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TKi PAGE 2 ' THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, June 28, 1973 Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald ' ' 206 South Piadmont Ave. Kings Mouniaia N. C. 28088 V we*4(ly newspaper dt'voted to the promotion of the general welfare and published ror the enlightenment, entortainmnt and benefit cf the citizens of Kings Mountain Snd Its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the post office tit Kings iMountain, N. C., 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3. 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harman Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Gary Stewait Sports Editor, News Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper Rocky Martin MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Alien Myer« Roger Brown Paul Jackson Herbert M. Hunter MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE In North Carolina and South Carolina One year $4; six nionths $2.25; three months $150; school year $3. (Subscription In North Carolina subject to three percent sales tax.) In AU 'other States One year $5; six months $3; three month.s $1.75; school year $3.75. PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE lify soil, attnid iivto my ui'nlom, and ban; thlnr ear to yndPistandino; Proverbs 5:f Rule By Fiat The Herald ha.s long decried—and will—rule by fiat. The nation, of cour.se, is loaded therewith at all levels of government, with the federal government and her myriad agencies far out front in the sweep stakes. Rule hy law and according to law in a foundation stone of the nation since her becoming one, based on the bad experiences of the other metliod under Britain for the English colonists, along with the same for the many’ Dutch, Herman and French who, with the Eng lish, were the hulk of the first settlers. Thus the McKee case caused some perturbation. The young student was two over on absences in an English class and, in spite of “A" and “B” marks, drew an ..p. The Kings Mountain district board of education invoked the policy rule at the summer session of 1972 and made the policy year-round last autumn. The maximum absences to obtain passing marks are 15 per semester. The parents of Miss McKee com- plaint'd and wore informed that the rule is “state board policy", as ours. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard McKee, say their daughter is subject to a chronic throat ailment and this was the cau.se of the absences, in .some in stances requiring her to leave school for sick bed at home after she courag eously had begun the school day. It strikes that the question of pass ing or failing any course should he lim ited to one; Has the student assimulated a sufficient amount of the 4.0 content to justify continuance on the road? The Herald is .sympathetic to the position of the Kings Mountain board of education and to the prodding of the state board of this issue, too, hy that sometimes educator - managed .state board. There are hypochrondrical students, particularly on test days when same students are unprepared. There are hy pochrondrical parents, too, sometimes in their own right, perhaps more often on behalf of their undisciplined youngs ters. There are parents, too who, like the fabled blind mule, simply don’t give a darn. After all, though, the law requires youngsters to be exposed to the educa tion process for ten years, age six to le. But there should be reason in all matters. The board of education was wise to order a review in the case of Miss McKee. If the young lady has the con tent of the cour.se — as indicated by her grades, absences notwithstanding-^ then, the board of education should waive the rule. The thinking of the Raleigh brass notwith.s’tanding. Dog Notes Dog - pet quarantine notes; Items: 1) To a query on sentiment by a Charlotte Observer reporter', the Herald Editor replied, “About the same divi sion, 50-50, they love ’em or they hate ’em.’’ 2) City Clerk Joe SicDaniel and his wife have acquired another dog. They didn't want the nice doggie shot. •They called all the neighbors but found no claimants. New member (bitch) gels along with old dog (bitch) just fine. ’That was the test. New dog has new ■home until claimed by owner, or just decides to leave. Dog lover, the Herald, has no truck with non-dog lovers, including certain very personal and continuing friends who do. The dog’s best friend continues to be man. But the wives quickly get flfto the busines.s, too. Nearing Reality The nursing home report on Page 1 of today’s Herald is quite good news lor Kings Mountain. It is a very needed facility. There, of course, is a reservation. There were not planned, nor are they to be, minus expansion plan.s, enough rooms and/or beds. A Kings Mountain doctor told the Herald botore the fact of fact of a nurs ing home-to-be, himself, could fill twen ty bed on that particular day'. He sug gested he «'as not