Newspapers / The News-Record (Marshall, N.C.) / April 11, 1984, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of The News-Record (Marshall, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Letters To TTie Editor "4. - - ? * w%? ? v?- 2^3 ? . %w ': mm*-** *'"; s* ? ' v'a ... The Readers Write . . . Our readers have provided the Letters to the Editor column with a wide variety of views this week. We have suspended the rules concerning length in order that Ernest Burnette can ex plain the full story of the Madison High School Boosters Club. The News Record welcomes letters to the editor dealing with subjects of interest to our readers. In order to qualify for publication, let ters should be no longer than 1,000 words and contain no libelous statements. Third-party let ters will not be considered. All letters must be signed and include a telephone number for our verification procedure. Madison Booster Club Needs Support Of Community To the editor: A few months ago, a group of Madison County residents formed a Madison High School Booster's Club to help the young people and various pro grams at Madison High. This group consists of parents, teachers, coaches, merchants, and others who are interested in these young people and the school-sponsored programs they participate in. Although the Booster's Club set the ^ athletic programs as first ^priority, as money and time permit, the Club will support any program at the school that needs help. Officers of the Booster's Club are President, Ernest Burnette, Vice President, Judy Gahagan, and Secretary Treasurer, Bobby Capps. Other members of the Club make up committees responsi ble for different phases of the Club's activities. As a means of raising money to accomplish the goals of the Club, memberships are being taken; a "Poor Man's Supper" was held; items were sold during games at the school, and a dance was held at Mars Hill Elementary School. We have been very pleased with the results of these events and we ap preciate everyone's support. Future fund-raising events will include a Softball tourna ment to be held the week of April 16 through April 21 at the Crooked Street Athletic Field in Mars Hill; a benefit gospel singing featuring the Primitive Quartet, at Madison High School on May 13, and if time will permit before the end of the school year, we will hold two or three more dances. The Booster's Club is presently having papers writ ten to become incorporated. This will enable us to have a tax-exempt number and we will furnish receipts to anyone making a donation, whether the donation is money, equip ment, etc. These receipts can then be used for income tax purposes. To date, the Booster's Club has raised a total of $4,058.96 to help the athletic programs at Madison High. Girls' basketball uniforms totalling $617.14; boys' basketball uniforms totalling $999.74; boys' track uniforms - $1,462.28; girls' and boys' soft ball and baseball uniforms - $2,270.40; and equipment totalling $200.00 have all been purchased. Part of these items have been paid for and the fund-raising projects mention ed above will enable us to pay for the rest. Although the Booster's Club has ac complished a great deal since it was organized, there is a tremendous amount of work left to do. The football pro gram is in desperate need of new uniforms and equipment and this will be the next under taking by the Club. The Booster's Club sincere ly appreciates the support it has received, but unfortunate ly, that support is not enough We need more people to take an interest in the Club. Club members need to attend the meetings every Monday night at 7:30 p.m. at the school. We need more people to join ($5.00 per membership). But most of all, we need the people of Madison County to work together and make this Club a success. Please help the Booster's Club help our young people and our school. Let's work together for our young people! The Madison High School Booster's Club Ernest Burnette ?. Krause Calls O'Brien Editorial 'Unfair To the editor: Your editorial about Mike O'Brien was extremely unfair. He has been through enough and has been cleared of all charges. It was an unfortunate situation last December but he at least was not looking for trouble and was not hanging around the college without any valid purpose. He probalby shouldn't have said certain things but it is always easy to find fault in a pressure situa tion. Your criticism should be more restrained and based upon more investigation of a person's character. You would find that the O'Briens are ac tive in boys' basketball and Cub Scouting programs. They are an asset to the communi ty If you have the best interest of Mars Hill College in mind, which I assume was the pur pose of the editorial, there are other more constructive areas to focus. One such issue is the propriety of Mars Hill College, a school founded on Christian ideals, to sponsor a film festival last month with predominately R rated movies. Yours truly, Edward B. Krause Mars Hill, NC Kingston's Not Working Alone To the editor : Thank you for the nice arti cle on Town Lift. I think the petition shows that the hopes of the residents and business owners of Marshall for the project are alive and well! I would like to point out that I am not acting alone, but merely giving my time to what is a very popular idea. Not only is the enthusiasm high amongst the merchants, but the overall scope of the project will bring many groups within the community together to work for the com mon good of everyone in town. I am proud to live in Marshall, and I appreciate this oppor tunity to serve my communi ty A few "thank yous" are in order. First, I wish to thank the people that did the initial work on the project last year. I also wish to thank the town planning board members, the Merchant's Association and everyone else who has worked on the project. Special thanks to the following people who ? a gave their valuable time to the survey: Doug Dodson, Roy Reeves, Marion Wallin, George Penland, Ruth Gregory, Gary Lee Davis, and alderman Sammy Lunsford. Sincerely, Richard Kingston To behave with dignity is nothing less than to allow others freely to be themselves. ? Sol Chaneles The News Record ' Serving The People Of Modfson County Since 1901 P.O. Box 369 ? Marshall. N.C. 28753 Telephone (704)649-2741 Robert T.Koen* Editor Candidates Vows Pornography Crackdown To the editor: A number of citizens from your community attended "A Conference on Obscenity" at Lenoir Rhyne College in Hickory on April 2 and 3 spon sored by the Unifour Citizens for Decency of Catawba, Alex ander, Burke and Caldwell counties. The citizens were in formed, as I have emphasized in my campaign for Lt. Gover nor, that the pornography in dustry in North Caorlina is a plaque to our entire society. The problem is not isolated to New York or California, but is here in North Carolina. This is illustrated by the fact that our state has the largest number of sex outlets per capita na tionwide, a large percentage of which are controlled by organized crime. These "smut" purveyors have been attracted to our state because they have no fear of prosecution. The pre sent criminal pornography statute, NCGS $14-190 with its adversary hearing, has hand cuffed our law enforcement agencies from prosecuting pornography violations. It is time the leaders of North Carolina took a stand to eliminate pornography. As Lt. Governor, I would use my legal and former judicial ex perience to petition the Legislature for repeal of the adversary hearing and strengthening of the anti pornography statues. We as citizens of this great state must declare "war" on pornography and use all available resources to eliminate it from North Carolina. I pray all North Carolinians concerned about this plaque on our society will express that concern through the electorial process. Youi silence is the "smut" purveyor's best friend. On!) your active involvement will make a difference in the socie ty we leave to our children. Sincerely Barbaras. Perrj Republican Candida ti for Lt. Governoi Litterers Are Trash Dear Editor: My subject for the past ten I an sending along a clipping from a recent letter to the editor of the Aahevtlle paper. The letter-writer has it right whan he concludes, "Litterers Are Trash. " We have people in Hot Spr ings that will laugh in your face if you ask them to clean up around their o* propert> My wile, Ada, la en the Het Springs Commutity Clean-Up this week and I wish her and the others well in this war believe thnt a few stiff fines would slow this town th while project. We have a lot of good peopl in Hot Springs that keep thei property clean and nic< Thanks to them. I was traveling down i Georgia last week and I sa their signs said, "fSOO to Litt< the Highways." I noticed I red letter* below, "Or ! Days." They told me that th * BeSII^MaliSl^and H Springs, people are thrownii trash bap and garbage doe the banks and in the road. W Heard And Seen By POP STORY MUCH-NEEDED IMPROVEMENT Ever since the new asphalt surface was put on Main Street in Marshall, it is useless to try to keep the windows clean in front of the Story Printing Co. and the French Broad Chevrolet dealership. In putting down the asphalt, workers left "dips" along the side of the street which results in pools of water accumulating every time it rains. Cars going down the street splash water on the windows and also on any poor person who happens to be walking down the sidwalk. On top of the uneven street surface, the drain opening which is supposed to alleviate water buildup is about an inch higher than the street and very little surface water ever enters the opening. When speaking about the face-lift project to improve the downtown area, let's hope the situation which exists along this area will get top priority. Another vital improvement that is needed is at the entrance of the parking lot adjacent to the ASCS Building where a standing pool of water forms after each rainfall. A warning to pedestrians walking along the side of Main Street, walk on the other side of the street or risk being splattered. WAITING FOR THE TRAIN TO BE LATE Everett Barnett, a regular reader and of late a contributor to this column, says many people have told him they enjoy his squibs. The follow ing is another joke he brought in last weekend: "Farmer Corntossle was seeing a movie for the first time. He sat through the feature without displaying much interest, and then the comedy flickered on. Acroos the screen dashed a bevy of beautiful women. The ladies in the film crossed a railroad track to a swimming hole where they began to disrobe before taking a plunge. "They had taken off their shoes, stockings and waist skirts when a passing train sped across the screen and blocked the view. When it had passed, the girls were frolicking in the water. Farmer Corntossle sat through the show again and again. "After he had seen the comedy four times, an usher tapped him on the shoulder and asked, 'Are you ever going home?' The farmer answered, 'Oh, I reckon noy yet fer awhile. One of these times, that darn freight train's going to be late." C Coi^ineni jCn*1* ^ Being the political animal that he i^man seems destined to pro*4kns within himself and to vSifrontation with his fellows. Hiis becomes painful ly so every four years. Contrary to what I usually write, this is a political col umn; however, it is not par tisan, nor can it reasonably be interpreted as such. It is just a little common sense in an elec tion year in which that com modity is in short supply. In North Carolina to this point, we have seen the most shabby, insipid, and asinine campaign for the United States Senate I have noticed in many years. I regret that, and the situation should be cor rected long before November Yet, that campaign is pro bably the motivation