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KJNGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C.
Thursday, August 5. 1965
CttabUshed 1889
Mountain Herald
^ niorth Carolina
associatjonI
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enMghtment, 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.
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Tlu' words of ‘wise men are heard in quiet mare than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
Ecclesiastes 9:17.
Ollic Harris got a considerable
amount of good natured kidding
after he was elected to the board
I of directors of First Union Na-
; lional Bank, along the rein of
j Ollie’s being a finaneial tycoon,
. but Ollie liad a good answer
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I must be qualified," ho re-
, plies. "I’ve only been on the
^ board ten days and I get you a
’ new bank building, increased in-
‘ tcrest on savings, and another
j banki”
Some were commenting about
Firet Citizens Bank & Trust Com
pany coming to Kings Mountain.
Otis Falls, Sr., inquired, "Will it
make those loans any easier to
pay back?"
Zoning Updating
Kings Mountain was approaching 75
years of age when the city adopted its
first zoning ordinance in 1948.
Like most cities and towns, the city
just "growed”, following no set pattern
of areas for industry, business or resi
dences. Consensus in 1948 was that the
city was belter late than never in adopt
ing a zoning ordinance and endeavoring
to make future growth more orderly.
The experience of the past 17 years
has borne out that contention. There
have been spot changes in the map
through the years, some of them per
haps unwise, yet when business seeked
to encroach on residential areas and the
adjacent property owners were suffi
ciently disturbed, the zoning ordinance
was maintained intact.
Last week the board of commission
ers enacted its most recent amendment,
changing the section governing distance
from side lot lines to 25 feet, each side,
for multiple unit dwellings. Effect of the
change was to permit use of a West Gold
street lot for a 12-unit apartment house.
Initially, the development firm
planned two 12-unit apartments, a pro
ject that brought objections from neigh
bors, as one of the units would have been
only a few feet from the lot line. There
was feeling by the neighbors that area
of the lot was insufficient to provide car
parking and other accommodations for
24 familie-s.
The final city board action was a
compromise and apparently a wise one,
as Kings Mountain is quite shy of apart
ment-type rental accommodations de
sired both by just-married couples, by
retiring citizens, and others.
Some feel it time, after 17 years, for
the commission to re-examine the zon
ing law to determine whether major up
dating is necessary.
New Industry
Owners of Kings Mountain Knit
Fabrics, Inc., which began pilot opera
tions in May, have been sufficiently
pleased with results to decide to con
struct a building to expand operations.
George H. Mauney, president and
treasurer, terms the operation “small”.
However, it is from small beginnings
that many major Kings Mountain indus
tries grow.
Envisioned immediately is a 25-em
ployee operation.
' Statistics show that a 25-employec
operation multiplies itself many times
in economic value to the whole commu
nity.
Congratulations to the owners and
best wishes for full success.
Medicare Is Fact
Federal medical care for the aged
is now fact, the American Medical asso
ciation and citizens in opposition having
finally lost the battle against it — which
was waged for some 20 years.
Under terms of the act, citizens 65
and older qualify for medical and hos
pital benefits, regardless of financial
need — a departure from the long-term
concept of the Kerr-Mills act and pre
decessor programs to provide medical
care of basis of indigency. Chief argu
ment of the proponents of the new pro
gram was that many older citizens could
not qualify on basis of need, yet could
not afford proper medical care.
Opponents fought the bill on
grounds the program was not needed
and uneconomic.
Another spectre is the prospect of
future expansion, a regular government
al habit, and resulting tariff via the so
cial security tax, already making a
healthy bite in the pocketbooks of em
ployees and employers alike.
The medical profession dreads the
paper work involved, the overtones of
socialism, and also the spectre of more
restrictive inroads in the future.
The Herald has been among the los
ing opponents of this new program.
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New Bloedmobile Year
Just beginning Is another Red Cross
Bioodmobile year, with Kings Mountain
reported slightly in arrears on its 1964-
65 Bioodmobile “account”.
First visit to Kings Mountain for the
new year is scheduled for Monday.
Over the years Kings Mountain has
done a good job on filling its share of
the area blood bank.
All are called on to do more.
Uses for w'hole blood, blood plasma,
and other blood derivatives in treating |
illnesses grows and the population isi
growing. The result is continuing pres-1
Chase Manhattan, the nation’s
thii'd largest bank, is applying
for a charter as a national hank.
The Chase bank and the subject
of relative benefits of national
and state chartered banks was
meat of an axhau-stivc story re
cently in the New York Times.
Chase has found, as a state bank,
it sometimes runs into legal
roadblocks .when it seeks to do
business outside New York.
Pennsylvania, particularly, lias
been troublosame and Chase
figures that with a national
charter it can go anywhere and
perhaps vie with Bank of Amer
ica and National City Bank of
Hew York for the honor of be
ing the nation’s largest.
