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Section C
Thursday, July 18, 1985
“People
MR. AND MRS. KEVIN ECHOLS
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Echols
Wed June 29 In Gastonia
The home of the bride’s
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. Jack Simmons, on
Edgeville Drive in Gastonia,
was the setting June 29th for
the 3 p.m. wedding uniting
Amanda Christine Gore and
Kevin Alan Echols.
Rev. Alan Vickery of Com-
merce, Ga.. uncle of the
bridegroom, heard the ex-
change of vows in the double
ring ceremony which
featured the lighting by the
couple of the Unity candle.
The couple spoke their vows
before an arch of greenery.
and ferns and Kentia palms.
Mrs. Tim Echols was
organist and Mike Chambers
was vocalist for the program
of wedding music. Mr.
Chambers sang “You And I’
during the lighting of the Uni-
ty candle and ‘‘The Wedding
Prayer’ us the benediction.
The bride, given in mar-
riage by ter father. wore her
mother’s wedding dress, a
floor lenc tl cown of pure silk
organza and re-embroidered
Alencor ' «¢ designed by
Mendicino. The empire
bodice trin ned with
‘seed pearls and featured a
scoop neckline. Carlands of
lace accented the front of the
controlled skirt which swept
in the back to a carriage
train. The bouffant veil of
pure silk English illusion was
caught to a pillbox of mat-
ching Alencon lace encrusted
with pearls. She carried a
cascade of white roses.
Miss inn Gore attended
her sister as maid of honor
and Miss Bonnie Gore was
bridesmaid for her sister.
The two attendants wore
full skirted floor length silver
polished cotton gowns design-
ed along empire lines and
enhanced vith Alencon lace
and embroidered pink roses.
They carried bouquets of
pink roses and wore mat-
ching headdresses.
Best: man: for the
bridegroom vas his father.
Randy Echols, brother of the
bridegroom. served as usher.
The bride’s parents and
grandparents. Mr. and Mrs.
W. Jack Simmons and Mrs.
Ambrose 1 utz, hosted = the
reception after the ceremony
for members of the wedding
party and friends. The pink
and white theme of the wed-
ding was carried out in
decorative details Mrs. Den-
nis Putnam served the three-
tiered wedding cake and Mrs.
Ambrose Lutz served punch.
Roses and mixed flowers
decorated the bride's table
and were used throughout the
house for decoration.
The rewlyvweds have
returned from a wedding trip
to Atlanta. Ga. and are
residing at 1504 Northwoods
Drive in Kings Mountain. .
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall C.
Gore of Princeton Drive are
parents of the bride who is a
student at Kings Mountain
Senior High School.
The bridegroom is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin
Echols of 1504 Northwoods
Drive and is a graduate of
Kings Mountain Senior High
School and attends Wingate
College. He is employed by
Minette Industries in Grover.
He is the grandson of Mr. and
Mrs. Marvin Echols of Kings
Mountain :1¢ Nr and Mrs.
Vernon Vickery of Com-
merce, Ga.
Mrs. Trott Reviews Book
At Thursday Club Meeting
Mrs. Tom Trott reviewed
the book, ‘Preserving the
Constitution’’, the
autobiography of the late
U.S. Senator Sam Ervin, at
the June meeting of the
Thursday Afternoon Book
Club.
Mrs. Frank Hoyle enter-
tained members at her home.
Present was a guest was Mrs.
Hoyle’s sister. Mrs. E.A.
Smith.
Upon arrival of 12
members and guests, Mrs.
Hoyle served a salad and
dessert plate with iced tea.
Mrs. Trott was presented
by Mrs. W.M. Moorhead, pro-
gram chairman. During her
review of the book, Mrs. Trott
said that she and her husband
attended the funeral of
‘Senator Sam’ in Morgan-
ton, along with Sarah Helen
Summitt Randall, formerly
of Kings Mountain. The Ran-
dalls were across-the-street
Morganton. She played a 1974
recording made by Senator
Ervin, in which he gave
ancedotes and expressed his
philosophies.
Mrs. George Thomasson
presided in the absence of
Mrs. George Houser, presi-
dent. The club voted a con-
tribution to the American
Cancer Society.
The club voted not to hold a
meeting in July and August in
order to give members sum-
mer vacations and were in-
vited to hold the September
meeting at the home of Mrs.
Robert Wilson with Mrs. Paul
McGinnis as program chair-
man.
Medlins Return From China
Dot and Bud Medlin of
Kings Mountain found China
to be a good place to visit but
were happy to return home
following a two-week visit to
China recently.
They saw the most bicycles
they've ‘ever seen, found
Christianity, crime and
unemployment to be almost
non-existent and marveled at
sites such as the Great Wall
of China and the Tien An Men
Square.
Early during their trip.
they barely missed being
caught in a typhoon and at
the close of the trip, they ex-
perienced some tense
moments when an airpor:
baggage room exploded.
“Arriving in Japan after
leaving China was like going
into Paradise,”’ Bud remark-
ed.
However, they wouldn't
take anything for their
seventh trip to China.
Shortly after arriving in
Hong Kong, the Medlins
found that the only church on
the Island of Macau was clos-
ed down due to lack of par-
ticipation. More than 99 per-
cent of the Chinese people do
not believe in God and the one
church on the island, a
Catholic church, held its only
service this year on May 13.
the church’s anniversary.
After leaving Hong Kong at
9:15 a.m. on a Tuesday morn-
ing, the typhoone ‘‘Hal’’ hit at
12:30 and closed the city for
16 hours. The city’s economy
was set back $89 million.
