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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Herald
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
lor the enllghtenn.ent, entertainment and benefit of the eltlzens 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.
Martin Harmon
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Miss Elizabeth Stewa.'t
Miss Debbie Thornburg .
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
Frank Edwards
Allen .Mvers
Paul Ja-kson
•Rocky Martin
Roger Brown David Myers
Kay I nrker
• On Leave With The United States Army
ONE \ EAR.... $3.50 SIX MONTHS.... $2.00 THREE .MONTHS.... $1JS
PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX
TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441
TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
I''iinialie the {uoimh, mid live; and <jo in the way uf undvtHtaiidiiiy.
Proiierbs 9:€,
The Re«Match
At tho Horalfl, tho advance an
nouncements of II. S. Representative
Jim Broyhill and ex-Li. S. Repre.senta-
tive Basil Whitener arrived in the same
mail—one day before they both made it
official by depositing the $425 filing fee
with the State Board of Elections.
Forced into a race against each
other by U. S. Supreme Court-ordered
redistricting (engendered by a test case
brought by a former Shelbian Lawyer
Renn Drum, Jr.), Broyhill carried six of
the eight counties of the 10th di.strict
and won by a margin ol 15,516 votes.
Both made some inferential remarks
in their campaign kick-off statements
which indicate the areas in which the
battle for a Mou.se seat will be sought.
Broyhill's statement was short, but
long enough to point out that that the
enemy Democrats have held a majority
in both branches of the Congress for
some years and that today s troubles ac
crue to them, including, of course, While-
ner, who served for 12 years (1957-69).
Whitener’s prepared address, de
livered to some 400 well-wishers in Ga.s-
tonia Wednesday morning, included
condemnations of high interest rates,
falling house-building, continued infla
tion, and charges that the Republican
administration in the White Hou.se has
been quite unsuccesstul in its efforts to
combat crime and racial disorders and in
getting anywhere in the Vietnam war.
With his references to .145 out-of-dis-
tricl contributors and advertising agen
cy shenanigans, not to mention his
Great Depression background, Whitener
rather plainly was attempting to estab
lish himself as the “pore boy” against
the BroyhUl Furniture complex millions.
Perhaps he was between the devil
and the deep blue sea, but the Herald
thought one major 196H campaign mi.s-
take of Whitener was his unwillingness
to embrace the top of the ticket in the
persons Hubert Humphrey and Edward
Muskic.
Meantime, Broyhill went down the
line for Nixon-Agnew, without a how-do-
you-do to the Wallace crowd.
This time there are no such side
(shows?) issues.
Herald readers have teased in the
past about use of an old cliche, but it
must apply here: It’ll be interesting to
watch.
High Auto Insurance
High auto insurance, both liability
and collision, is a continuing subject in
many statc.*^ of tho auto-crowded nation
and particularly in North Carolina.
The Commissioner of In.surance is
hearing witnesses on problems and a
charge that appears to be valid is the
rapidity with which companies cancel
policies in order, say the complainers to
get policy holders (liability) into the as
signed risk, higher rate category.
One witness had had no accident
history, but when he sought to permit
his two teenage sons to chauffeur autos,
his company cancelled. Another refused
to accept his application with an “I
don’t have to take your business if I
don’t want it.” Another finally acrepted
tho policy at a high rate.
Autos have escalated in price as
have repairs, accounting for mounting
collision rates.
Bodily and property damage cost
more, too, as do court co.sts and legal
fees arising from ever-continuing acci
dents.
But in North Carolina the trend
seems to have started with compulsory
liability insurance.
Would a hard new look at this sec
tion of the General Statutes be a worthy
assignment for the 1971 General Assem
bly?
Occupational Education
Some years ago, W. K. Mauney, Jr.,
offered the board of education some
equipment for use in offering a course in
knitting men’s socks.
The board declined with thanks and
regrets. There was no place to house
the machinery.
Since that time, before consolida
tion 01 the area into tho Kings Mountain
school district, the building of Kings'
Mountain High School's present plant,
and expanded attention at state level
to occupational (once vocational) edu
cation, the KMHS offering of courses in
skills has expanded to 14.
Last week’s presentation and sum
mation of this valuable program in the
Herald was most informative to the
Herald itself and, it is to be assumed, to
school patrons.
