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KIN6S MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. Established 1889 The Kin^s Mountain Heiald A wpekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, publlsh.^'d every Thursday by the Herald Publlsliing House. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. i' > tlSOSG under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harhion Editor-Publisher Gary Stewart , . Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Lynda Hardin ; Clerk MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Bobby Bolin Paul Jackson Dave" Weathers Douglas Houser Allen Mytrs Dave Weathers. Jr. - SUBSCRIPTION-RATES .PAYABLE IN ADVANCE BY ]\L4IL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR .. $3.50 SIX MONTHS ,. $2.00 THREE MONTHS .. $1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 MARTIN'S MEDICINE Inirredienta: bits of nmoa,' U'mliim, hujnor, and comvu'nta Directiona: Tqke ivecklff if I'Oasible, hut avoid, \ overdoaaue. I Two Views On Economy By MARTIN HABMON TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Romans 7:19. Decision of Reason Last Friday’s decision of Superior Court Judge G. L. Houk, whereby a tem porary order was granted restraining the Gaston County Board of Eudeation from preventing ^8^ East Kings Moun tain area children from attending Kings Mountain district schools can well be labeled a decision of w'isdom and rea son. While the order is temporary, pend ing hearing on the matter, for all in tents and purposes the 16 families are home free as far ar the current school term is concerned. It is inconceivable Judge Houk, or any other who might hear the litigation, would order a transfer of pupils during a school term, with implication of diffi culties in school bus schedule, creation of classroom overloads andother trou bles. The intransigance of the Gaston county board remains a mystery, re minding that Judge Houk ruled in the spirit of the law, rather than the letter, properly placing the convenience end welfare of the students above the rigid, man-made policy of the Gaston board, which was doing quite the opposite. It behooves the East Kings Moun tain residents—and any other adjacent to the Kings Mountain school district similarly desirous—to speed petitions to respective boards of elections for annex- . ation elections for inclusion in the Kings Mountain school district. June 30 is D-Day as far as the 1967- 68 school term is concerned, and while June 30 may appear far distant, it is not, as legal requirements for examinging election petitioners as to validity of resi dence, calling for a new registration and election in the areas wishing to annex, require moretime than the average lay- many realizes. Meantime, the Herald is pleased as a happy puppy on receiving from Kings Mountain high school student Julia Bowers the following note: “I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate ever3H;hing you have done for the students that live in Gaston County. We fell that your ar ticles in the paper were very helpful. Thanks from a K. M. H. S. student.'’ •This tribute is perhaps ill-deserved but most, most appreciated. The Lote Merturing Edwin S. Lanier has been North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance since his appointment by Governor Tei’- ry Sanford, and is known in that ca pacity by most North Carolinians. However, Mr. Lanier boasts longest and certainly a valiant experience in the fleld of education. His specialty was in pnarrying a deserving, if poor, lad or lass to enough self-help work and/or work- scholarship or loan money to assure that thej[a^ or lass not miss the oppor tunity to earn a diploma at the Univers- sity of North Carolina. At this chore, Mr. Lanier was a veritable whiz kid, as griNkt numbers (including Governor San- fora) will attest. Via public print and Jay Jenkins’ Sunday' column in the Charlotte Observ er, Comm. Lanier delivered himself of an oration which is worthy of more than passing note. He decried the present format of the crowded colleges and universities which regard results of the college board of examinations as something ap- proaphing a demi-god and with many continuing to escalate the magic num ber as means to entrance. Confim. Lanier, out of his vast ex perience, says that many students of college timber, either via questionable high school training, parental laxity, lade of flnanical wherewithal or other wise, are being denied college on basis of the tests alone, when, as matter of record, they have the goods and merely lack the maturity which they attain in college or even later. His major case in point wo the