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Pa9e 2 kings mountain hekalo, kings mountain, n. c Thursday, April 28, 1966 Established 1889 Kings Mountain Hezald A ws^kiy ncv.'spanfr devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for tne e'nilghtennic.r, en-ertainment 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 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Gary Stewart Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Bobby Bolin Dave Weathers Allen Myers Paul Jaclsson Steve Ramsey SUBSCRIPTIONS RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY xMAtt. ANYWHERE ONE YEAR .. $3:50 SIX MONTHS .. $2.00 THREE MONTHS .. $1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Aiui into whatatjiever home ye enter, first say. Peace he to this house. St. Luke 10:5. MaH«r 01 Principle Paul Dickson Potrick. Sr. The county commission has author ized Ralph Gilbert, chairman of the county elections board, to institute action in an attempt to get Cleveland County exempted from the edict of the Justice Department, whereby^-state vot ing laws are not applicable. Death came last week to the Rev. Paul Dickson Patrick, Sr., as he wanted it. Cleveland County, which never (M- forced the state’s literacy test until 1964 (and then only on instruction of the state board of elections), has not other wise denied the ballot to anyone if they wanted to register and to vote. Working as a supply pastor at Jessup, Georgia, where he had held Sunday services four times, Dr. Patrick suffer ed a cerebral hemorrhage and passed two days later. The Herald hopes that Mr. Gilbert and his attorneys will seek exemption from the edict on grounds that tne law pass ed by Congress is unconstitutional. Ap plication of one set of rules to some counties within a state and not to others is illegal enough^ but to apply the rules to one group of states and not to all of them is patently without the bounds of the United States Constitution. As pastor of First Presbyterian Church here from 1935 to 1958, Dr. Pat rick left an indelible mark on the Kings Mountain area, not only on its Presby terian segment but on the whole com munity. As a specialist in home missions, Dr. Patrick was a money-raiser without peer, a role he enjoyed and about which he Mjoyed i)eing teamed, particularly the/charge that he carried the Biblical dictum, “Ask and ye shall receive”, sev eral degrees further. Few, including Chairman Gilbert, ob ject to the change whereby literacy tests are eliminated. Most folk feel that a person, free, age 21, and a taxpayer should have the priv ilege of the ballot. During his tenure here. First Presby terian Church built its handsome plant and manse at the corner of King and Gaston, but most felt Dr. Patrick was even prouder of Dixon Presbyterian Church which he organized. A Kings Mountain doctor noted re cently that the the advent of radio and television had educated many still-un lettered citizens. On the program for the Dixon dedi catory service was this item; “Greetings from W. H. Belk, Merchant Prince and Christian Statesman”. And who doesn’t pay taxes? “Brother Patrick,” he was asked, “just how much is this high-flown phrase going to cost Brother Belk?” Without a moment’s hesitation. Dr. Patrick replied, “The carpet, I hope!” Community Clean-Up The late merchant prince bought the Dixon Church carpet. The upcoming community-wide clean- campaign, scheduled to begin May 14, is the first conducted in many years, though there have been sporadic efforts in the past to obtain a cleaner, more sightly community, with the collolary implication of improved health con ditions. Dr. Patrick w'as without peer as a pas tor, and wherever there was illness, trouble, or tragedy, there was he. The late Mayor Glee A. Bridges ruff led the feathers of some when he insist ed all residents buy standard-s|se, top ped garbage cans, of others wheft he suggested enforcement of the ordinance requiring vacant lots be mowed and made less a breeding ground for the king-size rat population, and of still others when he urged that derelict, un occupied houses be dismantled and re moved. After leaving his pastorate here, he did yoeman work for the Columbia Theological Seminary, then, theoretical ly, retired. Retirement was a myth. He was subsequently a trouble do(H:op for ill churches, and with several recuperative successes. A sample was his last wmrk.' At his inititl service at Jessup, twelve parish ioners