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2 KtN6$ MOUNTAIN HERALD, KtNSS MOUNTAIN, N. C. Thursday, March 24, 1966 Thursd Estcdslished 1889 X'HoilhCato' n* > SS ASSOCl'IlO The Kings Moimtain Hei4<l A weekly newspap'*’* devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published fir liu? mllfihtenriu-i.t, ^iiiertainment and benefit of the eitizerts of Kings Mountain •n4 Ita vicinity, puDlished every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. KnUred oa second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., under Ac^ of Congress of March 3, 1873. " ~ EDITORIAL OEEARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Gary Stewart Sports Editor Miss Klitabeth Stewart Circiriaflon Manager and Society Editor lobby Bolin MECHANICAL OEi^ARtlKNT Dave Weathers Paul Jackson Steve Ramsey Allen SUBSCRIPTIONS RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE fiWE year .. $3:50 SIX MONTHS .. ^.00 THREE MONTHS .. $125 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE For so is' fhe 'wiU of God, that ibith iceU doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of fooUf>h men. I Peter 2:15. Mi. Whlteiier ^ llM Hedtetficting ofvthe states congre^ sioRal districts seriously debilitated changes of the North .Carolina Demo cratic lArty in its aspiritioM to send home CdfiE'ressman Charles Raper Jon as, of the eighth district, and James Broyhill, of the ninth, as Jonas lost normally Democratic counties, while Broyhill ‘‘gained” Republican Wilkes. Meantime, tears were shed for poor Representative Basil L. Whitener, who was deprived of solidly Democratic Rutherford in return for GOP leaning Alexander and Iredell. , A perusal of the 1964 election re turns show's, had today’s tenth (Jistrict been_aligned the same way, and assum ing the same number of GOP and Dem ocratic votes. Congressman Whitener would still have been going-away win ner by about 17,000 votes. That would be 5000 shy of the 23,000 margin by which he defeated W. Hall Young in the tenth,.in ’64. An analysis of the results of two years ago shows further that Alexander County isn’t as Republican as advertis ed, as Broyhill had less tham a 600 vote margin over his Democratic oppo nent. Iredell gave Broyhill a 2300 vote margin. In gaining WUkes county while losing Iredell, Mr. BroyhUl stands to , gain a solid 1000 votes extra. While losing Rutherford, Mr. White ner also lost Mitchell, where Whinner w’as second runner by 1500. 2^'" Last year’s election, of course, nas little to do with setting the exact price of eggs on 1966’s but is interesting for trends and indications. The fact is that Mr. Whitener is Mr. Whitener and not Robert M. Davis who opposed Mr, Broyhill and that per- sonalitiesj political acumen, and prior voting records also figure in any elec tion. There are diehard Democrats and diehard Republicans. There are diehard Independents, who, more often than not, switch par ties with regularity. These make and break candidates as is particularly evi denced in the handsome majorities com piled by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Demo crat, and Dwight D, Eisenhower, Repub lican. In the instance of Mr. Whitener, his five terms in the House of Representa-r tives have resulted in his escalation up the ladder of seniority to important po sitions on the District of Columbia com mittee and the Judiciary committee, the latter among the House's ihost iitepor- tant and handling more than half fhe legislation processed by the House. Seniority in the House is good and bad —'good if one has it, bad if one doesn’t. Mr. Whitener confided recently to this newspaper that, had it not been for embarrassing his supfiorters, he would have stepped down at the end of his first term. A neophyte ih the House of Representatives is a personal exTand boy for the citizens of his^ district and little else. This newspaper has hot always agreed with some of Mr. Whitener’s po sitions and is sure it will not in the fu- ture. But North Carolina can ill afford to lose the services of one of the state’s more senior representatives. Meantime, the Herald would be in clined to make a small wager that GOP- leaning Iredell will get the leans back toward the Democrats come November '66. Power-Selling Argument The Shelby Daily Star editorialized this week concerning the 1965 fight m the General Assembly, whereby.power selling cities were restricted seriously in future expansions and extending of city limits. Mayor John Henry Moss told a neighbor, who lives adjacent to the city limits, “We don’t major in taxation. That merely pays for a few