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^age 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. Thursday, July 18, 1968 Established 1889 I The Kings Mountain Heiald A wpekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class 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 Mi.ss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Linda Hardin Clerk MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dave Weathers, Supt. ‘Allen Myers Rocky Martin Steve Martin •On leave with the United Slates Army Fred Bell Paul Jackson Roger Brown SUBSCRIPTION RAT'ES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR... ..$3.30 SIX MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. Water Notes There continues to be conversation about water, centered on Kitigs Moun tain’s Buffalo Creek water project which, last week, should be under construction Consulting Engineer W. K. Dilekson said in October and which shoujld require from 14 to 18 months to complete. Items: 1) In an editorial on Saturday en titled “Water, Water Nowhere’’, (for text see Guest Editorials), the Shelby Daily Star says “Still to be cleared up to the satisfaction of the County Planning Board is the Kings Mountain policy on selling water to supply the ixist of the county. . . ’’ 2) The Planning Board met Monday night and confirmed the Star statement as Chairman Robert Morgan wondered about availability, projected amount of filtered water, and rates. 3) Tuesday night, Engineer Jim Doo ley outlined to Democratic and Republi can nominees for the county commission his feasibility study for a wafer district to serve the whole of Eastern Cleveland County and utilizing the Buffalo Creek resevoir. Answers: 1) Early in the planning for the Buf falo Creek project the city board of corn- missioners resolved to make water avail able to the county. Later, the city board re-iterated the initial resolution. Both resolutions were formal and are spread upon the minutes of the meetings of the City of Kings Mountain. 2) Chairman Morgan, on September 19, along with Chairman Hugh Dover, of the board of county commissioners, and Mayor Hubert Plaster of Shelby were furnished copies of the initial resolution. It was hardly a secret from September 19 and before that the plans call for building initally a water treatment plant which will supply 4,000,000 gallons of potable water daily. The plant is design ed for easy expansion to an eventual capacity of 20,000,000 gallons per day. As a former State Senator, Chairman Morgan must know that the question of rates cannot be determined at anything more than an educated guess until the happy day that contracts for construc tion are executed. Hopefully, the esti mates of construction cost at 3!3.38 mil lion are high. That would mean lower rates. If the construction estimates are low., vice versa. 3) Engineer Dooley has projected his feasibility study on the Eastern Cleveland water district on his own. He has a reputation for competency and, projecting possible rates for out-of- Kings Mountain customers, apparently regards Engineer Dick.son’s judgments solid. Mr. Dooley says the density of pop ulation in some areas is too thin to sus tain a county-wide system now. He thinks it wise to proceed with the pos sible and leave the impossible ’til to morrow. But the City of Kings Mountain couldn’t care less about the arguments over whether there should be a county wide water system or district an’ange- ments pending county growth in less populated areas. The City says it—spread upon the minutes twice — we have water, you want w'atei, you get water. Friends To Be? Commercial air service between Russia and the United States began last week. There are not of flights. A Pan American Airlines plane takes off for Russia and return once weekly and a Russian jet does the same. In spite of the roadblocks and stress es and strains in other areas, the US- Soviet relaxation in the area of air trav el must be a hopeful sign of better rela tions to come. Then on Monday came the predic tion of the Soviet physicist Andrei Sak- haron, who thinks that by the turn of the century 31 (/« years distant, the Unit ed States and Russia will be cordial al lies. With China contaminated with Maoism, thinks the physicist, the grow ing friendship may begin as a marriage of necessity, continue as a matter of convenience, and mature into a genuine friendship. It’s a happy thought and hopefully not a pipe dream. Certainly, US-Russian relations have relaxed since the accession to