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Page 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, August 8, 1968 Established 1889 ./TbhScwsiiiaj nro. The Kings Mountain Herald A weekly newspaper devoted 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 mutter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C, 2808fi under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publi.sher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Linda Hardin Clerk MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dave Weathers, Supt. ‘Alien Myers Rocky Martin Steve Martin •On leave with the United States Anny Fred Br^ll Paul Jackson Roger Brown SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR... .SS-.W SIX MONTHS... .*2.00 THREE .MONTHS... .*1.23 PLUS NORTH CAROUNA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE The wicked arc ovecthrmcn, and are not: but the howte o/ the hard .than Kiitnd. Prnverhi i2:t- Likes Attract The folklore saying that like.s at tract likes gains proof in industry, aug mented evidence being .supplied by Ihc High Point-l,enoir-Morganton centers of furniture manufacture. Then there is the Piedmont belt of textile manufacture. Not only do likes attract, industry of particular types attract suppliers, as well as service industries. Twenty yea'rs ago a textile friend here commented on the heavy incidence of machine shops in the Gastonia area. He said, “You can got anything made you want in the way of machinery parts in Gastonia if you know where to go.’’ The dcci.sion of the Kinder Company, manufacturers of dinettes and bedding, catering to the trailer and camper build ers, to locate in this area was ba.scd, un doubtedly, on the same logic Alcan Aluminum Company employed: “Go where the customers arc.” Alcan’s president said in December there are 30 trailer and mobile home builders within a 100-mile radius of Kings Mountain. Likely there are more now and more coming, one being the Richard.son Company, locating at Shelby. Kinder’s decision to come to Kings Mountain, rather than to other commu nities nearby, was based on both tangi bles and intangibles. The competing communities were lairly evenly balanced in physical attributes, but Kinder was a bit suspicious of “gift horses” — such as free land and, moreso, free taxes. The rest was interest of the Kings Mountain folk with whom Kinder was dealing — the mayor’s industry committee, the city officials who promptly gave answers to questions about services, individual and uninvolved citizens with whom Kin der officials came in contact. Kinder is a respected manufacturer, already making its wares in eight other cities. A cordial welcome to the Kinder Company. Statement Analysis Few folk other than accountants and business executives enjoy analyzing statements of operations. ----..Sometimes, however, such analysis can pfbVe-as intriguing as a fast hand of bridge. Case in point is the recent compara tive statement of collections for the month of July i.ssued by State Revenue Commissioner I. L. Clayton. His general fund total for July 1968 looks quite in order, showing an over-all increase of 9.64 percent. Inheritance tax was off, but that varies with the work of the mortician. Income tax was up a whopping !S5 million, and the sales and use tax was up $1.8 million. Joker in the deck, though was a .95 percent decline in the receipts from the gasoline division, and with all that traf fic. Is someone bootlegging gas from low tax states into North Carolina as some North Carolina cigarettes get bootlegged into New York? The monthly report of Ralph How land, commissioner of motor vehicles, is interesting, too. The highway fund is up by nearly 25 percent and reflects the fine sales year auto dealers in the state are experiencing. The driver license fund is up 52 percent indicating 1) more teen ers are reaching the magic age of 16, and 2) more folk are less inclined to take lib erties such as driving without licenses. And the personalized license plate reve nue w«s up over nine percent. For ten dollars, an ordinary guy can be in higher cotton than a state senator. The