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i mMSSC Kim IMTZ1KI ueaxi ■ BPikuav I^rrjrmi m. m Page 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, April 18. 1968, Eatabllihed 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald .JiCwoUmj I AStOClATir A woeldy newspaper dovolcd to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainment arid benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and Its vicinity, publlshc'l 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. il EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss ElUabeth 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 Hou.ser Rocky Martin Steve Martin Roger Brown •On leave with the United States Army SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN IftvANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR.... $3.50 SIX MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1.25 H,US NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX MARTIN'S MEDICINE Polls Should Be Packed Like This Ingredientt: bit$ of newt, tvisdom, humor, and com inentt' Directions; Take weekly if possible, but avoid overdosage. By MARTIN HARMON "Bob Scott had his bus. Dr. Reginald Hawkins his Cadillac, and jesterday Mel Broughton traveled over Cleveland by air I in a helicopter," Bill Dover wrote I covering Guliernatorial Candidate | Broughton’s coverage of Cleve j land County Monday. go mis IS NEW YOBK c L- m-m George Hamrick, one of Brough-1 ton’s four Cleveland County co-| managers, was highly pleased j 1 1C telephone number — 739-S441 TODAY’S BIBLE VERSE Disrivtinn shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee. Proverbs 3:11. with the i-esults of Broughton’s touching down in Cleveland no I less than 17 times in one alter-1 noon. He said, "The Lord smiled i on us." First, he conilnueil.j I Broughton wa.s scheduled for a day In the county April 5th. could not meet schedule due to illness. "That would have been too early," George added. The Bobby Kennedy Twist The Bobby Konnedy twist is not a dance and is bettof known as the arm- twist. At least, James K. Batten so report ed in Wednesday morning's Charlotte Ob server undet a Washington dateline. la Got on the bandwagon tor a ".sure" winner, the South is being told, or pre pare lor a long cold spell. If Kennedy is "sure", why docs he woiTV about the Southland at all? The arm-twisting denies the "sure” contention. Robert Konnedy is not new to this sort ot business, the mailed fist and thinly veiled threat being among his stocks in trade. As much as they didn’t like Jimmy Hoffa, many citizens recoiled at the idea of the United States Attorney General using Hoffa methods to hang even Jim my Hoffa. he Mr. Kennedy likely will find that the waBouth will laugh at his threats and tell —"Him to peddle his arm-twisting wares in other climes—even if the prospect is for a polar season should Kennedy reach the White House. Apropos Anyway? Gremlins creep into newspaper type, as in other publications, and usually these typographical errors are sufficient ly garbled not to destroy the meaning and intent of the writer. Last week, in its editorial "Tar Heels for Humphrey", the Herald had one of the unusuals. In the concluding paragraph, the ed itor wrote, “Mr. Humphrey is presiden tial timber, in mind, in energy, in judg ment, in character.” It was published and distributed this way: "Mr. Humphrey is presidential timber, in wind, in energy, in judgment, in character.” Did the come “w"? “m” get inverted and be- Well, the wind business is still apro pos. The Vice-President is one of the best talkers of modern times, has been ac cused seldom, if ever, of being short on vocal wind. Or it could be interpreted in track terms, such as land this pun is going to be bad): Mr. Humphrey has the wind to win. Davidson Plant Use The so-called Xew Davidson school plant, a six classroom facility, is among the newer in the ten-plant Kings Moun tain district system. Built as an adjunct to Old Davidson, an all-Negro school, it now finds itself desirt^ bv onlv 66 pupils for use in 1968- 69. The boai-d of education properly de ferred action on assignment of the 66 who listed New Davidson as first choice. Poverty In State Many citizens were surprised that a blue ribbon presidential committee lab eled 27 of North Carolina’s 100 counties as poverty areas where many poor, liter ally, do not have enough to eat. Some citizens expressed disbelief. Among those initially surprised was a Charlottean who was a member of the commission. Dr. Raymond Wheeler, a friend of this newspaper, said as much but suggested a looksee about would re veal the correctness of the commission report. The state welfare director was not surprised. Perusal of the list of counties will lessen the surprise. Nearest is Anson county and another is Robeson. Both these counties, as Cleve land once did, majored in cotton grow ing. Cotton has moved west, where flat- land and irrigation combine to make these areas more competitive by ability to harvest with machines and enable con trolled growing conditions. Had Cleveland not been benefitted by heavy industrial expansion and a switch of farming incidence to dairying and poultry, this county might well have been