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THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Thursday, January 28, 1971
Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Herald
206 South Piedmont Ave. Kings Mountain, N. C. 28088
A weekly newspaper devoted to Uie promotion of the general welfare and puhliahed
for the enlightenment, entertainmnt 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., 38086
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873.
EOrrOBlAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon EJdltor-Publishex
Miss Elizabeth Stewart ClKiUatlon Manager and Society Editor
Miss Deboie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeetx»r
Frank Edwards
‘Booky Martin
Chad Ledford
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
Allen Myers
Roger Brown
' On Leave With The United States Army
Paul Jackson
Ray Parker
Joel Llghtsey
M.\IL SUBSCRIPTION BATIS PAYAaLK LN ADVANCE
In North Caroliao ond South CcBoUno
One year $4; six months $2.25; three months $1.50; school year $3.
(Subsorlption in North CaiPolina subject to three percent sales tax.)
In All Other States
One year $5; six months $3; three months $1.75; school year $3.75.
PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX
TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441
TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Look on every 07W that is proud, and bring him kno; and tread doom ttw loicked in their place.
Job 40:42.
Anti-Secrecy
Representative Carl Stewart, of
Gaston, expects to seek passage of an
anti-secrecy bill.
These bills have been attempted be
fore, with noble intent. Some didn't get
out of committee, and those that were
recognizable, except for name of the
introducer, as they had been well ema.s-
culated.
Another representative has already
introduced an anti-secrec.v bill, appar
ently designed to head off and.'or gut,
the bill planned by Mr. Stewart.
The so-called Secrecy Act passed in
1953 was at this principal instance of
then-Representative B. "T. (Buzz) Falls,
of Cleveland. Now Superior Court Judge
Falls was voted by the press corps as
signed to the General Assembly beat
the “worse” legislator of the 170 mem
bers. The vote inovement was led by
a star reporter of the Raleigh News &
Observer. What the rift was is not re
membered and of no particular mo
ment. Mr. Falls, handsomely supported
by his legislative confreres, retaliated in
kind and the Secrecy Act became fact.
(Mr. Falls, of Cleveland, as this
newspaper said at the time, .was certain
ly NOT the worse legislator of the ses
sion and likely one of its more effective
members.)
The press took up the cudgel in
the next session with vim and vigor and
on face the legislators won hands down,
in 1955 as well as in 1953.
But maybe not.
As the late, great Ernest B. Hunter,
managing editor of the Charlotte Ob
server, commented after the 1955 failure
to repeal the Secrecy Act, “It makes no
difference what the statute says. Any
reporter worth his salt is gonna get the
story anyhow.’’
Mr. Stewart is a sincere young leg
islator in his third term and has our
well wishes, if also our doubts.
Small Seed. Big Fruit
Kings Mountain Business Develop
ment, Inc., formed to get more jobs for
Kings Mountain area citizens, went into
business in 1958 with the unstupendous
stock subscription of ,$22,800, which to
day will build only a quite modest resi
dence.
Today, 13 years later, the 60-odd
shareholders can point with pride to
the results of their investment. The
firm has had a hand, using a variety
of arrangements, in bringing to Kings
Mountain no less than five industries.
The first was Waco Sportswear, for
which Kings Mountain Business Devel
opment built a building on a lease-pur
chase arrangement.
The fact of Waco’s presence spawn
ed what is now Duplex-International, a
subsidiary of Reeves Brothers. There
was no financial involvement in obtain
ing this new citizen, except for footwork
on the part of the business develop
ment firm’s officers in site location and
utility arrangements.
Next the firm had a major hand
in the location here of K. Mills, now be
ginning its third expansion. Next came
Carpet Industries. Next came Concept
Furniture.
The success formula: a little bit of
money, a lot of imagination and hard
work.
The little seed brought the big ap
ple.
The death of Mrs. Ruth Plonk Or-
mand came as a shock to her kin and
friends, even moreso as her condition
was apparently improved considerably
immediately before her passing. A Kings
Mountain native, Mrs. Ormand started
teaching in the good old $30 per month
days. She was a quite effective one,
giving long an valiant »arvice. Her kind-
Mr. Phillips Visits
Craig Phillips, state superintendent
of public instruction, was the featured
speaker at Monday night’s meeting of
the County Association of Government
al Official.s.
