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Page 3-MIRROR-HBRALC^Tueaday, Septem^r 90, 1»77 GDITORIfM OPIMIOM Community can answer problem King! Mountain Emergency Services, Inc., a non-profit and benevolent organization, may become a reality In the near future. We say “may,” because right now the consideration of a charter Is In the hands of the secretary of state In Raleigh. AppUcaUon has been made and an answer Is ejqMcted within another week. KMBS, Inc. Is the title of what could become the city’s second rescue squad, one that refuses to charge a set fee for transporting citizens caught In emergency situations. According to the orgsnlzers of the new unit, they have an am bulance and crash truck promised, plus a site for meetings and headquarters. Ihey also have promises of donations for support. The formation of a new unit la very good for the citizens of Kings Mountain. It broadms the emergency coverage. However, It could create some problems as far as officialdom Is concerned. Cleveland County Commissioners are charged with providing such service within the county and Monday the board was presented with contracts betgeen the county and Kings Mountain Rescue Squad. These contracts spell out financial arrangements for rescue and ambulance transport service. This would make It appear that the county has designated KM Rescue Squad as the official emergency service for the KM area. Where does this leave the KM Emergency Services, Inc. unit, should Its charter be approved? What about the KM United Fund donations? Which unit Is due donations from the UFL? CM a ute KMES, Inc. charter Is approved It will be as wo have suggested before;; that the answer la the community’s respon sibility. And ' the community can answer the question very simply by calling on one or the ofiier of the two emergency units when the need arisen. Citizens are missing golden opportunity Disappointing Is the description of the first In a series of six local government one-cn-one meetings last ’Tuesday night. rive private citizens from district one attended the gathering In the fellowship hall at Kings Mountain B^tist Church. And there were four elected officials on hand to make a total of nine. Ihe second meeting U scheduled tonight at 7:80 Second Baptist Church. This one is set for district four residents. Commissioners Norman King will co-host the meeting with Mayor John Moss. The Mirror-Herald feels perhaps KMers have not grasped fully the significance of these ’’one-on-one’’ meetings. Instead of standing around on street comers talking about what ahould be done In the dty, these meetings offer you the opportunity to meet Informally with local government officials, to dlSGUss* the needs as you see them In Kings Mountain. The regular board meetings held the second and fourth M(mdays each month leave very little time for In-depth discussions between citizens and the board. Besides, too many people feel Inhibited sit ting In council chambers to really speak their piece. This series of meetings have been removed from the confines of city hall to put citizens more at ease. In other words the local governing body la “Playing on your turf.” We urge residents to think about this and to take full advantage of opportunity. Misadeventures of one of Ma Bell’s boys When Ma Bell dictates that employes will be educated, she means It. Norman King, a longtime Bell em ploye who Is having thoughts of retirement now and then, and a member of the Kings Mountain Board of Com missioners, found out Ma Bell means It recently. Norman’s boss said he wanted to know If Norman was Interested In at tending classes on "Plan Assigning.” Norman ’llowed as how he was not In terested. “Fine,’’ Norman’s boss said. A week later Norman received a memo from the boss; “You are to attend the Plan Assignors class In Salisbury,” or words to that effect. Now I^rman has been around long enough to know you don’t argue with the' boss. He may not always be right, but aye god, he’s always the boss. So, Norman kissed his wife goodbye and drove to Salisbury looking tor the ad dress of ^ere the class would be held. He rode up cne street and down another, but he couldn’t find the address. He even stopped people on the street and asked them where “Elm St.” Is located. No one could tell him. Finally he pulled In to Howard Johnson’s to find out If his boss had reserved him a room. No record of a reservation was to be found. The HJ desk clerk was even gracious enough to call around to other motels for Info, but no one had Nomum ahoom. So, Norman signed up tor an HJ room on his own, then called his wife to tell her where he TOM McirtTVRe wrcng city for the class, and after he had checked Into and out of HJ and after he had gotten settled In Oreensboro, dumed If Ma Bell didn’t make Norman pay for the three long distance phone calls. After all that hassle, I’m gonna take pity on Norman and not tell you how he got a dose of poison Ivy. offering him a role In his movie, “Meteor.” The lead ndea In the film have been assigned to Sean Connery and Natalie Wood. Not bad tor a country boy like EO, huh? Ret^DGR DIMOGUe The wheels are in motion -oOo- was. That’s long distance call number one. His next move was to call the local police to ask where Elm St. was. Salisbury’s finest said, “’There Is no Elm St. In this city.” Long distance call number two comlna: up. “I Just found out I’m supposed to be In Oreensboro, boss. Not Salisbury,” Norman told his boss after the getting the correct Info from a Salisbury friend who also works for Ma Bell. Long distance call number three. “Hello, hon. I Just found out I’m supposed to be In Oreensboro. Not Salisbury.” After telling Mrs. King where he would bo In Oreensboro, Norman checked out of Howard Johnson’s and motored on to O-boro and class. Even after Norman was forced to go to classes he did not wish to attend, and after his boss had routed him to the Sometimes the Job of reporters gets to be hairy. You may recall the column I did a few weeks ago on our local firefighters — how they do heroic stuff and all. What I didn’t tell you In that column was how Jerry White and I got singed taking pictures of a controlled bum.” Jerry was the “torch,” thp guy setthig the ftiM la the tratalag house. We,.were In this small room, which was fined wltii hay UberaUy soaked with diesel fuel. Jerry began firing the hay whUe I focused the trusty camera. Whoosh! Backflash happened. Jerry