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Page 2—MIRROR-HERALD—Tuesday, January 24, 1978 The week British iost the war This week in 17S1 was a busy one durmg the American Revolution. Some historians also believe it was the week during which the British lost the war. On Jan. 25. 1781, the British Army under Lord Charles Cornwallis halted at Ramsour’s Mill (near Uncolnton) in their pursuit of Genval Nathaniel Greene's American troops. DiscDUraged by the slowness of his march, Lord Cornwallis decided upon the drastic step of burning most of his wagons and supplies. The Redcosti remained at Ramsour’s for two days, ^^e huge bonfires consumed enough food and clothing to ha ve kept the entire area in comfort for months. It was this decision, rather than a more spectacular loss upon the battlefield, which some experts feel may have cost Cornwallis the war. The loss of these supplies later caused His Lordship to abandon his attempt to conquer the Carohnas and fall back to the seacoast for support by the British Navy, falling back ultimately into a trap at Yorfctown. On Jan. 26,1781, while the above was taking place, the state's General Assembly convened at Halifax. Due to the haxards and exigencies of war it had taken 28 days to assemble a quorum. Two days later, on Jan. 28. BrttiA ships dropped anchor at Wilmington and troops under the command of Major James Craig seizedthe town of 200houses and 1,000papulatioa After years of relative peace. North Carolina was winding itself a major theater of war, invaded simultaneoualy in east aixl west €D SMITH -oOo- OiJan. 25,1857, Miles Darden died in Tennessee. Bom and raised in North Carolhia, Darden was then believed to be the “World’s Largest Man.*’ At the time of his death, Darden was seven feet nine inches taO and weigbed slight over 1,000 pounds. His coffin was eigM feet lan& 35 inches deep and 32 inches wide Over M Yards of black velvet were required to line it. Darden’s claim to fame has slace been eclipsed (oddly by two men bom during this oeikuty in Illinois). Robert F. Wadlaw was over a foot tall«', but weigbed less than half as much at 450 poimds. Robert E. Hughes at 1,065 pounds, out weighed Darda by 60 pounds big was over a foot shorter. So while it’s no longer in the record book, as a composite “biggest man’’ Darden may yet reign supreme! -oOo- Joseph Hewes, one of this state’s three signers of the DeclarationofIndependence,wasbomonJan.2S, 1730, in New Jersey. Hewes moved to Edenlon around 1780, ultimately becoming a wealthy merchant and shipper. As a delegate to the Continental Ctongresa, Hewes served as chairman cf the important Committee of the Marine (in easence serving as this nation’s Brat Secretory of the Navy) and died, probably of overwork, in iTTOinPtfladclphia. -oOo- Dix Hill Hospitol forthe Insanein Raleigh waa autborixed by the General Assembly in January, 1848, in an emotion packed session. It was named for Dorothea Dix, the mid-19th century crtisader which efforts reaultod in the eetablishment of im proved mental institutions in several states. Until then the mentally ill bad been generally ignored or shamefully mistreated It reqidred an mnotional appeal by o^ of the greatest orators in the state’s history, James C. Dobbin, to secure funds for such reforms, bosrever, from a penny- pinching General Assembly. Dobbin, acting on a promiae he had made his dying wife, succeeded in swaytaig enough votes to win in what is still regarded as one cf the legislature’s most dramatic moments. M Wanted: one used piano Ibr Kiwanians Anyone have an old piano they would like to get rid of? Jerry Ledford, a member of the Kings M ountain ^ Kiwanis Guh. called the other day to say the club g could use one if die owner is willing to donate the ^ instrument. g “The one we have now in die basement of the ^ Kings Mountain Woman's Chib is about shot,’’ Jerry said. “We could lae another. If some philanthropic person is srilling to donate a piano to the club. I'm sure the item woidd be tax deductible at the fair market price*’ WriL Jerry, there’s nothing Ifee coming right out and asking for what you need. If anyone has a piano and is willing to donate it to the Kiwanians, contact Jerry Ledford st 738- €DITORII^L OPIMlOh