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0 %' 81 t Pa^e 2 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. Thursday, March l9, I^TO Establtehed 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald liCtraltM 1 lASIOCb " A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enllghtenn.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., 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Mattin Harmon Editor Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Botrickeeper MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Frank Edwards Allen Myers •Rocky Martin Roger Brown David Myers • On Leave With The United States Army Paul Jackson 1 (•iksr riUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERfe ONE YEAR... .$3.50 SIX fcONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1.3$ PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S felBLE VERSE Strrnijlhrn j/c Ihc xrfiik hauds^ mid cMifirm the feeble kneen. Isitiah .M.-.t. Credit Card Crack-down Success of the Diner’s Club and others who wore more or less pioneers in the mass credit card field (the oil companies have used them for years) spurred the comparatively recent entry into the field by commercial banks. They have been quite successful in switching commerce into a credit econ- ohiy. This brought more entries into the field, put pressure on established credit card operators, to expand the u.se of credit cards by the simple medium of expanding the number of credit card holders. Just about anyone could get ’em. A young Kings Mountain matron said she had heai-d of an incident where a husband who was leery of credit cards told his wife, “I bet I can get one for the dog.” His wife said, “Not so.” To prove his point the husband made application in the name of the family pooch, duti fully detailed that the pooch was a pooch and, in about ten days, the doal^ credit card arrived in the mail. Another young matron was talking about the trading stories her mother had told her about the depression days when money, coin or currency, virtually wasn’t, and when a week’s run of eggs or butter, or a bushel of corn, or other commodity, could be traded at the gen eral store for sugar, coffee, or other need not native to the Piedmont Carolina farm. “It looks like,” .she added, “that money isn’t needed anymore now, what with all the credit cards.” On Tuesday, the Federal Trade commission moved to halt some inci dence of the credit card business. After May 8, said the FTC, companies may NOT send out credit cards indiscrimi nately to persons who have not applied for them, a growing practice. High time... And there is another untoward feature of credit cards. They are subject to theft and use by the thief. This is more dangerous for the credit card hold er who uses his infrequency than for the regular user. Thereis lag time before regular user. There is lag time before the issuer. The thief has a field day. The banks like the business. They charge merchants a fee on gross sales passed through the credit card machine. Merchants like it, for sales increase and their cash liquidity factor is higher. The banks then collect a fee from the credit card holder. The banks, of course, are discrimi nating in theif issuance of credit cards and lo.sses m e small. It’s about the best business the banks have and another reason the price intere.st rate has in creased by 50 i)ercent. The FTC would do well to do some further tightening. The report by statistical researcher at tfie University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as provided to a senatorial committee on traffic safety this week says, “If you’re going to Wreck a car, drive a big one.” Wreck compilations to date indicate that the Volkswagen bus and its smaller brother are the most dangerous, indeed, 100 percent more dan gerous than the 1966 Oldsmobile. There may be some correlation (it wasn’t men tioned) in the fact that younger drivers, rated more wreck-prone, probably drive more smaller cars. Even better advice’ might be, “Catch a bus.” A best bow to Warren Herndon, Jr., recipient of a scholarship award grant ed annually to children of employees of Superior Stone Company. 