fage 2 Established 1889 S The Kings Mountain Herald ^ one c^..*u X m »i •• ^ M. THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN, N, C, MARTIN'S 206 South Piedmont Ave. Kings Mountain. N. C. 28088 A weekly new.spaper devoted to the promidion ol the general welfare and publlalied for the enlightenment, enterlulnmnt and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing Hou,se, Entered a,s .seL.'ond ela.ss matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N, C,, 2808C under Act of Congreas of March 3, 1873, EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss DeHjble Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper Frank Elwtu-ds "■Rocky Martin Chad Ledford MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Allen Myers Roger Brown On I,eave With The United States Army Paul Jaok.son Ray Parker Joel Lightst'y MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE LN ADVAINO: In North Carolina and South Conlina One year S4; six months $2,23; three months $1,50; sdhool year $3. (Subscription In North Carolina subject to three percent .sales tsoc.) In Ail Other Stotes One year $5; six montlis $3; three montlis $1.75; school year $3.7.5. PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 Thursday, January 14, 19 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE NAnd they straighHeay left their nets, and followed him. St. Matthew 4:20 William Kemp Mauney The passing on January 2 of Wil liam Kemp Mauney, at the age of 81, removed from Kings Mountain one of its true strong men of the twentieth century. He was a patient in a nursing home for more than three years and in poor health sometime before, but in his very, very active years before he made a fore most impact on virtually every phase of Kings Mountain life, industrial, commer cial, political and religious. His energy and will to work was legend. A former employee remarked he had seen him at W'ork at the Bonnie Mill office at 3 o'clock in tlie morning many times. A then out-of-town teach er resident remembers him pruning the shrubs at Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Library (also housing teachers) and another citizen recalls he answered the teachers’ complaints about poor heat there by stoking the furnace himself. When it came down to work, Mr, Mauney showed the way. Mr. Mauney was for several years the Kings Mountain Ford dealer. One older citizen remembered a group mak ing a trek to Detroit to drive back Model T’s. One of the drivers fell afoul of the law, was fined for speeding at some hamlet in West Virginia. The Herald has some outstanding memories of Mr. Mauney, among them; 1) His dis.sertation on his first ad venture into the textile industry. He had bought the former Mason Mill in 1928. When a profit of .WO,000 was log ged that first year, cx-Ford dealer Mauney “knew ’ he had reached finan cial heaven. The next year, of course, was 1929. Mr. Mauney said, “By 1931 I had mortgaged everything I had, in cluding my home.” He added he w'asn’t yet sure (in 19.'57) how he had survived • Democratic Gains Membership in the 170-member North Carolina General Assembly, which convened Wednesday shows 13 less Republicans and, conversely 13 more Democrats, than did the 1969 ses sion. In the Senate this session are 43 Democrats, seven Republicans, a net change of five, and in the House 97 Democrats, 23 Republicans, a net change of six. It has sometimes been true in the past that Governors have difficulty with their second legislatures. Sights are on the next election for governor and the incumbent sometimes suffer.s. It may not obtain in this session, as it did not for Governors Dan Moore, Terry Sanford or Luther Hodges and, of course, it may be averred that Governor Bob Scott had sufficient difficulties, particularly with his taxing ideas, with ItiS fii'sl As.scnibiy in 1969. Withal, Gov ernor Scott (a la Sanford) came out with what lie wanted, if not in the way he wanted it. Point of the Democratic gains in the 1970 elections, other than the obvi ous one that North Carolina followed national trends in its state-house races, is that a Republican governor in this .state would be in much potential trou ble with the heavy anti-party majority, even of 1969. Responsible Democrats would seek a rapport, but others and likely enough of them, would hardly forswear parti san politics and gut a GOP governor’s program, highly unfortunate for the governor himself, but much moreso for the five million plus people of North Carolina. The Nixon Administration, as is said in footbal parlance, appears to be reversing its field on the economic grid iron. The 20 percent depreciation provi sion is a carrott to industry to buy new equipment and is a leaf out of the Ken nedy Administration book, which called its plan a tax investment credit. All one and the same. The eoonomv was .sag ging when Kennedy took office. It is sagging today, two years after Nixon took office, and set out to make it sag. bankruptcy. 2) His explanation of what is re quired to raise $100,000. “So many at $5000, so many at .$1000, so many at $500—and a great, great number at $100. " It concerned the corporation charter of Kings Mountain Business De velopment, Inc. The stock salesmen learned how true. Most diligent work produced $22,800, some of it supplies and labor on the present Mr. Sweet building. 