Page 2A-KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Thursday, June 6, 1985
OPINION
Fighting Hunger
Hunger--a dreadful word in the English language.
In the United States and abroad, there are people who need
the tools and know-how to work to improve their own lives
and thus help us with the geatest problem that confronts the
human race.
In April, Long Creek Presbyterian Church joined in a pro-
gram of loving service with its brothers and sisters in Christ
of Concord Presbytery to minister to hungry and needy peo-
ple. Each time the family sits down for a meal, they give two
cents per person for a meal and bless the coins. Once a
month, a brief time is set aside in worship with a family
member bringing their offering for presentation. This money
is sent to Presbytery’s office to be used collectively with other
churches’ offerings to have an impact on this basic human
need both in our community and across the world. The money
is divided--40 percent overseas, 40 percent within Presbyter
bounds, 10 percent emergency aid and 10 percent ad-
ministrative costs. ; :
Presbyterians know that aiding the urgent starvation is on-
ly a beginning. Other approaches are being made to get to the
root of hunger and change the situation. The ‘Two Cents A
Meal Plan’ is designed to helping people help themselves.
Each church, as a part of this plan, appoints local hunger
contact persons to attend workshops, receive updated infor-
mation and to inform the congregation of projects. Long
Creek’s session appointed Sue Lovelace and Betty Davenport
as contact persons.
On Sunday, June 9, they and the church would like to invite
anyone interested in this program to a lunch emphasizing the
program. Special music will be given by the youth, a skit
“Living On One Hundred Dollars a Year’ will be presented
and special prayer offered.
During worship, Rev. Charles Davenport will present a
children's sermon to help educate how children, too, can be
involved.
163 Years Of Service
Retirement of five of Kings Mountain’s veteran teachers is
deserving of special attention, for each has rendered long and
valuable service to the people and schools of the communit
he five are Donald Deal, KM =r5 hs nd director |
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years as a teacher; Julia Plonk, who is retiring as a first
grade teacher at West School and has been a teacher 19
years; and Margaret Spratt, North School first grade
teacher, who became a teacher 33 years ago. The five have a
total of 163 years of service.
All have earned retirement and, undoubtedly, all will have
a bit of trouble getting accustomed to their change of habit
when school bells ring next Fall. And youngsters will have a
bit of trouble getting accustomed to the change, too.
From the Thursday, June 4, 1953 edition of The Kings Moun-
tain Herald.
The city board of commissioners has set the tentative 1953
tax rate at $1.30 per $100 valuation.
Sixty-two Kings Mountain High School seniors received
their diplomas at commencement exercises at Central
Auditorium Monday night.
Five Rings Mountain senior girls will make their debut to
society at the Sub-Debutante Ball of the Shelby Junior Chari-
ty League Saturday night. Making their debut will be Cor-
nelia Ware, escorted by Harold Glass and Jimmy Caveny;
Shirley Falls, escorted by Darrell Austin and Sonny
McDaniel; Shirley Houser, escorted by Ben Hudson and
Charles Mauney; and Marlene Spake, escorted by Gene
Bryant and Bill Ruth.
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If You're Fighting Heat,
Don’t Go To Sunshine State
It’s hot weather and a person’s thoughts turn naturally
enough to keeping cool. *
Don’t go to Central Florida, unless you head for water
recreation parks like Wet-N-Wild, a 25 acre park with slides,
pools and lagoons for swimmers and non-swimmers.
Last weekend while in Orlando, Fla. to attend the state con-
vention of the American Legion Auxiliary, at which I was
goog as National Vice President of the Auxiliary from the
outhern Division, I decided to visit Epcot, which is one of the
biggest tourist attractions in Orlando. Epcot is not a hot
weather antidote. If you vacation in Orlando this month, be
sure to take your straw hat or something to shield yourself
from the hot rays of the sun. Was it every hot!!! I headed
back for my air conditioned hotel room after about four hours
of walking and cooling off by seeing some of the attractions.
There were no long lines but as soon as schools close in the
area the lines will return, I'm told.
The Auxiliary Department of Florida had arranged for me
to stay at one of the Walt Disney hotels, The Viscount at Lake
Beuna Vista, minutes to Walt Disney World, Epcot, the Walt
Disney Shopping Plaza, Wet-N-Wild and many other attrac-
tions. The hotel provided air-conditioned buses every 20
minutes to and from the hotel. It’s actually the idedi place to
stay if you can get reservations. At this time of the year about
all of Disney’s 2,300 rooms at the six official Disney World
hotels are full. Each of the six hotels lies on Disney property
and an observant tourist notices that there is a certain unifor-
mity to the hotel’s landscaping. The hotel employees wear
Disneylike identification badges.
