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Established 1889
I The Kings Mountain Herald
" 206 South Piedmont Av«. Kings Mountain, N. C. 28088
A W’!w>kly newspa.per devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enlightenmerit, entertainrrmt and benefit of the citizens of 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, N. C., 28086
under Act of Congress oi March 3, 1873.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher
Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Gary Stewart Sports Editor, News
Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Booltl*eper
Paul Jaokson
Herbert M. Hunter
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
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Rooky Martin Roger Brown
• On Leave With The United States Army
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M A R TIH' S Viewpoints of Other Editors
MEDICINE
TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
But iKnv. p Lord, thou [art (»ir fiithcr; ncr are the clay, la-ud thou 'our potter; ptid loe all are the
work of thy hand.
Imiah 6V,.-8.
Roleigh Shoot-out
Wednesday, May 25, the Herald re
ceived a telephone call from Washing
ton from Wes Haydn, press secretary to
United States Senator B. Everett Jor
dan, to announce in behalf of the Sena
tor that a program reservation had been
made by the Department of Housing
and Urban Renewal for 68 public hous
ing units. Similar calls were made by
Mr. Hayden to Mayor John Henry Moss
and to Tom Harper, director of the
Kings Mountain Public Housing Author
ity.
Just five days later, almost to the
hour, Mr. Hayden lay critically wounded
outside a Raleigh mall, victim of an ap
parent berserk gunman who had no par
ticular target but merely wanted to kill
Mr. Hayden, accompanying Senator Jor
dan, just happened to be present.
'Phree other victims lay dead, seven
others were wounded, and the gunman
himself was dead by his own hand.
How can these unhappy events be
prevented?
In the wake of the shooting of Gov
ernor George Wallace, the Raleigh event
brought more calls from the communi
cations media and public officials, as
well as other citizens, for tighter gun
control laws.
Opponents of tighter gun-purchase
laws counter tha tighter laws would on
ly serve the ends of gunmen such a.s
Bremer and McLeod and professional
gangsters, as these, by fiooik or crook,
would obtain firearms anyway, whereas
the citizen interested merely in self
protection would find his situation wors
ened as he abided by the law.
There is some trurh to the anti’s ar
guments, yet some tightening of the
laws on gun sales appears in order. I;ni
formation given on applications for
hand-gun purchases may be too sketchy.
Perhaps more important, the infor
mation is seldom checked until it is too
late, as in Raleigh.
It would appear the better part of
prevention to requir police investigation
of the gun-purchase applicant before
the sale is consummated. The purchase
would have to, receive a stamp of ap
proval AFTER investigation.
Application of check-out-beforo-sale
to all firearms above the air rifle class
would appear in order.
Painful red tap.-', but required red
tape, recent events dictate.
Project Interdependence
The Department of Housing and Ur
ban Development administers many dif
ferent federal programs, among them
public housing and urban renewal.
In Kings Mountain, these two pro
grams are extant and, as it was finally
learned, were interdependent.
With 189 residences scheduled for
razing in the 110-acre Cansler urban re
newal area, this department cogently
asked in effect, “Where do you house
the displaced?”
In turn, the Public Housing Author
ity’s application for 100 additional units
lay fallow, so to speak, this HUIXdcpart-
ment questioning the Kings Mountain
need, at least in relation to some other
communities.
^ The happy announcement that the
application for public housing units has
been partially approved should unhinge
the Cansler project in the near future,
badly neded here to rebuild and beauti
fy one of the city’s most blighted areas.
Dirty Pool
In the past week, two instances of
“dirty pool” have cropped up in the
political fracases:
1) The Grover Road Outdoor Adver
tising picture of Hargrove (Jlkipper)
Bowles, Democratic candidate for the
governor was handsomely decorated.
The artists gave Mr. Bowles a black eye
and heavy brush mustache. That wasn’t
too bad, but the culgar caption on the
carricature is not reprintable in a fam
ily journal.
2) Someone, or ones, rifled the car
of Josh Hinnant, candidate for a Demo
cratic nomination for county commis
sioner, of 2500 political cards.
“Dirty pool ” has been known to re
act in favor of the victimized.
Dvke Seeks Increase
Duke Power Company Wednesday
filed with the North Carolina Utilities
Commission application to increase its
rates again.
In the extensive brief filed by Duke,
the Company points to the considerable
increase in fuel costs and money rates
as prime reasons it must have more in
come if Duke is to be able to .snend 8800
million in the four years 1972-76 to meet
demand for electricity in its Piedmont
Carolinas operating area.
