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KINGS MOUNTAIN HBR^14. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Estcd)lUhed 1889
The Kings Mountain HeiaU
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and pultllshed
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
Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor,
MLss Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper
Dave Weathers, Supt.
MECHANICAL DEMRTMENT
Allen Myers
Ray Barrett
Paul Jackson
Steve Martin
SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWUERB
ONE YEAR... .$3.50 SIX MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS... .$15S
PLUS NORTH CAROUNA SALES TAX
TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441
Favorable Rate
The In.stitute of Government has re
cently issued a report comparing ad va
lorem ta.x rates among the state’s 74
largest cities and among the 100 coun
ties.
The report confirms the fact of
Kings Mountain’s low rate of 85 cents
per .1000 valuation. Since Cleveland
County’s tax base is 65 percent, the re
port continues, the “actual” city rate was
.552. The combined rate for city and
county, a.gain the “actual” figure being
used, is $1,553.
Kings Mountain ranks 61st among
the 74 cities. When the county addition
is made Kings Mountain ranks 47th.
Cleveland County ranked 37th
among the 100 counties.
In this report, assuming the govern
mental agency is discharging its respons
ibility for services, the desirable rating
would be 74 for the cities and 100 for the
counties list.
That assumption would not neces
sarily be true.
The City of Newton ranks 74th.
Chatham County ranks 100 among
the counties.
These figures are interesting.
Johnson Valedictory
At his final appearance before Con
gress, President Lyndon Baines Johnson
made a short and at times nostalgic
speech on the state of the union, said the
nation has sufficient means to have a
strong economy, and urged incoming
President Richard Nixon to lead the na
tion on a continuing path of progress.
He received thunderous and sustain
ed applause when he entered and his ad
dress won 5.5 bursts of applause.
It was a commendation to a man
who was “one of them”. He recalled his
first connection with the Halls of Con
gress began 38 years before when he was
a doorman. He first served in the House,
then in the Senate, then as vice-president
as presiding officer of the Senate, before
his accession to the presidency.
Homage paid the retiring President
Tue.sday night points up as much as any
thing the swift variations in personal
popularities.
In contrast to his speech of last
spring, in which he removed himself for
consideration for re-election, Mr. John
son Tuesday night received a high ac
colade. Vietnam and other problems
seemingly were forgotten.
Mr. Johnson leaves the office with
a vast record of accomplishments, re
gardless of their popularity in some
, quarters.
Odds are that the historians, a dec
ade or two hence, will treat his adminis
tration kindly as they usually do with
so-called activist leaders.
CAGQ IfOiig-Tenn
The executive committee of Cleve
land Association of Governmental Offi
cials was recomipending to the full-mem
bership at Wednesday night’s meeting a
two-year set of aims and employment of
an administrator-researcher.
Much, as would be expected, involves
the county board of commissioners. In
deed the county board is involved in all
of it, including zoning of the Buffalo
Creek lake area.
The other areas CAGO's executive
committee support, would require mon
ey in more or less varied amounts, in
cluding adoption of fixed water and
sewer policy, e.stabllshment of a county
parks system, and of a county library
system.
As had been said before, establish
ment of a county water and sewer policy
is a growing need.
The investment by the county in
water and sewer service to Pittsburgh
Plate Glass Company ten years ago has
paid handsome returns, not only from
continuing - to - expand Pittsburgh, but
from other industry and dwellings which
have tapped those lines.
Gaston County has embarked on a
modest water - sewer line investment
which won’t break any banks but will
begin to aid the industrial development
job.
Gaston appropriated $100,000 during
the current fiscal year for that purpose
and makes particular appropriations on
a prescribed formula involving potential
tax base and using city systems or water
district systems as the dispenser. The
formula figures to amortize cost of the
lines over a ten-year period.
The CAGO executive committee was
enthusiastic in adopting the proposals.
Harold D. Crawford
The community was shocked and
saddened by the accident in which
Harold D. Crawford lost his life.
He was well-known throughout the
w’hole area as a Kings Mountain busi
nessman for many years.
Mr. Crawford was universally friend
ly, devoted to the work of his church,
liberal with his fellowman and a presci
ent husband and father.
