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/age 2 Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald A wrekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published tor the enlightenn.ont, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, publislied every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086 under Act of Congress of Marcli 3, 1873. TWoftln TTnrmnn . . . EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT / Miss Elizabeth Stewart . Miss Debbie Thornburg . Circulation Manager and Society Editor Clerk, Bookkeeper MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Rocky Mfirtain Allen Myers Paul Jack.son Jim Ciuidill Frank Barber Gary Kiser Ray Parker iUBSCRirnO.M rates payable in advance — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR... .$;t..50 SIX MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Ftif the Son of Mon hns come to .touc tluU vhu h was lost. St. Matthew 18:11. Gaston Water Problem Moratorium Day Tho Herald inquired of a Kings Mountain citizen liis opinion on the pro posal to fluoridate the water supply. “Hanoi Happy”, the headline read. It also detailed tiiat the South Vietnam ese were unhappy. He guessed it was all right, he said, and if good for the youngsters he was lor it Then he added, “But it it’s fluorine that makes that Gastonia water I’ve been drinking the past two days taste as bad, then Im against it.” And why not? A nationwide “bring my boy home” (more nearly don't take me. Uncle Sam) was to culminate with a day of mass demonstrations from coast to coast. Gastonia was still having its water troubles Tuesday. The water not only tasted bad but smelled bad. It was Hitler’s fondest dream that the United States vvOutd never support a war, and it encouraged the German dictator to attack that dreaded big Black Bear as his backdoor, the Ru.ssian. The utilities directoi and others had been scratching then crania as to cause, didn’t credit the trouble to fluorine or the purification chemicals, but to inver sion of Rankin Lake, the water supply resevoir. But Mr. Hitler’s dream was never reali/ed. The circumstances, indeed, are dif ferent. He e.xplained that something had occurred to cause tiie cool water at the top ot the lai:e to go to the bottom and the warm Wiuei at bottom to rl.se to the top. The result was “the microscopic sediment on the bottom of the lake has become mi.xed with the water”, causing the lout taste and odor. Well before World War II found the Ignited States an official combatant, there were “incidents”, shooting inci dents at sea w’here the German fired and the American fired back. And the sneak attack of the Japan ese on Pearl Harbor cemented it ail. Graham Wilson, the utilities direct or, and his staff have been working ar duously to correct the difficulty with the u.se of additives in the chemical per sonages of charcoal and potassium per manganate, at least twice thought the problem solved only to see the lout taste and smell return. A peace demonstrator would have been tarred and feathered after that and some reputed draft dodgers almost were. The wrongness of the Vietnam war has been less our participation than our seeming willingness not to want to win the war. A jungle war was won against the Japanese. Ga.stonia’s problem reminds of a chronic one in seaeoast areas where, as in Gastonia, the water is fine tor drink ing, healthwise, but otherwise, “whew!”. Always the United States military policy has been expanding control of real estate. Yet in this war lives have been-lost for many strong points which were subsequently abandoned. Our .sympathies with the hard working utilities director, his staff, and the water drinkers, and our hopes that our neighbors to the east will soon bo back on more tasteful stream. But Moratorium Day is hardly a jewel in the crown of the United States. Robert B. Osborne Oh. Those Mets! The Herald erred last week in its obituary report on Robert B. (Bob) Os borne. Chickens should not bo numbered before (hoy hatch. Nor should one forget last autumn. But as of Wednesday afternoon, those fabulous, unbelievable amazin’ M('ts, denizen.s