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/ ^age 2 r-r KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, August 7, 1969 Established ll89 The Kings Monntain Herald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published lor the enlightenn.ent, 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 t()ost office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28066 under Act of Confess of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dave Weathers, Supt. Douglas Weathers Allen Myers Paul Jaok-son David Myers 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 Discretion ulmll preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee. Proverbs 2:11, Like It Is Members of the General Assembly who voted themselves an $845 raise in subsistence allowance near the end ol the recent session gave as good and suf ficient reason the high cost of living in Raleightown, necessity for returning home to consult each weekend with con stituents, and, for some, near poverty. Indeed, the Shelby Star reported and quoted Rep. Bob Jones of Rutherford county ar^d our 43rd house district as saying the $845 meant he could honor the federal and state governments with his overdue income tax payments. One would think the legislators could not find their way to the Velvet Cloak eaating grounds of the North Car olina Motor Carriers Association, but, apparently, many did. The lobbying re port of the association, which maintain ed nightly (Monday - Thursday) food and libation for the legislators, all for free, indicates that many did partake of the hospitality of the truckers. The association spent over $23,000 during this record long session in minis tering to the hunger and thirst of those Assemblymen who wished to partake. This function of the motor carriers is not a new one. Only the locale was. For years the carriers have done their entertaining at the Sheraton-Sir Walter, but the move was dictated because the majority ol the legislators have torsakeii the small rooms of the venerable Sir Walter for the more commodious, lux urious Velvet Cloak. Jeff Wilson, public relations direc tor lor the carriers, has e.xplained and detailed the biennial expenditures lor many seasons. He is well-known to this newspaper and others throughout the state tor his Irankness and honesty. He says he made only one formal jaunt to the Tea House of the North Carolina Room during the recent session. He didn’t give the reason but, what ever, the carriers fared poorly in 1969. First, there was little mention of the 1967 issue when the carriers wanted the legal length of trucks extended. And recent statements by two neigh boring carriers add the other case in point: New license requirements and the two cents per gallon fuel tax will cost Carolina t reight carriers an estimated txtra $65,000 per year, and bigger Akers Motor Lines an added $125,000 per year. The Herald has no abjections to paying the legislators more for subsis tence and salary, as has been voted by the Assembly. There is question, however, to both propriety u.iu legality ol the legislators voting unto themselves a retroactive subsistence increase. They knew the pay when they oilered lor office. A few legislators have returned the checks to tne state treasurer. These ai’e either smart or proper or both. Welcome back to Rev. Reeves Hast ings, a Kings Mountain area citizen tor the third time. Rev. Mr. Hastings, new pastor of David's Baptist church, more recently served Second Baptist church. As a youngster in the early grammar grades, he was the son ot the pastor of First Wesleyan Methodist church. Congratulations to Bankers H. L. (Jack) Ruth, Jr., of Southern National Bank, and to Clint Rankin, of First Union’s Kings Mountain branch, on their recent promotions. It’s tax discount time. Earlybird taxpayers, both city and county, will earn di-scounts of two percent during August A, Likely Insuificient The county planning board, which doubles in brass, so-to-speak, as the county zoning board, has recommended a zoning ordinance for consideration of the county commission. With minor changes, the recommen dation is essentially the zoning plan of Traffic Planning Associates of Hickory. Principal changes from the origi nal recommendations of Engineer Chuck Davis involve mobile