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THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C.
Established 1&89
The Kings Mountain Herald ^
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enllghtenn.ent, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain
and Its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Henrld 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.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher
Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper
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Thursday, June 18, |I97(]
La.st Saturday, my wife and I
wended our way to virgin terri
tory, for U.S, in the Western North
Carolina mountains. And a sub-
.■;oquent tour through the ridges
topping 4000 feet in the area of
Cashiers Valley reveals that
there Is much virgin woodland
left in this part of the Eastern
United .States.
Just Another American Dream?
Our mission to Cashiers Valley
was to visit a Waeo, Texas, friend
ol a eouplc of years .standing,
who had invited us to his "caimp”,
located to the west of the Ca-sh-
i icrs-Sylva road. On the winding
; road up, we stopped at a house
in process of repair but with no
sign of life. Continuing upward,
we reached “camp", a green
frame cabin with yellow window
sills.
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Ye puf the fat, and ye clothe you icitli the iwol, yc kill tluem tlu.it ure foil: but ye feed not the
fUn-k. Ezekiel 3i:S.
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Board oi Education
The Wall Street Journal, in its cus
tomary style ol exhaustive and detailed
reporting, published an interesting res
ume of a new trend in education.
It is the revival of the board of edu
cation.
Tvot the board of education in its
u.sual .sense, of course, but the “board"
of education.
The Journal report said the long
term trend away from use of the paddle
on youthful backsides to enforce disci
pline in the classroom is reversing. Only
in New Jersey, of the 50 states, is cor
poral punishment illegal. Yet educators
have, tor a long season in many areas,
been foreiswearing the paddle and hick
ory switch for the “reason” approach.
The reason method hasn’t worked
too well, if the troubles on the campuses
the past two years are a criteria.
Less modern folk, both in age and
background, usually were reared on a
simple dictum from Papa: “You better
not get a licking from your teacher, for
the one you get when you get home will
be twice as bad." Most children believed
Papa, and it was considerable aid to
decorum in the classroom.
None advocates return to the olden
days when there was more attention,
or as much, to the paddle as to reading,
writing, and arithmetic, but there can’t
be two bosses in the classroom.
Properly, the boss job is the pro
vince of the teacher, and his hands
should not be bound when harsh disci
plinary measures are dictated.
A Happy Month
June 1970 will be logged in the an
nals of Kings Mountain Savings & Loan
Association as a happy month.
Saturday, the firm will hold open
house at its handsome new building at
the corner of West Mountain and Cans-
ler streets, the building representing an
investment of $300,000.
The sum itself is a far cry from the
early struggling days of the associa
tion. Now in its 64th year, having been
founded in February 1907, Kings Moun
tain Savings & Loan Association’s as
sets at year-end 1915 were only slightly
more than ten percent of the cost of the
new building it will occupy at the close
of business Friday.
The other June 1970 landmark is
under date of June 10 and the day on
which assets of the. association topped
$6,000,000.
The record proves that the first mil
lion must be the hardest.
A Census Result
North Carolina Secretary of State
Thad Eure has analyzed preliminary
census figures and his analy.sis confirms
prior predictions that California will
gain four members of the L'. S. House
of Representatives, and that other gain
ers in the House will include Florida,
Arizona and Colorado.
All of these slates, it will be noted
are resort and retirement steles, reflect
ing the growing pull of these areas, both
for the playful young and the more se
date elderly.
There was a tip-off on Arizona as
early as 1966. The U. S. Bureau of the
Census manager who came here to con
duct the special census of tiiat year due
to the 1964 civil rights act had just com
pleted a special census for the city of
Phoenix, Arizona, which had had a phe
nomenal growth since the 1960 census
had been taken. Phoeni.x paid the tab
for hers, a cool ,$90,000. Kings Mountain
got hers for free. While some were in
censed that the “feds" inferred, via the
civil rights act, that Cleveland County
had not been lotting minority groups
vote, either by hook or crook, the act
was still worth a free special census.
North Carolina, Mr. Eure predicts,
in spite of a 700,000 population gain,
will not gain a Representative.
