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OPINION The Kings Mountain Herald Thursday, July 1, 2004 SIDEWALK SURVEY By ANDIE BRYMER HERALD : What are | your plans 8 for I don’t have any. My Absolutely nothing. The Independence great-grandson Carson same thing I do on the Bailey's birthday is the third and the fifth. : Day? fourth of July. Joel Wallace : Levaughn Smith Kings Mountain’ Kings Mountain Probably a cookout at my parents’ house. Invite all the family, make ice cream. Ginger Herndon Kings Mountain Go fishing. Clover, S.C. Bill “Beebop” Heffner Going to Jacksonville, Fla. or the beach. We haven't made up our minds. Deany Hannah Kings Mountain Big money folks think that consumers believe anything I was reading the back of a can of air freshener recently. The label was decep- tively funny. It advised that children and teens not be allowed to use the product. ; Seems this warning 5% was based on the = assumption that all young people like to huff aerosol spray. From the sound of this liability scared manufacturer, you would think there is y a massive problem with a inhalant abuse. I'm sure ; the stuff is used as a drug on occasion but what about all the kids who just want a fresh smelling car, bedroom or work environ- ment? Andie Brymer Staff Writer Speaking of silly stuff corporations spout, what's up with these fast food establishments trying to sell themselves as purveyors of healthy food? They can put all the salad, low carb 5) “wraps” and fresh fruit they want on the SF menu but it’s a ruse in my opinion. It gets : customers in the door. Reminds me of the i tobacco companies calling their cigarettes “light” as if they slick word choice would i ward off lung cancer. Going off the subject, hats off to anyone who has managed to quit smoking. I never took up the habit but from what I understand, quitting takes an iron will. I guess that’s better than an iron lung. The big money folks think consumers will believe and buy anything they wrap up pretty and dish out. Some company from a far off area code apparently has Joey and I pegged as easy marks. Last Sunday they called and left a mes- sage that we maybe had:won a car. The language was Vie rough to cause the casual listener to jump for joy. On a care- ful review of the tape, it was obvious we were being baited to calllback. Why, I don’t know. We didn’t waste our time finding out. Last night we discovered these folks had struck again. This time we were the “lucky” recipients of a two-night, three- day vacation to Miami. The woman was so cheerful I began to wonder what phar- maceutical cocktail she had persuaded her doctor to place her on. We're not as dumb as Wall Street or Washington thinks we are. I haven't had a chance to see it yet, but Michael Moore's newest movie “Fahrenheit 911” purports to prove Bush knew there were no weapons of mass destruction and no link between Saddam and Osama. From Moore's point of view, Bush and his rich cronies will use any excuse to send middle and working class men and women to die in a war that the rich bene- fit from. o registering new patients : When it comes to making a patient smile, delivering hope with a colorful { bouquet of flowers, or being the listening ear that truly takes the time, our volunteers make all the difference at Cleveland Regional Medical Center. At CRMC, you'll find volunteers busy doing all sorts of things... « registering families for Surgical Waiting and Intensive Care Waiting » communicating news to family and friends « handing out much-anticipated mail « helping out in our administrative offices 0 « answering questions of new arrivals or » being a source of comfort in the ER. Won't you consider joining our incredible team of volunteers? For all that you're willing to give can’t compare with the joy that will be yours in return. ; 9 @ Cleveland Regional Medical Center Carolinas HealthCare System 201 East Grover Street Shelby, NC 28150 www.clevelandregional.org 704-487-3889 volunteers | : MAKE SOME TIME FOR SOMEONE SPECIAL. rained What this world needs is more Matt Dillons My wife thinks I'm nuts. I expect there are a lot of men who can say that. Recently, when it rained all day, I sat and watched episode after episode of Gunsmoke on television. The TV Land channel had a 48-hour marathon, and I enjoyed them. Matt, Miss Kitty, Doc, Newly and Festus were