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and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Fo7 One-One-One
By virtue of a federal court panel’s
order, initiated by suit, brought by
Cleveland County native Renn Drum.
Jr., resultant action by the General As
sembly in special session, and prospect
of further federal court'' rulings thaf ap-
-pear likely to invalidate other sections
of North Carolina law, North Carolina
politics at U. S. House of Representa
tives and General Assembly levels is in
a state of flux.
The one-man-one-vote rule and im
plications of the new districting ar
rangements will show effects on the ma
jority Democratic party more immedi
ately than on the Republican party, the
latter customarily choosing pernty noni-
inees in convention and minus the pri
mary warfare of the spring.
Cleveland County now finds itself
in the'29th state senatorial district with
Gaston, which is allotted two senators.
Cleveland, with Rutherford and
Polk, comprises the 43rd state house of
representatives district, which is allot-
ed three representatives. ,
Most students of government and
those more interested in the practical
side of electing candidates offer the
opinion* that party primary agi’ee-
ments — now having the permission' of
law in North Carolina — will be tossed
into limbo as quickly as the federal
court rules on any test case.
Apparently this is the case in Gas
ton county, which holds the population
bulge in the new senatorial district, and
where two candidates are already in the
field — minus conversations between
Democratic executive committee of
ficials.
There has been less activity to date
in the new state house district, though
Representative Robert Z. Falls has an
nounced he will seek re-election. In the
instance of the House, Cleveland has
the population bulge at 66,000, Ruther
ford numbers 45,000, and Polk only 11,-
000 (round figures).
It is easy to see that small Polk
could be disenfranchised, from the
standpoint of nominating or electing
under the new arrangement, a member
of the House.
It has long been a cardinal princi
ple of living, certainly of Christianity,
if not practiced, that the big are mag
nanimous in their relations with the
small, the rich magnanimous in their
relations with the poor.
Will Gaston be magnanimous with
Cleveland 4in dividing senatorships?
Will Cleveland be magnanimous
with Rutherford and tiny Polk?
Cleveland should be in the 43rd
house district. While the law may force
the cahving of new districts, for what
ever body, there is no law to prevent
Cleveland voters' from supporting can
didates from Rutherford and Polk, made
particularly easy when three counties
form a three-member district.'
On the Senate question, Cleveland-
- era appreciate the statement of Geoi^e
Jenkins, Gaston Democratic chairman
' and also chairman of the Gaston county
board of commissioners, who noted
Cleveland and Gaston have long- been
_ friends, worked harmoniously together,
a happy situation Mr, Jenkins pre%rs to
see continue.
County Services
It was in 19^ that Cleveland coun
ty embarked on water and sewage treat
ment service to the extent of S415,0W,
largely to servtT^one large incoming in
dustry to provide badly needed jobs.
That arrangement was a~ hybrid
one, which has since produced some
difficulties. In the particular instance,
the county government has the main
tenance expense without any return re
muneration from sale of water.
Intermittently since, the county has
invested in ^ter lines on a similar, if
small, baspr^In many of the instances,
there wrfs internal tug-of-war on the
part of the county commission, whert
thinking was divided between the group
wanting to forget the water business
altogether and those interested in pro
viding needed services to benefit coun
ty citizens — industrial and otherwise.
On principle, the pro-water group
is right on two major grounds:
1) Government’s excuse for being is
to provide basic services for its people.
(Nor is there any more basic than wa
ter and sewage disposal.)
2) Once the county embarked on
these new services it was rather irre
vocably in these businesses, government
being generic, and with any body moral-'
ly bound to provide for one what if pro
vides tor another.
Format^n of a study committee to
develop faefit and figures on costs is a
quite positiv^tep in the positive direc
tion.
It is to be hoped that the commit
tee w'ill work diligently to complete its
assigned task, as the county is perhaps
a dozen years overdue on this particular
chore.
There are numerous routes to in
vestigate, from area wafer districts to
federal government grants-in-aid, to
federal government loans (as in Grov
er’s instance when the county put in a
quite shallow oar), and there are coun
ties with long experience in providing
these services.
Some may be astounded by the con
cept, but it still requires big thinking
to accomplish big tasks and to bring
major projects to fruition.
