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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Thursday, December 4, 1969
EatablUhed 1889
The Kings Mountain Heiald
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 post office at Kings Mountain, N. C, 38Q0B
under Act of Congress of March 3,1873.
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TODAY'S BIBLE V^RSE
O gire tluinkn unto the Lord; call upon hie name: make known his dced» among the people.
Peulm 105:1.
The New Droit
Prime effort of the return of the
selective service system to the draft lot
tery is to take some uncertainty out, or
put some certainty in, the system In or
der that a available-for-service. regis
trant can know to some degree what to
expect.
In spite of the considerable amounts
of copy in newspapers concerning the
new system, it remains somewhat com
plicated and therefore confusing.
The lady managing the Gaston se
lect ive service office told numerous call
ers Tuesday she awaited some circula
tions from Washington
Under the old system, it appeared
that there was a “snatch” policy on call
ing up men approaching the over-ripe
di’aft age.
The birthday business should set it
faii’ly well. Basically, the draftable ages
19 to 26 continue, but it has been indi
cated early age pools will be called up
before the older groups. War remains a
young man’.'-' business.
If the present rate of draft calls
continue, it has been Indicated men more
lucky with birthdays can make civilian
plans with no fear of disruption.
The new system is effective in Janu
ary.
Hopefully, it will fulfill desired
goal.s.
Max Hamrick
Resignation of Max Hamrick, vet
eran county public servant, who began
as a deputy clerk of court, spent many
years as auditor and tax supervisor, and
finally filled the breach as acting county
manager, will be regretted by his many
friends.
They will miss his drawling flavor
when doing business at the county court-
hou.se.
Mr Hamrick is a quite knowledgea
ble man, and outstanding in the ^ield of
county government. He classes himself
a conservative in fiscal matters and
much credit is due him for the high cre
dit rating the county enjoys.
The Herald always found Mr. Ham
rick quick to provide needed information
and frank, traits much appreciated.
PPG Growth
In something over ten years the
Carolina plant of Pittsburgh Plate Glass
company northwest of Shelby has ex
panded four times, now employs 1600
persons as compared with the opening
8.50.
Well, ten years ago, Pittsburgh
needed the peoole and Cleveland County
people needed jobs. Back then, there was
an employment security here and claims
for unemployment compensation were
running 700-800 per week. This was ex
clusive of those being processed by the
Shelby office The Shelby Junior Cham
ber of Commerce staked out the high
ways and determined that 700 persons
were leaving Shelby daily to commute
to jobs in surrounding cities.
The county then took a step into a
new direction of government. Via a bond
issue of $415,000 it supplied the funds for
a water line to the PPG site. This was a
clincher to bringing PPG here.
The success of both PPG and the
people of Cleveland County on this
transaction is shown by the record.
The ESC people are now harried in
another direction. Can you find me some
people, the industry folk ask.
EPIC Decision
The city commission voted 5-0 last
week to join Electric Power In Carolina
cities in a feasibility study to determine
whether the cities should band together
with Rural Electrification cooperatives
to build power generating facilities.
The sixth Kings Mountain commis
sioner, unable to be present wrote a let
ter of endorsement.
Kings Mountain has bought power
for re-sale from Duke Power and its pre
decessor companies since 1908.
It is able to match or better Duke’s
retail rates and does.
Why the participation?
The city’s position is that it should
take a look and pay its share of the cost
which will not be great, and would vary
downward should more power-distribut
ing cities join.
Powei selling cities were incensed in
1965 when the power companies and REA
coops were married by Governor Dan
Moore to support legislation to establish
ground rules on service in mutually serv
ed areas.
The power selling cities were not
consulted by the Governor nor other par
ticipants, and the cities felt they had a
stake in the business, too.
Chief issue was the matter of city
limits extension. Who would serve the
customers, the city or the utility or the
REA coop?
