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PAGE 2, KINGS MOUNTAIN MIRROR, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, I9T2 Cetters Zo Zke Sditor To; All Churches, Civic Organizations and Managements Subject; Douglas Byers Fund The Kings Mountain Improvement Association Is soliciting help in securing money to help finance the schooling of Douglas Byers. We have therefore set up a DOUGLAS BYERS FUND with this intent. Douglas Is a deserving freshmanatGardner Webb College, but his career will be terminated If he does not receive some assist ance. Though an ambitious young man, circumstances beyond his control have contributed to this need. Any donation should be made payable to The Douglas Byers Fund and sent to “United Communities Improvement Assoc. Inc. Kings Mt. Improvement Assoc. Chapter; 511 N. Watterson St., Kings Mtn., N.C. before January 15, 1972. For further information contact Mrs. Kathleen Wilson 739-4257. Thank you for your consideration. Respectfully yours, Mrs. Kathleen Wilson, President Kings Mountain Improvement Association ^aSHINGTO The 92nd Congress If one were to draw a balance sheet on the 92nd Con gress, it would show that the President did surprisingly well with the Democratic-controlled 92nd Congress in its first year. One reason is that Mr. Nixon adopted many programs espoused by the Democrats-an unbalanced budget, wage- price controls, lower taxes, etc.,—to stimulate the economy. Another reason is that some Dixie Democrats support the President’s middle-road philosophy. Mr. Nixon, of course, saw the House again pass his wel fare reform bill only to have the Senate Finance Committee roadblock it; it may pass the upper body in 1972. Revenue sharing failed to pass in 1971 but is widely expected to be enacted in 1972. There were other White House goals not met, and the President also vetoed several Democratic bills including one concerning day care centers for children andexcelleratedpublic service employment.On the ecology ftont. Congress did little except to kill the supersonic transport plane, probably a mistake. The President managed to retain control of foreign poli cy despite Democratic efforts to put a time limit on Ameri can involvement in Vietnam and to curb operations in Laos. In'general, the President had his way on mostof the issues which were considered absolutely vital at the White House. The New Dollar Minibikes Phone: 739-3851 Box 345 Kings Mountain, N.C. 222 S. RaUroad Ave. Published Each Wednesday In Kings Mountain By The Mirror Publishing Co. RODNEY DODSON- Editor LEM R. LYNCH- Photographer BILL ARROWOOD- Advertising Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $4 Per Year In N.C., $5 Per Year Outside N.C. Americans will learn to live with a new dollar in 1972, less valuable abroad and perhaps on its way out as the ac cepted measurement of other currencies. The recent inter national agreement among the world’s most affluent coun tries, which President Nixon hailed as the most signiflcant international economic agreement in history, has been call ed a humiliation for America hy Pravda, but that is not, of course, a fair analysis. The agreement, which amounts to a devaluation of the dollar by about 12 per cent (considering both the dollar’s devaluing and the upvaluing ofother currencies), reflects an admission hy Washington that the dollar is overvalued. But this has resulted, in part, from the dollar’s role as a stand ard measurement, other countries devaluating against it in recent years-pushing its value even higher. Excessive foreign expenditures and unbalanced budgets at home have also been at fault, as the supply of dollars rose to an overabundance in many world capitals. When President Nixon ended the convertibility of the dollar into gold, he admitted these developments over ^e years had unhinged the dollar. He threatened the stability of the entire western monetary system hy ending the dollar’s convertibility and imposing a ten per cent import Surcharge because the security of values was threatened, as well as an international trade war. The result is that countries which had long dragged their feet became willing to com promise. And that compromise might now enable the U. S. to balance its international payments. This is, however, an uncertain prospect Only the next few years will reveal whether the remedy was strong enough to cure the American financial ailment The growth of the minibike industry has been rapid in recent years and today over 600,000 are sold annually. Thousands of youngsters received minis under the Christ mas tree recently. Sales are expected to continue in creasing. Because they are not designed for use on streets and highways (where they are legally barred) federal motor ve hicle standards do not apply to minibikes. Thus they often come without adequate safety features-with poor brakes, poor handling, poor springs and shocks (or none), poor lights, exposed exhausts which