North Carolina Newspapers

faqe 2 S '" ^ EstcAIIshed 1889 • The Kiiifi Moniila{n Heral4 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion ot the general welfare and publlahed lor the enlightenn.ent, entertainment and benefit of the cltlzeps of Kings M^faln 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., Sjsnjffi under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EOJTQRIAL DEPAHTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Ellzabefh Stewart Circulation Mpna^er and Society Editor MUs Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Rocky Marlain Jim Caudill Allen Myere PaulJackson Frank Barber Gary Kiser Ray Parker SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE - BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR.... $3.50 SIX MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS S12S PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739.5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Uxr luiup'iliililii tinr in (mol)ier vMlioiil gnidg imj. ' / petrr J^-B Handles Himself Well Tax AmbSgiiities Pro.sidenI Richard M. Ni.\on, an old hand, longtime predecessor to Spiro Ag- new in damning the press (e g. follow ing the California gubernatorial election he lost to Pat Brown in 1962) managed very well in his Monday night press con ference. Be it said for the representatives of the fourth estate, of course excepting Miss McClendon, that they treated the ^Pi’esidenL-wf4Jr-!4>e—eourtc.sy the office deserves in putting to him 28 questions in the cour.se of the conference. While the oil and natural gas indus try was on the griddle concerning its top Merriman Smith, of United Press International, dean of White Pre.ss cor respondents, was recognized by the President for the first question. «rawcr acpictTon^ijilow^nce, other groups were slipping about, oRen in the dark of night to protect their little red wagons as far as the income tax laws were con cerning. On Wednesday, in reviewing the con ference, Mr. Smith said the consensus of the press group was that Mr. Nixon handled himself well, answered the ques tions succinctly, and recalled days of the always frank President Harry Truman. Mr. Nixon becomes the first President since Mr. Truman, Reporter Smith re lated, to answer a press-put question with one word. To the question could Mr. Nixon bring himself to let the $800 personal income tax exemption pass without a veto, Mr. Nixon answered, “No.” On Tuesday morning was detailed the business ot the investment tax cre dit. This was a device propiofed by the late President John F. Kennedy to spur a lagging economy. Simply, seven per cent of the cost of new equipment in the ygar of its purchase, qualifies for a tax deduction It was suspended, then re stored. President Nixdn surprised on April 21 when he recommended the in vestment tax credit be abolished. President Nixon believes in doing his home work, Reporter Smith related, and had .spent the weekend prior at Camp David (after returning from Texas 15, Arkansas 14) absorbing background ma terial on predictable questions. Suddenly it was learned that great numbers of mammoth orders for capital equipment had been placed on the two days immediatejy {ireceeding April 21, the two days being Saturday and Sun day, not customary business transaction days. Boiled down 29 firms were going to beat the gun and save themselves $39 million via the investment tax credit The press, indeed, must be slipping, for there wasn’t a sly sleeper among the 28. President Nixon has learned, since his low point of California ’62. The soft answer, as the Bible says, turneth away wrath. On Wednesday morning, the news related, the charitable foundations had being doing heavy in-fighting on the pro posal to tax their income (noyv non-tax- able) by 7.5 percent. Several, notajbiy the Kellpg Foup- dation hpd been succes.<fful, ‘thus farj in getting itself exempted. For Adults. Too Chr|slmas Notes An oyster, sinking to the bottom of the sea and breathing in food, or an eagle, given strong wings, a bill and claws and left to earn his own livlihood? Give to the Empty Stocking Fupd. Give used and maimed toys for tots. The Jaycees will refurbish and mend them and give them tq youngsters who otherwise would be without oh Christ mas morning Three levels of life: 1) I’ll live and help you to live; 2) I’ll live and let you live; 3) I’ll live if it takes your rights. Buy a Jaycetf Christmas tree. It was a sermon of sorts, though not delivered in church, and the parishioners were the Kings Mountain high school football squad, their mentors and mem bers of the Kings Mountain Lions club and their guests. Down 6qffney-||r^y ^ ' KINGS MOUNTAIN HEHA)J). KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C The “preacher” was Pride Rattorree, freshman coach