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S THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday'March II. 1971 Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald Kings Mountain, N. C. 28086 806 South Ptodmont Avn. A WfM'kly rt(*WH]iA|ipr (U'vidnl lo tlio fkroniifl ion (if tin* jfeiwtfjvl welJuio and pubJialind for Ihr pnllK'litoninenl, cnl<>rl.'ilrimnt iiinl l)«*n<*int of tin* cltUcoiis of Klnii* Mountain nnrt Its vlulnlt>', lAibllslicI rvivy Thurwiiiy by tin* llorald Publishing House. Hi’U>riHl as .si'i'ond cIiism miilli*r at 1lie jiosl offlts* at Kings Mountain, N. C., 3B0S6 under AiS of (’ongri'HS of .Man.'li 3. ItTlS. EDITOItlAL DEPARTMENT MnrtJn Harmon Kditor-Publlaher MIrs BUtv.abolli Stt'wiirl Circulation Mummer and .Stx’lety iJdllor Miss Di^j.vle Tlioriiinn-)* CJt'rk, Bookkeep<*r Prank Iiklwards ’Itoeky Martin MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Allen My»<rs Rii):('r lirown P«nl JtS'l .iTckson t ilitsey ’ On Ixvive With The Unlbsl States Army MAIL SUBNi'«JI>TH>N RATiS PATABLK IN ADVANCK In North CareUim and South Carolina One year 914; .sl.x nvinttis $3.ait; ttixee montlis $1,50; sehool year $3. (Subscription In North CamUna aubjact to Hirer* percent tales fax.) In All Other 9tatea One year six nionUia $.1; thici* rnontlvs $1.73; scliool year $173. PLUS Nt>nrm caiwxjna ralks tax TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE And U'P fcnmc ttiut nil things iixirk higtthfr for good to them that loxe thsf Lord Romans S:~ft w Uooontly tho VViiiston-Saleni Jour nal oditoriiiily oxprossotl, in most inler- ostiim tonguo-in-clu'i'k manner, nnihrar,)* at the Anioriotvn Hnnitleasling Sysleni for il,s cursory Ircnlniont of tin* city ot Wlnston-Sah'in in Its hroadeasling td tho Wlnston-Sith'in Howling c’lassir'. Tho announcer cursorily tuentioncii Iho locale of Winston .'Salem as tourna ment site, I he Jonrn.il ehargeii. and tliat was aVtout all. Was AHf suffieii'iilly afraid of the Federal Commnniealioiis I'otnmi.ssion, which Iwisit'd the arms of hrtiadeasU'rs and ciKaretle prodneers to eliminati* all advertising of same iwt'r the air waves !tnd T-V eahl(* tithe, that any mention of Winston Sahmi was eontr.i- Ivind over aforemenliom'd I’ommuniea- tions tnedia" Wallace t'amill, cNeeuItve islifor ol fhe WInsten-Sab'm Jotiriial and Senlitu'l was fhe obvious author of the ixlilorial to those who know him. He could pul his typewriter to as good use for the stage as for the pivss and, in his own right, is a good actor. Editor Carroll took the matter a stop further and fonvaiilt'd the editorial to KCC Chairman Uurch. The isiitorial suggested that, overylime an announoet would .say normally Winston-Sahmi, he wottld be constrained to say hlip-hlip, bor example: “Hotv we are in vonerahle Blip-Blip, site of fhe Blii>-Bltp Bowling Classic of 1971." At least, it is a happy fact lo find that there Is some humor left in the FXV. even if this arm-twisting outfit does seek to deny the weed fiends their pol luting ple<isuix\ An FCC member o'plied in kind to Editor Canvll with some intimations of oven motx* blips, among them: The Capitol city of North Carolina ht'comos just Blip. That venerable purvoxw of high mak' fashion (bomwvod on occasion by ladvfolk for a tojKoatl becomes Lord Blip. Sir Winston Spenct'r Churchill be comes Loixl Blip'Blip-Blip and his illus trious forol'>oar tho Dukx' of Marlborough becomes the Duke of Blip. The famed Ivvtst of burden of the desert rvvuld be callint a ttromodary but not a camel. Newport. R. I., the famv*d n'sort would now Iv* Blippttrt, Ad infinitum. . . It b<Mls down to the fad that the IW can get in a bwadeaster's or tele- easior s hair with virtually lifc-or-de«uh power. .