can bum, etc. And, invariably, some find their way onto streets, ille gally. To counter this growing menace to safety and chil dren’s lives (dozens of children were killed on minis in 197D, the Product Safety Bureau of the Food and Dnig A^ ministration is now formulating safety standards for mini- ttke manufacturers, plans to bar unsafe minibijies ftom sale. But the major responsibility for safety lies with par ents, for minibike owners are usually children from eight years old up. Minibikes often attain speeds of 25 m.p.h. (more on hills). The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has asked parents to better meet their moral responsibility. DRRT >T/ MRhl NRIR IVONT STAY PUT! IS THAT fl BIO CROWD OUT THERe^ b V'KNOW, RM LOOK SURVE \N TRI5 NEWj, JRCKET V) WHBUB'S ‘A/ffW script: :UH- I MERN SPEECH h MUCH RHTHER HPPEQR ON T.y. — DON'T NRVE TO RN<:WER RLL THESE ^ILLV Questions // ■THE OU&HTR LiKE) THIS r/Ef'' DO TWfV HRYE rNB lights, SET PRoPeRLV? Everything On His Mind Except Real Solutions John Kilgo Morton Says He’s Picked Up Many Morgan Supporters Democratic gubernatorial candidate Hugh Morton says be believes he has picked up most of Bob Morgan’s supp orters in the East. "I’m still putting together our organization,’’ Morton said. “Some first-class peo ple have signed on with us and I’m more encouraged than ever.” Morton says he will run an other state-wide poll about the middle of January. “We wanted to give the Bob Morgan situation time to set tle down,” he said, “and be lieve me, it’s not settled down yet.” Mecklenburg and Cabarrus counties are now in one state senatorial district which Is allowed tour seats In the Up per Chamber. Cabarrus De mocrats say they understood that Seat 4 would belong to them. But Charlotte broad cast executive Cy Bahakel has announced for that seat and some of the folks In Cab arrus are most unhappy about it. Meanwhile, Mecklenburg Republicans are trying to make the most of the situa tion. They say they want Seat 4 to belong to Cabarrus and are trying to get Rep. Jimmy Johnson of Concord to run against Bahakel. ♦»* A White House poll of North Carolina indicated that Con gressman J ames Broybill would have made the strong est Republican candidate tor U.S. Senate, followed closely by Jim Garner— When the Cleveland Browns lost to the Baltimore Colts last Sunday, Cleveland Mayor Ralph Perk lost a wager to his Baltimore counterpart. The stakes? 20 pounds of polish sausage. I think I would have preferred a gift certificate. NEWS VIEWS Don’t write Republican Jim Gardner out of tbeGovernor’s race, just because be shut down his Raleigh office, Gardner loves the element of surprise. People close to Gardner stUl insist that he’s going to run. State YDC President Char les Wlnberry’s term In office is up in January and you can look for him to get involved with one of the gubernatorial candidates at that time. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minis ter of Israel: “If war breaks out again, we will have to be prepared for it.” Politico Wallace Hyde of Asheville, who supported Terry Sanford in ’60 and Rich ardson Preyer in ’64, was In Bob Morgu’s corner this year. Now that Morgan is out of the Governor’s race, Hyde has jumped on the Skip per Bowles bandwagon. Some people say, however, that Hyde hurt himself in the mountains when he went aga inst Dan Moore in 1964. *** Jim Beatty’s announcement For Congress from the 9th District will come within a week or 10 days... For those of you who have asked, the only possible way that Bob Morgan would get in the U.S. Senate race next year would be If B. Everett Jordan de cided not to run and for Nick Galifianakis to withdraw. That’s bow serious'Morgan i s about running again for attorney general. James Hof fa, after release from prison; “Anyone who tells you prison’s not tough just isn’t telling the truth.” Interest Rates 'The (3o8t of Living Coun cil recently announced it will not impose controls on interest rates at this time, though it is seeking volun tary restraints. 'ThcCkiuiicil says interest rates have declined consid erably since their peak in mid-1970 and that adequate financing is now available to Americans at good rates. ’Hiat really isn’t true in many parts of the nation. Chairman Wright Patman of the House Banking and Cur rency Committee (D-Tex) is closer to the truth in protest ing the decision, high small loan rates, revolving credit rates, home mortgages of 8 per cent and higher, with additional charges, etc. Patman says interest rates are not coming down appreciably for the consum er, though banks borrowing from bigger banks have en joyed prime-rate relief. Many have notpassed the savings along to the consumer, which the Oxincil should demand if there are to be no controls on interest rates. LIVING COSTS CLIMB The Bureau of Labor Sta tistics has reported the Con sumer Price Index advanced by two-tenths of one per cent in November, the same rate as October, as