Schools
should also
be equal
athletically
The main reasons given
for merging our three school
systems was that every
child will have the same
opportunity for the best
education possible and that
it would save the tax payers
money. [ hope these same
reasons apply for the
Cleveland County Schools
athletic programs.
[ am sure that all
Cleveland County football
fans are aware that the N.C.
High School Athletic
Association is working on
the realignment for all high
school teams and the confer-
ences that they will be play-
ing in, beginning in 2005.
Some have projected Crest
to move up to 4-A and the
rumor is that Shelby has
petitioned to play up, most
likely to 3-A, saying they
will have enough students
by the time the realignment
takes place in 2005. If
Shelby gets enough students
to move up from 2-A to 3-A,
I believe most of those stu-
dents would have to come
from Crest and I believe that
Crest numbers would
remain low enough that
they would remain in 3-A.
When the new attendance
lines are re-drawn, I think
they should be re-drawn so
all four high schools in
Cleveland County would
have about the same enroll-
ment and racial makeup so
each school will have an
equal and fair chance to
. have competitive sports
programs, especially in foot-
ball and basketball, our
most revenue sports.
If this happens, all four
high schools could be in the
same conference and same
classification. This would
make sure that all county
teams play each other and
get to share in the revenue
that these rivals will gener-
ate. This revenue would go
a long way in funding all
these non-revenue sports
teams we have. This rev-
enue would help make sure
all four high schools have a
fair and equal chance to
have a successful athletic
department. I know this
would be the goal of the
new administration.
Let me explain why I
think it is so important that
all county teams play each
other and that these rival-
ries continue. Take football
for example. If all county
teams played each other
and if Cleveland County
football is as good as every-
one says it is, there would
be (I hope I got this correct)
six games between the
county teams. I don’t
believe there would be any
problem having an average
of 4,000 fans per game at
$5.00 per fan with no free
passes (no one getting in
free). Each game would
bring in $20,000.00 x six
games = $120,000.00. This
would just be for the foot
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: The 1959 Kings Mountain American Legion baseball team shared the regular season Area IV title with Mt. Holly-
. Pawcreek and lost the Area IV championship to Mt. Holly-Pawcreek, four games to three. Front row, left to right, Steve
Don Horn, Keith Hilliard, Jerry Wright, Bud Sanders and Sid Franklin. Second row, Jerry Morris, Jerry
Rockholt, Tom Fite, Paul Hendricks, Perry Champion, Bobby Biddix and Roy Metzger. Third row, assistant coach Bill
Bates, Mike Ware, Ronnie Pearson, Punch Parker, James Robbs, and Eddie Ross, manager. Head coach Fred Withers
was absent when photo was made.
Television is
something I
can do without
I was in the grocery store last week :
and watched a woman purchase a TV. ~~ Andie Brymer
Guide. I was awe struck by such a bold Statf Writes
move and immediately assumed she 5 doi
must be border line genius.
TV Guide is beyond my comprehension and has been
for over a decade. When I was a child, I was a television
fanatic. The box was a life support of sorts. As soon as I
came home from school I had to turn it on. The prospect
of being disconnected from it left me trembling.
A ten-year-old, I didn’t carry a calendar or personal
planner, though I did have a set schedule. Every Sunday
the TV Week, a free version of TV Guide without the arti-
cles, would arrive tucked inside the Charlotte Observer. |
scanned the listings, read summaries of what would hap-
pen on each show and mentally planned my week around
that information.
My favorites were reruns of M.A.S.H. and Hogan's
Heroes. Looking back, I'm not sure those were appropri-
ate programs for a child but I suppose I came away
unscathed. The realistic descriptions of war on M.A.S.H.
may have contributed to how I feel about the current con-
flict in Iraq.
I was also a huge Dukes of Hazard fan. I hoped to meet
and marry Bo Duke one day. His co-star, Tom Wopat, who
played Luke Duke, was a boring brunette in comparison. I
wanted to live in the old farm house. It made the nonde-
script brick ranch I grew up in look awful dull.
It wasn’t until a few decades later that I realized how
the Duke boys made their money. They were bootleggers,
hauling shine in the General Lee, an orange Dodge
Charger. The implication of that and the huge Confederate
flag atop the car went right over my young head.
By the time I reached my early 20's, I had traded in the
north Georgia hills for Alaska. After a few episodes
“Northern Exposure” became my all time favorite show.
One of the clues that Joey was the man for me was his
being a fan.
From time to time we fantasize about moving off to
Cicely, Alaska where we would be “regulars” at The Brick,
Holling Vincoeur’s eatery. Maybe we would even double
date with Dr. Fleishman and Maggie. She could fly us all
to Anchorage for the evening when we needed a taste of
big city life.
Despite loving the show, not long before it was can-
celled I gave up television. I was conducting an experi-
ment of sorts with myself as the guinea pig. I wanted to
see what it was like to live unplugged from the tube.
