OPINION
iranian Josephine Weir could
smell chewing gum a mile away
I was going through some old
1960s papers the other day and
saw a picture of Josephine Weir,
who was then librarian at Kings
Mountain's Central High School.
It brought
back a lot of
memories.
I'm sure all
of us know
some people
who made
such a lasting:
impression,
that when we
hear their
name we
immediately
think of their
most memo-
rable habit or principle.
Mrs. Weir will be remembered
for a lot of things. Her church
and community knew her as a
very giving and forgiving per-
son. She was one of the most
Christ-like people I've ever
known. :
But when I think of Mrs. Weir -
and I would say all other stu-
dents who knew her at KMHS -
the first thing that comes to mind
Gary Stewart
Editor
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The Kings Mountain Herald
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LOOKING BACK
February 22 2007
is chewing gum.
Mrs. Weir couldn’t stand the
stuff, as many boys and girls at
Central learned during the fifties
and sixties. There aren't many
kids that went into the big
library up there on the third floor
that weren't told to throw their
chewing gum in the waste bas-
ket.
After being caught the first
time, I bet a lot of kids (like me)
went into the library and tried to
hide their chewing gum under
their tongue or in a spot where
they had lost a tooth, but it did-
n't work. You could be at the
bookshelf in the very back of the
room and all of a sudden hear
Mrs. Weir coming around the
corner and telling you to “put
that chewing gum in the waste
basket.”
I always wondered how in the
world she knew you had gum in
your mouth when you weren't
even chewing it. Did her glasses
give her x-ray vision?
It was probably about 20 years
after I graduated when I found
out.
I was working in the paste-up
room at The Herald one day,
looked through a door and win-
dow and saw Mrs. Weir coming
down the hall. Iimmediately
threw my chewing gum into the
nearby trash can. Mrs. Weir came
through another room between
the hall and where I was stand-
ing and came right up to me and
said, “Gary, you've been chew-
ing gum.” I replied “yes, ma’am,
but I threw it in the trash can
when I saw you coming down
the hall.” Her reply was, “I can
smell that stinking stuff a mile
away.”
So, there you have it. It’s not
that she had x-ray vision; she
just had a good smeller.
I guess to her chewing gum
was just like cigarette smoke or
alcohol on someone’s breath is to
me. You may not believe it, but I
can pull up behind a car at a stop
light and have all the windows
up and still smell their cigarette
smoke.
I guess if you detest the smell
of something so bad you don’t
have to catch them in the act.
The winners are losers
I wonder if those recording
industry people really think peo-
ple around the country are going
to jump on the Dixie Chicks’
bandwagon again just because
they gave them five Grammy
Awards?
It ain’t gonna
happen.
When the lit-
tle loud-
mouthed fat
girl member
of the group
made her
comments
about George
Bush people
didn’t take
kindly to it.
Even people who despised
Bush were appalled that show
business celebrities would go
outside the country and deni-
grate their president.
The Chicks won five Grammys
for their latest album which has
not cracked the top 20. Their
smart aleck song “Not ready to
Make Nice” has not set the music
business on fire either.
They've cranked up their
propaganda machines and all
the liberal media are trumpeting
the Chicks’ success. I could have
written their reports for them.
They are that predictable.
Jim Heffner
Guest Column
“Vindication” screamed stories
in the New York Times and other
liberal rags. How they wish that
was so.
You must remember that the
people who hand out the gram-
mys are show business people.
By their very nature, they hate
Bush, Republicans and conserva-
tives, not to mention Christians.
There are about 11,000 people
involved in the recording busi-
ness, and a small percentage of
them vote on the Grammys. I'll
bet the majority of them would
not agree with the award win-
ners this year.
Here’s how important a
Grammy is. Jimmy Carter, for-
mer peanut farmer, president
and plagiarist was given a
Grammy for reading from his
new book, which is shot through
with anti-semitic remarks.
I put Grammys right up there
with Nobel prizes (Carter has
one of those, too) and academy
awards.
If you are anti-America, you
have a good shot at a Nobel
prize or an academy award, or
both.
