THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday. May 25. 1972 Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald 206 South Piedmont Ave. Kings Hountolii, N. C. 28088 A weekly newspa.per devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for ths enlightenment, entertainmnt and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Heraid 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 Gary Stewart Sports Editor, NeA^s Miss Deboie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper Ray Paricec Rothy Martin MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT AUflD Myers Roger Bkoira Paul Jackson Herbert M. Hunter • On t^ave With The United States Army MAH. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE In North Corolino emd South Carolina yew $4, six months $2.25; throe months $1.50; school year $3. (Subscription In North Carolina suOtject to three percent sales lax.j In AH Other States One year $5; six months $3; ttifee months $1.75; school year $3.75. PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739 5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Vanity pf -pamitk-s, saith the P-roaclicr, pU is 'mtn ity. Ecclesiastes f Up To Us Mr. Hambright know.s w*hereof he speaks. Mr. Hambright now knaw.s Mr. Fin ger and likes him, still teases Mr. F'-nrrci- ai)out the paucity of votes Mr. Finger received in the man-on-man run-ofi c-c- tion in which Mr. Ellis was elected and in which Mr. Finger was defeated. Mr. Hambright speaks of both ex perience and victory. In the .second primary election, to which Hambright refers, the small com munity of Grover voted the book. Mr. Finger lays claim to no more than three votes in the Grover precinct. Mr. Ham bright phrases it “we made it (the nom ination of Mr. Ellis) a community pro ject.” Kings Mountain has a worthy can didate for the county board of commis sioners in the penson of Josh Hinnant, a banker by profe.ssion, a non-paid champ ion of the Kings Mountain area for in dustrial development, a down-to-earth baseball pitcher who knows the score. Kings Mountain has griped for years, this newspaper among the lead ers, of being the red-headed stepchild of Cleveland County. The tape on election results reveals the true story of those willing to read and understand. On May 6, 1382 Democrats voted a- gainst a potential of round figure 43(30. It is not mete to complain when we do not vote. Hang-Ups President Nixon, in his prior visit to China and in his present excursion to Mo.scow, is acting as 1) Chief Architect of the United States foreign policy; 2) Commander - In - Chief of the Ai-med Forces of the United States and 3) a very pragmatic politician very conscious that November 7, 1972 is election and he hopes, rc-elecUon day, in the United States. Mr. Nixon has never been a favorite of this newspaper. Conversely, this newspaper mu.st credit Mr. Nixon as the Kings Mountain Herald has historically, courage, imag ination and the will to work, from which he has never flagged. The late great Sir Winston Spencer (Jhurchill said, “As long as you’re talk ing, you aren’t shooting.’’ It is patently true. The history of the Russian is one of aggrandizement—short of war. It is to be assumed that Mr. Nixoh has read his fill of Russian history and on this background he is gambling that a detente can be established by which the world may live in relative peace. The United Nations is maligned as a wa.stpful weak sister, leecher of the public treasury with no .worthwhile re sult. The fact remains, in spite of Viet nam where, all know, the morality and integrity of the Free World cannot be imposed upon the oriental mind, there has not been a major war of the World War I and World War 11 proportion. The visit of the President to Peking and now Moscow is a conscionable ef fort on the part of the United States to continue the detente for now and hope fully ferevermore. ^ Taylor Endorsements Paul Hambright, the former agri culture teacher, said recently, “If you folks want a county commissioner you’ve got to do it like we did. We weren't mad at Carl Finger, as a mattor of f act I didn’t even know him. But we made the nomination and election of Broad Ellis a community project. That’s what you’ve got to do.’’ A run-off primary is a new game. ball Skipper Bowles mary 62,500 votes. led the first pri- Dr. Reginald Hawkins, the Negro, wjio polled 118,000 votes in 1968, po'lled 6-5,000 votes on May 6. \Vilbur Hobby, chief of the North Carolina American Federation of Labor- Congress of International Organizations, polled 58,000. Both have endorsed Lt. Governor H, Pat Taylor for Governor in the June 3 second primary. What conclusions can be drawn? Lindsay Warren, manager of the Taylor campaign, was somewhat apolo getic of the Hawkins support. “When you’re behind” he was quoted, “you want any. support.” It was very obvious that the can didacies of Dr. Hawkins and Mr. Hobby were for a singular purpose: to dictate policies of the likely next Governor of North Carolina. Apparently they could dictate to the non-taxing (he says) Lieutenani Governor of North Carolina. Who was the architect of the Scott-Tax program of 1969 in the Senate of North Carolina and who now decries friendship with Governor Scott, his mentor? Lt. Governor Taylor, inferring ho plans to assess a larger tax bite on< North Carolinians pooh-poohs Senator Bowles’ pledge that he will recommend no new' taxes on North Carolina citiz ens. A review' of recent North Carolina history reveals such a pledge is hardly vacuous. Governor Dan Moore pledged ho would recommend no new taxes. There were none. State Senator Jack White of Kings Mountain had a very difficult time per suading the Governor that addition of five cents to the price of a bottle ofi whiskey—earmarked to build alcoholic rehabilitation centers— was not a tax Said Senator White, “Governor, no tax. as North Carolina—sold w'hiskey is not taxed. Governor, I merely want to add five cents to the price of a bottle of whiskey and earmark it as I say.” The Governor finally agreed. Senator Bowles says he can repeat the Moore performance. He can. Turned On It was a happy day last Thursday afternoon w'hen the valve was turned pouring Kings Mountain water into the mains of Bessemer City. The professionals in the business of “clean water” have long been aware of the regional concept. The little fellas must work together. The Bessemer City-Kings Mountain water contract is a case in point. Slight ly larger Kings Mountain, bound by ad ject necessity, borrowed a large sum of money to obtain w'ater, more than it needs for the moment. Smaller Bessemer City, unaided and unabetted by utility profits, needed water. Kings Mountain is supplying Bessemer City’s “shorts”. A good trade is beneficial to all parties concerned. This one is a prime example. MARTIN'S MEDICINE Viewpoints of Other Editors By MARTIN HARMON THE PRESIDENT'S OFFER eral income taxes in 1970, adding the promise that If eiected he’li make sure they do. It may not Tlie centerpiece of President Nixon Vietnam statement re cently iwas, hy his own empasis. Ford Times, the consumer trade decision to mine the har- publication the grandson of T- Model Henry pnjduce.s, in.spires a dash of drifel. . . . mm have been bixtught to the candi date’s attention that most of the corporations hus indiced lost money in 1970 and the rest were either so tiny or virtually de funct that there w'as nothing to a.\. KINGS MOUNTAIN Hospital Log YISIXING HOURS Dally 10:30 to 11:30 AM. 3 to 4 PM. land 7 to 8 P,M. The Tar Heel Spotlight By SAM RAGAN North t’arolina may have been among the last of the oilginai bors of North Vietnam, to deny Hanoi "the weapons and sup plies it needs , to continue the aggression.” But there was en veloped in and largely obscured by this portentous announcement The other canard, which h-is r „ . , . ,.uu II. oct-ii delivered repeated with such reguiar- Speedway- cla^^ic at would have brought forth passion that it is nov,' c^^‘'»i''mHes acflTou” different headlines and ^^en believed by a number ef cess of XO miles per hour in 192n. commentary. mncient tycoons, is that slnc.r m-m on,- , . ... sbtee Mr. Ni.xOn took oltice the ** ck.inges in the tax laws have Sir Pete hung up the raicing * - t?" ‘be wealthy at spikes A. D. 1934, and since has .F'. '“ddary expense of the little guy. Ed- The Magazine features one , „ Peter DePaola. winner of the i relegated himself to the paddock, involvement in Vietnam. Once g cohen, assistant secreta’-y the banquet circuit featuring Fi of war are releas- qj treasury for tax policy, such heavy-weights os baseball’s once an internationally sup- said “This is not so.” And in a .Bob Feller, football's Ironton. doasefire has begun in speech to the Federal Tax Insti- Ohio flash George McAfee, and Indochina, he said, the United .