Cockleburrs!
Garden Time
i Here are some timely remind^
i ers for the fruit, vc’etalilc and
! ornamental gardens:
i If vmi have raspnciries, cith-
I ..!■ red or lilark. remove the old
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Viewpoints of Other Editors
CASEY STENGEL LANE? !
THAT MAGNIFICENT
BLUR
STUDENTS MUST
RESPOND
sure and need for even more blood do
nations.
Congratulations to Lyn Cheshire, j
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Che.shire, win
ner of a scholarship to The Citadel, and
to Richard Gold, son of Mr. and Mrs.'
John Gold, this year’s honoree as most'
valuable member of the Otis D. Green
Post American Legion baseball team.
A best bow to Jeff Wells on his pro
motion to supervisor of Davie County
schools.
Birthday of Big Blast
Twenty years ago Friday, Manhat
tan Project came to fruition as a big
American bomber dumped “Little Boy”,
a 9,000-pound atomic bomb, on Hiro
shima.
Devastation defied the imagination,
as a major portion of Hiroshima was
leveled and an estimated 70,000-plus
Japanese were killed or missing.
Three days later a second atomic
bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, with
similar dread results, and Japan shortly
sued for peace, ending World War II.
It is now known that Japan was
reeling from Allied advances, the attri
tion of retreat and aerial bombing, and
shortly after the war ended soul-search
ing by American citizens produced the
que.stion, “Was use of the atomic bomb
necessary?
President Harry Truman does not
regard use of the atomic bomb as one
of his more difficult decisions. He con
tends the bomb hastened war’s end,
made unnecessary the invasion of Ja
pan, thereby saving thousands of both
Allied and Japane.se lives.
Others feel the use of the atomic
bomb was not necessary, and that reel
ing Japan would have surrendered short
of actual invasion.
Howard Jackson once declared
a banker’s got the world's worse
job. He explained, “When you’ve
got money, he’s around begging
you to borrow some. When you
need it. he tolls you he can’t let
you have it.” Of course, It doesn’t
exactly work tliat way.
I While New Yorkers are mak-
[ lug up their minds whether to re-
I name First Avenue after Adlai
I E. Stevenson, we should like to
I strike a blow for color and sug-
j gest that New York City con-
jsider renaming all its numbered
' streets and avenues.
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Frank Summers, late president
of First National, said the weal
thy fellow didn't have to worry
about fancy dress, whereas the
guy with a thin wallet had to in
vest in a wardrobe.
Perhaps somewhere in the
world there is a duller and less
inspired method of naming
streets than that between 1st
and 220th Street in Manhattan,
bu if there is, we have not come
upon it. Efficient—yes. Inspired
—no.
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Horace Grigg, former county
superintendent of schools, paid
call last weekend in the i-nterest
of the Cleveland Countv Histori-!
cal Association. The talk fell to I
last week’s column on the Beam I
clan, and Mr Grigg recalled he I
had made the address at a Beam '
reunion some years ago. ;
One of the glories of a walk in
London, Paris, Rome, or a hun
dred o*her cities is the fascina
tion of their street names. Pa-
I’is’s Street of the Fishing Cat,
London’s Threadneodle Street.
Rome’s Flaminian Way, Jerusa
lem Street of the Chain, Spanish
Toledo’s Street of Toledo in Ohio,
Shanghai’s Bubbling Well Road
are i.more than streets; they ai-e
paths through history and fan
tasy.
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“I rctmombored that such illu.s-
trious citizens as Clyde Hoey and |
Max Gardner had addressed the i
Beam clan in prior years and |
that the reunion attracted 300 or ,
more people. I worked on my !
speech diligently, and thought it j
pretty good. But the only special j
reaction I got concerned a bit I ;
included on the origin of names. ;
It got me an invitation to speak j
at the Borders reunion.”
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It wa.s the Beam reunion
speech which launched Mr. Grigg
into his major hobby. ’’The Ori
gin of Names".
Even New York itself, south of
Houston 'Street, while perhaps
not rising to the heights of ima
gination displayed abroad, did
not do too badly by itself. Mul
berry Bend, Old Slip, Republican
Alley, Park Row, and Bowling
Green ail recall the flavor of a
long and lively past. Surely
enough has happened and is hap
pening in New Yo rk’s turbulent
history to provide colorful and
evocative names for the streets
and avenues of a dozen Manhat-
tans.
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Since that time the atomic bomb
has become even more sophisticated,
with some designed for tactical use, and
the strategic weapon itself has grown to
the much more powerful hydrogen
bomb. Thankfully, it has not been used,
though there have been threats, direct
and implied, between the United States
and Russia which had a spy operation
going on Manhattan Project, and subse
quently developed the bomb.
