I f>AGE TWO JHE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. Established 1889 The Kings Monntain Herald t06 South Piedmont At«. Kings Mountain. N. C. 28088 A weekly newsp^.per devoted to the promotion of the .general welfare and published for th» enlig'ite/iment, enfertainmnt and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing Hou.se. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C.. 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. Mar*'r Harmon Mii Clizabeth. Stewart Tony Tompkins Miss DeOoie Tnorncurg EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor-Publisher Circulation Manager and Six-iety Editor Sports Editor Clerk. Bookkeeper '{ocky Martin MECHANICAL DEPARTMENI Allen Myerii Roger Brown Paul Jackson M.AIL SUBSCRIPllON RATES PAYABLE LN ADVANCE In North Corolina and South Carolino One year $4; six months $2.25; three months $1.50; school year $3. (Subscription in North Carolina subject to three percent sates tax.t In All Other Stotea One year $5; six months $3; three month.s $1.75; school year $3.75. PLUS NORTTl CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEF’KONE NUMBER — 739-5441 MARTIN'S MEDICINE Viewpoints of Other Editors THE CASE AGAINST GAS RATIONING By MARTIN HARMON WHY POOR MAIL SERVICE? Gas rationing is a terrible' Thus winter’s fuel shortage, idea. The best way out of the oil among other things, i.s e.xpecled ' shortage is to pay higher prices, to atloct deliver y of IJ. .S. mJivl I Kifiy or (iO or 70 cents per g;il- during the coming Chrisinias „ , ^ , ! ion would be okay. Ilei-e’s why. rush. Three hundi-ed mail-cari > B.W Gidriey, the county tax j . ij j u •’’K aii'ihe flights have rocently sui>ervdsor. dKl a spiking job for Hishe puces would eiid thereon scratched oecause of fuel me al the Lions club Tuestlay | gas i.hoitage. An e.xlra 10 or 20 ..utbacks, and Postal .Service of-: '>'-lng:ficials warn that fuel .scarciteis: HOSPITAL LOG m-m I prii’cs to a level wIuti* nil could are bound to curtail mail dcliver- ■oe economlcaliy squec/od out 5,. ' B4>bs knowledge, of course, Ls shale or coal. Wo have shale tiuck in weeks dhtdvi. ■ not limited to tax matters, but and coal niininj? coming out of The situation points up the th-iit was his subject Tuesday ^ our ears in this country. Jshi^rt • si-jhiedness of a Pixsial ■ night and it wits a timely one. i . i Service decision several years ago > Etiective January 1, state law j «'OU hi cause,,^ discontinue large-scale use of, governing a county’s (and "ty's , scandals and a ,,.3,,,^. cairving in- property taxes provides consid-|^ faith in governmcnl. U i tercity mail. I emble chaiige.s, seme of Iht^m ra-i market' , Iher complicated. |din‘lng Vvoiid War II, in .pite' Not only did that decision pre- !“f 5,0000 or 6,000 enforcement j cipitate the decline of rail pas- m-m .agents and the j>atriolic frenzy senger service in America (mail-, . of the times. We already have all: carrying fees helped subsidize' , fhe scandal and corruption vve marginal passenger-train opera- benefit to citizens age (» and can handle. . lion in m^y parts of the eoun- older. Under the expiring law, v ' •such citizen with gra-is income j Higher prices would divert oil' ^ ■ s s s a ma Iservicv' has experienced a steady Gao’ I'- Allran RcK-iielle Lee Conner .Mrs. ‘Robent Curry William Jake England .Mrs. Vivian Fulton Grover V\. Greene .Mis. .Mary 11. Hill Mrs. Ma-nie T. Hill Uai.sy Housliai Ruby Mae .Marlin ■Manuel .\. Mo.ss Mrs. Pai-thenia McMullen .Mrs. Lillie E. Reynolds .Mis. Ronnie 1). Ihsiertson Ri.bert Riltf Freddii' .'>mith .Mrs. .Marvin Wright Mrs. Charles E. .Slevvarl Mrs. Daisy 1'. l.edlord .Martha .-\nn Me.ssick Calvin S. F.ill.s Mis. Bent .11 J. .N’eal Harry Bileat Lacy E. I’rice Mrs. Fore.st C. Weavi'r Ira L. L.ani|‘ James P. Carter ■Mrs. Virgie J.. C'le Della Mae Frali-y Talmadge G. Sullens. Jr. Thursday, November 29, 1973 Birth Announcements Mr. and jMrs. Dellon I’lisloll. 