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A weekly 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 Dave Weathers, Supt. MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Paul Jackson Allen Myers Ray Barrett Steve Martin SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR... .$3.50 SIX MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE If yeitlien bc fiot <ihlr to do,that thing udiuh in '/rant, why tokcyethoiightfor the fest* Lake Maligned Electoral College Without Fear. Favor Many people are having second thoughts on prcviou.sly conceived think ing on changing the electoral college. “It ain’t too bad,” some political ob servers agree. Ralph (Babe) Ware discharged his duties well as Kings Mountain’s parking meter officer. Indeed, President -elect Richard M. Nixon, with only a few thousand more popular votes than Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey, has an upcotning better mandate from the electoral col lege and number of states he counts in his column. The "eyes in the back of his head’’ charge against him by over-parking motorists was in the nature of a left- handed compliment. Officer Ware did not play favorites and, when the meter showed red, he is sued the ticket. The framers of the United States Constitution evolved a system of checks and balances and the electoral college is yet another. This newspaper was among his reg ular customers. It is weighted to provide a little ex tra heft to the votes of the little fellow states, comparing somewhat to the rule of the Senate requiring more than ma jority vote in certain decisions and the three-fourths of the states to amend the Constitution itself. Working the parking meter beat could not be the most pleasant chore, for writing tickets, even for the bargain quarter tax for over-parking would be come tiresome. Then there is the matter of irate over-parkers. Mr. Ware is to be commended on the manner in which he handled this chore. Senator John C. Calhoun, the South Carolina statesman, sought to sell the North unsuccessfully on a similar thesis: that control of the votes did not give the majority the right to ignore the needs and wishes of the minority. Accentuating Postive There are more small states than large. Many plans look good on paper which may not be too good. Among them as it applies in this state Js the one-man- one-vote decision. In the 43rd House dis trict of Rutherford, Cleveland and Polk counties the odds against Polk electing a representative are considerable. Polk has too few people. The headlines out of the community of Swan Quarter in Hyde county are not pretty, nor the repertorial copy detailing the events of demonstrations, tear gas, a school superintendent’s office in shambles and 50 to 60 (good bit of vari ance there) arrested. Often newspapers and other com munications media are criticized for over-playing the unfortunate, and per haps justifiably. Mr. Nixon takes office with 43 per cent of the popular vote, a majority of the electoral vote. There are items of better news in the same direction. Should popular vote become the de termining factor, pity the poor one-vote winner of the future. With 93 percent of the vote counted, Mr. Nixon’s popular lead was approxi mately 26,000 votes. One of about ten days ago surprised. A bi-racial group, with the lieuten ant-governor joining in the speech-mak ing, gave a testimonial dinner in Charles ton, S. C., for Dr. Roy Wilkins, veteran leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Such would not have happened a few years ago. No Learnin* From Losin' If Republican gubernatorial candi date Jim Gardner was quoted correctly, he is to be pitied. The NAACY leader has come to be recognized by responsible citizens as re sponsible, a moderate who realizes social change does not happen over-night. There are others. It is an old political axiom that a candidate learns more from losing than by winning. If he wins, everything looks pretty good and even the soft spots pale in importance. If he loses, he can ana lyze clearly to learn his mistakes and take different tacks the next time around. Whitney Young asked rhetorically Tuesday, who would one rather have for mayor, Edward Brooke, the Massachu setts senator, or James Farmer, an im moderate who was unsuccessful in a bid for the United States House? Mr. Gardner was quoted as saying he would conduct his campaigns of the future, if any, just as he did his recent one for governor. Just exactly what’s wrong down East in Hyde County isn’t yet apparent, but the picture is unpretty. There is always a suggestion of un reasonableness