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Page 2 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday. April 8. 1971 Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald 206 South Piedmont Ave. Kings Mountain. N. C. 28086 A weekly newspaper devoted to tlie promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainmiit and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Tliursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the post office ot Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewait Ciradatlon Manager and .Society Editor Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Booldtceper Frank Edwards •Rocky Martin MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT ~ Allen Myors Roger Brown ' On Leave With Tlie United States Army Paul Joed i M.AIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVbl-NCE tin North Carolina and South Carolina One year $4; months $2.25; three months $1.50; school year $3. (Stfbscription In North Carolina subject to three percent sales tax.) In All Other States One year $5; Siix months $3: three months $1.75; school year $.3 75. kus NORTO CAROLINA SALES TAX TtLEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE He is not here, but is risen: reynember hoxv he sjjake unto you St. Luhe Si.-t: Another Dead Horse v Governor Robert W. Scott has an nounced the administration will not have introduced a bill to provide for an election on a Constitutional amendment which would permit a governor to suc ceed himself. A head count had indicated the votes wem’t present to secure the bill’s passage and, the Governor remarked, there were important matters at hand if the bill had no chance. When the matter came to the fore ground (as it tends to come periodical ly), Governor Scott waxed coy on the envious question; Would he be a candi date to succeed himself? To a question as to his attitude on gubernatorial succession. Governor Ter ry Sanford, near the end of his term, re plied. “I haven’t yet decided that North Carolina needs a professional governor.” At the time, he said he might favor a single six-year term, but wasn’t sure of that. Governor Luther Hodges, a quite successful one, served six years conse cutively, .succeeding to the office at the death of Governor William B. Umstead, then winning a term in his own right. He is the only governor to serve- more than four years since Governor T. J. Jarvis, who, like Hodges lieutenant gov ernor, succeeded at the death of Gov ernor Zebulon B. Vance in 1879, then win in his own right in 1881. The Herald has been inclined to fa vor the 1964 Sanford position. North Carolina now has more than five mil lion citizens. Among them there should be a continuing flow of gubernatorial talent, without, as Sanford said, rely ing on “professional governors”. Demise of the prospect of a two- term governor in the person of Scott both dims and muddies the 1972 Demo cratic political picture. Unofficial gubernatorial candidates Pat Taylor and Skipper Bowles are run ning just as hard as if they were “offi cial”. “Little Bob” Morgan, attorney- general, is talking in two directions, both about the governorship and the Everett Jordan seat in the United States Senate, (iovernor Scott, too, acknow ledges to some ambition to go to Wash ington, as his father did. The Senator is recuperating from a cancer operation which his surgeons de clare successful, which means the Sen- atw expects to succeed himself. And another bit; the Senator and Governor are cousins. Charles A. Cannon Charles A. Cannon, for a half-cen tury head of Cannon Mills, built a tex tile empire. He built the largest unincorporated city in the United States. He built churches, YMCA's, contri buted to a host of charitable projects, sent kids to college. He lost a son in an airplane crash in W'orld .War II. In turn, Mr. Cannon was the ack nowledged boss—yea, dictator—of the Cannon Mills empire, including the City of Kannapolis and with overtones in nearby Concord where he lived. Most firms the size of—and much less than the size of Cannon Mills, spend large sums on their annual reports. But hot Cannon Mills, Only the briefest of financial information was ifiven. Can non stock was listed on the New York Stock Exchange, considered pre.stigious toy most firms, but not by Charles A. Cannon. The Exchange kept pressuring Cannon for more detailed financial re ports and for proxy solicitation