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THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald 206 South Piedmont Ave. Kings Mountain. N. C. 28086 A wppkly newspaper devotoa to the promotion of the general wellaxe and published for the enlightenment, entertaJnmnt and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3. 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publishcf Mias EliKabeth Stewart CirculaUon Manager and Society Bailor tlary Stewart Sports Editor, News Miss Def>ole Thornburg aerk, Bookkeeper MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Ray Parker Allen Miyers Paul Jiadksan *R(xky Martin Roger Brown Monte Hunter • On Leave With "nie United States Army MAO. SUBSCRIPTION RAITBS PAYAlBLE Kf ABVAWCE In Nocth Oarolhib and SouOi Oamtlna ♦teyear mk raoAths $8JS; Uiree months 81.30; aohool yme S3. (Mtocription in North Carolina subject to three percent saisB tax.) In AU Other States One year $5; six months $3; three months $1.75; school year 83.75. PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SAIJS TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Wisdom crieth ivit/iout; she iitterrth 7»t voice in the streets. Mr. Justice Black Hugo L. Black, United States Sena tor from Alabama, was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. There was a stew over confirmation of the appointment because Mr. Black had once been a member of the Ku Klu.x Klan. Mr. Black was characteristically frank. The charge was true. He dismiss ed the incident in his life by saying, “It was a mistake." Through the years Mr. Justice Black became one of the Court’s most influential members, highly respected by his colleagues, even when they dis agreed with him. He remained a liberal and civil lib ertarian, but always within the fiamc- work of the Constitution and, more im portant to him, the Bill of Rights. On freedom of the press, he com mented that the Government’s power to censure the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure Government. He said, “The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of Government and in form the people.’’ The Court’s ruling on prayer in the public schools was that prayer could not be “nrescribed nor proscr.brd ’—in con trast to the popular conception that the Supreme Court had banned prayer in the public schools. This was pure Black- ism. In other words, Government could not tell what to pray, nor what not to pray. His statement on the role of the courts: “Under our constitutional sys tem, courts stand against any winds that blow as havens o, i. luge tor those who might otherwise suffer because they are non-conforming victims of prejudice and public e.xcitcment.’’ The impact of Mr. Justice Black of Alabama in his years on the Supreme Court was great. Come To Mecca Kings Mountain officials are disap pointed the county welfare board Mon day night declined to approve a request that a social worker spend one day weekly in Kings Mountain. It was asked that a three-month trial period be tried to determine wheth er “business" justified continuance. Advance conversations found every test advanced by Director Hal Smith met: new, modern quarters were avail able in Room 3 at the Community Cen ter on Monday, Tuesday or Wednes day. A desk was available, and a tele phone, a locked file cabinet would be furnished, all at no cost to the county wellare board. Yet the request was denied. Director Smith told his board he was too short-handed to spare anyone for a day-a-\\eok here, cited poor quar ters at City Hall over three years ago and little “business” as reasons the re quest should be denied. Another reason was that the several programs, food stamps, aid to dependent children, etc., are handled by personnel “specializing" in one particular program. Insufficient publicity, it was charg ed hardly contributed to the success of the experiment of over three years ago. On this point, the Herald would be remiss if it did not report that no effort to publicize presence and .services here was made by Director Smith, nor by the welfare worker assigned here. What pub licity disseminated was the result of re- portorial leg work on the part of the staff of this newspaper. It takes two to tango. It is common to government agen cies to want the populace to come to Mecca. It would seem, in the instance of the welfare agency dealing strictly with the poor, that Mecca should come to the populace. A Los Angeles judge did in Timothy Mack, an apparently compulsive pick pocket, who had been light-fingering vvallcls for 13 years and .spent two term* Edwin Robert Goter The death of Edwin Robert Goter