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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C.
Established 1888
The Kings Monntain Heiald
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enltghtenn.ent, 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, If. C., 38086
under Act of Congress of March 3,1873.
Martin Hannon
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Some interesting Christmas
season tales can now be told.
Mrs. Bill Fulton, after one of
those bu.sy ’til 9 pun. pre-Christ
mas days at the shop, was es
pecially tired and her aching
legs told her so. Husband Bill
piweeded to unwrap the elec
trie vibrator Christmas gift he'd
purchased to provide relief. It
was the identical gift she liad
purchased for Bill.
For A Happy New Year
The John C. McCLlls, my wife
and 1 were visiting the Charles
Edwards on Christmas Eve. Third
grader Elizabeth McGlU posed a
jiidle. Why, she asked, is it to
no avail to wrote or telegraph
Washington? I thought it was,
i suggested, but why not? Re
plied Elizabeth pertly, "He's
deed." Stepped into that one,
didn't I?
TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
A irinr tiirin feareth^ and departeth from evit: but the fool rageth, and is confident. Proverbs. niG.
A Decade Ends
L.tst night at midnight what began
as Ihe “Soaring Sixties” ended. The na
tion indeed soared. President John F.
Kennedy promised that the United Stat
es would set foot on the moon within
the decade. It was twice accomplished
in the past year.
Nationally, the decade ended on sour
notes of Viet Nam, inflation, threat of
riots, and tight money.
But the decade just ended undoubt
edly marked the decade of Kings Moun
tain’s greatest progress on many fronts:
industrial expansion and public facili
ties improvements are chief among
them.
Perhaps it is fitting that Kings
Mountain is not only looking in retro
spect at the Soaring Sixty decade, but
is in the middle of the ninetieth decade
of its corporate history. Kings Moun
tain is at age 95 and will reach the cen
tury mark in February 1974.
A cursory resume of industrial
growth would include these new firms
(and perhaps more) with some incidence
of diversification: Alcan Aluminum, Kin
der Manufacturing Company, Evans In
dustries, SAR, Concept Design, Double-
Knit Fabrics, O.xford Industries, Carpet
Industries, Kings Mountain Knit Fabrics,
Gay Hosiery, Duplex-International, K
Mills, Kings Mountain Brick, J. E. Hern
don Company built a large new home.
Kings Mills, Inc., successor to Kings
Mountain Manufacturing Company, ex
panded and contemplates another.
Craft spun Yarns expanded greatly, as
did Carolina Throwing Company. Fred-
crickson Motor Express built a large
terminal.
The list of public works is heady,
too: the se^ver system expansion, the
Buffalo Creek water project soon to go
on stream, the neighborhood facilities
building, the $2.7 million public housing
project, the new Kings Mountain high
school and expansion of North school,
the $1 million York Road improvement,
the hospital addition now underway and
upcoming: the Cansler street urban re
newal project and street widening.
In other fields the community could
review with pride:
1) Minus a member of the General
Assembly since 1927, Kings Mountain
first found itself with one home-towner,
then two, in the legislative halls at Ra
leigh.
2) More and more Kings Mountain
area students continued their schooling
at colleges and universities many of
these students qualifying for valuable
scholarships.
3) The community met the tests of
the 1964 civil rights act in virtually all
directions, integrating its schools, lunch
counters, movies, hospital without pain,
undue strain, or fanfare.
There is a sad note for more elder
citizens, for no passenger trains make
stops in Kings Mountain anymore.
Future Promise
The outlook for Kings Mountain
must be bright.
Indeed, the city’s veteran engineer,
Col. W. K. Dickson, waxed quite eloquent
on the subject Wednesday. He declared,
“With water, sewage disposal. Interstate
85 and the Southern Railway, Kings
Mountain must progress and grow.”
It can be noted that outsiders are
aware of the promi.se, too. Tangibly
there is the new 100-unit motel, the big-
investment service stations, the KAO
camp and the Truck Stop. Other indus
try is taking a look and citizens in other
communities are seeking to invest in
Kings Mountain area real estate.
Project “70” is underway.
Canslef project
m-m
Later in the evening Mrs. Ed-
wartb announced that Elizabeth
had yet another riddle to pose.
What, she asked, was orart^e on
the outside, brown with nuts on
th<? inside and had pictuics of
The Cansler Street urban renewal Washington in it? Somebody,
project should convert this blighted 147- thinking of Martha’s chocolates,
acre section of the community from what ( guessed, "a box of candy.’’ close
it is to a comparative show place. but not quite right, it was in-
jdeed a box of candy, but Mr.
