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1 2 KIN6S MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C Thursday, August 25, I9i EstabUshed 1889 The Kings Moontain Hezaid ^''MnlicaroUna i Is ASSOCUT ' A wcehiy newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for tne wilightenmct, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published everyThursday by the Herald PUbUahint House. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3, 18Y3. EOITOUAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Gary 3tewart Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Lynda Hardin Clerk Bobby Bolin MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT 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 Blessed be the Lord, my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. Psalm A Muddled Mess School opening was hardly as pain less this year as in many past seasons, when tongue-in-cheek groans of the re turnees and more real groans of begin ners were the chief difficulties. The Kings Mountain system’s prob lems undoubtedly are mirrored through the state, and elsewhere. Principal among them are: 1) A shortage of teachers (on open ing day the Kings Mountain system needed eleven more). The state short age is estimated at 18,000. 2) Efforts to comply with guide lines of the federal Office of Education in order to obtain federal funds. 3) The out-of-district student prob lem, whereby childi*en from adjacent Gaston County district, living within sight of East school, will be transported by bus to Gaston schools. (There are some other minor problems in this direc tion as, for two late applicants, the Cleveland county board ofeducation de nied releases.) In the Kings Mountain district, at least, thanks to last year's opening of the new high school plant and utiliza tion of Central for junior high school, there are plenty of classrooms — if not in the right places. West school, for instance, could fill several more than its eleven classrooms, if all applicants for West were accom modated. The twin bugaboos to the out-of district accommodations are: 1) Office of Education guidelines dictating cross ing of district lines will make operation al plans suspect on the the business of segregation on grounds of color and/or national origin and 2) North Carolina law which permits students to attend out-of-district schools only on the pu pil’s obtaining WRI'fTEN releases from the board of education in the district where they reside. The federal guidelines, promulgated by the Office of Education, state excep tions are. tolerable on grounds of undue hardships to the student, but southern schoolmen, from State Superintendent of Public Instruction Charles Carroll to the administraUbr of the smallest district, are gun-shy—and their difficulties both last term and, as this term begins, in obtaining federal approval of organiza tion plans perhaps confirms their collec tive attitude. Again, residents of any area adjac ent to the Kings Mountain school dis trict boundaries may annex themselves to the district by majority vote in a special election. The residents of the East Kings Mountain area already are moving in that direction. If residents in the adjacent area to the north are in terested, they should join in the effort. In the instance of these East Kings Mountain residents, already citiMna of the City of Kings Mountain, virtually all were surprised they were not, also resi dents of the Kings Mountain city school district. They were surprised, too, to learn that City Hall has no jurisdiction whatsoever over the school operation, which is a function of county govern ment. Withal, the Kings Mountain board of education reiterated by resolution Wednesday morning that it welcomes out-of-district pupils at no charge, the Gaston county district still being bene- fitted by the tax payments of these pu pils’ parents. Charles Eugene Neisler, Jr. Charles Eugene Neisler, Jr., is an other of the regrettable long list of prominent Kings Mountain citizens who have died during the past few months. Mr. Neisler was one of Kings Moun tain and North Carolina’s outstanding industrialists, a pillar of the Presbyter ian Church of the United States as well as of his home church here, First Pres byterian, staunch supporter of Davidson college, and quietly identified with al most every community civic and chari table effort since he attained adulthood. It was he who furnished the im petus for founding the Kiwanis club’s collegiate scholarship fund. He served as a city commissioner, as a member of the county hospital board of trustees, as