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kings MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN, N C
Thursday, June 16, 1966
Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Heraid
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Cdtol^na :
' Kl^ ASSOCIATION^
A wsehly nafwspanpr devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for tne enlightenment, £r>iertainmont and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain
and its vicinity, published every Thursday by tlie 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
Bobby Bolin
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Allen Myers
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MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
Ingredienta: bit* o1 nevm
humor, and comments
Direettona: Takm weekly, ij
poaaible, but avoid
By martin HARMON
Majority of high schools and
! oollcges attempt to got graduat-
i ini; classes to return every five
i CuU'S.
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j Thus Dr. John C, McGill went
I ver to Nashville,' Tenn., last
u.vkcnd for the 20th annivers-
a:y gathering of his medical
cla>> at Vanderbilt university,
, and his wife had attended the
’ 20t!i anniversary of her Erskino
I cl.iss of ’46. !tty wife logged in
iioi -Number 20 at Winthrop.
do remember Father!"
IVE GOT LOTS
WORK TO
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TODAY^S^BIBIJE^RSE
Whoso loveth instruction loh'cth knoivledge: but he that^iateth reproof i.s brutish. Proverbs t- M-
Tax Proposals
Perhaps not in the history of North
Carolina, certainly not in modern hist
ory, has as much attention n
to tax - increasing proposals as in tbS
past few montns.
A tax on tobacco products has again
been supported, at least in the non
growing, non-manufacturing weed areas
in the state.
This week the North Carolina Asso
ciation of County Commissioners re
solved in support of increasing the state
sales tax by one percent (to four), with
the residue to be rebated to the coun
ties and cities on a per capita share
formula.
There is some conversation that the
new tobacco tax, or increased sales tax,
would could result in repeal of the in
tangibles and inventory taxes which are
rebatable to local units of government.
In the general fund tax history of
the state since the early thirties there
have been these major and minor de
velopments:
1) The Ehringhaus administration
enacted the initial three percent sales
tax, a substitute for the state adyalorem
property tax, with the state taking over
major responsibility for schools.
2) The Broughton administration,
honoring a campaign pledge, won repeal
of the sales tax as it applied to the home
table.
3) The Hodges administration re
wrote the basic revenue act, winning
some changes in taxes effecting busi
ness and expanding sales tax coverage
to many areas (building materials,
printing products, e.g.) previously not
taxable.
4) The Sanford administration put
the home table back on the tax menu to
get enough money to meet Sanford’s
campaign pledge for school improve
ments.
The school-managed United Forces
for Education are again propagandiz
ing for more money, for a variety of
purposes but with the big item for
teacher pay. The publicity materials
compare stipends of beginning college
graduates in a variety of fields, with
the North Carolina teaching pay for a
beginning “A’' certificate teacher $2000
in arrears at minimum. However, there,
is no note to indicate that the teacher
is on duty nine months rather than a
dozen. ,
The counties and cities have been
under heavy pressure in recent years to
provide hospitals, school buildings, men
tal health clinics, libraries, water and
sewer mains and othervaried and desir
ed services. Many have reached the
point they must slow and amortize or
find newsources of revenue. "
Due to growing industrial and pop
ulation the state’s tax take has
been sufficient to keep normally con
servative budget-makers in surplus con
dition. Themonthly re^rt of the state
department of revenue shows this con
tinuing trend during the current year.
The same happy condition has not
been Jruew'ith many counties and cities.
A corollary back-drop is Governor
Moore’s camp^^n pledge of “no new
taxes”, about w^h he was meticulous
during the 1965 General Assembly.
Counting noses in the 50-member Sen
ate, it is hard to envision passage of a
tobacco tax in the immediate future in
North Carolina;
Hollings Landslide
Ex - Governor Ernest F. Holling?
barrelled Unitbd States Senator Donald
Russell Tuesday for the Democratic
nomination for Russell’s seat.
Senator Russell conceded at 9:28 p.
m.
It reminds of four years ago when
the shoe was on tlTe other foot, and Holl
ings was trapped in a landslide by the
late Senator Olin D.. Johnston, and in
which primary Hollings carried only one
of South Carolina’s counties.