homes. Minimal acreage tor a mobile home development was cut from 20 to 15 acres and a throw- in permits an on-site owner to get into the trailer park business with five acres. Presumably, the county commission will pass the ordinance as recommend ed. Carl Finger, a Kings Mountain mem ber of the planning board, is pretty sure, from comments he’s heard at board heai’- ings and otherwise, many of the people in the lake area don’t understand tne detail of zoning.Some, he notes, say they want their land zoned as farmland, when a zoning designation in the residential category would in no wise prevent the continued farming of the property. Jean W. Schenck, the Lawndale in dustrialist, was quite succinct when he said Kings Mountain should have author ity to zone the lake perimeter. He has retained engineers to plan his tract to provide an ideal recreational setting; bridal paths, recreation areas, roadways that will permit the youngsters to get to the swimming area without danger of being run down by an auto. The zoning the planning board will do likely wall be insufficient to protect residential areas. Meantime, there is lit tle prospect, likely none, that Kings Mountain will change its “no public rec reation” policy in the near future. Tlie present administration, all its prior mem bers returned to office, has a mandate from its citizens — paying the lake wa ter project cost — to stand solid on that policy. MARTIN'S MEDICINE Ingredients; Bits of humor, wisdom, humor and com ments. Directions: Take weekly, if possible, but a- void overdosage. By MARTIN HARMON A sports columnist specializing in golf reporting once labeled his column "Pars and Pick-Ups” and that's the type of column this is. When Carl Wiesener and Den nis Beatty grand opened their Mountaineer Pharmacy recently they gave favors to everyone and numerous prizes to the holders of lucky numoers. m-m Naturally, there were prizes of interest to both men and women and it was perhaps inevitable that the twain would not meet on some. m-m More specifically, seven ladies won pipes, not the organ variety, nor the stove v'ariety, nor the voice box variety, bat the kind most customarily associated iAith the male of the species; the kind| through which one puffs the evil: (sic) weed. m-m There was a deal of joking a- bout it, but Mrs. John Mitchem, one of the pipe winners, declares she is organizing the group to put on a pipe-smoking demonstration at the pharmacy. The joking, as of Wednesday, had become ser ious enough that a date for the demonstration has been set for 2:30 Friday afternoon at the pharmacy. A photographer has: been alerted, and the pharmacy! has promised to supply the to bacco and whatever number of] kitchen matches are required to "You sure did, Ma!" SAM, DID I HEAR SOMETHING? Viewpoints of Other Editors SAHD At last someone has come up with a safe and sensible pacifier for the tense businessman. It’s an JOBS AND MEN The traumatic experience of the assure that the “demonstration'P«>Pression made the nation acute- takes place. As of Wednesday,. aware of the problem of i “executive sandbox” and retails Mrs. Mitchem, chairman, had; Uittil recent years,, ^ ^nere $-156 (plus shi[H)ing three agreements to join her, and] horwever, there has been little of- £.05,3) ^ox, mare from a va- the other three ladies were weigh.’ recognition of the fact that^ woods, is 15 inches high, ing decision. 1®, part of the problem ‘*142 inches square, and has flores- simply matching jobless men with lighting concealed under a m-m available jobs. , black sitting ledge. Carl has some lady wiglet cus-i Q^^g pgaggn fgj. ,he ovcrsit'ht is' Billed as “a creative piece of tomers and his supplier is a Chin-1 labor unions for years re-i ftirniture,” it ostensibily serves ese gentleman in San Francisco.] g^.