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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Thursday. June 6. 1968
Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Heiald
A weeldy nowspapcr dovotod to tho 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 cla.ss matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C, 28086
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873.
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Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher
Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Joe Cornwell Sports Editor
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Blessed are the undefiled in the lean, who walk in the law of the Lord.
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WESTERN SHOOT-OUT
Br MARTIN HARMON
The many voters who stayed
home in Saturday’s run-off pri
maries may have done them
selves a disservice in not exerci
sing their privilege of the ballot,
the candidates they would have
supported a di^rvlce by lower
ing their favorites’ vote total, but
they did the election officials a
considerable .service by easing the
chore of vote tabulations.
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Psa/ni 119:1.
In the two Kings Mountain pre
cincts, 1566 voted on May 4. On
June 1, only 315 returned to the
polls in the two large precincts
where 'more than 3400 are regis
tered. Returned may be an Im
proper word. My father didn't
vote on May 4 but dropped one
in on Saturday.
Voting Post-Mortem
A lady asked Saturday, “Isn’t really
important that I vote?’’
“Well, pretty important. Not many
people are and the less the vote total the
more important your vote.”
The results of Saturday’s Democrat
ic run-off tend to prove the contention.
Only slightly more than half of the
voters in Cleveland County’s first pri
mary May 4 returned to vote on June I
(and the May 4 total was puny in com
parison to registrations).
The run-off primary assures:
1) A three-to-two majority of new
members on the county board of com
missioners, and
2) A minimum of four members on
county board of education.
Due to light vote or not, the May 4
leaders in both races became the June 1
trailers.
Certainly the supporters of the in
cumbents gardened, mowed lawns, or
went fishing on the recent Saturday.
It is axiomatic that an administra
tion which stays in long enough will
eventually be pastured, sometimes due
to situations beyond control, such a.s
gymnasium roof cave-ins, sometimes be
cause the voters are in the mood tor a
cfhange, as seems to be the instance with
the county commission.
Commiserations to the losers, con
gratulations to the winners and best
wishes tor success to these winners in
discharge of their responsibilities.
Chairman Ware
Cameron Ware is the first Kings
Mountain area Democrat elected county
chairman in many years, if ever there
was one.
This area has had a few state sena
tors, state representatives, and county
commissioners, but not a county Demo
cratic chairman.
This is the memory of S. A. Crouse,
age 80, and long interested in matters
political in Cleveland County.
Local aiea Democrats not only are
pleased at the honor to the area but feel
that Chairman Ware will do an effective
job in mobilizing Democratic forces.
He has the energy, the background,
and the interest to manage the party
well.
His allegiance to the party and its
principles is legend.
His election, of course, reflects the
spirit of harmony prevailing at the coun
ty convention, when the honors were di
vided between opposing forces of Bob
Scott and Mel Broughton.
Mr. Ware supported Scott, had no
difficulty communicating with the coun
ty’s Bi’oughton supporters, who tailed to
carry Cleveland for their candidate by a
small margin.
Banned By Indirection?
Monday’s ruling by the Supreme
Court may have sounded the death knell
to capital punishment in the United
States.
Specifically, ruled the Court in a
five-to-four split decision, a prospective
juror cannot be challenged in a capital
case simply because he tells the court of
jurisdiction that he opposes capital pun
ishment.
151 lob Candidates
A total of 151 high school and col
lege students have filed applications for
summei’ jobs.
Now the gonfalon is thrown to com
merce and industry.
For some businesses, where skills
are less important, summer applicants
are welcome, to spell regular employees
during vacation season and for peak busi
ness periods.
In skilled job situations, the problem
is greater. Overseers and superintendents
naturally lean to a prospective employee,
including a trainee, who, if he learns,
gives promise of staying with his job.
However, with the currently tight
labor market, it would seem that indus
try would jump at the chance to start
industrial job applicants on the learning
process. Turnover, one superintendent re
ports, is worse than he’s ever seen it, in
cluding the labor-short days of World
War II.
