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R .a PAGE 2 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday. July 2. Established 1&89 The Kings Mountain Herald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare am iblished for the enlightenn.cnt, entertainment and benefit of tlie citizens of Kiiw ounUin pnd its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Heraid Publishing Hou.m' Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N i , 28066 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPAl T iEHT Maitin Hannon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Debbie Tliornburg clerk, Bookkeeper MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Frank Edwards Allen Myers •Rocky Martin Roger Brown David Myers • On Leave With The United States Army Paul Jackson SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE Y’EAR... .$3.50 SIX MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS... $1 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE But if they will not obey, I vAU bitterly yluck u p and destnjy tiiat rCatum, saih the Lwd. Jeremiah ig;17. The City Budget Senator Jack White, via his serv ice on the joint House-Senate study com mission on iocai government, learned quite a lot about North Carolina's towns and cities. He mentioned that fact Tuesday night in commending Kings Mountain’s city commission on 1) providing neces sary city services to the citizens and 2) in maintaining a low ad valorem tax rate. Not many cities, Senator White add ed, have been able to match the Kings Mountain record. Kings Mountain, of course, is bless- V ^ ith the profit-making electric and n. "al gas systems. Were it not for this taci, ad valorem taxes would be much higher, or sei-vices would be shorted. This year’s budget is another record one, up slightly over $,52,00 from that for the year ending June 30. Besides regular and normal appro priations for operational services, the budget provides .$379,72.5 for debt serv ice as the city amortizes its bonds for the sewage system improvements now in service and for the water system soon to be in service, and, always highly im portant, $228,929 for capital improve ments ranging from a long list of street improvements to ah additional fire truck, made necessary by city limits ex pansion. Emblematic of work done during the year just ended, the surplus carried over at June 30 was not as large as us ual, but at 70,000 was more by .$16,000 than the $52,000 increa.se in total. Most citizens will join with Senator White in commending the city commiss ions, present and past, for a long-con tinuing record of conservative fiscal management accompanied by solid pro gress. In sewage service and in the on coming water s.vstem, the City of Kings Mountain has filled in the chief major needs in providing services for indi-iidual and business citizens, present and fu- ture. That's a city’s excuse for being. A County Water Policy Ten years ago Cleveland County embarked on what was a new departure in county government in this state by providing sewage and water lines for Pittsburgh Plate Glass company’s plant at Washburn Switch. The Herald viewed the departure with mild alarm, wondering in print if the commission of that day realized that, morally, it must do for one what it did for another. The com/ission of that day did. Subsequent commissions did not, endeavoring to pull back on providing these services on the often valid plea of no available funds it could legally spend for these purposes Reason, of cour.se, ten years ago was the adject need for jobs in Cleveland County. In Kings Mountain area alone, unemployment claims were in the 800 per week area. , The county commission this week has done what earlier commissions should have by adopting a firm water policy. It accepts the premise that the county has the duty to provide this vital •service on a business-like basis, that there is not now sufficient density of population to justify a county-wide dis tribution system, and that the role of the county should be limited to line-lay ing. The policy adopted is similar to Gaston County’s. If a firm to bo served has a capital investment of $100,000 rriinimum and will return the line cost to tire county via taxes within a ten-year od, the