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^AGE TWO THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. Thursday, November 15, 1973 «) Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald 206 South Piedmont Ave. Kings Mountain, N. C. 28088 \ weekly newspa.per devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for th» enlightenment, entertainmnt 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 thd'post office at Kings Mountain, N. C.. 28086 under Act of Congress at March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Mar*ir, Harmon Editor-Publisher Mi* riizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Tony Tompkins Sports Editor Miss Ueo„ie Tnornourg Clerk, Bookkeeper ^ocky Martin MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Allen Myera Roger BWiwn Paul Jackaon MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE In North Carolino ond South Carolina One year $4; six months $2.23; 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 months $1.75; school year $3.75. PLUS NORTH CAROUNA SADES TAX Cuini',^i)nl hi Iix rrturn unto fhf Lord: for he hith torn, (ind hruill hrni ux; hr hath xmittcn, j^nd he uiU hind ux ,1111. lIox<a\::t. ^ There, Now. Then Mayor John Hcni y Moss made capi tal via the Kings Mountain Lions club dais Tuesday night to review Kings Mountain history, since February 11. iS7-4: to relate status at present; and to liazard an educated guess in the futui-c. The guess is fascinating: “We can have the mo.st dynamic city in the Pied mont Crescent’’. The guess is also educated. The answer is as simple as pie. “Kings Mountain has the basics." Kings Mountain does have the ba.sics, which it lacked for many years. They are: water, sewage treatment (both, particularly the latter), most un- glamorous service, available property i'or new industry, and commercial ex pansion.’’ I Cases in point: Joe Smith, savings and loan asso ciation executive: ‘T’ve only lived in Kings Mountain seven years, yet, I know Kings Moun tain. All my Florida back-^-ound is Spanish. And I’m not worried about Ponce de Leon. ” Frank Sincox, medical doctor (of the courageous kind) who also knows fuel consumption can be cut ten percent "without even half trying’’. Former Senator Jack White, a con servative-liberal, tending to the practi cal side as would be a legal legal eagle. Former Senator Oliie Harris (run ning again) who knows the thinking of his people. Major Samuel H. Houston, who was heavily angered when his “combat in fantry company was ordered into the engineers. Charles E. Dixon, navy non-com, South Pacific duty, who didn’t like the idea of paying $2,50 for a Coke and $.1.50 for a hamburger in Paris recently. Mr. Dixon: “Rebuilt Wc.st Germany (by- USA) looks good.’’ The Russky-East Berlin remains shambles. Too much much? Too much prosperity. Too much what? It is the nature of us weaker hu mans, world-w'ide, to somehow, with luck and the grace of God, notwithstanci the pitfalls of prosperity. Can we? SMITHnELD HERALD Give Us Rationing Instead Of A Tax No American motorist will welcome gas rationing with open arms. But rather than permit the gas shortage from getting out of hand, we should let rationing come, he sooner, the better. Secretary of Interior Rogers Morton says “the odds are better than 50-50” that the Federal Government will put gas rationing into effect “within the next two or three months.” As bad as that news is, it is not so bad as the earlier news that Washington officials have been considering a heavy gas tax —from 5 to 40 cents—as an alternative to rationing. Controlling the ^s shortage by a heavy surtax would violate the principle of fair play that must prevail in a tnily democratic society. It would deprive low-income earners of their right to a fair share of available gas supplies. It would discourage many medium-income earners from driving cars. It wouldn't stop the