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wmi MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C.
Thursday, August 19, 1965
EstablUhed 1889
The Kings Mountain Herald
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enUghtment, 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
Honour the Lord with thy suhstanec, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase.
Proverbs 3:9
Sore Spot Removed
The city board of commissioners
has removed the differential charged
outside city limits water customers and
thereby has removed a sore spot of sev
eral years duration.
When the city upped the outside
surcharge from ten to fifty percent, the
action came without warning or with
out discussion with officials ol firms ef
fected.
Subsequently, the board pared the
surcharge to twenty-five percent before
removing it altogether last week.
Chiefest beneficiary of the rate
change is Massachusetts Mohair Plush
Company, which uses large quantities
of water in its dyeing operations at the
Margrace plant.
There has always been a question of
proper charges for municipal services to
areas outside the city limits. Industrial
firms point to the fact of providing em
ployment for large numbers of citizens
who live within the city’s bounds and
are integral components of the econom
ic, social and civic life of the commu
nity.
On the other side of the coin is the
question of water costs, resevoirs and
filtration plants requiring large sums.
The city completes payment of its 1928
water bonds in 1966 — meantime has
found it necessary to build another
resevoir and double filtration capacity.
One or two new water-using industrial
plants would / will necessitate finding
more water again. While the city shows
an operating profit on water sales, there
is no profit if capital costs are consider
ed.
Perhaps the most important bene
fit of the city’s action in eliminating the
outside-city differential is the matter of
"climate”. Certainly the folk long-upset
over the surcharge will be in better
frame of mind regarding the city to
which they are adjacent neighbors.
Taint Funny
County and city police officers
credit the recent instances of cross-burn
ing to the work of pranksters.
If so, it must bo noted that some
folk have a perverse and warped sense
of humor.
The burning at the home of L. L.
Adams, Compact high school principal,
was equally surprising, as Principal
Adams is among the community’s better
citizens. He is friendly, affable, easy to
work with, and an effective school ad
ministrator.
Coincidentally, the incidents occur
red just at the moment Mayor John
Henry Moss was appointing an expand
ed human relations committee.
Kings Mountain’s history of race re
lations is good and all responsible citi
zens, who are the vast majority, want to
keep them good.
Last week’s Los Angeles riots arc a
sample of what can happen when emo
tion, rather than reason, rules.
School Opening
Kings Mountain district schools will
open for the fall term a week hence,
with the longtime dream of a now high
school finally realized.
Representing an investment of $1.5
million, the plant is modern in all re
spects and will provide top accommoda
tions for area students.
The school year 1965-66 marks a
year of change as desegregation arrives.
The Herald anticipates no difficul
ties in this direction, counting on the
youngsters themselves to treat each
other with friendliness and courtesy.
Speaker Ban Heorings
Malcolm Seawell, former state at
torney-general and recently appointed
chairman of the State Elections Board,
has added his voice to those opposed to
North Carolina’s speaker ban law.
He, like many, regard the law as
worthless on grounds the advertised
Communist is harmless, and that the law
tends to run Communists underground.
At the Chapel Hill branch of the
University of North Carolina, an organi
zation known as the Carolina Political
Union had as its principal purpose the
bringing of prominent persons in poli
tics, business and government to the
campus to speak. The only test, accord
ing to a former chairman, was that of
prominence, not political faith or credo.
Such diversified personalities as the
German ambassador to the United
States, Socialist Norman Thomas, Steel
man Tom Girdler, Publisher Frank
Knox, Senator Burton Wheeler and
many others graced the platform.
Senator Hanes, a member of the
.study commission on the speaker ban
law, took it on himself to write the
presidents of other southern universi
ties concerning the situation there.
The president of the University of
Virginia wrote that last year the two
most controversial speakers appearing
on the Charlottesville campus were Gus
Hall, the Communist party secretary,
and Lincoln Rockwell, a modern day
Nazi. 'The president added that both at
tracted quite small audiences.
