Vol. 102 No. 82
The price of gasoline at Kings
pumps was up 10 cents a gallon this week but
service station operators don't see an
immediate end to the increase.
Bob Kempston, a dealer with Exxon since
1970 and operator of Kings Mountain Exxon,
said the cost went up as soon as the news was
announced Thursday that Iraq had invaded oil-
rich Kuwait. "It's ridiculous,” said Kempston.
"Oil wasn't even in the pipes and there were no
deliveries and prices started going up. The
little person at the end of the line has no choice
in the matter."
Monday at 1 p.m. Kempston said that most
local service stations went up at the pumps,
some higher than others. "When we
Barber Hu
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W. B. "Hot Dog" Huskey, 81, has been cutting hair
since he was a teenager and doesn't plan to retire until
he's 100, he tells his friends and grandchildren.
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cret of his good health and longevity. "Trying to
dodge work might hurt somebody, "he declares, laugh-
ing as he cuts hair at his barber shop behind his home
on Oak Grove Road.
The veteran of more than 60 years behind the barber
chair learned from his father and at the age of 14.
Huskey used to cut his three brother's hair every
Sunday morning before they went to church. In those
early days, Huskey didn't have a license to cut hair. He
still cuts his only living brother's hair when J. P.
Huskey of Marion, S. C. comes to visit.
Huskey, whose first name is Wynn, earned the af-
fectionate nickname of "Hot Dog" from the late "Hag"
Goforth when they both worked at the old Margrace
Mill during World War II when Huskey was superin-
tendent of the Dye House. Co-workers of Huskey were
calling him "Winnie" and Goforth tagged him "Hot
Dog Huskey" and the name stuck.
When Huskey built his new home on Oak Grove
Road in 1953 there were only about five homes in that
beautiful neighborhood of Kings Mountain which
now includes many families. "We lived in our new
house only 30 days because we were afraid we could-
n't send two boys to college on what we earned on the
farm and moved to Hyde Parks Mills in Covington,
Tennessee," Huskey recalled. From 1939-53, the
Huskeys had raised turkey broilers and pullets for lay-
ers. At one time they raised 21,000
chickens in three big boiler houses on their farm and
Huskey recalled that hard work experience was invalu-
able.
See Huskey, 11-A
BERNICE
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In Downtown Kings Mountain
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signs posted.
By the weekend local service station
operators think the cost will go up even higher.
Bill Chambless, area wholesale distributor
for Petroleum World which operates five
raised our
self-service unleaded gas from $1.09 to $1.19
gallon for regular unleaded the customers
started leaving the pumps and started shopping
around” he said. "By the late afternoon we
didn't have any customers."
At most pumps self service unleaded was
$1.29 per gallon, super self service unleaded
was $1.39, and super unleaded full service was
$1.69 per gallon but at some Kings Mountain
stores the price was $1.29 for self service
regular on Tuesday afternoon, according to the
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stations in this area, thinks the cost will go up
about 4 cents over night and a minimum of 20
cents per gallon at the pumps in the next five
days. Since Aug. 2, however, costs at his
pumps have increased only 6 cents, going up
from $1.09 to $1.12 on July 23 and only 3
cents since the Middle East crisis. Petroleum
World has self-service gas listed at $1.15 for
regular unleaded. Chambless says the
distributor is selling for less than he is paying
for the gas but soon all his in-ground inventory
will be gone and it will have to be replaced.
Wholesalers will have to pass hikes onto filling
stations but Chambless says those amounts
could vary from 16 cents to 26 cents.
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* STILL CUTTING HAIR-Ralph Falconer gets a haircut from Oak Grove barber W.
B. Huskey, 81, who has been cutting hair since he was a boy. Huskey started cutting
hair at age 14 and doesn't plan to quit.
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'FILL 'ER UP' COSTS MORE-Kings Mountain motorists will
find that it will cost more to fill up their gas tanks since gasoline
pump prices are sky-rocketing due to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. The
cost of a gallon of gasoline was up 10 cents this week, local service
stations reported, Bob Kempston, above, pumps gasoline for a cus-
tomer.
Grover Board Okays
Annexation Of Land
GROVER-Town Board Monday
extended the city limits, effective
Aug. 31, 1991, to take in 48 lots
and tracts of land on part of Hardin
Circle, on Amesbury Road,
Bethlehem Church road where the
city treatment plant is located, and
Grover cemetery.
The action came following a
earing last month and fol-
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town will provide all services, ex-
cept sewer, within a year with sew-
er improvements to be in place in
two years in the annexed area.
Woody Harton, Community
Development Planner from the
Asheville office of the Department
of Economic and Development,
met with the board again Monday
night. He said maps and descrip-
tions of the 80 acres of property are
to be forwarded to the Secretary of
State, county board of elections,
county register of deeds and U. S.
Department of Justice, in compli-
ance with the Voters Right Act of
1965.
Only one resident questioned
the annexation. Donnie Herndon's
request that his property at the cor-
ner of Highway 226 and Blackburn
Drive be excluded was denied.