Meantime, China and France have
become members of the atomic bomb
community.
International conversation in the
intervening two decades has been rife
with efforts of nations to ban the bomb,
to suspend testing, and otherwise wipe
it out of the arsenal. With the exception
of U. S. - Sino banning of above-ground
testing — with its radioactive fall-out
by-product — the conversations have
been fruitless.
Poison gas, used in World War I,
was not used in World War II, though
the major provisions had both offensive
and defensive gas warfare units contin
ually alert.
A few years ago, Mr. Grigg j
had a letter from a .school su- j
perintendent in the Mid-West.
The name of the Mid-Western
school superintendent: J. H.
Grigg,
Of course, we do not imagine
for a moment that our sugges
tion will be taken seriously. But
just think how much fun it
would be naming those streets.
The Christian Science Monitor
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A salesman friend named Jim
my Firestone I was teasing one
day and asked him why he
changed his name. “I didn’t
change it,” Jim replied, “merely
Anglicized it. In German, Fire
stone is Fierstein.”
MRS.
HUMPHREY'S
BATTLE
I was told to ask young Kenny
Falls why he was out-of-bed late
on a recent Saturday night. He
thought and thought, but couldn’t
remember. His father qulered
what he was doing in the back
yard and light dawned. “I had
pups!”, he reported enthusiasti
cally.
And Chip McGill, Norman’s
eldest burst into tears after see
ing “Mary Popplns’’—not be
cause he didn’t like the film b«t
because, even after two-hours-
and-a-half, he was sad the movie
was over.
The world grows closer and closer.
Thus far world leaders seem to realize
a big-bomb war could destroy the bulk
of the known world.
City building permits, issued during
the fiscal year ending June 30, indicate
an active construction year here. Value
of the peranits totaled $^,700. Addi
tional consttliction, of count, was done
outsidt the limits of which there is
no formal record.
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The Humes Houston family
has recently had more than its
share of hospital attention.
Humes was recuperating from a
hernia operation when Mrs.
Houston sustained some nasty
cuts via an auto accident. The
other member of the family,
ASTC student Sammy, is work
ing as an Indian at Grover Rob
bins’ Tweetsie promotion at
Blowing Rock. Sam suffered a
leg gaah whMh required 20
stltefieB.
Vice-President Hubert H. Hum
phrey is justly renowned for the
political battles he has fought
during his career. Now his wife
has steped on the firing line with
a challenge to tourists. Mrs.
Humphrey wants them to dress
more neatly when they visit the
Capitol, the White House, and
Washington's other historic mon
uments. She does not advocate
rules forbiding persons in inap
propriate garb from entering
the buildings and memorials. Ra
ther she hopes respect for what
they represent, the seats of our
national Government and a Na
tion's honvage to its great lead
ers, will cause skirts and dresses
to replace shorts, bare midriffs
and other concessions to comfort
that have become part of the
tourist’s uniform.
It is evident, howev’er, that a
tourist who wanders Washing
ton's streets in haircurlers and
unflattering shorts may have to
be nudged into respect. We sug
gest prominent displays of the
writings on dress of the leaders
we have honored. At the Jeffer
son Memorial, for instance, tour
ists would be greeted with a
placard carrying the third Presi
dent’s advice to his daughter
Martha:
I ‘‘.Some ladies think they may,
' under the privileges of the desha-
I bille, be loose and negligent of
: their dress in the morning. But
be you, from the moment you
rise till you go to bed, as clean
ly and properly dreased as at the
hours (rf dinner or tea.”
Washington Post
Let’s be frank about it. To our
uneducated eyes, that first pic-
tiure from Mars seemed just a
white blur. But oh what a blur!
From 134 million miles across
space, our first reasonably close
look at another planet!
The transmission of the pic
tures, still coming in at this writ
ing, has crowmed Mariner 4’s
stunning mission with full sue- i
cess.
Under the careful analysis of
Mariner scientists, the pictures
will undoubtedly yield much new
information. But to us they also
convey a timely warning. There
has been much speculation that
they may reveal signs of life in
spite of repeated explanations
that no such detail would show.
The pictures we have seen so
far bear this out.
Yet there is something in many
of us that yearns for life to be
on M'ars. .Skeptics who note the
harsh Martian conditloins—little
water, no apparent oxygen, ex
treme temperatures, an atmos
phere as thin as our own at
100,000 feet—these skeptics are
discounter!.
But is it wise to brush aside
what they say, especially when
national policy Is involved? A
report last spring from the Na
tional Academy of Sciences urg
ed that Mars be made a priority
(and expensive?) space target
because of the possibility of find
ing life there. Critics charge that
the report failed to take due ac
count of the skeptics who chal
lenge the wisdom of assigning
such a priority to Mars on this
basis,
"The possibility of finding
Martian life is undeniably excit
ing. Yet anticipation should not
override good judgment.
