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^ • ?*SlI KINGS J2i=:i Established IMS The Kings Moimtain Herald ^ 'Monh Carolina i ^ms$ AS3ociAr~ A wsck'v r.ev,’snaD»‘»' devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for trie enlightenmc.t, entertainment 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., 28086 I under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL department Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Gary Stewart Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth. Stewart ..y Circulation Manager and Society Editor MECHANICAL l^EPARTMENT Bobby Bolin Dave Weathers Allen Myer.s Paul Jaexson Steve Ramsey — 1 ■■■—-■ -■ ■■■■■■■ —— SUBSCRIPTIONS RATES PAYAflliB IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL AN\-WHERE ONE YEAR .. $3:50 SDf MONTHS .. $2.00 THREE MONTHS .. $1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TODAY^S BIBLE VERSE For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. I Thessalonians L”. Matter Of Honor When Kings Mountain citizens vote on Tuesday concerning the expansion and renovation of the sewage disposal system, they will be voting on. ^ 1) A community need, still growing, extant for nearly two decades; 2) Public sanitation (what house wife or businessman doesn’t know their monetary outgo for detergents and oth er cleaning supplies?); 3) Neighborliness — in form of not contaminating life - giving water to citi zens downstream now contaminated by Kings Mountain sewage; , 4) Self-interest — as population in creases the available water supply be comes more precious and serious short ages are envisioned in the future, as was witnessed the past summer in the metropolitan area of New York city and elsewhere; 5) Honor — Kings Mountain some years ago contracted a timetable for the seWage project with the state Stream Sanitation committee, failed to meet terms of this contract last April 1 and is now a year behind, meantime having begged and been granted a year’s dis pensation.' . Pre-election registration activity, or the lack thereof, adds credence to the contention there is little glamourous about a piece of sewer pipe. Voters wax most excited about personalities, which except to the people directly involved such as candidates, their spouses, fami lies and ardent supporters, are compara tively unimportant — except to bring fruition to projects such as this one for which citiZehs initially band together in to municipalities. The matters of need, cleanliness, neighborliness aind self-interest are ap parent to any and all. The Herald is particularly interest ed, too, in the matter of honor. Individ uals, majority of whom tak^ ^ especial precaution and pride in. honoring their personal committments also expect their city, in Which inanimate corpora tion each is An indiyidual stockholder,^ to honor its obligations'ioo. The deadline miss of last spring was embarrassing to the city adminis tration, the city engineering consultant, and to individual citizens. It is hoped there will be no further embarrassment. Tuesday’s, election result should be favorable and strong. In happy contrast to the Situation of the far-sighted, much- maligned fprefatnefs^f the late twen ties d€|cacie. the borrowing authority and' ej^nditure for the sewage project will impose no taxing hardship on citi- zeh-tak^;^fs. Why Cammimism? Ignorance breeds poverty. While President Johnson’s anti-poV- erty program has been maligned’'Very much by the dollar-and-cehts people, jt' requires very little perception to see the “why” of Cuba, Latin and South America., ahti - Czar Russia, today’s enierging African nations, etc., etc., etc, WhSi a person is starving, he’ll buy any pronqise that suggests food for an emp^ stomach. ’ Sud^nly .thrust upon the Kings Mountain schoql district is $124,256 for anti-poverty teaching, based more or less on a nflflnimal annual income-per- frmily formula. ■ Decision of the hoard of education is to use these funds, for special instnic- tion in reading—a very wise decision. If one can’t'read, he cannot learn mathe matics, n^ much else. Some may object tothe federal lar gess out oral! citlzens”hip-p6ckets,’and the per capita cost of buc^sses from this largest mhy prove heavy. , v But even ywiigsters made productive will be of imnieasurably im- ^portance in.nmucing a continuing cycle ' poverty Which, it is high time, should liot b* contiiwal. 