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l^age 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, October 6, 1966 ^ Mil Sgt«Ul8hed 1889 The Kings Mountain Heiald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the "onefal welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by tire Herald ^blUhinf House. Entered as second class matter at the post blfice at Kihg^Hbuhtain, 28086 undar Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITOMAL DEMarMENT • Martin Harmon ^^i Editor-Publisher Gary Stewart. .... Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart .; Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Lynda Hardin Clerk Bobby Bolin Paul Jackson MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Date Weathers Allen Mj-ers Dave Weathers, Jr. SlflMCRlPTlON RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY bL\lL ANYWHEPE ONE YEAR .. $3.50 SIX MC«4THS .. $2.00 — THiffiB MONTHS .. $1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROUNA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER ~ 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE For thou has girded me xoith strength into the battle: thou hast subdued under me tltose that rose up agains me. Paalth 18:39. Why The Celdbraiion? Kings Mountain became an incor porated town in the State of North Carolina in February 1874. Three years previously, when a United States postoffice was establish ed here — incident to the building of what is now the Southern Railway—the town was named Kings Mountain, at the wish of the widow of Dr. Tracy, who replied in that manner to suggestions that the community name honor the honored country doctor. Undoubtedly, Mrs. Tracy was mind ful of the historical battle of October 7, 1780, fought to the south on the ridge called King’s Mountain, and which was a key engagement leading to indepen dence of the colonies from Great Brit ain. Some profess a disinterest in his tory. But the fact that 276,000 and more persons had visited the Kings Mountain National Military Park during 1966 through the Labor Day holiday indi cates the great and abiding interest many others hold for historical shrines, military and otherwise. It is fitting that the city which bears the honor^ name Kings Mountain celebrate that historical event. It has been a decade at least since the Battle of Kings Mountain pageant was presented at the park. Yet inquiries are still received on dates of this non- extant event which citizens still wish to see. The deeper reason for the celebra- Ition is to learn from our forebear^ at Kings Mountain the bravery and spirit with which they fought for freedom. Freedom is an abstract, which in practice can be wlll-o-the-wisp, interna tionally and/or domestically. Constant guarding of the freedoms sought by our forefathers as expressed in the Declara tion of Independence and declared in the Constitution of the United States is imperative. That's why the celebration. Moke It Unilorm Hard-pressed city and county gov ernments, seeking in sources of revenue and finding themselves at seeming top limits of ad valoren taxes, utilities fees, etc,, are seeking help by permission to levy a local level sales tax. While soihe object to the legal liquor double standard, whereby some counties are “dry” and others “wet” the situation here is manageable. But a hodge-podge of local sales taxes, with some cities and/or counties charging a retail sajes tax and others not charging would be maudlin. How would cities and counties divide the takeT How would the merchant in the taxing county enjoy his competition with merchants in non-taxing counties? State TVeasurer Edwin Gill, who op poses any new taxes with a $150 million surplus in view, figures the state might be able to squeeze out some other re bates to the cities, such as is done from the highway fund via the Powell Bill. There is also a suspicion that the cities in trouble with high bonded debt need to practice some belt-tightening for at least a short term period, until its fiscal structure is in better repair. TbsI Of Policing Police work is much like a navy chief once described life in the armed services. He declared, “Life In the serv ice means long periods of boredom, punctured by moments of intense ex- citwnent” Indeed, there is much of the routine in police wortc, as the soldier finds mu<& guard duty. Sometimes edme the moments of intense excitement, as the officers in ^icago, San Fran<^co, and other trou ble spots could quickly