VOLUME 95. NUMBER 13
THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1982
EINGS MOUNTAIN. NORTH (
THE nEUJS
in BRIEF
BEAUTY(?) CONTEST
The Joumalisni Staff of Kings
Mountain Senior High School
will present its annual male
beauty contest Thursday at 8
p.m. at B.N. Barnes Auditorium.
Admission is $2 at the door. Ad
vance tickets may be purchased
for SI JO in the KMHS prin
cipal’s office. All proceeds will go
toward the production of ‘The
Literary Magazine.”
SCHOOL BOARD
The regular April meeting of
the Kings Mountain Board of
Education will be held Mon.,
April 19 at 7-30 p.m. at the
Superintendent’s Office. The
meeting was postponed from its
regular second Monday meeting
night because of Easter holidays.
COMMUNITY WATCH
Sgt. Shirley Pruitt of the
Cleveland County Sheriffs
Department will present a pro
gram on Community Watch
Thurs., Apr. 1 at the regular
meeting of the American Legion
Post 155 Women’s Auxiliary.
The meeting will begin at 7:30
p.m. at the legion building. The
public is invited to attend. Myr
tle Christenson is unit president
and Arlene Barrett is program
chairman.
Kindergarten
Screening
Is Scheduled
A screaning team of teachers,
school nurse, social worker,
speech teachers, psychologists,
and principal will be holding pre-
V school screening programs for all
children entering kindergarten in
1982-1983 and orientation for
their parents. To be eligible the
child must be five years of age on
or before October 15, 1982 and
must be a resident of the school
district. Registration is now tak
ing place at each of the five
elementary schools.
A The screening sessions are be-
* ing planned for 15 children at
one time. The first 15 are to be
screened at 8:30 on the day of
screnning, the next 15 at 10:30
and the third group of 15 at 1KX)
P.M.
The first day of screening at
North School will be May 3, at
Grover May 4, at East May 6, at
Bethware May 10, and at West
A May 12. If all sessions become
* filled additional days will be an
nounced to the children and
parents to take care of the
overflow.
Parents will need to bring
child’s official birth certificate
and his up404late “shot” record
and a copy of the physical ex
amination by the family doctor
^or the Health Department.
KMLT MEETING
Kings Mountain Little
Theatre will have a meeting
Thurs., Apr. 1 at 7 JO p.m. at
Parkgrace School. All members
are urged to attend.
RUMMAGE SALE
The Kings Mountain Fire
Department will have another
rummage sale Saturday at the
fire station. All clothes will be
sold at no more than 50 cents per
garment. Many other items will
also be available. Anyone
wishing to donate items may
take them by the fire department
or call 739-2552 and a fireman
will pick them up. All proceeds
will go toward putting a roof on
the new Fire Museum.
VFW ELECTION
VFW nomination and elec
tion of officers for 1982-83 will
be held Mon., Apr. 5 at Frank B.
Glass Post 9811 at 7 p.m. All
current membes are urged to at
tend so a good representation
can be made of available can
didates. Many important matters
will be discussed.
LEGION ELECTION
Nomination for a slate of new
post officers for 1982-83 will be
held at Otis D. Green Post 155
American Legion Tues., Apr. 6
at 7 p.m. All current members
are urged to attend so a good
representation can be made of
available candidates. The elec
tion of officers will be held on
May 4.
KM Youths Killed
In Saturday Wreck
Two Kings Mountain youths
were killed early Saturday morn
ing in an automobile accident on
1-85 near the Gaston-Cleveland
County line.
Dead on arrival at Gaston
Memorial Hospital were Roy
McArthur Lewis Jr., 18, of 320
Amherst Drive, and David
Bryan Toasty” Hardin, 19, of
Route 5, Kings Mountain.
They were passengers in a car
driven by Kevin Shawn
Bumgardner, 19, of Kings
Mountain.
Bumgardner was admitted to
Kings Mountain Hospital. He
has since been released.
The accident occured about
3:15 a.m. According to the
wreck report filed by Trooper
Don Lee of the N.C. Highway
Patrol, the car driven by
Bumgardner was traveling south
at a high rate of speed when it
came upon a tractor trailer
driven by Walter Johnson Grif
fin, 36, of Monroe. Bumgardner
moved into the right lane and
the truck began to move over in
to the right lane. Bumgardner
then ran into the crash cushion
and then into a construction bar
rier. His car came off the con-
M
ROY LEWIS
struction barrier into the path of
the truck, which knocked the car
back into the construction bar
rier.
