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(‘age 2 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday. April 23. l97C^t hursc Established 1S89 The Kings Mountain Herald A weekly nevv<!paper 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. EDITOBIAl. OEPABTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk. Bookkeeper MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Frank Edwards •Rocky Martin Allen Myers Roger Brown David Myers On Leave With The United States Army Paul Ja?kson ^ J SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR... .$3.50 SIX MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE .MONTHS... .$1.2S PLUS NORTH CAROUNA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Ponilcr thr jmVi of thy feet, and let all thy ways he cutablinhcd. Proverbs Sinicture Survey Engineering work is underway in the 147-acre Cansler Street Urban Re newal Project area to determine the phy sical fitness of structures — business buildings and residences. Answers will be given to the ques tion: What structures are in good repair, which can be repaired, which are beyond repair? In essence, which do and which don’t conform to state building code re quirements? The unpracticed can guess that a number of these structures are in poor repair and can spot a number candidates tor bull-dozing down. The Cansler Street project is a ma jor one. A federal grant reservation of over $1.7 million has been made for this pro ject and city city will provide in-kind funds of more than a half-million, includ ing the city’s share of state funds to be spent on the improvement of Cansler Street itself. Officials have suggested that prop erty owners defer major improvements until the engineers e.xamine the build ings for basic structural soundness and offer priority service on the building check-outs to tho.se who ask for it. The idea of the renewal project of ficials is; “Don't throw good money after bad.” — a .sound idea. John E. Gamble The passing of John Elder Gamble removed from the commun/fy a citizen of many years, a quiet man of patience and courage. He showed both patience and cour age several years ago after suffering a heavy paralytic stroke. He was patient during a long recovery period and cour ageous in his long arduous efforts to re turn to health. Mr. Gamble know many people throughout the area and counted them friends as they counted him. He was a keen Bible student, loyal to his church, his community, and his nation. Earth Day: Positive There’s something to be said for emotion when it’s properly channeled. In this century, the nation has twice moved emotionally into war, in 1917 and 1941. The emotion was nationally solid ified. The results speak for themselves. There is currently being solidified a nation-wide emotionalism on pollution of natural resources, air, water, two life- givers the major ones. Ecologists have been talking about the increasing problems for years. Now they’re getting to the people, awaking to the problems, today and the dire ones promised in the future. It’s a happy note, for the attitude is a positive one, happily in contrast to the hippy militancy and attending civil dis order which has been dominating the news of the day. The anti-pollution war is a proper one. Apollo 13 The superstitious may charge it to “unlucky 13’’, but the scientists, engi neers and astronauts do not. Postal Rate Increases For all its glamor in folklore, litera ture and film, the pony express of yes teryear was hardly successful and en joyed a short life. With proposals of the Nixon Ad ministration to escaSate postal rates, .some may be yearning for a throwback to the pony express, a noble experiment in speeding communications. The proposals would escalate heavily first, second and third class mail to provide by an anticipated deficit of $2.5 billion in postal operations. Third class mail is known as “Junk mail”, printed matter most often in the form of direct mail advertising. Second class (of which there are several classes) are publications such as newspapers, maga zines, trade association publications, and church publications. The mail rates vary with the type of publication and postal zone designation. First class mail is what it implies, getting top priority in handling, over all other classes. Air mail is first class mail, but catches the first plane available. Not much was said about parcel po.st (fourth class). Restrictions on size of piece mailable and increased rates have been a boon to United Parcel Serv ice and other firms of this type. Not much heft has been put to the Nixon Administratio ) for a posttl serv ice reorganization which, on examina tion, wasn’t much of a reorganization. Whatever, it has little chance of passage by the Congress, and the businessman’s dream of a private enterpri.se taking over the postal service has less. It's a bargain to send a letter 3,000 miles across continent for six cents. Per haps it's a bargain at eight cents. All-American City A citizens will be named to help compile Kings Mountain’s entry into the annual all-American City contest. There has been a lot of doing going on here and there still is. For many years. Kings Mountain was behind on provision of basic services for which a city exists. The reason was a very good and simple one: funds to provide the services were badly limited. Cities like individuals seldom get caught up, for needs continue to become apparent. But in the past 15-18 years, as the city grew, funds increased and the city was able to provide the basic serv ices and some added ones to boot. Some items: There are few unpaved miles of city streets and the paving program contin ues. Miles of curbed-and-gutter have been poured. The electrical system has been steadily improved. Natural gas sales continue to in crease. A sewage improvement program has been completed. A water system with abundant water reserve is in process of comple tion. Dedication day for the handsome neighborhood facilities building is just around the corner. Indeed, the fact of the safe return of Apollo 13 and her three-man crew would indicate she was in the lucky class. , Perhaps no layman understands the space program but he does understand the relief felt by earthmen all over the globe at the safe splash-down of Lovell, Swigert and Haise in their injured craft. Upcoming are the Central Business District and Cansler Street renewal pro jects. A major hospital addition is well under construction. The schools are improving plant and equipment and broadening curricu lum. There’s more, of course, but the listing above is hardly unimpressive. I Buy a broom from a Lion and help the poor-in-sight. • ' MARTIN'S MEDICINE Publicly owned corpoiation.s spt^nd large sums on their an nual rei»rts. .Several colors arc usually used in the riecor, there .ire pictures ot the <om])any's pnKluicts, graphs showing sales and parn;ni>.s performance cover ing ten years or more, the custo mary figure infomiation, a state ment from the president, and pictures of officers and direct ors. Check Cancer With a Check CAN D KINGS MOUNTAIN Hospital Log VISITING HOURS 3 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 8 p-m. Daily 10:30 To 11:30 aan. m-m Just arrived is the annual re port of Hrlme Products Inc., not large as many companies go but large enough to gross $s4 million in 1969. Until it began to diversify and I subsequently changed its cor- j porate name, iHelme Prorlucts, Ine., was George W. Helme Com pany for wh ch I have a youth ful s[x>t in my heart thougli 1 never sampled the earlier pro duct which made the company successful over thp years. When I was a youngster, clerking in a grocery store, I bagged a world of that product. It w.as snufi. Gail & Ax (many customers pro nounced it paily-Naxi brand, of | which there were three flavors, strong (Superior), .sweet ).Suav-. ity), and salty Compeer). LICKED? m-m Perhaps the snuff users of 30- odd years ago were much like cigarette users today who disdain the modern filter-tips for the old familiar non-filter faithfuls. The big seller was the stronr flavor, Mrs. Pearl W. Blanton Mrs. Laura N. Dolson ■Mrs. Myrtle C. Eaker .Mrs. Mary Jane Karris Mrs. O. O. Jackson Mrs. Florence Kilgore Miss Annie Fratices Kiser Hebert Metcalf Mrs. Dovle Andaras .Moore Ewndadl Edward Barrett Allen D. Bridges Mrs. Fred H. Camp Morri.s L. Chalk Edward W. Dellinger J. B. Hawkins Mrs. Sidney Dulin HufLsIetler Mrs. Bobby Gene Lockridge Jame.s A. Moss Walter Parker Judge Law.son Phillips Mrs. Jesse M. Rippy Bobby Gene Sulherland George S. Walls Hazel Elizabeth Cloninger Emmitt W. Hughes William Lawrence Moss Russell Effln Ellis Dick Dion Smith Mrs. Eugene Williams Woodrow W. Wilson ADMITTED THURSDAT -Mrs. Bruce W. Boyles, Sr. Mrs. James Fletcher Paul Knox Neely Ronald Eugnlte Weaver Mrs. Samuel W. Worthen ///cca^uiie^ Viewpoints of Other Editors ADMITTED FRIDAT Burgin V. Dellinger “Gaily-Nax strong”, ten cents or three foi- a quarter. CONSISTENCY ON DRUGS I THE POSTAL ACCORD , alcoholism also a form of There were many other brands, 'drug dependence with grave per including Ilelme veterans Navy -sonal and social effects, ami Railroad Mills, still in the many-brand line. The nation's sudden stand a- Considering the handicaps they gainst heroin and other drugs I were working under, the postal contrasts with its apathy toward | negotiators — union and 'Gov- einment - - did remarkably \vell. From the public's standpoint, the m-m I It was reported this past week I that alco-holism is an even more j serious problem than was thought. Only a few months ago I mentioned here some years Dr, Roger O. L^eherg, Assistant ago a feature story on the snuff Secretary for Health Education, industry appearing in the Wall and Welfare, said there were 6.3 agreement offers at least some hopt' for improved postal serv ice. Street Journal, in which it was related the industry was not growing, but was bolding its own, replacing as many custo mers as it lost. Intriguing part ot the story was the effort of the president of American Snuff Company to get his wife to in troduce the use of snuff to the million problem drinkers in thr United States. On the basis ot this figure alcoholism was the number one national health chal lenge. I But now researchers at George Washington University have est imated that there are a third Of course, it’s unfortunate that the talks oame-ixy the wake of widespread strikes and with the threat of more of the same very much in the aii'. And no one is going to bo happy about the pro posed liigher postal rates. But a lot of the blame for the