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Fage 2 Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald ^***‘" “ ••if**' A wepl:ly newspaper ijevolecl 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 Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss 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 InIRvANCE — BY MAIL, ANYWHERE ONE YEAR... .$3,150 SIX MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE The thoughts o/ the righteous are right; but tin counsels of the wicked ure deceit. Proverbs U:5. A First At City Haii On last Thursday afternoon at 5:30, Mrs. Maude Rhea Walker was sworn as a Kings Mountain city commissioner and became the first woman in the city’s 94- year history to have that distinction. Mr.s. Walker was appointed by the city commission to succeed her late hus band, Ward 3 Commissioner O. O. Walk er, and will fill his unexpired second term ending in May of 1969. The commission members indicated their reasoning; 1) Mrs. Walker is quali fied to discharge a commissioner’s re sponsibilities; 2) she was familiar and sympathetic with the city’s large public improvements program in which her hus band was among the architects; the ap pointment would honor the memory of a valued member. From comments received by this newspaper, the citizens agree and are applauding the commission for its deci sion. The Herald adds its plaudits. Saturday Lost Day Saturday is the final day to register to vote in the May 4 Republican and Democrat primaries. The special United States census of 1966 revealed the Cleveland County pop ulation slightly below 70,000 souls. Pre suming the county to be average in North Carolina, numbering 3.9 persons, Cleveland tamilies should boast a lath er, a mother, and two children. This would place the maximum voting poten tial at 33,000 to 34,000. At If^st reports, some 10,000 eligibles were therefore un registered and not eligible to vote. That indicates registration activity during the current registration period has not been what it might have been nor should be. The Herald regards the privilege of voting to imply the privilege of not vot ing. However, the Herald also shares the statement made by a citizen recently, “If he doesn’t vote, he doesn’t have much license about the result. For citizens of Kings Mountain, Shelby, Grover, Waco, and other incor porated communities where town elec tions are conducted, there is usually con fusion on the part of some who “know” they are registered but are not. They have registered on municipal books, or county books, but not on both. Those in any doubt should check w ith theii registrars. Again, Saturday is last-chance day Mrs. Mary Gardner Hay The Arthur Hay Insurance Agency is among the oldest in North Carolina. Mrs. Mary Gardner Hay trained in the business as a key aide to her husband, the late Arthur Hay, and, at his death, assumed management of the ajgency un til hpr retirement a few' years ago. In spite of the fact of her 91 years and a major operation, her many friends were surprised, as they were saddened, by her passing. Initial reports were quite good. A week after the surgery, she com plained at the prescribed hospital fare. She did not eat Jello for breakfast, de manded an egg and oatmeal. It was in dicative of her spirit. Her death was at tributed to pancreatitis, not the surgery. The community mourns the passing of thi$ fiqe l^dy. Tar Heels For Humphrey Last winter in Raleigh, State Repre sentative W. K. Mauney, Jr., and Mrs. Mauney met Vice-President Hubert Hum phrey and reported they were quite im pressed. The same reaction seems to have been obtained from majority of Tar Heel Democrats who, since President John- .son announced he would not seek nor accept renomination for president, have moved solidly into the Humphrey camp —even though the Vice-President has not said he will seek the nomination. The Tar Heel Democrats for Hum phrey include former Governor Tei’ry Sanford, not only an avowed supporter, but listed on the Humphrey combat team by such prestigious journals as the Wall Street Journal and Time Magazine. Mr. Humphrey’s initial profession was as a pharmacist and he holds a ma.s- ter’s degree from the University of Loui siana. His many law’ degrees are honor ary doctorates. An ex-mayor of Minneapolis, he went to the Senate as a brash young man in a hurry to get on with the job, did not win any popularity contests with his colleagues until he confessed his brashness — and asked advice — from some of the senior members. He then was welcomed to the Senate “club”, or inner circle. The Herald was first impressed with then-Senator Humphrey during the gen eral election campaign of 1950 when he and Republican Clare Boothe Luce join ed in a radio debate. He w as not only articulate but in formed, as was Mrs. Luce, and the har ried moderator used his gong through out on both in a losing effort to hold the debaters to stated limits. Mr. Humphrey is presidential tim ber, in wind, in energy, in judgment, in character. The Application “We may not be one, but I assure you we would not be had we had filed an application. That was a very cogent comment by Mayor John Henry Moss following his trip to Atlanta Monday, deadline day for filing application to become a model city in the federal government program. Countless man hours on the part of many went into the compilation of this rather massive document which touches