. fl.7JNl Kit /age 2 ICINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C EstoblUbed )889 The Kings Mountain Heiald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightennient, entertainment and benefit of the citi2ens 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 Elditor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editoi Miss Debbie Tliornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Rocky Marl a in .lim 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-S441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE 75 Out-oi’Step? In the days ahead, its is quite con ceivable that th(' political leadership of 7.0 counties, thiee lourlhs of North Caro lina’s 11)0, will have second thoughts and find that the minority of 25 are not like the proverbial private in the rear ranks who thought all others in his pla toon were out-of-step. Admittedly a complicated, hard-to- understand (even for tiie professional) gear-up, the sales lax option, whereby counties could vote on themselves, for themselves and their cities, an addition al one |)ercent sales tax, the option did provide some surcease from the heavy financial strain under which all the 100 counties and majority of the state’s towns and cities find themselves. It was another avenue of revenue, now limited in non-legal liquor counties and cities, to ad vtiloi’cm taxes on real and personal property. It is easy to understand why very small and very poor counties voted for the tax for these were desperate. It is easy to understand why tourist centers like Buncombe, Wautauga, and coastal counties voted “yea’’ because visitors will pay a large share. It is easy to un derstand why Cumberland, home of Fort Bragg, voted favorably tor there arc many visiting transients to pay a large share. But star of the “pro” show is Dur ham County. Here the political, indu.s- Irial and commercial leadership appar ently saw the light in lime to do some thing about it. Durham folk saw the reason in paying a few dollars day-by- day than a mounting property tax once per year. Why the defeats where? here and clse- 1) A growing knee-jerk, no reason reaction to any and all proposals for in creased taxes of any kind. 2) Luke-warm support on the part of proponents, afraid of political reper cussions lor voicing their true feelings. 3) Quiet opposition of political leadership at the state level, which lead ership wants to retain the sales tax avenue as its very, very own. (Lieuten ant - Governor Fat Taylor said as much at the League of Municipalities convo cation. Governor Bob Scott stood mute.) In Cleveland County, Mayor Hubert Pla.ster of Shelby hit the nail on the head when he said, “. . .1 think the coun ty commissioners muffed the ball. They have been looking for additional sources of revenue and here was a source hand ed to them in their laps...” Mayor Plaster further suggested that the county was the agency in fin ancial pain. Shelby and Kings Mountain, two of only eight cities selling both pro fit-making power and gas, can always use more ca.-,!!, but new sources of reve nue are not required. He openly sup ported the a.id.d tax, but, in turn, it w'as neither Shelby nor Kings Moun tain’s role (cities being comparatively minor benef claries to counties), to or ganize and dll eel a campaign. That was the county’s role. And, as Mayor Plaster declared, the county commission muffed it. It won’t seem right to be paying Dewey Styers for the Shelby Daily Star rather than the Charlotte Ob.server, and many have expressed regret at Mr. Sly- ers’ decision to change his newspaper distribution tag. The common remark. “I’ve never mis.sed an Observer, except the one the dog carried off.” Indeed, in 22 years, Mr. Styers has failed only once (during a rough snow last year) to have his subscribers’ papers delivered in time for etirly-morning coffee. Mr. Styers is sure how long it will require for him to get over the habit of being on duty by 3 a.m. A measure of his good service is the fact that Mr. Styers will be making numerous refunds to those customers who pay a year in advance, a markedly mark of confidence, which is a tribute to his honesty and good service. The Commander-in-Chief As will have been noted in the press and via radio and television, reaction to President Richard M. Nixon’s Monday night address on United States policy in Vietnam, has been varied. His address has been hailed by the hawks and the moderates and reviled by the peace-at-any-pricc crowd. All