of Shea Stadium in New York, appeared on the road to taking it all. Mr. Osborne’s Kings Mountain bat tle drama was the first, but it was "Then Conquer We Must”, not “The Sword of Gideon”. Let it be said that almost all critics thought Mi. Osborne’s far the best. Mr. Osborne, though an amateur in the writin.g b”-iness, found the most impor' ■'.nt oi dramatic ingredients. “Then Conciuer We IM ist ’ had pace. It did not drag. Had a gamc-of-chance practitioner put a bit of c hange on the New Yci lit Mets to win the National League pennant ard p?’'haps tho W'orld Series last April, ill. c-oald nov, be contemplating tur coats, ui. mond rings, beg automobiles, and trips around th'' world—that is, if the authorities \ »• d permit his ' release from the sti.'/t - jacket into which he would have be. n put last spring. As quite a young man, Mr. Osborne came to Kings Mountain, managed the Western Union office, continued with the telegraph company to Albemarle, Gas tonia and Charlotte. His communication knowledge also carried him to the Paci fic Theatre during World War II. He married here and was well-known to many citizens. The Mels S'111 only have three wins and four are required and, again, only- last autumn it was the Cardinals 3 the T gers 1 and history records the Tigers as the 19fi8 World Champions. He possessed a natural wit and friendly personality and his sudden pass ing at the early age of .T'S shocked his friends as it saddened them. But there seems some correlations between the Miracle Mets of 1969 and those Miracle Braves of 1914, who trail ed the pack on July 4 and brought off the pennant. Suitable Quas-ters ball. That’s what makes baseball base- Mrs. Ruth McGill Hallman served for many years as a Kings Mountain area teacher, first in the county system, then in the Kings Mountain system. She was an excellent teachei and a fine person. Joe Laney, director of the Redevel opment commission, sought to reassure businessmen last week on the business of re-location in connection with the cen tral business district project that, tenta tively, marks some occupied business homes for razing as over-ripe and too inform for upgrading. Congratulations to Mrs. W. T. Weir on her long and \ aliant service as a Sun day School teachei at Fir.st Presbylerian church. Meantime also, the commission a- waits word on its invited re-application for moi'c funds for the project. Mr. Laney is optimistic. KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, October 16, 1969 MARTIN’S MEDICINE Ingredients: Bits of humor, utisdom, humor and com ments. Directions: Take weekly, if possible, but a- void overdosage. By MARTIN HARMON Ju.st about ail men are little boys when it comes to watching construction work. I remember I the late Arthur ii. Cornwell, al ready retired, doing sidewalk sup. crinlondent duty when the Herald building was undeilway, and he did tho same when our neighbor, I Winn-Dixie was going up. Crime Clocks So it was Tuesday afternoon when Superintendent Jackson, of the W. H. Weaver Construction Company, contractor of the Kings Mountain Public Housing Au thority project, was giving Di lector Tom Harper, Vice-Chair man Brooks Tate, Carl Wilson and me an inspection tour. First we paid call at the Weav er office on Morris street, trail ers with air-conditioning units and heating units and properly out fitted. m-m There was a wall display of plumbing fixtiui-es, mostly chrome, and with a standard-sized medi- . cine cabinet. Tom liked the idea ' of screwing the towel racks to I the wall, rather than merely the brackets with the slip-on .rods! I with which his home and mine are plaqued. MURDER ONE EVERY 39 MINUTES FOUeiBLE RAPE ONE EVERY 17 I MINUTES KINGS MOUNTAIN Hospital Log VlBITltra HOVRB 3 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 8 pan. OaUy 10:30 To 11:30 Broadus Kermit Barber Mrs. Celia 8. Bonds - Mrs. Minnie B. Buiris Dewitt Cobb Charlie Hat Corry Mrs. Pe^'cy F. Dilling uaivvson Harold Dover Marshall Long Eskew Mrs. Georgianna Good Jay Green Mrs. Minnie L, Harry Mrs. Mattie T. Hill Mra. Cora E. Laughter Mrs. Mary ®. Melton Jesse Lee Ramsey Mrs. Annie L. Thompson