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■, I Page 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday. December 12, M Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald A wppkly npwspnppr dpvotpd to thp promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightpiimenf, entertainment and benefit of the eltizens of Kings Mountain and its vieinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second cla.ss matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 280S6 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publi.sher Mi.ss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dave Weathers, Siipt. Allen Myers Paul Jackson Ray Barrett Steve Martin SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR... .$3.50 SIX .MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Blit the Lord i.t fnitlifid, iclio .•<h(dl ^diiblish you, ami keey you from evil. II Thf.<isalonians Gaston Has Policy Gaston County i.s committing itself to the e.xpenditure of $26,(K)0 for a sewer line to serve the Kings Mountain Indus trial Park which, in turn, will get serv ice from the City of Kings Mountain sewage disposal system. It was a simple cooperative arrange ment between two agencies ot govein- ment. Gaston county has a policy on the laying of water and sewer lines. It is a written policy and the proposal met the several tests, principal among them be ing: 1) The Industrial Park is in Gaston County, 2) J. E. Herndon Company, the Kin der Company and its neighbor both a- building, easily meet the return-of-taxes test. Their taxes, over a ten-year period, will easily out-strip the 2f),(KK) cost of the line. 3) The bounds of the City of Kings Mountain protrude into Gaston County, making Kings .Mountain a Gaston county (as well as Cleveland municipal citizen. One item in the engineering esti mate was the balance of .liBSOO noted as Cleveland County share — cost ot the eight-inch line from the Gaston line to the Kings Mountain city limit.s. That appropriation, under prior poli cy ot the Cleveland County board ot commissioners, will not be forthcoming. The industries will pay that bill. They need the service. Cleveland went big-time into water and sewer in the interest of obtaining Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company’s Wash burn Switch fiber glass plant. Indeed, then-Representative B. T. Falls, Jr., in troduced and won passage ot a state wide bill to make it possible for counties to expend funds for water and sewer service. The county borrowed $415,000 which has proved a fine investment and regularly getting better. (Pittsburgh has just announced another major expan sion.) But several successive county com missions have continued to say, “We re out of the water and sewer business. " It is to be hoped the recently induct ed new members and the two holdover members will take a new view of this important and growing phase of county governmental service. It should also be noted, of course, that Gaston County’s policy spells out that the county is strictly a line-layer and that the agency providing the serv ice also pays maintenance cost, mean time collecting whatever fees are charg ed, if any. Cleveland had the maintenance point noted in the report of J. N. Pease & Company which was engineer for the county planning board’s water service survey. Not feasible, at least now, was the engineering firm’s report. A firm policy on water and sev\er that promises a measure of aid in obtain ing new industry — and providing serv ice to business and residences along the route — is a considerable need in Cleve land County. Ladd Hamrick Younger citizens of this area didn’t know Ladd Hamrick. He left Kings Mountain not long after World War II and had been in poor health in recent years, after returning to his native grounds of Boiling Springs. But the older ones knew him well and remember him as a civic-spirited man, able city commissioner, church man and textile manager. The Herald and his many friends regret the passing of a fine former citi zen who contributed to the well-being of this community. Commission Reports Governor Dan Moore had, at least, a not-too-popular first year