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PAGE 2 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday. July 16. 19^ Established 1889 ••ir'' The Kings Mountain Herald hCftralsito« LASMKUTl 206 South Piedmont Ave. Kings Mountain. N. C. 28086 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion ol the general wellare and published (or the enliglitenn.ent, entertainment and benefit o( 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.. 28066 under Act ol Congress ol March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Maitln Hannon Editor ’ Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Soci> Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk. Bo MECHANICAL DEPARTbaNT Frank Edwards Allen Myers •Rocky Martin Roger Brown * On L*av« With The United States Army Paul Jaokaon Ray Parker SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAO. ANTlVKXiE ONE ms....$3.30 SIX months ...$8.00 THHES) MON11I9....UBS PLUS NOirm CAROUNA SALES TAX ■/I'il lujvsd 'pio fo SMipuoax Kn) ueqiuetuo^ ijios / TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE I will remember the works of the /xwds sorely MARTIN'S MEDICINE Mayor John Henry Moss and Baseoall Commissioner flowle Kuhn got a better break from the weatherman Uiis year than last Last year the .Mayor’s Weaitem Catrolinas Lt'ague all.-star gaime was xalntKl out and so was the Conunliwioner’s major league af fair in Wa-shlngton. Indeed, the Mayor missed the one-day later Washington affair due to required duties at City Hall. m-m Reocntly, bt^fore both these tilts, John and Kuhn made a pact, iijchj was to pray for fair weather lor u.v otners event. The weather was. m-n John M.W the Oamnataiaw aft* «r Tuesday’s excituig affair in Cincinnati. ‘IHe imUTt have heard us,” Kuhn said to John who replitj, “Yeah, but I was a little worried for your last three inningjs. I was just asking for nine.” "Want A Quick Lift? The 18-Year-Olds A Kings Mountain merchant had a television set prospect, not yet 21. To make the sale, he must require a co signer to the chattel on the set. "Shucks,” said the youth, "I’m going to Vietnam soon.” It was the merchants idea that a youth old enough to fight should be le gally a man. North Carolina Democrats put in their platform Tuesday a plank giving the 18-year-olds, quite eligible for mili tary service, and privilege of the ballot. Also on Tuesday, Attorney-General John Mitchell said he was advising the nations 50 governors to inform the fed eral government the state’s plans on im plementing the recent federal legisla tion giving IS-year-olds the ballot priv- ilog,'? in elections for federal officials. He fiTtber threatened legal action where ini •’ lentation does not occur. This poses something of a problem for North Carolina. The General Assem bly docs not convene until early 1971, several months after the early Novem ber elections. Will Governor Bob Scott convene a special session of the General Assembly to implement? Besides, more than Assembly action is necessary. The Constitution of the state must be changed by vote of the people. The Herald thinks the merchant’s idea quite apropos. If the 18-year-old is old enough to fight, as he is, and old enough to vote as he apparently is going to be, then he would be a “man” all the way and have the right and privilege of entering into binding business trans actions, as well. Chamber oi Commerce Kings Mountain Chamber of Com merce has appointed Lt.-Col. Robert G. Co.x (USA-Ret.) as managing director of the organization. It is a step long needed from the standpoint of function. Busy businessmen who serve as presidents, vice-presidents, and directors of the organization do not have the time to do the needed and time-consum ing details necessary to the successful functioning of the operations. President L. E. (Josh) Hinnant puts the question this way; “What do you get for your Chamber of Commerce dues?” He answers it, “A free ticket to the an nual dinner meeting.” In appointing Mr. Cox to the posi tion of managing director, the Chamber of Commerce administration shows it means to change the answer. Mr. Cox was reared here, has a 22 year background of military service, and the background to discharge his as signed duties. Our congratulations and best wishes to the Chamber of Commerce leadership and to Ml . Cox. Where Are The People? Former Governor Terry Sanford wrote a book entitled "But What about