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June 8, 2006
Don’t make yourself
difficult to live with
The air conditioning that
serves my church office went
This
same thing happened last
year when the summer tem-
peratures were over 100
degrees. It wasn't as hot this
time, but itv was hot enough.
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times > (1
thrown
up the
windows,
turned on
the fan
and worn
some -
thing that
would be
as cool as
Jeff Hensley
Meditation
possible.
During these hot spells, I
have been reminded about
how much we have come to
depend on our technology.
What would happen to us if
we lost all of our precious
electric and electronic tools -
things like air conditioning,
refrigerators, = microwave
ovens and those ubiquitous
computers? I suspect we
would have a hard time cop-
ing. And whenever we lose
something we have come to
hiaiv.e
depend on, it tends to cause
us to be short of temper or
quick to be angry with some-
one else, and the people who
are the recipients of our
anger may not really under-
stand why we are behaving.
the way we are.
Perhaps we would be like
a particular father who hap-
pened to be traveling on a
train with his little boy. The
man unintentionally broke
some sort of rule on the train,
and the ticket collector flew
into a rage. He screamed,
scolded, turned red in the
face, and berated the father
at great length. Meanwhile,
the little boy was looking on,
and he didn’t know what to
make of the sight. He just
couldn't understand why his
father was putting up with
all this verbal abuse.
When the ticket collector
finally got it all out of his sys-
tem and went on his way, the
little boy looked up at his
father and said, “Papa, why
didn’t you get mad back at
that man?” The father
smiled at his little boy and
said, “Well, it’s like this son.
That poor man has to put up’
with himself all throughout
his life. .Surely it’s no big
deal for me to put up with
him for just a few minutes.”
Now that’s patience, and I
would like to be able to say
that I am always that patient,
but I'm not. Yes, I too get
angry unnecessarily some-
times. It’s painful to admit it,
but it’s true nonetheless, and
those are times when I have
caused the most hurt to those
Ilove.
It has been said. “In life,
the miles stretch ahead of
you, but the things that trip
you up. are inside you.”
Sometimes things break, or
maybe things just don’t turn
out the way we expect them
to, but that is all the ‘more
reason for us to turn to God
for. strength when our
- strength or patience is just
about gone. Whether it’s the
heat outside or the hurt
inside, all of us need to think
about how our feelings or
temperament are affecting
others. After all, it’s a sad
thing when we allow our-
"selves to get angry so easily
or so often that we make our-
selves difficult to live with.
Jeff Hensley is pastor of
Kings Mountain Baptist.
Silly season in full swing
Keith Hernandez, former °
baseball player and now a
broadcaster for the New
York Mets got castigated
recently because he said a
baseball dugout was no
place for a
woman.
Well, he
was right.
This is
the silly
season, I
guess,
a noisid
maybe it’s
“here: to
stay. God
" knows I
id ont
anything against
Jim Heffner:
Guest Column
Loa
have
women. I love them all, but I
"don’t think they need to go
everywhere a man goes just
to prove their competence.
A professional team’s
dressing room, for instance,
should be off limits to
women. There are big old
hairy men in there in various
states ‘of undress, yet you
will find a woman reporter
there in almost every case.
Professional sports teams
have been blackmailed to
allow the practice at the risk
of being called intolerant by
a mind-numbed press.
Speaking of silly, sports
and, women, did anybody
notice this past year that all
the college basketball games
utilized a woman reporter on
the sidelines? What's that all
about?
Let's see now, there are
two broadcasters in the
booth and one on the side-
lines. The woman's job, as I |
see it, is to stop one of the
coaches at halftime as he is
going into the dressing room
to chew his team out, and
ask him a dumb question or
two. She could just let the
female reporter who is prob-
ably already in the dressing
room handle that chore. All
of this is overkill on the part
of the networks.
Silly doesn’t apply just to:
sports. Some of your neigh-
bors seem to be afflicted.
I have noticed that people
have begun pruning and
shaping their. azaleas. A
square azalea just looks silly.
As someone once said, it just
isn't done.
And what about all those
trees with plastic eggs tied to
the branches around Easter °
time. The only thing I've
seen sillier than that is a yard
full of gigantic plastic eggs
scattered around. I don’t
know what that was sup-
posed to symbolize. And
what does a rabbit have to do
with eggs anyway? They
bear their young alive.