Best Bows
Congratulations to:
Aubrey Mauney, honored by Holy
Trinity Lutheran church. Chapel Hill,
for his services in raising funds and giv
ing of his own in making possibie this
church as director of the North Carolina
University Lutheran church fund begun
in 194.1. The church was built in 1946.
Coincidentally, on the evening it honor
ed Ml'. Mauney, officials burned a mort
gage note for .$46,000.
Charles D. Blanton, Kings Mountain
druggist, named to the legislative com
mittee of the National Association of
Retail Druggists.
Lee McIntyre and Gene Francis,
elevated to assistant vice-presidents by
First Citizens Bank & Trust Company.
Chuck Easley, Kings Mountain High
School athlete of the year, a three-sport
performer who maintains a O.'l.S scholas
tic average.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
Money market break?
Treasui-y notes sold for a bit
less last week.
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On Tuesday of this week, King.s
Mountain Public Housing Au
thority recplvtsl bids on six-
month notes in the amount of
$2,0.4.1,000. In contrast to last
.September's low bid of 5..'>9 per
cent for $1„T77,0(X), which attiact-
(“d only five bids, Tuesday’s of
fering got a low bil of 4.74 per-
c«*nl and ten bids were received.
"Take Away His Passport!"
Thgrsday, February 19, 1970
KIN^^ M^uMYaI^
Hospital Log
VIBITim HOURS
$ to 4 pjn. cmd 7 to 8 pjn.
DoUy lOtM To 11(30 «■.
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Actually, there were eleven
bids, VVariiovia Hank & Trust
Company placing two. At 12:2.3
p.m. Tuesday, Wa<>hovia tele
graphed a bid olt 4.99 pt'reent.
Just seven minutes later, Wa
chovia dispatched another tele
gram. This Lme the bid was
4.79 percent.
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The money market is fast.
Very Kind Remark
Dave Gille.spie, as.sociatc editor of
the Charlotte Ob.sorvor, made some very
kind remarks about Cleveland County on
the recent address here on the occasion
of tho annual change of command in the
leadership of the County Organization
of Governmental Officials and, more par
ticularly, to honor recently-retired Max
Hamrick.
Mr. Gillespie, former editor of the
Shelby Daily Star, said he once told
Cleveland, in effect, to model on Char
lotte and Mecklenburg. Now, he added,
he’s reversed his field and tells them to
mode! on us.
While the remarks may have been
a bit expansive, there is some truth
therein, and, as usual, a reason: from
the standpoint of the City of Shelby and
the City of Kings Mountain, both are
blessed with profit-making utilities in
the persons of electric power and natural
gas. Both sell these utilities at favorable
rates, but the profits enable both to
maintain a low property tax rate.
Charlotte is not so blessed.
Until the voters of Mecklenburg ap
proved the e.xtra one cent sales tax, the
property tax was the principal base from
which both county and city operated.
Tho bills were getting more excruciating
by the year. Then-Mayor Stan Brook
shire remarked to Mayor John Henry
Moss, shortly before the sales tax elec
tion, “If it doesn't pass, I frankly don’t
know what we’ll do.’’
This happy situation here accrues to
our governmental forefathers of former
and more recent days, plus promotion
of the use of these utilities and good
service today.
It was a pleasure to have Editor
Dave Gillespie in our midst again and
we very much appreciate his compli
ments.
Mrs. Moray T. Baker
Russell E. Ellis
Edward Evans
Mrs. -Mary E. Gladden
Mrs. James A. IMl
Mrs. Mamie D. Panther
ai'ith May Plonk
Mrs. Dora C. Powell
Mrs. Audrey \V. Putnam
William F. Stone, .Sr.
Mrs. Eunice N. Wallace
George R, Walls
Horace C. Allman
•Mrs. Isaac C. Berry
Mrs. Frank L. Blantpn
Margaret L. Collins
Mrs. Jimmy P. Curry
Dan Falls
Paul P. Hartsoe
Judy B. Hoffman
■Sidney D. Huffstetler
Mr.s. Thurman H. Jenkins
Mrs. Clrarles I. Ledford
Jdhnnie H. Marlin
Mrs. Jack Mo.ss
Mrs. Joseph C. McGill
Judge D. Philips
Mrs. Charlie F. Shaw
Otis Whisnant
Marlin L. Wilson, Sr.
