Tlie Kings Mountain Heidd
A weekly newspaper devPted to the promotion o( tho general wellare and published
for the enllzhtenn.ent, ehtertalnment 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 oCfife at King.<4 Mountain, N. C., 380fl6
under Act of Congress of March 3,1^3.
EDITORIAL DEPABTMEirr
Martin Harmon Edltor-Pabliabei
Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Bditor
Miss Debbie Thorntourg Cleik, Boekkepper
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
Frank Edwards
•Hocky Martin
Alien Mym
RocM.Brown David Myetrs
On Leave INltb The DgiM Stadsn AAny
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TiaiEPROHE NUMBER — 7S9-5U1
Nixon Reaffirms
President Richard M. Nixon’s Wed
nesday night address to the nation may
be categorized as a speech of defense, ex
planation, and reaffirmation of the Cam
bodian operation.
The only newness thereof was the re
affirmation part, in which he promised
anew that the operation, as far as U. S.
troops are concerned, will be ended by
June 30, with all United States armed
forces withdrawn from Cambodia mor-
der action.
Defense/explanation went along to
gether.
The President the capture ot small
arms, mortass, ammunition and the all
important rice would require a minimum
of nine months for the Viet Cong to re
place, which would, in turn, save the
lives of Americans and her South Korean
allies.
A labor union leader, the President
said, had lost a son in Vietnam in Febru
ary. Had the Cambodian operatipn been
carried out previously, would the gun
which killed his son have been put out
of action?
The Cambodian action makes sense
according to the normal rules of military
combat and perhaps more sense than the
much of the Viet Nam action which has
been highly costly and apparently stale
mated, both in the field of battle and at
the Paris conference tables.
While the strategic withdrawal
(sometimes expressed, lose the battle but
win the war) is a common and aged
principle, the strategy of the Viet Nam
acction in capturing real estate one day,
give it back the next, has never been a
winning military princciple — if a prin
ciple at all.
Wars are won, abilities of thecon-
testants being equal, by those contest
ants who boast superiority, preferably
overwhelming, of men and material, and
though which they gain control and hold
the real estsate.
Curt Flood Suit
The litigation now being tried in
Federal court whereby baseball star Curt
Flood is challenging the reserve clause
long ex'i'a'it in protessiontil baseball is in
teresting to baseball fans as to club
owners and players.
Outfielder Flood was traded by the
St. Louis Cardinals to the Philadelphia
Phillies and refused to report. The tact
that the trade didn't suit him reduced
him to the status of a slave.
The owners, en nnasse, contend el
imination of the reserve clause would
ruin baseball, consign forever the poorer
clubs to the nether regions of the cellar-
dwellers.
Chub Feeney, president of the Nat
ional League, elicited chuckles when he
said he favored relaxation of the reserve
cl'uco by lett-ipn any plaver who attain
ed the age of 55 be a tree aaent. Did
even the nc"'- '';e Satchmo Paige stay
active until 55?
Those w5o attack the reserve clause
as creatino oerretuity in peonage may
have done better to have someone other
than Curt Flood bring the litigation.
Flood' s 'aiarv is hirih in the five fi-
qure range, the Phillies had no objection
to pavina it, and the salary Itself under
cuts Flood's plea of peonage.
Needed: $48^00
The city recreation department
needs $48,200 to equip the handsome
neighborhood facilities building which
the city accepted from the contractors
last week.
Troubled brewed, money-w' when
initial low bids totaled $108,0 sore
than the total budget for this ’ ding
and for which the federal government
Is supplying $302,500.
Much paring was done, largely in e-
quipment areas, in order to get the mon
ey-on-hand budget in balance and to get
the building itself underway.
Now the time has come to equip it.
It is the first time In modern times —
it ever — that the city has asked dona
tions to implement its programs, cer
tainly in any major amount.
It is not unprecedented in the bus
iness of government agencies in Kings
Mountain.
