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^■ScL Page 2 kMi MOUNtAiN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald A wenkly npvvsi)npc>r dovotod to the promotion of the general welfare and published lor the enlightenment, entertainment 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 Congros.s of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Mi.ss Linda Hardin Clerk MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dave Weathers, Supt. ’Allen Myers Rocky Martin Steve Martin •On leave with the United States Army Fred Bell Paul Jackson Roger Brown SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR. .. . SS,.™ SIX .MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE I um the I.iiril i/rn/r God; uulk in my ntntiitea, kepy my judgmcntn. ajid do thfrm. Ezekiel 20:19. "All That Is Good .. It was announced recently by State Treasurer Edwin Gill that W. E. Easter ling will retire October 1 as secretary to the l.ocal Government Commission, of which Mr. Gill is e,\ officio Mr. Easterling has worked for North Carolina 41 years, all but four of them in the position from which he is retiring. The state and nation were in troubl ous economic times when he assumed the Local Government Commission job in 19.11. A large number of towns, cities and counties were either bankrupt or on the verge thereof. Today North Carolina’s local level governments are financially solvent, and enjoy top credit ratings. The major reason is Mr. Easterling. Discussing Kings Mountain’s propo.s- ed Buffalo Creek water project last fall, a former gubernatorial secretary gave him high acclaim. He declared, “If Mr Easterling approves your sale of bonds you can sell them favorably. If he doesn’t approve you might as well stay home. You can’t sell ’em.” The Herald was impressed by him a few years ago when a question of in formation was posed. Mr. Easterling did not bother to check his files. He had the answer on his fingertips. Treasurer Gill commented, . . Mr. Easterling has become the symbol of all that is good in local government.” Amen. On To Chicago Two Kings Mountain Democrats (never busted a ticket) were talking during the Republican convention at Miami. One was complaining about the GOP fanfare and bombast and the other jest ed, “Aw, go on and watch ’em. 'Then we’ll really show ’em how to do it at Chicago” Efforts are reported by certain con vention managers to streamline the Democratic convention beginning Mon day, but it’s a fair bet the efforts will fail. Politicians like to be seen and heard by the homefolks. In spite of Candidates McCarthy, McGovern and Maddox, the warring in the credentials committee and other threats to Democratic peace and har mony, the Chicago gathering has all the appearances — in advance — of a re play of the Miami business. “Stop Humphrey” efforts are pre dicted to fail, as did the “Stop Nixon ’ efforts, and chief interest will be on se lection of the vice-president. When this balloting stalls, Caro linians will find their convention interest heightened. Candidate Humphrey has spoken most favorably of e.x-Goverhor Terry Sanford of North Carolina and Governor Robert McNair of South Caro lina among the list of possibles. Presumably, the presidential nomi nee, whoever he may be, will follow cus tom and dictate his choice, in contrast to Adlai Stevenson in 1956 who let the convention decide and produced a real fight between the late Senator Estes Ke- fauver, narrow guage winner, and the late President John Kennedy, then a senator, the loser. North Carolinians would be most pleased if the choice is Terry Sanford, wouldn’t be mad if it’s Robert McNair. On Stream Approval by the Department of Housing and Urban Development of $2,- 296,370 loan to Kings Mountain Housing Authority means that the authority can order “full speed ahead” on the project to provide Ilk) low rent housing units in virtually every area of the city. The houses are needed. One needs merely to make a tour of the city to verify in his own mind the state agency report that over 32 percent of Kings Mountain housing is, at best, sub-standard, and, at worse, derelict. She