services like police protection and garbage collection. We’re in the utility business.” The neighbor was needing some city services, but was a bit leery of plac ing upon his textile firm another annual property tax bill. A little penciling will reveal the Mayor W’as patently correct. Back in 1908, aifter five years of ef fort, Kings Mountain became a distribu tor of power. It was good business for both the city, w'hich needed electrical service, and for the power generator (now Duke Power Company). In that era, the power generator wanted only the wholesale side of the business, not the retail variety. Times, of course, have changed. But Eluke Power Company has pros pered and grown fabulously, and, if Kings Mountain hasn’t kept pace, it is a certain fact the tortoise would never have left the starting gate had it not been for its power sales. The dimension of natural gas was added in 1954 and is another continuing success story. But the 1965 General Assembly ac cepted the power lobby’s recommenda tions, with Rural Electrical Coopera tives a now-regretful partner, to abolish the old law whereby, when a power selling city expanded, it had the right to purchase outlying power distribution facilities. Gastonia purchased Duke’s facili ties after expanding the city limits a decade agarriir It is very difficult for tax bills alone to carry all the demanded freight of sewage and water service, street-pav ing, police and fire protection, garbage collection and disposal, and the many others citizens need and demand. There seem two major avenues of recourse: 1) relief by the 1967 General Assembly, and 2) entry by the cities in to the power generating business. A pos sible, if not complete means, is purchase of power from federal government hy dro plants. Kings Mountain, Shelby, and Gas tonia, preferring to continue a long friendship with Duke, gave short shrift to salesmen from the government’s Hartwell Dam, only to find, a few months later, that Duke and confreres no longer felt need of old friends. The Star quotes Governor Dan Moore as indicating he will give consid eration to the city’s plea in their efforts to get action in next year’s legislature. The Governor, who sat on his hands ^n this issue in ’65, would do much to recoup himself in the graces of these 73 cities, if he does decide to include the third member of the power-distributing business in his counsels. lamM C. l^lBy The Herald knew that Jim Jolley WM not well, but that knowledge did not (xnpeiisate for the shock of his death *«fly this week at 50. He was known to numerous Kings MNUtSte citizens as the lanky Shelby ter, who, for several seasons, e Star’s Kings Mountain beat, competitor for ReNB he Was liiia lionorabM, and he and this »r were perccjiiMi friends. to kia ^iniliyi which __6 minister i*» Yifvt Bap* MARTIN'S MEDICINE fHffVAHents: bits of nem UTisdofn, humor, and comments Directions: Take weekly, ij possible, but avoid By MARTIN HARMON Back in 195^1, when the city built its fLi-st mcKiern-typc sew age disposal plant on McGill Creek, the engineers contended that the ti'eatcd effluent was quite potable and palatable both from standpoint o£ sanitation and from the standpoint of taste. .m-m Then-Mayor Glee A. Bridges dec-la red he wouldn’t 'ce doing any sampling and I never hoard that the engineers, nor anyone else, sampled either. m-m After the returns were compil ed on the recent $1,300,000 sew age system bond election, J. R. Davis, the veteran city attorney, was reminiseJeg concerning dam ages brought property owners against the city, who charged that the city’s sewage effluent was poisoning the water in the creeks and causing the loss of livestock. m-m “Everybody along the creeks sued us and e\ erybody collected,’’ Mr. Davis recalls, adding, “I thought w'e had Clyde Randle beaten." "May I cut in?" SO THIS IS IVEW YORK By NORTH CALLAHAN ^ NEW N.C. GOP SWING, % :h Some people here shake their heads and figuratively their fists — at Charles DeGaulle. The intransigent president of France, now 7.5, seems to grow more stubborn*with .the years, and wants our troops out of France after we have come to theii- res cue in two world wars. But there are those who 'defend DdGaulle. One c.