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^age 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday. November 13, 196^ Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and publlaheo for the enllghtenn.ent, entertainment and benefit of tlie citizens of Kings Mountalti 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., 281W' under Act of Congress of March 3,1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Eklltor-Publlshei Ml.ss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society EdltO' Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeepei MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Rocky Martain Jim Caudill Allen Myers Paul Jack.son Frank Barber Gary Kiser Ray Parker SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR. ...$;L50 SIX MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 Let's Make It Last week's United Fund campaign news was the best in recent weeks, though liioro was considerable work in store for campaign workers it the $32,100 quota is to he attained. Preliminary figures, with several firms yet to report, indicate that Kings Mountain’s United Fund campaign for 1970 has been attained. $cventy-eiglit percent of the goal had been reported last week. For the third year the Kings Moun tain Untied Fund campaign has been conducted in a one-day drive, a fact which has won praise from the local or ganization slate-wide. There is every reason to believe this year’s campaign can lie brought to a successful conclusion. Let’s make it! Christmas Cash Cheer The postman will take good pews in a tev\- ciays to numerous Kings Moun tain area citizens in the form of Christ mas club ciK'cks from F’irst Union Na tional Bank The payment will mark completion of the l)ank’s Dili annual Cliiistmas club. Many a person will ho thankful he’s done a bit of saving during the year for the Christmas celeliration and will he even more thankful wlien January bills are being delivered liy the mailman. Youth Appreciation Week The term “teenager” applies to any person between the ages of 12 and 20. Yet there is an instance of reckless driving by young people we are prone to say “that’s bunch of teenage drivers.’’ Juveniles are usually thought of as those persons who have not reached a- dullhood or attained the age of 21. Yet we have used the term juvenile delin- (luent so many times that juvenile has acquired a dubious connotation. It is from the group who are now teenagers that our citizens and leaders of a few years have most come. Statistics show that only five per cent of the young people of the nation ever become involved with the law in any way. The other 95 percent go about their duties quietly, preparing them selves for tile days of responsibility a- hcad. The five percent get more head lines in the newspapers because of the nature of their activities. But they com prise only 1 in 20 All this is to say that this is Youth Appreciation Week, a week designated by the Kings Mountain Optimist club to honor truth, to give what they call “a pat on the back.” i Education Week This is American Education Week and local schools are co'-sponsoring the I." 1-. V .(lift. (.qjen house programs are planned at the iO plants in the district sy.stem and se-'clal radio programs on WKMT arc calling attention to the ob servance. The Educational Television Network has come out iliis season with “Seasame Street”, and kids we know seem to love the program. Its primary reason for be ing is to teach pre-schoolers and it gives the child a chance to learn such things as the right and wrong ways of doing every day tasks and the alphabet and numerals. The Charlotte broadcast is on Channel 42 at 4 p.m. and is in color. While you’re visiting the school plants this week, take a visit to the Com pact plant, home of Kings Mountain's first kindergarten program in the schools and the 60 pre-schoolers love it. Good News Hard Facts Local 1 a w enforcement helped write this editorial. officials Statistics, it is said, can be used to substantiate any fact. However, accord ing to Sterling T. Tooker, president of The Travelers Insurance Companies, statistics cannot prove how many acci dents have been prevented through safe ty education. Writing in the 35th edition of his company’s annual booklet of highway accident data, Mr. Tooker said, “Our rationale in 1931 was that if reasonable people know the truth about a problem, the truth will help them .solve the prob lem. In 1969, 65 million booklets later, it is still our rationale. “Ironically enough, this conviction cannot be based on hard statistics,” he said. “Yet we know that hundreds of thousands of accidents have been pre vented by drivers and pedf'strians who have learned to drive and walk with safety And the ever-mounting number of miles on many poorly engineered roads clogged by more and more cars and trucks and busses give us real reas on to believe that the.se ghastly casualty totals could be much higher,” he added. “Alcoholocaust” is the title of the 1969 edition of The Travelers booklet. And for the first time it takes a long, haid look at the mixture of alcohol and gasoline. But the booklet does not con tain statistics to support the title. Here’s why: The numbers and the classifications are distilled—no pun intended — from monthly reports furnished by state mo tor vehicle departments (a voluntary service gratefully acknowledged by The Travelers). Energetic and thorough re search has nailed down drunk driving as a major accident cause, but absolute precision is still out of reach. A dead driver can't be asked to heel-and-toe or take a breath or blood test. The injured driver frequently needs swift emergency- treatment. Technical examination for alcohol in his blood stream must come later when the aberant ingredient has been diluted or has disappeared altoge- ther. The evidence is nevertheless over whelming. Indeed, the U S. Department of T ransportation has issued a report to Congress which even die-hard statisti cians agree is a definitive indictment of drink-then-drive offenders. This land mark study concludes that “the use of alcohol by drivers and pedestrians leads to some 25,000 deaths and a total of at least 800.000 crashes in the United States each year”. “Some” and “at least” acknowledge that the D.O.T. study is not an exact re cap either. The point, however, is sharp to all last-ditch apologists for irresponsi ble social drinkers or social drinkers- and-drivers themselves. Get the message? Hats off to members of the Kings Mountain Woman’s club who staged a most successful 66th “Community Fes tival” Wednesday at the Woman’s club. The large number of fairgoers praised the clubwomen for the delicious food as well as the handsome exhibits on dis play from young and old alike. It was a compliment to the talents of many peo ple Congratulations to John Ballew, a- mong three seniors from Cleveland Coun ty selected as candidates for a John Motley Morchead Scholarship — a full four-year scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The long - awaited much - discussed Highway lA bypass around Kings Moun tain has been long needed, as witness the string of cars on Sunday afternoons during the mountain tourist season. Con versation with local highway commis sioner Roy Dedmon Wednesday makes us believe the by-pass is a for-sure pro ject at last Committment in the form of $100,000 has been made for the project survey and Mr. Dedmon said the im provements should be completed “cer tainly during the Scott administration.” A best bow to Robert Suber, initiat ed by Phi Psi textile fraternity on the campus of Clemson University where he holds a fellowship in chemistry. Dangers Of LSD Are Explained (Editor’s Note: In this fast- paced, quick ■ changing world with Information exploding all around, we hear much about narcotics and drug abuse. But what are the facts as sci( ncc knows them today? Sign of •I’he Times TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Ilrar llir I ij/hl, 0 T.finl, altcnd xnlo m il rrii, t/irr car unto mi) irmyrr, that ijopth out of frifinod lilin. Pnalm n.J, Everybody has a right and a personal "need • to - know.” In this series of five articles bas ed on scientific Information from the National Ins'ltute of Mental Health, up-to-date facts are presented about LSD, mari huana, narcotics, pep pills, sleeping pills, and other abused, dangerous drugs. Theserles gives you the fun damentals you need-to-know a- bout drug abuse today.) (First In A Series) No drug has caused more con troversy, with the possible excep tion of marihuana, than the strange convpound known as LSD. Is liiD dangerous? Definitely yes, says the Na tional Institute of Mental Health, Federal agency focus of a new nationwide attack on the abuse of dangerous drugs and narcotics. Hospital and other medical studies show that LSD can cause