didn’t say as much, but Miss Frances Barrett, wro decides how many units the HUD housing assistance sec tion will approve, had in mind 100 units, housing authority members sensed. Aft er a tour of the community, she recom mended the 150. When completed, the housing units will be rentable to families with low In comes — eligibility being based on a formula combining amount of family in come with size of family. When a fami ly’s income increases past the eligibility figure, the family must acquire quarters from private sources. That is a major point of the program. It will be noted that the money ap proval is a “loan” and not a “grant” The figure represents 90 percent of estimated cost of the project. When that figure is expended the housing authority sells bonds in the open market for 100 per cent of the cost, reimburses Uncle Sam, pays the builders. Rentals amortize the bond.s. Kings Mountain Public Housing Au thority is proud of the fact that it is like ly to have the units under construction in less than two years from January 19^ when the authority was constituted. Shelby, Gastonia and Hendersonville, to mention a few, required much more time. The Authority is quite cognizant, however, of the cooperative spirit of Kings Mountain citizens. Opposition to the project here was limited and mildly vocal. Housing authorities in the three cities mentioned did not enjoy that hap py condition. Kings Mountain, it may be pointed out, began the program just 29 years after the first public housing law and appropriation was made by the Congress in 1937. Thank You. HEW It shouldn’t have required as much doing as it did, but the proof of the pud ding is in the eating, and final decision of the Office of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, to grant a year’s dispensation on the inte gration of students at Compact and Park Grace schools is appreciated It’s much easier to make last minute changes involving a half-dozen teachers, than changes involving several hundred students. Kings Mountain boards of education have kept the faith with the 1964 civil rights act. Physical problems of desegregating will be alleviated in major measure by the 1969-70 term with the bringing into service of 14 more rooms at North school. The Mayor’s committee on summer youth employment, chaired by Franklin Ware is to be commended for placing 332 youths on jobs for the summer mouths. None wants to return to the days when a youth of 12 could begin sweeping at the mill, but many feel more relaxation, for summer work, of child labor laws would do more to solve the so-called delinquent yojuth problem Postmaiter Of Year Kings Mountain folk know that their Postmaster, Charles L. Alexander, must be one of the most courteous In the state and one who will do his best, with the postal regulations, to accommodate any and all service needs. It must come as a very pleasant honor to Postmaster Alexander to be ad judged by his peers, fellow postmasters of North Carolina, to be the state’s “Postmaster of the Year”. MARTIN'S MEDICINE ■r HAwnn rarmon Thcjre’.s no more tempting sec tion in any publication than the travel secUon: those beautiful beaches with their vUfa.s of brown-skinned young ladies in bikinis and the verdant growth; the glamor of the ski slopes of Switzerland and Western North. Carolina; the luxurious relaxation | of life aboard a luxury liner or{ slow boat tO'China. i Other Side Of The Coin 'Taint alway.s the way the pic tures show it. The bathing beau ties are there for sure, but then there’s the matter of sand, wind.