'Mill iilAi <».' ■■I'V •..K.vHr (•age 2 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. Tliursday, April 2, 1970 Established 1680 The Kings Mountain Herald 1 OiraiffM I i ASnClAIT Aet!Kl> llL•ws^ap»;r Uevoied to ttie promotion ot ttie general welfare and publlsneu or the enlightennient, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain tnd Its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. ■'.nterert as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N, C., 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT .laitm Harmon Editor-Publishe' Miss Clizahetn Stewari 4is.s Debbie Thornburg ivlaninrei and Society Eklito Idem, Uookkeepei MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Frank Edwards •Rocky Martin Allen Myers Roger Brown David Myers • On I,eave With The United States Army Paul Jackson l*y ' Wrier .1' tMI i AiCL^ialiNA AAiair..'' TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Messed ore the jinteetnakers; ^or they 'eluiH be '.ailed the children of Ood. St. MatXhew 5:9. Auto Liability Mess A Study Commission on auto lia bility insurance is criss-crossing the state to determine public opinion on the question. It is to be anticipated that subse quent hearings will obtain the same answers the commission got in Char lotte Tuesday. Nobody’s happy who is involved in any direction and this would mean that oiiiy those less than 16 years of age could take a “couldn't care less” atti tude. The insurance companies have al ready demonstrated their unhappiness to the Commissioner of Insurance, claini- iiig they’re going broke in writing poli cies at current rate. The insurance agents are unhappy. Service required far out-distance limits of time arid remuneration. The public is unhappy. 'The insur ance companies are assigned risk hannv and a fenider dent can produce, one citi« zen testified, policy caneeiiaiion and subsequent assignment to the assigned risk category. Among those testifying in the citi zen category was County Commissioner Charles A. Greene, of Shelby. Mr. Greene was hith head-on by an out-of-state car. Both he and the Pennsylvanian who drove the other car were lucky to walk out of their demolished vehicles. Mr. Greene was on his side of the road, and the Pennsylvanian wasn’t. But Mr. Greene has yet to be paid lor his smash ed vehicle and apparently won’t be. Mr. Greene feels that, if reciprocity arrange ments can be made with other states in some areas, they can and should be made on auto damages. Most folk hailed the North Carolina law requiring all auto owners to buy auto liability insurance. No longer would plea of poverty bo a bar to proper pay ment of damages. The results have been less than de sired, muffh less, and rates have esca lated mightily. There must be an answer to this vex ing, expensive problem and it is to be hoped that the study commission can bring recommendations of improvement to the 1971 General Assembly. Count Begins April Fool’s Day may be an inaus picious one to begin the decennial nose count of “every man, woman, and child’’ in the 50 States. In these parts Wednes day’s weather would indicate so. But started it has. Those who saw Kings Little Theatre’s production Curious Savage’’ will be on “Cinderella” this weekend. Those who missed “Savage” should not miss “Cin derella” this weekend. The first produc tion was what theatre circles term a “smash”. Textile Futufes “Futures”, in commodity market parlance, refers to purchase of wheat, oats, soybeans, cotton, and other com modities for future delivery. Those in volved in manutacture of consumer goods from the commidities buy in Ap ril, say, for July delivery, against their anticipated needs. Textile Futures, however, does not refer to the same commodity market. In his ever-continuing quest for ef ficiency, Uncle Sam has changed the format from 1960. Census forms have been mailed to all known addresses and placed in all postoffice mail boxes. Hope fully, the census-taker will find, when he calls the lorm properly executed and can speed along downstreet. This may not be the case, though the form is comparatively simple. The instruction sheet requires more space than the form itself. Nevertheless, the count will be made and rather accurately. It refers to the human commodity market. April has been designated “Textile Futures Month” in Kings Mountain. During April, the textile industry, in co operation with the vocational education department of the high school, wiU dem onstrate needs for manpower in the tex tile industry, and the varied manpower needs. The industry has been plagued for many months with a real manpower need. Part of the manpower requirement has been due to the increasing variety of textile products produced and the other end of the coin has been loss of potential manpower to other employ ment in other cities, both near and far. Kings Mqunlain’s textile industry should have an interesting story to tell. It is the major employer in Kings Moun tain, producing much in the textile spec trum, from cotton yard to consumer bound socks, knit goods, upholstery fabrics and many others. What the textile industry will be telling youths, perhaps a year to five years distant in the “tutures” market is that there is opportunity in a career in the textile industry in Kings Mountain. Which there is. Short Decade On Tuesday Fibre Industries observ ed its tenth anniversary as an industrial citizen ot Cleveland County. The fact of ten years seems incredible. Perhaps even more incredible has been the growth of Fibre, not only at Earl, but elsewhere. Fibre has been con tinually expanding its Earl plant. Mean time, it has built and is operating ma jor installations at Salisbury and Green ville, S. C. for MARTIN'S MEDICINE From Carolina Home To- -Where? KINGS m6uNTAIN Hospital Log Did you know that North Carolina was once the third ■most populous state of the un- ion? m-m ... That was in 1790, when the first decennial census was tak en. North Carolina, wi.n ddo.ioJ men, women and children, trail ed Virginia (747,610) and Penn- slvaiiia (434,373), Massachusetts was lourth and Near York fiftn. mm /y//ARE There were 15 states, but the fun began for the U. S. Marshals lassign^u the choic w.ie.i mty soughi. to count the pe-p.e (in,. , . . o. ca oi ive.. j.i—Cj, the V. ,.1 e .erv. 1 Ui.ctear d su'.ct — dang-cr from hostile Indiana. But 20 months and a day after the census began. Secretary ot • I State Thomas Jefferson sent the | report to President George Wash- ■ Ington and the (Congress. rctofSu "#4 m-m Why will the United States spend $210 million this year on the taking of the census? m-m The reasons are multiple. 1 While many so blessed will iai.igh I at the seeming foolishness of the household question asking if the I occupant enjoys the benefits of a flush toilet, those who don’t | I won’t lauig'h. It reminds of Co- i I median Bub Hope’s quip about I I folk yearning for the good old 1 days. Hope said those really j mean they want to return to the I good old days, all the while tak- |lng along the electric refrigerat- 1 or and the family auto. The I household answers are valuable I to Industry in projecting demand 'for such des.iable consumer goods ar refrigerators, color tel- DURING THE PAST 30 YEARS ALMOST30 MILLION PEOPLE LEFT "THE NATION^ FARMS FOR URBAN LIFE. - y^SUfS /T£M ‘ //^GC!C