'Tain't Clteti)> The Herald suggested a few weeks ago that pollution control isn’t cheap. This week confirmation came in a report from the state department of Wa ter and Air Resources on expenditure? during 1969, as well as the grand total expended since July 23, 1953. The report: | The year 1969 brought a record high in funds committed for water pollution control in North Carolina. Municipalities and industries during the year committed $42,821,792 for waste treatment and collection facilities. There are 186 projects involved. This sum is the largest ever allotted for this purpose in North Carolina in a single year, according to the State De partment of Water and Air Resources, which administers the Statewide anti pollution program. The previous yearly high, $.36,692,- 056 for 223 projects, came in 1964. For the period from July 23, 1953, when the first approval document under the Stream Sanitation Law was issued, through December 31, 1969, industries and municipalities spent or agreed to spend $321,772,134 for waste collection and treatment projects. Housing Ease tipi The Nixon Administration said Tues day it had decided to loosen its restric tive policy on housing, which has seen housing starts drop to an annual rate of slightly more than a million a year. High time. With a burgeoning population, birth control pills not-withstanding, it is plain to see that the Nixon policy of slowing house-building defied reason in the first place. The more uncharitable label the housing slow-down “stupid.” It is not anticipated the timorous moves announced Tuesday will be a great benefit, as a cornerstone of the ease-up was more lendable money on the part of the Federal Home Loan bank. This government agency has been offering money to savings and loan as- .sociations at 7.5 percent interest, only .5 on 1 percent less than the maximum legal rate in North Carolina on home loans. Prescient association managers here and throughout the state have been saying no thanks, preferring to say “no” to marginal loan applicants and “you’ll have to wait in line” to top drawer loan applicants who once wrote their own ticket. Right here in Kings Mountain hous ing is tight as beeswax as any trying to rent a residence quickly finds. Political overtones are, as always in government matters, apparent here. The Democrats charge that the al leged housing ease-up by the Nixon Ad ministration is predicated on fear of voter reprisals against the Republican candidates in the November election. The charge is roundly and denied. If the Nixon Administration is mere ly fiddling on the housing program (as on some others), housing will be a fac tor in the November voting, and the epithet of “Tricky Dick”, which Nixon drew in the not too distant past will be revived, quickly and justifiably. MABTIN'S MEDICINE Several months ago I used this | spade to detail an inlerp.stitVg i feature in The Cleveland Press I 'rom the hand of Mrs. Derk Fiilton. The story was by Julian '.Krawoheck, who aTlerdt ’ hi'^h ' school here In the twenties. He was a classmate and shared birthdays with Thelma (Pat) i Patterson .Smathers and the two ^ have kept in ojf-and-on tou'ch i through the yean sitice. Pat sent | ■a clipping of the column to Juli an. m-m T?v the band of Pat's sister. Madge Warllck. I have a copy of Julian’s reply to Pat. Julian was glad I had remembered and ment'oned hts high stAoo) saXo- rShofj^ playing days. He hoi' for- sakfbi the hoVvbv long before he rn’et his wife Marie and bos rtt'V'er really believed hiS claim to being an eX-saxnp(h0nist. m-ln Julian Added som'e musical de- Wails fWVm his Kings Mdimta'n dSys, He was a rri^ber of a dtfnde band, the Mountain Meio- i)V Masters. Harry Keeter was the other sax man, Peachy Hthith was the violinist, Tom , I"; Iton the drummer, Percy D'll- I ing, banjoist, and the late Vera DilUng, plan'st. An outstanding 1 mitmflay waS the MelaJy Masters ' playing a dahee for the tele- ‘ phone operators in Fulton’-s Fun eral Parlor. He comments, ‘Tve never got over the incongruity of playing jazz in a funeral par lor.” He recalls the group playe<t ■for a tea Lena Ware gave and also perfonmed at the weekly luncheon of the Clvltan Club. Hubert (Abie) MCGinnIs, also a high school classnaate, says he remembers Krawcheok well and that he was always wanting to take someone home with him to hear him play the sax. At Lena’s tea someone accidentally poured a cup of hot tea down his sax. _ . . . The tone on “Someday Sweet-countries m he i heart” changed immediately and J \ immeasunably I when reading about drunkenness jfn Russia. There is in all con- ■LTi„ . I science too much drinking in the hi some not(^;g^yje[ fatherland, and the drunks tend to make public ex- migrated hibitlons of themselves as they to Charleston, S. C., gg.