attest. Maintenance of order is a prime duty, but one of the principal duties — the arrest and apprehension of thieves and vandals ^is one of the most diffi cult. According to the statistics, the odda are on the thieves, for more crimes of this kind remain unsolved than are solved. This newspaper would not presume to decide the guilt or innocence, in spite of the alleged eemfessions, of the four young men arrested recently for a good ly portion of a wave of breaking-and- enterings, thefts and vandalisms. the means of their apprehen sion looks good: it was a cooperaUve effort between city police and sheriff’s deputies. It is a safe wager that news of ar rests for Climes of this type is among the better deterrents. Would-be thieves tend to mark a “tough town” and to give such towns a wide berth for easier pick ings. UniYenily Status Eastern North Carolinians are the acknowledged expert politicians of the state. They tend to dominate the decisions of the General Assembly. Thus one of the more interesting issues upcoming in the 1967 General As sembly session is the quest of Eastern Carolina College for University status. This college, at Greenville, North Carolina, has shown amazing growth since World War n and enrolls more stu dents now than the venerable ex-wom en’s branch of the Greater University at Greensboro. Why and why not? There are objections that Eastern C^lina is deficient in some depart ments (science being mentioned). There are other objections that Eastern Caro lina’s promoters want to operate out side the Greater University system. But these promoters are hard at work. Football weekends make a good time for promoting and periodically this football season state legislators and legislative nominees are viewing East ern Carolina games the SD-yard line, touring the campus and l^ing wined and dined. Sixty-one House votes and 26 Sen ate votes will be required for Eastern Carolina to become Eastern Carolina University. Many are quietly betting the necessary totals will be recorded. Companies, many of them, luebrd sales and record earnings, and ‘oymeftt lit the, nation at 3.9 peiv the available woit force is at a low. Yjf the Rtook market nmage pnAgta te a new mw for j4Er. Doesn’t maiii| aehse- MARTIN'S MEDICINE Ingredients: Mts of news, \msdo7n, humor, and eornments Directions: Take weekly if possible, hilt avoid of^r dosage: nobody here but us prisoners." By MARTIN HARMON On basis of activities to date and those planned continuing through the weekend. Kings' Mountain’s 186th Battle of Kings Mountain anniversary celebra tion will rank with famous cele brations of the past, ” including tlie centennial of 18^, the cele bration of 1912 when William Jennings Bryan made the prin- j^pal address, the celebration of, 1^23, the sesqui-centennial of 1930 and, of course, the 185th celebration last year. m-sa I and others never cease to be amazed by the considerable de tail of history available on the Battle of Kings Mountain. Each year facts come to light which had not been previously known, fli-aa Sunday’s Charlotte Observer feature related that Major Pat rick Ferguson had two mistress es. Park Historian Frank Pride- more confirms, adding, “They were both red-headed and both named Virginia.” Virginia Sal was killed by a stray bullet early in the battle. Virginia Paul was captured, was returned to the British in a prisoner exchange in what is now West Virginia. She was captured again at the seige of Yorktown, where the War end ed. Mr. Hunter Patterson remarked at the Monday morning opening ceremonies that the name of Arthur Patterson, Sr., killed in the battle, appears on the list of Whig dead on the national mon ument and that this Patterson was a forebear of the present- day Patterson families. There were three other Pattersons on the Whig side, ail of whom lived Viewpoints of Other Editors ^PROTOCOL .OP DBESS One of ouur colleagues fells us that you have tb g6 to Ethiopia or Colombia these days If you care for strict enforcement of the protocol of dress. He »ays In the area near the battlefield.!?’^* ^ turned up. In a Arthur Patterson, Jr., and Wlll-t'^’^ business suit to fUm the lam Patterson were captured A*’*' Ferguson’s forces before the bat- advance apology at am- tle and both escaped unharmed. 