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'Mill iilAi <».' ■■I'V •..K.vHr (•age 2 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. Tliursday, April 2, 1970 Established 1680 The Kings Mountain Herald 1 OiraiffM I i ASnClAIT Aet!Kl> llL•ws^ap»;r Uevoied to ttie promotion ot ttie general welfare and publlsneu or the enlightennient, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain tnd Its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. ■'.nterert as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N, C., 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT .laitm Harmon Editor-Publishe' Miss Clizahetn Stewari 4is.s Debbie Thornburg ivlaninrei and Society Eklito Idem, Uookkeepei MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Frank Edwards •Rocky Martin Allen Myers Roger Brown David Myers • On I,eave With The United States Army Paul Jackson l*y ' Wrier .1' tMI i AiCL^ialiNA AAiair..'' TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Messed ore the jinteetnakers; ^or they 'eluiH be '.ailed the children of Ood. St. MatXhew 5:9. Auto Liability Mess A Study Commission on auto lia bility insurance is criss-crossing the state to determine public opinion on the question. It is to be anticipated that subse quent hearings will obtain the same answers the commission got in Char lotte Tuesday. Nobody’s happy who is involved in any direction and this would mean that oiiiy those less than 16 years of age could take a “couldn't care less” atti tude. The insurance companies have al ready demonstrated their unhappiness to the Commissioner of Insurance, claini- iiig they’re going broke in writing poli cies at current rate. The insurance agents are unhappy. Service required far out-distance limits of time arid remuneration. The public is unhappy. 'The insur ance companies are assigned risk hannv and a fenider dent can produce, one citi« zen testified, policy caneeiiaiion and subsequent assignment to the assigned risk category. Among those testifying in the citi zen category was County Commissioner Charles A. Greene, of Shelby. Mr. Greene was hith head-on by an out-of-state car. Both he and the Pennsylvanian who drove the other car were lucky to walk out of their demolished vehicles. Mr. Greene was on his side of the road, and the Pennsylvanian wasn’t. But Mr. Greene has yet to be paid lor his smash ed vehicle and apparently won’t be. Mr. Greene feels that, if reciprocity arrange ments can be made with other states in some areas, they can and should be made on auto damages. Most folk hailed the North Carolina law requiring all auto owners to buy auto liability insurance. No longer would plea of poverty bo a bar to proper pay ment of damages. The results have been less than de sired, muffh less, and rates have esca lated mightily. There must be an answer to this vex ing, expensive problem and it is to be hoped that the study commission can bring recommendations of improvement to the 1971 General Assembly. Count Begins April Fool’s Day may be an inaus picious one to begin the decennial nose count of “every man, woman, and child’’ in the 50 States. In these parts Wednes day’s weather would indicate so. But started it has. Those who saw Kings Little Theatre’s production Curious Savage’’ will be on “Cinderella” this weekend. Those who missed “Savage” should not miss “Cin derella” this weekend. The first produc tion was what theatre circles term a “smash”. Textile Futufes “Futures”, in commodity market parlance, refers to purchase of wheat, oats, soybeans, cotton, and other com modities for future delivery. Those in volved in manutacture of consumer goods from the commidities buy in Ap ril, say, for July delivery, against their anticipated needs. Textile Futures, however, does not refer to the same commodity market. In his ever-continuing quest for ef ficiency, Uncle Sam has changed the format from 1960. Census forms have been mailed to all known addresses and placed in all postoffice mail boxes. Hope fully, the census-taker will find, when he calls the lorm properly executed and can speed along downstreet. This may not be the case, though