^ . EstaWished 1889
AW- The Bng$ Mornitain Reiald
' ** 206 South Piedmont Ave. ' Sings Mountain, N. C. 28088
A weekly new5q)s.per devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the'enlightenment, entertainmnt and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain
and its vldhlty, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
E>.tered as second class matter at the post oflice ,at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher
Miss feUZabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Gary Stewart Sports Editor, News
Miss Ddbbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper
Rocky Martin
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
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Paul Jackaon
Herbert M. Hunter
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In North OhroHno and South CaroUno
One year $4; six motrths $2.25; three months $1.50; school year $3.
(Subsctlption in North Caiblfna sutfiject to three percen¥"iaiM tax.!
In AU Other States
One year $5; six months $3; three months $1.75; school year $3.75.
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DETAILS*
By EUZABETH STEWART
Summertime
ing’s ea.sy.
and the liv-
As tihe pre.sidential campaign
uniolds, it becomes increasingly
apparent that the danger to
Getrge McGovern lies not in look
ing I'ke Barry Golclwatcr of il96t
but in looking like George Rom
ney of 1968.
So despite all the backhig »•
way from deadly .speoiiies, mere
is room to wonder how deeply or
permanently the lesson ha.s set
tled in. Ls the McGovern camp
reatly to back away not only
from the .specifics but from the
fundamental misconception that
our problems admit of-ea-sy and
elegant solutions?
Jerry P4|<«||k«T, Rt. 1, qj||y. ^
JoseipKiit. jjtman, 1427 'it: Wei*
don St.. Gasfonla
BuHord I* DOhblas, 404 Baker
St., City
Floyd E. Head, .520 Phenix St.,
City
ADMITTED SUNDAY
Barnett G. Lovelace, Rt. 3, City
t JW. ^
Aimbfliicemeiits
My young nephew has remind
ed me now that school is out
(he’ll bo a second grader next
year), it’s the time for catching
things and putting them in jar.s.
It parents groan at the latene.ss
of the bedtime hour, children
rejoice in every nook, corner and
creek, their hands full cf new
crayfish,' lightning bugs, etc.
Enter July.
The time of the year is at hand
when the men in the families of
cur nation sit glued to the tele
vision sets, participating each
weekend In that event known as
the prclc.s.sional ba.teball sea.son.
Governor Romney Woke up one
morning to discover he had bten
"brainwj.shed" about Vietnam.
For all the .self-mngratillation a-
bout candor. Senator McGovern Is
niot about to proclaim hi.s awak
enings so bluntly. But obviously
he has discovered you really
can’t give $1,000 to everybexly. It
must have taken a burst of rev
elation for him to declare he
couldn’t “rult out” a place for
George Wallace in a McGovern
administration. And now the
Demrjcratic platform-iiriti’n.g rais
es tlie p .ssibility that the omi-
proud .spe.-iflcs ot his tax reform
and dcfen.se-trimming propasaU
are about to vaniih with .scarcely
X trace.
’The Wall Street Journal
Henry Moore, 521 Harmon Ct.,
City
MEAT — FOR VOTERS
Politicians who haven’t' done
so yet should take respectful n-t.
ii-e of Republican strategy. ’Tha
firm of Nixon, .Mitinc-ll & LU,
formerly of New York City, cur
rently of Washington, D. C., Ls
broadening its political appeal in
una. customeii directions.
TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
But now. O Lord, thou art our father; wc arethe day, and thou our potter; and we all are
work of thy hand. Inaiah Gl/.’S.
Sweet Success
Shelby native Bobby Jones, a Kings
Mountain coach for less than a yeac,
is finding out that success is not always
attributed to winning records.
In football last fall, Jones’ Kings
Mountain High Mountaineers had a dis
appointing 4-4-2 record but the fans
counted the season as highly successful
due to KM’s 8-8 tie with county-rival
Shelby. It was the first conference tie for-
.Shelby in over three years and Kings
•Mountain followers had a right to he
liappy.
Now, Jones is head coach of the
Post 155 Juniors and they're below the
.500 mark, sporting a 0-11 overall record
heading into their second Area Four
series game with Fore.st City tonight.
