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1 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of Hie general welfare and pubi^hc.l for the enlightment. entertainment and benefit of Ilk’ iiti/ens of K.ng* Mountain • and Its vieinity. published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. • Kntered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain. X. C. 2Sn8fi 1 under Act of Congress of Marrh .1, 1873. t___ EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon . Editor-Publisher Dick Woodward . Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart.Circulation Manager and So< ietj Editor Miss Libby Bunch . Clerk MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Paul Jackson Allen Myers Monte Hunter Douglas Houser TELEPHONE NUMBER ~ 739-5441 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE - BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YE \R - $3.50 SIX MONTHS - $2.«) THREE MONTHS $1 23 PLUS N( HJTII CAROLINA SALES TAX TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE him nho/irnrlh nun: nun hum shu/nHrth Iht' mi iiHlrmimi of Ins frit ml Piot'rrhti ?7 */7. Great Turnout Regard loss of the success or failure of favorite candidates at the* polls last Saturday, all can he pleased at the vot er interest shown by Cleveland County citizens. Saturday’s Democratic voting set a record with Cleveland casting almost as many votes lor governor as did much more populous Gaston county. The result confirmed the judgment of the county elections hoard in ordering a new registration. I he total vote was en hanced and the election, with the new alphabetized system, was conducted as smoothly as any in memory. As this is written, several run-offs at both state and local level are indicated. Meantime, Number 1 Township voters stood hitched to their home candidate. Senator Nominee Jack II. White, in quite fine fashion. The unofficial total for Number I Township gave Mr. White 1800 votes, against 119 tor his opponent Charles Heath. It was a heady SO-plus percent of the township vote total and belies the old axiom “a man is not with out honor save at home." Mr. White there!oil* is the first nomi nee to the General Assembly from Kings Mountain in .'IS years, when H. Tom Fill ton, Sr., won the Senate nomination. The Herald joins his many friends both here and throughout the county in tendering hearty congratulations and best wishes for a most successful term of service as one of the state’s half hundred senators. The Run-Off The citizens of North Carolina are tired from the long season of politick ing which began last September, but pity the candidates who tace anoth er three plus weeks of concentrated campaigning. Judge Dan Moore, who surprised many including some of his friends by placing a strong second, only some 25,01)0 votes behind Judge Richardson Preyer, already has demanded a second race. Whether Clifton Blue, second run ner to Bob Scott tor the lieutenant-gov ernor nomination, will ask a run-off is less cleat, as the Scott margin approxi mates 50,000. The Charlotte Observer commented that Judge Preyer, even while leading, almost simultaneously assumed the un derdog i ole. The Observer conjesture is that Judge Moore w ill glean a greater portion of the more than 200.000 votes for Di. I. Beverly Lake than will Judge Preyer. Saaaea* That may, or may not, be, with or without an endorsement of Moore by Dr. Lake. It is noted that Preyer placed second to Dr. Lake in the Lake bastion of Eastern Carolina. Both Moore and Preyer are moderates on the race issue. Their positions on many other issues are not too dissimilar. , The key to victory, for either, will bo • the old problem of getting their own votes in the ballot boxes. Voting normal I. ly isn't as heavy in a second primary as I in the first, as the tickets at the local 1 level are much shorter. It is axiomatic that the longer the ticket at the local level, the greater the total vote. Judge Preyer has already challenged Judge Moore to a series of televised de bates. Judge Moore has declined. Earli er in the campaign an effort was made to arrange a televised debate between Moore, Lake and Preyer, but Judge Moore declined then. Needless to say, Preyer supporters will level at Moore the charges of “un willingness to discuss the issues” and fear of coming off second best in a di rect confrontation. The first primary campaign was wag ed with a minimum of tartness and a real paucity of acrimony, i Those who know both Preyer and g Moore think neither of the temperament to delve into knock-down-and-drag-out Wmmii mul-slinging. The second heat Is underway, Glaucoma Clinic Glaucoma is a divad eye disease and more drradful t h«* later ii is