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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C.
Thursday, September 12, 1968
Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Herald
JiCmaiinaj
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A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
lor the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain
and its vicinity, pubiished every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
Entered as .second class matter at the po.st 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
Dave Weathers, Supt.
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Keep thy heart ivilh all fUliycner, far ovt of it are the ixsuen of life. Proverhn i:3S
Side Beneficiary
U. S. Congressman Basil L. While-
ner, lOth district Democrat, says his
> tours of the eight-county district con-
. vincehim that the presidential ettndidacy
of George Wallace is sure to aid the
i Whitencr re-election campaign.
The reason: Wallace is proving pop-
, ular with many Tar Heel voters ol all
; ages, grades and faiths and that the re
sulting increase in the vote total will aid
Whitener in the campaign between him
and U. S. Representative James T. Broy-
hill, the Lenoir Republican, to retain a
■ Washington, D. C., address for the com-
^ ing two years.
*- Mr. Whitener touched on the matter
' with the Herald as early as last Decem
ber. He suggested editors in Cleveland
County might do well to do “a little luss-
, ing” at their tellow cilizens on their puny
vote totals, fie had a tape in his v. allet
to show what he meant.
; While Cleveland in the 1961 race for
governor W'as topping 9,000 votes, Cald-
■ well (Broyhill’s home diggings) wascast-
< ing 20,000.
1 The disparity is even greater when
1 it is realized that Caldwell's population
I approximates 50,000, while Cleveland’s
i.s 70,000.
It requires no atomic scientist to
^understand just exactly w hat Mr. Whito-
ner meant in December and why he ap-
• predates the help of the Alabaman in
getting out the vote in Cleveland, Gas-
■ ton, Avery, Alexander, Catawba, Burke,
Caldwell and Watauga — the eight coun
ties comprising the 10th Congressional
district of North Carolina.
A Magic Formula
One of the most famous short stories
ever written deals with a man who could
not forget. A Norman peasant. Mail re
Hauchecornc by name, is the central
character in Guy de Maupassant’s mas
terpiece, “A Piece of String.”
Walking through a busy market
place one day, the frugal old peasant saw
a bit of twine on the ground. He stopped
and picked it up. Later, he was accused
of having found a wallet lost at tliat
spot. He protested his innocence and ex
hibited the string, but was taken to the
police station.
The next day, the lost wallet was
found. But the peasant, unable to forget
the insult, began to brood about it. He
told all his friends about the incident.
Finally, the piece of string became
an obsession. He neglected his farm to
go about telling strangers how he was
mistreated. Eventually, the old peasant
died of a broken heart, mumbling to the
last about “the piece of string.”
Forgiveness, whether of major or
minor injuries, helps niost of all the per
son who practices it. Oliver Wendell
Holmes, at 81, attributed his good health
largely to peace of mind through the
years. He never went to sleep, he said,
with his mind filled with hatred for any
one, but forgave each day’s wrongs that
day. He said that forgiveness of each
day’s wrongs each day is a simple but
magic formula for wholesome, zestful
living.
The Terry Sanford vice presidential
boomlet failed in the end to propel North
Carolina’s distinguished former governor
onto Mr. Humphrey’s ticket. But it echo
ed ail around the convention hall and
throughout all reaches of the Democratic
party. In more tranquil days Mr. Sanford
may be heard from again.
VP's Show Might
Whether or not Hubert Humphrey’s
poor showing in the recent Gallup poll
reflects the strength and weaknesses of
vice-presidential choices or whether pub
lic opinion was stirred by events at the
tumultuous Democratic convention have
most certainly made for much conversa
tion in the past few days and will con
tinue through the ne.\t few weeks by
both Democrats and Republicans.
In addition to the Gallup ratings, we
were interested to note the Christian
Science Monitor’s recent findings that
Nixon has gained 11 states since an
earlier August 3 survey and is now seen
to have the edge over Humphrey in 31
state.' with 372 electoral votes.
Nixon’s lead in many of the states
were described as “razor thin” and re
porters judge that a new shift in the
wind could blow the contest right back
toward Humphrey ... but this is not suf
ficient to let the “in” party relax oy any
means.
What makes the Monitor’s findings
acceptable is the manner in which as
sessments are made. Its writers with a
“feel” for the political climate in their
states — and with close attention given
to local polls — make the appraisals on
which the overall findings in this na
tional survey are based.
