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p • PAGE TWO THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Established 1889 _ w The Kings Monntain Herald ' 206 South Piedmont Ave. Kings Mountain, N. C. 28088 A weekly newsps,per devoted to the promotion ot the general welfare and published for th» enlightenment, entertalnmnt and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and Its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Elntered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C.. 28006 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Mar‘in Harmon Editor-Publisher MiS Slizabbth..Ste\\^art Circulation Manager and Society Editor Tony Tompkins Sports Editoi Miss Deboie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper ^ocky Martin MECRAKICAL DEPARTMENT Allen Myera Roger Brown Paul Jackaon MAH. SUBSCaiPIlON RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE 1b North Carolina and South Conlina One year $4; six months $2.25;. three months $1.50; school year $3. (Subscription In North Carolina subject to three percent sales tax.) In AU tlther States One year $5; six months $3; three months $1.75; school year $3,75. PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEpfioifi "numbeF 739-5441 The Dean Defeated T. J. (Tommy) Ellison, dean in point of service as city commissioner, totnling ten terms since 1947, lo.st his bid for re-election in Tue.sday's run-off by the convincing margin of 408 votes. Thus the voters continued what they started on October 9 when they relegated to defeat the three other in cumbents with opposition. Three more votes rfo Challenger Corbet Nicholson would have defeated Commissioner Elli son and ended the business then. Why? The Herald credits the .sweep-out to three factors: 1) The usual group of di.sgruntled citizens who e.xpre.ss their resentment at the polls again.st incumbent candi dates for their failure to provide as fast as the petitioners feel they shoi>ld serv ices they deem themselves qualified to receive. All incumbent candidates face this hurdle. 2) More important was a majority desire to see new faces at City Hall. It is a mood which occasionally penneate.s the lectorate in the demoaatic process. The defeated incumbents can claim high-class company. Prime Minister Winston Spencer Churchill had just comipleted leading his countrymen to victory over Hitler after the British, five years before, were seemingly await ing the knockout punch. Yet the British pastured Sr. Winston at the polls. 3) Most important factor, however, was completely beyond the control of the defeated commissioners and can be credited to inflation, more .specifically to Duke Power Company and Trans continental Gas Pipeline Corporation, suppliers of power and natural gas for re-sale by the city. Both w'on healthy in creases in rates from the Federal Power Commission, increases which the ad ministration merely passed on-—without adding any pi’ofit—to city consumers. Reason is disregai-ded by many consum ers on ‘‘why's", when they see their bills go up. The Herald does not foresee great changes in the course of city govern ment, as the new commissioners will find soon after they take their oaths of office December 3, they can agree with Commi.ssioner Jonas Bridges, who vol unteered Wednesday that he had many preconceived ideas about the cour.sc of city government when elected two years ago. “I found quickly,” Comm. Bridges remarked, "what the situation appeared to be from the outside was quite di£i?r- ent from the O’ue .situation on the in side.” Commissioner-elect Lloyd E. Da\is, who’s been there before, knows this to be true and said as much Tuesday. Commissioner Ellison and his de feated confreres need make no apolo gies. During the past eight years they have provided the city the most; pro gressive - conservative government — progress within the realm of fiscal re sponsibility—in the city's 99-year his- tor>'. Meantime, hearty congratulations are in order to Corbet Nicholson, Ward III commissioner-elect, on his sweeping victory Tuesday, and cordial good wishes to him in hLs forthcoming service on the city commission. Some Voting History Tuesday’s was the fourth state-wide Noi4Ji Carolina vote on the question of prohibition of sale of alcoholic bever ages. The first in 1881 showed that Tar Heels were voting as they drank, oppos ing prohibition more than 3 to 1. Just 27 years later, in 1908, the Tar Heel state, by 44,0()0 votes, put demon rum in contrabcind. It was ten years in ad vance of what President Herbert Hoov er termed the national “noble experi ment". In 1933, after national repeal, Tar Iloels refused by an 173,000 vote margin, even to authorise a