North Carolina Newspapers

) ?AGE 2 Established 1&89 The Kings Mountain Herald J Carolina t ^ASSOCIATM 2M South Piedmont Ave. Kings Mountain, N. C. 28086 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightennicnt, entertainment and benefit of tlie citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by ihe 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 Hannon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Debbie Thornburg 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 PATABLE IN ADYANCE In North Carolina and South Carolina One year alxmonths $2.25; three months $1.30; sdiool year $3. (9ubsi-xii>tions in North Carolina subject to three percent saJoa tax.) In All Other States One year $5; sixmonth $;i; three months $1.75; school year $3 75. PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Do all things u'ithmit murmuriugs and disjnUings. PhiUipiAans 2:M. Spinning North Not completely without merit. Southern citizens prior to the Civil War and since, have charged that many Yankee citizens gave lip service to equal rights for the Negro and other minori ties, all the while practicing on a most non-equal basis. It is a fact that Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the inflamatory aboli tionist "Uncle Tom’s Cabin” could log as her lifetime southernmost point of call the hardly southern city ot Cincin nati, Ohio. But no matter. . . In its Saturday edition, the Christian Science Monitor, published in Boston, Massachusetts, leatures of map detail ing the Charlotte school busing situa tion and caption’s it “Carolina bussing decision will affedt North schools, too". Headline over the news report by staffer Joanne Leedom is “Integration tempest spins north”. The headline writer lacked sufficient room, according to the news report, to add to the headline "and west”. The bus business is not only creat ing unhappiness in the .south,'’but else where, too. From the Monitor account; "Cities North, Midwest and West are being confronted with the challenge to desegregate and school boards are be ginning to ask if and why and how. "Item: Denver, May 1970. Federal judge rules Denver school system must desegregate minority school.’ im provement in the quality of education.. . can only be brought about by a program of desegregation and integration,’ he de clares. "Item: Los Angeles, February 1970; State superior court judge orders inte gration of that city’s 61'7 schools. It is the ’right of all students.. .to receive the opportunity offered all other stu dents.’’ “Item: Detroit, April 1970; School board orders decentralization plan and compulsory bussing to achieve integra tion. State Legislature balks, modifies plan, and voters recall four school board members. “Item: Rochester, N. Y., spring 1970: School boai'd tentatively passes plan to re-district schools and require buss ing for racial balance. Public protests and board withdraws plan. "Providence, R. I., Cincinnati, Pasa dena, Calif., Harrisburg, Pa., Newark, N. J.; all toll similar stories this year as moves and countermoves are made to desegregate classrooms.” The action of the United States Su preme Court which hears the Charlotte case (several other southern cities have similar suits and, by agreement, they have combined into one) October 12, has far-rcaching implications through out the nation. It mav not be the proper Christian attitude, but some Southerners will find it hard not to take a measure of vicarious pleasure on the pains of professional do- gooders who do not like to practice what they preach. Powell Bill and Figures Without intent to be sacreligious, former Governor W. Kerr Scott may be doing the proverbial grave-twirl. Ju^ 19 years ago, the Squire of Haw River was pulling out all the stops in an unsuccessful effort to defeat the Powell Bill, which would return a half- cent per gallon of the state’s gasoline tax to the cities for street improve ments. Drug Abuse Here A Kings Mountain druggist remark ed recently, “There are a mighty lot of people in this town who take a pill to go to sleep and another to get off the ground next morning.” however, ler Kings hrce doc- ’ unchow con- The druggist, of course, like his con freres here and elsewhere, is a dispen.ser of ethical drugs and therefore via doc tor’s prescription. This can be a danger ous enough situation, which is the reas on the doctor marks prescriptions on the habit-forming pills “no refill ”, “one refill”, cTc. A