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2 Thirsday, February 11,. 1971 I VC' Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald 206 South Piedmont Ave. Rinys Mountain, U. C. 28086 A weekly newspaper dcvrtted to Uie jiromotlon of the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertalnmnt and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered a.s second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C.. 28086 under Act of Congress ot March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT -MarUn Harmon Editor-Publisher Mias Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor .Miss Debpie Thornbuig Clerk, Bookkeeper Frank Edwards *RoAy Martin Chad Lodiford MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Allan Myers Roger Brown * On Laave With The United States Army Paul Jackson Ray Parker Joel Ughtsey MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYAlBLE LN ADVANCE In North Carolina and South Corolina One year $4; six months $2.25; three months $1.50; school year $3. (Subscription In North Carolina subject to three percent sales tax.) In All Other States One year $5; six months $3; three months $1.73; school year $3.75. PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 Thurs MABTIN'S MEDICINE By MARTIN HARMON After Tuesday night’s city oontmlsslon meeting. Mayor John Henry iMoss and m.imbers of the press, these being Joe DePrlest of the Shelby Daily Star, Jay Hampton of the Gastonia Gaz ette and me, were ifilllng in a few city details anlJ the eonver- satlon iturned ito ecology wihloh, with pollution, has 'become a cause celebre throughout the na tion. The pair, if not twins, are ra th, r closely related. 'Ecology im plies preservation of natural re sources and landscapes in their natural state, whlJe many cf these naturals — wildlife, beach es, mountains, and forests — are tihreatened by pollution of sever al and sui.i xy kind. TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE What icUl If ? shall / come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit c OU spillage kills fish and birds and mak s beaches and swimming gro mds unus.eole and uninhabitable. Lumbeimen slay forests .ar.d huntin,g grounds. Mi ners level mountains. Foul gases foul parks ar.'I playgreundj. rkness I Corinthians 4:31 One-Body Assembly? Lieutenant-Governor H. Pat Taylor, Jr., noting the report of a study group which rated North Carolina’s CJeneral Assembly 47th among the state's 50, had some comments for What he considers might be improvements. The Herald commented in these columns fast week on what it regards as a “college boy’’ report that ignored the performance of the state for the theoretical yardstick that has hardly made California, New York and Illinois, the three top-rated, paragons of fiscal perform <ice. The Lieutenant - Governor aspires for the Governor's mantle and, also as ex officio speaker of the Senate, it was apropos that he should comugint upon the report. One of his intriguing suggestions was that North Carolina might well consider a unicameral (one body) legis lature, rather than the bi-cameral sys tem employed by the other 49 states, which system, of course, is modeled after that of the United States. Nebraska, except in football and basketball season, is not as much in the news as the big fellows, but presumably the citizens of the flatland wheat coun try are doing all right witlrTheir one unit legislature. • If speed of operation is desired, it is conceivable the one-unit body could legislate more quickly than a twm-unit body. There would be no situations where a bill passed one branch, then failed in the other. And there would bo no necessity for conference committees to iron out and compromise differences between non-identical bills favored in each branch. But the Herald must part company on Mr. Taylor’s suggestion that 60 to 70 members would be all that would be needed, and that then the state could have full-time, fully paid legislators. The great state of North Carolina, as Governor Clyde Hoey often intoned in his mellifluous voice, included the shores of Manteo and the mountains of Murphy and the rolling Piedmont in be tween. That’s a bit of real estate and, most assuredly, the more than five mil lion souls in North Carolina would not like to pare the number of their elected legislators whom they like to see fre quently — to talk about legislation, or the weather, or how the fish are biting. Mr. Taylor’s suggestion also re minds of then-Governor Terry Sanford’s reply to a question about his thinking on two terms for North Carolina chief executives. It was on the eve of Govern or Sanford’s departure from office. He replied, “I have not yet come to the thinking that North Carolina needs pro- f'’>ssional govenors. I might favor one six-year term.’’ Again, the great State of North Carolina has managed very well with non-profesional legislators. Birthday Changes It just ain’t going to seem right to be celebrating George Washington’s birthday on February 15, particularly in a year when the calendar, if left to its own devices, would have given the long w’eekenders what they wanted and left old George born as history records on February 22. The Congress bowed to pressure of various groups, some unions, resort In terests, and others, decreed long week end holidays for most celebrated histor ical events, though declining to tamper with New Year’s Day, Independence Day and (Christmas. Yet long weekends in the offing find the newspapers and television sets filled with dire predictions of auto mayhem, which are more often than not fulfilled. Does the contrived long weekend really make sense? "rhe Younger folk know nothing of it, but there was a fellow called Franklin Delano Roosevelt who did a little tam pering with a holiday called 1%anks- giving. ■ • Resume Good System There is a movement underway, which appears to have some chance of success, to resume the district system in choosing members of the county com mission. Districts, or wards, would be carved which w'ould control the geography of the candidates, but everybody would vote for everybody, a la the system in Kings Mountain. This w’ould meet the test of the one-man-one-vote Supreme Court ruling, but would assure each section of the county a representative on the county’s ruling body. There has also been suggestion, in some quarters, that the county com mission membership be expanded from five members to seven. , Thats quite acceptable, too. It would assure the commission more grass roots contact with Its constituents. Districts, whether five or six or seven, should be carved to achieve nu merical balance insofar as possible. Still others have suggested that the commission be expanded to six repre sentatives, with the chairman elected county-wide. Whatever the result, resumption of the district system to assure broad geo graphical representation on the com- ■ mission should result in better county government, which suffers, perhaps most often, from a communications gap between the commission members and the 70-plus thousand constituents. Women's Liberation! Whatta they mean liberation, cyn ics ask, when the women’s liberation movement is discussed? A review of history, ancient and modern, will reveal that women, or at least some of them, have long been liber ated. Queen Nefertitl of ancient Egypt and Cleopatra of the same locale; Deli lah, who un-Iiberated Samson; Cather ine the Great, Queen Elizabeth, and Queen Victoria, liberated all- and to^ day’s women chiefs of state, Golda Meir of Israel, Indira Nehru of India, and Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain. The United States has yet to have a lady chief of state, but Senator dar- garet (Chase Smith is a veteran from Maine, and Carrie Nation, wome’.i's suf frage yet in the far distant future, was not much mal-treated in spite of leading bands if irate women armed with axes into the grog shops they hated for back ups of this enemy property. And the American Wallis Warfield Simpson was liberated enough to get an English king to turn his back on the throne. Not many folk hereabouts know Deena Clark, who has operated for ten years in a largely men’s as pro- ducer and interviewer of television talk-with-the-famous prop Landt Dennis, who interviewed M Clark for the (Christian Science Monitor reports: “Aware at the moment that wom en’s liberation has brought increased attention to her success in a profession mostly of men, Mrs. Clark expresses surprise. ‘Personally, I’ve never been discriminated against as a woman,’ she said. ‘Work hard and anyone can get ahead, I feel. It’s a quality I’ve found an employer able to resist.’ ’’ Amen. (Congratulations to Edgar D. Wil son, Sr., honored by the Piedmont Boy Scout Council with the Silver Beaver award, highest award attainable by adults in the Boy Scout movement. Congratulations to Glenn Gilgg, Jr., who recently was licensed Jor pmetiee of engineering by the State of North (JhroBna. mg Monday mldniaht dcadlin*: dfinlayw the ID"?! auto teg, ; m-m Far Instance, !h Mayor has a 1931 map of the Kinjs Mountain quadrangle of the Lincoln-Gaff:- ney mi.ne.al belt. Certainly ht one item it is out-cf-dat.. Henry's Knob is no lon.or a knob, hav ing been recapitated for kyanlte. Mr. Lincoln's Achievement Mi % m-fh Faeit that a mlnin'g company has leased (Crowder’s Mountain has excited the ecologists of neighboring Gaston and some here, too, who deplore the pros pect ol decapitation of old Crow- iJier’s. m-m ’The Major then noted to Joe and Jay that the city as long as three j’ears ago and well ahead of the crash save-our-rnviron- ment movement had projected possibility of a state park, em bracing the Kings Mountain pin nacle a! the several-mile ridge and designal to adjoin the popu lar South Carolina Stajte Park which, in turn,, adjoins the 4200- acre Kings Mountain Military Park. I found I could brag a lift'- 'LINCOLNS NAME IS IMORTAL TODAY—NOT BECAUSE HE LIVED IN THAT LOG CABIN, BUT BECAUSE HE GOT OUT OF II Viewpoints of Other Editors THE BATTLE OF STEWKLEY CHURCH The very names call up English rural scened—Cubllngtom, Stewk- ley, Aston Abbotta, Souil^ry. It is in the midst of these villages in Buckinghamshire that a Brit ish Government commission pro poses to build an airport four times 'bigger than the existing Londion airport. The English are fighting back as they would a- gainst any dread invader. To my question, Joe DePrlest assured me he had climbed Kings Mt^tain to its full 1705-foot height. Did he igo the long way up, I ask i± or did ho t-ke the short cut up the sheer cliff? On ly the lonlg way, he rt'piied. ged. “I did it up the cliff, " I The survival of the quiet coun tryside is one of the miracles of England. Although one of the most densly populated nations in the world. It has managed to concentrate its ilndustrial areas and to keep much of Blake’s ’’green and pleasant” land free 'm urban sprawl. It is still pos- to take the train sotitj liondoin to IBrlglhton on (H an ihour’s joumtey, aiM pass' through many stretches roll- Tng open country. Or to drive for an hour northwest of London and find oneself In Buckinghamshire, where sheep now graze and where churches can be found that were ancient in Shakesjjeare’s time. A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE For the sake of .ho.nesty, I had to confess that I had manlj ia- ted that cliff only one time, my oompanlo.ns being Lynwood Pr:^ ton and ©illy Caveny when we were Boy Scout age — an’i that I was quite seared. “Frankly,” I admitted, 'Tm no spelot. I d';n’t have to scale the mountain jast because it’s there.” I Such a church, St. Michael and Ail Angels in Stewkley, has be- I erme the ^’mbol of the opposl I .'ion to the proposed airport. An The Mayor dl'oussed his ideas with the officials of the pari;s division of the state Department oif Conservation and Develop- rnertt and they came here for a look. 'Meantime, the city engin eers drew a rough sketch of a potential park area, with a small oyer-all area and limited utiliza tion of in-betwe. n lands for oamping 'and horseback riding. I was reared under the im pression that the mountain was ovmed by my late uncle, John O. Plonk, Sr. However, a few years ago, after my uncle’s passing, older kinsmen said the pinnacle was a three-way owned proper ty, also Including Unde John’s father, William Lafayette Plonk, and uncle M. L. Plonk, No heirs had any records In file. Only recently Hal S. Plonk found the recorded “paper” — not in the Gaston register of deeds office where it should have been filed, hut in Cleveland xmnty courthouse. The record showed the 165-acre pinnacle was indeed then three-man ownefJ. It neons my Mother owns one- hlrtioth of the Kings Mountain ■■innacle. I am also reminded hat Mary Foust Plonk Weaver, tow of Greensboro, can likely ay claim to being the first ecol- tglst dt the present ■ ■ >ome yrp-c - ui..onunon example of pure Nor man architecture da'ting to the twelfth century. It lies athwart one of the planned runways. II cannot be moved elsewhere be cause its thick walls ot lime stone rubble would crumble. II has to be either preserved or de stroyed. Sir Arthur Bryant, a doughty defender of the traditional, thun ders in a letter to The Times of London: "The entire local com munity, oomprislng every class and c^ling. Is up in arms at the complete disregard of tlieir demo cratic rights by powerfully vest ed cotmmeirclal and tealinological Interests who are demanding that the state should compulsorily de prive them of the mosj precious of all a free man’s rights. This is something which, if not resist ed, threatens every Englishman’s future freedoim.’’ No satisfactory alternative ex ists. There is a grandiose plan to build an -airport, an artifiolal sea port and an industrial complex out of man-made islands center ing around Foulness. But this would incur environmental dam age of a different kind, destroy ing the habitat of many seabirds and shoreblrds -and ruining the beauty and peace, of the Essex coast and the seaward approach es to the Thames estuary. It may be that the only good ■answer is no airport. The English have the toughness and self-con- tidence to give this rare reply to the pressures of technology and material deveJopment. As the English search for -a solution. Americans will look on with ab sorbed interest. The battle for Stewkley Chuitoh Is fought tor modem man everywhere. New Tork Tiines Scanlon’s Monthly magazine nan into trouble getting out a fall issue. ITinting companies refused to print it because, in a section on guerrilla warfare, in structions on bombmaking were I inclbded. A printer in Canada j eventually was ifound. But then came -a series of hurtlles thrown up by binders, customs officials, and magazine distributors. Now what troubles us is not that a string of individuals balk ed at lendirir their machines or skills to the publishing of bomb Instructions. To the contrary. This strikes us as good sense. What troubles us are such re actions as this: “What is involv ed in the Scanlon’s case is oen- sorship not on moral but on poli- grauirtSs. . . . Denial of ac- 't?ess to technology is a most in sidious kind of censorship.” It ap peared in an editorial in -Publish er’s Weekly. It Isn’t enough to- say that such a charge is ridiculous. Though it is. To label the Scanlon incident a case of “political repression’’ suggests a distorted sense of val ues which, if reflected more -willely in society, could be dan- geious. The incredible lengths to which such thinking can lead can be seen in the proposed printing of "The Anarchist Cookbook” — described by its publisher as a how-to -book for such despicable and criminal skills as garroting, sabotage, an'J drug-making. The Publisher’s Weekly editor ial said: “A prlntiriig company is in a very real sense, a utility in the field of communioations, not unlike a telephone company.’’ -Nonsense. From a legalistic point of view, some printers or publishers -might -want to think this. They would like to be re lieved of responsibility for what they put out. -But no instrument of public Hfe exists outside the eonstraints of moral law, regardless of its exemptions under -human law. If a single llfe^were los-t, or a single youth maimea in follow ing the Scanlon’s or “’Cookbook” instructions, would that not have weighed on the heart of anyone who put a hand to printing It? And are not constraints on tele vision, itself "a utility in the -field of communi-cations,” al ready rightly made? Surely if a station' were to broadcast in structions on bom-b-making, ret ribution would be swift. -Refusal to become party to what one thinks Is wrongioing is increasingly protected by our sodal stnucture. Tills is -right and important. > Christian IScience Monitor KINGS MOUNTAIN Hospital Log VISITING HOURS Daily 10:30 to 11:30 -M. 3 to 4 ond 7 to 8 P.M. Angela Adam-s Horace Allman Broadus Barber Mrs, Dennis Bridges Biu'man Bryant Mrs. Love Carrell Wm. Clack Ml'S. Joyce Cole J. D. -Davis Ml'S. Carrie Frye James Gant'-'.