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PAGE 2 Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. MARTIN'S r MEDICINE j Thursday. June 25. 1970 Tl .b'CvoLJM I AMocr — A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightenn.ent, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mcuntain 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 Maitln Harmon Editor-Publlahei Miss Elizabeth Stewaut Circulation Manager and Society Elditar Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper Cooling-off Period MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Frank Edwards ‘Rocky Martin Allen Myers Roger^Brovw David Hyers * On Leave iVith The United States Army Paul Jackson SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BV MAIb AN1 ONE Y^.R... .$3.50 SlS{ MG^THS... .$2.00 wd rI® C PLUS NOrI® CARtJLlNA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739^5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE But if thni will not olK'y, / mil uitcrly pluck u p anil destroy tlkit ttatim, saih the Lord. Jeremiah Speed Record? First occupants of Kings Mountain’s low rent housing project will be in their new, modern, soundly-constructed quar ters on July 1. The occupancies will have taken place slightly less than 42 months, or three and one-half years, since . ngs Mountain Public Housing Authority, Inc., was constituted by the city board of commissioners. At first look, requirement of 42 months seem like the proverbial pace of the tortoise and the snail, which is mighty slow. Yet the fact is that the Kings Moun tain authority will be in business a year ea 'l;er than did neighboring Shelby and P ersonville, and considerably more qu,i,Kly than many other cities. Occupancy date would have been at least six months earlier had not the Department of Housing and Urb^n De velopment folk had not been forced to pull up on Kings Mountain’s reins due to a simple fact: “We’re out of money authority.” The prime reason Kings Mountain low-rent housing is in business more quickly than some other city’s authori ties is the fact of cooperation of many citizens. In contrast to the experience of the other authorities, low rent housing elicited a minimum of opposition from citizens nominally alarmed by competi tive threats—those in rental housing, the building trades, lending institutions, and private builders. The housing authority was able to buy nine sites at fair market prices. On one tract, for instance, the asking price of the owner and the value assigned by the registered appraiser wore only S50 different. It was agreed by the members of the housing authority before any sites were picked that its condemnation power would be exercised only as a last resort. This power was used in only four instances and in each it was a friendly action. The sale price had already been agreed to by both seller and the author ity and the condemnation actions were taken to clear title and other legal ram ifications. Kings Mountain folk continue to ex hibit a feet-on-the-ground quality with which some communities are not as well blessed. They showed it in supplying the funds to provide modern sewage dis posal and an adequate water supply. They showed their awareness of the low rent housing need by acknowledg ing the report of the Department of Con servation and Development on the large incidence of sub-standard housing and cooperating in this project—started a- bout 30 years after public housing fir.st came into being as a federal policy. The project would have come to fruition with less cooperation, but there would not have been a speed record. Air Pollution Here Powell Bites Dust It was close, but his erstwhile con- stituents-in-the-hip-pocket finally did what the House of Representatives of the United States could not do: Tuesday they voted the veteran Representative into lame-duck status by defeating him in the Democratic primary. Congressman Powell’s escapades are legend and most Congressmen as care less with federal funds as he would hav'e been pastured by their constituents long ago. Plain folk would have been behind bars. Yet, Powell, who doubled in brass as a preacher, was returned to Washington again and again and again. The late Congressman Graham Bar den, of New Bern, was for many year’s chairman of the House committee on education and labor. For some year’s prior to Barden’s retirement, Powell was r’anking member in seniority of the com mittee. If Bar’den left, Powell was the chair’man. A Kings Mountain man, who some years ago had an apai-tment in the Barden home in New Bern, says Mr. Barden returned to Congr-ess at least two terms when his health was poor, for the sole reason