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Th wi Page 2 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald ll C«rol.n« I 1 ASIOCIATI 206 South Piedmont Ave. Kings Mountain. N. C. 2B088 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and putoliaJied for the enlightenment, entertainmnt and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered a.s s(K.fjnd class matter at the post office «t Kings Mountain, N. C., 2S06G under Act of Congress of Mardh 3, 1878. Martin Har.naon Miss EJlizabeth Stewart Miss Debt,ie Thornburg EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor-Publisher Circulation Manager and Society Editor Clark, Bookkeeper Prank Edwards •Rocky Martin MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Allen Myers Roger Brown Paul Jackson Joel Lightsey • On Leave With The United States Army MAIL SUBSCIliPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE In North Carolina and South Carolina One year $4; six months $K25; thrao months $1.50; school year $3. (Subscription in North Carolina subject to three percent sales tax.) In All Other States One year $5; six montlis $3; three montlis $1.75; school year $3.75. PLUS NORTH C^VROLINA .SALES TA.X TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 MARTIN'S MEDICINE By MARTIN HARMON | A Tree That Grew " I been working on the rail road. . . .” But not like Papa u.sed to do. Southern Railway’s mainten ance crew treated the sidr-walk engineers with a good sliow last week as they replaced the east track through Kings Mountain. m-m .r.. ''i. I -i U-A', >. \ ‘V ith. ) TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE To everiflhing ther. is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heavon. Ecclesiastes 3: Ellerbe Wilson Griffin Ellerbe Wilson Griffin, native of Union County, was a business citizen of Kings Mountain for more than a half- century. When he came to Kings Mountain the mercantile business was more leis urely, but the hours were long. The drug branch of retailing had longer hours than most. The drug store was a natural gath ering place, for youngsters drooling over the soda fountain goodies, for their fath ers Coke and conversation in the eve nings and before Sunday School hours, in the winter around Griffin’s cheery pot-bellied stove. Mr. Griffin was the cheery host. Mr. Griffin was much more than that, an out-going man and a most ac commodating one. Older folk say Mr. Griffin was somewhat a journeyman veterinarian, always happy to serve when a friend’s stock or pet was in trouble. Mr. Griffin was a yesterday “young Turk” as a city commissioner, serving on the board which built the York Road reservoir and Deal .street filter treat ment over heavy opposition from some citizens. This supply didn’t prove suffi cient for a growing community as long as Mr. Griffin and his fellows thought it would but it ended abortive and waste ful efforts to serve a growing commun ity with wells. Mr. Griffin was a hard worker, firm Baptist, fine husband and father. Good citizen. Thomas E. Dewey Thomas E. Dewey, who died last week, will be chiefly remembered a.s the man who went to bed President-elect of the United States and awakened an al so-ran. He was the victim of a much-ma ligned incumbent President’s political astuteness and appeal to the so-called common man and two major mistakes of Mr. Dewey’s owm: over-confidence and an unfortunate remark that sent the Brotherhood of Raihvaymen into Mr. Truman’s camp in droves. He should be remembered for much more than that. As a courageous district attorney he poinarded and jailed some of the na tion’s mo.st notorious gangsters and he made a highly efficient Governor of New York. Perhaps more important, he never exhibited any bitterness at his two de feats for the presidency, contented him self With the backstage in politics and in running a highly successful New York law firm. Exit Frankie Frank Sinatra has announced ho is retiring from stage, television, and mo tion pictures, an unhappy announce ment, certainly for middle-agers who remember his “coming up’’ as a vocalist with Harry James and the late Tommy Dorsey and, after a decline, his come back as an Oscar winner in “From Here to Eternity’’. Still popular at 55, it can be assumed