in several directions when trouble of this kind occurs. No Stopping Point? The North Carolina Rate Adminis trative office went to court again Wed nesday, again to obtain court approval of Commissioner of Insurance Ed La nier’s disapproval of an average five per cent increase in rate for auto liability insurance. Congratulations to Gerald W. Ma theny, elected editor of “Nomad”, West ern (Carolina’s student literary magazine, and to Lynn Hambright, of (Srover, win ner of a $300 scholarship in the 4-H Club food preservation project. Everybody can agree that the auto insurance problem is getting out-of hand. The companies find claims increas ing per accident and accidents increas ing, too. The insured complains of ever-in creasing rates, and of an over-abundance of cancellations that will him to the as signed risk category. North Carolina’s Senator Everett B. Jordan is losing a job by the election re sult. Another Everett, Senator Dirksen from Illinois will serve as chairman of the inauguration committee for the president-elect. From standpoint of the work involved, it can be guessed Mr. Jordan won’t mind turning over these reins. And presumably Senator Dirksen will be kind to the retiring chairman in the matter of ticket requests. Increased cost of autos, of hospital co*ts, and other factors are apparent. Is it time for a thorough review of North Carolina’s financial responsibility in effect, requires virtually all Tot Heel auto owners to buy insur ance? Perhaps. Locally connected candidates did pretty well in the November 5 elections. William P. Saunders, of Southern Pines, returns to the state senate after a two- year hiatus; Earl Ruth will represent the eighth district in the U. S. House of Representatives; Hunter Warlick was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives. The snow shocked in two ways.j The timing, of course, was much' earlier than expected ind, after the warm autumn, was a shock to the system. There must be something to the old saying about hot weather warming (he blood. As cold as the climate Tuesday morning, I was colder back in August at the McGills of Gaston reunion, when the temperature dropix?d about 22 degrees in the wake of a sum mer storm. Pat 'em on the Back! At least one radio report placed the date of the snow as earliest since 1X87 (some heard it 1.878». TIu' Shelby Star, however, lalxd- ed it the earliest snow since Oct ober 1B40. My memory should revert to 1940, but iriaybe it didn’t snow that time in Stanly County where I lived at the time. ViOiitiyijr riwivo $ to 4 p.m. and 7 to 8 pan. Daily 10:30 To 11:30 OJn. PA'HENTS IN KINGS MOUNTAIN HOSPITAL AS OF NOON WED- NESDAY: Nov, 11-17 It was a “igood" snow from the standpoints of those with respon sibility of cleaning up, opening clogged roads and parking lots and keeping traffic moving. Chief of Police Tom McDevitt reports no traffic foul-uiJfe due thereto. m-m It was not a "good" snow for school children who awakened happily in anticipation of an un scheduled holiday from school, only to find themselves cheated j because the snow failetl to gripj the roads hard enough. Dick Me-' Ginnis said his son Greg declar-, ed, “I'm not going to school."! Mrs. McGinnis decided different-j ly. Dick admitted to a measure! of sympathy with his son’s plight.! YOUTH APPRECIAftON WW Wm mm mm Mrs. Etta Absher Mrs. W. M. Bonds ■Mrs. David Campbell .Mr. Arthur Cornwell Mr. M. L. Harmon, Sr. Mrs. Aquilla Huffstetler Mr. Henry Kiser Mr. Joseph Mellen .Mrs. Mattie Melton Mrs. Maggie McClain Mr. Earl Rhyne Mrs. Myrtle Richardson 'Mrs. Ida Smith Mrs. Bessie Wilson Mrs. Ira Farris Mr. John Stokes Gladden Mr. Kenneth Green Mr. Paul Hartsoe Mr. Arthur Hawkins Mr. Willis Hidell Mr. J. D. Hord Mr. William Houser .Mr. Sidney Huffstetler Mr. Mack Jordan Mr. James Henry Lewis, Jr. Mrs. Florence Lynn Mrs. Troy Morrow Mr. Guy Moss Mrs. Amzie McClain Mrs. James Painter Mrs. Horace Patterson i Cheryl Penley Mr. Judge L. Phillips Mrs. E'ffie Sanders Mrs. Clarence Sanders Mrs. Pearl .Sanders Mrs. Clara Wright o / SPONSORID 6Y Optimist CLUBS ADMITTED FRIDAY Mrs. Jimmy Curry, Rt. 2 ADMITTED SATURDAY .Mr. Frank Blanton. 