After all, the essence of ex
ploration is discovering what
really lies in uncharted regions.
It is not just seeking what one
wants to find. We should be pre
pared to find no life on Mars if
that is the (to us, sad) case, and
prepared to make the most of
whatever men do find there.
But whether there is life on
Mars or not, there is much of
deep significance to be learnt
from space exploration. And not
the least of these lessons is a
imore rational and realistic vie'w
of our own small but dear earth
and of those who share it with
us.
The Christian Science Monitor
College teachers can only
hopefully aspire to show ,voung
people the way lo develop for
themselves a sel of values for
their lives.
But college also demands that
the student meet it at least half
way. Some sort of response is
wanted, other tlian diffidence,
idleness.,. .oi- thoughtless lebel-
lion. Faculty i.mcmbcrs are as .shy
of students as studeiit.s are of
them. The petulanl complaint
that college teachers are too | trolled, in the grub
IS
busy to bother with students
only veiy partially true.
T h e experience of college
comes to te individual at differ
ent levels; there are so many
new impressions and ideas to be
tested and not all students are
ready to derive the fullest ben
efit from their exposui’o. Like
the apples on the tree,, some
ripen befoi’o others and some
few never rijjen, even on a pleas
ant and sheltered hillside.
President Pusey of Harvard
in the Commcrckil Appeal (Mem
phis!
I fruiting canes immiHliately af-
‘ ter the harvest se’ison. Cut the
old canes dose to the soil and
i burn. This will help control dis-
j ea.ses and insects. As a further
i precaution against d.aiTiage, the
; new growth slioul<i tie spra,ved
' with eaptan. fertam or Bordeaux
mixture e\ei’.v two weeks. Sevin
, may he added to the sprays to
I control in-^ecls.
i If you are not prepared to
I spiav, the plants may he tl)o-
’ roughly dusted witii a eomluna-
: tion dust such as ca|itan and .se-
^ vin. Spraying is liest because the
materials applied stick to (he
leavo.s and stems better. Du.st.s
! should also be apiilied more fre-
I quently than the sprays, especiai-
! ly after rains.
'Black spot, a fungus disease,
attacks all types of roses and is
likely to build up as the season
i progresses unless you have tak
en tile ncoessar.v control mens-
i uros. Severely infected plans are
i not only unsightly, due to leaf
' spotting, but the leaves mav
drop This premature dropping
' will stop the manufacture of
plant food in the leaves and
! make the plant more suseeplihle
to winter injur.v.
Keep all above-ground parts of^
, the plants protected by spraying
or dusting at least once a week.
Phaltan, 75 per cent, is a good
fungicide for black spot, as are
many of the combination insecti
cidal and fungicidal formula
tions reeommcn<led for roses.
Don’t slow down the fight a-
gainst insect and disease pests
in the vegetable garden; Mexi
can bean beetles (SovinI; corn
earworm (Sevin>; tomato and
Irish potato blight (mineb, zineh
on one of the copper com
pounds!; Japanese beetles t.So-
vin or malathionh
Remember that Japanese Ix-e-
tles arc building up rapidly in
some of the western counties and
that more than 200 plant species
are .subject to attack. I liave just
visitetl fiv’o of the mountain
counties and found heavy infes
tation on hunch grapes, apple
trees and some of the forest
species.
Remember, too. that the Jap
anese beetle can also he eon-
stage, by
using such materials as etilor-
dane on turf grasses in the late
fall and early spring.
There were only six employees
when the U. S. Bureau of Engrav
ing and Printing began in 1862.
Public and private debt is now-
$1,172 trillion. i
Aztecs forbade young to be
come drunk. Punishment was
very severe.
There are 16
cows in the U. S.
million dairy
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YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
Items of news about King
Mountain area people am
events taken from the 195
files of the Kings Mountaii
Herald.
“The Sword of Gideon" will be
presented Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday in the fourth of five
scheduled weekend showings.
City Schools Supt. B. N. Barnes
reported the resignation of two
teachers during the past week,
bringing to four the number of
vacancies in the teacher faculty
for the year starting August
30th.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. King
announce the engagement of
their daughter, Hilda Anne, to
Clyde Elliott Wright, son of Mr.
and Mrs. C, M. Wright of Green
ville, S. C. "rhe wedding will take
place September 3.
Mrs. Earl Rives, Jr. and Mrs.
L. E. Skees entertained Saturday
«t a 1 (Yclodt luncheon at Greens-
tioro Countiy Club honorthg
Mifis Peggy Mauney, bride-elect
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