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KINGS MOUNTAIN HH^Lp. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Thursday, March 31, 1966
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Egtablished 1889
The Xinl^ hfoiintain. Herald
A wfisktw nswsnsi?***' dewpted to tho promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enllghtennici.t, entertainment and Ijenefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain
and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
Enter^ as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873.
editorial department
Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher
Gary Stewart Sports Editor
Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Soaety Editor
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Honour the Lord with thy substance anduHth the firstfruUs of all thine increase.
Piwcrbs 3:9.
The News Is Bad
Major news events of the ctiPrCnt
week have not only been unpleasant,
but plainly bad, with tragic deaths due
to accident and fire.
Perhaps worse is revelation that a
cache of liquor and beer, valued whole
sale at $5000, has been stolen from the
sheriff’s double-lock vault, if not by.
members of the sheriff’s department,^
then by others wearing deputies’ uni
forms and driving county patrol cars.
Suppressed, while Sheriff Haywood
A?len, SBI Agent John Vanderford,
Shelby Police Chief Knox Hardin and
others sought vainly to solve the iden
tity of the thieves, the new’s finally
came out, bearing out the old adage, “If
two people know it„,’tain’t secret long.”
The Sheriff announced, at a news
cotiference at which he reported the
thefts of March 3 and 16, that he was
suspending Deputies B. A. Williams and
Lawrence Brown, onetime Kings Moun
tain citizen. While the Sheriff safd he
made no accusations, the inference is
obvious he holds the two highly suspect.
As the matter rested Tuesday, there
are some obvious conclusions:
1) A duo of Shelby patrolmen need
to be trained to have more inquiring,
yea, curious, if not suspicious, minds.
2) Patrolmen, accustomed to giving
testimony in court, know they must be
sure of identities of accused persMis^ or
see a defense attorney tear their testi
mony into shreds.
3) The county school fund is minus
$5000, proceeds of sales of confiscated
hooch accruing to this fund.
Noting that much of the whiskey _
and beer were confiscated as long ago'
as October, several have inquired as to
wl>y the cache was not disposed of
through regular Alcholic Board of Con
trol channels.
Until disproved, this newspaper as
sumes there is a plausible answer.
Nothing shakes the morale of a po
lice force, a city, county or state than
to find corruption in law enforcement
organizations.
At the moment, the trials and tribu
lations of Chicago and Denver, and
more recently of Atlanta, where ^lice-
men were operating a theft gang, have
come to Cleveland County.
Sheriff Allen, onetime Kings Moun
tain citizen and policeman, has been a
respected sheriff for almost 15 years.
He pledges to bend every effort to bring
the thieves to the bar of justice, no mat
ter how long required.
Glee Actor Bridges
When ex-Mayor Glee Bridges enter
ed the hospital, his yellow complexion
confirmed for the layman the inedical
diagnosis of infectious hepatitis. He
felt fine, he said, but dreaded most the
prospect of two to four w'eeks of isola
tion. Indeed, he suggested jokingly such
a long period without seeing his friends
would dictate reservation of a room in
his name at a mental institution.
He failed to respond to treatment
and his death followed last week at the
age of 71.
Glee Bridges had little formal edu
cation, yet he onetime taught school.
After completing the seventh grade and
with no school within traveling (walk
ing) distance, he repeated the seventh
grade twice, then was its teacher the
following year.
From these humble beginnings, he
became a quite successful businessman,
board of education member, county
commission chairman, and finally May
or of Kings Mountain.
He was by nature an extrovert, con
firmed by a wallet ful of membership
cards, from the Baptist church to the
Masonic order, to fraternal organiza
tions and veterans organi?ations.
He liked to fish, to hunt, and^ shoot,
and enjoyed to the full his several roles
in government.
But his favorite pastime was enter-
I tabling children, no matter the identity
of their parents. His approaching red
jeep was a sure sign of bubble gum o i
the way. They called him “Glee”, just
as their elders did. Two of his daught-
ers-in-law’ are teachers. One informed
her class Mr. Bridges had passed and
asked how many knew him. All raised
their hands. The other also informed her
class. One little fellow said, “I know.
My Mother told me. Santa Claus is
dead.” It was an apt reminder that Mr.
Bridges enjoyed his Santa Claus role
and maintained his own costume.
