Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Herald
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the gonor.il welfare and published
for the enLghtment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain
and its vicinity, published every Thursday hy the Herald Publishing House.
Kntered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain. N. C.. 2808T.
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873.
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Petn Crhx I S:H
The Democratic Sweep
With the exception of the Deep
South and his home state of Arizona,
the Democratie party posted a landslide
victory in last week's general election.
While much of the victory can be
credited to Ihc political acumen ol
President Lyndon Haines Johnson, his
op|K>ncnt Senatoi Barry Goldwater did
his seeming best to defeat himself. His
first mistake was his speech accepting
th*' nomination, in which he broke a
cardinal rule by withholding the olive
branen ot friendship Irom the more lib
eral Republicans he had soundly trounc
ed.
The result was that numerous Re
publicans eithci supported Mr. Hold
water half-heartedly, or openly opposed
him.
It was Mi. Goldwatei himself who
said the Republicans, to win, had to
have Democratic votes, yet he lost his
opportunity to corral all the HOP votes.
The election conclusively proved
that the nation, aftei 30 years, does not
wish to turn the clock back.
* The one issue in the Deep South
states which gave majorities to Mr.
Goldwater was civil rights, and the fact
that only five states went foi Goldwater
indicates that the civil rights issue will
be a diminishing factor in future elec
tions.
North Carolina, in contrast to some
predictions, gave Governor - Nominate
Dan K. Moore a greater majority over
Robert Gavin than Terry Sanford was
given lout years ago, even though the
civil rights hill was known to be a
touchy issue. This probably means that
the recently formed People for Lake or
ganization will have less appeal than
was initially indicated.
Al the Cleveland County level, all
Democrats won, with margins of about
2 to 1, and in spite of the fact that Re
publicans ran their greatest number of
candidates in years. Cleveland Republi
cans deserve commendations on their
hard work. Undoubtedly the disenchant
ment with the national ticket hurt at
the local level, though, of course, the
Republicans did not figure to win. At the
same time, the fielding of good candi
dates at the local level is the only route
to build a party, and the GOP showing
at the county level should encourage
Republicans to continue in the direction
in which they are going.
Congressman Basil L. Whitencr
more than doubled his 1962 victory mar
gin, dcleating Republican Hall Young
by more than 20.000 votes. This result
reflects Mr. Whitener’s growing popu
larity in his district, his attention to the
personal services his constituents re
quire, and his moderate voting record.
The Republican party, nationally,
will return undoubtedly to its posture
since 1940. with moderate Republicans
to regain the saddle.
Chief star at the moment is Gover
nor George Romney, of Michigan, who
won re-election in spite of an avalanche
of Johnson votes. However, he faces the
unhappy prospect of Democratic ma
jorities in both branches of the Michigan
legislature.
President Johnson has a clear man
date to effect tho policies he cs|>ousos.
School-Age Marriages
It is a classic truism that children
should complete their high school edu
cations before launching themselves on
the seas of matrimony.
No matter how valid the contention,
however, some break it and marry.
As to results, there is no definitive
pattern. Some folk marry in their teens
and live happy, fruitful lives. The same
is true for many who marry compara
tively late in life. Conversely, some mar
riages run aground, and age seems to
have little to do with it.
Both the Shelby and county boards
of education have set up ground rules
concerning students who marry while
still in school.
That's all very well and good, but,
still being human, it’s hard to
rules successfully governing this
peopli
make
important phase of society.
One fact is certain: n
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rules should
Secession Petition
Several months ago. when the wel
fare branch office was closed. Kings
Mountain area citizens were quite angry
and guesses that an eflort to forsake
Cleveland County for Gaston would
have generated v\ ide support were cor
n'd.
As often happens, time tends to heal
or at least provide sober reflection.
Odds against obtaining an election,
via the General Assembly are heavy,
howevei many sign the petitions, for
the simple reason that there are similar
situations involving othei counties.
Were the secession probable, it
would be amiss not to weigh the rela
tive advantages ot the Cleveland and
Gaston citizen.
Among the principal potential ad
vantages is that the Gaston citizen s an
nual tax bill is cheapei, lot the plain
lad that heavily-industrialized Gaston
is a wealthier county than is Cleveland.
