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THE KINOS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C.
Thursday, March 9, T972
Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Herald
206 South Piedmont Ave. Kings Mountain, N. C. 28088
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enlightenment, entertainmnt 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., 28086
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Mautln Harmon Edltor-PubUshei
Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Gary Stewart Sports Editor, News
Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper
Ray Paiker
Reeky Martin
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
"And we know that fill mngs wrjrk together if or good to them that love the jLord.” ^Romftnn 8:88.
Sanford Running
Terry Sanford, lawyer, ex-FBI man,
World Wai’ II paratrooper, former gov
ernor of North Carolina, president of
Duke University, is a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for President of
the Un.ted States.
He will enter North Carolina’s first
presidential primary on May 6.
His decision to offer followed a pe
tition movement led by college students
to get the Sanford name on the ballot
at which last count noted was over
100,000 persons. This out-pouring of sup
port undoubtedly was a factor in the
state board of elections action in includ
ing Mr. Sanford in the list of nominees
lor the primary.
As of Wednesday—Friday being the
deadline—^four names will appear on the
Democratic side of the ballot. Senator
Edmund Muskie, of Maine, Representa
tive Shirley Chisholm of New York, Gov
ernor George Wallace of Alabama
Senator Hubert Humphrey's name
will not be there, he having announced
when the Sanford movement developed
that he W'ould not oppose the former
Governor in his home state.
Senator Henry Jackson of Washing
ton and Senator George McGovern have
not announced their decisions about the
North Carolina race.
Mr. Sanford’s announcement state
ment had the tone of a serious candi
date.
He did not indicate in what other
states, if any, he might become a pri
mary candidate.
As of today Mr. Sanford, Senator
Muskie and Governor Wallace would be
the leaders. The petition out-pouring in
dicates that the Sanford visage has not
lost its appeal either w'ith old friends
nor with new ones who will be voting
for the first time come May.
The Muskie forces in the state have
the support of Governor Bob Scott and
former Governor Luther Hodges.
Governor Wallace ran second in
North Carolina as the American Party
candidate in the 1968 general election.
The Herald supported Terry San
ford for governor in 1960 and his per
formance pleased.
The Herald urged him to enter the
North Carolina primary.
A few weeks ago, commenting on
the possibility, the Herald noted that
North Carolina had “horned” Presidents
Andrew Jackskon (South Carolina will
argue about that), James Knox Polk and
Andrew Johnson, but that only Polk had
gone to the White House from the state,
the others having been elected as Ten
nessee citizens.
Our friend Edward H. Smith begs
to correct. President Polk had migrated
to Tennessee, too, belore going to the
White House.
High time there for a Tar Heel.
Well, yes.
Registration
All counties in North Carolina are
now under the same rules regarding reg
istration of voters, with a system for
merly employed by the larger counties.
Registration books are maintained
at the elections board office in the coun
ty courthouse, open daily Mondays
through Fridays. The books close April
7, a month before the May 6 primaries.
Cleveland County, under the sys
tem the first time, and as permitted, will
employ the old method, too, with the
registrars to be at the polling for three
Saturdays before the books close, which
means March 18, 25,and April 1. Pre
sumably such practices will be aband
oned at some future time, as it has in
neighboring Gaston.
At any rate, there Bhould be no
problem for unr^stered citizens to do
so for the forthcoming elections.
Fragmentation i
The plethora of Democratic aspir
ants for the presidential nomination in
dicates considerable fragmentation,
whether in the remaining 23 primaries
or via state conventions befoi' .le July
nominating convention in M i .ai.
Some may drop, though all may go
ay
the whole route. But enough should re
main that no candidate for the nomina
tion will be able to stampede the con
vention as did Jack F. Kennedy in 1960,
nor, on the other side of the aisle. Re
publican Barry Goldwater in 19M.
Some have suggested that the Itu-ge
number of candidates rather assure the
Democratic candidates of defeat in the
fall at the hands of President Richard
Nixon.
Hardly.
In contrast, the activity of support
ers in behalf of their favorites gives
vitality to the party and gears the party
for consolidated effort in tlie general
election.