guy’s name sticks out, bold as you please. The senator sports only a number. Other mo torists still must guess g ho he is. Fun At Miami Florida Governor Claude Kirk (R) had his troubles with the .school teachers of his state but the .scars showed not at all in his Chamber of Commerce-type pitch about Miami as the “Convention City of the World.” Listing the many major conventions for which Miami had been host, the Gov ernor declared that the Democrats al ready had made a major mistake choos ing Chicago over his own Miami. Maybe .... Certainly laymen choked a bit, per haps some delegates, too, when they con templated $50 per day quarters at the .swank hotels, $9 and up dinners, and $1.45 beer (non-imported, non-king size). Then there is the poor fellow caught by the television camera. He was in his cups to the point he was tired and decid ed to sit down and rest—on the crowded ballroom floor. “If his wife saw it,” a local citizen said, “he’d better stay in Miami. A half- century a night would be cheap.” Rough Chore Phin Horton, the retiring Shelby city manager who soon dons the same mantle of responsibility at Asheville in the “Land of the Sky” could wish he were back in Shelby. Mr. Horton will find at Asheville a very high water rate schedule, very high tax rate, and city services which leave much to be desired. Garbage pick-up schedule for resi dences is once weekly and there’s no city toting from the back of the house. It’s the occupant’s duty to get the stuff to the curb and to return the empties to their former resting places. This would create some considerable problems as the garbage can population would leave little raom in few backyards for cookouts, badminton, and the other delights of outdoor living at home. Mr. Horton, of course, is well-equipp ed to alleviate these problems. He’s a “pro” in city management, as his father is a “pro” in the equine field. He studied city management at the Wharton school, gained invaluable experience at Moores- ville before going to Shelby. Public Works, Local It would require some digging into the records to determine major public works projects in Kings Mountain in the past, but there is no question that the various projects add to the largest in history. Quick penciling revealed that under way, or soon to be underway, are seven projects with a combined outlay of $9.27 millions. ’i;hat’s a pretty heady figure for a community of Kings Mountain’s size. They are: Sewer extension, renovation and ex- pansion$1.3 million (underway). Water system $3.38 million. Low-rent public housing $2.44 mil lion. Neighborhood facilities building $.45 million. Cansler street widening $.3 million. York road improvement $.55 million. Kings Mountain hospital addition $.85 million. In the offing are the nursing and convalescent center (private) $.5 million, the U. S. 74 by-pass $7.3 million, and fed eral-local share projects for which appli cations are pending approval $2 million. But as heady as the nionetary fig ures are, they’re the least important of the whole. Each of the projects in hand and those in the offing are badly needed fa cilities which, when fact, will benefit ma terially not only the whole of Kings Mountain’s populace, but great numbers of our neighbors and friends coming to visit or merely passing through. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By MARTIN HARMON GOP Convention As Seen By Southern Democrat A stranger visited the HeraW Saturday and thereby I learned a bit of history about Kings Mountain 1 never knew before. 