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fage 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C Thursday, July 10, 1969 Establiahed 1881 Tin Kings Mwiiitain Heiald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general Welfare and published for the enlightenn.ent, entert&lnm&ht and benefit of the citizens of tCihgS htiMntain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing HttUse. Entered as second class matter at the poll office at Kings Mountain. N, SSM under Act of Congreib of March 3, EDITOIIAL PEPARTMENT Martin llarmon i;; Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Debbie Thornburg Clark, Bookkeeper mechanical PEPARTMENT Dave Weathers, Supt Allen Myers Paul Jackson Douglas WeatherA David Myers ONE il^ttlHION EAtSS PAYABLE IN ADVANCE - BY MAIL ANtWttEftfe YEAR... .13.50 SIX MONTHS.... .gS.OO THREE MONlHS... Puts NORTH CAROLINA BALES TAX tttiPHONE NUMBER — 789-5441 As textitectetl the kings hibuniain Lake Authority Btti tSB ^4) died as the General Assembly aajoutlted sine die at 7:19 b.m. July 2. The results apparently: 1) The Kings Mountain city commis sion is the lake authority. 2) Zoning of the lake area is the pro vince of the Cleveland Couhty Planning board. 3) Thehe is little, if any, immediate pfy>spect for development of the lake for public recreation, in spite of approval of a federal grant (50-50 federal - city matching funds) of $125,000 for develop ment of a 491-acre recreational park. The impasse between Representa tives W. K. Mauney, Jr., and Robert Z. Falls, and the county commission, on the one hand, and Senator Jack White and the City of Kings Mountain on the other, continued down to the wire. As suggested in a prior Herald editorial, a dead heat in this kind of horse race pro duces no pay-off. Irtdeed, it appears a costly result for thb city, ahd, perhaps more important, property owners in the areas Adjacent to the lake. Let it bb said that the dty commis sion in its action of several weks ago de claring Kings Mountain would forego public recreation, minus city zoning au thority, policing power, and lake control, has the support of the citizens of kings Mountain From comments reaching this newspaper—and the number of com ments is not small. City Budget Analysis Mayor John Henry Moss is prdud of the WdS-TO tehtalive budget and SAld it publicly at Tuesday night’s city boibmis- sion meeting. It’s another record budget, up about $120,000 from last year’s model. Th'e Mkyor Feels that the figure is reasonable in view of increased costs of about every thing the city buys, salary increases for all employees, increased fringe benefits for all employees, a $265,(X)0 capilk} Ex penditure outlay, and the peak debt serv ice year of $391,700. Salary and wage increases range from five to ten perefeht, with lowest paid full-timte employees getting the ten. Minimum wage For FUll-tlme employees will increase from the Federal minimum of $1.60 to $1.75 per hoUr. All Employees get sick leave, paid vacations, and six paid holidays. AH this, says the Mayor, without an aa valorem tax increase. He noted, however, that ekJlEcled tak revenues ate $252,000, a record due to industrial and residential expansion and the annexation ot taxably valued property in the southwest area totaling $2,100,()00. And, of course, the estimated revenue from the water and sewer de partment of ,$275,000 reflects 1) the ^ percent surcharge imposE'd last fall on water bills and 2) expected increase ih water fcbhsumption wneh the city gets the capacity. (Lowder Construction Com pany has put down over two of thE SeV- en-plus miles of 24-inch water main From the treatment plant site toward Kinga Mountain.) The budget rbFlEcts, said the MAyor, “that the city is a business,. dEsi8;hea by citizens to be of service to its citizens.” Most will agree: that’s right mUch doing. Luuol Considerable Ideal legislation was introduced, much of it ratified, by the General Assembly <vhich adjourned sine die last week. Non-controversial bills which passed Included a bill permlttlhg the county commission to employ a director of fin ance, another relating to tax listing reg ulations, the bill treating a Ward 6 city commissionershtp here to provide area representation for the city’s new section in the southeast, and Inclusion of Cleve land in a Gaston county bill to give city police authority within a five-mile per imeter of the city limits. Controversial, but passed as amend ed, were the Kings Mountain eminent domain bill cleanihg aged sections of the city charter, and the Rockingham Alco holic Beverage Control bill, here Cleve land and Stokes tagging