PAGE TWO T THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS‘MOUNTAIN, N. C. Thursday, Jiify 26,M91 Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald 206 South Piedmont Ave. Kings Mountain, N. C. 28086 \ we<“kly newsps.per devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published (or th» enlightenment, entertainmnt and benefit of ttie cifizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the post offi(e at Kings Mountain, N. 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 Stewait Sports Editor, News Miss Debaie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper Rocky Martin MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Allen Myerg Zoget Brown Paul Jackson Herbert M. Hunter MAH, SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE LN ADVANCE In North Carolina and South Carolina One year $4; sbt months $2.25; three months $150; school year $3. (Subscription in North Carolina subject to tliree percent sales wit.) In All Other States One year $5; sbt months $3; three months $1.73; school year $3.75. PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 A fcaretit, and dcpfti'Uth from aril bit the fool ragetli find in confident. Proverbs t!) Pave 'em All The Mayor and C’ty commSt-c-ion •’■'s invited citizens on all unpavetJ (dtj street.s ito present peutio... - and with the assurance, if the petitions are in order, that the petitioned will be approved. The point, of course, is to get every resident of every city street out of the dust of summer and mud of winter. Time was when the city commis sion of the particular day could not have po.sed such an invitation and for several reasons among them 1) there were too many unpaved streets 2) for which the city’s portion of the cost was not available then or in the forseeable future. Older citizens will remember the days of the Still Administration, which, in an effort to alleviate the street dust pollution of hot and dry weather, treat ed the then-many unpaved city streets with used motoi oil. The relief was short-lived, but it helped. In turn, gravel drops were employ ed to alleviate the pains of winter mud, short-term again, but helptul. The city street department now lists only four streets on which petitions foe . Jpaving have not been filed. Petitions on three streets, not yet paved, have been approved. Biggest contributor to paving of city si,xcets (and other street improve ments) has been the 1931 Poweei Biil Act, which provided that one-cent of the state gasoline tax be rebated to cities and towns lor improvements to city-maintained .streets. It was a “right” law, for certainly state gasoline tax revenue was being provided by gasoline burned on city- maintained streets. The 1971 General Assembly doubled the rebate to cities and towns to two cents per gallon, eifective July 1, 19(3. Thus, come October 1, the rebate will be largest in history. File the petitions and pave ’em all. Unhappy Confrontation Regardless of outcome, historians of the future will have plenty of meat to study in the early years of the .seven ties. One most certainly will be the con frontation about the tape.s. President Ni.xon says, "No, I won’t,” on the request that his tape-recorded conversations, both personal and tele phonic, be supplied to the Senate com- n’ttce investigating the Watergate af fair. Both the Senate committee and Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor appointed by the administration, repli ed, “Yes, you will,” and have issued subpoenas commanding the President to release the tapes. It is a reasonable guess that neither of the three parties to the unhappy con frontation arc pai'ticulai-ly happy. Certainly, it would appear that the United States Supreme Court will be offered opportunity to answer the key (juestion: Is the President of the United States above, yea, without the law? A Congressman suggested on a tele vision interview Tuesday night one rea son Mr. Nixon doesn’t svant to make the tapes public. Politicians, yea, Presidents, are oft- times noted for rather gamey talk . . . which just might prove more emban’as- sing than the actual content. More chicanery by the military, a never unusual course. Next-of-kin of servicemen who died in Cambodia were told out-right lies—that these men died in South Vietnam. No Bargain Counters A lady told her husband at break fast this week, “You’d betjer say that bacon's good.” She referred, of course, to the re cent un-treeze of prices on pork. Another lady told her husband, “You’ve been needing to go on a diet. Tomorrow you start.” It was another reference to the de freeze and weekend advance in food prices. A customer jested with a super market manager, asking, “How about showing me to your bargain counters?” The super market manager replied. “I’m afraid there aren’t any.” Nor did the super market manager offer any great hope for the future. “In two weeks, I’m afraid,” he con tinued, “it’ll be worse.” Apparently, thus far, the de-freeze has escalated principally pork, poultry, eggs, and some produce. Some samples from a 'Wednesday spot check: Eight slices of Canadian bacon (count ’em) cost .S2.07, at $2.84 per pound. Rib pork chops commanded $1.89 per pound and loin pork chops $1.99 per pound. Lettuce was 49 cents per head. Grade A large eggs were 79 cents per dozen (as recently as June, 59 cents). The smaller medium Grade A’s were three-quarters