}', in parts of Glasgow on aghast to find Charles- g Saturday night. Cramped a- ton had no Orthodox Jewish partments in the cities and poky ° Sephardic cottages in .the villages encour- congregation at ggg gg ggt drink out, to hefore , stay "Out. The village scenes that 17d0’ had swotched from Ortho- 'made Nekrasov and Maxim Gor- ™ ^tirehear regard- . jjy pecoil before the revolution— 'new-fangled Reform l.-i could not go on living ^mong • °rgani:^ an Ortho-< .these people,” .iwrole Gorky; "I o Syna.'bgue. Wien Julian's cguld not” — are certainly no- iocs h " Cfeveiand in' thing like so widespread n6^. K w;. r returned for: yet they'can still be bad in the vgig-a region and in the cdlB, y m Charleston. i grey, bare areas of northern ; Russia. The Soviet Government, Girl Watchers Viewpoints of Other Editos THE ALCOHOL OF THE PEOPLE world ai-K His gieat - grandfather then leift Charleston for that me, ci of Associate Reformed Preshy- terianism, Due West, S. C., where Ersklne College w a s founded in 1837. It is said ARP’s like other governme:its, has tried many ways to keep people sober. V'odka is put up in price, but men still have the money for it when most 'consumer goads are CONSPIRACY TRIAL POPULAR SPftBADING APPrCTION I When we talk otf the need for Following the debate on the greater love in the world, we Chicago conspiracy trial, one is | thinking in terms likely to get the impression that! of ending ware, healing race ten- the law under which the convict ed five were tried was a brain child of conservatives. It might have been inspired by conservatives, but that is not what turned the idea into a law. It be came law because President Lyn don Johnson signed it after it was enacted by an overwhelming vote in both the House and the Senate. In the Senate, for example, 82 out of the 100 members voted for the so - cAlIed Rap Bmwn anjendment to the 19^ Civil Rights Act. Supporters includedT. V^Uliarri ihilbright, Mike Mans field, George McGovern, Edmund iviuskie, Abraham Ribicoff, Gay lord Nelson, Claiborne Pell, Al bert Gore, Joseph Tydihgs, Frank Church, Birch Bayh, Ralph Yar borough, Joseph Clark and Ernest Gruening.. Can these men be described as politically conservatives? Or did they vote for the amendment be cause, regardless of ideology, they thought that threats against the political conventions in 1968 call- still not plentiful. A few years must have two punches Into ago a rule came out restricting their t ckets to heaven and t.hey each man to one glass of vodka are obtained only by vUiting Due at each restaurant meal, but it; fut fhe enactment of such a West and Bon Cla.rken, nr'.ir was soon evaded. Exhortations of j l^)''7-“Boston Hercdd ^dveler Hendersonville, the church's all k nds have been made: sport i summer assembly grounds. Gar- has bi-en encouraged. VICE-PRESIDENTS VVest ou,. Moscow Correspond- 0-1,. offige gr twe viee-presidenev recently and acquired the second ent reports a new oam^ign.' The office of the vice-presidency punch on his ticket. ^ Restaurants, it is thought, may m.li, ■' Ibe made wholly dry. Punish ments for public drunkenness ■At Due West great-grandfath- rmay be increased. Others have cr operated a tannery, making suggested that no liquor at all belts an:d other teather goods for should be sold lat wceken.ts or on the Confederate army. m-iB His son, father of mother, was a soldier I public holidays. Some have I sought to make drink harder to get by proposing that shops Jul an’s ^11 it only dcring factory fjjg working hours—-the surest plan. Confederacy for one day before anyone could tell them, for getting a leg shot off. J,.-iian ‘"'’teasing the already high rate cximments, “Ho was always, un-absenteeism due to alcohol. derstandaiWy, in a bad humor It 1® ®dsy to say that the rate after that. Later at a Conifrder- of drinking will go down as the ate reunion, when Julian was his standard of Ih-ing goes up. But page. Grandpa addressed Julian, 1 this easy solution is not wholly “After hearing all these sjieak- '’ome out b ythe experiences of ers brag about South Carolina, I ■ the Unitel States, France, and suppose you think the Confeder- 'BrlUain. Outrageous drunkenness ate army won the Civil War, eh. ' 'bo generally less evident in son? Well, it didn’t. We got the public, but dangerous d: inking is hell beat out of us!” fstWl much too common. Perhaps I Moscow may be right to rely in the first place on art ir rial curbs. Julian’s father had a depart- .T"?'" ment store here before moving f the famitv tr, rh=,.i„f.