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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Thursday. February 29. 1968
Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Herald
Ji CtroliiM j
I AmcUTI
A wopljy newspaper devutecl 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 cla.ss 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
Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Joe Cornwell Sports Editor
.Miss Linda Hardin Clerk
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Go throiKjh, go through the gaten: i/re/Mre ye the vmy of the i>eoptc; cast up, cast up the high-
lean; gather out the stone,<; life up a standard for the people. Isaiah 62:10.
Is Limit Good?
The new social security law amend
ments adopted by Congress in 1967 raises
from !S1500 to $1680 the amount of total
earnings a social security beneficiary
may have in a calendar year without any
of his benefits being withheld.
Of course, a social security recipient
who was able and willing to work, for self
or others wont’s be, nor has been, penal
ized tor whatever earnings he may re-
reivc.
Now a person receiving benefits be
cause he is disabled will not be penalized.
But are the limits good business?
Most folk, accustomed to a lifetime
of labor, may continue to carp, as do
the more youthful, about “blue Monday”.
But few find it easy to retire grace
fully. They find they are surfeited quick
ly on fruition of those beautiful dreams
when work demanded they be deferred.
Fishing isn’t as inviting.
Everyone isn’t available anytime for
a golf game.
Even travel to distant lands and
exotic spas does not prove as enticing, in
fact, as in the brochures.
Most folk get a social security card
at 16, are in full-time employment by 18-
21. Retirement at 65 spells 44 to 47 years
of active work.
It’s hard to change the habit pat
terns for most.
Congress would do well to drop the
unlimited earnings provision to 65 for
all, or up the limit to $2280.
The idea of earning $1200 more dol
lars (up to $2880) and sacrificing $600
for over-earnings of social security re
cipients is rather stupid per se in other
wise insulting.
District Shorted
The 27th judicial district, created by
the General Assembly to implement in
December the new courts arrangement,
was shorted by the General Assembly in
its allocation of judges.
Five judges will prove undoubtedly
insufficient to handle the case load
(criminal cases, domestic relations cases,
and civil cases up to $5000) for the three-
county Cleveland - Gaston - Lincoln dis
trict.
Even with a two-yedr trial period in
some districts, there are still reserva
tions in some circles as to how the sys
tem, approved in theory, will work in
fact.
There is general agreement about
two improvements;
1) No longer will magistrates find
it necessary to find a defendant guilty in
order to collect the malcreant’s fee and
therefore eat. The magistrate will bo
paid a salary, based on case load. Fee
basis justice will be out.
2) The buffer court of appeals will
lift the heavy burden on the seven-mem
ber State Supreme Court.
But the 27th district will require
more jurists.
The population of the three counties
totals approximately 250,000 person.-;.
Hearty congratulations to Eddie
Floyd (the Herald inadvertently report
ed his name Eddie Lee) for finishing
among 200 finalists iij the Western North
Carolina scholastic ait award contest.
State Slates Set
Items:
2) Beginning with the top spot of
governor, where Jick Stickley and U. S.
Representative Jim Gardner are wooing
the voters, there are numerous other
GOP primaries. Three Republicans seek
the honor of challenging U. S. Senator
Sam J. Ervin, the incumbent Democrat.
Dr. Earl Ruth, the onetime Kings Moun
tain recreation director, who was finally
successful in changing his registration
from “D” to “R”, suddenly found him
self no shoo-in to oppose his former Uni
versity of North Carolina confrere Voit
Gilmore for U. S. Representative, but
with the immediate chore winning over
two other Republicans. One suggested
Dr. Ruth should have worked as an In
dian in GOP ranks before vying for Chief.
The phrase “wooing the voters” well
applies in the Stickley-Gardner doings.
Not only are they seeking votes from
Repuiblicans, but are quietly (Stickley)
or brashly (Gardner) suggesting tired-
of-it-all Democrats and Independents
move over to the Republican ranks.
(Many Democrats have received invita
tions from Mr. Gardner to contribute $100
to his campaign.)
The distaff side is tough.
Travel Boom
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
Ingredients: bits of news,
wisdom, humor, and comments
Directions: Take weekly if
possible, but avoid
overdosage.
