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«• The Kings Mountain Herald * 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. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Kings Mountain, N. C, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon ... Edltor-Butollsher 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 SUBSCRIP HON RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR—$3.50 SIX MONTHS—$2.00 THREE MONTHS--$125 BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life. Proverbs 4:23. Ten Days Away Hot firing is well underway as Candi dates Terry Sanford and' Beverly Lake throw heavy artillery shells, if verbal, in efforts to assure victory for Governor on June 25. As noted in oher papers, both candi dates are exhibiting more solid punch in the run-off than in the shelling before the May 28 first primary. There is good reason. Before May 28, each had three other oponents to troun ce. Some attention had to be given to each one. Now the chips are down and, ten days hence, it’s do or die. Dr. Lake, in an effort to downplay his role as nothing more than a segregation ist candidate, has been talking about fis cal policy, tree planting, fishing for cash, encouraging tourism, schools and roads. Candidate Sanford keeps bringing Dr. Lake back to the segregation argument, for Mr. Sanford knows Dr. Lake’s only excuse for candidacy is his Orval Fau bus approach to school integration. Mr. Sanford knows, too, that 82 percent of the voters endorsed the state’s Pearsall plan, as he did, then and now. The ‘now” part of his endorsement is easy. The Pearsall Plan has worked. Mr. Sanford is a practical man, and a capable political in-fighter. He scored heavily when he charged Dr. Lake’s un willingness to talk to the press as an ef fort to talk from one side of his mouth in the East, another side in the more li beral Piedmont. Dr. Lake may make some votes in his contention that there is not, necessarily, direct correlation between amounts of money spent for education and caliber of student product. Yet what conserva tive businessman won’t relate, “You get what you pay for. Bargains aren’t al ways bargains.” For 1960, Dr. Lake is no bargain for North Carolina. Want Ticker Trouble? A New York doctor says: “Take a ser ious, hard-driving young man, who feels guilty if he relaxes 10 minutes. Put him in a challenging job, filled with dead lines, frustration, worry and discontent. And you have created an almost perfect climate for a heart attack.’’ Well, now .... Any self-respecting, hard-working in dustrial executive, businessman, doctor, ^ninister or newspaperman (and many others) could have both said the same and expanded the statement much fur ther. If not ticker trouble, how about gas tritis. If not heart attacks, how about ulcers. Most folk, doctors candidates and newspapermen bblng among the chief offenders, are mighty good at giving ad vice, pretty lousy in taking their own sage counsel. Tis a pity. It’s pretty impossible to be in business and not be in business. Con versely, most folk operate with a basic conceit: “It can’t happen to me.” About any job worth doing has its deadlines and pressures. And if a fellow can see to do, he’ll like ly not stop until he drops, from fatigue, ticker trouble, or on ulcer row. GOP Activity The Herald is glad to see some local activity in Republican ranks, hopes it will continue and that Republicans here will proceed to form a virile party. This is said in good conscience and in spite of the fact the Herald has been, is, and is most likely to be a Democratic newspaper. It has been habit here for the GOP to get a bit excited in a presidential elec tion year, form the crax of an organi zation, then let it wither on the vine once the general election is history. It is safe to say that the GOP won't capture Cleveland County or North Car olina on such a stop-and-start policy. Hard work, cash expenditures, and patience of job are requirements for minority victories. Meantime, a best bow to Jacob Dixon, Young Republican chairman. Kings Mountain churches inaugurated the summer program of union services two weeks ago. These services provide an opportunity for Kings Mountain area Christians, not only to worship together but to hear the various ministers of the participating congregations. The even ing services are at 8 p. m. each Sunday. School Consolidation It is regrettable that a minority group of school patrons from Grover and Beth ware brought an injunction agginst Cleveland County and Kings Mountain school boards and the county board of commissioners blocking the merger of No. 4 Township schools. The Herald thought the controversy settled via ballot and the score posted, but some folk wish to continue playing the game. We do not deny these citizens the right to use every legal recourse under the law, but these disgruntled losers are losing sight of the big picture — the school children involved. No one can deny the advantages of consolidated high schools. The advanced science, mathematics, English, and for eign language courses offered prepare students better for college careers, and commercial courses offered give back ground to non-college students to get jobs after high school. It seems apparent, outlying district school students may be deprived of the privilege of attending a consolidated high school in the fall because of the in junction. The dissident patrons, in their list of objections to the merger, contend legal