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r*9*i ..■ii;.. EstobUshed 1889 The Kings Mountain HeiaM A wSPHiv nov.'snn’^’Pi' devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for tne enlighteumci.t, s^'ertainment and benefit of tire citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicfnity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing Mouse. Kntercd as second class matters at the post office at Kings Mountain, X. t.. 28(186 ' under Act of Congress Of March 3, 1873. , v % ' ' ^ EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT ’ Martin Harmon .-.r., P.ditor Publisher Gary Stewart Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewaft Circulation Manager and Society Editor lorry Hope MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dave Weathers Paul Jackson Steve Ramsey Allen Myers SUBSCRIPTIONS RATES'PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL \NV\fHCRE ONE YEAR .. $3:rr0 SIX MONTHS .. $2.00 THREE MONTHS .. $1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Truly r.'.v soul u:cik>h iifon God: from him cometh my salvation. Psalm . . Worthy Service Kings Mountain Chnntbev of Com merce incrnljcT’s, in annual meeting last v/eek, cnanimuLisly-endor.sed the lOTtu* coreing $1,300,000 bond election which wdl ru0derni2e and expand the city s sewage treatment system. Discussion was limited to a brief summation'by Mayor John Henry Moss of what the city intends to do.'fact the citv will qualify for federal grant of up to $360,000, ana that tne secieiary of the North Carolina Government com mission confirms estimate of ^f- facials that the City of Kings Mountain can amortize the bonas wunoai u. ynj^- erty tax increase. - • And the Mayor’s summation folloAv- ed the unanimous vote. Action by this organization, repre senting the industrial, business and pro fessional leadership of the community, confirms the feeling of this newspaper and others that most folk want and ex pect their city to meet its responsibili ties, service-wise in facilities, and mor ally in discharging its contractual obli gations. The city is one year late on its con tract with the State Stream Sanitation committee, and won the year’s extra dispensation on firm promise by the city it would proceed with all due haste. State law on the matter of sewage disposal and stream pollution has some sharp teeth. Either a city does the job, or the state committee takes over, forc ing the issue via various metha^^s, both embarrassing and costly to the citizens. Been Counted? After snow delays, the current nose- count of Cleveland County by the U. S' Bureau of the Census is reported speed ing to conclusion by Robert M. Davis, director. His aim is that the approximately 80 census-takers w'ill report^each man, woman child, residing in Cleveland as of January 24. Against possibility of persons be ing out-of-town, momentarily unfind- able due to work schedules, or other wise, the Herald and other newspapers are publishing a blank form in which citizens who feel they have not been counted may report themselves by mail or call the census office to say when they will be home and countable in per son. One question is: Do you have a basement? Odd one? Out of these answers will go a report to Civil Defense and how we Clevelanders might fare in event of atomic attack. PubKc Servants Both Conrad Hughes and James K. i-teri Willis, Sr., were long-term citizens who gave a considerable measure as public servants. Mr. Hughes was for many years Number 4 Township tax lister, a posi tion not always the most popular, but one in which his hard work and affabili ty enabled him to fill quite well. Mr. Willis served several years as a city commissioner in the days when money was dear to the poinc it was dif ficult to provide basic city services. Both contributed much, personally and publicly, tq theiT friends and neigh bors. Congratulations to Jonas Bridges, flutwly (elected president of Kings Moun- tilh Chamber of Commerce and to the other newly, elected officers and direc- th^Ts. er. I Old Chapter, Another Verse? The future progress and direction of medical facilities in Cleveland Coun ty have been issues-lor more than tw<r decades, at least, and the history of these continuing and sporadic argu ments has been recounted in these col umns,, both editorial and reportorial, as each occurred. Kings Mountain Hospital was built, opening in 1951 with 24 beds. Several times e.xpanded, the hospital now has 77 beds and expanded staffs. ty. It is operating today at full capaci- “The usual waiting list for elective surgery totals from 10 to 20,” Adminis trator Grady Howard said this week. “Meantime, we do our best to handle the emergencies.” Meantime, too. Kings Mountain Hospital, voted $500,000 in construction funds as Shelby (now Cleveland Memo rial) was being voted $1,500,000, agreed to take second place td out-moded Cleveland Memorial in bids for federal matching funds under the HilbBurton act. All well and good. The Shelby Daily Star continues to di Easy To Endorse It’s time to show new state and city auto tags. Congratulations to Mike Goforth, dnted to the United States Naval emy, and to Phillip Bunch, alters ^ ^n^intee to the UnHed: States ’ <a Hepreiientative Basil JONisS MOUNTAIN KINGS MWNTAIN. N. & 'V 'Thursday. Februa^ 10. 