If a hotel guest goes to a convention, he may be met by
Mickey Mouse and he may notice that just as inside Disney’s
theme parks, the hotel employees will be clean cut and
wholesome looking. It’s unlikely that he will encounter a male
employee who has a mustache or beard or a female employee
wearing lots of makeup and jewelry. To get the official Walt
Pictured are KMSHS seniors
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Boheler, Cynthia Skinner, Lisa Blanton, Robin Warlick, April
Hoyle, Jill Brooks, Charlene Reese, Anne Patrick, Lisa House,
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Disney designation, we were told that the hotels sign
agreements that they will abide by certain standards that
Disney has set for them. The reason the hotels sign: there is a
lot in it for them. Proximity to Disney World, along with the
official designation and use of a Disney logo, brings the hotels
instant recognition in the marketplace. Having that official
logo is like having the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval,
one employee said. Lake Buena Vista is really the place to
stay in Orlando to visit Disneyworld and Epcot. I noticed
children were enjoying Disney World more than Epcot. The
Mexico World Showcase and China World Showcase were
both outstanding pavilions plus dinner aboard the Empress
Lily, the authentic replica of a 19th century riverboat, were
highlights of my short vacation.
Teresa Smith, Leah Patterson, Karen Penner, Loreng
Lawrence, Tim-Wright, Allan Welch, Dina Lund and Joan?
Reavis. Back row, from left, Kevin Ingram, Shane Bowers, "||P
‘Richard Gold, Robert Appling, Mark Davis, Leonard Byers,
David Dingus, Mike Reynolds, Lisa Edwards, Erika Woods
and Evette Moore.
COMMUNITY
- CALENDAR
THURSDAY : .
12:00 - Kings Mountain Rotary Club at Holiday Inn.
6:45 - Kings Mountain Kiwanis Club at Kings Mountain
Country Club.
7:30 - Kings Mountain Open Forum at the Community
Center.
FRIDAY:
2:00 - Kings Mountain Association of Educators is honoring
retiring teachers at the annual meeting in B.N. Barnes
Auditorium.
TUESDAY: ;
7:30 - Board of City Commissioners in Council Chambers.
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. Letters To The Editor
Discipline Controversial Issue
To the editor: :
The disciplinary action that has taken place this year at
KMSH, in my opinion, is a very controversial issue. There are
. various aspects that counter poise each other. The ramifica-
tion of disciplinary action in KM or any other high school is a
derangement of human emotions, morals and rights.
It is being said that there was a lack of sufficient evidence
in the suspension of a few students. These students had been
accused of the possession and sell of marijuana on school
grounds. These students, most of whom now are going to
night school, feel, along with their parents, that their rights
have been violated. To put someone out of school under ac-
cusations:that have not been factually proven is, in my opi-
nion, unconstitutional. :
Disciplinary action not only informs the student of his or
her right, it also grasps the emotions of the pupil. Some of
these students go to night school, while some end up quitting
school altogether, This could renavigate the entire course of a
student’s future. Does the school board have a right to choose
a person’s course of life? Especially, with insufficient
evidence.
On the contradicting side of this issue, failure to take
disciplinary action could result in moral decay and take away
common decency from the student body. The selling of drugs
and the use of weapons are not only against school rules, it’s
against the law. When the freedom or safety of the students
have been threatened, action, disciplinary or otherwise,
should be taken. : : :
In conclusion, I feel that disciplinary action should be taken
against problem students. Just as long as they’re considered
innocent until proven guilty.
Lorena Lawrence
Route 1, Grover
Common Sense Stand
To The Editor:
Superintendent of Mecklenburg schools Jay Robinson
should be recognized remembered from his common-sense
and courageous stand on the smoking issue in schools.
It is unfortunate that schools must be forced to assume
responsibility in many social areas where parents have aban-
doned all pretense of responsibility either through neglect or
inability to cope.
This correct stand by the schools will help students who are
casual smokers and who respond to the so-called ‘‘smart”
reasons for smoking, to express a good reason for not smok-
ing, that is, suspension.
Rather than assertion of dependence, the greater pro-
blem may come from students who are truly addicted to this
vicious drug.
The schools should make some effort to hel
are addicted, but suspension policies shoul
needed. :
Americans, at long last, realize they have been ‘“had’’ byr
the tobacco and alcohol industries. Recognition of this is the
first step in a long term cure.
We are finally overcoming what we once thought was a con-
sensus of opinion on alcohol and tobacco, that is everyone ac-
cepts it, therefore it is rude or unacceptable to condemn those
products and their social implications. Bertrand Russell said,
“though a million people say a thing is right, but it is wrong,
then it is wrong!”’
students who
prevail when
Gene White
Kings Mountain, N.C.