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. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Kings Mountain, N. C, under Act of Congress of March 3,1873. EDrrORIAL department Martin Hannon . Editor-Butoli&her David Baity.Advertising Salesman and Bookeeper Miss Elizabeth Stewart.Circulation Manager and Society Editor Neale Patrick..Sports Editor MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Horace Walker Wade Hartsoe, Jr. Paul Jackson Monte Hunter TELEPHONE NUMBERS — 167 or 283 SUBSCKEP flON HATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR—$3.50 SIX MONTHS—$2.00 THREE MONTHS—$1.25 BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I "ber no more. Hebrews 8:12. remem Kid Stuff Nothing makes citizens angrier than for grown men, particularly their public servants, to fail to answer questions a bout citizens’ business. It is an unfortunate fact of democracy that most candidates for public office, short of candidates for high state office, know little about government and less about public relations. In short, a guy usually wins office because he’s person able, friendly and has a winning smile, not to mention the necessary cash back Thus the citizens were angered when the majority wing of the city commis sion refused to answer the ‘ why or “why’s” four of the five members want ed to discharge Chief of Police Martin Ware, Officer C. E. (Bud Ware, and Gas Superintendent Corbett Nicholson Comm. Luther Bennett said, in general, that Chief Ware wasn’t operating his de partment efficiently, but he didn’t spell out the detail. Comm. Ben H. Bridges said that for some months he and some of the com missioners had figured the city could save cash by combining the gas depart ment work with that of other city de partments. It was not new news, as Comm. Bridges had said it previously and it had appeared as a news story in the Herald. Comms. Boyce Gault and Coleman Stroupe said nothing. All are on weaK ground, both the talk ers and the silent ones. Had Mr. Bennett spelled out the detail, he may have won his case. Comm. Bridges, the Herald knows to be efficient and able. However, his basic difficulty is understanding that running city business is not like running private business. In turn, Comm. Ross Alexander’s re minder that two men operate the 600 customer gas department (which re turns a continually increasing profit) ef fectively answers Comm. Bridges argu ment. Generally speaking, in ordinary business or governmental business, it’s not usual or wise operating procedure to disturb a good situation. In addition, Comm. Bridges should know, if he doesn’t, that personnel changes cost money. If the majority wing of the board has a case (more than wanting to make some political pay-offs or changing for change’s sake), then the case should be stated. Again, that’s the only question of im portance asked at the rather wild com mission session of May 23: Why? The Shelby Daily Star has already be labored the commission for holding sec ret meeting and the Herald agrees. Obviously, the Herald, as well as the Star, understands the necessity for oc casional caucusses, but the sudden, blitz kreig type secret meeting is poor policy, as the commission must be regretting at leisure. And secret meetings also contravene North Carolina law and the true spirit of democracy. It has been a standing joke for three years that Gault’s grocery is the Kings Mountain version of Tammany Hall. Who is kidding who? Youngsters graduate from Kindergar ten at five, start to grade school at six. To The Graduates More than 150 Kings Mountain area high school seniors have received diplomas in the past few days and num erous Kings Mountain college students have won degrees from colleges and uni versities and are bidding farewell to friends, professors and alma maters. To the high school graduates, the Her ald offers its annual wish that each and all will make arrangements for more schooling. The reasons are quite practical. Items: 1) It is becoming increasingly hard for non-college folk to get their feet in the doors of industry even for an interview, much less for employment. 2) College training, as all education, teaches some facts, but principally, how to think. 3) In the instance of girl graduates, there are two principal reasons for col lege training, in addition to those al ready mentioned. One is for an insur ance policy, in event some tragedy should befall the wedded man of her choice. The other is to better equip her Second Primary Second Primaries are seldom tea par ties and North Carolina’s 1960 model promises to be among the nastiest since the mean 1950 second when Dr. Frank P. Graham, though with.a commanding lead, could not hold it against the on slaught of the late Willis Smith. This time, candidate Terry Sanford carries into the second primary the big gest lead—-nearly 83,000 votes—any candidate ever had and still had a sec ond race called. Dr. I. Beverly Lake on ly was the instrument of calling it. His supporters, evidently, between the wee hours of Sunday morning and his call at 4:30 Monday afternoon, gave him enough indication of continued support. Everything being possible, if not