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( 1 • - 4 «»■»% I I /age 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and publlahed for the enlightenn.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, N. C., 28088 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. Martin Harmon EDITORIAL OEPARTMEIfT Miss Elizabeth Stewart Miss Debbie Thornburg . MECHANICAL DEPAR’TMENT Frank Edwards Allen Myers Paul Ja'-kson •Rocky Martin Roger Brown David .Myers Ray I tirker • On Leave With The United States Army aii — OX AIN X WIlAlU* ONE YEAR.... $3.50 SIX MONTHS.... $2.00 THREE MONTHS.... $1JS PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 'Tain't No Secret Long Mar.sc Grant, editor of the Biblical Recorder, wrote Bingham, president of North Carolina Young Democrats on February a rather threatening letter (to Democrats) charging that Bingham was ‘‘pledging support of Young Democratic Clubs of North Carolina to got behind liquor by the drink.” Enough of that. A hearty best bow to Sam R. Suber, recently turned 85 and Kings Mountain eer since 1909, who will tell you his fav orite New York Yankees will duplicate in the American League this year what the New York Mets did in the National last year. Eclipse Warning On Saturday, a total cclip.se of the sun will occur. Grant continued, ‘‘If you and the Young Democratic Clul)s of North Caro lina arc intent on making liquor by the drink a political is.suc, I am sure you will be prepared to take the consequenc es. Such a course will result in more Republicans in the General Assembly, not fewer. It could have a strong bearing on the Governor’s race, especially if a fine young man like Jim Broyhill ran for Governor.. As an occasional solar event, the prospects are fa.scinating, but warnings are being posted against endeavoring to see it unless one’s back is turned. A direct view, even with darkened lense, still invites a permanent damage of the retina because the dark lense do not filter out the infra-red rays sent out by the sun. Amateur astronomers are told to build themselves a box to slip over the head to the following specifications: Grant added a postscript: “You will note that this is a personal letter and not for distribution in the press or else where.” Bingham replied in quiet tenor on February 19 that, since he had been ad dressed as president of the YDC and had been threatened with the rallying of a million Baptists and he had no choice to but to discuss the letter with members of the executive committee and other friends. He also pointed out that Grant misunderstood the Bingham position in two major degrees: 1) the YDC had taken no official action of the liquor by the drink question and 2) he favors giving the people the right to vote on the question. HOW TO MAKE AND USE A ‘‘SUN- SCOCPE•’ FOR VIEWING AN ECLIPSE OF THE SUN: 1, Fasten a piece of white paper over the inside of one of the small ends of an oblong box, about 1’ x 2’ x 3’. 2, (Tut a one-inch-square hole in the op posite end and cover the hole with alum inum foil. 3, Make a pinhole in the foil. 4, Cut a hole somewhat larger than your head in the bottom of the box, so that you can slip the box over your head. 5, Seal all light leaks with black tape or paper. 6, To use the “sunscope” for viewing, stand with your back to the sun, the bo.x over your head, and look at the image projected through the pin hole onto the white paper. 7, Do not lo<^ at the sun directly or through the pin hole — Look at the image projected on the white paper. Boys Will Be Boys Liquor by the drink bills were de feated by the 1969 General Assembly and the battle will be joined again in 1971. Perhaps Senator John Burney of New Hanover was right when he de clared the liquor by the drink question will arise and re-arise with each session until it is settled. He was quoted as add ing, “I’m sick of hearing about it. Let’s let the people vote on it and settle it.” As an editor, Mr. Grant must be taken to task—not for his position on demon rum by the drink, which is his and any other's privilege. He erred on tlie postscript about “this being ju.st be tween you and me.” The Herald case in point dates to a decade ago. As a five-county gear-up Sanford - for - Governor luncheon was breaking up, one cautious fellow sug gested to the Herald editor that the luncheon should not be mentioned very