of stock holders. Mr. Cannon refused, saying in effect, “if you want to throw mo out of the lodge, go ahead.” The Exchange did in 1962. No bother to Mr. Cannon. His performance the last day of his life was tvpical of the man. At work, as usuaV^e suffered a .stroke, argued against hospitalization, completely re fused the use pf an ambulance. That evening he passed. It was typical of the man. By MARTIN HARMON Evan J. Evans and Mrs. E\'ans fliw to Miami, wltere thoir son and daughter live. Both are em- ploj'ei by Eastern Airlines, Mary Helen as a st,.wardess. m-m As the Evans landed they found 'un<l Mrs. Evans being paged. "Jimmy wouldn't be pa ging us,’' Father Evans was sur.', but they reported as diw'ctei to ;he proper gate. There thy found a gleaming limousine and a nice young man who inquired, “Mr. and Mrs. Evans?” jn-m “Yes.” mm Wrong Es-ans. ITie young man was waiting to whisk Gov rnnr -nd Mrs. Evans, of the great State ar Washington to their Miami Beach q'.iarters and their duties at the 196.8 U publican Na- 'ional convention. m-m Initially booked for p.a.s.o.ige ion the flight, the Governor and. his wife Imi tak n a later one. • Iv:! Kings Mountain Evans' lear- ne.i. m-m Ev.an, principal of Bethwnre s -huol, wonders what would hav_ horpen d h.td they accepted the hispitality of the nice young man and his limousine. m-m Mary Ile'.cn gra;.iuated from . _ _ Kings Mountain high school and 1 tie liberalized abortion bill intro-(the night thr lights went out, duced by Cleveland - Rutherford - Polk i t’hr’;lie Blalock’s grocery .store's Representative Robert Jones of Forcstlroof flew off, and Claude ll.am- City, passed by the House by narrow i'’ft-iit .somehow held on to the margin, was defeated in the .Senate Tue.s-1s'lop to keep day, by the very narrow margin of four ^^™"'' t'P I'l^e Charlie’s roof, votes. I it was ih'- night of the May tor- in'do. Has it been nearly eight years? I m-m Helen was MARTIN'S MEDICINE HE IS RISEN % v.'h'n h was yet in Galilee. Abortion Aborted votes. It is apparently dead for Iho sc.ssion as a motion carried by four votes to let the bill “lie on the table”. It can bo re vived only by two-thirds vote, in view of the defeat an apparently insui-mounta- ble obstacle. Gaston-Cleveland district Senators For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him shad not perish, but have everlasting life. JOHN JII 16 STRANGE HAPPENINGS JAR COAL INDUSTRY Viewpoints of Other Editors THE GALLEY REACTION Things are happening in the coal industry that could sitell trouble for the coal-produciiig states. Tlie break-up of the Na tional Coal Policy Conference, while it was not entirely unex pected, contain..<l troubling un dertones. Mary Helen was on duty re- c. ntly on a fh'ht on which Gov ernor Bob Scott was a pa.ss‘'n- gcr. The Gover’iQr learned she T1 1 ^ N North Carolina and Mai. ha,1 Rauch of Ga.sfonia and Ollie th v ehattei at some length in- Hamspf Kings Mountain crossed on the^d-'Pd, in the Governor’s letter to issue, Gastonia Gazette Reporter John Principal nvan.s, th- Govemor York relates, both in committee and on;’’Ted, “i wi'^h we could have tab the floor vote. ; Red more, but she was pretty pas, year members of An associate of Senator Harris said; ’ Congress and a few coneeiwa his tolenhono had run hot and his mail' tionists have been complaining heavy, bulk of the communicants a-i i that u. s. oil compani, s were gainst the bill. I Tv.ons js particulorlv 1 steadily acquiring a monopoly o- Reporter York quoted Senator ”' ""-' “ perso-a’; ver our national energy sources, Rauch as saying, a ho snoke briefly in f^o'-orfior wrote support of the bill. “This is the first n-p'w-riter secretary and time the position of senator has really; become a iob for me. I find myself wish- j m-m ing that the abortion bill somehow had miraculously never been brought up.” Crux of the issue was whether a They were having diriner at the clearly than anything else woman could, in effect, order an abor- Rfiya! Villa Motor inn. warnings had sub- i. and mijht soon bo able to exer cise a sort of industrial black mail over government and the pwivvcr industry 'through their control of coal, oil and atomic EJIl .8tinnett was tel'lfn"- a-1collaps(> ot the hourhi's' smart -two-vear'old. ' Coal Policy Conference shows youri'Tsl T a F'^- ther Bill a steak VtTien I’-ic 'fp,-..' was ser'-rd. Mrs. .