discovered. Vision lost because of this disease can never lx* regained and lor this rea son regular check-ups, particularly lor those .35 years of age and older, are dic tated. Sometimes glaucoma appears un known to the victim. In other cases, de velopment of this progressive disease is accompanied by considerable pain. Op thaimic surgeons have drugs at hand to arrest the disease, as well as several surgical techniques. Thursday afternoon at the Armory the Kings Mountain Lions Club, in co operation with the Cleveland County Medical Society, state association lor the blind and other agencies, is sponsor ing Kings Mountain's first free glau coma clinic and invites and urges all area citizens who have attained the age of .35 to attend the clinic. The exami nation is simple and painless. I Additionally, many side benefits have been noted from clinics held in other areas, as the examinations have ferret ed out other vision difficulties of which tht examinees were not aware. The clinic w ill be conducted from noon through 6 p.m. The topmost excuse-for-being of the Kings Mountain Lions club and of Lions International is sight conservation. Thursday's free glaucoma clinic will be the Kings Mountain club's topmost ef fort toward sight conservation of Kings Mountain area citizens. Rev. Tom Droppers In this season of graduation, marked as is customary with elements of l>oth joy and sadness. Rev. Thomas L. Drop pers is graduating to the rectorship of St. James Episcopa* church at Black Mountain. Rev. Mr. Droppers has served well the Trinity church here. During his tenure of five years the church has grown in membership and into a plant of its own. Nor has Mr. Droppers been content to serve merely his own congregation. He has been active in other and broad er directions. He has been keenly in terested in the problem of alcoholism and has devoted time, energy and suc cor to the work of Alcoholics Anony mous. Best wishes of the community attend him as the community also plans to welcome his successor. Rev. Robert L. Hadden. Jr. It is a source of much regret to the many, many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Os car VV. Myers that they have chosen to leave Kings Mountain and to establish residence elsewhere (Charlotte). Though not natives of Kings Mountain, Mr. and Mrs. Myers have been Kings Kings Mountain citizens tor more than .'Hi years, reared their children here, and have been leading citizens of the com mercial, civic and religious segments of the community. Charlotte will have gained two fine persons when Mr. and Mrs. Myers move there next week. Hearty congratulations are in order to Chairman Charles Mauney and his hard-working cohorts on the 19ti3-64 at tainments of the Red Cross blood pro gram. Kings Mountain exceeded its quo ta for the year for the first time in sev eral. And congratulations are also due the many donors who made this record of success possible. Tommy Tindall, Jr., age 12 has been awarded a certificate of merit by the National Council of the Boy Scouts of courage in saving his five-year-old brothel from severe injury and |>er haps death when the young brothers clothes caught on fire last October. No honor, of course, can add greatly to the fact of heroism which speaks for itself most eloquently. MARTINS MEDICINE , By MARTIN HARMON Ingredient*: bit* o/ irimfOM, humor, nnrl comment* Direction*: Take weekly. i,' picxihtr. hut avoid uvt rdonage. _ __ ' Snmp of the xoting is over, hui not all o| it. As is more common than other -xise. there will he sex | era! 1 un-off elections for Demo cratic nominations on June 27. both at state level and local lex el. Kings Mountain joiner! the rest of the cocntx Saturday m com piling a i" orti vote total. lioth for tiie t>•mo.-tatic primary, and likely f >r th< HOP primary, j \x here four •■ovtesia were settled bx Kepuhlli it.-.. In the lattei tare, incirl- ntally. Kings Moun-j tain's Ed Smith and Avery Coun 1 tv's Mali Young could hardly haxe had a closei race. Young, as this is xvritten apparently has a 31-vote lead outofox-er 10.000oast in the seven counties. Ed's initial figures, gathered from news media. shox.ed hint xxilh a H-vole margin. Ed has indicated he will! a recount, should the official j returns fa’ or his opponent, as | has Candidate Young, if the re-' suit is vice versa. I am not con versant xvi'n the recount proce dure above the county lexel. How ever. xxith sexen counties and their «*leclims itoards involved, the recoun* request would pro sumahly go to the North Carolina : Elections ’>oaid. There is ques tion. too. whether the request xx old tie I’ uioied. i:t aiisence of evidence of si ecifie error -suelij as undue di parity hetween the' vote totals n other ra es. or. as has not tiee-i in heated, indiea- j tion of fraud. mm One of ti.e (loser races in my memory was tor the Democratic ■ nomination fo» Congress in the! late thit tie; et the district then j comprising the general area from; dreensboro to Durham. A High* Point judg- edged a Durham lawyer bx- •» rr>«*re 16 votes out of xvell over 30.000 cast. The result and subsequen" ex cuts catapulted Carl Durhe.n liom his mortar and- pestle duly as a Chapel Hill pharmacist to W ashington, where j he remained tot over two dec- J ades. Between tiie period of tht*j primary and ’he general election' in November, ihe winner died.) The Democrat!