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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Thursday, September 18, 1969
Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Herald
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enlightennicnt, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain
•nd its vicinity, pubiished every Thursday by the Heraid Pubiishing House.
Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 280H6
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon EMltor-Publisher
Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Botritkeeper
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
Rocky Martain
Jim Caudill
Allen Myers
Frank Barber Gary Kiser
Paul Jackson
Ray Parker
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
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Good News on Woter
There is a saying that, if one loves
the Lord and works hard, he’ll normally
be blessed.
Perhaps that is Kings Mountain’s
situation on water.
Certainly much work has been ex
pended.
But big projects don’t become fact
over-night.
Last week resident engineer Dennis
Fox reported construction of the four-
million gallon treatment plant on sched
ule and that it should be ready for ser
vice by March 1.
This week a break-through has oc
curred on acquisition of land with the
commissioner’s hearing on acquisition of
the portion of the damn site owned by
Buford Cline.
Meantime, Kings Mountain has been
fortunate to have seen a wet summer.
The charge has been made by a few
that Kings Mountain in the foreseeable
future has no need of a reserve of several
billion gallons of raw water and rated
capacity of up to 20 million gallons per
day.
Certainly adequate water is neces
sary for growth, and much industry has
passed Kings Mountain by because tliere
was no water.
In the early 1950’s Carolina Mills vis
ited Kings Mountain and liked what it
saW until the question of water was
broached. Carolina required a million
gallons per day, while Kings Mountain’s
treatment plant could treat just a mill
ion per day. Carolina went to Hender
sonville where there was water.
It’s always better to have too much
than too little.
Mrs. Lillie Herd Herd
The passing of Mrs. Ed Hord at 92
removed from Kings Mountain a lady of
wit and charm and a citizen of many
years.
She was a fine mother, devoted
churchwoman, and a highly skilled ex
pert with the skillet. One of her special
ties (besides sumptuous cakes and other
delicacies) was pecan roll.
Her wit was warm and she spread it
freely, seeming to see the funny side of
any situation.
Mrs. Mord was a Hord who married
a Hord, the late Mr. Ed who was a re
spected concrete contractor.
Sure Signs of Growth
Upping of the city’s gas allotment b\
620,000 cubic feet per day is a sure sign
of growth.
In the 15-plus years the city has been!
selling natural gas the total allotment]
has grown nearly two million.
Other signs are the annexation peti
tions of Bill Stinnett and Henry White-
sides for a residential development, of
Kenneth Roberts for re-zoning to build
some much-needed apartments, of Wil
son Chrawfords further building resi
dences, and t:ie Plonk brothers are con
tinuing to fill Crescent Hill. Meantime,
the low-rent public housing is beginning
to show on several sites. Electrical
power sales continue to increase.
It will be interesting guess what the
city’s population wili be at the decennial
census next year.
The Herald’s current guess of 9300 is
based on projections of the January 1966
special census.
A best bow to Dick Webb on his elec
tion as* first vice-president of the North
llna-Virginia Chapter of the Ameri-
Society of Training and Develop
ment.
St. Matthew T:7.
A Good Samaritan
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
And a modern Good. Samaritan is
service station owner Robert Bess, who
as the Biblical one helped a traveler in
distress.
The Mayor has received a letter from
the air force colonel conveying apprecia
tion to the city lor its good citizens, par
ticularly Mr. Bess who befriended his
virtually standed son.
The boy had left his wallet, including
all his credit cards and identification, at
his previous night’s lodging place. Mr.
Bess favored him with credit for gas to
speed the traveler on his way to the
United States Military Academy at West
Point.
Two-County City
After Kings Mountain moved out of
Gaston County, via election, in the
spring of 1915, many have charged the
voters made an unwise decision.
Rightly or wrongly it is the Herald’s
guess that from that election stems the
especial rivalry between Shelby and
Kings Mountain, with, of course, athletic
contests adding an extra measure.
Kings Mountain has started moving
back and is expected to move a little
more when it annexes the Whitesides-
Stinnett properties.
