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PAGE 2 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, August 20, 1970 ¥. Ettobllsbed 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald 206 South Piedmont Ave. Kings Mountain. N. C. 28086 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general wellaie and published for the enlightenn.ent, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mcsintaln Md its vicinity, published every ITiursday by the Herald Publishing Hoose. Efttkired as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C, 280tt under Act of Con^ss of March 3,1873. EOmOBlAL OEPABTMEirr Martin Harmon Editor-Aiblishef Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and SocieQr EMitor Miss Debbie Thornburg Qeifc, Bookkaeper KECHAMIML OEPABTMEMT Frank E>iwards •Rocky Martin Allen Myers Roger Brown * On Leave With The United Statas Army Paul <mi Haj .'tirker RATSS PAMUliilC Iff ADlMliCE ~ ONE tilAR....33.50 sB .. Je.00 t PLfs hdvRcaRw^ SAids iR TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBUE VERSE Li t love be ivitlu^ut dissimulation^ Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Romans 12:9. Friendly Suits Congress passed by a wide majority in both branches a law lowering the vot ing age to 18. Two states, Kentucky and Georgia, have no problem. The legal voting age in these two states is already 18. North Carolina and New Hampshire are latest to be involved with the De partment of Justice in litigation to re quire the voting of 18-year-olds in the November election. Attorney General Roifert Morgan of this state says its plain not legal under the North Carolina Constitution. President Nixon, who signed the federal bill, voiced the opinion the act would require an amendment to the fed eral constitution to prove legal. It’s all friendly enough, largely in the nature of a test case. The legal overtone is whether the federals can, by mere act of Congress, contravene slate constitutional require ments. In other words; state rights. State officials had various positions when the proposal was made during the 1969 General Assembly. Governor Bob Scott was for lowering the voting age to 20, some legislators favored 19. others IS, and others leaving the voting age at 21. The disparity produced an impasse and nothing was done. There is good reason for mixed emo tions on the question. Proponents reason that a young man old enough to fight in Vietnam, as he is at 18, is old enough to vote. Opponents point to the iiTesponsi- bility of riot-producing college students, riot-producing non-student hippies, ear ly age drug users and others as quite good evidence that an 18-year-old is not yet mature enough to exercise judgment at the polls. The Herald’s particular question is whether, legally, lowering the voting age makes a man a man or a young lady a woman? Or do must they still get their par ents to sign the chattel for the car or furniture they want to buy? Intangibles Gain In spite of the drop in North Caro lina intangibles tax collections—which found many counties and cities rebated less than in the previous year—the City of Kings Mountain showed a gain over the previous year. The fact of gain, of course, is far more important than the 8500-odd in volved. Under the formula, the intangibles tax, after state clipping for collection expense, is distributed on the basis of ad valorem property tax valuations. In other words, to hold its own a city or county had to recoixl an increase, which shows growth. The Congress may not have been wise in over-riding President Nixon’s veto of the education appropriations bill. But it is election year and Congress did over-ride with plenty of Republican help, the nominally loyal Republicans, or many of them up for re-election, were quite frank. “I’m running,’’ several said. ‘It’s as simple as that. ” Cleon-up Costs The Herald has touched editorially before on the uphappy fact of the high cost of keeping clean, city-wise, partic ularly in the direction of sewage dispos al, garbage disposal and now prevention of ail pollution. The air pollution problem in the big cities was forcibly presented over NBC in a “special” starring Hal Holbrook. Relating it to plain folk in the home^ any housewife halfway