on virtually every pha.se of community life, governmental, educational, recrea tional, social, and service. Charlotte is currently the lone North Carolina model city. Other Carolina cities meeting the Monday deadline for applying were Winston-Salem, Durham, ana opanan- burg. There may have been more, but full information has not yet been receiv ed here. Most federal aid programs to gov ernmental agencies are geared to a form ula of helping those who help themselves. Kings Mountain homefolk know they’ve earned an “E” for effort, hope the Housing and Urban Development peo ple will agree. The Arthur Hay Agency under Mrs. Hay’s menage exhibited the quality earli er day, perhaps Southern charm, where purpose of the business was not sales alone, but a meeting place for friends to meet, greet, and swap ideas on events of the day. It can be added that the Hay Agency was as interested in service as in sales. Carl F. Wilson was a logical ap pointee for chairman of the city recrea tion commission, as he has been deeply and effectively involved in community recreation at all levels for many years. Hearty congratulations to Danny Dyke, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Dyke, one of 25 tapped for a Whitaker Scholar ship to the University of North Carolina. Like the more aged Morehead Scholar ship, the Whitaker awards are renew able annually for three additional years, based on recipients’ grades and conduct. Stuaent Bylce is thr firiit Kings Moun tain recipient of a Whitaker Scholarship. KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. MARTIN'S MEDICINE Ingredients; bits of news, wisdom, humor, and comments Directions; Take weekly if possible, but avoid overdosage. BLOSSOMING FORTH IN THE TAR HEEL STATE Thursday, April 18, 1968 By MARTIN HARMON The board of dircctor.s of Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Li brary customarily meets at 5 p m. as it did on a recent Thurs day. Mrs. Charles Diilling custo marily makes her reports to the board and leaves, as she did. <7, YX / ' X // r^/ f3)' I The board meeting ended about 6 p.m. and the members were standing about the lobby talking| when the door opened and Mrs.^ Steve Murphree rushed in to in*| quire if the new Leon Uris bookt "Topaz”, previously reported on, order, had been received. j i’ k. m-m / I I laughed and said, “VVo’re| only the library board supposed, to superintend operation ofj the library. None of us would possibly know how to issue you a book!” m-m I Mr.s. Murphree, formerly on the staff of the Hendricks, Dur ham, Lee clinic, now working for j a Gastonia physician, obviously] was embarrassed, which she ^ shouldn’t have been. She felt | she'd interrupted a meeting. which she hadn't. I m-m At any rate, I hear from Mrs. E. W. Neal, assistant librarian, that the Uris book has arrived and that Mrs. Murphree is read ing it. Viewpoints of Other Editors WHO AFTER JOHNSON? A POOR MEMORIAL It seems to us that many of the; hi the wake of the brutal mur- ! commentators are missing the j der of Martin Luther King, many •“"T" I point in the great debate over, groups are demanding that Con- who will succeed Lyndon John-j gross respond rapidly with new The Herald is one of the Kingslgon and how much influence the or expanded social-welfare pro- Mountain postoffice’s best custo- president will have in the choice. I grams. The need now, however, mers in the "postage due” de-i . , . u '' is not so much for speed as for partment, as postoffico’s elsc-| Lame duck presidents have where return mailing labels on historically been unsuccessful at c a i departed subscribers with the tag: swinging support to their own] During recent years the Federal "non-deliverable, not known at] choice of successor, the argument Government has been sharply thU address” Thus the Herald goes, and Mr. Johnson will be enlarging outlays aimed at aiding and other newspapers and maga-ino different But surely before j the poor. Over the same period /Ines must have appreciated the! wondering where he will play on, social tensions dearly have not imnrovements in their budgets the team, it is neces.sary to con- diminished; instead, they have Xn thT postoffico d^artmLt,isider that he may already have: considerably inereased What after instituting a 15-cent per!-succeeded in unilaterally chang- went wrong? item rate for the service in Jan-', ing the rules of the game. struck it and returned the I uary cost to a thin dime. th^^ he"wouMmlinquish the pres-theeffTcacy of their favorite pro-1 i 1^““ Johnson announced cl^nrXtwXftXhive OTeXld '“"h.'^A‘‘ rcTresnt‘the cSy in ‘h«! New Yorkers who althou^ 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and evenis taken from the 1957 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. SO THIS IS NEW YOBK hursclt Ey NORTH CALLAHAJt Many things change in this city but others seem to go op and on as reminders of more haleypn days. For example, thp New York Flea Market at 25th Streqt and 6th Avenue opens lor its 5th year on Sunday, April 21, spon sored by the Brooklyn Museum. ofi By !ELB Mou ■d till ■itli ii A record number of collectors, traders, hobbyists, artists and antiquarians will exhibit in a price range from ten cents for a lacy old greetln-g card to $2,000 for a signed Tiffany bronze and iridescent glass chandelier. This market is billed as offering a “histfirical shopping spree. A wealth of curios, “white ele phants”, riostalgic