KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Thursday, November 20, 1969
Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Herald
!i Carolma \
Is ASSOClATXr
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enlightenn.ent, entertainment and benefit of tiie citizens of Kings Mountain
and its v.cinity, pubiishecl every Thursday by the Heraid 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 riebbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
Rocky Martain Allen Myers
Jim Caudill Frank Barber Gary Kiser
Paul Jack.son
Ray Parker
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
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
Ingredients: Bits of humor,
unsdom, humor and com
ments. Directions: Take
weekly, if possible, but a-
void overdosage.
My around-the-comer Neigh
bor Hetty Cox remarked, "Bob
says I’ve gone into semi-retii'e
ment."
End of the Trail
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KINGS MOUNTAIN
Hospital Log
VIBITIHO HOURS
3 to 4 p-m. and 7 tp 8 p-ni.
Dolly 10:30 To 11:30 OJn.
wf:
Well, hardly, considering the
duties of a mother to several (in
cluding Col. Bob). Hetty was re
ferring to her moie recent ex
tra-curricula duties a.s Eerrie
Mae, leading member of the oast
of "The Curious Savage", pres
entation of which last weekend
I marked a successful revival of
I the Kings Mountain Little Thea-
TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441
TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Seel: the l.c.rd and his strength, seek his face eon tin nail y. I Chronicles 16:11.
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Among The Elite
Of 7f) North Carolina cities and
townrs. Kings Mountain and neighboring
Shelby are among 14 adjudged among
llie financial elite — at least to the point
of being adjudged likely to be able to
issue voter authorized bonds within the
limits of six percent interest in the tight
est money market in many years.
Tlierc are several “why’s”.
The city has been blessed with good
manageni'Mil, with succeeding adminis
trations keeping a weather eye to its
committments for long-term debt and
meantime keeping a tight rein on oper
ational exiienses.
The major factor, though, dates to
190.1-1908, v.hen the city took on the
function of distributing electric power.
Three administrations collaboiated in
finally [tutting the city into the power
di.striitution business in 1908. The power
system has pi’oduccd a gradually increas
ing pi'ofit through the years which has
permitted a le.ssened demand on ad va
lorem pnijti'rty taxes for required reve
nue.
In 19.31-,14 came natural gas distri
bution, to furtht'i- augment city revenues
and to enable Mayor John Henry Moss
to declare, "The City of Kings Mountain
isn’t much of a tax oolh'ctor, it’s a utility
salesman.”
The current year's budget reflects
the ti'uth of this statement, the lax levy
returning approximately ten percent of
the total revenue
Kings Mountain enjoys an “A”
credit rating with Moody’s, the firm I’e-
gardod as the "bond buyer’s bible”.
Moody’s three pi'incipal rating yard
sticks are euD'cnt financial situation,
laxable base, and past performance in
amortizing bonded indebtedness.
Kings Mountain remains “A” with
a bonded debt at the beginning of the
pi’esent year last July 1 of S4..100,00().
This figure will be reduced .lilTO.OOO to
.84,130,000 liy next June 30. Kings Moun
tain has a don’t-miss l)ond re-payment
record and the current fiscal year is the
city’s peak debt service year.
Kings Mountain was mentioned be
cause the city has 8300.000 in sewer bond
authority not yet issued and has ap
proximately IT months to i.ssue them be
fore the five-.vear detulline, when unused
issue authority passes into limbo.
Sympathizing with those commun
ities in tlie light money s([ueoze, the city
can yet be proud that, in face of largest
public improvements projects in its his
tory retains a Moody “A”.
Mrs. Sallie Baker Fulton
Mrs. Sallie Baker Fulton, who suc-
e”-v,tif.H rpc''ntlv, was another of those
Kings Mountain area citizens, spawned
in the rugc I e",!’ly days of Reconstruc
tion foilowieg the Civil VV'ai.
She and many others were reared
in genuine hard times, withal gleaning
from it a large residue of physical and
spiritual strength.
A lifelong Kings Mountain citizen,
Mrs. Fulton contributed much to the
civic and religious life of Kings Moun
tain as to her family. She was the wife
of Cleveland County’s first mortician,
who also served as chab'man of the
county board of commissioners and a
North Carolina State Senator. Her son
served first as a city commissioner, sub
sequently as mayor.
She was of the old school, truly a
gracious lady.
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Agnew's Blast
Vice-President Spiro Agnew, much-
maligned at times as a consistent victim
of hool-in-mouth disease, gained criti-,
cism anew in some quarters following
his recent blast at television news cov
erage.
