Pag* 2-KIHG8 MOUNTAIN HERALD-TuMdoY. Ium 23. 1981
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Congratulations
Spectrum
The continuance of a large payroll for the Kings
Mountain area is obviously enhanced by the cons
tant effort to improve its facilities, expand its cap-
bilities for dyeing, and therby cut production costs.
The community was delighted 10 years ago at the
news that Spectrum was coming to Kings Moun
tain. The community is delighted that Spectrum is a
part of the community. In congratulating the com
pany on its 10th birthday this week, the Herald
joins other citizens in wishing Spectrum continued
success in its Kings Mountain operation.
During the past 10 years. Spectrum Fibers, Inc.
has teen a citizen of Kings Mountain and the
association has teen a pleasant one for the com
munity.
In the first place, Spectrum has given particular
attention to providing good jobs from up to 266 to
500 people and has supported from the very beginn
ing various community endeavors while encourag
ing its employees to participate in community ac
tivities.
A Moving Experience food
“Americans are receiving more mail-important
mail-than at any time in postal history,” says Kings
Mountain Postmaster Fred Weaver.“Yet when it
comes time to call the movers, one of the most
overlooked of all procedures is notifying the proper
parties of the change of address. In addition to the
personal expense and inconvenience to the
homeowner and mailers, undeliverable-as-addressed
mail has become one of the hidden costs of
mailing.”
Postmaster Weaver says the Postal Service
spends about S550 million a year to handle an
estimated 4.5 billion pieces of mail that is
undeliverable. "This is expense that ultimately ends
up within the price of postage stamps, and worse, it
is unnecessary. Change of address is a simple matter
today.”
The Postal Service has been urging its customers
to inform all correspondents promptly of address
changes at least 30 days before a scheduled move.
With an assist from moving companies, real estate
agents and others, the Postal tervice distributes
from ten to 16 million change of address kits every
year to make it easier to notify correspondents and
publishers.
"The primary strength of this program is that
everyone benefits from it,” says Postmaster
Weaver. ‘The family that is moving benefits
because their mail continues to arrive promptly,
stores and other business correspondents cn avoid
billing problems, and the Postal Service is able to
process the mail more efficiently and at less cost.”
Postmaster Weaver says the Postal service is now
launching a new effort to get change of address kits
into circulation. A direct mail cainptaign is asking
commercial organizations such as truck rental firms,
moving companies and real estate firms and others
who deal with people on the move, to help
distribute the Postal Service’s handy Change of Ad
dress kit.
The kit contains convenient cards for notifying
the postmaster, publishers, businesses, doctors, state
and local agencies and utilities. The kit also includes
a checklist of groups and individuals to be contacted
prior to a move.
“We know that peak moving dates fall between
June and August, and as we approach this season, it
is important for anyone planning to move to use
one of the kits. All they have to do is to ask for one,
either from one of the participating service com
panies or the local postoffice,” says Wever. The
movers can help themselves, their correspondents
and the Postal Service save more than $550 million
a year that we simply don’t have to waste.
The United States has become
a nation of gulpers and snackers.
Many people never sit down for
a full meal, grabbing a bite to eat
on the run. Almost 37 percent of
all Americans skip breakfast.
The fast food industry has
blossomed as a result; it is now
one of the three largest retail in
dustries in our country. Fast
food is not necessarily bad food.
Our friends and neighbors in the
dairy industry, during June
Dairy Month, have reminded us
that one of the test “fast” foods
is a glass of milk. Loaded with
protein and calcium.
You can drink it straight
down or pour it on cereal. It
needs no preparation. That’s a
healthy reminder as you rush
out the door to start your day
tomorrow.
Deiinition Of A
Newspaperman
The following article was written many years ago
and recently surfaced again in the Door County,
Wise. Advocate and was passed along to us by a
reader. We found it interesting , and then some.
“What is a newspaperman?"
“He is a cross between a bundle of nerves and a
heroic public servant. He is the people’s friend
whom everybody’s mad at; the gatherer of the news
who hasn’t time to read his own mail; the power of
the printed word encased in a fallible human frame.
Lib
Stewart
‘The habitat of the newspaperman is wherever
you may find himfand just try about dinner time).
But he is never far from a typewriter or telephone.
If you want to make him miserable, pmnt out
four errors in the front page after he has read proofs
all night until he’s cross-eyed.
Anatomically he is a unique creature, subsisting
almost exclusively on caffein and nicotine, and well
on his way to a fine case of ulcers before he’s 30. His
habits tend to be primarily nocturnal, from tempera
ment fully as much from necessity.
“If you want to win his undying gratitude, praise
sincerely the editoriab he sweated out long hours,
knowing full well that only five people will be af
fected by it, and read it.
“And if by chance he ever does get a quiet even-
.iig at home, then without fail the fire sirens blow or
the phone rings, and you don't see him for another
five hours.
“He is constantly preoccupied when you try to
talk to him about the trivia of his personal life, for
his mind is a whirlpool of 36 point heads, that error
in Jones and Swee v’s classified and where to dig up
the dope on that story some local VIP was “not
authorized to divulge.”
“He has a passionate desire for complete accuracy
in a hopelessly error-ridden profession, a constant
quest for new angles, fresh ideas; a surprisingly
childlike pleasure in artistically alliterative
headlines, and dry wit in features and editoriab,
usually too subtle to be appreciated by and but hb
wife, who has been coach^; and a sadbtic glee in
pointing out the number of press releases and
rewrites in his competitor’s front page.