Applaud Junior Achievers This is Naticaal Junior Achievement Week. Sometime during this week everyone should let the Kings Mountain Junior Achievement program members know they appreciate the young people’s efforts and determination to learn more about the free enterprise system. There are three JA companies involving more than GO high school sophomores, juniors and seniors. These students have formed th^ own companies, sold stock, keep books, manufacture products and sell them. And at the end of their businesB year they win bold a stockholders meeting, >ist like any firm actually practicing free enterprise business. Last night the Kings MounUin JA chapter held an Open House for the piMu- at the community cents- to give viewers a first band look at what they have been doing within the program guidelines. Many citizens toured the display arem for that first hand look. Now it’s time for the test of us to add our ccngratula tions and plaudits to the JAs. City should fight back aty Attorney George Thomassoc and the city officials haven’t decided as yet whether or not to seek satisfaction in Superior Court over a $1,200 dvil penalty asaesaed by the N. C. Department of Natural and Economic Resources. Environmental Management Division. The penalty came from a $S00 fine pha $50 per day for 14 days «.«.—s-sH by the Mate’s environmental divisicn over Kings Mountain’s failure to construct and operate a wastewats treatment facility at Moss Lake. The city had obtained a permit from the state’s ES’A agency for the facility, using state guidelines on the type of equipment to be used in the trestment facility. The deadline for construction and operation was June 1, 1977. Tlie facility was never built although hick were received on the project. The problem lay in the fact the bids were far in excess of what the city was capable of paying, so an alternate method was aought The problem multiplied when the ec viroomental divisian director charged Umt the dty was dumping raw untreated wastewater in Buffalo Creek. The mayor wrote the department in Raleigh requesting an administrative bearing on the matter, but W. E. Kni^t. director of the diviMoo, denied an administrative hearing and changed the city’s plea to one of remission or mitigation. When the mayor, city attorney and three engineers went to Raleigh for the besiring on the matter they were given little courtesy from the divisioQ commissioo panel. It was Attorney ThomsKon's firM experience in such s bearing and, needless to say, he was flabbergated by the proceedings. The city was given no opportunity to present its Mde of the issue. The motion to assess file city was taken with only one panel member suggesting the $700 total of per day fines be waived and another member expresaii^ regret tint the fine was not stiffer. SiDce that time the city oincials have discusMd taking the matter into open court hi Older for the city to be present it’s side Perhaps the matter should be taken into court It doeu’t strike is as justice prevailing when a commission of appointed people can ride roughshod over a body cf ciwted officiala, in esaence pre-judglng the inaaa without even ao much at hearing the other viewpoint expreaaed The city haa been accused and found guilty of environmental abuses before the fact without the dty having so much as a chance to even open its mouth in its own deferee. But, it may be too late. In owopinioo Attorney ThomaasonlwniUed himself with dlfdty in the proceedings at the heering in Raleigh Perhaps be should have let digiity fall away and laced that appointed coaunJeaion with a few legahatic bnrht coocentiag Irutht. juatice and the American way. It may not have helped matters any, hot it just might have let that groupknowKingi Mountain isn't going to take thialyii^ down. sns. -oOo- A farmer Ktogs Mountain resident, who served as pastor of Bynum Chapel Metbotlst Church (or 'l3-yeart, recently pswed away. A farmer Kings Mountain resident, who served as pastor of Bynum Chapel MeUxxist Church for iS-years. recently psased awsy. The Rev. W. J. Campbell was tiving in Salisbury when he died. KMer Verilee Mask called in the skimpy info with the explanatton that Mie had only heard a little about the situation. Services