Page 2AKINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Thursday. June 14, 1984
Celebration Will Show How Great State Is
The celebration of America’s 400th anniversary is being billed as the
celebration to end all celebrations-a full three years of events to com-
memorate the first English settlement in America. Most counties of
the 100 in the state are planning celebrations beginning in July. Many
are already sponsoring events and there will be many more between
now and the end of the celebration in August, 1987.
This celebration is about what happened 400 years ago when the
English landed, about what happened before they got here, and about
everything that’s happened since. The celebration is expected to touch
the lives of all Tar Heels from every corner of the state and is much
more than a nostalgic look into/our past.
Governor Jim Hunt, who was in Winston-Salem for the state
meeting of the American Legion and Auxiliary over the weekend, says
the planned celebrations are the best chance to show the world what a
remarkable place this state is. He said the state’s investment in these
programs will pay us back in decades in increased tourism as well as
new knowledge and understanding. He said it will also reward us with
a new pride in our heritage as North Carolinians. He added his invita-
tion for all of us to join in the excitement as we take vacations this year
and join in the celebrations in the Outer Banks and in other historic
areas of the state. ;
The Arthur Patterson, Sr. descendants reunion held at Patterson
Grove Baptist Church Sunday was a celebration of 126 members of
the clan who enjoyed a bountiful feast served picnic style under the
huge oak trees in the church yard.
Those who previously had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Bob Patter-
son, Professor of Religion, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, were look-
ing forward to this occasion. Dr. Patterson was not only speaker for
the reunion group, but also guest speaker at the morning service at
Patterson Grove. During the morning service, Dr. Patterson presented
the congregation with an artists drawing of the first white wooden
church occupied by the congregation until 1922.
Dr. Patterson reports something new for the Genealogical Record of
the Pattersons each gathering of the clan which has now become a
tradition every two years. He hopes to bring new material when he
goes to England on a teaching assignment and visit to the Patterson
emigration area in Ireland. A surprise gift from the Earnest Lee and
Laura McGill family to Dr. Patterson was a highlight of the occasion
also. Rufus McGill, an expert in woodcrafting, presented him with a
beautiful table made of various woods with brass hinges. Rufus paid
tribute to Dr. Bob for making the 1100 mile journey for all the
previous reunions. Mark Patterson, grandson of the Dewitt Pattersons
and son of Jack, presented an interesting review of all the Pattersons
serving in the Civil War.
Becky Falls Scism, 1984 coordinator for the reunion, announced the
1986 coordinator would be Dennis Patterson. The oldest person in at-
tendance was Willard Mrs. Grady) Patterson, born in 1894. Ellen
(Mrs. Clarence) Patterson Plonk, born in 1886, is the oldest living
member of the Patterson clan in the area.
New Arrivals
Mary Darlene and Michael Bell of Kings Mountain have announc-
ed the birth of a daughter, Lakeisha Nicole, June 11, at 2:38 a.m. at
Cleveland Memorial Hospital, Shelby. The baby weighed 7 pounds,
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She has two sisters, Shanda, 6, and Sharlene, 3.
Grandparents are Nancy and Willie James Bell of Kings Mountain
and Mary Burris of Shelby. Great-grandparents are King Rosboro of
Shelby and Bubba Wade of Kings Mountain.
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Angela and Robert Ray of Kings Mountain have announced the
birth of a son, Andrew Robert, June 5, Cleveland Memorial Hospital,
Shelby.
Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Somes Ray and Mr. and Mrs. Ray:
Bronson of Shelby.
Great-grandparents are Mr. and Mrs Howard Patterson and
Everette Bronson of Shelby and Notra Roberts of Blacksburg, S.C.
Great-great-grandmother is Cora Blanton of Shelby.
Jimmy King Honored
Rep. Olin Phillips of Blacksburg, S.C., recently honored the late Jim-
my King, who passed away recently with cancer.
A certificate which was presented to King’s sons, Marty and Phillip
King, read: “Upon the untimely death of this courageous man who
was a former Jaycee, city police officer and Vietnam veteran; who will
be missed by all who knew him and loved him, I, Olin Phillips would
like to express sincere sympathy to the family of Jimmy King.”
King, a Kings Mountain native and the son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Ellis King, was a Blacksburg city policeman and was active in the
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B ] HUMPHRIES
3 ‘MOORESBORO- ‘Beulah
Juanita H. Humphries, 85, of
Route 1, died Monday at
Cleveland Memorial Hospital.
A native of Cleveland Coun-
ty, she was the daughter of the
late Lawson “Ben”
Moore Humphries. She was mar-
ried to the late A. Glenn Hum-
phriés.