budget minaed knows there would be a lot more trills attainable were it not for the large per centage of the money left at the super market for soap, detergents, and floof wax. Some money shortly must be ex pended in Kings Mountain, both by the city itself and industry on the business of sewage disposal. Of the three recommendations to the city of W. H. Mull, of the state water and air resources commission, involving the city alone, one appears impractical. This would be the possibility of further enlarging the McGill Creek disposal plant. Colonel W. K. Dickson, the c.ty’s consulting engineer, told the city when it embarked on the sewage system clean?- up, already about 20 ve .rs o t doubling of the McGill Creek plant would be “it” for that plant, that tne stream flow would be taxed to the limit. 'The other two are practical, one short-term the other long-term. Short-term and manageable compar atively quickly is switching some indus trial waste, likely from Craftspun Yams, to the Pilot Creek plcuit. The other and longer term would be building another treatment plant on another stream in a different drainage basin. Mr. Mull’s fourth recommendation will cost industry, adoption by the city of a sewage use law implying one or more requirements: settling basins and holding tanks and perhaps pre-treat ment of effluent. High point from the informational standpoint brought out by Engineer Dennis Fox at a Tuesday night meeting of the city’s sewage committee was that tests showed the peak loads *■,; the Mc Gill plant occurred at 7 a.m. 8 p.m. This is a plain indication of “dump ing”, which holding tanks would elimi nate. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, it is said, and cleanliness costs cash. I Do You Wont A lob? Apply: Jobs ’70 classroom, former Herald building. South Piedmont ave nue, Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 9 to 11 a.m., 1 to 3 p.m. The following notice was distributed at churches and other public places last weekend and is self-explanatory: The Kings Mountain Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with the Na tional Alliance of Business Men is spon soring a Job training program which guarantees a job to those people who have not had steady employment during the past year and who want to work. Benefits to you will include: (1) A full time job, (2) assistance in getting to and from work, (3) child care for pre school children (4) medical and health care assistance. If your net family earnings were at or below this income level listed below, you probably qualify for job training under this program. Number in Family Net Family Earnings It is hoped Buffalo Creek’s some times torrential ire is done for a time, at least for the current season. Buffalo confirmed quite well the engineering re ports of her steady daily flow, some times at flood stage conditions when the rainfall is heavy at her headwaters. $1,800.00 2,400.00 3,000.00 3,600.00 4.200.00 4,800.00 5,400.00 6,000.00 6.6oaoo MARTIN'S MEDICINE The Anderson Senators were celebrating the other night their setting of a record for paid at tendance in Class A ba.seball. A- mong the guests were Congress man Albert W'atson who is Repub lican candidate for go^'e^nQr of North Carolina's neighbor to the South. m-n Mayor John Henry Moss presi dent of the league in which An derson is a member for the first time, had a guest too. He Joshed the candidate, “Al bert, there’s no use trying to poll tic his vt>te. He’s from Oklahcma in the first place and he’s acquir ing land lor a utility in South Carolina in the .second. Woirse than that from >our standpoint, he’s dyed-in-the-wool Democrat. He was in Kings Mountain and to vote absentee in the 1968 elec tions. When the ballot came he went to the rotunda of City Hall and summoned everybody he could find to watch him mark his ballot for Hubert H." Vemie Cheatwood with Coates Field Service, mentioned in this column bej.)re, was John’s guest. Another love of his, besides Ukla- hovna, is tne University of Okla homa football team. Like Hal bert Webb and Duke, Vemie re joices when Oklahoma wins, goes to bed when she loses. The Melancholy Days Have Come y//. ■V WE RE6RET TO WfORM YOU THAT YOUR SCHOOL STUFF IS NOW READY! iCLPHI 1 SCHOOL KINGS MOUNTAIN Hospital Log VISITINO HOURS 3 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 8 pan. Doily 10:30 To 11;?'