power of Khruschev. He was headily impressed by what he saw in the Mid-West corn belt. Napoleon may have been something less than altruistic when he said it about 1803, but he did warn, “Beware of the yellow man’’. The United States has found the warning true already in World War II with Japan, is having current unhappy experience in Vietnam. The Wallace Bid American Party Presidential Candi date George Wallace, true to the coloi’s of candidates, declares he “is running to win . His supporters are less optimistic, frankly aim to get their candidate enough votes to prevent a majority vote in the electoral college and thereby put the election/selection of the next Presi dent in the hands of 4^5 United States Representatives. It hasn’t happened since 1876, when Rutherford B. Hayes (R) got the nod with the principal help of South Caro lina. South Carolina’s pay-off was with drawal of occupation troops, who, for Sandlappers, had been around 11 long years too long. Can Alabama’s Wallace bring it off? The odds ars against it, as Conser vative Wallace figures to siphon off Re publican votes in all states where he gets his name on the ballot. Here, however, the Alabamian al ready has done a mammoth job. He has met the legal tests of 32 states in win ning a place for his electors on the presi dential ballot. And he’s still working for ballot space on the remaining 18. The instant news lads of the T-V tubes seemed to over-play the recent Gallup poll report. While Candidate Wallace showed gains, the Gallup folk could still find support for him only among 34 percent of the Southerners and 16 percent nationally. That’s not nearj^ enough to win and would make Cartoonist Henry McCanl’s cartoon (adjoining column) quite apro pos. ’Tis a while, however, ’til November. Congratulations to Robert E. Ham- ijright, our Grover Neighbor, and Lans- lord Jolly, Gardner-Webb faculty mem ber, on their appointments to the county public welfare board. Mr. Hambright, a state board appointee, succeeds Mrs. Au brey Mauney of Kings Mountain, and Mr. Jolly, appointee of thq, county com mission, succeeds L. T. Warlick, of Polk- ville, who served as chairman of the wel fare body. Congratulations are due the retirees on their good service, and to the appointees on Iheir willingness to serve on a board ohen much-erltiiized, but rendering a necessary and ’’quite sensi tive service. Local Wars Wars aren’t limited to the interna tional arena. The touring professional golfers, not satisfied with the big purses, don’t like the numerically predominant club pro fessionals to call the signals. The high-paid pro footballers want ed more. It is the nature of man to make war. And women, too, if the ciogg ets in the divorce courts are indi ed dock- icative. MARTIN'S MEDICINE New Party Symbol? I By MARTIN HARMON Pet fanciers are subject to the j joys and delights, frustrations j and sadnesses, I suppose, of par-1 ents. I Democratic party I We have had our share of the | sad part in my neighborhood, ] principally involving dogs, which always manage to lose the argu-1 ments they perpetrate with .speed-: ing automobiles. - J St. Mark 13:33. Hallie Ward Hustetlcr lost n German shepherd, via this route, as did Fred Thornburg. Brownie, an oldci pomeranian by appear- anec, owned bv Mrs. James next dcor, was a .stylish and handsome t dog. Typical of his maturity, ho ^ walked with a certain amount of ■ hauteur, disdained the playful j blandishments of the j-ounger | dogs around, never walked on a ; leash, never chased cars. ' mm But one day Brownie found a I friend and they wandered far j afield, as far as busy King i ■Street. Both got it in front of I Jake Hord’s grocery. j m-m Lee Roberts' chihuahua, also! venerable, suffered the same late, and in recent weeks the | George Wilson’s chihuahua Chico dittoed, mortally injured under i the wheels of a car. KMRecoidei's Court Docket O The following persons pleaded guilty before court began and paid their fines: Murray Vincent ■ Beam. Route 2, Chcrryville, stop i light violation; Roy Charles I White. Route 1, Kings Creek, S. C., ' improper muffler; John W. Thom- j asson, 1002 Woodside Dr., inspee- I lion law violation: Sherrcll T. I Walden, 7901 Yorktown Dr., Cliai- \ lottf, improper passing; Garland Maynard Knott, 720 Yones Ave„ Kin.ston. N. C., running red liglit. m-ra The above is in the nature of j an explanation why we keep the | Boston, Sir Winston Spencer | Churchill, on a leash when out., and otherwise in the house. (In- ; deed, denying him his