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., 28066
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon ..... Editor-Publisher
Steve Martin ..... Sports Editor
Miss Elizabeth Stewart.Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Miss Linda Hardin .....Clerk
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments.
Proverbs 3:1.
The Water Result
After the re-run meeting on the
county planning board’s feasibility study
on rural water service, Dr. Wyan Wash
burn, the Boiling Springs physician, con
veyed congratulations to the citizens of
Kings Mountain.
“I want to congratulate the citizens
of Kings Mountain,” Dr. Washburn said,
“for thinking big.”
He referred to the Buffalo Creek
water project, designed to provide up to
20 million gallons of water per day. The
bigness can be delineated by the fact
that the City of Charlotte currently uses
about 35 million gallons per day.
Three million dollars is indeed a big
bite. Yet solving the water problem to
day on a long-term basis will undoubted
ly save many dollars tomorrow. Realty
and construction costs continue to esca
late.
Water, like many of God’s gifts, is
seldom appreciated until in short supply.
Here are some local comments which
portray the situation:
A local farmer: “I can tell ’em about
water. I have two wells each 300 feet
deep and I’m still short of water.”
An outside-city citizen: “People don’t
know what water costs. I burn out a
pump about every two years and that’s
$450 per whack.”
A recent out-of-USA traveler: “The
water wasn’t drinkable except at the best
restaurants which served distilled water.
vWe had a 20-cent quart bottle sent up
daily to our room.”
A World War II veteran: “We
couldn’t drink the water without lacing
it with chlorine pills and it wasn’t fit to
drink. I stuck to coffee.
Hopefully, the city commission will
find bidding on the water project favor
able and financing costs cheaper, in or
der that indicated water service charges
can be cut.
While the earliest days of amortiza
tion of bonds will be painful, it is a safe
wager that the few who opposed the
"thinking big” position five years hence
will acknowledge the big thinkers—by
vote a majority of 1313—were right.
Welcome, Alcan
All new responsible business and in
dustrial citizens are welcome to Kings
Mountain.
Certainly, Alcan Aluminum Com
pany grossing nearly a billion yearly
and w'ith net assets of $120 million meets
the test of responsibility, both financial
ly and by reputation as a citizen which
regards itself a part of the community.
Alcan represents something more,
however, in the form of diversification.
Until Superior Stone Company open
ed operations here, Kings Mountain in
dustry was almost completely textiles.
Since the mining community has ex
panded with Foote Mineral and Lithium
Corporation’s lithium-industry opera
tions, and Kings Mountain Mica, English
Mica and U. S. Gypsum’s mica opera
tions.
In Alcan’s mobile home service cen
ter, Kings Mountain w ill have a new type
of operation in production of components
for mobile homes and recreational ve
hicles.
Majority of area citizens were quite
surprised to learn that there are 30 mo
bile home manufacturers within a 100
mile radius of Kings Mountain and that
the state ranks sixth in the nation in
production of these vehicles. The Herald
was.
President Eric Trigg notes that the
home-trailer market among young mar
ried couples and retirees continues to
grow by leaps and bounds, says the day
of “high-rise” trailer homes is en route.
The community welcomes Alcan
Aluminum Company to Kings Mountain
on Alcan’s first entrance into the South
east.
Citizens should avail themselves Al
can’s invitation to take a plant tour at
Saturday afternoon’s open house.
Broughton In Race
Not over 60 days ago there was con
siderable speculation among political
leaders in the state that there would be
no serious opposition for governor to
Lieutenant-Governor Robert W. Scott,
though officially unannounced as a can
didate fully-geared into campaigning
with a headquarters staff and ail the
trappings.
Monday, that speculation ended, as
J. Melville Broughton, Jr., a Raleigh law
yer, announced he would seek the gover
norship. 1
Mr. Broughton, like Mr. Scott, has a
political background by heritage. Both
are sons of governons and both their
fathers became United States Senators.
It might be added that both the
fathers were “strongmen”, forthright in
speech, knowledgeable in the business
of politics and leadership. Both made
good, perhaps great, governors.
