( PAGE 2 Thursday, April 12, 197^ Th EstubXished 1889 ;• The Kings Mountain Hemld 206 South Piedmont Ave. Kings Mountain, N. C. 28088 V w^'^kly newspe.per devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published tOr the enlightenment, entertainmnt and benefit cf the citizens of Kings Mountain ind its vicinity, pubJisliod every Thursday by the Herald PubiLshing House. Sr.tered as serond class matter at the pest office *.t Kinc's Mt>unlain, N. 28(^ under Act of Congress ik March 3. 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Edltoi-Publisnei Mis.s Elizabeth Circulation Manager and Society Editor Gary Stew ait Si>orts PMitor, News Miss Debi>ie Thorusu^g Clerk, Bookkeefiei Rocky Martin MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Allen Myei'B Roger Brown Paul Jackson Herbert M. Hunter MAH. SUES':RIPnON RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE In North Carolina end South Carolino One year $4, six months $225; three months $1.5 In All Other States One year $5; six months $.3; three months $1.75; school year $3.73. PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBFR — 739-5441 Enter April April is a great monih. It is both signilicant and sad. It is significant because the Ameri can Revolution started April 19, Imo. And, it is safe to say that not a man is still alive who remembers that fam ous day and year. Every school child knows about Paul Revore’s ride. It is sad because in April two great wars started. One was the Civil War, the other was World War I. The start of World War I came in April for the United States and Europe; that started three years before tor the continent, in the .summer of 1014. April is also joyous because that's when the baseball season starts. Ameri ca's national pasttime is looked forward to by baseball fans Irom the first Urn'* the World Seric.s is over and on through the winter until the umpire cries in Ap ril, “play ball.” April i.c a humorous month. That humor comes with April Fool’s Day. That’s when you can be fooled without warning April 1. Of coui'se the lilHs come tlie first of the month and thoro’.s no fooling about that. What wc refer to is the pranks and joke.s which are played April 1 to give this day a special meaning. April is also a bad month. The filing deadline for state and federal lax rt*- turns is Sunday. April 15th. April is a joyous month, falls on the 22nd, Easter Buy a broom from the Lion at your door is* the word from members of the Kings Mountain Lions club who are con ducting the annual sale of household and commercial brooms for benefit of the blind. News We Like Every newspaperman of any experi ence whatever knows that very few edi tions are published which fail to make somebody unhappy. The reason is that all the news isn’t pleasant. Except in the instances of so-called sensational newspapers, the unpleasant news is no source of pleasure to the writers or pub lishers. The chore is merely a maticr of dntv. Thus last week the Herald enjoyed wanting much of its news and here are som'c of the samples: First Wesleyan Methodist church announced plans to construct a com plete new church plant in the near fu- ■ture. More property was acquired for the central business district redevelopment project. Forty-six Kings Mountain youngs ters participated and very well, from reports wo hear, in the Kiwanis club s 16th annual Schools Talent Show al Central school. Oak Grove Firemen began a drive for $15,000 for “over the hump" equip ment and first-nighters raised $999.00. Mrs. Helen Goforth Hauser earned her master’s degree from North Caro lina State University. Princess Pressley Swofford was in ducted into Phi Beta Kappa at North Carolina State University. Lt. Col. Charles Painter attained the rank of Colonel, Edward Ledford was named Social Worker of the Year in Coastal South Carolina. Scott Cloninger was elected presi dent of Kings Mountain Jaycees. The American Legion Auxiliary^ and the city honored Shelbian Mary Sue Jarrett on Mary SUe Jarrett Honor Day. Kings Mountain area