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Your Right To Say It
Gary
Stewart
Read And Think
My son, Dee, brought a paper home from school the
other day that I got the biggest kick out of. It was giv-
en by Julia Wood, a teacher at the junior high, and was
a list of questions to which the answers are counties in
North Carolina.
It's really a thought-provoking exercise. With Mrs.
Wood's permission, I'm running them here. Most of
them are easy if you read and think.
Get out a state map, or a list of the counties which
you may have in a history book or encyclopedia, and
test your knowledge of North Carolina and U.S. histo-
1 - What do you call a pig in a rocking chair? 2
- Who was one of the strongest men in the world?
3 - What rhymes with Nancy?
4 - Who was our 16th president?
5 - What could you call a man with lots of money?
6 - Who is Rudolph's twin brother?
7 - What is left after a fire?
8 - What is the high mountain peak?
9 - If you don't move fast, how do you move?
5 10 - What does a fish drive?
11 - Who discovered America?
12 - How did the lady wrestler beat her opponent?
13 - What happens when you pass a tank?
14 - Who was the first president of the U.S?
15 - What is the color of grass?
16 - What is a good juice for breakfast?
17 - What do you say to a tree?
18 - Where does Dracula live?
19 - What is another name for a hole?
20 - Name an Indian tribe?
21 - What is a kind of stew?
S 22 - What is a kind of pie you make with apples?
7 23 - What is a kind of cracker?
: 24 - What do you do in the morning?
Lo 25 - Who was the Confederate general at
Bentonville?
26 - What was baby Virginia's last name?
27 - What lets you through fences?
28 - What is used to make pottery?
29 - Who is famous for flying a kite?
30 - What was Dr. Jekyll's other name?
31 - Who was the leader of the Confederate sol-
diers?
32 - What do you take when you are sick?
44,33 - What was the Northern army called during the
vit War?
' 34 - What is another name for a human being?
35 - How do you feel when you make a mistake?
36 - What happens when you are mad and grit your
teeth?
37 - Since it's a fine town, what is it called?
38 - Who was "The Great" emperor?
39 - Who can go if all can?
40 - If you don't have enough, what do you want?
41 - Who was president two different times?
42 - What is the name of one of the sounds?
43 - What is another name for a football helmet?
i 44 - What call can start a square dance?
& 45 - If you really want some chocolate, how do you
feel?
46 - What does the quarterback say to the center?
47 - What was President Hayes' first name?
48 - What did the country boy say when asked who
ate the pie?
49 - Who wore a coonskin hat?
50 - By which end do you not hold a knife?
51 - If Mr. Brown and his boy child form a business,
what could they call it?
52 - What mountain range forms part of the
Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia and
Pennsylvania.
53 - If you speak pig language, what is it called?
54 - What family famous in tobacco is remembered
in a county name?
55 - When you plan ahead, what do you have?
56 - If you have a lot of petroleum, what do you
~ have?
57 - What is a breed of cattle?
58 - What is a common last name?
59 - Who is North Carolina's governor?
60 - What is a country in Britain?
61 - What does the man do to the fire to keep it
burning?
62 - When mother didn't want Lee to sit down, what
did she say?
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(Answers on page 8-A, don't peek)
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MARGARET AND MARGIE SMITH...AT AGE 9
Seeing Double At Senior Center
For more than two years now participants in the
Kings Mountain Aging Program at the Depot have
been seeing double.
Every morning shortly before 9 a.m. Margaret
Smith Bowles and Margie Smith Pursley drive up in
city vans to pick senior citizens up to take them to the
Depot for programs and to accompany them on shop-
ping trips and outings. At 1:30 p.m. they complete
their routes.
Margie and Margaret are twins and their 63rd birth-
day today will be no different than any other day.
They will be operating the senior van as usual and
singing as they drive along.
