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VOLUME 94. NUMBER SO
THURSDAY. JULY 2. 1981
KINGS MOUNTAIN. NORTH CAROLYN d
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She's 100. And Will
Be Around Much Longer
BY ELIZABETH STEWART
Laugh a lot.
Keep in touch with old
inends.
Don’t smoke or drink or
wary much.
Go to church and Sunday
School.
And just let it happen.
That’s the philosophy of Mrs.
Delia Lovell McClanahan, 100.
The silver-haired lady has
done just that. And if she has her
way she’ll be around a lot longer.
“Mrs. Mac”, as she is affec
tionately called by her friends,
renewed acquaintances this
week with longtime Kings
Mountain friends, Katherine
and Aubrey Mauney, and visited
in other areas of the state during
her annual summertime visit
with old friends.
Flying across the country
DELIA McCLANAHAN
^ Big Fourth Celebration
Set In City Saturday
a
ik
The Kings Mountain Parks
and Recreation Department has
planned a big Fourth of July
Celebration Saturday beginning
at 10 ajn. at the Deal Street
Recreational Complex.
All-day events are scheduled
for all age groups.
An exciting fireworks ex
travaganza at 10 p.m. will climax
the day’s activities.
Pool, field and special events
are scheduled. Awards will be
presented to winners of most
events.
Pool events include;
10 ajn. - Spring board com
petition.
11 a.m. - Big Splash.
11;4S ajn. - Orange-Spoon
race.
12 JO p.m. - Inner Tube race.
1 pjn. - Penny dive.
IJO p.m. - Address from
Mayor John Moss and City
Commissioners.
2:30 p.m. - Public swimming
at Deal Pool.
2:30 p.m. - Water slide in front
of the Community Center.
Field events include;
3 p.m. - Pie eating contest.
3:30 p.m. - Watermelon eating
contest.
4 p.m. - Greasy pig chase.
4:30 p.m. - Goat chase.
5 p.m. - Chicken chase.
Sio p.m. - Bunny ambush
rabbit chase (for girls only).
6 p.m. - Greasy pole climb for
ages nine through II, 12
through 15 and 16 and over.
6:30 p.m. - Three-legged races
and sack races.
7:30 p.m. - Water balloon toss.
8 p.m. - Egg toss.
10 p.m. - Fireworks ex
travaganza.
Special events include cham
pionship putt putt golf and a
horseshoe pitching contest.
Horseshoe divisions include
men’s singles, men’s doubles and
mixed doubles. Trophies will be
awarded to first and second
place finishers in each division.
The Recreation Department
will be sponsoring a big trade lot
yard sale beginning at 10 a.m.
and continuing until 9 p.m. Any
groups or individuals interested
in selling articles are urged to
contact the Recreation Depart
ment at 739-6995 or the
Neighborhood Facility Center at
739-3549. Spaces will rent for $4
for the entire day.
Belvin Eaves of Eaves School
of Martial Arts in Shelby will
give a martial arts exhibition. He
holds a first degree black belt in
Japanese Shotakan, Korean Tae
Kwon Do and a second degree
Black Belt in American Karate.
He has won a number of tour
naments in the area.
from her home in Farmersville,
Texas, population 3,(X)0, is
nothing new for this spry,
former minister’s wife who does
her own shopping, lives alone in
a big two-story house, walks four
blocks a day, fries her own
chicken, reads without glasses,
hears without a hearing aid, and
visits the elderly in a nursing
home, even if the “elderly” are
years younger, and all past her
century mark which she
celebrated on March 14th.
But, “Mrs. Mac“ enjoys her
longevity and laughs at the stun
ned surprise that always shows
when someone’s told she’s lived
at least 20 years more than time
has written on her face or in the
deep waves of her thick silver
hair.
She knows she doesn’t look
100, much less act like she’s
ready for a rocking chair-unless
it’s on a plane going somewhere
to see somebody.