\nd it shouldn’t Imv Best Bow, Shelby It was quite gix>d news last w eek to k'arn that Shelby was ohostm as All- American city in tho annual (\intes1 conducted by Ivook Magazine, as W'as IvumboTton, the only two North Caro lina entries in this prestidigious n.ational competition. Mueti effort by man\ Shelby citizens wont into the prejvaration of material for the contest. When Shelby was tajvpod a somi-fin- alist, ft meant a civic delegation had to travel to Portland, On'gvm, for the fin als, oral presentation of Shelby's assets in stmpKirt of the writ ten document, 'Tlie contest judges, like Jack Webh on the old dragnet show, say, in effect. “Just giw me the facts, just give nie the faets." Shelby's honor shows that pUmij of fads are there, among them solidly progressiw city government go»-«l race relations, community support for com- rnunitj- pnijects. harmony of thought for the public g<.v>d. To Mayor Hubert Plaster and the hani-tn’orking All-American City eom- miltee. amd to all Shelhians. most hearty gongrttnSat iona. Nursing Home Progress A eonplo of weeks ago, Joe R. Smith, presuient of Kings Mountain Nursing and Convale.scont Home, Inc., announc ed that Homes of Care, Inc., had let the gi'iteral contract for the S.'vlH'd facility to lie Iniilt here. In turn, Mr. Smith reported, the geneiMt wntrador. sought sub-contrad- ors in tlio Kings Mountain area, for plumbing, healing, cooling, electrifying, floor-covering, roofing. Many have responded to the invi tation. They have not yet reoeivod plans. President Stnifh's statement ot Wotlne.sday is that the plans are now in tho hands of Gonlon Poole, who heads the nursing and atnvalescent home di vision of Iho North Carolina State Board of Health for that agency s approval. .\s quickly as these plans are ap proval and received, ihe would-be sub- coittradors will receive tho.se they re- tpiiro for bid-figuring. Sooner the better. The Senator's BUI Senator J. Ollie Harris, who is vice- ohainnan of the committee on vetenuis’ affairs, h.as introduced a hill (SB 178) to make il a misdemeanor In North ('arolina to willingly or knowingly cast {>mtempt upon the flags of the United States or of North Carolina. It won Senate committee approval Tuesday. Second Term MABTIN'S MEDICINE By MARTIN HARMON , SIGNS OF SPRING ■Paal Hullen'd<w, a Rmde tjohool ol«s.Hm«'t<* Inim une through graduation olwonth tno 13 In thoso day.s), droixisid by lhe<»lhijr day for a pleasant conversation following the usual format: up- to-date on w*lnrt’.s going on and reunlnlwlng about a few years gone by <n-m Paul i.s ont* of ,s<*vor.Tl .soas (g the late .\Ij-. Cltarlle Hullender and tin* lliillender family liv«*<l, literally, at th<* sid<> door »)if CV'iitml scliool. on North (faston .slri.*«t m-m It is incttncelvable that the Sena tor’s bill could fail to pass—not in North C'arolina, w hicb hallows the Battle of Moore s Creek, the Mecklenburg Declar ation of Independence, gigantic contri butions to the Argonne Forest, North Africa and Normandy. As for the North Carolina flag, it the other isn’t enough, is '■■r* Tar Heel contribution on the gall' tid losing cause of the War Betwee;. States Superintendent Jones is a “do it' man. Stated another way, if he and the Itoard of I'dueation feel a chore is wor thy, his attitude is “Let’s get on with He e.amed quickly and deservedly the respect, not only of his school facul ty. but of the whole Kings Mountain school district. Best w ishes to him as he begins his si'oond four-year term. Paul 13 nuw o leading citizen of Cheater, S. C., an automobile deal er wtio ean provide a Bulek, a Pontiac, a GMC truck, or, out of the C!i*iu?ral Motors family, an