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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C.
Thursday, July 21, 1966
EstabUshed 1889
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The Kings Monntain Herald
A weekly Re'A'spjnpr devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for tne eniightennici.t, ermertainment and benefit of the citiaens of Kings Mountain'
and its vicinitj', punished 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.
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Editor-Publisher
Snorts Editor
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T MarHin
Circulation Manager and Si^ety Editor
Clerk
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Legion Foul-ups
Some baseball-fan philosopher re
marked year's ago, “The only trouble
with Legion baseball is the men in,it,
not the players.”
He had proof when he spoke and
there have been many cases in point
since.
The national Legion commissioner
announced Joe E. Brown, the movie ac
tor, would attend the Little World Se
ries. It later developed that Mr. Brown
might have liked to attend — but had
received no invitation.
In 1940, the national commissioner
repeatedly told the press San Diego’s
two Negro stars would play against Al
bemarle. Conservative Albemarle civic
leaders dictated a firm nay, regretting
the fact most sincerely, but fearful if
one of the hometown stars happened to
be accidentally spiked by one of the
Negro youths.
But the brunt of the troubles are
handled, or mis-handled, at the local
level, the clean-out customarily being
complete by the time the state semi
finals begin, which is good.
But many of the troubles shouldn’t
be at beginning.
Kings Mountain entries have been
party to many protests and recipient,
too. There was the year when Kings
Mountain was eliminated for lack of
birth certificates. They weren’t in Ra
leigh and the tracers were filed through
the postoffice. A year later it was learn
ed the certificates had been mis-address-
ed.
This year’s has been a lulu, with
the area commissioner denying, the
state commissioner upholding. Kings
Mountain’s protest that Hickory had
two ineligibles on the roster. Then the
state commander entered the act and
counter-manded the state commission
er. It was finally settled by a five-man
committee, including the two disagree
ing commissioners and three area com
manders.
What a way to run a ball game!
The National Legion organization
would do well to employ some baseball
pros out of the major leagues to draw
some rules and then adhere to them for
at least more than one year. But it
would also help if area commissioners,
post athletic officers and coaches did a
bit more book work too. And the men
would do well to emulate the players in
practice of the code recited before each
game.
First Fdtolity
Just a little more than a year ago,
Christopher Eugene Brooks was gradu
ating with the Kings Mountain high
school class of 1%5. A teacher recalls
that Chris Brooks squeaked through on
senior English and elatedly told her his
mother would bake her a cake.
Last Thursday, Pvt. Brooks was
buried with full military honors in the
city’s Memorial Park at Mountain Rest
cemetery.
It is a sad fact of war that tragedy
overtakes Kings Mountain as almost ail
other communities of the nation.
There is little more to be said on
any such occasion that young Brooks,
di^ honorably in the service of his
country.
*1116 community’s sympathy at
tends his family.
No Contribution
Governor Terry Sanford said near
time of his leaving office, and has re
peated since, that the major disappoint
ment of his four years as the state’s
chief executive was continuing escala
tion of the traffic accident and death
toll.
That was in spite of his and his ad
ministration’s efforts to examine and
employ any tool and means to improve
the situation.
It can be assumed that Governor
Dan Moore feels the same frustration. It
was nearly a month ago that the state’s
highway death toll stood at exactly 100
ahead of the same date the previous
year. The imbalance continues to in
crease.
But a non-contribution to highway
safety has been the state’s financial re
sponsibility act, widely promoted by fi
nancially responsible citizens of the
state, virtually all the state’s communi
cations media, and, obviously, the Gen
eral Assembly which enacted it.
Those who it now appear should
have been heeded, were the insurance
companies writing liability coverage
and the state’s. insurance ageqts, both
groups professionals and the majorit>
with quite severe reservations concern
ing compulsory purchase of insurance.
Insurance Commissioner Ed Lanier,
who is doing a good job as middle-man
between the underwriters and the pub
lic, has indicated yet another increase
in liability costs.
He recognizes the fact that the
companies will not continue to do busi
ness in the state on a money-losing
basis.
Meantime, motorists are being put-
upon in many w'ays. Insurance com
panies have a keen dose of cancellitis, as
their claims mount, and the "assigned
risk” has become and unwelcome and
undeserved spot for many motorists.