Shelby, Gastonia and Kings Moun
tain, perhaps others, had only recently
given the federal Hartwell Dam power
facility short shrift when Hartwell’s rep
resentatives sought to horn in an Duke’s
business. Relations had been good be
tween city and utility for mor,e than half
a century
Shearon Harris, president of Caro
lina Power & Light Company, thinks the
power-selling cities will never get a gen
erating project off the ground. Perhaps
he is right.
North Carolina’s three big power
producers, CP & L, Duke, and Virginia
Electric & Power Company have done
a mammoth job in the past 25 years in
continuing to construct new facilities to
keep ahead of power demand, but it re
quired REA to get power service to^ the
sparsely settled sections.
The unpleasantness of 1965 (con
tinuing still) notwithstanding, it has
been a basic premise of this newspaper
that, where the utilities were keeping
the lines hot, REA and now the cities,
had little business in power generation.
Conversely, in areas where utilities
are not doing the job, then pubhe gen
eration of power becomes a must.
But it’s still not wrong for the cities
to take a look at the prospects of creat
ing some power of their own.
Tax Exemptions
With Congressional primaries a-
round the corner, Washington’s anxious,
435 House members and a third of the
3enatQrs, naturally want to appa^r tax
cut minded.
In the Senate, both Republicans and
Democrats are vying for the honor of
returning to tell their constituents, "We
did it.”
Meantime, President Nixon’s aides
are threatening a veto of proposals to
raise personal income tax e.xemptions
It wouldvappear high time the $600
exemption adopted long ago be increas
ed.
Congratulations and best wishes to
Don Jones, new chairman of the city’s
human relations committee, to Mrs. Jun-
ious Haywood and Kyle Smith, newly-
named members, and to the other mem
bers who were re-appointed.
The Mayor still needs addresses of
Kings Mountain area servicemen sen-
ing overseas, and he heeds them by Fri
day.
MABTIN'H
HffiDlCINE
Ingredients: Bits oj humor,
wisdom, humor and com
ments. Directions: Take
weekiv, if possible, but a-
void overdosage.
WELCOME!
It’s motto is “The Soutltern
Serves the South".
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The Southern Railway, now
grown to well over lO.OUO miles
of track — from Washington to
New Orleans and snaking out
through Illinois to St. Louis on
the Mississippi — is this year cele
brating its 75th anniversary.
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On November 2, the Birming
ham News published a special
section devoted to the three-quart
er century history of the South
ern and many interesting reports
arc included.
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One writer, Garland Reeves of
(he News staff, wrote of the
rough times of 1S2J, as the na
tion strived to ready itself for
the 20th century. Some of tlie
copy reads like newspapers of to
day.
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Item: In Birmingham Rube
Barrow was just two years in
his grave, shot while trying to
escape. In Chicago 186 police fired
on 200 persons in Haymarket
Square in what some called a po
lice riot.
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Item; The year before a great
panic had swept the country like
tornadoes. President Grover
Cleveland called out federal
troops to end a Pullman strike
led by Socialist Eugene V. Debs
and Coxey’s army of 200,00 un
employed marched on Washing
ton.
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Ala'oama tempera -waxed
HI
there!
KINGS MOUNTAIN
Hospital Log
VISITINO HOURS
visii
3 ta 4 p.m. and 7 to 8 p-m-
DoUy 10:30 To 11:30
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then as now. Two law partners
differed on choice for governor.
They decided to settle the dif
ference with dueling guns and
only one partner was around to
vote.
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But the country was progress
ing too. As Reeves wrote it:
Goodbye, gaslight. Hello, elec
tricity! Telephones were ringing
and Henry Ford’s noisy, ugly,
persistent horselesi, carriages
were beginning to appear like
poor relations at a rich man’s
funeral."