county will pay the line bill, ' Shelby and Kings Mountain, the w er distributors, selling the water and maintaining the lines. The policy is a year from implemen tation, as no water line appropriations were made in the budget for the current year. But adoption of the policy provides county planners and government offi cials, along with Chambers of Commerce, something solid to talk about when be ing interviewed by industrial engineers and residential developers. It is a step in the right direction for the continued well-being and progress of Cleveland County. Independence Saturday is IndepcL icnce Day, marking the 194th anniversary of the signing of the colonists declaring brok en the ties with the mother country. Great Britain. struggle required to make the proud and independent words of the Declaration more than meaningless was long and arduous and was finally brought to fruition by the American successes in the South— Kings Moun tain, Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse and Yerktown. North Callahan, in his books “Roy al Raiders” and “Flight from the Re public”, gives much attention to the bit terness between Tory and Whig, the former loyal to the crown, and pointed up by the Battle of Kings Mountain, where only Patrick Ferguson, the Brit ish commander, was a native of Great Britain, and where brother fought a- gainst brother. Atrocities and inhuman brutalities were rife in that day—on both sides. Historian Callahan reports, and in the light of history, it is amazing that the struggling colonies won. Major reasons were fact that the war was not popular in many British quarters and that the relations with France, just across the English channel were anything but good. The happy fact is that the struggle was successful as was the subsequent one with Britain in the War of 1812. The nation has grown and prosper ed in its comparatively brief span of 194 years. This Independence Day does not find the United States happy and proud as on many observances of the past, with the V^ietnam War, the hippie-move ment, and the economic downturn chief worries of the American mind. But history also shows the United States has a lot of bounce. It has weath ered many great problem's during the 194 years since the Declaration of Inde pendence and the 190 since Kings Mountain. Best bows are in order to Cameron Ware, re-elected chairman, Raegan Har per, elected third vice-chairman of Cleveland County Democrats, Bill Plonk, to the state executive committee, ana William Orr to the27th district judicial committee. Why Insurance Rales Up The North Carolina insurance rat ing bureau makes an interesting case for the lact of increasing auto liability rates. While 1969 fatalities from auto ac cidents were less than in 1968, there were still more than 1800. Meantime, the number of accidents zoomed upward by more than 3000. North Carolina, says the rating bureau, ranks about halfway on the scale among the 30 states in what it charges for auto liability insurance. Meantime, everything connected with accidents has increased in price, from the auto itself, to damage awards by juries. Major among the increases are medical-hospital costs. From the standpoint 'of motorists, the quick cancellation of policies and necessity of the auto owner to become AR (assigned risk) buyers is often more disconcerting and harrowing than the cost of the policy. From the motorist view, cancellations often occur on flimsy and spurious grounds. When North Carolina made auto liability insurance compulsory, it was widely hailed. No longer, it was reason ed, was a wreck victim to be unable to collect his proper dues from the motor ist at fault. There is reason to retain compul sory insurance but something needs to be done to clean up this irksome situa tion for all concerned, the motorist, in surance agent, and insurance cairier. An increase in rates has just this week been ordered. MARTIN'S MEDICINE Linda Bi.ser 'Behrens, who Ifor- merly workeil for Medical Sci ence 'Ndkvs, was telling me some Interesting inform.ation about bodily temporatuie so I decided ■to pursue the subject further via the Enclypedia Britanica. m-m It is an interesting subject in deed and claims two pages of space. Bodily temperature in animals ranges from 96 