tend to agree that: the Presi dent said little new, with the exception of his personal appeal tor reason to the late Ho Chi Minh, which appeal was re jected out-of-hand. There was a major difference, how ever. The Nixon Administration has been coming out piecemeal from various Ad ministration leaders, chief among them Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, House Republican Leader Gerald Ford, Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott, and various White House functionaries. The difference was that the Presi dent put all the pieces together in one package and said in the exact words that the word emanted from the Com mander-in-Chief. He .spoke succinctly, explicitly, and in lay language all could understand. If he were on soft ground at any point, it was his statement that 60,000 United States fighting men had been withdrawn from Vietnam. The question here: is the figure gross or net? In oth er words, how many took the places of the 60,000? Otherwise, the President could hardly be criticized for employing a political method as old as politics itself. He sought to declare the Nixon policy as opposed to the policy of President Lyndon B. Johnson, the immediate and Democratic predecessor, but praised the great Democrat of yesteryear, the seek er of peace. President Woodrow Wilson. It was perhaps the President’s best speech since he was sworn last January and will solidify support of his with- draw-as-we-can policy. Elections Elsewhere There were some important elec tions in the nation on Tuesday. Of particular note to all North Car olinians were the two gubernatorial elections, in Virginia and New Jersey, where Republicans gained the state houses with plenty of votes to spare. Item: Virginia elected its first Re publican governor in 105 years. Item: New Jersey (governors .serve two years) by 300,000 votes, told four time Governor Robert Meyner it needed no warmed-over governor to administer its aftairs. Doth Republicans and Democrats in Tar Heelia will read and re-read the Vir ginia result several times, with the Re publicans licking their chops, charpen- ing political knives and avidly anticipat ing 1972. The Democrats will read with some chagrin, all the while recognizing that the Byrd machine 1) has been Democrat in label only and 2) that North Carolina is a near-neighbor with a large minority of Republicans and Re publican-leaning Democrats. Two North Carolinians will read and re-read the New Jer.sey results more than any others. First Terry Sanford, now Dan Moore, have made noises a- bout a desire to return to the old Victor ian Mansion on Blount street. To the United States Senate for one or both, the New Jersey result indicates, but not another term as Governor. North Caro linians via policy and practice assume that there is plenty of gubernatorial tal ent in a populace of five million souls. The Democrats have established specitil committees to plot ways and means of fending off the on-rushing Re publicans. Rule I, of course, in event these committeemen don’t know, is to send only the best horses to post. Congratulations to Dick Nielsen on his promotion to vice-president of Lith ium Corporation of Americrt. When the United States government stopped re newing itj contracts for lithium, ft meant a recession in the industry. Mr. Nielsen was optimistic. The potentiali ties of lithium have merely been scratch ed, he said. There was a day, he recall ed, when its chief usage was in storage batteries. Mr. Nielsen has already been proved a prophet. Thursday, November 6, 1969 MARTIN'S MEDICINE Ingredients: Bits of humor, vHsdom, humor and com ments. Directions; Take weekly, if possible, but a- void overdosage. They don’t call it by the same name but to the older among us, it’s still the Floral Fair. For that matter, when the civic-minded and spiriteti ladies of the community were presenting it many moons ago the organization was not call ed the Kings Mountain Woman’s Club. Was the name in former days the Kings Mountain Civic ■Association? m-m Dame Rumor Ilciir the right, () I.ont. itllrml unto my cry, give riir unto my jrrayer, that gocth out of feigned liy.'i. P.vit)ii 17:1. The first Floral Fair I remem ber was a real ball for me and I other waifs my age and size. I I must have been six or seven. This I one was held in what is now I Sterchi’s main building. My moth er was a working clubwoman, which gave me free rein to my considerable enjoyment, it, per haps, not for others. Other