-Ie Ellcrbe Griffin Mrs. Frances Harlow -Mrs. Annie Heavener Mrs. Lela Houser Mrs. Della Huff^tickler Mrs. O. O. Jackson Alphild Johnson Mrs. Virginia Johnson -Fred King Alda Leomhaid-t Wm. A. M.illinax Mrs, Marshall McDaniel E. May Plonk Thomas Pollock Ray Price Mrs. Bessie Ramrsur Mrs. Jessie Rippy Mrs. Alvenia Schuler Margaret Sherer Mrs. Betty Tarp-lry Melvin Tony Weaver Mrs. Mirnmlc Webb Lonnie Webber -Christopher L e VVoock; Mrs. Child Wood Heather Biddington Parks Benfield Larry Bingham Anderson Smarr ADMITTED THURSDAY Mrs. Claude Arrowocyj 105 E. Church St., Dallas o. - tui'cs tor a - I j explore the possibilities It extracting Kings Mountain kyanlte and Iron ore, she quiek- 'y imparted the word she’d sign ao such agreement. Kings Moun- ain would remain as is. m-m -Hfr father. Uncle John, hsd I some ecological ideas of his own. I Ho envisioned a road up the jpeak which would create of uuvwv Kings Mountain pinnacle a seen- {prices 'k tourist-Attiwctton. I W^ A PROPER ROLE FOR GOVERNMENT The Federal Government slowly seems -to be grasping one of its proper roles in prices: To assure the freest possible markets. Its chief refuse to -Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s annountement of large price increases was to sug gest that .peri',«ps the Govern ment shouldn’t continue working for limits on imports of steed. Competition from foreign steel bbvi^ly helps to keep domestic down. Weld, UnMed States Steel tfien Goo. Borders Rt. 1, aty Dan. Biilige:; Rt. 1, City Mrs. J. C. Clary 710 E. Ridge Ft., City .Ml'.s. R, A. Jolley I*. O. Box L-y, Cily Mrs. \V. John Stidman e (KK) E. Graham St., .Shelby ADMITTED FRIDAY Morgm Wil.srn Rt. 1, City James Mave:; Rt. ), City' Diane Rlanion 112 N. City St,, C«j Ml'S. );unps ttolllngei Rt, City -Mrs. i-orrest Lail Rt. 1, Gi'oCer Mrs. J, s.sc'Milling S15 did .SI., Cily ADMITTED SATURDAY Jeffery Wayne Truelt Bran-Ion .St., City Mrs. Cone Black Ri. ?, Cily Bruce .Marrow Box US.5. Cily Samu ‘1 P. Cook 415 E. Main tit.,, Bess. Mi'.s. Shirley Eddy Rt. 1, Dallas Mrs. Earl Stro'ip 112 Monia I'isia Dr., Mrs. Tom Waters' Rt. 2, Ch. n'jTille Mary Wright 404 C. P.idge SI., Cily -ity City ADMITTED SUNDAY Mrs. William Smith 414 W. Kings Si., Cily -Mrs, Jane Lynn 210 Calhone St., Clover David Hannah 919 Grare St., City J. B. Hawkins 503 James St., City -W. Hugh Lackey Rt. 1, Shvlby Richard- Price P. O. Box 312. McAtlenville ADMITTED MONDAY iMrs. Samuel King P. O. Box 917, -Boss. City Cindy Gardner Rt. 1, aty Tom Dover Rt, 2. Vale 'Mrs. Paul Daves Rt. 3, aty Riley Allen Rt. 2, City Judy Welch 2762 Mary. Ave.„ Gastonia Mrs. Charlie Hcndren 807 2nd Bt., City Patricia Moore 201 Stowe Acre., aty ADMITTED TUESDAY iCho#.. Henry Moss " Rt. 2, aty James Eard Whitaker 2332 Melton St., Gastonia Raymond Reynolds Rt. 9, Shelby -Mrs. James Mcaair 506 Hannon Ct., City Mrs. aeveland Mackey 420 Belevtdere Cr., City Mrs, Tim Jones 6(J1 Mea.'-oWbrook Rd., aty Mrs. Dewey C. Ori^jg 508 Mills St., City Debra Culp Rt. 3, aty John Hall P. O. Box 524, City LODGE MEETING Falm icw Lodge 339 AF 4 AM will hold an cmeigent com munication Monday night at 7:30 pm. at Masonic Hall for work in the first degree. Past Master H. Donald Falls will conduct the degree work and light refreshments will be serv ed after the meeting, announc es Secretary T. D. Tindall. WMU FOCUS WEEK Women’s Missionary Society is sponsoring WMU Fbcus Week next week, beginning Sunday, at Kings Mountain Baptist ohuroh. Women of the chureh wm lead -the mid-week prayier service Wed-nesd-ay at 7:30 p.jn. METHODIST TOPIC "Looking Underneath the Cov ering” will be the sermon topic of Rev. N. C. Bush at 11 o’olodc morning worship services Sun day at fSrace Methodist chuitah. also 'announced a price boost, but its increase wa.s much smaller than Bethlehem’s. So now Beth lehem and the rest erf the ma jor companies have decided to go along with the U. S. Steel fig ures. The Administration naturally Is pleased that the increases -aren’t as large as they at first secimed likely to be. But If -the Govern ment -is really concerned about price stability. In steel or any where else, lit should hold on itc what It la baglnhlng to laam of fre* maikets. Well Steal Jouiaal Keep Yen Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. lYews & Weather every hour ox» tho hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in betw^n ^ FREI ^ Moui Moui says MOU la N sophi Moui team Crest SoutI test Lai Kn Un Kin ballei mark son 1 lost t Th( Front point came almo Lady Thi "and ablet for f herel rrfor SoutI Ly victa seori olyn Debn and -Moui Kl had drop nigh ed h inlei Si: spar poin 16. I C’ari petl 12 a
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