appeared. Four weeks later, his congregation numbered 148. Books To Open The forthcoming campaign will be dual in approach, 1) promotional in the direction of seeking voluntary coopera tion on the part of all, and 2) forceful in the direction of strengthening exist ing ordinances, adopting new ones and erne Registration Books for the May 28 pri mary will open at all polling places Sat urday. deemed necessary, and enforcing them. Cleanliness, says the Bible, is next to Godliness. Principal reminder, largely effecting newcomers to Kings Mountain (or oth er incorporated city and town) is that there are sets of registration books: county and city. Any housewife will be quick to relate that cleanliness is costly. Her pur chases at the grocery store find clean ing agents and tools adding to a neat percentage of the total, alo^ with tljie meat and potatoes. A person may have voted in last spring's city election, or in the recent city bond election, but that has nothing to do with his voting in the county elec tion. He must register. The City of Kings Mountain knows the cost of cleanliness, too, as a large appropriation, and a growing one, is made annually to the sanitation depart ment, both for operating expenses and for capital equipment in the form of en closed container truyeks for garbage, dump trucks for dry trash, and leaf-re moving vacuum cleaners. Another reminder is th^ some citi zens were disfranchised in the spring of 1964 and have been since because the state ordered its literacy test enforced to the letter. This law is not now appli cable to Cleveland County, nor to 36 others in North Carolina. 'These citizens should visit their registrars and resume voting. Voting is a right, a privilege, and a prerogative. Many feel voting is also a duty. Waste debris accumulates on the dou ble in amazing quaRtHtes,„iu> mom fqr any than this newspaper, which contin ually fights a battle with waste paper. How Mony Seats? The city has invited merchants to en ter into a share agreement in handling the “hack lot” debris j^blem. If the merchants will buy suitSblR containers, the city will invest in « troc|c with a hydraulic lift to handle these contain ers. ; It has been suggested that neighbor iperchants, if volume of waste |s not too “^ah may be able to buy ^ epntginers The Herald continues to receive in quiries about the new General Assem bly districts. Cleveland, Rutherford and Polk coun ties are in the 43rd House of Represen tatives district. There are four candi dates in the Democratic primary. Three of the four candidates will be nomi nated. Each voter can/may vote for three of the candidates. Cleveland and Gaston counties are in the Slst Senate district. There are five candidates in the Democratic primary. Two of the five will be nominated. Each voter cen/may vote for two of the can didates. MARTIN'S MEDICINE ingradimts: hits of news unsdatn, humor, and oommeiits Directions: Taka noesHly, ij possible, but avoid / By MARTIN HARMON Honneti Masters, Jr., is a quite seri US-minded young m.an. ra-m It was the last night of the re cent Cemral Methodist Church ro\i\al, and the church had a dinner. 3y coincidence, young Ben:.!, tt was at the head table anil fitting ebse to Rev. C. C. i Hi lbert, of Gastonia, who wa.s} dolni; the preaching. ! Expensive RoadsideRubbish The cost of removing LITTER FROM N.C. HIGHWAYS IS SO THIS IS 14 NEW YORK By NORTH C.\LL.\H.\N $4.000.000 A YEAR m-u Young Masters,^ age seven, ad- dris.'.ed the Rev. Mr. Herbert: “I bet I've asked fifty people to come to the revival, but none ofern did.” m-m Checking out the story (via j Mi j Hunter Patterson, via my i wild with Bennett, Sr., Father! Masters confirmed, further said ! his son was much impressed by j Mr. Herbert. One of Mr. Herbert’s ! sernun topics was "Tough Love”. Nc.