Congratulations to:
William E. (Bill) Sellers, newly in
stalled master of Fairview Lodge AF &
AM;
Palmer E. Huffstetler, newly elected
corporate secretary of Carolina Freight
Carriers Corporation;
Fain Hambright, elected captain of
the active Grover Rescue $quad.
TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Ildinm is the fiia fithat finilcth wisdom, find the man that getteth ’understanding, proverbs S.’t*-
MAKTIK'S
NEftlClllE
Ij MA^NIUBMON
It was my pleasure last week
to became aequeiinted with
Charles Shjytle, oB Shelby, a
salesman for tSiemlcals used by
fun&al h<nnes.
He was visiting widi Qllie Har
ris and as usual we began pre
paring notes on whom we mu
tually knew. It developed he uses
born and bred in Asheville, mar
ried a lady from Brevard, was
later with a funeral home In
Murphy.
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Inquiring about l?r. George
Plonk, he recalled that’he, George
and the Methodist pihqaoher all
settled Mluxphy about the same
time. It was- not uncommon for
several weeks to’ be arke^,
“You’re new in town. Are you the
new prefer, doctor, or funeral
home man?”
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In
iros. VJlie n«iueisi>ii»mc ^ variety of nnrip
didn’t work out too well. Thefel- tries to tnake sure th^t the
lows he was with returned tolar? "“t ^'’Sptten at Christmas.
Ashevilje without him. He found ^
It tttrociapv tn teienhone his' though It may grind more harsh-
mo’J^TL.m. tSte Lhad ‘y at the Yuletide. and most men
I Big
The annual tax listing period is just
about half over and Tax Lister Edwin
Moore doubts he has recorded the prop
erties of 50 per cent of the township.
Early listing will save tiipe for the prop
erty owners.
The North Carolina Highway com
mission recently distributed a report on
the 42-month accomplishments of the
present commission which took office in
July 1965 on appointment by Governor
Dan K. Moore.
In the six-coupty 12th division serv
ed by Highway Commissioner W. B. Gar
rison, of Gastonia, produced newf con
struction and improvements to 761 miles
at a cost of $40,036,040.
State - wide expenditures totaled
$410,838,649.
In Cleveland County contracts total
ed $1,426,700.
Like other costs road-bqilding costs
have escalated which has seen tlip cost-
per-mile escalate.
In 1961, construction of four-lane in
terstate roads in mountain areas were
estimated roughly at a million dollars
per mile. That is now the rough estimate
for interstate-type construction ip flatter
lands.
With auto-truck population ever-in-
creasipg, continued emphasis on up^ad-
ing of roads, both interstate, state high
ways and secondaries is a must.
Badly needed improvements to NC
161 south will begin soon.
Here again cost figures soared-some
$141,000 over initial estimates.
There are some proposals for in
crease in the gasoline tax, from which
most state-share construction funds are
derived.
I asked if he knew my Ashe
ville kinfolk and he did. He. had
a danoe band in his youngerdays
and they played frequently at
the Woman’s Club which my
aunts later bought as'the pihyM-
oal plant of the Plonk School.
BR-fll
As a former horn tooter (if
never very'good), it was easy to
reminisce about tJie era Of the
big bands. Mr. Shytle, with both
Asheville a n d H^dersonville
meocas for big band appearances,
heard virtually all of the maes-
tros. One Hendersonville qanoe
ftatting For The Commonwealth of North Carolina
Viewpoints of Other Editors
IN ALL SEASONS
society
no way home, all the buses had
run, and he would book in at the
Skyland Hotel, catch a bus home
as ciuickly as he could. As it
worked out, the band (Woody
Herman I believe) was leaving
the Skyland the same time he
was and he became tax}uainted
with several of the bandamen.
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Cta another oocasion, 'Benny
Gorman was in Asheville for a
dance at one df the bi!g tobacco
warehouses. At the time, Mr.
know that a once-a-year effort is
not enough — and hardly com
mensurate with the age of af
fluence.
This affluence, in fact, has con
tributed to the persistence of pov
erty in our society because it
tends to mask it. One finds it
hard to realize that in a rich na
tion there can be desperately poor
people. But more arid more peo
ple — and nations — are realizing
it
Canada is the latest “have”
country to discover the “have-
nots” among its people. Just in
Ten Years Ago
Items of interest which orcur-
?d approximately ten years ago
W. K. Mauney, Kings Mountain
manufacturer, anti his wife, have
made a gift of $300,000 to Lenoir
Rhyne college for construction of
a music building.
