Page 2A-KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Thursday. January 5. 1984
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GARY STEWART
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ELIZABETH STEWART
News Editor
DARRELL AUSTIN
General Manager
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are as
bold as a lion. Proverbs 22:1.
EDITORIAL
OPINION
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Tax Listing Time Again
It’s time to list properties for taxes. :
Those who attend to the chore earliest will find the job easiest and
shortest.
Those who wait too late, or fail to list for taxes, will find the
precrastination costly.
List this month Mondays through Fridays at City Hall.
Attitude Of Hope For
New Year
Kings Mountain citizens welcomed the New Y ear this week with an
attitude of hope that the next few months will see an economic upturn
spelling the end of the 1983 recession.
As the new year is now underway, many citizens in this area are still
without work and there are many without jobs in Cleveland County
despite the fact that employment is down from 17 percent to below 10
in our area.
A slump in textiles was apparent last year at this time in Kings
Mountain but this holiday season has found more people working and
some industries took only a brief holiday for Christmas and New
Year's. This is good news and the best New Y ear’s present many could
expect.
Loose Leaves A No-No
Kings Mountain citizens are reminded that loose leaves are not to be
placed on the curbside for pickup. Leaves must be placed on the front
corner of the property nearest the street right-of-way.
Any questions, contact Jim Downey, Superintendent of the Sanita-
tion Department at 739-8136, between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 4
p.m.
From the Jan. 5, 1961 edition of The Kings Mountain Herald.
Home Savings & Loan Association is proceeding on plans to con-
struct a new office building on East Mountain street on the site now
occupied by Herndon apartments.
The new owners of Craftspun Yarns, Inc. will modernize the plant
extensively and hopes to be in full production by April 1.
Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce is seeking nomina-
tions for a new award it will inaugurate this year. The Jaycees will
honor Kings Mountain’s- Teenager of the Year.
Eileen Fulton, the former Margaret McLarty, offstage, appears in
the film, “Girl of The Night”, which plays at the Joy Theatre here
Thursday and Friday. Miss Fulton is the daughter of Rev. and Mrs.
James B. McLarty, former residents of Kings Mountain. Rev. McLar-
ty is a former pastor of Central Methodist Church.
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THURSDAY: 6:45 p.m. - Kings Mountain Kiwanis Club at the
Holiday Inn. Congressman Jim Martin, speaker. Guests invited. Call
Dr. Grady Howard, Jr. for reservations.
7:30 p.m. - American Legion Auxiliary at the American Legion
Building. Hostesses, Dot Houston and Clara Rhea.
COMMUNITY
CALENDAR
8:30 p.m. - Men’s Basketball Team of Bethlehem Baptist Church vs.
Macedonia Team.
FRIDAY: 6:15 p.m. - Adult Choir Fellowship Supper at Bethlehem
Baptist Church.
SATURDAY: 7:00 - Installation service for Fairview Lodge
AF&AM at Masonic Hall.
SUNDAY: 7 p.m. - Joint meeting of Fairview Lodge 339 AF& AM
and Order of Eastern Star at First Baptist Church.
MONDAY: 7 p.m. - Grover Town Board in the Council Room at
City Hall in Grover.
7:30 p.m. - Gastonia District Lay Council in the Fellowship Hall of
Central United Methodist Church.
7:30 - January meeting of the Board of City Commissioners at City
Hall Council Chambers.
New Twist To Old Sayings
Katrina McCall, former employee of the Kings Mountain Herald
and now the women’s editor of the Press and Standard in Walterboro,
S.C., recently asked for school children’s thoughts on some old sayings.
She got these interesting replies:
If at first you don’t succeed...
Give up.
Got outside and play.
Get your mama to do it.
Go back and read the directions.
Go home and sleep on it.
Never try again.
Be very nostalgic.
Forget it and let your wife do it.
Cheat.
Go to second base.
Go to college and major on that thing.
Tear it up and throw it away.
All that glitters...
Is owned by the rich.
Gets dusty fast.
Doesn’t come from California.
Turns to dirt.
Fades away.
Will get tarnished.
Keeps me awake at night.
Comes out of the bubble-gum machine.
Is too expensive to worry about.
The early bird gets...
Sleepy faster.
Tired feet.
The bird bath.
The biggest worm.
His head cut off.
Chased by the cat.
Wet in the dew.
A spanken for getting up early.
Baggy eyes.
A headache.
The first peck.
Leftovers.
A choice of strawberry or chocolate worms.
All the cookies.
The crums.
Caffeine-free coffee.
Catches the sale.
All work and no play makes Jack...
Hard to get along with. _
Break a lot of dates with Jill.
A rich man if he gets paid.
A car manufacturing robot.
Mean. =
Look like a frog.
Apparently dumb because no smart person is gonna study all day.
Wierd.
Tired of working.
Jack’s brains pop out.
Intelligent.
Have a dull day.
Cry his heart out.
A boring kid.
A dummydindly 0
A mad little boy.
