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Week the British lost Revolutionary War This week In 1781 waa a buay one during the American Revolution. Some hlatorlane alao believe It waa the week during which the Brltlah loat the war. On January 26, 1781, the Brltlah Army under Lord Charlea Comwallla halted at Ramaour’a Mill (near Lincolnton) In their purault of Oeneral Nathaniel Oreen'a American troopa. Dlacouraged by the alowneaa of hla march. Lord Comwallla decided upon the draatlc atep of burning moot of hla wagona and auppllea. The Red- coata remained at Ramaour’a (or two daya, while huge bonflrea conaumed enough food and clothing to have kept the entire area In comfort for montha. It waa thla declalon, rather than a more spectacular loaa upon the battlefield, which some experta feel may have coet Comwallla the war. The loaa of theae auppllea later cauaed Hla Lordahlp to abandon hla attempt to conquer the Candlnaa and fall back to the aeacoaat for support by the British Navy, falling back ultimately nlnto a trap at Yorktown. On January 26, 1781, while the above was taking place, the state’s Oeneral Assembly convened at Halifax. Due to the hazards and exigencies of war It had taken 28 days to assemble a quorum. h?' MTH i:iSi ’Two days later, on January 28, British ships dron>ed anchor at Wilmington and troops under the command of Major James Craig seized the town of 200 houses and 1,000 p(g>ulatlon. After years ot relative peace. North Carolina was finding Itself a major theater of war. Invaded simultaneously In east and west. -oOo- On January 28,1867, Miles Darden died In ’Tennessee. Bom and raised In North Carolina, Darden was then believed to be the "World’s Largest Man.’’ At the time of hla death, Darden was seven feet, nine Inches €DI10RIW.9 & OPimorK Page 4A Thursday, January 27,1977 R€t\D€R DIMOGUC Parents offer their thanks Dear Editor, As a parent of a child at Children’s Center in Shelby, I want to express for all of us our sincere appreciation to Yates Mltchem and the Cleveland County Rescue Squad, Bob Wells and the Orover Rescue Squad, Mr. and See what action is feasible ’To the editor, ’J^The Idea of creating a satellite District Ooiift In Kings Mountain to handle cases from here, Grover and the surrounding area east of Buffalo Creek has a great deal of merit.” ’Ihe above Is a quote from a January 20 Mirror-Herald editorial titled "Ideas worth considering.’’ In all due respect to those who have suggested such as this, Is this not a pertlnant matter that should be brought before the city fathers? Surely they above all others should be given time to study this Important matter. If such a satellite was established In Kings Mountain wouldn’t It be the city’s respon sibility to provide space for the court? And as far as the question regiU’dlng legislative action, what senator or representative do we have who would take such a proposal on himself to Introduce In the General Assembly without the support of the people back h(xne? Perhaps the city fathers and our legislative people should get together and earnestly discuss this proposal and see what kind of action can be taken. EVERET’TE PEARSON Kings Mountain Good luck to Don Jones To the editor. How does the general public feel about the task that currently belongs to the Kings Mountain District School Board - that of selecting a replacement (or our present superintendent of schools? It Is Indeed a big task. Kings Mountain citizens should be Interested. What has really happened In our schools In the last 10 years? In the December SO, 1976, edition of the Mirror-Herald, which an nounced our present superintendent’s resignation, not much waa said about how our children and teachers had (aired In our city. Are children and teachers not the hezu^ and backbone of any great educational unit? Mr. Jones has Indeed enhanced and enriched our schools In many ways, but Kings Mountain has been good to Mr, Jones also. Kings Mountain has afforded Mr. Jones time to earn an advanced Superintendent’s Certificate from Duke University which he completed In 1976 while serving us and time to work on his dissertation. We have fur nished a school supported car for the superintendent to drive smd a school credit card with which to purchase gas. Local In dividuals have pushed him Into