It is undoubtedly the most concen- Pangbum’a orange box rather
trated area of sub-standa;rd housing, andi^^^" Martha Washington’s white
crowded, too, within the city limits. lone. And the cai^y wasdelic.ous
I nut-laden chocolates. But the
The figure of $1,773,000 is a heady' father of the country appeared
one, but there is little question that the jnai-e just 25 times, his likeness
funds will be put to good use in upgrad- 25 crisp one dollar
ing the area.
bills. The cellophane wrapping
I had been replaced neatly after
Approval of the grant is another ' ^® deposit was made,
feather in the cap of the city and of its
leadership.
Dr. Edward.s, we learned, had
a Kings Mountain connection
Hospital Log
VISITINO HOURS
3 to 4 P-M- 7 to 8 pja-
Dolly 10:30 To 11:30 OJB.
Viewpoints of Other Editors
CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE
It’s as unthinkable that the
Metropolitan Opera Company
Burns Better
dating to 1930. Among the sev- close as that the World Series-
eral attractions of the sesqui- winning Mets be sold and moved
'centennial celebration of that j to another town.
Milton Friedman, an off-the-beaten year was a football game at the| The opera company’s eight-week
path economist, has criticized the Fed-^old Julian ballyard (located a- labor dispute, nonethele.ss, drags
eral Reserve ^ard for its monetary cross the street from the Deal on. Today the stars' .salary pay-
movements over the years, not on the street water treatment plant* rnents cease. This week Harry
THE DESOLATE
WILDERNESS
FIGHT TO THE FINISH?
Here beginneth the account of
Nathaniel Morton, secretary
and keeper of the records for
the Plymouth Colony, concern
ing those memorable circum
stances of the year 1620:
So they loft tliat goodly and
which
The struggle between Indian
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi!
and the bosses of the Congress!
party who installed her in the|
premiership nearly four years a-!
go has apparently passed thej
point of no return. The party’s |
! working committee — which she
Arthur Wright Huffstctler
Mrs Dorn Mae Powell
Raii.som Pinkney Pruett
Mrs. Florence S. Sheplierd
Sam Williams
Mrs Mattie S. WUe
Vincent Dewey Bradshaw
KM'iette Weldon Bridges
Mrs Ceorge Gordon
Sidney Dulin Huffstetler
Mrs. Oora H. Laughter
itegina M. Price
admitted TUES., dec. 23
Mrs. Ethel M. Crisp
James Calvin RoberLs
Joe iMnkney Camp
admitted THURSDAY
William Ivy Roper
Thomas Kenneth Green
admitted FRIDAY
Clarence Marion Knox
Katlierlne .Sliirley Lunsford
Morris Howard Hardin
admitted SATURDAY
Mrs. Laura Mae Spearman
Samuel Medford Head
Mr.s. Ruby .M. Stroupe
Mrs, Hubert E. Strange
Mrs. Richard Clark
ADMITTED SUNDAY
Mrs. Wilburn Hugh Lackey
William B. MeSwain, Jr.
Gilbert Dale Patter.son
Mrs. Robert G. Wilson
Bobby Gene Patterson
W'illiam Samuel Lyons
ADMITTED MONDAY
Mrs. Charles W. Bolin
Mrs. Hurley W. Brooks
Mrs. Laure Ann McEntyro
Mrs. Emmaline G. Scoggins
Frank Edward Heath
Talmadge Sullens
Harrv Lee Taylor
Mrs. William C. Heffner
.Mrs. Dock A. Hyde
Dolton Kidd Lowe, Jr.
Robert L. Mill.s
ADMITTED TUESDAY
Mrs. Celia S. Bonds
Mrs. Flossie S. Clonlnger
.Mr.s. Frank Lee Blanton
Mr.s. Horace J. Darby
Beauford Lonzo Dobbins
Pearl W. Edwards
Randy Scott Panther
Thomas A. Tate
Mrs. Tltomas H, Harr.v. Jr.
