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PAGE Z, KINGS MOUNTAIN MIRROR, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 3, 1971 TKOvwt Phone: 739-38S1 Box 345 Kings Mountain, N.C. 146 W, Mountain Street Published Each Wednesday In Kings Mountain By The Mirror Publishing Co. RODNEY DODSON- Editor LEM R. LYNCH- Photographer BILL ARROWOOD- AdverUslng Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION HATES: $4 Per Year In N.C., $S Per Year Outside N.C. \ Rodney O^on •i "\ ^ 0 Rattler^s Tale Dear Editor: I have been keeping up with the Frontier Footnotes that have been appearing In your paper for the past several weeks and have enjoyed them very much, but to my disappointment the other day It was not there. However, in your next edition there It was. Keep up the good work. We like to read about our town of Kings Mountain even if we don’t say so. Sincerely, D.M. Blanton ptflriT WOAI^ER? OFP/ce JmRv', PCoALC _ AND fi MdZE OF OTMERS . . - I love the outdoors and rela ted activities - especially camping • but one deterrent to my being a biking enthus iast Is a strong aversion to snakes • anykind of snakesi I’m amazed at anyone who can remain calm In the face of one. I listened intently when Matt Pouchak told me how he and his sons, Jason and Hilary, captured a timber ratUer over the weekend, without reaUy trying. They were hiking along the Kings Mountain ridge at the base of the mountain on the way to the National Park, one of their favorite hiking i^ce. Their dog smelled some thing, then they heard the rat tler sound its deadly warning. They spotted it at the base of a rock ledge, about IS feet awayt They used a 6-foot pole with a forked end to pin down the snake, then placed a loop over its head. When prodded by the stick, the snake excreted Its poisonous venom onto the ground. With the loop securely on the rattler’s head, the titter and sons then carried It to the car and took It home. Mr. Pouchak r^Mrts that the rattler Is a whopping 44 Inches long and approidmately 2 and one hall Inches in dliuneter. The captivated reptile Is now resting quietly In a secure place at the Pouchak home un til they can find a (dace for It at a museum. Mr, Pouchak says heandtbe boys do a lot of hiklngandare really not afraid of snakes, tills being their first exper ience with a poisonous one. It’s always Interesting to watch a pande. 'The home coming parade Friday was no exception. There was an anxious mo ment when the tractor pulling the DECA float lunged - al most turning over a bench full of girls. The most 111-at-ease part icipant in the parade had to be the buUdog (Burns Mascot) on the Health club float, who was facing a girl with a hugh simulated nypo needle. There were the usual horses (no parade is complete without horses for some reason) and motorcycles are alsobecom-. log mAin stays of any parade. Do we have a motorcycle club in Kings Mountain, or were those free-lance riders? *** Best 01 Press Just Rockin' Worry is like a rocking chair, it gives you some thing to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere. -Executives’ Digest The Good Things ’The greatest mistake of most television writers and producers (and some politicians and publications) is over emphasis on the shocking, criminal and immoral. It seems that ninety-nine of every hundred network programs deal with the u^y, or a form of evil. So.too, do news commenta tors concentrate on bad news. The producers are attempting to use shock, horror, and sensationalism to attract the maximum number of viewers- to sell sponsors’ products. But the truth is that life in cludes many more good things than bad and m i 11 i o n s of Americans are tired of seeing the bad dramatized every day. Why not a few inspirational stories about simple souls liv ing good lives and doing fine things, helping their fellow men? Why not programs about the many instances of b•Dthe^ hood and love and helpfulness, which are all around? The American public desperately needs to see examples of good deeds and inspirational and encouraging behavior on television. The nation needs unity and encouragement, not a diet of hate, crime and violence-which influences the simple minded and young. The nation and the world need to be reminded of the many good things about America—and there are many-not the bad things, of w4iich, of course, there are some. This does not suggest anyone hide our country’s problems. It means television and the press should not ignore so many of the wonderfiil things about America, its citizens and its democracy. For telling about them will encourage positive, uplifting thoughts, rather than tlie reverse. REQUIRES MANY HANDS TO DROP IT THROUGH THE NET! I If Schools CanH Afford Football - Do Without! Nude Theatre In Stockholm recently six theater goers got into the act by appearing for “Oh! Cal cutta!’’ in the nude. (The cast performs in the nude.) The producer, not wanting competition, had the three couples thrown out. Nudity has been the vehi cle through which recent producers have made much money, nudity being the only attraction in many of today’s talent-less films. None object to nude ani mals. If the present trend continues, in time human nudify-whether on the stage orelsewhere-maynot be ob jectionable. lliete’s nothing immoral per se in nudity. But it unquestionably dis tracts one’s eyes, and thoughts-especially if she’s a cute thing. Frontier By Gene Cox - Historian, Kings Mtn. Military Park Irony of Ignorance In this day and age of modem medicine we often forget that not too long alo people grasped to anything that might have curative powers. After the Revolution, Philadephla was a rich city of 40,(XX) in habitants, No one noticed or cared whena man on the waterfront came down with a violent fever, turned a suspicious yellow, and died in a stupor. By mid-August the whole city seemed to be dy ing; hardly a street or alley lacked its Corpse. The citizeos pursued every wild expedient that promised escape from contag ion. The disease was blamed on "Noxious Miasma", an evil air caused by rotting matter, stagnant swamps or the breath of in fected patients. Thepubllc-mlndedcitizensltghtedfiresoa every street comer to burn the miasma away. A committee of doctors announced that tires were dangerous and probably IneffectuaL They suggested burning gunpowder instead. So the cltlMns, In the spirit of saving the city, got their muskets down from the wall and spent the evening shooting at the miasma out of the window. So many passersby were wounded that the mayor had to stop this “cure’’. People stayed in their houses behind locked doors, and as to bacco smoke was supposed to counteract miasma, women and children smoked cigars all day long. Many, putting their lalth In garlic, chewed it continually or kept it in their shoes. Adults spent ttelr time whitewashl^ their rooms, starting over again the instant they had finished, while their children followed them round, sprinkling vinegar and lighting gunpowder. No one had time to slap the mosquitoes that buzzed gaily through the smell of vinegar and powder, for no one knew that mosipiitoes were the actual carriers of yellow fever. BY JOHN KILGO KQ SYNDICATE “U high schools can’taftord it, they shouldn’t have a foot ball program at all." The speaker is Dr, C;arl Blythe, chairman oftteDqi- artment of Physical Education at UNC Chapel HIU. Dr. Blythe heads a pilot study, ftnanced by afederalgrant,wtilchlooks into high school football In juries. He and his staff are in the fourth year of working with 43 North Carolina high schools, observing very closely the football programs at those schools. Dr, Blythe ranks as one of the nation’s foremost authorities on foot ball Injuries and their causes. “Some high schools in North Carollu have excellent foot ball equipment, the very best," Dr, Blythe says. “Some others are playing with equipment that is 25 years old." It takes alotof money to fin ance a high school football program. It costs more than $150 to equip one player. The State gives no money for pu blic sclKxd athletics. The athletic programs are finan ced by gate receipts and like the r^ of society, some of the schools are wealthy, some are living below the poverty level. “I have been saying for years that the state should step in and help financially in the area of athletlcs,’’Dr. Blythe says. “I don’t get any where when I say this. The present law in North Carolina forbids this but the law could be changed. Some schools in North Carol ina just don’t have enough mo ney to properly equip their football players.’’ In Dr. Blythe’s study, he and /or his staff visit each of the 43 schools at least once a week. They talk by telephone to the schools almost once a day. They’re looking close ly at equipment, playing fac ilities and training programs. < > In those communities where Interest in high school foot ball is high, we usually find that those schools play with good equipment and have de cent facilities,’’ Dr. Blythe says. But In some communities., the fields have rocks and holes in item, the equipment is bad. FootbaU, In the best of con- dlttons. Is a tough game. Dr. Blythe and hU staff are also looking at training and teaching procedures used by coaches In the 43 schools. They will be recommending some changes. “We've g^ to try to take the head out of footbaU to the ex tent that it’s possible," be says. "A lot of coaches are these young kids to block with their forehead.... stick U in the otter player’s number. Some coaches say face are che^, but many of these young players are not develoi^ enough to use the teed th^ much and It could lead to a broken neck. We need to teach shoulder blocking.” Dr. Blythe is not down on hi0i school football. He says the sport is not becoming dan gerous; it might even be safer than it was several years ago. But some changes are needed. Attention has been focused on football in North Carolina this year. North Carolina player Bill Arnold died after suffering a beat stroke Inpra- cltce. Charlotte Garinger High School player Phil Hugh- fdon died after bis spinal cord was severed in ah early sea- sem game. As br as training goes, the game has changed drastically in recent years. There is more specialization, more coaches and the players get more work in practice. It used to be that the first string would run several plays and rest while the second string took over. But now players work in groups. "1 would say,Dc Blythe said “that college foottzdl [dayers today work harder in 20 or 30 minutes than they used to in two hours. Everything is highly organized and there is virtually no wasted time in a football practice.^’ At the end of this year. Dr. Blythe’s committee will make recommendations about equip ment, facilities, and training and teaching procedures. But already be has seen enough to say: “The state should help foot the bill for athletics." God Sustains His Creation ^SHINGTO Ktiiedy's Shot- Thc RtKlioi- Mils Aad Miskie? Am AgreeRMt- Washington, D.C.