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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C
Thursday, February 6, 1969 .
Thun
Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Heiald
A weekly 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., 28086
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Hannon Editor-Publisher
Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper
Dave Weathers, Supt.
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
Allen Myers Paul JacKson
Steve Martin
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
IIa]>])y is the inf/n that findoth soisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. Proverbs S:t3.
Housing SqueezO
A check with realty dealers and
builders will confirm quickly the housing
squeeze in the Kings Mountain area, as
house-seekers, whether wanting to buy
or rent, have already found.
There’s a minimal number of homes
for sale.
There are less for rent.
Most recent point-in-kind is report
from the State Highway Commission to
the Mayor on the Cansler street improve
ment project, on which bids are to be
received this month and which the high
way department wants to begin work not
later than May 1.
Eight residences must be razed to
accommodate the project. To date, occu
pants of two have found places to live.
The other six are stymied, as is the high
way department which, too, find no
available accommodations for these six
families.
Those in the business haven’t seen
fit to do it and apparently can’t pencil
out a modest profit on some needed
apartments here. Kings Mountain is
about the largest town in the area where
apartments virtually are not.
A Gastonia builder relates his ex
perience with 108 apartments there: they
are designed for two groups, newly-wed
couples, considered short-term tenants,
and elderly couples or Individuals, con
sidered long-term tenants. The apart
ments are one-bedrOom and rent for .$90
per month unfurnished. (Rentals on fur
nished apartments vary according to a-
mount of furnishings.)
The problem on rentals for several
years has been return on investment. Old
rule of thumb was that the owner had
to have 10 percent return per year to
show a normal six percent profit, the ex
tra four being used to pay taxes and to
maintain the property. With current
high interest rates, the rule of thumb
may have, of necessity, widened.
Thus a $10,000 property woilld re
quire a rental of $90 to $100 per month,
still high rent in Kings Mountain, the
Herald understands, and a figure which
would make the tenant a buyer or build
er as quickly as he could make the mar
ket..
Many homes are needed now. More
will be needed as new industry and ex
panding industry get on stream.
Tax LoopholeB
■rhere are recurrent w'aves in the
Congress of movements to remove loop
holes in income tax laws whereby the
rew ivlll hbt gbt a free ride on April fif
teenths, while their brethren are paying
tfitbiigh thbir noses.
l5epletlon allowances are continual
ly attacked and tew go past the word
“oil’.
Oil, of cour.se, enjoys a 27.5 percent
depletion allowance, highest in the sche
dule.
This was a World War II device to
spur production of needed war materials.
In the instance of oil, the device succeed
ed handsomely. In spite of all the oil
used and all of that spilled in the ocean
by tanker sinkings. United States prov
en oil reserves today are perhaps four
times that before Pearl Harbor.
The Negro Desire
More than 100 Kings Mountain area
Negroes gathered Sunday in the rain at
Bynum Chapel AME Zion church for a
meeting of the Kings Mountain Improve
ment Association.
Guests included Mayor John Henry
Moss, Commissioners W. S. Biddix and
Norman King, visiting Negro ministers
and members of the press.
To refine the elocution: Kings Moun
tain Negroes want job opportunities in
Kings Mountain retail businesses.
Use of the boycott and public dem
onstrations was mentioned only in “we
don’t want” terms.
But the Negroes would like to be
come a salesman in a department store,
clerk in a bank, etc.
From the standpoint of the invita
tion to the Negro to spend his improving
income at a particular store, the advan
tage to the cash register of Negroes on
the staff is apparent. Time Magazine re
ported recently the success story of
Parks Sausage Company, founded by a
Negro of the same name. It was a three-
man operatioh at the beginning, in Bal
timore. Baltimore Negroes asked for
Parks Sausage in the supbr markets. In
the recent year, the firm grossed over $6
million and netted .$24.^,000.
From the standpoint of the retailer,
if he thinks right (and most do), he
seeks performance. Can the employee do
the job?