BT MART"* HARMON i
Joe McDaniel, the city clerk, |
has a collector’s item of special
interest to many and quite par- j
ticulurly to him. *
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It i.s "The Stars and Stripe-?’’, j
U. S. Armed Forces Daily in the
Middle Pacific, the service tab
loid’s second extra of August 14, |
1345. and the headline, an art- j
work job, reads "Peace". Through i
the word-ending “e" is a GI rifle, j
pointing to the Japanese flag.
The ’’FLASH’’ lead story details |
in 24-pt. type. "The Pacific war :
ended Tuesday — 1,347 days after j
the sneak attack on Pearl Har- I
bor.” I
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Special interest for Joe: At the j
moment Joe was a specla_^ist sup
ply corpsman in electronics for
the navy, at Pearl Harbor, and
expecting momentary orders to
boahl ship for the final push on
Japan.
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I Liberty Life
Gains Continue
I GREENVILLE, S, C., AugiS/
; 10 New business recoixis were
! intrsduced today for Liberty
' Life Insuianee Company in op-
' eratin.i results reported for the
; first six months of 196.5.
mc^cafiAt/'
Last Saturday, of course, was
the 20th anniversary of that hap
py day, not only for servicemen,
but for kin and friend at home.
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Big-type bulletins related that
draft quotas would be slashed
immediately by 30,000 per month,
with more cuts to come shortly,
and fact that Emperor Hirohito
would read the Imperial rescript
the following day.
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Other news was related to the
war-end report, among the items:
1) Marine Colonel James Roo- has na«
sevelt was following his brother „,.a«.rvp ii 292 Lres
Tito i'.'ue cf new in-v.Tance for
six .Tontlii .tndi'd June .30, 198,5,
nmountrd to $19.3.7 million c(>m-
pared to $170.6 mliHo-n tor the
pt-riod a year i-arlicr. Insurance
product; n at th’s rate, averag-
in;,' mo-e than $1 milliou per day,
axcerd.s any pri-vious eompany
mark. Tlic.se sales brought total
insurance in foix'e to $1,794,613,-
5SG at mill year, c.ompared to
Sl,689,6,'-‘;i,.5si for 1964.
Doscri Itig company perfor.m-
ance for 198.5 to date as a new
; peak for all major hutine.ts lines,
' p-esidcnl Franc's M. Hipp add
ed. "the gains c infirm indica-
i tions that our region is experi-
! rncing a truly exeeption.al year
of growth."
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flvcr $14,500,000 of now invest-
] ments was made in the .six
I months, marking the most ae-
I tive financial pe.'iod ever exper
ienced by the comiiany within a
six rnttnth -span. Hy .tune 3')lh,
Liberty Life had pul over $11.-
IX)O.(KK) into new eomrercial and
j residential mort lages. Great^t
! gains were made in eommeix'ial
Moans f-r eonstriictlon and
j ' xit.insion of Irusiness plant ai.^^
i quipment and capital needs.
I Tota'. at the end of the
I d-st .'•■ix months of 196.5 amount-
1 (i to $l.Si,36.5.17.3, as against
170,;i33 17-1. a ' C ’.r earlier. T .■
Viewpoints of Other Editors
HALF WAY ON
THE DUNES
SHAKESPEAREAN
THREAT
Once more the fight to save a
portion of the Indiana Dunes is
centered in the House. For the
Real Outpouring
Last week’s bloodmobile visit, first
of the current blood year, attracted
quite literally a real outpouring of blood.
No less than 295 persons visited the
bloodmobile, with 246 donors accepted.
The result was therefore only four
pints short of the 250-pint goal.
The backbones of the blood collec
tion program are the regular donore who
give blood as often as they can.
Thus L. Arnold Kiser’s gift of blood
last week put him into the four-gallon
club. Meantime, Robert Suber, Jack
Hauser, and Herbert Leigh made the
three-gallon club and Floyd Early,
Charles Blanton, Bertha Guffey, Elmer
Martin, Sam Hamrick, and Thomas
Humphries joined the gallon group.
