| Living Joday
KM Native Rhyne
Retires After 24 Years
As Brera Mayor
Twenty-four years ago, Kings Mountain native
Myron Rhyne was elected mayor of Graham, N.C,
a small town which was suffering from a severe
water shortage and barely had enough money to
meet its monthly payroll.
Last month, the 69-year-old Rhyne retired, leav-
ing the city with a good water system which not on-
ly serves Graham, but has extra water to sell its
neighbors, and a surplus of $1.6 million in the bank.
A huge crowd of citizens attended the December
council meeting, and one by one thanked Mayor
Rhyne and retiring City Manager Bruce Turney for
their tenure of service. Turney, who also retired,
was employed by the city in June of 1957, one
month after Rhyne was elected to his first term of
office.
Three years earlier, the county had a severe
drought, was dumping its sewage directly into Haw
River and was having trouble meeting its payroll.
With Rhyne’s leadership, the city council built
Quaker Lake, which now supplies Graham and
other area towns during times of shortage, and. the
town later built the Graham Wastewater Treatment
Plant and has installed sewer lines to serve 99 per-
cent of the city’s residents. :
Rhyne takes none of the credit, but instead says
the progress is due to a good working relationship
with the city council and city manager.
Rhyne was born and reared in Kings Mountain
and graduated from Kings Mountain High School
and N.C. State University. After a tour of duty with
the Army during World War II, he began a lengthy
career with Cannon Mills, from which he is now
retired.
Cannon once offered him a big promotion, which
would have necessitated a move to Kannapolis, but
because of his love for Graham, he turned it down.
He is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Claude
Rhyne. His mother, Cora Long Rhyne, served as
Principal of West Elementary School for a number
of years, and his father was the superintendent of
Mauney Mills, Bonnie Mills and Kings Mountain
Manufacturing (now Kings Mills). ~
He has one sister, Mary Dellinger, who still
resides in Kings Mountain, and one aunt, Mrs. M.L.
Houser, a resident of the Kings Mountain Convales-
cent Center. His older brother, Lamar, is deceased.
His wife is the former Sarah’ Hambright of Kings
Mountain. She is the sister of Mrs. Lawrence
Patrick, Mrs. Kemp Stowe and Claude Hambright,
all of Kings Mountain, and is the daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Hambright.
Rhyne got his start in the textile business during
high school when he worked in the dye house of the
Margrace and Pauline mills.
| | Photo Courtesy Burlington Times News
Retired Graham Mayor Myron Rhyne, right,
and Graham City Manager Bruce Turney
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Library
Notes
By
MARYJANE CARBO
Happy New Y ear from the Mauney Memorial Library! We’ve made
a resolution to make 1982 a library year and to do what we can to
make sure you get the books and information you need.
Are you a working parent? We know how hard it is for you to juggle
job, your home and your kids in a mere 24-hour day. It can be difficult
to fit the library into that schedule.
It was with this in mind that we have changed the public library’s
hours. We will now be open every Monday evening and every Satur-
day afternoon, in addition to our weekly schedule. Starting January
. 1st, the Mauney Memorial Library will be open at the following times:
Monday - 12 noon ‘til 8:00 p.m.
Tuesday through Saturday - 11:00 a.m. ’til 5:00 p.m.
We're hoping that parents and students and everyone else will have
more opportunity now to use the services of the public library.
Speaking of parents, countless studies have shown that it is the
parent, not the teacher, who is the single most important influence in a
child’s ability to learn to read. This is especially true when the child is
from three to five years of age. This is the time when children are
mastering all those basic skills necessary to reading. There are many
things a parent can do to encourage his or her child. But by far the
easiest, most enjoyable and most successful is simply to read to your
child.
This is one reason why librarians like to give storyhours. The more
exposure to books and stories that a child receives, the better a reader
she or he will become. :
All of this is leading up to the fact that weekly story programs are
coming to the Mauney Memorial Library. Any child aged three to five
is invited to attend and participate in stories, games, songs and other
activities especially designed to help introduce the preschool child to
the world of reading. We are extending the invitation to nursery
school classes and to parents who wish to learn more about children’s
books. : .
The thirty-minute Storytime sessions will begin at 11:00 a.m. every
Wednesday morning from January 30th to February 10th. There is, of
course, no fee for the program although registration is required. If you
would like to register your preschool-aged child for Storytime you may
do so by visiting the Mauney Memorial Library at 100 S. Piedmont St.
or by calling the library at 739-2371. :
Almost every day is a special day for a youngster. But some days are
more memorable than others. We will explore these “Favorite Days”
through books and songs during Storytime. Birthdays, of course, will
get their share of attention, as will Snowy days and Supermarket Day.
And since February 10th is very close to Valentine’s Day, we will
celebrate the holiday with a Valentine Party.
Every week the children will listen and enjoy their favorite stories,
songs and fingerplays. Then they will have a chance to choose some
books for themselves out of a box called “Chester’s Choice”.
