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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. T. Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald A wcoldy nowspapor devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for tile enliglitenment, entertainment and benefit of the citi2ena 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 Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher MLss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Joe Cornwell Sports Editor Miss Linda Hardin Clerk MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Fred Bell Dave Weathers, Supt. "'Allen Myers Paul Jackson Douglas Houser Rocky .Martin Steve Martin Roger Brown •On leave with the United States Army subscription RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAH. ANYWHERE ONE YEAR... .$3.!)() SIX MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 I - TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Go throiitjh, <ju throitijh the gates: jrrepare ye the way of the people; east up, east up the high- UYiy; gather out the stone,s; life up a standard for the people. Isaiah 6S:tO. MARTIN'S MEDICINE Ingredients; bits of news, wisdom, humor, and comments Directions: Take weekly if possible, btit avoid overdosage. It's A Date GIRL sexXiT WEEK WARCH 1968 By MARTIN HARMON The lady-folk, with their wide variety of shapes, styles, up sweeps, down-sweeps and side sweeps, do not have a problem that many men have. Anyborly ever heard of two| ladies inadvertently swapping i hats. Another rc.tson is that.i when a lady wears a chapeau, j she keeps it on until it and shej are safely home. Spirit oi the Law The State of North Carolina grew up effective with the Aycock Adminis tration of 1901-05 for the very practical reason that the Democratic loss of the governorship in 1896 showed the then “young Turks” of the Democrats that political control of the state could not be maintained unless 1) honesty in govern ment obtained and which implied 2) the people got needed services for their tax payments. What year laws respecting competi tive bidding for governmental contracts were enacted has not been checked. At any rate, somewhere governing compe titive bidding were enacted. The purpose was to prevent theft of governmental treasuries at all levels, such as Mayor John Lindsay recently ex perienced in the City of New York. Sometimes competitive bidding does not attain its purpo.se. Item 1; Government agencies, while not required to accept low bids, find it very difficult to explain accepting bids higher than the low, when all the bid terms, particularly the performance bond, are found in order. Kings Mountain’s principal case in point in -recent years was in 1954 when Ir V bidder on installation of the na- gas distribution system left about ' >,000 on the table to Blythe Brothers, Charlotte, second high bidder. That Blythe a veteran and respected contractor was not awarded contract proved expensive to all concerned. The successful bidder, quite financially re sponsible, was financial angel to a team of workmen who proved to have inferior equipment and questionable knowledge of the type needed. The “angel” suffered a loss, Blythe Brothers lost a profit, and the city lost profit by being delayed in launching service. Item 2: What looked on surface as a possible malfeasance by .several city administra tions, certainly a technical violation of the law, because street improvements projects had not been done via competi tive bidding, was found in fact to be of, as Reporter Jack Horan of the Chemlotte Observer wrote, likely to have saved the city thousands of dollars. Kings Mountain buys curbing-and- guttering for .