Mrs. Marvin E. Wright
Dennis L. Detter
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Six month inteivst saving be
tween the low bid of last fall
and Tuesday’s $.1640.25.
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For the menfolk about town, it
won’t seem right not having Don Bennix
pop his felt cloth in providing their shoes
a bright, shiny new look. Don Bennix
shined countless numbers during many
years. Several years ago. when he had
a cancer cut out of his larynx, he was
left speechless. He taught himself to use
a battery-powered voice box and never
lost his spirit of friendliness and good
humor.
A cobbler’s Children have no
shoes, ’tis saM.
I’d been meaning to change the
ribbon on my venerable Royal
tjipewriter for several weeks.
T^e ‘‘black’’ side was pock-mark
ed with holes and the "red” side
(I use all black-ribbons) was
wearing thin. On busy pressday,
the matter became a necessity
When the refus»‘ from the ex-
Viewpoints of Other Editors
Admitted Thunday
Martin W. Leigh
Mrs. Maggie J. Lindsay
Mrs. Fuimian Lulz
Fuiman W. Lutz
Charles E. Bowen
Luther D. Joy
Admitted Friday
W.lliam M. Fronoberger
Mrs. Violet F. Foster
Mrs. Bobby Perkins
THE HEART OF ,
THE MATTER I
Helen Leighty is a scliool i
ONCE MORE. HOUSING!
[ adversity and sell Its water bonds
at a surprisingly low rate.
Admitted Saturday
Mfs. Geneva S. Carroll
George E. Ballew
Mrs. William H. Lynn
Mrs. Wray Plonk
Mrs, Jfjhn Tignor
Ronnie G. Webber
Can the United States succeed,
bausted ribbon proved cause of teal-her'in*^nrt"pipm> >n bringing about a gianti the Kings Mountain effort of
a sticky “y" key. The letter “e" Christian Sci- hou-sing breakthrough? Or to put' aP^inting youiig people to boarts
'■ •- ‘ l-nristian set expansively, can George Rom- and agencies of the city goes far
is supposed to be tlie mo.st used
in writing the English language,
ence Monitor, she wrote:
ney and his Department of Hous- beyond the one-day efforts of
but the “y” is gaining in the race. I . Supreme Court told you j up^an Development, and. people in various seats of
•born hn a,. business, and tlic coM.struc-:-'“'’cmment. All too often, this is
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I there must be as many Negroes
I as whites in your employ by ,7^^ urrions“’and 'state and iwal' effort made by cities to
I January, that you mast fill the ^ffjpjg,^ j^p pountpy's finan- ‘evolve young people in the day-
Dlrt is the cause of much tia- jobs without regard for qualifica- pjg, inst'itutioas workin<> together'sometimes dreary, some-
Vail. Some years ago a back-shop tion, what would your reactions America 1™“ exciting governmental func-
machine was acting balky. Much be? I’m sure you would say it is urgently needs’’ ^*"88 Mountain, the
checking in all direetions proved impossible to operate a.hasiness mnnnt stated intent is to allow the young
to no avail for nothing .seemed with untrained personnel. » 'he Un ted - stcs cannot do ^ople full voting memberships
on non-statutory boards and to
Admitted SuBdOY
Mrs. lla C. Slayton
Mrs. Charles I. Hullender
Richard S. Lennon, Sr.
Billy E. Barrett
Barbara Ann Byers
Mrs. Phillip Armstrong
Mrs. Bertha Mae Ellison
Tilman B. Goforth
Mrs. Judson Morton
. . ... , this, it should hide its head in
u!. ‘.’Petnte a qhame. The Rassians, the British,
build housing massively. But
to be wrong. Then I noticed some
metal shavings on various parts, school on the same basis. In our
‘•Let’s try cleaning ’er," I sug- tow-n the Negm children in the ^^p'ripa." h^’m; of"as.sembly Une
gested, and shortly the machine eighth grade might be able to p,.oduction is still building hocs-
was performing in apple pie function on a fouilh-gradc level,
mder. I Many of them cannot read at all.