Good Service
A Citizen who found himself carry
ing water due to frozen pipes remained
one doesn’t appreciate the small, but in
valuable, blessings of life until he finds
he doesn’t have them.
How true.
It’s also true that few appreciate
the hard work performed day-to-day by
the city’s street and garbage details ahd
other departments of the city’s public
works and utilities departments.
These folk have done yeoman work
for the past three weeks as King Winter
attempted to conquer all.
All will rejoice, along with them, if
and when these nan can get back to
normal work Irovtins.
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Keep 'Em Out
This newspaper, like vast majority
'throughout the state, was a keen and
continuing opponent of the so-called
“speaker ban law’’, amended properly
by the 1965 special session of the Gen
eral Assembly.
Grounds for opposition stemmed on
principle from Article I of the United
States Constitution, guaranteeing free
dom of speech, the obvious fetish of
some state legislators to downgrade the
University of North Carolina, and be
cause of the ram-down-throat tactics of
the law’s perpetrators.
Authority to approve visiting
speakers * on the several campuses is
now the province of the trustees. ^
.- Alrea^ the trusleeis are being put
to the test on their new authority, as a
campus left-wing group wants permis
sion to invjte two men, one the leading
Communist spokesman in the United
States, to speak on the Chapel Hill cam
pus.
Neither is a scientist with anything ,
ta offer for the benefit of mankind. !^th
are politicians--*- advocates of a politi
cal system which would destroy the
rights of individuals sincere, nbn-oppor-
tunistiq opponents of the speaker ban.
law were seeking to protect.
The trustees would do well to veto
the invitations.
Let the would-be hosts find them
selves an off-campus hall.
The county and city have extended
the tax listing period through Saturday
noon due to the snows and icy weatner.
The snows may prove a blessing,
several citizens have noted, since rain
fall has been little since late stunmer.
MARTIN’S
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Looking into the Future -
I' By MARTIN HARMON
It was quite a busy and long
wt-ekend, startin * last Thursday
1 when I bought myself a present.
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Yeai’s ago I got acquainted !
with Beauty Brooks, a smart and 1
^eautiful Boston terrier. Later I !
got to know the Boston terrier ,
oi Ml. and Mrs. Heath .Morrow,
of .Albemarle, and I’xe wanted !
o:ic since. ;
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Mrs. Haywood Oliver, in tlie 1
Herald office the 24th, placed a '
: claa-sified advertisement tor sale I
i of three Boston puppies. After j
ihe press of press-day, rr.e.-nory |
of the advertisement moved me ■
to do what I’d been delaying Jor
some 25 years.
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While my wife didn’t like the
present initially, she is now a
thoioughbred dog fancier o.f “Sir
j Winston,” notes her s'isler's
French poodle has the world fig
ure’s name “Napoleon.”
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-As of Monday, Mrs. Oliver had
I one of the litter, a female, re-
I maining. One had been still-bom.
Two have been purchased by
I Gastonia citizens, and another
went cross-state to Clover, S. C.
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I Bruce McDaniel, commending
j me on my present purchase, said
he owned a Boston, taught her to
! perfonm in inimicable Boston
i fashion. At a service station a
traveler, with his family, saw
and admired Binice’s dog and off
ered $20 for her. Bruce declined
with the statement, “She’s not
for sale.” Upshot was that the
man offered $75 for her. Bruce
again replied, “She’s not for
sale.”
“Are you crazy?” the traveler
.inquired.
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“Are you crazy?” Bruce asked.
“You wouldn’t sell that pretty
little blonde girl in the back
seat! My dog’s the only daughter
I have!”
SUCCESS
IN
SOCIETY
BOY SCOUT
EXPERIENCE
Viewpoints of Other Editors
ROMANTIC ANTIPODEAN
Majestic couple still you fly
Like satellites above the sky.
Dear stars, eo many wonders
done,
Come down at
some fun.
last and have
^ » m-m
Saturday and the snow, plus
an un-housebroken puppy, was
rough.