Principal examples are the cash sub
scriptions and pledges of over $1 12,000
which supplemented tax funds tor the
building of John Gamble Memorial Sta-
pledges of some $256,000 supplied by
citizens to assure building of the addition
to Kings Mountain hospital. Technically,
Kings Mountain Hospital is operated by
a non-profit corporation. The corpora
tion, however, leases the plant from
Cleveland County for the nominal figure
of $ I per year. The addition now under
way, like the prior plant, employed coun
ty bond money. The hospital folk had the
same situation — and moreso — as the
city with the neighborhood facilities
building. The hospital folk found that
$500,000 would not do the job required.
The need and challenge are appar
ent and the community center program
committee, it is quite predictable, will
find a willing response when it begins the
work of raising the needed funds come
Tuesday.
Indeed, some donations are already
in hand, including $5(30 from the Wom-
•an's Club to be applied to the kitchen
equipment.
Pushing Water Deadline
A cordial welcome to Richard J.
(Arch) Kern, newly-employed and newly-
arrived director of the city recreation
department. Recently retired from the
Kern, a Viet Nam veteran, has accepted
a position with much challenqe, indeed
as much challenge as a circus ringmaster.
The growing and varied city recreation
proqram is addino a considerable new
severat-rlno dimensinn as the neighbor
hood taclli*’'»s bi'ildlno goes Into ser
vice. It will bo Director Kern's job to
keep a several-ring circus in oneraticn
there, from day care for children, to
meetings, cbnvfintions, banquets, athle'
tic events, etc., etc. ^
Conserve water is the plea from
City Hall to its customers.
The plea is not new, here nor in
many other areas of the s fate and na
tion.
Kings Mountain was in trouble In the
earlier twenties, thought it had its prob
lems solved when the York Road reser
voir was built. Then in the titties water
problems arose again and what proved
to be half-way measures were again im
plemented.
Water is in questionable supply to'
day in two ways: I) supply and 2) treat
ment, the latter the more pressing prob
lem.
Long-term relief, happily, Is just a-
round the corner, as Buffalo 'k is
soon to be tapped and the n eat-
ment plant with four-million gaku,n daily
capacity is to go into service.
Meantime, the folk running the wa
ter business at City Hall pray for rain
and tor surcease from a major tire or
other disaster that would necessitate cur
tailment o fservice.
Congratulations to Colonel William
O. Ruddock on his recent promotion to
that rank by the United States Air Force.
Best bcws to scholarship winners
Mike Blanton third winner of the Otis D.
Green Post 155, American Legion,
scholarship award, and to Miss Frances
McGill, winner of a siholarshlp award to
Erskine college.
MABTIN'S
MEDICINE
The late Hiden Ramsey, editor
of the Asheville CStizen, once de
clared, ‘"Nothing is as deed as
yesterday’s newspaper.” H e
' might have added, . . until for
ty or fifty years later."
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Some Things Haven't Changed
(School's Out)
KINGS MOUNTAIN
Hospital Log
TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Comc'noito me, all j/e thnt labmlr find |hre heavy laden, fund J 'wiH give you irest. Et. -vbsbh.
Via the hands of Ricky Colllne,
grade 7 and ‘Danny Lahmer.
grade 8, I hav« Irt hand vintage
eop.es of KirtjS Mountain news
papers which I had never seen
'before. One is the March 28 ,1929,
issue of the Kings Mountain
Times, and the other is a Maioh
13, 19^, issue of the Kings Moun
tain Herald.
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More elder folk will remejrtber
the Kings Mountain Times, a
■partnorsh p owned bj- E. E. Phil-
lips, editor and W. Curtis Russ,
business manager. Within a
-month after this issue, Curtis has
related, the Times was no more.
It was the season of bankrupting
banks and when one of Kings
Mountain’s 'went- says Curtis,
‘‘Wo were able to i quidate our
machinerj-, pay our bills, anid had
enough li ft to get out of town.”
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’Tlte Times of this issue major-
^ in the fly-fly business. One
Roy Aheai-n spoke to the Civitan
club and urged that the club and
com-munity move to acquire a
landing strip. Mr, Ahearn was
barnstorming in town during that
week and Editor Phillips and
Linotypist Alfred E. Felder went
aloft with Pilot Aheam on sep
arate occasions, each dropping
copies of the Times with free
flight tickets enclosed. Felder got
the ibetter (or worse) of the
flights. Ahearn gave Felder, on
■his first trip upstairs, “a few
ocean waves and a loop-the-loop."
