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Page 2—MIRROR-HERALD—Tuesday, November 16, 1977 Could you name five greatest movies? Next Monday night's 9:80 colorcast of the American Film Institute lOth Anniversary Special will be very special to movie lovers. AFI will attempt to select the five greatest American films of all time from a list of 60 titles. These 60 films were selected from more than 1,100 titles selected by AFI members last July. The 60 films were selected by the 86,000 AFT membera across the country. The films are dramas, westerns, love stories, comedies, science fiction and tales of ad venture and mysteries. There are silent films, black and white and color films, animated films and musicals In the running. The oldest film being considered was made In 1916 by D. W. Orlfflth. It's caUed "The Birth of a Nation" and used Thomas Dixon's "The-Klansman" as part of the story. Dixon was a Shelblan. The newest film being considered Is "Star Wars," one of the highest grossing and fastest films of all time. Other movies In the group of 60 are ‘ 'Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid," "The African Queen," "Gone With The Wind," "Ben Hur," "Cabaret" and "Sunset Boulevard." Although not mentioned as yet, I'm sure "Citizen Kane" Is listed among the 60 films. GDITORIIM OPiniOM Qualified person needed Applications are being taken for the position of director of Kings Mountain Development Office — the ]ob Initiated by Larry Billings under a Community Development grant. This Job Is an Important one and, frankly, too much valuable time has been allowed to eli^se since Billings resigned before a replacement was sought. The revltlllzatlon of the downtown business district has been paid nothing but Up service for the past several years, that Is until Billings was hired to do some shaking and moving. He made a pretty good stab at the project until private yidustry wooed him away. Now we hear rumblings of pressure being placed on the city haU powers to place either this person or that person In the Job. That la fine, but only — we repeat—only If “this person or that person” Is fully qualified to take on the Job. The director of development position In no way should be considered a non- essential Job. On the contrary. It Is perhaps one of the most Important local government positions to be ereated In sometime and the person selected to steer the program miutbe folly In accord with the theory behind the Job. You don’t hand stones to a perscni sinking In quicksand. That same truth ap- pUes when the selection of the development director Is made, because don't think for a minute that the downtown business community In Kings Mountain Is not up to Its knees In quicksand. AppUcatlons are being taken at the mayor's office at city hall and Interviews will be setup within a week. Early (leadlines announced Early advertising and news deadline for Thanksgiving week Issues of The Mirror-Herald will begin this Friday for the Mon., Nov. 21 Issue. The deadline Is by noon this Friday because the Monday edition will have to be printed scmetlme during the weekend In order to have the paper In the maU early Monday morning. The usual Thursday morning edition will be In the mall early Wednesday morning to reach our readers before Thanksgiving. The deadline for the Wed nesday Issue Is noon Tues., Nov. 22. - We realise this Is an Inconvenience for our advertisers and Individuals con tributing news articles, so your cooperation will be greatly appreciated. Early deadlines only occur once or twice a year, during holidays. Slnco Christmas falls on Sunday this year we won't have to rearrange publication sdiedules of The Mirror-Herald either the week before or the week after Christmas. If It isn't then the entire proceedings is a farce. It may be Just that anyway because with so many movie lovers In the world, the AFT program could be the beginning of one of the biggest nmnlng arguments we ever saw. After all, there were only 86,000 people voting on the outcome. To truly be democratic the voting would have to be thrown open to everyone In the wwld who has ever seen an American-made movie. It would equally as Impossible to choose the worst movie ever made — although that bunch of junk Tom Laughlln put out entitled "Billy Jack" would be a strong contender. I wonder what the guidelines for selecting the Initial l,lOO-plua movies were? Box office receipts? Critical reviews? Artistic achievements? What? You know the more you think about this the more you become aware that AFT has taken on an Impossible task. This Is even more difficult than defining what is funny. Tell you what. Just tor the fun of It, why don't all of us movie lovers In the historical city and area make up our own lists of what we consider the five