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X f*a^e 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, May 23. 1968 BatoMUhed 1889 Tht Kings Mountain HeiaU A weelUy newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general wellare and {lubllshed for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citixens of Itlngg Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursdaiy by the Herald PbUiahing House. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086 under Act of Congress of Match 3, 1873. EorroinAL ocmiitment V Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Joe Cornwell SporU Editor Miss Linda Hardin Clerk MGCMANICAL DEEAItTMENt Fred Bell Dave Weathers, Supt. ‘Allen Myers Paul Jackson Kocky Mattift Steve Martin Roger BroWn •On leave witn the United States Army SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN IfilvANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR... .$3.50 SIX MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739*5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Co)Tecti<)n is grrvious unto him thnt forsakefh Vie und hv that hnteth reproof shall die. Proverbs 15:10. MARTIN'S MEDICINE lnqfr*iimA»t Wfe of ntwt, toirnhm, humor, and commonia I>ir$otion$: Take weekly */ poaeMe, but dveU aoerdotage. ■y MARTIN HARMON installation of additional cir cuits and extension of its under ground lines in the area of the Methodist church and postofflee is enabling the city to Improve con siderably the looks of this inter- sectic n. Pacing Austerity with Great Fortitude Hunter Allen and his electrical crews were creating a traffic jam at this corner Wednesday morning as they utilized modern tools to jerk a 35-foot wooden pole out of the ground. The pole was well- imbedded at what looked to be about five feet and the big truck operating the winch was rearing skyward like a rearing pony. Ran-Oli Prerogative Qnarter-Loai Citizens have mixed feelings about laws specifying that elections be decided by majority vote To a hungry man a half-loaf is bet ter than no loaf at all and it can be as sumed same applies for a quarter-loaf. This Implies, where there are more than two candidates for an office, the possibility of run-offs. In Cleveland County, there is heavy incidence in the Democratic camp this season, as none ot eight county commis sion candidates won one of the three nominations, and only three of a dozen w'on five nominations foi the board of education. That’s about w’hat the East Kings Mountain residents, who reside in Gas ton county, got from the Gaston Board of Education Monday night on their peti tion for an election to vote themselves into the Kings Mountain school district. 1) The petition for election was de nied with a lone dissenting vote, but J. Melville Broughton, who could have called a run-oft for governor, and Raymond Stone, who could have called a run-off tor superintendent of public education, did not. 2) The petitioners were invited to apply for release ot their children to the Kings Mountain school district not later than 15 days from receipt of school as signments. and Larry Zimmerman, second-runner for the dubious honor of tackling Demo cratic Senator Sam Ervin in November, set up a state-wide primary when he ex ercised his right to call a second race with GOP leader Robert Somers. 3) A study committee was appoint ed to work with a similar committee from the East Kings Mountain citizens group to seek a solution by the 1969-70 term. The Herald tends to favor election by majority vote, particularly under the Tar Heel arrangement whereby trailers must challenge the front runners. , The tenor of comment of Gaston board members indicate the releases will be granted, meaning the group will not be requil’ed to seek relief in the courts as in the past two years The Herald would also be first to ad- jifil to some ambiguities. General election results are deter mined on plurality, in event there are more than two candidates for office. That, of course, is unlikely to happen in North Carolina where filing deadline tor state office is in late March. But it could Gaston board member David R. t Mauney, of Gherryvill4, urged apfipint- I ment of th« study comnrtttee oij^ the ’ simple but vilid grounds that “oytr job is to do what’s best for the children”. Mr. Mauney saw no sensible point, he said, to hauling children