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THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERAt^P, MOUNTAIN. N. C
Thursday, February 4, 1971
Established 1889 __
The Kings Monntain Herald
206 South Ptodmont Av«. Kings Mountcdn, N. C. 28066
A weekly newspaper devoited to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enlightenment, entertainmnt and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain
and lU vicinity, published e\’ery Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 280S6
under Act of Congress at March 3, 1873.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher
Mias Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk. Bookkeeper
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•Rocky Martin
Chad Ledford
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TODAY S BIBLE VERSE
Save me, O God, by thy name, and judye me by thy sti-ength.
Psalm 54:1.
Well, Now.
A report has been filed by an outfit
with an impressive sounding name, Cit
izens Conference on State Legislatures,
after expending $200,000.
It rated (always a rather tricky
business, such as naming superlatives in
anything) the 50 state legislatures of
these 50 United States.
Pore North (Carolina. The Tar Heel
General Assembly ranks 'way down
South in 4Tth place, indeed, just a shade
south of South Carolina (44) and Gaw-
ga, suh. (45).
Whoa. now.
Let us examine those rooms at the
top, with California. Noo Yawk. and
Illinois at win. place and show in the
legislative sweepstakes.
Governor Ronald Reagan, of Cali
fornia, has his fiscal troubles and, only
recently, Governor Nelson Rockefeller
of New York declared his state in a dire
financial situation bordering on crisis.
And in the great state of Illinois a late
secretary of state's possessions turn up
better than $800,000 in the paper coin of
the realm.
Among the tests North Carolina
flunked was the fact its General As
sembly convenes only biennially. Among
the tests passed was the fact the state
is blessed with its fine legislative build
ing, used only by the legislature. In the
taxpayers thinking, the judges’ plus
would be a minus. Each man, woman,
and child in North Carolina, on aver
age, at the time it was built, invested
S4.26 in the handsome building Edward
Durrell Stone designed. That it is used
only six months of twenty-four seems
somewhat wasteful—yet these same
Tar Heels don’t want this thought to
produce annual sessions.
Other questionable tests were em
ployed.
Comparing New York (2) and North
Carolina (47) by these college boys who
add with questionable results, reminds
of the compliment Governor Tom Dewey
paid Governor J. Mehille Broughton in
the early forties. Said Governor Dewey
enviously, “I wish race relations in New
York were as good as they are in North
Carolina.”
North Carolina is not faced with
debt defalcation, operates on a balanced
budget and usually compiles and annual
and biennial surplus. It is a "low tax”
state, has built, is building and main
tains more miles of road than any state
in the union, provides the bulk of the
public education bill, boasts high-rank
ing state and private colleges and uni
versities. etc., etc.
It would appear the North Carolina
Cmoral Assembly functions well. In
deed. the results prove it, and that is
the true test.
Exception Proves Rule?
Favorite whipping boys of this
newspaper have long been those who
argue by comparison.
The arguments are more often spur
ious because what John Doe does may
have not one iota of comparison to
what John Smith does, or does not. do.
The set of circumstances may be wholly
different.
It reminds of the old saying: figures
don’t lie, \ut liars figure, a quick-draw
shot-the-man-dowTi for the guy twisting
statistics to suit his own purposes.
But the city gets by. and correctly,
with its recent action in upping water
and sewer tap fees, unadjusted for a
decade, but the comparison that neigh
boring cities get higher fees really isn't
necessarj'^ with the exception Kings
Mountain pays as much for meters and
pipe as anyone else does.
A cordial welcome to Kings Mountain
to Rev. A. Glenn Boland, new pastor of
Resurrection Lutheran church.
Abortion Law
Just retired Senator Jack White
must have taken pleasure in the Mon
day ruling by a three-member panel of
federal district judges that the state’s
abortion law, passed in 1967, is legal,
with extteption of the four-month resi
dency requirement.
Then-Senator White carried the a-
bortion law ball in the Senate and was
much-maligned for his efforts.
In light of efforts to liberalize the
current law, the 1967 statute is quite
strict, quite simple, and quite logical.
-■Abortion is permitted only in instances
where pregnancy is the result of rape
or incest, where the life of the mother
is endangered, or where there are strong
indications that the child will be bom
with severe abnormalities. Decision
must be made by a three-member panel
of doctors, none members of the same
medical firm.
Liberalization is a very moot ques
tion which may cause more legislative
stir than brown-bagging did or liquor-
by-the-drink will.
Many doctors have-objected to the
three-member panel provision and Rep
resentative Robert Jones of the Cleve-
land-Rutherford-Polk district has al
ready introduced a bill to provide that
the matter of abortion is one between
the pregnant woman and her physician.