at the University of South Carolina. There wa? big news at Gaffney this week as Timken Roller Bearing Company announced it was Ruilding a $50 mUlion plant on U. S. 29 about a piile south of the city. , Mr Rattorree, Kings Mountain home-growm, thinks the famed quotation of the late Grantland Rice “it isn’t whether you win or lose but the way you play the game” stops a bit short.Mr. Rattorree thinks a man, or team, can be sportsmanlike and win too. Many factors, as they qlp, entered in to Timken’s decision to Choose tlie |Gaff- ney site, among them avaifabUii^ of la bor, a non-humid climate, quick access to Charlotte, the Carollnas largest city, good transport, to mention a few. He listed these five questions which he declared require affirmative answers for a team to w'in on the athletic field or a person to win on the field of life: Timken’s major business activity is manufacture of auto parts and accessor ies. It also serves the rail industry. 1) What kind of mental and physi cal condition am I in? Rumor prior to Timken’s announce ment was that a mpjor auto mdriufa'cture would be the npw citizen .Perhaps a company majoring in the au'to parts business is the'next best. 2) Am I mentally tough? 3) Can I give 100 percent? Certainly Timken is a solid indus- trjal citizen wjth current assets of $194 million and a record of dividend pay ments tp its stocitholders since' IMl 4) Do I cooperate with my teacher and coach (do you say “HE flunked me?) 5) Do I learn and grow? Pretty solid philosophy, yps? A best bow to Gaffney and neighbor ing Cherokee County on obtaining a new industrial citizen, a major diversification from textiles in textile Cherokee. Congratulations to SP/4 Lairy N. Morgejj. Qf the Green Beret, commehded for meritorious service in Vietnam. WABTIN'S MBDICINE Thursday, December 1969 Ingredients: Bits of humor, wisdom, humor and com ments. Directions: Take weekly, if •possible, but a- void overdosage. Charles Blanton allowed it would be liighly irregular for a Tar Heel to be introducing a Gamecock as speaker ot the evo ning, wei-o it not for the fact that Pride Ratlerree was 11 a hometown boy and 2l Pride and he were childhood neighbors (West Gold street). Equity is seldom what people want when equity hits them in the area of their pocketbooks. m-m Chnries added, “Back then we kne^v Coach Ratterree as ‘Dunk’. I don’t know where he got the nicknane, nor why. Perhaps he can enlighten us about that.” m-m It was Charles’ way of getting. Pride G. Ratterree to the rost-! riun of the Kings Mountain Lions club's 30fh annual football ban quet Tuesday night. Pride didn't take the bait, though and he al luded to it when he pointwl to a young lad in the audience and said, “When I was in high school I wasn’t any bigger than little Red there.” This Christmas can I hang up a pair of your pantyhose?" /a KINGS MOUNTAIN i Hospital Log VISITINO HOURS 3 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 3 pan. Daily 10:30 To 11:30 oa. Witness, thus, the wailing and gnashing of teeth as the Congress at tempts to make t|ie federal income laws more equitable. m-m In the ta’lkiest foUov/ing the session, Coaoh Ratterree guessed he won the nicltname because of his small stature and thought that V/emdell Phifer» his big-and- brawny neighbor, dubb^ him Dunk , Wendell told me “no”, on the check-out, and referred me to his brother Menzeli. But Menzell, too, disclaimed the dis tinction. m-m Some logical light on the teas- er ic furnished-bv Muyur John - — Henry Moss who recalls ques- ^ning scOTO years ago two of Ride’s early aige buddies, R, G. Plonk and Eddie Campbell. They said Pride won the nickname due to his proclivity for doughnuts. THE KHULYAGAS CHANT; Tiewpoints of Other Editors Ferris P. Bridges Mrs. Minnie B. Burris L.awson 11. Dover Hubert Lee Grigg „ Arthur Wright Huffsleller John Nevette Hughes .Mr.s. Effie D. Jackson Hasting Jackson Mrs. Mary Essie 'Meinnes Ransom Pinkney Pruell Jesse Lee Ramsey William Ivy Roper Sam Williams, Sr. •Mrs. Ralph G. Ware Mrs. .Mattie S. Wi-so Billy Bagwell Mrs. Duiant Ba.xter Mrs. John R. Bell •Mrs. Flora B. Cantreq .Mis. James E. Ellison John Stokes Gladden Kimberly Lyvonne Holland Sylvia Claris.sa Horton Sidney Dulin Iluffstetler Mrs. Coia H. Laughter Billy Basil Lovelace Samuel Curry Moore Mrs. VV'illlam H. Warlick Homer David Woodward ADMITTED TUESDAY Mrs. James B. Ellison Mrs. Woodrow Wells ADMITTED FRIDAY Willie Guyton, Jr. J. B. Hawkins Mickey Carson Sisk We think that Penn State pro fessor and his 200 students have MANY-NATIONED STAR TREK 3^°“*‘heir word - launching ’ SLMe^ vemurrin^makmgdts^mMn one of the mo.st Quariutv after nron#»riv /iiir»Di.irT’ t__jr r.. , , I valuable resource*? of thi«s nianot I GLACIER RESOURCES I Glaciers, the eternal ice of I legendary fame, .soon may be Q. — ajiu ill to'-'**'- (.iis.li wLrivi • lauiiLiiiu^ quantity after properly dunking; the hard way. They haven’t in- them in K/vf I _1 , , . cups of coffee. 