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2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, August 18, 1966 Established 1889 'Hisr Kings Mountain Heiald A wSskly newspappr devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for tne enlightennict, fnierlainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain artd its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the post office at King.s 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 Miss Lynda Hardin Clerk ^, MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Bobby Bolin Dave Weathers Allen Myers '\ Paul Jackson Dave Weathers, Jr. SUBSCRIPTIONS RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANC^L^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 Favour is deceitful,, ayid beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall he praised. Ecclesiastes 31.\>0. Title I Results The Herald received a postal card query this week asking opinion on the results of the Title I reading program, and found itself in somewhat of a quan dary as how to answer. It should have been beneficial what with a teacher and teaching aide for each 13 students, compared to the nor mal classroom load for one teacher for anywhere from 27 to 35 pupils and the one teacher not concentrating on one subject, but many. It should have been, too, consider ing the money expended, the budget having been some $124,000 for the six- week program. The answer came coincidentally in conversation with a faculty member whom the Herald respects highly for dedication to her work and for proven ability. Her off - handed, not-knowing-she- would-be-printed report; It was wonder ful. She was teaching at fourth and fifth grade level, found most of her students no farther along than third grade, many at second grade, and a few at first grade. One student thought the word “monk ey” began with “f”. She said a great portion of teaching was auditory, by necessity. The youngsters were attent ive and interested and attendance w'as surprisingly high considering the es pecially hot weather, dropped only in great degree during the July 4 holiday week and then only for two school days. Her summation; My pupils, tests at school-end revealed, showed an average improvement of eight months facility in the short, concentrated six-week course. Expensive, yes, she said, but on im provement of pupil basis well wwth the cost. That’s easy for the Herald to a® prove. While all of us are not born, per haps supposed to be speed readers in the manner of the late President Kenne dy, it is a fact that reading is a neces sary key to understanding and under standing to knowledge. It is hoped this teacher’s happy ex perience was shared throughout the Title I reading program. Public Housing Hr tmtr Gone West There are many colloquial expres sions to describe death, e.g., “cashed his chips”, “had it”, “bought it”, “struck out”, etc. In World War I the American doughboy’s favorite was “Gone West-. Years ago, a great New York news paperman named Horace Greely gained undying folklore fame with the editorial advice for success, “Go West, young man, go West.” This w'eek his journalistic descend ant, the New York Tribune, went West, but in the World War I manner. The ”Trib”, a great contributor to journalis tic traditions, a purveyor of the “big” story, its files bearing the names of the editorial greats, will cease publication. The death blow’ was administered by the 114-day strike of the pressman’s union, only one of ten with which the Tribune, seeking to merge with two oth ers for survival, had to deal. The other nine w-ere happy and ready to work but they couldn’t. Meantime, the editorial staff tired of thumb-twiddling and short rations, did what came naturally. They found other jobs. Publisher John Hay Whitney said re - staffing the paper w'ould prove financially impossible. It is not the first newspaper in the nation’s largest metropolis to suffer this fate. The Brooklyn Eagle suffered the same fate some years ago. It is a reminder that the demise of competition in the daily new’spaper field (no competitive sityations between Washington and Miami) is easily ex plained and the reasons are two; the high costs of skilled labor and spiraling but the demise of a newspaper is more costs of machinery. The demise of any business is sad, sad, for the newspaper deals at its every publication with people, their trials, tri bulations, triumphs, successes, failures, their births, marriages, indeed, life it self. In the instance of the New York Herald Tribune and the Brooklyn Eagle before it, irresponsibility and short-^ sightedness of one union removed the life from two respected and venerable recorders of daily history. Public