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Page 2A-KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Thursday, March 28, 1985 EDITOR. OPINON TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Tell me ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? Galations 4:21 ~ OBITURRIES EARNEST HARTGROVE Funeral services for Earnest Hartgrove, 69, of Holly Oak Meadowbrook Apartment C, Shelby, who died Monday in the Cleveland Memorial Hospital, were con- ducted Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. at Old Ellis Baptist Church. Rev. Walter B. Ellis of- ficiated at the rites and inter- ment was in the church cemetery. Mr. Hartgrove was an employee of Colon Hamrick Construction of Shelby and a member of Old Ellis Chapel Baptist Church of Patterson Springs. A native of Cleveland Coun- ty, he was the son of the late Sidney and Alice Rippy Har- tgrove. Surviving are his wife, Vic- toria Brooks Hartgrove of the home; a son, Richard Lee Hartgrove of Fort Riley, Kan., six daughters, Sue Feaster, Margaret Feaster, Sunday Meeks, and Shirley Brooks of Grover, and . Odessa Robbs and Terri Hop- . per of Shelby; a brother, : Jessie Hartgrove of Shelby; Lucy ‘Jane two sisters, Adams of Shelby and Eliza Bell of Philadelphia, Pa., 24 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. WILLIAM McKEE SHELBY - William Worth McKee, 84, of 7646 Stage Coach Trail, died Monday at Meadowbrook Manor in Gastonia. 3 A Cleveland County native, he was the son of the late Susan McKee Green and the husband of the late Blanche Cogdell McKee. He was a retired farmer and member of Community Baptist Church. He is survived by four daughters, Irene McNeely of Kings Mountain, Carrie Hoff- man of Morganton, Shirley Jones of Polkville and Mozelle Duchemin of San An- tonio, Texas; two half- brothers, Faye and Esley Green of Shelby: a half- sister, Nellie Webb of Shelby: 11 grandchildren, 20 great- grandchildren and five great- great-grandchildren. . Graveside services will be conducted Thursday at 3:30 p.m. at Rehobeth Methodist Church Cemetery by the Rev. Andy Meade. Memorials may be made to the American Heart Fund. THOMAS ROSS Thomas Eugene Ross, 63, of 805 First Street, Kings Mountain, died Tuesday at Kings Mountain Hospital. A native of Cleveland Coun- ty, he was the son of the late William Anderson and Mary Elizabeth McClure Ross. He was a retired textile employee, veteran of World War II and a member of Pied- mont Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife, Estelle Street Ross; two sons, Pete Ross and Terry Ross of Kings Mountain; two daughters, Jean Conner and Wanda Timms of Kings Mountain; five brothers, Yates Ross, Elmer Ross, Bill Ross, Johnny Ross and Bud Ross of Kings Mountain; three sisters, Lura Queen and Farrie Lybrand of Kings Mountain and Lillie” Mincey of Gastonia; 10 grand- children and one great- grandchild. Services will be conducted Thursday at 3 p.m. at Pied- mont Baptist Church by Rev. Timothy Spencer. Burial will be in Cemetery. Fi The family received friends Wednesday from 7-9 p.m. at Harris Funeral Home. LUTHER WEAVER Funeral services for Luther Weaver, 48; of Route 10, Shelby, who died Wednes- day in Cleveland Memorial Hospital, were conducted Monday at 2 p.m. from Eskridge Grove Baptist Church by Rev. Eugene Pryor, interment following in the church cemetery. Mr. Weaver was a native of Cleveland County, son of the late Willie and Annie Goss Weaver and was a former employee of Dicey Mills. He was a member of New Bethel Independent Church in Forest City. Surviving are his wife, Earlene Fuller Weaver; three sons, John L. Weaver of Fairfax, Va., Mickhell Weaver of Kings Mountain and Bernard Weaver of Shelby; two daughters, Velvet Gill of Shelby and Ver- nita Weaver of the home; one stepdaughter, Ossie Mae Miller of Miami, Fla., one brother, Charlie B. Weaver of Shelby; two sisters, Emma Coates of Shelby and Lou Ada Miller of Miami and 14 grand- children. GARLAND ATKINS Publisher DARRELL AUSTIN General Manager GARY STEWART Managing Editor ELIZABETH STEWART News Editor What - No Emergency Room - How Lucky! When you vacation with small children, you measure the success of your trip - not on how much fun you had, but on how much time you spent in the nearest emergency room. : On your return, you don’t reflect upon how nice the weather was, but on how lucky you were that you didn’t