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Aje^'T'Lh-y
Viewpoints of ^)ther Editc»:s
THE GLORY OF WORK
Bandleader Lawrence Welk, well
known for his “champagne” mu
sic, believes "...A human being
grows and prospers through the
dignity of work. Rather than give
a man money simply because he
exists.. .let us educate him to the
glory that can be found in work..
and then bend every effort toward
helping him find and hold a job.”
Mr. Welk also has a word to
say on the effect of a guaranteed
annual income on our children.
He believes: . A child raised in
an atmosphere of defeat and ap-
TO THINK ABOUT
TOO MUCH MONEY?
Mrs. Minnie B. Burris
Lawson H- Dover
Jay Green
Mrs. Minnie Lee Harry
Mrs. Effie D. Jackson
Hasting Jack.son
Mrs. Carrie F. Long
Mrs. .Marry Essie Melnnes
Mrs. Mamie Delia Panther
Jesse Lee Ramsey
William Ivy Roper
Mrs. Guy Schofield
Mrs. Verna R. Slater
Sam Williams, Sr.
Billy M. Bagwell
Mrs. Hettie R. Caldwell
Keith Manson Hawkins
Sidney Dulin Huffstetler
Felix Johnson, Jr.
Mrs. John Ingram
Mrs. Cora Laughter
Danny Eugene Ledford
Samuel Curry Moore
Janies Andrew 'Moss
Kay France's Phillips
.Mrs. Jake Robinson
Willard Hugh Ross
Barbara Sue Smith
Mrp. Saia Lee Snider
MrL Ora E. Taylor
Robert David Woodside
Homer Davis Woodward
Max Durant Baxter
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ADMITTED THURSDAY
Artliur Wright Huffstetler
Joyce Elaine Martin
FRIDAY
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Rozellia
Mrs. Rozellia P. Dysart
Kimberly L. Holland
.Mrs. Leroy Kale
Mrs. Howard T. Leigh
Jim.my Wayne Stewart
Mrs. Ella Mae Hughes
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ADMITTED SATURDAY
We came across a stbry in an [ One of the cruellest economic
old third-grade reader the other 1 paradoxes in the United States is
day. It is so apropos to the evi
dent activities of some of our na
tional politicians we’d like to re
peat it here and recommend its
obvious moral to the whole of the
United States Congress.
It seems there was once an old
man and a boy who started to
town one day, leading their don
key. They’d been on their way
only a short time when they met
a fellow citizen who told them it
was ridiculous for both of them to
Edison’s kinettoscope made its; athy, and taught to expect that „Tand eamnrthe dom
f 1 _ T..^ 1 ov/opv nApH will hA takpn rarn _**'a r. . .
first public showing and a Jus- >»is every need will be taken care | should ride, he
"«? a?v.T.p I'n'r; ^
and Governor John Motley More
head’s great efforts to get that
great show on the road. The
state was to supply two million
encouraged early to earn extra
pennies by shining shoes or sell-
fit
when private investments reached jog newspapers or doing house-
a million, according to the bill tasks, stands a much better
passed b;- the House. But there chance of achieving his pals
was trouble in the Senate. The than a child who is taught to do
vote was 22 to 22. Speaker Graves notliing.
These words of wisdom from a
committed political suicide by
voting “aye”, counter to the wish-i man of music and entertainment
es of his party and constituents, come as a refreshing break in the
I daily litany of security without
General Joseph E. Johnston,! effort that wo hear on every side,
the Confederate (general, had con -. McDowell News
sideroble connection with rail- .-TT-r-Dr-rw
roads. After demolishing track | THE BELEAGUERED
and yards during the Battle of( WOLF
There’s an interesting stofY, Shortly afterwards, they met
about the North Carolina Ra't'i 1 a- citizen. This citizen was
road, still owned by the state,; begmnmg p his life, and he
and Governor John Motiev More- never know the thrill of achieve- mon vuae walk.
ment on his own. A child who ii
iding and the old men was walk
ng. Still eager to-please, the old
man told the boy to get down. He
then mounted and they contin
ued their journey.