James Monroe Staley
Mrs. Annie M. Jones
matter of restrictine then lootteninp I Lenoir -| Van Ar.sdale, president of the city pleasant city of Leyden, i woraing committee — wnten sne' g., ■ n • 1
then restricting credit’again hut on Edwards was playing central Labor Council, stepped h.ad been theiK. restinpplace for . ^ stacked in! StfAlfA Fjltjll
t ^ Ecskine. During the into the dispute optimistically,. above eleven years, but they know , (he bosses - has ousted I
Key mauei or timing. ' course of the game (did Erskine but little came of it. Mayor Lind-j that they were pilgrims and her from the party for indisci-! If
~ » some- say has a mediator in the dispute, strangers here below, and looked For moment, however,! 10 ll0r%lCC IflCVfBB
collided but performers and 'management > not much on these things, out • - '
seem content to sit on their sal-! lifted up their eyes to Heaven,
The “Fed’*, Friedman contends, IT*'^ «
either makes its derisions too late or cleated hoof coumeu
eiiner maKes iis aecisions too laie, or ^^e Edwards mouth, elimi-
hangs on to a^ decision too long. He nating several of his teeth,
thinks the decisions sometimes too dras
tic.
1 ary and contract differences a I their dearest country, where God
I good while longer. ! hath prepared for them a city
! The Met isn't alone among! (Heb. xi, 16), and therein quieted
TWp Fprfpral Rpcprvp ic cViontlv tA lie was referred to Dr. L. P*
Bolder, who said he could shore, caught in a financial and labor When they came to Dclfs-Ha
have a new chairnmn in the person ofjup the damage with a gold-teeth, bind. Of course, if the moneyjven they' found the ship and all
indisci
pline. For the moment, however,!
this does not disqualify her from! 3^. j,, j^^mer citizen
the premiership-and might nev-j^^.j^^ Blue Ridgp
‘ j Nursing Center, Easley, S. C.
The bosses, known locally as' has written to the erald news of
the Syndicate, thought that when death of Horace McGee on Octo-
they put Mrs. Gandhi in the pre-: t>er 30th. Mr. McGee, also well
miership, they wjjpld hencefor- j kirown here, died following ~
T-, ' ^ A I me aamage wiin a guiu-ieem, umu. uuuisr, 11 me muiiey 1 veil me^- luuim me «... _ ^ . , , , .
Economist Arthur Burns, who will sue- bridge. The depression was al-.wcre in hand to pay the higher j things ready; and .such of their; have a pliant tool in their
stroke. Funeral rites
ceeti William McChesney Martin. Many'ready upon us and Gridmanl wages, the institutions would pro-' friends as .could not come with : h®nds. Mis. Gandi soon made it; ■,r.kn.,wlpdired re-
think “high time.” I Edwards explained he’d have to: bably readily pay them. The sal-i them followed after them, and ; that she intended heing; - • rtirisrmas cards
defray the $100 cost via the ary demands are not really more I sundry came from Am.sterdam to ' m her own hoascj—and;
Mr. Burns, in his statements before monthly payment route. This! than artists are worth. In terms
the Senate committee which will recom- was quite suitable to Dr. Baker of training and hard work —
mend his endorsement to the Senate, de- and the work w-is done. ; without quibbling over the rela-
but he didn’t disagree much either. I , tive value of their performance—
a ballet dancer should be paid at
Dr. Edwards recalls he man-'h’a'i: commensurately with a
aged the payments through the P'^'mher.
schoo] term but hit trouble come] 3'jie trouble with the financial
1 summer, as he accepted a sun- po-ition of American cultural
1) How can inflation be deterred P'v pastor’s summer stint at $.50 >tt.stitution.s is that they are ex-
with increasing wages (when growers '’t't for the whole pp<;t_‘;rt to oiwate like bu.sincss
The subject ties in with tight money
and interest rates.
The imponderables:
see them shipt, and to take their ; **ton the battle was on. She de
leaves of them. One night was j ‘he basses on the question
spent with little .sleep with the ] of ftUmg the vacant presidency of
most, but with friendly entertain
ment and Christian discourse, and
other real expressions of true
Christian love.
Tlie next day they went on
board, and their friends with
India earlier this year. In effect,
she put up a man of her own to
do battle with theirs—and her
man won.
At this point in the game it
was clear that she was outsmart-
were forced to upgrade the wages of im-
summer. He wrote Dr. 'Baker his.’'o'erprises on the one hand.
poverished migrant harvesters, produce related'’
in earning their own way and living
- which Dr. Baker related he 'he market laws of profit and
prices advanced and can t come down) ? 1 could find no rceord of the ac- ] while they are thought of as
21 How can the federal mvernment '’"unt and considered it closed. Public institutions whose central
J all ^ome fall, the embryo pastor' Purpose is to uplift and better
biggest debtor of all, afford t(> pay the 0^. Baker to insist he owe,t a' mankind. But
high interest rates It now pays?
balance. Again, Dr. Baker ex |'tvely cannot
3) How can a burgeoning population
manage on the same amount of dollars? I pii,ed. "W bTe me
Mr. Burns gives promise of operat-
they deinonstra-
do the former —
ing on a more moderate policy than Mr.