Duke stated plans to issue 860 mil
lion in preferred stock in June for which
it anticipates a guaranteed return to in
vest or.s of 7.5 percent per year, and re
lates that it sold $100 million in first
mortgage bonds in April at 7.75 per
cent. *
Rate increases already imposed are
insufficient, says Duke.
Customers are likely to object, prin
cipally on grounds of the rate increases
already granted by the Utilities Commis
sion. Another onnonenf will bo EPIC, the
band of electricity-selling cities who
purchase power from Duke.
Duke also renews its request, previ
ously denied, to be able to adjust rates
on basis of fluctuation in fuel costs on
decision of a commission eaminer, rath
er than via formal hearing before the
full commission.
It is the duty of the five-member
commission, in its regulation of public
utilities, to steer a fair course between
the regulated public utilities on the one
hand and their customers on the other.
A rankle to the customer is the fact
of the wage-price freeze that effects al
most all but leaves some painful loop
holes.
A traffic signal is badly needed at
the corner of West King and Cansler
streets, as two recent pedestrian acci
dents painfully show. The State High
way commission traffic control division
should install one before more accidents
occur.
f Kings Mountain Public Housing Au-
[ thority, in spite of some rule changes
i cutting rental income to some degree, is
; still operating comfortably in black ink.
'The initial public housing act of 1937
'wa splanned to provide housing which
would pay for itself, with the federal
government acting as endorser of hous
ing authority obligations. Four years a-
[go, four more plans, these implying fed
eral subsidies, were adopted by Con
gress. Kings Mountain has embarked
only on one of these—leased housing of
50 units—investigated the others and re-
I turned to the original or “conventional”
plan, by far the best for the taxpayer.
Congratulations
Hearty congratulations to:
Ollie Hairis, recipient of the Jeffer
son Award from the North Carolina
Funeral Directors association.
Lieutenant James C. Blanton, a-
warded the Navy Commendation medal
for meritorious service in Vietnam wat
ers,
Janet Bridges and Lynn Blanton,
the Legion Auxiliary’s nominees for
Girls State,
Jackie Metcalf, winner of a Dover
Foundation scholarship,
Grafton Withers, triple award win
ner at Kings Mountain high school,
Mrs. Helen Hord Pike, Kings Moun
tain native, named “Mother of the Year”
of Parkway Baptist church in Greens-
Ixiro.
By MARTIN HARMON
The fellow was already on
deck when I arrived at the office
Tuesday morning at 8:40. He ex
tended his hand and .said, “Tm
Bob Nelli.” I asked the spelling,
“N-e-i-H".
Obv'i'ously, he was not the
King.s Mourttain - Charlotte Bob
Nelli. He had added, “AEC”, and
he wasn’t referring to the Alco-
holie Board of Control.
min
He was Bob Neill, of San Fer
nando Valley, Calif., of the Audit
Bureau of Clrcuiations, hC're to
conduct the Herald’s eleventh bi
ennial circulation audit. He had
completed the Gastonia Gazette
circulation audit Monday after
noon.
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In the 20 years and of the
eleven auditors, the Herald has
had only one repeater. The Audit
Bureau, only circulation auditor
accepted in the trade, audits the
circulations of such media giants
as Life and Time Magazine, the
New York Times, the Wail Street
Journal, the Los Angeles Times,
and alsio non-daily newspapers
like the Smlthfield Herald, Stan
ley News & Press at Albemarle
and the Kings Mountain Herald.
The Audit Bureau of Circula
tions was organized in 1915, a
conscionable effort on the part of
advertising space buyers, their
agents the advertising agencies,
and newspaper owners to estab-
lish a yardstick whereby the ad
buyer knew what he was buying.
In the olden days, no sell-respect-
ing owner failed to double his
true paid circulation, and th»
more imaginative trebeled and
even quadrupled his true figures.
Seme still do, tout they do not
siiow the hallmark of -ABC in
their circuldtion reports.
I first learned the rules of the
ABC when working in Albemarle
at the Stanley News & Press, then
and now one of the state and
nation's outstanding semi-weekly
newspapers. Detailed records are
required. At the Herald’s first au
dit two decades ago, and since.
I’ve learned more.
The basic ABC yardstick is:
how many people pay for your
publication?
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The theory is as simple as it
valid, whether the single issue
price is a niokle, a half-dollar, or
more. The logit is that the per
son who buys the paper reads it.
Some regulations support the
basic theory. Any person may buy
up to teti subscriptions and all
count as paid (circulation. If he
buys eleven, all eleven are cate
gorized as “bulk” sales, shown
on the statement but not credit
ed as paid circulation. Addition
ally, publications are limited on
the number of newspapers they
are permitted to give away, and
to the number they can use as
samples in circulation campaigns.
