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Vol. 110 No. 24
Korean-born
Lineberger
to trace roots
by ELIZABETH STEWART
of The Herald Staff :
: Their trip to Seoul, Korea July
30 will be a sentimental journey
for Lee-Ann Lineberger, 31, and
| her mother,
Piasit sy
Lineberger.
“I have
mixed feel-
ings but I
want to see if
Aeshin Baby
Home still
stands,” says
the pretty,
- —a young, dark-
Lee-Ann haired, al-
Lineberger mond eyed
‘Oriental woman who is curious
‘about her birthplace.
Although her American roots
are deep on her family’s straw-
‘berry farm, Lee-Ann said she
“waited for 28 years to search out
‘the orphanage that took her in as
‘a baby abandoned on the streets
of Korea.
“I just started thinking about
tracing my roots recently when I
got out my papers and I'm glad I
waited and was able to twist
Mom's arm so she would go with
* Lee-Ann said she had nothing
to look forward to in Korea and
_ | years ago,” said K Jones;
Thursday, June 11, 1998
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BARBECUL!
Five Kings Mountain teams competing
in Tryon Saturday for State Championship
by ELIZABETH STEWART
of The Herald Staff
Barbecue! Just say the word and its brings out
visions of tantalizing smells and varieties.
For five teams of chefs from Kings Mountain it’s
a hobby that began with family.
Rodger Moore and the Family Fun cooking team
will defend its first place title from last year in the
Ribs category, Kevin Jones of Outback BBQ said his
team will compete for the first time in a state cham-
pionship, Backyard BBQ's team has cooked to-
gether for 10 years, five in competition, and Chris
Johnson and All Niters are seasoned veterans as well
as Paul Goforth of King’s Cooking who won first
place last year in a big Shrinefest where all Kings
Mountain teams came home with trophies.
They are among 60 teams from across the United
States who will competing for $16,000 in cash prizes
in the North Carolina State Barbecue Champion-
ship, sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbecue Soci-
ety and proclaimed by Governor Jim Hunt. Festi-
val gates open from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m. on Friday
and 10 a.m. until 10 p.m. on Saturday in Tryon. Ad-
mission is $4 for adults and children under 12 get
in free with a paying adult. Parking and non-stop
music featuring blues, bluegrass, country, southern
rock and zydeco, are free with admission. The festi-
val also features a variety of food, the Foothills Craft
Fair and a children’s fun park complete with rides
and games.
7 tarted off cooking at family parties eight
FAMILY FUN - Pictured is the Family Fun
Barbecue Team from Kings Mountain. Back row,
_from eft, Bodger Moore and Rick Ledford;
ddle row
ing bug to his brother-in-law Tommy Tindall and and front row, Craig Ledford and Wesley Moore.
cousin, Kenny Horne.
sia Ledford and Sharon Moore:
City Council Tuesday night
voted unanimously to forward a
protest resolution to the U.S. Jus-
tice Department opposing a
change in polling places by the
County Board of Elections from
the Community Center to the
Kings Mountain Hospital.
The resolution will also in-
clude tapes of the June 1 meeting
of the elections board in Shelby,
photographs of both polling sites
provided by Ward 4 Councilman
Gene White and letters from in-
terested citizens.
City Attorney Mickey Corry
presented the resolution.
Corry said the city executed
contract with the county to run
the municipal elections April 29,
1997 and the city or county board
can get out of the contract with a
90-day notice. He said the city
elections are non-partisan, there-
fore the city, by law, is not re-
quired to use the county board of
elections. The city has paid the
county $3,960. White said the city
has had no return from its mone
except “insulting behavior fro
election officials.”
Council
protests
poll change
Public mum
at budget hearing
The public was quiet and so
was City Council during a pub-
lic hearing of the city’s $24.5 mil-
lion budget for fiscal year 1998-
99 Tuesday night.
The meeting drew only a
handful of citizens, mostly city
employees, to hear a budget mes-
sage by City Manager Jimmy
Maney and a report of an elec-
trical retail rate study by repre-
sentatives of Progressive Engi-
neering. Local industrial leaders
will be invited to a workshop
session with city officials to dis-
cuss some savings options in the
new study.
Maney said the budget had
been discussed at length in bud-
get workshops but he reiterated
that the budget contained no util-
ity or tax increases and included
a4 1/2 percent raise for city em-
ployees and funding for the new
| police department, the first pay-
ment of the $100,000 pledge to
the new Harris children’s wing
has found a family and every-
thing to look forward to in
America.
“1 am really very, very fortu-
nate,” she said.
Lee-Ann’s papers from Korean
White’s motion also included
direction to the city attorney to
write a letter under the board’s
signature to the North Carolina
Board of Elections censoring what
White cited “behavior” of Elec-
’
at Mauney Memorial Library
and and lining of the Pilot Creek
No.3 basin as well as continua-
tion of capital improvements in
recreation and an engineering
study for a proposed new water
cooking began with family and then local competi-
tions.
All local teams have compiled good records of
success in various competitions.
“A Barbecue cookoff is just like a county fair,”
said Bumgardner, who said that thousands of
“That's how we got started too,’ said Joe
Bumgardner whose Backyard BBQ developed ac-
tually in the back yard of his home 10 years ago
with his wife, Lynn; Debbie and Calvin Crawford
and Ray and Twyla Robinson joining in the fun.
Since then the team has captured the first place
Social Services, Seoul, Korea, re-
lated that she was placed in
Aeshin Baby Home on September
17, 1966 and Sun Yong Kwak,
then 57, the Superintendent of the
Home, was appointed her guard-
ian by the Mayor of Seoul City.
