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YOUR CALL Elected officials represent- ing Grover, Kings Mountain and Grover: GROVER COUNCIL Robert E. Sides Jr., MAYOR 2007 P. O. Box 2 Grover, NC 28073 704-937-9250 John Harry 2005 P.O. Box 892 Grover, NC 28073 704-937-3372 Jacqueline Bennett 2007 105-2 Persimmon Drive Grover, NC 28073 704-937-7932 Barry T. Toney 2007 302 Carolina Avenue Grover, NC 28073 704-937-7396 , Max D. Rollins 2005 316 Cleveland Avenue Grover,NC 28073 704-937-7352 Bill Willis 2005 P. O. Box 811 Grover, N.C. 28073 704-937-9047 KINGS MOUNTAIN Rick Murphrey, Mayor 2005 402 Garrison Drive Kings Mountain, NC 28086 704-739-7065 Howard H. Shipp (Ward 1) 2005 507 Mitchell Street Kings Mountain, NC 28086 704-739-4214 Brenda McFalls Ross (Ward 2) 2005 907 Boyce Street Kings Mountain, NC 28086 704-739-6582 Jerry M. Mullinax (Ward 3) 2005 210 Cleveland Avenue Kings Mountain, NC 28086 704-734-5212 Kay M. Hambright (Ward 4) 2005 307 Maner Road Kings Mountain, NC 28086 704-739-4432 Carl B. DeVane ward 5 2005 1308 Wales Road Kings Mountain, NC 28086 704-739-4882 Rick Moore (At-Large) 2005 500 Downing Street Kings Mountain, NC 28086 704-739-7208 Houston Corn (At-Large) 2005 802 Rhodes Avenue Kings Mountain, NC 28086 704-739-7430 Elected officials represent- ing Cleveland County: U.S. SENATOR Elizabeth H. Dole 2008 Post Office Box 2109 Salisbury, NC 28145 704-633-5011 919-856-4630, FAX 919-829- 9471 John Edwards 2004 825 Hart Senate Office Bldg. Washington, DC 20510 202-224-3154 a EF # a LOOKING BACK Can those South Carolina trees grow up here? Geography is a quirky sort of thing. Several years ago I noticed Bermuda is Andie Brymer Staff Writer off the coast of North Carolina. It was a fact I filed away. There was no real rea- son to put the information at the front of my brain like some sort of urgent sticky note. Watching “This Old House,” Joey and I saw a team of designers, construction workers and architects transform a home into a bed and breakfast over the last few Saturdays. The dredlocked co-owner, host and building expert all wore starched shirts, ties, jackets, knee high socks, loafers and shorts. Yea, shorts. Bermuda shorts to be exact. i) guess that’s where the name-comes-from:« = To be honest, it looked like the guys had dressed hur- riedly and in the dark, forgetting to put their pants on over their boxers. Apparently the look is popular on the island, a symbol of its British heritage. You would think once those early settlers got away from their dreary, rainy native land, the bright sun would . have dried the mildew from their brains and allowed some fashion sense to bloom. Most of the construction workers were from eastern North Carolina. According to the show, the island is approximately 120 miles off our coast. While Tar Heel beaches are occasionally hit with snow, the weather, in Bermuda is dramatically different. i It’s truly tropical, not just the wannabee, few months out of the year kind of tropical Wrightsville Beach tries to pull off. I'm no meteorologist, but I'm guessing the gulf stream has something to do with it. Another climactic wonder is the South Carolina state line. Ride down the Grover Road. You'll see no palmetto trees til you cross the magical barrier between the two Carolinas. Not until the interstate-style gas stations, fire- works stores and closed casinos will the trees appear. Do we really believe that trees can read a map and decide not to plant themselves in one state or the other? Maybe trees have some sort of immigration policy. Since the dogwood is North Carolina’s tree mascot can it cross into South Carolina? I believe I've seen the pretty blossoms south of our border. It’s beginning. to look like the situation between the United States and Mexico. Folks and trees north of the line have free range to hop on down south but those people and plants unfortunate enough to originate in the more 0 southern territory can’t go north. O PINION SE Kings Mountain High's starting five on the 1965-66 bas- ketball team were, left to right, Larry Burton, center; Nelson Connor and Neal Cooper, guards; and Scott Cloninger and Ken Mitchem, forwards. Mitchem was the first Black basketball player at KMHS. He will be inducted into the Kings Mountain Sports Hall of Fame Saturday, May 15 at the H. Lawrence Patrick Senior Life and Conference Center. File Photo Who needs a DVD when they've got a good book to read? I've always said everything is on the wheel. By that I mean what goes around comes around. It is as true of life itsélf as jim Heffner anything else. Columnist One of my earliest memories was the day I discovered the public library in