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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Thursday. March 21. 1968
Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Heiald
A woelily newspaper devoted to llte promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizeas of Kings Mountain
and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
Kntered as .second class matter at the po.st office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 2808G
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher
Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Eklitor
Joe Cornwell Sports Editor
Miss Linda Hardin Clerk
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
A man that JhUtcrvth hin tH'i</libour niirradcth a net for liin feet.
Proverbs ^9:5.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
Ingredients: bits of news,
wisdom, humor, and comments
Directions: Take weekly if
possible, but avoid
overdosage.
By ELIZABETH STEWART
It’s nardly likely that tempera
tures have been high enough yet
to produce any old fashioned
cases of spring fever, that lethar
gic but pleasant uneasiness that
produces yawns in profusion and
makes tjnovement of any kind an
undesirable activity.
WELCOME RELIEF
HAS BOBBY MISSEQ iC A]
THE BOAT? *1 ^ I
READING THIS WON'T GET
ME DOWN IN THE DUMPS/
m«in
I
But. it won’t be long.
The balmy weather the pasti
two days has invited the farmer |
to the garften. builders .vith saw^s
in hand to building chores
golfers to the golf course.
and
I
Six Easy Steps
Congratulations
Here’s how, in six easy steps, says
the Colorado Springs, Colorado Chamber
of Commerce lo build a ghost town;
1) Tell everyone you never buy at
home, that all the merchants are a
bunch of crooks and robbers.
2) Belittle all efforts for the com
munity betterment — say that the folk
running them arc secretly making a lot
of money.
3) Never waste money by advertis
ing or otherwise trying to attract trade
to your town.
4) Turn down all appeals for contri
butions and be nasty about it in order
that they won’t bother you again.
5) Refuse to function or to serve on
any civic committee.
6) Knock the town, its industries,
schools, churches and don’t lorget to al
ways say the community is going to the
dogs.
Actually, it’s hard for one per.son to
build a ghost town but the point is made
if he is persistent he can gain enough
converts to get the job done eventually.
Hats off to Dr. John C. McGill, re
elected to membership in the American
Academy of General Practice, the na
tional association of family doctors, and
Senior Girl Scout Troop 200, their 12
members and leader, Mrs. Charles Blan
ton, recipient of a Reader’s Digest F’oun-
dation Grant for a city beautification
project. Congratulations are also in or
der to Glee E. Bridges, elected a new
director of Kings Mountain Savings &
Loan Association, and Dr. McGill, ele
vated to vice-presidency to Wilson Grif
fin and Tom Tate, reappointed to the
city planning board; to John A. Che
shire, elected president of the Kings
Mountain Merchants Association and
Kings Mountain United Fund for the
coming year and to Annette Dixon, win
ner of a Katherine Smith Reynolds
scholarship to the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro.
Best Bow. Mountaineers
At lea.st two Kings Mountain
citizens are in the moving busi-j
ness this week. Offices of West-j
ern Union, Kings Mountain Cham-;
ber of Commerce and Kings i
Mountain Merchants Association
are being relocated to the Bus
Terminal on West King street;
and carpenters are busy renovat-1
ing the building. i
“It’s all new to us", comment-'
ed C of C Secretary Lucille Wil
liams after her first day on duty
Tuesday. When Lucille called to
inform us a package had arrived:
for the Herald from Spartan-1
burg, S. C., we wore surprised;
the caller was not Mrs. Otis
Wright, the former agent. |
“Yes, we’re moving”, said Lu-|
cille. The Herald sends pictures 1
to the Spartanburg Herald Jour-i
nal via Greyhound for engraving.
The cuts are returned via bus in
time for the Wednesday night
edition.
VVednesday was Mrs. Ida Joy’s
first day on duty at the bus sta
tion. Western Union offices will
I bo open at the Merchants Asso-
! ciation office on West Mountain
street, witli one of the two on
duty there, until the moving is
completed. It looked like a mam
moth job.
Sen. Robert Kennedy, reconsid
ering his decision not to seek the
Democratic presidential nomina
tion, sepms to have taken to heart
the advice directed at him in song
at Wa.shington’s Gridiron Dinner:
You must run in sixty-eight
Seventy-two could be too late..