His second point is that he does not
have job openings everyday.
The Mayor, as he promised, already
has been discussing the matter with
heads of the Chamber of Commerce and
Merchants Association, with a view to a
future gathering among all parties.
Meantime, high school Negroes
should be investigating the courses of
fered in distributive education.
Commission Agrees
With some comments they approved
an election, if not a tax imposition of
their own as empowered to do, the coun
ty commissioners approved Monday re
quest of the three schopl districts for a
county-wide vote of citizens on question
of a 50-cent per $100 valuation ad valor
em tax for schools.
The tax would be for operations (in
schoolese accounting “current e.x-
pense”).
The school district representatives
requested an April 1 election date.
Decision on date was deferred, pend
ing checking of attorneys.
Sideline issues to the supplemental
tax would be an $850,000 bond issue and
five-cent tax for the Cleveland County
Technical Institute.
.is.no Question but the county
district, without any supplemental op
erations tax, is in competitive pain, right
at home with Shelby (40 cents, 38 levi
ed) and Kings Mountain (20 cents, 20
levied), not to mention other districts
throughout the state which have greater
wealth and usually greater supplements
than the homefolk In Shelby and Kings
Mountain districts.
The need for the technical institute
is apparent, too, even moreso as industry
expands and new industries arrive.
There is no question about the va
lidity of depletion allowances. But per
haps the high “C” for oil should be cut
to “G”.
One shot-at (again) “loophole” is
the tax-free status of state and local gov
ernment bonds. Washington tVants local
level government to do more In provid
ing services. Elimination of the tax-free
status of bonds would deter in considera
ble proportion the ability of local, gov
ernments to do what they are attempt
ing to do now.
Principal objection this newspaper
has heard to the tax vote is the matter
of date: these folk would like to know
what role the State of North Carolina,
which supplies probably 85 to 90 per
cent of school operational funds, is going
to do before voting on the supplemental
district tax proposal.
There has been some conversation
among veteran taxpayers about state
ments the districts won’t necessarily
levy the maximum allowable. These vet
erans of the trip to the tax collector feel
by experience that any moratorium
would be short-lived.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
By MARTIN HARMON
I have not discussed with Sen
ator Jack White the bill he has
introduced in the Senate which he
was quoted as saying would
"take politics out of liquor in
North Carolina and return the
question to the people.”
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I haven’t seen the bill either
but I believe what the Senator
meant was that it would take
the polilics of liquor out of the
General Assembly, that is, the in
fighting of local wet and dry
groups when lUtuor election pro
posals are presented to the Gen
eral Assembly.
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Recalling rathe: graphically the
liquor election here of 19 months
ago. I rather doubt politics and
liquor will ever part company.
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Dr. Harold Kattman, who is di
rector of the Hebron Colony, re
members it too. He was asked to
appear at a dry gathering. He re
calls, "I didn’t much like the ar
rangements. I was told the rally
was to be held at the American
Legion building after churches
held Wednesday night prayer
services. I envisioned myself hold
ing a round-table discu.ssion with
perhaps 30 or 40 people at most.”
Hijacking Je’l' Age
REWARD!
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FOR
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LEADING TO THE ARREST
ANY MR HIJACKER.
Letter To Editc
To The Editor:
HELPING MIDDLE
EASTERN PEACE
Considerable surprise was in
store. It was a standing-room-on
ly audience. A collection was lak
en to defray Dr. Kattman’s not-
great travel expense from Boone.
Suggestion was made and agreed j
to that overage go to the Hebron |
Colony. “Gee,” said Dr. Kattman, (
”I brought $350 home for the Col- j umns expressed their strong and
ony." I unequivocal condemnation of I-
raq’s having hanged 14 persons
nj.nt j (nine Jews, four Moslem Arabs
and one Christian i on what ap-
Viewpoints of Other Editors
In yesterday's issue these col-
Ten Years Ago
Items of interest schich orrur-
?d approximately ten years ago
PLAIN TALK ON
PAYMENTS
How public can you get when
millions of pr'ople who listened
to the Inauguration Ceremony on
TV, radio arrd newsfrapers with all
the prayers being .said and pub
lished? What is our public schools
■ompared to this? The only dif
ference is we are all grown up,
We have been taught our prayers
and most cf tliem in our schools.
