Tlie Kings Mountain Heidd A weekly newspaper devPted to the promotion o( tho general wellare and published for the enllzhtenn.ent, ehtertalnment 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 oCfife at King.<4 Mountain, N. C., 380fl6 under Act of Congress of March 3,1^3. EDITORIAL DEPABTMEirr Martin Harmon Edltor-Pabliabei Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Bditor Miss Debbie Thorntourg Cleik, Boekkepper MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Frank Edwards •Hocky Martin Alien Mym RocM.Brown David Myetrs On Leave INltb The DgiM Stadsn AAny Paul ia>ctaMa dURgCRlPTION RAtES PAYASLE IN ADVANCE ^ BE MAO. ONE THAR.... $A59 9K MONTHS... .|E.W PLUS IfORTSt CAJElOUnK SALES TJ TiaiEPROHE NUMBER — 7S9-5U1 Nixon Reaffirms President Richard M. Nixon’s Wed nesday night address to the nation may be categorized as a speech of defense, ex planation, and reaffirmation of the Cam bodian operation. The only newness thereof was the re affirmation part, in which he promised anew that the operation, as far as U. S. troops are concerned, will be ended by June 30, with all United States armed forces withdrawn from Cambodia mor- der action. Defense/explanation went along to gether. The President the capture ot small arms, mortass, ammunition and the all important rice would require a minimum of nine months for the Viet Cong to re place, which would, in turn, save the lives of Americans and her South Korean allies. A labor union leader, the President said, had lost a son in Vietnam in Febru ary. Had the Cambodian operatipn been carried out previously, would the gun which killed his son have been put out of action? The Cambodian action makes sense according to the normal rules of military combat and perhaps more sense than the much of the Viet Nam action which has been highly costly and apparently stale mated, both in the field of battle and at the Paris conference tables. While the strategic withdrawal (sometimes expressed, lose the battle but win the war) is a common and aged principle, the strategy of the Viet Nam acction in capturing real estate one day, give it back the next, has never been a winning military princciple — if a prin ciple at all. Wars are won, abilities of thecon- testants being equal, by those contest ants who boast superiority, preferably overwhelming, of men and material, and though which they gain control and hold the real estsate. Curt Flood Suit The litigation now being tried in Federal court whereby baseball star Curt Flood is challenging the reserve clause long ex'i'a'it in protessiontil baseball is in teresting to baseball fans as to club owners and players. Outfielder Flood was traded by the St. Louis Cardinals to the Philadelphia Phillies and refused to report. The tact that the trade didn't suit him reduced him to the status of a slave. The owners, en nnasse, contend el imination of the reserve clause would ruin baseball, consign forever the poorer clubs to the nether regions of the cellar- dwellers. Chub Feeney, president of the Nat ional League, elicited chuckles when he said he favored relaxation of the reserve cl'uco by lett-ipn any plaver who attain ed the age of 55 be a tree aaent. Did even the nc"'- '';e Satchmo Paige stay active until 55? Those w5o attack the reserve clause as creatino oerretuity in peonage may have done better to have someone other than Curt Flood bring the litigation. Flood' s 'aiarv is hirih in the five fi- qure range, the Phillies had no objection to pavina it, and the salary Itself under cuts Flood's plea of peonage. Needed: $48^00 The city recreation department needs $48,200 to equip the handsome neighborhood facilities building which the city accepted from the contractors last week. Troubled brewed, money-w' when initial low bids totaled $108,0 sore than the total budget for this ’ ding and for which the federal government Is supplying $302,500. Much paring was done, largely in e- quipment areas, in order to get the mon ey-on-hand budget in balance and to get the building itself underway. Now the time has come to equip it. It is the first time In modern times — it ever — that the city has asked dona tions to implement its programs, cer tainly in any major amount. It is not unprecedented in the bus iness of government agencies in Kings Mountain. Principal examples are the cash sub scriptions and pledges of over $1 12,000 which supplemented tax funds tor the building of John Gamble Memorial Sta- pledges of some $256,000 supplied by citizens to assure building of the addition to Kings Mountain hospital. Technically, Kings Mountain Hospital is operated by a non-profit corporation. The corpora tion, however, leases the plant from Cleveland County for the nominal figure of $ I per year. The addition now under way, like the prior plant, employed coun ty bond money. The