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<• -• I i/i! J: IM J- -/.-i' ■' (i ' I ■■ i^'V! U' '.''i--.. THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, December 28, 1972 Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald — 206 South Piedmont Ave. Kings Mountain, N. C. 28086 . wfw'kly newspa.ppr devoted to ttie promotion of the general welfare and published .or ths enlightenment, entertainmnt and benefit cf the citizens of Kings Mountain tnd Its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Snterod as second class matter at the post office ut Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Edltor-Publlahw Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulatlor Manager and Society Bdllof Gary Stewait Sports Editor, NeM Miss Deboie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper Rocky Martin MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Allen Myert Roger Brown Paul Jackson Herlbert Banter MAH. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADV8diCB In North Corollno and South Carallaa One year $4; six months S2.2S: three months 81.50; StBiool fiL (Subscription in North Carolina subject to three percent Midi 1*8.1 In AU Other Stotes One year $3; six months $3; three months $1.75; school year $3.78. PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 Near>GreaS or Greet In his final illness, Harry S. Tin man, 33rd president of the United States, fousht lor life as he had lived his life—uhether as a captain of field artillery in France during World War 1, to comeback from business failure during the 1921 depression, as chairman of the Senate committee bearing his name, the committee s duties being the prevention of boondogling on war goods contracts, and as Mr. President. His fights liad just begun when President I'ranklin D. Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945. First there was World War II to l)ring to conclusion. Germany surrender ed less than a month later on Mr. Tru man’s fifty-fifth birthday. Shortly there after came the decision to invoke the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Naga saki. This decision resulted in the end of the war in Japan, saved what he esti mated a million American lives and as many or more Japanese lives. His Ber lin airlift biought capitulation of the Russian blockaders and his Marsibaih plan decision blocked the Russians jn thett sector of the globe. He stopped tlig Communist expansion in Korea. He gained his most public disac- claim for a fatherly act when he vitup- eratively “cussed out’’ David Hume, the Washington music critic, who had dis paraged his daughter’s efforts to be come a concert vocal soloist. Tuesday night’s comments by Na tional Broadcasting System newsman David Brinkley added a final chaptei' to the Hume business. Harking to the incident. Mr. Brinkley recalled the heaps of criticism by many people “including me". Mr. Brinkley added that his son sang in a chorus recently in concert at the National Gallery of Arts. The per formances got a nasty panning, said Mr. Brinkley, “by that same critic”. “I know how Mr. Truman felt,” said Mr. Brink- ley. “The guy (Hume) is no good.” Mr. Truman liked to hold a hand of poker and enjoyed an occasional shot of bourbon and branch water, under standable enjoyable sports to the tna- jority of American males. His chief sin, perhaps, was over-loyalty to his friends, which occasionally got him into hot water. Certainly, over-loyalty to friends is not of the cardinal sin vai'iety. Meanwhile, he was as respectful to the office he held as ho expected others to be. He was a man of the people who could relate to the people, a man who could understand their language, as Mr. Truman could understand theirs. Sena tor Strom Thurmond, of South Carolina, who opposed Mr. Truman in the 1948 election as a Dixiecrat presidential can didate, labeled him a “good president". It was Mr. Truman’s thesis that a half-century is required to detei-mine degree of a president’s success in office. Yet, only a half-dozen years after Mr. Truman loft office at the depth of his national popularity, seventy-five his torians rated him ninth among his 32 predecessors and his successor Presi dent Dwight D. Eisenhower. Mr. Tru man was in the “near-great” category, not far behind the five “greats”—Wash ington, Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. W’ould the historians today elevate Mr. Truman to a place with the five? Likely. The people do. Congratulations to Dr. Sam Robin son, newly-elected president of the Kings Mountain Hospital medical staff. - Last day for paying 1972 city and county taxes without penalty is Tues day. Penalty of two percent applies 'Vednesday, January 3. And HAPPY NEW YEAR 1973! Like Ivevy Soap Six and onfrJhglf years after it be gan, the city’s