* 'un. Viewpoints of Other Editors Out of the Anderson trip, Ver- nie adds another to tne small world departinenL State Seiva- tof Garrison and he were com paring notes. Would Vemie hap pen to know the Senator's long time Oklahoma friend John Dunn. "One of the best friends I have, if it’s the same John Dunn,” Ver- ' nie replied. “I hunt quail there every year and he doesn’t allow too many people to hunt quail on hU ranch." That’s tlic same Dunn I know, was tne Senator’s reply. REAL VILLAIN OF THE SPENDING PIECE The partisan snipers and the less party-oriented sharpshooters whe prefer to be called analysts and commentators arc having their fun with the Nixon .Admln- istratioiL Lately, they have con centrated their fire on the Presi dent’s rather heavy-handed way of taking the credit and leaving the blame to Congress. THE AGE OF SUBURBIA To some extent, the President deserves the less-than-total con fidence in his explanations. Would you really buy a used ear More than the Age of Youth, this is becoming the Age of Su burbia. For the first time in Unit ed States history, more people are living in the suburbs than in the central cities or rural areas. This fining of the 1970 census will have i.najor Impact on poli tics, housing, Irte styles, economic trends. Three-quarters of tlie popula tion growth since 1960 took place in metropolittan areas. While some cities declined slightly in from a man who tells you he has 1 population, the suburbs grew. Beside the free-loadcrs, Ander-1 son had 4594 paid at the celebra- j tion game, gave a college scholar-' ship via a drawing, to a tenth' grade lad who had deposited tic- j ket No. 2- His was the third ticket' drawn by President Muss. Two | other youngsters got sleepy a bit j too early. a plan to end the Vietnam war. This should be translatable into but he won’t tell you until after I more suburban political power, he’s elects? And after waiting I One projection suggests that su t.vo years after he’.s elected, no- thing? burban congressional districts will grow from 92 to 129. But back to the point. Mr. Nix on blames Congress for the $2.9 billion deficit in fiscal 1970. It would appear that he has good reasons, although his pronounce The Republicans strongly be lieve they will benesfit. Strategist Kevin Phillips aigues that the subu'ban resident tends to be so cially (xinservatlve — hence Re- tnent early this year that we j pubUcan. Elections Research Cen- Vemie has werked in liie oil fields and from experientv liierc- and since with Coates, has wit nessed and been part oi nuun courtroom activity. would enjoy a $1.4 billion surplus struck us as a bit dreamy even then. But consider these Items; On the same day discouraging word oi the $2.9 billion deficit was heard, it was announced that an aid to education bill had been ter Director Richard Scanumon cautions against a blanket of defi nition, noting that great vaxie ties of people, blue collar as well as white collar, and from all ethnic backgrounds, now have moved to suburbia. However this may be, it seems pa-sed, calling for an expenditure { likely that “suburban” issues ^ Will ton Oaost •••• . • >•..< One of hLs favorite memoric.s from the courtroom was in Okla homa. The witness was a Creek Indian woman, who didn’t know a word of English. While the at torney in opposition knew Creek well, he still asked the court for an interpreter. The attorney pos ed a question and the interpreter passed question and answer back and forth. .Angrily, the attorney addressed the woman in Creek, "You’re a liar!” m-m nie witness, just as angrily, turned to the Judge and com plained in EInglish, “He called me a liar!" “Case dismissed,” the Judge in toned. m-m Our host at lunch Wednesday was Jake Wilson, Armoo Steel representative, for the past 16 years a Tar Heel but native of Brownwood, Texas. Vernie was wearing a solid red shirt and a white panhandle style straw. Jake said he packed up his Texas- style hats and boots when he came to North Caroli.