Successful it was, both in per
formance and at the box office.
Boots Walker McDaniel, Nan^
Jean Gantt, Mrs. Ken Pruitt, the’
aforementioned Mrs. Cox, and
Bob Forney played leading roles I
in this well - written, line-slick
/
the medic in the show, proved he
was quite iwell cast.
But he won more plaudits than crit
icism, from a wide television audience
sated, at the national level, with race
riost, violence, and calumniation, in
siiuri an accenlualiuii of liie negative.
Mr. Agnew essentially was kind to
newspaper media as 1) having a more
diffused offering to a more diffused au
dience and 2) finding some space at least
for the positive
Some newspapers, of coui’sc, don’t
measure up.
The television industry is hardly
unaware of its problems in what has
been retorred to as ‘instant news”.
The problems were pointed up a
couple of years ago in considerable de
tail by Time Magazine in a cover story
on Walter Cronkite, the eminent tele
vision newsman tor Columbia Broad
casting System. Mr. Cronkite then and
now recognizes the problems, too.
Time itself is one enemy, as the
pressure is continuous to obtain new.s
from all sides of the globe (and with the
moon, above it) on film for a showing
within a day or half-day.
The creed of responsible reporters is
objectively: As Jack Webb intoned in
"Dragnet”, “Give us the facts, all we
want’s the facts.” But as Mr. Agnew
pointed out, divorcing personal ideas and
inclinations from the hard field of facts
is hardiv an exact science.
CBS major effort to improve its
fare, or at least to broaden the menu,
has been the Charles Kuralt features.
Cera inly, it was refreshing on a recent
evening to visit the Connecticutt factory
of the world’s greatest manfacturer of
musical cymbals, be it for the Boston
Symphony or Jazzman Buddy Rich
The Herald anticipates little ill
from the VTce-President’s forcefully-de
livered diatribe and perhaps some good.
Curious At 76
General Lewis B. Hershey, longtime
director of the selective service system,
has impressed throughout his long ca
reer as a man of considerable solidity, a
man who understood his unhappy job
and who related it to the needs of the.
nation.
At 7G, he is retiring next February,
being more or less eased out by Presi
dent Nixon.
Over the weekend, he demonstrated
that he has lost none of his zest nor his
interest in the rights of individuals, nor
his high regard for the nation in which
ho became and remained an outstanding
figure.
He and a niece attended oneof the
anti-Vietnam peace meetings “just to
see”.
The General didn’t regard himself
as charitable when he commented that
the meeting was conducted with decorum
and that the protestors were well within
the bounds of conduct guaranteed by the
Constitution of the United States.
The General further commented
that he and his niece did not agree with
the protest group.
It is interesting that the General re
tains the fairness of thought to give the
devil his duo.
Congratulations to Danny Finger,
named to the 19(19-70 edition of Who’s
Who in American Colleges and Univers
ities
Buy a fruit cake from a Lion, a ta
ble treat for Thanksgiving.
m-m
How soon the next show?
</
m-m
A couple of Friday evenings
ago the Glee E. Bridges family
had something of a fright. Son
Tunmiy, a freshmair"at Cardlinar
called home to relate he was
afoui the influenza bug. Talking
to his Mother, Tommy aaid he
didn’t feel too badly. He’d check
ed by the infirmary, been given
some pills, told to injest loads of
Viewpoints of Other Editors
HOSPITAL LOG
Roltert Adams
Mrs. Celia Bonds
.Mrs, Minnie Burris
Mrs. John C. Caveny
Lawson H. Dover
Jay Green
.Mrs. Minnie L. Harry
Mrs. Effie D. Jackson
' MiS. Cora H. Laughter
Mrs. Manic D. Panther
, Mr.s. John L. Queen
.lesse Lee Ramsey
Mrs. Verna R. Slater
.Sam Williams, Sr.
Mrs. .Miles R. Boyd
Mrs. John A. Gordon
'Phomas W. Grayson, Jr.
Garteul Lee Grlgg
Mrs. James R, Hale
Sidney Dulin Huffstetler
Mrs. Marilyn Hunter
KePx Johnson, Jr.
.Ml'S. Leroy Kale
•lamtus Henrj Milchem
.Mrs. Carl E. Paysour
Mrs. Clyde N. Strickland
Mrs. Woodrow Wells
Willie Gene White
Mrs. Thomas Wright
James .Moflord Warlick
ADMITTED THURSDAY
.Mrs. Mary L. Medlin
Mrs. Willie J. Williams, Jr.