several miles dally to school when another — even though out-of-district, is within two blocks. Then there’s the instance of the pres idency ot th^Inited States—where a majority is reqlmed, not from the people, but from members of the electoral col lege. In absence of a majority for any candidate, election of a president be comes the province of the U. S. House of Representatives. There remains the problem of these folk paying school taxes in Gaston coun ty plus a tuition fee in Kings Mountain. They have sought relief and the Herald hopes the Kings Mountain board of edu cation will see fit to grant relief, partial ly, at the least. Attorneys for the Gaston board pos ed ail kinds of legal roadblocks to the petition to vote. Confusing perhaps, but Tar Heels go to the polls in second primaries on June 1. It was apparent, however, that the principal fear of loss of school teiTitory was a loss of tax base and the concurrent fear that others would return for disin- clusion at future dates. We Vote Poorly In the recent primaries on May. 4, only 1566 citizens of the two Kings Moun tain precincts (over 3400 registered) bothered to vote That Includes both Democrats and Republicans. The Gaston board did not fathom Mayor John Henry Moss’ quite valid point that the effect of denying its fringe area people in East Kings Mountain in clusion in the Kings Mountain school dis trict will have the opposite. Majority of the adjacent ten'Jtory is zoned for resi dential development Yet Kings Mountain’s percentage compared with the rest of Cleveland County. Parental questions about schools will tend to stifle residential expansion in the eastern area. ’This was in spite of "long” ballots for both county and state offices, usual ly productive of more votes. In contrast, Kings Mountain, more than 2300 votes have been cast in a mu nicipal election, where potential does not include outside city folk Included on the county registration books. Th« By-Pass Pro]«ct Increasing the vote total is the ap parent aim of North Carolina Democrats in revising their organization and doubl ing the size of precinct committees from five members to ten. It is safe to assume that Division Highway Commissioner W. B. Garrison did not expect to navigate the US 74 by pass and escape the King street delays before his term as commissioner expires June 30, 1969. Some regard voting as a duty, others as a prerogative. Certainly voting is a citizen’s right and privilege. If he wants to stay home or go fish ing, he can, and from local vote totals, he does. Such point was made by Assistant Administrator Billy Ross in comments on the letter in which Comm. Garrison said he wanted the 7.3 mile Kings Mountain project reactivated. Since Mr. Ross said the project had never been deactivated, mayoe Mr. Gar rison meant “unshelved” At any rate, Comm. Garrison wants an early start on the job at hand. Congratulations to Heidi Kopruc)i and John C. Parker, Jr., winners of col lege scholarships given by Foote Mineral Company. “If ever there was a town or city that needed by-passing, Kings Mountain is the one,” Comm. Garrison declared. Kings Mountain citizens will agree. North Carolina’s highway death toll, to date, is heavier than last ’There seems to be no defense against the heavy foot on the accelerator more than chance taking driver. When Bell completes its instal- I lations, the city will remove two more wooden poles, says Hunter. .Meanwhile the traltic signal has been mounted on a new metal pole's hall crossarm, with street light at pole's top. ,1 VOU'l I40T ' roe's ‘ SO THIS If NEW YOBK By NORTH CALLAHAN “It'll look better when we get it painted and the otner poies I down,” Hunter promises. As it I will. ' in-iB I I suggested, after noting the big drill on the back of tne trucK, that poles could be installed more quickly than in the old days of manual digging. In Hunter’s earlier days with the city electrical department in stalling a power pole was a half- Viewpoints of Other Editors FIELD MUSICIANS I Winston's Anti-Poverty Plans Set An Exomple For Others Itema of news abmtt Kings mountain area people and events taken from the 1917 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. There is no bird to compare | with the bobo-llnk. When meadow day Job, longer if rock was en-1 grasses are heading and goiden- g j Reynolds Tobacco Co. I