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Page 2 Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald 206 South Ftodmont Ave. Kings Mountain, N. C. 2S06S A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enllgihtenment, entertainmnt and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and Its vlolnlty, published every Thursday by the Herald Patching House. Entered as second class matter at-the post oiffloe at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDrrORlAL SEPARTMBHT Martin Haxmon Editor-Publisher Mias Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss I>d»le ThorrAurg Clerk. Bookkeeper Ftasik Edwards 'Rocky MarUn MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Alien Myors Roger Brown Paul Jackson Joel Lightsey • On Leave With The United States Army MAIL SUaeCRIFnaN bates payable in advance In Nertli Octrellaa and Sontti CnrtHry^ OfM year 94; alk months 9B.9S; tttree months 9lfKl; school year $3. (ftObscrlptlsn In Nofth Oshollna subject to three percent sales tax.) In All Other States One year $5; six months $3; three months $1.75; school year $3.75. PLUS NORTH CAIWXrNA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Rivn the Lod Ood lof hosts; the Lord i» hi? 'memoritil. I j Ilosea 12:5. Knit-Picking The Gold State Gobernotorial Veto The Charlotte Observer, with some merit, criticizes the General Assembly for Its declination to give the governor of the state the veto power. North Car olina holding the distinction of being a loner among the 30 of these United Staftes. Most particularly, says the Observ er, is not pronuftiDn pf gubernatorial vetoes, but an assist to the governor, whoever he - - - “Commission, Tax Office Violate State Statutes”, read the headline, which read unprettily until the text of the story was perused. The headline appeared in the Shel by Star and concerned a calldown by the chief of the North Carolina State of Assessment, D. R. Holbrook. The statute requiring incomplete construction to go on the ad valorem tax books, based on percentage of com pletion value, is being violated, said Mr. Holbrook. He also called attention to the fact that the county tax supervisor (in the Cleveland County situation R. M. Gid- ney) has no authority to change valua tions after the county commission sits as a board of equalization and review. There's no question about the coun ty being in violation of the statute on putting incomplete construction on the tax books. It has been in violation his torically. There are several practical reasons threfor, no't least among them the dif ficulty in determining percentage of completion — easy enough for profes sional builders or for firms employing architects, not so for many others. 1 From the standpoint of fairness, it trould appear this yardstick is met. ml have been treated alike for, Mr. Gid- ney says, a quarter century to his cer tain knowledge. Mr. Gidney further contends that his office has not acted as a “super" board of equalization and review, that Is, acting to change assessed valuations after the board has sat, but limiting Changes to legally and practically cor rect matters of correcting clerical and listing errors. Retention of the state statute on percentage completion listing might put a few more dollars into county coffers each year but a practical and fair ap proach would be for the General Assem bly to repeal this statute. It might be added that local gov ernment agency tax officials are not always satisfied with the figures sup plied by Mr. Holbrook’s state board of Assessment on public utilities, such as Duke Power Company, Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company, and otl'.ers. They often wonder aloud wheth er additions to plant and equipment to tal as they should. The state is to buy and develope the old Reed gold mine in Cabarrus County, which is thought to have pro duced more gold than any in North Carolina which, until the California Strike, in 1848, was the leading gold producing state. It reminds that the Kings Mouritain Gold Mine produced a considerable a- mount of gold in its heyday. The late Jim Parker was a teamster working the Shafts which he said ran from the York Road to Kings Mountain Cotton Oil Company. Today the shafts are flooded and the principal