"es Editor: Gary Stewart 739-7496 Op INI The Kings Mountain Herald April 25, 2001 Section A, Page 4 AER HR & 3 Ta Le SERRE IRS Ea ¥ YOUR OPINION Thanks for supporting KM Shriners Summer camp can be lot of fun, hard work One of the most memorable experiences a child can have is a week or so at summer camp. With school days coming to a close in just over a month, many parents will begin thinking about just where to pack the chaps off to for some rustic rest and : ET RRA A —— mY | awn Tyr SR OE OE ER RRR ERR R Sr RRR 0%s E ; recreation. # To the editor: When I was a wee lad, my Uncle Pine Knot & The White Plains Shrine Helton was a Navy Seabee. One summer he and i "E Club would like to thank the some of his fellow Construction Battalion col- £ people of Kings Mountain leagues worked building docks at a local sum- | who came out and supported g our barbecue Saturday, April £21. As most of you know the Fire Department also held their Barbecue Cook-Off the same day. Some of you ques- tioned us as to why we held - our sale the same day. The Shrine Barbecue has been held the third weekend in April for some years. I am happy to tell you that due to the great people of Kings Mountain our barbecue was one of our most successful ev- er, and I hope that the fire de- partment can say the same. mer camp. As a reward, I got to go to this camp on for a week, free of charge. It was an experience YX. I'll never forget. Being 12-years-old, I was put in an elite cadre Alan Hodge called “Senior Campers.” I should have smelled a rat right away when we were issued sling Guest Column blades and hoes. It turned out that one of the privileges of being a Senior Camper was to clear underbrush for new cabin sites. After a few days of Senior Camping, two twin brothers'in my cab- in decided they had enough fun and poison oak, so they slipped across the river at night to a local alehouse in the middle of the night and called their parents to come get them. Don’t get me wrong, summer camp had some great moments as well. One activity that was a real hit involved loading five or six ca- noes full of campers, taking to the river, and having Viking war games. Believe me, those aluminum canoes were pretty dented up by the time that was over. These three Kings Mountain High basketball players were recognized as most valuable play- ers at the Kiwanis Club banquet in April 1971. Left to right are Carolyn Mitchem, Geeper Howard and Deborah Crockett. Mitchem made the All-Conference team and Howard and I would also like to thank Another fun activity at camp was the Indian ceremony. One such ! you for your support of our ceremony was held at night on the riverbank. The “Chief” was to paper sale, which will be'held May 3, 4 and 5. As some of you know all proceeds from the paper sale and the barbe- cue goes to our children hos- pitals. There are many of these hospitals across the U.S.A. which serve the crip- ipled and burned children. The families of these children have never had to pay any- thing for some of the best care anywhere. Please take one of the papers and read it, and you will see just what the Shriners are all about. We take donations for the papers, but if you cannot donate we un- derstand. Crockett led the KM teams in scoring. The way we were on April 22, 1971 Excerpts from the Thursday, April 22, 1971 Kings Mountain Herald: - Douglas Sincox, fifth grader at East School, won the Kings Mountain District Schools Spelling Bee. - Chris Holmes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Holmes, and Doug Sincox, son of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Sincox, were invited to attend the program for gifted children at Western Carolina University. No way the Stewarts would turn off the TV This is National TV-Turnoff Week. No doubt, a lot of schools across the country will be encouraging par- ents to turn off their tele- visions and read with their children, or do some other kind of family activ- ity that will be more re- warding to kids than watching TV or playing video games on it. make a grand entrance standing up in a canoe with a railroad flare burning in a bucket at this feet. A passing cabin cruiser turned the canoe over and spilled “Chief” into the mighty Catawba, headdress and all. I'll bet folks a mile away heard the screams of laughter from us boys. For those of you who are thinking about dropping your kids off at a summer camp, don’t worry, most activities are closely monitored these days for safety and educational value. Don’t think however, that the kids will be little angels the whole time they are there. Not only will a stint at summer camp entertain the kids for a week, it might give them memories that will last a lifetime. Musicians, journalists share the do-it-yourself mentality I would never partici- pate in a TV-Turnoff Week. I've been addicted ; to it since we got our first Editor He associated with people who would wear torn shirts, spiked hair, and enough metal to set off an airport metal detector. The music they listen to can be described as loud, obnoxious, along with other words. These people have been most commonly known as punks, but most have also been artists, film'afficionados and political activists. + Oné person that'comes to mind, is ‘the late >Jeffrey Hyman, better knowrt'as Joey Ramone. He was the lead singer of the Ramones, a band well known for short, two-minute songs. The band, which started in New York City, existed on a do-it-yourself mentality, which still influences bands today such as Green Day Staff Writer and the Offspring. 1 The idea behind the do-it-yourself mentality , especially for musi- cians, was to avoid record labels, and well, do it yourself. Instead of a flyer on a utility pole, stapled neatly, with computer- generated text and images from an agency, the band would hand write the flyers, and paste them wherever it could. This was the idea that helped spawn The Ramones. 