--Sena tor Edward Kennedy fired a surprisingly sharp broad side at Protestant Ulster recently, which embittered both England and Ulster and American Protestants; his proposal was a surprise be cause it was based on what so many feel were miscon ceptions, if not prejudice, or both. Kennedy called for a withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland; this is, of course, exactly what the I.R.A. wants—the illegal revolutionary army carrying on a campaign of murder and terror in Protestant Ireland. Sixty members of Parlia ment reacted to Kennedy’s proposal by signing a mo tion deploring his "unfor tunate outburst." Prime Minister Brian Faulkner, in Northern Ireland, reacted more strongly. He accused Kennedy of playing Ameri can politics with the lives of Ulster’s people. He noted also that for fifty years free elections have shown the overwhelming majority in Ulster wish to remain part of the United Kingdom. The current terror campaign, he said, was not the work of the people of Northern Ire land but guerrillas from Ireland attempting to force Protestant Ireland into union with, and domination by, a more populous Catholic nation. The question in Washing ton is whether Kennedy needs to play for Catholic votes, being a Catholic, meanwhile alienating so many Protestants, which the late John Kennedy al ways avoided doing. The suspicion grows that Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, may be in line for a place on the Democrat ic ticket with Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine- should the Senator win his party’s top nomination. Muskie realizes the fact that President Nixon is strong in the South. After something of a lull in his political activity. Mills is again making it known he would accept the nomination for President. As a candidate from Arkan sas, of course, he has no chance. But Muskie, like John Kennedy in 1960, might want a Southerner on the ticket. After all. that strat egy won for Kennedy. Lyn don Johnson carried most of the South for him as the second-place nominee. And Muskie. not a glamor-boy himself, might not want a glamor-boy on the ticket with him. Mills is instead capable, respected and ex perienced. He is a man to whom Muskie or any other Democratic candidate would entrust the Presidency, in an emergency. There is now no chance for a major nuclear arms agreement between the Soviet Union and the United States by the end of the year~the President’s hope six months ago. Instead, Mr. Nixon is reportedly- hoping to finalize such an agreement before his trip to Moscow next May and make some form of ceremonial an nouncement in Moscow. Wlnton M. Blouat, Poatanaa- terGeneral, on France and drugs; “It would be no loss to stop trading with France al together. The price is our young people." International Sunday School Lesson for Nov.7, 1971. LESSON TEXT: Psalm 104:15-17; Col ossi^ 1:15-17. The object of our lesson for today is to help persons recognize the benefits mankind obtains from the providential love of God, tor God not only created the universe ~ He made man the axis around which it revolves. And In His foresight. He went one step fur ther, recognizing that man needed food and drink aixl shelter to sustain the God-given life that was in him. Therefore there came into being the forests, the rivers, the trees, the plants, the birds of the air, thefisbof the sea, and the animals of the fields and the forests. Psalm 104, Indeed, isapeonof praise tor the goodness of the Lord, and It freely recognizes the stability of the universe in relations to its creator. And the wonderful thing is that the de pendability of God remains constand, deqdte the havoc wreaked in the world by slmdng man! God’s covenant with “every living creature" Is fulfilled by the rain that guarantees afruit- ful earth to support both man and beast in the nourishment of their bodies; the light of the sun that we may see, the velvet of night that we may rest. He tarn supplied both confidence and incentive for man’s laborings, and solace in faith for bis soul! How sad it is, therefore, that we threaten our very existence when we poUute our human surroundings, furnished by God for our sustenance! This all-embracing provision lor manUod, set forth in God’s Covenant, was used exten sively by the apostles in their exhortations to the people of their times to turn away from their idols and worship. Instead, the one true and living God. Certainly the most redemptive appeal the Christian doctrine bolds (or mankind Is the atoning love of God as exhibited in the Person and advent on earth of Jesus Christ, the Saviour, in that through His death, man might live in absolution. God and Christ are one, united in body and spirit, and in the creation of the caring (or, manUndl Surely this era of ^ce exploration in which we live today, must only serve to increase our awe of God’s bibulous creationi Truly, those brave men who are risking their lives to further our space programand our understand ing of the wonders of the universe must have felt the touch of God as they looked down on earth and beheld what His hands have wroughti It is no wonder that some among them felt moved to recreate the majestic words olGen- esls for us earth-bound mortals, as they moved in places hitherto unseen by mortal eyes! ik Old _ (« «< ' ^ ((\ spasmodic driver gives other people fits." J/you like It,, Subscribe to itl We hope you have enjoyed the first issaes of The Kings Mountain Mirror. If you would like to receive it each week by nail fill out this subscription blank and begin receiving it next week. Enter My Subscription To Kings Mtn. Mirror P.O. Box 345 Kii«s Mtn., N.C. 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