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u Pa Alt Mi‘n Uniui clay hyU’i- Ri'V. WllU Hari( G( ^AGE 2 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, October Th EstobUsliM 1889 The Kings Monntam Horald 306 South Menmont Ave. Klngi Mountain, n. C. 86086 A weeKiy newspaper devoted to the promotion of the (enfral Wid pufeUabod for the enlightenment, entertainment and benetit ot the. dltlcena of KIihm Meunffetn and its viihnlty, published every Tfi'ur^ay by the Her«^ pubOhlnff IfouaR Entered as second Class piaK^ at the post cdbce if JSlnfflSeidiftiua, MBS under Act of CotipMh of Mdrdh BDITOJUAL DBPABTMBNT Martin Harmon Bdltor-BablMMe Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Bdltoc Miss Debbie Thornbuig Claris Bookkaapw KBCMiaoMi DiMURsairr Frank Edwards •Rocky Martin Alton Ifymta HD|er Brctwa lla 1 * On Leave With lIU UflltQd States Artay Paul /adsea Ray Parker MAD. SDBSCIRdiFTIOtr RATK PAtMUS Of ADVANCE In North Carolina nd Senfli CoraUna One year $(; alxmonths $S99; Itiraa monitw |aJD; sctoasl ytsu $3. (Suibaaripcioni fei North OajoUna snhjudt Is Nuse pvtsant adsi taxi In AU Otfaee StoBw One y«n IS; alxmonth $3; three raoRltM II.TS; totxxd year $3.76. FLVa NCHCTH CAEOblNlI SAAES TAK TSLBPHONB NUMBBa — 789^8441 TaDAT'B BIBLE VBBSS A soft arwnw tvmeth moay ^or(Uh^s biit grievous words stir up cmger. Proi'crbs 15:1. Worth Sooiiig 4 Back in 1951 when the new 24>bed Kings Mountain hospital was opened, W. K. Mauney, then a hospital trustee, com mented, "It’s Cadillac class in every thing but size.” It was. Today the hospital, maintaining the class and moreso, is approaching the size. It offers patients 109 beds, the best in accoutrements for comfort, and the best in surgical equipment. The last addition didn’t come easi ly. Citizens of Cleveland County voted a $2,000,000 bond issue, with $l,50U,UUO for renovating and enlarging Cleveland Memorial hospital and $500,000 for ex panding Kings Mountain hospital. The envisioned expansion here was expected to cost $900,000 to $1,000,000, and it was anticipated that a matching lederal government grant under the Hill- Bui-ton act would provide the funds. It then developed there would be no match ing grant. The Duke Endowment gave » big boost with a $200,000 grant. 1 ne Reynolds Foundation provided $25,000 and the Cleveland County commission squeezed out $15,000 from its meager non-tax revenues. But the big push came from thfl citizens, business and industry included, who provided another $253,0(W by public subscription. The trustees were in busi ness. They could proceed. George H. Houser, now vice-presi dent of the board of trustees, was chairman of the fund drive. He would be first to say of the successful cam paign, over-subserrbing the original goal, "I had a lot of help.” Obviously he did. But he deserves great credit ft>r his work in leading the campaign to success. Citizens should avail themselves the opportunity of touring the new facilities before they are occupied and while they can see all of it—^ftom basement mech anical room to top floor patient quar ters. The Herald bas had an advance tour and it’s well worth seeing. Most Qualified Ollie Harris is likely as qualified to to be a North Carolina state senator as any person in North Carolina who never has sqrved and more qualified than some who have. For many years he has been close to the legislative branch of government by close a.ssociation during his 24 years of well-done service as Cleveland County coronei. A wide variety of other posi tions have kept him in close touch, as president of the Jfuneral directors as sociation, and in other positions of like kind. He has served as commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion, positions that requir ed his attention to legislative matters of interest to veterans. Mr. Harris has the ability, the busi ness eperience, the wit and the courage to make the Cleveland-Gaston (hstrict an outstanding senator. *k]. The Aemotch The general election next Tuesday item has alt the top of the ticket the rematc for tenth district U. S. representative Representative James T. Broyhlll of Le noir, and ex-Repi’esentative Basil