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THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
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Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Herald
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
tor the enilghtenn.ent, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain
and its vicinity, pubiLshed every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 2806B
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873.
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
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Schopl desegregation yes, busing to
achieve integration no.
This was the summation of Presi
dent Nixon’s school policy speech.
How he arrived at his conclusions
can be only guess-work, but
When the Supreme Court spoke in
1954, nearly 16 years ago, there was no
question about the de-segregation of
schools. Unfortunately, it appears now,
the Supreme Court spoke in too little
detail and “with all reasonable speed”
now seems a mockery. It merely invited
the diehards (and now not limited to
the Deep South states of the Confeder
acy) to stop the incoming tide.
Further litigation decided by the
Supreme Court have added some detail
but one of the judges in the Charlotte
litigation agreed there is much yet to
be spelled out.
The President as he is sworn to do
upholds the law of the land. The Presi
dent had no choice in this.
Busing to achieve integration is yet
another matter.
That kind of busing is uneconomic
per se. And just as in the East Kings
Mountain situation here, it is plain
stupid to bus children several mtles to
school, when they can attend one in a
ten-minute walk.
And there is some que.stion of pro
priety, when unnecessary, in having
youngsters catch bu.ses at an early hour
and arrive home late.
Bus ’em 40 miles, if that is required.
And one such situation existed in the
mount£iins when a county with little
Negro population and therefore few
Negro student s bused them to a neigh
boring county, and it approximately
that distance. Don’t bus ’em one mile if
unnecessary.
The President must have considered
such points.
The Honorable Gentleman from
South Carolina, Senator Strom Thur
mond, has yelled "foul" at the Pi’esident,
Thurmond claiming a pre-election com
mittment to preserve freedom of choice.
Well, the Supreme Court spoke on
freedom of choice, too. It wasn’t wrong
per se, said the Court, but each case
would be considered on its own merits.
The Department of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare did not read that de
cision well,, if at all, and proceeded to
draw guidelines ignoring that fact.
Kings Mountain district is now op
erated under HEW’s now-favored geo
graphical plan—which most likely led
to the busing boost by the ardent de
segregationists.
Senator Thurtpond, of course, HEW’s
predilection to write law by fiat and
edict, now popularly called guideline, and
his complaint would have been in better
taste on this ground than the one he
used.
The President seems to have adopt
ed a middle course that he had little
other choice than to take.
The Looking Glass
Senator Hargrove Bowles, in his
address at the Lions Farmer’s Night
banquet, declared, "We need to take a
good hard look at ourselves.”
He further declared, “We ‘squares’
must .speak out,” and he gave some def
initions of “squares. They added to be
patriotic Americans, proud of their
country, law abiding citizens, but who,
for one reason or two, tolerate what
they feel to be wrong in their community,
state and union, but who remain silent.
Too many say let George do it, he
Indicated.
“If the good folk don’t participate,
our country can be destroyed.”
Senator Bowles was talking down
the throats of the great majority of
Americans who believe in government
by law, the right of peaceful (Jissent and
who atill get. a. ttirill wken ^ floifl
passes in a parade.
Drug Advertising
A Dead Horse?
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
It wasn’t quite like non-prean-
nourveed visit by an officer of
the Federal Bureau of Investi
gation whieh occasions a quick
questioning thought, “What in
He i» not here; for he is risen, ax he •/iai(l,Come, see the iilace u-here the Lord piy. Work S8:6.
In the twenties, a pharmacist could
attend pharmacy school for two years,
pass the state examination and go about
his business.
Sometime later, a four year college
cour.se became pre-requisite.
Now a fifth year (saving grace be
ing it can be managed with four quar
ters as on-the-drug store pharmaceutical
a.ssistants) is required.
Maybe the extra time is necessary,
as the drug industry's pills of today are
new models, with old faithful remedies
consigned to the pharmaceutical mu
seum.
Would-be journalists of the state are
now blessed with a School of Journalism.
Older model professionals like Vermont
Royster, editor of the Wall Street Jour
nal, Clifton Daniel, managing editor of
the New York Times, Morris Rosenberg,
manager of the Associated Press Paris
bureau, and many others must question
whether the ministrations of the School
of Journalism are a great improvement
over the ministrations of the three-man
department these men had pleasure of
enjoying.