along, requir ing cities to Call ABC and beer-wine elections dn receipt of valid petition sign ed by 25 percent of the voters in the previous city election. In the latter in stance, Cleveland’s Representative Rob ert Z. Falls won passage in the House of a "rtix it for Cleveland bill”, as Senate JUdiEiary 2 committee gave Falls' bill an unfavorable report. Two local bills failed: Kings Moun tain’s Lake Authority bill and the “leap frog” anrtExatioh bill where the House and SEh'ale d'elSgations declined to agree. Andrew C. lenkins When he was a youth, Andy Jenkins forsook laundry employ to train as mo tion picture projectionist under the late Guy Webb. He WEftt to work ih Mt. Holly, later E lied his trade at the old imperial and lixie Theatres hare, finally at the Joy. His was a bijSinesS of long ahd latE hours but he relished it. He met many of the stars and visited with the late Gary Coopter, whom Mr. JEnkihs had met before, when they were fellow patients at a New Orleans, La., hospital. During his long tenure in the motion picture business, Mr. Jenkins witnessed many improvements ih Film and projec tion techniques — sound arrived, as did color, and the wide seCeen. Mr. JEhkins \Vas a gbod citizen, in terested in his city government, artlcii- late and blessed with a cbt-4hTough, get- to-the point mind. He wps in ill health the Wst decade or more of his life, but hE did not flinch through all thesE difficultiEs. 'The commuility mourns his passing. Best bows to: George W. Mauney, veteran presideht ot the kings Mountain Hospital board of trustees, and to Chair man Carl F. Mauney of the Kings Moun- taih Redevelopment commission, both on thEir rE-electlon. ■ No wonder it’s tough to be on the roads. ’The United States Bureau of Transportation estimates North Caro lina auto population for 19^, at 2,003,000, with another 525,000 trucks and buses, or 2,528,000 vehicles. (Figures on motor- eyclt population are not given.) ThE au tomobile Manufacturers association says thEre arE more than 100 million, cars, trucks and buses in the nation. Water note from the Superintendent of Public Works: York Road and David son Lake Water leveia ahe goitig dotm: as increased cohsilmbtlOh And hSt stiil- shihE take IftHb toll. 'The Lowder Construction Company reports, to the Vvater project engineer, Dennis Fox, it will complete pdfeh-wbrk on Mountain and Tracy streets within the week, weather permitting. Then, hopefully, the city wlH be quick about Rsttitig contract for re-sUrfacing of what inafty tern the “rbugheSt-ridihg street in tb#ft”. MARTIN'S MEDICINE In^ndienta: Bits of humor, loisiom, humor an'A com- me%U. Directions: Take tcfeisicZjf, if possihTe, hut a- void oveftSo^ge. By MARTIN HARMON My late rather was my first employer.. I worked for him at the Dilling Mill store (phone 141, if one can be accused of working at the tender age of seven, five , days a week and the munificent i pay was 60 cents per week. m-m A Vacation We Await TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Taice h'ecA th«/t vc io rot if&iir rdwts before men, to be seen of them: ch%envis'c yc have no reward of ffour FdWier viktcieiia in hieavdA. st. HMtthew a.-i. The next summer it was a full| week’s work and a raise to a dol-j lar. By summer's end 1 could I flash a wallet with $20 in it. Ma-l Jor portion of this sum went for hall of my first bicycle. The oth er half wai a bonus from my employer. m-tn LIKE TO TAKE MY VACATION ON THE MOON 601 COULD HAVE A BREATHING SPELL FROM THE TURMOIL OF THIS WORLD OF OURS/"^. Working was fun. There was plenty of time for losing at check ers to Hard Luck Littlejohn and Robert Ford. Church Hiufistickler was a morning visitor as a deliv ery boy on George Lewis’ Sunrise milk truck. The postman dropped, the area mail off at the store and delivering groceries on Dilling I .| street and Dogtrot was fun, too. I IA big bonus was a pass to the I I Itnperial Theatre, occasioned by | a billboard display on the front of the building. There was a cat for the inevitable rat, and a cat- hole beside the front door. m-m Among other employees of my Father were R. N. Parrish, his son Howard- Parrish, Jim McGill! and Dink Bennett. m-m Mr. Parrish carried me and ! some others fishing one day and I I brought home five little fishies which just had to be cooked. It’s the best day’s fishing I’ve ever ! done. Viewpoints of Other Editors A WICKED DESECRATION KINGS MOUNTAIN Hospital Log VISITING HOURS 3 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 8 pja> Dally 10:30 To 11:30 OJH. PATIENTS IN KINGS MOUNTAIN Hospital as of noon Wed nesday: m-m I Ten Years Ago Items