Sinatra has been getting through some of the younger crowds, too. He said he was going to spend his time with family and friends and maybe do a little writing. Autobiographical, yes? It oughta be good. A best bow to Anne Finger and Karla Smith who will represent Ameri can Legion Auxiliary Post 155 at an nual Girls’ State. Pentagon Publicity Columbia Broadcasting System re broadcast its “special” on Pentagon publicity Monday night, together with up-to-date clips on reaction by officials. It was anybody's guess what the cost is, said CBS. Pentagon supporters thought it good business to provide informational junkets to army and marine posts and navy yards for big-wigs and little-wigs. Pentagon supporters disagi’eed. It has long been service policy to appear in parades at public events, but the doves in the 'Viet Nam situation rather dislike the colonel’s brigade spending its time propagandizing for continued presence of the United States in Southeast Asia. Wednesday night’s newspapers de tailed a somewhat painful story: the South Vietnamese, run out of Laos in .spite of heavy US air support, can’t make it. WhocL Here! Who, me? The Kings Mountain newspaper (Herald) had no intention of, nor idea it was, starting a war with its journalis tic neighbor to the east (The Gastonia Gazette) in its reportorial and editorial treatment of the wrist-slapping the city got from the accounting supervisor of the North Carolina Local Government Commission Paul E. Pyles. Mr. Pyles, as priorly reported, called attention to deficits shown last June 30, end of the fiscal year, in five accounts, three utility accounts totaling $17,738 and two accounts representing federal government rebates which Uncle Sam had not, but has since, paid. The Kings Mountain newspaper (Herald) does not know w'ho developed The Gastonia newspaper’s (Gazette's) initial story, which appeared Monday, March 15. The story bore a Raleigh date line, no byline. The Gastonia newspaper (Gazette) will be reminded that the audit report was published in the Kings Mountain newspaper (Herald) on January 14. The much-maligned general fund over-spending by $103,614 still showed no deficit. Why the Gastonia newspaper (Gaz ette) attacked the Kings Mountain news paper (Herald) until light dawned in re-reading Paragraph 3 of the editorial, which read: “Our reporting was accurate. It’s just that some people don’t want their wash hung out on the line for everyone to see.” Who’s wash? Not that of the Kings Mountain newspaper (Herald) nor that of the Gas tonia newspaper (Gazette). The accuracy bit stung, huh, w'hich was not the inference at ail. It just happens that the Kings Mountain newspaper (Herald) reporter talked with Mr. Pyles, too, subsequent to the publication of the third news story in the Gastonia newspaper (Gaz ette). The Kings Mountain newspaper (Herald) prides itself on accurate re porting too. The Gastonia newspaper (Gazette) should know. It has employed enough of the graduates of the Kings Mountain newspaper (Herald). 'The City of Gastonia, last June 30, it is the understanding of the Kings Mountain newspaper (Herald), had some deficit accounts, too. Come off it, Gastonia Gazette Editor Bill Williams. Next time give the Herald a little publicity. Congratulations to Otis Falls, Jr., on his award by the North Carolina (Coun cil of the International Reading Asso ciation. Big machinery did the job in short order, Tlie l.ont machine f carried tlie long steel replace- I ment rails and provided living ] quarters lor the old rails whicii I went back to the yard for re- casting into new mrxtcls. Tlie ■middle machine puslicd the front one and pulled the one.s behind providing air for jack liammers, their head tools wizards at pulling the old spikes out. The ne'vV rails, incidentally, are a quarter-mile long. SOCIAL SECURITY TREE HICHCR, OfCKS in Uimt 4 )<!’