Ex-Congressman Basil
—who wants to bo the ne
man—described himself di
campaign as the “mo.st
man in the House’’.
Whitener
■"'•^ngross-
he 1968
tricted
Re-districting will com ".lin and
will be the usual tough chore lor the '71
General Assembly. Population is grow
ing, but shifting in North Carolina from
rural to urban areas.
Since the “one-man-one-vote’’ deci
sion, with the population variance a-
mong districts limited to five percent,
the indication is that the magic number
for congressional districts will approxi
mate 472,000. An interesting question:
Will populous Mecklenburg have enough
population to claim a Oangressman by
herself? And what kind of messin’ up
will be necessitated in the eight-county
tenth district to which Cleveland be
longs?
Siiifts are indicated in the General
Assembly itself. After the one-man-one-
vote decision, there were numerous
changes in the districting of the 120-
member House of Representatives, com
parative!;' few in the Senate. But the
shifting population portends greater
change.'' in the Senate in the upcoming
re-districting, with the result less Sena
tors from the east, more from the pop
ulous Piedmont.
It was during the year 1953 that
the association crossed the million mark
for the first time. It is doubtful the most
optimistic would have predicted the
phenomenal rate of growth during the
intervening 17 years, to six times that
happy 1953 figure.
A savings and loan association has
two principal services to sell: 1) a safe
savings depository bringing its share
holders fair return on their investment
and 2) access to long-term mortgage
loan financing to acquire the housing a
borrov\'er requires.
Kings Mountain Savings & Loan
Association can point with pride to the
record it has compiled in both categor
ies. Many home-ownei’s can say “thank-
you” to this association, and savers have
no qualms as to safety of their funds
as they earn while the saver sleeps.
The new building is a handsome one
and designed to provide adequate quar
ters for many more years to come.
Congratulations are in order to off
icers, directors and staffs of the associa
tion, past and present, for their service
to the Kings Mountain area over more
than 63 years.
The Kings Mountain Optimist club
has as its principal aim the welfare of
boys and girls. Thus it is within the
framework of the Optimist format that
the club came to the forefront when it
appeared Kings Mountain would have
to renege on being host to the state
Babe Ruth League tournament. The Op
timists deserve the cooperation of all
citizens in this project to bring you’.hful
baseballers hero from, as Senator Clyde
R. Hoey frequently intoned, from the
shores of Mantco to the mountains of
Murphy.
Congratulations to Grady Howard
and Ollie Harris, reappointed to three-
year terms on the Jacob S. Mauney
Memorial Library board of directors.
A best bow to Second Lieutenant
Charles “Pete" Peterson, Cleveland
County Life-Saving cresv “man of the
month”.
Courtesy has not gone out of style,
at least not in the make-up of Herbert
R. Tindall, commended by a group of
lady motorists and American Oil Com
pany for “outstanding courtesy and
holpfulness”.
What makes a man a hero? The
answer is unselfishness in the face of
danger, well demonstrated by Kings
Mountain airforceman S/Sgt. Roddie W.
Byers, who risked his life to extinguish
a fire on a flightline in Vietnam.
Tho oxterior was doooiving. In-
.sido was a large paneled living
rfK)m, replete with oiien stone
fireplace, a spacious kitchen, four
bedrooms and three baths.
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Our host, June Metz, was a-
•ilccp on the coueh, emblematic
of our late arrival, result of a
-ombination o f dreum.stanees
.sacii as being in the wrong lane
a.n.l misilng the turn-off at
Giee.a.ille, driving eight e.\,tra
milc.s to vVestminstor because we
Wi'ro l(.o stupid to believe the
riglit anglcd road .signs reading
V\ ostmin.ster S, Walhalla 8 (Wal-
halla being immediate destina
tion,, and stopping for a visit in
Walhalla with some of Anne's
kin.
June greeted u.s warmly, tlren
frowned. He asked. "Where’s Sir
Winston?” He’d written a special
j invitation to our Boston terrier
I and was quite disappointed to
i learn W'inston was getting board
and batli at Tod Westmoreland’s.
KINGS mIOUNTAII^
Hospital Logi
visnma HOtjxs
3 to 4 pja. emd 7 to $ p«.
