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Estobluhed 1889 I; The Kings Moimtain Herald ' 206 SouUi Pledmoat Are. Kings Mountola. N. C 28086 A weekly newspj.per devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainmnt and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and Its vicirlity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Elnterod as second class matter al the post offK-e et Kings Mountain, N. C.. 28096 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMEMT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Tony Tompkins ’ Sports Editor Miss Debaie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper Rocky Martin MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Alien Myam Roger Brown Paul Jackaon MAIL SUBSCRIP^N RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE In NottlAarolino and South CaroUno One year $4; six months $2.25;, three months $150; school year $3. (Subscription In Niirlh Carolina subject to three percent sates 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 Under legislation by the Oneral Assembly, many change.s have been made in the slate’s voting procedures, not least among them requirement that all the state’s 312 incorporated munici- juilities complete their biennial election liusincss on November b. .Since Kings Mountain’s system is a non-primary one (that is, politically partisan) yet requiring majority foi election, Kings Mountain citizens will vole Tuesday to determine identity ol C'ily Hall elective officials for the forth coming two years. 'file same act, eliminating the .so- called Cleveland County act, which was inspired by Cleveland in the thirtie.s and applied to nine other counties, pro duced yet another October election, ttiis one on Saturday coming. Commenting on the two in order ol appearance; THE SCHOOL MATTER Cleveland county citizens will an swer “yae” or “nay’’ Saturday to two que.stions, the ground rules providing lhat neithei' shall be “yae” if both aren't. The que.stions; 1) Shall Cleveland County’s district debt of its three dis- ti'icts be consolidated to become gen eral county rather than district obliga- lions? 2) Shah Cleveland County issue .SI.OoO.OOO in bonds to be used for capi tal p.xpenditures (school buildings, ad ditions, and/or equipment) for the bene fit solely of the county school district? The questions are simple but the answers on reasoning predicating the proposals are not. Since district financing is no more by the aforementioned legislative act, the bond proposal and its use designa tion are means of equalizing district debt as it becomes the general obliga tion. In other words, the county district is considerably behind on basis of per capita school population which is the historic (and fair) means of division of school funds. The boards of education urge “aye" vofc.s to both proposals. Students of current 1973 school law point out; 1) debt consolidation with equalization is fair and, perhap.s more important, the law a) does not require a county to distribute its funds on a per Crime Prevention "Wave of Thefts and Vandalism". “Pair Charged with Larceny These are two Herald headlines of the September 27 edition which, also contained a much larger One; “Clrime Prevention Program Launched In City". , The first two point the need for the major one. There is much conversation about the increase in crime in New York, Chi cago, Atlanta and other major cities. The problem, obviously, is not lim ited to major cities, but exists right here in North Carolina, and Cleveland County, and Kings Mountain. Operation Identification is an in teresting innovation and experiment. The idea is not only to recover stolen goods but to put the noose to the thief and put him in the hoosegow. capita pupil basis, but b) does require county commissioners to provide re quired physical facilities for all students in the county. Herein lies the answer to the teas ing question; How can Kings Mountain and Shelby “gain” by voting bonds for someone else? Kings Mountain and Shelby districts already owe their debts, which will be paid district-wise — or the.se debts, with the county commis sion required to provide facilities, will be paid along wdth those required to provide the additional needs for the county district anyway. Amazingly, proponents point out, the equalization bond is.sue figures to provide the right amount of cash to provide two junior high schools the county di.strict system .sorely needs. THE CITY ELECTION Tuesday’s election, barring the highly unlikely prospect of .several ties, will (letermine the identity of the indi viduals and course of city government for the coming two years. Actually, this course is pretty well set already—not matter the identity of the winners—for two principal reasons; 1) state law and 2) long-term projects already on the books. Most newcomers to city office, pri- oiiy uninformed, quickly learn these fact.s ol municipal life. The campaigning, in contrast to .some dotting the city’s 99-year