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.
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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 <a
larm of an electric clock power
ed by a 2-watt motor, one of the
tiniest made. The electric shaver
that you put to your face has a
1/100-horsepower* motor in it
“Turn the thermostat and the
furnace comes on, throwing into
life from two to five motors to
pump fuel and blow the warm air
“If you have an all-electric
heat pump, changes in tempera
ture activate electric motors wh
ich literally pump warmth from
the outside air.
‘“The wife switches on the e
leetric range. An electric timer
cooks your egg: a motor whisks
away cooking odors. I
“Juice comes from oranges
squeezed by an. electric motor.
The refrigerator that keeps it
cool contains several motors,
some sealed from dust for years
laitions firm. Frank Holeman is
with the Washington bureau of
the New York Daily News. Bill
Ogbum, who. was advertising
manager of the Daily Tar Heel,
is in London with an oil firm.
Shelby Rolfe, Daily Tar Heel
sports editor, is doing a major
sports job with one of the Rich
mond papers. Bill Weaver is,
newspapering at Greensboro,
m-m
The Class of ‘40, children of
the Depression, was a pretty
bright one. If it’s bragging, I <
can’t help it
A RIGHT
JEALOUSLY GUARDED
Occasionally, a public official
or a private citizen will voice
resentment at the insistence of
the newspaper profession upon
public meetings of official bodies.
An example of why this insist
ence is necessary was demonstra
ted Monday night dining a meet
ing of the Kings Mountain City
Commission.
It became apparent that infor
mal meetings had been held fre
quently in the past. Over 100 re
sponsible citizens appeared to
criticize the practice and to de
mand that the board conduct its
business in public.
We are gratified to see such a
display of alert citizenship. Our
position has always been firm.
A board of elected officials has
no right to transact the public’s
business in secret.
.The only way the public can
protect its interest is to be there
itself or to have competent and
fair reporting of such board
meetings in the news media.
We do not know the reasons
behind the effort of some Kings
Mountain commissioners to make
personnel changes among city
employees. Whenever such ac
tions, however, are conceived and
attempted "behind the bam” as
one citizen put it, the actions im
mediately become suspect.
Hidden motives almost al
ways are viewed in a suspicious
light and public boards must be
aware of their responsibility for
straight - forward and above
board handling of public duties.
The Kings Mountain mayor
was wise in going on record that
he will allow no more secret ses
sions of his board. The presiding
officer h^s a responsibility to
the public in preventing his board
members from acting behind
the scenes. In these instances,
someone is always treated in an
unfair manner.
We hope What happened will
be an encouragement to other
public boards. It should enable
them to better resist the human
temptation of conducting affairs
outside the scrutiny of the public.
An official who doesn’t want
this scrutiny and who is hesitant
to make his opinions public
should think twice before he runs
for office.
The right of the American peo
ple to know exactly what is go
ing on in government is the
greatest bulwark we have against
loss of our freedoms.—The Shel
by Star.
of trouble-free service.
“Walk to the garage, move the
eleatric mower from the drive
way. (Junior left it there yester
day.) The garage door is opened
by an electric motor. You drive
away to work in a machine fill
ed with electric motors.
“The lady of the house begins
the daily routine. Cleaning the
table, she dumps scraps into the
food waste disposer where they
are ground to pieces and flushed
away by an electric motor.
“She gathers the soiled cloth
es, tosses them into the washer,
turns the switch and powerful
motors take over the washing
chore. If the weather is bad;
they’re popped into the electric
dryer where more motors go to
work.
"She uses a motor with tre
mendous suction to vacuum the
house.
“Madam decides to bake a
cake. The mixer has an electric
motor. The knife sharpener, the
food grinder are electrically pow
ered'.
- StanTy News & Press.
TEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
Items of news about Kings
Mountain area people arid
events taken from the 1950
files of the Kings Mountain
Herald.
First round play in the 1960
North Carolina American Legion
Junior baseball program is slated
to get underway (Monday with
Coach Buddy Lewis’ Kings (Moun
tain team scheduled to face Char
lotte’s Juniors here at City Sta
dium at 8 p. nj.
Vacation Bible Sdhool at First
Baptist church is scheduled to be
gin Monday at 8:30 a. m. and end
on June 14.
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