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Thursday, September 2, 1999 PEOPLE Vacation paradise right in back yard James and JoAnn Surber of Kings Mountain don’t have to go to far-away places for a ro- mantic vacation. They have _ built a paradise right in their own back yard. 7A Public goes to bat for leukemia victim Eight-year-old Casey Burnette of Kings Mountain recently found out that she has leukemia. Kings Mountain friends have opened a special account and are planning fund-raising events to help the family with medical bills. 5A Not even cancer can keep Ruby down Doctors didn’t give Ruby Alexander much chance of surviving’ cancer, but through faith and prayer she has beaten the disease and is back at work in her realty business. 5A Another new path for Dale Swofford Kings Mountain native Dale Swofford has lived many places and has done many things during his life. Now, he is back home as pastor of Grace United Methodist Church. 6A COMMUNITY Swingin’ and shakin’ at American Legion A new line dancing club has the walls shaking at Kings Mountain American Legion Post 155. 7A New senior center needs financial help The proposed new Kings Mountain Senior Center is we on its way to becoming a reali ty, but the center needs over $300,000 in pledges by the end : of the month. 2A City rec director plans celebrations Remember when Kings Mountain's annual Mountaineer Days event was over several days period of time, men grew beards and women dressed in old-time hats and dresses? It remains t be seen if there will be any beard-growing contests, but this year’s Mountaineer Days will be a four-day celebration rather than the one-day event of the past several years. Recreation Director Tripp Hord is also planning a big Christmas celebration. 2A FIRST NATIONAL BANK Celebrating 125 Yeare Vol. 111 No. 35 KINGS MOUNTAIN Heral Since 1889 50 Cents Annexation passes on 6- City okays study of water line could be completed during the July Fourth week of the year 2000. Kings Mountain City Utilities Committee Council Tuesday night autho- Chairman Rick Murphrey said + rized an analysis of some 3,000 the costs involved would be in feet of water line in what could the 2000-2001 budget. be the first step of providing a Murphrey said the city is op- new water line from Moss erating on a tight schedule. Lake to the city. Designing the line would take If everything goes according about 16 weeks and bids to hoyle, the $626,000 project ~~ would be advertised in February and received in March. “We need to get everything ready to go out for bids,” he said. Led by Engineer Al Moretz, the city will analyze the condi- tion and capacity of the exist- ing lines which were construct- ed in the mid-to-late 1960s. The water plant's pumping ca- pacity is eight million gallons a day and has operated at near See Water, 3A By GARY STEWART Editor of The Herald The much-anticipated vote on the annexation of 3.5 miles east and south of the city passed with only one comment at ‘Tuesday night's meeting of Kings Mountain Council. Jerry Mullinax cast the lone dissenting vote on a plan to an- nex 10.03 acres in the Linwood Road area and 2,318.76 acres south of the city - an area most- ly lying south of Interstate 85 including Canterbury Road and prime industrial locations along 1 vote the interstate. It's the biggest annexation in the city’s history, increasing the size of the city limits by 50 per- cent. The annexation is effective June 30, 2000. Mullinax said he is not op- posed to annexation, but ques- tioned whether the city could provide the required services. “I still can’t see that we'll be able to provide service to this three and one-half mile area that is half again the size of the city,” he said. “We cannot at this See Annex, 3A Remember Kings Mountain 2nd forum on battle attracts record crowd BY ALAN HODGE Staff writer Saturday was a Revolutionary day when Kings Mountain National Military Park held its Second Annual Forum on the fight that took place there October 7, 1780. Hosted at the park visitor center, auditorium, and surrounding grounds, the Forum included storytelling, music, lectures and displays devoted to the Kings Mountain role in the American Revolution. “The Forum went quite well,” said Park Superintendent Chris Revels. “We had over 1600 visitors on Saturday- normally we would see 500 or so people.” Speakers and historians invited to take part in the Forum included Dr. Edward Lee of Winthrop University, Mike Dahl of the Overmountain Victory Trail Association, Dr. Cynthia Kierner of - UNC-Charlotte, retired USC professor Pr. =~ Christine Swager, and storyteller William Wilder. . See Forum, 3A ALAN HODGE/THE HERALD Historian Marianne Gilchrist recently came to Kings Mountain from her native Scotland to visit the grave of Major Patrick Ferguson for the first time. Gilchrist was a guest speaker at the sec- ond annual Forum on the Battle of Kings Mountain. ALAN HODGE/THE HERALD Music for the second annual Forum on the Battle of Kings Mountain was provided by the Guilford Courthouse Fifes and Drums. Musicians pictured are, leit to right; Mike Nelson, Peggy Shea, and Steve Ware. Face to face with Ferguson BY ALAN HODGE Staff Writer A link through time and space was make Thursday at Kings Mountain National Military Park when Scottish his- torian Marianne Gilchrist com- pleted a pilgrimage that brought her face to face with the grave of Major Patrick Ferguson for the very first time. A native of St. Andrews, Scotland, Gilchrist had been planning the trip to Kings Mountain as part of her effort to fully understand and document the life of Ferguson, who as the officer in command of Loyalist and British troops at Kings Mountain, lost his life and was buried