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f'ASE 2 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNIAIN, N. C. Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald ' 206 South Piedmont Ave. Ktngs Mountain, N. C. 28088 \ weekly newspa.per devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published lor the enlightenment, entcrtainmnt 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.. 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Gary Stewait Sports Editor, News Miss Deboie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper Rocky Martin MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Alien Myera Roger Brown Paul Jactann Herbert M. Hunter MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYrUBLE IN ADVANCE In North Carolino and South Carolina One year $4; six months $2.25; three months $1.50; sohool year $3. (Subscription in North Carolina subject to three percent sales tnx.>, In All'other States One year $5; six months $3; three months $1.75; school year $3,75. PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX T * TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 Debt Consolidation Until the 1971 General As.scmbly adopted its local government re-organi- zation act, eflective the recent July 1, there wa.sn'l much reason. But under the new law financing of capital e.xpendit- ures (property, equipment buildings, building additions) is now on a county- wide bbasis. The Kinggs Mountain higli school and improvements and additions to other school plants w'as the last dis trict financing possible under the law in Cleveland County. Since all future capital financing will be county-wide, the local and state otiicials reason, equalization of the dis trict debt makes sense. The county commis.sion with full agreement by the school lolk, have for- lowed for many years the jxiiicy of ap propriating schools fund.s—both the an nually appropriated amounts and re turns from county-wide capital bond i.s- sucs—on ao per capita pupil bbasis. Bccau.se the county district de feated, by the slim margin of eighT votes, a district bond issue last year, the \c(iualization imbalance due the county- district is .$4,050,032. Kings Mountain, \vith 23.43 percent of the pupils, owes $3,050,000. Shelby district, with 27.0S percent of the pupils, owes $3,584,000. The county district, with 49.49 percent of the pupils, owes only .$2,450,000. And the county district badly needs the differential to construct two junior high school plants. Should the voters approve a bond issue ifi the amount of the imbalance the money would be provided for the two junior high schools and also vo^ the debt equalization plan, debt equalT- zation, as it will of nessity be in the fu ture for now financing, will be virtual fact. On basis of present district pro perty valuations. Kings Mountain dis trict gain slightly. With 23.43 percent ol the enrollment. Kings Mountain dis trict shows only 21.41 percent of the district property valuation. School officials say the proposal for debt consolidation has no overtones ol a county-wide school consolation with elimination of the Shelbby and Kings Mountain systems and their consolida tion into a singlge county-wide system. This, of course, the patrons of the Iw'o city .systems do not want, for the simple rea.son that the county di.stricl citizens have turned down at every op portunity their chances to equalize spe cial district taxes for operations. In this imbalanced area, Shelby district citizens havev authorized a .sup plement of 40 cents per $100 property- valuation and Kinggs Mountain a 220 cents per $1(X) supplement. The county district supplement is zero. Sewage disposal is perhaps the most unglamorous—yet perhaps one of the most necessary—municpal services. It is therefore quite good news .that plan ning and property ea.sement acquisition are virtually complete and that the city expects toi invite bids on the .$700,000- plus project next month. Congratulations to Boyce Gault, Jr., recently promoted to a vice presi dency of North Carolina National Bank. Congratulations to Steve Sum- mitt, grandson of Anclrell B. Summitt, Sr., of Kings Mountain, who has been annointed to the United States Air Force academy by Representative Wil liam M. Colmer, of Mississippi. Pressure For Money When County Schools Superinten dent Vince Colombo advanced a propos al for district school debt consolidation the Herald initially looked askance, principally due to the question: Why? School folk, after conversation with bond attorneys and the director ol the Local Government Commission, have brought forth on anwers. Action tills week by financial ins- tilutions, both banks and .savings anil loan associations, to further escalate rates of interest paid on savings, ac cents the pre.ssure for more lendable funds. Now i.