Now the drug folk are talking about
adopting a professional code of ethics,
one phrase of which has brought a loud
question from Eckerd’s, major drug
chain. It infers there should be no drug
advertising, such being beneath the dig
nity of the pill-rollers.
Well, today, the pill-roller has be
come in essence a pill counter. Few doc
tors prescribe those old time consuming,
hard-to-make powders anymore.
A pharmacist today is a knowledge
able chemist. A journalist today is what
he’s been for years, a craftsman w’ho
reads much, knows people and can re
port events correctly. (Some of us ain’t
journalists.)
Some medics and legal eagles would
do well to strike the clause from their
codes of ethics, too.
the world have I tioiie?’’
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The nlce-Iookirig young man in
his late twenties introduced him
self as a detective with the Dis
trict of Columbia Metropolitan
police and addod^ "Could I talk
to you a minute?”
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He merely wanted a bit of free
advertising. Congress has au
thorized increase of the Capitol
City’s 4100-man police force to
5100. Do you want to be a police
officer in Washington? If you
do, visit the recruiting office for
an interview on Saturday, April
4, at 10 a.m.. or on Monday, Ap
ril 6, at 6:30 pjn. The o-ffice is in
the Charlotte p<istorftce building,
401 W<‘st Trade, Room 21.1A. If
you need moia* information than
appears here, phone Charlotte
372-0714, Extension 658,
He Is Risen
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Requirements In brief; Mini
mum education a high school di
ploma; ages 21 to 28; minimum
height 5 feet 7.
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Remuneration; starting salary
$8,000 per year, moving expenses
also paid.
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KINGS MOUNTAIN
Hospital Log
VraiTINO HOURS
3 to 4 p.m. aad 7 to 8 p-m.
DaUr 10:30 To 11:30 cum.
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Jame.s D. Bennett had just
come home from Pittsburgh, Pa.,
where he had .set up a recruiting
arrangement tliere.
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Ye.s, home is correct. The Kings
Mountain native won his diploma
from Kings Mountain higli school
in 1959, spent four years in Uncle
Samuel’s Air Force, and has been
with the DC police force six years.
He hopes, he said, to get some
applicants from his hometown
ai-ea. Reports of the -Metropolitan
force activity got to Congress and
to the White Hou.se. There is some
talk about building the force to
6,000. “It has been decided by
Congress to attack the Washing
ton law enforcement problems
with more men,” he continued.
astei
renews the hope
of the worhl
Viewpoints of Other Editors
THE DRUG TRAFFIC
The head of Chapr'l Hill’s Drug
Action Committee was quoted a
f«w days ago to the effect that
it is easy to go downtown on
COST OF THE
PRESIDENCY
IA GRASS-ROOTS SUCCESS
It’s one of the more interesting
pastimes to try to figure out
A few months ago, several of
our retired ciitzens decided it wa.s
time to do something about home
Franklin Street and within five ' president in office. The official
minutes buy almost anything | White House budget at the mo-
you want, from marijuana to ; ment is a shade under $4 mil-
heroin. lion. But it doesn’t include the
340 persons working for Presi-
how much it costs to maintain a health care .service in Chapel
Hill. They knew there was very
little available and they also
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Another former Kings Mountain
' man named MuIlLs (I forgot the
first name) is also on the force.
It was noted that the Shelby Clham-
ber of Commerce is seeking to revive
the county-wide school consolidation is
sue.
An answer was given rather graphi
cally less than a year ago when voters
by a considerable majority declined a
proposal to raise the supplemental
school tax ot .50 cents per $100 valuation.
School officials pledged to levy in
the immediate future merely 40 cents,
maximum being charged at that time
in the Shelby school district.)
Tax equalization is the answer to
the continuing consolidation teaser.
But the problem lies in the variance.
Shelby’s 40-cents maximum is fol
lowed by Kings Mountain’s 20-cents
maximum. The county district cannot
get the voters, or has not yet, to approve
any supplement.
Shelby is not willing to retrogress,
the county isn’t willing to vote asupple-
ment. These are the extremes of the
pole.