As drastic as it might appear, ex-
Governor Sanford’s recommendation
that traffic violations for the most pari
be made an administrative matter
where the penalty is license revocation
for a week to a year or longer rathei
than a criminal matter, would do mort
to pare accidents on North Carolina’s
highway than any other means. It work
ed in Connecticutt, Sanford reports.
But covering everyone has been
beneficial to a very few, as insurance
companies take court defense, if neces
sary, on even very minor claims.
The General Assembly would d(
well to repeal this well-intentioned fail
ure from North Carolina statutes.
Airline Strike
Industry and legions of their em
ployees, too, have been victims of the
chief labor union weapon, the strike,
which like all wars have usually made
both losers.
There is an added dimension to the
strike situation in the walkout of onf
union, while two or three more wish to
work.
*1110 city is taking steps to update
its electrical system maps. Stiange,
some might think, in view of the com
paratively recent updating of the cit/s
distribution system. Not strange, at ail,
remember older citizens, recalling the
many years the system was allowed to
creak and groan as utility profits were
used for other city pursuits. Not
strange either. Electrical Superinten
dent Hunter Allen will add, considering
the ajatm’s increasing demand for
powehi •’nie hot weather has had him
perspifartiig in more than physical fash
ion, aa-Opmplaints have come in of pow
er faUuil of refrigeration and air-con-
ditionMuh A stitch in tijne save nine —
or m^Ve te|i.
TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE '
Kno'w ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that knoic .tJie laic) how that the law hath dominion
over a man as long as he liveth. )Romans i :l.
Two particularly plagued in this di
rection are the publishing and airlines
industries.
In publishing, there are the print
ers and pressmen, the mailers and the
newsmen.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
ingrtdimUa: M|s «/ imm
aisdomt humor, and oommonto
Directions/ Taka toeekl^, it
possible, but avoid
Br MAirmi nabmon
In process of going through
some papers of the late B. R.
Willeford, Mrs. Estelle King, Mr.
WLUeford's sister, found an in
teresting family heirloom, and
she graciously brought it for me
to see.
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It was a first for me, and was
the Civil War service pardon of
her late uncle R. R. Williford,
signed in person toy President
Andrew Johnsem and counter
signed by Johnson’s secretary of
state William H. Seward.
Lf__I had ever known
forgotten ftoat the pardons were
required before Confederate vet-
rang could regain their citizen
ship.
"How about trying this brand?"
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It is a long two-page document 1
and aimazingly weU-preserved,
its age being slightly less than
101 years, having been issued
under date of November 9, 1865.
The paper was not even slightly
yellow^ or frayed.
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I told Miss Estelle I wanted to
do a story on it and she replied
she couldn’t let it out of her pos
session for fear accidental loss
would create a family crisis.
While the document was being
typed, we had a pleasant chat,
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Her uncle became a Confeder
ate soldier shortly after the con
flict began at the age of 17 and
saw much action. Home recuper
ating from wounds, he received a
long letter—now in possession of
another member of the family.
SO THIS IS
NEW YORK
By NORTH CALLAHAN
It has a lot of competition in
other landmarks, but the Empire
State Building still stands out as
a great Roman candle type of
tower, juting above the lesser
buildings below. There is talk of
building a structure higher but
it h£^ not yet been done. And
one of th# most difficult jobs in
New York is the bulb-changing
job atop the 'tuilding’s television
tower, 1,472 feet above the pave
ment. This precarious task is
perfonned a'oout three times a
year and, with good weather, the
experience is something like scal
ing Mount Everest. First they go
by elevator.,to the. IQSth flopr^
then have to climb the last 75
feet using safety belts, heavy
gloves and a small map showing
Where they might run into high-
voltage TV lines. Sa.-netimes they
start up to a clear sky and run
into heavy mist, rain or snow
that are not even experienced in
I the streets below. At this height,
the rains and snow drive upward
because of the peculiar midtown
skyscraper updrafts.
