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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
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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?
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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>
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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'
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Mrs. George Thomasson and nation, and persons who exhibit its basic dignity. Surely in a de-
Mrs. Ray Holmes co-chaired this this extra'desire will work very cent scx'iety the cigarette compa-
year's event and deserve copious hard when given tasks which nies themselves would hesitate to
j curtain calls for their perform-I they can perform. — Stanly N*w»l promote the sale of a product
ances. and Frets that causes an estimated 250,(X)0 1
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