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i) Page 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. Thursday. Jar^uary 11, 1968 Established 1889 .<afc«>c.W v’**- . __ a 1 ✓liffi.ASSOClATir The Kings Mountain Herald .r A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and publfihed 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 Af-t of Congress of March 3, 1873. eOrrOBIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor .loe Cornwell Sports Editor Miss Linda Hardin Cierk MECHANICAL ^EPARTMEN~ EreA >?cil Dave Weathers, Supt. 'Alien Myers Paul Jackson •«o.joy Stroupe Roger Brown Rocky Martia •On leave with the United States Army SUBSCBIpflONltATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR .. $3.50 SIX MONTHS .. $2.00 THREE MONTHS .. $1.2$ PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE The Lmt! in tiii/ sliciiliorl; I .iliiill nut u'linl. Hard Put To Play This newspaper, on first thought, tends lo agree with political party Chair men Ed Smith, Republican, and Clint Newton, Democrat, as well as with the Cleveland Association of Governmental Officials on the desirability of streamlin ing the voting procedure by adopting the permanent registration system. Second thoughts produce loss agree ment. Retiring Chairman Lester Roark is patently correct in his desire to “elim inate confusion”. With both city and county registration books, people do get confused. It happens every election, in spite of many reminders by communica tions media. People who “know” they're registered aren't. People from other slates where one registration qualifies a voter for all elections have a high per centage of missed voting opportunities until they learn the North Carolina sys tem. Kings Mountain poses the particular problem. Wlieroas Shelby and Number 6 Township are largely co-terminal the matter of changing precinct boundaries of county and city to conlorm is com paratively simple. In Kings Mountain, with five city wards or precincts t there s some consid eration of making the total six by split ting Ward ~3 which has over twice the registration of any other), the change would dictate the creation of four county precincts which would add to the elec- ■^ion bill. But that’s not the only problem the City of Kings Mountain offers. Kings Mountain, as it was until lOlii and the hotly contested county line elec tion, is again a two-county city, with considerable spill-over into neighboring Gaston and more spill-over likely as citi zens require city services in areas to the east. If the Herald's understanding is cor rect, the basic idea is to have one set of election books, under the menage and management of the county board of elec tions. In view of the Gaston spill-over, the one registration, one book one registra- one registration, one book arrangement plainly won’t work for Kings Mountain. The City of Kings Mountain, regard less of the decision of the county com mission on the recommendation of CA- GO, must retain a separate set of regis tration books. A Gaston citizen cannot register in Cleveland. If the city did not maintain its own exclusive registration books, Gaston citizens of Kings Mountain would be disenfranchised when munici pal elections occur, as they do biennial ly. Some election officials have com mented, after regi.stration days of thumb- twiddling. that they doubt Cleveland is yet sufficiently populous to justify the monetary outlay for the year-round reg istration plan, now extant in some 21 larger counties of the state. Themonetarymatter, of cour.se, and decision concerning it, is in the province of the county commission which must pay the freight. Buy a city tag when listing taxes. Good way to' kill two birds with one rock. Congratulations to Tavie Elaine Bennett, Kings Mountain’s first-born of 1968, and to her proud parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Bennett. Welcome. Senator state Senator Marshall Rauch, who manufacturers gaily-colored yarn Christ mas balls (and Easter eggs, too), was called by a Herald reporter before the December 21 edition immediately pre ceding Christmas. “Would the Senator like to give the citizens of Kings Mountain a Christmas gift in the form of an announcement con cerning his projected dyeing and finish ing plant?” He would like it, he said, but, with a detail or two still dangling, felt an an nouncement at that time would be slight ly premature. Two weeks later the announcement came. Mr. Rauch’s coming here is the