late Senator-Governor William B. timstead, a border-line pass- stud^gtf Who became ah able law^ yer, legislator Sovemoa, leader, and, of course, A lone yardstick is not enough, Lanier contends. " Unstated, it can be guessed Comm. Lanier counts a lot on the biological process of osmosis, whereby the seem ing less quick absorb and retain more cranial knowledge than some of the more mentally glib. Southerns To Arms Congressman Basil L. Whitener and Southern confreres in the House of Rep resentatives took particular umbrago recently wU^n Representative Thonlas Curtis, Missouri Republican, proposed lifting of import quotas on foreign tex tiles in the interest of free trade. Well Mr. Whitener and his friends have, not only for the facts of the case, but for the additional fact Mr. Curtis’ speech consumed 55 typewritten pages, legal size, single spaced. Mr. Whitener was much more short and succinct, stating, “If the gentleman from Missouri should have his way. West Virginia would look like an ec onomic paradise, compared to the area of North Carolina that I represent after four or five years .... He contends that we ought to throw aside the jobs of our people. I am not willing to be a pai’ty to that and hope that the philosophy of the gentleman from Missouri will not pre vail.” West Virginia’s economic difficul ties stem from the fact her once-profit- able coal mines are depleted. The problem of completely free trade in textiles is that wage rates of some foreign competitors are ten to fif teen, times lower than those prevailing in the textile industry in the United States. Few should fail to remember the trials of the cotton division of the tex tile industry before the United States quit subsidizing foreign purchasers of this nation’s cotton. EnrollniBiit Dip The school folk never regard first day enrollments of prime importance, some pupils ordinarily delaying e n - trance for a day or two. The fifth day is taken as the norm to be expected for the remainder of the nine-month term. This year, in ten-plant Kings Moun tain district schools, fifth day enroll ment was down 173 pupils from last year. Based on last year’s figures the reasons are: 1) a slight dip in the be ginner crop: 2) departure of former pupils to Gaston county schools; and 3) an unusual incidence of dropouts, from fifth day last year to end of school in the eleventh grades. The baby or beginner dip is a nat ural phenomenom, the Gaston pupil de parture a legal one. The dropout incidence is both a sad and tragic one, as dropouts of former ySRrs have learned, majority of them painfully. As business and industry become more efficient with fast-advancing mechanization and computerization, higher basic knowledge and skills are demanded. Only the more menial chores await all but a few of those who make the sad mistake of forsaking the class room plow before reaching the end of the diploma furrow. It was near 16 bells of the afternoon watch aboard the bat tleship USS Memphis, Au!?ust 29, ^ 1916, at her anchorage off Santo Domingo and all was well. But' not for long. 1 la-m The skipper, Captain Edward L. Beach. Sr., USN, noticed the waves pounding the nearby bluffs with amazing fury anci handed his binoculars to the; o.xeeutive officer. “What is hap- ^ pening!^' the Exec exclaimed. “Look at those rollers! Great God, Captain, there’s something deadly about to break!" The Captain then asked what he saw when Icxjking directly to sea-1 ward. The Exec replied, “. . . . I; see a yellow mountain. Captain! j Captain! It’s moving! It’s grow-j ing bigger, bigger, bigger, big-1 ger!” I m-m I The Memphis was in the pathj of a mammoth tidal wave and' a seaman passing the word, I “Prepare for sea and disaster!’’! had only begun his rounds, when | the first wave struck the Mem- j phis and rolled her over so that, only her masts were showing from the water. m-m Captain Beach later recalled, “I think five following moun tains of water struck us under water, each huge wave picking us up like a chip and hurling j I us shoreward.’’ At 1645 (4:45 1p.m.) the ship went aground in ! 12 feet of water on a clump ofl I reef. Survivors climbed ashore; j by breeches buoy. I m-m I 1 1 From the all-s well condi-l tion, in perhaps 50 to 55 minutes, j the USS Memphis was a sham bles on the reef and could count! 