In the August 3 survey, 22 states
with 174 electoral votes were put in Nix
on’s column while Humphrey had the
lead in 16 states and the District of Co
lumbia with 238 electoral votes. Last
week’s survey lound Nixon’s spectacular
lead leaving Humphrey ahead in 10
states and the District ol Columbia with
only 85 electoral votes.
This was the first opportunity Moni
tor had to pit the full tickets against
each other: Nixon - Agnew against
liumiihrey-Muskie.
Other Monitor findings which will
be of interest follow:
Since August nine slates with 167
electoral votes have dropped off the
Humphrey list: Delaware, Maryland,
Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina,
New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Vir
ginia. Seven went to Nixon: Delaware,
Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New
York, Ohio, Virginia and Pennsylvania;
North Carolina to George C. Wallace;
and Virginia into the toss-up category.
Humphrey gained three states with
14 electoral votes: Colorado and Hawaii
Irom the toss-up category; Maine from
Nixon.
Most significant is the move of the
big-population, big-electoral-vote states
into the Nixon category. In the new as
sessment, Nixon has California, Illinois,
Micliigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania
and Texas — a sweep of the big states.
Wallace picked up one state. North
Carolina, and now is seen ahead in five
southern states with 52 electoral votes.
As of last week, four states with 29 elec
toral votes are toss-up: Alaska, Arkansas
(was Nixon), Connecticut, Virginia (was
Humphrey). In August eight states
(Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii,
Illinois, Oregon, Texas and Washington)
were in the toss-up category. Of these
eight, only Alaska and Connecticut re
main toss-ups. Colorado and Hawaii go
to Humphrey while Nixon gets Illinois,
Oregon, Texas and Washington.
It’s significant in these latest results
that Wallace seems to be gaining at the
expense of Humphrey, not Nixon, while
earlier his gains seemed to be hurting
Republicans more than Democrats.
But it’s far too early to hand over
the race to either party and, as The
Herald stated last week ... with Wallace
in the race, the question of which other
horse he lorces into the rail adds to the
interest and will increase the betting.
Too, how each candidate wages his
campaign could easily shift the race in
eithei’ direction as could national and
world events.
Twenty-First annual Bethware Com
munity Fair opened yesterday on the
grounds of Bethware school and con
tinues through Saturday midnight. Ad
mission is free to the grounds and ex
hibit halls which this year “are bigger
and better than ever belore” according
to fair spokesmen. The variety of ex
hibits reflect the growth of the area. To
day is "Kid’s Day” at Bethware and Fail-
spokesmen were predicting record
crowds. Attend the Fair.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
By mARTIN HARMON
Just 29 years ago, George Lay
coclr and Martin Harmon, co
editors of the Blowing Rocket, a
weekly published during the “sea
son" (June-Labor Day) by C. V.
Henkel, Jr., of Statesville, had
closed the books on the 1939 busi
ness, presenting Publisher Henk
el an operating statement detail
ing the best season the weekly
had enjoyed.
While our pay wes hardly
arorld-shaking it may not have
been too bad tor that day and
time. George and I split a 13 per
cent commission on the advertis
ing receipts and C- V. turnished
a press car. The press had passes
to everything which also helped
immeasurably. I don’t recall our
weekly earnings, but tny work
ing summer at Blowing Rock
cost my father only $.55, which
was undoubtedly a bargain com
pared to my loafing at home.
in-it)
It was a very edUWtlonal sum
mer and I learned much from myi
confrere LaycoCk (In the fiftiesj
Cleveland Hospital Administrat
or) who was ten years my elder
and who had already done two
stints as a Buick district manag-
er, been to Europe for a summer,'
around the world on another trek, I
and done a year’s special work j
in journalism at Chapel Hill. I
Both of us learned much from
the natives, mountain folk who
still see the whites of a stranger’s
eyeballs before they warm to
him, from the mercantile com
munity, which included at least
three iflrms owned by Assyerians,
and from the wealthy and well-
to-do who proved to be Just folk,,
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Viewpoints of Other Editors
MONEY-SAVER
PERILS OF THE PIANO
, y, , , A small unit of the federal! Under the muse of Chairman^
like their fellows less weIl-endow-jg^^gj,jjjj^gj^j gjj precept, "making the past
' ■ ■ ■ ‘ serve the present and foreign \
things .serve China," a young
Chinese musician composed a pi
ano accompaniment to a new pro
letarian opera “The Red Lantern.”
The work tells of the heroic
m-m
'of efficiency and economy which
might well be a mode] for giant
bureaucracies in Washington.
