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The Kings Mountain Herald
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for th(‘ enlightennicnt, entertainment and benefit of tlic citizens of Kings Mountain
and its vicinity, published every Tliursdcoy by the Herald Publishing Hou.se.
Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C, 28086
under Act of Congress of iMarcli 3, 1873.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher
Miss Elizabelii Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper
Roclcy Martain
.lint C^autUll
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Paul Jackson
Ray Parker
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
O ijirc thunks iinki lli( Lort!; rdU .rpoii his naiite: iiuikc known his ilreds omonr/ the people.
Psiili.i 11.3:1.
DUEiE OUT? HARDLY
Atbietic I'ireles' in the stale have
hoop .sutpriserl, il not shocked, in recent
days.
First a special study commission
filed a report in which it advised that
1) Davidson relegate itsoll to the “little
leagues’ ot college football or 2) aban
don the gridiron sport altogolhel.
Tlien carnal he read sliock.'i'.
A Duke study commission recom
mended 1) that thoi Blue Devils re.sign
Irom the Atlantic Coa.st Gonlorence an.l
2) otherwise de-emphasizo football.
Some North Carolina Tat Heel fans,
affci Duke’s H-l? upset v\ in on fee re
cent Saturday, think the stpdy commis
sion may liave been guilty ot skull-dug-
gery. VVhtit hotter means ot zipping up
the underdog Dulces lot the annual bat
tle with Carolina!
Ip serious vein ....
Davidson's problems of financing
footitall .'.i: quite real. A student body
limited to about 1,0()C students means
a limited mtmher ol lootball perlormers
in comparison to larget student bodies
Davidson's academic standards arc high
and tht'ro’s no ttidging tor the good
tackle who can learn football signals
but not college algebra. But David.son’s
m.'iioi problem is neat, classic Richard-
.son field, Cadillac class in everything
but size, seating only 8,000.
Duke, too, has gone tough on ad-
misions, retiuiring college board scores
ot some 150 points above the minimum
.specified by the ACC, also with a ceiling
on student bodv total. But there’s no
trouble with the 45.000 seating capacity
ot Wallace Wade Stadium.
In l)oth these situations, some pa
triotism can be generated trom the grid
iron ancestors: at Da\'idson, Monk Mc
Donald, Bill Mason, Johnny Mackorell,
and Kings Mountain's Jack Ruth: at
Duke, treddio Crawford, the state’s
first all-American, then Ace Parker, Eric
Tipton, Dan Hill, Steve Each, etc., etc.,
two Rose Bowl teams, other majoi bowl
entries, Wallace Wade himself who
lirought higtime lootball to t’ne state and
the area.
If ain’t right.
Concurrently, big Ohio State, con
tinually a major [tower which fills an
85,()00-seat stadium five limes each fall,
reported it will write red ink to the tune
ot 8250,000 this year. Ticket sales alone
generate better than 82,;500,000 pet sea
son. It is suspected that there is some
profit in program sales and that Ohio
State fans do eat hot dogs and drink
soda pop
So phone tolls cost Ohio State foot
ball 82,3,000 pet yeai and the cleat bill
is 810 000. As one knowledgeable sports-
i.'..iP remarked, “If the Buckeyes go in
.cJ on flnu, • T’d be looking for a new
athletic director.’’
There :u' overtones, in both the
Davidson a. d Duke reports, of the ever-
continuing str igglc between the acedem-
icians on o:’e sk’i and the athletic crowd
on the other.
As has been pointed out before, no
football coach ever hoard anything
about tenure. If a profes.sor hangs on
long enough, he is almost discharge-
free. If the coach doesn't win, he is
shortly pastured.
It is to he hoped that Davidson and
Duke will not go the way of three for
mer great gridiron powers — Fordham,
New 'York University and the University
of Chicago—their football now limited
tc intra-murals.
GRANT-IN-AID
It is to be presumed that the Shelby
Chamber ol Commerce couched its ro-
(|uost lot a county treasury supplement
on grounds investment in the Chamber
ol Commerce would aid in industrial ex
pansion and thereby expand the tax
base ot the county, with the county to
he profited.
Indeed, it was stated that the cost of
industry-hunting has incrctised,dike the
price ol beef, tomatoes, and shoes.
The Herald feels, as previously stat
ed, that the county should NOT appropri
ate, even a miniscule .82,500, in this
manner.
