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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Thursday, November I!, 1965
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Established 1888
The Kings Mountain Herald
*, new’Epnpor devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for tne eniightennic.t, snsertalnment 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., 280t6
under Act of Congress of March 3,1873.
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TODArS BIBLE VERSE
The fear of nuin bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord sluai be »af^.
Proverbs 30:2S.
Responsive Cord
As anticipated, the citizens of North
Carolina resoundingly approved the pro
posal to issue $300 million in revenue
bonds for improving North Carolina s
roads.
Only two of the state’s 100 coun
ties — Franklin and Greene — opposed
the proposal. In Franklin, activity of the
Ku Klux Klan, which opposed the issue
on organization basis, was credited with
the “nay” vote. In Greene, a local issue
was involved, tied in with re-apportion
ment, the analyzers reasoned.
The total result is a reminder that
the citizens of North Carolina have been
on record for many years as avid sup
porters of two major fields of govern
mental operations: roads and secondary
schools.
North Carolina has been education-
minded since 1901, with Governor
Charles B. Aycock leading the way. Gov
ernor Cameron Morrison, with his pro
gram of hard-surfaced roads linking the
100 county seats, lead the way for good
roads in 1921.
Few doubt that the one-cent Mr
gallon gasoline tax will meet the $300
million retii’ement and interest costs in
less than the anticipated time of 18
years. The one-cent tax, levied to amor
tize the $200 Scott bonds of 1949 for sec
ondary roads, was deemed sufficient to
do the job in 20 years. Yet the money is
already in hand to amortize the issue,
well ahead of schedule.
With a growing auto, truck, and
cycle population, gas usage and gas tax
revenues continue to escalate.
This $300 million investment, while,
as traffic grows, will not prove suffici
ent, will prove nevertheless another of
the state’s better long-term investments.
Education Week
The nation is more education-con
scious today than ev’er before, as evi
denced by recent appropriations of the
United States Congress to provide funds
for new and broader fields of training.
Educational activities are not new
to the federal government, as many of
the nation’s leading universities began
as federally-supported land-grant col
leges. However, the trend toward sup
port of secondary school programs and
projects continues to grow — this year
by greater leaps and bounds.
Vocational education support is a
long-time supported federal program, as
is the school lunchroom program. Then,
when Russia fired Sputnik I, pulled-up-
short USA provided funds for broader
instruction in the sciences. The 1965 ap
propriations provide funds for special
training for children of poor families.
Many decry the expansion of Uncle
Sam’s educational support, as harbinger
of increasing federal control of schools
and as bad policy educationally and
monetarily.
Regardless of philosophical bias, the
expansion is here and school adminis
trators and teachers should do their best
to utilize these extra appropriations in
best possible manner.
Crying need in this school system
is further expansion of vocational train
ing, in view of the fact that only 28 per
cent of last year’s graduates enrolled in
college.
Supply names and addresse.s of over
seas servicemen and peace corpsmen to
the Rotary Club.
Best bows to William Anthony
Goins, of ASTC, named to Who’s Who
in American Colleges and Universities,
and to Marsh Ronald Campbell, of A &
T, named to the Greensboro inteiracial
council.
SpecdcM Baa Sessieti
The North Carolina General As
sembly, on call of Uic Governor, con
venes Monday in special session for the
particular purpose of acting on the rec
ommendation of a special gubernatorial
commission which studied the.Riuch-
argued, emotionally sdper - Charged,
speaker ban law enacted in the closing
hours of the 1963 General Assembly.
The commission, after exhaustive
hearings, recotftmends amendment of
the 1963 law to return policy Of State-
supported colleges and universities to
the menage of the respective boards of
trustees. The so-called speaker law re
moved from trustee-control power over
visiting speakers on campuses of state-
supported schools of higher education.
This law has brou^t a threat of
dis-accreditation of the University Of
North Caroima which has alarmed alulh-
ni in North Carolina and the world Over,
as well as those who believe in free in
terchange of ideas, pleaSant and/or re
pugnant, as a key to learning.