.Now we don’t h.tve prayer in
-rchool. It might lead some one in
ihe wrong direction.
Well, how are our schools go
ing?
Since prayer was taken out of
our sch<K)ls and forbidden to be
said. What do we have? Do you
call rioting, demonstrating,
marching, the racial problem and
this new sex morality, going in
the right direrdion?
We can’t have one that can
leach or show them the right way.
But wo can say, “God lead us in
Ihe right direction.” In our high
est offices of our nation, they have
five or six different one’s to lead
their prayers. If our highest of
ficers of our country and its load
ers have to have God to lead, so
do our children.
And who took the prayers out
of our public schools? Our high
est officers that lead our coun
try. If they need prayers to 1<^^
our teachers nei-d prayers to
I've heard children say, "Why do
they hew their heads?” when they
-:aw it on TV. If our schools don’t
teach our children to pray, no one
else will.
Tliere are .so many more in
-school than there is in church, Ihe
church of their choice. How can
they know they have a choice?
Why should they know they need
a choice? If there is no reason
to seek a choice. The ones that
do have a choice will alway-s keep
that choice.
But look at the ones that don't.
What about them? We older peo
ple, and our leaders of our nation,
are responsible for our young peo
ple and for what they know about
God.
But if our lawmakers won’t let
I In recent months there has
I been talk of a new international; our teachers lead our children in
who will? It’s too late
I conference to “solve” the world’s' prayer,
continuing balance - of - payments, when they get old enough to vote.
I problems. Correctly, in our view. What are our teen-agers looking
Cameron Ware, Shelby road, Canada's Finance Minister takes, for today? A way to live, what to
I believe I’ve seen Jack’s billjpcar to be the flimsiest of charg-'fruit grower, is Cleveland County a rather dim view of any suchi live for. what to live with and
before and presume it is the same 1 eg of having spied for Israel, young Farmer of the Year and i conclave. I why.
one he intioduced last session —.United Nations Secretary Gen-] winner of the annual award giv-] ,, . , , I Do we live at all? What is right
after some four senators had in-1 cral U Thant has voiced “regret gp [jy Kings Mountain and Shelby \ wTong? If you tell them, they
dicated they would, then declin-1 and concern” over the possible
ed. Representative W. K. Mauncy’s I elffect of the action. And the
invitation to introduce it. I French Government, notwith
standing its present brisk effort
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Billy had shown me the bill the
attorney • general’s oiffice had
draw with the remark, “I don’t
to woo the Arabs, pled with
Baghdad not to go through with
the killings.
Heartless and shocking as' the
mass hanging was, it should not
particularly want to introduce it.” j become either the occasion or the
I read the title and laughed, in-1 excuse for a retaliation which
ferring the hot potato issue- | could only worsen Ihe already
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perilous and tragic Middle East-
; ern situation. We thus beg the
Jaycees.
mit it or not, ate looking for say I who said ) they need to learn
I some sort of system that would; to pray for themselves. So help
J. R. Davis, veteran school Permit them to handle their do-j mo God. they can only know
trustee, said yesterday he won't j ttieslic finances any way they , what we teach them. 1 think it’s
seek re-election. Mr. Davis will P'easc without getting into inter- time to put prayer back in the
‘ national dJlfieultios. Yet as Ed
gar J. Benson, the Canadian of
ficial, says, no system can ”ser\c
as a substitute for the determin
ed and concerted efforts of coun
tries to maintain internal and ex
ternal oquiliibrium.”
complete 10 years of service on
the board of education in May.
Social and Personol
Kim Cashion will reign as
Queen of the Bethware High
School Homecoming celebration
Friday.