degrees for the elephant to 109 degrees for the chicken, pigeon and some small birds. In the 96-101 range is man, the monkey, mule, donkey, horse, rat, and tlie aforementionei ele phant. At 100103 are cattle, sheep, the dog, cat, rabbit and plggie. At 104il08 are the 'turkey, goose, duck, owl and pelican. m-m The temperature of a healthy man can range from 97 to 100 within a 24-hour. While “normal” j in man is supposed to he 98.6 I Farenheit, it is only coincident i when tlie thermometer reading j reports the normal figure. Tests ; show that man’s temperatn-'re is ; lowest from 2 to 5 a.m. and high- ; est from 2 to 5 p.m. Skin temperature (which 'I’d never heard of nor thought a- bout) is lower than bodily 'by 7 to 9 decrees. Nature is indeed wonderful, re minding of the late Dr. J. E. An thony's philosophy that man can help nature out, but can't im prove on it. Sample; In cold weather, the skin contracts, en abling the skin to letain bodily hea. In hot weather, the skin ex- : pands, enabling man to p'Crspire ' and shed bodily heat i m-m j The female is the “cooler” d: I genus homo sapiens. At room j temperature of SI degrees a man I begins to porspi'.o free!,,, the ladyfolk not until the room tem perature reaches SI degrees. Now They Can Vote NY GOODNES! you’ve grow,I SO BEAUTIFUrl %- C: Viewpoints of Other Editors Recorded survival limits for man indicate he can live it his temperature docs not zoom to a point over 107 degrees, nor fall to a point lower than 92 degrees. Food ingestion ups both man’s skin and bodily temperatures, while ingestion of alcohol ,aps the skin temperature but Icwers bodily temperature, emblematic of alcohol’s properties as a sed ative. Tests showing contribu tions of smoking low'or the tem peratures of the extremities, but not if the nicotine content has been removed. Snakes and lizards, “cold- bloaiod" 'animals, if in a de.. t habitat must find shade under rocks to survive. m-m Mrs. Lcrtiise Hughes Martin and I were chatting at Kings Mountain Savings & Loan as sociation recently aibout the f.act ■A-e both are “thinnies” — mean ing that food intake, no matter what quantity, .seems to have lit tle eS.eot on our weight. For some years, she said, the late Dr. Anthony was prescribing for her in an effort to provide her more avoirdupois.. Finall , Lo,.- ise relaites, the doctor said in ef fect, “It’s no use, you just aren’t the type. We might as well give up.” m-m Sometime later, Louise under went p operation in Charlotte. After it, her doctor here was al so alarmed about her being un derweight an'd told her, “you teli them I ordered you to cat the biggest steak in his hospital.” m-m When she told Dr. Anthony a- bout it, he asked. “Didn’t you tell them you just weren’t the type to gain weight?” m-m “I certainl.v did not,” Louise re plied, "You didn’t think I wanted to spoil all that attention 1 was getting.” m-ra A qo-ite practical decision, I would say. SAl-fc Ab AMFRltA U S. SAVINGS BUNDS' IF WE'LL LISTEN WE'LL BE ALL RIGHT All Americans have been re minded of something useiul in the bitter spring ot our seething quar rel over national goals and the limits of dissent. It’s that those who arCkWilling to listen may find tlieir differences dissolving in mu tual realization that so many of us rciUly want the same thing. What factions, for example, seemed farther apart than the militant students and hard-hatted construction workers who battled in the canyons ot Wall .Street? I Yet, as television showed us the o- I ther night, small groups from I each side got together and dis covered — after first exhausting I their supply of emotional rhetor ic — that each shared the same goals. Having realized 'that, hav ing put aside sloganeering in fa- . vor cf respeeful dialogue, the stu- I dents and the hard-hats quickly j learned understanding, tolerance and the mutuality of their inter- , ests. Except for the small, extremist hinges that always lurk at either end of our political scale, all of us want peace, a climate that per mits responsible dissent, better government and universities, and s) on. But as both factions learn ed in their Wall Street confronta- ' tion, we tend to freeze ourselves into opposing roles by intolerant rejection of the symbols — long hair, the flag, even