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Page 2 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday. May 14. 1970 Established 1&89 The Kings Mountain Herald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightenn.ent, entertainment and benefit of tlie 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 Maitin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart 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^dcRon ■J} 8UBSCRUTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR... .$3.50 SIX MONTHS... .$8.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROUlfA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE For many shall come in my naine saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. St. Mark 13:(i. Loys It On Line Lieutenant-Governor Pat Taylor, Jr., struck a responsive chord among Lions and their guests at Tuesday night's 32nd annual ladies night ban quet. Mr. Taylor, who became a marine near the end of World War II then en joyed the pleasures of the Korean “po lice action”, commented on the adver tised problems of the youth of today and reviewed some liistory about today’s father generation. Tliesc, he said, were children of Woi’ld War I, reared on the Great De- pros.sion, and matured on World War II which ho termed the “grisliest war in the history of mankind.” On the De pression, he declared, “there wms not merely [lovorty in Mississippi, hut ev erywhere.’' On race relations, Mr. Taylor point ed with pride to the great strides made in equali/ n;’ opportunitv for all during the past 20 years and added, “if as much progress is made in the next 20, the problem will be solved.” On Vietnam, which ho termed the most sensitive of youth prolesis: “The verdict of history is not yet in, but our motives are most honorable.” He pointed out that all governments, like all newspapers and all corporations are run by mere men and that “our sys tem is not perfect, but it is not rotten; you wil.' live in it and grow in it.” Problems, he labeled, are an invita tion to help solve them. The lieutenant-governor spoke the truth. Miss Averitt Contributed It was somewhat surprising when the community learned that Miss Alice Averitt, Kings Mountain city schools’ first teaching supervisor, is retiring at tlie end of the current school year. It was surprising, too, to realize that Miss Averitt has served the schools in that capacity for 19 years. The reporter writing the news ac- conn! 'f Miss Averitt’s plans asked a- i)Out ■ ■ '- aphical information. The editor replied in this vein: No, not wliat you w’ant. He lived at the same residence for .some years, remem bers her loss of a beach home to Hurri cane Hazel, the time she received minor injuries in an auto wreck, and that she is a cousin of Kugene Matthews, the 40- . year iviireJ vo.trun of many editions of the Herald. He remembers the time she contracli d niumps and the message the editor (lo victim and therefore not immune scni: until she was well, he didn’t even want to talk to her via phone. But the more straight-line facts are her nativity to Cumberland County, her education at Atlantic Christian College. Peabody College, and the University of North Carolina, her service as a class room teacher in several eastern North Carolina communities, and her entrance into the field she practiced here. More particularly is the fact of her good and valuable service here in pro moting the improvement in quality of teaching in Kings Mountain schools via several dii’ections, staging of in-service study, encouragement of teachers to enroll in summer programs and, perhaps more important, a willingness to help solve individual problems of individual teachers in the everyday business of teaching youthful students. Congratulations to Frank Hinson, hard-working Jaycee, newly elected to the presidency of the organization. Economic Scene One trouble with fiddling with the economy is that man-made plans often go awry. Galloping inflation was bad was some. But the Nixon Administration’s planned slowdown of the economy is proving bad for many others. The difference in a planned slow down is that industry can tighten its belt much better than the people they layoff or give the pink slip (baseball lingo for release). The tightening is beginning to show rather heavily. Industry is starting first ' close down marginal operations. F( "’osod a marginal operation in Texas Ihero are continuing rumors that joncs & Laughlin steel corporation, now con trolled by the LTV conglomerate may close their big Pittsburgh, Pa., works, which provides bread and meat for 10,000 employees. Thus far the results have included higher interest rates, curtailment of home-building, increased unemployment, a tailspinning stock market, and the on ly bright spot to which the Nixon tight- money folk can point with pride is a drop of one-tenth of one percent in the wholesale price indtx. Anent the stock market, it may be remarked that for each share sold there is a buyer on the other end that figures the particular stock he buys has bot tomed out. After a long dissertation on the stock markets’ performances as a busi ness indicator of today and harbinger of what's in store for tomorrow, the Wall Street Journal writer of “The Outlook” in the recent Monday edition said, in ef fect, he didn’t know either. But many must like the story he related about a friend and his stock market dealings during the Cuban mis sile crisis with the