history, has been contained and well-tempered. Since all incumbents are candidates for re-election, the generic question is; Has the present administration done a good job. or hasn’t it? ON VOTING V^oting is a right and prerogative of a democratic toim of government. None who has qualified (by citizen ship and registration) are denied the privilege. Conversely, none arc driven to the polls by the bull whip of fear that fail ure to vote will bring reprisal. Which is as it should be. Per capita, the United States casts fewer votes than many nations, both in the free democracies and the totalitari an nation.s—where in the latter the use of the bull whip of fear is quite appar- r6Pt< Milton Fryer The untimely death of Milton Fry er, at 56, shocked and saddened his many friends. Mr. Fryer, a native of Racine, Wis consin, adopted Kings Mountain. It was in turn quite easy tor Kings Mountain to adopt the friendly, ebulli ent gentleman from the Mid-West. After a comparatively short tenure as a Kings Mountain citizen in the early years after World War II, Mr. Fryer’s work took him elsewhere, but he en tertained the intention, realized, to re tire here. Our sympathy. The United Fund Ten agencies rendering valuable services to the community will live, get by, or starve on re.sponse of citizens to the annual Kings Mountain Fund cam paign, which began officially Monday. The goal to support all ten' is .'JSe.KX). After several years in the United Fund program. Kings Mountain has a- Jopted the one-check-for-all habit, with a good record of supporting the pro gram. A Itj^aral check is in order. Legislative Recourse There seems little doubt that sup porters of a foui’-year medical .school for Eastern Carolina University will not bow to the thinking of a study commis sion which said a four-year medical school at this institution isn't the best way for North Carolina to get more and needed doctors. The ECU medical school supporters will take their fight to the legislature. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By MARTIN HARMON . ViewpcAnts of Other Editors FARSIGHTED BAPTISTS switch from the healthy conlllct in the Astradome to a man’s facet As America encounters grow-,,|,p|pg g|jy(. fm- dramallci ing threats to the principle of pm-posps 1 kt'eping church and state sepa- j rate, thank Gtxl for the Baptists.; A .Monitor survey suggests that^ /rraditionally they have been^ the TV season is beginning with' Many citizens have comment-i quick to .■sense danger in min- statistically less violence than ed on the quietude of tiie city liling church beliefs with public during a similar informal tally election politicking season. i education. five years ago, whie “frankness” I ' and tastelessne-ss are on the in- m-m The movement for an amend- erease. But when 2X1 "violent , . . ment to the Con-ttitution, .sane- act.s” are noted in a week even Could it be crediti'd With theUjonjng prayers in the public before some crime series have mere fact of change of date, orlj^^ooi^ jiaving a revival ju-st begun, the news is not good, connected with the seasons. In now. An amendment proposed hy 1 the spring the sap ri.ses and the Senator Schwelker of Penasyl- j Of coursie, make-believe vio- trecs bud and sprout li'aves. In vania .says: “Nothing in this Otn-! iMce strikes different viewers in tile fall, the sap recedes and the stitutlon sJtall prohibit the sev- different ways. Certain situations loaves die and fall. Item 1 guess staaes and the District con- i msleadingly unrealistic is probably mort* correct. Uer-, ^j^p gost of government Uwthout It, including tire crimnal Uilnly, the autumn has l^en no|o^ ^j^p .uj^j^ed States from pro-■ d "Bonnie and Clyde." bar to un-quiet bombastic c^-gj.pj.-;j, jj,p| circumstances of TV! paigns in county, state and oa- „ l,, „ “ut me circumstances of iVi iLonaJ elections -sth(Ws of mat jurLstlutlon, ^ lional electloas. shall it abridge the right of interweaving ofl persoas lawfully assembled in , .^pjppt „,eiodrama. the new’ ae- ’ V, n rs , I ttial horrors of war, .and inane -Municipally, the season situa-, pate in voluntary prayer. L tion was no bar to activity in At-1 Many Americans may see noth-1. lanta, where eleven candidates! ing wrong with that amend- plied the voters’ favor. iment. But John W. Baker, a .'/(at () •mi/ noil, aiul ri rdti c iiiy taviiiffn; bud the ijcnm of thy life 'stuitl be many. Proicrbx J,:W. Two Elections m-m commercials tends to level their impact. The danger is a callous acceptance of brutality along spokesn^n for nine Baptist de-: d^sSS^tisey”!