Grover’s First Baptist church
was the setting Saturday at 7
p.m. for the wedding of Miss Vir-
government of Israel not to strike
No, that wasn’t the point, Billy physically in any wise, ^ch
explained. As a member ot the I ^ backstrike would only -. . p, , p, , . ^ pp.. nnnairt
House propositions and grievances «):r»her setback for peace m
committee, he know that this 15- area. Nor, m the particular cir-1 Hoyle Cabaniss.
member committee had split down cumstances, could Israel lawtull.y
the middle on liquor bills already, <^ipionnatically defend retalia*|
with the unfortunate chairman, Hon. For, while Israel s indigna-; THE FARMER LOSES
Jack Euliss, of Alamance, having ‘‘on is understandable, those exe-
the dubious pleasure o[ breaking ■ ruled were not its citizens,
the ties. Billy doubted his bill's] We believe that, by limiting it;
Cost of living is a popular topic
these days, by press and polilici-
public school and in our colleges.
We even have to pay our own
Bible teacher from our churejj
just to teach Bible history
subject.
Our government won’t favor a
Bible teacher. No wonder we are
in such a mess and God didn’t
make it for us either. We made
it ourselves. Because we took God
out of our schools and now wc
.seldom have him in our church.
So I think we all need to say. "So
help me God.”
Even in our schools every little
child should say every morning
at the start of a new day, .so lielp
A nation with p^tymenfs prob- ““-‘n wc will see a
change in our schools as well as
in our government and all the
A special conference, Mr. Ben
son says, would liave only one
predictable result: A large in
crease in speculative activity for
as long a« the parley lasted. “In
particular, I cannot conceive of
any payments system accommo
dating itself successfully to per
sistent inflation."
lems can postpone serious trouble
for a while by adopting various
forms of restrictions on its in
ternational commerce, as the U.
S. has been doing for some year.s
now. Sooner or later, though, the
nation has to face up to the fact
that it has only two realistic
choices.
getting out of committee, unless verbal condemnation of j ans.
it was previously passed by the ' “le (leed, Israel will have a bet- one news story to cross the desk
Senate. i ter chance oif rallying world pres-
I sure behind it against any such P
I further act. And Israel would al-| “The American worker last
IsO. by showing restraint,strength-! month found himself earning
Billy’s estimate of the situa ' hand of those, above all in i more dollars but able to buy less
tion proved correc-t, but the bill S Washington and Moscow, who, bread than a year ago.” j
hit trouble on the House floor. I kt“'^m"aifrTfToH'rS ‘inandal'^r.ltrainU ThisTtep
was defeated on second jfinT neawtul set le I can have painful results, but the
On a point of personal privilege, | “bout a final, peawiui seine misleading. notential nain is onlv increased
Billy asked a day’s layover before Middle East. . Food costs are up.about 3 per-1 longer the restraint is out
Indeed, among the most signi-.^ent. But the entire index of re ‘r,: ‘f
ficanl and hopeful words spoken tail prices shows a 5 percent hike, i Hecaliiatinn^f its enn-otf
by President Nixon at his first I The big increase to consumers j J^Jmally or immedl
the bill was finally laid to rest —
and went to work.
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“I had the passage by at least
ten votes,” Billy said, “until seme -P®*" ®
guy back of me said something a-
bout a roll-call vote.” Billy guess
es he’s never seen, outside of half
time at a football game, as many
men suddenly require services of
a men’s room. The bill w'as de
feated on standing vote and head
count by 44 to 41.
