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Established 1889
# The Kings Mountain Heiald
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 cla.ss matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher
Mi.ss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper
Dave Weathers, Supt.
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Helping Hands
The Empty .Stocking Fund, the Wel
fare Fund, the Helping Hand Fund, all
have been familiar parts of a program
through the years of the Kings Mountain
Ministers’ Fellowship or Association. Too
little has been said or known of the work
and efforts carried forth. All has been
done with the idea of not waving flags
or displaying any signs. Quietly the work
and help has gone forth.
The intention of the work should be
given. The ministers have found it is not
a welfare lund, but a “Helping Hand
Fund” in the most e.xtreme moments of
need. It is used weekly tor medicine,
coal, fuel, food, along with help tor per
sons or families stranded and in need.
It is known as the “Helping Hand Fund,”
and under the corporate work of the
ministers and United Fund of Kings
Mountain.
The Kings Mountain Ministers Asso
ciation is composed of the active minis
ters in and around Kings Mountain. The
f ellowship meets monthly, with ten
meetings per year. Several projects are
parts of a corporate program, as public
school Bible teacher, three clothes clos
ets, Christmas toys, special services, ra
dio devotions, and other special interest
in community life. A written, itemized
report is given each month to the Fellow
ship by the treasurer of the “Helping
Hand Fund. ”
From Thanksgiving through th^
Christmas season, ministers and laymen
man the “Bell Ringing” in the main busi
ness section of town to give any person
an opportunity to share in the work.
This, with the United Fund provides
S3,600.00 per year for the work of the
“Helping Hand Fund” project. The pub
lic school Bible teacher and other special
services are church supported projects
and are not a part of this “Helping Hand
Fund” work.
The reports for December and Jan
uary to the Ministers Association gives
the names of 79 persons or families help
ed with food, coal, medicine, fuel, bue
tickets, toys, gas, overnight help, and
clothes. The total expenditure for these
two months was Sl.fSG.lS.
The requests have come through
ministers, the County Welfare Depart
ment, the Community Action office, the
police department, and persons in the
community finding those in need. Help
and corporation has come through the
medical profession and businesses of
Kings Mountain.
An index card and file system has
been set up by the treasurer as to who
was helped, addresses, number in family,
their needs, and help given with dates.
These records keep the ministers and
other organizations abreast of the ex
penditures and needs of those helped.
Hat Tips
Congratulations to the new officers
of the Kings Mountain United Fund: Shu-
ford Peeler, president; Mrs. Vernon P.
Crosby, secretary-treasurer; and Kyle
Smith, campaign chairman.
Hats off to Mayor John H. Moss,
tapped as North Carolina Lutheran Per
sonality. in the February edition of
North Carolina Lutheran.
Congratulations are also in order to
four Kings Mountain high school seniors
among eight area finalists for PPG In
dustries Foundation plant community
scholarship: Richard E. Etheridge, Tim
othy Norris Webster, James W. Grayson
and Mark E. Hughes.
Congratulations also to George New
man, the former executive director of
Cleveland County Community Action,
tapped for Cleveland County Manager.
The Herald personally likes George New
man and wishes him well in a most diffi
cult task.
Guest Editorial
By DAN MOORE
Former Governor oi North Carolina
Reprinted irom Law And Order Magazine
It was Mark Twain, I believe, who
said that people talk about the weather
but do nothing to change it. I think there
is a danger of good law enforcement fall
ing into the same category. I have never
met a person who was not 100 per cent
for good law enforcement. But — outside
of the working policeman — there are
far too few citizens willing to make the
effort to bring about sound improvement
in law enforcement. And, unlike the wea
ther, people can have the kind of law en
forcement they want.
I do not want to be critical. Yet, I
do want to impress upon readers of LAW
AND ORDER that people have the kind
of law enforcement in a community or
state that they are willing to pay for. In
tact, in most cases, they get more than
they pay for. “The city’s finest” is a
common description for its police depart
ment. That is, until there is a trafhc jam
or until there is a riot with looting and
burning. Then there is always the ques
tion: “Where are the police when we
need them?”
The same question, I believe, could
be asked by the working law enforce
ment officer about the people he serves:
“Where are the people when we need
them?” Good enforcement isn’t some
thing that happens overnight. It takes
time and effort and money to build a
good police department. You do not ac
complish it by taking the leftovers in the
budget, or by cutting corners in training,
in equipping, and in paying police offic
ers. To be first-rate, policemen have to
be treated first-rate.