And who is Chester? He is someone who likes little children very
much. And children who come to Storytime will be able to meet him.
For more information about Storytime and other services of the
Mauney Memorial Library, please call us at 739-2371. ;
Thursday, January 7. 1982-KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Page 1B
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- Social Calendar
Awards Banquet
Is Scheduled
On January 13
The Cleveland County
Chapter of the National Kidney
Foundation of N.C. will hold its
First Annual Awards Banquet at
the Holiday Inn in Shelby, on
Wednesday, January 13, 1982 at
7.pm. :
Featured speaker of the even-
ing will be Congressman James
T. Broyhill. Other dignitaries will
be Representative Edith Lutz;
Senator Ollie Harris; Ed
Wooters, President of the Na-
tional Kidney Foundation of
N.C.; and Larry Comer, Ex-
ecutive Director of the National
Kidney Foundation of N.C.
Stop Smoking
Clinic Slated
You have nothing to lose but
bad habits if you attend a stop
smoking or weight control hyp-
nosis clinic sponsored by the
American Lung Association or
North Carolina, Catawba Valley
Region. {
You will be offered the $35
fee back after the first of three
hypnotic inductions featured in
each one-session clinic. If you
feel hypnosis will not work for
you, you’ve lost nothing but a
few moments of your time. If it
works, you will join the hun-
dreds of North Carolina
. residents who’ve successfully
stopped smoking and lost weight
with these popular clinics.
The stop smoking clinic will
be at 6:00 p.m. and the weight
control clinic at 8:00 p.m. on
January 11 at the Eastridge Mall
on New Hope Road in Gastonia.
To register, call the American
Lung Association at (704)
464-2413, or the Self Psych of-
fice toll free at 1-800-521-3998.
The clinics will be conducted
by James H. Hoke, author of the
best selling self-help book. ' “I
Would If I Could And I Can.”
Nationally known as behavior
counselor and hypnotherapist,
+ Hoke is president of Self Psych,
Inc., which has offered the same
clinics for American Lung
Association affiliates in 74 cities
in 11 states.
Ollie Harris
Will Speak
At Meeting
State Senator Ollie Harris will
be the guest speaker at the
meeting of the Post 155
American, Legion Auxiliary
Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the
legion building. -
Senator Harris will speak on
the State Legislature.
Myrtle Christenson, president,
‘will preside over the meeting and
hostesses will be Daisy Mec-
Curry, Ida Houser, Thelma
Hicks and Mrs. John Gladden.
‘Mrs. McCurry will introduce
Senator Harris.
Little Theatre
Meets Tonight
The Kings Mountain Little
Theatre will hold its regular
monthly meeting on Thurs., Jan.
7 at 7:30 p.m. at the Parkgrace
Auditorium.
The theatre is currently work-
ing on its second production of
the season, which is the
children’s musical “Youre A
Good Man, Charlie Brown.”
It is being directed by Debbie
Rushing. Five performances will
be scheduled in mid-February.
Class Of ‘44
Plans Reunion
The Kings Mountain High
School Class of 1944 (11th and
12th) graders will have their
38th reunion on April 24. Ad-
dresses are needed for the follow-
ing persons: Pauline Ervin,
Carolyn Maxine Morris, Mary
Francis Walters, Albert Huff-
stickler and Robert Kenneth
Earley.
Anyone having those ad-
dresses. is asked to call Mrs. Nell
Costner Falls at 739-3943.
JULIA KAREN SHERRILL
(Bride-Elect of George Eugene Williamson)
ENGAGED - Rev. and Mrs. C. George Sherrill of 805
Katherine Avenue, Kings Mountain, have announced the for-
thcoming marriage of their daughter Julia Karen, to George
Eugene Williamson, son of the late George Eugene and Anna
Hartley Williams. Julia Karen is a graduate of Holbrook High
School, Lowell, and Gaston Memorial Hospital School of Nurs-
ing. She is employed by Iredell Memorial Hospital, Statesville,
as nursing supervisor. The groom-to-be is a graduate of David-
son Community College and is employed by the Statesville
Police Department as a patrolman. A February wedding is
planned.
Miss Neisler, Mr. Sumner
Plan May 22 Wedding
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mauney
Neisler, Jr., announce the
engagement of their daughter,
for one year at the Universite de
Montpellier in France. Mr.
Sumner received a Bachelor of
Catherine Elizabeth, to Harold
Randolph Sumner, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Townsend
Sumner of Gastonia. :
Both Miss Neisler and Mr.
Sumner attended high school at
Gaston Day School in Gastonia.
Miss Neisler received a Bachelor
of Arts degree in French from
Davidson College and studied,
Arts degree in history from the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. Both are currently
in their final year of study at the
Wake Forest School of Law in
Winston-Salem.
The wedding will be held on
May 22, 1982, at the First
Presbyterian Church of Kings
Mountain. ;