‘Stinrett ?rl. dross d the lad. “ATon’t 5-ci.i go. tion on her own volition .during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Other stipulation provided that a married woman must have the permission of her husband. Another was that she have been a resi dent of the state for 30 days. | The bill currently on the books,' “That’s nn stoat Thoe u promoted bv former Senator Jack White mttyer.” Can’t'fool ’om lays sm of Kincs Mountain, le.gahze abortions, mm when three doctors decide the health of: To paranhrase Andy stance. The Conference, formed ing the coal slump a.' 1959, u ^ht coal labor and The tremendous, spontaneous welling up of indignation over the Calley outcome sho'uJd not overbear the (fact that justice must remain the prerogative of the courtroom not tlie market place or town common or corri dors wlicre the public gathers to anguish ar.-l reason over disturb ing major events. It should be seen that two processes are going on ui the Calley cas.. It is continuing toward a legal resolution that could take many months — through the military and then the federal courts, with possible intervention by a mili tary boatel or the President. Ac companying the Calley proceed ings will be other legal moves a- gainst superior officers for com plicity in tile slayings or for co vering the episode up. m-m the mother i.s threatened, when there is liklihood the child will be mentally or phy.sically impaired, or when the child has been sired through rape or inco.st. The particular bill was recently up held by a trio of federal district judges in a unanimous decision. I ment together in a joint def-, nse I of coal against competing fjcls, i principally residual oil arrl nu- ,pc-.ver. From a coal view- p-'nt, it h.as operated fairly well. Griffith ' ^ major ' I strikes, and prices have risen ' s' .adily, though it can be argued i that wages liave not kept pace , . .. I with the spectacular price in- P-ontnn'o “P-.U creases in some ficld.s. Managc- laco . ” ‘''“ty of I jhp United Mine Wor- PTitons 19R9 .sca.snn, in-tersoers I'd with what it wmz wuz baseball. dur- The Galley case is also oontin- bro- uing toward a public resolution - manage- j and the road to this may be far longer and harder to cover. In the response to date Ih.rc has iieen a gratifying measure of common sen.se, amidst irration ality. The aspect of scapegoat- i.sm, for instance, has b.en clear ly seen by the American people. m-m .\Tv rmotional reaction su”cd a.i was inevitable o'/ertones, perhaps be.st 1 Senate vote. The two pro voted “nav”. Dr. Carl Kili legist, voted “yea”. I . ' I kr-e liave coordinated th. ir lob- ‘“I uifn ba(?K'^rounfl nfi». • , *. * lUs diT- ,r7„ , i.u If l 'ty‘ti.8 slrcogth to opposc inpor- I v'orh Yankee.s hcrore hh ten hail m bill re- ion its zip, detaiUn-^ pn.uon’a'a’ ” T its moral m.a-u.-y of the knuckleball, and L'seamrtete "od in the carninK his smirs with the Seat members during .8,!'-ittle’s expan 1. a psycho-1 T"" Y^ar in the American ) League It was iillled a.s the Etrcaf "cvno.se” of maior league hasc- hnll, hut did not .seem .so to me. W’s fare it. A major league m.i'phnll player, under continual pressure and everyday-unlcss-it- coal uses, mine safety and allied subjects. Cor>,!ToI At lea.'st three Kings Mountain May ors fought for a traffic signal at the in tersection of We.st King Street and Country Club Road. The State Hightvay nains performer for 162^garnet aV only control practically But recently, lareat chunks of tile coal industry have been gob- ble.d up by oil firms, in what Congressman William Anderson of Tennessee calls “ a scheme to control virtually all raw energy sources in the Unit d States.” The 10 hi'Tg-'s! oil companies and their subsidiaries and allied Commission continued to say “no” and the same with a needed signal at Cans- ler and King. Mayor John Henry Moss finally won over—partially—the highway commis sion engineers. The signal could be in stalled, SH S'. PW specifications— at the city’s expense. The Herald, without checking, recalls the S1600. It’s ironic. a remit most team.s have their quotas of prima donna.s. Bouton him.self no exception. als firms which are also buying heavily in coal resoriTs. _ Naturally, these new “coal" enVt at markets. EmblMnatici™”" coal-indus- COSt at aiOUnd,,,f b^a.Xll!