Amortoan Motois pnxluct. yVjllow- Ing the automotive trade, of course, run.s In Ihe family. Ills father w.as among KIng.s Moun tain’s ror«>father auto mechanics and Brothers (iyde and Charles m*. too. Paul'-s oldest son graduated from high si-hool la.st yeoi' and apparently will follow In the family tradition. He i.s currently at riint, Miehigan, enrolleil In a Riiid; management i-ottrse. Paul says he hojies hia .son, in a mat ter of three or four years, will be u.hle 1<> oust his old man as boss of Ihe bu.sino.ss. It hardly stH'ms prissiblo that it has been four years since Donald D. Jones lorsook ino duties of princit>al of an Asheville high school to come to Kings Mountain as superintendent of schools. Il has be*en a busy and successful four years. Plant-wise, Central school has been completely renovated, and ad dition to North school has been built, and Bc'thware completely renovated and improvements made at all plants. Indicative of the Bethware renova tion is the story of the socond-gradcT w;ho was ill when schcKil oi>ened. When ho tx'jvnted in on the third day. he was rvHited to Principal E\an Evans office for assignment. The Principal inquired w here he had attended school as a first- grader. “1 don’t know,’ lad replied, “but not here,’' He had attended Beth- warc, it was learm''d. He simply didn’t recognize Ik-'thwan' after the face-lift ing. For the first seven nronths of the current fiscal year ending in January, total state revenues were up Xt'iP.Glfi.-lSO to $642,341,718. an increase of 10.23 per cent over the same period in the previous fiscal war And they’re talking new taxM"' •DuiTt ktunv whcllu’r I’m steer ing him on the right path or not. " Paul romarked. "This auto .lusine.s.s is loiuled with head aohe.s. The ht'.st business I have i-s the junk business ' KINGS MOUnMI .r Hospital Log VISITING HOURS DaUy J0:30 to 11:30 AM. 3 to 4 PM. bind 7 to 8 PM. Horace C. Allman Mrs. Claude .M. ArnAVood Claurie B. Ik'am William C. Bowi-n Mrs. Hoy A. Bnxjme ■Mrs. Gene Carpenter William .Maee Clack J. R. IXavLs Mrs. Jack C. Gilison W. W. Griffin .Mrs. Kut;h Kuker Hayes Hal Uurhaim Hicks .Mus. La-la 11. H<JU.ser_ Mrs. O. O. Jackson Mrs. Ibjljf'rt B. Leonard •Mrs. Theotlore A. Lock'luu-l Airs. Myrtle Jones Mark ■Ml'S. Zay .Moore Mrs. Ola .Mae Paisley B<*->sie Lt'c Ra-mseur Roi)i*rt T. J. Rulf_ .Mrs. Alveiiia .Marie Sctiuler .Mrs. Thomas Walter W'ells Mrs. Uampbell H, Wells Martin Luther Wilson, .Sr, ADMITTED THURSDAY ■Mrs. Margie Melton 1380 Sec-ond SI. Ext. Mr.s. Clementine Bell 103 Oak Street, Clover, S. C. Robert Lee Smith, Jr., 012 \V. Mountain .St. (’hildeis, Karii.s, i //yc-Cin.^ >: ' Viewpoints of Other Editors THE QUESTIONING OF A PRESIDENT I ZOO SITE DECISION A MAJOR STEP m-m RIGHT MAN FOR WALL STREET AND PUBLIC The appoinu-nent of Willism j deliberations owr Reading between the lines of | McChesney Alattin to make .* j locate North Carolina's I 1 -Afxrva.rrfxntlv '‘Hi>\v*s that?" I asktHi. I much of the commentary on the searching study df il-.e I President’s State of the Union ad- ■ dress, you find a syllogi.sm that runs more or less like tills: j proposed state zoo apparently “When yvm s»'ll junk, it's .jimk. No hrxtdaohos. There arc* no sorv- K» proiilems. no financing prob lems. no rt-tHussession problems," Paul n'plie*!. 1. No doubt there Ls a great deal of merit in the PresidenCs proposals on welfare, revenue- shoring and Government reorga- riizjition. ship of tlie Federal Reserve Board from 1951 to 1970. -M'. 2. Congress will refuse to pass Martin's proposals should come most of them. | dose to beirwg unchallengeable. 