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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. •
Established 1889
The Kings Moimtain Hei<dd
A wocUly ncwspiippr devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enlishtoiiment, entertainment and benefit of the eltlzaiis of Kings Mountain
and its vieinity. published evorjf Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
Entered as seeond cla.ss matter at the post office at Kings Mountain. N. C., 28086
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher
MLss Eli/.abeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Joe Cornwell Sport* Editor
Mi.ss Linda Hardin Clerk
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
Fr(‘d Bell Dave Weathers. Supt. *.\llen Myers
Douglas Houser Rocky Martin
•Cm leave wdth the United States Army
Steve Martin
Paul Jack.son
Roger Brown
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Cartoonist Henry McCarn’s drawing
on this page today shows some interest
ing results of tax-free industrial bonds.
Ex-North Carolinian Roy Parker,
reported out of his Washington Capitol
beat for the Greensboro News and Ral
eigh News & Ob.server that some major
industrial firms were taking heavy ad
vantage of tax-free industrial bond pro
visions of some states.
At the instance of the North Caro
lina Department of Conservation and
Development, the state’s General Assem
bly in the recent session put North Car
olina on the tax-tree industrial revenue
bond list, making it possible for local
agencies of government to issue these
bonds.
The financial wizards of several ma
jor companies quickly spotted the possi
bilities.
The formula: the city buys the prop
erty and sells the bonds, grants the in
coming tenant a iease-purchase contract,
and the company itself buys the bonds,
which are tree of taxes at both state and
federal federal levels, as the property of
the city is equally free of taxes to other
agencies of government.
* Pretty good business.
On the downward side of the coin,
the industrial bond arrangement was
never fair to exist ing industry, nor even
to the taxpayer on the most modest
home. These were subsidizing the free-
loading immigrant.
Until the big fellows spotted the
spoils, it was not uncommon for com
munities in state’s permitting this kind
of issue to attract the dregs of particular
industries and find themselves shortly
without tenants, but with debts on hand
and unpayable.
Business development corporations
such as the one here, over-anxious for
industry, have not checked out the cus
tomers sufficiently and been similarly in
the financial soup.
The North Carolina Supreme Court
has ruled the 1967 act illegal, and prop
erly.
Mafor Honor
Frederick Eli Finger, III is Kings
Mountain’s first i-ecipient of a Morehead
Scholarship to the University of North
Carolina, and expanding program for
men endowed by the late John Motley
Morehead.
Mr. Morehead made millions in in
dustry, used his money for many enter
prises elsewhere, as well as at the Uni
versity of North Carolina.
He endowed the Morehead Scholar
ship program and its first recipients were
tapped in 1951.
As in most scholarship programs of
the type, the grants are renewable an
nually lor the full four-year college
course, as long as the student maintains
his grades and conducts himself proper
ly.
Tw« Decades
Just two decades age the State
Board of Health was belaboring Kings
Mountain (and many other communi
ties) to upgrade its sewage disposal sys
tem.
Over-load and out-mode were the
key charges, as Kings Mountain and the
others poluted streams into which the
affluent flowed.
For Kings Mountain the word was
“systems”, since east Kings Mountain is
in the Catawba River basin and west
Kings Mountain in the Broad. (It is said
a snowball placed at the proper point
behind the Central school would melt
halt into the Catawba and half into the
Broad.)
Sewage disposal systems have never
been inexpensive and at the time the
city, on a small income, was hard-pressed
enough to buy and lay lines to put sew
age into the overloaded Imhoft tanks.
Also at the time, the State Board of
Health had no legal means of forcing
the issue.
Eventually, overload and out-mode
was joined by stream pollution as potable
water’ sources became more scarce. Laws
with teeth were enacted and the clean
up edicts, though gradual in due date,
became firm.
Arm-twisting was effected through
a combination of stake-outs for water
supplies (Kings Mountain drew Buffalo
Creek) and orders to modernize sewage
disposal systems.
Work, started by the Glee Bridges
Administration in 1954, began Monday
on Kings Mountain’s complete sewage
disposal clean-up. Large sewer mains
will be laid for anticipated growth. The
new treatment plant is designed for ex
pansion, as was the McGill plant in ’54.
Major projects do not jell over-night.
Congratulations. Good Luck!