youth or ag that are so apt to mislead us on the man. ! This is what the 11 University of Minnesota professors were talking about in their visit with Vice-President Agnew and it’s what Senator Margaret Chase Smith was warning about in her ' criticism of both t’ne radical left and the radical right. Unless we can 'discuss the issues witli toler ance, they wore saying, we will widen our national divisions and poison our shared dream. “Exlrem-sm bent upon polari zation of jur people,” said Sena tor Smith HI citing parallels be tween today’s “National sick ness” and that of the McCarthy era two decades ago, “is Increas ingly Iforcing on the American people the narrow choice 'be tween anarchy and repression.” This is what Mr. Agnew now seems to ibe acknowledging. Not that he cannot publicly criticize those who don’t seem to share his views, but that he must stop api>earing to lump together as "sick.” strident,” criminal mis fits," elitists” anil "paranoids” not only the small, hard core of violence-prone radicals on sti-cet or campus, but all who share any portion of their dissent. The danger is as great on tho other side, as Mrs. Smith obser ved; “■Twenty years ago it -was the tnti-intelleciuala who were most guilty of 'know nothing’ attitudes. Today too many of the militant Intellectuals are equally as guilty of 'hear nothing’ attitudes of re fusing to listen while demanding comm'unication.” 'None of us can avoid a share of the blame for what has been happening. All of us tend to ex aggerate to ftiake our point, and to misread the exaggeration of Uiosc who seem to oppose us. As the students and the hard-hats learned, we’re not so far apart If we‘11 but tame our endless es- ■ OPHER EDITS ,LAND USE I Should a factory beb uilt on the; village green? ; This issue, raised again and a- ' gain in an earlier America, fair- i ly well symbolizes the debate over pu'lie land u.se still going on totlay. On the one hand are the arguers for economic return, jobs, "most efficient” use. On the other are the arguars for open i spaces, the aesthetic, nature and growing things. The newly released study of i public land use, five years in the making by a congressional com-1 I mission, tries dutifully to re- plirase theold issue. It has made; recommendations tiiat would ar- ! ' bitrate between timber, grazing, mining, waterpower and agricul tural interests on the one side, i 1 and outdoor recreation environ mental, wildlife, and wilderness interests on the other. And it has recommended shifts in authority over the vast tracts of federally owned land which make up a third of tho nation’s surface ’ (more power for Congress, less for the President; more for the De partment of the Interior, less for Agriculture). But while tho Public Land Law Review Commission report is a useful explication of the status quo, it doesn’t begin to come to grips with, or give the visionary framework for, the land use issues of the future. First, the basic issue is no long er “u-se” of land, but “reuse.” ' America has been pillaging her natural resources to create and I sustain an urban society which, like the factory on the village green, chuffs its pollutants from its smokestacks or lets them seep into nearby waters. To side with those in America more concerned with “liveability” than with compromising with commercial interests dotvn’t re flect a mere romantic aversion to urban industrialism. It is abso lutely vital that economic en croachment and the using up of natural resources and settings be stopped and then reversed. A federal land policy should lead in this. for example, federal land could be used for pilot, exemplary pro jects — for creating new com munities which maintain the bal ance of nature; for model agri cultural ventures which keep land fertile, not wear it out. Use of federal land for timber purposes could be withheld until pulp com panies stopped befouling watar- way.s. America’s was ilness is al- leady m:iking hf ye her neigh- 'oor to the north- whJcJi owns trcmcndo'JS wall indjothcr re sources. She Ls ely ing tc have to depend creasingly on still other natio rfse\’' here on the globe for i >Ues. Federal land use policy ors America’s 1( aders tremend s' leverage for promoting wLsc eusi'" policy. And such a pol, if applied to dealings " illi ot nations, could forc.'tall “cxploi j’’.