the People?” The question is being asked all over North Carolina and in many other parts of the nation, “Where ARE the people? ’, as preliminary decennial census figures are released. As of Wednesday, Kings Mountain is asking it, too? In the decade from 1950 to 1960, Kings Mountain’s population rose by 802. In the decade from 1960 to 1970 (preliminary count), Kings Mountain’s population rose only 424. ’ITie percentage gain 5.29 percent, or a little over one- hall ol one percent per year. During the ’50 - ’60 decade, the ma jor residential expansions here were in the Linwood Road, Mauney Avenue and Crescent Hill sections. During the ’60 - ’70 decade, there were the Temple Terrace, Country Club Estates and Ashely Park additions, plus the several city limits expansions includ ing the major annexation to the south west, the incursion into Gaston county, and annexation of the remainder of the Crescent Hill property. Something’s got to be wrong. Either one or more of the new arena were not enumerated, or the census- taking was poorly organized through in sufficient or inefficient enumerator per sonnel. Nor has there been any suggestion that Kings Mountain had an unusually high death-to-blrth ratio. Import Restrictions With approval by the House Ways and Means committee, textile folk, a- long with shoe manufacturers, are hope ful of federal legislation to restrict im ports from low-wage foreign countries. The Nixon Administration is divid ed on the issue, but the President has given “reluctant” approval to the re strictions on textile imports. Need: a Kings Mountain fabrics manufacturer says Japan can put the same fabrics he makes on the docks at San Francisco, all import duties paid, and sell the goods at half the cost his per-yard break-even point. “I’ve seen'- em” he adds, "and the quality is good.” New friend, old enemy Japan can be credited with the torpedoeing (if it is) of t' nation’s move toward freer trade, begr ■> in 19.37. Japan gave a continuing “no” to all USA efforts at voluntary agreements. A best bow to Jay Powell on his promotion by Superior Ston* Company. Some are Inclined to the think ing [.liU en over as the American national game, but the 51,000 fans who fUleU Cincinnati’s new Raver Front Stadium to capacity ’Tues day night provide an argument to the contraiy. I Bi'in ! “Are they going to play all night?”, my wife wanted to know. "It they must,” I replied, m-n Arch Kern, the city recreation director, is a Cincinnati native. "Did he stay ’til the end,” I ask ed him. "No,” Arch replied. “Pete Rose is something of an Idad ot mine and wnen ne struck out in the ninth I couldn’t take any more.” m-m It didn’t help his humor much when I told him Rase scored the winning irun in the 12th. I had a meeting, and didn’t get to the tube until the tilth inning, but imanaiged to see the final sev en, only two short of the regula tion nine. ’The Carolinas had five. North Carolina four, players on the two ^t'OTAS V a / TO oT 5V The PHA Fomula While there are now several differ ent arrangements on low-rent housing, result of 1968 amendments to the Initial public housing act of 1937, the 150 Kings Mountain units now being cm eted and occupied are built under thr c plan. The basic plan is design I for the low-rent housing units to pay for them selves through rental income. Thus, in September, Kings Moun tain Public Housing Authority will in vite bids on bonds sufficient to pay an nual amortization costs, principal and intei’est, ovei a 40-year period. The housing project has been fin anced thus far by: 1) A planning advance from the De partment of Housing and Urban Devel opment, on which Interest was paid. 2) Six-month project notes Issued in September 1969 to pay costs .of construc tion on ba.sis of percentage of work com pleted, and to reimburse HUD. 3) Six-month project notes. Issued in March 1960, to repay the first project notes and to supply additional funds to pay the contractors. The project is estimated to be 93 percent complete today and is expected to be 100 percent complete by month’s end. Thus the housing authority will know in sufficient time the exact amount of bonds it needs to sell to defray the full cost of the project. The federal government’s Involve ment after this sale, as far as money is concerned, will be as an endorser of the PHA bonds. Should the rentals prove in sufficient in any particular vear the federal