1 That's good, because the i-n 3. Therefore Mr. Nixon Ls plaj'-j mensity of the probkm is eqaa - j ed only by the resistance of many brokers to any change in the .n York Stock Exchange is an m I ^Tfp^'down to a question of pri spirei way to assure the mve-i- _ animals’ or i)e.iple’s? mg public that the tnHibled un ! onp spa. at Purgatory Mountain anoial community is at last re - .vheboro. was adjudged b«'st oncUed lo overdue leform. 1 suited for zoo animals. Another, his credentials, including !h« | Running M Ranch near Con- presidericv of the exchange freh' | adjudged the best suit- 1938 to 1911 and the chairm.'. i- needs of zoo visitors. Paul is viiv-ohairman of Chest er develo:>ment Avmmission, a grouji that has been very suixx'ss- ful in attracting industry to Ches- j ing politics again, ter. But Paul commenc'd sinnie- what wistfully. "Ihi a small town! This type ot reaction to Mr., essentially a ! i^i^afendorsemonts and pre.ssurr-s hoy. II Id wanted to hve m a Nixon nw entj^y famUi^.; what is nee Jed : The Ste Soelction Committee de big city, I wvuld h.ave. But d Just before this latest example, fmm its .stated you don t grow you .sragnafe." i in fact, John OSbome of the New I Republic had WTitten * column Tho Site Selection Committee and the State Zoo Authority chose the hilly but isolatc*d Purgato.-y Mountain site and named Ihe Concord site o-s first alternate. It was a decision carefull.\' and openly arrived at and with a minimum of con-sideration giver 'll ADMITTED FRIDAY ^ George Lalh(*n Brown, Ruule I, Box 141 -Mrs. Lander W. Carix-nter, 3ii • Inman Avenue, Bessemer City ) Hurlon .\lmond Liitel, 8ii,'J Third Street George David Mc-Ginnls, .ntl.’i W. Elm Street, Cherryville | ADMITTED SATURDAY John Riley Hall, Box 524, Bcs.se- mer City Kathleen Bailey _Moorc, 111! Cloninger Street Mrs. tharlic Tucker, Route 2, Dallas I ADMITTED SUNDAY Mrs. Billy Gene Bat<*s, llKi.i Sherwocxl Lane Mrs. Lottie A. Burton, 612 Mi-.i dowbrook Road Cletus Clary. 221 Walker Strei*! Mrs. W. C, Hugtu*s, Route 1, Smyrna, S. C. Mrs. Num-y Pauline Lun.sfoi,|, Route 2. Bessemer City Mrs. Walter Ch-tries Reynold.-^, Route 4, B(rx 713, Lincolnton, •Marion Hart Wilson, Route 1, Box 312. Gro\(*r m-m like; I asking himself quesbrons and my high schoM class I "liy do I instinctively impugn ,* hir a reunion le.e., five the President’s mofives even when Paul .are due years' in 1971, Pat Cnw w iias already started planning, wus iv- fore Hirlstmas. I like his actions? M’hy, when the nov* is not a few tolren changes i parted somc’ivhat from its stated such as tightening up the rul. s i orileria relating to accessibility on u.sc of customers’ monev- aii.l j because of superior terrain fea- back-office bookkeeping, h .: | tures near Asheboro. wholesale restraicturiiv:. j still to -be answered. The 1.'. 5 Individual in\'estors got som-* j Department of .-\griculture. w.hich protection through enactment by j must approv e of the site, has in Jr,, President Uke *'vp'Pt>e else acts, j^sur dicated that it has reservations ftwn a mtvture of gi,x)d tP'’*4\ea . boldings up to $50,000. j about both the Aslieboro and Con- m-m Bragging a little Tlie current edition of We ilic people of NORTH CAROUNA ’, a puiblio.ation of tlie North C-iralina and tKid. have the good been so persinenrij' ignored? Why, Mr. i>gborr.e continued, do my own ’ writings and attitudes toward Mr. Nixon display sudi “sour and pivsi-dent disbelieT’? Citizens Assux'iation. has a ma- Mr right. But the failure of the 110 broK- erage houses ‘n 1969 and 197*) I sent shudders through the ; noncial community as it realize.! .the hollowness of its x-aunted claim to eff(*ctive self regulatio;.. i In fact, what we wx-re witne.i- Osborne, if we read him ; sing was a period of harsh