Letters To The Editor Dear Sjr: Dr. Bass's ciiitent.o'i tint it was the Battle of Cowpcns and no; K..ig» Morniain vv.i.rh turn «* of this contention swnu In hi* i t,if fart that th>>> rontri .ill. <1 ;ii different ways to tills ul limatr victor %. I have hciio hath mil othci haties as well tics.. Iasi a-' "links .n .1 chain of events" which led to vie! >ry. and I believe this is as accurate n summation as you ran get. And since a chain is no more dura Id. * than its weak est link, probably it is true that the ultimate viotoiy i-oulrt not have hi*en won W'ithout all of them and that, ii turn, each success eonti dieted to the next I expect that I>r. Bass was more interested in stimulating interest m the history of that lime than hr was in either downgrading Kings Mountain or upgrading Cowpens. He certainly suci-eedcd in making more people tune a 1 Second Annual Gospel Sing Sunday, March 1, 2 p. m. Missionary Methodist Church f caturing Ambassadors Quartet of Mooresboro Wortnian Trio of Shelby Eastsidc Trio of Kings Mountain Church of God Trio of Kings Mountain Second Wesleyan Group of Kings Mountain (this advertisement compliments of Dub's Furniture House of Shelby) warc of the important r of the latter? In. Itass is c irnv t in sta'.ng that Cowpen* hail a more tasting effc,-t in a pun-1) mil taiy f.nrrH of n ft nun*; that :s to say it hail a at longer ♦•fieri uj on Cornwallis personally, anil cost him far more ilearly in the loss of regular troops. Kings Mountain as he sikl, was mnt' of an .-ml jtrd in .dent. It cost the Itritish fewer casualties ;.i regulars, anil its purely military effectiveness tif one keeps scon hy num ers a Ion*-' was farther dissipated he cause the victor eventually allow ed most of the prisoners to es cape. Further, as ho said, many of the victors took no active part in the war after their participa tion at King.-; Mountain. So I>r. Bass' contention of the greater imjiortance of Cow'pen* ,s correct. IF one adopts a limit eil military view, and it is easy to - iv how extended exposure to Iiritisn documents of the tune particularly Cornwallis' own corres|*ondi*ncr would help fos ter litis \iew. l>>til Cornwallis had neen give.i only about 1.000 de|s-ndah|e regulars for his Sou-; them campaign which was far1 loir few and he hoa-tled them l like a miser. Cornwallis neede I tlie support of Tory forces to win. tut he had the li:iiis't regular's distrust of militia. Consequentl> the loss at Cow pens hurl him personally a lot worst* thitii did Ferguson’s de feat a! Kings Mountain even ■ though the latter ran..oil the al most total collapse of the Tory rc-Tu-ment program w i t h o u t which he could not win at all! ! In short, the overall effective i ne>s of Kings Mountain was a far greater in terms of its pro paganda value and effect tt|>on j the Southern population as a i whole than were its numerical losses to the ftritish. Cot'.iw-allis ' never understood this However. Thomas Jefferson di I. when he wrote...” Kit >s Mountain was the joyful annunciation of that turn m the tide that terminated the Revolution in our Itdepend | i*n:i«”. Jefferson was the first to use that phrase in eonnectioi with this oattlc. hut notice tha his emphasis appears to he ot ite fact that Hit battle had occur red at about the time the tide had beeun to turn. contributing great ly t > it of eourse hut not neves xarily he so> cause of it* turn. A process of over-*imp!ic*tion of his views hy later obse.vers tend e J t i hlu. tha' exaet meaning somewhat as is so often the ease. !>*t’s j.ist say that ROTH Kings Mountain and Cowpens were irr portant. though if pushed to it I'd have to admit a iteix^ial he •ief that King.- Mountain ought to rank somewhat higher. One other matter: Patrick Fer euxon went to his death at Kings Mountain with the rank of MA JOR in the regular British Army, not Colonel, as he is so often re ferred to. lie had briefly held but resigned the commission of Colo nel the militia forces when British regulations were change*! to prohibit such dau! titles. He was often refei red to by his own men as -Col. Ferguson", but never signed hi*- own documents with that rank army dispatches also referred to him ns "Major Ferguson", his proper rank. Sincerely Ed H. Smith Dear Editor: Candidate 1 'an Moore must have realis'd hi is losing. and losing badly in his hid for the governorship. 1!»* is ri'vv grasping ai straws. Il»* advocates priva'e cifiltract ors to hiiiId r -.ids now being bull by Stile men : nd State maohin ery. A road white .