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EttoblUhed 1889
Tlie Xiiigs Monnlain Herald
A weekly riewspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and publiahed
for the enlightenn.ent, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain
and Ite vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing Mouse.
Entered as second class matter. at the pqat office at Kings Mountain, N. C, 28088
under Act of Congreas of March 3, 1873.
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
The Hard ^s iMy iShepherd, J ^all mot %vant. Paalm 2S;J.
Thow Time
A February thaw is a taste of spring
—or anyway, March, when April isn’t
far behind.
It muddies your shoes—but it polish
es your hopes, a little.
The department store windows are
already bursting forth with spring. An
unexpected chirping from the hedge is
also an omen.
The weatherman gets the blame for
the higher utility bills we are receiving
this month. And Thursday could bring
more cold weather.
So, the wary read these statements
skeptically with more appreciation for
their long-range significance than for
what tomorrow may bring.
No Cavities?
The Kings Mountain Jaycees are
.spearheading the project, the dentists
say “yea” and the medical association
eniaorses.
Still, another group says “no.”
The item is fluoridating of the city’s
water supply.
Saturday will be the third time citi
zens of this city have voted on the ques
tion of whether to add sodium fluoride
to the city water supply. City officials
have pledged themselves to abide by
the voice of the electorate.
Let us hope citizens have made up
their minds.
Hats Oil
Congratulations are in order to:
Sgt. Michael Beam, named Airman
of tl)e Year by the 702P .Radar Squad-
rofi at Hunter Army Airfield, Ga.
The Kings Mo.untain Girl Scouts,
who are joining others from a three-
coun^ area in launching a fund drive
for ^00.000 to build a new Girl Scout
home at Golden Valley in Rutherford
Cpumy.
•Boimie Hinnant, Donna Jones and
Beyiwrly Lynch, named winners of the
“ His ^ ‘
DAR Histoiy Essay Contests in the ele
mentary schools oLthe distrieft.
Kenneth Pruitt, promoted by SAR
Manufacturing to sales manager in
charge of SAR’s Southeastern United
States operation. Kings Mountain’s loss
is Tupelo, Mississippi’s gain.
Senator Harris?
J. Ollie Harris, Sr. has served well
as .Cleveland County Coroner for 24
years.
His friends wish him well in his
maiden voyage into state politics as he
makes a bid for a .seat in the North
Carolina Senate.
As we have stated before on these
pages, we feel Senator Jack White serv
ed Cleveland-Gaston Counties well for
three terms in the Senate.
He .served in 1968-69 as co-chair-
mao of the important N. C. Local Gov
ernment Study Commission appointed
to explore the needs and prospects of all
local government.
turni fuU-<,i|iM to.hiB .«w4)Eactlct.
Si
Costly Honeymoon
The Boston Herald Traveler noted
recently that the African island of Zan
zibar has taken a drastic step to protect
one of its most valuable resources.
So says The Traveler; So many over
seas suitors have taken brides from the
island that the female population is
dwindling and the males are beginning
to howl. Henceforth, declares the gov
ernment, Zanzibar maidens are not for
export, unless the husband-to-be is will
ing to pay a departure tax of $17,200
per girl.
It is refreshing to discover, while
some underdeveloped countries bristle
over foreign exploitation of mineral re
sources and Western Europe worries
about the brain drain, that the Spice Is
land government has undertaken to hang
onto what it values most highly — its
ladyfolk.
Men may call the decree a tribute to
womanhood! feminists may regard it as
a repressive tactic and cynics may say
it is simply a cure for a balance-of-pay-
ments deficit.
But whatever, newlyweds will find
a honeymoon on the Tanzanian mainland
to be very, very expensive.
For a community to prosper, its citi
zens must always look ahead, must ex
amine its needs and make efforts to
fulfill them. City leaders have shown an
example: Federal funding does not come
overnight, but is a time-consuming pro
cess. Kings Mountain filed its applica
tion for assistance in upgrading down
town on November 23,1%6. Survey and
planning funds, and a grant reservation
in the amount of $892,000 were approved
in August 1968, almost two years after
the application was filed.
