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THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Thursday. July 9. 1970
Established 1G89
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
And lie nent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick. St. I
9:2.
Zoundsi
Wails of woe emanated through the
Tar If eel state Tuesday night and Wed
nesday as preliminary census figures
showed:
1) North Carolina’s population edu
cationally guessed at 5.1 to 5.2 million
,,, • is only 4,96(5,000, and
! ..1
i ’ 2) Many cities anticipating hand
some population gains had less than
thought and
,..,1 3) Some cities showed population
declines.
The wails came in high places and
low, from Chambers of Commerce offi-
cial.s, Mayors and Secretary of State
Tliad Eure.
Kings Mountain’s preliminary fig
ure, as of Wednesday, had not been
V learned, but the City of Shelby had re-
^ corded a small decline, the county,
meanwhile, showing an increase of over
5000 for the ten years, but only 20(k)
since the special census ot late 1965.
The fact that Kings Mountain wasn’t
among the initial listings (only cities
10,000 and up) revealed one fact: Kings
,,,/ Mountain will have to await 1980, in lieu
ot another interim census, to reach the
10,000 rung.
he The preliminary figure, of course, is
i.i not the official figure, but variations
- ■ from preliminary and official counts are
s ’ m large. And they can vary either
wn-' ■ Herald memory serves correctly,
the f’nal official figure of 1960 was a
■, few souls less than the unofficial pre
liminary total.
Over-projection on population guess
ing is more normal than under-projec
tion.
In an effort to guess the Kings
Mountain census following the city lim
its exten.sion of late 1968, the Herald
V, quite conscionably endeavored to be sci-
I entific. The method: percentage projec
tion of the per annum increase with es
timated population of the annexed south
west area added. Since, the Herald has
published on its front page dogear a
1968 estimate of 9300.
If anyone took the time, he could
arrive at the increase-decrease by com
piling birth and death totals.
An intangible remains: who moved
in and who moved out.
,Lyle Edwards, of the Gastonia
Gazette, put it this way: “In 1960, we
were a family ot three. Our son is grown,
married, and living in Hendersonville. In
1970 we are a family of two.’’
Immediate results of population to
tals first become apparent in the gov
ernmental arena, which brought Secre
tary of SUUc Eure’s wail of woe.
Already, he had warned, the General
Assembly was to face the odious chore
of re-districting state (jcneral Assembly
districts for both House and Senate.
Now, says Mr. Eure, North Carolina
may well lose one of its 11 members in
the United States House of Representa
tives.
Hopefully not.
If so, pity the poor gentlemen of the
General A.ssembly chairing and serving
on the committees charged with sending
up legislation on this sensitive matter.
Cities pushing and expecting up-
the-ladder population status should re-
member the example of Charlotte in
1940, then flirting with the magic
j] ’ 100,000 mark. The census takers had
1; great and abundant help that yta” from
I; the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce
I ; and the official figure bettered the lOOG
' mark.
The late Clarence Kuester, Cham-
i: her of Commerce secretary, merely grin-
ned at meetings around the state when
V he and his organization were accused ef
" counting tombstones.
Host To The State
Monday w'eek, July 20, eight Babe
Ruth all-star baseball teams from Kings
Mountain and seven other cities over
the state, will begin here a double elimi
nation tournament for the North Caro
lina championship.
In undertaking the sponsorship of
this event, the Kings Mountain Optimist
club pledged for itself 1) a measure of
monetary risk and 2) a great amount of
work.
Under the tournament format, visit
ing players on the several teams become
foster children for the duration of their
stay in the homes of local area citizens
who, in turn, pledge to transport the
visitors to the ballyard at proper times,
bord them and bed them, the latter
with due respect to a reasonable curfew.
Ali'eady, Optimist Gene Austin re
ports, citizens have provided homes for
70 of these youthful performers. Highly
pleased at the response, Mr. Austin
adds, “We need homes for about 20 more
boys.’’
The Babe Ruth set-up compares to
tile Teener League format—performers
are 15-year-olds. State winners move on
to regional competition and the national
finals. Kings Mountain was last year’s
North Carolina Teener champion, before
that national champ.
The community is complimented by
decision of state officials to bring the
state event here.