convention to cx>n- Pew Surprises Whatever surprises there were in the result of the election to legalize sale of liquor by the drink in North Carolina, they were minor ones. Certainly the 3 to 1 victory the dry forces recorded was as foreordained as any ponderable can be. It had been acknowledged by wet and dry forces alike that the only chance of passage of the mixed drink amendment was a great out-pouring of V'Oters in the so-called metropolitan cen ters and concurrent high-percentage “for” re.sults. Same did not occur, with only Meck lenburg, Orange, and Wake counties, of the state's one hundred recorded in the wet column. From the wet .standpoint, Mecklenburg did very well, with a wet bulge of nearly 2.5,000 votes, and Orange'.s 2fi00, considering the Orange population total, was a responsible mar gin. But populace Wake could muster only a 2037 plus. Surprises? Whore were populous Guilford (Greensboro) W'ake (Raleigh) and Dur ham (Durham)? Where were re.sort meccas Buncombe (Asheville) and New Hanover (WUmington) ? Wets could claim “close” in only two of the five. It was an 130-vote di-y squeak in Now Hanover and a mere 1.500-vote dry margin in Durham. But the drys could intone hearty “thank you’s” for a 10,(X(0 vote plus in Guilford, 10,500 in Forsythe, and GOOO in Buncombe. The Herald agroes with the judg ment of a dry friend that, “The wets can forget about it for at least ten years." Carl Richard McGinnis It is moot which is the sadder: the death of the very young or the passing of a person in the accepted prime of life. Thus the untimely death, at 45, of Carl Richard McGinnis, especially sad dened his legion of friends, here and else'where. There is .speculation among his physicians that Mr. McGinnis may have suffered heart muscle damage at the age of two, when he miraculously sur vived the illness cholera infantum, that damage contributing to heart failure. During his 45 years, Dick McGinnis had lived as full a life as many achieve who live to much riper age. His marks of seuccess were many. He had excelled in high school athletics, held a part- time job to help defray his college ex penses, and served his country in Korea. A capable bu-sinessman, he had joined with three brothers in helping to build McGinnis Furniture Company into the succe.s.sful retail establishment McGin nis is today. He had been an outstand- ing comjnandc r of the American Legion Post 155. He was the father of two fine children whom he adored. He was a most loyal Lutheran layman. “Everyone liked Dick McGinnis.” was a continuing and continuous re mark. For good reason: he was a tolerant, well-infoiTned individual, with whom it was a pleasure to be with, be the asso ciation commercial, social, or otherwise. sider the repeal question. Was North Carolina the first state to become dry? The Herald has not yet searched the record, but Colorado joined forces with North Carolina in 1914. Colorado, incidentally, was, and is again the home of wiiat connoisseurs consider the finest of beers. Thus for 19 years Cbloradans put the Coors Brew ing Company into the malted mllk-Tnak- ine business. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By MARTIN HARMON One of the fa.scinating facets of news gathering is the inter- i e.sting side information gleaned at the .same time. Viewpoints of Other Editors THE PRESS DISTORTS WATERGATE? I QUOTES OLD AND NEW I My uncle’s donating his body The gut reaction of any red- to science. He’s preserving it in blo(Kled Amerioan Journalist to j alcohol till they need it. -Shelby BiclKU'd Ni.xon’s ince.ssant at- j Friedman, lacks on news media for dis-i toning the Watergate story isi It often happens that I wake at that the President doesn’t know night and begin to think about a what’s he talking about. Forjserions problem and decide I the plain truth is that most must tell the Pope about it. Then American journalists are out to, I wake up completely and re uncover the facts a .out all doal-j member ithat I am the Poprv— ' When I caller! Mrs. J. B. Ellis i iT?® government places ( al-|John XXIII. Wednesday imorning to obtain the | Grover voting tabulations, I mo mentarily interrupted a [nckiing [ operation. Being a pickle devotee j (any old kind will do), I asked I what .she was pickling. Stie re plied, "Green tomatoes.” .\Iy mouth w.-ttered. though admittedly there are few' wHters and commenators with political a.xes to grind.” Nevertheless, in the wake of President Nixon’s latest charge: ■‘outrageous, vicious report- ' ’’ the l^ou’re an old-timer if you can remenil)er when sex education was called marriage. FTanklin P. Jones. I was in favor of giving for- of ing, the American pt'ople de- [ Presidents a seal in the serve specific evidence substan-, Senate until 1 passed 75 years, tiatmg the overall the fairness, since them I have less taste for of the media in covering the bluing on hard-bottomed chairs Waleigatc scandal. during long addresses. Herbert La.st spring tbe Los Angeles , Times com/issioned Edward Jay’ Woe; tu him tluif biiildrth a tou'n with blood, and e.