guy who gets hoo' can be smart. At least on Mountain citizen was us tors at the same time and . triving to got drugs of the "kick” kind from all three. He was also mowing his lawn at 2 o'clock in the morning. A pharmacological dictionary would make interesting reading to anyone. More common than not, beside drug de scriptions, is this phrase in italicized print: “beware of harmful side effects”. It appeared following the de.scription of one of the mildest tranquilizers (a doc tor had described it as being about as strong as an aspirin). Chief of Police Tom McDevitt, not noted for “crying wolf”, says there arc about 13 known places in town whore kick pills are being pu.shed. He did not declare any groat problem exists to day. But he, nor the community, wants one tomorrow. Orioles Vs. Reds A story told before has an added chapter and thus bears repeating. When Max Danier, the ex-Cardinal pitcher was managing in the Western Carolinas League, he was the bane of “those lousy umpires” and continually bringing his plaints to President John Henry Moss. Finally wearying. President Moss stated a measure of agreement with the stormy Lanier, but added he would ap preciate it if Lanier would 1) get up the monev to employ better umpires and 2) find them. Then Moss added, “And by the vvay, this league’s sent two umpires to the majors, but we haven’t graduated any managers that far up.’’ No longer. Cincinnati Reds' Manacr-r .Snarky Anderson skippered Rock Hill of the Westei n Carolinas in 1965. It’s a happy sidelight to the World Series opening Saturday between two baseball teams that appear (the book makers say) about as evenly matched as could be. Cincinnati, opening at home and closing at home, if necessary, start as 6 to 5 favorites — based solely on that factor. Both teams boast great hitting, great fielding, great pitching. Is it a seven-game series? The 190th anniversary of the Battle of Kings Mountain was observed quiet ly. It was hardly so 190 years ago when brother, literally, fought against brother in a 65-minute battle that led to the de mise of the British as overlord of the colonies. percent for non-city roads. Bob Scott’s arithmetic is sound. Meantime, plenty of gasoline tax revenue accrues from the fuel consumed by autos, trucks, and. yea, even those loud motorcycles on those 10,000 miles of city-maintained streets. Tuesday the successor Squire of Haw River, Kerr Scoitt’s son Governor Bob Scott, declared the rebate should be from a one-cent per gallon tax, just double the half-cent in vogue since 1951. Scott, the younger, said why. North Carolina's town^ and cities maintain approximately 10,000 miles of Streets and pay six-sevenths of the cost. Meantime, the state pays the bill 100 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, October 8, 1970 Thur MEDICINE MARTIN'S Watch This Guy Make The Goal! Making anangom(‘.nl.s fur a so cial iLmctiun of an> kind rcfiulrc.s work on detail and in detail. When it l.s dtaklod to make tne party a suiprise one for an hon- oree, tti<‘ job is infinitely more dilficuit m-ra As a r(\sult, Banker Josh Kin- nant and -Mrs. Hetty Vox, wife ot tile lionore**, arc each laying claim to b(MnK the city’s biggest liius — at lea.st tor a few day.s preceding Tui.’sday nixin. m-in Josh and Hetty were arranging tile .suiprise party for Bob’s award of the army’s meritorious service medal and they were auocessful. Mr.s. Cox had to be very mec.cii toils to keep the plans Incognito to the four children, who might have 'oeen expected to, unwitting ly, spill Ihe beans to Pop. tv*- m-m J.Mh had his problem.s, too, in swapping information on arrange ! menls with .Mrs. ('o.x, theiefore 1 would merely ask .Mrs. Jim Ly- ! brand, "Ring Jobs 70. I want to speak to Hetty. If Bob answers, I tell him you’ve got tlie WTong ! nu.-noer," Josh says Louise, about I the third time, began to look at him aska.nce m-m JO HOSPITAL LOG Issac S Arrington Wm. Banks Barter Mrs. Addle K. Beam r’rances Berryhill .‘ars. Wm. L. Blanton \trs. J. R. Davis Mrs, Edgar T. Dobbins Mrs. lii-la T. Euiy .Mrs. Mr.ry P. Farris Mrs Mamie M. Forsythe Mr. 'an,.l Mrs. Joseph R. Foster Mrs. Viok't F. Foster fohn A. Ilancoik .Mrs, Earl D. Kicks !ar.s. Lottie .M, Hodge -\u;'ustu.s T. Holder, .Sr. Mrs. Sidney D. Hil.