7111 York Road, onnounce ihr birth of a daughter, Tiiesdii ,, .November 20, King.s .Moiinla... lio.spilal. Mr. and .Mrs. George L. Kr, Bradley SIreel, Ga.slonia. ai; iiiiuncc the birtii of a daiighlci-, Thursday, .N.ivember 22, Kin.', Moiiiilaiii hospital. Mr. and .Mrs. Holland E. ('. nil!. lloLiu' 2, Edgovvood .Acres, Re-, iner City, aniiounci- I he hirth : a daiigliler, Friday, .Novcniiici L'';, Kin:;.- .Miainlain hospital. Atu/vc kiioir thutuU f/iinys uwk together for good to those that lore the Lord. Jtoniaiis S/.’S Thoughts On “Shorts' The United Statc.s is an automotive nation. It just might be a .safe wager that a majority of the 200 million soiifs in the USA, given a choice between los.s of the auto or a heavy dent to the pocketbook would vote to darhage the wallet. It looks at the moment that first effort in cutting auto gas consumption will be a Sunday shutdown. Long week end trips will be prevented and the more voracious the car the more.so. The temperature was going down Wednesday afternoon, and the promise Mas tor a chilly morning. Already the federal establishment 1ms said thermostats should be dropped si.N degrees, particularly if the heat is d(^riv('d from oil, natural gas or propane. It’s an honor system arrangement and supplie.s of jiil appear adequate until I>c-ceiiibor 27. Via the stay order on nat ural gas. North Carolina gas user.s are in good shape until January ,3 when t'ho Federal PoM-er commission M'ill tell a federal judge that the injunction against its curtailment order should be lifted. Those living in hou.ses with elec tric heat may prove to bo the luckiest, as Duke Pouer Company, M'hich sup plies the bulk of power in the Piedmont Carolinas, thinks its potential power supply in good shape for the current heating season. Duke is less sure about 1‘)74-7;3. DST Daylight Saving Time is to return again by Congressional edict not long after being “put up” for the Minter sea son. DST can bring only a small amount of savings in power and heat on the theoretical grounds that citizens will bed down by the clock, an hour earlier than the sun operates. WARMER CLOTHING Bob Trout, the CBS television an nouncer, did a program recently out of England. It was pointed out that the British know how to dress for cold M'eather. His report was graphicallv illnsfrated by a pair of “long-handled'” underwear, which, said Reporter Trout, no self-respecting Briti.sher would be M ithouu But in the USA are red flannels in short supply like five-gallon gas cans and auto gas tank locks? Hints? Federal official.s hold little promise of relaxation by Arabic nations of the oil shipments ban without a settlement of the Israeli-Arab arguments and long time differences. But the “oil” or Arab Morld has re laxed its ban on shipments to the Euro pean Common Market nations and Ja pan. The United States and the Nether lands, for the moment, are left high and dry. Arc the officials’ M’arning that there is little to be hoped of oil succor from the Arab MWld an invitation for public outcry for a change in policy that will favor the Israeli state less and the Ara bic world more? The Arabs, of course, aren’t hint ing. They shut off the oil and say, in effect, "Change your policy toward us, or lump ft." Or .should the phrase be “hump it”? Re-Bidding Costs The message is getting through, says David L. Saunders, who navigated Interstate H5 from Atlanta Tuesday. Mr. Saunders said he kept his speedometer in the 55-60 range and by actual count was passed only 13 times cn route, by 1 f pas.scngcr cars, tu o trucks. Some truckers contend their big diesel-powered rigs not only perform better but M ith lo.ss fuel requirement at 70 than at speeds noM' being posted till over the nation. Austin