in rare form. Matt and Newly are the only survivors of that group. I noticed that Miss Kitty’s hair was blonde in some shows, but red in others. I don’t know why I hadn't noticed that before. Jim Heffner My keeper kept com- Columnist ing into the den to check and see if I was awake, and she always seemed disappointed when I was. “You never watch TV that much,” she said. “This is different,” I replied. She knows I like westerns. I saw a lot of segments I had already seen, but some I'd never seen before. When I worked for Eastern Airlines, I worked with a girl named Judy Applegate whose brother was a Hollywood actor. His name is Eddie Applegate, and he had a fea- ture role in one of the episodes. I saw that one again. : I saw a lot of my old favorites again, but I have to admit, there were a few I couldn't take a second time. I like the conversations between Doc and Festus. I recall one episode where Festus was telling Doc how to tell if a baby was going to be a boy or a girl before it was born. “You hold your pocket watch over the woman's belly,” Festus said, “and if it turns clocker-wise it’s going to be a boy. If it turns contrary clocker-wise, it’s going to be a girl.” “Hogwash,” Doc said. “No, Doc, It’s the gospel truth,” said Festus. “The only time I've ever knowed it to fail, was with my Aunt Tillie. Uncle Forbus held the watch over her belly and it didn’t twist clocker-wise or contrary clocker- wise. It didn’t move at all.” “Well,” Doc said, “are you going to tell me whether it was a boy or a girl?” “It wasn’t neither one,” Festus said, “it was gas.” Doc left in a huff. I keep a note pad around most of the time and when I wasn’t watching Matt Dillon save Dodge City I jotted down a cou- ple of items that are absolutely not earth- shaking. Here they are anyway: 1. Brasstown, in Western N.C., is known as the Possum Capital of the World. On New Year's, at the stroke of midnight, a possum in a plexiglas cage is lowered just like the ball in Times Square, then turned loose. 2. Coffee never tastes as good as it smells. 3. Eating Chinese food with chopsticks, when spoons and forks are available, is downright dumb. 4. People who proclaim themselves members of the Silent Majority, aren’t. That- group remains silent. They do their talking at the polls. 5. Conservatives admit their philosophi- cal leanings, but liberals call themselves, in most cases, moderates. Some liberals say | they are fiscal conservatives, but social liber- als. This is not true. The terms are not compatible. A social liberal is one who believes in the govern- ment taking care of people from the cradle to the grave. That takes money, always somebody else’s money, therefore a social liberal cannot be a fiscal conservative. 6. There is no moral majority in this country; there is an immoral majority. How else to explain so many men and women liv- ing together and producing children without benefit of marriage? What makes it an immoral majority is that so many people do or say nothing about it. We need more Matt Dillons in this world. KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD LETTER POLICY We appreciate your letters and encourage you to write. We limit the number of letters that any one person may have published to one a month. Also, we ask that you keep your letters short, no more than two pages double-spaced or one page single-spaced. Handwritten letters are accepted, but must be legible. We will not publish third party letters, unsolicited poems, thank-you letters or let- ters from anonymous writers; names, + CLEARANCE - CLEARANCE - © FAY —d CHECKS or CASH CLEARANCE - CLEARANCE \ ARANCE - CLEARANCE - CLEARANCE - CLEARAN WE MUST MAKE ROOM TO REMODEL. WE'RE SELLING OUR COMPLETE 60,000 SQUARE FOOT INVENTORY AT SACRIFICE PRICES - NOTHING HELD BACK, EVERYTHING ON SALE! 644 North Aspen Sheet, Lincolnton, N.C. 2809 Monday through Saturday 9am-5pm addresses, and phone numbers must be included and letters must be signed in ink. We reserve the right to edit letters for gram- mar, punctuation, clarity, brevity and con- tent. Letters must be received no later than 12 noon on Monday of the week they are to be published. Mail letters to Editor Gary Stewart, P.O. Box 769, Kings Mountain, NC 28086 or fax them to (704) 739-0611. « JINUHYI1I - JINUHYITD 104-735-1422
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