A Kings Mountain citizen after the
regular season ended tor the Kings Moun
tain high school Mountaineer basketball
team, greeted Coach Bob Hussey, “Con
gratulations, and good luck!”
Ckjach Hussey, with thanks, suggest
ed he could wait on the congratulatory
part, but figured he and his cagers would
need plenty of luck on the rest oi the
tournament route.
Since, they’ve come through twice
in high style, go for the big one Thurs
day night against Kannapolis.
Their work is cut out for them, the
Herald learns.
The lads from the Towel City are
defending champions, with three ot last
year’s victors still very much in action.
They, too, are tall and rangy and hard
competitors.
Should be a good one.
Again, Coach Hussey and Mountain
eers, congratulations and good luck!
Speaker Ban Demise
Competition for these scholarships
are terrific, for they are not merely for
Tar Heels, nor for Tar Heel graduating
seniors. Junior college students are eli
gible, also those who have previously
graduated from high school, as are out-
^.«tate atvidents.
Demise, via FedM'al Court edict, of
the North Carolina speaker ban law,
which excited the nation as well as
North Carolinians a few years ago,
should have been.
Mr. Finger is one of 104 selectees
for the term beginning next September.
Perhaps credit should be given to
the Ridgewood, N. J., school system for
their prior work in making Mr. Finger
a successful Morehead candidate. But
Kings Mountain high school can lay
claim to adding the finishing touches.
Aimed primarily at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the
act contravened the first amendment to
the Constitution of the United States.
Some of the trustees are still trying
to keep the .speaker ban alive and will
not be successful.
Perhaps most credit should go to
Mr. Finger himself for the diligence and
perseverance wiucti nade him a star in
the classroom, on the athletic field, and
in extra-curricular activitife.
(
These do not believe the American
dictum: judge a man for and on what he
says, but let him say it.
Governor Dan Moore and Attonifty*
General Wade Bruton showed good sense
in declining to appeal the decision.
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MEDICINE
Ingredientt: bit$ of newt,
mHdom, humor, and comments
Diivclions: Take weekly H
possible, but avoid
overdosage.
INDUSTRIAL REVENUE BONDS
By MARTIN HARMON
Many folk decry the fact that
pressures on time by work,;
church, play and television havej
reduced the onetime fashionable
custom of social visits material
ly, if not to the vanishing point.
I am one of the decriers but am!
not too often putting my money,'
so to speak, where my mouth is. I
TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Eor 0(i<l is not the oiilhor of confusion, but of peace, a,s in all churches of the saints.
I Corinthinians Ji:33.
Tls the same with personal,
cori-espondencc. Most find it had!
to match free time a.’id the in-|
spirution to write old John a let-.
Iter. I find, for instance, news-j
I paper folk who write for a living!
I are often remiss on the personal!
I letter department. Thus another!
[means of keeping abreast ot the
[activities of kin and friend suX-|
I ters. !
I Saturday’s warm spring sun
shine really called for a baseball
game, but since none was about
I put the leash on the dog and
went across street to chat with
Milton Singletary, who I regret
to say. will shortly leave our i
neighborhood. The Singletarysi
are soon to occupy their new i
residence on Sherwood Drive. My I
dog Sir Winston and little Ben, I
just on the verge of crawling|
quickly became friends. Bon seal-:
ing his part with pats and Win-'
ston giving Bon several big kiss-|
es.
SO THIS IS
NEW YORK
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By NORTH CALLAHAN
Those who think that our young
people are going to the devilish
dogs should consider the state
ment of Lieutenant Colonel
Charlcg J. Milazzo of Wilming
ton, Delaware. Says he: "No
matter what your feelings .may
be about the strategy or tactics
employed by our armed forces
in Vietnam, you cannot help be
ing impresst'd by the courage
and The wonderful humanitarian
spirit and stamina of those .serv
ing there. We're told by our top
military leaders that American
soldiers are superior to their
fathers who fought in World
War II and Korea. Are these the
same young men we’ve been
calling the spoiled brats of our
rebellious society? It appears
that beneath the softne.ss of our
automated living, there is an in
grained spirit among our youth.s.