She is survived by four sons,
Boyce Humphries and Gene
Humphries of Gaffney, S.C,
and Edward Humphries and
Mickey Humphries of
Mooresboro; six daughters,
Prella Arrowood of Mooresville,
Irene Harmon and Elma Harris
of Mooresboro, Margaret Bat-
chelor of Gaffney, Evelyn
Ridings of Chesnee, S.C., and
Janice Clements of Hickory; two
brothers, Gotha Humphries of
Mooresboro and Lassie Hum-
phries of Cliffside; three sisters,
Beuna Robbs of Kings Moun-
tain, Doris Bailey of Gaffney
and Mrs. O.Z. Brown of Foun-
tain Inn, S.C.; 26 grandchildren;
and 13 great-grandchildren.
Services were conducted
Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Camps
Creek Baptist Church, where she
was a member, by the Rev.
Robert Toney and Dr. Charles
Moss. Burial was in the church
cemetery.
AMOS ROBERTS
Amos Belton Roberts, 68, of
Route 1, Grover, died Monday
at Cleveland Memorial Hospital.
A native of Cherokee County,
S.C., he was the son of the late
Siles James and Haney Green
Roberts. He was a member and
deacon at St. Peter’s Baptist
Church in Grover and was a
member of Star Lodge Number 5
of Grover.
Survivors include his wife,
Lula Amae Tuft Roberts; five
sons, Rev. EM. Roberts and
Amos Roberts Jr. of Kings
Mountain and James Roberts,
Leon Roberts and Odus Roberts,
all of Grover; four daughters,
Mahalia Roberts, Geraldine
Logan, Kathy Feemster and
Dora Houze, all of Grover; four
sisters, Odessa Roberts and Isbell
Williams of Bridgeport, Conn.,
Selena Boulware of Shelby and
Laura Brooks of Washington,
D.C.; and 22 grandchildren.
Arrangements will be an-
nounced by J.W. Gill and Sons
Funeral Home of Kings Moun-
tain.
BITURRIES
and Ida
jaycees for a number of years.
- MARGARET PETERSON
"Margaret Victoria Moore
Peterson, 52, of Battleground
Road, Grover, died Monday.
She was the daughter of the
late Ervin and Betty Davis
Moore.
Survivors include her hus-
band, David Peterson; six
brothers, Willie Moore of
Winston-Salem, B.R. Moore,
Bobby Moore, and Clifford
Moore of Kings Mountain, and
RK. Moore and David Moore
of Grover; and two sisters, Nan-
cy Adams of Kings Creeks, S.C.,
and Alpha Bowens of China
Grove.
Services were conducted
Wednesday at 3 p.m. at Eastside
Baptist Church in Blacksburg by
the Rev. Maurice Hampton.
Burial was in the Antioch Bap-
tist Church cemetery.
MICHAEL McINTYRE
Funeral services for Michael
Eugene McIntyre, 23, of Alta
Vista, Va, grandson of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank McIntyre of Kings
Mountain, were conducted
Monday afternoon at 4 p.m.
from New Bethel United
Methodist Church in Alta Vista,
interment following in Alta
Vista Memorial Park.
The rites were conducted by
Rev. Henry Andrews.
McIntyre was killed in an
automobile accident near Lyn-
chburg, Va., and his fiancee,
riding with him, was seriously in-
jured.
Surviving are his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Don McIntyre, two
sisters, Phyllis and Nancy, and a
brother, Wayne McIntyre, all of
the home; and his grandparents,
Frank and Ila McIntyre of Kings
Mountain.
VENNIE A. GUINN
Funeral services for Vennie
Adams Guinn, who died Friday,
were conducted last Wednesday
afternoon at 4 p.m. from
Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Rev. D.C. Wilson officiated at
the rites and interment was in
the church cemetery.
JW. Gill & Sons Funeral
Home was in charge of ar-
rangements.
MAYE H. HENDRICK
Funeral services for Maye
Hoyle Hendrick, 66, of Cher-
ryville, who died Thursday, were
conducted Sunday at 4 p.m.
from St. John’s Lutheran
Church of Cherryville of which
she was a member, interment
following in the church
cemetery.
Rev. Harold Skinner and Rev.
Charles E. Page officiated at the
rites.
A native of Lincoln County,
she was the wife of the late
William Ambrose Hendrick and
daughter of the late Robert Lon-
zo and Junie Frances Canipe
Hoyle. She was a retired
employee of McGill Clinic and a
former employee of Dr. F.M.
Houser of Cherryville.
Surviving are her son, Joey
Hendrick of Houston, Texas;
brother, Robert M. Hoyle of
Vale; two sisters, Alda Houser of
Vale and Alma Turner of
Charlotte; and a granddaughter.
Memorials may be made to St.
