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Page 2 Established 1889 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 matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28088 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dave Weathers, Supt. Allen Myers - Paul Jackson Steve Martin Ray Barrett SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR... .$3.50 SIX MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 Humphrey vs. Nixon vs. Wallace (Agnew vs. Muskie vs. LeMoy) One of the nation’.s less-exciting presidential political campaigns nears its end. Indeed, had it not been for the entry of George Wallace into the arena as a “serious” candidate, the voters likely would have stayed home in droves. The platforms of the two major political parties, and, more important, the men who espouse these platforms, are con- ■siderably less than poles apart. Vice-President Humbert Humphrey and ex-Vice-President Richard Nixon are former co-members of the Senate Club, both have served in the Number 2 role, and both are moderates in the poli tical spectrum. The differences are in degree, both on the international and domestic issues and problems facing the nation today. Both are “hawks” as far as the Vietnam War is concerned, Nixon not quite as much as in 1954 when he urged us — then — to spell the defeated French, for which he was rapped on the knuckles by the boss. President Eisen hower. Mr. Humphrey is less a hawk, too, ■ than a few months ago, but both candi- > dates want “peace with honor”. This newspaper wrote a few kind •emarks, if any, about Mr. Nixon in .960 and couldn’t have. The Charlotte Observer wrote in the spring that many don’t like him but can’t phrase why. The Herald knew the why of its antipathy, regarding Mr. Nixon as a crass oppor- - \tunist of most insincere kind. This judg ment has been dissipated since Nixon's smashing defeat by Pat Brown in the Whitener vs. Broyhill The citizens of the 10th North Caro lina Congression district will return' a Congressman to Washington Tuesday week and will return the losing opponent to civilian status. Hindsight figures from prior elec tions, none of them quite comparable to the current re-dlstricted situation, indi cate a close race and the edge for White- her. The major “if” — and a big one — is the turnout of voters in Cleveland and Gaston counties, where Mr. Whitener, the Democrat seeking a seventh term, is homefolk. Mr. Broyhill’s home county is Caldwell, a nominally closely divided county between Mr. Broyhill’s Republi cans and the Democrats. Here Mr. White ner will show gains over the Broyhill opponents of 1964 and 1966. Mr. Broyhill seeks a fourth term. Both men are personable, both have tended the needs of citizens of their dis tricts well. On basis of a United States Chamber of Commerce rating, Mr. White ner is 19 percentage points right of cen ter, white Mr. Broyhill is 43 points to the right of center. Mr. Broyhill’s “zag” to starboard on domestic matters is too much. 1962 gubernatorial joust in California. In a way, in his own mind, it was Mr. Nixon’s first defeat. Though his loss to President J. F. Kennedy was real enough, Nixon thought he lost to a fast count. Before that the Nixon record — from Duke Law school, to navy, to both branches of Congress, to the vice-presi dency, was continuing success. Mr. Wallace will poll a larger per centage of the vote than any splinter party candidate since Teddy Roosevelt in 1912 and perhaps more than Roose velt. Wallace is the hawkiest of the hawks on Vietnam. The bulk of his strength will be in the Southern states, but the key questions are: how many wil he attain in the other areas of the 50 states and who will he hurt more? Wallace is for law and order, for states rights and for plenty of “no strings” federal money returned to the states. Surely he will come to the banner of Mother Love and the Boy Scouts be fore the campaign ends. In the choice of vice-presidential nominees, Mr. Humphrey’s Senator Muskie is the clear standout. Governor Spiro Agnew has a pitiable and painful case of hoof-in-mouth disease and Gen eral LeMay is a general — as the late President Kennedy was quoted, an ideal man to lead a bomber run but not the man to decide when or where. The nation would get more dynamic leadership from the Humphrey-Muskie