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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Thursday, October 30, 1969
Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Herald
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and publUhed
for 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 post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28088
under Act of Congress of Marcii 3, 1873.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher
Mbs Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
Rocky Marlain
Jim Citudill
Allen Myers
Frank, Barber Gary Kiser
Paul Jack.son
Ray Parker
aUBSCItIPTlON RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE
ONE YEAR... .$3.S0 SIX MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1.25
PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX
TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441
TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Ihmour till' l.iiril iritli thy Hiihutiinrc, amt ‘imth the firntfniita of all thine increase. Proverbs 3:9.
We Vole Tuesday
Not in the memory of the Herald in
the past quarter century has it been as
difficult to find definitive inlormalion on
terms of an election in this state.
Reference is' made, of course, to the
upcoming election on Tuesday whereby
citizens ot 100 individual counties de
cide all voting at the same time
whether one or more of the particular
counties want imposed upon the citizens
an additional one percent sales tax.
Local informants were not complete
ly sure.
The Herald therefore called Secre
tary of State Thad Eure. Mr. Eure was
out and the young lady routed to Clyde
Smith, assistant secretary. Mr. Smith
had read the text only cursorily, he said,
and switched the call to Mr. Gooch, chief
of the state department of revenue’s
sales tax division. Mr. Gooch was out of
the office, too, but the bright young lady
thought the man to know the answers
was Hudson Stansbury, of the depart
ment’s tax research division.
With Mr. Stansbury on the line, the
Herald was home.
John T. Morrissey, counsel for the
North Carolian County Commissioners
a.ssociation, predicts that one-third of
the counties will approve the one per
cent tax. He can find many who would
like to place some w-agers against that
premise.
Outside the fact that Tar Heels are
unhappy, still, about the new' cigarette
tax, the new' soft drink tax, and the in-
crea.sed gasoline tax, governmental lead
ers at the state level oppose, de facto if
not admittedly, giving a state taxation
avenue aw'ay. Lieutenant-Governor H.
Pat Taylor almost said as much at the
recent League of Municipalities convo
cation in Asheville.
It is a fact, however, that the hard-
pres.sed counties, greatest beneficiaries
from the proposal, need some source of
revenue other than ad valorem taxes.
County revenues from licenses and fees
are puny indeed. Great numbers of mu
nicipalities are equally hard-pressed.
There are only 73 “electric” cities, those
which distribute profit-making electric
power. Only a very few are in the natural
gas distribution business.
Citizens probably would be smart to
swap off increasing upward pressure on
ad valorem taxes, that one-a-year bite
which gets meaner all the time, for the
one percent sales tax pay-as-you-go-plan.
But few counties are likely to buy the
swap on Tuesday.
The prediction; a light vote and nay.
Attack on Additives
A lady remarked: “Metrecal has been
my lunch for ycai's. At least I'm going to
use up what I've got.”
Another: “You mean Sego’s on the
list? I just bought two packages!”
Both these were among the long list
of products included in the edict by the
Federal Food and Di’ug administration
banning the list from production and
sale. All contained cyclamates an addi
tive thought innocuous. When experi
ments showed cyclamates were suspect
ed of producing cancer in rats, the law
was invoked.
Uh, sodium fluoride, t. <
‘Penny>Pinching"
The Charlotte Observer headline
w'riter didn't quote the word in the head
line w'as the writer thereof was respond
ing in quite typical fashion.
“Penny-Pinching To Cost N. C. . .
Reference was to the economy moves
initiated by the Nixon Administration
to pare off expenditures by the Depart
ment of Defense in an over-all effort to
cut Defense’s appropriation by $3 billion.
It might be noted that the penny-
pinching won’t cost neighboring South
Carolina much and for good reason; Rep-
, resentative L. Mendel Rivers, of the first
South Carolina district, is chairman of
the House Armed Services committee.
While it is quite human to yell “take
it from HIM, not ME”, it is fact that any
serious economy effort on the part of
the federal government must begin by
whacking the military which claims
better than .50 percent of all federal pro
grams.
There are several uncuttables, among
them the interest on the national debt,
social security payments, and veteran’s
benefits.
Any who has been in the armed ser-
vices for any length of time have seen
plenty of ways and means to pare costs.
