I ^AGE 2 the kings mountain herald, kings mountain, n. c. Thursday. November 26, 1970 o^hursda EotobUshed 1889 # The Kings Mountain Herald 206 South Piedmont A re. Rings Mountoia. N. C. 2S088 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion ol the general weUare and published for the enlightenn.ent, entertainment and benefit of the citizens ol 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, H. C., 28Q6B under Act of Congress of March 3,1873. EOrrORlAL OEPABThSHT Martin Harmon Editor-PubHshet Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Debbie Thornburg aark. Bookkeeper MECHANICAL DEPAB1MENT :''rank Edwards *Kocky Martin Allen Myers Roger Brown • On Leave With The United States Army Paul Jackson Ray Parker MAIL srasCKimON RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE In North Carolina and South CarMlaa One year $4; sixmonths $2.25; three months $l.SO; school year $3. (Subscriptions in North Carolina subject to three percent sales tax.) In All Other States One year $5; sixmonth $3; three months $1.75; achool year $3.75 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE O give thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name: make knoum his deeds among the people, psalm 103 :il Rate Hike Timing Poor Conversely, 20 percent translates to one-fifth, a quite healthy “sock” in the pocketbooks of Duke’s big family of industrial and municipal customers. Mayors of Shelby and Gastonia have indicated their cities will have to pass the increase to their retail custo mers. Hopefully, Kings Mountain will find sufficient budget slack to defer any rate changes, at least until the begin ning of the next fiscal year and prefer ably until the FPC edicts the exact a- mount of the increase. Roberta Miller Davis Miss Roberta Miller, of Franklin County, Georgia, came to Kings Moun tain in the teens to visit her aunts, the Misses Agnes and Emma Norris, owners of the well-known and popular Moun tain View Hotel. She married one of the “regular” guests, bachelor law'yer J. Roan Davis, transferring her citizenship here for the remainder of her life. Mrs. Davis was a fine and accom plish.'-:'. person. She reared two adopted children, was prominent in a variety of civic and community activities and gave her major attention to the work of Central Methodist church. She was an impeccable housekeeper, wizard with the skillet, and a woman of constant .sympathy and charitable spirit. Congratulations to Mayor John Henry Moss, appointed to a two-year term on thf Advisory Committee for Ur ban Studies and Community Service ot University of North Carolina at Char lotte. Bill Bates has shown in his 13 years as a Kings Mountain high school football coach, nine of these years as athletic director and head football coach, that he is admirably qualified for the new public relations assignment he is assum ing. Coach Bater stepped into the head coaching task at a difficult time — find ing his material willing but hardly hefty. He did not flag, fielding creditable teams and compiling in his final year a record of seven victories against three defeats. Best wishes to him in his new assign ment and to the board of education in obtaining his successor. Congratulations to Rev. Edgar M. Cooper, son of Mrs. E. C. Cooper of Kings Mountain and the late Dr. Ctooper, on the anniversary of his 25th year as pas tor of America’s oldest German Luthe ran church. New Hanover Lutheran church in Hanover, Pa. ESC News Good The decision of the Federal Power Commission to grant Duke Power Com pany an interim raise in its wholesale rates of 20.2 percent effective December 14, is untimely, particularly as it effects city distributors like Kings Mountain, Gastonia, Shelby among others, and the Rural Electric Coops. The busy Kings Mountain branch of the Employment Security CommLssion was closed during the Eisenhower ad ministration as an economy measure of dubious economy — actually amounting to .