In three or four more months, the
“dream” will be moving from the plan
ning stage into the implementation
stage.
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of the
area, led by members of the Junior
Woman’s club, are marching for funds
to prevent birth defects. Give to the
March of Dimes when a solicitor calls
on you.
Sunday is Boy Scout Sunday.
Senator White introduced the legis
lation to give the city zoning authority
over the city’s reservoir being built on
Buffalo Creek and supported the admin
istration in all its unsuccesssful efforts
to have the bill passed.
He amended a bill which made pos
sible last week’s unsuccessful ABC elec
tion in Shelby and enables other munici
palities in Cleveland to hold similar
liquor referendums.
We wish the Senator'Vfell as he re-
KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Thi
Washington
Report
Tho White House anci the ma
Jority leadership in the Congress
have been on a collision course
for some time. Each has plotted
Its philosophical direction and
the wreckage washed up last
week in the fonm of the vetoed
appropriations bill containing op
erating funds for the Departments
of Labor and Health, Education
and Welfare. It was President
Nixon’s first veto and the action
by the House of Representatives
sustaining the President was the
first attempt to override a veto
in more than a decade. The epi-
.sode Involved the most intense
lobbying, botli for and against the
bill, both organized and unorgan
ized, that Washington has seen
in some time. Unfortnately, there
have been many distortions of the
actual situation which has occur
red in the heat of this rough and
fumble battle.
Chicken Little Could Be Right!
The
.\
Last April, the President re
quested that the Congress appro
priate 13 percent more money for
health, education and welfare
programs than it had spent for
the year before. To this, the Con-
gresB added $1.3 billion, with
most of the money earmarked for
education.
4®
A
A
There is no more popular cause
than education and in its decision
to force a compromise on this is
sue the majority leader^ip in
the Congress wanted to challenge
the President’s efforts to reorder
priorities and to balance the na
tional budget. A groundswell of
support was expected to justify
such a very large increase. Had
this tactic proved successful, it
could have encouraged similar po
litical imlschlef-(making with other
popular causes where there Is al-,
ways a need for more money than
is prudently available. The Presi
Viewpoints of Other Editors
DROPINS AND DROPOUTS,
ORDER YOUR
IGLOOS NOW
A.s this i.s being written, the
Why do some high school stu-
^nt certainly did not select this' dents wander aimle.ssly around
is-sue. It was presented to him by the hallways while others are in' thermometer has” been below
the majority leadership in such class studying? Why do some reg- i ffpe^ing in Boston for all of 1970
a way that he had little choice. i ularly absent themselves from Lg fg,, ,„ay got be startling
class, days at a time, while oth- j fgj. North Dakota, Ontario, or
The American people hardly! hang up nearly perfect attend- northern Norway, but is is some-
need to be reminded about the ance records? Why is the dropout
staggering statistics of inflation, record for the city’s academic high
They meet it bvery day in the schools so bad — and settn^
grocery store and they understand worse — with more than 2,400
that the Federal government’s un- students failing to stay long
checked spending habits of the t-our-h to earn a diploma. WMt
last ten years have been a major prompted the Improvement in the
•factor in.boosting prices. The Na- "holding power” of the citys vo-
'tion has spent over $50 billion cational high schools which lost
more than it has taken in in more than 900 two years ago, but
taxes. Interest on the public debt were able successfully to cut
alone has reached $18.8 billion their losses during the past year
which must be paid each year— to 52?
double the interest on the debt I .
paid 10 years ago. ' These are questions which come
I to mind when one reads about
AN ORDINANCE
FOR OUR TIME
what unusual for southern New
England. Now (sigh) we may
have' learned the reason. Long-
range weather forecasters say that
the world is in for a period of
cold, lasting centuries. It might
even, they warn, end with another
Ice Age.
, I the plight of Dunbar High School
More ar^d more, the American longer an elite academic
people feel themselves caught be- io..titutlon drawing on the entire
madm iffhof"'* ci< popuFation - and when
J moves fMtcr and ,rie^ to distill the meaning i wafer
taster. The President has been
That unique ordinance, adopt
ed last week by the Madison
Heights, Mich. City Council,
making parents subject to jail
and ,t,nes for the crimes of their
children is possibly not as out
landish as it might seem on its
face.