43 of her crew dead — up to that time the U. S. Navy’s greatest i peacetime disaster. Seven men! were killed when sea water | flooded her boilers and caused | their explosion. Others were drowned when washed off the decks. Largest loss of 23 men came from the ship’s shore-leave party. m-m One among the liberty party was Coxswain William Burnette Smith, 23, then of Charlotte and lone brother of Mrs. Burgln Falls, for many years a Kings Moun tain citizen. m-m By several coincidences, Mrs. Falls has learned recently that there i-s a USS Memphis “Survi vor’s Ship”, numbering survivors and next-of-kin of the 43 lost, plus the crew of the USS Castine and a Marine detachment ashore who aided in rescue operations, as well as all men who had served on the Memphis when •she carried the name USS Ten nessee. Chief instruments were: 1) C. E. (Red) Dengler, aboard the USS New Hampshire in 1916, and 2) a feature article on the Memphis loss by Frank Glodnek in the July 26 issue of the Read ing, Pa., Times. Mr. Dengler hap pened to be visiting kin in Read ing when the article appeared, was especially interested because he knew Cox. Smith had been lost while aboard the Memphis and further because the Mem phis had relieved the New Hamp shire only shortly before the tragedy on the Santo Domingo assignment. The accident of tim ing could bjive saved Red Deng ler. m-m Goldnek’s article stemmed from an interview with Franklin Woodruff, of Reading, purported ly a Mernphis survivor, Mr. Dengler brought a copy home and Mrs. Falls wrote Mr. Wood ruff. It developed that Woodruff .4^. 7 Ao/n^ ///ocahne HST: "Can cause heavy recession!" LBJ: "I can fotch it down!" Viewpoints of Other Editors Thurjdayi September 8i 1966 SO THIS IS NEW YORK By NORTH CALLAHAN The amendment to the Consti tution regarding prayer in public scools is causing understandably widespread discussion. Yet there is still much legal opportunity for recognition of God in the classroom. Teachers are still ireo to tell of the role of God in our history. For example, the May- flower Compact, which has been called the fiist charter of demo cracy in American History, was prepared by forty-one Pilgrims in 1620, and though it is only sixteen lines in length, it refers ter -God ..six -times .in. .its. bri.eL but. . powerful text In fact it opens with the wmrds, “In the name of God, Amen”, states that the voy age to America was undertaken “for the glory of God” and was signed “solemnly and mutually in the presence of Gofl." In the Declaration of Inde pendence which was largely writ ten by Thomas Jefferson, a mild believer in God, there are four specific references to the depend ence of our nation upon the Di vine 'Being. This was probably due partly to the influence of John Adams and Benjaimin Franklin who were also on the committee to draft the memor able Declaration. The document speaks of the laws lof nature and of nature’s God; that all men are created legally equal and that they are endowed by their Cre ator with certain unalienable rights. It appeals to the Supreme Judge for the rightness of our intentions and trusts in a-firm reliance on te protection of Di vine Providence. From almost the Ijeginnfng cf our nation,, one day of each year has been set a- side for the purpose of rendering thanks to Almighty God. The President of the United States officially asks fvery citizen to express gratitude to a bountiful Creator. Most of us think of an Ameri can dollar as a piece of curi'ency exhibiting a picture of our great est as well as first Preeident, George Washington. But on the reverse side of the bill the Ameri can Seal is pictui’ed with the eye of God directly above the pyra mid representing the original thirteen states The Latin words, Annult Coeptis signify, “God has favored oair undertakings.” 3_- The oath of office taken by government employes, which was originated by George Washing-* ton, concludes with the prayerfid petition, “So help me God.’’ This is also required of witnesses in court and passpoit applicants. For 117 years, “The Star Spanled Banner” w'as popular as a pa triotic hymn Then on March 3, 1931, it was adopted by Congress as our national anthem. And though for most it is hard to sing, the song’s closing woids are, Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is j jtist, and this be lour motto. In God is our trust. 