hospital folk had the same situation — and moreso — as the city with the neighborhood facilities building. The hospital folk found that $500,000 would not do the job required. The need and challenge are appar ent and the community center program committee, it is quite predictable, will find a willing response when it begins the work of raising the needed funds come Tuesday. Indeed, some donations are already in hand, including $5(30 from the Wom- •an's Club to be applied to the kitchen equipment. Pushing Water Deadline A cordial welcome to Richard J. (Arch) Kern, newly-employed and newly- arrived director of the city recreation department. Recently retired from the Kern, a Viet Nam veteran, has accepted a position with much challenqe, indeed as much challenge as a circus ringmaster. The growing and varied city recreation proqram is addino a considerable new severat-rlno dimensinn as the neighbor hood taclli*’'»s bi'ildlno goes Into ser vice. It will bo Director Kern's job to keep a several-ring circus in oneraticn there, from day care for children, to meetings, cbnvfintions, banquets, athle' tic events, etc., etc. ^ Conserve water is the plea from City Hall to its customers. The plea is not new, here nor in many other areas of the s fate and na tion. Kings Mountain was in trouble In the earlier twenties, thought it had its prob lems solved when the York Road reser voir was built. Then in the titties water problems arose again and what proved to be half-way measures were again im plemented. Water is in questionable supply to' day in two ways: I) supply and 2) treat ment, the latter the more pressing prob lem. Long-term relief, happily, Is just a- round the corner, as Buffalo 'k is soon to be tapped and the n eat- ment plant with four-million gaku,n daily capacity is to go into service. Meantime, the folk running the wa ter business at City Hall pray for rain and tor surcease from a major tire or other disaster that would necessitate cur tailment o fservice. Congratulations to Colonel William O. Ruddock on his recent promotion to that rank by the United States Air Force. Best bcws to scholarship winners Mike Blanton third winner of the Otis D. Green Post 155, American Legion, scholarship award, and to Miss Frances McGill, winner of a siholarshlp award to Erskine college. MABTIN'S MEDICINE The late Hiden Ramsey, editor of the Asheville CStizen, once de clared, ‘"Nothing is as deed as yesterday’s newspaper.” H e ' might have added, . . until for ty or fifty years later." m-u Some Things Haven't Changed (School's Out) KINGS MOUNTAIN Hospital Log TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Comc'noito me, all j/e thnt labmlr find |hre heavy laden, fund J 'wiH give you irest. Et. -vbsbh. Via the hands of Ricky Colllne, grade 7 and ‘Danny Lahmer. grade 8, I hav« Irt hand vintage eop.es of KirtjS Mountain news papers which I had never seen 'before. One is the March 28 ,1929, issue of the Kings Mountain Times, and the other is a Maioh 13, 19^, issue of the Kings Moun tain Herald. m-m More elder folk will remejrtber the Kings Mountain Times, a ■partnorsh p owned bj- E. E. Phil- lips, editor and W. Curtis Russ, business manager. Within a -month after this issue, Curtis has related, the Times was no more. It was the season of bankrupting banks and when one of Kings Mountain’s 'went- says Curtis, ‘‘Wo were able to i quidate our machinerj-, pay our bills, anid had enough li ft to get out of town.” m-m ’Tlte Times of this issue major- ^ in the fly-fly business. One Roy Aheai-n spoke to the Civitan club and urged that the club and com-munity move to acquire a landing strip. Mr, Ahearn was barnstorming in town during that week and Editor Phillips and Linotypist Alfred E. Felder went aloft with Pilot Aheam on sep arate occasions, each dropping copies of the Times with free flight tickets enclosed. Felder got the ibetter (or worse) of the flights. Ahearn gave Felder, on ■his first trip upstairs, “a few ocean waves and a loop-the-loop." The^ Im'perial Theatre on the fol lowing Monday, was to show a special f.lm showing Flyer A'hearn’s exploits as a movie stunt pilot. Twice it was report ed Aheam had Imiteq planes in flight and parachuted to safety for the btneifit of movie cameras. Viewpoints Other Bditors WHOSE SOUTHEAST ASIA? Kent State University. Interior Secretary Walter HickeTs critical letter. Student demonstrations. The resignation of the director of the U.S. Office of Students and Youth. The fluttering stock market. Bums. EDGE OF A WEDGE? m-m The Times was keeping tabs, too, on Edfor-Oa/ner G, G. Page of the Herald competition with two front page items. The Essex coach of Mr. Page had been stol- en and found in Abington, Va. The nice thieves had swapped Mr. Page a Chevrolet, but it was found to have been stolen from an Orangeiburg, S. C., man. The