fAGE 2 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday. December 17. 1970 Eotobllshed 1G89 The Kings Mountain Herald 206 South Piedmont Are. Kings Mountoln. N. C. 28086 A weekly newspaper devoted to the proniotlon ol the general welfare and published for the enllghtenn.ent, entertainment and benefit ol the cltlaens of Kings Mountain and Its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Rarald Bubllsblng Rouse. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, H. C., 280BB under Act of Congress of March 3,1K73. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Hannon Edltor-PUblisber Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Debbie Thornburg aork, Bookkieeper r'rank Edwards ’Uoeky Martin Chad Ledford MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Allen Myers Paul Jackson Roger Brown Ray Parker On Leave With The United States Army Joel Ltghtsey MAIL SlTBSCailPTIOff BATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCfi la North CoieltBa emd South Carolina One year SI; sdxmonths $2.35; three months $1.30: aohool yea* $3. (Subscriptions in North Carolina subject to three percenrt tax.) In All Other States One year $5; sixmonth $3; three months $1.75; school year $375. PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE For the Son of man has come to save tiutt which -loas lost. St. Matthew 18:11- Merger Proposal The board of directors of the Kings Mountain Merchants association will convene Monday to consider the propos al to merge the Kings Mountain Cham ber of Commerce and the Kings Moun tain Merchants association. The association directors will have in their hands results of a membership poll on the question. Since the Chamber of Commerce was organized some 13 years ago the Herald has editorially advanced the merger idea from the physical stand point of e.xpense - sharing on a pre - arranged formula for paid personnel (officers, other than the managing sec retary, and directors working for free), for office equipment, utilities and rent. For the most part, the two organi zations have implemented this plan. The missing link has been the ab sence of a joint manager—an “outside” man or “leg man”—who could devote the portion of his time in contacting on a regular basis members of both organ izations to glean their ideas on directions the Chamlxfr of Commerce and Mer chants should be moving, both individ ually and collectively, to supervise day- to-day operations of both organizations, and to invite new members of the busi ness and industrial community into membership even, perhaps, before the new citizens are in operation. There are many avenues in which both organizations need to proceed, both individually and collectively. The Herald feels, however, that the mei’ger plan whereby the merchant group would dissolve its corporation and become an adjunct of the Chamber of Commerce is not in the best interests of the mercantile group which, the Internal Revenue Service regards as an organiza tion rendering special services to a special group. In turn. Internal Revenue Service regards a Chamber of Commerce as a community or area umbrella, wide enough to attract the interest, partici pation and support of virtually every one — banker, lawyer, educator, mer chant, newspaperman, industrialist, la bor leader — and the Indian chief, too. Years ago at a meeting of the state’s Chamber of Commerce secretaries, the gentlemen from Durham asked the late Clarence Kuester, then the highly effi cient and successful secretary of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, “Clar ence, what do you do about your labor unions?” Mr. Kuester’s reply was as quick as succinct: “Every president of every labor union in Charlotte is a mem ber of the Charlotte Chamber of Com merce. The Herald’s position on marriage of the two organizations remains as was: man'y’em for paid personnel manage ment and physical joint facilities, but re tain the individual corporations. The Herald would suggest to both organizations that potential and con siderable benefits await both with an expansion of the number of directors. There should be no less than 12 mem hers of each directorate and 15 for eacl would not be too many. Mr. Runkelhaus, first boss of the govemment’s anti-pollution program, talked turkey in heavy-handed manner to the nation's Mayors in Atlanta last week concerning the plans of his office to put the squeeze on municipal arms to clean their cesspools. To show he meant business, he de clared he was serving orders on the Cities of Cleveland, Detroit, and Atlanta (the latter being the host city to the mayor’s annual national conclave) to clean up in 180 da>t; or else. At least two of the mayors did next like the taste of the Runkelhaus turkey and angrily said they didn’t. Cleveland’s mayor pointed out that the new clean-up administrator was not speaking from facts, that Cleveland vot ers had voted a $100 million bond issue for that very pui-pose and that accom plishing the task in six months is not possible. Detroit’s mayor cried “foul ”, con tending Uncle Sam hadn’t met his part of the financial bargain in the motor city’s grandiose plan to improve the Lake Michigan mess. The law permits federal cash participation in anti-pollU' tion problems of cities up to .50 percent. The Detroit mayor contended only five percent of the cost had been supplied to date. In its editorial