were reportetly held last Thursday at Soitier Memorial Church in Saliibury. -oOo- Qa Morrow (Mrs. Frank) McIntyre sent us a efipping from the Stanly News and Preaa, Stanly County, concerning her son-in-law, Wayne Love. Love, president and general manager of Love Lumber Co. M Stanfield, is seeking one of the Stanly County Board of Otmmisaioncr seats at a candidate in the May 2 Democratic Primary. Love it married to Katherine Morrow, daughter of Da and the late George Morrow cf Gastonia. “A lot of Kin^ MouiXain stiQ remember my kter akfaougl die has aat liwedkere fog sqmp ■’ Da said. hsrefte-» ywprvflittot I i0fed here KHierine was in college and when she was out of school this was home.” Mrs. McIntyre owns wid operates Da’s Beauty ShopooE. King St. and added. “One of these days TOM MclhTYRC I told him I waa only Uddiiig about that It’> li naming joke amongit ua nswapaper-typea aboui| lett^ greatj^ea like that get away. So Roy called again and said Wayne Nicholas of | The Charlotte Observer bad called and wanted ij picture and tnoie info on the beage and tbei naiaway car. “la it alright if I let him take my | picture and give hfan the atotiet?” Roy asked Seems as if the rtmning newspaper gag has no« I S|X«ad over to the reacus squad. I It’s okay, Wi^ns. Come on over. Just make sure | you have your papers in order when you're I stopped by the border patrol. Otherwise you miy I be subjected to some terrific questioning by thtj aacret agents. i By the way. Way ns. Do you ha ve many relativa still living in the old country? -oOo- |. Georgs Ware, a Kinff Mountian native reaidini In Charlotte, recentiy retired after 23 yean vritb | the North Carolina Department of TVanaportotioo When George was a KM HMi student he delved tato journtliem ae sports reportsr (or the schooij paper. The late Martin Harmon, who waa aeveril years behind George, once told him that hit writing “Inapirad him’’ to puraue journalism column — about me gattii« him for MM All»vv3 <>«<hutted in 1928 and in bJa claas wu btenan iiXaraM Mory aboto rescutog betSe has gone on to bscomi - f, . , . . ^ toDMCfainfl ot • iuun6 in tnotticr tnclion of the- from the Kaon Moss Lake to the Shelby star faiw i. uTT u.h.L 7. ^.w .a. a aw a VS w. .j tint. TDAt ieilow If MyToo lUiyDfs wno u IdK^glvethaSt^thatstory,’ Roy sari ’So bsgtaniiig his 21M year aa ^yorM Graham, th pfeasa don’t gat me.’ comity aaat of Alamaitoa Cbunty. Rhyne’s father, Clyde Q. Rhyne, (tied in 19U and 1 might write a book about liiis husiiwsa. You bear some strange things in a beauty Miop. ‘Courae, if I aver do wrke a book Td batter be ready to move out of tOWIL’’ -oOo- Roy Hammett of the Ktogs Moiaitoin Rescue Squad called ig> about what I said to last week’s Rei^DGR DII\LOGUG Questions hospital policy To the editor. On Wed, Jan. 12 my 12-year-old daughtm vraa kdixed in an sceideix and carried to the amergCDcy room at Kings Mountain Hoapital. I waa vrorkM another hospitol to Shelby and bad to notify my buMtend aid he went to the emergency room to aoe aboto our rtteighfer only to be told by a Dr. Keene that be coiid not be present erfaen the doctor taw h«. When my haM>«ri in- liBtad be was told by the tame doctor that if be did aolMtol he would refuaa to trcM our daughter. Not knowing the extent of our daughter’s to- Jmiea my fausband honored this ao-caHed poUcy (against his batter judgment). My daughter eras returaed home after x-rays and with our lunily doctor’s advice to see s specialist the next day. On Thunday morning I called Mr. Grady Howard, administrator of the hoapitoL and inquired if the palicy waa common prartlca and ha sated ha knew nothiiig cf this tocidesd. but would chsck it out and get back to me. I told Mm it wasn’t naeassary, but to pleaaa see that patenla of the next minor chfld be allowed to attend feMr child. I thought tiic matter would come to an and there. I wmt by the howtital that afternoon at 1:28 to ptekupasatMX rayi fiiat had bean ralaaaad to me by our fanily doctor. They woran’l lhare. After several mtoutce whan no om aoainsd to know anything it was dacidsd that the x-raye bad bean sent to Caitanii to be read I naadad the X- lagrs by 2;3S p. m. and Mdb’t have time to go to (feMsuia to coUact tbam. ae Mr. Howaid eaid