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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C
Thursday. August 11.
Thursd<
Entobllshed 1889
The Kings Mountain Heiaid
A wsc-^v ncw-.pnnpr devotpd to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for -"tvworuinment 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
GUkry Stewart Sports Editor
Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulafon Manager and Society Editor
Miss Lynda Hardin Clerk
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
Bobby Bolin Dave Weathers Allen Myers
Paul Jackson , Dave Weathers, Jr.
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PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX
TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and uphraideth
not; and it shall be given himu
James 1:5.
Unrealistic
For several years, to the Herald s
certain knowledge, Kings Mountain dis
trict schools have asked Gaston county
schools for formal releases for students
wishing to attend school in the Kings
Mountain system, the students’ having
been denied them.
Meantime, formal releases \vere
granted Kings Mountain district folk
who wished to go to Gaston schools.
Within Cleveland county’s three
districts, there has been informal agree
ment, honored within the limits of avail
able student space, to let a youngster
attend school in whichever of three dis
tricts he wished. There are several
cases in point. In particular, a new
Kings Mountain citizen’s daughter was
a rising senior at Shelby high school,
quite naturally wished to graduate with
her friends of many school terms. She
did with the quick cooperation of the
Shelby and Kings Mountain boards of
education.
It appears, most particularly in the
instance of the Linwood Road area citi
zens, a considerable imposition by the
Gaston board of education to require
their being transported ten miles daily
when many of these students reside
within easy walking distance of East
elementary school.
From the standpoint of cash, which
usually is a factor in most situations,
the State of North Carolina pays on
average about 80 percent of the opera
tional costs of all schools in the state’s
165 districts. Meantime, the citizens of
the Gaston district (Who live in the City
of Kings Mountain though not in the
Gaston school district) are paying the
Gaston supplemental taxes, w'hether
they attend Gaston schools or not. In
turn, Kings Mountain has no objection
to that particular financial imbalance
and welcomes those children who wish
to attend their schools.
But state law is specific requiring
“written" release. An added dimension
is found in the April-adopted federal
guidelines indicating askance looks in
Washington at crossing of district lines.
Most intriguing is the Gaston
board’s position to date in telling the
Kings Mountain citizens, “We’re glad
for you to attend Kings Mountain
schools, but we’ll w’rite no releases.”
What do the members of this
board seek? The charge “equivocation”
is a milder one than might be employed.
Two results should obtain:
1) The Gaston board should relax
its rigid and questionable policy for the
1966-67 term, and
2) 'The affected citizens should
nkove with all haste to petition for an
election for annexation to the Kings
Mountain school district.
That would prevent recurrence of
this untoward situation.
Battle Anniversary
Work is undei'way on the 186th an
niversary celebration of the Battle of
Kings Mountain.
Format calls for a week’s celebra
tion October 3-8, with a wide variety of
events to be culminated by a visit and
address by a nationally prominent fig
ure most likely in government.
Last year’s celebration, featured by
the apperance of the Secretary of the
Army Stanley Resor, the commanding
general at Fort Bragg General Joe Law-
1 ie, spine - tinkling parachute jumps by
the Golden Knights, beauty winners, the
most mammoth parade in Kings Moun
tain history, and numerous .other
events, remains a conversation piece.
It is no small feat to attract more
than 40,(X)0 people, but that w^as ac
complished on the day of the grand fi
nale.
There is reason to believe a re-ac
complishment is both possible and prob
able.
For many years, until the Mer
chants Association revived it. Kings
Mountain’s considerable historical asset
lanquished. Last major effort at pro
pagating the historic asset of the fam
ous Revolutionary’ War battle, fought
some seven miles to the south, was the
commemorative pageant of the fifties.
Yet the native interest of people
the world over can be found in the rec
ords of Kings Mountain National Mili
tary Park, which this year will have
well over ^0,(XX) visitors from, literally,
the world over.
Let us put our shoulders to the
wheel to continue this worthwhile cele
bration.
