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
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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.
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Kings Mountain insuranceman
Tom Trott remembers the event
as ‘'the most unforgettable ex
perience of my life”.
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Tom left a memo on my desk
re: the Green Pastures rally.
Retrieved to Review
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Writes Tom:
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“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
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“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.
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“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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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