^fstiMler Roland" Muss Mrs. Oltis O Jaekson Mrs. Homer A. Kilgore Mrs. Alice H. Leach Ml'S, Wm, W, Mosley Fames Jasper Oates, Jr. Mile.s .S, Roberts famus Rosetero Mrs. O-o. JI. Tarpley Mrs. (llenn V. Walker Mr.s Phyllis F. Watkins Mrs,' Joe A. Wray Mrs. Rotert Lee Wylie .Mrs. James \ATii1o, Jr. Mrs, Burllnk T. firoom (Mrs, Wm. E. Carver Mrs. Thomas B. Hill Oarmie Lee Hill Mrs. Harvey L. Littlejohn j Mrs, Alvenia Schuler Out-of-town due to illness ol his Mother over the weekend. Josh had told 'Bob to keep Tues day luivjh open as ho was ex pecting some state conservation and development tolk here. When they reached the country club, the business became sticky. Bob noticed a parked army vehicle and wondered what it was doing there, then answered his own question by gues.sin,g that Na tional Guard Sergeant Charles Wilson had gue.sts. Then Bob no ticed his Father’s car. Josh sug- ge.-.ted there might be some post al folk in town. It worked. Aa>'r\yiy ///coahtu^ Viewpoints of Other Editors m-m When B->b entered the closed- off nxjm, he looked about bewil- deredlj. and addressed his young est son Benjamin. "What’s going on here, boy?’’ Benjamin merely POLICE AND BEARDS As one might e.\pect, some Communist countries have not taken easily to the hairy age. The beardt-d and long-haired a- mong youth who traveled to Eu rope this summer have now re- tiuncd with varying tales. Bul garia has relented. Romania has TO WIN THE WETLANDS PRIDE CAN BE PROUD The salt and marshes and other | Like keys to the city, most pro coastal wetlands are the zone of damnations of special days to life where many fish and shelHish mark noncontroversial, ho-hum spuwn, where binds find suste nance, and where nature estab lishes its own defenses against the ravages of wind and wave. ADMITTED THURSDAY Mrs Emma L. Bowen ADMITTED FRIDAY VIi's. Robert E. Barrett Earnest L. Bowen. .“Sr. I^uter C. Corry Mrs. Anna K. Dilling Mrs Darvin Farris Wilburn V. C.ault Mrs, Theodore* A. Lockhart Mrs. Joe f'hillips Putnam Yugoslavia is freest ot all, hair- ! Money-minded men see these wise. I p.stuarme lands as a zone of pro- A year ago Bulgaria’s police of- fit. It Is here that land develop- ficers thought long hair and I ment schemes are spawned, 'that „„ir onnu beards a sure sign of Westeirn do- .sand-and-gravel merch;mts_dredge ‘ cadence. So they cut — on the street — hair and beards where- ever they seemed at all extreme. Tinned. Then Bob addres.sed U.- ™any travelers protested that, to maintain the tourist trade, the Bulgarian gendarmerie have desisted this year. 'But Romania is tougher. There, aceording to the New Leader, -the police at times administered on- 1 I the-spot tailoring, cutting, and Hetty vvas chatting! japping clothing styles — whether Col. George Cramm, "What’s go ing on here, Colonel?" The award presentation, picture taking and delicious lunch followed. with Major James W. Drake, a Tennessean who succeeded Boh in the advisor assignment ;ind asked about the major’s family of two girls and a boy. Army Sec.etary Stanley Re.sor had sigited the a- ward cdtation. I suggcs.cd to Ma jor Drake that he was considera bly behind "the boss" in tlie family bu.sinc.ss, .Mr. Res ir being the father of seven when he spoke here at the 196.T battle cek ora tion. oell bottoms or maxi ^irts — that .scorned far-fetched. But in Czecho slovakia, otherwise sad males cat} grow long hair and women can wear long skirts. -And Yugoslavia? It doesn’t have police hirsuteness. It has even permitted a production of the musical "Hair.” Is that being deviationist, revisionist, Trotsky- ite-Communist, or just downright free-thinking? Christian Science Monitor bay bottom lands tor salable fill, and gain new ones by granting that potiticians reward old friends exi'eptions, dredging permits, and rights of way. For a hundred years or more in Oils country, nature and its many dependents have .been steadily losing to the money makers. The winning themes have been that every good beach deserves Its occasions tend merely to please the sponsors and bore the general public. But (recently) .Mayor Wal ler E. Washington used the device to pay tribute to an organization that has seen more than enough unfair criiticism and malicious congressional attacks: Youth Pride. Inc. To recognize this black er- sary, the mayor proclaimed Si'pt. 13 “Y’outli Pride, Inc. Day" and has praised the project for deal ing with the problems of alien ated youths through programs in stead of rhetoric. The occasion deserve* notice by everyone, not because Pride keerps youths busy, or out of trouble, or because it keeps some neighbor- I