Each of the visiting auditors
have employed the same basic
tests, as well as varying ones.
AH pick a number of names
from the mailing list, which the
publleatic-n is requir^ 1o verify
three ways, cash receipt, card
file of subscript ions, and daily
running log of circulation re
ceipts. Too many misses would
mean another batch of names to
verify. Too many rrilsses again
and the auditor would, as they
say at political conventions, "ipoill
the delegation”. He' would mail
subscription payment verifica
tion requests, at publisher ex
pense, to as many as he desired:
The Herald’s first auditor (and
others since! asked for the past
two year's newsprint invoices.
Curiously, after digging them
out, I asked, “Why?” He replied,
“I wanted to find out If you’d
been buying enough paper to
print the papers you’ve said you
were.” Somewhere in the back
ground, some publishers hadn't
TREND TOWARD
PROTECmONISM
A growing trend toward "pro
tectionism” in the U. S. and
the European Economic Com
munity (the Common Market) is
a threat to American agricul
tural export markets.
The trend in this country is
exemplified by a bill that would
hold if. S. imports to 1965-69 lev
els and limit U. S. Investments
in foreign countries.
Passage of such legislation
would spell disaster to our trade
relations and strangle U. S. ef
forts to establish freer world
trade through reduction of im
port barriers imposed by other
countries.
If we in America adopt pro
tectionist policies, we can expect
retaliation from our overseas
customers, and we cannot ex
pect the countries who are mem
bers of the European Common
Market to consider seriously our
requests for eliminating their
variable import levies.
Consumers, as well as farm
ers, workers, investors and bu.si-
ness, all stand to gain from a
free flow of trade between coun
tries. When products are ex
changed on a basis of each coun
try producing the items it can
produce most advantageously,
consumers get the best product
at the lowest price. No one coup-
try, not even tlie U. S., can ef
ficiently produce every product
it needs. Import quotas tend to
erect protective shields around
high-priced producs and destroy
the incentive for Increased effi
ciency and higher productivity.
In seeking to prevent imports
to this country, the AFL-CIO is
trying to safeguard its monopol
istic practices by eliminating
competitively prio^ products.
- Science Christian Monitor
Bill Bates
Is Elected
The public information officer
for the CharlotteHMecklenbui'.g
school system, Barbara Davis,
has been elected president of the
North Carolina chaper of the
National School Public Relations
association,
Mrs. Davis, who was elected
recently at an NS-NSPRA con
vention in Goldsboro, will take
office July 1.
Other new officers are Dr. Jim
Buie, school superintend e n t,
Goldsboro, vice-president; and
Bill Bates, director olf school-
community relations, K1 ng s
Mountain, secretary-treasurer.
NCjN'SIPIRA is composed of per
sonal involvtKi in school public
relations. There are about 7.5
memibei's In North Carolina.
Child Jealousy
Problem Probed
RALEIGH — Remember the
Smothers Broi'.hcrs line,“Mom al
ways liked you best?” That was
how Tommy explained away his
faults and his problcims.
Jealousy among children is
fairly common as thty compete
for lov'o and attention from par
ents, agrees Mrs. Faye Haywood,
extension family relations spec
ialist, North Carolina State Uni
versity.
If a child is unsure of himsell
—unsure about whether or not
his ;»Tents love him- he will be
Jealous of any attention given to
other children in the family.
Therefore, parents must work
hard to be sure each child knows
be is loved and that be is ap
proved of just the way he is, the
specialist believes.
For example, holding one child
up again.st the other, such as
saying "■why can’t you be more
like Johnny?” creates jealousy
So does taking sides when chil
dren argue or fight, e.specially if
the porerkt always takes the .same
side.
Exce.ssive praise cr blame for
a certain child creates jealousy
among the others, Mrs. Haywood
points out.
A Jealous child is not happy.
H:lp each child be happy to be
himself, since he can’t be any
one else, the specialist suggests.
Give praise when it is due, and
help each child find satisfaction
in the things he can do. Jealous
children fear that no one likes
them.
It parents get along agreeably
wL;h each other and with the
chUdrtn, if there are a mindmuim
of fights and arguments, children
won’t feel unsurt of the love in
the home and won’t feel a need
to be jealous.
Explain to the children that
you treat them differently bcr
cause each one is different—age,
sex, interests.
Help them talk over why they
may be jealous or have bad feel
ings about each other.
Most of ail, let each child know
he has a special part of your love,
the .specialist concludes.
