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2 / KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, September 22, 1966 Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Heiald A weekly 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, 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 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 Myers Dave Weathers, Jr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR .. $3.50 SIX MONTHS .. $2.00 THREE MONTHS .. $1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX Yates Humphries, who had served the drug firm as delivery- man for four years, had moved downstreet to join Red McClain at Sterchi’s. Humphries replace ment had 'failed to appear with out notice after a few days on .the -job. .A -.Mend, of the. owner, described as a "boy”, had agreed to deliver for a day, but failed to appear. . TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee. Fear not; I tvill help thee. Isaiah dvsvc. Mohair And Friends Formalization of the previously in dicated request of Massachusetts Mo hair Plush Company for annexation ol its Margrace plant to the city limits, together with petitions of 60 families, neighbors to the Margrace plant, offers the city chance of its most important expansion since 1923. In that year, via legislative act un der the bill introduced by then-Repre- sentative J. Roan Davis, the Town of East Kings Mountain w^as disincorporat ed and the area involved was incorporat ed into the Town of Kings Mountain. Figuring about four persons per family (the 1960 census showed the average North Carolina family at 3.9 persons), the indicated population ine crease is about 2400 people. Mohair Manager A1 Maino says ad valorem taxable values represented by the petition are more than one million dollars. As the petitions were filed. Mohair still needed at least one more “next friend” to petition for inclusion in order, to meet the stale’s annexation test which requires annexed areas to be ad jacent and continuous to the present city limits. Under another state statute adopted several years ago, a city has the power to annex adjacent and contiguous areas at will — provided it has cash-in-hand or borrowing authority to provide all city services to the annexed areas with in a period of two years. Property own ers unwillingly annexed could otherwise obtain court orders to restrain the par ticular city from collecting ad valorem taxes and/or to obtain refunds. The 1923 annexation at the time was quite unpopular in East Kings Mountain, where citizens were still smarting under the 1915 election defeat whereby the Town of East Kings Moun tain was voted into Cleveland County after a close and bitter election. Since 1923, city' commissioners Change of Poeltion United States Senator Sam Ervin, of North Carolina, is regarded as one of the nation’s top Constitutional law yers. Thus, the Senator announced Tues day he would support neither the Dirk- son amendment to permit certain religi ous services in the schools nor the Bayh resolution which would declare the “sense of Congress” concerning Bible- reading and prayer in the public schools. Senator Ervin said he had re-read the Constitution, as well as the majority opinion of the Supreme Court, and feel both the proposed amendment and res olution un-needed. Justice Tom Clark wrote the ma jority opinion which said public school officials may not “prescribe nor pro scribe” concerning prayer in the public schools. Additionally, Senator Ervin re minds, Article I of the Constitution re mains quite operative, guaranteeing to all freedom of worship. The Constitution was forged by men quite knowledgeable of Old Coun try troubles. Indeed, the colonies were settled in the main by two major groups, those desirous of religious freedom and those who believed in the right of all to hold and protect private property. Bible, quite legally, continues to be ottered as course study here in Kings Ifwntain schools, at state - supported folleges in North Carolina and else where. I^nator Ervin is quite right in his decision, as was the Supreme Court in its ruling. Cammniilty Canter A sizeable community center is, peiiiaps, a luxury, and for most small cities a luxury they can ill afford either by public or private means. Kings Mountain hopes to acquire oiie, via a federal government grant covering up to three-fourths the cost. Few, Q any, will argue wdth the baaio need, nor with the idea that many community benefits will accrue there from. Some decry federal largess and ex penditure of funds for such domestic ^mains these funds are made •Rd those who do not fdsttin in*«ffect, being doubly tansd. here have followed a policy of annexing only on petition of property owners ef fected, the several commissions reason ably thinking that citizens brought in under duress do not make happy, and therefore good, citizens. Another factor has been monetary cost to the city, which provides citizens many virtually deadweight services, money-wise, such as fire protection, garbage collection, sewer service, and police protection. Penciling will need to be done from the city’s standpoint on the matter of cost, with the city weighing the poten tial intake from ad valorem taxes and other new income. A city’s population, for instance, is a key factor in Powell Bill Fund gasoline ta.x rebates from the state, also for intangible tax rebates. In the recent year, the population incre ment was $2.43 per