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Page 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday. March 28, 1968 1-% Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald A woeltly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the eniightcnmnnt, 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 po.st office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Ell7ab(dh Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Joe Cornwell Sports Editor Miss Linda Hardin Clerk MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Fred Bell Dave Weathers, Supt. ‘Allen Myers Paul Jackson Douglas llou.ser Rocky Martin Steve Martin Roger Brown ‘On leave with the United States Army SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAH, ANYWHERE ONE YEAR... .$3.50 SIX MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS.... $1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SAIJ'IS TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 738-5441 I. MARTIN'S MEDICINE Ingredients; hits of news, wisdom, humor, and comments Directions: Take weekly if possible, but avoid overdosage. LEAP YEAR ago Tommy Dorsey and his or chestra were playing for dancing ^ TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE And we know that all things work together for good to them that love the Lord (Romans 8:2$) By MARTIN HARMON A visiting Sabbath .... Morning port of call was at Falls Superette where I Icarnwl Frances and Juanita Spearman] had spent two delightful weeks) in Lima, Peru, in February. Dr. j Harvey Bumgardner entertained; tliem royally, P’ranccs reports.. She managed the language bar rier pretty well, finding klnslilp! between her studies of Latin and i French with Peruvian Spanlsih.] Something I didn’t know. Ini Peru, a lady retains her maiden name after marriage. Ides Of April Help Lick Cancer For the 14th year (and it is presum ed Congress will leave it that way) the nation has to face the Ides of April on April 15, which is national tax day, also state tax report day. Is cancer claiming more lives, or are methods of detection better and formerly unknown diagno.ses upping the total? It used to be the Ides of March, which Julius Caesar was supposed to be ware of and didn’t, resulting in Caesar’s death. Like the taxman after the taxpay er, Brutus and friends would probably have got Caesar anyway. Regardless of the answer, cancer re mains much of an enigma to the medical profession, in spite of great improve ments in methods of detection, treatment and surgery. Of course all these improvements resulted from research. What has been the result of the month’s stay of tax judgment? Does the month’s respite really benefit? The American Cancer Society is the organization which keeps the research going. It raises the funds via public sub scription and expends them by grants to medical researchers. Undoubtedly, the accountants are the happiest group involved, for there are more calendar year tax returns than fi.s- cal year returns, which means majority of people can’t go to work on their tax returns until after December 31. The ac countants get an e.xtra 30 days to meet their deadlines. The city and county cancer societies also do a great work in expending some of the funds collected for cancer patients who, normally could not afford the treat ment. Local and area people are aided via the once-a-year drive in April. ^ , f Some don’t like the change. Retail ers, for instance, figure tax return date dampens Easter season business. Indep^,'" many Kings Mountain citizens tjwe the V- fiigP 9^.a suit Qi’.jo.at tg tlVe taxman ‘down at Raleigh. And the average tax payer himself, no whiz at bookkeeping, may use the extra 30 days to loaf and procrastinate. Kings Mountain citi?^ns ‘this April wyi be ^ed .tQ .giv'.' §4,000 and a kick- off luncl^n opens the campaign on Wed- nesjftey. Help Crippled Children At any rate the tax deadline is ap- Lproaching, only two weeks away. Several fund drives are underway in the city and county. The Easter Seal Drive, which continues through Easter Sunday, followed closely the March of Dimes campaign. Historical Note Department store advertisements by no means are to be read only in search of bargains. They also yield information on manners, modes, and sometimes even on history, ancient history at that. Here are e.xamples encountered just the other day: Easter Seal funds last year in Cleve land County provided a hospital bed for an adult invalid, helped with the pur chase of a hearing aid for a high school girl, purchased supplementary materials for all special education classes in Shelby (20 Kings Mountain youngsters