Lee estimated damages to the
car, truck and highway struc
tures at $10,000.
Lee said Lewis and Hardin
were pinned in the vehicle for 20
to 30 minutes. The wreck Mock
ed southbound traffic for about
an hour.
Giarges are pending further
investigation.
The tragedy was the second in
less than a year for the family of
Roy Lewb. His younger brother.
Rod, was one of three youths
TOP SPELLERS - Kings Mountain Diairict
Schools' top spollors aro plcturod obovo In
Spoiling Bm compotltion Monday. Loft to
right aro lonnifor Bradloy of Kings Mountain
Junior High, who was tho winnor, Condi Black
of North. Trocy Morrison of GroTor, Dalo
Groono of East, Konnoy Pottor of Control,
Shan Connor of Wost and Ashloy Chompion
of Bothwaro.
Jennifer Bradley
District Spelling
Jennifer Bradley, eighth
grader at Kings Mountain
Junior High School, correctly
spelled “nodule” and “facsimile”
to win the annual Kings Moun
tain District Schools Spelling Bee
Monday at the Superintendent’s
Office.
Miss Bradley, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert L. Bradley of
503 Garrison Drive, will repre
sent the school system in the
regional Spelling Bee, sponsored
by the Charlotte Observer, April
23 at the Observer Auditorium.
The winner of the Observer
Bee will advance to the National
Spelling Bee in June in
Washington, D.C.
Miss Bradley survived six
rounds of spelling with Central
Middle School student Kenney
Potter after students from the
five elementary schools in the
• Sunrise Service Set
Plans for the annual com
munity Easter sunrise service
have been completed by
members of the Kin^ Mountain
Ministerial Association, the
sponsoring group. The special
a|«Tvice this year, as in many
^previous years, will be held in
the Veterans Memorial Park of
Mountain Rest Cemetery at 6
AAI., April II.
The Rev. William H. Tyson,
pastor of Boyce Memorial
A.R.P. Church, will bring the
sermon. A special message in
song will be presented by the
choir of the First Wesleyan
fphurch.
• Others participating will be
the Rev. Allen Jolley, who will
give the welcome and lead in
congregational singing; the Rev.
Sidney Lanier of El Bethel
United Methodist Church will
offer the invocation, and the
Rev. Roger Webb, pastor of
Westover Baptist Church is to
lead in the responsive reading of
the Scriptures. The Rev. Oscar
Stalcup of the Foursquare
Gospel Church will Irad in the
morning prayer, and the
benediction is to be offered by
the Rev. L.K. Fannin, minister
of the Church of the Nazarene.
The special services commit
tee of the ministerial association,
which planned the program, is
composed of the Rev. Ivan
Stephens of Central United
Methodist Church, the Rev.
Leroy Cox of East Gold
Wesleyan Church, the Rev.
Kenneth R. Looney of the Kings
Mountain Church of God, and
the Rev. J.C. Goare of Kings
Mountain Baptist Church.
These and the other ministers
of the association are hoping to
see a large attendance at the ser
vice which they believe will be
an inspiring way to celebrate the
resurrection of Jesus Christ.
They extend a cordial invitation
to everyone in of the area.
Wins
Bee
district dropped out.
Potter, a sixth grader and the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Potter
of 308 West Mountain Street,
missed “nodule”. According to
the rules. Miss Bradley then had
to spell that word, and one addi
tional word, which was “fac
simile”.
Lynne Mauney served as pro-
nouncer. Judges were Sara Grif
fin, librarian at Kings Mountain
High School, Jackie Lavender,
assistant principal at Kings
Mountain High School, and
CA. Allison, principal at North
Elementary School.
Representing the elementary
schools were Floyd O’Dale
“Dale” Greene, East; Candi
Black, North; Tracy Morrison,
Grover; Ashley Champion,
Bethware; and Michel Shan
Conner, West.
KIWANISCLUB
Rick Sloan, an employee of
Sulzer Brothers, will be guest
speaker at the meeting of the
Kiwonis Club Thursday night.
Next week’s speaker will be
Mary Carbo, librarian at
Mauney Memorial Library.
I
TOASTY HARDIN
who died in a barn fire near
Kings Mountain Junior High
School on April 6,1981.