-* district executive committee gr.ored the primary i loser, exon though he liad been! within 17 votes of winning, and! tapped Mr. Durham as the nomi , ne<". That's i sample as to the oc- i casi<>nnl importance of the x-ari ] ous and sundry committees in tie( quite broad party organizations. ( For the most part, the commit-' tees are largely honorary. Si<natc Lose Charles Heath, as was his riRnt, posted poll watch ers in the I mps Mountain pre cincts. with Harold Cauaay, of; Shelny, tailing the duty at the1 West Kings Mountain precinct : With home-low ner Jack White a more than ' to 1 runaway at that, precinct, H cold had little to ene- ] tertain him. “I'm new to this busi ness." he aid. “Chuck ask«-d me to drop by said it wouldn't take long to count'em. Here it is 11 o'clock anil they're not quite tluoush yet! i-m It was only e. few minutes later that the counting chore was com plete. but n would not have been had not fo-r different sets of counters, v .iui.teers augmenting the official--. l-ecn tabulating the votes on the long county ticket, which listed 2b candidates. Need less to say. the elect! »n» officials were tired tc tht marrow of their bones by the time the work was completed. >lr*. Charles Carpen ter. Jr., ha l atisen at 4:30 a.m., been at the polling place since 6 a.m., which added up to a rather long day. Installation oi the new McMil lan voting system eased one vot ,ng day problen for both election officials an«l voters. No longer was there any trouble and delay in finding the names of the re gistrants. Thcitf were a few re gistration errors, of course, gene rally where citizens weren't sure of precinct lines ami registered in the wrong spot. <ln Kings Moun tain. the railroad divides East and West Kings Mountain.! Next improvement should be use of voting machines in the larger precincts of the county. At Bethware, where the vote total was less than 100. the counting chore wasn't completed until shortly after 0 p.m. Voting ma chines ten I to slow voting slight ly. but. whin the polls close, the counting is done, too. These ma chines are costly, but would be most appreciated by the election officials, not to mention the an xious candidates and their more ardent supoorters. Mrs. Wraon Crosby proved tht best estimator of the total vote at East Kings Mountain, missing by only 20 - o.kt . . . Congressman Basil Whit-ner visited the Kings Mountain precincts Saturdaj morning and was accompanied b) his son, Basil Whitener. Jr. AV.VMIU oil, Z'mawha l I NILIS ^ Required Reading FrtHT No Mar TrooWr If you have a little om* around the house or are ex pecting one in the near fu ture. you can help out with the feeding by fin*, reading the paper when it’s that time and second, installing a short rurtain rod on the back of baby’s high chair, for mom’s It makes it possible to keep a bib and damp washcloth within easy reach always. This will check the danger or marring the chair’s varnish* ed finish. (Not to mention cleaning baby’s face.) ' "I hope junior doesn’t i take after his father— • he’s such a wolf!" Viewpoints of Other Editors j SHARED TIME GAINS Shared time, which also travels under the name of “dual enroll ment," is a eon<*ept which school hoard mem'>ers will face with in creasing ftf]jfnc)' in the months ahead. Current use of the term "shared time" refers t<> the prac tice of parochial school students attending the public schools in their community for part of a day for instruction in certain subjects Students at,f*nd I heir parochial schools for the major part of their curriculum, hut may take such subjects as phySt’ ics. chemistry, mathematics, vo cational training, physical edu cation ami other subjects gen erally considered to he public > schools. The proposal is being put forth by some educators and churchmen as a compro mise between those who would give no public aid to non-public schools on the one hand, and those who seel, all-out public sup port of church affiliated schools. Interest in this idea by school people and the general public has come rapidly to