regardless of where they com<-
from, that emerges in the hour
of crisis.” i
Earlier I had had a visitor at
the office, a Mr. Lightsey from
Rock Hill, who is shortly to be a
new Kings Mountain citizen. A
native Texan and engineer nosv
with Daniels construction com-
I pany, Li|htsey is soon to join
jCraftspun Yams. He is looking
Viewpoiiits of Other Editors
! MAN’S INVENTIVENESS
RESTRICTIONS ON
PERRY MASON j^e Skater’s
Again the American Bar Asso- Waltz. Keeping time with the
ciation has moved to restrict the music, Mother glides across thci
^ conduct of lawyers and judges i kitchen floor leaving streaks of
! for a four-bedroom hou.se, wants Lin their dealings with the press i soapy water in hei wake. She.
to move w'hen Rock Hill schools I in criminal cases. Where to draw! is washing the floor with her:
close for the summer resnitc. the line—between protecting the; Tootsie Mops, a pair of hollow-1
I rights of the accused and giving soled shoos which dispense the j
10
YEARS AOO I
THIS WEEK !
Items ot news about Kings
Mountain area people and
evenis taken from the 1957
files of the Kings Mountain
Herald.
m-m
Kings Mountain Kiw-anians
the public a free-wheeling account cleanser through por.'orations on-
, . , , . .' of crime and punshment—has al- to bristles underneath. At her!
I commented on his outof-the.| difficult. 'waist, she carries a tank of soapy
.ordinary name and he agreed.| connected by tubes to the at the civic club’s Farmer’s
However, he’s learned there’s —
At the turn of the century,'
Manhattan’s 14th Street was the
center of the city’s music, drama
and culture. Now it is a busy
street, teeming 'With traffic and
customers going in and out of
the surroundign stores. But there
is one thing here that clings to
the past. It is Luchow’s Restau
rant, Teutonic in character and
venerable in age, this being its
85th year of operation. In this
famous eating plac«‘, one esually
finds old world charm and wel
come courtesy as well as slow
and deliberate dining and liquid
refreshments. There are seven
dining rooms with old-fashioned
high ceilings panelled in dark
wood. There is a Vkmncse string
ensemble which plays tuneful
and appropriate music. In addi
tion, an exreotional coltectlon of
Paintings adorn the walls and in
clude a Van Dyke, a Snyders, a
I Van Mienis and a Goya. But of
course the main feature Is the
food,
An Episcopal bishop here re-
herc’s a! in effect two American con-; Tootsie Mops. By making like;Thursday night at minds us of a poignant story
d and, I (stitutional guarantees, freedom j gonia Henie or Peggy Fleming, P "’’ Woman’s club. 1 right out of the appealing pages
listed two nvocc anA thn riaht tr» ni 1 : 1 UnemDlovment Dav claims in of the historv of our areat ooun-
Columbia judge so named a ***..,1^ .
i believe he said, another listed in! of the press and the right to a! gets *her* exerc^i "arid the' Unemployment pay claims in of the history of our great coun-
. the Columbia telephone directory ^ fair trial, are here in conflict. floor comes clean at the same _ Mountain dropped last try and of the war which once
who shares his own initials.
„ . . . I time The hole-v shoes are 1 st ithe!divided it. The bishop told of a
In Britain, where press free’! a constant stream of in-«sain'c-adet at West Point named Leon-
idom is not constitutionally 'gu-i
uui.i ,,„ntions for which D'atents are **’’® (Idas Polk 'wno one day went it
aranteed. the rules on court press everw week as any devo i A team stocked with holdovers, the chaplain named R. L. Me
lidas Polk 'who one day went td
Another Saturday office visitor! ‘r:’;:,;’: r’™ issued every week as any devo-!, " w..,. ...uuuvu.s, me cnapiam nameo n. l. mc-
Morehead. the Swains- tee of the'^Sa.urday Ne^ York: last year is
was Fritz
... . , . !counts of the arrest of the ac-
ville candidate for county com-, statements that he
missloner. Fritz earned a run-off eonfessed, a summary of the
call two years ago and, j evidence against him.
trading in the second race, im- ^ photographs-all of these
mediately promised to give the'^ - ^ . e . ...
American practices are forbid-
voters another opportunity ^to'^^^^
vote for him on the upcoming
round.
their strictness with their con
tempt power.