procedure was not explicity followed in effecting the May 14 vote. If so, the omissions were inadvertent, both the county and Kings Mountain school dffi cials working diligently to follow the let ter of the law. Each objection of incoming groups was given airing by the board and all re quests. were granted. Two members of the Kings Mountain City School board resigned their positions, paving the way for the incoming groups to have board mebers from their area appointed in their stead. The consolidated school system would be of great advantage to all pupils in volved. As J. Horace Grigg stated at an open forum at Bethware High School prior to the election, “1 o split these communities and make enemies of neighbors would be horrible. In the final outcome after the vote, each and all of us should co operate to make the best school system oossible.” All Are Winners Kings Mountain’s new beauty queen and representative in the state pageant in Charlotte this summer was crowned Saturday night. It was no easy task, as demonstrated by the fact that the three finalists had tied for the top spot, the judges decided, and a final round of questioning was necessary before “Miss Kings Mountain of I960” was named. The pageant proved, as most folk will agree, there are many lovely young la dies in this community who qualify as a “Miss Kings Mountain”. Their varied ta lents, as demonstrated Saturday, proves this fact too. Kings Mountain Jaycees are to be commended on the Saturday show — a first in Kings Mountain in a number of years. Chairman Harvey Bumgardner and his Jaycee committees did a credit able job in reviving the Kings Mountain edition. The show was received well by a large audience. The eight contestants are also to be congratulated. One Shelby lady, in town for the Saturday show, complimented them this way: “Each is really a Miss Kings Mountain in my book.” And they are, we would be quick to a grec. The Herald congratulates Miss Judy Kiser from neighboring Bessemer City, the reigning Miss Kings Mountain, and the runners-up, Miss Sarah Cox and Miss Kim Cashion. We shall follow with interest the forthcoming state beauty pageant and are assured that Miss Kings Mountain will represent the community well. If you haven’t already, it’s not too late to draw a check to the Multiple Sclerosis Fund for 1900 and to the Fund for Chilean Relief. The American Red Cross Chapter has set up an emergency appeal for donations to aid victims of the Chilean disaster. George Houser is Kings Mountain chairman in the county wide Multiple Sclerosis appeal which seeks a $8000 quota. MARTIN'S MEDICINE 87 Martin Hannon Ingredient*: bite 0/ news, wisdom, humor, and comment. Directions: Take weekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage. I don’t join the fly-fly folk too frequently, but every time I do, I resolve to give Eastern, TWA, Delta and the other lines more patronage. m-m Obviously, I’ve been quite for tunate on my few flights, only on two occasions having been victimized by weather to pro duce time lags. However, I have been aloft in some bum py weather and the air-plane wriggles, thus far, haven’t compared to the pitch, roll and trough hitting of a boat or Ship In rough seas. Too, the airship can gain enough altitude to find sunlight or moonlight and resultant calm. m-m Part of the fun of travel by any means, is meeting and chatting with people. Conversa tion is one of my favorite hob bies. Recently, while I was fly ing from Greensboro, a most interesting gentleman boarded at Winston-Salem. His name was Mr. Weil, of Waynesville, naturalized United States citi zen since 1944, a native of Al sace-Lorraine, who got out be fore Hitler got in. m-m Though he’d been in Winston on business, he regards himself as retired. m-m I mentioned politics and Heinz Rollman, The Waynes ville shoe-maker (Wellco Foam treads.) Did he know him? Replied my new found friend, "I taught him.” IMr. Weil feels Mr. Rollman made a mistake in his somewhat petulant swit ch to the GOP. (He lost the De mocratic nomination for 12th district Congressman two years ago..) in-m Mr. Weil waxed eloquent on the subject of handling interna tional relations. He was in Cairo 30 years ago. “The Arabs lay over the sidewalks, some beg ging, others sick. The British literally walked over them Now the British are not there!” And the Suez Canal is lost, too. m-m Mr. Weil’s son lives in Aru ba, the Dutch Island which re fines much of the oil gushing from Venezuela. Mr. Weil says his son lives like a king with prices much below these here. He adds that the wily Dutch run the sure-thing money-mak ing refining work, leave the oil getting to souls more harden ed to the unstable vagaries of Venezuelan government. m-m By this time, Charlotte was in the offing, and Mr. Weil in sisted I sample an imported Dutch cigar. This brand I could learn to smoke. m-m The subsequent Greensboro Charlotte jaunt was by DC-B, the four-motor, rather than by old, tried and true DC-3. With no stops, the flight required ' only 31 minutes. It seemed the pilot had to start braking at Salisbury. The cloud’s had ob soured the view from 5,000 feet until the pretty stewardess called “Charlotte . . .” Then ! they cleared nicely. m-m The pilot approached the Ca tawba River, going ground ward. Clearly visible was the new bridge and stretch of Highway to end of pavement on Interstate 85. Then came old Wilkinson Boulevard with the many Sunday afternoon cars looking like busy ants