Michael Moore produced a
documentary which was little
more than a series of lies and
exaggerations, and he won an
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academy award for it. Now it
appears Al Gore will win for his
documentary on global warm-
ing. There's a good chance Gore
will win a Nobel prize as well.
But, back to the Dixie Chicks.
They do have a core of fans who
buy their music and attend their
concerts, and there are enough of
them td keep them rolling in
dough (or eating it in Natalie’s
case) for years to come. But they
will never be mega stars, as they
once could have been. The
Chicks have only themselves to
blame.
After her initial attack on
Bush, Maines went on TV and
apologized, but she just couldn't
bring it off. Nobody believed
her. If she had just gone along
and kept her mouth shut, it
would have all blown over. She
just couldn’t do it.
“Not Ready to Make Nice” is
just a continuation of her refusal
to recognize her mistakes. Quick,
how many of you can hum the
tune?
Those other two Chicks are
just as bad, but they do look
pretty good. In my younger
days, given the chance, I proba-
bly would have gone out with
the little fat Chick just to get to
the other two.
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Ted Gamble, left, and Will Adams are pictured in front of Gamble's Shell Station in Kings Mountain onl
March 29, 1963. Gamble operated the business at the corner of Battleground Avenue and Mountain
Street for a number of years. The corner is the present site of the Kings Mountain Branch of the
Cleveland Chamber. Burton Cabs can be partly seen at the rear of the building. It also appears that
Chevrolet owners liked to have their cars serviced by Gamble and Adams.
Schools were getting ready for
Sey
consolidation in February 1961
From the February 23, 1961
edition of the Herald:
Kelly Dixon and David L.
Saunders have entered the con-
test for mayor of Kings
Mountain. They will oppose
Mayor Glee A. Bridges, who is
seeking re-election to a fifth
term.
Jim Lee Yarbro Jr., 34-year-old
Bethlehem section poultryman,
was named Cleveland County’ S
Farmer of "the Year
Woman's Club.
J. Ollie Harris, Cleveland
County Corner, has been elected
first vice-president of the newly
organized = North Carolina
Coroner ’s Association.
B.N. Barnes, superintendent of
schools, and Fred W. Plonk,
chairman of the Kings Mountain
District Board of Education, will
confer in Raleigh Friday with the
assistant attorney general in
charge of school legislation, con-
cerning charter changes required
to enfranchise citizens in the
expanded district. By election
last May, citizens in the county
district served by Grover,
Bethware, Compact and Park
Grace schools, voted themselves
into the Kings Mountain admin-
istrative unit.
Frieda Marguerite McGinnis,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert
McGinnis, has been initiated into
Lambda Alpha sorority at
Lenoir-Rhyne College.
In addition to electing a mayor
and five city commissioners, the
Kings Mountain citizens this
year are likely to get an opportu-
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nity for a third time to approve
or reject a modified city manager
plan of government.
Kings Mountain's George
Wilson will make a return
engagement as manager in the
Western Carolina League this
summer. The veteran outfielder
this week was named manager
of the Statesville entry in the
Class D circuit.
Kings Mountains basketball
teams dropped a doubleheader
Présday night at the annual *to'Sh
Farmers Night Banquet at the
Friday, the girls losing
78-64 and the boys 58-45.
Marlene Weir scored 32 points
and Pat Gladden 28 for the girls.
Punch Parker scored 18 for the
boys.
Bethware’s girls advanced to
the semifinal of the County
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Tournament with a 44-35 win
over North Brook. Linda
Herndon scored 22 points and
Pat Bolin 20 to lead the Lady
Buccaneers. The Bethware boys
defeated Union 48-46 with Jerry
Morris scoring 17 points
Keith Griggs has joined the
Central high school faculty as
teacher of civics and girls physi-
cal education. 3
Paul Lancaster ‘will’ speak’ on
“Importance of Education in a
Growing America” at Monday
night's Park Grace P-TA meeting
at 7 p.m.
Robert B. Early has been
named to the dean’s list for the
first semester at Belmont Abbey
College.
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