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THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Thursday,
Thu
Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Herald
206 South Piedmont Ave.
Kings Mountain, N. C. 26086
MABTIN'S
MEDICINE
A weekly newspapi-r di'voted to the promotion of the general welfare and pu'.>
for the onlighteninent, entertainmnt and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mouii,a,a
and Its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
Entered as second class matter at the post office ut Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086
under Act of Congress of March 3, 187,3.
By MABTIN HABMON
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon EditorPuhUsher
Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Bdltoir
MLss Deboie Thornburg Oerk, Bookkeeper
Frank Edwards
’Rooky Martin
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
Alien Myers
Roger Brown
Paul Jackson
Joel Ughtsey
I .stopped by the Kings Moun
tain Savings & Loan Association
Wednesday morning and J<x‘
Smith had a Bessemer City Rec
ord on his desk. Had I seen it?
No. For the purpose rather pttr-
feolly arranged, just above the
fold, was the sdmewhat startling
headline; Dirty Pictures Wanted.
Had our rveigh'bor to the north
east gone hippie?
PERSONAL INITIATIVE DYING?
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* On Leave With Tlie United States Army
M.\IL SUBSCRIPTION BATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE
In North Caratino and South CareUno
One year 84; six months $tJ6; Nirae months $1.50; whool yenr $3.
(Subscription in North Carolina subject to three percent -rfliaa tax.)
In All Other States
One year $5; six mqnths $3; three months $1.75; school year $3.75.
PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALKS TAX
He hadn’t, Joe laughed. The
second deck of the headline, just
below the fold, explained tlie
Record wanted pictures revealing
ecology problems.
TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441
TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
To evfTifthing ther: is a season, and a time to every purpose under thf heavm. Ecclesiastes
Vitamin C
"Don't come to me to get a cold
cure,” the family doctor has supposed
to have said historically. “Get a good
dose of pneumonia and I'll fix you up.”
It’s perhaps not quite that bad but
the common cold has remained as aloof
as any ailment from effective medical
treatir.i t. And there was the other old
saw; Take medicine for a cold and it
lasts for two weeks: take no medicine
and it lasts two weeks.
The search for an effective treat
ment hasn’t progressed too far past a
prescription of fruit juices and bed rest.
Nobody goes to bed though, saying, “Aw,
I'm not that sick.”
Latest contributor to the war on
the common cold, is the famed scientist
Di’. Linus Pauling who takes the fruit
juice bit (Vitamin C containers) a giant
step up the road.
Dr. Pauling says that massive doses
of Vitamin C will cure a common cold.
Less is required if treatment is begun
early enough, much more massive ones
if the patient stcU'ts the cure late.
Obviously a fellow with a cold would
drown himself if he tried to get his Vita
min C in conventional form and the
answer would be the pill or shot route.
Dr. Paulings contention has attract
ed wide attention, some of it not favora
ble. Massive doses of Pauling size would
be dangerous, some contend.
It is rumored the navy is doing some
e.xperimenting on the Pauling theory a-
board one of its nuclear submarines
somewhere in the briny deep.
Millions of sore-nosed, wheezing vic
tims hope the good doctor is right.
How’s for a glass or two of orange
or tomato juice?
Sewer Use Law
What looked like might be trouble
for all concerned didn’t prove out that
way.
The city passed a sewer use law
V ich meets the test of state law and
the only person 'to comment at the pub
lic hearing was Joe Kakassey, spokes
man for industry, present to commend,
not to complain.
It was Sir Winston Churchill who
said talk as long as you can before
shooting.
Talk, in the instance of the city's
sewer use ordinance, proved quite bene
ficial. Industry and city officials, engi
neers and stale officials talked for six
months or longc”, were able to give-and-
take and still get the job done which
was a “must".
Federal government attention to
the pollution problem has been gather
ing momentum for some years as it has
in North Carolina.
Kings Mountain's over-loaded and
antiquated sewage disposal system was
condemned by the State Board of Health
more times than one. But the law giv
ing the Board of Health power to con
demn contained no teeth until the early
sixties.
One never knows. When the Potts
Cree’- >nt was put in service and the
McGill .'reek disposal plant doubled in
capacity. Kings Mountain appeared in
good long-term shape on the disposal.
T . last spring, McGill was slugged
out.
Engineers are working on plans for
a diversion of the McGill plant’s capac
ity which should solve the immediate
problem.
For School Board?
It is interesting a citizen of Shelby
and another of neighboring Lincoln
county have sought to run for boards
of education and have, thus far, been
denied the privilege by the boards of
elections involved.
