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Establish^ 1689
;^J The Kings Mountain Kerald
*•' ' 206 South Piedmont Ave. Kings Mountain, N. C. 28086
A H’-“«kly newspa.per devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
(or tjis enlightenment, entertainmnt and benefit cf tlio 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, J<. C„ 28086
under Act of Congress of March 3. 1873.
EDITORIAL. DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher
Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Gary Stewart Sports Editor, News
Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper
THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGSMOUNTAHN^
MAHtiW'i
Thursday, April 20, 1972
Ray Parker
Rocky Martin
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MEDICINE
Viewpoints of Other Editors
about a tough detec
tive who tried to crack a heroin
Twr'wr. 'We cannot help but wonuei li
THE GREAT TAX PRI8IS eciuities of ta.\es than from the Academy—which votes with
'Now that the pr<&iden-ial'‘pri- their e.xcessive complexity and its heart ins'.ead cf its arl--knoWi,
By MARTIN HARMON
slzp-—Wall its art when it sees it?
Charlotte Observer.
maries are demonstrating the their overpowering
txintinuing popular appeal of Street Journal.
“tax reform," both Democrats
and Repulblicans are vowing, ETHICS CODE APPROACH
once again, to do something HELPS HONST OFTICIALS
about it. Nothing Is likely to My own experlencce as head of
hapi>en this year, but a strong a major department and as a
The Herald is among the Kings push seems sure in 1973, what- legislator has shown me that Central
The
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VISITING HOURS
Daily 10:30 to 11:30 AM,
3 to 4 PM. and 7 to 8 PJl
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Postage due
JUST FOUND: 319
SACKS Of MAIL
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The Post Office says a Penn
.iit- ,,v,c.n. .... o- - -- - — ...... boxcar containing 319
Mountain postoflice’s better “post- ever the results of November’s nearly all o( our state employes sacks of mail and parcels left
age due” customers. .At least 99.9 election. and public officials are dedicated Philadelphia Feb. 4, 1970, *”<1
percent of this class mail derives Until lately the Nixon admin- to good government and to doing got lost somewhere between thfire
a substantial sum, but Penn Cen
tral denies receiving any infor
mation on a missing boxcar.
ad-
IBut what about the poor
dresses?
We didn’t know what was in
the mail, but we can imagine.
TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
And ICC know that fill things work ^glttther for good Ao them i))at 701-c ihe Lord.
Bnirrmns 8:28.
Vietnam Backfire
One of the .sorriest of the many sor
ry incidents in this war was the costly
effort the Marines made in capturing a
hill held by the enemy. True to Marine
tradition, the Marines did the job—only
to be told in effect, “Now we’ve got it,
we’ll leave it and give it back.”
The United States proved, in World
W’ar n, it could fight a jungle war and
\win. The atomic bomb drops materially
shortened the war, saving, as President
Harry Truman contended and contends,
many thousands of lives, Japanese as
well as American, all of which means
the bleeding heart boys of today makes
one just a wee bit sick.
Massive bombing has been resum
ed. Oh, my! Has the enemy stopped
shooting?
Obviously he has not stopped shoot
ing, but he is still able to crank up that
old phonograph recoi-d: “Please, ju.st
stop bombing and we’ll talk some
more.” To paraphrase the famed “Ma”
of the Fibber McGee radio team, “Ain’t
funny McGee!”
There was a time when the Viet
nam war could have been w'on, with
GI’s running their own show and ignor
ing a crooked (by US standards) re
gime.
The trouble Ls the South Vietnam
ese live by Oriental standards, among
them: stealing ain’t crooked.
Mr. Ni.xon better pull out in toto or
CusteFs Last Stand of 1876 may become
Abrams’ Last Stand of 1972.
Defeatists?
When former Governor Terry San
ford first indicated he might join in the
fray for the Democratic nomination for
president, there was a large negative
Tar Heel reaction, largely phrased, “He
hasn’t got a chance,” or “He’s kidding.”
The ex-Governor, it turned out.
wasn’t kidding, which took care of one
piece of negativism. He has won over
some of the not-a-chance crowd. Some
are unwinnable: 1) hard-nosed Wallace-
ites and 2) most Republicans who are
talking up Wallace BIG. Happily, in
North Carolina, talk is all the Republi
cans can do, for North Carolina does
not permit that sneaky cross-party vot
ing in primaries, a la Wisconsin.