1060 MARTIN'S MEDICINE ingredients: bits of twrtM ioUtdom, humor, and comments Directions: Taks weekly, 4 possible, but avoid By MARTIN HARMON Going out tonight? press for a survey dl medical needs oh a county-wide basis and decries the in dependent combes taken by the two county-owned hospitals here and in Shelby. Maybe that’s all well and good, too. The other medical facility is the^ Royster Memorial hospital, privately owned, but non-profti too, at Boiling Springs. It is hard to envision any conpetent hospital authority recommending that the Boiling Springs and Kings Mountain institutions be put on the shelf or al lowed to wither on the vine when bed population continues to grow and facili ties are taxed and over-taxed. The prospect is for continuing pres sure on these facilities, as Cleveland Memorial’s, as the impact of the federal medicare program begins to be felt come July 1. There is growing need in this coun ty for nursing homes for the invalided who need more nursing care than medi cal care. .* In contrast to the rather strong in ference of the Shelby l^aily Star, the Herald can see no evidence of waste of county funds in the construction of hos pital facilities, including the current project at Cleveland Memorial where the original structure,’ long out-moded, is being razed. The same happy comment cannot be made in operations at the Shelby in stitution which, several times in the past has had its difficulties. ' It is easy to endorse the selection of Charles F. Mauney as Kings Moun tain’s Young Man of 1965. His reebrd df work for civic pro jects, for his church, and in other direc tions is not only long, but uniformly successful, ' As a practicing Lutheran, chair man of a $25,000 fund campaign for Bap tist Gardi^'-Webb college, Mauney reported in with more than $100,000. He was a key figure in the fund campaign for John Qan\ble Memorial Stadium, completed his second of two successful years leamag Red Cross bjood collection work. Meantime, he ran his twin jobs with Mauney Hosiery Company and Caurolina Throwing Cwnpany. Just incidentally, he fulfilled his roles 8ft kushkfkd, knei father to si wife and thtae i Life i^^full of coincidences and I the flow of news is no exception, j Thus we occasionally can la^el an tHlition a ’’society’’ papet, or ah '‘obituary” paper, or an ”ac- ( cident” paper. 3 . ■ m-ffl During the past, week have come sevorai interrelated, or •’ejusin” instances, or, at the least, ’ cousins once removed.” m-m Sir U^’inston, the pap, had spent the night at the veterinarian’s pet hospital arid I we.at along on the retiieving trip, meeting Dr. Tom VV^'i/tnioreland for the first t.’ire. As we cltatted about the busine-ss of rearing pups into liealthy do,rs, my wife mentioned ! -Tiy Herald association. Dr. West- I moreland’s interest became more j aersanal as he notetl his great I uncle had edited the Herald in I the dim, dark past. Sure, I repli- I ed, that wsis from 1911-13. In I turn. Dr. Westmoreland’s lather, ' now retired, is a printer of long standing, and the vet’s brother is now operating the successful Clo ver Printing (Tempany; Subsequent to the county bond is sue election success in 1947, when citi zens specified $240,000 for Shelby hos pital expansion anti $160,000 for build ing a hospital here, there were reputed ly virtual fisticuffs between two county hospital trustees, one from Shelby aftd o.ne from Kings Mountain, when the Shelby trustee s^id. “We’re not going to build any hospital in Kings Moun- * tain.” That wouldn’t have passed lega muster anyway since the bonds wen voted for specific purposes. Was the animal specialist re lated to General Westmoreland, now bossing the VTet Naim show? Grinning, he replied, 'T really don’t think I am, but I used to claim him as kin when I was in the air force.” The General is from Spartan burg county, my wife’s former heme, and the area is crammed with Westmorelands, one Sam Westmoreland h.aving been may or of Woodruff for several