<itabUiihcth a cit/i with iniquitn. Itabakkuk r.ll The Veterans Comer David Logan, at work Sunday morning at Ilarri.s Funeral Home, got his church serviice viti the AsheviUc television station It | EpsVein-’'atdhm “^olUiciu ^ emaanteci trom A^evillos ,Fir<t ■ and fmquent critic of the B.ipttst C-hurUi and the pastor j pr.0sj5“_((, evaluate the job ttiis getting in hi.s final licks a-.■ ^ajor newspapers and news gauist hquor by-lhe-drink. Oti , ^lagazines have done in report- the lectern were a number of | entanglement of Water- ounce-and a-haU ‘‘.shot ’ gfas-ses. j gate. m,.. Epstein’s analysis. The minister proceeds to 'Jpen ; published September a bottle of booze, emptied the j 14 covered such newspapers as* Editor’s Note- Veterans and liquor into the glasse.s. Then he j ,he >;ew York Times, the Wash- their fa mi are aS thous , Although he found several ‘I".!®®'“w are j cases of “questionable exorcise of I journalism”- particularly News- ! week magazine in Us reporting I of rumors surrounding testi mony before Sam Ervin’s Senate m.m I Watergate committte -Alr. Ep- ] stein concluded'; “'In sum, on -al- Speaking of the dry campaign (most any reasonable criteria, the propaganda, some of the bill press showed a consistent -and m-m Tliut, it is safe to opine, quite downto-pocketoock proach. some reptesentative queries. Ad-l ditional information may be on-* tained at any V'A office. Q.—I draw compensation from the Veterans Administration for a service connected disability suf- ferwi in Vietnam. Am I entitled lo a $150 annual clothing allow ance? board material scared the day- ' unexpected-degree of fairness, lights out of supporters of the I Here are some more samplings $300 million school bond issue ) from the Epstein report; and of the $30 million clean I , water re do. In fact, Dean West- I question of ‘'*^™racy aDoliancp’s , : the press acijuitted ilseif re- appliances A.—That depends upon the na ture of your dhability. If you one or more prosthetic or I including wear morel-Tnil a learioi- here in rlu. i press aciiuirieu iiseil re- . M bon/^tt^rsart Ihe I well- In the 15 nvonths : ;;vvheelchan-. wluch^ton^ wear -school forces had complained to ' ”^%hr^uorSep1emtir!^T3" But i.vou must'apply the '‘dry’ Jeadeiship Uiat tluur f io VA tn no-t it treatment itiie liquor oppiisi-' ^ hundreds of charges oni^nd as-sertions were made in the! q. .j honorably discharg- Marvin Teei Is Appointed ■Marvin L. Teer, :is.sist!int vice president of First Union National Hank has been named liy |lie Young Hanker.s division of the .North Carolina Hankers a-s-socia- lion, to acl as coiinly chairman in coordinalhig the activilifcs of project TELL in Cleveland coun- ty. Project TELL (Teacli Eci.nomic Literacy Lecturesl is a public service effort ot the Young Bank ers division. Since l!)t)3 thousands ot N. C. children have gained first-hand information through this program which is designed to supplement economic education programs offei-ed through the public school .system. This state wide program was developed b., the Young Bankers division in co l o[xtralion wwith the .Stale Depart ment of I’uhlic Instrution. Many young bankers h.-ive made them selves as resourci's pt'ople for classroom k'clures on economic | subjects, and thi.s program has gained significant recognition for it.s contributions to the improve * ment of economic literacy among the young people of .North Caro-, llna. -Mr. Teer will be heppy to coor-1 dinate economic lecturc.s fori teachers so desiring these serv ices, vv'hich are primarily orient-* ed toward the junior high and liigh school levels. Teachers may contact the county chairman di rectly lo leatTi more about this progi-.am i ncludin.g scheduling lectures, visual aids, etc. A project TELL county chairman has Iteon appointed for each of the slate,«’ one hundred counties. D onald R. Linrterger of .Ashe ville, president of the Young, Bankers division states that the membership of this division "is very enthused about the oppor-1 tunity to speak wwith so many| young people of -N. C. Our state is making great economic strides todaty—and the success of tomor-1 row will depend on these bright* Thursday, November 8, 1973 Liberty Approves Quarterly Dividendl GREENVILLE, S. C. Tit,. ,| boarti of directors of the Lihi-jiy corporalton today approved utar (luarterly dividends of 7 ' ec'nts per .share on common mdcp and 10 cents per share on prcici. red slock. Both will lx‘ pay;, 1,, Dec. 31 to sliareholders of i-ei-(,r-ii , on Dec. 13. 