of interest which occur- >d approximately ten years ago The final ignominy has been^ lieaped on the dry bones of H. L. | Mencken. They have turned his' old house over to a combination of do-gooders and pedagogues, f both ot which breeds the Balti-i The city board of commission more Sage held in withering con- ers met briefly -Monday night and Downstairs in the Dilling Mill tempt. j tentatively adopted a $621,938 office were Walter Dilling, Boyce! Tne Mencken homeplace was budget for the 1959-60 fiscal year. Simonton, and Buck Dilling. J.:dedicated a lew days ago as ai Ralph (Babe) Ware wil] rejoin F. Moss, superintendent of the! dormitory and student annex, to| the police department as quickly mill, lived in the house behind the, house those enrolled in the Uni-i as a replacement is employed for store and just across the railroad I versily ol Maryland School of his position as second shift oper- NEEDED — MORATORIUM Rt. 1, Box 162, Blacksburg, S. C. ON SPENDING switch track. m-m There was a one-man calaboose, remnant of the Town of East Kings Mountain, and still used about every Saturday night. Many were able to break out and prov ed it. The Eskimo Pie people put a letter of the Eskimo Pie name in their chocolate-covered vanilla ice cream product, with big prizes promised, but the “m” was sel dom found. m-m Social Work. To appreciate the irnoy of this coarse conversion, selections from the literary curmudgeon’s works are helpful. Among his more rev erent remarks about higher edu cation were these: “College education has become corrupted by bam(X)mbe, and si/' the boy on the border line of in telligence is apt to be damaged rather than benefited. Under proper care he might be pushed upward. As it is, he ‘s shoved uuwnward. Certainly everyday ob- ator of the water filter plant SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Caldwell spent part of last week in the mountains of North Carolina. They returned home Tuesday. Mrs. Grady A. Rhea has return- .ed from Douglas, Ga., where she spent a week -with her daiughter, Mrs. Jennings Henson and fam- ily. One reason the cost of govern- meht — particularly at the fed eral level _ keeps rising out of , all proportion to piroductivity is that spending prop(%als once turned dcVwn by Congress are re submitted year after year. An ex cellent example of this Is a fed- erdl power development plan in the state of Maine known as the Dickey Lincoln School hydioelec- tric ptdjCct Which oh'ce more is to edihe before Congress as it has in previous years. This year the price tag is $229 million. One Sen ator speaking for Dickey Lincoln observed, “This will be our third attempt." GRASS ROOTS When taxes go up every produc er of goods must necessarily raise servation shows that the averagej price of those goods in order It’s strange how little incidents college course produces no visible meet the increased tax bill. And as soon as the price of con of no real importance rem.’.in in augmentation in the intellectual mind of a youngster. ' equipment and capacity of the sumer goods is raised every labor i;ii._i.-nt. Not long ago, in fact anjyfiicn in the country demands and actual investigation demonstrated, gejij higher wages and the in- When I was five, my Fathe that ligation studen(s often regress so took me to the auto races at the during their four years old Pineville wood track. Prettv't"^' the axe.age senior is less m- big doings, these races were, with tc-.igent, by an known tests, than Indianapolis type cars and sev- ‘ve.-aeo freshman. Part of eral winners of that classic, in- eludihig Tommy Milton who’d crossed the Indianapolis line first three times. 'But my big memory of the day was my Father’s treat ing me to a mammoth bottle of orange soda pop. m-m July 4th was a great annual event, with Uncle Charlie Har mon’s family host to a family pic nic. On one occasion, a bridge was being built over the creek near Stony Point. There were two nar row wood rails across it. My Mother and I exited from the 'Model T Ford and walked a,cross. Dad drove over. Entertainment for the boys at Uncle Charlie’s meant big eating, riding the horses, and swimming in Muddy Fork creek. m-m My Father speeded my decision on getting married. I was 27 and had partied 'til the wee hours of Sunday morning. As was our cus tom on Sabbath morning, we visited the postoffice box, then cheeked by Plonk Brothers. Dad complained about the late hour of home arrival and said, “I was the average freshman. Part of l.iiS may be due to the fact that many really intelligent boys, as sOon as they discover the vanity of the so-called education on