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Th Page 2 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, March 18, I Established 1889 I The Kings Mountain Herald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enl.ghtment, entertainment 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. CDITORUL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Edltor-Publlsher Gary Stewart Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Helen Owens Clerk MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Douglas Houser Zeb Weathers Allen Mvers emp swe ii" TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR .. $3.50 SIX MONTHS .. $2.00 THREE MONTOS St 25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Fur if 'H-c U-Uiild jarfi/e oiirselvtx, ue should not be judged. J CorinthUiHS 11:.11 Auto Accident Problem It wasn’t loo many years ago that North Carolina pa.sscd the million figure in auto and truck registrations. Recent l.v, the registration total crossed the two-million mark. Meantime, the traffic accident toll has zoomed up. La.st year, no less than 1,575 persons died as a result of traffic accidents on Tar Heel roads, while 49,- 129 sufferetl injury. (Of that figure 12,- 105 complained of pain, though there was no visible sign of injury or momen tary unconsciousness.) Of the nearly 50,000, however, at least 22,459 were carried from the scene of the accident to physicians and hospitals. Only from 1955 to 1956 did the auto death total improve (by 57), yet the in jury total escalated oven in that year. Is there an answer to this multi-sid ed problem, involving not only the chief problems of life and freedom from in jury, but sideline matters such as insur ance rates, road improvements, mechan ical excellence of autos, and the ever present driver error factor? Soon to be presented before the General Assembly will be an auto in spection bill, which the author thinks will pass muster with the people and without the sad fate of the inspection program of the late forties. There likely will be more bills pertaining to highway safety. The insurance company statistici ans, the Motor Vehicles Department, and experts in the field of safety will be quick to relate that driver error is by far the leading cau.se of auto accidents. What driver, no matter how careful normally for 364 days per year, hasn’t failed to heed the big red stop sign on the .365th, or, at least, the 730th? With over two million vehicles in operation, it is quite possible the state’s aggregate driving record per miles driv en is better than before, yet the aim must continually be paring of the death and injury total. Insurance costs are rather quickly explainable due to 1) compulsory insur ance requirements, and 2) inflation, which has upped the price of autos, costs of other properties damaged in wrecks, hospitalization costs, and damage a- wards. Speaker Ban Law Whether there will be any changes in the state’s hastily enacted speaker ban law preventing the appearance of known communists on campuses of state supported schools, is a moot point. It was adopted in flash-fire fashion in the closing moments of the 1963 Gen- eral Assembly and has been roundly criticized in some quarters. Perhaps last week’s appearance in Greensboro of the Polish ambassador is an item that should be considered. UNC- G students marched to hear him in an uptown locale. North Carolina citizens, apparently, are well-divided on the question of re peal, amend, and Icave-as-is. It is the contention of this news paper that the known and self-advertis ed communist is hardly the person to fear, while the wolf in sheep’s clothing The ambassador from Poland repre- sents a nation labeling itself communis Yet he is welcome in Wa.shington. The other chief valid argument against the ban is that scientists and other specialists from communist na tions are banned, just as are the poli ticians. Some think it just possible that free world scientists do not know every thing and that something of value might be gleaned from these visitors. A sample of the state’s divided thinking appeared in the results of First Lnion National Bank’s recent monthly poll: 51 percent did not approve of the ■speaker ban law; 49 percent did approve, with over 18,000 persons participating. Congratulations to Kings Mountain native Dr. Dewitt Blanton, awarded a three-year research grant by th® Na tional Institute of Health, the end-point aim a means of combatting some forms of mental illness. 'Stop Spinning Wheels* Dr. Carroll wrote: “In personal con ferences in Washington and through telephonic conversations with Federal officials this week, we have been inform ed that official guidelines and criteria for structuring and evaluating a plan for school desegregation have not yet been developed. Representative desegre gation plans submitted by some of you were carried to Washington for evalua tion. No decision was obtained on any of these plans in the absence of the adoption of written guidelines and cri teria at the Federal level.’’ Some 50 Tar Heel school districts had filed plans. Unanswered, wrote Dr. Carroll, by HEW to date are these questions: 1) Will the same desegregation yardstick be ap plicable to all states? 2) Will school dis tricts now desegregated via federal court order be deemed in compliance? 