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PAGE 2 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. ,Thursday, September 24, 1970 ' Established 1S89 The Kings Mountain Herald i Carolsna \ UOSOCUTK 206 South Piodmont Avc. Kings Mountoin* N. C. 28086 A weeKly newspaper devoted to the promotion or the general welfare and published lor the enlightenn.ent, entertainment and benefit of tlie citizens of Kings Mountain and Its vicinity, published every Thiirsday by ine Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N C, 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Debbie Tliornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Frank Edwards •Rocky Martin Allen Myers Roger Brown • On Leave With The United States Army Paul Jackson Ray Parker MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE In North Carollno and South Cotrolina One year $4; sixmonths $2,2.'); three months $1.50; sohool year .'t (Suhscriitrions in Noitli Carolina subject to three percent sales tn In All Other States One year $5; sixmonth $3; three months $1.75; school year $3.7.'i. PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 MEDICINE MARTIN'S Some Days Are Like That Three weeks aiJO, I had a visit from a very cliatming lady who greetetl me with, “I have some thing to sell.’’ Well, she laldn’t exactly look like a lady pcddlej', though she did carry a brla. case you’re al\ways drawing CARTOONS ABOUT THE U6LY^ What she was selling was the current campaign to get citizens to write llieir Congressmen, cab inet officials, foivign embassy chiefs and 'Hanoi directly in the intei'cst of better Ueatment lor American prisoners oI the North Vietnamese ni-ni She was a native of Oelaware, she said, practically on the Dela- ware-Penn-sylvai.la line. I re marked that I had Just olianccij into Rev. Edgar Cooper, here on a vacation from his ministerial duties at Potlstowm. Pa, TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE TJioufjJt / o/tongues of vivn ctnd of n nyels^ cind have not chaHtg^ I utn becojnc as so-ivnd- g brass and tinkling cymbal / Corinthians 13:1. m-m LIKE RIOTS, pollution, CIV/L RIGHTS, politics/ ji PEOPLE ARE Tired oe see ing depressing, CYNICAL CARTOONS ...FOLKS ARE INTERESTED IN THE HIGHER THINGS OF LIFE... LIKE... Can’t you draw cartoons TO INSPIRE readers IN57T40 of being so CRITICAL? 1 School Bus Front In a way and quite at local level, USA that is, the question of school bus transportation tor children is about as muddled as any questions get and as productive of strong emotions as any. The President’s hand-picked opera tives are ordering crosstovvn hauling. In North Carolina: Governor Scott, perhaps feeling the ruling by Bailey may result in “no haul", says the state will appeal. Whew! Busing at long distances, where a child can walk four or five blocks to school seems quite stupid, for the child, his parents and treasury of the great State of North Carolina. (Actually, most children like the sociality of the school bus.) From the standpoint of de-segrega- ting the ghetto neighborhood school long-distant busing is the only answer. It is a problem which increases with the size of a citv. Kings Mountain school district is quite lucky in its school situation, and, once the North school addition was com pleted, has had no trouble meeting the tests of the civil rights act, even as in terpreted by the over-zealous zealous of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. One high school, one junior high school, good arrangements in the neigh borhood schools for Grades 1-6. Politics Stirring “What you hear about politics?’’ “What you hear about politics?” Cand’iatrs have been asking the question for some time. ft’s St il hor. as the proverbial Hades in the middle of the day, but the nights and mornings are cool and with Novem ber election day looming closer the ques tions are coming much more frequently and from non-candidates, too. Voting is nominally less in non- presidential election years and the vot ers nominally lavor the outs more than the ins. it is also axiomatic that a long tic ket increases the vote: everybody has a few friends. In Cleveland County the ticket (where there is competition) is short. However, the Kings Mountain area should out-do itself in this off-year elec tion for the simple reason of having three Kings Mountain candidates on the ballot: Representative W. K. Mauney, Jr., seeking a third term in the stale