Senator Kennedy’s entry could
intensify the far-ranging debate
over Vietnam while adding new
imponderabhs to the election out-
'come. And somehow one cannot
escape the conclusion that ho has
demeaned himself by waiting un
til the McCarthy near-vlctory In
New Hampshire to dare the
plunge.
Why Of Heart Fund
“Heart disease is still the leading
killer in Cleveland County as it is in the
state and nation,’’ L. E. Hinnant, chair
man of this year’s heart lund - raising
campaign, commented last week.
He further noted that 23,000 North
Carolinian.s fell victims of heart troubles
during 196V.
That .seems quite sufficient reason
for liberal giving to the campaign.
Major portion of the tunds are de
voted to research to determine improved
treatments.
For a second year in a row the
Kings Mountain high school Mountaineer
basketball team clinched the Southwes
tern Conference Crown and were unde
feated in regular season play.
This year for the first time they
played host to the Bi-Conference and
Southwestern tournaments and were
victors. They faced defending champions
Kannapolis on the Kannapolis court
Thursday and were defeated 63-58.
Viewpoints of Other Editors
MINIMUM WAGE
'A VOICE INSIDE ME'
m-m
I week, theoretically he’ll be $8
I turther from poverty. But there
Darrell Austin’s hole-m-one rec-, another side to it, economical-
orci went to three Tuesday on thei
links of the Kings Mountain'
Country Club Gol' Course as he
The federal minimum wage' in New York City a young boy
has gone up from $1.40 to $1.60. was smothered in a cave-in be-
Supporters who pushed the in- cause neighbors would not let his
crease through Congress a cou- friend make an emergency call
pie of years ago will no doubt to the police. In Toronto six chil-
laud the increase as another step I dren wore killed in a fire be-
in “eliminating” poverty. Aftei: cause motorists would not heed
all, a man earning $1.40 an hour i the anguished plea of a father,
Jan. 31 is now making $1.60 an | his own hair afire, to stop and
houi. II he puts in a 40-hour help him-
Man’s inhumanity to man is
horrifying to contemplate. Such
Every time the minimum wage
10
YEARS AGO]
THIS WEEK
Items of news about Kings
Mountain area people and
events taken from the J957
files of the Kings Mountain
Herald.
Senator Kennedy will not easily
undo the enthusiastic commit
ment which young American.*
gave Eugene McCarthy In New
Hampshire. The Minnesotan says
he Is not going to bow out of the
race. 'There are a lot of “McCarthy
— that new coalition of col-
l^ans, plus intellectuals, techo-
crats, and liberal churchmen —
who will work for McCarthy In
Wisconsin and later primaries.
Some may switch to Bobby as the
more politioally savvy prospect.
Others will say that Senator Ken ^^^
nedy, waiting .so long, has hardl.^^p
exhibited a profile of courage.
Obviously a three-way Demo
cratic contest, with two doves dl
viding the anti-Vietnam vote,
could render the renomination of
President Johnson all the more
certain. A combined Kenncdy-
McCarthy ticket is almost certain
ly ruled out bwaust- it would rep
resent a single antiwar viewpoint
and because both are Roman
Catholics.
The end result of Democratic
divisiveness could be lo hand the
presidency to the Republican
candidate. If this turned out to be
Richard Nixon, Senator Kennedy
would have to chalk up an exer
cise in futility, losing his bid to
change Vietnam policy after all.
And his prospects of winning in
’72 would be wrecked if he con
tributed substantially to Demo
cratic defeat in ’68.