are en rolled in classes in Shelby), paid for daily transportation for a handicapped child to special education class, purchased two tape recorders, tapes and one record player for speech therapist classes. Davy Crockett Tee Shirts, were $1, now three for $1. Davy Crockett Caps, were SI and $1.25, now 39 cents each. Funds from a mid-April bowling and golf tournament, a Bunny Hop to oe con ducted by pre-schoolers on April 13th, and an Easter Parade, house-to-house canvass will support the effort. Davy Crockett Gun Sets, were $3.98, now $1.49. Remember way back when Easter Seal letters are going out to all residents of Cleveland County this week. It; Our sympathy to Mrs. W. B. (Bill) Logan and to other members of the fami ly during their bereavement. Bill Logan had been a friend of the Herald’s for years and Myrtle Beach, S. C., received a pair of good citizens when the Logans decided to move there three yeans ago. There are at least two Easter Seal children in this community- one young ster is confined to e” ’’’on to a wheelchair. BoUi ari Winllli M special education cidsscs, ..r comes to their homes to give them in struction. Hats off to the Gardner Webb Col lege Bulldogs of Boiling Springs who played at Hutchinson, Kansas last week in the National Junior Basketball Tourn ament. Home Free Congratulations to Meredith McGill, Kings Mountain spelling champ, and best wishes to the Central school eighth grad er in the Charlotte Observer Regional Spelling Bee April 19th in Charlotte. Three Kings Mountain area citizens will return to Raleigh for the l%9-70 general assembly in the persons of Rep. W. K. (Billy) Mauney, Jr., Senator Jack H. White, both ot Kings Mountain, and Senator Marshall Rauch, of Gastonia. Our congratulations. t?\MERIGA! William Lawrence (Billl Plonk and daughter Jill, age two, drop ] ped in at my Mother’s after din-i ner. Jill and my Boston terrier.; Sir Winston, quickly developed a' keen and gamboling rapport, as| did older sisters Jody and Janice when they arrived later. I ft My wife and I visited the John Plonk, Sr., home when we found]: there was a brief clan gathering. I, Dorothy and Bob Lewis, veteran ’ ■ and inveterate campers, were I showing their mobile home, ac | quired in Iowa last autumn. It’s, built on a Dodge chassis, and, j indeed, has all the comforts of| home, stove, refrigeration, even, a bath white shower. They like; the mobile home much better than the hitch-on trailer they once employed. on the Astor roof and a sma' f vocal group was included into'. ^ Viewpoints of Other Editors POVERTY AND POLITICS ! A GOOD IDEA FOR 201 ST YEAR. TOO m-m I 4^on City- Council’s unanie CharloHe voters should respond ( 'mous decision Tuesday not to] enthusiasticallythe City Conn- I Dorothy’s a school girl agaji,, take over the war on poverty in 1 cil’s decision to move OUt of City [taking two education course^ at] Akron means that efforts to help Hall and hold sessions at var- j UNC-G toward a mastCi-'g dc- ^ the disadvantaged here will con- ious places about the city, gree. She spends six IjOurs in the] tinue to be, literally, a commu- ™ , j xSr d^°k Hcii? BicentenniaTeffort!''Lrwe masters'C f "" H hope it will not end with this mastery degiee, but says shes| -pj,p opportunity was present' 200th year, me Jily enjoying the work. : politicians to grab for power.' i The fact that local officials did The gap between the average m-m I'not choose to overthrow the Com- 'citizen and the average council- ; munity Action Cou.ncil of Sum-, men at the usually not-well-at- We briefly chatted about poli-! mit County and Greater Akron tended Monday sessions of coun ties and Bob Lewis laughed about 1 may be looked upon as a vote of cil can only widen as the city tics ana aoD i^ewis iau„aeu a jou organization grows. Keeping that gap to a a sometime emergency | ^ j, william E Fow- narrow minimum will require patient at the North Wi kesboro and its diiectoi, william about, as hospital. Several times he’d heard I let Sr. council is planning, but it also a man named Grwne logging in 1 ■ ^ jjj j.pqpjj.p response from voters ‘for treatment and each time he| Or it might have been that City] ^^ho should be more intere.stod had explicitly told the nurse, Councilmen simply did not want work of their government. ‘The name is spelled with an: involve themselves in the Stic- Half a dozen meetings are ■e’ at the end. | ky problems of fighting poverty planned. This spring there will I w'ith insufficient funds. |,p ^ session in May at Bethune m-m I I School and one in June at West City Hall already has its rep-, Charlotte High. Other sessions in Bob became more and