® the likely time, it is said, indeed the best time, for equalization of the debts. The rca.sons area several, princi pal one higher costs for eveiything, and in instance ol the savings and loan as sociations, dedicated solely to the build ing industry, higher co.st of residences, provided ca.se-in-point recently in a roiu The Herald and its readers were tine report of issuance of city building permits. The builder of a si.x-room, two- bath home bought a building permit indicating a cost just a fraction .shy of .$40,000. The same report round a> n- home owner, making .some one-time comparatively minor alteralions and au ditions, estimating his cost at .$20,000. The other reason is concurrent heavy lor mortgage money. The Kings Mountain area, cer tainly, is hardly “caught up“ on residen tial housink needs. Thus, it is now possible, if a per son wants to commit his savings for lour years, to obtain sevven percent re turn—quite heady, at first look, to ma ny citizens who remember the days not too long when the savings return was three percent. One savings and loan e.xecutive however says he isn’t going to recom mend the heady stuff. “We’ll take it, of course, if that’s what savers want. But a four-year com mittment is a long time. I don’t know, nor does anyone el.se. But it is not im possible the pressure for money will es calate further and that the rate paid on .savings will e.scalate even more. The saver with long committment would be caught,” he averaged. His point is that, as the low bid is not always the best bid, neither is the current high dollar necessarily the high- e.st dollar, longg - term. Congratulations to Carl F. Mau- ney on his re-election as chairman of Kings Mountain Redevelopment commis sion. Mr. Mauney has headed the com mis.sion since it was constituted over seven years ago. He has done an effec tive job in a position that is sometimes quite difficult. Two major jrojects un derway are quite mammoth, the central business district redevelopme|t and Cansler area urban renewal projects. As citizens can see, the years and months of planning arc beginningg to show re sults. Mrs. Allen Our consideration sympathy to the Irvin M. Allen family at the death of theii mother. The Allen family lived in Kings Mountain in the twenties when Mr. Al len was chief of police here. She was the quite gracious mo ther of a large and live family. The death of Miss Sadie Lutz sad dened her many friends in Kings Mountain, as it did throughout the country. Many folk cocked an eyebrow at the recent foray of Senator Edward Kennedy to Alabama where he shared the rostrum with (jlovernor George Wal lace. Speculation arose immediately; Is the 1976 I>emocratic ticket to be Ken nedy-Wallace? Hardly impossible. The name of the successful political game is aligning of seemingly dissident per sons and political philosophies. MARTIN'S MEDICINE I By MARTIN HARMON I h.ive completi'd this week reading "The Winds of War" Reader’s Dige.st conden.sation, lat- ftlL OO&S mutt fet ONLEfS^tt ' It e.-it novel by Herman Wouk. .\s all of Wouk’s books I've read, the latest is another mark of an out standing noveli.st. He Ls a true craftsman. Indeed, the eondensa-1 tion wa.s good to the point I I found myself regretting I’d sue-1 eumbed to the condensation. 1 | tound my.self wishing I'd waile.i I to obtain the fuil ver.sioii. -A.._ m-m Wouk’s fir.st big hit wa.s "The Caine Mutiny", wa.s not only a ' ' ' best .seller, but wa.s dramatized | for Broadway and teievi.sion, with ; Uoyd Nolan playing the para- | noic Captain Queeg, and motion ' pictures, with Humphrey Bogart u depicting the Captain. liwn The autlipr wias a ojassmate at mine at navy midshipman’.