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PAGE 2 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. Thursday, September 3, 1870 Thur Established 1&89 The Kings Mountain Herald 206 South Piedmont Ave. Kings Mountain, N. C. 28086 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion ol the general weUare and published for the enliglitenn.ent, entertainment 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 office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086 under Act ol Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Maitln Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Frank Edwards •■Rocky Martin Allen Myers Roger aown • On Leave With The United States Army Paul latkson Ray Parker MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE In North Carolina void Bouth Carolina One year $-1; sixmontlis $2.2.'>; three month.s $1.50; .school year $3. (.Subscriptions in North Carolina subject to three percent sales tax.) In All Other States One year S3; sixmonth $3; ttiree months $1-75; .school year $3.75. PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739^5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE For the iijiriyht shdU diicU in the hnul, and the perfect stuiJI reMciin in it Provci bs H.'St. Desire and Work When desire is translated into work, it can produce rather amazing results and the examples are legend. lie amazing New York Mets of IP consigned by all of the experts, including the gamblers to another last- place finish, the amazing Mets won in their division, their league, and walked oft with the World Scries. There have been many all-American football players who had much less tal ent that many should-be all-Americans who never got off the ground. A clarinet instructor laughed whan one of his students waxed discouraged and remarked, “Maybe I just don’t have the talent to plav the c'nt-tnAf ” tri. structor replied, “Son, playing any musi cal instrument is just auo,.L ,c,i at talent and 90 percent work. And just a- bout everybody has that ton percent part.’’ The folk over at the Jobs 70 build ing next door to the Herald had a prime case in point. A Negro woman had enrolled in the training program. On Sunday morning, her brother died suddenly of a heart attack in the hall of her home. Monday morning she was at the Jobs 70 building at the appointed hour. Why had she come, in view of the death of her broth er? She didn’t, she replied, want to be cashiered out of the program due to ab sence. This may be an isolated incident. However, a much lesser degree of desire and work will be productive of the desired end results of this federally financed training program for the dis advantaged—those too unlettered and too unskilled to obtain employment. We Goofed Good newspapers pride themselves on accuracy, both as to facts and typog raphy, and the Herald likes to think it is among the “good newspaper” fratern ity. Before World War II, the Christian Science Monitor boasted that one could never find a typographical error in the Monitor and one couldn't. The boast had to be removed after the war began be cause good proof readers were scarce like hen’s teeth. While the boast has never resumed, the Monitor remains a- mong the best edited newspapers in the world. Others cannot say as much. Punch- tape machine operation has played hav oc with accuracy for many of the dailies of top repute, including the Charlotte Observer, daily accompaniment to the morning cofreo and the New York Times. But the Herald’s prime goof of last week was a real one. A laify who had supplied some information about her new pastor at Second Baptist church came in to relate the Herald had made a slight error. The Herald report put Rev. Eugene Land, not in the pulpit of Second Baptist but at Temple Baptist. We’ll correct it and call Mr. Land pe ■ lally and apologize,” the lady was told. Another staffer quipped, “Looks like we better call Rev. Frank Shirley first. We ran him off mighty fast!” The Herald owes the two apologies and herewith makes them. Bon mot from Bill Bates, Kings Mountain high school football coach: “A trouble-maker very often becomes a top football player. He hits out his hostili ties on the football field.” William A. Mason One of his confreres of the Gaston County bar association was