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M-.-' I K fagB 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, July 24, 1969 Established 1^ The Kings Mountain Herald A weekly newspaper devoted to the pronSotlon of the generSf welfare And published lor the enltghtenitient, entertainment arid benefit of the citizens of illfigs Mountain and Its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing Rouse. _ __ Entered as second class matter at the ^st office at Kings hfountain, N. C., 28O0S under Act of Congress of March 3,1S73. BOrrOUAL OBrARTMBNT Martin Harmon Bditor-PubHaher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper MkCHANICAL DBPAfkTMBrft Dave Weathers, Supt. Douglas Weathers Allen Myers Da^Kf Myets Paul Jackson SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR....$3.50 SIX MONTHS..,,$3.00 THREE MONTHS....$1.35 PLUS NORTH CAROUNA SALES TAX TELBPROKE NUMBER — 739-5441 St. Matthew 6:7. The Cost Squeeze King.s Mountain got another «xani« pie of the cost squeeze last week as tne Kings Mount ain Redevelopment Commis sion officials and Department of Housing and Urban Development huddled in what was termed (and was) a mid-planning conference. The big news was that cost esti mates of $1.2 million on the tentative plans far exceed the $863,000 fiUD grant for the project. A recent similar situation here was the considerable imbalance between bids and available funds for the community facilities building. This imbalance was resolved fiy, some judicious, paring of "fat” and the project is well underway. That's what has to be done in the downtown business developrtient project and officials both here and otit of Atlan ta think it can be. The tentative plans, vfrell-mapped and on public display ih the office of Joe Laney, the redevelopment commission’s director, promise a mirCW-fieeded new look in the downtown business area, bounded by King, Gold, Cartsler streets and South Piedmont avenue’. All citizens, particularly those who own property or reside' wifltln the area, should visit Mr. Lancy’s office and study the tentative proposals. IlNlliitiNli lf§6 filler Jackie Robinson, first Negro to play in the major leagues as an all-star per former for the Brooklyn Dodgers, in re cent years has been a pop-off ,gUy. Ip- deed, were he still an active player, he might qualify for that familiar term in baseball lingo “clubhouse lawyer”. Why, he wants to know, is hot h Ne gro a manager, or a club official? Ma'ybe the answer is that none has thought about it. Maybe the answer is that the clubs are reasonably well satis fied with what they have in field and clubhouse management. Bob Feller, the great ex-Cleveland pitcher, felt constrained to renly. He ful ly acknowledged the contribhtion'-^NH'* groes have made to baseball since Branch Rickev broke the ice and Robin son broke hJ to a major' league starting line-up. But it’s sfill performance, says Fell er, his record proving he knows whereof ho speaks. He predicted what Robinson wants will occur. It was Feller who said he conmije.c^ a top record because he gave h|S au ICiO percent of the time and, had he not, a thousand pitchers could have won his ace slot witli the Indians. Congratulcrtions Congratulations are in order to’: The Otis D. Green Post American' Legion Auxiliary, winner of th^ awards for membership activity in 196&'; Ray Holmes, ex-patriate English man, newly-installed president of the Kings Mountain Lions clifb; Miss Marcia Ware, this year’s Win ner of the $2000 scholarship of Otis D. Green Post American Legion; and W. S. Biddix, re-elected fa first time honor) president of the Key Producers club of Sturdivant Life InsuTaRce Com pany. The death as a result of \YOun(Js. in action in Vlptnafn of Marine PFC. Will iam D. (Pete) Small brought this war particularly close home to us folk at the Herald. He was ah acro'ss-the-street neighbor, friendly, helpful, good to His late mother who died in February. He was in Vietnam as a volunteer,, having twice fulfilled nis rhlHfari?' obligation, first iW tne firfn'y, tftdft in fhtf idfei. No Fighting Spirit? First the television industry, now tobacco industry, apparently have suc cumbed to the efforts of the surgeon general’s office, the federal trade com mission and federal communications in dustry to cut the economic throats of the broadcasting and tobacco industries. The broadcasters said they’d