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Orflr+»"<Vir> C:~, fage.2 THE Iflt^GS MOUNTAJN HERALD, KINGS, MOUNT^N. N* C-. Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald King* Mountain, N. C. 28088 206 South Piedmont Ave. A weekly newspaper devcied to llie promotion of the gentval welfare and published for the enlightenment, entortainmnt and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as sci.ond class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 2B086 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher ML<h Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Mus Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper Frank Elwartis 'Rodey Martin Chad Ledford MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Allen Myers Roger Brown • On Leave With The United States Army Paul Jackson Ray Parker Joel Ughtsey M.UL SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYAiBLE LN ADVANCE In North Corolim and South Carolino One year $4; six months $2.25;' three months $1.50; seshool year $3. (Subscription In North Carolina subject to three percent sales tax.) In All Other States One year $5; six month.s $3; three months $1.75; .sciiool year $3.75. PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE //oac mui^h more abominable and filthy is man, uho drinketh iniquit like teaterf Job 15:16. Complementary When the president of Alcan Alum inum Company, here for the opening of Alcan's Kings Mountain plant in Decem ber 1967, was asked the reason his com pany decided to locate in Kings Moun tain, he replied that Kings Mountain was within a one hundred mile radius of a great host of trailer and mobile home builders. The number surprised those who heard him say it. They were further surprised at his projections for the future fcir employ ment of mobile homes, including the ra ther non-mobile large homes of this type in the near and long-term future. Bob DcRose, president of the firm bearing his name and soon to be anoth er industrial citizen of Kings Mountain, provided more of the same in process of announcing formally Monday that his firm, 14th largest in the industry, will build its sixth plant here. The location of DeRose Industries, Inc., in Kings Mountain shows industry complements itself and each other. De- Rose can buy plyboard siding from Evans Products Company and mobile home furniture from Kinder. Manufac turing Company, immediate neighbors. DeRose will have to cross the railroad to pick up its exterior aluminum siding and roofing from Alcan Aluminum Com pany on Childers street. President DcRose himself is a mem ber of the National Mobile Home Build ers Association board of directors and chairman of the association’s land de velopment committee. He provided some interesting information in this direction, "rhe mobile home building industry is seeking legislation at state levels to pro vide basic regulations for trailer residen tial area development that, as Mr. De Rose put it, will make the so-called trailer park quite as desirable as any conventional residential development. It is superfluous to add that the whole of Kings Mountain welcomes this new industry, which in addition to its projected employment and annual payroll, adds diversification to Kings Mountain’s industrial complex. It is also gratifying to get the re port of the manager of Alcan, the new industrial citizen of three years ago. Asked if Alcan is happy with its Kings Mountain operation. Bob Kingery re plied, “Oh, yes." Bonk Taxes Many years ago, a friend proffered the advice that there are two persons in every community which one must get along with: his doctor and his banker. At the risk of stepping our banker friends’ toes, but in light of the confu sion in the State’s commission studying the matter, it must be said that there seems little reason why the banking community shouldn't be taxed rather much like other businesses. Like Representative Clarence Lea- therman, of Lincoln, the Herald is quick to confess to confusion and lack of knowledge. But every other outfit pays taxes on personal property, such as computers and bookkeeping machines. Why not banks? While 1970 reports are not yet out, it is also recalled that First Union Na tional Bank’s profits in 1969 were up 21 percent over 1968. North Carolina Na tional Bank reported an increase of 27 percent. Information Is Invited and will b* appreciated. Annual Sessions, Etc. “Rauch To Introduce Annual Bill’’, the Shelby Daily Star headlined news story from Raleigh. ' In light of the story coitent, the headline provided a tickle. It concerned Senator Marshall Rauch’s statement he had introduced for the third time a bill providing an nual sessions of the North Carolina Gen eral Assembly. Senator Rauch’s third bill would provide for a 90-day limit on the annual f sessions, whereas the historical biennial r gatherings employed can go on, and on, ^ and on until weariness dictates