In other actions, the board:
+Awarded contract to Childers
Heating & Air Conditioning of
Kings Mountain at $11,800 for a
gas furnace and air-conditioning of
the addition to Town Hall.
+Heard progress report from
Commissioner Jim Howell that
work was proceeding on the new
addition. Workmen were putting up
thorized To
The ordinance stipulates that the
windows and doors this week and
filling in gables of the addition
which will house offices for the
mayor, town clerk and police offi-
cer.
+Heard report from Police
Commissioner Ronald Queen that
seven monuments were vandalized
in ‘Grover Cemetery. The board au-
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$100 for each stone.
+Hear progress report from
Commissioner Norman King that
the city's first garbage truck is on
order and delivery is expected in
mid-September.
+Approved annual membership
in the Cleveland County Law
Enforcement Association for police
officer Paul Cash, ordered 300
rounds of ammunition for the offi-
cer and four tires for the police car.
Water Service To Be Off
On Grover Road Saturday
Water will be shut off Saturday
morning from 7 a.m. until noon in
the Grover Road area along
Highway 29.
City workers will be linking a
new water line at Crocker and
Phifer Roads.
Water will be cut off in the Town
of Grover and at plants along the
route, including Combustion
Engineering, Eaton Corporation, J.
M. Huber Corporation, KM Brick,
KMG Minerals, Motor Panels,
Phillips-DuPont, Pioneer Motor
Bearing, and Wirtz Corporation.
City officials say the work is
planned for Saturday while most
plants are closed.
Mauney Home Is Alive With Music
Katharine Mauney's home on
Gaston Street is filled with the
sounds of music and books she
adores.
The retired church organist-for
12 years at Central Methodist
Church and for 25 years at
Resurrection Lutheran Church-still
plays occasionally at St.
Matthew's Lutheran Church
Sunday School and enjoys her own
organ built by a Kings Mountain
man nearly 60 years ago when she
married Aubrey Mauney. She also
plays piano and cello.
Music became her second love
when Katharine Shenk met Aubrey
Mauney at a Luther League con-
vention when she was a student at
N. C. College for Women, now
UNC-G. After their marriage, they
lived in Greensboro with her par-
ents, thylate Rev. and Mrs. E. A.
Shenk, while Mauney built their
house on Gaston Street. Born in
Newport News, Va., the daughter
of a Lutheran minister lived in
Winston Salem, Baltimore and
Greensboro before coming to
Kings Mountain. Her parents re-
tired in Kings Mountain and lived
here until their death. The late
Aubrey Mauney was a textile man-
ufacturer for many years before his
death and traveled all over the
country as National President of
Lutheran Brotherhood. The couple
celebrated their 50th wedding an-
niversary in 1980.
An accomplished musician all
her life, Katharine majored in Latin
in college because she planned to
teach Latin in high school. "They
dropped Latin from the high school
curriculum about the time I gradu-
ated and so I went back to school
and obtained another degree in mu-
sic," said Katharine. It was in col-
lege that Katharine wrote India's
Ghandi and Poet Laureate John
Maysfield. "What was Ghandi's
position on Christianity,?" she
wanted to know as a young student
of the Bible, and to Maysfield she
sent a composition she set to music
of his poem,"Beauty." Ghandi
evaded the question but did re-
spond to Katharine that he admired
mission work and regarded Jesus
as one of the great teachers of the
world. Maysfield liked her music
so much that he offered to get in
touch with a publisher for her.
"About this time I had wedding
plans on my mind and I didn't fol-
low through, although I appreciat-
ed his offer," said Katharine.
In the years since, Katharine has
worked in the church and commu-
nity. In the early years of her mar-
riage while raising two children,
she also taught private lessons in
organ.
Sunday the Mauney family gath-
ered for a reunion at Lake
Montonia and Katharine enjoyed
picnicking with her family, includ-
ing daughter, Peggy Beaver of
Columbia, S. C. and son, Gene
Mauney of Old Fort, and their fam-
ilies, including two great-grand-
sons and five grandchildren. Other
family members present were
Aubrey Mauney's sisters, Frances
Lohr of Kings Mountain and
Martha Lou and C. P. Fisher of
Rockwell.
Katharine has also shared her
busy life with the Woman's Club,
serving in local, state and national
offices, and in Little Theater. Her
favorite role in Little Theater was
as the lady detective, "Miss
Marple" in Agatha Christie's "A
Murder Is Announced” at Kings
Mountain Little Theater. "I really
love mystery books," says
Katharine, whose library is filled
with a number of Christie books as
well as a number of musical com-
positions.
Governor Hodges' appointment
of Mrs. Mauney to the 1960 White
House Conference on Aging en-
hanced her enthusiasm which start-
ed a program in Kings Mountain at
the Woman's Club. She came home
and gave a program for the local
club and soon Mrs. Lillian
Mauney and Mrs. Helen Hendricks
organized a senior citizens lun-
cheon meeting at the Woman's
Club on a monthly basis.
See Mauney, 11-A
wn Clerk Debora
age which will amount to about
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