The flags here flew at half-mast in
honor of Glee Bridges — a deserved
tribute to a man who spent 23 years in
public service.
Usuol GOP Conoids
Utsrocy Test Oni
Cleveland is among 40 counties al
ready informed that its 1964 election
vote was insufficient in relation to pop
ulation, with the result that t|ie state’s
literacy test (reading a section of the
state’s constitution and copying it) will
nq longer be applicable, due to the fed
eral civil rights law.
Qleveland, though the law was on
the books, hadn’t employed the literacy
test for many, many years until 1963
and ti>en on instructions from the state
board of elections which, under federal
goveniment and Negro extremist group
pressure, felt the letter of the law should
be followed.
Cleveland ordered a long over^e
new registration in the spring of ’63, and
it resulted in disenfranchispig some
ciMsens, White and Black, though the
total was not great
Argument continues, and will, over
JPRcy requirements. One citizen, quot-
: heretofore, comments, “A person who
read and write hasn’t the basic
to vote.” Another replies, ‘*Walt
a j^ute. You've known many people
wto \vore smart as a briar if not Tetter-
' mie Herald belongs to the lifter
particularly since the advent of
rmU' RRd subsequently ef television.
A_j«>*ninent Kings Mountain clti-
complied wh^n Rr|^b-
Cranford asked ix he could
l iillRili write. Then he becggie secfone,
mm «RW, “My Mother surely
iniilt this requbrement l^’s
R keei) intemt in politics ,
-f HJl ner life. But she can’t.
Ljilld she won’t be able to vot
The Herald and other newspapers
would have done well perhaps to omit
a paragraph in a recent Republican 10th
district news release in which it was
said the three GOP aspirants for the
dubious distinction of losing to Con
gressman Basil L. Whitener agreed:
1) Mr. Whitener is a rubber stamp
congressman; and
2) Mr. Whitener is the choice of
party bosses.
On canard 1, the House of Repre
sentatives tally clerk has recorded Mr.
Whitener’s vote on as many issues as
any member of the body during the
nearly ten years he has served, with
many against administration proposals.
“The President wouldn’t agree," Mr.
Whiterier commented.
On canard 2, Mr. Whitener must
laugh, since everyone knows it’s a free
country and anyone and everyone want
ing to pay the $^ filing fee and add a
“£>” beside his name would have ap
peared on the ballot against hbn in the
May Democratic primary. He can get a
second and better laugh from the Re
publicans waxing holier-than-thou at
this, only their second primary contest
for Congress in many ye^.
The Republican party is quite wise
in contriving a primary at any and all
levels, prelude to greafor voting streng
th in the general election.
toald’t glRd mj RR8
MB htfin IR
l^rogativIUSSiR^U
As an aside, such statements re
mind that Bill Cobb, of Morganton, the
onetime GOP chairman, Is back in harn
ess, as district cmalmian.
There is always partlSBh Rininuni*
Iw^t
ticHi aplenty in fighting n)opt issues, and
Mlt. Whitener is on the recen).
Chairman Cobb’s speech here dur-
lets
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
IngredienHi W9 of new»
wisdom, hMnor, and comments
Directions: Take weekly, j]
possible, but avoid
By MARTIN HARMON
But what about the people?
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I met Mrs. Cecil Sanlord, mo-
tiier of Terry Sanford, at the
GoMnnor’s Mansion in 19613.
Timo-Life reporters had Visited
her in contemplation of a story
concerning her sQn but one ques
tion she had answered only by
specuiation. Where had Terry got
his interest in politics? She said
he never show^ political inclin
ations in high school, guessed
the\ were acquired and nurtured
at the University of North Caro
lina.
In his recently published “But
What About the People?” (Har
per and Row), Terry answers
the question. He dedicates the
book to his late father, from
whom he derived his interest i»
polities, and to his mother, from
whom he derived his interest in
education.
Passport
L.
The title of the book comes
from a Carl Sandburg poe.m.