The Madison Heights ordi
nance provides that parents of
a youngster who commits two or
more crimes within a 12-month
period can be jaded up to 90
-.ays and/or fined $500.
The ordinance specified that it
shall be “unlawful for the par-
Hospital Log
viarriNO hours
S to 4 pjn. cuul 7 to B Rja.
DoUy 10:30 To Ui30 flJB*
I
Mrs. Mary T. Baker
Clarence Bratton
Hubert G. Clemmon.s
Mrs. Carrie F. Long
Arthur W. Huffsteller
Mrs. Zay Moore
Edith M. Plpnk
Mrs. Ida K. Rollins
William F. Stone, Sr.
Horace C. Allman
Mr.s. William H, Barnes
Mrs. Frank L. Blanton
Mrs. Dewitt Branch
William Henry Guy
Eugene David Hill
Sidney Dulln Huffstctler
(Dwen A. Huffstetler
Hubert R. Ijames, Sr.
Mrs. Cora H. Laughter
Robert L. Mills
Mary Joe McCarter
Mrs. Beverly D. Sellers
■Martin Luther Wilson, Sr.
Mr.s. John E. Dover
Mrs. Lewis Donaldson
Admitted Thursday
Mrs. Annie L. Blaldck
Edward Evans
Mrs. Rosa Lee Wri^t
Mrs. Julius Burton
Lucius A. Littlejohn, Sr.
William Edward Malachi, Jr.
Mrs. Frank Mltchem
Glenn W. Smith
I
Admitted Friday
Clarence J. Miller
Mrs. Donald J. Greene
.Mrs. J. B. Hawkins
Mrs. Jack Moss
Admitted Saturday
Robert .M. Brittian
Mrs. Eugene Foster
Mrs. Charles Jones
Mrs. Thomas F. Kilgote
Betty Faye Peeler
Mrs. Marion Oouthit
Admitted Sunday
Tonya Y. Foster
Mrs. Glenn R. McAbee
Willie R. McDonald '
ents or other such adult with i
According to. the head of the
government’s Environmental Sci
ences Services Administration,
world temperature has fallen
about six-tenths of one degree
since 19.50. That may not seem
much, but it is. actually, very j inai act'
impro&siv^ whore weather is con- | ^
corned It is found that a fall buttressed the idea: “Society ex-
of only several degrees ,n the , pp^js parents to exercise reW
ve-arlv .aeernire temnerature of
dren. We feel it’s time to define
wlhom the juvenile may be found
lesiding to fail to exercise par
ental control which results in
the minor committing any crim-
Admitted Monday
Grady C. Cartee
Charlie Benton
Marion J. Jackson
Mrs. Mamie D. Panther
Mrs. Audrye W. Putnam
Mrs. Eunice N. Wallace
Mrs. Janie S. Ward
Mrs. Lawrence E. Adams
Jacob H. Bowen
Mrs. Otto M. Paysour
Uoosevelt Rainey
Mrs. Iiisdne Robertson
Mrs. William O. Ruppe
Mas. James C. Wilson
Otis Whisnant
Edgar M. (?ooper
Ronnie V. Ramsey
yearly average temperature of
nr air can bring about
---.—.-..V ,.„o of the latest dropout report from : quite startling changes in plant g parent’s resoonsibilitv to his
poS afd to restoifstSf^^ [ children. It seems to mLhat the
policies ana to restore stability in jorms of percentages; the voea-1 aspects of life on earth. [notion some parents have about
tienal schools continue J" ® j f-gpb changes, up or down, also j 'heir children is one of ‘I don’t
hifrlur fJropfJUt rate than th tolling effect on wetfall, do as long as it
i"hap'' t.m amount snow again.st l-.ai.; ' doesn’t bother me’.”
dent that s ^g^^^ is^haji^ ^ and upon the. The constitutionality of the
-I result of the new length of time ponds, .stream.s, and ord.nanco is cloudy and will pro-
our finan/al situation. This is
not easy and takes time and
some of these policies are un
pleasant. Most unplea.sant of all
is the realization that we can
no longer .spend with sijch un
bridled abandon even for the best
of cau.ses.