. — m-m
Otis Falls had repaired my au
to chains and, as the white start
ed falling, I’ mentally noted my
first stop would be at Otis’s
sendee station. But the West
King hill was unnaviigeble and I
found myself on the Victory
Chevrolet waiting list. After
some 50 minutes of conversation
with Mrs. Bob Cox, getting a new
set of chains put on, I saw Mike
Tignor get on my job—only to
report that the chains were loo
small. Nor were any of my re-
quii'ed size on the Victory shelves.
Mrs. Cox nobly offered her old
ones as a gift. They didn’t fit.
Another chains customer was
Mrs. W. L. Ramseur. Would I be
interested in her set which didn’t
fit? If they fit my car, very
definitely, and how much? For
$10,’' ’twas a bargain and I was
locomoting again.
m-m
But the day had not yet ended.
Working at the office for Uncle
Sam (quarterly and year-end
payroll taxes), I finally decided
with the snow dropping in al-
most-blizzard fashion, 1 should
attend to my errands ere night
fall. I stroked the starter and
heard one lonely, lonesome grunt.
That was all. Morris Thompson,
Winn-Dixie assistant manager,'
had a jumper cable and would
get me moving. His battery, how
ever, proved to be 12-volt, and he
feared it wouldn’t operate with
my venerable Dodge’s six-volt
model. He dropped me at Otis’s
and eventually young Otis was
able to get free and me off the
ground.
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Would a'fe-chafging do? No,'
there was a bad cell. It cost a
new battery.
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Jack Gaddy noticed the tight
appearance of Dr. Tom Durham’s
chains and remarked, “He iliUat
have worked in a eervioe sta
tion." It made me curious and 1
aaked. Dr. Durham r^led he
hadn’t had service station exk>eri-
enoe but at a Harm boy had
many times installed chains on
autos, trudea, and even traetibrs.
Dr Durham has no affinity for
hlB partner Dr. Paul Hendricks’
farming hotahy, recalling too
much duty In peach-farming.
One summer when the peach
market sNse glutted, 'IV>m toaded
a big truck with peaches and
Utofto to the ooal-tnimng mmm-
taina of Saitam Kentucky, where
the Durhams had marketed
peaches prevtously.
m-as
Tom found the miners on
strike, didn’t sell a pcaoh. 'After
three days Niey started drippil^
through the tnick-M k duv^
them and went Mnih.*’
Sir Robert Menzies, Prime Min
ister of Australia, has now tak
en this advice—penned to him at
Christmas by that puckish Brit
on, A. P. Herbert, according to
The Sunday^ Times, of London.
Of course, it takes more than a
few witty and affectionate lines
addressed to a Prime Minister of
16 years’ standing to bring about
his resignation. But Sir Robert’s
retirement is in fact due to an
understandable desire for some
years of leisure after honarably
carrying the burden af office tor
over a deoade and a half.
To Sir Robert and his wife,
Dasne Pattie—the “majeotic cou
ple” of A. P. Herbert’s rhyme —
will certainly go the good wishes
of friends throughout the Eng
lish-speaking world and beyond
It.
There is nevertheless a touch
Of the paradoxical abput Sir Rob
ert’s successful tenure of the
Australian premiership for so
long. There is in hint IkWe of the
«aSy-going egalitarianism which
many associate with the Austra
lian character. He is rather a
rugged and sometimes disdain
ful romantic who (his critics
sometimes allege) sees himself
as self-appointed Uncle to the
Crown. And yet to the outside
world, he is a splendid and wor
thy personification of the out
post in the Antipodes which
his home.
So far is Australia from Lon-
dbh or Washington that the
Western world too easily passes
over the changes and the chal
lenges which the postwar world
and resurgent Asia have brought
to the lands Down Under. Like
so many other peoples today,
Australians are fashioning for
themselves a place and an iden-
ty so different from the eajy as
sumptions on which so much was
based before World War II.
(Australian combat troops brave
ly yet r*tber casually alongside
Americans in 'Vietnam are but
one sign of the times.) And per
haps Sir Robert’s greatest con
tribution has been to serve as a
rockHke .bridge of stability at a
time of barely cwicealed yet con
vulsive change.
Chri$tkm Science Monitor
ART IN THE MART
Success of a mail-order house
in selling original works by re
cognized artists (so much down
and the rest on installments as
you buy a refrigerator or a
range) has now led other types
iqf stores to copy the plan. The
list of followers is growing fast.