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An interesting report from the
Veteran’s Administration arrived
yesterday concerning the efforts
Of the Administration to determ
ine whether many widows of
Civil War veterans were receiving
a 50 a month extra benefit, pro
vided those who require the regu
lar aid and attendance of another
person.
ing at a World War II rate. Which
Ls no achievement at all — le.ss
“A.S desirable as integration than 1..5 million units a year,
seems to those oul.side the ela.ss-. Mr. Romney ha.s enthusiasm,
room, may I s.sy it is completely He ha.s behind him his aecomp-
impractical on a large scale if llshment in building up Ameri-
there Is going to be any learning can Motors. He has slogans. What’si
going on. been the trouble in the past? ! The Shelby effort was in find-
“If the teacher has students The industry is totally frag-i Ing^ the right time to sell its
of a similar background and mented. Big business doesn’t bonds, thanks to the rather bril
learning capacity, progre.ss can , turn out housing the way it rolls litrnt efforts of the Local Govern-
give them a voice, if not a vote,
on boards set up by law. These
can (je exciting additions to city
government, as well as giving 1 Admitted ‘Tuesday
Admitted Monday
James O. Barber
Mrs. Cora L. Rhyne
Mrs. Gerald W. Rikard
Alfred L. Canipe
Lina Michaelle Milling
young people an outlet to the city
and in inside view of government
that they .may have never se^.
The program is one which could
easily be mimicked elsewhere, for
the good of all.
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he made. If he has too great a! steel or builds motorcars. Build-
diversity of intellects with which j ing {Sides and restrictive labor
to work, ho cannot succeed.” | practices and exorbit.ont contnte-
Mi-w Leighty, it seems to us, wages hobble housing. Land
lia-' gotten to the heart of the, keep kiting up. And the
integration problem plaguing fnnntry’s tight money policy
As a result of interviews by the mast of the .schools in the coun- Pvery kind of financing
VA 437 Civil War widows receive trs. including tho.se in ChapeU outrageously costly.
(he allowance compared to 110 Hill. i Romney has developed
I UnUsss you buy the idea that i IV”®*
“•"* I mi.x, any .more than oil and wa-' fin . r- } If’
' ter—an ide i tint we relent en ' production of housing. The
The United States provided for en-
payments to disabled Union vet-
tirely—there ha.s to be something
erans and widows in 1861-62. In 1 f®*' *’®®
his inaugural addre.s.sed March '
4, 1865, President Lincoln said,' *^®" ®
“Let us .strive ... to care for his
aim is, to appeal to the vision
of private enterprise, to get big
ment Commission which looks in
tently at the bond market and
makes recommendations to local
governments in North Carolina.
But it was not all in choosing a
time, .since it was Shelby’s credit
rating which played a good part
in a.ssuring the lowest possible
price for bonds. If there be any
doubt about Shelby’s self-made
good fortune, Lenoir sold $750,-
000 of water and .sewer bonds the
same day for 5.6 per cent interest
and Henderson County sold $300,-
000 in 'school construction bonds
Mrs. Elvln E. Brown, Jr.
Mrs. Joseph Lee III
Arthur Hamrick
Barbara Ann Byers
Le.s Goins, Jr.
John William Oates
Manlest L. Wray
Donna Lyn Hardes
THE STAMP WAR
The conflict between East anri
West Germany has turned to al
new subject — stamp.s. And it’.s
somewhere botwen funny, infuri
ating and sad.
The West Germans issued a
Stamp picturing the Brandenburg
gate in Berlin—an old landmark
but also the entry into Com|
nisi East Berlin.
East German postal officii
refused to deliver mall beari|
those stamps and sent them
back to West Berlin.-
who shall have borne the battle, I
and for his widow and his or- p®'™ pP‘-
phan. . .” No mention ol whlclt
Side.
action in which students are
aged out instead of being edu-
Now West German postal en
companiw and the be.sl architects for 3.75 Per cent. Shelby managed ] onThVirtters”ifthe^‘’^an“i!iltl5
lo contribute demonstration pro- loss than 5.41 per cent. Although | tnately be delivered
we have said it before, we think Never .mind feeling sorry for 1
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But the Johnny Rebs weren’t
added to the compensation and
pension roll until 1958.
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Widows of the Johnny Rebs
today comprise 51 percent of the
pensioners who range in age to
.107.
Insurance mortality tables
show womenfolk live longer than
men arid the Cleveland County
special census figures o.f 1966 in
dicated the same as the avera.ge
age of women in the county was
a year older.