a navy enlisted man in World War I. A Kings Mountain girl was surpris ed a few years ago to chance into well- traveled Mr. Neisler on a street corner in Fairbanks, Alaska. His successful management of Neis ler Mills, Inc., and his organizational ability in other activities attested to his quickness of mind and dedication to per formance of duty. A Kings Mountain citizen remarked after his passing, “I never heard any one say anything derogatory about Gene Neisler.” Nor have we. Nation's Number 3 Double loss elimination tourney play is sufficiently rough in four mem ber tournaments and more rough when eight teams are involved as was the in stance in Hershey, Pa. Jast week at the finals of the National Teener tourna ment. ' For a team which logs its first loss in either the opening or second encount er the pressure is applied and the par ticular pitching corps put to to especial tests on counts of depth and endurance. Kings Mountain’s entry lost its first game 5-4 as a last-ditch rally fell short. As the balls bounced. Kings Mountain would have come home the champion only after six consecutive victories, a bit of a chore for the Baltimore Orioles and Pittsburgh Pirates and other profession al worthies. Nevertheless, the Frank B. Glass Post, VFW entry snapped back to win three, arrived home Friday evening the third best Teener team in the nation, a quite lofty and honorable position and the highest honor a Kings Mountain or ganization has attained. Radioman Jonas Bridges, who cov ered the tournament via his WKMT, commented this week that the young participants can “take it” better than their elders. A half hour after their elim ination, the Teeners were playing bas ketball in a nearby gymnasium. “The older folk,’' Mr. Bridges continued "were walking around looking as if they’d lost their best friend.” Each member of the team. Coach Roy Pearson, and the sponsoring VFW are duly receiving the plaudits of the community, area and state. Buy A Button For ear^ bird taxpsyers, next Wed nesday is due day to obtain the ftilly al lowable two percent discount for early payment. On September 1, the discount rate drops to one percent. The 1966 Mountaineer Days buttons have arrived and are now on sale. FTo- ceeds are expected to supply a msjor portion of the wherewithal required to pay expenses or this year’s celebration of the 186 anniversary of the Battle of Kings Mountain. The cost is $1, First prize 825,000 to the student ^ho writes the best essay on “Peace" *116 Lions International contest Why Hdnner flrom Kings Mouhtain, if ‘ |R priM, then one Of the many I itegionaL state, district and More important is that Kings Moun tain area citizens append them to la pels and wear them, particularly when visiting other cities and communities. It’s good advertising. < J. Lee Roberts is chairman of thje button sales and prizes aw^ top salea- nien> both individuals and clubs which partioiBate. . MARTIN'S MEDICINE Ut9 of hmm ktmor, ami cemmenta oinctiama: Taka weakly, t paaaikla. tmt cmmM By MARTIN HARMON As previously noted In this oolumn in an S.O.S. I was the address-seeker lor the Class of 36, Kings Mowtain High School, 30th anniversary reunion, wlilch was held on Satunlay everting past. a-m On the printed program, I wrote a short item entitl^*‘Th> Most Pun ol AH” and suiRg^ted' that 1 was considerably ahead of others at the dinner-dance as a result of being the contact-man for the event. His First Day I DON’T V. HAVE teacher/ SO ms IS NEW YOlUK By NORTH CALLAHAN % SC \ m-m Of the 39 graduates in the spring of '36, I fimdly located 3«, Ila Mae Frady, married name unknown, being the exception. 1 j / was less ouccessful with the nine-member faculty of 1933-36, missing but on Coach Paul (Pete) Moss, last known address of some years ago in Connecticutt, and Bertie Estell Pasour, initial ly from DaUas. m-m Withal, only one long distance call was required from this end. Mrs. Pat Crosby obtained a lead on Jessie James as having bem kinfolk to Mrs Otto Guyton in Columbia, S. C. When Norma answered the home call, she said, “I know that fellow she married, but I am suddenly blank <hi his name.” She wx>uld check with Otto and write me. m-m Ten minutes later Ott w'as call ing from his Krispy Kreme doughnut establisWnnent to re late that Jessie is the wife of the EUdn High School band director. :e< (tf- Viewpoints of Other Editors ADVERTISING Agreement has been reached be- In process, Ott gave me a new tween the Goyermment and the insight into the doughnut busi-'principal cigarette manufacturers ness. His firm has a capacity of in Britain for