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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS kJOUNTAIN. N. C.
Thursday, May 12, 1966
EatabUshed 1889
Kings IMoimtain Herald
A weekly n6vyspa!?'*r devoted to the promotion of the general welfare an^-pttWished
for tne enlightenment, spiertainment 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 Qizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
A naughty jyerson, a wicked man, walketh -with a froicard mouth.
Proi'erbs 6:12.
Committee of 112
The steering committee of the Kings
Mountain clean-up and beautification
committee completed its organizational
plan Wednesday for the campaign be
ginning May 21, details of which are
carried news-wise in a story beginning
on today’s front page.
The formalized objectives grew
from the myriad ideas expressed previ
ously at a citizen’s meeting with the
city commission and are admirable in
aim and most worthy of result.
To those who are inclined any num
ber much greater than five persons a
somewhat unworkable body, the figure
of 112 may perhaps have been stagger
ing and clear indication that the cam
paign, it it gets out of the starting gate,
will of a certain break out of track and
move toward the comforts of the pad-
dock.
First reason for the large number
is for intensive coverage of the whole
community, and considerable manpower
and womanpower is required if success
is to be attained.
There is a secret to attaining suc
cess with large committees, and Major
John Henry Moss knows it well and
practices it. *+■
Persons appointed to his commit
tees do not learn about their appoint
ments by reading their names in the
newspapers, nor ever by mayoral letter.
They first are visited, either in person
or by telephone, by the Mayor, He tells
them what assignment he wishes them
to perform, then outlines the work of
the committee, both generically and
specifically, including the particular
chore or phase for which he wishes in
dividuals to accept responsibility.
Such an approach puts an appointee
on his mettle to discharge his responsi
bility or to decline the proffered ap
pointment.
Our guess is that the Commhte^ of
112 will make a major dent on ugliness,
dirt, debris, trash, brambles and derelict
cars and dwellings during the month of
May 21-June 21.
Meantime, the Herald anticipates
that most citizens appreciate very nluch
the willingness of the city eqmmission
to offer FREE removal of Ro-called hea
vy debris (old stoves, refrigerators, der
elict cars) and derelict bUHdk^s.
In the instance of derelict buildings,
it is quite underetandable that citizens
owning these properties are i‘eluctant to
apparently waste money in adding to
their investment in removing theae pro
perties—preferring to wilt until some
body wishing to dvelope them do the
joh< Actually, a clean lot gets a bett^
priee than one covered wtth a falling
down building, trash and brambles.
Whether or not, citizens need mere
ly convey the word, and the city,
through June 21, will do the work and
pay the bill.
G^vemmeiit by Qaldeline
North Carolina’s Senator Sam J.
Errin' is introducing a bill Which would
put a leash on department bureaus and
their administrative gui^lines for im
plementing the 1964 civil rights act.
Tite practice Senator Ervin decries
is as old as K^Uielldi And is very dif-
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Service in the Service
Undoubtedly thousands (millions)
cheered the weekend statement by Post
master General Lawrence O’Brien that
he was directing each and every postal
employee to bend every effort towai;:^
returning and retaining the word “serv
ice” in postal service.
Needless to say, the thousands and
millions cheering did not include the
vast majority of the nation’s postal serv
ice employees.
Those doing their jobs well and re
membering that the service’ sole excuse
for being is the speediest and most ac
curate dispatch of mail from sender to
addressee.
Those malingering and reading the
manual to find out how not to do the
job did not like the idea of snapping to
and relinquishing title to being postoff
ice lawyers.
One Kings Mountain employee
didn’t feel particularly insulted except
for the fact he read it in the newspaper
before the dictum arrived in the Postal
Bulletin.
Another thought Mr. O’Brien should
pledge to spread the gospel that the
postal service never waSj nor meant to
be, a pay-as-you-go governmental serv
ice. iThe Herald agrees.