in Baton Rouge, La., Sunday morning was a shock to the entire Kings Moun tain community. Ed Goter was a first generation American, his father having come to this country at the age of 17. His fath er’s first stop, Emil Goter relates, was South Dakota, then he homesteaded in North Dakota. The nam'e Goter was ang- ■ licized from Gouther—when an employ er of his father suggested the original name had more letters than it needed. Mrs. Goter, a Minnesotan, recalls that their family was among the first of the mid-western families here. “One word,” she recalls, “brought the question 'You re not from around here, are you?" Twenty-one plus years later the Gators are very much “from around here”. The Goters quickly identified with their new neighbors and quickly became valuable additions to the relig ious, civic and social life of the commun ity, as well as to the industrial segment. Ed Goter was down-to-earth. His employees revered him as they respected him. They knew him to de mand good perfoiTOance and they knew him to be kind. A most common comment among his fellow church members was that he was a “pillar”. Many feel a void in the many places Ed Goter filled. Moantaineer Days The w’eek-long 1971 revival of Moun taineer Days begins Monday. The celebration was conceived ori- g'naily as a mammoth trade promotion, timed to include major reference to the historical Revolutionary Wai- Battle of Kings Mountain. Next Thursday will mark the 191st anniversary of the Turn ing of the Tide which led to the final defeat of the British-Tory forces iind to their surrender to the colonists at York- town. This year’s revival is a collaborative project by many agencies, the Kings M^v.:.-ain Chamber of Commerce, Kings Mountain Merchants Association, Kings Mountain Woman’s Club and Junior Woman’s Club, City Recreation Depart ment, Kings Mountain Ministerial Asso ciation, and the Kings Mountain Jay- cees—^the latter sponsoring the appear ance hero in the Wednesday parade of Patsy Wood, reigning Miss North Caro lina. A best bow to the .sponsors and may the trimmest beard win. The Archoics An archeologist named Jim Tuck is among others digging in Labi'ador and along the Maine coast in an effort to find more evidence that a highly civiliz ed society inhabited the North Ameri can continent long before Eric the Red and Columbus visited its shores, long be fore the American Indian was around, and indeed in point of age as old or old er than the ancient Egyptians of 4000 B. C. There have been some interesting finiin'^s in Labrador, among them a stone hearth, six feet below today’s sur face, with carbon left by a fire still ex tant. Such carbon finds, via readings of radioactivity, provide the age estimates. The scientists think it possible the Arachaic:. as they have named the earliest inhabitants, occupied the whole ea.stern portion of the United States. They have little hope of discoveries in the warmer climates, reasoning that large scale construction has put to the point of no return what Archaic arti facts may have existed. in jail as pay for the sport. The judge ruined Mack’s career, sentencing Mack to a two-year term of wearing mittens at any and all times he appeared in a place. Frustrated Mack has flown the coop and a warrant is still out for his ar rest. MARTIN'S MEDICINE MARTIN HARMON klN^S tUoUNTAIN Hospital Log visrmG HOURS DaUy 10:30 to 11:30 KM. 3 to 4 9M. and 7 to 8 fM. Nothing makes me angrier in the realm of tolephonk communi cations than to an-swer the phone, as V normally do, “'Hello, Martin Harmon,” hear nothing but a void, then a click as the caller hangs up. The least the guy could do would be to apologize for mis- dialing. I mm While I was at McGill & Son Elsso Service Monday afternoon. Cousin Fuller got the same treat ment. He snortcxl as I do when .-tame occurs. I got my latest dcBe the following morning. mm It reminds of the experience, related here before, that OUie Harris enjoyed .shortly after the Kings Mountain exchange was cut over to dial operation, OUie Wtoned. “Harris Funeral Home." The lady commented in upset tone, “Sh(‘ gave me the wrong number!" m-m The 'Proverbs 1:20. Inspiration for today’s column derives from a feature story Southern Bell’s Gtvstonia office recently distributed on the fact that appiroximately ten percent of the telephones in the Gastonia exchange area (wtuoh includes Kings Mountain) have unlisted numbers, which to me was a surprisingly high total. Wtn. B. Barber Elbert Brldgi-s Mrs. Sara Bryinei Mrs. Flora Cantrell Mrs. Verna C. Clippard Mrs. Martha Cogdell ■Mrs. Mattie E. Davi.s Stanley Dawkins Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Dixon