high-income earners from mo toring at all. Indeed, a heavy gas tax upon top of existing gas taxes would have the effect of diverting gas supplies from the poor and the middle-income group to the rich. And that just wouldn’t be fair. Secretary Morton’s statement about the imminence of rationing indicates that the tax idea lacks strong support in the Nixon administration. But the re port that it has been under consldora- i;»n is quite disturbin|:. , THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Better Late Than Never The last time the National Associa tion of Manufacturers conducted an advei'tising campaign to get public sup port for one of its causes was in I94fi, when it sponsored an ad series aimed at getting rid of price ceilings. It has de cided to do so again, backing an ad campaign that urges readers clip and send to Treasury Secretary Shultz a note that reads: "Please get rid of price and wage controls now—before things get a lot worse." It would have been nice il' the ef fort had begun a bit sooner, say on Aug. 16, 1971, but it’s better late than never. Each generation of business lead ers, w;e suppose, has to learn first hand what the current crop has experienced through the last two years. And the NAM, along with most businessmen, went along with President Nixon’s 1971 freeze and several of (he following phases. One reason they did, says NAM Chairman Burt F. Raynes, was because they feared adamant oppositio’h to con trols might prevent the NAM from in fluencing the planning and administra tion of the system. Secondly, “it was hoped that controls might temporarily be a useful tool in the special economic circumstances of August 1971.” Those early rationalizations have long been ciu'dled and the advertising campaign is a form of penance. We are filing away a complete set of the NAM advertisements. The next time the NAM suspends its opposition to controls we will fi.sh out the ads and forward them ■to its board. Hopefully, the directors who will compo.se that futui'e board are still in diapers, or at worst, in junior high. W. E. H. IN SANFORD HERALD ‘Hello. Central* Days Are Long Gone Now “Hello, Central” is about extinct these days of direct-dialing phone calls all over America and even to some for eign nations. Hand-cranked telephones went out even before my day. I go a long ways back. Days when phone sub scribers said “Hello, Central” are about 40 years ago. Records show Alexander Graham Bell, who was born in Scotland, planned a phone network with a commercial switchboard and coined the immortal "Hello, Central.” In early phone days young men, often boys, were “Central.” It was a number of years before gii’ls and young ladies were commonplace phone operators. Females ushered in the era of per sonal service, like tracking down miss ing husbands for distraught wives, find ing local important people for people calling them, sounding the noon whistle, taking mes.sages for doctors and law yers, relaying local news like where the fire alarm was and an opinion on the fire and its damage, and alerting the community to danger from fire, flood, and storm. CLIPPED SMITHFIELD HERALD Copies of “Teen Commandments” are available—for a price—^from Faith, Prayer and Tract League in Grand Rapids, Mich., but here’s a copy you can have for nothing: (1) Don’t let your parents down; they brought you up. (2) Choose your companions with care; you become what they are. (3) Be master of your habits, or they will ma.ster you. (4) Treasure youi’ time; don’t spend it; invest it. (5) Stand for something, or you’ll fall for anything. (6) Select only a date who would make a good mate. (7) See what you can do for others; not what they can do for you. (8) Guard your thoughts; what you think, you are. (9) Don’t fill up on this wlprld’s crumbs; feed your soul on the Living Bread. (10) Give youf all to Chrtsl; _Hc gave His all for yotL * _ i _ . * MARTllrsll Viewpoints of Other Editors MEDICINE By MARTIN HARMON Hi-jinks . . . around. My fniend Tom Tate, at Home Savings & Loan, has a nieeerew (like Cilligan’s Island) of lady seaman. Case in point wa.s evi- NATION'S ENERGY CRISIS i REAL. NO MATTER | CAUSE Just listeninig to the behind- the- .enes speeulation on What President X'i.'ton imay propose on the nailion’.s energy crisis is enough — or .. Iiould be—to .scare us all to (ieatli. ’I hat’s not what Mr. Nixon has in mind, but in- steart is attempting tj .