of preventing Powell’s taking over this important and sensitive committee chairmanship. Powell finally made the chairmanship. Not too long after he acceded to the chairmanship came the disclosures which put Powell on the hot seat. He was re-elected, but his confreres of the House declined to seat him. Pow ell, in effect, was a Congressman with out a country. Yet he returned to the electorate and the electorate sent him back again. This time, the voters changed, or enough of them, to mark the end, ap parently, of Powell s long-time Washing ton flirtation. Let it be hoped. Remedy Asked The problem of some 35 to 40 East Kings Mountain school children, who live in the City of Kings Mountain but in Gaston County, without the bounds of the Kings Mountain school district tends to defy understanding. Kings Mountain folk know there is some air pollution here. They see an oc casional smokestack belching forth, fret when they get behind a smoke-trailing truck or bus, and catch their breathes when they pass over McGill Creek at the right time, on the right day, with the right humidity. Basically, however. Kings Mountain folk do not relate the air pollution prob lem in these environs with those of the big industrial cities. They should not, undoubtedly, but, on basis on one 24-hour test Kings Moun tain has its share of air pollution. Jack Woody, air pollution specialist with the county health department, put out a snow white filter recently in a spot off Cherryville Road. When he retrieved filter exactly 24 hours later, the fil- t r was no longer snow white, but black as tar. The report form also has a weight chart (before and after) on it, but the air blackened filter had not been weigh ed yet. Undoubtedly, it will weigh in much heavier than the three-plus milli grams the snow white filter did. Two firms here. Woody reports, are planning experimental programs to pare as much as possible the air pollution generated by their manufacturing oper ations. That is good news. For several years, the students, many of them within walking distance of East elementary school of of the grade to attend there, have been admitted, but on a tuition basis. The simple fact is that the City of Kings Mountain, as a governmental en tity, has nothing to do with the opera tion of the schools, or the collection of school taxes. This is the province of the district board of education and the county commission. It is a problem that should be re solved. The Kings Mountain district board of education has taken the first step to resolve this problem by agreeing to re quest General Assembly action to sur mount the hurdles of legalities. Properly so. The vast amount of school monies are provided by the state of North Caro lina. Once approximating 80 percent, the state contribution is now a greater per centage. Then there’s the bus business. When a school pupil can walk to school, there by leave his home later and return ear lier, it is better for him. It is also better for state coffers, which supply transport operational costs, arid for the school district, which buys the buses, when initially purchased. The state is moving on a path to ward regional planning and operation in several directions. The county line barrier should be removed in situations like this school one. A cordial welcome to Rev. N. C. Bush, newly-assigned pastor of Grace United Methodist church, and best wish es to Rev. J. C. Lane, who hAS beert transferred to a pastorate at Mocks- ville. Following ono’.s nase i in bo quite fruitional. At leas', I found it true on Sunday afternoon when my wife and I were guests of Mrs. Howard Jackson on a tour of the Fo.voroft-Soutli Park-Provi dence Road sections of Charlotte. / KINGS MOUNTAIN Hospital Log VISITING HOURS 3 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 8 p.ni. Daily 10:30 To 11:38 aon. m-m Howard had exited at the air-1 (K)rt to catch a 5:20 flight to New ‘ York, and Hazel had a gift to de-1 liver to her great-nephew, age one ! on the recent Sabbath. Alas, the! lad was off gallivanting with his; parents to Grandmother’s in Hick ory and hadn't returned, we missed the pleasure of meeting him. m-m Hazel then conducted the tour to see tlie big. well-architured home.s, some of which must qua lify for “mansion" category. One Ls Immediately led to the con clusion that Charlotte is, indeed, a city of wealth and/or mort gages, or both. m-m Tile Foxeroft section is now, in residential homes and lots, what once was Morrocroft, the vast farm of the late Governor-Sena- .or-Congressman Cameron MorrI- .son. Tile Morrison greenhouse still stands and is in use. I re- j inembered Governor Morrison! frdm tile history