behind this column. All members of the U.S House want to cut exp^n ditures ? in the other fellow't district. Of course, each one is elected by a limited segmen of voters in a single district but he or she is a United State Representative. Therefore, h< or she should serve the best in terests of the whole country. What we need to know is that our national ills are nation-wide, and they will not be cured by hurting the nation for the benefit of a district or state Something is really bad wrong when we cannot learn as a nation what we all know as individuals: We cannot forever spend more than we take in. All of our elected officials in Washington, Senators and Representatives, know this; but very few of them have demonstrated enough 1 statemanship to do anything ' about it. The solution is not an either - or difficulty: either cut spen ding, or increase taxes. Bet 1 ween these two options lies in telligence long buried in bureaucratic bungling: . responsoble use of the money ( we pay as taxes. j A few days age, I survived I the frustrating experience of filling out our income tax , returns. In doing so, I kept every cent I could legally (I . said legally!) keep. This generated no trace of guilt whatsoever. Instead, I can conscientiously wish that the people in Washington were as careful with what I send them as I have to be with what I keep! That could very well be the great American prayer. National defense is no ra tional issue because all Am eri can-in and out of office know that our defense is not optional. The issue is which is better-international confron tation with force of arms and planetary destruction, or in ternational cooperation and the power of peace? The thwarting of com munism in our hemisphere is no rational issue, but the man ner in which it is done is the issue. Again, the issue is which is better: ?????????? of arms, or minds enlightened by truth and stomachs filled by economic opportunity? The separation of church and state is not a rational issue when seen in the context of what out founding fathers intended. That was settled by the First Amendment, and no justice who ever sat on the United States Supreme Court would have tolerated the violation of that Amendment. Expelling God from our * public schools is no rational issue. Our Supreme Court never tried to do it, nor could have done it if it had tried. Some people learn slowly others, never-that freedom of religion is impossible without freedom from religion. Prayer in our public schools is not a religious issue nor a moral issue. It is, however, a nasty political issue fired by atheistic and legalistic bigotry on one side and self-righteous, judgmental bigotry on the other. The losers in this tug -of -war are our children who would much prefer to spend their time being human on the path to human maturity than to be premature angels at the behest of those who have not yet attained that status themselves. It is both saddening and sickening to see politicians ex ercising themselves for the headlines and television cameras when the rewards are much richer and the path far less crowded in the field of statesmanship. Living And Growing f ' By CARL MUMPOWER M.8.W. It's painful. It hurts to love ' something and for one reason I or another lose that ' something. Maybe that something rejects us, or chooses to focus their atten tion on someone else. Maybe that something dies or moves away. Whatever the cir cumstances, it still hurts. e Often it hurts to the point we r wish we had never loved and . could thus have avoided that hurt. In doing so, we fail to n realize that the capacity to w truly love another is what r makes being human such a in meaningful thing. We fail to w recognize that having the op js partiality to love someone, for however abort a time, is rare M and special. There are lots of reaction to times we get obsessive over the person we've lost. We think and rethink the time we spent with them, trying to find our mistakes and better understand why we lost them. Other times we react by im mediately going out and try ing to replace the person we love. Seldom with good results. We do all sorts of things lo avoid the hurt, never realizing that the hurt we are feeling is in many ways a badge of courage. For we, unlike many others, have been willing to risk loving another person. We've opened ourselves to the possibility of an intimate relationship, ? oc i ..;.l _ . the position of truly have them or couldn't function alone, but because we wanted that kind of closeness. We wanted to experience those kinds of intense feelings. We all get hurt to some ex tent when we love, but hurt is not always a bad thing. Sometimes it teaches us lessons about living. Sometimes it helps us realise that we are feeling beings and not robot*. Sometimes, as in this case, our hurt is a confir mation of strength. It takes a certain emotional toughness to be willing to risk loving and thus risk hurting. Too often, we seek guarantees that our love will pay off in Ihs end. To love is the pay off, not to have U ac oniy a few (to TV opportunity to and be a part of event. Loving another person is much the same. You will, for however short a time, have the opportunity to feel your love, but there's no guarantee of permanence. My point Is this, don't write off love because it involves a risk of being hurt. Anything of value has that same risk at tached. If you do have your love rejected, don't throw the idea of loving out as a bad one. You've had a brief opportunity to tad and care and explore your humanness in a way that all too few of us do. Someone once said that it is batter to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. It's don't get to play it out. Just tovtagthatjhand, UkeJ?ving honor enough vr 4s . '
The News-Record (Marshall, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
April 11, 1984, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75