I guess about the silliest
thing I've heard about in
many a year is that judge in
Nebraska who refused to
send a child molester to
prison because she felt he
was too short.
+ “He wouldn't be able to
survive in there with all
those big people,” she said.
Can anybody tell me the
basis of such perverted logic.
Is. this judge saying that if
you are five feet or less, it’s
OK to molest children?
I've got an idea. The feder-
al government could build a
small prison for little people.
‘Think of the savings on
material costs. Doll house
furniture would work, and
all prisoners five feet or
under could be transferred to
the FMP (Federal Midget
Prison).
It works for me. I wonder
if the Nebraska judge would
consider sending her nasty
little rapist to the FMP?
If that idea doesn’t fly, we
could always fall back on an
old Heffner idea. Just shoot
the little squirt.
Come to think of it, maybe
the judge could keep him
company on the firing line
Is this the silly season? You
bet.
“The Senate - in its move to placate illegal aliens while seeming tough on
border security - is attempting to play 'good cop, bad cop.' But the fact
remains all they’ re doing is playing Barney Fife and Puiting Otis back on
the streets.”
Congressman Patrick McHenry
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McCarter, left, and quarterback Ollie Harris Jr. in 1953.
KIW’s Second Baptist broke ground
for new education building in ‘52
From be June 12, 1952 edi-
tion of The Herald:
Second Baptist Church will
break ‘ground for its new
$100,000 educational plant
and church building with
special ceremonies at the
Linwood Road site Sunday
at 3 p.m. Principal speaker
will be Rev. Judson L.
Vipperman, D.D., pastor .of
Long Creek Baptist Church
of Dallas.
Miles and Ernest Mriey,
twin concert pianists of new
York City, won a $1,000 prize
on the “Chance of a
Lifetime” TV show last
Thursday. They are the sons
of Mr. and Mrs. WK.
Mauney Sr... of Kings
Mountain.
Kings Mountain's new bus
terminal is scheduled to
open Monday under the
management of Paul Byers,
former ticket agent and
Democratic nominee for con-.
stable.
Mrs. Helen Ramsey
Blanton, veteran employee of
First National Bank, was pro-
moted to the position of
assistant cashier at a meeting
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Monday.
Brice Harry, seven, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Holmes Harry,
is in ‘Asheville Orthopedic
‘hospital receiving treatment
for a mild case of polio, and
his 18-month-old brother
Robert Harry has a non-par-
alytic case of polio, accord-
ing to diagnosis of Dr. TA.
Campbell. A cousin,
Jacquitha Rountree, has been
a polio patient at the
Asheville hospital for the
past two weeks.
Kings Mountains Juniors
edged Cherryville 11-10 with
a ninth inning rally Friday
night. Ollie Harris Jr. and
Lefty Moss had two hits each
for the winners.
Phil Mauney placed third
in the Gaston County 4-A
Beef Show and Sale just out-
side of Dallas Monday.
Good buys - Anew G.E.
electric range was $209.95 at
Sterchi’s. A 40-gallon water
heater was $159.95, and an 8-
cubic feet G.E. refrigerator
was $219.95...
Dixie Home Super Market
Revonda Granger
had corn 4 ears for 29 cents
squash two pounds for 17
cents, 10-pound bags of flour
for 96 cents, bacon for 35
cents a pound, rabbits for 59
cents a pound, Octagon soap
3 cakes for 10 cents, Real-Kill
for 69 cents a pint, and two
large packages of Ivory
Snow for 55 cents.
Father’s Day specials at
Kings Mountain Rexall Drug
Store - included a Kodak
Duaflex II camera for $14.50
and cigarettes for $1.75 per
carton. Pal Double and
Single Edge razor blades
were 44 for 98 cents, Molle
shaving cream was 63 cents
for an 8-ounce jar, and
Wildroot Cream-Oil was 59
cents.
Admission to the Imperial
Theatre was 30 cents for
adults and 9 cents for chil-
dren. Saturday’s features
were “Valley of Fire” with
Gene Autry and “Pecos
River” with Charles Starrett.
A new serial “Capt. Video -
Chapter 1” plus two cartoons
and comedy were included
in the price.
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While this equipment costs more than tra-
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More than 60 million péople in this coun-
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