tap, quit college in disgust, but in large part, I suspect, it is a pro duct ,of tne deadening effect of pedagogy . . . crease is tacked on the price of goods... business needs... to get .some of the tax burden off its back. Then and then only will the price of gtxtds produced return to more normal levels.” — La Plata, Md., Times descent. "A professor, even at his best, is a pedagogue, and a pedagogue is seldom much of a man . . . ■'When the American pedagogue became a professional, and began to acquire a huge armamentarium of technic, the trade of teaching declined, for only inferior men were willing to undergo a long training in obvious balderdash "The prediction by a couple of medical men that babies born to day may expect to live 100 years has a rider attached to it. They may expect to live that long, say the doctors, if they can avoid death by violence.” — Towanda. Pa., Review. “A new study which has just been made with regard to wheth er older automobile drivers are in volved in more accidents than younger drivers provides consid erable comfort for those who are in their later years. Making the u .study was a group of University 'College football (vvould ds qj Denver educators ... Senator much more inlorcsiing if the fac- vniiams of New Jersey introduc- ulty played instead of the stu-l^jj ((^0 (je-tails of the study into dents, and even more interesting, t h e Congressional Record at if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable di minution in the loss to humani ty . . And among Mencken’s most re spectful remarks on those who go about doing good works, were these random selections: “The social worker, judging by her own pretensions, helps to pre- Washington, with this comment: “These remarkable findings con firm that the older driver is cer tainly not the hazard some would portray him. Quite the contrary, drivers past 65 represent a ration al, responsible and reliable seg ment of the motoring public.’ ” Findlay, Ohio, Republican Courier. young once and know how it ls.| serve multitudes of persons who But your Mother worries and won’t let me sleep.” I suggested I pr(5bably should ligut^ on get- tirtg married, but that if I waited as long as he, 1 had several years of bachelorhood ahead. He re plied, ‘Tf I waited that long, 1 wouldn’t.” Why did he not mar ry earlier? He said, “I didn’t think I could afford it. But my friends kept getting married and ^erped (o get along just fine. I decided if they cbuld, t could too.” In less than a year, 1 went trem bling to the altar. tt-iil lie thrashed me good for goihg to the ball game when my Mother was alway and I was supposed to come to his store. I was in the second grade. He never thrashed me again. He didn’t need to. would perish if left to themselves. Thus her work is clearly dysgenic and anti-social. For every victim of sheer misfortune that she re stores to self-sustaining and so cial usefulness, she must keep alive scores of misfits and incom petents who cab never, for all her help, pull their weight in the boat. Such persons can do nothing more valuable than dying . . . “The human race shows very little natural inclination toward m-a I that ime well. what are called good works. It always has to goaded into them by professional do-gooders, most of them pali>ably frauds. This goading has become a great profession in the United States, and offers an excellent living to multitudes of men who seek to avoid honest labor, and would be half starved if they were forced to resort to it. The proposals they advocate sometimes have a con siderable plausibility, at least to unreflecting persons, but the means they employ are nearly al (ways theatrical, dishonest “If the American people wish the government to cut expenses, they are going to have to st(^ ex pecting the services they presume taxes should furnish, from hot lunches for school children to reading the labels on breakfast cereal for them. No matter where the cuts come, someone is going to be screaming. If the American people truly want more financial stability, they will have to revise their standard approach to every problem which usually commenc- ■ es: The government ought to do The stumbling block to Dickey Lincoln this year may po^ibly be an administration moratorium on all but the most urgent ppblic works projects as part ol its fight against inflation. Recent studies have shown that projects such as Dickey Lincoln are an economic ally indefensible waste of taxpay er funds when the full cost o-f the projects including tax and inter privileges are considered. These studies have shown that federal ly - subsidized electric power