207 Ridge St. Mrs. Thelma Gill, Rt. 1, ory Grove, S. C. Mrs. James Jonas, 801 Wo(J side Dr. Mrs. Carroll Robinson, Rt. ' York, S. C. David Mellon, Rt. 1 Hit Jack White reported some re bellion from his daughter and Dr. John McGill said certain ob jections were voiced at his homo. Viewpoints of Other Editors m-m AMEN! I Maybe^there’ll be more later. „ iD-m nominee for Lieutenant Govern or (in N. C.), made a speech re cently. \^hat he said Should be I required reading for every can- The weather prophets undoubt-! didatc. . . , etlly can supply a reason, but It Ten Years Ago items of interest which occur- id approximately ten years ago : ROOM FOR ALL PLANES ADMITTED SUNDAY Mrs. Roy Arrowood, 615 AthI la Place, Bessemer City Mrs. Harold Ltnlford, 114 M»a grace Mrs. William Lewis, Rt. 31’. Mr. William John McClain, IW 2 .Mrs. Tildon Palmer, 2100 E Hemlock Ave., Gastonia Mrs. J. D. Patterson, Rt. 1 Mrs. Delbert Chapman, 80( would seem there would be as much snow when the sun is mov ing on southerly declination as Taylor attacked candidate ntho “use the term ‘law and orePr* as campaign slogans without r^lly when'it irmoving M^tho returni'"xPl®i"J"e ^hat they mean or trip north after December 21-23.,propose to do about it I ve never raised this issue of m-m , law and order in this campaign I because I've never met a person I who opposes law and order Norman King, Ray Cline andi Everyone agrees we should have I The sudden discovery tliat our airports, if not our skies, arei , j, „ o* ! Mrs. Merle Beatty, 208 N. Pled ! caught the government, as wCllI as the aviation industry, off bal-i'’^°l? ciq f r-nV Richard Barnette has assumed j ance. There is no reason it should L,^"' Childers, 619 E. Gol - the presidency of the Kings^have. Pilots, aviation authorities! -Mountain Lions club succeeding; and airport workers have been Rev.-R. Douglas Fritz. .warning for years that our maj- Second Lt. .Bobby P. Huskey | received his silver wings as a, sa uia ion point, rated jet pilot in the USAF at. Now it has come, and a great! Mill Craig AFB, Alabama, October'flap has broken out within the in-1 Mrs. Bernard Smith, Rt. 1 14th. I dustry. Schetlules are being cut! Mrs. Aaron Cook, 108 S. back, planes diverted to alter-! pentor St. Mrs. John A. Queen, Jr., .Bessemer City Mrs. Clara Harrill, Rt. 2, semer City ..Mrs. David Lawson, 114 .Sa Roses’ new Kings Mountain Seimore Biddix of the city com- law and order. But some would, store, modern-style, self-service] t ■’7 '■it:, ritv recently attended tholhave you believe that they will variety store, will hold its official'l^'Xl nate fields and shuttle flights Mrs. Stanley Adams. 308 : public natural gas convention in!work some kind of miracle and opening this weekend, beginning wot.i,. . L.,- Chandler, Arizona. While there! ^vervnne will mhev the law- or! Fridav morning a. 9 • battle IS stewing between there I everyone will Obey the law; ori Friday morning at 9. they visited Senator-elect Barry' that they would overturn the! Goldwater’s store, which they! Supreme Court and the Const!-1 SOCIAL ,AND PERSONAL describe as quite mammoth. Rayjtution of the United States and; colonel Frederick bought a tic. Norman was intcr.|the President and everybody elseiChapter, DAR, presented its.eral aviation.’ commercial airlines and thcthou-i Mrs. David Day, 2.508 Sp sands of pilots and owners of. Ave., Gastonia small and private planes that I Hambright ' came under the heading of “gen- ested in a sport coat, was amaz-jand leave the eHfotxxtment of | Good Citizen award to Peggy] Considering the growing doou- ed to find $5,5, $8.5, and law and the administration of glack, high school student, at larity-and fn many cases The same rack. The clerk replied to justice to some kind of supreme rheir Wednesday afternoon meet- growing difficulty -^otf air travel models hanging together on the].police force, when in the first.; ^t the home of Mrs. M. L. it is not surprising that public Norman's query, “We try to sat- place they couldn't -Jo it. and in Harmon, Sr. I sympathy tends to favor the air- isty our customers biy providing the second place, they really. ;opposed to the operators i would not do it if they could. j Miss Pattie Huffstetler. daugh-, planes Bm Tfargu “It may be excessive to call ter of Mr. and Mrs. Andy HUH- is nof ope-sided. q-here are what they want." m-m Chandler is 22 miles from bur geoning Phoenix, with access in between only by limousine. m-m "There are no taxis," Seimore reports, which should be a busi ness opportunity of some sort .some candidates Hear preachers,’! stetler, celebrated her 16th hir(h-l . . a . , i , "''cr 112,000 private planes, but there are those who take the day at a party given by her par- and 700,000 private pilots and InMssAcs strViiyvVi iic Pn-tc .Gahtifrlav; pvzoninor i .. ~ * aii'-t m-m Phoenix had grown sufficiently three years ago, it bought a spe cial interim census from the U. S. Bureau. The cost was $90,000. The same U. S, Census Bureau manager who had directed the Phoenix head-count found his subsequent assignment here in Cleveland