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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C.
Thursday, October 9, 1969
Established 1889
I* The Kings Mountain Herald
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enlightenn.ent, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain
and its vicinity, pubiished every Thursday by the Heraid Pi^biishing House.
Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086
under Act of Congress of Marcii 3, 1873.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher
Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Miss D(‘bbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
I (im Ihc r.ord yiiiir ni)il;’u-iilk in my still lit rs, nnil kii'ii my jiiilymnits, nnil do thrm.
Honeymoons Do End
A beautiful young matron who is also
an excellent pianist was asked it she
plays anymore. Ilei' reply; “Only when
I'm angry at my husband.’’
Well, honeymoons do end as couples
.settle to the routine side of living, such
as rearing eliildren and keeping the roof
palched.
Honeymoons end for Presidents of
the United States, too, as all could at
test. George Washington had his troul)les
and Aliraliam Lincoln hardly enjoyed a
single day of hli.ss. Woodrow Wilson died
a disappointed man, his League of Na
tions di'eam punctured l)y Henry Cabot
Ijodgi', the elder. Franklin D. Roosevelt
had as long as any — into his second
term. Harry 'rruman started out as “that
poor little man in Ihe While House”. The
Lyndon Johnson story is recent.
Today’s is that of President Richard
Milhous Nixon.
The continuing Vietnam war, a
plague on .lohn.son, is now Nixon’s. And
recently there has been the delfaele of
the Green Herets, the Haynesworth
judgeship n(.'mtnalinn, fight-money, riot
ing and student unrest.
The President is facing revolt, even
within his own Republican ranks, which
is the minority party in both houses ot
the Congress.
Cliarges of a credibility gap are now
being leveled at the Nixon administra
tion as they were at Johnson’s. He is
being chided for weekending way from
Washington too muen, remindlul of the
criticism of Eisenhower who, it was said,
spent too much time at Burning Tree
golf course.
So it goes.
Why would anyone aspire to \yhat
has been called the world’s most difficult
job?
Quiet Anniversary
The 189th anniversary of the Battle
of Kings Mountain was I'ather quiet here
abouts.
There were no parades, no patriotic
speeches.
One flag was seen flying at the home
of .Sam Suher, other than those raised
daily at pul)lic buildings and a business
firm or two.
Time was when the anniversary was
an anual event of note. The was big in
1930 at the sesqui-centennial when Pres
ident Herbert Hoover was the leading
star of a star-studded celebration.
Big celebrations were restored in
1965 when Secretary of the Army Stan
ley Resor paid call and the following
year when then-Seeretary of the Navy
Paul Nitze tollowed suit.
The Herald knows quite w'ell the
heavy work attached to a celebration of
this kind on the part of many people.
Some cash is required, too. But the ben
efits arc worth the work and change.
Hopefully 1970, the 190th annivers
ary, will be observed in more deserving
fashion.
Scirv Proposal
The Sales Tax
In an effort to give hard-pressed
counties financial relief, the General
Assembly enacted a bill w'hereby coun
ties would receive bounty from a one
per cent sales tax provided the citizens
vole it on November 4.
The one per cent additional take,
along with the traditional three which
is fully state retained, w’ould find 50 per
cent paid in a county rebated by the
slate revenue department, the other 50
per cent being pooled and rebated to
• participating’ counties on a per capita
basis. Counties where the majority of
citizens vole nay would not participate
in the pool.
The pooling provision is a potential
boon to the small poor counties which
would get a piece ol Ihe collection from
the large counties. This provision looks
unfair on face, but it isn’t. Raleigh, Dur
ham, Asheville, Charlotte, Winston-Sa
lem and Greensboro, among other cities,
are trading centers lor their areas and
many sales tax dollars are collected in
these cities from citizens of surrounding
cities and counties.
The Cleveland County board of com
missioners is urging passage and their
strained financial situation makes the
need aparent. Prices are increasing and
the only real avenue for increasing reve
nue is increased ad valorem taxes, al
ready considered by many as either high
or too high.
The climate, of course, is anything
but good at the moment for citizen ap
proval of any kind of tax, the people not
having yet injested, without indigestion,
the new state taxes on cigarettes and
soft drinks nor the aded two cents per
gallon on gasoline.
Newspaper Week
, This week each year newspapers of
the United States, big, little and in-be
tween, observe National Newspaper
week—an official time for tooting of
thine own horn else the same shall not
be tooted.
That’s not necessarily the w-ay it is.
Newspaper circulations continue to in
crease and we’re proud to relate that our
kind readers, as contained in a legal
notice appearing in the Herald this week
and as reported to the Postoffice Depart
ment, have boosted circulation above
3,000. Since the average family in North
Carolina is 3.9 persons (1960 U. S. Cen
sus), the Herald is serving approximate
ly 12,000 persons.