While being a two-county city com
plicates administration slightly, the ben
efits out-weigh the complications. (
Gaston County has already shown its
friendship by making a large contribu
tion to an East Kings Mountain project.
It will add to Kings Mountain’s poli
tical heft in Raleigh, for Gaston repre
sentatives in the House have Kings
Mountain constituents, too
There’s nothing really wrong with
Cleveland nor with Gaston County
cither.
Interesting Experiment
Bobby Creighton and W. E. Tessener
are offering private .school bus service
to pupils within the city limits and dis
tant from the schools they attend.
It is an interesting experiment.
In-city folk, particularly in the larger
cities, have complained tor years about
the unlairness In the iaw which permits
carryir.g out-oi city students living a
mile-ancl-li;df distant, yrt not ih-city
pupils, a statute the state Supreme Court
recently struck down, effective next
school year.
The two owners launched the service,
we take it with success, in Cherryville
last year and we wish them well in their
undertaking here.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
Ingredients: Bits of humor,
wisdom, humor and com
ments. Directions: Take
weekly, if possible, but a-
void overdosage.
By MARTIN HARMON
Mayor John Henry Moss has
been teasing Verne Cheatwood
about his driving prowess since
riding with Verne to Shelby.
“How," the Mayor jests, "did you
get all the way here from Okla
homa?"
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I still sometimes break the rule
but, since studying the driver’s
license manual before my recent
test, I am very conscious of the
dictum to use an auto horn for
what it's meant for, not as a
means of greeting friends.
Distractions arc a principal
cause of accidents and the phrase,
"Look there!” has been a cause
of many.
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My wife always feared for tlie
j welfare of the late Attorney Ector
■ A. Harrill. Ever gallant, Mr. Har-
rill always tipped his hat to the
ladies with considerable flourish,
no eye left for the road.
RISING TIDE
I
Most young drivers, particularly
the male of the species, are slaves
to speed, as I once was. But the
last time 1 drove too fast was in
1961 on the day President Jack
Kennedy spoke at Chapel Hill. My
wife and I had stopped at a cafe
at Rockwell, as wa.s our custom,
for a glass of milk. I bought a
Charlotte Observer and was scan
ning a story concerning the Pres-
KINSS MOUNTAIN
Hospital Log
VISITING HOURS
3 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 8 pjn.
DaUy 10:30 To 11:30 cum.
Viewpoints of Other Editors
TELEPHONE HANGUP
We were musing the other day
after the phone went dead in the
ident’s appearance. He was sched- j middle ot a conversation that
uled to .speak at 11 o’clock and
the story said the gates would be
locked at that hour. It was then
10. We had to rush and we did.
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slamming down the receiver and
cursing .Ma Bell, satisfying though
that may be, is a little too easy..
Our telephone behaves strange
ly with annoying frequency, and
we are apparently not alone. Like
many others, we'have wondered
When we arrived I was shaking what is going on over at AT&T,
with nervous tension. And it was' we find somewhat feeble the ex-
all to no avail. The Observer had ’ planation that demand for tele-
been mistaken. The gates re-1 phones and computer lines has
mained open throughout the grown faster than the company
President’s address. | was able to foresee. That, after
1 all, is what management is sup
posed to do.
WHAT'S IRELAND?
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I made
again.
a resolution: never
Still, the problem has other di
mensions. The Bell companies
have been among the nation’s
most active in seeking out, hiring
and training the urban unem
ployed who by ordinary standards
lack the education or skill to hold
With Ireland so much in the
news, many people are wondering
just what is the difference be
tween Northern and Southern Ire
land. A kind soul at the London
Observer determined to clear up
the confusion a bit and produced
these helpful insights:
■ To begin with. Northern Ireland
really isn’t northern because it
doesn’t actually include the nor
thernmost part. That part hap
pens to be in Donegal, which po
litically oelongs to the south. So
Northern Ireland really is north
east Ireland, to be precisely cor
rect.