And some good baseball is in store
during the week of July 20-25.
Bail-Outs
The Penn Central railroad was a-
bout to get §200 million in federal funds
to shore up financially its sagging oper
ations under a fine-nrint clause in the
law which had the defense establishment
declaring the nation’s biggest railroad
operation necessary to the national de
fense.
The plan proved abortive when the
Congress, led by Rep. Wright Patman,
of Texas, said, “Excuse me, boys.’’
While there is validity to the plea
of necessary to defense, said Rep. Pat
man, there was a dangerous precedent
involved, to wit, opening the sluice gates
for an attack on the federal treasury by
any defense contractor with financial
woes.
Mr. Patman’s point has been proved
already via the current financial bird in
which Chrysler Finance Corporation
found itself. Certainly a case could be
made as defense-necessary by Chrysler,
which makes tanks, marine engines and
other odds and ends for the defense
establishment.
In the instance of Chrysler, a groun
of banks, the New York Times reported
in a copyright story, join” ’ forces to
stem the tide with a $400 lion line
of credit and/or loan.
The Nixon Administr
inflation program (some f
proeram) seems to be rear'
corporate fellow as it has already reach
ed the five-plus percent of individuals
tagged as unemployed.
Mr. Patman, a Democrat, can be
credited with doing the political enemy
a favor. He kept the Nixon Administra
tion from falling into its own trap.
s anti-
ecession
r the big
Congratulations to Senator Jack H.
White, elected chairman of the Demo
cratic 10th district executive committee,
and to Rev. M. L. Campbell, elected the
district’s member on the council of re
view at the upcoming state party con
vention.
Mrs. Juanita Fulton Allran was of
stern stock, not untypical of citizens of
this area. Widowed at 37, she put shoul
der to the wheel to provide for her chil
dren, meantime maintaining a kindness
of snirit and friendly disposition some
would find it difficult to muster.
A best bow to Neil Johnson, former
operations manager of Foote Mineral
Company’s Kings Mountain plant, on his
recent promotion to director of by-pro
ducts sales for the company’s 12-plant
operation.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
Col. Bill Ruddock, his wife
Jackie and two boys are here aft
er .spending a year in Ankara,
Turkey, w'here Bill was on duty
with the All Force establi.sh.ment
that superintended U.^'AF air op-
orations as far ea.st as Pakistan,
not to mention Turkey Itself,
Greece, and dowmwind to Ethio
pia.
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Duty in Ankara, Bill did not
characterize as the best of his 22
years with the air force. The city
is growing in computer escalation I
fashion, having a recorded pop-1
ulation of less than a million in
1965 (the Turks take a census
every five years, rather thati de
cennially like the United States),
now Js in the 1,4(X),030 range.
Meantime, public utilities like
water, .sewage disposal, and elec
tric power distribution, arc being
heavily out-stri,jped by demand.
There is no air force base in
Ankara, he adds, and the AF de
partments are in various areas i
of the city. Quarters are also'
spread out and the .American j
.schools for children of air force j
personnel are yet in another sec
tor. The word Bill uses is “incon
venient”.
Major inconvenience is the wat
er problem (sound familiar,
Mountaineers?).
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Bill’s family found theirs more
than mere shortage, as Ankara
water Is off limits. German on-1
glneer.s, says Bill, laid out a
water and sewage system lor .\n-j
kara 50 or more years ago. Sim -;
ply, the Germans said, dig a ditch ;
on one side of the street and lay;
your water lines. Then dig a ditch'
on the other side of the street and
lay your sewage lines. '
HIS STATED GOAL
w
TO PUT AN END
TO HUNGER IN AMERICA
L FOR ALL time:' „
NOW FOR
THE CHECK-OUT
I WANT A
BANANA /
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Viewpoints of Otiier Editors
ONE MAN'S LIFE
I The practical Turks coul.d see
i no sense in such advice. Why. they i
reasoned, dig two ditches? As a
result the life-giving water lines,
went in first, the sewage lines a-1
bove them. .4s Bill wryly suggests, |
there are seme leaks and seepage"l
Involved which make the water i
unpalatable for, at least, human
American consumption. Drinking
and cooking water was distilled
and kept in 7'* gallon demi-
I jchiis. Ma-e inconvenience.