pc- "g
P'idbly a:
programs to prepare students for
technologically advanced employ-
i ment. Spaces in the crowded vo-
In the debate, ttiere have been cational schools are much in do-
charges that failure to approve mand and almost as many stu-
those large increases would mean dents are becoming more perti-
that some schools would have to nent to the students’ needs. |
close. This was charged particu- ■
larly in school systems depending Some of those rejected by the,
upon money from the “impacted vocational schools turn up in thej
areas” program in which the Fed- academic hallways as aimless ]
eral government provides extra wanderers, marking time until
money to school systems where they become old enough to drop[
there is.a concentration of ehil- out That is only part of the prob-
harbors remain frozen. In the end
all this can affect, and most im
pressively, tlie h' ‘ght of the seas.
Looking out our windows we
haven’t noticed any great chang-
e.s yet. But we’ll have anoZher
look next week.
—Christian Science Monitor
LIFE'S LITTLE TRIALS
bably remain so ujitil it is tested.
There is also a hairy (luestion as
to how a lack of parental con
Admitiod Tuesday
Mrs. Dora M. Powell
Ernest Eugene Brown
Mrs. Larry E. Whitesides
Mrs. John I. George. Sr.
Michell Lynn Bolin
•Mrs. Henry R. Gilliland
Lett^ To EdHoi
Dear Voter — We interrupt to
bring you a messaige of great
need. Vote Yes. i
Heie is a heart to heart plea.
You may not know the ”if’s,
and’s anti but’s about fluoride.
You, man, woman, parents do
know your Kings Mountain doc-
trol leadin gto commission of a; tors and dentists. Take their ad-
crime could be determined with
any precision. Another question
is how the force of the ordinance
could be brought to bear effect
ively against, say, a widow or
widtiaicr with five children, or a
man and wife, both of whom
work and earn onl ya margina'l
incomes *
Even with Its eonstitutional
cloudiness and the nagging ques
tion as to when the ordinance
vice. They have told you biy' en
dorsing Fluoridation. Rely on
them. Vole Preventive tooth de-
I cay for all children Saturday,
Feb. 7 th.
! Sincerely
Mrs. Haywood E. Ijynch
February is Heart Month and Kings
Mountain’s month-long campaign against
heart disease got underway this week.
Make your check payable to the Kings
Mountain Heart Fund and address it to
Mrs. Charles Adams, Crescent Hill. Me
morial gifts should be reported to Mrs.
F. S. Morrison. Edgemont Driye.
There was good news last week that
Burlington Industries is giving to the
City of Kings Mountain more than an
acre of land adjoining Deal Street Park.
All citizens are appreciative of this in
terest by Burlington.
During the deep freeze we;
—Complained about the nat-
dren of military and Federal em- lem with the academic program g^gj ^g^ pressure running low.
ployecs. (I believe that this in- which functions tor too many pu-, —Ranted when the ear refused
equitable program needs to be re- pUs neither as a passport to col- : (g start and the radiator froze. ,
written but an appropriations bill lege nor an admi.ssion card to the ; —Raged when the water pipes] wilhout merit
is not the place to change the world of work. This is not to don-; expect such an ordinance
rule.s. With that in mind, the iRrate the importance of general, [would brin^ remarkable results
Pre.sident has assured that special studies, but to suggest a need to —Moaned when the transform-1 jg cbapel HIH where parental
hardships would receive attention, relate them, not only to whore , or kicked in and out, causing the
Clearly, the Nation’s school sys- the students are, but where they j electricity to come and go. | high, chances are that drug use
terns have been seriously upset ^te going. Doing this will draw | —Howled when t h e regular, gg^gg- teenagers, our biggest
by all these maneuvers. Some on all the learler.shio the school 'bowling night wa.s canceled. j ZZ—
have made plans to spend more administration no.sse.sses a“ well; -Groaned pitifully when the
and have made their commit- as the imagination and Initiative offko temperature hung at a brisk
of the teaching staff. | 55 degrees.