^ave us fiimi a winter of unbelievable pro-blem-s. We hope he .sueteeds. LEHER TO THE EDITOR HOSPITAL LOG Curtis B, llumi)hrey, Itl. 1, s-emer City .Sliarwnrd L. M.(x>re, 105(1 New Ca.stle Road, Cuslonia A LETTER IN SUI'TORT OF I’HE'SIDENT NIXON I believe that President Rich ard .M. Nixon is one of the great est Americans, and I sintx'rely| urge that you do your utmost to' support him at fhis time of crisis.' deneed again Tuesdy, ;us f was rra.sollne ra- greeted, well in advame of 1 ur-| ticaning and .50 mile-an-hour key Day, with a very neatly ar-, limits and year-round day- ranged Thanksgiving arrange- j lijrht .savings time, we .\nieii- mertt. I cans cannot help but wonder wtiat in the world hapixmixl to u.s. Here we are, the riehe.st na- I tion in the tvorld, and we can't .More important, this flonal I emuigh petroleum prodi.ets eormteopia had iim-itortant culi- h^ -satiate ourselves. Well, that u- nary accompaniments, well but-^ treked by a quart of home-oan- I Ptooight about ,x,nservat>on near- ned green beans and pints of I enough, home-made relish and pickled! „ .j green tomatoe.s they, in turn, DUtHre.ssed by two mouth-water ing green peppers. ergy crisis may .shake us out of our lethargy, may pntix'U us to act individually to cut off lights I in OUT homes, .slow down our m-m I ear.s, cut our tliermostats down, [ close? our back doors. Perhaps 1 had background for my com-1 some of these things will be fore- pllmerls to Tom on his female 1 ed uijon us as a matter of na- I tional emergency, but Americans j should get the point without be- Ing forced. It is scary to hear 1 from famiilies just moving to town or couples just getting mar I President Nixon was over- i whtlmingly elected by the vote-s of 60 million Americans. He was i elected on the basis of his long i and honoraliU' reeor<l of sercice to the American people. He wa.s ' elected because he has con.sistent- j ll/taken a stand for honor, for decency, for Go:l, and for our American traditions, TTiere arc many morx' Americans of this kind than there are of the type ; who are willing for everything we ! believe in to go down the drain. I Here is what we must do, if we ibclieve in llie President. Let us expre.ss our confidence in the president, and let our thoughts lie made known to our newspapers, i , and to our Congressmen and .Sen ators. I urge you to express your dis-| pleasure of the unfair things lhatj are printed or publicized over television. | Halloween morn I was there to be greeted by alljhe ghosts and ghouls of Hallovveen Eve, a witch, a fortune-teller, a rag-a muffin, etc., and the dulcet furtune-itell- er, Nancy Spearman Seism, effi cient assLstanit seeretary-trea-sur- er, in/toned the order of the day; ried they are finjing it difficult or impossible to .secure heating oil. And if they turn to natural gas, they find the supplie.s low; and if they turn to el(x:trioity, they may find brown-outs. Do all that you can, and con tinue to pray for our Ptvsident and for our country. Sincerely, Now, it's difficult fpr many of "If you can't laugh a little, there 1 us to understand how there is isn’t much u.se living.” an energy crisis, and it’s easy to Most of us don't laugh enough, a .sfmple formula for taking our selves too sciiiously. We Ameri Icok at the fantastic increases in profits by the oil companies and believe that somebody is holding out on as to raise profits. Mayoe that’s -SO at the producers and re finer level, but the energ>- crisis is real in that we can’t got all can.s, unhappily, tend to do that, | gasoline we work too hard, play too hard, j wgnt and need. And we might Some of us die too hard. j g;; well understand that ithe problem is real, no matter how I it was caused. I I Local oil distributors are ex- I had a scare Tuesday night. I tremely conct'tned .