Hardin was the son of John
Webster and Jackie Dixon Har
din of Bell Road. He was a 1981
graduate of Kings Mountain
Seniw High School and was
emplyed by Wade Ford.
Surviving, in addition to his
parents, are one brother, John
Scott Hardin of Charleston,
S.C.; one sister, Jacquelyn Rene
“Beanie” Hardin of Kings
Mountain; his paternal grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Hardin of Kings Mountain; and
his maternal grandmother, Mrs.
E.D. Dixon of Kings Mountain.
Funeral services were con
ducted Monday at 4 p.m. at
Masters Funeral Home Chapel
by the Rev. Eugene Land. Burial
was in Mountain Rest
Cemetery.
Funeral services for Lewis
were conducted Monday morn
ing at Masters Funeral Home
Chapel by the Rev. Allen
McKinney.
Graveside services were held
at 2 p.m. at the Old Nebo
Cemetery in Marion.
He was a 1981 graduate of
Kings Mountain High School
and was employed by Allied
Platics of Gastonia.
Survivors inclucte his father,
Roy Lewis Sr. of Marion; his
mother Iris Pyatt McMahan of
Kings Mountain; stepfather,
Gerald McMahan of Kings
Mountain; one brother. Grant
McMahan of Kings Mountain;
one sister. Sherry Lewis of Kings
Mountain; and paternal grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pink
Lewis of Marion.
Funeral Service Today
For Clyde Ervin Conner
Clyde Ervin Conner, 56, of
703 West King Street, co-
foUnder of C&C Scrap Iron and
Metal of Kings Mountain, died
at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday at Kings
Mountain Hospital.
A Kings Mountain native, he
was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
James Ervin Conner of Kings
Mountain. He was a member of
First Baptist Church.
Funeral services will be con
ducted Thursday at 3 p.m. at
First Baptist Church by the Rev.
Richard Plyler and the Rev.
Alien Jolly. Burial vlH be in
Mountain Rest Cemetery.
Surviving, in addition to his
parents, are his wife, Virl Allen
Conner; one son, Dennis Ervin
Conner of Kings Mountain; one
daughter, Mrs. Kenneth (Vickie)
Kuenzii of Greenville, S.C.; one
brohter, John W. Conner of
Grover; two sisters, Mrs. Donald
(Gamell) Bryant of Bessemer Ci
ty and Mrs. Robert (Betty)
Payne of Kings Mountain; and
four grandsons.
Funeral Service Held
For Freno Kennedy, 59
Freno Kennedy, 59, of 114
Benfield Road, a well-known
Kings Mountain businessman,
died Monday at 1:30 p.m. at
Kings Mountain Hospital after
several weeks illness.
A native of Gaston County,
he was the son of the late Henry
James and Bobbie Lee Long
Kennedy.
For many years, he was a
partner with James Leigh in the
Union 76 station on King Street,
and in more recent years was a
partner with Leigh in Leigh and
Kennedy Auto Service.
He was a member and deacon
at Piedmont Baptist Church and
was a veteran of World War II.
Survivors include his wife.
Ruby Hollifield Kennedy; one
daughter, Mrs. Danny (Luanh)
Bryant of Kings Mountain; one
brother. Bill Kennedy of Kings
Mountain; and three sisters,
Mrs. R.N. (Martha) Guthrie of
Shelby, Mrs. Harold (Iva) Belk of
Charlotte and Mrs. Sadie Splawn
of Spartanburg.
Funeral services were con
ducted at 4 p.m. Wednesday at
Piedmont Baptist Church by the
Rev. James Green. Burial was in
Mountain Rest Cemetery.
Pam Hatch Finalist
In Scholars Program
The U.S. Department of
Education and the Commission
on Presidential Scholars an
nounced today the names of the
1982 Finalists in the Presidential
Scholars Program, which an
nually identifies the most
distinguished and accomplished
graduating high school seniors
in the nation.
Pamela Hatch, daughter of
George L. Hatch, who lives at
311 W. Mtn. St., Kings Moun
tain, is one of the 1 fiOO outstan
ding young American students
to become a finalist in this pro
gram from among more than
three million seniors to graduate
this year.
She has been awarded a cer
tificate by the President’s Com
mission on Presidential Scholars.
Pamela is a graduating senior at
Kings'Mountain High School.
The selection of those Finalists
FAN HATCH
who will become Presidential
Scholars will be made in April by
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