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(’age 2 Established 1889 The Kings Monniam Heiald A weekly-newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightennient, 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., 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3,1873. EDITOBUL OEPABTMENT Martin Hsumon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Debbie Thornbuig Clerk, Bookkeeper MECHANICAL DEPABTMEHT Frank EMwards •Rocky Martin Alien Myers Roger Brown David Myers On Leave With The United States Army Paul Jackson ■J J SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR... .$3.50 SOC MONTHS... .$8.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1J2S PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TBLEPBOHE NUMBEK — 739^1 TODAY'S BOLE VERSE J v'ill never jorgi'l jc/iy prcccptsa {or tiaUfi them thou hast quickened me Psalm vvTSTC. Politicol Review The political campaign for Demo cratic primary nominations this 1970 off- pre.sidential - gubernatorial year season has been devoid of fireworks. The candidates have been content to keep the gloves on, run personality campaigns and hope they have seen, and sufficiently impressed a sufficient num ber of voters. With the rather long primary tic ket, it is quite possible the .seeming out ward dis-interest of the voter in matters political may be belieded when the vote totals are posted Saturday night. It is equally probably safe to guess that the t'ote totals will not reach those of 1968. Cleveland County, for instance, cast 11,634 votes for governor in the 1968 Democratic primary, perhaps even that a small total for a county of 70,000 pop ulation. Cleveland is in Chief interest in three contests: 1) For 43rd district Seat No. 1 in the House of Representatives between Incumbent W. K. Mauney, Jr., and Hal S. Plonk, both of Kings Mountain. 2) For Clerk of Superior Court be tween Incumbent Paul Wilson and his former Deputy Mrs. Ruth S. Dedmon. 3) For two nominations for the county commission, where six candi dates are in the race. Including B. E. (Pop) Simmons incumbent and board chairman, Myers T. Hambright, Phil Rucker, Yates Smith, W. W. Lynch, and toy Lee Dedmon. Only token opposition is indicated by Marion S. Jones against Incumbent Sheriff Haywood Alien and by Grady Thomas against J. Ollie Harris for Sen ate Seat No. 2 for the 29th district seat being vacated by Jack H. White. In Kings Mountain, the top-interest getter is the House race. The underlying issue is the role of Representative Mau ney in the Buffalo Creek reservoir situa tion. The city asked lake control and Mr. Mauney crossed with Senator White and the wishes of the Kings Mountain city commissi^ in the matter of lake control. The result has been in impasse and continuing question of recreation on Lake Buffalo, when it becomes a lake. A secondary and Important Buffalo Lake issue is Representative Manners ownership of half of a large tract with long lake shore frontage, even after the city obtains the 257 acres of the 379 for the Buffalo Creek resevoir. Purchase price for the 379 acres was $85,000 reg ister of deeds office records show. The Mauney-Buford Cline asking price for the 257 acres is $250,000, city records show. In the county commission contest, most observers list (not necessarily In order) Incumbent Simmons, Mr. Ham- bright, Mr. Smith and Mr. Rucker as the leading four, with Mr. Dedmon and Mr. Lynch as rather distant trailers. Mr. Dedmon has not waged an in tensive campaign and Mr. Lynch’s leaf let campaign has the hackles up and sleeves rolled up of the moderates who dominate the Cleveland populace. Mr. Lynch is a sometimes letter-to-the-editor writer who tars about anybody and any thing with the John Birch, you’re-a- C^ommunist brush.. On his last one to the Herald his dictum was: print In the en- tirity, or none of it, and the letter found Its way quickly into the nearest File 13, service lingo for waste basket. Non-Portisem Business f edu- :hool non- iloted ii-y and The Herald, by the coincidence of chatting with Candidate Fred Simmons, lea'med of the initially varying nterpret- ations of the 1969 omnibus be cation act, dictating electioi boards and declaring the dc partisan, all candidates bei, by