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f&qe 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, March 6, 1969 Eitablished 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published lor the enlightennient, 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., 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3,1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper Dave Weathers, Supt. MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Allen Myers Paul Jackson Steve Martin SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE OI’E YEAR... .$3.50 SIX MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX MARTIN’S MEDICINE BT MARTIN HARMON Put‘ing together a property package Involving two, four or. five owners has never been one of life’s easier chores and the problenw multiply several-fOld as each additional owner is add ed. A Sower Went Forth To Sow Ten Years Ago »*•*•.*• !l !tems of interest which occur- Jd a)i}iro‘ximutcly ten years ago I y'l m-ni Thus with the Buffalo Creek lake area, even though the own ers are quite aware ‘hat a city has power of imminent don\aJn and cannot be prevented ifrom acfiuiring the property needed. Conversely, however, anybody with sufh power, with any sense of brotherly love at all, endeav ors ‘o avoid use of the powter of condemnation, a word with ditty connotations in any language. m-m TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE .Ood is aiSpirit: and they thdt worship him must worship him in spirit andintriith. St. John ^:2^. Oh. No! Some late illustrious Gleveland County citizens must be swirling in their graves, e.g., Governor-Ambassador O. Max Gardner, Governor-Senator Clyde Roark Hoey, Judges Jim and Yates Webb, House Speaker Odus M. Mull, Senator Lee B. Weathers, to mention a few. The Shelby district board of educa tion has put the rapier to that interest ing pastime old tainted politics. No more, decrees the board of education, shrill Shelby school-sponsored groups appear at political rallies and no more shall public schools be available for po litical speakings and other outings. It’s all o.k., the board indicated, to join the festivities AFTER the election, provided, of course, the board of educa tion, superintendent and school principal agree. It was not too surprising to see Charlotte - Mecklenburg acting in such manner, particularly when the figure was Democratic Candidate Hubert Hum phrey. Of course, the Charlotte-Mecklen- burgers, the majority long gone to the Republican faith, might have remember ed that it was also Vice-President Hu bert Humphrey. Tainted politics. Well, it should be pointed out that Dr. A. Craig Phillips, new superintendent of public instruction, just happened to be elected to office after leading several in a political primary. Add one more: Shelby Superinten dent of Schools Malcolm Brown is re garded as one of the more astute poli ticians in Cleveland County. Are the schools to teach truth or ostritch policy? To deny the fact of poli tics — because it is controversial — is to deny a prime fact of life and, like the ostritch, put one’s head in the sand when umbrage threatens. The Herald would remind its Shelby friends and other like-minded of Gov ernor Alf Landon’s reply to Eric Seva- ried’s query on whether, in view of his landslide defeat by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936, if he regretted hav ing been a candidate. Mr. Landon replied, “Oh, no! You see very few people have the honor even to have been a candidate for president.” The Herald would also remind that school property is public property and that it, being taxpayer paid, should be made available to any responsible group for any responsible purpose with a lone restriction: that the event does not inter fere with school functions, and there may be some important exceptions here. The young folk in Charlotte would have learned quite a lot more ^om a 30- minute talk by Vice-President-Candidate Humphrey (or Vice-President-Candidate Nixon) than from several days in the classroom. Those Kings Mountain horn-tooters of 1936 will never forget the exciting pri- marv-eve rally in Shelby for guberna torial candidate Clyde R. Hoey. pose bandsmen were there, as they should have been, and will never forget it. Sdioty For School Ward 6 Annexation to the city of a large area to the southwest dictates the crea tion of a sixth ward. Initially, with an estimated popula tion of 450 to 500 voters may be the smallest, population-wise, in the city. However, a residential development is already on the drawing boards and, with building space scarce in other parts of the city, will likely be among