wreck the car. You aren’t ecstatic over how much you saw, but over the fact you didn’t get any speeding tickets. You're not even proud of all the souvenirs you bought. You thank your lucky stars that nothing was lost or stolen. If you're the children, you think about what a wonderful trip you had, if you're the parents, you survey the damage. On a recent vacation trip to Disney World with my wife and three boys, I drove thirteen hundred miles, spent six nights in three different hotels and returned home with not a scratch on the car, no speeding tickets, no broken bones and nothing lost or stolen. Not once did I have to show my Blue Cross card or driver’s license to anyone. I call that a successful trip. I don’t recall ever taking a week-long trip with children without at least one calamity. During one vacation trip to the beach, our baby sitter fell off the second story of our beach house, bounced off the top of several cars and we spent the rest of the week sitting our sit- ter. ’ : On another trip, one of my sons was firing off a Roman Can- dle on the beach and the darned thing backfired and that was another trip to the emergency room. I once chaperonned a group of thirty teenagers on a beach trip. The group had their own performing band and they played wide open night and day. I woke up one night with a tremendous migraine headache and thought I was dying. The doctor, upon learning about the group and their band said simply ‘‘take two aspirin and sleep on the beach.” I seldom make it back from a trip without at least one speeding ticket. One understanding policeman let me off the hook when he saw how sunburned I was. He almost cried and didn’t want to inflict any more pain on me. 50) It’s bad enough to return from a vacation tired and broke, but when you return with both your pocketbook and your arm broke, it’s worse. : When Parents discuss vacations with other parents, the bad news usually comes first. You discuss all the accidents, the Garland Atkins speeding tickets, the stolen pocket books. Then you go on to the good aspects, if there were any. I know one couple who also have three boys and their vaca- tion trios sound like horror stories. The dad was fishing with one of his sons on one trip and the son hooked him a “Big Un”. It was his dad. On a skiing trip, one of this same couple's sons broke his collar bone. On our family’s recent vacation I really didn’t mind the four hundred trips to the bathroom, the seventy six stops at fast food restaurants, the boys constantly fighting and fuss- ing, or the long lines at Disney World. The normal aggrava- tion is expected. I didn’t even mind driving thirteen hundred miles. Actually it was only 1,280 miles. My wife, Ellen drove her share - 20 miles. Just keep me out of the hospital, the police station, the lost and found department and your local body shop and I'll show you how to have a wonderful trip. 1915 Second St. Damages total- ‘Mountain Rest ed $1,200. , +, Biker Injured In Wreck From Page 1-A p.m. on East King Street a 1984 Plymouth operated by Cardine Gregory of Route 2. Iron Station, hit a 1970 Ford operated by Harold Foster, Saturday at’ 12 :30, Bouapha ~ Silapheth, No. 30 Landmark Apts. told city officer Derrick Johnson that he had parked his 1979 Toyota at the washerette at the corner of Carpenter and King Strets and left his children inside the car while he went into the washerette. The children ap- parently let the emergency brakes - off, the car rolled backwards and into a 1974 Pontiac being operated by Roy Baldock of Bessemer Ci- ty, on King Street. The children were unhurt. The Pontiac was damaged $1,000. The Toyota was damaged $500. Saturday afternoon at 2:55 p.m. a 1974 Ford operated by Sylvia Young of Gastonia hit a 1980 Volvo operated by Elizabeth Gra%es, of Bessemer City on Ridge St. Damages totaled $1,200. Saturday night at 11:30 p.m. on North Piedmont Avenue James Young, 3500 Margrace Road, told city of- ficer Sgt. Houston Corn that he was blinded by bright lights from an oncoming vehicle. The Young 1973 Olds left the roadway, hit the curb- ing, came back onto the road, skidded 210 feet and into a mailbox owned by the U.S. Postal Service doing $350 damage to his car and $100 damage to the mailbox. On Monday at 10:30 a.m. on York Road Ruth Eubanks, of George Lewis, Road, was backing out of the parking lot at Ben T. Goforth