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V Page 3-MmROR-HBRALC—Tueaday, Aprtl 26, 1978 Tar Heels helped the Yankees... It l8 almost forgotten today that North Carolina aui^Ued more than 8,000 volunteers to the Northern side during the Civil War. One of the most outstanding of those Southern Yankees was Major General John Chbbon, whose birthday was April 20, 1827. OibbiHi was bom In Pennsylvania, but moved to North Carolina with his family at the age of 12, settling In Mecklenburg County. He left the state In 1842 to at tend West Point. A career officer. Gibbon sided with the North, but all three of his brothers served with the Confederacy. Gibbon fought well, and was twice wounded, at Fredilcksburg and Gettysburg. He was a respected leader. After one Southern victory early in the war, a confederate general reported that the Northern army had “all mn like sheep, except for a general Reno and a General Gibbon." A total of 8,156 Tar Heels served In the Union forces during the war, not counting several regiments of black troops. Only Arkansas, Louisiana and Tennessee among the Southern states supplied more troops to the North than did North Carolina. ITiey were far out- €D 9MITH weighed by the 125,000 men from this state who served In the Confederate ranks, however. •oOo* One of North Carolina’s moat outstanding Con federate generals was Robert F. Hoke, of Uncolnton. On April 17, 1864, Hoke began a three-day battle to recapture the town of Plymouth, N. C. from Northern hands. It was one of the few Confederate successes In North Carolina that year. As a part of the attack, the steam-powered ram “Albemarle” ran the Union blockade, sank two gunboats and bombarded Northern fortifications. -oOo- For seven days, April 10-36, 1865, Charlotte became the Capitol of the dying Confederacy. It was here that the iMt effective meetings of the government were held, though historians generally regard Its official end as having occurred In Washington, Georgia, on May 4. Hie last full meeting of the Oraifederate Cabinet was held In thd Phifer home on North Tryon Street In Charlotte, In the bedroom of Treasury Secretary lYenholm, he being too ill to move. Other sessions were held In the Bank of North Carolina building, stormy ses^ons at which the surrender of General Joseph Johnston's Southern troops was discussed. At first President Davis was opposed to surrender, but on April 26 General Grant’s terms were agreed upon and Davis and his party left town to continue their flight South. For all practical purposes, the Confederacy had ceased to exist. GDlTDRIf^L OPimOh Praise for the unsung heroines... This Is Nationsd Secretaries Week suid here In Kings Mountain bosses vylU treat their gal Fridays to a luncheon at Kings Mountain Motor Inn. Mayor John H. Moss will be there to say a few words of praise for the real unsung heroines of the business world. There probably won't be any raises In pay, ladles, but for a little while your bosses will express their appreciation for the Jobs you do to keep the office Ainctlonlng. And as everybody knows It Is the secretary who Is really the boss. She’s busy scheduling appointments, handling irate customers on the phone, sending out the Invoices and In general making sure the day to day business wheel continually rolls. Get out and vote next Tuesday Just a reminder that next Tuesday you have the opportunity to exercise your right to vote when the Democratic Primary election is held. The polls will be open from 6:30 a. m. until 7:30 p. m. and local voters will be handed three separate ballots to consider. One ballot Is In the non-partisan Cleveland County School Board election. Two seats are open and three candidates are offered. In the U. S. Senate race, one seat available, there are eight candidates. Four candidates offer themselves for the two Associate Justice of Supreme Court seats available; and two candidates for the one Judge of Court of Appeals seat. On the third ballot four candidates run for three seats in the N. C. Senate, 2&th Senatorial District and four candidates seeking three seats In the N. C. House of Representatives, 40th District. Two candidates seek the Job of Cleveland County Sheriff. There are two seats available on the Cleveland County Board of Com missioners and five candidates offering their services. If you are eligible to vote next Tuesday, then we urge you to exercise that right. Holocaust gets press The recent NBC-TV mlnl-serlea, “Holocaust,” has generated almost