1 eluded a meaning for their dte- Prides address to the ’69j tionary-candidate. Mountameers w a s essentially| The word is: “khulyagus.” Dr. “ couple, Gerald Phillips told his class that like^ 11°^ Wit champs; jf a word-launching could spring McKin^ev PonnsylvaniLnd ^ I Montana, that word had a chance During his boyhood here, recalled, a man with a mule T specialized in the spring in break-' ® dictionary of American --- ’ • -- ® ' slang. And Scrabble players would landings-"indeed'iTs w^o7; sFace! this planet. exploit - a worlJ - wide rather ° ‘'.“a '^^ter ti-nr, . they are unequalcd, and larirelv ing ground for Kings Mountain' Scrabble players would i js -sure to be gardens. Business was pretty ^ everlastingly grateful for! ^Hl be some whi good, as no self-respecting Kings! “ nnan^-tL w ; Mountain citizen of that dayl begining with “k-h.” failed to plant a few raws of! ^e seem to recall that than a purely American underlak-l unequalcd, and largely ing? Should there, for instance, I Amortno-. i » j be invitations to the Russians, the 1 British, or anyone else, to send an I nral^nmoff hot astronaut along on a moon-bound „poi„<,i„t hoc nlanf hydro- snareenff? geologist has plans to harness the ‘ ■ ! glaciers of southern Greenland bj- hastening the melting action of With other moon visits by Ap- | the sun. polios 13, 14, 15, the general ques- Dr. Hans Stauber intends to tion is sure to be pondered. There | cover the ice with dark substances who will say, right' which will absorb more of thei ADMITTED SATURDAY Mrs. Cicero H. Falls Mrs. Donald E. Richardson ■Mrs. Bobby D. Short Mrs. Raymond M. M(d>3well Mrs; Raymond T. Popwoll ADMITTED SUNDAY Mrs. W'anda Barber Ben P. 'Barrett Mrs. Jennie S. Yelton Mrs. Odus Shelton Johnnie Wilson, Sr. Mrs. William James Queen Ganes Leonard Anderson corn, beans and potatoes. As one Englishmen chalked a word poverty, and toward bridging the (spring season approached, a doc-lover town and thereby introduc^^u.economic ean be .for friend noted the man pining'it into the English language — tween the are to be joint undertakings by tlie nations of earth, they should be directed to ward eradication of hunger and sun’s rays and double, he be- ADMITTED MONDAY Grady C. Cartee Mrs. William M. Dulin Wiley Albert West Mrs. Sallie Mae Hord Luther Phillip Bakei-, III Mrs. Bobby R. Bridges Thomas Eugene House Cathy -Merita McCoy Winfford Albert Russell Walter Plato Whitaker Mrs. David McCleave Mrs. Dennis L. Goforth Surely there should be no let-up in developing joint drives to rem edy earth’s awesome terrestrial plights. But if space exploration, is to continue, as seems certain, | then the question does loom f" S',® '^®*' Inquired ' his was it "quiz?” But most slang ; countries, right here on earth" , troiaie. The plowman replied words spring up with language I that his mule had aged and was | and meaning combined. Such as ■quite unlikely to make the seas-j "snolygoster," meaning a politl- oh. What were the gardeners to, clan who has more oratory than j ability. Or “cattywampus,” mean- m-m I ing cariously a liobgoblin, vermin. The doctor thought he hud a or any rip-roaring something or uu<.-Hiiun aoes loo remedy handed the plowman ctlie.’. These concoctions are more “how wide the participation?” two pills one red and the other colorful than such once - slang' blue, with the order to give the wnrdf -i.- “hliyyard ” “hlnnner” mrl o .... mule the red one first, tten fol-| -' And they sXlv d^ a'* with low the next day with the blue. j Mo^w is under way. in exchang- Several days later the .doctor' ' , , - . esof space data. Senator Fulbright his rounteni^ce ^^ecting hutton.s” and a “khul- ^ ulatlon and coordination ot space th? doctor asked, did his ‘script'to say this wonderful have urged the internationaliza- word can mean anything you Bon of space efforts. Moon rocks lieves, the melting action. The, runoff will be captured in reser-1 ADMITTED TUESDAY voirs and fed into hydro-electrfc' Kenneth A, Davis turbines. i ' With three-fourths of Jhe fresh wafer in the world locked In I' glacier ice, the prospect of elec-1 trlcity produced by glatder-povrer is tantalizing. I .The Times (Son Mateo, Calif.) I Mrs. Charles A. Mason Mrs. Morris L. Travis Vincent Dewey Bradshaw Brady Martin Althea Melissa McClain Jack Cecil Brown Mrs. Rosa S. Smilh #(• COMEDY CORNER m-m ‘'Best you ever saw,” the plow man smiled. “1 put thqt big old red pill down my mule’s throat and I )ia<lu’t talten the blue one. I’d never have caught that danged mule!” m-m In the depression days when , _ coin wias hard to come by. Pride tiful, Inc recalled. Neighbor Charles ,Carpenter, Jr., a bit word can mean „ . - want it to. ' have gone to some foreign labora- —rhristian Science Monitor •e''>e.s. The basic question is: what -is practicaf and what is possible? I Still, when one thinks of the CUTTING LITTER I global impact of a joint astronaut z. u J volage to the 'moon—with, sav. “Automotive litter bugs are do- American, Russian. British person- ::: • . y . .American, itussian.British porson- positing one cubic yard of trash goodwill engen- on each rnile of American road dpred, the hopefulne.ss for man- every month. Keep America Beau- kinj, „utwei.