York, S.C. I think I was in the third grade. That's when I checked out my first library book, something about a horse named Smokey. I was enthralled. When I went back to turn that one in and check out another, I came face to face with prejudice for the first time. The librarian wouldn't let me have another book, because, “His hands were dirty.” What did she expect from a nine-year-old mill hill, kid. I'had been playing in the red clay all day. But that’s a story I've told before. My point is, I am reading more now than I ever did. My two sons want me to get a DVD player. “Why?” I ask. “So you can rent movies,” they say. “But there are no movies I want to rent,” I reply. “You can run some of the ones we own,” they say. “I don’t want to see any of the movies you own,” I say. That has stopped them for the time being. I went to see “Cold Mountain” at the theater, and that was the first movie I've seen in a theater since Mel Gibson's “The Patriot.” Before that, I saw The “General's Daughter” and “Air Force One.” I don’t remember any more in the last 20 years, although I did see “Terms of Endearment,” but I don’t know how long ago that was. Television is worse than the movies. There is absolute- ly no regular series I watch. I've never seen an episode of any of the so-called “sitcoms” prevalent on the tube today. When I do watch TV it’s baseball, college basketball, an occasional golf tofirnament, an animal show or something about history. I do scan the cable TV talking heads, but seldom watch more than a few minutes. I watch the old Andy Griffith reruns, and I love a good show about snakes, which drives my wife nuts. I own approximately 500 books. I guess I have as big a personal collection of baseball books as anybody around. My problem is I don’t have room for any more books and I've read all those I have. I also read the 480 volumes I gave to a struggling new library a few years ago. That puts me right back into the library. I've been a pretty steady customer for the last few years. I always have a book going. Thursday, May 13, 2004 LOOK BACK Election slated in May ‘53 From the May 7, 1953 edition of the Herald: Kings Mountain voters will decide on Tuesday whether the city adopts the city manager form of gov- ernment. Robert B. “Bob” Osborne became a last-minute can- didate for mayor on Tuesday, posting his filing fee one day prior to the deadline and bringing to four the number of candi- dates seeking the city’s highest elective office. He opposes Mayor Garland E. Still, George W. Allen and Glee A. Bridges. Running for the board of commissioners are James “Red” Layton and W. Sage Fulton Sr., ward 1; Lloyd E. Davis, Warren E. Reynolds and J.H. “Jay” Patterson, ward 2; TJ. “Tommy” Ellison, C.L. “Curly” Elgin and Olland R. Pearson, ward 3; Harold Phillips, Floyd Williams and Oliver T. Hayes Sr., ward 4; and D.L. White, Sam Stallings and W. Gurney Grantham, ward 5. Paul Walker was installed as president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce at the eighth annual ladies night ban- quet Tuesday. Sam Collins was named chef de gare of Lincoln Voiture 1180 40 & 8 at a meeting in Shelby last week Hilton L. “Jack” Ruth was among 11 outstanding Davidson College student leaders and Athletic Director Paul K. Scott tapped for membership in Omicron Delta Kappa national honorary leader- ship fraternity Monday morning. Miss Cornelia Ware, high school senior, reigned over the annual May Day festiv- ities as May Queen at Kings Mountain High School Friday night. Maids of honor were Shirley Falls and Connie Bennett. Lois Gamble of Bethware School was county winner in the 4-H Dress Revue held Saturday at Elizabeth School. Hal Dedmon of Shelby will coach the 1953 Post 155 American Legion base- ball team. Fred A. Tate and Paul N. Fite are completing basic Air Force Indoctrination courses at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonia, Texas. ; Donald Ellis of Grover will attend the 13th annual session of Boy's State June 14-21. SIDEWALK SURVEY By ANDIE BRYMER HERALD Should restaurants completely No. Being a smoker, they No. They should have I don’t think they should. Not really. Some people No. They need to have a h ib 1 t should have their own sit- ~~ non-smoking and smok- Smokers still have rights. when they get through smoking area. That's peo- pro 101 ting area, ventilation. ing. I'm a smoker. They Kathie Ladd eating want to smoke a ple’s rights. ° 95 Charles Price should have half and half. Kings Mountain cigarette. Ron Helton smoking 3 Kings Mountain Teresa Biddix Dewey Young Kings Mountain Kings Mountain Kings Mountain
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