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‘‘A Child Shall Lead Them” Dear Sir: Having read the captions “PoliceRestore Order to Tense KM- HS” of the Mirror’s edition of Marchl, 1972, on page one. Hav ing also read "Students Comment on Racial Flare-Up’’, page three, “Kings Mountain High-Lights’’by Meredith McGill Read ing this student’s and that’s opinion in regards to an answer to the difficult problem which our local high school has been con fronted with. In paragraph four, by a young sophomore. Miss Gail Hightower, in which she is to be commended in a great sense of the word, quote; “There’s so much hate. I guess the answer is for everyone to realize that there is a God, and that we must count on Him to help solve our problems!’’ End quote. In this statement lies the whole essence ofnot only the school problems which confronts America. Yet the problem which lies within the hearts of the leadership of our great nation. Leadership failure to accept the truth. America is at the Cross Road’s. Again may I commend the voune sonhomore’sdeoth of the problem, I do not think, out of all the Editorializing, could this question have been answered more properly. Respectfully, Everette H. Pearson Best Of Press \otliiiig’ Nothing opens n person’s eyi's quieki'i- than ialling lilindl.v in love. -llt'ialil. Deeatiir. .Acriirato \ school teaeliei's deserii)- lion of hiT class ot first giaileis: "Ifs like Irving to ki'op M,") corks nndenvater at once." -Hecord. ('idnmhia. S.C. TKauMteUtt TKOtnox Box 345 Kings Mountain, N.C. 28086 Published Each Wednesday at 222 S. Railroad Ave. in Kings Mountain by Mirror Publishing Co. Rodney Dodson: Editor and Co-Publisher Lem R. Lynch: Co-Publisher and Business Mgr. Sheryl Clark: Layout and Justowriter Sylvia Holmes; Women’s News, Features «*« SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $4 Per Year in N.C. $5 Outside N.C. Total Press Run: 4,000 Copies Phone: 739-3851 PAGE 2, KINGS MOUNTAIN MIRROR. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 8, 1972 Cetters Zo Zke Sditor Plea From A Former Student Dear Editor: To the people of Kings Mountain, students, parents, teachers, this letter may not mean much but please think about it! I’m writing to the people of Kings Mountain, both races, as citi zens of Kings Mountain, as the people of this town. Why can’t we get along as a peaceful town? Not being afraid to be out by yourself after dark. We should stand tall and high, proud to say to other towns, “Our town’s not bothered with racial problems, it’s a loving town, a happy town, one we’re proud of and happy to live.ln. We’re as one, we get along and are happy. We go to school for an education, we respect the person beside us no mat ter what color.” Please let our town be peaceful, let us get a- long and be proud and happy! Let our school be respectable. Let students from other towns say, “I wish our school was like Kings Mountain High.” Let’s not have to say it about other schools! Let our school becalled“Good01e KMHS” again. Let it be loved. We’re suppose to love our school, not hate it! I’m a 1971 graduate of Kings Mountain High, but altar what’s happened this month I’m ashamed for people to know. This problem didn’t just start this year. It’s been there for some time, it just now broke out. I was proud of this schooi when I first started here, but now I’m not. Our school doesn’t even have school spirit anymore. It was gone last year. Why don’t you students make “Good Ole KM HS” come back again and love it like our older brothers and sisters did. Be proud of it, make it respectable and beautiful and a desirable school again. Please! Be proud to say you graduated from KMHS. Let the rising HighSchool students have wonderful High School years, and you be proud you made them that way. Respect your teachers and they’ll respect you. Do something now before KMHS is completely destroyed! Start now making it wonderful. It’s not hard to get along with blacks or whites. If all of you’d just give a little effort you can be a lov ing school and student body, not a hating one. Parents, some of the real trouble may have started with you. White folks say to their children, “Stay away from the black children. Then black folks tell their children to stay away from the white children. So you see the children ofbothracesare taught at their homes from their own parents to hate the opposite race. Then before the children have a chance to meet and make friends, they’re automatically hated Just because of their color. That’s not right! God made us all equal, to be treated equal. Then trouble comes from white girls dating black boys. That I don’t agree with, nor does most of the town. But what can we do about it? Work to gether, all of us to solve our problems. At our high school, there are four main groups and they are bad white boys and ^rls, bad black boys and girls, good white boys and girls, good black boys and girls. I know that’s the wrong way to class them, but that’s how it really is. The bad whites and blacks work against the good whites and blacks. The good try to work together and solve problems. But the bad blacks work against the bad whites which causes a terrible problem. All groups should combine as one group and work together solving problems not fighting them out. Fighting never solved anything. The whole student body should work together to make the school a school not a playhouse. I’m sure you could do it! If you just wanted to. Give in a little and help, pray and be happy. Stop rioting, fighting, and hating. Start a new beginning at KMHS. Please won’t you try to make our school and town a proud one. Please do something now before God takes our town from us! Thank you, A 1971 graduate of KMHS .oo r DON'T