Established 1889 M- The Kings Mountain Heiald 206 South Piedmont Ave. Kings Mountain, N. C 28086 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion otf the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, cntertalnmnt and Itenefit of the oitlzens of Kings Mountain and its vieinlty, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House- Entered as seeond class matter at tire post oififice at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28090 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publishw Miss Elizabeth Stewtirt fhrculatlon Manager and Society BdlUir Miss Debbie* Tiiornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper Frank Ed\vard.s *Rocky Martin Chad Ledford MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT -Mien Myers Rog(‘r Brown * On Leavi* With The United States Army Paul Jackson Ray Parker Joel Ughtsey -M-AH, SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYAIBLE LN ADVANCE In North Carolina and South Carolina One year $4; si-x months $2.25; threr* months $1.50; school year $3. '(Subscription in North Carolina .sul)ji*ct to three percent sales tax.) In All Other States One ye;u $5; .six montlis $3; three month.s $1.75; school year $3.7.5. PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-S441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE It in a goijil thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, 0 most High. Psalm 91:1 Students Work And Attend School A Time To Lough Like Grandpa and Dad many of to day’s students must work to go to school. But assistance is being offered these students in an on-the-job training program enacted by the U. S. Congress in the Vocational Education Amend ments of 1968. The Amendments provide financial assistance through part-time employment to students in nee(3 of earn ings to begin or continue vocational programs. Joel Wells, editor of “Critic” maga zine suggested recently that Americans are in danger of losing their ability to think clearly and positively unless they regain their sense of humor. Mr. Wells said humor is losing out to computers, to forms, to charge cards and traffic jams, to hatred, bigotry, and commer cialism to rampant technology and frightening change. He insisted that hu mor was especially needed in times of unnerving tensions. According to Dr. Charles Law, Di rector of the Division of Occupational Education with the State education a- gency, the Vocational Education Amend ments emphasize throe main aspects of vocational programs. One aspect of the Amendments provides funds for ex panding on-the-job training related to a student’s cour.se of study. Money i.s also appropriated for developing new programs of cooperative education, 17 of which began this year in North Caro lina. A third emphasis, the work-study program, is being implemented in all 152 school systems in the State, said Law. We would with Mr. Wells. agree w’^oleheartedly Abraham Lincoln is said to have re marked one time that he would surely die If he could not laugh. Funds under the work-study aspect of the program are used to compensate students employtxl and to develop and administer the program. A student may work a maximum of 15 hours per week while enrolled in a vocational program, but employment is limited to public, non-profit establishments under this part of the program, added Law. Once upon a time visitors to this country were envious of American friendliness, optimism, generosity and good humor. Today we have long, gray faces with deep frowns and turned- down mouths which sneer at the slight est provacation. Laughter reminds us that we are human and humor can make an intoler able place much better for everyone. “What is funny about us”, theolo gian Reinhold Niebuhr once observed, “is we take ourselves too seriously.” MUCH TO DO IN THE USr MOVEMfNT Viewpoints of Other Editors THE VIRTUES OF CONFUSION A Superstition Allotment of funds to local school systems for the work-study program is based on the percentage of the 15-21- year-old population, the number of drop outs, the rate of unemployment, and the median income of the area. Each lo cal unit must match 20% of the funds to the federal government's 80%. The total allocation for Cleveland County is $864, for Kings Mountain for 1970-71 is $351 for Shelby for 1970-71 is $307 as compared to the State total of $93,633, a minimum of the total cost of the pro gram. Many folk have superstitions of one kind or another. If a black cat walks across one’s path he can expect dire happenings. An other does not walk under a ladder. Two people must not “split a pole”, each pass ing the pole on the same side. A base ball player on a hitting streak must not change bats, may not wash his sweat shirt. And how many fear Friday the Thirteenth? 