^^ efforts to survey job] two purposes, one aesthetic, the Carl called him recently to Place | availability. The unions’ reason-' other therapeutic. Optional equip- an order in the area of 8 a-tt'- ing apparently' was that the dis-^ "lent includes a set of combing EDST. His supplier was hardly] jj,anv thousands of tools that make varying patterns KINGS MOUNTAIN Hospital Log VISITINO HOURS 8 to 4 p^m. and 7 to S pjn. DoUt 10:30 To 11:30 oun. PATIENTS IN KINGS MOUNTAIN HOSPITAL AS OF NOON WBD- NESDAYi pleased, since he lived with POST and complained: "Velly solly time of day to place order for wiglet.” Jobs going bogging might dis-, in the sand J^J). For the exoticj suade the Federal Government I taste (and $1(X) more) the man- from trying to stimulate the eco- ufacturer will supply a sand re-‘ nomy or from providing increased! «» from such faraway places as direct aid to the unemployed. I A-Stralia, Egypt Burma, France. j Chile, Morocco, Hawaii, Monaco, Fortunately, for the unemploy-'Italy, or Mexico. m-m Several weeks ago the Herald published a warning from Police Chief Tom McDevitt to Kings^g^j others, things seem to be] The idea has already found fa- ^ e-’-I qJ’J I'J g J ^ rirtrrTTM 1 ’7/*H 'If>h xt?5tLi e>/xtraT*Ql cs^sPlcflAH /»,1C7/T. , Mountain motorists: tho law . , .. computeriz.ed job vor with several satisfied custo- , venting wrong-side-of-road P®rk- operated by the Maryland ] mers who now rush home from ing wouid be enforced. I rerri! nt-, service in the Haiti-1 the office to play in their exec- berej it and have seldorn Ivokcn ggQj.g area, has been so successful; utive sandboxes. “It’s surprising- I that r. le of the rn,id si;i;-' o\- ,be U. S. Labor Department' how often I sit there and play inj ,cept when I'm headed yy my wty expects to see at least 20 banks the sand,” says one delighted cus-i , for parking at Dixon C:;evrnlct. operation within the next year.! tomer. "And when friends come] _ , . , , ,,„.„o!over, they ah look for the best; The Baltirnore bank collat(>s pj^gg ,g the ledge so they ,.„h inforr-’ation from the ai-ca s^^^^ play.’’ Fortunately, for tho-se] who can’t pay the stiff price, a Mrs. Annie Mae Adams Mrs. James Kelly Boheler Mrs. Carl C. Carpenter Mrs. Betty Emery Arthur Hamrick Miss Ida Huffstetler Mrs. Homer A. Kilgore Mrs. Cora E. Laughter Mr. Ralph Lawrence Lovell George W. Shipman Mrs. Bessie Smith Wilson W. Q. Dover Mrs. Marie (Min Fewell Mrs. Alice Harmon Jack Raymond Hartsoe William Franklin Hocser Mrs. Sidney Dulin Huffstetler 1 Mrs. B. Johnson James Andrew Moss Mrs. Icte Lumpkin Smith Joe Rufus Whitehurst M Mrs. Willis Williams Ni Walter Hcrbett Whitley Mrs. James A. Limbaugh Mrs. .Madge Chapman SummitI ADMITTED FRIDAY .Marshal Daniel Rich, 27 Dixie Trailer Park, City AD. MITTED SATURDAY Mrs. Sadie Boid Ormand, P. O. Box 85, Bessemer City Mrs. Roy E. Bridges, Route 1, City ADMITTED SUNDAY .Mrs. Hunter AHen, 110 Gaston Street, City Joseph ucander Bell, Route 2, City „ . Mrs. Sarah Jane Moore, Route 2, Bessemer City Horace Evercite McDaniel, Rt. 1, Box 862, Bessemer City admitted MONDAY Mrs. William Howard iBranks, 613 E. Ohio, \essemer City Mrs. O. T. Hayes, 211 Fulton Street, City Miss Joe Ann Coleman, 108 E. Joilerson Street, York. S. C. Rodney Clarence Deaton, 700 Bridges Drive, City ADMITTED TUESDAY Mrs. Larry Gene Martin, P. O. Box 11, Smyrna, S. C. Mrs. Andrew Pete Brown, 113 Carpenter Street, City Mrs. Jack Ray Yarbrough, P. O. Box 448. Dallas Mr. Ferris P. Bridges, Route 1, Grover Mrs. DeKossie M. Wright, Rl^F 2, Box 32, City Mrs. Charles A. Costner, Route 1, Bessemer City Jasp6r Eugene Wilson, 306 E. King Street, City Mrs. Ozell Virginia Whitworth, 403 W. Academy Street, Cherry- ville „ Mrs. Bobby Erskin Smith, 508 S. Trenton Street, Gastonia Mrs. Derek Lee Byrd, 609 Dot- fin Lane, Gastonia iMrs. Willis King, 1002 Linwood, City admitted WEDNESDAY - Mrs. Robert Reid Gordon, 30(> N Pine Street, Gastonia Mrs. Larry David Pruitt. 201 Linwood, City James David McNeely, Route 1, Box 142, Shelby Birth Announcements m-m j Rob Goforth addressrri m'' I Tuesday with a bit of advice, bas- !ed on experience for which he had paid. Don’t, quoth Rob. pa;': Ten Years Ago Items of interest which occur- id approximately ten years ago Lithium Corporation of Ameri- e been highly cooperative. Em- ^ toy'de'arVment (> the producUon ,ment service interviewers ,ggP, can provide! research facilities to its plant trt elOOT * p'.'