All Chambers of Commerce, should
be arms of governmental agencies and
the better ones are But Chambers of
Commerce, in no wise, are agencies of
governmental agencies.
From the standpoint ot policy, the
county commission is on very tricky
sand. There happens two be two other
Chambers of Commerce in Cleveland
County, Kings Mountain and Upper
Cleveland.
L'nquestionably, the others now have
the right to visit with the county com
mission and inquire, perhaps stridently,
“Where's mine?”
In a much bigger and more import
ant league, it was the same situation
when the county embarked on the sewer
sion of that day realize, the Herald ask
ed editorially, that the Pittsburgh Plate
and wafer line voyage. Did the commis-
Glass embarkation could not be a one-
shot deal? (It did.)
Democratic governrrvenf, by it’s very
nature, must be generic. What's good
tot the goose is good for,-the gander. It
i." immoral to provide for one and to deny
the other.
The commission erred in its 82,.500
gift and the Shelby Chamber of Com
merce erred in asking one.
What (lid you think when the
earth tremored?
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Some folk, like me, working at
I the typiH,! machine at my desk,
! w:.ie oulivious to the tan. Jtel|
1 D> hoie Thornburg, reading proofs ■
at a counter eight feet away, fell
the counter tremb.e,
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Of I lie spot poll I've m.ade, m:>-
jeriiy of those who ihouglit some
thing amiss, felt their furnaces
were out of or.ier. Many living I
near the railioad thought it mere-1
ly another tmin going along,
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But there were stronger reac-l
lions. The son of Mia. Roy Dod-j
mon, assistant clerk of Superiofi
Co. It, thought someone was try
ing to get into the house. Ruth
suospquenly found some den bric-
a-biac and pictures qwry.
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A friend of my wife's, remem
bering the eave-in of a roof at
a school recently, thought her
roof—tailing in. She and iicr hus-
hand e.xitcd fn haste.
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My n other was reading in bed,|
shaken by the tremor. “I thought i
there was a man under the bed!,’'i
she reporte,i excitedly.
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It was the fiist earthquake I! and heavy to our ofter over a week
lemember in my 49.plus years,'ago of ten $500 rewards in a war
and can anyone remember any on drug pushers. The telephone
I other in these parts since the'began ringing here and at Char-
! three big licks engendered in thisjlotte Police Headquarter.^- shortly
forquak^of s7p“embe?l^l^«“'l mix amf haXbeen’dngfng stll.L ■ to‘‘ieam't't only about three ized. No more compensation is to
ton quake ot -®P‘ember 1, ^ , prev.oi^ renanUita-
™ “ wp i i fmn verdicts are to be reviewed
For those who may have missed public m^^st and | xhe visito familiar with near- and some of them rever.sed.
Roy Covington’s local area renoU have received offers of addition- commented that the
on the Charleston quake, I Shall al fund-'* fu our comp.any s cam - Carcia city may have. Meanwhile, supporters ot the
repeat his gleanings from a Lin- paign against drug-pushers in the , ■ more in one month. ! Czechoslovak “.spring” are being
coin County newspaper of that school thi.» station is taking tur- | | fp.pfj f^om partj and government
day and which appeared in Roy's thei time to explain the reward xhe Not Carolinian then in- i posts in great numbers. The few
column in the recent Sunday offer. ^ quired -tr > the reasons why, who arc retained have had to
Charlotte Observer. I A reward fund has been .set up I crime is > rare in the capital | change their line sharply, engag-
m-m I and Jefferson Standard Broad- city of After all. the Span- ed in "seli-criticism,” and de-
The incident was at the famed casting Company has placed, ish p^ have the reputation , nounce their former friends and
camp meeting around at Denver. $.3,000 in it. It will be managed by for htA-U a rather high temper associates.
near the Catawba County line, a panel set up by us, and others and t^ei-t somewhat volatile i „, . , , . ,
The Rev, .Martin Van BurenSher- . may contribute to the fund. ' _ , charaK-- |
nil had not enjo>ed What he con , in summary, separate reward? , s informed that it i? a ants charged that there were “40,-
of $.500 each will be paid for the; f stern justice in Spain, j OOO Czechoslovaks" who should
A, I' son accused of murder, I be shot oi sent to prison as "coun-
not allowed bond. | ter - revolutionaries ” For a full
quickly, usually with- j year after the invasion the Czech-
Mrs. Paul S. Huffman
Kermit L. Sm^h
ADMITTED SATURDAY
George R. Walls
Mrs. Hettie R. Caldwell
Mrs. Robert Carthen
DRUG ABUSE REWARD
The public reaction was quick
Viewpoints of Other Editors
LESSON FRfM MADRID
them.