The^ Im'perial Theatre on the fol
lowing Monday, was to show a
special f.lm showing Flyer
A'hearn’s exploits as a movie
stunt pilot. Twice it was report
ed Aheam had Imiteq planes in
flight and parachuted to safety
for the btneifit of movie cameras.
Viewpoints Other Bditors
WHOSE
SOUTHEAST ASIA?
Kent State University. Interior
Secretary Walter HickeTs critical
letter. Student demonstrations.
The resignation of the director
of the U.S. Office of Students
and Youth. The fluttering stock
market. Bums.
EDGE OF A WEDGE?
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The Times was keeping tabs,
too, on Edfor-Oa/ner G, G. Page
of the Herald competition with
two front page items. The Essex
coach of Mr. Page had been stol-
en and found in Abington, Va.
The nice thieves had swapped
Mr. Page a Chevrolet, but it was
found to have been stolen from
an Orangeiburg, S. C., man.
The Times society editor was I
Mrs. A. H. Patterson, who in i
later years was to do the same
work for the Herald,
The rapid sequence of events
in the UniteJ States since Pres
ident Richard Nixon’s television
speech on April 29 has made the
controversial Cambodia offensive
seem almost an exclusively Am
erican affair.
But while attention is natur-
. ally focused on V^ashington and
1 the embattled President, an in-
tesnational political game is still'
being played in Southeast Asia
where the Soviet Union and Chi-
j na are delTcately trying to out- j ponse
I manoeuver each other.
I Both assume it is only a mat
ter of time before the United
In recent days two of the fi
nancial world's most colorful and
innovative entrepreneurs have
■been shaken from the thrones of
their empires. Bernard Cornfeld
was displaced from Investors
Overseas Services Ltd., a Geneva-
based mutual fund complex which
i featured sales of fund shares to
the little man in Europe and else
where. And James J. Ling yield
ed the chairmanship of LTV, Inc.,
the Dallas-based conglomerate, to
a Dallas banker- and took the les
ser of role of president.
The temptation of course is to
look at the stepdowns as dram
atic chapters in the history of
hijgh finance. Certainly they are
this. But they should also prompt
a more sober and thoughtful res-
Brenda Bess
Wins Degree
IBrenda Gail Bess, daughter of
■Mrs. Bessie B. Bess of Kings
Mountain, was among the 162
persons receiving degrees at the
88th Commencement of Living
stone College Tuesday, June 2.
at 2:30 p.m. in Varick Auditor
ium.
Miss Bess received a BA de
VISITING HOURS
3 to 4 p.m. and T to 8 pJM.
Dolly 10:30 To 11:30
\Villiam B. Badber
Mrs. Dennis Bridges
Mrs. Mary J. Farris
Albert Gamible
Wesley Griffis
Stanley Hall, Sr.
Mrs. Ethel L. Hoffman
Mrs. Sidney D. Huffstetler
Mrs Bill Lee Mltdiem
Billy O. Moss _ Child
Mrs. Oaixia H. MoWhirter
Mrs. Eva M. Ormand
Mrs. Sam Pegram
Mm. Grace Philbeck
'Harvey D. Ramsey
William J. Rowland
John D. Simmons
Mrs. Aniicho P. Smith
Clarence E. Smith
Talmadge G. Sullehs
Mrs. Annie L. Thompson
William C. Heffner
Jonas N. Bell
Admitted Thorsdoy
Theodore Huffman, Jr.
Admitted Friday
Mrs. Fred H. Camp
Augustine T. Waldrop
Thomas E. Dills
Mrs. Stoye B. Lee
Mrs. Jack C. Nlcholg
Mrs. Nonnle B. Ford
Mrs. William C. Jackson
William G. Spearmen
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three
game
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in the
ivities
Club i
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low \v
colnto
Admitted Sunday
Ray A. Kltby
Mrs. Hattie H. Dow’ncy
Mrs, Russell Ellis- Jr.
Mrs. Mary S. Mitchem
William P. Randall
Mrs. Carrie M. Price
Isaac Bell, Jr.
