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•r. PAGE 2, KINGS MOUNTAIN MIRROR, WEDNESDAV, DECEMBER 6. 1972 NEWS REPORT FROM WASHINGTON WasliiiiKton. D.C.-In re cent weeks President Thleu has done much to gain popu- larlfy among Ms people. Ironic as it is, in blocking the settlement agreed upon by U.S. and North Vietnam ese negotiators, he has the heavy backing of the popu lation, and of many opposed to his regime. Thieu's position is, sim ple, that he wants the in vading North Vietnamese out of his country, that one pri mary point in any settlement must be that Hanoi will with draw its 140,000 soldiers. Henry Kissinger had agreed that ail troops would be frozen in place, and that a political solution would then be undertaken, perhaps with a coalition government Life Beyond Earth Perspective hv Jav .\shlev And now gentlemen the discussion of a problem we all are faced with at some point in our lives between the ages of one year and death. Single, unmatched socks. Without doubt this problem is one of the most frustra ting and myterious that ever confronts us. Just the thought of this situation is enough to make us tremble with anger and glance a- round at things that go “whump" in the dark in an effort to find the Mysterious Sock Sacker. Brlnnnggg. The alarm go es off early in the morning. Shower, shave and walk to the closet for the day's wardrobe. Yep. Shirts, pants, belt. Now let’s get those new blue socks. With childlike Innocence you open the dresser drawer and there it is. Staring you in the face is a wormlike tangle of socks. Blue, brown, gray, orange. Orange? Where did they come from? Oh well. Suddenly you are struck by the stark realization that none of these foot covers are in little round balls of pairs but are, instead, sep arate entitles crying out in the dark for the proper mate. Now you have two choices. You can either try to feel the difference between the blue socks and the brown socks or you can take the whole mass into the living room and have a better light. Choosing the latter alternative does have its re quirements. First you need a large neutral colored table and a 4000 watt light bulb. The reason for the high wattage lamp is self expla natory. You're still half a- sleep and anger has render ed your outlook on life sligh tly red. R ememberwhenArgylesocks were the rage? They were easy to pair, right? I mean, like nothing can be paired with a purple, yellow and green tinted sock except an other purple, yellow and green tinted sock. White socks are easy to pair too. But then again white socks aren’t worn that much any more. What’s that you say? Brown socks should easy to pair also? Nope. That’s a fallacy. If you look close enough at the labels when you buy socks you will find them manufactured in "Au tumn Brown,” "Indian Sum mer Brown,” "Brick Bro- own,” "Burnt Brown” and "Mud Brown” and none of those listed are the same shade. A "Burnt Brown” is definitely a no-no with "Au tumn Brown.” Since modern day socks lack appropriate designs, the job of sorting and pair ing becomes virtually im possible. As the early mor ning hours become the late morning hours you might soon realize that the 26 socks in front of you have one thing in common. None of them will mate with the others. Where those other 26 mat ching socks went will always remain a mystery. You might have the wit and wis dom of a Banacek but you will never figure out where the missing 26 have gone. Through experience with this type of problem I have calculated that the married life of a new pair of socks is approximately four wash ings. Then either the male or female of the species leaves for something better and you or rather your feet are left high and dry. The problem can be resolved however and is as simple as falling off a loom. Throw the whole tangled mess away, wrap your feet with liand towels and wear a pair of boots. RODNEY DODSON- Editor & Co-Publisher LEM R. LYNCH- Co-Publisher i Business Mgr. JAY ASHLEY- News Editor ELAINE TRIA- General Composition SYLVIA HOLMES- Womens Editor TONY TOMPKLNS- SporU Writer The Kings Mountain Mirror is published each Wednesday in Kings Mountain, N.C. by the Mirror Publishing Co. P.O. Box 345 Kings Mountain, N.C. 28086. Offices are located downtown at 222 South Railroad Ave. Phone-739-3851. Subscription rates are $4 per year by mail inside North Ca rolina. Out-of-state subscriptions are $5 per year. Second Class Postage Paid At Kings Mountain, N.C. in Saigon. But Thieu has blocked any settlement al lowing North Vietnamese troops to remain in place. As a result of his stand, when Washington desired a settlement during an elec tion campaign, Thieu is more popular now than he has been in some time. If he manages to win his point and get North Vietnamese troops withdrawn, he will have scored a major public and military triumph. As a result of Saigon's toughness on this issue, the war may continue for a time. But U.S. troops are not in it and the U.S. Air Force has curtailed its bombing of the far north. A major U.S. es calation is not likely. LURIE'S