Mrs. Oora Dougan Mrs. Lila Ervin Mrs. Berth Falls George foi ten berry 'Mrs. Ora Lee Hale Timothy Harding Mrs. Eunice Head Mrs. Ola Holder Jerry Jeffries Mrs. Rosalene Ledford Mrs. Etta Lively ‘Mrs. Martha Murray Mrs. Della Oates Mrs. Wynemo Pinson James Roberts Mrs, Va. Soruggs Mrs. Ivor Stewart Mr. John Summit Mrs. Hannah Williams Mrs. Essie Wilson Martin WUson Sarah Alexander Mrs. Doris Biddix Bobby Short Mrs. Lula Timms The feature also listed some of the principal reasons telephone subscriibcrs pay a dollar pei month extra to keep their names out of the telephone directory. The two mast valid and pcactical cus tomers; 1) third shift workers, ■trying to sleep in daylight hours. W’no find a ringing telephone par ticularly difficult to contend with, and 2) police officers, who get berating and threatening calls when eff duty from people the officers have arrested, or the ar rested ones’ friends. m-m Other (major customers for un listed service are unmarriwi tvomen and widows, sometimes subject to crank calls, and others subject to crank calls. m-m 'In the spring of 1970, my wife and mother-in-law were in Mi ami for a week and 1 called t.hom, while talking remembered that editors of both.tjie Miami Herald and Miami News arc friends and suggested tliat Anne give them a ring. She tried, but found their home numbers wero unlisted. m-m I am amazed, foF7 don't un derstand how a newspaper editor, be It the Miami Herald or Kings 'Mountain Herald, can optftite without people being able to get to him. totting out to others i.n’t enough for me. I need them to come in, too. Obviously, I gc, calls from cranks and nuts, but that’s just part cf-the jo'.o. Th(' vast majority of my home caills come from friends — a youngster needing a sheet of caraooard, someone with a new’s item, or just plain personal calls. On one o-casion OLD Jay Powell called to sing "Happy Birthday”. I wouldn’t wanted to have missed that. ¥eteEai! Helps &c Offered Bell says there are two kinds of unlisted numbers. A semi-private mimber i® unlisted but can be ob tained from the operator. A priv ate number cannot be obtained from the operator. She doesn’t have it and can’t get it. for the number is under lock and key and obtainable usually only by court order. The story is told that Evangelist Billy Graham was try ing to call his home in Montreat, couldn’t remember his unlisted number, of course couldn’t get it and finally repaired to Western Union. Kinfolk numbers result in mls- dialing. At home (4347), we get a number of calls for Tyner Fot^d (4743) and at the office (3441) a number intended for Stcilchi’s (5451). m-m I related this at the session at Fuller and Norman’s, which brought a story anent same from George W. Mauncy. m-m George has a Charlotte friend who has a close-kin number to Douglas Airport’s. Being awaken- (>d by callers seeking flight Infor mation In the wee hours is a fre quent unnappy experience. One morning about 3:30, (George’s friend, his eyes bleary with sleep, answered the phone. The lady asked when Flight Number so and-so was leaving. The was now wide .e’ ed “I dovt .i ..fi it you want to ni_ie this plane. Take-off time Is in 15 minutes!” George’s friend got no more sleep that morning. Imagining the lady and her rush to the airport, the pseudo clerk was laughing so much he couldn’t go back to sleep. m-m P.S. In another reloase Bell re ports it is now possible to make calls to Bed China. Business had not been brisk. Tota'l oalls at the date of the release: seven. It is the responsibility of the veteran to reriuest a review of his adiTiinialrali\e discharge, and the application for review must be submitted to Hie military de partment that Issued the dis charge, Phillips empliasized. (A self-explanatory ’.orm for r-a’ving cDD Form 233) is avail- it VA offBces and at all muiiary installations, he said. Reluctant Drop - out? Thursday, September 30, 1971 I Thurs< Newsmen Call Agiiew’s \^orl(l Tour 'Disaster’...graceless, styless BORING" ■ g ^ ■ u/ashinston .'{'.Fcr:r cm o e / rte ADMITTED THURSDAY 1 'Mrs. Ctora Dougan ADMITTED FRIDAY Mrs. Margie Bolin, Clover, 3. C. Mrs. Emma Bowen, City Mrs. Mary Lee Gilmer, City Mr. Walter Morrison, Clity Mis. Bertie McDaniel, City Mrs. Helen Rector, Gastonia ADMITTED SATORDAY Mrs. Bertha Crou'eh, City Steve Owens, Shelby Mrs. Brenda Phillips, Gastonia ADMITTED SUNDAY Mrs. Peggy Ross, City Mrs. Eunice Blanton, Bessemer City Tony Bridges, City f rank Sellers, Citv ADMITTED MONDAY Mrs. Betty Ayers, Clover, S. C. Vernon Brown, City Mr.s. Anita Carpenter, Bessemer City Mrs. Thelma Cavender, Besse mer City W,m. Crawford City Mrs. Essie Gofer th, City Mrs. Velma Guln, Bessemer City Mrs. Wilda Haskett James Huffstickler, City Mrs. Betty Phillips, City Mrs. Gladys Rucker, City Mrs. Be’uty Wylie, Gastonia ADMITTED TUESDAY Ricky Ellis. Bessemer City , , 'Mrs. Vt.die far.is. City ''' Mrs. Odessa Fronoberger, City Gary Gunter, Bessemer City Eti.vard Hufistetlcr, CiVy 31ier.