L. Whitener of Gastonia. In this non-presidential year, the race has not attracted the outward interest it elicited two years ago, but there has been a marked upswing in interest in the past three weeks. As former Herald .affer David Baity related in a news account in Tues day morning’s Charlotte Ooserver, the differences between the two candidates are more in degree than in substance. Both are law-and^order men, both favor limits on textile imports. Mr. Whitener’s most telling blows result from the economic downturn. He says Nixon administration’s anti-infla tion policies have failed, having increas ed unemployment, result in high inter est costs, and failing to deter continued price increases. Results of past elections can merely indicate what might happen next Tues day. Truism for many election seasons is that off-year or not presidential elec tion year voting attracts far fewer citi zens to the polls. In the Congressional races, Gaston County, largest In the eight-county tenth, cast (round figures) 41,000 in 1968, only 20,000 in erff-year ’66. Cleve land cast 22,000 two years ago, only 13,000 in ’66. Broyhili’s home Caldwell logged 20,000 two years ago, 13,000 in ’66. Catawba jump^ from 21,000 to 32,(X)0 in the presidential year. But what about Burke? Burke bad li9»CiOO in ’66, only 20,000 two years ago. These five are the largest of the elgfht counties and therefore the obvious Imttleground. Mr. BroyhiH Was victorious over Mr. Whitener in 1968 by slightly more than 15,000 votes. The two keys to the- chalenger’s campaign appear to be: 1) the margin he acquires in his "home'’ counties Of Gaston ^lnd Cleveland and the inroads he can make into Bkoyhifi sugport in the ot Bur' “close” counties 3urke and Catawba. Williom KeniMfh Crook. William Kenneth Crook probably would be the first to admit he qualified as a "character”. He sometimes exhibited a low boiL ing point when something didn’t suit But there was another side to his personality. He had plenty of wit and humor, exhibited regularly to his friends and occasionally on stage, where he starred as a minstrel endman and tenor soloist. 'The Herald has studied the texts of the seven amendments to the state con stitution to be considered by the voters at Tuesday’s election. They appear to be worthy of a "yes” vote. On a miserably cold rainy Sunday afternoon he befriended the present edi tor of the Herald, who, with a pressday assignment at hand, had to be back on the job. But the master cylindw on the brakes suddenly wasn't. Mr. Crook sm- swered the S. O. S. Working in a cold garage on that very nasty February 1944 day, he did the work and the charg es was embarrassingly low. The community regre* • his pasring. The Herald fully suports the bond issue for Cleveland Technical Institute buildings and for the five-cents per valuation ad valorem for operations. Make your United F\i»d itaek iRn The registration figures for (he oth er four big precincts in the county aren't in I'.and but tbV number of registered vot ers at West Kings Mountain total ^12. In a heavy-voting election, the voters get the pleasure or standing in line, the election officials, a 12-hour stint just over, the pleasure of tallying votes into the wee hours. The big boxes should be split, as the Democratic Executive corh- mittee recowHixaidg. ffte ^dBlTdCn ], will agree. ooimterpart, it is anticipated. MEDICINE MARTIN'S I was talking to Tracy McGinnis a few weeks ago and noticed he had a copper bracelet on his wrist. “You gone hippie?” I asked. "No," Traicy replied, “It's for my aith- rttis.” “I don’t know whether it does any good or not," Tracy eontin- ue^ “hut it ceiitainly doesn’t do any harm.” Halloween 1970 m-m He said the icopper bracelet cult has a number of followers In these parts, and laughed about a conversation between Henderson Herndon and Dan Finger. HendeY- son, Tracy relates, was regaling Dan’s coipper wristband, inferring Dan believed in witchcraft. Dan assured him the chain link copper band brought relief to his aches and pains. m-n Then Henderson ’fessed up. *1 wear mine around my ankle,” he said. ‘Tve got a bad knee.” m-n Next devotee I found was Fred Wright. His attitude was akin to Tracy’s. But I found Monday that Torn Tate has the true faith. He’s sure the band brings relief to the wrist he broke some years ago. HOSPITAL LOG m Eldee Alexander Wm Banks IBarber Mrs." John A. Black iarence Bratton \Ii-s. Buriiii T. Broom MiS. .Mary C. Clemmer .Mrs. F. Teti Ciiunp Mrs. J. R. Davis John A. 