8. The Kings Mountain Heiald
* Established 1889
A weekly newspaper devoted 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.
rfntmta »« gwoiuf class matter at the postoffice at Kings Mountain. N. C. under Act
of Congress of March 3,1873.
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
A vAse man will hear and increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise coun
sels. Proverbs 1:5.
Tip Top Advice
It is graduation season. Already coun
ty schools in (the area 'have held com
mencement programs. Monday Kings
Mountain high school will give diplomas
to a Class of approximately 80.
Colleges, too, are awarding diplomas
to those who have passed the necessary
amount of work.
Do young folk remember the words of
wisdom the commencement speakers
give them? Likely not, but they should.
illhus far in the 1959 commencement
season no Wiser words have been spoken
than those of Senator Sam Ervin of Mor
gainton, Who told a graduation group to
hold to the truths of the past, yet al
ways be willing and able to investigate
the new.
Senator Ervin is a man Who continues
to amaze. With the full flavor of the
mountain area in Which he was reared,
Senator Ervin is a Senate moderate. He
seeks to vote for what is right.
Practically, the high school graduates
Will be told to learn more, to use every
means at their command to absorb more
facts. It is sometimes without the com
prehension of an 18-year-old youth to
see how he can manage to acquire $1200
to $1500 per year to matriculate at a
college or university. What they do not
know is that there are many helping
hands along the way. If they will take
Senator’s Ervin’s advice and investigate,
they will find a large amount of scholar
ship money, self-help jobs, loan funds,
and outright grants-in-aid to bright
young minds Willing to work.
A college degree is becoming annual
ly more important. Many large firms will
not let a youngster get his foot in the
door unless he can present college cre
dentials.
Obviously, a degree per se will not
'help a youth hold a job and win a pro
motion. But how can one hold a job or
win promotion until he gets his foot in
the door?
Young folks, go to college.
Foster Dulles
The late John Foster Dulles was a
rock-ribbed Presbyterian, who had a
brilliant career in international law top
ped off by his service as Secretary of
State.
Mr. Dulles’ religion colored his career.
Some of the time as Secretary of State
he was roughly criticized for rigidity of
mind and policy, for bluff and bluster,
and for lack of imagination.
But the test of the pudding is in the
eating thereof.
During Mr. Dulles’ sendee as chief ar
chitect of this nation’s foreign policy,
there were many incidents which made
us and the world fear that war was im
minent.
Yet there was no war. The late Mr.
Dulles can accept the credit.
Top Slot
Genial Ollie Harris is the new presi
dent of (the North Carolina Funeral Dir
ectors and Burial Association.
It is a mark of Mr. Harris’ modesty
that he asked the Herald not to use his
picture in the news story reporting his
accession to the presidency of this state
wide trade association.
Said Mr. Harris: “You’ve used my pic
ture too much already”.
Mr. Harris has been active in the af
fairs of 'his association for several years.
He will do a good job in the top slot.
Work Upcoming
Now that the city election is history,
the board of oommiisslioners will begin
work on a two-year program in which
they will collect and disburse about
$1,200,000, exclusive of any bond issue
monies the citizens may approve.
The Herald would like to see-a little
work in these directions:
1) The Herald, again, would like to see
the commission revise downward the
commercial electrical rate schedule. The
raise in 1957 was hardly justified and
was debilitating particularly to at least
three firms which did not need debilita
ting. Kings Mountain Hospital, a non
profit service institution, took the big
gest licking. Joy Theatre, which pays a
sizeable property tax bill, was also hurt.
City blue laws prevent Sunday movies,
yet all the while the nearby drive-ins,
which do not have to pay city taxes, op
erate on Sunday. Finger Laundry is an
other needed service business which
took a licking on the power rate raise.
2) The Herald hopes the commission
will Invite the highway commission ex
perts to Kings Mountain for information
on improving the US 74 bottleneck which
we know as King Street. Engineering
recommendations, at last report, were
to widen King Street to give Kings
Mountain a Franklin Avenue (Gastonia)
type boulevard. Localism has thus far
prevented any coherent action on the
part of Kings Mountain. Over the week
end a bill, already passed by the House
of Representatives, was approved by the
Senate Roads Committee which would
allow the Highway Commission to enter
into agreements with a municipality on
right-of-way costs. Present law requires
a city to pay 20 percent of this cost.