house of representatives; veteran coro ner J. Oliie Harris, making his first bid for the state senate; both Democrats- and Bob Manor carrying the Repubiicari banner for one of two seats open on the county commission. The re-match U. S.Representative James T. Broyhill and former Represen tative Basil L. WTiitener will add more je.st. I Money Bit Cheaper The President tells Senator Thur mond he’ll abide by Supreme Court de cisions. Superior Court Judge H. Pou Bailey rules state loan of school buses to local districts illegal. A federal court last year held North Carolina’s law on transporting from an nexed areas illegal. Kings Mountain and Gaston county boards of education Monday night re ceived appeals from Mecklenburg par ents to enroll their children in school. In the Kings Mountain instances, the three children are residing with grand parents. They have been accepted suh- jec! to release by Mecklenburg schools- In the Gastonia system where there were 19 applications, seven w'ere ap proved (children coming over with teaching parents, children of parents moving to Gaston) and the other dozen were denied. Moderate economists, abetting their arguments by the nation’s continuing population boom, believe the nation can only prosper by a mild dose of planned inflation. How mild a dose? Just as Mr. Nixon's tight money policy got a lot of rich companies in pain, resulted in layoffs in the big auto industry which directly or indirectly is responsible for about one in seven jobs in the country, upped unemployment, a too-loose policy minus w'age and price controls, won’t woi4j. The human mind is still an expert at highsight, a crip course, but usually unprescient at fore sight. Autumn It’s here. By the calendar and by the morn ing and evening cool notes and in spite of the noonday thermometer readings. Gotta be. School youngsters are back at the books, lootball attracts the fans by thousands and there’s the World .Series, denouement ball season. Leaves show s ing and the dove hunters ai flocks are beginning their tv and the Empire S5tate Building in New York has doused the lights to prevent birds from committing suicide. icoming e base- of turn- !. Other ks south But back to New York, as one must, to consider the baseball wind-up. Last year’s world champs, the amaz ing New York Mets, have proved them- -selves no fluke. They are parties to a down-to-the-wire finish in the National League astern division, trailing the lead ing Pittsburgh Pirates by three, the .sec ond-place Chicago Cubs by tw'o. It’s autumn. Mass Vaccination Mass vaccination has proved bene ficial in ridding peoples of small pox, polio, diptheria and other dread killers. Take typhoid. A few years ago a young teen-age girl in Gastonia was seriously ill. Her symptoms called for heavy injections of anti-biotics, given with no effect on her ultra-high fever. An older doctor was called on the case. One look told him. It was typhoid fever. With the proper treatment, she was shortly on the mend. The younger doctors couldn’t recog nize it. They’d never seen a case. One-half of one percent does not look like much but the paring of the prime loan interest that amount by ma jor New York banks, Bank America on the West Coast and others was good news. North Carolina’s major banks were quick to follow suit. Prime rate bon’owers are those with top grade credit. It may take a while but the little fellow’ is an endpoint beneficiary too. When Reynolds Tobacco pays 7.78 percent for money, Duke Power Com pany and Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company 8 percent, in a- mounts trom S50 to $150 million, some thing isn’t right. The Federal Reserve Board is a key figure in the nation’s interest rate .struc ture. When it shuts off on the banks, the money supply of the banks dwindles and when the FED loosens up, the banks supply increases. The Nixon Administration’s well- publicized drive to halt inflation had as one of its cornerstones tightening up by the FED. Hero the brief ease opener and slie Withdrew a copy of a special edition of t)ie Poltstown newspa per devoted exclusively to the i letter-writing campaign Tlie re- cent .Sun-.'