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the $2;0 billion proposal the Senate, in all its wisdom, declined to approve. cWWren, aje •sriWanefe, " w wfclit*- ever. er wa#' calm ■ tg it ira^lM^O 'fit NownW^r 9, KIngi-MioUntatii'liti' mean* tor you toT)*t!«r»ful.” pltal .'lif'V •p.js-; . ic MO v-u.i Al'i; <1 ! Win* ha Bulldogj rage THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N, C. Thursday, November 4, 1971 Established 1889 The Kings Moniitain Heiald 206 South Piedmont Ave. King* Mounteria, N. C. 28086 A vvedtly newspa.per devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and ojlbllilMd for the enlightenment, entertainmnt and benefit cf the citizen* of Kings Mountain and It* vicinity, published every Thmsday by the Herald Puhllsbirc HOus& Entered a* second class matter at the post ottloe af tStnga Mountain, N. *C., 28006 i 3, 1?73. under AOt of Congress of Mandl 3, EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Bditor-Publisher Mias Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Scttlety BBltair Gary Stewart Sports Bdtlpr. News Miss Deboie Thornburg detlc, BooKkeepet Ray Parker •Rooky Martin MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Allen Myer* Roger Brawn Fiatd factoon MMrte Hunter ' On Leave With The United Shates Army MAO, SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE In North Carolina and South CoraUna One year 54; sbc months $2J5; three months M 50; schpot year $3. (Subscription Ri NertH OoEtHlna subject to three percent sales Rur.i In All Other State* One year $5; six months $3; three months $1.T5; school year $3.75. PI,US NORTH CAROUNA SALESS ‘CAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 799-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE / u'iH lift up mine eyes unto the hilln from whenco cometh my help. Psalm 121:1. The Cost Is High The yacht.sman and the horseman historically have been those with ex pensive hobbies. The old line was. "If you must ask the cost you can’t afford it." Could the yachtsman and the horse man be losing their distinction to, well, say the political horseman? A man prominent in the North Caro lina political scene said some years ago —in process of eliminating himself from aspirations lor state-wide elective office —that the cost was mounting by the day. “Thei'e’s that new medium of tele vision and radio, billboard and newspap er adver tising rates go up, too. And if you’re going to be in the ball game you’ve got to use ’em all.’’ The news this week has added con firmation. Items: 1) Republicans, with President Ni.x- on, Vice-President Agnew, and Comedian Bob Itope capping loyal nertorrn i nc'^s via closed-circuit television, held 20 fund-raising dinners across the country. The tab was $500 per person. (The GUr-” may, or may not, do like the Democrats, who pool resources into a fund, then let anybody attend who can.) Teacher Pay Hassle (jovernor Bob Scott is having a has sle with the feds over the issue of teach er pay in North Carolina. Raises were voted by the 1971 General Assembly, but the classroom teacher in North Carolina didn’t go to work for the 1971-72 school year until after the wage-price freeze ordered by the Nixon Administration in mid-August. Governor Scott passed some tele grams to Washington and got some in return and he interpreted the answer to be, “Pay the raise.’’ He ordered it paid. The feds demurred. The Governor says the money has been paid and he’s not going to make the teachers pay it back. He further has instructed Attorney-Gen eral Robert Morgan to prepare to meet the Washington folk at the courthouse door. There’s another angle to the busi- nes.s. Superintendents of schools, other full time personnel who won raises from the (]!eneral Assembly, and principals and other non-year-round personnel who, nevertheless, were back to duty before the freeze got their raises, which poses the question of fairness if one or more group gets and another doesn’t. 2) Senator Fred Harris, of Okla homa, became the third Democratic hopeful to bow out, frankly stating he was $40,000 in arrears and there appear ed little possibility of replenishing his hare cupboard for further campaigning. 3) Thad Eure, the veteran North Carolina Secretary of State, guessed campaig’ ing in North Carolina during the next year will cost the candidates and their supporters a gross of not less $10 million. 