Combat Veterans
May Apply
'Recent combat veterans with
the rank of sergeant or higher
have the opportunity to apply for
a direct appointment as a com
missioned officer in the North
Carolina Army National Guard,
Major General Ferd L. Davie, the
adjutant general of North Caro
lina, stated today.
Appicants must meet the
normal eligibility requirements
for age, citizenship, score a min
imum of 110 on the army apti
tude test and 115 on the officer
candidate, test, must be a grad
uate of a high school or pass
the general education develop
ment test, be of good moral
character, possess qualifications
for potential leadership, and
pass medical and security re
quirements.
In addition, an applicant must
ha\e displayed a high degree of
leadership and technical profi
ciency while performing his
duties in combat and be identi
fied as an individual who pos
sesses a higfj potential for serv
ice as a commissioned officer.
InteMsted combat veterans
are invited to visit their local
national guard armory for com
plete details regarding this pro
gram.
KINGS MOUNTAIN |
Hospital Log
VISITING HOURS
Daily 10:30 to 11:30 AJ4.
3 to 4 PM. and 7 to 8 PM.
Ella Jay Beam
Clarence L. Black
Mrs. Jolin T Brown
.Mack Lee Conner
Beauford Le.slie Cr;jwford
Billie M. Hall
Mre. Marvin J. Harmon
Edna Leatherwo<)d
(Bessie M. MeClain
Dorus Clay Pay.se ur
Etfte David Sharpe
Eugene Frank Stapp >
feonrrle 'M. Summers
Lucinda M. Surrfitt
Mrs. J. H. Thomson
Bessie E. Wells
Dewey W. Barker
Wonie W. iMdBee
(Bobby Gene SutheHiind
Mary Etta MoSwain
William Earl Allen
Mrs. Jarvig Messer
Kathy L. 'MicQuage
ADMITTED THURSDAy
Mrs. Robert S. Brymor, 315 E.
Washington Ave., Bessemer City
Mrs. William H. Lynn, Rt. U,
City
ADMITTED FRIDAY
Teleservice
Plan Announced
The Social Security Adminis
tration is continually trying to
provide better service to the
people it serves, state Lex G.
Barkley, district manager for so-
ciay security in Gastonia.
One of the most effective metli-
ods for providing better service
is the use of the telephone, he
added. The new approach is call
ed “Teleservice.” Mr. Barkle.v
said the Social Security Admin
istration has found that most so
cial security business can ibe con
ducted telephone without the
individual having to meet a so
cial security representative in
persons. This includes taking
claims, answering questions, or
completing questionnaires. Tht>
claim can be completed over the
telephone and .sent to the appli
cant f:r signature. The applica
tion is then returned to the so
cial security office with all
proofs (proof of age, proof of
earnings, pro(f of relationship,
etc.)
Barkley said “Teleservice”
saves time for the claimant as
well as for social security. He
encouraged full and regular use
of this service. The toephonn
num.'.'er for the Gastonia office
is .864-5434.
Stacey Alexander, Rt. 2, Besse
mer City
Mrs. Nathan H. Davis, 210 Mor
ris St., City
Mrs. George B. Hope. 908 iOract!
St., City
Dale Douglas Ward, Mountain-
view Rd., Rt. 2, Bessemer City
ADMmXD SATURDAY
Mrs. George Reid Hope, 819
Floyd St. City
Mrs. William F. Pearson. 207
Fairview St„ CilU’
Harry Lee Splawn, Rt. 1, Bes
semer City
ADMITTED SUNDAY
Mis. Brady E. Jackson, 407
Baker St., City
Mrs. Ricky G. McDaniel, 110
Carpenter St., City
Gaiy Lee Robinson, 709 West
-Mountain 3t., City
Lawtrenlce J. Stewart, Rt. 2, City
ADMITTED MONDAY
Arthur L. Anderson, 24 Elm St..
City
Otis W. Butkner, P.O. Box 1027,
Bessemer City
Mrs. Hemy M. Ca.sh, Rt. 3. City
Lawrence T. Dixon, 103 W.
Georgia Ave., Bessemer City
James B. Flowers, Rt. 1, Besse
mer City
Mrs. Jack L. Hovis, III, Rt, 4,
Gastonia
acqueline Suzettc Logan, 205
N. Morris, Gastonia
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iknouncements
Mr. iiiKl Mrs. James R. Wat^B
111. 3, ann iunce the birth
son. Thur.slay, May 25, King-
Mountain ho.spital.
Mr. and Mrs. George E. Hope.
Jr itlS Cixce -St., announce the
hii-'th of a daughter, Friday, M;i,\
2ti, King.-< .Mountain hospital.
