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LETTER TO THE EDITOR ?? LErrER TO the herald AND THE CITIZENS OF KINGS MOUNTAIN: J trPly hope that you can print this letter in its entirety for I have heard so many different versions of recreation that 1 feel It my duty to give the people of Our community a few facts and the evils that can be eliminated by a community recreation pro gram with the proper facilities and supervision. A few of the arguments I have heard from people that are fw and against community recrea tion I shall list below and try to answer them to the ,best of my ability and knowledge, and I must say this, there are very few people in Kings Mountain today that have visloned the full scope of a city-wide recreatiort program, for recreation is now accepted as a major force in so cial well - ibeing. Recreation tak es its place with education, heal th, religion, and work as an es sential process molding individ ual personalities and creating abundant community living. All these elements, in proper bal ance, constitute the nucleus of I total social stability. The first and most used argu ment is this: "I would vote fori it, but old so-and-so would putj It In his own back yard." Friends, this is a senseless assumption. We have on our City Board five men that have proven . their in tegrity in this community. They were placed there by a majority of our voters. They in turn ap pointed five men that have pro ven their interest in community recreation. These men hired a trained architect who has made a survey of our town ahd select ed several sites. All of these sites are centrally located and accessi ble to a majority of our people. Now I ask you: What other sen sible way could we possibly hope for? If we don't trust these men's Judgment whom do we trust?' This coming bond issue is not a j political issue, but a necessity. We must distinguish (between the two and vote, not for a party or a creed, but vote for Kings Mountain and all the people therein. The second argument is even more absurd than the first: "Ah! Recreation is only a summertime program, the kids go to school in the winter and have their hands full. All we need is a swimming pool and a .ball ground." This is pure poppycock. In the first place most of us as sociate youth and recreation. Why? It's simple. There are more | kids than grown-ups. Believe me, grown-ups like to play. A good example of what I mean was proven to me last week. We have a men's team here In Kings Mountain and the other night we traveled over to Shel<by to play Cllffside. There was so much activity going on at the recreation center that our game along with Hudson Hosiery boys and girls, Howard Business Col lege and Casar had to transfer our games to the Shelby High Gym. I counted 47 men and wo men in the bowling room, 21 in the game room and 12 men and women basketball teams or a to tal of over 194 men and women not including the kids playing | table tennis and shuffleboard. Does that sound like a summer time program? I was the first to admit we must j have several pools tout had you thought of this? That will only furnish recreation for about three months. What about the other 9 ] months? Oh yes| School work: Did you know that 85 percent of the crime by Juveniles last year was committed from September to Inarch? Did you know that 80 percent of all boys In a neighbor ing City gets all of their recrea tion through recreation clubs j such as Optimist, Rotarians, Red j Shields, Boys Clubs and City re . creation? If the churches of this | town were not doing such a won derful Job with so many of our ro.HH 1 ?hudder t0 tfHnk of what ? haPPen. I visited Jackson training School several weeks a?u fou?d six boys from this ea there. Their misdemeanors .Puelty but to? - purpose bc. nuid them should furnish food for thought: Three were there for trying to raise show, fare, two for money to go skating. The other was just bored, with nothing to do. Who would you olame, the parents, the boys, or yourselves? Jiad you rather light one candle out of 3,000 or curse the darkness? It cost the State over $-1,000 to keep these boys one year. The third argument for a ma- 1 ?s ls no arKument at all. What s It going to cost in the I way of taxes? Fellow citizens, you don't get something for noth ing. If you had a hole in the head I you wouldn't shop around for a doctor, you would get one irre gardless of the cost. That is the predicament we are in. We are like a gang of blind dogs in a meathouse: we're banging our heads against a stone wall. Don't listen to idle gossip, get the facts. Here are some facts: Our town is one of the soundest in the state when it comes to borrowing mon ey. We are in better shape finan dally today than we have been in several scores of years. The churches, from all indications, three of our largest Civic groups and several of the town's largest I tax payers are all in favor of a passage of all issues involved. Think of this: Most cities would give thbir eye-teeih to be as fort unate as we, Did you know that this town owns lock, stock and barrel one of the money-makinest utilities there Is? Our electric sys tem. Did you know the City came I out in the black In excess of $30 . 