{yte of New England he tells basketball’s fir.st all - American a** acts of I'orce -^yhy. out cf North Carolina nee, Penn- within four months with? sylvanial George Glamack. draw all U. S. forces from Viet nam. No longer would be U. S. m-m insist on linking total withdraw Clarence L. Black Mack Lee Conner Bessie M. McClain Dr. Waldo K. Mcli-ill Dorus Clay Payseur Effie Mac Peterson Eugene Frank Stapp Bonnie M. Summers Lucinda Surratt Mr.s. J. H. Ttiomsoii Mrs. Beauford Li'.siie Billy Gene Robhs Ila B. Slayton Edna Leatherwood Mre. Sherman H. Oakes Mattie C. Stow*' Mrs. Frank Warllck Bessie E. Weils Gaines L. Anderson Mrs. Lewis E. Fite Mary Leo Mayes ADMITTED THURSDAY Mrs. Robert E, Barrett, Rt. tliirieon statog to ratify he Can sitution almost 200 years ago, bu it is taking the lead today in planning a proper bicentennial commemoration. A torsy appearing this month in "USA 200," an independent, nationally dustributed bicenten nial newspaper, calls the Nortli Carolina bicentennial plan "the Crawford most significant effort thus far to deal wat|i the really difficult elements ol bicentennial plaii- In the interest of educating the Gastonia political candidates, the common Graden D. Breedlove, .512 E. ai to the progress of Vietnamiza- b® Innownt tycoons, Washington Ave., Bc.s.-«.»mcr City It w^s the only auto race I've tjoj, proposal in- "I'" pertinent portions Kenneth Breedlove. 2417 ever attended and I have a rath- demands that tL,tavadmg C^ben’s remarks. While Farland Ext., Ga.stonia s.h‘‘rw.’:,?rr.' '' than I did. f own borders. iMnrI rnic K/ion MitcrvM’i Ml ning. "U.SA 200” further slates that the plan developed by the North Carolina American Revolution Bicentennial Commission untler the leadership of chairman Hec tor MacLean of Lumherton and director Richard F. Gibbs "does what -so many of us have talked 4 about or thought about, but have ’ found it very difficult to do. It deals with the idea.s, ideals, defi nitions, scope of tlie American Revolution and provides a sound, practical way for relating them to the present and the fu- But Peter DePaola was the star. message, it is not hard for us to imagine tliat it would have been read here at home as a capitula- lion by tire President to his most passionate critics. In his press After apprenticing under his briefing, Henry Klssenger made uncle, Ralph DePalma, who push- oblique reference to this irony, ed his way to a non-win in 1912— "The modification of our peace .second year of the Indianaptolis proposal,” he said, "tcorresponJs business—^DePaolo was Number 1 with what was the accepted wis- in 1925. dom everywhere only a ilttie while ago.” “ On the eve of Mr. Nixon’s day A few weeks later, at the short- decision, The Economist of lived but equally exciting wood London repeated this accepte l track just south of CTiarlotte, De- wisdom with detached Annie Lee iByrd. Rt. 2, City this resentation were obviously EULs Harmon King. Ill Fulton ture. Had this been Mr Nixon’s onlv bis statistics are not. st.. City A .basic premise of "Amer,r*m I„ Z 'We rust a clear-eyed reading of ADMITTED FRIDAY Revolution H. a.s the plan ^ same will convince the can di- Mrs. John T. Hrown, .30fi S. lOtli named, is that the highest foi* dates that tax reforms in recent St.. Bes.samer City of bonor which can be paid to years have scarcely pampered Michael Thonruis Dowdle, 212 the people of the Rovolutiona'-y the rich or soaked the little guy. W. Texas Ave., (Bessemor City generation is to put their prha i- Wall Street Journal. BY IGNORING CLEVELAND. (30P CANDIDATES LOST The two candidates for the Re- Oscar R. Gladden, 105 N. Rail pies into action in our own lives, road Ave., City Another holds that all American.-! Mrs. Marvin J. Harmon, Rt. 2, aie beneficiaries of the American City Revolution and that we have an Billie Mario Hall, 318 Waco Rd,, obligation to pass on its legacy- Clty (hopefully improved” lo (uture ADMITTED SATURDAY generations. Mrs. James .4. Belt, 106 N. Sims perspec- publican gubernatorial campaign Paola, fresh off ht, victory on the I‘ thought it likely that have only themselves to blame Milton Road, .CJharlotte red brick of Indianapolis, showed would pause on the battle- not already being nominal- Mrs. Evans H. Carroll, Jr., 104 ’em hoiv to do it in Lady-car 'Hold -having amply demonsrat- ed. Instead of cami»igning in Nos-lh Sims St., City To accomplis], this goal, the North Carolina bicentennial com mission proposes a long-term commemoration spenning t h <■ Mrs. Charles E. Blackwell, 2609 same ydar.s in this century as the St., aty ADMITTED SUNDAY Ella B. Beam, El. 2, City- fashion at Pineviile. certain memories remain and uncluttered. Peter DePaolo. My Father. ed its ability to gain ground Clevelad county before May 6, through military prowress — and ‘bey are In a runoff on June 3. give politicians in Washington At the age of five, which I was 5"*^ Saingon a moment to con- Neither Jim Holshouser nor mpmAriru: rjxmam cl^ST consoQU6Tic6s. “It ijim Gardner mudo a campaign may be enough,” said the period- -trip to our county lo court the leal, "for North