a cent cheaper per egg at 71 cents per dozen. As of Wednesday, canned goods hadn’t yet been hit. The prospect is not good when present shelves are bare. Beet was already high. Advice on saving? Very little. Nor does the past performance of the Nixon Administration indicate there is hope for any near-term course but prices up. The price control measures have failed. The reason is simple. Some items were frozen, some oth ers were not. A part-free, part-controlled econo my won’t work. Nor will pious pronouncements make it work. Campaign Financing How can political campaigns be financed, minus the $100,000—$500,C)0() contributors, law-breaking by corpora tions making contributions, etc., etc. Some think the federal government should pick up the tab as it do(?.s in many areas once limited to the priv'ate economy. Congress, indeed, passed a law to make it possible for the federal govern ment to finance campaigns, but at last reports (no final one has yet been made) the plan didn’t “take” with the taxpayers of the United States. A little blank was included in the income ta.x fonns filed April 15 whereby a taxpayer could designate a dollar of his tax bill to a particular political par ty. In the instance of joint returns, the husband could give a dollar and his wife a dollar. They could give to the same party or they could, so to speak, split their votes. Prime rea.son for the inability of the taxpayer to use this device of poli tical contribution was the lack of pub licity it received. Why would any taxpayer with one iota of interest in a political party fail to take the opportunity to appropriate one lone dollar of his income tax bill? There is an obvious reason — the lack of publicity. Of the two major parties. Democrat registrants far out-number Republican registrants. The Republican administration didn't relish too many designations, as it did not relish the tax political contri bution provision initially. I MARTIN'S MEDICINE By MARTIN HARMON I noded some information from the Cliarloilc Observers of June 30, 1971, 1972, and 1973, and therefore made a trip to Char- } lolle Saturday afternoon, which, I probably us the the ttr.st Chariot le irek I’d made in a rsouplo of ye;i rs. m-m ftU 004S must I was also the first time I’d visited the Charlotte Public Li- Irrary in .seven or eight years. an(i I wa.s very much impre.ssed (againI with its facilities. The Ob.server pages each day i arc |;u( on microfilm, oven in- ' eluding the Sears Roidiuck and j other firm’.s tabloid advertising inserts. It’.s all there. ..liss Mary I Phillips, who presides over the Carolina room where new.spaper I films are kept, says a month’.s i worth of Observers nominally re- j quire two rolLs of filim, while the I afternoon Charlotte News, which i does not publish a Sunday edi tion, requires .somewhat less. . o : Jt: *- At any rate, Miss Phillip.s show ed me how to use the viewers, nl which the library’s Carolina Room boast.s four, a mechanism most interesting. The viewer blows up half a newspaper page. To get the bottom half, one merely has to manipulate a wheel in the proper direction. Another wheel puts the blown up sheet in focus. For fast turning of page.s, a lever can be set which takes one from the first to fif teenth in record time and re winds the film on the home spool at equal .speed. Viewpoints of Other Editors SCHOOL DEBT PROPOSAL EQUITABLE FOR COUNTY The proposal for the Cleveland County Board of Commissioners to take over and administer all school debt, including more than $4.090,0()0 in new bonds for the county school district, de serves considerable serious thought from Clevelanders. HOSPITAL LOG Here are a few things that i ought to te included in those | Ihou.ghts: I'm considerably shy of wiz ardry on matters mechanical, but finally figured it out and had the information I needed. I leff with a new appreciation for the library's services and a renewed respect for the librari ans who provide them, as well as an added appreciation of the vast amount of knowledge a li brarian must have on what is good and worth keeping. One reading room area, for in.stance, fealtures several racks .of nothing but trade journal.s. —If the consolidation of debt does not take place, some Cleve land county voters in the future will be determining a tax in crease for other Clevelanders every time a school district needs construction funds. That is be cause districts can no longer hold bond issue referendums; tliey must be countywide. m-m Nor did 1 know that it is possi ble to check out a painting. Just as it is a book. -'Because of that new state law reciuiring countywide bond votes, the new proposal that would give $4,0.50.032 to the county schools alone is different only in that this bond issue would be consolidated in the fu ture with Shelby and Kings Mountain school debts. That is, the county district schools are asking for $4,000,000 in bonds, and a countywide referendum must te held on the issue wheth er or not tile commissioners arc allowed to consolidate the debt. m-m Speaking of the Ob.server, Jim my Dumbell, who does the ‘.Caro lina in the Morning" column in the Observer and was a Carolina friend and Journalism confrere a few moons ago, called a recent morning about a .-spoof piece ho was doing on the horrible fact that the dean of the UNiC jour nalism school has announced he’s going to veto admission to the school on aippllcants iwho have difficulty spellmg the King's English. In proce.ss of the conversation, Jimmy said he'.