This mesms that a new type of
art patron has appeared — the
department store, including dis
count and variety chains. They
can have wide Influence if they
maintain standards.
. 'The volume of their sales indi
cates that a vast new market for
art has ^en discovered. Educa
tion and prosperity have created
it. People who have learned
something about art in their cur
rent magazines as well as in their
college courses are not satisfied
with- conventional reproductions
for the spot over the livinig-room
fireplace. Not for them the color
ed photograph of St. Mark’s ca
thedral (pigeons in foreground)
or the Rosa Bonheur horses’
heads which pleased an earlier
generation. Nor are they content
with the printed reproductions of
Van Gough’s sunlit fields and
Monet’s water lilies that follow
ed. Today’s family wants a real
ly good original and many aiv
willing to spend for it just as
they spend for a motorboat or a
color TV.
This is a democratic develop
ment. The company that launch
ed the movement has rendered a
service both to artists and to
families who never before realiz
ed they could become collectors.
Christian Science Monitor
NEW ENGLISH AND
OLD POLITICS
Anybody who has a youngster
in grade school doubtless has
heard about, or has been pretty
confused by, the “new math”
which is supposed to be a better
way of teaching what once was
plain old arithmetic. And maybe
it is a better way. Now, to keep
the new math company, some
thing known as the “new Eng
lish” is in the works.
As Michael F. Shrugrue, direc
tor of the English program of
the Modern Language Associa
tion of America, describes the
new English it pro'.rises some
improvements over the way the
language has been taught latoly
in a good many schools. For in
stance, the generally insipid
“Dick and Jane” readers in pri
mary grades are giving way to
Aesop’s Fables, Grimm Fairy
Tales and Greek myths, all of
which have more substance than
what Dick said to Jane and vice
versa.
There is nonetheless a question
whether the new English ap
proach to grammar is going to
be as good as the old. The new
method, according to Mr. Shug-
rue, seeks to replace grammatical
rules and definitions with tech
niques to give pupils a better
“feel” for how the parts of a sen
tence relate to one another. It
also tries to describe the lang
uage “as it actually it.” Thus, “It
is I” is technically correct, but
Thursday, February 3, 1965
SO THIS IS !^-
NKW YORK
By NORTH CALLAHAN
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People who judge New York
by standards whicli tliey apply to
other American cities are over
looking lii.story. 1'his is more of
an international settlement than
an Amcriean town; and it has
been that way .since the begin
ning. First the Dutch were here,
som’e 300 years ago when they
-obtained a qucstjonable bargain
! in buylril?- Mahhalt.ah for $24.
! Then the English took over. They
j had taking ways in tho-se early
I days, instead of losing meir em
pire, they were building it into
the greatest that ever e.xisted.
How we came along and remov
ed the 13 colonics from their
hands is a familiar and fascinat
ing story. But the people of New I
York did not, for the most part\^
even want a Revolution. They ^
were largely for the king, or in^
different ^nr-uch like they are to
day*! with several races having
different interests. This is a melt
ing pot here and when it boils,
as James Dtis said, “the scum
will rise.” There is.^ large, good
^ide to the city too, although
sometimes it is hard to see.
._3._
A sheriff in the interestingly-
named towm of Paradise, Cali
fornia recently received a pam
phlet in^he mail which stated,
“Now your down can have a pro
fessional Tiot. Name your eause.
We will demonstrate.” It was of-»^
fered by an organization calling
iteslf “Demonstrators, Inc.” and
added some advice about the of
fer for instant riot; “Ninety days
advance notice will be needed to
guarantee spontaniety.”
An old and sentimental but
worthy passage may well be
needed by us all in these event
ful times is this: “Love is the
only bow on life’s dark cloud. It ..
is the morning and the evening
star. It shines upon the cradle of
the babe, and sheds its radiance
upon the silent tomb. It is tjje
mother of art; the inspirer of
poet, patriot and philosopher. It
is the air and light of every
heart, the builder of every home,
kindler of every fire on every
hearth. It was the first to dream
of immortality. It fills the world
with music, for music is the voice
of love.”