-iboiit the HARLE.S G. McCALL P. .S. I would also like to .sub mit the following for your consideration. If the Congress of the United States is setting up standards of absolute purity for each and every [lerson the President names for any position, shouldn’t all persons who engage in prosecu tion of our elecle<l leadens be re quired to open their own personal files and life history? ! I tclieve we (the people I have' the light to know uhetlier those who are working for the de.strue- tion of our present leaders are personally pure themselve.s, tie- fore they .sit in judgment. .35 North Main Street Marion, North Carolina 2S7.52 | November 10, 1973. Dewitt C'(rf>b Mrs. Palbert Curry William Jake England Mns. Florence L. Kalis Calvin L. Gantt Mr.s. Etliel H. Hamhriglil Mrs. Maiy R. Hill Daisy Houston Hazel E. Lankfoitl Mr.s. Rliea K. L<?wis Ruby .Mae Marlin ■Mrs. Ora D. Mauney Manuel A. Moss Mis. Elsie S. McGill Airs. John C. Parkin' .Mrs. Bright D. Rallerree Mrs. Lillie E. Reynolds Mr.s. Claira P. Rowland Eric Danelle SmiUi Kroddie A Amilli Kevin Donelle imilh Mrs. Clyde R. .lackson 'Mrs. Gallic R. Laniin- Mr.s. E.-vsie A. Wilson Mis Kinmi'rh E. Ca.sdi John Tliomas Di.xcn ADMITTED THURSDAY Mrs. 'Benjamin ('. Ballon 2050 Mid pines, City Rochelle Lee Conner. 9-tI Gray St., City Mns. Vivian W. Kulton, P.o. Box 4, City Raymond A. Reynold.s, Sr., Rl. 2, Box 448A, City ADMITTED FRIDAY William D. Byers, 1’. O, Box 228, City Charles D. Day, Rl. 4, Box 1.37, City ADMITTED SATURDAY Clarence W. Golbrth, Rt. 3, Clover, S. C. Mrs. Jonnie W. Mixon, 117 E. Boston Ave., Bes.semer City Mrs. James E. Norman, Rl. 1, Kings Creek, S. C. ADMITTED SUNDAY Mrs. Wallac-e E. t’api>s,^ Rit. 1, Bessemer City Mrs. Robert G. Colvard, 615 Mauney Ave,. City Robert B. Curry', Rt. 4, Box 405, City Mrs. William H. Eairly, 606 York Ptoad, City N'c'ville Eugene Winsli'ad, 508 E, 61 11 .St., Gastonia Mrs. Hunter G. Wylie, 107 .S. Elm Street, Gastonia ADMITTED MONDAY Grover W. Greene 141.3 .Slieiiiy Road, City Mary Aliis' Mori'is, 600 W. (Miurch St.. Cherryville .Mrs. William L. Adams, lit. l, l)aHa.-i ■Mrs. Carolyn R. Valentine, Rl. I, Box .537, IBessemer City Mrs Ronnie t). Roberl.son, I’ine Manor Apts., Apt. 41, City ADMITTED TUESDAY Mrs. Edward Ray Huff.steller, 205 N. Dilling -SI., City Roger Bean Hamrick, 407 S. lith Street. Bes.semer City Donald Eugene Bcury'liill, .30.3 Kickapoo Street, Gastonia Frank Phillips, 207 N. Dilling Street, City' Robert Ruff, Orty 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK ) Itrtnx of tirtrx nhoiit Kinr/;i IJotintain omi -yico/i/c louT eventx taken from the files of the Kinyx Mountu/e Carole Elizahelli Plonk, Kin;'- j Mountain .senior student at l.i- i noir-Rhyne college and dauglitei of Dr. and Mlrs. George W. Plonic. has beim elected to memhershio in Wlio’s Who Among American ' C.illegfs; and UniversitUes. Carllon 5’aTns, Inc. 