'Hartcftek Mrs, Lottie M. Hodge Augiistus T Holder, Sr. .Mrs. Ottis b. Jackson Felix J. Johnson Mrs Homer A. KBgoiv Mrs! Wm. Knox (iimi)boll P. Lawrentx' Mrs Alice H. Leech Mrs' Cha.s. V. Merck Eldiidgp O. .Mitchell .Mrs. Andrdtv J. MdClain James Jasix>r Oates, Jr. Mis. '.Marvalee P. Phillips .Mrs, Ray B. Pric(“ Pierce S. Reinhardt 'Mrs. Jesse .M. Rippi’ James Roseboro .Mrs. Alvenia M. .Schuler John D. .Simmons Herbert R Tindall Mrs. Everette Watson .Mrs. .’'fancy 1. Blanton Mrs. Junior F. Howell m-m Josh Hinnant, who supplied the history on the practice — at least, the recent history — said, "Yeah, John Cheshire weara one, too, but he still gets shots from (Dr.) Frank Sincox.” Viewpoints of Other Editors m-m iFred said one of the golf pros started the business but he didn’t remember which one. Josh said it was Bert Yancey, Billy Cas per joining him soon thereafter. Now. he added, many of the tour ing golfers wear the bracelets. SELLING THE CANDIDATES President NLxon's veto of the bill regulating the campaign use ot tolevi-sion does net close the door on reform. The bill 'The Japanese obviously don’t want this to happen As prime shakers and movers in world trade, they want a freeing-up of commene. Some experts predict Japan will become the world’s Number Two industrial and tra- Well, who knows? waul '.r.’t have taken eli.ect until; ding power. But a number of 1972. There is plenty of time, be-1 countries are apprehensive at the fore that campaign, to formu-! growing export volume of excel- late a more comprehensive re- |cnt Ja. ancse" merchandise, at form. I verv eomDetrtive prices. Tlie have taken ] very competitive The President said the vetoed i “''■’owd Japanese The situation is well described in a thoughtful letter to the New York Times from Paul Haliand- er, associate professor of sociolo gy aif the University of Massa chusetts A growing proportion of college students, he writes, "are subject to fewer and fewer requirements and less and less evaluation than ever before. ”rhese developments seem to be less 'alarming since they are i-m the bill “highly laudable” goals but gave wrong answers He could have signed it an'J let Con gress, on the basis of experience, improve it later. The National Committee for an Effective Con- some steps to ease tens;ons. The invariably presentd.l lunder at question is: are these enough? Japan’s Ministry of Inlema- tional Trade and Industry is set- I w-a« intrioued bv the stnrv nf' Rf®®, sponsor of the legislation, ip guidelines on exports to called tho Nixon veto a “fla- :the United States. If exports M any product rise 'more than 30 terest’ j percent, a warning would be sounded. If above 50 percent. Pl.t the bill as drawm would j shipments would be halted. Some a Charlotte Observer reporter | who was chatting to an elderly example” of partisan in-, lady with the Idea of interview ing her when the lady noticed his tractive sfogans such as educa tional innovation, flexibility, re sponsiveness to student needs, en couragement of creativity, ole. However, the fatt I'cmains that w-lien a student is - evaluated for his work only in terms ctr pass or fail, he is no longer evalua ted.” ADMnTED THOHSDAT Clifford A. Lively S23 C -St., Bessemer City Mrs. 'W Owen Sellers Rt. 2 Box 330. City ^ ADMITTED FHtDAT B. M. Ormond 311 W. Mtn. St . City Mns. Chas. Morris Putnam Rt. 1 Box 13C. City ADMITTED SATURDAT Earnest L. Bowen, Sir. P. O. Box 534, City Jackie Lee Cobb 1280 Westover -St.. City .Mrs. Joe Dean Bratton Rt. 1. Kings Creek, S. C. Mrs Henry J. Hiunj^cys 8l' W. May St., Gastonia ADMITTED SDWDAY Mrs. \V. E. 