Governor Broughton campaigned on
a platform of removing the sales tax from
the home table. Even though by winning,
Governor Broughton had a mandate,
there were echelons of the General As
sembly which did not plan to honor it.
Governor Broughton brought it off. His
chief weapon was withholding appoint
ments until the legislators had acted
favorably.
Governor Kerr Scott campaigned on
a platform of getting rural residents out
of the muddy slough of winter and the
choking dust of summer by paving rural
roads. Again many legislators wanted to
ignore the mandate and planned a flank
ing movement. Scott wanted $100 million
in bonds. The General Assembly feeling
the citizens would never vote it, set Up
an election for $200 million. Scott car
ried it through.
Like father like son?
That is the question.
Mr. Scott managed two legislative
sessions as the Senate’s presiding officer
without too many wounds, though some
critics felt his second session more equi
vocative than his first, gubernatorial
filing day nearing.
Mr. Broughton got good marks for
his performance as Governor Luther
Hodges’ chairman of the state highway
commission, less high marks as Gover
nor Dan Moore’s state Democratic chair
man.
Like father, like son, either/or, most
will agree, for both Governors Brough
ton and Scott contributed to the state’s
continuing progress.
A Dividend
Kings Mountain Business Develop
ment, Inc., has declared its first dividend,
a modest ten cents per share, after ten
years in business.
While the first monetary dividend,
this organization has contributed much
to Kings Mountain.
Born from distress when employ
ment claims in Number 4 Township were
in the 700 to 900 per week range, the aim
was to obtain job-providing industry.
Stock sales were not great, hut from
capital of $22,810, the officers were able
to launch a modest industry Waco
Sportswear (now Barwin Knitting Mills).
Because of Waco, Shannon, Ltd. (now
Duplex International, owned by Reeves
Brothers), came to Kings Mountain. Ser
vice of the development firm was foot
work, arranging for land and utilities.
When Waco purchased its building, the
development firm was in position to seek
again, the result toeing K Mills, Inc.,
which this year has added 12,000 square
feet, continues to increase its produc
tion and number of employees. j
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The modest decennial dividend (per
haps others will come sooner) is a re
minder that the officers and directors
have been good stewards of their trust.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
Ingredients: bite of netoa,
wisdom, humor, and comments
Directions: Take weekly if
possible, but avoid
overdosage.
By MARTIN HARMON
Dick McGinnis was in the of
flee oh a matter of business and
inquired as to the size of Kings
Mountain’s new aluminum fabri
cating citizen, formally dedicated
Monday, and to hold open house
at the plant os Childers street
Saturday afternoon beginning at
1 o’clock. ■ ” ‘
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I replied by turning to the sum
mary of operations for 1966 ap
pearing m Alcan Aluminum Com
pany’s annual statement Alcan
grossed in excess of $998 mil
lions in 1966. “Gee." said Dick,
“that’s hard to imagine.” Indeed,
I replied, for a couple of country
boys.
Of interest to many local area
World War II veterans will be
the first named <( alphabetical or
der) of the 14 Alcan directors.
He is Field Marshal the Right
Honorable the Earl Alexander of
Tunis, Knights of the Garter.
London. World War II men in
African, the Mediterranean, and
European campaigns remember
him as General Sir Harold G.
Alexander, boss of the works.
Bob Oleson, the Alcan public re
lations man, commented, “We
don’t see an awful lot of him.”
Another public relations man,
John Purser, had the dubious
pleasure of being on the plane
the night of December 1 (having
departed Charlotte) which ran
off the runway on landing in
Cleveland. John didn’t pay too
much attention to the fact the
plane rode up on its nose in a
more sudden - than - usual stop
until he looked out and found
the plane parked 400 yards from
the terminal. The pilot shortly
explained that he regretted to
announce the minor landing mis
hap but that a bus would be out
to disembark passengers, the
plane being mudded to the hub
caps. The bus arrived and load
ed. Someone observed to the bus
driver he was driving away from
the terminal, only to be informed
he was taking a short out. Ac
tually, he was lost and a car had
to be dispatched to guide the
busman to the terminal.
