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Thursday, August 13, 1981
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G-W Speaker
“Beginning Again
At Graduation
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Broyhill: Retirement
"What will you make of your degree?” Dr. Arthur
L. Walker, Jr. asked the 47 students graduating from
Gardner-Webb College on Saturday August 8,1981.
Dr. Walker, Executive Director-Treasurer of the Educa
tion Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention was
the featured speaker at the summer graduating exercise
held at Boiling Springs Baptist Church.
He issued a challenge of life to the students. "In
your academic career, most of you knew throughout each
semester if your work was acceptable. Now you’re
entering atime, unless youcontinue in school,when you
will not have these obvious testing periods. What I am
saying is that you must determine if you really want to
make your life a success. Even more than that, each
graduate will determine the value of the degree which
he or she receives today. This really is a commence
ment. You are beginning all over again.”
Walker emphasized that college grades and activities
will become less important during the career years,
but earlier learning experiences do contribute to a person’s
success. "There are certain things that obviously carry
over. This was reflected recently in a study conducted
by American Telephone and Telegraph Company which
found that AT&T employees with liberal arts majors,
while in college make a stronger showing in managerial
ski'.Is, have greater potential for middle management,
and make better progress in advancement than employees
with other majors. The significance in the emphasis
which At&T found on liberal arts is that the study in
the educational experience of those who were more suc
cessful showed that study in the liberal arts had given a
broader vision, a sense of history, perspectives from
art and literature.”
In closing, he asked one final question, "What will
- you do with this degree which is how important and to
which you and those who have contributed to you during
this time have given so much time and energy?”
President Dr. Craven E. Williams andthe vice-chairman
of the Faculty, &. John R. Drayer, conferred the degrees.
Others participating on the program were Dr. Larry
L. Sale, Dean of Continuing Education and Summer School,
who gave the invocation and welcome and the benediction;
Steve Harill, who provided a tenor recitative and aria
from Elizah, accompanied by Connie Hodge, organist.
Those graduating included John Terry Beason of Boiling
Springs, with a degree in business administration.
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CONGRESS AND LUNCH were the order of the day as Rep. James T. Broyhill
(R-NC) visited the Snack Shop cafe at noon Friday. Above Broyhill talks with
long-time Boiling Springs resident Bob Beason (right).
Council Okays Rezoning,
Drilling New Well
Boiling Springs took a step closer to
in industrial park last Tuesday night
when town council approved the
rezoning of 26.8 acres from residential
to light manufacturing.
Within five minutes council with
puWic aporoval granted the request by
Garvey Hamrick and Ladd Hamrick,
Jr. Earlier the Planning and Zoning
Board had approved the request and
recommended that council okay the
zone change.
Rezoning the Luid west of Crawley
Hospital makes possible its use by an
industry presently wilhng to locate on
about five acres of that site. The
industry would manufacture table-
clothes, napkins, and restaurant
linens, explained John Barker of
Council voted unanimously to
authorize Rhodes to make application.
Complaints about the quality of
drinking water then filled the air and
Don Lovelace, water superintendent,
reported a problem maintaining an
adequate water level in the city well.
“There’s been a meeting of minds on
the new well,” Max Hamrick told the
audience. Hamrick then told council
that an agreement had been reached to
drill for a new well on land owned by
Gardner-Webb College on DeHart Dr.
Hamrick asked for, and received,
approval to take informal bids in the
next month and start drilling. The bids
are not to exceed $4000.
In other business the coimcil:
approved the live broadcast of its
“That’s All
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Tonight
''There's been a meeting of minds
on the well.”
’ Max Hamrick
"Barker Realty in Shelby, who
represents the industry. Barker is at
present unwilling to name his client.
Glenn Rhodes, with the Isothermal
Planning and Development Commision
spoke after Barker about possible
funds for grading £ind paving a road
for about 1100 feet to the proposed
industrial site. Money from the
Farmers Home Administration is
available, Rhodes said, in a 100 per
cent participation ^ant. A 100 per cent
grant means Boiling Springs will not
have to match any of the federal
money with its own funds.
“But the money is on first come, first
serve basis,” Rhodes warned. “If you
do decide to do it (apply for the grant)
I recommend that you proceed
immediately.”
Controversy over the resignation of
ex-police Chief Bill Ingram appears to
have waned, and the town council
unanimously voted Aug. 4 to begin
taking applications for the vacant
position.
Ingram, in open letter handed out
June 30, urged townspeople to attend
the council’s Aug. 4 meeting to discuss
charges Ingram has leveled against
town officials and the reasons for
Ingram’s resignation. Ingram has
maintained since resigning June 2 that
he was forced to step down after a
patrolman ticketed a volunteer
fireman.
Response, however, was small; and
for the time, at least, town council
appears to have forestalled public
discussion of the matter.
Approximately 20 people had sat
through an hour of open council
business when Councilman John
“I don’t want ‘no comnient’ on
that,” McSwain shot back. “That’s all
Tye been getting, ‘no comment'
McSwain stared at Kennedy.
meetings over radio station WGWG
beginning next meeting. “It’s
painless,” said station manager Allen
Setzer.
■ unanimously to reappoint Washburn made the motion to go into
Boiling Springs Board of Elections closed session at 8:25 p m Mavor
members Lansford Jolley, Sonny Jimmie Greene stated the purpose of
Huggins, and Sonya Jones. the closed session was “to discuss real
- discussed the adoption of a possible estate acquisition and possible
-fire ordinance. litigation against the town.”