Long Cold Winter
City natural gas sales are now esti
mated for the year ending June 30 at
$541,531 — just $119,118 more than the
city expected to sell for the current fiscal
year.
Of course, the estimate is quite firm
as the estimate was compiled after 11
months worth of natural gas business
was on the books.
The increased sales are attributable
to 1) more gas customers, 2) increased
industrial usage, and 3) the long cold
winter.
Since a great amount of city gas
sales are attributable to heating custo
mers, the heavy increase reflects the
temperatures prevailing during the pre
vious winter.
On basis of amended budget esti
mates, the city will gross this fiscal year
$1,927,955.
Since ad valorem taxes provide only
some $200,000 of the total it can be seen
that Mayor John Henry Moss’ contention,
“We’re utility salesmen not tax collec
tors,” is more poetry than verse.
It was happy foresight the Kings
Mountain forefathers of 1903-08 had
when they put the city in the power sell
ing business.
And it was happy foresight when the
administrations of 1951-55 put the city
in the natural gas selling business.
These profit-making city enterprises
are responsible for many city improve
ments and a low ad valoi’em tax rate.
A best bow to Avery (Mack) Mur
ray, Woodman of the Year.
Other congratulations to: Beverly
Willis, elected president of Women’s
House Government at Western Carolina;
Reg Alexander, elected editor of the stu
dent newspaper at Gardner-Webb col
lege; and Billy Miles Williams, recipient
of a valuable scholarship to the Univer
sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Expensive Votes
There is a growing movement to ban
capital punishment at state level. North
Carolina’s General Assembly rejected
such a proposal in the recent session, but
the vote was close.
Nominally, prosecuting and defense
attorneys have a specific number of pre-
emptory challenges via which they can
refuse to seat a juror for not liking the
-way he parts his hair. But it is likely
Mecklenburg County had a lone run
off Saturday — between Robert V. Som
ers, the winner, and Larry Zimmerman,
losing challenger, for the Republican
nomination for United States Senate.
The Charlotte Observer did some
penciling and found that each vote cost
Mecklenburg’s treasury approximately
$8.
Same situation occurred in all the
KXI counties where other run-offs were
not.
The difference was consider
able. On May 1. West Kings
Mountain officials and counting
aides completed the work exact
ly at the stroke of midnight. Last
Saturday, with short tickets and
light vote, close-up time was a
mere 7:20.
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NEWYOBK
By NORTH CALLAHAN
There are still plenty of dis-
tinguislied people here but gome
times it seems that they are not
as original and funny 'and daring
with it as some of the old-timers.
Take the late Robert Benchlcy,
for example. Staid bankers were
often baffled by the gay little
messages the humorist wrote
when he endorsed the back of a
chock. Such as "Dear Banker’s
Trust, I love you. Bob." Or “Hav
ing wonderful time, wish you
were here. Robert Rabbit Bench-
ley." Once when living in a sub
urb. he asked a local bank for a
loan and it was given to him
without question. After thinking
about it overnight, he withdrew
all his savings 'from the bank
the next morning. "I don’t trust
a bank,’’ he explained, “that
would lend money to such a poor
risk."
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The Kings Mountain record, of
course, remains the general elec
tion of 1960, when it was ruled
that all persons in line to vote
at 6:30 p.m. deadline would be
permitted to vote, kept the vot
ing going an extra three hours
or more before the counting could
begin. It was an all-night chore,
Mrs. J. H. Arthur, the registrar
recalls, which meant something
more than an eight-hour day.
Viewpoints of Other Editors
REAL (ESTATE) VALUE
The Taos Pueblo Indians of
New Mexico are in touch with
the times. They have just receiv
ed 48,000 acres of land in the
Carson National Forest. Tliey did
so through turning down an of
fer for money instead. Although
HEARING FROM
THE CONSTITUENTS
Almost everybody is against an
increase in Federal taxes, riglit?
