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^age 2 pr- Established 1889 W The Kings Mountain Herald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald PublLshing House. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITOBIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dave Weathers, Supt. Allen Myers Paul Jackson Steve Martin SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR... .$3.50 SIX MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROUNA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 Traiiic Accidents Costly If it take.s you 60 seconds to road this editorial, across the nation at least this many drivers under 20 will be in volved in traffic accidents, according to statistics. The youth of today are exposed to the traffic problems of our highways to a greater extent than ever before in the history of our nation. Drivers under 20 years of age make up only 10 percent of the driver popula tion in the United States, however, they were involved in 16 percent of the fatal accidents in 1967. In North Carolina alone, 36.4 percent of the total drivers involved in fatal traffic accidents for the first half of 1968 ranged in age from 15 to 24 years old. Cleveland County is not in any bet ter shape than the remainder of North Carolina. Many people have the opinion that most traffic fatalities occur in the large metropolitan areas. Nearly seven out of 10 traffic deaths for 1967 occurred in places classified as rural. Twenty-three people were killed in Cleveland County in 1968. Statistics show that each child born today will be either injured or killed in a traffic mis hap during a lifetime. The birth rade and the crash rate are running just about equal, statistics show. The mileage death rate for the United States, which is the number of deaths per 100 million miles of travel, has dropped from 5.7 percent to 5.47 percent while North Carolina’s death rate has climbed to a high of 7.1 percent, way above the national average. Young people in Cleveland County are being taught through a 4-H Automo tive Safety Program now being initiated to make a change in attitude toward driving habits. Besides helping the youth discover and learn the many safe driv ing techniques which they need, the youth will also learn about how the car functions as a tool tor transportation. Unlike the driver education program in the schools, this program does not teach the youth how to drive, only the .safety aspect of driving. Number One The Herald adds its congratulations along with the community to leadere in the Kings Mountain United Fund, cited for conducting the most perfect drive in North Carolina during the year. A sec ond trophy was also given in the cate gory of under $500,000 solicitations and both handsome awards are on display in the two banks downtown. Hats off to President John Cheshire and Campaign Chairman Shuford Peeler who superintended the drive. From a possible score of 10 points on the year’s drive, Kings Mountain scored 9.7, show ing a gain in per capita giving and in total participation. Inscrutable English An original approach to the peren nial American problem of “why Johnny can’t read’’ has come from a Japanese professor’s analysis of why Johnny’s Japanese counterpart can read. Prof. Kiyoshi Makita of Tokyo’s Keio Univer sity found that fewer than 1 percent of 10,000 Japanese children he studied had any difficulty in reading. He suggests that they benefit from ideographs, while American children suffer from a too “ab stract” alphabet. Roman-alphabet users, for whom Chinese and Japanese character-writing is a legendary puzzlement, may find this reverse-view unexpected, but the profes sor clearly has something. He notes, for example, that our letters are designs that mean nothing, change sounds with their position or offer a bewildering va riety of spellings for the same sound and are visually confusing. We have no report of Prof. Kiyoshi’s recommendations, if any, but we doubt whether he would suggest adapting ideo graphs to English. What his analysis comes to, after all, is what American and English analyses have long, if fruitlessly, concluded: English spelling and the Eng- li.sh alphabet are a mess. Generation Gap Much has been written about the new morality among youth. Many of the modern beliefs and standards being em braced by our young people are widely denounced. Indeed, we have been told that our youth are so alienated from adult society that the two groups are unable to communicate effectively. The supposed estrangement between youth and adults is labeled the “genera tion gap.” True, today’s youth face a world that has changed far more be tween generations than at any other time in history. The results of the change have been felt in the home, community and nation. Increasingly, young people are find ing within