the voters at the May pn the primary winners the electees. Re-examination of the Mauney- Falls special act of 1967 and a check with the State board of elections deter mined attorneys for the county board of education and county attorney that a clause in the 1969 act eliminated Cleve land (and perhaps some others) Pinch oi Layoffs “We can’t do it,” the h band said. Good hunting and good voting on Saturday! The Kings Mountain Kiwanis club presents its 13th annual talent show Thursday night and it will, as usual, play to a virtual standing room only au dience. It is a fine event, promoting the talents of youthful performers, and the proceeds move immediately into wwth- while projects. y, ‘ • J'"’'• THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursd Thursday, April 30, 1970 Thus Cleveland continues to have a party partisan boaid of education elec tion. Chief purpose of the 1969 act was to remove a practice from North (^rolina whereby Republican majorities in some counties were disenfranchised by the General Assembly, for the General A.s- sembly appointed members of the board of education. Republicans could get themselves elected to boards of educa tion ’til doomsday but could not get ap pointed by the General Assembly. This same device was operative for years in the instance of justices ot the peace. The Herald is glad the Mauney-Falls Act is on the books. It eliminated the non-elective malpractice, but retained the party partisan feature as it should. School folk are sometimes inclined to pontificate as being professionals “a- hove politics”, which is hardly like it is. Effectiveness of North Carolina’s schools lobby is undoubtedly the envy of every labor union struggling to get a foothold in Tar Heelia and every other lobbying group, be it the bottler’s the cleaners and launders association, re tail merchants association, or any other. Even Vice-President Spiro Agnew, it is to be suspected, would not criticize the “instant news” lads of Columbia Broadcasting Television for the presen tation of the plight of a family in Wichi ta, Kansas, facing difficult days ahead after being laid off from work. Heavy on aircraft manufacturing, Wichita’s unemployment rate is half- again that of the national average. Boe ing was hit by cut-backs in government contracts. Beechcraft and Cessna, ma jors in the field of private planes for the hobby flyer and the business firm flyers, had to tighten their belts as the prime customers either canceled orders or or dered delivery deferred. Unemployment insurance of $409 a month (both husband and wife out of work) was quickly spent for first essen tials, $9 being left—not for movies or candy, but to pay insurance bills, drug bills, and the emergency bills that are unforseen but always occur. d hus- The economic charts of t years do not reveal straight lines ^ seem ingly inevitable peaks and valleys be tween periods of booming prosperity at the top and the slough of depression at the bottom. The lesser peaks and valleys detail milder prosperity and recession. None can argue with the Nixon Ad ministration’s position that inflation could not be allowed to continue unbridl ed, yet it is also historic that the Re publican party favors the well-to-do with a trickle down philosophy that President Hoover sampled to the disaster of himself and the nation. President Eis enhower sampled it in milder, creating a mere recession, but it cost him control of the Congress in the 1954 elections. The Wichita folk, it was suggested, won’t be in good humor come Novem ber, if the trend isn’t reversed and they have leturned to work. That observation, perhaps, Mr. Ag new may regard as over-editorializing. MABTIN'S MEDICINE The Kiwanis club’s annual bas ketball banquet honoring the Kings Mountain High School boys and girls’ teams was a quite en joyable party, quite naturally aided and abetted by the great record ol the boys who lost a lone game in the recent season ,OUT! m-m But Coach Blaine Froneborgor of tile girls’ aggregation was not to be outdone In spite ot his lass ies less than lustre-cream record at three wins, 16 losses. Coach Froneberger allowed he coti-sider- ed it a pretty fair sea.son, in spite ot tile statistics, explaining, “They tell me