The fact is, with a crowded field
and no clear-cut leader, and convention
politics being convention politics the
Duke University president can go to
the Miami convention with as good a
chance as any in the field.
Pulling out American troops from
Vietnam was pretty heady stuff, even on
a piecemeal basi.s.
New Light On Bligh
But if television news reports over
the weekend were correct, it’s another
sorry chapter indeed. The report was
that the nearly 70,000 American GI’s
remaining in Vietnam were service
troops, not fighting units, and that,
were they encircled could become the
Custer’s Last Stand portrait of this ill
begotten, undeclared war. “Ill begot
ten” may not be the proper phrase, but
ill-managed, ill-planned and ill-about-
everything else does.
Great Britain did it for centuries all
over the globe, continually fighting skir
mishes and police actions. At lea.st.
Great Britain knew w'hat she wa.s do
ing: fighting to protect a continuing poli
cy of colonialism with its overtones of
economic aggrandizement. Yet even
Britain lost.
The United States mentality is no
kin to that of the British of empire days,
which stretched from Elizabeth I to
Churchill. The American wants no part
of holding actions, imaginary demilitar
ized zones, the 38th parallel. His think
ing is that a war worth fighting is worth
winning and that the control of real
estate is an indication of success or fail
ure.
Second Thoughts?
A Republican friend remarked this
week he had meant to switch his regis
tration before the books closed but had
forgot before it was too late.
He wanted, he said, to vote for
George Wallace.
He later volunteered that, should
the prospect arise that Governor Wal
lace might become President Wallace
he would have “second thoughts”.
’Nuff said?
Congratulations to Mrs. W. T. Woir,
newly-clected regent of Colonel Frede
rick Hambi’ight Chapter, Daughters of
the American Revolution; to Sid Moss,
newly-appointed perimeter member of
the city zoning board; and to Miss Bar
bara Logan, named to “Who’s Who in
America among Junior College Stu
dents.”
The Neisco, Inc., creditors’ hearing,
convened in a New York federal bank-
i-uptcy court Tuesday, was still under
way Wednesday, Jim Dickey, Kings
Mountain Ncisco manager reported. Pur
pose of the meeting was to consider an
offer by the Cciitral States Southeast
and Southwest Areas Pension Fund, sub
sidiaries of the Teamsters union, of
850,000, for the a.ssets of the firm. Nels-'
CO operated in voluntary bankruptcy for
30 months before being adjudged an In
voluntary bankrupt. The Teamsters pen
sion fund arm says it has invested more
than two million dollars in Neisco and
is the major Neisco creditor. Mr. EKckey
notes that a new $100,000 boiler has
been installed at the Margrace plant
and "is paid for”. Ho adds that new
shearing equipment on order is sched
uled to be shipped soon. He anticipates
that definitive information about future
prospects for Neisco will be available
next week.
new address. The postaffiee does ocrats picked up the issue ear- *' ' ■ ing mail—sitting on a seldom
not Iciward second class mall lier, though, and in a statement 'We couldn’t agree more with osed siding in Perryville, Md.
(ncwspa;)ers, magazines, etc.) nor the other day Senator Edward Mr. Bowles, who made the state- , office savs crisply
does it return it unless the nota- Kennedy told Just what he and ment in the context of his being . ppnn Pentral will be fined
ticn is In-crioed “return postage his colleagues ave in mind. a candidate for the Democratic
gjuaranteed”. However, the post- '.Many of Lis remarks make a nomination as governor. But he
cMice department does forward 'groat deal of s -nse. For Instance, also made the statement in the
pc.stage due labels c‘ undelivcra- nearly everybody will agrefe that context of calling for an ethics
hie second cla.ss mail and for- the tax edde is a mess. Over the code for state oxiicials. And we
warding addresses (ten cents, years Congress has complicated couldn’t agree more wlt^ Mr.
please). This, cf course, is a serv- the code with so many special Bowles about the need for such a
ice appreriated and for which provisions that even millions of device.
periodical circulation managers moderate-income taxpayers now (Perhaps it seem paradoxical to
are glad to doff a thin dime. decide tliat they must hire pro- agree that most state officials
fessional help to prepare their are honest and worthy of their from you in the next two
returns. jobs and salaries and, in the y™ consider our en- ADMITTED THURSDAY
Occa.sionally, some postage due ^ Everyone wilt agree, too, that same breath, to call for an ethics S^gement broken . . .