Politics creates strange bedfellows,
itis said. In Tuesday’s voting, Mr. Holl
ings enjoyed the active support of the
late Senator’s widow, brother, and other
echelons of the Johnston support of ’62.
The campaign showed no great di
vergence - of political philosophy be
tween the two contestants.
Big difference, which Hollings did
not fail to remind the voters . was that
Russell had tempted tradition by re
signing the governorship to which he
was nominated and elected handily
to receive Senate appointment by his
successor.
He wasthe seventh Governor in his
tory to attempt this coup, and he was.
the sixth to fail of re-election. Only A.-B.
(Happy) Chandler, of K e n t u c k y,
brought it off.
Senator Nominate Hollings won
plaudits from non-South Carolinians for
his performance as Governor. The Tues
day results indicate many Sandlappers
had second thoughts on his gubernator
ial performance since his 1962 defeat.
At 44, the Charlestonian, if elected
as expected, should enjoy a long tenure
as South Carolina Senator.
laynes Departure
Harry E. Jaynes’ recent resignation
and projected departure for DeKalb
County, Georgia, and a principalship in
the Greater Atlanta school system iS re
grettable news for Kings Mountain area
citizens.
His decision resulted from severa
reasons. His new assignment obviously
is a promotion, both in size of schoo
and annual stipend. Additionally, he re
gards the Greater Atlanta system as £
progressive big-city system, notes that
a set policy has been established of
building a large new school annually.
His service here has been excellent,
as school principal during the difficult
if^riod between consolidation of the area
schools and attainment^^of the new high
school building just opened last fall. The
Central building somehow housed the
additional pupils, but it required what
some considered magic to accomplish it.
He handledhis chore in an'easy-go
ing, but quite efficient manner, ap
proached nroblems full faceand solved
the majority of them.
Mr, Jaynes further filled the role of
responsible citizen in community affairs
in numerous civic activities.
Best wishes of Kings Mountain citi
zens will attend him in his new role.
Upping the sales tax for benefit of
counties and cities may have easier, but
certainly not easy, sledding.
The American Legion Juniors are
winning baseball and are provid-
customary thrills of last-ditch
icks and last-ditch stands familiar
phase of the national pastime.
Dogs are still in quarantine here,
will be through June 30.
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School officials relate that ex
perience shows the Silver Anni-
\c'r.<ary gatherings seem the
biggest and here Saturday night
the Kings Mountain high school
class of 1941 held a reunion at
tended by 80 persons and I crash-
txi the party for conversation,
though I couldn’t accept the cor
dial invitation of Charlie Bal
lard and others to join for din
ner.
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Other members of the class
pivsent from far and near were
Mrs. Rachel Smith Farley, of
Raleigh, Mis_ Jo Keeter Madison,
of Virginia, Mrs. Betty Cee Neis-
ler Timberlake, of Virginia, and
Mrs. Betty Patrick Merritt; also
of Virginia, Mrs. Frances Crouse
Hodden, Gene Tignor. Mrs Helen
Ramsey Blanton, R. G. Plonk,
and others.
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SUNDAY IS
FATHER’S DAY
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[A DAD OC PAL,
SO THIS IS
NEW YORK
By NORTH CALLAHAN
^^WHAT CAN I DO
FOR YOU?
THE QUEEN AND
EUROPE
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Wilson Griffin, a member of I
tile class, related later that on- f
ly two members, Nancy Nichels j
and Gordon Barnette, remain „ , ... , . ,
single. Wilson enjoyed -a letter Harmless guff is a fmr dcs-
of greetings from Baamette, who of the words the Queen s
said his farm duties would pre-1 ministers usually put in her
vent his attendance. Ho manages, Belgium (last week)
he wrofe, a "too” farm, went on l allowed to say
Viewpoints of Other Editors
BAR AND
BILL'OF RIGHTS
to explain the definition of a
"too” farm is “too dry, too wet,
little land in cultivation, planted
little land in culiva'ion, planted
tOD late...” etc., etc.
something.
Dr.