Politics makes strange bedfellows,
it is said, but smart politicians do get
married.
Charles Garrett Dilling
His wife remonstrated a few weeks
ago that her husband “wouldn’t give
up”, as he caned down the postoffice
steps, got under the wheel of his car
and whisked away.
Charles Garrett Dilling, known to
most as “Charlie”, had suffered a sJtroke.
But it didn’t put him out of business,
which typified the spirit of Charlie Dill
ing.
Mr. Dilling served the city for many
years from 1923 as city clerk, later join
ing the county as auditor and similarly
serving well.
He was blessed with a keen, inquir
ing mind, and friendly disposition.
The many who knew him will miss
his hearty laugh.
The situation at Kings Mountain
high school Where unpleasantness erupt
ed settled down quickly, with exception
of the incident in which ’Teacher Hugh
Putnam’s tires were slashed. It is hard
to understand vandalism, no matter how
much one dislikes another.
Kings Mountain Little Theatre will
present the final two performances of
“Surprise”, a comedy by Fred Carmich
ael, on Friday and Saturday evenings.
Enjoyable entertainment awaits play
goers.
Took Long Time
Approval of the corridor for the US
74 by-pass is the apparent first step in
a project that has been on the dravrtng
boards, either as thruway or by-pass
for more than two decades.
Some items of history;
1) One projection during the ad
ministration of Engineer Lewis B. Peck
was a thruway, curving south of present
74 west, underpassing the Southern
Railway in the vicinity of the A & P
(which wasn’t there then), thence east
and northeast to present 74 east.
2) Engineer Ed Kemper wanted to
widen King street “to give Kings Moun
tain one decent city street” but the city
didn’t have the funds to pick up 20 per
cent of the right-of-way cost.
3) During Governor Luther Hodges
administration (1957), a by-pass was
projected to underpass the ^uthsrn at
the vicinity of WKMT. The engineers
ruled "not feasible’^ largely due to min
erals on Chestnut Ridge and at Kings
Mountain Mica Company.
4) Public hearing was'held in 1%5,
indeed, two of them, on what is now Al
ternate I in the highway planning
partment, which subsequently came up
with Alternate I and Alternate H last
fall.
51 What its going to be is a ewnrtJin-
a'tion of both alternates.
MARTIN'S Viewpoints of Other Editors
MEDICINE
By MARTIN HARMON
MR. NIXON WARNS
RUSSIA
Dwight Tessneer, a county com-
mlssiicn candidate, called by Har-
ELEVEN MONTHS ARE
Past and no
COUNTY MANAGER ^ before he left
Today is an annb’ersary of for Peking, President Ni.wn has
sorts. Exactly 11 months today, delivered a remarkable foreign
the heveland County Board of policy review which confirms that
Commissioners was advised in a Russia Is still a far greater pre-
KINGS MOUNTAIN
Hospifal Log
VISITING HOURS
DaUy 10:30 to 11:30 AM.
3 to 4 PM. kind 7 to 8 PM.
ADMITTED FRIDAY j
oeira' Stewart, Route 3, 'City I
John M. McOinni.s, 811 filhocle."
Ave., City
Tls Funeral Home while I was formal letter that C:,unty Mana- occipation for the United States
VI u .cire i.«edne...ay. I a.-K-
ed him what h.e was for and he
rtTlied, “For lower taxes,” whic.i
is a rvob-le aim in anybody’s book.
His cajiing card did not detail,
and I asked him what he does.
He replied, "I milk cow.s."
ger Melvin Holmes would
sign as of Juno 39. Exactly
months from today, voters will
be casting (heir ballots for nom
inations lor cclonty commissioner.
Today is thus a red-letter day in
a double respect.
re- than is China.
tW'O
after 27 years of managing that
twice^iaily, seven-day weekly
chore. Lucius said he doesn't in
tend to return to the business cf
arising at 4 o’clock in t!he mem-
ing to feed and milk cows "with
icy rain in my face and handling
cows in the mud”. But he did
last week, spelling his neighbor,
William Lawrence Plonk, and en-
aibilng Bill to make an REA con
vention trip to Las Vegas, Nov.