the only' doctor in town. This has been a needed facility for a long, long time. Kings Mountain folk go to Cherry- ville, to Shelby, to Gastonia and to far more distant points. Tlie current report was not due lo the two-month.s-opening as much as to the fact of continuing need. Beneficiary pluses accrue, to the few, like the elderly Kings Mountain woman who didn’t even like to come home to her own folk for Christmas dinner. This lady wanted to lie with her new-found friends of same age and grade. Many want, and can't, adjust to (iistance.s as tar away as 13 miles. Visit- ings at liome are more frequent, lieaith- ful for cared and cared for alike. Most want to see kin and friend. The opening of an obviously inade quate health adjunct presages the build ing of new facilities. Mrs. Joe H. Thomson The Herald doubts that Mrs. Erma Willeford Thomson would object to be ing labeled a pioneer Kings Mountain citizen. She wasn’t quite. The Willefords arrived around 1880 from Eastern North Carolina. But Miss Erma, as she was known to a whole host of Kings Mountain citi zens, past and present, was Kings Moun tain. She was of a mercantile family and told the Herald that the family’s first Kings Mountain domicile was the famed .Mountain 'View Hotel, now site of the Joy Theatre, before her family built the residence on VV’est Mountain street in which she was reared and which was her residence when she died last week. Many did not appreciate her keen appreciation of human nature which included a natural wit. Some years ago a Herald reporter, in an human interest story intended as nothing more witty than one of those happenings which are innate to the human being, and school kids in partic ular, did an off-beat story on a lice epidemic at East school, where Mrs. Thomson was an effective and able prin cipal as well as queen father to faculty and students. On accountancy (at first meeting the following Tuesday), the Herald re ceived momentary benefit of Mrs. Thomson’s discipline. It was tough. Mid- Ijoint, Mr.s. Thomson started laughing, then said, “I don’t see why I’m com plaining. We had ’em when 1 went to school.” Just one sample. Back to the original, Mrs. Thom son was a lady dedicated to her teach ing profession, to which she gave 51 years. She loved people, perhaps more particularly' the little ones. She couldn’t be beat. Who’d trv? Or want to? Many folk have been teasing Mayor John Henry Moss about the inclusion of and addition thereof of a privilege license ta.x for promoters. The best pro moter around, they say, is Mayor John Henry Moss; City Clerk McDan’"-'- his tax for privilege of practice is $10 per year. Best boiws are all-round are for Don Parker, the newly elected president of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club. M A R T J N' S 11 Viewpoints of Other Editors MEDICINE INFORMATION ACT REFORM By MARTIN HARMON A.^ I wa.s starting in John Hen ry .\Io.ss’ door Wednesday aKci- SAVINIG THE LOB.S'TER’S , HABITAT I The Maine lohsler. which sup-' plies 7.') per cent of our total na-; tional consumption and is the| just how the best of inten- tastiest in tlie world, is in grave even of Congress, may go danger. | awry has Iteen amply de.non- For many cruslaeean fanciers, slruted by the Freedom of Infor- Maine lobsters co.sts so much that|mation Act. 'this act was supi)os- Aimoancements Birth Route 2, Dalla.s, announce ttho birth of a .son, Tuesday, Juni 2C, Kings .Mountain ho.spital. neon, .so was another young ^tsic) u is already virtually e.Vtinet. In oj t„ be the key to unlocking the _» M mz-iH ii‘'sArl H I nrt L.><iirOw' —e. .1 .. • man. He introduced him.self as 'lom Oliver, with the Ga.stonia Giizette. So we visited with the Mavor togetlier. m-m It's my inherent habit to a.sk ii new aequaintanoe where he .started out in this vale of tears. Tom replied, "Thibodeau.x, Louisi ana". m-m sealood markets, the minimum nonscerei files of government hu-1 p-rico for a whole lobster, a third reaus and agencies to the public of which is ined.ble, is about $3 when mformalion from those a pound; in a sophisticated res-ijik.B vvas sought, tniu'ant, one might pay $13..'yo or| t-otisiderably mote for a one-and-! J half-pound .speeimen. iernment papers, opinions, rec- As the late -Sdas Sp.tzer m- , policy statemenis and staff oently noted tn -Travel an.l Lets-'. ’ ^ r f^'’‘’"-ia.Je to the pubUc upon t«iuesl.: s.ve that ‘bu>tng enough to .sa - ij ju^ument was refused the' jsfy a family .s a sermu.s p'o.loel,| ^. I replied, .soiithwe.st of New Or- I aspect of the situation is that ul- , , ^ withhold n„ lean.s, which he confirmed at a-i timately there may be no .Maine ' *' v\ould la on the bout 50 miles and 25 from the | jobstor for anyone to huy. I government. Gulf of Mexico. Never h.nving Seen tliere. how would I know? m-m Lobsters were once so common, that inshore waters along oui'i A' the lime the act was pas.s- northoastern coast were teeming ia liitifi, it was hailed as a with tliem. But rising prices and milestone for the people’s right ,a growing demand for this suc-l^i* know. Unfortunately for that j culent delicacy luted more men riithf- the act has not worked : into lobster trappinfi. Now scar-|that way. tn fact, it has hardly lolly forces some trappers to ven- worked at all. Buieau and agency Tlie American Lc'^ion Maga-lture out as far as 200 miles. . officials have found loopholes in zine carrie.s a reguUrr li.st'ing et Faced with a dwindling supply,! 