These citizens and others like them
deserve commendation for their civic
spirit.
$2 Million Out
Kings Mountain retailers, just as
those in other cities, know it is a major
chore to keep trade dollars at home and
away from the merchandising meccas
of larger cities.
It is a vicious circle.
Merchants cannot keep trade dol
lars at home without expanding inven
tories. If they have not had the trade
dollars initially, they cannot afford to
expand inventories.
Facilities must be modern, too.
Thus the downtown planning com
mittee has its work cut out.
Charles Sellers, the Conservation
and Development Department represent
ative, spelled out the problems recently,
as too little parking area in the business
district, necessity of improving the
physical appearance of the business
houses, and attention to traffic flow.
His figures indicate some two mil
lion dollars annually are going out of
town.
He asked, “Worth keeping."
You bet.
A welcome to Rev. James F. Gra
ham, new pastor of Bethlehem Baptist
<^urch.
Congratulations to Ensign James
Blanton, USNR, who recently completed
successfully officer candidate school*
Brigadier General Elliott in leav
ing the service. (Jimmy’s tummy
was acting up.)
2) “rhe Reno, Nevada, Chamber
of Commerce, had challenged
.itdmiral Bull Halsey to make
hood his promise to ride Hirohi-
to’s white stallion down the
streets of Tokyo by sending
Halsey air express a ^.000 hand
made silver-studded saddle.
3) The sports editor of the Bur
lington, la. paper had gone to
church with his bowling shirt un
der his coat, joined other men in
accepting the pastor’s warm-day
invitation to remove coats. Em
blazoned on the back of the
bowler’s shirt was the name of
a nationally-advertised beer.
4) Major William F Ki’^wland
wtis the appointee of Govemoe
Earl Warren to the United States’
Senate vacancy created by the
death of California’s Hiram
Johnson. (I later interviewed
Senator Knowland in Shelby
when he, along with other Sena
tors, attended the funeral of Sen
ator Clyde R. Hoey.)
5> Thirty striking miners at St
Mary’s, Pa., were facing a date
with their draft board.
6) Two Spokane, Wash., GI
overseas veterans of Japanese-
American descent, had been de
clined membership in their home
VFW post. Three Michigan Vf’W
posts had said, "Come on with
us.”
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A cartoon by Pfc. Tom Gray,
staff artist, showed helmet^
servicemen at a movie, the screen
showing "The End”. 'The caption
read, "Let’s get goin’ — we hafta
police Japan on the way back.”
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Indicative of the suspicion and
enmity war produces, Stars and
Stripes headlined a Washingtoa
Vssociated Press dispatch "Guide
to Japan Warns Troops Against
Nips, Including Women”. The
advice against fraternization, "rs-
jardless of sex”, was confined
in a "Pocket Guide to Japan’’ to
■je di.stributed to occupation
orces. Subsequent historv indi
cates the occupiers paid little at
tention to the brasshats In
Washington.
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A story headlined "GI Cussl"
Just Comes Natural” is hardly
reproducible in this family inst
ution of light and learning. The
ead will be sufficient. Pfc. Leor
Flynn, another staff man wrote,
‘BNerybody is afraid of going
'tome and at the dinner table
xsking for “the butter” or
“the bread.”
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There was a picture page on
titled the "Scenery in Japan, anr"
three comic cartoon panels were
carried. They were “Thimble
Theatre”, featuring the great
Popeye, "Donald Duck”, and
"Dick Tracy”.
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Scene 20 years later: Senator
Knowland, defeated for the Sen
ate. Is an Oakland, California,
newspaper publisher, Jim Roose
velt is mayor of Miami Beach,
Fla., Earl Warren is Supere Cr-
chief justice, Popeye, Donald
Duck and Dick Tracy are still In
’ business. Joe McDaniel is an
' .Vmerican Legion district com
mander, and the cussin’ GI’s
have learned, more or less, to use
j decorous vocabulary in polite
I cafe societyi
ed a bill to preserve 11,292 acres
of duneland along Lake Michi
gan as a national lakeshDi'e. This
compromise measure slipped
through the Senate without op-
position_ On the House side the
bill is still in subcommittee, and
no hearings have been held.