'has an nnunred a wage incTease effec tive Nov. 18 for its etTvployee.s. SOaAL AND PERSONAL Mi.s.s Hetty Morrison, Kings Mountain sopliomore at Salc'm college ond daughter of Mr. and Mrs. K. S. Morrison, has been ruitncvl Sw(s>tlM*nrt of tlie Wake Forest adlege c’napter of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity. Just after parking at the Couri- ] heating oil and gasoline .s'hort try Club for the Uons meeting, ( ggp indeed, the distributors I had tiie shock of my more re cent life. Sirens firing, blue lights ablaze. Captain Delbert Dixon’.s life-.saving vehicle a;)- proached the club entrance drive way at high speed. ‘‘Who had died inside? Or would? Ur was about to?” tliemselves are beiijg hurt by the shortage, and they are .seeking means of relief for themselves and their customers. This i.s in structive to all the rest of us. be cause they are trying to do something about tlie crisis; tlie rest of us must take action, txi. Shelby Daily .Star m-m SMALL PRICE TO PAY As-1 subsequently accused Cap tain Dixon, or whoever was driv ing that blasted vehicle, I was trying to save .MY life. The driv er, Delbert or otherwise, wheeled into the club driveway on a spin job which 1) caased me to take to the brush, 2) made me won der wlio in.side was an emergen- Nothing can refresh the .soul like a hot, .spicy debate with as sociates over a pditical issue. But how often do we go beyond that and write our opinion to our Congressmen? Unfortunate ly, t he a nswer is “seldom or nev er.” Too many of us fear that one opinion Is barely audible in ey case to hospitah or 3) was I a j hubbub of current events. Yet. -too late” candidate- otlterwise. ' gg legislator has .sjil'd, "Tiie Or liad my speaker got .stage-[ g^gn box is ntsarly as important frigiu and left scene? i as the ballot box to a member of Congress.” Nothing of .sort, it hinppily hap pened. I There are two saving graces of the Lions Club in Kings Moun tain: It The Lions convene twice monthly, leaving two (.some- timc.s three) Tuesdays free) and the Tall Twi.ster. All women, and some males, retain the hi-jinks zest ixf youth, the name tliere be ing (for Lim.s) the honorable tail twi.ster. Who poured out of the ambu lance wagon? A .short, factual letter limited to one topic could be just what a Cungre.ssman needs to chart his course in the right direction, and you will never know unless you write. A major industry a-sscxiia- tion gives some .suggesdions: “If you are writing about legislative proposals, explain how it affi«cls you . . . Try to refer to a bill oy number and subject . . . Make sure your views get to your Con- gre.ssman early in deliberation of the bill. If you wait for a crisis stage or try to change the legislator’s mind later in the de velopment of an is-sue, you ate not apt to achieve your goals. Finally, if the reply to your let ter comes froim an a.ssistant. m-m Two were Past Presidents Dave Sanders and Odus Smith. Beside Oousin Tiail Twister Herndon (any honorable, scaired-of-him Lion) never oirgues with the Tail Twister, illuSttiious son of the King Beasts, that he is, and vVho has almighty power over any and all. m-m Sum and Substance: Lion (Hon oraible) Tail T-wister Herndon put the bite on each and every Lion for one dollar each for the l>ene- fit of the 'harci-ivorking Kings Mountain LL'e-Saving & Rescue Squad. No demurrers. Charlie Blanton quipped to the Mayor, my honorable speaker: “Mr. May or, if Dave Sanders plops in a dcdlar without a whimper, you’re in trouble. He’ll already be run ning against you in ’75." m-m And no denials were evidenced. don’t be upset. Public officials have staffs so that requests can be dealt with effectively.” It’s easy to rationalize your way out of wtriting to your Con- gresantan, but the plain fact of ficial wants and needs to hear every point of view on an issue.” An elght-eent stamp is a .small price to pay for freedom. Transylvania Times Sgt. Dixon Is Piomoted m-m The whole point was that Lions David Sanders and Odus Smith, also an-ex-King of the Lions, had been absent on a too- long sequence of proceeding gatherings. m-m Quoth President BUI Bates: •’You might think you aren’t gonna come. But we've ways of getting you here.” SELMA, Ala. - Robert D. Dix on Sr., son of retired Air Force j Master Sergeant and Mrs. Her bert L. Dixon Sr. of 303 East Tennessee Ave., Bessemer CH>', N. C., has been promoted to ser geant in the U. S. Air Force. Sergeant Dixon Is a construc- j tion specialist at Craig AFB. Ala. 