Something rotten
in Kings Mountain
and it’s the water
There’s something rotten
in Kings Mountain and
everyone that lives in the
water district that does not
have a well don’t have to be
told what it is.
My question is this. Why
are we suffering the foul
smell of water that we don't
want to drink, so we buy
drinking water from the
grocery store? We can’t
wash our clothes without
going out of town to a laun-
dry mat so our clothes don’t
smell like we have been
wallowing in a bog! We
can’t shower and wash our
hair for the same reason.
We are told that it will be
August before the smell is
going to dissipate. Not to
mention that everyone will
have to drain and flush out
his or her water heater to
get rid of the smell there
when it does subside.
Meanwhile, back at the
Council room the city com-
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From the Thursday, June
13, 1974 edition of the
Kings Mountain Mirror:
Ollie Harris of Kings
Mountain has been
appointed Democratic
Party Telethon Co-
Chairman for the telethon
that will be broadcast over
CBS June 29-30.
City commissioners
looked at the tentative
1974-75 budget Monday
night and saw an increase
of $1.15 million over last
year's budget. The tenta-
tive budget is
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$5,103,668.52.
Two young male streak-
ers interrupted a recent
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They could pay for the Babe Ruth baseball game at
added expense that we poor 2 Sy ii Tk
citizens are incurring trying : # : Pe orme C
Don Bumgardner of Kings
Mountain has filed a
$370,000 law suit against
Firestone Tire and Rubber
Co., claiming a faulty tire
caused a crash in Concord
two years ago which ended
his racing career.
The local NCAE met
Thursday at Grover School
for their annual luncheon
and saw Edith Bridges win
the KM Teacher of the Year
Award.
ACT officers for 1974-75
are Virginia Raymer, presi-
to have decent water to
drink, cook and wash with.
But noooooooo! Instead,
they decide to give the
Country Club a break on the
rate they pay for water and
sewer for the glory of the
new golf course ground
work.
There is something wrong
with this picture. I have
been called crazy most of
my life but I am not stupid.
I have worked for the
Gaston County Schools
Maintenance Department
Southern Bell manager R.W. Fleming, left, and members of the Kings Mountain Centennial Commission are shown in
this picture from the June 1974 Kings Mountain Herald. Also pictured are Charles Mauney, center, and Bill Brown,
right. Seated is Mrs. Josephine Weir. The city, organized in 1874, celebrated its 100th birthday in 1974.
The leader of the Let’s not get
band deserves a carried away
with Rudolph
Eric Rudolph is no modern day Robin
happy retirement
Last weekend, I went home for my
sister’s high school graduation. I also
for the past 25 years; main- got to see my father direct the band for Abigail Wolfor Hood. Those who say they wouldn't have JIM HEFFNER dent; Steve Wells, vice
taining intercoms and fire the last time. For 31 years, my dad has Staff Writer turned him in haven’t given it much JLolumnist en president; Gladys Jones,
secretary; and Jeannette
Surratte, treasurer. NCAE
officers for the next school
year are Myers Hambright,
president; Mrs. Willie
Marable, vice president;
Betsy Wells, secretary; and
Gary Shields, treasurer.
John H. Haskins was §
awarded the Associate in
Applied Science Degree in
Furniture Drafting and
Design Technology from
Catawba Valley Technical
Institute, Hickory.
Kenny Bell and Bruce
Valentine won awards for
athletic excellence at the
annual Central Junior High
alarm systems, being
involved with water and
8 waste management because
of expertise with controls.
- That also gave me a little
education on how some of =
this stuff works.
Has the City quit using
charcoal at the filtration
plant? If not, then not
enough?
We as citizens and taxpay-
ers deserve the answer to
that question. I have seen
discolored water before, but
never had the “boggy
creek” odor. I have lived
here 52 years and believe
me, you would not forget
been a high school band director at a mms
little rural school in Ohio. When he first took the job, the
band program was almost non-existent. During his time
in the district, the band has grown to include approxi-
mately 80 students in the high school.
He has always worked'hard. Even during the summer,
he spends many days listening to marching band music
and writing drills for the band. He is one of the few left
in Ohio who still writes his own marching band drills.
Most hire others to do that for them.
He always sacrificed so much time for his kids at
school. He would give free private lessons to every kid in
the band in the course of the school day, even though it
meant that he would not get a lunch or conference period.