They met another citizen. This
fellow was indignant that the old
man was riding and the boy walk
ing. Ever willing to please, the
old man had the boy dismounted
and remounted him.self. They con
tinued their journey.
The next fellow they met was
displeased that either of them
should walk. He said they both
ought to ride the donkey. Still
hopeful of pleasing, the old man
that millions of elderly Ameri
cans are trying to eke out their
living from a Social Security pit
tance while the Social Security’s
coffers are overflowing with mon
ey.
President Nixon has advanced
proposals that would eliminate
the paradox by boosting Social
Security benefits by at least 10
per cent, by expanding the cover
age of the Social Security pro
gram, and by transferring revenue
to cover the soaring hospital costs
that menace Medicare’s hospital
insurance trust fund with bank
ruptcy.
Thomas Kenneth Green
Mrs. James F. Moore
Willie James Bell
ADMITTED SUNDAY
Ferris P. Bridges
Mrs. Buren L. Dellinger
Carl Wade Foster
Mrs. John Ingram
Mrs. James Ledford
Mrs. Lanie B. Bridges
ADMITTED MONDAY
Secretary of Health, Education
and Welfare Robert Finch, ac
cording to a recent article in Bus
iness Week has predicted that at
present rates a tidal waVe of pay
roll tax money will dump $30
billion to $40 billion of reserves
into the Social Security trust
fund.
Robert J. Myers, chief actuary
of the Social Security administra
tion, estimates that the OASDI
(Old Age and Survivors Disability
Insurance) fund will have a sur
plus ol $75.3 billion by the end
of fiscal 1973 — or $11 billion
higher than the forecast made a
year ago.
Unlike some of the more in-
Atlanta, Johnston became presi- i Two species of American i I*'® donkey’s back,
dent of the Alabama & Tennessee! evolves ■“ the eastern timber wolf i They hadn t gone much farther
River road in 1S66. President l and the Texas red wolf —- are in- ’ before they met a man ^ who
Cleveland appointed his commis-,. pjujjptj jn the U. 9. Department of i them for riding
Biotier of railroads in 1885. Dur- j the Interior’s list of endangered | Ij'jle donkey. Ever tractable,
ing his six years of service he I species of wildlife. According to i J^e old rnan and boy got off.'They
served as pdllbearer at the funer-l an MGM documentary film about i found ® 'ong pole, tied the don-
a-ls of three former adversiries—| to be released, the present count. f®®*- together and ran the
President U. S. Grant, Generali of wolves in the United States,
George MdClellan, and Generalj except for a scattered few strug-
Williatn Tecumeeh Sherman, his -gUng for existence here and there,
assistant at Atlanta. It was at is concentrated in two states—
Sherman’s funeral that Johnston; about 300 in Minnesota and about
ordered the boy to join him or, tractable problems of financial
inequity in American society, the
Social Security fund's embarrass
ment of riches can be easily and |
caught a cold which ended his own
life.
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Southern is a patchwork of
many roads which the parent
either owns or has controlling in
terest. During its 75 years. It has
employed the services of seven
men, all but one native Southern-
5,000 in Alaska.
Considering these figures, we
find cause for vigorous protest a-
gainst what amounts to an ex
termination campaign in Alaska.
A bounty of 50 a head is offered,
and hunters are making use of
airplanes in what they are pleas
ed to call the sport of wolf hunt
ers, though some had some valu- ing. At this rate. 5,000 wolves will
able Yankee connections, includ-| not last long. This is the kind of
ing Sam Spencer, who was re-1 reckless shortsightedness that has
ceiver in bankruptcy for thej brought some species of wildlife
Richmond & Danvill and the East i to extinction in the pa.st, and can
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia. I do so again.