'The Herald admits to none of these, but to another. When traffic safety ratings are com piled, the Herald fears for the future for those “safest” cities. Perhaps the super stition is unfounded, as the others seem to be. But, somehow. It seems to be flirt ing with destiny to brag on fate. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By MARTIN HARMON A."! the 1971 General Assembly convenes next week at noon on January 13, the members will be sworn to serve the state for the 129th time. Lieutenant-Governor Pat Taylor will convene the Sen ate, Secretary of State That! Eure, the House of Representatives. j Then-Senator Robert Morgan oi ! Cleveland was a member of t!io j commission which built this hand- I some structure. Those unhappy j with the cost promptly labeled it ' the "Teahouse of the August I Moon", after a movie of the same i name, and it dot's, indeed, iden tify with the proclivities of the I architect, Edward Durell Stone, who has provided other handsome “teahouses” throughout the na tion. m-m This and other helpful infor mation comes from Mr. Eure, who has been Seert'tary of State about as long as I can remember mat ters political, in a "Facts Mem orandum” on the upcoming Gen eral Assembly. m-m Some of the facts are rather re vealing, among them that the "Women’s Liberation” movement didn’t “take” too well in North Carolina General Assembly poll tics. Only two women will bo a mong the 170 members of the Assembly, both in the 120-mem ber House. (Divided equally, this should assure each plenty of male attention.) Did the ladyfolk get defeated, or were they not Interested in this type of women’s liberation? Record for lady mem bers was six in 19C5. m-m It will -be the fifth regular ses sion In the beautiful legislative building which accommodated first the 1963 session during the Terry Sanford administration m-m Senator Claude Currie, of Dur ham, 80, is both the oldest mem ber of the body, oldest in -point of tenure, beginning his 14th term. Charlotte’s Jim Vogler is beginning his 14th term in the House, but, on the age point, bows to fellow Mecklenburger Ernest L Hicks, who, at 78, is the House’s eldest member. m-m Babies of the Assembly will be Senator Phillip J. Kirk, Jr., of Rowan, 26, and Representative Charles H. Taylor, 29, of Transyl- m-m The 1933 session is the record- holder for processing and enact ing most bills: 2456 introduced, 1470 made law. This session con vened before the first inaugura tion of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and is known as the "sales tax” assembly. It was the Assembly which wound up the "Great Depression.” It was the 1935 session that considered the state’s .role in implementing state-federal programs spawned by FDR. Promise was the sales tax was a temporary one and it was a major issue in the heated Hoey-MacDonald Democratic mri- mary of 1936. But as early as 1940, the last major attack on the sales fa.x was a muted one. Winner J. Melville Broughton promlscKl to get the sales tax oft the home ta ble. Ho won and delivered, whip ping the General Assembly into line by dangling appointment carrots until the Broughlon plank became law. m-m But the 1969 s< )n was the longest, totaling 1 legislative days and 169 caleiu,.i. days. m-m Of particular interest to news paper and other communications folk, as well as to constituents, are the duplicated surnames a- mong the lawmakers. Proper identification is of interest to lawmakers, too. Whether ever or never (and 1 have not inquired) Senator Morgan of Harnett em barrassed Senator Morgan of Cleveland, or vice versa, with their respective homefolk, or ditto Senator White of Lenoir and Sen ator White of Cleveland. mm There’ll be no problem in the Senate this session as there are no duplicate surname-s. But there are seven duos In the House; Brown, Farmer, Jernlgan, Ram sey, Rountree, and Johnston. To add to the Johnston problem is Representative Johnson of Cabar rus. The Smith name in this body is a trio—from Guilford, Iredell and Orange. mm This General Assembly may operate under two Constitutions. It will be sworn under the old Constitution of 1868. II it stays in session after June 30, it will op orate under the new Constitution adopted by the voters on Novem ber 3, and effective on July 1, 1971. There seems at least a chartce that Congress will make such a mess of the pending trade legis