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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
f~' TRursday, May 9, 1968
Estoblished 1889
A The Kings Mountain Heiald
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
lor the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the cltiaens of Kings Mountain
and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
Entered as second class matter at the post office at King.s Mountain, N. C., 28066
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher
M1S.S Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Joe Cornwell ’. ; Sports Editor
Miss Linda Hardin Clerk
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TODAY’S BIBLE VERSE
If we fulfill the royal law accoi'ding to the xcripture, thou shall love thy naghbor as thyself, ye
do well. Jaimesi S.'S
Governoi's Race
In one ot the more gentlemanly cam
paigns of many .seasons, Robert W. Scott
led a field of three for the Democratic
gubernatorial nomination.
On Wednesday, he became the nom
inee, as J. Melville Broughton, Jr., an
nounced he would not exercise hfe right
to call a run-off.
Most observers feel Mi. Broughton’s
decision both wise and practical and they
think this decision may stand Mr. Brou
ghton in good stead tor future political
office
Now Scott, with his former opponent
solidly in his camp, can now concentrate
on the November business ahead, which
is the chore of taking in two Republican
James Gardnei, who romped to an easy
victory in the primary over John L.
Stickley.
U. S. Representative Gardner very well
may be the most formidable Republican
candidate tor eovernoi in this century,
though the GOP candidate in 1928—the
year Herbert Hoover captured North Car
olina’s electoral votes—polled about 45
percent of the vote. ^ ‘ iCi * ’
Mr. Gardner is young, handsome, but
brash.
His brashness, while it appealed to
Republicans wanting someone to “cuss”
Democrats, may not wear well for all
the populace.
Scott, in turn, is also young, hand
some, and not brash, as was his late
father Governor-Senator W. Kerr Scott
Perhaps there is a time and place
for brashness, but it must be based on
solid tacts to be effective.
Events of the next si.x months
could do much in determining the iden
tity ol North Carolina’s next governor
but, as ol Wednesday, it is reasonable to
expect Robert W. Scott to resume resi
dency in the Governor’s Mansion come
January 1962.
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Thonk You
It is said “thank you” is the kindest
words in any language.
Thus a hearty "thank you” is due
the Cleveland County Welfare board
which honored Kings Mountain’s renew
ed request for re-stablishment of a branch
office here.
The board anticipates that the Kings
Mountain branch, to be stalled foui half
days weekly beginning July 1, will be an
interviewing station only, with case rec
ords to be maintained at the central of
fice.
As the delegation told the members
of the w'eltare board, that is a quite satis
factory arrangement and meets the need.
Elderly and indigent Kings Mountain
area citizens will have a person on scene
with whom to transact their business.
This newspaper believes that all
governmental agencies should take their
services to the people, rather than hav
ing the people come to the services. It Is
even more important tor the welfare ag-
- ency that any other, for welfare reci
pients seldom have the means of trans-
' port readily available.
Again, to the members of the county
welfare board, thank you.
Congratulations to Reggie Alexan
der, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Alex
ander, who has been elected president of
the Baptist Union at Gardner-Webb col
lege.
Scholarships
Miss Carolyn Ann Falls, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Doyt Falls, has won a
$5000 Myers college scholarship, and
Danny Dyke, son of Mi. and Mrs. E. J.
Dyke, has yet another, that given an
nual by Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company.
Young Dyke is the third Kings Moun
tain recipent of the Pittsburgh award,
Felma Ruth Lynn and John Tria being
prior winners.
There have been other award win
ners, too.
Time was when scholarship winners
here were few and far between and the
Herald wonders if the establishment of
guidance counseling at Kings Mountain
high school is not closely correlated with
a happily increasing incidence of Kings
Mountain scholarship awards.
Fred Pascal, the guidance counselor,
does a good job of marrying students to
scholarship opportunities.
Underpaid
It is safe to say that no election of
ficial serves for the pay Involved
All, particularly at the larger pre
cincts, worked quite long days, on deck
to open the voting shops not later than
6:15 a.m., and completing an 18-hour day
at midnight.
