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P«ge 2 Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald A weelUy newspaper devoted to the 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. Entered as second cla.ss matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITOBIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor Publi.sher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Joe Cornwell Sports Editor Miss Linda Hardin Clerk Paul Jackson Roger Brown MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Fred Bell Dave Weathers, Supt. *Allen Myers Dtruglas Houser Rocky Martin Steve Martin *On leave with the United States Army SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN 1ftVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR... .$3 .50 SIX MONTHS... $2.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. away the STOHE Thursday. April 4, 1968 MARTIN'S MEDICINE Ingredients: bits of news, ■wisdom, humor, and comments Directions: Take weekly it possible, but avoid overdosage. By ELIZABETH STEWART kings MOUNTAIN Hospital Log visiTitra HOURS Doily 10:30 To 11:30 ojn. 3 to 4 p>m. and 7 to 8 pjn. J/ The nation’s economy gets a I shot in the arm at this time of the year when, in most parts of the country, that seasonal em ) ployment known as “Lawn Build- j ing" gets underway. m-ro TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said. Father, into thy hands I commend my sinrit; and louring .said thus, he gave up the ghost. St. Luke 2,1:6. It's started in our community. and according to Ted Ledford, j who operates Kings Mountain | Farm Center here, it's THAT! time of year again. i \ \) m-m The amount spent on lawn seed, fertilizer, weed • inhibitors, i lime, peat moss, and other turfj builders during this spring mad ness is staggering. ! Mrs. James Boheler Mrs. Asuilla Huffstetler Mrs. Effie JoUey Mrs. Magie McClain Mrs. 'Betty Randall Mrs. Evanna Sparks Mrs. Cleo Van Dyke Mrs. Ray Arrowood Mr. Jack Belk Mrs. J. C. Bell Ml'S. Artie Carpenter Mr. John Gold Steffen Green Mr. Claude Kelly Mrs. Florence Lynn Mrs. Mary McAbee Mrs. Wm. McLeymore Mr. William Peterson Mrs. Horace Sisk Mrs. Leroy Mhlting Ml'S. Lloyd Woods Mrs. Clara Wright .10^ admitted THURSDAY Mr. Jesse West, Box 483, CrU Mr. Maynard Deaton, 1402 Shelby Rd. Mrs. Roy Johnson, Route 2. Mrs. James MeSwain, Route 3. Clover, S. C. Eoster 1968 For the first season in many Easter tides, Americans have local problems of immediate importance to accompany the international ones. Both have been compounded. Thus it is Easter . . . It is a sad commentary that, after nearly 2,000 years of Christianity, we have a mundame Christendom which which does prety well by Sunday School attendance, but pretty sorry about prac ticing the principles the remainder of the week. It’s always ea.sy to dream excuses. It is possible that at this Easter tide it would be good to remember the other fellow in the language of the hon est trader who says and practices: the only good trade is the one beneficial to both parties or to all parties involved, and the commandment of Jesus Christ to his disciples as he went to Cavalry, "This commandment I give you that you love one another.” ’ •orning And Climbing Some of the most useful people in .he world are those who deprive us of our earnest excuses for not making our own lives more sublime. They are people who turn minor or major tragedies into assets or at any rate give them no power to condition their attitudes. Many of the “great" have achieved greatness by surmounting drawbacks on which ma ny of the rest of us lean. That is one reason the reading of biography is so often challenging. But for every example of a man’s or woman’s rising to eminence or making some vital contribution to the welfare of mankind, there are doubtless thousands of lesSer examples which come nearer to fitting the average person’s everyday needs for inspiration and correction. The resistance to these facts of life can be found anywhere in the entire age scale. Perhaps we should not do so much what we ought to doaswhatwe can do. Presidential Burdens In a recent discussion following the president’s address to the nation on a recent Sunday night we made a passing reference to the burdens of the presiden cy. One thoughtful lad replied those burdens are exaggerated. The President’s job is ju.st not as tough as it’s cracked up to be.” The youth pointed out that the Chief Executive is free from many of the bur dens that lay heavy on most men. He doesn’t, for instance, ever have to change a tire, dry the dishes, fix a loose dor knob, take out the garbage, walk the floor with a crying baby, endure rush hour commuting, search the whole house for a pen that works or move the furni ture around. “He doesn’t really have to worry about anything but the War”, said the youth triumphantly. In reply, we noted the many grave responsibilities that are his alone and suggested the minor privileges of his of fice do little to lighten his load. Cancer Crusade The word “cancer” is one of the dread ones of any language. While considerable progress has been made in halting its effects in the past few years, the medical surgical techniques are comparatively in the dark ages. Today, a key factor in treatment re mains early discovery. There is hope in the future, largely Because of the continuing research work underway constantly, paid for by private foundations and by the non-profit Na tional Cancer fjociety. Medical history reveals the benefits of continuing research. No longer does Smallpox ravage, nor typhoid fever, nor tuberculosis. Latest break-through was tne the Salk vaccine as a preventive to crip pling polio, more refined by the develop ment of an oral vaccine. Researchers in medical science be lieve that cancer can be minimized, if not defeated, as the killer it is. Underway now is the annual Cancer Crusade, annual campaign tor funds by the National Cancer Society to continue to speed research efforts as well as to provide treatment for cancer patients. Kings Mountian area citizens have shown an increasing willingness to sup port with their cash and it is easy to predict, will continue this record this year. The volunteers soliciting should get appreciative welcomes and liberal checks. Our sincere sympathy to the family of Arthur Dewitte Cornwell who died last week of a heart attack while on a visit to relatives in Newark, New Jersey. Mr. Cornwell had retired January 1 after operating a service station on t^ast King street tor a number ot years. Sympathy is extended the family of Arthur Rnitei, Sr. who died last I'uesday at the age ot 89, and to the family of North Harmon, route two farmer, who was killed in an automobile accident. Colonel Frederick Hambright Chap ter DAK is conducting an appeal tor good, used clotnmg lor urossnore bcnool. uonations of clothing may be sent to the home of Mrs. Joe inonison, ovo west Mountain street, between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. daily. Hats off to the members of the Bethlehem and Oak Grove Volunteer Fire Departments who completed tz-nour courses last week in fire-fighting. Our sincere sympathy is extended the family of Mrs. Arthur Hay, who died Monday at age 91. The Herald knew Mrs. Hay as a Christian mother and lady. Walking on down the street to the car we hoped he was convinced. We were certainly convinced. When we found a ticket on our car for overparking it hard ly changed our minds at all. Buy an Easter Orchard from a Jay- toe. The funds support the civic club’s community projects. Hats off to Joe R. Smith, newly- elected president of the Kings Mountain Jaycees. \ Congratulations to Robert L. (Bob) Goforth, president of the Legion of Lead ers and top Chevrolet car salesman in salet iHecord the past ^eSir In the two Carolinas. * Registration books will be open again on ffaturday at the county’s 28 voting precincts. Be sure you ar eregis- tfertfS and exercise your privlie^ at the polls. So is the amount of steel that must go into those little two- I wheeled green carts the hopeful J grass coddlor pushes spreading seed and feed. about. m-m I J j-i ■\T So mu.st be the amount of pap-1 er used in books on how to im- | prove your lawns. m-m admitted FRIDAY Mr. John Leach, 506 N. Walter- ^ son St. Mr. Roy Payne, 1440 2nd St.,*^ Extension. Mr. Larry McDaniel, 1417 Shel by Rd. Mr. George Runyans, 119 Bridges St. Mr. William Suggs, 707 Mea- dowbrooTc Rd. Mr. Thomas Burris, Route 3. Mrs. George Peterson, 609 Clay St. y All this is fine for business. m-m Some lawns by midsummer do look much better. Viewpoints of Other Editors m-m And all those manhours of bending and stooping technically j don’t represent “labor’’ to be in-i j eluded in the nation’s employ-' ment figures. That is probably j just as well. m-m For how would it look if thej Labor Department issued a glow- ^ ing report showing a sharp sea- sonal increase in the adult work torce employed to impress the | people next door? A HOUSE DIVIDED | REMOVING THE BUSINESS In withdrawing from the Pres-! MONSTER MASK idential race, Lyndon Johnson! n jg news to the business says his aim is to restore a mea-1 community that a good many sure of unity to the country. Thejyo^ng people these days take a divisiveness tliat w'orries him,, view of business as a career, however, is much more than a'There has been also a good deal matter of personality. | of puzzlement as to what to do The deep discontent of varied, about this antibusiness attitude, groups of Americans must be, These are, however, a few blamed in part on domestic poli- i groups with positive and construe- cies of the Administration. These, yeas on what to do about policies have been based on an-jf Among them is the National apparent belief that the Govern- schools Committee for Economic ment can, if it only spends! g^aegtion, Inc., composed of enough money, do just about'about 250 school administrators, anything for anybody. Among the committee’s goals is 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. ADMITTED SATURDAY Mr. Wm. K. McGill, Route 1. Mrs. Earl McRay, No. 2 Pop lar Ct. Mr. Sidney Self, Route 3. ( Mr. Wayne Bnxjks, 1913 W. Parkdaic. Gastonia. Rev. Aubrey Quakenbush, pas- ADMITTED SUNDAY Ml'. John Bell, Route 1, Besse mer City. Mrs. Robert Woody. Bessemer Citv. AD.MITTED MONDAY Mrs. Willie Bratton, SOS’.-ii Parker St. ■Mrs. II. G. Tate, Sr., 209 Waco That belief, at any rate, seemed to underlie the sweeping prom- the simplifying and extending of the teaching of basic economic SO THIS 1$ NEW YORK By NORTH CALLAHAN ises to wipe out poverty, do away principles in the lower grades, with slums and otherwise gen- truth is that in erally make over the counti’y'schools economics is includ* practically overnight. The prom-|^ curricula only at the high ises wore unrealistic from the.g^j^Q^j some schools start and frustration inevitably ^ jg included at all. More- has accompanied the frequent over, it is evident from young failures. people’s concepts of the business Frustration has grown and ^yorld ^hat the subject often Is spread as Vietnam’s financial, ill-taught. pressures finally have forced; Benjamin C. Willis, recent- tor of First Baptist churcli, tend- ed his resignation at Sunday I -'Ir- ^‘‘ck Day, 2508 E. Spencer night’s service. , Ave., Gastonia. More than 20 member firms of' ^Irs. Clarence Deaton, 7CK the Kings Mountain Merchants] bridges Dr. Association have joined the Blue, Mrs. William Heffner, Jr., 30f Cross Hospital Care Association,'N. Gaston St. Inc. of Durham. ! Randy .Sessoms, 498 Bridges 1 Dr. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL > jfrs. Robert Sides, Route In an exchange of vov*s .Satur-' day evening at 7 o’clock in a' .-'^'s. Jack Stewart, 5200 Mid* candlelight wedding in Boyce! Memorial ARP church Miss Jo^! ' -Jackson, Jr., Rout - - .1, Grover. Belle Owens and Robert Blair Ramsey were united in marriage., I'l'rED TttESDAY Mrs. Garland E. Still entertain-i '’'‘a’, Barrett, Route 6 ed Saturday afternoon at the Shelby. u . c ■ Alda Izonhardt, 201 S Walter Cronkite, who is prob ably one of the best-known televi sion personalities, told a group' of us that we are neither win-1 ning or losing the war in 'Viet-! nam. In fact, Walter, who is! termed by Howard K. Smith as' a “middle of the roader” said we cannot win this war. When asked what he would do to win! it, he sadly replied that he hadj no solution and indicated that he; had not come across anyone who' does. Having recently returned from Vietnam, the commentator’s opinions at this time were of spe cial interest. I slower increases in some domra- ]y retired superintendent of Chi- j Woman’s club at a tea compli- tic programs. A populace condi-j sago's schools, made some pene- menting her daughter-in-law Mrs. tioned to the idea that money j comments on this at a John Lawrence Still, recent bride, cures everything may not take- recent meeting of the National kindly to any Federal restraint. | Schools Committee. “Our high Many citizens are of course un-bp said, “is to reach happy that the earlier lack ofigj^j teach early the basic princi- restraint has landed the nation in the current inflationary cir cumstance where the dollar’s soundness is so much in doubt. Many of them, moreover, are not over-joyed that the Government can use no way out of the pres- Mull pies, goals and premises of eco nomics related to individual con science to offset the influence of the something-for-nothing climate that is seeping into our country. This means that in the early grades, traditional values of ent morass except to raise just ^baf makes an economy work in about everyone s taxes. g fred society must be interpret- Outside the domestic sphere, gjj jg jjja young. High school is disillusionment stems from a jgg late; by that time there are loreign policy that, even now, suffers from the lack of clearly defined direction. It is a policy that appears mainly to improvise too many pressures from without vying for the youngster’s atten tion.’’ Moreover, he adds, “business Walter stated that ho felt that our government thinks we are fighting the Navajo Indians, when actually we are fighting the Communists. And the Com munists as a whole, he feels, can match us with any kind of wea pons including the atomic bombs. In discussing the winter-spring of fensive of the Vietcong, Walter pointed out that much of it is psychological. The enemy expect ed the people of South Vietnam to rise up and robe! against their government. But this did not hap pen and in this phase, the Com mies were badly fooled. The ob jectives of the winter-spring of fensive were believed to have been to cash in on the United States Presidential year and on the division of the American peo ple on the issues of Vietnam. .\lso the Vietcong and North Vietnamese tried to gain as much ground and put as much pressure on us as possible for peace nego tiations which he thinks may well be timed for the fall elections here. from one crisis to the next, that ■ j^ust not be sold to young Amer- clings doggedly to old tactics ^ monster with only the mater how disproven. j profit motive to justify its exis- Improvisation naturally is not ] {ongg jt must be interpreted to a guarantee of failure. It s pos- young in the truly human- sible that the latest step of that jjarign terms that it represents. sort —the bombing halt — could succeed, though so far no encour aging reaction has come from the Communists. Even so, the na tion’s purpose in this dismal war, where it has lost so much and stands to gain so relatively lit tle, will still be muddled. They must be made to understand that the .use of human potential, the flux and flow of goods, the law of supply and demand, and the provision of jobs, money, and a standard of life, hinge on per sonal commitment and hard work. Elementary? Maybe so. But Rudisell St., Cherryville. Mrs. Lillie Hold, 401 S. berry St. Mrs. William Young, Box 23 ANYONE FOR LISTENING? ' Bessemer City. „ , , , I Mrs. John McMillcn, Route 1 How much time do you spend| Gastonia, day in trying to “get each day in through’’ to other people? Studies indicate that anj-where from 20 to 40 per cent of the meaning of a message is lost when a presi dent delivers it to a vice presi dent. By the time the message reaches the lowest level, it is pos sible that only about 10 per cent remains meaningfully intact. Communicators explain there arc two reasons for this impas.se: the nature of words and the na ture of people who use words. Words are not always reliable tools for “getting through" to people. Of approximately 600,000 words in the average dictionary, only 2,000 or 3,000 are used by the average educated adult. One study shows, for example, that 500 frequently used words in the English language have a total of 14,000 dictionary meanings. j —We The People' Letter To Editor Mr. Martin Harmon, Editor Kings .Mountain Herald Kings Mountain. N. C. 28086 Dear Mr. Harmon: On behalf of the Kings Moun tain Ladies' Duckpin Bowling League, I would like to say THANK \OU for the write-ups we re«Mve in the KINGS MOUN TAIN HERALD. We sincerely ap preciate each and every one of them. Yours very truly, KING.S MOUNTAIN LADIES* DUCKPIN BOWLING LEAGUE Dessie M. Loftin i Secretary ’ In President Johnson s with- pjgjniy the failure to replace the dra'wal speech Sunday night, h®; monster mask image of business still was talking of Vietnam j,.. many voung people, though it had been a mutual ef-j g view of how the free! fort of three U.S. Administra-; g^g^gj^jg system works and why! tions, of international commit-Lg^ g^jy j^g^, gg d,. whus ments that must be kept at what-jg g -downgrading of ever cost. There's no indication values" and what is infinitely! KEEP TOUB BADIO DIAL SET AT that either of his immediate pre decessors ever envisioned a con flict of the current scope. Both of them, in fact, showed an aw- more dangerous, the loss of per sonal liberty. —Wall Street Journal 1220 3 — In the opinion of Walter Cron- kite, the manner and skill of get ting negotiations with the Viet cong under way is highly impor tant. He believes that there is an honorable way to open nego- ‘iatlons. For one thing, we can, explain our side better to the rest of the world. Interestingly! enough, he felt that the key to! this was to stop the bombing of the north, and now that this has! been done, it will be even more! interesting to see how much ef-! feet this will have. There haS' been, the commentator said, fboj many optimistic statements from| the Administration about thei war. areness that the U.S. simply can-'!ered welfare schemes at home not police the world. ' and excessively costly military The nation, then, stands in actions abroad, need of more re.asonabic, more Because a strong America is consistent policies both at home of such world importance, it Is! and abroad. At home the Federal | not selfish to argue that U.S | Government, instead of plunging! security should be the overrid- ahead bn ail sorts of projects ev-'ing consideration of U.S. foreign' erywhere, needs to ask more oft- policy. Communist aggression still en whether specific programs is one threat to that security, I can’t be handled more efficientlyibut this nation must pick'wlth by lower levels of government—| care the ground where it makes or by the private economy. | Its stand. To fight always on the Among strictly Federal projects j terrain chosen by the enemy is greater efforts are required to not good tactics, gear activities to available re- If Mr. Johnson remains on the sources; a conscientious attempt| sidelines, perhaps a new Presi-[ to establish priorities is impera-|dent can provide leadership that tive. The Government does the will bring more unity to our div-| WKMT Kings Moantain* N. C. public no service if, in its eager ness to purchase "consensus,” it slides into irresponsible finance. There mu.st he. in addition, a deeper realization that the best assurance of world freedom is a stroiTij America, not one that dis lie sipafes its strength in ill-cbnkid- Ided house. Some of the possible candidates, though, seem to of fer no more decisive change than i a fresh face and, even in the aRe| of television, that is not enough. It’s not, in surn, so much the personality that matters. It’s the principle guiding the policies. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. 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