A good police department is built by
hard work and dedication of its officers
and men. That is foremost, but there is
more. A good police department is also
built by public support and by the sup
port of the governing body to which it
is responsible. It boils down to this: If
a law enforcement agency can count on
the citizens it serves for support and for
the wherewithal to do the necessary job,
then the citizens can count on the law
enforcement agency.
I, for one, do not agree that this na
tion has experienced a breakdown in law
and order. I do feel, however, that the
foundations of this great nation have
been seriously challenged in a variety of
ways. And, had it not been for the dedi
cated and professional way in which
these challenges have been met by most
law enforcement officers on all levels,
then there would have been a breakdown
in law and order with far-reaching impli
cations. We can all be thankful for the
manner in which the great majority of
the policemen are doing their job.
The time of challenge is not passed
for the law enforcement officer. His job
is becoming more essential to the com
munity he serves and to the nation. How
well he performs his duty may make all
the difference in the world to the future
of his community. From past experience,
I am sure the people can count on the
individual law enforcement officer. And,
it is more essential today than ever be
fore, that the individual law enforce
ment officer be able to count on the sup
port of the citizens he serves.
Heart Month
February is Heart Month.
Heart disease is still the leading kill
er in Kings Mountain and Cleveland
County, as it is in North Carolina and
the nation.
Welcome to Peter Connet, native of
Swannanoa, assistant director of the
Kings Mountain Redevelopment Commis
sion and Arthur Smith Family Inns, ex
pected to begin building here very short-
\y of a 76-unit mdtel.
Last year in North Carolina alone,
some 23,000 persons died as a result of
cardiovascular disease. The most effect
ive way the people in this area can help
to stamp out this killer is by contribut
ing to the Heart Fund.
KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Thursday, February 20, 1969
MABTlIf'S
MEDIClllE
BT ELIZABETH SD|WtART
At Last! Important Cigarette News
TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
An(/ ICC know tlifit |c(N thitig's worh together {me good to itlirm ltluit iovc God, fo them jw/io pre the
culled according to lii,i imriHine.
For Kings Mountain. folk, the
occasional snows are i^ulte invl||-
oraOng. , ,
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Most of our atidWdi (HjttU the
Weekend’s) don’t slAyt'ltMint lonfg)
and old and young the'
snow sports ot shawbwiritg and
sculpture.
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Only occasionally is there,
enough, with accompanying fre««'l
ing weather to make a sled from
•Santa Claus a useful Investment:
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Not so this weekend.
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Cleveland County residents ex
perienced their deepest snowfall
since 1902 the past weekend fts
ah afficial 15 inches was repaid-
ed.
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Some folks here are saying the
heavy aceumutation df snow
over the weekei.d was 18 inches,
and up, depending on the area
you lived. According to a nowd
story in the Herald 10 years ago
this week, Burgin Falls, the naa-
son, was commenting, after a
light snow, on the time he was
helping to build a building for
the Hu'JsonJEssex folks in Char-i
lotte. The snow totaled 14 inches
in depth. But they started laying
brick again by noontime thenejet
day. Tliat must have been pretty
cold work.
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Snow Notes....
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For the first time in 20 years,
Dewey Styers, the local deliVfry-
man for the Charlotte Observer,
failed to make his route. Several
deliveries he made, about 150
copies, at the cost of two set's of
chains, after being “stuck Up"
and waiting two hours for a
wrecker to pull him out.
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Other folks who were out-of'
town for the weekend slipped and
slid for hours before they reach
ed home.
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Charles Moss, textile executive,
thought he was making good
time on what he considered his
normal run from Phoenix City,
Ala. to Greenville, S. C. Leaving
KINGS MOUNTAIN^
Hospital Logw
VISITING^ HOURS
3 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 8 p.m.
Dally 10:30 To 11:30 aan.
PA'HENTS IN KINGS MOUNTAIN
HOSPITAL AS OF NOON WED.
NESDAY:
Mr. Dalton Alexander
Mr. Wesley Bailey
■Miss Odessa Black
Mrs. W. M, Bonds
.Mr. Claude Palmer t'amj)
Mrs. Waller Gamble
Mrs. Lena Gdforth
■Mrs. Bythia Hammett
Mrs. Alice Harmon
Mrs. M. L. Harmon, Sr.
