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r. ^age 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HE^;^ KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C, Thursday, Augi Established 1889 S' Tlie Kings Momitain Heiald ' A wesk'v r.e'S??.D3i’‘»r devoted to the promotion of the genentl weMare and published for tne enlightennict, ^niertalniyent 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 oHiCe at Kings Mountain, N. C, 28086 under Act qf Congress of March 3, lf73. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Gary Stewart Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Lynda Hardin • • Cl^rk -4.- MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Bobby Bolin Dave Weathers Allen Myers Paul Jackson Dave Weathers, Jr. 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 The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul. Proverbs 39:10. A Sobering Week (The following editorial by James P. Allen appeared in t^e July 30th ed ition of the Shelby Daily Star.) This week’s murder just off South Lafayette Street is a sobering reminder that our pleasant city and county are far from being isolated from the mental and emotional derangements wmch periodically transform other communi ties of the country into jungles of fear and despair. SOBERING AS well is Police Chief Knox Hardin’s apt reminder that there may be among us more mentally warped than ordinarily imagined. This is not to intimate that Shelby and Cleveland County stand in the grips of a crime binge. Far from it. That still is a rather remote possibility, even though it is profoundly disturbing to note that the neighboring Mecklenburg County area was the most murder prone in the United States in 1965. What cannot be easily shunted aside is that the latent potential for major crime does exist here as it exists elsewhere, an ominous fact which dic tates the constant exercise of reasonable caution and sound judgments, particu larly by young people. WE HAVE LEARNED anew, in short, that we are not immune to hor ror. And because of the realization, .shock of a comparable nature has not gripped the community so thoroughly since Nov. 22, 1963, when John K. Ken nedy was gunned down on the streets of Dallas. Since t;}ien, there have been multi death plane crashes. Many have been slaughtered in automobile accidents. There have been assorted fatal cuttings and shootings. Shock and sadness, to be sure, fol lowed them all. The shock emanating from this vyeek’s murder of Brenda Sue Brown draws its usual intensity from the vici ous and maniacal nature of the act. ALL THIS has placed a tremendous burden upon the law enforcement ma chinery of city and county. To this point, it would seem that all that could or should be done has and is being done. Every possible investigative resour ce has been focused vroon this crime. The officers involved probably are more aware than most tliat nprmalcy will not be completely restored here until the guilty party is in hand. Despite the frustrations apparently now blocking the speedy accomplish ment of that end, we are equally as con cerned by Friday's revelation that nu merous families in recent weeks failed to report to the proper authorities in stances in which youngsters were ap proached by strangers with obviously abnormal motives. Starkly apparent in retrospect is that no such incident should be ignor ed. CRIME PREVEN'nON—it has been proved over and over again — is no more efficient and effective than the day-to-day cooperation law enforcement agencies receive from the people they are constituted to protect. Strange characters and unusual events should be reported and reported should be taken lightly by those with authority to act. > _ ^ One other point needs be made. A criminal act such as occurred here this week leaves in its wake an easily trig gered rumor mill. Nearly everyone comes up with a story to tell. The usual result is a flood of ques tioning telephone calls to the sheriff’s department and police headquarters. Law enforcement persoimel inyolyed in the answering of trivial, rumor-spawn ed questions cannot function efficiently' and effectively. i * THOSE WITH seemingly worth while information that might in some way further the investigation of this week’s murder should let it be known. The curious should by all means re strain themselves. Congrotulations Commendations are in order: Lt. Colonel Robert (Bob) Cox, re cently promoted while serving in New Cumberland, Pa. with the U. S. Army. R. Devere Smith, named accounting manager of Foote’s