ladies I remember working over skillet and otherwise were Mrs. Dorus , Mauney, Mrs. C. E. Neisler, Mrs. ! A. H. Patterson, Mrs. W. A. Ri- denhour, and Mrs. M. L. Plonk. I Yet another: Mrs. E. W. Griffin, j very much on scene at this year’s !6Slh annual event and current president of the Woman’s Club. In those days, manufacturers supplied large quantities of "free” samples, including small sacks of flour. These wore about the size most folk buy today. In that day. no self-respecting biscuit baker brought less tha na 25-pound sack and the fast selling models weigh ed .50 and 100. But there weren’t any canned biscuits in those days either and light bread’s excuse for being was essentially sandwiches. KIMSS MOUNPAIN"' Hospital Log VISITJNO HOURS 3 to 4 p-m. and 7 to 8 pjB* DoUy 10:30 To 11:30 a.ai> Thi EXAQ6ERATION o/* ^REctsSl'oN m-m DAME RUMOP, Robert Adams Mrs. Juanita F. .Allran Mrs. Celia S. Bonds Mrs. Willie S. Bratton Mrs. .Minnie B. Burris Hubert Clemmons Lawson H. Dover Mrs. Minnie L. Harry Mrs. Cora E. Laughter High R. Parton Jesse Lee Ramsey Sam Williams, Sr. Lawrence Davis Barber Mis. Miles R. Boyd Mrs. Bynum P. Cook Mrs. Doyle R. Day Mrs. Marie C. Fewell Mrs. Roland A. Goins Thomas W. Grayson, Jr. George Moore Hannon Mrs. David G. Herndon, Jr. Sidney Dulin Huffstetler Mrs. Della C. Jenkins James Henry Mltchem Donald Richard Sarvis Mrs. Prince Starnes, Jr. Mrs. Eunice L. Sutherland Mrs. Woodrow Wells Willie Gene White Mrs. Jimmy L. Wilson ever Kins Devi Geoi WORK. NOT JAIL J. C. Duvall of Texas sounds like a good judge to have in one’s i I perhaps am restored to the' county. He believes that minor; glutton class to which I belonged offenders are better working than ; as a child. After eating too much| sitting in a jail. He recently sen- | at the Floral Fair luncheon (hamjtenced live men to $1.75-an-hour entree), I returned for dinner jbhs in a steel mill, telling them* (turkey entree). Tantalizer for; that if they missed so much as an the evening was the addition of' hour's work, they would go to scalloppcd oysters to the menu Jail, and they were well worth the Viewpoints of Other Editors Letter To Editor Ten Years Ago Items of interest which occur- -d aptnroximatety ten years ago To the Editor Kings Mountain Herald and the Citizens of Kings -Mountain. The United Fund campaign readied the $7.01)0 mark this week, Chaiiman Sam Stallings said, as he re issued an appeal I have never written to any paper before, or spoken out for or against any laws, ordnance, or acts that our City’s leaders have (ADMITTED THURSDAY .Mrs. Will Nicholson I Mrs. Kirby Wilson ‘ Mrs. Harry D. Wilson ' ADMITTED FRIDAY I Mrs. Marshall Rich I Hillard Dean Smith I Mn. William B. Davis, Jr. I ADMPnrED SATURDAY ( Mrs. Guy Schofield Mrs. William R. Case Mrs. Lonnie E. Peeler Mrs. Crawford Rucker Mrs. Emma L. Bowen ADMITTED SUNDAY John William Foster, Sr. Mrs. Larry D. Anderson Mrs. John Allen Gordon Gartcul Lee Grigg Mrs. Paul F. Perkins Mrs. Kemp F. Weathers Mrs. Clara J. West John Francis Brogden Thomas Edward Murray ADMITTED MONDAY Mrs. Effie D. Jackson John A. Carpenter, Jr. Mrs. Marshall Waldt Mrs. Myers N. Lee Mrs. Donald J. West Mrs. Rosa S. Smith Hart 27 p the iind in 4 yarc oftei trip. Both meals were topped off ! We have often wondered if this tors. for reports from campaign solid- niade, but since they are about to. ADMITTED TUESDAY with pound cake a la mode. concept of corrective work might not be more widely explored and SOCIAL AND PERSONAL m-m utilized. Above all where youth- , ful offenders aje concerned. Could The Fair was a couple of weeks! not young vandals, troublemak- later than usual this year but, as ers, rioters, and petty thieves be Mrs. W. T. Weir remarked, there! set to work helping the communi- remained an abundance of home-, ty and themselves rather than gi'own floral arrangements of ex-[being locked away, quisite beauty. The handicraft de-; We do not mean by this any partment was well - filled with! return to the cruelties of either Miss Mary Helen Logan and Alfred Delano Tate weie married Sunday afternoon at 4:30 in Kings Mountain Baptist church. Miss Jane Wall Harris, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Ollie Har ris, has completed plans for her make the worst mistake in the history of our town, I think it is time for everybody to express an opinion. I am referring to the fluoridation of our water. I am against adding fluoride to our water because we know so little about it or