The Kings Mountain Herald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, 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. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Gary Stewart Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Lynda Watterson Clerk-Kcporter MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Jerry Hope Dave Weathers Allen .Myers Paul Jackson Steve Ramsey SUBSCRIPTIONS RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR .. $3:50 SIX MONTHS .. .$2.00 THREE MONTHS .. $1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Honour tlio iMid with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase. Proverbs LBI Soys MOVE! Kings Mountain school officials, along with majority of others in North and South Carolina (188 school di.s- tricts) must have been pleased, as well as relieved, with President Lyndon Johnson’s instructions on Monday to the Office of Education. Evidently someone finally got up stairs to the President to inform him of the "maybe yes, maybe no” dilatory op erations'of the federal office of educa tion on the business of approving pupil assignment plans designed to meet both letter and spirit of the 1964 civil rights act which provided that federal funds be withheld from school districts not com plying with the act. Kings Mountain school district nev er had any intention other than to com ply with the act, but surmounting the bureaucratic red tape thus far has prov ed insurmountable. Sample is the Office of Education’s initial action, informing the Kings Mountain board its plan was “not ap proved”. Telephonic inquiry brought the dipsy-doodle reply that the communique did not mean the plan was disapproved, merely not approved. What did that mean? More telephone calls failed to pro duce any definitive reason Kings Moun tain plan, modeled after the approved Craven County plan was not kosher. There followed trips to Raleigh, more telephone calls, and, from the Washing ton folk, more suggestions “that might or might not make the plan acceptable”. The Herald, in an effort to convey the news of the situation to its readers, also used the telephone lines to Washington, only to receive the same frustrating and angering run-around. If the umpiring Office of Education couldn’t call the signals, who could? The news account of President Johnson’s plain memo related that the Office of Education had been working seven-day weeks, which appears from results to be a clear waste of overtime pay. It is anticipated some clerk in the Office of Education will now dust off the “APPROVED” stamp, get a fresh ink pad, and start stamping, as he should have when majority of the assignment plans first reached Washington weeks ago. Like Father.... Though an election is held annual ly, the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association, like many other organiza tions, starts its future presidents up the ladder at the point of lower echelon vice-presidencies. A few seasons ago, when he was nominated for one of these lower eche lon positions, Charles D. Blanton, Jr., deprecated, “I believe I’m the guy who’s supposed to lose.” Lose he did not. In the natural course of subsequent events, the Kings Mountain pharmacist has been voted by his fellow pharmacists of the state president-elect of the state association for 1966-67. As a top student in the University of North Carolina School of Pharmacy, topman on the state board examina tions, and, perhaps more important, a progressive pharmacist and pharmaceu tical merchant, Charles D. Blanton, Jr., has the background and qualities to serve well his state as.sociation. It must be particularly pleasing to him that he will be following in the foot steps of his late father as president, North Carolina Pharmaceutical Asso ciation. By MARTIN HARMON Kings Mountain, noted at least by the homefolk as a conii.nunity of "eharactei's", acquired anoth er in mid-summer 1951 when Dr. William P. Gerberding arrived to assume the ministry of St. Matthew’s Lutheran church. Kings Mountain’s oldest, dating from 1875. m-ni A native North Dakotan, son of a Lutheran minister, this gray-headed but youthful and pixieish man of the cloth had long pastoral experience, largely in the Mid-West and his thinking was, at times, different and therefore at variance with that of his parishioners and other neighbors. m-m Though not my pastor, he be came quickly one of my best friends, which could be said, and has been, by his many friends of other denominations. m-m Dr. Gerberding was a sports merits for the physical facilities indus- j try requires (water, power, gas, raii andi . . , high,™, needs), will take .he guesswork 1 S out of the area s industi y-seekirig effort., gj,g,.gy heped his age. Furniture- Vice-presidents