Buffalo Creek water pro ject is almost “home”. When it deposited the $97,000 com missioner award to Ambrose Cline Wed nesday, the city acquired use of the last remaining paccel of property the city , requires to complete the lake project. Both Am'brose Cline,, should he leave the $97,000 in escrow with the clerk of Superior Court, and John D. Clin^, who has appealed the commission award in his case, have one legal means of further preventing completion'of the $3,450,000 project; obtaining of an in junction to prevent the completion work when the contractor returns to the site and begins final grubbing and clearing. (Ed. Note: Barring the two Cljnes’ obtaining an injunction, the city can proceed, with only money matters re maining to be settled; the John D. Cline appeal on his $72,700 commission a- ward, the city’s indicated appeal of the $175,000 Superior Court jury award In the Double B Ranch action, and deci sion of Ambroce Cline on whether to appeal his $97,000 award.) The Ivory soap slogans "It floats ” and “99.9 percent pure” appear applica ble to the Buffalo Creek lake project: 99.9 percent, complete. 1972 Revitw Community-wise the year A. D. 1972 set a new bench mark for growth, progress and prosperity. Top three accomplishments: 1) home. Ground-breaking for a nursing A six-year effort to obtain a badly- needed nursing home was-culminate with suitable ground-breaking ceremon ies late in the year and construction is now underway. As did and does Kings Mountain Hospital, the nursing and convalescent center wiil provide close- to-home facilities, with the attendant benefits of juxtaposition of patients to families and friends. In turn, hospit^ bed space will be freed, with an avail able place for the elderly and getting- well who do not requh'e hospital-type care but who, previously, had no other place to go. 2) Passage of tfie $2.5 mdlion Kings Mountain school district construction issue. j Neav constiniction of a junior high school which should be available for use at the beginning of the 1974 term, plus additions to other plants, will as sure adequate accommodations for a growing school population over an esti mated decade. 3) , Residential construction. There is no question that 1972 was a record year for residential building. Still, there mmains a shortage and catch-up is not immediately apparent, particularly in view of the 186 derelict and sub-standard dwellings scheduled for razing in the Cansler area urban re newal project and the 120 dwelling units marked for demolition for the US 74 by-pass. The principal low spot in 1972 M the chronic labor shortage which h*a harried indu.strial personnel managers, but a happy contrast to the low point since World War II of 1957-58 when the Kings Mountain area was recording an average of 8(X) claims per week for un employment compensation. As to the problem, the city’s new three-year push for lOOO new dwellings units is a major'piece of the effort to alleviate the problem of the pamoRnel manag«rs. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By MARTIN HARMON Upcoming: 1973. a-m Viewpoints of Other Editors COMUNITY SPIRIT WORK ARE KEYS TO LMPROVEuMENT A fiendish TWI-ST (3E FASHIO.N The Western North Carolina Community Development p r o- gram, which began In 1950, was built around the idea that people could do much to improve their communities simply by pitching Pick your cliche; History re peats itself; the more things change the more llioy remain tlic same. FOR SALE Whatever, cuffless trousers arc'j But >'ears first, ago, how was it just. 20 in and making use of their own nothing new. Remember your war recniirrw 'suit? Our recoUection goes buck! to the Big War, during which I LAND IN THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT OF KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. President Harry S. Truman, who will be burled today, was packing to leave the White House after seven eveiitful years, in which he had confounded many by proving to be a most forceful, yet humble, president. Among the doubting Thomases, a college classmate, dormitory floormate and journalism major, White Houae. correspondent and later! piesWent of the National Pi-ess club, who wrote to me not long after Mr. "fruman assumed office ^nd who referred to Mr. Truman as “that poor little man in the The concept is simple, but the! pants were made without cuffs, work isn’t. On the part of each supposedly to have cloth, community it involves imagina-; tive planning, careful organizing, gratefu. for fund raising and hard hows of I /"y desenp ion; labor spent on improvements anytWng_to get out of ONE PARCEL 36,643 Square Feet Cleared and ready for Redevelopment Access to 3 Streets projects. Most of all, it involves com munity spirit and a willlngnes.s to work together. Over the years the program has proved successful even lie- And during our adolescence we appreciated cuffs, because how else could Mama let out cuffs so our outgrown and hand-me-down britche.s could live to fight an other day. IDEAL LOCATION FOR: Bank, Retail Business Establishments, Offices or other permitted uses. We saw tliis item in the paper.