Margaret started working at the Senior Center over
seven years ago and her enthusiasm for the program
and the five-hour-a day job prompted Margie, who was
then the assistant manager at Family Dollar, to apply
for a driver's job too.
On some occasions, they make up songs about vari-
ous passengers and the passengers join along. When
they aren't singing from the driver's seat they are busy
participating in and directing the Swinging
Mountaineers composed of two dozen senior citizens
who play and sing for the enjoyment of themselves
and others. y
Active in Four Square Church they keared a large
family. Margaret is the mother of four $hildren: Fred
Davidson of California, Georgia Stricklafd of Sanford,
Jenny Rayfield of Cherryville and Joy!Dellinger of
Kings Mountain. The family includes 13 grandchildren
and four great-grandchildren. Margie is mother of nine
children and is married to Howard Pursley. The family
includes Carlos Victor Stalcup of Gastonia, Rev. Oscar
Stalcup of Kings Mountain, Yvonne Tucker of White,
Ga., Thomas B. Stalcup of Kings Mountain, Ronald F.
Stalcup of Greenville, S.C., Teresa Diane Haynes of
Kings Mountain, Timothy J. Stalcup of Brevard,
Norma Jeanette Pursley Hovis of Kings Mountain and
Tommy Pursley of High Point. The family includes 19
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
MARGARET BOWLES..NOW
Hurricane Hugo Brought Back
The recent power outages caused by Hugo started
me thinking about my youthful days in York, S.C.
again.
We lived at number 6 Congress Street, which is to
say the Travora Mill village. The Travora, at that time,
was called "the little mill" and most of the people who
lived on the South side of town worked there. The
Travora warehouse was just across the railroad from
our home and was known in the neighborhood as "the
red building" for obvious reason.
The first few years of my life, we didn't have elec-
tricity. None of the houses on Congress Street had
electrical power. They were mill houses, and the own-
ers spent as little as possible on upkeep. They were
cheap to rent, however, as well they should have been.
We used kerosene lamps, and I have a vivid memory
of my father standing on the front porch, at just about
dusk, cleaning one of the lamp globes. He would blow
his breath inside the globe, causing a cloudy mist to
form on the thin glass, then wipe it clean with a cloth.
Dad was an expert at trimming wicks, an art I've never
been able to master.
I don't remember how old I was but I do remember
when they*finally installed electricity in the houses on
Congress Street. The sub station was just across the
street from our house, less than 50 yards away. Each
room in the house was equipped with a single bulb
hanging from the end of a fabric -covered cord about
Lib
Stewart
Although neither twin has had her music published,
each discovered each other's talent while growing up
in a family of 12 children on a farm in Pacolet, S.C.
They recalled their dresses were made by their mother
of printed flour sacks which they wore proudly. They
recalled taking fatback meat biscuits to the cotton
fields where they drank water from a spring and
picked cotton until dark. They also walked miles to a
country school, sang in the church choir and yodeled
to the delight of their school and church friends. They
performed as "Bobbzie Twins" and sang with such
groups as Tommy Faille and the Briarhoppers, Arthur
Smith and Fred Kirby. They composed their own
songs and Margaret sent one of the songs to Nashville,
Tennessee in hopes that it would be published in mem-
ory of her mother,
Margaret also wrote "Annie Get Your Gun" after
seeing the movie starring Annie Oakley. When the
twins entertain at Senior Citizen events and parties
they use their combined blend of songs and poems
with new renditions about the people they meet daily
in the senior citizen program.
Although they do not dress identically and have
changed their hair style over the years, the Smith twins
are identical.
Everywhere they go a new song keeps popping up.
The Swinging Senior Band starts playing and the twins
lead the entertainment, assisted by Biddy Barrett, who
is in her 80's, at the piano.
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MARGIE PURSLEY..NOW
Jim
four feet long. No shade--just light.