'With a unit of the air training I (xtmmand. Amen. He attended Stctsnns high school, Dayton, Ohio. His wife, Birgit, is the daughter of Mas ter Sergeant and Mrs. Robert H. Mayo of 3828 Bonita Vista Drive, Tempa, Fla. A FUEI. SHORTAGE Remember the Ole Mill Whis-- tie? Which use to aw:iken the citizens each morning. When there was no such thing as a tfme clock to have to be punched. If I remember, there w-as one at 4:30, another at either 5:30 and a quarter to -six. Of cour.so there were still those that would sleep a little time in helween or Just a little bit over. Bui you could rest a.ssured each morning to fir/ that Hie boiler man was ne\er asleep on his joD. .Nor w.a.s there a like of proper lieal within the plants. People w(/e never in such a hus.slc nor bu.ssle to get to anil from work. .Since cars were a rare thing, and people were more in- clinecl to walk to and from work. And by-goHy, they were a lot more healthier for so doing. The job wa.s not speeded up as it is today. There wasn’t all of Ihis rush production as it is today. Wearing the fcody out and people falling apart at the .seams due to overly .stress and strain. Peo ple enjoyed their day-to-day work. And were prouil to he a part of the free enterprise system. Today it is generally known that even rags can tie sold on the market place for first quality with a label of some famous brand. What’s happened? It’s a mad rush for profits and gains. | Perhaps I’m getting away from | the captain or topic of this writing. Back to the fuel short age. I do Ixdieve that it stands to reason that if this nation is in such an accute shortage of fuel, would not I'ommon logic also awaken the American public to the dangers to an open and a sur-, price attack by out.side forces. | Is the present administration hell bent on casting fears upon the American public to bring the American pur-llc into subjection to its own selfish desires? It would seem so. In closing would be my suggestion since the indus trial complex of our nation would be most to '-pnefit. I think perhaps the indu.strial complex of the nation were to! convert hack to the coal furnaci-; system therefore generate steam ’ heat would help to eliminate much of the fuel shortage and continue to in the event of a fu ture such shortage. Also cut out overtime except in a national emergency. As for electrical sav ing of power, cut down on speed of the machinery, as most of the problems todav machinery is al ready geai-ed so high It’s falling apart as well as the human ele ment trving to make humans in to machines. And the graveyards ar- full of such today. Ye-S, it would be nice to he-’r! the ole mill whistle ag.ain, and to have this great nation come back to its sen.sps. woiidn't it? EVERETTK H. PEARSO.N ITS YOUltS FREE "Your Guide To Monday Night Football" Read This Book Before You See The Plays Pick Up Your Free Copy At Our A.ssociation. Wo’re Co-SponsoririK Tlie Monday Night Pro - Foot ball Games On ABC Television. We Know You’ll Be Watching. And We Know This Free Guido Will Add To Your Enjoyment Of The Games. You’ll Read Scouting Reports On All The Teams Playing, Plus An Analysis Of Key Player Match-Ups. Plus Much More. Get Your Book Now At KingsMountain Savings & Loan Association r. 0. sox 746 KINGS tvtOUNTAIN, NOKTH CAItOllNA 28046 BREAKFAST Men of the First Presbyterian church win prepare Thanksgiv ing breakfart at the church Thursday Tnoming from 7:30 tg 9:00. KIWANIS PROGRAM Dr. Ihor A. Kunasz. geologist for Foote Mineral Companv. will present a program on lithium minerals with speciail emphasis on Kings Mountain deposits at Thursday’s Kiwanis club meeting j at 6:45 p. m. at the Woman’s j club. Dr. Kunasz was born in j France and attended Case West-1 ern Reserve and Penn State. Keep Your Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the holf hour. Fine entertainment in bet>veen b( )"