Whether or not the right-of-way bill
passes, it is logical that Kings Mountain
can profit by paying $200,000 to $300,000
for a $1,500,000 boulevard. As Engineer
Ed Kemper says, “I'd like to see Kings
Mountain have one decent City street.”
Police Beat Stull
Jonathan Daniels, editor of the Ra
leigh News and Observer, author and
biographer of Harry Truman, made a
speech in Paris, France Friday night, ad
dressing a group of American, British,
French, and German editors.
Said Mr. Daniels: “We have a cliche
press. We want to believe that the world
is divided into cowboys and Indians,
Christians and lions. And a lot of our re
porting, especially on international mat
ters, reflects this belief. As an American
editor, I am afraid that I am not finding
out about Europe. In the United States,
a staple of journalistic diet is police re
porting. Well, I am afraid that too much
international reporting is what might be
called higher level police beat stuff —
wars, threats, and crises.”
Mr. Daniels hit the nail on the head.
Too many reporters spent too long on
the sports beat. They treat international
affairs like a baseball game in which one
Side must win, one team must lose.
That's not the way it is. Nobody wins
a war. There is a movie entitled,
“Some Like it Hot”.
When we’re talking about war, sensi
ble people like it cold.
A best bow to Fred Plonk who has
been reelected chairman of the City
Bear'd of Education. Mr. Plonk is a man
with good business and policy judgment.
YEARS AGO taken from the 1949 files of the Kings Mountain Herald.
THIS WEEK Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events
Sam Weir was elected pi'esi
dent of the Kings Mountain Lions
club for 1949-50 at the regular
meeting of the organization Tues
day night..
Annual Poppy Day for the ben
and tor widows and orphans of
servicemen, will be held in Kings
Mountain Saturday, under spon
sorship of the American Legion
i Auxiliary.
elit of wounded servioe veterans,!
Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Mauney
; left Saturday for Boston to at
tend a national convention of Boy
Scouts of America.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
By Martin Hannon
Ingredients: bite of newt,
wisdom, humor, and comment.
Directions: Take weekly, if
possible, but avoid
overdosage.
David 'Baity, the Herald’s No.
2, Was a case of love at first
sSgShit Undoubtedly, he would
want me to say quickly that the
object of his affection is inani
mate.
David accompanied me to
Chape HSH Saturday and, as a
boilt 99 percent of the rest of
the people who pass Chapel
Hill's portals, he loves Chapel
Hill.
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He also has a high regard for
Pittsboro.
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Enmoute, David and I did what
I’ve been wanting to do on ev
ery Pittsboro pass-through for
the past 19 years. We stopped
at the home Of Harry and Doris
Goerdh Horton, now blesseted
with three younger Hortons.
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Harry was a freshman my se
nior year at UNG and lived on
the same floor of Mangum Dor
mitory. That was the ytear Har
ry’s foster father, Wilkins P.
Horton, was a candidate for
Governor. It was my first brush
with big league politics. A
friendly well-wisher from Char
lotte had given Mr. Horton use
of a flaming fed Chevrolet con
vertible. Harry broke it in. At
least one time after leaving
Sir Walter Hotel campaign
headquarters in the wtee hours,
we spent the night at the Hor
ton home in Pittsboro, ate MrsN
Horton’s delicious breakfast,
then got to Chapel Hill for an
8:30 class.
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It was not in thte cards for Mr.
Horton to become Governor.
The late J. M. Broughton was
too prominent a 'Baptist lay
man in 'Baptist North Carolina.
Mr. Horton was a Methodist
The other candidate was the
late A. J. Maxwell, for many
years North Carolina’s effici
ent Commissioner of Revenue.
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Old friend Harry Horton is
now the honorable Representa
tive Horton from Chatham. It’s
his freshtnan year in the Gen
eral Assembly, and he’s learn
ing a lot
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1 really had double excuse to
stop in Pittsboro, as I had
learned tliat Representative
Horton was coauthor of House
Bill 725 which would prohibit
the advertisement of wines,
beers, and other alcoholic bev
erages -through any advertising
media in North Carolina.