.yment that way unless jou want to information to the 5301^11300^^^0^8 And Rob addr i. “No narkina on available employ- same nappy results, I And Rob adde d, “No parking on I the sidewalk either.” applicants to r-.ant. Christian ISciettee Monitor CHINA VS. RUSSIA Traffic Signals The seeming position of the traffic signal department of the state highway department is an “anti-signal” one. Through a proper function and ex penditure of the department, the city fought long and hard to win the depart ment’s approval to install an actuated signal at the intersection of Country Club road with West King street — ap proval stipulating the city would accept the (department’s plans for the signal and pay the bill. This the city did, much to the benefit of frustrated citizens who waited, waited and waited to exit from Country Club Road and Phifer Road. More of the same occurred Wednes day when city officials talked traffic signal business with two representatives of the state’s traffic signal department, Mayor John Henry Moss relates. Among traffic signals suspect; at Linwood and Cleveland (within a few yards ot East school); at Cleveland and Gold (700 employees at new Oxford In dustries, Frederickson abuilding; cross town traffic to the Sadie Mill); at Wat- terson and King (Lack of a signal would create for area residents on Watterson the same situation the Country Club- Phifer Road residents disenjoyed). The fewer traffic signals the better, all will agree, but it is wrong to com pletely disregard the requirements of the motorist crossing through thorough fares. By the simple device of synchroniz ing the signals on King street and giving them a longer green than red run, it is possible to navigate King comparative ly quickly. North-South travelers get a pretty good wait at King signals, but they can get through. m-m I A job bank will not always I Like all rules of the road, solve all pn blems. It works best, jt is one of the current myths whether at sea, on land or in the g tight labor market, since em ] that a burgeoning and hungry air, this one is designed to pre- pjoy^j-g th.''n are more likely to population will push China north- vent accidents and save money, the!'.' job openings. Even in ward into Soviet territory. For all It is highly dan. ;erous practice onany applicants re- Peking’s claims about unjust pull away from a wro.ng-skle'(q hgve failed to show ^ treaties a century ago, China curb. Several times in the past ^p. gg the banks expand to cover] could not get Russian land with- I ve had close calls. And the mon- aiore than a single area,- the no-i out a war against a military su- eyangle is much more than a dol-| gpow problem is likely to grow, perior. 'But, more to the point, the lar fine. The wrong-side rarkeri gyen in a tight labor market, land produces little food. The who gets smashed is at fault: it’s aren’t always enough ap-i climate is harsh. The soil will not he who pays the repairman. | propriate jobs to place all of thej,yield the great grain harvests j unemployed. that China needs to feed its mill- A rule Of the road at sea is! with all of its shortcomings,' that at night a ship carries a red^ though, the job-bank idea is well ..live Diver and'basic ide- Goforth of light to port and a green light to! pursuing- i o^ogfof m?.Harge natto^ in' Mountain and Donald Hugh starboard. The same rule applies | ology oi two large naiiona Wi'P Street Journal Asm. _ i Milwaukee Journal near here on Bessemer City Toad, the company has announced from Minneapolis. . Dr. Charles Adams, first Grov er resident doctor in 20 years, started general practice in the nearby community J-ly 17. ISOCIAL AMD PERSONAL Ah event of wide social interest, was the wedding Sunday of Miss Jean Downs Arthur aird John Oliver Harris, Jr who exchanged their vows in a 4 o’clock cere mony In First Presbyterian cjiurch. First Presbyterian church was the setting Saturday at 4 o'clock for a candlelight wedding uniting I ROATt*; HISTORY AND HUMANITY i HAIL TO COMPUTERSI ' Market analysts predltrt that the ] use, sale and leasing of (wmputers Funny people, those Italians.'soar in the next decade. One They start to build themselves a reason: their splendid perform Deese of ChaHbtte. to aircraft. A midshipman school! instructor of mine w'as Choo ] Choo 'Train, the .Savannah lad: who went to Yale Yankeland andj came out with a diploma and the| credentials of all-American end.' Ensign Train, instructing seaman It’^'erTnSt rnrru su^'.'.v into the hear, of Rome, g„ge in the Apollo 11 mission^ aoproaching from a considerable! distance an object with a rod Abandon one route because it 'rofitT^re^n^^necessarily the ing?” Even the bright boys in the perfectly on its mwn class couldn’t fathom a gross.' And aban'.