The cases are quite different on the
facts.
In Lincoln, a lady who resides out
side the school district sought to be a
candidate. After all, she contended, her
son attends Lincoln city schools.
In Shelby, Joe MeWhirter wants to
seek an office but is a teacher, though
not in the Shelby school system. Here
the law appears specific, stating plainly
that a public school teacher may not
serve on a board of education. However,
attorne.v Joe Mauney notes, there are
no specifics on whether he may pay the
S5 filing fee, run, and win the election.
But, says Attorney Mauney, he could
not be sworn and seated on the board.
The late Robert F. Kennedy, deni
zen of Massachusetts, ran and won a
New York .senatorship. There was ques
tion about the residency of Pierre Salin-
gei, who ran and did not win a senator-
ship from California. Pre/imablv, had
he won he would have been seated.
Here, however, the Constitution of
the United States was invoked. No, said
Sam Ervin, the Senate’s “pro” on con
stitutional law. There were no geograph
ical requirements for the Unit States
Senate, merely citizenship ar -vlng
attained the age of 30.
The would-be candidates havo
nerve.
Once upon a time City Hall was the
hot spot in local level government.
Most agree City Hall has lost the
title to the board of education meeting
room.
Rebate To Cities'
Twenty years ago the General As
sembly was having a hot fight over the
Powell Bill, so-named for the Assembly-
man who introduced the bill.
Governor W. Kerr Scott gave heavv
opposition, which he undoubtedly felt
justified because the state had just em
barked on the Governor’s $200 million
road bond program.
The Powell Bill passed, rebating to
the incorporated cities of the state a
half-cent of the state gasoline lax, dis
tributable on a formula weighted half
on population and half on city-maintain
ed street mileage.
It was quite a boon to the cities.
Kings Mountain did and do«; spend
more than its Powell Bill check for
each year on .street work but the help
ing hand has been a considerable factor.
Governor Bob Scott, (Governor
Kerr’s son, did it a bit differently, rec
ommending several months ago that the
state add a half-cent to the original
kick-back. The bill before the Assembly
—the administration bill—changes the
formula somewhat. All will get more
but the big Cities will get more increase,
percentagewise and dollarwise, than the
smaller ones because the population fac
tor will carry more weight.
Governor Bob Scott may have his
justifiable reasons for making the rec
ommendation. With an attack on the
two-cent gas tax increase of two years
ago, the ploy to the cities was a quick
means of stifling the opposition.
North Carolina is the good roads
state.
Money is required to build and
maintain them.
Congratulations to John Cheshire,
.z’ new president of Kings Mountain Coun
try Club, and to Debbie Timms, “Miss
mestone”.
Public schools are big business in
North Carolina, for the fiscal year end
ing last June 30 totaling $649,647,175,
including funds from all sources. The
state picked up 69.7 percent of the bill,
the fedei-al government supplied 12.8,
and local govei nment supplied 17.5. Of
S52.149 593 spent by Kings Mountain dis
trict schools the local support was 18.9
percent, or $408,267.
FREE ENTERPRISE
ASSISTANCE
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April Fool, a day eairly.
Former Mayor 'Ben E. Douglas
and Faison Barnes, tormei Kings
Mountain, now Charloitte lawyer, i
attended the funeral last week of
E. W. Griffin. We were talking
about the Monday result of tlie
Charlotte-Meoklenburg consolida
tion election which Mr. Douglas
had suppoirted. “I didn’t know
whether it would pass or not, but
I surely didn’t think it would be
defeated by that margin," Mr
Douglas said.
That fellow Allen Bailey must
be pretty tough, I suggested.
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Viewpoints of Other Editors
“■yeah,” Mr. Douglas said. "I
think maybe we oughta get up
a little money and build him a
house over here in Kings Moun
tain.”
’YES' AND ’NO'
'OUR CHANGING LANGUAGE-
Mr. Douglas I first met when
he was mayor of Charlotte some
30 years ago. He had a quite per
sonal reason for attending Mr.
Griffin’s funeral. Mr. Douglas
was best man at the Griffins wed
ding a hit over 51 years ago. He
"Yes” and “no” are humble but| Like the Society it serves, our
useful words, A child learns “no”' language is constantly changing,
soon after "mama” <md "dada”, But sometimes one can only won-
and makes full use of it. When a' df r if the cltanges are improve-
judge or an examiner insists on I ments.
yes-or-no answers, he compels I , ,_
precision of thinking — in the I Some years ago, ex p ,
question even more than the! American
KINGS MOUNTAIN
Hospital Log
VISI’nNG HOURS
Daily 10:30 to 11:30 AM.