« i .1 wortis, y«, buttre.ssed as they m^^‘!feadinT~py in the^Char^'^ with dcs^rately high prices, lotte Observer with Julian’^ hv * help to keep the drink.n" line HVhas bee^ With the Clev^^^^ brings its ups and downs. Within a few days of each other, former Vice-President Hubert Humphrey and present Vice-President Spiro Agnew learned this, although with different results. Mr.Hum- phrey was jeered off the platform by a dissident minority of listen ers at the University of Massa chusetts. Mr. -Agnew .spoke to a wildly enthusiastic crowd in Men- nesota which paid the monu mental sum of ^50,000 at a party fund-raising to hear him. But we are sure that both the pa.st and present Vice-Presidents are old enough hands at politics to take such events philosophical ly. Mr. Humphrey has had a gen erous share of personal triumphs in his time, and Mr. Agnew is no stranger to hard knocks in pub lic. Each knows that Shakespeare was voicing a profound but often sad truth wnen he termed reputa tion a "bubble.” Hubert Humphrey has proven his bouncinesss too often for us to be concerned that any sudi incident can faze him. Arid we equally trust that the Greeks’ sions and injustices, and show ing more consideration for the poor and unfortunate. In short, we tend to think in broad, gen eral and often nonpersonal terms. But in doing so we Purely un derestimate the good -which greater love would do in untold numbers olf unpublioized cases Where heartbreak is just as sharp and severe as on the large global issues. We thought of this the other day while reading how someone had poisoned a dog, the only companion oif a 13-year-old deaf, dumb, and blind boy. We Shan’t dwell on the hatred and callousness which would cause someone to do a thing like this. But We are loonvinced that if all of ns, wh'o wriuld never dream of committing such an act, 'were to show more love, 'more tolerartce, more compas sion, we would ci'eate an atmos phere of thought in -which deeds sich as this would become few er and fewer. We know that there are such phenomena as mass hypnotism, mass psychosis, mass hatred. These create a general atmos phere and do things of which they are later ashamed. Similar ly, a w'lJer atmosphere of affec tion and kindliness would raise ' "1^*^ R6uVItain Log VTSITINO HOURS I to 4 pja- and 7 to • djb. DoUt 10t30 To lli30 ojoi. Russell E. Ellis Mrs. Florence L. Falls Mrs. .Margaret C. Farris Mamie G. Gill Mrs. Annie B, Jolly Mrs. Ct':ean D. McD.iniel Mrs. Cliulmer MdTntosh Mrs. Mamie D. 'rintlier Mrs. Sara E. 'Prepst Mrs. Cora L. Rhyne John Gommodbre Rtrmip Mi* Eliza J. Wilght M -s. Conn'e M. Anderson Haskol -F. Baumgardner .Mi-s. Homer R- Fisher Mrs. David Hannah Mrs. Eail M. Huffman Sidney Ditlin Huffstetler Mrs. Roosevelt jeftei-son Ervin A. Jenkins Mrs. Essie Mae Johnson Laura Jane Laws Mis. James A. Moss Mrs. J. D. Short Mrs. Antioch P. Smith Lamar W. Splaiwn William W. Sutherland ADMITTED THURSDAY Mi*. Joseph K. Clontz Mrs. Lisste S. Johnson Onri E. Conrad Glenn E. Harriil Doiiglas A. Painter ADMITTED FRIDAY Franc s J. Burke Mrs. Virginia M. Herndon Mrs. C. B. Bostic Mrs. Carl T. Frazier Howard Green Ml*. Jack P. Hauser James A, Moes ADMITTED .SATURDAY Everette Goode Claude R. Welch Allen I. Blackwell Mrs. Doyt Falls Oscar E. Gladden Mrs. Bobby G. Green Winfoid A. Russell Mr*. Fannie !B. White Martin L. Wilson Mrs. Steve M. MuHinax John C. Walker ADMITTED SUNDAY John James Hickman Mrs. Jinies A. Jenkins Judge Lawson -Phillips Kathy D. Ware ADMITTED MONDAY Mark C. Brown Edward W. Dellinger Mrs. Jake Hamrick, Jr. Tina L. Knight John Henry Mayberry, Sr, Mrs. Ronnie L. Stroupe Mrs. Jimmy L. .Thompson Mrs. Stephen W. Moss ADMITTED TUESDAY Ronald F. Goodman Mrs. Jay -P. Harris Charles W. Loftin Mrs. Forrest J. I^arker Alfred L. Phillips Mrs. aM-gc W, Yiidiro Carl J. Triplett Mrs. Eula E. Hardin Mrs. Eugene R. Roberts ' Ml*. James H. Bowles, III mest of slices of time in the earth's history. As man prepon derated on the earth and devcl- <^ed firearms, he wiped out whole species (such as the car rier pigeon in the United States a century ago I or nearly did so (the bison I. Now man’s very lifestyle, wilh everyone’s thinking and feeling.!