'The Charlotte C^bperver takes um- le at th^ fact basketball rules per- It a 21-20 aacouhter in this modern, rh-boy, high-sCore a^e, and the Ob- let i^uli^hahge the redes. BUt after b<tth Di^te, the wlhnefc and Gafb- loser; t>lCayed uifder the saine rules, wltli.the same officiatpra. ■ wj^rs shopld , 8pait»($Q:ibe spo^. experts-^ theiAiaraM idecUaeB its own in in the same sentenea- < ^ i Thursday,' March 10; 1966 MARTIN'S MEDICINE Ingriii^Hts: Mrs of new* u'Ksdom, Awmor, and comments Directions: Take weekly, ij possible, but avoid Faith of a Great Man w Df. Laura Plonk Nearly 42 years ago, shortly after her father’s death, Laura Plonk, Kings Mountain native, opened with her sis- ter and co-founder, Lillian Plonk, the Sotithern Workshop, in Asheville. j The schoql was dedicated to the memory of her father, William Lafay ette Plonk, for more than 30 years a member of the Cleveland County board of education. (It was the proud boast of this board in the year 1911 that no log school houses remained in Cleve land County). While it is a fact of educational his tory that educational formulae tend to run in cycles, Dr. Laura Plonk was among the first in North Carolina who envisioned the education of the “whole child”. Her credo was training of the mind, voice, body, and spirit, her theory being that the body is a whole and that one element cannot operate independ ently of the other, a theory she never failed to expound, promote and promul gate. Some samples of her varied suc cesses: 1) Slimming of the hefty, adding needed weight to. the thin; 2) Successful coping with a parent who believed (literally) that raw meat was a proper diet for her daughter-stu dent; , 3) Teaching to speak an unfortu nate youngster, born Without palate, who had a man-made pajsde fabricated by a God-handed Duke suf^on. 4) Interim cbncentratecT attention to the so-called normal, talented, but lazy- tongued, lazy-minded and lazy-spirited who pass through her portals. Laura Plonk, onetime Kings Moun tain teacher, returned' here in 1930 to write and direct the sesqui-centennial pageant commemorating the Battle of Kings Mountain. The Sbuthern Work shop, its staff and full facilities “on lo cation’’ to Kings Mountain. Dr. Plonk remained a Kings Moun tain loyalist, as numerous Kings Moun tain friendaandTormer students will at=— test. Dr. Laura Plonk, a woman of un usual mind, voice, and spirit, if for years weak of body, was a Bible student and theologian, educator of especial ability, and platfonmist. She was some years a- head of her time. Shehas come home to Kings Moun tain at rest. Fiat Government Wrong The ends do not justify the means is a principle of principle. Lawyers are notably practitioners (as is their stated duty in the matter of clients’ protaganism and defense) of - endings justifying means. ' The practical habit does not make them right. | ^ ^hUs the veiry liberal, aging Justice Hugo Black, philosophically sympathe tic, decline to agree with eight other lawyer confreres of the United States Supreme Court in reminding that gov ernment by dictatorial hired-hand bu reaucrat directive, is not within the framework of democratic government and should not be. Concurrently with Monday’s Su preme Court decision on the validity of the 1965 civil rights act (which is why Cleveland County haS enjoyed a govern ment-paid census) and which makes it perihissible for one county to operate under one set of rules, another county under another, Commissioner Harold Howe of the Office of Education, De partment of Health, Education and Wel fare, jssued a directive inferring denial of frderal fundq unless his directive or “guidelines” arq followed. These guide lines are beamed at the south, undoubt edly apply (though it won’t be noted) elsewhere. Last summer’s run-around with ex- Commissioner of Education Keppqi on approval for federal school fuhds a sample of government by directive or fiat. : Mr. Justice Black is no't sympathe tic with the South’s' position on civil flights, but hC'heliCveS the fellow justices should not tdke q pre-conceived notion and find evlderoe. to support it. Justice’ Black believes a'.legal c^ntehtioh should be sustained, or denied, on basis of the facts, in courts of law< t I By MARTIN HARMON .A fevv yeai^s ago, as he attain- kI the age of 40, Hal Boyle, the As.-^ociated Press feature writer’, noted that his chief disbeneflt was ah intuitive change in read ing habit. No longer, he wrote, did ttre sports page and comic section get his first attention. I Now he turned first to the obitu- I ary edlumn. m-u ‘ Thus our friends depart our ! midst, as, last week, did one of I my favorite friends and kin, Dr. I Lairea Plonk. m-m i I was benefitted by her instruc- j tion at three summer terms of tier Asheville school, but earlier and later by many visits at her home, here, and elsewhere^ m-m Outstanding is the memory of the teen-age jaunt of Mary Foust Plonk Weaver, George Plonk, Aunt Laura, and me, with Leon ard Goodwin as chauffeur, to the Chicago World’s Fair in early autumn ’33. Not only did we visit Chicago and the Fair, but there were many side trips. George and I still recall