their peer group the love, se curity and values that once were derived from the family group. The local Optimist club joined re cently in the nation - wide observance of Youth Appreciation Week with purpose to “build a bridge to better un derstanding between generations.” Too often they point out that we do malign our youth rather than recognize their capabilities. We tend to classify and categorize them as rash and irre sponsible because we are so aw-are of the alienated few who make banner headlines in the news. Hats off to John A. Cheshire, Jr., and Paul Ham who became members of the exclusive six gallon club of blood donors at Monday’s visit of the Blood- mobile. There was good news in that 134 persons visited the regional blood col lecting unit to give a pint of blood and 119 were replacement donations, 56 for little Vickie Williams who was to under go open heart surgery this week. Time is running out for the buying of city auto tags by the due date, which is February 15th. Sales are continuing and the total increases, but a last-min ute rush appears in the making. The law says tags must be purchased and dis played on the vehicle. KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, February 13, 1969 MABTIN'S MEDICINE By ELIZABETH STEWART The next time I may "go walk ing to New Orleans" as the writ er of the popular song by the name sugigests. Give'em a Hearty Welcome nr □c m-m My reason for making this statement is baser! on an experi ence I had recently when I took my third airplane ride and first- time visit to New Orleans. m-m On two of my three trips via plane I've been involved in two near emergency landings, but all turned out with happy endings. VG, TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Whonorvcr shall serk to snx'o his life shall los« it; and whosom^er shall'lose his life shall preserve it. St. Luke n.-.iS. m-m The first experience came when one of the errgines konked out on a big jet we were riding. About 10 minutes out of Douglas Air port in Charlotte, the pilot an-, nounced he wa.; returning tO| Oharlotte. We didn’t realize the emergency of the situation until | we looked out the window and saw the fuel being dumpe'd. We' glided down the runway past a sea of ambulances, lire trucks and life saving equipment. We were then rushed thraiagh the terminal hurrying to board an other plane. HE/IRrl FUWO tv — rioSv l\ ■v, m-m Enroute Atlamta from New Or leans we encountered an electrical stoi'm which hurled the big East ern Airlines jet and passengei's down 200 feet in the air and sent trays of hot coffee and our sup per flyii% through the aisles. iini / KINGS MOUNTAIN Hospital Log VrSITINO HOURS 3 to 4 p.in. and 7 to 8 p.m. Daily 10:30 To 11:30 ojn. PA'nENTS IN KINC3 MODNTAl HOSPITAL AS OF NOON WEI NESDAY: Mrs. W. M. Bonds .■Vlrs, Robert Brown Mr. Claude Camp ..Mrs. Walter Gamble .Mrs. Lena Goforth .Mrs. Alice' Harr/on Mrs. Mattie Melton 'Mr. Bracey Moore .Miss Aldo Phifer Ml'S. Campbell Phifer Mr. Robert Ponder .Mr. EXIward Smith Mr. Os'ear Tharringlon .Mrs. Grace Upchurch Mr. Arlhur Williams .Mrs. Rosa Wilson .Mrs. .M. H. Biser Mrs. Floyd Buchanan .Mrs. Harold Campix'll Miss Nancy Childers Mr. I.eonard Floyxl Mrs. Phillip Francis ,Mr.s. George Gordon Mr. M. L. Harmon, Sr. Mr. J. D. Hord .Mr. William Houser Miss Odessa Black .Mrs. Sidney Huffstetler Mr. Hast us Huskey .Mrs. .Mack Jordan .Mrs. John Long . Mr.s. William Morgan f Mrs. Lottie Richards Mr.s. Lia Smith Mrs. Sarah Smith Mrs. Jolinny Webber Eugene Wooel Mrs. Clara Wright m-m Not until the captain told the stewardesses to get up from the floor where they had suddenly' sat down did we think we were going to be allright. Viewpoints of Other Editors DAILY WONDER m-m And when the stewardess fin ally said, "welcome to beautiful, beautiful Atlanta from Kastern’s,handT something else trip” were we a- ble to breathe a sigh of relief. Too often we let the pall of un imagination keep from us the Ten Years Ago ttcnxs of interest which occur- approximately ten years ago TOO TOO SOLID NOTE ADMITTED THURSDAY Valorie Hopper, Rt. 1, Grover .Mr. Eugene .Martin, Rt. 1, Ga.-. Ionia, N. C. Mrs. Lalah Page. Rt. 3, City ADMITTED FRIDAY Mr. Dalton Alexander, 400 Parker SI., City .Mr. Ru.sli Dixon. Rt. 3, City Still you m-m remember these mo- How many splendid sunrises O that this too too solid flesh Shirley Lunsford, Rt. would melt. Thaw and rettolre it- Bessemer City [self into a dew.' 