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OMs Favoring North Carolina Lottery
By Karen Qamble
View Staff
The state of North Carolina
could soon be using a lottery as a
means of raising state funds.
Both the N.C. House and
Senate currently have bills
before them that call for the for-
rhation of study commissions to
determine the feasibility of a
state lottery.
Senators from the 25th district
feel that the committee will
recommend that a referendum
be held on the issue.
“I would personally be against
a bill for the lottery, but would
be for a referendum,” said Sen.
Ollie Harris of Kings Mountain.
Harris feels that if a referendum
were held, the people of his
district would vote against it.
‘Cleveland County is conser
vative, in fact that state of N.C.
is conservative,” he said.
Harris feels that the lottery
issue could become a moral issue
as did ERA. “It (the lottery) is
gambling, it could bring in bad
situations, the mafia could come
in” he said.
The bill as proposed by Sen.
Richard Barnes, D-Forsyth,
originaly called for the study
commission to report its findings
during the June 1984 legislative
session. Because of the time ele
ment and this session’s light
work schedule. Sen. Craig Law-
ing, chairman of the Senate
Rules Committee has turned the
bill over to a Senate Rules sub
committee to study the issue.
According to Lawing, the sub
committee should report its fin
dings to the full committee in ap
proximately 10 days.
The idea of a lottery to raise
money for various projects is not
a new one for N.C. During the
late I700’s and early 1800’s, the
N.C. Legislature sanctioned
several lotteries. The money rais
ed was used to build schools,
roads and even churches.
When Marse Grant, former
editor of the Biblical Recorder
was told the first state sanction
ed lotteries were used to build
churches, he replied “1 just hope
they weren’t Baptist.” (Anglican
churches used the money).
In the 1830’s N.C. banned the
use of lotteries and by 1900 no
state was using a lottery. New
Hampshire renewed the idea by
setting up a state lottery in 1964.
Since then 17 states and the
District of Columbia hold lot
teries, with several other states
considering the idea.
According to Sen. Helen
JRhyne Marvin of Gastonia, a lot
of people feel the time is right for
the state to consider a lottery as
a means of raising additional
funds.
“I feel that there is a pretty good
chance it will pass,” said Mrs.
Marvin. “No one 1 have talked
to has opposed it. Acorss the
state I have heard the same
response.
“People play bingo and are ac
tively involved in the stock
market and the feeling is that the
lottery is really no different,” she
said.
Mrs. Marvin has discussed the
issue with legislators from
Maryland, a state that is current
ly using the lottery. “From what
1 know now, I would support the
lottery,” she said.
When Marse Grant,
former editor of the
Biblical Recorder, was
told the first state sanction
ed lotteries were used to
build churches, he replied,
‘I just hope they weren’t
Baptist.”
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Boiling Springs
North Carolina 28017
Farewell To Mash,
Hello To History
“Good-bye, Hawkeye” was
the senitment in Miss Ann
Smith’s fifth and sixth grade
combination Feb. 28 at Waco
School during a party in honor
of the show.
Refreshments were served as
students discussed the Korean
conflict, reflected on their
favorite episodes of Mash and
debated what each character
represented on the program.
Several students wrote reports
on the Korean conflict and the
place it played in American hiso-
ty. The majority of the students
indicated they would watch the
farewell Mash episode, and all
planned to continue watching
the daily re-runs.
The Foothills View
FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1983
DAR Puts
Safety On Streets
‘Traffic Safety Shows Love
for Our Fellowman,” as the topic
of the educational program at
the March meeting of the Flint
Hills Chapter, NSDAR, held
Tuesday evening at the
Fellowship Hall of the Boiling
Springs United Methodist
Church.,The program was given
by Dennis Everette, Accident In
vestigator for the U.S. Depart
ment of Transportation, who
talked and showed slides about
the work of the D.O.T. and its
continuing efforts to promote
highway safety. Mr. Everette
told of the advent of motor
vehicles and road construction
and point out that as the number
of motor vehicles increased so
did accidents which resulted in
deaths, injuries and property
damage. He stated that in 1966,
when the traffic population
reached 100 million units and
the annual highway fatality
county reached 53,100, the
Federal Government called for
strong legislative action to pro
mote safety and Congress
responded with basic laws which
inaugurated a National safety ef
fort which continues to be car
ried out.
The installation of five new
members highlighted the
meeting. Those installed were:
Brenda Cabaniss Curtis, Ellen
Washburn Gragg, Burnette
Hunt, Ann Lancaster and
Frances Lancaster. Julia Mc
Cracken, also a new member,
was unable to attend.
Mrs. S. Arnold Ramey, Vice
Regent, and Mrs. Hal Dedmon
were in Pinehurst attending the
83rd State Conference.
Mrs. Robert F. Sweezy,
Regent, presided over the
meeting, the DAR ritual was led
by the Chaplain, Mrs. Joe Ken
drick; and Mrs. Bobby Hum
phries read the President
General’s letter. The National
Defense Report was presented
by Mrs. E.C. Willingham. Mrs.
S.W. Brooks gave an interesting
review on the DAR Museum
and Mrs. John B. Hunt reported
on Public Relations.
Hostesses for the meeting
were Mrs. S.W. Brooks, Mrs.
John Wesson, and Mrs. John B.