the antiseptically clean stables of the Col. E. R. Bradley Farm, near Lexington, Ky., and our looksce at Burgoo King, winner of the Kentucky Derby. m-m In Chicago there was the the ater (young nrusidan Mary Foust spent that evening at the opera), a tour of MEirshal Field’s great department store, including the top floor Field candy kitchen, and baseball at Wrigley Field (Guy Bush pitched his 20th vic tory that day for the Cubs, and Paul Derringer, later to help pitch the Reds to two pennants, dropped his 21st for the Reds.) m-m Aunt Laura and my mother, good Lutherans, never had any doubt as to where we (R^ould do micile in Chicago, as the Hotel DuLac had placed advertising in the national Lutheran publica tion all summer. If advertised in the Lutheran, Hotel DuLac had to .ft's /V A- fot. ^O. ay <to, iTty SO THIS IS NEW YOBK By NORTH CALLAHAN es % i7o 9hb Ot ^/v to " if ^ % 'oa % O’lo 0 I' A. Aii/rih^ ///occzA/tv^ Viewpoints of Other Editors BYPASSING THE COURTS 1 I When the Justice Department! finds it necessary to assert that the Selective Service Act cannot be used to stifle any “Constitu tionally protected expression of views,” such as student protests against U. S. policy on Vietna.m, the public can hardly feci over whelming confidence in the way the draft law is being adminis tered. The Government’s position is stated by Assistant Attorney General Vinson ^in a letter to Senator Hart. The Michigan Democrat had questioned the re- be top rate. I have stayed since classification to 1-A of some Uni- - ■ versify of Michigan students in sorry hotels, but none have compared to DuLac, with its turn-of-century plumbing, lobby sitters who had all the appear ance attributed to Chicago gang land, and an unpleasant odor. TTie desk clerk even wanted pay in advance. Aunt Laura read clear his title. We stayed one night before fading an apart ment on 83rd street. who had staged a sit-in at the Ann Arbor, Mich., draft board offices to protest Vietnjun poli cy. Tht students were found guilty of trespass, under a local ordi nance, and were fined. Selective Service Director Hershey then declared that an existing execu tive order permits the Selective the polling booths in steadily in creasing numbers under the aegis of Federal law, could prove dis astrous to a party, which pro-, claimed, In te words of one of the comimitteemen who-opposed the change, that the ‘white race is Service System to reclassify any th^? .v^rld by the !hodv “found to he delinauent” mandate of Almighty God. ON-FOOT SAFETY Almost from the time a young ster begins to toddle, anxious parents comiTienie the “don’t run in the street” training, and even as the baby grows into a child, the words of warning—and some times the hand of discipline—re main as reminders. But a little later along, he be gins to hear that the pedestrian always has the right of way, that he is, in a sense, king of the road. The conception is popular today—and one can argue that, ;to a point, this is as it should i be. . . . With this responsibility, how- I ever, lies the equal moral obli gation of the pedestrian to be impact of Negro votere, enteringA'alert and of good judgment. Safe ty experts stress this responsibil ity, of course, throiugh education, promotion, arid other kin.ds of campaigns But too infrequently do the efforts include enforce ment. . . . PORTENTS Since 1904, the emblem of the Democratic Party in Ala'cama has been a crowing rooster with the line, “For the Right” under neath it and, over it, “White Su premacy.” Henceforth, the over- line will read simply “Demo crats.” The world does move. It would be pleasant to believe that abolishing “White Suprema cy” from the Democratic stand ard had come about as the result of a sober consideration of how erroneous the slogan was in light of the facts of the world and thj( ideals of America. Actually, hov^ ever, the Alabama State Demo cratic Committee took its action because it recognized that the m-m Another high spot was Sjurtclay body “found to be delinquent' dinner (after morning services, under the act. He ruled that the naturally) at the main 12th floor student demonstrators were de- dining room of what was then linquent because they interferred the Stevens hotel That was tall' with the local draft board opera- ' tions, such interference being a Walking west on 50th Street, I came across an interesting ex hibition called the Museqm. of Famous People. I have always admired great men and women, so I paused and went inside. In the front window was a life-size statue of King John of England just about to affix his se.al to the Magna Carta of 1215. Even in wa.x, John has a disgusted look on his face But when one realizes thiU he was givirtg up many prized personal rights to the people—many of which