mail transcends the ciriulatlan “today, the burden is Immense, code. But we do not agree that (Dear ‘Son . . Enclosed are
department, providing relief from and taxpayers across the country the circumstance is paradoxical, some chocolatechlp cookies that
the usual ‘ho-huim’’, and some- are raising their voices in loud indeed. It Is our belief that one j spent the holidays making for
times Willi some real entertain- opposition to the rising taxes follows the other. Just as surely y^u. if you love your dear moth-
they have to pay.” The opposition as dawn follows darkness. gj. you wl U surely write
may be especially loud in these Mr. iBowles has not been the
days just before April 15, but It’s first major speaker to call for All this mail wa.s bound for
heard throLghout the year. an ethics code, but he has been Alabama, Uvulsiana and Missis-
One fact that Senator Kennedy at the forefront of trying to pro- sippi. Maybe there is a ready-
doesn’t mention, tough, is that vide such a device. An ethics bill made issue here for George Wal-
"Dearest Sarah
If I don’t
Mrs. Clarlv C. Boone
Charlie Allen Duncan
Mrs. Ira J. Falls
.Margaret M, Gray
Mrs. Bryan L. Harris
Mrs. Wilson Ledford
Ronald C. Mackey
Waller M. .Moorhead
Waldo K. McGill
Arthur H. Palter.-on
Mrs. Otto Payseur
Erlit .Mae Paacivson
Irah L. Camp
Howard J. Champion
Sandra Kay Clary
Mrs. Howard .MiColiem
Leila M. Robinson
Bertie B. Tho-mp.son
Eva Oimand
Ruius C. Gantt
Mrs. Wade Gra^jt
Themas L. Larimers
Paul R. Sanders
Otis J. Tomes
Virginia .Mae Williams
Mir.s. Lewis Henderson
ment.
Lu’cille S. Blanton, 403 Walnut
St., City
IBobhy Frank Manor, P.O. Bo.\
.oC'7, City
Kennttli L. Pliillips. 602 E.
Louisiana Ave., Bc.ssemer City
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ADMITTED FRIDAY
In the current political season,
postage due items have been re
ceived (cne each) irem Skipiper
Several generations of Americans,
thanks to tlie novel based on the saga
of Captain William Bligh, skipper of the
IIMS Bounty, know Che captain as t>’-
rannical master who flogged and keel
hauled his men for minor infractions
and who drove them to mutiny.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer twice fur
thered the story of this evil, yet dogged
man, who, in fact, holds the world’s dis
tance record for traversing the oceans
in a longboat. In the first version, the
late Charles Laughton poi'trayed Cap
tain Bligh in highest style. In the sec
ond, it was Mai'lon Brando who portray
ed the Captain, though in somewhat
less high style.
Now comes a great-great-great-
great nephew of Captain Bligh to refute
some of the more garish contentions of
Novelists Nordhoff and Hail and Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer.
Items:
Fi)-st Mate Fletcher Christian and
Captain Bligh were friends, not enemies,
and, indeeci, the Captain asked that
Christian be assigned to Bounty as first
mate, which pleased Christian.
(iaptain Bligh, compared to- most
Bitish skippers, was tolerant, a captain
considerate of his crew. His current day
nephew says the ships’ logs of the period
reveal i;iat floggings aboard h's uncle’s
ships wore no more than ha’r he aver
age on other British naval v ’s.
Bounty’s crew was not ressed.
All its members were volunt, s.
The report of his nei hew w.ts made
recently in a most interesting feature in
the Christian Science Monitor, following
a research trip by the nephew to Tahiti,
where Christian and the mutineers sail
ed Bounty into the dhannel and sank
her.
The Monitor feature docs not de
tail the “why” of the mutiny, but per
haps the nephew, fascinated by the
islands, gives a hint in the fact he
wants to return to Polynesia on a more
or less permanerTt basis.
Were and are those Polynesian girls
as beautiful and alluring as those who
cavorted with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s
Bountymen-of-sil ver-screen ?
