They Hired ’em
A Hollar - er
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TOlimin weired on my mind when I swung open the door to The Pantiy at
mi(taight laS week. All mght I’d tried to write a introduction of myself to the
readers of this newspaper: no words, or at least no right words, would come.
Jfmally I decided to take a break to clear my head, and walk to The Pantry.
Id come to like tMs all-night store on Main Street peopled by students,
travelers, and third-shift workers at PPG. I recognized a regular I’d seen earlier
at a downtown rafe. He nodded warily. “You one of the new teachers at the
college? he asked.
Right church, wrong pew. No, I explained, I did work for the college, but not as
a teacher; I was the new editor, I went on, hired for the Charlotte Observer to
edit the newspaper Gardner-Webb had bought.
He digested this new solemnly. “Well,” he said finally, “I guess they hired
em a hollar-er. * i
Perfert! Here WM the introduction I’d sought, better written then my own
words. They hired em a hollar-er’’! Here too was the plain speech Kays Gary
has told me was part of the Cleveland County he loves, plain and blunt as a
mule s nose.
Plain speech l^ds to a lack of pretense, and within a few minutes he and I
were talking f^iliar as friends. Quickly he confided to me his view in the police
Mntroversy’ obswved the incompletence of all state officials, and told me y*ere
1 ^uld find a reliable map of the county. We parted something like friends.
® blunt questiory that deserves an honest answer,
it ^ hollar-er” when ifae newspaper was bought, and was
it^bought to serve as a mouth-piece for Gardner-Webb?
“No!” answered Dr. Craven Williams, piesident of the college; it was an
^phatic an^er to a question I’d asked in the first minutes of my job interview.
Ihe college bou^t the paper as a community service, he said, and to allow
students to get in-the-job trying in the newspaper business. But Williams
stresses that he was not getting into the newspaper business; I am, and that’s
why I was hired.
The Foothills View wiU not “hoUar”: we wiU not pubUsh only Gardner-Webb
Gardner-Webb. That means, I pointed out to
Williams,, over supper last week that the day will come when the Foothills View
will publish a story that will be painful for the college to read. Williams looked at
me hard, then nodded agreement. A hard decision - but the truth is better than a
hollar.
But in what other ways will the paper change? Here are some questions I’ve
/heard readers ask since they found out they hired em’ a hollar-er' from Charlotte:
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Will the newspaper still run community news? Of course 1 hone
Trinity, Mt. Pleasant, Prospect, Flint Hill, Lavonia and
^ilng Springs are ^oi^ the most important pajrts of this newspaper aii are
as.-wiything I’ve seen run in the Observer. As a Se^ f^t
Im looking for- more community correspondents If vmi'H Iflro i I
neighborhood news for the FoothUls View, call mJ
Will my favorite columnists stil] run? We’ll have more to be your favorites- I’m
mcreasi^, not decrrasing, the number of coluinn in the FoothiUs View. A new
one starts today: Billy Graham’s column of religious advice, “My Answer.”'
Su^r ^i^th^^ rMthills View in the nextSree montli,“and rtTdo S jSiSt
you L me them : all are designed to make the FoothiUs View easier to read i
1 ... .■ ---'T5—" Hie r uunuuB View easier to read and
include such changes as setting type in a wider
you’re reading now. Als^community news
^ newspaper rather than
scattered about, making them easier to find.
What do you think about these changes? Why don’t you give us a “hollar”?
Call us at 434-71^, or 434-2361 and let us know what you think. In exchange,
we 11 make you this deal: most newspapers bury their readers’ responses on an
mside section. We’ll put what you think right here on the front page. Write a
letter to the editor or give us a call; one or the other, give us a hollar We’re
listening!
Dave Robertson
Managing Editor
What*sNew? Billy Graham's
Column
See Page 8
Broyhill Bringing
Congress to Cafe
Co^ressman James Broyhill (R. - N.C.) will visit
nve Cleveland County communities and talk with residents
here Friday, August 7th.
The IWh dlrtrict Congressman wUl meet with people
Spr^s at the Snack Shop cafe. Main St.,
from 11:30 a.m. to noon that Friday. No appointment
is necessary.
Bro^Ul cautioned that Congress may not. recess in
make the scheduled visits. “I hope
the Congress will finish its work on the tax and spending
reductions in time for me to attend these office hours
Broyhill said. ’
‘If I am unable to be present/' he went on *'l want
everyone that each case will be discussed
with me.”
In BroyhUI’s abcence, an aide will stand in for the
Congressman, along withmembersofBroyhill’s Washington
and district staffs. ^
Broyhill invited anyone having a problem with the
on the issues before the 97th Congress to attend one of
the Cleveland County talks.
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The four other Cleveland County stops are: 9 - i
a.m., Cleveland County Law Enforcement Center, Shelby;
1:30 - 2 p.m.. Fire Department, Polkville; 2:30 - 3 p.m.
Stmey's Store, Fallston; and 3:30 - 4:30 p.m„ City
Hall, King’s Mountain.
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Tennis Anyone?
Mark Bridges, 8,andhissister, Julie,4,show enthusiasm
for the game both on and off the court as the two children
play m the grass next to their parents on the Crest High
School tennis courts Sunday. The Bridges family lives
in Shelby.
Boiling Springs
Reports Tfijg Place, That Time
PoficeDepartment
f motorist was charged ana another taken
. „ ^ car wreck at the intersection
of Main St. and Homestead Ave. llie driver of the first
car was charged with making an unsafe movement; the About 1880, 0,P, Hamrick
second driver was treated and released from Crawley
Memorial HospitM, Police estimated damage at $3300.
Springs police issued a warrant .hat
resulted in the arrest of a Forest City woman on a charge
of emtezzlement from a local restaurant. Mutt’s Chicken
Md Biscuits on North Main had reported missing approx-
The suspect was arrested
July 24 m Rutherford and returned to Cleveland County;
the money has not been recovered.
u undertaking of my father and grandfather
besides farming was the building of a gin on a creek
but « was a peat improvement over extracting the seed
Sit was Lid“"t rusedTJm Jhod
^ child to fill his shoe with
seed was a good night's work." ®
n.iifi o K *® and must have taken
quite a bit of my mother’s time, patience, care, and love
My cousin who lived nearby said for two years every
time he was having a big time and began making some
noise, his mother would remind him that ‘Aunt Gallie
had a baby about to die’ and asked him to quiet down,”
O.P. Hamrick, written in 1964 when he was 73
Fire Department
’I^e Department reported no calls for the previous
week, but requested contributions for victims of a trailer
fire at Casar July 18. Tlie couple and their four girls
wpe unhifft but they need clothing; the fire destroyed
Ml their belongings. Hie girls are sizes 4, 5,14, and
11; the woman, a size 11-12; the man wears a large shirt
Contributors can call Town Hall.
434-oOId, ’
Rescue Squad
received an emergency housecall
B.50 p.m, fOT a possible shooting. The subject was
dead on arrival, and the body transported to Cleveland
MemorlM. ’^e coroner later ruled the death suicide.
22 July. After receiving, a call for an auto accident
at 8:10 the squad carried one dlriver to Crawley
Memorial Hospital, She was treated and released.
During the week the squad answered eight other calls
and traveled a total of 202 miles. Fifty one hours were
spent on calls, and another 176 hours on standby.