How could the arduous, tedious task
of counting votes, particularly with
“long” ballots such as the state and coun
ty Democratic contests Saturday, be
speeded?
One answer, of course, would be em
ployment ot voting machines at the larg
est precincts. However, voting is not as
speedy when machines are used.
One citizen thinks the county and
state, too, would do well to employ a
key punch operation. He says such an ar
rangement would be much cheapei than
use ot voting machines and that the re
sults be fed into a computer tor almost
instant obtaining of results.
Should Be Appointive
Many students of government feel
that North Carolina’s method of electing
the so-called members of the council of
state is archaic and not productive of the
best in government.
They think the offices of state treas
urer, attorney general, and the others
should' be filled by appointment of the
governor.
The reasoning is that nothing re
quires cooperatiton with a governor,
though, practically, the council of state
usually cooperates with the chief execu
tive
Congratulations to Legion Comman
der Carl Weisener on jiis re-election and
to the other officers elected by Kings
Mountain area Legionnaires.
A best bow to Mrs. Hayw'ood E,
Lynch, who ha* been elected a member
of the North Carolina Citizens committee
on dental health. f
Intent Not Met
When the Supreme Court handed
down its one-man-one-vote edict, its
purpose was to give everyone equality
at the polling booth.
But the intent has misfired.
In the 43rd House district of Cleve
land, Rutherford and Polk counties, lit
tle Polk lost Its house member and sees
little liklihood of electing another over
populous Cleveland and Rutherford.
Similarly, in the 27th district judge-
ship, it was quite possible for populous
Gaston county to elect all five judges.
Happily, the W associations sought to
assume both Cleveland and Lincoln coun
ties a resident judge, with three for Gas
ton.
Every county needs a representative
in the General Assembly particularly as
long as the General Assembly retains Its
stranglehold on home rule.
As often happens, the theory that
looked good on paper, does not work out
In practice.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
Ingredients: bits of news,
aisdom, humor, and comments
'Hreetions: Taks weekly U
possible, but avoid
I overdosage.
QUEEN FOR A DAY
By MARTIN HARMON
At about 1:15 Saturday after
noon, as he has been doing since
the spring of 1850, Captain B.
Meek Ormand approached the
polling booth.
Bob Mancr suggested, “You
may be seeing the oldest North
Carolina voter in today’s elec
tion." •
Captain Ormand was 99 in
March.
I subsequently went by the
Captain’s home, found him taking
a nap and awakened him. He had
“dropped one in for Broughton”
but thought “that Scott fellow”
would probably win.
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He remembers voting at Die- ■
key’s Mill in Crowder’s Mountain
towmship shortly after turning 21, |
but he does not remember for j
whom he voted or who were the
candidates. He does remember |
that his first vote for president
was for Grover Cleveland in his
comeback against President Ben
jamin Harrison. 1
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Captain Ormand has never
crossed the line into the Republi
can camp and has never missed
a voting opportunity.
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ViewpoiiJts of Other Editors
CLOVEN TONGUES
One of his especial prized
memories is being tapped for the I problem of race, that
I honor of conducting a train from of language appeara to be wors-
Atlanta to Charlotte with Presi- emng in a numter of places
dent Woodrow Wilson’s private around the world. Sinre language
car aboard. The President invited i* such an inextricably intimate
Captain Meek to dinner. |Part of everyone’s life, rivalry
over speech can become a daily,
m-m an hourly affair. A man’s tongue
„ „ . goes to the very ground root of
Normally, when very imporj uu out-
tant people were passengers, it. jjjg jorne-
was customary for the el^st ran-
doctor to run the tram. 9®^'I rocity once largely reserved for
tain was not senior at the time. ,. f strueeles
He and a ctwple of other conduc-1 Today, two of the most civi-
tors, on advire n tailwaXu^gd;' cultured, progressive, and
friend, had bought Mpecl^ly of Western nations are
nice uniforms with silk ca^ seriously challenged by a 'deep
X disagreement over sp^ch. In Bel-
gium, the rivalry between the
which cost about 75 cents.'