3 to 4 PM. land 7 to 8 PM.
answer.
' i b.acr use of the suffix “wise’’ as
j a way of s.tying. “in regard to.
Yet classical Latin had no words Balance sheets showed hmv the
for “yes” or "no.” That lack did
not prevent cxprcs.sing the idea.
It just made for verbosity.
When Rome fell, and tlie Rom
said they’d become friends when | an tongue was turning into Ro-
company was doing financial
wise. Employment was either up
Or down, p,ir®onneIwise. Market-
wise the B.isel was a bomb.
they lived at the same boarding ■ mance languages, both the Latin
house in Gastonia and had been! of learned clerics and the
ever since. j Romance of the spoken dialects
I acquired crisper ways to answer
m-m ' ! the question "Is that so?”
■If you shorten “That is so” to
'So,” then “so” becomes a word
That evening I was talking to , ^ ... „„„
CoL W. K. Dickson, the city’s j Shorten it to That and
engineer, and mentioned havingi ‘that’ means yes. lhajt-is what
chatted with Mr. Douglas. i happened. The Latin sic (so)
I came to me.in “yes” in medieval
' Latin. "Sic” became the an'cestoi
of “si” for yes in modern Spanish
i and Italian, while the Latin for
‘Talked to Ben, did jx>u?”, the “that” became ancestor of the
Colonel teased. “He’s my next- j French "oul.”
door neighbor out there on Eliza - i 'today’s Russians have pe-rfeot-
beth Avenue.” Small world. | h good words for yes and no.
The media hav-> ha<i their in
fluence, too. Time magazine has
made lasting and useful contrib
utions -with “tycoon” and “social
ite.’’ which in part make up for
the publication’s less endurin?
neologisms such as “omnivender-
ous” and "parodoxhur#!.’’ Some
television weathermen seem in
capable of telling us whether
tomorrow will bring rain, snotv,
sleet, or hail; instead, they talk
about the curious meteorological
phenomenon, “precip.”
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m-m
oil known in ’the United Na-
t'ons, yc; they often answer ques-
ticr.s as early Romance did:
"Id the grass green?” “Green.”
Have.”
Put it took ancient India to
Now even the environmental
ists, supposedly so concerned
with protecting our heritage a-
.gainst the ravagers, have lot
their guard slip. The great con
cern today “ecosys,” as
OoL Dickson saw action in both , , ... , ,,
World Walrs, says his path Into 1 ^ ruble.
Germany in the second was al- . . .. . .
most idmtical to that of the first. | g‘'«c gigantic cosmic meanings to
I yess and no.
When ancient Indian scripture
m-m
City Clerk Joe McDaniel has a
good memory. He was reading
the Amertcan Legion Magazine,
wdrieh oariied a regular column
on up-coming reunions of vete
rans bid service units. Joe spotted
USS AHmaaick (AKA-10), remem
bered I had been aboaird and
called my attention to it. ’The re
union Is in August and the fel
low to write for deta.Ts is na'med
Hebert, from Thiboudeau, La.
Wonder if this Hebert is related
to the (Congressman from the
same state.
I’d never heaird of Thiboudeau,
but Mayor John Moss remembered
the city had a baseball team one
time in the Evangeline League.
Frank Edwards of the Heialld
staff knew where it was. The boys
had been playing the bottle game
for Cokes and Frank’s had arriv
ed in Kiliigs Mouitain all the way
from Thiboudeau.
It is about 50 miles southwest
of New Orleans and its popula
tion count, acording to a some
what ripe dictionary, is 7700.
I probably won’t make any re-
UTtlons, but I intend to write M.
Hebert and get the details. ‘
mentions a god or concept and
says “no,” that was no denial.
It was shorthand for saying that
the subject is infinite and trans-
oending; you could not compass
it in wo:^.
“Yes” on ’the other hand became
even mWe holy i— a .sacred chant
affirming all truths -about every
thing. Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists
and hippies use this yes (“Om”
in Sanskrit, the ancient holy
language of India) as a multi
purpose inoantation. “Om is the
whole universe,” say the Upanl-
shad scriptures.
Steeped in oriental lore, the
American poi. Alien Ginsberg
tried to calm the crowds at the
Ohleago riots of ’.388 by chanting
“Om!” repeatedly in a loud tone.