the fore. There i seems little doiiblt that in com-j mutiny after community board members may in* approached by church groups with proposals to institute a program of shared1 time. Another signal on the hori zon is the activity of the federal government. Only recently, legis lation has been proposed (the Poverty Bill I, which would au thorize the making of grants or contracts to pay a part, or all. of the costs of development of com munity action programs. j A subsection of this measure I would requi.'e that any assisted 1 elementary or secondary educa | tion program shall be administer | ed by public educational agencies, but shall be available to all chil dren, regardless of whether they are enrolled in the public schools. This, the U. S Office of Educa tion chooses to refhr to as dual |enrollment. The specific language | of the bill statist “No child shall be denied the benefit of such a | program because he is not regu j larly enrolled in the public ! schools.” At this point, we are not trying to pro-judge the merits or demer its of share d?:me or dual enroll ment. However, the fact remains that more 'nd more local hoards will hi* faced with a request for shared time arrangements. Should , legislation es proposed by the t Administration be passed, the ef I feet on local s hool policy would | he considerable. The pressures ! which could he brought by pass j age of such federal legislation in j dlcates that school boards will be required to give this matter in creasing 'mention and study. They should weigh carefully the law. our trrdltional concept of | the separation of church and | state, desirable public policy, and the long range effects on the n*fiooli f OiwWlinR( I if • / BARRIER FOR BEATLES? The Unit'd states Employment SeiA’ice. set uc during the De pression clii“.‘ly to find jobs for unskilled workers, has long been broadening its field of activity, j Occasionally, for example, it even finds new Jobs for engineers and other professional workers who are already employed. But a new venture will take the USES even farther afield into theatrical criticism. A U. S. em ployer of certrin types .if tempo rary foreign entertaineis will have to apply to the Service for certification theie are no quail*! Upd, unemployed domestic per-, Wrfndrs <ab<d»*r of handling such assignments. Presumably this means not only that someone in tin* USES will have ta audition available domestic performers. It also must mean to judge the qualification* of the foreign entertainers seek- 1 in gentry. It's all pr"tty silly, of course, but it mav ha* e its occasional compensations. For if the critics aren't all tonedeai". the re-entry prospects of Britain's Beatles now look pretty bleak. The Wall Street Journal JUSTICE'S GUARDIAN Dictator Kwaine Nkrumah of Ghana, who among other things is one of the legion of recipients of U. S. aid. obviously has a high regard for justice. Especially within his own borders. Indeed, no miscarriage of jus tice is too small to escape his no tice. When two fight judges were so unfair a.-, to hold, in Accra the other day. that a local lad had not won the world’sfeatherweight championship, one of Nkrumah’s agencies stepec* in. voided the de cision and iukd that the home town boy was the new titlehokl er. On a larger scale, a few months ago a spe -'al court headed by Ghana's Chief Justice was unjust enough to acquit three citizens of treason. Nkruntah took care of that by voiding the decision and firing the Chief Justice. Ghana’s jals. of course are full of politi cal opponents, while others have been able to fire. All in all. It’s about par for a police state What is a little odd. though, is that the U. S. continues ohrso solicitious of such champ ions of justice Wall Street Journal 1 A TEARS AGO £\J THIS WEEK Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and extents taken from the IMj files of the Kings Mountain Herald. Erskine College, Due West, S. C.. conferred on Rev. W. L. Pressly. pasur of Boyce Memor ; ial ARP church of Kings Moun : tain, the honorary degree of Doc tor of DivPiity at annual com mencement exercises Monday. Ground was broken this wttek I for a major addition to the Kings ! Mountain Woman's club building ' on E. Mountain street, the addi tion estima'ea «t cost approxi mately $15,000 SOCIAL AND PERSON Al. New officers of the Senior and I Junior Woman b clubs were in staUed in a joint installation cere mony Monday night at the Wo man's club. DON? LET TOUR ASSETS GO IIP IN SMOKE Make sure your farm is adequately covered with in surance in step with today’s higher replacement costs. I.et us review your i>ollcy .... soon. No obligation. 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