Vietnam’s lead- 4,000-plus registered Republicans ers if they could get Mr. Nixon here. Both did go into Ruther- to withdraw the last of his .ford County and into Gaston troops from the country in re- County, but not into Cleveland turn for a ceasefire and handing County. There w-as a Gardner over their few American prison- campaign manager here, but, as far as we have been able to de- Well, they did. But so far, termine, that was the virtual ex enough does not seem to be ten of the Repblican gberna- enough for Hanoi. “Why ig it,” toria campaign in the cojity Dr, Kissinger asks plaintively, “that these proposals should not “'‘‘® *bat 4,000 potential be accepted? If they were good ''°‘es may not look like many enoug)! for ‘be Senate doves, w-hy when compared o many other is it that Hanoi rejects thern? counties where the (X>P registra- The question puzzles some who higher. It’s also true that are doing the arithmetic Hanoi Cleveland Couny has been must face as it pases before, staunchly Democratic, more so The administration calculates ‘b®n other county in the 10th the Communists lost two divi- 'Congressional district. It lias sions, some 20,000 men, in con- ‘o Democratic candi- quering Quang Tri, which was ‘A so many years that any- defended by the most inexper- ‘bing else would be a surprise., lenced of South Vietnam’s divi- ^"*Y George Wallace’s Amencar sions. How long, and at what Party presidential attempt :n Dink (I finally learned name is Odell) Bennett. hfs The BIG OR.4NGE. Mrs. James N. (Jwens, Rt. 3, City Raymond D. Sharpe, Rt. 1, .Shel by John EMward Wallen, 727 A Street, Bessemer City Mrs. Bennie Webber. GOl W. Alabama Ave., Bessemer City- ADMITTED MONDAY Johnnit Wright Osborne, 703 \V. Gold St., City Charles Carr Harrelson, Rt. 2, Bessemer City Ruby P. Bell, Rt. 1, Bc.ssemer City- Jasper E. Wilson, Jr., 324 Stev ens St., Gastonia Kevin E. 'Galioway, 515 Belv-e- dcre Circle, City Dewey W. Barker, IRt. 1, City American revolution did in the eighteenth century. The "proce.ss” of the Revolution in North Car olina is considered to have bi-- gun witli the calling of the First Provincial Congress at New Bern in ITIf and to have concluded with the adoption of the F00 potential day, May 18, „.. The sitiinto ■vo‘cs. (In fact, only two Repub- hospital. dedicaUon has emerged. Is that the weicht ’ tNolih candidaes for any office- -Mr. and Mrs. Don F. Saldo. Et. Tbrough sucj, publicity ag tlie Vietnamese irive to Joyner and Jesse Helms 1, Grover, announce the birth of stCY in "U.SA 200", Iher.' g manpower —b.othered to come here), it twin sons, Friday, May ]9, Kings b* ® growing possibility that wag almost as if every candidate Mountain hospital. North Carolina’s approach to not coincide with any CP cQst-henefit ratine r be had Cleveland Repub- 'Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. ElUott ‘b® commemoration of t h e mania of John Q. Public being mm Heans in the bag, or a.s if none 1401 Shel'by Road, announce the American Revolution may hav*' ri„"”’fZ-.VbeY no doubt see of them really cared ... - - a chance that the conquest of what it is—gore. birtti of a son, Saturday, May 20, national influence. trim uHii Km-..™ .K ; utoii o. - . _ . „ Kings .Mountain hcapital, Additionalinformationisavail- Everj-one loves a fight, as long last vestigf of U. only'n^ded Jr.'^Od^R nnTunce ‘iena/BlameruhTr^oiLh^^^ turns, irarified by the Romans, H ‘be President s new offer at- He migb well nave gotten them (Mr. and Mrs. Carl M Neelv Rt s‘a‘e Plan, or fi-om the Nor* , and Hannibal contributed. "‘^bles from Hanoi, it here wi‘h just one campaign i, GastoSa; N. C. alrance tie Carolina Ameri^^n Lo^idon _ ought at l®ast to dampen the swig. Jim Holshouser needed only birth of a son, Tuesday, May 23 Bioentermial Commission Box nePoi m ( f persistent idea that a comprom- 1.329 votes to catch Gardner Kings Mountain hosptol. ^ ' ’SSL Raleigh. “ DePalma, the non-winner of ise setlement can be reached if and a total of only 1,715 votes Mr and Mre Tonyl, 4rrowom( 1912, was intense to the point he only the Americans make one to win the nomination himself. Route 2, Be'ssemer (ity announce had his mechanics come and more concession. Just as the He might well have gotten them the birth of a daughter We-ines. push. He busted a rod (radius, Nixon administration now as- in Cleveland County had he both- day, May 24 iKIn^s anent the tvyenties, the late mas- knowledges having underestimat- ered to campaign here at al!. As hospital. ’ " ter mechanic, Mr. Hoffman, Dr. ed North Vietnam’s military it was, less than one-fourth of BROADCAST Jehn Jacob George Herd’s radius- capability. It s