One of the funfiieir moments of
the conspiracy trial of -the “Chi
cago ’Eight” was when witness
Ginsberg tried to explain and
demonstrate “Om” to judge Juli
us Hoffman.
Hoffman said no. “Om” wasn’t
English, so it wasn’t admissible
in his court.
Des Moines Register
that t Icvision special on the Ev
erglades mads clear.
Granted, few things in life are
static, and a new word now and
then - -or even corruption of an
old one - - probably isn’t too
high a price to pay for novelty
value alone, if not for better
communications.
But this doesn't mean that we
should just stand aside and let
the language mongielizers have
th ir way. Like Winston Chur
chill sail, this is the sort oi
thing up with which we wovid
not put. Conformancewise, it's
sometimes necessary to be non.
—LoitisvilT} Courier Joiiiyial
Mrs, Jas. Johnson
Mrs. Claude Ari-owood
Jas. J. Brown
Mrs. Kenneth (jal iwai
Willie Carter
Wm. M. Clack
Mrs, Rufolph Cole
Kenneth Cook
Mrs. Clementine Baris
Mrs. Nell Grimes
Jonh Hall
Mrs. Kon l Hedrick
Harry Henderson
Eugene Hill
iMus. O. Jackson
WilflcInina Jenning.s
Mrs. Vertie Kale
Mrs. Floyd Lovelace
Mrs. O a Mauney
Mrs. Millard Mdecalf
Mrs. Jessee Milling
Wm. A. Mullinax
Mrs. Grace Philbei’k
E-ssie Phillips
Ray Phillips
Elzie Lee P'rtnam
Mrs. Mario Ramsey
Ms. Annie Raystcr -
Elizabeth Sellers
Mrs. iCha’rlie Tucker
Thomas Wells
Christopher Woods
Mrs. Milliard Young
Boyce White
M;s. Robert D. Falls
Lj-nda ’Myers
'Billy Robisnosn
Mrs, James Rockiialt
Afrs. Viirgio Co*'!
!H).S Grace St., City
Martin L. Wilson
.'>14 Plienix
Mrs. Lloyd WoikIs
lilO W. (!a. Ave., Be.ss. Cil.v
ADMITTED SATURDAY
Mrs, Rob Adams
Ili. 1. City
.Mrs. Mae IJrymer
315 E. W-a.shington Av<
Mrs. Jessie Ledford
610 Gantt St., City
Mrs. 'I'racy Stewail
707 Prinsion Dr., City
Mrs. Fannie While
Box ISl, Bessemer City
Willie T. Wilkie
1-17 Rliyne .SI., Bess, City
ADMITTED SUNDAY
Hilda Kincaid ..
1.315 \V. Walnut .St., Gastonia
Mrs. Winslow Mofilain
Rt. 1, Box 120, City
.Mrs. Clyde Ci'usky
,305 N. Watlersoii SI., City
Jeanette Smitli
Rt 2, City
Mrs. Robt. Hullen'.ier
Rt. 2. City
Mi.s. Billy Bolin
O. l3ox 103, Clover
Mrs. IX*an Buidges
Rt. (), .Shelby
Eula England
.S20 N. 4th St., City
Jas. R. Evans
Rt. 1, Dallas
Roger La Court <
Rt 1, Gastonia |
Mrs, VV. .MeCarter
Rt. 1, Yoik, S. C.
Mrs Jesse Webb
101 Cent, r St., City
ADMITTED MONDAY
Shulo.d Bentley
534 Gaston Blvd., Gastonia
Mrs. Sara Blanton
220 Tliornburg Dr., City
.Ms. Daniel Britt
507 Cleveland Ave., City
Mi«. Cliffoi-d Croft
Rt, 1, Helen Ave., Bess. City
Mrs. Willard Glance
93.S N. Highland, Gastonia
He.man Gofortli
Rt. 2, Box 632, City
Mrs, Becky Pattei-son
(508 Temple St., City
Lavonne R ynolds
P O. Box 32S. Cilv
ADMITTED TUESDAY
s. Irene Carroll
Rt. 2, Chcrryville
Jas. Bm'.vn
522 -Hatmon Ct., City
Mrs. Luther O. Caveney
Rt, 2, Box 229 E., City
Florence Butler
P. O. Box -toi, Bess, City
Nancy Gray
2801 E. Sunset Dr., Gostoni.'i
ADMITTED THURSDAY t
■vii-s. Sid L. Moss
1340 Westover
Mrs Thos. Gantt
Rt. 1
Mrs. Johnny Peer
201 Dover Dr., -Be.ssemor City
Jerome Stricklan’J
801 Jackson st., City
Birth
Announcements
i learn from Webster’s that to
day is pasqueflower day in the
United States — Number 2 mean-
-ing for April fool “one who is im
posed upon on April 1”.