Two favorite spots were May-' Over the past 10 years, the
view Manor (Saturday night 1 passport Office has found ways
' ” ' tax-
dances) and the Green Park Ho- to save $13 million for the
tel club. There was The Bark, for] payers, and has put into the! struggles of a railworker’s family
late snacks, the Carolina Cafe I Treasury $86 million in fees for] during the Japanese invasion of
for sizzling steaks.
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issuing and renewing 11,410,0001 World War If.
passports.
Frances G. Knight, director, at
tributes the record to “working
smarter rather than harder,
thinking forward rather thani
10
YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
Now the piano has- long b6SB
a favorite of the Chinese bourge
oisie, and in the Comfnunlst New,
China it has become a symbol of |
revisionism. Such antirevolution-
backward, and examining care- ‘V„‘'’‘7A’nTMnnnrv forces as would i make Its first shipment of sweat-
fully operational details in our react n y , I
constant search for more econo-
; ■'BT
of
keep aiive alien, feudal, capital
ist irtftuences were charged with
using the piano’s sounding board
Grover C. Robbins, Sr., was the
mayor, as well as business en
trepreneur. He was a realtor,
partner in the Yonahlassee Thea
tre, lessor of Blowing Rock it
self, a thriving concession. Jack!|i,y,'>
Craft was leasing Mayview and] output per man-year of em-
Paul Moldenhaur the Green Park. Ljoynjent has soared from 1,404. for propagandizing.
The golf pro was George Blagg,! passports in 1955 to 3,190 lasti when loyal musicians tried to
a Scot, and his pretty brunette'year. Over the same span of time,' -- -
daughter was named Renee. j the cost of issuing a passport has
I been slashed from $3.47 per book
m-m ito $2.77, despite rising prices of
paper, printing and salaries.
Will Arey, Jr., of Shelby, Roc- Modern telecommunications ej panned them,
ket co-editor the previous sum-
mer, and Charlie Cannon, jr., I computers within sewnds And
were joustling for the favor of year, the office „ nno
Louise Craft.® Among my best to the State Departmen $90J»0
friends was Tom Gordon, young-] tiy a reducti f
Items of n0w8 about Kings
Mountain area people and
events taken from the 1957
files of the Kings Mountain
Herald.
City football fans will have
better seating accommodations,
apparently by the opening con-
feren-3e home game with Cherry-
ville Sept. 19th.
Waco Sportswear, Inc. was to
local charity fund A friend encourag^eL-indeed'
mine, new an opthalmic surgeon 'is. who aic cv-u h
of prominence threatened to jump
off the Rock if the girl with
whom he was smitten did not ,
wed him. At 17 her interc.,t was
horses, and my friend thought ® i„„,.oaeina)v difficult
better of his threat, leaving the]« is getting i vvhich”mi.st
Season football tickets to four home
games are on sale at the high school,
which reminds that Friday night is the
opener with the Mountaineers of Kings
Mountain versus the Trojans of Chase
high school. The ducats sell for S5,
KMHS Secretary Martha Houser re
minds. On the sports pages this week is
result of the initial game of the season
Friday and the report of the Mountaineer
win.
act on Chairman Mao’s call for
a new musical literature in 1964,
they first experimented with pi
ano arrangements of revolutionary
songs. The counterrevolutionaries
Then came the first hearing of
the revolulionary symphony
“Shachiapang” on National Day
in 1965. But by this time, the Com
ers Wednesday.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Mrs. Charles Alexander was
elected recording secretary of the
Credit Women’s Breakfast club
Wednesday at the group’s regu
lar meeting at Gastonia Elks club.
Mrs. Howard B. Jackson was
hostess Monday afternoon at her
home to members of the Dupli
cate Bridge club-
READING AROUND
prodded—to suggest bettor ways
of doing their job.
"We have made such phenome-
Australia has a national pas
time as popular as tennis: Thous
ands of people llsf.?n daily by
solve and kept public applause ffdio to the proWedings of its
■yryrry .viitinc I Parliament, which corresponds to
X,. * » - 1 nlnves munist claque, led by Mao lieu-
er brother of the late opera sing-1 Comrade Chiang Ching
er Norman Cordon. Norman per-: Th^e ach ^ Knight’s (his wife), had stiffened its
formed in a full-house concert for'3'' revieweu m s
re-
blow-back business to the legend
of the Indian girl of long a.go,
handkerchiefs and old hats.