“I had not visited my Kings
Mountain friends and those in
Bessemer City, Granite Quarry
and Salisbury for about four
summers so 1 just decided I’d get
on a plane and come to see them
all,” said Mrs. Mac as she relax
ed on the sunporch of the
Mauney home on Gaston Street.
Before his death. Rev. Mr.
McClanahan was pastor for 10
years of Bessemer City’s Grace
Lutheran Church. “Mrs. Mac”
has many friends in the
Bessemer City-Cherryville area
and has known Katherine
Schenck Mauney since Mrs.
Mauney was a little girl growing
up in Greensboro.Mrs.
Mauney’s father, the late E. A.
Schenck, was pastor of a church
in Greensboro and “Mr. Mac“
was pastor of a church in nearby
Gibsonville. Mr. Schenck and
Mr. McClanahan were in
seminary together.
“Mrs. Mac” has always loved
to travel, recalling the days of
long ago when she traveled to
school and back each day in a
covered wagon. “Papa’s wagon
had a horse up in front instead of
a motor but he always picked up
the children along the way,” she
recalled. Graduating from col
lege shortly after the turn of the
century, she taught for 10 years
before she met and married her
{husband and settled down to be
ing a minister’s wife for 55 years.
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V.
Franklin Ware Retires
After 35 Years With ESC
Franklin L. Ware, 65, Kings
Mountain native, enjoyed his
first full day of retirement
Wednesday after a career spann
ing 35 years with the Employ
ment Security Commission.
On Tuesday, he retired as
manager of Shelby’s Employ
ment Security Commission
where he had served for 14
years.
Mr. Ware, of 815 W. Moun
tain St., says he plans to exercise
his hobbies of gardening and bee
koiping and he and his wife plan
to do some traveling. Mrs. Ware,
the former Eddys Latham,
retired this month after a 29-year
career as an English teacher at
Kings Mountain Senior High
School.
Relaxing in his home, Mr.
Ware said he could look back
over many happy years of public
service since he started work for
the ESC in Gastonia in August
1946. He has also seen many
changes with the advent of com
puters replacing manual tabula
tion, and increased services from
the traditional employment ser
vice phase of the operation to
FRANKLIN L. WARE
the unemployment division, job
training through CETA funding,
and the work incentive program
for AFDC clients for the Depart
ment of Social Services.
Ware said he came to the pro
gram during a number of social
and industrial transitions and he
saw the steady rise of minimum
wages and the arrival of Equal
Employment Opportunity,
among other things. He has also
been the labor force in Cleveland
County grow from 28,000 to
38,500 and watched Cleveland
County make the transition
from a primarily textile and
agricultural area to a diversified
industrial area.
He has witnessed good
economic times and periods of
recession.
Growing up during the
Depression Years, his first job at
age 16 was as a roofer and his
wages were 20 cents an hour.
After school jobs and during the
summertime he worked for Sum-
mitt’s Nuway, a combination
drug store and grocery, for $2 a
day to earn pocket money while
a senior at KMHS. He learned
the roofing trade from his father,
the late F. Luther Ware.
After graduating from Erskine
College, Due West, S.C. in 1938,
he taught mathematics and
coached basketball in Saluda
County, S.C. and Mecklenburg
County. He earned $75 a month
and his room and board cost him
$17.50 a month.
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RUNS FUEL TRUCK—Virginia Black r*iu*la
anoth*r city vahicl*, abov*. as port of h*r
n*w job in th* city str**! d*partm*nt. Sh* *n-
Phofo by Lib S:*wart
joy* h*r non-traditional role. She also letters
and puts up signs.
5-Foot-2, Pretty...
And Doing Man's Work
I BY ELIZABETH STEWART,
Move over men. Traditional
men’s roles in the city street
department are now being handl
ed efficiently by two five-foot
two females.And pretty too.