comment slapping No Overnight Way the wrists of Mr. Runkelhaus. the CheU- lotte Observer noted that federal appro priations amounted to only S114 million and questioned, in that light, whether Mr. Runkelhaus was anyw'here near first base in his damning of the three cities, Most students of history, particular ly the history of this young nation, rec ognize that the soap-boxers render a long-term service in arousing the pop ulace to what should be apparent need, as anti-poll >tion and conservation meas ures increasingly are. But the solutions are sometimes will-of-the-wisp and, when not, engineer ing plans are not translated into fact over-night. Happily, Kings Mountain has taken major steps, beginning in 1954, to solve its major pollution problem of waste disposal. Potts creek and Beason’s creek have been cleaned of Kings Mountain refuse, of considerable benefit to down stream users of Buffalo Creek including Blacksburg, S. C., which derives its drinking water from Buffalo, into which Potts and Beason flow. Kings Mountain thought it had handled its noxious effluent into Crow der’s creek with first the 1954 and the subsequent effort. It hadn’t and the city is at work now on alleviating the revived McGill creek problem, McGill flowing into Crowder’s. Many sports fans opine that Yogi Berra, canned by the New York Yankees after winning a pennant, and Tom Harp, canned by Duke University’s athletic council after his first winning season, should form a club. A suitable name might be “It-Does-Not Pay-to-Succeed” club. Football Coach Harp, of course, did not win any pennants at Duke, but, he thou.gh, he was gaining on them. Personality clashes were undoubted- fv involved at Duke, *as well as the fact Duke’s athletic department was tot ing a half-million per year deficit, about half attributable to football which, in happier pre-inflation days, carried the cash freight for the deadweight sports of tennis, baseball, golf, wrestling, soccer and track. It’s easy to figure. Ten thousand empty seats for five home games at 86 per throw totals 8300,000 gross. Then there’s the sales drop for sandwiches, programs and ch.nsers. Inflation has hit sports, too. The tip-off came last year when Notre Dame abandoned its historic poli cy of playing regular season games and Athletic Tug-Of-War ignoring the rich post-season affrays. Notre Dame officials were frank: the athletic coffers needed the money. Ckintinually underlying the college -scene, perhaps most accentuated in the football arena, is the continuing tug-of- war between the academic community and the athletic crowd. They haven’t done it yet, but Clemson and South Car olina, most likely, will say goodbye to the Atlantic Coast Conference. They want brawny tackles and g’jards, fleet ends and backs, and aren’t too worked about how these gridiron worthies per form on the entrance exams and in the classroom. This is heresy to the acade mic majority, jealous of the time spent in sports of their students and jealous, too, of the higher pay the athletic men tors command. The academicions, how ever, fail to remember that no football coach enjoys that you-can’t-flre-me fringe benefit labeled “tenure”. The pendulum therefore swings. When the alumni get sufficiently upset at losing they keep both person and purse at home. The athletic enthusiasts also tend to sJiort the academic founda tions, too. , MARTIN'S MEDICINE Thad Eure, the veteran North Ctarolina seerctary u[ state, ha.s the duly ol assigning seats to North Carolina Senators and Rep- resentatlvea prior to the conven ing ot each session. m-m Elmblematic of his seniority, Senator Marshall Raueli was as- signed one of the ohoiee seats. He, literally, will be a ‘'front bench" man, as the British say it. Senator Rauch will occupy Seat 4. adorned in the 1969 session by Senator Jack White, of Kings Mountain. Senator-elect Ollie Harris, em blematlc of his freshman status will be a back-bencher, but, with al, U quite happy at tlie prospect of occupying Seat 42. A neat- neighbor on the back bench is vetpran Senator Bill Saunders, of Southern Pinos, oiicc a Kings Mountaineer, and father of Mrs. Bob Southwell. Bill prefers the back row and asked for Sbat as signment there. Ollie figures his immediate neighbors will be able to keep I him on the straight and narrow. As Ollie e.xpreeses it, “On one side j I’ve got a Preabj-terian preacher. Whpn I need ^iritual advice. I’ll ask him. On the other side I’ve got a psychology professor. When I get mbted up. I’ll turn to him." The minister is Rev. Bobby Lee Combs, a Presbyterian minister from Hickory, and the professoi Dr. Carl D. Killian, of Jackson county, who holds forth at West cm Carolina University. m-ni One freshman senator is John Church, from Henderson, who, nevertheless, is a veteran legls- :^tor, having sert’ed several terms in the House. A college friend of mine — then from Salisbury — Senator Church is the executive vice-president of Rose's Stores. Getting themselves in good physical trim for the session starting January 13 are both of Kings .Mountain’s legislators. Ol lie had a hernia repaired and Representative W. K. Mauney, Jr., dittoed Ollie with a double re pair job. Billy, Incidentally, was On The Run XSTMASJ -.