^ .school. He’d graduated from Co lumbia University ^nd, until the war arrivt^and * he went the navy route, he had Viewpoints of Other Editors CRIME or-specified activities. On three occasions within a The .American Civil Liberties week, New Yorkers who wei'e'u'nion brought the court tests of chance witnesses to street crimes I the act on behalf of six federal have taken an active part eith-j employes, the National Associa Ijeen a joke writer for radio co- er in apprehending the su.spects j tion of Letter Carriers and six median Kred .Allen. , or in assisting the police in mak-1 political committees represent- ing the arrests. ing both major parties. It argued * I In one instance, thr(>e local j that the act was too vague and In “The W’inds of War", Wouk citizens actually gave chase and broad and denied government returns to the navv as a Whicle ' captured two suspected muggers employes the rights enjoyed by Tho m wUh ’’The Cai'ne Mu:' near the scene of the violent at- other citizens. ^ ^ uny . .vieaniime, he'd used otn- 'aek. In another incident, pass- ''Vhile the High Cour ruled er media for his other novi.s, cn. y surrounded a ta.xicab uv hat this is not unconstitutional “Marjorie Morning.star” (also a "'hich throe suspects attempted, there us no denying that federal movu-i. "VounK-iooK rtasvK , and i to dee from the scene o fa purst-employes are asked to accept ia cemedy spewf .set in the Car- *'t-*t'''h>ng and formed a human cu tain limitations on ibbean which delineated the Lanier until poliw* could lake; doms. However, the act protects trials and tribulations of a New' "ver. In the third episode, the them as well Is it mconceiva York advertisin-r pyeciitive w ho " ighbors Of a O-year old girl i after hearing Ml. Dean, that In- mlstakenly ihought'lie was .semi- , ";ho was alleged to have teen the: tornal Revenue Seryk-e ernployes, retiring ta a life of ease by buy-i'*ctim of an attempted ing a re.sort hotel. m-m havej col enem'ei? There .s an interesting added carrieil out w'ith an execs-1 The act sei-ks to protect the note to "The Winds of War" by ;j.j^.p force, leaving theiimblic against political zealots Real Admiral Dan Gallery, fam- [sospeci unconscious, liie cumula-■ who would use the goicrnment ed World War H aircraft car.-ier ^ message of the three inci-1 machinery to punish fo<\s, raise commander.’fhe .Admiral got at-I ^|en,s points to a gratifying re-1 Party funds or for other quainted witii Wouk via "The i pur- 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK quainted witii Wouk via "Thej CITIZENS ACSAINST ” , poses to expand their own power. Caine-Mutiny ”. The Admiral said emergency of public cooperation The protection, as we know, is he started reading the novel ’’police efforts to combat pi'rfetd. I>ut Ihei'p shouid be aboard his carrier USS Enterprise I erime. It is an encouraging de- ‘‘ttle doubt by now that it is about 5 o'clock one afternoon and , p^-jj-mie from what in The” past, ‘Wall Street Journal. finished it in one sitting about 5 ^as too often appeared to bej o’clock the ne.xt morningi He , e-ther an attitude of resignation ! wrote Wouk a fan letter, saying I indifference or an actual; how much he’d enjoyed the tale • tendency to condone criminal ^ to which some navy profession- gpts ' aLs took exception). W'ouk re-j ultimately, the war against; plieci ivith appreciation and violent street erime must, of! Admiral invited liim from ^(course, be can-ied on'and won. wi>ek’.s excursion abiard Enter-',3y trained and authorized law'-- enforcement personnel. But the (Chances for victory over the : muggers will be infiniately great- j Wouk is Jewish and ko.sher and er in an atmosphere of public i -Admiral Gallery writes, .so in-! condemnation of the criminals! formed him when he came a- ' and active support of the law. board. “I won’t be able to eat ■ New York Times. i the .same as you do," Wouk told i - ' the .Admiral. "I’m kasher.’’ So,; PING PONG said the Admiral, the cook cook- , DIPLOMACY AGAIN ed kosher. ; ™ Two ears ago a Peking invita Itfma of itowx ahoiif K'i'iok Mountain urea iteotHc and evmitu taken from the ifXiS files of the Kings Mountain. tion for an American tables ten-1 monthly session. Today’s Herald is being pub lished on the recently acquired Goss Cox-OTjpe newspaper press. Sthool bells will ring for Kings Mountain pupils .Augu.st 30th, according to the 1963-64 .school year calendar approvt-d by the board of education in regular The friendship iias continued I the breakthrough for American- to this day. m-m Wouk’s active duty diuing World War H included three years duty ateard destroyers in the Pacific. In "The Caine” he reecrd,s Willie's .ship in ttie throes cl a typhoon, which resulted in the capsizing and loss of two ether de.stroyers. ; 'm~m' I Wouk not only knew whereof | he wrote, having been in one, | but there