Another advantage is that Gaston, years
ago, embarked on a pay-as-you-go policy
of building schools, which, by now, is
paying handsome dividends by saving
interest costs. Cleveland has recently
pointed in the same direction, which is
one reason Cleveland tax bills escalated
heavily this year.
Gaston has a strong county library
program, with libraries in virtually all
incorporated communities, assigns a
sanitarian to each town, and has a tax
collector in each township.
On the other hand. Gaston county
is not in the hospital business. Gaston
Memorial Hospital, lone facility in the
county, is a private non-profit corpora
tion.
The thinking of the group of citi
zens who voted, virtually unanimously,
to circulate the secession petitions was:
11 the petitions would determine the ex
tent of the feeling in the area lor for
saking Cleveland County and 2) if heav
ily supported, would impress on county
officials the fact that county coopera
tion should Ik* a two-way street.
The Ccriu> Sound
Governor George Wallace, taking a
page out of pre-C’ivil War history and
Strom Thurmond’s Dixiocrat movement
of 1948, became a candidate for Presi
dent, then, after the GOP nominated
Senator Goldwater, changed his mind
and withdrew.
He also saw to it that President
Johnson’s name did not appear on the
Alabama ballot.
As he had anticipated and inferenti
al^’ preferred, Alabama went Republi
can.
In contrast, however, to South Caro
lina. Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi,
where the states gave majorities to
Goldwater but otherwise for the most
part returned Democrats to office. Gov
ernor Wallace's much talked about
"white backlash" backlashed five vet
eran Democratic I'nited States Repre
sentatives out of office.
That, of course, wasn’t Governor
Wallace’s design, for the Congressmen
were part and parcel of the Wallace or
ganization.
Chortling Democratic regulars are
saying, "It served him right.”
Fleming Should Start
In anticipation of the passage of
the state school construction bond is
sue. Kings Mountain board of education
has already talked informally with an
architect concerning an addition to the
Davidson school plant.
Now that the returns have been
posted and the receipt of some $374,300
in construction money is assured, it can
be assumed that the board will speed
plans for building these needed class
rooms and an auditorium, looking to the
future abandonment of the aged old
Davidson plant.
Citizens of the state were wise in
approving the $100 million bond issue,
for the state can finance it without any
increase in taxes.
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MARTIN’S I
MEDICINE
By MARTIM HARMON
Ingredient* hit* nf news
trudo-u, humor, and comment*
Direction*: Take weekly, i,
l»»t*ible, but a void
overdoaage.
City Clerk .lot* McDaniel has a
map of North Carolina at City
Hall which shows the year each
of the 1<»* counties was f >rmo«t.
The last an<l I'Ktti. county to bo
formed was Hoke County, which
adjoins Cumberland, and much
of which now is federal govern
ment property as the big Fort
Bragg installation has spilled
over into Hoke.
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Next newest county is Lee,
which was formed in 1907.
Cleveland is one of the older
counties having been carved out
of Rutherford and Lincoln in
1*11. while Carton <Jtne into e
; ing five years later in 1 - I*;.
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One county dates back to the
seventeenth century, when the j
American colonics were under
the l>rit;sh crown, and Lincoln
darts its history into the 1790's. 1
ram
Ancnt the secession cmv?rsa
tion of recent weeks, Arthur
Crease tells me that K.ngs
Men.Haiti anti Western Gasto.i
c.iizcns hatl an opp. r tunny to
carve themselves a county in
1901. The proposal was to Take
Cleveland s Nuruoer I anti 5
Townships and Gaston's Crow
der's M runt am and Che. ryvillc
townships into a senarate c >un
ty. Mr. Crouse recalls that tire
late K. I . Campbell was in hi
House of Representatives and
that tne citi/v as elected not to
have a sepirate county. The spec
ulation is thjt the area ronsider
etl itself too poor to form a
county .»f its own.
mm
Major reason for the rash of
county-forming was transporta
tion. The general idea was to
have sufficient counties to enable
a citizen to ho able to visit the
county at at. attend to his govern
mental bus.neu, anti return home
within one day Horse and or
horse anti - buggy transit was
something short of jet speed and
roads were poor , too.