bits of odds and ends, bits and pieces, deco rative accessories, thingumbobs and the graffiti of earlier civili zations are stacked on folding tables, chairs, crates, stands -aiw^ easels throughout a half-squarfl block parking lot. The atmos^ phere is said to be as relaxed as that of the informal marts of the lower East Side at the turn pf the century. Some dealers take space at the market for a single Sunday to dispose of an estate or a collection for quick cash. Oth ers may be itinerant traders whose stock rolls in lashed to the tops of special heavy duty station wagons as they travel the countryside from market to mar ket. Shoppers at the flea mai’ket may be suburbanites, intellectu als, university leaders, financial moguls, show people, artisans and young professionals seeking “good old pieces” to be cartpd home. Each Sunday, the market I is the scene of a special ha{^n- ing called a “Flea-In” whjeh Pele- brates a news event, historical anniversary or perhaps there is a bit of settimental hoopla with barber shop quartets in rocking chairs. In the jumble of the stands may be found endless ob jects such as marked silver, old street signs, paperweights carni val iglass, old records, playbills, posters, militaria, netsukes, scrim- Grading work on the Waco Road I site of a new Kings .Mountain in- '"T " a..,,,- w.. ^ ", i-sr-sr sz Kings Mountain hospital is now a tully accredited hospital. Rhea Lineberger, daughter of but one of those happenings go- Rev. and Mrs. T. A. Lineberger, is'ing on in this big town ail the Kings Mountain spelling champ j time, it seems and participate' iidency rather than contribute to! grams. When the Federal efforts spelling bee on’April 25th es, are really just kids at heart. I divisive partisanship, he added have failed to fully live up to the I was claiming a one recent morning I an important new dimension to promises, the frustrations of the halt-dozen I ppj.formance in office. He ad- poor, white and Negro, have quite from Pos tal Clerk Fred Weaver, when he ded, therefore, a new dimension naturally grown. I tor the candidates to measure Social and Personal asked if I could afford another and be measured I No matter how well intentioned Miss Guy Anne Henderson and | Robert Angus Hullender were; married Saturday afternoon at 4 o’clock in a double - ring cere- -3 .... cents on a first class item display of strength I Government may be, more- mony in First Baptist chuheh. which had been posted without, over, some rnistakes are inevlt-| „ benefit of a six-cent stamp. the debate, and if enough' expands ite ac- Mrs. Fred Finger entertained I „.oughtful Americans are paying “vibes in any area. Among the members of the^in Table Bridge m-m attention, the pretenders will' more glaring instances are the club at her home Tuesday. I could and did. have to mca.sure up. * “‘'ba'' r<-mewal projects that tear I down old slums and push many Whether they can remains to be-residents into housing even less desirable. i seen. Richard Nixon, certainly, Ooening the mail a few mo-j would have to undergo a great menu later I found I had been transformation, cither during the "took” The return address indi- campaign or in the White House rated the letter to contain political to escape the sarne problems of propaganda from GOP Governor manner and credibility that have candidate Jim Gardner. When I‘plagued President Johnson. opened the envelop. I found Pd spn^tcr Eugene McCarthy is a! pouring of a lot more .Federal heavily on the poor, whether they We are by no means suggesting that the Government sharply cur tail its total social-welfare effort. But many of the poor themselves by now are aware that there is little to gain from the mere out most meaningful poverty. It is not clear just how much the girls are doing about this Leap Year, but of course such things as proposals by them may be going on more privately than conspicuously. However, there is one well-publicized place which is making no bones about the against | opportunity. II is Meramec Cav erns on U.S. 66, Slanten, Missouri Then, too, it is the uncontrolled Federal spending that has been mainly responsible for the twin troubles of inflation and the na tion’s balance-of-payments defi cit. And these troubles impinge opened tlie envelope, nothing inside. Sorry, said Fred, no found I d experience and substance, funds. ‘more political substance than hej _. . . . u,. u , .often is given credit for. But the, vv' h. it might help if I question in his case is whether!ivcre a bit •efunds.'ho wants the presidency enough tij°te realistic about their own I to live with it-whether he could! abilities. The best-conceived so- survive agonizing decisions and I programs are not going to unrelieved politics, day-in-day Dickson, the city; gut, without the euphoria of his always realize it or not. Col. W. K engineer, is a witty fellow. As I'present crusade to sustain him plead the press of pressday work' „ ^ ^ , , in regrettably declining an invi- Rcbert Kennedy has grave han tation to lunch, he smiled and! dicaps to overcome; His associa- commented, "Ah. saved my man*'‘ate Sen.Joseph Mc- ners and my money, too Rocky Martin of the Herald was married on Friday after- Carthy; his personalized hound ing of Jimmy Hoffa; his oppor tunistic embrace of Senator Eu gene McCarthy’s New Hampshire success. Senator Kennedy has yet to belie the impression that he is short on