6^' “I wonder if you could help me,” Mr. Coward, of Washington, D. C.. .said. "In the fall of 1931, I un veiled a monument here to my grandfather, Colonel Asbury Cow ard, but I don't know where the monument is end would like to find it." m KINGS MOUNTAIN Hospital Log VlSiriNO HOURS 3 to 4 p.m. ond 7 to 8 pjn, DaUy 10:30 To 11:30 oju. *1 N.Y m m-m Col. Coward’s claim to Kings i Mountain fame, his grandson add i ed, was that he was co-fou);der) with General Micah Jenkins of thej Kings Mountain Military Acade my sometime during the 1850’s. | m m-m / This was quite new news to me, for the first school in these part-s with which I was acquainted was the school operated by Captain W. T. R. Bell. Grandson Coward's story con tinued .... fhCK a When the South seceded and the War Between the States began, caommandant, faculty and stu dents of the Kings Mountain Mili tary Academy donned the gray and marched off to honor the Stars and Bars of the Confederate States of America in that interne cine conflict. /// Hero Without Ballyhoo Viewpoints of Other Editors DISTAFF DEEDS WHIZ KIDS' FANCY I The ot Ai« "-.I General Jenkins was killed in: grocer - circumnavigator, befitted^ ’ tinkereis DaVinci was action, but Col. Coward returned the tone of the entire adventure., equally after the war to re-organize the i It took place in « P”vate cere-j paining and drawing and school. After a time. Col. Coward mony attended only by Qooe" "n "rray of mechanical devices, as summoned to his and Gen.: Elizabeth, P"nce Philip and Mr ^ recognize Ml. Dalton Alexander Nirs. Johnathon Boheler MVS. Jami's Dellinger Mis. Sally Early Mrs. Mamie Forsythe Mr. J. N. Gamble Ml. Amo.s Hamm Mr. .M. L. Harmon Mrs. Sidney Huffstetler Mrs. Homer Kilgore Mr. William H. Moss Mrs. William Pryor Mrs. Ida Smith Mr. Garland .Still Mrs. Mattie Wise Mrs. Paul A. Byers Mrs. F. W. Bryant Larry Camp Mrs. George Carroll Mrs. Dora Emery Mr.s. .Maude England Mrs. Carmel Honeycutt Mrs. George Hord Mr. William Houser Mrs. Florence Lynn .Mr. John H. Mitcham .Mrs. Robc-rl .Moses Mr. William Parrish, Jr. Mrs. Christine Rector Mrs. Paul Sanders Mrs. Emaline Scoggins Mr. Curtis Thompson Mrs. Gladys Timms Mrs. Cleo Van Dyke Mr. Willis Glenn White .Mis. Geraldine Williams Mrs. Florence Wll.sori Mrs. Clara Wright )) ADMITTED THURSDAr Mr.s. Ann Herndon, Grover. Mr. Ben Franklin Sessoms, Jr., 498 Bridges Dr. admitted FRIDAY Mrs. Mary Johnson. Route 1. ADMITTEE SATURDAY .Mr. Ed Adams, Route 1, Grover. Mrs. Mattie Melton, .'514 E. \’ir ginia Ave., Bessemer City. Mr.s-. Virgie Cole, 908 Grace St. Mr. Stanley McEntire, 822 N. Piedmont Ave. Mrs. Edwin Dyer, Box 188. Mrs. Lewis Sorrells. Route 1. 113 S. wa.s suiu.noncu a..u - ----- -recognize Thirteen women, serving as Jenkins alma mater to serve | r,.as a scientist s bc-nt for detail, 1 nutrition instructors are working JOINT EFFORT Scotland County’s nutrition 13piniont. program, designed to aid L>w-| Mp-. Jouthroe Toaster, income families who are food: Qa^ton St. stamp recipients, is well under-j jyirs. Ray Bingham, 270 Ruelt way. Thirteen women, serving aslgt ^ Dallas. commandant dockside snectacle of Sir Francis , a scientists bc-nt lor aetaii, 1 nutrition instructors are working| -„„T>av Chichester’rkniehtinL'-i vear O'O though his painstaking drawings 1 26O families participating ADMITTXD SUNDAY ! wUn^ld by rJfuhirodes^! " ’'and etchings show he was more, the Food Stamp program. I Mrs. Thomas Ear Early, .309 -Mar- the impression also unveiled to Gen. Jenkins. Interested in the world of naluto, jn charge of the nutrition class-1 grace. Understatement, and a winning I than the laboratory. j ps is Mrs. Ann Braswell, home economics Extension agent Grandson Coward was under humility, have given a unique i .Rut never before has the scion- le impression a monument was grapp to Sir Alec’s triumph of eii- i tific mind staked out so large a during 320 days alone at .sea on ' room for itself in the world of board a secondhand 37-foot boat, art as it has recently. It’s often It is reported, tor example, that a noisy room, baffling to many, when asked by the Queen if he laughable to others. It isn’t, how- I stretched the imagination to had enjoyed the trip, he replied, pyer, a room that’s going to be envision some more ripe Kings Mountain citizen who might re call the monument unveiling. It was Coward himself who wonder- Yes, Ma’am, very slow.” although It was ; vacated soon. Opening this August in London, for example, is an exhibition of electronics age _ art called ’’Cy- This program is a joint efforl of the Scotland County Welfare, Scotland County Extension Serv ice, Tri-County Community in Ac tion and the Consumer Marketing Service for the U. S. Department of