He started putting the complex to-1 The forthcoming documentary,
gether during that period and his) “The Wolf Men,” scheduled on the
membership on the board of a' NBC television network for Nov-
large New York banking firm: ember 18 at 7:30 p.m., seek.s to
helped mightily. Second was Will-1 reach those who have been all
iam Finley, who donbled track' too uniformed concerning this re-
and earnings. ' markable, intelligent — and fast
m.]]] ! vanishing — species of American
Fairfax Harrison, No. 3, wrotej wildlife,
a book 'The Legal History of tbe| Christian Science Monitor
Lines of Railroad of Southern ————
Railway Company,” still the) SAVED, NOT PAVED
polo between them. They each
shouldered an end of the pole and
continued their journey, the poor
donkey dangling from the pole
upside down between them.
They came to a bridge, and in
crossing the donkey became ex
cited. In the ensuing commotion
the pole slipped off their should
ers and donkey, pole and all, fell
into the deep water and disap
peared.
Said the old man: “This is what
comes of trying to please every
body. Wo really pleased no one
and lost our donkey in the bar
gain.
Think about it, gentlemen.
Forest City Courier
Mrs. Mattie S. Wise
Rctger Eugene Gee
Mrs. Samuel A. Nash,
Jr.
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Hubert Lee Grigg
Mrs. John Phillip Adams
Mrs. Eugene Hale
John Nevette Hughes
Ransom Pinkney Pruett
Mrs. Flora Best Cantrell
Mrs. Ralph G. Ware
Frank Julius Setzer. Jr.
BOX OmCE OPENS AT 6:001
SHOW STARTS AT 7:00
^klNGS^^UNTAIN^
bessemII city
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THEATRE
happily resolved by the U. S. gov'
ernment simply by apportioning
more money among more elderly
people who need it. Boston Her
ald Traveler
ACHIEVEMENT N^HT
4-H Achievement .'iight of
Dixon Community 4-H club will
be held Saturday, December
13th, at 6:30 p.m. at Dixon
Presbyterian church. Awards
will be presented to 4-H’ers for
achievement during the past
year. A covered dish supper will
be served.
ALWAYS $1.50 A CARLOADll
THURS. FRI. SAT. 3 HITSI
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stond^d reference when title; los Angeie.-:, with lu pro-
questions arise. Ernest E. Norris, {..pways, has now deidd-
prwident from 1M7 to 1951, was pj jjjgj gome things are more im-
laMed the ^uths Number 1; portant on the scale of social val-
salMman, a bowter of the region ■ ypg moving traffic taster.
Md a successful one. Hairy A., The city council recently agreed
DeButts was an^experion"''-. -ail- t’lat a six lane roadway should
road man of 35 ye.-”-' -’be- he pp built through 575 acres of
took O'" * ' -1 WillioTn 1 - V,, ,
'.s. A..d William
Eroona.-i v>as too.
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I met Mr. Brosnan and heard
him speak at Gardner-Webb in
the spring of ’64. John Henry
Moss had an appointment with
him before the speaking and
when a car approached and a tall
figure emerged, John remarked,
“That's him. You can almost see
the fire coming out of his eye."
John proved correct.
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Graham Clayton is the current
greenery known as Elysian park.
City engineers insisted that the
lilghway was essential. A group
of concerned citizens thought
preservation of the park was more
essential. It took them eight years
to convince city fathers that the
park should be saved, not paved.'
A long fight but a great victory!
— Milwaukee Journal
man bossing the Southern, has a
model in his backyard run
ning along 40 feet of track.
BROKEN GLASS
s.
The acci(jental breakage o(
g!v ss in the home can cause a
serious cut H not removed
quickly and properly. Use a
broom and dustpan, a piece of
cardboard or heavy gloves to
pick up the big pieces. Do not
use bare hands. Finally use a
wad of cotton to pick up the
very small chips. Always put
broken glass in a cardboard
container or in heavily wrap*
ped newspaper for disposal
and mark the package '‘Bro*
ken Glass. ' Never dump glass
in a wastebasket or garbage
can where it can injure others.
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