Mrs. Mattie Melton
Mr. Bracey .Moore
Mr. William Peterson
Miss Aldo Phifer
Mrs. Campbell Phifer
Mr. Christi Reynolds
Mrs. Della Rippy
Mr. Oscar Tharrington
.Mrs. M. H. Riser
Miss Nancy Childers
Roy Lee Chitwood
Mrs. Fred Dulin
Mrs. George Gordon
.Mr. .M. L. Harmon, Sr.
Valorie Hopper
Mr. J. D. fiord
Mr. William Houser
Mrs. Sidney Huffstetler
.Mrs. Mae Francis Johnson
Mrs. -Mack Jordan
Viewpoints of Other Editors
THAT OLD FEELING
It seems some Congressmen^
Who live in Montgomery County, I
Md., are up in arms because thej'
have to pay the county's incorhe
tax. One, Rap. Olln Teague of
Texas, has refused to pay and is
being hauled into court for a test Aubrey Mauney of Kings
g ■ I Mountain was one of the eight
new directors of Boys Home of
Ten Years Ago
Items of interest which occur-
3d approximately ten years ago
ROOT CAUSE OF CRIME
Miss .Shirley Lonsford
Mrs. Charles Meick
Mrs. Willie Moore
Mrs, William Morgan
Mrs. Gaddis Oweius
Mrs. Lalah Page
Mrs. Lottie Richaixls
Mrs. Jesse Rippy
Mrs. Ida Smith
•Mr. Martin L. Wilson, Sr.
Mrs. Clara Wright
ADMITTED THURSDAY
Lori Ann Barber, Rt. 1, Cily
Mrs. Claude Couch, Ji'iOi) Par
dale Circle, City
Mrs. Billy Carthers, 511 W. Air
line Ave., Gastonia
Thurman Jenkins, Jr. 123(1 Sec
ond St. Ext., City
Mrs. Don Sigmon, 90S FirsI St
■Mrs. Charles Ramsey, Box tl23,
Greenville at 4 p.m. Sunday Ke tax
encountered a roaxiblock at the
Hercules Power Company plant.
“For an hour and 20 minutes v(re
didn’t move”, he recallsr tte fin
ally arrived in Spartanburg, S. C.
at 10:30 p.m. and home to King^
Mountain at 3:30 a.m. Monday
morning.
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Two cars of local ARP’s in
cluding Mrs. John L. McGill, her
sister. Miss Ava Ware, Mrs. Gar-
The Congressmen, it should be
noted, would not have to pay the
tax U they pay as much or more
imheir fibme states. So the justifi
cations they give for claiming
special treatment have a decided
ly holldw Hrtf. ParticAtlaTly so
since it seems some of them have
reportedly threatened to retali
ate for the affront by holdlijg up
It^Ural funds to which the coun
ty and Statie afe apparently en
titled. This, of course, would be
a gross abuse of office.
^ep. Teague and the rest ought
North Carolina, N. C. of Lake
Waccamaw, elected February 8th.
The vast majority of Americans
are seriously concerned about the'
mounting crime rate all across i city
this nation. Unfortunately, too | ADMITTED FRIDAY
many refuse to face the fact that] Mr. Earl Carpenter
much of the crime which exists I city
Box ii2-l,
in our beloved country is because
the law enforcement agencies ig
nore certain types of law viola
tors. For ages the courts of thir
rison Goforth, and Mr. and Mrs.ltp quietly pay up their taxes, like
Bill Moss made up a party to I the hwt of us, and confine their
Point Lookout over the Weekend • complaints to coiictall parties and
for a church gathering.
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"We were on I-S5 moving .south,
with chains, and thought' we h.ad
no problems,” recalls Mrs. Mc
Gill. “Ail of a sudden wo couldn’t:'
move anymore,
such.
After all, we ■wouldn’t want our
Congressmen to forget what it
feels like, would we?
Wall Street Journal
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BABXA. CANOLI. AND
rAtoGE
It’s not only that we lament
It was 10 a.m. .Monday when:
their party arrived - home after-
spending the night on 1185 south the passing of the neightoorht^
from Point Lookout and Grw-n- bakery, with its trays of pastries
ville-HendersonvlUe highway. and pie-squares and cream puffs
a-a I in the window outside of which
And then there Were the 21' stood small Iwys thinking about
Boy Scouts and seven adults frwn. what they would buy if only they
-Myers Park Methodist .church of had a nickel.