'Babbs P. O. Box 68, City Mrs. John ‘Boheler Rt. 3, Clover, S. C. Wm. Marshall Dulin 107 E. Hartford Ave., Besse mer City Nell E ward Hullender 811 N. Gantt St., City C. B. Vickers S09 Linwonq Dr., City .Vtrs. Horace E, Hardy 109 Mtn. View St., Gastonia Keilli A. Jordon 109 S. Watlerson -St.. City Mrs. Charles W. Putnam 102 S. Carpenter 9t.. City .Mns Wm. G. Waldrop ■P. O, Box 222, Bessemer City Lonnie O. M'ebber Rt. 1 Box 285, Shelby wart-laden hands. If he would Chet 8 not have halted or cham ed tfibse: key Items have already risen a- ■ ! paid political 60-second sales bove the 30 percent mark, them. It didn t make sense. His pitches which are now nightly a-' doctor had told him he could . . , ^,, U'Oming the ’TV screen. We won-1 I der if the public w-on’t tire of i The Nixon administration ^®**!them, come to regard them as [wants very definite restraints, the mat ot short, too ; Asserting that the American tex- anyway, Mr. Hollamlcr notes. And certainly it shouiJ be ob vious that a simple “pa.ss” gives no idea of the range of possible performance. Che main street of Monroe with an elderly lady assistluously rub bing the warts on his lianiis. contrived. They sell candidates tile industry has been seriously like detergents. Can the public | hurt by imports, the admlnistra- assess an individual’s character | tion insists that Japan impose m.iii j a.id fitness for office by seeing I voluntary restraints over a I him conversing halif a minute; three- to five-year period. Japan Within a few days, the warts'w'.'h stul.’cnts or listening to a-! is willing to consider a one-year were gone. idiUts’ laments or riding by on a , restraint. The peril is that, once I white horse? protectionist sentiment is let “■*“ I . u , ■ loose, pre.ssures grow to let Tom Tate had a corollart’. His! 'bight look again at ^ barriers against every sot of im- aousin was In school at Appa- j British pracUce. it may be | q-hen comes retaliation from laohlan, visited a mountain worn-' ^ar^, but a paid political: abroard. and a global trade war an with the wart doctor reputa I - ®. self-adverusement is tJon. Her method was to quarter “ ** "imply tllegal. In on apple, then cut a notch out! aifgi eaKh wazf, and the -apple ^ news ^vei age of the was buried. Says Bracelet Tom, ths warts were soon gone. Premier Sato gives the impres- I can attest personally to suc cess' of two methods. The late D. M. Baker had somewhat of a reputation as a wart doctor. I was candidates and the parties, to be would like 'to resolve the If such trends c-ontinue, this authority believes, “wei can look forward to a disastrous increase In the number of untiuallfied de gree holders who have igone through college largely 'lantouch- edi by any form of evaluation.” The Implications for society as arrange'J political debates, and to political broadcasts allocated fairly between the parties. The vetoed bill would have limited party TV expenditures (to about $5 million in 1972), require!.!] that political advertis ers receive cheaper rates, and in the second grade at school and [repealed the equal-time provision ■met Cfousln Dave en route to lunch. He was the rubbing kind and the two he worked on went away. m-m Later on I developed a new and large crop. Visiting at Uncle Clarence Plonk’s I was told by Aunt Ellen that I should see Mrs. Aim Foster about my problem. One of the older boys drove us over. Miss Ann's magic weapon, rather than an ai^le, was a peach tree limb. She carefully cut « notch over each wairt, toM me to put the notched limb under the b*g rock which served for her front pouch step. "When the limb roesk" she ssM, "your warts will have gone away.” which requires that every presi dential candidate (even for tho Vegetarian Party) get equal time with the main candidates. !Mr. Nixon said the bill woultl give advartages to mcum'bents, and so it would, for they csually get the most free rtme on the,;,^ consider- news prrt rams. And he noted issue. He predicts a growing Ja panese-American trade — to $10 billion this year, up from $8 4 billion last year. He says Japan’s favoraihle balan'ce — $1.2 billion — win be reduced by boosted Ja panese purchases of American farm and factory products. a whole are hardly reassuring, since in our time many fields of endeavor draw their leadership largely from colleges and univer sities. Poorly educated, or wrongly educated, people in posi tions cl! responsibility do not ex- a'Ctiy constitute the ijest hope of intel'U'genitily dealing with the problems of the present and the The Japar.e.se also make ,the argument, intended for m'ore than American ears, that If Ja pan can direct its great energies to manufacturing and trade — and foreign aid — it will never again to aspire to become a mil- Aifur*. Meantime, it is sadly ironic ADMITTED MONDAY Alda B. Leonhardl 201' .S. Rudisill Ave., ^ ville .Mrs. .Merita L. Jack.son ■416 N. Battleground AiH., City Deanna Lee Beattie Rt. 1 Box 22, Bessemer Mrs. G. 