Senator Ollie Harris, of Kings Moun
tain. says he is inclined to support re
tention of the present law.
However, and this makes sense, he
is seeking the opinion of women—indi
vidually or in groups — on their atti
tude on this question with its religious
and emotional overtones.
American History
Why history?
Because history is, as well as was.
It is perhaps unfortunate that
many citizens, who would find unthink
able breakfast coffee unaccompanied by
the contemporary history of the morn
ing newspaper and radio news, remem
ber uncurrent history as a painiful hours
in school and a jumble of dates.
History implies as much "why” as
•‘who ’ and “when".
What made them tick?
The Pharoahs of ancient Egypt, the
shepherd boy who became King David,
Samson and Delilah, Julius Caesar, Con
stantine, Christopher Columbus, Sir
Walter Raleigh, George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln.
Queen Victoria. Theodore Roosevelt,
Lloyd George, Clemenceau, John J. Per
shing, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph
Stalin, Benito Musolini, Adolph Hitler,
Hideki Tojo. . . .
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
By martin habmon
The ooJd: and hasn't it been'
Fly In The Oin-hnent
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I have a saying, "Not anj-
point in argulrtT with the wea-
thenman, for there's nothing one
can do about it." This isn't qvitc
correct for a person, fore
warned being forearmed, can
batten down his hatches, as the j
navy says. |
KINGS MOUNTAIN
Th
Hospital Log
VIHITISO HOURS
DoIIt 10:30 to 11:30 .M.
3 to 4 VM. and 7 to S P.M.
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Kyle Smith, navy re'Jree. says i
the coldest he'.s ever been was in j
■North Dakota, where he was i
sent for a week of recruiting du-1
t>'. The temperature was 40 de-1
grees below zero. Kyie recalls, i
"The natives actei. like it was
summertime, but I thought I
was going -to freeze to death. I ■
sta>'ed two days and left.”
V/.
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And since: Harry Truman. Ike Eis
enhower. Clement Atlee, Gamal Nasser,
John F. Kennedy, etc., etc.
Events are important, too. for they
are the result of the minds of man,
sometimes right, sometimes wTong,
sometimes the victim of circumstances
unforseen and beyond his control
During February's American history
month the Daughters of the American
Revolution urge citizens to become bet
ter informed about the Constitution of
the United States, a document conceived
by men who regarded an ocean as a vast
protective moat defending a great castle,
but a document that has withstood the
tests of time into a day when it’s a day s
journey to the other side of the globe
and only a few days to the moon.
CJcorge Hord, retired assistant
postmaster, recalls two exTa
cold experiences. One occurred ai
a Duke-Carolina foc-ttall game
; when his bro*her Revs fcoys
1 vvete playing fer Duke. It was
: not o.'.ly erli but also wet. The
, other occasion, somewhat oldly,
was in Florida. He, George Al
len and E. \V. Gri fin went to
the ' dogs ’, dog races that is.
Says (jeorge, "I had an overcoat.:
But the only trouble was it was ‘
15 miles from where I was. We
were down or. the trar'-r and the
cold win.; was vvhistlir.g. ' We
.'ho'uld have been in the grand-
i stand, whi-h was heated — only I
heated -randatand I ever k.nevvl
atiout.'’ Mrs. Herd was smarter.!
.S.he sat in the grar'lstand.
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Angela Ai lams
Mi-.s. Rob Adams
Broadus Barber
Uurman Biyani
Wm. Clack
-Mrs. Jo>'<« Cole
J. n. Davis
IMward n*.‘Iling<T
f>lward D. Dixon
Mrs. Carrie Kr>X‘
James E. fianible
R W. Griffin
.Mrs. Albert Hagans
Mrs. EthaJ Hambrigtu
Mi.-i. Frances Harlowe
.Ms. Annie Heavener
.Mrs. Lexie Horton
Mrs. Della Ifuffstickler
Mrs. Ottis Jack.son
Felix Johnson
Mrs. Virginia Lutz
Mrs. Alice Leech
Alda Leonhardi
■Mrs. R/mald Maples
Maggie Phifer
.Mrs. Bresle P. Ram-seur
Mrs. Alvenia Schuler
CandaJice Smith
Rajinond Smith
Mrs. Betty Tarpley
.Mrs. .Minnie Welib
Otto Webber
Mrs. Child Woods
Lee Roy Davis
Ml’S. Wm. Johnson
Fred King
Willis Leach
H-S. ECONOMY
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Viewpoints of Other Editors
JANUARY THAW
ADMITTED THURSDAT
Mrs. Robt. Jones
Rt. 1. Gastonia
Mre. Cora Morrison
215 .S. Piedmont, City
Christopher Woods
1(X13 W. 7th Ave.. Gastonia
j Of my two coldest e.v-eriences.
lone was i-i North Scotland,
.where m.y ship was anchored in
I the Firth of Forth. It was a bit
terly cold, rainy night, and I had
! been firmly mstnicted to take
I bearings three minu’ee apart.