phase out all tobacco advertising by 1973. Now the tobacco industry says it’ll stop broadcast advertising in 1970—as current contracts phase out. There is, a joker in the deck, per haps, from the’ tobacco industry’s prof fer, for the industry wants a free hand to proceed in other directions, presuma bly printed media. In turn, the tobacco- men want a guarantee they will not be harassed by the justice department with arifi-triiSt acfio'ris. The aforementioned knights in shin ing armor, the surgeon general, etc., don’t seem to care about depriving the broadcasters of $200 million annually in gross income. It ain’t right. Tobacco is certainly habit-forrriing, as any slave well knows, but neither is tobacco mari juana. Perhaps the' Herald should care less since tobacco product lineage has been very meager in the past many years and should look hopefully to the return of those big, beautjfhl gilt-edged tobacco company advertising plates which the late Editor G. G. Page, an earlier-day knight from the tobacco standpoint, re fused to print arid let gather dust in the corner. Again, what Rjind of health warning on cans and booties housfng the drink that cheers? ThBfllattiulkttthBM Wednesday nighf fh'e Kings Moun tain Babe RutH baseball entry was to play New Bern for the state chafmpion- ship. Win or lose' Wednesday the odds favored Kiftgs Mountain. In the double elimination Series, Kings Mountain had no defeats, whereas New Bern had suffered a loss. A Wednes day win for Kings Mountain meant the state flag and a trip to Nashville, Ten nessee; for the regional tournament. Kings Mountain hopes the Wednes day result was favorable and that bags were being packed for the Tennessee in- vaSl6rt,_^rtn flo Thursday night game necessary. ft is also hoped there will be no necessity of any teaiVi starting a ball game at 11:25 p.frt., as occurred in Ashe ville Monday night. But the Ktpgs Moun tain efttry proved good “night owls”, winning 2 to l. It is suspected that sale of 3()-gallon garbage carts, ^vlth covers, have been good with local dealers recently. Most folk find it s sufficient chore to take the intertof girbage to the exterior recepta cle, let alone get into business wholesale by having to haul it aWay. The city gar bage pick-up crews work hard and Kings MountahT’S twice-weekly pick-up sched ule is not e’ftitilated in many places. It is not right td ask th'eSe men to handle backbreaking overloads. The city is right to say: comply, or lose the service. Wfio’s tSr a tfiddn trip? If Reported icafidns MaSA has 10,(30<) clvflian applicafidns. tODAT'S BIBLE VERSE Blit when ye pray, vse not vain ropetitiom, o« the heathen do: for they think they shall be heard by their much speaking. MARTIN'S MEDICINE Ingredients: Bits of humor, Wisdom, humor and com ments. Directions: Take weekly, if possible, but a- void overdosage. ij MARTIN HARMON A lew weeks ago when Mayor John Henry Moss was to make a toast to the new commissioner ol baseball at the Greenwood, S C. anniversary function, we were I talking about baseball history He sali old Abner Doubleday (later a fed general in the Civil ■War) was the founder in 1839. My memory was 1869. When, fhen, he asked, was professional baseball born? m-m 'With the aid of the Encyclo pedia Britannica, I know now. The Mayor, organizer and con tinuing president of the Western Carolinas league, was right. Gen eral Abner’s deed was celebrated at the 100th anniversary year of 1939. m-m Professional ball was born 100 years ago, when Cincinnati paid a professional team which toured the nation, from New York to San Francisco, playing various teams and winning every game. That's the birthiay being cele brated this year. Professional baseball’s period of pregnancy, so-to-speak, reminds of the semi- pro days of the twenties and thirties in this area, when “ring ers’’ like Bad Eye Guthrie and Snag Ormand were brought in at good pay to join the amateurs and defeat the enemy nine. m-m Several leagues tried and failed before the National was organiz ed in 1876, which means that base ball will have another biig cele bration seven years hence, for the National has been on scene ever since. (The first Black Sox scandal was in 1877, National President Hulbut suspending four players for life.) m-m The Splashdown We'd Like To See HdspHai Log ViSlTirfO HOURS a tit pJd, and 7 to 8 pan. DetUf 18:30 to 11:30 ojn. tX-nENTS