Kf^OWj HE'S BEEN RCTfHG THIS GmCE THPJ yy£W NURSE CAHB ON ot;rv.. RECOVERING QUICKLY NOW NEWS VIEWS J.D. Hodgson. Secretary of Labor, on dock strikes: ‘‘We must have modem tools to deal with these crises that damage our vital transportation system.” Pat Nixon, wife of the Presi dent, visiting commune children: ‘‘You can tell them hello from all the children in America.” Richard M. Scammon, former Census Director, on pay ing for votes: ‘‘That kind of voter would not do the country any good.” George McGovern, Senator (D-SD), listing contribu tors; “The American people deserve to know who is pay ing for presidential candi dates.” reflections by Rodney Dodson Kings Mountain police offi cers recovered two youths, ages 14 and IS from a freight train when it stopped here Monday morning. It seems the boys were only wanting to run away from home, and had made it all the way from Spartanburg. ■They reportedly were plan ning togetoffinGaffneywhere their grandmother lives, but went to sleep on the train. It seems a pity the boys couldn’t have made it at least to D.C. or New York or some where- then it could have been New Legislature To Have Big Turnover Progress It's tiikcn haschall oiil.v a himrircd years to loam all thosi- namos to call the am- piro. -Nows, t^hicago. Growing Tooii-agors act so silly right al'tor you ooaso to Ik‘ olio of Ihoiii. -llorald. Diiliiiiiiio. la. by John Kilgo The North Carolina legis lature is going to have a dra matic new look when it con venes for business InJanuary of next year. At least half the people who served in the State Senate last year, will not be back in 1973. The turnover in the State House won’t be quite so drastic but it will be the heav iest it has been in many years. Secretary of State Thad Eure is taking a reading of the politicians who are run ning for reelectlon to the leg islature and those who are calling it quits. Eure di^’t want to reveal the results of his study when I talked with him this week, but he did say there might be 25 or more new fhces in the State Senate. “There will not be a majority of new faces in the House, I don’t think,” Eure said, "But the turnover there will still be very significant.” Some of the people not com ing back to the State Senate were active leaders in the Upper Chamber. Among them. Skipper Bowles, John Burney, John T. Church, Jack Baugh, Jyles Coggins, Ruffin Bailey, Claude Currie, J.Ollie Harris, Dr. Carl Killi^, Hec tor McGeachy, and George Wood. This is by no means the entire list. But these men, in most instances, were leg islative leaders. Their reasons for not coming back differ — some are run ning for another political of fice. But there seems to be a common denominator among most of them. The legislature takes up too much time. Says Secretary of State Eure; “Many of these men just can’t take the time away from making a living that it takes to serve in the legisla ture this day and time. The only ones you can really count on for are those who have been striken with the political bug and can’t get shed of it.” Serving in the Tar Heel leg islature is a complete new ballgame. It used to be that a man serving in the legisla ture could go to Raleigh every other year for five months and that was it. The last leg islature stayed in session for seven months, and even at that it didn’t get around to settling the controversial matter of no-fault insurance and a special session had to be called to restructure high er education. The demands on a legisla tor’s time don’t stop there. In addition to being in session longer and longer, legislators are now called on to make more speaking engagements, to work more closely with their local governing bodies even when the legislature isn’t in session, and matters per taining to state government come to their attention by mail or telephone almost daily. And then there’s the matter of campaigning. Not long ago a person tryingtowin election to the legislature didn’t have to spend a great deal of time on the campaign trail. Now, most face a stiff battle in the primary and in the general election. A man running for a legis lative position now must count on about five months of active campaigning and this means more time away from his bus iness. “It also means more money to be spent getting elected,” Eure says. "The cost of campaigning keeps going up, year after year. This Is not only true for those seeking state office, but even for those who run for local offices. It costs too much money to run for political office and many men and women just can’t afford it. And if they’re ele cted, they have to sacrifice more time and money away from their business.” Many politicians believe the North Carolina legislature is going to have to go to annual sessions that adjourn after three months of work. This could be done, they contend, if the machinery of the legis lature were put into motion and matters handled with more dispatch. Some also believe that legis lators are going to have to be paid more money, so they won’t have to draw on personal funds while serving in Ral eigh. “But if salaries for legis lators go up too high,” Eure says, “ the taypayers are going to howl.” There are no simple answers. But the tact that about half ot the legislators who served in 1971 aren’t returning for 1973, is a clear indication that reform is needed and quickly. Political Notes Labor Leader Wilbur Hobby, now a candidate for Governor, says If elected, he’ll tire Ele ctions Board Executive Sec retary Alex Brock. I asked Brock how he reacts to Hobby’s blast. “I’ve been too busy to have any reaction,” he said. *** Another gubernatorial can didate, Dr. Reginald Hawkins, tells me he thinks Pat Taylor should resign as lieutenant governor and Hobby should resign as