E»tiJbU«lie4 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald 206 South Piedmont Ave. Kings Mountain. N. C. 28088 A weekly newsps.per devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the .enlightenment, entertalnmnt and benefit cf the citizens of Kings Mountain and Its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishii^ House. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 23086 under Act of Congress of Mtirch 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Gary Stewart Sports Editor, News Miss Deboie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper « MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Ray Parker Allen Myers . Paul Jackson Rocky Martin Roger Brown Herbert M. Hunter • On Leave With The United States Army MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYAW.E IN ADVANCE In North Carolina and South Carolina One year $4; six months $2.25; throe months $1.50; schorl year $3. (Subscription in North Carolina subject to three percent saxes tax.i In All Other Sit ies One year $5; six months $3; three months $1.75; school year $3.75. PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 Weather Is Boss Controlling Noise Popular Government in its recent issue has an exhaustive article on noise, but acknowledges it has found no con clusive answerers to the over-all prob lem. The comment is made that the na- tives of the African Sudan have better hearing at 70 than a New Yorker does at 20. Noise is measured in decibels. Would one believe it? Kitchen noises are among the worse. There Is the clat ter of pots, pans and dishes, also silver ware, plus the noise of the dishwasher, crackling frying items of food, and even the refrigerator adds its measure. New York has passed an ordinance limiting jackhammer use to specific hours and other cities and some states have passed anti-noise ordinances, which Popular (Government says are difficult of enforcement. Dump Agnew? Speculation that President Nixon will dump Spiro Agnew and find a new run ning mate in 1972 may be true — and may not be true. The President isn't talking. The Vice-President may be more valuable as a campaigner than some of the others being mentioned like Nelson Rockefeller or John Connally. Agnew is an in-fighter, is a highly capable man with words, and his broad attacks to the enemy Democrats bring him critici.sm. But there is another side to the coin. Politics being an often-times erne- tional pseudo-science, the Agnew typo ol hatchet man can get folks firea up which means bigger turnouts for tlie loyalists. It has always been the presidential candidate’s prerogative to choose his running mate and Mr. Nixon may switch, but in Agnew he has a man who has firmly supported and advanced Ad ministration policies, _ There’s an old saying: there’s no use to argue with the weather. Residents of this area, if they doubt ed it before, have had two recent weath er events that proves the point. First was the ice blanket and the second the heavy snowfall of Friday which made roads very tricky and which stranded many a motorist throughout the snow area. Josh Hinnant had a speaking en gagement in Raleigh Thursday night and was advised by his wife the follow ing morning he might do well to stay in Raleigh until the thaw. Josh figured the Bronco he was driving would go through any kind of weather. Josh was right in a measure. What he hadn’t fig ured was his windows to ice up, which they did. The trip home required eight hours, about twice the time a Raleigh trip nominally takes. Near Greensboro Josh saw a 15-car pile-up. He was hold ing a stear.v pace, with time out to scrape ice off the windows. Many cars who speeded by him ho later saw strand ed. Speed, snow and ice don't go togeth er, as many learned painfully. It is good that the Merchants As.so- ciation has been able to reschedule the Christmas parade for ihe coming Fri day. The weather meant hard and ardu ous work for City Hall and for state highway department employees. Vernon (Peanut) Smith, the city meter man remarked, “It got us a wee bit behind schedule.’’ Roy Pearson and Gary StewaiT were also able to ro-schedule the first Kings Mountain invitational basketball tourna ment and it was quite successful. The action was fast and, of course, the home- folk were happy to see Gardner-Webb win it. Morion Entry Hugh Morton, the Linville impres- sario of Grandfather Mountain and one of Noi-th Carolina’s topnoteh photo graphers, has made it official that he is indeed a candidate for governor in the Democratic primary May 6. It brings the number of announced candidates to four, including also re cently - resigned Senator Hargrove Bowles, Lieutenant-Governor Pat Tay lor, and Dri Reginald A. Hawkins, the Charlotte dentist who was an unsuccess ful candidate four years ago. The Morton entry most surely will assure a second primary. Two months ago he stated in Shelby that he was aiming his campaign to fin ish second and would win in a second primary. Some observers doubt that he will finish that high largely because he was a late-comer and many voters had al ready committed to the other candi dates. The decision of Attorney-General Robert Morgan not to run probably en hances Mr. Morton’s ch/nces. He lives at Wilmington as well as Linviile and should inherit a portion of East North Carolinian Morgan’s indicated support. The polls show Messrs. Taylor and Bowles the current front-runners. All three are men of proven ability in gov ernment, Taylor and Bowles in elective office and Morton in a variety of state appointive jobs which he handled capa bly. Of course, only one candidate can win, but it is enheartening that men of high caliber are seeking the office. Drugs, Liquor Equated It was greatly publicized at time of passage, but the General Assembly did what should have been done long ago. In amending the driver’s license laws, the assembly included a provision that makes it unlawful to drive while taking drugs that impair the motorist s ability to drive, just as it is for the mot orist who is too full of alcoholic bever ages. In the past, many dererwants came oT f ee by producing witnesses that they were under the influence of drugs. It was a defense plea sometimes per haps spuriously used. If a driver is under the influence of drugs and his reactions impaired he is equally as dangerous on the highways as the boozer. Sally Holden, of RaleigH, in a letter to the editor of Time magazine, wrote: “When the 16 Governors at the South ern Governors’ Conference received gifts, it was called a favor. When the police receive gifts, it is called a bribe." That all depends on who the giver might be. Certainly the State of Georgia which gifted the governors would ex pect no special favors from the visiting ' " state. Nor are all gifts to police men in the bribe category. In New York’s corruption - ridden police department ttie gifts from people in the rackets were made for favors which protected the givers — clearly bribes. It really depends on the back ground of the giver. Does he want and need special favors? Congratulations Congratulattons are in order to Ed ward H. Smith on the Smithwick Cup aw’ard he received as first prize for the writing of an historical! article at the lo cal and county level. Mr. Smith’s article on the Battle of Kings Mountain, published in the Herald on the I91st anniversary of the battle, w'as adjudged best of all those entered. It w as a very interesting feature and revealed some interesting facts about the battle credited with tunimg the tide of war in favor of the struggling colo- nistn. MARTIN'S MEDICINE Viewpoints of Other Editors SEEPING REPUBLICANISM MRS. GAND&'S BIG MOMENT By MAR'HN HARMON One of North Carolina's Dem- Those who dorjihtod that a ocratie candidates for Congress woman could manage the af- was expressing nicely controlled fairs of India had best keep quiet pen in the hand of the apprehension the other day these days because whether j hi ^ ‘ about what he desiTlhed as what she ds doing or not j To be literal about it, siu'ks and stones are no more titan words. They ne\er do anything either. They are as Inanimiite as the most blistering invective; they cannot break bones. To explode another myth, a ■ ■ most fervent editorialist hardly can enerate the pexs. asi veness of a eefl r lODicnu. AieFading ; Mrs. the most amitaitious and, .so far, Thousands of Tar Heels for successful power-politics opera- years have been voting Demo- tion since Russia and ithe Unit The seed prOltlems corn grow ers faced last winter have fad ed in the fa'ce of a gixxi 1971 ...a. .s .... .. ,, crop and an allout effort by Indira Gandhi U running sword wielded by an e(|uall>- ,.ompanies to produce . I i~.. hhght-ix'sislant liyhiids. zealous crusader. The difference is tliat between thought and action. Sports look.s Tlxere will be a plentiful sup- m-m The magazine We the People of “seeping Republicanism." North Carolina, in its recent an nual Industrial edition, contained a feature on the history of the Alcoa Aluminum Company’s Ba- JratTc on’me“7tatrievel a^'‘to to th® motivated athlete who - M.-esisimt dtn works near Albemarle. me prlvucl of ^e ^tfn^ S^th f be specta- does the pob on the field, not the ply of seed o bhsht-t as,slant me privacy at tne voting booth, tors rather than operators on stu^nt of the game who hybrids for planting m 1972. “ for%r“esidenf"*n t PT"*- me riS ITves. In ^'.ese hybrids are adapted to Oinne 1 once lived in Albemarle m™s aU the way bacrmi^ ‘"“re erudite athletic circles this growing concUtions. ,d ^ mTnv fTne v^ith Sve the clL The C^mgressi^ ^ execution. This is the This is part of tlio optiimistic the S irUcle fl candidate noTed th^fphenom- ^ Product that brings fans to .