By MARTIN HARMON
An I-eouldn’t-have-missed-lt at'
titude produced a quite interest'
ing convocation at Chapel Hill
over the weekend, as the Dally
Tar Heel invited stall members
of prior years to celebrate the
75th anniversary of the paper's
founding—by Charles Baskervillc
and Walter (Pete) Murphy—for
the purpose of making money to
buy uniforms for the poorly clad
football team.
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At noon on Friday, the secretary of
the state elections board closed the tloor
on would-be candidates for state, con
gressional district, and judicial district
offices.
One would-be candidate didn’t quite
rneet the deadline. He arrived with his
filing tee at 12:01, was told, “I’m sorry.”
The line-up is distinctive and con
siderable digging in the archives of the
state’s political historv will ——— •
to find a year in which another Niieri
there were 1) as many
didates for these office.s, and 2) as many
Republican primaries.
I Jimmy Wallace, a Cliapel Hill
travel agent and former staff
member, 'and journalism Profes
sion Walter Spearman, editog ’29,
were hosts at a party FTida'y
i evening and Jimmy told me that
j 65 of the 75 Tar Heel years were
represented by one or more staf
fers. Dr. Phillips Russell, editor
'03, who cubbed on the Charlotte
Observer, looked and talked just
as he did when he was purveying
30 y’ears ago to me and others
the prime three rules of good
writing: cle'arness, clearness,
clearness.
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LAST RITES FOR THE LAW
SO THIS IS
NEW YORK
By NORTH CALLABAN
The most frightening airplay 1
trip I ever took, outside of thos* I
in the Army in World Wat H
was from Jacksonville, Florida I
to New York in 1942. It was on
an Eastern Airlines plane and '
the pilot was Dick Merrill. It was
balmy, fall Florida weather when
we took off at 1 a.m. and I had
just settled back for a nap, wtien
it seemed we had struck a moun
tain. But it was c»ily a big air
pocket and the plane pulled out
of it. Then a storm arose alKivc
the Carolinas and the plane
would drop a hundred f€>et at a
time, then bounce and right it
self. Nearly every passenger was
ill, some were in the aisles pray
ing. It really seemed that we
would never weather that temp
est, and finally we put down in
Charleston, S. C. for the night.
Next day the weather was just
as rough, and when we landed
in New York, most of the pas^^^
gers vowed they would never
again.
It’s always a pleasure to renew
acquaintance and compare notes
with friends and to make new
friends, more especially if they’re
either former or present opera
tives in the newspapering craft
II question the designation "pro
fession”).
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p There will be Democrats vs. Re
publican contests for all state offices in
November, including the eight elective
positions unofficially labeled the “coun
cil of state”.
Principal last-minute surprise in the
Democratic field was the late filing for
lieutenant - governor nomination of Mrs.
James M. Harper, former president of
the state Federation of Women’s Clubs,
wife and aide-de-camp to her husband,
publisher of the Southport Pilot.
Pat Tayor, the early-announced can
didate, had punctured the trial balloons
of three major Democratic threats in the
persons of Ike Belk, Skipper Bowles and
Clifton Blue, meantime side-tracking yet
another major thereat, Voit Gilmore, to
Congressional candidacy.
This newspaper has been teased in
the past for closing a political resume
with the bromide "it’s be interesting to
watch.”
In Anno Domini 1968, the phrase
ain’t a bromide.
First memory test came as I
entered the Carolina Inn lobby.
The nice-looking gentleman ap
proached with, “You don’t re
member me but I'm ..." I beat
him to the draw: “You’re Rolfe
Neill.” Rolfe grew up in Moores-
ville, was a Tar Heel editor,
worked at the Charlotte Obser
ver, is now suburban editor of
the New York Daily News.
Rolfe’s wife Rosemary, native to
Clinton, was a parishioner of the
Rev. Aubrey Quackenbush, form
er Baptist minister here. My con
frere, Frank Holeman, who claim
ed his UNC diploma from Gover
nor Clyde Hoey immediately
after me, is the News’ assistant
to the executive editor, commutes
between Falls Church, Va., and
the Big City.
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Dinner was with the Neills,
Bob Morrison,
newspaperman.