Charlotte who were snt^-boutw: put a countiy’s pastry is an in
at the battleground.
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Citizens likely will approve or nation refused to enforce the
Mrs. Dalton Monrey, Gen. DG
Bessemer City i
■Mrs. Fred Camp, P. O. Box -13,
disapprove four year city elective
terms at this May election.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
City
Mrs. James Early, 606 Jaekaiii
St., City
ADMITTED SATURDAY
Miss Amanda Hallman, 416 Vi
Ballard St., Cherryville, N. t'
Christopher Eumgardner,
Fairviow .St., City'
MnD'ackson Campbell, 231
laws which provided that there
should be no discrimination a-
gainst American citizens because
of their race, creed or color.
Jn a foimal Valentine wedding.
Miss Patricia Hayes and James I citizens .were denied the right
Kdward Latta were m-arried Sat-jm vote betiause of their skin
uiday at 7 p.m. in Central Meth- j color. They werei barred from Rocky 'Knole Dr., Charlotte
odist church. i public schools and- colleges, and Mr.s. Jerry Price, Rt. 3, B;
Double-ring vows, exchanged' ^''.^0 a few are per- City p,,,,„cck 112
Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m. m I ° n? Bess “City
Central Methodist church, united | citizens are 2 Ci-v
Miss Dorothy Frances Goforth I Permi ted to enjoy quality of: Mrs Elmo O"™’- ^
.„d An.hon, Dl»n I" . ""Bi “m? cV
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marriage.
i when they seek to purchase a ADMITTED SUNDAY
I home. Even religious institutions I Mrs. Gladys Sellers,
Box S113,
Letter To Editoi
! bar them as equals.
Furthermore, law enforcement
agencies give certain 'types of
I criminals preferential treatment.
An Open L,etter to the Citizens Embezzlers iwho gyp the poor, in
of Cleveland County;
many instances, are never arrest
ed and if they are, they are dis-
Not near enough citizens real- charged with a pat on the wrist,
ize the importance of our volun-iMany politicians have become
teer units and the important I rich by shady deals with con-
worit they carry on every day. | traotors.
And what many citizens will not. , 1
realize is that with this snow, we Logic decrees that as long as
would have had a major emer-| ^«’s are not enforced, there will
gendy had it not been for the fine' ^ disrespect for all laws. This
® ** __ . new'snaDGr 155 nnsitivnlv nnnnsGrf
After a night With' tents col-
lapsing, they were cold and wet
Sunday morning. 'Their cars wepe.
drifted in and they couldn’t build
cooking fires in the snow.
that night they wefe wtlfhljfi
home.
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One of the Scout leaders and
a Senior Patrol leader hilfed »
mile and a half in knee-deep snow
for help. A tractor couldn't pijUt*
it down the steep, winding rqa^
to pull the cars out, so tboy loolo
ed for a telephone and tjie rescue
was laun'chtd. About 11:30 a-nj-
Sunday the Cleveland County
Rescue Squad began the evacua
tion. With help also from the
York Rescue Squad and the Na
tional Guard, the boys were
brought Off the mountain in res
cue vehicles.
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The first Scouts got to resdue
headquarters in Kings Mountain
i-bout 1 p.m. and watdied tele
vision until the last group arriv
’d about 3. The National Guard
brought some of the equipment
idjvn, but other equipment wae
'eft, pending a thaw. Two or
'hree tents were ripped by the
mow and two or three tarps
were lost. The Scouts arrived
back in Charlotte aibout 6 p.m.
3undaiy.
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Weather forecasts were calling
'or one to three inches of snow
m the Piedmont.
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Damages from snow in the lo
'al area were relatively light.
Snow crushed the Belk’s a'wning
In downtown Kings Mountain.
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I, and a lot of folks, dfan’t
make it to work Monday. My au
tomobile, a '62 Chevrolet, le still
parked «t home.