Electric Company, of Char lotte, was loM’ again at .S26,567, but a- l)out S5000 over the bids taken October 31. Bryant Electric Company, of Gas tonia, bid slightly lo.ss than $8000 mori> than the Austin liid and obviously didn’t Mant tile job. This i.s another sample of the com plete failure of the federal establish ment’s efforts to keep a lid on prices. Capping one fellou' and letting his neighbor go free M ill never Mork. And that’s Mhat the Nixon Adminis tration tried. Lake Authority Creation of a Lake Authority has been a city intention since the first mo tion Mas made and passed in July 1966 to proceed to Buffalo Creek for water. With Buffalo’s M’atcr sloM'ly rising behind the big 8-f-foot dam, and, M-ith possibility, pending on winter rains and/or snoM’s, that tlie lake top will make .spilhvay height by next summer, it Mas lime to put the iilan into action. A soven-member group is to be ap pointed to manage M'hat amounts lo recreation on the lake. Management and superintendence are required to assure the orderly de velopment of the lake’s potential. The lake M-ill inundate 12(X) acres M’hen the water Homs over the spillM’ay and the shoreline Mill slightly exceed that of Lake Lure’s, promising a meooa for the fisherman, the boatman, the SMimmer, and the water skier. Congratulations to George H. Mau- ney, chainnan, and P. A. Francis, vico- chaii’man, re-elected to these positions by their felloM-s on the Kings Mountain district board of education. A best bow to Dean B. VVe.stmore- land. Kings Mountain high school teach er of social studies, M’ho has been ap pointed by Governor Jim flolshouser to the state school te.xtbook commission. This is an important position in the public schools scheme of operation. Pub lishers of school textbooks are continu ally putting out both ncM' and revised books in all fields of study. The "Thelt" Easy Nick Smith, the Kings Mountain native and lavyer now Morking M’ilh the state, dree mod up an interesting ploy this week m hen he and .some a.ssist- ants visited the state vehicle pool in Dorton Arena in Raleigh and conduct ed a theft. Mr. Smith and his friends, clad in business suit.s, had no trouble making off M'ith some trucks and other equip ment. The keys were in the SM'itches, M’hich made the “job” quite easy, Mr. Smith and his aides declared. “Such looseness must be tightened,” Mr. Smith M’as quoted as saying. On a television shoM' the other morning, Mickey Mantle, the former Yankee star, Mas jesting about his per formances with the Yankees. He struck out more than any Yankee in history, but walked more than he fanned. The walks and the strikeouts a- mounted to 3518. “Since the major league regular goes to bat approximate ly 500 times a season," quoth Mantle, “Seven of my eighteen years with the Yankees I didn’t even hit the ball.’’ under $3500 annuaUy, the gross la^ sas to whore it is most | ^ ineludmg .social sec-urrtj’ pay- “."J, J*■*." l ying our letter’s and iiariels. I ment.s, w'las not liable* to proper- people and business are, ” ‘ ty ta.x. Under the ne,v law, such/^’’lllag to pay extra for it. This; Say what you will about latter citizen is exempt if his gross in- i I** called the law of supply and day passenger trains but the.'. : ADMITTED THURSDAY come Is under $5000 annually demand, it ensures that re-; were reliable mail carriers even' ,, o - n EXCLUDLNG .social .security pay- .sources go into their most pro-, if they often irritated passengers; , Mrs. Samira raye iductive uses, creatini? moi-e'hv nmnlncr latf* .Xn^i tho Soutli.sule Avenue, (.i.i.'-liuiia Mr. 1111(1 .Mi'.s. .Sle>’(‘ -Mr.Ni'cl,, lillll K. Piiker St., (niiouni'c I',-' birlli 111’ a (laughter, Fridiij, ,ein:i(‘i' 23. Kings Mountain In: pital. Mr. aiiil .Mrs. Coleman L. C r r ill, R.mte t, Ca.stoiiia Higliw.i., Ke.s.si'incr ■.'ity, announi'e llie birth 111' a daughler, Saturdiij-, .N i\cm ler 21, Kings .MiuiiU.m 1 h.Hid. liroiiks, 10:7 menus. On the I’ccenr re-bid of the efeiftri- oal .section of *^he sCMage .system expan sion project of the city, only nvo valid bids were received, as occurred on the initial bidding. uses, creating more by running late. And with the goods, jobs, and prosperity. That! energy crisis upon us, what more' , , . I is the way our economy worked i efficient mode of rapid trans-‘ Gastomn "Don’t get too excited when ■ in the da.vs when our economy portation is there than the rail- HultsU'tler, Rt. 1. Riix I.KI, you gel >’uur tax listing forms in worked. guided train? ■ Be.ssemcr City 1 tlie mail the last week in De-j . Mr.s. Bertha 1). I.ennnnii.s. H I I C(3mber,” says Bob, "when you', rationing would te as un-: Current mail-delivrny problems Cherry Sr.. City I look at your real nroix>rtv vadua- ' k would be uneconomical.: dramatize this nation’s failui-e to Mrs. FYanJr E. ReynoMs, :i22 .Mr. anil .Mrs. Robert T. Be.'■ .Siieioy R lad, announce the bir of a sen, .Moininv, .Novemix'r '-’■ Moiiiitiiin lio.sjiiUil. Mrs. Clareiiee E. Conrinnl. 2712 Kiirg Mr. and .Mrs. Hnhei’t K. .hi .- .son, 216 Calberine .st.. aniioun. tile Irirlh of a s.iii. Monti ly, veinijer 26. Kings .Mour.liiin Im.'- piial. tion fit'ure You’ve been look:in-> is no fair way to divviy | pursue a balanced transportation 1 at (S ^rcent of actual value gasoline tetween Volkswagen ratio the ccunty commission has ' and Oldsmobile owners, been using. This time youlll be ketwwn skiers and 'TV-watch- loolting at a 100 peivent figure. fio^ors who make house calls and docto’-s who don’t. Some people will lx* more restricted than others in their business and pleasure tunless they buy black-market gas cou pons) and others will have gas The new law requires u.se of the full-value figure.” He conjectur ed that the couiri^' commbsiem, in its wisdom, wfu make all ef fort to reduce the rate and keep the lax bills about the same. I policy in recent .voars. We have poured all our public re.soiirees inio the development of more and more automobile and air plane transit systems, while neglecting America’s p r e mier transportation network, our rail roads. rhe .Smithfield Herald. Gaston Avenue, Bes-ieiner ('il> John Van Dorn .BteMort, 6116 \V. Geld St., City ADMITTED FRIDAY 812 m-m Bob agrees that the latio busi- I coupons left over (unless they ! sell them on the black market 1. SIGNS OF A MILD WINTER? Mt.s. Manda K. Barber, 167 Wateroak St., City Mrs. Josephine M. Davis, W. .Mtn. St., City I Mrs. Hugli Is'C Ivo.ster, III ! Box 1-11C, City Recent Briide, Mrs. McGill Is Honored Each fall as a service lo our, Jadt M.o.'Ss, .3090 Midpines, City William Edward .Murray, Rt, 1. Be-iS Towm Rd., Ee-isemer City j Patterson, Rt. 2. Mr.-;. la'r.iy MiViill, recent brlle, . uiLs lumuted Tuesday eviming al j a dro|i iri bridal showi'r held in the lell'uvsitip hall of Boye - .Memorial eliureli. ADMITTED SATURDAY Rt. 1, Box P.O. Box 81, ^ Most impoi’tant, gas I’ationin ness is .-amply u matter of book- I aiiother long step in the leaders, The Chapel Hill Weekh-^ Glenn E. keeping. He wonders, howa'vei, jf ' Russincation of our economy gnd it.s successor 'I’he Chapel ^ox 179A, Dalla.s lowered rates might not enoour- funher substituting the econo-; jjiu Xevvspaper. have pre.sented age, in future years, higher rates . bureau-; Hugh Wilson’s F'olk Sign.s of aricf bi^rsor bia^. icrats for those of the people Winter Weather. Leonidus B. Fall I who actually make the economy , m-m I go around .We’ve seen how well • The service has been general- i A A „ A ' tkis setup works in Russia; we’ve, ly well-received, even when tot-’ 1'* ^ ^1^* 53(XI j( totter along her through allly inaccurate. We have gotten , , Thii.nvf'Houser I'f 1 'ilv dcdurtionfcT each and every j, jj, mf and IV. If high praise from any number of, i " , p^erdy owner on personal prop- nkely bo a permanent! people, most Mr. Wilson and his ' ^un-fold. Id. 2. Bi”- erty. (Tap, own two (Jars. Let the s((.p toward Russiaficalion too. cronies. 