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PAGE TWO THE Kll^& MOWt’^IN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Established 1889 4 The Kings Mountain Kerald 206 South Piedmont Ave. Kings Mountain, N. C. 28C88 wp<‘kl.v newsps.per devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published or th* enlightenment, entercainmnt and benefit t f the t itizens ol Kings Mountain tnd its vicinity, pubiished every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. •In.tered a.s spi'ono class matter at the post office t-t Kings M<,unlain, N 280Si' under Aot of Congress or March 3. 11173 EDITORIAL DEPARTMEIIT Martin Harmon Hditor-Publistiei Miss Elizabeth Stewart Clrculatior. Manager and S >si(>ty Ertilor Gary Stewait Sports Editor. Nevs Miss t)eb„ie Thornburg ' cUTk B.)okkeep.- locky Mart!I MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Allen Myect Roger Brown Paul Jackson Herbert M. Hu.iter .1 All oilHSeitiTt tub RA1 crs I'Ai ' .Oi,.-, ig. Vio’ fb North CaioJiEj ari.l Sooth Cri/ol iio •Of ,e.it $4. SIX .months $2.25; Uiree morit.hs SI .Vi- lo, 1 . \,,r-h '■arn.ina .eub-.cm rn n--,.,. ,, In All Other States ■r- V. ..r $5; SIX m.>ritli.s $C; three month- $1.7.-.. scnooi vea- $.3' PLUS NORTH C.AROLINA .SALE.S TA.X telepIion^e number' 739 5441 MARTIN'S MEDICINE By MARTIN HARMON A le.ae iiWn fcareth, and dcpartfth from et if b,t the fool rarjeth und is confklcnt. Proverbs U:Hi School Bond Votes There apparently will be two school bond elections on Novernbci 6 in Cleve land County. Weis Vs. Drys One will be local, assuming the county commission orders it as e.\- pected. In its last opportunity on a district basis, county district patrons declined to approve—.by the clift-hanging mar gin of e'crht votes—a bond tn vide funds to build two junior high sciioois, plant, ueeus county s,_uool o,.,- Cials label “desperate”. Passage of the state-wide issue would provide $2,329,392 to the countv di.striet, (K’np-s Mountain $1 072.79K. Shelby $1,262,987) but that’s only for one junior high. ^ough The county-wide proposal, which, approved, would provide the county .listrict $4,030,000. No funds are proposed for the Kings Mountain and Shelby districts. Whoa, here! Is the natural first re action from the city district patrons. But fairness, not unfairness, is the idea at all. Approval of the issue is predicated on another proposal lo consolidate school debt. The funds ear-mark(?d for the county district would equalize the* debts of the three districts on basis of pupils per capita, which finds 49 per cent of the pupils attending county dis trict schools, the remainder attending those of the tw'o city di.str'Cts. To be fair, debt consolidation must have comparable lund distribution. Some citizens hav'c already inter preted the proposals as a prelude to county-wide school consolidation, heavi ly promoted by the Slate Department of Public In-struction (administering for 100 state .school unHs more simple chore than administering for the present 164). Proponents contend county-wide administration produces more efficient administration and better schools, there fore is a better education deal for the pupils. It ain’t necessarily so, as Composer George Gershwin would have phrased it. A wi’holc ho.st of citizens of county- wide consolidated schools in neighbor ing Gaston and nearby Mecklenburg counties would like to return to the pre- con.solidated arrangement. ft’s the .same in Greenville County, South Carolina. Water Grant The city asked for $20-1,000 to dou ble Us water treatment capacity. The state proffered only $loOOOO, with the suggestion that Kings Moun tain might prefer to wait until ne.xt year's divvinc up of the second n’ece of t)ie million bond issue and again seek ’’Is fullv-i-eqnested amount. “Should we have waited?”, the Mayor facetiously asked a friend. One does not reject a $l.u0,000 bird- in-hand. Certainly, after plans are further ,i>ong and. if the funds are required, yn-in.