comment ing on the bizarre circumstance of Judge William A. Mason’s fatal heart attack while under the wheel of his car. The attack apparently occurred immediately after Judge Mason started the car, plac ed the gear in reverse and depressed the accelei’ator. The car hit a station wagon behind and knocked it into another cai'. The lawyer said it was considered lucky none was hurt. “That would have been the last thing Bill would have wanted,” the Gas tonia lawyer said. “He didn’t want to hurt anybody.” The statement adequately describ ed the kind, mild-mannered Bill Mason, the Belmont lawyer who was a 27th dis trict judge who had been reared in Kings Mountain in the twenties when his fath er headed the former Mason Mill, now Mauney Mills, Inc. Older citizens remember then-young Mason as a mild-mannered high school athlete who excelled in football and went on to play end for Davidson Col lege. Judge Mason, who got his legal training at Duke Law school, was for many years judge of Belmont Record ers Court. Ho ran sixth for : ' five nom inations for district judge was sub sequently appointed when one member resigned. His service was marked by the same mild-mannered kindness that he had exhibited all his life. Judge Mason and his ruleful smile has departed us and will be missed. A Retirement A longtime friend of a host of Cleve land Couty folk has retired. She is Mrs. Clara Newman, for more than twenty years clerk to the Cleveland County Selective Service board, a posi tion hardly designed to win friends. But Mrs. Newman did. She administered her work in this most sensitive field fairly and impartial ly, but with sympathy for the lad her board was sending up for induction into the armed forces, for his family, and foi his employer. On one occasion, a key Herald em ployee was notified he was to report for induction ten days hence. TTie editor called lier and suggested the minimum notice in advance was three weeks. “No,” she replied, "the law specifies ten days.” “I’m embarrassed to ask,’’ the editor continued, "but would it be pos sible for this young man to obtain a 30- day deferment. He needs the time to get his affairs in order and we need the time to obtain a replacement.” She explained that decision was a board matter, not hers, but that rtiq would be glad to recommend it. The 30-day deferment was granted, and it was much appreciated by all con cerned. It was one sample of her sympathe tic approach which made Mrs. Newman as popular a draft board clerk as there was. Mrs. Newman will be missed by her many “constituents” and it is to be hoped the selective service boaril will be able to replace her with a person of like kind. Congratulations to Captain .Tames (Punch) Parker, US Air Force, winner of .seven air medals for missions flown in Viet Nam. and to Army Sgt. Ronald F. Burton, winner of the bronze star medal for outstanding achievement in Viet Nam. Parents should avail themselves the opportunity of having their children ages one to twelve vaccinated against rubella (German measles) at the free clinics to be conducted at all elementary schools in the Kings Mountain district on next Thursday, September 10. While little more than bothersome for a few days to the patient, rubella’s danger is to unborn children of pregnant mothers. Epidemics of German metisles tend to occur periodically and are predictable, the next one being pr^icM tor 19^ • MARTIN'S MEDICINE Wishful Thinking .... In spitp of the mUlion.s who see baseball each suimmer, basket- bull in winter, football in the faill, and play golf In the snow, the experts say that neither of these Is the nation's most popular sport. Some contend the “most popular” title is a dead heat be*- tween hunting and fLshlng. If everyone Ls kin in sports activity to my neighbor Burgin Falls, Policeman Lem Beatty and many other Kings Mountain citi zens, the title must go to fishing. Burgin is seml-retired, but still occasionally breaks out his trowel to do a master artisan's masonry job. Those who know him under stand the Job is not to Interfere with Burgin's fisiting. in-iii A few years ago, Burgin was working on the little amphithe atre at tlie veteran's section of Mountain Best cemetery. The Mayor took me over for a look. I He teasetl, “Burgin, you gotta I speed up. This has got