War itself is a most wasteful business
and preparation for war breeds the same
sort of wanton waste. Many have won
dered why a high-priced civil servant
performed the duties a corporal or yeo
man 2/c could perform quite well at
much less cost.
The idea of the President and De
fense Secretary Laird is that the $3 bil
lion cut ia merely a matter of squeezing
out some fat without impairing (hope
fully, improving) armed services effi
ciency.
The Bands Play On
Under the headline “The Bands Play
On” was this short item in the October
13 issue of Newsweek:
“ ‘Dixie’ ”. the rousing battle hymn
of the Confederacy, rerlains a half-time
favorite at college football games in the
South despite scattered opposition by
black students and campus militants. At
the University of Virginia, the student
council asked the student band to stop
playing ‘Dixie’, but the band plays on.
So it does at Georgia Tech, Mississippi,
the Universities of North and South Car
olina, Tulanc, Texas and Georgia (with
Confederate flags flying, despite a de
mand by Georgia black students last
.spring to di’op the song).
Newsweek (as our Yankee publica
tions sometimes do) erred;
“Dixie” is hardly a hymn by any
stretch of the imagination. It more near
ly compares with “Long Way to Tippe
rary” of World War I. The troops w'ene'
far from home and fireside. “ ‘way down
upon the Swanee River, far, far away...”
Newsweek was correct about the
“last spring” bit a concentrated effort
from the “outside” to promote another
item of nit-picking.
Next came monosodium glutamate, a
baby food additive.
DDT, the long-used insecticide, is
under heavy attack.
And sacharin, the artificial sweeten
er, is also under suspicion.
What is it, one opponent asked, do
they want to add to Kings Mountain’s
water supply?
Equal rights is one right item, nit
picking quite another.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
Ingredients: Bits of humor,
vHsdom, humor and com
ments. Directions: Take
weekly, if possible, but a-
void overdosage.
Edwin Moore was presenting
the .speaker at Tue.sday night's
meeting of the Lions Club.
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"I know,” ho suggested, “that
aman-who-nccds-no introduction
is the most over-used phrase
when presenting a speaker. How
ever, in this case, it’s true—except
for de«‘p - Southerners, Yankees
and Foreigners.”
The Bitter and the Sweet
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Anent the local business about
“Dixie”, the Herald would suggest that
“Dixie” be reinserted into the reper
toire of the Kings Mountain High
School band postc haste and that Direc
tor Donald Deal immediately purchase
a score of “The Battle Hymn of the Re
public” indeed a stirring hymn and, in
deed, the battle hymn of the men who
wore the blue.
The teasing, on Ed’s presenting
I Myers Hambright, was directed
I principally at Lions President
Ray Holmes, our limey friend
who wishes he had citizenship at
voting time. However, the teasing
applied, too, to a new member ot
the club, Paul Johnsonbaugh.
transferring in from the Lincoln-
ton, Gawga club.
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It was a banner membership
night, as two new Lions were in
ducted by Past President Richard
Barnette. They are Jim Downey,
sponsored by his boss Odus
Smith, and Grady Childers, spon
sored by John Reavis.
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The Lions have a good time and
much of the good fun is due to
Dave Saunders, the right honor
able tail twister. Dave is quite as
blood-thirsty as the king of the
jungle and fines his fellows for
the most minor of infractions. He
never leaves a meeting until the
Lion-type piggy bank is well-lad
en.
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The Lions are sometimes sac-
TIFIS^ScTunTaIn'
Hospital Log
VISITING HOURS
3 to 4 pjn. and 7 to ■ PJB-
Dally 10:30 To 11:30
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COMMITTEE
ON ARTIFICIAL
SWEETNERS
Mrs. Celia S. Bonds
Mrs. Minnie B. Burris
Hubert G. Clemmons
Mrs. Percy F. Dilling
Lawson H. Dover
.Mrs. Mary D. Gamble
Mrs. Minnie L. Harry
Mrs. Cora E. Laugliter
Mrs. Mary B. Melton
Jesse Lee Ramsey
Lawrence Wytte Ramsey
.Mrs. Nathaniel Armstrong
Mrs. Milos R. Boyd
Mrs. Vlrgie L- Cole
Mrs. Marie C. Fawell
Timmons C. Goforth
Mrs. Shirley Ann Griffin
Sidney D. Huffstetler
Mrs. Della Clark
Kenneth Reginald Moss
James Otis Parker
Mrs. Kenneth E. Rhyne
Mrs. Bertha W. Smith
Mrs. Thomas W. Smith
Mrs. Prince Stai-nes, Jr.