Martin.
Let it be hoped.
amined his ledgers. “There’s no^ pracneaiiy every opera or sy'm-
e,” the late dentist i-e- Phony, even most museums, cer-
nothing,! tainly most repertory companies—
way it operate at a loss. Unlike sports
I franchises, cultural entities :can't
] recoup enough in ticket sales or
(TV contracts to pay their way.
Virtually all textilists of what-i^''d neither can they truly be
A . « : 1 I k-% t « t • P A A ^ A AA A.A. .Aa A .2
them, where truly doleful was the ing the Syndicate by going to the
sight of that sad and mournful people over the bosses’ heads. So
parting, to hear what sighs and, they have been quietly but ruth-
soils and prayers did sound a- | lessly counterattacking by frying
mongst them; what tears did ! to stage a corridor-coup within
gush from every eye, and pithy i the top-level organization which
speeches pierced each other’s, would squeeze all Mrs. Gandi’s
hf^rt, that sundry of the Dutch; supporters out of it. Mrs. Gandi’s
strangers that stood on the Key [ riposte was to seek to fortie the
as spectators could not refrain I resignation of party president,
from tears. But the tide (which' Siddhavanahalli Nijalingappa, a
stays for no man) callinl them, key member of the Syndicate.
from home and added, "Best
wishes for a joyful and peaceful'
holiday."
m-m
ever hue decry the inroads public
institutions; in
textile imports from low u-age j they simply are jiol
nations, most particularliy Ja-i^"''*^®^ through public revenues
Wqyne Ashe ^
ivran., ffi/tn/io t,r,atA,AAAAa v.a P®"' ’I’''® pfcsident of my broth-1 -‘*chool and sewer systems.
Many friends, unaware he suffered er-in-law’s firm Abnev Mills I foundations and the lar-
a chronic heart ailment, were shocked
at the death of Rev. Wayne Ashe.
er-in-law’s firm, Abney Mills,.
had a Christmas dinner for the! of private nhilanfhrapy keep
company brass, district men and, such institutions going. And some
Wn ..Tot. rUot nt rAAAAAA aaaa!,.,. superintendents. His Christmasi f*ud shelter within universities,
He W as that type of man, going ^ handsome ash l which have flic wisdom to see
’tray. When my brotherin-Iawj sow great an influence the bands
turned his upside down he^of performers can have. The,uni
blanched at the inscription: verslty, too, does not expect its
physics department to turn a pro
about his business of ministering, with
out complaint.
away, that were thus loath to de
part, their Reverend Pastor, fall
ing down on his knees, and they
all with him, with watery cheeks
commended them with the most
fervent prayers unto the Lord and
His blessing; and then with mu
tual embraces and many tears
they took their leaves one of an
other, which proved to be the last
leave to many of them.
Being now passed the vast ocean,
and a sea of troubles before them
The bosses have now struck back
by “firing” her — at least from
the party.
Mrs. Gandhi’s trump card in
all this is the broad-based sup
port which she has built up for
herself outside the party organi
zation. This she has done partly
by creating an image of herself
as a champion of left-leaning
popular policies — and of the
Syndicate as reactionary right-
in expectations, they had now no ; wing bosses. Her grass-roots sup
friend.s to welcome them, no inns
to entertain or refresh them, no
CIRCLE MEETING
Mrs. Robert Wilson will be
hostess at her home in Grover
Saturday night at 7 p.m. to
rhembers of Circle 1 of Dixon
Presbyterian church. Rev. Mr.
Wilson is pastor of both the Shi
loh and Dixon churches.
port still might not be enough to
gurantee her retention of a par
liamentary majority, giver) the
present makeup of the Indian
Legislature. On the other hand,
the left-wing splinter parties in
the Legislature (including the
Communists) might rally behind
her to keep her in office. But that
could carry with it risks and dan
gers for Mrs. Gandhi.
The pessimists forecast now a
period of confusion and in.sta'bil-
ity, with those locked in the pow
er struggle paying little heed to
the national welfare. The more
hopeful look for a major realign
ment of Indian domestic politics,
still within a parliamentary
framework, among right - left
lines. And that, of course, could
bring new, healthy life to things.