rec’; concludes that this too is i oning for a Ijusiness tliat had e jor build up lor the os-sociation's 30th annivoTsiary' clambake to b» held in Raleigh Maich 18 Mr. Nixon’s fault, that a dccenit' ponded like chicken franchises m-m V-f officers whom ;\re long-time friends of mine cord sites. Also, the costs of pro viding access to Purgatory Moun lain have to be ascertained. The biggest and most import ant question is whether the state government will at this time commit $2 million toward devel c^ing a state zoo, when other needs are so pressing. But, ob viously, many Tar Heels believx- a zoo wxHild be a great educa tional and commercial asset. The selection of a widody sup ported site has provided zoo sup porters film ground on which to promitc such a facility. Charlotte Obserrei man simply cannot trust a Presi- . vch-;in times wvre good, only lo dent who one minute does some- j cruniMe when the market betan thing good and the next minute . dive. Suddenly all those g- nomin-ates Hanold Carswell tojnored warnings and the hanis the Supreme Court or plays a big j off attitude of the Securities a id Pictured, along witli the story part in the 1970 RepubUoan cam- . Exchange Co.-nmisition were clambake details, arc the fivelpaign. And the particulans aside. | com},j>me wnth a vengean c ; icers of the association, four of there is some truth here. Mr. Nix- roost. on ai>d his Administration have j FTo.-n the public standpoint, 1. -. j • - . been subject to shifts tf jj where l all must start “’I*” -separate and th«oric so abrupt a.fTo in W obrioT f^at step ^ tighter vite suspicion. i ^t^c^bv^hc govew^n^nt t^^ir i*ei^ation d> rne govemmem dccKions. he says. As for the and a more effeirtive voice on the Still, it is neitlior a full nor j Street iusclf for ifirms that cm of the^oom " " ultimately charitable answer to'with the pubJic. Financial scru personal m-iii The preoidem is r9i«uon Har ris, president of Carolina Povvor & Light Company, who, when I first knew him, was a fledgling law-jw in .Albemarle. He was elecnod reading clerk of the Hivusc of Representatives by the 1941 General .A.-?3eTnibly, later maj.vned in cocp'inate law with Queen Cil>- Tnailways. before joining CP i 1. ■a-m Flrsl vice-president is Thomas 1. SlJOfTS. executive vdex'-presuivn* of Non'i cTanolina National Bank. When I first knew Tom It was "Mister Storrs", navy ensign and my instruc-tor in ordnance at mid- Shipman'S sschooj. He was mean as a snake bur a fine ordnance instructor. 1 di^* ix« the midsJiip- man’.s sdHXvi ye.vTbook to eom- piare photos .Ah, these bankers live wx-U Tom lecfc* better today than ho did in 1942 say, 1 am urrfair to Mr. Nixon be cause he forces me to be. For our part, voc susp>><ot the deepest roots of the distrust of Mr, Nixon lie in Siis lack of deference to the best people—^the highly edu cated. moTOlly concerned and cul- tiny and public disclosures of private interest must be improv ed; and the broad questkin.s of commission charges and Institu- tioTMil membership must be look ed at, now, from the viewpoint of the small investor as well as rurally dooninant claiss that seems ! the large, the ewmamy as e to feel Its view’s and persons are w-hole and not just the we-libeing entitled to special weight over and a.ba.e those of Southernets. hardhats or other segments of a supKttxily .'k'm.icratjc <Mc4ety, in-ai Treasurer is W. Trent Ragland, Jr., president of Su;>erior Stone Company, a Kings Mountain resi dent [or a oxiple of years in the posa-war forties, who chose the pock tsjsiness over law via some ralthcr poiioted advice b-r father This class, especially of late, is impatient with tho untidiness nf deanocratic politics. President