books as Notch | Jarolina’s predecessor to Govern-1 Jr Kerr Scott as "the good roads; governor”, his program bel’ngl paved liighways linking all of the 1 state’s 100 county seats. But when was he Governor? Was it 1 1917-21, or 1921-25? Shortly, wej had the answer. An historical marker detailed his term of .serv ice as 1921-2.5. , m-m I But THE house Hazel wanted us to see was the home of the ■Martin Cannon’s Jr., a m.ummoth modified New Orleans style. The, Viewpoints of Other Editors HOT SUMMER — AND ELECTRICITY TO CENTRALIZE ANTIPOLLUTION This newspaper wishes to ex- CORRESPONDENTS AND FREEDOM I road in was marked “Private En trance”. We drove (“We don’t look too thugish, 1 averred) to get a better view of the back, followed our nose a bit' other correspond- happen here.” Now they are be- further to turn around and found | captured with her. We fur-1 ing wajneii that it can indeed a marker leading to another i to voice appreciation happen. Electric power getioration j So it Ls worthwhile that President ^ beautiful home reading "Dr. O. B., (.|^g fnariner in which on the has definitely fallen behind de-j Ni.xon is reportedly ready to fol-: ROS.S, Jr.” I t^ey were treated by their i mand, :ind may not catch up for! low the advice of his Council onj m-m I * ‘ fii-.. ! TCvw-iitiv'n Rpnro-anizHtinn a n rl i Americans teaming of power | Federal policy and programs anyway 1 p^gg^ jfj, gratitude tor the release - shortages and blackouts and | can be divided among so many a of Miss Elizabeth Pond, its cor- ‘ brownouts in pastwar Europe and gcncies that impact and value are ! respondent in Vietnam, and for i Asia used to say, “But it -can’t dissipated. This happened with I welfare, it threatens to happen with the antipollution crusade., tti-nt 1 eaptors. ' five years or so. \ Executive Reorganization a n d i "Hey. hey,” .says I, "this guy’s| Further, we trust that the con-! So what does one do this sum-j center most federal antipollution a college classmate. There’s j sifjgration "iven Miss Pond and mer if a 3 percent power brown-1 program.^ into one big outfit, to .something I need to check out: j^gj. companions and the under-! out slows the air conditioner and| be called the Environmental Pro- ML’itH him " r'h Ilf Prtiir Ilavol oclf. ! .. . ..... _i :_i._ * i. _ rmr i_... :e _ I with him.” Chauffeur Hazel ask ed, “Want to drive in?” Sure, ij rang the bell and nine-year-old! Charles Ross greeted me. Fathei and another brother were play ing golf, but Mother was home. I had met Mrs. Ross five years ago, but she looked me over pret ty carefully until I mentioned the meeting and the faot her hus band and I were classmates. We chatted with her a few minutes and my triend Otho and golfing son returned from a fa’.lu-i .son tournament, feeling reasonably standing shown of their role as .shrinks the TV im.age, or if a i tection .\geney. Correspondents has set a prece dent for the treatment and re lease of other newspapermen still in Communist hands in Southeast Asia. There has never ^een a war in which American correspondents, blackout makes everything mid-j night? Take it in stride — re mdmbering ancestors who got by with kerosene lamps and can dles. Additionally, strongly sug gest to the power companies and the Federal Power Commission Pollution will be a priority eon-1 some happening reminds us that we live in smogged air, that lakes and rivers arc polluted, that the environment Ls deteriorating. One Henry G. Bailey William B. Barber Jack P. Barber Clifford Barnett Mrs. Bruix' Boyles .Mrs. Calvin Brtidsltaw Mary Peak Chalk Mr.s. Thom.'is J. Ellison Ada Sellers Golorll: Amyu Hawkin.s Sidney Dulin Huffstetler Alphiid A.-Jotin.son Leona Ross Ormond Mrs. Robi'rt Ram.sey William P. Ramlall Ida K. Rollins Emma L. Sellers Mrs. Fred Ramsey Mrs. William Shuford Anticho Parker Smitli Rol>ert Harrison Wel>b Rosetta F. Webb Arthur E. William.s Mrs. Jimmy L. Williams ADMITTED THURSDAY Mr.s. Freddie Hubert Clay Claude 3. Beam Clieryl Lynn Spivey Alice Hawkins Bickley ADMITTED FRIDAY James Hamilton APMITTED SATURDAY Deborali Lynn Bingliam Herbert Cha.s. Lankford Luther Wilburn Carver Joseph William Sellers John Gann, Jr. Li.ssie S. Johnson Mre. Russell Talley Charles Edward Gamble ADMITTED SUNDAY Ella Mae Hughes Mrs. Willis Greene Mrs. Grayson Brown Lz'wis Calvin Guffey Mrs. Edgar Neal Laura R. Spearman ADMITTED MONDAY Mrs. Ruius B. Ferguson. Jr. 1 Samuel Joshua Gingle [ Citrol Jo Davis 1 Mrs. Herbert L. Gardin I Mrs. Braxton Fincher Mrs. Terry Lee McKinney . Mrs. Geo. H. Thornburg Mrs. Alexander J. Brook-s Mrs. Homer Kilgore ADMITTED TUESDAY Mrs. James E. Greene Margie Jeanette Greene Mrs. Thomas Barnette Mrs. Willis Leach John Calvin Guiton Beatrice E. Hill Mrs. Herman A. Goforth Mrs. Fred Camp Mr.s. Kenneth B. Barrett Williaim M. Froneberger Laura Bell Deaton Frank Warlick i - LTth^ra^iatTwTh them’ that they acceleraie the ^ e "f R-iJ-^ntatives: anu most wjui uiejii,, : pas.ses a clean air act which goes; Harris To Attend I - - . J ■ Inlant enn«triietir.r. . pas.ses a Clean air act wliion goc liave sought harder to do a com-1 Pl??t construction. 