to be I ready for .Memorial Day. We’re I having a special program.” Bur- I gin replied ruefully, "Ifll be readv ” m-m The Mayor was back just a tew days before Memorial Day and it was apparent Burgin would have to be working 'round the clock if the deadline were to be met. “Hey, Burgin,” John Henry said, “you said this job would be ready for Memorial Day. You’re sure gonna have to hurry.” “Sure, John,” Burgin replied grinning. “I told you it’s be ready by Memorial Day. I just didn’t tell you which one.” m-m All true fishermen brag about their catches. Recently Burgin, Lem Beatty, Bun Goforth and Dave Saunders invaded Lake Wy lie, returned with 124 crappie. hospital LOG ADMITTED PRIOR TO 8-26-70 % WANTED AT LEAST QKE FEMALE CANDIDATE TO OPPOSE EVERY MALE CANDIDATE RU«NIN6 FOR LOCAL,STATE AND NATIONAL OFFICES — imRAT/M MOVimr r:*: Wm. Bunks Buber Johtuiie E. L. Berryhill George Truett Black Florence Webber Cansler Mrs, Margaret L. Collins Jasnoli Ryan Forest William Gsear Goins . George .Lllred Gordon Mrs. Baxter Jenings Hill. Sr. Sidney D. Huffstetl(*r Mra. Florentx! D. Kilgore JucLson B. Looper Geo. W. .Mauney Otis A. -Mosi Nancy lajuLse McCojj Wm. CL McLeyinore ‘ James Jasper Oates Regina Michelle Pettis John Lee Philbeck Jasper Bice Mrs. EtlieFS. lUchardson Mrs. Jesse .M. Hippy Jolinny Shane Rogers James Roseboro Hunter Wm. Taylor Mrs. Elssie A. Wilson ADMITTED WEDNESDAY , Mrs. Ollie H. Helms, City Arthur Hunter Patterson, City Jerry Ray Oliver, City ADMITTED THURSDAY Viewpoiiits of Other Editors SEMAN'nCS AND THE WAR The “amendment to end the war,” being sponsored by Sena- tars Hatfield and McGovern, would stipulate that all Ameri cans be withdrawn from Vietnam by Dec. 1, 1971. The proposal will be before the Senate today. SEABED REGULATION m-m •Tut that in the paper,” said Buigln. “I want ole Joe Lee Wood ward to see it.” Joe, of course, is one of the best fishermen a- round. Sometimes its backeirs argue that this merely writes into taw the “Vietnamizatlon" policy al ready announced by the Pieaident himself. At other times they ar gue as Senator Hatfield did on the Senate floor the other day: “Vietnaimization is put forth as a plan for ending the war. But it is nothing of the sort. Vietnamiza tlon means that the South Viet namese will fight and die in In- creasing numbers Instead of A- merlcans.” Next day afti-r the big catch, Burgin, Lem and Bun returned to Lake Wylie, this time only brought back 84. "Poor Dave,” Burgin comment ed. “He didn’t go with us and carried Skimp Stowe to anotljet spot. They didn’t catch but three.' •Vietnamization merely chans- es the nature ol the coolllot; It does not resolve political differ- ences; It does not halt the lose of Hie; and it perpetuates the very political instalhiUty wihlidt uragged us into Vietnam initial ly,” the Senator went on. "The war continues now, and unless tills amendment is passed, the war wlH go on with no definite end In sight." Who owns the oceans, and Who is going to exploit them? The much-argqed sirddng of nerve-gas containers 282 miles off Cape Kennedy is the small item stir ring the laigcr controversy. The prcolem of how nations shall parcel out the world’s greatest unexploited frontier — the ocean floor—Is complicated. Sen. Clai borne Pell of ^ode I^and be lieves it will be one of the great issues of the 1970’s. A United Nations convention in 1964 extended national sovereign ty over the continental shelf — or submerged coastal lands — to a depth oif 656 feet. It also would allow exploitation of resources as tar as the water depth "ad mits” •— vifiich could mean fut- thn and fmther out as undersea tepfuiology develops. BULGING BANKS Amid today’s many economic uncertainties, there is one out standing example of extraordi nary prosperity In the United States. This is the fact that, dur ing the second quarter cf this year, the American people weie saving money at the a-stronomi- cal rate of nearly $52 billion year, ly. This means that they were putting away some TH percent of their disposable personal in come. Mrs. Billy Gene Butler, City Mrs. Beauford Carpenter, Bes semer City M Earnest Benard Ram.seur, Cilyl Hemy Lit* Spriggs, Bessemer City Samuel Robert Suber, Sr., City Alonzo Kale Goins, City ADMITTED FRIDAY Olorence Bratton, Clover, S. C. Mre. Effie