But, as far as most Po.st 155 follow
ers are concerned, the season has been
a success.
Last week, the local Juniors whipp
ed Shelby 9-2, marking the first time a
KM High or Junior team had beaten
Shelby in 17 meetings, tracing back to
the 1969 season. Later in the week, the
local lads won two straight games over
tlieir county rivals, eliminating them
from further Area Four competition.
Only one of the 12 Post 155 play
ers, David Bolin, knew how it felt to
beat Shelby. Bolin was a member of the
1969 I^ High team which won two
straight over Shelb.v en route to the
slate 3-A title.
Beating Shelby not only put smiles
on the faces of those other 11 players
but on the faces of quite a few followers.
It will be a while before those three vic
tories will be forgotten.
Little Else Than Courage
Tuesday was Independence Day,
anniversary of the nation’s declaration
not only of independence, but of faith
in itself.
In 1776, the colonies decided to cut
the ties that bound the New World to
Mother England. England didn’t like the
cut-off, fought to keep the colonies.
How England, the great power of
the vvoild, failed to win is among the
marvels of history.
Most historians now agree that the
never-say-die colonists who had little
else than courage, simply wore out the
British. Britains disliked the war much
as United States citizens two plus cen
turies latei’ disliked the Korean War.
Courage customarily pays big divi
dends. For the world today, the men of
1776 deserve much glory. The decision
to become independent was sustained,
and from that decision has come a great
nation.
The Total Grows
Dividend payments of Kings Moun
tain’s two savings and loan associations
cotitinue to escalate, totals on June 30th
at $298,720.48.
It means that these citizens are con
tinuing to put away a portion of their
earnings for various and sundry pur
poses. Some save for a new car, somb
save to build a house, others to assure
their sons and daughters a post high
school education. Others invest safely
for income at the quite favorable cur
rent dividend rates.
These savers are doubly beneficial
to Kings Mountain for they provide loan
monies that enable'citizens to buy cars,
and construct homes and business build
ings.
Those who adopt the savings habit
are continually surprised at the speed
with which their individual accounts
grow, for they are growing while they
.a' J A. .- A .Xi.. A.. ^
New Welfare Approach
I'm told by the men at cur
licuiie that during his hours of
paiticipation, a man’s desires are
t],g mede-t and few. He wants per-
fe;t television reception, abso
lute quiei, and tital freed.>m
__ fr.rm all interruptions, e.specially
feminine ones.
Starting this week, parents on wel
fare across the United States will have
to start registering for work or training
under a law passed by Congress a year
The new law will no doubt please
many citizens who feel that no one
should be on welfare who is able to work
and for whom a suitable job can be
found.
Food Stamps Recipients in this
county have been registering since
March under this program with the
County Welfare Department and Em
ployment Security Commission and ESC
Manager Franklin L. Ware says there
is no shortage of jobs for these workers
but that younger persons are easier to
place.
He said the major problem here is
lack of transportation to and from work
lor them.
The new law here now affects all
persons receiving Food Stamps whose
names are reported to the ESC, by the
Welfare Department; the perspns screen
ed and if acceptable for work' placed in
jobs and/or in training for jobs at Cleve
land Tech or some technical institute.
Exemptions to the work rule here
are those mothers with children under
six and persons who stay in homes and
care for elderly parents.
Most eligible workers here are
women.
Whether the program will work
throughout the country remains to bo
seen but the program here is “progress
ing well” obsoa've officials.
City Budget
Mayor John Henry Moss is proud
of the 1972-73 tentative budget and said
it publicly at last Wednesday night’s
city commission meeting.
It's another record budget, up
$411,953 from last year’s model.
The Mayor feels that the figure is
reasonable, in view of increased costs
of about everything the city buys, sal
ary increases, a $230,801.00 capital ex
penditure outlay and the new year’s
interest bill of $193,500, compared to
$202,600 in fiscal 1972.
Appropriations are greater for all
departments, one of the major ones
being the police depairtment, up from
$135,250 to $187,229, and reflecting the
commission’s prior decision to employ
seven additional officers to provide two-
man patrols during night hours.