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On the afternoon Bill visited me
he had to be off to tlie driver’s
license bureau. Elder snr> Ruddock
had turned 16 and was in ott^t
of a driver’s license. He’d been
practicing parallel parking all
morning, between two can.s. set
i at normal distance. And younger;
-son Jeff, who’ll be hero for tlic
summer, is a new membe r of
Otis Falls’ Boy Scout troop. D;;>
before, Jeff and Papa had been on j
a field trip in quest of four edi
ble wild plants. Seven were
found. Ne.xt test: cook and oat ^
one of them. Results at this writ- j
ing are not known. ;
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Bill was maintenance boss of |
the Ankara operation, got into one 1
of his squeeziest situations as he
was ending the Ankara tour. The
General had a business engage
ment in Spain and had informed
Bill well in advance to have his
personal plane on the runway at
0730 hours on the date of depart
ure. The General’s plane was at
a base some 500 miles distant and
orders were dispatched by Bill for
the necessary check-out. One the
first check a piston burned out.
It was repaired. On the second
check, another conked. It wais re
paired. On the third, yet another
conked. Meantime, time was run
ning out. In process of repairing
the third defective piston, it was
discovered that a defective oil
pan was the cause of trouble. Bill
had informed the General.
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The General, said Bill, enjoyed
have his .staft chiefs at 7:30
breakfast, dined on them as well
as eggs and toast. On information
of the third p'ston deficienicy, the
General addre.ssed Bill, ‘‘How
many pistons in that plane of
mine?” “Eighteen,” Bill replied,
“two banks of nine each.” The
General sarcastically suggested
that, with 15 more pistons to go,
he’d have to hitch-hike to Spain.
The needed oil pan v
anoth'-
When the General inquired on
departure date. Col. Ruddock was
able to report, “Sir your plane is
already airborne.” It arrived ex
actly 18 minutes prior to the Gen
eral’s H-Hour departure.
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Another reason twajdes agg,
says Bill, he’s sprouting some
white topside.
The desperate need which is felt
tod.ay for kindness and considera
tion is shown in the extraordinary
demonstration just held in New
York City. There the patrons of a
local A & P food store have prov
en how deeply they appreciated
the unfailing service, friendliness;
and concern gieven them by the
store manager.
A 23-CENTURIES-OLD
MESSAGE
Unearthing of the ancient Ath
ens marketplace where the trial
of Socrate.s was held in 339 B.C.
carries one back to his school
days. It reminds, again, of the
moving ilory of that gircat phil-
GOOD NEWS
FROM THE SWAMP
KINGS MOUNTAIN
Hospital Log
VISITING HOURS
3 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 8 p.m.
Daily 10:30 To 11:30 ajn.
Nannie C. Moss
j Mincie G. Page
Mrs. L. J. Perry
Harry A. Poteait
Eva H. Price
William Randall
Annie B. Self
Emma L. Sellers
Robert G. Miller
‘Mrs. J. 'D. Martin
Mrs. Willis M Lead:
Mrs. Wm. I-Oe Shuford
Ada Sellers Goforth
Antleho Smith
Amy Howkins
Lottie Bell Turn<“r
Beatrice E. ‘Hill
Laura Rice Spearman
I Anthony W. Holden
■Sidney D. Hii.fstetlor
Mrs. Russ<'ll W. Talley
i Alphild A. Jolinson
I -Mrs. Geo. T. Ttirlft
I Mrs. Homer A. Kilgore
Lois Bratiton Westmorelanfl
! Henry Grady Bailey
I Mrs. FroJ Oamp
W'm. Mace Clack
Lena iBell Deaton
’ Martha Rhea iDeese
1 Ruth Louise R. iFarless
I Emily B. Holcoml>
Pearlf. Herndon
j Mrs. Floyd D. Ledford
. Mrs. Bufoixi Philbt'ck
-Mrs. -Marvin E. Wright
' ADMITTED THURSDAY
Mrs, Ray Green
James Lee Bagwell
Charles Gene Bumgardner
Fred B. Dixon
Thomas \V. Harper
Roosevelt Rainey
ADMITTED FRIDAY
Hugh Allison Logan, Jr. .