OPINION I A panel of four leading scientists and a theologian re cently agreed that life in the form of high civilizations on other planets almost certainly existed. But the panelists disagreed sharply whether we should attempt to contact other civilizations. The degree of certainty expressed by some of the panel ists is both surprising and interesting, for man has won dered for centuries whether there could be life on other planets. In the minds of many scientists, it’s absurd to think that of all the billions of celestial bodies, only earth would contain civilized beings. Because the most likely planets containing other civili zations are far away, the first known contact is expected to be through radio telescopes powerful enough to exchange messages with distant solar systems. And something of a radio search of outer space is already underway. But it would seem premature to accept the suggestions of one panelist, that Congress appropriate money to launch a .serious space search. What are we to do when we find life elsewhere? Send military aid? Send real estate devel opers? Or our modem films? Or should we instead ask for help? What’s Ahead For Morgan- Folks Still Guessing About Skipper By JOHN KILGO Complications keep popp ing up for Attorney Geneial Robert Morgan, as he pon ders his political future. We wrote here the week after the election that Jim Holsbouser’s victory had complicated matters for Morgan, as far as his hopes of running for the U.S. Sen ate in '74 were concerned. If Morgan ran for that of fice, he’d have to resigt: as attorney general and Hcls- houser would be free to name a Republican toliat Important post, A veteran Democrat here pointed out something else to us the other day. "A Republican attorney general would also gain con trol of the State Bureau of Investigation,” the Democrat said, "and of course could enforce the Corrupt Prac tices Act as he would see fit A lot of polltlclaas could be embarrassed.” Morgan isn’t talking about the situation tor public con sumption. But in the state capital, the subject of the general’s future seems to slip into every conversation. Skipper Bowles had to fig ure it would happen. He is being second-guessed more than a football quarterback for the campaign he ran for Governor. Sen. Sam Ervin has allow ed that maybe Bowles went too much on his own, and by doing so hurt not only his campaign but that of Nick Galifianakls. Pollster Walter DeVries contends that Bowles was hurt because Gallfianalds lost about five percentage points a week to Jesse Helms during the closing -week8:«f,i' And now a Bowles aide, Thad Woodard, says heavy spending and overexposure might have cost Bowles the election. Woodard says the Bowles campaign lost touch with the little people and be came big time. Of course. Gov. Bob Scott has hinted that Bowles didn’t help his cause by being over ly critical of the Scott ad ministration. One thing’s lor sure, Bowles was crus hed in Scott’s home county of Alamance. Sen. Ralph Scott, the Governor’s uncle, told me a month before the election that Bowles hadn’t asked for his help. “It seems Skipper wants to give Bob more hell than he does Holshouser,” Sen. Scott told me at the time. Bowles apparently isn’t letting the criticism worry him. He staked his cam paign on a carefully-lald- out game plan, followed it almost to the letter and lost. What politicians aren’t saying is that Holshouser was a much stronger candi date than any of them cared to admit. He surprised most of us by beating Gardner, and kept right on by winning over Bowles. Some politicians seem to feel there will be an attempt made in the Legislature to do away with the soft-drink tax, but the feeling seems to be that the tabacco tax will hang in there. Wise Words Don’t believe all you hear, unless it’s a police car or fire truck siren or a train. -Courier, Ottomwa, la. LURIE’S OPINION ■-v.v.'.'./a-.'i:'’' /'y . JlJwV/vT ''Mil. Reflections bv Rofinev Dodson Back in our carefree child less days. Sue and I would occasionally venture over to Charlotte to take in a rock concert at the Coliseum or some such place. They were less frequent in this area then. I was amused to almost al ways find an ever-present handful of freeloaders out side the show asking people as they entered for "spare change” presumably to buy a ticket. For the person who paid say $8-10 for a couple of tickets to a show, the idea of peeling oft spare change to some freelc^er doesn’t set too well. Anyway the phrase "spare change” has become hip lingo for a handout around such places. Wellslr, I was hiking along toward Griffin’s Drug Store Monday morning, and as I approached the "Central park” of downtown KM, I noticed three youngsters grinning sheepishly. As I approached them, a young man piped out "Excuse me sir. Do you have any spare change?” I couldn’t help but almost laugh as the phrase rang true, when he continued- "I’m hitchhiking to Washington tonight, and I need some money to eat on. Intrigued by the request, I replied, "What’s going on in Washington?” “Oh, no