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Page 2 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. Thursday, FeHruary I, 1973 Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald ' ' 206 South Piedmont Ave. Kings Mountain, N. C. 2808S A w.“<“kly newspaper devoted to tlie promotion of the general welfare and published for th» snlightenment, entertainmnt and benefit cf the citizens of Kings Mountain end its vicinity, puuJished every Thursday by tlie Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class malter at the post oflice «.l Kincs Mountain, N. C, 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3. 1873. EDITOBIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Cirrulatior. Manager and Society Editor Gary Stewait Sports Editor, News Miss Dc'boie Thornburg Clerk, B-)okkeei>er Rocky Martin MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Allen Myerg Roger Brown Paul Jackson Herbert M. Hunter MAIL .SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Id North Carolina and South Carolina One year $1, six .months S2 2.5; lliioe months $1.50; school year $3. (Subscription in North Carolina .riibiect to three percent sales tax.! In All Other States One year $5; si.x months Sli; three montli;, ?1,7.o: schooi year 53,75. Pl.US xVORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 Charlotte Problem A.s the Herald recalls it, the 1971 General Assembly passed a bill which permitted cities as large as Kings Moun tain to extend city limits by two miles without the consent of those governed, while larger cities (.50,000 and up) had the extension privileges up to five miles without the consent of the governed. On the recent Sunday, the Charlotte Observer excoriated Mecklenburg’s Sen ator Herman Moore for his introduction of a bill which would abrogate Char lotte’s authority to grow. As usual, there are pro points on both sides. In the Senator’s thinking, tlic Her ald assumes, is the pre-Revolutionary War cry of “government without the consent of the governed”. But the Observer was right in cit ing the unhappy result of you-can't- take-me in Detroit, Newark and Phila delphia. The Observer could have brought the case closer home by adding Atlanta. There’s no belter instance in point. The sprawling metropolis of At- Ipnta is hemmed in by small incorporat ed towns around, Decatur. SmyrrRi, and Stone Mountain, to mention lhro(> and the result hasn’t been good. Some years earlier, in i(s wisdom, the General As.sombly gave cities take-in authority of areas adjacent and contig uous, but with a rather lai’ge joker in the deck. The cities were retiuii-ed io have the money in the bank (and none did) or the bon’owing authority to pro vide the newly annexed ai-eas with all services (fire and police protect ion. streets, water and sewage disposal serv ice, and any other) the city was already providing its own. has used Kings Mountain never that authority. Indeed, Kings Mountain hasn’t pull ed an annexation force play since 192.5, when, by legislative act, the Town of East Kings Mountain was dis-incorpornl- ed and its real estate legislated into the bounds of the Town of Kings Mountain. The resulting bitterness added fu.d to the fire of April 1915 when the deni zens of Past Kings Mountain were out voted in a county line election and sub sequently found themselves getting Cleveland County tax bills rather than the long familiar Gaston models. Today, the Mecklenburg rurals close to the fast-growing city take a o.uick look at the liigh property tax rale of the City of Charlotte and just as quickly say, “’Scuse me boys.’’ They charge Chariotteans merely want help in paying their bills. Well, Charlotte does. Rich Charlotte’s fiscal structure is not blessed with power-making utilities. Duke Power Company is the power re tailer and Piedmont Natural Gas Com pany is the gas retailer. Charlotte is left u ith the utility dregs of water and seu - age- dispo.sal service. Seldom does a city show a profit in its water operation and sewage disposal in dcadweighl, as is fire and police protection. King.s Mountiun began retailing power in 190S, natural gas in 19,55. Kings Mounlain customers for these services are trading with themselves, buying what they would be buying of necessity iinyway, and thereby paying a portion of (heir tax bills. Let us say thanks to our prescient forefathers. Has State War Started? Anybody among the professionals found taking orders from any other than Mr. Lentz would shortly be departing, the division and district engineers of the state higliway and public works com mission were told by the Governor, first Republican brand of the century, who naturally wants to call the signals on highway construction. Mr. Lentz, of course, is Mr. Bruce Lentz. Governor Jim Holshou.ser’.s direc tor of transportation, also named by the Governor to the dual role as acting chairman of the highway commission. Many of the Democratic majority in the legislature were quick to take um brage and voice same in hardly uncer tain terms. Not least among the complainants is Attorney General Robert Morgan, al so of the Democratic faith, who ques tions the legality of Mr. Lentz’ dual sit- Ucition. None questioned the right (indeed they’d thought him a bit addled) of the Governor to elan out the Democratic members (as they all were) of the high way commission, but the high-handed ness of the approach rankled. 'riie politics of the business appears unwise, for the Governor must rise or fall on direct basis of cooperation with the Democratic majority. On the basis of the firing threat, it is also a considerable question whether sufficient numbtTs of qualified engineers could be found to fill the vacancies. The Governor might have been more soundly based to make some blan dishments to the President (of the Gov ernor’s own faith) who already has with held appropriated funds for federal share roads and indicates he plans to do more. From the Kings Mountain stand point there is the matter of the US 71 by-pass (a 50-.5n share road). This project would eliminate one of the biggest remaining bottlenecks on the state’s long-term dream of a moun tains to the coast avenue similar to South Carolina’s 1-26. After all, construction will require a bit of time. How long from start to finish on the 1-85 Kannapolis bottleneck. Good and Faithiul Servant Good Bill When she retired December 31, ,Mrs. Willie Mobley Dilling and the whole community could look back on her 22 years of good and faithful serv ice. Senator Jack Rhyne, of Belmont, one of three serving the four county districts which includes Cleveland, has introduced a bill dear to the Herald’s heart. The Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Li brary was dedicated and opened in Nov ember 1947 and Mrs. Dilling became li brarian at the untimely death of Mrs. Charles Campbell. Senator Rhyne would repeal in its entirety the state’s privilege license tax sclicdule. Growth of the library in usage and in volume has been great. Mrs. Dilling had good taste in the selection of books, whether for adults or youth, and, as a result, she was able to stretch the annual “book” portion to a greater sum than it would normally have been. The Herald has .sought removal of this tax at the city level for many years. The return is small here in relation to the city budget and it is small for the state in relation to the state’s budget. Meantime, it is a hodge-podge, which, as the Senator charges, tends to gouge the small busine.ssman. Basically, it is an added “tax gim me” that .Should not be assessed against legitimate businesses, which the state wants to attract. MARTIN'S MEDICINE Viewpoints of Other Editors A JOURNALIST'S BOOK OF PRAYER By MARTIN HARMON Mr. and Mrs. Humes Hou.ston recently made a Euroi«x with .stopover.-; in Spa and Nort.il Africa. mm How was the tiip? Fine. m-m An enterprising p u b li.shing house, possibly realizing what perilous times these are for American newsmen, has printed a new volume eallel "The Jour- week's trio to Hrayer lEook.’ It contains . spiritual offerings from spme of wcr.s m bpain top journalists, and I if nothing else it suggest.s that I some of them could have made I pretty good country pretichors. member of the Kings Mountain Herald, has joined the staff of the .Mount Holly News as news editor. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL I Miss Rosetta Cossetta of Park R’dge, New Jersey became the bride of William Edward (Ed- led i Goforth of Kings Mountain ..Saturday morning in a 10 a.m. ceremony in Our Lady of Mercy ; Catholic church ip. Park Hiuge. "But you remember that movie j There is, for in.stanee, this ap- where Charles Boyer told Hedy peal from Walter Cronkite of Lamarr 'come with me to the CBS: “Dear God: Holi) me re- Kashah’?" I remem-bered. "I member that my fellow man iin- ■ thought th:it was something derstand that the truth knows glamourous. Well, I wouldn’t give neither friend nor enemy, nor j you two cents for it," says can those who pursue it.” ! kuines. .Moth-eaten and otlier- i ABC's I iijiiit.i. .. ...... . I s VMelnam correspondent 'V;se. I Steve Bell has a .special prayer: 1 "Arm me, O God, with coimige My question to Mi's. Hou.st(>n j to go where the story goes, yet w.us put ne.vt day, and she did’f<>ar of heceming cali(»LisGtl t'^ not agree. "Humes told me we horrors of war; retach.ment that .should miss this part of the tour. ] never lo-ses si.ght of basic issues. KINGS MOUNTAIN Hospital Log VISmNG HOURS Daily 10:30 to 11:30 AJit 3 tc 4 FJK. and 7 to 8 P.M. I tcld him he could stay in the yet involvement tiiat shaft's the betel if he liked, but that I was thought and fears of individuals: geing. It was the most glamour- j purpose in the kn-owltHlgo that I oils part 0.' the trip.” TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE And nr kticni- tliiit i,U thhigx work topethrr for rjoud to thcni thntl ore God, to Ilirm who iirr the rhllcd tt/'corxing to His jnirios!’. Ro)iunis S:iS. free men must know, yet it sen.se j of divine purpose that always ' The Heustons were on a special, tour of National Guard folk and „ about a hundred went along h>r |^ Mil icent Rrown .three dap in Malagua, then I j .stopovers in .Mgdt'rs and Tangier. I The Americans had guide.s for I the Ka.sbah (Arah sixrtian) of Al- i lines: "Ignore the cries of ‘Tom’ land ‘nigger’; forget about dead- j lines and be a digger. And for the .self-confident comes this brief me.s.sage from Clifton Daniel of the New York guests to 1) keep together and i make me 2) to stay close to him. --Should ^ke f re of the rest." lltcy wander off, the guide warn- i ed, his guests w®uId most Hkely ! * be r-obbed, and could be found | .’ r-h*,,-? in an allev with a .slit throat, ' ^ ‘ ® Observer. giers, two rather the conventional one. The chief guidt* warned his Humes relato.s, “I lau.ghed and said tliey couldn’t botlier old I world-travoier Heu-ston. But, you I knew, everytime that .guide mo\'- | ed to the ri.ght side of the street f mo\'ed with him. And every time he moved to tlie left side oi the stri-et I moved with him.” The Number 2 guide brought I up the rear. He had the herds- 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items cf 7ICWS about Kings Mountain arm ycopln and events taken from the t9R3 files of the Kings Moantuin Herald. man's role: to keep the grouig to gether. m-tn My short five-day stay in Al giers during the World War II doing.s did not permit of a ^Tip to the Kasbah. f'aet is, I did no William Donald Crawford, church and Scouting leader, is Kings Mountain Young Man of the Year for 1962, John R. Barnes Mrs. Pearl E. Briiges Stacy Joe Bridges Tracy Harold lJridg(‘s Thomas Bridges Ml.