Housing has long been a dir ty concept in the minds of many, includ ing realtors and builders w’ho regard public housing as competitive, and in the minds of citizens who regard it as socialistic at best and a rew’ard for in dolence. Some of this thinadog was at least a question in the nsiiBdic of some of the members of the Mountain public housing committee gwvtdtl at learned bet ter. The ground miles ooi public housing are somewhat stridter than initially thought. When a person's income ex ceeds the minimal hmnula he is given notice to move out. A public housing manager’s happiest moment, those fam iliar with the program say, is when he is able to call a builder and tell him “John Jones needs a house and he can afford it.” A survey by the Community Plan ning Division, I^partment of Conserva tion and Development, showed Kings Mountain with 2,134 occupied dwellings, with 75 beyond repair, 615 in need of major repairs. Here is the rough cate gory—and about 30 percent of the city’s occuplad dwellings. MeantUne, builders attest they cart- DOt build rental housing and expect to normal return. Building costs are Wl high. And the Herald can attest to the tight housing market here. Our classi- Had advertliement “for rtnV lineage is lit a very low point, and fregueht tele phone calls come in—in advance of pub- ;WltfDh day—with the plaintive ques- anybody advertised any Proceed With Petition Gaston County’s board of education is adamant against releasing any of its pupils to Kings Mountain district schools or any other, according to the resolution appearing in the Gaston board’s minutes book. If the Gaston board has good and sufficient reason, it is hardly apparent and certainly has not been phrased. Policy consistently is to be desired, price of unreasonableness. This is particularly apparent in the instance of East Kings Mountain resi-' dents who live within the bounds of the City of Kings Mountain, yet without the Kings Mountain school district. These citizens are legally required to send their youngsters to Gaston county schools, barring release by the Gaston board, yet live within sight and easy walking distance of East elementary school. In this instance, dedication to poli cy (man-made) compares to dedication to political or church, policy (also man made) and treating man-made policy as sacrosanct. Recourse of the East Kings Moun tain folk is proceed with a petition to the Gaston County Board of Elections for an election to determine whether this area shall be released from the Gas ton county district and annexed to the Kings Mountain district. Under the law, only the affected citizens have a Vote. These citizens should proceed with all haste on the election petition Ifi Or der to assure attending the Kings Moun tain schools in the 1967-68 term. Eor the Jaw also stipulates that in any district geoghaphical changes are effective only on the subsequent July 1, beginning of the government fiscal year. Best bows to W. P. Fulton, of New York, who has been appointed to a most responsible position with United Community Funds atid Councils of A- mericB. > JylARTIN'S MEOlClNfi rngtrtdi9ta$ of ImWS unsdoni, ANtnof. Atidetfmrhmt* Direotim»»: Taka weeJNy, ii possXbia. bmt . "Think he'll neglect the route?" As a veteran dog oi ten months, I find my experience with the quite spoiled Boston terrier at my house (Sir Winston) lias put me rather in the position of the person who never had more than cursory appreciation of an appendectomy, the measles, and mu.Tps (I rue the word), until he experienced. Tlien, of course, he becomes a member of | the fraternity of these who have and svith a considerably keener awareness. m-in .•\lready I have found that the a<idition:al mouth to feed is cost- While Sir Winston is on_the vet's $1.25 per day feed list (dogs over 35 pownds pay $1.50) and this is on the minor side, the food bill alone does not include shots, vitamins, etc. I m-m 1 Acquired during a snow at the age of three months. Sir Winston t-ould not be relegated to the cold climate of the tool hous'e and thus became a house dog. By quarrantine demise, he had beco.me sufficiently venturesome to visit east and west on Moun tain street and found the middle of the road ideal terrain for a canine pedestrian. When outside, he’s been leashed since. Com pletion of the back yard fence is dictated. The Allison man, given the footage, penciled a little and replied, “That will be $1-12.” Yes, he knew he continued, about Boston terriers, as he owns one. “E.xpensive,” he said, “but I wouldn’t take a million for him.” m-m Skell.v Hunt belongs in the same category as the fence sales man. He called one Saturday to place a for-sale ad for his Ger man Shepherd, said the dog was “eating me out of house and home”. Not later than ten minutes later Skelly called back to capcel. m-m Last tiixe I was at the vet erinarian’s, Dr. Westmoreland w'as returning a little Mexican chihuahua to its youthful own er. A playful German shepherd had played too rou^h. pick^ the little one up by the scruff of his neck and given him a good shake, breaking or cracking almost all the chihuahua’s ribs. The boy said his dog’.s name was Trouble and his mother remarked, “You can say that again.” ' m-m Judge Lee Roberts got me in trouble with Cindy, his chihua- SO Ittls IS NEW vamk SyNOXTB CALLAHAN Viewpoints of Other Mtbn A friend of mine is writing a magazine article on what it means to be a Yankee, so he wrote and asked what the word means to me. Since his first name is West and mine is North it ntight be said to be a two-di rectional question, but this is what I riSiilled: “When I was growing up in Tenne8.see, the than part of the song title., vcbrti ‘Yankee’ meant little more ‘Yankee Doodle” which was writ ten a short time b^ore my great great-grandfather fought in the Revolutionary battle of King’s MountMn. But as time went on, J realized that the word had ful- ler meahihg, especially in the Civil War Between the States, in which ,I had a grandfather on either side. My father being a Republican and my mother a De mocrat, I could hardly attach much personal political signi ficance to the word. One uncle served in the Spanish-American W’ar in which we were accused of ‘Kankee Imperialism.’ and his VDunger brother was a soldier in World War II and was one of the Yanks who went to France to fight the dreadful Huns. Then because tlris war didn’t seem to settle everything as it was sup posed to, I along with others en gaged in World War II and the magazine (rf our troops was call ed ‘Yank’, So being a Yankee is a kind of personal thing with me. But more than that. West, I am mighty proud to be one and think a person can attain no higher honor.^’ BE KIND TO TOURISTS KREMLIN WIVES We must, it would seem, revise certain impressions of French tourism. We had assumed that endless streams of foreign touhists habi tually flocked td Paris, the Riv iera, the Loire YaUey, inundating France with their presrtice. In j this assumption we wbre, appa-' rently, correct., As a matter of fact, the number of foreigners visiting Fiance in 1965 amount ed to al'.most a quarter of the en tire French population. Ahd dur ing that year roughly one out of every 200 Americans managed to woi’k FYance into his itineraiy. Where we appear to have erred was in assuming that the French man himeelt Is quite content to remain in France, escaping the visiting tourists (wily by Journey ing in .season to scmie mwe re- hua. recently. He ment-oned ;he jmote comer of the land. Some- anA Pindv never . jjovv, we did not envisioh him in the typical tourist role, an inno cent abroad, scattering his francs with gay abandon. word “flea”, and Cindv w.armed tn me. Lee -“aid it was hi? fault for saying what to Cin dy is the dirtiest of dirty words. m-m The Bill Cashions have a chi huahua. also n-’ired Trouble. A p'-ior dog had been killed while the Cashions were away nnd while the dog was under Mrs. Craig Falls’ care. Frances in- f ’•med her son-in-law there wou’d be no more doe'; around but it wasn’t lon^ until 'Bill ap- nea-ed with Trouble. HU tongue- in-cheek exolanation. “This do? .started following me in town and followed me 'all the way home.” m-m N'vl McGill’s Ginger, which he describes as a ladv of several bre(?ds. made oeri'odlc excursions abroad When one continued un til the 11th d-av. Ned’s searches proving in vain, he concluded Ginger had abandoned the Mc Gill family perman«itly. Mean time, 'another dog had been ac quired. Then the janitor of Hunt er Hu®s high school called to re port Ginger at school and asked keen her. Ned paid call, saw the canine project of Ginger’s affec tions, and found the janitor had been caring for Ginger quite well. Ned agreed. Ginjer couM stay. Next Ginger returned home. For decades one of the most terrifying aspects of Communist diplomacy was that Marxist dip lomats never took their wives along with them on their trips. This resulted in a grim, digged ahd unrelaxed atmosphere which seemed to be the diief hallmark of Communist negotiations. It gave the impression, which the Communists doubtless wished to give, that they were stern ind purposeful and had no time for those pleasant amenities of for eign travel which no wife will let her husband neglect. If Nikita Khrushchev did noth ing else for Russia, he served it well when he made the momen tous decision to take the pleas ant and motherly Mrs. Khru shchev on his travels. Since that time,H Soviet wives have