.senior conductor was named
SAME OLD DOUBLE PLAY
Willie Mays, centerfielder for
the San Francisco Giants and
twice the National League’s Most
Valuable Player, is just another
loser when it comes to the infla
tion game.
At least that’s the way a New
York University finance profes
sor figures it, according to a
story in this newspaper. In com
paring Mays’ $125,009 salary last
year with the $80,000 drawn by
Babe Ruth from the New York
Yankees in 1931, the professor
calculates that after taxes and
erosion of the dollar by price in-
te|k>n sinc^ 1931, Mays’ take
hTOe pay was actually worth
about one third of Ruth’s.
We sympathize with Willie.
10
YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
Items of news about Kings
JUountain area people and
events taken from the J9S7
files of the Kings Mountain
Herald.
SO THIS IS
NEW YOBK
By NORTH CALLAHAN
The recent student dlsturbance.s
on local college and university
campuses have reverberated
around the nation and caused un
derstandable wonder and concern.
Especially are we who are alumni
of such institutions conscious of
the trouble, and I look upon my
degree trom Columbia somewhat
in a new light at times lately.
For it is there that the big fuss
took place, there in this renowned
university, now 214 years old, its
stately buildings touched with
venerable ivy, its impressivi'
campu.s .standing out prominently
against the skyline of upper Man
hattan. There almost two cen
turies ago, a young student nam
ed Alexander Hamilton almost
single-handedly kept down a riot
by hLs fellows when he stood at
an up.stairs window and haran
gued them wliile thepresident of
the then King’s College, slipix-d
out a back door and to a waitir..: ^1
British ship. The fleeing execu- ^
tive, Myles Cooper, was a Tory
and against the American Revo
lution, but Hamilton felt that in
all fairness he should not suffer
being mobbed.
What happened at Columbia?
In the first place, the heads of
the institution have in recent
years seemed to go out of their
way to emphasize freedom for all
human.s, even to the extent of
exceeding the rules of society.
Such sentiments may be all right
among moderate people but whim
they fall upon the ears of radical
militants, they may furni.sh just
the excuse that such people arc
looking for. The worst violence
at the university was led by out
siders whose interest in higher
education is casual to say the
least. But their interest in power
Is more obvious. How much in
terest, for example, d.oes a man
who goes by the name of 37X
and who used a bull horn to
arouse the rebellious students
have in a college degree? The
Federal and state welfare ag-1
encies have assured County Wei-'j" here
fare Superintendent Jack Hoyle I some kind of an
they will participate with funds ‘h>f ^erj? not
in the opening of a welfare ^"°^h’^hey made demands hat
branch office here. tiniwi ®"i’i *"^**’0
Hay Cline was elected to a; *hc nevit-
second one-year term as comman- ® the police tq_
der of Otis D. Green Post 155, disorderly gang wh o I
American Legion, at the annual! mam build-
; post election last Friday.
1 mgs.
Cl =1 Dutch-speaking Flemings and the While he is getting better woodi j. oilie Harris, Kings Moun-!
Giles French - speaking Walloons has on the ball than most of us at tain mortician, has been electedi
thi’n a point where it is hard $125,000, we share his frustra-1 vice-chairman of the North caro-
taln Ormand for six months, then
complained. “If it hadn
that fancy suit you woiildn
get the job.'
Now, what is the outcome? The
■t f * national government. I tion in hitting into that same oldilina Funeral Directors Associa-^ ***** not clear, here in
iH -fh In Canada the government is un-; tax-price double play.—T7ie H'liNItion. i Ynrk any more than it is
lion t nave widespread measures i St/cet Journo/. SOCIAL AND PERSONAI, 1 elsewhere in the aftermath of
nt 1Q fr i/xn i m /a f , ^ -p—. t AAisc T ftOTTinn.Vf Tf) t ITrxrfiitt.
of conciliation in the hope of|
fending off a breakaway move-!
ment in overwhelmingly French-1
Tom Barnett prides himself on speaking Quebec.