and engineers who make | Hutoert McGinnis remarks, location tours are in a hurry. They have little time to spend at any one prospec tive site. Where the questions of site, water service, etc., are “iffy” and “may be”, the location engineers, if their 1 Braves and mid-Western college "He could walk you to death on the golf course.” m-m He adored the Milwaukee firms are not of the fly-by-night variety, pass on, meantime crossing the “iffy” site off the prospect list. Other side of the coin is formation of a mayorai industry-seeking commit- football, Minnesota being a par ticular favorite. m-m One of my most pleasant mem ories is a football jaunt to Cha pel Hill in 1906, with Dr. Ger-- tee, headed by Harold Phillips, with this j ®Ilie Harris, Jr., and I ’ . ao criiottfc nf Ollio tViik olHnt* trt committee’s principal assignment ob taining of prospects. Mr. Phillips is ideally equipped for the chairman’s role. A former city com missioner (1953-55), he is knowledge able of government, progressive in spirit. His role as a salesman carries him to many places and thereby pro vides many contacts with firms interest ed in expansion. Owners of the Industrial park have as guests of Dllie, the elder, to see the Notre Daime-UNC game. The conversation was bright. The World Series was underway, too, and Dr. Gerberding was heartily and heavily partisan to the National League’s Pittsburgh champions as next best to Mil waukee and he was counting on the Pirates to knock off his hat ed Yankees But that day wasn’t a good one for Dr. Gerberding. Whitey Ford was in process of breaking Babe Ruth’s World provided a non-profit corporation a five- ! Series consecutive scoreless in year option on a 400-acre tract and J. E. Herndon Company, rebuilding after a fire, will be the tract’s first industrial resident. With several prospects already in terested in locating here, it is reasonable to assume that the Herndon Company will acquire neighbors in the not-too- distant future. • Shave and Haircut .Several folk sought to enter a local barber shop Wednesday morning but found the door locked. A sign read, “Closed All Day Wed nesday”. The decision of the barbers to join the five-day week brigade (withal not two off-days together) followed by only a fortnight decision of the barbers to increase their tariffs — an action in it self that always brings the barbers in for scathing criticism from their patrons who vow they’ll stretch the days be tween tonsorial treatments. Some even threaten to purchase clippers, get a I bowl, and put barbering in the do-it- yourself category. In 99.9 percent of the instances, the threats never materialize as getting the complaints off the chest by bombast prove sufficient. But the maies are loud in their com- piaints on the all-day closings, indicat ing they feel the barbers are adding in sult to injury through the juxta-position of upping prices then rendering less service. One irate male charged, “The bar ber’s union has gone too far!” Though no check has been made, it is a safe guess that barbers per 1,000 popuiation today are iess numerous than in the Great Depression. With the NRA, barbers failed to stagger schedules and sent the shaving business to Gillette and Remington. The bootblack’s chair in majority of local barber shops is either non existent or an unu.sed heir loom. Never have the local barbers pro vided tired maies a petite blonde mani curist. And, of course, with 6 p.m. Saturday closing hours, the barber shop quartet can be heard only occasionally and then ' via the video boob tube in the confining confines of home living room. Sweet Ad-o-line, wherefore art thou! ning record and Mickey Mantle and company were unloading on the Pirates to the tune of about 10-0, if my memoiy is right. But the Pirates came through for him before it ended in the sev enth game. m-m In contrast to the traditional Southerner, Dr. Geriberding was a Republican and proud of it, and the banter between us during political seasons, if friendly, was intense and direct. m-m During the I960 campaign, my wife had a small-scale crisis. She had arranged a program for her book club several weeks in ad vance of the date. About five hours before meeting time, the speaker’s wife called to .say her husband had gone to New York on business and that she had just leaimed he couldn’t complete it in time to fill that afternoon’s 3:30 speaking engagement. What could my wife do? I suggested I that she ask Dr. Gerberding to ' pinCh-hit, with full confidence that he. as well as any and much better than most, could fill the bill on short notice. m-m Anne called. Dr. Gerberding said he would be glad to accom modate her. Then he warned: “You being a good Democrat, you might not like what