] —M.odc mucli to-do about froz-
One obvious an.swer would be gg qhappod cheeks, and
to increa.se rapidlv the number of . ggmb hands and ears after a
spaces available for the vocation- qgjgR trip to the pile of logs in
al education so much in demand. | j|,p pgp)^ yard.
, But the student need not be faced [ Tlien by chance we happemed
and I feel that to have done other-1 with an either / or ehoice. He („ pa^. some of those wretclied
^ wise would have added to the should be able to combine the novels on Brewer Lane and Eu-
j burden inflation is causing mil- two routes, leaving open his ulti- jrpne Street in the Nolls area the
lions of Americans who are suf- mate career choice. Washington : ggp,; vi.jth cardboard window.s,
fering bedause of it. We hope now schools are beginning to move I slanting roofs and rotting porches,
that the Congress will stop the.se in that direction with the new wnn tnFpnper walls that you can
problem in juvenile crime, would
be oitrbed conslderttbly. You can
be sure that family ties (or
reins) would be tightened quick-
ought or ought not to be enforc- [ ly if Mom and Dad were faced
ed, the idea still is not totally with the prospect of jail the sec
ond time Junior decided to try
Chapel Hill, of course, isn’t a-
bout to adopt any such ordi
nance, but that doesn’t mean we
don’t need it.
Chapel Hill Weekljl
ments already. Action on this bill
is already seven months late and
it is no wonder that so much
confusion abounds.
I supported the Presirleht’s veto
Palestine, Bethlehem, Mt. Carmel,
Ihe Sea of Galilee, the River Jordan,
Capernaum, Caesarea, the Dead Sea,
Jericho, and Bceisheba will all be in
cluded in slides Rev. and Mrs. James
Wilder will show at Kings Mountain
Baptist church Sunday night at 5:30. If
you want to take a trip to these faraway
places, the Wilders are relating some of
their travels in a three part series of pro
grams which began Sunday.
Get your city auto tag at Harris
Funeral Home ior one dollar.
careers development program one
that proposes to blend vocational
and academic programs at all
levels, even the elementary
grades. That is a long range
program which may fake
political side-shows and write a
bill the President can accept. It
ia the hope of many of us, too,
that Congressional leaders will
resist the temptation in the fu
ture to engage in the kind of . _
tactics this incident has shown, years or more to put into effect
I think the vigorous popular sup
port the Pre.sident has received
on It has been an unusual .sur
prise for officials in cshington
and th."'* the e-- lerler ■e of ail
this wll e rcintitibered for some
time to come.
see tlire.ugh and floors you can
stiek a font through, where wind
bowls imderneafh a house as well
as around and through it—and
we vvnmiered how anyone could
five have survived zero-degree weath
er with no more protection than
that. I
. _ , . , , . , And suddenly all our eomplaints'
—4 petty beyond beiie'f and
It is futile, of course to look
days when Dunbar sent 80
we wore as empty and hollow as
The Great Seal of North Caro
lina is kept in the Governor’s (Of
fice for impression upon official
papers. It is 2-14 inches in diam
eter and is the 8th Seal in North
. M i 1 t i ' VV\ >Vt fl t llipi y niill
^rcent of its student body to ,„g,^g g,i,grahle streets,
college. It IS too eas,y to .orgetj
that they were not really thei
good old day.s at all, but days
\vhen segregation flourished and a . ‘ —~ i
lurky few were .selected and oth-i dents for today’s society. ’The,
Chapel Hill Weekly
ors bypassed. A.s Senator Brooke j dropout figures provide a ready
recollected of his days at Dun-' 'nooasure of the .school’s success
bar, those wdio were ehosen lived I meeting that challenge. They
“in a eocoon,” unaware of “whatl o's" indicate that immediate and
, u- . T, . I we wore missing because of seg-i dramatic changes are needed so
Carolina s history. Four were used regatlon." | that those now enrolled in our
in the coloplal period and four. j high -schools can benefit from
since the colony became a State, j Dunbar and the other Wash-1 stimulating and pertinent pro-
’The present version of the seal incton high schools now have a I grams before too many more of
was adopted in 1893. . job — to prepare stu- them drop out.—Washington Foot
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