$1.80 per lineal foot from Spangler & Sons, whereas, via bid on fis cal year basis, the City of Shelby is pay ing $2.35. The State Highway commis sion, via bidding, Shelby Star’s Bill Do ver reports, is paying from $2.50 to $3 per foot in this area. That’s quite a dif ference. Pat Spangler said to the Herald quite seriously, “I wish Kings Mountain would bid it. It looks like that’s the only way I’ll get my price up.” Mr. Spangler said his arrangement with Kings Mountain permits him to do city work during his own slack periods, and to delay Kings Mountain work when he’s jammed with other and more major projects, of which he successfuly bids many. Future Policy In view of the favorable costs cur rently enjoyed by the city for street im provements, the Herald hofies the city's legal battery can find ways and means to permit, within the statutes, contin uance of informal bidding for these im provements. The change of statute effective last June 22, raising to $7500 the former $3500 limit for contracting without bidding, should be of material help to the city’s lawyers. Mr. Phillips The Herald was not contacted by, nor has yet been successful in contacting Harold J. Phillips, ex-city commissioner, who exercised his citizen’s prerogative in examining city records. The Herald must therefore assume that Mr. Phillips felt the Herald would not help him dig into the records, or would otherwise seek to cover up any mis-doings, or would misinterpret his ad vance interpretations. Mr. Phillips memory must have fail ed him. He was the .source of information, when a member of the commission, for an audit report of city operations for 1953-54, and, more important, a covering letter to the mayor and individual com missioners, which cited in tougn lan guage several mal-practices, principal among them fact the city had overspent its budget $109,418.18. In the first place, the auditor was in violation of the law by not making his letter a part of the audit report, public record lor any and all to see. This over-spending was a technical error. Much more income had been re ceived, the needs for services were ap- pai’ent, and the money had been spent for them. Mayor Glee A. Bridges’ mistake was in not meeting the issue head-on, himself making public the auditor’s letter, which in the last paragraph, complained the au ditor had bid the audit job too cheaply and asked (demanded) additional mon ey. Guilty, the administration was, only of a technical error. Since, it is routine that administrations at the June meet ing, pass budget amending ordinances to put everything in balance. Administrations since have also em ployed auditors on a per hour or per diem basis, rather than by flat fee bid, which is the only way most ceriitiea public accountants will work, and the only method responsible governmental agencies and business firms will accept. Minus conversation with Mr. Phil lips, the Herald would not pretend to speculate on his motives, other than, if any, than the one Reporter, Bill Dover credited to him: that Mr. Phillips merely wanted Kings Mountain’s government operated per state law. The Herald pleads guilty to a typo graphical error in its report last issue of the Phillips-Observerman perusal of city records. The Herald reported Mr. Phil lips served as city commissioner “1753- 55”, which would make him a modern Methuselah, not to mention a city com missioner some 121 years before Kings Mountain came into being in 1874. The Stake Pullers A realty developer visited his dig gings recently and found a painful omis sion. The stakes driven by the surveyors in marking projected streets were miss ing. An investigation produced the stakes, fairly neatly piled and brush- covered. The developer commented, “Had the stakes been gone, they represented a loss of perhaps ten cents each. What is lost is the surveying which must be repeat ed—at about $200 per stake.” There is a law. Presidential Candidate Richard Nix on did not say, as reported by some radio and television newsmen, HE would stop the war. He said the NEXT ADMINIS TRATION would stop the Vietnamese. Jilr. Nixon’s inferences were fairly clear: a Republican administration, headed by President Nixon, and with whatever es calation is necessary for victory^ Mr. Nixon is a "hawk” and was when vice- president in 1954. On a recent Saturday, Robert n. Goforth was at the barber shop, getting his sons and him self tonsorially in order for tlie: Sabbath. Bob donned one of two hats on the rack, but was hailed | by A1 Crawford with the ques j tion, “Did you pick the correct; hat?" Bob hadn’t. He returned it, j looked at the lone other and it wasn't his either. Suddenly Bobj realized he hadn't worn a hat. j m-m Bob’s face flushed to fire-truck red and he and boys exited witli- out a word. m-m The hat Bob almost wore away was Grady Patterson’s. j YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about Kinns fountain area peopU 0*4 miems taken from the I9f/t files of the Kings Uomtain lltrald. .. Patrons of Bethware and Com pact schools will vote April 17 to determine whether the schools will abandon tlie long in vogue split term scheduli*. Penicy's Chapel .Methodist church on Cherryvillo road will formally open its new .'