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Page 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, May 5, 1966 Established 1889 — /Otonh Carolina : ..P: The Kings Monntain 'Heiaid A vvSokiw nev.’spaiw*r devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for tne enlightenment, entertainment and benefiyiff 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, 23086 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 Bobby Bolin mechaiTical department Dave Weathers * .... - Paul JacXsohi> Steve Ramsey Allen Myers SUBSCRIPTIONS RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL 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 She ia more precious than mines: and all the things thou const desire and not to be com}Hired unto her. Proverbs 3:15. Civil Disobedience The Presbyterians (U. S.) convocated at Montreat and adopted many pro posals great numbers of the members abhor. One of the adopted proposals all should abhor: the approval of civil dis obedience, if and when, etCi: The right of free spech, the right of free assembly, the right to worship as one pleases, or not to worship, all these are guaranteed in the Constitution of the United States. The right to disobey duly constituted civil authorities is specifically not grant ed. There is one correct recourse to ob jectors and that is the ballot. If a person or group disagrees with a duly elected and qualified official, or if a person disagrees with the laws the duly elected and qualified official up holds and administers, that person has the recourse of the ballot. He should change the identity of the elected official via the ballot and replace him with the official who will change the disagreeable law or laws. — What if the person cannot muster enough support to generate the desired changes? ^ That’s tough. He has no choice but to live therein, or find himself another haven without the continental ^^iimits of these fity United States. Registration books for the May 28 primaries will be open for the second of three Saturdays May 7. With 59 Demo crats in the field and Number 4 Town ship citizens taking part in the nomina tion of most of the candidates, last Sat urday’s township registration total of six was regarded as very puny. The use of the plural of prima^ is also correct. Republicans will nominate a Congres sional candidate from a trio of candi dates. Cealer In Cleveland (Editor’s Note: The Herald reprints with appreciation the following editorial from Monday’s Gastonia Gazette.) Of the three cities and one county vy ing for one of two alcoholic rehabilita tion centers in North Carolina, it would seem that Cleveland County might be the most likely spot for such an insti tution. Representatives from Cleveland Coun ty, Charlotte, Asheville and Winston- Salem appear^ at a hearing in Raleigh recently, eahh extending an invitation to the ^tate to build the center in their respective area. The 1905 General Assembly voted to build two rehabilitation centers — one in the. east and one in the west. Each center would employ a staff of five phy sicians, nurses, aides, etc., and would contain from 100 to 2()0 beds. The cost is estimated at $1 million. alcoholic thw? _ ^fher, but. S oy or Arnold Kiser The last winter of his life was a tough one for L. Arnold Kiser. Twice hospitalized with pneumonia, he did not regain his customary energy and gnawing discomfort persisted. In February, he underwent a thorough physical check-up, but no major prob lem was detected. Last week, Arnold Kiser left us. It would be remiss not to'repeat testi mony appearing in these columns fifteen years ago. The impetus for busy, very often over- populated Kings Mountain hospital was Miss Lottie Goforth, who bequeathed her entire estate for the building of a hospital here. L. Arnold Kiser was the instrument which brought her dream to fruition. There were numerous roadblocks. A Duke Foundation official warned that Kings Mountain could not support a hos pital and some citizens felt a hospital here would be too small to offer much in the way of expert medical attention. Some other county citizens felt that all funds should be channeled into one medical unit within Cleveland’s bounds. Some even persisted in that thinking after the citizens had voted $160,000 in bonds for building a hospital here. It w’as a happy day for Arnold Kiser and many others when Kings Mountain open ed its 24-bed facility April 2, 1951. Mr. Kiser’s judgment and foresight proved even better than he might have expected. Four additions have provided 75 beds and a nuTsC’s home. Th^ facili ties are now badly over-taxed, as the current occupancy report is 92-plus per cent. A friend remarked that Arnold Kiser was responsible for 'much good about which few knew. “]ge