Not much has been said recently a-
bout tile so-called federal income tax
reform bill in which favored tax treat
ment to local government bonds (state,
county, city, school district), return on
which is now tax exempt, wmuld become
subject to federal income tax.
While the full amount of interest
on these bonds would not be taxed un
der the propo.sal, the change would prove
a deterrent to the sale of this type
bonds.
To bring the case home, the city
sold its bonds for the water project at
an average of 5.28 percent. Meantime,
an school bond issue in Pennsylvania
found no bidders, as none were interest
ed in even six percent bonds, that being
the limit payable according to Pennsyl
vania law. A Chicago issue went begging
for the same reason.
The North Carolina law was the
same until the General Assembly raised
the payable rate to eight percent in the
recent session.
‘ Meantime, federal estimates are
that the new proposal would increase
federal annual income no more than 835
million.
That would be very little compared
to the increased cost to states, counties
and citii^s-
Bulk of the Herald circulation is
right here at home, about 75 percent
through 25 dealers here and in Grover.
Some papers go to servicemen in
Vietnam, Germany and other places
where American fighting men are on
duty.
We were interested in a feature in
the Wednesday Charlotte Obsei-ver on
the 50th anniversary of Brodie Griffith’s
entering the world of newspapering. He
caught on with the Greensboro Record
in 1919, for years was managing editor
of the Charlotte News and is now asso
ciate publisher of the Observer - News
operation.
A kind and mild-mannered man, it
was stated, he could put up with about
anybody except a reporter careless with
the facts. That one got fired fast.
A newspaper’s principal business is
reporting the facts. Though his ad%’er-
tisers sustain him with bread and meat,
a newsspaper’s first duty is to his read-
This Herald attempts to follow, as
it will continue to do.
MARTINS
MEDICINE
Ingredients: Bits of humor,
vitsdom, humor and com
ments. Directions: Take
weekly, if possible, but a-
void overdosage.
By MAR'nN HARMON
Bennott Masters says the boss,
Ollie Harris,- hadn’t made an am
balance trip in six years until
Sunday. It just happened to be to
Atlanta and Ollie figured to be
killing two birds with one stone
as he would see the Bravos Mets
game—if he could get a ticket.
HAVE YOU PITCHED IN?
KINGS MOUNIAIN
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He went to the stadium early,
only to find the ticket office clos-
I ed. A crowd was already on hand
i and a man aproached and asked
I Ollie if he needed a ticket. “I sure
Ido,’’ Ollie replied enthusiastically,
fully expecting to p.iy the man
$20.
Ollie pulled out his wallet and
flapped it open, asking, "How
much!” The man appeared startl
ed. and replied, "Just $3, just the
price ot the ticket.” Ollie gave
him $.5.
Ollie guessed that his coroner’s
badge, appended to .the inside of
the wallet made the man think
Ollie was a law enforcement of
ficer on the lookout for scalpers.
On the back of the ticket stub
was a warning that selling the
ticket for more than the basic
price was illegal, both federally
and in the State of Georgia.
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Viewpoints of Other Editors
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TRANSPORTATION i
ROADBLOCKS
It seems sensible that a shipper
should be able to get a single rate
on a shipment that moves by
Ollie called home before the
game started, told the boys at the ^ ^
shop if they wanted to see him | —qj. by any two
i on television to look over into the
leftfield bleachers behind the
shortstop.
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“It wasn't much of a game,”
Ollie commented, “but I’m glad
I saw it.’
of those modes. After all, a grow
ing number of cargoes do move in
THE MEASURE OF
TRAGEDY
Emotionally all Americans rec
ognize the Vietnamese war as a
tragedy, but intellectually they
have trouble grasping the concept
They cling to the typically Amer
ican belief that if they find the
hundred thousand South Vietnam
ese whose crime was putting their
trust in the United States of
America. Those who talk about
such combined ways, and it’s both| right combination of levers there
unreasonable and inefficiejit to re-1 will be an easy way to end the
quire a shipper to deal iwith mul
tiple rates and massive paper
work.
A key roadblock, of course, is
that various Government agencies
I oversee the various means ot
I transportation. Even when the
transportation companies get to
gether to offer a joint rate, get-
agony.
In this respect Senator Charles
E. Goodetl’s resolution calling for
the withdrawal of all U.S. forces
by December 1970 is better than
most. The policy it would man
date is absolutely cogent; Wash
our hands of the affair and hang
the consequences. We think the
whether continued war is “poli
tically acceptable” miJ^ht also
ponder whether the American
people will re-elect a President
who presides over such a specta
cle.