citizens were and are continuing participation in an nual spring clean-up paint-up fix-up pro motions. The Herald, besides enjoying the wu-iting of these news stories, adds con gratulations for the honors won and ac complishments attained. The Easter Season The annual Ea.ster season is at hand. Merchants will bo first to confide that the customary rush of Easter buy ing began late this year, due to incle ment weather. But they look at their inventories, then breathe a sigh of re lief with a conjunctive look at the cal endar. Easter is late this year. The Easter rush is now on, and for tunately for Kings Mountain area Citi zens, local merchants are in good posi tion to satisfy Easter season demand for goods of all kinds. The merchants are ready, willing and able to serve one and all, from the youngster needing a frilly dress, to lather who needs a new suit. This is National Library Week and it off.u's a reminder to visit the library. A library is a keystone in every com munity. Use it. Ha!s Off Hats off to members of the Thurs day Afternoon Book club which has the honor of iKung Kings Mountain’s oldest organized civic club. The clui) will soon mark its 60ih }>irthdav. Of the two original 24 charter mem bers. only two—Mrs. Fred Finger. Sr. and Mrs. L. P. Baker, Sr., remain active. The Herald listed a number of the club’s first members in a feature story supplied by club membei's last week and our faces are red because we failed to list Mrs. Arthur Hay's name among the club’s first members. We hope wo didn’t miss others. The late Mrs. Hay and her family moved to Kings Mountain from Texas in 1914 and she became a member of th * book club shortly after its organization. The only changes in the club pro gram over the years has been in man ner of dress. Up until a year or so ago, members wore bats and gloves to meet ings. It’s good news that the recreation program will be expanded this summer, a joint project of the city and schools. Plans call for special programs for youth and senior citizens with a “ministry- in-wheels” projected for shut-ins. Also in the planning stages is a project whereby the city and industry will en courage Vietnam veterans to remain at home to work and live. The Watergate miasma continues to cover Washington. A Wall Street Jour nal poll reveals that 90 percent voting- age Americans are aware of the Water gate affair. Thiriy-eight percent believe some of the Pre.sident’s top aides knew about Watergate in advance. Twenty- one percent believe the President him self knew. Said the Christian Science Monitor: “Clearly politics is not the basic reason for the White House to begin cooperat ing fully in letting the public know what happened, taking the consequences and permitting the urgencies of government action to proceed without the blacken ing cloud over the capital. The basic reason goes to the core of governmental morality and ethics that must be dem onstrated to be sound or all the good politics in the world will go for naught." WE SHOULD HELP REBUILD VIETNAM Viewpoints of Other Editors Congre.s.s should resix)rwl fav orably to the Nixon administia- lion's proposal for U. .S. aid in ro- construction of Indochina. A LOVE AFFAIR ON THE ROCKS sheriff’s department. Yet, the ..ill gives no assurance that po lice protection will be greater tis the impassible about to hap- | pen? Is America really about to; Clevelanders aix? proud of the , reach the end of her half-century accomplishments of Kings Moun- S<‘cretary of Slate William automobile? tain inconstructing the lake for I Rogers emphasizes that om* as j soveral noted ecologists l>e- water supply and Irecreatiuna jsistance in rebuilding Indochina i jjq them is former purposmen is gation moie clearly than Nor- ‘“New' Frontier" days of the late in the company of other women, * man Cousins, editor of World, President John F. Kennedy. will often sc»e herself as a Magazine. A more rational use of natural leader, but An the company of I resourci^s, particularly of fuels men she will more than likely