Marshall D. Rich, Jr.
ADMITTED SATURDAY
Mrs. John Marlin
Mrs. Hubert G. Clemmons
Nolen Jasper King
ADMITTED SUNDAY
Mrs. U m. I’. Laughter
Cindy LaVonne Freeman
When they learned of Dominick
Nanna’s slaying by armed rob
bers, there was first stunned un
belief in the neighborhood, then a
viist outpouring of sympathy for
his young family and of a deter
mination to show appreciation for
what his genial and generous at
titude had meant to the commun-
Ity.
New.spaper reporters, sent to
cover the story, heard from every
side a multitude of adcounts of
Mr. .Nanna’s special concern for
children, the old, the blind, and
the poor. It is aparent that his
feeling of fraternity with all made
him one of those central, indis
pensable figures around which a
' 'Tnmunity’s life turns pleasant-
ly-
It was, of course, to spread this
sense of brotherhood and kindli
ness which led St. John to utter
his profound plea: “let as love one
another.” He saw that sucih a
before he drank the hemlock he
had been sentenced to drink —
and how he then, always the ob-
-server of life’s way.s, do.scribed
how slowly and how inexorably
its antithesis, death was taking
possession of him.
He was sentenced to death be-
No news u good nows, so it is Mre. Johnny W, Thompson
said. Itis also said, with an eye Leanard A. .Smith
on the press tliiit g.-io.l news is
no new.-3. Well, wc don’t b-riieve
that and to prove it we c;in call
your attention to some very good
news out of Florida.
Just a few years ago practically
everybody connected with Ever-
glade.s National Park believed the
alligator would so,on be extinct.
•A combination of circumsttina'.s—
a drought, poachers, and a flood-
control program that wa.^ grad
ually turning the Everglades into
cause he had corrupted youth and! ® tiv.sert was threatening the
was a threat ta Atlicnian : handsome brutes tiiat have con
tributed so much tv women’s
was a threat to Atlienian democ
racy. And back over all of the,
more than 2300 years comes the,®"®®'’ ha:idbag.s.
lesson for which he regarded his
own life as a small price to pay.
This is that truth never corrupts,
for, if it did, then truth itself
would be evil; and one is not a
danger to democracy (here and
now, anymore than in ancient
Athens) who defends its work
ings even with his life.
To some of his contemporarie.s,
Socrates was a bubling and fool
ish man, which here again has a
contemporary ring. For it was his
But then a remarkable
George Smith
Clyde M. Bums
Mrs. Tory -LCe ‘Wright
Andrew E. Lockttrd
Oscar Bimlc Prict'
ADMITTED MONDAY
Florence S. Slicppard
Virginia W. Bell
Mrs. Bcrnie G. Thomas
Wm. Jerry Cook
Mrs. W'arrcn C. Dce.se
Mrs. Johnny R. Putnam
Sonja Leann Cole
Mrs. I.Robby Gene Martin
Michael Kevin Short
Jackin Christine Led for,!
ADMITTED TUESDAY
thing] f>avis Sylvestia Durris
happened. Federal and state au-jLois Neal Camp
tboritles began to cooperate in an' Vestcr C. Rippy
effort to save the tilligators. Pen-1 S. Brown
altie.s for poaching were sharply ^ OHic Brown Wade
inorea.sr-d, transport.ition of alii-' Nlchoal David W'atters
gator hides across state lines wa.si^lt*- Grady G. Wylie
made illegal, and the slates of Mrs. Leonard A. Smiith
Florida and .New York dcci:lt-d to — —
ban the sale of alligator products. DIDTLJC
As a rc.sull. the alligator pop- ulK I Ho
ulation is incrca-sing quickly. To |
what purjxiso, you might ask. To
this purpose: It the alligator bc-
unorthodoxy that did him in. Con-1 came extinct, the unique area
fcM-mlty then as now was more ac-1 that is the Evcrglatles would
ceptable than the new or the dif-; eventually tiave become almost
ferent or the untried. He wa.s not j barren. During the d.-y fyason,
frame of thought and deed would "I public opinion, and for I deer and many other creatures
transform life on earth. And ; by .some j depend on gator holes for water,
everyone, fn whatever walks of; contemporaries, tor it was | Alligators are even more useful
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Geftys.
route 1, announce the birth of a
daughter, Wednesday, July 1.