-At i/ .JL Viewpoints of Other Editors BOWLES BEST BET By TOM 1. DAVIS, SR. (By this time next year, with the General Assembly over, and economic conditions either better or worse, the jockeying by candi dates in the gubernatorial race will (be fairly evident. Many people feel that Attorney General Robert Morgan wHl ibo a candidate, which is why most people feel no other pei-son has -a chance. This might be true if the energetic Harnett County neighbor decided to run for the number one seat — but he -really doesn’t have to. . . . His closest friends indicate he Ah Wednesday from .gaily wants -to be a U. S. Senator Charlotte s Presbyterian hospital, and there will be an opening next time as Senator Jordan’s iterm expires. The route to the Senate seat is usually by appointment or from the -Governor’s chair. Sena tor Willis Smith was the last one to upset this tradition. Bob Mor gan doesn’t need exposure, from The two couples’ classes ai Boyce Memorial ARP Sunday school Joined forces Tuesday eve ning to decorate a mammoth Christmas tree Wendell Phifer supplied, to bag Christma.s I the Governor’s chair, he Is al goodies for the children’.s party, i ready one of the best known and and to eat quantities of spaghetti,! most popular men in North Caro- oooked by Dwayne Lynch, topped lina. He knows that if he ran for off with Phyllis Cheshire’.s de-1 Governor he would be four years llclous saulce, accompanied .'ly a ' older, would have to wait at least delectable tossed salad, garlic I two years to run, and he might bread and rolls. I not be so ijopular then as he is no.v. m-m Marriott Phifer and I were to gether in the food line and I asked if he liked spaghetti. “Not much," Marriott admitted some what Tu'^ully, adding, “I never ate it but once.” No wonder. That one occasion was a spaghetti din ner Mrs. J. R. Davis ser.'cd for the men in Bill Pulton’s wedding entourage, I among them. Mar- iott didn’t really have much of a chance. He’d missed signals and eaten a full-course dinner before he arrived Marriott’s second venture with the spaghetti Tuesday night was somewhat different. I had observ ed that he invested in a second helping and commented there upon. “Yeah, pretty good,” Mar- lott grinned. ’’And I learned how to eat the stuff, too.” The pastor. Dr. Charles Ed wards was relating a story about holding prayer meeting out in Missouri during a heavy snow. It was a rural area, and the church recessed several yards from the road. Mrs. BMwards assured her husband that none of his parish ioner would venture out on such an un toward night, but he was adamant and insisted they had to be ready fos- any comers, if any. He and Mrs. Edwards began me long trek through the ten- inch white. About half-way, the preaciher related, his wife said she could go no farther. "So,” he said, “I just picked her up on my shoulder like a sack of flour and carried her the rest of the way.” m-m Mrs. Edwards com'-:-''-- ’ • the tellin'T ■ sugar?” The preacher’s point, of course, was that 17 hardy souls attended that prayer meeting. BAPTIST TOPIC “Christmas In Our Hearts” will be the sermon topic of the Rev. James Wilder at Sunday maming worship servioM at 1.1 o’clock at Kings Mountain Bap tist church. So from a politicians stand point, and Morgan is an excellent politician, otic can assume if he runs lor anything in 1972 other than Attorney General it will be for the U. S. Senate, where he stands an excellent 'chance of making it and young enough to build up seniori^-. If .Morgan fc not to be consider ed as -a candidate for Governor, tehn who? Senator Hargrove Bowles, prom inent businessman from Greens boro, only two weeks ago led the ticket in his Guilford County, sliovving his popularity there. Bowles makes no secret that he will be a candidate in 1972; in fact he is really the only ome I mentioned, including Morgan, who readily admits he will seek this office. This gives him the jump on the others but also puts him right in the middle of a target for everyone else to shoot at, but so -far he has dodged those' shots. So who else is mentioned? To name a few — Leo Jenkins, Lt Governor Pat Taylor, Tom White. Archie K. Davis, Mel Broughton, Roy Sowers, Lauch Faircloth, and Dr. Reginald Hawicins. While these and others* might hope lighting will strike. Senator Bowles is quietly going about the state, meeting people, making speeches and making prepara tions for the next General As- .sembly. At this point he is the only one to be a certain candi date. This posture will gain sup port. He will bo watched during the legislature and everytlning he says and does will imake news, this is bound to erthanoe his chances. His record is a good one, he Is respected In the business community, and is known as a id of minorities, and labor, - .