As was to be expected, ' Phillips
presented the school folk’s nplaints
on the recommendations of t le Advis
ory Budget Commission on school ap
propriations for the current biennium.
Insufficient expansion of the kin
dergarten program, insufficient increase
in instructional supplies, insufficient
funds to reduce teacher loads, ’
charges.
he
His principal emphasis again con
cerned teacher pay. He wants the teach
ers to be paid for ten months work
(though not to expand the pupil's 180-
day school term), more money for super
intendents and their assistants, and
12 months pay (now ten) for principals.
School folk throughout thfe state
took umbrage at the commission recom
mendation, backed by the governor, for
a ten percent pay increase during the
next biennium, at five percent per year.
Frankly, the temper of the guy out
side 'the school union, said by many
to be North Carolina’s biggest and most
powerful, is that a buiit-in five percent
per year is quite fair, particularly in
light of the gains made by teacher pay
in the past two decades. No question:
the teachers of North Carolina took a
major licking on the financial front un
til Sfter World War n. They were on
the wrong side of the state’s financial
pendulum.
But pendulums have a habit of
swinging both ways and in the instance
of teacher pay in this state the pendu
lum has moved to the other side.
Senator J. Ollie Harris favors more
funds for schools and teacher pay, if
the funds can be found. He thinks, how
ever, the teachers might be wise to
switch some of their steam to fringe
benefits, such as hospitalization insur
ance, since these fringes would not add
to their gross pay but would add a great
er measure in net pay. In the first place.
Uncle Sam's tax collector, and North
Carolina’s, would not be waiting at the
end of the paymaster’s table to get their
share.
Judge Mahoney
District Judge John Mahoney of
Shelby has described himself as a poor,
mick Irish Catholic who came to Pro
testant Cleveland county with little
more of this world’s goods than the
clothes he wore, an honorable discharge
from the service after World War H,
and a law degree.
Withal he has collected a wife, fine
children, and success in his profession.
Often referred to as “Honest John ”
Mahoney, Mr. Mahoney earned the title,
as those who have watched his work in
the courtroom are aware. A defendant
could count on a full-fledged, no half
way, half-hearted pleading of his case.
Many were surprised h was in
terested in the judgeship. I told the
Herald, “When my confreres . the bar
asked me to become a judge, there could
have been only one answer.”
Judge Mahoney is a smart lawyer
because he does his homework. He is
articulate. He is fair-minded.
These attributes will stand him in
good stead in this new phase of his
legal career.
Congratulations to Kenny Bridges,
the community’s newest Eagle Scout.
thi
Tax penalty day at the offices of
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
By MAR'HN HARMON
NOW. Let Me See
visiting at King.s Mountain Sav
ings & Loan A-isooiation a few
weeks ago, 1 Inquired of Mrs. Ru
by Hughes Baker if she hud any
dlfflcultj’ in getting accllniau>d
to larger quarters. I recalled my
e.\perlence after leaving tlie
cramped and orowded former
Herald building, where, if what
I was .seeking was tlrere it was
under my fingertips. It -was a-
bout a year before i oeeame ae-
customod to finding something in
e.xpanded quarters.
Ruby said she had become ac
quainted fairly quickly.
Ri-in
Indeed, she added, she bad ^
#8und only one mistake in the
planning. The tellers counters |
had proved to high for shorter
folk and smaller fry. “Tiioy can’t
see over ttie counter,” was Ruby’s
complaint.
That problem has
remedied.
now been
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Whether the architects. Ruby, |
01' someone else in the organ!- j
zation liad seen the play I didn’t
inquire. I refer to the play, “Up
Che Down Staircase.” Kings
Mountain Savings & Loan has
now installed, literally, an up
thc-down staircase. It’s three
steps up to the landing and three
steps down to tire main floor, the
stair-step installation neatly de
signed and appointed with .soft
carpeting.