limiting expend! frying 450 dozen doughnuts per hour, operates 20 hours daily, and is behind on orders continu ally. m-m Last pressday. the telephone ture on cigarette advertising through pfess and posters during the six months from June 1, Mr. Robinsoh, Minister of Health, said (recently) in the Ammons. Ad vertising in cinemas and bn the operator said, ‘‘Long distance, radio will cease on expiry of exl«t calling.” and Jessie was on thejing contracts, other end of the line, renewing acquaintance after 30 years, re gretting a prior engagement of especial importance, but filing her candidacy as youngest grand mother of the class. Her six-year- old grandson came on scene when she was 41. She and her husband were just returned Manufacturers have-also agreed to undertake a review,, jointly with the Government, of future levels of advertising in th€^ media and of expenditure on cou pon schemes, with the aim of of malting comprehensive ar rangements for limltatlpn to come from (Mclahoma and a visit with j at the end of the her grandson. Her dau(ghter had ,cnreent six-mon^ period, married “too young” but was | An hM a^ l^n still en rolute a college diploma. i r^<?hed to restrict the distnbu- “After all,” Jessie says, “The bon of free^mple^. , name of Mrs. Josephine Weiri Mr. Coe. Labour M.P. was a household word when she Middleton and Pres'twich, if LAW OF THE JUNGLE Gazing into a clear blue sky, we find it hard to adjust our thought processes to the fact that over a thousand man-made ob jects are now circling the globe. And this but a modest beginning in space traffic. We find it even harder to rea lize that, while some satellites will soon bum out in the earth’s atmosphere, others will be mak ing their relentless rounds—if estimates can be trusted—a cool million years from now. It has taken man only eight years to shoot all this hardware and junk Into orbit. What will the next eight years bring—and the next 80? While space-traffic will not for some time resemble the Los Angles freeways, the grew up, and it still is.” sn-m Doris Plyler wrote froT^ Bal timore that she and her husband had recently observed .Annivers ary 25 and she had logged the same anniversary as a register ed nurse m-m I did some last minute tele phonic encouragement to Ruth Mioss Masters, Arlington, Va., he could estimate hew tax the a- greed levels he hadannounced would ocwipare with the previous level of cigarette advertising, Mr. Robinson said it WM at a rate considerably below total advertis- [ing expenditure before the ban televi^fion. " • Dr. Eiunwoody, iLabour M.F. for Falmouth and CambornO. said: “While welcoming tha an nouncament, can I ask - the MiVil- Mabel Putnam Oreever, Oak t ster to consider in future com‘- Ridge Tenn., and Kathleen Gaff-, pletely banning advertisetnems ney Peters. Bethlehem, Pa. Rurti - cigarettes, because the fright- could have been present had the oning death rate ^rom. cancer of gear - up been earlirt", having the lung is the largest public spent the prior two weeks here. * health proWem we are facing.'to- Mabel, office manager of the hay?” University of Tennessee psyeho- la?y department, was “covered up”. She reported that UT will enroll 30,000 students for the Mr. Robinson replied that it wAs a serious fMOblem: "but. we have here been able to acMeve a voluntary agreement by. the fall term. Her husband works for iDodnufacturens ahd I wauW prefer Oak Ridge National Laborator ies. m-m Replies of regret came froinn many, including Jake Early, Mel bourne, Fla., Hazel Hawkins, Frederick, Fort Myers, Fla., Wil to build on tilat foT the preaeiitt'' Fress adv«ertlsing by cigarette manufacturers In the first quafte^ of 1966 amounted to ?,43!5^j Thp agreed level for future , advertid- irtg is not being “disclo*ed.^ Last night, Mn John Anste)!!. ABOLISH HEADLINES , Whenever people start criti cizing newspapers, It’s a safe bet somebody will say a few words about headlines. It happened a- galn at the Governors Confer ence in Los Angeles, only this time it was a newspaper editor who did the talking. During discussion of complaints about news presentation, Erwin D. Canham, editor in chief of The Christian Science Monitor, obser ved, "I sometimes think head lines ought to be abolished.” The governors indicated their agree ment with vigorous applause. Well why not abolish head lines? There are some pretty good reasons. A good headline tells reader quickly what the sto ry underneath has to say. It en- need for regulation can no longer to find a particular be ignored. W© are hopeful that the legal subcommittee of the United Na