pro bable, it obtains that Dr. Lake could win the governorship, if one bases on the seemingly parallel of the 1950 senator ial joust. It will be recalled that Dr. Gra ham, the liberal, found his opponent ap pealing to the old white supremacy pitch and winning on it, same appeal which kept the Democrats in power from the end of the Civil War in 1865 until the 1890’s, when a fusion ticket of farmers and Republicans won brief command. Actually, the parallel is only seeming, not exact. In 1950, Dr. Graham was the theoreti cian, while Mr. Smith was the practical political candidate who had earned his living in the rough-tough world of bus iness and law. In 1960, Dr. Lake is the theoretician. He practiced law for two years, then took the relative sinecure of a college professorship, to be followed by yet an other comparative sinecure, that of one of the several assistants attorney-gen eral. Mr. Sanford, conversely, is the practi cal man, who has earned a living in law and business. He is a practical politician, well-trained, and follows the creed of letting the other guy make the errors. Then he swats him in the solar plexus, or plants a quick verbal uppercut to the jaw. The Herald picked the race almost correctly, except that, in the finish, Dr. Lake and John Larkins swapped Herald predicted places. Incidentally, Mr. Larkins is authority for the statement that, while Dr. Lake brags about having written the Pearsall Plan law (which he did) that the Gen eral Assembly made some major modi fications before enacting the bill into law. This is quite customary procedure. The attorney-general’s office either writes or checks for correct legal termi nology and form virtually all of the bills inti'oduced. The fact remains: Dr. Lake wants to turn the clock back 95 years, but he can not, or will not, say how he plans to do it other than by “persuasion.” As everyone knows there’s been a lot of friendly persuading going on in North Carolina since May 1954. In some of North Carolina’s sister sta tes of the south, the persuading has been something less than friendly. It’s budget time for the city and, as al ways, there won’t be enough money to budget all of the needs and desires of citizens in the 12-month period. How ever, Kings Mountain is gaining on its capital needs. Mayor Glee A. Bridges told the commission recently the city needs about $500,000 to manipulate its sewage and electrical problems. Since, the commission has decided to short cir cuit the electi'ical problem by rebuilding the line serving the business section. It’s a matter of delaying judgment day but, again, all of the needs can’t be handled at once without flirting with bankrupt cy. Today Kings Mountain’s fiscal pic ture is strong, which is the way respon sible citizens want to keep it. for rearing her children. Some are inclined to feel they can’t afford a college education. It should be known that, with alumni gifts, endowments and other funds, many scholarships are available, both for scholastics and work-wise. A check with the registrar of any in stitution will bring full information a bout the availability of both scholar ships and on-campus jobs. To each high school graduate and college degree winner, the Herald con veys congratulations, bon voyage and Godspeed. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Hannon Ingredients: bite of newt, wisdom, humor/ and comment. Directions: Take weekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage. It may not be propitious to brag on birthdays, particular ly after age 16 when this mile stone spells a drivihg license if not full control 'of the family bus, or after 21 which spells manhood or womanhood, at least as far as citizenship and voting rights are concerned, m-m But I did pass, during the past month, that milestone When life begins, or at least that was the idea of the late humorist Will Rogers. I feel pretty young and it has also been said one is as young as he or she feels. m-m ’ It should be noted that Dr. (Paul White, the heart specialist was quoted recently in Time (Magazine as saying that middle age doesn’t begin at 40 but at 20. His theory is that too many of us, driving hard to get bread on the table, shoes for the kids, and still trying to keep up the social amenities, burn ourselves out during the 20-40 period, then prove victim to a variety of ailments thenceforth. His reeomjmendation: plenty of ex ercise, including walking and bicycle riding, Dr. White does both and at what to some in advanced age, is hale, hearty and active. m-m It would seem impossible to have two birthdays within a month, but I have another com ing this weekend. It’s my twen tieth class reunion at the Uni versity of North Carolina. Bill Stauber drew my name to write me to attend and I tele phoned him I would. Bill was a close personal friend, edited the since-demised Carolina Bucca neer, a humor magazine. Hu mor, like entertainment, requir es variety to retain an audience and like most college humor publications occasionally ma jored in an over-dose of the ris que. Bill’s was no exception and one issue the ire of the ad ministration and resulted in its being burned. I was on the Dai ly