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Buffalo - 1902 Cleveland KINGS MOUNTAIN 1902 - Const Buffalo - 1902 Cleveland KINGS MOUNTAIN 1902 - Const. Admit. to KINGS MOUNTAIN. • CLIPPING SERVICE 1115 HILLSBORO IJ./ RALEIGH, NC 27603 tI TEL (919) 833-2079 THE SHELBY STAR * MONDAY *JUNE 19, 2000 Buffalo Baptist Church remains a fixture CHURCH FROM 1A . Traditions dear to Buffalo Manufacturing Co. owner Tom include Easter Sunrise service, Lattimore in 1913, Still, the with the Lord's Supper served schoolhouse did for several out in the cemetery; followed by more years, and a room to it breakfast, now served in the fel- was added in 1922, lowship hall. In the 1920s,services were Memorial Day - always the held on the fourth Saturday and fourth Sunday in May - the Sunday of each month. By 1934, day for remembering the faith- it was two Sundays a month. ful who came before, was an It was 1950before the church outdoor event too. had its first full-time pastor, the "It was hot and those flies ... Rev. O. B. Williams, and 1952 but we had some good times when the wooden building was there," Mrs. Stamey said. moved over a little to make way Dinner on the grounds was for a new brick church, which sheltered by the tall trees, and opened in 1953.. flowers were brought to deco- That is the sanctuary the rate the graves in the cemetery. congregation worships in today; Church historian Bertha and the congregation enjoys an Lackey wrote in the preface to educational building/fellow- the 75th anniversary book in 1977,"We remember those who ship hall opened in 1965. The ~ Special to The Star old wooden church was sold have given us our heritage ... In then, dismantled and moved. His mercy, we face the future." The first church building was a school house, and church members added the wing in 1922. This photo was taken in 1951. four to four and a half minutes ed by agreeing to have EMS sta- without a project of my"_?wn.I from the time we receive the tioned at the site. have never been out of .'~rk alarm," Hamrick said. "Due to And while fireflghters haven't and the only thing I ha\~n't ' " annexation, we've had some six- been assigned to the station yet, made are these big, popular minute runs in that area." Hamrick said they will enjoy a films. I have never wanted to Four firefighters and two top-notch facility and state-of-the- and I never will." EMS workers will be on duty at art equipment. On Thursday, "Nashville" the station 24 hours a day, seven The fire department has kicks off an 18-fIlmretrospec-r" days a week. already bought a new fire truck tive of Altman's films spon- '''~ n The station is the third sta- for the station. Hamrick said the sored by the Los Angeles :~,~; Associated Press tion in the Shelby Fire coverage area is a mixture of res- County Museum of Art. Windward Downs in north Raleigh as the sun rises. Department; the other two are idential and commercial build- Most majormat stu dilOS would TlII1... such a heavy toll on the Research Triangle landscape the Grover Street Station and the ings, meaning the fire depart- balk at making 1970's "MASH~i'111 stland that covered Wake and Durham counties in the Charles Road Station. ment needs a versatile vehicle. or 1975's "Nashville" today, he , ppear over the next 20 years, officials said. Freeman said building the He said the truck they bought said, because of the fllms' .~ Kings Road Extension station has fits the bill, with a 75-foot, 600- sprawling narratives, huge h. ailing to development been a cooperative effort between pound capacity ladder, rescue casts and satiric treatment of .. the city,the county and Cleveland equipment and remote control human tragedy. Community College. water nozzles. Altman says Hollywood is reh Triangle area "The property we're building "You can run it like a now more interested in "toy that although half of the Triangle on was owned by the community Nintendo system," Hamrick said films" than adult-oriented fare .. is still covered with trees, tracts of college," Freeman said. "The col- of the remote control features. "They are appealing to the "interior" forest, 17acres or more, lege is building a classroom and Hamrick said residents will 13-year-olds straight across. are limited. fire training center at the rear of be as pleased with the new fire And they don't even do them At Duke, Halpin compared the property." station as he is. well. There is no reason why NASA satellite images of the This training center will "I think the community over this recent Tom Cruise film, region from 1986and 1997 in an serve all of the fire departments there will be proud of it," he said. 