PAGE .TWO THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald 206 South Piedmont A*«. Kings Mountola, N. C. t weekly newsps.per devoted to the fwomotlon of the general welfare and published (or the enlightenment, enterlainmnt and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C.. 28086 under Aot of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Gaiy Stewait Sports Editor, News Miss Deboie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper Rocky Martin MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Alien Myero Roger Brown Paul Jackson Herbert M. Hunter MAIL SUBSCHIPnON RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE In North CoroUno and South CoroUno One year six months $2.25; three months $1110; school year $3. (Subscription In NurUi Carolina subject to three percent sales tax.) In AU Other States One year $5; six months $3; three months $1.75; school year $3.75. PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEP^iONE NUMBER — 739-5441 My son fnryrt not :iny law; hut let th'me heart kop my commandmeitts. Proverbs 3:1. Check Registration Under state law and by direction of the state board of elections, 7200 Cleve land registrants have been purged from the books. Under new election laws the purgecomes when a voter fails to vote in four years, and, since the county books are now the only books, a citizen who hasn’t voted since presi dential election in 1968 (Ni.xon, Humph rey, Wallace) is no longer registered, unle.ss he’s re-regis)tered. As far as the upcoming city elec tions are concerned, the Herald was a- mazed when Mrs. Jack Mercier, secre tary of the city elections board, report ed the registration total in the six city wards approximates 2500. The purging is the reason. The total city registration for the ABC election went over 3(X)0 and the city has expanded its borders since. Mrs. Brenda Hamilton, clerk of the county elections board, reported only about 800 (ten percent) responded to the 80(X) letters mailed to those who hadn’t visited the polls since Novembei 1968. The city, in a follow-up to the county boai'd's effort, ’s comnWing mailing of more than 1000 letters by registered mall to city voters apparent ly not on the county books. Three election days are upcoming which should be of interest to Kings Mountain citizens: 1) October 6—county-wide vote on joint bond issue—debt consolidation questions. 2) October 9—City election. 3) November 6—(at cincts) county pre- a) Kings Mountain district board of education election (b) state-wide election on $300,- 000,000 school bond issue c) state-wide question on liquor by-the-drink 4) November 6—at city precincts, run-off elections, if necessary, for city officials. The 1971 General Assembly did all the changing, in a well-meaning effort to simplify the state’s election process. As the law became operative this year for the first time, harried election officials are wondering if here, too, that road of good intentions leads to perdi tion. 'The administrative problems of chango-over are heav'y. Perhaps not to perdition, once the curves of the new law are navigated. The old method was complicated, too, not for election officials but for the voters. In Kings Mountain, voters need ed to register but twice, on the city books and the county books. Outside city residents needed to register three times, in Grover for town elections, on the Kings, Mountain books for school district elections, and county 'b(joks for national elections. It could have been worse. In some places there were specied water districts, sanitary districts, etc. The voter must remember only two items: 1) Register to vote—if in doulrtjisk. the county board clerk. 