Tar Heel at the time and the paper fought the administra tion on the grounds of censor ship. We lost. m-m It was seven years later that I was having a discussion with the late O. J. Coffin, head of the UNC journalism depart ment. It happened that the journalism professors never cottoned too much to the Daily Tar Heel staffers and with ob vious good reason. Daily Tar Heel students were slow turn ing out class work, tended to spend more time on the paper than on their books. From the w o rk i n g newspaperman’s standpoint, there was no better training than the morning Dai ly Tar Heel, published everyday except Mondays. I asked Dr. Coffin why the journalism de partment professors didn’t try to help Tar Heel men with friendly advice, rather than carping at us about wasting our time on the paper. ‘'Martin,” he replied, “that’s simple. The first complaint you’d make would 'be the cry of censorship. And you’d be right nine times out of ten.” m-m That l was glad (to know. If was a valid reason. m-m Since (the late Governor Cly de Hoey handed me my sheep skin, I haven’t been able to be ait Chapel Hill during any com mencement season, for one rea son or another, normally just plain work. And I surely want to see the friends together a gain. m-m Dr. George Plonk, classmate and two years a roommate, says he can’t make it as he has pro mised his eldest daughter to esquire her to the debutante ball. Jim Amos, not a class mate but a graduate of 1948 says he’s got an inventory due Saturday at Massachusetts Mo hair. Joe McDaniel, another Carolina man, isn't sure yet. So it goes. Wilson Griffin, Paul McGinnis and the C. D. Blan tons, senior and junior, are re tail businessmen and find it difficult to get away on Satur days. Arnold Kisetr may or may not be able to make it. m-m I learned in the process it pays to do more than scan one’s mail. I had the impression the reunion was on May 28, asked a half-dozen people to go a long, then luckily rechecked. I’d have felt pretty foolish to have driven 160 miles to find nothing happening except ex aminations. m-m While two decades once seemed a long, long time, they now seem only a few days in the past.But the boys of 1940. have traveled far and wide since. (Majority of my class of a bout 750 served in army, navy or aiir force. Chuck Witten stay ed in the navy, was a three striper the last I heard of him. Student Body President Jim j Davis is a Durham surgeon. BUI Stauber works for a Dur ham advertising agency. Vau ghan Win borne is a Raleigh lawyer. Ed Rankin, formerly Governor Hodges secretary ia managing the Raleigh office of Harden Associates, public re Handshake or Indian Wrestling? Viewpoints of Other Editors AROUND THE FINAL TURN With the contested primaries behind them, the Democratic presidential! aspirants now enter the less loudly publicized stage of delegate rustling.” In this phase the top candida tes intensively cultivate delega tes still formally uncommitted. The effectiveness of these la bors can be decisive in determin ing the nomination. No one who seriously hopes to gain the prize can coast through this period. Sen.. John Kennedy embarks on this phase with heavy advantage over his chief rivals. To complete a season string of unbroken pri mary victories, he has just beaten Sen. Wayne (Morse in his home state of Oregon. (About him hangs the aura of the “winner” and the “vote-getter.” His actual total of votes in hand is alread approaching the halfway mark toward the needed nominating total of 761. His add ed potential is substantial, and he will be striving to build it higher between now and July 11 at Los Angeles. Sen. Lyndon Johnson, fortified by major southern support, is figured to come into the conven tion with between 400 and 500 votes. Sen. Stuart Symington hopes for around 200 on the first ballot, and counts on picking up major strength thereafter. Obviously their hopes, and those of the supporters of dark horse Adlai Stevenson are found ed on blocking Kennedy through the early ballots. The chore is not easy. They must somehow' put toge ther a “stop” coalition that will endure long enough so that Ken nedy will begin to fade. Delega tes must be persuaded that he is not going to make it over thetop. If he enters the convention with upwards of 550 delegate vo tes and builds quickly on this to tal in the second ballot, his riv als are unlikely to succeed. Momentum is the key. If Ken nedy has it, he will probably be unstoppable. If his rivals can destroy his upward pace — either before or during the convention — then they’ll have their real Chance. — The Shelby Star. SLAVES TO ELECTRICITY How many electric motors are there in your home? Maybe five? Ten? Guess a gain. The chances are that there are at leasit 25 of these “silent servants” — lifting, pulling, cut ting, grinding, heating or cooling for you. So says Jack Riley, of the Pub lic Relations Department of Car olina Power and Light Company. He continues: “Few of us are aware of the faat that we’re literally sur rounded by electric motors in the1 home. iA typical day in a typical Carolina home reveals just how much our lives depend on elec tric motors. “Rise in the morning to the