first tangible new industry result of the voters approval of the $3 million water bond is sue. He would require 50,000 gallons of water daily, more, of course, should ex pansion come later. He would also require other city utilities, power, natural gas on firm con tract, and sewage disposal. Informed by the Mayor that water rates will increase eifective July 1, with an indicated surcharge of 90 percent, Mr. Rauch asked, “You’re providing me sew age service free aren’t you? The water rate’s o.k.” All the dealings the Herald has had with Mr. Rauch, both in his capacity as chief operating officer of Pyramid Mills in neighboring Bessemer City, and his service to his district as a state senator, have been pleasant. A mark of his ability is his success in 12 years of operations of Pyramid, which, at Christmas- bonus day, number ed 247 employees. It is easy to agree with Co-Chairmen Ollie Harris and Josh Hinnant, of the Mayor’s industrial committee, who said, “ He is a responsible and imagina tive textile manufacturer who will be an asset to the community.” Hearty best bows to Jane Yates and Tim Webster, tapped by the Optimist Club as Kings Mountain’s top teen-agers of 1967. While the unusual, unfortunate and tragic events seem to collect great est attention from newspaper?, radio and television, a perusal of a month’s or years record reveals that the good news far outweighs by volume, the regrettable brand. The story of the honor to the top teeners is the kind of news all newsmen enjoy and prefer to report. Psalm i3:l Sullicient Field Political observers were worrying aloud a few months ago that the 1968 gubernatorial primaries would be the tamest in many years. They reasoned that Lieutenant-Gov ernor Bob Scott, unofficially a candidate from his election to the Number 2 slot in 1964, was a shoo-in with no effective opposition for the Democratic nomina tion in the offing, and they tended to pooh-pooh Congressman Jim Gardner’s indications he voluntarily would forsake Washington after one term and joust for the Republican nomination with John L. Stickley. History is continued and moreso with the GOP primary promising an interest ing battle. J. Melville Broughton, Jr., he like Scott son of a former governor and Unit ed States Senator, stepped forward as challenger. Gardner did file. On the Democratic side, Dr. R. A. Hawkins, a Charlotte dentist, became the first announced Negro candidate for gov ernor since Reconstruction. While Dr. Hawkins may run a poor third, assum ing the list remains at three, his vote totals will be carefully analyzed to see how much bloc voting is done by North Carolina’s Negro citizens. In the event of a cliff-hanging situation between Scott and Broughton, Dr. Hawkins’ support of one or the other in a second primary pos es interesting questions. On the GOP side, the personalities of Stickley and Gardner give the Republi cans an almost black-and-white choice. Mr. Stickley is as conservative in manner and demeanor as in his political think ing. Gardner and Stickley are fairly close together on political thinking, it can be assumed, but not otherwise. Gardner is brash, to put it mildly. Some, on both sides of the political fence, label him “loud-mouth”. Indeed, Mr. Gardner seems ready, willing and able to sound off on any and all occasions and what ever issue is presented. Kerr Scott, Bob’s father, and Luth er Hodges are the only non-lawyer gov ernors in several generations. Of the five in the field, only Brough ton is a lawyer. Who shall it bo? Broughton, the legal eagle, Scott, the cow milker, Hawkins, the tooth doc tor, Stickley, the linthead, or Gardner, the hamburger man? MARTIN’S MEDICINE Ingredients: hits of news, wisdom, humor, and comments directions: Take weekly if possible, but avoid overdosage. Gardner, Broughton, Stickley, Hawkins, Scott By MAB'nN HABMON I would have dropped my up per teeth, had they not been still attached, last Friday, when I took my Father to the tonsorial parlor for a haircut. Al Crawford j met us at the door and addressed ^ my Father, ■“Pat’s not here, Mr. \ Harmon,” Pat being my Father’s regular barber. Well, I suggested, Al cculd do the job. Then Al said, “Pat’s retired.” “You mean it!" 1 ejaculated.