president of the North Carolina AFL-CIO H they are to stay in the race for Governor. "I think both men have ser ious conflicts ot interest at this time,” Hawkins says. *»♦ Jim Vogler of Mecklenburg will be seeking bis 15tb term in the State House in this year’s election... Jimmy Johnson, the Republican run ning for the U.S, Senate, went to Fayetteville lor a GOP rally. That’s Jesse Helms Country. Says Johnson; "I got a great reception. I really did.” *** Johnson, by the way, will name an eight-man board of directors to direct his Senate campaign. One of those to be named to the board is Jim Carson, a former member of the State House from Char lotte and a long-time friend of Carson. You can look for Jim Gard ner to pick up in his cam paigning in coming days. Some Gardner people feel certain that Jim Holshouser is going to be extremely tough to beat and they want Gardner to quit worrying about the Democrats and start doing what it has to do to win the GOP primary. Wade Smith, a former North Carolina football player, and now a Raleigh attorney, has announced as a Democratic candidate for the State House from Wake County. Smith was a member of the UNC team that beat Duke 50-0 in 1959. Smith is known in Raleigh now as the meanest banjo picker in town. *** Washington Report By Congressman Janies T. Broyhill Busing, The China Trip Once again public attention was focused on the school busing problem as the Senate considered several amend ments to the Higher Educa tion Bill. The debate started when Senator Griffin of Mich igan offered a strong anti- busing amendment which, if passed, would have limited the Federal Courts’ jurisdiction to impose busing as a means of achieving desegregation of public schools. After num erous votes and parliamen tary maneuvers, this amend ment was rejected by the Sen ate. In its final action the Senate accepted a weak substitute amendment which stated only that federal funds could not be used for busing except when requested for this pur pose by local officials. This amendment’s only effect on the court would be to delay court action if more than one school district is involved. 11 now appears the only course of action remaining to deal with this question is the adoption ot a Constitutional amendment. However, the adoption of a constitutional amendment is a lenghty pro cess and the present attitude ot the Senate otters slim hope that we can expect a Con gressional solution to this problem in the near future. I favor strong congressional guidelines on what our nat ional policy should be. By falling to lace up to the issue, all Congress does is to give up jurisdiction to the courts. It is the legislative branch of government which is closest to the people and decisions which affect the people such as busing of school children should remain under the jur isdiction of the elected repre sentatives. THE CHINA TRIP President Nixon has recently returned from one of the epic journeys of our time— the journey to China. This trip has aroused much interest-- interest on the part of the Am ericans who had an unprece dented opportunity to view the movements of the Presidential party by way of satellite- tele vision coverage. Interest on the part of the Chinese who had never before seen such a large party of American dip lomats and newsmen and in terest on the part of the rest of the world which has much to gain from a relaxation of world tensions. The joint communique that was Issued at the end of this a real adventure for them. *** Speaking of Gaffney, I not iced in the Gaffney Ledger that an eighteen - year - old senior at Gaffney High is run ning for a seat on the Cher okee Counfy School Board. He is the youngest person ever to run for any oHice in that county. Wyatt says he is running because he sees many things that need to be changed in the public school system In the county, among them the student - teacher ratio and the need for indivi dualized education programs. *** First Union National Bank’s idea of giving a free tree to anyone wanting one next Thursday and Friday is one of the best I’ve beard of re cently. More than just a good eco logical move, the satisfaction to be gained from planting a seedling and watching it grow into a tall tree places great value on the small gift, **» |hoot: Empowered By Spirit ^ visit sums up those areas in which both the Chinese and the Americans believe that pro gress can be made. Both sides agreed that countries, re gardless of their social sy stems, should conduct their relations on the principles of respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity ofall states. In addition, it was a- greed that a broadening of un derstanding between these two great nations would be mu tually beneficial. Bilateral trade was also discussed but no agreements were made. The two sides agreed that they will stay in contact with each other through various chan nels, Including the possibility 01 a roving representative who would travel to Peking from time to time for concrete con sultation to further the nor malization of relations and continue the exchange of views begun by President Nixon’s trip. I believe that this attempt to normalize relations with the Chinese is a worthwhile first step in the long road toward easing world tensions. Last week the Transporta tion and Aeronautics sub committee of the House Inter state and Foreign Commerce Committee defeated by a nar row 6-5 vote a legislative proposal which should have extended the President’s au thority to deal with nation wide transportation strikes. I am indeed disappointed in this action, for 1 feel there is a strong need for meaningful legislation in this field which would give the President bind ing authority to take action to halt another serious