-' recently invested in a sail boat. "I kinda thought I'd like it,” he said, "but it’s worse than that. I love it. All I want to do is get that boat on a river or lake.” Relating the conversation, I ask ed Dick (McGinnis If he’d .ever done any sailing. He hadnS as I haven’t. But, he added, he has a brother-an-law who lives on Che.-tapeake Bay and has “play- I ed” with .smaU sailing ora/t for i a long time. Two years ago he I quit playing, arid bought a 75- i loot combination boat, properly motorized to move the boat when she’s becalmed. It’s -ocean-going and was purchased in New Eng land. The boat’s trip home to Chesapeake Bay was at sea, as slie skirted the Atlantic coast. My friend Dumbell, incidentally, was not -wvare and therefore surprised at the indicated size of the Buf falo Cieek resevoir. Frank E. Almond .Mrs. Martha Loui.se Blackmer John A. Cheshire Brice Eugene Childers Hubert G. Clemmons Mrs. H. K. Dixon William Jake England Mrs. Grady Gofortli Lawtrence Guy Mrs. Mary F. Harlow Mrs. Rive.s Hayes Converse Hutchins William Howard Jackson Mr.s. Annie B. Jolly Mrs. Daisy P. Ledford Walter M. Moorhead Manuel .4. Moss Mrs. Julia B. McDaniel Mrs. Rulus Phifer Mrs. Eunice H. Ray Robert T. Ruff .Mrs. Guy Schofield Freddie Albert Smith Mrs. Leon J. Webb Mrs. LeRoy G. Whiting Mrs. Emma Irene Wriglit Mrs. Fred .M. Arrowood John M. Broome Mrs. Robert S. Curry- Dan H. Queen ADMITTED THURSDAY Silas J. Crawford, Rt. 2, City Cindy Ann Frix, lOGO Linwood Rd., Gastonia .Mrs. James -M. Staley 1600 Park- dale Circle, City i Annie Mae Ware, P.O. Bo.x 704, Mis. Pat Crosby got a particular tickle from a recent Charlets Ku- ralt interview on CBS television. TJm (former Charlattean was at ^arlort<*sville, Va., interviewing a .Mi. Glazer, repiitedJy the only producer of goose quill ipen-s in the land. The goose quill man dres-sed and talked like the odd ball Pat expected. I believe I re ported here that Pat wrote him three or four years ago asking the price of a pair of the 12-lnch I variety and possible delivery I date. Her complimentary close was "Thank you”. Two days after Pat posted the latter she had her answer. Glazer answered Pat by edit ing her letter. Her 'Thank you” was struck through, as was the r(*quest for price. The delivery date was circled and a line drawn to Glazer’s (she guesses) goose- quilled note which was, "When "Ted Kennedy gets elected presi dent of the United States.” m-m Pat didn’t want to wait that long and found wo pens at Wil liamsburg. She assumes Glazer made them. --■As impossible as it may seem . at first glance, it Is absolutely j and mathematically coiToct that j Shelby and Kings Mountain school district residents will not I toe pa(yiny any major difference; in taxes despite the extra $4,- 000,000 to county schools alone. - Indeed, it is beca(jse of the con- j sohdation that this is true; if the I consolidation of debt took place | without the additional $4,01)0,000 j to county schools. It would be ’ county district residents who^ would be paying part of the Shel- j by and Kings Mountain debt. The proposal, as it stands, .seems i equitable, on a per student basis, | for all three distrlcl.s. City ADMITTED FRIDAY Mr.s. David J. Fisher, Rt. 1, Box 27, City ADMITTED SATURDAY Mr.s. Ronald G. Ivey, 1113 Baker Blvd,, Ga.stimia Mrs. Ervin A. Jenkins, Rt. 2, Box 6A, Clover Mrs. Lula Bell Johnson, 717 S. .Mtn. St., Cherryville Horace D. .Moore, 4400 .Mar- grace Avenue, City Lee A. .Seller.s, 102 S. Piedmont S(., City ADMITTED SUNDAY Tile important consideration for Clevelanders is that the* only new factor in this I’cferendum Is the consolidation of the de:l. This is no attempt to foist any debt of any district upon any other district. Ttiis is an attempt to equalize the debt so that, in the future, every Clevelander voting on a bond issue for schools will be voting the debt upon himself. In the future, if Kings Mountain schools need a bond issue ,for instance, it will be only fair and equitable that county commissioners call a referendum that would guarantee bond money to all three school dis- tricis.—The .Shelby Daily Star. 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of neics about Kings Mountain area fieopte and events taken from the 1963 files of the Kings Mountain Ray E. Bridges, Rt. 1, City Mrs. John .Vlichael Broome, 71-' A St., Be.s.temer'City Mrs. Einest J. Ca.-'h, Ut. 0, Shannon Bradley, Gastonia Mrs. Marttia R. Deese, 105 Park St.. City .Mrs. Charles H. Huggins, Rt. 6, Box 787, Gastonia Mrs. Worth E. HimUinger 221 Dovei Dr., Bessemer City Coot Inman, 46 Che.-ttorfield Ct., City Theresa S. Lutz, Rt. 1, City Mrs. Emma L. Ramsey, 114 Lackey St., City Mrs. Jacob Burris, P. O. Box 702, City Eugene Carroll, 1409 East Wynn Circle, Gastonia Jeroime H. Ray, Box 692, Cher- ryvlllc St., City Cary McKinney, 403 W. Parker Bobby R. Harrison, (General Del., West End P. O., Gastonia Cynthia Jane Scoggins, 119 Monta Vista Dr., City ADMITTED MONDAY The Kings Mountain board of ! education is expected to meet j not later 'than Thur.'sday and give | final approval to 'preliminary j plans for the general layout of, the $1,100,000 district high school ] building. ! Mrs. Aubrey Mauney has been appointed a memlber of tlic newly-expanded Cleveland Coun ty’ Welfare Board. S