on the poverty list. too. Many of the counties are in the east. Little Tyrell’s one major industry is lum bering and there is chronic unemploy ment, another Herald friend who lives in 'Tyrell’s Columbia reports. The immediate need is distribution of food to the needy. North Carolina has been working at long-term answers, knows that more in dustrialization of the eastern part of the state is mandatory, as is improved edu cation. Experiments have been conducted in this state with supplying students a school-opening snack. There was improvement in grades for many. Some of the hungry succeed, but not if they’re too hungry. Rev. Mr. Hoden The announcement of Rev. Robert M. Haden, Jr., that he is relinguishing the rectorship of Trinity Episcopal church as of next week, is regrettable news, not only to his parishioners, but to his many, many other friends through out the community. This newspaper does not know whether Mr. Haden would regard him self as an ecumenicalist in the accepted definition. However, he is a practical ecumeni calist, proved himself one here, whether telling side-tickling tales at the Lions club, at family reunions, or playing bas ketball in the recreation league, or col laborating with a host of others in civic improvement projects. His tenure here of nearly four years has been a successful one, both as a rec tor and as a Kings Mountain citizen. Superintendent Don Jones noted that 66 is a small number of pupils for a plant which can accommodate twice that num ber. Then there’s the matter of federal Office of ^ucation pressure. In spite of the fact Kings Mountain had totally desegregated the upper half of its dozen grades, the education folk complained that desegregation in the Ktnia Mountain district was proceeding too slowly. The two complaints concern ed New Davidson and Compact. The federal folk have visited, on re- a uest, and SupL Jones has the impression liey hadn't gleaned from reports what they found on scene. At anv rate, the board of education has the chore of deciding how to utilize six of its better classrooms. Service at City Hall once was the sure ticket to trouble, but the emphasis has shifted to Board of Education quar ters. * Choinnaxi To Resign J. Clint Newton has announced he will not seek re-election as Democratic county chairman at the biennial county convention in mid-May. Why? "Then we learned that he could only spend a half-day here Monday. How was he going to' co%-er the county In a halt-day?" | Dr. Jack Hunt,' another co-man-1 ager, commented somewhat face- j tiously, “Get him an airplane." | From’ Jack’s comment stemmed i the helicopter idea. I □nc By NORTH CALLAHAN / t may 4th H.C. ‘■primary ICDC m-m Herald Shop Superintendent I Dave Weathers says the helicop-! ter bit proved effective with his youngest son Tim. On his visit, [ Candidate Bob Scott had visited' Tim’s school and among the I hands he shook was Tim’s. Tim came home a roaring, if non voting, Scott supporter. Brou?h-j ton’s helicopter visited Tim’s | school, too. Now, Tim’s Father Viewpoints of Other Editors GOLD IN THE ATTIC? THE TRAVEL FREEDOM ,, . . From now on, American pass. One can never toll perhaps those 3^9 identification docu- I reports, his son isn’t as sure who old magazines steadily accumu- anj invocations to other I he wants for go\ernor. , lating in the attic or cellar or j^nds to show courtesy and good-' j garage are worth something after American citizens, but no all. Then a.gain, they may be just , are they instruments of If there were anything un-. much glossy waste paper. American foreign policy, toward about the helic^opter drop-, in here at Southwell Ford it was, in a nation where someone the fact that the landing spot lects ” almost anything one can State Department s announre i wa.s unpaved and ungras-sed. The name, some people do collect old it u il .f-vel to whirlvbird kicked up a small magazines. And some libraries l!ave proportion dust storm. But the want back numbers to fill gaps in' ^ limits" in [Broughton well-wishers didn’t, their flies. Some folk just buy old •’“n declared off limits an Some of the clothes of the young men here are plainly out of this world. I thought I was used to every sort of outlandish garb almost, but when I pa^.^ those odd - looking creatures on the street, often I turn and look back at them to be sure that this is still the United States and that humans inhabit It. For example, a young man just went by wear Ing a weird kind of cape which blew In the wind like the wings of a great bat. The wearer swag gered along as if he had just flown in from Mars or some where and he surely would not have looked much different if he had. Now, I understand, these long-haired fellows spend as much time with a comb as do the iris. To set off their flowing locks, they sport nautical coats, gangster suits and funny fisher men's hats along with pipe^^ clinched in their teeth. Some the suits are what as known "gusty” plaids while others are worn with dark shirts and tics that stand out In sharp contrast. One designer has tried out calf- length coats for men and found them to be welcomed. Most of these stvles are nautical, some with gold anchors on the sleeves, and I saw one raccoon coat