} and mosquitoes. It gets cold ini those hills and, as Dr. Baker can j attest, such untoward accompani ments of broken limbs from the .ski operations. Both the luxury liner and slow boat to China get rough in direct accord with ine dropping barometer. Furnil;Ure must be la.shpd down and pas sengers eat .standing — if they can eat. m-tn Lib Stewart, Herald Society edi tor. was victim of the wrong side of the travel picture last week end. She emplaned for Puerto Rino la.st Thursday morning. The plane wa.s airborne by all of ten min utes when a motor caught fire. The pilot dumped his fuel and landed without mishap. Next chapter was the San Juan heat wave which Miss Stewart say.s was to the point of unbearability. En route home Monday she be came air sick. It probably wasn’t air sickness however. She saw her doctor that evening. He found her temperature a high 104 and diag- nos^ her trouble as a "strep” throat. or 4^ A m- POa IN VOTES WE TRUST' ^Ub\9S> Viewpoints of Other Editors REPRIEVE FOR RIVER QUEEN m-ni She was still quite ill Wednes day and devotees of Herald so ciety reports owe this week’s so ciety news to Mrs. Grace Rut ledge Hamrick, of Shelby, former editor of the Cleveland Times, and wife of Rush Hamrick, Jr., my r Congress in its wisdom has seen I fit to grant a reprieve to the last ! remaining big Mississippi river | steamboat, the stern-wheeler Delta ■ I Queen, which for 25 years has helped keep alive memories of tlie days of Mark Twain. . . . The Delta Queen, which for nine months of each year provides ex cursion trips between such cities as St. Paul, New Orleans, Pitts- 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about Kings | Mountain area people and'i events taken from the 1957 | files of the Kings Mountain i Herald. Mrs. Owens Rites Conducted Thursday. August 22. 1968 KINGS MOUNTAIN Hospital Log VISITING HOURS 3 to 4 iwn. and 7 to 8 p.m. Dally 10:30 To 11:30 o.m. Mr. Wesley Bailey MiM. M. L. iiaimoii Ml’S. Sidney Huffstetler Mrs. Mary Johnson Mrs. Will Pryor Mrs. Ida Smith .Mrs. Edwin Dyer .Mr. Lester Eakcr Mrs. Carmel Honeycutt .Mr. William Houser Mrs. Virginia Johnstui Mrs. Florence Lynn ^ Mr. John Mitcham .Mrs. Edward Odoms Mrs. James Robinson .Mrs. Paul Sanders .Mrs. W. B. SiSmpson Mr. Curtis Tliompson Mrs. Cleo VanDyke Miss Elizabeth Bonita Whisnant Mr. Willis Glenn White Mrs. Clara Wright ADMITTED FRIDAY Mr. JJulius Stamey, City. Mrs. Beulah Woody, Route .No. 2, Hickory. Mr. Robert Woods, Route No, 1. ADMITTED SATURDAY ■ Mrs. Margie Phillips, 709 GanU|| St. ■ Mrs. Mary Pruett, Route No. TT” Grover. Mark Price, 320 S. Ran.som -It.. Gastonia. Mrs. Arnold Murphy, 23 Elm St. ADMITTED SUNDAY Mrs. Jack Anthony, Route No. 2- Mrs. Mary Case, 809 Fillison St. Mrs. George Gordon, Jr., Route No. 1. Mrs. J. N. McClure, 610 Cres cent Circle. Mrs. Joe Poll, 616 S. Jackson j St., Gastonia. I Mrs. Rurman Bryant, 1002 ! First St. j Mrs. James Laircey. Route No. i 1, Gastonia. I Mr. Jack Anthony, Route No. 2. I Mrs. Nelson Jackson, Route No. onetime college roommate and; burgh and St. Louis, almost be- confrere on the UNC newspaper. m-ni Some seasons ago Foote Min eral’s Neil Johnson had a rough trip to Pennsylvania for the com pany’s annual meeting. It was February and snow was the order of the day. Neil elected to leave early and travel by train, which he considered more sure in in clement weather. The trip up was fine. On return, however, his sec tion of cars were side-tracked for a half-day, minus heat. He nar- rpwly avoided pneumonia. Mean time, the planes were going and cfuning oa regular schedule. in-a But a recent happy trip for all 46 concerned was the annual tt^ of the Riwanis club’s Little League ball team, along with a contingent of Kiwahians on a chartered bus to Atlahta to see the Braves and Cubs, perform.' John McGill, the druggist, re lates some of the' details. m-m Harold Cetggins, a hard-hitting outfielder at a few years ago, de cfded to miUee the trip just after the last minute. Harold hailed the bus after it had traveled one block from point of departure. He filled the last remaining seat. ’Should he be let aboard?,” the driver Inquired. "Yts, siree,” John replied, "we want him along. His podiets are full of money!” The contingent had choice seats along the thirdhase line near the Braves' dugout. This enabled the Little League lads to till their scorecards With autographs of their heroes. And it was a banr.er night for the Braves' concession- sis. They cost $1.75, says John, jut he believes each and every Little Leaguer came home wear ing a Braves batting helmet. came a victim of a law passed two years ago. After a series of fires aboard ocean-going vessels, the United