Times society editor was I Mrs. A. H. Patterson, who in i later years was to do the same work for the Herald, The rapid sequence of events in the UniteJ States since Pres ident Richard Nixon’s television speech on April 29 has made the controversial Cambodia offensive seem almost an exclusively Am erican affair. But while attention is natur- . ally focused on V^ashington and 1 the embattled President, an in- tesnational political game is still' being played in Southeast Asia where the Soviet Union and Chi- j na are delTcately trying to out- j ponse I manoeuver each other. I Both assume it is only a mat ter of time before the United In recent days two of the fi nancial world's most colorful and innovative entrepreneurs have ■been shaken from the thrones of their empires. Bernard Cornfeld was displaced from Investors Overseas Services Ltd., a Geneva- based mutual fund complex which i featured sales of fund shares to the little man in Europe and else where. And James J. Ling yield ed the chairmanship of LTV, Inc., the Dallas-based conglomerate, to a Dallas banker- and took the les ser of role of president. The temptation of course is to look at the stepdowns as dram atic chapters in the history of hijgh finance. Certainly they are this. But they should also prompt a more sober and thoughtful res- Brenda Bess Wins Degree IBrenda Gail Bess, daughter of ■Mrs. Bessie B. Bess of Kings Mountain, was among the 162 persons receiving degrees at the 88th Commencement of Living stone College Tuesday, June 2. at 2:30 p.m. in Varick Auditor ium. Miss Bess received a BA de VISITING HOURS 3 to 4 p.m. and T to 8 pJM. Dolly 10:30 To 11:30 \Villiam B. Badber Mrs. Dennis Bridges Mrs. Mary J. Farris Albert Gamible Wesley Griffis Stanley Hall, Sr. Mrs. Ethel L. Hoffman Mrs. Sidney D. Huffstetler Mrs Bill Lee Mltdiem Billy O. Moss _ Child Mrs. Oaixia H. MoWhirter Mrs. Eva M. Ormand Mrs. Sam Pegram Mm. Grace Philbeck 'Harvey D. Ramsey William J. Rowland John D. Simmons Mrs. Aniicho P. Smith Clarence E. Smith Talmadge G. Sullehs Mrs. Annie L. Thompson William C. Heffner Jonas N. Bell Admitted Thorsdoy Theodore Huffman, Jr. Admitted Friday Mrs. Fred H. Camp Augustine T. Waldrop Thomas E. Dills Mrs. Stoye B. Lee Mrs. Jack C. Nlcholg Mrs. Nonnle B. Ford Mrs. William C. Jackson William G. Spearmen Dai Goll Fi three game T in the ivities Club i (Dhat^ low \v colnto Admitted Sunday Ray A. Kltby Mrs. Hattie H. Dow’ncy Mrs, Russell Ellis- Jr. Mrs. Mary S. Mitchem William P. Randall Mrs. Carrie M. Price Isaac Bell, Jr. -Mrs. Elwood M. Roberts Roy A. Broome Admitted Monday Mrs. Robert W. .Moscg Mrs. Howard C. Turner -Henry Moore Ir par i‘c S; Mount most banqii S; standi Babe D for M. the al pony Admitted Tuesday Mrs. Jerry L. McClure M;s. Ridhard S. James Mrs. George R. Allen Mrs. Kara C. Martin Mrs. Willie M. Black For] No^ i Schoo TO CONVENTION Reg Alexander, president of the Baptist Student Union at Gard ner Webb college, will return grec in English. She was a mem- home today after attending the 'her of the college’s drama guild, .Southern Baptist C.nventlon in the Concert Choir the Burns Lit-i Denver, Colorado. Son of Post- prary Society, and tho Women’s ' niaSt6r and Mrs. Charles Alox 'Home and Foreign Missionary ander, he is making the trip by now t team. K where rising show! last M K Society. ' plane. By the time March 13, 1930, ed.tlon of the Herald appeared- 'Mr. Page had leased the paper to J. B. King. The streamer Headline read "P&N Extension Work Begun,” with grading start- dt both Gastonia and Spartan- States withdraiws from the area, leaving a vacuum of power. The question is: who will occupy it? Japan, the third most import ant country in the world econ- nmirally, seems unwilling to dis- ca! Howard Taft, and Mayor A. L. Buhvinkle was seeking to rqialn the House of Represen tative seat he had lost two years beifore to Rep. Charles A. Jonas, m-m A Kings Mountain amateur basketball team had a game up coming with Matthelivs for the Western North Carolina eham pionshlp. The Kings Mountain roster: Bill Jenkins, Slim Rh,>ne Skinny Jenkins, Skimp Stdwi, Betcha Boone Blonjie Kidd anc. Buck D.llings. m-m The late Hinkle McGinnis wat offering Phil'co radios (as littli as $112.50 withotft tubes) for free trial and D. F, Herd was offerin; $5 trade-in on a deluxe t'wo-dooi ice refrigerator. .Moffatt Wolfe’s Dry Cleaning advertised special offers On dry cleaning dresses a plain dress at a dollar, pieatei 'iresses at $1.30. This would in dicate that dry cleaning is on< item on Which the 1970 price i less than that of 1930, Southern Railway was offering spec al rc duetions on short trips and Arth ur Hay wo:Id sell you "Any In surance.” 