Proceedings under the law went
Visitors to Jidrid. Spain, a for months after the Russian
city of more tl-.n three million invasion, and $70 million wa.s
people, inquire! as to the crime paid out in compensation,
rate there. Th ' were informed j
that it is ver low. When they The other day, under Russian
a.sked liow ir ay murders were j pressure, this surviving whiff of
was : committed thic they were amaz- , Czechoslovak spring was winter-
sidered a good season in the soul . .... ...^ ,
saving business and had extended j earliest information, directed to' a
the camp an extra week. It was j the appropriate law enforcement, . IvrTple fs
Saturday night and the crowd ' agency, which in the opinion of ,, ,
SKorrill ... i .IJ *1.. 1*^.4 '
was good. The Rev. Sherrill pro- . the panel, directly resulted in any
ceeded to present a stem-wind- ‘ individual or organization being
ing semon, full of fire and brim- a rested and ultimately convicted
stone. When he had concluded, pf illegally dispensing, or distri-
he issued the call to come for- hiit-ng narcotic, stimulent or bar-
THANKSGIVING
The mo.st Americandized aliens this
newspapef knows are the members of
the Ray Holmes family. Both Mr. and
Mrs. Holmes were hard-workin.g mem
bers of the team responsible for the eon-
siderahle stmeess of the 1985 and 1966
Battle of Kings Mountain eelebrations.
This "’eek, Mrs. Holmes was hop
ping foi Thanksgiving dinner dclicaeies,
inektd'ng “turkey, of eourse.” She re
marked, “You know vve don’t have
Thnnk.sgiving in Fngland. Here we get
another happy holiday.”
Just 34S years ago the Pilgrims
(this name '-.-as npoonded by their fore-
bearers) eelebrated the first Thanks-
givin.g The Lord had been kind. Crops
had been go''"! and granaries were full.
Game was plentiful. The Indians had
proved friendly.
It was time to give thanks to the
Lord for all His many blessings.
Tlie worthy tradition continues.
ward and profe.ss the taith None
came.
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No flagging spirit, Mr. Sher
rill asked a prominent lay leader
to pray. The prayer was a .mas
terpiece. The layman declared
the earth the tootstool ot the
Lord and further invoked the Lord
hiturate drugs to any elementary,
iunioi. Cl senior high school stu
dent in either North or South ,
in 3P a.vs. If he is found guilty, ' oslovak leaders kept saying they
theqnalty is death. And there would never return to police state
are : appeals. ; rule, and would always cling to
W,i this stern jiustice staring -socialist legality.”
a,, p son in the face, he thinks j
ion and .soberly before killing; The protestations have been sil -
nilar mea.sures airply, though
to shake His fexitstool and guide ' dren.
thi- station.
Cur .sole purpose in making this
offer Ls to cut down on illegalj'
traffic in drugs to our schtwl chil-
enred lately. In any case, “social
r^-olina Other details of the of- , ist legality" is a highly flexible
. M i_i • f 1 l6* riffid. to other types of crime. c^nccDl Control ov'er the poiirt«
fer arc available, in writing, from ‘ g* over me courts.
‘ 1 bpdin, crime just doosn t police, prosecutors and access to
p • * I news about their operations have
n Madrid, nolxxly is afraid to '
■ Ik tlie streets, day or night.
, Jggings and rapes in the city’s
His flock into the paths ot right- | if you have information con- ,rks are virtually unknown,
eousness. | cerning persons illegally .supply- But in Washington. D. C., capi-
ni-m - ing drugs to students in North ,[ uf the world’s most progres-
At that time, the quake quaked, j or South Carolina, contact your iy-p and richest nation, there are ah. is more likely to come out in
Three heavy tremors occurred | local police. Then, if you seek tr areas where many people do not tiriblets: so-and-so ha.sn’t been
witliin 13 minutes. The stunned i claim a reward, write or call th< dare to go, day or night, and seen lately; his relatives and as-
crowd was so silent a dropped! Director, Drug Reward Fund, her where the situation is literally a sociates won’t talk about it. Who
pin would have made a noise like i at this station for a comple' jungle of crime. ; "sn add up to 40,000 that way.