entire mess rests on the Congress that has always insisted on making a political plaything of the Post Office. LICENSE MISS REUMANN In the age of the drop-out the handica'pped student who (iver- comes obstacles to get an educa tion and a job is a thought-pro- i voking example in the classroom and in life. The blind student who takes mental notes and the para plegic Who wheels himself through school show a detei-min- ation that exceeds tho courage of more acclaimed hero-athletes in our society. social circles in which they cir- more problem drinkers than was culaled. He wanted to tap a new previously thought. They put the market but the missus said number at nine million, with n- “No". ther millions on the hoiderline of I serious alcohol addiction. m-m The public is of course familiar ) It tiay seem a bit incongruous hut Helme’s first diversification from tobacco was into a snack line with the purchase of It-acii- man Company, wliich made corn chips, potato chips and prelzcls. with the statistics on alcoholism’s toll. American business loses $2 billion in inefficiency and absent- teeism. Half the nation’s auto deaths involve drinking drivers. And so on. m-m Which gets me to the point. The back page of the report is devoted to “Legends of the F’retz- el”, an interesting story indeed. Today the pretzel is more gen Yet it is only fair to say that alcohol and its abuses do not get anywhere near the open and sharp public reaction they de- .ceiae. This may of course be be cause using alcohol is still widely thought to be a pleasurable ac tivity, or a social or business nec- e.ssity. It is a paradox that the public should take so clear cut a stand on drug use, and miss en tirely the logic of applying the orally associated with a glass ot same stiff action against the dan- beer, but the curious design was l.^frs of drink. Researchers on al- developed by a monk, about SIO I coholism have been stressing how A.D. in one of the monasteries of -southern France or Noithern Italy. With dough ends left over from baking, the monk formotl a shape to represent children’s arms folded in prayer and gave them to the adept childten for learning their prayers. He called it “petrlola” Latin for "little rewai-d.” The German bretzel and our pretzel are de rived from the petriola. m-m A mistake created the modern pretzel. An apprentice baker over- baked a batch an<l when the proprietor noticed his helpers crunching and enjoying the over- baked product the modern pret zel was born. m-m About 1310, the Tui'ks were repulsed in their assault in Vi enna and decided to tunnel un der the walls. The night-work ing Vienna pretzel bakers heard the digging, grabbed all weapons available, charged the enemy and annihilated him. The king be stowed on the bakers a coat of arms, a shield with a rampant lion poised on a pretzel. It be came the bakers' emblem, still used today. m-m Congratulations to David Hugh Smith and Howard Wayne Swofford, a- mong the first group of recipients of the James M. Johnston schoiarship awards to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Tttllus Slutgis opened the first commercial bakery in tbe United States in 1S81 and the bakery is still in business. m-m Mass production came to the pretzel industry in il933 when a pretzel twisting machine wa.s in vented. Now about 80 percent of anologous it is to modern drugs. Continued drinking, they say, can lead to physical addiction which the victim cannot control. It can be argued, perhaps, that miltancy against drugs other than alcohol is more urgent be cause sucdi are a comparatively new threat, or because it affects a younger generation which has not yet reached an age of full responsibility for its own acts. But this does not hold up as an excuse for inaction against al cohol. Adults seem cither hypo critical or inconsistent to inveigh again.st one form of artificial mental stimulant while indul.gin.s :n another. Consistency in dis approval would only help (he ease'against both alcohol and the other lethal drugs. —The Christian Srienre Monitor THE CURBED BULLDOZER A livelier concern for “quality of living" is entering public at titudes in the United States. It’s reflected in the prospects of the national htghwa.v program, the j dam-build:ng of the Army Corps of Engineers, strip-mining in Kentucky, and offshore oil drill- uig, to name a few areas of pub ic anxiety. Public needs for transporta- ■'on, oil, electric power and the l.ke must be mot, it is generally I'ecognized. But the question be ing asked much more frequently is: “Will thi.s project or that con- sirurtion wrwk hous ng despoil scenery, pollute the environment, split a neighborhood?" A business advisory service noting the defeat of the timber bill in Congress, warns that the environmentalists - the antlpol- (lutbn legions are In the sad- The agrceiment is only a first step. There's no certainty, for one thing, that the pact will be welcomed by (he rank and file of postal workers, who have had the heady experience ot striking illegally — and then having the' Government pj-opose to reward them with a pay increase. In New York City, where the strike began, (here was angry talk of a “sell-out." It's also uncertain where Con gress will, at long last approve the sort of reform that could make it clear the