You could call the northeast
“the six counties,” since it con
trols that many of Ireland’s 32
counties. But northerners—north-
easterners—don’t like that desig
CRIME AND
PUNISHMMENT
We are currently in the midst
of a break-in spree in Eden.
Crimes are committed but the
courts are lenient. Defendants
have more-rights than does socie
ty. Minority rights are pressed;
the majority is ignored.
Step by step we conquer out
er -space, but, on the earth, civili
zation seems to grow worse and
wo:se. We fail because we no
longer have the inate mission of
stewardship, or feel the need to
do something to improve the
world in which we live.
Jackie Lee Bowen
Mrs. Emma H. Burleson
Mrs. Ethel .Mae Hambrlght
John Henry Kendrick
.Mrs. Coral E. Laughter
Mfs. Etta Doris Ayers
.Mrs. Jena Eba Lou Biddix
Mrs. Kelly J. Camp
.Mrs. (Jrady Cash
Dan Falls
Mrs. Maris C. Feweli
Mrs. Henry J. Fite
Mrs. John Howard Foster !
Mrs. Thomas W. Grayson
Jeffrey Scott Hamrick
Sidney Dulin Iluffstetler
Alphiid Johnson
Mrs. Homer A. Kilgore
Everette Glenn Lovelace
William White Mauney
Mrs. Reeves Boone Messer
Mrs. Larry Floyd Mincey
James Andrew Moss
Jet Edward Parker
Hazel Patterson
Freelon Ramsey
Elijah Ross
Willard Hugh Ross
Mrs. Mary Ruth Rush
Lee Anderson .Sanders
Mrs. James Shields
Anthony Fitzgerald Wade
V’enelia Renee Wright
AD.MITTED THURSDAY
Charlie Braxton Hall
Keith Manson Hawkins
James Cooke Wilson
ADMITTED FRIDAY
Mrs. John F. Boheler
Elizabeth Ebeltoft
Charlie Franklin Storup
Mrs. James Roseboro '
ADMITTED SATURDAY ■
Fied Lorin King Jb
l.awson Harold Dover
Mrs. Cora E. Laughter tii
M.-s. Tom Dewey Batchler -,(j
Mrs. Paul W. Brown -.f
Clyde Crosby ^
Lester Lee Dorty ^
Mrs. Gertrude E. Hamrick ' '
Beverly Ann Lynch "
Mrs. William T. Martin ;
Mrs. Mitchell C. Queen ti i
ADMITTED SUNDAY -!(.
Lester Lee -Dorty
Mrs. Rov L. Long
Mrs. Clifton E. Morgan, Jr. < \
Jasper .N. Philbeck
ADMITTED .MONDAY
Mrs. Holland A. Horn, Jr.
George Arthur Watson
ADMITTED TUESDAY
.Mrs. Lula Mae Fisher
BIRTHS
nation. They prefer Ulster. But \ them later. The children,, recog
Ulster upsets the southerners, who nizing this parental hesitancy.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lee Alex-
,,,, ^ . ander, Bessemer Citv - Kings
What once was immoral us now, Mountain Trailer Park. Bessemer
accepted as a wav of life. i city, announce the birth of a
Parents are loath to restrict j dau.ghter, Thursday, September
children because It may inhibit, If,, Kings .Mountain hospital.
Perhaps the poorest fortune of, . .„u- -
the day was suffered by the late “"y I®'’-
Mrs. O Max Gardner and Mrs. to slum u^
Max Gardner. Jr. Stadiums are 'h^t has been praised from
have some identification prob
lems of their own.
Some people refer to the south
as Eire. But that’s not quite cor
take the bull by the horns. Some
make it by the straight path,
some wander, some get in trouble.
Everyone is entitled to forgivo-
noted for questionable micro-
I the White House on down, and
rect because Eire is Gaelic for all j ness. When first-offenders arc
of Ireland. What about the Irish , forgiven, some go straight. More
phone performance with occa- f . .. . ,
sional "blind” spots. The Gardner t'LTt «
given the high cost of urban labor
ladies drew one and heard very
happens to make good business
little of Mr. Kennedy’s speech.