Additionally, the Herald would add
some more suggestions to the Postmas
ter General, most particular among
them to stop the efficiency experts from
acting like ladyfolk buying a dress, not
because they don’t have closetsful but
need a change for change’s sake. (This is
quite fine with the ladyfolk, but very un
fine in the postal service.)
It would be nice, too, if Mr. O’Brien
would direct some particular remarks
tohis inspectors. A South Carolina Neg
ress was laughing at mistress “being so
meant “particular” and an apropos syn-
’tlcky”. The translation showed Ule maid
onym would be “knit-picking”.
From time immemorial, newspapers
have paid second class postage on basis
of weight and zone, with the rate based
on relaitve percentages of non-paid read
ing matter and advertising.
Not long ago, the Herald circula
tion manager and assistant-postmaster
had wveral long^conferences on 1) the
weight of a single two-page sheet to the
several decimal places, and 2) weight of
the wrapper binding single copies des
tined for other than Kings Mountain ad
dresses.
(Carrying it far for a few cents? The
gain is nullified by the bookkeeping.
Mr. O’Brien also would do well to
investigate the lag in parcel post trans
port on weekends.
has always found local
postoffice personnel ready, aMe and will-
mg to handle their chores. But the alba
trosses between the local level and well-
meaning Mr| O’Brien at the top create
most of the tpuble.
In the first instance, sRys Senator
Ervin, some of the guideline directives
are completely without the intent of
Congress whidi adopted the legislation.
He particularly decries use Of the
economic bludgeon — threatened or de
faato withhololng of federal funds for
UM of the act to lomeni sociological
clMOfe than prevention Of discrimina
tion oil account of race, creed, color,
national origin or sex.
congratulations to Mrs. Charles D.
Blanton, Jr., newly elected president of
the 45-church women of Kings Mountain
presbytery, Presbyterian CSiurch, H. S.,
and to Miss Elizabeth Stewart, of tht
Herald staff, corresponding secretary.
fiouit to oofAbst suceessfiilly. Bui the
SAUIItft'’s dfott is mraisewortlty.
.U is^.to behoped thirt thO Senator’s
1 lie'^ltiied ahd that' when intro-
ROpresentatiyes,
Saturday Is the final day to register
for the May 28 primaries. Activity dur-
ing the first two weeks has been negli
gible and registrars say they know of
numerous Citizens who should be on the
MllbOoks, yet aren’t. The registrars will
be at the jailing places Until sundown
Saturday.
Congtotulaitions to Harman Qnene,
newly electa* prisidaat of the Kings
Mountain ,funior Chamber of Commerce.
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By BlARTn HARMON
Preparmg to use the picture of
tlie Scotch foursome *jroup of
golfers in last week's Herald, I
was reminded of my first ac
quaintance with this kind of golf
tournarhent occurred at Blowing
Rock in 1939.
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Low Man on the Totem Pole
1 remembered, I thought, that
one partner hits the ball, and
that the other follows, the alter
nating continuing i^til (he little
roumi pellet Is in the cup.
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iBut for a further check of the
rules, I telephoned one of the
players, George Thctr.asson
I hadn’t forgot, but there was
more detail.
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Both man and lady partner hit
from the tee, the longest ball b{>-
ing chosen for play. Then the al
ternating starts. If the man’s
drive is chosen, the lady takes
the second shot, and vice versa.
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Sunday was the first annivers
ary of my owning a set of golf
clubs and I am ashamed to relate
that the clubs remain almo.st
new. Indeed, I have nev'er navi
gated more than two holes of the
country club course.
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SO THIS IS
NEW YORK
By NORTH CALLAHAN
New York City is back to nor
mal, it seems, with a huge news
paper strike that has taken half
the local newspapers out of circu
lation. But the situation is differ
ent this time because the three
papers involved intend to merge
—that Is if they ever publish-a-
gain, and there is growing doubt
that they will, in which case it
will he a shame not to have them
after all these years. But the
poiver of the press is still evident
hero. Ecr e.xample, in the Grand
Central postoffice I found a sign
over a main mail drop w’hich
stated, “Little Fooler Only." This
lefers to the name of a puzzle
running in tlfe Daily News. Won
dering how this cauld rate a spe
cial mail drop in the government
postoffice, I asked the postmas
ter. He replied that even though
it v\'as a “commercial product",
there simply was so much mail
coming in for “The Little Fool
er” that^ the special drop was sot
aside fmr tiie convenience of the
postal clerks who have to handle
all of it.
