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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<s! in the country; yet w-e can be thankful that Americans still seek public office even though they know that people will expect almost 'nliuman results from them. 3 Tliree men played poker net^b Bowdoin College until a Sating lay midnight, then they decided to play until 3 a.m. and give all of their winnings accrued after midnight to the local church. So ntre enough, the next day they jailed on ilio pastor, ttie Rover- "nd Elihh Ke'ly and presented him with the money. Under the circumstances, they felt embar- ras.sed until his reply, which was, "Thank yc boys, thank ye. But whv didn’t you play a little longer?" 3 Most people I know here are thoroughly ashamtHl of the local draft card burners. Some of these miscreants come from tlsewlicie and hold their ghastly ceremonies here in order to get more national publicity. This is a far cry- from almost two cen turies ago wlicn our ancestors fought licrealiout.s f ir their free dom. Hut it was a different sort of liberty they sought. It was for the right to live decent lives un- those dictatorial machines that divide our days into arbitrary j der Gml not anarchy. And these segments. The sun still moves on • varly Americans did not need to’ its own schedule. We haven’t be drafted. They volunteered Talking to a war amputee, I changed the dimensions of either | surprised al his smile and the day or the year by one iota. Time is an elusive matter. It has many dimensions, and nei ther clock nor calendar can en compass them all. A few months. There seem, to be two possible jas we denote the.m, are'the whole m-m Bookkeeping Specialist Charlie Dilling happened in the office and when I remarked we had sales tax-auditing guests, Char lie went in to ask if he had some extra reporting blanks. When I started to introduce him, Charlie said. “I’ve met Mr. Smith be fore.” Charlie later remarked, told him onetime I’d like to give him a little Smith & Wesson treatment.” The auditor volun teered confirmation after Char lie had departed. Charlie even had shown him his pistol collec tion—including some Smith & Wesson models. The Fifties brought us the Beat Generation whose noblest aim was not to react to any thing, to play the whole world cool, meeting splendid success and dismal failure, rare achieve ment and total disaster, love and hate, war and peace, all alike, with a bored shrug. Where art thou statesmanship? In vainly seeking to forestall amendment of the state’s speaker ban law, Gaston’s Representative Steve Dol- ley contended on the floor of the House Tuesday that a legislator’s sole duty was to represent and vote the thinking of his constitutents. The concurrent Dol- ley contention was that the mass of North Carolina supports the railroaded 1963 statute which has embarrassed the state-supported schools and the state it^ self. Rep. Dolley, apparently, is wrong on both counts. Amendment of the act was a fore gone certainty Wednesday. More important is his other conten tion, which implies that every legislator must cast his every vote on basis of his own assessment of majority opinion. All know that succe.ssful candidates do not go about their bailiwicks slap ping constitutents in their faces. Yet there are times when principles are in volved, when legislators, to be honest, must vote unpopular positions. The dttfi- nition is statesmanship. Gaston countians would do well to make John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage” required reading for Rep. Dol ley before returning him to the State House next year. reactions, (toipndlng on yo.tr philosophy. KiHim’ you can com plain td the-President’s Consum er AdvlMrjT Council that you think tbe pbstal raise is a hold up. Or jntfu ctm congratulate the new Poatmaater General on en gaging in the sort of business enterprlite the department, in view of its financial condition, could use a lot more of. u-m Auditor Smith virtually had completed his work covering three years of reports by the end of the day and gave us top marks for proper reporting — a com mendation to three young ladies who handled the bookkeeping and reporting chores during the per iod and Including Lynda Watter son, now on the staff, and two Herald graduates, Helen Owens and Libby Bunch. Indeed, said the auditor, he was confirming the reports as filed. Lone joker in the deck turned out to be a matter of "use tax” a development of 1961 changes in the law. I learned that ma chinery parts and other item are subject to a one percent tax which the law implies is to be charged and remitted by the sup plier. However, many out-of state firms, which cannot be forced to comply with North Carolina law, flatly refuse to assess the tax. It is the auditor’s duty to total those invoices and collect the tax. Now in the mid-Sixtios a new symbol of the young generation is emerging and it is, sadly enough, that of a young man trying to beat the draft. It was illustrated graphically by the recent mass dash for the altar after President Johnson sot a deadline on marriage as a legi timate excuse to stay out of uni form. Besides the debatable practice of sacrificing bachelorhood for draft protection, there i.s con clusive evidence everywhere of the disinclination of today’s young men to take up arms for their country. In a CBS television news film few days ago, one young man said flatly that Viet Nam was not his war and if he could help it he wasn’t having any part of it. Another said that he wasn’t interested