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The Kings Mountain Herald A wppkly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28088 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Mi.ss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dave Weathers, Supt. Allen Myers Paul Jackson Ray Barrett SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR... .$3.50 SIX MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE So tlirhint Khn)l hr firxt, ond the Jirst fwt: for many he called bat feux-liosen. St. Matthew 30:16. KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, December 19, 1968 Steve Martin Need For Housing Kings Mountain is housing shy. Telephones of realtors ring ranstant- ly with inquiries about properties avail able for rent and purchase. The Herald gets its share, too, as people needing shelter seek an advance peck at the classified advertising section in the “for rent” and "for sale” cate gories. Mayor John Henry Moss’ call for a minimum of 1000 houses during the com ing three years is little enough. All one need do is add the employ ment projections of new industry now building and pre.sont industry now e.\- panding — this in the face of a paucity of rental housing and a minimum amount of housing available for sale. Solving the problem appears fairly simple excepting one fact: increasing cost of construction. An out-of-town builder remarked last week, “The houses I once built for $14,000 to $16,000 I must now price at $20,000 to $22,000 and then 1 do well to have a few dollars left for my work.” The public housing program prom ises 150 dwelling units, which should be completed well before the Mayor's stated time limit of three years. However, this program is anticipated as placing the elderly and low income families in stand ard, rather than sub-standard and/or derelict dwellings. The need the Mayor was talking about was not in this area, but in the area of housing available to incoming families to staff expanding industry. Housing is the community’s current major problem. Welcome. Concept The Kings Mountain area should be particularly pleased at the announce ment last week that a new furniture manufacturer is en route to becoming a Kings Mountain industrial citizen. Citizens will be pleased, too, at Presi dent Lon Miller’s announcement that Concept Furniture Corporation expects to employ almost exclusively from this area. Industrially, the fact of furniture manufacture is welcome, not only for the customary reason of new employment opportunity, but from the standpoint of industry diversification. Already, Kinder Manufacturing Company promi.sed diversification in the furniture direction. The owners of Concept are veterans in the furniture field. All wish them full succe.ss. Amazing Coeperolion A couple of decades ago, a prescient Kings Mountain citizen remarked, “If you’re for it, you can be pretty sure your next door neighbor will be against it.” He was correct. Kings Mountain’s record of cooperation, perhaps better stated as unified community thinking, was not good. A margin of 5 to 4 was considered in terms of a landslide vic tory by the winners. Times must be changing. Kings Mountain citizens approved the soon-to-be completed sewage dispo.s- al program by 13 to 1. They followed by approving the water program by 20 to 1. Now the community has witnessed the quite amazing cooperation of what is now the southwest sector of Kings Mountain in agreeing, in fact inviting, extension of the city limits. Owners of only ten properties in a 425-acre area have as yet declined to pe tition for inclusion in this most major expansion since 1923. As a matter of historical record, humors were not as good in that day. But the disincorporation of the Town of East Kings Mountain and its incorpora tion into Kings Mountain was done by legislative act, rather than by petitions of property owners. But that was 45 years ago, and the recent indications of unified thinking of Kings Mountain citizens on public mat ters bodes good for the future for all. To Borrow, Or Not Micou Browne, chief architect of the report of the highway study commission, delinenated this week on the “pay-as- you-go” policy his group recommends. With some merit he points to the high cost of borrowing and tight money as a principal reason, and he wagers at the same time on an economic slowdown which will slow continuing inflationary trends in construction. It’s still a wager on the crvstal-ball and a bet likely to be called by thowi^ look with alarm at the recommendations for pay-as-you-go-revenue, to wit: a 43 percent increase in the state gasoline tax, auto license tags at .