From the standpoint of the Univer
sity, the ill winds of the speaker ban rule
brought this considerable benefit: the
investigative commission, In Its report,
labeled as a canard of highest M'der con
tentions of many that the University,
most particularly the Chapel Hill
branch, was a long-standing hot-bed of
communism. The speaker ban commis
sion found "not so”, as .follows: . :
"A careful review of this testimony
indicates that these statements and al
legations were directed primarily, at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel
ItUl, covering the period from 1937 to
1965. This testimony discloses that In
more than a quarter of a century fewer
than a dozen speakers from among the
thousands who have appeared . during
these years were specifically mentioned
as extremists and not all of these were
alleged to be communists. Among stu
dents, not more than five were singled
out from among the more than 40,000
who have graduated from the Chapel
Hill campus over this span of time.
"The testimony shows that the Uni
versity would not knowingly employ a
member of the Communist Party in any
capacity, and direct testimony by its of
ficers indicates that no such person is
employed. No evidence to the contrary
was presented to, disclosed to, or dis
covered by the Commission. We also
note that all members of the faculty and
staff have formally affirmed their allegi
ance to the Constitutions of the United
States and the State of North Caro
lina ”
This newspaper opposed this abridg
ment of the freedom of speech and
thought when it was enacted, sought its
amendment by the 1965 General As
sembly, and anticipates with pleasure
amendment of this odious, ill-conceived
law in the special General Assembly ses
sion beginning Monday.
Jonas Vs. Whitener?
Most anticipate that a federal dis
trict court panel will rule shortly after
November ?A that North Carolina’s Gen
eral Assembly must re-district the fed
eral House of Representatives districts
and the state House of Representatives
into districts to conform with the Su
preme Court’s one-man, one-vote edict.
Already, state Representative Ar
thur Goodman, of Charlotte, has a re-
districting plan ready for the federal
House, in which populous Mecklenburg
county would no longer be in the district
of Charles R. Jonas, dean of the Repub
lican delegation in the House. Mr. Good
man would move Mr. Jonas’ home coun
ty of Lincoln into Rep. Basil L. White-
ner’s district.
Whether such a narrangement will
obtain awaits 1) the court panel’s deci
sion and 2) legislative implementation
at an indicated special session.
Asked what he would do if the op-
po.sition-dominafcd General Assembly
relieved him of Mecklenburg County
(which provided his victory margin in
1964), Rep. Jonas replied he would move
to Mecklenburg. Was he serious?
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loisdam, humor, and comments
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By MARTIN HARMON
How could such a mUimpres-
sl^ be«n obtained?
A March of the memory box
regaled only one clue on the
Morgan position, in a resume of
the session, Mr. Palmer had re
lied to support of the bill by
Senator Morgan. Undoubtedly,
he aaid Senator Robert B. Mor
gan, hardly Cleveland’s Robert
F. Morgan. Robert B. Morgan, of
Harnett, was a supporter in '63
and continued to be during the
’65 session.
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'Where I’d missed on Jack’s
own position 1 haven’t been able
to fi^te.
,t>r. Heed had asked Cleveland’s
lorgan whether his position had
changed on the speaker ban bill.
The reply was that he continued
hie initial opposition.
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Approved by an Old Schoolmasfer
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Newspaper folk conelder them
selves, like Jack Webb, the de
tective in "Dragnet”, as experts
in getting ’’the facts. Just the
facts”.
Yet they, too, make triTors.
many derived from the cardinal
sin of assumption (thinking they
know when they don’t), as well
as from mislmpresslons and mis
understandings.
SO THIS IS \*y
KEW YOnK
By north CALL.4HAN
"New York City is the busiest,
' most proeluejive, most (lynsmic,
!most cultjrecl, most sjcially
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Thus I was surprised recently
at the Lions club, when Speaker
Robert F. Morgan, the former
state senator, replied to a ques
tion of Dr. Nathan H. Reed, that
he had opposed the speaker ban
law in the waning hourt of the
1963 General Assembly iuid was
one of nine senators on record
against the bill.
Flor more than two years, I
had been under the mislmpres-
stoh that then-Senator Morgan
had supported the bill, a misim-
pfedslbn shkred by Dr. Reed. All
the while, Td also held the mis-
impression that then-Represen-
taUve Jack Palmer had opposed.
