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i i Page 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday. February 26. 1970 Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald I CaroUna t LAIMCUH 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., 28006 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewa."t Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk. Bookkeeper MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Frank Edwards Allen Myers •Rocky Martin Roger Brown David Myers • On Leave With The United States Army Paul Ja'^kson Ray I rirker SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR... .83.50 SIX MONTHS... .*2.00 THREE MONTHS... *125 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Forsake the ftstlish, and live; and yo in the way of understanding. Proverbs 9:G. Tar Heel Troubles > Tuesday’s Charlotte Observer pub lished a news story stating that, as a re- .sult of petition of about 1700 of the 16,000 students at the Univer.sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a refer endum will be conducted to determine whether the payment of the subscription to the Daily Tar Heel, 77-year-old stu dent newspaper will continue to be com pulsory. The Daily Tar Heel, traditionally, is the banc of 1) the trustees, 2) the legislature, and 3) the University ad ministration. The students for the most part regard it as must reading. The 1700 are disenchanted because of the current Tar Heel editorship’s ultra-liberal treat ment of .some of the issues of the day. Failure to make the modest $2 Tar Heel fee compulsory could pose severe financial crisis says the editor, who points out that the students elected him by 2 to 1 over two opponents, and the business manager, who foresees the Tar Heel forced to become semi-professional, at least, by paying higher prices for em ployees (all but the top brass work for love, not money) and printing the con tract-published si.\-day daily in its own plant. Student “scripts” represent about one-third the ."jillO.OOO annual gross rev- enue.s. It has been thus with Daily Tar Heel editors, who have been more often loud, many strident, during their year as editor, with overtone.s continuing in their later years of working to eat. Some of them: the late author Thomas Wolfe, Editor-Author Jonathan Daniels?, the late sports .specialist Jake Wade, Walter Spearman, for many years a journalism profes.sor, Frank P. Graham, later presi dent of the university, Charles Kuralt, now a television newsman of prominence. (The Observer account listed Pollster Louis Harris as a former editor, which he is not, and who was quoted by Time Magazine as declaring his loss of the editorship by three votes to Orville Campbell, now publisher of the Chapel Hill Weekly, his greatest disappoint ment.) The present editor of the Kings Mountain Herald enjoyed handling the wheel and was in the tradition. The General Assembly, Uunversity Adminis tration, student government council, nor some conservative elements throughout the state appreciated, to put it mildly, the rather gaudy defense (on grounds of censorship) of the smutty humor maga zine, one issue of which the student council declined to be distributed until it was toned down. Some echelons of the faculty failed to appreciate the decision to let the stu dents put the shoe on the other foot and grade their profe.ssors. The response was tremendous and the results compared to the grades the students compiled. There were a few “A’s ”, a few “F’s”, more “B’s” and “D’s”, but with the ma jority adjudged good solid “C’s”. It is quite possible the newspaper -fee payment as athletic contest ticket fees were many years ago, should be eliminated from the compul.sory list and made voluntary and the paper forced to "scratch” harder for the operating cash required. But in an earlier day the fact of not having a morning Tar Heel would have been unthinkable for most. How to while the doleful hour of an 8:30 class, droned over by a dull professor, minus the cro.ssword puzzle for escape? No Business Dabbling, But... An asccrbic drama critic once wrote about a Broadway play after its opening night, “Mr. Tommy Tanner played the male lead, a performance that, in his leisure, he is certain to regret.” Belmont citizens, in a very light vote, approved adoption of the city man ager system Tuesday. It is not unlikely that Belmont folk, in the future and like Mr. Tanner, may find reason to be regre^ul. Crash On Environment Citizens of the United States, a polyglot of many older nations, are, his tory shows, addicted to crash programs, enhanced today by