rights we cherish today—the reluctance of this early monarch appears much less important than the results. In an artificial but colorful set ting of woods and grass (repre senting Hoboken, New Jersey m 1804), Alexander Hamilton is shown lying on the ground in the amts of his second. The caption states, “he breathes his last, after his duel with Aaron Burr, j who is depicted standing over j; him triumphantly. This tableau T' is incorrect because Hamilton | was first taken to a hospital and j lived for more than two days It after the duel. Even so, the scene j dramatically shows the last sad act in the life of one who was in j many ways a great man. ! Another terminal episode is * portrayed in the impressive set- i ting of the Last Supper, based t on the famous painting of Leo-, t nardo da Vinci. This shows Christ ji gh the renowned ‘Upper Room dinirig with his disciples and pre- j,. paring for his Gethsemane And L then death on the cross. This solemn scene is mspiring in the * present day of trials and tribula- r; tions when m,en are still trying I'' to settle the . problems of the j world by mearis of violence and death. \ jj I- —3— • On a less serious note is a wax representation of Peter Minuit buying Manhattan Island for $24 worth of beads and trinkets. In this depiction, the Indian chiefs are shown as simple, child like individuals who are stupid enough to be cheated out of a great property. But there are people today who think that Pete may have gotten the worst of the bargain, especially when something like a blackout, a transit strike or drought comes along. These Indians were at least smart enough to get out be fore such calamities struck. cotton for us youngsters. The volume of traffic victims high percentage of tho.-n pe destrians—continues to be the But whatever the motives of i national tragedy. . . .Timid reme- the committee, the deed has been [dies can do little to erase it. done, and Alabama moves, belat-1 ediy, into the twentieth century. violation of the draft law. The Justice Department, on the other hand, -states that :no sue h executive urder exists. “Where opinion is expressed, if there is no transgression of law, then no sanctions can be impos ed,” the Department’s letter con- i ^ tinned. “If there is a transgres- |' Sion, then the sanctions which I attach to it”—in this case, pun ishment for trespass—“are all that should be applied.” Although Draft Director Her shey says he agrees that the draft law should not be used to punish people for their opinions, he has not yet retreated from his position that the students broke he draft law with their sit-in and thus were punishable. And Michigan Selrictiye Service officials have made in clear that they won’t nv)ve without fresh orders from headquarters. Whatever the exact legal rules in this case, eqxxity certainly de- m-m Our return was a bit out-of-the way, via Washington, D. C., a major excursion in its own right. m-m Except in the matter of driving an auta.Tiobile, Aunt Laura might well have been the inspiration for naming HMS Intrepid. She could manage a horse, but her princi pal falling driving the gas- driven model was in passing. When she came abreast the other car, she slowed to that car’s pace. Otherwise, valor was her forte, be it hailing a ride in Boston for herself and her companion in the horse-drawn milk-wagon, inform ing a WCA hotel clerk she would talk with me in the off-limits privacy of her eighth floor room (she did), imposing on segments of her fami-reared family the dietary regimen of Denver’s late Dr. John Tilden, or, minus prior appointment, talking about edu- imands that anyone accused of cation and politics with ex-Presi-1 breaking a law get a fair trial, dent Harry Truman in his library 1 If administrators acquire the office at Independence, Mo. 1 right to bypass the courts and • assess arbitrary punishment, then “•**» ] the safety not only of draft-age Aunt Laura was an ardent]youth but of all of us will be Democrat and took keen lay in-1 Indeed, the practical arguments advanced for eliminating the rac ist words from the ballot are themselves evidence of the imr TJortance of the ballot; testimony to the leverage which the vote gives the Negro in redressing long-standing grievances. New York Herald Tribune —3— At a realistic piano and look ing pleasantly pensive is a figure of George Gershwin, the late composer. To many of a genera tion ago, he represents the spirit of New York, with such songs as (But, in Norfolk tho approprl. .