Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Heiald
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enlightenment, 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„ 28086
under A'-t of Congress of March 3, 1873.
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Editorials on this page were written
by Elizabeth Stewart of the Herald Staff
with the exception of ‘‘Stronger CAGO
Can Foster Stronger Countywide Ties”,
reprinted from the Shelby Daily Star
September 25 edition and written by
Star Editor James P. Allen.
About Ties - - -
“A Stronger CAGO Can Foster
Stronger Countywide Ties” was head
line of the lead editorial in Monday’s
Shelby Daily Star.
The Herald is reprinting the edi
torial on this page today.
We agree that a stronger CAGO can
foster stronger countywide ties.
The writer continues, “It will be
catastrophic if Cleveland in whole or in
part reverts for long to the go-it-alone
ism of the past. It will be even worse
than catastrophic if self-serving section
alism is kept alive with a constant fan
ning of the animosities of five decades
ago.”
Continuing, “properly handled, the
(Kings Mountain water) project could
be a boon to us all, not just to Kings
Mountain and those who populate its
immediate perimeter area and . . . And
everyone might live happily ever after.”
The theme of the editorial had to do
with “keeping lines of communication
unsnarled back and forth across Buffalo
Creek and into and out of Upper Cleve
land County and on all azimuths out of
the City of Shelby.”
We agree that good communication
is needed. There are far too many well
meaning folk who think it old-fashioned
to - worry themselves with where the
country or county is going so long as it
is moving. Basic values must change
with the time, they tell you with mock
ingbird aptness. They parrot such non
sense as “we’ve never had it so good.”
Neither did Goldilocks till the bears
came home.
It is not the times that have changed
but the people and what they will stand
for.
Constitution Week
What do you write about Constitu
tion Week after all the textbook pleasan
tries and ideals?
What can you say after aging
enough to know there really are people
who no longer hold its concepts as worth
while even though the greatest nation
on earth sprung from its building blocks?
What can you say that has not al
ready been said by a million editorial
writers before?
What you can say is something like
this:
It is high time that more Americans
than just a handful of writers, states
men and two few organizations, such as
the Daughters of American Revolution,
get themselves worked up over where
we are going and what we are doing in
getting there. Does the Constitution mean
what the founding fathers said it meant
or is it just a scrap of paper whose value
is no greater than lighting a molotov
cocktail ^
Constitution Week was September
17-23.
RX For Happiness
Some time ago the University of
Michigan survey research center, after
a nation-wide inventory on what makes
people tick, came up with a fairly ob
vious finding.
Major reason for unhappiness is not
enough money.
In addition to children, the survey
revealed the major reason for happiness
was enough money.
Among other findings:
Only 17 percent of those interviewed
said marriage alone made them happy.
Only 14 percent cited their jobs as
a major source of happiness.
Only 14 percent said they were un
hapy because of world tensions.
One interesting sidelight turned up
in the survey. College educated people
suffer from anxiety ailments, headaches,
and loss of appetite more often than
people in lower educational levels.
Is the logical conclusion to be drawn
from this that best bet to achieve sub
stantial happiness in this world is to
accumulate a couple of million dollars
while avoiding education like the plague?
Hmmmmmm.
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Stronger CAGO Can Foster
Stronger Countywide Ties
Kings Mountain officialdom has de
cided to go to the people with a $3 mil
lion bonding proposal for the Buffalo
Creek water impoundment and treat
ment project.
At almost the same hour Monday
evening, the Cleveland County Planning
Board was working out its unanimous
endorsement.
AS THE KINGS Mountain Board of
Commissioners is on record as being pre
pared to sell water reasonably to out
siders should the Buffalo project he
brought to fruition, so is the planning
board on record as recommending long
range cooperation and coordination in
the countywide interest so long as it is
economically feasible and mutually bene
ficial.
Properly handled, the project could j
be a boon to us all, not just to Kings
Mountain and those who populate its
immediate perimeter area and. . .
. . . And everyone might live happily
ever after.