i needed for energy, Udall sai!l. York, S .C., announev the birth of a daughier, Thursday, April b. Kings Moun tain ho.spiiat. Mr. and Mrs. Hichaid Raines, INTO Keith Drive, Cas- I Ionia, announci* the birih of a I son^ Tuesday, April Id. Kings ! Mountain hospital. ' Mr. and .Mrs. E Samuel C. Moore. City. ADMTTED SATURDAY Vincent I>. Bradshaw -10(1 is "external oomLustion" en- |xj ginos and steamf the pi’esent - day American or from 19 per cent of the time I lifestyle if we’re to maintain, as in all-male groups to 27.7 per cent qj- pu.. Editor Cousins not only opposes i im put it, "a sound economy andTn mixed groups. r nm-c i ir \\^ \ur^ tho view of AmoricaRS who say. a clean onvh-onment too." ! ^ ^ Jc^tn K. Dav..s, I4h U. .Mtn., we have no business givin,? finan-1 'The trouble today.” Udall said ; Why the ^fferenro In the two Vlrs RU-hard C Raines 1S7n icial assistance to oui- recent "‘s that we'ie like addicts who sit.jsstions? The sociologists who| '-W-f- KK-haid U. Kaines. ISTO I enemy. North Vietnam. He also i are hooked on this high, wast^ conducted the study at the ■ takes issue \vith American iib- fal energy lifestyle. We've c-ome erside campus gace this answer; ! ADM^D OTNDAY I crabs who oppose Vietnamese aid ' to think of it as a necessity. But Traditionally, males have been city. ' • not berause we would se help |*t isnt. . . vested with the leadership role,' Airs. Brenda F. Cutshaw, 717 mg an erstwhile enemy, but ,_ >.ow .Ii. Udall s idoa^ probab- women N. Orover .St., E. Gastonia. 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Itcrafi cf -iu'wfi about Kbifys Motintain torn peoidc anil f’vmts tah'f'u froin the WHd files of Hit KiUfjs Mountain Herald. un the Foote Mineral Company has raised wages of all hourl}' rated employees by five cents i)er hour. Lugene Goforth Is seeking r<'- election to a .‘second term as Ward 2 City Com’missioner and PTed W. Plonk Is seeking a third term as a member of the school district board of education. 1„ „,v.:Ii. ilit, ,1., ot fo SoS me„,,7 ,»4 .2, 3^ m,. Hoyle. Rt. 2, rather because we would be us-■ appeal a bit tuturislic to useij^j mixed groups have a greater ^ Mr.s. Thelrna \V. Earnev Rt ling i^unds sorely needed ‘ * ■ r.r i • ' ing social and economic mis problems here at home.'B.ii-1 Yet this j^impier ami; choose' Box 616 CIlv tor Cousins says “the rehabillta-: lifestyle hes talking another woman as Mrs. Floyd E. tion of Vietnam must come ahead |nearer neeos- because no men are pres-: skyland Dr., Cast) of any of our own internal needs !f^*y ont and, therefoi-e, she is not! Fied L. S'sk - severe though they may iic." beheve.-^Snruthfie^ Herald. threatened wdth traditional per- Dr., City. i HAMBURGERS FOR ■ of male dominance. George H. Horne, 2as W. Lee While many Americans will] SCHOOL? 1 What is surprising, say Ine I’e-^ ^m”c%amuel J (Hinton 907 X surely challenge that idea, they USDA’s school fool program searchers, is not that men accept Gggtonia c:in hardly say that Editor Cou-been surpassed in volume by a dominant role and assign a, 1,.^].,. p’’ wniwifM- ono p,,i sins does not score a tellinc^' ^ Huliemui, .w fui- 13 Amhurst Charles B. Wright, veteran of 14 yeans service in the Air Forces has been promoted to Chief War rant Officer while .soiling in Gei- many. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Miss Mildred Eleanor McDan iel became the bride of Charles Rus.st'll Adam.s Jr. of Arlington, Va. Satu.'day evening in a 7 p.m. exchange of vow.s in Central Methodi.st churcJi. point when he poses this argu-; ^^^^iness can sell it faster than ment: "If we could afford government can give it spend $32,00(X) to kill a single Food Engineering. Vietnamese, we can afford at — lea.st that much to rebuild the! HOW TO GET | life of a single family’. If wej RID OF WARTS j could afford $325,060 t<> destroy I warts? | a single village, we can affoidl mad of several ways at least that much to help I'econ-^you can rid yourself of them. that women do the same degree. ‘-Men and women discriminate ofiually