as much press as did “Roots.” Gerald Green's epic-size script dealt with die struggles of the Jews under The Third Reich. Over four evenings viewers saw the systematic extermination of thousands of Jewish men, women and children. They were machine gunned, beaten and gassed to death. It was a story that needed telling, but one that should be told fully. The viewer saw the numerous unidentified men, women and children murdered, but It was only when the story dealt with the cruelties to those characters we were allowed to become familiar with did we respond properly. As far as story-telling goes the horrors that befell the Kansas Family In Truman Capote’s bo<ric, “In Cold Blood,” were far more effective to the viewer. But you have to remember that the ex termination of more than six million members of an entire race actually hap pened from the late 1680’s imtll the mld- 1940’s under the Nazi regime. I had often wondered how this happened. Iflgh school history .does not (or did not) go Into Sadh^^-detall as to explain the makeup of the jWs. wdiy so 'many allowed them selves to be herded like so many cattle to their deaths. “Holocaust” did give the viewer more Insight Into that aspect. But at the same time the show never fully gave us the true reasoning behind such Nazi policy. There were hints that In order to bring Germany back to Its feet a single focsd point was needed. Hatred, fear and extermination of an entire race of people became that focal point. Aside from the historical aspects of the show, I wsM also struck by severed other Impressions. The strongest Impresslan was that the Nazi Ptu'ty did a sales Job on the Jews and the Germans and that they used the same tactics that modern-day ad- verUilng uses — a promise of one thing while you actually get something else. Another Impression wsus the numbering of the Jewish people placed In extermination csunps was a harbinger of things to come. Another impression Is that the acting In a Ixoad historical program need not be up the par. There were suiy number of performers In “Holocuast” who relayed nothing to this viewer by their pregnant pauses and reflective looks. The main offender was kOchael Morlarlty who portrayed Erik Dorf, the SS officer. Even when he cried his ex pression never changed. So, maybe ttie show was worthwhile, as Klstler suggests, because It was meant to diow the world that something like the Holocaust should never be allowed to happen again. TOM MclUTYRC To understsmd what I mean. Just check your wallet and see how many numbers have been placed on you. There are Social Security nun^tsrs, di4vaf,f,JJi;gnae numii^^fcf^ insurance policy numbers, bank accoum numbers, book club numbers, etc. Don Klstler, who runs a world wide ministry from offices In Kings Mountain suid who says his heritage Is German Jew, ssiys that within the next three yesurs money will be obsolete. That people will have numbers Issued v^ch will show, their financial worth to do business. Another strong Impression Is that there really are double standards in television. If you portray something as historical you can get away with all sorts of usually taboo themes. In “Holocaust” there was rear and frontal nudity — men and women. There was also violence of an explicit nature. One German soldier was shot right between the eyes on camera. However, If you try to depict the same things In a show designed strictly for en tertainment the national PTA will come down on you with all four feet. /r. Poet’s Corner Lions Ciub To See Soiar Energy Fiim Lion Edwin Moore has arranged tor a slide tape program on “Solar Bkiergy” to feature Tuesday night’s Lions Club meeting at 7 p. m. at Kings Mountain Inn. New officers for the year 1978-79 will be elected. Nominees are; for presldentr Edwin Moore; for first vice-president, Hm Gladden; for second vice-president, Luther Bennett; for third vice-president; W. K. Mauney, Jr.; for bulletin editor, Howard Bryant; for secretary, BUI Bates; for treasurer; John Reavls; for tall twister, Richard Barnette; for Lion tamer. Jack Hauser; board of directors, C. P. Barry, Clarence L. Peele, Richard Bsumette, C. A. Allison, Hal Plonk and Odus Smith. Rev. George SherrlU Is Lions president. UFO reports are boring BOONE — “There’s never been a truly scientific study of UFOs In the past 84 years,” said UFO beUever George D. Fawcett of Llncolnton. Robert Sheaffer, a leading UFO skeptic and critic who was seated beside him on stage, nodded his head. Yet, countered Sheaffer