^h any obstacles. 'Die Russians would be expected to reciprocate by admitt ing other nations to their space programs. __ the national litter pre- T. vention association said yoster- jA., a oil older, in-i day”—news item from The New formed Pride they were going to! York Times, the ball game. This was back in| Wouldn’t tlie installation of a the days when Julian Park, in! litter bag as standard equipment front of the water works on Deal on every new car go along way street, was the ballyard. Pridej toward reducing this appalling to- wanted to know how they’d get tal? Many Uioughtful motorists in without a ticket. Charlie re-1 buy such bags and install them plied they’d use spring-and-falll under their dashboards on their tickets. Explained Charlie, “We: own initiative but, many more do ‘J Pto top of the fence, then: tot- Automobile manufacturers ? '1’.® tJmted States fall over oa ^he other side.’VK-ase take note. pLinif " J^v‘p Tdf i ventures, manned or unmanTd! day- Pride said, Policenian Greel would .serve to reduce the gigan- Ware was on the faU side and] NOISE AND SMOKE <'osts involved — assuming oth- The United States might alter natively offer — free or for a fee — American rockets, launching and tracking facilities to any na tion wishing to make a moon voyage. Or it could propose that "i had to buy the little one to keep the watchdog awokt!" er countries were willing to foot part of the bill. brandished his billy at the pair “We nan like scared dogs,” PrideJ Both air passengers and persons remembers. i on the ground — especially home- n»-n» I owners near airports—will watch 1 i- Many of us used that kind of! with interest moves to control ® Tommy Ellison said he was too, jetliner noise and .smoke. turhiff Wn Plancf-ven- little to reach the top Of the| The federal aviation adminis- a- fence, gained admission via theitratlon says that it will require means now. ditch in right - centerfield. I plane makers Lockheed, Boeing; used thlat entrance, too. ' and Douglas to keep the noise lev- ‘els on new jumbo jet below 108 effective perceived noise level! decibels, about 10 less than the present Boeing 707. Redu'otion by i 10 decibels has the effect of cut- Christian Science Monitor m-m Pride called attention to the fact that Jake Early ~was the first Kings Mountain man to play in basebaJl’s major leagues.; me ei When Pride was a professional! 'mg the noise by half, football Chicago Cardinal, his ALARMS, DIVERSIONS team was in New York to play the Giants. Pride took pride in carrying three tcrniniaies Yankee Et^um whei ' ..'.i atoia \.i..e ..iiiyLig the Yankees and waxed even more prideful (Adxen Jiake got a hit. m-m Pride was a high school play er iguest at the first banquet in 1939. Thirty j-ears later he was the speaker, the fifth to repre sent the ^uth Carolina Game cocks (Rex Enright three times, Warren Geise once) at the al ways enjoyable Lions club foot ball party. Meanwhile the state of New Jersey, concerned about air pollu- ,,, tion at the Newark airport, has fp R'arled legal action to force sev en airlines to convert 3,000 jets landing there to smokeless opera tion by October, 1971. The airlines agree that some thing must be done but say they ran’t.meet the conversion dead line because of the engine-mak ers’ production schedules. They note that new jets delivered after next February will be smokeless. The air isn’t going to be cleared of jets’ thunder and belching smoke immediately. But it good to know that official patience is run ning out. Milwaukot Journal Lazy people cause progre.ss, someone once observed, by invent ing machines to do their jobs for them. Now progress has taken another giant step forward: An alarm clock has been marketed with seven permanent .settings, one for each day of the week — thus ending the drudgery of hav ing to pull out that alarm pin every day. We don’t know what you’ll do with the leisure time you’ll be I gaining from this, but we have an I idea for ourself. We’ll probably j try to Invent an alarm clock that I turns itself right off and lets us j go back to sleep. | Cbicogo Doily Nows' Keep Yonr Radio Kal Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between