countered. Tne work force was hearted daisies star the green of winston-Salem has given that * six men. With today’s equipment! carpet, bobolinks pour forth bub- pRy million as seed money for and four men, a pole gets its hole, bling, rollicking music. Notes'^ powerful, privately-financed installed, tamped and ready tor I tumble forth so rapidly one scar- drive against poverty, stringing in 3U minutes. | cely can follow them. The spirit | ig unique and the I of true spring is in the music. I ganie can be expected from the lit is joyful with the gladness of; results. The Herald detailed last week!new life. It is part of the basic Mayor M. C. Benton said the that Lieutenant - Colonel Bob Cox,! goodness and heart lift of a new money, to come to the city in mencement exercises who has seen service in Japan ' season. three annual installments, would 8 o’clock in the high school au Korea Germany and varLs wa; I _ male is a handsome fellow! be used to form a Winston-Salem ditorium. stations in the United States, has I j.g black head mustard-yel-' f^^btion to bring the city s traers for yet another overseas ^ *" a black uio best white and Negro leadership'gethware hieh school seniors will 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK In the Traffic Chib of Hew York I had lunch with Andy An derson and Thomas Jefferson MHey, two of New York’s most genial and active men in the es timation ol their many friends. Andy retired a few years ago as General Traffic .Manager of Mobil Oil Company and once was presi dent of the Traffic Club, an at tractive place on Vanderbilt Ave nue. But like many other dyna mic personalities, Andy dldn t really retire but now spends his time between work for the TYan.s- portation Association of America and seeing and cheering his many friends. He is one of those rare people with a ready smile and a hearty handshake that make you feel he means both. -3 Grover high school will award diplomas to 20 seniors in com- Thomas Jefferson MHey, who if about the same size and pro portions as his tali Presidential namesake, may well be described in the words of a .scroll which the mayor of this city presented to him: “loyal, native son of New York, arbitrator, servant of the public interest.” On his desk a' home—he also has retired—is a miniature tombstone on which is inscribed, RELAX-ITS LATER THAN YOU THINK. This Is his credo. To make people feel good and try to forget their misfor tunes, but at the same time fac ing reality. For years, Jeff, as he is widely callei ran the Com merce- and Industry Association of New York, whieh somewhat corresponds to the Chamber ol Commerce in an ordinary sized city. His organization represented 3,500 companies and a million workers. He was born in a tene ment on Manhattan's East Side and knew the seamy -side of life. But as he grew older and suc cessful, he became known to his Iriend.v as a “whirling dervish with an itch" so great was his energy. Jeff had an 80-man staff with which to grapple with the many problems of the companies they represented. And hti was the busiest one of them ail. As for Thiir^davat working hard, he observed, “If jnursaay |,av-e to make a sacri fice for the thing you are doing, then it’s not worth doing." Jeff Commencement exercises for 27 require.^ so little sleep that he The Cox army will return to'ground well 509 West Mountain, their home, ® aroond the rorner from our '^“*’ four' or five grayish eggs, gRy-s future and of concern about jjng in First Presbyterian Church.,you people here think that arouna tne corner irom streaked with brown. When (present conditions, other leading house. Meantime, Stmool ^uper* house-keeping time arrives the citizens a^d businesses were in- intendent Don Jones army will stands guard. After the I solved in job-training program^ be occupying their new home on i hatch, this harlequin of the providing special job oppor- Maner road. I nipadows does his full share in tunitles to underprivileged and in evnmnle ,n.