'The round-figure estimate for serious candidates for governor is a million per each and a quarter-million for candidates for other state-wide off ices. Smoke Sales Up Not since the first of this year has t he tube beamed the cowboy in Marlboro country, it’s Kool, Kool, Kool, nor Win.s- ton tastes good into the nation’s living rooms. Yet cigarette sales have continued to increase. The fact is, though analysis on why may be more difficult. Certainly, the cigarette producers have transferred some of their advertis ing allegiance to other media, and some of the sales increase must be attributa ble to population increase. Few smokers fail to ascribe to the family of “I wish I could quit. ” But they don’t. Tain’t cheap. Foreign Aid Defeat There were many astounded people, here and abroad, when the United States Senate killed the foreign aid ap propriations bill. It was a debacle for the Nixon Ad ministration and for nations abroad ex pecting continued United States largess. There has been a lot of largess since the Marshall Plan of the late forties was engendered to sustain Turkey and Greece. The total is in billions over the intervening years. What benefits? Some good, some middlin’, .some nof at all. Turkey is a current day example of the fact friendship can seldom if ever be bougnt. TurKey was grateful at first, participated on the United Nations side in the Korean conflict. Today United States relations with Turkey are not too good. As a general rule, foreign nations want the succor ot the Uniteu otaies on a no-strings-attached basis, which is .something less than kosher. This nat ions gifts have a habit of becoming a ve hicle for the government-in-power to maintain that power and even to ag grandize their own people. Ruhis Lawrence Plonk In his remarks at the funeral serv ice Rov. Charles Easliey captured well the character and personality of Rufus LawTence Plonk. “Husband, father, kinsman, friend.. “A sDirit difficult to repiaca. . . “Light lifted above impulsivenes.s... Mr. Plonk was devoted to his family, his friends, his creeds and his church. Loyalty was his trademark. Another was the honor, dignity and worthiness of work. If a chore were to be done, it should be, with speed and ac curacy. Emblematic was the comment he made when he visited a garage at lunch hour. The only person present was the shop foreman, who was greasing a car. Mr. Plonk’s complimentary remark: “You’ll do anything won’t you?” Like his father before him, Mr. Plonk had an abiding interest in edu- served well for several years on c:v>unty board of education, support ed from graduation Lenoir-Rhyne Col lege, his alma mater. He was always a farmer. He was reared on a farm, farmed before he en tered college, returned to the farm thereafter and remained a farmer hence forth. Rev. Mr. Easley, his pastor, categor izing Mr. Plonk a meek man. defined, “The meek are God-tempered.” There is considerable liklihood a foreign aid appropriation will be approv ed. For instance, there is,much senti ment for aid to Pakistan, ravaged by tor- 'The county social services agency has been criticized for being behind on its review of welfare cases. While this newspaper has sometimes differed with the county agency and its director, Hal Smith, the Herald understands that Mr. Smith’s plea of “over-specialization” in staff job assignments is quite valid — and quite stupid. The sensible course would be to re- MARTIN'S MEDICINE Viewpoints of Other Editors WHERE THE WORLD CAN DO BETTER By MARTIN HARMON At the Armory last Thursday night the formal program was ooticluded and Sergeant Charles Wilson was inviring everyone to partake of refreshments. He noted there were loads of ie(>d eup cakes, soft drinks, and three cof fee urns. He informed, “One is strong, the middle one is strong er, and third is reafiy .strong.” The problem the Indian Gov- erment Is having to face in sheltering and feeding some six to eight million refugees from East Pakistan are nov.' com pounded by the natural disaster that hit the state of Orissa in recent days. I sampled the middle one and it suited mjr coffee taste perfect ly- Latest offical figures put the number of dead in lite Orissa cyclone and tital wave at a- round 10,000, with tens ofthou- sands liomeless and untold damage done to crops and rich farmland bordeiing on the Bay of Bengal. TTle' North Carolina National Guard visiting entoiu-age was on a rigorous schedule. They left Rings Mountain for Gastonia and another program in a frank re cruiting effort and “ix'-upping” invitation. In "From Here to Eter nity”, Jame.s Jones’ great noivei wtiich made a great movie, the army pros at Schofield Barracks during pre-Paarl Harbor days, had a song called “The Re Up Blues”, .Most sang those blues. 