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The association, Ruby says, does
a goodly bit of business with
children. Papa and Mama send
their off-spring to make house
KINGS MOUNTAIN
Hospital Log
Mrs. Sunnie Green
Mrs. Love CaiToll
Mrs, J. C-' Nichols
Wm. IHanks 'Barbir
Hen P- iBarrett
Burma Bryant
Lcaviy Buclianan
Wm- Clack
Mrs. Joyce Cole
J. D. Davis
'Mrs. Mol lie Davis
H.iiward iD-lllnger
L\Irs. Lsabi-Ue Dingus
James Ganble
EBlorlx' Gniffin
Mrs. Albert I lagans
Mrs. Bthal Hambright
Mrs. Thui'mon Jenkins
Mlrs, Virginia Johnson
Mrs. iWUlis Ijeach
Carl MoGinnis
Ala M. Paisley
..Mrs. Alvenia Schuler
Mrs. Fielcher Walker
Mrs. Nimue Webb
Walter Whitley
Mrs. ChUd C. Woods
Mrs. Otlis Jackson
G< urge Poole
Mrs. Tinnie Wyatt
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QUESTION TV PRIMACY
While we would want to sec
more, not fewer television chats
with the President like Monday
payments and to deposit in sav i night’s, we must register re.serva
Ings accounts. And, perhaps bet I tions about them.
ter still, a large number of chil
dren have savings accounts of j
their own.
in-fit
Bidding business is seldom a
laughing matter at City Hall or
in other situations elsewhere.
Just about everyone involved ia
in pins and needles; the bid in-
vUer prays the low bid will Jit
his budget and the aiehltect. !^n
gineer, or bid specaficoitlon ar
ranger. The bidders are in simi
lar diicumstance, too. Some want
That is, we believe considera
ble good is achieved by the nour-
long sessions, which the Presi
dent now appears to want sched
uled at six-month intervals. Poli
cies to a degree are clarified.
And Americans got to appraise
their country’s leader in conver
sation, off-the-dais.
CURBING CAR
COMPETITION
Nearly everyone is aware that
those stickers on new-car win-
Yet there are serious problems
with such interviews. They are
held so daflfiltelyt on the Tresi'-
dent’s home grounds that the in
terviewers, like guests who know
the award very badly and—^yes, | their place, must be careful not
this happens — some don’t and
are posting so-called courtesy
bids. The “don’t want” group
tear that bid too low, the "do
■want” fear they bid too high.
to track the imud of disagreement
into the house.
dows aren’t always the last word
on prices. ’They serve as a start
ing point, and the buyer usually
wln^ up paying less.
If the Federal Trade Commis
sion gets its way, however, the
situation will change. A proposed
regulation would stipulate that
the sticker price should not be
more than 3 percent higher than
the lowest prices at which sub
stantial sales are made.
,This would, of course, set up
a bureaucratic nightmare, with
A THIMBLEFUL OF MOON
'For the time being at least,
the agreement to exci'.ange moon
samples reached by the United
States and t'he Soviet Union In
Moscow last week concerns only
about two-tcntlis of an ounce of
lunar rock.
This mlglht look like a very
small achievement. But the im
plications af the agreement and
the promise it holds for the fu
ture far outweigh 'the mere ex
change of a thimbleful of moon
substance.
The most encouiraging thing i»-
that the Americans and the Rus
0
(how much is “substantial”?)
with FTC agents or someone po- PloraUon. .Before the vastness of
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Mayor John Henry Moss, as is
required by law in such situa
tions. was reading the bids Tues
day night on a backhoe macliine
the city needs. One bid<ier, in
process of detailing dashboard
details of his machine, such as
indicators of various types, in
cluded an Interesting detail; his
machine’s dash boasts a ciga.r
lighter. This brought a quick i
smile to the face of Commissioner
Tommy Ellison, an inveterate
cigar smoker. The commission
meets Monday night to desig
nate the successful bidder. Tom
my is likely to be disappointed.
The cigar lighter man Is not the
apparent low bidder by $395.
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Hubert (Abie) MicGinnis, as a
local merchant should, believes
In the old doctrine of “trade at
home”. In Charlotte’s Presbyter
ian hospital for tests on physi
cal troubles, Abie learned from
his doctor that his gall bladder
had outlived its usrfulness and
was now the detriment. Indeed,
the doctor suggested he get Able
a room and transfer Him for an
Immediate operation. No, said
Abie, he’d have the operation In
Kings Mountain. Monday George
Plonk wielded the knife and A
bie’s gall bladder is no more.
“Well,” Abie had remarked. “We
give money to build ourselves a
haspital. Why not use It?”