was never self- seeking for f^rsonal glory,” the friend added, a motion The Herald is quick to second. Mr. Kiser was a loyalist, give-and- take; he was an able and successful tex tile producer; he was continuihgly duti ful of his church, his home, his em ployees and his many friends. Another friend regards as his out standing trait and abiding respect and concern for the welfare of his elders. It was in Cleveland County, we recall, that the first Alcoholics Anonymous chapter below the Mason-Dixon Line was organized many years ago. And, as The Shelby Star Pointed out, "there also is and has been a compassionate and levelheaded concern through the years over drinking and the human horrors it can produce when engaged in excessive ly.” It wIS noted, also, that legislation under which the new centers will be constructed w’as co-sponsored in the General Assembly by State Sen. Jack White of Kings Mountain. These centers are going to be assets for the entire state. We hope that Cleve land County next door lands one of them. Inconsistencies Since Gaston County is not interested in securing the center, we would think the governor’s site seieetion committee would do well to place the building in Cleveland County. Certainly we hold nothing against either of tii* three other areas trying for the center. ck the cities no <&ubt have a long list of attributes which would recommend that particular city for such an institution. It is true Ihat Cleveland is not a "wet’ county; to this aaY reason why an iT not be built “ is not "yet’* that hl0» pet a ‘ cpunq The 1964 civil rights act makes illegal the desegregation of citizens because of race, creed, color, national origin or sex. However, under guidelines issued by agencies, the law is being violated 1) by ^ agencies, and 2) by reporting of ficials. Some samples: 1) In reporting compliance with the school desegregation provisions, school swerintendents must provide figures on me plant populations on a White-Black basis. 2) iGngs Mountain hospital, ordered to aMign semi-private and ward beds NOT ordered td observe the ^x ’ requirement the act provides, indeed, the surgeon-general’s guidelines nowhere mention the word "sex”, a very indeed to hospitals which could otherwise be much smaller and eventually would not be. m.w Po” tax, levied on y® discriminatory, has definitely illegal since the civil nghts act was passed. It imodlto be re- to the ladyfolk, too. vwiplip^ly, thafe are many rnore of the«i wcowdstencies, but ^se few qufcl^ fo^ V> mind. MARTINI^ MEDICINE Ingredients: \»Jt* ot mmm u'isdom, humor, and comments Directions: Takm weekly, li possible, hut avoid By MARTIN HARMON Mother's Day I have been going to gear-up rni’oiings for community - wnde^ •>'U'aii-up- paint-up, , fix-up” mu’tii'gs periodically s'nce I was 20 1 a lew moons ago), but I '^lu'ver attended one in which as much enthusiasm and somc- tinu' lart though friendly re- maik-: were passed as Monday’s hcio at City Hall. M-M— ■i WHAT GOOD I? BISCUITS / THAT COOK ^CAN MAKE./ m-m .V, least 220 persons, some rop- resoating civic groups, some thciv as interested citizens, join ed ;hc city commission and de partment chiefs for the clean-up mtipping session. m-m Mrs. Haywod L>'nch, for in- stai ce, had some caustic remarks concerning her^neijghboring sec tion of East RidgCj street long knovvn as “Hord Row”, urged the commission to put some force behind e.xisiting ordinances with the admonition, “Don't be sis sies," and added she had in mind some forceful attention to her husband, former editor of the Herald. Z 1 / m-m Will Adams, who has a next- door problem, seconded Mrs. Lynchs remarks by saying to the commission, “Back when you were winning, we were shaking your hands. Now we want to shake ours.” i-AND WHEN TH' BIG6ER i boys get I TOUGH ‘ WITH ME, , TH'LAW'S ON - MY SIDE./ ir~ 'AND WHEN I HAD TH' ' FLU-YOU COULDN’T GET BETTER SERVICE / -AND BESIDES, SHE'S A . WONDERFUL MOTHER./ SO THIS IS NEW YOBK By NORTH CALLAHAN ' y Attracted by anything which pertains to our Founding rath- el's, I went down to the Seamen's Church Institute at 25 South Street to see a display entitled “The Spirit of 1776.” Not only was this interesting but the in stitute itself turned out to ce one of the most colorful and benefi cial organizations I have seen in this city. Housed in a huge 13- .story building with a Titanic Me morial Lighthouse on top and a lighted cross which is visible for five miles at sea, this haven for the sailor makes one reali7.e there are many good things here which da not ordinarily make the head lines. A genial Mrs. Dorothy Sheldon took me around the place and we even wont out on the “highest bridge in the world”, nautically speaking, and were soundly blown by the wind. Obvi ously neither of us were good sailors. Viewpoints of Other Editors m-m Mrs. Frank Sincox, terming herself a comparative newcomer, said she had two problems. 