the fastest growing sections during the next few years. Political implications largely con cern the office of mayor. Under present arrangement, the mayor is the non-voting sixth wheel, ex cept in event of a tie. This could occur only if a member or members were ab sent or if a member or members abstain ed from voting. In one way, the addition of a sixth member tends to give the mayor slightly added power, in event of 3-3 votes by commissioners. Looked at from the opposite side, addition of a sixth member increases the chances of a mayor’s being put on the spot. Actually, there haven’t been many even split votes since the 1951-53 Still- Administration. The decision to retain present boun daries of the 30-year-old five wards is a simple answer to the question of Ward 6 enfranchisement when there is need for speedy legislative action to imple ment the enfranchisement. A General Assembly bill has been introduced, or will be, to provide that local agencies of government be permit ted to do their own precinct-arranging without having to get legislative action. Whether the bill passes or not, the next administration will have two years in which to study the matter of chang ing ward boundary lines. Since everybody votes for everybody in the Kings Mountain set-up, every commissioner is everybody’s commis sioner and every constituent is every commissioners' constituent. Bonds Sold High? The late Governor-Senator Clyde R. Hoey, no wild-eyed liberal, had a logical answer to critics of the rising national debt and weaved it into virtually every speech of the many he made. “Worry not,’’ said Mr. Hoey, “for we’re only paying two percent interest for the money. We used to pay six per cent. We can owe three times the money for the same cost.’’ Those days are not today. Thus Kings Mountain, rated an “A” risk by Moody’s Investor’s Service, will pay average interest on its 37-year, $3 million water bond issue of 5.28 percent. How many of the half-dozen recom mendations of the West School Parent- Teacher Association safety committee can or will be Implemented is not known, perhaps all of them. However, one of them appears quite questionable, the one which would make traffic on Watterson street one-way north between 8 and 9 a.m. and 2 to 4 P.m. ^ ,, Traffic flow is important initially, but one-way situations are bad enough when they are maintained on a 24-houi’, year-around basis. To set a one-vvay sit uation for three hours per day, «ve days a week, nine months per year would find many habit - prone drivers bustin through and saying, “Ooop, I pofed. The other recommendations seem reasonable enough. Indeed the one-side narking might well be extended the full fength dTtW strMt to considerable ad vantage. ' But listen to this. The City of Greensboro, rated a “AA” risk, will pay 5.1074 percent on its 39-year, $6.5. million issue which. North Carolina National Bank, manager of both successful-bid ding syndicates, says will return the highest tax-free yield on any “AA” North Carolina bonds issued since the Civil War. Actually acqui.ing the proper ty, whether by negotiaUon or otherwise, is the frosting on the cake, so to speak, with several cooks having slaved over hot ovens p.reviously. m-in Many were involved in *,he Buffalo kitchen, trampling through the creek bed in the pri or work necessary before land could be acquired. m-m Col. W. K. Dickson, the enigi neer, and Mayor John Henry Moss were among the earliest to traverse ■the 1618-acre area. Col. Dickson, a veteran of both World War I and II, is seventiesh, looks early sixtiesh, and acts fiftiesh. Says the Mayor, “Don’t challenge the Colonel to a walking contest. You’ll lose.” I’ve sampled, though not in such degree, but I believe. m-m IEV3 ;v\ The first week in March was a busy one at City Hall as no less than six citizens posted their filing fees, thereby spi'clfUsi their formal intention ‘o seek public office. Rev. George T. Moore will bo installed as pastor oI Resurrec tion Lutheran church at Sunday morning worship services at 11 o’clock. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Sixty men of the communi‘y will take part in a Womanless Wedding May IS-M sponsored by the Woman’s club. .Mrs. Charles Carpenter is general chairman and Mrs. Fred Withers, director. Other members of the commit'ee are Mrs. Grady Howard, Mrs. Wilson Griffin, Mrs. Charles BlanCon, Mrs. Norman McGill, Mrs. John Cheshire, and Mrs. Paul Nolan. TURNING BACK THE CLOCK ^ Q Baseball executives are given to wondering why their self-styled National Pastime seems to he los ing out to professional football. That wasn’t She way things were a haiit century or so ago, when ha.set>ail had the fans largely to I itself. ( *. ^5 Atnfiy ///cocthm^ I In trying to improve their situ- ' ation, tlicn^h, the bosses appear ' dead set against choosing a I strong commissioner who, con ceivably, might lead them to bet- ! ter things. All of them seem to w'ant to go on doing things in their individual, uncoordinated ways. Viewpoints of Other Editors POST OFFICE POLITICS I Frank Hoyle, of Cherryville, the registered appraiser, was in early, too. Frank was reared on the upper reaches of Muddy Fork' Creek, knew the terrain from boyhood rabbit-hunting days. He, says he managed pretty well,' thougih his stamina didn’t match that on those boyhood hunts, “I never dreamed,” he remarked, "‘hat the creek I hunted would I become a lake.” It has long been apparent that one major problem with the Post Office has been an excess of poli tics. So President Nixon’s decision to end patronage appointments of postmasters and rural mail carriers is surely a step right direction. 1 In the matter of compensating I employes, too, they evidently feel that the players are lucky to get whatever Is offered. With the player now threatening to w-alk out to support theii demand for PICKING A CAMPUS |ball scores. But Wday’s young, . I people are bound neither by' niavoic rio The high school graduate who school tics. ctriuo if thev' do it has the brains and. the money ” ® ' strike. . Maybe if they do, tt may still have di'fficulty finding: Oregon ranks high in the opin- will get the guys who don t warn a college or university to suit his ion of students who venture' be- to play out of the game and give vision of his future. It is of na- yond state boundaries. A recent;,jobs to tho.se who appreciate the' tional interest, therefore, that compilation by the U. S. Office of big leagues.” in the! two seniors at Massachusetts In-^ Education indicated that in 1963 i stitute of Technology have per- more than 6,000 Oregon residents Some of these people are ex-j fected a scheme for computeriz- tremely able. The determining! ing collage selection left the state to attend college, but that more than 9,000 came o The official view, then, -appears- to be that those who run the busi- - m-m Clyde Fesperman, of Shelby,' was chief surveyor, with Sawyer | & Robinson, of Gastonia, aiding him. Also in tow most of the time were Buck Johnson or Den- I nis Fox of the engineering -firm.' {Fox relates, "There had been no 1 surveys in the pas‘ 20 years and 1 most of the area hadn’t been j surveyed since the turn cf the century. We were forced to work on compass bearings. The oaks, pines and big s‘ones were gone.” Fox reported the mosi major variance the line separaiing me properties of Ambrose and Joiin D. Cline. The variance w is 300 ■feet, not ‘00 much of itself, but the line ran 3000 feet to make the variance 900,000 square feet, jor 20plus acres. The surveyors I made at least eigh‘ surveys on that line. ; factor in the appointments, how ever, has not been ability but past service to the party that happens to hold the White House. In the circumstances, it’s not sur prising that many postmasters and rural mail carriers have con tributed to the steady deteriora tion Of the nation’s postal service. There is a chance that Congres could block Mr. Nixon’s move to place the jobs under Civil Serv ice; it could refuse to end the Senate’s power to accent or re- ness of baseball should do pretty /. much as they please, with no ef fective rc,gulation by themselves ' I Oregon from elsewhere to get Their system, “Select,” has been uj„u„„ sold to a leading publisher, Har-! ^ ' or anyone else. And their em- court. Brace & World. It is de-i Incidentally, the “Select” com- ploy-es oi«,>ht to be thankful that signed to match a student’s apti- puter considers living conditions| the bosses let them Aork. tudes and preferences with some;—climate, population density, etc. two million items of data from — which recommend going to col- 3,000 U. S. colleges and univers- le»ge in Oregon, ities and come up with a list of institutions best fitted to his, choice. This may sound superfluous to! readers who remember when a Wall Street Journal The Oregonian X-ray film u.sed annually by student selected his college by t h e Veterans Administrationj jSt“the pMt^‘ appornTmentr B'ut proximity, or tradition, or foot- would cover 2.30,000 acres. I the lawmakers mi)ght find such! action a bit hard to explain back i That, olE course. Is largely the way many businessmen operated a hall! century or so ago. But somehow we can’t help thinking , that baseball’s ills require reme-l^ I dies more rational than merely i ■ turning back the