WHEN IN DEVON
Thursday, Jan^ry 1^^969
h'ospital
LOG
Mrs. Etta Absher ,
.Mr. Walker ArroWOod
Mrs, Fannie Brown
.Ml'S. Thomas drier
Mr, Anthony Ilolden
.Mrs. Mattie Melton
Mi. Bracey Moore
Mrs. J. O. Panther
.■VIi's, Jasper Peterson
■Mrs. Campliell I’hifor
Mrs. Dora Powell
Mr. Oscar Tharrington
Mrs. Grace Upehui-eli
Mrs, G. W. Wilson
Mr. Lorn Barkley
Jeffrey Barnett
.Sharon Byers
Mrs. Jimmy Curry
Mrs. T. H. Davison
Mr. l>an Falls
Mrs. Lena Goforth
Mr. -M. L. Harmon, Sr.
Mr, J. D. Hord
Mr. William Houser
Wanda Kay Hoyle
Mrs. Mack Jordan
Mrs. .Nathan Kelly
Mr, Jarvis Mes.ser
Mrs. William Morgan
Mr. David Glenn McDaniel
Mr. Thomas Rucker
Mrs. Paul Sanders
Mrs. Ida Smith
Mrs. Clara Wright
ADMITTED THURSDAY
Mr. John B. .McDaniel, 113 Wa
co Rd., City A
Mrs. Wilburn Lackey, Rt. 1,'^
Shelby
Mrs. Leo Myers, .517 Cleveland
Ave., City
ADMITTED FRIDAY
Miss Odessa Black, 510 N. 14th
St., Bessemer City
Mrs. Mae Brymor. 315 E. Wash
ington Ave., Bessemer City
Mrs. Margaret Moore, 7130
Midpines, City
ADMITTED SATURDAY
.Mr. R. H. Ponder, Rt, 1, Gro
ver
Mr. Charles F. Hariy, Jr. Gro
ver
j -Mrs Oscar Greene, Jr., Rt. 2
I City
' Mrs. Carmel_ Honeycutt, 707
Pine St., Forest City
.Mr. Dewey Rathbone, 2S Ben
nett Drive, City
Mr. James Rogers. Rt. 1, City
Mr. Oscar Patterson, Box 12.5,
City
Shytle had a saqnmer job with time for the CJiristmas sea-son
the highway d^artment. The| the Economic Council of Canada
Goodman band was doing the. has relea^d its annual report, in
Camel Caravan broadcast at the. which it as.serts that millions of
time and Shytle reasoned tbeiTi Canadians live in chronic, grind-
would be an aiftemoon rehearsal
“I was praying it would rain and
we’d knodc oflf,” he reoalls, "and
it did rain.”
At that time Singer Martha ’Til
ton waa Goodman's chletf lady
ing poverty —r at least a fourth
to a third of the nation’s popula
tion, the council estimates.
‘There is more (poverty) than
our .soqiety can tolerate, more
Some of our British readers'
complain occasionally about those
monosyllabic words which some
times creep into our headlines
and which are strange to them.
We mean words like "probe,”
■‘snarl," "gird," "jar,” and
“mull.” We hold no special brief
for this peculiar vocabulary
j but we would ask our critics to
Rev. T. A. Lineberger, pastor| spare a sympathetic thought fori
of Macedonia Baptist church, has| the headline-writers who often
been elected president of the have only the width of a single
Kings Mountain Ministerial Asso- column to squeeze in an informa-
ciation for the coming year. j tive or baited caption that makes
< r scnsB. Wc must confess, too, to
\SOCIAL AND PERSONAL being comforted by a columnist
Duplicate BridUe clu,b members' in the London Sunday Times whol ’"’■j"?'
met Monday a'fternoon at thel finds the headline “Danger June-1
home of Mrs. James 'B. Simpson.I tion Probe” in the Devon weekly, ADMITTED MONDAY /
Prizes went to Mrs Drace Peeler,' newspaper, the Exmouth Jpurnal, Javon Smith, Rt. 1, City
high scorer, and to Mrs. George! crackling aind snapping. j Mr. William Moore, Rt. 1, City
Houser, second high. | Mr. Cecil Payseur, 212 W. Va.