1 well beyond earlier legislation-; Ant case during the current conflict, i dire poverty findings, the petont, factual, straightforward! Make no mistake: amucit. . .. . . .,jr rmalitv uses up electric current And. de- Pt^woHsliing natonal air quali y ' standards which tlie states could Demo Conference job of reporting than has been the' ig me curreni coniiici. j -e-- i stricter locally. Another day Indeed, so successful have they Umted states is affluent, beyond; .. . , maior urn i been in this effort to be accurate 1 dreams of Byzantines. £100-! ”^ * f fu f t major pm pleased they loft with their -score' that they hat^Xnl ttic power demands -rise by about' third on the- board. m-m The check-out conceined an ar gument between Linda Biser Ahrens and me. I KNEW Otho’.s sister Jane had marrieil Pliil Hammer, UNC Daily Tar Heel editor in 1935-36. Phil, a Wa-h- ington-.Mlanta economic consult ant, had been Linda’s emploj ei 9 percent each year. Power com panics plan to spend $24 billion in the next five years, to over take demand. Hopefully they can come under attack at home. The great majority of corres pondents have sought to report the war exactly as they .saw and , , . _ experienced it They have been! ®8®ttcies in as sharp and as conscientious in | rtate.s and the District of reporting Che misdeeds of Columbia have already been told United States and its allies asi^° their con.sumers to cut they liave those of the fpposing i electric power, . ,,, u- . « .side. To cite but one example,I years first peaking of dc- m Washington a few years ago revelations concerning the New York State on a ‘ ' My Lai massacre show a journal-1 weekend - was successfully rled the Jane Ro^ who also , determination to report hon- j handled by drawing on Canadian worked in the Washington office, estly and fearlessly regaVdless of'power systenv?. Surely many the re.sult of this reporting. more interchanges of ;power could . Wltli such a record, newspaper arranged; peak periods do not tied the Jane Ross I knew. Ctho, eorrespondents clearly merit rec- simultaneously across the is an internal medicine specialist, ognition as performing a role a- “^aanfry- Interior Secretary Hickel and a fraternity brother of Dr., (,ove and beyond that of mere ap-1 has outlined a plan for a national known -as DDT announces tliat it is terminating production—June 30. A unified federal agency on pollution would help to coordinate all phases of the battle, it would Ollie Harris of Cleveland-Gas ton County Senatorial Dislricl will join Gov. Robert W. iScoH, Lt Gov. Pat Taylor and otln-r Dc*mocratic Party leaders in Ra leigh July 13 for a .statewide Campaign Conference sponsori’d by the Y'oung Democratic Club.s. YDC President Bob Bingham said the program will begin at 12:30 pjm. and end with a social expend billions of dollars a year. ‘ in the early evening. Five 50- It would establish guidelines and 1 minute panel discussioas on make .stringent rules regulating j Campaign Management, Financ*' Both Linda and I m.iy be right but I confirmed that Phil mar- George Plonk. Hazel, like Otho a Charlotte native, and he had a good time comparing notes on Charlotte folk. m-m Dinner ol shrimp chow mein, egg roll, and barbecued spare ribs followed at the Jung restaurant, served by a pretty, .smiling and courteous Chinese la.s.s named -Mimi Tsai. m-m Hazel stopped for gas and the station attendant asked if she had the exact change or credit card, acknowledged the night time requirement a defense a- gainst hold-ups. "But they don’t bother me,” the young man said. ‘T shot a guy trying a stick-up at a station down the street.” m-m A. E. (Jim) Conner, Public Housing maintenance man, was being teased during Wednesday’s inspection. He’s been called 011 the carpet by the HUD inspector for failure to put in one door-stop. | But Jim had a fast and proud comeback. “That door which i wouldn’t close I trimmed Just right, didn’t I?” Jim rejoined. pendages to one side or the oth er. They are serving the larger cause of informing of one of man kind’s most dangerous postwar crises. We trust the release ol these three journalists bespeaks a growing recognition of this role. We are further encouraged by the plerlge from