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4..-^ «i* -i ^ 4 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C Thursday, July 17, 1969 ••ir’ EstoblUbed 1189 The Kings Monntain Heiald JiC«roliii^ I ASIOCUTl A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the genial welfare and published lor the enllghtenn.ent, 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., 280fi6 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITOSIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper MECHANICAL OBPABTMENT Dave Weathers, Supt. Allen Myers Paul Jackson Douglas Weathers David .Myers SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR... .$3.50 SIX MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROUNA SALES TAX telephone number — 739-5441 St. Matthew 6:1. Plea Rejected Cheop Improvement The county commission declined a plea by the county district school teach ers for a 20-cents per $100 valuation tax increase to provide some “extras” the county district sorely needs. One rail crossing which is most dan gerous can be easily improved. This is the Baker street crossing. Among the "extras" are teachers in over-load situations, teacher aides, in structional tools and supplies. In view of several factors, the coun ty commission could hardly have done otherwise. Traffic moving west cannot look to the south without putting car noses on the track because 1) tall grass impedes the vision and 2) the bank along the rail bed Is too high. 1) The commission already was upp ing the tax rate by eight cents. Cutting of grass and paring of bank would make the crossing safe for any motorist who practiced the stop-look- listen rule of the road. 2) Under the per capita pupil divi sion formula on which funds derived from county-wide school levies are shar ed, the amount desired by the county district teachers would have had to be increased sufficiently to provide equal per capita amounts for Shelby and Kings Mountain school districts. The cost would be in no wise kin to the $25,000 for flashing bell signals, nor the $30,000 for flashing bell signals with barriers. House Rasing 3) Perhaps most important, voters of the county had voted solidly to reject a 50-cent local supplemental tax on May 24. The voters had spoken and to ask the commission to flaunt the voters was a disservice to the asked—and asker, too. In a democratic society, it just isn’t done that dictatorial way. If it is, the result is some neat guillotining on the next election day. Those conducting the several clean up plans promoted here during the past several years knew they had made for ward strides, but not near enough. The incidence of sub-standard hous ing remains high and there are plenty of falling-down derelects still about, some of them occupied. Hindsight is wonderful, foresight tricky, but the factors by which the needed supplemental tax defeated many. Timing was bad, because the Gen eral Assembly had not yet enacted the state public school program. Shelby dis trict had little to gain with only a 10- cent increase in authorization. The 50- cent bite on the county district citizenry loomed quite large. Saimpl6: A Herald reporter saw one Wednesday. There was an out-door toi let and a well nearby. Clothes were dry ing on the line. Closely adjacent were an unoccupied derelict damaged by fire and next on the short row was a burned-out bulk. And many people had joined the chronic anti-taxers for sundry reasons. Even at the occupied house an old refrigerator, death trap for youngsters, wasn’t far from the front door. The gar bage can was the ground and the odor was not pleasant. Learned leaders of government par ticularly those of the elected variety, know it is hard to carry the voters far, too fast. The city is offering to raze the dere licts, all for free, within the month, on request of the property owner. The county district very well may have voted a ^-cent supplement. Implication by the city commission is that the next step will be condemna tion action, the razing cost of course to be borne by the owner. The Raleigh advice that a county wide election would mean a much sim pler gear-up was quite valid, but, had the metes and bounds of the county district been spelled out, district registration held, and an election conducted, the county district may have been on a high er road. Henry Wilson Gamble Henry