been more and more in evidence and now even so grim-visaged a dip lomat as Soviet Foreign Minis ter Andrei Gromyko had Mrs. Gromyko by his side as he was photographed the other day up ItHE PERILS OF PAUL(ZNE) But, we are told, between 1962 i o” arrival in Tokyo. and 1965 French inccfme from foreign tourists has been running some $28 million below what French tourists are themselves spending abraod—^ situation which has not gone unnoticed by the French Government. Tourism officials are this year backing the distribution of thou sands of badges to those Freflch* men who have a command of the English, German, ot* Spanish tongue with the hope that they will gallantly come to the assis tance Of the bewildered tourist. If ail goes well. President 4e Gaulle may be able to reveflse the tourist flow and thereby vahquish vet another threat to the glory of France. Now if only the Bri’- tish, Spanish, and Germans don’t catch on, mount a “be kind to French tourists” campaign, dis tribute badges to their the ■whole scheme! ' m-m Sir Winston likes to visit Sparky. Chip McGill's dog, and Brownie, who lives next door with Mrs. James. Brownie is an older dog and I’ve seen none 'Tore dignified, whether walking down street or disdaining Sir Wlnstcm’s ardent efforts at play. FARM BELLS m-m Just Tuesday I met the Humes Houstons’ Skipper, age 12, and Ski peer’s son Hoppy, age thrw. On Skipper’s first trip to Dr, Yarbro. the vet looked Wm over, noticed his feet utt-kln to his Air- dale features Ahd Infottned Humes that Skipper was maihly shaggy aindale hut also <!ontaln- ed a degree of otter hound, e neat- extinct English huntlnr flog. Hoppy has mama’A aize and the shaggy hair ot Sklppef. n-fli PolKiefnan Boh Hayes aAVs to German shepherd takes his little daiughter’s arm in his iT'oUlh ahd leads her gehtly but firthly in the direction ot safety Ivhen She wanders too close to the street. m-m Hy ghuthrd credits his Gef- ^bherd with saving his ToH; man sVpherd with saving and hia soh’s live* When they awakened to find their West King atreet hnithe ahlaZe and ain<)it»fiB«d A th# yeafh stfh. Bala MMMlf dlM A few weHM later. We cannot help feeling that Communist diplomacy will be come milder, more tactful, in short more human end less me- iJhanical, when Marxist diplo mats, realize that they must cut -•ih.ort their arguments Ih older to pick up their wives at the musedms or shops. We doubt if Soviet diplomats say “nyet” as often at home as they do In con ferences abroad. Perhaps having their wives about will remind them to say “da” more often. Christian Science Monitor. From thq time the^ Beatles started it all,'we had resolved to steer clear of the long-hair-mi' males controversy. But, as with our seasonal resolve not to take the plunge into the cold Atlantic waters off the New England coast, we obuW resist ho lOittger. ’ We ape not about to do battle on aesthetic grounds We have seen everything from charming to Unl^ievable and will leave it at that.' What has caught our fatrey is the perils of Paul, when Paul ■decides to Wear his hair the length of Pauline’s. We are told that two of the Rolling Stdnejs were felled when coming into <*pntact with mici’O- phones. Reported cause — static electricity from their long hair Then we noted that teen-age boys, unCamiliar Avith the qseand care of portable haip driers, have been carelessly setting off house fires. And in Boston officials have decreed that, when swimming in municipal pools, bays with long hair mqst year bathing caps the same as the .girls, since their hair was found clogging the drains. Along about now they are (earing down the old Astor Hotel on Times Square and this city will never be the same. As hostelry, the Astor Is no great shakes, having become rather old fashioned in recent years compared with the new, air-con ditioned inns. But as a landmark and a beloved institution, it was something special. Its name, its location and the memories brings to oldtimers will not soon vanish. For many years, the As tor Hotel has been the favorite of West Point cadets, and of them, a genial by the name of Omar Bradley, still lives there and it may take a kind of Normand; invasion of his room to get hi ouL Almost next door is the Pa ramount Building, its famoi theater virtually closed, bot mellowing relics of another, an what seems now* to have been more golden era. Maybe, a: many of the young cynics of to day declare, the good old day Were not so good as we claim but one thing is certain, they seem that way now. Do you remember when the note® sounded across the fields HS women ferfk rang the bells to call the men to dinner? Up and down the rOad the sweet tnusks sounded; in the right atmospher ic conditions ohe could hear the ftdnt hote® of bells across the valley. Eadi farm bell had its distinctive sound, and you knew if a neighbor family was eating noon dinner early before a trip to town. The bells sat on shed roofs (or on cedar posts by kitOhAn dhbrs. TTie Mg (&,35 CrystaHine iTetM farm bell weighed iOO oounds and sat in A four-pronged irwt frame on the eaddlA board At 'the end of the woodshed. The bell was nusoended from A curvrtl yokA and at ttiA outside end A fope was attached to an tmn fMnge. 