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The FoothiUs View
Second Class Postage Paid In Boiling Springs, N. C. 29017
WED., NOV. 25, 1981
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We See It Your Way
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On Pastries, Police
And Local Politics
In last week’s View we called for letters to the editor, and in
these seven days we’ve heard from townspeopie talking about I
sausage swiris, rezoning, and poiice protection. Together these
ietters are a cross-section of daiiy iife, of matters great and small,
among the people of Boiling Springs. We reprint them beiow.
Dear Sir,
I am a new resident of Boiiing Springs. About 10 o’clock last
Wednesday night (Nov. 18) I had occasion to call the police.
Luckily I wasn’t calling to report an assault or rape- but I could
have been.
I let the phone ring several times, becoming more impatient and
exasperated with each ring. I finally hung up after fifty times. Not
living far from the police station, I decided to drive down. You can
imagine my surprise and frustration to find the station deserted
and locked!
Since that time I have talked to several long-time residents and
found that after normal business hours, you call the sheriffs
department, not the Boiling Springs Police. But I am not
especially angry with the police for I hear that they are pitifully
understaffed. The fault seems to lie with the town council.
Since it is obvious that the town council does not want to
continue in the police business, maybe they can sell their cars and
equipment to the folks that film “The Dukes Of Hazard’’, or.
perhaps Earl Owensby would be interested. Not having a police
force would cut down immensely on paperwork, and save the
taxpayers some money.
More realistically, perhaps someone could be hired to answer
the phone at night, or at least invest in callforwarding.
The citizens of Boiling Springs deserve access to adequate police
protection 24 hours a day, not just from 9 to 5.
David Hamrick
I have lived in Boiling Springs for sixteen years, and in that time
I have come to appreciate the virtues of small-town living. Boiling
Springs has what makes so many other small, southern towns
havens from the ravages of the modern world, specifically a small,
stable, close-knit population; an unhurried pace; scenic,
uncluttered land and easily recognizable, readily accepted town
characters.
Amidst the insensitivity and absurdity of national, state, and
local politics and the bleakness and inhumanity of our
technological society, our town remains a reassuring and
reaffirming refuge. Unfortunately, Boiling Springs faces a crucial
decision: Should the town rush into industrial expansion with its
promise of a few menial jobs, overcrowding in housing and
schools, a frenzied lifestyle and an influx of northerners and
others who do not value our traditions? I say no.
This prostitution, in which a few greedy people sell a small town
on its virtures, must not be allowed to happen to Boiling Springs.
The shift from an agrarian and small-business economy to even a
light-industrial one can only result in the well-known plague of
cheap apartments, gaudy fast-food chains, oostrusive buildings,
and spoiled landscapes.
More important, however, our town will lose its sense of
community. The town’s once stable neighborhoods, which had
been anchored by longtime residents,, will become mere stopovers
for a transient, unstable population. We will become strangers
within our own neighborhoods.
Boiling Springs has had a serene existence even in the turmoil of
recent times, but such serenity is now endangered. Allow the
greedy and ambitious among us to have their way, and our town
will slowly suffer physical and spiritual decay. Do not allow the
prophets of progress to obfuscate their intentions for they intend
to steal the soul of our town.
Tom Rash
Dear Editor,
I’m glad to be a resident of Boiling Springs, a clean, quiet, little
town. However, it disturbs me that industry is coming to spoil it
all. Also, trailer parks and apartment buildings don’t make the
land value or aesthetic values increase either. I feel Boiling
Please turn to Letters, page 3.
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Three From Press
To Speak To Town
lerry, Bledsoe, columoist and author, will speak in Boiling Springs on
Nov. 30.
Author and colum
nist Jerry Bledsoe
will be among three
journalists speaking
to townspeople and
students at Gardner-
Webb College the
week of Nov. 23-30.
Proceeding Bled
soe on campus will
be journalists Eu
gene Warner and
Edward Russell, who
will talk Nov. 25.
Warner, an officer in
the OSS during Wor
ld War II, directed
public relations for
TWA Airlines and
retired as a senior
Vice-president of
Board Elects
New Officers
A new chairman and a new
academic officer were named
by the Gardner-Webb board of
trustees at their Nov. 20
meeting.
Bernard H. Parker, a native
of Elizabeth City and current
resident of Raleigh, was elect
ed chairman of the board.
Named as Acting Vice Presi
dent for Academic Affairs was
Dr. John Drayer, associate
professor of religion at the
college.
Parker, vice-president and
regional manager of Nation
wide Insurance’s largest re
gional operation, serves on the
NC Rate Bureau Governing
Committee, NC Reinsurance
Facilty Board of Directors as
chairman, NC Insurance News
Service Board of Directors, NC
Insurance Education Founda
tion, Inc., executive committee.
Life Enrichment Counseling
board, and the Greater Raleigh
Chamber of Commerce.
He is also a member of the
National Association of Life
Underwriters, N.C. Citizens
Association, N.C. Museum of
History Association, Inc., and
YMCA.
He serves as deacon, adult
Sunday School teacher, a
member of the Bold Missions
Committee at First Baptist
Church in Raleigh.
Parker and his wife. Rose,
have three children. Bob,
Cindy and Brenda.
Drayer has been a member of
the Gardner-Webb faculty
since 1973. He previously has
served as an instructor in Field
Education at the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary,
Louisville Kentucky. In addi
tion he has served pastorates in
Tennessee, Indiana and Flori
da, as well as serving interim
pastorates.
Drayer is a member of the
American Academy of Reli
gion, the Society of Biblical
Literature, and the Associate of
Baptist Professors of Religion.
He has served as President of
the Boiling Springs Rotary
Club and Chairman of the
Shelby Human Relations Coun
cil.
As Acting Vice President for
Academic Affairs, Dr. Drayer
will be responsible for the
development of educational
policies, the administration of
the academic program, the
coordination and implementa
tion of the curriculum and
instructional program.
Drayer holds the BA degree
from Belmont College, Nash
ville, Tennessee, the BD,
Th.M., and Ph.D. degrees
from the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary, Louis
ville, Kentucky.
He and his wife, Evelyn
Smith Drayer, a teacher at
James Love School, are the
parents of two children, Debo
rah, A Gardner-Webb graduate
and Dan, a student at Shelby
Junior High School.
Other officers elected were
chairman. Executive Commit
tee, and Vice President of the
Board, Hobart Smith, Charlo
tte; Secretary, Joe Mauney,
Shelby; and Treasurer of the
corporation, Lloyd Bost,
Shelby.
McGraw-Hill in.
1960. Russell for
merly was managing
editor of the London
Express.
Bledsoe will speak
Nov. 30. A columnist
for the Greensboro
Daily News, he also
is known as a hu
morist and teller of
tall tales.
“Bledsoe keeps up
a running commen
tary,’’ said a friend,
“reminiscent of a
circular saw cutting
through a pine
knot.’’
Bledsoe, 40, has
twice won the Ernie
Pyle Memorial A-
ward for distin
guished journalistic
writing, once in 1968
and again in 1970.
He is the author of
three books: Just
Folks, published in
1980; You Can’t Live
on Radishes, in
1976; and in 1975
The World’s No. 1
Flat-Out All Time
Great Stockcar Rac
ing Book.
All talks are free to
the public and will
be held at 2 p.m. in
room 104, Church
Annex Building,
Gardner-Webb Col
lege campus.
Editor’s note: The
View is published a
day early this week
due to the Thanks
giving holiday.
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