The Red Cross fund campaign
For an intense activist who
participated in great happenings
I at clo.se range while his brother
was President, the trend of recent
: events has been highly unsettling
is expected to be completed thisj in. haa a,.-
actions violate all of men’s moraTweek, Paul Walker, King.yY^M- himself,
and spiritual instincts, to chairman, announced Wed*
' with his advisers, with Harvard’s
nothin^^ of their social obliga-, ttt^sday. i neopoliticians. Even so, some of
'emred on No 5 Other eolfers in nation s tions. Those mstance.s and they; ^ Sides, Jr., pastor of the roa.sons he offers for reeon-
' r DO.tv were Job" Cheshire iT l are duplicated daily m a thousand, Methodist church, will de- sidering his decision are subject
Bm MccInnK and Mrke'^RMra,d:i;|;"^; S^'n^ev the sermon at the eommu- to challenge. Is it the case that
local women oolfers kicked o-ffi^Q,j.j
the spring -olfing season with ajjgg, their
tournament-luncheon Tuesday. ; Congress says any worker is en-! brotherhood. , ’ • Is it true that the administration
m-m titled to earn $1.60 an hour; nee-t not he nndiilv dis ' SOCIAL AND PERSONAL ! will make laggard respon.se on
; doesn’t doesn’t mean he is , 11 I Ye - we nee.1 not he unduly dis-, ^ , the civU-rightrfront’ Is it true
heartened over the possibility Mrs. W. L. Pressly reviewed jf..:
.vith few skills who arc different ways ^arc crying ‘’'’“liver the sermon at the eommu- to challenge. Is it the case that
anly the mimmum wage I dence of how desperately men; Vietnam policy, undent
et the raise. Instead, ttrey and society need to gam a strong- jjiagtp,, Sjpday, April 6 iat Moun-’ growing congressional and pub^B
eir jobs. Just because the, er and higher sense of univcr.sal cemeterv. he di.ssatisfaction will not budget
Since the era of “Plant Victory worth it, or <2) has an employer
It’s baseball weather now and Kings
Mountain opened yesterday on the home
field, playing Besscmei City in a non-
conference game.
One Kings Mountain fan, showing
his disappointment of Kings Mountain’s
loss, said, "VVell, they played 26 ball
games and lo.st only one. That’s a pretty
good record.” We agree. Congratulations
are in order to Coach Bob Hussey and all
members of the team ol champions.
I Garde.ns’’ a gre.it many ocorle who can afford to pay it.
that this will be done. A recent the book. “To Live Again’’, by.
that there is already great divi-
The on.e bad result r : enforced f'”' example, found three- Mrs. Peter .Marshall at Monday's
minimiims" is to fnrpc'oso oD-'^‘”“*hs of the lecn-agcrs qiies-i meeting of the American Home or will a Kennedy intcrveri
minimums ‘s *0 forec.oso op , tion be the factor that really roil.s
have stored their tools and come
I to the conclusion that vegetable ...
'gardening, for th->m at least. I.st, portunity for the poor and un-|'”'"‘’J '"e"- ,
doesn’t pay off. Many homestead- n-ained who cannot get johs^"' -vas to be dub at the Woman’s club,
ers have come to make yard vhore they could learn the skills fl'’ '"help other people more.
As one l-a-yoar-old put it: A voicei
siveness in the Democratic Far
things up?
Congratulations to members of Am
erican * bsi !■).. vuiO iiiive opened
their new Post addition on York road.
First dinner meeting in the new addition
will be on .“otnrdav when loeal Lceion-
naires host 300 Division Five Legionnair
es ifom posts in Nortn Caroiinu.
Buy Easter Seals. Kings Mountain’s
Easter Seal Campaign is underway and
tunds from purchase of seals will help
crippled children and adults.
Sincere sympathy to the families of
Pfc. Reece Dale Bowens, 20, of Grover,
and First Lt. Roy B. Cochran, 27, of Gro-
vei. Pfc. Bowens died while operating a
military vehicle in an accident in Thai
land and Lt. Cochran was killed in action
in Vietnam.
Both servicemen had lived within a
block ot each other in the Bethany Bap
tist church community near Grover.
A young man described his desper
ate but vain pursuit of a young lady in
these words:
“I met her when she was working in
a candy store and every day aftei I
bought candy so I could see her and talk
to her. Then she got a job as a manicur
ist and every day I went to her to get a
manicure.
“You were really gone on the girl,
weren’t you?” his friend said.
“Yes”, the ardent swain admitted,
“but the next time she changed jobs she
got rid of me for good. She went to work
tor a dentist.”
j Evidently Senator Kennedy felt
I he liad to act that it was “now
„ V.,...-, Mrs. Howard Jackson entcr-
I tending their gardening hobbv. | that would enable the.n to earn . ‘ (.„nscicnce makes m.-mber.s of the Are of' .. n-n • i- , -
I And, there are ^till many who more than the mmimum. me want to do Clubs at the Country Club Thurs-! "i; "nmed|ate impact
Pnd both pleasure and profit in. Check the crime stati.stics and | of hi.s candidacy will be to make
the tilling of a olo*. in the sow-, the studies of car bi'-city riots When we let it, this "atill small jelection uncertainties all the
irg of s-ed and the harvesting] to see where the minimum wage voice” will speak to every one of |more un^rtain. The Christian
of vegetables nr floweT-s. |drives these refugees from fed- y, jf ^^p heed it, we shall mean lo belittle the thought,
Especially do pennle in thojoral beneficience. ; ou'ckly find countle.ss ways in which lies behind this week. In . ——
Dallas Morning News wbreh to lend a much-needed fact, we support it wholehearted-] '
helping hand. ly. All of which takes us back lo|
rural areas find that gardening!