John’s Lutheran Church, West
Church St., Cherryville, N.C.
28021 or to the charity of the
donor’s choice.
Carpenter’s Funeral Home
was in charge of arrangements.
GERTRUDE ROSEBORO
Funeral services for Gertrude
Roseboro, 51, of Route 1, who
died Sunday in the Kings Moun-
tain Hospital, were conducted
Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m.
from Gethsemane Baptist
Church, interment following in
the church cemetery.
Mrs. Roseboro was a member
of Hopewell Baptist Church and
the daughter of the late Walker
and Hattie Wilson.
Surviving are her husband,
Marve Roseboro of Shelby;
three brothers, Fred Wilson of
Florida, Johnny Wilson of Kings
Mountain and Arthur Wilson of
Washington, D.C. and one sister,
Annie Mae Camp of Kings
Mountain.
Rev. James Mintz officiated at
the rites.
W. FRANK HERNDON
Funeral services for W. Frank
Herndon, 73, of Bethlehem
Road, who died Friday at
Cleveland Memorial Hospital
after several year’s illness, were
conducted Sunday afternoon at
4 p.m. from Bethlehem Baptist
Church.
Rev. Roland Leath and Rev.
Sam Murphy officiated at the
rites and interment was in the
church cemetery.
Mr. Herndon was a retired
farmer and native of Cleveland
county, son of the late Walter H.
and Pratt Fulton Herndon. He
was. a member of Bethlehem
Baptist Church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Evelyn Dixon Herndon, of the
home; three sons, W. Roy Hern-
don and Ray Herndon, both of
Kings Mountain, and Coyt
Herndon of Shelby; one brother,
George Herndon of Rock Hill,
S.C. and eight grandchildren.
MRS. EDITH HARMON
Graveside services for Mrs.
Edith Davidson Harmon, 84, of
656 Fittswalter Drive, Winter
Park, Fla., who died Monday in
Humana Hospital at Brandon,
Fla., were conducted Wednes-
day afternoon at 2 p.m. from
Mountain Rest Cemetery.
Mrs. Harmon was a native of
Cleveland County, daughterof
the late John Thompson and
Martha Bolin Davidson. She was
widow of Jerome B. Harmon Sr.
and a member of Anona United
Methodist Church of Largo, Fla.
Surviving are her son, Jerome
B. Harmon, Jr. of Winter Park,
Fla., one daughter, Nedra
Wysong of Valrico, Fla., two
brothers, Sylvester Davidson of
Palo Alto, Calif. and Hubert
Davidson, both of Kings Moun-
tain, five grandchildren and four
great-grandchildren.
WALTER PATTERSON
Funeral services for Walter S.
Patterson, 46, of 8100 Margrace
Road, who died Thursday, were
conducted Saturday afternoon
at 2 p.m. from Davidson
Memorial Baptist Church by Dr.
Bobby Ridge, interment follow-
ing in Shelby’s Sunset Cemetery.
Mr. Patterson was a native of
Cleveland County, son of the
late Marion Lemuel and Mattie
Moss Patterson.
He was employed as a truck
driver for Nehi Royal Crown
Bottling Company.
Surviving are his wife,
Carolyn Joan Good Patterson;
three sons, Keith Patterson of
Shelby and Seth Patterson and
Derek Patterson of Kings Moun-
tain; four daughters, Angela
Carpenter and Judy Patterson of
Casar, Tammy Bolton of Shelby
and Monta Patterson of Kings
Mountain; four stepdaughters,
Paula Goforth and Trenda
~ Carpenter of Kings Mountain
and Tina Leach and Andrea
Smith of Charleston, W. Va.,
two brothers, Lemuel Patterson
and A.W. Patterson of Shelby; a
sister, Mildred P. Pearson of
Shelby; and six grandchildren.
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Golf Tourney Set
Kings Mountain Women’s Golf Association will host the annual
June Handicap Tournament this Saturday and Sunday at Kings
Mountain Country Club Golf Course.
Tee-off time is 9 a.m. Saturday.
Golfers who want to participate in the tournament are asked to sign
up in the Pro Shop at the club. In event of rain, the tournament will be
rescheduled.
Local women golfers participated recently in May Day Play Day ac-
tivities and played golf in the Foothills League tournament hosted by
the Lake Hickory Countrv Club members in which 90 women played.
Mary Leigh Broadwell of Kings Mountain won top honors in the
May Day Play Day at the local club. 0
In the Foothills League. competition at Lake Hickory, Lynn
Mauney won second low gross in first flight and Margaret Williams
won first low net in first flight. Others going to Lake Hickory for the
day of golfing were Susie Howard, Linda Rome, Connie Ledford, Ann
Pouchak and Mary Leigh Broadwell.