freedom makes me feel like a DOG.) Viewpoints of Other Editors WATER, WATER NOWHERE m-m Finalized plans for Kings . Mountain's water-giving Buffalo i Creek project are certainly wi'l- ! come news. | But then there’s the aging out Not only do the scheduled dates process, which Is bad too. Emelyn ; of construction and land acqui.si- Gillespie lost her long time pet' tion mean the beginning of the by that route recently, and Joe | end of the serious water shortage McDaniel says his dog is sick | in Kings Mountain, they could and infirm. ’ mean the beginning ot serious talk of a countywide water sys tem with Buffalo Creek as at 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about Kings Mountain area /teople and events taken from the 1957 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. Mrs. Charlie Randall had the same experience recently with her long-time Persian cat friend Cookie. It was the day Robert Kennedy died. Cookie made a false move and broke a leg. Mrs. Randall rushed him to the veter inarian, who said he could put least part ot the source. Still to be cleared up to the sat isfaction ot the County Planning Board is the Kings Mountain policy on selling water to supply the rest of the county. Once May- The Cleveland County board of commissioners ha.s adopted ten tatively a general county tax rate of $1.39 per $100 valuation and a budget totaling $1,536,261. Kings Mountain high school students may get some instruc tion via television during the forthcoming term, Supt. B. N. Barnes told members of the board <rf education Mondav night or John Henry Moss has made hi.s, PMsonal „ towns policy clear, hopefullj ^ g Neill has arrived in | the sedentary businessmifn wlio Monday night, then the plannin'' " ! •' MIDDLE AGE—26 It will come as a shock to the sedentary American male that his body is middle-aged by the time he is 26. In Geiger-counter tests on 500 industrial workers, it was recently discovered that the average 18-year-old has 25 cubic centimeters ot blood pass ing through one liter of muscle. At 25, this drops to 16cc, or 40 per cent less, and by 35 it is down to 10 oc—60 per cent less. What does this prove? A pro fessor of physical education in a Midwestern university thinks it proves that men—even young men—aren’t doing enough vigor ous exercises to keep the blood flowing through the muscles—an important key to physical fitness. It proves that physiological ag ing comes upon modern man with astonishing rapidity, parilcularly ^ , I . . J V- . I Stockholm, a stop-over point in j is probably tied to a desk from 9 the cat in a sling and set the log. | board can go ahead with final ^ (jirough ] to 5 and often longer. It would be a two-week process j recommendations to the county, u« -i—iiKtoa tho loof wnilM 1 enmmissinners on the much-1 : and he doubted the leg would j commissioners on the heal. By the way, he asked, how | needed water system, old was Cookie. Cookie was 17. The dictum: “The leg won’t heal. I’ll have to put him to sleep.’ "There I was,” Mrs, Randall recalls, “crying all morning about Bobby Kennedy, and all after noon about Cookie.” m-m I am told a state funeral wa.s held for the Howard Jackson’s* sensible cat Sambo. m-m As an auto driver, I’ve been lucky (fingers crossed here) witli dogs. It must have been ten years ago that the Whitey Bridges’ Bos ton decided to argue with my wheel. We were both luckv. The veterinarian patched him and he survived. Charles Roy Cadieu of Gaffney, S. C. is visiting his aunt and im- Before the residents of Kings! cle, Mr. and Mrs. Nevette Hughes. Mountain overwhelmingly ap- ■ proved the bond issue to finance | the Buffalo Creek project, The i Star questioned whether or not! More in sympathetic pain than the project was economically fca-1 jj,' self-righteous anger, the dis- Censoring Out Violence —From The Biloxi-GuUport Doily Herald sible as a one-municipality pro-! tinguished Swedish economist ject. j Gunnar Myrdal has suggested Residents in Kings Mountain j (hat Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s evidently felt they could bear the j jnortjer is "perhaps the last freight, although some county i earning that the United State.s residents still say the Buffalo; jg desperately, desperately sick.” Greek project should have been a county endeavor. That latter idea is refuted in a feasibility report on a countywide water system by J. N. Pease Associates which says, “It is unlikely that an indepen dent source or sources (of water) would prove economically feasi