- I'Tauntain’s pfoa—in the second yi''”’ ‘-nl’t up—s'^oidd bn honor-d. federal ’aw. K-no-c- Mount.ain niiaPf'od for uf) to lialf of the cost of the initial water protect, eycliisive of cngineeiing fees and certain other items. “Ub to” makes a big difference when there is a limited amount of mon- ov (as there always is) to dispense. When the federal people informwi the Mayor .$450,000 was available for the Kings Mountain proiect, not the “up to” e.stimated $1,500,000 to $1,600,000, the Mayor, shook tlie official’s hand and said, “We’ll take if, Thank you.” The hottest election item on Novem ber 6, by its very nature, i.s the state wide election to authorize legal sale of liquor by the drink. Opposing lorcc.s arc girtling. The other will be state-wide, as or dered by the General Assembly, a $300 million proposal. Both are important to all school children present and tuture in Cleve land County, but mo.st important of all to the 49 percent of Cleveland County’s school children who attend county dis trict schools. Ju.st about everyone who has ever been through ono dreads elections on the question of legal .sale of alcoholic beverages, Hcie is an emotional issue which is a potential,, and often has been, one which finds wife against hus band, father against son, brother a- gainst brother, sister against sister, and friend against friend. There are some who take the mid dle ground and saj’, “You vote your posi tion and I’ll voi’c mine and no hard feel ings!” That’s as it should be, but quite often isn’t. Kings Mountain itself is a case in point on the contention that those who’ve been through one legal liquor vote arc net an.xious to repeat it. Under current law, a petition to the city commission bearing about 500 sig natures ol bona fide voters would make the calling of an election on package store sales mandatorv. As indicated by the .55-45 defeat of the proposal a few years ago, a large minority certainly, of Kings Mountain citizens favor ABC package store sales. But none have indicated a v\illingnoss to load a wet effort, while many wets have said, “E.xcuse me!" A state-wide package store proposal would have better chance of passage than the current liquor-by-the-drink proposal, which is mottled with if,s, ands and buts. Liquor-by-the-drink sales would be limited to restaurants of minimum size, for instance. There’d be no such thing as stopping by the corner tavern for a Iriendly nightcap with the boys. Dry spokesman Grant may be some what grandiose in his claim of recent day that, “I will not concede one single county." But his claim ol a smashing victory does not appear grandiose in the lea.st. Unhappy Headline Last week's lead news story in the Herald carried a most unhappy head line and content: “McDovitt; KM Drug Problem Is Worsening Daily”. Chief of Police Tom McDevilt, in his address to the Lions club, gave no indication of c.’ ving “wolf” with no wolf there. Majority of the Lions and, l!ie Herald would ,gue.s.s, majority of citizens were sLirpriscc at the "worst of them ail” label Chie f McDevitt placed on hallucinogen LSD. Mo.st had thougiit heroin the worse of the ch ug badmen. But one d.i.se of LSD, just one, can produce a “tace-oif" up to fi\e years later. “Say I employ a policeman and un beknown to me, he had a dose of