I Devon, of course, is as English Ave., Bessemer City
j as its clotty cream. But believe ■ TUESDAY
It or not, the writer ol that head- 2, City
line was an American and he, Thomas Gorden, Box 161,
happens to he publisher and edi-
ADMITTED SUNDAY
Mr. Harry Taylor. Rt. 2, Bes
semer City
Ronald Carpenter, lOS W. Lee
Ave., Bessemer City
Mr. James Staley, 810 Landing
St., City
Mrs. Texia Hicks, Box 422, Bes
semer City
•Mr. William Peterson, 314 Wa-
WISH ON A STAR,
BUT CAUTIOUSLY
i tor of the Exmouth Journal. He
1 City
We don’t mess around vei-y
much with the laws of possibility,, gtates
; so when our horoscope forecast | ‘
Mrs. Earl Hardin, 30-1 Sims St.,
vocalist. Then he trieq tp recall ipuj^y of the highest stand-
than our economy can afford, and, personal re-
far more than existing measures lationships” we don’t even speak
and efforts can cope with, the'
council says. “Its persistence, at a
time when the bulk of Canadians
yet another singer w^o had been
a Goodhnan. star, rem^bered
esictly how site looked, that she
was native to South Dakota, but
try as he did he couldn’t recall
her name. I remembered Helen'
Forrest later singing with Good
man, but the Dakotan was ye*
another.
I joined the JJhyor ,Saturd^
afternoon ft^ a- visit with his
longtime -friend iMarion Jatkson
wH^ I had known only casually.
He is quite an IntewstinB per
sonality. He and John resninisced'
about dt^ys gone by at Park Yarn
Mill where Mr. Jaeksw woriteq
for years and where John Hwuy
grew up.
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Jlr. Ja*)ison mentioned the fact
he never want tq school a day in
his life. I remarked, after hear
ing his conversation, "You may
have no foimal schooling, but
you’re quite w«il-«h«sit^.”
■When he remarked he is 75
years old-1 waa most surprised.
He looks about 60.
artjs of living in the whole world,
is a disgrace.’’ The report urges
the eliinination of '^verty as a
mqjoir' national goal of high pri
ority.
We are, we concede, foils for
the horoscope prophets. And
All this sounds familiar. The j while we realize that this is a
Canadian findings resemble the. tinplate hoax for the pcp-pill
is in fact John F. Day, once head _.
of CBS News in the United | '4.. \vp.,ley Bailey. .318 E.
1 ton Ave.. Bessemer City
I Mr. William Cogdcll, Rt. 2. City
His newspaper is 110 years old, yirs. Mamie Gill. Rt. 2, City
to that dark-haired secretary on' with a circulation of 10,0(X)-odd in ^,.5. James Robert Champion,
the third floor. ' a catchment area of 35,000. And,' 504 Katherine Ave., City
says the Sunday Times, "that's
We rarely speak to her anyhow, pretty good.”
but occasionally we do and that’s
as far as we trust
go.
ourselves to
Reginald Emqry, Southern
RaLIway trainman from Mauldin,',
S; C, w»» injured near here 'Fri-
Wy. ip sometlUng ai| a ac
cident. One tiwin was parlbM in
.the areq W^ai- WJCMT and anbth-
|er wwB pAsstnl;. Emory was
’standing befiween the parked
train and the moving one. Whe
ther something protruded from a,
car of the moving train or whe
ther it was ip tihe suqtion, BmoQ'
wa$ ca^a^ted into thp parkM
train and, like a basketball,
raboun^ into the.raofving tnun.
■Benn^ Masteja and Jobn.Wiitfv
Who answeretd th¥ call for. aid,
1364 report ot the U. S. Council
of Economic Advisers, which help
ed open the U. 9. war on poverty.
And the Canadian council rec
ommends that our neighbor na
tion to the north emphasize the
same.goals that have been stres.s-
ed in the U. S. effort — “seU-ltelp,
seU-developiment and maximum
partidpatioo and involvement of
the jioor themselves.”