Wilson (Wilkes) Gamble was another of the rugged individuals of the Reconstruction period. Mixed Wednesday “The shopping centers near-by are eating’em up,” a Kings Mountain citizen remarked recently. He cited his own pur chases away from home, largely due to plenty of free parking and longer operat ing schedules, and declared he never went away unless he saw many of his neighbor-friends. TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE But when ye pray, use not owin repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think they shall be heard by their ymich speaking. His chore was a difficult one, pro viding bed and board and clothes for eight children in a time when the im poverished South was trying to recover from the loss of men and treasure in the Civil War. Many merchants here say they real ized the same. They feel one way they can improve the situation is to work a full day onWednesday. A son recalls, “We raised cotton to provide clothes, corn and other grain to feed the stock, cane for molasses, vege tables in the summer. We were never without food. Of course, we didn’t have chicken and country ham everyday. By the way, that cornbread and milk for supper was mighty good.” Mr. Gamble did his job. He was an upstanding citizen and his passing at 93 removes from among us a man much-respected. This week for the first time three of the city’s four Hnancial firms were open on Wednesday afternoon, joining several department and variety stores, garages, auto dealers, and service stations. Miss Maude Gardner Kings Mountain is a mixed-Wednes- day city. And it’s confusing to the customer. A real service of the merchants as sociation would be evolvement of a standard policy including the vast bulk of retail and service establishments. Well, a businessman had a framed declaration on his office wall some years ago, which read: "The improbable we do today. The impossible we do tomorrow." She was, additionally, a most Inter esting personality. MARTIN'S MEDICINE Ingredients: Bits of humor, wisdom, humor and com ments. Directions: Take weekly, if possible, but a- void overdosage. By MARTIN HARMON It is patent that the fellow who has an operation (successful) ■brags about his unusual experi ence, only to find that he has much company. Sometimes he finds that, like fishermen, the other fellow caught a bi^jger one. ‘ m-m Recently, in Kings Mountani, rumor was extant of the expira tion from this vale of tears who proved very much alive, which are the kind of false rumors iwhich ought to be snread, if any false remors should be. In the in stance I have run across, some shouldn’t have been, and others were hilarious. m-ni Four years ago, at my college class silver anniversary reunion, a friend, ex of Mooresville now of Spartanburg, grabbed by hand and shaked it with undue warmth. He said, “Boy, I’m sure glad to see you!’’ I replied in kind. Tlien he continued, “I heard two years ago you were dead!" Admittedly, his report inspired a bit of a fun ny feeling. m-m I had a similar experience the following day. I was sure I had read in the alumni publication one of my Greek classmates from Hendersonville had lost his life in the service in World War H. As we gathered for the luncheon and before “chow down” was sounded, who walked in, hale and hardy, but Nick? I shaked his hand in quite warm fashion, too, but I didn’t tell Nick what Char lie had told me. Nick, internation al sales manager for Royal Dutch Petroleum, had flown in from Rochester, N. Y. Achievements N mi kiNGS MOUNIA1N Hospital Log VISITINO HOURS S to 4 pjn. and 7 to 8 pan. DoUy 10:30 To 11:30 ojn- PATIENTS IN KINCB MOONTAIN HOSPITAL AS OF NOON WED NESDAY: ■Mrs. Addie Hendrick Beam Mrs. Celia S. Bonds Mrs. Carl H. Carpenter Mrs. Mary O’Brien Gamble Mrs. Ethel Mae Hambiight Arthur Hamrick Miss Ida Huffstetler Mrs. Homer A. Kilgore Mrs. Cora E. Laughter Mrs. Dalton Dover William Hoyle Moss John Bedford McDaniel Mrs. Minnie Emma Pruitt ■Mrs. Florence Randall George W. Shipman Aven Ware Smith W. Q. Dover IMrs. Marie Cain Fewell Mrs. Alice Lockard Harmon William Franklin Houser Mrs. Sidney Dulin Huffstetler Aden Humplirles ■Mrs. John A. Potcat Thurmon Lee Prince Mrs. Ida Lumpkin Smith Mrs. Ella Jay Love James Randall Maytjorry Mrs. John H. Nestlerode Mrs. Hillard D. Smith Mr. Jim Wyte ADMITTED THURSDAY Roy I^ee Hutfstetler, City Mrs. Tim