almost weren’t any Wouk novels. During the t-y phoon he wa.s being blown and | wa.siied acro.ss the dock, saved ' himseit by' the good fortune of 1 Har-Ray Mills, Inc. will begin operation at Grover in late Au gust with an initial work force 01 from 30-35 employees. SOCIAL and PERSONAL Chine.se rapprochement. This summeh Peldng is trying "ping pong diplomacy” again by inviting Taiwan to send a table tennis team to the main land. But the Nationalist Chi- ne.se are unlikely to pick up the ball. The invitation is in fact the latest of a series of nods by Re-, Ann Black and Harold Henry king in the direction of the Na-1 Jackson in marriage, tionalist regime, and all previous I Deborah .McGinnis, nods have been ignored. I daughter of Mr. and .Mrs. Dick Despite their d.plomatic isnla- j \icGinnis, celebrated her sixth i tion since the Washington - Pe-: bij-fi^day at a yard party Wed-! king reconciliation and their ex- i np^day, July lOth, ata her home ' pulsion from the United Nations, | f-ppscent Circle, the .Nationalists have found that Anoth., tak I-,e read i.s a review Early’ indication of interest in over-1 tures from Peking. And he quot-1 AtCrossioads Cleveland County Rescue: summer and, a-s far as I know,, pointed comment; For sp,uads stage a'big beneditj r novel the: Friday night af Crossroads Mu-1 fiarcomofn^ Puihia.rnn Bt^at a Uic Park to raise money for e- Ls lueZ I <^hoosing qmpment. IS August 2. (The late Editor G. an elephant.) Taiwan’s booming economy j The b.g show starts at S p.m. will enable it to hold its head and tickets at $.3.0 (in advance) high for the foreseeable future.; or $3.50 at the door may be pur- With a population of only 15 , chased from any men'J;er. Botey Stale IS of two southern million compared with the' The event will feature music , families in a small community i mainland’s 750 million, Taiwan’s'by Naomi and Seago Brothers, II G. Page published ‘’Commanders at KLng.s Mountain” for the 1930 se-squi-centennial.) m-m which could easily be Kings Mountain. The story buUds to an , 'that of the mainland interesting climax. Not unusual- ' foreign U'ade is actually greater the Lewis Family and the Far-|l olina Quartet. , Understandably enough the All proceeds from the show ly, the Papa of one of the fami- Nationalist Chinese consider that will benefit area re.scue s(|uads, lies is a major league baseball i fjgyp ^mhing further to lose said Tom Brooks, operator of player, as was Bobby’s father, ' carrying on as they are, but the Crossroads entertainment Jake Early, who became the:»(he^. might lo.se all if they got I center. regular Washington Senator, ,ycked up by the mainland. The! catcher m 1939, after apprentic- Christian Science Monitor. DaaalalaMM mg in the minors for three sea- j g Olir Dlilllllllll 4oti.s at Jacksonville, Chattanooga I gUCURING ’rH7 HATCH | ^ and Charlotte. i whUe John Dean was reveal-1 Panilitc IcCIIAll »•“». 1 ing how the White House had * CllllHa laallVU ‘The Jealous Ear” is well sought to turn the federal bu reaucrack to its own political ‘ The following building permits I ends, the Supreme Court Ivas up- have teen i^ued^ by Woodrow^W. in Bow'ling Green, worth reading. m-m Bobby wrote the novel while' holding the" Hatch Act, which Laughter, city building in.s1pec- teaching at Bowling Green State limits ”llie political activities of tor: " " civil servants. I William and Nancy Wig- Tile two croumstances could gins, 505 Ellenwood drive. $6400 hardly have meshed better if it two-rorm addition tc residence, had been planned that wai.-. The, To BiU and Kay DavLs, SIT E. dent of Bowling Green, as recent- j main purpose of the Hatch .Act Ridge street, $1200 repairs. Jack ly as a couple Of years ago at j js to etiard against just the type Threwer cciitracd’or. 1 * \M-rst . - P -- J n- 1 'T'-. <7 University Ohio. m-m Interestingly to me, the pre.si- least, was Dr. Ralph .McDonald, the twice unsuccessful North Carolina gubernatorial candi date. Dr. MacDonald was defaat- ed in the Democratic primaries by Governar Clyde R. Hoey In 1986 and by Governor Gregg Ch(5ny in 1944. of thiria- Mr. Dean was describ' To Myrtle Mack, 703 Church St. ing. It'enables civil servants to $-'500 repairs, Shelby Roofing say no, with the full support of: Company coffitractor. the law, when higher-ups seeks, A perimeter zoning permit was to emplby Kiem for politvcill pur- Issued to Ellenwood Land and poses. 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