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Mr. Purser flies frequently has
had only one harrowing exper
ience. The piano's landing gear
wouldn’t function. After the run
way was covered with fire-kill
ing foam, the pilot executed a
perfect belly landing. John says,
‘Everyone was calm, no panic at
all. I dropped into the bar and
ordered a drink. As I started to
take a sip, what might have hap
pened hit me. I spilled the drink
on my shirt front.”
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Rush Hamrick, of Shelby, had
a flying first this week. The
plane landed him from New
York in Charlotte, but minus his
bag. The airline folk assured him
it would be located and retrieved
and would be delivered to him.
It was, the hag having landed in
Puerto Rico.
Could Alcan’s Bill Davis, na
tional sales manager for the
awnings, interiors and building
products division be the Bill
Davis I know who, at Vast report,
was with Aluminum Company of
America. No, Alcan’s Davis prov
ed when I met him Monday at
Douglas Airport that he was not
one and the same. However, he
had heard of tnX friend, had
read something of him recently.
It could have been in an alumi
num trade paper or in a commit
nique from the Davidson Alumni
association. Alcoa’s Bill
was Class of ’40, Alcana Davj*
a one-year student in 1929-30. Al
can’s Davis had remarked about
age, said Secretary of State Ddan
Rusk was a junior at the time.
“You're not old,” I jested. At
least you weren’t at Davidson
when President Woodrow Wilson
was there."
Fred Ratchford, secreteary of
the Gastonia Chamber of Com
merce, was a confrere freshman
yf Alcan’s Bill Davis.
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Eric Trigg, Alcan’s president
said the parent company, though
;oming to North Carolina for the
first time, boasts important
North Carolina connections since
'he twenties. The late James B.
Duke was instrumental in de
velopment of hydro-electric pow
?r in Quebec where the first
smelter was built. Bie Duke
Foundation today has large hold
mgs of Alcan stock, and more
’han 200 more Carolinians own
an additional 45,000 sbejW*
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Curious about Kings Moun
tain’s “historical city*1 claim, ha
suggested that his being a Brit
ish subject (Canadian) might
mean he should avoid the history
business.
Kings Mountain will he quite
proud of the testimony of George
Poggen, plant manager, as he
gave the reasons for Alcan’s
choosing Kiags Mountain far its
mobile trailer service. “We found
besides other asset*’’ to* declared
“many very fine and friendly
people.”
fee+Kng Info The Acf
of Other Editors
This Week
In Tar Heel
HISTORY
8y ED B. SMITH
On December 7, 1710. North
and South Carolina were official
ly seperated iRtd two colonies.
On Dec. ,2,. 1780, General Na
thaniel Greene reached Charlotte
and took ower command of the
Southern Continental Army from
General Heratio Oates, who was
in disgrace after the American
rout at Camden, S. C.
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On Dec. 4, im th* last party
of Cherokee Indians left North
Carolina under military guard for.
their long trek to the western
reservation. Though some mem
ber? of the tribe were able to
escape into the mountains and
avoid deportation, nearly a quar
ter of their total number perish
ed along the "Trail of Tears” to
Oklahoma.
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This was also a big week tfc
North Carolina history for gov
ernors of the State:
On Dee A 1688, proprietary
Governor Seth SotheJ was tried
by the Albemarle AsiemMys con
victed on thirteen counts of mis'
conduct, removed ffdm office,
“'banished from the Country for
12 months and from the Governor
for ever”., v ■' ■ \
On Dec. 2. 1688, , Proprietary
vW I*. Swain of Buncombe Coun
ty took the oath of office. He
was, at tlrirty-ftne, the youngest
governor in the state's history^ n
Swain also had a long career,
as a legislator mid as President,
of the UniVefSity of North Caro
lina.
wurits xioujva pj.vKv.vu
horn on Dee- 6. 18j$. . ,
The third Republican to serve
as Governor of the state, he sue
oeeded Tede -Caldwell of Burke
County, who died in office. Brog
den finished that tern, hut was,
followed by Democratic Zebutop
Vance in ISIS.