Mr. and -Mrs. Ronald E. Shod,
1250 2nfi St. Ext., announce ttio
birth of a .son. Friday. May 2(;,
Kings .Mountain ho.spital.
Mr. and .Mrs. Marc-us B. -Rol)-
erts, Rt. 2 Box 38. announce tlie
birtii of a .son, Saturday, (May 27,
Kings Mountain hospital.
Mr, ami .Mrs. Jerry D. Coslnt'r,
Rr. 1, Shelby, announce the birth
of a daugt\liM', Saturday, May 27,
King.s Mountain ho-spital.
.Mr. and Mrs. George R. IIoix',
819 Floyd St., onnounct' the birth
of a .SOM, Monday, May 29, King,-.
Mountain hospital.
Mr, and Mr.s. BradyE. Jaok.soii,
407 Baker Street, announce tlie
birth of a son, Monday, 'May 29,
King.s Mountain hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Ch-iHes Moore,
Rt. 2, (Box 334, Bessemer City, an
nounce the bii'tli of a daughter,
Monday, May 29. Kings Mountain
hospital.
oe T. Peterson, 502 Broad St,,
City
Mrs. Ronald K. Rayfiold, Rt. 2,
Cherryville
Su.san Kayo Shirley, 611 Gantt
St., City
Mattie C. Stowe, 325 N. Pu'd
mont Ave., City
Mrs. I.'^aae Williams, Rt, 2, Bes-
•semer City
Margaret Gray, 119 Boston Ave.,
Besst?mer City
Debra .\nnette Salyer, 1607
Trexler St., Gastonia
Th Bureau looks adtance at
crash circulation campaigns, giim-
micks, and more particularly at
publications paying an overly-
high commission ■to circulation
salesmen. In a (crash caimpaign
many years ago, the Country
Gentleman was ipaying i)ts sales
men a dollar more than the regu
lar subscription price. The
"smart" salesmen invaded a
town, rented a hotel room, and
spent a woiklng day copying
names from the telephone or city
directory.
HYMN SING SET
The Plre & Cross Singers of
Boger City Methodist church will
be featured in a Gospel Sing
the evening oif June 4th at Grace
United Methodist church . The
service will be Sunday evening
worship service.
TERM INSURANCE
Term insurance offers protec
tion for a limited period of time,
as stated In the policy, usually
for 5, 10 or 20 years, or to a
stated age such as 65years ex
plains Mrs. Justine Rozier, ex
tension home management spe
cialist, North Carolina State
University.
Jones Rites
Are Conducted
Graveside services for Jesse
Alexander Jones, 70, of 48 North-
wtxxis Drive, will be conducted
Thursday at 3 p.m. from Moun
tain Rest cemetery, with (Rev. iN.
C. Bush, pastor of Grace United
Methodist chufeh officiating.
'Mr. Jones <l>od May 30th at
2:30 a. m. in New Hanover hos
pital In Wilmington.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Ila Hinson Jones; and three
brothers, Milton, Herman and
Alfred Jones, all of Norfolk, Va,
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PINE DISBASK
That yellow-orange growth on
your pine trees is probabily a
fungus disease known as fusi
form rust. It’s a common prob
lem and is likeiy to appear on
practically any kind of pine, al
though it is usually more severe
on slash and lablolly. Pruning
is the only practical methorl of
control.
The Audit ^tObau of CSrcula-
tions knows its busiiness and the
honor of membership Justifies
weU the cost of dues and audit
ing.
PENCIL SHARPENER
If you have trouble sharpening
a very soft pencil, especially
some of the new eyeshadow or
lipstick pencils, try using an
emery board.
You can create a very sharp
point ■without any breakage.
Murray On Duty
At Mather AFB
SAORiAlMENTO, Calif. — U. S.
Air Force Major Reginald A.
Murray, son of Mr. and Mrs. Boy
er A. Murray, Sherwood Lane,
Kings Mountain, N. C., has arriv
ed for duty at Mather AIcB, Cal.
Major Murray, a pilot, serves
■with a unit of the Strategic Air
Command, America’s nuclear de
terrent (force of loirg range
bombers and intercontinental
ballistic missiles. He previously
served at Da Nang AB, Vietnam.
The major, who holds the
aeronautical rating of senior pil
ot, attended Kings Mountain Cen
tral high school. He received his
A. B. degree in 1956 from Duke
university and was commission
ed there through the Air Force
Reserve Officers Training corps
program.
The major’s wife, Patricia, Is
the daughter of Mrs. Narretta
Irvin, Hartford,lll.
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