‘51200 per year office rent. Like the FPC, these agencies oper ate on a fiscal year ending June 3(). A whopping 20.2 percent raise at mid-year cannot help but throw budgets out of kilter. The amount of increase, many feel, and it may subsequently ruled, is too high, though few would argue no rate increase is neces.sary. Coal for steam plants is in short supply — much of coal output going to Japan — and at its high est price in history. Its transportation costs more, too. Equipment costs are astronomical, and Duke must stay ahead of demand for power if it is to avoid ra tioning of power, or worse, blackouts as have occurred in the power-short Ea.st. And, w hen Duke has to pay eight percent Interest on bonds to finance expansion, as Duke is doing, it is another plus in Duke’s request for higher rates. Efforts since to get the office re opened have been abortive. On scene activities of the ESC have been limited to Thursday claim service visits at the Armory and spot point service at in dustries where there were as many as 20 layoffs. Happily, there have been few. Effective November 30, Fr.C service in Kings Mountain will be increased to three days weekly, the office to be lo cated in the new community center on Cleveland Avenue. Mondays and Tues days will be devoted essentially to mar riages of citizens seeking work with em ployers who need help. Thursdays will remain essentially claims-filing day. The effectiveness of the employ ment service in Kings Mountain will be enhanced materially by the expansion and there will be great savings to in dividuals in time and money as they handle their ESC business as at home, where they should. Le General Leaders of government are often not appreciated — or disappreciated — during their tenures in office. It is the long-term result of their administrations which determine the category. Recent shining examples in this country are Presidents Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover, both rillified during their terms of office. Mr. Truman, in the light of history, has already reached the designation “near-great”. Mr. Hoover has not. Yet most now acknowledge that Mr. Hoover paid the debts of the scan dal-ridden Harding and do-nothing Cool- idge administrations. Hitler was good for Germany when lie first came to power, bolstering the German economy and putting bread in to starving mouths. Likewise Mussolini in Italy, who got the trains running on time. Their later, final and fatal perfor mances consign them to national and international ignomirry. What judgment will history accord General Charles de Gaulle, prescient, brilliant, stubborn, arrogant? Three times he was the modern ver sion of Jeanne d’Arc. In Britain after France’s fall to the Bodhe in 1940, he organized the Free French and sought to keep French colonies out of the men age of the puppet, Vichy government. When France was liberated, DeGaulle headed the provisional government un til was end. After the French people fin ally got satiated with division among themselves and governments which last ed hardly long enough for the minis- tere to warm their seats, DeGaulle a- gain took the helm of government, after dictating the terms which assured both executive power and a seven-year tenure. He was great for France, history al ready indicates. And who can forget his erect figure as he marched with military bearing in the funeral cortege of President John P. Kennedy? Internally, judgment must await the passage of time. He was roundly de spised by Roosevelt and Churchill. In deed, they did not intend that he should be the symbol of France and sought to promote General Giraud to this import ant role. Geratid did not jell. The test of success in life is per formance — good or bad — and none is perfect. Perhaps time will prove Le General DeGaulle deserves the accolade-in-title most French already accord him: Charles le Grand. Cheu’les the Great. MARTIN'S MEDICINE Turkey Day m-m Anid hard on the Turkey. in-ia Onee upon a J it W. Sto Hi, 0-C<3tA» Viewpoints of Other Editors NEW PRONOUN NEEDED One of the many things the woman’s liberation movement ob jects to is the use of "man” w “mankind” to denote the wbole human race, female and 'male. It just goes to show, they say, that women don’t get a fair deal any where along the line. •'Humankind” Is an acceptable substitute. The scientific term "homo sapiens” prea,imably is not, because “homo” means man. This dc.signation Is optm to ques tion also becau.se “sapiens” means wise and man — jiardon, the human race — has proved it self to be not very sapient. We now come to the problem of pronouns. Usually, unless one is referring to females only, one uses “he” as the pronoun for such general terms as "person” or "in dividual.” This obviously is dis criminatory. But “she” alone would be equally so. Therefore, the need for a new pronoun is obvious. “Heshe” and “shche,” if used alternately and in equal number, might do the trick. The possessive presents problems. “Hisher” and “herhis” look ex tremely awkward and GOOD OR BAD kets ^d a 280 win, the late Geo- 1 «.^u!^Vnd"'“''“ rge Stimwelsa starring, to en.’ I the season. ! m-m that way if one could pronounce them. The Oregonian Tbe next week the tPniversiiy 1 nRTnrire to axirt rnrkas Band received a sizable blU for' TOAKD FROM blankets from Hotel Albemarle, i T®”!" On Cftll, the blAJiki^ts w&rc ?ath- United Sts.tes — 'and, in* ered in, dry cleaned, and shipper! i _ i*' ^ advanced wwld back to the owner, who charged' no rental m-m Three years later, Virginia tur ned the tables on UNC for the first time in many years. I had been home for the holiday. The peace time draft had been oper ative -for a year and I paid call at the Charlotte navy recruiting office. The recruiting djficer had obviously oel(Bbrated Thankagiv- ing night lafUto'dantly as reflected by his physl^ appearance and surly manner. .To his question a- boit my schooling and the "Car olina' r^ly, he turned on the sarcasm full blast. Math back ground? “DUferential calculus,’’ I replied. "Nothing but college al gebra,’ he icharged. "You damned Carolina {leople are always put ting on airs.” Yes, he was a Vir ginia gralduate. I told him he could go you-know-where and he then remembered his Job was re cruiting and became a bit more civil. I didn’t get to swa'ar in, however, and was told to gain some weight artd come back. I was In the navy and chanced into the guy on the elevator of New York s Fioadiliy Hotel. He was on ■luty aboard those aged four-stack World WlaT I destroyers. His lousy assignment gave me a mo ment of vicarious pleasure m-m 'Thanksgiving afternoon 1942, » year after the encounter with the Virginia recruiter, Id'estroyer Maddox picked her iway thiough sunken ships of 'CJasablance har bor to a vacant spot at the side ind iwe passengers off wounded -i/lmaack dieembarkeU for what iroved to be the most pleasant hity I had in Uncle Sam's ser vice. faces a situation almost with out parallel in history. It is a sit uation which can hold, forth im mense hope for mankind or can turn into a grave threat to man kind’s p<‘ace and progress. We arc speaking of the forces of ideal ism, activism, hope, disorienta tion and discontent which axe sweeping through and over youth today. Stemming in part frdm youth’s determlnatJon that society raise its standards and perfect itself, and from youth’s grave concern over mankind’s very .survival, there has arisen a deep gap be tween the thinking of ;the geneir- LANGUAGE, which linguist S. I. Hayakaw'al^lled the “extreme ly complicated systems of sput tering, hia-jlng, gurgling, clucking and cooing noises” with which human beings “expres.s and re port what goes on in their ner vous systems,” is at once a great ble.-!sing -and a great curse. ' Language is a great blessing when it Ls used properly — tliat is, accurately. It is a great curse when it is used lmpro[)erly—that is, Inaccurately. It would probably be safe to say that most of the strife in the modern world has grown out of the deliberate misuse of lan guage. The persons who most often de liberately misuse language are those who want to influence oth ers to join their cause, to fight against some other cause. Then, likewise, those embracing the other cause will deliberately mis use language to enlist fighters a- gainst the first cause. Soon these two factioas, by the misuse of language, will create a polarity— an untrue situation in which, they claim, tliere are only two sides: our side, the good side and their side, the bod side. And to hear them tell it, there is no mid dle ground. Adolf 'Hitler was this century’s most deliberate and skillful mis user of language. He asserted that all good things were ..iVryan, all bad tliings non-Aryan. We tc- call wbat horrors he perpetrated with his propaganda. We ought to remind ourselves from time to time that the de liberate misusers of language are still operating everywhere. Con sider for a 'moment what a po larity they have created in this countxj’, with -their slogans and half-truths: To hear them tell it, you have to be either a capitalis tic warmongering racist boargeois reactionary conservative patriotic old square hawk, or a commun istic paicafist militant revolution ary liberal traitorous potsmeking INDIAN OCEAN: SOVIET LAKE? HOSPITAL LOG Coley Jones Mrs. Magnolia H. Jackson OharlU' B. H-all R. C. Clantt Wm. Banks (Barber Grady -Dixon Hugh F. Farris Mrs. John A. Gordon J. Ollle Harris Carl B. Jones Mrs. Homer Kilgore Ray A. Kirby Laura Jane Laws Mrs. Maybc’ll W. iMartln Hubc'rl W. Massagrs’ Mrs. Elbert L. Mills J'iimes Jas’lM'r Oa-te.s, Jr. Mrs. Minnie W. I’liifer Mrs. Ray 'B. I'rice Mrs. Alvenia .M. .