666 would relieve •' headache, o.heck a cold in a da; and malaria in three days. Sad das were ahead for the HeraM, too, as the paper late, went oankrupt. m-m The Soviet Union, however, considers itself very much an Asian nation, and for ideological as well as political reasons is un willing to let the Chinese bid for cre-eminonee in the region go un challenged. Meanwhile, Russia’s attempts *0 make political inroads in ■"Southeast Asia have met with Mttle success. Relations with In- Ha have been good, but not as ■ound as the friendship between ""hina and Pakistan. Last year the Soviet Union ■ame up with tho ill-conceix’ed iroposal 01" an Asian Collective vreurity pact, apparentl.v design- xl agaiii-st China. As could have been anticipated, U met with a 'pgative response: even enun- ries who were orposM to China vould hardlv jump at the pros- 'fet of joliiin.g the Soviet eamn. Peking ha.s also taken political (Ivantage of the cooperation he- iveon the Soviet Union and .Ta- 'an in trade and development. The Chinese plav on the fears n Asia of a new Japanese army 'rt tl>' march — united With Di ssia’s “new czars” or the U.S. ’agressois,” as the propaganda ccaslnn demands .... Chou En-lal's majoi- diploriintir oup •- at least in the Commun With falling stock prices (a 30 percent falloff on Wall Street in the past ,17 months, with similar declines in Tokyo and else where); signs of continued re cession, inflation, and tight mon ey; unease ever the wars in Indo china and the Middle East; and evidence that brokerage houses are sorely weakened by the de cline in stock sales and that many of their overextended customers may not 'be able to survive the calls of banks to pay up on loans — all this suggests that the Comfeld-Ling comedowns may be only the leading edge of a wider wedge of change. The Cornfeld and Ling em pires were vulnerable to the squeeze put on by the boar mar ket, narrow profit margins, an1 tight money. With the world as a whole taking a dimmer view of the worth of stocks, redemptions of Investors Overseas Services funds rose and sales fell, putting the highiflying company at the mercy of lenders to meet current expenses. Likewise I TV has been troubled by the inability of earn ings to meet payments on the enormous borrowings it took on While amassing its rmpi-e. In both cases, the newest lenders have demanded a say in man- dglhg the cdltitianies — the high est price a company can pay for money. The Nixon Administrat on has bren saying that the American econnm'-'« ill take a firmer foot ing again In a few months. The stock market however, seems to be saying It doesn’t believe It. 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No (loubt Presl- >f a mpcllbg hctwpp-i Prince Nor- dent NIxoh is aware he-may sooh 'dom S hnnouk arid i-cpi'cscnia-1 face btslncssitieh as weM as !ves of North Vietnam the Viet youths and the college community '■’ong, and the ranibotllan and in the oecce-noW coalition. Keep Yom Radio Dial Set Al 1220 WKMT Perhaps the sad days hert were long-term good days for th' owners of both, papers. Curtis Russ, a highway commisp’-*--■ during the Dan '"t ' > ■ • ■ . tratlon • Pf' .lesville Moun taiiieer. His partner, at last ae count, had done well in WAsH- Ingion- D, C. The late Mr. King became the otw^ner of the .semi- weekly Aiken, S. C., Standard & Review, which, when the Atotnic Energy Commission set up shop at Aiken, was quickly cata-pulat- ed into a prosperous daily, m-Bi TIs an lU wind that bloweth no good. ".aotlan Communists, chou En I 'al Was In attendaner, but the j Russians were not .... Premier Alexei Kosj-gin, app.-)r- ■'ntlv ti-ylhg to salvage Soviel | irestlge recertlly calletl his first, 'xm'terrncc to condemn the . J States and to urge “aH 'he people rtf the World to slrm tggresslon In Cetbhotlla.” He ai- •o hinted that the Soviet Utitori -night Withdraw front Stvateglv trrtis Llhtltatloii talks With thh tin ted States an acknowleige- ‘hent of the frequent Chlne.se a'c- nisarlon that Mosicrw a-id Wash ington are enoperating to the de triment of the Communist world. To try to maintatii whatever Influence It has in HanoL tlte Sovlel'Hlnion will have to eon- J^inue Ending weaipons to North Chri/tHnn Siience Monitor DIM VIEW That ageless trouba'Iour,, Llb- erace. Is crtmlh-g out with a cook book Which .will permit others to share 'his cullnarv secrets. Beifore putting fork to his roast Cornish game Hen, hcwevel-, it iw'll tje ad- visible to a'iopt his use of candel abra. Sometimes food tastes bet ter if you 'Can't sec It clearly. Vietnam. But its credibility as an Asian power seems to be on the ■wane while China, through some adrblt diplomafc moves, seems to be rising as tpe dominant ConMunitt IWflUenee in Ihdo- China. The Olobe and Mail (Toronto) Kings Mountain. N. C. on o) hand eight State I after Build Ihntii News & Weather every hour on th^ hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. 80 Fine entertaintnent in between a