hoods a lot cleaner than the city , does. Pride ha.s done all of these things, but its goals are .sot far ADMITTED SATURDAY Mrs. Clarence L. Fisher Willie Lee Fowler Fred Mi-Aboe ADMITTED SUNDAY | Grtbby Gone Mooiv Mr.s, Roger D Smitli Mrs. Bertram 11. Rota All'S. James Li. thcr Hester, Jr. Mr.s. Wm. Louis Crawford Mrs. Wm .Sidney Cash ADMnTE.b MONDAY Fonda Kendricks Mrs. Moma .Jean Wilkie Mrs. Glenn E. Pattei-son Mrs. Geo. Wayne LeRn,y Danry Worth John.son Cynttiia Jane Early Ravmortt .S. Barter ADMITTED TUESDAY Raymond D Sharpe Hortert R. Tindall Mrs. ,Fosse Ray Mass Mrs. Waltraud D. Frvin John H. Haskins Mrs. Ronald Gary Da\ is Mrs. Dixie P Byrd colony of cottages, every good , higher — and lUs successes to swamp deserves to be drained | date are far more impressive and and filled, every channel to be meaningful. dredged and scoured. Johnny. Plonk and Bob were | friends from childhood and Bob's | ■Mother told Johnny she used to do a lot of praying when they were much younger and not get ting hdme as early as she would preferred. Johnny, father of five, thanked her. replying, "I appre ciate it and do a good bit myself now. And we needed it.” Birth Announcements Political sidelight? Pr-haps. Two cents tax was a ' to the ex isting tax by the 1969 Gc ' Assembly and the increased tax is ler attack, particularly by the Republican candi dates for the Assembly. Needless to say the Scott boost to double the city share will provide effective repellent to the attackers. Roundly condemned for it.s multi headed tax increases, the General As sembly was right on the gas tax, unless motorists want to enjoy the pleasures of traffic jams on pig paths. I told Fred Wright, “Johnny ain’t kiddin’. Somebody ought to ask him wliy lie decided to be merchant rather tlian ' a Hell D.'Lver.” In days gone by, Johnny, Frank Summers and Lard Mc- Mackin became rather adept ail the thrce-car criss-cross game. m-m The four Cox children were en joying a normally un-.scheduled surcease from school and took a good deal of teasing from Schools Superintendent Hon Jones and Joe Lee Woodward, back in har ness as schools attendance offi- .•er, alrout staying in to make up the missed classes. One suggested that the teachers left sichool a- bout 3:45, but the Suircrintendenit said he would act as teacher. “1 never leave before 5 and some times later,” he declared with reriou.-; mien. m-m Others present include Tom Tate, and Jim Crocker of the ■Shelby office of the Employment Security commission and Leonard Smith, .superintendent of Sadie Mills, is working closely with Bob in the J.jbs 70 program which now has 32 student r-’ rolled. FT' . .. 1.1) m-m Daughter Hetty, admiring his uniform, had remarked to the Ma jor, "I wish my Daddy were back in service.” m-m But the highest compliment j Bob got all day, maybe any day, ! was from his namesake who told me, “I sure am glad I was nam«d 1 after my Daddy.” Alt', and Mrs. James S. Ken- drick.s, route 1, Gastonia,' an- nciuince the birth of a daughter, Thursday, October 1, Kings -Mountain hospital. .Mr. and Mrs Thomas Hill, 109 Hilltop Drive, "clover, S. C., ar; nounce the birth of a son, Thur sday, October 1, Kings Mountain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Stroupe, 109 Hilltop Drive, Clov er, S. C., announce the birth of a -i'aughter, Thursday, October 1, Kings Mountain hospital -Mr. and .Mrs. Richard K. Moore, route 2, Blalock Drive, announce the birth of a son, Fri- day, October 2, Kings Mountain hospital. .vir. and .Mrs Theodore A. Lockhart, 203 Cherokee street, Blacksburg, S. C., announce the birth of a daughter, Friday, Oc tober 2, Kings Mountain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Fisher, 309 lAoffin Lane, Gastonia, an- non,nee the birth of a son, Sattir- day, October 3, Kings Mountain hospital. -Mr. and Mrs. James Luther Hester, route 1, York, S. C., an nounce the birth of a son, Sim- 'ay, October 4, Kittlgis Mountain hospital. .Mr. and .Mrs. Clyde T. Lawson, lte3 Fii'st street, announce the '>irth of a daughter, Saturday, October 3, Kings Mountain hospi- tal .Mr. and .Mrs. Roger Dell Smith, 205 West Trade street, Dallas, announce the birth of a daughter, Sunday, October 4, Kings Moun tain hospital. Mr. and .Mrs. John WillianA Sessions. 