Minerals Operations here and at the Asbury, Tennessee, Kim- ballton and Sunbright, Va. Operations. Joy Carol Greene, daughter of Mrs. Sunnie S. Greene, one of nine North Car olina students awarded college scholar ships from the N. C. Veterans Commis sion. Dr. C. Dewitt Blanton, Kings Moun tain native, research professor at Au burn University, Alabama,chief investi gator for a $32,872 Army government contract for research on a new drug-re sistant malaria strain. $0 THIS 1$ niEW YORK By NOKTB CALLAHAN! MAATIM’S MEOICJNE lHgr$dient9: Mt* of newt iviBdom, oqpriuMrtt Dtrecdoiw: Tijhii ipetikty, <} poMiliie,' jbut ovtifi By MARTIN Two weeks ago I re-enterec' the spit drink retailing' business, one in which, in spite of the visi- ole and daily Increasing gray hair produced by age and years of newspapering, 1 have had vastly greater experience, m-ai The medium is a small, but very neat coin-^operated vending machine, which I’d had in mind for some seasons, but had not got ai'ound to inquiring about. Most of the ones I’d seen appear ed too big for the Herald estab lishment. This one, wilLhQld, a: bout M drinks in the five slots (slightly less where bulkier king- size bottles are involved) and has a storage slot good for cool ing another 18 to 24. The Summit! HIGHER ,)EpuaTL0N / It happened by coincidence of <my walking in City Hall when Coca-Cola’s Giles Bell was serv icing the lobby machine there. He assured me he could supply exactly what I needed and sug gested most customers preferred tne $2.50 per month rental (with Coke picking up the vending li censes and service tabs) much preferable to outright purchase. I bought sight-unseen and when Mr, Camp (a brother-in-law of Ken Blanton at Sterchi’s) deliv ered the machine a few days lat er, was delighted. C2unp had just left a duplicate at the office of Grover’s Dr. Charles Moore, and Dr. MIoore had been delighted, too. — m-ai But to review history, I was reminded of my first venture re cently, when Mrs. J. H. Arthur related the early business exper ience in sairre of her young grandson, visiting her from Burlington. His lemonade stand was doing a thriving business, out on Edgemont Road near the golf course. m-m Bill Caveny, Lynwood Parton and mine did not set any sales records other than low ones, and we were on the “hot comer” of US 74-29 where Otis Falls now operates. US 74 even turned down Battleground to Mountain then. Somehow the autoists couldn’t read our signs, and our only sales were to pedestrians. Only a few of the adults were thirsty, and the neighbor kids (v'«re but didn’t have the cash. We partners usually dranfe up I the indicated profit, I tn-ra Next experience was in a fast j league, where the outgo was some 350 to 400 cases of bottled “sody pop” (the late Don Blan ton’s label), not to mention quan tities of milk. Joker in this deck was that my Dad was the propri etor. I still had partners, how ever, in the persons of Hard Luck Littlejohn and Robeit> Fold, when the Nehi truck ap peared. We three helped the driv er, a Mr Deaton, I believe, un- (load his wares and reload the I empties. This was usually worth a sample, but we wanted more /.j TAXt^ Savings Boi Sales Best Since 19tt U. S. Savings Bonds North Carolina are up Series E and H Bond sil June were 11.8 percent than the same month laj and represented the best! sales since 1946. E Bond sales for up 7.S percent and H Bor 110.0 percent. Junf / i'i! Cumulative sales for -June auT.ounted to This is a 5.4 percents over the comparable 1965 and amounts to sales of over $1.4 mill represents .52.3 percent North Carlina’s 1966 dollar noal of $52,900,000 and is the b^ Jenu- ary-June sales since 195% “ — Led by-Bladen-and Av^ Counties which achievt 100 percent of their suotas, 45 counties in th(| have achieved 50 percent of their goal through Jur Savings Bonds sold June in Cleveland Count! mounted to $41,768 accordiii Mr. George Blanton,Jr.. Clev^ County Volunteer Chair Cumulative Bond sales in| County for the first half ofT y^ar totaled $246,389. This 58.0 percent of the County’s of $424,800 for 1966. SCHOOL IN THE CON< Viewp(mts of Other Editors 'GOOD GUYS' AND 'BAD GUYS' Americans (and perhaps oth ers as well), find it all too easy to divide , the world into “good guys” and “b^ guys.” At first glance it may^seem that one or another group or individual fits nicely into the either-or-cate- gory. But, as closer acquaintance usually reveals, human nature la not so neatly and simply dis posed of. A policeman, for example, is accused of brutality toward Ne groes. Upon hearing