In the United States, on the
Times Patents of the Week col-l®**'lJ*'® opening basetall game, to become a Christian. The chap-
umn knows season for the Kings plain looked at the cadet skep-
Mountain High Mountaineers at| tically and said, “Well, I will see
Some m'ay never see the light Forest City next Tuesday after-; if you really mean it. I notice
of the factory while others are noon. j that none of the other cadets
When Earl Marlowe Sr trail, other hand, there have even ^ headband at the back of his
wiicii E,dii maiiowo, oi., pp closes his cycs tor
more than a quarter-second. An
already benefiting man in one
way or another. Alarm systems
seem to be popular. There is one
'Which keeps a drowsy motorist
alert by setting off a buzzer on
SOCAL- AND PERSONAL kneel when we say prayers in
him. He 'wanted Alowee to see
my dog and there followed an
hour’s conversation. Princess, the
Marlowe dog, didn’t w.arm too
much to WTnston, indicating by
manner she felt him a bit too
young and brash.
Mrs. John L. McGill and Mrs.
John E. Gamble entertained Sat
urday at the McGill home on
Gold street at a luncheon honor
ing Miss Joyce Owens, bride-
elect.
Mrs. Mearl Valentine, Miss
ed me west on Gold Saturday! been requests from newspapers
afternoon I stopped to greet contact is attached by Peggy Ross and Miss Betty Jo
admitted directly into me wurt _,,„iih inothnr Borders entertained Tuesdav eve-
chapel each morning. If you are
serious, kneel tomorrow." The
next morning, young Polk did
kneel, although he was the only
one oif the whole cadet corps who
did, according to the story. That
day, Polk was jeeri'd and razzed
by the corps. But he knelt next
iwin-^cnmnus loi designed to thwart wig- ning at the fellowship hall of
take pictures dunng trial, and to, wg g Phi.rrh honori.o.
broadcast and televise court nro-' "aPPers is an alarm circuit con- Grace Methodist church honoring
Sfngs ’?he a^gumenru ^ 'store mannequins’:Miss Kay Henderson, bride-elect,
ceedmgs. Th argumen t ^ weight on a plate | Mrs. George W. Mauney enter-
keeps the circuit open. If ip isitained members of the Contract
lifted, the switch closes and an Bridge club Tuesday afternoon,
alarm bell sounds.
wider publicity—for instance the
televis^ trial of a man accused
Food also occupies the inven
tor’s skill. New methods can cut
of planting a bomb in an air-
n>-ni I plane- would more effectively
A young fellow named Roger!cfinta.
Whitley, native of Albemarle, I, gut no one misses the obvious .... , , ,,
met at City Hall recently. I had i point that a dramatic criminal' ripienmg time of blue chee^
realized that young folk must 'be; case, well publicized, could build ^ m three months to eight to 14
asked at least who their parents'ne.jvspaper circulation and boost Patent 3,362,831 is a crisp,
are, sometimes their grandpar-'TV ratings,
ents, but in two or three instan-
It is against this background
that the American Bar Associa-
FARM SUBSIDY
ees of inquiry about Albemarle
friends Whitley replied, "His boy
was a grade school classmate.” overriding news media ob-
I remembered when they were!j®etions, has approved new pro-
born. And I had co-babv sat with; State bar associations
cadet corps was kneeling for the
chapel prayers. When the Civil
War broke out, Leonidas Polk
was a bishop in the Episcopal
church himself, and so was the
former Chaplain Mcllwain. Each
agreed to pray for the other ev
ery day, for by now they were
close friends. But Polk went with
his native South and eventually
entered the Confederate Army
•and rose to the rank of Lieute
nant General. He was killed at
ables’v^ith ■ the a'd"dition'of aVti- caster. At the end ot his ques- the hattte of Pine Mountain,
'icial flavoring and other sub- tioning, he said: "What would Georgia in 1864. Later when the
stances. ^ , You d" if YOU were to inherit a bishops of his church were meet-
' million dollars tomorronv?” j ing in Ne'w York, one arose and
moved that the late Bishop Polk
be censured for going with the
chewable substance which can
create artificial fruits and veget-
If you don’t think the state of
farming in America is bad, chuc
kle with us (if you can) over
this anecdote;
Two veteran farmers were be
ing interviewed by a local news-
his example. Soon the entire
South. This greatly disturbed the
Sliding devices help the ama-' The first allowed as how he’d
a Eiri Whiriev”had'courted ■"Stop are likely to follow the ABA’s bricklayer to keep a wall quit working take life easy and
iV’ I Sed "Sf reaHy lead; thes disbarment could;and straight or teach a gp fishing. The s^econd snatched
making mt aware of my age” I threaten noncooperating lawyeT-s.'^f'^'J'''' how to keep score on his head, bought awhile and other Southern bishops there, wh
maKing me aware or my age. arA tn nHnnt strikes and spares. answered: “I reckon I’d Just keep already felt that they were not
rihe Lhnes n , v, • u- v. O'! farming ’til it wa* all gone." i welcome in the North.