The 95,009Avord Stale of the
World message reflects the think
ing of the president’s cliief for
eign policy adviser, Henry Kis
singer, on the triangular balance
of power between the three
giants in the world today. In
this balance, Russia sees threat
and
For
commissi.ners to hire a *new fhe United States the main
manager. Mr. Holmes, is playing threat is still Russia.
The county has been without
centralized professional leader-
I told him I’d ju-st been talking “^ip for more than eight months No. 1 as co^g from China,
to Luolus Hallman who had quit '"’ithout significant aeUon .by the for Chuw it is the rev-erse.
his trade down East; no one is
plying the trade in Cleveland
County. It has been nearly a year
in which the commissioners as
a vT-hole, have shilly-shallied meani
around on te issue.
It is no coincidence.
'President Nixon welcomed
signs of improvement in Soviet-
American relations. But uncer-
as to the
fundamental meaning of Soviet
'policies ran through much of his
message. He named specifically
m-oi
I logged 27 years at the Her
ald March 2, published the first
issue on Marcn 8.
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thiid, no action has been taken
of any ramification whatsoever.
Indeed, the steps that have been
City Clerk Joe McDaniel w'as (taken have been'worthless tatless
laughing about his son’s politics, action foliciws rhetoric.
in our
view, that the election coming up SovieS weapons development and
in two months, in which three deployment, Soviet arms deliver-
incumbent cotatnissloners are in- to Elgypt, Soviet support to In
volved, dovetails with tlic failure *ba in the recent oonfllct with
to hire a cxiunty manager. Despite Pakistan, and expansionist Sov-
the expressed view of twa of the naval activities. But his deep-
commissioners to hire a new expression of concern came
manager and the agreement of a over the Russians’ nuclear build
up.
“Believe he's gonna make one,”
Joe said. The lad had come home
from school recently with a 'Tay-
Icr for .Governor” label pasted cn
his band instrument case. "What
happened?” Joe asked. “I thought
you were for Bowles.”
“I am,” his son explained. “But
I didn’t have a Bowles label, so
I put on this one.”
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This is not to say that a
county manager couldn’t have
'been hired: the votes are avail
able to do so. The vote would be
3-2 or 41, depending on who’s
talking to whom when. But we
are told at least one prime can
didate turned down an interview
because he knew how divisive the
'commissioners have been. But
there are 13 other applicants,
only one of whom has been inter
viewed despite all the good ex
pressed intentions.
The president_ reaffirmed his
hope thar the ^ALT (strategic
arms limitation talks) with the
Soviet Union would culminate in
new agreement to curtail the arms
race. Then he delivered this warn
ing: ‘Tf fne Soviet Union con
tinues to expand strategic forces,
compensafing' U. S. programs will
-be mandatory . . . Under no cir
cumstances will I permit the
further erosion of the strategic
balance ...”
David Adams
Mrs. Major Black
Dan Boheler
Mrs. Thomas Bryant
Mrs. George Clary
Annie Dulin
Warren Ellison
Mis. Ira J. f alls
James Fields
Rev. Clyde Goodson
Mrs. Earl Huffman
Mrs. Azariah Jo'me'rson
Clyde Kerns
Mrs. William H. Lewis
Horace Mathis
Waiter Moorliead
Mrs. John W. Murray
Mrs. Robert McClain
Charlie Nichol.son
William Queen
•George Runyans
Mrs. Lee R. Sellers
Mrs. Ben B. Short
■Pearl Styens
Mrs. Robert Thom'iwon
Mrs. Minnie Webb
Wray A. Williams
Jesse Yarboro
Mrs. David Dover
John Robert Gordan
Ranson Pruitt
Mrs. Ooyt ^liles
Thelma Csirpenter
Lesco Gardner
Harris McConneii
George R. Barber
(Lee Roy West
Horace Kiser
Reliert Meticalf
Bessie Ramseur
ADMirreD SATURDAY
Mrs. James K. .Meeks, Bessemer
Ci+" V "
Annia Belt. Ua UonnM Xlsts Qi,
City
Mrs. Grady Willis, Moure.sboro,
N. C.
St.,
ADMITTED SUNDAY
Dalha MeD.miel, 70.5 SSone
City
Ida Rollins, 700 nrcve.s .St., Cil^
'.Mrs. RaymnncI Sliort, Route 1,
lBe.s.s('mer ihty
Bertie Thomp.son. 604E.