^ . f ***°”i.i* among them. regard, viewers need to keep Perhap.i it is I, covering 14ith city poliUcal campaign with I <^mmittee, he declaitHl. Christian Science Monitor, thfi HeriUd, who am ^ilty oif 1 given the ate late Mayor Garland Still’s, P°wer to permit, provide or pro tease of 20 years ago. Garland religious exercises or pray- was telling me a rather tall tale ® short step to favor that I dec'lined to believe. Said ^*’9 fotm or creed over another. (xaxlUEidf “Aw, ninco wu got < prayers in *1 school married, you don’t get around , could be rewritten or al- The tered after each school board, World A COUNTRY IN NEED OF PRAISE anymore; .Saturday Review a n d | magazines have joined, m-m from a forthcoming book, "Cop ing," by Daniel P. Moynihan, ambassador to India and former assistant to the president for ur ban affairs. Without mentioning Watergate, Mr. .Moynihan writes: “Relentless emphasis on social lelocrion to reflect the tenets of forces in a new biweekly w'hose zu-m ' ! a majority of *he new board." ' first issue offers a valuable re- | ^.. . ,, , u ' The Baptists of course aren’t minder: America is "a country in i During these years, I hayCjgiy^p traditional opposi- need of praise." This phrase is! workesi with .seven .1. H- tion to union of church and state, the title of an article drawn Thonison, H. Tom Fulton Jim p,.gy<,r amendment proposals Herndcn, -Sr, (.arlpd istdl Glee 4t«ation A. Bridges, Kelly Di.xon, and John f,.om various PrWstant a^Jew- liemy .Moss. , , groups, and frorn organiza tions promoting civil liberties. I But the Baptists throughout our In 1947, prior to the city elec-1 history have 'been in the van- tion and on public demand, the guard of the fight against organ- , ,, General A.'isembly changed the ie ties between church and gov- failure and corruption is now way- city charter to provide for .scrap-|emment. summon social energies that ping of the strict ward sy-stem ! Note, for example, an issue needed to set things right . . and plurality election. One llittlc that came up In Johnston county recognize and acknowledge item was omitted from the bill, some 35 years ago. Tlie countiy however modffit, is fun- Though majority election was re- board of education was Ijesieged tiattx^ntat to the practice of gov- quired, no provision was made with requests to provide Bible ct-nraent. It is a first principle of lor run-cfls. (study courses in the schools in leadership in a democracy, w-here n-a-m 1 cooperation with clturches. gup-, .totist be dirwted more to . ! erintendent H. B. Marrow and tttstitutionjj than to Individuals.’ That ^ed an interesting pro- ■ g^^ool board understood the ,“"e example of success Mr. blem. What if no candidate for mixing church-spon- Monynihan ates the virtual dis- a particular office attained a education with the public appearance of the dual school majority? igp^ool curriculum. 'M’hen they system in the South during a m-m I resisted demands for Bible fu^se of ^segregation in 1^0 It hanoened on the first i-Q. I courses, their chief defenders P’j*^ J'°uthrrn sch^ls Rantists of the Johnston ‘ ahead of Northern schools in this round. The inciimoent did not were Baptists oi me jonnsicm administr.-iiinn in association. Baptist leader.s pub- aammistraiion in Ucly warned against the danger uf£>cc which had vyorked to bring Here I (and a "o^dlv mimber of uf particular interprepations of about tke end of the dual school Here i lanu a „ooaiy numoer oi , ‘'j..., over others system, did not especiall.,- want others) got a lesson in law on Joe “fOjC prevailing ovei omers vredit’ for it while its the Dhrasp “shall continue in f" pubhc education, in violaton 'aKe cremi tor it. wniie its tne pnrase snau conunue in L™ „.„»shD opposition did not in the least otfice-until his successor IS elect- Of tcec'sormp. u.-int to <»ii7o ‘ciwiit’ iimnct ed -ind oualified" In Ward 4 The traditional Baptist view, ."ttm to give credit . . . .Almast ed ana quaiiiiea . in wara a, i —anv other i-pHtrioiis'‘ntutediately thereafter the issue John Hemy Mass led the running snaied by m^y olh^ relipoitf cehool busimr arose in North- but had no majority. Since he groups, rega.^ ern dries w-ii nor elected therefore could fiPP as an obligation that must ern tiues. u oniy ii nan none so was not eucted, inererore coma churches and fam- ‘be context of a wide acknowl- rertainly not qualify (be sworn». ^ entrusted to edged success in the .South, might the public schools. Any semblance put Publm attitudes have been of organic union linking church different. ... to state Is to oe avoided in the Whatever ones answer to that name of freedom. But this does question, such successas should be offer for re-election and there were several would-be successors. nly not qualify Incumbent W. .VI. Gantt, no can didate, could oy law continiA? in ills scat for two more years. m-m not mean that Baptists and acknowl^g^. One may disagree Commissioner Gantt did not-so ^emters of other denominations, with Mr. Moynihan’s view of choose. Mayor Fulton and the gg individuals, are not to involve solving some urban problems four elected commissioners took their oaths.