2) Vote at least once during the coming four years. Opening (if school dictates especial care in auto driving in school areas. That applies to students driving to •(^ool, too. One fellow, who knows, said sometime ago that West Gold street should be re-named High School Speed way. The Price Play A number of citizens, who think they are, ARE NOT registered to vote in the several upcoming election.s. Headlines of the w-eek were that some food prices had been shaved a bit —well, just a wee little bit. The nows about other prices aren’t as good. And the prediction is that the food business won’t stay that way long. Now the sale of 300,000 bales of cotton is showing in the price picture, both in retail marketplace and at the door of the manufacturer of canton goods. The problem of the manufactui’cr is less the price, a problem he can handle, but the fact he can’t get enough of the stuff. The conversation now among cot ton manulacturers leans to licensing. Government restrictions on plant ing cotton have reduced cotton produc tion to less than needed level. For years Cleveland County and Robeson County vied for the annual honor of biggest producer in the state and among the major ones in the nation. No more. Young Man Cotton has gone west. Export licensing may be the answer in the short term. Long-term some major relaxation of planting restrictions appears in or der. The United States farmer has prov ed himself the master of the w'orld in production. He knows how to .sense a profitable product, and he doesn't mind switching gears to move into it. Quote of the week: A high school boy remarked, “They’ve shortened summer.’’ Oh, yes, school opening was a day away. Congratulations to Rev. S. W. Av ery, pastor of the CJhurch of God, and the other newly elected officers of the Kings Mountain Ministerial association. Ervin Visit The Democrats will rally at Shelby Thursday night, with a star attraction on the rostrum. Not that Senator Sam Ervin hasn’t been a s.tar for some seasons, having been in the Senate since 1954, as weU as serving eminently before as a North Carolina jurist. , Now, though, he’s become a tele vision star, and his \>jtty mountain hu mor and profile gets attention world wide. The Watergate business is the rea- •son, of course, and a valid one. Will the Senator be a candidate for re-election? Depends on his health, the Senator replies, whicli reminds he has appeared mighty healthy on the tube and is not being sparing with public appearances while the Congress is in recess. Henry Hall Wilson says he's run ning for the Senate seat. Pat Taylor, primary second-runner for governor, says he'll probably run, if Senator Ervin doesn’t. Attorney General Bob Morgan ain’t saying. The city will move Monday night to correct problems in some areas where an over-abundance of water pressure has occasioned calls to the plumber. Mayor John Henry Moss noting the ter rain from the point the new water stor age tank was being built, commented, “Oui’ forefathers knew what they were doing. They picked the highest point around.” He referred to the location of the old concrete tank. The city’s im pending installation of pressure reduc tion valves is a little late for City Clerk Joe McDaniel. He installed a reduction valve at his West Mountain street home some months ago. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By MARTIN HARMON B- Jolin George, Jr., flew on 29's outol Guam and Saipan in World War II. He likixl to fly, went back to it wltii Ea.-jtwn .Airlines and will log his 25th year with Eastern in February. m,in Viewpoints of Other Editors KEEPING THE PATIENT AWAY ' EXAGGERATED CLAIMS New York City officials recent- With the recent talk about ly boasted that their year-old inen-asing federal involvement in, municipal productivities program health care, \\v might want to I had achieved ' significant re ponder the lessons of a strike by | suits,’’ saving $300 million and Israeli doctors against their of-' obviating the nMd for 16,000 ad- HOSPITAL LOG ficial medical system. In the course of the recent strike, doctois refused to treat patients through Kupat Ilolim, dilional city employes. By new most New Yorkers are probably injured to such claims, which are vaguely reminisex-nt of naUonai run, which takes him all over (he world. Since I tailked to him Ip-st week, he’s back from Panama. We finished the stoiy Wednesday mornliig, but the in terview was .short, a.s he was expecting a flight asslgnimcnt