in the four- year term he is now completing. His crit ics termed it a very bad year. Even some of his friends joined in the jests that, when a touchy issue was advanced, the Governor recommended appointment of a study commi.ssion. The General Assembly acquieced. The results are now arriving — big, thick, well-detailed manuals of the state of the state in particular fields, along with recommendations. The recommendations, as was to be expected, say, in effect, there ain’t enough money to do the job. More cash must be put in the till. To date there have arrived the re ports on higher education, public school education, and the highway department. Shortly to be in the mails is the report of the plight of the local governments as embodied in the local government study commission report. A speed reader, at this moment, is sadly behind. Some of the proposals to help local governments are the one percent sales tax, increased auto licenses (from $1 to $5), and a local government income tax. The last mentioned pair, upping the city auto license taf fee and what the Herald labeled the right-to-work tax, is a revival of an old show that failed back in 1957. This show deserves early death again, particularly the local income tax, which would be levied on a Shelby or Gastonia man working in Kings Moun tain and vice versa. There seems merit to the one percent sales tax, where Mecklenburg, of the 99 counties, is a happy guinea pig. Sales taxes are being collected and the one percent reversion would aid im measurably the hard-pressed counties (all of the 100 likely), and the hard- pressed municipalities (the vast bulk of them). Maybe it should be, as many contend, that North Carolina should levy a tax on cigaretes. Certainly taxes in all the other 49 states have failed to deter use of the so-called filthy weed. But this newspaper will believe — when it sees — that day when 26 votes are mustered for a tobacco tax in the North Carolina Senate. Increased gasoline taxes, though not in the degree recommended, are likely and that need is apparent. Item: esti mate on the York road improvements was $550,000. The low bid, exclusive of right-of-way and engineering costs, was over $691,000. Let us, however, have to right-to- work tax. Merchants Have It Kings Mountain merchants are in best shape for Christmas shoppers of 1968 than ever in history. They have invested heavily in goods designed to please, whether cost of the gift desired is minimal or maximal. Coaching in Retrospect Both were rather wistful, as they chatted Tuesday night. Kings Mountain high school Coach Bill Bates, and UNC Coach Bill Dooley. Had Kings Mountain overcome Chase, reasoned Bates, the record might have been 8-2, rather than an even-up 5- 5. Dooley had his “if’s”, too, about what might have been a much better than 3-'7 season. Of course, Dooley could point with pride to two successive victories over arch-rival Duke. They agreed: there’s 1969 and better days ahead. MARTIN'S MEDICINE B; MARTIN HARMON Another Mountaineer {ootball team was honored 'Tuesday niglit by the Kings Mountain Lions tlub which first began its annual football banquet in January litlO, honoring the 1939 aggregation, rn-m It was the customary festive occasion, with Dave Sadnders, Lions tail twister, twisting ’em (no pin and no bulletin cost me a quarter), the youths drinking milk and the elders coffee, and good humor flowing about, m-m Rill Dooley, a second-year man at the coaching helm ot the Car olina Tar Heels (won two, lost eight in ’67, won three lost seven in ’68) was the rostrum man and was presented by Lion Charles Blanton, a Carolina alumnus. Charlie averred he had met Dool ey only a few minutes previously and normally would have detdin- ed the job had it not been for the rumor that the man who gave Dooley the best introduction on the banquet circuit would be pro vided at least four tickets to the Atlantic Coast Conference basket ball toumamonl. m-m Charles also recognized the long-suffering Carolina alumni football fans present including himself, Jessie Putnam, of Besse mer City, Larry Hamrick, Dr. George Plonk and me. George confessed - that Coach Dooley had batted .50-50 for him during the recent season, refer- rirt^ to the dismal last - quarter debacle against South Carolina and the wonder'ful glorious finale against Duke. Salesman Dan KINGS MOUNTAI^l Hospital LoPf^ VISITINO HOURS ' 3 to 4 p.in. and 7 to I p. Dally 10:30 To 11:30 Viewpoints of Other Editors MORE FREEDOM IN THE AIR George A. Spater, president of To Charles Blanton, Coach Dooley responded in kind. ‘'No,’’[ he said, “I can’t provide any ACC| tournament tickets, hut I can fix'American Airlines, suggests that you up for next year’s Carolina- individual airlines should be giv- Duke game, I have nothing to do | en more freedom to set their with that round ball stuff.” own fares. The idea, it seems to us, is well worth considering. As Mr. Spater concedes, the m-m Noting that recruiting seasonj would still have to be for future victories is well under-, has been way’ Coach ppo}o> granted -a monopoly of a certain telephone call bed received Tues-1Government cannot day morning as he was leaving. | if to charge all-state hight^j^gtever it pleases. In the pub- -ichool halfback wanted to play3 interest, moreover, the Gov- for North Carolina. The emment should intervene if a posed the usual questions: size | ji^g discriminates against certain six-‘foot-three, and 230 pounds. i groups of travelers or certain Ten Years Ago Items of interest which occur- ?d approximately ten years ago The coveted Plonk Blocking Trophy remains in the family this year. David Plonk, senior guard and tri-captain of the Kings Mountain Mountaineer football team in 1958, has been awarded the handsome tropbj' given each season to the team's most out standing blocker by his father, 'Fred W. Plonk. The Kings Mountain high school band and Mixed Chorus will present a joint Christmas concert Friday evening at the high school audltoriuni at 7:45 p.m. i And speed _ Mptain of tl« track ^ team, running the 100-yard dash I p^g^le' ei^ptionk in 9.7 seconds. (This was sound-1 ing better all the while. 1 As; With greater freedom to com-i SOCIAL AND PERSONAL president of his senior class and] pete in price, though, the airlines! football captain the lad Obviously i might find it less necessary to| Mrs. Charles Carpenter, Jr. got along with his fellows. Now, I compete in some of today’s fair-1 was hostess Wednesday morning the key question concerning the ly foolish ways, such as the to members of Circle 2 of Cen- books? The lad was B-plus stu-j shortness of stewardess’ skirts! tral Methodist church, dent and had .scored 13(W on thejand the size of cocktails. Most college entrartre examinations, i travelers, we suspect, would wel- The extiltant Doolev said, “Son, come the change, you’re nerfect. We’ll give you al . , , full scholarship.” There was ai More flexibility in fares also moment of silence until the lad m'ght help ease the traffic jams said he had one little fault. One,; ‘hat now trouble some major air- a-ainst all those assets, wasiPor*s at peak tfavel peirods of Mrs. Hunter Allen entertained members of Central Methodist church at her home Monday night. “Coach. I sometimes lie a lit- fie" hardly a problem. “What is iti^he day. It would be interestin'g I to see what happened to travel .patterns if flights cost slightly m-m 'more during aerial rush hours j than they did during quieter hours Of the day. I In the words of -Mr. Spater, m-m I “The economic theory that still ‘prevails in the United States is Coach Dooley nledged he would: that competition, the give and not be long-winded, following an; take between rivals, and the in-, evperince of the previous week terplay between the producer and: college series may at a banouet in Texas. He was [ consumer, provide the most suc-l‘’°‘ ‘'*‘® “"“1“® cultural posl- considerably .shaken, after speak-1 cessful y of determining COMMUNITY. SPONSORED MUSIC Most universities and colleges, with large auditoriums feature annual concert series. In years past, there have been waiting lists for subscriptions to the cul tural events, usually the qnly programs of their kind within miles of the campus. But with growing interest in community-i sponsored music and stage pre-| in!? for 90 minutes, when, two