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This is a bad bill, as I wired
the Cleveland delegation and
anothter close friend in the
House. The bill is undoubtedly
unconstitutional, is discrimina
tory and foolish. Representa
tive Blue of Aberdeen answers
his mail fast. Friend Cliff
wrote: “Thank you for your tel
egram opposing House Bill 725.
I agree with your three points
and I do not think the bill has
any chance of passing.” Repre
sentative Horton didn’t seem
too excited about the fate of
his bill ether.
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But Representative Horton
and I are in complete agree
ment in opposing -the bill to le
galize parimutuel betting at
the beach apas. It is said that
the gambling disease is worse
than the liquor disease. 'Worse
than that, when parimutuel bet
ting was momentarily legal in
this state a few years ago, the
money lost lined the pockets of
a Cleveland, Ohio, gambling
syndicate. North Carolina needs
no more of this kind of business.
Linda Bister, onetime fill-in
hand at the Herald, is a Caro
lina freshman. We had a break
fast date Sunday morning at
Carolina Inn and Linda got to
meet numerous members of the
working prtess. She also chat
ted with Walter Spearman, No.
2 of the UNC School of Journ
alism. Walter edited the Daily
Tar Heed in 1929, worked for
the Charlotte News, returned
to teach, has done fill-in editor
ial work in New Orleans and
has studied at Harvard. Hie is a
dose friend of George Laycoek,
formter administrator of Shedby
Hospital. Walter saw George
recently in New York, says
George is happy in his new
work and with his new residen
ce in Oomneoticutt.
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I told Mr. Rogerson, manager i
of the Carolina Inn, that I had
stayed in top notch hotels from j
New Orleans to Casablanca, '
•but that I hal never found one J
better managed than the Caro- ,
lina Inn. Rates are reasonable, I
the food choice, and the service j
deluxe.
It was a most successful teek.
Don't Pick Him Up
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Viewpoints of Other Editors
FORMULA
FOR CYNICISM
The other day a man we know
was paid a polite call by a politi
cal committee of his fellow twons
men who asked 'him to consider
running for membership on thte
town council.
The man was surpised, and
somewhat flattered, for while he
had always interested 'himself 5n
such affairs as the United Fund
and the Boy Scouts, he had never
■thought of himself as the people’s
political choice.
The man a sked why he had
beten chosen, since the political
committee couldn’t possibly know
much about his ideas on how to
goivern the town, or even on such
matters as taxes, spending and
the town budget.
When he heard the committee’s
answer, he was even more sur
prised. For the members told him
that they weren’t too concerned
about his views. What really mat
tered was that he was a popular
man and they were sure hte could
win.
We pass on this story, because
tin a way we think it is typical not
Only of the times but of much
that's wrong with politics. The
story isn’t by any means new, for
political parties have always Wan
ted to find winning candidates.
But it is a fact that nowadays one
hears more and more of the im
portance of winning; the wish to
win has come to be the overriding
constiideratian of both major po
litical parties, and it reaches from
the vaiage greens to the White
House.
There isn’t much doubt that the
ability to win is part of a formula
for political success, for a politi
cal party that insisted on backing
only losers would not be a very
successful one. lEut (there are oth
er factors that go to make up a
truly cccessful political formula.
Among them arte political prin
ciples. And it isn’t hard to guess
what happens to political princi
ples if the primary question is
whether a candidate can win.
For immediately another ques
tion arises; that is, what will he
have to do to win? And it is in
the attempt to find an answer to
that one that poditios, as all of
us have seen one time or another,
becomes not a sound formula for
choosing men who will govern us,
but a platform for ambitious men
who strive to ouhpromise one an
other in their efforts to Win.
Winning is important to every
one in political 'life. (But when
winning outweighs sound political
principles, it becomes a formula
for cynicism.