^ed con, o.dlook compiled irona ® enmi n.efollv and wen, on to 'balance of power on the In^ their feat. ^ survey of four major sup^lers subcontinent which has existed To put this another way: A ^onh Carolina seed—Coker since the end of British rule, friend who has a small foreign pedigreed .sieed Co., Pioneer That balance of power took the ear Mt about to repair the sick qj McNair Seed Co. and form of a Pakistan which oocu- little thing himself. iHe got out parms. pied both northern flanks of the manual and tocat^ the sec- jj^rveyexi by Gene Sullivan, ex- enon ruefully and went on say: was eap&cialiy interestin m-m The beginnings were around the turn of the century. An East- “The thing that concerns ernor named Whitney had min- is th.;t a lot cf State Democrats ing interests in Rowan and Stan- National Republicans will con the Yadkin as a source of electric sense to put a RepOblic-an in the power for his operations. Whit- white House and then sadd'e Hindj India. Mrs. w Umuble to follow step one to break the link between the tinaime lo roii^ «ep one. ley counties and decided to dam c-ltde that it doesn’t make much Mu^im tegarT*^ insU^' Ven.sion -seed sitecialist at North - - - — capalble of squeetdng ffPla^etit he^^by ins^^^ „te c I u*ijw step one he foui' suppliers indicated Jhat ney’s plaas did not come to frut- him with a Democratic congress 'o break the link tet^en the execution, only 100 per cent hand-detass- tion, as he ran Into financial - the .situation wc have now. two arms of the Muslim pine- ^Alll of which brings us to a well- eled adapted hybrids will be troubles and was bankrupted in . n,. intended observation in The Fei- sold. 1907. North Carolina Electric & --phe possibility that really „ .. “ low. the periodic newsletter of Fewer Ctimpany beI'.glit the Whit- ^jothesr me is tliat the Republi- wrm of tniw cllviistona cjf tioops United. Writing in They do not plan to offer for ney leaivings from the receiver crats, as I oall them, wUl not xtom West Pakistan wl^h “The Chairman’s Corner,” the . „ Kjends of T cytoplasm and subsequently sold It to a only vote for the Republican can- ’flown to East Pakistan 1^ j{,ev. B Joe Parker had this to . /.vtonla.sm tvues T cyto French Company, Aluminum des didate for president but, as a spring in an effort to sUbdue ana .h iyiop.a.n. , liro. But ave k) F SUJJI TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Happy Is- the man that find^-th insdurn. and the vmn tlmt ^eth understanding. Proverbs 3B1S Francais, in early 1913. m-m The 1913 date sticks in mind because the late Ed Biddix, with whom I lived in Al'oemarle, w'as logical extension, also vote next fh® separatist movefnent- year for Ropublitans for the Mrs. Gandhi has tiumed tljat 'What do you do? What do you -Congress and the U. S. Senate, deployment into one of the great do, when, you have soingthlbg on They v,iUl, of course, remain mistakes of the limes. She has your nilnd, and you knpw that loyal Democrats in marking the mousetrapped those three divi- it is soiRethfiiig njost pi^Ie in ballot for state offices, since the sions between a local native the. onraniuhity would like to see Well, you look at it pjasm is directly related to blight susceptibility and N cy toplasm to blight resistance. olio and the nearest Catholic prie.st was at Salisbury. The rail line at that time stopped at the Tu-ckertown community several miles from Badin. On one bitter- regular The three Pakistan divisions ®(?ltition The seed companies also say they wlU not offer for sale flint or flint-dent types. These turn It over in 1®*® de.sirable types, along with jpu r^lze that there second generation and open rndian than yQu expeel^. pollinated seed, were pressed In- Suddenly It's git^ous what the to use this year due to the is. Ah, then (he real shortage of blight resistant. visions o(f the “As a Democrat running for -army. iCongress, I’m really concerned. The un^ r«uvu>wi.i vuv„»uiu3 - ..j u . . -i. j —j i As a matter of fact, I’m more are now being squeezed to ,a conwrned about the -general combined guerrilla plus Indian “The Something" is low wages Although farmere should eas- ly cold day in the dead of win- army operation out of the toim- jn the Jftm-gsville community, ily find plentiful supplies of ter Ed was dispatched with horae 5^°“^ primary, tryside and into the mam cities jijj, rea# to quote stat- the kinds of seed they want, and buggy to Tuckertown stelUon ’I" North Carolma that s a switch of East Pakistan. And India jstic?. But how do you gp about prices wdil probably be higher to meet Father Leo who was com- alarming proportions. jjas control of the