'W Baiis 305 Silver St., City Mrs. John A. Gordon Rt. 3 Box 457, .Shelby .Mrs.. Jacob G. Hicks Rt. 1, Clover, S. C. Mrs. J. B Johnson Rt. 2 Box 185, City Mrs. John McCoy OS-l S. Miller St.. Gastonia Thomas D. Runyans Rt. 3 Box 260, City Davi'.l .Styles, Jr. Rt. 2 Box 261. City J. C. Sutton 100 City St., City Mrs. Florlne M Whittle Rt. 2, Box 329, City ADMl’TTED TUESDAY Robert W. Canlpe 1702 Shelby Rd., City Mrs. Owen A. Huffstlckler Rt. I Box 277, City Martin L. Wll.son, Sr. 514 Phenix St.. City •that the nation that has done!Chas. Gene Bumgardner more than any other to give its young a good education is now permitting this debasemenit of the college degree. The Wall Street Journal Rt. 1, City Fred Nel.son Carter Rt. 4. York, S. C. Wm. Howard 'Branks 013 E. Ohio Ave.. Bessemer City Iris Rebecca Smith 414 W. Kings St., City i that It would limit only radio-TV e' a p.bl'ic commitment against livered at the United Nations. In ten days, the warts were gone and (my fingers are crossed) I haven’t had one since. Dir. George Plonk, then a lad like me, was witness to the treatment. m-a use, not the political advertising in new-spapers ar'!) billboards. A point well made But by limiting spending the bill would have re stricted Republicans more than Democrats because they have the more opulent coffers. Hence the charge that the veto was politi cal. An attempt to override the ve to will be made when Conigress reconvenes Nov. 16. It may not succeed. How u.seful it would be if President and' Congress would blpartisanly develop a reform measure, in time for 1972, that ruled out the growing and un- - „ worthy huckstering of candl- Irt all the understanding concern militerism, by Premier Sato, de- Japan is a dynamic industrial p'ower. Its exports reach around I the world. Somehow Tokyo mtwt [ see to it that they do not touch j off trade protectionism. Hence Premier Sato’s present trisit is as | crucial as last year’s, when he ' DEBASING HIGHER EDUCATION dates. -Christian Science Monitor Wa» fh? ■ •’t~' ■ ... i.iiieni, a fore- to the lifesaving sulfa drugs? And what has become ot Cheriq>eutie sassafrass tea? And does quaffing a bottle of Buffalo ginger ale hasten the breedcout at old-fashioned measles? m-m Ttie mrtllcs prescribed snake roof oil (ifirom an East Indlon herb) when my wife’s Wlnthrop CtHlese planft tsachet suKsrad a heart attack three or four yaara ««« JAPAN'S EXPORT PROBLEM Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato’s nine-day visit to the United States is critically important for Japan’s whole ifut.ure as a ex pansionist world trader. A major part of Mr. Sato’s mission is to damp down American protection ist sentiment against Japan. If this exploded into strict quotas agai-nst Jnptanese goods — as Congress threatens — it could trigger rimUor trade barriers in othor ooncenved counUtoe. over student violence protoably not enough public attention Is being paid to another disturbing trend, 'the detertoraition of acad emic start)'ards on m'any campus- The two conditions are not un related, of course. In a rather .sentamental response to the ag itation, various administrations and faculties tried to make It easier COr students ibot'h to enler and to get through college. A re action toward 'firmness — at least regarding 'what is permls- sable adtlvtejrhaa m In, but the standards have been far from wholly repaired. Keep You Badio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. Ne'ws & Weather every hour ou the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between
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