THE THEME OF this piece, how
ever, has nothing to do with the pros
and the cons of the Buffalo project
We endorsed the effort last Febru- J
ary, although we did then urge that
countywide officialdom reason logically
together before rather than long after
the project’s dams, its treatment plant
and its transmission lines became ac
complished facts.
No!
The theme of this piece is much dif- j
ferent.
THE THEME HAS to do instead
with keeping lines of communication un
snarled back and forth across Buffalo
Creek and into and out of Upper Cleve
land County and on all azimuths out of
the City of Shelby.
Until Buffalo project misunderstand
ings and misconceptions botched us all
up, we were confident that great pro
gress was being made toward the long
term eradication of self-defeating sec- j
tionalism.
In this regard the Cleveland Associa
tion of Governmental Officials seemed
until this year to be making significant
progress.
Then, bingo! Snarls.
For some as yet unexplained reason
CAGO’s emerging effectiveness was
creamed but good on the 20-yard line.
FACTUALLY. CAGO has been out.
of the ball game on this Buffalo thing
since promoting the countywide water
study (by Pease and Associates of Char
lotte) last fall.
This has been unfortunate.
It will be catastrophic if Cleveland
in whole or in part reverts for long to
the go-it-aloneism of the past.
IT will be even worse than catastro
phic if self-serving sectionalism is kept
alive with a constant fanning of the ani
mosities of five decades ago.
What we’d better pull out of the
snarled water communications of the
past six or so months (aside from treat
ed water and ways of distributing it) is
determination not only to reinvigorate
but to build even more solidly upon the
CAGO concept.
CAGO AT ITS BEST represents the
Cleveland County conclusion that com
mon needs, and problems should be ap
proached on a unified basis.
With the elected and administrative
leadership of the county, the county’s
various municipalities and three boards
of education represented within its
framework, CAGO at its best should rep
resent a physical dialogue, a close rap
port. a better organization with which
to plan for, discuss and direct-the total
development of the whole.
All this needs very much to be re
invigorated. But even that—and the ur
banization experts across the country
are pretty much in agreement on this—
won’t be enough.
To be fully effective in coordinating
and promoting cooperation, CAGO must
endeavor to involve private citizens from
agriculture, from industry, from retail
ing, from the financial and from other
important segments of countywide com
munity life.
i THE MORE OF this type of involve
ment we have, the less trouble we’ll have
with snarled communications.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
Ingredients: bits of news,
wisdom, humor, and comments
Directions: Take weekly if
possible, but avoid
overdosage.
Edward L. Hankin, Jr., steps
out Saturday of his post, using
navy lingo, as Governor Dan
Moore’s Number 1—Director of
Administration Ed, of course, un
derstand’s navy lingo well, hav
ing first enrolled with Uncle
Samuel’s navy as a yeoman In
1941, leaving the service .after
World War II as a lieutenant
commander who had been both
Number 1 and skipper of the big
flat-bottomed LST's.
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Ed steps out to become the
managing man of the North Car
olina Citizens Association, a
trade association of about 1000
members spread over the state
from (as Governor Clyde Hoey
mellifluously intoned) the sands
of Manteo to the hills of Mur- j
phy.
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With last week’s announcement
of Ed’s retirement from state
government, speculation was re
newed immediately that he was
getting in position to become a
candidate for Governor.
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A friend of more than three I
decades in college, through news-!
papering, navy and government,
Ed’s announcement of retirement |
was worth a telephone call about i
the possibility of his becoming a
gubernatorial candidate. In and
out of government (mostly in)
since 1946, he is as eminently
qualified for the role of Main;
Man in the Mansion as anyone!
in North Carolina and far better
qualified than most.
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“No, Martin,” he said, “I’m!
just running for a job. You re-1
member I have three children
Fran and I hope to see graduate
from college.”
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He acknowledged that he would
have liked to have stayed with ;
Governor Moore another year
but added, “The job I’m taking i
is now. It would not have been ]
available a year hence.” !