Doilr 10:3fl To 11:30 am.
Viewpoints of OUwr Editors
CAT AND MOUSE
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Our host, now 71^ times a
grandfather, is a retired insur-
anceman in the lifo-hospitaliza-
lioh field and is native to Ashe
ville. Since 1924 he, then with
his late parents, has frequented
the mauntain country around
Cashiers Valley. H4 loves the
mountain people and they him.
We must, he said, meet Bachelor
Fred. On the mountain tour, a-
long one of tlie winding roads,
we stopped and Bachelor ffed
came out of his side-of-the-hill
hquse. They joshed ea-ah other a
'oit after we were introduced and
vve drove on. "How old," June
! asked, "do you think Fred Is?”
! I .suggested 67. I had mi.sse.d it 20
! years. He is 87. Bachelor Fred’s
Itist name is Bryson, uliich is
I quite indigenous to the area and
I from vvliicli tiie town -oi Bryson
City derives its name. 1 once
1 knew a girl named Elvira Bry-;on
] in Asheville and she looked very
much like Bachelor Fred.
Ever since the Russians invad
ed Czechoslovakia, their aim has
been to rein back in on a tighter
leash those European states
whom they deem their clients.
Czechoslovakia’s spring if 1968
is, in Russian eyes an example
of w-hat can happen If a client is
allowed too much independence
of maneuvering. So the tight
ening of the reign on Czechoslo
vakia now is seen by many as a
pilot project for what the Rus
sians would like to impose oij the
other W’arsaw Pact countries. It
is all summed up in the new
treaty of friendship between Rus
sia and Czechoslovakia which
the men in the Kremlin foisted
off on the unhappy Czechoslo
vaks as a 25th anniversary gift
earlier this month — the anniv
ersary being that of the libera
tion of Prague from the Nazis
by the Red Army.
WALLACE AND
THE REPUBLICANS
Tuesday’s primary election re
sults in the United States, added
to outcomes earlier this year in
Texas- Oregon, and elsewhere,
contain little that is discouraging
to President Nixon and -any poli
tical strategists within tho Re
publican Party.
WHEN NOISE ANNOYS
Could a toot on a flute pollute?
No- but the putt-putt of a motor
scooter
Could be a polluter;
For pollution can mean wliatcver
harms mental poise:
Or to state It very briefly: Noise!
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Many years ago, June related,
the valley, which then had no
name was on tiieroute from Ken
tucky to Charleston. .-4 group of
people were riding a group of
Kentucky racing horses to
Charleston. In the valley, one
horse became lame and was left
behind. His name was Cashiers.
The natives think the postoffice
department pulled a dirty trick
when thc> emasculated Cashiers
Valley to plain Cashiers.
There are three ominous new
features in the treaty: -('!) codi
fication in a legal document for
the first time of the Brezhnev
doctrine, whereby Moscow as
serts the right to intervene in an
other Communist country to “de
fend" Communist gains; (2) ex
tension by implication of the prt)-
V isions of the Warsaw -Pact -bey
ond Europe, so that pact mem
bers are apparently obligated to
lielp Russia in the event of -war
with China; and (3) commitment
to further integration of the e-
conomies of the member coun
tries of Comecon, the Russian
controlled counterpart (in some
ways) of the European Common
Market.
To be sure George C. Wallace 1
won the governorship runoff in I
Alabama and he looms as a po
tential spoiler to any Republi
cans’ “Southern strategy" — who
could try to snatxdi states of the
old Confederacy from the Nixon
column in 1972. But this is not
the South of 1968, when Mr. Wal
lace won five ^uthem states.
The Republicans are increasingly
well organized. Vice - Rresideivt
Spiro Agnew has been making his
successful pitch as Dixie’s cham
pion, and President Nixon lost
few points -when he nominated,
though unsuccessfully, two Sup
reme Court justices from below
the Mason-Dixon line.
Resourceful Mr. Wallace will
pose to Southern whites as their
guarantor against victory by
bloc-voting blacks. But the Re
publicans who have three South
ern governorships, four senators,
and 108 congressmen are much
better prepared to cope with the
Wallace threat tha'n they were in
1968.