Russkies in 1962, when a punch of a button could have launched immediate mass havoc. With the stock market heavily off, the writer’s friend was buying, buy ing, buying to the limit of his ability. Ilis reasoning: if there w-ere a hydrogen bomb and missile war, then he and his family would probably not survive. If there were no war, he was buying bar gains, bargains, bargains. A Labor Titan The death of Walter Reuther, his wife, two other United Auto Workers men, the crew of two in a plane crash Saturday night removed from the na tional scene a genuine titan of labor. He was soundly hated by his antag onists, some within the ranks of labor as well as those across the table, but he gained the respect of virtually all for his toughness and quickness of mind and his basic integrity. Ho had courage to spare and when he narrowly escaped death from the shotgun blast of a still unknown assail ant, he did not t^ke the hint and quit. Besides the basic traits of charac ter he exhibited, it is possible his major asset in dealing quite successfully with the auto-makers through his 24 years at the helm was his ability to deliver what he promised at the bargaining ta ble. Wildcat strikes were not the order of the day among the rank-and-file of the auto-workers. The pundits arc predicting that Mr. Ruether’s successor, whoever he may be, will be a tougher bargai'^ri’ when contract renewals come up th’.s autumn. In view of Mr. Ruethei' ■ ’’l-year performance, that prediction is rather hard to believe. Whatta ya know? Driving down West Mountain street is like riding on silk. That long - awaited re - surfacing chore is done. Everyone shouts, Hurrah! MARTIN'S MEDICINE As they are frequently doing, some neighbors of Rev. (Dr.J D. | B. Alderman are telling another i tall tale on him. The Central Methodist parson is an ardent | fisherman, so ardent, in fact, j says Bennett Masters (aiso a Cen tral ME), he was trying to I catch'em tiie othe- day down the. chimney ot the manse. Closer quizzing of Bennett, who has been known to omit certain pertinent details, revealed that yet another ardent fisherman and Central ME was involved. Burgin Falls was repairing the manse chimney and lost his trowel. The minister allowed he could fix that. He found a magnet, append ed it to a fishing line, and begin probing the chimney’s depth Alas, and to no avail. The parson finally gave it up as a non-bitin’ day. went to the hardware and bought Burgin another trowel VVluc'li is a good enough start to relate a couple of Lieutenant- Governor Pat Taylc/’s stories at Tuesday night's Lions club ladles night. After Billy Mauney’s laud atory introduction, Pat replied. "You’ve heard of the fellow who says tlie speaker needs no intro duction. It looks like Bill thinks 1 need all 1 can get.” m-m Ho credited Carl Goerch with tills one: Mr. Goerch, one of the state’s wittiest and friendliest, wa.s to speak at a convention g:ithering and before meeting lime, was mingling with the. crowd, none of whom warmed to Iris hearty greetings and glowing smile. Discouraged, he returned to his hotel roam and opened the flyleaf of the Gideon Bible. Dis couraged, it was advised, read John:14; down-hearted, read...”; lonesome, read the 23rd Psalm. After reading the 23rd Psalm, Mr. Goerch noticed an inscription at the bottom of the page. It was in feminine hand-writing. “Still lonesome? Call Room 823.” m-m The next tale Pat credited to famed humorist Ed Harding, ot Little Washington, the ex-fertiliz er man who has spoken here several times. Friends asked an other lady to join them on a shopping trip to Raleigh. Oh, no, she couldn’t. Tire family finances were too thin. She needn’t buy anything, her friencl.t: encouraged, ^he went and brought heme a 'decorous sheath not relegated to the inexpensive class. Hot hus band was upset. His wife said she was prevailed upon to slip on tlie dress and both salesladj a »' friends declared,” This Is YOUit dress. It was made for you!” Why. the irate husband asked, hadn’t she told Satan to get behin.-l her. m-m *T did,” was the plaintive repiv, “but he said it looked just as good behind.” m-m 'Representative Mooney pre sented the Lieutenant Governor as “The Governor”. 'He explain ed, '“■Indeed, he is the Governor. Governor Scott left for Fiance this morn ng, and ■when the Gov ernor of North Carolina is out of the state the lieutenant-governor is the Governor” US- • V er tv* Explosive! \ I >10-^ .yc-a=-.A»f- Viewpoints of Other Editors FLAWED WORLD-SHAKER Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was at I one and the same time a stun-; ning example of how men of. genius and determination can i change human history and of; how self-contradictory such men i can be. Because he lived, planned, schemed, fought, the world is now sundered along Marxist frontiers. ' But also, in part because of the flawed manner in which he; launched the Russian Revolution, , Marxdom finds itself increasingly faced with deep political, eco- ! nomio, social, intellectual, and ; ideological contradictions on Len- . in’s 100th birthday. It must, in fairness, be said of j Lenin that he sought a better world in which poverty, injustice,! inequality would be done away , with. But, although he was ready. use surpifcing flexibility in seek-! ing to adhieve this goal, he did not have the ultimate genius of heart and head to foresee how incredibly complex such a task was. For, iu his unwavering con fidence in a materialistic