capita. Thus a popu lation Increase of 2400 indicates a $6000 per year increase from this source. Outside city citizens naturally have done some penciling themselves. With the city’s favorably low ad va lorem tax rate, savings in fire insurance alone, not to mention garbage collection service, make in-city citizenship finan cially beneficial for a large majority. The Mohair Company is quite frank In saying, in full contrast to former thinking, in-city citizenship is financial ly beneficial, principally due to Mohair facing a deadline of the State Stream Sanitation committee on pre-treating its dye plant affluent into Beeson’s Crdhk. With the city’s sewage disposal system plans already approved by the voters and with planned capacity adequate to handle its own and Mohair’s disposal problem, Mohair finds it cheaper to pay city taxes over the years and thereby to defer a large capital expense in the near future. What may be termed a “tangible intangible” from the city's standpoint is liklihood of future tax value and pop ulation growth in this particular area. MARTIN'S MEDICINE Ingredients: bits of ne^vs, ^Asdoin, humor, and comments Diwe-tions; Take "weekly if 2X>ssible, but avgid overdosage. By MARTIN HARMON Carl Weisener, who lives here and peddles pills ai Shelby, re cently had a sequence of "those days”. Events didn't move in pleasant pattern. In The Balance SO THIS IS NEW YORK By NORTH CALLAHAN nv—m Next day an elderly fellow came in to say he’d been employ ed as deliveryman-for-a-day. As Carl welcom^ him, he let out a string of vituperation about the “boy” who had failed o appear the previous day. Meantime, Carl was gathering a backlog of pre scriptions for delivery, and the fill-in fellow had comunented, “Some people don’t understand business.” Shortly, the elderly fellow was back and to Carl’s query, "What’s the matter? repU^ that there was no delivery station wagon in he parking lot. Carl looked and there wasn’t. Jhe ignition keys usually re mained in the switch. .Carl im mediately informed Shelby police and the highway patrol that the drug firm’s station wagon had been solen. It was sometime later in the day that Humphries (his wife still in the employ of the i drug firm) phoned in to apologize! for “using” the drug firm’s wajgon. The political pot here is boil ing in a family way. Two wealthy Protestants with Dutch names. Rockefeller and Roosevelt, are opposing in some ways, two Irish-Catholics, wealthy and oth er-wise, Kenney and O’Connor. The race for governor is being watched as indicative of na tional trends, but regardless, it is a lively one with deals being charged, names being hurled and raioney flying around like the seasohal autamn leaves. The name of Roosevelt, once magic, has lost much of its miraculous touch, while that of Nelson Rock efeller has not been helped by his divKxrce and re-marriage. siT, an Irish politician, O’Connor who is said to have the silent backing of President Johnson, is making quite a splash. Bobby Kennedy has lurked in the back ground but it Is not like hUn to linger out of the limelight very long. Now that schools are resum ing, the military status of the young men is uppermost in many minds. On the campkts of George Williams College, for instance, there is a sign all too remind ful of this. It says, “Study each day or you may berame lA”. An other sign of the times; “There are only three college grades now: A, B and Viet Nam.” Viewpoints of Other Editors The using thereof had been in advertent. Humphries had been driving the wagon home for four years and out of habit followed his old path. . Along Life's Highways And By-Ways On the other side of life’s pic ture, Francis Thompson has writ ten, “Know what it is to be a child? It is to believe in love, loveliness, belief. It is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper In your ear. It is to turn THE REASON FOR EDUCATION This essay was written over into coaches and mice into horses, lowness into lofti ness and nothing into everything. With JOHN ALLYN CHESHIRE (Guest Columnist) nt—m Meantime, Carl learned from the owner, “boy” was actually the elderly gentleman who had reported a day late and who had replied to Carl’s cussln,’ “Some people don’t understand busi ness.” Yet another tale must be told, though I am under petticoat duress of one of the principals to leave identities. Logan Defended Former Kings Mountain Chief of Police Hugh A. Logan, Jr., appeared to be on at least a warm-burner hot seat over the weekend with revelations that 12 employees of the Lincoln prison camp have resigned since mid-summer, short ly after Mr. Logan’s arrival as area supervisor. Mr. Logan, again a Kings Mountain resident, also superviies other prison units at Dallas and in Mecklenburg and Union counties. It was a few seasons ago and four Kings Mountain women were at a mountain resort, with bridge game underway. An elderly gentleman, somewhat shy and obviously lonesome continued to hover in the wings. The ladies were pleasant, finally asked hia name and whereabouts and gleaned this reply: "You ladies wouldn’t be interested in an old widower i'ke me." irt—m Quite simple, says Supervisor Lo gan. Transfers to other stations did not suit some. Others, he Indicated, have not yet become attuned to the rehabili tation vs. rough treatment policy in which North Carolina has been a suc cessful pioneer. To which one of the Kings Mountain feminine contingent, a widow, quipped, “Ask