in shooting at any body and he certainly wasn’t in terested in having anybody shoot at him. for any reason. And another said he had his education and after that his ca reer to think about. He didn’t want either interrupted, and military service, frankly, just didn’t fit in with his plans. No'-.ody said a word, or appar The only trouble with the lat ter is that no matter how many increases the department stamps on its prices, it never seems able to lick its deficits. Wail Street Journal of most insects' lives. What, then, of time to a bee or a -but terfly? A few years, a few of his earth’s journeys around the sun, are all our common song birds ever know. Wliat, then, are time’s dimensions to a chick- his attitude of courage. He had lost a leg but now with brace- crutches he is more active, he said cheerfully, than when he had Iwa legs, "Now that I a-n adjustetl to it," hc’ exiJained. am really happy. I get around, do as much work as I ever di anti as for an artificial limb. 1 don't want one.” 3 Heading through an interest ing book of clever poems. “Come Out Into the Sun” hy Robert Francis, (the University of Massacliu.selts Press i. 1 found adee or a robin? An oak may | "I'it'h is hardly encouraging record several hundred years in its trunk, or a redwood several j follow the lead of time. It slates thousand. What, then, is time to -a tree? enough to give him the horrors. Students here and apparently everywhere else are obsessed with staying out of service at whatever cost to themselves and their country. Rationalizations are sometimes offered, such as those that attend the draft card burnings and the demonstrations against our Viet Nam involve ment. But this sort of intellec tual shadow-boxing can’t keep you from- wondering whether they would consent to serve will ingly oven if the country were under direct attack. We have had shirkers in all our wars, all the way back to and including The Rovolutioin when the question wasn’t so much whether you would fight, but on whose side. ently even had a thought, about jeep disgust Today’s young men may be no hotter or no worse than those caught up in The Revolution, the Civil War, the first and second World Wars and Korea. Whether they are or arc not, today’s duck- ers and dodgers aren’t any eas ier to take. They, too, deserve only withering contempt and m-m One interesting phase of the law concerns sales tax on sub scription fees, (of which we were already aware). If, e. g. John Jones, of North Carolina, buys a subscription for his out-of-state daughter, the law requires sale: tax be charged. If the out-of- state daughter sends in her su i scrlptlon fee, no tax is chargctl. But if she pays it while on visit in North Carolina, the tax is chargeable. m-m Interesting taxes, business, these duty, service, love of country pa triotism and such. If they had been rentioned. the response probahl,v would have been something like “Get serious man." Here in Chapel Hill, where the University brings a steady flow of young men of draftabic (to say enlistable would bo redicu- lous) age. we have a somewhat more subtle form of shirking. Here we find hundreds of young men cooly plotting their ctluca- tion curves to stay lust above the draft line. Their main eon- cern is not to learn something, hut to maintain an academic av- arago sufficient to keep them out of the clutches of the draft. It is not unusual to hear a Carolina Gentleman explaining -'xactly how he plans to spread hio higher education thin enough to keep him out of uniform for the foreseeable future. The Idea of busting out of school is no thing much in itself, but the The Chapel Hill Weekly 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Itema of news about King Uountain area people am events taken from the 195 files of the Kings Mountaii Herald. Kings Mountain’s new A & P Super Market at 401 Battle ground Avenue, one of the most modern food establishments in this area, will open Thursday morning at 8:30. We meter the hours, -zealously, and the weeks and the years, as though we could somhow cap ture time and tame it to our de mands. Yet the time of the hills, the time of the tides, has its own rhythms, even as the time of out- own lives. What absolutes there j are resist definition, since they i are a part of the foreverness ' that is all around us, in the seed, in the egg, even in the granite of the mountains. Time is yester day, and now, and tomorrow, and all we can do is participate and number the hours of its passage. New York Times Old Men Weigh loo much or weigh too little Settle into woodchucks or take a fancy To h(» feather weight birds very seldom However you catch one sing ing. As merchandise, old men go very cheap Marked down, marked down Year after year after year 3 Garry Moore recently checked into the Gothati Hotel for tlio 555th lime, a coincidence, since the hostelry is located at .5th Avenue and 55th Street. He w.is given a party to mark the oc casion. Tills same hotel served an 0(1(1 dessert to losers the day after selection. It was cookies in the form of a crow. Over at the Hotel Edison, another odd (Continued On Page 3, Sectiont KEEP YOUR RADIODIAL SETAT 1220 WKMT Kings Monnlain, N. C. SOCIAL, AND PERSONAL La Fete Rook club members met Thursday night at the home ot Mrs. Paul McGinnis. Duplicate Bridge club mem bers met Monday night at the home of Mrs. Howard B. Jack- idea' of busting into the draft ia son. _ . C Ne-ws & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between le: JEl i I Nit C c I ? FE OB EV t SI 111 p I SI G1 SI