what effect it will! have on the human body if con-| sumed lor many years. We do not know what effect it will have on Dennis L. Dotter Homer A. Kilgore Richard D. Green Clarence E. Smith, Jr. Mrs. Annie Mae Lockridge Mrs. Gudsie L. Rayfield Mrs. Arlie Lee Dunn lum m 'mt Jaci jp it mg ' sopi agai lant to vt Md. in S on r mar has son 110 of 1 fall Lettei To Editor imaginative items, from felt cov-, indentured labor or tile roadsid^ ered match boxes, to aprons, to: chain gangs. But there are inniM marriage to Donald Sheppad „ur in general, such Av oisptayi meraote necessary jobs which of art of the late Mrs. Herman! need doing today for which help Campbell demonstrated both her cannot be found. Could not some ability and virtuosity. One paint-jot those who injure society be ing was of the former St. Mat-'made to help society in return, thew’s Lutheran church budding,' thereby perhaps learning a bit which prompted Mrs. Marvin! more respect for work, for the Houser to note she was married sweat that goes into earning an Hambright, son of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Hambright, and an-j nounces them today. PACE FOR SPACE making it taste so bad we can’t drink it, or making it so hard, we can’t wash clothes in it. As you all know Kings Mountain has now and has had for as long as I can I Dear Editor: President Nixon’s task force on I S?"'! ^ water as there are m the State. space offers useful guidance fori.r, j , . , . the .American space program over 1 . 8°t>dness sake, and for the there. m-m hone.st dollar, and for the fact that, inevitably in the long run. justice reauires payment for In- And the children’s art display jm-ics done another, demonstrated there’s more talent) True, organized labor, under at hand. -Biggest tickle came; jjtandably anxious not to create from the water color of David a low-wage competitive work Herndon, William's youngest. In- i',;rce, has oppo.sed such redemp- structed to paint a turkey, David, tive work. But with so many cru- did old Tom on his back, drum-1 cial social needs going unmet, sticks in air, baked and on thejmay there not.be merit in ad.ap- platter, ready for eating. | ting Judge Duvall’s practices to a .wider end? — Christian Science I Monitoi; Among the visitors, whom I re gret I didn’t get to see, was Mrs.j H. C. Dwells, of Charlotte, widow, of the late town commissioner of! public works (cica 1919-23), af landscaping specialist who design-1. ed Mountain Rest cemetery. ABILITY COUNTS not disability. the ne.xt decade. A manned or biting station, a space shuttle, a nuclear - powered rocket, un manned probes, and satellites tor communication, meteorology, and navigation — these set the tone and pace for the postmoon phase. sake of our good health, lets keep it that way. I would sure hate to see our water get to tasting and On Tuesday. November 3rd, I attended the committee on Flouri- dation meeting, the purpose being to bripg the results of our opinion poll from the people back to the meeting. Being a member of thLs committee, and working with them, I was very impressed with the enthusiasm and concern they had for their community. Each smelliriT like our good neighbor committee member gave his and The United States n6eds a vig orous space drive. This is a vast. Gastonia’s water did. No body seems to know what caused their water to get that ■way. Some’ body might have slipped out to Rankin lake and poured in a sack of fluoride. I productive, challenging frontier. | don’t know if fluoi ide-would make There must be, of course, a | our water that bad or not, but I thoughtful sharing of funds with)do know that I am satisfied with the more urgent and immediate! the way God and nature made our programs here on earth. A pro- water. posed $1 billion budget for each If our City Leaders want fluor- of 10 years may be overly ambi- i'de let them eat it with a spoon tious. But even the eventual manned landing on Mars should not be jettisoned. "It is abaility, [which counts.” That, in essence, is the mean- 1 ing of "Hire the Handicapped I Week.” Qj.n, I A great many employers are But the Floral Fair is more finding and have found in past than fine food, interesting craftsjyears that handicapped ^persirns, and art. Perhaps the most im-! if .Pi®t:ed in positions compatible portant are the people. Not only their abilities, can make does one see and greet hometown snn.'I- in fact, many of frien.1s whose paths seldom cross,! m^ntam excellent ratings in Jnf) I socket