the form is comparatively simple. The instruction sheet requires more space than the form itself. Nevertheless, the count will be made and rather accurately. It refers to the human commodity market. April has been designated “Textile Futures Month” in Kings Mountain. During April, the textile industry, in co operation with the vocational education department of the high school, wiU dem onstrate needs for manpower in the tex tile industry, and the varied manpower needs. The industry has been plagued for many months with a real manpower need. Part of the manpower requirement has been due to the increasing variety of textile products produced and the other end of the coin has been loss of potential manpower to other employ ment in other cities, both near and far. Kings Mqunlain’s textile industry should have an interesting story to tell. It is the major employer in Kings Moun tain, producing much in the textile spec trum, from cotton yard to consumer bound socks, knit goods, upholstery fabrics and many others. What the textile industry will be telling youths, perhaps a year to five years distant in the “tutures” market is that there is opportunity in a career in the textile industry in Kings Mountain. Which there is. Short Decade On Tuesday Fibre Industries observ ed its tenth anniversary as an industrial citizen ot Cleveland County. The fact of ten years seems incredible. Perhaps even more incredible has been the growth of Fibre, not only at Earl, but elsewhere. Fibre has been con tinually expanding its Earl plant. Mean time, it has built and is operating ma jor installations at Salisbury and Green ville, S. C. for MARTIN'S MEDICINE From Carolina Home To- -Where? KINGS m6uNTAIN Hospital Log Did you know that North Carolina was once the third ■most populous state of the un- ion? m-m ... That was in 1790, when the first decennial census was tak en. North Carolina, wi.n ddo.ioJ men, women and children, trail ed Virginia (747,610) and Penn- slvaiiia (434,373), Massachusetts was lourth and Near York fiftn. mm /y//ARE There were 15 states, but the fun began for the U. S. Marshals lassign^u the choic w.ie.i mty soughi. to count the pe-p.e (in,. , . . o. ca oi ive.. j.i—Cj, the V. ,.1 e .erv. 1 Ui.ctear d su'.ct — dang-cr from hostile Indiana. But 20 months and a day after the census began. Secretary ot • I State Thomas Jefferson sent the | report to President George Wash- ■ Ington and the (Congress. rctofSu "#4 m-m Why will the United States spend $210 million this year on the taking of the census? m-m The reasons are multiple. 1 While many so blessed will iai.igh I at the seeming foolishness of the household question asking if the I occupant enjoys the benefits of a flush toilet, those who don’t | I won’t lauig'h. It reminds of Co- i I median Bub Hope’s quip about I I folk yearning for the good old 1 days. Hope said those really j mean they want to return to the I good old days, all the while tak- |lng along the electric refrigerat- 1 or and the family auto. The I household answers are valuable I to Industry in projecting demand 'for such des.iable consumer goods ar refrigerators, color tel- DURING THE PAST 30 YEARS ALMOST30 MILLION PEOPLE LEFT "THE NATION^ FARMS FOR URBAN LIFE. - y^SUfS /T£M ‘ //^GC!C<hrn^ Viewpoints of Other Editors Ous S. Bennett I’iarence Biatto* llulieil G. i-lcminons .Mrs. .Mary J. Farris Mrs. Virginia M. Herndon .Mrs. Annie K. Jolly Hubert M. Metcalf .Mrs. Mamie U. Pantlier .Mr.s. .Sara K. Propst Mrs. Cora L. Khytie .Mr.s. .Manie S. Sipes David C. Allen .Mrs. James F. Bally Elbert C. Bridges v Mis. Bruce Brigman Samuel A. Burton Guy W. Carlan Jami*s E. Castli's Carl E. Conrad Edward W. Dellinger Sidney D. Huflsletler Mrs. Bobby G. Lockridges James .4. .Moss Mrs. James A. Moss Mrs. Horace L. Patterson Judge L. Phillips Hazel t.’. Queen .’Vlr.s. Anticlio P. .Smith Bobby Gene Sutherland Micliale 1). Waters .