-Mrs. Elwood M. Roberts
Roy A. Broome
Admitted Monday
Mrs. Robert W. .Moscg
Mrs. Howard C. Turner
-Henry Moore
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most
banqii
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pony
Admitted Tuesday
Mrs. Jerry L. McClure
M;s. Ridhard S. James
Mrs. George R. Allen
Mrs. Kara C. Martin
Mrs. Willie M. Black
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TO CONVENTION
Reg Alexander, president of the
Baptist Student Union at Gard
ner Webb college, will return
grec in English. She was a mem- home today after attending the
'her of the college’s drama guild, .Southern Baptist C.nventlon in
the Concert Choir the Burns Lit-i Denver, Colorado. Son of Post-
prary Society, and tho Women’s ' niaSt6r and Mrs. Charles Alox
'Home and Foreign Missionary ander, he is making the trip by
now t
team.
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where
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Society.
' plane.
By the time March 13, 1930,
ed.tlon of the Herald appeared-
'Mr. Page had leased the paper
to J. B. King. The streamer
Headline read "P&N Extension
Work Begun,” with grading start-
dt both Gastonia and Spartan-
States withdraiws from the area,
leaving a vacuum of power. The
question is: who will occupy it?
Japan, the third most import
ant country in the world econ-
nmirally, seems unwilling to dis-
ca!<l its Second World \Var hair-
shirt and become actively invol
ved in international politics. Chi
na has no such hesitation, de
spill' its intei-national political
'burg. History shows the venture | anrl e.’onomic problems; Peking
ill-fated. ‘Today the right-of-way i '•-(raras Southeast Asia as its le-
ai^uir^ is occupied by the big gitimate sphere of influence.
Duke Power cottipany transmis
slon line. The nation was mourn
ing the death of President WU-
llan> Howard Taft, and Mayor
A. L. Buhvinkle was seeking to
rqialn the House of Represen
tative seat he had lost two years
beifore to Rep. Charles A. Jonas,
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A Kings Mountain amateur
basketball team had a game up
coming with Matthelivs for the
Western North Carolina eham
pionshlp. The Kings Mountain
roster: Bill Jenkins, Slim Rh,>ne
Skinny Jenkins, Skimp Stdwi,
Betcha Boone Blonjie Kidd anc.
Buck D.llings.
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The late Hinkle McGinnis wat
offering Phil'co radios (as littli
as $112.50 withotft tubes) for free
trial and D. F, Herd was offerin;
$5 trade-in on a deluxe t'wo-dooi
ice refrigerator. .Moffatt Wolfe’s
Dry Cleaning advertised special
offers On dry cleaning dresses
a plain dress at a dollar, pieatei
'iresses at $1.30. This would in
dicate that dry cleaning is on<
item on Which the 1970 price i
less than that of 1930, Southern
Railway was offering spec al rc
duetions on short trips and Arth
ur Hay wo:Id sell you "Any In
surance.” 666 would relieve •'
headache, o.heck a cold in a da;
and malaria in three days.
Sad das were ahead for the
HeraM, too, as the paper late,
went oankrupt.
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The Soviet Union, however,
considers itself very much an
Asian nation, and for ideological
as well as political reasons is un
willing to let the Chinese bid for
cre-eminonee in the region go un
challenged.
Meanwhile, Russia’s attempts
*0 make political inroads in
■"Southeast Asia have met with
Mttle success. Relations with In-
Ha have been good, but not as
■ound as the friendship between
""hina and Pakistan.
Last year the Soviet Union
■ame up with tho ill-conceix’ed
iroposal 01" an Asian Collective
vreurity pact, apparentl.v design-
xl agaiii-st China. As could have
been anticipated, U met with a
'pgative response: even enun-
ries who were orposM to China
vould hardlv jump at the pros-
'fet of joliiin.g the Soviet eamn.
Peking ha.s also taken political
(Ivantage of the cooperation he-
iveon the Soviet Union and .Ta-
'an in trade and development.
The Chinese plav on the fears
n Asia of a new Japanese army
'rt tl>' march — united With
Di ssia’s “new czars” or the U.S.
’agressois,” as the propaganda
ccaslnn demands ....