Now. with good roads and fast
automobiles, mam students of
government think North Car>
li;ia has too many counties, par
ticularly some of the small and
little-populated ones who are. in
effect, too poor to sustain them
selves.
But mast folk are rather patri
otic and feel strong emotional
ties to the places of their birth.
mm
Thus it was in the P.115 county
line election here. Majority of the
citizens voted patriotically, that
is. in favor of casting their lot
for the county in which they re
sided
Speaking of voting, there are
many citizens who would like to .
see th? county invest in voting
machines. Klection officials are
themselves quite patriotic, for
election day schedules are t ag
ged. The election officials must
arise at 5 o’clock to be at the vot
ing place well in advance of the
6:30 a.m. hour that the polls
open. There follows a busy 12
hour day until the polls close at
6:30 p.m. Then they must imme ;
diately begin the arduous and I
tedious task of tallying the re- 1
suits.
The iioauty of using voting ma- ,
chines is that, when the polls
are closed, tallying the results is
simply a matter of lifting the
panel anti reading off the totals.
Another benefit of voting ma- 1
chines is that the possibility of
human error is minimized.
I A disbenefit is that voting is
I somewhat slower with voting ma
chines than by marking ballots,
particularly for those voters who
split their tickets. How man?
would be needed for large pre
cincts. such as West Kings Moun
tain where more than 1900 are
registered, is not known
I’ve only used a voting ma
chine one time. During my sen
ior \ear at college, a voting ma
chine manufacturer sent us a
machine to sample in the campus
elections and it happened to be
used at the place I voted. It
worked ruite well. There were
several recounts that year. but.
of course, no recounting of the
voting machine totals.
Last wbek’s election results In
dicate that Rep. Basil l~ White
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Whitener Talks
On Conservation
FOREST CITY Congressman
Basil L. Whitener iDINCt has
warned that conservation prac
tices must he enlarged if lhe
United States is to survive. The
lltht District legislator spoke at
a dinner meeting of the Soil anil
Water Conservation Supervisor!
in Forest City on Thursday night.
"The conservation of .»ur nat
ural resources is the key to our
national survival. In our ma
chine age society, the Amcriian
people mast realize that we are
in ttie midst of a rapid depletion
of these resources. If not halted,
this depletion could bring about
a decline in »ur nation in htc fit
lure." Whitener stated.
Tlie Congressman pointed out
that the Bureau of the Census
estimates population at .'<00 mil
lion persons in the I'niti d States
by 20'S* A.n. and that the De
partment of the Interior esti
mates that the requirements for
water will double in the same
period He further pivntod out
that our forest acreage has
shi ink fr in m >re than a Mil on
acres ot app exlmatelv 77o •
lion mil's in tlu* re.cut i «i :n
spite of predictions that our
growth in population will in
crease the demand for wink! pise
din ts two-fold by 2000 A.D.
“Our imputation will c intinue
t i increase hui our land and wa
ter resources will remain the
same Forests are net grown
overnight, and dams and other
structures to conserve water are
not Unit in a week. We must
ol in now if future generations
lie to have the resource* neces
sary to sustain a great society,"
Whitener continued.
Whitener ur^ed that attention
be given to this vital problem
eor.froniing the future of Amer
ica. He pointed out that no more
'mpartant task could he assigned
to any generation than consei ra
tion of natural lesources.
This was ihe first public ap
t) e a r a n c e for Congressman
Whitener since his re-election to
Congress on November .T
Viewpoints of Other Editors
THE 'WOOLLY
BEAR' SAYS ..,
This is the sea-son when a little
hand of dedicated land often
grizzled t men begin paj ing close
attention to ears oi corn, fish,
acot ns, muskrats, oppossums.
beavers, skunks or even onions
and the voice of the amateur
winter weather prophet is heard
in the land. This annual assault
on science causes veteran me
teorologists to quake with poorly
concealed mirth or to lose them
selves gloomily in hydrostatic
equations and pressure gradients.
Honors far the first prophecy
of 19B-I go to a Waukegan i III.>
commercial fisherman who pre
dicts a mild winter along the
southern ^ake Mich' ;an shore.