I But according to a recent ar-
! tide in New York magazine this
commendable policy has compli
cated whatever other problems
cap;“ o^Y{yep. th£suid;nTy:
protrude. Thanks to Bob Maner s
It’s strange how little facts es-
. maims lu dou .viaiicx s ...... , . ... . , u
Story on Constitution Week, which niother’s eldest daughter, who has
appears elsewhere in today’s edi- “ “ her responsi-
tiX, I learn that the work of the ! b'hty to stay home and care for
CY^nstitutional Convention w a s h” yo'^'Se" brSthers and sisters
completed on September, 17 -
j daughter s attitude plays havoc
with the employer’s work sched-
j ule, but in welfare- client circles
I it Is the accepted form.
Free State? That was abolished
in 1937. Then there’s the Irish
Republic. But that causes prob
lems, to, becau.se Dublin main
tains that the republic includes
the northeast along with the rest
of it.
Small wonder the Irish ^— if
that’s the right tag—are so'upset
these days. ’They don’t know
where they are.—The MUwouke*
Journal
TAX YODEL
of the offenders "repebt” than go
straight.
Crime increases in greater pro
portion than ever before. The in
cidence of crime increases faster
than the population per 100.000
people. So, we have crime. The
defendant has the upper hand.
The idea reaches down to young
sters. Juveniles know their rights.
What do we need? We need
adults who are willing to become
inv'olvei in the re-establishment
of a sound societv'.
Can it be done? Yes, but it wdll
Mr. and .Mrs. Larry .Stephens
Evans, 2.o.o7 Mellon Avenue, Gas
tonia, announce the birth ot a son,
Friday, September 12, Kings
Mountain hospital. -,
Mother’s birthday.
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The aforementioned Mr. Cheat-
Manv o'her cultural and educa-
differences ensure that the
We always thought the Swiss I take work.-adult self-examination
had a special talent for novel and determination to do some-
finance, with numbered bank ac- : thing about this alarming up-
counts and all that. Now we i swing in crime .and easy treat-
know. For the Swiss, it appears, ment of criminals by our courts,
are offering a year-long amnesty | Unless this crime trend is rcr
to tax evaders. I versed, civilization could be doom-
It’s a long time from now to ed.
wood has been in land appraisal i,transition from rural South or city April 15 but what an interesting j
work for many years and has a
I slum to urban working world will
phenomenal rnemory for detail. I ®"tooth, no .matter who
He had done some work for Amer-i h^,‘'!^P °y‘‘'- I" the case of
lean Telephone and Telegraph ' f*’® telephone cwmpany, the rough
Company in Maryland in iggs. are likely to be cemmuni-
Some months thereafter he re-J®®*®'* Vv, ;
ceived a call from a company of- ! that AT&T will be
ficial who asked him to stretch ! ®.^>® P^tch up ts service pos-
his memory about his agreements '■®i®*® ''‘^y on
with a family named King. Mr.
King was a farmer. How did the
line run? Verne recalled it was
a north-south line. The question
concerned King’s concern with
saving three big shade trees. Had
there been any agreement? There
had not been about the shade
trees but there had been about a
group of pines.
idea- The Swiss Government has
declared that if a tax dodger pays
his taxes this year, all past de
linquencies will be forgotten and
forgiven, no matter how .small or
great they were. The amnesty
covers both individual and corpo
rate taxes.
The expectation is that a real i~
its newly trained employes. In , windfall to the government will
the meantime the phone that result, and that this will be big
suddenly goes mute mav be part : enough so that no general tax in-
of the price for yesterday’s bad ; erea.se will be reouired to defrav
.judgment, and another reminder ; rising expenditures. The hope is
ROTARY CLUB
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell C. Queer!,
Route 6, Shelby, announce thS
birth of a son, Saturday, Septem-i
ber 13, Kings Mountain hospital.