government supplies the differ ence. With good management, the idea is, Uncle Sam’s treasury will not be called for help and this has been the experi ence with well-managed low-rent hous ing units elsewhere. Kings Mountain Public Housing Au thority intends for its project to be in the well-managed class. J Viewpoints of Other Editors CAN LAND BE RATIONALIZED? I The Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee is conducting hearings on a plan ito establish a national land use policy. The measMTe, introduced by Senator Henry M. Jackson (Dera., Wash.), would establish a Land and Water Resources Planning Council which would administer granjts-injali to sitates to develop and implement statewide land use plans. A state virould have four years to develop an accept able plan before federal aid would be reduced. The evidence showing the need for coordinated land use ,plan- TOWORD RESTORING THE LIFE OF REASON Amid all the dissension, espec ially on the oampese^, a modest but potentially significant sign of hope is ©merging: A number of 'thinking people, regardless of i- deological predilections, are reas serting the imperative need for a return to reason and order in the public iddscussion and the pubUc behavior. Most so-called conservative in- tellectuais have been saj ing that all along, but recent weeks have seen a number of liberal-leaning luminaries agreeing lin no uncer tain terms. A notable example was Harvard President Nathan aJl-staj-^ rosters, Including the | ndng is abundant. Perry brothers, Gaylord with the —Various Interior Department Pusey’s excoriation of the Neiw ■ “ ■ ‘ Left elements on campus coupled with 'his Insistence that academe rediscover "the civilized way.” Now at hand is an article in th^ New Republic by Alexander M. 'Bickel of the Yale Law School, and it is a somber as sessment indeed. Giants, Jim with the Minnesota and Agricultral Department pro- Twins, from Williamston, Hoyt grams provide payments for al- Wilhelm of the Braves, from the lowing tillable land to remain Charlotte area, Catfish Hunter of fallow. the Oakland Athletics from llrrt-1 —The Soil Conservation Ser- ford, and Dickie Dietz, San Fran- vice promotes and subsidizes the cisco catcher, from GreenvUli, J. drainage of waterfowl wetlands C. which the Department of Inter m-m iot is trying to save for wUdllfe. —The construction of a huge It was one of the few times Everglades Jotport was backed brothers have played agajn:;i ea.-.i by Dada County, the state of other in all-star competition, (.lay- Florida and the 'U. S. Transport- lord Perry pitched for the Nation- - ion Department, ibut the plan al league winners, Jim Per y y -s sn apped when ft came un- pitohed for the Amerfcan losers, heavy criticism from the In- both acceptably. Dietz slammed a tc-'.or Department which had homer. WUihelm didn’t get ti e r dd it would destroy the Ever- pitching call. For Hunter it w.-i.s glades las -a unique tt^derness a- not a good night. He had his rca. “swift”, but his control was off., Testimony 'at the hearings has iprovi .’ed additional reasons for I developin, m-m Sports commentators, via type- -nn writer and talk box, tend to wax ^ enthusiastic about star players in superlatives, but not Mickey Man tle, the ex-Yankee star. “No sane person,” writes pro fessor Bickel, “can condone riots by coristruotion workers or by police, and certainly not killings Bat a price Is inevitably going to be paid for destroying .the order of society. If the streets belong to 'the people, they are going to belong to all the people, not just young radicals. If ali we say a- bout Kent Stale is tha t it is an in stance of bmal repression ifor which the Vice President and the a national land use Attorney General and an isola-ted and dnsensitive President aie resporislble, we are not telling the 'truth, 'and toy not doing so we will help bring on more Kent An interstate approach is nec- ess.ary, said Indiana University When K. Oaldwell. Oth- Dan Gewley sir^gested after seeking to attract; states. . . . industry by permiting developers rooks Robinsons fine fielding ^nisuse and pollute the land' ”We must restore conditions in play, that Robinson Mantli^^su^sted aetr^yc/wTs great, too. Older fans remem- her some great hot corner men, Pie Traynor of the Pirates, Red Rolfe of the Yankees, Fred Llndstrom of the Giants, Pink Higgins of the Red Sox, etc., etc. Come to think of it, Buddy