air at^ sea getting them ral^ to a higher than they were prior to the 1970 lanes which feed those cities and level? Do you HHike the sugges- bUght epidemic. Most of this There is a thin chance that everyone in them. tion to (he TJown Board? Make ejiange in price will be due to the candidate’s concern is well Thus Mrs. Gandhi has tlie phy- a trip to the mayor? Write a y,e cost of havlife to hand-de- pilaced. But today’s strange poli- sical power right now to destroy letter to tlje Chamiber of Com- tassel the N cy^lasm seed tical siti^tion argues strongly or release those dtivisdons; or al- mepce?. Call the mills of Moores- against it. most. Concoivalbly, like Xeno- ville in for a little cl)it-chat? phon’s Greeks in classic times. Talk aboqt the utoon? What do Based on survey information, ing down to hold Mass. SKj “Th ore Tufr Mrs. Biddix tells the story. Ed met Father leo and they began the cxtJd ride back. The priest asked if there were any springs along the way and sug- In tog together to simplify the oall- Would Mr. Biddix like libation. He would. We do happen to have a Re- or the Czechs In Russia at the yvu do about this skeleton publican president pitted against end of World War I, they might our comrounity closep permit the maximum a ‘Democratic congress. The dis- fight their way out of the trap. , The solution is simple—raise of men to talk, sprm^^ong »ne way anu concerting thing Is that the pres- it seems highly unlikely. P®y l®vel. Getting xt done is fton^d^nd^ti^ ^ri^t ^*^nfd ® Democmt Mrs. Gandhi has done her dip- Last year-, more than 1,000 stopped and the priest opened congress often smacks lomacy as skillfullv as her inili- - . ... P®f ^®y throughout the the black satohei he Wc^ carrying Q^aj-d Republicanism, tary olanninc. The only outside ,'Y®ri]y, verily. VVe resize xts Christmas season were oompleted Who would have dreamed of a riower caoable'of alvlne Pakistan "*l''rtctong, but we would point from Vietnam for off-duty serv- Would Mr. Btddix like a liHle j^gp^^Iican president applymg waf^jrf iPe" tot'^R^'cton" to" toe ’ Prmms Many servicemen oall from Natiom at the expense of Taiwan, w ? downlovvn Mrs. Biddix says, “I think they and planning personal detentes ® j ■ i. i. ^ <^1* bo must have stopp^ at every spring in Peking and Moscow? A Dem- to brin-^ some of wotJd sutomxt the prob- tals and service centors at bases along the wiaTfor whw they ocratie president embarked on troops down from her lem you refer to is not a skele- placed from a number of hospi- reached Badin both Ed and Fath- such adventures would have been Chinese frontier to help in the ton in our closet, but a millstone elsewhere in the country, er Leo were roaring drunk.” branded immediately by Repub- trapping of the Pakistan diva- around our necks. licans, including the Old Nixon, si®"® •" Bengal. China was tak- But executing the obvious solu- m-m ‘as a traitor. At the same time we ®" out of play by Russian. Rus- tion is nonetheless difflt^t. As is on India’s side anj'way. vvlth so many “obvious" ailments, _ , . „ ,, , „„ , rv ~ j have a democratic congress erect- sia The late Capta.n .Meek Ormand t^arrers, assaulting And the United States is far low pay merely is one sympton. ... ,. ing trade bari ers, assaultmg nna me unnea taiaies is . wag condu-otnr on the spm line ^.j^g N-ations, and sandbag- away an. -The residen- With the nation’s bicentennial ajic n«r»c 'rh<» rAntiA«it vviLfi me naiions oacentenmai ^neh”'“‘^""‘‘"" ible eJ^ghgiven the continued f expenditures for highways of sev- tonlshin(T that toe U-nlted States er^ times that figure. y®* environs jn-m °n® ®f is historic treasures, ‘Whether the Nixon administra- Mount Vernon. There was a brief I ran afoul of the law on one <4®"’ alone Congress, would upn®®" (recently) when the Sov- occasion in Badin. The Alhemoinle along with hls_ propo^^ was nm- is let government sought to potr- doulbtful, however, for while Con- chase the estate ‘adjoining Mo’jnt has authorized $900,000,000 Vernon as a recreation center for .. mass transit expenditures **®, Washington emlbassy em- this fiscal year, toe administra- P‘®yees, a proposal which became tion wants to cut that figure by >"001 when the owner withdrew one third to about $600 million, ^n® property from the market. Yet across the Potomac river No doubt toe »president has a there remains a distinct danger told me to cease and desiat, fhait .better use for the money as, for that an industrial or commerdal third shift workers needed their example, the 4 billion dollars he development may nito toe view sleep. wants to spend this fiscal year which is now m^uch as it was in on military assistance to forei; n George Washington’s time. Cbn- govemments, a figure almost sev- gross thought it had solved the en times his pros®