the freeze kept the rate of in flation under rein. Experience Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldn’t do. as. POSTAL SERVICE 5 1 i: 1' Ll 1; reflections by Rodney Dodson A few weeks ago In our Mirror Asks feature, we asked a few people at random what they thought about the proposed Kings Mountain By- Pass. The answers happened to favor the thoroughfare, and we received some static from the anti forces. One lady even called In and suggested that we were paid off by those wanting the by-pass. NO such luck! Mr. Rattier referred to an article quoting tlie president, and asked him wliat he meant by tlie statement “black peo ple are different.” tered what they didn’t eat all over my carport. The President patiently ex plained that he was talking about the fact ttiat black peo ple are still sometimes treat ed differently in areas of society such as in the field of employment, etc. Now, invarlbly, 1 can turn on my porch light at certain times of the night, and see one or both of these cats creeping around. The Irony of all this Is that now I find that my house (which I’m leasing) may be right In the path of the superhighway. I’ve considered putting up Slime more fence, but they could go around it, and I wouldn’t want to do anytliing violent. With all due respect to the State Highway Department', I’ll start worrying when I see the heavy equipment coming! There are enough pertinent Issues at hand without a Nat ional network liaving to re sort to such meaningless, tricky questions. I had chased them out of the yard a few nights ago and gone to bed when I began to hear this whiming, screeching nolce outside the bedroom window. A conversation with the President - A CBS Special Sunday night conducted by Dan Rather, was a candid unedited hour of discussion with the Chief Executive. I’ve developed a strong av ersion to cats. Maybe It’s the way tliey lurk around in the dark, or bow their backs when frightened. .Besides, I think they carry disease... Watching the show, a couple of things became apparent. One, I came to tlie conclus ion that Nixon will be hard to defeat In November. He ans wered his questions very carefully. My latest confrontation with the felines was a week or so ago when two of tlie beasts, who have made my place a home away from home, tore into my garbage (there were fish scraps Inside) and scat- When 1 looked out I saw both of these cats perched men acingly In a tree In my back yard. I was too bewildered at ttiat point to be annoyed, and sat there fur about IS minutes watching them. Hopefully, someone reading this is a lover of cats and would like to make a good ^ home tor these two. While I don’t fully approve of the way he’s having the job, I see no giants among his declared opponents. Another thing became ap parent during the show. The media can stoop to a sur prising low In an attempt to embarrass or discredit someone when they deem It necessary. Frontier By Gene Cox - Historian, Kings Mtn. Military Park One question directed to the President about a state ment be had made, apparently taken out of context, was a case in point. Frontier Women So They Say American women are the best-yes.sed women in the world. •Punch. Women played an important part In the American Revolution and there are many stories to testify to their bravery. It is hard for us to comprehend the difficulties experienced by the women on the frontier. Today’s story tiappened before the Am erican Revolution when the Virginia settler’s were taking pre cautions against possible Indian raids. However, this story testifys to the bravery of the pioneer women. Sharing I know a girl who doesn’t care for a man’s company— unless he owns it -Times, Oiicago. Good Advice The best way hi break a bad habit is to drop it -Spotlight, San Diego. In the early morning of July 8, 1775, William Ingles had left his cabin to work In the fields. Colonel James Patton was visit ing the Ingles and he stayed in the cabin along with three other men who tiad not left for the fields. Ingles began to hear screams and gunfire from the cluster of homes In the clearing. He rushed home and saw a band of marauding Shawnee assault- Ing the cabins. As he approached, he realized the force was too'o^F large to oppose. Most of the settlers were killed or wounded and some were captured. Among the captured was Mrs. Ingles who was expecting their third child. This attack occurred at Draper Meadows which isn’t too far from Roanoke, Virginia. Date Bait Landing u man is like catching fish, you have to wiggle the bait a little. -Tiger, U.S.S. Bariy, Tou Don’t Say It’s hard to believe that America was founded to avoid taxation. -Courant, Hartford. So They Say A long time ago, “the good old days” were called “these trying times.” -Record, Columbia, S.C. After the attack, the Indians began the march back to their town north of the Ohio River. On the third night after the raid, M rs. Ingles gave birth to a little girl. Knowing