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Woe is me, woe is me! It’s • terrible thing to reach my age and ■uddenly realize you have no eenae of humor. Ttiat has juat got to be my situation. How else can I explain the fact that “Idary Hartman, Mary Hartman” does absolutely nothing to stir even the slightest Inkling of laughter from my body? Woe Is me, woe Is me! I have read any number of articles about how marvelously and wildly hilarious Norman Lear’s latest project Is and how, as a syndicated show, >CH, MH Is knocking off competltlan In the ratings war. Syndicated means the series Is sold to Individual stations rather than being presented nationally on any given night or In any specific time slot I even read In TV Guide whm Normain Lear, who Is the creative force behind such network shows m "All In Hie Family” and "Maude”, was upset because Individual sta- Uons were not using their noodles In scheduling the new comedy hit. Lear was also upset at the stupidity of ttie brass at the three networks for not picking up his show. Bear In mind I read all of this stuff before I ever laid eyes on "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.” Well, now I have laid eyes on MH, MH and I am wondering If my reaction doesn’t In dicate to me that I have completely lost my sense of humor. ' I realise the show is suppoaed to be a "taka-ofr* on all of the soap ofwwm that have ever been unleashed against the world, but why la It the soap operas themselves ars funnier than MH, MH? Some people call MH, MH sophisticated. Some people call It black comedy. Others call It high comedy. I call It boring. Oh, I can see great potential comedy sequences In the series, but the scenes are played so low key who cares? How can I In all hoiMsty generate guffaws looking at Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, by that I mean Louise Lasser, Louise Lasser. She strikes me as a person who has an ex treme case of gas. And anyone In such a miserable state 1 do not laugh at. I feel sorry eDIIORIMI&OPIMIOM? Page 4A Thursday, September 9, 1976 great deal to all of us Last year the Kings Mountain United Fund set a goal of $86,000 and local business and professional people. Individuals and Industry responded by pledging almost $00,000. ’Dlls year the goal Is set for $89,000. How will these same members of the community respond this time around? That is yet to be seen. However, we should bear In mind just how far this money goes In Improving the human situation locally. Hie many agencies which will receive allocations from your donations deed In human beings. In the uplifting of human beings. ’The Boy emd Girl Scouts build character and mored attitudes In our young and that is moat Important because these young people provide the fiber tuid strength euid hope for the future. The Cleveland County Association For Reteurded Children works relentlessly with our young who will never have the ssune ad vantages In life as their peers. Althou^ these youngsters can never perform at what Is called the normal pace, they sure taught to perform at pesdi capacity on an Indlvldutd basis. United Fund donations help keep their progrsuns functioning. ’Die county’s drug abuse prevention center also needs our United Fund dollars to keep a continuing education progrsun sdlve that will save the lives of countless humsm beings In the months and years to come. And there Is the vltid work of the American Red Cross, the Ssdvatlon Army and the chsu'ltable programs of the Kings Mountsdn Mlnlsteiisd Association. AU of these programs need our help. The Kings Mountsdn Rescue Squad, a strictly volimteer organization of men who spend hundreds of hours of their time learning methods of saving our lives In times of emergencies and many hundreds more hours actusdly performing the methods they have learned. They, too, need our United Fund dollars. The Kings Mountain United Fund goal for this year Is $89,000 suid better than 90 percent of that money remains In this community working for sdl of us. Between now and October 1 United Fund workers will call on business and professional, civic and Industrial concerns with Information on the program and with pledge cards. On October 1 the KMUF will conduct a one-day campaign to raise the $89,000 goal. It would be nice to see that goal exceeded again this year. It means a great deal to our neighbors and to us. R€t\DeR DII^LOGUe They are leaving God out of plan To the editor. I was watching the Phil Donahue Show this morning on the unification Church, and the argument between people of different religions about what la the right or wrong belief. Who la right and who la wrong? I am not knowledgeable on this subject, however I know the plan of salvation. It amasea me that people are so busy arguing their belief and trying to tell another that they have to believe their way to be saved. ’They