3) Will boards of education executing the com pliance agreement be deemed in compli ance prior to an HEW check of the plan? 4) Will HEW read into the act a re quirement (not in it) concerning deseg regation of professional personnel? The compliance problem is not limited to North Carolina and the South but to all of the 50 states. Compliance due-date is July 1. Here is a sample of the common bureaucratic problem. Congress passes a law, then the administrative agency seeks to establish ground rules within the framework of the law, sometimes without the intent of Congress. Addi tionally, the question of whether the law applies in same form to all is ques tionable interpretation of the law. Kings Mountain’s board of educa tion is more pressed, and therefore more needful than some, for a quick decision on plan by HEW than some, as Kings Mountain has not used its current-year appropriation of science fund grants and stands to lose these monies if the com pliance agreement is not executed soon. In the instance, the Kings Moun tain board intended and intends to make best possible use of these funds by buy ing science equipment for the new high school plant scheduled to open next Sep tember. In effect, one school official com mented, “We’ve been instructed to stop spinning our wheels.” Highway safety efforts are almost 99 percent commendable, most will a- gree, but to ban one-arm driving (see editorial cartoon this page) would be heresy! And so the vast majority ot North Carolina’s legislators agreed. It is a safe wager Representative Paul Rob inson, who offered the anti-necking bill, has already collected some interesting nicknames from his colleagues and con stituents. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By MARTIN HARMON Ingredients: bits of news wisdom, humor, and comments Directions: Take weekly, possible, but avoid overdosage. Back +0 the Pound, You Mutts Anenl tho rec'ord of township lines or lack of it, I have found a clue, at lea.st, via an historical piece of property Kiven me a few years ago by .Mrs. Cai Plonk, of Hickory. m-m It is a property map of Clove-: land County daied 1886 and copyriglited by Paul B. Kyzer, T. E. The "T. E." designation was' a new one for me and sent me scurrying to Mr. Webster’s die- ; tionary. The dictionary came through, as is its custom. "T. E.’’ is the abbreviation for “topo-! graphical engineer”. Mr. Kyzer, incidentally, is the first with whom I've made acquaintance. m-m i Dr. Charles F. Carroll, state super intendent of public instruction, advised North Carolina’s local boards of educa tion to cease filing any plans of compli ance, in re school desegregation for compliance with the 1964 federal civil rights act until some definitive informa tion is obtainable from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. This is the agency charged with administra tion of the law as it pertains to schools. The map was among the pos- j sessions of my late great-uncle, and Mrs. Plonk, knowing of my interest in local area history, gave it. to me. It was in poor re- ! pair and she suggested a Wins , ton-Salem firm specialized in re- | pairing old documents of this | and other type.s. m-m For some yearsi nothing was | done about it. A few months ago. my wife decided refurbishing and framing the map would make me an ideal Christmas gift and be an interesting wall-piece for the Herald. Several telephone calls to Winston-Salem failed to ferret j Speaking Out By GEORGE T. MOORE, President Kings Mountain Ministerial Assn. Xernhjy///ccez/bru out the refurbisher. She then | showed it to Mrs. Gladys White j at the Glad Shop in Gastonia, who did a very respectable job of it. Viewpoints of Other Editors m-m The gift was still at home when the question of location of township lines came into the news and I gave it a closer per usal. The township lines are there and whoever surveyed and boundaried Cleveland out of por tions of Lincoln and Rutherford (circum 1840) ran the lines rath er straight. How accurately, of course, would be in the province of an engineer and perhaps a difficult chore for him. m-m The map should prove intrigu- ENTERTAINMENT ON THE RUN In what some still think of as the good old days a man could choose his entertainment when and where he wanted it. There were those who actually chose not to be entertained on occa sion. And others seemed to ac cept their choice without the slightest raising of eyebrows. In those days people had the unsophisticated notion that the home was a possible place of entertainment. On the other hand, if one felt so inclined, he could attend the theater, concert hall, or sports arena. But was ing to about anybody with any- not something missing? thing like long-term roots In Cleveland County, as well as oth ers in nearby counties. The elev en townships are clearly' num bered, and the neat small script details owners of individual properties. Also included is an alphabeticized index showing the addresses of the property own ers listed. A magnifying glass is of bene fit in perusing the map. m-m However, even at cursory scan ning, I have been able to locate the homeplaces of both my fath er and mother. Grandfather Peter Beam Harmon lived near the Beulah community. His closest neighbor appears to be C. C. Rob- ert.s. Then there was J. Dogget* and J. B. Rhyne, the latter a fore bear of Mrs. Horace Hord. Grand father W. L. Plonk’s place, near what is now St. Luke’s Lutheran church cemetery, is also clearly shown, his near-neighbors being Neal, McGill, Beatty and Hullen- der. Clearly mapped are Buffalo and Muddy Fork Creeks and, of The amusement seeker had to make the transition fro.m home entertainment to outside enter tainment without the possibility of sustained entertainment in between. What to do about it? Having duly noted this lack in our society. Amerioan know-how began to discover ways to pro- i vide all the blessings of contin uous entertainment. Now, when we catch our bus we are thrilled to hear just the tune we had been waiting for — piped in for our benefit. When we begin our vertical asc.