But same may not apply to
those worthies born in the yon
der side.
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The last Union veteran, Albert
'Woolson, of Duluth, Mann., died
.in 1956 at 109. The Confederates
won that phase of the war fa;
■the last Cor.foder. •
Walter W. W Ill. ..ts, r Uda„on,
Texaa, . -. d to be 1.17, departing
this vale of tears shortly before
Christmas 1939.
Virtually everj’ painter in town
Is at labor putting color in the
neighborhood facilities building.
We take it the hunter’s will be
attracted t« the moUarl green
and the youngsters will b* sat
isfied with nothing less than
lollipop.
Imagine, if you can, a child
with a fourth-grade capability
trying to operate on an eighth-
grade level, and then project this
gap all the way through high
school. Any student trapped in
such an absurdity is bound to
feel frustrated, resentful, and
cheated. When students are aca
demically lost and as a result
cannot be interested, much le.ss
stimulated, dis.-iplinary problems
inevitably re.sult. The whole pro
cess of teaching and learning be
gins to crumble and then those
students who are capable and
eager to learn feel equally fms-
trated, resenlful, and cheated.
And teachers, unable to teach
effectively, perltap.s feel most
frustrated ol all, as witness Miss
Leighty.
Ability grouping is not the an-
jeets. Twenty private producers
will erect some 2,000 units of in
dustrialized housing on 10 sites
all over the United States. By
1971, tenants will have moved in
and federal experts will evaluate
the projects, giving official .seals
of approval.
The end goal is to demonstrate
that a firm market does exist for
in this instance that a vote of
confidence in Shelby government
is timely once again.
the people who have to lick all
those stamps. Consider that with
ail the efforts being made at de-
what might be called "industrial- done. Perhaps the amount left
ized” housing. Unle.ss the com-' more than the amount done,
bination of public and private start has been made,
efforts embraced in Operation 1 Neither are other municipalities
Breakthrough succeeds, a .mas- | excluded, but these two cities
sivc, wholly governmental drive;
is .surely in the offing. The hous-
tente - relaxing of tensions - if
finH Tho**'1 " cities I a postage stamp can cause trou-
of Lth V-" ble, how do they except to work
tain This is nn» "to Kings Moun- out solutions to really important
nolT f f .h issues. —TuUei Tribune
perfect, for there is much left to:
have .made recent contributions
that deserve comment. We’d like
to think that the progress m6de
here will rub off on each of us.
—Dolly Star
ing shortage i.s that de.sperate.
In 1968 Congre.ss set a goal of;
26 million new units, six million;
to be for low and moderate in
come familie.s. But in 1969 the
construction rate stumbled to a
new low. Now’ Mr. Romney, arm
ed with carrot and .stick, .some
money and plenty of publicity,
■swer, since that would bring'];,T ®"^"' "®‘*-
Keep Youi Ba4te Did Id At
1220
fast, the slow, or the average ® 7
On lintian Snenre Mfmitor i
WKMT
public would not be boggled at
the cost and confusion of three
teachers per class, and HEW
would not rule that Negro stu
dents sitting in one corner of a
class’oom constituted de facto de-
•egrogation.
We don't have the an.swer.
Neither does Miss Leighty and
neither doe.s the Christian Science
CITIES SHOWING WAY
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Once again. Kings Mountain;
and Shelby are showing the way I
in their respective fashions to the'
rest of North Carolina. As we
have said in the past, the.se two
Monitor. Maybe no one does. But' municipalities have about as'
it ought to be helpful, if not mitch going for them as any other
hopeful, just to recognize what cities. Their progressiveness and
Kings Momtain. N,€.
the real problem is.
—Chapel HiU Weekly
IN OOLF TOURNEY
Mrs. Carl Mayes placed one
low net in the Florida Citrus
Showcase Golf Tournament Feb
ruary 13-15 in Winter Haven
Fla.
their innovativeness have stood 1
them in good stead. The latest
instances are only examples of
this trend, but they are good ones.
In Kings Mountain, it is the pace-1
setting idea of getting young pco-1
pie deeply Involved in the worit-i
Ings of city government; in Shel
by, It was its ability to overcome
News & Weother tYe^ry hour on
hour. Weather every hour on the
half hour.
Fine entertainment in between
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