contributions it has made in recent years is this water dUring per iods of water shortage here. It would seem credible that, with modern methods, the Kings Mountain mine could produce again. Last effort was made in the mid- thirties by a family named Towory from Canada. The venture ended in tragedy, as the son touched a live electric wire and was killed. Presidentiol Primary Governor Bob Scott made a state ment of support Monday and it now ap pears certain that North Carolina will join other states conducting pre.sidential primaries quadrennially. Initially a seeming “sure thing", the propo.sal to put North Carolina into the presidential primaries van was sput tering along toward defeat, and word emanating from the Governor's office indicated his opposition. Whether true or not, the Scott statement apparently cleared the atmo sphere for all signals “go”. Principal benefit of the pres'dential primaries is that they will bring North Carolina leading candidates of 1 par ties, exposing the candidates to the people and the people to the candidates. That’s the major orie and there may be few more, except that the pho tographing of the campaigners will ap pear on television and in the news papers. From the standpoint of there being great impact on the nomination of can didates there won’t be too much impact. The proposed law binds the dele gates only on the first ballot.' Few candidates for presidential nominations win on the first one, unless he is an incumbent president, and, oth erwise, if a candidate spread-eagles the field on the first, it makes little differ ence anyhow. Primaries are expensive, like all forms of political warfare, and the campaign treasurers may find them selves w'eighing the question: is the ex posure worth the money? The candidates go to New Hamp shire, because it is the first of the pri maries and likely will honor North Caro lina because of the state’s 13 electoral votes. But it will be recalled in 1956 that the late Senator Estes Kefauver, of Tennessee, was a great race-horse in the primaries, and that the best his fine performance did lor him was to provide him second place on Adlai Stevenson’s losing ticket. And Mr. Kefauver almost didn’t get second place, defeating a Senator named Jack Kennedy from Massachusetts by the proverbial nose. S!ill Biennial Recent action in the General As sembly appears to have buried for this session the recurring proposal to con vene the General Assembly annually, rather than biennially. It means, among other items, that Cleveland-Gaston district Senator Mar shall Rauch has struck out for the third time in his efforts to obtain annual ses sions. Assuming the veteran senator from Gaston returns to Raleigh in 1973,'it can be assumed also that he will go to the plate again in another attempt. Point was made during the debate, following the state legislature rating re port by a foundation study group, that North Carolina was down-graded be cause her legislature did not meet an nually. From the practical viewpoint, all the arguments are in favor of the posi tion of Senator Rauch and his support ers. North Carolina is big business and no big business can adequately conduct its operations efficiently on such a long- range basis. But results show that North Caro lina and its biennial gatherings have fared well on performance. The state is quite liquid financially and it is a “low tax’’ state, ranking a- bout as low on the tax gathering list as on the list of the foundation observers who down-graded the Tar Heel late. cessfully promoting legislation. The declination points up Ivo prin cipal factors: 1) North Carolina’s basic conservatism and 2) natural jealously of the General Assembly of its powers, which a gubernatorial veto would tend THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, April 22, 1971* MARTIN’S MEDICINE Up-Dating His image By MARTIN HAIMON A 7:05 a.m. Monday intersee-1 lion joust between cars driven by James Oliver Tate, of 222 Waco Road, ..nd Marcus B>’Td ■Roberts, of Grover, created some fun, of sorts, in my sec tion of town. m-m The crash, at the intersection of West Mountain and South Watterson, propelled one of the autos into the fire hjtJrant in front of Bright Ratteree’.s house. The hjxirant was clipped at the