ha would have someone in (jaMooto cal Sw doctor in tSbetoy. The Sbatoy doctor aari ha wanlad to aaa the xrays a( Ms pattena and would we plaaao sMea to hnviag snsthar sat nude. As a leault nay dna^iar’a lag although not brekan, is to a caat ■ri aha to to coasrianbla pain. I tehad to Mr. Howard anca mere ksriiwa ht had calad my btme and he wna very eoneenad and aiea unti he found out the ipartoHM had raquMSad maie anya. Thm he cniad the doctor ’huD handed’’ aad Hatod the smagtenents nude by Ktogs Mattaiei Hospital shorid have sattofiad “Jaana Chrtot.” Nma of thi toridanta tictedad madt hy dnMtor’a tojwy wetea nor did toagr do Storthiag to nuke it aeator, bet I ato yea: Are ihaes ptofeHteani peapto? Are ihsM peepto to whMS we iMritet eer tick cHMen and have lhaas rafem neatiaaM H we wMi to be wPh aw chiMaa? Do pnfeaaiaanl peapto nuke rwaarha to doctor’s poliaatt abaet iht doctor and da *sy am sach a pear chslca of warto to mpraaa dunuahras? Ate tout will sderatad. always estepsaad I have werksd in hospitals of vsrying Mia for ahnoat 28 years and I have had canaa to om emergancy room far my childien and never to my wocktog cepadty or « a private dtiaan have I had such an mplenaant experience. I assure yon that while I will continue to call tide lovely city hoene, I will never agaia if ite to my coetinL nu the Kinp Monntato Hoapital dot will I adviae anyone atoa to do ao. Pteteite are hardest hit when their child la in volved. I do what doctora adviaa, but I alie thiak they thould reapact our wiabat to see om children. One perm allowed vritb a pattent to ahnsat ahvaya the poky, but no one aver with a child to ridkuloua. Wa raeaivad very good and plietesil care to the amerganey room of ClavaUnd Memorial Hotpital on Tfaara^ for the tame tojory and we wfll ccntiiiua to nee the Shelby hospital even though it msHis traveUag 12 mitot. We hope ethm can- owned paopla wiD voiea their tftas and dtolikaa. Tm awe there wfll ba many who do out agrat wMi me, bat mtil I am canvincad there to vary poad naaon far me to dungs my mind, dim I ceneidar any chfld aad their paranta who are anbjaciad to KhM MouMato Hoigital is to need ef vary good nerves tad mare goed-will dun 1 can ftod to my heart to extend to ttu local hoapital. LINDA N. ELLBON Congratulations To ttu aditar, CangrataUUona on the axealleat celuma, tauck eat thto pengnm.” by Tom McIntyre to dte Jaa. IP. lira Mirrar-Harald ft to todMd. gratifying Out yew papar baa aaen fli to toferu the pehite the program of tht Rotary rateMUen daalgnad to prmou totaraattonal goad wfll aad mdiialaagnf ttooegh tito awardl^ af taOesnhlpa. irkilarMilpi, tralaM awards, aad gmw ttady wrhaaga Thagoad af toepreirau to bound to ha aakaead by rwtor pabUe awnienaw. ateh M yow ootoM wfll eraato. WILLIAM a HAGGARD DtoWict Gaveraw —ftatory Ototriet 7g7 P . O Baa MS ftehavflto. N. C 2IM until than ha waa aupertotendent of the Maunc) ICUa bare. Myron Rhyne’s mother, Qm Rhyne, taught aehool and aarved as prindpal of Weti School latil bar rettrament Sia taught botl George and Myron to the fifth grade. Mrs. Rhyne dtod to 1871 Before Myron wmt on to a political career, he ena a graduate of N. C. State with a deg'ee Id (■tile angtoeering. He worked for Naialer MiUs ic* KM oidil aboid iP3t whan ha want to Graham to wore for Cannon Mfllt. Oddly anougi, the current movor of Graham waa bon of the currant nuyor of Ktop Moiatato back to the SO’a at Pauline i icn. Joha H Mom was a mare lad thaa While at N. C. State Rhyne also completed u ROTC eouna and when World War Two broke out ha took a eommiaaton at heutanant to the U. S Army. Ha served to Ewopa and after the war wsi dheWgad as a Hautenant oolonel. After bU yun to the rasarvet Rhyne rattrad wUh lha rank of full eolooeL Rhyne did have the good aanoe to marry a KM ^ before embarUng on Ida caraar. Sara Ham- bright Rhyne, daugitor of the lata GUI D. Ham bright, haa made anamafor btnaif, too. She hu anoutetandtog record of dvtc work and a wall full of ptoqnaa to prove It MinainiEMLD ^•ktSMSDlACN TVISOAV AII0TNVatDAY •A«UUI0ATKIM| TOM MMMTVftI ■LIIAOOTN ITOWAOT •AOVtTOMAOt OAtOOtkAUSTIM CkYOONIkk MOMOOOOP NOOTNCAOOkIMA POOU AUOCIATIOM TA* mierm ••W#' p. O Or»wM fm. 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