prominently. His point: “You can’t get everybody from five counties in the Hotel Charles dining room. Somebody might get insulted because he wasn’t in vited.” The Herald editor turned to Bert Bennett, Sanford’s campaign manager from Winston-Salem and suggessted, “I don't know how it is in Winston-Salem, Bert, but in Kings Mountain if two peo ple know it, it ain’t no secret for long.” Mr. Bennett laughed and replied, ‘It’s exactly the same way in Winston- Salem.” The other mistake of Mr. Grant, and rather heinous, is the inference of political blackmail. It is axiomatic that athletic events between arch-rivals generate boiling point heat, often more between the fans than the performers. And it is also ax iomatic that with some, the pot boils over. Geographical justaposition is a fre quent factor. In the good old days, when Wake Forest was at Wake Forest and only 18 miles distant from Wake Forest at Ra leigh some students at both schools could be counted upon a wreak mayhem to the other on the night before the football game. Duke and North Carolina are only 12 miles distant. A computer would be helpful in tallying the number of times through the years of football competi tion between the two that 1) Rameses, the Carolina mascot, has been stolen by Blue Devil students, and 2) the number of times Old Buck Duke’s statue on the East campus has been covered with paint, usually a bright green or yellow. The Shelby-Kings Mountain rivalries date to long ago both in high school and semi-pro athletics. In the twenties the Shelbians. host for a football game, were accused of putting into play (when the Mountaineers had the ball) a football with bottle stoppers in it. Thus, the mayhem before the re cent basketball game, the Mountaineer beheaded and the Golden Lion tarred, feathered and singed, will be repeated at future times yet uncharted. Just this recent Christmas a promi nent North Carolinian, 30 years graduat ed from Carolina student ranks, penned a note on his greeting cards; “What a- bout a Carolina man being president of DOCK!” This is the liquor by the drink issue: It is favored heavily by the larger coun ties and tourist areas who seek to at- track conventioneers and tourists from areas where liquor by the drink has been legal since prohibition was repealed. These interests will fight for county and/or city optional decisions. The dry forces will fight against any pro-liquor bill of any kind, would undoubtedly compromise for a state-wide liqtior-by-the-drink election which the dry forces feel quite confident of win ning. A Betlrement “I mean to sit back in a rocking chair and rock,” said L. L. Adams, on the eve of his retirement from school administration and teaching. He deserves it. The long-term principal of Compact school saw the school grow from a three- room wooden building into a high school which he administered well. As Compact was consolidated into the city system, he switched with it— with ease and cooperation. As Compact was finally integrated and put into use for special education, Principal Adams became Teacher Adams with cooperative ease. Ho has lived a working life of wor thy public service. Congratulations to J. C. Bridges, chairman, and Donald Jones, fund chair man, who will direct the 1970 United Fund appeal. MARTIN'S MEDICINE I am indebted to Paul Neialer, Sr., for a copy of South Carolina Vlagazine, the first I had seen, though, according to the mast head, it was “Founded 1937 to tell the South Carolina story.' •m It compare.s quite favorably! ' with State Magazine, the bi-week- ( I ly publi-shed in Raleigh, and the j unolticial teller of the North Caro-1 I lina .story via current day and historical features. m-m Home base for the South Caro lina Magazine is Columbia. m-m TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE thJi xri'k ivater.jund there is none. (««</ their doni/iie Jmleth JJor thirst, / “ -onl Will.heur them, / the (lod of (Israel twill ntofursake them, Isaiah 41:17. Paul had a particular reason to send me the particular issue as it contained the second of a two-part series by B. O. Prlnice on "The Harmon Family in South Caro lina.” '!0 \. ■VS. V- The story, unfortunately, is a rather gruesome one as the lead Writer Prince used is an epitaph i at Rehobeth Methodist Church cemetery. Greenwood County, S. I C. It reads; HERE LIES THE RE- -MAINS OF JOHN L HARMON AND CATHERINE HARMON, HIS WIFE. BORN NOVEMBBR 3, 1804, and DECEMBER 3, 1822. THEY WERE BOTH MURDERED BY NEGROES IN THEIR OWN HOUSE, .MAY 17. 