with a red lining which covered the calves and was priced at $1,000. .Plaid trousers, similar to those worn by Highland regiments, are recommended for both day and evening jackets. Shoos arc an other thing no longer confined in variety and frills to those of the women. One favorite type among these way-out characters j is the chunky gangster shoes, also a model called the gillie with a fringed tongue and a new heel shaped like a trapezoid. Head- gear is of course very colorful, a favorite kind being the floppy sort of fishtrman’s hat similar to the one often worn by the late Franklin D. Roosevelt when he ' spent enjoyable days at his sum- George B. Thomasson. attor- mer home in Campobello off our added bis name to the list northeastern coast. If the old 10 TEARS AGO THIS WEEK Iteme of news oboMt Kinge Mountain area people ted. events taken from the i9S7' files of the Kinge Mountain | Herald. of Candidates for the Democratic; spying that the clothes make the nomination for the N. C House man is true, it certainly has of Representatives on Satuitlay, brought some s range results. I shortly before the filing deadline, ibis is a rebellion against good I taste, the rebels seem to have The city board ...o™, t., ■ .c =nh-^Ai.ie i • American passports, notably Chi- seem to mino. is sin-uui Cuba, North Vietnam, and The city board of education, w-on. but at some cost to them m-m .1, North Korea. A person still can’t elected faculty members for thej selves. Originally is fine if ! periodicals out of nostalgia for the' passport as a legal lever 1958-59 term at Monday night’s carried to the extremes had met Mrs. Broughton contents. .And researchers—even g j^un.Uession. ' I SOCIAL AND PBRSONAL 'The ageless and ubiquitou.s Miss Hazel Thrift and Charles E. Tro.xel, USN. of Norfolk, Va., j were married Saturday in an 81 Robert Moses who has held so c;o endeth a lenethv battle be- P m. wedding in the parsonage of j many jobs around this place that various cRdflLrtlrians-IRo** Hill’s Wesleyan Methodist it w;ould ^ too much to try to earlier in the afternoon at a, for radio and TV shows—buy up country wis^es drop-in the ladles held at South- back issues. ,o’ ’admit him, the United States well Ford. Bob Southwell being Government won’t prosecute him. the Kings Mountain area South-, yjovie fan magazines are among snatch his passport away, or oth- well co-manager. most valued, reports the Wall erwise interfere. _ j Street Journal, which has re- ! searched the second-hand maga- She is a very charming lady, zinc business. Comic books are UNC-G when it was Woman s sometimes w.'rth a lot—such as College, Class of -15. 1 the first Lssues of Batman or Su perman. Some schol.arly or scien- tn-m I journals, which have since I related my being impressed folded, have their collectors, with the late Governor Brough- ton in spite of the fact I was i So if your attic is full of ancient ^j-ound in flagrantly hostile lands. heavily in the Wilkins P. Horton magazines, you just might have g^up argued that) camp. Several of us college lads something valuable there. And castro. for instance, wasn’t^ j cleaning ud after it went to the WTTF Raleigh stu- you might not. It aU defends on ^ encouraged and his policies “And builds character as dios to he.\r Mr. Broughton s scarcity, novelty, nostalgia — or semiendorsed by friendly visita- peeling potatoes’' What final appeal to the voters. Signal- the fact that some magazine pub- j American citizens. , “"cheTst^^flSn^s aTmurt as led he was on the air. Mr. Brou- lished a major story on some fa- I teac^ steaaijat^s as mu^ as ghton closed his eyes, spoke mous star like Shirley Temple, One can see the value, under a greasy, burned pan. at these this. duds have gone beyon and many plain ordinary folk—j church. who have believed it was not thei Kings Mountain Woman’s club government’s prerogative to tell sponsoring a bridge benefit citizens where they could or j pg^ty Thursday night could not travel, and those in' ^ -.^5 ,he Woman’s the State Department who all proceeds to go into the keep Americans from visitingstudent fund. list them here, has come up with one of his bset ideas in all his 80 years. He has presented the city with a Children’s Farm-- something so many of them so sorely n<^. I say this from my own childhood experience which included among its greatest de lights, a growing up on a farm. In my opinion, this is a price less experience for anyone, a way of life incomparable in its rare freshness and attunement to the serious demands of later life. For what can take the place greasy, burned pan? \_iiitr can »iir tn r uj f I r ui wiiai umi lUKe iiw picivf exactly for 15 minutes, quit on But miost people will probably touch-and-go condition of ud ar“^"the coTl the dot. One had to be improssed. find that their attic pile of old war. in keeping meddlesome citi- UKe cle^u^ up arwnd tne roai moving and progressing toward P numbers U useful mainly for zens from running off to enemy ^ ovens? ^od erat d^onstrand- attainment meant for us all m-m supplying reading matter on a countries, getting themselves j um, as the sarge used to say. |j, sweet and simple This hroueht a sideli-ht from t^iny afternoon. , jailed or feted as the ca^ ma> | Army is leaving itself a Mrs. Broughton. She and Mel, _cbristion Science Monitor ^lh"^^ghT^TAmrrir ,^Kc^ i Bat this '•’^Imake the new civilian cooks e.rsss’frne ih „i ^^elr Jobs). But it won’t POLICING'GHETTOS of Yale, who flies off to Hano , ^ goldiets may have to the welcoming arms ^Ho cm content with spit-shining quite young, were courting and her father, like I, was hot for Horton. Using her Father’s car. she picked up her date. A few minutes later she tensed, sud denly realizing that the back seat New York Citv is experimenting ^ ^*>nh on ® ^If-appointed I boots and fire eictinguishers, ar- - - _ Or the ease of journal-1 ... ». .. of her Father’s car was covered with an unarmed Community Pa- m ssmm Or ‘ J i rangmg full firfd layouts and with Horton litoraturo. iMv can- trol Corps in Harlem with the sts how' dldate’s campaign material is. P^^Posos of bringi^ community square circl^ ••literature", the opposing candi- sen. ices closer to the ghetto report on Maoism !’*/*’%* - of preventing crime. Patrol mem- j, o-wMno dates' “propaganda".■! can still be turn- fighting men on this thines and the discovery of real values? The farm that Moses presented is part of the 18-acre site of the Queens Zoo being built on former Transportation Area of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. It has cows, pigs, chiqt eens, donksy, rabbits, ducka e J ponies which my be rlddeur though some of the youngsters But she anvxvav. caught young 5Iel 01 preveilliug luimr. » u.-nllld lust ^ V... ...,o ui 1110 bers will not have the power of enma 11 reaing . stunted regimen is anybody’s 1 shy away from the shaggy faces arrest: it will be their presence : around to issuing a lew visa gups5^_ciiieogo DaUy N*ws 1 of these cute little horses at first on the streets, ready and avail- *<> American newsmen. able to help in any situation, citizen’s constitutional' m-m Quite a crowd attended Broughton rally at Shelby park Monday night, which : that, it is hoped, will make the travel has. in short, been patrols a succes-s. vindicated and admitted to be em- ! bedded where the Supreme Court There will be 42 men in the said it was. in the Fifth Amend- Harlem experiment. The concept ment—a liberty not to be lightly ~ Q u-'AAirc aof\ Tt t<> ^ liistoric moin^nt p^K Monaa> nigni. lAiucn pre-tesied a few weeks ago revoked. It U a historic moment Broughton supporters chortling young when the State Department ad- he'd attracted as many people at In an eight-hour tour of mlts, after fighting a rear-guard a one-coimty rally as did Scott at jj,e patrol interrupted twa action throuzh all the post war a several-county rally. I muggings- chased the assailants, vears. that it has no authority to; least two outlande^ presen.: victim to the hos- rontrol a citizens travel Legislator David Clark, of j^in- - - - ... _ . - ■ pital; they also got medical as- Chairman Newton was quite frank in his reply: six years as a party chair man is long enough. Those who've handled this difficult chore will be quick to agree. A chairman takes a lot of buffeting. In retiring, Chairman Newton point ed with a measure of deserved pride to the fact that Cleveland county has re turned continuing and handsome majori ties to Democratic candidates every oth er November. .xilnton, and many times mayor for an alcoholic who had af Forest City, Robert Bla-iton, fgjjpn jri the street and hurt him- uncle of Kings Mountain’s Drug- seriouslv. gist Charles Blanton. mratioH Science Monitor THERE GOES KP m-m . The patrol will o^rate under going to pieces, CoChairman Jack Palmer was " ^here m'usfb^uiel -he master of cerem^res. while, J^^rstandings for mobilization f ^ilm j Springs Dr. W .v^ Washv jo help in situa- -id ^ f^lS •he j-helby Star for whom I did ^ ^ of the patrol. But l^rtpt^.rlmaeeT “ string work From here) present.. ^-bue expecting prob- advantages. «i Candidate Broi^ton. "’Ffniiems in patrol oeratkms. are hoe- But this misses the point: Ifs' drew howls of delight from nteij^j that the exeriment will be a the tradition that counts, the. audience when he declared. success. common bond of unltj’-through- wn tell thU man exactly what: adversity that KP has bred we want. We want every road in -j ,j aeveland County paved:- ! ’ This project, said Major Und through the years. say, "is not aimed soleiy at keep^ believe the I collected my barbecue while: suinmer. H alM wlU. ^j^y ,;|ures about Its food;, chatt-ne with Clint Newlon. ^ Hi mess tirirK Cle\*^laTitl Democrat'c chair ' relatioi^hip bemeen police ijtisp9rtlons fot the way the roan Had he eaten? 'No. I get so 5?** <^i7azem In the ghetto atras- cupboards look as for the way the fxci'cl at th.'^ rallie- I lust expenment is a hopeful ef- tastes. But it is embedded in can • eat until afterward:". Clint ^ cfaanyls of Anny creed that all soldiers most replied. ct^raicatkm betwcCT the juffer together, in eatinf the I ^ “ ehow fnot Inappropriately named It s the exciting season j In Hariein._lt rtay^rei^ , species of tough dog) and TOURBADIODIALSETAT 1220 IGngs Monhlaiii, N. C. News & Weather eYdiy hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the hoU hour. Fine entertoininent in betweln
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