1 I was ^needed to Thomas Patterson was captured I apparently in ap- during the battle, and when the from beihg in terpreted as an affrortt to the Emperor. The proprieties an4 THE EATING OUT HABIT ' HUMAN COMPUTER Our lavbrite computer story SO THIS IS kf NEW YORK By NORTH CALLAHAN The history professor stood on the street comer as a storm of rioting' broke around him. Bot tles flew In eveiy direction, some of, them coming close to him. But he did not flinch, just stood calm, straight and tall with a deterthined thrust to his chin. Ro(^s thixnvn by young hood lums whisaed over his head and he did not move. Even some of the youths taking part in the modern - stylo fracas began to notice the frail but firm figure as he seemeti unmoved. Then a brick was hurtled from a roof top and just missed his head. A youth stopped, open-mouthed •and cusked him why he stood there. So that all around could hear, the professor replied, “In the words of President John son —■ Andrew Johnson, that is — when some one shot at him and almost hit him while mak ing a speech, ‘These eyes have never seen the man of whom this heart is afraid’ ’’. About five years ago there sprang up a rash of roimd ta- Ues devoted to the centennial of the Civil War Between the States. Groups of energetic men soon to be augmented by vl- vadoua women — sprang Into action dedicated to observing the hundredth anniversary of the greatest conflict in our nation’s internal history. Thousands of speeches were made, some of them good, terns of tough chick en A la king with Its dvic dub accompaniments were consumed, endless toasts were drunk to Eating out is * growing Ameri can pastime. The quarters peo-j h** 4 very small scientist otand-j both the Blue and Gray, and pie spend for hot dogs, plus the w befpre a vety large compu-1 dignified tjJ lA books tomomentocs of the "Con- jw -which is .exi^rgitating tape. porce'* were sold dollars they pay for cafeteria trayfuls, plus the big bills th^ peel off for thjee-incdi straks at the Red lantern Grill add up to -around $20 billion a year, ac cording to a Department of Ag riculture estimate. More and more families are Tories were looking in another direction, he made a bold dash for the Whig lines, making con tact with Colonel Isaac Shelby’s forces. He picked up a wounded Mountaineer’s rifle and “fought bravely until victory was pro- tlafmed”. ‘ m-a> ' Sunday’s Observer story also provided my first knowledge that the battleground was previously a deer hunter’s camp and Friend Pridemore adds the information that Major William Chronicle I that home of etiquette an d and two other officers on the 1 pageantry, the fonntlities of Whig side had built the camp.i dress are being lamentably erod- “They knew every tree on the ed. (The mlacWevdus rnight say ridge,’’ Frank adda |that Britons are 1 becoming the ■■•■a I sans-culottes of . this, age.) One of my forebears in the bat- Tte tape reads: “Coglto ergo siun” ("I think, therefore I anv”) We have always been on the side of the very small sci- entlet, and thought that com puter more than usually wrmig- eating out, and this is a trend j scientist not to be deplored. Home cook-1 ■orotocol demanded It seems a 1 ’”8 ** practice of 1 reassufian^ of his col- cutaway \rith striped trousere--^ gathering round the dining-room Iwgtte from the philosophy fa- werior T hum3?touwS family, culty to tall him that his com- — • . But ever more homemakers work 1 puter does not think and there- outside the home, and fewer and The same colleague was in Bogota recently for the Inaug uration of president LJeras Res- trepo. And apparently , in Co lombia, too, 'the cutaway and stripped trouaers are'the minh mum requirwnent if otie is to be in the preridential presence in an official capacity on a cere^ moniid occasion. But Britain, fore is n^t. The conation man, though^ may find it condoling to leam from the British Assoriatkm proceed ings that the human brain may be ocnnpvtlng as many as a thousand million bits of stored I information in a second — fast tie was Captain Samuel Espeyjl What else couW explain such risen-faster than all other items who was in Graham’s regiment.! *h anguished;«ry as lyent up to “ Colonel Graham was riot at the ^rrespaidende columns qf fewer paid cooks are available. 'The, working wife enjoys being taken with her family to a res* taurant now and then and serv ed In style, with no dishes to wash afterward. 