In fact, said Jack, he had sup
ported the bill, though in the
Hfhise there was merely an
“4yie” and "nay” vote, without
tlje votes being individually re
corded.
most cultJivcl, most sjcially
minded, mo.<it progressive, best
known and most fj-equenlly visit
ed city in the world.” These are
not the words of tile chambn- of
commerce or of a man running
lor oflice in this city. They were
uttered by Mayor Robert Wag
ner, who is soon to be replaced
by the new chief executive of the
city. They arc strong word.s but
they are provocative. There is
enough tiuth in them to make
one pause and ponder. In my
opinion, one of the best things a-
bout the city is being able to get
away from it once in awhile;
but it is truly wondrous in many
ways. Perhaps I lived too long
in the country and in smaller
town.s to feel toward Nesv York
as Bob Wagner does. For me,
the most fitting expression fta it
is “a wonderful place to visit.’’
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As far as travel is concerned,
it is m\v a ,?0 billion dollar a
year industry in the United
State.s, but many Americans st^L
stay at home. According to rel^A
ble figures, last year over PW
million neople took no trip any
where. Eight out of ten .Ameri
cans have never been on an air
plane. Six out of ten have nevtm
.?pcnt the n:;ht in a hotel or mo
tel And half the oopulati-on has
never been more than 200 miles
from home.
Viewpoints oi Other Editors
WAS A FAR-REACHING
CONGRESS
There’s little doubt the first
session of the 89th Congress will
go down in history alon.g With
Roosevelt’s first session as one
of the most far-reaching in the
nation’s history.
CHEER BY POSTAGE
STAMPS
WAR BETWEEN
THE SEXES
In output, the first session was
unusually productive and new
social welfare legislation passed
may have a greater effect on the
life of U. S. Citizens and the eco
nomy than that of any other ses
sion since 1833.
The Post Office Department
has apparently been giving
thought of late to the good things
in the American heritage. This is
Imlicated in its annoance.ment of
the subjects it has Chosen for
tile speetal stamps it will issue
next year.
Two defeats which irritated
president Lyndon Johnson were
the refusal- of Congress-- at the
last minute—to vote funds for
rent subsidies and the refusal to
repeal section 14-B of the Taft-
Hartley labor law. But in the
field of civil rights, immigration,
education, housing, health tegk-
lation, fami and urban life le
gislation, and in other fields, the
President got most of what he
wanted.
For example, one of the
stanips commemorates Johnny
Appleseed, the simple pioneer
wanderer who plant^ fruit-bear
ing trees for others to enjoy.
Johnny was the predecessor of
the vast army of volunteer work
ers in good causes who carry out
the Appleseed idea today in the
United States.
Like most people, we get con
siderable amusement from witty
and sharp debate about wheiher
women are as good as men, etc.
Such an exchange, involving
Randolph Churchill — the late
Sir Winston’s son—has been run
niag through recent numbers of
the British weekly. The Specta
tor. Whaf pleased us most about
this particular exchange was tlie
way in which two women cor
respondents have stood up to Mr.
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The Salvation Army which is
observing its 100th anniversary
rc.Tinds me of what Thomas
?ainc said aboiu -Inhn .Adams:
"the co'.intry loves and honors
him because he loves .and honors
his country." ’Phe same ran Ik*
said far the .Salvation Army. In
'he opinion of most people I
know, it is the most esteemed or
ganization of its kind. ’Tliere is
a kindness, a humilit.v, a deelica-
tion and honesty about the .Sal
vation Army to be found no
where else. Much of its great
work goes utisung becau.se little
is said .about it by those .so en
gaged. It has the respect of all
classes and is probably the most
Churchill’s banter and have re- effective church in the world tm
fused to be cowed by him
To the same question, ex-Rep-
resentative Palmer said, were he
still in the General Assembly, he
would support amendment, as
has now been recommended by
a gubernatorial study commis
sion. Mr. Palmer said he felt the
law had served its purpose. He
added he supported it because he
shared the feelings of the major
ity of his ’63 confreres that some
university administrators sought
to be something of a law unto
themselves without proper re
gard for feelings ad opinions of
the members of the General As
sembly who 1) provided appro
priations and 2) were elect^ by
the people.
There are differences of opin
ion on the question of the im
mediate economic outlook for the
nation Most experts think the
future' bright. Tax collections
have increased as taxes have
been reduced.