$25, etc. The super highway, of course, is now estimated at one million dollars per mile. A short eight years ago, that was the projection for super highways in the mountains, not in the rolling Piedmont, the Sandhills or in coastal areas. Al^n Retirement Members of the city electrical de partment, among them Superintendent Hunter Allen, log in for the day’s duties at 7:30 a.m. If the day is normal, work ends at 4:30 p.m. All days aren’t normal. Between summer storms and winter ice the electrical crew has been known to work around the clock to fulfill their responsibilities to keep electricity flow ing for cooking, heating, lighting, and the television tube. When Mr. Allen joined the city as a lineman in 1931, the city has a depart ment of public works, with the several functions of water, sewer and electrical service under the menage of the late L. C. Parsons. As the city has grown the public works department has been de partmentalized. During Mr. Allen’s tenure as superin tendent, elettrical service has been im proved with two system re-vampings, rates for service have been cut to the point Kings Mountain views with Fay etteville for the honor of selling power more cheaply than an power-selling city in the state, and yet the electrical de partment cohtinues to provide growing profits annuhlly for other city services. Mr. Allen, it is understood, will re main on scerie in a semi-retired, advisory capacity, for which all will be glad. He knows the system. And he has proved over the years he knows the meaning of “service” and with a smile. Congratulations to Miss Carol Jean Goter and Miss Anne Trott, recently hon ored by election to membership in na tional honorary scholastic societies. It’s hard to believe, but only five shopping days remain until Christmas. Buy a Christmas tree from a Jaycee. Congratulations to Wayne Mullinax, most valuable, Stan Brown, best blocker, Clarence (Flash) Ashe, n^ost improved, and Jeeper Howard, best scholar, of thi Kings Mountain high sclio6l football team of 1968. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By MARTIN HARMON In process of re-hashing the gathering last Thursday of city ottficlals and Southern Railway officials on several matters of mutual interest, I learned some more about Tom Tate, member of the city planning board and urban development commission. m-a Tom’s a onetime railroader for the Seaboard (now Atlantic Sea board). m-m Tom's history came up when I was recalling the comments by S. E. RatliJf, Southern's Pied mont division superintendent, a- bout grade-crossing safety. He sugigested that railmen who have ridden in the engineer’s cab tas had Ratliff) are more safety conscious than most motorists. Many times, he said, he had held his breath as some non-see ing, non-hearing motorist either stopped in the nick Of time or charged across track with only inches to .spare. m-m But Tom Tate woi-ked in Flor ida shortly after World War II as a maintenance man. He has two vivid memories of narrow escapes. m-m On one occasion the crow was traveling up-track on the more modern seif.propelled version of the handcar, at a speed of about 25 miles per hour. It was suppos- e.i to be a clear track. Suddenly it wasn’t a clear track. Bearing down hard and balling the jack on a collision course w'as a fast approaching train. The hand'cari crew jumped off and rolled to thej In an age racked by violence side, the last one off exiting justlh may seem trivial indeed to in the nick of time. The handcar speak of the decline of manners. was smashed to smithereens. The I Yet that fa'lllng-off is sympto- train engineer was nice. He back- matic of a concurrent decline of ’'5 ® ® ''(1 O 0.® O 0°®« O 0 Cr Man, What+a Ride! Viewpoints of Other Editors THE DECLINE OF MANNERS Ten Years Ago Items of interest which occur. ?d approximately ten years ago ed down and the handcar crcftvd rode into the next town in style. m-m The next time the crew was working on a bridge over a riv er. They had notic^ the alligat ors playing about. Here comes another unscheduled train. Alli gators notwithstanding, Tom div ed over the rail. He is pretty sure, he Said, no more than the uw)er half of his body got wet. He had hardly hit the water when he grabbed a bridge sup port and pulled himself out. He had remembered the alligators COST OF KEEPING LIZZIE Nothing’s more of a 'nuisance| than a car that won’t run - un-j loss it’s the repair bill to get it going again. The Senate Judici-I any Committee is looking into au to repairs now in Washington torerance and hence has some-1 and ^ture"will**be^ presented £ findings help nail dmw what *1 ..!„i . . .K . . car owners have susoected: thing to do with the violence it self. What decline? Various times past were far rougher than ours, save perhaps for the small civil ized elites. Intolerance is rooted in human history. Still, the growth of booriShness is a highly visible phenomenon Boyce Memorial ARP church Sunday at 6 p.m. 'The city board of education Monday night authorized pur chase Of flagpoles for four city school plants. iSOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Keeter oil Grover have announced the en- today, possibly all the more so gagement of their daughter, Peg because until recently many of us had regarded our society as continually improving in civility and broad-mindedness. In such circumstances the new incivility is both notable and disturbing^ i 'White prejudice toward Ne- quite well. “The other boys groos is answered, on the part of laughed and laughed," Tom re-'some Negro spokesmen, by an calls, “but I never have remem-. enraged black racism which de-j 'bered that incident as being fun-jnies any virtue in white civiliza- ny." tion and evidently wants to oblit erate it. Whereas mutual accom modation is the basic hope for better race relations, these peo- -ruo 1,1 t lu advocate the very opposite. The safety side of the conver- .