\pert says the French lead-, er is really not a man of i.T;ystery but that this quality is part of his character because it allows' him to advance or withdraw in any situation without losing face. DeGaulle believes profoundly, says this "authority, in a fate which is stronger than men and knows how to take advantage of un/oresecn events; and the years iu^, ,iu^, might show that he is right. A little boy ran to his mother and said, “Do you know. Mommy, that daddy took me to the zoo and one of the animals went and paid $18.40 across the board.” // eop —3 PARTY m-m Mr. Davis had stretched him self the last mile to win the suit for the city. He had retained a consulting chemist to examine the Beason's Ci-eek water cours ing through the Randle farm and placed his consultant on the wit ness stand. After the consultant had made his declarations as to the relative purity cf the water In this area, Attorney Davis reached for a glass of wateti on the table and drank it. Did the consultant know. fram wJiere the water had come? He did. Would e tell the court? LEADERS I ai^n ‘That glass of w^ter came from Beacon’s Creek oh the dlyde Randle farm," the consult ant declared. “I filled the glass myself.’’ Viewpoints of Other Editors RED TAPE IN BRITAIN RUN-AWAY NYLONS (The little girl cutlery case loas removedA^SKr her mo ther’s *eare to a chilm-en^s home because the mother insisted thai the child wipe school cutict'y, be fore eating, with a paper nap kin.) ^Chemistry did a giTat thing: for women when it gave them ny-! Ions, Sheerer and stronger than ! silk. World War II experience : wEth ^ton and rayon subsfTfufes ’made wearers appreciate nylon all they more. 1 BURIED TREASURE But you can’t expect chemically In a day when everything tends to get catalogued and recorded on punch cards, an unexpected discovery • of buried treasure readily stirs the imagination In France a treasure worth more PCobert J. Smith is s^d to be the only man 'in the natioh licensed by the Federal Commuhications Commission to operate a door bell. Since he is both blind and deaf, Mr. Smith cannot see visit ors at his door nor can he hear a bell or knock. In order to remedy this situation, an especially de signed radio transmitter has been attached to his doorbell on - his apartment here. When the button is pushed, the transmitter signals to a tiny reciever in his pocket, which starts a vibrator. buzzing. Even with all the new empha sis on higher education, scene silly things occur. Take the titles The wildest satirist of our mad, i hosiery to have no faults at | than $5 million , has come to light j of some recent, doctoral theses, Mr. Davis said he slept well that night, but that "Clyde .got me the next day”. Mr. Randle brought into court a big pail of water wMch, he, too, testified • was retracted from Beason’s Creek on the Randle FaritL Mr. Davis did not volunteer to sam ple any of that murky, green al gae filled water, about whidi moaqtt^oes and flies were swarming. causing a run on counters. the stocking m-m “We had to pay Clyde $500,’’ Attorney Davis recalls. m-m It is natural that, in the course of tmany years of practice, Mr. Davis has had many interesting experiences, has won cases he ex pected to lose and lost cases, like the Randle one, which he felt he had surely won. m-m One of his good loss stories concerns right-of-way litigation with the state highway depart ment when the first two-lane road, directly to Gastonia, was under construction in the thirties. , J. . ,, , , . i all. The girls working in the city jmad, mad. mad world would not • Jacksonville. Fla., were have dared to invent two affairs | made embarrassingly aware of j that have just—and rightly —hit 1 this fact one day recently Sud- the headlines. Both concern young Iwithout warning, thc;r I stockings began to run-four, * ■ ' j five runs (or ladders, as the Brit- The one was disqualified in a would say) to a leg. swimming . championship, after j The Jacksonville stenographers she had come in f^rth, beca^sfe^ rushed out to buy replace',r.mt 5 she had broken tb» rules by hM, ■ ing cmly one leg. The other, the heroine of the now famous servi ette for wiping cutlery at school meals has 'ceen the cent-al ficr- explanation. What chemis- meais, nas ceen tne central fi„ l Nylon, ure tn a farce . . of Dickensian | made from acids, is resistant to caricatures. . . ; many things vmt not to sulfuric j acid. Andvparticles (ft that chem- Among those playing in this jcal were found in i&mes of an impressive cast, in support of the ' industrial oil bbwn | in from a little leading lady, were the! nearby plant. The same effect the private art Claude Monet. collection^of ! for example. One is “Every Per- j feet Being Can be Perfectly De fined”. (Now why does this re- 1 One of his sons, it turns out, I had quietly hidden away the col lection of 92 oils, water colors, I and gouaches, Including more I than 60 of Monet’s own works. ' Now, the son has bequeathed