ADMITTED FRIDAY
.Mrs. Robert L. Paris
Mrs. Charles A. Blanton
ADMITTED SATURDAY
.Mrs. George Anderson
.Mrs. Byron T. Brool'.s
Phillip E. Carroll
Claude L. Kelly
Mrs. .Michael E. Pearson
Mrs. Kenneth B. George
.ADMITT'ED SUNDAY
.Mrs. Carrie F. Long
Oscar Wiley Patterson
Mrs. Bobby E. De Tr~
GK>D SAVE THE QUEEN
BAILING OUT
AN OPEN SESAME
• n I .,-u u ennv for learning
Britain’s royal family, you will j The merchant marine has sunk
be interested to know, is having so deep that it probably can be last the most eagerly await-
water and fruit juices and to bed I trouble making ends meet these j bailed out only with some sort of ,,(] -j-y entry of tiio fall .season has
down for all but the most im- us commoners. p'ederal aid. Perhaps the situation ■-irrived. It’s not on any of the
portant classes. | is so dire tliat it will, for a time, t commercial networks’ schedules.
Prince Philip, the royal consort.
m-m confided to an American lelevi-
I Sion audience that his missus’ an-
„. . , ,1. ' ' nual allowance of $1.1 million
This portion of the conversa-i stretched a bit thin and
even reciuire the liiglicr subsidy j pp sure. It’s National Lama-
outlays that President Nixon is tional Television’s “Se.same Street” j
requesting. j —the daily hour-long program for \
presclioolcrs. !
Real progress for the merchant 1
tion having transpii^d, there j'^^t couple of years Her marine, lioivever, demands mucli j There are other good children’s
was a sudden "plunk". Mother, | viatostv has been forced to dip I more than additional money and programs on TV. Both “Captain
Majesty has been forced to dip \ more than additional money and programs on TV. Both “Capli
momentarily, thought that Tom-i ber private fortune to bal-1 additional numbers ol -sliips. For- jcangaroo” and "Mi.storogers,’’ for
my had dropped the phone re-1 ^nce tlie iioiiseliold budget
ceiver. '
I As a result of the financial
I bind, the royal family is taking
austerity measures. "Very con.sid-
I erable corners have had to he
_ The picking up thereof was, ’’ is the wav Philip put it. The
1 somewhat delayed. When it was, famiiv ha.s sold off a .small yacht.
■ it was Roommate Corky Fulton ‘move into "smaller prem
On the wire to relate, “Tommy'
he’s all
Mrs. Larry R. Broome
Mrs. Joe L. Cavender
^trs. Llojd R. Chapman
.Mrs. Ralph E. Gunter
Mrs. William R. Knox
Mrs. David V. Peterson
Joe Lee Cobb
Johnny Robert Neal
AD.MITTED MONDAY
Zay P. .Moore
Mrs. James D. Smith
Mrs. Grayson Brown
Mrs. Beulah H, Jones
Walter Earl McKinney
Mrs. Leroy Webster
Mrs. James C. Usery
Mrs. Morgan O. Wilson
tunately, the Administraiion at | example, mix humor with gentle- AD.MITTED TUESDAY
.-yr-x.r. I .....I 1. ^ 1 _ « » .. . iTTtll.- T-^
least appears aware
needed.
healthy'
Mrs. William F. Carroll
Mrs. Joe N. Nations
Roliert Eugene Edwards
Burman Coley Bryant
David Jacob Delevie
Samuel Curry Moore
jest conke-d
right.’’
out hut
The answer hardly
satisfied: D They could take in roomers,
Mother and by inidnfght. Glee thereby, in one stroke. "
relates, she was pressing to call nuekingham Palace to miximum
Chapel Hill for a condition re- ose and helping to relieve Brit-
port. (jlee objected. “No, he's ain’s terrible housing shortage.
i t* y prcb '.bly| g) The American people could
send them "Bundles.” as we did
. Cali him m the morning.’’ ‘
I I II
i m-m
what’s I nes? and help induce
I thinking in tlie voting.