navs off. They e'.n keen Iheirj
jars and freezers filled with diet-
a'd’nrr foods and en’ov "npeh .
vegetables a ma’or po»*iion of the; H i-s satisfying work to chop
V, .r O. - -ost below that of their'wood. Sin.-e the first colonists
CHOPPING WOOD
city cousins.
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landed on our shores, tli-. ax has-
been an important tool. In feudal
England a yeorr in was forbidden I
Christum Srienre Monitor that traditional joke abc.d thol
— butcher’s weighing his thumb ini
HOUSEWIVF.R AGAINST with the moat. I
CRIME
SO THIS IS
NEW YORK
‘,By NORTH CALLAHAN!
It could only happen here, 1 hut noisy evidence of it as the worthy group is nearing 200,000.
suppose. Richard Nixon and Nel- vehicle rolled along downtown. When the folk singer, Joan Raez,
son Rockefeller both live in the Soon at a stop, a man got off tried to rent the DAR’s Consti-
same building. It is at 810 5th and told the driver he would be tution Hall in Washington and
Avenue in upper Manhattan in- back in just a moment. The drlv- was refused, Mrs. Henry Sulli-
habited by the well-to-do, is this er stared and could hardly be- van, present regent, explained.
I According to one state weights!
Lawlessness is one of the and measures official, -a half-1
greatest of America's shames, ounce mistake on cosily and
nking American knows heavy item.s, such as meat, can
eeling American is quickly add 50 cents lo every
it. Any patriotic grocery bill. It can, of course,
■earns to' do some- work the other way, although
thin<» about it, , >'ou will not persuade many
The Countryman oP'oys the " . hou.rewivps that it ever does. Ar
lta.sk. Today he cuts a little forj A group of California housn-!ounce underweight on a store
wives hav? now made up 'heiri can cheat a shop-owner
, ago it was a vital tarm ta.SK. i nei minds to do ju.sl this, to do; of hundreds of dollars yearly.
“.I woodburning kitchen stove and! just this, to do something about;
>wt-vt- laiseii lu-i u< tiie inai Ket; parlor heater required many'one of the widest-spread aspectsi So we join in saluting “Na-
and on shopping trips. She likes^ of crime in the United States-1 tional Weights and Measures
to c^k and sew. does bot^h beau-, cherishes his ax. Itishoplifting. In the community ofjWeek.’’ feeling that the grocery
tifully, and met her husband 'a ■* , o .. ...
Mv
native
of my
Stewa
four vean, is visit’ng this coun
try for the first time. Some ofj
the differences between America
.m fireplaces, but half a century,
and Japan is the higher co.st o ; ^
food here, she has told us
taken her to the market
while employed as an IBM op
erator at the USAF base there
i
and he decides what course
take.
to
.. man cnerisnes his ax. It shopliftin,, . , ,
must he just the right weight,' Pacific Beach such a group has bill, while still astronomical,
the correct handle length, and , banded together under the name probably fair,
erator ai ij unse .uere. good.of “Housewives Alert.” When in
Their Pr’de and loy is f ur- ^ ^ j sharp edge bite deep- a store they keep their eyes open!
months-old Robert Brent Stewart; | shoplifters. If they see one,
and he and his parents will be, notify the store manager
living in Washington, D. C. after| Chickadees flock around and
their leave here. j chant their songs, woodpeckers
j rivet on dead limbs, and Shep
, may start a rabbit from a brush
At this season of the year the [pile. Feather-edged tan chips
mellowing sun beckons us out; make a futuristic pattern on ihe
into the open. We fee] the need
creases. When day is done, and
the shadows are deepening in the
valley, a man comes down across
the pasture slope. He knows he
has had a good day. The pile of their bit.
cut wcKid is one harvest, but,
there is an intangible harvest: Ot course, it is not ea.sy. Peo
is I
to limber up muscles kept inac
tive through the long winter
months of inside living.