more, resentatives on the CAC Board, the fall will cover other sections curious, finally asked the man] It and other governmental agen- of the city, the why. “Doctor,” he replied, cies are entitled to more -up to “I’m from Deep Gap and there! one-third the total membership of The sessions will come on Mon- are lots of Republican Greenes the board under 1967 amend- flay nights, a time mow conve up there. I’m afraid if I didn’t' ments to the Economic Gppor- nient for most voters than the put the ‘e’ on my name I might [tunity Act finally passed by Con-; council s tr.iditional Monday af- get shot.” ! ffress last December. ternoon sessions. SO THIS IS NEW YOBK By NORTH CALLAHAN Spicuously. Among these singer.s was a slender young fellow nam ed Frank Sinatra. Long before him, other names of groat en tertainers were rampant In tlic- ater lights nearby, including George M. Cohan, W. C. Fields, A1 Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Bobby Clark and Fred Allen. Before and after going to the show, people would gather at the Astor for food and drink and sometimes to dance in a cute little lounge on the first floor. —3 The Astor Hotel was built 65 years ago by the estate of Wil- ’iam Waldorf Astor, an English branch of the family which be came rich and famous from the early American fur trade. Best known lieads of the hotel were Fred and William Muschenheim who believed in gracious hospital ity and especially fine food. Still remembered by old-timers is the dining room of the roof garden which in summer-time was coolf*d by water that flowed over the glass ceiling. The Astor was lit erally and romantically in the heart of New York. So strong was this sentimental appeal that Will Rogers, the greatest Amer ican humorist of his time, lived there when he was performing on Broadway. He and others lik ed its convenience, its simpJ k style and its busy but gent" W metropolitan manner. Just be fore he sailed for France where he headed the American Expedi tionary Forces, General John J- Pershing ate his last dininer at the Astor. And when he and our triumphant troops returned from a disillusioning war. the great parade that celebrated the vic tory passed right in front of the hotel. .-__3 A favorite of military men and of West Point cadets in particu lar, the Astor was the recent home of General Omar Bradley I until it closed. General Eisen- j hower stayed there as a cadet and I recall dining with the Mark Clarks there during World War II. At the Academy, they call the cadet corps, the Long Gray Line. Most of this line has passed into history and most of them along with '/luntless oth ers have recalled the late Astor Hotel as a cherished milestone at which to tarry along the way. Times Square will never be the: same. At least not to thosa of as so accustomed to seeing the mel low old Astor Hotel tnere. un its former salient site where the square outline of the hostelry once stood out so large and clear, there now is a sad spectacle of ruins, a mass of dirt as it were, the ashes of the dear departed. Bulldczers have done their worst, splendor has been obliterated and nothing but a shifting wind of memory remains. Soon there ’ will arise in keeping with so-call-! ed progress but in contrast to old-time plea.santfy, a 50-story skyscraper which will sub.stitute profits for sentiment. But the old Astor resisted val iantly. Built like an ancient cas tle in strength, the building prov- Citizens will have a chance toj ed to be one of the most difficult I But Congress didn’t stop at observe an ordinary session ofto be demolished in New that, it threw in a hooker -the oouncil and an opportunity to dis-1 months, a big “Green Amendment”- giving lo- cus.s with their councilmen mat-1 swung and struck at 1 «.u,v . ... ..... tho ruaaf*n sinps ‘anri nfron T ur,A ropnntI Aiiiciiuiiifm. -iiivuig CUSS witn tneir counciimen mai-^;"'- politicians the authority <0. ,ers of interest to their neighbor-1‘ho .jugged sjdes jand often i»i Atlonfa Ha anrf' 1*** ptiiiiiLlrtim tlic autii OI inteieST tO inPir neignntJI- | 1 j * j experience in Atlaja. He and existing anti-poverty hood or to the entire city. brought down only dust and a fripnHc HppiHpd to oat at . . ... 7 iu.*t ti u» iiiv. ~ o..