'he law which have enabltni them upcoming li.stings of reunions of;-some trappm-s keep undcrsizo.l;‘o withhold information they did .service groups and a couple of lobsters, saving only the tails to "ot wish to reteal. Among the, vears ago Joe McDaniel called I avoid being caught wit ban illcg-| means employed for circumvent-' my attention to the upcoming | al catch. This practice not only;‘og’he act were deliberate inter-, reunion for USS Almaaek, my I depletes cuirent numbers, but' mmable delays m rc-spondmg to first ship. If intere.sted, the guy I also threatens future generations '«iuests for Infoimation, placing; to contact wa.s an e.\-.Mmaackot'since the sexually-immature small of sensitive but nonclai^lfied do-j named Hebert (same name a.s! f’y are taken tiefore they >’an sa™** f*'e with, that cf the Louisiana U. S. «cp- reproduce. , I'l’ ' ■‘rtl’log . resentative Edward Hebert). Thi- [ t^ut the greatest throat ‘'"’Aos jh” requested doriimenis tc , br,deau.x. La. I promptly did. How not from the New England trap- ' 1 w,inder.'ul it would ‘be to reune Ptns, but from th,. big, foreign ''a” .sou,.,ht b> title ot file num with Pappy Davis, W'ho gave me I Bawlers which operate just out- np'- i first le.sson.s in conning a ship, : aide our 12 mile limit. These | Mr. and Mr.s. Ken net li Lee Greene, Rt. 1, Che.stnut liidge Rd., annourtce tli^blcitli of a .son, Thursday, June 2-1, Kings .Moun tain ho-spital. Mr. ami Mrs. Daniel Tli(im‘b.s, Box 42.5, announce the birtili ol a son, Friday, June 22, Kings Mountain Itospital. Mr. and Mrs. John A. McClain, Box 44, Bessemer City, announce the birth of a daughter, Sunday, June 24, Kings Mountain hos pital. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sides, Rt. 1, Grover, announce the birth of a daughter, Monday, June 25. Kings Mountain hospital. Mr. and .Mrs. Bill J. Calhoun, Route 6, Maplewood Drive, Gas tonia, hnnounce the birth of a daughter, Monday, June 25, Kings Mountain ho.spital. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Mason, Route t, Bo.x 149, annoutiix? the birth of a daughter, Tuesdiw, June 2B, Kings Mountain tal. iMr. and Mrs. James C. Goode, 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK linns of 'iicus about ICi'ips Mo’inliiin area is-o/tlc anil ew-iils iiihn from flics of tUv KiHijs iho iS,;;! Muu nlain Siiecial servTces will be held : at Resurrection Lutheran church I Sunday muriiing at H) dedicating the cluircli’s steeple addition. Joan McClure and Virginia Go- ! fortli, high .school .seniois, have ‘returned from al paling annual Tar Heel Girls SlinP held on tlie campus of Woman’s ('ollege at Greensboro. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marcu.s Owens have aiinoiinced llie en gagement of their daughli'r, l‘a- tricia Jeanette, to Charles Dean Pre.ston, .son of Dr. and Mrs. Jo'hn Montgomery Preston, IV, of Co lumbia, S. C. An August lltli a p.m. wedding N planned in Memorial aRI’ church. Boyce sophisticated trawlers, note .Spitz- Now Congress is ronsidering ; ' er, "with their onornioiis finely j ways to close the loopholes in meshed nets that miss nothing (the act. Identical bills have been bigger than a satxiine, have al- iiitroduci'd in the .Senate and ready e.xhausH'fl fishing grounds House to accomplish that objee- in other parts of the world. Our, live, and hearings got under way nearby occ-an waters may b«‘ Ihe'iecently on the bills. Hopefully, next to go." ' Congress this session will amend It might lie well for us to con- , 1 sider a moratorium on lobster,"''' "*w to make it a Freedom of! John iBiugger, the gutty Dutch man from Pliiladeiphia, Jim jjirague, from New York city and Salamanca, N. Y., who toot ed clarinet next to imo ih the .Midshipman scliool band, etc., etc. 1 promptly wrote M. Heberl and dug out an atla.s to locate Thibodeaux. How delightful! Maybe reunion site would iic , , New Orlean.s! | trapping to give the species time riiformation Act n fact as well! lo multiply. In order to save the 1 ! other inha.itants ot of our off- as in name and tlius strengthen' 1 shore fishing grounds. Washing-,. Time passed and no word from ' might have to join other na- M. Hebert. One night 1 called tions in the growing practice of j., ,roing on in their government him, only to learn Almaa'cker.H claiming exclusive fishing rghts' would not be gathering, unle.s.s it over a 200-mle zone off the coasts, Uailas Tex.) Times Herald, was to be a reunion for two. I ond he prepare dto defend