\t day someone asked the lad! whal Mr. Herbert had preached about. The coy replied, "Tough | Love’, then proceeded to relate some of the details. m m-m Plato Heavner was present in the conversation and the subject of "tough love" brought expound ing of the subject in several di rections. f Drivers of cars here runnin.g bumper to LUmper are getting madder than evet', if possible. ■Not only are their skills at driv ing being tried more and (more— and many of them of course are not very skillful—but the news they hear about the built-in dan- {er of automobiles make ;hom more jittery. It is no wonder, .hey think, that the harried traf fic commissioner of New York 'las had four heart attacks. His :usl happens to bo more publieiz •d. And although they agree that the fault is on the road as well as in the cats, many of them have never gone into court to claLm damages for what is believed to be defective cars involved j in wrecks.. One case I know of, in .vhich a. famous doctor w-as kill ed by a small car that fish-tailed him into a truck on a slick pave ment and was later admottod to be faulty fcy' the manfacturer, may be a typical instance. What ever it requires, our highway record of the dead and inultilatcd must bclowered. ' Viewpoints of Other Editors m-m Plato reminisced about his granddaughter, then age four. She wa.xed obstreperous to the breaking point and Grandpa Pla to did what he didn’t w’ant to do. He wanned her backside, and good, put her in an adjoining roo.m and told her she could come out when she decided to behave. I SLEEPERS AT AIRPORTS ; WHITE HOUSE A-GO-GO a summer Joo means a chance to earn enough to go back to school in the fall. It also .means something to do in the hot sea son when prolonged idleness could end in trouble. But summer jobs "are hard to find, especially for the teen-ager Later he w-as taking her home, home with no im- FOR A LONCi, COOL SUMMER i ! ! Time was when travellers ap- 1 According to reports in the To many a high-school youth, | preached airports wdih the wary i conservative press, the mobs were j think of it, the same thing hap If the quickest way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, it .ray be that the fastest route to a woman’s pocketbook is through her appetite. At least that is the conclusion of a recent supermar ket survey. According to it, w'om- en who have not eaten for at least five hours prior to their trek to the market, spend on an average $5.76 above their custo mary purchases. But if they have eaten within two hours of their shopping, they spend $7.48 less than usual. And come to circumspection of adventurers. ' shrieking, screai.ring, squealing, j pens to me in a cafeteria Frightened or fearless, they kept, giggling, shoving, jostling as they j der more than I can eat. their wits about them. Now they ^ thronged to reach, touch, or kiss j I or- fall asleep in th& departure lounges. This, at any rate, is the latest reason hit upon by baffled airport officials ■ to explain why passengers keep missing their flights and wake up to find thex- their quarry. Was it another Beatles brigade? Were the teen agers out in force? planned to tell her mother what he’d done and why. Not so, we are told. It was 3,5iX) politically minded ladies who, after attending a na([ij -3— Banking service here now is so complete that they will do every thing from helping a future cus tomer Jto be born, tO'burying hi.x. So far, there is no guarantee by m-m The little girl sensed Plato was about to do. As 1 reached the door, she “We’ve got a secret,” what they m-m serves a vigorous response. Business, government, and in- said, i dustry provided many seasonal jobs for youth last year and will no doubt offer more now if cheer- • ed on by a proposed government As you might guess. Grandpa 1 ni u j Plato respected the pact. girls get the work? Will the job.s ferred to more distant reminis ences of long-ago school days. We agreed that “tough love” teachers w'ere the ones we not only respected, but from whom we learned. We also agreed that a good teacher (the same can be applied to lawj-ers, doctors, busi nessmen, and everyonei is the one tough enough to practice “tough love”. pressive recommendations. Thus [selves still on the ground instead , „ President Johnson’s appeal to pri-1 of hi^h in the air. Clearly Sir i Democratic campaign conference j. these enterprising instituions as vate business, labor unions, and ! Philip Sidney wa.s thinking of j were invited to a reception at the to what will happen after organizations to hire a million 1 ihis problem when he described I American young people for the summer de-1 sleep as "The indifferent judge ! .