PAge S MOiWTAlN HHUgU). KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. Thursday, November 18, 1965 d EetabUstaed 1889 The Kings Monntain Heiald \ ntv.’f.nsp'''' devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and puWishcd for tne'oniighteiirrici.t, c. lertalnment and benefit of the cltleens of Klnga Mountain and Its vicinity, published every Thursday by the HeraW Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the post offloe at Kings Mountain, W. Cl, 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3,1873. BDITOIUAL DEPARTMENT Martin Hannon Gary Stewart Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Bodpty IMHpP Miss Lynda Watterson Clertt-Faporter Jerry Hope MECHANICAL DEPAHTMENT Dave Weathers Paul Jackson Steve RomBoy Aljen Myew SUBSCRIPTIONS RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANC® — BY MAIL ANYWHURE ONE YEAR $3:50 SIX MONTHS .. $2.00 THRBE MONTHS .. 81.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX telephone number — 739-5441 TOUATS BIBLE VERSE But the fniit of tile Sihrit is lore, fity, peace, longsuffevlng, geMIeness, goodnets faith, timknees, temperance: against such there is no law. Galatians 5.-22-23. Traffic Flow The Herald has no traffic experts, nor engineers, other than the sidewalk variety? but does offer some observa tions concerning traffic flow problems within the city: 1) Until there is a new scctipn Qf S. 74, traffic congestion on King U. street can hardly help but ^-o^en which calls for all effort possible to al- leviate the problem. Effort to gear slg- nals for faster transit would be more likely of success were it not for the two major left turn situations at the inter sections of Cleveland avenue and East and at West Eing and Battle- King ground. Would three-way signals at one or both intersections be helpful and en hance safety? 2) A traffic signal at Country Club road, as requested by the city, appears a quite valid request, in view of consld- ■ . > .. ret- /v<-knrmcfon erable traffic coming into congested King from Country Club road, Edgemont road (ARP church, hospital and resi dential), Sims street, and the First Bap tist church. 3) Kings Mountain is a city of rath er narrow streets for the most part, and many of them have bad approaches, either due to narrowness of entrance or due to barriers of shrubbery, utility poles, fences and other shields to vision. 4) Sidewalk is badly needed from West Mountain on Phifer road to the new high school. Here lies, we under stand, a technical legal problem. The city can’t spend for facilities outside the city limits and the highway department says sidewalk-building is without its function. The Herald feels the city would do well to retain a traffic engineer for a study of the situation, as the auto pop ulation, both local and transient, con tinues to grow. Courage Commended The death of George Starr, the Cen tral school janitor, who suffered fatal burns in a flash fh-e, does not dim the courage and quick-thinking shown by Joe I^e Woodward, the school truant officer, who found Starr, his clothes burning, running out of the building that fateful morning. Mr. Woodward tore the burning clothes (his belt was burned to a crisp) off the janitor’s body and rushed him to the hospital. Mr. Woodward suffered hand burns. Credit for courage and quick-think ing also accrues to Miss Alice Averitt, teaching supervisor, who found the floor and desk in the superintendent’s office ablaze and promptly stamped out the fire with a typewriter cover. Regret and sympathy accrue to the Starr family. Rev. B. L. Raines The past year has found a consid erable turnover in the identity of Kings Mountain pastors. Latest to announce forthcoming de parture is Rev. B. L. Raines, pastor of First Baptist church, who goes to James Island church, Charleston, S. C., effec tive December 5. Mr. Raines’ six-plus years here has been hard-working and effective, both to his church and the whole community. He assumed the First Baptist pastorate following a bitter church fight which re sulted in a split-up and proved most ex pert in accentuating the postive and pouring oil on troubled waters. He was an active member and occasional officer of the Kings Mountain Ministerial asso ciation and, with many others, very able and diligent in coordinating community Christmas giving to the ill and indigent. The community wishes him welt in his new position of ministerial duty and responsibility. Congratulations to ex-citizen Rich ard K. (Dick) McMackin on his recent promotion to an assi.stant secretaryship with Wachovia Bank and Trust Com pany at Winston-Salem. Th* Kkk^ltick Ctfi# A Charlotte high 8Ch00^ BBjoyed the gridiron performance^ this year ot a fast scatback, said to ^ the facility of the proverbial ^peft who could stop ph a dime and return five cents- change. ,,, . „ His name is Jimmy Kirkpatrick, a Negro, just tagged this week for the aii- Mecklehburg high school all-^r team. Young Kirkpatrick has become a cause celebre, if unwitti^ly. . ^ Charlotte Negro civil, rights leadcm have, in effect, picked up Kirkpatrick s football and carried it off, ^wklng fed eral court action to prevent the playing of the annual Shrine Bowl Same on charges of discrimination under the fed eral civil rights act, specifically, that Kirkpatrick wasn’t chosen on the Jo- member North Carolina team. Editorial comment, both by editors and by citizens expressLtig views in let ters to edrtors, have been rife, singly- positioned, and most times “pro” or "cort” the Shrine Bowl Tkr Htel coaching staff which chooses the squad on recommendations fcoaches across the state. (Kings Mountain’s Bill Bates furnished the reGOrtipi^dations from the eight-member Southwestern division of the Western North Carolina High School Athletic AssoeWin.) Football fans are nbted for their loyalty to home favorite^ ... However, few fans fatt ttthwnbfer favorites passed over ftjp. the Shrine Bowl squad. Kings MountMS Particular ly last year, boasted a , Ridf-floaen ^per formers, perhaps more, c^^ole of matching those chosen. %t, iraen the squad was announced, thC n»wes of Murphy, Gold, Clbnihgef,, MfGlnms, Rhea, Cheshire, fete.. rglarlngly missing. It was not the first thne. Nor will it be the last. The simple fact is that in any year there are many more than 66 Tar Heel and Sandlapper grid- men ready, willing and qualified to per form in the annual football benefit for crippled children and Greenville, S. C., Shrine hospital. Items worthy of note: 1) The Shrine Children’s hospital is and has been desegregated as to pa tients. 