panic, paranoia, and accidental death. Reactions to taking LSD range from worry, panic, and depression to severe mental derangement. Days, weeks, even months aft er a dose of LSD has been taken, the things the user thought that he saw and felt may recur in his mind and make him fear he is going insane. The physical effects LSD can produce are far fro-m pretty. Eye pupils dilate, hands and feet shake and tremble uncon trollably, palms turn cold and sweaty, the body shivers and turns chilly, goose pimples pop out, breathing is irregular. There is loss of appetite and nausea; and the pulse and heart rate rise, as does blood pressure. NORTH CAROLINA KINGS MOUNTAIN Hospital Log VISITING HOURS 3 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 8 pJil- Dally 10:30 To 11:30 ojb. Thurse Viewpoints of Other Editors LSD is short for lysergic acid diethylamide. A man - made chemical first produced in 1938, it was accidentally discovered in 1943' to produce bizarre effects on the mind when a Swiss chem ist swallowed some LSD while working in his laboratory. He had strange sensations and felt as if he were flying. Despite this soaring start, LSD is pretty credulous. City officials stae: ton Herald Traveler ’'Meet Millie'’ was little explored in following years as far as definitive pharma cological studies in man were concerned. The weird compound lay around, studied by some drug researchers but ignored by most. Then the wave of far-out experi ence seekers washed up a few years ago. LSD became the darling of the daring. It was claimed to give you great feelings and increa.se imany capacities, like sex an.1 cre ativity. None of this has proved out. In fact, the reverse may be true. But many fables and fallacies like these have spread about LSD. The following facts come from re search, not from fanta.sy and rumor. Attend the King.s Mountain Little Theatre’s production of “The Curious Savage” Friday and Saturday evenings at Central school auditorium. This group is a hard-working organization, recently re-organized after an absence of several years. Studies have shown that LSD is more likely to decrease sex in terests than to increase them. Paintings, writings, and other works by LSD-users fail to show gi-eater talent; rather, the works are poorer when done "under the influence.” VOTING FOR 'OTES I EFFICIENCY IN ^ , i MUSCOVY I^ “‘I patuBdiuooOB oq pjnoqs Shortly before thlsveek’s elec-i j vision to prohibit any revival of tion the New York <ay Council' itis not surprising that “help’ literacy tests or unlawful elec- rushed through, and layor John vvanted" signs have appeared in tion procedures abolished under Lindsay signed, a biLraisirvg the| various Soviet cities lately, jthe current act. Without such a minimum wage to .$.>0 for em-jThei-e’s ack.ally a labor shorta.>e; safeguadr, the progress.of the last ployes of firms doir business jin the vast Soviet Union. (four years could turn into retro- with the city. Anyonewho thinks | i gression for the next five. —Bos- that the timing was oincidental! L's not just that the Soviet j birthrate has lately been falling, ! so that appeals for larger families that the appear in the press. Nor is it just coverage of the bill more lim-jthat the Soviet economy is ex ited than that of the ederai and|panding. Addiionally there is the state minimum wage aws, which I age-old impression that Soviet set much lower pdy floors, ani I bureauci acy and regid control - in a sense that’s tru' Yet N€vv| from - the - top mean that man- York City, with its ige outlay, power is wastt^ all over Soviet- deals with thousands f business- land, men. all of whom cc. pete withi . other businesses fo* e available . But we now note that Moscow labor, so the impact ■ this meas- js moving -- at least bureaucrat- ure is surely broad. i labor use. A (gov*?rnment decree, according to The new- law thus; subject to' Business Week, will cut the Indus-1 all the objections t< minimum- trial budget by two billion dollars, but most of the savings will have to come out of personnel. That sounds harsh but the Soviets also are endorsing the so - called “Shchekino experiment.” This ex periment, at a chemical plant out side Moscow, allows the plant manager to redistribute any sav ings, achieved through boosted J production, to the workers as in- In this case, inf ft, no one creased wages and bonuses. So l.novv's just how the impact i incentive -- to b<' efiicient. will