Time was when civilization’s i
sounds were wearable;
The clip clop of a horse is, after
all. bearable.
No snortin-g big diesels agitated
the night
Of Jolyon James and Swithin
Forsyte;'
Jet noise never deafened, “up up-
and away."
The ladylike heroines of Char
lotte Bronte.
Today’s outboard motor with
speed-demon roar
Is liardly as quiet as the oarlocks
of yore.
And the electronic beat of ear-
splitting Rock
Is annoyinger, even, than morn’s
crowing cock.
William B. Barber
Jack P. Barker
Mrs. Ellen L. Blanton
Miss Betty Ann Crawley
Mrs. William C. OarroU.,
Noah E.-Cibap«Mi . 'liyiiSI
Mrs. Thomas tHlson
Mrs. Sidney D. HuHfstetler
Mrs. Millard L Metcalf
Ruble Phillips
William P. Randall
.Miss Emma L. Sellers
Mrs. Anticiho P. Smith
Clarence E. Smith
Mrs. Harvey Thurman
Mrs. Roaetta F. Webb
Jenning F. Woftord
Mrs. Donald W. Wood
.Mrs. Lloyd S. Woods
Stanley Hall Sr.
Dan PaU.s
ADMITTED THURSDAY i
.Mrs. Lizzie G. Boles
Mrs. Mary P. Chalk
Mrs. Ralph O. Towery
.Mrs. Docia C. Case
Mrs. Isabelle M. Hullender
Henry Bailey
Mrs. Odie Phillips
.Marshall L. Gantt
.Mrs. Ada Goforth
ADMITTED FRIDAY
Mrs. Rufus P. Poag
■Mrs. Bruce W. Boyles. Sr,
ADMITTED SATURDAY
Guy C. Mas-s
Danny vV. Johnson
Lois Neal Damp
James E. Brown
ADMITTED SUNDAY
Ida K. Rollins
Joathon W. Wade
Percy Stokes Lynn
Mrs. John F. Coyle
Mrs. Cecil V. Sipes
Amos Dunn
Mrs. Monroe E. Taylor
Dallas Bennett
James Lynn Grant
Mrs. Billy E. Robinson
ADMITTED MONDAY
Clifford Barnett
Mrs. James R Greene
Robert H. Webb
Mrs. John W. Cole, Jr.
Mrs. Calvin E. Bradshaw
Mrs. William L. Shufurd
Mrs. Leonti R. Ormand
Floyd W. Ledford
Mrs. Hubert R. Boyles
Mi.ss Salma C. Revels
Mrs. Fred W. Ramsey
ADMITTED TUESDAY
Mrs. Robert F. Ramsey
Mrs. William C. Hunt.singer
Haskel C. Bladtwell
.4very J. Wyte
Alphlld A. Johnson
Mrs. Samuel R King
Mrs. .Margaret Brown
Mrs. Donald E. Hawkins
James A. Lutz
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Anne’s judgment in leaving
Winston behind may have been
good. June’s sister Babs and her
husband Ed Cluett live across the
road and up the hill. As we park
ed in front of the house, Anne
le t out a yelp and pointed To a
big St. Bernard coming our way.
She stated, somewhat firmly, she
wasn’t disembarking until we
held the St. Bernard. Winston
would have been unholdable. And
Brandy was only a nine-month-
old pup—but already a good three
feet high. ,
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I asked Ed if he were kin to
the Cluett of Cluett & Peabody.
Indeed he was and had retired
from t^e family firm which
makes Arrow shirts. I was a bit
embarrassed that my shirt bore
a Manhattan label, remembered
a train conversation in the late
forties with the president of
VV’ings Shirts, a Cluett & Peabody
subsidiary.
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June treated us to a delicious
charcoalgrilled T-Bone steak,
.'Vnne did the bacon-cgg.s honors
at Sunday morning breakfast, and
we ate mountain trout (frolm a
trout pond a few miles distant)
and cheese fondue at Inn-’t' -•
The Ladie. .a -
t.-inr"-
To no single Warsaw Pact
country is this handwriting 'ph
the wall more objectionable thkn
Romania. No pact menjber has
managed to win so much freedMn
of maneuver in the outside world
as has Romania under President
Ceauseso-,1. iHe is in the unique
position of beiug a Communist
leader simultaneously persona
grata in Moscow Peking, and
Washington. But it is just this
freedom oif maneuver which Mos
cow appears determined to curb.