thing special..,.! just need a vacation!” As I looked back over my shoulder, I saw the young trio turn the corner down Mountain Street. I wonder where they are nowl o Again folks, we love to print those kids birthdays, and engagements, etc., but bringing them in on Tues day afternoons wreaks hav oc with our deadline sche dules. Deadlines are made to break, but we would ap preciate getting these Items into our office before 10 a. m. Tuesday, so we can get them prepared. Are we having moto Christmas and enjoying it less? I seem to be anyway. This Is not another attack on the commercialism of Christmas, but-maybe it comes with getting older- but it just seems harder for me to get into the spirit of the season. Our tree stands in the middle of the living- room all nicely decorated, but Instead of being the fo- calpolnt of the Christmas holidays, it just stands there in all Its artificiality, over- shadowed by the TV. We went about decorating the tree in a big way this year for the benefit of little Hol ly, but she was more Intri gued by the pattern of the chair fabric than the tree lights. Oh, well- It’s not Christmas yet. Is Legislature On Verge Of Annual Sessions? KQ SYNDICATE By JOHN KILGO It appears the North Caro lina Legislature is on the verge of becoming a body politic that meets annually, rather than once every two years. The leadership of the Gen eral Assembly has indicated without question that it wants the Legislature to go to an nual sessions, and they ap pear ready to fight for it. And Governor-elect Jim Holshouser says he will not fight such a move, even in dicating that it might be the wise course to follow. The clue to how close the Legislature is of adopting annual sessions can be seen in the stance of Rep. James Ramsey of Roxboro, who will be the next Speaker of the House. Not long ago, Ramsey told us that annual sessions would come eventually, but be wasn’t sure they should be started at this time. He says now he feels the time has come to go to annual sessions, Ramsey says the legisla ture could provide for annu al sessions without legisla tion, by adopting a "gentle men’s agreement” and adop ting an annual budget, rather than a two-year budget, which is customary. Lt. Gov-elect Jim Hunt campaigned on the issue, saying North Carolina gov ernment had grown to the point that annual sessions are needed. One of the prime obstacles to annual sessions in the past is the threat that the Legislature would stay in session for about six months each year. Opponents of the move contend there’s no way a person serving in Raleigh could take that much time a- way from his business every year. "The sessions must be bus iness-like and observe some kind of a time-limit,” Hunt says. "It must be made cer tain that they don’t drag on and on.” Those who will push for an nual sessions will do so on the grounds that it ought to be easier for a representa tive or a senator to take three months away from his business each year, as op- posed to having to take six V y or seven months every other year. Veteran Sen. Herman Moore of Mecklenburg tells me; "Annual sessions will pass this time without ques tion. I’ve talked to enough people to know. I think we’ll limit the sessions in even- numbered years to 60 or 90 days, and in odd-numbered years It’ll probably run five or six months.” Moore says he’s in fhvor of annual sessiois, but wants to keep a bi-annual budget. "If we change to an annual budget,” Moore said, "we’ll be in Raleigh about five mon ths every year.” One veteran legislator from the East, who asked not to be named, told me annual sess ions would be a matter "dis cussed probably on the first or second day we’re In Ra leigh.” "It doesn’t even look like a horse ranch anymore,” the representative said. “The leadership is committed to annual sessions and they’ve been working. The votes will be in the bag to go to an nual sessions before any of us get there for the session.” f It appears the big debate - this year will be whether to adopt rules that would allow annual or bi-annual budgets. But from my survey of the men and women who’ll make up the 1973 Legislature, I’d have to say annual sessions for the Tar Heel General Assembly are just around the corner. Grover Plans Yule Parade The town of Grover Is swinging into the holiday season with a clean-up week De cember 10-16, and their own Christmas parade, featuring Santa Claus, on the 15th at 5 p.m. Grover residents are planning an all out holiday effort and urge every one in the community to bring out their prettiest Christmas decorations tor their front doors, and to clean up and spruce up yards and vacant lots. Any group, church, or other organiza tion who wants to join the parade may call Mrs. J. C. Scruggs. Wright On S&L Board 0 Fred Wright, Jr., a former block manufacturer in Kings Mountain has been elected to the board of directors of SAM AND THE BEANSTALK Home Savings and Loan. Wright was elected to the board cl directors at its meeting of November 21, 1972.
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