base and water began gushing in force and quantity. m-m Shortly water was gushing, too, from the hydrants at the corner of Mountain and South Tracy and at the comer of Mountain and South Goforth, as S. A. Blanton’s repair crew sought to cut pr.ssure at tlie da mage spot and piocecd wMh their laborious repair work. m-m Water pres.surc was lowered I immediately in houses on Moun tain and the nonfh-scuth sire ts sert’ed by the Mountain street ; lino but it was shortly after 1.1 ! o'clock before the repairmen were able to shut off the area , ■ r-cm‘i letely and proceed with , the main job. m-m I M. anlime, we were having a j bit of lun at my house. Ben T. I Gofortli's crew, given an S.O..S. ’ for the umpteenth time due to a clogged sower lino, arrived to perform the operation the doc tor (Ben) h:id deferred before, 1: t wh: h he knew had to come ; eventually. Dig up the line and I replace It. m-m ADMITTED SATURDAY RlUi Lynne Brooks a20<) po.ston Circle, Gastonia Lisa .M. Clai>’ SOf) I-fwy. 161, Bosseraer Cil> .Mrs Virginia Lutz Johnson Route 3, 'B<JX 283JC, City Hunter W. Taylor Route .3, Clover, S. C. o Pagi A admitted SUNDAY L<c Mj'ei's 26 Elm Street, CTly Mrs. Mae Love Green Route 4, no.s.scmr City William W. Sutherland 911 l'lr.st Street, Cilv •Mrs. Shirley Gain>y 615 Separk Circle, Gastonia 'Mrs. Raymond Garris 310 Wafer Street, City LLUie Mae Hinson 210 Orr Terrace, Cily Suprina Bt*atrice Lee 1406 .Sp.ncer, Giistonia Mrs. Johnhv ^‘■‘OliaJn 713 W. Rankin Avenue, William Clyde Slwrt Short Road Goat. /// c. HOMES FOR MIDDLE AMERICA Viewpoints of Other Editors WSTTIOTTAlfr USES OF THE RIVER While the Interior Deportment Many middle income families, . I representing a vast taxpaying There was a time when a segment of our society too often new’y devJoped plastic pipe neglected when it com,es to the was quite popular. It was cheap return of their taxes in the form i at 40 cents per foot, as compar-; of governmental services, are ed to east iron, about 90 cents, now eligible for new and meaji- and defied puncture. ingi-Li federal help in the pur chase of homes of their own. is studying the feasibility of new federal recreation area a- iong the iMiasissippi River, the U. S. Ehigineers are studying the de.'pening of the river's channel from 9 to 12 feet along Missouri and Illinois, to accom- intf.iate bigger barges. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board announced in Washington ('recently) that it is inaugurating a new $S5 million a year pro gram specifically designed to as sist middle income families who I have found themselves priced out ' of the housing market in rercnt “We plumbers laid atoivt three to four hundred miles of that stuff around town before we learne.t it was no account," Ben said. The new stuff didn’t punctuie, b'jt .a growing root would smash it together. There was no way to ream it out, as with tile ordinary cIog.ged eewer ^ Generally, they are families m-m too affluent for public housing When the i.reien . ■ but too poor to a'ffori a decew : l.n neiahihe^ , home on the open market-those Channel deepening, conserva tionists daim, curtails wildlife and natural habitat. Heavier barge traffic surely would not enhance recreation, either. Hospital Log VISITING HOURS DoUy 10:30 to 11:30 AK. 3 to 4 PJi*. land 7 to 8 PJ«. 17:15, neighbor Ann Prti"’A-.)< thought the stoppage stemimed from the work going on at oa.' house. Inventive Anne got seme neb.ied water out cif the het wa ter tank. There was other fun. .\Iy wife Was brushing her teelh wh n the water went. I suggest-; d she coul'd wash out her toothpaste : weth milk. She had a b. tter idea, , melting the ice cubes from the I refrigerator. with annual incomes In the $7,- 000 to $12,0(X) a year range. ■If accepted In the new FHL ■'3 program, such a family car now receive 'a government sub- .'•idy of up to $1,200 to help fi nance a home purchase. The as sl.stance would come in the form o' a $20 monthly payment for five years. The obvious conflict between commerce and recreation must b resolved. It looks like a good ispute for the new National Council on Environmental QuaJ- juy which President Nixon set jp to assess the environmental -mpact d; all federal projects. As a transportation fa-cility, the river has alternaitives in rail, lir and truck shipping. As a na- ural resource, it has no dupJi- oate. r -Milioauklrie Journal The program, wliieh would be limited to conventional mortgage Irar.a made by savings and loan as.sociatlons, would work this Way: A POSTMAN KNOCKS Neighbor Clare.ice Poteat had i » v.