be. As the Cfcrerce & In-| dustry Associatioi^ic New York: The Soviet decree also urges notes, no exceptiqps vere made I managers to mechanize, automate V ty training! and use computers, and says there; d>r disabled! are too many layers in Soviet de-| ty jobs, or! cisionmaksing. in fact, Moscow is, fe termino- sounding just like an American' ing even a j management consultant efficien- Robert Adams Mr.s. Juanita F. Allran Mrs. Celia S. Bonds Mrs. Binnie B. Birris Lawson II. Dover Jay Green Mrs. Minnie L. Harry Mrs. Effie D. Jackson Mrs. Cora H. Laughter Mrs. Myers N. Ler* Mrs. Dovie G. Neal Mr.s. Will Nicholson High R. Parton Jesse Lee Ramsey Sam Williams, Sr. Mrs. Richard Boyd Mrs. Bynum P. Cook Ernest L. Cren,shaw Donnis L. Dotter Mrs. Arlie L. Dunn ’ Mrs. John Gordon Thomas W. Giay.son, Jr. Richard D. Green Gartour Lee Grigg Sidney D. HuffstetleJ .‘XT jXl Harold R. Hunnicut Alda B. Leonhardt Mrs. Annie M. Lockridge ' James Henry Michem Mrs. Lonnie E. Peeler Robert T. J. Ruff Mrs. Woodrow Weils William Henry West Willie Gene White ADIMTTED THURSDAY Mrs. Virginia W. Bush Mrs. John C. Caveny Mrs. Marilyn Hunter ADMITTED FRIDAY Mrs. Dovie G. Neal Mrs. Verna R. Slater Mrs. Thomas Wright Lester Lee Dorty Mrs. Carl F. Paysour Mrs. Floyd E. Philbeck Mrs. Hunter G. Wylie ADMITTED SATURDAY I Mrs. Florence L. Falls > Charlotte Ann Bess ADMITTED SUNDAY Frances E. Berryhill Felix Johnson, Jr. ADMITTED MONDAY Mrs. Hubert G. Clemmons Mrs. Mamie D. Panther Lawrence D. Barber Mrs. Charles R. Davis Mrs. Paul R. Putnam l Mrs. John L. Queen j Mrs. Clyde N. Strickland i ADMITTED TUESDAY Cole L. Harris WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE Here’s the .Answer HORIZONTAL 1,7 Screen-radio wage legislation, wl h assumes that the workers’i s'ms can be raised by fiat, Wi^tiappens in stead is that comt^r s, in oi-der to stay in busines^:. le forced to find ways to get a ag without their least-productiv employes, e.fher by rearrangbi;methods or buying more effieijin machinery. for employes of programs, the ag performing limite part-time worker^ logy of the law. definitum of “contra ir.” Worse, LSD is dangerous. It can cause panic (fear of losing one's mindi, paranoia (suspicion that "they're after me!”), mental de rangement, and accidental death. It has been called the most powerful drug in the world. No wonder: 26 micrograms is an a- mount almost invisible to the naked eye. Yet this amount will produce an effect in most people. When Mayor Lii bill he promised these problems up by later ame: seems a strange making laws. Inttl case, of course, the politici^^ were not voting’ for comnjor sense but, they hoped, for v|^f Is signed the some of be cleared ats, which •o go about cy-buildin,T firm. And it’s about time- Christian Science Monitor] VOTING RIGHTS NEED After languishing in the House | Rules Committee for three months, a bill to extend the Vot- | ing Rights Act of 1965 for anoth er five years will apparently be tr freed shortly for committee de- W<ifl eet Journal (jgfg amendment expected to be offered later from the floor. Classed as a hallucinogen and psychedelic — which mean mind- affecting or mind-altering—LSD is a member of a group of drugs which include other compounds like marihuana, peyote, mesca line. psilocybin, DMT, and STP. Except for government-approv ed use for re.scarch, LSD is ille gal on the United States. Because LSD is dangerous when not ii.sed for careful research un der close medteal supervision, it is closely regulated by Federal and State laws. These provide stiff penalties for illegal produc tion, sale, other di.sposition, and, in some cases, for possession or use. Because more knowledge is needed about this powerful com pound, broad scale research ir Ui’- derway to learn f- • ebou* Its chemistry, animat rnd hiiraan ef fects, . . ..iioilier it can have any medical or other real values. This is another part of the na tional attack on abuse otf nar cotics and dangerous drugs of all kinds. On the educational side, newspapers, magazines, radio, and television are enlisting in the fight in a new campaign to provide everyone with accurate information. For a free folder of facts about LSD, write: NIMH, Box 1080, Washington, D. C. 20013. however, could profoundly reduce | WE LIKE ’RdS: MARIE' j its area of application. b 1 The 1965 Voting Rights Act Modern govemBje: always ap-1 pfohibits literacy tests for regis- pear impelled tofio hat