Viewpoints of Other Editors
THE COMFORT CAN
GET EXPENSIVE
Men, they are sneaking
NEIGHBORHOOD SLIDING
j Today’s adults who cheer at
I the sound of the approaching
up onj snowplow with its chemical-
us. I spreader are yesterday’s children
I who never had it so good for
For years we have been start-] sliding. Before the days of snow
ing, half in awe and half in hor-l tires and snow rernoval techni-
ror, at the annual pronounce-! ques that render icy roads Into
ments from afar proclaiming ■ dry. bare highways, cars were
what women must wear to be in left home. Dad took the bus or
style this year.
Men were much too clever to
fall for that. Oh, we paid the
ladies’ bills which wasn’t so clev
er. But did we let ourselves get
caught in that fashion rat race?
Not on your life.
Occasionally, some smart pro
moter made a good thing out of
onetime Newton I lizard shoes or coats with no
Ed Yoder, Tar I laps. But you had to put on your
made do with shank’s mare. In
the meantime, the children hied
themselves to the neighborhood
hill.
10
YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
Items of news about Kings
mountain area people and
events taken from the 1957
files of the Kings Mountain
Herald.
Dick Meri'ill, now 73 and in re
tirement as chief pilot of Elastern
Airlines, wa.s honored here last
week at « luncheon of the Sales
Executive Club. A.s Arthur God
frey, the master of ceremonies,
pointed out, Merrill has spt'nt
about five years of his life in
the sky, or 41,709 hours and ele
ven minutes. Some of his 'worst
ones must have Iteen that flight
I was on. His flving time in
cludes a rescue hop to the Lincoln
Ellsworth Antarctic expedition
in 1935, pioner crossings of the
Atlantic in ig.Tf) and 1937 and 33
vears of routine and exciting ex
periences as a pilot. Merrill is
probably best known for his
flight across the Atlantic in a
single-engine plane in 1936 with
Harry Richmond, the entertainer.
(They returned within three
1 weeks, after two forced landings,
making the first round-trip cross-
Heel co-editor '56 former Rhodes-
scholar, Charlotte Observerman,
and now' of the Greensboro Daily
News, and Walt Dear, publisher
of the Henderson, Ky., Gleaner-
Beacon. Ed, like many of the
name, is native to Catawba coun
ty. Bob, I thought, was teaching
ioumalism at the University of
South Carolina. “Oh, no,” he re-
loined, “I have much better
scenery in my classes. I teach at
Winthrop." He’s also with a
Charlotte investment firm spe-
cKlizing in risk capital financin'?.
Walt Dear succeeds me as cham
Dion of the early bird arrivals
tor functions at Chapel Hill. My
wrife and I arrived a day early
three years ago. For the Tar
Heel party, Walt arrived one
week early, returned to Hender
son, then made the schedule.
Walt is son-in-law of the late
grandfather’s old suit before youi
really looked out of style. Andi
Then began the laying down of
the traditional rules. The long
est, steepest section down the
middle was reserved for the big
gest kids while the smaller ones
used the sides. The trek back up
was made in the gutter so that
feet digging in to climb, would
not mess up the hill’s smoothness.
If the neighborhood were lucky.
Annual fund campaign for thej ing by air. 40.000 ping pong balls
American Red Cross will get un- ] were stuffed into hollow sections
derway this week, Chairman Paul ■ of the wing and tail of the piano
Walker said Wednesday. Goal of! to give it more buoyancy in case
the campaign is $5625. | of a landing on water. This did
not occur, but it has been said
that Richmond became almost
uncontrollably fearful during tltq
flight. Merrill did crash aln
a year later, hut survived!
fc-els he has a charmed life-
even that could be put right with! jta hill would slope away from
a little cutting and sewing by a: Uj* gun prolonging its slide-
good tailor. 1 ability. Nevertheless, the best
But somewhere along the line Icarefully patched ev^
Compact school patrons will
petition the county board of edu
cation Monday asking for an
election on whether to abolish
the so-called split term schedule, j
Charlie Carpenter, former|
sports editor of the Kings Moun
tain Herald, has been name<i
"ommissioner for Area Four ini
the American Legion Junior Base-! thinks he has had
ball program for this summer, j H's not Dick Mer-
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL I ''Miami
' where he lives with his wife, the
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into the men’s fashion business.
Now, they’re exploiting a weak
ness. They keep bringing out
clothes that are comfortable.
So all of a sudden there is a
soft turtleneck sweater to wear
in place of that formal shirt
icy mittens
sleds.