Mrs. Eunice L. Sutherland
Mrs. Woodrow Web®
Willie Gene White
admitted THURSDA'Y
Hfeh R. Parton
Mrs. Doyle William Shelton
Ernest Briggs Dixon
Mrs. Ruth L. Ramsey
ADMITTED FRIDAY
Dwella Link Grant
Mrs. William W. Breedlove
Thomas Woodrow Grayson, Jr.
George Moore Hannon
Viewpoints of Other Editors
WORDS AND POWER
ADMITTED SATURDAY
Mrs. Juanita F. Allran
Jennifer Ann Burke
As sometimes happens, we con
cluded our weekly regimen of
news reading recently to find a
me Ijiunt* are soineiunca oat,- .
religious, even to their guests. In; minor development more persis
process of gettinig Myers on his| tently on our ^
feet, Edwin noted that Myers had, dominating events: A news ma£
graduated from Clemson in 1939. azine reported that
A voice from the audience Qtiip-1 students the study of Engl«
ped, "You mean he finished at rently is in disfavor because.
Ten Years Ago
Items of interest ■which occur-
?d apjn-oximately ten years ago
age 39.”
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Myers came back strong. “I am
among other things, it isn’t "rele
vant.”
Now, as some English s^olars
currently contend, the traditional
iviytrrs caiut; aiiuns* a curreiuiy uuiticnw, mx- —.—
proud to be here to speak to the: approaches to teaching English
Lions,” Myers intoned. Then, look-! could well be in need of review,
ing in the direction of his faculty j but the suggestion that the study
confrere Football Mentor Bill of language has little tp do with
Bates, Myers continued, “I will | seemingly more compelling prob-
be nice and not say the Golden ferns strikes us as uncommonly
Lions.” What was that Shelby- shortsighted.
Kings Mountain score?
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For it is increasingly clear that
while man has made great prog-
, . ress in transmitting words rapid-
Moving into the meat of his | place, his prog-
talk, a resume of progress dur-j jp fearning to use them bet-
ing the past nine years in voca-! negligible. And this
tiona'l offerings at Kings Moun- p^^y more to do with world
tain High School, Myers lampoon.; problems than many would care
ed the department of .public i-n- (g admit.
struction folk in mild degree as thoughts recalled an es-
he related that after 30 years,'^ entitled, "Politics and the
North Carolina no longer oUers Language,” written by
its high schoolers vocational edu-1, orwell a quarter-century
cation. “It’s now ‘occupational
education’,” he reported, "but I’m
A $100,000 county-wide bond is
sue for a 25-be<t addition to Kings
Mountain hospital has been sche
duled for December 12th.
Plonk Brothers & Company is
THE ANGRY BUILDERS
ADMITTED SUNDAY
Mrs. Mary D. Gamble
Mrs. Dora M. Powell
Eugene Scott Stinnett
ADMITTED MONDAY
Nearly 2,000 of the nation’s
home builders, understandably an
gered by inflation’s impact on
their industry, descended on
Washington the other day to seek
relief. Unfortunately, however,
some of their proposals could
make their problems worse.
Inflation obviously has pushed
up the costs of land and materials
r'lOriK oruilieio OC V. me VV/S14 \fx xoiiu a*iu iiiaix.*
renovating the adjacent building; and has helped encourage con-
t t.. .^.4 U«7 t-Vtrx ui a fa txirvnlray'c f rs caolr .anH
Robert Adams
Mrs. Willie S. Bratton
Eulice Lark
Lawrence Davis Barber
Mrs. George Gordon
Mrs. David G. Herndon, Jr.
Jodie Elizabeth Humphries
Mrs. Donald O. Martin
Mrs. Elmer W. Sutton
Mrs. Ethel Eugenia Wiggins
Mrs. Wilile James Wiliams, Jr.
previously occupied by the state
employment office branch and
expects to open its expanded
quarters next weekend.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Grover Woman’s cluii won a
silver bowl for its outstanding
record of community service a-
mong clubs with membership of
40 or less at the District 4 meet.
struction workers lo seek, and aOMTITED TUESDAY
often get, huge wage increases.'
