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THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Thursday, May 7, 1970
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Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Heiald
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A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enlightenn.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., 38086
under Act of Congress of March 3,1873.
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The Saturday Primary
Principal aggregate disapointment
in Saturday’s Democratic primary must
be the light vote recorded, just 6,836
Democrats showing sufficient interest
to cast their ballots in Cleveland County
in spite of a fairly long ticket.
One reason, perhaps the principal
one, is that many of the campaigns were
personality campaigns, devoid of issues.
Even the underlying personality argu
ments were rather well kept under
wraps.
Principal interest here attended the
three races in which Kings Mountain
citizens were principals.
These included the House of Repre
sentatives race betw’een Incumbent W.
K. Mauney, Ji., who polled 60 percent of
the vote in the three-county district to
withstand the challenge of his fellow
Kings Mountain citizen Hal S. Plonk;
the Seat 2 Slate Senate race where Uliie
Harris landslided home county Cleve
land by 10 to 1 and led his opponent
Grady Thomas by 771 in Gaston; and
the countV commission race which re
sulted in Myers Hambright placing third
lor two seals and qualified to call a run
off with Phil Rucker, Shelby grading
contractor.
The other run-off liklihood on May
30 is tor 27th district Superior Couit
judge, where Lewis Bulwinkle has said
he will call one with leader John Friday.
The Gaston vote found Henry Fowler of
Mt. Holly claiming 1947 votes. Had Mr.
Fowler not been a candidate and the
Fowler votes been accorded Mr. Bul-
winklc, he would have been the victor.
Unl.ka Swain County, Cleveland’s
races were run on a sportsmanlike basis,
as they should be.
Gfady F. Seism
Just a few days before his sudden
death Grady F. Seism visited the Herald
to renew subscriptions tor himself and
his daughter.
His passing was a particular as he
seemed the picture of health.
A friend remarked, "He was a real
farmer of the old school."
He was, a hard worker who plant
ed his many acres, did his part in fer
tilizing and cultivating and counted on
the Master todo his.
His family his church and his com
munity have lost, too, a real friend.
They Vote'Em Close
Alabama voted’em close Tuesday,
so did Ohio.
Alabama Democrats dictated a run
off between ox-Governor George Wallace
and Governor Albert Brewer,, who ac-
ceeded from the lieutenant-govemoi’ship
after Governor Lurline Wallace died in
office two years ago. (Alabama, like
North Carol.i;a, limits the governer to
one elected form. He he accedes he can
run in his own right.)
Ohio is tough, too.
Robert A. Taft, son of the late Sen-
V
ator, rallied to edge Governor James A.
Rhodes, the margin being slightly over
3,000 of wen over 900,000 cast. In the
Democratic race for the Senate nomina
tion, Harold Metzenbaum rallied to de
feat John H. Glenn, the former astro
naut, by less than 13,000 of more than
840,000 cast. Both Rhodes and Glenn
had been favored.
In Ohio, long a switch state, the
closeness of the vote totals in both pri
maries reiterate that fact.
What are the overtones in Alabama?
Is George Wallace slipping, or will he
lay Brewer low with is in the run-off?
It is an Alabama question and it is a
national question? A Brewer win will
portend elimination of Wallace, splinter
candidate for president In 1968, from the
national political scene.
Unguarded Crossii.^2
The city hopes to collaborate with
Southern Railway, the State Highway
commission during the ensuing two
years in an effort to eliminate unguarded
rail crossings in Kings Mountain.
There may develope some areas of
difference between definitions of “un
guarded". That of Mayor John Henry
Moss is flashing signal bells AND gates.
It would not be surprising of Southern
Railway folk regard the gate system at
Piedmont avenue and the flashing bell
arrangements at Mountain street and
Linwood road as sufficient for “guard
ed” definition.
That leaves Gold street, Baker
street, Mauney Mill, and Kings Mountain
Cotton Oil Company crossings complete
ly unguarded and westbound approaches
particularly dangerous. For three the
westbound approaches are quite short.
The safety of the Baker street crossing
could be immeasurably improved and
cheaply. Grading a bank help very much
and widening of the auto crossing area
would, too.
These safety devices are expensive.