sine die ' adjournment. i As mentioned in the Herald before, there is a measure of logic in the Rauch effort (supported, incidentally in the House by Representative W. K. Mau- ney, Jr., of Kings Mountain). The prin cipal merit is the fact of an ever-increas ing state budget which is quite natural in a growing state — even more partic ularly one of the few, like North Caro lina, where the state government sup plies a great number of services. Cleve land countians and North Carolina neighbors throughout the state would be hard to convince that their local level tax bills (city, district, county) are now, for these dollars, like ail tax dollars, come out of the jeans hard. But a sam ple of the local level tax bills in vast majority of other states would make us Tar Heels pop our eyeballs and fall over in severe faints. The state picks up the bulk of the bills for roads, schools, pub lic welfare and other programs. There is, however, another side to the coin. Biennial sessions cannot help but contribute to the fact that North Carolina, all tax bills considered, is by comparison a low tax state. The Constitution of North Carolina requires a balanced budget. Thus, on a two-year basis, the governor, advisory budget commission, and legislators must be conservative in their income estimates. As the Tar Heel economy has grown, it has become normal for the state to tote up a budget surplus. ’Tain’t bad. Inept, Rather County Commissioner Fritz More- head takes it upon himself to apologize to the Kings Mountain board of educa tion and Kings Mountain school district patrons for the “fire trap” label on Grov er school as applied by Fire Marshal Delane Davis and County Building In spector Warren Warlick to the county commission on Monday. The commission members were “cold ” — priorly uninformed and taking the report at face value. Face value was bad wrong. Board member James E. Herndon, Jr., said Wednesday that the board of education was informed of deficiencies in October, asked for sufficient stay of judgment to implement the needed im provements, and was offered six months. “Ninety days will be rifficient,” the Kings Mountain board informed the fire marshal. In fact, only 40 days were required to implement all but one of the recom mendations, and the so-called “panic” doors are on order. For the uneducated, as this newspaper was, a “panic” door is equipped with an emergency bar which makes the door openable from the inside at any and all times. These officials, Mr. Herndon and Superintendent Don Jones charge, were aware that the recommendations — re quirements had been implemented, and that County Manager Melvin Holmes knew that fact, too. Yet Mr. Holmes sat mute. Inept, timorous, skullduggerous? Commissioner Morehead, when he learned of tiie facts, was angry. It ia safe wager that the other four commis sioners are angry, too. MARTIN'S MEDICINE ThurMl«fi | Thursd By MARTIN HARMON Who Said Nobody Cai^s? r ' “Why not?” I asked. “You know the area and that’s what they want. They can have the Southern Railway in their back door and be within two blocks of 1-85.” Harold replied, “No water.” I remonstrated, “Huw much wat er do they want?” The reply was service water for 100 employees. “No water at all,” I argued. ‘(Dig a well,” The Joker; gotta have sprinklers, and standpipes and pwtipe cost money. In September 1967, Joe Smith at Kings Mountain Savings A Loan Association, spotted me at First Citizens IBank & Trust Company, wagged his finger and said, “Come on.” It dweloped that a new indus try prospect was here to look Kings -Mountain over, the Mayor and fits Indu-sfrial Coimmittt>e Co- Chairmen Josh Hlnnant and Ol- He Harris were all out-of-town, and Joe had been pre.ssed Into service to show the vlsJtors about for possible site looationa Joe said, “I’ve only been here nine months and I don’t know why they called on me,” The visitors were accompanied by Harold Love, former manager of St^ar.s R<x*buck in Shelby, but then as now) on the Industry- seeking staff of the Department of Conservation and Develop ment. We were informed that the visitors needed an approximate tract of ten acres, required a rail siding, and close access to Inter state 83 Vy First port of call was at J. E. Herndon Company. The Herndon brothers were home, pointed to a ten-acre tract, told the visitors the tract was available and for how much. Then Jim Herndon said, "There’s your adjacent rail siding. It won’t cost you any thing.” Next stop was the proper ty now occupied by K.