team. Scott vs. Gardner “Linthead” Jack Stickley, Tooth dentist Reginald Hawkins and Legal Eagle Mel Broughton were scratched by the voters in the May primaries. Let it be hoped and prayed the Ham burger Man, sometime absentee Con gressman from the fourth North Caro lina district, will be returned to his old job by Milkman Bob Scott. The Democrats will continue in solid control of the General Assembly after the November 5 voting. Democratic Chairman Jim Johnston pledges party governmental responsibility in the un likely event that Jim Gardner is elected governor. But the likelihood is that North Carolina would stagnate for the ensuing four years. If Dick Nixon (see above) was a crass opportunist, Jim Gardner is worse. He even insults the people by inferring they can neither read nor write nor un derstand his say - anything - for - a - vote policy. "rhis guy Gardner, phew! A Second Term This Tax Down Come January 1, North Carolina employers will find at least one tax bill pared. It is the unemployment compensa tion tax, where the minimal rate will drop from .3 of one percent to .1 of one percent of the taxable payroll (up to $3,000 of each employee’s earnings). This tax, paid solely by employers, provides unemployment compensation benefits to employees when there is no work available. As of June 1, employers’ aggregate balance was $3,315 million dol lars. It was only a few years ago that the balance was a mere $1.82 million dol lars. The happy and direct indicator ctf this improving balance is the fact thiA big problem of employment security branch offices throughout North Caro lina today is finding workers to fill job orders — not taking claims for unem ployment insurance business. In New York — not North Carolina — a striking E mployee collects unemployment bene- its, a direct cost to the struck employer and patently unfair. In other words, the striker is paid to strike by the one he’s striking against. North Carolina does subsidize preg nancy by paying non-workiqg%nployees bn that grounds. Put it dow.n k>,some thing like a stork showet. Mayor John Henry Moss was in stalled recently as chairman of the Cleveland County Organization of Gov ernmental Officials, its short form name being CAGO. It marks a second term at the helm for Kings Mountain’s Mayor and is in dicative of the good work he performed before. It was under his menage that the organization broadened to include representation from all incorporated communities of the county and the or ganization has been more effective since, with responsible and responsive mem bership from all sections of the county. A best bow and good wishes to Mayor Moss and his work with CAGO. To Vote You Must A citizen mufst be registered on the county elections books if he is to vote. Registration books will close at the 28 county precincts Saturday. Citizens not sure they are registered should check Saturday with their pre cinct registrar. Registration on the city books does not qualify for the upcoming general election. Citizens who expect to be away on election day, November 5, should apply for absentee ballots IMMEDIATELY. Write or te^hone Ralph Gilbert, Chair man, Cleveland County Elections Board, Shelby, phow482-3401. It KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C Thursday, October 24, 1968 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE And we know that alt thinrix work toyether ifor good to them that fove God, to them Wefto are the called according to Ilin purpose. Jtomans 8;St j MARTIN'S MEDICINE By MAR-nN HARMON A weekend with political over tones m-ni These Hebronlte aren’t too in terested in politics and some fail to evidence much interest in any candidate. The head count here is 20, maximum rated capacity. In cluding nine North Carolinians, five South Carolinians, and five Georgians and one hybrid, a Floridian radioman native of Connecticutt. Needless to say, George Wall ace would fare fairly well. There are four old-fashioned, dyed-in- the-wooi Democrats who vote very quickly by marking the "X” for the straight ticket. All say they aren’t concerned about par ticular personalities, but vote the "pore man’s ticket”. Jim, the ‘‘mad Rooslan” as he is now nick named, said he lost his bearings while living in Maryland some years ago and has been apologiz ing ever since. TODAY'S HOPE. FOR PEACE KINGS MOUNTAIN Hospital Log VISITING HOURS 3 to 4 ixm. and 7 to 8 pan. Daily 10:30 To 11:30 oon. m-m Until No. 20 arrived last week, the Nlxonites were content to growl about LBJ’s performance (few specifics), the war, high taxes, or some such. / /> pi IIIIIU’ m-m An articulate Nlxon supporter, this Charlottean was a law school classmate of Senator Jack White. We busted inferred cur few and talked ’til midnight and we closed shop sure in oiur minds that the other was a candidate for a Section 8 — and said as much. I SYMBOL OF ONE lEATEST EFFORTS IMADE TO FREE HI MSELF'.