you don’t get fired around here it you beat dhelby” IT'S CLEAN-UP TIME AGAIN ^, With the advent of spring and^BI ’Tile present atliletic program ot i one head cuacih for the team was I iiardly the way it was wfeM Coaiuh Emeritus t>on Panter came to tu^vn back about 1943. Dun was tupman tor luotbail, baskeCball and baseibfdl. After the end oJ World War H, the ex- MaryvUle Colleige athlete did summer pitching stints with the Kings Mountain Vets semi pros. ni-m Don gassed out the senior a- I wards to the soon-to-be graduate.j, I admitted he sleeps better these' nights not hav.ng to worry about j tomorrow's big game, or last night’s nearwin deteat. Coach ■ Boo Hussey indicated he'd sleep better if someone would supply tlie formula to out-shoot Don on ' tlie goll course. Aj2^>rLh(/ m-m Viewpoints of Other Editors MANKIND'S VOYAGE U.\C Coach Dean Smith, star at traction ol the banquet, had some ‘ witty bon mots, too. Relating the' im^rtance of recruiting to any Never in recorded history has college athletic program, he told . i. -i ol an Italian triend of the family ^ who advised it was not necessary vyatched and waited-out by al to convince the young basketeer most tire entire human race, he wanted, but to convince his I'jever, Indeed, has the great mother. “Go through de mudder,' he paraphrased, “go through de mudder.” m-m heart o-f humanity beat in such unity of hope and helpfulness as attended the voyage of the crip- ^pled Apollo 13 — with the Soviet Union, Britain, France, West Gee- many, iCzechoslovakia, and many \ another country offering ships, j radio silence — anything and 'everything to help bring the bench three astronauts hack safeiy. This was mankind’s as well as America’s voyage. probe on a grand tour of the major planets between .1977 and 1 1979 --an dearlier in 1976 for an unmanned probe for “litfe on i Mars.” ward again —. doubtless at a more “deliberate” speed, warily watching for another Soviet space “spectaleular,” but deeply benefiting from the sober re- gratitude that the Apollo astro-1 forced upon the space commun- nauts have had a safe splash- ! Ity. down. Tomorrow, America’s space program must move for- warm weather we have a ten- thmey to open our windows and doors, tlirow back the sJiuttcrs, op<‘n the draiJes and let »little freslt air and .sunsh nc in our homes ami places of husine.ss. Men may have their heads set on more ti.sliing and golf, but the average housewife's thoughts turn to ,sprillcleaning at this time ot tilie year...amt the ex tra fishing trips and gc:lf may have to w.iit n some eiise.s until the .spring eleaning is done. Eacli year in cooimration with tlic multitudes who gil the spring cleaning urge, Spindale I city officials set a "Clean-Up” i per od in town. Tltis year the date is Apiil 21) through May 1. To ;iid propei ty owners in the annual i.lean-up effort extra trucks wiU be put into service during tltis twoswrelus period to lemove the' trasli accumulated during the winter months. City opffic.als urge all proimily own eis ami l)usiness people to give their proiM'rly a lliorough clean ing of all the winter’s ai cumula tion of ruhhish, pile the rubbish n.ar the sli<-et, and call the town oCfice and a truck will be sent for it. The clerk's office Ls 621-22-11. A thorough cleaning of ’the home or business from tlie base ment to the attic and from the front yaid to the back yard willj not' only help beautify the pro perty invulv.d, as well as the town, but it will also make it safer frtm fire during tlie com ing sinnmer months. While rt'- movin'g rubbis'h iiruluding espec ially all inflamable paints and cleaning materials. Electric wir ing in the home or place of bus iness should be inspected, along with appliance cords, to see if they are in a safe, working con dition. If every citizen will do his part during this clean-up, paint-up. fix-up period your home or busi ness will be more liveable and you will be playing an import ant role in making your town a better place in which to live and more inviting for tourists and those who may wish to settle • here. Your cooperation is solicit- The Christian Sdenac Mtmitor deling the clean-up I Spindute Siin “It didn't work.” Coach Smith reported. “DeVenzio went to Duke." m-m