But each of the three districts re
corded solid majorities against the 50-
cent proposal. A 40-cent supplement
would have meant nothing additional to
Shelby district.
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He was not arquainted. he .said,'
with another former Kings Moun
tain man, who is in similar work,
in the Capitol City, Jesse Wilson.
Je.sse, a fleet halfback for the |
high school Mountaineers, in the
thirties, has been with the secur
ity division of the Department of
Interior for many years.
A student at the high school
here, a user and small-time deal
er in drugs, estimates that from
forty to sixty per cent of the
students in the high school have
used some sort of illegal ijai--
cotlc at least once. The number
ct; habitual users is. of course,
much smaller by his estimates,
but still large enough to consti
tute a major problem.
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A member of one UNC frater-
ity in Chapel Hill figures that
up to eighty-five percent of 'his
brothers hav'e tried marijuana.
Maybe a fourth of that number
■use it with some frequency.
Senator Hargrove (Skipixn)
Bo-wiles, who spoke here at the
annual Parmer’s Night l;an<uiet
said he felt like a Lion. He was
in Tokyo on business Iasi slim
mer during the Lions Inlenia-
tional convention. He couldn’t
find a hotel room, catch a call.
Or do much of anything. Ho
found a friendly Lion and relat
ed his plight. "I believe you can
forget worrying about that,” the
Lion said, handing him a Lion
kewpie hat.
Somewhere beSween forty and
seventy per cent of the entire
UNC student body of more than
16,000 has used marijuana or
drugs at least once, according to
pictty goixl sources.
The drug traffic in the junior
hi.gh schools and among those
who aren’t in either the Univer
sity or public schools is impossi
ble to estimate. But there is some
ti-affic theie too.
That took care of everything,
the Skipper related. He got hotel
room at convention rates, found
that meals in the restaurants
were billed at discounts. Trans
portation was no longer a pro
blem.
Regardless of whether you
take the high or low figures and
maybe e\'cn divide the whole by
lialf to be conservative about it,
this amounts to an incredibly
heavy flow in a town this size.
“I guess,’
"you can
Lion."
the Skipper said,
call me a bootleg
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Farmer-Lion Bill Plonk, who
presented tlie speaker, said he
learned Bowles had some farm
er in him, too, being a director
of a hog-raising firm in one of
the Rocky Mountain states. With
4500 hogs, a fair-sized farmer
credential.
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Essentially, of course, the tenor of
thinking was that “taxe.s are high
enough’.
There followed the onc-cent optional
sales tax levy.
Cleveland’s thinking on the “taxes
are high enough” tenor came through
loud and strong again.
County - wide school consolidation
may not be a dead horse but today, due
perhaps in the main to the tax situation
at county, state and federal levels of
government, but the poor fellow is
spavined and sick. There is question
whether he should be belabored until he
has recuperated somewhat.
Hearty congratulations to Captain
B. Meek Ormand, who observed his lOIst
birthday, and to Mrs. W. F. Styers, a
new nonogenarian.
Originally from Monroe, both
Skipper and the older brother
John worked their ways to Uni
versity of North Carolina diplo
mas. Both waited tables at the
school dining halls. Skipper sold
i-orsages for the students to
give their lady imports on week
end football games and dance
sets, liad a couple more opera
tions, was president of his class
his sophomore year — and some
how managed to earn solid pass
ing gra.les. John was president
of Rexall Drug Company for
several years, now is described
by Skipper as a "professional
corporate diiector”. John serves
on several boards, one an
lish fiinn, who pis him o.cr
the wa cr for ...d i.iveungs
four ti..icj u year. ^
Skipper is a near-neighbor,
having married Jessamine Boyce
of Geustonia. He certainly is a
kindred spirit to Associate Re
formed Presbyterians, a forebear
of his wife being Erskine Ebe-
nezer Boyce, for whom Boyce
Memorial ARP (Jhureh is named.
One of Skipper’s boys carries Er
skine in his nomendature.
Arrayed against this tnaltficai’e
the thin and overworked ranks
of local and County law enforce
ment officers, and whatever help
we can get from the State Bu
reau of Investigation. At present,
the S-BI has a gran.-i- total of 65
cigents in the field, to be spread
across North Carolina’s 100
counties. ’Their duties cover a
wide range of activities other
than narcotics. The SBI has fin
ally managed to cr©.ite a special
narcotics squad, but its manpow
er and resources aae nowhere
near equal to the challenge.