ble.” Thus, once the point of policy over sale of water from Buffalo Creek is cleared up, there should be no major roadblocks remain- j ericans over the remedies Ing in the way of definite recom-1 controlling violence. Yet at mendations to the county com-1 same time, there were strong mission. Discussion is next of indications in the survey We don’t believe America is as sick as Myrdal says it is, but there is no question that Senator Kennedy’s assassination has caused many Americans to pon der what can be done to curb the violence that is depriving our nation of its outstanding public figures. A Harris survey disclosed re cently the confusion among Am- for the that My most recent close call oc curred a few press nights ago. It was raining. Suddenly, the head lights revealed a little dog dead ahead. I jammed the brakes and the dozen eggs on the seat zoom ed floorward. Not an egg was saved, but the dog was. Maybe more important, several young sters were also dead ahead, at the moment I jammed the brakes just out of headlight range. I did not intend this to he e !ad column, but there’s space let* for the glad. Sir Winston love- youngsters And they love him. Re- ■ently, my wife’s third grade cousin Susie gave him a present a green ribbon to adorn his neck The ribbon was accompanied by a suitable note. It read: "I LOVE WINSTON”. And there’s no happier lad in town than Billy Gene McCarter who recently acquired a two- month old brown puppy and suitably named Brownie. m-m To keep the family motif cot red. 1 recently acquired from Dr Nathan Reed a pair of these low cut spectacles Sir Winston Qiarehlil, my palp's npmesoke, effected. Naturally, these suit much better than the more com whether the county ought to pro ceed (It should, we think), how it ought to proceed (as quickly as possible without hurrying ever details) and when should a defi nite step be taken toward imple menting the recommendation of *he Pease study (again, as soon as detailed discussion has been held). The old catch-phrase, “Industry grows where water goes,” may be hackneyed, but it is not out of date. Even more than industry, county’s people grow where many believe there are too many graphic displays of violent be havior—particularly in the mov ies and on television. COSTLY CUPIDITY The “pigeon drop” swindle, that ancient and dishonorable means of .separating a sucker and his money, was revived in Milwau kee (recently). This time a trusr- ing woman turned $6,(X)0 in cash over to two strangers who ped dled a tale of finding $21,(XX) in an empty cigarette package, ac cording to police. The mechanics of this particu lar swindle are too complicated to bear repeating. The woman, however, hoped to reap a quick $7,000 as her .share of this “find,” police reported. She never saw her $6,00() again. Swindlers in such affairs tradi tionally bait their traps with the lure of quick and easy money. The primitive pigeon drop swin dle is kept alive by the combin ation of naivete on the part of the sucker, a kind of low cun ning on the part of the swindleis and by the cupidity of both. —The Milwaukee Journal tions about the impact of movies and TV. In the meantime, how- j ever, the self-p()lieing apnroach F’ortunately, leaders in the film and- TV in dustry are doing more than mere ly listening to complaints about the links between make-believe violence and real-life violence. Charles Yullcn Young. Routt 1. Shelby, running red light; Bnvd Ray Blanton, 4833 Keats Ave., Charlotte, N. C., .speeding 50 In 35 zone; Gerald Burris, Route 1, Box 386. stop light violation. These cases were held during the court s(*ssion: Brenda .Ann Turner, 612 Lineberger St.. Shel by. discharging fire arms inside city limils, not guilty; Robert Manuel Jamerson, Route I, City, speeding 50 in .35 zone. 30 days suspended $5 and court costs. Ronnie England, 914 First St., larceny of automobile, hearing held and probable cause found, bound over to superior court and held on $3000 bond; Phillip A. Grahl, 710 W. Mtn. St., larceny I of automobile, hearing held end probable cause found, bound ov er to superior court and held on $3000 bond. Steve Russell Jamerson, Route 1, driving after suspension, 18 months suspended $2(X) and court costs, license revoked 1 year; Dal las Bennett, Route 2, Dallas, driv ing while intoxicated, charge re duced to reckless driving, 4 months suspended $50 and court costs; Donald Thomp.son, 409 S. Deal St., non support, 6 months suspended court costs; pay $23 weekly for support; Arnold Thompson. 