K. Jones, City Mrs. Ronald Quay Stinnett, City James Andrew Moss, City ADMITTED FRIDAY Mr. Ernest Vick, City Arthur Cooper, Belmont • Mrs. Jennings B. Johnson, Gas tonia Mrs. James D. Shaw, Grover C t Viewpoints of Other Editors SCHOOLING FOR JOBS m-m I had a similar experience last year. Comparing notes on do-you- know-so-and-so with a new ac quaintance from Monroe, I be moaned thefate of Louis, a fel low horn-tooter in the band, who had quite a flying record with, General Claire Chennault’s volun teer Flying Tigers in China, sub sequently with the army air force. Experience shows that a young person who is given vocational courses and job experience as part of his education is far less likely than the untrained to face frus trating or even dangerous unem ployment periods after his school or college days are over. Ten Yeesrs Ago .'terns of interest which occur- id approximately ten years ago MORAL STARVATION ADMITTED SATURDAY Mrs. Jennie S. Yelton, City 'Mrs. Roy Smith, City Converse Hutchins, Rt. 1, Grov er One does not know whether to : applaud or weep at word from the gambling resort of Las Vegas I that the newest hotel there has provided dormitories for children. Our amazing Juniors are in the' so that, as one newspaper said. m-m I had mourned his fate in 1947 when I read (I thought) he’d lost his life in a lightplane crack-up near Myrtle Beach. “Oh, no,” by new-found friend sai,d. "He’s rr ,ht there in Monroe and in business." But ■millions of youths still leave American high schools and colleges without what educators call “salable skills.” Many adults, too, need opportunities to retrain in order to keep up with techno logical change. Aware of these facts, the United States CMigress last year approv ed, by a rare unanimous vote, a bill to encourage expansion and updating of vocational education. In the Vocational Education Amendments Act of 1968 Congress authorized federal support a- mounting to about $3 billion over a four-year period. Educators hailed the act as “a new charter for vocational cdu- Area Four Finals. The Kings Mountain Legion Kids gained the final round in the Western area. “they cannot disturb their parents’ nocturnal antics.” Applaud be cause the children are being sep- IIIIm rounu Ul HIL* VVC-anrin enuoxr mxr viiiiuicrii aixe defeating Hickory for the second! arated, in part at least, from an straight time, 10-3, here Tuesday atmosphere to which no child night in a wild game marred by should be exposed. Weep at the rain, rhubarbs and ball-hunting thought that there are parents epis^es. ' callous enough to take children into such cheapness. ■SOCIAL AND PERSONAL ■Mrs. Baxter Payseur and Mrs. As one thoughtful observer said OOAIWI X W. H Dillingham were hostesses upon reading this neLvs: “The on- Monday night at the former’s | ly starving children today are not home to members of Circle 7 of in Biafra. To take a child to the Central Methodist church. gangster-attracting fawdriness in The Friendship class of Grace. Las Vegas is to starve that child Methodist church held regular morally and InteUectually.” ADMITTED SUNDAY Mrs. Carl Bishop, Rt. 3, York, S. C- Carl Layton Bishop, Rt. 3. York, S. C. Mrs. Max Bolin, Rt. 2, Box 614, City Barbara Ann Byers, Rt. 3, City 57, City Janice Laverne Byers, ■Box 462, City Mavis Ann Byers, Rt. 3, Box 462, City Mrs. Pete Floyd, City Joe Rufus Whitehurst, Box 146-A, City ii' 1 Rt. 3. Rt; 1, m-m ration ” But the bright promise of the Among the roughest I’ve heard art now appears dimmed, at least (and ambarrassing to him' is! for a time. Congressional delay in told by Dr. Frank Sincox, who! tja-adrptim of the budget for the City. Cityj Bessb- meeting Tuesday night at the fel lowship hall of the church with Mrs. Doc McDaniel and Mrs. Kate Smith as hostesses. THE CHICAGO WARNING tola by Dr. rranK 5»irxcox, wxiu adrpiion oi ine ouugLH lor uu jarred homei nesxs in oig admits to waxing rather hr.que^p^y fiscal year which began July; (jjstricts across the country, at interruptions when he’s bu.