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\ V- c. J Hage 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERAUI. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C Thursday, January 13, I96j Estoblished 1889 1: The Kings Moimtain Herald A wSJ'Hiv newf.nappr devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for me eniightennici.*, ^niertainment 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., 2S0S'j vmnder Act of Eoi^gress of March 3', 187;i. M " EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Gary Stewart ... T'. ■ • • Sports Editor Mis^ Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor MARTIN'S MEDICINE Ingr0dient8: Mt9 of tiew$ uHsffom, humor, audion^entt Dirtictirns: Tak« iveefetif,, ii piiasible, but ovoid OL-erdosage By MARTIN HARMON I had heard, shortly after Christmas Day, tliat John O. Plonk II had received a Honda Jerry Hope MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dave Weathers Allen Myers Paul Jackson- .Steve Ramsey James Howell SUBSCRIPTIONS RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYVVHERE ONE YEAR .. $3:50 SIX MONTHS .. $2.00 THREE MONTHS .. $1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 motor scooter as Christ.-ras gift, but I guessed the report was wrong and that the motor scoot er perhaps-was .a ..gift to his, old est daughter. lii-rn Not so, Joluiny said, “It was to mo from S.anta Claus”, Santa Claus in this insiance being his wife Pat. m-m tj TODAY'S BIBI«E VERSE And be ye- kind one *o another" tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for (fTrrist’s raiven non., Ephesians tt:o2. ^ . sake hath forgiven you. “Y'es,” iie_ continued, “I've got ij^^dth the now, except I parked up street out of the light. Don’t much want anybody to see me riding it until I brush up on my bicycle riding e.xperience.” Gladiator Agaifi^the Klan . I SO THIS IS NKW.YORK By NORTril:ALLAHAN Some 7.0 years agb, Tim< S(iuare was about 30 bloch soutli of where it as now—or least the heart of the musics theatrical, literary and politics life of New York Was arour 14th Street. And there LuchowJ Restaurant was the center of taxation and more. Victor He| bert wrote maViy of his operettJ there and the American Societj of Composers, Authers and Puj Ushers (ASCAP) was founde there partly because Herbet found that people were using hi Must Be Approved Normally, in endorsing bond issue elections, the Herald is content to sug gest.that the particular issue should be approved. In the instance jpf tiie upcoming !51,30C,000 sanitary sewage system bond^ on March 15‘ the language is stronger. This bond issue must be approved. For many times over the years, state sanitation authorities have con demned as overloaded Kings Mountain s sewage disposal system. In earlier days, the condemnation meant little more than a matter of embarrassment, as the state did not have the authority to force compliance with its orders. That situation was changed several years ago, as the General Assembly put teeth into law and condemnation be came tact as well as moral suasion.. The city, several years ago, con tracted with the State Streana Sanita tion committee to modernize its facili ties by 1) doubling capacity of the Mc- GiirCreek plant, built in 1954-56, and 2) by building a new plant to serve the western areas of the city. Already the city has been embar rassed, as it missed the initial deadline of last April 1 for having plans complete. ^ When the city realized its error, it im mediately took steps to demonstrate the error was of the mind and not of the heart and the state committee gracious ly granted a year’s moratorium. Most comments the Herald has gleaned have been favorable, as citizens realize the,facilities are not only needed_ but that meeting contractual terms is a point of honor. ^ Some have indicated incredibility at the optimistic statement of Mayor John Henry Moss that the city, can am ortize its present bonded debt, plus an other million. dollars or more, without escalating city tax bills. However, a perusal of the facts shows Mayor Moss’ optimism is justified. He points to growing sales of pro fit-producing natural gas and electric power as a prime factor which will en able the commission to retain the pres ent bargain rate of 85 cents per $100 valuation. Meantime, tax valuations are increasing as the community grows. The other bright factor is that-the city’s current bonds outstanding, which will be reduced- to $430,000 by June 30, are low-interest bearing. None bear interest at more than 2..5 percent and some bear only 2.25 percent