“That was a hairy ex-
perience,’ Medlin said. ‘We
flew into Cantoon, a city of 12
million people and 1.2 million
bicycles, and I believe we
saw most of the bicyles,”’ he
said. ‘‘They use them for
everything. We saw a whole
side of beef on a bicycle.’
The city has the largest
free market (flea market) in
China and actually sells cats.
dogs, field rats and snakes
for human consumption. ‘We
witnessed the cleaning of
animals at the market and
that led us to a vegetation
diet for nine days.” Medlin
said.
Medlin said Cantoon is the
only city that still allows the
sell of such animals for
human consumption and peo-
ple in other cities make fun of
‘‘Cantoonese Cuisine.’
When they flew into
Bicycles Main Transportation
Shanghai two days later, the
Medlins saw more bicycles.
“What's so astonishing about
that city.” Bud noted, ‘is that
the people drive without
lights at night so they won't
blind the bicycle riders. We
rode from the airport to our
hotel, "a 45-minute” drive,
without lights. Occasionally.
when entering a curve. the
taxi driver would flick on the
lights and then flick them
right back off.”
The city is known the world
over for its trees. ‘Each Ar-
bor Day, they plant one
million trees,” he said. "Most
of China has picked up on
their Arbor Day and the
forestry program there has
boomed from it. They will dig
up a sidewalk to plant trees.”
They saw the 27-mile
Shanghai Harbor. one of the
The Great Wall Of China
largest in the world where the
movie ‘‘Sand Pebbles’ was
made.
In the capital city of Pek-
ing, they saw ‘wall to wall
people’ and some of the
world’s most beautiful sites.
including the Great Wall of
China. They climbed the left
wall which overlooks Inner
Mongolia and the Gobi
Desert.
‘What is fascinating about
it,” Medlin said. ‘‘is that dur-
ing the Cultural Revolution in
the seventies, the Army and
Red Guard tore out building
blocks of the Great Wall to
build homes and barracks.
which is a disgrace because
the Great Wall to China is like
the Statue of Liberty to the
United States. The present
administration now has those
same troops going back and
tearing down the barracks
and homes and rebuilding the
wall.”
They also saw the Valley of
the Tombs, of which 11 of the
13 remain untouched, and
saw a commune where the
28,000 people who live there
are broken into brigades and
operate one toy factory, one
jade factory and numerous
agricultural businesses.
At the hospital, they found
equipment dating back to the
early 1900’s and medicine to
be in very short supply. ‘‘Peo-
ple don’t go there unless
they're on their death bed."
he said.
At Tien An Men Square, the
largest square in the world.
they saw the Mauseleum of
Chairman "Mao and eight
lanes of traffic coming into
the 20-mile long square.
“One of the most in-
teresting things about China
is that crime is obsolete.”
Medlin said. ‘‘They behead
rapists, murderers, thieves
and drug dealers. There are
very few jails.”
They used two kinds of
money, government money
and street money. Police and
Army personnel are dressed
in identical outfits except for
the insignias on their caps.
They are armed only with
scratchpads and pens ‘‘and
you do not want your name to
be written on their pad.”
Medlin said.
**The people are very
friendly and curious,’ he
said. “If you stop on the
street, soon you'd attract a
crowd of 50 to 100 people.
They really like the United
States and Western ideas.’
Coca Cola and Marlboro
cigarettes are everywhere,
he said, and young women
and men dress western style
while the older generation
leans toward the tradional
Chinese dress.
“There are no churches, no
Bibles and you can’t discuss
religion or politics,’ he said.
‘‘People here at home should
count their blessings for our
freedom because one day it
could be taken away."
There are no private-owned
automobiles, mainly because
the costs are so astronomical
the people can’t afford them
on their $40-a-month salary.
“But there is no unemploy-
ment,” he said. ‘The govern-
ment determines your job.
education and future.’
PHYLLIS LYNN ETTERS
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED—Mr. and Mrs. Glenn E.
Etters announce the engagement of their daughter, Phyllis
Lynn, to David Stanley Scruggs, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe H.
Scruggs. Both families are of Kings Mountain. The bride-
elect is a 1979 graduate of Kings Mountain Senior High School
and a 1984 graduate of the University of North Carolina
School of Pharmacy with B.S. in Pharmacy and is employed
as Assistant Manager/Pharmacist at Revco Drug Stores,
Inc. in Hildebran. She is the granddaughter of Mrs. Rufus Et-
ters and the late Mr. Etters and the late Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
M. Ormand, all of Kings Mountain. Mr. Scruggs is the grand-
son of Guy Scruggs and the late Mrs. Scruggs of Gaffney, S.C.
and T.B. Rape and the late Mrs. Rape of Cherokee Falls, S.C.
and great-grandson of Mrs. Annie Mae Rape of Cherokee
Falls, S.C. A 1979 graduate of KMSHS, he is employed by
Carolina Freight Carriers in Cherryville and is a 1983
graduate of Appalachian State University in Boone with B.A.
in Sociology.
Bethlehem Baptist Church.
The wedding will take place Sept. 21 in
LISA LASHA HUFFSTICKLER
(Bride-elect of Charles Richard Morrow)
ENGAGED - Pat and Butch Clements of Houston, Texas,
and Mike and Diane Huffstickler of Kings Mountain announce
the engagement of their daughter, Lisa Lasha Huffstickler, to
Charles Richard Morrow, son of Franklin and Marcella Mor-
row of Kings Mountain. A July 26 wedding is planned at Tem-
ple Baptist Church.