This bill has become an in
tegral part of the movement to
preserve the natural beauty of
America. The country’s increas
lew reserves amounting to more
lian S.5 million set a ude for fu
nic [i.nyr.-’n’.s to policyowner.s,
Ueiicfils paid to families and
cm fiiiarir-i of policyholders
tnd to living poiicyltolders total-
•>(1 $7 .3, 4 m’llion in .six months.
More than o-'.'l:).) nrw insurance
.olirifs were ii?ued in the per-
od, aci-ord ng to .Mr. Hipp, with
„ ..... I )voce sing and delivery -:>f po*-
demning him as a threat to their I oirijspn explained in those ,, or lOO per day
cause. One of the literary dicta- | words: "First, we raise expondi- I'lic net gain in
tors of Communist China. Lan ' ^ures and then we discover^that volume for the
The whole world has acknow
ledged. its debt to Shakespeare,
but it has remained for the Co.m-
munlst Chinese to pay him the
greatest tribute of all by con-
CONGRESS IS
COMPELLED
Congress, with a minimum ol
debate, has raised the national
debt limit to the staggering fig
ure of $328 billion. It did this be
cause there was no choice.
Whv was that so? Senator
111 i-apiial and .'■Lirplus was in-
■rea-id to $'!7.II7!I.911. including
Shao cheng, has declared that j have run out of money. Tlien
unless the Chinese suppress this I ^e have to lift the debt txdling.!
poet, he may undo their propa- j After a while we spend more of
gancia. He must be "solemnly ex- what we do not liave and then
posed and criticized,” says Lan ] we raise the ceiling again.
Shao-cheng, for "his writings ! Having unburdened my soul
could produce a negative effect
on our revolutionary task."
The Western world probably
ing hordes of urban dwellers are never suspected that the writings
coming to place a greater pre
mium upon streams, mountains,
lakes, forests, dunes, seashore
and other areas of natural beau
ty. Their yearning for open space
and the charm of an uncluttered
landscape accounts in large mea
sure for the popularity of the
Johnson Administration’s beauti
fication program.
Congress ought to realize that
every dollar invested in retreats
of this kind will multiply in
value as the population of the
country increases. The question
is not merely one of selecting a
few areas of extraordinary beau
ty, novelty or historic interest.
Rather, it is one of mobilizing
our groat national potential for
outdoor recreation in the long-
range future. The one thing cer
tain is that Congress has not
done enough to preserve our
natural heritage. In our view the
House should hasten to match
the Senate’s action is regard to
the dunelands so that attention
may be turned to various other
conservation projects no less
worthy.
The Washington Post
•PIG TALK' IN
OUR LANGUAGE
Just about everyone has heard
pig Latin. But probably few
rf us realize how much
alk" there is in everyday
;uage.
The American Meat Institute
las assembled a lengthy list of
Xilorful words and phrases that
pay tribute, in a .manner of
speaking, to the hog. Here are
tome of them:
“Eating high off the hog” —
in old expression stemming from
the most desirable cuts come
irom the upper section of the
mimals.
of Shakespeare carried so much
high explosive, but clearly Lan
Shao-cheng fears the cal.-n wis
dom of the poet. Shakespeare’s
humanity has always ceen an
antidote of fanaticism; few can
read Shakespeare without hav
ing their doctrinaire bigotry
shaken. Furthermore, Shakes
peare had a sense of humor, a
quality notably lacking in Lan
Shao-cheng and his hrethern.
But perhaps the Chines^ Com
munists’ grudge against Shakes
peare is just amther evidence of
their disagreement with Russia.