trans portation strike. Now it ap pears unlikely the Congress will move to accept its re sponsibility in this area dur ing this session of Congress. The President lias indicated that we are now traveling down the long road toward Improved relations with the Chinese people and certainly this trip was a successful beginning. International Sunday School Lesson for March 12, 1972. LESSON TEXT: Acts 1;1 to 2:42. Continuing our studies in the unit “The Origin of the Church”, we find there is some dissension as to when the Church actually came in to existence. Some people feel that the Pentecost event related in Acts 2, was the time of its inception, while others argue that Chrlk’s Last Supper and His commission to His dis ciples were acts which ack nowledged an EXISTING Church. Regardless of these differing viewpoints, our Lesson today will be directed towards help ing the individual interpret the events of Pentecost and relate them to the church as we know it in our own times. In our studies throughout the Bible, we cannot fall to have noticed that all great events were heralded by signs from heaven., fire, rushing winds, a mighty voice. It was no different on the oc casion of Pentecost. Refer ence is made to the deschnt of the Holy Spirit on the ass emblage, fur^shlng both aut hority and ability to witness. The “gift of tongues” was especially impressive and at tention-getting, for although many groups spoke in their own particular language, yet all were able to understand what was taking place! What an exciting time for the Church that must have been! Christ wasGod’ssavingwork, and through the Spirit’s act ivity, many were led into the brave new fhlth that was be coming knownas Christianity! Pentecost does. Indeed, il lustrate the Importance of feUowship in prayer and love. Needless to say, these qual ities are equally imiportant to the Church and to the com munity at large today. All too often, we allow our church to (all into a “ho-hum” posi tion when it comes to making its existence felt beyond its walls. The necessary vision which is essential to its growth is, alas, too often lack ing — and we have nobody to blame but ourselves, it being an Inescapable fact that it is the congregation which sets the pace for their church. We need to be stimulated as the Disciples were stim ulated... we need the sense of inner excitement that was theirs, the sense of urgency! God has supplied His House with the power of the Holy Ghost — we must supply the Impetus for its use, so that it will not be wasted. We must continually condition ourselves to be His runners- carrying His word into the hearts and homes of our fel low men. An active church mustfiart- icipate in both community and world affairs, and these are fertile field. Indeed, today! We live in what are too often violent times these days; when one picks up a newspaper, or watches television, or listens to the radio, we are met on every side by dis- gression and conflict. The Church cannot afford to be uninvolved in these days when "Involvement” seems to be a universal battlecry. BUT WE MUST BE INVOLVED ON GOD’S SHJE! . Tliat this will take both per ception and courage is obv- | ious. It will also take tern- * perance and patience... and hard work. And should we get discouraged or dismayed, we need only to hold to the thought that Christ was God’s saving work; through the Spirit’s actlWty in us we are brought in faith to Jesus., and through the Spirit’s activity in us we bring others to Him! The power to witness is dormant within every Christ ian... we must not waste this gift. (These comments are based on outlines of the International Sunday School Lessons, copy righted by the International Council of Religious Educa tion, and used by permission.) GOLDEN GLEAMS A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire. -George Herbert. No weather’s ill If the wind be still. -Thomas Fuller. 0 Wind, a-blowing all day long. 0 wind, that sings so loud a song! -R.L. Stevenson. o Frontier By Gene Cox - Historian, Kings Mtn. Military Park Privateering Was Popular The Loyalists of the American Revolution aided the British in every conceivable way. The British had used privateering long before the American Revolution with success. This method Included the arming of merchants ships and letting them prey on the ships of the enemy. The victor got the spoils of battle and often after the war the privateers contlnu^ as pirates. However, during the early days of the American RevoluUon privateering had been discouraged by the British government as long as there was any hope of conciliating the Colonists; but, when that hope was gone, ready sanction was given to any means of making war a greater curse. Oddly enough, the women who were loyal to the crown became involv^. Early in 1779. the newspaiier announced that some of the principal ladles of New York proposed to subscribe money tor fitting out a privateer to be called (appropriately enough) the “Fair American,” The editors remarked that there was no doubt that this privateer would be “extremely well manned . with gallant youths.” One newspaper thought the rebels ought | to be asham^ to have aroused the indignation of the blr sex, ~ “whose natural characteristics are gentleness and benevol ence.” Broadsides urged prospective recruits to call at various rend- ezovous to learn the advantages ot privateering. The privat eering service was evidently popular, lor the commanders of the British fleet began to complain that the manning of the privateers was done at their expense. The reason being the recruits were being paid thr^ pounds above the Kings Bounty and many British sailors were deserting to become privateers.
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