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It was the summer that Grover
Robbin.s, Jr., out entrepreneuring
his father today with Hound Ears
club. Tvveetsie and various and
sundry other projects of size, was
buzzing the Rock in his light
plane, cracked her up, and walk
ed out without a .scratch.
It was the summer that Nan
Jean Gantt, won the junior divi
sion of the movie talent scout
show at the theatre.
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Arey won Miss Craft and, after
years in Panama with the State
Department, is now chief of the
United States Travel Bureau.
Young Cannon, a flyer, died in
World War 11. Tom Cordon has
nassed. Laycock manages a ohar-
Uablc foundation in Connecticutt.
Mayviow Manor, purchased
rom the Broyhill family by Hen
derson Bclk, has lain dormant
for two seasons. The more Ven-
rable Green Park, purchased by
the Broyhills is operating with a
'ul! head of steam. The Carl
Mayes’ Blowing Rock home is
learby.
A summer in the Blowing Rock-
Boone area I found quite sufficl-
•'nt to eive me « Typhoid Mary
type virus infavor of these moun-
•ains which I do not want to
lose, and could not if I wished.
And I’ve long wanted to be in
the area in the fall, which I am
to reach new highs." Which must
help account for the notable rec
ord -of the Passport Office.
Miss Knight has taken her
lumps for disagreeing with su
periors on points of policy. When
it comes to giving good service
and saving tax monev, we wish
these were a thousand like her.
The Miami Herald
FLOWER POWER
Some people eat humble pie.
Others — if they are Americans—
eat crew. If you are a Frenchman
you “eat the morsel" to spill the
beans. But what caught our eye
the other dav was a news item to
the effect that children in the
Royal Borough of Sutton Coldfield
in England ate roses.
So loaded is today’s atmosphere
with the psychedelic that our first
reaction was to wonder whelher
this was not the latest in current
youthful experiments with the
risky — even the perverted. Bui
we should have known better,
since this was Sutton Coldfield.
4fter all, it is a royal borough —
like Kensington. This special stat-
U.S was conferred upon it by Hen -1
ry VIII who went hunting in Sut
ton Park — now a public park!
noted for its hollies. Muirhead’s
Guide tells us, alas, that the park
is “marred by the railway.” But
apparently neither the rail'way
ncr the proximity of Industrial
Birmingham has marred the in
stinct of Sutton’s children for his
tory.
They ate roses — the news re-
oort explained — becau.se they
had seen a rose-eating ceremony
at the local headquarters of the
Royal Fusiliers. Yes, once a year
on the anniversary of the Battle
of Minden (1759), officers of the
regiment eat a rose. Very British,
of course. But it seems to us to
make those young people of Sut
ton Coldfield the very best (and
certainly the ifiBBt authentic)
kind of flower children.—ChrisHan
Scintea Menitet.
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irom wilting.
In May, 1967, the first Peking
opera aria with piano accompani
ment was performed in Tien An
Mien Square, further liberating
the piano for the sake of the
workers and peasants. The battle
with the revisionists was not over,
however, as they were charged
with condemning the instrument
as “criminaT’ to discredit it.
And now the full flowering of
the piano in Peking oper? is be
ing hailed as a “heavy blow
dealt against the counter-revolu
tionary line in literature and art"
—swelling to a climax a melo
drama that seems as if it could
have been viewed in a silent movie
house. In the background, an old
unright. —Christian Science Monl-
tci.
our Congress.
If you wonder why such a fea
ture over the air i.s popular, con
sider this: In Australia, you have
to vote. By national law. Interest
in politics is enforced — so the
radio audienc.i merely reflects the
Interest of those who want to
know what they’re doing when
they go to the polls.—Dallos News
subsequent costs. The military is
already shipping by container
wherever it can, mostly from Pa
cific ports. There are predictions
that 60 percent of military cargo
will move that way by 1975.
Philadelphia has now only the
beginnings of containerized berth
ing. If there ever was a warning
to hurry the job along, the Penn
Central’s proposal has provided
It PhilcRlelohia Bulletin.