- One machine had a rotating rake, arranging the tie support ing gravel just right. My neigh bor, Clarence Poteat, almost got machine-gunned. He was sitting on the rail near tlie track, which wa.s a bit too close. Suddenly, hi." hands were front-face, fighting otf gravel pellets. The operation irated some motorists who found crossings closed. But for those who stopped to watch, the short inconvenience was w-orth it. fCCij r. ‘’(11 V: ,41 Viewpoints of Other Editors FEBRUARY IN CAROLINA TV RESPONSIBILITY "If people ore continu-m^ly cx-1 j , p,'>scd to a recitation of the trou- i Februarj’ is the last cold, dark bles of a democTati-c community. ■ dawn when the long but less continuously reminded dormant tilings of nature begin of its unity, if they are so fre-1 even so slightly in tne qucntly told that this is yvrong ■ earth. It is the groundhog andfhait is wrong...is there not 1 leugcnd and hopes o. an curly some danger that in -the end soime may conclude that a.s a j pre^mature March wimls, and an Kings mountain Hospital Log VISITING HOURS Daily 10:30 to 11:30 A.M. 3 to 4 PJC. (and 7 to 8 PM. In the mail yesterday I had a request from a Cleveland, Ohio, oitizen, Mr. Michael J. Grosser, seeking a source of county prop erty maps. I routed him to Coun ty Tax Supervisor Bob (Jidney, told him my 1886 model would be a little out-of-date, and passed on Mayor John Henry Moss’ sug gestion: If he needs to come down for a look, hitch a ride on an Alcan Aluminum plane. method of reaching political do cislons, dcmacracy doe.5 not seem to work very well, that maybe there is something wrong with a system so productive of abuses? How much of this wear and tear is democracy expected to take?’’ I The speaker was Sir Robert I Fra.sor, who recently retired as head of Britain’s Independent Te-levision Authority, which sup- ! en ises commercial television there. His staement recalled a paragraph in the report of our I own crime commission: unscasona 1 w a r m i “Even if he rhetoric of rovolu- Bob Lovelace, the sometimes Kings Mountain rcstauranteur. turns up in the strangest 'p!:i:e.s. This time his address is Willbro.-; Ecuador Company, Apartado 141 A, Quito, Ecuador, S. A. (I observe the Ecuadorians liave not gone zip code.) He writes: A “few lines to sav hello and to subscrib.- to the Kings Mountain Herald. 1 am in Ecuador, S. A. Do you think that the Herald can find its way down here, and if so how much will ii cost? Cheek the rates for air mail and start sending the Herald. H shouldn’t cost but about 25c an edition, a letter costs only 15c. but I will absorb all mailing costs plus subscription and will have a check in the mail as soon as I hear from you. . tion and vilification of govern- i menal authority is never trans- ' lated into deed, the constant ex- I coriation of America’s institutions ; and leaders may destroy their ; legitima.cy in the eyes of other ! segments of society.” I One more quote — again from Sir Robert Fraser: “One may be ■ disposed to think that serious ^ questions for the future of socie- , ly ari.se from the assumption by ■ telev;.sion of this new role o’ : news giver, docunientcr and eval- i u.ator. And finds oneself in no : doubt of tile answer to the ques I tiion whether in thisrespect tele- 1 vision is a conserver of old poli- i tical and social values of a sol vent of tJiem.” Some CiJ percent of us depend upon television as our chief source of new.-;., wiiioh underlines Che tremendous responsibility of television new .men and editors. Objectivity in news presentation and balance in commentary are not just goals to be sought after they are absolute imperatives. The newsmen’s own freedom, as well as the audience’s roay event ually depend upon how diligently they discharge their responsibil ity. TV Guide “How are things in Kings Moun tain? This is one reason I vr’anl Che Herald, so I can keep up with all my (lrinkln,g buddies (Ha). As for here, the temperature stays about 70 degrees the year round though we have been working re- cenHy dn the mountains about 13,000 feet above sea level and have had two good snows,'but we are decreasing our altitude and the climate is getting warm er. We’re getting a lot of rain. “I would dike to .send you some pictures of Ecuador and comment on them although I am not a writer. You could spice them up a little.