3) His wistful regret on the results of plant modernization. By modernizing with up-dated equipment, Mauney Mills had eked out a profit in a difficult year. “Everytime we modernize,” he said sad ly, "we have to release some people. But if we don’t modernize, none of us will be there.” Mr. Mauney knew tragedy, among the greatest the death of his son Ernest, with his twin brother Miles duo-pianist concert artists, at an early age, a vic tim of leukemia. Mr. Mauney’s political heft domi nated Kings Mountain city politics for well over 30 years, when he served as mayor and city commissioner, and for years after he left public office. He was a .stern competitor who gave no quarter and asked n^ne. His benefactions are legend, to St. Matthew’s Luthehran church, to worthy but poor young people needing a college education, and to Lenoir-Rhyne college his alma mater. Class of 1910. The most major gift, inspired by him and provid ed by him and his immediate family, was the Mauney Music building, a func tional and artistic work of art, which cost in excess of .$500,000. No great number can meet his Energy Shortage From the standpoint of its natural gas supply. Kings Mountain is lucky, Vy. D. Edwards, the city’s consulting en gineer, told the city commission Tues day night. Kings Mountain got an allocation increase late last year and many cities did not. His hometown of Greenwood, S. C., has posted the “all out, no more customers” sign. Mr. Edwards knows whereof he speaks. As an engineer for Barnard & Burk, of Baton Rouge, La.. Mr. Ed wards is consultant to sev gas-sell ing cities and private c snies as well. A pT-incipal reason for '-o tight gas suply has been unwillingness of the Federal Power Commission to raise prices transmission companies pay to the producer at the vveil-head. “As a result,” Mr. Edwards said, “many pro ducers have pulled their rigs out of the off-shore gas areas and moved them off Norway and Sweden, where there is plenty of gas, where demand for gas is great, and wirere costs are less bv half than off the Louisiana and Texas coasts.” Another area drawing the fin ancially-pressed gas producers is off Algeria in the Mediterranean. His parting statement to the citv commission Tue.sday night: “You’re ail right this year, and should be able to handle demand including that of new customers. I don’t know about next year.” Problems of coal users have been well-advertised by the power companies. Commissioner Jim Dickey, who at Neis- co uses coal, says the price of “soitv” coal has doubled to $18 a ton and still hard to get. And the fuel oil industry warned la.st fall it might not be able to meet its demand requirements throughout the current heating season. Citv tags are on sale at City Hall. The Kings Mountain Lions clubs are again selling the tags, thi.s year with a large “Kings Mountain ” etched in green against a white background, con forming r with the state tag. The city tags cost a dollar, the state tags, ahem, slightly more. MEDICINE By MARTIN HARMON Joo Smith, at Kiiig.s .Mountain Building & Loan, was won during aloud the other day whether the old Mountain View Hotel, demvjl- Ished in 1950, had as many rooms a.s are available at Kings .Moun- taln’.s three motels. Preacher Of The Year Not qirito, according to Herald printer - pr(>ssman Paul Jadoson, who wxtrked there when he was a youngster with his father John Jackson, the majoj- domo of the Mlssc.s Norris establisliment. Paul recalls the Mountain View offer ed 22 spacious rooms, eight le.ss than current. 1n-m Friday the offerings will in crease by 106, to 136, wlien Royal Villa Motor Inn- posts the “va cancy” .sign. La.st major "let’s build a hotel effort" wws in the thirties an.sseimcr City Ben 1’. Barrel!, itl. 2 Box 17.5, City llocliel Conner, till (irace .SI,, City Mrs. Virginia O. Ori.gg, iKt5 Boyce .SI.. City Maggii' Holland, 28*1 Crc.scent Line, Ga.stonia K. W. Lutz, Rl. 1 Bd.k 210, Cil Mrs. Rlibii' .’Vlullina.x, Rl. 1 Bo.t Yorlc -Mrs. Kave R. .Sutlles, 1120 2nd El.. Citv I ,U /97/ rne 'BU 60SPE1 ^othe MyJ j. m-m It’s a young team and with several Kings Mountain connec tions. Tie old man of the group is President Hugh D. Johnston. He was too young to romember it, but lived here for several months as a baby. It was Depres sion times and Hugh says 'his father told him he di'cidcd the family could starve a little less at Cramerton. Hugh was born in 1928. One of the directors Is Bob Neill, son of the late Mr. and .Mrs. B. S. Neill, wno played a hefty tackle for the Kings Mountain high school football team, and who is now a Cliarlottean. m-m Another director is Hugh Mor ton, of Wilmington and Grand father Mountain. While he has previously had no on scene Viewpoints of Other Eilitors COSMOPOLITANIZED CARS ARMY SPIES ON CITIZENS Last year, foreign auto imi>orts made up 15 percent c.st-World War II booming market when roa'd and curbside c’ongestion were not what they are today — could not do the w'hole job of satisfylfig the Amer ican buying public. Further, an internationalization of taste has made imports more acceptable In the American market — as well as stamping a certain "Ameri canism’’ on the foreign cars themsclv'cs. The senator says information he received is tliat the Army used this military spy network to keep tabs on more than 800 civil ians in Illinois. The list includes such names as Adlai E. Steven son III, who recently was elected Unitt'd States senator from Illi nois; United States Representa tive Abner Mikva; former gov ernor and now Federal Judge Ot to Kerner; and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who heads the black Op eration Breadbasket mohement to help Negroes and other minority groups and who is planning to run for mayor of Chicago. The fonner Army sergeant who supplied the information to Sen ator Ervin says his work for the military involved “collection ol information pertaining to indiv iduals and organizations decreed by the Army to be subversive in nature.” This raises serious questions a- bout who authorized the .Army to ■•decree” any individual or or ganization “to be subversive in nature” and of how the Army got involved in any such activity at all. What standards ore used in mtiking judgments on these in dividuals and organizations and for what purpose? This is not a function of the military in any democratic gov ernment. If it has been going on in tile United States, then some, one has gross misconceptions a- bout our kind of government. Persons holding or seeking pub lic office are to be judgtxl first at all by the electorate. And if that screening fails to prevent a ‘'bad PATIENTS IN KINGS MOUNTAIN HOSPITAL AS OF NOON "tfiiD- NESDAY: m-m Nuances effect people hey effect businesses. and President Johnston explained he reason for changing the orig inal name from “Family Inn ’ tc ■Motor Inn”. Soon after openin' he Charlotte Royal Vil'a tho owners found that 75 per-e’nt r’ iheir customers wore “commer cial , a hotel lingo deslgnatio'n Jf the over night guest, often salespeople, who come in for tllnner, some evening business calls, .sleep, breakfast and de parture. A number of ' were re"’’'- ’ ...ued into two ... Giie asked, "You mean 1 can’t stay with you if I don’t have my family with me?” Tlie other consensus complaint: ‘If you’re going to have a bunch of youngsters playing up and d.own the halls all night, I won’t be •Staying with you." There will always be a market | apple” getting into tlie barrel, for tho big American car. | there is an extensive and adc- Throughout the world, it is a quate civilian system of invest! standard tor luxury in road trav- j gallon and prosecution to deal el. No doubt as U.S. automakers! with these situations, prove thcmselve.s a stronger hold | Wlien those tasks are allowed on the domestic small car mar-1 b) slil> into the hands of the ket. While abroad, it sliould not military instead of the people or be forgotten, they are already; their civilian servicSS, a nation stronger than appears on tho : is moving, into, an Orwellian per- lurface, though their hoi'.tings in j iod of Big Brother. It Is no long Bryson Wilson Arthur rVllen Wm. Banks Barber Mrs. Geo. E. Barrett Mrs. Virginia Bt'll Mrs. Lucille Blanton Earnest Wr. Bobbitt Wm. M. Clack Mr.s. Mary CJcnim 'r Mrs. Joyce Cole J. R. Davis ■Mrs. Jack Day Mrs. James E. Dee JIugh E'arrls Mr.s. Ekirnest Foxx Mrs. Coley Freeman Darrell Goins Lawrence Guy Mrs. Lela Houser Airs. Mamie Kennedy Mr.s. Homer Kilgore Mrs. Willis Leach Clifford Lively Geo. Moore Carl McGinnis Mrs. Hugh Ormand Mrs. Harry Potoat Mrs. Alvenia Schuler Robt. Spencer Mrs. Lawrence I). Styors St., Mrs. Mimmie C. Webb Mrs. John Harry, Spruce Grover Mrs. Ibort Hagans, Rt. CIov on Mrs. I. C. Dunlap. Rt. 3. Yorl^ Mrs. J. D. Caveny Rt. 1, Grover Mrs. Rodc, Rt. I, Grover Lr'onard L. Friday, Rt. 4, South W(K>d, Gastonia Edaard W. Dellinger, Rt. 2, Cherryville Mrs. Vergio Cole, 908 Grace St., City Gerald Carrigan, 115 Monta Vista, City Mr.s. Robt. D. Berrx’, Rt. 3 Box .34, City ■ ^ J Rol)t. Adams, Rt. 1, Cily Mrs. Larry D. Green, 920 Grover Rd., City Mrs. Ejanan L. Hughes. .3910 Old York IW., Gastonia Mrs. Anrlrew Lrx'klear, 2311 Cloverwood Lane, Gastonia ADMITTED TUESDAY Mrs. Lewis L. Wilcox, 1410 WaN* St.. Gastonia Tracy M. Stewart, .304 E. Par ker St., City -Mrs. Doris H. John.son, 413 York Rrl.. City Mr.s. Thuriman Jenkins, 12.30 2nd St., City N. .M. Hudson, Rt. 1, Grover Tluirman D. Henderson, l,30i Gold St.. City A Mr.s. Everelle Grigg, Box .3i^0 City - Don Queen, Box ,302, Cily foreign auto companies. Basically, then, American car manufacturers probably are not dismayed at the imports’ strong showing in 1970. Their adju.st- ment to the changing buying scene Is not complete. But they er a free, democratic governimeni when that happens. Tire charges brought by Sena tor Ervin are only charges at this point. But they are .serious charges brought by a member ol the Senate who has an excellent are not panicking. They are not’ repiit-rtion as a defender of rights eyeing anything like protective ! and con.stitutiona'l methods. They import measures to hold back the ' - — import tide. Tliey realize that eventually an internationalized market will be as much In their favor as it is in the rest of the free world’s. Christian %lence Monitor te-m The neon .sign artists got an S. O. 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