interest. While voting $1,300,000 in bonds, the city anticipates Jt will qualify for federal grants w'hicli could be as much as $360,000, thereby reducing the net cost tp the city to $923,000. Sewage disposal is one of the chief reasons for being an incorported city. The improvements are designed to serve the city for two decades and both plants will be expandable. Mrs. Lona White McGill Death claimed, shortly before her ninty-fourth birthday, Mrs, Lona White McGill,, a longtime Kings Mountain citi zen and a Christian woman of high cour age, and strength of character. ——• It’s time to buy city tags. No Sale As of that date, it was the most unusual gift of the season. Piedmont Carolina legislators are again learning the facts of life that the Far East and Far West legislators are . better than average country politicians. .... Senator Jack White's facetious^ statement that he had'’returned from Raleigh with his bag and lucky to do that well—^following the committee ac tion of the previous week-=-proved to contain more fact than fiction. ^ Governor Dan K. Moore put his prestige on the line to aid his Ruther ford county friends, as well as Congress man Basil L. Whitener, in efforts to keep Rutherford in the tenth Congres sional district, all to no avail as of 2 p.m. Wednesday. The substitute' amendment by White of Cleveland and Moore of Meck lenburg to keep Rutherford, in ex change for Avery and Alexander coun ties, was defeated Wednesday morning by vote of 31 to 18. Subsequently, the two offered an amendment which would •keep Rutherford but put Lincoln, home of GOP Representative Charles R. Jonas, in the tenth. This amendment also fail ed. m-m I Now I’ve learned of another. I On the ihitial substitute. Senator White told me Herald, he thought he had more support. He added, “Some of them left us over-night.-’’ At ^ p.m.. Senator White said it ap peared he and others of the minority had little chance of effecting changes except by opposing the whole bill and he added he did not know whether they would be successful. Howard Scranton, engineer for Transcontinental Gas- Pipeline Corporation, was getting some tonsorial treatment from Pat Tignor. "Bet you fellows couldn't guess what I got for Christmas.” No, Pat nor I had any idea.’’ m-m Howard replied with “A pregnant goat.” a grin. m-m While devoting the bulk of his time and energies to engineering work for Transco, Howard is a hobby farmer and livestock grower. “I was needing a goat and now it looks as if I’ll have two.” Viewpoints of Other Editors music without permission or pal .\t this restaurant were als* seen such theatrical figures a E. II. Southern, Julia Martov John Barrymore, Weber an< Fields and Lillian Russell wl was srjuired by Diamond Jii. Brady, and Their autographs cal still be seen on the restaurant’^ walls. Writers who have fre quented the place were O. Henrj O. G. McIntyre, Arthur Brisbane Thomas Wolfe, Edgar Lee Mas] ters and Ludwig Bemelmans. -I3— When I first came to Nevvi York, the name of Albert Dornj was given to me by a friend. Ai ter phoning him, I was in his office-in 13 minutes and fount Mr. Dorne to be one of the livelil est persons I had ever met. HeJ was an artist and successful enough to do covers for the big magazines “Do you want to meetl Walter Winchell?” he asked. I replied that I had no speciall reason to do so. Then Al Dome] FOOD FOR STRONG MEN NO COINS TO JINGLE , THE CRUELEST THING Unusual both gifts are, but practical. The speedy Japanese- naade Honda goes many miles oh a gallon of gas, though I must confess to being somewhat more partial to Bossy’s milk than Nan ny's. Should Senator White’s estimate of the situation prove correct, Rep. White- ner’s tenth district would include Gas ton,- Cleveland, Avery, Burke, Catawba, Iredell and Alexander—with Gaston and Cleveland the only counties consistent ly recording majorities for Democratic candidates. Meantime, however. Senator White said the bills to re-district the two branches of the state legislature are ex pected to pa’ss in present form. That means that Cleveland will be in a three- county House district with* Polk and Rutherford, and in a two-county Senate’*' distri^ with Gaston, With' the Piedmont gaining repre sentation in the General Assembly, it is conceivable re-districting following the 1970 census will be'more equitable for the populous Piedmont. Industrial Park Several years ago, as city industry- seekers were working unsuccessfully to obtain a prospect, Conservation arid De velopment officials told the local folk, in effect, that much industrial growth