Under its proposed prograrn, Dr | But until “Se.same Street” there I
instance, construction subsidies j wasn’t a major effort to use TV
would be tailored to encourage jfg teach the rudiments of learn-'
shipbuilding efficieney. At pres- j jpg — wortls and numbers — to!
iv move into smuiicr (ii.-m- ent the Government finances up pfpschonlers on anything like a i __ __
s ” and Philip may have to give i to 55' ; of the cost of a new shjp ; ! systematic basis. TV has tremend- : lyf A|1 AM |I|*Ar
plaving polo, tilings like that.! this figure would be cut to 45''( • ous potential for educating. But; aUKVil
in fiscal 1971 and would decline (p,, commercial networks have
Riglit off tile bat, we can tiiink j irradually to 35%. If the ship- ! largely abdicated tiieir teaching
noncommercial
I iwir. i.nv,.. , ...... the fiind.s, the
the subsidy w„.iiri ho'
altogether.
of at least three ways to ease the j building indu-stry does not meet i function, and the
royal financial .strain: the challenge, the Administration ! f^fip haven’t had
I warned, the subsidy would be
puUing! '"’"PP”"
Operating subsidies would be
paid only for the higher wage
and insurance costs that Amer
ican ship lines have; subsidies for
such items as maintenance and
Held Wednesday #
interlocking network, or the first-
rate media ppo|.le to launch a
major tcacliing offensive.
The single higge.st waste in the
v.'orld today is not disciplining the
inti'lligence of the voung. More
than SI billion is being .spent by!ing in the Kings Mountain hos-
1 , u „ii the United States Government in nital
repair would be eliminated. Wap, ,, „p,pp,^,p ^^p^p, ^p j P
Funeral rites for Ervin Joseph
.Mellon, 76, were held Wednes
day morning at 11 o’clock from
Sisk East Chapel, interment fol
lowing in Smyrna cemetery.
Mr. Mellon died Monday morn-
many Britons in World War 1 gubsidies, moreover, would be '
, . t , figured under a new formula de- |
.'tl They cniild -Star in a fami y gjgupcj to encourage the ship lines
situation television series, some-j keep payroll costs down,
old “Father Knows ' c c .
tor the di.sadvantaged child’s was husband of the late
I Report of the morning call:' •■‘■ti" *Ike tin , ,
1 Tommy was in the infirmary, 1 or ““y,'I The overriding goal of he pro
* . - oV^rvtlTC AyTaVrYf* PJl 1 1 . nrvmws 5 c> ♦ t r »rs qJ g SC
A '-'*•****,/ W ill ^ * 4^ *iiXi4illAXVyl i«i njf l_ 11' • •
, two crania! gashes neatly mend-i riet and O/zic’ sh^s. Maybe call, gram is creation
ed one with five stitches an- h “The Phd and Betty Show. 1 swift and efficient that the U. S.
I other with seven. ' ’ ‘ Shoot, with residuals they might | mercliant marine again will be ;
[ ' 1 even wind up as loaded as Danny j a vigorous competitor for world schooler^
m-m i Thomas and Doris Day combined, cargoes. Vet even such a fleet,
^ I Chapel Hill Weekly Mr. Ni.xon recognizes, would be of
Needless to say, Mr. and Mrs.
Bridges embarked immediately] '
for Chapel College. Tom was do-1 --
ing nicely, thank you.
handicap. How much smarter it; Minnie Pruett Mellon,
w'oukl be to multiply the funds i Surviving are three daugh-
for programs like “Se.same Street” i Dfs. Mrs. .Mary McAbee ofShel-
—which, at a co.st of $8 million ' by. Mrs. Eliza Wright and Mrs.
to prepare its 26-week run, works Rosella Brackett, both of Kings
out to a paltry 67 cents for each Mountain; 10 gandchildren and
of the nation’s 12 million pre- seven .great-grandchildren.
I little use if the industry contin
j ucd to be hobbled by frequent
strikes and cost-increasing union
I work rules.
j "Revolt against the heptagon’
■read the headline in one of I.e
Labor and management, ho
The Bridges were much im-, Monde’s letters from London last ^ Sonces "vi^ttout haldn^
the course of the Bridges Satur-I unified Ministry of Defense in the
day visit, Tommy’s attending British capital. But reading fur
ther we realized that the hepta
gon is the new oOp piece. Of
course 50p takes some getting
used to after having lived for so chiefly the creations of the
long with a 10-bob note. For tho.se | unions and companies themselves.
Glee was a corollary tale of a' who are still confused, fiOp stands jf t^cy don’t find the will to solve
uiee was a corollary tale of a, pu„iv.n. j them, no amount of Federal mon-
Christiem Science Monitor
physician paid call four times,
in spite of an UNC at-home foot
ball game.
sion ot merchant shipping is to
be achieved,” he commented, "the
disruptiv'e work stoppages of the
past must not be repeated.’’