Lewis, of Gastonia, performed fairly well for the Washington Senators. m-m The program hawkers were saying, "Offiolal program, $1 please.” I scanned the Mayor’s and It was well worth the dollar. The program contained synopses of all the 40 previous all-.star gaimes, the box scores of all of them, inset pictures of the stars of each game, the "mosts”, games, triples, doiiSles, pitching wins, etc., composites. Stan Musial played in 22 games consecutively, Ted Williams In 18. Ted took time out twice to fly for the Marines in World War II and during the Korean War. Jake Early, of Kings Mountain, Washington Senator catcher, had nothing for two in the 1943 American League 5-3 win, but scored a run and sac rificed. That was the year Joe McCarthy, miffed over crittclsm he had played te- — ■ Yankee- '■ a. .. ills iankee stars . -.1 uie bench and showed’em he could still win. Jake caught the full nine innings. ’Iliere wasn’t a single Yankee in the line-up. m-m Next week there’s some all-star stuff at home, as Kings Mountain plays host to the Babe Ruth a competi'tivc a.lvan-1 whieit slogans 'and mass emo- I 'tlons do not drown out and 'jrive lout reasoned analysis; in which ' passlonait^ assertion is not auto matically seen as high-minded and presumptively right, while dispassionate judgmenit is de nounced as insensitive and pre sumptively inamoral.” quire resource protection. John N. Nassilcas, chaiman of ithe Federal Power Commission, said vas't new areas will be need ed in the next 20 yo.ars to provide for 'the genera Mon 'and transmis sion of power. Between now 'and 1990, new transmission right-of- way will reciulre 7.1 million acres of land, compared with the 4 million now used, he said. The bill would encourage dndustries, uitili'ties, rMlro^ls and rbat they are right about repres- - all With extensive land hold- Granting, in his opinion, that those young people who critienze the various irisUtutions are correct dn a lot of Iwhat they say, Mr. 'Bickel rejects the idea SOCCER AND AMERICA Three hundred million per sons aieunld the globe watclied Bi'azU defeat Italy in the World Cup soccer final on TV Sunday. They were joined by at mo.st 250 thousand Amerioans — far short of the 10 million who w-atched the last World Cup finals in 1960. The obvious reason for the fall off in American viewing of the cup was that it was (an’icd only on closed-ch-cuit TV to 'two dozen cities. With tickets 'a-s 'high as $12.50 apiece a Madison Square Garden in New York, one had to be quite a dan to turn out. At least two of the three com mercial American ' Networks wore interested enough in the Worii Cup to bid for TV rights. I But they .wanted to carry only I the final. And 'the closed-circuit group evidently could offer more for carrying a series of matches (quarterfinals, semifinals, .and finals) than the networks could for the lone firtal game. One need not -gainsay the clos ed-circuit induslry its profits, nor its crtxiit for offering more ex tensive — if not widespread — coverage than would the net works. Nonetheless, some itrouib ling questions aix? raise,! by Am erica’s treatment of the World Cup — the sports event that stirs deeper emotional involvemen: within the 70 natioras competing than any comparable interna tional event, including the Olym pic Games. One such question concerns the long-range impact of closed-cir- and they aia interesting in a cou pie ot other connections as well They afford a sharp and wel oorrto c-ontrast to ilhe pusilianimi ty with which numerous admin istraitoi-s and their faculty mem bers were greeting the radical students’ violence and "non-ne- gotiable” demands only a couple of years ago. Had 'this kind of common sense prevailpHi then, much splrl'tu'ai and material damage might have ibeen avert ed. -Wall Strei-t Jmirnal KINGS MOUNTAIN Hospital Log VISITINO HOURS 3 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 8 p.m. Daily 10:30 To 11:30 ajn. Henry Grady Bailcv Virginia Bell Mn». Fred Camp Luis N. Camp William Mace Clack Lona Bell Deaton Frt-d Dixon Ada H. Goforth Pearl Hernd'in Beatrice E. Hill Anthony W. Holden Sidney D, Hutfstetler AlNiild A. Johnson Mrs. Homer Kilgore Mrs. W'm. F. Laughter Mrs. Willis -M. Loach Andrew Lockard Nannie C. Mos.s Harry A. Poteat Wm, P. Randall Vester C. Hippy Emma L. Seilers" Bertha A. Shuford Antleho P. Smilli .Mrs. Ru.ssell W. Talley .Mrs. Geo. T. Thrift Lettic Bell Turm-r Mrs. Grady