* several friends decided to cat ,m VhPir own * . t i, the new Resenev Hofei’s dininr “P . All citizens -should accept the — oo .,r. vm-nK? This was partly _ a concession to invitation to participate in gov- room 20 stcjries up and recolv- southern lawmakers mg full circle every io minutes. The conversation turned to poli tics and Ollie intoned “LBJ alll H '"’^s also a reaction to com- the way!” One of the group, a'Pluhtfs of more than a few big man from Kinston, became angry i f'ty mayors, including some m to the point he wouldn’t ride inil^e North, that militant anti- Ollie’s car back to the hotel in; poverty workers were threaten- which they were staying, but in-1 ioR City Hall s peace and policies stead paid a $7.50 cab fare for>"'*'h demonstrations, the trip. Next morning Ollie wenti to breakfast, found his Kinston! The Community Action Council friend already there, told him,[here has never alienated City ernment more. Charlotte will benefit if they do. —Charlotte Observer 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and ei’enls taken from the f9.‘>7 Well, I’m gonna spoil your; Councilmen by tramping on their, files of the Kings Mountain breakfast, for it’s still LBJ ail | toes. Herald. the way.” Did he smile, I asked! . . , .1 Ollie. “Not much, Ollie reported.”! .While the CAC board has made i mistakes and does have problems, j Bethware high school Sen- few bits of brick at a stroke. But finally the bastion of hospitality and haven of visitors succumbed to man’s assaults and the last Dortion of wall fell into the dust. Down Broadway just a little dis tance, another symbol of a bet ter old New York, the Metropoli tan Opera House, had preceded the Astor, a sort of social part ner, in demise not long ago. In the years before the Depression, a young man around town was apt to meet his sweetie at the Astor, until the event ripened into a city slogan. You and she miy make it' ' big! But for now you just ( want a special gift.. nothing more. Wouldn't a genuine diamond grab her! Pre-POSAL genuine DIAMONDS are the swinging new way of saying "take me along." $19.95 Single diamond $29.95 Two diamonds GRAYSON'S JEWELRY I recall that almost 30 years BATTLEGROUND AVE. m-m i it has learned much from three lor class will present a three-act The three had neither Democratic not Republican opposition when the fil ing deadline lor elective office passed at noon I'l’iday. Doug and Bill McEIwee, arrived) in late afternoon, she claiming to] 1 measure of nervousness at thei looroaching wedding of young; Bill. i tube. -Miami Herald I years of dealing with them. ChJ | faroe comedy, “Cupid In Pig- I Council would face the same j.gf, Mary Foust Weaver and my problems plus others, such as school auditorium, wife enjoyed discussing piano political pressures and demands pigher, Jr., junior at Le- teaching methods and HOW to, for patronage. j noir Rhyne TOllege in Hickory, keep young students practicing. I —The Akron Bearon Journal elected to membership in “Who’s Who In American Col leges and Universities.” COED LIFE SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. Euzelia Vollhracht, of Comes now a professor at pallston wife of Dale Vollhracht, 1 Stanford University who says ,^as winner in the district Vogue m-m coeducational dormitories'foghion sewing contest held in ; Ihere have resulted in ”at le.asi '<ing.s Mountain Thursday under ,ho “ partial moratorium on .sex.” -nonsorship ot District -1 of the --pH ihpri WP pn 'Jtirth Carolina Federation of ■ltd Plonks, vyhere we enjt^ed jj jj, ^ for what this Women’s Clubs. onvcrsa.hon wTh Fred and | country really needs along about tie, David and his pretty wife.-j^^^ ^ moiaiorium on sex tnd Robert. Robert is a yoeman ^ partial, of course itriker in the Spartanburg naval I eterve unit and describes his| The proof explains that th our of active duty at Great [coed dorms with their emphasi -akes training station in m;d-!on shared experiences, results i vlnter as the coldest he’d ever] avoidance of “over-idealization' rein in his life. He came home of the opposite sex. ■•ick—with a c?k of measles.! . . .u- 1 j -u Robert also introduced us to] Bridget, a Maltese cat and herjtudents to think of each othe; four new additions: cute little kit-''‘><6 “brothers and sisters ■ens wliich can navigate thei'ha" “f mates, it is said ;ta;rs from basement to main;,j4 if the pattern spreads it floor. Bridget is an educated cat,i ,™ttld lead to profound altera- 'laving more or less been enroll- t'otis m maitial patterns, cd at Duke with Brother Jimmy, i indeed it could. Given a trial run of the seamy side of togeth ni-m ' erness, without the romantic ■ camouflage, it might wipe out I find visiting on Sunday much ‘e'el marriage complete-j l^etter fare than the television ’y- REXALL Ic SALE STARTS MARCH 28 Kings Mountain Drug Company KEEP YOUR RADIO DIAL SET AT 1220 Kings Mountain, N. C. Neyrs & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between ] P' It ir If G k tl u J ii .Jn'' S IV p
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