^any of the students who want sations were exploratory at best.“restructure" the university ?} are not seeking to right admitted Of course. Which wuldn’t be doubtless are sin- theieere about it). They want to tear United States jniiit, Joe Laney,, down. Though they are not "°‘5?'isure what they would substitiute, Mountain and the) would be something they would ^uthem seemed to be minus the ^ arbitrarily impose on evenjlbody else. They may think they are an- I archists or Communists; implicit- m-m ‘ i ly they are facists. I Or take the whole question of Billy Mauney declared he would radical students, the like to see all unprotected cross-if^e hippies. Few a- gy Jean, to Frank Wayne Kish, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Kish of Gadsden. Ala. The wedding will take place in February. KINGS MOUNTAII^l Hospital LoA VISITING HOURS ' ^ 3 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 8 pjn. DaUy 10:30 To 11:30 oua. PATIENTS IN KINGS MOUNTAIN HOSPITAL AS OF NOON WED- NESDAY: Mrs. Annie Blackburn Mrs. David Campbell Mr. Earl Caipenter Mrs. Ida Hamrick Mrs. Aquilla Hullstetler Ml-. Josi-ph Mellen Mrs. Mattie .Melton .Mfs. Ethel .Mullens .Mis. .Maggie McClain Mrs. A. H. Patter.son Shaion Byers _ Mrs. Jimmy Curry Mrs. Jack Gaddy .Mrs. Lena Goforth Mr. IJoyd Hall Mr. M. L. Harmon, Si-. Mr. J. D. Hoi-d .Mrs. Willie Houser Mr. William Houser Mr.s. Sidney Huffstelici- Shelia Johnson Mis. Mack Joi-dan Mrs, Amzia MctMain Mr. James Parker ■Mr. George Runyans .Mi-s. Paul .Sanders .Mrs. Ida Smith ADMITTED THURSDAY Mrs. C. B. Bostic, Rt. mcr City Charles Green, Jr., City .Ml’. James Black, Rt. 1. .McTon- noils, S. C. ADMITTED FRIDAY .Mrs. Ora Maune-y, Rt, 1, Hp.ssp- mer City Mrs. Campbell Phifer, P.O. Box 22, City Mr. Doi'us Smith, P.O. Box lfi5 City Mr. Richard Fite, Rt. 3, City -Mrs. J. D. Short, Rt. 3, City Mrs. Ethel Youngblood, 2fl,3 Fori-est St., Clover, S. C. Ml'. James Moss, 610 Moariiw bi-ook Rd.. City Miss Sylvia Jordan, 109 N. Watterson St., City ADMITTED SATURDAY Mr. Herbert Clemmons, Dixie Trailer Park, City Mr. George Petty, S130 Chui-ch SI., City Mrs. Fairy .Sellers, Rt. 2, City Mrs. Eugene Curry, Rt. 1, City .Mrs. .Tesse Rippy, 60S W. Kin; St., City Rhonda White, Rt. 1, Kingij car owners have suspected: • Parts costs. From 1960 to 1967 prices for car parts rose 52 i, q r- percent, the cost for labor 53',nw,L^n%UNDAY percent. In the past year alone ADMITITD SUNMT auto parts prices increased $l .Mrs^ Rayfield, 10. billion. This is triple the new car' cost rise. In a three month per- iod last yearend after nt*w car prices were announced parts costs were increased quiet ly by manufacturers by 4 to 7 percent. There was another 3 ill take place in February. |^ . “r. Kemp Ledford, Rt. 3.’ Sarda^rhe‘;r;"era"hTd^i?.4!? ->Hon\ut^o partsi 'Mr- John Beil, ,S09 Ellison Mr. Haskell Clark, 105 Siith E St., Bessemer City Mr. James Leach. Jr. 1 2. City Mr. Doytt Falls, 202 D: St., City ADMITTED MONDAY party honoring Fails, bride-elect. Miss Shirley LINDBERGH SPEAKS market. • Labor costs. Repair shops figure repair charges by consiult- ing a manual which gives the I fee for each operation — such as putting on a now muffler. This -Perhaps nobody has donemore flat-rate system let.s the mechan- for aviation and space technolo-- ic earn more if he works faster, gy than Charles A. Linclbergb.l And, of course, the dealer or re- Certainly, nobody is better quail- pair shop earns more, too. A- fied to appraise the results, mong the system’s abuses: some 1208 When he spoke not long ago to the National Institute of Social Sciences, it was in sorrow rather than triumph. manuals charge higher rates for the same repairs; certain “pre ferred" customers get discounts not given the average consumer; _ , . jt. , -J •and customers are oJten “sold” For’ as Lindbergh said avia- operations their vehicle jCity Mrs. Barry Huffman Gold St., City Mrs. Andrew Locklear. Clovcrwood Ln., Gastonia Mrs. Doris Harris, ,500 Qm Ct., Gastonta Mr. Jimmy Wells, 203 W. M Ave., Bessemer Citv ADMITTED TUESDAY Mr. Wesley Bailey, 318 E. ton Ave.. Bc'ssemer City Mr. Walker Arrowood, City ADMITTED WEDNESDAY Mrs. Clara Wright tion instead of bring people clos er together has driven them far ther apart because its powers of destruction have been so highly doesn’t need, or are charged for work not done. • Design. Auto engineering and better roads through the cherished because of its ability to wipe out civilization overnight. . We have, in other words, made ings closed, particular those ati ^1* long hair and | the worst use df the best inven- Gold street, the Mabney Mill and ' at Kings Mountain Cotton Oil Company. He felt, he said, an un derpass in the vicinity of Gold or Falls street, where the terrain