Ticket scalping is illegal ini ting the Federal agencies together Senator vastly underestimates
North Carolina, but apparently! can be quite another matter,
is not, as least as far as theatre Recently the Interstate Corn-
tickets are concerned, in New
York or Massachusetts, where the
trade is a business. In fact, the
merce Commission, showinig un
usual initiative, did approve the
establishment of joint rates for
scalping trade is iwhat helps put i international cargo, covering ship-
shows on the road. Considerable j ments mot'ing by truck, railroad
risk is involved, of course, for and ocean ships. But that brought
some shows lay an egjg, as variety i a howl from the Maritime Corn-
puts it, & close in a week. j mission, which stressed that sea
going rates were none of the
m.ju I ICC’s business; the Commerce
(Commission thereupton suspended
went to a ticket agent and got'^f H tL Mlrufme
little satisfaction until he placed 1 Board and the Maritime
a ten spot on the counter Jhisj ^
rhettf.ee sho^s but not the third. rTv'^thr^rjufatofs’^heir
lust not anv ickets the aeent!regulators their
declared. Mr Pefler’ came with ^ transportation
those consequences, but the stark
ness of his proposal is an import
ant contribution to intelligent de
bate. At least he proposes an al
ternative that does exist.
We’re not at all sure the same
thing can be said for more “mod
erate” proposals for ertding the
war. Some apparently serious
people sem to believe, for exam
pie, that itcan be ended by offer
ing to give the Vietcong a “fair
share” of political power in the
South, which we imagine would
be someiwhere around 20'r. Some
Reelecuon of any particular
President, to be sure, is only
sympomatic of the broader poli
tical-social costs at issue. Yet pre
cisely in these broad terms we
see little in world history to sug
gest that military defeat is gpod
for a nation’s domestic problems,
and little in the bitter aftermath
of the Korean War stalemate to;
Suggest that his nation is one of
the exceptions. Some generals are
already saying they could have
won the war if unleashed. And as
is being more widely recognized,
white-working-class America is
'already seething with discontent
against the prevailing establish
ment. Fo rour part, we have no
desire to see what, say, George
Wallace could do with a stab-in-
the-back theme.
If these are the likely costs of
traumatic withdra'wal, it’s easy to
another ten. “Oh, let me look a-
gain,” said the agent, and the
tickets were acquired.
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“My mother sure did raise cane
on Dad’s largess,” Sonny relates,
“but he wouldn’t admit to being
wrong. He replied that they had
spent a fair sum getting to the
big city and it would prove a pret
ty sorry trip if they couldn’t do
what they wanted.”
My late Aunt Laura Plonk was
charges. The lawmakers may not
have realized that the agencies
would use their powers, quite fre
quently, not to enhance competi
tion but to protect transportation
companies from it.
The whole setup is in nee dof
overhaul. Surely it should be evi
dent that joint land-sea-air rates
are ofie sort of combination that
could promote not only efficiency
but also competition.
will continue that drive by all
means including shooting and
killing whenever he deems the
moment ripe.
To end an encounter with that
kind of foe through an honest
compromise simply does not fit
the tragic themes the script has
Wall Street Journal I followed so far. Our role and our
UPLIFTING NEWS I honor, ot course, call for contin-
Relax girls. The United States! uing to strive for such a compro-
Department of Labor says the! tnise. But we need not delude our-
long-range outlook for jobs as! selves; it is likely to prove a mi-
one of the most persuasive people| secretaries looks supercalifragi-'
I've ever known. She was in Bos-: listieexpi . . . (great). I senator Goodell’s credit, he
ton when I was there in 1943 and I in other words, technology | recognizes as much. Also to his
Shakespeare’s “Othello” was play-i poses no threat to the ga] who:j,re,;it he is responding to the
ing to sellout crowds. She was can type, take shorthand and per-j g^f“ej’yp3tion. no compromise
form other offiw amenities in-: ggjjjpnient is forthcoming, what
people even profess to think that| understand why the Nixon Ad-
onoe this is done free and honest: ministration is withdrawing only
elections can follow. | gradually and carefully. If nego-
This is, among other things, ani tiations continue to yield no re
insulting underestimation of our| suit, it seems likely the Adminis-
antagonist. He is not a bandit tration will continue to pare down
who can be bought off with a fewlU. S. combat forces-looking less
cabinet posts. He is a zealot who; to complete withdrawal than to
religiously believes that the ma-J maintaining a smaller and less
jesty of history entitles him toi burdensome force, but still one
rule Indochina. From this stand ! large enough to help the South
point, the only honorable thing I Vietnamese prevent a Commu-
to do with partia Ipower will bejnist victory.
to use it as a stepping-stone in, obvious
his drive for total power, and he
one thing, as Joseph
Mrs. Celia S. Bonds
Mrs. Percy F. Dlllipg
Lawson Harold Dover
Mrs. Georginanna J. Good
Jay Green '
Mrs. Rives Hayes
Mrs. Mattie T. Hill
Mrs. Eva K. Humphries
John Henry Kendrick
Mrs. Cora E. Laughter
Mrs. Mary B. Melton
Mrs. Emma L. Ramsey
Mrs. Annie L. Thompson
Mrs. Miles R. Boyd
John Thomas Dill
Lester Lee Dorty
Mrs. Gerald I. Eaker
Mrs. Marie C. Fewell
Mrs. Jack E. Gaddy
Patsy Gail Garrett
Mrs. Robert J. Hagens
Mrs. J. P. Harris
Mrs. Alma B. Hovis
Sidney Dulin Huffstetler
William Lawrence Moss
Mrs. Olland R. Pearson
Elijah Ross
Mrs. Mary R. Bush
Lawrence Carl Spicer
Mrs. Willie J. Williams, Jr.