-;. Margaret L. Bridges Mrs. Julia A. Condry Hoehel Lee Conner -Mrs.' Broadus England James II. Fields James L. Hallman Mrs. Lottie B. Jackson Mrs. Emma L. Jarrett .Mrs. Charles R. Knotts Mrs, Ora D. .Mauney Clayton 11. .Means Walter M. .Moorhea Jack Moss I.Mrs. Della E. .Mclniyre Mrs. Ethel H. Mc.Millan Mrs. Grace T. Philbeck Mrs, Lillie Reynolds Le.slie B. Sprouse Mrs. Lielie B. .Sprouse Leo. L. Thombs Mrs. Crayton E. Dellinger Bernice James Mrs. Hal W. Morris Mrs. Theada U. .Scruggs Rfvbert F. Waters Terresa Kay Wilgins Mrs. Harvey L. Rowland Mrs. Carl T. TYuelove ADMITTED THURSDAY Donald L. Grant. l')l McGill Farm Rd. ADMITTED SATURDAY Miles H. Myers 931 Grace St.,' city. ! DavifI D. McCiirry, 211 Brief SI., ClLv- Mr.s. Raleigh Smith, 916 Gro ver Rd., city. ADMITTED SUNDAY Harold E. Domik-.v, 1620 Gum St., Gastonia, Mrs. W.llie FausI, fM)6 W. Car olina, Avenue, Bessemer City. Mr.;. Lillie 0. Ivey, 701 N. Piixl- mont, tlly, .Mrs. Rolx'ft Ilicklin, .508 Branch, .Street, city. Mrs. Boyd Beasley, Rl. 1, Box 644, Grover. Henry Moore, ,521 Harmon Ct. city. 'Linwood Drive, city. ADMITTED TUESDAT .Mrs. Omil U. Green, 7220 Mid pines city ■ v.illie '.M. Caily, 408 Wil son, .St., cit.v. Mrs. Lt'slie M. Robinson, HI E, 1th Avenue, Dayton, Tenin'ssi-,- Hhonda Laine Morrow, .'lot! \\ Virginia A\c., Be.s.semer City. Mrs. Leon D. Ramsey, 107 .s Inman Avenue, Besse,-ner City. R. T. .Moore, 3110 .Midpines, city. Birth Aimouncements ADMITTED MONDAY Evewtit' ’I’. lJii<lges, 107 Ful ton St., city. Airs. Tom Roherl.s, 105 Wil-s-m St., city. Mrs. Charlie F. ('arpenter, .518 Baker St., city. Mrs. T. Frank Shirh'y, (ill Gantl St., city. Donald Eugene Greason, 321 Waters St., city. James Ambrose .‘\dams, Rt. 1, Grover. .Mrs. Ralpli Chitwood , 11 Di xie Trailer Park, oily. Mrs. Della P. Huffstickler, 20:5 ' Mr. and Mrs, Charles Kennel'i * Putnam, 1410 2nd. Street Extei; j sion, announce the birth <0 -i daughter, Thursday, January 2,., ! Kin.gs Mounlain ho;;pilal. Mr. and .Mr.s. James C. Meek-; Route 1, Box 270, announce the birth of it daughter, Thur-sday, January 2.5, Kings Ali unlain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Barney R. Smith, Route 2. Cf Coy Mauney, Bessem cr City, annoiinie the birtli of a son, Friday. January 26 King: Mountain ho.spital. Major Robert G. Cox Ls Com manding Officer of AR.ADMAC’s Army Transportation Aircraft more than put my feet on the Base Maintenance Unit in Corpus docks. i Christi. Texas. i David Baity, former staff ADMITTED FRIDAY Mrs. John W. Clark, Rl. 2, Box 682, city. Mrs. William H. Lewis. Rl. 2. Box 6.5S, city. Mrs. C. .M. Lovelace, 397 Silver St., city. ipoyee Pope, Rt.2, Be.s.semer City. Mr.-. Paul P. Short, 1.390 2ni. Stres't Ext., city. Mrs. .Icnny R. Gibson, .510 Myrtle School Rd., .-Ipt. 9, Gas- toni:;. Keep Your Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. News 4 Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the hcAlf hour. Fine entertainment in between 'If But I later learned about the Arab quarter 'bu.sine.-vs in Oa.sii- blanca, where there wme two A-nh se'’*'ion.s, .Antcient Medina (old) and Nouveau Medina (new). Both were off limits to American personnel. I lived a cress the .street from the old .see- li.:n anti it was, of eourse per- mis.-rible to frequent the .Arab | bazaars on the Rue des Palmes I during daylight hours. But going past info the Arab section wa.s not allowed. One on -lov'cly Sun day afternoon, a friend, in an I US3 New A’ork, and I rented a Hoover cart propelled by a don key and yisited the Now .Meclin-.i. The vi-s-it la.sted not long. The Shore Patrol and CVIilitaiy Police ordered “Out”. m-m The brass had a simple and | succint reason for the off-limits order: vice and lice. m-m Looks like there’s been little change itj the situation in North Airica's .Arab quarters in the past 30 years, 1943-1973. 17 Countries Finalize Cable Representatives from 16 Euro pean countries, the largest num ber ever to share in a transat lantic cable venture, and the U. S. have finalized plans for TAT- t), the sixth telephone cable un der the Atlantic. R. B. Moore, local Southern Bell Manager, explained that TA- T-6, with 4.000 voice grade cir cuits, will have approximately three times the capacity of all other transatlantic cables com ined and more than four times as many circuits as the latest 3’AT.5-. When available for ser vice In early 1976, the new ca ble will bring to 5,300 the total number of simultaneous conver sations possible on LL S. - Eur ope cables. Resolution