Viewpoints of Other Editors
DOLPHINS TO THE
RESCUE
from a friend who had fought at
Gettysburg, the friend describing
with imuch detail the march in
to Pennsylvania and the action dolphin has done it again
at Gettysburg. ^ school of these creatures, the
u .. newspaper A1 Aklubar reports,
The soldier fnend had been in | saved a drowning man in
the company ordered toJcack up,^j^g Suez. The dolphins
the Pickett brigade which was their backs,
almost completely decimated as U ^ gj
it charged federal positions o" sharks, and brought him safety
the high ground. After Pickett s' . ’
men had been literally cut to
pieces the order to retreat was
BEYOND THE
CALL OF DUTY
men had been literally cui lo sen dol
given. It was Mr. Willeford’s
friends’ opinion that the South
lost the Gettysburg battle be
cause the advance and attack
weren't made.-the night before.
Decision to bivouac and delay
the attack 'til moming had al
lowed the federal tPoops suffi-
dent’jtime to dig in.
phins were nobly upholding the
tradition of their breed when
they carried this poor fellow to
safety “like Arlon on the dol
phin’s back.” Arion, it will be re
called, was the inventor of the
dithyramb, and on a yoyage
from Sicily to Corinth the sail
ors decided to throw him over
board. The dithyrambist persuad
ed tftem to allow him to sinf a
America's Surveyor I space
craft deserves a medal for ex
ceptional and distinguished serv
ice, a 21-gun salute, and a ticker
tape parade around the moon.
Poised there on luna finma, “a
fully perational spacecraft,” with
its transmitters, receivers, and
command system at the ready, it
has reason to be proud.
After all, it traveled 240,000
miles, executed a three-point soft
landing in the Ocean of Storms,
lost no time in beginning its-as
signed mission, took 10,338 pic
tures and endured almost two
FARMERS AND
INFLATION
and
been
Republican congressmen
farm organizations have
lambasting the Administration
over attempted cutbacks in the
agricultural budget and over
some statements by top officials.
That many Democrats also are
critical was shown when the
House more than restored the
cuts.
A disgruntled citizen wrote in
complaining about men’s clothes.
He described one part as “a trap
for hair oils and perspiration,
surrounded by a tight leather
band, known as men’s hats...the
substitute for the hangman’s
rope known as the necktie....
leather belts that keep you from
breathing, socks that are al
ways falling unless attached to
circulation - restraining support
ers, and shoes, those heavy rem
nants of the horse's hoof.’.’
—3-
Of course, there is sometimes
more than meets the eye in
Washington Told by. a president
to trim a budget, a cabinet offi
cer may reduce popular items
earth weeks in the searing heat the expectation that the out-
of its first lunar day, and then, "’y Congress to re-
as if that were not enough, in- ^tore the fuU amount,
credibly survived the two-week That may-not have been Agri-
lunar night with its tempera-! culture Secretary
Percy H. Whiting says that
one of the really great rules of
public speakirig is simple, easily
applied and fits every kind of
speech and every occasion. If a
speaker will use it, he says, he
will have deserved a long and
lasting platform popularity. So
here is the rule; when you are
a jout half through youiv talk—
SIT DOWN! If your remarks
have been good enough, the au
dience will insist that you re
sume. But chances are that they
will be so relieved that they will
applaud—not .your start, but
your stop
Tbc pardon is heaoiinea ^nj before tak-j tures of around 260 degrees be- technique, but anyway the House
drevV Johnson, President of the plunge. The sound so, low zero Fahrenheit. I fi,;i Drr>^rams for
Umt^ StatCT of America, to^all a passing i ^ . . . . ..
. u 11 tTJlCIiail tL dOlpiliR
to whom these presents n pore him all the way on
come, greeting, and the text of | Taenarus, where the
the pardon follows: j ^gj.0 immortalized in a
I bronze statue.
WNEREAS, R. R. Willeford of jg the'story quite as im-
Nash County, North Carolina, by pj.Qj,able as it seems. Dolphins,
taking part in the late rebellion know, are some of the most
against the government of the j jj,jgjjjoren’t of mammals. They
United States, has made himself ajso remarkable for their
liable to heavy pains and penal- gi uity to communicate with each
ties; I other. In captivity, in oceanaria
AND wnEREAS; the rirc^tti-., Caribbean, tape-recordings
tances of his case render him a ^ave been tm ade of the sounds
proper object of Executive de-g^^t and it has even been
mency; I envisaged that through the dol-
NOW, THEREFORE. BE IT we may eventually be able
KNOWN: that I, ANDREJW ^ establish contact in speech
JOHNSON, PRESIDENT O F j with the animal world.