Plumbing. Mrs. Eubanks said that the brakes on her 1971 Ford fail- ed, the vehicle backed around in the highway and into the plate glass window of Ben T. Goforth Plumbing, doing $300 damage to the window and no damage to her car. The driver was not injured. On Monday at 1:20 p.m. on Cooke Circle, a city garbage truck operated by Sidney Hunter of 412 York Road, hit a parked vehicle owned by Priscilla Harrison, 203 Cooke Circle, doing $300 to her 1984 “Ford and $25.00" to the gar- bage truck owned by the City of Kings Mountain. On Monday at 6:30 p.m. a 1977 Ford operated by Archie Ross, Route 5, hit a parked 1977 Ford owned by Hiawatha Parker, No. 42 Landmark Apt. in the parking lot of Landmark Apts. doing $200 damage to the Parker vehicle and $25 to the Ross car. WHO WHAT WHEN WHERE WHY Youth Revival Slated Reg Alexander, Founder and Director of Regal Ven- ~ tures, will be the guest speaker for Youth Revival services at Grace United Methodist Church beginning Friday, March 29th, and con- tinuing through Sunday, March 31. Services are at 7:30 p.m. . each evening and the public is invited to attend. Regal Ventures is a na- tional youth ministry which is based in Kings Mountain. Alexander travels throughout the Southeastern states to work with church and civic groups. He has writ- ten Bible studies that have been distributed nationally. Alexander is also the coor- dinator of Kingdom ‘85, a na- tional youth conference to be held in June in Orlando, Florida. REG ALEXANDER Meeting Set The - Broad River Genealogical Society will meet Thursday at 7 p.m. at the County Office Building across from Cleveland Technical College in Shelby. The guest speaker will be J.N. Lipscomb, who will speak on the history of York County. REVIVAL Dr. W. Gattis Perry, pastor of First Baptist Church in Garner, will be leading revival services at Bethlehem Baptist Church beginning Sunday night. The Sunday night service will be at 7 p.m. and the ser- vices on Monday through Fri- day will be at 7:30 p.m. A nursery will be provided. The church is located at the intersection of El Bethel and Bethlehem roads, four miles out of Kings Mountain. The public is invited. GOSPEL SING Midview Baptist Church will sponsor a Fifth Sunday Night Gospel Sing Sunday night at 7 p.m. Featured group will be ‘‘Living Proofs.” The public is in- vited. Musical Drama Is Scheduled The choir of Eastside Bap- tist Church, Blacksburg, will present the musical drama “Then Came Sunday’’ Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 5 and 7 p.m. The church is located on Highway 29 between Grover and Blacksburg. ; The public is invited. IN WASHINGTON Mayor John Henry Moss was in Washington, D.C. Saturday through Tuesday attending the annual con- ference of the League of Cities. CITIZENS FORUM The newly organized Citizens Forum will meet Saturday morning at 8:30 a.m. at the Community Center. Acting Chairman Rev. Kenneth George invites all interested citizens to at- tend. ; to 75 cents. ii Peeps Into The Past MEMBER OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION The Herald is published by Herald Publishing House, P.O. Box 752, Kings Mountain, North Carolina. 28086. Business and editorial offices are located at Canterbury Road-East King Street. Phone 739-7496. Second class postage paid at Kings Mountain, N.C. Single copy 25 cents. Subscription rates: $10.45 yearly in-state. $5.23 six months. $11.50 yearly out of state. $5.80 six months. Student rates for nine months, $7.80. USPS - 931-040, : From the Thursday, March 28, 1957 edition of The Kings Mountain Herald. The Kings Mountain Lions Club has opened its annual broom sale for benefit of the blind. : Sherry Kelly, 11th grade student at Central High School, will receive the First National Bank medal as the winner of the 1957 spelling bee. Some barber prices will increase in the city, effective April 1. A “flat top” haircut will cost $1.25 and shaves will increase o Mr. and Mrs. Gene Poteat of Charleston, S.C. will spend the coming weekend with Kings Mountain relatives. : Mrs. George Thomasson gave the program on ‘‘Japan’’ at the Monday night meeting of the International Affairs Department of the Woman’s Club. Mrs. Clarence Jolly, Sr. and Mrs. Charles A. Goforth, Sr. were hostesses to the regular meeting of the American Legion Auxiliary Thursday night. Tt
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