Nix on may come up with pcx^xisals he thinks are nTeritorious enough to win avno political points. Con gress thinks its political purposes axvuld be better servo'd by reject ing them. It’s hard to say tho ul- timaie decision will be reached by any ratkjml process, but some how the whole system has over the years served the Republic tolerably well. It has withstnod the test of history far better ililian other systems that once In.iked more ratl-onal and tid.v. Executive vScc-president-secre- rary is Edward L. Rankin, Jr., cb). lege classmate and j-mmaaistje.. .secrerary to Governors Utnstead and H«i^es and Number 1. he-td :ng the Department of .Adminis tration, To Gov'emor Dan Moore. • Th« fellow Buell G Duncan, second xioe-pmideift, is a real I o-jlfandar He doesn't know me. The upshot is, though, lhat nearly everyone on both sides of every issue is "pJAl'Ing pofttics” Perhaps it’s -too much to a* the highly educated and monaBy om- ccroed to pontleT why they lowel of tho brokerage houses Fortunately, almost no one in the financial community Itself is happv’ with the lA’ay things havT been going. But when it comt s to sweeping reforms that in some cases are more than 40 ve.ars oxerdee, it will likely take the infl-uence of a man with Mr. Martin's prestige to Wend p-tblic and private good into a mix we all can live with, . . -Louisville Courier Journal BOYS HERE. GIRLS THERE -At a time ivhen many formerlj' sex-segregared colleges and ■ptej) schools are going coed, the oppo site is happening at the lower end of the e*ducatioii taddonat least in one Oalifomia grade school. Last September, reports cation U. S. A.” nea’sSet.tcr. Don ald Cooks, a principal in the Elk Cirtwe Unl'M Srtioo] Distriri near .Sacramenlo. decided lo 9e<p»rate the boys hum the girls beotuae boys get a bad deal in coed-uca this inanuaOon at sixme pla$x9a tional dassroome and not others. But we really don’t fhink it’a too much to oak that they address isstMB le» on the motives of the protagonMIi and more on the merits nf ihe propneala. “Everything little girls do ts eacaotiy righf with the teacher.” expiaina. ‘They sR quietly in ttMor nats They sk not ros^.* josR the oiipoaite 'with boys. "TtMy aan*t be sHU They’te rwlt- Oaoka put 65 boy* Girls often lost out in tradition al clasarooms. he observes, be cause the teacher is giving all her attention to the troublemak ens — the boj's. Newspoper Enterprise Assn. •-’I • ADMITTED MONDAY Preioj- Krankiin fhildcrs, 105 McGinnis Street Wilbur Pcar.son Davis, 113 .\rk Street Mr.s. Clarence Odis Deaton, 7il0 Bridges Drive Miss Vickie Sue Gann. R<| B.XX 32 HoiveiTd English Green, Route 3. Box 265 Ralph Yates Harmon. Jr.. Rt. 2, Box 157, Bessemer City Ervin A. Jonkin.s, Route 2. i','u vcr. S. C. Haven James Lcxlford, 825 -t Chester Street, Gastonia Mrs. Bruce McDaniel, 211 'A, Mountain .Street Raleigh George Smith. 916 Gtn 3 v'er Road » Mrs. Frances B. West, B-ix (L’S I ADMITTED TUESDAY Mrs. Andn'vv .Smith, 213 X. Sims Street Mrs, Sidney J. Hughes, Route 2, Box 280 Mrs. Ocie Grigg Gordon, Rniite 1, Shelby, N. C. Gerald Dean Lovelace, ll.'tl' Welling .Avenue, Charlotte. N C. Mrs. Nell Dilling Grimes, lo) N. Piedmont .Avenue. Mrs. Grace T. Philbeck. 109 E. King Strec't Mrs. Virgio Cole, Grace .Stre*-! ADMITTED WEDNESOAt Mrs. Curtis .Martin, Route 1. Dallas. N, C. Eugene David Hill, Sim-s Stiis>t Mrs. John L. Parker, Cramerton, N. C. Mrs. Margaret Dellinger, City Mrs. Roy Conner, City Homer Kilgore. City Keep You Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. Neivs St Weather ever'/ hour oi* the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in bet’veen
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