While talking with George, I
suddenly realized that the Scotch
foursome arrangement well
might be my cup of tea, as, per
haps, I could find^a good partner
who might compensate for my
duffing play. I suggested this to
George but told him I did not in
tend to choose my wife as part
ner and she certainly wouldn’t
choose me.
Viewpoints of Other Editors
A QUESTION or
CARROTS
‘AFTER YOU. ALPHONSE'i HUMPHREY'S HOUSE
A banker was explaining to a
friend how he got started in the
business. “I was out of W’ork,” iie
said, “so to keep busy, I rented
an empty store building and
painted the word ‘Bank’ on the
winciow. On that same day, a
man came in and deposited $300.
The next day another fellow
came in and put in $250. Well sir,
by the third day I’d got so much
confidence in the venture that I
put in $30 of my own money.”
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‘‘Oh, you couldn’t do that, any
way," said George, “for husband-
wife teams aren’t permitted by
the rules.’’ "* .
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Indeed, the 'Scotch foursome
play be my cup of golfing tea (no
tee pun'intepd^d). ’
“I have just seen in a shop at
tractive 1 lb. packs of carrots.
Each pack is marked ‘Produce of
the U.S.A. Grown and packed in
Texas.’ No wonder we have a
trade gap.”
So wrote to The Times, ot Lon
don, the other day an apparently
indignant clergyman from Cam
borne in Cornwall. The indigna
tion- .is understandable, since
Cornwall, with its temperate cli
mate, is a main supplier of ear
ly spring flowers and vegetables
to many a British green grocery.
At a time when most experts
are warning that inflationary
pressures lon the American eco-
had hardly thought through
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The professional w'hp managed
the Green Park Hotel eourse a.
Blowing Rock at that time pro
moted several Scotch foursome
tournaments. Well he might, for
he was George Blagg, a native
Soot, who still retained quite a
dose of Scot burr in his speech.
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Is it Scotch or Scot? It was
the late Dr. W. P. Gerberding, or
Dr. James Clelland, the native
Stot who was/'is preacher of
Duke University, or both, whd
expounded on the fact that to re-
fdr to a person as “Scotch” is in
correct terminology. A native of
Scotland is a “Scot”, I wonder if
Scot friends, Mrs. Erskine
Watterson and Mrs. John Van
Dj'^ke agree.
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all tike implications Of this ftf-
thcr American invasion of EuT
rope — or at least of Britain —
when there appeared in The
Times a further letter on tltis
sensitive topic. One as to read it
twice to get its full implication.
And when one gets the implica
tion one can but admire the deft
ness of an American Anglophile,
resident in London, in taking the
fuse out of the charge from Corn
wall.
President Johnson and Vice-
President Humphrey agree that
this is hardly the time to start
nomy are considerable, Congress! building a $750,000 house for the
continues to vote appropriations i Vice-President. Mr Johnson sign-
beyond amounts recommended in 1 ed the bill authorizing that a-
the President’s budget. | mount, 'tut he was wise in or-
t.ru . .u . .u r I dering a halt on the project.
Whatever the truth of com-1 ^ ^
plaints by congressmen that the j Both parties, in Congress and
President Intentionally cut funds : outside, agree that a suitably
for those programs sure to be 1 large and stately mansion would , ,,5, .
most politically popular among i be in keeping with the duties and ®
their own constitutents, their var- [ perquisites of the nation’s Num-
ious moves to increase rather 1 ber Two public figure. But iho
than pare the budget figures a- '• threat of inflation and the heavy
-3—
Dick Van Dyke says that he is
sometimes called a “square”. Peo
ple who do this explain by point
ing out that the popular star is
still married to his first wife aft
er 16 years, they have four chil
dren, go to church regularly and
he spends his .spare time with his
* j family. And he says he doesn’t
mind being called by this name.
a nicer meaning
than it used to have,” Dick add
ed. “Today it means a person
who lives by the rules.”
imount to a particularly flagrant
example of election year irrespon
sibility.