Auxiliary Wins Awards
Five members of the American Legion Auxiliary from Unit 155
brought back a number of awards from the state convention in
Winston Salem this weekend.
The local unit won first place for its history, written by Elizabeth
Stewart, second place in both community service and constitution and
by laws, a certificate for its participation in the aging program by
volunteer service, a honor roll certificate, and department citation for
meetings all its obligations to the VA&R program and membership.
District 23 president Myrtle Christenson won two plaques for having
all five units goal in membership in her district and in giving to
veterans and their families.
Attending the meeting were Arlene Barrett, Myrtle Christenson,
Orangrel Jolly, Ruth Gamble and Lib Stewart.
Representing the American Legion Post 155 was Joe H. McDaniel.
Comings And Goings
Mrs. J.H. Arthur and her daughters, Mrs. George B. (Marion)
Thomasson and Peggy (Mrs. Winston) Miller of Burlington have
returned from Washington, D.C. where they visited Shirley (Mrs.
Robert) Kinneman and Dr. Kinneman who live in the Mount Vernon
section of Washington. Mrs. Kinneman is daughter of Mrs. Arthur.
They made the trip by car and also took the occasion to visit Mount
Vernon and other scenic areas in the nation’s capital.
Slants
By
Gary Stewart
Editor's Note: We thought our readers might enjoy the follow-
ing column written by Roger Bryant, associate publisher of the
Monticello (Iowa) Express, in which it first appeared. It has
since appeared in several publications. It's a gem, and as an
editor of a weekly newspaper, I can identify with much of
what he writes, and I believe our readers will find it in-
I’ve always wanted to be an editor. You know, a real journalist. The
guy who knows everything about what’s going on in the world, all the
latest rumors, the real reason why some public official’s secretary quit
her job. I've wanted to be the guy who sits behind the cluttered desk at
an old typewriter, wearing a stretched out gray sweater, and have a
pencil behind my ear. Maybe even wear one of those green plastic
visors.
Oh, I've been a publisher, and an associate publisher, an ad
manager, computer operator and paste-up person, but never editor. At
a real newspaper those jobs are just the support system for the editor.
This week our editor, John Peterson, is on vacation. And I thought
that after 15 years in this business my opportunity had finally arrived.
Wrong. Mike Kent got the job. Mike is filling in for John, and
somewhat reluctantly told me last week that I could write John’s col-
umn if I would keep it clean.
I was elated. Writing a column is the best of both worlds. You can
knock out brilliant prose and you don’t really have to know anything.
My column would be in John’s spot on the editorial page and if I didn’t
sign it no one would know the difference. John has been named best
columnist in the state in our circulation category two years in a row,
but that’s no hill for a climber.
Look at Don Kaul for example. His qualifications for column :
writing are that he’s balding, has a moustache, rides a bike and has quit
one job after another in the state. I qualify for three out of four.
I asked Mike Sunday afternoon how his new job of editor was go- *
ing. He said it was going fine. He asked me how being a columnist was
going and I said I couldn’t think of anything to write about. Mike
worked 13 hours Sunday. I worked two.
Monday I noticed that being the editor wasn’t all fame and glory. It
means having your desk right next to the front door and answering the
phone and waiting on customers and listening to grumpy people who
didn’t like the way we spelled our granddaughter’s name.
“Reporting” means writing up church notes and meetings and
deciphering illegible handwriting on 4-H club news. It means
translating abbreviations and trying to figure out what the bride’s
mother wore from a wedding form stained with punch.
I also found out that being editor means you have to explain to irate
parents why their son’s name can’t be left out of the police report even |
if they have been a subscriber for 50 years. By noon Monday, I had
decided that being a journalist was problably the lesser of two evils.
But I still hadn’t started a column.
Then it hit me. I was like a banner headline in three-inch letters and
red ink. Every time a journalist has writer’s block (that’s the technical
term for a blank mind) he writes about someone’s mother. John wrote
about meeting his mother just last week.
I remembered telling my mother on the phone last week about my
terrible cold. She told me how to cure it and I think the local medical
people should take note.
After reminding me that I shouldn’t smoke, she passed this informa-
tion along. Clip and paste it to your medicine chest.
Mix together: 1 tsp. sugar, 1 tsp. mineral oil, 1 tsp. sulpher, 1 tsp.
ginger, juice of one lemon, 2 oz. 100 proof whiskey. Top off with boil-
ing water to make an eight-ounce drink.
Drink the mixture and go to bed immediately. A rubber bedsheet on
the bed is good because the patient will sweat profusely.
If you double the sulpher in the recipe, according to my mother, you
will stop smoking.
If you double the mineral oil, youll be afraid to cough.
Hurry home John.
Stewart’s
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