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The bill makes sense. It be
comes mandatory on the govern
ing body of a city to call a refer-
andum on the liquor and/or beer-
wine question on petition of 25
percent of the total vote' in the
previous municipal election.
press conference was his forth- ^.Q^tinues to be in services, pri-iatelv
right statement that “new initia- marily medical care which has
lives and new leadership on the|eiimbed a whopping 16 percenli Maybe that seems a hard
part of the United States ^ are] since 1966. ' ! choice. But th<*re are no miracu-
nedded to cool off the Middle Further, the relatively small! lous alternatives lo be found by
Eastern situation. If the Unit^' rise in food costs has.jiot found convening a new world monetary
States, which has long shoiwn its, its way to the farmer. Nearly all conference.
sincere friendship for Israel, is
aibout to undertake new peace
seeking initiatives in the area,
the latter would be well advised,
for its own sake, not to do any
the increases in food can be cre
dited to higher costs in packaging,
processing, and selling.
Farmers simply have not gain-
- i ed from this inflation. Many have
thing to complicate or worsen the. lost ground, through stable or
situation. I lower prices combined with higher
Just as the Israeli raid on the j production costs.
Beinut airport redounded to the] A basic part of “living” is food.
Arabs’ diplomatic advantage, so When you groan about the “cost
Wall iStreet ^Toitnial
people of the world.
Mrs. Gerald L. Eakcr
Kings Mountain
Rt. 2, Box 500
ON THE CARPET
Progress note: The world’s first
nine hole goU course with carpeted
tees and greens has opened tor
business in Knoxville, Tennessee.
The outdoor nylon carpeting i.s
said to have all the bounce, re
action, roll and bite of bent grass
and, according to the resident pro
fessional, putts better than any
natural green.
But there’s a serpent (or two)
in every paradise., It just means
another hazard for weekend duff
ers to look out for-—vacuum clean
ers. And instead of green
there’ll be carpet -tax. —
The Bristol (Va.) Herald-Courier
the Baghdad killings will re
dound to Israel’s if the latter
does nothing to throw thig ad
vantage away.
of living,’' don’t blame the faim-,
er. He has it worse than the aver-;
age consumer. — Hutchinson
(Kan.) News
I It is imperative that a road tO| no,^ jg wallowing in self-praise
j Middle Eastern peace be found. I for jts decision that rents on
I We think that there is growirag j city-financed, middle-income a-
evidence that both America and] partmentg cannot be raised more
Russia realize this. No new road-j than once in each tlwo years. The
blocks must ^ set in the wa.v. .decision, according to one coun-
Chri.stian Scienee Monitor cilman, will aid “tens of thous-
I ands” olf Now Yorkers.
: The
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In the instance of Kings Moun-
tain, drys, the bill would mean a
possible defense of the ramparts
subsequent to June 1970. In the
Instance of Gastonia wets, the
Dill would indicate possible de-
ense of the ABC establishments
slightly later in 1970. There would
)e no waiting for legislative ses-
ilons to get down to business.
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courtcil was unperturbed
FRIENDS OF THE PEOPLE' "'hen Mayor John Lindsay point-
I ed out that Ihe action violated
New York City’s politicians are state law. Even if the city sonse-
true friends of the people, or at how got around that obstacle,
least that’s what they say. ' Mr. Lindsay noted, the only re-
They say so as they continue sull would be a bunching-up of
rent control long after every oth-‘ rent boosts every two yearg —
er major city has abandoned It. hardly a favor to the tenants.
Control ma,>’ benefit those lucky Furthermore, even the delay of
enough to find apartments with needed rent increases would pro-
artifk-ially low rents, though bably weaken the city’s credit,
even these tenants suffer since] which already isn’t the nation’s
landlords cannot afford adequate soundest. There would be higher
maintenance. Other New Yorkers] interests costs on the city’s bor-
and would-be New Yorkers are' rowing and even without that,
hurt because the competition of the city ig thinking oif soaking
rentJcontrolIetl units discourages] taxpayers'still harder as outgo
ground in an emotional commun- construction of new apartments sails far above income,
ity fight, once each three years is. with moderate rentals. Yes sir, those politicians really
quite often enough. I In another version of rent con- know how to befriend people.
I presume (hopefully) that t)le
hree-year rule respecting liquor
referendums is retained. That’s as
often as they cin be held.
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trol. New York’s City Council |
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