- “Thank you, artin, tell all hello, “Thank you, Martin, tell all hello. I guess I will be here about a year. Until I see you again 'he go^ and don’t le. tain r”-* ' . . .... m-m Linda Biser Behrens writes from Washington she ithinks she’s mot a friend of mine named 'Frank I Holeman. Well, Linda, if he’s my [ friend Holeman, he is six feet 8»ven Indies, a big Adam’s appile, and a dew bass voloe. His ac- cant is native Raleigh. i SADDER THAN SATIRE The sad case of William J. Crtun, an American busine-emnn who operates out of a lavish yacht in the South Cliina Seas and is charged witli corruptin. servicemen for profit, reminds us once again that wherever Jiuman misery abounds, in the wings stand venal persons ready to cx ploit the situation .'or profit. Joseph Heller’s hfllliant satire on World War II, "Catch-22,'’ sil houetted this d.arkcr .side of hti m-nn nature in the person of Milo Minderbiniier. As an Air Forw' supply officer, Minderhindor trad cd his entire squadron’s supply of paraciiute.s for profit." in an in ternational black marliet in com modities. Operator Crum's alleged mach inations are, in one sense, oven worse than Minderbindcr’.s. For as a civilian dealer in w'hiskey and hper, he is chargevl wltli giving kickbacks to military recreation custodians and purchasing -Kicnits. In addition, a Senate in vestigating committee charges him with providing a S2,00(la- month villa for -his military ac complices’ entertainment — com plete with bar and female com panions. It is not enough cynically to say that wlierevcr conditions of occasional spring daj'. February is the end of mid term exams in scliools and col leges and the beginning of the new semester. It is Saint Valon- line’s Day and tlie annual ob servance of Wasiiington and iLn- coin’s birthdays, reviving mem ories of tlie virtues whicli made these two Americans great. It is for many a time for long indoor se.ssions with good books, stereo music, TV programs, sprin.g seed catalogues or income tax fenn. while winter wind howl like liun- gry wolves around the eaves of the hou.se outside or the rain or snow peWs down. It is that time in dark winter when all nature sei'-ms poised and waiting for the end of the year’s shortest month and the first faint signs of the approaching miracle of spring. February Is often a fickle com bination of January and March. Its vve-athcr betjmos is the m^ist rugged of the winter. But again, it sometimes gives us mild sunny days that are ideal for trimming fruit treo.s, grapevines and shrub bery, cleaning out the garage, oi doing other outdoor chores and odd jobs around the house. But while we cough, sneeze and shiver through its ruggedest days, we reflect that the best thing a- bout February is its brevity and the promise this signifies. For ju.st beyond the darkness of the hour before dawn lies the splendor of the new breaking day, Winston Salem Journal WOMEN LOSE IN LIECHTENSTEIN ... So the pocket state of Liechten- •stein has turned doWn a proposal to give its wom<'n the vote. True, the majority against women’s suffrage in last Sunday’s refer endum was only 80 (the vote was 1,897 to 1,817), and this was con siderably s.maller than in tlie previous poll three years ago. But .still the ‘ noes’’ triumphed, and the tiny principality, tucked away in the mounhiins between Switzerland and Austria, will for the time being remain the only- state in the Wc.storn world Whicli doe.s not accord women tlie vote. Until three weeks ago Lieclilcn- •stein .slrared this dubioiw: honor with SwitzimJajjd, but in a refer endum Feb. 7, Swiss male voTr.s finally abandoned their resist ance and gave women the riglit to vote in fcdei-.nl elcolions and to liold federal office. The LieclitonCteiners had been exipected to follow the Swiss ex ample, e-pecially since their na tional parliament had aoprove-l the women’s sufrage proposal, tit probably some of tne more conservative men of the princi pality re.sentcd The fact that they were expected to do what the Swiss did. Many of these tough, hard working mountain people .still be lieve in the old tradition that women’s place Is .governed by the three “k’s" — “Kinder, Kirohe, Kuche’’ (children, church and kifehen). But the narrowing ma jority indicates this tradition Is Mrs. Joe Loo Harris Horace Alim in Mrs. Claude M. Ar.-owood Mrs. Emma Bowen \Vm. M. Clack J. D. Davis Mrs. (Serald L. Eaker Mrs. Clementine B. Farris Mis. Clias. M. Gibson Mis. Erno.sl S. (Josey Mrs. Nell D. Grimes John R. Hall Mrs. Rulh E. Hayes Eugene D. I till Will R. Howard M,.s. Earl M. Huffman ■Mrs. O. O. Jackson Troy F. Laws Mrs. Eohiiy Lb. kridge Mr.s. Mryile J. Mack Mrs. Eay Moore Mrs. Fiidlip L. Myers Mrs. J.,c N. Odanvi Mrs. .las. L. Owens Mr.s. JuiicUe U. Pallcr.son Mrs. Grace T. Pliilbcck Roy Phillips M. .