oall. the Israeli eciuivalent of a na-' stories about people who spend ' themselvt* into bankruptcy by never passing up a bargain. But theiv is at least some evidence that tlie city’s "produotivity tlonal health plan which charges no fees for almost all its serv- John is a power on the inter- through their private .pracllce.s, in which they do oharge fees. According to otficial sources .S8 per cent fewer patients have bc-en going to doctors. And deaths have declinetl by 20 per cent The fleet; emergency operations during the strike. But the over all flgure.s show that completely free access m-m Between his ^isaftaxgc from the servlae (Uid his joining Eastern, be 4ld several Jobs and played f^st ba.W for the semi-pro Kings .Mountain Vets. His wife is the former Sara Jvey and live with tlieir three boys, the twins Mark goals” may be paying off; A New York Post survey, which last year found that highway department employes were working as little as two hoiu's a day resurfacing e last figure admittedly re-i^nd repairing clto' streets, found s the givat decline in non- "I'-'Y averaging 4 1-2 and My^, 18, and Bart, 19, on North Piedmont avenue. to doctors maty not be Identical with high-quality medical serv ice. According to the director of Kupat HoUm, Asher Yi^lln, pa tients “merely went because It was free. For some, particularly older women, a visit to the clinic m-m John ha.s been back to Guam in his civilian status and says the Island U bustling. m-m' He’s oibviously had .some in- tCTesUng experiences. Last week he was in 3t. John’s, Newfound land, when the guy’s balloon feU into the ocean.' The ndvy pulled him out. Okinawa was visited when the island was both under US con trol and since we gave it back. John relates considerable chang es under the Japanese, says they could be more friendly. The has been the social high point of the day.” Doctors admit they could hardly do a decent Job with so much traffic. “Our ddetors set up to 80 or 100 patlenta a day,” said one. ‘They can 'barely say hello in that time, much less I carry out a serious examination.” I 'When you stop to think about this kJnd of health care, perhaps it's not so surprising that the 1 Israeli death rate dropped when I the strike closed down the na- I tlonal service. Spared the rush I of patients with minor com- i plaints, doctors could do a better (joj of treating serious illness. 1 Or to put it more or less in an economist’s language, the nation al health plan did a lousy jab of allocating scarce resource.s. NIr. Yadkin recognizes this problem, and has come up with a solution that may be a hint to World War II Japanese gun em- | proponents of nationalized health placement bunkers are still there | ^j,g elsewhere. He wants to in and John says, ‘1 don’t see how we ever took that island m-m On a trip to Anchorage, he had time to take a bus tour. Along the way a moose "the size ot a barn” was near the roadway. troduce a schedule of fees.- Wall .Street Journal. -The THE TAPES The Agnew affair adds a new and more terrible urgency to Mr. Nixon’s already urgent obli- The driver stopped and the cam- i ^“^0" he era carriers got out to snap pic- , Watergate scand^e \^ther he tures. -That moose stood there Purges himself by dis^f or by posing like a mo\-ie star,” .says John. confession does not matter so greatly. What matters is the purge. The scandals need to be disposed of and the legitimacy of the United States government reestablish. Niggling about the president’s constitutional right I to withhold information from the Another haul was to Accra, Ghana, with Ghanian students, teachers, and educators. A Gha- , nlan roan, who appeared about the public, or from the 30, Ixadn’t been home since ‘he was 14. He had crow’s feet, of the Ghanian variety. Papas there knife their sons periodically as they grow older qa a symbol of their growing to manhood. ‘The Gbaifian arrived for the return flight .somewhat the worse for wear, told John his father want ed him to remain. The Ghanian almost got stowed, Ke told Jo^. "What he meant,” John said, ‘Vas really stewed- In the pot," by his father. He had managed to escape. world does no good. The United States, and also a larger com munity of peoples, need a presi dent and a vice-president whose; standing Is above question.