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My wife posed the gubernator
ial question to Ed several years
ago when he did a speaking job
for me at the Lions club and ,
stayed with us overnight. He also
said “no” at that time, pointing
out the mounting cost of cam- |
paigning. He did not talk in fig- ,
ures as Jack Stickley, GOP gub
ernatorial aspirant did recently, '
when he said he would consider
being the Republican standai’d
bearer with a campaign kitty of
two-plus million dollars. But Ed i
did note that radio and news
paper advertising rates are cer
tainly no cheaper and that the
comparatively new medium of
television adds much more cost,
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Ed's first foray into state gov
ernment was with the State.
Highway & Public Works com
mission. He was the commission’s
first director of public relations—
during the administration of the
late Governor Gregg Cherry.
When Governor Cherry appointed
William B. Umstead to the United;
States Senate, Ed went along,;
too. From 1949 to 1953. he was
in public relations with Burling
ton Industries, then went to
Raleigh with Governor Umstead
as personal secretary.
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Governor Umstead suffered a
severe heart attack on inaugura
tion day and never regained full i
health during the two years be
fore his death. Ed, in effect, was
Governor - without - portfolio. He
continued in the same role with
Governor Luther Hodges, the
annual mileage adding to seven
years.
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In 1962, at lunch in Raleigh,;
Ed, Attorney Bill Joslin, my wife!
and I were discussing guberna
torial prospects for 1964. It was
easy to agree that the Democrats, i
to assure victory over 1) thej
Lake wing of the Democratic^
party and 2) the Republican par-j
ty, had best be sure the so-called S
Sanford and Hodges wings har-;
monized their differences and!
agreed on a candidate.
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Ed started rattling off a list;
of possible candidates including)
Tom Pearsall, Basil Whitener,;
and Rich Preyer.
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A year later, with Preyer a!
candidate, I called Ed to tell him:
I was glad we would be together
! in the upcoming campaign.
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| “Oh, no,” he replied, “I’m for
Eton Moore.” ,
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Did he not remember his very
This Week
In Tar Heel
HISTORY
By ED H. SMITH
On September 25, 1773, a rest
ess North Carolina frontier set
ter named Daniel Boone left his
;abin on the Yadkin River to ex
)lore “the dark and dangerous
'round” of Kentucky.
* * *
The British Army under Lord
Charles Cornwallis reached the
iny frontier village of Charlotte
fown on Sept. 26, 1780.
For several hours the invasion
>f North Carolina was stalled
vhile ragged militia under Col.
William R. Davie popped away
it Cornwallis’ proud Grenadier
luards from behind the fence
•ails and houses surrounding the
:ourt square.
This action helped earn Char
otte the description of being “a
rlornet’s Nest of rebellion”.
* * *
The first woman in U.S. his
tory to be appointed Postmaster
was Mrs. Sarah De Crowe, who
was given that job in Hertford,
ST. C, by President Washington
on Sept. 27, 1792, shortly after
the state entered the Union.
The first air mail letter to be
delivered in this state was sent
from New York City to the post
master of Greensboro on Sept.
28, 1911.
BIRTHS AND DEATHS
Died, Sept. 26, 1829, former
governor Gabriel Holmes, in
Sampson County. His term in
office (1821-24) was largely un
eventful, neither marked by ac
complishment nor marred by mis
fortune.
Holmes stressed internal im
provements, largely jn the field
of transportation and roads.
During his term a road leading
from Morganton to Fayetteville
,vas completed, and the road
from 'Burke County to Charles
ton, S. C., improved, opening up
the western part of North Caro
lina to better connections with
the seacoast.
* * *
William Reed, one of the state’s
least-known chief executives,
lied during September, 1728
(exact date unknown).
Reed served on the Governor’s
Council for many years. When
Governor Thomas Pollack died
in office the Council elected him
to serve as Governor of the col
onlv until the Lords Proprietors
could appoint a new one.
np served as Governor from
1722-24.
favor^b’e remarks about 'Rich
Prever? Quite definOedv. he de
clared. but added, ‘‘You forget I
also mentioned Dan Moore.”