2 In 1976, the band recorded it’s first debut album off $6,000 in two ays. Most of the bands’ albums would go directly from one song to the next, with maybe a second between them. Although I have never seen them in concert, I heard the set is the same way, quick and to the point. : No talking about what crisis was going on when a song was writ- ten. Not many bands can say that, especially today. I never got a chance to see the Ramones, but I have seen their in- fluences everywhere. : But the do-it-yourself mentality is not confined just to muscians. raoumlisss are also ones who have a raging independent spirit in them. Walter Winchell was one who practiced it a lot. Although he was employed by the New York Mirror and did his own radio show, he did like no other in presenting news of celebri- ties and gossip. Winchell predecessor to Matt Drudge, who runs his own website, complete with links to different wire services and newspapers around the world. He also has a news report of things he has found out from different sources, . os Some have led to big stories, such as the story between a little- known White House intern named Monica Lewinsky while some have been lesser. If you know of a child who needs our help contact any Shriner and he will see that he or she can be taken to one of our hospitals. Our hospital representative is Bruce Ward who lives in Grover. || Personally, I am humbled very time I help with a pro- ject, and due to the best peo- ple in the world our projects are successful. Thank you to everyone who contributes by giving your time or money, and I hope that you receive as much of a blessing as I when you help the children in any way. i+ One more thing would like to say is, you don’t have to be a Shriner to help with any of our projects. Just come on out and pitch in and we will gladly let you help us. - Ptl. M.M. Hunter was the Kings Mountain Gary Stewart Woman's Club City Policeman of the Month. Gn Hh - The men of the Kings Mountain Board of Education honored their lone female member, old black and white in the early fifties. It's usu- Mrs. Lena Ware McGill, at a dinner at Royal Villa ally the second thing I turn on after I enter the Motor Inn. Mrs. McGill was retiring after serving house - the first being the lights. 12 years on the board as the inside-city resident. There are some things on TV that are dis- - Mrs. Pattie Jo Wylie, 31, delivered a 14 pound, gusting and not worth watching, but there are, 13-ounce son at Kings Mountain Hospital. Dr. some good things to be said about the tube too. Charles Adams was attending physician. I often tell folks that “if it’s not sports or fun- - Bobby Scoggins, Jake Sipe and J R. “Bob” ny, I don’t watch it.” To be honest, I find it diffi- Smith filed for City Council. Others who filed cult to watch an entire ball game anymore un- earlier were Ray Cline, Siemore Biddix, T.]. less it is a very good one. I do try to watch the Ellison, Wilburn Hamrick, Norman King, Ken Braves every time Kevin Millwood pitches. It Roberts, Kelly Dixon, Howard Shipp, Jonas never ceases to amaze me how well he pitches Bridges, Charles W. Parker, and James J. Dickey. for six or seven innings, only to have the Joe A. Neisler Jr. and Tommy Bridges filed for the bullpen blow the game for him in the late in- inside city seat on the School Board, and P.A. nings. Francis of Grover filed for the outside-city seat. I usually don’t watch an entire movie unless - Miss Kings Mountain Linda Falls, daughter of | ig 5 funny one, but if it’s a Chevy Chase Mr. and Mrs./Otis Falls Jr., was set to provide spe- | cui cwald movie I can watch it over and over. cial entertainment and crown the new queen at To me, the best TV shows are the old ones. the Saturday night Jaycee-sponsored Miss Kings I'm such an Andy Griffith nut that I know most Mountain pageant. WBTV personality Ty Boyd of the lines by heart. was slated to be the master of ceremonies. One of the best channels on TV today is TV - A six-run fourth inning, highlighted by Keith Land, especially on the weekends when they Parker’s home run, sparked Kings Mountain's have a marathon of some of the old half-hour Mountaineers to an 8-5 Southwestern Conference shows like the Beverly Hillbillies, All in the baseball win over Belmont. Family, Andy Griffith, and the Honeymooners. - Mrs. Frank B. Glass was elected president of I would never encourage school kids not to Frank B. Glass Post 9811, Veterans of Foreign read books or play educational games, but I Wars. ; would think they could get a lot of good out of - Gardner-Webb basketball coach Eddie TV if they'd turn off the video games and some Holbrook was the speaker for the Kings of today’s cartoons and tune in to the exploits Mountain Kiwanis Club basketball / wrestling of Andy and Barney, Ralph and Norton, and banquet. Special guest was KM native and GW some of the others. All-American George Adams. I've read that Andy Griffith is such a whole- - Fur.eral rites for Samuel Ralph “Pop” some show that many of the mainline churches Davidson, 74, who served as Chief of Police two now use it a the basis for Bible study. I believe years during the Garland Still administration, such as study would be much more interesting were held at Temple Baptist Church. than the one we're currently using in Sunday - Kings Mountain's population was 8,465 in the | School at our church. I wouldn't even mind city limits and 21,914 in Greater Kings Mountain. | hearing the choir try to sing good old 14A. Ben Ledbetter et Gilbert Brazzell Kings Mountain Letters We appreaciate your letters to the editor and encourage you to write. Because we re- iceive somany letters, howev- fer, we must impose guidelines {to ensure that as many read- ters as possible are able to ishare their views. We there- ifore limit the number of let- iters that any one person may ihave published to one a imonth. Also, we ask that you tkeep your letters short, no imore than two pages double- ispaced or one page single- spaced. 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