—^The Economist (London I. hours work for eight house pay. 'Recent decisions to assign more firemen to duty dufing hours when there are more fires, and to issue welfare checks on a stag gered schedule. But they are hardly Ukely to make their way Into jiarvard Buslriess School textoooks as modelji of jtnanager- lal boldness and originality. And administration boasts about NYC's “national recognized achievements in the reform of welfare administration" are like ly to prompt even the most gul lible New 'yorker to i«ach for a generous pinch of salt. The problem in New York, as In most other major cities, do- r ves from prMomlnant so cial and cultural ethos. An Im portant manifestation of that ethos is the deference politicians and other pnoaninent .spokesmen display toward organized labor, whose inflvwnoe and strength they have worked to build up. This beneficence extends even to civil servi« unions, with the result that municipal unions are increasingly militant and now constitute virtually a quasi-gov- emment whose power sometimes exceeds that of elected oily gov ernments them-selves. Mrs. Matilda Bnwn John A. Cheshire llutx-rt G. Clemmon.s iMir.s. Robert S. Ciiny , .\lrs. Martha R. Dt-r-si- Tliomas A. Hambriglit 'Mrs. .Mary R. HIU Mrs. Lula Bell John.son Mrs. Daisy P. Lcfdford Mrs. James A. Limbaugh Edcjic Daniel Ma-son Walter M. Moorhead Mt.s. Gary H. .Morrow Manuel A. -Moss Joseph Lee Muitray iMrs. Julia B. McDaniel Mrs. Trula J. Payseur Mis. Rufus Phifer Robert T. Ruft Jalin P.. .Skipp<'J Mrs. J. L. Torres John W. Tumey Hanj L. Webb, II Prince H, Johnson Mrs. Play D. HufMetler Doris G. Uttle^n Mts. Ora D. Maatney Arnold C. Mllle* Oelton PoHtell Mrs. Frank C. Robinson Giles L. Best Mrs. Pkirl E. Buchanan Mrs. Mack G Welch Thursday, Augusf 23, Fniits, Sugai M4ke-Ta«iy Condiination ADMITTED ‘THURSDAY (Mrs. Myrtle C. Ford, 310 Hoyle Clricle, Oa-stonia Mib. Pearl J. McKinney, Rt. 4, Box 41, York ADMITTED FRIDAY As long as this attitude per sists, cities are Ukely to totter on tlie verge of continuel muni cipal crises. Increased productiv ity, except that which is a by product of computer technology, is apt to prove illusory. Mean while, exaggerated claims are likely only to recall what Uncle Remus said about the rooster making more racket than the hen that lays an egg.—.Wall Street Journal. Roy Alien Byers, Box 172, Tate, Georgia ‘ Mts. Madge R- Putnam, Rt. 3, Box 185, City ADMITTED SATURDAY Ambers Henderson 1003 Prince ton Wve, City Mrs. Elmmetl S. Lee, Rt. 1, Blacteburg, S. C. Ruby Mae Martin, Bo.x 16, Smyr na Edward Reynolds, Rt. 2, Box ai8-B, City ADMITTED SUNDAY RALEIGH.—Many tasty pnsl- ueUs come from cooking a frnli and sugar, a combination of fruits, sugar and nuts. ‘Tt’s the ingredients and meth. od you u.se that make.s the dif ference-,’’ .says lola Prilchanl, ex tension food conse-rvation si)('- eialist, .North Carolina Stall- Unive-rsity. For example, pieserv(-s are made by cooking whole small fruits Or uniform piecc.s of laigoi- fruit in “ sjTup until ihe fruit is saturated. When done, Ihe fniir Ihe original in size, shape, rului- in a syrup should be similar u, and flavor. The syrup is meiliiiiu to thick. On the other hand, jelly is niadi- Iv cookin,g fruit juice- wiiii sugar until Ihe Jell stage is reached. Jelly should Ihe- dear aryl tender, yet firm enough to re-tain its shape when cut. in contrast, jams differ finm preeserves in that fruit may hi- I’ooked to piea-s and may take on a sewni- pelly-like consisiern-j. Marmalades are m.ade i,iy cooking one or a comtiinalion uf fruits, often inclueling Ihe cb^. fruits, with sugar. The frui^® peans in small pie-ci-s Ihrmigii the dear, translucent jelly lll;i- product. Mlsa Pritchani points that that the fruit pulp which has Iss'n "fruit butters are- made- from [uesse'd through a sie-ve or col laneter and cooked wilti sugar and .spiee-s, if desired, until lliick I e-nough to spread.” ; Last, hut not least, are the j consei-ves. They are made Ijv ; cooking a mi.xture- of several , fruits often combined with rai- ! sons and or nutme-ats and suga* ( PARAGRAPIUGS Why is there always too much month left over at the end of the money? Mre. Hobart Dye 716 Meadow- brook Rd., City 'Mrs. John A. Ellis, 504 E. Ga. Ave., Bes-semer City Mrs. .Marshall D. Gantt, Rt. 1, Gity William H. Jenkins, 300 3. Mul berry St., C3t«T>"vme Quincey C. Parrott, U1 Center St. City Mrs. Florence R. Sheppard, 715 Gantt St. City ' Mrs. Arevhie Ray Thomas, Rt. I 1 Box 3(J2, aty I Joseph Tolliver, 4218 StUes .St. j Philadelphia, Penn, i Mrs. Donald Wood, 308 Fair- • view St., City I 'Mr.s. Dorothy Ann Wyte, 3609 ' Somerset Dr., Gastonia • .4. Kith Annoancemenis Gener.illy speaking, women are generally speaking. ADMITTED MONDAY Anti-Theit Tips Foi Bike Owners If at first you don’t succeed, you're running about average. A 'burdened taxpayer reports tltat the trouble with our for eign relations ‘■hat they’re llv- j ing beyond our means. Rose Lee Burris, 621 Newway Dr., Gastonia ’ Oscar R. Giadden,*n)5 N. Rail road A-venue City Mrs. Floyd T. Payne, St.. City 1,3,3 Ark Captain Parker Receives Medal “The increased popularity of cycling during -the la^ few years Has resulted in drasrtlc increase of -bicycle thefts,” reports Don , u Costa, safety director of the All-! John made fiivf .mps to vd**' state Insuranse companies. i The only people who listen to both sides of a family argument Mrs. Mar.ihall C. Stroupe, Rt. 1, CJty The bitttemess of poor quality remains longer after the aweet- ness of low price Is forgotten. Paul T. Weldon, .Ht. 3, Box .370 City nam, tjwb to Saagjpn, kwo.-to Da- nang. one to Gam Rahn Bay. "The theft of bicycles is espec ially due to the expensive five and ten-speed model bike en thusiasts are currenHy purchas ing,” Costa adds. Ra*nUy John made a flight to Atheits, Greece. He Went, through the gate at Athens In-1 Allstate’.s safety director anti- ternatlonal AUiport found the om mends the following anti- bar Just InsltMt the gat#and went j theft precautions to bike owners: In fer a Coke! As he sipped it, he tioUapd qittgh hujTy. scuny, and bust^, then th* ofUlng jn shlm- blea' Then he sew bullet hc|les behind the bade oit the bar. He had missed the fun by five hoqrs—the day terrorists holding 14 hostages shot up the Joint. The ceiling damage was a gre nade Job, the bullet lioles from machine guns. “That was too close tor me,” he added. Register the hike at a police station. Bikes reeoverad by the police frequently are undalnibd through ladi of identifleatidn. 2. Chain the bike to a 'bike rack or tali stationery object. Parking meters are too short as the bike can be lifted over the top and carried away. are those who live next door. -Mistakes in otfloe routine are equal to the sum of the squanw employed. Just think; if it hadn’t been for Thomas ^son, you’d have to watch TV by oandleltght. >, QUOTES Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, and the waste of energy. 3. Lock the bike when leaving us sturdy laock and wldd-Unekee It fior any length of time, and use a sturdy lock and welded-link' chain. Common fence chain may be easily cut with a wire or boll Cuter. Leisure is a beautiful garment, but It will not do for constant wear. Mrs. Cunvi M. Dailey, P. O, Box 678, Stanley Mn». Roger L. Robert.s, Rt. 3, Box 2B2, City MarHyn Smith, Rt. 3 Box 283, City Mrs. C. W. Ivey, 57 Railroad Avenue York , Lisa Diane Conrad, Rt. 1, Box 288, Bessemer City Jasne.s F. GunnelLs, 823 Rashseur St., CUty Mrs. Clemtoin EBlison, 1050 New Ca.stor Road, Gastonia Mrs. GiWIrisain Best, Jr., Rt. 1 IBox 333, Beoaeroer City Clarence J. Grayson, P. O. Box 223, Besseiqpr City Mnj. John R. Phifer, Rt. 2 Box 704, City lio^l Jjltahelle Belt, Rt. 1 Box 68A, Dallas, i U. S. Rir Force James U. I’.u ! ker, son of .Mr. and Nfrs. Donalil j L. Parker of 800 Henry St., Kin;;s I Mountain, has received the D;s • tlnguished Flying Cros.s for an ! ial achievement in Vietnam. C.TFtain Parker e.