205 Cranford Dr., as sault on lemale, nol pros, pros witt pay costs. Donald McMaster, 14188 Eas- tire. Charlotte, driving while in toxicated, continued July 29; Richard W. Olivei, Jr., 113 Pul ton St., driving while license .sus pended, 18 months suspended $200 and court co.sts licenst- re voked I year; Thurman M. Lewis, Ovorcash Trailer Park, Grover, failure to see'movement could be made safely, capias issued. Gerald Lutz, E. King St., worth less check, continued July 29l Joseph N. Williams, 313 Ellis St., stop light violation, 30 days .sus pended payment of court costs; Joseph N. Williams, 313 Ellis St., exceeding safe speed, 30 days suspended court costs; Paul H. Roberts, Jr., 112 Waco Rd., driv ing while intoxicated, 12 months j suspended $100 and court costs, license revoked 1 year, onteicd notice of appeal with bond set at $200. Thomas D. Bass. 916 S. Edward St., Lincointon, improper regis tration, no In.surance, failure to corrply with N. C. inspection: Roy Quinn. Route 1, driving while in toxicated, no operators license, continued July 29; Gi-orge M. Rob inson, 219 Charlotte St., York, S. C.. driving while intoxicated, no operators license. 12 months sus pended $125 and court costs, en tered notice of appeal with bond set at $300. William McClure, Route 1, as sault on a minor, not guilty: Cul-. len F. Gentry, 217 Morris St., worthless check, .30 days suspend ed upon payment of court cosl.s. Doyle Dean Self, 412 .Mauney Ave., Shelby, no operators lieense, nol pros. David Dawkins, Route 3. no operators Iieen.se, 4 months suspendi-d .$25 and court cosl.s: Rodney S. Houser, Route 2, Box 266, Mooresboro, e.xceeding safe speed, not guilty. Arvcl William McCall, 104 N. City St., failure to yield right of way. Issued capias: Mrs. Johnny Short, Fairview St., assault on minor female child, 30 days .su.s- pended $15 and court costs; John Robert Blanton, 112 City St., speeding .50 in 35 zone, 30 days suspended .$3 and court costs; Eli- i jah Turner. Jr., 117 Wells St., non ' nol pros with leave; some concerned V"deUaken by indu.stry leaders support, nol pros ' is a significant action. , Roosevelt McCleaiy, Route 1, —The Denver Post reckless driving, issued capias. water goes, and that is the prime consideration that should be con sidered by the county planning hoard and county commissioners. —Shelby Doily Star AH three television networks and a number of movie studios are taking steps to de-emphasize violence on theater and TV screens. Scripts are being blue- penciled in some cases, and in other instances violent scenes are being edited out of films. In the past, we have frowned j : on narrow-minded attempts to I impose public censorship on films I that honestly sought to portray! I lite as it is. | But the self-censorship that the COOLER SUMMER? In 1964. 1966, and 1967 the big -irt? were touched Off in mid- (uly, and in 1965, in .August. This s in-many ways an exceptional , ■ i vear. The death of Dr. King pre- networks and rnovie makers maturely set off violence which I undertaking is some- wealed that the police had !‘^'"8 t*-se. It is a cons ructlve sign learnt more flexible and le.ss ‘hat the industry s leaders are rrutal tactics of crowd control, vhatever armouries lay behind hem. It is presidential year, which may have diverted siime energy. So far it does not seem hat “Resurrection City’’ has de veloped a new way of expressing i palgn deserves lissent, or provided a new theme j and support. 'or Negro leadership. But the di'-; Hopefully, this trend will not mand for change exist.<t—and has] subside as the furor over Sena rhown itself healthy In political j tor Kennedy’s assassination fades, events. The problem of povertv— It anything, it ought to expand r( affluent America’s indifter-' to the point where violence is no mindful of their responsibilities in helping shape the attitudes of Americans on violence—and par ticularly the attitudes of young Americans. As such, the anti violence cam- commendaticn I mon bi-fooals. ence to curable poverty--has been well publicized, and plans exist which can be quickly Implement ed oAt* the poHHctans know that public opinion Is ready for, them.—The TioMi (LieadOR)i longer considered good “box of fice.” The cornmlssion appointed by President Johnson to study the causes and cures for violence will undoubtedly make recommenda- Keep Youi Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Monnlain, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. 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