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Wear the green
for St. Patrick
Reader Dialogue
State leadership praised
An open letter to Kings Mountain area citizens:
I commend the Senate leadersip and a majority of
the opponents and proponents of the Equal Rights
Amendment for their decision that the issue of the
Equal Rights Amendment not be discussed, debated
or voted upon at any time throughout the re
mainder of the 1981-82 Session of the North
Carolina Senate. Essentially, this move delays the
possible ratification in North Carolina of the federal
constitution amendment until the 1983 Session. As
it stands now, the amendment’s national deadline is
June 30, 1982.
By electing or returning a majority of opponents
of the Equal Rights Amendment to the North
Carolina &ntate, the voters of the State of North
Carolina voted down the Equal Rights Amendment
in November, 1980. The Senate leadership, and a
majority of the opponents and proponents of the
ERA, recognize this fact, and this decision frees the
State to turn its attention to the $12 billion budget,
and the many other issues of great importance to
the citizens of the State.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the
many people who communicated with me in per
son, on the phone, or in writing, their opinions on
the Equal Rights Amendment, and I would ask
their help in meeting the other challenges that will
face us in the months ahead.
Jimmy Gre«n, Lieutenant Governor
Raleigh, N.C.
Bl^Ck
(From the Thurs.. Mar. 17,1956 edition of
The Kings Mountain Herald)
Henry P. Neisler was elected president of the
Kings Mountain Country Club for the coming year
at a meeting of the incoming board of directors
Wednesday afternoon. He succeeds George Houser.
The Kings Mountain Lions Club will entertain an
estimated 125 farmers Tuesday night at the club’s
annual Farmer’s Night Banqute.
Social and Personal
Mrs. Luther Cansler will conduct the Spiritual
Life meeting Monday night at Central Methodist
Church.
Beth Houser and Pene Cansler will be among
local exhibitors in the art exhibit being sponsored by
the Fine Arts Department of the Woman’s Club
this weekend.
Mrs. Paul Ware was hostess Monday to members
of Circle 4 of Central Methodist Church.
Poets
Corner
PURE PLEASURE
Finding joy in simple things
is a treasure without measure.
Looking deep within a rose
delighting in the pleasure.
Rejoicing in the cheerfulness
the melody of birds can bring.
When a day is clothed in grayness
or in the gladness of spring.
The first yellow buttercup
that dons a crinkle cap,
A bed of pink and purple hyacinth
awakened from winter’s nap;
A wild rose by the wayside
the lily of the field.
Even to our Lord
held so much appeal.
Finding joy in simple things
is simply pure pleasure.
So richly rewarding today
a treasure without measure.
Vivian S. Biltcliii*
Whats behind it?
To the editor:
El Salvador: What’s behind it all ?
Political or military.
The subject covers many aspects, with the sket
chy report from this source and that.
There could be a parallel between the manner in
which we got involved in the Vietnam conflict.
Present circumstances are somewhat in nature.
Advisers, then a gradual buildup and required
military personnel from the armed forces having
established a foothold. Then the action begtm.
Prior to our going to Vietnam condition were in
flation, then recession and possible depression here
in the U.SA., business dropping, the stock market
up and down, the value of the American dollar.
Big business was hurting for certain, with
unemployment, etc. The present situation has the
same earmarkings. Who really knows except those
from within in the department of defense. With the
President’s speech to the nation pertaining to the
communist menace, etc., one guess is as good as
another.
There’s one thing for sure. It doesn’t sound good.
Questions are being asked, is this the purpose of
the President’s determination for such drastic
budget cuts? To not have it go before Congress for
greater defense spending and appropriations in the
event we should get into another conflict and
become bogged down with a no win policy such as
Vietnam?
Everatte Pearson
Today’s the day to “wear the green” and the day
to look for a four leaf clover, symbol of good for
tune and the luck of the Irish.
Rare as they are, what would Patrick have said if
he had accidentally found one?
Today is St. Patrick’s Day and quite a holiday in
New York, Chicago, Boston and other cities with
large Irish populations, as in aged Eire itself where
an American soldier, the song says, met a Wild Irish
Rose and wanted to turn her into an American
Beauty.
St. Patrick was quite a guy, the encyclopedia
folklore has it. Born in England, about 389 A.D., he
grew up in a Christian home in Southern England
but at the age of 16 he was captured by heathen
Irish raiders who carried the lad back to their do
main and kept him a slave swineherder for six years,
until the young lad escaped to France (then known
as Gaul) where he entered a monastery and became
a monk. Subsequently he returned to England.