Well, it depends on which Con
gressman’s latest poll of his con
stituents you read. And it also
depends on how the poll’s ques
tions on taxes are worded.
A number of Congressmen
j one of the Indians’ reasons for
! their decision was that the land hep., inserting in the Con
The improved registration sys- i religiously holy to them, giessional Record tho results of
tern will assure in the future that ffiey „„ more than millions, jhoir springtime polls of their
there will be no long queues, but I of Americans are doing today i poostituents” and for the most
it doesn't solve the counting prob-I ^tjpjj they buy a beautiful bit of; pgr, ,t,p reaction to any pro-
lem when the ballots are loaded I ignj ^long the shore, in the ppgpd tax increase is about what
with candidates. I hills, over-looking a lake, or in you would expect: Most voters
the woods.
1 are against it.
10
YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
Items of ncu-'s about Kings
Mountain area people and
et:enis taken from the 1961
files of the Kings Mountain
Herald.
Riding on a bus down 5th Ave-^
nue, I noticed on one of the ad
vertisement spaces, the following
.vise words from Henry David
Thorcau’s fine book "Walden
Pond.” "When a man has obtain
ed those things which arc neces
sary to life, there is another al
ternative than to obtain the super
fluities, and that is, to adventure
on life now. Why has man rooted
himself thus firmly in the earth,
but that he may rise in the same
proportion into t h e heavens
above."
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Irving Stone, the notetl autiior.
is often complimented on his
large vocabulary. In his novels
which depict life from Italy to
the American Revolution, he ex
presses himself so vividly that
even tho casual reader is some
times aware of the beauty and
variety of the words which have
been selected to convey the writ
er’s meaning. When a.sked not
long ago how he acquired such
a command of the English lang-
Kings Mountain high school uage, Stone replied, "I hardly
presented diplomas to 164 seniors ’ know. I suppose it is from read-
Monday night. It was a record, lug."
sized graduation class and first |
time in history Kings Mountain |
high school has ever graduated Before the turn of tho century,
a class of 100 members. | many European immigrants came
Sue Jean Wright was present-} to this epuntry, poor and inex-
I
An outst^ding STCial pheno- “Do you support the Adminis-1 ed the coveted Plonk Scholarship perienced except for common
I helped with the tallying
West Kings Mountain at both j
t^a!rTOuw‘’have"bee*n'i‘mprol!^d^ ' are now paying prices for land, ^.ons,i,uents p„iiod by Rep. Dan
OnThefimtballOting, Mrs Gerry.'^htch would have seemed a.s- Kuykendall iR., Tonn.t. oSv; are
these cases.
The Observer suggests many Repub
licans felt they were voting to choose a
Iamb for Senator Sam Ervin’s November
slaughter.
Gi-f
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tronomical a decade ago.
I oposed to a 10',! income tax sur-
, ipparently,
noon concerning his decision on “My folks were immigrants and
calling a run-off for the District! they fell under the spell of the
II county commission nomina-'American legend that the streets
J ->« aivifiori i so uuwii aiiu t-iijujf o'.'f eaeiai spending,
and Mrs. Orangel Joiiy ai\laea j should he not be willinj to! However, when Rep. Florcnccj SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
caller duties. ; same fora lot which eanjowycr IR., N.J.) asked in hori Eleven Kings Mountain
Igive him equal pleasure? poll, “Do you believe a Federal will be among the Sub-Debutantes
j Why not, indeed? The Taos In-1 tax will be needed in 1968?’’, presented to society at the Junior
’dians recognize that there arel45,@(; voted “Yes" and only Charity Ig?ague’s 13th annual
The Republican counting was’values which cannot be measured, 37voted “No." And this from'ball in Shelby Saturday night.-
short and sweet on both occa- in mere money. One of these isjg strongly Republican Congres- They are Becky Thornb'jrg, Re-j Hcarin
sions particularly at Primary an exquisite piece of nature. In: sjonal district. | becca RoHins, Polly Page, Ruth] beautiful
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streets were not paved with gold;
!ji,jg I the streets wore not even paved.