terms. Dr. W'estmoreland’s father was Clover’s mayor for years. Viewpoints oi Otiier Editors GREEN WINTER NOT FRILLS AT ALL THE AMERICAN N THEATER I • Now that Governor Moore has At first glance the difference [ moved to assure North Caro- between Broadway and Shaftes-1 lina’s special schools another bury Avenue seems merely a | year of existence, perhaps it rs matter of theatrical economics. On Broadway musicals cost any where from $300,000 to $600,000 to produce, while comedies and dramas can be brought in for a mere 18' sbmewhere between $60,000 to ' $80,000. (Costs of production are less them half these amounts in London’s West End.) Next day I learned some his tory via the hand of Miss Alda Deal, who brought a clipping from a 1935 Gastonia Gazette detailing the active and interest ing life of John T. Carpenter, onetimft Kings Mountain citizen, and MISS Deal’s grandfather. ’The article related that Mr. Carpen Given these high st.9kes it is not surprising that Broadway producers have settled on a rough rule of thumb: profits from imusicals—if they succeed— are high; domestic (situation) comedies- offer a respectable sec ond best; but serious drama is a dead loss—unless it can 'be slip- ter .was then 95 years of age and | possessing some special was living in Cherryville with a distinction. daughter, Mrs. Espey Plonk. I Miss Deal said her grandfather ‘and father were partners im a tannery,, from 1900. to 1909, the tannery 'being located at the ebr- rent site of City Stadium and Mr. Carpenter having erected as a residenc what more recent arriv als know as the Leonidas Logan home on East King. Tannic acid being rather aromatic, the town board condemned the tannery in 1909 and Mr. Carpenter moved to Cherryville. m-m He nether needed spectacles, though he wore Ihem. Miss Deal recalls, “As his friends like W. A. Mauney, and others began to wear spectacles because they needed them, my grandfather ap parently felt he wasn’t in style. He bought- a pair and wore them.” m-m The Gazette feature detailed Mr. Carpenter as a Confederate veteran of 30 battles. time to consider a Larger com mitment: To the proposition that experimentation has a permanent place in the state’s educational policy. When Terry Sanford pushed for the creation of these schools —the Advancement School and the Governor's School — there were those who . thought he was simply going in for frills'. Yet what, really, could be more prac tical than an effort to motivate and stimulate the good student, or an attempt to find out -vvhat makes a student do less than his best? m-m Some years ago Mrs. Frank Summers said her grandfather, Mr. Carpenter’s friend, W. A. Mauney had kept a diary of his experiences in the War Between the States. Only this week did ^iss Bonnie reniember to bring, me a copy. I have merely scann^ it quickly to date, but have glean ed enough to know that there* isn’t a great amount of differ ence between war then and war today. Sherman was right: War i? hell. m-m Mr. Mauney, of comse, sur vived the war, became a leading Kings Mountain businessman, banker, and manufacturer and ivas several times mayor, Tie was (here the coincidence with the Westmorelands) instrumen tal in the founding of Kidgs Mountain’s first newspaper in 1889. Even with this safe yardstick only one out of four Bro-adway shows manages to survive. The general effect on the theatre has been such that critics and intel lects have long since pronounced it dead and focused their. atten tion on. the cinema. Nearly all the plays that now reach the stage—the ones that fail as well as the ones that make it—are aimed at a particu lar group of consumers. For the most part the plays are conven tional, tired and platitudinous; they titillate, they entertain, they restate the familiar. Broadway now provides the suburbanite with his imonthly night out in the city; the visiting businessman with his dutiful stop at a cultural watering hole; the Jewish^Cathollc-Red Cross school fund with its benefit per formance. A look at the current list gives the game away: recently there w^e more than a dozen indiffer ent musicals and an equal num ber of tipid comedies: of four serious dramas, three were Brit ish imports (Marat,/Sade, Inad missible Evidence and Royal Hunt of the S\in), ... Where then is the American theatre? By all accounts it has fled to the hinterlands and emerged in the fopm of repertory companies in Seattle, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis. Houston, and else where. All these cities have their own resident companies and all ane experimenting! with classical and contemporary plays. Some are subsidized by charitable