According to SBI Director
Charles Dunn, “It is no problem
today to buy illegal drugs. Most
if not all college and un versity
campuses have access to miiri-
juana, heroin, and the increasing
array of hallucinogenic drugs."
To compound the problem, col
leges, univei-slties and public
schools are doing virtually no
thing to stem the traffic. TheT
position, Dunn says, is that it
isn’t their problem. ♦
dent Nixon but “detailed" to oth
Or departments. Nor the presi
dent's share of the 10 jets which
transport high government of
ficials. Nor the million dollars
or so it costs to outfit and man
the two personally owned but
government-maintained presiden
tial retreats at Key Biscayne
and San Clemente l nor the Navy-
maintained Camp David). Nor
the carpenters and gardeners,
police and Secret Service men
who maintain the White House
grounds and guard the president.
The Wall Street Journal’s
rough guess is that the costs of
the presidency would total about
$70 million. There’s a -reticence
in government circles to break
out the president’s full share of
other departments’ budgets. Of
course, secrecyi must be main
tained On White House protective
measures. And the president’s
men may well feel that if the
total weie ever really worked
out, the public might not be too
happy.
This July, President Nixotj is
taking a step fottward candor in
White House amoounting. Its ac
knowledged budget for the next
■fiscal year will more than dou
ble to $8,500,000, because it will
now include the cost of aides
farmed out to other departments.
This is still far from the full
story, however — far less titan
the Internal Revenue would ac
cept from the rest of us.
Christian Science Monitdr
Our position is that it’s every
body’s problem and, even though
MEASURING HAPPINESS
There is a black lady we know
who is absolutely bursting with
happiness and joy of living.
True, she lives in a depresslngly
poor slum. Yes, all around her
are the most terrible problems,
a frightening crime rate, the
continuous picture of persons
who have almost had the heart
taken outof them by the prob
lems, the setbacks, the discour
agement, the discrimination that
they have met. Yet this woman,
vVho herself woiuld have no
dearth of reasons for legitimate
complaint, is as joytful a person
as one could meet anywhere any
time?
And her secret? An old but
very simple one. She devotes her
life to helping others, loving
others, convforting others. It is
this deep devot on to mankind
which lifts her above the annoy
ances ani.’l shoclcs which make
so m-any - rich as well as poor
attacking the traffic is not the | - disgruntled and angry. She has
knew there was a need for it.
Some retired citizens who didn’t
want to be packed off to rest
homes seriously considering re-!
retiring to other towns where
home health .service would be
available.
With John Harkness and Dr.
Graham Cook and a handful of
others leading the way, this group
of concerned citizens set about
creating an agency here. They
consulted with experts at Memo
rial Hospital, the UNC, Medical
School,, the State Board of Health,
the Durham-Orange County Medi
cal Society, the UNC Department
of Public Health Nursing, the
UNC School of Public Health, the
District Health Department, and
federal officials to find out what
could be done and how it ought
to be done.
Gus S. Bennett
Mrs. Belle T. Ca-rico
Rmsst'll E. Ellis
Mrs. Florence L. Falls
Mrs. Margaret C. Karris
Mamie G, Gill
Everello Goixie
Mrs. Virginia M. Herndon
Mrs. Lissie S. Joiirison
Mrs. Annie B. Jolly
Haskel F. Baumgardnor
■Mrs. Mamie D. Pannier
Mrs. Sara E. Propst
Mrs. Cora L. Rhyne
Mrs. James Baity
William T. Bridges
Mrs. Bruce Brlgman
Mrs. Lois N. Camp
Carl E. Conrad
Edwai^d W. Dellinger
Oscar E. Gladden
Mis. Eula G. Hardin
Sidney D. Huffsietler
Ervin A. Jenkins
Laur J. Laws
James Moss
Mrs. James E. Moss
Judge L. Phillips
Mrs. Eugene H. Roberts
Mrs. Antieho P. Smith
Mrs. Jame.s P. .Sneisi
Marlin L. Wil.son, .Sr.