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Bill Farlev
and,.. Rachel
Brussels had craftily greeted
her that morning with a display
of folkloric mummery calculat-
ied to touch chords of European
kinship in every British televi
sion set. At a state banquet that
were interested in getting the re-' King Baudouin, straight-
lationship of Dr. John 3. Rhodes, speaking as he has .een since he
With far/less fanfare than it
deserves, the Board of Govei*n-
ors of the American Bar Associ-
AUTOMATED
HOG CALLING
The achievements of those who
do research in farm mechaniza
tion always arouse our admira-
ation has approved creation of a tion. It is cheering to think that
new Section of Individual Rights
and Responsibilities The propos
al will put before the House
of Delegates in August.
Forty-two stories above 42nd
Street in the elegant Pinnacle
Club, I attended a gathering to
launch a new book japtly titled
"I Protest” by E. W. Scripps and
edited by Oliver Knight. Crusty
Mr. Scripps, who did not relish
social occasions and once turned
dow'n an invitation to lunch with
Woodrow Wilson, would have
grimly laughed had he been
present at all this to-do over
him. (When asked if he thought
it was right to refuse a Presi
dential invitation to eat, Scripps
replied, “Not right but it was a
record) Since that ti.r.e, some 60
years ago, much has been added
to the record of Edward Willis
Scripps, especially the famous
exploits of his in founding a
great newspaper chain and e.xcr-
cising whenever he felt like it
which was often—a fabulously
acid tongue.
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E. W. Scripps was born on a
farm in Illinois, the youngest
and loudest of 13 children. His
father had been a bookbinder in
London before' coming to Amer
ica. E. W. thought he was an un
wanted child, held no affection
for his mother, and turned to
his half-sister, Ellen, for affec
tion, the two remaining devoted
•all their lives She introduced
him to the world of books and of
men, particularly individual, in
dependent and dynamic men,
such as he hi.rrself became. On
winter evenings at the family
farm, the family gathered a-
round the fireplace and listened
as Ellen read to them in her
precise English. Throughout
! childhood, E. W. was sickly and
knew little of ordinary children’s
pleasures. Usually he was bored
with his playmatfes or angered
by their criticism. He was an
unusual person with a creative
flair and a shell of individual
ism. Solitude to him meant os
the Raleigh urologist, 10' Kings
Mountain folk, which is: Dr.
Rhodes is,,half-brother of Mrs.
ch-eerily reminded the almast-in-
dependent Congolese in 1960 just
What they owed to his predeces-
Fergie Plonk, wife of Fred. John I Leopold II, plunge d fight
is first cousin to Fred. As far as' Would Britain like to become
I know, Mr. and Mrs. Plonk are 1 Europe?
no kin. 1 This time the Belgian advisers
r m-m ’had it right. No Lumumba she,
Dr. Farley, a pediatrician, was Queen Elizabeth duly replied that
a classmate of mine at UNC, 1 like so many things in life the
though we weren’t acquainted desirable is not always immedi
closely on ca-mpus. He did his
medical sudies at Duke, entered
the service, and I first renewed
ac*quaintances with him in the
forties on a football weekend
jaunt to Durham with the Tolly
Shuford family. The Farleys liv
ed next door to Charlotte’s fam
ily.
ately attainable, but yes thank
you, Britain woiuld.
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The class motto of ’41
“Deeds, not Words”
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Wilson Griffin was reviewing
some of the deeds, such as .Meek
Carpenter’s ''.eing the “yoangest
father”, with a two-month*' old
baby as his house, and Mrs.
Juanita Warren, the high school
faculty member, being a grand
mother. Right (.much doin’, I’d
say.
Currently being filed with the prop
er government agency is a “total plan
for the development of Kings Mountain”.
Approval would imply share-basis fed
eral grants for some projects, loans for
others. If approved, much responsibil
ity will accrue to the five-member re
development commission named last
week, as well as theadvisory and minor
ityhousing committees now being nam
ed. Potential benefits could rei^amp the
face of the community in many benefi
cial directions.