^''y 'ebbying against the use of I .sea.son, .Mnrida.v's edition carried 1 raising em- The Wall Street Journal does more than quote the stock market report.s and opinions (99 pencent hedged) by the analysts of the all U. S. oil and gas reserves, but an estimated 40 p Tcent of known reserves of basic n'-clcar iSuels. Another large portion of nuclear fuels is owned ty miner-i gesture the White (House But otiier reactions have been confused. For instance, many ci tizens public seized by feelings of mass public guilt aniJ want to make of the Calley outcome a ease for a public con.tssion and expatiation of that guilt. Others want to make of it the basis for piecipitously determining Ameri can policy in South Vietnam. And otliers liave even turned a- gainst the military jurors in the Calley court martial and accused them of abetting the miscarriage of Juvslice. Again, the public and legal proceoiings must be kept dis tinct. If the administration u.ses the Calley public reaotion as an index of American sentiment to ward the war, as it may have in taking the garrison onus off Cal ley and rea.ssii;ning him to more normal base quarters, this is un- dTstandable. But even in this an exh.wistiye feature Henry “Hammerin’ Hank” Aaron I Powered generating plants. The- wboni the Journal reporter label'I y’''® things too neatly ed the game’s most un-heralded ra.-king of ba-rrassing obj-rtions to nuclear- Now the city is to get all kinds of traffic control signals, inchdding Cans- ler-King, replacements on many others, and safety gates at two clangorous rail crossings and ali at & PW expense. There is good reason for -the big switch. The federal Bureau of Public Roads is doing some arm twisting, not just here but throughout the 50 states, none of wh'ch met a prior deadline for traffic control upgrading. The Herald’s examination of the engineer’s quite detailed maps find.s them excellent, the lone criticism minor. .'’hould the traffic signal at Linwood -and Piedmonr be removed, to be replaced by yellow an-ows on Piedmont and a big red ston .sif-in for westbound motor ists on Linwood? The signal has bonefitted traffic' control and safety at that intersection. I It is paid for. I sfnr on rostors. today’s major m-m Aaron broke into the Braves’ liae-up when Henry Thornn.ison broke his leg and he’.s been there ever since, having at last season’.s end hit 592 home runs comoiled a l"-*--- io. At 37, iiiigCiT and others, he ..-o an e.xcellent ehanee of ecHus- ing Babe Ruth’s all-time home run record of 714. mm And Willie Mays of the Gianfe was quite in character on open ing day, walloping Number 629 for his career. Play ball, John George. the fuels boat. Whether they can get away witli it is another matter. Col lapse of the Coal Policy Confer ence will probably jolt a lot of t>eople in Congress into aware- n ss of what's going on. It IS almost certain that the „,c union, which has already been accus'ed by its members of being too friendly with the op'T- ators, is going to bo looking more closely into its working con tracts than it did when all the men in the coal business were coal men. In any event, the coal business seems to be changing, and signtficantly. Whether for goo.i or ill remains to he seen, but to date it does not look very good. ' Lofiisvillc Conxvtt-Journal JOHN Q. DOES IT AGAIN Prtiof continues to bubble up out of the caldron of public de bate that the individual citizen can, as a recent series in this newspaper held, make his voice be heal'd in affairs that affect him directly. One rec.nt example is the ov- ertvhelming defeat by the Cali- f'cmiia State Legislature of a neav $3,-d million span across San Francisco Bay, from San Fran cisco to Alameda and San Lean dro. The bridge, und r discussion for 25 years, had plenty of in fluential official and private .sup porters. Turning fhe tide (painsi the ■project was local protest, large ly on the basis of i ecological cone. ms. Ordinary citizens fore saw an inci'casc of smog, visual blight, and a proliferating spag hetti-bowl ot feeder e.xpressways to the bridge. They rose up with a thundering “nay” to the stat. legislators a group not nor mally mei-solicitou-s of environ mentalists. We will not presume to juilie the merits ot either side in the bridge battle from this tilsta'ncc. But whether vox populi was right or wTong in its assess ment of how much damage the new span may have worked is •not the point. What is encour aging is the fact that ordinary citizens made their own judg ment of what is for the public good, and forced entrenched in terests to come to terms with that judgment. San Franciscans liave done it in the past. They stopped the tlirust of a brutal freeway Ihivjugh the heart of their city. They stopped filling in and e- ventual destruction of San Fran cisco Bay. Now they have done it again. And we applau l. —Christian Seienee Monitor WANTED: AN OPEN ^ DOOR HOUSING Fi‘W ai(>a« of American life have racked up such a tKinsisi. enlly abysmal record of falluie ovii- tlie years as has hoasing. Going hack to the Housing; ,\i-t of 19-19 up to Ute present, the gap b. tween promise and priKiuction has been a disgt-.