'Mission: Impossible 2,' can't be effort to establish areas of perma- good as well as have all the nent vegetation loss. action they need," Altman said. "The amount of change speck- "They are making stuff that 11 1 led all over the landscape is very Cleveland County gets won't endure." striking," he "It's a much <UU:=-<;lUI,.I.......,JlUore Crocodile Dundee, most people at first." s te t· g in 2 4 Local ordinances in most where have you been? tailpipe test," Gordey said. Triangle governments now EMISSIONS FROM 1A BRISBANE, Australia (AP) However, since the OBD sys- require a percentage of each Go~dey s.aid the testing pro- - U.S.-based actor Paul Hogan tem didn't become standard development to be left as "open gram Itself IS changing and the will return home to Australia to until 1996, older cars can't be space," a policy that saves trees "tailpipe test" now used in make a third movie about tested. Gordey said by 2004, but encourages forest fragmenta- Gaston and other tested coun- Outback swashbuckler tion. Other ordinances aim to pro- ties won't be used when testing most cars on the road will be Crocodile Dundee. 1996 models or newer and as tect street trees and buffers along starts up in Cleveland County. The Queensland state gov- and fragmen- adjoining properties. Instead, cars will have to time passes, a larger percentage ernment said the filming of of cars will need testing. increase ero- But Kate Dixon, executive pass an on-board diagnostic "Crocodile Dundee III" would water runoff, director of the Triangle Land (OBD) test. The tougher air pollution start.in August at the Movie standards are designed to quality, and Conservancy, said regional plan- "In 1996, the auto industry World Studios on the Gold Coast, habitat and ning for open space and forest standardi~ed ,~hisOBD system," reduce ozone levels, which is 55miles south of Brisbane. preservation is minimal. Gordey said. They have a little the main factor in urban smog. A former construction work- In April, the conservancy, an plug around the dash area Cars and trucks account for er and stand-up comic, Hogan environmental group in Raleigh, where you plug in an OBD about half of the state's ozone- became a celebrity after starring called for a "Greenl'rint;" a devel- tool." forming emissions, according as the laconic, wisecracking title to the North Carolina opment plan that would identify ~his c~mp~terized system character in the 1986hit the remaining tracts of forest that tells the dnver if the car is hav- Department of Environment "Crocodile Dundee," which could be targeted for protection. ing any problems with its emis- and Natural Resources. earned an Academy Award nom- "It's a tremendously complex sion system and where those Most of the counties added ination for its three writers. problem we've got before us," said problems are located. to the list of tested counties are While still a hit, a 1988sequel Neal Hunt, chairman of the If a car is having problems in the Piedmont, the state's was not as successful as the orig- Raleigh Planning Commission. with its emission system those most heavily populated area. inal and Hogan's career has ' The new standards take "Tree preservation is critical .... must be repaired before' a car flagged since. His most recent On the other hand, we've got pri- can jiass inspection. effect in Lincoln County on Jan. success has been as a celebrity 1, 2004, and in Rutherford vate-property rights." "It's more stringent than the pitchman for the Subaru County on July 1, 2005. Outback. -- WEATHER I LOCAL AND NATIONAL II II II ~i2~~ (,~\ -W_I'.<A ~UbJ p~ The Son Company rom Gardner-Webb College will present a special musical program Sunday at 7 p. m. at Buffalo Ba2tist Church. The group specializes in ministering to people of varying age groups in a number of ways including gospel music, pup- petry and preaching. Buffalo Baptist Church is located across from Dover Yarn Mills. The Rev. Marvin Whisnant is pastor, and David R. Hutchins is youth director. The Junior Choir of Wardell Chapel Church will present a concert Sunday at 3 p. m. at the church on the occasion of the closing of the baby contest. E. W. Jones is pianist for the group, and Miss M. E. Jones is director. The program is' sponsored by the Parent Body of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society. Film Slated The film, "Corrie: Behind the Scenes with 'The Hiding Place'" will be presented Sunday at 7 p. m. at David Baptist Church. located on Highway 74 across from Beth- ware School. The full-length color release from World Wide Pictures tells of the life, family and lifetime of service to others of Corrie 'ten Boom.
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