on the field. “I was doing volunteer work at the St. Andrews Museum and saw the letters of veterans of the American War,” Gilchrist said. “This led me to further re- search and also an interest in the Ferguson rifle which “Pattie” invented. He seemed like an intriguing figure, so I decided to go deeper into his story.” A unique bit of serendipity in Gilchrist’s research on Ferguson was the fact that she had been aware since childhood that one of her ancestors had been a Loyalist soldier. Since Ferguson recruited and trained such men, Gilchrist thinks it possible her ancestor may have fought un- der Ferguson at Kings Mountain. A breakthrough in Gilchrist’s work came when she found a large collection of “Patties” let- ters. Containing over 20 years worth of correspondence, the letters were mainly to his sister and brother in law. The Patrick Ferguson these writings reveal is a different man from the one most Americans have heard about. “All we ever heard in Scotland was the American side See Gilchrist, 3A Stewart to be installed as National President of the Legion Auxiliary Veteran Kings Mountain Herald staffer Lib Stewart will be installed Wednesday, September 8, as the National President of The American Legion Auxiliary at the 79th annual national con- vention in Anaheim, California. The American Legion Auxiliary is the world’s largest women’s patriotic service organization with membership in 50 states and numerous foreign countries at nearly one million. Other local people in California for the conven- tion activities are Stewart's nephew, Jeff Grigg, and niece, Beverly Stewart Berry, both of whom will present special music for the 2 p.m. cere- mony in the Anaheim Convention Center. Arlene Barrett, a past state president and active in Kings Mountain Unit 155, will nominate Stewart Tuesday morning. A large delegation of members from the Tar Heel State are in California for the event. Stewart will be installed by Phyllis Bachman of New York, National President in 1976-77. The service will include a color guard from the Anaheim American Legion Post who will pre- sent the colors of the various branches of the military. Flags from Post 155 and Auxiliary of Kings Mountain will also be presented. Letters of congratulations from state digni- taries, including Governor Jim Hunt, Senators John Edwards and Jesse Helms, Congresswoman Sue Myrick, Kings Mountain Mayor Scott Neisler and Nick Drury, Vice- President of Republic Newspapers, will be ac- knowledged. An eight-page tabloid newspaper congratulating Stewart and listing various homecoming events was published by the Kings Mountain Unit and Post 155 and will be distributed at the convention and appear in the Thursday, September 9 edition of the Kings Mountain Herald and in area Republic news- papers. The Kings Mountain community is in- vited to attend the October 15 barbecue to be hosted by American Legion Post 155 in Kings Mountain and participate in the other events in Charlotte, Asheville and Winston-Salem. The full schedule will be published on September 9. A Kings Mountain native and newspaper- woman for many years, Stewart joined Unit 155 nearly 30 years ago, is a former state president, and has served on the national level 20 years in a number of capacities. She is serving this year as the National Vice-President and is unop- posed for election. Stewart is the third North Carolina woman to serve as national president. Mary Sue Jarrett, al- so of Cleveland County, served in 1973-74. Mrs. Walter Craven of Charlotte was president in 1945-46. STEWART Grover ready for Y2K and pintos evening's meeting of the Grover town council an interesting one. “We are ready for the Year 2000,” said Grover mayor Max Rollins. “Grover is Y2K compli- ant.” With that statement, Rollins got the meeting underway with good news concerning Grover’s readiness for January 1, 2000. An eclectic blend of subjects “The City software and com- ranging from the New puters are ready, Kings Millennium to pinto beans and Mountain has assured us that ~ cornbread made Monday we'll have plenty of water, and Duke Power has told us they're ready as well.” Completing his report on Grover’s Y2K status, Rollins went on to state that Grover’s sewer department was not Y2K sensitive, with the exception of some new auto dialers, and that they were Y2K approved. As in last month's council meeting, the fact that Grover was still two members short on its normal five member zoning board was brought up. “We need at least one more member to even be able to do business,” Rollins said. Following that statement, council members John Higginbothan, Bill Favell, and Jack Herndon offered at least eight names of people who had mentioned interest in the zon- ing board spots. After compil- Kings Mountain 300 W. Mountain St. 529 New Hope Rd. 739-4781 ing the list of names, the man- ner in which prospective candidates could be screened arose. It was first suggested that candidates write a brief resume explaining their qualifications and reason for interest in join- ing the zoning board. “I think it would be a good idea if the City of Grover would send a letter to these people asking them for this informa- tion,” councilman Herndon said. Gastonia 865-1111 After input from Grover city attorney Mickey Corry on the proper way to proceed, the mo- tion to send a letter to each in- terested party was approved. The fate of Grover’s former and forlorn firetruck was dis- cussed following the reading of a letter from the Grover Fire Department asking the city to turn the vehicle's title over to it so the truck could be restored. See Grover, 3A SYS 1 Main Oftice 106 S. Lafayette St. 484-6200 Member FDIC
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