THE UNITED STATES OF
AMEHIICA, in consideration of
Be that as It ma.v. it is certain-
AMERICA, in consiaeraiion oi . ^as
the premises, divers other good conducting some experi-
and sufficient reason be ther^ with ithgm It appears that
untrt moving. 03 hereby erant to .
In the passenger airline industry,
there are the pilots, the engineers, and
the maintenance men. Two of these
groups want to get off the ground, but
one doesn't, so everyone’s grounded, in-
eluding the inpocent passengers whp
merely want to buy their tickets, board
and land at destination.
Congratulations to Wilson Griffin
on his eltetioB os president of Kings
Mountain Rotary ghibu
unto moving, dio hereby grant
the said R. R. Willeford a full
pardon and amnesty for all of
fenses by him conamitted, aris
ing from participation, direct or
implied, in the said rebellion,
conditioned as follows;
1st This pardon to be of n'o ef
fect until the said R. R. Wille
ford shall take the oath pre
scribed in the Proclamation of
the President, dated May 29th,
1965.
2n’d To be void and of no ef
fect if the said R. R. Willeford
shall hereafter, at any time, ac
quire any property whatever
in slaved, or make use of slave
labor.
3rd That the said R. R. Willi
ford first pay all ewsts, which
may have accrued in any pro
ceedings instituted or pending a-
gainst his person or property, be
fore the date of the acceptance
of this warrant.
4th That the said R. R. Wille
ford shall not, by virtue of this
warrant daim any property or
the proceeds of any property
that has been sold by the order,
judgment, or decree of a court
under the confiscation laws of
the United States.
5th That the said R. R. WHH-
ford shaH notify the Secretaiy
of State, in writing, that, he was
received and accei^ed the fore-
gdng pardon.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOT. I
have hereunto signed my nwme
and mused the Seal «t theUWM
States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Waeh-
Ington, 'This NINTH day
of NOVBMBrai, A.D. 1865,
and of the Independenoe of
the United States the
NINETIETH.
BY THE PRESIDEirr
ANDREW JOHNSON
WllMam H. Seward
SECRETARY OF STATl!
Following its ordeal in the bit
ter lunar cold. Surveyor respond
ed to a corr.'.T.and from an anien-
Ua, to turn its transmitter on.
na in Tidbinbilla Valley, Austra-
This remarkable performance
record on its initial and incredi-i
bly difficult and complex mis
sion means that man has taken
another giant stride in his de
termined conquest of space.
sdiool milk 'and lunches, research
■nt college instruc
tion aid, soil conservation pay-
.1 ents, rural electrification loans,
etc. For good measure, the crit
ics continue to denounce tightef
controls on hide exports, looser
control on cheese imports, reduc
ed military buying of pork.
In addition ta their many other
excellent qualities, they have a
sort of built-in radar to guide
them in the avoidanee of obsta-
As Lord Ainory remarked,
when told of this by the then
First Sea Lord, il brd Carrington,
“If .mammals could fake over
from men in some naval duties
and thus cut public expenditure,
then all well and good.”
Later, the United States Space
It wae only when our daugh
Agency awarded a contract to a^,^er asked if we were sure that
Dr. John Lilly for Investigation
of the dolphin as part of a study
of communications between hu
mans and “other species” which
may live'’ on distant planets.
There seems no end to the dol
phin's potentialities; but in stick
ing to human!tartenism, even if
this time not coupled with mniusi-
oal appreciation, the dolphins of
Sue* were showing; a sturdy con-
sorvatlSTn and sense of historic
misaion.—The Times (London)
■‘SUMMER’S
FANTASTIC NEAT’
' Mrs. King thsught the s^nd
condition of pardon rathsr supsr-
fluous. "After aH.” thf comnwnt-
ed, "ISIS war wsc awsr, ills Stntli
IhMl iMt Ml dmmn aMlahed.”
Sitting in a cenofortably air-
oonditioned office, we have just
read that the hottest spot in the
48 (original) states was Buck
eye, Arizona, where the tempera
ture'had Just reached 111 de
grees. After having eat for a
few moments happily contem
plating the nearly 2,000 miles
which lay between lu and Buck
eye, we began to muae on the
stSanga ways of heat and hu
mans.