„ providing crickets, bugs and oth- making other efforts to raise the ^ciit er food. But ’ ' *- Carolina Throwing Company are filled with had an interesting visitor during son. In irrepressible, gleeful notes. Mayor Benton made the an- the past few days. Haywood the daisyfield musicians are part nouncement of the Reynolds’ gift Brooks had in tow Andre Auinout of the life surge of a new sea- at a time when several thousand Eugene Peramont, on Lyons, son. —Hartford Courant National Guardsmen were stand- France, when I was introduced. ; I pigeon. The nest Even before Reynolds, the I between Miss Shirley Elizabeth during this day." He cityslArthur and Dr. Robert Eugcne|jp]f| jf,,, people of his organiza- — ■— - ... — r. I iu»u iiu' t/i iii-y ui^aiu&a' IS usuaUy on tne major industry, made the grant Kinneman, Jr. Saturday evening! tion, "Everyone is looking for a concealed m (grasses, jjg expression of faith in theljn an eight o’clock formal wed I life. There is none. " ^ ^ ^*1- — -r- « exaniDie, since me leaerai won i . ne nas learneu uiat ikets, bugs an - maktag other efforts to raiM the additional | too many people make cxcu: h^rtT iov^nf the sea 1,000 units of public housing here. I regarding their background lIiKii ,^1 Jf. So far, not even a site for part of what they call lack of opportv THE ROOSTER ALSO CROWETH There was some difficulty in; communications, M. Peramont! the l.OOC units has been formally selected. Privately buUt, low-cost housing also is desperately need ed. And the ned is recognized by ing guard city government Only one project instruction. cities, when hundreds of tnous- wpvn ands of North Carolina’s urban! MAJOR EITORT 1 hard its leaders try, can't solve At this time of year families residents were under curfew re speaking little, if any, EfSHsh-! ^“l^*"jppide*'vac^aUon'planL ‘ will^on-Salpm was calm no' all the vb®" problems alone. In and Mr. Brooks speaking Rq,households in the arc I (jigorder, no Guard-smen. Many ^fort°m%rmet"he'tota’l "Sour^ I of cities from Boston to Manhat-1 attribute the difference there !tan will escape the emotional I static of the annual debate — Here, indeed, was a challenge.! they've become vacation home- if any, French. m-BB Though mv conversational French^ e^grs In Vermont, was never very good and had not been used to any extent in 251 'They’re important in that state. I stretched the memory jTheii vacation properties box and was able to pass in mu-: valued at $215 million, just no Guardsmen. entire coinmunity of the blight of ^Xine'llke r$i*mHlion gift the waste of racial something like a $1 million gift tne waste or racial gpq, this city to greater heights of achievement. UVA caiiv* kvaa vxp ... - - mn-sA setlUli; * tual understanding a few phrases! ing out farm holdings worth 5214. (-gt^jinians. poverty, of discrimination. Whatever the reason, Winston- Salem and its industrial leaders are setting an example for North with M. Peeramont. m-m He was here to install a ma chine Billy Mauney and Clhit Jol ly bought in Lyons some six months ago. Congratulations to Rusty Carpenter, new Ea^e ^out. Best wishes to Charles A. Neisler and James B. Harry, who have accepted Key jabs in the hospital tuRd<ralstng drive. m-m million, a^ the rate | Our suggestion last October is expected to double in the next charlotte could use its own decade. i urban Coalition brought an opin- •iTie predominantly rural pop-lion from Mayor Stan R. Brook-j ulation (240,000, versus 150,000 shire that the city had a suffi- urban in the last census) looks Iclent number of programs under askance at the influx of city folk j way to meet our needs. National- and their impact on the character i ly. an Urban Coalition (now head- and resources of the state. ed by former Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John W. Gardner) was formed following ^ rooster can do uarunc ; ...........B that Mrs. Dewitt Coiwell is " i crowing of his own. Another' last summer’s urban violence in tive trench and should meet her; ....nH t. under way j an effort to bring together top live rrenen ana snoiuu meci : yacation trend I' count^man, j which already is taking hold in j public and private minds and re that t^ mating was “Jrea y ' yg^njont—the farm vacation sources to work on the problems, ranged. Mrs. Cornwell was to serve as interpreter-when the in-[ The city-born and city-raised I . The city born and city-raised | winston^lem^^eo^ea the stallation work began Monday, ‘enjoy the change from Carolina city and one m-m 1 1 of the first in the nation to form I pigeons and 1 and finance its own local Urban A proficiency at languagesj zoo beasts to pattable barnyard , f-^ntien. 