it was the only guy w ho’d contact- | Charlotic Observer. Keep Your Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. m-m the people’s right to know whal I Fine entertainment in between ed Hebert. ! A PLAGUE OF BUGGINGS Oliver, thougli a North Gari- llnlan by only four weeks, is al ready enthralled with the beau ty of the area. Tliibixleaux’s Gull beach was not the beautiful sail- i liy strand stretching from Mobile, -Ala., to Bilo.xi, .Mi.ss., but marsh. Oliver even tried to rent a hou.se here and prai-sed tjie Chamber of Commerce for its diligent but unsuccftssful efforts. He fin ally found out in the Robindale area off New Hope road. He lik ed the idea of .scaling Crowder’s and King.s Mountain, but I fold liim I was too ripe to be a .spelol anymore, but would find him an p-xperienced and suitable guide. For a real thrill, I suggested he scale the cliff on the face*. He .sounded game. He’s married, lias a three-year-old .son. John and I liked our new-found friend. A recent emigrant from Russia tells of the trouble he had ex plaining to .Americans what life is like in a police state; as a Zionist leader, he was accustom-! ed to having hi.s apartment bug-, gml. But his American friends in Cam.ridge, .Mass., invariably an swered with something like, “We have the same thing heie; look at Watergate.” Paul Hambrigltl, the former agriculture teacher, did a good job in.stalling Lions club officers ITiesday night. He prom used not to go by the ritual book, 10 which he had been subjected while visiting with tlie Fallston Lions one niglit. It was a two- hour grind. T’hc- refugee concluded that Americans are naive, which may .',e partly true. Innocent might be a better word, since Watergate suggests that Americans aie moi'C easily shocked liy sueli things. IBut the condemnation liere of practices that are common in many other parts of the world is ‘ based on more than either naiv- I ele or innocence. II stems also I from a shared concept of what j is permissible official conduct ' plus considerable confidence tliat I our institutions can and should deal with officials who step over the line. Paul opened with .some g<x)d stories. In his .serious remarks, lie declared today’s major proo- lam is one of communicalions. People tend to fall into the hu man trap of reading only what they like to read and believing only what they like to heliove. Such confidence hardly exists in totalitar.an countries and it is weaker than we sometimes sus pect in some counirii-s that we normally think of as democra- ! tic. There have been revelations of official wiretapping in Franc*', Italy and Switzerland recently, for example, but with nothing ap proaching the repercu.ssions of Watergate. m-m Paul thinks Watergate will be benefji’.'ial. He said, "'There are a lot of Watergati's in all our lives. Watergate may get all of us thinking a.gain.” He .said citi zens should "get involved in com munity affairs including politics. All tend to support canclidafc.s for personal benefit rather than community benefit, when the community should be the prime consideration. He recalled the "tommunity action" of Grover in 1958 wlien Carl Finger in a run-off for tlie Grover's Broad Ellis defeated county commission nomination. Tlie winning margin wa.s com pletely Grover which almost lit erally voted the book, giving Broad over 500 and Carl just two. According lo Le Figaro, a 'Paris newspaper, an appendage of the premier’s office known as the Intel-ministerial Grouping for Control, is wired Into Paris tele phone exchanges. Police, Intelli gence and Finance officials can order bugs, although the official who orders a tap normally runs a clearance check to make sure some other official didn't get j there first, says the newspaper. Italy has been beset with a bugging plague of both private and official origin, so it is be lieved. Bugs have ieen found at the Bank of Italy, newspapers, party headquarters, embassies,, even the legation of the Knights , of Malta. One highway official claimed recently that he was sui- jected to blackmail based on sec ret recordings of his conversa tions. mm This brought a quip from Charlie Blanton, who .said Carl, who had three men working for him, couldn’t understand" \vny he only got two votes. “We checked that out,” Pa'jl replied. “Those two guys couldn’t read and write.’ A leader of the .Swiss Jura sop- ‘ aratists recently claimed that m a n y prominent sym; athizers with its cause had been bugged. ' The Jura is a French-speak'ng section of the Canton of Bern which some Inhahitance would like lo organize as a .separate Canton under the federal consti tution. We don’t know how Europeans will fare on bugging. But the public reaction in the P. S. will help, we suspect, to discourage future Illicit snooping by govern ment officials here. If that is na ivete or innocence, we hope Am ericans hang onto both for a long time.—.Wail Street Journal. 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