Bowles, Demceratic candidate for those complex special he introduced in the last General lace. He could stand in the box-
iMls. C. B. Bostic, 2136
St., Gastonia
Mrs. Paul L. England,
W. 5th-
Rt. 2,^
g.A-erno:
ctiiu cctxiuiactitr lai *■—-g.- .vw. -- - - ~
r and frem Allen Barbee, provisions in the tax law were Assembly by the wery men Chat car t^oor and proclaim: “The.se viw
Bc-mcltatic‘ctond'ldate”for lieuten- there to achieve some Con- the etic? bill is designed to pro- beardbd federal bureaucrats are O. pot®’ L Ci^
unt-governor. These ticiried us gress’ sense of equity. Many of tect. still lookin’ down their noses at
but 'ivould be considered heinous them do Indeed aid chiefly high- Yes, we said protect, for we do the good people of Alabama, who
fro.-n the standpoint of the vote- er-inoorne taxpayers but some, believe that the vast majority of are just as cultured as people
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seekers.
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sueh as the special exemptions legislators, other elected and all anywhere, but 1 tell you when I
for the blind and. the elderly, appointed officials are honest. It get to Washington . . .”—^(Thai-
distribute their benefits far more is our belief that an ethics code, lotte Observer,
evenly. such as that proposed by Mr.
The basic problem faced by Bowles, would serve to protect
tax reformers is that one man’s te innocent fix)m suspicion, even
“loophole” Is always another while its machinery would allow
rived postage due, the first-dlass man’s (x>ncept of tax justice. The for prosecution and Indictment
slamp then costing si.x cents. 1 reformers struggle and strain to of the guilty. There would, at
made a mental note that if eithei reach an objective equity that is least, be a channel for suspicion
of these three guesses pro.ed the never entirely attainable. that could.
Last year, when the Herald was
ccnducling its census-guessing
contest, cne family's guesses ar-
THE PROBLEM OF
BEATEN CHILDREN
s. c.
Blandina Lovelace, 106
Maine Ave., Be.s.semer City
Elzie Lee Putnam, Route
Ci.y
Mrs. Hamer Wylie, 107 Elm Si.,
Gastonia
1,
winner of the $25 prize, I would That's not to say that
retrieve the six cent.s from my gress should stop trying.
Con- prove or disprove a charge.
'Every month the Mecklenburg
County Department of Social
Services investigates 10 to 15
, ... cases of child abuse—that is,
—children who are beaten by their
ADMITTED SATURDAY
603 Prince-
friend Gene Gcfortli.
and 'Mr. Bowles proposed to aise a
parents.
The star of the postage due bri
gade made appearance last
Lonnie Brown, Jr.,
ton Dr., City
Oscar R. Gladden, 501 J?. Rail
road Ave., City
Mrs. Paul L. Holland, Rt. 1, Box
238, Bt:ssemer City
Sailie .M. Hord, 309 Walker St.,
City
Sihtirley Lunsford, Rt. 2, Besse
mer City
Katherine B. McGinnis, 13.50
Midoipines, City
Lawson .Mitchem, 103 Davidson
St., City
Gilbert D. Patterson, Rt. 1, City
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Cable, 23 Bennett
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some cf Senator Kennedy’s pro- politics-protected commission in Sociologists say that national-
posals merit thorough consldera- concert with the courts to fer- ly many more children are abus-
tion. Replacing the personal ex- ret out misdeeds, but the fact ed than the statistics indicate,
emption with a tax credit, to be that misdeeds are uncovered i.s They also say the danger in ig-
^ .. applied directly against the tax, .some balm those who feel all norlng this social ill- -aside from
riionlh, with my wife the addres- would be more useful to lower- .politicians and most government the permanent physical and psy-
soe. Howard Dixon i^ a piano pa- income taxpayers and mayy be officials are suspicious by asso- /ehologiical damage to the child
Iron and among the promptess desirable. Maybe deduction of eiation with politics and govern- —is that beaten children grow up
paydng, but .the Dixon check for state gasoline taxes should be ment. This is one approach, and to be child beaters them.selves.