becoming Kings Mountain’s Young Educator of 1968 and Into the District Terry Sanford Awud winner In 1972 and In 1974. Without local supporters Mr. Jones would not have been the winner of these. ’The local School Board has appeared to have given Mr. Jones the tree hand In all school administrative decisions. The Asheville ’Times on January stated this will not be the case In Asheville. Is the future of Kings Mounaln Schools as bright as Mr. Jones declared to the board and waa quoted In the Mirror-Herald? How many of us here In Kings Mountain are knowledgeable of the (act that con solidation of schools la being pushed In Raleigh? I’ve resul about this Just recently. Consolidation here will mean that Kings Mountain will become a part of Cleveland County Schools. ’Then there will be no need (or a superintendent in Kings Mountain, no need for a local school board, and no need for other staff workers In our local ad ministrative office. Much financial In security will result. Many fine citizens may be forced to leave our city to seek jobs In other schools. Will the Jobs be available? I haven’t found one elsewhere In the past three years. Let’s encourage our school board toward selecting a superintendent who can steer us away from becoming Cleveland County Schools. We should want to remzdn In dependent of this. Consolidation will be a big crisis to face In our City — one that Mr. Jcnes will not have to face with us. Is he leaving our school board any positive suggestions as to how to face It? Good luck to Mr. Jones as he moves toward a more secure future In Asheville than our schools can now give him. DAPHNE L. S’TOLL Kings Mountain mmsHmiJb rusLKNnosscN MSMsases TUSiOAV AMO THUS WAV MOnTN CASOLIHA SASkAMOATKINi SBSSt ASSOCIATIOH FWlbSw Yhs Mirrar-HsrsM Is ssMiMws Sv OSAsrsl _ . rseilsAlns Csmsny, 0. O. Oraswr rm, Kliet TOMMCINTYSS, SLIIABBTH ITnWAST si.i»AsiTniTnwA«T Moi»i»tsln,M.C.,llW4.0»sliistssiiS#SI«Klslsllkss SSnSr SfMiSa-a BAIt^ * an lectlss st IS4 isvM ■eitSsuM Avs. PSm» m- SABV STB WAST ****"* ^'*** *■■*■•* S*M 0 RlASS •SSSfltSlD. •ssns BSHsr **' *'"*'* ** <•**•' tvtscnstlSA rttts: NJi yeany ki-Bstt, SAM Mx msMhti IS.N ysany svl-sA OASSSLk AUSTIN CkVDB MILL •<•••> •* Bs msnlNsj thiSaM rsis Hr nliM fflsnai Stasrsisiasastr ASylNNis Birssisr SS.S4 tall and weighed slightly over 1,000 pounds. His coffin was eight feet long, 86 Inches deep and 82 Inches wide. Over 24 Yards of black velvet were required to line It Darden’s claim to fame has since been eclipsed (oddly by two men bom during this century In lUlnola). Robert F. Wadlaw was over a foot taller, but weighed leas than half as much at 460 pounda Robert B. Hughes at 1,066 pounds, outweighed Darden by 60 pounds but was over a foot shorter. So while It’e no limger In the record book, as a com posite "biggest man” Darden may yet reign supreme! -oOo- Joseph Hewes, one of this states three signers of the DecUratlon of Independence, was bom on January 28,1780, In New Jersey. Hewes moved to Bdenton around 1760, ultimately becoming a wealthy merchant suid shipper. As a delegate to the Continental Congress, Hewes served as chalrnum of the Importont Committee of the Msutne (In essence serving as this nation’s first Secretary of the Navy) and died, probably of overwork. In 1779 In Phlladelphlsi. -oOo- Dix Hill Hospital for the Inssuie In Ralel^ WM authorized by the (JenersU Assembly on January 29, 1849, in an emotion packed eesslon. It was named (or Dorothea Dlx, the mld-l9th century crusader whose efforts / resulted In the establishment of Improved mental institutions In several states. Until then the mentally Ul had been generally Ignored or shamefully mistreated. It required an emotional appeal by one of the greatest orators In the state’s history, James C. Dobbin, to secure funds for such reforms, however, from a penny- pinching General Assembly. Dobbin, acting on a promise he had made hla (tying wife, succeeded In swaying enough votes to win In what is still regarded as one of the legislature’s most dramatic moments. Policy change might affect SSI benefits The Poet’s Corner Mrs. Jimmy Hopper, Mrs. Leonard Gibson, Ambrose Cline and all the staff of the Department of ’Transportation (or all their efforts In getting our children home In Monday’s snow and Ice. MARTHA HICKS TURNER