1) she did not know who to sum mon to dispose of heavy waste debris; 2) she hoped the city would make a list of specific chores for specific groups, such as the garden chib, to discharge. m-m Mayor John Henry Moss sur prised many when he reported that a check revealed there are 574 vacant lots in Kings Moun tain, plus vacant tracts (two or more lots. ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO GORILLA WARFARE ON TV 'l^J^ patriotic display was spoti- sorea by the i American Legion and consisted of documents about law, business and military af fairs. One document indicated that in the 18th century, men had to stand in the stockade two bout's for drunkenness; another was a commitment to jail for a bad debt, signed by Mayor Rich ard Varick in 1799. He was an aide to George Washington and a founder of the American Blcle Society, a local street being nam ed after him. On the wall hung an ornate certificate of member ship in the Society of the Cincin nati signed by Washington as president and Henry Knox, its It was a reasoned and persua sive defense of the U. S. involve ment in Vietnam that Vice Presi dent Humphrey made this week to the nation’s publishers assem bled in New York. Speaking at the annual lunch eon of the Associated Press, the Vice President may have over worked his stock of cliches (“freedom cannot be divided”). BUNKERS We know about the Dla.-nond ! founder, as secretary. Nearby is Horseshoe, most of us have seen 1 large and quiet chapel where a diamond tiara (in pictures at i seamen from all over the woi'ld least), we’ve heard of the sporty ! can gather and worship-or just days of Diamond Jim Brady, but 1 meditate if they prefer. These „ today—according to the newspa- I men who go down to the sea^in was detected the other day by pers (complete with photo)—any I ships and land here, find 759 her fathen not only switching on gal with $1,500 she doesn’t know j clean rooms at reasonable rates but turning with precision to the I what to do^with can have her i*' f^e Seamen’s Church Institute, program of her choice and adjust-^ own diamond lashes! , Also available are a laundry. The ages at which human be ings learn to control television sets fall within an interestingly wide bracket. At one extreme a child of five (and a girl at that) ing for sound and vision. Some I new entrants to the universal in- i I tailor shop, barber shop, tobacco Much has been written about. stand and baggage checking. For but he took up point by point the! door game may start even young- j diamond, “.. .like a diamond , those who have need of them, Sments of objectors and 1 er. sky”; “It is the pui'e white , there are a medical and dental gave them thoughtful rebuttals. | The other extreme is to be o'> diamond Dante brought to Bea-1 clinic. In the evenings, movies On one point he was especially served in clubs which have been ffice ; "Diamonds are a girl s | are available as well as classes in Grady Yelton, public j interesting. Commenting on disorderly aspects of the strug- I gle for power within the South works I Vietnamese g o v e r n m ent, Mr. the i carried kickine and screamin^ ' friend. Indeed diamonds i such subjects as welding,^French, Sto the pSt Ly-at leaTt tolhave always been us^ to bring {drawing and painting, music and the extent of seeing TV trundled,!^ sparkle to my ladys eye. But | religion^ A fine penthouse gym- like a Trojan horse of the wel- ! now it s easier, all you do is paste | ■nasium' is available for sailors superintendent, who oversees Humphrey suggested that thisi.fare state, into a smoking room, j f^em on One can t help wonder-1 and others too this years spending of more than! ■Ko a ofwn nn* nt failure huR-^TTie frustration of older mem- however, if a lady won t ' years spending of more than I cduld be a sign not of failure bnE?rhe frustration of older mem u ^ $77,000 in the sanitation depart-1 of the success of the military re'-'teers, who nave vowed they would {have to scurry about and find a j ment for garbage removal, tree sistance to North Vietnamese ag-1 never go near the thing, can be waste service, six-day weekljr i gression. j painful to watch as they try, in pickup of mercantile debris, I “A year ago,” he observed, effectively, to twiddle the right street-sweeping and washing "thei:e was no struggle for pow- knobs. and other publi'c sanitation serv- or becau.se a year ago it was* Now, somewhere between the ices, reported sadly that many I very doubtful that there would! nursery and St. James’s Street, among her less-afluent friends? citizens have not yet discover- i be a Soutli Vietnam. Today both