'ADMITTED SATURDAY ! -Wm. .Shake.spe.are| m. L. Harmon, 107 The city hoard of commission-l Lots of people f-eel the same| King St., City^ ers has called a public hearing way about bottles, cans and sim-i -Mrs. Della Rippy, Rt. 1, Gnner ' night at 8 o’clock ilar containers. Particularly fer-| Mrs. Wray Canipe, Rt. 1, Box W. Crank, Rt. .3, have we missed by a crucial fewl^j^^, Thursday moments for want of bestirringproposal to lengthen and vid in the sentiment are tho.se: 33, City ments of danger and especially ourselves out of morning 'udo-1 terms of elected city otfi-lwho have to pay for the picking .Mr. David Lee do I remember this last one. | lence? How many l victories | j | up and disposal of castaways. City in the growth of our children have we let pass unpraised because of _ the ftsgging our adult preoccupa- fn^^rtartThrer"'of MrT and Mrs. would dissolve in two years' ex- Elizalx'th Reynolds, Rt. 2, Citt .Mrs. Jesse Rippy, 608 W. Kin m-m I thought one time of the peo ple who were picketing all week end at the Hotel Roosevelt where we stayed in New Orleans and I iwondered if they might not be come more tolerant if they were aboard our plane in this predica ment. tions settle upon us? m-m Surely we must stay more alert, we remind ourselves. But too often resolve slips into regret as we, mindless, let hours pass into days without paying tribute to the on going spectacle of e.xisten'ce.’'''' I thought of the little girls who j ^ ^ band of New Yorkers. probably become stewardesses i i-ijgy’ye joined into a group called for the glamor of the job who .-Adventure on a Shoestring” to suddenly become grownup pro . of such local sights tective mothers for all the [ .s- ^ Metri^olitan Opera’s back- sengers and theiy are m-agn;.i- ^ Wall Street’s inscrutable I canyons. The group has thriven SOCIAL AND PERSONAL , Last April, accordingly, reports, Mrs. Edgar Dobbins, 611 Lanil Miss Dorothy Frances Go- from Europe of a bottle that ing St., City forth, daughter of .Mr. and Mrs. would dissolve in two years' ex- ■ELn E. Goforth, is announcing posure to the elements set Amer- plans this week for her marriage ‘can industry by its ears, to Jacob Anthony Dixon, son of I St., City -Mr. Gainwell .Smith, Rt. 1. ,, j ,, ,, , Now the glass, aluminum and ^ kings^^ounrain. litt^e^^r Thfs.oc^' i h ’'“"g " " will take olace February 13th at ? , "5 ® ® easier, me Slock , Lane, Gastonia i bottle says it has been shelved i ’ 'pending resolution of a debate ADMITTED SUNDAY 4 church. REFORM IS NATURAL I over possible harmful effects of Mr. Wesley Bailey, 318 E. Bo-- 205 cent. m-m The happy-go lucky crew in the cockpit cjuickly become mas ter craftsmen, respondii g years of trainirtg and rising the rim of greatness. in the six years since it was . unded. And it has drawn the wcll-to-cl ' as well as many on t.ghc budgets. The apprehension some people, burning it. Another Swedish com-, Ave Bessemer City- exhibit at even the mildest form pany, which is developing an eas-j ^jj. Joseph Goforth, I of change is strange to behold. It. ily di-sposable bottle, says ihe pjg^|jj^ont Ave., City shows they do not understand a plastic couldn't have been made Mr. Robert Beam, Rt. 1, Grover I basic ingredient of the nature of -to disintegrate, | Rerrett 133 .M - l'"RMni^Wa‘irFitTrsonThri9thl c-ontainer is m.ndei Ginnis Si., City efntu^^erie^Tssayis^ am ^ plastic' David .MoCurry. Rt. 1, Century Ameriean “ i anj can be hurnc'd, the latterl Grover i il.t rnanufacturer sa.v.s. If it can be! -Nrs- Gaddis Owens, 208 Blan- m-m i well S’he^^wroi^ ‘*|‘>arned safely, the glass, alumi Which proves the only poor who |''^y^atls mr^born for but to'rnay Iravo to caimc,c i.avel are not those with-1 ^ reformer, a remaker of what g!.’ "P ^1' cue tunds, but those who fail tO|„„ j^g-jg imitating thali^^f^y m an older age, and to ine.r eyes the vivifying I ™^^t‘’«®,„™,;igrembUoms us' I lens Oi' wonder. eii..o mouitor. Chtistian Sci- WELL SIMMERED-DOWN When the plane suddenly plung ed downward, nobody was fore warned. There was no time. Lat er the pilot remarked to one of the passengers ‘there was no where else to go.” Southern states were experiencing torna-j president Nixon does on that Sunday. The weath er was good when we left New pgi-juagiye public relations aoun-'^ ^ selor and image-watcher in or a-, what is progress but change' land reform and improvement?! ! all, and which sleeps no moment I on an old past, but every hour re- ! pairs herself, yielding us every! j morning a new day, and with every pulsation a new life?" j I Progress, to some, is a most , inriiportant product. But to others some acutely sensitive, instantly, . something to be feared, to be today. There are million^ in cans and bottles that will dissolve, crumble, or go up in a puff of smoke. Anyone for ideas? St. Louis Po.st Dispatch FLIMSY ISSUE Labor disputes are getting more Orleans. Stewardesses were serv _ ing coffee. All of a sudden trays j.Q,md the Wht% House? Certain- ?