2) The Charlotte Negro leaders seek to hurt their own by their suit. 3) Kirkpatrick himself expresses no bitterness at his failure of selection and congratulates his teammates chosen. The situation has brought the ob servation, however, that the Shrine might be well-advised to switch their game from Charlotte’s small Memorial /^lomcnTl’c Stadium to UNO’s Kenan, Clemson’s Death Valley, Durham’s Duke or some other in the two states which could seat 25,000 more fans — not because of the current unpleasantness but to up the take for a most worthy cause. Statesmanship MARTIN'S MEDICINE JvgrMHaMte.’ M(« •/ newt latMtom, humor, and eommenta Diraothna; Taka ii po$»tUe, but avoid owrioaaou By MARTIN HAIMON A fellow came Into the office last pressday and I almost ad. dressed him ae Hugh, meaning my friend Hugh Smith, who la bors with Jim Rollins for Duke Power Company. It wasn’t Hugh, however, though the two were look-alikes. This fellow's name was Harry Smith, an auditor for the North Carolina Department of Revenue who said he would like to aaidit Herald sales tax payments. v-m It being pressday, I begged a day’s moratorium, and Mr. Smith-granted two, the following dgy being a holiday for most afile employees. He returned for wr duty on Friday. All These Things, Too, Shall Pass Away so THIS IS ISEW YORK By NORTH CALLAHAN m-m Though subject to sales tax cpllettion and payment require- mchte since the revised tax laws ot 1^7, it was our first time to be audited. Coincidentally; the Friday morning nwil brought a '3ook entitled ‘‘Facts Without Opinion”, a history of the 50 years of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, THE auditing au thority on newspaper and maga- zin* circulations (Charlotte Ob server, Shelby Daily Star, Gas tonia Gazette, Time Magazine, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, ad infinitunv) an or- {{anlzation in which the Kings Mountain Herald has held mem bership since 1952. Noting to Auditor Smith that AlBC audits non-daily publica- tidiu each two years and outlin ing borne of the ABC auditing teiU, 1 told him I was surprised we had not been audited by his outfit long before, on under- etanding that routine auditing Wds a triennial matter. Viewpoints of Other Editors SYMBOL OF TODAY'S YOUNGER GENERATION THE HIGH COST OF NOT LICKING STAMPS In almost every decade, it seems, there emerges an issue, a fad, a struggle, a way of llfe— whatever you waiit to call it— which symbolizes the younger generation of the time. In the Twenties, if you can be lieve what you read, the symbol was the high life, or—in a word —booze. We had our Flaming Youth. ' While the Administration has been trying to Jf»t companies in the aluminum- Industry and else where to keep prices down, one of the Govrmtnent's own enter- prises has been quietly pushing its prices up. TIME AND FOREVER '“Well,” hd replied, 'we happen to' be Bdmewhat short-handed.” AUBiidr ^ith, who is native to RbifcAn County and lives in Ix- nflll:, works Out of the Morgan- ;Utti office of the revenue depart- ri(ieht. He is one of seven on the Mveganton office staff which haa the duty of auditing accounts in Heioven counties. In accordance wllh good auditing practice, the seven rotate assignments by counties each y»r. This year Mr. smith drew Cleveland County, where there are more than 1500 registered sales tax coUectors- payees. If he were able to audit one account per working day (dome require much more time), that would total only 253 per year. In the Thirties, the symbol was a good deal less sophisticat ed and not at all glamorous even in retrospect. The symbol of that bleak decade was a young man in search of a job and three squares a day. In the Forties—at least in the first half of the decade — the common goal of the young gen eration was simply to sui-vive. For those Who did survive, the last half of the decade was a sort of controlled euphoria in which the common aim seemed to ‘be to get ahead. Not long ago you could go to a poet Office and for six cents 'buy an eqv'elope prestamped with five cents worth of postage. Now, though, you pay seven cents, ot two cents for the en velope that used , to cost one cent. And it isn't really much of a bargain «t either price. For if you don’t wint to pay the high cost of not licking stamps, you can get fnim a mall order house an almost identical plain enve lope for less than a third of a cent. - ■ Today we arc back on stand ard time, as we say. We have taken back the hour we gave to summer last April and, by our clocks, we have hasteneel the sunset and lengthened the morn ing. But aii wo have done, really, is to reschedule somewhat our lives by moving the hands of Seated atop the back seal of a bright convertible car up a- head was a slender, rancy man in a white shirt, coalless even though the weather was cool A second look a I his rather large cars and ruffled hair made :ne realize tliat this was the man with the hardest job around here coming so-tn, John Lindsay, the mayor-elect of New York. Ho waved and shook hands but most of the hanlencd New York ers around him just looked— and many of them didn’t oven -..other to do that. For some th )U?ht he was cra-zy to take on such a hurculean task; others did not agree with his politics; while others cheered him and •ailed out greetings of good luck. One could feel that he a.sked for 't, this .sccorKi hardest j