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Lunching at Dixie Village Cafe
teria a few weeks 'back. Mayor
John Moss and I greeted nearby
table occupants Judge P. C. Frone-
bergor, recently retired, Hamp
Childs, the newly sworn sblicitor,
and Judge Lacy Thornburg, of
Sylva, whom I had not met. I
learned a bit. Judge Thornburg is
not a native mountaineer, but is
originally from nearby Hunters
ville. But .Malcolm Brown, the
Shelby schools superintendent, is
a native of Sylva, not from East,
cm North Carolina, as I had
thought. Judge Thornburg’s bar
ber is Joe Hedden’s father. And
those sapphire lakes In Jacksor
county have been poJlutior
threatened, too, he ad-t- ' •• •
Childs wa-T !-■ .
, ....i.unented oti
liiicciiiUMi's water problems.
Judge Proneberger was reminisc
Ing about the old tin mine on
the west side of today’s Southern
Railway depot here, said his moth
er was a Carroll from Kings
Mountain. That makes Judge
Fronebeirger kin to a lot of Kings
Mountain folk. My neighbor,
( Fireman C D. (Red) Ware, for
' instance, and the Judge are lint
foaualns.
But even more troubling is that
the Interviews are part of an
overall communications strategy
that places undue reliance on
television. We object, not because
we are word and still-photo men,
but because television can only
do part of the job. TV can be
granted advantages in immediacy
of coverage, nuances of inflection.
But the medium also imposes a
kind of compression, a tendency
tj .-si-mplify, which mast be guard
ed against.
Moing the thousands of auto show
rooms. The objections, though, go
deeper than that
Not all subjects tourtied on
Monday evening are as simple as
they were made out to be. For
instance, President Nixon was
asked how far he would go to
integrate housing. He repeated
his “neutralist” stand, that he
would go no further than the law
said he must. The matter was
let drop there. And yet there
should have been follow-up ques
tions: How had that same day’s
decision In a U. S. Court at Ap
peals — requiring, the govern
ment to deny federal slum hous
ing aid to projefcts that might in
tensify the concentration of
blacks — affect his planning? Is
he comfortable writing off black
voter support with his "neutra
list” housing and .school integra
tion poliicics?
It is not a criticism of the four
network interviewers to say that
they -were not up to the Job of
ferreting out details and check
ing out contradictions. The smorg
asbord interview format dictates
a topical, genemlized treatment.
Not to encourage contentiousness
—but should not the President
have faced four newsmen more
expert in the fields of economics,
foreign affairs, and .social pro
grams rather than four general
ist, albeit able newsmen?
Perhaps it is time to balance
>ff television. Instead of putting
TV reporters front and center at
oresidential news conferences,
terhaps they should take their
places with the re^t of the press.
Vfter all, they too are essentlal-
the posslbiliUfs anti the immen
sities of the costs, we ai-e con
vinced that in tlie long run the
nations of this planet will have
sticker prices to work together in the ma-ssive
un
Whatever the
may mean to buyers, they mean; onterpi'ise of exploring tlie
a good deal to auto marlrers and known patJis of space,
dealers. The suggested retail pric
es are not arbitrary; they are set
to provide the dealer with a
To achieve that cooperation
wUl be a step by step, long-term
reasonable mark-up on the ears | process. But at lea.st the two su
he sells.
In negotiating with a customer,
eatoh dealer decides for himself
how much of that markup he will
give away. HLs decision depends
on hJs own competitive situation.
perpowers have made a start.
The new agreement is a sequel
to one reached last October,
when it was decided to hold
talks on ways of making Soviet
and American manned spaoe-
the efficiency of his operation ttraft anidi space stations compaA
and other factors.
Auto retailing is, to say the
least, highly competitive. If the
industry is forced to start setting
ihle for rende-zvous ati<i docking.
At tihe latest talks in Moscow,
the two nations also agreed to
sot up working groups to syn-
prices within 3 percent of the i cihronize resjearch in various
lowest possible level, the obvious
next step would be a precise fix
ing of prices.
Somehow, it doesn’t seem to
us that the public Interest would
be served by the FTC scheme to
curt) car competition.
Wall Street Journal
CLEAR DISTINCTION
We deeply hope the trouble
provoked 'by the 'Jewish Defense
League in the Uniteid) States does
not take the nasty turn implied
in the Soviet warning — (hat
the Soviets could no longer guar
antee the safety of Americans
stationed in 'Moscow, and may
subject them to selertod retalia
tory acts.