and I raced outta there like a couple of Jesse Owenses, but not before I got two blistered fingers (the ones holding the camera) and both of us got our hair singed. But, the firefighters made up for It the other night. They Invited me down to the Fire Museum for a steak oookout. It’s times like this a reporters lot Is very fine. -oOo- Flnal note: Fail Owensby of Shelby, the moviemaker, got a call the other day from another Independent film producer To the editor, I was somewhat surprised there weren’t more candidates filing tor the three city commissioner seats this election year. Nevertheless the filing deadline has gene and the wdieela have been set In motion. From what I can determine there Is quite a bit of political pimch shaping, m It wouldn’t surpiis# jpa^to see run-<M elections In at leiLifidf Uie three district races. Some citizens are questioning whether the candidates are going to work for the seats they are after. All of them should. Several of the candidates are not too well pleased with the staggered term system. Just as many of the citizens are not. Many of us believe the question of staggered terms should have been brought before tiie public tor a vote. We are living In difficult times and there are many difficult decisions to be made before October, so let’s not place all of our eggs In one basket. The question of responsibility lies greatly on the candidates and you can bet your bottom dollar the candidates are feeling this already. ElMtion time In our city Is a big event, perhsps It ahould even be bigger because the people we put In office must have the will to see the dty survives and con tinues on progressively. Whoever la elected, we ask that the dtlzens of Kings Mountain and their wdl-belng be kept uppermost In mind, mehkfih on October jjiJoIiBffJ nl AnB& .O.H .ITt .flTTCI (teuijoJ EVERETTS PEARSON Kings Mountain A word on conduct The Constitution SMITH To the editor. The Kings Mountain Pastors’ Association has asked me to write a letter of concern to you. A number of the pastors have haul people speak to them ccnoemlng the conduct of softball teams of the Church Leagues. We would like to ask In dividual players, teams, coachas and parents to be concerned about sport smanship and high level conduct. A season has coicluded and many people have had a good time. During this off season, we would like to ask tor your concern for the coming season. It Is our hope that all games will refled a high level attitude diulng the coming season. RUSSELL FITTS Kings Mountain Three Tar Heels signed the document The United States Constitution was ^signed by the delegates to the Con- ’stltutional Convention In Philadelphia on September 17,1787. Signing the document for the state of North Carolina were William Blount, Hugh WUllamson and Richard Dobbs Spalght. TVo other Carolinians had attended the Convention but were not present when the document was signed. They were William R. Davie and Alexander Martin. Though the Constitution had been adopted, It still had to be ratified by the Indhrldual states. A state convention In Hillsborough In 1788 refused to accept It by a vote of 184-88. One year later, after eleven other states had ratified the new national government, and the first ten amend ments — the BUI of Rights — had been added with Its guarantees of rights for Individual dtlzona, a second convention was held In Fayetteville. On November 31,178^ North Carolina voted to,accept the Constitution by a vote of 196-77. This stats had suffered badly from govern mental excesses by many of Its British governors during the OoloiUal period. Its cltlaans had refused to accept the rule of a strong Federal govenunent until the proUcUoti o!' individual lights was added. CaroUna and resumed his post as Governor. Such was the rigid 18th This state Joined the Union after the first election of George Washington, and did not participate In the nation’s first Presidential election. -oOo- Revolutlonary War Governor Thomas Burke and his Council of State wore captured In a surprise raid on Hillsborough by Tory Colonel David Farming on Sept. 13,1781. The next day, at Llndley’s (near Graham) Col. Butler’s North CaroUiM militia fought a battle with Fanning’s troops In ant unsuccessful attempt to rescue their governor. The prisoners were taken to Charleston, 8. C., to a British prison, where they were paroled to James Island, In the harbor afier giving their word not to attempt esci^. Governor Burke, a talented, tempermental, Irlsh- bom poet and physician, heard rumore that some local Tories -were plotting to assassinate him. Convinced that his life was Indeed In Jeopardy, he violated his parole, escape to North Century concept of honor, however, that Burke was severely criticised for breaking his word, even by the most anti-British Carolinians. Soundly defeated In his bid tor re-election, Burke retired to Ms estate near Hillsborough and died a year later. Thomas Wolfe, this sUte’s most famous author, died In Baltimore Sept. 16,1988, following brain surgery. He Is burled In Asheville's Riverside Cemetery near the grave of the state’s other most-famous 'writer, William Sidney Porter (O. Henry). Educated at UNC and Harvard, WMfa taught English at New York University atul first attempted a career as a playwright. Publication of his first novel “Look Homeward, Angel” In 1939 established Mm as one of the moat successful American novelist of all time. His other long, autobiographical novels “Of Time send the River.” "The Web and the Rock” and “You Can’t Go Home Again” also told the story of Wolfe’s own family In Asheville, and about life In the mountains. He died, at 38. at the helgiit of Ms career. The Wolfe home In Asheville Is now a state historic site, visited by thousands of tourists. PUSLIIHIOZACH TUeiOAV ANDTHUKtOAV OARLANDATKINI Futoltohffr TOMMCINTVRI liHtr ■UllAtITHSTIWAIIT WMian'i lAltgr •ANY $TI WART iMrtilRHffr DARRILL AUSTIN CLYDt^ILL ARvtrtliiiit Dlr*ct«r MIMRRROR NORTH CAROLINA ClATie pubilthtd 0 by OtflbTCl Orewtr ftt, Klrwft Th« Mlrror-Htrald i» Rubllihing Company, P. Mountoln. H C., aSM«. tutlnooi and adllorlal off leaf aro locatad of KM South Plodmont Avo. Phono 74H. Socond Clou poitapo paid at'KInga Mountain, N. C. Simla copy IS canto. Sutaocriptlon ratot: M.SO yoariy in-atafo, S4.2S tlx monthij at .so yoarly out-of* itatt, IS tlx montht; Studont rata far nlno^ontht 11.24
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