Canaidaj Oration and calls for federal su- j is doing, and it Jec s a shame pervision of elections in a'ny state somehow. Ottawf. reportedly or county where less than 50 per- making an effor| t hed the im-icent of the voting-age population j pression that it fe idyllic, pic- was registered or voted in the turesque, rural ■ui A report 1964 national election. Alabama, j tells Canada to l#ll d the world (Jeorgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, of the idea thaflC ada is the; South Carolina, Virginia, and 39 land "of Rose Vlaria Chap-! of 100 counties in North Carolina delaine, the lancf of e and snow, have been affected under this i Mounties, Eskin|(B, id not much formula. 0lSG *’ '■ I i i Die House bill, simply extend- ! A. XI. current provisions through Surely, Canatpi luld tell the g 1975^ has been in the cus- i world that thi:^* r much else ' Rules Committee chair- | is false. But thqw perhaps one William Colmer of Mississip thing which Ott a has not p} eirn-p mid-July: uoon urging grasped. This tl to so much jjy Rep. Emmanuel Celler hear- of the rest of Ihe orld, caught j^gs have been scheduled to be- up in all kinds»f ad-wearying gin Nov. 18, and Rep. Celler is; problems, the trad: nal vision of hopeful the bill will reach thei Canada is a inviting one. ifioor before year’s end. The bigger efiet wv the far- expected floor amendment! , 55 . K? ^5: aii-tiL would substitute the use of 1968, ther s ^ s^a the dirtier, statistics for the 1964 fig- sti«ets'becomef th aster traffic, increa-ses in Neem ree-it gets, the tense r ,s grow, ^ g ^eeter it isi tc -est in tho^^ ^ thought peijhaps se "’J* *5 ^ [supervision in coming elections, loned IS nonefteli all the nicer-a„o^ing previous offend- therefor. reimpose old, repressive regulations. Employment of the most recent statistics to reflect current con ditions is advisable to prevent the Voting Rights Act from becom ing an anachronism, but care must be taken that updating its formula does not signal a weak- en-ing of its powers. Tlie amend- Chrptiei cicnce Moniforment to institute 1968 figures' personality 13 Gratify 14 Small area 15 Perception 16 Iterate 17 Royal Italian family name 18 Goblin changeling 20 Domestic slave 21 Tell 24 Standard 27 Compound ether 31 Spanish fleet 32 Preposition 83 Chemical suffix 34 Hawaiian garland 35 Editor (ab.) 36 Prickly plant 38 Auto body type 40 This is noted on both screen and radio 41 Fatty 43 Homicide payment 46 Neither 47 Dry 51 Skin disease 53 Shop 54 Obstinate 55 Teeter 56 Gainer 57 Fortifleations VERTICAL 1 Church recess 2 Rubber trees 3 Depression 4 Etruscan native 5 Compass point 6 Biblical pronoun 7 African tree 8 Native metal 9 Wigwams 10 Pedal digits 11 Enthusiastic ardor 12 Proportion 18 Mountain nymph 19 Arrival (ab.> 22 Annex 23 Doctrines 24 Salts 25 Large plant 26 Among 28 Carry (coll.) 29 Measures of cloth SiN VjcG a a N a a fAV «lsi a sHa AS a ± s sla OX an 0 i n a\ 1 ;ajv aloiN ■0 \ a ■a s o|«dl > olv sis a\p X OIVH mIv 0 a s ai-» XIX a "a|| -1 aH oiri N srfv w V a|a X s ■ttia ^In V X 5 ■5* X V N slrsi sia ^Ivlo ■a X s a xw a 9 tsj 9 vin 0 a a ^ V a -1 a aala xlx 0 ala a n V I 30 Scottish * sheepfolds 32 Kind of rupt 37 Handled 39 Aix-la- Chapclle 40 Where soldier mail goes 42 Internal 43 Otherwise 44 Cosmic order 45 Froster 48 Genus of shrubs 49 Mossadegh's domain 50 Morning moisture (pi.) 52 Night before an event 53 Observe 55 Senior (ab.) 1 2 3 4 5 b 1 13 IS .7 16 3i 34 7 S 9 10 It li 14 16 20 pb HI 11 llll[% 51 5Z 54 56 |33 It’s t Ihe loci ;eason > High ver th een p added day nif Bowli Icimt s( jKjsting Vincent over Rc It re] ever be and it’j records Vinc( IGO an Ronnie and M for the 17 46 15 50 bi 53 57 It is easy lo s i up-to-date. All a nation lo is rush a- round madlymi jly its prob lems and brag a e. It is much harder to seem 01 iy_ quiet, and tetchiivj. Canada :;ceeds In do ing this. Pleaie, 't try to dis illusion us. Dwi): night, close , rolled . Dnl Ind Keep Youi Radio Kal Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. i4ews & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in bet'ween DUR tionall Revere Dean ( versitj .tie Din hNorth 'nor in annou: Chaim In I, Biibas, Duke i Relatii “Dr. Cl as one sprake been a of Edd Wo ar man, ' sion." yesterc will pi nave t add to ccetii.’ I^r a pearan C/elan' the ■OS. y. Iclebrt ■iK.p.s Ho i nd, ir irons I conn I r;
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