-ia and hasn’t worn them since. m-m Jake told how they baibecue beef in Texas. A pit large cnougA for the beef carcass is dug five feet deep, hickory logs 16 hours and al'— down is . ..ecse doth, properly eJ, then covered with burlap. Hie beef is then lowered on a plywood board into the pit by about two feet then covered with dirt and cooked for half-a-day. o.' S4.5 billion — $433 million more than requested by the Ad ministration. And that same day the Senate - House conference committee announced it had “compromised” on a $3.6 billion budget for the Department of Housing and Urban Development —and this was $650 million more than the Administration felt w?as needed. Cbngress is where the cheese is bindingest. Few ordinary citizens can imagine the kind of mnstant pressure and badgering under which the legislators operate. There is a "special interest group” pushing for virtually every piece erf appropriating legislation mov ed through the committee laby rinth of Congress. Not only do tiese "gimme” groups exert telling influence, but the government bureaucracy feeds on itself — the non-elected, para sitic employees of the various a- gencies, bureaus and what-not have come to be a powerful polit ical force. Ail of them, you see, speak for the down-and-nearly- out who deserve the good life and aren’t getting it. So feel free to blame Congress, but understand the Congress is but a tool of the citizenry. And know, verily, that a democracy will stand only until the people realize they can vote themselves the treasury. Do not be alarmed that the bill for operating the departments of Labor and Health. Education and WeKare was $18.8 billion for fis cal 1970. And if President Nixon points out that this tab is $80 million more than his Adminis tration wanted, look a little deep er for the real culprit of the piece. MootMvilla Tribuae will have increased political clout: such as education, intarclty transport, middle-'lncorae tax re form, environmentai itoilution. The suburbanite will manifestly need to stretch his compassion to support those welfare, antipov erty, low-cost housing and job- training issues which agitate the central city populations. ChristiCBi Sdenea Monitor GAINS FOR WOMEN KTWANIS Plane ! Kings Mountain Kiwanians and their families will gather for a picnic Thursday at Lake Montonia. Red Bridges barbecue will be served with aocessmies. Co-chairmen of the outing are Paul Ham and Bill Brown. Mighty good eatin’, Jake and; Vemie opine. John and 1 did not disagree. SERMON TOPIC "Law, Duty and Conflict" will be the sermon topic orf the Rev. CJiarles Etisley at Sunday mwa- ing worship services at il oVrlodc at St. Matthew’s Luther an chKTQh. The United States Congress sei dom slights any big section of the populace in an election year. Such as, say, half the people or, in a woid: women. So it’s unlike ly that the constitutional amend ment providing equal rights for women will fall orf passage (by the requisite two-thirds vote) this year. The House has considered it, the Senate will shortly. Then of course, the legislatures <rf three- fourths of the .states must ap prove. Obviously the drive for women’s rights is marching ahead. The women’s liberation movement has helped. So has the maturing concept of equal rights for all citizens. We would simply point | out that success of the women’s rights amendment will have pro found impact and require some court determinations. ANOTHER MUCH MALIGNED ETHNIC GROUP Speaking of ethnic groups, there is 'another one consisting of Southern writers. The South has produced an unlikely number of serious authors who have given permanent life to the region’s fading old ways, using the South’s peculiarly picturesque-grotesque past to illumine tmths about hu man folly. The ethnic group we can only admire. But another kind of Southern writer — tlie traas- planted Southern journalist —oft en rates our question. He is tlie fellow who is so sympathetic to fashionable liberal cau.sj's that he pa.sses up few opportunities to put down his native region, thereby proving himself worthy of the g<X)d feeling of the North’s elite left. But however we regard Soutli- ern writers, serious or journalistic, we must admit that their collec tive talent bulks large and dis tinctive. Nor has anyone .success fully explained why so much writing power has come out of the area. But we have a