Jameg Andrew Moss
John Franklin Turner
ADMITTED SUNDAY
Mrs. Marvin L. Capixs, Jr.
Keith Manson Hawkins
Lawrence Michael Henderson
Mi.s. Thomas C. Lowery
Mrs. Johnnie R. Morrison
Harold James Phillips
Mrs. Sara Lee Snider
Billy Ray Welch
Mrs. Miles H. Tessiner
Mrs. Ora E. Taylor
Mrs. David 1, Plonk
ADMITTED MONDAY
William Ivy Roper
Cindy Denise Bridges
Mrs. Michael D. Causby
Mrs, Viola L. Rathbone
Mr.s. Roberl L. Yarbrough
WiWlliam Lawrence Mo.ss
Danny Eugene Ledford
-Mrs. George Gordon
Mrs. John Thomas Gant t
Mrs. Phillip E. Camp
Max Durant Baxter
AD.MITTF:D TUESDAY
Homer David Woodward
Mrs. Guy Schofield
Hasting Jackson
Kay Frances Phillips
Donald Eugene Bess
Lawrence L. Green, Jr.
Mrs. Roy McGill Jones
Mrs. Conway Graham
munists of the prc-Dubcek school.
The outside world may never
know il the 40,i)0() have been ar
rested. Tlie news, if it gets out at
Congratulations to Cameron Ware,
appointed by Governor Bob Scott to the
State Board of Correction.s. This is a
quite responsible and sensitive position.
Congratulations to Lt.-Col. Robert
G. Cox, awarded the Legion of Merit,
for his service during a year’s tour of
duty in Vietnam.
SHED A TEAR
Judge Clement Haynesvvorth, de
nied a scat on the United States Supreme
Court by 55-43 vote ot the Senate, may or
may not have deserved the seat in the
light of the current vogue of soul-search
ing on matters ot ethics, particularly in
the .judiciary.
But Judge Haynesworth deserves
the plaudits ol the nation on his exhibi
tion of courage. As the enemy charged,
Judge Haynesworth stayed solid. A
lesser man would have retired early in
the fight.
The Judge was a pawn in a large
game of chess.
Bulk of his anti-votes derived from
tho.se who had idealogical differences
with the conservative South Carolinian.
Overtones of the Abe Fortas embarrass
ment were present. Liberal Democrats
were out to “get even.” And the 17 lib
eral and/or moderate Republicans who
broke ranks almost uniformly came from
states where the heat could be most ap
plied by Hnynesworth’s chief assailants,
organized labor and Negro groups.
Among tiiem were Griffin of Michigan
and Scott of Pennsylvania.
Judge John J. Parker, oi Charlotte
suffered the same fate in the Great De
pression thirties. Yet his enemies of that
day later acknowledged Judge Parker’s
ability as a fair-minded, law-based jurist,
and also his humanity of spirit
a .slectgehammer on a steel spike, copy of the reward offer- and f
The Rev. Martin Van Buren Sher- detailed information as to h*
rill was the first to regain com- such a reward may be obtainc
posure. He issued the call again. We have put .$5,000 on the li
Sixty-four came forward to pro- I We hope it goes fast,
less the faith and another 64 to I WBT - WBTV Chail::e
renew prior professions. j —
As we were leaving church Sun- | WHAT IS OBSCENE?
day, my wile noted that .she had | The Supreme Courf ma.v hf a
junglo L -
, „ 'Hitler’s and Stalin’s much more
And herein North Carolina, we massive terrors came out only
have the soft-hearted seeking to gradually, aitcr long eoncealmeii,.
abolish capital punishment.
What it boils down to is this:
And here in North Carolina, we j
ycu simply cannot coddle and |
pamper criminals as has been
—Dos Moines Register
Ten Years Ago
Items of interest which ot-ciir-1
ed approximately ten years ap'ij
County registration books foil
the forthcoming $100,000 boir.l
ssuc to provide funds for a 2.111
bed Sddition to Kings Mountain'
hospital will be open for the final
registiation day Saturday. j
Social and Personal '1 ,
ol
The wedding of Miss Mililrwi
Josephine Jackson of Kiijgs
-Mountain and Jonnie RayJ3avp;i ■
j port of Charlotte took place
! urday at 4 p.m. in First Presliy-
! terian church.