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One-up for Ed in the guberna
torial golf game.
CIVILIZATION'S PREY
The wild creatures that are
man’s companions on this earth
are rapidly disappearing. There
are 250 species—the blue whale,
the polar bear and the leopard,
the fearsome tiger and the hum
ble alligator—now nearing ex
tinction. Man, the giant preda
tor, preys upon these animals
recklessly and relentlessly in the
pursuit of money.
Fashion and snobbery play a
large part. There are excellent
imitation alligator products avail
able, but items stamped “genuine
alligator’’ confer more status on
the purchaser. As a result, more
than 50,000 alligators are killed
in Florida in a single year.
In an effort to lessen its de
pendence upon mink, the fur in
dustry has intensively promoted
coats made from more exotic ani
mals. “Fun furs” are now in
fashion, and tigers, leopards, oce
lots, jaguars and other members
of the cat family are in peril.
Tanzania and some of the
other newly independent coun
tries have done outstanding work
in creating national parks and
trying to protect their wild game,
but the economic pressurse are
hard to resist. Exotic pelts bring
high prices. It is estimated that
a thousand leopards a week are
killed in East Africa. No species
can survive this kind of depre
dation for very long.
Senator Yarborough of Texas
has introduced a resolution in
the Senate calling upon the Unit
ed States to convene a world
conference on means of protect
ing wild animals. Meanwhile,
Americans can help by support
ing the Florida Audubon Society’s
voluntary boycott agaipjSt articles
stamped "genuine alligator.”
Shoppers can also ponder the
cost of that leopard skin coat^’a
cost far higher than the figure
written on any price tag.
—New York Times
SMOKING SHOCKER
The new report on smoking
by the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare is a
shocker. It summarizes 2,000 re
search studies published since
1964. when the Surgeon General
found cigarette smoking to be
“a health hazard of sufficient
importance to warrant appro
priate remedial action.” It says
that these studies reinforce the
earlier finding. The report makes
clear there is no argument any
more about whether cigarette
smoking causes disease and death.
Scientific investigation focuses
merely on the rates and means
by which these consequences oc
cur.
A government and public that
look the new report seriously
would treat tobacco no more
kindly than heroin. But cigaret
tes provide billions of dollars in
income to citizens and in revenue
to government, and all of us look
on smoking as a matter of pri
vate choice. So there has been no
widespread or effective attack or
the problem.
—Washington Post
King Football
The big stadiums are being filled
! again on Saturdays, as the big, brawny
guys in crimson, blue, gold and navy
bang each other with vim and vigor for
60 minutes at a stretch.
Football’s back in season, and its
lost none of its appeal, even though high
ways are more clogged and therefore
more dangerous to navigate.
Last Saturday was Band Day on
several college campuses. Kings
Mountain’s band participated at Clem
son University Band Day. One local foot
ball fan attending the North Caroliria
South Carolina game was highly compli
mentary of the young bandsmen inspite
of the fact that North Carolina lost.
Meantime, there’s some tasty high
school gridiron fare right here under
our noses at John Gamble Memorial Sta
dium on Friday night when East Ruth
erford comes to town for the grand
opening of John Gamble Memorial Foot
ball Stadium. It should be an interesting
rough-tough game with the outcome in
doubt to the final whistle.
YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
Items of news about Kings
Mountain area people and
events taken from the 1957
files of the Kings Mountain
Herald.
Six incorporators filed appli
cation for state charter for Kings
Mountain Industries Development
Corporation, Inc. this week.
The city’s Fall street-paving
program got underway Wednes
day, as Neal Hawkins, Gastonia
contractor, began dropping hot
mix asphalt on Hawthorne Road
in Crescent Hill.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Kings Mountain Chapter 123,
Order of the Eastern Star, will
hold its regular meeting Friday
night at 8 o’clock at ' Masonic
Hall.
Mrs. Hugh A Logan, Jr. enter
tained members of the Contract
Bridge club at her home Tues
day night.