P. Frcdell, City Janice Lee Haiirick, Blacksburg, S. C. Mrs. Mary F. Johnson, City ADMITTED SATURDAY Mrs. Sallie N. Early, City Mrs. Nellie H. HaU, City Jolin PhiUip Adams, City Brian Keith Clack, City Everette Ceasar Greer, City Herald linotypist Allen Myers is another devoted to the fishing line. A few months ago we'd had a rough all-afght run at the Her ald. Allen, dirty and tired to the bone went home shortly aftei dawn, showered and breakfasted and went to bed. He tossed and turned but sleep would not come. He was about ready to quit trying and get out of bed when he sud denly thought about fishir^. Says Allen, “That was the last I knew for nine hours.” Most would think the busy doc tor could never find time to fish unless he were away from the telephone far afield from has patients. Not so with Dr. Paul Hendricks. At one time Paul was getting albout tdwm in a station wagon but the extra hauling space a wagon provides was not being used to haul medical tools. The whole baickslde was filled with fishing gear, rod and reel, lures, line and other Isaac Wal ton Implementa. A free half-hour found Paul’s wagon headed for the city lake. Marriott Phifer, more hunter than fisher, is al^ a horse de votee. I was noting his increase in girth recently and he replied he’d been getting in more riding lately and that he had been able to pull in his belt by two notches. “Get that mare to jog ging Just right," said Marriort, “and she’ll melt it c" r' Just how continuing essentially the same policy with a public ter minal date would get to the poU- tical roots of the oonfUet and end the loss of life even by the Viet namese themselves the Senator didn’t much discuss, except for the suggestion that a pufiEc with drawal deadline tnlght change the "intransigent” attitude of “Thleu and his clique in Saigon. Since he did not explain what it would do to the intransigence of the Communists, it Is not clear to us how tliis would end the fighting and death. The amendment could conceiv ably advance one scenario, how ever, that would in fact guarantee an end to the war: If it causes the Saigon government to col lapse, allows the Communists to put an end to all “political Inst ability” and impose peace in South Vietnam as their ideologi cal cousins have imposed peacq in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Presumably this is not what Senator Hatfield and his friends have in mind, though, because they so hotly deny Vice President Agnew’s charge that Oieli propos al is a blueprint for Commuodst victory and American humilia tion. The Vice President’s charg es, Senator Hatfield suggested earUer, are tantamount to an ac cusation of treason. -ilic il,uris Is a fisherman, too, though the current fishing is not for crappie or bass, but for votes. A combination of politicking and dieting has pared 20 pounds a# the Harris frame. OUle’s diet Is of the cornfield, rather than pro fessional, variety. “Somebody told me,” Ollie says, to oat noth ing white; no white bread, no wthlte potato, no mUk, no nfilte macaroni, and no white pastry, ft wbrlqi." All of which leaves us more than a little oonfused by the kind of talk that suggests the Administration’s Vietnamizatlon policy is worthless because It won’t stop Vietnamese deaths as '>11 as American ones, and at ...e same time proposes a poUcy of doing all the same things but with a pitollc date for the last Almerican withdrawal under the label “an amendment to end the war.” The best explanation, we guesa. is that the people most vocifer ously In favor of “peace" view themselves as a little holler than less outspoken citizens and there fore (eel entitled to h ' little k- mantle dotible-dAalin^. * Wfll> ItfMt I«MH4 The end result could be the “Balkanization” of the ocean Into separate national domains. The're needs to be worldwide agreement on sovereignty — and an Inter- natioi^ agency to regulate px- ploltauon A the seas. 