■anctuar} and educational building on Sun day. ( SOCIAL AND PDRflONAL Concert Pianist Azan Marsh will present the third program in the Community Concerts serie.s in Shelby, March ISth at Sheibv high school auditorium. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ledford of Charlotte visited Kings .Mountain relatives Sunday. .Miss Marcia Leigh Yarbrough and .Miss Elaine Goforth enter tained Saturdav at the Yarbrough heme at a bridal shower honor ing Miss Kay Hender-son, bride- elect. MINI-MEMO WONT CHANGE WOMEN m-m The incident reminded Pat Tig- nor of the mystery of where abouts of Hunter Patterson’s hat some summers ago, when Mr. Hunter, Pat and the late Fred Wright, Sr., were the only three I males present at the mid-week prayer service at Central Method-; ist church. Mr. Hunter had park-| ed his hat on the window ledge ^ In the vestibule. When he exited,! there was no hat. SO THIS IS NEW YORK ; By NORTH C.4LLAII.CN: m-m J ! A local citizen said that if could see this tribute of mine. TT • - i someone were to plan a national —3 • a i! cultural center, he would gather: Ray also likcci American Pa®s‘^arfur^d‘^he^Md‘^not. ’pat'™°®* winters, sculptors,: tory and belonged to ' ’ hadn’t worn a hat. The mystery, technicians appeared solved. niights in the Garden for New Yorkers over 40 was that of No vember 3, 1932 when Frankl.n D. Roosevelt climaxed here his first campaign for Pre.sident. Twenty-five thousand persons in side and out of the Garden were thrilled when FDR and A1 Smith walked out on the stage and put their arms around each other’s shoulders. This meant that the I two Democratic leaders had be come reconciled, that New York's ! big delegation to the convention ! would be solidly behind Roose- I veil—and that he would probably be elected President and the New Welfare Supt. Wallace Kuralt is not a man to skirt an issue. Nor. if he is upset bythe length of those on the girls, will he bat an eyelash as he banishes them (the eyelashes, one assumes, not the girls altogether). And, after years of trying to deal with the problems of Meck lenburg’s poor on a tight budget, it turns out he really is oppased also to tight blouses. We take all this with a modest ly-covered grain of salt, if that's all light. Kuralt has every reason, if he want.s to try, to cut them off at the pa.ss—or maybe before It. His years of work with the poor —while satisfactory — have not solved the problems of the poor, however. And, we would respectfully ob- .servo that his day at the memo —The Charlotte Observer A 4 I , X V u i"’ ™":lpad will not change the whims *i’‘^:Uts, the crowd went wild with playwTights, wnters. Civil War and the American Rev-j cheering, stamping and waving., technicians In one olution Round Table's. Just the: Another big night recalled was. place. He would see that they other day he called my attention: ten years ago when Mike Todd I had the greatest number of gal-, to a story about Thomas Jefter-. celebrated in the Garden the first) i lories, museum.s, publiishers, the-lson visiting George Washington j birthday of his hit movie.i At Sunday morning Sundayi concert halls so that'and throwing oft on the idea of i “Around the World in 80 Days", school Mr Hunter accosted Fred they would have an opportunity the United States having two The party was so lavish that the| blit a dose look showed Fred to show their work. The citizen] houses of Congress. Washington j gifts handed out ranged from merely wore his own hat. * on to say that this; replied that Jeffepon was better motorcycles to an airplane. There' ^ has really happened - here in informed than himselt on such.^vere animal acts, mummers andi m-m 'New York City. That “citizen", topics from experience in France,i folk dancers, a tremendous birth-| [logically enough, is Major John but added that he would'stick by dav cake which had roeni>-ed Some six months later a yard-1V. Lindsay. the examples of England and ‘ f.