Mrs. Miles R- Boyd John Thomas Dill Lester Lee Dorty Mrs. Marie C. Fewell Sidney D. Huffstetler Mrs. Stanley Pearson Mrs. Frank Phillips Elijah Ross Mrs. Mary R. Rush Mrs. Beatrice B. Sherrill Betty Jean Short Lawrence Carol Spicer d Jasper Lester Summit! \ Mrs. Sarah E. Thompson Willie Gene White \ Mrs. Mangaret Connie Wylie \ ADMITTED THURSDAY Mrs. Lester Blddix Guy Robert Farr Mrs. Furman L. Sprouse Mrs. Prince Starnes, Jr. Mrs. Grady W. Wylie m-m There were insulation samples for the walls from Johns Man- ville (mat type) along with the blow-in type which will be used in the ceilings. We later learned at one of tlie duplex units on j Lackey street that studs on one side ale alternated on the other. ABGPAVATED ASSAULT MU'JtES AUTO THEFT ONE EVERY 41 SECONDS source: FB! CRtfdE REPORT Viewpoints of Other Editors CANDOR AND KINDNESS I TOUGH ON JOHN WAYNE What is it that prompts young sters to bait a frightened teach er? Or a certain species of wit to I This moans the insulation wraps! prod at another’s visible weak- ^ ar(pund the studs and cuts downi nGs.ses? Or some journali-sts to I pluck at a man’s vulnerabilities m-m I and hold them up as so many Tom wanted us to see the nail' ‘ll'SoUen grapes gun, which is what it is. really a| We are usually so quick to laud nail machine gun. We were given; the freedoms of the American and ' a demonstration. An air compres- Western press and its society. Yet sor is utilized and a clip of nails we should stay alert to the way fits into the machine, much as a those freedoms can be used to clip of staples in a stapler and, confound individual lives. in.,eed, a clip of bullets into aj Anatoly Kuznetsov, who de- 50-caliber machine gun. A slight fected to Lbndon in pursuit of the press of the trigger and tlie nail^ intellectual and literaiy freedom is home true -none bent, no he was denied in the Soviet Un hammerhead marks, no smashed ion, is learning all too quickly fingers. One man can do the work about this other side of what he of five, says Supt. Jackson, with sought. Novelist William Styron the nail gun. was among the first to charge that Kuznetsov acted dishonor- ! ably in leaving his homeland. A small scale shop has been I Playwright Lillian Heilman has ■ set up on the Morris street off.ee ' picked bones over whether he had j warehouse site and, on rainy -.lays,: over-compromised with censors I workmen pre fabricate various, a^d now was over-complaining land sundry items soon to be ?lecd-j “liout his treatment, led. Supt. Jackson, incidentally,; But perhaps the most woeful of remarked that it has rained in goings-over Mr. Kuznetsov has Kings Mountain on every WeJnes , gotten was from Morley Safer in I day and every Friday since his an hour-long CBS telecast. The ' crew arrived. W'ell, yesterday was; special was called "The Ordeal of .Wednesday and Jupiter Pluviusi Anatoly Kuznetsov.” And the tone performed again. | ci the questioning did it.s best to I make the interview itself into an j m-m ordeal. Samples: ! All of the lumber being used in' Anatoly, human the exterior of the houses next thing^No I to the weather is pre-tested for'®"® really lUces a turncoat. How I water resistance and virtually alli ™uea*Russia*i'concentra- lof It, even the untreated, comesL. You called Russia a c(>ncentra ■from the West. Fir, Supt. Jack-'t"®" “"’f- TVT son explained, will take the| “W" weather without warping, as the! rZ pine grown in this area won’t ' ',.1 i Soviet authorities will make them m-m pay for your crime?” I Such terms as “turncoat” and Metal door and window frames' -your crime.” Obviously these are being used ihroughout. [ were used to evoke from Kuznet sov the mental agony wlfich a The arrest of a group of "Green Berets” — including high ranking officers—in connection with the mysterious disappearance ot an equally mysterious "agent" in Vietnam has brought the glamor outfit into the news with a ven geance. m-m Floors are concrete dabs topped deep-thinking man may suffer when he undergoes a major shift with asphalt tile. The slab must in his life. And many viewers of Meantime, several committees were named by Chairman