- yond expectations, and 1972 was the other day about trouser cuffs, possibly the best year yet. , They were “invented" by an Eng- ^ ■ lishmun of breeding, it seems, in Winners wcix? announced at practical way. He was the 23rd annual awards luncheon {.jmjTjit in the rain on his way to' Saturday, and the list of achieve-!^ higli-faluting New' York wed- Bids to be opened February 12. 1973 at 2:00 P.M. at the Redevelopment Commission Office. For further information contact White Trank. House”. Well, hardly,; ing. ments is nothing short of amaz- ding. To avoid wetting his pants' TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Till' liritvcnn iT.clam Du- iilorii of God; and the fir/nament 'shetveth .hi honiA/vork, FmJsv.X8.'fii m-m o .1 ... .. T.. , i place in the large-community di General Dwight D. Eisenhower, second year in a was preparing to take over the, there built eight White House diggings and had | homes, remodeled 16 and won easily as 1) a war hero and' legs, he turned the bottoms up. Little River in Transylvania, forgot to turn them down, county, for example, took first B) on his promise to end the Ko rean "police action”, as President Truman had labeled that conflict. President Elsenhower delivered on his promise and, while United States OI’s are still getting as signments In Korea and no for mal peace has been signed, shoot ing is limited to occasional bor der Incidents. new repainted many others. and fashion - conscious Ameri ' cans noticed the ‘new British style” at the wedding and imme diately copied him. Shortly, pants- makers installed cuffs, and soon' the style reached Britain for! real. The Kings Mountain Redevelopment Commission 112 S. Piedmont Avenue (704) 739-2003 Kings Mountain, North Carolina 28086 12:14-1:4 m-m 'They sponsored a Scout troop, helped organize a 4-H club, as sisted In a Conservation day, en rolled several people in adult education classes, conducted cleanup campaigns, built a com munity club house and in co-op- ;eration with Crab Ciwh com- I munity provided Thanksgiving i dinners for 250 children at an orphanage. We do not lament the passing of the cuff. The cuff was less use, certainly, than pleats, which serv ed to disguise the wearer’s pot, and watch pockets, which disap- peai-ed even before the demise of pocket watches. Une. And we rejoice in the hope that loss of the cuff on the trousers will be followed by the elimina- The pace of business was good 1 .Pi^t-nlace winners in the I neckties, and the nation had enjoyed a' .up- divisions Union Mills haven’t seen a report on happy hoUday season—except for, y^^mmunity of Chero- these instruments of the pa^ts, kin. and Dlenf of I social torture, but we suspect th.s the G1 s on the Korean firing j union Mills provided a farm house and fire truck for its vol unteer fire department and Big Y bought an ambulance for/its rescue squad. These ai'e accomplishments of j DRIVE FOR MEDIOCRITY only the top three communities., More and more educators fav- More than 30 others also won ; or the “open university” concept, awards. i where academic requirements ai’e It all adds up to a highly sue- reduced so that a broader seg m-m Now the world verges on 1973, which finds North Carolina an ticipating a governmental experi ence unknown to all but the state’s eldest citizens. North Car olina will witness the inaugura tion of its first Republican gov- fiendish twist of fashion was created by a demonic, out-of-work hangman bent on revenge against every man w'ho escaped the gal-! lows —Mooresvllle Trlbume. ernor since D. L. Russell handed I cessful year in a worthwhile pro- over the reins of government to Charles B. Aycock in January 1901. Nor is that all, Republicans chortle and Democrats mourn. Republican Jesse Helms will take the oath of office as United States Senator. 1 do not have the dates. Has it oeen as long, or longer, since North Carolinians were represented by a Republican senator in Washington? (At the time CJovernor Brunswick was elected in 1896 and for some years thereafter. United States Senators -were appointed by the General Assembly, not elected by the i)eopIe.) gram. Our congratulations to this year’s winners and to the Ashe ville Agricultural Development Council for sponsoring the pro gram.