All of this, says the Mayor, without
an ad valorem tax increase—85 cents
per $100 valuation which has prevailed
for the past eight years.
The budget reflects that the city
is a business designed by the citizens to
be of service to its citizens.
Most will agree that’s right much
doing.
The Independence Day holiday is
now history, but it doesn’t mean there
.should be a surcease to careful driv
ing attention. The traffic toll is expect
ed to set a record this week. With more
and more cars on the road, the num
ber, if not the percentage, of chance-
takers, increases.
Congratulations to North School
Principal Richard Grqnne on his election
as president of the Kings Mountain
Lions cluto. ,
I've been assured that the
ideal set up from the male point
(A vieiv is a soundproci room
M;;h a Ici'k on the in-side of the
doer and a slit at the bettem.
Uirough vihich you pass him food,
liquid rclre.shmetiLs and urgent
mcssage.s. all very, very quietly.
To judge by some of the press
coverage, there are thase ivho
think the pro-busing, pro-amnes
ty, abolish-seniority, break-up-
GM, curb-fcreign-invcstmonl plal-
form is a monument to the Amer
ican center. The truWi seems to
be that the McGovern forces cen-
trilling Che committee,used the
occasion for two purposes. To fuzz
a few issue.,, like abortion and
hcmosexualty, on which Middle
America is acutely oflended by
the attitudes ct the intellectual
and .social elite. And even more
signifii antly, to shuck the parts
ci the -M.Govern platform that
won’t stand .scrutiny.
Tile opening cf American doors
to imported meat Ls a kindness
t;j city meat eaters whicih will
hardly go unnclice'd. It stiould
have the effect ot keeping do-
nie.stic meat prices from rising as
fast as would otherwise be the
case. It is a prudent gesture to
a spectrum ct voters spreading
beyond the normal Republican
constituency. It is the latest, but
tar frem the first, gesture from
N’l.xan headquarters toward pco-
l;.to w ho' have been voting Demo
cratic by habit for a long time.
Misi, Wayfle O. Watson, 208 N.
Chesunut bt., Gastonia
Michael E. Harris, 141 W. 145Mi
St., New York City, N. Y,
ADMITTED MONDAY
WilHam A. Allen, Rt. 1, Grover
iMrs. Buddy C. Fletcher, 701
01eve4and Ave., City
Nannie Mae Jlmmerson, 516
Harmon Court, City
Bobby Gone Moore, 601 Groves
St., City
Mark Eugene Smith, 811 Kath
erine Ave., City
Mr. and Mrs. BYed B. Spencer,
Rt. 1, Box 277-B, aninounce
birth ot a son, Tuesday, June^B
Kings .Mountain hospital. ^
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Z. Thomas,
Phillips 66 Trailer Park. Bessemer
City, announce the birth of. a
.son, Tuesday, June 27. Kings
Mountain hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ray Staf
ford, Rt. 2, DaiUas, N. C., an
nounce the birth of a daughter,
Thursday, June 29, Kings ijoun-
tailn hospital.
Mr. and MIrs. oe D. Hr^tton,
Rt. 1, Kings Creek, S. C., announce
the birth of a daughter, frj^y,
June 30, Kings .Mountain iiftspi-
tal. _ ■ ’
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin L, H^er,
Jr. Route 1, Bessemer Cltyv-an-
nounce the birth of a daug^er,
Friday, June 30, Kings MoiWlta'in
hospital.
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In short, a female in the TV
room is generally to feel about
as welcome as Typhoid Mary.
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You don’t give bulletins on the
state cf the potatoes for dinner
nor on anyone’s health nor on
whether the prize heifer has
jumped the pasture fence.
Lillie matter that it is preeLse-
ly these specific-sounding, easy-
answer parts of the program that
won Mr. McGovern the enthusi
asm that served him so well in
the primary campaigns. As llie
Senator hlm-self told The New
Turk Times, his young campaign
workers “want a candidate wno
really knows where he’d like the
<:t unity to go,” but that ‘“they
dont worry much about all these
little details abcUt how muuh
every aspect ot the program is
going to cost.”
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Silence is the only proper rev
erence f;,T the.se important sports
spectacles on the television
soreen.