tall Texans pulled six-shooters out of holsters and parked them On the table. m-m Noting Dooley's discomfiture, one of the gun-totin’t Texans said, “Don’t you worry, son, w'c’re not going to hurt you. We’re lookin’ for those guys who brought you here.” m-m But Dooley did not string out bis remarks. He compared foot ball to life. Life, he said, is a series of mountains and valleys. Tn football, you get knocked down, but you get back up. “You’re gone,” he said, “if you '-an’t come back out of the val leys.” m-m He continued: “Football is dis- ■ipline. It teaches you to say ‘no’ ?o yourself. It’s practical democ- ■acv. The guy from across the ‘racks play.s alongside the guy from the silk-stocking district.” He advi.sed; "Continue your ■'ducation. Scratch, claw, dig to 'ontinue it, so you can pursue vhat you want to do.” m-m "The yippies and hippies, the 'ong-hair and tennis shoe element aren't connected with athletics,” be had noted. prices.” •Maybe it wouldn’t be a com plete success in the airlines. No one will know for sure, however, if the idea is never allowed to get dff the ground. I Wall Street Journal RICKOVER ANSWERS Crusty Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rlckover had a system for handl ing personnel investigators dur ing World War II that would have solved many postwar prob lems — particulariy in the daysi^^^py whei^ rtf the late Senator Joseph Mc Carthy and other would-be sub versive hunters. Rickover told the Senate For eign Relations Committee about ibis system recently. He and his busy sfaiff were pestered by Civil Service Commission investigators checking into various employes. 'Rickover anticipated the Imitj which can be handed to the ush- a town as in former I years. As a result. Subscribers may be harder to find. To make it easier to get tickets, a New York college this year adapted a scheme transforming banks, tra vel agencies, airline offices, de partment stores and even super markets into instant box offices. A circular from Hunter College credits that School with being the 'first campus concert bureau to use Tfcket Reservation Systems Incorporated (TRS), wdilich ap plies data processing to ticket processing. A homemaker may stop at the TOS outlet in a gro- a machine is connected to a central computer. The machine’s operator asks the ■computer to locate the best seats availaible at the price she wants to pay. While Mrs. John Q. thinks it over, the system holds the seats for 50 seconds. If she de cides to take them, the machine prints instant box-office tickets most frequent questions and had answers mimeographed. The er at the door on concert nlghV Thus, the computer adds to its form went like this, according to|_|,Q^j, services that of „ !m cliincytrt*, nncl- . ® .. . . . . m-m There were no •showing, but Coach another reason for six-shooter Dooley had making his a report in the Washington Post: Q. Is this employe loyal? A. I wouldn’t have hired him if I didn’t believe he was loyal. Q. How does he do his job? A. If he didn’t do his job well I would fire him. Q. What are his out of work habits? A. I don’t know, care what he does and I after don’t work hours. I’m only concerned with ’vhat he does during working hours. Q. What do .you knrtw about his moral behavior? A. I’m too busy with my own work to have time to discuss his Dcrsonal affairs with him. If I find hie outside activities inter- •fere with his work, I will take speech short and siweet: a 9 p-m. appropriate action engagement in Shelby with a hotl When the investigators came prospect for the UNC frosh of to inquire about an employe, '69. I Rickover’g secretary would type opening the door to classical mu sic for many persons who may never have entered before. With the sales accent on individual performances Instead Of season’s tickets, the series planners get a better prespective of audience preference for future reference. iBlut, as with every other rose, there is a thorn. NObody has yet come up with instant, free, mon ey to pay for the Delbussy or the doughnuts. Hartford Couranf the employe’s name on top of the mimeographed sheet and hand it over- At first investigators com plained of lack of