-etween the high and the low.” ' White House lamp was reported broken, only one painting knock- Commendably anxious not to ed askew. And only one woman unload the responsibility on to was reported to liave kissed the the--innocent customer the offi- j beagles. dais have been blaming the cem j johnenn nhipii nf is more apt to be a suave and tral heating system, which (like I -'ir. Johnson, the objeol of them, — so many other things in Britain) j J^i'^nce, was said to have en- is said to be “difficult to coordi- ! l^ing given the Beatles nate . . . with the changes in the. Beagles) treatrnent. And weather.” Previous attempts to ' ladies seemed deliriously liap- keep passengers on their toes | their teens for have included ringing gongs 'oe- ^That the adult case foi foi'e the announcements and in-1 teen-age tempo go to those who need them most? I To the Negro boy from a home in The talk with PJato then ^ans- j vVatts? To the girl from an un- mountain family now happen after one passes into the Great Beyond. This is probably left to the insur ance companies—'or should it be the undertakers? Once the Amer ican tanker was pictured as a flinty-eyed church warden of a man, cautious to the bone. Now m-m I remarked that I went to school on a rather plain and sim ple dictum: If I got a thrashing in school, I got another when I reached hone. Plato said it was the same with him. That school trouncing was child’s play com- p.ared to the home treatment. m-m Folklore has it that ‘“toys will j living in a Cincinati slum? To the son x»f Spanish-American fruit pickers who migrated to Chica- I go? Will these young persons j have the incentive to apply? ! Last year there were com plaints that jobs went to the most eligible youth, not the neediest. Executives were reported giving prference to children of their skilled employees, even of their friends. The Post Office Depart ment W’as charged w’ith handing out summer jo.;s on a patronage basis. The administration is taking steps to prevent its agencies from being caught that wa.v a second time. It has put the selection of summer trainees in the hands of the Civil' Service CoTmlsslon. The latter will require certifica tion that the applicant needs stalling closed circuit television I a serious setback appar (not, of course, for entertainment ‘^^tly troubled them not at all.) —that would have been even more soporific — formation but to carry lively in- about departure The pundits who insist that the President fails to stir a warm re sponse in the hearts of his coun- tLrres). Now. presumably, passen-, now have new data be boys”, that “all sow their wild i work. This is a sound approach. oats”. m-m “Amen”, says Plato, “but it doesn’t mean that parents, grand parents or teachers should con done.” m-m I have been greatly interested in the recent series of articles by Sam Lubell, the public opinion pulse-taker on the subject of morality in the hearts, minds and practices of college students. m-m He finds, for the vast majority, that voiced liberalism as It re spects drinking, doping, and sex is not followed in practice, and the few who do most often give the reason, “The others do it.” Government cannot, however, compel industry, trade unions, and other private groups to seek out those young people who need the jobs most yet may be the least easy to train. These groups need to be shown how much jobs for deprived youth can me^n to society. Experience of the Neighbor hood Youth Corps last summer is a convincing example. More than 8,(K)0 young people, many of them teen-agers from the Watts area, were ot ployed in corps projects at the time of the Watts riots. Not one of them, ')t was re ported, was among the thousands arrested, nor did any corpsman stay away from his job during the period. To find summer employment for youth will help everybody. The Christian Science Monitor gers will be . threatened with blasts of arctic air. Pacing vigor ously up and down to keep warm they will, as the Americans would say, become highly moti vated towards catching their air craft. to run through their computing ma chines. Any man who can come out from behind the curtains arm ed with nothing but the proper political credentials and a Texas accent and do this to the ladies Is a man to be reckoned with. Christian Science Monitor .S.ome Continental airports, such ( as Orly, appear to solve the prob- j After i.Tany tragidies i^mri lorn by having really comprehen- , has reduced engine displacement sive, intelligible, and conspicuous Und is now racing 41iter engines, indicator boards that enable the time around World War ] passet^'cr to be master of bis own jar.ge engine displacements caus- fate. But Britain must find her ed drivers to lose control. Later, pleasant public relations man who can really sell his business. Banks seem to wish to become virtual department stores of fin ance. Now there are bank win dows