Wylie .Mrs. Johnny W. Thompson Lois B. VVe.stmoreland .Mrs. Ralph T. Quinn I Della P. Huffstiekler John A. Ross I Mrs. Boyce Lowery 1 Wm. Ed, Bridges I ADMI’TTED THURSDAY [ Mrs. Raymond Short Sallie Neal Tliomas A. Pollock Mrs. Lloyd .McFalls -Arm Ramey ADMI’TTED FRIDAY Mrs. Hugh A. Logan, Jr. Ainiic D. Blackburn ADMITTED SATURDAY Irvin J. Willi.ams Mrs. Robert Farris Mary Frances Bryant (Gwendolyn L. Chalk John D. Simmons ADMITTED SUNDAY Steven E. LeRoy Fannie P. White Mrs. Thoma.s A. Early Mrs. James MiCehem Mrs. Calvin Bradshaw Mrs. Jerry L. Eaves Mrs. Guy Sr-hofield ADMITTED MONDAY James Clyde Atkiiuson George Gordon Wm. R. Rainey Mrs. Jet W. Childers Thomas C. Dunlap James J. Oates, Sr. ADMITTED TUESDAY Mr.s. Joseph B. Nanney Mrs. David L. Hannah. Jr. Mrs. Forest R Love Carl Fulton Guy C. -Moss Floyd C. Moss Mrs. John M. Hogue Mrs. Paris Ray Philheek Le.sco Camp Kenneth M. F’ord Mrs. James L. Hamrick Thurman Loui-s Young • t , , sion in this country, mgs — !to co-orimate their fu ture plans. ‘The society is free anG open, The need for a land use plan if flawed and gravely itroiibled. is evident from our pa-st failures, Whait repression there is is im- said Representuitive Rogers C. B. j posed, as often as not, by the Morton '(Rep., Md.). "We have'young in the unlversitlw, where failed to provide transportation! their pressure for ideologi'oal or- facdlrfles compatible with housing lithorloxy and a kind of emotion- patterns, failed to construct jal soIddMity thrieaiten 'to achieve wase processing facilities in time ' w-hat Joe McCarthy never did.” to serve the needs of an area, , , . , and failed to use our architect-1 ,1" s^oiar’s opinion, the ural talents to enhance the aes-; ^ ■Ihetlc quallljes of where we live ^ i^vor „ 1 „ - 1 .SHrv- rie itriiinlrc nf leialXi. an dl.vhere we work.” I Silty; he thinks ithe heads of Itaali- ing universities sh(?uld announce ithtur intention to Insitltuite 'a re form which is he precondition of 'all other reforms, namely 'the use Bureau Of Outdoor Recreation. This information world be useful In developing 'a natiortal land use policy. The na'tlon has long since moveJ from the era when land was so abundant Itg use required ^ little rare. Our land resources league stale toumament ’There’ll '■ are 'finite and pieokms. They be tntereetlng action at Ctty Sts-1 need th^ protection Inherent in dlum In the double eilinidnatioa the propo^ legdslaition. touxMjnant J —z>w Hemes Kegiater The 'hearings are being held while Congress is (studying a) report from 'the Public LaniJ Law Revl(?w Commission. The re- . , (tort is expected to describe exist- dlsciplin-ary power to ktop public land laws -and make | f'® ..K.ommendatlons for a national I'bwnds of ordw. He puts it slm- policy for public lands. In addi- forcefully, tion, 'a nation'wide recreation “No more vandalism; no mtgH plan is beln^ prepai^ by the I assaultive, vicious speech; no more inclitement to violent ae tlon; no more bullying, simulated or actual. If the reassentlan of this mlnlntuim of 'authority should bring strille 'and violence In the short term, as it may, it will be less strife and less violence than is otherwise In store for us.” This and aome of .tha other atror^g liberal staitements of the day are in aacaawa oartatnly true, cuit 'television (whicli screen.s e- vonls in theelers) and cable or pay 'TV (in homesi. Will .these inciustries one day monopolize major sporting events, so thal only the better ol;f can afford to sec 'them via TV? Another question ooncenis Ameri<a’s prov-incialism. ’True, soccer is not the national sport in tlq. United States that baseball or tooball or basketball is. Soc cer, however, is building an c*ver larger following among young Americans. Little lea.gue soccer is flourishing. 'More than 40 col leges and 250 high schools a year have been joining leagues. )3ut 'the provincialism tvmcerns not so much the' status of the sport as an at'tit'ude toward those who play H. The thal stirs the rest of the world should be of more than nominal interest to Americans, more than a newj^ service fcKrtnote on a farthe^ back sports page. What lanimates the househo'id of nations cannot be ignorcxl by any member in it. Christian SiHence Monitor Keep Youi Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain. N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between
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