Next morning the Daily Ex
press, horrifically solemn, duly
blew its top. It was “monstrous”
that Her .Majesty should have
been asked to make this declar
ation; “there must be,” the Daily
Express felt, “a deep sense of
shock and dismay”—a notion
that had the Daily Mail’s court
jester, for one, rolling in the
aisles. Still, the Express had a
point of a sort.
as a result of their efforts, a
fan.Tier can now relax before his j cape and an opportunity t.o do
television while an automated vvhat he pleased which was usu-
timer sets , in motion the augers ally reading and daydreaming,
that feed his livestock. : ,
In a way, it is remarkable that I
the ABA has for so long ignored But automation usually brings | At the age of 15, E_ W. Scripps
the relative i.rportance of the I new problems. Indiana farmers , left school -because his father
most fundamental laws of our 1 found that the noise _made by had a lingering last illness The
society. If has had sections on \ their , hog - feeding rnachinery4 j-oting son even took over the
such matters as patent law, but iwhen loading acted as a dinner I farm. But instead of working on
has left Bill of Rights matters
to lesser committees which fre
quently were inactive. It is not
necessary to depreciate patent
law to stress that the bar should
be even more concerned with
freedom of speech, religion, as-
semily and movement, and en-
joyi.ment of property, fair trial
and equality before the law.
Because many eminent consti
tutional lawyers felt this way,
the Board of Governors has re
sponded. Indeed, more than 850
members of the legal profession.
Including deans 'of many law
schools, signed the petition for
the new Section. ABA President
Edward W. Kuhn supports it as
“an excellent forum for consid
ering some of the fundamental
questions that confront the Ar
merican people.” Presidentelect
Orison S. Maiden calls it “a con
structive step in the public in
terest.”
bell for the hogs. It was as ef
fective as the old-t|me farmers
“soo-ee, soo-ee.” Unfortunately
the animals heard it too soon—
before dinner was ready. Forget- !
tin.g their maners they jostled
each other harmfully as they
struggled to find Hood at the
still - empty through, reducing
their market value.
it, he got neighbor boys to do the
wprk in the fields, while he sat
in a fence corner and read. In
1872, E. W. decided he wanted to
be a nev(^ap^i,^^man. He had a
half-brother vvh^ was editor of
a newspaper ^’Detroit, tut that
individual did not share the am
bitions of E. W_ So, for a time,
the Michigan avienuC to journal-
. , ! istic success was closed. But the
To find a way to overcome the, ggpjj,j^jjQj.^g young Scripps
-dinner bell effect was a task ^yei-g not to be denied. The ne.xt
foi thg experts. The Product Re- year, he went to Detroit any-
search Dep^tment 'Of the Indi- g painting signs
ana Fairh Bureau Cooperative | g^j advertising on windoy
Apociation went to work on it. | until his brother took him
Their solution was 'cased on jnto the job shop of the paper.
I swine psychology. If the ducts
were filled for the next meal
while the hog.s were busy eating,
the-hogs would not heed the
noise, they reasoned. A new tim
ing mechanism was devised The f
dinner bel effect was (ended.
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Betty Timberlake was class
oresident and it was especially
nice to renew friendship with
her and husband Buck, who. the
previous weekend, had been forc
ed to miss the UNC Class of ’41
reunion due to a commencement
sea-son of his own at Mary Bald
win college, whfere Buck is a
vice-president.
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The Class of ’41, like others.-of
the era, both high school and
college, were “war” classes, and
most of the men were in service.
All appeared remarkaMy well-
preserved in spite of those ex
periences.
Mr. Wilson, whose policy- the
monarch was exactly voicing,
down to theambiguities, might
deny that the .matter was one of
“keen and even bitter political
controvei'sy” seeing that he and
Mr. Heath are agreed on it (and
Mr. Grimond, too, if Mr. Wilson
any longer had reason to care
what Mr. Grimond thinks). But
controversial it still is. And no
bad thing.
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The Queien is accepted as a
mouthpiece of British views. She
should not say anything her own
loyal oposition, or any body of
opinion strong enough to be rep
resented !oy a significant parlia
mentary party, fiercely disputes.
But she should not be kept silent
when all three parliamentary
parties are in agreement and the
opposition to British entry to
the Common Market has bfeen
reduced to a heterogeneous
rump. The politics of consensus
Which apply" to tire Quieen do not
require total unanimity. — The
Economist (London)
Chatting later with Mrs. Crady
Howard, I wa* reminded that
our high school class has nbver
reuned and that 1966 marks our
thirtieth anniversary. Clyde
Greene and Dorothy Plonk Lewis
have .made suggestions for a get-
to-gether in the past, and I sug
gested to Susie that we shotdd
make 1966 the year. Class Presi
dent Elarl McGill lives in nearby
Blacksburg, S. C., many of the
class resicte here, and many
more are within easy traveling
distance of Kings Mountain. Dr,
Martha Plonk, who lives prob
ably the most distant at Corval
lis, Oregon, will be home for the
summeir.