tions’ Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space will hammer out basic concepts designed to avoid international turmoil and that these will prove acceptable te the governments involved. ' An elementary but vital ques tion concerns jurisdiction. Rising vertigilly , from the earth, where does s^ce begin? Where does space law begin to apply, as dis tinguished trom the law of the country below? And should space law apply to orbital space only to the vast reaches be yond? These and countless other qqestions will have to be resol ved undramatlcally by those ex pert in international law and dlpdomacy. Yet what they decide or fail to decide could have drainatlc (or traumatic) man race. ma Rhea Hinson, R. N. Douglas, ;cl»irtnan of John Hayer and Ga. The Clam of ’36 produced no Sons, said the agreement ul)^ ministers, but we have an in-law one. Hazel’s husband is a CSiurdi of the Nazarene pastor. m-m W J. Fulkerson, coach first three years, and his likely to affect total sales of cigarettes in Britain. "Our adver- tiaing is not designed to endoui:- etge people to smoke more, but (OUT rather to smoke our brands,” he vvife in * statement in London. Ruth Rabv Fulkerson, of Greens-1 The Imperial Toba<;»o Co., in boro, attended. Ruth had pic- ••id: "Againat the tures of her two fine children, i hadeground of the smoking and Sally and Bill, and W. J. remi nlsced about my being his 1934 football manager. Fulkerson was one of the earlier practitioners of health problem, we >mve lor a long time believed that the right approach lay in a sensible mo deration of advertising eoependi- ^00 young to drive, but one df my chief chores was to use the Ful kerson car to transport Ted and Tjabon Thornburg, Clyde Me- >wain and Jim (Red) White to heir Oak Grove section homes after practice sessions. athletic recruiting. At 14, I was **>4 w have repeatedly ad Though some averred more wanted to talk than to dance, it lid not apply to Jack Fortune, of '-llckory, (my wife said she be- Meved Jack missed not a single number), Sara Lee HanrfU I>»r- ton and her husband from At lanta, John Elam, Bladenboro, Dorothy Plonk lewis and her daughter Susie, North WHkes- boro, Mr and Mrs, Fred Dixon, nor me and many others. Indeed, I thought, considering age and previous condition of servitude, the incidence of dandng usually heavy. vocated this. “It foUowa that while there is room for argument M to what is sensible, we think that in prill- oiple, the Minist^ of Health and the industry are pursuing the right course.” The company denied 'diat cou pons in tdgarette piMxets oon- stltuted advertising, "tt Is a forw of price competftlosi in that It offers smokers a 'padcafe deal’ hy whkh they obta^ in addition to their cigaxettes, tw equivalent df a deferred price reduction,” it aaW, —The 'Hmes (London) Space is no jungle. And we pray that apace law will not, cither by default or design, turn dut to be the law of the jungle. be located in a matter story he may be looking for. By its relative size and placement, the headline Indicates the editor’s best judgement of the story’s value. If anyone wonders what, we are fighting for In Vietnam there is ohe thing that stands out which should at least be a rea son. That is the medical situ'a- tlon. In South Vietnam, with a population of about 15 million, there are fewer than 1,000 phjsi- cians and pnly 200 of these are in full-time practice. The daath rate for iirothers is 25 times high er than in America. Less than half of all the babies reach thbir 9th birthday. Life expectancy in Vietnam is only 35 years of age, about half what it is in this country. So if we do no more than remedy this dire situation, our help will not have been In vain. —3— Salesmen who think that most customers are just lookers might be interested in what happened here some years ago. It was a cold, rainy Saturday afternoon in a 5th Avenue furniture store and all the salesmen were huddled a- round a radiator in the rear of the store, talking. An elderly woman dressed in plain black entered the front door. The sales man who was next in line to wait on customers believing her to be just a looker on sto-me one coming in out of the cold, turned to a new salesman and said, “Son, go try your hand and see what you can do for the old sis ter.” The young fellow spent over an hour with her in the Ori ental rug department. The result was a sale of almost $10,000. The woman was Mrs. Andi'ew Clar- negie. She became a regular cus tomer of the young man and some years when she was furn ishing a huge home in Scotland, this salesman received a tele gram from her