IN KINCB MOONTAIR i^glTAL AS OF NOON WED- Addle K. Beam LelalC. Orpenter Arthur Cooper W. Q. Dover Marie Cain Fewell John I. George, Jr. Nellie Hovis Hall , Arthur Hamrick Alice Harmon William Houser Ida A. Huffstetler Riu'by P. Hutchins Converse Hutchins Gladys B. Johnson Florence Kilgore Cora Laughter Dalton Mooney James A. Moss John B. McDaniel Doi-othy Nestlerode Thurman Prince George Shipman Ida Smith Joe Whitehurst Jim Wyte Mrs. Rosa K. Hicks Mr. Joseph S. Rogers Mrs. James B. Sneed ADMITTED THURSDAY Mrs. Sallie N. Eaply, 606 York Roai City Taftlr 5Mi Viewpoints of Other Editors NATURE IN THE CITY'S SHADOW Recently we New Englanders took the kids ddvvn to Long Is land to visit their grandparents. Once we got to Long Island, the Ten Years Ago Items of interest which occur- id approximately ten years ago grandparents offered to baby-sit while we had a night out in the Big City. I wasn’t looking for (ward to the ride in. Port Wash ington is pretty far out on Long Island, but it’s built up like a close-up suburb by New England standards. And riding toward Manhattan, it just gets worse. A Herald rule is to avoid the Superlative "greatest”, which takes in a terrible amount of ter ritory, and to substitute “among i Miles on miles of high-rise apart the greatest”. But every rule hasjments. Miles on miles of little its exceptions and, as the baseball! houses crowded together. Miles on 'writers voted, George Herman ‘ miles of ugliness, all jammed up Ruth, the Babe, is the greatest to] like a log jam on a Maine river, date. Many do not know that thei and you have the feeling it’s just Babe was initially a pitcher of the highest caliber, not to men tion his All-time record of 714 home runs. m-m ' The sportswriters voted the all about to break, and woe to what ever is in Its path. And the worse side of any place is always backed up to the rail road. Some of the ride was like that. But some where down in that R. G. Franklin, Marshall na tive, has been named principal of iBethware school, succeeding Thurman Warlick. For the second time this sea son, the Kings Mountain Juniors had their backs to the wall as they headed into the fourth game of Area finals series with Mount Holly at City Stadium on Wed nesday night. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL SMOKING ON THE 747'S The coming of the 747 jumbo jets provides the airlines with an i RoJte opportunity for new initiatives, not just on smoking, but on many areas of in-flight policies affect ing passdnger convenience and comfort. This time on the soap box, though, I’m going to concen trate my ammunition on smok ing. With the wide new interiors in the 747’s, the three banks of seats, the new spaciousness, sec tions for smokers and non-smok ers? Such a solution seems feasi ble if the airlines want to do it. Mr; Jack S. Smith, Route 2, Box 2.30, City .Mr. Martin Wilson, Sr., Phenix Street, City .Mr. Herman A. Goforth, Route 2. Box 632, City Mrs. Herman Woody, Jr., Box 189, City Miss Mae E. Plonk. 402 W. Gold Street, City Mr. Daniel Leo Wells, 507 Gantt Street, City ADMITTED FRIDAY Mrs. Mary Lee Gilmer, 23.57 Delowe Drive, Apt. 7, East Point. Ga. Mr. Charles Lewis Haywood, .528 Belvedere Circle, City ADMITTED SATURDAY Mrs. Donald Wayne Boheler, 1, Smyrna. S. C Mr. and Mrs. Paul Webb Ovens l Or use the upstairs passenger sec- announce the enga)gement of j tion as a lounge either for smok- time greatest team as inclining, tness there were people. And peo- Lou Gehrig, Rogers Homshv. pie seem to have an inescapable Honus Wagner, Pie Traynor, Ty urge for growing things. And Cobb. Joe DlMaggio, .MISTER ■‘’•crae of those people whose di ab Ruth, Mike Cochrane. Walter, row houses backed up to the pail- Johnson and Mose (Lefty) Grave, mad had made the most beauti- rwith John McGraw the man.ager. ful (my gardens out of their min iature backyards, purely for their m-m ' own joy in living— and mine. . Thcie were patches of green Of the living players alLsta" roses. There were all-star, George Sisler and Stan' .jj ^ terraces. There Musial tied to replace Gehrig at j winding in first, Charlie Gehnnger spells 1 marigolds. There were petun- Honisby ias set amongst artfully arranged In takes over at short. In the out- field, Ted Williams comes on for jo be their daughter, Mary Elizabeth, to Joe Dan Spearman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Abram Spear man Of Lake Waccamaw, former ly of Kings Mountain. The wed ding will take place October 18th. Miss Becky Harris entertained Saturday at a 1 o’clock luncheon honoring Miss Jean Arthur, whose wedding to Ollie Harris, Jr. takes place August 2. Harold Moffatt Glass, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Glass, celebrated his first birthday July 16th. Cobb, Willie Mayes for Ruth, Bill Dickey for Cochrane, and Bobs local fads. One row of backyards " "» lK.!’e'‘US r’-n'i"'..’’'