407 York road, an nounce the birth of a .son, Satur- ■’ay. O.’tober 3, Kings Mountain hospital. Air. and .Mrs. (Oeorge W. Le- Roy, 6(.)5 .McConnell street, Clov er, S. C., announce the birth of a daivighter, .Monday, October 5, Kings .Mountain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Oany Da vis, route I, Bessemer City, an- i.ounoe the birUi of a dat^ter. Only recently have those who recognize the vital importance of the wetlands begun to fight back effectively. Those forces have won a major victory Oils week in New Jersey, where the Assembly has appiroved the nation’s strong est law ptotecting its coastal zone. The bill now awaiting Governor Cahil'l’s signature gives the state’s Commissioner of Environmental Protection jurisdiction over any wetland one foot above mean high tide. The Commissioner would have authority to regulate and. where nece.ssary, forbid any activities which eJtered the nat ural character of these lands. Mrs. Cline's Rites Conducted The struggle to save the estua rine zone goes on in every coast al state. 'Massachusetts and Con necticut have acted, but the Con- necticiit law has not gone fully Into effect 'because of a legal rul ing that the staite had first to compile a complete map and in ventory of the coastal area. Sev eral spirited local struggles have been waged between conservation ists and developers over particu lar site.s whose fate is in doubt I'cnding the full effectiveness of the law. 'Much ha.s been made of the oc casional youth in a Pride pro gram who has run afoul of the law, but the organization’s thro<>- year record shows that this kind of young dude is far outnumbered by those who have managed to convert their rough pasts into promising futures in business. As Pride director Marion Barry Is quick to note, the youth pro jects make up the labor pool for Pride Economic Enterprises, Inc., the- organization’s black business arm — which now operates five gas stations, a landscaping and gardening business and a paint ing and maintenance service — and which .since February has oivnod and operated (and vastly Improved a 55-unit apartment complex in the 2800 block of Shep- ley Terrace SE. Mr. Barry realizes that all of this activity is but a dent in Washington’s h-ard-coro un-employment problem. Washington Post Airs. Violet Austell Cline, -tS, of route tl. Siielby, wiP* djf John Cline, died .Saturday nigirt in the Clovclanrl Alcmorktl hospital af ter several month’s illness. Death was atti'il>uted to cancer. New York’s wetlands are chiefly in Na.ssau and Suffolk Counties. Under sitate law, they are con trolled by the towns although a town may, if it wishc.s, transfer responsibility for its wetlands to the state. Few have done so. The record of the Long Island towns with regard to their wetlands is spotty. ’Tbe next Legislature would (to well to study the New Jersey statute and strengthen this state’s proteetton. Time is running out on the biological clock. New York Times 'Toe yc.ar 19GS domonstrated a- gain tl.at Western Electric is not insulated from nationrl economic trends by virtue of its position in the Bell System Funeral rites were held Alon- day at -1 p.m. from Elizateth Baptist churcii of which she was •a memter. PlCV. James Stamey and Rev. Cline Borders officiated at tlie final rites and interment was in tlie ctiiLjn'h c«*metery. ’Mrs. Cline was daughter of the late .Mr. and Mrs. Forrest .Aus tell (Vf Slielby. In addition to her husband site is survived by four daughters, Airs Toby Thrift of Shelby, Mrs. Dennis Goiforth of Manhattan, Kansas, Miss Sue Cline and Mis-s Johnnie Cline of the liome; four troHicrs, Lowery Austell of Shel by, Heyward Austell <jS Chicago, 111., T. Al. Austell of Henderson ville and Joe Austell oC Shelby: four sisters, Mrs. L II. Harrlll. Mrs. Ilayne Patteison, Mrs. Lutz and Airs. A. IB. Blanton, of Shelby; and one granddauglr ter. AND IT DOESN'T For many years the U. S. Post Office Department painted its mail boxes a drab green, and the mail moved poorly. Then the boxes were painted red, white and blue, but this dii.tn’t speed up the mail. Now the boxes are being repainted all blue, but, thus far, lliis innovation has not improved sluggish mall service. In foot, about the only thing the Post Office accomplished by all this painting and lepalnting was to gi-ve new meaning to an old Army and Wavy alogan; ’’If It TYiesday, October 6, Kings Moun- I doesn't mo\e, paint it.” tain hoapital. \ —N^wsday Keep Youi Radio IMal Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. Ne'ws & Weather every hour ou the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in bet'ween In li