Patrick, according to folklore, is supposed to have
had a dream in which a man came to him bearing a
paper with the title, “The Voice of the Irish” and
saying that the people of Ireland called for him to
save them. Thus, the monk Patrick answered the
call, but not before returning to France for 14 years
of preparation and study. Then he returned to the
barbaric land where he had been a slave
swineherder.
The rest of the tale is more familiar. Patrick did a
great work Christianizing the barbarians. He drove
the snakes out of Ireland, into the'sea, and establish-
Lib
Stewart
GI^RY 9T€WI^RT
-Boy, did we have
a high last night
Jonas Bridges, the manager of WKMT Radio Sta
tion, usually is too busy to go on the air. But,
SPRING SCENE — With warmw days. Kings
Mountain orsa rosidonts or* taking to tho out-
doott. Many aitornoons find flshsnnon and
Photo by Gary Stowort
bootors at noarby Moss Laks. Boators, tbs sot
ting sun and its rofloctions on tho wators of
Moss Lako moko for an intorosting picturo.
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ed the shamrock as the national and international
emblem for all good Irish. This is supposed to have
occurred through his reply to a heretic’s questioning
of the doctrine of the trinity. ‘Three in one,” he is
alleged to have said. True or not, no Irishman has
since failed to respect St. Patrick and the shamrock
symbol.
The Irish shamrock is similar to our white clover,
except that the floweris yellow, rather than blue-
green.
St. Patrick died on March 17,461, nearly 15 cen
turies ago. Unlike our celebration of birthday an
niversaries, St. Patrick’s Day is the anniversary of
this good man’s death. There is an additional bit of
folklore to the story that there was no daylight in
Ireland for 12 days after his death. If it seems a bit
incredible it must be remembered that Ireland lies in
northern latitudes, where several countries are also
famous for being lands of midnight sun, when dur
ing late summer, the days are quite long and there is
no night. Conveivably, the period near the equinox
six months earlier could result in total darkness.
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sometimes, he likes to take to the mike, just to keep
in practice. ^
Last Friday, he decided to do the weather and
came through with something like this: “We had a
high last night tmd the low was in the 40’s.”..
Well, one wonders what kind of high we had, and
good old Jonas got a big laugh when one of his
listeners told him how his weather report came out.
A radio announcer, Jonas said, has no time to
think about what he’s saying when reading the
news or weather.
He recalled several years ago that a young radio
man was preparing to do the weather one hot sum
mer day when the temperature was in the 90’s.
Jonas reached back into the files and got out a
December weather report and substituted it for the
current one. The young announcer took the mike,
and announced that “we have 50 percent chance of
snow flurries and the high will be 16 degrees.”
When he got off the air and all his co-workers
were busting their guts, the young man still hadn’t
realized what he had said.
I remember back several years ago when a close
friend of mine, Lawrence Cobb, was working at
WKMT.
I was riding around town one Saturday morning
listening to the Cobb-A-Go-Round show, and it was
raining cats and dogs. Lawrence came on to do the
weather. He obviously had not looked outside since
reporting to work early that morning. “We have a
10 percent chance of scattered showers in Kings
Mountain today,” he said.
That’s about like the time Clyde McLean an
nounced on WBTV one night that the next morn
ing we would have panly cloudy skies in the Pied
mont. The next morning, the Piedmont awoke to 12
inches of snow.
That may have been when Clyde got tagged with
the nickname XIoudy.”
But, of all the slips I’ve ever head on radio, the
one I’ll always remember as the best came from a
radio preacher, who was signing off his show one
day.
‘This is Rev. Joe Doe (not his real name) saying,
the Lord bless you and yours til 10 o’clock Monday
morning.”
Of course, the preacher meant he would be back
on the air at 10 o’clock Monday morning. But, my
immediate reaction to the statement was, “but after
10 o clock Monday morning, the heck with you.”
Oh, well. There have been many slips in
newspapers that our radio friends probably got big
kicks out of too. I remember one in particular years
ago in the old Kings Mountain Mirror concerning a
softball player that hit a home run. But we won’t
get in to that.
Something On Your Mind?
Write: Reader Dialogue
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Kings Mountain, N.C. 28086
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