!?.' handed pitcher. ' m-m Rather than argue about the pass-overs, I have tried to decide the best major leaguers I’ve seen perform in person, exhibition game or otherwise, beginning at Charlotte in 1933, an exhibition! fascinating man-made between the New York Giants and! surrounding the statues Cleveland Indians. They are: Billi I felt hopeful, just thinking that Terry, lb, Bobby Doerr, 2b, Pinky I so many Long Islanders, stuck Riggins, 3b, Lou Boudrea-u, ss, ' almost all of such a tiny back yard. Several other rows of homes had yards full of appar ently thriving vegetable gardens. Some yards were Lillipution nat ural chapels, with saints sur rounded by flowers. A few had grottoes RESPONSIBILITY Williams, DlMaggio and Mel Ott of, Dickey, c.. Red Ruffing and Eddie Lopat, pitchers, Joe McCar thy, manager. If I added a pinch- hitter, it would be Cronin, now president of the American League. He was fat and managing the Red Sox in ’43, elected himself in the grim gray gloom of the city's siiadow, still love beauty and long lo. a t-.i..cli of nature in theirlives. I bet they’d even vote to spend some money to clean up air pollution, just to see their flowers flourish. That night we told our Man- to pinch-hit and homered m-m George Plonk and I saw our first major leageu game at Wrig- ley Field in Chicago in 1933, dur- ibif a trip to the World’s Fair. The Cubs, finishing third, were claying Cincinnati. Guy Bush won his twentieth. Paul Derringer, hattan friends what we’d seen. One of them said, “Sure. That’s how we get masons in New York. We drive along until we see a skillfully made grotto in a well- manicured garden. Then we go up and knock on the door and ask, ‘Are you a mason?’ And sure enough—he used to be a mason, but not any more. However, he The plan of General Motors Corporation to warn 200,000 own ers of thi-ee-quarter-ton trucks dating from 1^ to 1965 of a po tential safety hazard calls atten tion to a category of problems beyond the reach of laws or man ufacturing standards. That is the misuse of equipment by the own er. General Motors claims that if the trucks is question are used according to specifications in the owner’s manual there will be no trouble. But if overloaded with a vacation camper and sundry gear the wheels could break apart. Un der present federal laws certain safety standards must be met, but it is up to the driver to see that his vehicle is used for the pur poses intended. That is only com mon sense, and it applies across the board. St. Louis Post-Dispatch ers or nonsmokers; but spelj it out so that passengers who are annoyed or irritated by the smoke have some sanctuary. (I have often staggered from my seat to seek clear air in a lounge, only to find myself surrounded by at «ven greater concentration of fel low passengers determined to contaminate the air.) I can see where the idea of such segregation in a relatively small aircraft poses problems—though hardly insurmountable. But it is done in theaters, movie houses, concert halls; and a small num ber of courageous restaurants dedicated to good eating have banned smoking altogether. Whv not in the 747? Why not, for tha matter, in the stretch DC-8s, with tbree large cabins? One of the two economy class sections, or one side of a section, could be reserv ed for those of us who prefer to travel in clear, clean air. Quite a few carriers today ask their customers at the time the reservation is made what they would like for lunch or dinner. Just odd a question: Would you rather sit with the smokers or nonsmokers? Martin B. Deutsch in Air Travel DIXON SERVICE Morning worship service at Dixon Presbyterian church will be held at 9:30 a.m. Sunday with the Rev. Robert Wilson, pastor, to deliver the message. There will not be an evening service Sunday. Mr. Clarence J. Miller, 131.30 Harrowgate Road, Chester, Vir ginia. Mr. Robert Reed Flowers, Rt. 2, Box 330-A, City Mrs. (George H. Thornburg, Rt. 1, Grover ADMITTED SUNDAY Mrs. Andrews Adams, 403 W. King Street, City Mr. Robert W. Bolin, Box 164, Grover Mrs. Jerry F. Morgan, Route 1, Box 318, Grover Mrs. Paul K. Ausley, Box 5S4 City . , Mrs. Jesse F. Capps. 