KINGS MOUNTAIN I
Hospital Log I
VISITING HOURS 2
3 to 4 pun. and 7 to 8 p.ni. )
DoUy 10:30 To 11:30 ctm. (
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I PATIENTS IN KILOS MOUNTAIN
I HOSPITAL AS OF NOON WED-
INESDAT:
Henry Bailey
Mi-s. Ira Benfleld
Mrs. John Cloningcr
Mrs. Carrie Frye
.Mr. M. L. Harmon
Mrs. Minnie Herdon
Mr. Anthony Holden
Mr.s. .Sidney Huffstctlcr
Mrs. Gi'ace Philbeck
Mrs. Will Pryor
Mr. William Roper
Mrs. Fairy ^lleis
Mrs -Ida Smith
Mr. Julius Stamey
Mr. Garland Still
Mr. Jack Antliony
Mi-s. Clarence Batchlcr
Mrs. Eva Bridges
Mrs. Mollie Goforth
Mrs. William Houser
Mrs. Buddy Jones
Mrs. Mack Jordan
Mrs. Florence Lynn
Mrs. Mary Myers
Mrs. Johney McClure
Mrs. Frank Reynolds
Mrs. Clco Van Dyke g
Mrs. Loyd Woods N
.Mrs. Clara Wi'ight ^
M:-s. Vennie Crawford
ADMITTED ’THURSDAY
Mrs. Glenn White, Bcs.scmcr
City
ADMITTED FRIDAY
Mrs. John Queen, 1605 Shelby
Road
Mi-. David Lawing, 113 Cleve
land Ave.
Ml'S. John Morris, Rt. 1
.Miss Bessie Phillips, 709 GantI
St.
Mr. James Sisk, Box 189
Ml'. Gene Wehunt, Rt. 3
Wayne Stewart. Rt. 1
ADMITTED SA’TURDAT
Mr.s. Virgie Cole, 908 Grace St.
Mrs. Henry Gilliland, Box 93
ADMITTED SUNDAY
Mr. Palmer Camp, box 333.
Grover
Mrs. Carrie Slirwall, Bes.semer
City
Mr. James A. Smith, Grover
Mr. Thomas Hill, Rt. 1, Bc.ssc-
mer City
Mr. Bobby Rhea, 410 ulton Rd.
Mr. Charles W’ilson, 308 .Silver
St.
ADMITTEl) MONDAY
Mrs. Calvin Crawford, 221
Brice St.
Mrs. Bobby Bridges, 201 ulton
Rd.
Mrs. George Thornburg, Rt. 1.
Grover
Mr. wqlliam Peeler, 1070 Elam
Rd.
ADMITTED ’TUESDAY
Mrs. Eunice Holcombe, 103 My
ers St.
Mrs. Essie Ledford, Rt. 1, Cher
ryvillc
Mrs. Jesse Reynolds, 620 &
Railroad Ave.
Mrs. Peter Putnam, Rt. 2
Mrs. Philip Carter, 319 Hill .St.
Ann Marie Crawford, 50S W.
Gold St.
Mrs. Etta Connor, 300 York Rd.
Mrs. Leon Schrook, 1916 Lake
Hill Rd.. Baltimore
Mrs. Bessie Wilson, Rt. 1
Mrs. Horace Hardy, 109 Moun
tain View St., Gastonia
Mrs. Pauline Kimbrell, 106 N.
Dilling St.
Mrs. James Brooks, 220 N.
Weldon St., Gastonia
Mrs. Eueal Smith, 1 Poplar Ct.
Mrs. Joseph Tesseneer, Jr., 101
Myers St.
FROM CONVENTION
American Legion Post IS
Commander Carl Wiesener, Joe
H. McDaniel, Jr., Ray Cline and
Charles Dixon returned Tuesday
after atending the 50th nation
al convention of the American
Legion in New Orleans, La.
They represented American Le
gion Post 155.
QUEEN MARY COURT
Queen Mary’s Court No. 5 will
meet Thursday evening at 7:30
p.m., according to announce
ment by Mrs. Roy Brown.
BIG LAND BRIDGE
American railroads, in the grip
of transformation, have openly
embraced a new concept — that
of forming a giant land bridge
ter containerized hauling of goods
from the Orient to Europe and
vice versa.
’The new Penn Central is In the
forefront of this, announcing tha)
it already has set things up ten-
t.itlvelv with the Santa Fe, and
that it will also deal with any
other railroad that can meet it in
Chicago or St. Louis and tarry the
ooods to container ports on the
Pacific.
The Atlantic ports, according to
Penn Central executive vice presi
dent Henry W. Large, Include
Philadelphia along with Bostori.
New York, Baltimore, and Nor
folk. The advantages would be
to the shipper, to the railroads and
certainly to the hatlonal defense,
aeonts of which are highly inter
ested.
Envisioned is a five-day cross-
continent haul, from port to port,
on an 80-car train carrying 1(50
40-foot containers, or 320 20-foot
containers. There would be a flat
rate, and a savings in time and
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