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The former Governor writes
well, interweaving the history of
his educational program and the
political work required for its a-
doption with interesting human
interest anecdotes. The opening
one concerns a Christmas-tree
hunting expedition in extrenqelj'
cold weather when T'erry was
seven. His father, older brother
and he came upon a shack in the
woods and saw smoke curling
out the chimney. The fire I'auild-
er (the shack door being the
fuel) was a man named Ran
dolph, who smelled of canned
heat and wore a threadbare
World War I overcoat. ,In cnid-
Depression, jobs were scarce and
the man had none, though he
had a b>K family. A son named
Honey was a grade school class
mate of .Terry’s and was what
teachers referred to as being a
problem pupil. He was soon a
dropout and at 14 committed to
a reformatory. It was the last
acquaintance of Terry with the
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Viewpoints of Other E(iitors
CAVERN CLUB A-GO-GO
HELP WANTED
In these days govern- j At first glance the statistics
ments expect to 6ea target of I on une.T.ployment in the United
protesting youth, it could not ~
have surprised Prime Minister
BLOW TO
EAVESDROPPING
so THIS IS
NEW YORK
By NORTH CALLAHAN
An accident took place in a
suburb which may help to explain
why some of -our young ,people
act aSx they do. A doctor was
avvakcrad at 1-a.m., he told me,
by a knock at his door. There he
found three young men, dishevell
ed and bloody. Excitedly they
told him their car was wrecked
nearby and when the doctor went
to the street to investigate, he
found the vehicle upside down.
It was miraculous that they were
not killed. After administering
first aid to the injured youths,
the doctor tried to telephone
their parents. The phone did not
answer in any of their three
homes. Finally, in order to be
sure, the doctor hot into his own
car and with the young men,
drove some ten miles to the home
of one of them. After ringing the
doorbell for some time, the doc
tor was finally greeted sleepily
by the mother. She did not seem
surprised a^mut the accident;
and when she^told her husband
about it, he would not even get
out of bed to help
A hat was passed around a
certain church congregation for
the purpose of taking up a col
lection for the visiting minister..
Presently it was returned to him
-stark empty. Slowly and de
liberately the parson inverted the
hat and shook it meaningly. Then
raising his eyts to hi?h heaven,
he exclaimed fervently, “I thank
thee, dear Lord, that I got my
hat back from this congrega
tion.”
Richard Gehman, the author,
says, that "One of the specialties
i of iny mother’s kitchen that 1
c,, , ... j u 1 "rhe Federal Communications j hated most was fried, green to-
Stat^, just released, are cheer- ha's-struck a blow on matoes, which -because she and
mg. Industry IS reaj^ing for help ! behalf of the citizen’s right to j ^y father loved them—she serv-
,-V,.. ho issued a ruling Ld incessantly all through each
when heied and has bi ought the late of vvhich will prohibit anyone, oth- summer. After I left home for
er than law enforcement officers, j good I never ate them—but one
to eavesdrop on strictly private i day a few' summers ago, while
conversations by the use of radio-; working in nry garden, I sudden-
transmitting devices. I ly thought about them and had
an overpowering desire to eat
them. I cut off a few firm green
The commission declared, “The
ry to parole a young prisoner
serving a sentence for man
slaughter. As he neared the end
of his plea, the lawyer remark-
ed». “povemqr, you prpbably
know of this boy. His father was
Honey Randolph, who w-as killed
in South Carolina a few years a-
go."
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Terry did not note what he did
about the plea for parole, but
wrote that the plight of the Ran
dolph family constituted three
generations of poverty with more
likely to follow. Sonewhere, he
reasoned. North Carolina had
f«il^ the Randolphs and many
lers like them. It confirmed
Terry’s decision to promote edu-!
cation.
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EJyen before announcing for
Governor, Terry was criss-cross
ing the state making advance ar
rangements for -4he campaign.
Adtiressing a small group, he ex
pounded his education ideas and
invited questions. One lady, in
heckling tone and manner, ask
ed, "Where you gonna get the
money?” Irked, Terry replied in
irked tone, “From taxes.” The
audience applauded.