906 Henri Street, City \ Mr. Walter Herbert Whltleyj 111 W. Texas Avenue, Bessemer^ oty Mr. James Lee Bagwell, 320 S.l Rhyne Street, Gastonia Mr. Earl David Hicks, Dover' Drive, Bessemer City Mrs. Ted B. Williams, 813 West Virginia Ave., Bessemer City ADMITTED MONDAY Mrs. Roger Byers, 202 N. Post Road, Shelby Mr. Robert J. Pervine, 108 .S. Church Street, Gastonia John Ida Tomes, 102 Tracy SL Mrs. iBessle S. Wilson, Route 1 Mr. Ben Goforth, Roxford Rd., City ■Miss Shirley A. Smith. West Virginia Ave., Bessemer City Mr. Woodrow W. Strickland, 114 McGinnis Street, City Mrs. Della P. Huffstickler, 205 Linwood Road, City Mr. Jerry B. Smith, Route 2, Box 600, City Mr. John W. Waddell, 207 N. 13th Street, Bessemer City ADMITTED TUESDAY Miss Elsie May Jeffries, Gen eral Delivery, Grover Mr. Martin S. Whitesides, Rt. 1, York, S. C. 'Mrs. Orangrel B. Jolley, 400 Fulton Road, City Lesslie B. Wiggins, Route 1, Bessemer City Mr. William Amos Peterson P. O. Box 64. City Mrs. Donald Lee Whittington Gray St. Apts. 1, City later to pitch the Reds nants in 1^9 and 1940, lost his job. So he makes you a fantastic twentieifi. ' patio with terraces so you can m-m I get a bit of beauty in your own CoincWientally, George and I: backyard.” — Po/fi/Brnd/cv, Moa- had been worried about needing sachusetta Audubon Society to pen-1 Wouldn’t mind a ^o get hack to the ninth grade at Kings Mountain high school, only to be cooled by the trip director our aunt, the late Laura Plonk, who elected to return the long vYay 'found by Washington, where •he World Series was shortly to onsen with the' Senators’ (heavy favorites) host to the Giants, who POEMS BY PHONE Is poetry out of fashion? Some book dealers think so. Al though some modern bards with a popular beat, like Rod McKuen, have book and record sales In the millions, most new books of poe try, many published at the au- nroceeded to win four games to! thor’s expense, go quickly to the Qne. I remainder table ra-m I But word from New York City We two youths would not have - indicates that poems may be more been worried about returning to| popular than evidenced at the the domain of Schoolmasters j bookstore. More than a million Claude Grigg and B. N. Barnes | people have responded to the had our trip director suggested | telephone company's invitation to we see the World Series. ; Dral-A-Poem (628-6400) in the m-m I first five months of the new serv- Rain cost me seeing Wednes- ice’s operation, day’s all-star game via the tpbe. the Mayor from his seat in Ken nedy Stttdium. All of those couldn't have been the wrong number. The Oregonian A MENACE to REMEMBER Some time ago, a student editor at a state university wrote an edi'orial in the form of a letter to his father. Among other things, he said, “... Dad, believe me iwhen I say that I am indebted to you for paternal love and protection, but believe me also when I say that my generation holds in con tempt the colossal social, eco- , nonilc, and political blunders moonlighting: you perpetuated. As we survey the worthless herltatje of crime, war, poverty, and greed, we unite in shouting, 'We will have none of it. There must be a second Renaissance!’ ” Seme time ago, in this case. Was 1934. And the student who wrote it is now an associate pro fessor of journalism at another largo state university. Of his edi- tortal of more than 30 years ago, the professor saj's, "... though players change, the central themes remain quite constant.” Youili of today should and do question the merit of existing in stitutions in their search for something better. However, it should not be forgotten that their searrti will be in vain unless it Is carried on within the framework of a political and economic sys tem l.iat encourages inquiry. The great nhenace today lies in the violent dissenters, who wofuld op press those who do not agreejwith them. Clevefand Times tUtm ■ila Keep Yom Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Monntaiit, N. C. iTe'ws & Weathel 6very* hour on the hour. Weather eVery hour on the half hottr. Fine entertainment in between kj
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