\Iaitin Wilson .Mrs. S. W. Worthen .Mrs. Cliarles E. Parker ADMI’TTED THURSDAY George R. Walls .Mrs. C. B. Bostic William H. Warlick ADMITTED FRIDAY Samuel P. Williams KolMut Is'C Lewis Mrs. J. D. Short ADMIT’TED SATURDAY .Mrs. John Fi.sher Mrs. Josepli F. Smitll Walter 1). Waters, Jr, Mr.s. M’illia Wliile Woodrow W. Wilson ADMITTED SUNDAY Mrs, Lafayette I. Baker Barbara Ann Bradley Mrs. Lamar W. Splawn Mrs. Phyllis F. Watkins Mrs. J. Bert Westmoreland I ill NEW, NEW. NEW SOUTH-OF-THE-BOR DER LABEL Mexico has t'^Targe Washington^Bureai^reports' that evision sets and, yea, flush toil- nu^be^f concerns whicli, as has ^„®^'‘^n®TC"preskle"^‘'is pS ets, and valuable to government happened in many other coun-;tresm cn^ p in projecting need for modern merely taken over' ^^ith delight. They take to it and housing. I English names. The drive is be- j„j„ (he party. Every man and ing led by the head of the tourism^ornan his own legislator? 'department, for the purpose of There’s still no beating it. —^Bos* Listed in the Commei-ce De- protecting the Spanish language, Globe. partment’s booklet "Uncle Sam delending Mexican customs and — - Counts 1970’’ is a ’’pay-back’’ pleasing tourists. For, as the de-1 I product of the census which partment head shrewdly observes, | many have found helpful. North who wants to visit Mexico from; I Carolina, for instance, has re- north of the border and find one-1 ejuired recordation of b.rlns on- self surrounded by Anglo-Saxon ly since 19114. Many citizens have I names’f reached age 65, when they were! profesional linguist and jCligible for social security bene-1 . L , . . ,ur., ^.iii fits, only to find establisliment philologist „ _ lirt’ip'fi't of their'birth date a major hur- ’ die to collecting what is right- Democrats are going all out to] advance the New Populism. i ing for the New Quest, while the' ADMITTED MONDAY Mrs. Bureau F. Randle Dorothy M. Reid Linda Ruth Ro.ss That’s all well and good, but ADMI’TTED TUESDAY we the people can only hope that John E. Gamble the entry that wins doesri't pre sent us with the New Taxes. We’re having enough troubles \ scraping up the cash to pay the' old ones. — Dallas Morning News Katherine S. Lun.sford Craig H. Lackey .loe T. Melton Paul E. Sigmon, Jr. Mrs. Maggie J. Lindsay Mr.s. .Clarence Byrd fully theirs. Here an application form snouil be obtained from the Personal Census Service Branch, Bureau of the Census, ■Pittsburg, Kansas. It’s arv.o-rg the surest means of accompLsir- ing this hurdle. m-m The historical organizations have used this senice too in qualEyitij; member.ship in s.u a organizaiions as the Daughter-s of the American Revolution, Co lonial Daughters, and United Daughtei-s of the Confederacy. course, be more' than a musing. For Spanish, like most I other Romance languages, is fill- ] ed with non-Latin words. When] the alcalde (mayor) of a Mexican] village goes to the olmoden (sil-1 ver mine) on his almUor (nag),! it is an Arabic- operation. And; when he goes to the laimacia ’(drugstore), protected by the ! guardia (guard, it is all Greek] and Teutonic. And so on ad in-j tiiiilum. I m-m Fibre produces a man-made yarn, in a variety of denier, under the copy righted trade name Fortrel. Fortrel goes into men's suits and women’s dresses and the heavier product becomes tire cord. Fibre Industries was formed as a jointly owned corporation of Imperial Chemicals, Ltd., of Great Britain, and Celanese Corporation of America. The contribution Fibre has made to Cleveland County in all areas and to neighboring counties, too, has been ma jor. Happy birthday to Fibre and a wish many more of them. The decennial census deter mines the number of Represent atives each state shall have in the Un.tcd States Congress, Tire 1960 census cost North Carolina a member. Perhaps the most devastating coinerits ever made on the effort ta purge languages ol foreign im ports came in the House of Com mons. One member gave a long and impassioned plea against let ting British English . be Ameri canized. When he had sat down, another member, a linguist, arose and showed that every third or fourth expression which his col-i league had used was in lact an ] Americanism. j m-m Floods of proposed questions ' are directed to the Bureau of the Census. Among them reject ed for inclusion in the ’70 count: have you been In an auto acci dent; CO you belong to a