Regarded as the roost success
ful of N. C.*s four Republican
governors, Brogden had previous
ly served for seventeen years as
a Whig state legislate^ from
Wayne County. He was elected
to the U.S. Senate with Republi
can support in ISM. and ran a*
lieutenant governor on the Re
publican ticket with Caldwell in
W% He was the second lieute
nant governor to succeed to the
state’s top office, Caldwell him
self having been the first.
Jt is huMeetiv- Of the turbulent
Celtics of those t»me« that in
the eighteen-year period between
MQ2 and 1880. not a single gov
ernor of the state sftrved a com
plete four-year term. y
f^TigfT BRED
An Towa feed aompany reports
it is doing nicely with its "pig
motel" operations.
The company takes in little
pigs produced an «nma farms and
gives them room and board at a
fan until they reach market
weights. —.
Vbur units of the motel already
are in operation, earn- nee nndee
construction and the foundations
are in for two more. The company
says when it is finished it will
ha a 1.5-miRion-doHar
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Sterling ana. Joan .ox Arc
“What is the meaning of the
phrase ‘pound sterling’ which the
British use to designate their
monetary unit? *Pound,’ of course,
has to dow ith a measure of
Weight ‘Sterling’—in old French
‘esterlin’ or ‘estrelin’—comes from
the Anglo-Saxon ‘Easterling,’ the
name given to men from the
East that is to say to merchants
of the Hanseatic League and the
Law Countries.”
Perhaps this little explanatory
note given in the Paris newspap
er Le Monde was meant simply
to inform its readers. Yet into it
couldrhe read a thrust (or coun
terthrust) at the British. Does it
not imply that the British had to
go running somewhere else to get
a Word which they often use to
denote the quintessence of those
qualities in which they see their
strength?
If such an- Implication was
there with intent, it was at least
more cleverly snide than some
of ,the thrusts at General de
Gaulle from the English side of
the Channel.
Watching these exchanges
across the Channel, we thought
the Sunday Times was moving in
the direction of a more effective
offensive with this Item:
“General de Gaulle leans heav
ily on the legend of Joan at Are.
ijte’s let It be known that he is
descended from the Arc family—
which gives him no end of re
flected glory. ...
"Mow some critics and histor
ians are saying that the whole
tale is nonsense. Documents which
have been in the hands of the
Arnaoises family for centuries
have come to light, which es
tablish pretty conclusively that
the Maid at Orleans escaped
burning, was released from jail
after years at imprisonment, and
went to live near Metz where she
married Robert des Amboises.”
Paris; over to you.-~-Christten
Science Monitor
Who Spooks For Froodom?
\ .<. We hove been witnessing
whet has been heralded as the
neatest protest in the United
States to date against the war in
Vietnam.
No doubt... the details of this
exhibition wiH also have been
examined, with a great deal of
relish, in Hanoi, Peking and Mos
cow.
To an extent which has per
haps never been equalled in his
tory, we have been observing a
strange situation in which the
moot powerful nation on earth is
being pushed nearer and nearer
to the brink of defeat, not by the
bravery of the nemy or any lack
of it by its own troops, but by the
actions of what is actually only
a small portion of its people at
hossr.
Surely the Communist leaders,
I after examining the pictures and
[ reports af the latest United Stat
es demonstrations, will he en
eomaged to stay away from any
conference table. They could pot
be blamed for hoping that « tew
more shoves might finally topple
the great nation that appears to
hay» potfing morale at ferae at
the very moment when ft has
had tlvsat «po» itself the difti
cu|t role of champion of the true
world.
lo nation can «Hmr itself to
be swayed by the actions aftim
A4b and still remain in a pom
tioh Of Influence in this idnm
ly dtagnm world.
Even thooe who love freedom
wifh the passion af the eagis»<
and there are plenty of us—swuat
surely he diaturhed in these peeu
• We are today teeing an extra
10
YEARS AGO
YHIS WEEK
Items of news about Kings
Mountain area people and
events taken from the 1957
files of the Kings Mountain
Herald. :
The weatherman provided cold
tout clear skies Wednesday much
to the delight of youngsters and
adults who Jammed the city
streets for the big Christinas op
ening parade.
Warren Giese of the University
of South Carolina will be the
principal speaker at the Lion’s
club annual high school football
banquet December 9th.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Suzanne McDaniel, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Bill McDaniel,
celebrated her first birthday Sat
urday, November 30th.