Agriculture. ATTRACTIVE SURROUNDINGS “Interest in attractive surround ings is keeping pace with the ed whether the monument might I remembered by many the long^l Serendipity-” It will. many new homes being built in be in the Kings Mountain Nation-1 feature computer-created pictures, Edgecombe County," notes Mrs. al Military Park area. ! turnout of 200,000 clieenng spt-e- verso; electronics-run art 1 Hazel S. Parker, home economics ' la tors as he entered his homo .1,^. ponstructions that Extension agent. ! harbor at Portsmouth, England.] ‘ ^ viewer’s acts or to' Educational information after his 28,500-mile voyage. pj,3^gps [through the county Extension He dialed the park, told the park attendant his problem. “Yes,” came the reply, "there is a monu ment here to Col. Asbury Cow ard.” There was none in the park area to Gen. Jenkins. ter spending 25 minutes below deck freshing up so he would be jr^oi^-rbeek, an Alicia Patterson! ministration has encouraged new more presentable, he said, "It j fpiiow' describes the showi builders to landscape and beau- makes one feel rather humble: ^ ^ j,pt„,een what [ tifv their home grounds, she that everyone wants to congrat- ^ tho -two cul- adds. Ilflliai - advance report. Stephen; pregram and Farmers Home Ad- m-ffl Visitor Coward, en route the Sandhills from the mountains, headed his auto parkward. I re gretted another engagement pre vented my accompanying him. I want to see the monument and read its inscription. Principally, however, I want to learn more about that Kings Mountain Mili tary Academy, of which I’d never heard. CP Snow called the "two cul- adds, uate you, when you know you,^; ^ , science and art. He dc-i aince 90 per cent of the now have achieved nothing except!‘uies 1 what you set your mind to a long, * , ■•almost objec-1 structed for low-income families, time ago.” ] of seien- this is a desirable trend,” Mr.s. That lino made many a heart! tific research than in the I noiNC catch a moment. It made many 1 traditional spirit of the artist ,! _ , nncinw Gastonia, think of voyages of their own | rooted in the literary 1 have i lihnrv thev ean’hel Porter, Route 1, Grover, that they have not yet set out on, that carried over from the , ■ Y Y yjrs. Lawrence Adams, 48.311 or concluded—a book to be writ-; trial revolution, who tended ^ Margrace Rd. ten, perhaps, or a house of one’s: regard mechanistic techriology as | location Extension "' own. And it renewed the faith of nphiimanizing toi • - Mrs. E. E. McMurray, Route 1. Grover. Mr. Glenn Smith, Route 2. Mrs. William F. Beam, 103 S. Kenwood Ave., Chcrryvillc. Mrs. Guy Carlon, Route 3. Sliel- by- ADMITTEE MONDAY Mr. Raymond Joy, 603 Landin St. Mrs. Earl Huffman, Route 2, Bes semer City. Mr.s. Carl Strange, 105 Felter Si., Shelby. Mrs. Billy Charles Ballard, 109 Beech St. Mr.s. Billy Crowthers, 211 Oak land Dr., Lowell. Howard Hawks, Route 3. Mrs. Eula Falls, Route 1. Mrs. Eugene Machowicz, 90G Sherwood Lane. Mrs. Tony Jenkin.s, Grover. Mrs. Charlie Powell, 602'-! Plie- nix St. ID ADMITTED TUESDAY Mrs. George Brice, 615 W. Brarl- many in the power of humble persistence toward a worthy goal. —The Christian Science Monitor I would also like to learn more about the careers of Col. Coward and Gen. Jenkins and presume .some help might be gleaned from Hie Citadel. m-m I like to delve into the event.s and individuals of past years. What caused the events and what propelled the individuals to do what they did? Certainly, the eo founders of Kings Mountain Mili tary Academy couldn’t have been prompted to open their school for monetary gain for there weren’t enough people here. Unless my in formation is faulty, Bobby Falb' store was the principal (and abou* the only) Kings Mountain retail enterprise in the late 1860’s. m-m There’ll be some delving into 'he past (and repast) Sunday al 'he annual reunion of the McGills of Gaston. m-m One program suggestion was tc invile members of the clan to re 'ate the most witty happening they remembered at a McGills of Gaston reunion. m-m Mine came to mind quidtiy. A few years ago. President Ned Me Gill was completing business at hand. The succulent