Gardner Ackley, cha<lrman of
•4he President’s (Council . ot Eco
nomic Advisers, has a.sked busi
ness to help halt inflation by for
going unnecessary price increas-
■es.
Vietnam war costs argue against
spending the money now.
One of my favorite people in
this world is Helen Keller. A
For the time being then, the
years ago she wrote that‘she
rey will have to make do their i
I presume Scotch is an adject
ive, rather than a noun. Thus we
have Scotch plaids, Scotch whis
key, Scotch man, etc. Yet one re
fers to the Scottish highlands.
The Anglophile, Mrs. G. M.
Nissen, wrote: “I, too, have re
cently been offered American
carrots; Mr. Clement’s oa.iie from
Texas. . ., mine from Boston.
“Being a well-Anglicized Amer
ican I asked whether there were
no British carrots. The misshapen
stumps shown me persuaded me
this time regretfully to widen the
trade gap.”
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While in Uncle Sam’s navy, I
spent a week at the Glasgow
locks, only got ashore three
times, one of those on shore pa-
t*ol duty. After reloading cargo,
combat style, we and other ships
went further north to Coch Fyne
ill the domain of the Duke of Ar-
gyie.l^e little town wa* quite
sinalf and the Duke’s castle stood
3h a hill over-looking the town
and beautiful lake deep enough
to handle large ships.
All we wonder now is how long
it will be before Texas and Bos
ton are persuading the British to
import from across the Atlantic
bit:ble and squean, spotted Dick,
kedgeree, toad-in-the-hole — and
Brussels sprouts.
Christian Science Monitor
SOAKING LIBRARIES?
Readers have a greater stake
than most of them know in cur
rent hearings before a U.S. Sen-
ate subcommittee on the pricing
practices of major booksellers.
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Here we only got ashore twice,
ohee in a driving, cold rain —
pTactlclng landings on the beach,
"rtie other* time was ort night
ntaneuvers, eight miles down the
lAke.
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It was explained that, among
sevei'al reasons there would be
no liberty was the inability of the
stnall town to accommodate the
hordes of blue jackets. Another
lAiportant one waa that the Duke
had learned his lesson fi*^ earli
er Visitors to his castle. Iw boys
had made off with historled heir
looms as souvenirs.
'The Duke has done well finari-
dally via the famed argyle socks
and the most recent press report
I’ve noted about him was that
he'd wed his fourth wife.
It's a lousy oile but the puns
heap Uowlikg. For the Duke, is it
a Scotdi foursome?
It has come to be a practice of
many U.S. publishers to prepare
“library editions” of widely read
children's books for sale only to
libraries. These may be obtained
by libraries at a discount but
without competitive bidding.
Mr. Ackley inquired of the busi
nessmen, “Does anyone imagine
that labor will continue to show
moderation on its wage demands
when prices and profit margins
are continually rising?” It was a
very good question. But business
in turn pointedly asked Mr. Ack
ley another very good question:
Can the administration really ex
pect business to police itself on
profits and prices so long as gov
ernment shows no inclination to
cut 'tack on spending?
Normally Congress has prov
ed itself to be an ally of business
in helping to check inordinate
spending by the administration.
Now, in a time of apparent infla
tion and of high government
spending due to the commitment
in Vietnam, Congress has out
done the administration by add
ing hundreds of millions to such
administration programs as vet
eran’s benefits, education, agri
cultural conservation, and rural
electrification.
If government is serious about
the inflation menace, it will have
to come up with acts, not just
words. Given the peculiar respon
sibility of government to guard
the public interest, surely it
should lead the way.