'The children love to eat at drive-ins. And father likes a good broiled res taurant steak on occasion. B\it can all families who dint, _ .. , , out frequently actually affo^ the faetest electronic what they spend in terms of value received? Well-served rest aurant meals come high these days. The cost of eating out has to a participating public. Now that the centennial is over, some of the round tabk» linger on, impelled by social reasons mainly, since as some <uie said, there is little left to discuss ex cept what was in General Lee’s pockets at Appomattox. But out of the idea has grown a newer one, that of American Revolu tion Round Tables, the original one being formed in New York at historic Praunces Tavern, Broad ic Pearl Streets, where Washington said farewell to his officers. These "colonial confr- era” are growing in number and chapters bring formed from coast to coast. Utey will help comraemorate the 200th anni versary of the War for our in dependence. battle, as his wife was at the point of death, and Major Chron icle commanded until he was killed. m-a Though lasting only 65 min- the Times thC other day?’’ “Now that the dlrectfoit' 'Blarit Tie’ or ‘White ’He'' has bi^ih^ almost unneoeasariy on fctfriial lnvit4- tlons,” wrote a gentleman from Wokiitg In'Surrey,. 'IriSy I .sug- utes. Kings Mountain was one of * ihe bloodiest battles of the war. lYie mountain men, angered by Ferguson’s threats, recruited as they marched. It was a case of. “join up or else”. According to Frank, those who declined were summarily shot aa*a Draper’s history records that four Goforth brothers fOught in the battle, Preston Goforth, the immediate forebear of R. D., Mar* vin. Hall and Joe Goforth, on the Whig side, John and two others urmamed on the Tory side. All four lost their lives. Draper quotes Cril. Shelby as his sourd directive on t)^ leagtH of gown. 'This would MVg nnich furtive questioning and triephbning hy badgered hqsbands a trionth or so before foimai odcasldns.’* Our only reBecrioa ,!• how en viable la the poritkm df .those Indian i husbands': *'(Vbpse';. wives wear sariS.. i psfmapa' IHw may be sonlrihing^ el^ Yor their wives to badgtfr 1h«n, i«hiout — or to make .them furU've. . Christian Science 'ftohifor ' GAMESliANSKlP Like- the ImM ;hoop; ti>e coon- ^ _ sWn cap and the yo-yo of old, k”£*^**«**^?u■ supermaricet,games • of chance CotcUng It Harold Howe n has been on the f riddle and a hot one this week as a louse of Representatives committee took him to task for being over-zealous in his drawing of gui^Unes' relating to school racial desegregation under the 1964 civil rights act. Some of the charges were less tem perate. South Carolina’s L. Mendel Rivers eaid, “Some of us refer to him as the Comissar of Education.’’ Howe’s official title is “commissioner”. While a major portion of the heat was applied by Southerners, Representa tives from other areas applied some fire, too. The Washington folk In the bureaus seem to have a difficult time under standing practical school j^blems in the hinterlands. I^bbatlcaw in school l^inistratiOR for r RtaoA ftiS tb(m Inoe dopsi^- is buried in the old Goforth fam ily ocfiMtery across from Mar vin’* home south of U. S. 74. Folklore has it Preston Goforth’s wife hitched a team to a sled, drove to the battlefield and re- trleved her husband’s body for burial. as-a Frank Pridemore regards the Battle of Kings Mountain as urUque in that more officers were casualties than men. In that day, Frank notes, the com manding officer’s place was at the head of his troops. By states represented, Virginia recorded the most casualties. m-ai Purpose of the celebration. Mayor John Henry Moss aptly noted at opening ceremonies -Monday, is to rekindle the a|rtrit of patriotism that fired the Mountain Men of 1780 to help us better manage the problems lacing us at home and abroad today. m-m TTtUs the celebrations past and present. Mrs. Frank Summer* says sJi^ remembers well the 1912 event Bryan, three times unsuccessful in bids for the prosldency, spoke at Parker’s Grove. But her memory la more stimulated by her dress for the have been'sweeping the country, Children are exdted by the proepeet Of imheand-of richee, and at least one mother in this area now makes five trlpa to the supermarket where one would suffice just to get more cash register receipts and ,a better drance of winning one of those cash priaw. Games, trading stamps and other devices used by atlpermar ket chains to lure customers away from the competition nesd not result in any net gain for the consinner. Someone must bear the added costa either the consumer through somewhat lower profits. Just where the in cidence —• whlrii it not unlike -that at a tax — falls depends very much on the