1876, SIX OF WHOM WERE PUBLICLY SHCYT BY AN ENRAGED COMMUNITY. r-^f dm 'ibckH Viewpoints of Other Editors WINTER'S NIGHT DREAM | OTHER FUNCTIONAL ILUTERATES l-jiplomas and very Lule else in The mail order catalogue, full' ILLITERATES ' the way of education. It happens that my great-grand- of goodies often out of re.ach, | According to a Federal educa- Ohapel Hill, wtiioh has always I father also wore the given name, used to be called the dream! tion official, some 30,(XX) high P>'i<l‘->d itself on the quality of its of John. However, my forebear book. A similar volume, still ini school graduates in the United Puhlic school system, is an ex- t" “t'®" years print, is the seed catalogue, which states are known to be “lunc- interred in arrives, with its false colors, in tionai illiterates,” by reading at the New Prospect Baptist church i this dismal sea.son of the year, i less than fifth-grade ievel. remetery in northwestern Cleye- | Yet this book is capable of pro- [ One reason for this appalling land CouiUy, alongside his wife, viding an evening of simple | finding is that no state yet de- Tfiursday, March 5, 1970 "TIRSnSSuFTfAiFT Hospital Log VISITINO HOURS 3 to 4 pjn. and 7 to 8 pjo- DaUy 10:30 To 11:30 oJa. a Beam (Baum), either a daugh-1 pleasure to the gardener whose ter or grand-daughter of one John I hopes always triumph over his ex- Teeter Beam who came to this periencc. country from Germany in 1767. with the aid of the book, a John Teeter sired 22 children byf sheet of paper, a ruler and a pen- two wiy^, one in the old country, cji with an eraser, one may sit one in the new. He helped organize the New Prospect church which was orig inally Lutheran. m-m down to plan what he’ll plant when Spring comes. The chart has to be drawn to scale, naturally. Doing this will sharpen one’s skill in geometry as well ,as agriculture. 'The prac tice will come in handy if one ever gets a job laying out a foot ball field. This book says 1 pkg. will plant mands a rcading-proticiency test as a requiiemcnt for graduation. The rest of the states, North Carolina among them, will con tinue to turn out functional il literates armed with high school PRAYER IN SCHOOL It has been eight years since ample of what is happening. VVe turn out high school grad uates wtu) can’t figure the change of a dollar, who don’t know whether Montana is a city Or state, whose readirtg compre hension is at the elementary school level, who can’t spell or write grammatical English, who, in short, are uneducated. Some of this undoubtedly is due to the "social promotions” that push along an unprepared student from gua'fe to grade and eventually t o commencement. the United States Supreme Court j ^nd some of the fault i.s undoubt; ruled, in Engel v. Vttale, that i ed,iy jup m jjjg faeg at empba- piayers in public schools are un- ; fundamentals as the constitutional. But the issue will | three R’s persists in some smaller Amer-j whatev^er the causes, we are lean communities. At least five Cheating the student and making . 25 ft. of ro:v. So plan 25 ft. Don’t 5®"®® awaiting court deci- ,3 farceof our pubUc school edu- , But back to the^uth Carolina stop to think that nobody in the: ^ost recent case arose in i ^ma ^wtii^r to "an *'Xcat^n i Story . . . John L. lived at Winter- house will eat carrots. : « school in Che ham- Pu education seat plantation, a modest 1275- Plant the hills of squash or SmS > ' eucumber 8 ft. apart, says the^^here hive, ’since September, ^?re ought to be a law. Creek. The Harmon uncles and book. Place the hills on the chart, attgnj.jng pj-a^er aunts I ve known have been hard There’s no room for anything Bible-ieading sessions be- workers and my grandfather, else. Cross off squash. In fact, one .upi. classes start Off cials Peter Beam Harmon, who prede- big Winter .squash will .serve a i^ncHon ^ cea.sed my birth by 33 years, had. family all it wants anyway. Why gainst this voluntary program, e same reputation. raise two dozen of the things? sayirjj it violates the separation With attention to detail.s. one church and state. Bt-m lean spend two or three hours of Editorial Research Reports, ! an evening doing this planning, noting the scattered dissent, says which