;Th:s req ired a trip out of the
i warm wheelhouse to the vv-lng of
I the bridge, an : a wait unto the
Qas.hing light buoys could be
Upotted. The heavy sheepskin-lin
ed coat didn't seem to be m.’j-ch
protection. Sharing the watch
with me was a first class quar
termaster. Brownie shared the
cold jaimts with me.
SENATOR KENNEDY
AND THE FUTURE
MANAGEMENT OF NEWS
ATTEMPTED IN COUNTY ^ w * ,,
I WTiat we call the Januarj
THE WORDS hadn't tumbled Sen. Edward .M. Kennedy's Thaw is totally unpredictable. On
ou of the typewriter good before; toppling from the post of Senate average, we get one three
a blatant example arose in Cleve- Democratic Whip cotild and yeai-s o_t of eveiy four. Uouallj
land County of why state and should be salutary both for the it comes around the- third week
kacal officials need to be made!Senator himself and for the in January, but there are timei
criminally liable far government countiy. Frt>m it Senator Ken-j whet it doesn't come till Febru
secrecy. The "sunshine in govern- nedy should learn that men ini ary. There are j-ears when i.
ment” theoty was never more a- high public office cannot Ueviate ’ doesn’t come at all, when the
bused than b>- County Manager from high personal standards of i snowdrifts and the ice s;mpl>
Melvin HoLnes's attempts to' conduct and not be made to pay persisa right through till the
manage the news that is gener- for this. The country can be en- breakup in late March or early
ated within each county depart- oouraged with the United States April, "nten w^ have one of thosv
ment. A memorandum, dated Senate’s obvious sensitivity to "memoable wurters that are
i Tuesday and addresed to “all de- this fact. In the end Senator hard to enlure at the time but
pa.-imer.t heads ' by Mr. Holmes, Kennedy has the ow>orturjty to , are fascinating to remember,
said: grow into a finer public servant. : v.-h<.n rhe Tanuarv thaw does
"E£fa:tive upon receipt of ihU AnJ America should be imfelled ^ ^ight on the
The other was also at a Duke-
Carolina grid game, in 1950. In.
the heat of the Cay the tempera-!
ture rea-ched a high of eleven.
This game I would not hawe at-1
tended, tickets norwit.hstanding.
My mot,ber-in-la-A' was more har-
d)'. At 8 acn. she was in "iins?
Mountain, ready to go. B'cd
Jackson was a Carolina st-eden'
and rode down with -’?■ "n-e
heater on my Hudson. wn;ch
nominally would get too h_;, ne
ver got the inside-car air more
than lukewarm t.hat cold d.ty.
My mother-in-law proved well-
prepared and was q-ite com'y
Her fur coat and T-Model days
lap robe was aided and abet:^
by a lantern
memo you a.re requested to sub- to demand that the standards
mit all news: releases to the coun- which hava nov been appljed so stm^'p^les’^om'^to
frwsv^riilK.- ti-k tKa contrarr-
It is true that a number of fac
tors combined co bring about
sea or the cold wave movts on,
and here b^ind it oomts a re
versa! of the custewnery order
Instead of another burst of fri
gid air moving down from Bit
Northwest, here comes a breath
f}' manager's office daily or as fOTco'ully to the senior Senator
you have news to report. . from Massachusetts be applied
“All matters pertaining, to .just as rigorously to all othera in
countj- policy will be .-edeased on- Washington,
ly through the countj- martaget's
office.
tv 'are^pdolic^r^tfe" (uith°ex sUrtling dcvtlopmenr. There ' of warm air up from the South
was ti^ ceaseless pohUcal artiv^ somewh^^^e^ght it moves
esds will be made or>lv with the *>' successor, Stn. Robert in and se^ms to settle down.