—3—
A frustrated motorist had been
trying to pass a huge truck for
imiles here in the recent great
traffic jam. Every time the mot
orist tried to go around, the
truck driver would increase his
speed or swerve his big truck
toward the middle of the road.
Finally at a stop sign, the motor
ist pulled alongside the truck
driver’s window. “Well,- whatta
you want?” growled the driver
of the truck. “Nothing import
ant,” was the reply. “I know
what you are—I merely wanted
to se what one looked like!”
—3—
The idea that fathers and
daughters are not close together
is not carried out in the case of
Polly Bergen who appears at the
Plaza Hotel here as a singer.
Polly was born in Knoxville, 'Ten-
students are told that “it is
because her father, although an
engineer, nad a hobby of folk
is acceptable because a lot
people prefer that phrasing.
of I
CHANaSS
Fort Smith, Ark., is another
oh« Of those towns that should
be Sent a dozen red roses and
given oome tort of an award for
having enough backbone to get
up off its haunches and say no
thank you we don’t want t-j be
called a depressed area.
When Port Chaffee was closed,
same 2,000 soldiCrt and dvlians
u^ere cut off from the economy
of the town, taking along a
monthly pay roll of about 1 mil
lion dollars. Stores dosed over
night, real estate values drbpped
and free spending GI’s were sore
ly mlNed. Unemployment sky
rocketed. This was in 1990,
'Then came news, originating
from tome mysterious place, that
FV>ft Smith had a^ted for aid un
der the depresaed areas law. The
Chaon^^ of Commerce said it
hadn’t aidced for the aid. City of
licials denied they hid.
1*^ elty poUtely mM it hot
ineed Rid. xAXf Mders
went^work. One morning busi
nessmen and women gathered up
brooms and started a sweeping
downtown streets as the kickoff
of a campaign of helping the
city help itself. The Chamber of
Commerce, city officials and
city leaders, set off an earnest
campaign to bring in new indus
try. Within one year after the
army camp was dosed the city
had recouped its losses. It was
done by the aggressiveness of a
city so proud that it didn’t want
to be called poor.
At least five manufacturing
concerns, impressed by the deter
mination of city leaders, came to
town. Today Fort Smith is pros
perous.
The Laurel (Miss.) Leader-Call
10
^ARS AGO
THIS WEEK
fteme of newe^ obouf Ktno
Mounta^ area people am
events token from the 195
fUee of the Kings Mountain
Herald.
H. C. Mayes, well-knoxlm Kings
Mountain citizen and general
superintendent of Western North
Carolina area plants of Superior
Stxme Company, was elected to
membership on the eo.T.pany’s
board of directors at the annual
meeting of stockholders held re
cently in Raleigh.
Carolina Mines, Inc. expects to
complete its plant and launch
Kyanite mining operations in
near future, in spite of federal
court and securities and exchange
commisiion ruling restraining
further sale of its stock.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
The Kings Mountain Chapter
of Erskine College Alumni Asso-
datien was hoot at a recrultmdit
dlhnar at Bi^ce Memorial ARR
chqrch Monday eveftiiig.
In our view it’s a mistake to
assume that just because a lot of
people want something it is ne
cessarily right, and the new Eng
lish may founder on that very
point. Although we’ll admit that
a similar notion has brought
success to a good many practi
tioners of the Old Politics.
Wall Street Journal
LUTHERAN SERVICE
Rev. Charles Easley’s sermon
topic Sunday at the 11 o’clock
hour at St. Matthew’s Luther
an church will be, “Serious
About Everything But Reli
gion.”
KEEPTOOBIUDIODIUSLTAT
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Kings Woontain, N. C.
Ne’Ws & Weather every hour on the
V -J '
hour, feather every hour On the
half hour.
Fine entertainment in between
song^. So she joined him and
made her part a professional
one, later doing recordings entitl
ed “Polly and Her Pop”. She al
so lived for a time in Richmond,
Indiana and calls that good state
h'Ci.Te too. Pretty and appealing
to large audiences, she has suc
ceeded in radio and telepision as
well.
William Dean Howells first
used the term, “installment
plan” in 1886. “Praise the Lord
and pass the ammunition” was
not first used in World War II
as the song would indicate but
tyas expressed by Cerpantes in
“Don Quiote” published in the
early 16th century.