involves only dream.s, not similar cases pend in Pennsyl- sweat Or cutworms. Then he can vania, Tennessee, Virginia, and go to bed with a sense of accom-; jsiev^. jersey. It was in New Jer- Mary Tipton Baker Geneva Shanks Carroll Mattie Ramsey Comer Edward Evans Ethel H. Hambrlght Arthur Hamrick Sallie Blanton Hord Colcan Dixon McDaniel Mamie Smith Panther Dora Mao Powell Cora Lona Rhyne Mamie Sue Sipes John Commodore Stroup Joan Louise Allen George Elmer Ballew Barbara L. Blanton Ida Hardin Crocker Sidney Dulin Huffstetler Lessie Freeman McNeely Betty Jo Brown Perkins Judge Lawson Phillips Tonya Hill Philips Wilma Butler Poteat Thelma Jane Sprou.st* Robert Alexander Wood.s J. D. Whisnant Minnie Gordon Wright Annie Bass Jolly Admlttad Thursday James Andrew Moss Alma Crawford Partlow Elizabeth Pauline Knotts Lillie Wilson Froneberger Frank Means Admitted Friday Russell Effin Ellis Gene Milton Sellers Thurmon F. Moss Jobie Lee Black Linda Carol Green Jossle Bobbitt Barnett Admitted Saturday Grady Dixon John Dean Shockley Admitted Sunday Hillard Junior Davis Judy Ann Sisk Joy Floyd Odell Allmond George Wesley Moss, Jr. Mildred Elizabeth Jackson Waddell Rollins Admitted Monday Evellen Ellis Sellers, Haskel F. Baumgardner Hattie Mae Cash Laura Jane Laws Samuel Kelly Patter-son Basil E. Sheppard Anticho Parker Smith Mildred Louise White Walter Herbert Whitley Alohma L. Falls Mary McCluney Jefferson Helen Bridges McKee Admitted Tueedoy Oscar Morgan Boles Alice King Clay Elizabeth Beatty Thomas Louise Hughes Martin Nania Mae Childers Edgar Epps Babb Malinda Katherine McGinnl.s Glenda Costner Bess Emma Hunt Stowe Admitted Wednesday Bonnie Parton Griffin i Mamie Gordon Gill V Judy P. Phillips \ GOSPEL SING (Chapel Hill (N. C.) Weekly) John L. Harmon, however, was the son of Rev. William and Ros no similarity here as I know^ ^ ’ a® "T T ^ ^eld that a lo- I , ’ what he’d like to do, when the (jai school board could not order violets bloom and the robins nest reading of opening prayers again.—Boston Globe which had appeared in the Con- meaning that I know of no rever ends in my branch of Harmons. oi-m Motive for the murders was robbery and the “brain” appar THE BOWS AND ARROWS WAR Ever since the tanker Torrey Canyon split in two off the Eng lish coast in 1967, oil slicks have been staining shoi^elines with tragic regularity. Recently some 1,000 seabirds— their feathers cemented with black ooze — were smothered in an oily tide off Martha’s Vine yard, Or had to be killed by the humane society. The time has surely come when DRUGS. AGAIN It must by now be unmistak ably apparent that the United ently was a horse thief and es-! be able to con- capee from the Edgefield from Austin Davis, alias Sam Pei^v I without both a moral a- The doers of the dastardly deeds were Steven Lake and Rev Lark ’ Holloway, both of whom worked accounts mount. And every for Harmon. Lake bludgeoned both I of delay make it haider with a rioiruioort oi,.K «„11 .'lo root cut llvis unspclukable threat to society, to the family, and to the individual. gressional Record. (No one has responsibility must be laid down and enforc- with a dogwood club. Holloway slit the throats of both from ear to ear. It was planned to burn the bodies and the house. Kerosene . . j j was poured and lit, but the blood i.!',® By moral awakening we mean jibSt that, an arousing of public conscience an-1 censciousness to the insidiousne.ss of ihe pioblem. For this reason we were sliocked of the victims doused the fire. that New York John Lindsay, a yet sought to proceed against the opening prayers of the Con gress. ) The late Sen. Everett Dirksen tried in vain to get a oonstitu.- lional amendment enacted which would have legalized voluntary student participation in public school prayers. One of his ef- €d by Washington. The federal government has a two-pronged responsibility: to delegate au thority in (1) policing oil-tank ers, and (2> detecting and dis persing oil slicks once they are spotted. Many ideas Have been put forwaid to combat tankers’ sur- forts was an attempt to convene | ,, I. : th.