asking him to England at her expense. There he received or order for several thousand dollars. —3 — The draft board chairman ask ed the young man what his occu pation was. The reply was that ally that the young man do sort^ er then suggested rather skeptic- oally that th young man do some thing funny. Turning to the long line of men behind him, the lad yelled, “You can igo home, fel lows! I got the job.” A ftour-year-old boy was strid ing up and down in the outer office of a doctor. The patients sitting there thumbing through newspapers, starring at maga zines and engrossed in their ron-^ / cem for their various ailments, at first paid little attention but W i finally became acutely conscious ^ of the smidl automaton march ing ceaselessly back and forth in front of them. At length a sour- fa<^ man blurted out, “What are you doing?” Without (missing a step, the small one replied, *Tm thinking. You see, I belong to the Batman Club and this is By its very nature, the head line is imperfect. It is an attempt to put in a few words what a writer may have taken hundreds of words to tell. Often news ma terial simply cannot be condens ed that much with total accuracy. » A complex, carefully qualified ° policy statement, for example, is almost impossible to sum up in five or six words. In such cases, the headlines may be a compro mise. The frustrating conditions un der which headlines must be Written add to the problem. In the first place, a headline must fit In a given space, which puts strict limits on how much can be said. Furthermore, the head line writer may have to read the story and write the headline un- COtlSG* "" - -- —-w ...V——W...W — qliences for the future of the hu- Sf*" pressure, ing telephone can thrbugh computers of seepnds. In one New York case a prank-1 cates ster lyas arrested in a public comings, telephone booth while he was|;= actually making the call; the system can be that efficient It is good news that means are catching the culprits. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPA'TCH Though he may improve on his Work in later editions, his first effort Is there in print for all to see. In spite of all this, critics notwithstanding, a great many good headlines are written. No one is more aware of the Imprefections of headlines than the people who produce them, as Canham’s wry comment Indi- Yet, with all their short- headlines perform an —3- When I first came to New York over a quarter of a cen tury ago, the Paramount Theater on Times Square was one of the highlights of the city and the building of the same name near by was a citadel of the then- flourishing movie industry_ The other day I noted rather sadly that this has changed. This great theater where there was pre miered some of the finest (iro- tion pictures, as well as saw the debuts of such performers as Red Skelton and Bob Hope, now is a darkened hulk. Only an oc casional special film is sho^ here. And the Paramount Build ing has somehow become dingy looking, a grim reminder of^the passing of a brighter day. invaluable service. Without them, it would be almost impossible to itrake any Sense out of a news paper. - LOUISVILLE (KY.) •HMES. ( TBAB8 AGO nOBWBEX •MMlk tki fOea of fi Bmal naa eCbmUt Kkvg rM yaefsila am. from tha jM kktga MoakUak Kings Mounttin dty schools •nd Park Grace school in the county system will open for 1956- 57 terms Tueaday moraii^ at 8:30. Ages of those presost ranged from 15 (Clyde Greene’s daugh ter, Latta, S. C., and Steve Cros- kyi Kings Mioumtskt) to 8$ (iRmt- «r Patterson, nfwnhsr of the s(^ board te igK). NUISANCE CALLEB8 Anonymous abusive and ob scene telephone calls msy soon be a rarity. Telephone companies throughout the countw arf be- giiming to move agamst theiii. 8no new olectrcHiic ooulpmoiit i# making it possible to CfKch the ^Uy persons—and quick. Newi devices budwde Charles L- Alexander became Kings Mountain postmaster last Friday adternocn when he took the oath of office inont P. R Hayes, postollice iinspe<tiDr and MOUI dejnees tadude^dl^ I* itotity Kings Mountain native. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. T. L. Kesler entertained imembers of the Friday After- naon (Bridge club at her home Mst week. State Senator Robert Morgan of Shelby will address menr^rs of the Kings Mountain Woman's elub Friday night at the Wom an's dub, Garveth Walls and Kish Ham- krkfisA afsnt last weekend tai KEEPTOUBBADlODlALSrrAT 1220 WKM Bngi Monutain. N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the holi hour. Fine entertainment in between
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