j come the gorillas of the Bronx ed the benefits of investing a few North Vietnam and South Viet-1 Zoo in New York. For them TV -S— dollars cans. in COVERED gadbageJ nam know there will be a South 1 was installed a year ago. It was Vietnam. The power groups are expected to soothe their savage breasts and to reduce the volume of bad temper to which these apes are, it seems, prone. For a while all went well. Thanks to the pop groups, not a cross word positioning themselves to see I who is going to run the coun- But the star of the meeting i try. . . . This is the best; evi- had tx) be Clavon Kelly, now^®*^*^® we can find today that witli the United States Public considerable progress has been Health service, who proved him- niade in defeating the enemy.” 1 was uttered or a rude gesture self 1) a good photographer, 2- I AH i" at the end of hi.sjmade. a good cc.mmentator, and 3) a tirst quarter - hour the Vice Alas, the benign influence of man who knows how to use both j President had left a good im- plain language and wit to in-' pression of himself in his new salon giving eye exercise bourses, for with one-carat weight (12 dia monds, evenly divided) to drag a'Jout how would she be able to see enough to flaunt her glitter A useful library with 8,000 books and magazines, fittingly named the Joseph Conrad (Libra ry, is staffed by qualified person nel from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. so there is always something for the Seriously, though, in these days i men to do. Looking at the menu blatant with wars, suffering, af the dininig room, it was obvi- famine, and wholesale misery can ous that here was good food serv- anyone really afford such stars ed inexpensively, something rare for her eyes? today. Many people from outside, Christian Science Monitor trude to sometimes thick crania. the pops did not last. As a cura tor has just remarked, "The A FARMER'S LIFE “As a Chinese Communist sol dier arms Jiimself with a rifle and the writings of Mao Tse- tung, the farmer must go to the fields with a hoe and "The Se- While vast maority of his color slides spoke for themselves, some were made more graphic by his explanation of certain pinpoint details. 'He made the ' trip on East role as spokesman for the Ad- Smarter animals are, the easier lected Works of Mao Tse-tun ministration and had succeeded in making an impressive case for the Administration’s contro versial policy in Southeast Asia. Then the Vice President turn ed to the subject of foreign aid. If Mr. Humphrey marshalled the best arguments available for boxes long since ceased the extensive foreign aid pro gram, the thing that struck you most was that foreign aid was Ridge, traveling due west. Across equated in every respect with the the corner neighbor to the hand- j active battlefield. He suggested some beflowered residence of Mr. that to cut a dollar of foreign and Mrs. Carl Mayes is a derelict ai(j would be as nefarious as cut dwelling, or what once was one, i ting a dollar from the ammunl- it’s old type flush-tank water tion budget, closet open to air and everybody Next, three-quarters of an hour and, examination showed, oc-1 along in his luncheon speech, casionally being used. The Kelly j the Vice President turned to the shocker by diagram: this type | domestic economy. toilet releases refuse Into the water system you and I drink! The trip He vigorously opposed infla tion, expressing hope we would n’t have to have either higher taxes or wage and price controls, continued, verified-But he spoke equally vigorously Mrs. Lynch and Will Adams' point, and finally reached the corner of Ridge and Gaston with a relieving frontal photo of the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Neisler, Jr. Now isn’t it bad, Cla- yon asked, to have such trash In the 'backyard of this beautiful, well-kept home? The shocker: “By the way, that little black spedc you see to the right of the entrance walkway isn’t dirt. !<’• a rat. I don’t mean a little mouse, either, but a real, live king-size, cat-size rat. He turned around and stared at me and I decided to take his picture.” m-m Clavon kept making these points: rats just love to g4t nest ing materials from the uphol stery of derelict cars; rats and snakes thrive In underbrush: old regrigeraton with doors are death traps for children; mosqui toes whidi produce malaria, sleeping alckneas and other di scases thrive in lush under growth and have added succor when an old tire ia around to hold water; derelict houses are death traps for playing children and fire hagar^B lagge areas. in favor of the domestic spend Ing program, all parts of it. And again he equated this spending with all the other spending. “It is not a matter of guns or butter, foreign aid or domestic