• *st the State $.>.000 to build would < ost S15.000 if built by private contractors. Moore ci linis to be conserva* live, yet advocates spending $>7.0(K) on Str.te empl ees bcne fits. He failed to explain where the money is to come from. A pro mise like tii s is despot's e at tempt for votes, lie either plans not to fulfill li.s promise*, or plans to raise our tu\os. I don’t tiiini; taxpayers will vote with Mr. Moore on this wild spending spree a* our expense. And. I did n >t have to read the results of his own poll to know that such proposals are causing his candidacy to falter. Sincerely Kenneth (I. Spencer ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN KNOW YOUR STATE ACCIDENT REPORTING REQUIREMENTS THEY MUST BE REPORTED *■»!«•■ !**pen your checking account at any office of First Union National Bank. * MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTLM • MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION ... a most progressive bank C children and mothers cramped without adequate far.lilies for giving proper and comfortable medical care. j It is of wooden structure throughout will. sliell of brick veneer. The e’cctru wiring is ob solete and overloaded. The baths and toilets are inadequate, pool heating system and ventilation. Continual repa.r is ne -essary for old falling plaster .ind water seepage in basement ha; caused several repair job* recently. The children are pi a ed in this unit Oistetrie- Department is here with delivery suite so old ami out of date the physicians vmnot use modern anesthesia. It would be a hazard. When X-rays are made there is not waiting place for patients. It would be impossible f u* the doc tor* and nurse: to handle a large •mergence and a disaster would oe tragic. 'Hie laboratory and Pharmacy are obsolete, so is the \dmitting and Business Offices. The iv.ods pr wide modern X ray Department. Laiioratories. Pharmacy, Kmergeney Booms. Offiivs. Opera!'tg P.ooms, Hit! bods. parking areas, kitchen and modern IckkI si rviiv. Wo pav the bill. SlaVMi.t)tia from Hill-Hart »n funds, thnei.s to hos utal and xan.iwr. Mar,v otlie. lus want t ine iwiiu-s. hut d* >ot have such great ne *ds. $1,500, 00 in bonds to*. us approximate ■y $1.25 pei thi-usand dollars v.d uation. $500(KNt is rightly being added ‘o the $1hVni.'VN for th*N area of He vela ml Coir ty. Hospital anil teallh officials estiniaie tics pro /ides adequate* service there. LETS PA S THE BOND IS SEE AND Kilt P SHELBY IN STEP WITH PKOCKESSIYE CLEVELAND COIWTY. A V. Nolan Building j On Increase RALLIUII. !*el>. 20 January budding [h rmits totaled $25,097. 3n3 in 36 North Carolina cities of more than lO.oiri p .pulation. th * Slate Department of Lab r re ported tinlay. State Labor Commissioner1 Krank Crriie said the first-month total was an all-time high for the month of January and was 22.8 per cent. or m ire than $1,800,000, higher th in thi previous record total set in January last year. Winston Salem Uni the c*tirs with building permits for thi month totaling $10,980,010. Ol this amount $50,177,924 was t permit for constr iction *f a new offii-e building tor the Northwest Cbrpoi itioii. Charlotte wa ■ sei-ond with pT mits totaling £2.249,615, Kaleigh I bird with S1.7S2.S55. ami (Jreens him fourth wi'h SI .'189.558. January building permits for the other 32 cities of more than 10.000 pooulation were: Alhemn lie S11. 120. Ashoboro $9.3.U¥i Asheville $301,899. Burlingtor $388,576. ChajH'l Hill $263.0159 Concord 213,02i\ Durham $740,934 Klizabcth Cilv $253,000, Kavette ville $778,387. tlastonia $557.6m (IildsSoro $28.s000. GreonvilU S23S.665. ! lend - son $67,300. Hick ory $227,971. H.gh Point $692,261* Jacksomillp $6 000. Kinston $286. 135, Ianoir $29,175, L.-xiigton $53,900. Lumber!on $10!. too. Mon roe $55.tiiO. New Bern SlI.OliO Heidsville $190,957, Roanoke Ra pids $102,921. K .i ky Mount $198. 679. Salis :urv §679.88’. Sanford $51,850. Shelby S1S3.916. States ville $112,600, Thomas.ill** $63. 150, Wilmington $1 W.'t, Wilson $812300. Musical authorities are in dls acwirral oxer who developed the first "modern vio’in.’’ but tins redit is ifenetilly given to And | rea. Amati, who lived in Italy in 111.* iH:*i century', and founded a tamity of famous violin makers. According to the Book of Know ledge, the family's finer! craft-. man was Nicolo. who made the "grand Amati." owned by Paga nini. and whose pupils included Antonio Stradivari and Andrea nuarneri. 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