My second nepliew, (whose
mama is a native of Tokyo, Ja
pan,) and Ryoka made their first
‘ trip to King.s Mountain National
Military Park during the week
end. The Park has just instituted
what they call a program of “liv
ing history” and visitors can
talk to Tories dressed in Revo
lutionary style costume armed
with firearms and in settlnes tvD-
ical of the era. One young Moun
taineer had a campiire going
Sunday morning with an iron pot
and all the food needed for wihat
looked like stew. Young Robbie,
age four, didn’t like the firing
demonstration he provided but
■he would have stayed for lunch.
The Park guide didn’t say if he
actually cooks the food and .serves
it.
The most-scrutinized product of
this'frame of mind has been the
Senator’s sometime program for
income maintenance, lake, for
example, tlie analysis c.'fercd
the Ocher day by Herbert Stein,
ehalrman of the Council cf Eco
nomic Advisers. Obviously, giving
S1,0C0 to every man, woman and
child would cost $210 billion, or
in other words, double the fed
eral budget. If this were financ
ed by a proportional income tax,
everyone’s taxes would go qp by
46 percentage points. Even if tax
reiorm resulted in the elimina
tion of every last deduction and
exemption, taxes would still go
up by an amount equal to 23';4 of
total .personal income.
The predominantly Jewish
wards cf New York, Chicago, and
Los Angeles have been voting al
most solid ly Dei-nocratic since
Harry Truman came out for un
limited migration of Jews from
Europe to what <was then the
British mandated terriory of Pale
stine. Last December President
Nixon canceled a State Depart
ment policj' on limiting weapons
deliveries to Israel. Mr. Nixon
agreed to the entire sohedule re
quested by Israeli Prime .Minister
Qolda Meir.
Tuesday wa.s the 196th anni
versary cf the signing cx£ the
Declaration o f Independence,
ccmmemcrating the day when a
group cl idealistic men in short
britches and powdered wigs af
fixed their names to a rebellious
dc'ciimont declaring themselves
and the people they represented
to be free and independent of
Great Britain, at that time the
most powerful empire on the
known face of the glebe.
Much of the money would be
returned in the grant, of course.
In fact, -Mir. Stein says some pfo-
fit would accrue to all families
of four earning less than $18,000
a year. The bulk of the $210 bil
lion would go to those earning
between $5,000 and $15,000, be
cause while their per capita net
profit would be low there are so
many tamilics in that range.
Inus the plan would shuffle a-
round $210 billion to give $5 bil
lion to tlO billion to the poor.
Farmers, once regarded as the
exclusive property of Republi
cans, defected substantially dur
ing Roosevelt days and have nev
er since been alassified as “solid”
by Republicans. M.. Nixon did
poorly in the farm belt in 1968.
But farm produie is exempt from
Mr. Nixon’s runrent priice control
programs.
The payoff will come in Novem
ber in dll these areas. But mean
while the Nixon-Mitehell strate
gy is aiming at more than the
traditional Repuolican constitu
ency. It seems to be serious a-
bout trying to turn the Republi
can Party into a national paa-ty
with a built-in majority appeal.
The Christian Science Monitor
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It had never fxx?urred to me be
fore Senator Ollie Harris said it
.at Monday’s Rre - Independence
Day celebrition, out the st^ was
a dangercus one for more reasons
than the fact cf fighting. Had the
colonists lost the war, as was
■imminent until the Battle of
Kings Mountain four years and
more later, each of the signers
may well have lost his life as a
traitor.
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Alternatively, Mr. Stein help
fully suggested, you could give
the $1,000 grant only to those
earning Itss than a .specified
level. To prevent this from cre
ating an incentive to avoid earn
ing more than that amount, you
could imlpose a requirement de
nying the grant to anyone wbo
reiused wiork or training. But
then, -Mr. Stein observed, you
would have something very like
the Nixon administration welfare
reform proposals, which Congress
has so far refused to pass.
KINGS MOUNTAIN
Hospital Log
visrnNa hours
DaUf 10:30 to 11:30 AM.
3 to 4 PM. md 7 to 8 PJC.