on the west side lends itself to an underpass, would permit the closings. developed. And the rocket, whichj.ygaj-g hav-c made it easier to explores outer space, is m^t| cars. But manufactur- m-m Mr. Ratliff said Southern sel dom, if ever, participates, cost- wise, in the building df under passes not on state or federal highways, and he placed the cost of warning bells Mountain street beards as such—they have been worn with elegance in other per iods. What is objectionable is the utter slovenliness with which they are worn today, accompan ied by an equal slovenliness of dress. This squalor is deliberate, of course. It is meant to signify a rejection of and contempt for the world of decent manners. These rebels don’t care to live in peace with others; crudely intolerant, they would like to turn on the rest of their special mode of life. -So the decline of manners is a (such as at! matter of some significance. It and Llnwood has often been remarked that road) at $2.5,000. A gate system.*manners are the glue that holds siich as at North Piddmont ave nue crossing, at $30,000. m-m > Miy two-cents worth was the observation that the three S. Bat- Meground crossings are plagued ts much by short approaches as by lacking warning systems and '■hat extension of Railroad ave nue south to link with the road (o the Margrace would lessen -rosstown traiffic. m-m The result; the Southern offi- ■ials asked for some recommend- itions and the Mayor appointed i commlttee-of-the-whole to pre- )are them. m-m As was Oustoman’ when men get together for serious business there was room left for jesting. Jack White (retained by South- tions. There is an answer, in Lind bergh’s words — to do“. . . more through sociology than through technology; more by merging with the ways of God and nature than by attempting to replace them.” He calls, as we see it, for a return to the old simplicities and the basic ethics. We desert them at our peril — for science can either ennoble us or it can ruin us. Ndwsday (Long Island^ N. Y.) TRUSTING ers have also resorted to “mickey mouse” designs — using cheaper, yet more costly to repair parts- to maintain profit levels on new units. The “throwaway’ concept — replacing Whole components instead^ of fixing them - also adds to the owner’s repair bills. What the car owner wants is not to waggle his finger at any culprit. He simply wants his car to work. And we think he doesn’t mind paying a fair price. He just doesn’t want to be taken advan tage of. 'Christian \Science Monitor Two Permits Are Issued Two building permits were is sued during the past week. Crescent Hill Development Company, obtained a permit De- ember 101 h to build a one-stor.v brick veneer residence estimatisl to cost $18,000. Charles F. Mauney wks issuCil a permit Decentber 12th build i- a one-story brick resident-.-on Roxford road at estimate- of $50,000. Christmas is a little girl hang-- ing. a stocking. I Unsure yet why or how or fori what. I society together, man having a fair amount of inate savagery in him. Manners as a manifestation of tolerance and respect for law and particularly important in our; political society. More than any ing excitement, other, it was founded and thus I At almost two, too young to' •far has been nreserved in a understand about Wise Men and | framework of tolerance. I Bethlehem and The Manger. j Knowing — somehow — that| something big is in the air. Feeling, instinctively, the build-- The political system wouldn’t work otherwise. In a vast land of conflicting interests and numer ous ethnic strains, reasanablenes^^ and compromise in the best sense are not luxuries but essentials. By and large the nation has been able to adhere to those standards up to now. We don’t know whether the oresent disorderliness is a pass ing phase; maybe it is. Certain ly we don’t know of any nat rem- “dy for it. But we do think it is 'n no wise surnrising that vio lence frequently erupts out of these oafish, contemptuous and bigoted attitudes. . And it is hard to see that it fbodcs well for the country when far too many neople assault not em) teased atbout the legislator’only a political system hut the angry with a railroad who want- dignity of the individual and of ^ io tax flie rail compai^ on human life itself! basis of a dollar flSF (^istle, | jff,e WnH Street Uonmal A little frigPtened — even —j of stories Of a jolly man in red and visits in the night. But trusting. Full of anticipation sure of ful fillment. Imbued with hope not marred by disappointment. 'Loving openly, happily, joyful ly, without embarrassment. Innocent — still — of wars and prejudice and suffering. ■Untroubled yet by the cruelty of the world — even at Christ mas. Trusting, Oh, for her it will not always be so. The world—eventually — must intrude and innocence bo marred by knowledge. And she will understand Christ- ma.s better. Or will She? I (N. 0. ^duetrHnnj' Keep Your Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Monntain, N. C. x^’e’ws & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in bet-ween
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