-y Lynn Lanier, York, S. C. 'Mrs. Elltr Short, City Yates Smith, City Mrs. Brenda Sprouse, City Verner Whitaker, Gastonia Mr.s. Va. Widemon, Be.-isemer City I’lMil'n Letter To Editor Viewpoints of Other Editors Dear Sir: (Hc!p for veterans who want a review of their "other than hon orable” discliarge from military service is available at all Veter- aras Adimnistration offices, W. R. Phillips, director d; the Winston- Salem VA Regional Office, said today. A VA directive to this effect was sent to field stations, follow ing an announcement by Secre tary of Defense Melvin U. lOiird that military departments would “review for recharacterization administrative discharges 'issued nder other than honorable con ditions solely on the basis of per sonal use Cl drugs or possession of drugs lor sucti use. ' Primary purpose of the new policy Is lo provide an opportun ity for this group to become eli gible for VA medical treatment. Drug abuse treatment In VA is being increased six-'fold, Phillips said, but tile agency is bai-red by law from treating veterans with discharges other than honorable. l^ss than one of every 500 men released from service during 1969 and 1970 rceived other than honorable dischai’ges because of drug abuse, according to Depart ment of Defense figures. Out of some 2,090,000 separations d.ring that period, 4,152 undesirable dis- chati^es directly attributable to di ug abuse were Issued. My eyes have become some what dim—^my speech somewhat a;' higher tone. My hearing more keen. My body tired and some what worn. My sense of feeling the same. When it comes to the welfare and welPbein^ cf our nation. And those who ate striving to live by the golden rule of life. Do un to others as you would have them do unto you. Seemingly the pen- tjulum has swung to the other direction. Demand and take all yoiji can from others whatever the cost. Of humane value.s or other wise. .So! theiiefore as an e.xample the following please; Wh-at Is happening between man agement and labor? Or what i-s the roIalion.shi;v between the two?It would So seem that tho-e is a lack of understanding be tween the two. With all the con- fitslon of what law protects who or whom? The management or labor? So it would .seem that way. That the laws so imposed today are for management and it only. Let’s take some instances. Say a person has been hired for a job. So he or she proceeds to go about his or her job trying to give the best d. one's abiiilay and knowledge to his or her em ployment. But seemingly it's not enough. So an employee having tried his best to do so find themselves in a sad state of af fairs. Having reported for his or her job, say that they have work ed the day before and are ask ed to' work an hour over. So having completed his or her nor mal eight hours on the job, and having been asked for such service, due to illness or personal commitment aren’t able to do so. Question? Which comes first? Then having given the employer a reason for not being able to work overtime faces ... the shocking news when he or she rciports to their respective place of employment lo find on the following shift that he or she has had their time card with drawn so as the person isn’t able to punch forwot'k. And they proc'ced to ask why? So the re sponse is: You didnt work over time the day bcl.ore. So knowing that the employee hasn’t a leg upon which to stand on. The employee not wishing to argee or demand his tune card, and having been told he or she is no longer considered an em ployee, therefore leaves. So in the meantime the employer rushes to his personal office and in turn the personal mails the employee his notice of his or her notice of being no longer employed with the notice typed out to one of the offices of Employment Secur ity Commission that the em ployee (|ult and added notation rt) used to work overtime. GOLF ETK^UETTE The nation's courts usually do a pretty good job of interpret ing written law’s, but when a judge sets himself up as an ai'l)i- ter of etiquette he may be in trouble. Consider, for instance, a recent case in a court in a sub urb of VV'ashinigton, D, C. On a public golf course one player lined up a long iron shot and smacked it to the green, right in the mid.st of a group ahead of him. Not surprisingly, one