here even in the subway caverns, one I noticed being open from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. If thi.5 keeps up, they will soon be bring ing banking to our bedside. —3- Dinah Shore,—whose favorite state is Georgia—recently appear ed at the Hotel Piazza here and as usual received a popular ova tion. She is honey-haired and brown-eyed and w’as born Fran ces Rose Shore in Winchester, own unique way of doing things. The trouble at the moment is the Nazis subsidized supercars whose displacements went as Thirt adds to the most stupid ^reason In the world and what is merely argument by comparison —seldom a true teat. Real cour age ia exhibited by doing, or not doing, what one believes to be right. m-m I My Mother has never received « higher compliment than from her late cousin Jette Plonk. By heritage my Mother and I are of argumentative temperament and we’ve had the shouting variety as long as I can remember. ^*When you were a child,” Jette averred, "I thought your Mother was wasting her breath, that what she said was going in one pi your ears, cqiplng oirt tjje oth- ft, with notUne IgXf ip between.” She added, “iBul you got it all-” 10 TEARS AGO THIS WEEK Item Qt Mountai^ about King people etu Che m Mountah newt area events taken from Hlee of the Kings Herald. Registration books for the May 26 Democratic primary will be open Saturday for the first time. The books will be open for three consecutive Saturdays through May 12, apd May 19 will be challenge day. Mrs. J. H. Thomson will retire as principal of East scho^ at i^ool comprcTise. No one has yet de- ^high as 6 liters. Again, too manj cided whether the passenger i^o . (levers were unable to cope with be challenged or coddled. The the immense power of the ma- gentle oriental gongs and the chine in their hands stream of well-modulated an- j nouncements are enough in them- j Brute force can be used to win selves to produce a slightly hyp- races, sell cars, or enhance the notlc trance. “’Tis all one,” mut- glory of the fatherland. But lost ters the passenger, sinking, into I drivers are not a reasonable price fantasies in which beautiful young women came and take him by the hand and lead him per sonally to the right aircraft. to pay. Christian Science Monitor Tennessee, though she spent ruch of her early life in Nash ville. There she had a radio show and opened it by singing the long, “Dinah”, hence her show 'ausiness name ever since. Her current appearance is a far cry from the days when as a young Vanderbilt graduate, she came^ here and teamed up on a local ra dio station with Frank Sinatra, then hardly known himself. Since then Dinah has come a long way —from Carolina and such nice parts. There are only two ways out of the dilemma. One is to treat the passengers irrore roughly — hit them with cold air, assault tbeir senses with bells and hooters, march them to their aircraft un-1 der army sergeants. The oth6r | way, which is infinitely prefera- j ble, is m accept the inevitable, i Tugi.^ the central heating, play soft music . . . and then carry each happily sleeping passenger to his machine, wakening him only when the jpumey is over. The Times (London) \ KEEP YODR uuno MU SET AT 1220 SAFETY FIRST W K M T the end of the current sc iOcJ term. ( SOCIAL AND PERSONAL i Glenda Spake wll4be crowned May Queen and Kathryn Ware In any sport safety should come first. In auto racing, large engine displacement leads to loss of driver control. Some American racing oars now have an excessive power to weight ratio. Ford, for example, is now racing a 7-liter car. Last year’s world champion ship formula, by contrast, was only 1.5 liters. What does 7 liters do for rac- ing»^that 2 liters can’t do? It pro-1 duces a show of brute force— i tires spin, rubber burns, a hvitch of the driver’s foot results in a major slide of chilling propor tions. The car becomes a roaring,' Kings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. and Butch Houser will wrve as I .snarling beast which even the first-tiroo-vlewer can quickly de- mald^f-honor at May pay leg- tlvltld Tvwday night at Centra) Audiioriur Fine entertainment in between school auditorium 1 tect is pfily partially under the control of the driver. Thi NOR GAii I Bettj Jack The This Sped Th Lewi actio comr of Gi lina, abso of se year will IS re flee ' Cour hous lina 25th writi the ( the 1 coun said Th 1966. Ham Atto i
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