food was on the table and a big cat sprang aboard, dead center. Ned quipped, “Another one of those hungry McGills.” SOMETHING'S RIGHT WITH AMERICA Gloom and doomsters to the contrary not-withstanding, this ■ountry has to be in pretty good shape to produce a man like W. Frank Threatt, who has just bt'en named United States Small Busi ness Man of the Year. Threatt, 53, whose career twice was interrupted by military ser vice (World War II and Korea), began as a farmer, then partner in a contracting firm, sales man ager of a steel fabricating plant, and finally head of his own firm, Congaree Iron and Steel Company at Congaree, S. C- Home- (makers Club members were ask-l automatically dehumanizing ‘^Hralso^m^St have added that] ed to assist with the ronstruetion “ J J- nt iiie arts and of new draperies for the massive the wedding of a^s I front winded,” notes Mrs, Cha.se science is marked as much by a| home economics Fx sense of fun as it is the spirit ^x scientific research. How I®" FabHc fnd hardware were dob- one accouiit e p„ji,'g| ated by local merchants and con- Tto^-^truction was done by Extension absurd, akimbo ^ -^e' Homemakers and 4-H Club mem will be seen shuffling across the members floor at the Lont r-nnstruc-i were serving and learning by do- Edward Ichnatowi , ... i ing,” Mrs. Padgett ob.serve.s. tion that turns its radar-liKe. h, “head” tovyard its ’ Order of Demolay to serve as answers his questions | sponsors for a .semi-formal dance own peculiar voice. „. .. to be held August 9th at the The fun of the new that, of a whiz kids fancy. The unm-, itiated might wonder, Is this art Today, with more than 94 mil lion telephones in the United States, excluding Alaska and Hawaii, the Bell System and other members of the telephone Industry are prepared to make millions of connections. As more and more communities get Direct Dista.nce Dialing scr vice, more telephone users wL bo able to dial calls to telephon' in other cities without the he of operators, just as they dial local calls. .ri • |) After the conti'acting firm oartner were called back for Korean war duty, they refused 'o declare personal bankrupty and worked seven years to pay off $150,000 in debts. Threatt began his own steel fabricating firm in 1957 with $3,000 in cash and a $14,000 bank 'oan. Threatt, a white man, lo cated in the pre<iominantly Negro rural community of Congaree, in part to repay the kindness of Negroes who had kept his farm going while he was serving in World War II. His firm has flourished. It em ploys 400, has a l.S-million-dollar annual payroll and purchases ■♦quipment locally. but he will have to admire the skill the new artists show m bending computers, complex cir cuitry, and cathode .iubes in whatever direction their artistic whims lead. —Christian .Science Monitor 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events taken from the J957 fites of the Kings Mountain Herald. Shuford K. Peeler of (Tiarlotte has joined Foote Mineral Com pany here as a chemist. Kings Mountain Carolina Throw ing Company, Inc. has purchased The Small Business Adminis-. equipment which will virtually ration award hailed Threatt,] double its production of nylon, narpied and the father of two fluflon yarn and hopes to have it ^ 'or turning “an ailing area into! in operation here about August j a thriving one with a greater! 23th. , 1 measure of economic security and ] Miss Bobbie Barrett will begin •ipportunitv for a disadvantaged, a three-year term of overseas mis-1 •xioulation.” ! s'°n service as an educational That, of course, he d’^. But hC; worker in Japan for the Methodist also served the nation well by] church this tall. oroving anew that enterprise, in- SOCIAL AND PERSONAL 'e^m’ltv and good will still a.re Mias Phyllis Dean, Miss Mikiej b'ailmarks of the American wavj'^^^'He and Miss Polly Page were of life._Bfnnmoftom tAla.) posf-1 chosen last week by the social I KxraUl. committee of the Kings Mountain Keep Your Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. ri1 th Iht urc Fine entertainment in bet'ween y. Cor
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