LSD a year ago. On duty, with a revolver in his holsicr, he goes ‘off in a croud of people. We uo!l might be talking about si.x dead people,” ihe chief said. Then he added this shocker: “It did happen here. Thankfully, f was with Ihi' officer when it happened.” Information about drug users or pushers should be given to the police department. The motive need not be community service. Simply self-preservation. Marse Grant, editor of the state Baptist publication the Biljlical Record er, is the long-term leading dry spokc.s- man of the slate. The wets have tapped John Ryan, of Charlotte, .SouDiorn Bell manager for North Carolina for many years, as its leader. Jolin Henry Mo.s.s and Ray Cline wein lo Kan.sa.s City for Ihe All Star itasehal game, which wa.s about Ihe dullest part ot a I ino.d interi'.stiM;> and happy trip, m-m I .Mayor Mcks, organizer and presidecr ol the Weslcra, Uiw- j linaji League; was Dragging aoout I the faet of five WC'L gfailuate.ii and tlieir role.c in Hie game.'Four I were players: 1) Bobby BcjncLs, Uie ; .San Franviseo Giant outfielder voted the game’s most valuable ' i-layei, a graduate of Lexington; 21 Buddy Bell, Cleveland third I baseman, wfio went up frcj.m I .Sumteir; 31 Nolan Ryan, the Cali- I lorn.a Angel piteher who recem- ly i)ut together eon.sceutive ri >■ ! nit, nontn games and a regular ; game no-liil, no run in the ne.xt, I only to lo.se it 10 in extra in ning, a graduate of G-reenvIlle; and 4) Bill Singer, another AngeJ llinger, vvtio pi..-'tied at .Salisbury in the VVCL, The fifth, of cour.se, was the National League's win ning manager, Cincinnati’s Spar ky .Vnder.son, who apprenticed at : Rc.-k Hill, i m-m I Two Kan.-ias City Royals ofCi- I eials are friends of long-.standin.4 ' o; John’s. Ccxtrie Tallis, vie<-- i pre.sident and general manager, ! iind Jolin were co-workers .some ; yeans ago in the Detroit Tiger ur- 1 ganizatjon, both having beim I general manager of the James- i tr.wn, N. Y., farm, and Lou Gor man, personnel manager, was ' ; offered his first job in profession- j j al oaseball in the Western Caro- ; I linas. ”I didn’t get him,” John i notes. “Baltimore out-bid me.” I I m-m I Commissioner Cline, as well as , John, enjoyed talking with the ’ old-rime stars. Lefty Gomez, Mo.se (LeftyI Grov'e, Carl flubbell. Bill llallahan, satchel Paige, Monte uvin, and many others. | m-m I Gomez, the great New York Y’ankee pitcher, joined John and Ray at dinner on Monday eve- ! ning prior to the all-star speeta- i ele. Ray’s one-time SalJy League : hero was Wiley Aloore. .M.xire I was a consistent Sally League, I pitching winner for years, but j .somehow didn’t attract siiffici- I ent attention of the major league I scouts. Moore’.s ticket to the ma jors was bought the season, Ray . rocalLs, "When he was eitlier age j 32 and won 31 games, or was 31 and won .32 games. Ray also re- <-alls the remark of Eddie Bran- nick, then general imanager of j the Yankees, who declared, “1 i don't Care-if he was ipltshing a- -i.gainst the bUxtmer girls. I want I any guy who can win tliat many ' liall games!” m-m Neither Gomez nor Moore, Go mez recalled, went to the big I time on their hitting ability. “We ! were playing the Senators In the j traditional day-early opener at j Washington, and Babe Rurli bet I me $50 to $5 I wouldn’t get five 1 hits all season. Wiley overhear I I the conversation and incredulous ; ly suggesteei the Babe wouldti: i give ttiat kind of odds. TJic Babe ; laughed bigjind told Wiley he’d I ju-d bet Wilee $505 to $10 Moore \ wouldn’t get a single hit the whole season. I pitched that opener and got four for five.” m-m The re-suifs: the Babe won Go mez’ fllty, as ET Gomez never got another Moore won Babe’.s five hundred, fiitless for the sca- s.in, Moore drew the pitching as signment in the final game, gar nered a single, then blasted a home run. HOSPITAL LOG Mrs. Fred M. Arrowood -Mrs. .Martha Dmi.se Blaekmer Ki.y E. Britlges .Mrs. Ernest J. Cash John .4, Clieshire Hubert G. t!L mmoits Bila.