cooperation but in the end they stopped both ering him. And, said Rickover triumphantly, "nothing was ever found wrong with any of my em ploy*.” Kitwaukee Journal 'METROLINA MOON. KEEP SHINING . . Both the Greensboro Dail}' News and the Winston-Salem Journal have sought to put down Mecklenbiurg County and the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce for ‘tMetrolina”. The name, of course, refers to the 12-county area in North Car olina and South Carolina propos ed as a marketing area, perhaps even a Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Daily News calls the whole business “a numbers game’’ full of sound and fury, signifying lit tle or nothing. The Journal sug gests that the 12-county claim couldn’t stand the test of the Piedmont Triad’s truth-in-brag- giitg regulations. Greensboro and Winston-Salem are, in truth, whistling past the graveyard. Let them be on no tice that the Triad barely escap ed inclusion in Metrolina, though we resent The Journal’s suggest ion that we could be so unfeeling as to alter the song to say “No thing could be finer than to be ini Metrolina in the mawnin’.” I Let them have their fun. But on one point The Journal has gone too far, thereby becoming guilty of the very crime it attri butes to Metrolina. It suggests that the people of the Triad might already liave been too tolerant of the Meck lenburg claim that this county declared its independence from the Crown a full year before the colonies did so. “Tolerance was necessary be cause nobody has come forth with convincing and historically acceptable proof of the validity of that claim,” says the Journal. Attend our words, now, Jour nalists. Make a call to Archie K. Davis of Wachovia Bank there in Winston-Salem and let him cite convincirtx evidence of Mecklen burg’s Declaration as recorded in the proceedings of The Moravian Church. Selah. The Charlotte Obseri'er PATIENTS IN KINGS MOONT- HOSPITAL AS OF NOON NESDAY: Mr. Claude Camp .Mrs. David Campbell Mr. Earl Carpenter Mrs. .Margaret Farris .Ms. Fannie Furse .M. William Gregory •Mrs. Ida Hamrick Mrs. Aciuilla Huffstetler Mr. Hobart Metcalf Mrs. Maggie MCClain Mrs. A. H. Patterson Mr. Tliomas Turner Mrs. 11. C. Bell Mr. James Byers Sharon Byers Miss Nancy Childers 'Mrs. Jimmy Curry Elizabeth Fitch Mrs. Carl Frazier Mr. Lloyd Hall Mr. M. L. Harmon, Sr. Mr. Paul Henson Mr. J. D. Hord Mr. Willtam HOusor Mrs, William Hudson Mrs. Sidney Huffstetler Sheila Johnson Mrs. Mack Joidan Mrs, Florence Lynn - Mrs. Lee Martin [ Mrs. Elmer Martin Antorie Meeks Mrs. Amzic McClain Mrs. Paul Sanders Mrs. Ida Smith Mrs. Arngel .Steose Mrs. Lalor Williams Mrs. Ei-vin Williams ADMITTED THURSDAY Mrs. Jack Day. 2508 E. SpH Ave., Gastonia, N. C. Mr. Wade Patterson, 402 nut St., City Mrs. Don Sigmon, 901 First | ADMITTED FRIDAY Mrs. Lena Goforth, 205 .S. P41- mont Mrs. Janie Roekholt, 113 tor St. Mr. George Runyans, 19 Bridges Dr. ADMITTED SATURDAY ■Mrs. Lillian Early, 411 Chc-^- kee St. 1 Mr. Joseph Ervin Mellen. N. Gaston St. Mrs. Mattie Melton, 514 E. Viti'- ginia Ave., Bessemer City Mrs. James Crocker, 370 Crock(-i er Rd. ADMITTED SUNDAY Mrs. Ethel Mullens, 1030 Oak-i i 'wood Rd., Gastonia Mr. William McNeely, Rt. 1.' 'Cherryville, N. C. .. Mrs. Jack Gaddy, 400 (, Dr,, City Mr. John Greene, Box 184, Gro ver Mrs. Margaret Humphries, 5290 Midpines 'Mr. Gene Wehunt, Rt. 3, C'ty Mrs. Clara Wright Mrs. Mildred Scarborough Rt. 2, Bessemer City ADMITTED MONDAY Mr. Joe Herndon, 106 N. Ori ental Ave. Mrs. Albert Head, 902 R^idcs Ave. Mr. Earl Hicks, Dover Dr|3es- semer City Mr. Kenneth Smith, 611 f'ea dowbrook Mr. Samuel Stewart, JrUU6 W. Holder Dr., Gastonia Kurt Trammell, 402 E. Ki! Mrs. Jetter Wykle, 617|E. Trade SI.. Dallas Mrs, B. Thomas'Ellis, Gro^-r Tuesday Mr. James P. Logan, Rt Grover Mrs. Jerry Edmonson, Rt. 31 Susan Anderson, 709 Meads brook Rd. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts fot the week ending Tuesday total-1 ed $203.25, including $145.50: from on-street meters, $38 1 fine.s, and $19.75 from ofL-^^t'" meters. Keep Your Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Moiuitain, N. C. 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