^v-enty days to bake, and Eliza- man was paring shrubbery' and ..America. “You yourself have beth Taylor, then Mrs. Mike foimd Mr. Hunter's hat. The sum- _a .proved the excellence of two, Todd. The "intimate little narty" i pm iTIt* KV place W. C Schoi Cold Ariar taino ft'i'cn tlll'CC tain mer breeze had propelled the hat out the open window. Q , . House of Congress this very m(>|di-ew thousands of gaping peo- Ralph L. Woods in his new ment,” remarked Washington.’’] pjp and millions on television and sparkling book, “The Modem Jefferson was surpri.sed and ask- and cost Todd $410,000. Handbook of Humor” (McGraw- ed how that -was. “You have”, Hill) tells a story about a life-; I'eplied Washington, “turned your: m »i s Grady Patterson then produced' insurance salesman w'ho entered hot tea from the cup into the: T Akf-I-Qi* his hat tale. Some years ago a I the reception room of a company. ■ saucer to get it cool. It is the LldlCl lU LiUlLUl Kings Mountain man, visiting) offered his card and asked to see same thing we desire of the two Pisgah ARP church reached after] Mr. William Smith. He stood and' Houses.’ services and found nothing. His | watched as the receptionist vveav-| new hat was missin-i- Next Sun- ed her way through aisles to am The face of this city is chang-j ghockine distress- day he returned to Pisgah and office with a >Inss partition. lie ing and among the more . 'Jn'^uevam^snocKing. aisiress arrived early, assuring himself a saw the receptionist hand the, of us, some of the most Ireasu;'- Job- * e n iny seat on the back pew, also assur-' card to the man, noticed the man] ed features are iieing lost. Yis,: blow there and we crumied our ing himself and easy early exit.] frown and throw the card in the’such is progress, we are told;,l-ora ® ^ ^ t f,f.h i^ He didn’t spot his own hat. but wastebasket. The receptionist re- still we part reluctantly wiHilPray together and nave launm sampled several, selected a good, turned to the salesman and said such mellowed institutions as tne;'-'™)' Power inrougn .ovt one of proper fit and color, don- that Mr. Smith was tied up in a old Madison Square Garden which, all people as He aw and live tor ned the hat and left. .meeting and could not see him.'-recently w.as closed, its activities! others as He ex- i’That is too bad.’’ said the sale.s-'transferred to the new l.^n-mil-; Pects out of giatitude only then m-m : man. “May r please have my card; lion-dollar complex which there be ^ I back?” The receptionist asked j towers majestically above pem-] our hearts and peace in the John Weaver remembers the, his request, looked 1 sylvania .St-ation. The mayor took world to the extent that the season when Ted Weir and Gene] 3, kim oddly and went back to time out from his tift with gar-' world responds but not by refus- Roberts bought identical models Smith. Again the salesman; hago and Rockefeller to eulogize ^ mg to either pray together the and Sunday church-rack swaps, ^^.g^pked. He saw Mr. Smith bend the old Garden. "The greatest, Almighty for such a world. God were frequent. One Sunday, Genejp^.pp (he wastebasket for a few I arena of them all," he pronoun ] open our eyos to what we Amer- NO WORLD DAY OF PRAYER SERVICES? The Herald commenting on the race between U. S. Representatives Basil L. Whitener (D) and James T. Bi*oyhill fR) for tenth district seat referred to Mr. Broyhill’s campaign of 1962 and the re- sut in Mr. Broyhill’s home county of Caldwell. The loser. Rep. Hugh Alexan der. was victor over Mr. Broyhill in Cald well by 516 votes. The Herald credited Mr. Broyhill with winning at home by about 2000. That ’62 race waa a cliff- hanger. Mr. Broyhill’s margin of vdetory being 1276 votes of 133,940 cast. Serious damage to furni ture, such as gouging, -dents and large blemishes and stains, usually require professional repair work. But light scratches often may be remedied by the homemaker, using a color ing crayon closely match ing the color of the wood finish. Simply rub into the scratch, wipe away excess wax and polish the entire surface. again swapped with Ted. When gpj jheu hand something! ced. “For two generations per-] mans are in danger M losing the he later noticed the band, Genej^p ([,5 receptionist. When the re- forming in the Garden meant had a personal note from Ted.; ceptionist returned, she handed reaching the top.” It was a sports It