1 .-(emer C‘> p, „ o, o wife list one.) About 99 percent If higher prices aren’t allowed to I „ . i r ’ 'A uT- ( i'- of Clevelands crtizons take the squeeze oil out of rooks and coal,' forecast is a little late this | ’"‘iH. ‘ Hj ten percent option on pemonal .we will have less and less gaso- ^■ewspaperi ADMITrep SUNDAY household projierty, rather than ' ime and need more and more tu-1 -'k'- Wilson apologize. Due Mr-:. R.ibert 1. Be.gg.s, .sbeloy itemizing. Under the ten percent , reaucrats to divvy it up. " i the prolonged semi-drought, Road. GHy option the property owner or ! ■ the Sejuire of Bingham township Mr.s. Hubert E. Jai Icson, 2IT tenant in a $15,000 house has I Tho Pi’ire of gas rationing is has had difficulty reading the Catlierino -St., City an automatic listing of personal prohibitive socially, morally,! signs. He has also had difficulty Guy C. Mo.ss, Rt. 2, City h<.iusehold property of $1500. The I “bd economically. The price of I with his back, politics, and the ADMITTED MONDAY rates in 1973 were: cx>un,1y-W'ide °h a free marlret would not. general condition of the country,, Mrs. Donald D. Ivey, BOOK' .8. 96 cents per $100 valuation; i prohibitive. A boost of 20 although they had nothing to do Oriental Avenue, City Kings Mountain school district iX’*’ gakon would mean a, with the forecast. .50 cents per $100 valuation; City Pfnnc>’-a-'b“e ^ more to run a ^ the i--adincs hive in" in the citv zete a S6 93 rip- i “be one or two dollars per week m<*b found. in„ in me city gtfc a so.Md de- ordinarv commiilPi-s You ’^^11 of Acorns .Much lighted duction via the $3a) ex(>m|Jtion. ■ °b oraiiiary commuteis 'Ob i,p,-iviei- th m lost I could make it up by reducing ‘ban usual, neaMer than last m-m your unnecessary drltlng, but: M k would t>e you, not the bureau-1 Pereunmons Almost zilch, Bob teased Senator W. K. .Mau- cracy, that defined what was' P'^^ibly due to the Pete Ivey ney, Jr. "I won’t emi»rra.ss him ^etessary Caterpillars’ which checked by asking him to explaLn this ’simmons everywhere, bill, even if he did vote for it." ' Tticre has been a lot of hog- Walnuts and Hickory Nuts ^wash a'oout how crushing this . Lighter than usual, better than : burden would be to the poor. But; acorns. Bob lost me on the farm pro- : what the poor need is miiney, not Hor.ses’ and Cows’ Coats visions. At any rate there’s .some The real y poor can t afford Short aplenty, kind of provision relating to size f""** .P’®''*’’ Le^pedirza Crop Some tall, of farm and income tl^refiom, P““' "““'h middlin, some short, IJn 319 Fulton IHl Entertaining together were Mas. Paul Ham. Mrs. John Yar- hro, .Mrs. .Menzcll I’liifi'r, Mr-. Wendell I’liifer and Mrs. Kugci'- McCarter. I A yellow and white motif wa- ' featured in decorative details and relicsliments. The bride's la ble. highlight of decoration, wa- oveilaid with white linen clolii and held a .silver eandelahriini •set with candles and arranged with yellow roses, daisies and white mums as central decora- li in. I’uiK’li v. i.s served by Paul ette i’iiifer and Jean Phifer from a silver puneli ixiwl at one end Ilf tile table, .silver tray.s held an a.ssorrniciil of party pick-ups. Tli<> brirle, the former Mae Sue Gofortb, received friends in her redding dress, a long-sleeved full-skirled blue en.sem.ble wild corsage of whito nium.s, gift from th(| hoste-ssi-s. Mr.s. MiGill opened gifl.s from the 7.5 friends who eallo.l and displayed lliom on a table also deecrated in the yellow aial white molil'. Darvin (L .Moss, Drive, City William Bruce Whaley, Liberty St., York, S. C. Mrs. lla-.vard FI Tliornburg, 510 E. (ieorgia Avenue, Bessenier (’i(v ADMTTED TUESDAY •Ml”. Howard O. .Smith, 700! Marion Street, City Mr.s, Carl T. Frazier, Ta-ii. Del., i .Mr. and .Mrs. David Hughes Griwc.’ j and .Mrs. Gordim Hughes .sixuii Janies .M. Hicks, Jr.. .3070 Mid- , tlie [last weekend with .Mr. an.l pine.s, City I Mrs. Aubrey Ivrwin of Whilling- Mrs. IjcHu D. Ilol'fman, 2221 | t.m, VAe-t Virginia. I'nic-n Road. Ga.sioiiia —o l-PERSONAL- and the course is for five years. I lion to that. If we must take this readable. Short Forms he Available Drawn Registration forms and a pro Rh™,!,! ;‘XJcasion to begin sui’sldlzing poor; Conclusions To fie a $1000 oer vear in anv^one of ‘^“‘’owners, we could do it by From Folk Signs Mild winter gram outline are now av.iila Ir the fWe the owner ww ^mc g** stamps to the food-■ generally but proliably a big from the Coiini, Lxterisio,, Of hack t-ivo* ir fhink th-ifc rio-M I s^mp program, or by making the' snow sometime, maybe late if fice on Ihe Farm and Cm ill I’-ii-i iTi^er ren-ve exchangeable ati the harder shelled walnuts and ness in'Ome Tax Short tr. a v, 130 Soulh Post Road, or m A total of four short cour.ses cal! 182-1.365 for an enrollment will be held across the .state. A form. 1 fifth short course of a more ad- - Ray Geiger, editor of the FarTn(>r’s Almanac, has come out club heli^t orprJze the Grover with his 1^4 edition, and here are and falUton clubs. "captules of wisdom” fea- m.n» I tured in the almanac: He joined the county tax oifficc | Acupuncture is nothing new; as coll«itor succeeding ervisor on -Max's retirement. MAN BITES TRAIN Taking things in your own hands can sometimes mack you feel better. Like the man in Fort Worth Texas, who was lield up 15 minutes on his way to work by a passing train. The motorist got his revenge ■ July 1, 1945, later, my boss has been needling me for I parking his pickup truck on ■Max Hamriefi as sup- j Years. track and walking off to m-m I Retluce errors at work. Arrive 1doors left lockeel. i late, and leave early. ! Before the police could locate I Old lawyers never die. Theyi'^*‘‘‘ ^‘m to move his , „ . ju.st lose their appeal. a freight train was de- I never use prepared remarks I ■ layed 20 minutes, when presenting a speaker. I ' Some stretch pants have no! Probably a lot of people sec- count on the dinner conveirsatifm I other choice. j rpHv feel the same way a'lout to provide some human interest! Prejudice is a time-saver; it such things. The police, at tidbits. Tuesday nigfht was no [enables you to pass judgment least, showe d understanding. excei>tion. Bob’s wife, Nettie ; without getting the facts. They declincxi to hand the dri\ Rayle Gldney, is a very fine so prano. On one occasion. Bob was .dsiting the Fallston club and W. R. Garj- announced that Bob would lead a song. m-m •T’m sorry,” Bob replied, you’ve asked me to do something I can’t do. When my vyife and I were •harried, we ma<^ an agreement. If she wouldnt collect taxes, I tvouldnt sing.” When a will is read, heirs lis- er a ticket, ten to it vrtth prd aled breath. It was not quite n Walter Before credit cards, we al- Mitty dream come true, but ways knew exactly how much we close — Mem''his (Tenn.) Com- were broke. . mercial Appeal. A flea circus may be a good' - • act, but it takes termites to OTHER EDITS— bring down the house. EARLY AMERICAN An intelligent girl is one who, PRICES knows how to refuse a kiss with-’ We just redid the house in out being deprived of it. Early American. We know it’s Sign on an organic farm: “We Eiarly American because the ffll tt like K l%.,”-ri(P*te Ivey in pitog mads ub the town crier. — The Cha'pel Hill Newspaper). Changing Times. C Keep Your Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. News & Weather every heur on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Rne entertainment in between jn fo ai