When the hill was at its best.
Donna and Rhonda Cloninger,
twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Cloninger of Kings Moun-
former actress, Toby Wing, and
their son, Merrill slips out to the
'airport almost every day and
skis made from flat curtain rods l*’*'*^ second flies some sort of plane, though
worked fine. You bent a rod back
and forth to break it off about
four inches longer than your
shoe. Then you stepped on the
birthdays Friday, Feb. 28. I not the scheduled flights. He
Miss Norma Farr entertained i knows insirumont flying so well
Friday evening at a party fori that he is in demand to go along
with studs, cuff links and that rod, bent the excess up over the
starched fold the laundry keeps
putting in the wrong place across
the chest. Do we recognize this
sly maneuver for what it is? No.
We are all so busy thinking,
“Hey isn’t that great,” we are in
eight friends at
East King street.
her home on
toe and one was done. Repeat for
a pair.
But the piece de r&sistance was
the Whip or Rip, according to re
gional idiom. The toboggan of
sleds was scheduled for “When
It gets good and dark” because
Mrs. Carl F. Mauney entertain
ed Friday evening at a party at
her home on East King street at
a tea honoring her daughter-in-
law, Mrs. Charles Frederick Mau
ney, recent bride.
John Cannon, 'Who newspapered' duction. Once we stop thinking
grave danger of total fashion se-| parents were against it. Even in proof that man’s intelligence is
in Greensboro, Shelby and Forest
City. Walt and his bride had vis
ited the Herald on their wedding
trip.
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The before-Saturday-lunch ses
sion was held with Jonathan
Daniels, Tar Heel editor '22, edi
tor of the Raleigh News & Ob-
in terms of wearing what we’ve
got and what we’ve always worn
(be it ever so uncomfortable), ail
is lost. Cut loose from our an
cient link to our grandfathers’
suits, we will find ourselves at
the mercy of our friendly cloth
ier—who can wind up being
“friendly” in the same way and
for the same reasons as a used
those dark ages, that was all it equal to whatever task is imposed
took to make every youth com- upon it. What is needed now, is
pletely for it. Adding to the ex- to use that intelligence,
hilaration of its forbidden fruit —Tha Ctartotian Sciane* Monitor
aspect was the real danger in- i
(outwardly) ]
volved. Only the
brave participated.
A string of sleds was laid end-
to-end at the brow of the hill.
The "steerer” hooked his toes on
to the handlebars of the sled be
Stretching across the frozen
land mass in Alaska to link out
posts of the Alaskan Air Com
mand and the Di.stant Early
with pilnt.s who are not so well
versed and who need some one
familiar with the complex me
chanical system.s. To keep him-
■self in physical condition, he jogs
five-mile trips on the road, he
says and finds that by keeping
bu.sy, he can manage retirement
rather well after such a strenu
ously active life. Ho remember-s
when he and a copilot flew pic
tures of the Hindenberg dirigible
disaster to Britain and brought
back tile first pictures of the cor
onation of King George VI.
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His biggest scare, Dick Merrill
relates, came just twenty years
Alice” is celebrating
server, and author, and with the
■^ylvan Meyer family. Meyer was j car salesman,
a freshman member of the school , . . . . ,, onto the first boy’s ankles for transmission net put In by West
"bJ ^eat life, while hooking his own ern Electric, the manufacturing
Warning (DEW) Line, “Whitej 'go when he was dlying south
hind. The boy on that sled hung birthday. “White Alice”
its KKh
a radio
rs R s =
making certain that nothing for
^'hicfn trar)p*)^iWicaVinn of^TPOGO' ®ale thls year looks like anything
tablo d trade pubUc^on of 70.0TO ^as been for sale for years.
circulation, with 10,(X)0 coming to 'aouaniarine
A report from the Department of
Conservation and Development relates
that non - North Carolinians spent $408
millions on visits to the Tar Heel state
during 1967.
That’s a growing sum (up $37 mil
lion) over 1966, and one likely to con
tinue to burgeon as, in the oft repeated
phraseology of the late Governor Clyde
Hoey, visitors trek from the shimmering
sands of Manteo to the massive moun
tains of Murphy.
There’s much in between in the pros
perous Piedmont.
North Carolina can’t claim the facil
ities, but Kings Mountain can claim close
kinship with Kings Mountain National
Military Park and with the South Caro
lina State parks just down the road.