~The first matter of I business was acceptance of the resignation of Comm. Gantt. The ne.xt matter of baslness was the m-m themselves in political matter. “ a a . -f fS giving expressim to their relig- 1^'" ( hough he doesn t resurrect ous beliefs as governmental Is albalriMs phrase here!. But sues arise. emphasis on admitting suo^ j-j . n ' -'’urely, there is nothing uncon-as well as failure is parti; appomtment of Candidate i dangerous about; cularly important now as the na- to -succeed Cemm. Gantt. i voters and politicians aw^lying confidence in itself is Christian or Jewish principles to ;«« various fronts, public affairs. The lack of such , T*^‘“‘® advocate slipping The close.st race for mayor application w/eakens America 'be old complacency but to during this p*»riod came two much more than the absence of;*b''' fhmgs are ^lly not years later. Jim Herndon, three religious worship in publlcl®° m prior mayoral tenns under his schools.—Smithfield Herald. ! improve them. As Mr. Moyni- beJt, ;ind Incumbent Fulten were | —— the candidates and my un-check- LUV MATCH . . ed iTvemoiy is that Jim wen by MEANWHILE somewhat more attention to its Ofl vetes. The female chauvinists who re- ^or it nMAs ahe re turned to real life Friday morn/leiwes of moraV th.a; ^s kind han concludes, “American so- i ciety would do better to pay m-m The close.st commis-sion race I ing, crowing over Bti.by Riggs' . defeat, deserved their day of recall was in 1951. C. C. i&horty) giof.y_ xn his pub’’city-wiso pose Edens and Lloyd Davis, now loudmouth male chauvinist, he seeking to regain his post of ^gj gg^g years ago, waged a hot batU^. ,his “battle of the sexes” The count: Davi/j by seven, 920 tiu’ned out to be the bat to 913. Ml'. Edens was first de- j jjg g good tennis player and flared the winner until a recheck g superb tennis player. The sup erb one happened to be a woman, and Billie Jean King’s triumph was a specttacular public ratifi cation, if that were needed, of her efforts for equal rights for women in the sport. of the .totals revealed the tabu lation erro.. m-m Here came another lesson. Mr. Edens sought a recount. It was denied, on cur.tomary historical grounds ithat no evidemee of error wa.s presented. m-m This year’s election has more differences than date. The city commission no longer doubles in brass as the city elections board. It is this board now which ap- j paints the elections officials, and certifies the returns. m-m ' This season probably marks of awareness brings.”- -Christian Science ilonitor. Ronds Sal es BestEvei Sales of Series E and H Sai^ ing Funds bonds in Cleveland county during August were $89,- 821. January-iAugust sales totaled $797,830. This represents 72.6 per cent of the county’s goal of $1,- ' 099,(XK), accorllng to George Blan- It may have been a love match j ton Jr., county volunteer only in the sense of the score- 3 man. the chair- to 0—but it ended without artificial jibing surrounding it. Mr. Riggs lost ike a gentle.-nan, no excuses, though there’s .i ques tion whether the gentlemen’s (gentleperson's?) sport of tennis will ever be the same. Instead of simply shifting heads side to side in the usual manner of a ma.ss of silent typewriters, the biggest tennis crowd in history August sales of Series E and H tonds in North Carolina amount to $7,571,119, 3.2 per cent alxive August 19TC. January -Au gust .sales totaled $60,603,179—6.4 per cent above the same period last year and the highest on rec ord for any comparable period since 1945. This represents 69.6 per cent of the state’s 1973 dollar goal of $87,100,900. Nationaly, August sales of series E and H savings bonds tot aled $567 million, 0.9 per cent first announced write-in candi date in the city’s histoo’- twT, firsts: 1) by legislauve act. | gladiatorial cries the pr^nt admu^trau^ wiU « ^g^g pom- I have ; mcrcialism was rampant from ..... two-and-one-half years, 2) Hu^h em ilazoned jacket tolarove 1972. Total cash sales of ' Mrs. King’s ads- for a hair curler E and H Bonis for the first 8 between bouts of curling Bobby’s months of 1973 amount to .$4. j hair. 577 million, 6.4 per cent .obove a But there scorned a basic good ear earlier. .Sales exceeped re- humor in oil the hoe- 'a, and the demptions, at cost price, for the tennis itself, seriouslv %nd ex- ,35th consecutive month. Total eitingly played, handily surviverl holdings of bonds-shares ca.-ne to the air of extravaganza. a record $60.27 billion. While the Riggs-King tennis match was giving TV one of its .SOCJIAL CALENDAR summit evening t home- enter- Wednesday: jtalnment, another channel was' 3:00—Kings Mountain Garden showing “Bonnie and Clyde," a Mayes on Ridge street.shrdluw movie providing an extreme ex- clivb at the home of Mrs. H. Carl ample of the violence that, alas, ■ Mayes on Ridge street. Mis. ;is stlH all to prevalent on the , George Houser, program chair' STUDENT TEACHER Virginia Sitan Goforth, daughter ol Mr. and Mrs. Gar rison (Jofortli of Kings Moun tain, began her observation and directed student teaching for Ersklne College on Ootolber 1. ■Miss (ioforth, a senior elemen tary education, is teaching Rin- dceigarten and first grade at school In Abbeville. She Is a OeenviUe St ElementHiy 19170 Kings Mo'UTitain high school graduate. tiAe. 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