The problems of the industry
quarter century ago, when he I
was a college boy at Chapel Hill.i , m
Wartime crowded, the dormilor-, JipprJseute, hy a
lent in Britain’.s new decimal ettr-
were outfitted with double-1
deck beds. Glee employed the! 'ot bill).
Henceforward
hitherto
brown tinted
ey will be of any help.
Wall Street Journal
PRESB'YTEBIAN
Dr. Paul Ausley will u.se the
sermon topic, "Benefits of
Thanksgivin;", at the Sunday
morning worship hour Sunday
at 11 o’clock at First Presbyter
ian church. '
Bake Sale Monday
By West School P-TA
LUTHERAN TOPIC
"I.s It Pie In The Sky Or Mud
In Your Eye?” will be the ser
mon topic of the Rev. Charles
Easley at Sunday morning wor-
‘ship .services at 11 o’clock at St.
Mattiiew’s Lutheran church.
West school Parent-Teacher As
sociation will sponsor a Cake Sale
Monday beginning at 3 p.m. at
West school auditorium. Parents
are asked to donate cakes, pies
and homemade goodies for the
benefit.
j Proceeds from the benefit will
1 be used to purchase an intercoim
j system for the elementary school.
upper.
It
Ten Years Ago
Items of interest which occur-
erf approximately ten years ago
Barbara Yarbrough, senior at
City Attorney Jack White came up
with a new one—to most folk—that the
city could not defray expenses of an in
formational referendum to obtain in
formation it wants and needs. Are the
19;i7 and 1959 city boards culpable?
Since these information samplings were
held at the time as the regular city elec
tions the culpability would be negligi
ble—something like 810 to pay cost of
printing the ballots
half a pound
sterling will be repre.senled by a
m-m ' unique seven-sided coin of cupro
I'nickel described officially as “an
was his roommate’s hiabit,! pqQjjgteral curve heptagon.” In
Glee says, to provide a swift kickjtfup British stvle, a society for its
into the upper mattress morn- abolition already has been set up.,
mgs to be ■ sure hanj-sleeping: under the leadership of a retired Bethware school, has been named
Glee was awake and ready tO'pgionel Some ot its supporters ■ “Mis." Bethware” by the student
get prepared for class. I gay the heptagon is “continental-1 iio I'-. .M.s" Yarbr:iugh is daughter
: izing” England. The col mc! dc- ; of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Yarbrough,
scribes it a.s an outrage against | jg|,„ c|,ppii-,irp has boon elected
On a particular morning thej <he Queen. One cnirespandent to gf ,hc Kings Mountain
kick was a bit too true. GleeDbe pre.ss claims that Britannia s^ r’lmrYihni* rvt' 'ffVmmprc<». Ho SllC-
tumbled out on his head. Result: ■ (on the obverse of the
seven cranial stitches. j coin) is embarrassingly transpar
ent. And, of course, there is the
I Cliamher ot Commerce.
' ceed;. Carl H- Swan.
Like father like son.
flood of suggestions for a pomil.nr
nickname for tlu‘ new coin. Which
hrln.^s home to us rather sadly
that such English Anglicisms as
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Ml. and Mrs. .M. C. Poston en
tertained Saturday at their home
at a dinner party for Miss Betty
Sue Kirby and Robert (Bob) Mor-
mm i tnat suen r.ngnsn /iiigiicisMis sue Kiroy ana Kooeri ibodi .vior-
I "tanner” and "bob” will soon be; The couple’s wedding will be
HiTga jonnston, gciiding spirit on the way out, together with the' an event of this month,
with Arthur Smith of the Crack- 10-bob notes and (presumably) ,
erjacks in the 100-room motel
for which ground was broken
Tuesday, lived in Kings Mountain
as a tot. He doesn’t remember
much about it, as his folk moved,
away where Hugh was reared ini
Cramerton. But he can point out!
the house in which he lived on I
Walnut Street. In that day, Wal-|
nut generally was referred to as
Dog Trot.
the phrase "ell-css-dee.’
Christian Science Monitor;
DIAGNOSIS
ROTARY CLUB
Emil Zatopek has been expelled
from the Czechoslovak Commun- |
Lst Party. The man who won three j
gold medals for Czechoslovakia in I
the 1952 Olympic Games, and
played a key role until recently:
I in the army’s physical training ;
I program, has been found to be.
Kings Mountain Rotarians
will hold their regttlar meeting
Thursday at noon at the Coun
try club. According to the club
bulletin the prograim is billed “unhealthy.”
"A big surprise.” -^The Globe and Moil (Toronto)'
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