! the rulings. One of the inventions which -^obmbia (8.C.) State
One of the inventions which
At the instance of Mrs. Tom I The chief proposal would de-
Pollock, I am sending the Herald!dare its unethical for any public
to Miss Daisy l,ovelace, my first'prosecutor or defense lawyer to
■rrade teacher, who launched j tell the press anything about a
quite a host of Kings Mountain[ pending case except the basic
voungsters on the path to read-; identifying facts. There would
Ing. writing and arithmetic. She! be no mention of prior arrest
's living at Fair Haven Home, | record, confession, or witnesses
Route 1. 'Bostic. Rules were less I to be called—and no suggestions
strict in those days and I had i about possible guilt. The danger
won special dispsensation from! here, it seems to us, lies in the
Principal J. Y. Irvin to begin possibility of a complete shut-
scheol at age five. Miss Daisy I down on communications be-
iidn’t appear to hanpv to see! tween police (or sheriff) and
•his juvenile, figuring she’d have press, at the time of arrest, when insuration"‘lubriLnT''DTckinr or
sufficient entertainment with the! surely the public deserves f° fertili/or carrier ** ^
six-vear-oM models. But we got | know something of what’s going
long fine. I couldn’t tie my on. , The variety of man’s imagin'd-
bilities is called “Holey Smoke’
by its creator Betty Lou Raskin,
chemist and psychologist at Johns
Hopkins University. Slow-settling
and harmless, the smoke can be^
colored for signaling or used 'asi
a third dimensional floating mo-|
vie screen. Allegedly it can pro-,
tect crops from cold, prevent,
evaporation from reservoirs and;
provide artificial snow for mo-;
vies and TV. In powdered form
it can be a filler in paper-mak-i
ing or used as a cigarette filter.
KEEPYOURRADIODIALSETAT
riioos. got at school fro- ! The basic csential aim, in all!creations is endless. And
GlassmatPs Bill Fulton and Earl .. j , , . some are so simple, yet efficient,
McGill. Miss Lorvelace was a jury. ’ unprejudiced;T'fhini,
teacher. atmosphere, fair tactics.!’ ^ ^ i
Howard Jackson remarked !"<> iump-the-gun reportorial con-;
some years ago an adult should STATE NECTAH?
never disspooint a child to which Judges already had a lot of, ^ „ i
restriction-power if they wished TTie august Senate of the Gen-|
to use it. We shall see whether. Court of Massachusetts!
_ ... . - , the new rules leave the public
ber 2 n€»phew, Tommv LoooaM.i ]^g sensationalized—or lessagitated affairs of the Com*;
of S. C.. in honor of his alerted to present-day dangers. ; wealth to debate a bill thit!
late February birthday. ! -Christian Scieru.e Monitor would make cranberry juice the^
1 — " I official beverage of the state. '
m-m 1 I Like mo.st other states, Massa-’
It has been estimated that; chusetts already has an official
T ardently agree, but Anne and I,
‘'ear did Just that when we fail
od to dispatch a gift to her Num-
His recent note was m his own i is a 20-year gap between, motto, an offldal tree, an offi-
handiwrlting and to the point. It'new re.search kncailedge and lts:cia! bird and an official flower,
read: “This is my picture of me,! general anplication in medical Wedouhtthat the Commonwealth;
T hope you like it. Love. Tommy.”' North Carolina, also needs an official beverage:
, I Heart Association, through its! and we are positive that the leg-
Like the picture, we as Health Education and, islature does not need the oWlCtal
love this red-headed tad. Education Programs, Is'frivolity of selecting one.
we’ll make up the omission.
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.emptlng to reduce this gap.
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