Hunt.
Soon Just The Whistle
Will Be All That's Left
SINGLE COPY 15 CENT^
Town To Recfuit
Family Practice Doctor
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A recruitment committee will
begin work Friday on finding
replacements for three Boiling
Springs physicians who have
moved their practices from the
town, said Crawley Hospital ad-
minsistator John Washburn.
As of Tuesday, March 15, Dr.
Gene Washburn is the sole
physician practicing at Boiling
Springs Medical Associates
clinic. Of the three doctors who
formerly practiced at the clinic.
Dr. Douglas Briggs now has his
practice in Shelby; Dr. Stephen
Killian will establish his practice
in Maryland; and Dr. Krishnan
Chaiam practices in Georgia.
Drs. Briggs and Killian came
to Boiling Springs in 1981.
“We’re particularly looking
for a Family Practice physician,”
Washburn said. The Family
Practice speciality is granted by
a licensing board after a three
year residency following four
years of medical school.
Church Presents Musical
Possibly a sight on its way out: a locomotive on the Norfolk-Southern line in Shelby (photo by
Ken Holcombe). ^ i
If the whistle of the train
sounds lonesome, it may be
because it soon will not be travel
ing over some familiar tracks in
Shelby.
The Norfolk-Southern Cor
poration has taken the first step
toward abandoning 51 miles of
track between Marion, North
Carolina, and Shebly. Norfolk-
Southern filed a Category 1
classification for this tract,
which is the last step before a rail
system files a notice of intention
to abandon a track.
Agriculture commissioner
James Graham criticized the
railroad’s intention of abandon
ing the Marion to Shelby track.
‘The only mode of transpora-
tion in and out of these areas
would be by truck,” an
agriculture spokesperson said,
“which would increase the costs
of input for agriculture to
transport crops, pulpwood,
buiding supplies, fertilizers and
the like out of sometimes remote
areas.”
A spokesman for the Norfolk-
Southern railline contested that
the abandonement would limit
transport to trucks.
‘The move to Category 1
classification is simply because
Seabord and Southern tracks run
parallel in that area,” said Robert
Almond of the Norfolk-
Southern Line. “We have asked
Seaboard to allow us to run our
trains on their tracks. This essen
tially would not hamper any
freight transporting.”
The area affected by the pro
posed abandonment would be
from the Bostic yard to Marion.
The Boiling Springs Baptist
Church College-Youth Choir
will present the musical “And
There Was Light!” by Cam
Floria on Sunday, March 20 at
7:30 p.m.
The choir, which is directed
by Phil Perrin, consists of 45
junior high through college age
singes. Barbara Taylor is the
director of drama.
The musical will feature
soloists Saridy Hastings, Lana
Jolley, Lori McIntyre., Meloni
McGraw, Robert Lamb, Kelley
Taylor, Lydia Perrin and Esther
Perrin. Also featured will be
Stuart Blackburn, Nelson
McDaniel, Steve Hamrick,
Michael Hamrick Suzanne San
ford, Pam Hartis, Chris Taylor,
Melissa Hartis, Michele Lemons
and Robert Harrelson.
Peach Crop Future
Is Up In Air
Peach orchards across the
western Piedmont .are in the
pink of bloom and the fortunes
of their growers are at the mercy
of the winds.
T|r • T _ . ^ pink of bloom a
It’s Not Spring ‘Til You See
The Whistle Of Its Blooms
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Wave after wave of white
blossoms spread through our
woodlands in the spring. Their
appearance can give us pleasure,
and the origins of their names
can be intriguing or amusing.
The first white bloom of these
native trees is shadbush, also
called shadblow or service berry.
Legend has it that it is named
shadbush because it blooms
when the shad swim upstream to
spawn. The “blow” in shadblow
derives from an Indo-European
root meaning “to spring up.”
Some oldtimers called it ser
vice berry because it bloomed
when traveling preachers made
their way into the mountains for
church services in the spring. A
more elegant derivation for “ser
vice” is from the Latin “sorbus”
referring to the “sorbs” or small
apple-like frpits.
By whatever name, shadbush
if the first native three to bring
white to our woodlands. Its
elongated clusters of white
blossoms are short-lived, but the
berries, enjoyed by man, birds
and animals in June, and the
orangy leaves in autumn, make
it a good choice for landscaping
Flowering dogwood follows,
putting on its.best show in North
Carolina from late March to
mid-April.
Dogwood seems as odd name
for a tree of such beauty. On
doubtful explanation is that sick
dogs were apparently cured by
being washed in a strong solu
tion made from its bark.
Dagwood is a variation, from the
Old English world for dagger.
Another name is skewerwood,
because butchers used the wood
for meat skewers, and the In
dians called it arrowwood. All of
these names indicate practical
uses for the hardness of its wood.
The unseasonable warmth of
late winter brought up the sap
and lured the trees into early
bloom. That is not necessarily
bad, says Spartanburg County
agent George Bowen, so long as
below-freezing temperatures do
not return. Blooms and tiny
peaches are both vulnerable to
burning frost and freeze.
The dread of a repeat of last
year’s nearly total croploss, due
to April freezes, will doubtless
dull grower’s joy at what, in
bloom, looks like an excellent
year in the making. “We have
another month to go,” Bowen
says, before the danger period
will over.
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