.ay edition of the Char- I lotto Oljserver pro\-ided a sample of what the Pottstown paper did. Letters were quoted from Protestant ministers. Catholic priests, Jewish rabbis, govern ment officials, Red Cross folk and others — reproduced both in English and Vietnamese. The edition was quite impressive. “All we ask,” site said, "is witatever space you can give, news wise or otherwise, in pub licizing tliis aifort." ...,LIKE PRICES... OF EVERTHING WE BUy/ ‘7 r/. THE PENTAGON'S HOUSEKEEPING Anyone who has wandeivd (|-,. labjTlnthine corridors of Hie Pen t.agon can testify rhat a gi'<'ai many ptv)i)le work llien;. ,\ran\ J of Hicm, too, somehow find tlu-ir way to the building’s caleierlus. - new.stands and other facilities op 2, craKHi by private i-once.s.9ionaires. ^ Some of the details otf the cam- cession bu-slness remain ob.scur<‘, slnot' the Defense Dcpai timenl re eving lefu-st'd to give a full ac- eounling to tlie Ceneral Account, in-g Office; t.h<> Coii.iiessiotia; watelil^log of Federal spending. Tlie d(*parlment’s position was that no appropriate<| funds were involv*«d so, well, it was none ol Congress’ business. It Ls known, though, that Hu Ptmtiigon receives around $9oii. . 000 a year fnwn the concession naires, for space lent and oHu>r chargctj. Unlike ottier Federal <*f fire buildings, whicii glci- all such funds to the Tieasury, Hie Pentagon keeps about half of the lake, spending It on employe recieation, financial an'.l medical 7 assistance. ^ Thurse Viewpoints of Other Editors SHOCK ABSORBER FOR BROKERS ’•Sure," I replied, “we’ll be glad to help, but will it leally do any good?' “It alread3. has,’’ she replied. "Only 1200 Red Cross parcels were delivered to American pri soners in the six years before this campaign started six months ago. Since that time 600 have been delivered.’’ ■Mrs. Phillip J. Galanti, of Dal las, has goo<l reason to be inter Nearly everjone agrees that long-run solutions to the prob lems of the securities industry must include an improvement in the capital positions of many firms The New York Stock Ex change is working toward tight ening its capital requirements, and similar changes are likely elsewhere. YOUTH OUTLOOK A continuing study a{ 2,200 members of a particular age group by the University of Mich igan since 1966 has produced this description of the subjects: OPEN DATING OF FOODS Many foods on the shelves of grocery stores today need to be fresh if they are to be at t.lieir best for the consumer ‘They are not strongly oppos ed to the war in Vietnam, nor arc they anH military or pacifist. They agree Hiat if is important to figlit the spread of rommim- Simply saying that firms need 7*'"- Th*'-'’. good ciMip means of determining the fresh larger rescues to absorb the Pnmanly m t^ of otedionce. ness. But it is very Idifficult tor the customer to determine if pack aged goods are fresh. Tltey are not at liberty to open ami .snill, or to test for crispness in the case of crackers, or to use any shocks of profit declines does not, of course, produce the necessary funds. At the moment no one is entirely sure where brokerage firms will firtd the additional cap ital they need. Tlie other day Leon T. Keh- dall, president of the Association of .Stock Exchanie Firms, olier- od one suggestion. He piroposed that brokers be permitted to set aside limited amounts of income, tax-free, to build lup cash res erves for the future. “The banking inlditsltry’, the savings and loan business and, more recently, the life insurance business,’’ he said, “have long to law arti pride in countr>-. For | j^p^t^er could the sdlosman or them military sen ice provides an opportunity to serve the country and to prove oneself a man.’’ manufacturer's agent tell the freshness except througli the use of a dating method or code Tho.se sound like worthy pui-” poses, 'but there still Is some ques j. lion whether the Pentagon shouUt^ be a special ctise. It also is woriiMt asking why the Pentagon chad^B ges concessionaires much le.s.s toi^ space rent than similar firms ? must pay in other Government buildings. M 5 For several .weeks now llie’'^ Administration has been assiu'- ing* everyone that the Defense Dt^pan tment now is sailing a taut fiscal ship, one from which waste has been eliminated. 'That ai'- gument mjght be slightly more ci’edible If the Pentagon were do ing a neater job with its own fin ancial housekeeping. » The Wall ^trert Journnl Letter To Editor 100 Cardinal Drive Taylors, S. C. 296.')7 September 22, 3970 Dear Eflitor: refsoiTs ^ax ort'^er;;^ USS Hancock, wL shol “|,wn ! ®sk tr„ J7..