As for Congress itself, tradi
tional critics have been moved to
praise the session as proof Con
gress can respond to the needs
of a highly industrialized mod
ern society.
The one certain prospect for
1966 is that there will be less le
gislation passed in that second
session and, probably, less of an
inclination on the part of Con
gress to give the President what
he insists upon.
The Herald, Ahoskie
Other stamps will commemo
rate Indiana statehood; humane
treatment of animals! the Na
tional park Bendce; Mary Cas
satt, the American artist accept
ed as a member of the French
Impressionist group who painted
lovely mother-and-chlld studies,
and so on.
These women are obviously
what some stuffier men woul<l
call "feminists.” They refused to
indicate in signing letters whe
ther they were "Mrs.” or “Miss."
THE NAME GAME
I was happy to call Cleveland’s
Morgan to apologize for mental
ly-maligning him for two-plus
years.
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It is good business to bring
persons of all areas of thought
to school campuses, A condition
of those who graced public plat
forms at the Chapel Hill 'branch
of the University and we take it
at all other state - supported
schools) was/is that the speaker
submit to questions following his
address.
Meantime, the death of Rep. Herbert
Bonner, veteran representative who
served tho state’.s smallest district (pop-
ulation--wi.se) should make the task of
re-carving the East’s less populous dis
trict’s easier.
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Harry Gatton, native of Har
mony in Iredell county and now
executive secretary of the North
Carolina Bankers association,
was chairman of the UNC Caro
lina Political Union in 1939-10.
This organization brought to the
campus for addresses eminent
persons quite widely apart in
both political and economic spec
tra. Harry recalls that only two
speakers that year failed to meet
the forum requirement. The late
Tom Girdler, quite conservative
president of Republic Steel Cor
poration, flatly refused to sub
mit to questions. The late Doro
thy Thompson Lewis, newspaper
columnist expert in the interna
tional field and onetime wife of
the novelist Sinclair Lewis, Was
angered by Question from-Audi-
ence 3, and exercised her femi
nine prerogative by walking off
stage.
Miss Thompson was clad in
stately black evening gown, and
was presented by then-President
Frank P. Graham, neatly attired
in dinner jacket. Before going
to the rostrum. Ml.'ss Thompson
ostentatiously put fingers to lips
and stuck her chewing gum on
the bade of the seat.
■We look forward eagerly to
1966 when a purchase at the
sta.xp window of our post office
will give us such pleasant Amer
icana.
The Christian Science Monitor
TRUCK DRIVER?
It is a great help to a project
these days to be launched under
a bright, challenging name such
as VISTA. CARE, SPACE. FIRE,
JOBS. The name sounds a call to
action or defines a function in
one short word, easy to say.
But to find these names isn’t
so easy as one might think. Ac
cording to the rules of the game,
you have to get a much longer
title for your organization — a
proper, old-fashioned name?—and
then take the initials of the
words in the title and use them
to make the catchy short one.
The original name can then be
discarded Nobody will ronember
it an.vway. Who recalls that VIS
TA stands for Volunteers in
Service to America? Or that
JOBS evolved from Jetj Oppor
tunities for Better Skills? Or
that a project called FIRE is ac
tually entitled Funds for the Im
plementation 0 f Recommenda
tions for Education?
But sometime^s it takes much
effort to find a lengthy title to
oroduce, from its initials, the
short name desired. The next
logical step is to adopt a one-
word naime that doesn’t stand for
anything. We are told that the
civil-rights organizati-on. ACT,
took this bold steo. No one seems
to know what ACT stands for.
And now comes announcement of
a new anti-poverty proiect on-
couragingl.v call^ ENABLE,
with no hint about the word’s
origin.
'liiis is fine. It marks a labor-
saving trend. It means that if
sponsors of a new foreign-aid
nroicct want to call their group
■ZCXIMBIE. for example, they can
do it right off. They won’t have to
work strenuously to come tui
with a title -such as Zlllons On
One More Brave Internationa] j
Effort in order to provide the |
needed initials.
Should you raise your son to
be a truck driver? Most people
would probably say no. After all,
a truck driver is a ... roughneck
who only shaves on hlidays, isn’t
he? Anybody who’s ever watched
-old movies on television knows
that. And movies, as you are
well aware, are always complete
ly realistic and true to life.