Christian Science Monitor
Mr. Ashe served Macedonia Baptist M-a. j-Qan
church for nine years and served it well ^
and he did not confine bis succor to his
own parishioners.
Time Magazine recently published a
feature on a New Yorker who has
launched a campaign against noise, with
as yet only minor success. He did, how
ever, get a ban on the use of jack-ham
mers in residential neighborhoods before
7:30 in the morning and after 5:30 after
noons.
And just this week some Boston
medical researchers put noise in the
class with Naughty Nicotine and Demon
Rum. Noisp, it was declared, causes not
only deafness, but heart trouble, ten
sions, tics, arterial ailments, and many
others.
Some truth.
But what noise is worse?
Many plect the nqiser generated in
houses, or much less towns, to re
pair unto to seek for .succour; and
for the season it was winter, and
fit, or its library, and has jes-s they that know the winters of
trouble adjusting to the "imprac i the country know them to be
Thei-e was another involving!I sharp and violent, subject to
Abney. A retired company exe,' witnessed by its .skinflint j cruel and ferce .storms, danger-
cutive had passed and our folks I ous to travel to known places,
were attending the funeral. Myl“° better in providing for its much more to .search unknown
sister-in-law Jenny watched the I‘'“bural energies. ; ccast.s.
dignified group of some 40 hon-| Cntlstian science Monitor Resides, what could they see but
orary pallbearers file into 'hej , " ~ a hideous and desolate winder-
church. One of the group’s| GlltS TO VvClCOIIIG ness, full of wilde beasts and
coiffure was homegrown hippie,, '■?ll ! wilde men? and what multitudes
.**®Y ™ of them there were, they then
Tlie Kings M.iiint.nin aroa’s knew not: tor which way soever
replete with long hair and tieard.
It worried Jenny all through the
service. Hqw could that oulland-
ed be allied with a group like
this?
First Baby of 1!)70 will he greet- tliey turned their eyes (save up-
TO by a showi’r nf gifts from ward to Heaven) they could have
{Kings Moiinlain inerclianls who but little solace or content in re-
■ are preparing to welcome him or sped of any outward oblect; for
her.
.u I ™ summer being ended, all things
On inquiiT following the serv-j To the first baby bom to Kings; stand in appeirance with a we^
ice, Jenny found out. Our hippie j ^um am parents in New Year ther-beaten fa'cc, and the whole
rVtt AS-A1VZ ASItM A A T n A tlPAf-L^O I tArAA a^aaaa 1 .a. (IS
friend merely owned the works
was something of .i swinger In
other f'er’loh' rac n‘. rr,j. .-i
case ir. Gear.d Prix type events.
m-m
modern, labor-saving kitchen equipment,
the on-again-oft-again dish washer, the
grind of the disposal, the whirr of the
blende, the zing of the electric
opener, the clang and clatter of hastily'thete? 'w(>ri(iig.
stored pots and pans, ail accompanied by pie^e ‘t-
a blaring radio or portable t-v. But none | \ m-m
has su||psted ft ramady tharafor. j aiM now: Metppy New Teeaf
En route home Friday, Anne
and I stopped for late lunch at
the ilew Holiday Inn at Gaffney.
As we were managing the first
biti's, we were greeted by Bob
Neill, third son of the late Bank-
cahier p. S. Whait waa he doing
He owns a
1970 several mercb.ints will pre
nt gifts. Participating in wel
coming him or her arc Belk’s,
Kings Mountain Drug Company,
Griffin Drug f’ompanv, Moun
taineer Pharmacy, Medical Phar
macy. Dellinger's ,Te\v<‘l Shop
and Sterchi Furniture.
• TOOTH MEE-nNC
Young people of Slilloh and
Dixon Presbyterian churches
will hold a Joint meeting Sun
day at 6 p.m. at the Shiloh
church at Grover. Rev. Robert
Wilson is in charge of the pro
gram.
country, full of wotxls and thiedr-
ets, represented a wild and cav-
age hew.
If they looked behind them,
there was a mighty ocean which
they had passed, and was now a
main bar or gulph to separate
them from all the' civil parts of
the world.
The Wall Streett Journal
SCHOOL BELLS
School bells will ring again
Monday for Kings Mountain dis
trict pupils, the return to books
after Christmas holidays.
Keep Yoni Radio Dial Set At
1220
WKMT
Kings Mountain, N, C.
Kews & Weather every hour on the
hour. Weather every hour on the
half hour. i
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