MNOS MOUNTAIN HeRALO, KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. Thursday, Jun« 12, 1969 Establlshad 1889 The Kings Mountain Heiald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general Welfare and published lor the enllghtenn.ent, 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., 280K under Act of Congress of March 3,1873. COITOniAL DErABTMEirr Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Qrculation Manager and Society Editor Miss Debbie Thornbuig Clerk, Bookkeeper Dave Weathers, Supt MECRAmCAL OEPASTMERT Allen Myers Paul Jadtson Steve Martin SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR... .$3.50 SIX MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1BS PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-S441 TODAT'S BIBLE VERSE Good and upright is the Lord: thereforeiwill he teach sinners in the way. Psalm S5:8. D«ad Heal-No Pay-Oil It didn’t happen in the Derby, the Preakness or the Belmont, and modern photography can usually establish a horse race winner in the so-called photo finishes. Even on ties, first place, second place and third place qualify the horses for cash, the dead heat pair splitting first and second money. As of now, Kings Mountain’s two worthies in the General Assembly appear for that photo finish dead heat on the matter of legislation concerning the Kings Mountain Lake project. But in matters of this kind a tie at the finish line means nothing except: 1) There will be no Kings Mountain Lake Authority bill. 2) The Kings Mountain Lake will be a water reservoir. 3) The Kings Mountain Lake will not be developed for public recreation. Senator Jack White presented a bill to which objections on several items were voiced and to which the pijy a- greed. These were embodied in a substi tute bill. But these accessions proved insufficient to obtain approval of Repre sentative W. K. Mauney, Jr., Representa tive Robert Z. Falls and the county com mission. The argument bolls down to 1) Mr. MAuney’s amendment directing that the city develope the area for public recrea tion and 2) his refusal to convey zoning authority to the city. The zoning item looms as biggest. The latest version of the bill as passed by the House Monday would convey zon ing authority to the city If the county had not accomplished the zoning by Jan uary 1,1970. The city takes the position the Kings Mountain Lake water project is one be ing solely paid for by Kings Mountain, to the amount of $3,000,000 for which Kings Mountain has pledged its full faith and credit. The city further reasons that it should be sole manager of its property. The other bill, on eminent dorry was also amended in the House by Mauney. Some of the amendments palatable to the city, some were not.l These bills will die on the SenJ vine. That’s the way it is, at least,! Wednesday, June 11, 1969. Congratulations to Rev. David tor, pastor of Resurrection loit church, winner of a national scholar^ to represent the Lutheran churchl Camp Philmont Scout Ranch In Mexico. Kings Mountain area citizens demonstrated their liberality for wt causes. Contributions to the cancer i set a record, Mrs. M«utiey, i drive chairman, r^oits. Fruition One major Kings Mountain project is complete, or nearty so. All that remains is the final check out of the $1,300,000 sewage disposal sys tem which is scheduled for Friday by the engineers, the State Stream Sanitation committee, and the Federal Water Pollu tion Control committee. This one’s been a long time coming. Kings Mountain’s over-loaded, anti quated system employing Imhoff tanks (actually over-sized septic tanks) was condemned by the State Board of Health at least as early as 1948, perhaps before. At least three administrations sought to honor the condemnations by asking the voters for funds to remedy the situation only to find the voters saying, “No, thanks’’ to the prospect of a bigger tax bill. Finally, the first Glee Bridges Ad ministration was able to obtain approv al of a bond issue for sewage system im provements, resulting in the installation of some needed mains and building of the modern McGill treatment plant which helped the situation in East Kings Mountain. As time passed, the laws became more stringent and the state agencies were able to apply arm-twisting tactics to cities and industries to force the clean up. Finally the voters complied, too. It’s by now a banal phrase in the Herald but it bears repeating: there’s not much glamor in a piece of sewer pipe, whether one likes the reddish-brown color of vitreous clay pipe, or the black of cast iron. The two principal missing links in Kings Mountain’s progress from the city standpoint have been sewage treatment and water supply. Sewage treatment is here. And water is on the way. Rep. Mauney was quoted by the Shel by Daily Star Tuesday as saying, “I’m not proud of Kings Mountain’s past his tory of zoning. “The county is starting off new and they are starting off right. They have good engineers, and frankly I believe the county will do a better job of zoning the lake than the city and there will be better co-operation of the property owners.’’ Bumper Cr^ With today’s edition, the Herald has printed the pictures of no less than 49 Kings Mountain area young men and women who have attaliiw d^^ees from institutions of higher learning. The Herald must aver that the big trouble about Kings Mountain’s zoning is the fact zoning was born as late as 1948, and has reached its majority of 21 years. Kings Mountain is a much better place in which to live because of zoning. The Herald must also aver that the county has been mighty slow to get into the zoning business. MARTIN'S MEDICINE Ingredients: Bits of humor, wisdom, humor and com ments. Directions: Take weekly, if possible, but a- void overdosage. By MAR-HN HARMON Pete MoKnight, the Charlotte Observer editor, tickled many memories in his column about the Green pastures rally in Charlotte i n 1936, lea'turing President ■Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the star attraction. m-m Kings Mountain insuranceman Tom Trott remembers the event as ‘'the most unforgettable ex perience of my life”. m-m Tom left a memo on my desk re: the Green Pastures rally. Retrieved to Review m-m Writes Tom: i-m “I was on rhe platform with President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Charlotte as assistant chief marshal, apointed by Mr. Hugh G. Mitchell, who was chier marsh al. He is from Statesville. i m-m “From my point of vantage. Huuh Mitchell and General Paul Younts of Charlotte did most of the- work in promoting this, the biggest political rally in the South. m-m “There were about a hundred people on the platiform. Of course, fifty must have been secret serv ice men. I was about five feet from the President at one time, but did not get to shake his hand (pushed back by secret service). V iuBM Viewpoints of Other Editors MARS, ENTHUSIASTICALLY? A landing on Mars in the leso’s? This is the goal dreamed of by top American space oiffi- cials, after the moon landing this summer. But there are hefty ob stacles. Mainly, as flight operations di rector Christopher Kraft Jr. at Houston wisely remarked, the Mars trip would demand that same "aegree of national enthusi asm shown in the lunar landing program.” This may be difficult to generate. As often stressed, there are colossal problems right here on earth domandinlg com mitments of time, energy, money, enthusiasm. Without doubt, men are going to Mars and further planets — someday. But how soon when, domestically, the United States needs to rebuild Its city cores, carrythrough a raciaj revolution, fight hunger, make vast strides In low-cost hoiising and educa tional opportunities, and so on and on? In about t(wo months, two un manned probes will ho scouting the Red Planet. Two more probes will be launched in 1971. Soft lands of capsules on Mars are scheduled, by present plans, for 1972 and 1973. And the Natl(tnal Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration hopes simultaneously to test, via earth-orbiting space sta tions, whether interplanetary travel poses physical hazards to the travelers. The whole program points, directly and eventually, to that takeoff for Mars. The ques tionable ingredient: how much enthusiasm the United States will have for this tremendous venture in the next few busy years. Christian Srienre Monitor BIBLE SCHOOL PICNIC Vacation Bible School Fami- ily Night picnic will be held at Boyce Memorial ARP church Wednesday night at 7 p.m. The school is being conducted all week through Friday. m-m Pete Wilson, manager of Rose’s, and his wife recently vacationed in Florida with his brother who SANTA CLARA GANG Ten Years Ago Items of interest which occur- id approximately ten years ago Jimmy Plonk will leave New York Monday and will sail for Bremer, Germany, Wednesday from Hoboken, New Jersey a- board the Dutch ship S. S. Zur- dirkruis, along with other Amer ican youth who have been award ed American Field Service inter- The word “gang” means many things—some distasteful. -But the lives on St, Pdters'burg beach. Onlats^ge in this particular instance ^return, Pete, an elder of First! ^®®bs a well-mannered, intelli- Presbyterian church, and Mrs. 1 S^ttt unit of young men and wom- Wilson did the Wednesday night; un usual, changing attire and going; The “gang” we have in mind to 7:30 prayer meeting. i was one from Santa Clara Uni- I versity at Santa Clara, Cal. Not . I too long ago these young men At 7:40 First Presbyterian) women, all members of the church remained dark as a door| club, came into the nail. Said Pete, we might as well, Coffee Shop in down n-iom -is go home for theres no prayerj Falls just-before clos-i coViniarchinc meeting tonight.” While away,|i„g ^here were about 40 it w-iQ late hut Paulette Patterson, daughter of summer. i when the manager learned they Patterson, ^ were hungry and that they still ■Pete recalled the first time hei *« Sun Valley thaf ■ night, they were most -welcome; The waitresses were coopera tive, the management was eexjp- erative, the exjoks were coopera tive and so were the young men and women of the ski team. Re sult—everyone felt good. Feeling especially gtwd was Ruth Carpentier, a waitress. She SUBSCRIBE TO THE HERALD the session had voted to suspend j them, mid-week prayer service for the- knew visited his brother five years a- go. South Peteraburg beach isj rather much off the beaten path.