clock. ' m-m A. A. Sargent, vice-president of the site negotia*ing firm, des cribed the surveying problem “as difficult an area as in my experience”. His background: from college to retirement age si‘e negotiation work lor Ameri can Telephone and Telegraph, since with Coates Field Service. Among Coates’ regular clients are Duke Power Company, Geor gia Power & Light, Transconti nental Gas Pipeline, Plantation Pipeline and many o‘hers. m-m home, where growing numbers of their constituents are wondering why it takes so infernally long to gel a letter from hore to there. Civil Service selection of key personnel could have the import ant side advantage of improving postal worker morale. Postal em ployes, many of whom have com- plai.ned of the “dead-end” aspect f the service, at least will know that they have a fair chance to udvance to postmaster jobs them selves. In any case, the decision is no! more than a firststep. Postal un-j ions, coddled by Congress, im pede efforts to make the service more efficient, and many legisla-! tors jealously guard their power , to play around with postal wages and rates. In this connection the Kappel Commission’s proposal for a semi-independent postal cor poration, or some variant of it, may be the answer. Playing politics with the Post Office may be fun for some law makers, but solid step-s to im prove service to the public could, in the end, prove to be the best politics of all. The V,'ull Street Jmimal Coates’ field representative here is Vernon Cheatwood. Ver non reported for his Kings Moun tain duty last July 1 and has been a Kings Mountain residen*. since. Folk in the lake area with! whom he has been negotiating! have appended to him a couple of nicknames, “The Lake Man” and “Kinjfish”. Citing as an example of the tedious de'ail required in obtaining property with a 60-year dear title, he said 22 signatures were required on a deed for a 1.15 acre trac‘. ‘Those folk were spread out everywhere,” he said, “from Delaware to Ohio.” ‘DeGUSTIBUS. . The higher-than-desired interest rate did not mess up Kings Mountain’s water wagon. W. E. Easterling, recently-retired secretary of the Local Government Corn- mission, required that Kings Mountain figure its bond amortization schedule on basis of 5.25 percent interest. And that figuring was just 20 months ago. A prescient prophet, this Mr. Easter ling. m-m Vernon had remarked weeks Parker: "These Kings Mountain folk are the friendliest I’ve ever known and their wives the best ?ooks. I go ‘o talk buying their property and they Invite me to day for dinner. Only trouble Is hat some of’em just don'* want to sell.” m-n My father was born in a house on the West bank of Whiteoak creek. After ‘he lake is built, I shall have to become an aqua naut or acquire a Sealab if I’m ever to see his birthplace again. Maybe Cousin Frank Harmon will help me alleviate my sadness by making me a blooi(Hiin ptiw on a lakeside lot. Is something better, if it ■doesn’t taste better? Like cheese, for instance. In "The Supper of the Lamb,” Robert Capon writes: “I have fed too many teen-agers to have illusions. Given a choice between cheese, for example, they will skirt the Pont I’Eveque ...the Triple Creme, and head with unerring aim for the pre packaged process slices. . . As a confirmed "good” cheese lover, we were about to express whole-hearted agreement with Mr. Capon’s unvoiced shudder, when we remembered the exam ple of the slum children on the farm and the Chinese gourmet, We Til rtcall the story of how children from the city, given farm vacation, complained of the tastelessness of fresh eggs. Just like thetr better-off peers whe prefer process cheese, we were about to say. But then we be thought ourselves of the Chinese, perhaps the world’s most sensi tive cooks and eaters, and their prediltrtiOn for lOO-year-oId eggs. 'Does this or doesn’t it show that the slum children (hence the pro cess cheese eaters) have the finer palate? Of course, we do not ask this question seriously. But, on the other h«tkl, we would find it hard to disprove the thesis. We prefer to go on eating Pont I’Eveque and let someone else wrestle with this question. Christian Science Monitor McGinais Dept. Store Phone 739-3116 S. Bottleground Spring’s the season for the SPEGTAGUI.AII SPEGTATORI The swing to Spring starts in spectators, a lively look tliaf makes you all new! Wear them with suits, with sports, with all your separate go-togothers, in combinations of white. Golden Blonde or Flight Blue smooth leather up pers, $12.95, matching handbag, $7.95. CoMBE’ As sten In March SEVENTEEN ke of th
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