Both biological parents were pre-
sumed to be full Korean. The stan-
dard of care provided by the
Aeshin Home was above average,
according to the then present
standard of the institutional care
in Korea. She was healthy, a
cheerful and affectionate little girl
who warmed up to people easily.
Still petite, happy and with a
definite Southern drawl, Lee-Ann
will need a tour guide and inter-
reter for her visit which will also
include stops in San Francisco
and Hawaii.
Her doting father, Harold
Lineberger, says Lee-Ann has for-
gotten all her Korean words but
that at first she talked about
Winkee Oma, which means
mother, a lady at the orphanage.
“She is one person I would like
fo thank,” Harold says.
But Mr. Lineberger plans to
stay at home, encouraging his
See LINEBERGER page 3A
INSIDE
Partial sun, humid, chance of a
thunderstorm. High 88°, low 66".
showmanship award five years in a row.
Joe actually got his love for cooking with the
National Guard where he was a chief cook for 21
years. :
Chris Johnson and All Niters and Paul Goforth
‘and King’s Cooking Team recalled their love of
OUTBACK BBQ TEAM - Kevin Jones, Tommy
Tindall and Kenny Horne, left to right, are ready
to compete for big cash prizes in the fifth annual
Blue Ridge Barbecue Festival Friday and
people are expected in Tryon at Harmon Field for
the event. “We all cook and eat a lot and it’s excit-
ing to win but it’s even more exciting to meet other
folks who like to cook barbecue too,” he said.
New to the festival this year is the turkey
See BARBECUE page 2A
COOKING IN FESTIVAL - Members of the
Backyard BBQ Team will cook in a big festival
Friday and Saturday in Tryon. From left, Joe and
Lynn Bumgardner, Debbie and Calvin Crawford
Saturday in Tryon.
and Ray and Twyla Robinson.
tions Board Secretary Ruth Wil-
son in the controversy and a let-
ter to Kings Mountain Hospital
asking the hospital to withdraw
its offer to hold Precinct 2 elec-
tions at the site.
“The hospital administrator
was misled and I'd like a copy of
that letter to go to Carolinas
Medical Center,” said Council-
man Clavon Kelly.
Said White, “the new precinct
lines were drawn by the county
board of elections to include the
Community Center that has been
utilized for elections for 20 years
and upon discovery that some
people from the west side of town
objected to going to the Commu-
nity Center Ms. Wilson decided
to move that location closer to the
west side and 2000 feet of the Ar-
mory where they previously
voted. Chairman Pat Spangler
agreed and Elections Supervisor
Debra Blanton helped to get it
done.”
White said the action was
taken by the county elections
board after a limited number of
complaints from precinct workers
and a few complaints from
See COUNCIL page 2A
Myrick visits KM
Myrick.
Paul Willis, 78, of Mount Holly,
was presented the Silver Star
nah, and a floral bouquet for a
friend but some of her newest
See MYRICK page 2A
MYRICK VISITS - Congresswoman
line form Moss Lake to the city.
He projected that Gastonia
will probably up its sewer rate
at least seven percent to the city
for treatment of sewage at the
Crowders Creek Plant and said
Council could either pass on the
costs of the increase or look at
absorbing the increase for the
second year by using fund bal-
ances. Maney said the city ab-
sorbed 13 percent of $1 million
last year which means Gastonia
has increased its costs to Kings
Mountain 20 percent over the
last two years.,
“As of 10 a.m. this morning we
had no definite decision but we
had heard the 7 percent figure,”
he responded to question of
Councilman Gene White.
Maney noted that a discount
rate for electricity is available to
senior citizens and that only 225
senior residents have taken ad-
vantage of the plan which is out-
lined in the new rate study pro-
posal. He suggested that senior
residents 62 years or older whose
combined income with spouse is
in the $25,000 annual range could
be eligible for the senior dis-
count.
Sue Myrick visited in Kings Mountain Monday and met some new
friends who are really too young to vote. From left, Diggory Williams, 4; Christopher Williams, 7;
Justin Williams, 10, and Alicia McAnelly, far right, 11.
Church News 4-B ®
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Lifestyles 1B :
Obituaries 2A Ninth District U. S. Congress- Medal for gallantry in action on
Opinion 4A woman Sue Myrick (R) chatted October 29, 1944 . Willis’ daugh-
- Police 6B with people in the business dis- ter brought him to Myrick’s
F Schools 5-7A trict Monday morning, did some Gastonia office for the surprise §
Sports 8-9A shopping and and later in theday presentation. f
presented medals to a Grover “Two different wars, but the
OUTSIDE veteran. same sense of heroism,” said
James Robert Whitehouse, 51, = Myrick.
FRIDAY of Grover, never received the Myrick’s office helps 100 vet-
Pe TON medals due him after fighting in erans a year get military medals
J Vietnam more than 31 years ago. either lost or never received. Her |
Si SET A “I'm getting those medals for office helped both Whitehouse
Barly Shon CRONCS CT ihn the guys who didn’t make it and Willis receive their medals.
Hi Vigh 90°, low 68° back,” said Whitehouse after re- In Kings Mountain Myrick
: : : ceiving the Marine Corps Good was escorted by Kathy Neely,
SATURDAY Conduct Medal, the National De- President of the Kings Mountain
ha fense Service Medal, the Vietnam Business & Professional Associa-
S Service Medal and a Presidential tion. She bought a miniature tea
a Unit Citation Ribbon from set for her granddaughter, Savan- ; a