Church, CherryviUe
Eliza'heih Mullins, Rcniite 2,Oily
Mrs. .\llen Gene i’olzoit, Route
1. Be.s-semer CilJ’
Lou .\nne Blalock, Rootle 2, City
ADMITTED MONDAY
Ixttiie Boslie, 305 S. Linwood
Rd., Gastiaiia, N. (’.
John Childirs, Bes.se>mpr Citv,
N. C.
Carolyn Early, 109 Cloninger
St., City-
Edna Darlene Good, 103 E.
Maryland Ave., Be.s.semcr City
Mrs. John IshmatO, Route 1,
Bessemer City
Leonard Lawiiig, 806 First .St„
City
Kooert Lynn, 51.3 Cleveland
Ave., City
Mrs. Gerry Logan, 201 Cleve
land Ave., City 4
■Mrs. Lairy White, Route 3, York"
.8. C.
ADMITTED THURSDAY
Emma Bowen, Route 2, City
Ola Hayes, Rouite 3, City
Sara Nance, 2601 Crescent La.,
Gastonia, N. C.
STUDENT TEACHERS
Mr. and .Mrs. Michael Robinson
have arrived home from Appaia-
chain State University and are
doing their practice teaching at
Clay Street Elementary school in
Gastonia. Mrs. Robinson is the
former Carolyn Falls, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Doyt Falls ol
Kings Mounlaln.
— I '1
Bob Bfoler, of Fort Wayne, Ind..
was with BHl Stinnett, the drive
in theatre, trailer court and real-
Mr. Nixon has been seeking
to hold the line of strategic wea
pons spending until the outcome
of the SALT talks is known. He
would like to keep a ceiling on
defense spending if he is return
ed to the White House for an-
There are at least three, and
possibly four factors at work to
tv dealer 1 toJd Mr t other four-year tem.'B'ut he has
xy ae^er. 1 tola Mr. BibJer I had of government thus far: (1) the tnpllpd it out rlearlv that
expressed or implied opposition jf t^ere is no SALT agre^ent]
of one or two commissioners; be "mandatory” on him
(2) Che well-intended, but mis- m push ahead with some of the
guided, hope that a manager extremely costly projects cur-
couid be hired with a unanim./ s i-ently being kept in ' w gear,
vote- (3) the self^rving mouth-
ings and mutterings of a few, es- Compared with the warning to
pf'cially to keep a political con- Russia, the passages in the presi-
stituency happy; (4) the lack of dent’s message referring to
any fire having been built under China seem relatively low key.
the commissioners. He stressed that he had no illu
sions about the difficulties ahead
Enough ti.n' has elapked to in the process of seeking work-
hire a dozen county managers; inr relations with Peking but re
finding quality doesn’t take 11 affirmed his deep commitment to
months. The primary is so close the new course he has charted
Anthony Wayne hotel en route
from the World’s Fair in Chicago.
.4Ias, time and tide wait not fer
buildings as they tend to wait
for no ntiin. Bill’s guest reported
that the Anthony Wayne, one of
the city’s top hotels that earlier
day, was offered for sale for prop
erty taxes but got no bidders,
though, standing on a principal
street comer. Mr. Bilbler said In
diana law provides the first sale
must attract the tax bill to per
mit confirmation. If still not sold
offered again and confirmed to
after a year, the property may be that the employment of a mana- for American foreign policy.
offered again and
highest bidder.
confirmed to get at this point, before the cam
paign takes over fully, is a neces- 'I'ae other nations of the world,
sity now. Not tomorrow, now. We ®piall and large, stand to bene-
m-ia
were pleased to note that several ® continuance of that
commissioner candidates express- course. In this matter the presi-
Fort Wayne has grown to a
burgeoning dty 200,000. In .Mr.