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But thanks to a team of city
ijf it« character. And present |
J^j'4y4nix methods of pastry h
maWn$'.L in which one or twoiments did lis perfectly clear that this nation
kinds of basic commercial ^ «*iTht and will never have law and order
and
are used, camt^flaged in the^*'iairersl“"«l is assured to all citi
ent glasangs and shapes — reveali still ^oit^g- to t ^, ^.ens. Those who control govern
a flOt-yeasted sameness in Amer-[Iwho work^^overt™
fcon Itte-
Ferhaps the erosion of the eth-j bare of so^ traffic themselves
k)ic dlstinctnees of the earlier half in their private cars-
dfentury, with newly arrived Pol
iih and Italian an4 Irish immi
grants, has been partly the cause
of the change in flour-based
goods. Authentic babka, capoli,
and radge, once the nelgWborhpod
Bokery’i mainstays, can scarcely
be bought now.
For anything like a grandmoth
erly reiNroduction of such goodies,
it is up to today’s mother to buy
the fixings herself and, recipe
book in hand, reinvoke the earli
er, less fast but at least full-yeast-
ed era’s delights.
Christian, Science Monitor
a double standard of justice- one
for the rich and powerful and
deliverir^ nurses to and from another for the poor and ne^-dy.
the hosDitms program which refuses to
the hospital | basic fact will fail to a-
heiping keep traffic flowing by hollsh crime in our streets or
pulling out stalled autos (over60'anywhere else,
stalled at one hill at one time)
The buses were running Monday,
if nof on schedule. Some mills
were running Monday, with skel
eton crews. B}' Tuesday, every
thing was almut to get back on
schedule.
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No major wrecks were report
ed by city police. Rescue squads,
police and volunteer firemen have
delivering patients to the hos-i
pitals I
relivering doctors j
taking medicine to citizens who!
could not get out |
taking other citizens with es-t
sential jobs to work, such as tele-!
phone operators |
helping families whose heat I
failed, to get to other shelteT
with heat j
delivering food in emergency;
cases '
delivering food in emergency I
cases I
delivering fuel oil for heat I
helping out stuck police ve-
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Philadelphia Tribune
City
Donna Rao radenhead, 613
Washington St., Sholhy
Mr. Hal Ferris, 519 S. Moriclt.i
St., Gastonia
ADMITTED MONDAY
Mr. Boyce Patterson, 26 Man-
ney Ave. Ext., City
Mrs. Gussie Rayfield, 102 N.
City St., City
Mrs. Clyde Ander.son. 2621
dow St., Gastonia
Mrs. Kenneth Short, 112 Stowe
Acres
Mrs. James Patterson, Rt. 1,
Blacksburg, S. C. '
Mrs. Thomas W. Robinson, Jr
Rt. 3, Box 78, City
■Mrs. W. Ray Clark, Rt. 1, fies-
semer City
Donna Sliipton, Rt. 1, Smyrna
S. C.
Mrs. Lewis Moore, 4-100 M:ir-
grace. City
Mr. William Oliver, Rt. 1, flt-'i-
ver
Mrs. Charles Williams, SOS X.
Piedmont, City
Mrs. Dewey Jenkins, Rt. 2, Bes
semer City
Mrs. John F. Beil, 809 E)J»"
St., City
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helping industry
at the same time doing all the,
been aiding hospital personnel inj dail yjqbs they usually do in res-
tfettlng back and forth to work.'cue and ambulance service and
Bl.nt I answering fire calls
It’ll be back to books for the
school papulation today, though
classes will resume an hour later
than usual. School Buildings will
be open at the regular time.
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Drug Stores and service sta
tions on Monday did a booming
And all of the above on a 24-
hour basis these men never re
ceive any pay for their services
and on behalf of Cleveland Coun
ty, the County Commissioners and
our Department, I want to pub
licly thank all of them from the
bottom of my heart for ail these
^sinws. Motorisri needed chains „ outstanding fabulous serv-
for their cars. The local 7-11
store sold out of vanilla flavor-
Kings Mountain, N. C.
ing, milk and sugar
cream runs.
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Wednesday, the street
for snow
crews
employees working around the were still at work, the snow was
clflCk aSkvntihYn streets werilovbr for now, put the teriHiOra'
ItiB Tt
passible Monday an
Tuesday, ttife wAe hetdea-up.
Office of Emergency
Services
J. Don Shields
Coordinator
tfevrs & Weather every hour on the
hour. Weather every hour on the
half hour.
Fine entertainment in het-ween ‘