- j « . bron palniting his porch. He t s- j ehtse^“^ ed turpentine to remove the paint flAicks on his arms, then wont over to the gushing hy- drant nearby to wash his arms. hemo with a mort'gagi of up to $25,000. A postman In La Puente, Cal if., is in some trouble, so we un derstand, for obstructing the work of the local dog catcher. It seems that the postman and a foot-loose poddle on his route are fritnds and when the straying mutt was in danger of Loans covered by the program i aapture, the postman atc^. He Rdbert 'Bamefttc Joseph T. Altman iBurman C. Bryant Mrs. Clatiie M. Atwwood Mrs. Mae H. Brymer WUlie T. Carter William K. Carroll William M. Cladt (Hubert G. Clemmons Mrs. Mattie Eunice Davis ■Mrs. Floyd Dover Mrs. CJemcntine FarLs Mrs. Letda B. OUmoo-e Mrs. WUiard Lee Glance John D. Harris iFloj-d F. Herndon Paid A. Howard, Sr. 'Mrs. O. O. Jackson Mrs. Wilhtlmiina P- Jennings Otto McKinley Johnson Mrs. Leroy Kale Mrs. OzeU W. Miaunej' Mrs. Roy Morrison Mrs. Lalflh D. Page Roosevelt Rainey Mrs. Marie H. Ramsey Mrs. Robert Franklin Sides Mrs. Leslie B. Sprouse •Mrs. Janie S. Spurling Samuel Williams, Jr. Martin L. Wilson, Sr. Tom Wright George Dtonedd Wyatt Mrs. Margaret Connie W>lic ADMITTED MONDAY I Mrs, Bert E. Shick 191 .N, Dalton Sitrtet, Gastonia James Henty Baker Route 2, Clover, S. C. Mts. Ronnie D. Putnam 406 W. Gaston Ave., Bess. Mrs. VV. K. .MCGUl 401 Bethel Street, Clover, S. Mrs Roy A. Broome 417 E. Gtorgia Ave., Bess. C. Mrs. Thomas H. Goforth Route 1, Box 116, Grover Mrs. Iva G. Latham 815 W. .Mountain .Street, Cily Mrs. James E, Roberts 7510 Biechwood Drive, Ga.st. Mrs. Roy .M, Ruff 206 Maner Road Paul Lee Ruppe 403 HOI Street William Lte Srmders 509 Monroe Avenue, City Henry Lee Spriggs Ro, te 2, Bessemer City TUESDAY Jams Odell Ciocker 370 Crocker Road, City William D. Dingus Box 231, Grover ■Mrs. OlUe Ele».> Foi'd 423 S. Lafayette Street, Shelby Mr. and Mrs. William Lonnie Jones 611 N. Scruggs Street, Oast. William Rdbert Knox 110 N. aty Street •Mrs. James R. Champion 504 Katherine Avtnue Mrs. George John Henry Wylie Route 1, Blacksburg, -S. C. £< A i- m-m couid be 'made with no down pay ment to eligible jmrehasers. ■Assuming a 25 year Joan ■with a 7V4 per cent Interest rate, th , monthly pajment for principal : pJiann.d,” she related. ""Even- Jnterest would be $184.75 - : thing I’d planned requhej wl -f’ ® ter." ^ ^ ^ qualify a family of moderate ' means. With the new federal i Mrs. Norman McGUl confess- ‘ ed to some frustration. “I didn’t get anj-thing done toda^, I’d ^ Man’s small blessings are hardly small when th.y aren’t available. m-m subsidy, however, the 'family would pay only $164.75 for the f.l-st five years and $161.75 for the remaining 20 years of the loan. It wias Flag Day Mionday at Bethware School. As Principal E. J. ENarrs relates, the Old Glo- Under the program, thp $20 monthly subsidy would be a fix ed amount. On a less expensive I ry flying had been in business ; home, it would accc..nt for a lar- i for six years, was tattered, ■ percentage of the monthly I torn, arti holed "like the battle j flag we flew aboard my ship in i many mid.ile income A- ' World War H.’’ Paying call one i ttierlcar. families in r.cent years I day, Jake Atkinson, high school have found that, despite nation- ’ principal, commented on the 1 *^1 prosperity and hard work on flag’s motley state. Principal i O"'" part, they have inex- Bvans sugg.sted, "You fc’Jows I hot been able to afford wTite the Congressman and he’ll a home of their o\\-n. So simple probably send us a flag.” Short- ! a pleasure as home ownership ly thereafter, the Bethware I must not becoma an unaccounta- Scoutmaster mentioned the mat-1 P'Y impossible dream for a large stashed the poodle in hJs mail- bag jusit before the dog catcher pooice'd. The frustrated dog catcher complained and got the postman hauled before his superiors on a "conduct unbecoming'’ charge. Some of us, however, might find such a human response very