Mrs. W. J, Gantt presented the
program on holiday decorations
at Monday night’s meeting of
the Junior Woman’s dub.
THE LOWER
Affairs seem sometimes to al
ternate between emphasis on
team play and the' loner, as far
as research goes. In the 19th cen
tury most laboratory discoveries
were toy brilliant and persistent
individuals. Then Thomas A. Ed
ison, among others, set up the
type of laboratory that used team
research. Big corporations follow
ed suit. Now a Shift seems to be
in process whereby individuals
again will have their roles.
Dr. John S. Deesauer, executive
vice-president in charge of re
search for Xerox, predicts that by
the 1970's the major research will
be done toy toners, or, as he de
fines them, “gifted individuals
and creative non-conformists.”
Since he heads a team of some
600 research personnel, his pre
diction has weight.—The Arizona
Daily Star
mely grave crisis in which the
blind and almost rabid worship
of what some call freedom is al
most completely obliterating
what used to be called respon
sibility.—Toronto Globe It Mail
SO THIS IS
NEW YORK
By NORTH CALLAHAN
A university president here hap
challenged the church. He asks
what it is doing to help the world
of today. President James Hester
of New York University minced
no words the other day when he
told a meeting of ministers, “We
know too well that in many plac
es where once religion was the
organizing loxce in society, its
influence in the lives of millions
of people is negligible. Even
many who maintain church affi
liation no longer experience re
ligion as the central force in com
munity life . . . Is it not clear
then, what we must ask of re
ligion? We ask for inspiration,
for illumination, for understand
ing, for courage that scientists,
philosophers, psychologists and
educators cannot provide alone.”
In her charming book, “The
Plaza", Eve Brown tells of when
the famous hotel first opened
sixty years ago. There was a big
crowd at 59th Street and 5th Ave
nue waiting to see who would be
the first guest to register. It turn-^a
ed out to be Alfred Gwynne Van-^p
derbilt, son of Cornelius who was
then considered the richest man
in America. As his limousine door
opened, some were disappointed
at not seeing Mrs. Vanderbilt. But
others knew that she had been
injured in an automobile acci
dent, or at least shaken up so
that her arrival was delayed. She
and her niece were riding in a
car whieh had collided with an
other and “skidded thirty-four
feet”. Eve Brown has herself had
an interesting life, being at one
time on the Paris Herald and
later as Cholly Knickerbocker,
wrote society news for the New
York Journal American.
In some ways it seems, the dogs
are doing better than humans. At
the Gaines Dog Research Center
here, there is a demand for can
ines for careers. Some foreign
countries want trained dogs to de
tect underground mineral depo
sits by the smell, others to ferret
out gas leaks. Recently police
dogs scented a thief hiding under
a parked bus, who otherwise
might well have gone undetected.
They’re even used to bring home
errant husbands, one is told.
With people moving around so
much, an organization with the,
[rhythmic name of Homerica isf
quite busy. Its Job is to relocate
people in other communities. The
case of Jim Crandall is cited as
an example. He was called into
his boss’s office not long ago and
told that hew as being promoted
to take eharge of his firm’s south
eastern district, and was to be
transferred to Atlanta in 30 days.
Jim phoned his home and caused
pandemonium among his family.
But he also called the re-locating
, organization and after specifying
what kind of a new home he and
his wife wanted, wheels were set
j in motion to accomplish this. At
! ianta suburbs were combed by
| realtors, a search was made
| among available houses there for
| the type of kitchen, Jim’s work.
i shop, the kid’s rumpus room and
desirable transportation facilities.
Within two weeks, the house was
found, the Crandalls moved down
and liked it >
Even though it costs the city
money to maintain it, the fare
for the Staten Island Ferry will
probably remain “the best nickel
ride in the world.” This five-cent
rate is mandated in the New
York City Charter and was gu
aranteed to Richmond County
when the island became a part
of the city in 1898. Today the
half-hour ride from the Battery
to St. George costs the city 46^.
cents a passenger. But attempttfw
to change the law all seem td^
fail.
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