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Page 2—MIRROR-HERALD—^Tueeday, December 13,1977 Hand Postmaster a mop, please GDITORIM OPIMIOM Why suddenly do we need county police? Why suddenly is there talk of creating a county police department, which would be operated in addition to the present sheriff’s depsirtment? According to Ronald Lynch, assistant director of the Institute of Government, the decision to create a county police department is political in nature. So, politics must be at the bottom of the suggested move for Cleveland County. But vtdiose politics? Creating a county police department and operating it in addition to the sheriff’s department would be an expensive proposition with the taxpayers bearing the expense. Because of politics and business the tai^yers are already paying through the nose for almost everything. For its size the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Department does an incredible job handling both criminal and civil law enforcement matters. And though there may be many valid reasons for thinking two county law enforcement agencies are needed, we can’t come up with any that would warrant this major step in Cleveland County. Under a county police department the chief would be anDointed by the county com missioners, whereas the sheriff here is elected by the people. We have to disagree with Commissioner C. M. Peeler’s comment that a sheriff’s ctepartment is “antiquated” in today’s society. If the Cleveland County Sheriff’s D^artment was beaded by an in competent with manpower turning in below par performances, then there would be more than sufficient reason to think about creating another agency. Either that or cleaning house within the sheriff’s department. But that is not the case here. If the peo|de feel the need fpr increased police activity in the county, then it would be logical, and far less expensive, to increase the sheriffs budget so te can add more manpower and purchase more equipment. FWn Hambilght, Grover’s postmaster, was called upon last week to officiate at the swearing-in ceremony tor the new Grover Town Council. After conducting the ceremonies Ham- bright said, "If that’s all I've gotta get back to the post office and grab a mop." It seems a new roof is being applied to the post office, but workmen only got to the point where the tar was to be ai^Ued when the bottom fell out of the sky last Monday. "There was water all over the place,” Hambrlght said. "I keep expecting the celling to fall in.” -oOo- Harold Herndon, the newest commissioner on the Grover Town Council, came up with a newspaper clipping from an issue in 1938. "My mother passed away recently," he said, "and I found this when when we were Inventoiylng her home. She always did clip out interesting news Items smd save them." The yellowed clipping la pasted to what looks like a piece of ledger sheet. The story has a bold caps heading: GROVER GETS GOING The article read: "If the Town of Grover, in southern Ctoveland, does not get to be a real city one of these days it will not be because the town has not had Its share of publicity. Here of late Grover seems able to get in the unusual headlines with any large city. One or two killings in a row, one of which remains' something of a mystery, then an eye-ball carving, and now a baby abandoned on a front porch. At the present rate Grover may consider it an off-day when the town is not able to break the front page with its latest news story." Herndon said he doesn’t remember what killings, the article refers to, nor whose 10M MclMTVRe eyeball was carved on, but he does know about the abandoned baby. "It was a boy and he was left on Mr. Ed Hambrlght’s doorstep,” Herndon said. "Mr. Ekl was Fain Hambrlght’s father.” Herndon said the boy was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Byers and raised as their own. That abandoned baby boy is now D. E. Byers, who resides in Ellenboro. But judging by the size of Grover today it is obvious that a couple of mysterious killings, an eyeball carving or two and abandoned babies do not a metropolis make. -oOo- Tommy Barnette, wKb operafes a gas-up, grooery-up spot on Hwy. 74 west, has been known to do a lot of things to liven up a party when the going is dull. He almost went too far last Thursday. Tommy said he was talking with a cou|de of friends when be saw Red Ware drive up to bis gas pumps in a hearse. About the same time Tommy said he saw this young man get out of his car and walk toward the store entrance. “S’si time to have some fun," Tommy told his two Mends. Tommy stretched out on the floor and rolled his eyes back in his head. The young man entered tbe| store and stopped cold when he saw the figure on the floor. "Helooked at me, then he looked at the hearse,” Tommy said. “He thought sure he had walked In on a tragedy. One of my friends said, ‘well, Tommy’sgone.’ At that point I Jumped up and let out a roar.” Instead of laughing off the Joke, Tonuny said, the young man screamed and ran all over the ,candy diqiUy rack in the aisle headed for the backdoor. Only there is no backdoor and the fellow had to come back to the bont. “I wouldn’t have done it if Fd known the fdler was so nervous. He wanted to buy some milk and dropped chmge all over the place,” Tommy said. "Tdl you what. Take me, a hearse and that young feller and we could open up Cansler Street way ahead of schedule,” Tommy said. I told him be was a nut and hung up the phone. A few minutes later Tommy called back and asked, "Do you know anything that will get black marks off tUe? This ligMcr fluid doesn’t work.” "What black marks?” I asked. “The ones that young fdler nude when he scratched off getting outta here.” “They’re coming to get you, Barnette,” I said and hung iq> again. tf Poet’s Corner R€1\D€R DIMOGUe Can we do unto ourselves? THANKS So long, Ron... Hello, John W. Major Ron Tompkins left Eaton Corporation’s Kings Mountain plant a couple of months ago to head operations at another company plant in France. Twipkina, who proved to be a man who involved himself in community affairs, helped create the local plant from the ground up. He fought the good fight and saw the last door hung and window placed and the fint employes graduate training and begin manufac turing product. / But, Ron is no longer with us here, so a new plant manager was needed. Eaton reached an the way to Caracas, Venezuela to find the new manager. His name is John W. Major and he’s already on the job. Major has alr^y setUed his family