The housewives hope that the
idea will spread across the coun
try. So do we. The cry has long
gone out that it was time for
the individual citizen to do some
thing positive about the tidal
wave of American crime. 'These
housewives are wdlllng to do
m-m
Whether we are flower garden-1
big apartment structure like the lieve his eai-s but for some rea- “Joan Baez is against everything | ers or vegetable gardeners, *be| _ worki i" in the P'® table-bearing.!
nthorc noarhv nvprlonkintr nic- son lost oat there and did not we stand for. She’s aeainst na- nroeess is nrettv much the same.'. . There lo the nnssihilitv for a
others nearby overlooking pic- son, just sat there and did not we stand for. She’s against pa- process is pretty much the same.' =* , There is the possibility for a
-■ te the eeii -r onrine*W00dland. -i/icH<in/orrtL,oK/(inr unplcasant
turesque <5entral Park with its move. The man dashed into a trlotism, the flag and she pro
green in balmy seasons and its nearby drugstore and was out In moted civil disobedience."
often snowy recesses in the win- seconds, back on the bus, and 3
ter, all of which resembles more walking to the young lady, said There are no exact figures on
cf a colorful Currier and Ives kindly. “Here, you need these what the dor population is in
picture than most of the city, cough drops." this cit.v but if dogs could vote,
Nixon lives on the 5th floor, 3 the pioliticians would surely be
while Rockefeller, befitting his It is my understanding that handing out the choice canine
wealth, occupies an apartment on there is an upsurge In member- food to thousands of pooches
the 13th. However, the two do ship of the Daughters of the which live with their masters
use separate entrances to the American Revolution, something and mistresses in apartments,
building and thus are not apt to of surprise to those who think of both cooped up most of the time,
bump into each other very fro- it as a stodgy and antiquated each quite dependent upon the
quently. The two Republican throwback to our early history, other. Business of taking care ot
candidates are thus so near to Across the country, according to these dogs is thriving too. some
each other in one way, yet so far the reports, young women who beauty shops for them charging
apart in others. can meet the stiff requirements, more than such care for humans;
which are proof of direct descent and the owners -are wt'l'ng to
We respond to the call of spring
by buying our fertilizer, spading
up the earth, selecting and plant
ing seed. AH too soon the weeds
.and grass creep in. The sun is
no longer mellow but hot. The
handles of the tools no longer
seem to fit our hands and we
suddenly feel blisters and aching
muscles.
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At this stage will be eliminated
the “spring gardeners.”
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The ones 'Who keep at the job
REALISTIC ADVICE
scenes—perhaps with a light-'
fingered neighbor. Great care
The Democratic Campaign'must be taken not to make mis-
Handbook for 1!)68 offers the fol- takes. But not only is shoplifting
lowing advice to party members a garden for greater lawbreak
planning to seek office: “It is; ing, it also steal.s from every-
better to operate on realistic es-j one’s pocketbook by driving prices
timates than to make more ex-! up. The women of Pacific Beach
tensive campaign plans based on may have found an answer,
funds that come in too late or —Christian Edenre Monitor
not at all." In other words, don’t WATCH THAT THUMB
let outgo sail out of sight of in- ,,, . . . , , -u i,
B ‘ B YVe have just had the week
dreaded by butchers’ thumbs.
That’s sound advice, all right,! Right, last week was “National
and we hope it sticks with the: Weights and Measures Week.”
and reap a harvest of vegetables candidates. If it does, maybe a although we did not catch up
New York may seem fl hard- from some one who aided the spend large sums on them. Rie-'wilt be the ones who are true| fe.v of those who succeed may . with this fart until it was nearly |
boiled place but in some ways it cause of American independence, cently I saw a woman striding . gardeners.
is not. Take for example the are joining and are bringing new down the street with her big
other day when a young lady on blood Into the organization. Thou- poodle straining at the leaah and
! see that, in certain ways, run-1 over. Which is just as well, since,
Ining governments should not be, had we known what week it was,
Anvway, there is a measure of jail that different from running ive should have felt hard put to
a Gotham bus had"^ a bad cough sands are being added each year pushing ahead” until she had a satisfaction even for a good be-j realistic campaigns. | it to know how to celebrate it.
and kept on showing unintended and the total membership of this hard time keeping up. ginning. i ^ —Wall Street Journal Frankly, though, we do not
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