was around the corner for the Kihgs Mountain area and the whole Piedmont. m-m ( J Harold Pearsor^ forrrer Her ald sports editor, now with the Richmond Times-Dispatch, was home for a brief post-Christmas visit. His boss and my friend Shelley Rolfe had posted the Christmas day work schedule and Harold had the duty. _ Shelley grinned at eligible bachelor Harold and suggested, “That’s what you get for not be ing married and a family man.” Replied Harold, “That’s all right. I believe I’ll just continue working holidays.” My wife and I had a pleasant cha^t with Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Farris Saturday morning, as we were paying oiir respects to the family of Mrs. Lona White Mc Gill. Floyd remarked he antici pated visiting the Herald Monday. French newspapers have tak en a Gaullist view of the resig nation of M. Rene Verdon, chef at the White House. They have construed his departure in a fit of pique over the menus he was asked to prepare as evidence of American lack of appreciation of the finer things of life Any fail ure to approve of French civili zation is always construed by the French as evidence of barbarism. If we may believe quotations in the nevvspapers, the straw that broke M. Verdon’s culinary back was a demand for cold muee of garbanzos, a dish that he describ ed as “already .Joad hot.” „ M. Verdon needs a sense history. It would help him in h cooking and his public relation: Garbanzos have an ancient av honorable history. Known to the Romans as cicera, to the Italians, as ceci, and to us as chick peas, they have nouiished soldiers and conquerors. Roman troops who overran Gaul carried garbanzosz as their K rations. Toasted gar banzos, pickled garbanzos, gar banzos in soups, cold or hot, gar banzos baked or boiled are still regarded by knowledgeable folk in regions unknown to M. Ver It has been quite a while since There has been grim talk in people with good incomes have! New York City that the transit gone around with cash jingling \vorkers strike may be long aifd in their pockets. The checkbook and the credit card have made unnecessary all but a few coins. (You still can’t tip with a credit card or start the laundromat washer with a check.) But now comes the forecast that checks and credit cards themselves may soon be on the way out. No less an authority than a member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System predicts that the comput er will replace checks “within the discernible future.” costly. Now that President John son has respondedTo Mayor Jqjin V. Lindsay’s request by sem Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz to assist in settling the dispute, there is an air of sub stantial but tempered optimis.Ti. cut loose with a rapid flow of suggesti ons on what to do when I visiting this big town until I was! almost overcome and was hardly able to follow through on any of! them. But this was a dynamic] man who reached the top in his field, rising from a newspaper boy to eminent com'mercial ar- list. Al Dome died the other day -at the age of 61. Even New York will miss him. —3- le futu iVoi!l(4 Mayor Lindsay’s earlier plea that employers continue to pay absent workers is understanda ble, considering their peculiar plight. But the “no show, no dough,’’ policy of hard-hit busi nesses is also understandable. ,T1)/6!. plan ’woiSid work quite almi ply. By arrangement with ftis bank, a person vVould receive a combination cash - credit card v^ich he could present instead of iirash at the-supermarket or the department store. The card would set in motion computer mechanism that would end by deducting the amount of'the pur chase from the customer’s bank account and paying it to the merchant. Great! But we’ll miss the tus sle with the old check book, the game of “find the missing pen- They say that to continue to pay absent workers wocild, in effect, subsidize the strike. ^ Said one (..usiness spokesman, “Otherwise people won’t holler for the strike to end.” K Here and There: Caskie Stin nett, magazine executive, just back from the Far East says that Tokyo contains all the charm x)f Jersey City, only it’s bigger. He states that the best airport in the (vorld is at Rome, the woi-st at London. That the most beautiful hotel in the world is iiti As.for the employees, many are already in a precarious situ ation. Some will be eligible for unemployment benefits, b u t many who cannot get to work will be hard put to support them selves and their families. Some, Taipei and is owned by Madame Chiang Kai-Shek. Caskie further points put that a prison news paper