**^ ■chemical wastes and pollut- It would, we are cohvinded, go threatens a faster and far far towards elimiriritfng the vast array of small and large indi vidual meannesses, which so rack huirian life. Christian Science Monitor Ex-nNCtfoiTsicwbowN Through the .ages, oirters at animal life have appeared and then declined. The great swim- ' ming and wading and land-rov ing dinosaurs, the speces of deer and oddly tooth tigers, the great hairy mammoths that onc- ed reamed (he continents—these are no more. Another form of animal ex- ttnetton hro appeared in the past few hundred' years — the slim- wider extinction of wildlife or ders than did his fireai-ms or tlie earlier gradual changes in the habitat. American’s National Wildlife Week is March ,15-22. In Klie past three years alone the num ber of species of U. S. wildlife— mamhiaJs, birds, fishes, repdles, Amphibians — endangered 'bj' extinction has grown ifrom 78 to 89. Citizens should take sober note. And they should resolve to support vigorously all construc tive measures to restore a healthful balance to nature, so that all living creatures, man in cluded, may live with their riglil- ful grace and vigor. Christian Science Monitor Indication Of Cronirth Federal Power commission approval of an additional allotment of 200,000 cu bic feet of natural gas daily, effective November 1, is an indication of growth, not only of the gas system itself, but of the City of Kings Mountain. When the city’s natural gas system went into service in January 1955, the initial gas allotment was 1,365,000 cubic feet daily. The new allotment will be a total of 4,100,000 cubic daily, thr^ tim$B thu initial allotment. , land Press for many years, writes a commentary column twice weekly in addition to doing re porting and special writing "on about any topic under the sun.” HU commentary copy Is not cen sored. Should it be, he says, he will "retire fast and perhaps write a book.” they do help to keep the drinking I some 2,500 years of political ; savvy (after all, they invented The Times fLoiidon) politics I will keep Spiro Agnew I hard-headed about his triumph in ANGRY COMMUTER Mr. Humphrey’s home state. The Krawcheck’s son John is doing a four-year hitch in the navy and is stationed in Iceland. HU parenU project a visit to him in May, hopes ho oan get le.ive in order that he may join them for a trip to England and Wales. Don’t be fooled by that mild-1 mannered man with the attache case who boards his train every' morning with the regularity of a —Christian Scicnes Monitor BARRACKS HUMOR 'rig point, and things have grown So bad in Nriw York that he -has ,reached it. Train crews on the Long Island railroad have threat ened to strike if their demands are not met. And what are they demanding? Higher pay? Shorter hours? More jobs? Not at alf. “niey are deirianding police pro tection against “physical xssault by commuters” who have had I their fill of deteriorating service [ and rising fares. m-m I We offer this .as a friendly . , , I warning to ... fthose) who think And I hop* Julian wrlfM hU there is no limit to the cohrvmut- **®®*‘* . J. . - •*’* patieatc.—CUwig* Tribua* 'Cauglit in the middle of the trained seal, squeezes into a scat. long eontrovei-sy over American ’ with the beat look of a dying ’ involvement in Vietnam is the! sardine, and registers anger onlyjGI. In most cases a draftee, he; when he opens his paper and has little to say about the war. | reads about the latest doings of He Is there because duty says he ] the militant radicals, I must be. Sortie stoic birracks J Even the commuter has a boil- humor fluorishes, nevertheless, I would like to hear the .Melody Masters warm up bn “Someday Sweetheart”, "Ain’t She Swfeet?”. and "Shake That Thing." And was "Yes, We Got No Bananas” in their repertoire, too? as this bit of graffiti recently sent home shows: “We are the underpaid, work ing with the u.riPortunate, sup ported by the unwilling, pursu ing the unexplainable, to attain the uni-oBohable, by helping the enqualifled to govern the uncon cerned.” After five years o'f fighting— the longest American war If this century it is a tribute that he can still joke about it. Milwaukee Journal Russians originally w8ri't to Alaska la acarck of fur«. Keep Tout Bafio IK$1 Set M 1220 WKMT Kings N. C. if«ws & WBotker Bvsry kuur on h«ur. We«th*r BY«ry hour on tho half hour. Fino entertainment in between
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