‘;n‘"“ouV ‘2,veX ate ordinances goveminj; pedes trians were put on the books in the first place to be enforced. And if a citizen on foot foolishly Ihinks he is indeed Jhe king of the road, the courtroom rnay be just te place to dethrone him— and perhaps save his life as well. Norfolk (Va.J Ledger-Star O PROMISE ME Miss Elizabeth 'Bowen, who serv'ed as his secretary, has re jected former Republican Nation al Chairman Dean Burch’s advice to get married rather than enter politics. Miss Bowen has decided to run for Congress in West Virginia’s 5th District. “Dean thinks I’m in-, j sane,” she said. t But we wonder if it’s such an 1 either-or proposition w'hen a girl chooses politics over marriage. After all, she is making a pro posal to the voters. During the campaiign she will walk down not one but many aisles to pledge vows of faithfuless and devotion to the electorate. She will throw bouquets to the people to the re frain of “O Promise Me.” Once the union is completed, there will be a honeymoon per iod for our political couple. The Come to Stay.” But like so many young talented people here and elsewhere, he burned his candle bright at both ends, so his gleam ing star of success flamed across the sky and set in a musical sea. Bernard Baruch sits serenely ; on a make-believe park bench, carrying on a legend that existed more in fancy than fact I knew him and it seemed that,his time was spent mainly high above 5th Avenue at 66th Street, where he iuu ym i,uxxt.va. cuufx.c. ^ millions which he length of the honeymoon depends ^ upon the compatibility of those 1 astronauts float joined at the polls. There will be lovers’ spats and possible recon- other scenes, and work in a simulated space station of the future. 'That our ciliations. The bride will become i . , ha« vpi he oer- with irtpa« | aerial system has yet to be fected, however, we are poiignant- reminded of in the recent terest in affairs of politics and government. m«ia Bible was a required course at the Plonk School of Creative Arts and Spiritual Training class was too, whether the student was Protestant, Cahollc, Jew. I recall no Moslem sudents, but these re quired courses would have appli ed to them. Another weekly all must-be-present gathering was (Character class, where one stu dent or .teacher. Including Aunt Laura, was the target end all attending analyzed the target, both on assets and li;abilitie.s. Some painful sessions occurred via the liability route, but the re sults were amazing in correcting poor personality habits and elim^ inating personal piques. m-m Kings Mountain’s Harold Plonk, Aunt Laura’s cousin, en rolled for a winter temv follow ing his World War II naval du- ty "Just why,” she asked him, “do you want to come to this school?" Harold’s reply, "I want to get the ready tongue.” m<m He got It, and much more, as did we all.' The Wall Street Journal FACT VS. FOLKLORE One definition "of “legend” in a new dictionary: “A popular myth of recent origin.” By this definition the United States has many legends. One of the most prevalent concerns “shiny new Cadillacs.” Formerly poor lamlUes, suddenly . becom ing prosperous ^ (especially Ne groes) are supposed to be driv ing around in these status sym bols It'is salutary to have legends checked. We think a recent pro fessional survey of the Negro market, made for a radio chain, did a useful job in exploding one of them. The surveymakers went Into both Negro and white homes and listed, with brand, names, commodities found on pantry Sheflves. 'in hasements, aniTttt the curbside. They found evidence that Ne gro families tended to buy adver- ttsed brands; But they discover ed nary a new Cadillac In the Negro cenremunity. We wonder how many other AmerlcMi legends would fade in the light'of surveys. ' The Christian Science Monitor impregnated with ideas It’s a toss- of the coin as to whether there will eventually be a divorce or a happy ever-Mter. But there’s no question that it is a marriage that is here proposed. The Charlotte Observer I .eath of two of these daring young men. But it does appear appropriate to end this verbal tour of a museum which is quite interesting and worthwhile, 10 Items of Afounfoin TEARS AGO THIS WEEK netos area events taken from files of the Kings Herald. cibout King people am the Ids Mountain Bruce Thorburn, former per sonnel manager of Burlington Industries Phinix Plant, as3Ui.n- ed the duties Monday of person nel manager of Lithium Corpor ation of America’s Bessemer City plant. Joe O’Shields, recently with Excelsior Finishing Plant, Pen dleton, S. C., joined Neisler Di vision of Massachusetts Mohair ^‘'Kish Co. Monday. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL New officers of the Women of the Church of Matthew’s Lu theran church were elected Mon-, day night. The Kings Mountain Garden club wllfdisplay daffodils and camellias at First Union Nation al Bank Tuesday. KEEP YOUR RADIO DIAL SET AT 1220 WK Kings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the ' half hour. ’"'A Fine entertainment in between