Kings Mountain hopes to offer its
own.
Recreational development of the
Buffalo^ Creek resevoir area will put a
recreation spa of quite varied offerings
just seven miles west.
Outdoor recreation is booming.
Why not here?
North Carolina subscribers—good ^
Indication of burgeoning poultry
production in this state. Meyer
's acquainted with former Kings
Mountaineer Jack Prince, official
of a prominent poultry packing
'irm in Gainesville. No nicer nor
more vibrant person did we meet
'han Sylvan's UNC freshman
laughter Erica, who wanted to
attend NO school but UNC-CH
and who LOVES it.
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Editor-Author Daniels has a
jacket that makes you look like
a colorful Pandit Nehru and next
year it’s a chartreuse jump suit
with patch pockets and the year
after . . .
Before we wind up making
more changes than Ltberace, men,
wear that miserable starched
dress shirt till it takes the hide
off your neck.
—The Charlotte Observer
'Tom wrote the whole paper," he
new historical book in the mill recalls, “and his hand-written
which is to be published in the | scribbling was hard to unscra.’n-
5ummer entitled “Washington hie — not to mention selling
Quadrille”, which will delve deer-l enough ads to pay the printing
y into the 'Burr-Hamilton fi^ht- bill.” Mrs. Massenburg wag sec-
retary to the late Les B. Weath
ers of Cleveland during his serv
ice as a state senator.
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toes onto the handlebars of sled and supply arm of the Bell Sys-
from Boston. One of the propel
lers came off of the plane J|^
sliced through the passci^H
compartment, killing one of me
hoste.s.scs and cutting hundreds
three. Sometimes two boys shared tern, to warn of possible air at-lof wires and some of the controls
a aled, one hanging on while the tacks,
other tried to steer. The "steer-
eris” object was to break up the
whip by following a twisting,
course down the hill taxing every-;
one’s ability to hang on. The I
longer the hill, the longer the I
whip could be. Guardian angels I
surely watched over the New En- ]
gland hills then, and probably |
do now.—Hartford Courmt
' loose.
'ng during the early days of t?te
nation.
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Other conversations were with
Graham Jones, secretary to Gov
ernor Terry Sanford who thinks
Sanford, in spite of the probing
on a race against Senator Sam
Ervin, not especially hankering
to hang his hat In Washington:
with Hugh Morton, owner of
Grandfather Mountain, who
hasn’t yet but savs he WILL get
an infra-red night picture from
Grandfather of the Charlotte
si^'''lne: with Charles Kuralt, ex
co’lege editor and the commit-
n't-- Ioumalism man of the CRS-
Tt' staitf; and with Mr. and Mrs
•T-’-rps s. Massenburg. He ■was
DTTf managing editor '20, for Ed
itor Tom Wolfe, the author. On Saturday I log 23 years with
. . . AND THE LIGHT
The Japanese do it better. Han
dling garbage we meant. A com
pany In Yokosuka has announced
that it is ready to turn garbage,
dust, bottles and old clothes Into
stones which can be used for con
struction purposes. How Mayor
Lindsay would have sighed, iiad
he seen this announcement.
This Japanese invention is fur-:
ther proof of how far man's in- i
telligence and ingenuity can go;
In meeting the mounting prob-
In addition to Meyer, members: physics! environment.
Only a short while ago farmers
were startled at the announce
ment that a Pennsylvania agri
cultural research station had
piroven that cows could thrive on
a diet of old newspapers and
molasses.
What <ain be done with news
papers, offal, dust and old clothes
(mn surely be done with the rest
T JI, .1 ,1. 1. . I refuse and pollution to be
^ °"® -'een on all sides. While frMhen-
year, 193940. f],^ waters of Lake Erie (now
considared "dead* heemiee Of Ms
of the ’39-’40 staff present 'were
Bill Snider, editor of the Greens
boro Daily News, Rush Hamrick,
president of Shelby’s Kendall
Drugs, Mrs. Hamrick, Carroll Mc-
Gaughey, WSCXT-TV, and Ed
Rankin, manager of the N. C.
Citizens association.
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calls the duty as tough going, the Herald.
defilement) may be a mlgHtler
taak than taming atfal Into
stone, the latter can be taken as
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