\ —--SENERAU MACARTHUR, m-m Viewpoints of Other Editors TIMELY. BUT OVERDUE Saturday in the metropolis of, Boone, I visited Democrat head-1 quarters, claimed the next-to-last | Humphrey tatton available, as for literature to novelist Yasunari: an eastern Tar Heel (for Wall-, Kawabata, the first Jai>anese tO; The award of the Nobel Prize receive it, comes at a time when the chief world confrontation is! between the Asian and Western cultures. In this it is timely. j ace) claimed the last one of Scott’s. There were also bumper stickers. Remembering my friend David Neill's dastardly act of 1952, I decided to repay by ap-, pending a Humphrey - Muskie i But as Harvard University Pro- sticker over Grandfather Moun- lessor and former Ambassador tain model on the front tag slot. | to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer The director of the Hebron Es-iPo>hts out, 'The award was a tablishment would not have ap-'long-overdue though happy sign proved. All the while my new-1 of the West getting over its par- found Charlotte friend was up tqj ochialism.” Actually, Japan has the same mayhem. He visited I had a thriving literary school 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Letter To Editor PATIENTS IN KINCB MOUNTAIN HOSPITAL AS OF NOON WED NESDAY: .Mrs. Eta Absher Mrs. Ira Benfield Mis. W. M. Bonds Mrs. Bertha Bright .Mrs. Betsy Caldwell Mrs. Ernest Clemmer Mr. Arthur Cornwell Mr. John Gantt .Mrs. Ida Hambright Mr. M. L. Harmon, Sr. Mrs. Sidney Huffstetler Mrs. Maggie .McClain .Mrs. Jasper Patterson Miss Aldo Phifer Mr. Earl Rhyne Mrs. Ida Smith Mrs. Dillard Barnett Mrs. Vergie Cole Mrs. William Dyke .Mrs. Rita Heinback Mr. J. D. Hol d Mr. William Houser Mrs. Mack Jordan Mrs. Matron Legan Mrs. Florence Lynn Mrs. -Mary Manning Mr. James Medlin .Mr. James Reed „ Mr. Jasper Summitt Mrs. Cleo Van Dyke Mrs. David Walls Mrs. Lloyd Woods ADMITTED THURSDAY Mrs. Loretta Wells, H(X) Third St. Mrs. L. B. Sprouse, P. O Box 135 ADMITTED FRIDAY Mrs Mary Johnson, Rt. 1 .Mrs. Jimmy Gann, 415 Bennett St. Mrs. Carrie Goode, 809 N. Pied mont Ave. Mrs. Roy Morrison, 333 Mid pines Mrs. Charles Sinclair, Rt. 2 Mrs. Clara Wri'ght ADMITED SATURDAY •Mr. Shipp Falls, Rt. 3 Mrs. Cobby Joe Camp, Rt. 1 Mrs. Melvin Briggs, Rt. 2 AD.MITTED SUNDAY Mr. Joseph Mellon, 305 N. Cas ter Items of news aboiU Kings Mountain area people and events taken from the 1957 ] files of the Kings Mountain Herald, I would like to reply to the let- gj r by Mrs. Walter Kinley that| (-grrie Stirwalt, Bessemer City Mrs. Roibert Osborne, Rt. 4, Peggy Black, Central high school senior, was chosen recent ly by her fellow classmates and senior sponsors to receive the was published in the Herald last week. It is so unfortunate when j people have such letters publish-l paVtonia' ed without first trying to ascer-| MONDAY tain the facts. In this case, Mrs.| Kinley has condemned the coach- -^‘‘aianas, ing staff of our school without checking on what actually hap pened. publkBm hea^udrters across tSi^roughout its modern era, which | American Revo- street-and had decdiMted mylhhs seen it emerge as a political' '’!!”" Citizeiish|p award. bumper sticker with a Nixon-Ag- new sticker. Fortunately, 1 dis covered same before getting the bus on the public roads. That’s and economic power. The annual Floral Fair attract- The coaches were quite aware of what had happened to the in jured player. The “young boy”, referred to by Mrs. Kinley, who came to the assistance of the in jured player was the student! Bes- 916 Rt. 1, York, S. C. Mrs. Phillip Scales, Rt. 1, semer City Mrs. Samuel Stewart, Jr., W. Holder Dr., Gastonia Mr. Carl Wiggins, 13 Myrtle St. Gastonia. Patricia Hullender, 113 McGin nis St. Mrs. Amzie McClain, 314 (?hil- , : - J , ■, juicu was cue s . . , J large crowds despite Wednes- qj team. There areiders St. In all fmmess, the West’s par-, day s rainy weather. Mrs. W. M.