th**ory. We sus pect that all Southerners, becau.se of the climate or the stars, are born writers. And the oiicw who turn professional are simply tho.se who can’t do anything elia'. There are many orf those because when you are brought up in the South, and when you see your region surrounded by a world less tradi tion-minded, less courtly, and less cohesive, you discover early that you have a sufficiency of things to say about it. BRIDGES REUNION Annual Bridges Family Re union will be held Sunday at Ohestnut Ridge Baptist dhuroh with picnic lunch to be spread at 1 pan. in the church recrea tion building. All family mem bers and friends are invited to attend. METER RECEIPTS j Parking meter receipts for the week ending ’Tuesday totaled $137.40, including $1^.90 Urom on-street motere and $12.50 ram orff-street meters. PERSONALS Thur: Admitted Prior to Aug. 12 Win. B. Barber Mrs. Sallie Boyce MiTs. .Margaret L. Collins Hardin L. Davis, Jr. Mrs. Sally N. Early Mrs. Virginia J. Harris Mrs. Edward H. Hipp Sidney Huff.stctler Mrs. Della P. Huttstickler Mrs. Homer Kilgore Judson Coopeif Geo. W. Mauney Mrs. Narmie C. Moss Otis A. .Moss Donna Regina Murray Mrs. Wm. G. MoLoymore James Jasper Oates, Jr. Arthur H. PalWerson Regina Michcdle Pettis Edward Reynolds Jasp(>r Rice James Roselv)ro Mrs. Johny Walter Tliomp.son Mrs. Lloyd S. Wotxls Mrs. Florenci' H. Butler ADMITTED WEDNESDAY, Aug. 12 Mj.s. Horace L. Patterson ADMITTED THURSDAY Dean .Ayers Morris E. Mayes Mrs. Sam Smith. Jr. Robert A. Woods Charles Marsliall Gib.son \ ADMITTED FRIDAY | Wm. Jake England Geo. Keith Floyd Mrs. Samuel C. Hocard, Jr. Mrs. James R. Painter .Mrs. Ruth L. Ram-sey Johnny Shane Rogers ADMITTED SATURDAY Doretha Brown Barbara Sue Grant .Mrs. Willis M. Leich Mrs. Sallie E. Martin Wm. Thomas Moek Mrs. FYedrlck H. Raines Mrs. Willie E. Ross Wanda Gray G<!0. ’TrueCt Black Mrs. Mary C. Bledsoe ADMITTED SUNDAY ; Mrs. Harlle Nicholson Mrs. Boyce Pop<> Mrs. Clifford E. Rippy Mrs. Harry L. Webb James Roy Ervin Mrs. Harley R. Gore Mrs. Larry Wm. Stdf M-s. Clara Smtixr ADMITTED MONDAY Robert W. Camp Clint H. Day Mrs. Roland Moss, Jr. Mrs. Wm. K. K. Hufbitetler •Mrs. James Limbaugh Elizabeth Sellers Sliaron Sefzer ■Michael Wm. Ve.stal ADMITTED TUESDAY Mrs. Kelly R. Stroud, Sr. Karen Lisa Merck 4)t>n Lee Pbilbeck Randy Keith Page Roy Lee Scott James Norwrxxl Ganhei Jaimes WiUie La.ssiter ’Thomas Bell Hill James Pittman Peterson Robt'rt Lee Robinson, Jr. Mrs. Wesley D. Davis AOMITTED WEDNESDAY Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Bridges Linda Railcy Mrs. Janet Moss Mrs. Roy Scott Mrs. .Mhxtha Lovelace Mrs. Mary Holland Billy Gene McCarter Nanny Bell Rippy Kenneth Odell Benton Martha Allison Al Dean Adams Mrs, Mar>' Jane Farris and the cate the olati Lirtf tral- eers fens bad Gen defe shot #) Mr. and Mr.s. Tom DeJlmger, their daughter, Judy, and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Dellinger ihlave i»tuniel.i 'from Newport Nows, Va. where they visited 'Mr. and Mrs. John Van Dyke, Jr. Mrs. Van Dyke is the for mer Juanita Dellinger, daugh ter of the Tom Deliingers. Tlte Van Dykes are residing at 11430 Jefferson Avenue. Apartment 116, Deer Park ApartmenUs. For example, women would get the right to work overtime (where now forbidden), the irig)vt to pay alimony (now husbands alone have that dubious right), the right to endure the same work hardships (some staites forbid coal mining, bar-tending and bell-hogping) and per)iaps even the right to be drafted into na tional service. Among the more desirable rights to toe gained would be: the right to equal pay for equal work, the ri^t of mar ried women to establish a legal demicile, the right to attend state oolleges where now barred. Opponents of the pnpoaoil •• mendment argue that 'Ae Con* stitution's 14th Amendment, with its "equal protectlcm” claiwe, could fully protect women’s rights, tf courts 4nd matjit the effort to so utilize it. Blit’they just haven’t done so. Chilstkai Setaoce Meaiter Keep Tmh Bafie Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kiigs MeoRtain, N. C. Jfews St Weatker every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the koUkeur. Fine entertainment in between
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