the wiles and talents of advertising and communications media front men. But Madison Avenue had never hoard of the man in the gray flannel .suit when “taxation without representation” produced a war which made this nation. Some others: “54-440 or fight”, “remem ber the Alamo’’, “remember the Maine”, “make the world safe for democracy”, and “slap the Jap”, a World War II fav orite. In 1957, a complacent United States was roused trom its slumber when dumb Ivan, the Russian, proved not dumb at all, when he launched Sputnik I into outer space. In 1962, during the Cuban crisis, the stately sounds of the “Star Spangled Banner” via radio and television twang ed the patriotic chord in almost all and had paunchy, over-ripe service veterans happily singing the “Re-up Blues”. There’s a crash program underway now on Environment. It’s been slowly gathering momen tum for years and, with local and foreign population exploding and John Doe slow ly realizing the ill effects of water and a'ir pollution, the crash program “to pre vent us from exterminating ourselves” has the solid backing required for suc cess in a democratic society. As has been mentioned in these columns many times, the facts of water and air pollution are quite real problems needful of near-term solving are quite real. On tlie more distant field, Chicago should not be contaminating the live- giving Mississippi river, nor up-state New York the Hudson. Locally, it was not right for Kings Mountain to pour un treated human and industrial waste in to Buffalo creek and endanger the water supply of neighboring Blacksburg, S. C. Conquering problems of both stream and air pollution can be managed with hard work and money in quantity. When Dan K. Moore, then an official of Champion Paper & Fibre Company, an nounced for governor, it was immediate ly charged that Champion regarded it much cheaper to elect a governor than to clean up the odor at Canton. Not quite true, said Candidate Moore to the Her ald. Champion’s long-range clean - up program, already well underway, had cost $4 million to that October 1964 date, and would aggregate $7 million when complete. The population explosion business is somewhat different, and is not likely to be dissuaded by social service workers, the pill, nor birth control clinics. Nor, perhaps, should there be as much alarm as voiced by many. It should be remembered that the ’’good ” farmer who produced 20 bushels to the acre just a few years ago now harvests a hundred, a feat that can be re-told in wheat, peas, soybeans and many other commodities, as well as in production of poultry, beef, and milk. Know-how nations need to be ex porting know-how to the undereducated nations of the world. MARTIN'S MEDICINE On the occasion of his six teenth anniversary of writing a regiular column labeled “Chaind Hill Chaff” for his paper "The Chapel Hill Weekly”, Editor Louis Graves confided to his quite large n'adership "I’m sick unto ilcath of it". Sick or not, Mr. Graves who “apprenticerl” on the New York Times, a pret ty fair size country newspap<‘r, he continued to write "Ctiaff foi’ many years. Come Monday, I will log 2.5 years as the -author of Martin’s MerUcine". The title sometimes seems a bit old-fa.'Jhloned, em- jblemulie of journalistie style old hat - until .someone tells me a.h«‘y enjoy the weekly tnetlicinal jdo.sai.;e. Then tiie title seems ■quite modern. My mofit recent I in.spiration in this dliection was Mrs. WUIis Hannon. Another boon came a few weeks ago when my confrere on the Journ alistic front and in-law kinsman William Rltodes Weaver of Gteesboro, said, “I always read your medicine." I am reminded of a by-play in Raleigh a few years ago when Tom Lassiter, editor of the Smilhlield Herald, Henry Belk, editor of the Goldsboro News- Argus t former editor Hlaywood Lyncli’s alma mater), and I were walk.ng along the sti’cet together. Mr. Belk was already virtually blind, but he toM Tom. "I still read your column”. Tom bowed low as he thanked his fellow editor. "Henry,” he said, "that’s the highest compliment I dan get. It makes no difference whether you agree with me, just so you read it." Editor Belk, in cidentally, refen-ed to Mrs. Belk as “my seeing eye wife", as, in deed, this devoted lady was. Conditions Need Correcting Ail VKOOSM. # time to start Viewpoints of Other Editras POLICE AND SOCIAL REFORM The police are on t'lie front line of much of society’s trouble. In the cities, partieulaiiy the reign of lawlessness world be even more entrenched if it were not for what protection the po lice can give. i And yet, for a numlier of reas- IS the big one