^unT^us'^^n%Tat7TnTonf'ind Pi'^resimg tnat those le;wiAAd witaVelse "are’the current I interesting every day. Australian round us, in seats in liont ana i^jgh cffftctals who began with ^ natural | airline stewardesses, after a long | •'laan'a'aview ton St., City Mrs. Norman Ramsey, Bessemer City Rl. 2. ADMITTED MONDAY Mrs. Allen James, Rt. 1, Dallas o',)! Rt. 7, Shelby, Mrs. Hoiaco Patterson, Cansler St. Betty Philbeek, N. C. Mrs. William Waldrepe, lOL’O Washton Ave., Gastonia Mrs. Charles Merk, 818 Fourth St., City ADMITTED TUESDAY Mrs. Robert Holloway. 215 back, people were sick. A few xoot-in-mou.th difficulties — mak-l people held hands. One >oung controversial or unteamlike man held a SL^Jujle medal which statements — so quickly subsid- 1. Their conduct since has been |exemplaiy, cooperative, quies-| , cent. I dispute with management, havej he wore around his neck. quest for betterment of life? Sacramento (Calif.) ^on the right to wear a bra i cuj- of any color under a .see-through! Mr. Freti Wells, Rt St., Gastonia Mr. J. C. Jamerson, Rt. 1, Fiiy Mrs. Jerry Hudson, Bes.scmcr m-m I’m sure the Lord received propositions beyond imagination. must have and deals DIGITAL DINING A woman in Los Angelos re-i blouse, as long as they keep their cently faced an old but ever-new jackets on. — From The Atlanta problem. She .was liaving guests for dinner, 'and could not make Jcuinal, m-m Covemor Hickel, who original ly allowed that he was opposed jjer mind how best to seat! j to "conservation for conserva- them. Nor was this particularly ! tion’s sake,’ has since assured gm-prising view of the fact 'e^e i^ents Is'Th^t senators that he does that the guest list numbered 500. ,ense inoments is tl^t every^y auraire consei vation, an- she finally gave up trying, to wms to want^ smile M tipoUution and sutiillke. Vice- ^^ork the seating out herself and ^y. People become w^helm- Algnew. who during tba called in a computer firm. She ^ with TOin^ssion. T^ere *s no ^ applied Kutg apparently s-cpplied a short bl- longer a diff^nee betwwn Appellations to reporters! ^graphy guest. These pie no preji^ice, no animosity, you’ve seen one fed into the reckoner, which just comrades in 'a ™nijnonl .. has ejjiphed, whirled, digested, and cause, with •iPnvts suddenly ’ ttoen a model of decorum sine©— gpo^ed forth a list seating every-, ed pure as gold, and th® tnmute, statement, humble in p^p i they cat^ your eye. a faint, nor-^g„„^_ ; commenting on this event, vous stiff uppt rlip smile would] columnist Hlrriet van Horne, appear, as ilf to say, were going i,,ct that “we are doubtless see- Mr. ames Grover Mrs. Willie grace, City 1, City Miller, Gen. Del Moore, 4700 Mai ‘o be allright, aren’t we.? m-m Have these men just automat- (wrote that ically learned, or did Mr. Nixon in gthe wave of the future." , “learn them,” or is there somCj Now, we do not propose to con-! turned out we were alii ^“B‘^-'vatcher at work? At any; duct a discussion of the place or turned out we were ni'lpg,jp_ jg g refreshing ab-'misplace of the computer m A- sence of inner-office fussing and merican life. Enough persons,; feuding. Interior Secretary Hick-'happy or wrathful depending up-! el may wonder if the Democrats on their relations to such gear,' are saving him to be their num- are already doing so. But it does ber one punching bag, and Spiro strike us that the Los Angeles, Agnew may worry, as have 'ils hostess may just have struck up-, predecessors, whether the Presi- ] on the secret df possible oomput dent will really find enough as- er success. This is to use it only signments to keep the Vice-'Presi- dent busy. But all’s remarkably quiet along the Potomac. And it right, landing in Atlanta where 1 waiting bus took us immedi ately to another jet bound for Charlotte. m-m It was probably some time bc- 'ore the clean-up crew finished after we deplaned. Needless to say we were de lighted to pick lettuce and salad irtgredients from our hair and clothing, and I didn’t even mind all the hairpins falling from my long hair I had pinned in an up sweep. m-m Kinfee Mfmtitatti better. ntwr ltmk8d The Christian Science Monitor really make where it does not any difference. In most cases, ,500 persons at dinner, like the same number at a reception, can be cast about I higgledy-piggledy with no one the ! sufferer. Thus, in such instances i the computer can do a perfect I job — no matter how the seatMg of! comes out. But when they seek Pres. Charles de Gaulle, France, has been married for 451 to use computers to take care of years. He and his wife, Yvonne, department store billings! Oh were married In 1921 when he my, bh my! was a 30-year-old Army captain. I Christian Science Monitor Keep Your Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between Thui coac fessi Wes baci as C lall thar Will sine seas ed I ■sehc stan and loot ithi drei con seel ton met ply plai is I Bi T( A 3(K1 ott ^eas , doei D wilt Bov Ste’ Dot leal B (ion 15-1 sel. .T>3 Mu .sel F .spli Hie Bla set. an( tea I ni.g lim Sh< Alt' iosi I 36.S Li'i Dll led 1
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