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iBert Bennett, his Winston-Sa
lem campaign manager, and an
other aide w^ere present. En route
home Terry told his friends they
had witnessed a new phenomena
in North Carolina. Did they real
ize that his “from taxes” reply
drew applause? Bert teased, “We
know what you said, but I don’t
think the audiencA did. They
and pepper
and basil, and fried them until
breakfast,
the more effective espl^jage de-1 with sausages and grits.”
vices. Violators Will risk a $500 ! —3—
Harold Wilson to be handed a
petition by teenagers
stepped from his train in Liver- j those listed as unable to get work
pool recently. But the subject of i down to 3.7 percent. This is the
the appeal may have struck him ■ lowest point since the Korean
as unusual. j war when thousands of unem-
The 5,000 youthful signers, all ' ployed were hired by industry,
j loyal Beatle fans, icegged hji.Ti to! would seem as if the employ-
I revive the Cavern Club, the spot j problem in this country; right of privacy is precious and : tomatoes, sliced them, dipped
Randolphs until Terry was Gov- j J i ''“’dually solved for the : should not be sacrificed to the ' them in eg-g and then in flour
ernor. A lawyer was urging Ter- i^ quick j eavesdroppers’ needs without! seasoned with salt
o this very a-go-go Club, itjeems,, jook at the help-wanted section of |
a-went-went when the ^atles j any big city newspaper shows ji they were light brown I can’t un
left it for new fields. ThfSe^le j where the trouble lies. Openings' ruling will be to make industrial j derstJnd what was the matter
reopened j are plentiful, but practically all ^ spying much more difficult since | with me as a child. The tomatoes
the skilled ^nd^perienc- it will ban the use of many oF made a great breakfast, along
possibility of youth demandmgi p'd, such, as project Ihgineers, ’ ' '
more such landmark preserva-i computer programmers^, time-
tion. Might not the discothque keepers, and sd on. Or if a skill
buffs in France decide to petition jg ^ot demanded, education is. An
Premier Georgy Pompidou to advertisement for a bus girl spe-
search- out the first dance record , cifies “i.must be high school grad-
recird club and save it for pcs l-uate”
' ^hat the low Unemployment
SnaTSll i that some
. .. areas have more jo.s than peo-
humble h^mes^in Italy^where theijjf by any state eavesdropin
MrcaTS^n“r/
like-the idea. But how is Premier j ^e'J*lL’^^nem^^oyment rate
to' M-eserve’ The storv of oizza 1 announced, the Department of
^ I Conri.T.erie reported a special Los
^ ' Angeles census which showed
9'“vSil—r, iz
kids. But the story never tells i ^ ^
which mother did this. Perhaps 1 It is encouraging that this im-
fine for each day the offense oc
curs.
thought you said ‘from Texas'
•Derry kept giving the same an
swor throughout the campaign
and says he never failed to get
applause, the audiences evidently
appreciating his forthrightness
As a newsman, I pride myself
on keeping abreast of current
events, but until reading Terry’s
book. I was not completely aware
of the multiaided facets of the
program Sanford put on the road
to fruition, with spe<^l schools
for the especially talented such
as the summertime Governor’s
school for high school juniors,
the School of Fine Arts at Wins
ton-Salem, and increased and ex
panded emphasis on training of
the retarded.
He has become a nationally
known figure in the field of edu-
ca^n. Locally-connected atteata
tlpn comes from Mrs. Imogene
Bridges Sdienok. of Waterlop, la
Imogene asked Brother Glee E.,
Sgnford’e Kings Mountain cam-
PBign manager, who It was he’d
helped get elected Governor,
^en he saW Terry Sanford, the
eaid she had heard him inter
viewed on NBC’s “Today” pro
gram and fddsd, “He was most
Impressive.’’
Although la\Y enforcement of
ficials are excepted from the
FCC ban, they must still abide by
FCC rules on the subject and al-
laws. Some are bound to que.s-
tion whether the FCC should
have made any exception for
such officials. Civil liberties ad
vocates point to government a-
buse of eavesdropping in the past
and see the rights of citizens in
jeopardy.
A retired school teacher was
feeling discouraged, lonely and
no. longer useful. And then one
day he received a letter from a
forrer student. “The influence of
your kindly wisdom,” it read,
“has remained wit hme all these
years. Now, in the large business
firm of which I am head, I pass
on your precepts and good coun
sel to my employees. So you see
j what a lot of good you are still
I doing. May I take this belated
opportunity to express my deep
appreciation for what you have
done for me and innumera'le
others.” The old man’s eyes light
ed and his heart grew warmly
glad. ,
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statue o| a typical (breadand-
plzza-baking mamma would be
the answer.