Seowell Vs. Moore
The recent joust between Mal
colm Seaw’ell and Governor Dan K.
Moore concerning the Ku Klux Klan, its
right to be or not to be, and alleged
foot - dragging of the State Bureau of
Investigation in providing file informa
tion to Seawell and the Law and Order
committee he chaired, has interesting
overtones of the political variety.
Not only did Mr. Seawell chair the
Law' and Order committee via guberna
torial appointment but the State Elec
tions board as well.
He has resigned both, thereby-
breaking quite publicly with the candi
date he embraced two years ago and
whom he subsequently helped elect the
Governor.
McCrow Retires*
Carl G. McCraw, a prototype of the
country boy who went to the city and
ma^ good, recently retired as chair
man of the board of First Union Na
tional Bank of North Carolina.
A Kings Mountain native reared in
quite modest circumstances, Mr. Mc
Craw went to Charlotte on graduation
from high school ki the twenties, be
came a runner for a bank, graduated
through its ranks to the presidency and
board chairmanship and steered it to
the eminent position of 78th largest
bank in the United States at the recent
June 30.
Mr. McCraw never forgot Kings
Mountain and his friends here. He be-
ban subscribing to this newspaper, then
under the editordiip of the late G. G.
Page when he first went to Charlotte
and h«s been a subscriber continuously
for the ensuing 43 years. He returned
iiifaitiiilttently — to address civic and
chvclft groups, to bury his friends, to
hdi kin. He returned businesswise
ft 15^, when the merger of Kings
I’s First National Bank and
Union National was effected.
oft-used armed services com-
‘job well-done" plainly ap-
What now?
MARTIN’S
MEDICINE
Ingredient*: bite of nevoe
ivisdom, humor, and comment*
Direction*: Take weekly, ii
poseible, but avoid
By EUZABETR STEWART
Birth, marriage and death are
three important events which
new.spaper reporters are always
cautioned by their editors to “bf
sure it’s right in the paper.”
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And simple typographical er
rots can play havoc with stories
when they appear in print. Cor
rections can ^ even more em
banassing.
Needed Strength!
SO THIS IS
NEW YORK
By NORTH CALLAHAl
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llerirran Campbell, Sr. (of the
Superior Stone Plant) could sym
pathize with older son, Joe, this
week. - ^
Joe and Lynda Campbell are |
their first. Last week’s Herald
and Shelby Star birth announce
ments carried the news that Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Campbell were par
ents of a daushter.
Same thing happened to the
new grandf ather when Joe Camp
bell was born in South Carolina.
.Mr. Campbell had waited long
hours in the waiting room (or
wherever new fathers wait) to
learn from a nurse that ‘‘you
have a little girl."
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Mr. Campbell didn’t wait to
cronfirm the news with his wif«.
Instead, he went to tell all the
waiting relatives that he and his
wife w’ere parents of a little girl.
The nurse was only teasing Mr.
Carpbell.
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It was sometime later that Mr.
Campbell discovered the new hr
rival was a boy.
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Viewpewts of Other Editors
FORCED HOUSING?
The term fair housing is used
by its proponents to describe the
principle of forbidding people
by law from discruninating in
the sale and rental of real es
tate. This principle is embodied
in the pending Federal civil
rights bill.
The opponents of fair housing
Some years ago (I discovered j say it is a misnomer. A more
via looking through some back appropriate term, they argue, is
copies of Herald files) nation- forced housing. To force a pro-
wide attention was called to a perty owner or agent to sell or
typographical error. (I don’t rent property to someone whose
know^if the story first appeared i race, color, or creed he dislikes,
here I but Time Magazine, wire ;is wrong, opponents say. . . .
seiwices and news media here
HARVARD'S
TALENT HUNT
DISPUTED EAGLE
To me one of the wonders
the world will always be
Street. My interest in it is pii
objective—for I do not own
share of stock on the excha
not have I ever traded one
although many friends have
so, some to their satisfac
others - well perhaps that
had better not be discu^
Surely the “Arabian Nij
never furnished as magnif
a sight as the financial di^
c£ New York in the twilightj
before the offices close anc
thousands of people in ther
home. In walking along
streets and looking upward
great, towering buildings
their dazzling lights shining|
ward to imidtown Manhattar
outward to the sea, I always
a sense of being only a mer
man moving along below gi
palaces of brightness. For
is concentrated much of
wealth of the world. And hov
one man feel much of a par
it?