greatest American movies ever made? Just Jot the titles down and mall them or bring them by The Mirror- Herald office. Our mailing address Is P. O. Drawer 762, KM, 28088 and our street ad dress Is 801 S. Piedmont Ave. After the AFI selection Is made we'll compare our lists and see how close or how far away we are from their list. The AFI show can be seen on WBTV Mon., Nov. 21 at 9:30 p. m. I 10M MciriTVRC -oOo- "Here's a killer for you . . . Students In the local schools recently received their report cards. One young gent fetched his home to show to his parents. There was a math teacher's note attached to the effect that the student wasted his time In class, was capable of doing better work and showed no Interest In the subject. The grade for the six weeks In math cn the youngster's report card was an "A." Go figure that one.out. -oOo- Davld Hsurlson, a state probation and parole officer working In Cleveland County ReP\D€R DIMOGUe told some Interesting things concerning his work at last week's Rotary luncheon. Among the Items was the story of a bad check artist from the western section of the county. According to Harrison this fellow la "notorious” for writing bad checks. He has been arrested, tried and convicted several times. The last time his check artistry had fleeced some people out of $83. When the Judge asked him If he could make resltuatlon to the people he fleeced, the fellow asked the Judge, “Will you take a check?" Another strange case was the man who was serving time when his wife charged him with non-support. The Judge allowed the charge and the man was convicted. Harrison said, "Luckily, the man wets on work release and could pay the money allocated the wife by the Judge.” And then there Is the story of the prisoner who walked away from a prison farm and was gone for two years. The man was serving a three to five yeetr sentence and had completed one year on the farm before he escaped. "Only they don't call It escape now,” Harrison said. "They call It being absent without leave. After two years of being absent without leave the prisoner was returned to the prison unit, but since he had not been In any trouble during that two years of freedom, the Judge gave him credit for the Ume, so now he was eligible for parole — and he got It.” With things like this going on It makes you wa>nder what all the social reformers are screaming about when they Insist that the tar heel prison system must be made a more humane place to Incarcerate criminals. How has your week been? Are you ticked off at about something; high electric bills, high food bills, lack of services either on the local, state or natlonsil level? Don’t keep It to yourself. That only leads to further frustration. Share your thoughts with your friends and neighbors. On the other hand, are you pleased with something? Want to tell people what a great place you live In, how good It Is to have helpful neighbors? -• ' —> 1 leRieails'i-laJtjd iie Good, bad or Indifferent, The Mirror- Herald’s Reader Dialogue portion of the editorial page Is the place for you to voice your comments so that others might know how you feel. It’s a great way to discover others adio share your feelings. TTy It. Write In pen, pencil or crayon (as long as legible) or type It (double-spaced) and mall your comments to Mirror-Herald, Reader Dialogue, P. O. Drawer 762, Kings Mowtaln, N. C., 38086. AH letters must be signed before puldlcatlon can be considered. Poet’s Corner Sa .nas iteril ^nnonorl i9r x abii liaijons nr d sports iditor abiia enT aniiujjeM |UUi J1SV03 essi • I a r-'t To the editor. The citizens of Kings Moimtaln su« very lucky to have Ocuy Stewart working on the I: cal newspaper as sports editor. He Is one of the finest sports writers. If not the best. In the su«a. Gary did some outstsuidlng writing and photography tai covering the Just past footbsdl sesMon and we all look forwsurd to his coverage of the coming sports activities on the Kings Mountain scene. Keep up the good work Gary. BC» HAYES Kings Mountain Undercurrent campaign To the editor. Once upon a time a msin ran for mayor of a small town because the people asked him to. When It came time for the election this same man was the only candidate running for the Job. When the votes were counted he natursOly won. Right? Wrong? Does this make sense? This non-partisan observer doesn’t think so. Yet this Is Just whsd happened In the recent Grover election. I can't believe this Is the way the American voting system Is supposed to operate. It la my opinion that Mr. Dean Westmoreland was wronged by the majority of the voters In the Grover voting district. I think the Grover voters should feel ashamed to have such a thing happen. The whole situation strikes me as odd and Improbable. Surely a person having