Mrs. L. S. Stroupe was hostess
Thursday evening to members of
the RQ-Lo Bridge club.
A SOLUTION
Kingman Brewster, the presi
dent of Yale, has proposed a
government - financed, scholar
ship plan that could bring joy to
middle class parents who are too
affluent to be eligible for college
scholarships for their children
but not rich enough to afford the
$3,000-plus that it usually costs
for a prestigious college year.
Brewster’s plan would permit
a student to borrow Government
money and repay it as an income
tax sur-charge. Thus, if a stu
dent borrowed $6,000 and aver
aged $10,000 in income after col
lege he would pay the Govern
ment $200 a year, or $8,000 over
a 40-year working career. As
Brewster said, this, is a way so
ciety could invest, without any
cost whatsoever- over the lonig
run, in oncoming generations.
And of course, it would actually
benefit everybody, not just the
middle class families.
—The Minneapolis Star
SO THIS IS
NEW YORK
By NORTH CALLAHAN
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One of the most remarkable
rides in the world today is that
on the Staten Island Ferry which
plies from New York City prop
er to its borough that lies slight
ly out to sea. When I was in the
Army in World War II, I was
stationed at Governors Island a
historic post which dates from
the time of pre-United States, a
colorful headquarters that has
recently been turned over to the
Coast Guard. Each day, in going
to the post, I rode the govern
ment ferry and was treated to
many sights, from debris in the
water to great ocean liners an'-'
warships which sailed close
enough to seem like Neptunian
neighbors. And always p-frallei
to us ran the huge and crowded
Staten Island Ferry, costing its
passengesr a nickel for the long
ride—and still the same price
today!
The ferryboat has been ar^
American institution for thro*
centuries and although probably
on its way out, is still in our
modern picture. Each year as en
gineers build bigger bridges and
longer tunnels, this traditional
shuttle craft is pushed a little
further toward the oblivion of
covered wagons and streetcars.
The first ferry in America is
said to have been launched by
the Massachusetts Bay Colony in
1635. In those days the Dutch
farmers of New Amsterdam com
muted by water to their land in
Brooklyn. By the 18th century,
hundreds of ferry lines were op
erating across rivers in all parts
of. the country. Many of them
hauled passengers by horse boats,
crude craft propelled by a team
of horses walking a treadmill.
Others used craft rigged to an
overhead trolley and nudged
■across stream by the tides. Fer
rying passengers by sail across
New York Harbor at the turn
of the century laid the ground
work for the rail-roading for
tune amassed by Cornelius Van
derbilt, which culminated in the
New York Central Railroad. Fer
rying by stream brought fame
to Robert Fulton who in 1811
put his engine-propelled craft into
shuttle service between New
York’s Battery and the Jerseijj
shore. In other American cities,^
particularly San Francisco, fer
ry service was used to carry to
work 50 million passengers a
year across the beautiful and
bustling bay. Now water com
muting on the West Coast has
become mostly a memory.
In 1910, there were 35 differ
ent ferrv routes serving Man
hattan, Lonir Island Staten In
land and New ,Ters°v. iPv that
time, the great, double-ended fer
ry beats plowing across the
world’s busiest harbor ahad
reached their peak of elegance.
They w°re gleaming 'wh'ig and
red and decked out with gay
oennants, their 209-foot lengths
boasting such luxuries as string
orchestras and women’s cabins
decorated in cream and gold.
These ornate boats cost nearly a
million dollars each. This may
se°m high, hut New York C'tv
will soon take bids for two big
double-enders for the Manhattan
Rtateu Island run which are ex
pected to cost 4*4 million dollars
each. Th“ ferrv boat era here be
®in to fade with the erection of
bridges, climaxed bv the great
TVib/v-oueh soan linking the
Rronx, Oueens and Manhattan,
Tt>e boat lines were also hit hard
when underground tubes ouened
♦rain routes to I,one Tsl-and and
nets virtually kilted the automo-*
bile trade that rrfode u" much of
the revenue of ferry lines.
New .Tersev, and vehicular
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