it j to the Academic des Beaux-Arts I in' Parrs: 1-~ * - j quire a long study?) Or a “Study t of the Micro-Climate in the Cow j Barns of the Estonian Republic.” (No comment.) And take a l®ok j at this gem: “Metamorphosis of I the Nervous System in the Dum- , brosacral and Caudal Regions of I the Frog.” (Just what our men I irt Vietnam need to read.) What ^ The celebrated impressionist I about “The Survival of Adrena- What mysterious force caused ; painter of landscapes, like many i lectomized Cats in Experi'.nental- this phenomenon? There was a [another talented and original ar-■ ly Induced Pseudo-Pregnancy”? tist, was rejected at the official I (My"apologies' to you typeset- Salon and snubbed by the Louvre. I ters). But if this subject for a Thus the son’s decision to leave j learned paper sounds ridiculous, the collection to the less conven tional, more adventuresome Be-aux Arts. Among the collection unearth- consider “Uses of the Su'ojunctive in King Alfred’s Old English Version of Boethius’s ’DeConso- latione Philosophae’-” (Feeling lime icuuiiig lauy, weie me , t—- - . “ / ' ^as gone about far Home Secretarv the Attornev i observed about 20 years i ed was onb of Monet s many ver- ' enough, I venture just one more.) ^ • . before in this spot when weather sions of the west front of the 1 "a Comoarative StudV of thi cohditions were the same. General; the local M.P., learned Counsel, Magistrates, Children’s | | Officers, and. last but not least, i indicates one tjiing to us: Modern che.Tistiiy and Cinde rella’s fairy godmother have a Headmaster and the leading lady’s Mama. Between them, their time, like that of the Guard in Alice Through the Glass, must have been almost “worth a thousand pounds a minute.” something in comm m. With a swish the good fai y provided Looking i elegant attire for a i aggedy maid but caused it to dis ippear when the clock struck tvv Ive. Chemis try rarely indulges i i such whim- Rouen cathedral. Fascinated with the effect produced by changes in the direction, intensity and quality of light, he painted over and over again a particular site, revealing it at all hours, of the day, under different clii.matic conditions, and at different r sea sons of the year. A Comparative, Study" of the Breathing and Speech Cooixlina- tions of Laryngectimized and Normal Subjects, Including an Evaluation of the Relationships Between the Breathing and Speech Coordination of the La- ryngectimozed and their Judged ’ Intelligibility.” Later in life Monet maintained m-m Among others, he was repre senting Dr. J. E Anthony with his farm on the right-of-way. Mr. Davis recalls that the case was proceeding well -for his side, with his plaintiff’s supporting witness es seeming to have much the up per edge in weight with the jury. Then th«re was a sudden turn, as a highway department lawyer asked thsrt the judge instruct the jury to visit the site and to ex amine the poenttal benefits and disbenefits for themselves. The judge so ordered. “I knew in stinctively we had lost,” said Mr. Davis, "and we had.” Their combined efforts, so far, I have produced results that bear I a strong family resemblance to those achieved by the noble Duke of York, when he marched his •Tien to the top of the hill and marched them down again. Their victim, having been taken away from home, and put in institution al custody, has been restored to the arms of her parent. sical acts. So if one ; in 20 years i ^hat he was engaged in a search it plays havoc with girls’ stock- ' ■—j mgs, we cannot be :o hard on it. (Christian Sc ence Monitor The average Protestant minis- Lcraro rtMik Helped People Of All Am Asheville Miss Laura Plofik, head of the Plonk School of Creative Arts, was a dynamic force in the educational and cultural life of Asheville and Western North Carolina for many years. The work she and her sister, Miss Lillian Plonk, have done in dframatics and speech for people of all ages is well known. Students whom they have help ed to creative careers ar^ active in many parts of the United States. But perhaps the moat heartwarm ing work Miss Laura did was with the children in the Grfive Italic and what later became the Plofik.School. She al ways saw the brightest j^sslbilities in each child and she never gave up try ing to develop each one’s potential spdpk She and her sistir upheld the highest spiritual ideals, and tlMY did not hesi tate to teach the dtfWrertce between right and wrong, 'fhey Inspired the young people who knew them to love what is good and beautiful. Tto world to a hpbur bocauao Mtoa Laura lived and worked