- J. Crawford -Mrs. Robert S. Cuiry .Mrs. .Martha R. Dt'ese Lawrence Guy Mrs. ,\lary V. Harlow Mrs. Rives Hayes Mrs. Ronald Gene Ivey Wiliam Howard Jackson Alr.s. Lula Bell Johnson Mrs. Annie B. Jolly V\ alter M. .Mfjorheait .Manuel A. .Mixss Mrs. Julia B. .McDaniel Cary MoKinney Mrs. Rufus Pliiier Dan II. Queen Jerome H. Ray Robert T. Ruff Annie Mae Ware Mrs. LeRoy G. Whiting ‘Mrs. Robert Davis Ttiomas A. Haimbright Eddie D. .Ma.son Mr.s. Aileen R. Metoalf Mrs. Nellie H. Mtffiria.x Mrs. Jasper W. Patterson Dewitt Cobb Marvin B. Cooke Jotm H. Turner Mrs. Douglas R. Eaves Nil's. Ethel M. Hambright Hugh A. Logan, Jr. Mrs. Betty Jean Melton Nlr.s, Charles R. Posey Charles Eugene Wright ADMITTED THURSDAY Marvin F. Neal, 6()7 Gastonia Rd., Bessemer City .Mrs. Ernest I. Toney, Rt. 2, City .Mrs. James A. Willis, Box 11, Lattiinore William Boyd Bo.me, 108 E. Georgia Avenue, Be.ss<>mer City ADMITTED MONDAY ■Mrs. Roy <i. Ware, 80!) Ellison St., City .Mr.-.. Larry Wright, RI. 1, Whin-sides Kd,. Gastonia James George Moore, 4100 .Mar- grace Rd., City Mr.s. Gloria P. Burris, 31 ;5 N. VVatter.son SL, City Olden Edward Bowman, 123 -Marion St., Clover Paul Daniel Pettigrew, III. 1, Grover Mrs. Willie L. MeGimiis, Rt. 2, e. o IsHinhart Groe., City Mrs. .Margie C. Putnam, 005 North Drive, Cherryville Mrs. James Millei, 205 Thorn burg Di., City Mr.s. Dai.sy I fUedford, 1307 Gro ver Road, City Booby Donald Parton, 503 E. Georgia Ave., Bc.-i.semer City Jenny Lynn Camp, Rt. 3, Box .320, City ‘Mrs. E’aye R. Gladden, 320 Wil son Termee, City ADMITTED TUESDAY Joint Dean Shockley, 821 2nd Street, City Wmiam B. WelLs, 2123 S. New Hope Rd., Gastonia Jesse H. Varbro, 703 W. Mtn. St., City Mrs. Ray L. Hamrick, 1212 W. .Mauney Ave., Gastonia Tiammy Lynne Abee, 1024 N. Ransom St.j Ga.stonia Hoyt Alarr, 1747 Parkdale, Gas tonia Eiirman C. McGinnis, Rt. 4, Box 122, Shelby i Otis C. Falls, G07 Jackson St., City Mrs. Je.s.sie E. Reynolds, P. O. Box 822, City- Lee Sterling Meeks, 303 Gold St., Bessemer City * ■-! Thursday, August 2, 1973 JIDMITTED FRIDAY Mrs. Earl E. Buchanan, Rt. 1, Gastonia J( al M S( m re a I ai id m m el fa fr ni it se Mrs. Frank Phillips. 207 N. Dill ing St., City Rev. George L. Willis. 422 E, Gtvj.gia Avenue, Bessemer City Long Branch Sets Homecoming Long Branch Baptist church of Grover will observe Home- eom ng Day .uinday with spo- i cial Servians. j Rev. Floyd Surratt will fill the Mrs. Wendell L. Phifer, 807 W. i pulpit at the 11 a. ni. vvorship ADMITTED SATURDAY ( Mtn. St., City Mrs. Bill Adam-S, 21 Bennett Di-., City Thomas Kenneth Green, 5180 Midiplms:, City service. Picnic dinner vvill bo spread at 1 p. ni- At the 2:30 p. m. .seivice FvOV. Quincy Caldwell, pastor of Ris ing 'F.benezer Baptist ciiurch at WES AND THE BEANSTALK — Wes Williams of Route 4, Kings Mountain, is shown here with what could be the biggest bean stalk since Jack's. Wes said the bean came up voluntarily in his. watermelon patch. He staked it and it now measures eight feet. He's already picked several dishpans full of beans off the one stalk and the beans are still coming. (Photo by Crary Stewart). John V. Schuler, Jr., lOG Helen Winston-Salem, vvill deliver the Avenue, Be.ssemer City j r.ies.sage and .special music vvill , be featured. ' ADMITTED SUNDAY ' Rev. B. E'. Brewer is pa.slor of .Vlrs. Myrtle C. Fof3; 310 Hoyle; ^ong Branch church and in-1 vites the community to join in the day’s service. Circle, City Mrs. Colon Lee Keetcr, Rt. 2, ( iBox 921, Bessemer City j . George W. Mauney, 813 \V Mountain St., City ) Mrs. Ruth Cobb of Kings .Moun- Mr.s. Douglas L. Ware, Rt. 3, j tain was visited by her .son Box 381, City James W. Cobb anti granddaugh- Mrs. Johnny 'W. Whetstine, Rt t®, pebble of Bally. Nirvada-This 4, Bex 199, City visit wa.s very .speciaj to 'Mrs. ’ Cobb. It st»ems Hurt .she had not ‘‘only’’. "I think," he si*id, “Tm st'en her granddaughter since she the only guy who evej plneh-hlt was four years old. Debbie is for Ruth. Got a single, t-oo.” IS now. Hey I All You People That Like Good Food - Come To LONG HORN RESTAUBANT Oh Oak Grove Road Between Kin-gs Mountain anrl .Shelby (Near New Buffalo Ltike) New Dininy Room been added vvilb dim lights We Book Pai’ties Good Tender Steaks Sandwiches Chicken Fish Dub Fortenberry, Owner Phone 739-76,46 ' ' ' 8:211^ ream I xD* ni 1 Gomez recalled he started the I first All-Star game in 1933. He I pitched the first three innings, ' Washington’s Al Crowder (fram Winston-Salem) the next three, ; B.>sfon Red Sox Lefty Grove the ; final three. Babe Ruth contrlbut- I el a home run and it was the j American League’s ball game 4-2. I Gomez was the starting .AL pitch- i or in four- of the next five .All- ; Star games. m-m Paige, the rubl.er-armed Negro, signed by Bill Veeck at Cleveland after Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey bn>ke the color barrier di-mon.strated for Ray and John his famed “hesitation” pitch. Hi-: age unknowm even to Sateh, but estimated at not less than 50. Paige won ball ga.mes for the In dians. caiAshe? CIS. Savings Bonds help keep todays olans from becomii tomorrow^ broken dreams 3 Cl fi' 9 I m-m j Ray was interested in a base I ball feature I read this week in j the Chris*'an Science Monitor. 11 I was an interv'iew with Duffy I.owi.s, a Red Sox outfielder in : Hie days when Babe Ruth became ' a Red Sox pitcher. General theme j I of the story was that Lewis is ! Hio'.ight to oe Hie only person I whe saw Ruth smash both his frts h jme run (1915) and is la-st home run t1934). Lewis was Ruth’s teammate when he hit the first in 1915 and general manager of the Boston Braves when Ruth Tilt his last (one of fj-.ree for the dayi and career No. 714 came as Ruth was bow ing out of baseball. It was Ruth’s last game. m-m Lewis, now 85 and a raoe traeje buff at Ms home in Haver- ford, N H., •Jntributod anotlier This time you’re absolutely going to save something out of your pay- •heck. But, then, you really do need that pantsuit, a new coat and, of course, that perfume Eric likes so much. Before you know it, the money’s gone,.. and all you’ve got saved are your dreams. That’s why the Payroll Savins Plan is such a good idea for a single girl, Whc:» y ou join, an amount you specify is set aside from your check and used to buy U.S. Savings Bonds. And, it’s all done before you get your check—so you can’t help but save. U.S. Savings Bonds. To help you save more than dreamiv, .,„,i Kuw E Bonds pay 5M interest when held to mJtufilv uf & years, 10 months (4% the lirst yenr). Bortjs are replaced if lost, stolen, or desttvyt’d. When needed they can l<e caaheti at your bitnk. InterMt or local incoma toxe: be deferred uotii ledea; fC\ * ♦ is not subject to state and federal lax mity ^ ipUon, 'Hj*! ? -' Take stock in America. Now Bonds mature in less than six years.
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