-ice, riie 196S Omnibus Housing A t A'iis suppostKi to itoiTOcI the ifail ures. It ealLd for ‘26 million new units of housing by 1978. Hut A-hile it suci.'eeded in raising jtii. hu'lion of badly needed low- to moderatr-income housing by se- vi'ial limes, general economi,; conditions put the skids undei- single-family hoasing for middle, income Americans. Now Congiv ss is at it again. I'liis summer a now seripM of learings will probe for fads on why the accent on quantity in DuiUlng low- to moderatein ■ome housing has resulted in shoddy products. Tito House Banking and Cui- lency .SubcommilLe on Housin'^ will surely also want to know how much truth there Is in the charge that the federaj tix asury will pay out to banks and fimm- ,'ial institutions up to $6 billion annually on subsidized 30-yi'^fc mortgage loan inti'rest pu.V ments. tJusi one year’s interest .subsidies, at that rate, could build 300,000 houses at S20,ljt)ii ach, and turn them over tu poor fomilies, with no mortgage attached.) 1'he committee should have some other interesting questions to pose. Such as why, despite increased prc.ludion, is low-cost housing scarcer than ever? Why iire prices skyrocketing and driv-1 Ing more and more families out ' of the housinig market (the a\ erago FHA monthly payment is up from $148 in 1^5 to $270 in 1970)? Why, two years after the planned starting date, lio.s construction not begun on a sin gle unit of Operation Break through housing, whose expei ; mental projects were to put A merican housing on an assembly line basis? Or why have aban donments of solid apartment houses in major cities been out stripping the number of new low- cost units being built? One major problem has kepi the public largely in ignorance on what is going on in the hous field. That problem is the enot mous complexity of the whole area, which in-volves land and la bor costs, materials availability, bousing and zoning codes, ar liqu'ated production methods, acA a Jerry-built delivery system. KtW n the experts conie out sound ing confused. ., • 'Hopefully the summer’s inves ligations yvlll ask the toughest questions an.i demand the stiai- ghest answers. Chiislian Seienee Monil'ir WOMAN 'JURISTS' 'FIRST- RIGHT TO KNOW—WHAT Tile House Committee on Got -■rnmcnl Operations, which autli- orjHl the Freedom of Information Act to guarantee the publics right to know about the publics busimss as conducted by federal agencies, is about to get itself organized. It will ;do so in private. Press and public will ,be bamHi. Representative Chet Ilolifitid ID-Calif. I chairman, eal<i he thought the organizational meet ing of the committee, at whieli rules, procedures and subcom mittce stiructure will be deter mined, "is the private business of the committee.'' .Sometimes it’s hard to tell where hypocrisy enids and Con gross begins - Chatanooga Time careful to say it was not making a “iegal” move. One of the jurors, Maj. Har vey Brown, was right when he said In a CBS interview, the public wa.s "letting their emo tions mie their mind at this point. They haven’t sat through teiir and one-half months of trial an-: heard the facts.” Ho was aif- firming the integrity of the cocrtm-artial jurors’ acting from their view of law. Ho said he felt nothing but compassion toyvard Calley and hoped the ultimate findings might he otherwi.se. So, judging by the public dis may, do many others. 'But, it must be rememl>ered, tile Amer ican system of justice has not yet haid its final say and must be allowed to do so without more unreasoning pressings than it can ibear. —Christian Science Monitor '■ Keep Your Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather every hour oi» the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour< Fine entertainment in between
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