-on a .second and a cour.se. And it is this more wide-^ ”Hs. ha. hs.” he lae bed. "It’s an third route because these paths spread use of airplane flying upside dn.vn.” would have taken them thro>i;i;h menial billing and Diocletian’s digs. . . . I’asks of mankind which will m-itt j ’ spread into small business firms I was driving east on Lackey' Such is the respect Italy has for^ g,|^ even into the home, street Tuesday. At the corner of trees and for antiquity. | what we would’ stress is Ramseur. a big-as-a-minutc kitty] yes funny people the Italians, that the foremost electronic hero was serenely parked in the road I ^ pi opie, iiic nauai. mission was -- asi sible.” Christian Science Monitor Mr. and Mrs. Knox Arthur Ben ton, 118 West Fourth street, Gas tonia, announce the birth ()1 a son, Wednesday, July 30, Kings Mountain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold N. Reese, 1412 Beechwood Lane, Gastonia, announce the birth of a son, Wed nesday, July 30. Kings Mountain hospital. . Mr. and Mrs. Robert Melvii^ Dehn, 310 E. Georgia Avenu|^» Bessemer City, announce the birt^ I of a daughter, Thursday, July 31, Kings Mountain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. John McCoy, 934 E. Miller street, Gastonia, an nounce the birth of a daughter, Thursday. July 31, Kings Moun tain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Roy A. Norwood, ll4 Walnut street, Belmont, an nounce the birth of a son, Thurs day, July 31, Kings Mountain hos- pilM. Mr. and Mrs. James Donald Guiton, route 2, Bessemer City, announce the birth of a son, Fri day. August 1, Kings Mountain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Joe Barn hill, .19 Church street, McAden- ville, announce the birth of a daughter, Friday, August 1, Kings Mo ntain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. James Leonard Cox, 302 Fulton street, announee the birth of a son, Saturday, Au gust 2, Kings Mountain hospital. (Mr. and Mrs. Tonnie David Den ton, 205 Crescent Drive, Bessemer City, announce the birth of a son, Saturday, August 2, Kings Mountain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. James C. Menser, Elm Road, Grover, announce the birth of a son, Saturday. August 2, Kings Mountain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Larry Gene Mar- ttn, Smyrna, S. C.. announce Continued On Page Eight^^^ I a Yev^mL'^of*' them Ttle'^Z ed to the left .and .slowly pulled by, afraid the little fdlow would [ous“ b7ate7ig7waf deS’t^ra'tf''♦he"’highspe^^^ t-ieV"r7L?e^ ^'h^*Ih^r') 7gt I - swone and sitting in the same|^gy between the French quarter ''’’ace use w-ill almost justify the the Twer T nI^^ Orlern. Or' . 1 down the middle of a Negro busi- i**) , ut wild laryngitis'‘P Nashville. th!r weex and told several friends! Or along the edge of a play- I didn’t know whether tc blame-ground in No.-'-hwesi Detroit, the weathei, long Chesterfields, 011 Evidently, though, what the running my mouth too much. R.a-] Italians know is something uni- membering a dictum from the versities don’t teach in the engi- late Dr. Anthony when I wa.s sim neering departments that turn ilarly afflicted, it could have out our highway men: ^‘n too much talk. After travel-j That the shortest route between mg me via his spray machine. ;wo points sometimes involves a Doctoi Anthony advised, “Now I detour ar'aund history and human, jwani you (o treat .your throat like ity. I you would a broken arm. Put it, ’ , Detroit Free Press I m a cast.” The miniaturized computers a- board ATxtilo 11 carried more data than the full-size on-ground com puters which guided the earlier Mercury orbiting missions. And where the Mercury computer had a 32.000-word storage capacity, the main Apollo computer could store five and one-half million words. The computers kept track ot speed and position, calculated changes in flight path, watched but for malfunctions, kept tabs on the astronauts. Without them, it would hav* b*6n "rfiUsIon Impbs- Keep You Badio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT iOngs Momtaiii, N. C. lYeivs & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in betvreen
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