He would simply eat his lunch while he listened to the
kids play and then stay up late at night to do his lesson
plans. Not many people would do that.
He spent most of his years teaching without a band
room. He used the stage in the auditorium for band prac-
thought.
The man allegedly killed two innocent people, one of
them a police officer.
I'm sure there are people up in those mountains who ,
helped Rudolph out on occasion, but I don’t think I'd
paint everyone in and around Murphy with the same
broad brush. Most mountain folks are salt of the earth,
and even though they might agree with Rudolph’s stand
on abortion and homosexuals, they are usually law-abid-
ing. This is not to say some of them aren't clannish.
It stretches the imagination to think Rudolph roamed
around those hills for over five years without some help.
He was wearing new sneakers and had what was report-
ed as a fresh haircut when caught.
He did have survival training, and he is obviously an
intelligent man, so it is entirely possible he did it all on his
own. Sometimes it’s easier to hide in plain sight, and one
of his camps was close to town.
Frankly, I thought he had left the area a long time ago. I
that smell rising from your tice and stored the instruments and uniforms in the boiler thought he was probably lounging on a beach in South awards day.
hot water and shower! room. The auditorium had no ventilation or air condition- Florida with Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.
If the Country Club wants ing, so it was stifling during summer band practice. Now there are some do-gooders who say the young Becky Scruggs of Grover
a break, then let them drill a As my dad enters into his retirement this week, I hope police officer who took Rudolph into custody should get and Robin Dickey, Sharon
Timms and Jodi Smith, all
of Kings Mountain, were
presented at Saturday’s
Debutante Ball.
John Henry Moss
Reservoir officially opened
he realizes what a difference he has made in the lives of so
many kids through the years. So many of those kids may
not have ever had anyone care about them or would
never have learned to love music if he had not been there
to teach them.
Many fathers teach their children about many different
well for irrigation if they
can’t afford the water from
the City.
Start filtering the water
and apologize to the citizens
for thinking we are stupid.
the $1 million reward. That's ridiculous.,
The policeman should get high marks for performing
his job properly, but he has no right to the reward money,
nor does he lay any claim to it.
What about all the other policemen who do their jobs
every day?
Repeal the break to the things. My father taught me to love music. Although I Now I've got to say I wouldn't be a policeman. It takes to be coaing ang skiing
Country Club. did not study music in college as my sister will, the hair a special kind of individual to do that kind of work. Think pa ic a ay. It ai
I also ask that all the citi- on my arms still goes up when I hear a moving song. I about it, every time a policeman makes a traffic stop or ong awaited moment for
many Kings Mountain and
area residents.
Four local firemen
attended a fire school in
Shelby this week. They
were Charles Peterson,
Chief Gene Tignor, Bill
Herndon and Frank Burns.
zens of Kings Mountain to
be very vocal about this
issue. Call the Mayor, City
Manager and your commis-
sioners and let them know
how you feel.
; Robert W. Hullender
Kings Mountain
know that I will always love the music my father loves.
Several years ago, a singer named Dan Fogelburg wrote
a song entitled, “Leader of the Band,” for his own father,
who was also a band director. Although my father is not
as old as Mr. Fogelburg’s father was when the song was
written, the song always makes me think of my father.
I remember hearing the song for the first time while sit
See Abigail, 5A
goes out on a domestic disturbance call, a drug raid, or
chases an armed robber he puts his life at risk.
It’s true they don’t get paid enough for what they do,
but reward money is another matter.
How much should a cop be paid for arresting a burglar,
or a wife beater? Maybe we should just put them all on
commission.
SL
See Jim, 5A
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SIDEWALK
SURVEY
BY ABIGAIL WOLFORD
THE HERALD
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Without the
discovery of
was the war
against Iraq
justified?
Kings Mountain
Even before the war, I felt
members of the same fra-
ternity. That window of
opportunity has slammed
shut.
Laura Allred
Charlotte
Kings Mountain
Jim Zeunik
Kings Mountain
weapons We jumped the gun. We Yes. As an American, we Absolutely not. I don’t It was justified. If we
bit off more than we could like it was a grave mis- need to take a stand think the United States has would have sat here and
of mass chew. take. At that time (Sept. against tyranny. any more right to invade not went to war, we
: 11) I felt the arms of the their country than they do would have been lying in
destruction . Keith Cole world open up to us as Sheila Bolin to invade our country. wait.
Jackie Woody
Shelby
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