| “Pat told me last summer hej was going to retire when he at-| tained 62 years, but I thougnt he, was talking through his hat and when D-Day came he'd change his| mind.” Pat didn’t, though he'll j hold forth at the same spot on j Saturdays, to help Al and Kiser' i on the busy day and to keep hisj hand in. ' Glenn Grigg, who has employed Pat's services for many years, was relating Pat's retirement— Saturday decision to his wife. Mary, knowing full well that for as many years Friday was hair cut day lor Glenn, said, “you’ll need to find a new barber." No, | Glenn replied, he would simply change his haircut day to Satur-j day, which he did on Saturday i past. J m-m After nine days, I asked Pat, “How is it?” Pat replied, “Pret ty good, though the weather hasn't helped much. I’ve read everthing I can get my hands on.” & ^ Viewpoints of Other Editors This Week In Tai Heel HISTORY Pat laughed. One fellow had suggested he would qualify for] larger social security benefits itj On January 8, 1S13, former he continued full duty until 65.; Carolinian Andrew Jackson won “Shucks,” Pat replied, “I might j the Battle of New Orleans. A not make 65, I want to have a’few days later, word of the vic- I little free time now.” Most folk ■ tory reached Surry County, and have difficulty, after years ofia North Carolina footnote was 1 M # A 4 It ^ -at VI4- THE SEAWAY The efforts being made at Chi- j cago to build up the lagging use-1 fulness of the St. Lawrence Sea-1 way to commerce in the mid-1 United States ought to have the I active support of this entire re-1 gion. There, the Great Lakes Shipowners Association is devot ing itself to the problems of an aging and dwindling fleet, urging increased federal construction subsidies and shortened tax de preciation to bring in new ships. The Chicago Association of 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events taken from the 19S7 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. Plonk Brothers & Company is now being operated solely by the J. O. Plonk Estate in an owner ship change effective January 1. Wesley Bush of Norfolk. Va.j " * " " War-1 SO THIS IS HEW YOBK By NORTH CAlJJkHAH Edward White, local publishing official, happened to be at a Broadway theater and after th show met the actress, Joan Fon taine. After they had exchanged a few words, she remarked to him, who is a handsome young man, “Well, I hope we bump into •ach other again." According to White, just throe days later he was walking along 5th Avenue, where one rarely sees anyone ho knows, when he happened to bump into a lady carrying sev eral packages. And of all poo- le; yes, it was Joan Fontaine. This is the home of the oldrat orchestra in the United States, the New York Philharmonic, and it has given over 7.000 concerts. Its famous directors have includ ed Arturo Toscanini, Bruno Wal ter, Leopold Stowkowski and Waiter Damrosch. Organized in 1842, this eminent musical aggre gation played in the old Metro politan Opera House and in negie Hall until the new vfB/ harmonic Hall was built at Bjn coin Center. Now after 125 years, I the orchestra does not rest on its lavish laurels. It even gives free performances in the parks I during the summer. i When I was in England not long ago. the head of Brasenose College’ at O.xford told me that when concerned alumni wrote and asked him about the long hair of his male students, he re plied that the young men who fought for England at Crecy and Agineourt and won, also wore long hair, and that he thought it was heartening that this custom is returning. Now comes a new and interesting book, “The Am erican Heritage History of the Thirteen Colonies” (Simon and Schuster) which vividly describes the great figures from Columbus and Captain John Smith to Ben jamin Franklin and George Washington, and how Great Brit ain was successful in colonizing the new world against competing European powers. Here mention ed is “the ungodliness of Harvard students with unshorn hair. Franchises to conduct nave UlJi.lUUlia-, aiiei jrcoi!, wx » w. yjjg CniCagO Association OI tup staff of C E. I work, retiring gracefully. Pat | added to the history of the event, 3^^ industry is taking ^ncy it wa» . a. , ..miss ( guesses he'll find plenty to keep ■ | its part of the task the dis- [ws^ ^k by Mrs. Madge | Age^r”"“pige^nT local Miss ! himself entertained. m-m Jackson had owed a hotel biU criminatory railroad freight rates j in Rockford for some years, dat- which make it cheaper for many shippers to use the port of New Orleans rather than the relatively nearby Seaway ports. Substantial P. Warlick, senior partner. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. Jack Arnette was hostess I inig back to his days as a strug- Pat Tignor has barbered in 1 gling young lawyer. The innkeep- ■Kings Mountain for 40 years,'er had stubbornly kept the ac- having joined L. V. Gaffney in count on his books. Upon receipt 1928. While that seems long! of the news however, he wrote tural commodities and manufac-1 meeting 01 c-ircie-• enough to make Pat a Kings across the bill “Settled in Full j tured products overseas is believ-1 byterian cliurcn. hostess Mountain native, he isn’t. Pat’s] by the Battle of New Orleans” I nnccihio \f «»niiftUfv in mil' Mrs. J. R- uavis nearoy SHjaway jnjris. ouuMauLiai - -omilar increase in shipment of agricul-| Monday P'Sht t p,.„„. tural commodities and manufac- 1 meeting of Circle 4 ol Ft s products j ed possible if equality in j rates can be achieved. ; Methodist church. an East Tennesseean, out of' Rogersville and Pressman’s Home.j On January 10, 19^, the state’s | with the coming of ocean-going both in the Kingsport area. [first Historical Highway Markerghips, carrying entire m-m was erected in Granville Co.,,j.jygj. barges as railroads have j near Stovall, to mark the lmme-| been carrying truck trailers, Pat flirted with the printing! site of John Penn, one of N. C. Si physical possibilities for ex- trade, training for all of one three signers of the Declaration! |,g | -,-„.i —„nrrh week on the operation of a Kelly, of Independence. -jstm further enhanced for st. I job press—our loss, barbering’sj | gain. I On January 12, 1896, the first ; X-Ray photograph in medical his tory was taken by Dr. Harry according to Sol Abrams, ii charge, are being awarded tij) J? dividuals, organizations and iness firms in different pari the country. The contest will ti place next September at Pajs- ades Amusement Park, New Jf' sev. to which inquiries may ad(iressed. It is pointed out ti t this is not a talent contest or a [bathing suit contest, but it p THP MONEY GAP i ^ number of girls THE MOrifci L»Ar enter and they are then judg We offer this bit of economic! in party dresses on the basis encouragement after several days beauty, personality, 8'’°" ing, leadership, scholastic eil Earlier last week, news stories rail' Mrs. J. -- - ■ Monday to Circle 3 of Central m-m When he came here in 1927, Pat first worked for the late E. A. Smith, Sr., and “old Phenix”, before resuming the two-bit (shave and a harcut) trade. Subsequently, Pat came down- own with the late Harvey Rob erts, later with Robert Alien, be came a partner in 1948 with the' ate Fred Wright, Sr., qnd then Charlie Goforth. He has sold his Talf-interest in Central Barber shop to Al. m-m Already, Pat’s retirement has >roduced a change in the ton- orial community. Sid Dixon has ;oid his hair-styling emporium or ladies to Shirley Houser Hud- on and Sandra Lynn Rhea and -etumed to the male realm. Sid 'idn’t move far, Mrs. Hudson re- Lewis Smith, at Davidson Col lege. Louis and other ports on the i —,„i,h Middle Mississippi. What is now front Washington oam the bright message that it now takes $9,000 a year in income tor badly needed is vigorous promo tion. How widely informed are pro- duceis and shippers of the possi bilities of using the Seaway in their own operations? For how many have analyses of their dis-1 tribution and trade demonstrated four actually earn of the ideal Dr. Smith, a professor of phy sics and astronomy, fired a pistol buiet into the hand of a cadaver, then took a fifteen-minute expo- potential new profits in Seaway $9,000? sure to find the exact location of 1 utilization. snmo air1{n«»G Viava Woll the bullet. an average family of four to live “moderately well." As is so often the case, the same story did not contain the equally important figure: How On January 14, 1868, a con stitutional convention was order ed held for the purpose of rewrit ing the state’s institution. The order was issu^ by General E. R. S. Catiby, Military Governor of Federal District No. Two (North and South Carolina) dur ing the Reconstruction Period. Though the document produced has since been heavily amended, it remains in effect today. Many people now regard it as Inade- utilization, as some airlines have so brilliantly done in developing air freight? An effort to these ends would promise not only to bring in added traffic but also Well, as best we can determine at the moment, the figure is somewhere around $7,000. That, as we see it, is about as good an explanation of the state ievement and community servi to broaden support for -measures j of the national economy and the to iHcrease the Seaway’s capacity state of the pocketbook of that for usefulness.