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Page 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday. January 25. 1968 EstcAlishad 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and pubKahed 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.. 29066 under Aet of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Mi.ss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Joe Cornwell Sports Editor Miss Linda Hardin Clerk MECHANICAL UEPARTMEN*' Fred Oell Dave Weathers, Supt. ‘Allen Myers Patti Jackson Bojoy Stroupe Roger Brown Rocky Marthi *On leave with the United States Army SURSCBIPTION RATEsl»AyABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERe' ONE YEAP ,. $3.50 SIX MONTHS .. $2.00 THREE MONTHS .. $1JB PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VeWe For mine, eym have seen thy salvation. MARTIN'S MEDICINE Ingredients: bits of netos, uHsdom, humor, and comments Directions: Take weehly if possible, but avoid overdosage. St. Luke Time and Bigness Big projects require time and mo.st folk are inbred with impatience. Case in point: This week the Herald delved into ' last January’s files to glean an item from the January 26 edition. The two major ■ news reports were headlined: “Cansler Street Improvement Is Approved by City Board” and “Buffalo Watershed Study Requested”, the latter being accompanied , by first-time publication of the map de tailing the lake impoundment area. t 't. , Today’s edition, just 364 days later, contains two news reports on the same subjects: the enheartening report of the ' $450,000 grant to aid the project the vot ers approved, and announcement that public hearing on the Cansler street pro- ject will be held here February 2. ‘, In a w ay, the Herald may under- r.stand this fact of life more than some, i though not more than governmental of ficials, engineers, architects, medical ^ and pharmacological researchers, indeed researchers of all kinds. ' The Herald’s lessons have ‘been •. learned from observation over the’year.^. An editorial position in support of something the paper considers worth- while often generates a reaction which ■>',» shows simply that the editor has fallen . j on his face. Maybe two, five, ten or more years later the idea of yesteryear be- comes reality. , How long did area school consolida- i tion require? •. And the Buffalo Creek water project ^ is now 13 years old, recommended then ’ and since, and 18 months from fruition. w r- Life, indeed, is shoi't. * It was phrased better by a late citi- 't zen on her ninetieth birthday, “It’s been such a short time.” Hail and Farewell It may, or may not occur again, but Richard E. Maxey is the first of 14 henor- ees to have officially (by two days) left the city just as he. was tapped for the Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Com merce Young Man of the Year award for distinguished service. Nor may it happen again that a Kings Mountain honoree wins the honor for a second time. Mr. Maxey first w'on the award as a Hickory citizen. When he came here two years ago to manage the newest branch of First Citizens Bank & Trust Company, no gears slipped. Mr. Maxey continued here the tack he’d followed in Hickory. His imprint on Kings Mountain was considerable. He melded quickly into the commu nity scene, accepting a variety of tasks of religious and civic character which would stagger the average man, mean time completing a combination corres pondence-on scene banking course (with honors) at Louisiana State University, and still finding time to contest with the boys on the golf links. He quickly put helft to the city’s application for a neighborhood facilities building by obtaining an architect and presenting a set of plans for which a fed eral grant of $302,500 has been approved. He showed courage by accepting the ' leadership of the controversial liquor election issue in which most decisions were made from the heart and its emo tions, not from the brain and its hoped- for logic. He managed the bank, and well, it can be assumed, by his transfer to a larg er situation in the First Citizen family. In conveying congratulations, the community wishes him all that is good in the “Land of the Sky”. 1 USS Pueblo The effrontery of the North Koreans in pirating a vessel of the United States navy in international waters angered the nation. Such an event had not happened since 1862, during a declared war, when a frigate was captured by the Confeder ates. The hotter-headed wanted an imme diate declaration of war. The Administration (to date) is less hot-headed and wisely. The hopeful interpretation is that the North Vietnamese, like a weakening boxer, is hanging on the ropes and hop ing for the end of the round, with the North Korean by-play a knockout delay ing clinch. It could be another way around, with the United States the diversionist — to encourage a diversion of China’s supplies to North Korea and away from North Vietnam, already sorely beset by bomb ing raids which destroy needed supplies and cut roads, bridges and other lines of physical communication. There is confidence North Korea will retui-n ship and men without a shot being fired and via customary diplomatic channels. Perhaps that is wishful thinking, too. But four or five days, or longer, could do no more damage than has been done. There are some questions, though, man-in-the-street, particularly if he has worn navy blue in a shooting