Well, it’s time to explode that
myth. Because the truth of the
matter is that most truck drivers
would have a hard time living up
to that image, even if they want
ed to. For one thing, their wives
wouldn’t let them. Or their
bosses, either.
Truck driving is a responsible
job and requires a responsible
man. And anyone who doesn’t
fill the bill has no business be
ing behind the wheel of a truck.
Trucks cost a lot of money. Sa
do the goods they carry. (A
trailer truck and load together
can be worth as much as $250,-
000.) And a driver has to haul
that load from one end of the
country to another. Safely. On
time. In good condition.
It takes a good man to do it.
Which is one of the reasons a
truck driver makes the kind of
money he does ($10,000 to $12,000
for long-haul drivers; $7,000 to
$9,000 for city drivers).
So If .your son grows up to be
a truck driver, you can feel pret
ty proud of yourself. For raising
a real man. — American Truck
ing Associatum Foundations, Inc.
10
YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
Items of news about King
Mountain area people am
events taken from the 195
files of the Kings Mountait
Herald.
Construction of a nirw build
ing for the Kings Mountain
Herald is expected to begin this
weekend, followi-ng letting of
general and plumbing contracts
early this week.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Baxter R. Smith observed his
72nd birthday last Tuesday.
The Junior Woman’s clu''
heard a program on interior
TTiis was enough for Mr. Chur
chill to set about teasing thom-
but not before he had-'-sought to
tear one of them apart for sug
gesting that if men "curbed their
outdated conception of the fe- i
male of the species, future man- '
imposed atrocities, Watcrlnos, i
first and second world wars and ^
other real tragedies might be a-
voided.” What about Boadicea
asked Mr. Churchill. And Joan
of Arc, Blorid.v Mary, Elizabetli
I. Maria Theresa, Catherine the
Great, Queen Victoria, and even
Elizabeth H, “under whom Mau
Mau was suppressed, Makarios
incarcerated and the Suez oper
ation launched"?
One of the two women letter-
writers--neither of whom wa.s
willing to let her formidable
challenger get away with an.v-
thing—was certainly right in des
cribing his barrage as "a fusil
lade of heavy artillery.”
But none of he shots fell with
such accuracy and—wc» submit
devastating efficacy as one of
her own .salvos. .She wrote: "Ran
dolph S. Churchiil suggest.a that
only women who deny their fem
ininity can live full intellectual
and professional lives. Mv argu
ment is that it is no denial of
womanhood to live such lives
any more than it is a denial of
masculinity to treat women as
intellectual equals — which we
are.”
The Christian Science Monitor
day. For Chri.st’s return, it will
be a worthy honor guard
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A story is told of a boy named
Jake who lived in a Western
town and wasn’t supposc<l to he
very bright. It was a pet joke of
the local residents to get tourists
to hold out their hands with
di.me and nickel, then ask Jai^^
to take the coin that he wante!^
Invariably he would take the
nickel. One d.ay a friend asked
Jake if he knew that the dime
was more valuable. ‘Sure”, hb
replied, ’’but if I took the dime,
they’d quit offering them to me.”
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iloward Lind.sa.v, the actor,
was telling of his life which has
been filh-d with richly intere.-it-
ing thing.s. lie is b<*st known for
his starring role in the long-
running pla.v, "Life With Father”
in which his wife played the
same part in the play as she does
in real life. Lindsay described
the joys, the sorrows, the strug
gles, the triumphs and the disap
pointments which seem to he
oarticularly acute in the theater.
But it was easy to discern that
he had loved it all and now in
the late afternoon of his life,
looked back on hi.s career with
intense emotion. What was the
best thing about it all? He paus
ed briefly, then gave a reply
which might befit ail groat ar
tists in any field: “I have had a
glimpse of the heavenly life.”
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Pei'sonnel manager to appli
cant: "what we want is a man
of vision, a man with drive and
determination, a man who never
quits, a man who can inspire oth
ers and a man who can puli the
ci>mpany’.s bowling team out 4R
last place.” ^9
decorating at its regular meet-
The Christian Science Monitor lag Monday night
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