-schuler Mrs. Annie B. Self Leonard A. Smith Mrs. Howaird Ware Martin L. IWil.son, Sr. Mrs. Child C. Worxls Jeanle Whlsenant tJnda Ann Allen Mrs. Joyie A. Cote- •Mrs. Sally A. Mlntz With Bates as tilhk-tic lain Higil of l■')at Of many years at Boyee Memorial AKP cimreh has been the early morning service follow ed 'by (tneakfast -prepareld by a force of aiU-male cooks. Some of o«r oeMa IRce Marvin OofOrth and UndM-y MdMackin are no longer with us and Gumey Gran- m-m At church Sunday, the minister, in his preThanfcsgivlng remarks, related a piece of folklore new to me. Many New EnjJanders, he s’M. descendants of -the Puritans ot, plaice five kernels of w/m ill front of their plates — re minder of that may have been the new world’s first rationing dur ing that first hard iwlnter at Ply- youth must bo helped to see for its own and the nation’s good. In one of his profounde.st pass ages, Shakespeare wrote that life “rinds tongues in trees, books in running ^ brooks, sertr.i/ns in stones, and good in ever} thing.” There Ls, without th'- sllghu,-.st doubt, a great deal of good in to- day’.s youth?ui dlssiiislaotion. What we are seeing, when shorn of its more raucous and less plees- ing externals, is a 'growing de mand by youthful idealists that the United States perfect itself. It is tragic that, so far, this ad mirable demand has both been coufhed too often in terms unac ceptable to society as whole and has imet with too much stolid indifference on the part of that cociety. It hardily needs repeating that this netvspaper unequivocally con demns violence, rioting and the use of coercive undemocratic methods. We believe that such The United States Navy has lobbied in Washington for an In dian Ocean force. It currently maintains one seaplane tender and two destroyers in the region. But the budget Ls tight and the public is tired ot new foreign com mitments. •Note it known that the Soviets are quietly expanding their In fluence in one more strategically important area of the globe. Something to be aware of, and not disregard. Christian Science Monitor afto-hippde dove. You must be all the way one or all the way the oUier, they Insist, and iwhichever one you ore, you have to hate the other. All this is, of icourac, gobblede- gook, but it’s the same kind of dangerous, genci-alizod gobble. degook that Hitler used so well. It gets people mad and makes them believe it, -and draws them or drives them to join up, on one Mrs. Chas. E. Blanton St,, City Mrs. Henry Y. Bolk. sour St., City Mrs. Vernon L. Whitman, W. 4th St., Gastonia Mrs. Vernon E. Smith, 105 My ers St., City Mrs. Walter IxHlford, Rt. 2, Lawndale Mr.s. David S. I-ockridge, 915 Piedmont, City -Mrs. CktraldO. Mes.ser, t. 1, Clo ver, S. C. Paul U'e Ruppe, 403 Hill .SI,, City John Hamilton Haskins, 606 W. Ciold St., aty Mrs, John E. Wallen, 727 A St., Bessemer City -Mis. Jolin Robt. Wilson, .■)23 Baker St., City ADMITTED TUESDAY Irvin H. Falls, 104 City St., City Earnest L. Bowen, .St., Box 5.34 City Karen Elaine Byers, 'Box 184, Grover ■Mrs. Marie H. Ramsey, 015 Floyd St., City Edward Odell Gore, Rt, 1, York Rd., City The 1 homo a winner; feating brciigh eight V feats. raspects his language, and thinks independently enough to recog nize a lie when he hears one, can resist being drawn or driven into these demagogic camps. It ia the man who appreciates worth the blessings of language wh have your strife. I has the best chance of a'voidiijr _ the curse of Language. Only the man who knows and —Nuggets , King, after c punts, a loose lino. II to scor MicNcil I t he TE i’AT if! le.id it halftin methods, whether in colleges or elsewhere, must be stopped end punished. But it is vitally import ant that, as the first of this scries mouth Rock and that they at the , underlined, -bridges to youth must first Thanksgiving and ■we, to day, have very much to be thank ful for. m-m One of John L. McGill’s fav orite bits of cornfield philosophy concerns the dejection of the man who liad no shoes — until he saw the man sWio hald no feet, m-m Amen. be built. And, at the same time, there must be an inunedlate stop to those tactics, those words, those Innuendos which iwould de stroy such bridges as remain. AH 'Americans, of whatever age and station, are in this critical period together. Idealism from any quox ter must bv wfefcomed and utiliz ed. Cluriatian ScUnc* Monitot Keep You Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather every hour ou the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertcunment in between FMdii I ond h; .yard 1 away 1 fenderi line 8,’ pi/iiU t Cher tained quartei out.slai defen.K rei ove yard 1 On t Neil b: run f( game dc-rson and Ki rc.-iervr ed the Both fenso ing Cl downs and in ing th The out. I'll whi'n from < ^ilc Be ” Coa sixth young this 1; wer 1