He was supposed to do the pav
ing."
Hearing again the hauntingly
song. "My Wonderful
No. 2. In the West box, a Mr. j this an increasing number of Am-! plainly Rep. Dwyer’s quos- McCurdy. Georganna Moss, Shcr.(One’’, I was reminded of its com-
Spicer and Bob Manor joined j ericans agree with them. ; tion is not the same as asking.
Judge Dorus Littlejohn in cast-| —ChrUtUin Seienee Monitor “Do you favor a tax increase in
ing GOP ballots. In the East box, I | 1968?" Had her question been 1 ler and Mikie White.
Judge Janice Glass was joinedj HOLIDAY HUMOR [phrased differently the negative
in the GOP action by Husband
Harold a,ad'the father-son teamj
ry Kelley, Anne Falls, Phyllis 1 poser, the late Paul Whiteman
Dean, Judy Cooper, Diane Cans-j who in the younger days of my
ON CAPITOL HILL i response might well have moved! familiar trademark of a Hep-
A bill that would move three; into the O'A to 670'/; area of worth is that it is often pierced
of Ed A. and Ed H- Smith. Now'national holidays to Monday and most other Congressional ques-j by holes—much like her country-
who was the outlander voting for ^ would create a new one-Colum-
Somers?
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tionnaires. ' man Henry Moore’s sculptures,
As is evident, not only are: though his arc of human forms,
questions on the same subject How does this fragile chip of
worded differently from poll to a woman (she doesn’t weigh a
bus Day—has been passed by tho
i House after a florid debate that
} filled 27 pages of the Congres-
A. .1,„ W Mrc Thn.r,as'sional Record. And inspired some! poll, but not all pols touch on, hundred pounds) keep up the
At the west box, Mrs. in mas at humor which were'the same issues. For instance,, daylong exertion of whanging at
At Fast i rather weak even by Congression-. Reps. Dwyer and Brown were] stone? The energy seems to come
^triCKtHUd WHS triG ISSt. At lliHSlt tho fciw lo(T1slfttr»V*e wHfll fr/irv» QM Inviftr.mtl-nv anroamanfr
Mrs. Ruth Thomasson voted first i al standards
and Mr. and Mrs. Plato Heaven-1 .For instance, Rep. Roman Pu-
,1,. 1... ml„»»
oreakers.
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among the few legislators wholfrom an inner-outer agreement
asked if their constituents would j between what she thinks and
supnort Federal wage and price j does.
day holiday’ bill in general and controls as a means o' controll-1 “It's not .strength,” she was
I of a Monday Columbus Day in'ing inflation. Here 5.5',f of Rep. quoted recently in New.sweek. “It’s
i particjlar, said that he wanted Dwver’s constituents, snd 52.8''/, rhythm. The strokes of the ham-
I the House to know that when 1 of Reo. Brown’s, voted “Yes." If . mer on the chisel have to be in
With puny business, Ruth Columbus arrived and was greet-! that is a national, and not iust time with your heartbeat or Dulse.
Thomasson, a next-door neighbor Indians "he was very' lonal. sentiment it suggests that -=-‘
when I was a youngster, was overborne when the Indian chief 'a lot of con.stituents cnnid be-e-jian Science Monitor.
reminiscing about a birthday par-, Columbus that he was the fk ffum some education in the|
y of mine (was it age four?), ^0^,0 ^ere to, economic perils of controls. I
She had dressed her eldest son. genie permanently.’’ ' Given the changeability of hu-
Charles, Jr., handsomely in a| "Columbus," continued the H- man beings, any polls are of lim-
white linen suit and charged. Bnois Democrat, "was deeply! ited significance. But the Con-
lim firmly to keep clean. She, utoved and said. ’Thank you very' ttressional poll-taking might 1^.