>, li.' Cc P. Ramscur Mra Marie H. Ramsey Mr.s. Guy Schofield Mrs. Florence .S. .Shepherd Edward .Si.sk Mr,:. Charlie Tucker Thomas W. Wells ■Mrs. Cajn'fi);ell Widls Clios H. White, Jr. Ciiristoplicr Woods Henry L. Hemterson ■Mrs. Vc-rtic C. Kale Floyd Lovel.ice Mrs. Wayne O. Wat.son Mrs. Edgar Whelstine Thursday, March 25, I9^ Wm, H. McClellan, lO-l W. Texa- .\v<>., Bc.sscmcr City .Mrs. Annie B. Koysicr, Box 201 Gni. ci- Klie.is'th .‘v'llcrs. 'Route 2, ('it\ Mr.s. Blauch 1.. TalU'iil, Roii.lc .: Vale, N. C. Route ADMITTED FRIDAY .Mr.s. .May P. Clialk, Bc.ssi'mcr City .Mrs. Floyd Lovelace, 31!) \V:; son Terr., City Ml'S. Jc.-ssc .Milling, 815 3rd S' City Ja.s. A. Brown, 902 W. Va. Av, l!c'somi-r Cit'- .Mrs. Jas, E, Ki.scr, 702 Meade.', bro'ik, City ilLiffic Padgett, Route 1, Ga--. touia Irwin C .SluilmatT, 1,38 W. \‘ Am-.. Hesemer City Mrs. Carl M. Watter-Son, Rl. 1, V'.rk, S. C. ADMITTED SATURDAY K. l.(Hvls Dellln.gcr. 141 W, Mia. .Sf., City Mr-i. fka Mauney, Route 1. B sci'.KT City Eli'.iio I-. Putnam, Route 1, It.'' l;3, City ADMITTED SUNDAY Mrs. Ja.s. Rainey, Rou1(> 1, Slid. iiV Paul D. Bridges, Rouh' .3, City .Mrs. Rudolldl Cole, 421 Bd^^ dcrc Circle. City Kenneth E. Cook, 717 Mc;d^^ liniok. City Miv. Jerry Hogan, 600 W St., Chcrryvilic Mr.s. Iristine Robert.s, 418 Tat. T<'rracc, City Ml'S. Gary Smith, Box 2(VI, Bi senior City ADMITTED MONDAY Mr.s. Chas, Allen, lifS W. .5; . Avi-. G.is'onia Mrs. Bobby Green, 6140 Mid pines. City .Mas. Miil.'ird Young, .308 9th St.. Bc'.scmcr City Evsi.- Phillips, 709 Cuntt City ch-.i.sli E. Ca.sh, P.O. Box City Jas. D. Din.gu.s, Box 163. Gro\ .Mrs. Karl Hedrick, T*.!). Bax 1 Boilim: Springs Mrs. Fannie C. Johason, 1' Myers .St. City Mrs. .Millard M<’lcalf, 18 Sil-, Dollar Tr. Pk, City I’lio-mas A. Pollock, .310 E. Kin St., City Sallic P. Powidl. 604 .S. Mapli St, Dallas Mrs. Ima W. Thomas, 1005 l-v St., City .Mr.s. Ja.s. E. Whitakor, 2.T’- Mr'llon Avc., Crfistonia ADMITTED TUESDAY Geo. E. Moore, 4400 Mtirgrae-, City .Mrs. Kenneth Caldwell, 121) In man Avc„ Bessemer City Bobby Henson, 508 VV. GoId^H City Mrs. I.cla M. Ramsey, No. Grace St., York, S, C. .Mrs. VVilliclmina Jcnuing.s, It. 2, City .Xina Harrill Route 2, Br’.sscnii Ci.y Cinrcnco O. Deaton, 700 Bridge . Dr., City Mrs. Gary Ros.s. 618 Meadow brook. City Mrs. Clyde W. Goins, Route 2, ges-annor City Mrs. Root Heath, Route 1, Gro\ or .Mrs. Paul Bixx-k, \vc., Gastonia W'm. A. Mullinax, 127 E. \’ Avo., Bessi-mcr (city St lilii . ADMITTED THURSDAY K. C. Carter K. C. Carter, 417 .Morris Si., City Leroy C. Buchanan, 1()2 E. Ala .4ve., Bessemer City Mrs, Ilcr.sclicl T. Grigg, 423 Bcechwood Dr., Gastonia wcalccning, anJ surely the women of Licriitcn.sfc'in -.vill como into their own in the next national poll on Ihis issue. 191.3^ Hemloe- Poftis CcmipleSos REDSTO.XE APoSI-lNAI-, AL.\. (.AHTNC) — Anmy I’rivate .First Class Charles P. Patti, 26, son Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Patti, Florid.i Avo., Bej.semer City. N. oi- Feb. 12 completed a 33-week -Nike .Mi.ssHc Te-t equipment rcjiai course at the Army Missile and Munitions Center, and Scheid. Redstone Arsenal, .Ma. Ho l)ocamc familiar with al tc.st equipment used for the Nike Missile and ;il.so learned how to check and replace faulty compon ents in Cite equipment. Ho entered the Army in ruary 1970 and eompleted training at Ft. Bragg, N. C. He is a 1962 graduate of Be.s- Christian Science Monitor! seiner City High school. warfare and foreign octeupation ' Rlorious episode by vigorously pur- ■ exist, human weakness is suoh suing new means of cutting barf?' thoit tlie profiteer and exploiters the opportunities for exploitation, must toe accepted as a necessary whether by civilians or service evil. The military etablistoent peTSontnel. | can only save Kg honor to “ Keep Yoiiii: Eadlo Dial Set M WK Kings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather every hour ol Ihe hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between
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