in Atlanta reminded its readers that there were only ”12 shoplifting days ’til Christmas”.. then there was the Texas million- naire who returned the Rem brandt painting for which he had paid 2V2 millions, saying it was too large for the maid’s room and would not fit in the garage.. Bert Garner, hermit of the Smo- don as delicacies fit to strength- nies”—the correction required to make our balance conform to en men already strong. m-m One of the chief factors they point ed to was the availability of natural gas. Another was rail and road transporta tion. Floyd, who is Shelby’s South ern Bell manager, used his own instrument to call Monday artd say he wouldn’t be able to come over. He had suffered a nasty ankle sprain as result of a freak accident Saturday afternoon in Charlotte. Perhaps M. Verdon — and the troubled journalists who lament his departure — should read his tory. Or is it that M. Verdon and his countrymen want to forget the Roman legions who conquer ed Gaul? We get the notion sometimes that modern France would like to believe that they on i a-osorbed the Ro.nans and taught them how to live. But we learn ed it differently in Caesar’s Gal lic Wars. We hope the White House will continue to serve garbanzo soup, hot or cold, per haps with a dash of chili—and let M Verdon shudder. The Washington Post that of the ibank statement. 'The computer, we are told, will also make out payrolls, and do little regular chores for us like deducting the rent from our earnings and paying our land lord. We won’t even see our pay. This is highly efficient. But it won’t make us feel as rich as we felt when we got our first week ly pay envelope containing $18.40 in cash and saw the silver fall out on our desk when we eager ly tore it open. Christian Science Monitor if they cannot pay their rent, are in jeopardy of eviction. Many of the pickets themselves are re porting severe financial hard ship, The cruelest thing about this'illegal sjrike is that' it hits the hardest those who can afford it the least. Playing on tjie calculated hard ship of countless- workers, the union is consciously and uncon sciously hoping to force the city to find the funds to meet its terms. It is banking on the situa tion growing so intolerable to the people of New York that the city will be forced to capitulate. SPARE THAT REDWOOD m-m This prediction, in some measure, has already been borne out. Widowed since 1910, her husband having been a victim of pneumonia, Mrs. McGill was left at 38 with five chil dren, the oldest only ten years old. A person of less character would have shattered. /' Four Gastonia citizens have an nounced they either hkve acquired, or are acquiring, some 130 acres on Inter state 85, which they intend to develope as an industrial park. Mr. and Mrs Farris were at the movie to see “Sound of Mu sic”, the popular hit musical. At intermission, Floyd was getting : up to stretch a bit, didn’t realize his foot was asleep. He fell on his face in the aisle and in pro cess twisted his ankle. Ushers carried him to his oar, arid the Mercy ho^ital x rays«.showed no The old cry of “Woodman, spare that tree!” may now be changed to an appeal to the high way engineer to stop his bull dozer fi'om uprooting the green ery. Too often the engineer has a one-track mind r— which be lieves that the shortest distance between two points is a straight highway. some are as old as the Christian era/«The chorus of conservation ist protests was loud and per sistent, and it won out. The California Highway De partment, encouraged by a new state law, has given orders to its staff to find new routes that win spare the redwood parks. Other forests and irreplaceable wilderness areas are threatened by public developments. Many can be saved, but it will take hard work. Christian Science Monitor W'e trust that in no event will there be capitulation but that the build-up of pressure and the unthinkable prospect of an ex tended strike will force a fair ky Mountains, writes, “Where were you when the lights went out. Better move to the sticks and use an oil lamp like mine”,. Nathanial Hawthorne once wrote, “Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you .will sit down quiet ly, may alight upon you”..it is said thatl a young writer ap proached the late Somerset Maugham with a novel and ask ed him for a suggestion for a ■ title for it. Maugham inquired if it had drums in it. The answer was no. Did it have bugles in it. No. “Then,” said tlu' older one, “call it ‘No Drums; No Bugles’.” settjemeitt before the suffering of the people of New York is