I and abroad picked up ihe story
I about an “all night sinning” in
i Kings Mountain.
The right of the state’s reason
ably to control the use and en
joyment of property by individ
uals is firmly established. Plain
ly, one cannot do anything he
pleases with his property if
A simple typographical error j what he does is injurious to tihe
I broader community. The pro-
1 perty owner who sets about to
] establish a pig far.n or a factory
! in a residentually zoned neigh-
j borhood will soon enough learn
The natieSK^ook time out to ' state has a right to stop
laugh.
Every so often a forgetful A-
tnerican public rediscovers the
old truism that talent in youth
isn’t measurable either liy fam
ily income or social status. On
the contrary, a vast reservoir of
potential abilities is represented
by thousands of young (people)
to whom poverty denies the edu
cation that would enable them
to enrich, the nation with contri
butions it can ill afford to lose.
Harvard College is underlining
that message anew with its “risk
student” program. Under the
plan 120 m.ore students will en
ter with next fall’s freshmen
class. Selected from families be
low or near the poverty line of
$4,000 a year income, these
had changed all-night singing to
sinning.
As if there wasn’t enough
trouble among nations, we have
an argument between the United
States and Poland over a post
age stamp. As a gesture of good
will the United States prepared
a 5-cent stamp commo.T. orating
1090 years of Christianity in Po
land; 115 million stamps are al
ready in production.
Now the Polish government
has threatened to refuse all
mail bearing the stamps because
of a difference over what the
symbolism represents. The stamp
bears the i.mage of a rather
scrawny eagle, which the Poles
claim is a pre-World War II bird
and not the Communist postwar
eagle. The birds are quite simi
lar except that the American
version wears a crown and is
young men will receive scholar
ships paid for by Harvard’s “risk ^^’’^’’^ounted by a cross,
fund,” contrlbutioins from the Reportedly, the
federal anti-poverty program, ' itself,
and anonymous donors. Intellec
tual promise and gumption, not
entrance examinations, govern
the selection.
The experiment is paying off
Errors in newspapers aren’t
funny, however. Reporters and
proofreaders take pride in their
work and are justas embarrass
ed as the people they have writ
ten about.
A man’s home is his castle—a
place into which he ought to be
I able to retreat and be frw from
, governmental prying or control.
But when he voluntarily decides
to forsake that castle he incurs
an obligation to dispose of it
without arbitrarily infringing
Poles object
hot to the
crc.ss and crown, though to our
taste the American stylized eagle
is a handsomer bird. There is a
natural supposition that the real
objection is to the cross and
crown, as the Poles want to play
History is here so strongly.j
can glance at the statue of Ge
Washington, then a block
is the tomb of Alexander H|
ton in Trinity churchyard,]
financial genius under
system we live today, Al
blocks beyond is Fraunces Ta{
where Henry Knox, our
Secretary of War, sadly said fl
well to Washington at the ena
the Revolution, only to rejoin i
in six years as a cabinet im emi
Here, two years -after the natic
capital moved from New York!