3 We innovation, the packaged frozen food, will get the notice from industrial historians it deserves. Up to now it has been accepted as Just one more improvement in had' b^n^a'boar'd the later Memphis, in 1912, and THE KITCHEN . utes later she is serving a sub- REVOLUTION | stantial meal to her family. Froz- wonder when that great* ^*1 foods and a preesure cooker have made it possible. that. No shorts for post-third graders at West school! Happy he the day! Pres ent-day fathers, onetime knickers-clad pupils, would have put the crown and purple or royalty on any schoolman or marm who would have ordered long pants in yesteryear. It’s time to buy a Mountaineer Days emblem, cost $1, and to wear it daily. The new Burke County sheriff, reg istered with an “R” beside his name, took an oath saying he wa^, is and will continue tq be a Republican. Was the “was", shall we say, unseemly? thereby qualified for member 5-hip in the club. m-m Both Woodruff and Mrs. Falls were glad to make~contact, as Woodruff was aiding In locating Survivor’s Club members and Mrs. Falls had had no contact with any survivors since her brother’s loss. m-m The club began holding an nual reunions in different dtles of the nation in 1959 and Cap tain Edward L. Beach, Jr., son of the Memphis Skipper, has written a book entitled “The Wreck of the Memphis”, which is being distributed to members at the author’s expense. Mrs. Falls, still recuperating from a broken leg, could not attend this year’s Cleveland, Ohio, reunion, but hopes to in the future. Mean time, she has received a copy of Capt. Beach's history m-m Capt. Beach is no stranger to writing, having authored the novel - movie “Run Silent, Run Deep , as title implies a subma? rine story. His major claims to fame are as commander of the submarine USS Plton in World captain of the USb Triton, the nuclear submaf line which he took under the icf at the North Pole in 1960 In pro- 0^ of circling the globe com pletely subrperged. He la a|«o In Paris, Mme D., mother of two schoolage children, spends her days adding to the family in come by doing secretarial work, She gets home in time to greet , her children returning from their i®*" available long school day. Not many 1 womanpower for skilled occupa In the United States, in Great Britain, and in other highly de veloped lands, the story is the same. Released from the need to wash the spinach in three waters, peel and slice the potatoes, pound the steak with flour, and cook each its special way. madame has free hours which in former years she gave to her kitchen ’The In dustrial results are obvi’ous.Few- Often overlooked is our nation al motto, “In God we Trust” which was adopted by a joint re solution of Congress on July 20, 1956. Not only does our national government recognize God in so many wa-ys, but forty-nine state constitutions similarly express a dependence on Him as the source of hum.an rights and liberties. Coincidentally almost with the decision of the Supreme Court regarded ing civil rights, both the Senate and House of Repre sentatives adopted a resolution on Jiune 14, 1954 adding the words. to help preserve “properties that j are significant in American his tory, architecture, archeology i and culture,” is that present publ-1 ic and private programs are in adequate in view of commercial pressures, making federal aid necessary. This legislation is im- “under God” to the pledge of al- portant and timely. . . .—St. 1 legiance to the flag of the United Louis Poet-Dispatch - States. 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events taken from the 1956 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. Dean Paiyne, Jaycee represen tative, was named chairman of the city recneatkm coounission Monday night. Five cars of a southbound Southern Railway passenger mail train wtre derail in Kings Mountain early Wednesday'morn ing James Moee, Kings Mountain native and his wife, left recently via the S.S. Brazil from New York to Campinaa, Brazil, ^vhere they wtll attend tanguage School fenr a year in preparation for missionary work in West Brazil Mission. ROC/AL AMD PSRaONAL iColonel Frederidt Hambrighli CtMPtor, DAR, held its inltia) tions And the kitchen revolution has only begun. "Le frigidaire” with frozen food compartment is as yet found in a small percentage of European homes. As women earn more, they will buy more of them, and this will increase the number of women available for jobs. (IIS’s that kind pf circle.) Even In India, it is reported in a dispatch in this newspaper, lower mlddleclass and working-class women are buying for the first time, frozen vegetables and cann ed fruit, happy to iget these labor- savers. ' Industrial record historians the results of this deve lopment. is?"j",",? tamer s Survivor’s Snip”. ^ Riunnoii, Sr, HELPING SAVE LANDMARKS The nvovement for the preser vation of landmarks received a- nother welcome boost with ap proval by the House Interior Com- imlttee of the Administration bill to save historic pitee from oblit eration by new highways, housing ■nd pfh«r huildins*: the Senate ^ pMied • eimRiaf nieasure. TTi? o( Pi lesMaHon. fnetmItims KEEP YOUR RADIO DIAL SET AT 1220 WK Kings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between Thur N( jan
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