=.v.' -j j,, expecledr:4o put off appropri- There is no doubt that fa< He answered a call at the hospi- pUjo of authorized funds until ne aiis’weitru a c-aii at itia pijjn oi auinorizeu lunu* tal. He recognized his wife’s voice, gpotember or October. This is too What did she want? “I just want- ^ew programs going t a. A-io. ..A.. II markltA*? Yet how many Las Vegas-hop- ping parents, after an atmosphere and shunted them off into dormi tories. will not someday piously shake their heads when reading - of young folks gone astray? Chil- The Justice Department’s warn-jdren are extraordinarily sensitive ing to Chicago — that it must:to the mental and moral mflu- nn with a Dlan fast to iences around them. And the false change" faulty p^UcL - ha si and vull^r glitter of much of Las jarred hornet nests in big cityj 'V^®* h*® a chUd s stricts across the country. itue. There is no doubt that faculty segregation on racial lines exists ADMITTED MONDAY Mrs. Nellie Hovis Hall, Mrs. Charles J. Oliver, Mrs. H. C. Bell, City Ralph Kelly Holfman. mer City John I. George, Jr., City Mrs. Glenn E. Bolin, Jr., City Mrs. Elton S. Stewart. City Mrs. Ruby Pauline Tullett, (5as- tonla James Thomas Clack, City Charles Timothy Powell, City ed in most cities. In Chicago, lew white teachers teach in black dis tricts and few black teachers (3 percent) teach in white schools. 1,11, get new programs going to talk to you,” she repliel. yp^r. “You know I don’t have time to More serious, however, are the _ talk,” Frank stormed, as he President Nixon’s'There is also no doubt the Justice clammed the receiver on hook. ^ recommendations, if ap- Department’s second charge a- His embarrassment transpired at Congress, would reduce home. Someone had called to re port his death in an auto acci dent. “I’ve tried to be more polite since,” he says. m-m Estelle Hord Ware says a re port on her father’s death circu lated after he’d been carried home with a stomach ailment. That eve ning Mrs. Press McGill and Miss Janie Jackson, who’d heard the report, paid call. Mr. Ed opened the door. It was three days later the door, it was tnree oajs laiei ,.r before Mr. Hord learned what had 1 o appropriations tor vocational edu cation to about one-third of those authorized in the act. It is vital that public attention be focused on this situation. The Vocational Amendments Act is a carefully written dorument with safeguards against the imisue of funds and with terms designed to direct spending to the areas most i nneed of aid. As is vividly stated by the writer of a letter a- gainst Chicago — ”a dispropor tionate number of new, inexperi enced, less-educated and noncer- tificated” teachers are assigned fo largely black schools — holds true for other cities. Faculty segrega tion and the assignment of poorer prepared teachers where the best are needed lie at the heart of city school problems. But what the public and all parties concerned must lead off as a result of the necessary feder al-city confrontation is a new ADMITTED TUESDAY Mrs. Robert Samuel Brympr. Jr. Bessemer City , Mrs. Larry Yvonne Mincey, Shelby \ Christian Science Monitor jjrs. Jasper R. Putnam, <?ltyi April Lynn Philbeck. Grover Mrs. Harold E. Queen, Grover Mrs. Charles P. Whitencr, York S. C. VISION AND A CAREER A man of great heart and great wisdom, the late Walter Gropius exerted a tremendous influence on world architecture. A rose in full bloom was the emblem he wore on each birthday — and he asked that the festivity of life, not mourning, mark his passing. His words to a group of school boys in Spokane, Washington, written in 1964, are loving and wise and bear out the example of his many-decades-lorta career: ■'For whatever profession, your happened. “I thought,” he said, ‘those ladies looked mighty flab bergasted.” m-m The Hughes sisters. Mrs. Phil lip Baker and Mrs. E. C. (Abie) Martin, had the unhappy experi ence of Mrs. Sincox. m-m In Mrs Baker’s instance, her husband and 'Bud McDaniel were fishing In the Catawba river arid were caught by a storm. Practi cally, they decided to pull their siaiea oy u.c- ...... al-city conironiauua us a nc.