000 on water In 1951? Natural gas is just around the corner. That s another utility that should show a nice profit In a few years We get enough from Powell aid to keep our streets repaired and yet our individual bills are In line with less fortunate comfnu nities because we do not have large corporation taxes to pay To be blunt, we are sitting on a gold mine and afraid to stick a spade in the ground. Don't be misled by our utilities. It costs money to maintain and operate these necessities and there will always be taxes, but 1 1 would judge by all available in formation I have been able to Esther that on a home valued at $5,000 your tax would not increase over 5 cents on the hundred dol lar value or around $250.00 per year of the 5 cents for maintancfe or maybe less If the project proves self-supporting. And here is a fact: If any man ufacturing plant had voted in a solid block In any of our recent bond elections they would have cast more votes either for or a gainst any issue than was cast by the entire town heretofore. I believe that those are the | three basic arguments and I fer vently hope that there is no sore head in this town that has any political axes to grind and use this bond issue as a springboard for what we do on January 16th. Some of us may not see the ulti mate good a passage will bring but of this I am certain ? this group that votes will be remem bered. Some folks say wte don't | spend anything on recitation. I What about the movies, plays, swimming trips, parties, golf, bridge games, baseball and foot ball, joy riding, dancing, sakt ing, books, bowling, billiards, ten nis and numerous other activities. All this is recreation and I know that if any of you know that your fellowman has the facilities to enjoy the same things altho his Income may be below yours you will get a warm feeling that you haven't felt before.' James Layton I In mid-October United States farmers were getting an average of $1.34 per bushel for corn - 26 cents below the national aver- ] age support level. CANDY Headquarters SELECTED BY SANTA HIMSELF WHITMAN'S 59c to $11.00 America's Favorite NORBIS OF ATLANTA ?| AA Exquisite CHOCOLATES UP NUNNALLYS ASSORTMENTS AND CANDT OP THE SOUTH NOVELTIES ' ? ALSO ? g OLD DOMINION & BELLE CAMP We Offer Yon A Complete Range of America's Most Popular Candies my ' . ? Delicious | GRIFFIN S TOUR GIFTS GALOBE DBDG STOVE Nuitall To Head BurMill Plant At Smithfield SMITHFIELD ? Benjamin F. Nuttall, Jr., will become superin tendent of the Smithfield Plant of Burlington Mills with the transfer of John Brasch to Greensboro, announced J. C. Co wan, Jr., president of Burlington Mills. Brasch is being promoted to the post of division manager of cot ton spinning, ' of which division the Smithfield plant is a unit, and will make his headquarters at Greensboro at the textile con cern's bxecutive offices. Brasch has been superintendent of the local plant since February' 8. 1945. Nuttall Is a native of Cordova, Ala., and is a graduate of Alaba ma Tech at Auburn, Ala., where he received the B. S. in textile en gineering. He comes to Smithfield from the Modena plant of Bur lington Mills, locaied at Gastonia. Before joining Burlington Mills he was employed by Nashau Man ufacturing Company at Cordova, Lincoln Mills of Alabama at Hun tersvlllie, Ala., and Textron South ern at Anderson, S. C., and then was sent by Textron to Puerto Rico as superintendent of Textron Puerto- Rico. Nuttall joined Burlington Mills in January of 1950 and has been associated with plants at Kings Mountain and Gastonia, where he has held . various suptervlsory posts. The change will be effective January 1. DO DARE STORY The New- York Times Outdoor Editor, Ray Camp, and Lee Wulff npted outdoor^ cameramen, this month completed a movie on the unique fox hunting from jeeps enjoyed on North Carolina's Out er Banks. Camp and Wulff head quartered at Nags Head. Between movie sequences, they, went hunting and bagged five wild geese and duck's. Nuttall has a wife and a 10 year-old daughter. They are M c thodist. He is a veteran of World War II, having held the rank of major. United States pasture condi tions on October 1 averager 56 per cent of normal, as low as any recorded for that date in nearly four decades except in 1934 and 1936, when conditions averaged 54 per cent. I RECREATION ROUND-UP The recreation's department's Midgets and Intermediates play ed two inter-squad games Sat urday morning with the white team winning for the midgets and the Blue team winning for the Intermediates. > Practice will get underway for ,the two groups during the holi days. The teams meet at Concord at Concord early in January. The commission, in coopera tion with the city commissioners and Mayor Glee Bridges has mailed out over a hundred Christmas letters to various mu nicipalities with the following ruesage. '?Christmas '53 "We believe that because ' of the recreation movement more men have a song in their hearts and sing it out, sense more the drama of the world, see beauty more clearly all about them, foci the poetry of the world, like to be among trees, find joy in watch ing plants grow, have pride in their bodies, want to be more skillful in their hands and all their powers, are happy to use their mindsn just for the fun of it, enjoy people more, find sat isfaction in serving their ohigh borhoods and their cities. "A little child shall lead them." Isaiah 11:6." The Kings Mountain "Bobcats" led by Buddy Medlin, Dave Neill and Gene Ooforth out-scored the Gastonia Red Shields club 83 to 67 here last Wednesday night. Kings Mountain used all their players and the Red Shields j play I'd three complete teams, ('.era Id Adams, former K. M. na tive paced the visitors scoring with 23 points. In Thursday night's action, the locals were nosed out at Cliffside 3xy nine points, Medlin, Walt Harmon and Sanders paced the local attack with 9 points each. Kings Mountain was late for the game and started playing with out any pro-game warm-ups ? Collegians home for the holi days were scheduled to play the Bobcats Monday night at Central gym. College hoys participating: Charles Mauney, Johnny Klsor, Jim Kim.mell, Harold Pearson, and Bill Ruth. North Carolina farmers paid 20 cents per pound more for bacon on September 15, 1953, than on September 15, 1952. 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