and that Golden oj,g police liave become an 50 finds too many friends are object of derision. Seme of their j unable to attend, either because dispije is of their own making, of infirmities or having done Among racial minorities, the business with their favorite mor- ,vi-hite police have not overcome tician. I suppose it would be remiss to pass the opportunity to com- i ment on the approach of a silver ! anniversary. It is said at the school I attended that tiiC 2.5th , INTEGRATION: NORTH AND SOUTH m-m a reputation for repression or unequal enforcement. To a stk’- tor of youth they, are branded Twenty - five years creates ^be brutal pawns of the "Estab- changes, sometimes glaringly, in Jt'hrnent. ’ Most of their prob- physical appearance and in think- however, stem from subt- t ctiii fho aatne size causcs. Tho police catuiot , rlnthps r wore in college davs innetion more effectivelv than j he applied to the North as well tTT mer friend anoLched o'- 'he law lets them. In i as the South. Particularly is the ® i sea ’We. 'hc caso ai the growing Spanish- i -Southern attack aimed at prohibil- With tho South under Supreme Court command to end immedi ately its dual white-black school system, Soutliern senators are pleading for more time to com ply, and are demanding that the new standards of racial balance me five years ago and said, “You haven’t changed much in 25 years —except your hair is whiter and your teeth are grayer.” I Itope he’ll be present to assess me again at Number 30 in M.ay. A particular thinking cliangc occurred just one year after my graduation in a brilliant lad .-i year behind me. I,ee .Manning Wiggins, Jr., son of the president of Atlantic Coa-stline Railway, several other rail lines, owner ol a Hartsville, S. C., bank, a key ing pupil bussing and at restoring ’’freedom of choice” as a permiss- able — if snailpace — method of desegregat ion. The goal of desegregation is growing Spanish speaking minority group.s, lan guage itself is a barrier. And how can police action solve the joblessness, family disintetra- t'on, the moral down.lrag of slum living which lead to crime? I It is in this context we were licartenrd by reports of the re- I’Miitmcnt cf able college youths into police iianks. One police (■■■z--:us lecruitcr. him.self an Amherst m:m. refers to the po- j integrated .schools 1 ceman’s life as a "last chance to he a knight errant’’ in modern ! Meanwhile heavier investment society. He may be overstating the ro- figure in the famed Coker .seed nrantic a.spect of police work, breeding .succeses, etc., etc., was But he is certainly correct that a campus leftist who found him- the police corps, no less than the self elected national president of Peace Co ps or VLSTA or teach- the red-tinged American Student in.g, is an avenue for pragmatic Union. As such, Lee, whom I liked idcalLsm for today’s youth, very much personally, was a fre-, Good numbers of young eol- quent editorial whipping boy of lege men are signing up. It is mine. Red-tinged, I think, can too early to forecast their likely stand. One of the American Stu-, effect. No doubt there will be dent Union policies of that day attrition. Abuse, limited salaries was defense of the poor, defense-. will take their toll. Many- of the less Russians and their oppression young men presumably will move by the wicked old Finns. I in- : into administrative work. And quired of my Journalism professor there is the new sophisticated on the "why” of young Lee’s left side of enforcement which re- field thinking in view of his quires re'earch and s+ir^y. lather’s background. The Skipper The pol ceman. cnee a com- guftawed. “Huh,’ he said, "you ’fortable neigi.b .iiood fixture, should have known his Daddy has become an alien. Ways must when he was in school. Young he found to bridge the police - Lee can’t hold a light to him!” community g^n. The po''ce cniis- Lee, ineidentally, awakened with- has largely iso’ntcd the pciice in tho year, and resigned with a officer. Perhaps tlie new young year of his ASU term remaining, officers w Jl be able to i-estoic friendly and more direct rela tions. The most imp-ortant liist ef fect, however, will be to neutral ize the opprobrium directed at MARRIAGE ON THE ROCKS? The United States is aiming I , P''°; today toward a tremendous goal:, ''"ce. doubts atout the future o the achievement of genuine racial: 'uarrtage . • Speculaion about balance in its public schools. But a"" .1. 1.- o,.