Covering ground that other na
tions have trod before, the Cana-
diaps SHiqly know that even the
most affluent society cannot elim
inate poverty overnight. This is
the. fifth, ctiristmas since the
plight of the poor in the Umted
States gained the attention of the
Cbuncil of Economic Advisers and,
though inroads have been made,
poverty remains a pressing prob
lem in OUT land.
Perhaps one can find some com
fort irr the fact that rich nations
are finally confronting the para
dox (rf i^erty in the midst of
plenty apd arc concerned about
it. But we must not be too much
comforteid. The ghost of Christmas
future warns that, like the annual
Christmas basket, mere concern
is. not enough. It must be trans
lated into action — dedicated,
peptlctent- and in all seasons. —
R09M RaraM Ttovalar.
trade, wc invest a fair share of
caution.
The trouble is, our afternoon
contemporaiiy has hired a seer
(Jeane Dixon) who often contra
dicts our morning advisor, Car-
roll Righter.
Mr. Day apparently makes
some concessions to gain accept
ance for his crackling and snap
ping Amcnean-style headlines. In
his ovwi words; "I don’t speak
unless spoken to, and I’m not
projecting an image of myself. If
I went at it like some smart-Alec
American I’d 'be ridden out of
town on a rail.” He also keeps
back numbers of the Exmouth
Journal in the bath — in the olf-
fice, of course, not at his home.
He is able to do this, the Sunday
, L- . ,, I Times explains, "because they
Righter suggests, m his A.M.|d„„,j
adWsoiy.^This IS a day to takei perhaps might be
Bos-
Mr. Walter H. Manley, Jr., Rt.
2, City
Price Of Lead
Increase Noted
HOUSTON, TEXAS The
•Bunker Hill Company, a subsidi
ary of Gulf Resources & Chemi
cal Corporation, today increased
the price of lead from 13c to
13'ac/lb. New York basis effect
ive immediately.
W-UON?
We wQUlter how many house
wives will ’truly be imiprassqti bv
Secretary of the Treaqury
W. iBarr's figures, intfraating dp
they w^. In oi;^x t® give in
idea ot just how much a billlQD
dollars Is, Secretary Barr hit up
on the followinjg. He said that,
a housewife beg-un to spend
bhe dollar a minute, 24 hours a
day, seven days a week at 3:50
a.xp. Sept. 11 in the year AD. 69,
wt^d just hawe finished
chances. Be bold.’
We are boldly willing. We are]
properly conditioned, after read-j
ing Righter, to breast the boss!
for the raise he promised us six;
years ago if we “behaved." j
We have behaved reasonably
(well, with a few outlandish ex-;
iceptions. We winked at a mini-|
skirted blonde on Haywood Street j
apd we told an irato reader tol
“Go to the devil.” I
Not surprisingly, neither ac-'
cepted our invitation. But, on the]
same day Righter was egging us.
on to be boli Jeane Dixon was
advising. "Slow down; you’re go-1
ing too fast." We hadn’t realized i
we were speeding. j
Nonetheless, Righter was'
wrong; we asked the boss for a
raise, describing our astrological
probabilities. He said no.
Ashernlle Citizen
. _ i
A Company spokesman said
the price change is necessary to
maintain and, if possible, in
crease lead shipments to meet
the subTect for another edrtoriaT.;™®‘“^^^^^ requirements by en-
I coui'a;;ing the flow of purchased
Christian Srienre Afonifor concentrates into the Bunker Hill » ■
smelter. ”
siie
felt Kmoiy mighty lucky to be handing out the $1 billion,
alive. Admitted to the hospitif -’We aidviae Secretary Barr that,
here, he was transferred tol if he wishes to reach todiiy’s
Greenville, S. C. MeitoortaJ Hob-} houMlwUlB, he will hew to do
pital the following day, Ibettal than that. In the first
place, the average housewife
knows perfectly well that during
the past 12 months she already
has spent over a billion dollars.
Not only have countless house
wives groaningly made that very
statement, but to almost all of
them, walking oiut of the super
market, that is exactly what it
seems like.
Will her husband disagree with
her? Not if you ask him some
time around the middle of April
when his Income tax returns are
due. He will heartily subscribe to
her plaint.
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