For in Russia, Shakespeare is
one of the most popular poets
and dramatists. Performances of
Shakespeare can be seen in
towns ail over Ru.ssia; transla
tions of Shakespeare into Rus
sian are common; and Russian
scholars are busy studying the
poet, not ta make him out a
Marxist, but to elucidate the
beauty and wisdom of the dra
matist for the appreciation of
the Russian people. Obvioaisly
he Russians do not fear that
Shakespeare is going to have a
‘negative effect” on their way
of life.
Since Lan Shao eheng assures
IS that Shal:e.:peare may curb
he revolutionary aspects of Chi
nese fanaticism, we have a sug
gestion for the Chinese counter
revolutionaries. Last year Tai
wan published a 20-volume set of
Shakespeare, translated into Chi
nese by Liang Shih ehiu. Why
not smuggle quantities of this
langerous work onto the main
land? The volumes might be
Iropped at night upon cnsuspect-
'ng t:l^vns and villages fro.T
those high-flying planes that Pe
king complains about. Let the
'ommunes and workers start
•cading Shakespeare Perhaps in
•ime the Communist Chinese
might learn'to live in amity with
the rest of the world. That in-
feed would be to subvert Lan
Shao ■ Cheng’s “revolutionary
task.”
' The Washington Post
my soul, I
ask: What shall we do when the
paymaster of tliis country says,
•You must raise the debt extiling
so that I shall not have to .send
back or hold any cheeks or re
pudiate the legitimate bills of
this Republic. . . .’
"I find myself compelled into
a position in which 1 shall have! o™' growth t i .rinc,
.n v-otVfor it” I Hisiness expansion during
Only R Congress shows a far 1 'emainder of 1965 that will
i^reater restraint in its appropri- , - . *u r-m
.xtions than has been the case j decades of htusm^s with the f.^.
can further increases in the debt, est year in history.
along with more inflation-breed- 1 J''ia
be prevent-I states, the Distiict of Colum .ia
tiist half of the year was
tver the .same period for 196-f.
Net income for l iberty Life
amounted to $1,8.59 3,35 for the
’irst six month.? of 1935, equal
o 45 cents per share on the
l.lZo.tKM) capital shares outstand-
n r at June 30. 1965. The com
jarahle figure for 19G4 was
31.166,735. or 40 tx>nts per share
on eiirrenlh- outstanding shares.
Mr. Hipp slated that Liberty's
-nanagement "foresees continued
incorres and
the
ible Liberty Lite to complete
Ing annual deficits.
ed. — The Lincoln Times.
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"Bring home the bacon" — a
taying that probably came from
he custom of awarding the pig
o the winner of a groased-pi.?
■base.
"A pig in a poke” - this came
:rom an old confidence game
where a buyer who thought he
was getting a pig in a bag got a
.-at instead.
Calling an actor a "ham” is
bought to have originated from
ictor*’ use of ham for removing
nake-up.
"No ham and all horriny” —
his sad observation is the equiv-
ilent of no pay and all work.
10
YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
rtems of news about King
Vountain area people -nt
wents taken from the P.’S
files of the Kings Hiountaii
Herald.
So it goes, down a list that in
cludes "hog-leg,” "ham pilot,"
'sand hog,” "hog wash,” “in a
The curtain fell on "The
Sword of Gideon” Saturday night
as the Kings Mountain Little
Fheatre completed its fifth sea-
•?3n of presenting a attic drama
commemorating the Battle of
Kings Mountain.
Macedonia Baptist church will
break ground Sunday on a new
church plant.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Miss Betty Jane Hovis of Gas-
pig’s eye.” and the rest. The hog j tonia and Alvin Lindbergh Dixon
s more than the center of a | of Kings Mountain exchanged
jood meal—he has made notable ; marriage vows Saturday evening
contributions to tlie language. I at 8 o’clock in. Gastonia’s Loray
Ahoskie Herald 1 Baptist ctiurctk
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