Charles D. Blanton, of the central steering committee, for specific research into particular prob lems. meet 3000-lb. test and is poured •atop clay which Is requierd to be 95 percent compacted. Between the clay base and the concrete slab 'S a sheet of polyethylene plastic to prevent moisture risinq into the slab during wet weather. the show, or those who heard its radio version, were moved to compassion for the Russian and The Green Berets were created as a special force of tough guys, specializing in the business ot controlling wars of liberation and other odd and often messy jobs around the world. They trained the Bolivian force that put Che Guevara out of the way and broke up his insurgency plans. They have had missions in the Congo and Liberia, in Ethiopia and Laos, in Thailand and many parts of Latin .America, They worked with Uie Kurds in Iran, the Chinese on Taiwan, the Montagnards and Chinese and Cambodian merce naries in Vietnam. Ten Years Ago Items of interest which occur- ed approximately ten years ago ADMITTEXl FRIDAY Mrs. Josephine M. Davis Robert J. Bibbs Mrs. Columbus H. Hull Next week’s 56th annual floral fair, a combined effort of the ■Woman's club and Garden Coun cil, is expected to attract a rec ord number of entries to what clubwomen are billing a bigger and better fair. Aubrey Mauney, secretary tie-a- surer of Kings Mountain Manu facturing Company and long ac tive in the affairs of the Lutheran Church in America, was elected president of Church Men week. ADMITTED SATURDAY Hubert G. Clemmons John Bunyan Ware S. A. Blanton ADMITTED SUNDAY Birnett D. Calhoun Mrs. M. J. Garrett Ml’S. Paul Putnam Mrs. Bobby Wade ADMITTED MONDAY Mrs. bobby R. Craig Mrs. Ruth C. Philbeck Letter To Editor Dear Sir, 1 iwant to thank you for the exceptionally fine editorial on The Constitution and the article on The Constitution by Mr. Bob Maner that appeared in your paper on September 18. Their work in 'Vietnam has been storied in books and films and songs. And they’ve done special little jobs for the central intelli gence agency. Without the cooperation of pa- United Lutheran! triotic newspaper editors '.nd in America last l writers, the Daughters of the American Revolution are hamper ed in their efforts to 'drav atten tion to the fundamentals on which our Republic was founded. Witt their cooperation, perhaps we caiJ, be a truly significant force in seeing that these fundamentals are understood and upheld. PRICE OF PUBUC PROSE Nothing is immune to inflation. Even the Congressional Record, perhaps the most soporific politi cal publication in the nation, is more expensive to print than it used to be. The Washington Post has been In 1965 a single page in the Congressional Record cost $108.50 having a look at the Green Berets j (g print. Today a single page costs $116. The issue of the Congres j sional Record for Sept. 3, 1969, for instance, cost the U. S. Govern- [ ment $33,524 to publish. in the wake of the latest Vietnam mystery. It finds that the Special Warfare School at Fort Bragg, N. C.. where the special forces are trained, is hunting for new aura and dignity. The name has been I The publication of a daily jour- changed to he John F. Kennedy' nal of Congress is indispensable. Center for Military Assistance. i but as even an infrequent sam- Brig. Gen. Edward Flanagan, Jr. pier of the Congre.ssional Record tells visitors that his boys are really "assisters — a constructive force.” can testify, it is fattened by page upon page of items of parochial interest which congressmen in sert merely to please the folks A colonel with experience with ■ 53^,; home. the Green Berets in Vietnam says angrily that "they have made us look like a bunch of . . . Mafia characters who sit around finger ing people to kill.” But it re mained for Maj. A. /Lincoln Ger man, the center’s training direc tor, to cap the new image the group is trying to attain: “In a way, we’re a kind Corps.” Well, that’s going to make John to outrage at the meanness of the I feel ^ like a chump. He’s Roof beams are Joined brackets rather than nails. been running around jungles, liv ing off reptiles, shooting