war pon ders: Why was Pueblo’s arms limited to a pair of 50-caliber machine guns, replaced by the 20-caliber Oerliken as quickly as they could be supplied in World War II, and then with 4()-millimeter pom-poms? Why did Pueblo not turn tail and run for it when the first patrol boat threatened? Why did virtually un-armed Pueblo have no e.scort, a couple of tin cans and/ or a submarine or two? Best news to date of the whole inci dent is that USS Enterprise, the big namesake of the World War II heroine, is taking station at the same spot Pueblo was boarded, in effect inviting, “Come take me to Wonsan.” Congratulations to Carl F. Mauney, elected president of Lake Montonia Club. It’s a re-run for Mr. Mauney, a compli ment on his previous service. Broughton Pitch J. Melville Broughton, Jr., candidate for the Democratic nomination for gov ernor, has advanced, four-square, a plat form pitch sure to generate sympathy and perhaps support from many. Says Mr. Broughton, he wants all of the state’s primary roads to be four-lane models a la 1-85 and portions of U. S. 74 w’ith which citizens in this area are most familiar. We doubt anyone could bring off this idea in the course of a four-year term as the state’s chief executive, but his tenure as chairman of the State High way Commission during the Hodges Ad ministration was marked with marked road-building progress. His statement leaves no doubt he’d be caught trying. Many Kings Mountain folk who didn’t like Highway Director Bill Bab cock’s recent statement that the US 74 by-pass of Kings Mountain is five years distant will stand up and cheer and may be drop in a Broughton vote, too. Congratulations to Avery (Mack) Murray, who will be installed as presi dent of Woodman of the World Camp 15 Thursday night. Bt martin HARMON For over a month now, the ef forts of heart surgeons in South Africa, New York and Stanford, Calif., have excited the world, giving hope to heart patients the world over as well as their kin and friends. jOne who was excited was Lib by Owensby, ninth grade English student of my across-thestreet neighbor, Mrs. Milton Singletary. m-m Libby expressed her feelings in verse, parodying Poet Robert Burns’ "My Heart’s in the High lands”. Libby’s poem is entitled, “My Heart’s in South Africa”. It reads: I m-m "My heart’s in South Africa, on the operating table; “My heart’s in South Africa. making some men able; "Beating as usual, though my body may not, “My heart’s in South Africa, even though I’m not. “Farewell to my body, farewell to my brain, “It -worked me so hard, but it was all in vain; “Wherever I go. I’ll always know, “My heart’s making someone else’s go, go, go." SFTING WHEAT FROM CHAFF •-dJ N.C. V'OTER^ \ <5 1968 ettctioi '/'CT’ I meant to use the poem in this space a couple of week’s ago. It didn’t fit the immediate theme and I’m glad it didn’t. With Lib by’s theme, I think the fact that Dr. Phillip Bleiberg, the South African dentist, not only surviv ing but doing push-ups, the poem is more timely now. All pray Dr. Bleiberg, a heart patient for 13 years, will, for many -years, be living proof of this break-through in heart sur gery. m-m If it had been published before, I had m’ssed it. But^ Wednesday morning’s Bleiberg condition re port, added the sad and for him. eruBhing fact that his son’s sui cide nine years ago, ended his recuperation from a coronary at tack of four years previously. He had been recuperating and prac ticing his dental profession. I Viewpoints of Other Editors YOUR MONEY BEHIND A CLOSED DOOR Sooner or later, conscientious Tar Heels are going to demarid a better way of appropriating their $2.73 billion than is now oarried out in th-:- su,'«r-serret Joint Appropriations Sub-CuiTunit- tee composed of :20 Representa- THE NEW STUDENT Without doubt the parental generation which is putting the youthful generation through col lege and university today would like , to understand the mind of modern youth better. Chancellor J. D. Williams of the University of Mississippi, speaking to the SO THIS IS NEW YORK By NORTH CALLAHAS With the passing of the old year go two relics of a more gold en day which will be long and warmly remembered by those of us who enjoyed them. They are: the 'Twentieth Century Limited and the Broadway Limited trains, once the finest on their respec tive railroads. The word “Limit ed” in their familiar names seems to have been appropriate, for their days were limited by transportation progress that is of questionable happiness. Because many would believe that while we now travel faster it Is not as much fun. And between New York and Chicago there must have been many a misty eye at hearing the news that these two institutions on wheels were no longer to grace the route and emphasize it by blowing .their whistles along the picturesque journey. The Broadway Limited was the pride of the Pennsylvania Rail road for 65 years, and then was recently retired as are humans usually at about the .same age. A new train will carry the same name but it will be a coach and sleeper one, not the entirely first class and luxurious carrier that its proud predecessor was. As some one commented, “Another symbol of luxurious and leisure ly travel has fallen under the pressure of high-speed jet air service." And ironically this is happening just as the new Penn.sylvania Railroad station here is being completed. tives and 10 Senators. TTiis | Memphis Rotary Club (recently) holds life-and-death control over tip,. your tax money. We were brought face-to-face with "the System” last week in trying to determine what hap pened to $43,(XX) which was to have been appropriated to the He cited three “new student" 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items oj news about Kings Mountain area people and events taken from the 1957 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. By a striking coincidence, the Twentieth Century Limited of the New York Central Railroad be gan its service at the same time as the Broadway Limited, on June 15, 1902. For this long life span, it was known to many as the world's greatest train, main taining fast, overnight service between New York and Chicago over a different route. Through StaTe "Go:;d“"SJ;rcounc^;|0-Vf*’ 'iMhe^caZusInS There was so rnuch seer^y that | wanU^ocontroJ rite cam two members of the sub-commit- J. Ollie Harris of Kings Moun- types on campus’ (1) The young tain and Charles Harry of Gro- ^ u.nvic.n ,uuiw. hhuukh man who respects university au-] ver have been named co-chair-j (^p railroad claims the stopping thcrity but wants rnore freedom - men of the Cleveland County Igj gg jg chapter of the National Founda-1 jgpj^ qj money, there was a time tion for Infantile Paralysis. . about forty years ago when it in s*udent publications and stu- tee — also member^ of the Good Neighbor Council—didn’t even know what happened. They thought the money had been ap proved, but when the budget was unveil^, it was not there—sort ' of like a magician’s trick. The committee approved $75,- (3) those m the middle. What is interesting is that Dr. Williams did not list a campus type we recall from past years— the college man who scorned edu cation, lived for pleasure only, and who moved on to another school when he flunked out. We hear of the dropout today, but Carl Preston Finger, 37, Kings Mountain native and laundryman, has: been appointed to the board of Cleveland County commission ers to fill the unexpired'term of I not ion; was the biggest money maker, taking in about ten million dol lars in 1928. By way of contrast,^^ this luxury train arrived herc^H ago with fewer passen-^R the late Hazel Bumgardner. Igers than crew aboard SOCIAL AND PERSONAL \ Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Mauney and Mrs. J. B. Simpson attended The service on this crack train the atmual meeting Tuesday and, was designed to be equal to that Wednesday of United Church I on the great ocean liners, another The late Dr. J. E. Anthony, in his usual succinct manner, made this statement over ten years ago. It was suggested that he probably had treated as many patients with emotional ills as with phy sical ills. The one-word answer, “More.” A group of Lions, after ’Tues day night’s gathering, were ask ing their fellow Dr. George Plonk about the heart transplant busi ness. George allowed he'd be in no hurry to say “yes” to a heart transplant. He said, “They’d have to convince me pretty strongly that there was no other choice.” Then he averred a patient likely convinces himself, if he has suf- (X)Ofora^elteroveraConfcd.|not so m^h ab^ttheper^ial c;nurcn - ...e cun nners. ano.ner erate gunboat m ^nate chair- famng student. This is a hopeful Carolina; passing relic. For this train, there I what Dr Williams savs a- Council of Churches in session in ’ was begun the first red cap por- High Point. Mrs. Hugh A. Logan, Jr. enter- Kinston and okayed $60,0()0 to| And what Dr. Williams says a compile a Confederate roster, but bout students also is encouraging. could manage only $23,(X)0 for a; Authority, it seems, still holds , ,u , race relations agency that has | respect in al but extrernist quar-1 tained memb^s of the Contract done more to k^p down strife ters. After all, most college stu-1 Bridge club Tuesday night, in North Carolina than any other! dents want to learn, and hope to| j- single influence. Final decisions apply their learning in produc- ! has come down from the direc tive and profitable ways. —The Commercial Appeal (Mem- phis) on Confederate Money and others matters .were made behind closed doors and the b.udget was ram med through the General Assem bly so fast that many legislators didn’t know what had hit them. By digging further into the Champ Makes Liek Toad I tor of public welfare that depart- I mental contributions must be circumscribed. Food, clothing and attendants and expert chefs. TTie ! shelter—yes. Cheese cake—no ter service and a bright, red car pet was royally rolled out in Grand Central Station to meet the delighted eyes of boarding and incoming passengers. At the peak of its success, the train staff included a barber, manicurist, several .secretaries, valets, bath the same place Gov. Moore had to turn last year after the 1965 Appropriations Committee limit- ficient continuing pain ed the Council to $25,(XX) a year. " ' In order to get the Council es tablished as a statutory agency of the State government and to retain its name over the objec tions of Senator White, It is evi dent that there was give-and- Maybe Toad of Toad Hall was _ not so unusual after all as he Council cut, we learned that somej^^Qy^ about In his automobile money can be obtained from the ^ smashing into things. For the Contingency and Emergency Fund > hero gf Kenneth Grahame’s “The weakness. Nor does Dr. Plonk hope for him, nor anyone, that unhappy choice. He was asked