'hie catalog said thts bell “had An "rttra fine tone.” It could bA hea'rd farther than a Copoer or tin bell. Each family fiad its code for calling iMNVtduAl members, a boy hoeing com if) the farm fteld Cbold ten whKh atatbf tvAs tinging •ha bell. BAfAMiffiea there WAfb ematgehaes and WHd cMheing brought mAh ahd boys m a ruatk (Bells have beam used sihee andertt tMviAe On Mnd and sea. Thev have OMiea wteh to rheAting and to church; they havA tailed fti ttiAfnotv Of ttmao have gooA; they have toubded to cela bratA Mtiofial holidays, in Oouft- try Vlliarres ahd utban Oentets beSs still ribg to mark the bast ing hours, art K wAa the Amms beHs a ihah retnehAers — belts that iMMaad RMr hMAi aeroM t Rart- ford Courant HOUSEWIVES HOLIDAY One aim of a welfare atate is to give everyone a sense of security, but even the power of the state can’t provide for all oontingencies. • Consider Norway, where the gOyeiTimeht has gone so far as t(i guarantee a four-weMc anninil holiday fur all houswives. WTieh a housewife gets fed up with her lot, she calls the locAI brahCh of Housewives Relief whidi sends Over an "aCc^table” subatitute to fill in for hw. We’re all for ea^g houae- wlves' chores, one way or the other ,but in this case something seems to have been (overlooked Namely, what happens to the housewife’s sense of securl^ if hubby finds out the subetitiite superior? THE WALL S'TReET JOURNAL jYEARS AOO 'Ms WEBS toM about Jti|g evontO iakeu /rom*^ jSe (Bm •/ tho XAipt Moumtak Iforaid. We would never have suppos ed that tresses on males would mean calling out the electrician, the fireman, and the plumber. In teresting how the girls have managed all these years without any such fuss and commotion. Christian Science Monitor RUB-A-DUB-DUB One of the most fascinating nautical stories we have seen in a long time is an item which ap peared in an Associated Press roundup on'Hurricane JUma. Jim Marshall .of Tampa?*^the d'ispatCh reported, radio^ from the gulf Juit north of Tampa that his craft waa breaking up and he was shoving off in “a larpe box nohnally used for stor ing ice.’’. He was subeequeWly picked up by the Coast Guard, ufthanhed, ■and atm afloat in Ms ice-box, Cool, (Iran. — The Providence Journal. —3— Rev. J. W. Phillips, fomher paitor Of Firat Wesleyan Metho dist <S\urch, will resume this pas- toriate AS A result Of assigntnems at last weekend’s annual Wesley- Ah MeUlodlat Conference^ GtAxiM) Beaver, minMter of rnuWe ^ St. Matthew's Liwiieran ■lAurcft. Will play an organ teci- tai At H»e chttrth on SundAy aft- ertwKm bieginning at 4 o’ifiibA. SOCIAL AND personal Mist Mary RaAel pkmk be- came the bride of Timothy (Oef- aid CnaddAn Sibiday Afternoon at ♦tall Alter Bour o’clock in 1st. MattheWa Lutheran CinirCh Miss Linds. Sue Rhea and' Wil liam Leb Sanders were hwTri^ FViday ecerdng In GaffttAy, S. G ERSPTOOiBADlOlHALSCTikT 1220 WKMT fisgi MMmtalB. N. C. N«wi & Wttcrthor every hour on the hour. Weerther every hour on the hotthour. fine eatettoinBieiit in between = Si !ni (I) u .-ti- ;io ■)ii Ever since the days of CharlosI Dickens, British visitors have! be«i Writing things about us,I some of them nice. But the views! been favorable, and the com-[ longest remembered have notl ment of a recent English travel ler in our land, Richard Rapson, I 'is no exception. He said he found I no Children here. “Diminutive j men and women in process of I growing into big ones, I have I met with,” he admits. “But tho I chUd in the full sense attached tof that word In England—a child with rosy cheeks and bright, joy- bus laugh, its docile obedience! and simplicity, its healthful play| and Its- disdained wotk, is a bo- ing almost unknown in Ameri-| cA." TtieTe is no doubt much! truth in what Mr. Rapson says, j but on the other hand, we could I point to those English Beatties' who have flooded the ears of the earth with messy music and messier hair and pethaps feel we have made some kind of re tort. I'.i; ■)i! ul i'TO h: oc Mr Hous a wt Nort whic I'tJ Faye rj. Mi t'. CaiTi Ij;*' p.m. lA; chur >1, is ter ■ i'.f ing /I'i' ' Ml <y.'. gaiii tionr ti was ID. T!i / was to seve ‘.n* talh U'.fl cand li t fern /hi- and ■nil. alia K'l wliil >1*0 • satii plet 0 r; f. “Pai •.n “.Cls Bac sirir —n 3ra ‘Lie