WHETIEAS, an agreement to end the war in Vietnam has been formally signed by the United States of America and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam the hope has been expressed that this agreement will effect a lasting peace in Vietnam and will in sure a continuing peace in Indochina and Soiitu- east Asia; and WHEREAS, this agreement will terminate American involvement in the hostilities which have so great ly altered the lives of so many people and the institutions of our society. BE IT FUR’THER RESOLVED that all churches in the City of Kings Mountain and area join with the Kings -Mountain Ministerial Association to hold special services on Sunday, February 4, to give thanks for peace and to honor and express our most humble and sincere appreciation to all Vet erans and servicemen, and their families; to those who made the supreme sacrifice of giving thcii lives, and to their families; to those who are Miss ing In-Action, and their families; to all Prisonei's of War, and their families and WHEREAS, the sacrifices made by members of the Armed Services and others, and their families; have become increasingly painful to all Ameri cans, and should be formally acknowledged as we celebrate the agreement that has brought us an opportunity for a long-sought peace; and WHEREAS, it is the intention of the Mayor and Boa^ of Commissioners of the City of Kings Mountain to recognize the great .sacrifices made Iqy so many of our citizens and recognize the opportunity for peace in Vietnam and elsewhere. Moore states that overseas cal ling volume has been increasing 20 to 25 p<‘rcent annually and, on that basis, AT&T predicts 40 million calls will be made to or from the U. S. this year. In 1972, North Carolinians placed 350,000 calls to overseas locations. New technology has made it more economical to provide this overseas service. Costs per cir cuit mile of TA'T-l, laid in 1950, was $300. TAT-6 costs tvill run about SIO per mile. As a result said Moore rates have dropped, attracting more callers. He con cluded with more growth pro jected in the future, additional high-capacity cable and satellite facilities are being planned by ATd-T for the decade of the sev enties. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Mayoi and the Board of Commissioners for the City of Kings Mountain, North Carolina, that the period of time between Wednesday, January 31, 19’73 and Sunday, February 4th, be, and it hereby is, pro- eJaimed as a special period of “Thanksgiving for Peace” in the City of Kings Mountain, and that this period be, and hereby is, dedicated to the proposition that the ending of the war is a first step toAvard building peace in Indochina and Southeast Asia and a lasting and enduring peace in our world, and we, the Mayor and Board of Commissioners of the City of Kings Mountain, further request that these special services acknowledge and recognize our own internal problems such as fear, doubts, devi- sive ideologies and other conflicts which have evolved from this war; and to do those things in our own lives and communities -which are neces sary to be first done and accomplished if we are to attain the kind of country and world that wo profess to want for ourselves and others; and that we dedicate ourselves henceforth to sincere efforts to accomplish a lasting solution to our own pro blems and reconciliations of our own differences with hope and prayer that such efforts will enable us to learn how to attain the peace and brother hood throughout the world. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the propei’ and prayerful observance of this day be commended to all citizens and residents of the King.s Mountain area. This the 31st day of January, 1973. John Henry Moss, Mayor Ray Cline, Commissioner Ward I W. S. Biddix, Commissioner Ward 11 T. J. Ellison, Commissioner Ward IH W, Norman King, Commissioner Ward IV Jonas Bridges, Commissioner Ward V James Dickey, Commissioner Ward VI )\ “J Schi tain bom fira Chic
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