tile Feomary account arrived less eliminated; the taxes, as the it is, to our knowledge, the most Fortunately for Carolinians,
quickly and was among ' large Senator says, are in effect “user” complete one thus far advanced, there Is a good, tough law which
raft of postage due mail claimed charges, the price paid for use But no matter what the ma- protects thcoe who try to hell,
on t'he partic-ular dayrThe postage of the highways the levies fin- chlnery, so long as it cannot be the battered child. The report-
due bill was three cents. The cn- ance. motivated politically and cannot ing person is immune from civil
velcpe was postmarked March 8, Other suggestions, however, be hung up in Ibureaucratic wiran- or criminal action taken by par-
and waa labeled received by tihe point up just how hard it is to gling. an ethics code and ma- ents unless it can be proved
Kings Mountian postoffice — attain equity. The Senator would chinery to enforce it is a need that he acted with malice oj-
frcni whence it was dispatched,on eliminate the provision that al- fer North Carolina politics to- (bad purpose. It would see.-n that
Ma; c;i 8 — ten days later bn lows the taxpayer to exclude ♦UK) day.. There have been entirely a sincere neighbor who made
-March IS. in dividends from income. loo 'many suspicious incidents not careful notes about "^he kinds
The idea of this provislan was to cast aspersions on the honest and frequency of a child’s in-
ni-m , to lessen slightly the double tax- rlltleians and officials. We be- juries could hardly be proved
ation of corporate earnings; the heoe they deserve - protection malicious.
Mr. Dixon had used an air mail company is taxed in full on its from the bad apples in the bar-
enveic.oe, had blacked out “Via income and its stockholders are tok and an ethics code Is a good m addition, an examining
Air .Mall" with heavy hand, a.al taxed on the part of the remain- Star. ' right to order
had tlien appended an eiglit-cent der that’s passed along to them. “ , *®n".P“''arily while
stamip. The exclusicn is a Significant THE UTTLE TRAMP investigation is made, if he
„ „ benefit ciefly to modest-income CAME HOME Z ^ T "
“ -riockholders. not to the wealthy. . that he aspects the parents are Wallace William
•Would "evuitv” really gain from » the Academy albusing the child he has examin- wilsSn St.. City
Apparently, this little envelope its elimination’ Awa^s show was not the wtaner ed.
had a ten-day joy ride aloft be- Senator Kennedy also wa.;ld Ha^an. It^was Chap" ..Questioning a ch^ld about his PiedLnt'A^.
Mr.s. J. I.
Drive, City
Daniel E, Freeman, 1329 Shel
by Road, City
Eirl David Hicks, Box 422, Bi^s
semer City
Mrs. John H. Ward, 314 S. Myr
tle Scholal Road. Gastonia
Karen Lynn Wiggins, 1701 MaxJ
ton Ave., Ga.stonia "
Mrs. Joe R. Webb, 411 N.
Scruggs St., Ga.stonia
James D. Shaw. Box 331, Gro
ver
Leonard Addison Smith, Jr., 99
Myers St., City
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■Avery, 509
de-
fore finditw its wav back to des to —■ TJ'.T macKiman. ii was unariie cnap- . Questioning a child about
, ‘"e tinmng its vvay mick to dos- tax capital gams at a stockhold- returned fi'cm a self-imnos- ^ome life will provide no clues
tmaticn. Its Pad the envelope, er’s death, whether the stock was gd'exile of more than 20 vears possible abuse. He know-
-.;like dogs, can t ta^, for it would sold or not. Wat this would eft- ?he TadLT has Zravs t^n °‘her way of life and often
.^,be intere^ang to know the por.s en accomplis is to force liqulda- ^ sentimental bodv ibut the r^ sumes that he is bad and
fqiiarmr enlloi"made""or"us "time when U St ^0?"^ "" Punishments,
fcreund trip from Kings Mountain at all wire to sell Would the even for that croco- Most children who are extreme-
|to Kings Mouixtain stockholder’s heirs th^be treat ta aCg and
m ed equitablv’ voea and huz^ed m a long and and bruises. But a perceptive
Others of the Senator's onopos- 'puuine sending ovatlo. Deep- adult can tell WHether a bruised
als ralsl seri^f ecSnoi^nSs- comedian ac- mtle boy is the kind who is so
ais raise series econoimc ques- ^epted the accolade holding his tusv runnin'e that trees i,.st
tions. For Instance, would it ac- hn^i„r hot nea .ferA, ^ inning mat trees just
. , -- - tually be senstble to tighten de- ^ to jump out at him or
sweater-vesf m one of the. pcc- predation ruk.s at a time when | “ (Taward* are AeaHe„^v
kets. she told of an incident a American business has been los- Zv of ^ PrePlem, we
ing ground, technologically, In
-Mrs. Beauford G. Bi'll, Rl. 1, Box
208, Bessemer City
Mr.s. Lemuel M. Camp, Rt. 3
Sc.