'I’he Itoaixl .set April 9, 1971, a.s the date of the corporation'.s an. nual shareholders’ meeting, ui. rectors and auditors will he s,.. lected and other business 11;,,,^ acted at the annual nKs-iing which will iMtgin at 11 it. m. at corporate heacitiuartors in Green ville, S. C. Tw board .set Feii. 11. 17974, as the dale of recool f,,,’. voting at the annual mc'eliiic In The General (’ouit of Ju-stice Sii!X?rior Court Division STATE OF NORTH CAROLI.N.V Cleveland County EXEinrrOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as E.xe.ulor of tlie estate oif Carolyn Prince Pa,c.seui- of Cleveland Coumy, .Norlli Carolin,'’, this is to noliiy all persons having claim.s against the estate of .siiid Carolyn Piin * Payseur lo present ihern to Die iindeisigned within 6 mmitM from date of lh(> publirolion " this notice or same will be plea.I- esi in bar of their rei-overv All [tonsons indebted to .said esiaic plea.se make immediate pay itK'itr. Tliis the .K)th day of October, 197.’!. y Julius Dti.\tex Pa.yseiir, Executor ’ I ! UtS.?!! ' young students of today. Thoif know Uxige of economics will lie a big factor in that succes.s.’ 'f ition was inferring ’Vote Nu evwything. Frc.ss, and all but handful have; ed from military sercise last been suostantlated m the hear- month, and plan to tbuy a home i reiH J* ml ^ r ® >-he Veterans , mlttee. This hi^^h degiw of ac*: Adminictratinn avui “A-few days later,” says Dean, * curacy is parlk/ilarly impres.sivo income help me nualifv^fnr the “I W'ds riding along and found a because many of the allegatioc.s |oan’> ^ qualify foi the new billboard attraction. It was , wewre made in the heat Of a bit- worse yet. It piedured two young terly contested presidential elec-; A. Yo.s. V.A since July 1973 children playing and the mess-1 tion and presistent denials by the | has been giving full reco.gnition ago was 'Vote .NG—For ’I'heir Nixon administration ... 'to incom eof both veteran and *ahe’.’’ u- ♦ * J -spou.re in determining ability to I The Washington Post and i-pp;,y loans ^ Time were by far the most ag-l Happily, the -fears of Dean and his co-workers proved utifound- (td. But elections, perhaps even wars, have been won and lost on j gressive vanguard of the press, Q- How many individuals in reporting Watergate, and the trained under Veterans Adminus- vast preponderance of what they, tration education program dur- reported -and 99 per cent of the ing fiscal year 1973? .factual statements have proven| . „ suc-b httlo Items as that. Tlie old I accurate —Enrollments in the agen- saying; “For want of a nail the ! ' ' ’ cy’s three programs reached 2.2 shoe was lo.st, for want of a shoe I ‘'E^ en the Washington Post, - million, the highest level sinre the hor.'e was Jo.st, for want of which was most viciousiy and un- VVorld War If. Included were 2.1 a horse a .soldier vva.s lost and lor want of a .soldier tlie battle was lost." m-m fairly attacked by Wh.ite House, veterans and .servicemen under ansi CRP (committee to Raelect'the 'G'l bill, 29,600 under the vo- the President) spokesinan, al- cational rehabilitation program, most always printed rebuttals and 6,9,200 under the depend- and denials- and often these eni.s' educational a.s.sistnncc pro- r. .1 1 I were given al.nost as prominent; gram, t IS my usual habit on oloi’-' placement as the original char- „ tion day to vi.sit all tlie polling | Q.—I am a lecenllv discharg- place.s. Tuc.sday dcveloixtd into , ' cd veterans with a service con- an unusually Janimixi day and I , ‘The New York Times, the nected di.‘'abilitv, who’d like lo soon realized tliat I wouldn’t Los Angeles Times, and the .attend college under the Veter- make it to Grover or Bc'Lhwarc. Wa.riiington Star^News often gave, ans Administration’s vocational 1 was trying hard to compJele more prominence to the adminis-1tehabilitation program. What the tour to the .six in-city ward.s, ticn’s rebuttals than to the' kenofits would I receive? ip. .s. missed Ward VI at the high | original charge.” I have a wife and child), school by five -minutce. Officials The Epstein report may not, A. If you attend full time, be the In.st word judging the per-. you will receive your tuition, pormance of news media in cov- fees, books and supplies, plus ering Watergate. No doubt many $249 monthly, other studies of the media’s Q- Is there a limit on how handling of the scandale will boj much I can pay for a home pur- done before it’s all over. But the j chased with a loan guar.anteed Luiiiuai ii>r lucsuay .s voutr' nurs- 'cehijid Independent Inquir- by the Veterans Adimnlstration. ing a broken arm suffered’ when *Epstein analiysls at least A.—No, but there Is a limit on, .shrieHr aTci Sn fl<^^ guaranty the' at Both wire school .She will' Nixon administration,-'agency can issue 60 per cent, up mark the sixth week (If fhe in- • nothing to cover-un when it to a maximum of $12,500. Also. tliere had lockt'd the dtxir when Die polls closed at 7:.30. ■Mrs. Jim Uoiinor, Die Befhvvare registiar, vva.s p.irlially hors de combat for TXiegday’.s voting, nurs- jiuy come .Mond-ay and hopes to return from her trip to Die doc toir without the cast. ■comes to public scrutiny of it.s the- loan cannot exceed VA’s ap- performance. — The Smitlifield praised value ot the property. | Herald. Q;—Do V'eterans Adminlslra-| tion ho.spital.s and clinics take “CAPSULES OF WISDOM ” j care of resci-vists injured report- „ , , ^ . I FROM A NEW ALMANAC i ing to, or returning from mili- It always happens On voting^ Geiger, editor of the,' da>, a ciU/.en suddenly gets m- farmer’s Almanac, has come! ^ V^A hprovides medical; teiested in i>U!pi>oriing a person, I j^is 1974 edition, and ^^^^ injuries and illnesses or an iswue, rushes to tlie polds ^ f^^ “captules of occur during travel time! and fhids Ills inUTcst developed featured in the almanac r® specified in the reservist's a bit too late. “I m .sorry,' the] Acapuncture is nothing new; orders. Both activ-e duty' registrar say.s, "y.ni didn’t regis-1 ^y boss has been needling me‘ inactive duty train-; It’)’-’’ for years. ” : ing are considered active duty for; Reduce errors at work. Ar- purpose. rive late, and leave early. j Old lawyers never die. They just lose their appeal. i PRINT POWER ■Some stretch pants have on ^ Along with being colorful and other choice. textured, fabrics are patterned Prejudice is a time-saver; it; ^vr '73. 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BOX 746 KINGS MOUNTAIN, NOKTH CAKOIINA 2B0U I t m-m Last week’s "name” advertise ment for the dry.s, whicli listed more tiian 600 persons opposing .liquor by the drink, included very fesv I could spot who, as is often charged, drink wet and vote dry. m-m Among Die visitors to the enables you to pass judgment conjunction with solids and oth- without getting the facts. >patterns, round out the otally ,, . . , . . , When a will is read, heirs lis- i coordinated look of separates, ‘c’ fo it with probated breath, adding interest and movement to was Paul Vogel, Republican mem- j Refei-e credit cai-ds, we always the whole costume, says Dorothy her of the county elections board I ,jnew exactly how much we Barrier, extension clothing spe- and heir apparent to CThairman I ^verp broke cialUt, Norah Carolina State Uni- Ralph Gil^-rt, Di-mocnat, when ^ flea circus may Ibe a good ■ versify. terms of the members e.xpire in act. but it takes termites to 1 'tring (io'wn the house. FALL FASHIONS An intelligent girl is one who The fall fashion scene is wrap- knows how to refuse a kiss with-, P«i in shades of green burgundy. -March. For the first time in this century, the county elections board will number tvso Republi-^ a wm.- can.s and one Democrat. ; guj being deprived of it. ' navy, brown and deep nJ'Ty reds. m-m I sicn on an organic farm: "Wn,Thp colir itp;-earance of the Eng.l Anent the fuithcoming, .Mrs. J. I till it like it is.’ *lsb Club and Art Deco motifs 1 H. Arthur, the veteran West Kings Mountain registrar, and Mrs. Nell Crunford, (‘qually vet eran Ea.st Kings Mountain regis trar, vsere telling voter.-;, "This is my last cltvSioti.’’ m-m Being of the Democratic faith and therefore acknowledging it’s none of my business. I neverthe less suggest to the upcoming county board it could do no bet ter than ame the current Demo cratic registrars as Demoorattc judgos at the 28 aunty precincts, ways. •Pete Ivey in Chapel Hill set the trend, olxscrves Harriet Newspaper. Tutterow, extension clothing .^pe- ciallst. North Carolln:i Stale lint- HOCrSHEADS versity. Travelers along North Caro- - - lina highways are likely to see TOO MA.NY large trucks hauling big, barrel- Often too, many plants are like containers. They’re hogs- used around the foundation of heads full oi cured tobacco. The homes. The corners and each sueof hogsheads dates back to side of the docm provide strong colonial days when the grower vertical lines that can be brok- packed his own tobacco and had eft with appropriate shrubs. The to get it to a river port to sell., house may or may not need oouW be rolled along the road-1 plants between the door and corners Keep Your Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. 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