natives, j planning nasty tricks and lectur- | ing against Communists as a Green Beret for some time now— ' in movie theater after movie the- / atcr over the world. How’s he go- questioning. Not at whatever truth the ses- 1 slon might have sought. Still, j frankness need not be brutal. Another man than Kuznetsov with might have defended himself better. Kuznetsov will have to l(?arn to guard what is private in j jg„ (q take the idea that he was his life and to let himself be 1 really just doing a Boy Scout job Tom Harper laughed a^ut get- “ysS"?o ft Wesl"t evf! ’ <The Milwaukee t ng a letter from a college stu-'Journal) lent, doing a term paper on survives he housing arid wanting some m-i formation yet already asking the'confidence in ni t e»UT’/xn “lA, rts/ xin rnnif tioex ott/nn _ . . Congressmen are doubtless not going to give up the privilege of printing in the "Extension of Re marks” accolades to the home town softball team or to the dis trict weather watcher,, but such use of the Congressional Record might be more sparing if the Joint Committee on the Reduction of a Peace ; of Non - Essential Expenditures conferred with the Joint Commit tee on Printing and fixed a limit on the verbiage any one congress man could insert each session. (Boston Herald Traveler) ■Vei-y truly yours, Jo White Linn (Mrs. Stable Linn, Jr.) State Chairman Constitu tion Week Daughters of the American Revolution Box 973 . Salisbury, N. C. 28144 Give the present with a future. Buy U.S. Savings Bonds & Freedom Shares I her remarks she had her eye res- . question, ’’Why do they use such jn^nkind’s futuree. It is therefore 'be task before her cheap and shoddy materials? ^ menace akin to the, glances aside to rev^l Tom s invited the lad tor a visit ,^0 -Jest’s ^ to let him see for himself. , j^er and howl in the: temimst. Miss Brooks clearly said , - the UN has failed to show the I shadows of such comforting fires as Kuznetsov may have sought In dynamism demaniled by wiorld | The big red, white and blue'our midst. (Christian scieni»', P’'“b^™®’to the 1 signs identifying the construction Monitor) | Sradual decline of the United ; •IS that of the Kings Mountain: Nations m the eyes of world opin- Public Horsing Authority in co-l I I oneration with the federal gov-; THE UN S MISS BROOKS The Assembly accepted without, ternment, the architects, etc., are, „ u I. ' It’s the custom, when reporting I pretest the dressing down they J ot wrmen public figures, to men-| got from their new president at one unit is be'’ng c"u ■ niched nr t?'n tio.i in the second or third para ,,*^l graph what she was wearing, eoniractor $200 each. ® I -^eP^tters covering the open- H). In V’ nine si; least partly out of fondness for Director Harper does not laugh •about one item. Already he has applications for rentals from more than 100 elderly (persons over 65). Only 30 units are par ing of the 24th General Assembly of the United Nations acted true to form when they noted that the new president of the Assembly, Miss Angle E. Brooks of Liberia, was dres.sed in flowing African garb. This dutifully done, however. ticularly desSrned for the elder-'they quickly moved on to what Iv- Bv utilizing other units. Torn', she had to say in her opening ad- figures to be able to honor not; dress. For Miss Brooks, true to her more than 63 of these applications! own form well established in her at best, her. Miss Brooks is generous (she has adopted 19 children) and out going and forthright. The only other woman presi dent of the As.sembly was Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of India 15 years ago. Thus, advocates of women’s rights can note, the only parts of the world to place a woman at the head of the Assem bly or in the chief post as head of government are Africa and Asia — not the “advanced” lands of Europe and North America. (The 15 years of UN service, showed in Christian Science Monitor) Keep Tent Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. Jtews & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour .on the half hour. Fine entertainment in bet’ween
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