Mis. Robert E. Clark, 610 Sijx's
I was thanking Mrs. O. O. Walk
er for finding a button eff a
Bertha Stroupe Ellison, 206 Dill,
ing St.
'Burley Austin Grten, Second SI.
Ext.
Mrs. James M. Ivey, 7vV Sterl
ing Drive
:ew weeks ago when, checking
Mrs. Floyd R, Latham, Box 302,
pockets for contents before deaf with “other''’“‘lndus! a aud they did and more co^erned“ ^;i;gh;i;ors ^'’Sy James McKinney, Rt 2
ng, she found in a spoit coat S7o. •= —o it well. ad fnends.—IChlarlotte Observer. Box 33, City
CHaretKe Warren, Rt. 1, Box 374,
ng,. she found in a spoit coat $75.
Yhen the man came to claim his
cat, he a.sked, "Could I write
you a check?” Mrs. Walker re
trial nations?
„ . t i. 'Chaplin must have cherished
serat^^errWtfhif fi^ngl"; ^
on the key prdblem; “In other hv^the a-”! Marshall Wood, 414 E. Vlr-
-lied, “I don't think you’re go ^ ^ ed by the Internal Revenue Serv- dreds of veterans who were ser- ginia Ave Bessemer Citv
ng to need to write a check.” public spending L.Xldv^l, 1611-i
more modest than it is today the ^ , J
weight of o^ unlatt tax struc- ^^vle star was supposed to back
ture may not have been as oner- then. So. away he went. And
uus. stayed.
'he man remonstrated, “But I . . ,
nay net have enough ca.sh to get .nro^ams was
t. Then Mrs. Walker handed the
nan the $75. Quite flabbergasted,
the customer said he hadn’t worn
he coat for several months, had
no idea it contained cash. He
It certainly wasn’t. Yet Senator Apparently, when a revived in
hen sought to give Mrs. Walker Kennedy isn’t even thinking of terest In his works made the
^ good service, ay moderatiop of the total bur- Academy fo'lks reflect, tey decid-
No, Mrs. Walker rejoined. "I (jen. Tax reform, in his view, is ed to give him a special award
tan t charge anything for being Tnnintv a wnv tr» raicp morp for hpincr a f{1>m nl^r-npor anA fnr
lonost.'
anything for being niainly
Would there were more!
a way to raise more for being a film pioneer and for
'money. “We are talking,” he his oontrlbution to the art —
says, "about billions of (iollars which include a comic spoof on
in urgently needed new funds— Hitler, as well the direction of
I didn’t hurry particularly to idollars that can be used in a va- is greatest film, “Limelight.”
Roy.al Villa Motor Inn Saturday riety of ways to help meet all But the Academy did not do as
afternoon, where Jesse Helms, the great challerigtss wo "face at well in selecting the Osear win-
the Raleigh television newsman heme and overseas.’ ners. Those who should know—
and Republican Senate candidate. One of those great challenges tlie nation’s film critics—had
was to hold court at 1:30. After Is, or at least ought to be, to de- predicted that the two best films
•all, I’d cooled my Heels for an vise a tax system that is as fair of 1972 wouldn’t win, and tey
hour awaiting Nick Galifianakis, as possible to Americans, at all didn’t.
who wants the Senate nomina- incime levels, and yet bears “The Last Picture Show,” a
tion on the Dernoeratte side, lightly enough on the economy story of a dying Texas town and
Withal, I arrived at 1:40. Alas, that it doesn’t keep it from run- the people who lived in it—^witji
Mr. Helms had landed and left— nlng. If the economy is to keep only the sight of locked stores
a too^tight s.hedule forcing his goig, and generating tax reve- and the dust swirling about
early departure. He had inquired nues, it needs te incentive of rea- them—^lost. That may be because
of me and Ed Smith told him, sonable income for risk-takers, it was in blttck-andvwhite, and
■He’s probably on the way here those who gamible on starting everybody from Rex Reed to the
right now.’ I had met Jess a few new businesses or expanding old man on the street knows that
years ago. His vAfe, former ones, on finding the new prod- the Academy just doesn’t give
Doris Coble, was a ftiree-time ucts ad proctesses that progress awards to black-and-white films
ccTiircre in schtxol at Chajrel Hill, demands. ' any more no matter how de-
cl.asBmate, journalism majer, and
I co-worker on the school news
} paper.
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Next time, I’ll be on time.
The present tax code can and serving. “Clockwork Orange,”
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