All of this has boosted house
prices so high that many poten
tial buyers have been squeezed
out of the market.
Up to that point, the home
builders’ problems are much the
same as those of many other in-
40 or less at the District 4 meei- — ■"
ing Thursday of the North Caro- dustnes. The builders’sj^c.al d.f
lina Federkon of women’s I arise from the fact that
Clubs.
POSTAL REFORM
STALEMATED
Mrs. Roland A. Goins
William Giles Hunter
Mrs. Patricia Pare
per
ehe
the
having trouble getting accustom
ed to it.”
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Myers credits the area consoli
dation of schools, which now pro
duce a 1200-plus high school pop
ulation, as a major factor in the
“As soon as certain topics are
raised,” Mr. Orwell wrote, refer
ring to the quality of public
prose, “the concrete melts into the
abstract and no one seems able
to think of turns of speech that
are not hackneyed; Prose 'consists
less and less of words chosen for
the sake of their meaning and
uiaiiuii, a iiiajwi iii me mt? siatvt: c/i nieax i.**-***....*,
vast broadening of the vocational, more and more of phrases tacked
occupational offerings now avail-1 together like the sections of a
able. Previously, vocational edu-1 prefabricated hen house.”
cation was limited to agriculture! Now inadequate use of lan-
and home economics in the county' guage may not strike many as a
schools and the city school didn’t ^ serious matter; yet when impor-
even have agriculture. | tant issues are involved, it as-
j sumes a somber weight. Mr. Or-
m-m ! well, for example, points out the
There’s a great change today, j often unconscious “s® of Mphe
.with 7^ students enrolk^ in one] '"If-JJ'ijifo^^oT^asants are robbed
or another vocational class, not \ J"
to mention 70 adults. There Are ° ^orf
seven divisions, agriculture, off- “lung
t ctfk yv i ctiirzx Arltmo t {/-vpi Kanna
the Government at long lait is
tryin gto curb inflation pressures,
with the result that housing
funds are both less plentiful and
more expensive. Still more po-
One of the signal failures of i tential customers thus are barred
Congress this se.ssion is the im-i from the market,
passe reached by the House Post | builders’ chief proposals
Office Committee on President | Government to
Nixon’s bill to reorganize the j |jgj|gj.g
po,stal service as an independent. housing mai ket. They seem not
government corporation similar | realize that this would add to
to the Tennessee Valley Author- j inflatinoary pressures that
ity- ! were hobbling housing, along
Despite widespread public sup-, with other industries, long Im
port and bipartisan sponsorship, fore the Government began to
the House Post Office Committee 'Counterattack with policies of fis-
deadlocked on a tie vote on the leal and monetary restraint,
administration’s outstanding re- | while the road back to reason-
form proposal, principally be- . gj^i^ price stability may be espec-
cause of the opposition of igjjy rough for housing, the in-
chairman, Rep. Thaddeus J. Dul-1 gj^g j^g^ g great deal to
ski, a Democrat from Buffalo. i gain from a return to that happy
criminate dress. Some resem
blance to the poet Ginsberg, or to
a Che’ Guevara partisan after a
long night’s march in the rain.
fint
Ihe
At the other extreme is “ex
quisite dandyism.” This applies
to dressing with every fancy fur
below, like a scintillating Beau
Brummell.
Which leads us to a philosophi
cal question: Is it much easier to
affect the “deliberate unkempt
ness’’ than to try on the “exqui
site dandyism”? Experience sug
gests that it is not. Consider: Be
draggled hair is (incomfortable. It
gets into the eyes, the mouth, the
soup. A beard, unless it is to re-
.semble a horsehair sofa come
apart in the attic, has to be
trimmed. This takes nearly as
long as shaving the face with a
modern razor.
ice, distributive education, home
economics, trade and industrial,
vocational guidance and guid
ance. Implementing these are the
Chairman Dulski wants to scut
tle the administration’s proposal
in favor of a bill of his own
which would make token changes
within the existing framework of
the Post Office and, willy-nilly,
perpetuate the worst deficiencies
of the current system.
Congressional opposition to a
major realignment of the Post
state. So it’s a little ironic that
it’s spending so much of its ener
gy urging an entirely different
course.