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They have
their own
language
Does any man understand women? I
don’t think so.
; : Jim Heffner
I have become firmly convinced they Columnist
tell us exactly what they want us to hear,
RT
and they talk to other women in the
same language, but the interpretation is altogether differ-
ent.
For example, what does “I don’t have a thing to wear,”
mean? To men, especially husbands, it means her clothes
closet is so packed full there isn’t room for a piece of tis-
sue paper. To another woman it means she hasn't bought. §
a new outfit this week.
My wife is noted for her attractive footwear. People
compliment her on her “cute” shoes all the time.
Everything is either cute or ugly in woman talk.
One day she said to me, “I simply don’t have any shoes.
I'm going to have to buy some.”
Curious, I went to her closet after she had left on her
daily shopping expedition, and pulled out her shoes. I
lined them up around the baseboard of one of the bed-
rooms, and counted them. Now, this woman is not Imelda
Marcos, but she did have 84 pairs of shoes. This is a true
story.
When faced with 84 pairs of shoes, her comment was:
“See, I don’t have a single pair of lime green linen
pumps.”
I should say, my wife has a black belt in shopping. If
she doesn’t go to the mall at least once a week, several of
the stores send her get well cards.
I've been reading a lot lately about the Skull and Bones
at Yale University, and other secret societies.
Women have a secret society also. Their secret group is
made up of some of the world’s most intelligent experts
who know everything about everything. The group is
called “They.”
They have opinions on everything, and, to women, they
are the world’s foremost authority.
Have you ever wondered how ladies know so much
about every doctor in town? If you don’t believe it, pick
the newest doctor in your community and casually men-
tion his or her name around your wife, mother, sister or
girlfriend, then sit back and listen.
She will tell you more than you ever wanted to know
about the doctor.
“He's really good,” she'll say, or “There’s no way I'd go
to him.”
“Oh,” you'll say, “I didn’t know you knew Dr. what's
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City Council
hired interim
manager in ‘94
From the March 17, 1994
edition of the Herald:
Maxine Parsons, finance
officer and assistant city
clerk, was appointed inter-
im city manager Tuesday
night by a 4-3 vote of city
council. Commissioner Phil
Hager made a motion, sec-
onded by Norma Bridges,
that the board appoint Joe
Hendrick of Shelby as
interim manager.
+ Commissioner Jim Guyton
also voted for Hendrick.
Voting against Hendrick
and for Parsons were
Commissioners Ralph
Grindstaff and Rick
Murphrey, who made the
motion, and joined by
commissioners Jerry White
and Dean Spears.
Kings Mountain City
Manager George Wood
received a service award
from Mayor Scott Neisler
at last week's council meet-
ing. Wood is leaving the
city Monday after six years
to take a similar position in
Cleveland, TN.
Senator J. Ollie Harris of
Kings Mountain was hon-
ored Saturday by the
North Carolina Medical
Society with the
“Certificate of Career
Recognition.”
Zeb Plonk, Crace Page,
; Jimmy Littlejohn and the
1955 KMHS football team
will be inducted into the
Kings Mountain Spots Hall
of Fame April 18 at the
Community Center. Guest
speaker will be Jeff
Mallins, former Duke All.
American and current 1,1;
; " men’s basketball coach at
UNC Charlotte.
Kings Mountain High
School Principal Jackie
Lavender has been named
a Distinguished Woman of
Cleveland County by the
Cleveland County
Commission on Women.
Winning a state champi-
onship in your first year as
coach is quite an accom-
plishment, but Conrad
Martin gave all the credit
to his athletes after they
won their second straight
North Carolina High
School Athletic Association
championship Saturday at
Chapel Hill.
Marla McCabe went to
work Wednesday at Kings
Mountain Middle School
¥ as the school’s first full-
time nurse.
Kings Mountain's branch
of the Cleveland County
Chamber will move to a
new home at City Hall
after July 1. City Council
Tuesday unanimously
approved the new office
and said the city will pay
for construction at an esti-
mated cost of $5,006.
SIDEWALK
SURVEY
By ANDIE BRYMER
HERALD
Should
Martha
Stewart be
jailed for her
recent finance
related
convictions?
but if she did it, she
I don’t know a lot about it I think she has been overly
prosecuted. A monetary
fine would be sufficient.
Jason Blackburn
Kings Mountain
should be. It sounds like a
case of greed.
Vallery Shipp
Kings Mountain
If she is not innocent, she
should be.
Nancy Bell
Kings Mountain
I believe she should get some
jail time because it was stu-
pid of her. With all the money
she has, she only made a little
(on the trade in question.)
She should get six to eight
months at the most, not the
same amount of time as
Enron defendants.
Derrick Folson
Kings Mountain
Sure I think she should be
sentenced. She knew what
she was doing. I don’t
think she should be
allowed to get away with
it when others aren't.
Jennifer Anderson
Kings Mountain