Philadelphia in 1792, the Nfl
York Stock Exchange w’as foui]
ed. New York City then had or
40,000 people and occupied a me
five square miles at the lower
of Manhattan. Banks and insuj
ance companies were sprinigir
up and we even had public worl
in that early day. To pay for tK
C3st of the Revolution, stocK
and bonds had to be sold to tlj
public. The need for a mark^
place was clear So some pioned
brokers decided to meet eve.i
day under the shade of an o(
button-wood tree, a few blocks
way from Wall Street. Thci
were the ordinal members of tt
New Rork Stock Exchange. 24
nuT;ber, like the same number
dollars v/hich the white men gaj
I the Indians for the whole islaiT
I of Manhattan. They dealt on^
I in government stock and for thel
[ trading floor, they had only -al
small plot of ground protected]
. by the branches of a tree.
as attested by the f-act that thus | down the observance of the mil-
far 85 percent of Harvard’s “risk j lennium, particularly its
Millions of people have a stake
in what is going on in the Stock
reli-1 Exchange, through the ownership |
; of securities. Every bank and in-
I came across a little poeir the
other day that I had clipped. En
titled, “Where’s The Paper Boy?”
that Brown and Williams are j stand the objections of the Com ,
trying it out also. The sooner | munist regime, but we rather ; company of any import-
^milar programs multiply a- \ think the P)olish people will like j ance has much of its assets invest-
mong colleges ... the better. | what the Americans have done, ed in these. When a stock is listed
For the deeper meaning of this And how many 5-cent stamps go I „ .k,. irvnhancrp it is reouir'=''l
. episode lies in its accent upon .to Poland, anyway? i " i!.xcnarigt, j i
the right of anyone to ^cure de- promise of youth, and a help- j St. Louis Post-Dispateh j represent a going co
cent housing for himself. j ing hand from its elders. It is a legally in business and having
Fair housing statutes do hot j timely reminder that the most j LEADING MEMBER I open books on its business opera-
result in forced housing; fit'®* i Children seem io be o muchjtions. Buyer and seller meet on
condition is the product of un- - - - ~.~-
Mr. Seawell, it will be recalled, was
himself a gubernatorial candidate in
1952. He had the misfortune of getting
his campaign off the ground late, too
late to head Terry Sanford, the eventual
winner, or Dr. I. Beverly Lake who cash
ed the emotional chips of the desegrega
tion issue.
Malcolm Seawell, at 57, could hard
ly be considered over-ripe for the gub
ernatorial seat. He has state-wide ex
posure, both via his service as attor
ney-general and the recent split with
Governor Moore, soon to enter the
lame-duck portion of his term.
There is no intention here to charge
Mr. Seawell with planned opportunism.
But the events could obtain to giving
him another chance at the office he
wanted six years ago.
My father says the paper he
reads ain’t put up right;
He finds a lot of fault, too, he
does, persuin’ it all right;
He says there ain’t a single
thing in it worth to read,
And that it doesn't print the
kind of stuff the people need;
He tosses it aside and says it’s
strictly tm the biun.
But you ought to hear him
holler when the paper doesn’t
come.
He reads about the weddings
and he snorts like all get out;
He reads the social doin’s with
a m)ost derisive shout,
He says they make the papers
for the women folk alone;
He’ll read about the parties
and he’ll fume and fret arid
groan;
He says of information it
doesn’t have a crumb—
democratic real estate practices
which force Negroes and other
minorities to take up residence in
violence-breeding slums.
Boston Globe
give to its successor is a legacy
of encouragement and hope.
Boston Globe
TRY BIRDS FIRST
Government researchers who
become engrossed in such deep
studies as the love life of insects
and frogs, the behavior of white
xice, and the reaction of oysters
to strange environment should
take a cue from world famouo
animal phychologist Prof. Otto
Koenig of Vienna, Austria.
A BAD MOMENT
Dr. Koenig has busied himself
flth a more practioal experi
ment—'the effect of a sheltered
life on a big bird known as the
cattle egret.
Newport, R. I., July 30 (AP)—
A white silk shirt with a ruffled
front, a blue satin cummerbund
and white shorts have never
been the truly favorite clothes of
a 5-year-old American bOy. And
J(rfin F. Kennedy, Jr. is no ex
ception. 'That was John’s outfit
for the wedding of Janet Auchin-
closs.