union and which one; do yorn smoke cigarettes or ci.gars and when did you start; do you own a dog. cat, and/or bird; do you liold more than one job? We sympathize with the Mexi cans. Christian Science Monitor AN AMAZING SURVIVAL I Four of five will answer the same simple form received by everyone. The fifth, when visit ed by the census-taker, will be asked the same questions, and some additional ones, veteran status, mother-tongue informa tion, education, occupation and others. m-m The founding fathers set forth the requirement for the decennial cen.sus in the fiff'h paragraph of the United States Constitution. The reasons: to determine apportionment of taxes and representa tives in the Congress. The census is a decennial phenome non. The sudden passing of Mrs. Florine McDaniel Hill shocked her many friends. She was a lady of friendliness and com passion. She was able to accept advers ity, as evidenced by her life she was widowed a number of years ago. Congratulations to Larry Hamrick, recently elected president of the Kings Mountain Rotary Club. Mountain of “The hand for Lieutenant James S. Dye has receiv ed the army commendation medal for service in Thailand. It is his second and thereby speaks for itself. A best bow to Jim Yarbro, winner of the Wood Badge Award for comple tion of Boy Scout leadership training. He is Scoutmaster of Troop 92. The census guessing game is as intriguing as a lottei'y and at no cost. I invariably, in the past, have tended to over-estimate. Having been ’’stung’’ before, I was deliberately cautious in ar riving at the Kings Moiuitain population fj;iure of 9300 which began appearing on the Herald’s left-hand front page dogear aiit- er the ■annexatio'n of the south- Iwest area. The figure was predi cated on the special c-'v-c: c January 1966. proi. i ivg aim, ' perc .i. ge inc:i . L. .wet-n 60 and '66, ar.J ouuing the estimat ed population ot the annexed area. We’ll see. When the first settlers came to New England they organized their i own governments because they j had to. There wa.s no other rule, nearer than London. As villages, were established in isolated re- gions, each community had to| manage its own aftalrs. i Thus began town meeting, an: institution still thriving after' more than three centuries of dras-1 tic change in the world. In the beginning the town might have | had 200 inhabitants. Now, as in' distant Boston .suburb-s, perhaps 10,000 or 30,0(K). Then tne citizens gathered in the meeting house. Now they meet in the high .school gymnasium, 1,000 to 2,000 men and women at a time. m-m Meantime, I suspect the Bu reau of the Census may be con travening the 1961 civil rights act on its sec-color-race ques tion. Doest not the law prohibit discrimination on account of race, creed, color, sex or nation al origin? Yet It’s the same old affair, Town officers are the same, with the same names as ages ago. The is- sue.s are the same: taxes, .schools, roads, protection of persons ami property. The rule is the same: every voter may speak. Town meetings is still a legislature with universal membership. The meet ing used to be held in March, aft er Winter but before Spring farm work. It still is. t Now, as always, town meeting is a greaj school of civics. It is as decorous as a high court, yet it often explodes in laughter. From the floor come speeches of pas- -sion, reason and sometimes ec centricity. The people .speak in varied tonos.Then they vote, and for better or worse a matter Is settled, at least for another year. I Not only does this institution survive in full strength in its na tive habit. Newcomers to thwe parts from far away discover It I I’'.' the straw bag strikes again 6.00 i' ii 5 f lf| I m V 5- 1 AND WE’RE READY with imported straws in luggage shapes, tube shapes, lunchbox shapes—with leather handles, chain handles, wood handles, handsome hardware, brass studs ,,. so many styles to choose from in our new collection, just arrived. Plastic coated vinyl straw in natural, white, black, navy, red, toast, yellow, natural/white, natural/toast, red/navy, white/navy, Bt
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