read, “Put it back. Gene, it, the salesman a nickel, explaining] p.alace, a forum for political con- ain’t your damn hat." ! that his card had become lost ] tests, the home of the circus, a 'but that Mr. Smith did not want I church for evangelists and the i him to be out-of-pocket on the! Tand setting for, stage ;ierform- „ .... .. call. The salesman thereupon ers of the highest rank. So off Representative Basil Whitener from his wallet four more with the old. up with the new! relates his^own hat pTOblems. On! | 3 ceptionist. “Give these to Mr.j This Garden which stands at Smith , he said, because thei^j,^ corner of 8th Avenue and freedom to choose. Give us the spiiit and the wisdom to choose aright. A Disturbed Christian Mrs. Vera M. Cooper ;\Ioiin consc tain I '1 lain 1 » recent Sunday, someone took his hat after services at church. necause rne,.u . o... . tn the afternoon the man called I sa'U- necause irne,(j,p corner of 8th Avenue m me aiternoon, tne man ca‘i®u-. cards are only 1 cent each.’ The c,rppt is thp thirri to carrv He’d noticed Basil’s initials in the! , -watched thp rcceotion- ™ ^ bat hand and anolneized If Basil 1 waicnea rne reception name. The first two were ac- bat-band and apoiogirea. 11 Basil ^ cards to Mr. Smith, mallv on Madison Sauare at 26th were to be home, the swapper] - , laiiphine Than in “ ? wiaaison square at zoui would return it and he did 1 hurst out laughing. 1 hen in gtj-ept, but when the next was would return ana ne am. resoonse to Mr. Smith’s Renial I bunt, the name just stuck. From m-m beckoning sign, he went in to seej^be opening of the last one on his man. , November 24, 1925, it drew crowds The following Friday Basil- ! totalling 250 million people to spoke in Rock Hill at a dimer! some 145 different kinds of ■lonoring his Congressional con-| Along with countle.ss others, I events. Probably the biggest cu- 'rere. Representative Tom Gettys. mourn the recent passing of mv mulative crowds were tho.se at- \gain Basil found no hat on exit! old friend. Rav Erwin. As a read-! tending the revival .services of rnd .as of a week later, was still ;er of this column in Ra-'s b“- Billy Graham for sixteen suc- vearing a substitute. He com-*Iovcd natiev state of North Ca"- cossive weeks a few years ago. nented, “I don’t believe those, olina stated, “he was a news- Urb.an cynics sneered but they “outh Carolina politicians are as; paperman.’s newspaperman.’' T came to know that something big 'ronest as my Gastonia Methodist] had just talked to Ray on the'and good was going on then in riends.” [ ohone two days before he left fori the Garden. Then there was the Tennessee for a press meeting.] time in 19.50 when an underdog Two days after he returned, he, city College basketball team iin Back to the distaff department was found dead in his hotel room. ] precedentedly won both the Na- '-lusb^ids have teen kno^^ W Southerner; tjonai College Athletic Associa- Tusbands have teen Jtno^^Jo^ j am tjon and the National InvPation glad now to recall that my sug-j Tournament titles. As readers of gestions led to his teaching jour- ; ihis column recall, not long ago hoot and holler in loud derision! when asked by their wives opin- on of a new bonnet. My wife’s grandmother, age 94. 'earned tetter than to ask her 'lusband during their earlier years if marriage. She never asked his apinion, found that, after a few universities, his membership in j jack Dempsey, and it was the Siema Delta Chi and his meeting ; f^ts of the latter which helped of Mrs. O. O. McIntyre of whornMo build the fame of the Garden’s he was very fond, having 14ol-] boxing arena. I can recall too, izpd her late husband, the colum-i.cbpr, mv old friend. William nist. Rav mentioned me in his last column for “Editor .and Pub- wearings, her husband would j lisher” of which he was associate ■ask. “Where did you get that editor, and I shall trea.sure his pretty hat?” article always. I only wish be Fields, Broadway’s best pres.a agent, frontcal for the circus and always saw that we had some of the test seats in the huge house. One of the most remembered KEEP YOUR RADIO DIAL SET AT 1220 WKMT Kings Mnmtahi, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between Gold Liiid Paul irici ryn Thi-i ^illc Ada
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