Crystal Porter Scoggins, 21,
and Virginia Black, 27, both of
Kings Mountain, are both petite
but Street Foreman Supervisor
Jack Williams and Department
Head Ted Huffman have no
qualms about their expertise
with a truck or bushhog equip
ment.
Mrs. Baird
At Workshop
Margaret Baird, a home
economics teacher at Kings
Mountain Senior High School,
was one of 30 occupational food
service teachers selected by the
Department of Public Instruc
tion to participate in a six-day
workshop in Raleigh June 14-19.
The Institute was designed to
focus on an update of commer
cial food service practices and
equipment, requirements for
employment in the various food
occupations, and the most recent
teaching materials available. The
Institute was held at the Velvet
Cloak Inn and on location in
fourteen different service opera
tions in and around Raleigh. In
structors included various
restauranteurs, institutional fixxl
service managers a-id editors of
national food service publica
tions.
Conducted by the National
Restaurant Association under
contract with the Division of
Vocational Education, State
Department of Public Instruc
tion, the meeting was directed by
Richrd Gaven, Division Head,
Chicago, NR A and Walter
Ashecraft, Director, Human
Resources, NRA. Ms. Jean
Mullen, Home Economics
Education Consultant with
SDPI coordinted the project.
‘This has been one of the
most exciting in-service activities
I have ever been associated with.
The NRA hs done a superb job
in planning and conducting the
Institute. Such special training
sessions are essential to prepare
teachers in providing realistic
learning activities that will help
qualify their students for
employment in food service oc-
cuptions,” Ms. Mullen said. The
High School Food Service
Course is designed to train
students for immediate employ
ment in the food industry
Crystal, who came to work six
weeks ago,started learning about
a tractor at the age of six when
she tried to help her dad, land
scaping contractor Charles
Porter. T used to help plow the
garden and sow the grass as a
youngster and it’s always been
my ambition to be a long
distance trucker,” she said.
During the past six weeks
Crystal has handled the grass
cutting and operated a city dump
truck, reporting to work at 7:30
a.m. A 1977 graduate of Burns
High, she enrolled in a Licensed
Practical Nursing class at
Cleveland Tech but quit to get
married. She plans to enroll in a
diesel mechanic’s class soon and
wants to pursue her goal to
become a full-fledged
longdistance trucker. She loves
the outdoors and praises the city
street crews and her bosses, Huf
fman and Williams for “giving
me this chance.”
Crystal can change a tire and
describes herself as a “pretty
good lady mechanic.” She wears
a hard hat like the men and en
joys her work.
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GARY STEWART
LIB STEWART
Herald To Discontinue
Tuesday's Publication
The Kings Mountain Herald will return to a weekly paper effective
next week. Publisher Garland Atkins announced today.
The Herald will no longer publish a Tue.sday paper, but will con
tinue to concentrate on providing the best of local news coveraae in
the Thursday edition. ^
Along with the announcement of the weekly schedule, Atkins has
announced two staff changes within the organization
Lib Stewart, veteran women’s editor and co^ditor of the Herald
since September of 1979, has been named editor of the Cherryville
Eagle, a sister newspaper of the Herald
Gary Stewart, veteran sports editor and photographer and co-editor
of the Herald since September of 1979, will serve as editor of the
Herald.
Although the pa^r will carry a Thursday dateline, Atkins said it
will actually come off the press early Wednesday afternoon and will be
on the newstands by mid-afternoon ^
wWchte: "> ^How the new deadlines.
Advertising deadline: 1 p.m. Tuesday
Deadline for social news, such as weddings and engagement an
nouncements; 5 p.m. Monday. on
Deadline for news, 9 a.m. Wednesday
Current subscribers will receive the., ,;aper for six months after their
current subscnption expires. New subsviiniion rates arr la Ill '
in North Carolina and $9.36 per year cut ^sUte *8-32 !»■ year
Any readers with news items, or storv and>hr nini.r. i-i-
ed to call the Herald at 739-7496 or coni hv nff
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