Southern Railway officials told the city
months ago, the flashing bell signals
costing around $30,000.
Just a few days ago Southern Rail
way President Claytor was quoted in the
same vein. He frankly acknowledged the
fact of rail crossing hazards, but rhet
orically inquired as to who would be
paying the bill along Southern’s more
than 10,600 miles of track. The inference
was that Southern trains ride on souin-
ern property and, if safety devices are
desired by the rail crossing motorists,
then they, not Southern, should pay the
bill.
The difficulties can be surmounted
if the three agencies work together with
the serious purpose of solving them.
Clean-Up Weekend
Woman's work, it is said is never
done. It follows that much of woman’s
is cleaning work, dishes to wash, clothes
to wash, floors to mop, furniture to dust,
ad infinitum.
A community’s work is never done
either, on the business of cleaning up.
Debris collects like grass grows aft
er a warm spring rain.
This weekend the community is do
ing its annual spring cleaning this veek-
end.
Clean-up, paint-up, fix-up-
The city, in collaboration v, hh the
civic organizations, intends t the
junk away. School pupils are ask
ed to run their own campaii; ..linst
litter, at home as well as at si. ...
Got junk? A telephone call to the
city will bring a truck on the run, and
the city crewmen are working through
Saturday afternoon.
With every citizen pitching in, the
job will be done and well.
Congratulations to Joseph Charley
(Chuck) Hoyle, selected for admission
of the United States Air Force Academy.
Kings Mountain high school seniors
continue to win scholarship awards for
college and university schooling. Among
the most recent, Miss Faye Pressley,
winner 9! the Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Company national merit scholarship a-
ward, and Miss Andrea Huffstetler, win
ner of one of the Albert G. Myers schol
arships. That’s mighty fine.
A best bow to the Kings Mountain
firemen, regulars and volunteers, on
their completion of a 42-hour special
course at Cleveland Technical Institute.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
"For You, Mommy!"
Many city got a surprise Tues
day morning when they routinely
turned on their water faucets.
Some folk got a mere trickle, oth
ers got a cough, splutter and no-
KINGS MOUNTAIN
Hospital Log
thing more.
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I called the city garage and
Paul Sanders told me a fire hy
drant had been clipped off on
North Piedmont avenue. “They’re
working on it,” said Paul. Then
he laughed. “You can’t even wash
your face, can you?” “No, I an
swered, “and it needs it, too.”
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I got another surprise when I
was checking out story. The aeci-
i dent had occurred at 1:13 ajm.
There was plenty of water pres
sure at 5 a.m.
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City Clerk Joe McDaniel knew
something had to be wrong when
he barely got enough water to wet
his shaving brush. He is in a
high pressure point, lias a cut-oft
valve to regulate the flow.
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When something like that hap-
pen.s, one appreciates the seem
ingly small enjoyments of life,
life-giving water being one of j
them. There are several wells in |
use in town, some of them dug!
during the city water crisis of
1953-54. These folk, of course, had
no problem. But think of the frus- j
tration of tellow with no other
source when his well goes dry.
A DAY WHEN ANGELS SPEAK
TO ONE ANOTHER
THE WORD THEY USE MOST
TENDERLY IS "MOTiiErs.'
//icrez.cxA'ru
Viewpoints of Other Editors
VISITING HOURS
3 to 4 pjn. and 7 to 8 p-m.
Daily 10:30 To 11:30 a.m.
I Mrs. Geneva Shanks Can-oil
I -Mrs. L. I. Eaker
I Mrs. Mai'y Jane iFarris
j.Miss Annie Frances 'Kiser
^ -Mi-s. Carrie R. Linder
Hubert AieKinley Metcalf
Mrs. Annie Lillie Thompson
-Miss Annie 'Mae Ware
.Mr. Sam Williams
Mrs. James Lawrence *Blanton
uMr. Allen Daniel Bridges
Bobbie Christian Bridges
Mrs. Larry D< jn Giler
Mi-s. Hillard E. Helms
Mrs. Sidney Dulin Huffsletler
Emanitt W. Hughes
■ .Mr. James A. Moss
1 .Mrs. W lliam E. Murray
I Ml'S. Erm-st . Mi'Fef-
I Mr. Bumvell Stokes Nolen
I Mrs. Judige L. Phillips
I Mrs. Jarne.s S. Pressley
i Mrs. Elton Stewart
Mr. John W. Weaver
i .Mrs. Hunter G. Wylie
[Admitted Thursday
I Mr, William A. Sellei-s
;l.Mrs. Jerry D. Hudson,
: Admitted Friday
.Mr. Ernest L. Bowen, Sr.