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MAN-MADE FIBERS
MUs Louzelle Smith and Miss *tutient.s demonstrations. Fortun
I Peggy Black gave a report ofi®tely. the large majority of Co
the United Nations Seminar they University .students wore
sraiMi.fi v^ucupT.,. women remem-, recently at the regular j‘'*K“*"*t the rioters. And as one
asting the first ballot at West m the case of Belgium the “v ^ years ago Tuesday night meeting of circle '^*'° at another unlvcrsiiv
King: Mountain nreemet. This French language is tinder severe “^''k stockings were raced g central Methodist church. N’t’"’’ • fan say in all candor thai
time he was second to Bob Manor a^ttack and is waging a slowly '"‘.Yf*- nY*®"- ^“tton- ! nearly all the students in mv
but still won a bet from a Shel- retreating defensive battle. In®"" 7III compris^ the| OUR POSTAL BEAUTIES i f'asses show a fine attitude and
bian, saying Scott was ahead. Canada the question is more com-most garinents. But by; " nMUllb!, s'eriou.s-minded 'ladies and
How did he know? “I just voted but the present trend is to! J®®®;. *'’.®" percent of c.,- o ... . ■ ....
him and he’s ahead by one," Tom concede new linguistic ground to ®PP®Y"
-eplied, and collected the bet. French and salve the feelings of: V®.
Last voter reerrded at the Armory French-soeakers. bcr^inning of the neN^
was Mrs. Paul Patterson, one of Yet, in neither case can one!""'"^ ^ any disorder ...
the West Kings Mountain judges, foresee hnw will tarn out. I white reproduction was forbidden I these cJa?ses. Many of them talk
!jIr\haj\ot"hSumandC°naV® ® of j trodueed in Congiess"'^“"allow
Wc had good teams of counter da will be forced to undergo dras-1 wUrhilTiimra”^^ "The *:’tent of
\t We.st Kings Mountain, still tic and painful changes in million*! of tvnp«? anH tavtinp^l
I'dn’t finish the count until the and constitution? There are some ; vent counterfeiting, has been at-
troke of midnight. |who believe so. President dej .v,--. i tested by both the Post Office De-
Even at^ present, there are 2o partment and the Secret Service
such fabrics. And although there
The United States has been J "entlemon tring hard to got
one of the most backward na-1 education. There is not one re.tl
tlons in the world in permitting | beatnik In my cla.sse.s, not a hip-
the beauty of its postage stamps Pie as far as I can toll, and never
fill 1936. Now bills have been in-|to me individually and express
Gaulle of France is reputed to! ,
hold this view in regard to Cana-i*" ^ ,n nn? m ^ n * If *» '>'*’« Post Of-
da at least. But It is hard for the one. In addi-■ Bce believes color reproductions
friends of either land tq bel*eve Ij”"’ y®™f fu- would aid its profits from com-
the last third of the 20th ™®'? more “i*®’
Late in the afternoon. Elections
loard officials Ralph Gilbert and
...x- k/vv.,, aav.t*' •• , • • a. I utjveiupiiieni ui « IiiermoreacTive
ervicemen and their wives, on' where national onenesg is in true that would ouen and close
li a.1 A. _ -(Aa-.V-,a wttz ..
pplication, can vote. There were ieopardy.