Carl J. Trupletl
Mrs. Fannie K White
Jolin C. Waller
Mis. Ronald M. Price
Admitted Thursday
Ernest Hood
Admitted Friday
Mrs. Lois N. Camp
Mrs. Wilhurn H. Abernalhy
Admitted Saturday
Hubert G. Clemmons
Mrs. Mary P. FarrLs
Mrs. Ricky D. Hal)
Nancy E. McCarter
Hazel C. Queen
Mrs. James Roseboro
Mrs. Lee R. Sellers
Gary E. Gunter
Admitted Sunday
Mrs. S. W. Worthen
Mrs. Earl A.. Wright
Admitted Monday
John B. Husklns
John C. Talley
James E. Castles
Mrs. Hcrshel Davis
Mrs. Lemuel Hamrick
Paul G. Harding
Mrs. Horace L. Patterson
Harry P. Roark, Jr.
Robert A. Smith
Bobby G. Sutherland
Frances B. Wilson
Mrs. Stoye Lt'e
Mrs. Alonzo W. Manley
Mrs. Wilburn W. Stylos
Admitted Tuesday
Billy A. Baynard
Earl D. Hicks
Mrs. Hillard S. Smith
Bert Van Ynndlo
Guy W. Carlan
Mrs. Harvey L. Grant
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Then they surveyed the com
munity to identify as precisely as
passible the .specific needs.
The result is the brand-new
Chapel Hill Home Health Agency,
the fruit of a grass-roots effort
that is possibly unique in the
country.
Building Permits
Issued By City
Two city building permits were
issued during the past week.
Pei-mil was issued to Charles
and Ruby Alexander for con
struction of a six-room brick
veneer dwelling, estimated
cost $18,000, at .502 Ellenwood
Drive. .Marion Dixon is contrac
or.
Permit was issued to Grace
Davis for construction of foui
„ ^ , r, room brick veneer dwell ng, es
Mr. Harkness, Dr. Cook, Dr. timated to cost $.8,000, in the 100
Ruth Grout, Mrs. Mary Snyder,
Miss Julia Watkins and Mrs.
Wilder Towle—the original mem
bers of that group of concerned
block of S, Gaston street.
citizens — deserve our standing door to contentment.
sake alone will ojicn a magici
applause. —Chapel HUl Weekly
are not, af course, counseling a
supine acceptance of a wrong
place or a wrong position. We
are not speaking of those who—
thoughtfully and -tjarefully —
change their base of operations
An English writer said th
“Happiness is like time or
space — we make and measu
It ourselves." The black lady
whom we spoke learned th
truth early on when she fir
extended a watm, strong hai
because they ean make better' to persons in need. She has bet
use of their talents elsewhere.
Nor are we talking of those who,
with every right in the ivvorld,
fight to free themselves from
poverty and discrimination. We
think, rather, of those who
dream that change for change’s
happy - far happier than t
average man or woman — ev
since. It seems to u.s that this
lesson which these trouble
striving, cantankerous, imrestf
times might well benefit from.
Christian Science Monit
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final solution or maybe even the
Itest one, it is one thing that
must be done.
learned, through the inborn
The only way it can be done is
to give our law enforcement a-
gencies, local and county as well
a t’le SIBI, the manpower and
her resources commensurate
with the job.
In a few weeks our Town and
County governments will be set
ting up new budgets. That is
when we can decide whether we
really want to fight drug traffic
on the local level and appropri
ate the money for it, or Whether
,wc w<Htld prefer to wait and
hope for somebody else to do
it for us.
You might give k a thought,
Chaptl Hill Weekly
goodness of her character, a Ics-1
son which we all have been told
but which too ifeiw of us take to
heart. This is that, at rock bot
tom, material circumstances a-
lone cannot noake one happy'.
We thought instinctively of
this lady the ot.her day when we
read two different newspaper ar
ticles. One told of how millions
of Americans yearn to leave ehe
cities and go live in the country.
The other told of the "dullness”
of small town life ami how so
many countryside dwellers long
ed for the "excitement” of city
living. In short, that old grass
looked a mighty lot greener in
the other fejiow's yard.
Yet how many persons actual
ly find happiness through m^cre
discontent 'and restlessness? We
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