Grover A recent change In policy may affect some Cleveland County residents receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits (or the aged, blind and disabled, according to R. L. Capps, Manager of the Sixlal Security Office. The amount of the SSI benefit varies according to the needs of the Individual and la based on income, resources and living arrangements. The change in- LOOKIMG m:\i FROM IHE JAN. 29,1963 FILES OF THE KINOS MOUNTAIN HERALD Three candldaetes. Including two' In cumbents, filed of candidacy for city offices during the past week. (MlandR. Pearson, Incumbent Ward Three Oomml8sl(Hier, filed shortly before 4 p. m. Wetfeiesday, while Mayor Garlzuid E. Still ffled for re-election ’Tuesday afternoon. Sam Stallings died (or Ward Five Commissioner last Thursday. The Kings Mountain Herald was awarded third place (or news reporting among weekly newspapers In North Candlna for 1962, according to results of the 1962 Newspaper Contests of the North Carolina Press Association announced last Friday. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. Charles Dllllng was hostess Thesday afternoon to members of the Tuesday Af ternoon Bridge Club and two additional guests, Mrs. George Houser and Mrs. Jacob Cooper. The home of Mrs. Charles Neisler was the scene of the regular January meeting of the H(xise and Garden Club. Members of the TVln Thble Bridge Club met Thesday night with Mrs. O. W. Myers at her home on Piedmont Avenue. Visitors were Mrs. W. B. Shutt and Mrs. L. P. Stowe. volves how Social Security determines a person’s living arrangement. The ‘ new policy provides that when a person Is living In another person’s household, he (or she) must be paying his full share of household expenses. Household expenses Include, among other things, rent or mortgage payments, utilities and food. Individuals living In another person’s household and not paying their full share of household e;q>enses could have their mon thly 331 benefit reduced by 1-8. Thla means that some recipients who previously received $167.80 each month will start get ting $111.87. No reductions will be made In any case until the Individual has been con tacted by SocUa Security and the sltuaUon fullv exDlored. It Is Important for recipients of SSI benefits to keep the following points in mind: First, only those Individuals In other peoples’ households can be affected by thla change. Second, many of theae persona wlH not have their benefits changed-In imy way because the Individual may be found to be fully sharing In househcdd expenses. Third, the policy change will put Into effect on a gradual basis over the next 12 or 18 months as Individuals receiving SSI benefits are re<x>ntacted by the Social Security Ad ministration, or when ithe recipient’s situation changes, as (or example, if he or she moves. Fourth, no change In benefit amount will be made until the case Is first reviewed with the recipient. And fifth, the reduction from $167.80 toi $111.87 Is the maximum reduction anyone would receive because of this change. Persons whose SSI benefit Is reduced solely beczuise of the new policy on living arrangements will be affected only begin ning the first month of the calendar quarter after the quarter tai which the benefit reductlcm determinatlim Is made by the Social Security Administration. For example, should a review with an SSI recipient in October, November or December establish that a benefit reduction Is required, the reduction would actually occur with his or her January check. THE HEART WARMING HEARTH There’s nothing like an open fire TO set the night aglow. When Winter prowls the plains So busy hurling snow. How Inviting the sofa In waiting In front of a hearth-side bright. With flames leiqilng so high The smoke curls out of sight. The brighjhiess from the flames Stir the depth of the very s<xil. Regardless the depth of winter Or how fierce the biting cold The aroma of woodflre burning With extra logs stacked high Brings memories of Winters past When clndera from the hearth did fly. There’s nothing like an open fire TO melt the cares of the day sway. Joy can be found In the ashes TO be carried outnext day. So lay on another log ^larkllng bright the cinders will fly TO loosen the hold of winter ’Ihe hearth is standing by. The cheery heart warming