BiWer’s youth, going to Fort
Wayne was going to the city, with
shining stores with escalators.
Television has spoiled the glam
our for yreuth, he fears. "When
my kids were twelve, ten and five,
we took a trip to the West Coast.
A business matter cut the trip
shert and I informed them we
were returning on a big prop-jet
airplane. So what, they seemed
to yawn,” BiU's visitor related.
iBlU had a television experience
not pleasant, too . Tuesday, .be
tween 9 and 11 a.m., unwelcome
visitor or visitors visited Bill’s
house, gained entry and parted
with the television and several
items of movie camera and pro
jector equipment.
ed ‘nterest in hiring a manager;
we are told there are others as
(well. If so, then the ccc.nty man
ager system itself will be a
prime election issue that should
'ce discussed among the candi
dates. In any event, some civic-
minded group should light the
match that starts the fire under
the commissioner, including those
well-intentioned ones.
The county’s miseratole repu
tation as an employer will get no
•better until the county shows it
is willing to be courageo.us and
and strong. A good ccl.nty mana
ger can be found; certainly suf
ficient time has elapsed to find
one. In any event, every candii-
date who has applied should (be
given the opportunity o,f an inter
view. Those who meet the test
should then be further question
ed. If te commissioners are real
ly willing, then opportunity Is
knocking. — The Shei jy Daily
Star.
dent deserves bipartisan support
at home. As for Vietnam, we
must welcome the tribute paid ’n
his radio talk to the patriotism
and sincerity of his critics, how
ever tardy that tribute may be.
--(Christian Science Monitor.
Keep Your Radio Dial Set At
1220
WKMT
KINGS MOUNTAIN, N, C.
News & Weather every hour on the hour.
Weather every hour on the half hour.
Fine entertainment in between
As 6 p.m. neared. Bill’s three-
year-old boy looR«i and where
the television set wasn’t and
complained, “We won’t be able
to see the news and weather.”
AN END TO VAGUE
VAGRANCY LAWS
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Next morning, he yearningly
as^ed Bill, "You going to get a
t-v set today?”
The U. S. Supreme Court has
wisely chopped down, as uncon
stitutional, vagrancy laws that
are loosely worded and ill-de
fined.
News note: Charlie BJanton
has a spare tideet to the Atlantic
Coast Oanference opening games
Thursday. He adds, "I got a
feeling 'the Tar Heeb may go all
the way this time.
Similar abuses in Jacksonville,
Fla., led to a recent Supreme
Court ruling. The court found
that the Florida law—like most
vagrancy laws—was deliberately
vajt.e. It failed to tell citizens
what conduct is forbidden.
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News note: Menzell Fhifex,
who’s had a rough run with the
surgeon. Is due out of hospital
Friday.
The ban likely will have lit
tle negative effect on law enforce
ment operations. These states
and cities currently operating
without such statutes apparently
have experienced no loss of po
lice e(ficienicy.
Adams, Jenldns
On Honor Roll
What the ruling will do is make
it mandatory that police officers
find more spe'ciflc causes for ar
rest than a man’s appearance
and manner. Too often, vagrtm-
cy laws have fostered arbitrary
police ation, a result of the catclh-
all natlre of vagrancy charge.
(DURHAiM. — Caesar L. Adams
of Route 1, Kings iMountain and
One state that will be generally
unaffected by t h e Suinewie
■Floyd J. Jenldns of 223 Watter- Court’s riding Is North Carolina,
son St. are among North Caro- whose vagrancy laws were de-
lina Central University under- dared unconstiLHonal in 1969.
graduates listed on (the fail sem- In that case, Charlotte police had
ester honor roll of that Instltu- been found arbitrarily using the
tion. law. to harass a group of young
_ . ^ J .. , . , J people living in a “hippie house.”
The two students maintained
averages of B or tJbove for the The ban on vaigue valgrancy
first semester of the academic law’s extends citizens’ protection
year, according to Undergrad- against possible poUca abuse,
uatt Dean Cooil L- Patterson. That is good. Charlotte Obserrer
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