'Mercifully, the Orissa catas trophe, big as it is, has not reach ed the proportions of the cv ione vvhic hstruck f. rther along the shores of the bay a year ago, killing half a million people in East Pakistan. 'But the relief problem is a hui;e one, and will put a heavy addi tional financial burden on the Indian government. Once more it points up the need for an interna tional disaster relief adequately eriuipped to rush emergney sup plies to a stricken area without having to go through slow bureau cratic channels. .Major-General Ferd L. Davis, adjutant general o£ the North Carolina National Guard, is a law yer in civilian pursuits, with a hand, too, in the newspaper and printing business in .Zebulon, near Raleigh. Tae General credits his wife with being the guiding spirit in the new.spapcr-printing operation. They publish the Zej- ulcn Record and another paper in a nea.Dy town, also print the Carolina Power & Light Company magazine and do other printing for O-cideutal Lite insurance tempany The recruitment officer, in his remarks mentioned the current pay scale. I don't remember the rating, but the figure of $384 per month brought grins (and ga,-ps) to some Wcrld War 11 rlogi.ues who started their careers at $21. Guardsmen get regular army pay, but. of course, only for what they work on weekend drills aiiu i.ic two-week summer encampments. A detailed proposal for such a central agency is now before the United 'Nations 'General Assem- tly, which is expected to take ac tion on it late this month or early Decemlter. It is to be hop ed the agency will 'be set lup early next year. Under the plan, stockpiles of relief materials will will be located at vario'js points around the world ready to be drawn upon when needed. The agency should be able to collate meteorological information and give governments in disaster- prone areas adequate w'arning of impending hurricanes or cy clones so that evacuation meas ures could be taken. Unfortunate ly in the Orissa disaster no at tempt was made to evaocate the population from the coastal areas although several hours warning of the storm was given by the Calcutta weather station. One of the challeni;es the world faces today is how to pro tect its people from natural dis asters. Modern communications and technological achievements should make it possible to fore stall the tragic losses in human life that so far have too often resulted from natural calami ties. 'Major Humes Houston, who comumanded the Kings Mountain company for i/any years, could and can wax quite eloquent on the “appointments” at Fort Stew art, Ga., an army haven in the swam'ps. I forget how Humcs dc scribed the snakes but in- run- tends the mosquitoes arc as large as turkeys. The UN central relief agency will be a much needed stp to wards a wisr and more enlighten ed international effort in this field of humanitarian endeavor. —Christian Science 'Monitor, SAY A WORD FOR OLE BOB m-m And eoncerning general.^. . . Dr. George Plonk is a gxid -Story-teller. One he .spun recenlly concerned a preacher who had pa.ssed and reached the gate.s ol heaven. He wa.s welcomed an<l told to sit on a bench nearby, ll was ttll the attention the pre-fli er got, and his feelings were, rather hurt. Later in the day a general appeared at -the pearly gati^, in full dress regalia and erect -in perfect military bearing. There was suddenly a great com motion. .Angels sounded an alarm on their trumpets and a band be gan to play. It was a little too 'much for the preacher who’d 'been ignored and he complained to St. Peter, “I can’t understand your paying no attention To "me and giving all this celebration -to that general!" “That’s ea.sy,’’ 3t. Peter said smilingly, “we’ve a lot of your kind up here but we haven’t seen a general since Robert E, Lee.” Charles ‘Blanton is sSmilarly a good story-teller. He first chortled about a recent cartoon in -the New Yorker Magazine which show ed a somewhat corpulent busi nessman in conversation with a youthful hippie of rather wretch ed appearan.'p. The cutline read, “Rigitt on. Dad. I’m heme -to vote.” “I believe,” Charles com ments. “you could count on their cancelling each other out. Birth Announcements Then Charles followed with this talc: An Eariern Airline.