needlessly, heedlessly, compound ed." Clvristian Science Monitor During the Golden Age of Babylon, King Hammurabi used istronomy to figure out the best time for his subjects to pay- taxes. Today taxpayers look Up Yonder for assistance on how to pay, Surest way to succeed is work. She moved back .to Kings Mountain, where she had lived' before marriage, reared and educated her five children, and lived to be a nonogeharian. Mrs. McGill wastpne of Kings Moun tain's top Bible studehts and many As sociate Reformed Presbyterians were benefitted by her long years as a Sab bath School teacher. Mrs, McGill lived a long life and a most useful one. Though no industry has yet decid ed on location in this park, a spokesman said, there have already been several “lookers”. ^le further added that the group win not be interested in compan ies which would not make good citizens, which the. Herald ^‘presumes to mean those froiri which obnoxious Odors ema nate, or who otherwise would not,be de sirable neighbors. ' 'ireak. Mr. and Mrs. Farris, obvi ously, saw only half of “Sound of Music”. . m-m “Our neighbors have been good to us and we mean tQ protect them,” Plato Pearson, Jr., commented. Marion Pattepson asked me re cently for a definition of the word "fulsome”. ’ I replied, “A whole lot of it.” Marion said, “Not according to the latest dic tionary I have. word really means obnoxious revolting. , Check It,” Congratulations to Hilton L. (Jack) Ruth, Jr., who recently assumed his ,, new duties as manager of the Fayette- .. ville branch of Skiutheni National l^nk. Mr. Ruth is weil-remenibered h^e as a stellar person. His new worK is a con- -. sidenible preomtlen ani a tribute to his Sanity and hard worlb < Congratulations to Bennett Mas ters, who is serving as chairman of the March of Dimes fund campaign in the Kings Mountain area. While tax listing officials estimate the pace of listing is good, they are also aware that mqcn more wo^k remains. There was a lull Wednesday—unfortu nate for all concerned for the prospect of lan|r Queues near the February loor deadline mm Check it I did. At first glance, it appeared I was right, on basis of first definition. ’Thai 1 looked more closely and saw the symbol “Obs”, obsolete.^ For years I’ve been using the word "Julsome” with the full intention of being complimentary when, actually, the people I’ve been intending to compliment I’ve been insulting,. Cases of sacrificing-park groves and forest to the automo bile are all to numerous Jn the United,States. 'Hie eager mptor- Ist has a right to be considered,, but too often he has been given views of woods and waters only by the partial destruction of the bmuty of these areas. Not enough alternate routes. A threat of this kind now hangs over a portion of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. To compensate a Tennessee coun ty for a road It lost when the goveniment built the Fontana Rese^olr, the National Park Service now proposes a road through a wilderness area- The 'Wilderness Society, strenqously opposing trie plan to cut into what It calls “one ctf the park’s two remaining areas of wild and roadless country,” is offering an alternative plan. Intelligent opposition to pro jects of this nature can bring re- 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of Mountain events taken from files of the Kings Berdld. news "about King area people am the 195 Mountaii James Rotan,'recently'assign ed superintendent of Burlington Industries’ Mays plant at Cra- merton, has assumed the superin tendency of Burlington’s Phenlx Plant here, succeeding John La tham who resigned. Kings Mountain’s 1956 March of Dimes campaign—now a Week old—was reported one-fifth com pleted Wednesday. suits. A current example is seetK 57-43 score. The Kings Mountain !joya baslwtbaU team won its fourth straight Southwestern AA Con ference game ’Tuesday night iqr downing the Shelby Lions iby a m*m I'm in Marion's debt In Califprnia. That state’s high way commission had proposed rojites fpr turo f^efways thpt sluhed re<ri|i^p<^ Nprir redwoods are ho oidmkry tretes; SOCIAL AND PKkSONAL Andy Davis of Grover .spent Sunday with Johnny Barber, Jr. at tile home of Ms oaronts, Mr. ^ Banier. and Mm. John ft KEEP TOUBBJUIIO DIAL S£TAT 1220 WKMT Kings fountain. N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour/ on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between Tl Be Ch t\v fin mt lis Ki all as eni ye wi re( plj CO Wl lo> (0 fei V Li ba KI' Hh pr I»t m or th C( hi lo lit dr m m fc T sc in n<
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