enough siq)port to wtai with a write-in vote would be aware of the fact and would have placed his name on the ballot. On the other hand. If he was so opposed to becoming mayor that he failed to file for candidacy In spite of evident support, he should not have accepted the position after he had won. TODD GATTS Kings Mountain There was talk of quitting Union THE OLD HOUSE KNEW (0)1877 The face of the house was plank The bare windows gUured In pane The frame shook with the shutters Worn shingles dripped with rain. Hasty steps had been taken To bring the rafters tumbling down Progress wasplaying havoc With a bull-dozer over town. The underpinning was holding fast The very best that It could The old house so reluctant to go Which once In elegance stood. Tall chimney was reeling to topple Without a curling smoke The hearth was laid out In bricks And bore the markings of a stroke. The old house had seen days of ^ory And sheltered sweet memories still Underneath the towering osika The Veranda In banlstered frill. The face of the house was plank The bare windows glsu'ed In pane progress was moving In. Tb fall her In the reign. VIVIAN S. BILTCUFFE In mid-November of 1860, North (JaroUna hnd the other Southern states were boiling with talk of quitting the Union. Abraham Lincoln’s election as President Mid brought the long North-South dispute :i^r slavery to a climax. His victory, said Southern newspaper, "Is an outrage to l^fwthem sentiment and feeling.” Said |teK>ther, "It has brought to power a foreign i^iuild hostile government. The Republican ^arty Is foreign to Southern soil and hostile our way at life.” c,' Stnuigely, It was the press and clergy who iqd the assault, not the politicians. This was pfotlcularly true In North CMroUna, where many public figures opposed secession and pro-seccesslon sentiment was far less universal than elsewhsre In the South. The state’s first pro-secession meeting was held In Shelby, on Nov. 13. An excited crowd overflowed the Cleveland County courthouse, damned the Union, ate, drank, burned bonfires In the streets and fired an old cannon (said to be a relic of the Revolution) until It burst. A week later a- gteillar meeting was held In Wilmington, and' oidiei'* took place SMroes the state. On Nov. 19 liw General Assembly convened In Raleigh, with the burning question of What-To-Do uppermost In everyons’s mind. GD ^MITH made of any specific act or attraction, but It was more medicine show than circus. It Is recorded that Barnum himself preached a sermon and passed a collection plats, and It was probably from experiences such as these that he coined his fiunous expression that "There’s a sucker bom every minute.” A state-wide referendum on saceaslon would later fall, however, and North Carolina remained In the Union while all about her other states were seceodlng. The state would not quit the Union until open hostilities began at Fort Sumter In April of IMI. The actual data of secession would be May 30, chosen because It was the date of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. -oOo- P. T. Bamum, "The Great Showman,” began his career In North Oarallna. At a country crossroads a half-mile from Rocky Mount, on Nov. 13, 1886, the first recorded performsuiee of Barnum'a travelUng show took place. No mention la P.T Bitevi Jonathan Worth. Governor of the state during the turbulent post-ClvU War period, was bora on Nov. 18,1803. After studying law under the famous Hillsborough Judge Ar chibald D. Murphey. Worth married the Judge's nleee, established his practice In AMieborough and represented Randolph County In the legislature. Worth served as state treasurer during the Chril War, displaying "financial capacity of the first order" during that demanding period. When GoverrMr Vance was arrested by Federal authorities at the war's end and replaced by the controversial, anti-war Raleigh newspaper editor W. W. Holden as Provisional Governor, Worth was kept on to help restore order to the warravaged state. In 1866, with dvlllsui authority restored. Worth was elected Governor to replace Holdan. Oim historian notes that "He per formed ably the difficult task of reconciling hoatlle state factions, reassuring a suspicious Johnson Administration, and satisfying hostile northern opinion.’' Before the end of Ms term President Andrew Johnson’s conciliatory post-war policies ware overturned by Congress, and Governor Worth was removed from office by the Reconstruction Acts which declared all Southern state governments Illegal. MIHlOMlIfilLD TOgtp. AV ANOTMURSOAV •AKLANDATKIMf AwAimiqr TOM MclMTVKtf ■ANtr ■LIlAOITNtTlWrAIIT WMian'iiAittr •AOYfTIWART OAKRILLAUtTIN CLVOINILL Aivtftm«f Otr»ct«r MiMOIlOP MORTN CAROLINA RRRSt AltOCIATlOH 0. 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