The Impression which has re
mained mMt vivid to us occurr
ed on an Auguat day a few years
ago. We were driving earoes
Massachusetts beneath “a hot
and copper sky.” Our fiiat act.
at course, was to reach down and
turn on the ventjdation. At first
the mevement of the car and
breeze frem the ventilatlcm made
u* feel diat the tr^ might not be
so bad after aH.
®ut, as though ■we were In fast
•Vfnsmnt wuckaya. ms mp
fl»ar iMitw wtd boRar and fcpt*
tar. Fast ♦ stow ^ nMit was
'The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
operated for NASA by the Cali
fornia Institute of Technology,
and the Hughes Aircraft Com
pany, deserve recognition for
their part in Surveyor I’s as
tounding success. To add to the
laboratory’s luster, its Mariner
4, which photographed Mars a-
'tout a year ago, is stil function
ing after clocking more than 750
million miles in space.
Christian Science Monitor
the same. Soon we were all in
unanimous agreement that that
must surely be the hottest day
ever experienced in New Eng
land Was it 100, a 105 or even
more? Almost any reading seem
ed possi!:>le. We even sniffed to
make sure that the car was not
afire.
Rp had the ventilation full on
that the terrible truth smote us.
Instead of summer ventilation,
we had turned on the heating
system. Perhaps, had we been In
the mood, some deep philosophic |
fact might have been drawn
from this.- Alas, our thoughts
were anywhere but pholisophic.
Christian Science Monitor
What antagonizes farm spokes
men even more is the alleged ef
fort to make farmers the fall
guys for inflation. The President
suggested housewives buy cheap
er foods; Freeman predicted a
drop in food prices by autumn;
Economic Adviser Gardner Ack
ley said the Governiment was
selling CCC corn to hold down
the price.
Farm income is up. In Minne
sota the index of prices received
was the best for any April since
1954. But it was stili only 92 per
cent of the 1947-49 average. And
ini terms of parity, American
farm prices last month were on
ly 80 percent of that magic goal
What is happening is that de
mand—domestic and export—is
catching up with some lines of
farm production. Such conditions
tend to improve the farmer’s lot.
But not ver»' fast.
Th Minneapolis Star
It seems ironic that in an age
Freeman’s | Qf the greatest population the
world has ever known, more peo
ple are lonely than ever before.
Even the high-rise apartments in
the city are no exception. For
many people behind these many
doors, there is aching loneliness.
Some of them go to the large
shopping centers simply for the
opportunity to talk to some one
in the store. At least the checker
will speak to them as they go
out. And whereas in smaller
places, folks know each other ^
and sirile and speak, fear is the
over-riding factor in a place like
this, fear’of being assaulted or
jiust thought odd or too forward,
especially in regard to women.
Some one would do our world a
great service by figuring out
how well-meaning people could
get to know each other better.
—3—
The young husband of a few
weeks had had a hard day att
the office and when he arrived
home that evening, he really
showed it. His bride was sympa
thetic. She commented that he
looked so tired and hungry—how
would he like to have a nice
steak smothered with onions, a
green vegetable,. some fried po
tatoes and some delicious pie a
la mode. “Not tonight; dear.”
was the weary husband’s reply,
“I’lm too tired to go out.”
j TEARS AGO
'^rms WEEK
ttsms of uetoe about King
Mountain area peojde «n«
•Mill* tt/ken from the 195
fjHes of the Kings Mountak
Hferoid.
Gorge B. Thomasson, Kings
Mountain lawyer, was appointed
last Friday by the county board
of oonunissioners to a three-year
term on the county hospital
b9«rd of tnwtees
Bethware and (Compact adiools
in the coimljy system opened for
the summer split term Monday
with both reporting slightly high
er enroilments.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Kitigs Mountain Chapter 123,
Order of the Eastern Star, will
meet in Masonic Hall Friday at
8 o^dock. Guest speaker will be
Aniald W. Kincaid, past grand
patiton of the Grand (Chapter of
North Carolina.
Captain and Mrs. R. M. Snow
and children, Ann, Linda. Dick,
and Jerri have arrived from To-
pok*. K'MWM. ta spend tha week
«Mi Mrs. Snow's porants, Mr.
■Ml Mnir Fitfl
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