™- tions of Its demise have recurred the difficulties encountered, syim- bolized by the current Senate de- 'hroughout history bate, proclaim tha^his goal still require 11 . p forms of contriaception, remov ing and the greatest wisdom from i ail c. izens - concerning both from^e begetting of immediate tactics and ultimate And what about the bright youngsters reaching ma turity to.-!ay, the men and wom en who will, presumably, be lead ers of this society? Aren’t they opposed to all things smacking of middle-class hypocrisy, and isn't marriage really a hypocri tical institution? Actually, there is noFas much that is new about the present age as the maturing youngsters might believe, “Free love,” after all, is not something that was invented right along with The Pill. And whatever "arrangements” might be in vogue these days among the enlightened young, many others eminently desirable. Several stu- j —some, perhap.s, just as enlight- dies, including the Coleman re-1 ened — are, wonder of wonders, port in 1966, have documented the | getting carried. The reasons are proposition that minority - group ; hardly surprising, but interesting, children show their greatest One of the characteristics of achievement gains when placed, today’s generation of new adults is .supposed to be "commitment.” Young people demand of them- in slum-area .schools has not pro-1 thing or .someone—a social cause. KINGS Mdul^fAlN Hospital Log VIBITINO HOURS S la 4 pjn. an* 7 to -■ pjB. DoUt 10:30 To 11:30 on. .Mrs. Vary T. Baker James OtLs Barber Mrs. Geneva S. Carroll Russell E. Ellis Edward Evan.s William M. Froneherger Mrs. Ethel H. Hambrlght Arthur Hamrlok Mrs. James A. Hill Mrs. Maggie J. Lindsay Mrs. Furman W. Lutz Dtrman W. Lutz Mrs. Mamie D. Panther Edith May Plonk Mrs. Dora Mae Powell -Mrs. Audrp.v W. Putnam Mrs. Cora I,. Rhyne Mrs. Ha C. Slayton William F. .Stone, Sr. Mrs, Eunice N. Wallace George R. Walls George E. Ballew Billy Eugene Barrett Mrs. Frank Blanton Charle.s Ervin Bowen Mary Frances Bryant Allred L. Canipe Tilman M. Goforth Dennis L. Detter Lee Goin.s, Jr. Sidney Dulin Huffstetler .Mrs. William H. Lynn Mrs. Jack Moss Mrs. Bobby Perkins Judge Lawson Phillips Mrs. Charlie F. Shaw Mrs. John TIgnor Mrs. Woodrriw W. Wilson Martin Luther Wilson, Sr. Mr.s. Marvin E. Wright Admtttad Thursday Mrs. Manic Sue Sipe.s Mr.s. Jame.s D. Smith Mrs. William E. Allen Mrs. Day F. Craig Mrs. Clifton E. Lover Admitted Friday Mr.s. Sallie .Mae Hord -Mrs. Steady .M. Crocker Mrs. Charlie N. Herndren William F. Neal, Sr. Mrs. Le.slie B. Sprouse Mrs. Jesse A. Mirchell Admitted Saturday Mrs. Leroy B. Buehanan Mrs. John W. Brittain Mrs. S. A. Collins Mrs. Joe McNeely Mrs. David Phillips, Jr. ■Mrs. C. F. Potent Mrs. Michael I. .Sanders Glenn E. Harrill Admitted Sunday Mrs. Ray L. Hamrick Eugene Scott Slinetto Forest C. Weaver Johnny Robert .Neal Mrs. Joseph D. Harding Admitted Monday Mrs. Mattie R. Comer Mrs. Lexte Mae Horton Mrs. Tammy R. Jones Paul Otlv Pittman Barbara Lynn Short Harry D. Wilson J. D. Whisnant Admitted Tuesday Nicole C. Fox Danny Glenn Mo.ss Jame.s Roseboro Don Hugh Sigmon Sarah E. Carpenter Robert A. Woods Mrs. Colean D, McDaniel I Change Oi Command Cleveland County’s Republican chair man no longer lives among us Mountain eers, residing in Shelby, but there is still a somewhat close connection since new ly-elected Duane Robinson is general manager of Craftspun Yarns. Then Mrs. Bruce Sparrow, an em ployee of Mauney Hosiery Mills, fills the role of vice-chairman and Bob Maner continues as treasurer. Retiring Chairman Edward H. Smith remains in harness as a member of the board of directors. Cpmmendations are in order for the work of Mr. Smith during his seasons as chairman. He was an unflagging GOP worker and loyalist. He did not realize his dreams of electing Republicans to local level offices, but joy reigned in November 1968 when the Congressional district returned a Republican to Wash ington for the first time in 40 years. at last report was teaching eco nomics at Columbia University. His brother, trained as an engineer at Clemson, is bo.ss of the Harts- vllle newspaper, another Wiggins, Sr., property. m-m This column follows foi style "The Omniscope”, authored by my late great friend. bo.ss. and teacher, John B. Harris of Alb«-- marle. m-m Unlike Mr. Graves, I enjoy writ ing "Medicine.” Recently I made a talk at the Kiwanis club ami discu-sSed several features of newspaper operation, told a few tall yarns, and .sat down, fail Finger was preoidi’-r H. chi.ied me fc failure to mon the medic,lie Column. m-m Bnyhill Is Speaker , J , ... - ,, „ Congressman James T. Broyhils duced ms much pupil improvemlnt, a qj people. They are also! 10th District of North Carolina, as might bo expected. Ergo, .school