\0 Camps. All the information was dutifully logged. “Now," I said to Harold, “let’s take the.se fellows down to Ai«:h- dale." But Harold declined. Viewpoints EditaiB THE SPIRIT IN MAN They didn't look at Archdale and they didn’t come her<?. either. It was a large mobile home build “There is a spirit In man: and the insfpiratlon of the Almighty giveth them understanding.” (Job 32:8) The resilience of this spirit ds illustrated once aagin in well- authenticated reports of a revival of religious infl^^cnoe In the Sov iet Union. Significantly, the re vival is sold to be particularly marked among the youngpr gen eration. In a recent dispatoh to this newspaper, Soviet affairs expert Paul Wohl quotes a writer of re ligious underground literature in the Soviet Union as saying that young people, concerned with the meaning of life, have been stirred and quickened by religion as never before. I In this group, the breaktbropgh to religion, when it oocut#^ of ! extraordinary Intensity aiijQ||w. j er, the writer says. I (Revival of religion among the I young baffles and troubles the Kremlin, and religious repression I is again in evidence. But the re pression is more-subtle than the liarsh measures used by totmet er home-bused in Elkhart, Ind., ^ Premier Nikita Khrushchev In the which located at Harrisburg, NIC 49 north of Charlotte Such is the way of Industry- location work. But considering the arrival here of Alcan Aluminum Company, Kinder Manufacturing (Company, and Evans Products Company, all atyunctive to the mobile home-building Industry, it was merely a question of time until a mobile home builder put two-and-two together, got four, and located here. Monday was the day it ibecame official that De Rose Industries will locate here to build a projected 2000 units per year within 24 months, in>Bi As a rather green Chamber of Commerce secretary, I got my first taste of industry hunting on the big army depot which we sought for Albemarle but which went to the late Clarence Kuest- er’s Charlotte. The pattern 'is the same, though perhaps a bit more refined. Sites were Investigated, assets, utilities, rail and highway facilities, etc.) listed. But even with the help of the late Repre- ■sentative Robert L. (Muley) Doughton chairman of the House Ways and Means committee, our efforts failed. WlthaJ it was quite good experience. It is almost axiomatic in the industry-hunting fraternity that the industry "sure to come” goes somewhere else and the one on which “we don’t have a chance” comes after all. Here Kinder Is a case In point. The Kinder people liked the city, the area, the peo ple. He was a litUe bit suspicious of neighboring South Carolina where It is legal to give a new industry ten year's free property taxes and whtoh Kinder had been offered. last years of his rule. It is direct- ed, not against the onoe official church or established minority churches, but against believers vvho refuse to come to terms with the estM>lislunent and seek spir itual freedom In und^round worship. These conclusions axe also borne out in a study made by a London-(based research organiza tion, known as the “Minority Rights Group.” "nie study, which reviews the state of religion in the Soviet Union over the past decade, reiports: “The churches are, despite all obstacles, being regenerated In many ways.” PERISH THE THOUGHT Oh to be In ‘Ei^laad, now a famous Fteivah doilgner tacked traditional ntelg aj&ire there. AiiS U Yves Saint-Lawent can raise ha^xt; with Women’s hemlines, ipoagine the devasta tion in store for the complete British gentleman. And devastation it is, enovigh to ruck the tSube In London to their very conservative core. FV* nothing Is s*tred with Monsieur Saint-Laurent The bowler has |a>t to go, he decreed as he openad his new store. 'Ihe pin-etr^FUd trousers, the unobtrvsive-loolctng briefcase—theyVe had it, too. Dh to get a chance to listen to the fuming going on. And rather titan be stuffy a- bout it, let's admit that Ameilean men might react almUerly, tea For the Paris dIoUMs rrvaiutkmist would have all their Important documents In a shoulder beg. And the ‘iadult” male would wmt fancy knickers, sun-flower coi- broiderdd veets and a maxi oo«t made of brown Chinese lamb fur. Well, sotme at the mod type* most likrdy wUl a»oept ttie new fashions. And. «ctusi])r^ they aren’t quite so daring as they would have seemed a deaedeA- go before the dresyUberatiim movement began. But to bAfllah the bowler, that magnlfioent sjnn- 'bol of what a Britiah gentleman ought to be? Perloh the (bought! Bostfsrd Ceuitet It notes that Soviet authorities have often ihad to call off direct repressive action, not because of any basic policy change, but be cause harsh methods were found to be counterproductive. The study group states that one reason lor religious revival is that Soviet citizens now are more aware of the contradiction be tween the guarantee of freedom of worship contained in Sovlot law and the denial of it in prac tice by -the aitheistiic Communist regime. *lt is unquestionable that Sov iet people are becoming more a- ware of the rights they possess, which may mean there will be less Illegal discrimination a- gainst believers in housing and at work In the future,” the re port says. Indeed, the spirit in man and hts Intuitive faith in a supreme power