lation that nothing at all will emorge. In that case, confusion surely will -have its virtues. President Nixon of course bears initial responsibility for the measure. While campaigning for office in 1968 he portrayed him self as a devoted friend of freer trade—except. Except for tex tiles, which he somehow conclud ed must be covered by manda tory .import quotas unless Japan would agree to “voluntary” curbs. Well, in the inflated economy of -the past couple of years tex tiles are far from the hot brea'th of Import competition. And why worry about fightinat competition if you can get the Glwernment to curb it for you? i The Japanese pl4y their own toles In the sorry tale.TW a long time tJiey have st'cmeC to think that freer trade was fine for ov eryone but them, and only in tlie I BRAKING THE FREEWAY I A lot of people have assumed that the battle between the free ways and the rapid transit sys tems had -boon won—by mass transit. But eve/ now and then, in the city which was once en visioned as tlte transport pace setter — Wasliington, D. C. — Congress fails to note the public temper, and balks. Just lately, Congress has de layed again in appre^riating some of the money it has pledged as part of the "interstate compact” to build a subway, embracing the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. This is no way to run a railroad, or finance a sub way! Freew'ays generally are run ning into increasing public oppo sition. They bring noise and pol lution to every neighborhood they cross. And they destroy homes— often poor folks’ homes. Right now, acfording t« yie federal highway admini^rafion, local citizen cypposition 'Is blocking a- bout $4 billion worth of supet- highways — 100 miles in 12 ur- THE PRESIDENT AND MISS SWEET We wish that President Nixon and Debra Jean Sweet had had the time to sit down and chat with eadi other for an hour. Each had many important things to say to the other. Each could have learned much from the other. past year or two have they begun ' ban areas. The Supreme Court to lower barriers to their own will liear arguments on a case markets. When Japanese an 1 U. ,.,ri.sing in Memphis on January S. negotiatoi's failed to agree on n. voluntary quotas, Japan’s entre ....... . . , The United States' remarkable trade attitude made rt easier ti! nirw Interstate Highway System backing whip up Congressional for mandatory curbs. So the scene shifts to the Hoasi encompasses 31,000 miles, built since 1956. Another 11,000 miles Is in the planning or building Ways and Means Committee, stage. Tlie total cost — a hefty ilinmnn Wilnii.t* Vlilltj ^ . .. where Chairman Wilbur Mills gn and the members labored Ion billion. So long as these stretched through . great roads Md hard to produce a bill. Some ^ rural areas, opposition was negli- 70 irtd'ustnes, in addition to tex-; gible. But in its latest phase the tiles, were pleading for manda- highway tory quotas, and it was perhaps an achievement of sorts that M., Mills and his colleagues added only shoes to textile^ The achievement hardly without its flaws, however. Al though Mr. MiUs held oft those quota-hungry industries, he did give them I consolation prize: If a certain category of impolrts reached a ^lecified level, Mr. Nixon would have to restrict them — unJ(*ss he decided such curbs were not in the national interest The pressure that would bear on the President in such a system is cutting through cities and suburbs. Citi zen reiolts have flared in San Francisco, New York, iBoiston, Washington, Cleveland, Hartford, Baltimore, and elsewhere. Surely it is time, then, to heed the public concern ahead of the highway lobby. And to continue transferring the federal emphasis from the freeways to the develop ment of efficient, modern mass transit systems. It might even be a very smart idea to allow the Highway Trust Fund (fed by oil, gasoline, and tire taxes) to be tapped to help finance subways awesome to con- and other public transit systems ■ To be sure, most subway sys- And that’s nc/- all. The oil in dustry ds tirea' of fighting the bat tle to prjsbrve "Its import quotas, which have helped to inflate do rr, Stic prices, so it got the Ways and Means Committee to specify that the quota system can’t be dropped or traded for a tariff set up. The House went along with all of this, but over on the other side of the Capitol even stranger things were haK»cn'ing in tin* Senate Finance Committee. If you’re worried that a bill may not pass, what do you do abemt it? Well, if you’re a U. S. Congressman you tie the bill to a measure that no