As John went into St. Mary’s
brighter today. A history teach
er asked her class to m.re the
leading member of the Great S>
ciety. A 9-year-old w’hose father
W5»s obviously a Renuhlioan rais
ed his hand and called out, “Co
lumbus, teacher.”
“You mean to say,” the teach
er asked, “that Columbus who
discovered America was the lead
ing member of the Great Soci
ety?”
“Yes, ma’airr,” the little boy
insisted. “Because when he start
ed out, he didn’t know where he
was going. When he finally got
Roman Catholic Church before i ^ didn’t know where he
the wedding, a young boy’s voice most important, he did
same from the milling crowd | borrow^ money.”
On To Henhoyl
Best wishes of the community at
tend the Teener All-Stars as they in
vade Hershey, Pa., for the finals of the
National Teener Baseball tournament,
where they will vie with seven other
regitlial winners for the national
championship.
But you ought to hear him
holler when the paper doesn’t
coime.
He is always first to grab it
and he reads it plum clean
through.
He doesn’t miss an Item, or a
want ad—^that is true.
No Kings Mountain athletic organi
zation in hi.story has advanced to this
point toward national honors.
, Hershey, home of the popular can-
dy-makqr, is reputedly one of the best
planned and most manicured cities in
the world. Street conversation indicates
this city may be invaded by a host of
He says they don’t kaow what
we want, those newspaper gu|’s;
“I’m going to take a day some
time and go and put’em wise;
“Sometime it seems as though
they must be deaf and blind and
dumb.”
The Austrian expert kept a
flock of egrets in a controlled
environment for six years, pro
viding them not only with food,
but all the comforts acquiring
from a life of ease, including pre
fabricated nesta.
Now the cattle egret, in its
natural habitat, is a self-sustain-
'jig, aiT'iable bird which, over the
centuries, has been able to get
along very well without the com
passionate care of men.
with the word “sissy.” John re
acted with a scowl and a shake 1
of his fist in the direction of the
voice.
Parade Magazine
an equal basis, though the Ex
change itself does not buy or sell
stocks. Theman in Amarillo,
Texas gets the same service) as
the man in Hickory, North Car:'-
lina or Johnson City, Tennessee.
The Stock Exchange is a volun
tary association and its rules are
getting stricter because a few
! slickers have tried to get around
the old idea of being honest. And
its irrembers are warned that
there is a risk in any kind of spec
ulation. No one will guarantee
that you will make money in
stocks.
'Atta boy, John, It’s the only
thing a fellow can do in the cur-
cumstances. If it’s any comfort,
we hooe someone has told you
■tJtat when you get a little bigger
you can read about two kids
who had the same trouble
Penrod and Huckleberry Finn.
New York Post
Dr. Koenig’s statistical report
diocloaed a gradual deterioration
et tlw egivt's ability to fend lor
itself either in combat or in the
acquisition of food for itself or
its offspring.
The ultimate end was com
plete collapse of the ct^ony’s so
cial order—a, tendency to quar
rel, and even fight, over goodies
bestowed.
( TEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
lieme of netoe about King
Moumtein area people am
events taken from the 195
fUea of Kings Mounttd*
ITerotd.
As a reauH of his sttidles the
eminent professor concludes that
the same thing Is Hkely to hap
pen to hunuuns lolling about in
a welfare state where there is
no challenge to exercise either
intellect or muscle to survive.
dg Its* provten
it’s not even for tne birds.
*he KaehviUh Bmn^fr
Memoers of CXis D. Green
Post 155, American Legion, are
invited to attend a free "Burn
ing of the Mortgage" supper at
•uoiSwi cni p»frmu Suiaq spjvo oi
night from 6 to 8 p.m., 'aceordlng
to cards bing mailed to Legion
naires.
The ninth annual Bethware
Fair will be held Septextoer 12-
15, according to announcement
bv Lanwir Herndon, fair presi
dent.
Foote Mineral Company em
ployees for the second time in
Wo years rejected efforts of or-
gjSQi;9d labor to become employe*
wthMuif rejAvsentatives.
vote was 140 to 40.
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