pro jects constitute what amount to a major tax loophole that costs the taxpayers hundreds of mil lions of dollars every year so that customers of the subsidized projects may enjoy “cheap’’ elec tricity. Wherever a tax-privileged public power development takes place, it becomes a substitute for development by a taxpaying, in vestor - Owned company. Thus, each public development, while exercising tax and interest privi leges of public ownership, simul taneously obliterates a source of tax revenue. A moratorium on them would come as good news indeed to hard-pressed taxpayers —Lincoln Times-News, VESPER SERVICE Dixon Presbyterian church will hold Sunday night vesper service at 7:30 p.m. Sunday with Rev. Robert A. Wilson de livering the message. BUSY MONTH Grover Rescue Squad report ed a busy month of activities in June. The department answer, ed a total of 19 calls for a total of 241 hours of volunteer serv ice and 691 miles traveled, ac cording to report of Wyatt Ad cock, squad reporter. SCOUT PROJECT Boy Scouts of Troop 92 of First Baptist diurch will cut gra.s.s Saturday from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. to pay camp expenses. Citi zens wlio want grass cut and want to help the Scouts in this project should call the church office, 739-36.51 before 5 p.m. Friday. something about.. Kans., Citizelb —Fradonid, ruinously costly ...” If the ghost of Mencken still walks, none of those students as signed to his house will ever en joy -a decent night’s sleep. Better, the house had 'been turned into aj bar, with facilities for steamed' (jysters, clams on the half-shell, and choice steaks, and a line of dancing girls. That would hdvel done proper honor to the Sage’s! and memory. — Chapel Hill Weekly Keep Yen Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Moahtain, N. C. iTews & Weather fevery hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the ’ half houh Fine entertainment in between Thursd- Broadus Kermit Barber Mrs. Celia Sharplon Bonds Mrs. Carl H. Ctirpcnter Mrs. William Marshall Dulin Henry Wilson Gamble Mrs. Mary Diana Gamble Mrs. Fiahk L. Goforth Arthur Hamrick Mrs. Homer A. Kilgore Mrs. Cora Hull Laughter Mrs. Dalton Mooney William Hoyle Moss John Bedford McDaniel Mrs. Mamie Della Smith Mrs. Minnie Emma Pruitt Mrs. Florence Randall Geoiige Washington Shipman Mrs. Lillie Bell Ware Jasper H. Bradley W. Q. Dover Mrs. Marie Cain FeWcIl Mrs. Alice L. Harmon William Franklin Houser Mrs Sidney Dulin Huffstetler William Lawrence Moss Raymond David Shari» Mrs. Ida Lumpkin Smith Mrs. Raleigh Smith Martin Luther Wilson, Sr. Mrs. Conley B. Ervin Mrs. Tomas Watson Smith, Jr. Obediah B. Boyce George M. Goforth AD.MITTED THURSDAY Mr. William Boyd Stone, 914 Church street. City ADMITTED FRIDAY Mr. Carol Hayes Whitlock, Sr., 4301 Willard street, Charlotte. ADMITTED SATURDAY Mr. Robert (Blackwell Leonard, Rt. 1, Box 199, Grover, N. C. ADMITTED SUNDAY Alonzo Kale Goins, Rt. 1, Box 24, City Mrs. Glenn Surratt, Box 68, Roiling Springs Mrs. Grorge John Henry Wylie, I I Admitted Monday Mrs. Loy J. Goins, Route 1, Box 506, Bessemer City Aden Humphries, 320 Central street, Belmont Norman Ray Ramsey, Route 2, Bessemer City Miss Ida A. Huffstetler, 615 N. Piedmont Avenue, City Mrs. Essie Irene Little, Route 1, Grover Mr. Aven W. Smith, 302 Knox Street, Clover, S. C. Mr. Lawrence Carl Barker, 1206 S Myrtle School Road, Gastonia ADMITTED TUESDAY Mrs. Edwin M. Johnson, 604 Mica Street, City Mrs. Hai Alexander .Eudy, Rt. 1. Box 324A. City John Franklin Coyle, 513 Broad Street, City Robert Theodore Huffstetler, Route 2, City Bobby Gene Metcalf, 217 N. City Street, City Mrs. Mary Blackwell Ragstole, Trailer No. 28, Dixie Trailer Park, aty Mrs. David G. Herndon, Jr., (Box 365, Grover Mr. Billy Lewis Jones, Route 1, Clover, S. C. Mrs. John A. Poteat, 604 Tem ple Street, City Thurmon Lw Prince, 614 W. Westview Drive, Gastonia Mrs. DiOn H. Brown, 906 Hen ry Street, City Mrs. Ethel Mae i Hambright, 1419 Grover Road, City GENE been e nam c also hi HICKC lickory portsmj :is alre ble tha ^In 196 ishevilTf 14 poi rack rr 7.733, I illo, Toi nd Rid .(‘IP ret KI \ings y Idl, 2b laiwkiiii ’utnam, ■^(Tiith, 2 \sh, c ‘erkins, 'arpent- r'inger, McNair, vVhdstii Ethridg( riofoilh Morgan r. Dal to Bailey, Poteat, Cordell, .1. Dalto Berry, I Brown, Ramst;.v Poole, 3 Huffstlt McDow ^^^’inriley E 'Boll Carpeni Morgan SAC pitpher Wheistl Klhridg Goforl I- King.s I Bell, 2 Putnan [lawkii 4sli, (• 5milM, ^’erkiii! VIeNaii “arpen joforti shelby D. lief ’ameri leynol Greer, Bright Pee'er, Vh'Mui Lane, Wriglti E. 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