| Pete reached St. Petersburg in, good time, stopped at a service! station to seek directions to des tination. The service station at-! tendant was a Cuban, and Pete couldn’t understand him. Finally, won the fifth grade citizenship medals from Mrs. John E. Gam Mb’s room at West school. ■•"Hickorys Bethany Lutheran church provided the setting Satur day at 4 p.m. for the wedding of Princess Marie Abernathy of Hickory and Gene Ashby Mauney. YOU CAN'T ESCAPE he wrote his question, and the . „ . , , Cuban wrote the answer. But the evening ’ and one fel- Pete couldn’t read the w.iting. low even took her picture m color, then backed and filled for ihiec ^hen, to top it all off, Mrs^ hours before he found his broth- T^Penticr (just the^^other day) er’s home. Unlike the mean man in the Bi- was singled out as a sort of wait-' hie who “climbed a tree the Lord to flee.” that student who perched recently in a tree on the 'Univers ity of Arkansas campus wanted | received a copy of that picture I't was sent to her by one Dave M-m I Blair, ski team president. On the This year Pete’s son Jimmy! back of the picture he wrote; came to St. l^tersburg and for’ "-’-i^ain I would like to thank the first time. He called to seek directions, as Pete had asked the Cuban. It was night-time. Pete told his son, “I’ll give you the you and the establishment for re ceiving us so well. It isn’t very often th-at a group of students get the type reception that you people to point him out as an objector to the Vietnam War. He, no doubt, hoped, too, that heaven would take note. Man came down from the trees several million years ago, they tell us. It wasn’t easy to cope with the enemies he found below I or to learn to walk upright—like! Auction SALE! of STRODPE SUBDIVISION WACO, N. C. SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1969 2:00 P« M. LOCATED: On Hwy. #150,'s Miles West of Cherry- ville, 10 Miles East of Shelby, N. C. IS BUSINESSES & HOMESITBI These are large beautiful lots with approximately 1 acre each. Some on Hwy. #150, some wooded, some open lots and 1 lot with a spring on it. This is a restricted subdivision. It isn’t often this type of lots are offered to the public at auction. Come out, look this property over and meet us there the day of sale. TERMS: Cash! FREE PONY! FREE CASH! A. B. STROUPE, Owner Sale Conducted By: LINCOLN AUCTION CO. G. Teague Gilbert, Auctioneer Route #1, Lincolnton, N. C. 28092-Telephone 739-8395 6:12pd The Herald is sure it hasn't covered all tlhe graduations and expects some ad ditions. Even so, minus a files check, we’ie pretty sure that it’s the largest group ever. ell of the public school these students Itrents who sacri- ^might obtain or the stu- |he grade. directions. Write them down, but gave us five minutes before cios you’ll never make it at night. | ing time.” Stay in St. Petersburg and come So there you have it! Adults out in the morning. Even with | and students can cooperate to daylight and directions, his son the benefit of all concerned. required three hours to find his uncle’s too. And it is refreshing to hear from students who are courteous, . down to earth and appreciative W"™ -when someone goes overboard to Richard Jones’ question at Dix-Uggist them, on Chevrolet Wednesday morning | And we just bout forgot to concerned the disappearance of^nnention. The ski team members, the five - year - old Patterson:-when they had concluded their Springs youth and brought remi- nteal, saw to it that each waitress niscing tales about early-age de partures from home from sever al of us. m-n The chain reaction begun, the conversation graduated to hitch hiking. Dub Stone remembered a visit to his grandmother’s in Rockingham. His mother had de posited him at the bus station with sufficient funds for fare and spending money. Dub was prac tical. His thumb was worth the fare and 14 different rides be tween Kings Mountain and Rock ingham. got a t'p—and in each instance it came to $5. All hail to Santa Clara! Time-News (Twin Falls, Idaho) a man- in the process. But the race managed it. Climbing back up in the name of peace won’t make anybody’s troubles vanish. Men and nations earn their right to live by staying down 'below— in the thick of things. Dallas Morning News BIBLE SCMOOl Vacation Bible School is be ing conducted each evening, 6:30 until 8:30 p.m., at Dixon Presbyterian church through Friday. A family night cook- out will be on Friday. Com mencement exercises will be held at the Sunday School hour on Sunday. m-m Another ex-perience was more harrowing. He and a buddy were hitch-hiking from Corpus Christi, Texas, to a city 120 miles distant. A friendly trucker stopped, sug gested they’d be more comforta ble in the closed in rather than the cab. There were plenty of soft blankets. Of course, said the trucker I must close the back. Leaving it open was against the ’■aw. The door closed, it was black IS night. After a few miles. Dub thought h e smelled exhaust ■nines. Did hls buddy? Yeah, his ’niddy belived he did, too. "We ’^re trapped," they thought. No nount of yelling and pounding uld overcome the noise of the ■bling truck. m-a I k Jones had a slightly dif-| asyphiation experience. He' 1 f a ride in the closed in 'f a tidy^idy firm in Shel- I k-up business had been t in « KitchenAid disliwasher. Like amazing dependability, outstanding performance, low maintenance and long life. And ^ you also get the newest appliance color. Golden HarvCTt, m two portable models: A top-loading portable that s porcelain enamel inside and out. Or a front-lmdmg convertible that you can use as a portable now; havM it buUt in anytime you want—easilv ^auae they’re po^le, tliey need no installation. 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