If the health of the American
economy does indeed demand ef
fective anti - inflationary meas
ures, it would be a tragedy if no
one were to take the necessary
plunge — if government, busi
ness, and labor were to stand at
the water’s edge, each saying, in
effect, “After you, Alphonse.”
Christian Science Monitor
modest eight-room house in Che
vy Chase, Md. As long as the
White House admonishes the na
tion’s industrialists to hold hack
on new capital outlays, could it
with grace do otherwise Itself?
SON ET LUMIERE
often imagined what she would
look for if she could be given on
ly three days to see. She said the
first day she would seek out her
friends who have been kind and
gracious to her. She would look
i r.1 , at a newborn child. She would
os on Globe | put her dogs and look into
their eyes. She would memorize
each detail of all she saw so that
she might remember afterward...
j The second day she would rise
with the dawn and thrill to the
new day as the sun lifted its way
a'cove the horizon. She would
look long at the beauties of na
ture and absorb as much as she
could into her soul. She would
visit the art museums and see
the beautiful works of man. She
would go to the theater and see
Hamlet or Fallstaff. Or watch the
grace of a ballet dancer. The
third she would once again greet
the dawn. This day she would
spend among men, watching them
work at whatever they do. She
•A'ould stand on a busy street cor-
the faces of
There is little doubt that, as
Rep. Henry Reuss (D) ofWiscon-
j sin says, the Capitol in Washing-
■ ton would make 3 fine site for a
program of sound and light spec
tacles using the “son et lumiere”
technique developed in France.
Son et lumiere consists of elab
orate lighting effects coordinated
with sound tracks carrying
voices, music and all sort of spe
cial effects, such as cannon fire.
It “brings to life,” says Mr.
Reuss, “a historical narration.”
And he suggests sound and light
scenarios might be woven around
incoln’s inaugural addresses, the I J^cr and look into
Jefferson-iBurr conte.st for the those who walked by. She wo'.dd
The library edition of a typical
book, “Daniel Boone,” sells for
$3.79. This imay aeem a bargain a-
longside the retail price of W-95
for the general "trade edition.”
But bookstores receive a much
lower wholesale rate, $2.45, for
the trade edition
Librarians say they would just
as aoon have the trade edition at
a price nea'rer the wholesale
rate. The standardized library
editions, they have told the sub
committee, are a device to charge
libraries more for the books they
must buy.
It’s not Just the librarians who
should be concerned. The books
they buy are. In large measure,
financed by tax revenues, local,
state and federal. It’s the taxpay-
er who pays thb library-edition
premium. And It’s the youngsters
of the country who may have to
do with fewer books than they
could have at • lAwer uhH eait
The Oregonian
YEARS AGO
ms WEEK
Items of
Mountain
news
area
events taken from
fttes of the King*
Ifefald.
abotft King
■people an4
the 195
Mountai*
Presidency and the burning of
the Capitol in 1814—an events,
we dare say, most Americans
prefer to forget.
As impressive as .such produc
tions might be, though, we sus
pect that most people would te
willing to forego son et lumiere
at the Capitol in exchange for a
little less sound and more light
from the same place.
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watch children at play in the
parks, animals on the farm.
“Glory,” says Helen Keller who
misses it, “in all the beauty
which the world reveals.”
Constellations of the Zodiac,
The Great Bear and Orion are
mentioned in the book of Job
and also by Homer.
The county hospital board of
trustees and Kings Mountain hos
pital staff will be hosts .Sunday
at open house to show citizens
of the county the recently com
pleted addition to Kings Moun
tain hospital.
Nan Jean Gantt was presented
in graduating recital by Plonk
School of Creative Arts at Ashe
ville Tuesday night.
Evelyn Cline, soprano, senior
at Guilford college, will be pre
sented in seniCr recKal Friday in
Memorial Hall at Cullowhee.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Colonel Frederick Hambright
Chapter, DAR, heard a program
on “Juvenjle Delinquency”, by
Jaok W)iit« Kings Motmtain law-
yar an4 judge ot city recorder’s
court, Wednesday afternoon.
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