that she and the child would be killed if she were unable to continue with the Indians, she insisted on going on the next day and she did - on a horse and carrying her baby in her arms. After many weeks with the Indians, she and the baby had been brought by a band of French and Indian hunters and saltmakers to what is now Boone County, Kentucky. Mrs. Ingles often conferred with another woman captive on how to escape. Their opportunity came one day at the salt lick while the warriors were away hunting. The young mother realized it was impossible to take her baby, only 3 months old, on a journey of several hundred miles through the wilderness. The decision was a difficult one to make. She finally made up her mind. She placed the baby In a bark cradle, tucked a blanket tenderly about it, kissed it and then turned away. This was only the deginning of her hard ships. The two women lived on nuts, nxits, berries and tender bark during their escape. They traveled for forty days through the forest before reaching civilization and safety. This incident is not typical, however, it does give us insight Into the difficult decisions our forefathers were faced with from day to day and they always arose to the challenge. William P. Rogers, Secretary of State: “We are going to continue the President’s policy of supporting the South Viet namese in Cambodia.” mu mm n Kurt Waldheim, new Secre tary General of the U.N.: “The world organization is at a crossroad and its fu ture depends on restoring its financial solvency.” Our Compassionate Christ Strom Thurmond, Senator (R-SC): “Hospital and medical costs have become a grow ing concern of eveiyone in our society.” International Sunday School Lesson for Jan. 9, 1972. LESSON TEXT: Luke 5:27 - 32; 7;11 - 23, 36 - 50; 10; 25 - 37. Our lesson for today lies In the Book of Luke. A gifted and brilliant writer, Luke records at length Christ’s compassionate concern for all mankind. The superiority manifested by the Pharisees came in for severe rebuke from our Lord. He did not hesitate to say that their attidude was judgmental, rather than redemptive, and He put them to siiame many times, for He viewed spiritual integrity In a far different light from that of His critics. Christ the Savior, was ever the challenger of the prevailing religious and social prejud ices that existed in His day and time; the brlnger of hope to the under-privileged and downtrodden, to the despised and the outcast. He was the champion of the needy, and the rebuker of the oppressor. The spiritual and redemptive mission of our Lord was woven like a gloden thread through the fabric of His total Person. “i ihinli lhai'$ what they mean by iromen’s LIP!” There is little doubt that he was regarded as somewhat of a radical In His day and time, for the boundaries of class distinction were sharply drawn in Biblical days. The Pharisees and Scribes were educated men devoted to ob servance of the religious laws of their time, whereas publicans and tax collectors were virtually relegated to the level of untouch ables. Christ demonstrated, however, that He felt the Pharisees gave too much importance to the letter of the law, and too little to the thought behind It. InChrlst’s mission spiritual commitment was more meaningful than mere Up service and strict observance of ritual acts. Christ firmly beUeved In going where He was most needed, and this was His stance when criticized. “They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick... I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to re pentance.” (Luke 5; verses 31 and 32.) Christ’s compassion extended to all mankind., it was not reserved only tor those who follow ed His doctrines. The woman whose only son was raised from the dead and restored to her was not of the Christian faith; Christ’s heart was moved with pity for her sorrow and His response to her need was instinctive. Nocond- iUons of service were demanded in return for the boy’s renewed lease on life, for this was not Christ’s way. Christ was merely de monstrating, by example, that compassion must, of necessity, involve itself In the hap less plight of others. Cc Christ’s compassion showed Itself again in the humane and tender treatment he accorded the sinning woman in the house of Simon, the Pharisee. Repentance was offered and accepted with all the gentleness of Spirit that His followers had come to love and respect. Any sincere Christian Is, of necessity, constrained to accept Christ’s attitudes as bls^L'v own. It Is easy for us to pity someone wew/ do not particularly like, and to feel compass ion for those whg are dear to us. The true test of our personal worth, however, lies in our ability to feel compassion lor all man... as He did. (These comments are based on ouUines of the International Sunday School Lessons, copy righted by the International Council of Religi ous Education, and used by permission.)
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