-irncd tln' medal as a C-7A pilot in Srp- tem'aer 1.972 on a mission mso Cam Can Forward AinfioUl wlieii he ilcllvere.i vitally noi-dcd sup plies to allied troops defendlii;; Ihe airfield. The capUiin, who also hold.-, id awards of the Air .MiHlal, w.i.- honored in leremonics at Char j leston AFll, S. C., there he now servos as a C-5 pilot with a unit of the Military Airlift command. A 1961 graduate of Kin;;- Mountain high school, Cttpt.i n Parker received his B. S. liegiei' from The Citadel .-ind was com missioned there through tla^ft Force 'Reserve Officers TraiWI Corps program. When someone makes a mis take, rub It out, don’t rub it In. Stenki Sales Showlnaease 4. Store the bike at night. A hike parked outdoors after dark invite Uke thieves. 5. For the determined cyclist, with a good deal of time, re move the bike’s front wheel be fore chaining the frame to a post. This will discourage the thief who has planned on riding off with his booty. 6 tFinally, remove extra parts such as 'btskets or saddlebags There are certain small faults that offset great virtues. There are certain great faults that are forgotten in small virtues. Television enables people with nothing to say to talk to people who aren’t listening. marked the monthly sales increase over montha of the previous years, ac cording to C. A. TeiTClI, presi dent. Patience Is no heroic ingred ient, but it happens to be the cornerstone In the foundation of skill. Sales of Sterchi Bros. Stores, Inc. fbr July were $2,650,829 re flecting a $2.6 per cent increase over sales of $2,583,392 for July last year. July sales were 'the biggest ever for that when parking the bike in 31st (XHweeuave | “These suggestions will not Onoe in a while we all need eliminate bike theft entirely," i a turrt le, it’s Just life’s way of' costa concludes, “but they- will keeping us humble. certainly make things more dif- — — j ficiUt for tlie thief.” The number of dally cows in ; ————— i North Carolina continues to go! FOOD .SUPPLY diwn but the amount of milk Sales of $13,002,901 for the five month period ending July 31. 1973, ■were up 12.67 per cent over sales of $11,541,194 for the per iod last year. Sterchi’s operates 65 retaU furniture and applianoes stores Less than one million com-1 produced continues to rise. The! mercial farms produce over 75; state is one of only eight In the | per cent of our food supply. This! country that produced more milk I means that over 200 consumers the first half of 1973 than dur- are dependent on the economic ing the same period last year. | in elgkt southeastern states. The health of each farm, says Mrs. The Tar Heel Increase was onej per cent. Oeiiy cow numbers Keep Your RaeJio Dial Set At company is headquartered in Ruby Uzzle, extension consumer Knoxville. Tennessee. It* (look msrketh g eoomomtet, North Can is listed on the fWW York Stock, ollna State University. Extdiange. ■ ^ iMve droRped- tiy about head since last -year. 3,000 KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. News A Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the holf hour. ' Wi I >;iii 9 , , Fin# entertamment in betwaen 1 Cl th« Mr. and Mrs. William Mirss. Kl. 1. Smyrna, S. C. announce tlie birth of a daughter, Wedncsd-iy. Augu.st 15, Kings Mountain Ikw- pital. Mr. and Mrs. Jackie Dale .Slmrl, I 214 Bi'ic«> .St., announce the binli I of a son, Thursday, August I'i. i King.s Mountain ho.'spltaL 'Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Dover. Rt. 1 Grover, announce the birtli of a son, Saturday, Augu.st IS, King.s Mountain hospital. 104 3rd Avenue, Cheriyville. an- -Mr. and Mrs. tobby Dean Goia-. nounce ,the birth ot a daughtci-, SundayAfigust 19, Ivings Moun tain hospital. Mr. and .Mrs. Archie Ray ma.s, Rt. 1 Box 302, annoiini’.- the birth of a son, Monday, Au gust 20, Kings Mountain hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Roger L. Roh.-ri-'. Rt. 3 Box 262, announce the binli of a .son, Tue.-iday, August 21. Kings Mountain haspital. hur The uar; thre -f sur^ reel befo kett the onl.v play Harl of tt rent