States took the lead in getting the Intergovernmental Maritime Con sultative Organization to revise the fire safety standards wliich had been spelled out in a 1960 international treaty. . . . To show its approval of the re-1 quirements. Congress in 1966 j passed a law that ships using U. S. ports must meet the new stand- j ards by November of this year. It' was not necessary from the standpoint of the international agiWment for the 1966 law to in clude river steamers, but such steamers were included, neverthe less. Even before the law was passed the owner of the Delta Queen, Greene Line Steamers, Inc., start ed plans to have a replacement for the stern-wheeler built in con formity with the new standards. I Difficulties immediately arose because no Shipyard in the woj Id has built a river passenger steam- er for many years and none was ever built with a steel superstruc ture such as the Greene company proposed. As a result the replacement won’t be ready for a year or two yet. If the Delta Queen had to be junked this coming November and passenger service on the riv er had to be stopped for two years, awaiting a new vessel, a resump tion of the Mark Twain tradition might never be realized. The State Department objected to a stay of execution for the Del ta Queen on the ground that we would be reneging on treaty obli gations but Congress has taken the position that the treaty stand ards were intended for interna tional waters only and we need not adopt them for strictly do mestie passenger service until we are ready to do so. So the Delta Queen wilt be al lowed to operate until November, 1970, when the replacement is cer tain to be ready. . . . As the sole surviving stren- wheeler on the Mississippi, with a long history of safe operation, she deserves the special consideration shown for her so that, if for no rniii-r I the church cemetery. Mountain Recorder’s Couit suspended pending audit, Pupil Assignment Plan is Adopted; BurMil Wins Little League Title Funeral services for Mrs. Goldie; 2. Dixon Owens, 49, wife of Charles} ADMITTED MONDAY E. Owens, 402 Fulton Road, willi be held at 4 p.m. Thursday after noon from Bethlehem Baptist Church. Interment will follow in W. G. Camp, and Rev. James Graham will officiate the final rites, late Butler and Fannie Whistnant nrcccAXTAT - -Mico Dixon, a member of Bethlehem SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Miss of Elizabeth Ann Mitchell and Ro land Ellis Tate pledged Saturday in Formal Wedding in Hickory Grove; Ruth McCurdy competed in Junior Miss Alabama contest; Miss Gail Blanton married Au gust 8th in Church Rites. Baptist Church and a native of Cleveland County. She was also the operator of Happy Land Nur sery of Kings Mountain. Surviving are her husband; three daughters, Carolyn L. to Lawrence Hamrick Owens, Audrey Owens; two brothers, Harland THE FATAL FACTOR Dixon of Shelby and Hubert Dix on of Boiling Springs, N. C.; five sisters, Mrs. Frank Herndon of Kings Mountain, Mrs. Thomas Johnston, Vienna, Virginia, Mrs. Warren Sides, La Port City, Iowa, That driving after drinking is deadly is generally known. Thus the new Department of Trans- portation report on the subject | -Mrs. F. L. Elwood and Mrs. Wil- only boars out this familiar liam E. Jones, both of Charlotte, theme. Samples: ! The body will lie in state at Harris uneral Home Thursday One half of all fatal single- f,-otn 3:30-4:00. Mr. Joseph Mellcn, Gaston St. Mr. Garland Still, City. Mrs. Larry Bingham, 105 E. Iowa Ave., Bessemer City. Mr. J. Mearl Seism,, Route No. 1. Mrs. Bobby Capps, Bessemer City. Mrs. Barry Hoffman, 1202 W. Gold St. Dennis Kuykendall, 607 N. 13lt^ St., Bessemer City. Mr. William Thomas .Mo.ss, 2™ Margrace. Mrs. Charles Oxford, Jr., Route 1, York, S. C. That wasn’t all the coin the toncessioneis pocketed. John says he lads ate from the time they xMtrded the bus until they dis- ■mbarkad at 3:30 am. the liexi Homing. They devoured the optous quantity of doughnuts on he bus, kept the bus boys at the tadium running hot throughout he game, then ate more after ’he game at each stop on the re turn trip. Last stop was at the ;-83-Dlxon Road truck stop. m-m One little fellow asked John, ■‘Mr. McGill art we going to be herd Ir^ ipdMift W Ik*? I ly would like a stack of {Mkn- cakes.” Mrs. Owens died in the Kings Mountain hospital Tuesday at 11:50 after eight months illness. She was the daughter of the car accidents and almost one half of all fatal multiple-car accidents involve heavy-drinking drivers. • More than half of the adult drivers use the higliways at least occasionally after drinking, and crashes of youths frequently in volve "hazardous amounts of al cohol.” • The use of alcohol by drivers and pedestrians leads to some 25,- 000 deaths and 800,000 crashes each year. • Alcohol is the largest single fartor leading to fatal crashes^ Congenital heart disease re.sulls . ^ oirfa 1 when the heart or the great blood mgs of the study cone ve.ssels do not develop properly drinking drivers, hirtn a-a aia-a Mrs. Raymond Purvis, 1330 Midpines. Mr. Albert Logan, Route No. 1, Grover. Mrs. Charles Sinclair, Route No. 2. Miss Nancy McCoy, Route No. Mr. Paul Black, Route No. 2. ADMITTED TUESDAY Charles Worchestcr, 514 Broad St. INTANGIBLES REBATE The city has received a cheek from the State Revenue Depart ment for $10,676,447, represent ing the city’s share of intangible taxes for 1967-68. The total com pares with $10,188.20 budg<‘ted from this source, a gain of $488.27. the profile of who tended to have histories of arrests, problems with alcohol, and marital or other personal difficulties. This underscores the relationship between a confused or unsteady private life and a muddled consciousness while on the road. It also points to the subtle but real hazards of resort ing to alcohol for escape from mental stress. There are too many excuse.s made for the drinking driver to day. Neither the social drinker nor the escape drlnker'should be tolerated on the highways. The DOT report shows that the prob ability of having an accident Is one in 20 if the driver register.'- a level of alcohol in the blood of 100 milligrams per 100 milliliters, a standard measure of intoxica tion easily reached by the so-oll- ed social drinker. The probability of having an accident rises to one in five when the concentration before birth, according to the North Carolina Heart Association. "Sclerosis” means “thickening or hardening,” says the North Carolina Heart Association. Ath erosclerosis Is a thicltening of the arteries produced by a ”mu.sh- like” fatty deposit on the inner coat. SOFt; AS AMFPICA U S SAVINGS BONDS the otlier reason, the cry of “Steam-1 reaches 150 milligrams — a level boat 'round the bend” will not] reached by nearly 90 percent of be forever stilled along the Fath ers of Waters — The Denver Post those arrested for drunken driv ing. What is needed? Rigidly en forced penalties for all drinking drivers, on the one hand (far too many whose licenses have been suspended or revoked for alcohol- related offenses continue to drive), plus wider use of such I tests like that which has helped Today, the users of nearly 781 Britain rcdoce traffic accidents} Each time you pick up a tele phone, you take command of a vARt and complex organization nede up of thousands of people »nd millions of devices, all ready ‘o serve you. paillion Bell System telephones in the United Slates get good con nections whenever they want, night or day. It takes only sec onds, and it happens 280 million times every 24 hours. Pericarditis is an inflammation of the thin membrane sac, or per- «4Uc3t ttimlinds the heart, eocording to the North Car olina Heart Association. and fatalities in the past year, j But most important is a fuller understanding that alcohol, like | other drugs, is lethal and only falsely liberating. An advertising countercampaign, like that being mounted on radio and TV by anti smoking forces with the support of the Federal Communications Commission is not at all on uh- reasonable suggestion.—Christian Science Monitor. Keep Your Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. Ne-ws & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment.in between t for
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