Mr. Rufus iP. Poag
Mrs. William P. i^ism
. Admitted Saturday
! -Mr. Thomas A. Pollock
Mrs. Minnie Surratt
; 'mitted Sunday
Melvin Ray iiiaichlcr
' Mrs. .Jos. |;h L. Baumgardner
.M:s, Roy E. Bridges
! Randy Gene Butler
j Mrs. Peggy C. Childers
Rufus Eugene Fite
.Mrs. Nen,i E. Mitchem
•Ml'S. I. man H. Robbs
Mrs. Richard E. Waif
Mrs. Clifton Eugene Love
Admitted Monday
Mrs. .Minnie C. Casliion
Mrs. Emma L. BcAven
Da-iyle W.ayne Talley
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KIDNAPPING DIPLOMATS
! This is a period oj mounting
' attack upon the restraints and
gu delines under which both in-
dividuads and nations have a-
At Solomon’s Island, Md., dur
ing World War II, the base was
still under construction but al
ready pressed into use. There
wasn’t any hot water. But there gteed to -live together and work
was nothing unusual to be caught together. Bon-ibings on the ground
in tire middle of a shave or show- 'ti the air, the hijacking of
cr witli u \v3tGr cut-off. plsncs^ sssjissin'stions^ physics!
assault upon opponents, and now
the kidnapping of d plcmats all
point to a -progressively graver
■ deterioration in the restraint and
The odor -problem at the McGill consideration without which civ-
sewage treatment plant has been illzed intoifourse is well-nigh im-
conquered. Because of tlic oxygen possible,
blow-out the digesters were clog-1
god and the plant didn’t lunction
properly, says Engineer Dennis
Fox. Skimp Stowe, sewage plants
„ , . and, hopetull>, throughout the Mr. Beau ford L. Dobbins
WELFARE REFORM MOVES ahed jpg, ,j,p south. The Republi- William T. Can no
There is a verv real prospect ' ‘he other hand, see the Cryst.al Annette Wright
tv, f tv, iTyxit«ri cr^to • will With iVVaJcice popularity as the only l Meeks
i to their riveting the AdmiUed Tuesday
out lon„ ha„„ S' Repiibl lean Ism with Mr. .SIrphen .McD.iniel .Marlowe
bands ol steel. 'Mrs. William R. Knox
Mrs. Harlie H. Palmer
on its ambitious welfare reform
President Ni.xon’s $4.4 billion bill
passed the House by the comfor
table margin of 24:J to 155. Hear
ings are about to begin in the
Senate, and the administration is
opUrnistically beginning a crash
planning program, te be ready
the moment the ma.ssive measure
becomes law.
So the present welfare hodge
in the Republican view, aiNl »■ bo ce E. Elker
that of many political observers j n wight Ramsey
as well, the conservative tide in. Lillie Ware
the South is now so strong that ^ Camp
Democratic liberalism there has ^ 'fanner
been buried for ttic foreseeable Connie .Andoi-son
future. This may be ovQrstrong, pa;,;! Franks
but the results of the 1968 elec-1 ‘ ‘ "
tion, which saw Democrat Hu
podge is. hopefully, on the way pert Humphrey get only 31 per- j
It was no overstatement when
Prof, Edwin O. Reishauer for
mer United States Amba-ssador
manager, always quick with the j, ^g^ned that such kid
quip, describes today’s odor at the
McGill plant as ’ sweet as lilac.s”.
nappings might well become a
“dangerous technique, hard to
combat and one tihat could pla.v
hob with international relations."
For the question of how to guard
Mrs. Betty Jones, victim of the against such kidnappings, which
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robbery at 7-Eleven recently,
when the robber stuck a pistol a-
gainst her forehead and demand
ed the firm’s money, says the re
port she saw the getaway car is
a mistake. ’’’He told me to go to
re.sulted in the death of the Ger
man Ambassador to Guatemala,
is most difficult.