Mrs. Connie S. Wylie
ADMITTED THURSDAY
Mrs. Bessie S. Wilson
Mrs. Julius E. Wood
ADMITTED FRIDAY
Mrs. Ronald Byers
Mrs. George R. Smith
admitted SATURDAY
Charlie Hort Corry
Betty Jean Short
ADMITTED SUNDAY
Vicky Diane Pasour
Mrs. Rushie C. Philbeck
Mrs. Billy W. Shuford
Mrs. Robert G. Wilson
ADMITTED MONDAY
Mrs. Minnie B. Burris
Mrs. Mattie T. HUl
Himmons G. Goforth
Mrs. Stanley Pearson
Mrs. Elmer G. Ross
Paul Wesley Walker
ADMITTED TUESDAY
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determined to see it. She, too,
found a ticket agent, paid $7 each
for our two tickets, which in that
day was a grandiose price. Of
cludirtg brightening the often te
dious atmosphere a bit.
Despite new copying machines.
course, our seats were third row, dictating equipment and automat-
orchestra center. jic typewriters, a Manoower Ad
ministration - sponsored study
do we do then? Further, his
answer of complete and unilateral
withdrawal would end the Amer-
Alsop has been pointing OiUt re
cently, the Communits borders to
fall on the smaller U. S. forces.
At worst, there could be an out
right military defeat. At best,
careful withdrawal guarantees no
quick enid to the war, only a re
duction in the U. S. participation.
The Administration’s evident
course obviously is no happy one,
but it looks a little better when
you also look clearly at the alter
natives.
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I was in Plonk’s Tuesday after-1 well into the mid 70’s. The hu-
noon where a photographer spe-imanists will be delighted. And so
cializing in baby pictures was at!'will the nonhumanists, we sus-
work. I asked if he’d take a pic-J pect. Atlanta Journal
ture of my boy. Why, sure. The
ladies present laughed. "He’s a]
Boston terrier,” I told tile photo-1
grapher. “I was afraid of some
thing like that,” the photographer
replied. If we could control Sir
Winston, he would make the pic-j
ture. I
Ten Years Ago
Items of interest which occur-
?d approximately ten years ago
ican casualties in this particular
war. But we very much doubt it
would provide a happy ending.
Tile Communists would take
over South Vietnam by military
force, which would be a cheap
enough price if the international
e.'i.ects stopped there. But just as
' the American debacle at the Bay;
‘ of Pigs helped prompt the Soviet!
! initiatives leading to the Cuban;
j missile crisis, so we expect Amer-
i ican defeat in Vietnam would en-,
courage the adventcrists through-
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j Carole Plonk, daughter of Dr. j the Communist world. We do
and Mrs. George W. Plonk and, ^^t kno whether the next crisis
jli gh school senior, is this year’s I would break out in Thailand, Ber-
I i-eeipicut of the Good Otizen a-1 south America or elsewhere,
»ct 1..-^ I ward from Colonel Frederick’ but we do feel that over the long
‘Now be sure to give him a bath
and brush his hair real good!”
biowe teased,! pjau^i-ight chapter DAR.
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As it happened, the dog had had
a recent bath, and he didn’t per
form badly at all. Bwt he winced
as the flash bulbs flashed.
Harris Funeral Home will hold
open house Saturday and Sunday
a'.'temoons from 3 to 7 o’clock,
and is Inviting the public to in
spect its recently renovated and
expanded facilities.
SOCIAL AUD PERSONAL
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Stowe, Jr.
announce the engagement of her
daughter. Miss Betty Sue Kirby,
to Pvt. Robert E. (Bob) Morris,
I hope the shots are good. After
all (be dog is four years old thisj , .
month. He deserves a picture. of Kings Mountain.
run a show of American irresolu
tion is likely to result in worse
crises, not easier ones.
A Communist take-over in Sai
gon also would be likely to make
American domestic discord worse
—not better a sis so often and so
glibly suggested. Judging by what
happened subsequent to Commu
nist victory in North Vietnam and
during Communist occupation ofj
Hue during 1968, we can assume
their victory in the South would |
lead to the massacre of several
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