^rc^aicTthT^ntv manner” B>-ixl of West Virginia. There Eaves drip. RoadSKie gutters be
This is not the first tim^that aknosf certainly, some de- rut to tnclde with iflowing wat
■'•uii an dbvious attempt however 8^® ^ kn’ifing by those who tr. Snowl»nl£s steam and the
iSired tnd “o Sr support others’ for the 1972 Dem-, thin ice in lowland togs togins
reeled that the policy be laid ^^tic presidential nomination, to show pudJes c*i its surface.
down, has been tried in recent 'Di^te w^ also a measure dis-; change is too sudden for
mcr.ths in Cle-.eland County gov I satisfaction with Senator Kenn^ nelief. or for real comfort. We
emment. When the same thing .lengthy absences from the ^veicome it, find 45- and 30-de-
- t_- s « m -
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Cold, of course, can kdi and
did out in Minnes-sia over the
weekend when a snowmobile par
ty was caught in a snowstorm.
I was interested in the Wednes
day report of the two footballer
Minnesota Viking on the trip.
One said the big problem was to
avoid sleep. A false warmth
would come over him and -he
just wanted to sleep.
r.rise. In less formal tones, a
-ew months ago, the policy
couldn’t stand the light at day
when it aas exposed. It
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FMnr.ier stuff:
Senate’s floor. ■ gree weatlv r summer-warm, af
But it is extremely doubtful if • {j>j. 20’s we have been endur-
. these would have combint^ to ov-1 d^sn t seem right. It
j ertxane Senator Kennedy s popu- “unseasonable." It makes slu-
droKied. but i: has now beer, re jlerity and power, had it not been shy going, mudfy going. For a
newed in such a way that de- ■ tor t.he bad taste l-.ift in so many days, it does. TTien the next
parmient heads and county em- mouths by the accident at Chap- west-toeast storm center arrives
ployes a.-e denying any informa- paquiddick and its aftermath. To that's the end of the thaw
lion to reporters unless Mr. put it frankly, these evrais rais- -j-jiat door which .had opened a
Holmes personally okays it It ap- ®d in the minds of millions eon- (^rack toward spring slams shut
pears that at least two county : tinuing doubts as to Senator Ken- again, the temperature elves.
commi3Sior.e.-s — Fritz Mesehead '.nedj-’s basic moral strength. Fur- and it is still January-,
and Phil Rucker — had advance .thermore, the Senate was merely —Neui York Times
knowledge and agreement to underlining what the Senator's
the memorandum’s idea. Other own state had done last Novem- him from the outside and we
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A few weeks ago. Attorney
Jack White went out to his car,
got in. couldn't get the kev- in
the ignition. He noticei his pac
kage in the back seat was miss
ing. thought to himself. “Some,
body's stolen my package." Says
Jack. "I sat there ten minute,
before it hit me I was in some
body else's car." Coincidentally,
the other like auto was .Attom^-
Bob Brad!ev*s.
Otis Falls, Jr., age 12. was
working for his father a-id Jim
Kerns, w’ho drove a black 1940
Studebaker drcriped by the ser
vice station frequently On two
ir three occasions, Jim's brother
Cljtie ca.me in shortly thereafter.
It took me six months to
realize that BOTH Jim and
ayde owned black 1940 Stude
hakers.
Mrs. Ida Joy’s decision to retire
from her duties as the running “man"
at the Kings Mountain Merchants asso*
ciation came as a surprise to the officers
and directors and to the members. She
has made many friends during the 13
years she has provided the memb^hip
with good service in the varied activi
ties in which the retailer organiaation
engagea.
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On another occasion. Otis was
Jriving a 1941 Ford with a thin
■ed line on the trim, about wir-
ilow height, from stem to stem
Otis had invited a — " '
young frir'--’- ' ■
■ iita.-y Park
parked In front of GrK-
nn’s Drug Store, quickly filled.
■Vs they started to return. Ofls
noticed the trbn line ’was blue.
"I thought." Otis recalls." that I
)mow my car had a red line. This
isn't my car." He returned to
Griffin's found his red-line Ford.
. waited around to tell the other
, owner he'd “borrowed" his car.
' "He didn't come and I left I
[ don’t know to this day wdio own-
^-cd that car for which the key
would at both.’
commissioners deny the>- knew ber. At that time the Senator suf- have only the most compassion-
anjihing about the'memorandian fered what must be looked upon ate feeling for him. Others he has
until The Star contacted them. as a serious moral defeat vvhen brought upon hims-; If. He
The memorandum would mean i he obtained (against a sincere .voung and his chief career can
that Sheriff Hav-wood .-Mien would but dearly sacrificial Republican still be shaped. It lies within his
be prohibited from telling the i oK>oncnt) only 58.8 percent of own povv-er whether that career,
public — the ia.\payers who j t)ie votes against the TIB per- after this serious setback, goes
suppon county government, in-i cent he had gotten in 1964. on to hirher fi'lfillment.