hearth Can light the spark of love. When a cold yellow moon Is shivering With no halo up above. The r<x>m Is wrapped In sentiment Bright flames keep leaping high tt might as well be spring. With summer drawing nigh. VIVIAN STEWART BILTCLDTE Wonderful, but strange country America Is a wonderful country. It Is also a very strange country. Wonderful because of the freedoms af forded Its citizens and strange because of the attitudes of those citizens. Where else can y<xi And books and movies featuring anlmida endowed with every human emotion In the spectrum? And If you think Disney’s little furry characters do not have an effect on the snwlUry, then ycxi have another think coming. Little cWdren are convinced that dogs and cats smile, laugh and do double takes. Just like people. And where else can you find such glorlflcatl(m of outlaws and murderers? This public outpouring over Gary Mark Gilmore has Just about done It for me. Here was a man who admitted he had cold bloodedly shot down two young men after robbing them. TVo young men with wives and children. Their only "crime” against GllnuH'e had been that they were working at the places Gilmore robbed at gunpoint. And after taking the money he blasted both of them to Kingdom Come. Then he made the world-wide headlines by Insisting that he be executed by firing squad. Many attempts were made by attomeya and “bleeding hearts” groups to save GUmore from thla (ate. In the end Gilmore sat down In front of a firing sijuad and was executed. A relative of GUmin-e's commented that Gllnoore died ths way he wanted to, with dignity. Chrll Liberties workers In Utah tearfully denounced the state (Or being barbaric. A sharp promoter laid out a reported $100,000 to GUmore for exclusive rights to his story. The promoter was one of the witnesses TOM MclMTYRG / to Gilmore's execution and Is the one widely ({uotad on Gilmore’s last words — "Let’s do It” It wouldn’t surprise me If the promoter had not written thoee final words for Gilmore. "Let's Do It” Makes for one heUuva comment to end the promoter's book with, huh? When the promoter has his Gilmore story done, wonder If he plans to offer the sur vivors of the two men GUmore murdered $100,000 each? "Oome on, folks. Let's do It After aU, you can’t bring those guys back and you might as weU make a buck out of thU.” It’s enough to make you want to chew nails and spit bullets. Personally, 1 hope the promoter loses his shirt on this project. 1 hope thla, but I’m realistic enough to know better. Not only is GUmore going to gat the works, but alao Richard Speck, the guy convicted and serving time for murdering eight nur ses, wUl became the subject of a made (or TV movie. And this week CBS-TV has repeated the four-hour movie on mass-murderer Charles Manson. ''Halter Skelter*’ gave me the creeps and at the same time a feeling that there la some Justice In the world. But the fnmmakers Just absolutely could not resist In adding the ImpUcatlan that Manson waa possessed with weird powers. Remember the scene where the prosecutor’s watch mysteriously stopped and he looked up to And Manson smUlng at him? The final scenes alao allowed Steve Rallaback, as Manson, to put society on trial and blame them for making him into the person he was. Such stuff as this the crltlca call great drama of deep social significance. Dirty Harry, a San Francisco cop who gives the baddlea the same Justtce they give their vlctlma, the criUes caU a Fascist. Maybe he la But then again maybe the character la representative of the way the mllllom of' people who mind their own bualneaa and contribute significantly to society feel about the glorlfleatlan of criminals. Remember how people in the movie theater cheered when Chartes Bronson gave It to the baddies In "Death Wish?” in the new TV Guide there Is an article on men In prison who make notes on how to puU off cappers by watching crime rtiows on TV. In the article the prlaonsra Interviewed also said they cheered for Bronson whan they watched "Death Wish?.” tailing any human being la not to be condoned, but then I don’t think we, as society, are supposed to pat those who kill on ths head and say, "You’ve been a bad boy. Don’t do that again. Now run along and be a* good boy.” h’ Fc e M
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