Granted the -miUtant: group,
disavowed by moinstreana Amer-
i-can Jewry, has acted callously
and foolishly and, if allegations
are correct, criminally. They
have harassevi noted Soviet ar
tists performing in Ameri-oa, and
are (bought to 'be behind as
saults on Soviet airline, tourist,
UN mission, and press agency
offices in New York and Wash
ington. Over the holidays, dem
onstrations were staged at Sov
iet missions to protest the Len
ingrad trial of nine Jews.
'The United States quite oor-
.y wort And „ ^ Z
oontinue to 'hold the Soviet Un
ion responsible for the safety of
leginning from the teip down with
'he President, forgot for the mo
ment where the cameras were
'•’nting, perhaps critical issues
. lid be dealt with at the length.
Christian Science Monitor
DECOR. CHESS. BOOKS
It says in the newspaper that
')uylng chesa pieces not to play
but as interior decoration is some-
hlng of a craze am<mg trendy
/oung British cotq>les.
“People want to show the sets
')ft to their friends,” saya a chess
laaler in London. “Or they wainit
tar IIU a
Ameriioans in Moscow. The UjS.
is actlnig to prosecute any Jew
ish mUi^ts who break the law.
We are confident the world
sees the distinction ibetween law-
breaking by private groups in a
itomocracy and tsalculated bully
ing encouraged by a totalitarian
government.
■—Christian ’Scienct} Monitor
fields.
The United States has for
years advocated cooperation with
the Russians In space. The cur
rent Soviet wllliniTness to talk
indicates a policy change on the
Kremlin’s part Idlating from som
etime last year.
A 'beginning has been made. It
is in the interests of the whole
world that the two supcrpowei-s
continue to work together wher
ever they can in the great ad
venture of space exploration.
-Christian Scienev Monitor
ADMITTED THURSDAY
Arthur Oarr^gan
821 1st St., City
■Mrs. Raleigh Brown
105 N. Watterson, City
Jasper Putnam
Rt. 3, City
Mrs. Ruby Warrick
Rt. 3. Box 204. City
ADMITTED FRIDAY
Edward Brown
Rt. 1, Box il98, City
Mrs. Raymond Gregory
1106 Shelby Rd., City
Mrs. Della HuXfstlckler
205 Linwood Dr., City
Mrs. Bessie Ranseur
Rt. 2, iBtssemer City
Candance Smith
Bov 447, Grover
Mr'S. Betty Tarpley ''
Box 122, Bessemer City
fBiyson Wilson -i
Rt. 3, City
ADMITTED SUNDAY
Sarah Alexander
•KM ChiLjer St., City
Mrs. Claiude 'Barnette
Gen. Del, Cherryville
iWm. Bowen
1201 Gold St., aty
Ed'wan Dixon
211 DiUing St., City
ADMITTED MONDAY
Alda Leonhardt
201 S. RudiaiU Ave., CSierrjr,
Mrs. Orangrel B. Jolly
400 Fulton 'Dr., City
Mrs. Billy Bowei-s
Rt. 1. Bessemer City
Joe 'Herndon
106 N. Oriental Ave., (3ity
Mrs. Tted WiUiams M
813 W. 'Va. Ave., Bess. Oty"
Mrs. Wm. Ruppe
406 Hill St., City -
Sylvia Blackwwl
Rt. 3, Box 469, City ■
Mrs. OMer Bridges
Rt. 3, Box 20A, City ’•
Mrs. Buddy iFletcher
701 Cleveland Ave., City
FTankie Davis
•MO W. Harrison St., Gaston.
Mrs. Ronald Maples
104 S. Sims St., Oty
Carolyn Martin
Rt. 1, Kings Creek, S. C.
Harry Poteat
Rt. 1, iBox 39SA, Boss. City
Goo. R. Smith
1,10 N. Sims St.. City
Maurice Smith
IKM W. Davidson, Gastonia,
ADMITTED TUESDAY “
Lisa Wiggins J
2900 Parkdale Cr., City
Otto Webber
Rt. 1, Shelby
Mrs. James Harry
P. O. iBox N, Grover
Mrs. Mary HarJowe
Rt. 2, City
Bix>ad'us Barber
818 Grace St., City
Geo. MoDonadd
Rt. 1, Box 409, aty
Mrs. iPaul iWbetstine
104 Center St., Oty ^
Mrs. 'Annie Heavnei' H
2120 ‘Midpines, aty ^
Felix Johnson
207 Brice St., City
Maggie Phifer '
Rt. 2, aty
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