education,” he said. “You can not separate them.” So It went until an hour was passed, and until those in the audience not nodding were glassy-eyed. Not only was every thing important. Everything was equally important to everything else, and all at the same time. The result In the end was a speedi 'that lost its sharpness, ddlling the effectiveness of the j many separately good argu-1 njents the Vice President pre- it is for them to get fed up ". Sympathy for the mutineers will be tinged with envy. For the stand they took has been crown ed with success. There is no long er TV in their house. How many Englishmen—whose to be their castles—can claim a vic tory like this one, gained in go rilla warfare? The victors have (brought what many people long in vain to do. Rosalind, if she were speaking to Orlando today, would have to put her comparison into reverse. More newfangled than an ape, more giddy in de sires than a monkey, are jeers that most gorillas can now throw back in our faces. They have proved themselves to be a miss ing link between the serious- minded anijgthe suckers. They sampled the drug, and conquered the addiction. Darwin would be proud of them The Times (London) trying to find adequate meals at reasonable prices, frequent this good restaurant. If the incoiming ship is a foreign one — no prob lem. The Institute has linguists who can handle the situation. The postoffice inside the..^ilding is equipped to serve a city of 30,000 people and has all types of regu lar postal services. For many a seaman, his P. O. Box here is his only adress. And thousands who may not remember -otherwise are reminded on each Christmas when they receive the gift boxes teaches that all tasks are of equal moment, then none can be the lesser. Who then should be surprised if some would dodge the hell of a distant battlefield for pleasure domes here at home? — Wall Street Journal. 10 under a new indoctrination cam paign being waged by Pekins.”— News Item. This will probably work out all right if the fammer doesn’t try to { sent out by the Institute contain- make a hundred flowers bloom. ' *^5 handy items such as warm A p„<or.l mood stools upon usj If Omar will permit: A book of doctrine underneath the bough, j (y^cr by the Episcopalian chap- A water jug, a bowl of rice and j el, I met John C. Pe r.berton III Mao who is a mem'cer of the Institute. ladies who have the interests of i lonely men at heart. I -3- Beside me, teaching wisdom in the shade. Ah, wait, great sage. I now must catch my cow. New York Post One of the leaflets there was en- title«L?The Poor Atheist.” Noting the first paragraph, it was easy to tell that such is not in good standing here. name of MounUdn TEARS AGO ms WEES about Kind new* area peopte events taken from fOee of the Kings Weroid. Mrs. Aubrey Mauney was elect aiu che 195 Mountah sented along the way, because | ed president of the North Caro- It tried to cover too much. j Una Federation of Women’s That made it also. In the end,! Clubs at the annual state conven- a revealing speech. For how I tlon in Durham last weekend, could the spokesman tor the J. Ollle Harris, Kings Mountain Government discipline his argu- .mortician, was elected Wednesday ment, suggest any proportions of to serve as president of the North relative Importance among his | Carolina Funeral Directors and proposals, If those proposals' Embalming Examining Board. I am. themselves have not been sub jected to any discipline of ?ela- tive importance? Mr. Hiuppluay also sa^ that SOCIAL AND PERSONAL BeMemer City Garden Club honored its first president and "leodarabip today requirae un- damtondii^ the proUa^s we face." But if the leadership area women Who have served the Club M flower Judges at a tea Friday night at the home of Mrs. R. Lee L^vie. KEEP TOUBBIUIIODUI SETH 1220 Kings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather erery hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the .-p-r-T. half hour. Fine entertainment in between 11“ Tliursdla^ Gibson Lenoii Kings Mo' Legion Ju diamond. But r( and his n ba: champior Barr; cessful sc the Caro one of th Gibs( games th pleted fi\ pitcher, i struck 01 Barr His : Si game of only foul In L game \vf hits and He I the secoi He didn’ to a 10-' His were to Gold Rid of colleg ing of ev as capta 10, was ! ershin ir Riel jtosition (■f thing season 1 ting ave Djg] gam(i'^se ed the s Riel play wi Collegia Wh grams i led the year ar .300. Die while c marks i Ric ball ani senior > A11-SW( all-conf He mark a Gofc Wa bers of are hav Aft has slui I'.is ope lina(4-i Wl eers to the Mo He same y j^ainst rounds. VV£ ai'e cui OHtegoi Lei while F 41 tim< and oni Jir won th Be Mount? pitcher Le his ere \ victory
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