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Pag* 6 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, November I!, 1965 I 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. SDITORIAL DEPABTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Gary Stewart Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Lynda Wattcrson Clerk-KepOrter Jerry Hope MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dave Weathers Paul Jackson Steve Ramsey Allen Myers SUBSCRIPTIONS RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHEBE ONE YEAR .. $3:50 SDC MONTHS .. $2.00 THREE MONTHS .. $1.23 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER ~ 739-5441 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? MARTIN'S MEDICINE ItKfredients: bits of netos loisdam, humor, and comments Directions: TaH» weekly, i, poaMKle, but aveid overdosage 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. m-m '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. m-m Approved by an Old Schoolmasfer I". 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 m 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.’’ 3— 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. 3 - 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. m-m 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. m-m 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 3- 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.” 3- 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.” 3- 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 KEEP YOUR RADIO DIAL SETAT 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between