us!” m—m Fire Chief Floyd Hiomburg is one of many Kinga Mountain men who are devotees of hunting and fishing, but he doesn't go to Morehead City anymore. It would also be easy to suggest, in view of a state legislator’s calling atten tion to the resignations, that a chronic ailment of governmental otticeholders is that they tend to credit their tob- getting to political activity and/or friends and fall to remember that work must be done and in line with higher authority’s policy. mL-m Floyd and 21 friends were on deer-bear hunt at Morehead few seasons back, patiently manning their stands. .Nothing happened. Finally, as the day waned. Floyd made a foray to the other side of the game preserve. It would also be easy to suggest ■ Kt that, with 'lall industry pressed to keep nned, jobs mantis, some may have resigned to accept better paying work. Mr. Logan had a good record as boss of the mtiximum security prison at Dunn while practicing the new policy accenting rehabilitation efforts rather than black-jacking. "That rascally guide wasn’t ’.hooine us any targets,” Floyd <ays. “I found hhn asleep in a hammock. Worse than that, two '>f his dogs were pUpd up in the hammock with him.” m—m GUI Tax Ant Next day the 22 elected to for sake their guns for rod-and-reela. \t S8 per person per dav, the Meeoy guide paid $176 for his ireanr-a. State Treasurer Edwin Gill is a keen and veteran student of state gov ernment and state finances. He predicts a surplus for the bien nium ending June 30, 1967, of $150 mil lions and Opposes suggestions for any new state taxes, he the tax Imposed on tobacco products, retail and wholesale sales, or otherwise. There are times when new taxea must be Imposed or old tax schedules increaa^, but hardly in a period when present achedules sm returainf^ Increas- iNf sufpluses each year. iw-nm Otte FsHs, Sr., hsa a ffland vho. some veara ago announced he had ewom off drinking and become a devotee of fishing. m—m A few days later the (friend -etumed with expanaive Salea of 1 Mg catch, both in qtMntlty and '•ize of fishes. Otis jested, “There you go. I don’t know which is 'am. P|ke you go. 1 cion X Know wiucn worsa. Ytai’ra jwat uka ak 's Maybe you’ll forgive me for this entirely personal column to day. It is being written In un speakable loneliness and grief with black despair clutching at a brpken heart and choking of the dffh light of- God" that just a fev^^ays ago shone so bright ly and hopefully over this little house that has for more than a decade been the happy home of my wife and me. Wednesday, Sept. 7, she kiss ed "Daddy”warmly, as she al ways calls me, opened her eyes for a moment, and then passed on to her God peacefully in the arms of her faithful nurse. THEN THE sun went down for me and left me in a darkness where 1 had thought God always held a light for us to brighten the way out of every black val ley of hopelessness and lead us into the daylight of the promises He has made us. But now God had failed me after all my pray ers .. . after His promises to answer prayers, and I was bitter. But I know there is a God. 1 have heard His voice, I have felt His presence, 1 have seen His miracles. As I look around me now in my despair and doubt, I know all that is or was or ever can be is the handiwork of God. He is my father and I will yet go on trusting Him, but why did He fail me now when I needed Him so much, when Mother, as I always called her, wanted so much to get well and come back home because she said, “I need Daddy, and he needs me.” And she prayed that she might come back home to me, but again God did not answer her prayer. And after kissing me firmly she breathed just twice and gently died. I'VE NEVEB felt I needed a written convenant with God. Why should I seek the assurance of any living man that the wis dom, love and power of my heavenly Father would ever fail me? In His divine wisdom He did fail me when I needed Him most. But I accept His wisdom I saw Him last night In the brilliant stars through my tears I knew He wgs pp there guiding us all I and I saw H)m In my loneliness in the daybreak this morning. My house was home for Moth er and me. Now It is just an unspeakably lonely house, but still 1 believe God watches over It, and that Mpther is watching over it too because as she so often said, “I need you Daddy, an(J you need m&” So 1 still have Mother. • WHEN TOE solemn funeral services were over, together with my son and his wife and his two sons, we followed the funeral car that carried Mother to her last resting place. When the throngs had left I was driven back to our house along with my family. Lajer my son suggested that we go back and see where Moth er was placed, which was ip shade of a great, towering tree.j There was lovely flowers ev( where in great profusion. Near my feet where I stood 1 noticed a large wreath with violet colored flowers. I said to my tall and strong son, “Son, I wish Mother could see those violet colored flowers. She al ways loved that color so much. It was always her favorite.” My son answered me with, “Dad, she does see them, she a century agio by William Cory, land Eaton College master. The j pertinance of his wisdom in to- I day’s headlong scra.Tihle for 1 knowledge is clear. It is re printed here for the student, of whatever age, who finds frust rating his inability to reconcile tlie sacred haste of the scram ble with the deliberate, seem ingly interralinable, pace impos ed on acquiring