passed by the kid-filled yard once,| But I am somewhat puz-]more useful if the law-makers]
loticed Charles standing beside a; because if I am the firsflsot together on their questionsj
tree. When the party was over,! gg^le here . . . whol matter how unsettling
ihe asked him if hed had a good g|*0 those white people up there some of the resnon^es naieht be.
ime. “No, I didn’t,’’ was the re-iagajngt j^e mountain?’ The In-} —Wall Street Journal
:ly.’’ you told me not to get dir- (jjgjj looked back and said, ‘Oh,. TOUR DE COEUR i
ty." He hadn’t. ' those are our good Polish friends]
'who come hero every year to. Much is gratifying about thej
1 pick mushroo.-ns.’ " retro.spective showing given Dame j
With 20 of 28 precincts in, the After a lot more of that the Barbara Hepwerth’s .sculpture at
eault was fairly well apparent, bill- which would affect only the the Tate Gallery in London. Not
ihere would not be sufficient District of Columbia and Fed- only Is she still carving impres-!
votes in the remaining eight lot -eral employes, but wo. id proh- give works (she was already welH
he trailers to make up the dif-,ably be followed by the states known in the ’OT’s), but she is
’erence. jit it becomes law—was passed.|gtni generating a simple but ln-|
The Senate, for its part, may tense dedication to sculpture that ‘
I agree with Rep. Thomas Meskill continues to dtaw vounger artists'
Bobby Cabiness the county Connecticut that the bill is "t to her studio at St. Ives on the
>oard of education’member, must] legislative rarity: It will improve coast of Cornwall.
* a candidate along with Mrs.I •I'® '“1 all our cihzens, smooth, in this age ol violent angulari-
Cline Borders and Mrs. Maryil'^e paths of commerce, bone'itj ties. Dame Barbara’s work reflects
roll Barrier for the stars of the 'll® working man . . . and will the smooth harmony of natural
Neveiai^d primaries. i '^® Government a pen-1 forms. The Impulse for her sculp- |
^ ny." Or it may agree with Flor-] ture comes from the small objects |
m-m Ida’s Rep. James Haley that "itjd nature such as the ruttingsofi
„ , , u—t'ls one of the most ridiculous shells, the knobs and planes of
CsbuiMs is the lone Incumbeiit brought, bones; and from large obiccts—1
3f eight to wnn renominatlon.. before the Contress." I the abstract shapes of hills and !
Mrs Borders j’®'" 1 Certainly a lot of woiking peo-i shorelines, water corrugated by!
to all other candidates for county pj^ pj regular and, waves'. I
office in the first primary and three-day holidays, especial-i Her abstract sculpture is serene,!
Mrs. Barrier did the same in the jy [j they do not mind risking] ihoughtful, but strong. She works*
I 'heir necks on the highways. Andj bronze, wood, stone. The most
_ _ , if the Monday holiday bill is the
generation was aptly known as
the "King of Jazz”. A rot'.ind. ge
nial individual with thin, dark
hair th.at swept back from his
forehead and a little slender bladt
mustache which became a trade
mark, Whiteman for years al
most dominated the world of
American popular music. Bing
Crosby sang with him as a mem
ber of a trio. George Gershwin
played the piano and composerl
his memorable melodies, especial
ly the ambitious "Rhapsody in
Blue’’ which Whiteman played
with a huge orehestra and thus
helped to make the composer and
him.self more famous. 'The piece,
“My Wonderful One" was written'
for Whiteman’s first wife, Julie,
— Christ-i and it was sung at the weddin ;
'of lil.s daughter of the same name.
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, forstui^tr of a reform of our', and those feeble jests will have
Can one safely wager on more'untidy calendar, maybe al] that! been worth while,
voter interest come November? Ciongreiisional long - windedness —Wall Street Journal
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