solve, overnight, the that have been building up for more than a century. A promise of steady progress, with the help of a strong private economy, may not be easy to sell but truth, in time, can sometimes even be poli tically rewarding. noon and the boys in the shop, a small, britt e man, were plotting before the wedding! warmth, depth and scruplies; tho n-invhom thpv could croato.' that he lacks anything approach- A well strung set of tin cansi ing the personal quality or ex-! among the various levels of gov- was fixed and the rice had been Second, there should be a clear eyed appraisal of Federal welfare efforts, both pre.sent and project ed. This calls for decisions as to whether each program offers real hope for success. It also demands an allocation of responsibilities The payments deficit has led the Government to adopt the clut ter of controls that slow economic growth and the creation of new job opportunities. Inflation of problems courseliftsthe costs of just about everything, and of all Americans the poor are the most defenseless. No matter how compassionate a Government is, if it is to be truly useful it must also be respon sible. Those who argue otherwise would provide a poor memorial to Martin Luther King. There on a giant easel, females can post their pictures and give vital statistic’s including their income for interested bachelors who tour the cave from all over the country. The cave even has an underground chapel where couples can get married, with Lester B. Dill, cave director, pay ing the justice of the peace. His public relations representative has come up with a bit of re search, to wit, that according to custom dating back to the 13th Century, the extra day which comes every four years 'gives ev ery maiden, young and old, the freedom to propose marriage t^^ the man she chooses. Dill his cave marriage facilities, the —Wall Street Journal j Availability Bureau. i bought, not to mention arrange ments made to locate Rocky’s auto. m-m confreres visited a fish market m Spartanburg and John in quired of the proprietor, “Do you have any old fish?” this demand any drastic cutback! in defense spending, a develop-1 ment that appears highly unlike-1 f I ly, in this troubled world, even if the Vietnam war were somehow perience of the dead brother in' ernment and the private economy whose memory he seems to in-1 ott any ideological basis but tend wrapping himself. j »erms of which can best do the job. Clearl.v there are none in the! field who can yet command the. If there were a conscientious attention and confidence of the recordering of programs, the na- ... I electorate. Governor Rockefeller; tion would have the resource^ to I was rerniniscing about ft’.'’, might ggrnp dose than most, but' carry them through. Nor would trials and tribulations ot *^^^**^y; Jqj. previous flirtations with IhiQ HAmanH anv Hractlr nithartr 20 years ago, including uncaleulated ot his divorce. Vice Presi dent Humphrey may be in the worst position of all. as the alter- ego of a President who has felt; brought to a sudden end. compelled to absent himself from the field. What it does call for is a cwi- The one certain thing is that reappraisal of other Fed- The insulted Greek owner told * it was never more important for ^ Ichn heatedly, “Me no sella de delegates and voters at large to establish true old fisih!” resen-e judgment until the con-, PrlO““es. ^me programs, such as ventions. This is no year for the' spaf. “Mainly i presidency to be swept up in Pa^ly deferred. John explained his purpose and I ritual primaries or bought with progrX!"ougm to 1be°graduany the owner .sailed in understand- money and college hurrahs. phrased down to far smaller lev^ ing. "Me got plenta de old fish.” President Johnson has put the, P / “r smaller lev I country’s dilemma squarely up toj the voters and to the candidates, i f*'"™ land admonished them to make By now it surely should be evi- The shop lads settled for a; their choices carefully. He has! dent to everyone that the Federal m-m large can of sardines, the topj offered the candidates a chance well-scored, and secured under! to speak widely and substantive- the front seat with double Scotch jly, and the public a chance to tape. It yas oq the near side of i detna^ that they do. It i* a Asheville that the passengersLcnance best taken, realized something was amiss, i —The' Chozlette New* Government simply ’ cannot do everything for everybody all at once. When it tries to do so, it piles heavy tax burdens on Uie private economy whl®, after ill, has for years been fighting the KEEP YOUR BADIO DIAL SET AT 1220 Kings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in bntwe^ll ■•.Hi »H i I cor /■ Tu V jntaiii f ;h im ( • deci' ins. Rocky thcr* foi ioving s tvo. 'Kings were tie first inn lack sinj ind Mik •in the t eers in tl Mountair then flev lina.x. thH thrw . by. Shel two in Heffni Notes 01 Wake ack Stall is Doaco few mo bridge, i pullixl Sgular I gure, a lark is ames. L ir 34 tr reshmar rid at .2N lan thirr > pull U| pair of ay and aturday. Th biiseba Mount! villc. I take a Pa the Mt .season He hai Addin] hit the Bi Ash. / up cat * 19 ior 3 h hit thi K the Ml the 19 MounI 25-1 I’l Cham is regi South ly bo; T ball p Smith aroun play, with I also c year, ters 0 G tlie M wit h Teene at the in the Moun Moun ^Iter Wkht the 1 so pr ting. King! dee’p
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