to remarks by Fawcett about recsnUy-released FBI fUes on UFOs, “there’s nothing In the flies that we don't have In abundance already ... there's nothing of value, and they're awfully boring.” BeUever Fawcett had Just said of Sheaf- Isr's 80-mlnuto critique of UFO "evidence,” "Most of the ones you showed we threw out ourselves years ago, and moat of the stuff you talked about has Uttle to do with UFOs.” “But,” countered Sheaffer again, “dif ferent groups throw out different ones (UFOs). We go after the big ones, like the Nation^ Enquirer’s best case of the year." The debate among the two recognised UFO experts Saturday night was the windup of a Ufology Weekend at Appalachian State University. ApparenUy, students at Ap palachian lean more toward real-world encounters as Fawcett’s three-hour presentation on Friday night drew an audience of only 100 and only 40 UFO faith fuls — mostly non-student beUevera — at tended Saturday night’s program. StUl, It was a busy weekend at A8U, as the students were celebrating their own ’’AnU- Sultcase Weekend” with an outdoor movie (The Summer of '42) on Friday night and a dance on Saturday. Two one-act plays also were presented on Friday and Saturday nights and the Appalachian Chorale per formed "St. John’s Passion” on Saturday night. On Friday night, Fawcett, who la stats director of MUFON, the Mutual UFO net work, warned that “UFOs are Increasingly becoming a growing global problem.” During the past five years, he said. North Carolina has rank<.d fourth In the country In the number of UFO encounters, and 10 UFO occupant encounters have been recorded In the past five years. “The bonatlde UFO phenomenon consists of 30 to 80 per cent of all known reported Mghtlngs with 65 per cent of reports oc curring at night and 85’ per cant broad daylight observations.” Fawcett cautioned the crowd on ap proaching UFOs too closely, since his flies contain more than 180 cases where persons have been blinded, burned, parallzed. In jured or killed In close UFO encounters. UFOs give off tremendous thermal heat, low-pulsed microwave radiation, and ultrasonic and ultravlolot radiation, ho said. Fawcett said that belief has nothing to do with UFOs, rather that what we loam and what we know about UFOs Is the Important thing. “I sun an acceptor of UFOs based on what I know, not what I believe.” UFO reports average 1(X) per day world wide and computer studies Indicate that UFOs come In waves of every 36 months, 60 months, and 10 years, and all three cycles currently are In effect, he concluded. Shesiffer, a computer systems analyst from Silver Spring, Md., said Saturday that SPRING RAIN (c)1978 The sunshine takes an Interlude To spring little drops of rain. To turn the earth April green And bud flowers along the lane. Pitter-patter little rain drops There Is plesMure for you to do. Before you spring the sunshine On the dashing new. Flowers limbs with azalea blossom Freshen lilac In the breeze. Leave droplets In the center To pamper the desire of the bees. Bud the leafy rose bushes Stirring the desire to grow. Making them ready to hear Causing the roses to show. The sunshine takes an Interlude To spring Uttle drops of rain. To (fress mottier earth In April green To ordain her for her reign. VIVIAN S. BILTCLIFFE sclentlBts are “not hostUe to extraterrestrial Ufa, but they do demand more than wishful thinking In terms of evidence.” On the charge that the CIA has suppressed real evidence of UFOs, Sheaiisr said, “our government has been totaUy Incapable of keeping any of Its secrets. How are aU these people suposed to be 100 per cant successful In keeping the Uds on UFOs tor more than 80 years when a Congressional committee chairman cannot even be successful In having a secret UtUa swim In the Tidal Basin?” UFO seem to select very carsfuUy where and to whom rthey appear, ha said. “Very seldom do we rscelve notification from someone that 'I saw a UFO and think I got a picture,’ usuaUy they wait until they get the pictures back before announcing the en counter.” Both Sheaffer and Fawcett seemed to accept Fdweett’s premise that "every Ught In the sky Is not a space ship and blind doubt (of UFOs) Is not the answer.” And the debate will go on. MIRROlRi^ TUItPAV ANOTNUmOAV TOM MtIMTVOI WMiaii'tlMler OAftllli.i.AUITIN •tfitralMAMftr CLVDOHILL AAvtrtttliif OlTMfw MOMilRO^ NORTN CAROLINA PAIStAIIOCIATION TM Mirror HtraSd it Aubilihtd by Obntral ^ubllthlnf Company, p. o. 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