- authorized Marion Packard to take An hour and half later, ten people
bids for ^e re-surfacing of 850'7 feet of remained to question the council when
streets. The bids will be opened at the it came out of closed session Of the
September meeting. ten, four spoke.
- went into closed session to “discuss Jim McSwain and Shirley McKinnev
possible litigation agamst the town.” asked for details of Ingram’s
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resignation and of allegations against
town officials. ‘‘No comment,” said
town attorney Michael Kennedy.
“Well, that’s all you’ll get tonight,”
the lawyer answered pleasantly. “I’ve
advised my clients not to discuss
particulars.”
Clyde Harris and his wife complained
of unanswered jiolice calls after three
patrolmen resigned a force of five.
“Maybe we can communicate feeffer
with the police,’’ Mayor Greene said.
“Maybe we better hire some police,”
Mrs. Harris said.
Washburn then moved that the
council begin accepting applications
for the chief’s job. ’The motion passed
unanimously, and the council adjourn
ed.
The meeting was over, but the
politicking continued. The original
crowd of about 20 people reformed
after the meeting. Small knots of men
stood'at the crossroads until almost
midnight, eyeing each other, kicking
the dust, and discussing politics.
One experienced local politician
considered the affair over. The
decision to hire a new police chief, he
said, was an attempt by council to
place the controversy into past history.
“It’s dead on the vine,” he said.
“It’s dying on the vine,’’ said
another experienced loced, implying
the issue may last long enough to
affect this fall’s election.
Congressman James T. Broyhill came to town
Friday, and said he found Social Security on the
minds of most Boiling Springs residents.
“The main concern of my constituents is the
financial soundness of Social Security,” Broyhill said
in an interview. The 10th district congressman met
with Boiling Springs townspeople noon Friday at the
Snack Shop on Main Street. I^me came to discuss
specific problems; others just for a handshake from
the congressman.
Broyhill, in an interview with the Foothills View,
discussed three big domestic issues facing Congress
when it reconvenes this September:
•financing the Social Security system and restoring
that systems’s minimum benefit;
•holding public hearings on Broyhill’s controversial
• amendments to the Clean Air Act; and
•asseying the influence of “boll weevils”
Democratic congressmen who vote with Republicans.
“When the media report that ‘Social Security is
going broke’ people think; ‘My total check is going
out the window.’ That’s not going to happen,”
Broyhill said.
“It’s a fact, from the actuary tables I’ve seen, that
the system will run out of money in the next few
years,” Broyhill said. But, he continued, the system
will remain solvent if it continues to bring in its
current $200 million a year combined with cuts in the
system’s budget proposed by Congress and backed
by President Reagan.
“I don’t want to take away benefits from those
who’ve got them,” Broyhill said. But he
characterized as a “drain on the fund” payments to
military and civil service retirees of the minimum
Social Security benefit of, $100 to $122.
Those with the above benefits, Broyhill said,
receive the minimum payment as a “windfall
benefit.”
But Broyhill predicted Congress will move this fall
to restore the minimum benefit it took away this
spring, and vote to cut the minimum benefit only for
future recipients.
Such a move by Republicans would be in line with
ten-candidate Reagan’s promise last year not to cut
Social Security benefits of anyone currently receiving
them.
Broyhill also discussed the up-coming public
hearings on House Bill 3471 - Broyhill’s controversial
amendments 1 to the Clean Air Act.
“The basic act” is preserved by his amendments ,
Broyhill said, which substitute “valid, up-to-date
scientific information” for what he claims is
‘ ‘ regulatory uncertainty. ’ ’
Broyhill’s amendments , which would repeal or
amend 115 provisions of the act, have received stiff
opposition from environmental groups. “I’ve met
with Gov. Peterson (former Gov. Russell Peterson,
national Audubon Society president),” Broyhill said.
“On some issues we came to an agreement, and on
some we didn’t.”
Broyhill will meet with Peterson again this fall,
when public hearings on his bill begin in the House
Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee
on Health and the Environment.
[Peterson was interviewed by the Foothills View on
the same day as Broyhill at the Audubon Society’s
national headquarters in New York. For this
exclusive interview, in which Gov. Peterson discusses
his meeting with Broyhill and the influence of
prominent Republicans on environmental policy, see
next week’s Foothill View.]
Broyhill adopted a “wait and see” attitude on the
question of whether the “boll weevils” will change
their party registration to Republicans after this fall’s
election. But if they remain Democrats, Broyhill
speculated, “there is nothing to prevent them from
voting with Republicans to organize the House.”
In other words, the Democrats even though
maintaining a majority in the House this fall, could
be voted out of committee chairmanships by
Republicans and switch-voting Democrats. Republi
cans, as a result, could find themselves chairing
committees. Broyhill, for example, is now the
ranking Republican on the House Commerce
Committee, but he is not the chairman because the
Democrats control the House. If however, the
Republicans join with the “boll weevils” to organize
the House, Broyhill could be voted chairman, and
control the flow of legislation through the committee.
The 97th Congress reconvenes after the summer
recess on Wednesday, September 9.
Area Briefs
Four new courses will be offered in the next two weeks
by Cleveland Technical College’s Continuing Education
Department, China Painting, Auto Upholstery, Quilting,
and Counted Cross Stitch each are $8.00 for registratton.
Students over 65 can register at no cost. For further
information call the College at 484-4014 or 482-8351.
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