„ . uowji. ,o,f jisk finanetol mstitu- heiifvinter i ions sliould bear if society is to helicopter, “Don’t come m, don’t p,o,ectcxi against .the conse- come in. Tliore are guns ail a round me." m-m The Galanti family is luckier than most. They know their son IS alive. In the Life feature on the prisoner situation, he was a- mong the prisoners pictured Ma ny families do not know' and must live with the harrowing missing-in-action in enemy terri- tore notation. Another imptxjvement of the campaign of letters has been mail. Letters from her son have been coming about every othei month. m-m The captors do not permit games. In a Christmas parcel was included a simple note pad and some crayons. Hor son likes to sketch. These were removed. Only one bar of soap are thej given a month by the Viet Niam, so soap is a must in every parcel sliipped out via Rod Cross. m-m I began to speculate on what foreign folk, still on reasonablj good relations on both sides, might bo best to write, InLia, Al bania, France, Great Britain? Who knows? m-m Just recently it was announced that Mrs. Strom Thurmond wU’ serve os national chairman rf the ietterovTitln" - Seirat''-’- . ^outh ijarollna, -was .1 lionor gue.st at the 1966 Kings Mountain battle celebration. lurncfs of their failure.’' It the idea were carefully im- lementcd, it would appear to have merit. Congress is already consUering a plan to provide a form 03 insurance to protect customers of brokerage houses. The proposal obviously wo-Jd only help firms that have profits. Many weaker firms have disap peared in the current profit squeeze, and a further decrease in the number of firms is prolb- ably both inevitable and deeir- able. It’s equally evident that Mr. Kemlall’s plan would call for at least some increase in FeiJeral supervision of the industry. The 'ntemal Revenue Service keeps close watch on the way other fi- -vancial institutions handle tlieir reserves, and it should do the same in the scrurities industry The health of the securities bu.siness now is important to many millions of Americans out side the industry. Under reason able ruiles it seems sensible to provide the irtiuslry with this sort of shock absorber. Thr Wall Strref Jaurnnl Middle-aged citizens who no | which indicates its freshness, longer have to worry' a^ut don-1 Breald, for example, now comes ning a un»fo™. No, the 2,2(W | plastic bage tied with little j,nvolved in the stud}’ were adol- ' coated wire sealers. Bdkorioa u.se i^oent boys whose attitudes were ^jifferent colored sealers to close momtoreU as tJiey progressed | bags to indicate the fresh through high school. | ^jate of the broad or rolls. Often, As the Michigan researchers ! example, when broad is noted, “the majority of young ^ thf back men in our sample do not fit i will iHffcrent color tlhe Igeneration gap’ steroityTe at ^aler, in^cating a different rebellious youth casting aside the ff^abness date. Customaril)', values of tiheir elders In fact, I ^he oldei' bread in the dominant position' they ex-1 *bc f^her, so you }^>t press essentially supports the fresher loaf by reaching to the status quo.” If this comes as a surprise to | Many items have a code for anj’one, it is becatise he has been , freshness. These include dairy i- pa^ng too much attention to the ; tems, crackers, and other foodB, noisy militant and not enough to i jjmt people do not know the the senous young peraon. He and j code, and thus have no way of miliions of his associates can be telling which items are freshest found studying and working their ' In view of the degrading re- marks made in our newspapers (via letters to the editor) over the past several months about tli(> president and vice-president of Bob Jones University it seems a ■ bit unusual that not one item'’’ has been noted about any otlier university (degrading) in the Carolina.s. RIea.se permit a fe\\ reflection's. FOR THE HUNDREDTH TIMES York m-m Mrs. Galanti is of Irish extrac tion, her h.sband Itali.sn. He is a retired army engineer. Two o- thcr sons have made the round trip to Viet Nam. One is stiU in the army at Fort Bllsa, Texas, the other is again a civilian and lives in the Mid''W«6t One watches the New Times. The professional writer, es- •lecially. Not so much because ''he Times sets the points of his ioumalistic compass But because he knows that the Times is wide ly read, and he shou'<i know what might be widel.y taken in. Indeed, the Times’ position on -nany subjects — particularly its ’enacious loyal opposition to the Nixon admini.stration — often can bo predicted in a'.jvan-ec. And many Americans, especially as cros.ses the Mississippi head- ; westward, may take excep tion to the Times’ trademark lib eralism. Today is the KXlIh anniversary of the Times. Th-at newspaper has been — despite its current drawing of fire for being quint essential Eastern establishment- arian — one of the richer and more cleansing voices In Ameri can .journalism. Over the weekend, the Times will be^n ntmilng tww opinion columns a iclaty, twitUn by out siders, opposite its editorial page. Ona ho^ that a wid«r spread way through life, tminl.UuenceH' and unimpros-sed by those who have gone 6ff the deep end. 