answer- SPORTS AND THE COURTS i The legal troubles of profession- j al sports arc still piling up, and | sooner or later Congress may have to stop inas referee. First, Curt Flood, formerly of the St. Louis Cardinals, sued to test baseball’s reserve clause, which ties a player to one learn until it decide: to let him go. Oth er sports have softened tills re- .striction, but baseball wauls to keep it as it i.s. Noiv several Senators are spon-' soring legislation to make profes-1 all, he did not recognize that! many - sidedness of mankind, which warns that man does not' live by bread alone. Lenin shook tlie world’s largest land out 'of its vast and, stultify ing lethargy. He left an imprint on history equaled by few other men. But he utterly failed to point out to men the path of uni versal progress. ’The Soviet Union, tike all other lands, must still search for that higher, surer road. Chiistian Science Monitor sional baseball fully subject to the antitrust law.s. The prime movers are Washinglon’s two Senators, who object to the way the American League yanked a franchise from Seattle aflcr one year there proved unprofitable. At the same time the players of the National Basketball As.so- ciation are suing to block a mer- gef of the NBA and the rival .\mericcfn Basketbalf Association. Competition between file two leagues has helped to push up players’ salaries, an advantage the players understandably want to preserve. The antitrust status of profes sional sports has been badly con fused by occasional legislation and court decisions. Wliat is clear Ls that sports now are a big busi- ne.s.s and, as such, are no more entitled to blanquet antitrust ex emption than any other busine.ss, although tliere may be rea.sons for some special rules. KINGS MOUNTAIN Hospital Log VISITING HOURS 3 to 4 p.m. and 7 te 8 pja. Daily 10:30 To 11:30 o-m. Mrs. Sidney Dulin Huffstetler Mrs. Connie Anderson Mr. Mt'lvin Ray Batohler Mrs. Emma L. Bowen Mrs. Lois Neal Camp Mrs. Geneva S. Carroll Mrs. Boyce E. Elaker Mrs. .Mary Jane Farr s Mrs. Harlie H. Palmer Judge Lbwson Phillips Mrs. William Purvis Seism jijirs. James B. Tanner Mrs. Annie SUUie Tliompson Sam Williams All's. James V. Coak [ ADMITTEP THVRSPAY ' Elbert J. T. Barnette j Wesley Griffis Russell wgyne TaRey APMITTPP F El PAY Mrs. Lac-ra ,C- Hari Mrs. Walter J. )3ol n Mrs. Michael Price Mrs. James Robert Long APMITTFP SATURPAY Mr. George Edward Barrett i Mrs. Don Douglas Crocker 'Mrs. Vlrgie Louise Cole \ APMITTFP SUN PAY I ilr. Odell Peak Johnny Franklin 'Wright Harvey Douglas Ram.sey Hillard Guy Coker Mr. James Frank Robinson APMITTEP MONPAY Edwai-d Odell Gore iMrs. Ida K. Rollins Ml'S. John iBuolianan Frank Edward Heath Mrs. Zay Moore ■Miss Sandra Kay Wright Carl C- Gantt Mrs. James F. Wliito APMITTEP TUESPAY Harley Franklin Nicliol.son Mrs. NevUs Lee iHayncs Mrs. Thurman Chester Cash ill’s. Oaixia H. MeWhirter Dianna Lynn Brotk Mrs. David O. Jenkins Mrs. Dan Wells Mrs. Forest C. Hastings Mrs. Ted E. Gray %) » APMITTEP WEPNESPAY Roger Dean Clack Mrs. William Barry Gibson METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for week ending Tuesday totaled $132.60, including $118.50 from on-street meters and $14.10 from off-street meters. If so. it’s probably time for Con gress to start drafting legislation that would be fair to all involv ed. Sports fa Its, many of whom i happen to be voters, want to see I their heroes on tlie playing fields, I not in the courts, i Wall Street Journal I had not previously had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Taylor, the former Elizabeth Lockhart, like her husband native to Wadesboro. Try as I might, we could not confirm my impression that somewhere we had met be fore. Closest connection we could make was the fact of my cousin Martha Plonk’s teaching stint in Wadesboro. “I called her Miss Plonk,” Mrs. Taylor replied. “She taught me,” adding, “I never pass through Kings Mountain without thinking of her.” She was interested to know of Mar tha’s post Wadesboro days as a World War II Navy Wave, pro fessor at the University of West Virginia and now at Oregon Static I knew Pat’s late father long before his son. At first meetiq^ I learned how expensive legal matters can be, in the particular instance on business with the Utilities Commission. Mr. Taylor, Sr., was an attorney for Queen City Bus Company, seeking, as was another company,, permis sion to do passenger operations on a rather short stretch of line, but which would provide a l’’•’k- up. Four of us fr--- were t''-’ " , .y^L.j a .. ui.c^acions 'from ali ,.,„iiinunities along the desired route. What was to be a one-day trip became two, as few witnesses were called the first day. Queen City, of course, defrayed expenses and Queen City was not niggard ly, the entree of the day being T-Bone steak. m-m Happily, Queen City was a- warded the franchise. - m/n'GW'S VQtCESOUHCS LIKE OUR. C\R WITH THe. off V77 MOU OCfTlABB CARSFUUROSS' WUAX IF SOMBBOeV FR»M Southwell Ford UAPMEARPVOU Used Cars 1966PantiacGTO $1295 Hardtop V8, Auto. Trans. 1966 Chevrolet $895 4-D. V8 Auto. Trans. GOOD BUY 1964 Faiilane $995 Station Wagon V8, Auta. Trans. Used Trucks 1969 Ford $2195 i-L-Ton Pick-Up V8 Cyl. Sharp - Lo'w Mileage 1969 Cheviolet $1995 Vi-Ton Pick-Up 6 Cyl. CLEAN 1968 Fold $1495 Vs-Ton Pick-Up V8 A Good Truck Many More tip Top Used Gar & Truck Values SOUTHWELL FORD WNLiY pilCHWAY mmF 4'
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