gaij Iq Be .searching for “mean- will be the featured speaker at integration is good for the fits- , ingful relationships” with other the 10th. Congre.ssional District advantaged, despite the fact that; individuals. So it should not be Convention which will be held in Philadelphia and some other surprising that many young Saturday, February 28, 2:00 p.m., cities .some black officials say on- ■ Americans, despite their scorn fori at the Gaston County Court Hou.se thusiasm for bussing is fading | middle-class values, still find and that black parents prefer 1 great attraction in an institution their neighborhood .sehools. that not only provides for a gen- But the gravest questions now, ulne ralatlonshlp, but provides are the practical ones concerning also tor commitment, just how much true de.segrogation So once again, it is too soon is being achieved and whether to conclude that this venerable current avoidances and evasions institution is on the rocks are only temporary. j Resistance to desegregation in j by whites — has been well pub licized. Now a .survey by the De partment of Health. Education, and Welfare shows that a kind of “resegregation” is developing in mnnv big Northern cities. When city schools which have had a large white majority experience a big influx of black pupils, in a number of instances the whites in the neighborhood begin to move out and the schools event- Ihe police by today’s young. The: ually become almost entirely non- Missi.sstppi areas wliere blacks | The Veterans Administration -ye in the majority — resulting, during 1969 administered govern- m lary resort to private schools ment insurance programs totaling Kt.* Ystlo Krxy-xM tvrnll msV. i.i-_ iv » .... ^ in Gastonia, announ'ced Dan R.1 Simp-son, Chairman of the 10th. District Executive Committee. Chairman Simpson stated that the 10th District Executive Com mittee is pleased to have Con- gre.ssman Broyhill give the main i address at this year’s convention, —MaUonal Obsanrsr 1 which will be the "kick-off” to I campaign activities in the 10th more than 5.6 million policies, with coverage valued at more than *38 billion. District for this election year. Chairman Simpson strongly urges all registered RepUblicanil and other Interested persons or the 10th. District to be present at thin convention. legal profession has henrfted greatly by Nader! ike crusaders. Arud business has yielded to so- elf.l-effort-mnded young execu tives. So can the nation’s police forces hut gain frem youth’s serious intnest in them Christian Srie.nrr Monitor WHAT A BARGAIN! The school children of Rutland. Vermont, have used good old white. In other Northern school districts there is, of course, “de facto” segregation due mainly to long-existing housing patterns. Senator Stennis of Mississippi and other .Southern .senators are saying to the government: Either proceed as diligently against all this Northern segregation as you arc moving in the South, or jetti son the whole drive and fall back . on "freedom of choice.” ! Then column thing it needs is an occasional dose of Epsom salts,” he declared, “Martin’s is all right. The only The United States cannot really ■ Yankee ingenuity to get rid of a abandon itself to a rein.stated dual small portion of their snow. Re- school system. It cannot leave “n’ly, they .shipped 200 snow-; slum pupils bereft of massive cdu- alls, wrapped in styrofoam and; eatlonal help. What has to be de- packed in dry ice to Eait Gallic, j termined, with deepe.st dedication, Florida, where most of the young-1 is whether present procedures are sters have never .seen even a flake! truly accomplishing their pur- of thnt white stuff. ' [loses, and how the aim of a class- In exchange, the .students of less, educated society can be most Eau Gallie have agreed to ship effectively and speedily promoted in both North and South. —Christian Sciene* Monitor 200 Florida oranges to the chil dren of Rutland. Now that’s what we call a bar gain. If there are any more gull ible .Southerners around, we’d be happy to trade snow for oranges, _ . . . ,, . Icicle.s for bananas and slush for To which I m somewhat Inclined almost anything they have to of- to agree. I fe^.*-%ootoB Herald Tratrolet The appointment of Dr. Marc J. Musser as Chief Medical Di-1 rector of the VA was announced: rrecently by Administrator of! Veterans Affairs Donald E. John- i soa ' Ke»§ ¥mi B*dio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT IBiigs Momrtaiii, N. C. ifews & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertoinment in iset'weexi
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