Post Office's job is carrying the mail not ca tering to political interests. Un til the agreement, at any rate, the lawmakers apparently were prepared to go head with a pay raise and merely pigeonhole re form. Refor-m’s chances will depend a good deal on the postal union leaders’ ability to .sell the idea to their members. Most of (he lead ers appear to have a(X»pted it only because it has been sweet ened with an additional S% pay raise. True reform, however, could bring postal employees benefits going well beyond the higher pay. A semi-independent postal au thority, for one thing, could pro vide area pay differentials based on living costs, something the postal unions have long sought, ft could open up to career work ers the higher level jobs now re served for political appointees. The corporation could make the postal service more efficient better able to cope with its swiftly growing burdens. Most postal workers, we’re convinced, want to take pride in the job they do. Obviously enough, reorganiza tion alone will not guarantee any substantial improvement. But it .should be equally obvious that a mere continuation of the old political ways would just about guarantee a continued deteriora tion of the Post Office. In the clroumstances, then, the postal accord is surely a step in the right direction for the postal service. Wall Street Journal Judy ‘Heumann, 22. never walk ed because of polio but she grad uated with honors from Long Is land University. She has taught remedial reading for the State's Division rtf Youth, getting around classes in an electric wheelchair. But she has been denied a lic ense to teach in the city's public schools because the Board of Ex aminers says that while she pas sed everything else with flying colors, she failed her physical. This is heartless and thoughtless nonsense. Miss Heumann - and others like her — ought to be granted her license. Sitting In her wheelchair, she can show students, handicapped or normal, that the desire to teach and learn is the first educational step. —Nev} York Times Mis. Clyde Lee Cantrell Mrs. Wray Douglas Farris Mrs. Ervin Moore Mrs. J. D. Wyatt ADMITTED SATURDAY Grier Webb Sneed Mrs. Ada .SIruupe William Keith Hiiffstetler, Jr. Mrs. Michale Price Mrs. Mary Ailcen Ramsey Ira Jack Camp ADMITTED SUNDAY Mr.s. Paul Gilbert Mrs. Fred Robert Lovelace, Jr. Mrs. Chris Roseboro all are made by machine, thejdle. A lot of dams, highways, first human being to touch thcmloower plants, strip-mining pro- being the oonsetmer’a. ' litam», and sueji are likely to be dei'eated, if new attitudes per sist. Take the $63 blHlon national highway program. .Secretary of Transportation John Volpe is vetoing a number of highway proposals because they would dama-re scenic areas, wreck neighborhoods, destroy housing when rcplaoement housing is un- ava'lable. Similarly the Army Corps of Engineers Is being ad vised to stop proposing dam sites on wild rivers and wlKierncss a- reas. This new scrutiny, this heghtened concern for the en vironment, la a healthy develop ment — very necessary In this “age of the busy bulldozer." —Thm Chrittiem Scime* tionitor CRUEL WORLD At Ohio’s Bowling Green State University, students recently be gan a "teach-in" to point up the Importance of improving and preserving the environment. Be fore the affair started university officials underlined a point *hat we hope none of the student*-- missed. The officials shut down the campus power plant, a move that left the shivering students tak- ing cold showers and eating a cold breakfast. The shutdown showed the students what they might have to sacrifiee if they sought an Immediate end to all air pollution. There’s no question that the nation has gone dangerously far in damaging the enviionment. But some of (he new environ mentalists, like many of the old conservationists, seem to think that the only proper response is ADMITTED MONDAY Mrs. Larry Dean Bumgardner Mrs. Rancly Eugene Causby Robert Garland Metcalf Charles T. Pennington Mr.s. R. V. Stowe James William Stoll Mi'.s. Jerry A. Rrsss Mrs. Robert C. Mann Glenn Elliott Ilarrill Hayward Dean BullcKk I ADMITTED TUESDAY Mrs. Laura G. Nicholson Mrs. .Sara E. Blanton _ Mrs. Lena T. HambrigTIt Queen Esther Harrison Mrs. Dewey G. Lovelace Mr.s. Dale F. Wright Mr.s. Richard Leo Kec Johnnie Jay Johaston > 1 I Itern m i.ss(*i ciidu I High’s ll ltc ( Cniifer inimtl Caa King.-' this ti and It ;aiit Inst 'sjiorl It ime Itlast lead ! victor The i It frc Iasi i a sav two-tl till' \\ Kin fonr f eti a tlte li tic* lit a lw( in till hack Tlt( enth, cltani vengt Wit it ed a f<*nor Kir to eil torn ruiini in a hom< lagg( Cltuc Wi ba=oi T.’xn ^>-11 ' (w-f ( )Ul( eutfi Do cc'l'-' III th Slier hi*' to rush back toward the forest primeval. -le i in .n Ca ever the a C'r (>ver a a bask Bu evi'r .“.(■or (’r.'S K. \ Han and Wl- What's needed is less political oratory and more balance in tli* approach to the environment! Otherwise the human race may find its world is not only cold but cruel. Wall Street Journal ■9 Keep Yon Radio IKal Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. Jfews & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. fine entertainment in between T M T( Rt K > ti*n hie.* def we.* C eve ma Wh Dm 8-6. 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