County. Ours cost noth- hg due to the civil rights act. Many took umbrage to that one, Gaston County even taking the matter to court. I figured we got n up-dated census free, so vhat? Bob Moore, the Southern Bell nanager, sent in an interesting elephone story; t has been estimated that during i lifetime spanning 70 years a erson spends an average of a ull year ta'lking on the telephone Gther activities during that per ckI include: sleep, 20 years; eat- ng, four years: looking at one ;elf in a mirror, one and one-half 'psrs; and attending church, one. half year. m-m serious issues which confront us and turn (hem into superficial issues, with which they appeal not to your reason, your com mon sense, but to your anger and reaction. “These are the extremists, and some of them are hiding behitKi a front of moderation and claim the label of conservatives. “If we’re _goirtg to talk about law and order, let’s be honest a- bout it. How much should be put into the State Highway Patrol? ents Saturday evening. THE DELINQUENTS We read in the paper.s We hear on the air Of killing and stealing And crime everywhere. We sigh and we say As we notice the trend “This young generation! Where will it -all end?” How many patrolmen should we, „ » have? What additional training* we be sure should they be given? ... What! That it’s their fault alone? should we do about jur prison i That maybe most at it program and facilities? What Isn't really our own? should we do about some of the! Too much money to spend; situations which breed despair! Too much idle time; and crirtle? That is what law and Too many movies these carry an estimated 130, OOO.CKX) .passengers a year, almost as many as com'mercial airliners. Because so many business es tablishments depend on it, es pecially for service to and from small towns hiaving no commer cial service, the importance of general aviation to the national economy is far greater than is generally appreciated, and any drastic curtailment could havfe the most serious impact. Similar ly, a cutback in airline schedules at a time when bigger and fast cr aircraft are being develof"! to increase commercial low!-, carries disturjiing Implication' for the immediate future ofcoi: mercial flying. Rather than fighting each oth er over rights to airport spaci. as they are now doing, gene*il aviation and airline leaders wouii; do well to pool their effort* to obtain what is so obviously neat! ed more and better airport' with better equipment and mofo adequate control stalffs. W'e ha^‘ sinuply reached the point whe»' our metropolitan airports cannot with their present personnai. equipment and schedules, handl^ more planes safely. And it is go ing to take a tremendous amj ot money to improve the tion. ! iThe pourier-Jmimd [ Of passion and crime; I Too many books -! Not fit to be read; Encouraged to roam. By too many parents Who won’t stay at home. Kids don’t make the movies They don’t write the books That paint a gay picture Of gangsters and crooks. They don’t make the liquor. They don’t run the bars. order is all {(bout. “Our social problems — prob lems between the races — obvi ously ca’nnot be solved by rioting;Too much of evil, and looting, or by irresponsible; In what they hear said; nrotest which incites violence. Too many children Neither can they he solved by pretending that they don’t exist; or by demanding that someone bom black and raised in an en vironment of poverty and ignor ance be judged by the same stan dards and expectations as those of us who are more fortunate. “You can't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps unless you They don't make the laws have boots, and there are still a And they don’t drive the cars, '.ot of shoeless children... They don’t make the drugs, “We cannot appease or retreat ^ That addle the brain; from those who defy the law,] It’s all done older folk, threaten public peace, safety and. Greedy for gain, order.. .yet we will not find any Thus in so many cases 'lasting solution to the problem' It must be confessed of crime and disorder in the The label “Delinquent,” streets through bayonets or. Fits older folk best, chemlbals; for even when it Is' . „ ^ ^ necessary to use them, as Patriot (Adelauie,% M>tra sometimes is. they 'are at best a j * temporary solution; and at worst they may degenerate Into emotional outlet for frustrations, a cheap substitute for reality and responsflbillty.” There’s only one word to be ■il Keep Your Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. ' Fine entertainment in between n il c s< f( o o m •
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