February 13, 1997
THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD
MAN ON THE HOSE - C.D. (Red) Ware is pictured on his retirement in 1973 with the city's 1938
pumper truck which was practically brand new when Ware began his volunteer service as a fire-
fighter in 1941.
‘WARE
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and Charles and Rick
Witherspoon and other great-
grandchildren C. J. Austin,
Charlie, John and Ashley
Witherspoon. He misses his
buddies at the fire department
and rescue squad and says the
red carpet is out for them to vis-
it him.
‘=== After his retirement from the
City of Kings Mountain, Red
was a security guard supervisor
at Clevemont Mills for 10 years.
He also formerly volunteered
with the Kings Mountain
Rescue Squad and at one time
was a shipping clerk at the
Margrace Mill (1928-47) and a
mailman for three years from
1947-50. He is a former deacon
at Kings Mountain Baptist
Church and a former scoutmas-
ter and held perfect attendance
in the Kings Mountain Lions
Club for 15 years.
But firefighting was the love
that caught his fancy.
During his tenure with the lo-
cal department Red discovered
his education never stopped.
He has attended state and coun-
ty fire schools so many times
that he lost track of the diplo-
mas and certificates he has re-
ceived. He served under four
chiefs, Grady King, Pat Tignor,
Tignor. Current Chief Frank
Burns was a young fireman
when Ware left the squad 20
years ago.
Firefighting has changed
since Red Ware first volun-
teered his services.
AIRBAG
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back seat or one that is too small to hold a rear-
facing child safety seat, and allowing car owners
to have their airbags deactivated.
It was the government's arrogant disdain for
the ability of the public to make competent choic-
es that created the airbag problem in the first
place, and that same disdain now prohibits the
best remedy. The government's underlying mes-
"Used to we would just take a
hose, run up to the window of a
burning house and start flood-
ing the place," he said. "Now I'd
guess we don't use a tenth of
the water we used back then.
Now we have equipment that
will allow us to breathe inside a
burning building. Way back
years ago you couldn't even get
close to the building."
The veteran fireman recalled
No narrow escapes but admitted
he had to move the pumper a
few times because of the heat.
He said he got a bit heat-burned
in his face one time but that was
because he had the pumper too
close to the blaze. The biggest
fire he recalled fighting was
when the old Slater Mill
burned.
Ware said the local depart-
ment has never lost a fireman
fighting fire but one fireman
was killed in a wreck on his
way to a fire. i
In his younger days Ware al-
so loved to fish and hunt. He
still belongs to the Clover, SC
Deer Club and used to hunt
about eight times a year and
‘bring deer home with him.
"I can't climb now and the
mountains seem to grow taller,"
he laughed. =. Pains of
The fishing goes back to his
younger days too and he's
fished in rivers, creeks, lakes .
"Floyd Thornburg and-Gene and deep sea. Hunting and fish-
ing were a part of growing up
on a farm. The oldest in a fami-
ly of five boys and two girls,
Ware lived on the farm until he
was 20 years old. His parents
were the late Charles P. and
Lula Carroll Ware. His brothers
are James, Howard and Robert
Ware, all of Kings Mountain,
and the late Carl Ware. His sis-
ters were the late Nellie
Thornburg, Mary Spearman
and Lucille Randall.
In 1928 he married Estelle
Hord and they had two chil-
dren, Charles "Bud" Ware and
Phyllis Ware Austin.
As a former firefighter Ware
recalled dreams of the late
Grady King that someday an-
other fire station would be lo-
cated in the Linwood section of
the city. "Who knows, maybe
Grady's dream will come true,"
he says.
When Red hears his friends
talk about new building activity
in the present City Hall section
of the city King can't help but
remember the drowning of two -
boys in a lake in the area of
Lake Street which is now Regal
Drive and the location of a new
office complex.
"Things have changed in
Kings Mountain over the years
and I've seen and been a part of
some of it," says Ware. He said
the current fire department be-
gan with a handful of volun-
teers. Ti ;
"I am really proud of the
Kings Mountain Fire
Department,” says Ware as he
leafed through his scrapbook
which showed a picture made
in 1973 of Ware in his familiar
uniform standing beside the
city's pumper which was practi-
cally brand new when Ware be-
gan his volunteer service as a
firefighter back in 1941.
Hanging up his hard hat was
tough for Ware who liked to be
where the action was.
preventable. As long ago as the mid-1970s the au-
tomobile industry warned the government that
airbags posed a serious threat to children. But
overzealous safety advocates, particularly Ralph
Nader's Public Citizen, cynically waved away the
studies, claiming that the auto companies only
wanted to save the expense of installing the de-
vices. Tragically, the government sided with the
cynics.
sage is still the same: consumers should not be al- |
lowed to choose between a new car with airbags
_or anew car-without.-
Sadly, the deaths caused by airbags were all
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Shelby realtor John Barker
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for rezoning of the 80 acres
which front 2000 feet on the east
side of Crocker Road.
City Planning Director Steve
Killian said an Indiana compa-
ny is eying the property to
build manufactured homes that
could employ up to 250 people.
Killian's staff is ready to
make a recommendation to
members of the board which
will vote on the request which
will be forwarded to City
Council for consideration at the
February 25 regular meeting.
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