-a with his stance as a (mod erate. ! THE ETHICS OF ZONING How much right docs a local community have to protect itself against external pressures for change? The question, posed by a mount ing attack on the strict zoning laws of some suburban towns, is by no means a new one. It has even been debated on an academ ic plane in recent years as a re sult of author Robert Ardrey’s contention that men and lesser animals, both individually and tribally. have an instinct to pro tect territorial claims. As Mr. Conti noted In a recent Wall Street Journal article, the rising pressure on suburban zon ing is coming from civil rights groups, (builders, politicians and business corporations. They argue that zoning restrictions tie up space that is badly needed for new housing and development In metropolitan areas. At first glance. It might seem that defenders of tight zoning are in a weak ethical position. By placing limits on what individuals can do with their property, zon ing laws restrict personal and economic freedom. There have been places where zoning laws have been misused to practice racial or ethnic discrimination. There have -been instances when corrupt officials have extorted bribes from developers through the power to grant exceptions to tough zoning rules. But zoning can be defended too and the defense deserves some attention In this era when much though Is being given to how to restore “quality of life” to metro politan areas. Suburban towns, as relatively small entities within the metropolitan whole, very oft en have a strong sense of (com munity. If they are widely -regard ed as “good” or desirable com munities, it usually is because in dividual members have devoted their money and effort toward providing amentitles such as good schools, ptuks, libraries and other cultural facilities. The -argument against develop ers who seek to breach zoning re strictions is that they often are simply (trying to capitalize on amenities someone else has pro vided. SOU a further argument is that what the developer builds— a high-rise housing development, for example — may actually de stroy the amontlties 'by overbur dening them With a (population Chat does not contribute equally to 'maintaining them. In any metropolitan area, there usually are large areas that are unattractive to developers be cause they have -been despoiled. Many of these areas would not have rotted so rapidly, or perhaps at all, had there been a stronger sense of community and a great er community stress on setting and protecting standards. It may well be that the only answer to the nation’s urban problems is to find ways to restore a sense of community In motrQ(politan neigh borhoods -where it has vanished or been destroyed. Developera could •cooperate in this effort by thinking more in terms of build ing ccxnmunities rather than merely putting up bricks and (mor tar. They could turn (their efforts •But the real test, at this point, to providing amenities rather in the 72 campaign, remains (with i than to Invading communities this question — Who would I vote . where someone else has done so. for in the Democratic primary with Bowles against Taylor or Jenkins, or White or Davis or Sowers or Faircloth or Hawkins or, etc? Statewide the result would bo Bowle.s against all com ers. And the beauty cf all of this —^the man Is very qualified. Tom Dovli, Sr. in the Johnstonian Sun And critics of the suburbs should not bo so quick to assume that snobbery, racism or selllith- ness are the principal motives of people 'Who try to maintain stand ards and protect the atabllity and viability of their communities. The instinct these eiffcnts nepsw- sent may halve to be mora wfdejy recognlZbd il (harmony Is to Ije restored to urban life. MERGING THE EXCHANGES A New York Stock Exichange re- p(ort stresses the advantages of a merger of the 'Big -Board and the American Stock Exchange. Al though neither e.xchange has taken a position on such a mer ger, there is, understandably, a good deal of sentiment for it. Already the two exchanges are working toward consolidation of sdme service functions, a step that they expect to achieve sig- nifioant savings. Full consolida tion, If intelligently planned, would surely save a good deal more. The inconvenience for (mem'ber firms would be limited, since most major houses already be long to (both exchanges. Listing requirements for , (oennpanies’ stocks vary, but there seems no reason why a merged exchange could i»t handle two groups of stocks — perhaps an “A” and a ’tB” list With increased resources the merged institution could concen trate on improving service to the public. With -reduced costs the members could spend more on upgrading their own operations. In this electronics age, in fact, it is a real question whether there is any longer a need for all of theregional exchanges scattor- ed across the country. If most buy and sell onjers cleared through a single center, investors would benefit from a broader market in the securities they wish to trade. Personalities could be bruised, of course, since there will be few er high-level posts if there are fewer exchanges. Quite Vlainly, though, the securities industry needs to become more efficient, and an elimination of overlap ping exchange activity looks like a move in that direiction. Wall Street Joumol HOSPITAL LOG Ijawremoe (Quy Mrs. Magnolia H. Jackson Mrs. LucUle S. Blanton Willie Jloivvles Leroy Jiuchanan Mrs. Gu>' (Butler | Mrs. Wm. C. Coohran Mrs. Joyce A. Cole Claude C. Cook O. V. Ellis, Jr. , Irvin H. Foils Hugh Farris Ben Foster James N. Gamble Garteul L. 'Grigg .Mrs. Shirley N. HornbuckJe .Ml’S. Ottis O. Jackson Mrs, Mamie S. Kennedy Mrs. Homer Kilgore Mrs C. M. l^ovelaice Mrs! Majbelle W. '.Martin Mrs. Essie D. Moore Mrs. Nannie C. (Moss Wm. L. Moss Mrs. Ola (M. Paisley y. W. IMtlerson Mrs. Graa* T. Philheek James C. Roberts Mrs. Alvenis .'>chuler Mrs. Vernon E. Smith Mrs. Lillie B. Ware Martin L. Wilson, Sr. Mrs. Child C. W'ood ■Mrs. ESnma W. Wray Mrs. Bobby G. Itockrldge Boyce E. ’White ADMITTED WEDNESDAY .Samuel W. Robinson Rt. 1, Box 142, City ^ ADMITTED FRIDAY Mns. Clara 'B. Dye a200Margrace Hkl., City Ai»