'The United States has submitted to a UN commivtoe In Geneva a proposal to give the deiveloplng countries a shbstantial part of the money made from eo^oltlng the ocean’s mlnefal 'Stouroes. So far, no' exploitation agree- meflt has been nailed down. But highly skilled uses of the ocean —mining, fishing, farming — are in the odUdig. Q&hore oil already provides 16 percent of the world’s petroleum. Anaichy or agree ment: that's the ultimate seabed choice. Chzlstimi Science Monitor VITAL AS THE VINE The home vegetable patch has come back into vogue this sum- incr_ The trend has at least tluiee cau^; tighter family budgets leaving less for food; a back-to- the-iand longing among the city- pent; and an awarenoas that the hest strains of fruits and vegeta bles are usually not those com- merciaUy grown. There is a refinement o(f the gardening taxnd, 'however, whitfli is dawni^ on those who think anld aiot op such matters. It Is suggested by the title o(t a new book 'by a Seattle English ptxjf- essoTiand immigrant gardener, Angelo Pellegrini — “The Food- Lov^ Garden.” His theme is that the art qf growing things must synthesize with the art of cooking them. This is the time of the jiaar in the North when squash adouimu' late on the vine, ghStaitizing bey ond use. Salad igireens (have bolt ed to seed. Ai^ itomatoes anld corn ooroe on in intemperate pre- fusion There’s a ekiU — a tihafs gen ius — in coovenUng the rush of harvest into an abundant table, or storing some for the snow days ahe^. And many who started gardens last spring, ooit of nostalgia for tij^ impact of home-gtnwn things, are now hav ing to rediscover the oil ways of booking. Such savings can tell u.s a number of important things a- bout both the present and the future. It tells us, first, that be cause of today’s economic uncer talnties people are preferring, at a record-breaking rate, to put money by, rather than to spend it But it also tells us that, once confidence has returned, there wdli be stupendous sums ready to ^sh forth into everything from hair ribbons to houseboats. Unlike previous economic set backs or downsHdes, when sav ins dwindled, it tww seelms pos sible that the opposite is happen ing. While, utihappaly, many famiUes are being farced to call upon tiielr savings to tide them over joblessness, it could be that the bank holding of the average inilividual is actually rising. This is, of course, a measure of the astounding prosperity which still exists in the United States. Just a short seven years ago, the -American people were saving money at the rate of $19.9 bil lion a year, while in 1969 the tqtal savings came to $37.6 bil lion. For the first two quarters of this year the rate had risen to $48.2 billion yearly. If this year’s increase of the second half over the first equals that of 1969. the amount put into savings during 1970" could oome to a monument al $60 billion. This equals some $3,000 for every man. woman, and child In America. ADMITTED SUNDAY Mrs. Michael BrUce Arrowood, Charlotte, N. C. Luther Wilborn Carver, Bessr*- mer City Kandy Steven Deal, City Mrs. Joseph R. Faster. Cliesnee, S. C. Hasting Jackson. City Mrs, Hattie W. Medlin, Gas tonia, N. C. Mrs. Carl Wiesener, City Carolyn Nildred Wyte, City Mrs. Howell Eudy, City Nancy Rebekah Walker, Shelby ADMITTED MONDAY j Mrs. Dorothy C. Grigg, Gasv tonia " Steve Lewis Hartman, City Mrs. Walter W. Robin.son, Be.s- semer City Mrs. Arngel B. Steese, Gastonia Mrs. diaries Floyd Wllliam.s, City Mre. James E. Aik(*n, Lowell, N. C. Gas- ADMITTEO TUESDAY M«. Douglas Wain Byrd, tonia Mrs. Jolin Aldon Davis, Gas tonia John Martin, Kings Creek, S. (,’. Mrs. Derek B. Smith, Cherry- ville. particularly .so in view of (a) the relief which will be widely and popularly felt at the end of to day’s economic unease, and (b) the pent-up demand for goods which will exist. Once even a portion of this golden hoard is let loose, it could spur an unpreoedervtdd wave of proaperity-on-prosperity. This is While all this has its good and pleasant side, ft also has a difbi- ous one. For the country had better make mighty sure that In flation is truly and well under oontrdl before such a new spend ing spree breaks out. If not, no one need be reminded of what the result could be. CbrisUqn Science Moititoi In other words, 'the lesson In gardening, las the morniings get ocroler into fall, is tiiat tSie kitiolh- en nuM« li nt IcniA M ‘idthl i«b 'We’vIhjS' - —OArMtaft StmtC0 Manitor Keep Your Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Nimp MouHtain, N. C. lYews & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between 'USSm
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