And while a formula for cyni
cism may be successful for a
time in politics, there’s always
the danger that the public will
come to look upon the politicians
who espouse it with a cynicism of
their own. — Wall Street Journal
SOUTH AFRICA'S
’SIXTY-ONE'
In February, 1958, more than
90 South Africans, a few of them
white but the majority colored
(many of mixed Indian-African
descent), were put under bail for
trial for treason after raids in
which a reported 250 were arrest,
ed. At that time this newspaper
observed: “The prosecution ■will
have to make an impressive case
to overcome the disadvantage of
its position in the eyes of the
world.”
These disadvantages arose
from the background of the ar
rests. Officials rounded up peo
ple who had signed a “freedom
chanter”. This called for racial e
quality and nationalization of
banks and big industries. The
South African Government called
it an attempt to set up a Com- j
munist state, and read into it a
call to violence to do so.
The charter obviously was a
form of rebellion against the “a- j
pantheid" policy of the govern
ment which keeps Negroes a sub. j
ordinated race. * j
Now, after more than a year, 61
of the defendants have been
freed under a surprise court rul
ing which quashed the indict
ment against them on grounds
that it lacked particulars of the
conspiracy.
However unsatisfactory the la
test chapter in this strange af
fair may appear to some, it does
WARNING LIGHT
ON TRADE
History, like one’s auto dash
board, has its warning lights that
Hash on when a nation’s battery
isn’t charging as tit should. This
week such a warning flashed in
the United States.
IBritish - American tnadle balan
ce was the cause. Par the first
time since 1865 America import
ed from 'Britain more than it ex
ported therte.
par London, of course, this is
goad news to add to a generally
brightening balance-of-trade re
covery. We’re glad of that.
Evten for the United States the
first adverse balance in nearly a
century is likely to be a tempor
ary phenomenon. It represents
only onte month, March. But it is,
nevertheless, a dramatic symitOm
— along with the recent drop in
Washington’s gold reserves —
that shows why the Eisenhower
administration is treating the
problem of inflation so seriously.
If American labor and industry
embark on another round of
wage and price increases that are
not matched by increased produc-1
uvity, an «s possioie mat many in
dustries will begin too price them
selves out of certain of their ex
port marisets. Whlat had not hap
pened sice 1865 (and was general
ly supposed never too happen la
gain) Could spread too statistics of
trade with other nations.
Such a situation would further
ripen the sdene for domestic pro
testionism, which in turn breeds
overseas trade barriers (against
American exports.
This projection of evtentos is, of
course, hypothetical. But if such
warning 'Signals as the ‘gold drop
and the adverse trade balance
with Britain are ignored it could
become factual. That would mean
a stagnation far worse than to
day’s expand-with-imflation argu
ers conceive to he America’s pre
sent lot under antimfatian. policy.
The nation’s battery is in a
no present danger. But when the
, warning Might shows It is dis
charging even one in a while, it’s
time for (a checkup. — Christian
Science Monitor.
seem to reflect an awareness on
the part of South African author
ities that world opinion is watch
ing this case closely. Also in the
last year the wave of demands
for self-determination and ma
jority (black) rule that has
swept Africa has been one of the
surprises of the century.
It is the kind of wave that can
not be arrested by local suppres
sion of African ambitions. But it
may yet be moderated by new ef
forts on the part of Europeans to
channel Black Africa’s ambitions
toward partnership in equality.
—Christian Science Monitor.
AIN'T IT SOT
Br B1LL7 ARTHUR
Americanism: Worrying about
nuclear weapons suddenly de
stroying the human race; con
tinuing to save trading stamps.
The preachfer who plays golf
could be excused for Trading his
text, "What slhall it profit a man
to gain thfe whole world and lose
the last hole?”
******
The Air For* is bragging about
another speed record for an At
lantic crossing. But is was noth
ing compared to the new high
powered automobiles on a wet
road.
The fact that thfe world was
created in six days prow.; *hat
the General Assembly has noth
ing to do with it.
••••••
Now comes word that a Texan
will attempt to swim the English
channel this surnanter. If he fails,
'he'll buy it to take home and
practice in.
It’s time the Big Four foreign
ministers get their heads togeth
ter — as hard as they can.
We wouldn’t have to worry so
much about the poor if they’d
lust quit acting rich.
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