Chou En-lal's majoi- diploriintir
oup •- at least in the Commun
With falling stock prices (a 30
percent falloff on Wall Street in
the past ,17 months, with similar
declines in Tokyo and else
where); signs of continued re
cession, inflation, and tight mon
ey; unease ever the wars in Indo
china and the Middle East; and
evidence that brokerage houses
are sorely weakened by the de
cline in stock sales and that many
of their overextended customers
may not 'be able to survive the
calls of banks to pay up on loans
— all this suggests that the
Comfeld-Ling comedowns may be
only the leading edge of a wider
wedge of change.
The Cornfeld and Ling em
pires were vulnerable to the
squeeze put on by the boar mar
ket, narrow profit margins, an1
tight money. With the world as a
whole taking a dimmer view of
the worth of stocks, redemptions
of Investors Overseas Services
funds rose and sales fell, putting
the highiflying company at the
mercy of lenders to meet current
expenses. Likewise I TV has been
troubled by the inability of earn
ings to meet payments on the
enormous borrowings it took on
While amassing its rmpi-e. In
both cases, the newest lenders
have demanded a say in man-
dglhg the cdltitianies — the high
est price a company can pay for
money.
The Nixon Administrat on has
bren saying that the American
econnm'-'« ill take a firmer foot
ing again In a few months. The
stock market however, seems to
be saying It doesn’t believe It.
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Some are argtng that only a
dramatic gesture of positive
chan,gr - sir h as a peace -break
through In Vietnam — may bfe
ner ’ed to snap the economy out
St World — was the englnterin j of its doldrintis. No (loubt Presl-
>f a mpcllbg hctwpp-i Prince Nor- dent NIxoh is aware he-may sooh
'dom S hnnouk arid i-cpi'cscnia-1 face btslncssitieh as weM as
!ves of North Vietnam the Viet youths and the college community
'■’ong, and the ranibotllan and in the oecce-noW coalition.
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Perhaps the sad days hert
were long-term good days for th'
owners of both, papers. Curtis
Russ, a highway commisp’-*--■
during the Dan '"t ' > ■ • ■ .
tratlon •
Pf' .lesville Moun
taiiieer. His partner, at last ae
count, had done well in WAsH-
Ingion- D, C. The late Mr. King
became the otw^ner of the .semi-
weekly Aiken, S. C., Standard &
Review, which, when the Atotnic
Energy Commission set up shop
at Aiken, was quickly cata-pulat-
ed into a prosperous daily,
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TIs an lU wind that bloweth
no good.
".aotlan Communists, chou En I
'al Was In attendaner, but the j
Russians were not ....
Premier Alexei Kosj-gin, app.-)r-
■'ntlv ti-ylhg to salvage Soviel |
irestlge recertlly calletl his first,
'xm'terrncc to condemn the
. J States and to urge “aH
'he people rtf the World to slrm
tggresslon In Cetbhotlla.” He ai-
•o hinted that the Soviet Utitori
-night Withdraw front Stvateglv
trrtis Llhtltatloii talks With thh
tin ted States an acknowleige-
‘hent of the frequent Chlne.se a'c-
nisarlon that Mosicrw a-id Wash
ington are enoperating to the de
triment of the Communist world.
To try to maintatii whatever
Influence It has in HanoL tlte
Sovlel'Hlnion will have to eon-
J^inue Ending weaipons to North
Chri/tHnn Siience Monitor
DIM VIEW
That ageless trouba'Iour,, Llb-
erace. Is crtmlh-g out with a cook
book Which .will permit others to
share 'his cullnarv secrets. Beifore
putting fork to his roast Cornish
game Hen, hcwevel-, it iw'll tje ad-
visible to a'iopt his use of candel
abra. Sometimes food tastes bet
ter if you 'Can't sec It clearly.
Vietnam. But its credibility as an
Asian power seems to be on the
■wane while China, through some
adrblt diplomafc moves, seems
to be rising as tpe dominant
ConMunitt IWflUenee in Ihdo-
China.
The Olobe and Mail (Toronto)
Kings Mountain. N. C.
on o)
hand
eight
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after
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News & Weather every hour on th^
hour. Weather every hour on the
half hour.
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