are leaving God out. God tells me I ha ve to believe In him and his son alone to inherit the K^dom of Heaven. God is a great God. He Is powerful enough to rule the Ihilverse, yet sntall enough to live In my heart. He Is a mighty God, but also an In dividual God. When I want an answer to a question I go to God In prayer. I am an In dividual with my God. What God might tell me to do may be wrong for you. I go to the church of my choice to worship Gk>d because God has led me to do this. I don’t go because someone has brain washed me, or forced me, or because I want to please, or be like everybody else. This In cludes both the old and young generation. If you want a question answered about what you should do. Instead of asking another person, ask God. We each have our own prayer line. We would have less argument and more love and harmony If we spent more time on our knees talking to God and asking him to guide us Instead of trying to do what others think should be tight. I have accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior, He leads me, not my church, my pastor, or my best friend. Matthew 10:83-88 and Romatu 10:9-18 la the plan of salvation. nTTilsaalonlaruS:!-!? and II’Timothy 8:1- 17 tells about false prophets that confuse. If you would Ulk to God In private you might see the light. Please don’t leave God out! EXAINE GUIN Kings Moontala GARLAND ATKINS PUBLISHER TOM MCINTYRE Editor GARY STEWART Sporto Editor DARRELL AUS'f IN Gen. Mgr. ELIZABETH STEWART Woman’s Editor CLYDE mix .Adv.Dlr. MEMBER OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION Kings Mountain Mirror-Herald Is published each Thursday by OeiMral Publishing Co., P. O. Box 6, Kings Mountain, N. C., tSOSd. Offices are located downtown at 804 S. Piedmont Ave. Phone 789-749i. Single copy 15 cents. Sub scription rates: In N. C., yearly, 88.80; Out-Of-State, yearly, 88.84. Second class postage paid at Kings Mountain, N. C. Ballsy la funny then Laurel and Hardy wore a oouple of sanlUtlon englneani. TOM But, you see I first began to have doubts about whether my sense of humor was goiM whan I came out of the movie earlier this aurruner wondering why I had paid six bucks to see Nell Simon’s "Murder By Death.” McinTYRe for such a person ’cause gas ain’t funny. And another thing. Louise Lasser has the saddest eyes I have ever seen this side of a Bassett Hound. She has a big smile and shows mors teeth than Jimmy Carter, but coupled with those great sad and paln-fiUed eyes, her face does not reflect anything to me except that she has an extreme case of gas. I have no desire to be unduly cruel to or critical of Ms Lasser or anyone else, but to me she ain’t as funny as WSOC-TV’s weatherman Bill Bailey, and friends, U BUI Oh, there were a oouple of pretty good laughs in that film as tar as I was ooncemed, but the majoii^ ot the time I Just aat there looking like Louisa Leaser (remember, extreme gas? The conclusion ot “Murder By Death” was supposed to be an hilarious rlp-^ of all those old grade B murder mysteries where all of the suspects are gathered In the library and after some wild speculation the datectlve- haro reveals the Identity of tha murderer. In this film the explanations were mi conftislng (to me) that not only did my expression nnake me look like I had gas, I actually had Than WRBT-TV began running Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and I watched It and now I am In a turmoil. And to top all of that off I watched an old Laurel and Hardy movie last week and laughed my head off. Now, I’ve got to do some real soul-aearohlng because It appears not only havs I lost my Sanaa of humor, but laughing at the sl^^ck of Laurel and Hardy. It would appear I am not sopldstloatad, either. How would you like to go through Ufa not: being sophisticated? Gome to think of It, maybe that’s tha reason I thought Mel Brooks’ "Biasing Saddles” was hilarious and Woody Allen’s "Love and Death”’ stunk. Bo, folks, do me a favor, huh? Cheek out "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” sottm night at 11 p. m. on Gharmsl 88 and let me know If I am truly without a sansa of humor or any sophlstleatlon. Or let me know If aomeorM Is pulling all ot our legs. United Fund dollars mean “Not here yet? Pve had an appointment with Mr. Bloxam, your Public Works Director, for a month and you say he ain't come to work yet!?..JMaybe Black Leonard didn't have a string of degrees, but at least he was here!!!" MlRWR-HEWLO LOOklMG BI^CK From the Sept. K1949 Files of The Kings Mountain Herald The second annual Bathware Community Fair will officially open naoct Thursday at 1 p. m. with a record number of entrlai an ticipated for ths many ribbons and prises being offered. Opening Day caromonlea will be held at 1 p. m. next Thursday arul the fair will continue through Saturday, Sept. 17. Kings Mountain High School football warriors took a holiday Friday avm the heavy drills of the past three weeks and started looking forward to polishing up work rtext weak In readiness for tha opening game In Hendersonville next Friday night at 8 p. m. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mr. and Mrs. Chatrlea Troy Car penter are armounclng the engagement of their daughter. Dorcas Alleen, to John Butler Plonk, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarance fl. Plonk. A late Fall wadding Ig phumed. Mrs. Otia Falls and Mias Betty Falla enterialtMd Friday night at the Woman’s Club at a mlsoellansoua shower honoring Mias Delores Bridges, September bride-elect of Otis FaUs, Jr. Ckcle One of First Praebytarian Church met Monday night with the chairman, Mra Merle Beatty. Mr. and Mrs. WUllam Carl Blggers of Oiariotte announce the engagement of their daughter, Marilyn Sue, to Henry Parks Nelsler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Nelsler. A late Fall wedding Is phumed. A duel ended life of former Governor Richard Dobbs Speight Sr. was tha only man to serve as Governor of North Carolina who was later killed In a dual. He was also tha senior half of tha only father-son team to serve as Governor until the election of W. Kerr Scott’s son, Robert, In 1988. (Right’s son, R. D. Speight Jr., was elected Governor In 1888. Speight Sr. served as chief executive In 1798-96. He died In New Bern on the morning of September 6, 1808, from a bullet wotmd ho had received the day befne during a dual. Speight’s opponent In the duel was J<Sm Stanley, hla sucoeaaor In Congress. The two men wore bitter polltioal rivals. Stanley accused Speight of avoiding taking aides In Important political Isauss. Speight responded heatedly and Stanley challangod him to a duel. ’The duel was of an unusual nature. Con sidered St the time to be the honorable and gentlemanly way of eottllng a dispute, a pistol duel rarely ever want beyond two exchanges of fire. But Stanley and Speight were such bitter enemies they exchanged shots four times. On the fourth volley Speight was mortally wounded. Speight had been one of North Carolina’s most outstanding figures of public note. He signed the U. S. Constitution as one of North Carolina’s delegates and was the first native bom Governor of the state. Following Speight’s death the Legislature passed even stronger snti-duellng statutes. Stanley was never charged, tried or con victed In ^eight’s death. Ha was pardoned by Governor Bei\)amln Williams and was later elected to Congress. -oOo- 9MITH On Septsmber 8, 1988, Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell of tha U. S. Army Air Service changed tha course of military history by sinking an obsolete battlariilp off the North Carolina coast Gan. Mltehsll, who later accurately foretold that tha next war (World War Two) would beglaasan air war with ths Japansae bombing Pearl Harbor during hla courtmartial only a couple of years later, sank the riilp by dropping bombs from his airplane. His demonstration, before a largely hostile group ot American naval and military commanders, la regiuded as the real birth of modem air power. His planes took off from a field on tha Outer Banks In Dare County to demonstrate the bombing technique. -oOo- Edward Hyde was the first Governor of the separate territory of North Carolina following the division of the two in 17U. A cousin of Queen Anne of England, Hyds, with ths tltlo of Earl of Clsrsndan, was one of the only two members of nobility to serve as Governor of the state. Hla brief term eras nuured by Indian uprisings and Internal dlsoord. Hyds County was named tai hla honor. Hs died of yellow fever In Bertie County Septsmber 8, 1713 -oOo- On September 6, 1876, a constitutional Congress was held In Raleigh and 90 annandmanta to the Constitution of 1868 were adopted. The state’s present Constitution was written and adopted in 1888. It had been sponsored by tha state’s new Republican Party during the bitter Reconstruction Period, however, and when the Democrat Party regained control In the iSTO’s they rushed to make wholeaale changaa tn tha machinery of govemmant. Republicans charged that It was largely a power play with the Leglalature assuming controls that had formerly rested with county govam- monts. In many areas, as in the mountain counties, local government was controlled by the GOP. -Rapubllean leadsrs said tha wholesale passage of amendments to ths State Constitution was doiM to deny thsm local power. Even today, a century later, the North Carolina State Legtslaturs retains greater control over local affaire than Is the case in nuuiy states. -oOoO- On September 6, 1878, the University of North Carolina at Chapri Hill reopened Its doors. The university had been forced to caass opemtton in 18U during the aftermath of The ClvU War. / SI fo til
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