been at prayer meeting when last second chan'ae to define wh is
week’s tremor banged the church permissible pornography in m, other,
doors and suggested to Dr. Charles piay_ an(j hook. This would 4 se-
Edwards she, at least, wa.s at the | fp| fQj. America’s mental T Ith.
right place. He said, “That’s After a watershed decisio the gnownin deaVtoneslhat cHme
t'"ot. j Supreme Court often has 'd a
second case to evaluate fi I re-
I told him to be sure to read ' fine its decision. Thi.s con hap-
the Covington item. He thanked ppn to the pornography ision
me and replied, “I alway.s read handed down 'by Justice nnan
Roy’s column. He used to court; jn a six-to-three dei isltw i 1966
at my house.”
, — - - — . 'Y®'' ** whose outbreak ; Ro’obie Spencer, son of Mr. and
done in this country in recent ■ fe-sult ot liuman errors, i r. rs. Kenneth Spencer, eelebi'St
years and still maintain law ,.iid human ^nwanm huiqiin greed. ' ed his second birthday Sund^^’,
Either the nation mu.st return
to a .sterner Justice and let it
iwn in clear tones that cri
will not be tolerated, or we shall
be unable to conquer the over-
whelming tide ot increase in crim
inal act.-,
And, a noted justice observed,
finding the book “Fanny 11” not no disorderly .society has ever
' to be obscene. , been able to survive long.
And Roy vyas an army buddy Mas.sachu.setts uperior The criminal, it should be noted,
ot WKMT’s Jonas Bridges. j Court Chief Justice G. J ’ph Ta- [s a person who has violated the
I uro has ruled the Sw sh film laws uf the nation and of orderly
Quakes or no, a small world ‘q Am Curious (Yellc ” to be sciiely, and cannot be treated
it remaineth. j obscene. .Appeal could irry the [n the same manner as the law
lca.se to the Masstit!'Otts top abiding citizen whom he has
Happy report from Chapel Hill: I jQurf or the Supreme lurt. wronged.
•The chances of a destructive, ' chief paint in tha mnan de-
widespread earthquake in the i vision was that mat' 1 must be is time that the courts real-
Tar Heel state appear to be very, I v^.^oHy “without red' ling srcitl i'’-'’ Kuitt »£ gu'H. and stop hunt-
very remote, according to Uni-!\,aioey to be judged scene. Jus- ing for legal technicalities upon I
versity of North Carolina Geolog-' tjee Tauro argues tl “the rank- ! which to free criminal.s and thus
ist Joel Watkin.s, jest type of pornt.iphy gains allow them to continue preying
constitutional protrion if it is upon society.
I told him to be sure to read in a hoi ir film with r, u . , ,
.v,„ I-,.,.! in a DQ< tr Ill'll Will Perhaps we can lake a le.s.son
the Covington item. He thanked ttjp slightest mod m of social vfadrid
me and replied, "T tlw-y.-. ;er.d ajue’’ . trom .viami_a
Roy’s colunin. TTe ui-d tc cc’,:rl. Various media ave run off i
at m; .UiC.' plenty of pornog ny since that;
decision, ^me ductions may'
And Roy was an armv buddy of have had a ml mm of social
WKMT’s Jonas Bridges,
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Qi-akes or no, a small world
it remaineth.
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Dwight David Eisenhower ; November 22nd.
—Stanly News ond Press
WINTER COMES TO
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
One of the last things the Du-
value. It is ar -d that toler- i
ance of pornog by will event- ;
ually reduce fi public appeal, bcek regime of Czechoslovakia’s
Justice TaurO'f s a pollution of "spring” did before the Russian
literature ar entertainment invasion of August, 1968, was
Happy report from Chapel Hill: ■ worse than th ater pollution of pass a law setting up procedures
’’The chances of a destructive,] Lake Erie — esensitizing and for rehabilitating victims of secret
'Widespread earthquake in the Tar! brutalizing o le human spirit, police terror of its predecessor re-
iHcel state appear to be v"rv.iThe Suprerw jurt should have; gimes. The law provided money
jvery remote, according to Uni- another try/ti iefining the limits , coimprensation for surviving vic-
] versity of North Carolina Geolog- o( pornogTAT - ! tims and restored apartments to
ist Joel Watlt'.ns.” I —(SiriiOin Science Menitoc tenants 'unjustly expelled from
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