legislator with an interest in his own political survival can lightly vote agairust. So the Finance Comimittee tied its version of the quota bill to toms now are losing money. But most of them arc also antiquat- el, inefficient, and don’t run where the population has gone. It is time to change the prior* * When Miss Sweet told the President, at a White House a- ward ceremony, that she found it hard to believe in his sincerity until he had gotten America out of Vietnam, site was doubtless saying what large numbers of young Almerlcans feel. The fact that youth, with its wonderful idealism, often underestimates the complexity and difficulty of great national and international moves, only made it to the more desirable that she, as a kind of unofficial spdtesman for youth ful feeling, receive a fieart-to- 4ieart explanation from the Presi dent. On his side President Nixon, like any other older IndividuaT, needs to know better what Is burning close to the heart of America’s magnificent youth. These columns' T55ve supported and continue to support Pr^idenl Nixon’s phast'd withdrawal from Vietnam as the best compromise in an inconceivably difficult sit uation. But we do feel tflat no opjKM-tunity should be lost to ex plain this course to the many who doubt its wisdom and accept ability. A heortside chat between a president carrying the burden of the world and a young woman carrying the burden of youth could have served this end. Christian Science Monitor PLAIN AND SIMPLE FOOD FOR THOUGHT | law. Not all of the changes are to the good, however. The Finance Committee aLso voted to keep the so-caUed American Selling Price .system, under which duties on some products are based on prices of American goods—not the prices ach, 402 N. Grov er St, Gastonia Mrs. Virginia W. Bell, Rt. 3, City Burnia Bnx)k.s, 911 Brookwood Dr., City Mrs. Jack A. Day, 2508 E. Spen--’ cer St., G:i.stonia Mrs. Pearl T. KIslicr. S09 1st '■ ■ St., City / J ■Mrs. Lexie L. Horton, .305 Wil-i' son Terraco, City Fred Thornburg, (iOl W. King St., City Hebert Tindall. 301 Fulton Dr.,^ City ADMITTED SUNDAY Mrs. Yates P. Mosc-s, P.O. Bq 171, Bc.semer City Mr.s. Edgar W. Tucker, HU Owens St., City Mrs. Jas. Bon Hord, .527 Katherjj ine Ave., City Mrs. Jennie S. Yelton, 210 Carpenter St., City Geo. Moore, Rt. 2, Box 253, City Mrs. Margaret L. Collins. 12 W. Gold St., ext.. City Robt. W’. Hurlbut, 707 W. Golijj St., City Mrs. Ollie Exerett, 966 S. Hove; St., Los Angeles, Calif. ■riiomas K. Green, 5180 Mid^ pines. City m Mrs. Lenora Jackson, f)02 Bridg* PS Dr., City Y Gene Slincftc, Rt. 2, Bes.s(*imer City Robt. S. Stone, 318 S. Rhyne St... Ga.stonia ADMITTED MONDAY Mrs. Samuel Woolen, Rt. 2 Bo.s- semer City Jack R. Mcrcicr, 902 Monroe, Ave., City Carl M. .McGinnis, Rt. 2 Box 388. City / ■"* M. H. Comer, Rt. 1, Hicknri^fi HER] ioi I Howi DURl ^ freshm ^ back ii long C Jack S putting ft streak B^ Foi Grove, S. C. David Fails, Rt, 3 Box 4,38, Cil.y Mrs. Robt. Bowen, Rt. 1, Box, 20.5. Grover Mrs, Lawrence Styers, 214 S. Gaston St., City -Mrs. Dan J. Sipe, 7 Wray St., York, S. C. Frank E. Heath, 108 Ridge St., City J. W. Gantt, Sr., Rt. 6 Box &5,’ Shelby Mrs. Bob Sellers, Ri. 2 Box 87,3, Be.ssemcr City .Mrs. Dex'ere R. Smith, 701 Mar ion St., City admitted' TUESDAY Mrs. Earnest Foxx, Rt. 4, Gas- Ionia Geo. E. Wilson, Rt. 1 Box 312, Grover Mr.s. Mary C. Clcmmer, P.O Box .383, City Geo. B. Borders, Jr., Rt. 1 Box .396, City L. C. Baker, .5100 Parkdale Cir City Mrs. Coley D. Freeman, Rt. I Box 81, City ’ Donald E. Stone, Rt. 1 BlaTocfc Dr., City eai The the no Wedne I'St fro: Dwyer. Fridi travel North rematc earlier iCarolir ■pt fo been 1< A we frosh V ester ! the N. ered b top fre Stab my Bi Steve was u Christi w Fo LUTHERAN SERVICE Sacrament of Holy- Commun ion will be observed Sunday morning at 11 o’clock at St. Matthew’s Lutheran church. Rev. Charles Easley will u.se the .sermon topic, “.Sixitlight On Yoiilh.” DUI rTurni the or baskei would HOSPITALIZED Fred Thornburg, city fireman ■and Foote Mineral Company employee, is a patient in the Kings Mountain ho.'!pit:tI wheiro he was admitted Saturday night for treatment of pneu monia. Keep Yonr Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather every hour oi* the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between Alth won they h to tur; aging theilr posted month “Wc many rs. “1 ully i we ca tors V games Tun poor ! Devils excel! play i Dul lent .809 { team 257 fi as on T3ic shooti .728 I avera to th< “W( our p turna times ally J stop c Sen headi I 22.4 s rebou 6-10 I with from Rlc forwa next