® p-ianc. nojlng into Jackson, Miss., asked landing instructions and was tcld to use Runway 5 and to approach from the South. A few minutes later a Piedmont -Ak'lines plane asJted landing ord-'-- ' tcld to O'- ^ ■ . : , . , F' ■ The Eastern pilot -Was still tun- <*d in -to the control tower and ex citedly asked what was going on, protesting, “You’ve got us on a collision course. VVhat do you tM.. and Mrs. Bcun'Ias F. Cork, 'Bessemer ?'!>, N. CT ‘.nnnou-nc? the- birth c.' i s :n Wr lnosdny, Nkvembe. 3, Kin;;,- Moun*?!n ho> pPal Mr. and Mr.s. Ja,^ph F r'"), -tin Hawth'rno Rd.. announce tin* bit’ h o. a son, Sunday, Nr . embi ;■ 7, Kings .Mf untain hcrphal. y.:. and Mrs. R.iymand E. Cur ry, 16 C.rcsteifield Cr. announce the bir !i of a daughter .Monday. .ember 8, Kings .M-junlaln h.N. . .;al M.. and .Mrs. Preior F. Ch'-ld - s, 123 McGinnis St., announce the birth of a daughter, lucsiay, N -.’ember C, Kings M'jun'.ain hos pital. ’Mr. and Mrs. Chas. B. Hall. 1420 E. Fdfbcs IL-ad, Gastonia, N. C., an-nognee the birth of a daugh- KINGS m6uNTAIN Hospital Log VISmNG HOURS DaUy 10:30 to 41:30 AM. 3 to 4 tM. land 7 to 8 PJK. Narva Allen Mrs. Buron Blanton Elbert Bridges Binson Clark Mrs. Geo. Cofeir Mrs. Miattie Davis Mrs. Willie Faust Mrs. Wm. Froneberger ’.Mrs. Marshall Gibson Mra Fannie Goforth Mrs. lioimmy Goodsoit Mrs. Larry Green Mrs. Gladys Grier Mrs. Wm. Haskett Mrs. Jas. Hill Winfred Hope 'Mts. Jas. HuHstickler Mrs. Midhael 'Huffstickler A. J. .Mack -Mrs. Sallie Martin -Mrs. D. P. 'McDaniel Mrs. John MeMilliiut -Mrs. Potest MoNeely Marioan Patterson Fred Stroupe '.Mrs. Trula Payseur Mis. iFaye Watter-son Mrs. Gilbert Brazzoll Margaret Whisnant Mrs. Arthur Green John Hogue Henjy lUser Mrs. Woodrow Ridgon ■Mrs. Ida Ware Mrs. Lula Ware Ethel White Mrs. Sarah .Adams Mrs. Kenneth Allen .Arthur Cooper Lawrence Greene Leonard Brackett, 403 E King ADMITTED THURSDAY St., City Ruby Martin, -Mox 16, Smyrna Rufus Wood, 308 Fairview St., City ADMITTED FRIDAY Thos. P. Baker, 408 ffilfer Rd., City Otto Payne, P.O. Box tfRZ, City -Masigie Phifer, Rt. 2, City ADMliTED SATURDAY Mrs. Joseph Lee, Rt. 1, Landrum Tam'my Wylie, 107 Elm St., Gastonia ADMITTED SUNDAY Forney Canipe, PO. 'Box 383, City •t is. Cook, 1704 S. York, Gas tonia Anne (Finger, 406 W. Gold St., City ■Mrs. Tom Hamilton, 604 Robin- wood Rd., Gastonia Mrs. Jas. Howell, Rt. 3, Grover Vera Mayberry, 109 Ef Cla. Ave., Bessemer City Roy Ruff, Rt. 2, Golden Valley, N. C. Mrs. Joseph Smith, 410 Haw thorne Rd., City Mary Whisnant, Rt. 3. Clover ADMITTED MONDAY Ginnis, City Mrs. Lillian Mitclu'm. .'>37 Bak er St., City John Oates, Rt. .3, City Clifford Lively, 823 C. St.. Bes semer City Mr.s. Dra-'-ilia Wil.son, 109 V\. La. Ave., 'Bessemer City Fr.ink Shirley, 611 Gantt St.. City '.Mrs, Roger Saunders, 706 Caro lina Ave., Be.'semer City Robt. Earney, Rt. 3, City John -Adams, Rt. 1. Clover 'Mrs. Raymond Curry, 16 die-:!- erfield Cr., City Mrs. da Rollins, P.O. Box 293, City Mrs. Eernie Thomas. Rt, 9, Shelbv ADMITTED TUESDAY Grace M. Logan, Rt. ."f. City June R. Lovelace, Linpolnton, N. C. Shirley C. Moore, Margrace Rd., C.ltv Mrs. Bob Wells, 50.5 E. Wti'-'h- ington Ave., Bes-iemer City Weldon Morris, 1000 2nd St., City Jas. C. 'Brown, 826 A St., Besse mer City Tliosh. P. Baker, 408 Phifer Rd., City Frank A. Ba-.“hcr, 714 Bridge.