| ,^0 of these young men whohavel Mrs. Earl Worcester, 317 Chest. ochialism has been in part due to Gantt copped the sweepstakes a- the fewness of the translations of Japanese works. Also, Kawaba- neighbor, had done to me in ’52— . , j , had me driving to church with an I "I Like Ike” advertising piece onl ^ ’h f r’ the buntper. Of course, I was lik- ?" L''® i% Ike all right, but not President. After 24 houre, Dave ® ^nd ciuld hold rein on himself noi'^“® not comment on them as the! such. He tends to live an ingrown ” life, in the tradition of other ward for winning the most blue ribbons in the show. SC jlAL AND ^personal Miss Melba Rebecca Falls and Robert Ray Seism were married Saturday in a 5 p.m. wedding in Patterson Grove Baptist church. longer, and had to give horse laugh. m-m great Japanese writers as long a- go as the 8th century. . What is significant about the (me little brilliant girl accom- aiward is its affirmation of the panied her father into Democratic' qualities of balance, poetic in headquarters. As he helped him self to buttons, stickers and other IMPERFECT INVENTORY If your car won’t start easily, you’ve got a lot of company. Of 71,547,0(X) calls for help received last year by 820 motor clubs and 24,000 automotive service sta tions affiliated with the Ameri can Automobile Association 43 pharaphanelia of the season, I asked the young lady, "How are you going to vote?” "Like my ?e'l'^O^tn?aTcutrJs.%‘?he\tT only Japan’s is vital today. China I Th’s was a which had some writers^f pro-' mise but a couple of decades a-, amounted for 14 mil- Daddy,” this smart seven-year-old_ go, now has decimated its arts|ii__ replied. -ifWli ..ultm-al An/ll - m-m My wife, teaching fourth grade, is teaching her youngsters the election process, felt somewhat traitourous at coming home with nothing but Nixon materials (the pore Democrats were out there, too), and admitted to feeling or 20 per cent of the with the cultural revolution. And _ India’s only strong writers are! 5-9 cen de- working in English, not an indi- Eleven and a half million genous tongue. cars got stuck in snow or mud or broke down so badly that they This is not to say that “Orien-.^'a^ to be towed to garages, but tal” and “Western” thought willi'^'® large number was 28.6 per ever totally merge. Differences! lower than that for 1966, are too basic. Monotheism and j Motorists who lost their keys, their attended clinics in Greensboro on nut St. athletic injuries for the past two| ADMITTED TUESDAY summers and have had much in-; Mrs. Larry Smitli, ,504 Bridges struction from the coaching staff! Dr. on athletic injuries. It is their du ty to check the players when they have superficial injuries and re port to the coach. This injury happened to be a very common one in football, and the coaches were quite aware of what was hajppenlng. The player was loft on the side lines during the hall and for the remainder of the game at his own request. He wanted to see the rest of the game and treatment for the injury, ice and eievation of the leg, could be carried on here as well as in the dreeing room. He also requested that he be left on the field at halftime to spare him the pain of moving to the dressing room and back a- gain. the emphasis on good and evil are not traits of Asian thinking. strange even darkening the Nix-! ^.nd the Asian notion of the ab- on door. m-m Sunday afternoon we visited the Billy Mauneys at their re cently acquired Blowing Rock home, with its panoramic view of the beautiful John’s River Valley. Billy had spent a Saturday’s work insulating the water pipes and getting a cut-off valve on the outside spigots. The former own er, a British subject, had com muted for 20 years between Blow- 'ng Rock in the summers and the Bahamas in the winter and al ways cut off the whole system. sorption of Identity into an over- brooding being Is the exact op posite of the Christian belief in the permanence of the individual being. Nonetheless, the sensitivity of the Asian artist is something all locked themselves outside cars or broke them trying to un lock their car doors numbered on ly ,667,000 in 1967, 22 percent fewer