Indoor plumbing was installed after our family left
York in 1946. Prior to that time we shared an outside
spigot with our next door neighbor. The fixture was lo-
cated exactly between the two houses. Almost every-
one who lived on Congress Street was related, so natu-
rally, our next door neighbor was a member of the
family. As a matter of fact, Aunt Della lived there.
Della Heffner recently passed away, a couple of
months after her 100th birthday. She lived in Kings
Mountain at the time, Waco Road I believe, with one
of her sons, Bill, and his wife Marie. She was a lovely
woman. In all my life I have never heard anyone, in or
out of our family, say anything bad about Aunt Della.
It's been a few years since I saw her, but I would have
Heffner
TO THE EDITOR:
Four players from the 1989 Kings Mountain High
School 3-A State Championship baseball team (Keith
Allen, Paul Brannon, Chad Plonk, Chris Plonk) have
been selected to represent their community and state in
an International Baseball Tournament to be held in
Australia December 19-31. The team will be coached
by Mike Roberts, head coach of baseball at the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
The cost of the trip will be $2,750. per player and
will hopefully be raised through a community fund
raising. This trip will not only be a chance to play
teams from other countries (Korea, Japan, China,
Puerto Rico, Taiwan,) but will also be an educational
and cultural experience as well.
These young men are now very busy practicing
weekends in Chapel Hill preparing for this trip which
is fast approaching. We hope that the money can be
raised throughout our community as it could possibly
open many doors for them in the future and give Kings
Mountain much recognition too!
If you would like to contribute to this fund please
mail your contribution to "Baseball Australia", First
Citizens Bank, Kings Mountain, N.C. If you would
like more information please call Betty Plonk (739-
4437) or Mary Brannon (739-8961).
Thank you for your time and support.
Sincerely,
Betty Plonk
Mary Brannon
Wanting An
Honest Budget
Dear Editor,
In the next few weeks, Congress will be faced with
tough choices about our fiscal policy, the rapidly
mounting federal debt, and our Nation's future.
Unfortunately, the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget
law_has made the budget process an exercise in self-
deception. The President and Congress have hidden
tens of billions of deficit dollars from public view,
claiming all the while that the deficit was being re-
duced.
Since I came to Congress three years ago, I have «
been arguing for an honest budget, one that represents
the debt and deficit clearly, and works to reduce both.
Honesty starts when the budget stops using Social
Social Security to hide the deficit. For tow years, I
have been pushing for legislation to protect the effort
will come a stop closer to fruition this week when the
Senate Democratic Leadership endorses a plan to sepa-
rate Social Security from the budget process.
However, we still have a long way to go before we
have an honest budget and fiscal sanity. This year, I
have made a number of statements on the Senate floor
in an effort to remind my colleagues of the stakes in
this game of budget smoke and mirrors. We have
place the future of an entire generation in hock. Worse
still, we have lied to them about the nature and magni-
tude of the deficit threat.
Sincerely,
Terry Sanford
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Memories
made book that she would survive me. She was always
spry and healthy, forever smiling and could out walk
any three people. But that's another story.
Remember those blackouts during World War II?
All we had to do was blow out the lamps.
Funny, I don't think about those days without elec-
tricity as being unduly difficult. There were no conve-
niences to speak of, so they weren't missed. It certainly
is different today. I can't think of many things as unap-
pealing as losing electrical power for a week. But,
those of us who lost power survived, and, being the
flexible people we are in the South, I have the feeling
that if electricity was taken away from us permanently,
we would adapt.
THE WHISTLING TROUBADOUR
The Travora Mill village was blessed with a unique
form of entertainment. We had a resident, Joe
Brakefield, who had a habit of whistling wherever he
went, or even just sitting on his front porch. He lived
across the railroad from us, but on a quiet summer
evening his lilting notes bathed the entire neighbor-
hood with the latest tunes from the hit parade, and all
the golden oldies. Man could he ever whistle! I don't
know whether Joe is still living, I suspect he is, but,
wherever he is, you can just bet he's whistling up a
storm.
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