be- co’mlng' to a public servant, or anyone else. At the very least it was intel ligent. Man’s best friend, after ■all, is not- always a postman’s .best frieniJ. .So who can blame a lethr carrier (for wanting to kee-p peace with a poodle? AMtlTTED THURSDAY Mrs, Lizzie G--Boles 7il2 Cloninger Street, City Mrs. Frederick E. Carter Route 4, York, S. C- Mrs. Jerry Conner Route 3, Box 223, City Donald Gene Edmonson 5203 Spring Lane, Suburban A. Shelbiy Carl M. McGinnis Route 2, Box 46, Clover, S. Mrs. Josephine B. Oaltes Route 2, Box Clover, S, Mrs. William T. Stiles 506 E. VirglnOa Ave., Bess. C. Mrs. Johnny W- Whetstine ADMITTED FRIDAY Mrs. At’.'s Boone 209 N. City Street, City C. C. f TERRA ISNT FIRMA / 'When preachers and pnJ tlcians warn us from pulpit and podium that our nation is adrift, their social analysis may be eub- ject to question but their sdrttm is Impeccably precise. The North westw‘ai'1 at the ate of slightly less than one-hajf inch a year, two government geolists recxnt- ly reported. Those alarmed to learn that terra isn't as firma as they thought may be consoled to kr.ow that things arc moving al a more rapid pace elsewhere: India and Australia are racing lorth at the headlong speed of foiu- inches a y, ar. i TOl Mo the Tut Oi It all began 200 million yeajw ago, the scientists s-ay, when tjie world’s single huge goWinefit was split in two by movwmettts Jeep within the earth's crust. The splitting and drifting oon- tln-eed over the ages, resiuHjig in the present alignrrunt of Zlx major land masses, mo«t of them st'iU looking for a pl^ce to settle down. We leave to ttie mathematical ly pnoHcient the chore erf figur ing out how long It will be be- fiore Oalifornia Is contiguous to Hawaii contenting ourselves With the observation Chat East m be Bast and West may be W< but sooner or later they won’C ■—St. Louis Post-Dia‘fatch ter to the Shelby chapter cC Woodmen of the World with the result the Woodmen supplied a flag for his Boy Scouts to hoist, lower and care for. The Wood- rnen gift wa.s hoistetj for the first time on Monday morning. Monday morning's mail brought new flag from Congr.ssman Jim Broyhfll. Principal E\-)ns reasons the new- f'-- - lown on - ’ _ i '■'*' -....e cf i-ne recent 01 -, give Bithware school a 12- year supply, mm sobment of our society. The new federal subsidy pro gram is an important step in -Wall Street Journal contribution turc. to Fremch litora- The literaiy body is one of five academies maintained by the famous Institut de France, all of them hitherto solidly male in their m: mbership. But now at last a breach has been made in this masculine u'or- Ihe direction of keeping private tress A leading jurist, Mrs Su- home ownership within the li-each j zanne Bastli, who has several of an 'average American family. ! —Tribune (Oakland, CnHf.) WOMAN JURIST ’FIRST' Niow, Mr. Evans added, young Bennett Masters, Jr., a Beth- 'ware stedenrt, tells him he’B get Senaltor Ollie Karris to supply a .North Carolina flag. m-m long ago in these col- i.:o we recorded the attempt by a woman ■writer to gain en try to one of France’s staun- cliest male bastions — the 'Fren ch Academy, whose 40 members, the elite of the literary world, are known as the "immortals.” The attempt .was doomed from tha start, but at least Mrs Fran- times been a m mber of the French delegation to the United Nations, has become the first woman to be elected a member of the Academy of Moml and Political Sciences. One question still has to be solved — what will Mrs. Bastid wear at official functions? Mem bers of the academies have a special uniform for such occa sions — dark green, embroidered with gold and worn with a be- feathered cock d hat and a ooise Parturier scored a moml ®''’®rd. But French ingenuitj- victory. Her purpose 'was to show I taste oa-n 'be trusted that there is no reason iwhy the, * ^•ai'Pv solution to that Shall we my tJiait Bethware i acaidpny should be .monopolized ; School then be both ship j by men ^ by nien when ■women have made j —Christian \8oianc0 JIf onitot Keep Youi Radio Dial Set Rt 1220 WKMT i Kuigs Mountain, N. C. News & Weather every hour ou the hour. Weather every hour on Ihe half heur. Fine entertainment in between
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