These difficulties show the im
portance of starting early to save
landmarks. The 5.000 Beatle
boosters may have been acting in
-the nick of time with their peti
tion. "*
The Christian Science Monitor
AIR PILOTS WARNING
As reduced airplane fares and
jet speeds make air travel con
stantly more popular, the prob
lem of assuring safety in crowd
ed skies is becoming increasingly
acute 'The hazards implicit in
this situation were dramatically
demonstrated by the recent colli
sion of two planes flying near
this city. Now the Air Line Pilots
balance is already calling forth
plans for its remedy. President
Johnson pleads for “bold new ap
proaches” to avert a manpower-
shortage. He invites labor and
management to join with govern
ment agencies in finding them.
Secretary Wirtz, in turn, is ask
ing Tor legislation that would
enable the Federal . State Em
ployment Service to do more to
match workers with jobs. At th^
same time a management-labor'
foundation is launching a pro
gram to encourage the training
of the 'Unskilled and semi-skilled
for the kind of jobs automation
is creating.
All these proposals are moves
In the right direction. They de
serve support.
Christian Science Monitor
But tnose responsible for law
(enforcement maintain that they
must have permission to eaves
drop, just as they claim the need
to wiretap, if they are to fight
effectively the manipulators of
the vast crime and racket em
pires.
Association has sounded an ul^- the great planes are profession-
gent warning that last month’s
change in Federal Aviation Agen
cy rules governing tra-ns-Atlantic
flights increases the risk of simi
lar tragic accidents over the
ocean.
At issue here is the F.A.A. or
der narrowing the corridors for
planes flying the Atlaiitic at al
titudes above 28,000 feet from
the -former 120 nautical miles to
90 nautical miles. The motivation
seems plainly the pressure of
airlines that want to get more
planes into the limited volume of
air space available during the
most poDular travel times. The
pilots object and have declared
in a paid advertlsenienit that their
“experience clearly indicates that
present navigational devices are
totally inadequate” to assure
safety in the harrowed zones. . .”
Lasrmen are not competent to
pronounce judgment on the tech
nical issues involved. But the ur
gency of the pilots’ word must a-
rouse concern. TTie men who fly
-He has basft espous(nj educa
tion nation-wi(|e; toM me ^hen I
talked with him reoftitiy he had
peaking engagements booked
swl IntolEay Incfuttt^ js return
top to tW to Mston
«iMte » LOS AfwMo. ‘rfriHwipil
qiong otiw|. M vm MM '•MtTt#rii.~&e
bound that altemoon.
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Youngsters are interested in
his progpsm, too. His book re
veals his televised promise to
answer all letters from grade
sdMoilssq sattta^fortR dwir edu-
I 80,60# letr
t^rs. Be BWgli.gp^ his pBHBlse.
als who rarely speak out as they
have on this issue The burden of
proof that the change is sound
m-ust rest upon those who, sitting
safely on ten-a firma, have ig
nored the pilots’ warni-ng.
New York Times
10
YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
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Mountain
news
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events tetken from
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about King
people ant
the 19S
Mountain
On balance, we see merit in
permitting the exception. But we
would like to see thought given
Next summer,■'Nathan’s Fam
ous of Coney Island, the celebrat
ed hot-dog stand, will serve, it is*,
estimated, its 200 millionth hot
dog and observe its 50th anniver
sary. The Coney Island Chamber
., of Commerce wall sponsor on
I April 28th, a testimonial dinner
^in honor of Nathan Handwerker,
the founder, and his wife, Ida.
The venerable couple will be
there in formal finery, along with
their children and grandchildren.
to sensible regulations to protect in 1916, Nathan was a $5 a week
the public against unreasonable delivery boy for a shortfront
searches by those whose most restaurant, when he took the ad-
, .1- J . .! vice of two Coney Island friends,
difficult and demanding duty it ^ E^die
is to root out^crime. ^ j cantor and a piano played nam-
Chrlstian Science Monitor ed Jimmie Durante,
Members of Macedonia Baptist
church will occupy their hand-
so-tie new brick church building
on Ea6ter Sunday.
Members of the Senior class of
Kings Mouptain high school will
leave Thur^ay by chartered bus
for Washington, D. C. for a three-
day stay.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Flem Mauney, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Mauney, was first
place winner in the piano divi
sion of the music contest for high
school seniors sponsored on Sat
urday in Spindalc by the North
Cai«lina Federation of Women’*
Clubs.
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