in a home on Moss Lake and seems to be picking up where Tompkins left off. That’s good. Eaton has proven to be a beneficial element wittiin the community and anytime the big brass send someone else along to enhance the good neighbor policy all the better. So we say (belatedly), 1 so long, Ron, thank you. And hello, John W. Majors. Welcome to the community. To the editor, Oan “We The People” do unto ourselves as wb would have others do unto us? An exaunple Is the best measure of our Integrity quotient. i By merging our southern and northern Jurisdictions, our Scottish Rita can promote harmemy between our states. By making the bottom line of their pay schedules that amount which will enable their lowest paid employes to pay net Income taxes, our Bankers can lead the managers (those of us with a say In how much any one of us will be paid) of our free (responsible) enterprise economy to enable us to operate our Republic with a budget surplus. By limiting the terms (years)any oneof us may serve as a manager In any one position In our Governments, Businesses, Unions, Schools and EXc., we can improve the quality of our systems. By staffing our military treatment facilities, our Doctors can demonstrate some understanding of the inherent respon sibilities at dtlzenahlp tai our Republic. By living within our laws, we strengthen our Constitution (social contract). Ignorant, mentally maladjusted and minatory automatons run Dictatorships. Knowledge being the route to liberty (op portunity), an Education Department will help each of us do our share to provide for the "common defense and general welfare” of A"We the People.” HUGH D. DUDLEY Fayetteville, N. C. If. Not just a holiday To the editor, Christmas Is more than Just another hoUday. It’s a time to close the pages of prejudicial feell^ in ow hearts for tbs humsn race. Ibis season of the year holds little meaning unless we acknowledge the real purpose for which the Christ Child cama Certainly this season may Include guest Usts, colored Ughts, frosted windows and parties, but we cannot properly cetobrate Christmas unless first we come to truly acknowledge Him not only as Tbs Babe in a manger, but as the living Cod. I believe the Holy Writ states — “That he came to give light and Ufa, and that we may have it more abundantly.” May we ask this season that aU mankind be saved. Wishing aU of you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. EVERETTS PEARSCEl I thsmk you each and all! Inatead of writing thank-you iwtes I’ve decided Jiut to say With aU my heartlappre date j All lovely,,useful, beautlfql and halDful.thliiga,,,^, Ij,. Thatnlnstyyearsbroughtmyway. On such a hsq>py occasion, -r'- The beat I have ever known, I can always be thankful And grateful to friends And leave aU to God, my dearest Friend, Who la watching me from Hla throne - And I hope He wlU keep me From feeling sad and alone. Enruna C. Austelle HERE WE ARE (c)19T7 Wrapped In the festivity of the hoUdays Draped In the flowing cheer Cbarmsd with the joy sf the saeson Theblssaad eventoftbe year. Kissed by the hrealli of aipsctaney Cau^ 19 ka a sbsor dallgbt Hold in grouping suspense Dreaming of a Christmu white. eo ^MITH Governor Seth Sothel was Responding to others wttb love Each In his spaelal way Love is the only reason We haves Christmas day. Joh mayo r BA VIVIAN STEWART BILTCLIFFE banished from state Ibrever It U generally said that WlUlam W. Holden was the only governor of thla state to be Impeached and removed from office (during the turbulent Reconstruction Period). I, too, have made that statement In thla column. While this statement la true of the modem Mate of North Cforoltna, It la not literally correct. CUrtls Hooks Brogden, the third governor of the state during Reconstruction, was bom In Wayne County on Dec. 9,1816. In early December of 1689, Proprietary Governor Beth Sothel was tried by the Albemarle Asaemldy, convicted on . . . 'Thlrtaan Counts of Misconduct In Office” and removed from the Oovamor’s chair. Sothel was . . . "banished from the Country tor twelve months, and from the Governor forever.” A farmar and pra-ClvU War Jacksonian Democrat, Brogden served hi the state leglalature for 38 years, and aa state comp troller during the war. Hla career clearly demonstrates the Inaccuracy In the often- expressed belief that most of the atato’i early Republican leaders ware car petbaggers, newly-freed blacks or uneducated local cltlsena. (HU switch In pifrtles enraged many former supporters, however,) Ttiat was a tuibulsnt period also, with a constant clash of mlf-lnterest between the ociony’s strong-willed, land-hungry early settlera and the otUn-lncompetent, always aarvlle afknlnUtratora, appointed by the colony’s distant owners - the Lords Proprietors. This experience led to the tsar of placing too much power In the governor’s hands which became traditional In the slate’s politics. -oOo- ftq>portod by the state’s naw Republican party, Brogden was elacted lieutenant governor In 1673, with Tod Caldwell as Governor. When Caldwell dUd In 1674, Brogdsn auoceedsd to the top office, the second Ueutanant governor In a row to do so. Chddwell himself had taken over ftn* Holden). Because cf hU long axperienca In state government Brogden was better able to function In office than hla prodaceesors had been, mors open to auggestlon and advice, and better-able to work with the oppoaltlon- controlled leglalature. Brogden was defeated tor raeUctlon by the return of Zebulon B. Vance, probably the state’s moat popular governor In history. It U Indicative of the politics of that time, however, "that during the eighteen-year period between 1863 and 1880, not a single governor of the state served a full four-year term. -oOo- Former Governor Abnsr Nash died In New York City on Dec. 6, 1786, while serving In the Continental Congress He had been governor during another of the state’s most difficult parloda (1780-61) whUe the area was faced with Brltlfti Invasion. Bom In Virginia, the son of a prominent family, Nash moved to North Carolina In 1768 and became an eariy participant hi the fight against British rule. Elected Governor In 1780, he faced Lord ComwallU’ Invasion on ons hand, and a state badly divided between Whigs and Tories on the other. Even on the aids of bidapendanos there was little agreement Bast opposed West, liberals opposed conservatives, and almost no one was willing to vote tor the taxes necessary to nipport ths war effort. 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