> nover.iwprt device of con- flushing Of raw pol lution into coastal waters; ideas ranging from the enforcedchart- ing of each tanker’s movements, to a mandatory "hull within City’s M.iyor man for whom ' the never-used device of a con stilutional convention. He man aged to persuade 33 states out af the required 34 (two-thirds of all the seates) to petition Con gress for the convention. But lately Utah and Wisconsin have backed away arti the proposal is regarded as defunct. ■Several recent cases have up held the Warren court’s origi- The Haimpton quartet and the! John Grigg Trio will sing at) Midview Baptist church Satur-1 day night at 7 p.m., Rev. .John I Frazier, pastor, has announced. ] The interested public is invited. BUSY MONTH Grover Rescue Squad reported a busy month of activities dur ing February. Volunteers an swered a total of 22 calls for a total of 344 hours and 1.244 miles traveled, Wyatt Adcock reported. hull” or a false bottom to be built into all tankers using Unit ed States ports. But these have barely readhed the government’s pending tray. Research scientists must turn their attention to the at-present almos insoluble problem of ef fectively dispersing crude oil once it is in the water. A Coast Guard official described their battle as fighting ‘‘a modem war with bows ar»d arrows.” Let’s get out of the Robin Hood era, and apportion some moon- age technology to moon-age problems. Christian Science Monitor B> we have several times expressed j . appreciation, had lightly tossed ! prospect of ctoUen^g the aside » nnestinn ah,.fit m,,.- P“"l «ase, \^1<^ IS that a state may not draft a I naJ 1962 ruling. No one sees Undoing of the six was the un burned dogwood club. It had been carved with a kn<fe which had a i tried smoking it, hem,> nick in the blade. It proved to be dated ' aside a question about miarjuSn -a, saying that he would not be surprised If his daughters had sophisti- flolloway’s knife, and he was the first arrested. Sam Perrj’ wa.s found and talked. The six men, three of whom (xtnfessed, were found guilty and turned over to the sheriff for confinement. Part of the crowd over-powerd the sheriff, bound and blindfolded We cannot help wondermg if the Mayor might not have thought of that remark a few days later wh;n a g.ojp cf prayer and require children to recite it. No ruling, of course, prohibits' a student from prayer at home or from praying by himself on any occasion and anywhere. Editor al Research Reports add however: ‘The seaicb contintr-cs «nd parents from „^a.ss.roots level for some Barlem stormed down l<i C ily Hall to cry out in anguish a- him and locked him in the Har mon house. The six were marched to a pine grove, given five minutes to pray, then sprayed with more than 100 bullets. . gainst the drug-death of a m-m The loot of course did the cul prits no good, nor would have. They had found the bulk of the valuables too heavy and thrown them In the well. a-m year-old schoolboy. The protest ers, including the president and vice-president of a sehool board embraeng 26 schools, atxtuseJ ' :o Mayor of lack of intenst and vltrrRanded more effective action. On the very day of this pro- nneans of expressing religious. feelings in the classroom on at i least a vountary bails — pro- : v'.dc everyone can agree on ! what is truly voluntary.” | Christian Seienee Monitor strength to see narcotics lor the dreadful thieat they are, and test there occiii red another gruc- ' it oan find the legal devices nec esscry to root out the loathsome traffic which- peddles tliem. But the first step needed is for In- 'iividuaU in positions of public trust and pniminence to stop some incident. Four individuals, apparently rnder the influence of a strong narcotic, murdered a youg mother and two .small citildren in their befs. At a num ber of points the of air was | compromising with what society , . , . '‘*1* niscent of the recent mass knows deep in its heart is wrong. Une of the principals in the murders in Oalifomia. i America’s youth, to say nothing Cothran from It is high time that society! of society’s protection, demands Abl»yiUe. Likely a forebear of came to realize that it does not this from the country’s tnafureir -Architect Tom Cothran, of Shelby, have to put up with such inci-) citizens. Tom originated In those diggings, dents. It oan find lire mortal' Christian Science Monitor Keep Your Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Monntaiii, N. C. iTews & Weather every hour on th« hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between Tlur k oroi ' ..Kill (f" 'f
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