It is sug -ested from time to
lime that all nations should a-
the storeroom and stay there, and gree not to meet the kidnappers’
I did,” she says.
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(■'-rr'inds, allowing the latter to
<l'> 'heir worst, in the hope that
u '-io-' such clroumstances the
kidn-’r.p ngs would cease. Yet the
cuestions arise: (a) vvlould they
, . ^ real'.v cease, (b) would enough
business firm says tt tnay not pay governments agree to make such
a policy practicable, and (c)
One owner of a Kings Mountain
to keep too little cash on hand.
“Some thug might shoot you be
cause you haven’t any.”
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Tom Harper, the public hous-
would not this be too callous a
policy for a civilized government
to pursue?
Clearly, much more efficient
guarding of diplomats is called
ing direcTbi, spent a long week-1 -for. Yet. -in any major capital in,
end at Charlotte Memorial hospi-jsay, Latin America, there are
tal. As he sat down for Friday' thousands of persons with for.
night supper, he felt something j eign service status (there are-116
trickling down his throat. It was in the United States Embassy in
blood. Ferreting for the cause her I Guatemala alone). Can such
failed of results and he was dis- gicarding, other than through
patched to Charlotte. “I could keeping diplomats locked up in
out. The President’s weKaie re
form contains provisions to please
almost every shade ol opinion: a
guaranteed intxomo floor, to
please liberals; a work require
ment, to please conservatives. The
hope of course is that, once the
reform gets rolling, the nation’s
welfare costs will begin to dimin
ish rather than constantly aug
ment.
The more liberal-minded Sen
ate will wanTto add features
which will expand the cost. There
is support for raising the guaran
teed income higher than the
$1,600 family maximum in the
House version. Northern industri
al states have asked to be reim
bursed for 50 percent of the sup
plementary welfare they provide,
Instead of the 30 percent present
ly scheduled. Some liberals ob
ject to requiring a mother on wel
fare to go to work as soon as her
children reach school age.
The welfare measure, as it now
stands, contains weak spots and
ambiguities. The Senate has the
oj^rtunity to root out these un
certainties. For instance, how is
the requirement that welfare re
cipients accept either jobs or job-
training to be enforced? .4nd what
cent of the voles in the 11 states
of the Coniederai-y leiiUs support
to such interpretation.
ANSWERS AND OIL
WELFARE REFORM
MOVES AHEAD
The question o[ whether to lay
an 800 -miIe oil pipeline from
Thus the Republicans belMV* Prudhoe Bay on Alaska’s Arctic
that, if George Wallace i^ere no Ocean northern coast to Valdez
longer a political power in 1972, on the southern shore typifies the
the South would be virtually solid extraordinary and increasingly
Nixon territory. Thus, according | difficult task of harmonizing
to one report, President Nixon's' America’s economic nee,-Is and its
own Republican Postmaster Gen
eral, Alabama's Winton Blount,
has been raising money tor
George Wallace's opponent, Dem
ocratic Gov. Alocri brevvci’.
With ex-Governor Wallace still
environmental oblieation.s. The
value of the oil to the American
consumer and to Alaskan devel
opment requires no comment. Yet
there remains in nriny men’s
minds concern over what this
a powerTo be r^Xoned ^ ‘’"viron-
some hope of carrying a fow I
states in the South (it was only! can be
the Wallace vote which enabled •
not only inevitable, it i.-- right and
Hubert Humphrey to take Texas
away from Richard Nixon by a
handful of voles in 1968). But
even this prospect, it must be said
to the Democrats’ credit, has not
caused them to ralij behind the
Wallace candidacy, although the
temptation to do so might seem
strong.
In the long run, of course, a
justified. On the other Tiand, the
sudrlon worldwide determination
to end the befouling of man's
earthly home is equally import
ant and right. The task, tlicrefnre.
is to use men’s limited .skill and
intelligence to work out means
to meld progress witli preserva
tion.