—Asheville Citizen. KIMGS MOUNTAIN Hospifal Log VisrnNG HOVRS OoUt 10:30 to 11:80 AJM. 3 te 4 PJ«. and 7 to 8 PJM. ment of students can enroll. The president of the University of Chicago, Edward H, Levi, believes the concept of ruling edu-cation: "There is a national drive for mediocrity. They want every young adult to go to college, and then they change the college to make It a more comfortable and attractive place to be. I think it is a disgrace to both the outsiders and the college and even the stu dents.”—^Nashville (Tenn.i Ban- Keep Your Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. News & Weather every hour on the he Weather every hour ion the hoif hour. Rne entertainment in between 'T- m% 'Unhappily, as in 1952, the! United States is still involved in an undeclared but hearily shoot; | ing war. Over 450,090 ground! troops have been brought home. ■ but the "peace Is at hand” hope I of OtAobKT 26 has been torpedoe.1.; Juit this week, the North Viet- j namese put on their old rccoid; again, “Stop the bombing and we’ll talk some more.” President Lj’ndon Johnson bought the rec- OTji, and found it cracked; Presi dent Richard Nixon bought the record and found the disk still cracked. What now? m-m But New Year’s Day is close at hand and football remains the name of New Year's Day fare, along with blackeyed peas -and hog jowls. m-m There's been a slight change of football format. One of the three big bowl games will be played New Year's Eve, that one down In New Orleans, leaving the Now Year’s Day gridiron busi ness at Miami's Orange Bowl and Pasadena’s Rose Bowl. The Sugar Bowl managers, ac cording to an interesting feature In the National Observer, play ing second fiddle to the other two for several years, think they've got the winning format this year with 1) the best match ed teams, on basis of the records and 2) the switch to New Year’s Eve. Billy Martin Bagwell Willie Bagwell Manda Barber Donald Blanton Sarah Boheler Pearl Bridges Pearl Carroll Rochel Conner Moses Crank Martha Deese Jessie Ehigland Frances Herndon Mary Hicks Lottie Jackson Rhea Le\vls Haywood Mackey Walter Moorhead Wiliam Morgan Ethel McMillan George .Peck Marie Ramsey Thelma Sprouse Jessie Taylor Eunice WarUck Roger Wood Shelley Woodard (James Wylie Connor Bertha Hullender Jack Clifford Hyde Let's face it, the Sugar Bowl manager, was quoted. New Or* leans is a fun town. Too many New Year’s Day hangovers for football Interest, he thinks. While participating teams’ take-home pay (greatly Inferior to those in the Rose Bowl) but on par with the Orange, was still playing second fiddle to the Orange. N<::W Orleans, a veneraile dty of an tiques, doesn’t appeal to the big, brawny he-men who perform on the gridiron. The grldders prefer the promise of those /beautiful damsels who cavort on Miami Beach. And, the spokesman adds, “I can’t say 1 blame ’em”. (And so, again, best wishes for a most happy and proaperous Naiw Year. Jannle Yarcro Willie Flarman Black Burman Coley Bryant Sandra Kay Peterson John Gaither Sanders Diane Spivey ADMITTED THURSDAY Theadore Woodrew Hamilton 107 Center St. Jackie Annette Slartin, Rt. 1. Dallas Ella Youngblood, 212 Kings Mtn. St., Clover, S. C. ADMITTED FRIDAY Andrew Jefferson Sanders, Rt. 1, Clover, S. C. Johnny Metcalf, 23 Dixie Trail er Park. Cltv ADMITTED SATURDAY Charles Mo.ss. Rt. 2. City ADMITTED SUNDAY TV-rnthy Buchanan, 12392 W. (Tas-tnnia Geraldine Houser, 1137 Clouse St., Gastonia James I^ooper 103 West Ala. Ave., Bessemer (Tity Michelle Mauney, 405 Tenn. Ave., Bessemer City ■Robin MeSwain, Rt. 3, Cherry- ville Don Seism, Rt. 1, City Billy Watts, 610 East Lee Ave., Bessemer City Wiliam Dean Fuller, Rt. 2, Dal- ADMITTED MONDAY Doris Ann Johnson, 106 W. King St., City Laura Kiser, Apt. A, Gray, City Betty Joyce Lam'), 1517 Lamb Dr., Gastonia Patricia Queen, 300 Fulton St., City 'Roberta Smith, KB N. CTansler St., aty A weam, can^she? can 9 This time you’re absrJutely going ■to save something out of your pay- check. But, then, you really do need that pantsuit, a new coat and, of course, that perfume Eric likes so much. Bdbre you know it, the money’s gone... and all you’ve got saved* are your dreams. but save. U.S. Savings Bonds. To help you save more than dreams, ardour dreams. That’s why the Payroll Savings Plan is such a good idea for a single girl. Whcit you join, an amount you specify is set aside from your check and used to buy U.S. Savings ill (’ Bonds. And, it’s all done before you get your check-so you can’t help NowEBonds payS’ifI Interest when held to nwUunfy oI 5 yeari. 10 montlii (4% the first year). Bonds are replao'd if lost, ttolen, or £ dfTitroyrd. When needed they ran be cashed * at your bank. Interest ii not sul^t to atate or local income laxea. and federal Ux mw U dbieiicd unul tedcniptwa. 'Rike stodk in America. Now Bonds mature in less than six yeari?. Bilii ^ir by Vitl girl ball Tai till sea the rs, sop Sou waj bell etti Vet ai &, tn^ *113’ « P
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