would power but out-of-towners, too. ' I The Albemarle office of Items: Peggy Arthur Miller, Security Commission 1 .The essential aerospace compa- from Burlington- Annie Laura Iapplications ; f,ies'need a continuity if they are Summitt, of Charlotte, a former J’’”"?. persons w|th various hq maintain their talent a.ssem- across - the - street neighbor, with,s""®® sliRnL some|>,iagcs and financial .stability, her great-niece, daughter of sis- '"°''®. ■‘’®''®'’®’. ho"’®'-'®)’, are Some day, the American space ter Barbara’s eldest of three piel-r®P®'’*® I program may become a world- ty ones, in tow; Image I and Im-'P^.l®"’ *" rnatching th® | wide project, including the So- age II (Jim Anthony, Jr., and his'fP‘’*‘‘®® applicant to the ..jets. But as of now it is up to son Ed, with daughter Jane and •'°P’ President Nixon to assure that Mary Evelyn); lunch and of specraulation,®'job United States carries on ade An orbiting .space station would be a gate-opener for further ex plorations, besides affording es- .sential experience in space liv ing. The space shuttle wduld, eco- nomicall.v, get men to the orbit ing station, bring intelligence ; data back to earth, launch un- 1 manned vehicles. The nuclear some day, the ' great ship for Mars. and chase it with a glass of our nice clean water. James M. Staley to 3(XI,000 premature deaths a year. . . . Surely in a decent so ciety newspapers, magazines, and broadca-st stations would volun tarily refuse to irun the ads. Now that TV-radio commercials are on the way out, why not ban all other forms of cigarette advertis ing as well?—Consumer Reports her findings, and opinions Irora the people. After discussing eath case, we came up with the vote of 7-3-2 in favor of recommending to the city board that they imple ment Flouridation to our water. The committee felt that we covert ed the city well in getting the opinion from the people. The.se people are to be commended for giving of their time and energy for the beterment of Kings Moun tain. I, and I am sure the rest of the committee, appreciate the con fidence the mayor and commis sioners showed by appointing (s to this job. I only hope that after the time it took for the mayjir and board to set up this Flourldl- tion Committee, that they sut- port this recommendation and n»t turn their backs to prove that It was in vaip. 1 Bill Carrigan 519 Fallingwood Dr. Kings Mountain, N. C. ha Df lat Dt •ot oa <0' T( B Gar uc losi nigi of : reel the T Insi the E ha\ pi a fini in 1 117 conversation with Madge Warlicki training is becoming increasingly Humes Houstons; dinner' ^ great" many of to- with the Charles Mauneys, who; ^ moved into their new home nn I activity, the performance ot a quately with its well-begun space odyssey. — The Christian Science Monitor IN A DECENT SOCIETY Day and night, especially dur- ! ing the evening prime time hours. 1 icievisiuii oanmcrciais exiui uie | [ joys ot cigarette smoking. Each \ I commercial makes only a modest * Roxfoy road Satuiday, ■^pd Ih operation repeatedly. This four children, etc., ad infinitum. ^ creates a situation in which it is ,, easier to train for a specific job. Was there ever a Kings Moun-| local ESC office reports that Madge said Partner Larry Ham-,, • , ~nnths tbere tiave : ’’’^ tain poli«' chief named Harris?handicaps' commercials extol the rick had posed the question, placed on jobs. This is a good rec- or John Henry \loss later saidii__j which we houe will bo con* i • i a. i. "Yes, there was." Chief Harris,employ- served a short term between two- e^ m 'the Stanly and Montgom- ' y?'" impression by times f’hicf Rrvant |Crs in tnc sidniy ana .viomgom | ,n„u.sands of TV commere als times Chief Bryant. e y ounty area are giving con- .- “ , ,,e ® thf m is a national scandal: an „niy, of «u;U't; b^n estimated 13.3 billion impressions efit the two grandchildren. But U » is the'nature of human be-j P", detected a gleam in Humes’ eyeAngg desire to be self-reliant' newer to 1 reminiscent of the one he hadUnd productive as individuals “P’ 33 years ago when Johnny Me- and to achieve a rea.sonablel For ex-smokors and those try-' Gill treated Humes, Billy Weir,! amount of success. For hand!-: ing to stop, moreover, the adver-j Earl'McGill and me to “the great-! capped persons to achieve this tising barrage can be devastating. I est show on earth." goal sometimes reijuires an extra j Cigarette advertising degrades' m-in amount of courage and determi-[ our entire culture and impugns' M..