controlling the universe axe again jrovlng to be unquench able. Not even the harshest dte- tatorahlp can daunt this spirit or 'ceep it torevex Mppreraed. CbrlsUoa BdMMs Moaitar LUNCH-HOUR DOLDRUMS * ' ■' • . .. ul Calate. I . jliil L. MoGill’s story Involv- i^ng Sam Suber. It was before Mr. sutler’s retirement as cemetory superintendent and he was try ing to get John to buy a plot. On the third turn-down, Sam cheug- ed John In typical Suber phras ing with being too tight to buy a plot. John replied, “Sam I may be tight about some matters, but this Isn’t <»ie of them. I’m just plainly not Intereetsd la your kind of real oMkate.” With all the thinking going the Issues ot urban refomw- .. Highways versus neighborhood integrity, bringing jcAis back into the city, keeping green epacee, providing child-care centers and basketball courts, of police pro tection and firemen's salaried— we wonder why a little more thought Isn't given the basic need for better eating places. Lunch hour In the heart of Bos ton, as in other cities, offers lit tle respite. Most of the handy eat ing places are crowded, and the fare not only usually . .but so dull! noutthe, unfnapix- ad. Mostly thrawn esgseiisr sut IN MEMORIAM to tte Christian sympwUv ie evtpaded to the W. K. .Vtouaey the death of Mr. Mauney. Bven though Mr. Mauney wm t active mexitoer qt ttto Mountain Ejiwaols dtub time o( death w let this Usup of SUBfi IPfew whbbut betog tji»t he wga tostrume organization and our olUb. Mr. (Matuiey was qpe toe ohartex Tnorabeif of -the qhto when It WM (toaxbwed ^wbh t, 1910. He was one of we oiriglnal directors and served ga pneildettt of the club In 1913. Hie Ctorlsthin examglle and leadership ability led In the 1h» gress <4 KtoEs Mouhttto In Ito cdvte. Industrial and rtdiglaua growth. We as lUwanlana and eltlmia at Kings Mountain aie Indeed tg. debted to W. X. llwmey. 8r. for the example he lived. (JemaaryTth sdlllMi at Uty King* BObate Msanrlh) BERLIN TIES In the MoMow and Waiaaw treaties, toe (Wes* German) fed eral government reoogniaad the realities which have been creat ed In the East. Notw It la qp to Moaeow and Btat Berlin to ao- cept oon traotually the leaUtlsa extoung to Waet Berlin.. This means to daslM iMUt fw effort still bslng made to gwhl. low up West Berlin UuuuifH gw concept of Its being nan tnd* pendent poHhnal entity.” WMt Berlin Uvea from Its ties with the Federal RepdbUc. Hie sooner thle is accepted contractually by the East, the leas necessity toete will be tor the Federal BepiibUc to foeter the federal presence to West Berlin more vl^ly than, say, in Ram* burg or (Munich. The StaMgenl (W. OenBony) Hoehrialitao of prepackaged Bxtaga ii ajHiopItlf ghnfldfi to '<hr' it up. A MATTSB OF NAIfES British accsatrfrttles and wtoim- slcatltlsa often auiface In the Jet- g i^polpmna at ‘the Tlines of ton- n, SM wt 4Hi$ht in Talte, tor tomnee. ttyb {Mijme of John W, Leaver, jgif HQlaUp, MkkUcsex. iBe keeps a ttiUr ed aU (he naatoa ' given (felMren vMWM hirUi_^ adiOBihon la an nouitocd to ‘Dto Times- And soon sitter toe hist s( (h* hstoM* in Ms ysaiiY.'BEore dheet in a letter to Oto agttor. The IBTD faMti, ptodMied taa* week, toewf fhat px toe smento spoeasalve year James was the num ttm»nt3v dhosen haya' naxm, while Mne bsadad toe girV Itot tor toe 14th cbirmu- ^ year. After a yeaxV aihf«nce IMudas not sfiJy returned to the a ton" tor hoya’ naaMm hut awmtd flam, white LptMe moved wp fiaen sixto peaKIsn to fti(teh aeeond tor toe ctolii' toesDsdlng to Mr. Leavarto Usto toa Brltlito «iU aredor toe lama- ter namto ttott Mwe teen Issw. )Ua tor oentUifea nag the lini- ante of toe Bays! tomUy canttn- vm steM. BiM he stoit|Maly notoa that "toe mpsaU uum tor ItoO smm to.MIteato that a wider held *t ChHWM htoix" te being explored hf tooee re- qxmalite far awnliif ghlWren." Who ttnotyp fanotfoi namaa fwe nriitot to« bieafcliig in to his "t(W ton” in the yean a- head. ChsMtaa Setonce Monitor NOT SO BAD One of|to Reto en exaggerated potion of hoar hreixte are soteg- told acanettoito fadto am provide a tlmety oontoctive. > One ovetdravm telirl to-jlpiiat the general deeotot into ungjldH- nesa insofar to !a,as»' jpa. But a Caiii over the ho" lyise. Widte edulta jin Ui indeed dedJined pement at the 1/905, 4o 40 _ the pmpoiftlon h(U'held at «w4 lev^ ^ amoiti oountilee edl- tol by Odlltto tejty Canada twy- plntRliNoing stitoto have a df uteMfia In p y«sw ago. 3: Many I IMrs. cvtrti. vtort’ J. Jt tte? cvbn. i* LawrttnOal Mrs.. J.B- Mts. . Mid. Mm. „ CtUJto^ 'iA ( OMrtBlM) ■' Ouy c, * r.'!.) , |Dee (.illagdrts W*i 1 JeSftolwn, Jr, f(. jrrlMm (tax Mv. Mto-; Jr. ■Tl^iSMwr IMltmto CL itoAdto . CMJitC. Wood , Ddtto >t jahnscei -Mm. Ndittond IW. PeUinger i. ii. Gnmlde ImpBP iW- QupUf/tat Byron T. (BrooBh Masier Pate S. Slip-,' Mtto JtafN! listtllteterd P-: ^ w.btows di'T — MSna Mrs. Jetoeit Rn AfHntBO n^T Fnaito iGl Mis. 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