wo absentees at East Kings! On the other hand, disputes
fountain, Herman Campbell, Jr., over speech are not easy to set-
■nd Robert E. Bridges, and two tie. India has discovei^ this,
t West Kings Mountain, Jim where efforts to make Hindi the
fedlin and Mr.s. Mary Medlin. [national tongue have produced
severe riots and have increased
1 regional feeling at the expense
ft was about 1:30 a.m. when the'of national consciousness. And in
helby Number 2 box was report- Prance itself, only just the other
1 and revealed that Scott had Celtic - speaking Bretons
MTied Cleveland County by 95 *’1®-'’ "P * post-office installation
)tes. Pat Spangler, Scott’s man- to underscore their linguistic and
xer. exulted, ”We won!” There regional demands. Much of black, ing of water which may be at a
•ac great rejoicing, with perhaps Africa, now divided largely on premium in light of future popu-
■rth Lattlmore the most exhu- **00* of tribal loyalty, might to-jlation estimates. Another water-
’rant. She picked up the tele- roorrow be subject to language! conserver is the disposable non
hone and teased her friend wil-l’’*'’“*’’*0® unless great unifying, woven or paper fabric. Although
am Lawrence Plonk, who had steps arp taken. t ] most of these now last only a
vitched to Broughton. ** is significant that such feel- few wearings, their potential in-
ling over language should arise dicates moltitime use. It is be-
n-m ; durincT the verv period when the lleved that institutions will com-
[world is making i*s greatest'prise the bulk of the market for
A total of 1566 citizens cast bal- strides toward international un-'disposable bedding and drapes,!
to adjust to temperature, making
it warm in winter and cool in
summer. Another possibility is
fiber which would be self-steril
izing through the addition of
germicidals during production.
Present-day laundering meth
ods will be “out” as all-purpose!
solvents are developed which
dry-clean and launder in one op
eration. Ultrasonic methods are
also under study. Either system
would result in a valuable sav-
stamps of 56 nations memorial-
diagust at what some students
do. while other.® are more indif
ferent or just do not take the trou
ble tc express themselves.
At any rate, from my contact
with many students I am opti
mistic about the future, at least
more so than many others I
have heard. In my opinion, what
is needed is a return to some of
the old-fa.shloned discipline and
morality nraeticed by tho.se wh '"’’i
founded this nation. A good man.,^
izlng President John F. Kennedy parents are to blame for not hav
were shown with the U.S. stamp,ling discipline in their home.s.
the only one not in color. j How then can one expect it from
--Sf. Loms PostPisiMtch- their children at school?
Its at the two Kings Mountain
recincts, including 621 at East
'ings Mountain and 945 at West
ing.s Mountain, the latter being
derstanding and cooperation. It again cutting water consumption
is perhaps owing to the wish of j laundering costs and storage
each people to bring to this com-1 problems. Non-wovens now pro-
mon effort as much of itself asjvide interlinings, fabric coatings.
he third largest precinct in the nossible. And with most peopie.s rug backing and book bindirvgs.
aunty. Ifoting percentages here
ampared with the rest of the
■ounty—.but only about 45 per-
'ont, according to John Oaven-
•ort's slide rule, voted.
Chief of Police Tom McDevitt
eported a quite orderly election.
language is their dearest cultural |
nossesslon.
Monitor.
Christian Science
WAR OF THE ROSES
Moscow relaxed restrictions on
its independent flower vendors,
and the vendors responded with
such free-wheeling, price-outtlng
that the tottom dropped from his purchases. Unless those
^ across the counter fab-
Whlle new properties are .sought
for woven and non-woven fabrics,
improvements continually add
greater resistance to shrinkage,
pilling and abrasion, added fiber
strength snd less degrarhiflon by
sunlight. However, as more new
fabrics appear, the more con
fused the consumer may grow
regarding what he can expect
nembers as a boy in Madison out of business at the state-own-
"lounty. Tom recalls he went with] ed florist shops,
bis parents, and when they ar- which indicates that free en-
rlved at the polling place one|ferprlse not only works better
man lay dead on the ground and, than Russian .bPreaucraev, but
two more were bleeding profuse- [ that it also has a more pleasing
ty- >|)uquat. — Chicago Bun Times.
rics or readymade garments of
the new materials have a good
liaison with the m'anufacturer,
another gao Is foreseeable; wash-
and-wearabllity.
—Hartford Cdurotitl
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