Wall Street Journal
And the clothes: you have to
hunt, or tear, or sometimes pay
good money, to find or fashion
the bedraggled jeans, or the trav
eled-stained military jacket. And
you dare not wash and wear, as
with simple modern wash-and-
wear.
UNKEMPT VS. DANDY
than 750,000 employees of the
Post Office are represented on
Capitol Hill by potent unions
which regularly are among the
highest spending lobbies in Con-
than they can carry; this is called
‘transfer of population’ or ‘rectif
ication of frontiers'. People are
imprisoned for vears without
ance. implementing tnese are me j,g^^ j ^^e
work-while-you study programs,'
through industrial cooperative, ^ ^g^, This is
training and other Programs ‘elimination ot unreliable | gres.s.
.where the students go into part-1 , ‘ ^ „
metolofists, furnituie finishers, i “a™ policy. ‘‘What is above all j «ooh
tailors, computer operators, auto needed,” he said, “is to let the i Eot. saltui -• ’ , to
mechanics, masons, upholsterers, meaning choose the word and not i ■'rionts. Oingfess s the Post
retail salesmen, seamstresses, etc., the other way about. In prose the j up ds ""^^Tons fn
m-m I‘is the study o( English "rel-1 "*p‘rdd "“"Sre*-. ^
^ levant?” “One ought to recognize | leaves the reorganization'
Mr. Hambright noted thatlthat the present political chaos Is proposal in deep doubt, although!
work-in-service programs consti-| connected with the decay or Ian- practicality of the plan is.
tute contracts between the stu-j gtiage, and that one can probably | Unless, tbc Senate adopts
dent, his parents, the school, and,bring about some improvement i pj.gsijont Nixon’s reform measure I
the employer. The student must by ®]^®*'***}S j and prevails upon the House to.
A writer in the British maga
zine Encounter refers to a certain
fiiajvJi V* v.tv . w-v jLiiuuuiiid lu a cci
Office comes as no surprise. It i style of dress as “deliberate un-
should be noted that the more | kemptness.” Some hippies affect
4 V4 7^0 OOO arT4 the l r.4.«v1d^. .u'vlx %,44.
this .style: Exhuberant hair, un
controlled; tattered jeans; indis-
Of course this unkemptness is
a protest against society, a call
ing to attention, a put-on. But
often the occupant is putting on
more burden than freedom. Just
dd' ask someone ot this persuasion
how easy it is to thumb a ride.—
Christian Sciencs Monitor
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The Shelby Chamber of Commerce
request of the county commission for a
!54f)00 appropriation should be filed by
the commission in the one file it belongs:
Number 13.
get passing marks, both from the
school and from the employer
oy starting me veua. c.,,., gnq prevails upon rne House lo,
Mr. Orwell declared, so long ago. | accept it in conference committee,!
It would be superfluous I® j reform-minded lawmakers will'
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Myers was loaded with note
sheets, made of ploy of seeming
inability to find a particular sheet.
He said it reminded him of the
preacher who found paging trou
ble just as he had said. “And
Adam said to Eve. . He extract
ed another wrong sheet, “And
Adam said to Eve. . ." Yet anoth
It wouia UK ouiycii.uuus. relOrm-minaea lawmaaer-s m
r.'.cr.lion more than a couple ot |^gyg propound the measure as
the abundant euphemisms, half-1 g., amendment from the floor,
truths and other linguistic cor-1
ruptions currently in vogue, from; The success m bypa.ssing the
the Vietnam, war bureaucrat’s | House Post Office Committee will
’pacification” to the alienated | depend largely on a public lobby
• ” as a counter-force to the profes
sional lobbies in Washington.
Mail users who are less than sat
isfied with the overgrown, out
moded and inefficient system
should heed the shoptworn but
nonetheless significant .suggestion ■
that they write their congre.ssmen '
Kings Monntaui, N. C.
youth’s “cultural fascism.”
The point is that despite Mr.
Orwell’s warning, communications
technology has made the situa
tion he lamented worse than
ever. And it is hardly rea.ssuring
rtuaiii lu i:.vc. . . y c. |to leam that a generation sup
er wrong sheet: “And Adam said' posedly politically aware may not
to Eve. , .uh,. . .there’s a leaf'grasp the importance of the com-
mlssing.” petent use of words. — Wall
I StrMt Jeuznal
to advocate that the Post Office
be taken out of politics and out
of debt.—Boston Herald Traveler
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