® Dr., City Concord State's Safest City OllARUrri'E. Concord wa.s the safest city for motorists and pede.strians la.sl year, the N. C. -Slate .Motor Club .said today. The dub'.s annual traffic saf ely ratings lor 1970 show five of tlie state’s 39 cities o\'er 10,- (MK» pipulalion with no traffic deal Its, iiul lop place went to Concord iH'cause it had the larg est motor-vehicle registration of 22..56(), barely lopping Shelbys 22,018. The rankings are based on the registration death rate, lire numlier of traffic deaths per 10,0911 i-egLstration. Others witli no falalilies ere Aslieboro, Alltemarle and Roa noke Rapids. Also making the top len were; Lenoir, witli a reg- istialion death rate of 0.5; Green- vill:-, 0.5: Thomasville, Monroe an.I New Bern, all 0.6. Mr.s. Myers N. Lee, 27 Elm .St.. City Jas. P. Self, 611 Temple, City Tony Stewart, Rt. 1, York, S. C. The motor club also named Concord the ‘s-afest city in tlie | state” in 196-1. Others were Shel- l>y. 1962; Tlioma.sville, 1963; Kins ton, 1965; Jacksonville, 19(k); Wilson, 19(i7; Kinston. 196S; and Slielliy, l!M)i». Julia G. Etskew, ■ 115 E. Ohio Ave,, Bessemer City Mrs. Chas. B. Hall, 1420 E. Forbes Rd., Gastonia At (he bottom of the rankings for tlie second straight year was Rocky -Mount, with a i-egistration death rate of .5.1. computed-on 11 traffic deaths and a registra tion of 27,277. Rocky .Mount also had the highest population death rate of 40.8, ba.sed on traffic deaths per 109,000 population. Keep Your Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings cIHoiinlaiii* N. C. iTews & Weather every hour ou the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between Say what you will a'oout Gov ernor Robert Scott: That he was heavy-handed, abrasive and abusive. That he dangled political plun der more openly and more cynic ally than any North ICarolina governor in recent history. That he blundered and stum- ;Oed, wheeled and dealt, roared and pur”ed, threatened, wheed- led--to the bewildermnt of the orposition and often to the con sternation of his friends. You can say all of that a'oout Bob Scott in his relentless drive to reorganize higher education. All of it is true. But then you have to concede that he took on the University of North Carolina and its thou sands of loyal alumni in a dead ly struggle—something no other governor has dared to do—and virtually staked his place in his tory on the outcome. The boldness of his plan was stunning. The changes it will bring about will be profound. The reward it will bring to high er education will be a long 'me countin' r. But even at this early juncture you can say t.iat Bob Scott drove a stoto for higher ed' cation, to souch it in Haw 'River terms, and chances are good that it will stand as deep and tall as his dad dy’s, in taking the farmer out of the mud and kerosene lamplight, and as O. Max Gardner’s, in put: ting together the original Great er University.—Chap-1 Hilel Week ly- Lesco Gardner, Rt. 1, City Mrs. Preior Chii.lers. 125 Mo- yow lost your job tomorrow? Things may be going pretty good now. But you never know what to morrow will bring. Suppose it’s unemployment Host iriU yo« Kve? win yon use M tide tile over while yon-look? Excuses? I^’s hc^ yon never have to fad out But jwst m ease, why not start saving nonf, while yon have a Join the P^rnol Savings Plan where yon work and bay U5. Savings Bonds. ^ k’saneasywaytobi^aiiest^ And now there’s a bonus interest rate on afi U.S. Savings Bonds—for B Bonds, when, held to matu rity of 5 years, .10 months (4% the first year). That extra payable as a bonus st maturity, applies to all Bonds issued rince June 1, 1970... with a' ^mparabie improvement tot all older Bonds. With any luck at all yoM emer. gency fund may become a vacation, a college education, or a happy reti remen t. tnMAirJei^MDlta.ordMtrorad. UaikaLWlMaiMdediihqrauib. g(h . v law kak. Ite ur b, AOmd * Aid dwtyi 1 fhursda t \ White, the lift beaten White’s dends t( Cougar: Northw going £ claimin • Ru . Higl and th( forced Associa tie recli 1,000 St of the 1 dog in i say the reason Th for basi to nami into tw 1968 ar is until KMHS, spring son ha: which Do Lincolr openinf smashe ing but again. Upset. . Fo ton ha.< long li (Gasto fester Vvith a Greeni the opi ready I aren’t Ashbre then 1( of the H« ferenc( So at Lin' N( at Ne\ N( North Sc at Kar N( ner plj on the Ft runnir for th( thee V rympl< ton. O tenber Joe Ea Cl last Fi ning t! a final -the Sg was fo iville a Y< North over t Mrs. Ji at Nor Dt way p who w to ear are Ec Clayto TI tercepi Tom E 1960-6: as a ju It’ battle ranked rather Bryant up. .. Can Win, BO'IL-n seeking for the : 'Vebb B: • wn 00 ek>, fi oTlpfk 1 The ^ bring a trouble
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