about the size of the heart and its effects. He knew not, he said, but added there is today no time to defer. Now, he added, if they can get a calfs heart to work one could be grown to size and would be readily available. George addressed the Lions Club some years ago and I recall he labeled the three major de velopments in medicine during the past century as the develop ment of anesthetics (“the sur geon of prior years had to be a blood-thirsty butcher for his pa tients seldom survived”), the dis covery of penicillin and subse quent antl-biotics, and develop ment of the heart-lung machine. Wind in the Willows” has now been matched, if not outdone, by Champ. The latter is a two-year- old springer spaniel which re cently drove a station wagon squarely into the Fishers Island Coast Guard station all by him self. Of course, unlike Toad who Some 1(X) women engaged in easing the lot of Mecklenburg’s poor have been ordered to limit their largesse. Their skirts must reach their knee-caps. Clothes can be neither tight nor transparent. Blouses and dresses must not daringly dip. Not even toes may be uncovered. Henceforth, in short, welfare recipients will be hard put to distinguish between case worker and the Salvation Army la.ssie. Confusion aside, the new order is destined to prove disruptive of basicwelfa re goals. What greaet- himself handled all the gears of py. nmyocation for the imnov'er* take on the Council’s budget re- hb .‘exceptionally powerful mo- ished to splurge with public quest-mostly ’’take. tor-ear,” Champ merely slipped funds? Those accustomed nice- i,"*? which his master ties denied, a man must now ogle had apparently left running, xy qj. steer Cadillac to Trade and relations left much to be desired. It would not be surprising to see the state’s 250,000 Negro voters show their displeasure in the next election. And we don’t blame them. Their votes could deter mine «n election in this state, in cluding a number of seats in the General Assembly. —Marse Grant In The Biblical Recorder fastest locomotives in the world were used on the Twentieth Cen tury and passengers were promis ed a rebate if the train was late. Sometimes it travelled at .speeds of more than a hundred miles an hour. Dinner on the train then cost $1.50, which was a third more than the meal on regular trains. Going back into their mel lowed records, railroad officials point to names who rode this train that include William Jen nings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, Lillian Rus.scll, “Diamond Jim" Brady, J, P. Morgan and Enrico Caruso. It was a mark of some kind of i distinction to ride the Twentieth f _ - . . w. ^ o.—I Century Limited and such ores- Thereafter, his and Toad s cours- xryon to eye the action of af- tige lasted up until World War CLASS IN SESSION The cla«s in elementary eco nomics is in session. Professor: As you saw In the papers, living costs are rising faster than income. Do you know what that means? 1' Student; That means we’ll all But to more palatable medical I subjects. A Congressman has[ charged that many diet-pills, de signed to pare weight, are useless and he further charges some doc tors aren’t mean enough to rough oatients up on proper eating. Well, the patient must have coopera tion. m-m It wouldn’t work with some, like the girl Jim Anthony was serving when he was soda-jerk ing and the Saturday special was a ten-cent banana split. The cus tomer ate the split, summoned Ilm and order^ a chocolate walnut nut sundae. m-m "Glutton!”, Jim condemned, as he piled th^ eugared walnuts high. The customer is always right? es were much akin. Just as Toad’s roadcraft “devoured the | street and leapt forth on the high ' road,” so Champ’s is reported to have barely missed one flagpole, i crashed into another and nearly t driven into the ocean. i In the end Champ, of course, | fared better than did Toad. I Whereas the latter finally ended I “a helpless prisoner In the re-1 motest dungeon of the best- j guarded keep of the stoutest cas-; tie in all the length and breadth! of Merry England,” Champ, wej are told, merely landed in the doghouse. The only thing we do not know Is whether Champ, like Toad, "chanted as he flew." Somehow we doubt it.—Christian Science Monitor. fluenoe. —Greensboro Record II. P. No, that means the President now has a good argument for his to percent income tax increase. S. But wouldn’t that just make living costs all the higher and break us sooner? P. That is not the way to look at it. If prices are going up, it shows people have too much money to spend and some of it should be soaked up In taxes. S. How could they have too much money if they don’t have enough to keep up ^th prices? P. Oh, by the laws of economics the prices will come down when ^ the people don’t have so much j fare funds ig permitted to' make money to spend. | mistakes even as you and I. S. 'ITiat’ll be the day. And then [ It remains probable, however will the President give them that poverty dictates a degree of back that 10 percent? | deprivation which cries out for P. That, young man, is not a- remedy even St the risk of a tad question for me. Try Dr. Precinct of UcwiM. In political sdence down the' Over In Mecklenburg County, 1 h^U. The OtegoBlon. that thesis is disputed. The word AND THE POOR GET POORER There are, happily, no laws re quiring the poor to live by bread alone. 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