Stay up late.
Tired and gay.
Old and grey.
Insane.
A good employee.
People who live in glass houses...
Must be flashers.
Don’t go around naked.
See a lot.
Never play baseball in their yard.
Have trouble finding the door.
Don’t need mirrors.
Need lots of window cleaner.
Better take baths with their clothes on.
Love the public.
Get hot to trot.
Are over-exposed.
Have high repair bills.
Carry around BandAids.
Must be sunburned.
Are crazy.
Should undress in the basement.
Will never succeed.
Better not fall.
Do not eat earrings.
Don’t have children.
Have a lot of peeping Toms.
Have a problem if they don’t do windows.
Stewart's
Slants
By.
How to boogie, beagle-style.
Too many cooks...
Spill the beans.
Still doesn’t make school lunch better.
Make a sour pie.
Make a hot kitchen hotter.
Argue over who cooks best.
Make a lot of food.
Have messy food fights.
Burn up each others’ hats.
Make the food ucky.
Spoil my appetite.
Keep people employed.
Make the dinner sick.
Eat the food they cook for people.
Get the kitchen crowded.
Make a sour dough.
Can cause a fire.
Burn the burgers.
Make a sweaty kitchen.
Beat the eggs until they cry.
Hate each other.
May be hazardous to your health. )
Ruin your diet.
You can't teach an old dog...
To like new fleas.
To use a new tire.
To like new dog food.
To use Oil of Olay.
How to disco.
To beat up a new cat.
New potty places.
To change his life-style.
How to use a computer.
To play football.
To be a basketball coach.
Spanish.
Stupid tricks.
New hick-ups.
To go in a new house.
To eat watermelon.
Anyting if he has arthritis.
December weather summary, compiled by Kenneth Kitzmiller:
1983 1982
Tot. precip. 7.88” 4.54”
Max one day 1.80” (Sth) 1.60” (11th)
Avg. precip. 25” 1470
Yr. to date 45.68” 41.11”
Max. temp. 68 (6th) 73 (3rd, 4th, 25th)
Min. temp. 1 (24th) 15 (12th)
Avg. temp 49.6 46.8
1983 Weather In Review
Driest Month September (.87”)
Wettest Month December (7.88”)
Max. precip. one day March 17 (2.06”)
Avg. precip. per day .125”
Avg. precip per month 3.81”
Total Snow 13.7”
Ice and sleet 4 days
Max. temp. 104 (Aug. 21)
Min. temp. 1 (December 24)
Temp. 90 or more 43 days
Temp 100 or more 7 days
Daytime temp.
not above 32
Nighttime temp. 32
below 65 nights
Avg. temp. 599
5 days (Jan. 24,
Dec. 24, 25,26, 30
New Year...New Start
By now enough of 1984 should have elapsed for a considerable dent
to have been made in a whole raft of New Year’s resolutions.
Resolutions are a happy device, particularly for parents who seek to
instill in their offspring those happy habits of personal care and public
performance which are designed to bring the youngsters the com-
plimentary descriptions of “little lady” or “little gentleman” as the case
may be.
Older folks, rightly or wrongly and perhaps by embarrassing former
failing experience, tend to shy away from making many resolutions for
fear of breaking them. Most of us tend to reply to that question, “Sure,
the same set I had last year and the year before that.”
We had a visiting preacher Sunday from Lake Charles, Louisiana, a
nice young man who interspersed his serious remarks concerning the
start of a brand new year with some humor in which he noted that the
new year would bring the same old things, such as jobs, school,
homework, the same teachers, same routine, and possibly the same
husbands and wives, the latter remarks which drew laughs from the
younger members of the church. Of course, the point he made was
that the new year is an opportunity to practice what you've learned in
the past 12 months of life and to see the potential for making all things
new in 1984.
One reader said her number one resolution this year is the same she
made in 1983, to stop smoking. She stopped for 26 days in January last
year, then started back. She’s trying again this year.
This is her first week without a cigarette.
Rev. James W. Parks, pastor of David Baptist Church and writing a
New Year’s message in his recent church bulletin, said: “let’s evaluate
last year. Of the 16 wakening hours a day, 365 days a year, 5, 840
hours last year, how did you spend your time? Figure nine hours a day
at work five days a week (2340 hours). That leaves you 3,500 hours.
Now figure an average of five hours per week for fixing stuff around
the house, canning food, etc. That still leaves 3230 hours. Figure two
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weeks vacation, 14 days. That still leaves 3,006. Of course, you may
subtract other things depending on your job, but you will average
2,500 hours a year with which to do what you want. You would spend
just over one tenth of your time with your family and that would leave
you 1,095 hours equal to 68% days or over two months of wakening
time to use as you choose..” The pastor says that appropriate new
year’s resolutions are to set priorities and allot a reasonable amount of
time for each. He said this would help us manage time and stop letting
time manage us and it would free some time for us to spend on things
we count to be important. And we'll have an extra day. 1984 if also
Leap Year. Baan
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