Elsewhere on the election front
anti-war sentiment and the na
tion’s "new liberalism" made
meager inroads. In New Jersey
Louis Kaden, a peace candidate
strongly aided by student cam
paigning, lost heavily to incum
bent Edward Patten who sup
ported President Nl.xon on the
war. Perhaps it is too early for
the student lobbying in Washing
ton and doorbell ringing around
the nation to have its impact.
But if Mr. iKadens loss may be
added to the recent defeat in Ore
gon of the referendum to lower
the voting age to 19, the tKie of
public sentiment is not yet fa
voring student antiwar activism.
So government officials
measuring the decibel
'To see which sounds harm and
' which are repressible.
They would give the environment
a right welcome rest
From the jack-hammer blast and
the horn blowing pest.
From the trash can tliat clatters
land the TV that natters?)
And the thundery boom which
shatters glass
When the SST makes a transonic
pass.
One of the important lorerun-
nets of BIS was the Automatic
Message Accounting (AMA) sys
tem, which was introduced in the
Beil System in the late 1940’s.
The AMA system was one of
several innovaitions that made
possible another service — Dirwt
Distance Dialing (DDD) — which
came along in the early I950’s.
considered extremely high in
monetarily conservative West
Germany.
But liow to encourage quiet?
'Tis not yet wholly clear.
If the President said "Lower noi
ses,” instead of “lower voices ’’
Could anyone hear?
Christian Science Muni/or
Monetary policy administrators
in Germany, moreover, figure
they’ve done almost all they can.
The central bank’s discount rate
stands at 7.5% on loans to fi
nancial institutions, and the rate
on lending against securities Is
9.5%. Bank reserve requirements
also have been Increased.
A GERMAN PARALLEL
In West Germany, as in the
U.S. the government has been
having its troubles with inflation.
German labor costs ai-e rising
at an annual rate of 157c, more
than double the growth in pro
ductivity. As a result prices have
Christian Science Monitor' climbing at an annual rate
of 4% a year, a figure that’s
The officials say they intend
to hold firm, bi.t they figure
they could use some help. "Fiscal
measures must bo taken by tl>e
government to control inflation.”
said Johannes Tuengler, a dir
ector of the central Bundesbank.
Fiscal measures- you know in^^
elude such steps as curbing go'^B
ernpient spending. It’s a messag^^
that is, if anything, even more
applicable In the UB. than in
■West Germany,
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neiueling for departure Sunday
atlornoon, we stopped at a serv
ice station where a man noticed
the Kings Mountain auto tag. Did
I know the Kings Mountain chief
of police. “Sure," I replied. "Tom
.M'Devitt. He’s from here.” Yeah,
tile fellow rejoined, he’s up visit
ing hLs folk this weekend,
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Most tickling roadsign on the
trip In front of a farmhouse:
Homemade Jellies, Red Worms.
Romania gave further proof of
her independence of Moscow a
couple of weeks ago at a Comecon
summit meeting in Warsaw. She
attended hut refused to have any
thing to do with the new invest
ment bank sot up at the meeting
— reportedly 'because (in the
name of integration) the bank
adopted for the first time in Com
econ a majority instead of a un
animity rule. This, of course,
wouJd have put Romania at the
mercy of any Russian-organized
majority within the bank — had
she agreed to join it. Romania’s
show of independence in Warsaw
probably precipitated the sum
mons to Moscow which Mr. Cea-
usescu got last week. He went,
stayed only 24 hours and there
is no sign that 'he yielded any
thing. But the Russians are un
likely to give up. Besides econo-
c intogratlon, the men In the
..remlin have the militaiy card
to play — with pressure on Mr.
Ceausescu to he more coopera
tive in Warsaw-Pact planning and
maneuvers. By letting a Russian
brigade or two on Romanian soil,
for example.
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