'Providing the Supreme Court approves the constitutionality of the 18-yearold vote, the new ar my of young voters who will be going to the polls in future elect ions could turn out to be a stead ying influence instead of the ra dical port anchor some have f^reld. —Kannapo'.'a Independent THE NAVY'S TARGET The 750 or so residents of Cul- obra, a tiny piece c/3 land in the Caribbean used as a target range by the Nav>’, may find some con- fort in the announcement by a Senate committee that it intends to study the plight of the island ers, all of whom are American citizens. The Culelbrans under standably are more than a IJttle weary by now of being shot 'at, bombeiJ and rocketed. Far from stopping the shooting, the Navy, much to the distroM of Ou'le- brans, would like to use more of the island for a firing range, and a House subcommittee, inexplic ably, has endorsed the proposal. This stirring displa.y of human itarian concern was promp'cd, ■we lotather. by the Navy’s con- 'tention that blowing up the beaches of Cule'ora was some how essential for the training of i the Atlantic fleet. We preimie! the .Senate grc-.p iwiU not be ta-; ken in so easily and will do what it can to provDie the Culebrans with relief. —St. Louis Post’Dinpatch A bill now before the Congress would require open dating of per ishable items, so tiiat a O-Stomer could deternWe easily if a pack age were within its reasonable freshness date. .Sponsors of the bill claim that this would be pro tection to the customer, with fodJs being dated in much the same manner as photographic film is now. There Is merit in this projjosial. , , —Stanly Neuvi d Press Most traffic crashes occuir dur ing ideal driving conditions — on straight, Liry roads during daylight hours. Dated May, 1969, a rnaUin.g.c went out from Furman Univei- n sily endorsed by President Blackwvll am Chaplain John son. It was entitled, “The Cam pus Crisis: The fleneration Gap?’’. This document clearl.v in 9 rticated their approval of “situa i lion Ethics". J'ollowing is a quote fi-om Duke University’s 1970 Year J Book: “Tlie amateurs have ruin- | cd th*' virgin Mary business.. Hei- 1 name is really Mary McDillon, she’s an Irish who Ilux< d Christ up into the hills and took his manhood. And she never ha I it so goofl. She re.reived God by iismosis.’’ M( PI Mik' have the w formal Chase specti' Mos; Mount both 26 0 V ago di tackle On helpet ^Ffeni tackle ited fensc Hov Ri F( After reading of such things being promoted by other schools of higher learning may I ask what is so bad 'about Bob Joni’s Univoa-sity being “square"? Any good founUation is sciuarely bas e?d on the word of God the de- vincly inspiixxi word. “For othei- foundation can no man lay tlian that is laid, which is Jtaus Christ ” (I COR. 3:11'. Very truly youis, Julius C. Ta.vlor Statistics show that half of llicj motoring population will be in-| volved in a serious hlgihway crasli etuiring their lifetime and the percentage is rising. in the pifblic debate issues will be gained. The Wall St.reet Journal and other pu’blleatlons have long carried columns by nonjounraJ- Ists next to their esditen-ial copy. Attitudes in America to(.-iiay seem both to be lumping in the middle and flying apart. The views need sorting out. We hope the Times and its Innovation, as the newspaper starts Its second century, wlU help Ifurtlier in this diirectiaa. At ieastt, many will be watch ing. —Chsiatkm 3«i«n«e Monitor Keep Yoni Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Monniain. N. C. iTews & Weather every hour ou the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between R leged Gran SouM inter lean In wort ers, Clari Fran Bows cock, onc-i NAS "I prov tion othc it cc CIOS' deni •sper cy i som We any whe the on
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