I say, I ra ther suspect I’ll talk on politics.” Greatly relieved, Anne laughed, "Don’t you dare!” m-m Doc did dare, Just short of telling the good ladies to drop in a ballot for Dick Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Dr. Gerber ding delivered a slam-bang Re publican campaign speech and in addition brought along several books concerning the subject which he invited the book club members to carry home for per usal. m-m His friendships transcended all ages, whether his own, like his friend Fuller McGill, William Plonk, Moffatt Ware and Glenn While, or teen-agers. m-m As most strong-minded per- ■sons are. Dr. Gerberding was Industrial Development Kings Mountain and the surround ing area has been in the industry-want ing section for many, many years. Since 1957, it has been actively in the indus try-seeking division, if on relatively small scale, and has recorded some suc cess through the activities and hard work of Kings Mountain Business De velopment, Inc., and the Kings Mountain Chamber of Commerce. ■With last week’s developments, the Kings Mountain area moved to a higher classification in the industry-seeking league. Formation of an industrial park, WiUi stated prices for s^es and arrange* hp/A tnr A v/ieiT u/»m nic nrnmmrt ann nrnmr rmarivmx Battle Celebration After years of community comment that Kings Mountain should “do some thing” about annually celebrating the Battle of Kings Mountain, Kings Moun tain Little Theatre produced a battle drama. Out of the resort district. Kings Mountain could not afford a paid cast and, eventually, the volunteer found the demands of a summer’s acting too much to continue. In 1963, the Merchants Association launched Mountaineer Days, relating the promotion to the battle anniversary. This year, the city joins the fray, with plans to resume the patterns of by- Viewpoints of Other Editors .sometimes paradoxical. Most ecumenical in his personal rela tionships, he was a ritualist in his diurch. He demanded that weddings be conducted in accord with church tenets and ho dis favored the teaching of Bible in the public schools, largely on grounds some teachers tended to transcend the missionary field in behalf of the teachers’ particu lar denominational faiths. He was a minority of one in the min isterial association on the ques- netnrsUkxi of operating movie houses ‘ ' on Sunday, later took leave of absence from that body when a fellow member got through a motion to outlaw smoking at mini.steiial association meetings. "It was aimed at me,” he re mark. “The others don’t smoke.” m-m All men of the cloth are not gone years in bringing to Kings Moun-1 . „ ., * ^ • u ... tain a national personage. The invitee:!“'’I® Whether or not Mr. Humphrey accepts! mmmunlly .nd I never (we nave high hopes he docs), a visitor I beard him from the platform, Oi nation-wide prominence is promiseda ' wbetber senuMiv alter • tunnar MUST MERCY WAIT? I The public should inquire why | hearings are so long delayed on identical bills S. 1071 and H.R. 5647. These bills, aimed at se curing more humane treatment for laboratory animals, have languished in committee ever since their introduction early this year. Introduced by Sen. Joseph S. Clark and Rep. James C. Cleveland, they are now the only adequate bills of their kind in committee. Rep. Claude Pep per having withdrawn his for mer adequate bill and having transferred his sponsorship to a weak one. No bill on this subject can considered adequate unless it provides for til unannounced in spection, 12) individual licensing, (3) pain limitation, (4) humane, care and housing, (5) restrictions on student work as distinct from work by qualified scientists, (6) obligatopr record-keeping. Hu- manitau-ians should not allow themselves to be misled by the spate of weak bills now flooding Congress. Sen. Lister Hill or Rep. Oren Harris, chairmen of the com mittees involved, could at any time institute hearings on S. 1071 or H.R. 5647. Why the delay? Also, recent proven cases of traffic in stolen pets have given rise to two more bills, H. R. 9743 and S. 2322, which would require all dog and cat dealers and labor atories purchasing from them to be licensed by the Department of Agriculture. Both theft and mis treatment of these animals would be a federal offense. Hearings on these bills also should be called at once by the chairmen of the committees involved. Rep. Har old Cooley and Sen. Warren G. Magnuson. The cause of mercy has al ready waited too long. The Christian Science Monitor . . . AND THREE BABY PLOVERS For a ibrigh'“r, cheerier note in the day’s news, we think we’ve found just the thing. We have no hesitation in recommending a news exclusive known as the Voice of Audubon. One doesn’t flip on ra111)