Thomas Jefferson, John Han
cock and the other signers must
have known the possible results
when they .signed their names.
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'Baseball and golf are tradi
tional July 4th pastimes, whether
by participation or watching via
television.
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Under the impact of such anal
ysis, the Senator is modifying his
plan; this time it will offer a
profit to every family earning
less than $30,000, though further
det'a^i'ls are unavailable. He ha.s
modified his tax-reform propos-
a/ls, which analysts say don’t add
up, by taking refuge behind the
Mills-Mansficid finesse of pro
posing to repeal all tax prefer
ences and later reenacf an un
specified some of_ them. Both
Pentagon and outeide exiperts
say his defense budget caicula-
tions are off by $10 billion, but
in this ca.se 'he says they don’t
understan.d
Here’s anoher Golfer Story by
Billy Arthur, writing for “The
Ohapel Hill Weekly.’
.4 golfer teed off and hit a
player ahead of him on the fair
way. He was lying on the ■ground
with the ball embedded in h'is
skull. The caddy said, "What are
you gonna do?”
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“Ill use a wedge”, said the
golfer.
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"But you shouldn’t move him”,
the caddy protested.
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“Why?” asked the golfer. “Are
we playing winter rules?”.
It seems tlie Senaito.r is pain
fully learning that welfare re
form proposals, tax laws and
Pentagon budgets turn out the
way they do 'because of the con
straints of Che real world. While
incremental improvements are
always possible, more often than
not their defects representt not
wrongiheadedness but the neces
sity of choosing the lesser evil.
This is certainly a valuable
lesson. Especially so since his
fervent supporters have preferred
Uj live in a dream world where
the only serious problem 'is the
alleged moral impurity of the
present officehalder-s, where obvi
ous and foolproof answers await
the vSetory of what they like to
call a “decent” candidate. This
escape from reality, from aU
these little details, has been ab
solutely central to the MdGovem
phenomenon.
George L. Absher
Clarence L. Black
Mack Lee Conner
Mrs. Mamie H. .Gibbons
■Mrs. Annie H. Heavner
James W. High
Mis. Wayne Kirk
Walter M. Moorhead
Mrs. Bertie H. Murphy
Ivey B. Payne
Effie Mae Peterson
Mrs. Missouri Brice
Mrs. Janie K. Bitter
Lennio Mae Ross
Eugene Frank Stapp
Mattie C. Stowe
Mrs. Joe H. Thomson
Jes.sie J. Wright
Anderson .F. Webber
Mrs. Ray Brown
Donald R. Carpenter
Norman L. Pittman
M'rs. Mary Lee Williams
■Mrs. Marion Cash
iMirs. Virgie Cole
Bynum P. Ckx)k
Dathla P. McDaniel
'Mrs. Clarence L. Black
Thomas Bridges
'Mrs. Heray O. Gregory
Mrs. Hubert Ijames
Mrs. Gimelia May
Mrs. Mary Moncrief
Mrs. Clyde Reynolds
ADMITTED THURSDAY
Winslow McCIaiin, Rt. 1, City
John Edward Wallen, 727 A.
Street, Bessemer City
ADMITTED FRIDAY
-Mirs. Pearl M. Bridges, Rt. 3, City
Jack E. Gaddy, 406 Clinton Dr.,
City
Mrs. Eddie P. Goforth, 1000
Shelby Rd., City
ADMITTED SATURDAY
Berkley P. Bell, Rt. 3, Qty
Thomas W. Grayson, Jr., 901
Groves St., City
These include the majority of
Rcmm Catholics whose tradition
a'l political loyalty has never been
Republican. Mr. Nixon ha.s re
peatedly declared his do. ire and
intention of doing something to
help save their parochial school
system. The traditional Republi
can attitude has .been to oppose
any public aid to any private
school system.
iBlue-cr.llar workers have lean
ed masively toward the Demo
crats from the New Deal day.« of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Mir.
Nixon ha.5 been wooing tnem back
teward Republican ranks by his
anti-busing ptltcies. Those in the
automobile industry in the De
troit area are also presumably
grateful for the boost to their
well-being from the lifting cl the
e.xcisc tax cn automobiles.
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