“A newspaperman is a crazy fool with the
camera, out bareheaded in the season’s worst storm,
or crouching so close to the goal line he’s going to
get a cleat in his teeth, or trying to herd the Ladies
Literary Circle into order so he can take their pic
tures and get out of there.
“A newspaperman is essentially a lonely man, ap
parently doomed to perpetual misrepresentation.
He is forever stereotyped as a hard-drinking, high-
living back-slapping tough and aggressive cross bet
ween Jackie Gleason and Jack Webb, even though
in reality he may be a sober, gentle, family man, and
just as reticent as the next guy ateut meeting new
people or speaking up in public
A newspaperman is the one remaining profes
sional jack of all trades in our specialized society, for
he is an expert typist, an amateur English writer, of
fice boy, charwoman and creative artist.
He has a working acquaintance with typesetting,
political science, ornithology, the social register, ad-
dressographs, the who’s who, and taboos of all the
organizations and lodges in town, the tax struture,
photographic developing, juvenile delinquency,
county fairs, furniture refinishing and the
philosophy of responsible journalism.
As for his role, the people know he is their ser
vant, but seldom realize that he serves them and
democracy test when he is most independent of
their partisan pressures.
“A newspaperman is considered fair game for tak
ing pot shots at by everyone in the community; the
irate, the civic uplift league because he didn’t
publish every detail of ther goings on; the wrathful
local politicians because he did publish theirs. And
yet he is supposed to be nice to everyone.
He is the unpopular individual who telb people
what they ought to know, even though some don’t
want to know. He is the historic role of enlightening
public opinion, but men with historic roles seldom
have go^ appetites.
“It is really only his spontaneous and completely
indestructible sense of humor that keeps the
newspaperman sane; and yet he is hopelessly ad
dicted to his hectic life.
Underneath his traditionally hard exterior, the
newspaperman is human, and as sensitive as any
craftsman about his worlt. If you want to make him
angry, give him a lead on an important story and
then say, ’but don’t print that, we don’t think people
should know about it yet.”
herald add lib’s
‘The newspaperman is Truth with a chonic
headache, he is Freedom of Information and Opi
nion with high blood pressure and he is the Cham
pion of Right causes with darkroom chemical stains
in his good clothes. He is Civic Integrity working for
half the pay he could get elsewhere; and Honesty
coming home very late, very tired.
‘There are times when even his family can scare-
ly live with him.
“But thank God that our country still has the
likes of him.”
One^the lowest
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(From the June 23,1950 edition of the Kings
Mountain Herald)
Pattie Howard, five-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Grady K. Howard, and Chip McGinnis, son of
Mr. and Mrs J. T. McGinnis, were chosen “Little
Miss Kings Mountain“and “Little Mr Kings Moun
tain” in the baby contests sponsored by the Junior
Chamber of Commerce June 15th.
Miss Frances Summers, Kings Mountain
soprano, will sing an all-sacred recital at the Ascen
sion Lutheran Church in Shelby on Sunday evening
at 7:30 p.m.
Mrs. H. Carl Mayes was hostess to the Entre-
Nous Bridge club at her home Tuesdy afternoon.
The Mary Kennedy Circle of the Boyce
Memorial ARP Church met at week at the home of
Mr*. W. S. Fulton, Jr.
Circle 3 of First Presbyterian Church met last
Monday with Mrs. Sam Weir.
Miss Elizabeth Smith Holland and James Edward
Amos were married Saturday afternoon in
Gastonia’s First Baptist Church.
If you’re like most homeowners, you probably
can’t get over today’s high nxjrtgage interest
rates. But thanks to the Federal National Mort
gage Association (FNMA, better known as Fannie
Mae), you just might be able to get under them.
Fannie Mae, a government-chartered mort
gage firm, owns almost two million home mort
gages nationwide. Including some 64,000 on
homes in the Carolinas. One of them could be
yours. And you may not even know it. (We ll
tell you how to find out in a minute.)
Now, Fannie Mae has a resale/refinancing
plan that could be your best bet to find a buyer
for your home. Or, just as important, to get at
the money you already have in your home. And
use it for almost anything.
Here’s how.
Easier toselL
If you’re considering selling your home, and
your mortgage is owned by Fannie Mae, you’re
in luck. Under the new plan, Fannie Mae will
provide a mortgage to a prospective buyer at a
oelow-market rate of interest.
In fact, in many cases, Fannie Mae can provide
mortgage money at a rate substantially below the
rate currently available from a savings and loan,
or even from FHAAA financing.
In today’s economic climate, Fannie Mae’s
plan could make your property look irresistible
financially. It could be just what you need to
sell your home.
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But that’s only half the story. Fannie Mae also
has good news for those who don’t want to sell.
Perhaps you’d rather have money. Money for
your children’s education. Money for a vacation
home. Money to start your own business. Or,
for just about anything you can think of.
If your mortgage is owned by Fannie Mae,
you may be able to get the money you need
without paying today’s steep market interest
rates. Under the plan, Fannie Mae can refinance
your mortgage and turn your home’s inaeased
value into cash. At a rate of interest well below
that charged in the market place today.
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How can you find out if your mortgage is owned
by the Federal National Mortgage A^ociation?
Simple. Just pick up the phone and call a pro
fessional banker in Independence National’s
Mortgage Loan Department, at (704) 866-6527,
in Gastonia. Or (7(34) 482-4321 in Shelby.
We can’t tell you immediately what your inter
est rate would he on a new mortgage. But, once
you supply us with the necessary information
on your old mortgage, we can give you an exact
answer in j ust a few days.
If you have a nose for financial opportunity,
call us right now.
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Member FDIC
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