here in AsWillo. <aa-m It has only been in the past ten to twelve years that the highway department has been reasonable to some degree in its approach to right-nl-way matters and with some reason. The old rule-of- thumb, particularly on rural pro perty, was that right-oif-way could be given happily, as a new roadbed owned road frontage inferenUally doubling the value of the ne# frontage. But modem road-buildhKg engineering, in in terest of safety, controls access and follows straigbter linl^. The result is that new frontage moat often produces ravines on one side of the road and hills on the other. The property damages are real. Gene White, Kings Mountain native, after many years of serv ice, is now fhe chief appraiser of the state highway commissioh nattnally does not relish the up coming ehore of getting the U. S '7’4 by-pass right-of-way through Kinga Mountain, since virtuaUiy all the piDperty owners are long term friends. • ai*m I have had a few right-of-way dtaUhVa with Gone Ih tlinst past aAd tiwy were mnicable and •Rnt. The powers that we have, of (X>ur9e, been at pains to argue that the majestic progress of jus tice has not in fact been deflect ed. Well, the faces must be sav% ed. . . . This case and its companion in fatuity, that of the swimmer de nied the reward of pluckily over coming a physical handicap, (Minnie exactly within Bergson’s definition of the coniic;. ..“Sonne- ehing mechanical, encrusted on the living. ORANGES Taxpayers who tljiink our Gov- j ernment is pretty imaginative in coming up with new levies may be interested in whet’s going on in England. Over theri* the tax men are claiming that i hotel whose waiters squeeze orknges to pro- for unity within multiplicity and ; ter receives $6,358 a year, ac- for permanence under a total di-1 ^ Tn, it •. i versity of appearance. This seems i ^ Umled to us to state succinctly the par- j Presbyterian Church pays it adox of France. j ministers best. Next in order^ come the Disciples of Christ, the The French tendency to come down harder on the “multiplicity” ■and “diversity” than on the “uni ty” and “permanence” still ling ers, apparently, at the highest levels. We hope, at least, that underlying it all is Monet’s self value of the He pictures a man making him self a laughing-stock by tripping over a stone when he should have altered his pace or avoided the obstacle. Instead, through lack af elesticity, through a kind of obstinacy, as a result of rigidity or of momentum, he continues to perform the same moverent when the circumstances of the case called for something else. That man got his laugh — and so lo those mixed up in these two current examples of how not to handle human problems, great or small. 15% levy"on the juice produced. There’s little chance that such an approach will be tried in the U. S., where tax men generally tend to favor less devious ap proaches. Which Icf've a lot of us feeling, at about this time of year, like used Br tlsh oranges: Squeezed. . . Wall Street Journal The Christian Science Monitoi’ Southern Presbyterian., Church, the Episcopal Church and the American Lutheran Church. Min ister’s salaries have increased 24 per cent since 1956, compared with the public school teachers’ salary increase of 42 per cent. -3— As our society becomes more and more prey to bureaucracy and officialdom at all levels— kind-hearted, well-meaning, and too often boneheaded in blind obedience to procedurea that do not fit the matter in hand—the need grows for men and women who are no respecters of protoetd fdr own aaka. Nad is no gul>^ute for eouuann senaa. ^ .J, Th0 Times (Lcfndonf 10 tears ago THIS WEEK Items of Uounfedn news area events taken from files of the Kings Herald. about King people am ihe 195 Mountain Kings Mountain high school seniors will present “Varsity Va rieties” Thursday and Friday eve- nhiga at 8:15 p.m. in the school auditorium. ' Jack White, Kings Mountain attorney, was elected president of the Kings .Mountain Country Club board of directors at a meeting last Saturday morning. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Kings Mountain Chapter 123, Order of the Eastern Star, will install new officers at a public installation service Friday night at 8 o’clock at Masonic Hall Margrace Woman’s club hdld its regular meeting Thursday atobt at the home of Mrs. Paul Maunay. Mrs J. B. Foster was 'cd-htosfess. keeptoubbadiodiusetit 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. Ne'Ws & Weather e'very hour on the hour. Weather every hour, on the half hour. 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