strength. Smith related an inci dent in which he was queried a- bout a star c-oming to the bench and asking for a substitute after some five minutes of fast-break play early in an important "He had learned,” Coach Smith con tinued, “a fresh substitute is bat ter than a spent starter. After a Here was an epic beyond sci- ence-ifiction scenarios. Here was a test of man’s fortitude and in telligence in reversing an unex pected dire disaster halfway to few minutes rest the star return- the moon. Here was a challenge ed for a top performance. to that remarkable teamwork of Manned Space Center scientists, electronic computers waysta- It would be amiss not to men- around the globe, lion Andrea Huffstetler, daughter three sutperW^tramed men of .Mr. and Mrs. Andy Huflstetler. hundreds of rescue- (I don’t know about Starr but An- dy was a' pretty fair country pitcher a few seasons ago). Daughter .Andrea wtis at the pi ano for group singing of “Amer ica” and accompanied the dulcet- voiced vocalist Cathy Wilson. She went forward first to receive the free throw award, then again to claim the most valuable player lion, avoid panic decisions and carry throu^ calm prooedurcs. TTnere will be those who ascribe tiie rescue wholly to human skills ar.d courage. Others will see at work, affirmed in countless pray ers, a pciwer and providence which perceives “the path ,wh;ch no fowl knoweth.” So ;be it The hairbro-idth plans succeeded and jlimenl, “Sh, g.ve 2M perant " Site must have, for she has been tops in the book-learning depart ment, too, having won an A. G. Myers college scholarship award worth $5000. ai'in Tuesday morning I chanced on my regular advertising call Into Rev. Flay Payne, former pastor of Faith Baptist church, now a Gastonia minister after a stint in Marion. He was most interested In the progrcs-s of Kings Moun tain’s hopes for a US 74 through- way, the water project and oth er works in the mill. He asked a- bout my Father’s pas-sing, then said, “I guessed he was the first man I ever worked for.” It was the first I knew of It. At once, ot course, comes rhe thought that the same dedica tion and devotion, applied to eartbbound probJems of city-core decay, pollution or racial strife, could brag swift amel'oration. As a correspondent of this news paper wrote from Houston: Here was “a model for intelligent ac tion in time of .seemingly unsur- mountable diffi: Ities.” m-m Another one: Myers Hambright was the tutor, Phil Rucker the student, in a somewhat earlier day. Both are candidates for the county commission in the Satur day voting. m-m I always have to go to the book to review the figuring of a major ity In sweepstakes voting, such as in the currene county commis sion race, where six candidates are contesting for two nomina tions. Election.s Bo.t-^ T; ■ Ralph G'lbc"i I . ... Here' •' c for- j., add the vetea ..asi tor all candidates: 2) divide by the number of seats a- vailablc: 3) the result, plus one, is a majority. Someone the re sults come out kinda cute. Six .vear.s ago when Billy Mauney, Bob Falls, Bill Harrill and Thrus- ton Arledge were seeking the three nominations, the results The ordeal of Apollo ,13 will leave its mark on the Amercan space effort. The NASA team will probe the why of the ex plosion whroh put rhe fragile craft’s main source ot rrK-ket power devastating!.- out of ae tlon. Apollo 14. .srhedulel for October, man tvell be postponed. Public interest in moon flights is waning, NASA appropr.ations are down from a peak of $6 bil lion to $3.3 billion, and Congi-ess will be asking anew "Are these many trips necessary?’’ There will be ne<'d for serious conclusions. Has the margin of safety been too narrow? Now that the moon-landing goal set by Pres cient Kennetly has been truly achieved, what new space program will :be worth the in vestment of billions annually, ■'■h’t will maintain the enthusi- rm of the scientific community, what will best extend mank nd’s knowledi;e? Apollo 13 hoped to find moon rock in t>he lunar highlands which would determine how the moon and perhaps the solar system — was formed. Next on the Nixon space pro gram, beyond lunar e.xploration rodret showed ALL FOUR had majorl- . , ties. 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