Prince Sihanouk that he will continue to exertrise his influence on behalf of those newspapej-men still being held. We are grateful for his good of fices where Miss Pond was eon grid system that would enable plants In one area to draw on plants in other areas. Plant expansion is of course encountering the objections of conservationists. Gener a t i n g plants pollute air, Iieat up rivers, are unsightly, or carry a (very remote) threat of nuclear radia tion. Here and there Americans may have to decide whether they want electric power or hand.some scenery. We are certain that a nation’s industrial pollution. Presumably it would take charge of the In terior Department’s "water qua lity administration” and its Nix on-proposed five-year program to I invest $10 billion in municipal I wa.ste treatment plants. Presum- I ably it would run HEW’s Air Pol lution Control Admlni.slration. Perhaps it would not want to take radiation control away from the Atomic Energy Commission. Publicity, Issues and Democratic Leadership will be held. Panel experts will include State Chairman Gene Sfmmon.s, former Chairman James V. John son of Charlotte, C & D Director Roy Sovvore, Agriculture Commis sioner Jim Graham, Secretary of State Thad Euro, House Speaker Phil Godwin, Senate Speaker Pro Tern Hector McGea'chy, Party I Study Commission Chairman James Hunt of Wilson, Party Congress members may not ap-' Treasurer Joe Y’ates, George Bris- prove all of this centralization, j tol of the Democra,tic National which would snatch various pre-1 Committee and Highway Chair- serves from entrenched depart ments. But anything which can forestall the muss which an cage: Congress and zealous administra tions created In the welfare-re- lief-poverty field is worth trying. Christian Science Monitor' fall elections. man Lauch Falrcloth. This i.s the first Campaign Con ference of its type to be sponsor ed by the YDC, and is aimed arming Democratic nomini^B with ammunition for the coming cerned and trust that his cfforls! f^quirements can be met! on behalf of others will bo as' generating plants that are | fruitful, 1 tilfflttly and nonpolluting. 1 Clearly, the Communists see the! challenge — aj release as a means of winning j that will be on hand . goodwill ,and scoring points. Yet, some years, their action does strengthen a! ChMstiaa Science Monitor! growing world conviction that the ■ transmission of nows Ls an obliga- j ||0f|y|J[ ||0AHc tion all its own Christian Science Monitor m-m McClure, Jenidns Head Committee Lions Club Right it was. The inspector’s test was to put a dollar bill un der the door, close it, then try to pull out the dollar. The dollar wouldn’t budge, srtni' ! ■ proper ti-' ' ' .^-iiuoUay was my wife’s birthday and her Mother was up for lunch. Well, 1 told Mrs. James, now Anne joins you and me in sharing famous birthdays, Mrs. James sharing President Herbert Hoover’s, I President Harry Tru man’s. “Whose?” Mrs. James wanted to know. ; m-m i “Jack Dempsey’s,” 1 chortled,! "thd HEAVYWEfcm’ CHAMhON' of the world!” I apologized. Light- j Joe McClure and Miss Gerald ine Jenkins have been naiTied co-chairmen of a liaison group to work with the Kings Moun tain Re-I>evelopment Cjommission and citizens who live in the 147- vci’e Cansler Street Urban Re newal Project. Other members of the commit tee appointed yesterday by Joe Lancy, director, are Ben F. Beam, J. Harold Plonk, Lester Ray Howell, C. L. Peelc, Otis J. Tomes, Leroy Blanton,, Luleo Wilson, Lee Dixon, and Miss Leone Patterson. ! Johnny Reavie -was installed as I president of the Kings Mountain 1 Lions club at Tuesday night’s I meeting at the Woman’s club. Installing officer and gue.st speaker was Past District Gov ernor Lion John Ed Davis of Shelby. Other new officers of the club are Richard Greene, first vice- president: Dave Saunders, second vlpe-presldent; CJharles Blanton, third vice-president; Jim Downey, secretary; -Ed Moore, ti-easurer: Bill Bates, tail twister; Richard Barnette, assistant tail wister; Jack Hauser, Lion tamer; and Hal Plonk, Grady Childers, How ard -Bryant, Odus Smith, and carl Goiforth. ON DEAN'S UST Deborah Anne Plonk, d'-'Jgh- ter of Mr. and^ John 6. Plonk, was 1191^ on the setbnd semester dean’s list at Lime- DIXON SERVICE , nitig struck and it just came out. j stone college in Gaffney, S. C. Sunday evening worship serv- iiee wiU be held at 7:15 pjm. at CIxofi Ffeibirferlan ohurcK ddth the Rev. Robert A. Wilson to deliver the measage. Keep Your Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain. N. C. l^ews & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between
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