against w'omen," they Slf) THE ANCHOVY CONNECTION struct the huts and homes. If \ve^ You can cathe them in the could afford to send over bomb-i^*^*^* -stump water , ing plane.s, each of which costi®*’ the blood of a mole. , s<‘veral million dollars, we canl. Or you can carry a live toad afford to send in mobile health I ^ ^ around your neck un clinics, food distribution trucks, the toad dies, literacy vans, sanitation and ag-1 y^^ can see a dermatolo- ricuUural crews. In short, if we i ^^st. were able to spend upwards of I ^^'kh .spring coming on, I Or, Why Meat and Poul try Prices K<*ep (kdting High-2(™ Joseph R. .NoiwcmkI, dirc'ctor of the Bureaus Data Collect i<»n Center in Charlotte, announced today. The survey is conducted month- il gy th(» Bureau for the U. S. D<*- partment of Labor, A scientifi cally sc*U*ctccl sample of hou.*^*- hoick throughout the entire Unit ed .Stales is interviewcnl. Employ ment and unemployment statis tics bascri on the r<*.-^ults of tlii.s survey provide a continuink measuie of the ecomnnic health of tho nation. 'Phe* February survey showe.l that employment incieased mark- t*dly while* unemployment iy»- ma i ned es.sen t la 11 y un cha n ged. Total <*m;;loyment ro.se ))>’ .57(1.- ')l)0 to .s3.l million on a .season dly adiusled basis, following a small dc'cline in the pervious month. 'The nation’s unemploy ment rate was 5.1 per cent, about the same as in the* previous 3 months but down substantially h'om the jear- a.go rale of 5.S per cent. Facds sufpllcd I-.• individuals •>Mrticip‘:'iing in the survey are kept strickly confidential by knv and the results are used only' to compile statistical totals. Intervie^vers who will visit ■ household.s in this area are: Mi*s. Mrs. Nellie F. Wocxls, 17.30 j Jacciuoline H. Gofoi’lh, 1301 .Mon- Smith Avenue, Gastonia. ■ trose Drive, Shelby, and Mrs. Mrs. William 0. Ruppe, P. O. Ethel S. Rockett, 90S South St.,- Bo x23, City. I Gastonia. m no qustion whore Authority re-; incieased heir purchases o f sponsrhiMty ends and county gov- American soybeans just when the ernment responsibility begins? poultry farmers have had to do Shouldn't the Authority include | so; that major countries like Rus- one or two residents of the do- sia and China want to raise the fined lake area instead of total- nutrition level of their peoples ly Kings Mountain lesidents? i and are buying more A.merican Kings Mountain’s initiative and 1 grains to do it; and that the Nix- Kngs Moimtain’s money is bring- i on administration has been ac- the lake to completion, but! lively encouraging the export of permanent lesidents of the lake area sureli>' deserve representa tion On an Authority with such broad powers as the bill gives. Does the special police author ity need to go 3,0(X) feet beyond grain to foreign countries to re dress our ailing balance of pay ments- and you have the situa tion in which feed prices are like ly to go up even more, regard less of a temporary ceiling on son Jr., vice president (Sir Wal ter Chevrolet Company, Ral- the lake’s high water mark, or'meat price, eight; Robert N. Atwater, secre-j should it be confined to the; So when you go to the super- tary (Atwater Motor company), i lake's boundaries, and to the pub-| market next time and gaze long- In?., Bimlington): Jesse W. Cor-; lie areas immediately adjacent to , Ingly at al! those highprlced belt. Jr. treasurer (Corbett Mot-ithe lake? If the Authority hires|riiickens and roasts, don’t blame or Company, Inc., Wilson); and its own police force, it could per-; the farmer, or the Congress. Just Walter A. Deal, NADA director form a more insistent job of; blame the missing anchovy. (Deal Buick, Inc., Asheville 1. protecting property than fche^There’s your real cuIprit.-Char- overworked and undermanned. lotte News. Keep Your Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT I A(1U]( ^ ^ Ron KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. News i Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the holf hour. Rne entertainment in between