than the year before. The figures indicate that the horseless carriage is far from troublefree even at this late date. But, whereas Grandpa had to get I know the deep personal in terest that the coaching staff has for each of the players under - their care. I know that if they do ' not know or understand the ex tent of an injury to one of these boys, they have a doctor stand ing by at each game who is im mediately available for consulta tion. Mrs. Kinley’s intimation that these men do not care for the total welfare of the young Mr. David Lawing, 113 Cleve land Ave. Mr. Lawrence Allen, Box KM Annexation School Topic The board of education voted Monday night in favor of annex ation of the high school property on Phifer road into the city lim its, along with other property in the ai'ea. Some residents reportedly are circulating a petition questioning annexation. Supt. Donald Jones pointed out that by being inside the city, the school would receive fire and po lice protection, garbage collection and also lower rates on utilities. He said last month alone, a sav ings of $80 On utilities would have been realized if the school had been inside the city. men under their supervision completely unjustified. Thank you, J. C. Atkinson, Principal Kirigs Mountain High School out and under, today’s motorist Westerners should value, and no, has merelji to call for help. He finer master of such sensitivity i tfay have to walk to a telephone, can be found than Yasunari Ka- however, and that is tough on wabata. accustomed to \nheels. Christian iScience Mo^iitor | The Oregonian The Mauneys bought the place lock, stock and barrell, including 'he bed linens. Rep. Mauney was oarticularly pleased with the bathroom serving the master bed- "oom, fixtures of which are in the continental motif. m-m Bill is in that happy role of a candidate without opposition, ha enjoyed the fall rally season. Bob Maner, another of my Re publican friends, wrote in opti mistic terms about his ticket and I have called his bet that Jim Broyhill will get the margin over Basil Whitener in the West Kings TUSKEGEE POWER Tuskegee, Ala., has long re flected the best of Negro aims and accomplishments. It was there that Booker T. Washington, one who publicly and privately did much for black people, startl ed Tuskegee Institute and at tracted white financial support. Now in an age when militancy and separatism are often preach ed, the Negroes of Tuskegee, a majority in the town, have exer cised their legitimate black vot ing power by re-electing a white maiyor over a black opponent and by electing one white and four blacks to the city council. Regardless of .the politicians In volved, it is encouraging to find that black voters who clearly have the power to elect a black mayor can vote for a white man. Let us hope that black and White voters all over the South and the nation will demonstrate such maturity and that bloc voting will be replaced by interracial di visions within the electorate on TIME FOR LOVING KINDNESS We are grateful to Philip Lar kin for bringing the poet and novelist Thomas Hardy to our: thought again. Unlike more famous poets with more enormous ambitions. Hardy aspired no higher than to have "some poem or group of poems” Included in some volume like the Golden Treasury of Verse. This' despite his fame as a novelist. in **»ues and the individual quallfl- loss is In store for either, just a ten-cent shooter (soft drink). ot candidates. nmerciaJ Appeal (Memphis) Mr. Larkin says of Hardy "The Listener”: “He's not a transcendental writer, he’s not a Yeats, he’s not an Eliot; his sub Jects are men, the life of men, time and the passing of time, love and the fading of love. . . In almost every Hardy poem.. .there! is a little spinal cord of thought' and eacm has a little tune of Its, own, and this is something you can say of very few poets.” i For Hardy, gentleness was all. In tl^ese times when raging emo tions are mistaken for conviction in thought, his sensitivity to the small gestures of kindness and deference is worth recalling. As in hi* regret oyer a broken ap pointment: Christian 'Science Monitor] Keep You Badio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. Ne'ws & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. 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