King.s Mountain ho.spital.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon L. Stewart.
915 Second street, announc:’ the
birth o.' a daughter, Wcdncsd:i.\.
July 1, Kings Mountain hospit.il.
Mr and Mrs. Richard Mull.
life, who follows this admonition,] truth they sought but what than that. They gobble up mai.yl route 3, announce the birth of a
does indeed help uplift the hu- ] would be popularly
mail condition. | true.
ChrlsUon Science Monitor
accepted a.s
He Insisted, more profoundly
i than can be understood easily,
I that, while others might believe
I themselves knowedgeable with
out realizing their Ignorance, he
himself knew that/he knew no
thing. Hence, his eternal que.st
for the means of determining
what is true and what Is false,
what is good and what is bad.
Hence, also, his hold on idealistic
young Athenians who followed
him into the areade.s, into the
marketplace, into the gymnasi
ums, into the streets to talk (rap
ARCHITECTS'
CHALLENGE
Like a skyscraper In the wind,
the American Institutes of Archi
tects is being swayed by currents
of change.
At the group’s meeting in Bos
ton this week, the main issue was
clear indeed: greater activism.
And it was the young, the stu- , , --
dent, the generation whose pro- modern word) about right
tesfional training ha.s taken place | wrong, virtue and justice,
at the moment of crisis in the!
cities, who are pressuring for
change. ,
As with almost every other es
tablished group, change is coming
awkwardly for the architect.s.
Most think of their trade either as
a branch of the fine arts, or as
a business operation, or a blend
of the two. But not as an instru
ment of social change.
justice
The message comes back over
23 centuries. It Is meaningful now
a.s it was then.
Boston Globe
BULLETIN
GRADUATED
(260C314(K)) (FHTNC) CAMP
LEJEU-NE, -N. C., June 29—Ma
rine Private First Class Clar
ence E. Muskelly, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Earl G. Muskelly of
547 MoKely Ave., Bessemer City,
N. C., was graduated from Com
bat Engineer Basic Specialist
Course at Marine Corp.s Base,
of the natural (‘tiemies of game 1 daughter, Saturday, July 4. Kings
fish, thus serving the caii.se of Mourvlain hospital.
human recreation.
We grant you that the good
news about the alligators i.s not
the same as, say. news that 20,000
years of world peace is at htind.
But until we can report to you tile
latter, we will point out human
ity’s small successes from time to
time. Our intention is not .simply
to underscore a little cheery news
for its own sake, but to remind
you — and to remind ourselve.s—
that humanity’s greatest forward
strides are the linking of inch to
inch to inch.
National Observer
Mr. and Mrs. Buddy Owens,
Clover, S. C., announce the birth
of a .son, Saturd.ay. July 1, Kin.ts
■Mountain hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny W. Thomp
son, route 2, announce the birih
of a son, Monday, July (!, Kings
Mountain ho.spltal.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny R. Putnam.
203 Blanton street, announce thi'
birth of a daughter, Monday, Jul.v
6, King.s 'Mountain hospital.
Ml. and Mrs. Bobby Gene M'>eF|
tin, IV) Box 444, announce the
birth of a daughter, Tue.sday.
July 7, Kings Mountain ho.spital.
Many young architects were
thus frustrated at the AIA con-!
vention. Not that the AIA didn’t!
make conce.ssions in their direc-1
tion. But the degree of commit-] ,,, ,
near wide j clmr^li'jeuno. nI'c.
enough. Some of the architects
decided U) split off from the AIA ]
and form an organization of their I
own, "dedicated to serving t»fn- i
"•unity groups.” I
One doe.sn’t like to see profes
sional groups splinter coitainly i
not the architects. Architecture is
an instrument of power, as well
as of elementary .shelter; it gives ;
expression to the evolving mental ■
conditions of life in the form of
the walls and space.s around us. '
This power shouldn’t be diffused. I
This threat likely will ImpeQ the!
architects to speak out more reso
lutely on such matters as hous
ing design and zoning where they
0811 »trongly Influence American
policy for the better.
Christian Srienea ftfemtot
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