the charge, some might be tempted to jump ,to the conclusion that, surely, he must be one of the “bad worried the poor fellow horribly, as we demanded pairs of cover- BASIC RESEARCH i NEGLECTED IN TROUBLE | RESPONSIBILITY The long honeymoon enjoyed A citizen’s generosity in Row- by basic researchers in the na- an County has given life to a tion’s university and other lab oratories appears to be coming to an end. In both the White House and Congress more and more impatience is being ex hibited toward research inspired by scientific curiosity rather than by the desire to solve spe cific and well-defined immedi ate problems . . . The recent Congressional blow at Project Mohole shows ... im patience with geologists’ efforts to gain fundamental information about the earth’s internal struc- guys.” But what if, while await- j ture. The National Science matter that should be of legiti mate concern to each of North Carolina’s 100 counties. Not much news comes outj the Congo in these days, what does come is rarely chc ing. But a gramftie of encoural ment can be drawn from “Interaational Review sions,” in v.’hich the RJ^. Jol R. Crawford writes on the pr! ent position of the Prrrtestf^ missions there. The missioii Protestant or Catholic, are sponsible for most of the schc ing still available in the coul try. In face of all the dangel and discouragements, their woif goes on. Primary schools. One Dan Nicholas has offered suffered very to donate 300 acres-of land for ygjgjy from the lack of qualifiel recreational use as a park area. Anyone who’s taken the time recently to consider the bene ficial impact here in Shelby of teachers; those who have qual| fied can generally find some thing much more profitable exciting to do, and standards a| well as numbers have sufferecT City Park and Holly Oak Park fgjg jg! j.|Qf whole stor and such auxiliary recreational, areas as the Optimist Park, the There has-been, in spite Kings Road playground - picnic everything, a marked increase i area and the Graham Street secondary education. There ar playground can readily appreci- j now, about 50 secondary schools ' the Protestant missions ing a hearing on the charges, i Foundation finds itself under ate the importance of the Nich-jrun by he happens lo save the life of Congressional pressure to move.olas Offer-. (as against 10 before a Negro baby by ■■'giving him toward greater emphasis on ap-l But there seems to be some | hies) and they have moirth • to - mouth resuscitation I plied research, a shift that uncertainty in "Rowan as to (^ children in them. Tl^e a: for 15 minutes? Is he a “bad might reduce its ability to sup- whether the offer should be thought to be about 10,000 f’nil guv” or a "good guy”? j port basic research. I snapped up by the City of Salis-j dren in State secondary school Such was the recent experi-1 it is understandable that poll-! “ which already has a and, it seems, something ence of a New York City patrol-j ticlans want quick results, pre- P^rks and recreation program—| man who, along with lour other ferably delivered in time to pro- r,r.,rv,. and, it seems, something lik^ [ 75,000 in Catholic schools. Stan or the Rowan County Commis-1 dards are probably not hip-b policemen, was charged with vide useful material to be‘in- ^ion. which has yet to venture But at least a corps Of se^ brutality in an interracial skir- eluded in campaign speeches field. mish following a Coney Island before the next election. But The daily newspapefi^there, the that some kind of substructui dance. WhUe awaiUng a hearing scientific progress has its own Salisbury Post, is of the opinion of social organization has kn .before the city$ civllian-domi- laws and its own tempos, and that “The City of Salisbury has together in this most distressfi natqd review board, he answer- u would be perilous for the na-1 absolutely no business trying to country, ed a maternity call, found the tion to ignore them develop, or help develop, a park child near death, and proceeded! g^gj, I seven miles outside of the city to revive him. _« i™ • ■ f^apital fund of scientific know- We have no way ot (mowing .. , ... . - , ledge on which applied research- the merit* of thjs ^trolrnan s pj.g to give society a rich , - particular case. But It confirms interest But if that caoi and, thinking back, miKt haye^Jor tjie wisdptp of not judg-j^ai is not expaVded or is eyi&cJr^Vy“re"' too slowly, the time alls. He promised but delivery^ aon qf some atoieotyped impres day was slow. One fine day he. ^on. To judge another errone- brought me a pair of white ones.’ Whether Luck and Bob ever lected, I don’t know. 'The Coke man had his oumi crew and disdained our aid. Arthur Goldberg created some thing of a stir when he took over as US. Ambassador to the United Nations not long ago. He had resigned from the Supreme Court and was -replacing the suave and scholarly Adlai Steven son and many h<Q>^fUl ©yes were upon him, Co^d he pull the Vietnam rabbit out of the ^an Rat? Would he put Russia and China in thier places? Coul^ he nmintain the world leade^hip of the United States? According to informed opinimi, these ques tions are still waiting to be an- 8w ered. if President Johnson thought that the UN prob^m* were hk© those of the AFLjCK) which Ckildberg had once han dled so deftly, both men were in for a disappointment. Most of the national leaders do not react like union leaders. So we do not hear so much nowa^ys about the new UN ambassador from this country. A well-meaning ibut resolute teacher entered the classroom on the first day and inunediately ^qt the impraisjk>n that the glass was going to be .mischievous, ^hatefere It a point them, and ended her opting I even be a pleasure to travel, remarks by saying that it would I whether yod have a tiger in take more than “an apple for | your tank or not,, Extre.mely the teacher” to earn a passing alert anyway, the nation’s air- grade there. Apparently she lines 'have taken to competing made her point; for on the fol- ' ' ‘ But the milkman came daily h) the summer-time. George Lewis, now an olfiger pf Sunrise Dairy, was the trucker and, for a time. Chuck Huff stickler was his chie^ carry-in boy. Mbhitor. ‘AND Next work In the employee league was for first Summers, subsequently Kings Mountain Drug Company. Here -the action' was, for the most part, in foun tain-drawn pop, but we logged many a nickel. That about took cafe of my work in this 'business, except for 'occasional duty at the lions club horse shows at lair booths. Even so, I still re gard -myself as one of the best pop peddlers about. lowing morning, one of the pupils presented her with a water melon. In 1939, though, I got acquaint from lower fare, lo Pink air., 3,^^- Dr. Harry Johnson was asked if a person is bom in the United States, he or she can rea sonably expect to live to 70 and even 80 years of age. The way to the next forty-pdd years of fun, peace and comiort is quite clear,” the doctor added. “Quit fussing about little thinRs. Un load the ballast you’ve taken on. Keep using the machine but do so in moderation. Exercise but npt violently. Get eight hours of sleep regularly. And get a phy sical examination every year.’ A stranger arrived in a small Southern town and asked the first person he aaw if they had a criminal lawyer in the town. “Well’’, replied the resident cautiously, “we think w® have, but so far we can’t prove it on him.” If the trend^'^eefs mn, N -ouiy pink planes meet the traveller. .One line advertises that for $48 dol- lars down,' you can be in Ha waii tomorrow. It does not men tion - at least not at the time - that the rest of the large a- mount will come due so quickly that you will hardly Ibbe bback from Honolulu before that credit card account looms up in fr<mt of you, more fearso.’ne than g thunder storm at 40,000 feet.. If you have a big enough fan\ily, you can probably end up taking the 23rd grandchild free if all ol them dare risk travelling together - which is unlikely, the way that most families do not get along- on trips. And baggage wrtghts have been so disregarded’ that one coidd take along the prover bial kitchen stove if he could hig same. Even the railroads are J. Luther Snyder, of Charlotte and his son-in-law, W. B. Garri son, of Gastonia, now the arcf highway commissioner and sell ing not only Coke and her sev eral Atablsmates, but distributin'; a line of'coin-vend^ snacks as well. m-m Then last spring I interviewed Joan Crawford, the’movie qpcen anid Bepsl-Cola direct^. Queried Coca-Cola for fear of lying the big seller name to its diet i^t^ti- tute and naming It Tab, Bepsi was doing better all the time, sli© declared, and Diet^epai pr^ greeslpg nicely, tpo, thipk jwi. It required some yeai::8, of course but Ty Cobb’s Investment will come when applied research too will be frustrated for lack fundamental new ideas and opsly and unfal^ te to reveal knowledge, one’s own imntatqrity — one’s ^ bvyn need .to mature in sound No investments have ever paid indgment. — Christian Science off so well as those represented by past spending on basic re search. That fact needs to