«|iarges lev eled against he adJ'-elp other naiions pn.-va.i' ■ tliji: own ur ban-industrial f iresT Christia IciMice Monitor KINGS MOUNTAIN Hospital Log VISITING HOURS 3 to 4 pan. and 7 to 8 p.m. Daily 10:30 To 11:30 a.m. ileriry Grady BaUey Alice H. BLckley .Mrs. Frixl Camp Mary P. Chalk Lona Bell Deaton Martha Rhea Deaton Willeam iM. Froneberger Ada S. 'Goforth Mrs. Herman Goforth Margie Jeanette Gieene Amy Hawkins Beatrice 'E. Hill .Sidney D. 'HuBIstotler Alphikl A. Johnson Lissie S. Johnson Mrs. Homer Kilgore Mrs. Willis M. Leach Mrs. CPafie M. Logan, Jr. William Randall Mrs William Shuford Emma L. Sellers Antico P. Smith Laura R- Spearman Cheryl Lynn Spivey Mrs. Russell W. Talley Frank Warlick Arthur E. Williams Mi-s. Terry Lee McKinney Harry A. Poteat Mrs. L. J. Perry J. D Bridges Bessie W. 'Heavener Robert G. Miller ADMITTED THURSDAY ( I'Mrs John ffolland Lmi-s'. Miles E. Wilson Louis Thurman Morgan Charlie Hawkins .'^nnie Black Self .ADMITTED FRIDAY Eva H. Price .Mrs. James E. Ganiltncy ADMITTED SATURDAY .Mrs. Norman Davis May Hord Ramsey Lettio B. Turner ADMITTED SUNDAY Mrs. Gc'orgo T. Thrift Joy Elaine .Calhoun 'I'l-udie Forney Bobby Clinton Beatty LocalNeivs Bulletins ADMITTED MONDAY Carolyn Jean Gibson Glenda Faye Davis William Mace Clack John W. Gibson, Jr. Lois B. Westmorclarvt Nannie Mae C. Moss Janice Gail Lyles Mrs. Larry W. Owens Mrs. Eugene Logan Mrs. Buford Neil Ruth R. Farless Anthony W. Holden ADMITTED TUESDAY .Mrs. Vernon Stewart Laurence Clark lertha S. Moss Mrs. J. D. Marlin ’ Mincie G. Pag,» j .Andri-w Hoover I Mrs. Robert Woo<i BIRTHS ON DE -Mts. Teresa Kings Mounts uate of the U Carolina at listed on the • students who courses comp spring .sc'mc.s; ■recently. Mr.s ol .Mr. and .M LIST /Uey Sugg of . recent grad- ereity of Nortli oen.so.')ro, was in’s li.st among a'de all A’s on ed during the wliiih ended Hgg i' daughter T. H. Jolley. KIWA Tom Smart. Mi.untain ioi guest speak nighf’.s Kiwa at 6;45 p.m, club. John Cl chairman. :S CLUB lantiger of Kings iryiclub will be at Thur.-;day s club meeting t Cie Woman’s -ihirc is program SlHilfBR C. C. Cam( ini^f First Union National Bar will be a gue.sl on WBTV’s 1 >0tnm “For The Record”, alre at 6:.30 p.m. on channel 3, Si d*y. July 5th. He will discuss sfl^nomje issues facing North '■Anlina and the nation. .Mr. and Mrs. Wayne C. Wil liams, Chorryville, announce llic birth of a daughter, Frida., lune 21, King.s Mountain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. James Sherrer. route 2, announce the birth of a daughter, Saturday, June 2.'). Kings .Mountain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Terry .McKinney. •302 Lynn street, announce the birth of a son, Monday, Juno 27, Kings M.mntain ho.spital. Mr. and .Mrs. Norman E. Da vis, 1001 Brookwood Drive, an nounce the 'birth of a son, Mon day, June 27, Kings Mountain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Ceafie M. Lea- gan, i-oute 1, announce the birth of a daughter, Tuesday, June ‘Js, Kings Mountain hospital. On the national scene, a fcl- low.shlp of telephone men ami women, known as “The Tele phone Pioneers of America,” was organized in 1910, calation of rhetoric and pay ■ some attention to what othei-s have to say. I The same caution about exag- ' gelation applies to attempts to dramatize our discontent on the i one hand, oi- our unity on the o- thor. There may be no harm in ; the massive display of patriotism j proposed by Bob Hope and Billy I Graham in Washington on July 14, .since they intend that it be a I time for Americans to put aside their differences “and rally a- round the flag.” Yet the dangers of too much patriotism, with the hate it can generate, are just as real in America today as they were In Germany in the asgOs. If we’ll listen, iwe'!! be all right. If we plug our ears and rally mindlessly behind some symbol that we twist into a sig nal of our intolerance, we’ll 'prove our willingness to pervert America In the supposed at tempt to save it. —LouiavWe Couriery/ourrud Keei Set At ! 1220 KMT ings Mountain, N. C. & Weather every hour on the Weather every hour on the half lour. FiJe entertainment in between
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