foundations: others scrape by on local subscriptions and fund-rais ing drives. New Yorkers are of course du bious. It is inconceivable to them that the provinces could produce ipt^ligant, exciting theatre. Aft er all, why would ariyohe accept New Yoaric’s intolerable living conditions if it were not the cut tural centre-qf the United States? The Economist (London) m-m Ollie Harris was telling me John Oliver, Jr., has recerrtty been elected a director of Pasa dena State National Bank, Pasft dena, TMas, 18 diange of leasing and.deveJnping 'bank’s, property. m-m Noting Father Harris’ being a director of First Union Nation al’s Kings Mountain bran.ch, X congratulated, “Just foHCwing in ‘father’s footsteps." Thi^’ii one slight differehce, Qffie hejoined IV it 18 9D 3)^ «*d if BEItLIN AND VIETNAM It was a toudiing gesture of soHidftrity when two Berlin pub lishers. delivered 4(X) miniature Freedom Bells for fhmilies that have Ipst relatives in ’Vietnam. These emblems are r^licag .of the biell now hanging in the Ber lin City Hell presmted by the TTnltorf States In 1950,^ after the biotSCAde 14167 have been finartc- 'w ]dy ikihttc subscription as part of a campaign coiidubted by eight nettbpapers to re^ funds ^ niiedibhies to be sent! to $ohth vliethani'. I^e gesture is a beiuhbnfate rbdiinder t^ people whore (8*n fTeedhjiii bis been un der qbnstaht Communist pressure .imdersbiiidl; the essential meaning 0^ ■ the stand' fn Vietnam. Amer- thhnjselyM ought to appte- <Se common * • Post This is not to say, oi courst-.. that the two experimental schools shohild be regarded as sacred cows, or' that Winston- Salem should consider that it has title in perpetuity to them. The ticne might come when, for one reason or another, the^ state should turn to other experiments But it is to say that educators and supporters of education should not have to wait breath lessly to see whether the state continues to maintain interest in trying new ideas. Unless the av- rage taxpayer i s substantially less intelligent than we would hope, he can appreciate the need to try new methods of teaching students. The old line may still strictly be true: that the best school would be Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other. But education is not quite that simple. The human mind is full of quirks that frustrate all the best efforts of teachers to mike it sharp and efficient. The more we c.an know about these quirks and' what will affect them, the more likely our schools are to do the job they are asked to The s)kte thus has a continuing interest in experimenting with ways to solve special educational problems. Such experiments are not frills; they are a practical necessity. Winston-Salem Journal The happy northern homedwn er who now plans on six months of relative ease when winter cold stops his grass from gr iwing may be in for a surprise. He may be mowing that grass in the mid dle of the winter. And wewon’t feel a bit sorrj for him, because he’ll bring j; up on hi.Tself. rr 'Before long, avid lawn tenders may have the chance to install electric heating coils under the surface of the soil, to spur then grass to year-round growth; Pur due University and United States Department of Agriculture re searchers have already develop ed such a system, to keep gl ass growing on athletic fields during turf-tearing football months and pre-baseball season temperatures. The system is said to work well, too. It has enough premiss to have made authorities plan for a full commercial installaticn in Busch Memorial Stadium . St. Louis t his tsmi.'rmer. And when commerce starts using the idea, can private homes be far be hind? We can see the time, not far off, when Dad keeps busy with the family lawnmbwer, while mother holds his snow shovel ready for the sidewalk chores. But we suppose more heating ca bles under the cement whuld take care of the shoveling chores, too. there’s one major drawback. Year-round lawns would cancel the wintry benefits snow brings when, as one wag put it, “For once, my lawn looks as good as imy next door neighbor’s.” Christian Science Monitor AN EXCITING AGE Wernher Von Braun and four other leading space scientists are already looking past the moon and, eyeing Mars. 'They can put a man on the moon in just four years, they say, and carry out a mission to the Red Planet within fifteen to twenty. Even though the world has ■been braced for such feats by the rapid strides alreSSy' made in Iteme of Mountain sventetaken from fUes of the Kings Herald. TEARS AGO THIS WEEK about King people am the 19B Mountain news area Foote Mineral Company’s King* Mountain plant passed a safety milestone Friday when T. P. Hensley, safety engineer for Li berty Mutual Insurance Com pany presented Nell O. JohnstHt, plant managef, with a plaque signifying 560,009 at^dent fiioe man hours. Annual blue and gold banquet of <>tb Scouhi (A Boyce Memorial A^P church was held Tuesday evening. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. Harry Page, Mrs. Sam Davis, Mrs. Paul E. Hmdrlcke 'aiid Mrs. Cfiardon Riley left Tiies- dity fOT a WeA’S Stty in l^alm 148. SO THIS IS NEW YORK By NORTH CALLAHAN Ju.st 190 years ago, we did not even have title toNciV Yoi’k City and there are these today who would have tlie burg revert to it searly status. General George Washington had up and scurried his ragged and nondescript army down frppi Boston where he had scared off the Bnfi.-h with cap tured artillery lugged mightily from Ticondcroga by sturdy Hen ry Knox and.his rren. But the 'laltle for New York was of a different color, British General Billy Howe may have been more fond of women than war but he manage dto bring up the largest band of red coats in history, who proceeded to scare the Ameri- L*ans. These latter; must have 'oeen the original Brooklyn dodg- n's, for they fled from Howe and company, across Manhattan in utter fright, with Washington so ■ '.aving mad .at their cowardice ' that he was himself almost kill 'd from e.^posing himself s^ -nuch to the enemy. The patriots '•an like rabbits and did not stop I n t i 1 the.v reached Harlem Heights. And then if Billy Howe ' rad not stopped'- to dally at a ady’s house for tea, he could rave won the war right there. 3ut as we, know, the gi'eat Amer- can leader went on to win. in.|. Yew Jer'sey and later in ,the Car- ^ alinas and Virginia and then vent on to become the greatest figure in our history, for whom our beauteous national capital is named. Even so, he' renaembered New York now " rind then -— as does LBJ. Lattimi M County serve<d 4-H cli ior lea( or Spe American Legiiin Post Com mander Mark Domowne calls my attention to a claim made by Clyde Wyant of the 40 and 8 club if Portland, Oregon. It seems (■hat members’ of this fun-making organization of World War I take delight in tearing down- the olaims of their own me.Tibera. Now comes member Wyant stat- 'n gthat he owns and drives the last surviymg cab of the taxi fleet which rushed reinforce ments to the front during the 1914 battle of the Marne to stop the German rush toward Paris. But over in Brooklyn, Voyageur Fred L- Warburton rises to dis- oute the said Wyant of the West. Quoth Warburton, “Two years a- go I visited Paris and in the mili tary museum in back of Napole on’s Tomb, there is one of the 1914 cabs tucked jinder a stair way.” Any more clakraRts? And speaking of the West, Ross Caldwell of Maggie, North Carolina, sends in a poetic re minder which he believes applies just as well to the East — espec ially in regard to black-outs, strikes and snow storms, to say nothing of droughts. Ross, who hails originally from Indiana, submits a bit of Stephen Vincent Benet: The cowards never started As desirable as the plan seem^ - And the weak died on the road space by the United States and Russia, this time schedule is im pressive. Within two decades, man may be walking the surface of the planet which has most excited his sense of mystery. He imay be able to report within the lifetime of most Americans the answer to that ancient question: "Is there life on Mars?” We are on the verge of the greatest explorations since the "Age of Discovery”, when men first ventured long distances on uncharted seas. It is an exciting, albeit menacing, age. Ahoskic Herald And all across the continent The endless campfires glowed. We’d taken land aad settled — But a traveller passed by — And we’re going West tomor row — Lordy, never ask us why! In a ne wbook, a Dominican monk talks to a group of young Americans in a European cafe: 'You are all no more than 20 or 22 years old, but yours is a silent spring. Nothing sings for you any more. You have reduced the world to a spiritless shaimbles. God is ha-ha-ha. The soul is ho- ho-ho. Booze is reality. Love is sex. Family — what’s that, are you kidding? But the point is, you don’t seem to enjoy it. Some thing is still missing, eh? You got rid of God and, isn’t that funny, somethlngs»is still missing. Perhaps you ought to try to gel rid of yourselv’es a little.” KEEP TOUBWUHO DIAL S£TH 1220 WK MT Kings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather evety hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between Mis: Plec Firsi vided p.m. f( Dora 1 D’Way Dr. the ch ble-rin ■ Mr.v isCfar m'usic gan wi ■ The rangeii bra ho ii J: