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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Thursday, June 27, 1968
Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Herald
A weoUly nowspaper ciovotcd 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 class 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
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
For the kmgtinm of God in not in ivord, but in powr:r.
I Corinthian.^ 4:20.
Hospital Folk Prescient
At least one Herald reader told a
friend, “After you opened the bids, the
Herald must have called the hospital
folk.”
Indeed, last week’s lead headlines
made that appearance. One detailed the
fact that bids for the neighborhood faci
lities building are 5284,254 over estimates
and the other reported President George
W. Mauney’s fears that estimates on cost
of the Kings Mountain hospital addition
would require more locai donations than
the $150,000 .sought.
President Mauney must have been
president.
The Herald reporter talked with him
in the morning, attended the recreation
building bid opening in the afternoon.
Costs have escalated heavily for
many products—cars, groceries, homes,
hospitais, buildings of all kinds—in the
past few years.
One man put it, “If you didn’t do it
last year you lost money. If you didn’t
two years ago, you lost more money.”
The analogy can be related to the
future. Federal tax surcharge notwith
standing, it one doesn’t this year, he’ii
pay more next year, etc.
Wednesday the Mayor and the arch
itects for the recreation building took
their woes to the Department of Housing
and Urban Development, which had al
ready contracted to pay $302,680 on the
initially estimated $424,000 project.
Hopefully, the $150,000 sought via
public contribution, which campaign of
ficials feel will be raised ($108,000 now
pledged), will prove sufficient, but the
city experience of last week indicates
the fears of President Mauney and his
confreres will be painfully realized.
Coincidentaliy, the city and hospital
are in the same boat.
Both found initial funds, the city’s
federal grant and the hospital’s borrow
ing authority, insufficient.
Both operate functions of govern
ment not yet deemed “necessary to the
health, safety and welfare of citizens of
the State of North Carolina. In other
words, any tax funds obtainable or at
tainable by either must be voted by the
citizens.
Both, if the city can’t find sufficient
matching funds and the hospital supple
mental funds from other sources, will
see their current financial “legs up” ev
aporate.
At stake here is a total of $850,000.
At stake here are the badly needed
facilities.
Dr. Z. P. Mitchell
Impending retirement of Dr. Z. P.
Mitchell as county health officer can
not help but pose a difficult problem for
the county commission in finding a suc
cessor.
None, Dr. Mitchell .would be quick
to say, is indispensable, and that is true,
but some are closer to indispensability
than others and Dr. Mitchell rates in the
close category.
Dr. Mitchell is blessed with a de
ceptively retiring personality.
When the chips were down. Dr. Mit
chell proved firmness to the point of
toughness, whether the public health
prbolem were parakeet fever or polio or
mass innoculation against polio.
March Ends. Almost
The late arrival of the starting seg
ment of the poor people’s march on
Washington must have added an inter
esting, bizarre, and perhaps more pleas
ant note.
The sight of mule-drawn wagons in
midst of the automobiles and frenetic
taxicabs of the nation’s capitol city must
be interesting indeed to citizens and
children who never saw the same before.
On a more serious note, it appears
the poor people’s march, beset by foul
weather, bickering leadership, and Wash
ington hoodlums, laid an egg, to borrow
Variety’s famed slang for a .sorry show.
The more sane went home early.
The remainder who defied the per
mit expiration edict or the one against
demonstrating on the Capitol ground.s
in an effort to got arrested got their
wish. They perhaps were smart, too.
Jail food and lodging, never the most
desirable, is better than that enjoyed in
Resurrection city.
It will be Interesting to see how
much Imprint the march on Resurrection
city made on the Congress.
Predictions vary, but there seems
agreement the Congress will view more
kindly several areas of social legisla
tion: model cities, public housing, the
on-the-ropes anti-poverty program and
distribution of food to the needy. .
The march and its attendant over
tones were repugnant to the vast ma
jority of citizens.
But there’s usually a mite of good
in every ill wind.
The Herald hasn’t checked the exact
number of years, but guesses for 19 of
the past 22 that Joe Hedden has wielded
the baton in directing the Kings Moun
tain high school band and training non-
high schoolers for future service. Mr.
Hedden took over the band chore after
World War II duty in the navy. His sev
eral claims to distinction includes hav
ing two tin cans (destroyers) shot out
from under him and having served in
the Pacific as now-Admiral Hyman Rick-
over’s communications officer. We wish
him well as he forsakes baton for ad
ministration and welcome his successor,
Bandman Donald Deal.
Gazette Sale
It was not surprising that Harvey
Laffoon, 71, sold his eminent Elkin Trib
une enterprise, nor that A1 Resch, also
getting older, vended his quality paper
operations at Siler City, Pittsboro, and
Liberty.
But it was a surprise that the James
W. Atkins family sold the prosperous
Gastonia Gazette, when the manage
ment-ownership are comparative chil
dren.
The young folks have done well,
even after putting older newspapermen
to shaking their heads when the Gazette
launched a Sunday morning edition,
competing in the Sunday morning field
with the Chariotte Observer. The Gaz
ette wrote red ink on the Sunday paper
for months, with ad-light editions, and
poor circulation.
But today, the Sunday paper’s ad
vertising lineage is well on the upward
path and circulation is within 3000 of
the afternoon paper, where the Gazzette
is alone in its field in Gaston county.
President-Publisher Jimmy Atkins
says the new ownership thinks along
the same lines as the sellers, which tends
to point up a Gazette turnabout over
the years.
Cleveland County has been blessed
by the presence and work of Dr. Mitchell.
In a day when many seem to regard
themselves as badly overworked and
similarly over-paid, Dr. Mitchell has
proved himself quite the opposite.
Grandfather James W. Atkins was
a Democrat of the old school. There was
only one right way to vote: the straight
Democratic ticket.
Recent Gazette poiicy has been open
support of the Republican party.
MARTIN’S
MEDICINE
fnffffdients: Mt« of neiot,
windom, humor, and comments
Directions; Take weekly if
possible, but Ovoid
overdosage.
By MARTIN HARMON
Major Samuel Humes Houston,
North Carolina Army National
Guard, had just returned from
the guard’s annual two-week sum-j
Exit Tracy and L'il Orphan Annie
mer encampment, this year ati
Camp Stewart, Ga.
I congratulated, “Well, I see
you didn’t get rattlesnake bit."
"No," Humes replied, “but I
saw plenty of ’em.”
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He continued by saying a man
in his outfit killed what must
have been the Geronimo of Camp
Stewart’s rattlesnake tribe. He
taped out at six feet, two inches
long, a foot in diameter, and had
an even dozen rattles. Humes
said his head was as wide as a
man’s clenched fist.
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It was Humes’ first visit on the |
grounds (he’d flown over) of j
Camp Stewart and he does not'
wish to return to this army dig
gings in Georgia’s coastal swamps
in the Savannah area. The mos
quitoes grow large there, too.
Fall hunters of wild turkey have
learned, says Humes, to shoot j
when they hear the target gob-|
ble. Otherwise, they’re wasting'
ammunition on mosquitoes. )
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“Fact is,” said Humes, “if I
ever get in position to do any
traveling, I’m going to arrange
to avoid Georgia."
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Actually, it’s likely Humes’ last
summer encampment. He’s build
ing his 28th year of combined
service in the army infantry
(World WarH),North Carolina's
Viewpoints of Other Editors
Immigrants Into Britain
people
Why do (immigrant
want to come here?
The main attraction is
Britain is a Welfare State.
Once here an immigrant is en
titled to the same social benefits
that
National Guard infantry and en-1 *"’1.®^'.',,' '■
Fair enough. All in the coun
try get eeiuai treatment.
But it isn’t surprising if peo-
gineers.
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Like Humes, I’ve never felt
any particular affinity for snakes
of any kind, and particularly the
rattlin’ variety. At a function at
the University of Florida back
in 1940, Ross Allen, the Silver
Springs major domo, was the
program feature. Among his
pie who have paid taxes and
stamps for years are disappoint
ed if they have to wait longer
for a hospital bed or a house
because of this.
One of the big difficultise
arises over the admission of de-
ACTION RATHER |
THAN WORDS !
The knowledge of past injus-!
tines carried out in their behalf
weighs heavily on white Ameri
cans. But most of us tend to'
seek the familiar comforts from
rationalizations rather than
champion policies that would help
eliminate the injustices.
SO TUIS 19
NEW YORK
By NORTH CALLAHAN
Mil* Ax.uivii'-> f^iiiviii^ J i la.’
contributions to his listeners’ en-iP®"^^''^ relatives.
joyment was opening a cage eon-
The holder of a work permit
“They want too much, too fast
. . we can’t lower our stand
ards just for them
let them
work their way up the way we
did . . . they’ll need to be edu
cated first, start with the
schools ...” These and simi
lar, familiar phrases are emerg
ing again alxive the pleas for a
taining his Silver Springs “pet”,
and dropping the six-ifoot rattler j
is entitled to bring his family to; rededication to democracy and in
^ *' I nlci/MX ciT /icmnncxt-ieo+i-ii'i-
place of calls for compensatory
on the banquet-room floor. I wan,! Usually a manj^dl spend some, by past'inequities. William Louis Crai
there. The men gasped, the wom-l i The iecenn =.n,i the t,.ehninnes! Mountain, w.
j programs aimed at repairing the
10
YEARS AGC
THIS WEEK
Items jf news about Kings
Mountain area people and
events taken from the 19S7
files of the Kings Mountain
Herald.
For a long lime I have won
dered just how Richard Rodgers,
the composer, originates such ut
terly beautiful melodics as those
in “Sound of Music", “South Pa
cific” and other great hits. It
must not be all accidental or
spontaneous, I thought, because
artistry does not usually result
from whim or circumstance. So
I finally asked -Mr. Rodgers just
how he did it and now have re
ceived from him the reply: "I
have no formal method of com
posing”, he told me, "but tend to
write melodics much as the
spiritual inspiration moves me.
When Oscar Hammerstein was
my lyricist, I usually composed
tunes to go with .Mr. Hammer-
stein’s words, i.e., the words
came first, then the music. But
it is pretty much a question in
my case of which comes first,
the chicken or the egg. Because
my first collaborator, Lorenz
Hart, often wrote words to my
melodies. When I act as my own
lyricist, however, the words and
music come about in a variety of
ways and orders. So there is real
ly no rule about my approach to
a song. And I wish to emphasize
that tlie principal ingredient in
my approach to composing is
hard work. Often people tend to
think of me as a rapid writer of
music, hut the fact of the matter
i.s that once I sit down to pul
the notes on paper, I have been
arranging them in my head for
days or sometimes Weeks before
they arc committed to the staff."
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I It is understood that Twentieth-
I Century Fox is planning an epic
motion picture to be entitled
“John Brown’s Bofiy" and to be
based on the great poem of that
name by Stephen V'ir.ccnt Benet.
The picture, I am informed, is to
have an exciting love story with
Cleveland County Democrats'-'' background of the Civil War
will go to the polls again Satur-,anf> }}}^ strug,-lo to abolish slav^-
day to complete their biennial se-]^fy_ battles of Bull Rmi a^nd
lection of party nominees with' t^fttysburg are to be reenacted
iL- •- ^i _e'in pvf'itincr niithPntiCit V. AVlth
the one major chore choice of 'b exciting authenticity, with
Carl P. Finger of Kin.?s Moun-'"hot in the regions
tain or Broadus Ellis of Grover,where they occurred. Pandro -S.
for District 111 county commis- Berman, the noted llollywood
sioner producer, will be in charge ot
■ the film which will be a long
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL ‘ and spectacular one with historic
. .land cultural elements importanly
Miss Grace Faye Hoyle and jpcluded.
William Louis Crawford, both of I
....... ... gasped, the worn-' :“.'w i i„rirnn and 'the tcchnini.esi -Mountain, were married inj Among other many things that
en screamed, and, as now • Ad-1 him. familiar The Diirnose of I** l^obfal church wedding Satur-|he did. Benjamin Franklin is
miral John Bulkley spoke of PT- children un- - P P - i day at 7:30 p.m. in David’s Bap- said to have been America’s first
boat operations against the Jap-i^'''- 16 absolute right “f | L r^nonLibil tv I'"* I cartoonist. He drew the picture
anese, we all made immediate, i to ^thosn who v'icfimc n^i. •'I''®- Pranklin Pothel'of a m-rpent that had been cut
plans get-the-hell out of there. I ‘’J,*-' rathe^^h•an^Vcmator^^^^^^
ni-m 1°'' vommon-law wife, his young, rather than the creators of the through the mountains
Allen laugh” retHeved his naay also be| system under which they had tOj^tVsIern North Carolina.
•wt” hilt tho dolioiniio .on-ot 'adtnitted at the discretion Of the I “ve.
J^’n't ^ 1 immigration authorities. | A nationwide poll shows that
wasnt digesting too well. | number of dependent rela- U" increasing number of Negroes
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Who’s for rattlesnake meat?
Conoisseurs of food rate it better
than the best of fried chicken and
frog legs.
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Tom Tate and I were talking
about cooking. I told him I could
manage very well at breakfast.
tivos has been growing rapidly. | believe that they are out of “the
In the second six months of ■ mainstream of American Socie-
1962, 4,217 people with work per-' ty-’’ A study of employment in
mils came here from Common-1 Kentucky shows that the belief
wealth countries, excluding Aus-1 is not unfounded. The report on
tralia, Canada and .New Zealand, i employment showed that though
They brought in 8,218 depend-1 Negroes make up 7.2 percent ol
ents—roughly two for each work- the state’s population, they hold
er. I only 6.6 per cent of the jobs in
HOSPITALIZED
Sam R. Suber, retired city
cemetery superintendent, was
admitted last Thursday to Gas
ton .Memorial hospital in Gas
tonia for observation and treat
ment. Mr. Suber is a patient in
Room 301.
envied men who seemed to de-j j same group of Kentucky's 139 largest firms, and
lijrhf in nrpnflrincr ilinnpr. atiH r .. ^ nr 4-k_
place."
into 13 sections, representing the
American colonies, each of which
was then struggling for its own
autononomy. Beneath the draw-
j ing, he printed (ho words, "Unite
or Die". First published in the
Pennsylvania Gazette in 1731,
this cartoon appeared widely in
papers throughout the colonies,
enjoying the equivalent of a syn
dicated circulation, although syn
dicates did not come into exis
tence until more than a century
; later.
sponsible for proving three' ^
squares per day to 2900 officers] jj jjg more than one wife
and men. In spite of fuel oil ^ under the laws of his country, he
barning stoves which sometime
fired and sometimes balked,
Tom’s crew managed pretty well.
Awakened one morning with the
w )rd that it was 7 a.m. with sev
eral hundred GI’s still in the
chow line and the General hop-
pin’ mad, Tom immediately be
stirred himself as befits one
when his General is upset, found
Buenos Aires has always been
. , .'III XiJ\J I Xi i wi ^
light in preparing dinner, and | pgumrips ,he number of work. only 2.7 percent of the skilled
-ould he cook. ] pg^mit holders was 4,750. I and white collar jobs.
J I But 46,500 dependents were ad-' Such figures illustrate the need
Oh, yes, Tom replied, his ex-ij^j^jg^j _ nearly ,en for every I for a fresh look at current poll- dictatorship’s economies. As to
porience gleaned as an army mess j ^gj.|^gj, ] cies, in that they reflect past the latter, austerity and devalua-
sergeant in Europe during the; -pj^g dependents entitle an im- inequities in education and train-
Koi-ean War, where he was re-' j jo the same tax reliefs j'ng at public expense and in the
igets only one married tax allow
ance.
'But all the children of his mar
riages rank 'for. tax relief.
Of course, if we are to admit
imrfiigrants at all, obviously their
families must be allowed to join
them.
But where do you draw the
hiring practices of private indus
try. Available public and private
resources should be used to speed
the process of bringing long-op
pressed groups into regular
channels of employment and
advancement.
One needn’t raise the specter
of recent days in support ot
such a plea, or repeat the chal
lenging words from pulpits at
Easter time. One need only ac
cept the idea that Americans are,
a cosmopolitan city, and we doubtj
that the moral crusade will prove) Claude M. Bristol says that
much more successful than the! man is heir to the wisdom of the
ages found within the covers of
great books. Ho feels that not
the usual stove trouble. He shows the necessity for much! first, a pragmatic people. When
cided to utilize the big steam: smaller quotas of immigrants | things and ideas work, they are
cabinets which provided theon.—Courier and Ad-; used. When they fail, they are
I discarded. The old ways of deal
ing with racial matters have fail
ed at great cost to all. There
are outlines for a new and far
daily vast quantities of spuds I (Dundee. Scotland)
any army outfit requires, tossed i
in the eggs and serv^ that'
morning’s eggs boiled. "TTiey: FOR OLD CARS
griped, .but at least they were| Senator Claiborne Pell of' more beneficial approach through
fed. It was the best I could do,” [Rhode Island has come lup with'real equality of opportunity. But
Tom recalls. | an idea of double-barrelled merit, first there must be a righting of
m-m I Pell — an amateur oceano-jold wrongs, a temporary imbal-
Not long before he was to exit.grapher — advocates the use otj -ance in favor of the people who
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tion of the peso have brought
fiscal stability and a mild reces
sion with it. As to the former,
the hippies have learned to duck
the police, skirts keep going up
and, instead of hand-holding, cou
ples now stroll with their arms
around each others’ shoulders.
Somewhere between the cavalry
general and the man in the
street, the chain of command has
nearly enough people read books,
that few business men read any
thing besides the newspapers and
a few trade journals. When he
checked professional men, he
found that they iwore more or
less limited to books and litera
ture dealing with their respective
fields. Bristol believes that any
kind of book, history, biography,
fiction or scientific volumes near-
broken down. — St. Louis Posf-.ly always contain ideas useful in
Dispatch. one’s own work.
from the service, Tom was pro-! junked oar bodies to create what were neglected in the past
moted to staff sergeant and]he terms “instant fish metropol-' —phe Courier-Journal'
transferred from the mess chorejis” on the bottom of the sea to (Louisville, Ky.) |
which had precluded some of hisiattract marine life seeking safo-l —
basic training. The cadre he hadlty from predators. I HAIRCUTS BY DECREE I
marched to retreat was return-* Before submerging them. Pell q-he economic difficulties of thej
'ng to barracks, the route by the .suggests the metal carcasses be Argentine military government
headquarters offices. As the cadre! dipped in rust resistant plaint to I have served to distract us some-'
approached, the General manned preserve them from erosion. Thus] what from its moral and cultural j
he steps. Tom threw his hand protected, he saj's the remnants problems, though Arzentiniansl
hatward in a smart salute and of old cars would provide prem-| have not been distracted. ... In'
made his “hup, two, three, four" anent habitat for creatures of thei any event, Gen. Juhn Oarlos On-
more resonant, but was shortly] sda. I ganla has turned out to be a puri-
ordered to halt. j There’s reason to believe that tanical sort of authoritarian.
m-m I fish would flock to such hide-1 Government policies now dis-
"Where the hell did you learn outs. Anyone familiar with auto-! course hand-holding or kissing in
mobile junkyards on land knows public, miniskirts arid long-h'air
they are havens for varmints, ro
dents, and snakes. One would as
sume they would be no less at
tractive to denizens of the deep.
An ocean burying ground for
old car bulks is an idea worth
to march?” the General wantegl
’o know. Replied Tom, ‘T didn’t,
dr." ‘That’s the d . . . truth!”,
•he General excoriated, “carry
on!”
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The same General subsequent
ly Invited Tom to spurn his dls-
styles. They also include heavy-
handed censorship of the arts.j
Police simply round uo Buenos
Aires hippies and give them hair
cuts in jail. A kiss in a park is
also 'Worth a jail visit. As for ciil-
'charje and remain aboard, but
Tom had had enough of bad | the countless junked vehicles
:we«ither campingi mUd ahdi which now deface America’s
snakes and declined the invite-{landscape. — Nashxnlle (Tenn.)
tlen. Bayner.
exploring. Certainly there is a. ture, Gen. Ongania vl.sited a per.
ne^ for some place to dispose of | fnimonce of the SP-nvInskv hn'-
lef ’The Rite of Spring." and
f
tbld the theater martagemettf. “If
vou eer show me anything dirty
like that again. I’ll close this
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