state of the food morkeu in gemiiri and the competitive position of a pari ticular supermarket. Because of their episodic character, as well as for other reasons, Supernmr- ket games are less costly than trading stamp*. But vriiere a chain adds the games to an ex isting trading - stamp program, the costs will mount. There are critics who Insist that cash prize* and stnercfiandise premiums should net -be part of the business of selling groceries. on the consumer price index, aC- (Wdirig to the United States De partment of Agriculture’s re search service.. Some families may not he. awarq of thl* and may be spend ing a larger share of their in- ccttne on food than they intend. However, if they feel the meal away frmri home Is a form of entertainment (as It often Is) they can put it on their recrea tion budget. Then it is up to them to decide whether the sum would be better spent on some other’ form , of leisure tima activity. Bdkora.of the Farm Index, a Departiriertt of Agriciilture pub lication, think peo)^ will coi)*; tinue to turn their backs on their kitchen* and dine In town iri creasingly. 'tliey predict a 75 per cent increase in the nation’s annual restaurant bili in a' dec ade. C4uses; more working Wives, more snacking teen-agers, more old people living alone and not wanting to cook; and just more people. We hope it will be poarible, as demand rises, for the restaurant Industry to keep prices from bouncing still higher up ward. — The Christian Science Monitor oomputer*. Most people will hard ly teei that their brains are performing as well as that, or that the storage capacity of one Privately - owned shops sell ing voodoo supplies have been around New York for over a centtoy, but recently the com missioner of markets discovered that the city-owned retail mar- ceed that of all the electronic computes In the world. If this is indeed go, it is a blstfslng that few of us suffer from toul or iristiutt recall. What a lumber room forgetfulness hap- conceala One occasionally human inerobry can really ex- ketplaces had become centers j ... ..L '"'for voodoo dealers. Mixed in with the fish and cheese stalls, and often hidden behind piles of religious statues, books and trinkets, the commissioner found bottles of bats’ blood and a few dream books, all-purpose witch kits and hundreds of red, death- unto-my-enemy hexing candles inscribed with prayers of hate and Spanish curses. ’The sur prised official announced with some grimnes* that voodoo had become a thriving industry, with the sale of such Items amount ing to more than two million dollars a year. pily he«rs of prodlfibos memories, 6ut they do not ahvayg seem to- have been maA asa 'There wse, for example, the don wim cOuld not help but mem orize everything he read so that he eocS/d be tested and found word porfect at dinner on all he had read in the newspapers at breaWfori. An agreeable man, hr would jOsp*-alas, have earned eqiloe’a rebuke a* ramote and ineffectual. Ihe rriative Inade- 'quacy d! oomputers, it is mag geated, -.may be because we do not yet know hovy to programme them. But mleht that not ex lain the shbncomlng of our 10 TEARS AGO t be lodged’’agaliwt 'dsfulM for dressed in high ftUflliOd.” THIS WEEK [/Zem* of news about Kings JfoMifom area people and levants taken from the I9se [files of the Kings Mountain [ fferald. Foote Mineral Company in- (ermed Its Kings Mountain em ployees this week it is raising pay rates six cents per hoar ef fective October 1 and ia also providing company-paid sick- ties* and accident insurance cov' erage for all emiribyecs. . The rW anniversary of the Battle ot Kings Mountain will be celebrated Sunday adtemoon at Kings Mountain National Military Park ammphltheatre. George H. Mauney is serving as chairman of the aiutual Girl Scout fund campaign in Kings Mountain. Bodai and Personal Miss Patricia Marlene Hendcr- Ma tweatne the brid# of James DMMM Tait Sunday afternoon OR iffSteriS in First Baptlaf Here and 'There: a 70-year-old man when daught taking Lydia Pinkhams Tonic and told it was for female trouble, said he had plenty of that ... an Indian was asked what we* wrong with the world and he said, Ugh, everybody smoke pipe of peace, ihs? — fke Manchesterlhut nobody inhale." Ouardktn WeiMv ' KEEPYOUBBADIODIALSETAT 1220 WKMT Bags Mountain, N. C. N«W8 & Weather eTery hour oil the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fhie entertainment in between r4V
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