an education. “At school you are not en gaged so much in acquiring knowledge for each child has a fairy god mother i his soul.” hhe idea of what toys a child plays with and their influence on his later life is being ex plored not only by our lawmak ers but by the oy Manufacturers of the U. S. I received a ques tionnaire from the.mi asking what was my favorite toy when I was a boy. After digging deep- as in making men- i ly into the dimming recesses of a recalcitrant memory, I came up with two childhood play things: books and water pistols. Now if anyone can make any connectio between that and my writing of books on military his tory, let him imake the most of it. tal effort under criticism. A cer tain amount of knowledge you can indeed acquire with aver age faculties, acquire so as to retain. Nor need for regret the hours you spend on much that is forgotten, for the shadow of lost knowledge at least protects you from imany illusions “But you go to a great school Joes see them.” What a beauti-j”*^^ mudi for knowlege as for lul faith my boy has. I think habits for the art of now I’ll soon understand. I stepped lightly into her hos pital room the day before she went home. The nurse was ad justing something about her neck. When she had finished, not knowing I was standing there at the room entrance, she bent down and kissed Mother’s forehead and said gently, “You loveable little thing.” Then I walked in and she said to me, “Everybody here in the hospital loves her so much.” And Mother loved everybody... -ind now sjhe’s with God. IN THE CROWDED funeral home there were many friends of our family. I should like to name them, but space here doesn’t permit. But the pallbear ers were friends of the family, particularly my son’s family. They included Dan Finger, electrical contractor, Glee E. Bridges, hardware merchant, W. S. Fulton, department store own er, R. S. Suber, textile executive, George H. Mauney, head of the Mauney Cotton Mills, and Grady Howard, administrator of the Kings Mountain Hospital where Mother was when she left me and went home to God. There is a word of grief the sounding token; There is a word bejeweled with bright tears. The saddest word loving lips have ever spoken; A little word that breaks the chain of years; It’s utterance must ever brine emotion, The memories its cannot dye, 'TIs known in every land, on every ocean — Tis called the last "Goodbye.” expression, for the habit of ac tion; for the art of assuming at a moment’s notice a new intel lectual position, for the habit of subniittLng to censure and re futation; for the art of entering quickly into another person’s thoughts, for the art of indicat ing assent or dissent in gradu ated terms, for the habit of re garding sniiall points of accur acy; for the art of working out what is possible in a given time; for taste, for discrimination, for mental ciaurage and 'mental so berness; Circa 1850. Chapel Hill Weekly. GRADUAL ESCALATION This has all been said a hun dred times before, but it must be repeatd time and time again until foolish illusions are dis- Soviet Union againsat all the pelled. With the support of China and the backing of the Soviet Union, Ho Chl-minh does not want to end the war. He wants to win it. He is not only a nat ionalist caring for his people, he is a coinvinced communist of a radical kind. He belives in war as the means of building a class less society all over the world Sonntagsblatt (Hamburg) 'Bud Collyer, like so many oth ers who have similarly changed, planned to be a lawyer like his father. He did graduate from Foixlham University and went to work for a law firm where he recalls, “I was working for a fast 15 dollars a week and desk space.” But show business beck oned and he switched from pon derous tomes to upright micro phones as a radio actor and an nouncer. Finally he began to have larger roles and when television came along, he was one of the first to work in this new medi- am, partly because of his looks and genial style. Now he is one of the leading masters of cere mony in the business, with "Beat the Clock,” “Break the Bank” and “To 'Tell the Truth” to his credit. Oddly enough, off-stage Bud Collyer is superintendent of the Sunday School and a teach er in the First Presbyterian Church of Greenwich, Oonnecti- cut. I Although we hate to see mem orable old buildings igo, some of them should, says Roger Starr in Horizon magazine. This ap plies particularly to New York where many of the historic .and sentimental landmiarks stand on fabulously valuable ^ropbrty. crystals 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events taken from the J9S6 fU^ of the Kings Mountain Herald. Mr. and Mrs. Jay Harrington Jssiimed managerial duties at Kings Mountain Country Qub Monday. Deadline for Cleveland Coun ty termers to soil bank their 1957 wheat crop, originally set ifor Fri day, has been extended to Octo ber 5th, Ralph flarrlll, county ASC numager, said thia week. Last week’s ©ethware Fair broke all previous records. In cluding attendance, gross re ceipts, quanOty of e.xhlblts and ;he|qt)|e^8e. This wff the report tree.j«f Myeiw Hambright, fair man^ eryjoger. . KEEPYOURRADIODIALSETAT 1220 WKM Kings Mountain, N. (!. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between COF run< is M Mci will aims War who and conf wert the loan whic Eigh Iron: men cionf anm Byre =nn ”11 man yard (juai and His shot. Me 3(i-0 up i toss- pare win' diun seas forei tavo boyf coac