Wonder who is toughest to deal
with, the Aprtl FWl Jokester, or
Hallowe’en -praidotor? i
MEMENTO
They were only ea raying out
scientific researoh, to be sure, -but
still the mortar the astronauts
left behind on the m-wn to fire
off gtren-ades alter their departure
was a vetny strange memento.
In any case, there was no mis
taking its significance. Cf all the
products at its command, our
civilization could not choose one
which better symbolized Its -finer
ooints.
daydream -briefly: Since it
.lus been shown that plant life
can thrive on lun-ar soil, would it
not have been possible to cany
along a -few cuttings -and, to com
pensate for the violenice at tbe
explosion, leave a flower or two
on the moon?
SETTING A COURSE
FOR SNOWMOBILES
As spring pulls the apron of
winter snow up the continent in
to Canad-a, a num’ber o-t ecologists
and government officials will be
surveying tlie countryside for
signs of snowmobile damage.
No doubt, as was feared at -the
outset, they will find some litter
ing, .some damage to young ittees
and golf courses. And -they -will
hear complaints about the noise,
the running to exhaustion of
wildlife, and the cowboy fool
hardiness of -many of the .snow-
mobi'le owners.
Two things seem -likely. The
damage is likely to be not so
great as early reponls have -made
it out to -be. But second, the evi
dence will likely sRmv that the
newest outdoor fad seriously
needs controls.
The simple fact is that almost
everyone — law enforicemont of
ficers, legislators, conservation
ists — misjudged the growth of
the -sport. Sn-owmobiling grew
like Topsy. There was no safety
training, no restrictions on where
they could go, no regi.stratlon re
quirement. And now in -the snow-
belt states and iGanad-a officials
are having to catch up.
We believe there ought to be
uniformilty In regional codes, im
posing noise limits and, partic
ularly, establishing certain -wil-
ADMITTED FRIDAY
M.s. Robt. Hawkin
Rt. 3, Box 2,53, City
Frank Bruke
704 W. Gold, City
M.'.s. Geo. Carroll
905 Chruch -St., City
Mr. an ! M"s. Thomas W. Gi*
son, Rt, 4 Cliapel Grove Road.
Gastonia, announce -the birth of
a son, Wodne.sday, March 21.
197'1. Kings Mountain hospital
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Rose, 12^
Reid St., Lincolnton, annocn-e
the l)i;-th of a daughter, Thui.s
day, March 25, 1971, Kings
Mountain hospital.
Mr. an-i Mrs. Jack Mill r, son
S. .Main .St., announce the birlli
of a daughter, Friday, M.-irili
26, 1971, Kings Mountain hospi
lai.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dean -Rii-I
•es, Rt. 6, Box 30s, Shelby, an
nounce the birth of a daughter.
Sunday, March 2S, 1971, Kin;."
Mountain hospital,
Mr. and Mrs. Rbt. Hullemier.
Rt. 2, announce the birth of a
son, .Sunday, March 28, 19TI,
Kirgs Mountain hospital.
Mr. anJ .M-rs. Billy Gene Bolin.
Box 193, Clover, .S. C., annoimce
the hirih of a daughter, Monday.
.Ma:ch 29, 1971, King.s Mountain
hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Winslow M
Clain. Rt. 1, Box 120, annoani-e
111- birth of a son, Monday,
March 29, 1971, Kings Moiin
tain hospital.
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ON HONOR ROLL
-Mvin Luther Ellison, Kings
Mountain student at Wingate
college. wa.s listed on the acn__
domic honor roll for the sl'rin4®
quarter.
dorness regions out of bounds.
—Le Monde' For as spring oomra artd wo
■■ I would like to eon-teimpl-ate (visit-
METER RECEIPTS I Ing lakes uncut by the -buzz of
Paiking meter receipts for the ' outtlxoard mortars, so wc would
week ending Tuesday totaled like to look ahe^ to next year’s
$116-50 including $1()6.90 from snowg and relief ftom the snow-
on-street meters and $11.50 motbile’s wJihie.
from off-strect meters. l Cluisttan Sdanee Monitor
Keep Your Radio Dial Set At
1220
WKMT
Kings Mountain. N. C.
iVews & Weather every hour ou 'the
hour. Weather every hour on the
half hour.
Fine entertainment in between
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