—St. Louis Post- Dispatch CRADLE-TO-GRAVE PLAN FOR AUTOS The poor old taxpayer may be forgiven a few mumbles under his breath for the way he too often meets himself (or his own money) coming around the corn el. I average father in a family of i four as is available now. ! It takes $9,0()0 to do It “moder- I ately well." The average guy is j making $7,000. Now, for the free economic ad- j One could also purchase a rh\V vice about that missing $2,000: | eerous, shipped from Afi^ Happy hunting!—The Charlotte | quick frozen and packed in fl Observer. ■ ice for $1,000. •Some unusuil gifts were ava able during the holidays, ai judging from the prices, some them are doubtless still availah From a Dallas store, one con pureha.se a pair of live, mat( camels for $1,125, a gold wig 0 $35,000 or a robe made from tl t; skin of Ibex goats at $2,795. New York toy store offered two-headed toy llama for $(60 a miniature kitchen set tor $! 200, a train set for $700 and doll’s trousseau for $100. A Can bodian tiger skin coat wds sale? at another place for $7..50( a oomputer trainer listed at $715 while one could buy a silvcr-pla ed Dig for $600, an elephant (foi $950, silk sheets for $440 each, a presidential carving set foi $750 or a small juke box for $19(l.| 'orts, just next door in quarters! quate for tidy’s needs. A com- ormerly occupied by the late' mission to study the need for a ranch office of the county wel- new constitution has been ap-1 A case in point: 'are department. m-m Pat’s chief working hobby learly 32 years was as a volun- eer fireman. He was a charter nember of the volunteer ortrani- ation founded in May 1931 and iuc(*edcd the late Grady King IS chief. Pat retired from the ire department January 1, 1963 pointed by Gov. Moore. BIRTHS AND DEATHS Died January 9, 1852, in Wash ington, D. C., Lemuel Sawyer au thor of “Blackbeard'^, which has been called . . . "the first play written by a native North Caro- , linian, with a N. C. setting and lefought some mean fires under characters”. The play, which was ■ften-times mean weather condi-i published in 1824, was not about Ions, among them the Central^the famous pirate cf that name,; disposal would follow quickly. A| chool fire, the Country CSub and but was instead concerned with i private - enterprise - type profit; Larry Goddard, director of the| Illinois Auto Salvage Dealers As sociation, has an idea. To solve the problem of junk cars, why; not tack on a disposal fee when' the car is bought? | Presumably this would give the' final owner the option of driving | up to the junk yard (or maybe! dragging it up to the junk yard) j and saying: “OK, Mac, take her! away” And with prepaid fees, he Tolly Shuford residence. m-m Mrs. Tignor was Mae McBee t Boiling Springs. m-m Pat is one of two businessmen 1 my nearly 23 years with the Te fought some mean fires under ot selling him an advertisement, at was a strong supporter of 'le recent water bond issue and, lough we endeavored, we failed 3 reach him about the double 'uck the Herald and 37 other lusiness firms published in sup- ort. m-w I speak tor the community hen I convey to him all good wishes. 1 North Carolina politics of that j would go to the disoser, in this period. I Instance, some member of the Il linois Auto Salvage Dealers Asso ciation, no doubt. Sa’wyer also served as a U. S. It Is thus the motorist who | Congressman. Bom, January 10, 1756, in Brunswick Co., Benjamin Smith, governor in 1810-11. He is the only chief expeutive of that name in the state’s history, even though buys, a sort of "cradle to the grave" auto financing plan. But there is more. The Department of Health, Ed ucation and Welfare doesn’t think Goddard’s idea should carded. There is now be dit- a project !■ the Smiths have always outnuip- callp “Illinois Auto Salvage Waste bered practically all other namps pollution oCntrol,” a study of the feasibility of prepaid auto junk ing lees. By now, of course, the reader in our population. A hot-tempered of duels and was twice wounded. During the.wUl have guessed the second American Revolution he served' point. Who is paying for the as an aMe to Genet*! Qforge sfvtto? HSiW, of course, whi(* Washington. I means dear old taxpayer. t —The Chcorlelte ObMtnrer KEEP YOUR RADIO DIAL SET AT 1220 MoimtaiB, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on th# half hour. 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