of the group was a little in censed; In his anger, he picked up the arriving missile and chucked it away. The first player walkjtd to the green, fo^nd his ball missing and was angry in turn. The golf er who had thror.vn the ball away then whacked Htp- new ai': rival with a steel-shafted driver. Although the whack apparent ly caused no permanent injury it did lead to a charge of a.s.saiili against the club wielder, and a sutisdiuent conviction when tlic case came to court. Up- to that point tile judge probably wa.s right; a golf club can be a leth al wtvipon. But then the judge had to cm- b( llish his decision. The chap W'lio picked up the ball and threw it away said the court, violated two cai'dinal r. les <1. golf eli quette and therefore was bari’cd ho.-n local pu’olic courses foi- a year. VVe have to wonder, someliow, if the judge has ever had to duck a flying golf ball; whether the ball is hit by a U. .S. Vice Pre.si dent or a lesser golfer, it can be ratlier dangertius. On slrirt lo i-ssues the decision may . -ha^P been right, but in etkiuetle mat- tei’s (he case was more like a stand-off.—Wall Stieet Journal, society, the black. Management and labor devill ed, the nation dividetl. Why? How? For the sake of manage ment. So much has been .<aid in regai’ds to civil rights. What about humane rigitts of all the people? There’s a great need for change for the humane rl'^hts. Semingly the pendulum is moving in another direction. Those who are paid by the tax payers to protect the woi'king man are receiving tliree ways. A click so to s?peak. Between these departments. So the only recour.se is for the employee to write their com plaints to the editor, Letters to the Editors, or flood these above offices with mail giving their complaints oif injustice. Change will ccrnie about, "so write the offices of the 'and, flood them with letters, those who have been unjustly accused or fired or have been forced to leave because of prcssicre from or in regard to jobs. That's that those are being paid for to protect the rights of fhe working public. Out of your tax dollars. By all means tell it like it is. Tell the truth. If you continue to ignore such you could become slaves. It’s that simple. So tsTite, force the issues. Get it off your chest before a real explosion erupts between all. Respectively, E'VFGfE'ITE H. PEARSON P. S,: This is the hour cif change 'Hopefully for hotter under standing between management and labor. It’s worth a tiy. How aboct it? Of the nearly 91.5,OHO gxti’son.s 16 years and over residing in poverty areas of six major cities, about 1 in 6 or 133,000 persons had completed some type «f jol) training—school, armed forces, apprenticeship or special man power programs, The.se are Hie findings of a special s’jrvey con ducted for the Bureau of Labor Statistic.s by the Census Buretiii. About a fourth of all employ ed women arc in five occupa tions, the Bureau of Labor Stat istics report.s. The occupations are; Secretary - stenographei-, household worker, bookkeep<>r. elementary school teacher and waitress. Secretary ond .<rten* gnapher jobs alone account foi'H of every 10 workers. * VA employees have been in structed to “be alert in all their contacts with ach former service man, to ascertain the character of discharge or separation. When it has been determined that he received other than honor-able separation from military service Itecause of use or possession of drugs for personal use, he will be advised of *h€ opportunity for revietw v* his discharge and the ai^ropriate lorms will be step- plied.” Having given his or her rea son for not lia.vlng been able lo have worked so the day before. Then comes an ehdlas.? chain of waitin,g for the employee, as prescribed by law. He or she goes to the nearest Employment Security Commission affi«', open.s a claim. Then the ball really be gins, Tlie waiting period, a hear- ir,s;' the returns. The employ ment office goes along with management, the department of labor, the dopartmenl of justice, you are all right if you are black. All wrong if you happen lo be white. The ;.cnd !um be gins to .swing more to the right; to management. The employee has suffered the blunt d? the blow. No court of last resort. La’ws which are to protect the working man has gone down the drain. AU the laiwa protecting management and the elite of our Keep Youi Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Monntai'd, N. C. News & Weather every hour ou the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between Oil, ml N has b the nj es, yo T Satur AL cl sei'.er. 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