While in .some areas — .such as
Wallaccless South does give the] those with an advanced degree
Democrats a better chance to re- | of industrialization — such bar-
kind of a job must a person ac- build their earthquaked party ! monizatlon can be long, costly.
have come back when I got
there,” says Tom, "the bleeding
had stopped.” But he took the ad
vice of staying to determine
cause. By process of elimination,
it was determined _the bleeding
wasn't from his lung-s nor his
stomach, and the educated guess
is a ruptured blood vessel in his
throat. Ho returned homo Tues
day.
What’s in a name? Right much.
Back in 1964, Bob Scott and
Jlifton Blue were jousting for
lieutenant ■ governor, Cliff, refer
ring to Bob’s late lather,, rather
plaintively remarked, "I'd lot ra
ther bo running against Bob Scott
than Kerr Scott.” Many folk hon
ored Bob at the polls because they
had known, liked and respected
hki father.
their er-bgssies be sucxtessful?
Perhaips so-"p intemationa'l
police organizations sixth as In
terpol might be heetfe.d un to help
in tracking down kidnapoprs.
But past performance in locating
a kidnanpers’ hVleoul dors not
hold forth much p-romise.
Olbviousl'y. the problem will
fade atvay of itself otwe the pol
itical and social conditions which
lead people to believe rlmt they
have the r? ht to use such extra.
Ifgal methods arc done away
with. Unhaciply, it would be
naive to believe that as of now,
any such amelioration is taking
place in most ef the lands in
wliich sudh political kidnappers
are likel est to occur.
Saturday, as Cleveland County
did many times before, it honor
ed the name of Bulwinkle, giving
Lewis a lead over hi.s two oppon
ent. The late Representative Bul-
winfcle could customarily count
Cleveland in his column in his
nearly 30 years of campaigning
for the office. The Congrtsssman
These kidnaippers. like the oth- |
er manifestations of violent un- I
rest mentioned earlier, must be |
taken as an insistent warning of ]
the degree to which human re-
lationships are deter'orating.
One step towards halting s'.ich
’ (ii er' iration is through cnrrect-
11" Jjvious injustices of all kinds.
But a more important step is to
remind men that quickest pro
gress w !1 come, not through vio
lence and crime, but through a
higher sense of men’s 'brother
hood and interdependence.
The Christian Science Monitor
cept to keep his welfare checks
' coming? Under an earlier act (the
Work Incentive Program of 1967),
welfare officials were reluctant
to send mothers into job-training
and there were rough disputes
within the welfare bureaucracy.
The Chamber of Commerce of
the United States has mounted a
sharp attack on the Nixon re
form, arguing that once the gua
ranteed income goes on the
books, it will never come off —
and will simply augment year by
year, it also contends that the
work requirement provision ju.st
won’t succeed.
The Nixon administration, ap
gulng oppositely, contends that
with work incentive payments and
job training, the poor should soon
he moving significantly out of
povcrt>. Tills reduction ot the
“welfare poor” rolls is the cen
tral purpose ol the reform. The
administration will need to guard
vigorously against the possibility
1 tliat one more ineffective bureau
cracy is being created.
Christian Science Monitor
there. But, unless there is a rad
ical change in the region’s out
look, such a restoration appears
to be a good ways oft. Today al
most everything seems to bo
anti difficult, it should not he so
in such an area as Alaska. There
men have the enormou.s advan
tage of starting out afresh. But
they must no start out until they
conspiring against that party ■ have though through all aspect.s
which once "owned” the Solid ; of the problem. There Ls no justi-
South. fication for rushing in before an-
Christian Science Monitor! .swor.s to all obvious problems
have been found.
THE EFFE(rr
OF GEORGE WALLACE
It’s now possible to drive from
served in World War I, caime out 'Maicon, Ga., to Miami without a
of service as a major. Lewis did traffic light or an intancction
the same in World War II. , being encountered.
It is fascinating to find both
conservative Republicans and lib
eral Democrats equally devoted to
the .same political end. This end
is the defeat of George Wallace
in the May 6 Democratic guber
natorial primary in Alabama. In-
deed, it is hard to know which
group would be liappier to see
him defeated.
Of course, the ultimate aims
of these Republicans and these
Democrats are miles apart. The
latter hope that, with a Wallace
defeat, it might be pasaible to
evsntuail)i tcbulki the' shattered
Democratic Party in Alabama
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