.
BETTY TOLLESON
She was a member and
historian at Trinity Presbyterian
Church.
Surviving, in addition to her
parents, are her husband,
George R. Tolleson; four sons.
Chip Tolleson, William
Haywood Tolleson, Andrew
Robert Tolleson and John
Michael Tolleson, all of Colum
bia; one sister, Mrs. Lossie
Lynch Harrell; neices, Amy
Kathryn and Jane Elizabeth of
Atlanta, Ga., nephews Dr.
William Mauney Herndon of
Chapel Hill, Charles Ray Baker
of Atlanta, Ga., Robert Edward
Herndon, senior at N.C. State
University, and David Andrew
Herndon, freshman at George
Washington University in
Washington, D.C., children of
her sister, Mrs. Jean Lynch
Herndon, now deceased; and
many aunts and uncles.
Memorials may be made to
the charity of your choice. Trini
ty Presbyterian Church,
Greenlawn and Caroline Drive
Hospice Program, the cancer
group of Baptist Medical Center.
Attending funeral services
from out-of-town were Dr. and
Mrs. Thomas Baker, Mrs. Sara
George, Mrs. Lenona Lackey,
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Crawford,
Mrs. Beulah Rhea Spiver, Mrs.
Frances Payne Ramsey, Mrs.
Frances Williams Crothan, Mr.
and Mrs. Sam R. Harrell, Mrs.
Haywood E. Lynch and W.M.
Herndon Sr.