be remembered by those who are now looking at this area of ex penditure as a promising source KANGS A car thief, hounded not by a pqlice ,dQg bpt by a monkey nanted Kikl. was apprehended in f^nnes, France. Kiki, doubt- le^ suspecting monkey busi ness, bounded in pursuit of a The newspaper holds, correct ly it would seem, that the offer "is clearly a decision for county commissioners. “We hope that his offer will hasten the day when commissioners make the decision to begin setting aside land parks, playgrounds and recrea tion areas throughout the coun ty. .. . For the county government, Dan Nicholas’ offer should serve as the springboard into a neg- It is still touch and go, course. Another year of civil w< and local anarch.v might score the schools out of existence. Bi a few more comparatively qui years might build up a cadre educated Congolese with who: cnimfv ^ fresh start in natio ppi^lon building might begin, with b ' ter hope of success. — The Ma Chester Guardian Weekly. IMPACT REDUCER Perhaps there will be reckless driving if an auto mz inonribmlv”^"""'^'^ ^^-lufacturer goes through with J V. k u ij reported intention to produo . . „ Rowan debate should, as car with a collaosible front of economies to meet the bud- serve as a thought-stimu- that would absorb some of getary pinch born of the Viet- lant for other boards of county u^on irno^ct nam war. And those who think Commissioners. For too few yet ^ impact, that applied research is an as-l '-u.iaiuered this “neglected! If this does not give reel sured quick way of getting de-^.*^* necessary area of responsi- drivers a pause, the only Stolen csr, “muking loud mon key noises.” TWs apparently so unnerved sired results might study the^’’**y” I ble additional innovation woiiid history of the work done this i . n^ere is little pressure now! be wings to become oper&ve past decade and a half on con-]*®’- ®etion. ’The day when there! immediately upon collisionji^j— the driver that he atonned thermonuclear fusion forh^**i however, is not far dis-iThe Gastonia Gazette. production. That emi- h®"* “ ^he Shelby Daily Star. ' ovt, tossed the keys "©nt y practical objective is still!== — ‘Respite large gov- key, iiimped Into a sped off with the monkay stiU'ernnient *ex^nrithi*iIfo on Ala toil, and then gi^nd to ySS of S upon „,iiainp wio. .ia.fi ^ ?.n that ft. ttle,] • will not have ap easy time ex plaining to his cell mat4>s just how it all happmed. We pre sume, on the other hand, t|xat the monkey will have a whale .of a :yme rriating the tale to his companions. Having made a monkey of the thief by tossing a monkey wrench Ipto his plans, Kiki leaves us with an obvious moral: J$ettqr not monkey with other peoples’ cats If you don’t want to find your- s«dl lookin’ through bare.— CliriBil.an Science ^o^tor. ' aid box will matrix these. by another reporter, she chi<ied ^ beginidilg to sit up and take' a | of his fairly iheogre bMirtMll little notice. A decade from now ^amfitgs In Oqoa-Cola produced they are possibly apt to offer a ' his cbn^^eralble fortune, find fsw ■fcnkfc natto as Mduosmant' maiur ofirtre hare *im(hLt4y ‘ 40 on irAUna ^fa .sii£iA4Mi^4ire^ ooNaa. . ness. I do not anticipate t^Her- er venture. We had An liced cool er at the old -building some yefir* ago and Charlie Carpenter thought it would be good to keep tSOfpe pop about and the honor system jidan was adopted, it VHOi^ pptk’ly iqr there never ■ ^ he enough caah in the fir box ito r^laqip ithe enppty ;te. I m«»tipned this fact to on the reqent inst^aUon. he griqna(L “Mr. (garrison thi^t at -the plant in Gas- Gar- 10 years ago fins WEEK of netoa about King Uountakn area people am sweaf* taken from the 198 files of the King* Mountai* Keraid. Ernest Lawson Brown, 33- year-old veteran Nebo school priiTcipal, will succeed Rowell •Lane as principal of Central school. A new city recreation commis sion is ^expected to be appointed 'Thursday night at the regular August meeting of the board of rity .cornmiertoneTB. The City of Kings Moimtain showed total assbts of $1,980,009.- 94 at June 30, and net assets or surplus of $1,126,932.60. 80CI4L AND PERSONAL Youth Choir members of Mace donia Baptist church spent last weekend at Chimney Rock. Friday Afternoon Bridge club imem'ters met last week at the .hgfflg of Mr*. Henry Nqisler. wfisr VWhfcn Grl'ffln .yjas myitfid to play with regular riulb^mt^- berth KEEP YOUBRADIODIAL SETAf 1220 MT KiofN Mountain, N. C. News & Weather every hour on th< hour. Weather every hour on th< half hour. Fine entertainment in between Tti nes los