Mr. and .Mrs. Hollan.i A. Horn,
Jr., ifHite ,3, announce the birth
of a son, Monday, September 15,
Kings Mountain hospital.
Mr, and .’VIrs, Bobby Gordon
Fulton, route 1, Kings Creek, S.
C., announce the birth of -a daugh
ter. T.esday, September 16, Kings
Mountain hospital.
Mr. and .Mrs. Gary Ray Os-
burn, 607 M-’est Mountain street,
announces the hirth of a daugh
ter, Tuesday, September 16, Kings
Mountain hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn McQueen,
'ThP vde* Vo,,.’3 -street, Belmont, announce
The Eden Netvs Tuesday, Sej)
tember 16, Kin js Mouittain hospi;
tal.
Mr. and Mrs. George E. Floyd,
Jr.. 160S N. Cliff Drive, Char
lotte, announce the birth of a
daughter, Tuesday, September 16,
I Kings .Mountain hospital
Kings Mountain Rotarians
will hold their regular meeting
Thursday at 12:15 -at Kings
Mountain Corntry club. Tom
Smart is program chairman.
Mr. and Mrs. Farris TMrner,
Jr., route 2, announce the birth ''
a son, Thursday. September 11.
Kings Mountain hospital.
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that maladjustments in one seg
ment of society can be a hangup
for us all.—Wall Street Journal
SAFE TOYS FOR TOTS
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that some inherited fortunes will
be brought into the open—for fu
ture taxation if not past taxes.
I Unfortunately, we dbubt that
the U.S. Internal Revenue will
I want to do likewise. What would
Washington’s internal revenue
lawyers do if they couldn’t be
In a rare demonstration of un
I anlmity the House of Representa „ . . .
tive= voted 327-0 [recently] to ex- i personal accounts and
Mr. Cheatwood, who is the ne-I the Child Protection Act of
gotiator for the city in acquiring i 1966, extending the ban on dan- „ *^’?.® ®''®r
land for the Buffalo Creek lake,! gerous toys to those which may ® vear’I ^
.says Cleyeland County folk are “verheat, present electrical shock ^
. ! hazards, uo.sse.s.-- sharp protruding :
as hospitable as any and more so ® injury-causing me- ,
than many. In his efforls to ac- j chanicat properties,
quire property here, he relates, he Designed to prohibit the sale of
has enjoyed many a fine dinner ! toy® ruled “dangerous due to |
as guest of those with whom he! ®l®®‘''i®®‘’ mechanical or thermal
, ^ . .. hatards by the Secretary of
was dealing. “Only t-ouble Education and Welfare,
he added, “thev '’--re reljc.ant
part wit., -and.”
Folks hereabouts are indeed
proud of their property. Of 22
sites initially approved by the
Housing Assistance agency folk in
Atlanta for Kings Mountain Pub
lic Housing, Hal Plonk, the site I ®?‘‘.®*-^
® cific protection of our children—
the bill will affect not so much
the large, domestic toy manufac
turers as foreign firms which pro
duce toys for exports, often with
out com parable governmental
regulation and occasionally sac
rificing safety for novelty.
If the bill receives similar en
dorsement from the Senate, as it
should, it will reveal that there
, cific protection of our children-
negotiator, was able to acquire which can escape Congressional
only one. controversy and partisanship. —
I Boston Htrald Ttarolor
Ten Years Age?
Items of interest which occur-
ed approximately ten years opol
Fifth day enrollment figures in
Kings Mountain City Schools were
up six over the first day registra
tion. Supt. B. N. Barnes reported
an , enrollment of 2302 the first
day of the 1959-60 school term
and the fifth day enrollment was
2308.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
First Baptist church of Grover
provided the setting Saturday at|
3 p.m. for a double-ring ceremony'
which united Peggy Joyce Wat-
terson of Grover and Pauj Nelson
Fite in irtarrl'age.
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Keep Your Radio Dial Set At
1220
WKMT
Kings Mountain,
News & Weather every hour on the
hour. Weather every hour on the
half hour.
Fine entertainment in between
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