^nt, our automatic elevator thoughtfully provides us with still another of our favorite tunes. How did it know? Off for a winter holiday in the Caribbean, we need no longer wait until we arrive for the a- musement to b.’gin. Served our (how did you guess?) favorite movie, we note with some satis faction that the only moments of possible entertainment we missed were on the way to the airport. We note with dismay that one ot the airlines has suggested eli minating “inflight entertain ment” on both transatlantic and THE CASE FOR PLAIN ENGLISH A school teacher out in Orange, Calif, is spurring her advanced- reading students on to bigger vo cabularies. She asks them to in vent more elaoorate phrases for old sayings. Thus, “ Dead men tell no tales” becomes ’’Lifeless .males of the human race communicate nega- tiv'e false truth.” And the rococo version of "Nothing ventured, nothing gained” is "Avoidance of speculative enterprise precludes profit.’’ It’s an imaginative approach. The only trouble is that here in Washington, we seem to fiave some graduates of that class who never got over tlie experi ence. Now they write govern- mentese. 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of Mountiiin about King people am the 195 Mountaiy news area events taken from files of the Kings Herald. \ Heiiry P. Neisler was elected president of the Kings Mountain Country Club for the comiaq year at a meeting of the incom ing board of directors Wednes day afternoon. In the day’s mail, for example, appears this sentence from a Congressional report: "An inte grated theory of the determi nants of the distribution of per sonal income iias lagged behind our capacity to collect and pro cess vast amounts of relevant. If not always the most relevant data.” ”We can’t see the forest for the trees.” Three more candidates enter ed the city's political aJene this . ■ .. week, including two for city com- mission positions and a lone can didate tor school trustee. The new candidates are Sam Collins, Charles Ford and F. R. McCur- dy. SOCIAIj and personal i The iK'Vvs ot lliis week, and of I tile past week, is nothing now. ' Such a eommeni is not meant to ’ he unimpr<‘ssive. It is intended lo j shock the ri'ader because ol the I tragic implications. 'rile news at hand, of course, is the on going clashing of races, liighlighted hy llie awful affairs in Selma, Alaliama. 1 uriently', staiuling out a ove all else, there is lli(* news of on(* man lining at tacked and healen to deair., plus the hrulality of others wlio use llio proleelion of a hailge of le gal aullioi-ity for their actions. It is nothing new for such has always been (he patler-n of hu man relationships. More and more laws are being passed lo protect the righls of people. More nee<i to lie en,acted and imfore- e<l. Yet, hrutaliiy persists. It rears its selfish, egolislieal, sin ful head t-very day and will con tinue to do so. Such a reaetioin of v iolence is not limited lo any oiu- area or people. It knows no bounds of _ South or .North. II knows no 1^^ mils of race. It could, and pn^^ bably will, liaiipen here. Tlie true intent of the law is ignored vvlien- ever man f(*els threatened by- outside forces. Pusli a man far enough and he will strike back. Some do it ky law, some by de- monslralion. some liy threat, and otliers use a iiiglil stick or a white hood. Actually, the molivation is both fear and hale, rhe I'Csult is conflict vvlicrein the strong have their way and the weak suffer, and all lose! Ours is a long his tory of such n'pealed fears and hates, brought to tho surface and unleaslied. They are never keiil in chock exeejit wlihre fear of the law is greater than the sel fish fears of f(>arful and little men. In that .sense, the appalling news of the moment is nothing new. Such is our lieritage. Sucli is our future. Laws will help to hold most people in chock. For many the issue of Civil Rights will always l)e a battle cry, a smoldering fire which will burst fortli and destroy. What’s the hope in all this? Will tliere <>ver be a change for the better? Yes. theie will be, but only a change which comes from changed men. The hop*- of the world lies in the birth of the new and the riftieemed. This newness is- the kingdom, of God, God’j^^ living and true Church, ft is’ tl^B The Fine Arts Department of the Woman’s clu:) will stage a three-day art exhibit beginning Thursday at the Woman’s club. What should have happened in this sort of thing had been fas hionable among the men who made the statements that get in to history books? What would General McAuliffe have said at Bastogne, or John Paul Jones a- board the Bonhomme Richard? What those schoolkids need to do in California, when they get done enlarging their v'ocabular- ies, is to reverse the whole game. -Let them practice making plain sentences out of fancy ones. That’s a talent every office can use. course, the Br .d River, as well domestic flights. What do they as the Airline Railroad, we now, want us to do? Go back to en know as Southern Railway, and 1the scenery, engaging m the C. C. & C. Railroad, which en tered the county both from Cherryville and ^uth Carolina and some of which is now the Seaboard Airline Railroad, m-m Herald Shop Superintendent David Weathers spotted the 1886 lands of his great grandfather. S. C. Wilson, in what is now Cleveland Springs, and where Mr. Wilson is buried in a family cemetery. Says David ruefully, “I wish his lands were still in the family.’’ stimulating conversation, read ing a good book or magazine, or doing a bit of creative thinkiit,?? How retrogressive can we get? Christian Science Monitor m-m In a side box. Engineer Kyzer lists U. S. Postoffices by town ship, apparently inadvertently omitted Shelby, for there is no listing for Number 6 or Shelby THE STRUGGLE TO DEFEND NATURAL BEAUTY President Johnson's message on beauty, both natural and man made, draws the Issue sharp ly: Is this country going to he America the beautiful or God’s own junkyard? The outcome is in doubt. As of now, the United States is losing to the forces of ugliness. There are fewer good • looking new buildings being constructed in most cities than there are hand some old landmarks being torn township. Surely Shelby had a I down. The suburban sprawl pro postoffice in 1886. Including I (juced vast groups of identical Rural citizens are evidencing inter est in more toll-free telephone service, desiring complete county-wide service of this kind. Obviously, Southern Bell Tele phone and Telegraph Company will be glad to initiate a cost study if sufficient interest in the proposal is evidenced. Attend the annual Kings Mountain high school senior class play Friday n*ght. Bills are to be introduced in the General Assembly which would set the biennial primaries in September, the run-offs, if necessary, about mid-Sep tember, leaving about six weeks for in- ter-pacty politicking prior to the general election. Some states follow this format and like it. Whether North Carolina would like it might be another matter. I Shelby, there were no less than 30 in the county. Number 4 Township had only Kings Moun. tain and Grover, but Number 9 Township was the postal champ ion with five, at Belwood, Beam’s Mill, Cleveland Mills, Double Shoals and Fallston. All those are familiar names. But examine some of these strangers to us to day: Number 1, Byarsville, Er- winsville, and Vaverly; Number 2, Nicholson and Sharon; Num ber 3, Durbo, Swangs, and Slice's Shoals; Number 5, Buffalo Paper Mill, Fancy, Perry, and Waco; Number 7, Autro and Moores- boro: Number 9, Camp Cell, Now House and Polkville; Number 10, Knob Creek: and Number 11, little houses which look as if they were all stamped out of a monstrous machine -cy a mind less idiot. The nation once had clean and beautiful rivers, but they are rarities today. The prablem of impure air is as close as the next breath you take. It spares no thing and no one. Agai-nst these and other forms of ugliness, the President has now issued an in spiring order of battle. Mr. Johnson proposes to con tinue to extend in many useful ways the protection of wood lands, wildlife and natural beau ty begun sixty years ago under Theodore Roosevelt. He also calls for "a new conservation” Casar, Holly Bush, Point and i that will encompass our man- Lark. , made urban environment. He is I probably the first President to Interesting, yes? tell Americans they should "sal- Mrs. Anderson's Rites Conducted transformed menl" responding in love to God’s love. Then, and only then, will men live in respect and harmony. iWhat can we do, beyond con demning tragic brutality and hatred? Every man must act ac cording lo his own conscience, based solely on his personal re lationship to God. ^yond that we can ask tor and receive for giveness. We can pray that God will touch and change the un changed. That will bo news, in deed! TTte whole business reminds us of a cartoon a while hack which showed a school official dealing witli an urchin in his office. On the official’s door was lettered the title, LIFE ADJUSTMENT COUNoEUjOR. And the man is saying to the youngster: ’’Listen, punk. Shape up or ship out.” Washington Star Funeral l iles for Mrs. James I A. Ander.son. 76. of Anderson, S. j C, were held Monday at ,3 p.m. I from Oak Grove Baptist church, interment following in I h e | church cemetery. | Rev. James Holder officiated | at the final rites. | Mrs. Anderson, a native of | Cleveland County, died Sunday. She was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Eli Lovelace of | Cleveland County. 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In so doing, he has provided the public with a proper sense of underlying coherence in Ihe dif fuse struggle to create beauty in our mau-made environment and to defend it in our natural en vironment. By defining Govern ment’s responsibility, he stimu lates a new awareness of the re sponsibilities of individuals and interest groups. The White House Conference on National Beauty which he has scheduled for May will also help in the long ardu ous effort to rescue the physical appearance of this country from the mess that man has been making of it. The New York Times 1220 Kings Mountain, N. C. Ne-ws & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between SUBSCRIBE TO THE HERALD Bi thi sei H hi cr ai S(
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