'The difference between must require either early-age ex- kittens and cows. | Winston-Salem and Charlotte (In Last year 10C,(X)0 city people, addition to the $1 million gift) is Stayed at 35,000 United States involvement of all levels of com- larms. They found the old-fash ioned, open-cookie-jar hoepitallty probably the least expensive ya- posure or an especial talent. \^en neighbor George Wilson was playing baseball in Japan, daughter Kelly, about 30 months, was" playing with her little Jap- inese friends. Some difficulty was posed for George and Nancy zfter their return to the USA. Kelly would address them in Jap anese and they were lo»i- mtmity leadership in the broad anti-poverty effort. Charlotte has done much, and cation next to camping or staying j much of the leadership for the at home. Still the United States accomplishments has come from I had studied French, while a Casabianoa roommate hadn’t. In; Department of Agriculture esti mates they spent several million dollars. This supplemental income for farmers who take summer guests is 1970. City Hall and specifically from Mayor Brookshire tn recent yepn. This is especially the case in race — mlatlons; some results of that expected To" triple by work surely contributed to rela- I tively low level of distribances . here in the past week. thre weeks he was conversing! The thrifty Vermonter can thus gqt publicly and privately, brightly with the French, comfort in the longtogj jg t^o prevalent an attitude anlv aid at SOOwozd Engliah-U**"®®® giving his,aq,qng much of Charlotte'* bori- Rlnch “ ! «»•" JS532 Sij; “ KEEP TOUR RAOIODIAL SET AT 1220 WK Kings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather eretf hour on the hour. Weather every hour on th# half hour. Fine entertainment in betwevn Tl rs lor yet anoiner overseas, ,^1, buff hues on hisi^* white and Negro leadership Bethware high school seniors w... oiten i.« up to waten me sun- porl ot call — Vietnam — in early and a natch of white on his *°S®^*'®'’ attack on bad, begin Sunday night with the bat-; fjgp He feels that then he is summer. 1 shoulders 'The males arrive a unemployment and bad | j-ajaureate sermon to be deliver-, ..alone In God’s sight and is in- shouiders. The m^es arrive Norman F. Brown.l gj„nificant m-m Li i? u^attlr the Matter! A lot of cities are operating pastor of Bethlehem Baptist. * ... * * and it 1$ after t e ^ anti-poverty progn^ams, Charlotte church • ^ -—3——— AiOng with the press release arrive thaf the exuberarit ' amow them. Few have obtained' V. came bob’s periodic news letter begins. Across the fields and of community involve- Candidates were stirring this Although Jeffs pace has slowed on “Cox's army”, which, he meadows the males dash ment that exists in Winston-1 week, with voting day in the down somewhat, he still keeps ■writes, “continues to move to-1 and yon, pouring out torrents of | involvement that was biennial Democratic Primary only, busy helping the city and worth- ward that great day when we! song. Sometimes when a male is; jq tJnys away. while organizatien.s. A habit of can ;d that great day wnen we song. Sometimes 'wnen a “: stepped up sharply after the city; 10 days away, retire to the great state of I courting his lady love, he Ugnts-disorder last Di-oenv-sr i ®a®'’ ‘*uy out with North Carolina and the good life on the ground, spreads his tail,; . .. | SOCIAL anu al g prayer in which he says, “I ask in Kings Mountain”. I and drags it in the manner of a j MANY AT WORK I Marriage vows^ere exchanged | fp|. humility, compassion and i work is a pleasure, you will have I a lot of fun in this organization.” leave it all to City Hail. I Jeff believes that the word “can’t” Nearly two years have passed, j is a myth whose real name is since the federal; “won’t”. He has learned that all excuses or opportun ity, when in reality, they are simply looking for an excuse. One of the real missions in the life of Thomas Jefferson Miley is to help the physically handicap ped. He has had firsthand ex perience with this because his .son, Tom, Jr. became paralyzed from the waist down during World War II. Now the father through his wide business con tacts has feund jobs for more .500 disabled persons. For this, he has received the thanks not only of the crippled them- i selves but from grateful public —•The Charlotte Obsemr officials and heads of hospitals
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