Why not this ybar?
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“You want me to do all tfie
work and I’m not going to do
it,” Susie teased. But she agreed
to help.
A simple solution. The larger
No doubt there will he a few i Pi’oblems brought on by automa-
me.mbers of the House of Dele-j tion often seem insoluble. But
gates in opposition. Some law-1 they are not. It is a matter of
yers appear to regard the Bill of scale, the bigger problem calling
for far greater effort. Agricul-
The elder Scripps founded the,^
Detroit Evlening News and 0/3
of carrier boys was E_ W. who
i turned out to be such a success-
that he w'as making $50 a week
in a fe w months. At 21, he was
editor of the paper and bought
one share of stock in the News.
That was 1877, a far cry from
the 40 million dollars Scripps
was worth at the time of his
death in 1926.
Rights as either a dead letter or
a radical document But the A-
merioan Bar Association can on
ly claim ^ "deep concern for
American law if it applies that
concern to the individual free
dom for which the nation stands.
The delegates ought to accept
tural research has not only de
vised such ingenious devices as
pickers far corn, but has placed
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DESERT VICTORY
In a way it was a victory. Thb
Screen Actors Guild declared
that "Rat Patrol,” a new TV
serlca, could be filmed in the
Mojave DeSbrt only, under strict
union rules, and no one made
the Guild officials budge.
The producers wanted to use
residents of nearby Barstow,
Calif., In certain crowd scenes.
The Guild, however, in^sted that
any extras would have to be
hauled out to the desert from
Hollywood, more than 100 miles
away.
Maybe we can bring it off.
Then, too, there was a possibil
ity that U.S. Army personnel
might appear In various scenes
of the series, a World War II
story of fottf commandos. That
would be fine, the Guild said,
but for every on-camera soldier
one union member would have to
bb hired to stand around on the
set.
the series shot up to $110,000 per
half-hour episode, nearly 50 per
cent abovTe the industry average
and a lot of money to gamble on
the risky television ratings
game. Unable to dent the union’s
position, the producers retreated;
the series will be shot in Spain.
Some union members may ap
plaud the Gu^W and other labor
organizations in their battles to
preserve make-work rules. To
others, we suspect, the union’s
victories are bbcoming pretty
P>Trhic.
The Wall Street Jottmal
Los Angeles.
j TEARS AGO
^THIB WEEK
Items of news cfbout King
Mountain area people am
events taken from the 195
files of the KHtga Mountait
Herald.
'The city board of school trua-
tebs discussed without action
Monday night possibilities of
converting the Central plant Into
a Juntor-Senlor high school for
the 1966-57 term.
William B. McDaniel has been
graduated from the Gupton-
Jones-Dallas Institute and Col
lege of Embalming, after com
pletion of its nine month course.
Partly bcouM of roctrictions
like thOM, the batimated cost of
SOCIAL A^D PERSONAL
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Alexan
der, Rbggle and Cynthia, and
Mrs. T. E. Moss have returned
from a week’s vacation at Day
tona Beach, Fla.
KEEP YOUB RADIO DIAL SET AT
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Kings Monntain. N. C.
News & Weather every hour on the
a
hour. Weather every hour on the
half hour.
Fine entertainment in between
From that time on, the carber
of E. W. Scripps was meteoric.
He became editor of the Cleve
land Prbss and adopted the poli-
I cy that it would print the news
the bars on the cornstalk in a ( no matter whose name was in-
n .u convenient for the me-1 volved. Within ten years, he had
their governor’s proposal as | ^I’^n'cal hand that removes it [ control of the Cincinnati Post, in
,. . i celebrated by foiunding the Ken-
patiently conducted, should bejucky Post. In 1907, E. W.
able to find answers to the hu- j Scripps established the United
man problems brought on when Press and by the next year, he
machinbs replace men. ! newspapers from Mem-
Christian Science Monitor 1 pbis to
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