Reason? Schools of perch are
not running deep The deepei the
perch, he says, the harder the
winter . . .
A Two Rivers man... used to
slice an onion around midnight
at the turn of each new year. He
said he could forecast the weath
er month bv month by the dry
ness or wetness of the different
onion layers.
Folklore is crammer! with such
theories. You can expect a long,
hard winter if beavers build
their homes early, if oppossums
take up winter quarters under
ground instead of in hollow trees,
if muskiats build high mound
houses, if “woolly bear" cater
pillars have narrow instead of
troad brow n bands, if acorns are
plentiful in fall, if corn husks
ate hard to pull apart or if
skunks retreat early from the
woods and set up lodgings under
your barn.
An one tart and well seasoned
meteorologist put it. most it not
all such theories “range from the
purely fanciful to the utterly in
ane." Meteorologists may scoff
but the folklore lingers on.
Milwaukee Journal
MILL MIGHTY MIDGET
As a medium of exchange the
mill is intangible. It is known to
few persons not concerned with
governmental fin a n c i n g or
schools. Unseen and somewhat
insignificant in terms of daily
reference, that tenth of a cent
does have a tremendous impact,
as this example illustrates:
Electrical energy costs are
based on a millage rate. For each
one mill reduction in the price of
electrical energy, on a national
scale, an additional S3 billion an
nually can be added to the na
tion's purchasing power within a
few years There are indications
the down ward trend in power
costs will be accelerated by nu
clear energy. This will be reflect
ed In household expenditures.
In this day of high federal and
state budgets, when amounts in
millions and billions are tossed
around carelessly, they become
but figures. Their impact and
the money they represent are al
most impossible to visualize. Yet
the federal government's near
bOUrnt budget, or Oklahom
an fiscal year revenue col
M0fcM7.7SO. all came
from fractlpnal pen
DR. TV AND
MR. HYDE
The recent Senate su commit- •
Ice report yn television violence
s unl.kely to end the controver- ;
| sy on the possible effects of tele
j vision on children, let alone a- •
didts. Already it has reportedly
! been labeled a campaign do. j
; it!**nt by John Davis Lodge, who
, is running against the Democrat
j heading the subcommittee, Sena
I tor Dcdd of Connecticut.
Published quotes from the re
port suggest that it attributes
had influence to television mor<
severely than many past critics.
It combats those who supposi
: I V's artificial violence may help
! purge children of similar actual
| emotions. It goes beyond the o
: pinion that a representation of
I violence may trig jer violence in
an unstable individual. It say'
“adverse effects may be experi
enced by normal as well as
the emotionally disturbed view
ers."
This is something for parent:
and networks to ponder, but no
to the exclusion of all tlie othci
possibly influential things or
televis:on. Violence is quickly
identifiable. But what value,
might be built into a child by th
appeals of many commercials
which he may be led to heliev
are acceptable? These contra*
with the violence, which with an:
kind of supervision at all. h<
has been led to know is wrong.
And now’ comes a report to th
American Academy of Pediatric:
that excessive television watch
ing can apparently make chil
dren physically ill.
During a season with onr
“monster" comedy in the top ter
and two in the top twenty — of
the latest Nielsen TV ratings, ii
is becoming plainer that TV i
something of a monster in itself
But as most children know b:
now, there are good monster
and bond monsters Let us hel
them to recognise Mr. Hyd
whatever he looks like, and tc
enjoy the intellectual and imagi
native stimulus of which TV is
capable when it is not being had
The Christian Sekmee Monitoi
uals can maxc essential savin”
leading to future surplus, or pay
off accumulated debts, if they
wait for a bonanza in large fig
ures.
Daily Oklahoman
1 A TSARS AGO
IU noswisK
Items of news about Kings
Mountain area people and
events taken from the 1931
fOee of the Kings Mountain
ffendf
Members at St. Matthew's Lu
theran church will celebrate de
dication of their new church
building with a week of religious
festivities November 21-28.
Kings Mountain’s current in
dustrial payroll approximates
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Kings Mountain. N. C.
News & Weather every hour on the
hour. Weather every hour on the
half hour.
Fine entertainment in between
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