™ Inner devotion to the tasks you which appears on this page, „£ teacher-union hardline yourself must be so Ho. tha nntPntial c..K»iaa h..t «/nr.se. jg. fleeted from your aim. However dften the thread may be torn out of your hands, you ntisst develop bettering the futarp of millions of youths and adults, especially those in disadvantaged areas. But it will take renewed effort to see that it fulfills its potential. Congress has the responsibility of carrying out its own good inten tions. It has enacted a bold piece of legislation. It should now see that it is adequately funded. — Christian Science Monitor. CUMBING CLAMS reaction, or subtler but worse greater dispiriteJness among teachers in big city school sys tems. The federal warning in effect asks Chicago to abandon its poli cy of letting senior teachers choose the schools they want toj teach in. They tend to want to teach, not unexpectedly, in schools nearer their homes. Since teach ers by and large tend to live in the more desirable parts of the cities, they usually choose to teach in schools that reflect their own class and race. Teachers will enough patience to again and again. wind it up “Act as if you were goingrlo live forever and cast your plans way ahead. By this I mean that you must feel responsible with out time limitation. And the con sideration whether you may or may not be around to see the re sults should never enter your thoughts. “If your contribution has been vital, there will alkvays be some body around to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.” —Christian Science Monitor. Keep Your Radio Dial Set At 1220 ^ , Nature’s bounty never erases 1°, j-gsent giving up what choice they cally, they decided to pull their' agtound. Most of the time thisj j^^^g over their assignments, boat into a cove, wait out the ggogj-osity is warmly welcomed j .^^^g unnvill- storm, and await the dawn. Some! [yjan. But on occasion there, senior recruits are at all su- their gear floated ashore. Some-1 be just too much of a good to an Inexperieoed staff, one found it and life-saving crows I thing. Ask Newport, Rhode Is- were out in rjiantity. Their deaths, land. ■were reported. Phillip told Rwtoyl This once most fashionable of he felt kinda riding down Moun-|aH American seaside resorts (it tain enroute home. But Bud, folk- may still be) has been invaded by lore has it, t51d his wife, laugh- uncountable numljers of clams 'ng all the while, "Thought you’d! which climb and clamber all over lost your sugar daddy, didn’t, themselves to reach the famous Not a great number of Kings Moun tain area citizens knew Miss Maude Gardner, for she came to reside in Kings Mountain in her senior years. Her contributions to mankind’s wel fare were considerable. As a young woman, she entered the nursing profession and became the ad ministrator of a large Baltimore, Md. or thopedic hospital, a position of responsi bility not usually accorded a woman. >100? Louise Martin’s experience was much longer drawn out. Abie was reported killed in action in Ger many. It was two weeks -before the welcxHne telegram from the adjutant general of the army in beaches. But unlike the shoals of humans who do the same thing these hot July days, the clams refuse to go home at night. Hence the problem. In two weeks more than 300 tons 0.1 what are oftenreferred to in novels as “succulent bivalves” have been bulldozed onto trucks rlUjuianv gctlLittl v)l LIlc al ill^ all* *. ajii formed that Abie was wounded,; and carried away. But still they but very much alive. came. Not even an estimated 1,- 000 rtamdiggers from up and m-m I the clamdigging East Coast have j been able to keep up with the In- The biggest sin a nows reporter i vaslon. Folks in Newport doubt I can meke Is the sin of assump- ] if even the Walru and the Car- I tion, as titey learn painfully. The! penter could cope. This is not to say that the Jus- tiee Department’s warning to Chicago to comply with the 1964 Civil Rights-Act is not in order. But clearly, it points up other needs. Ways must be found to train more teachers from the neighborhoods in which they will teach. In Detroit, the city’s chief teacher training university has only a 12 percent black enroll ment, though it’s located in the heart of the black district. Also, the flight of the educated -to the cities’ fringes and suburbs must be slowed. Christian Science Monitor WKMT Kings Monntain, N. C. situation to the inveterate clam- eaters of New England, who, year by year, have seen clams grow scarer and dearer. And many of them say, perhaps over- Ijoldly, why can’t this happen on my beach as well as on Newport? iTews & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. I Tion, as in^ learn paimuiiy. ine; pcnifrr w«*va iu.y (rgr«cii ao w., motto: Always check It out. i This is, of course, an amazing —Chri$tian Scieiuv Monitor. Fine entertainment in between 0^ {»J{a
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