eluded — how many people werei The big question is whether-
arrested on 'what charges in what ^ the Senator, in the v-ears imme'i- j
circumstances each day-. It would I lately ahead, can so resrtore his |
prohibit Mason Carroll, acting |image through both personal rec-1
head of the health department. I titudo and serious hard work ,
from explaining what that de-1 (.not merely headline-hunting) as ^
portment is doing about the • to become a credible candidate'
dumping of dead hogs. It would ! for the Democratic presidenttai
prcfiibit Joe Davison, from talk- nomination in 1976. |
ing about the budget, and it | As for 1972 we see little rea-
would prohibit Bob Gidney from j son to disagree with tlie general •
reminding taxpayers of the tax i belief that the Massachusetts
listing a.nd tax-paying deadlines. I Senator has been all btk defini i
These prohibitions would apply; tivdy removed from the list of
even -when there is important j likely candidates. This could
news that taxpayers should know, t have an interesting, and probab i
and they would be denied if M-. )y h Ipful eifect on the Demo-1
Hohi^ were not available Im- cratic race for tlie nomination. It'
•nediitely on a 24-hJur-a-day ba-, makes that ra-re — as it now
—Christian Sriwer Monitor
.ADMITTED FRIDAY
Horace C. AUman
9(n .N. Piedmont Ave., Ci:yl
Mrs. Lela Houser
208 N. Piedmont, CJy
Ttiomas A. Pollock
310 E. King .St., City
Mrs. Sparkie Hamsey
206 E. Maryland Ave Bess C
Mrs. Jessie Rippy
608 W. King St.. City
-Mrs. Nellie Dunn
.510 E. Kings St.. City
Julijs Burton
900 Church St., Citv
ADMITTED SATORDAT
Barbara Day
609 \V. Mtn. St. Cit.v
Robt. E. Fleming
City
ADMITTED SUNDAY
Robt At’a ms
Rt. 1. aty
Mrs. Milland Caldwell
500 Margrace, City
Clayvvood Corry
Rt. 1. Box 111, (aty ^
-Mrs. Paid Gann
.307 N. Gaston St., City ^
Mrs. Jerry Morris
Rt. 2, city
Samuel McClain
1060 Westover, City
Wa.vne Wells
Rt. 2, Box 277, City
Walter Whitley
111 W. Texas Ave., Bess City
Mrs. Larrj' Whitesides
Rt. 4. astonia
Bobby Eltters
210 -Bridges St.. City
Melvin Weaver
209 Blanton St.. City
ADMITTED MONDAY
Wray Bumgandaer
Rt. 1, City
Howard Dillingham
Star Route. Blacksburg. S. C
Mrs. Grady C- Loepard
P. O. Box 493. Bessemer C;t>
Douglas McClain
416 N. Watterson St.. Ciri
Mrs. Ra.v Price
Rt. 1. Bessemer City
Mrs. Dean A. Stamper
717 Lan.ting St.. Citv
ADMITTED TUESDAT
Mrs. Willis Leach
402 N. Grover St., Gastonia
Mrs. Billie Patterson
1719 Smith St., Gastonia
May Plonk
402 W, (3o!d St., Cit>'
Mrs. Ronald Walker
1108 Donohoe Rd.. Gastonia
sis.
(stands — dearer cut than be-
Censwship. which is what the'fore. \Yith the Kennedy shadow!
memorandum implies, and news probably r-rmoveti. the race today:
management, which is exactly ‘ is primarilv between tfie moder-
vhat the memorandum ac-jate, middlo-of-the-road position
xxnplishes, are not legitimate and policies of Maine's Sen. Ed
;u^ions of the county manager’s! mund S Muskie and the more ra
ce. The Star fully and whole- , djcallj’ liberal ones of South Da
.^edly supports the county kota’s Sen. (George S. McGovern,
manager s.vstem as the adminis-1 Although others are almost cer
traUve funnel of goveimment op-'tain to ent r the race, these twm
eratwns, btrt censorship is neith-jjxaiv provide a sharp contrast a-
er a reai^ic nor desirable func-1 round each side of which people
« ^ *ose operations. Pertaps land pollcks can coalesce.
"Olmes intended something, senator Kennedy has trad ma
tty serious personal Wows. Some,
whaps he was motivated b>- g,., recent assassination
desire to assure there are no brothers, came to
more failings of full information.
But they surely can be acootn-
get to work on Friday morning
olished in less-dogmatic, less-re- is of the utmost necessity if coun-
strictive and less-formai ways. ' ty government is not to be cov-
REPEAL of this roemoraisluni csed by a shroud,
by the time deportment hea^ . ' IMbf IMIy Star
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