going and coming. m-m As the pilot banked to the Northeast for his landing ap-; proach into the prevailing wind, ; three area landmarks were j brilliantly outlined, Spencer Mountain, Kings Mountain, and | Crowder’s Mountain. \ • m-m Disembarking, I said to the stewardess, “I wish I had time to go on with you.” She ques tioned, “After that bumpy flight?” m-m I hadn’t even noticed the jumps. The Long, Hard Trail jTGOP Viewpoints of Other Editors THE MAILMEN ADOPT A SIDELINE One fault of would-be-censors is that they never seem to know where to draw the line, and tha1 appears to toe the case with the Postoffice Department The whole business started — or came, at least, to public at tention — when Postmaster Gen eral Summerfield banned Ship ment through the mails of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, a controver sial novel that is, at best, litera ture, and is, at worst, trash. Summerfield said it is porno graphy, and a lot of good people agreed with him including, we’ve suspected, some Who never read it. No matter. The courts didn’t agree with him, nor do we, tout he had a debatable case and a motive that was presumably pure. Recently, however, the postal sleuths have been seizing maga zines and other periodicals from Communist - dominated countri es addressed to American sub scribers, apparently in an effort to protect recipients from doctri nal subversion. Now we concede the zeal of the postoffice hawkshaws, but we’re frankly doubtful that the Soviet propaganda is winning converts for the cause. Much1 of it is addressed to libraries, uni versities, and newspapers where it is scanned, if at all, toy people Who wish to know more about the strategy and tactices of the Com munist network and who are by no means deluded by obvious pap. weve also got a notion tnat the Reds have other and better means of keeping their agents in formed on the latest line or for subverting potential customers. It is possible, of course, that ive are wrong. It may foe that the Soviet mail-order mill is an ef fective threat that merits polic ng by Summerfield and his snoops. Somehow, though, we cherish he memory of a time when the iob of the postoffice department vas delivering the mail, without substantial hindrance from rain, sleet, snow, or a pamphlet from Moscow. — The Charlotte Obser ver. L IT JUST WARNT THAR From Knoxville, Tennessee, x>mes the tale of the vanishing :own. The census director in the irea reported, pink-faced, that he ■ouldn't find the town of Smith >eek, which was listed in 1950 is having a population of 350 iouLs. The census man combed :he whole Chilhowee Mountain crea for days, but Smith Creek lust wairn’t thar. The Tennessee Valley Author ity people cleared things up a silt, however. Smith Greek had, ndeod, vanished: its 20 houses and community center were re moved, building by building, in 1946 and everything moved to iVilson Dam, Alabama. Smith Greek had been built in 1942 by TV A employees working sn the Appalachian Dam power house. Later the dam workers ieeided they didn't like Smith 1'reek so TVA moved it for them. But though TVA could explain ,vhy Smith Creek was in Wilson Oam, it could not explain why he 1950 census people had re ported it as containing 350 peo ple four years after it had been [moved across the state line. Nor, probably, can the tax peo pie explain why they failed to x>lleet from 350 people whom the census people claimed existed. Vnd who's to explain how 350 people came to be living in 20 louses. — Chapel Hill Weekly. ' ' , \ DR. LAKE'S ’PLAN' IS TOO NEBULOUS FOR US Dr. I. Beverly Lake has exer cised his right to caill for a run off primary against Terry San ford in the governor’s race. And he has set the tone of the second campaign by declaring that “race” will definitely be an is sue. It’s useless to deplore the fact that what Dr. Lake proposes could well set North Carolina back half a century. Apparent ly, his only interest is in being governor and he feels that any means used to gain that end are justified. Dr. lake has expressed often and loudly his opposition to Nor th! Carolina’s approach to the school integration problem, al though he admits having helped write the pupil placement act. It makes little difference to Dr. j Lake that his opponent, Sanford, as well as a majority of the peo ple, do not like the Supreme Court’s ruling on school integra i tion. For 96 years, we accepted and respected the court’s ruling that the “separate but equal” doctrine was constitutional. That was the law of the land. Now Dr. Lake says this ruling from the same court is a "usur pation of power" and that if he i is elected governor he won’t a bide by the decision. How can a man Who has spent so many years in the study and practice of law suddenly say to the people, “you don’t have to obey the courts if you don’t like the decisions they hand down?1 Throughout the first campai gn, Dr. Lake referred again and again to the creation of a “cli mate of opinion” that would al low North Carolina to circum vent the law. So far, he has re frained from stating specifically how this would be done. Governor FaUbus tried to in terpose his power against the j ruling and brought violence and j hate to Little Rock, Arkansas. Gov. Almond of Virginia attemp ted “massive resistance” and his i laws collapsed. j In the face of this, how can Dr. j Lake say that he will do the I same thing, only his attempt will be successful? We know what we have in the Pearsall Plan and the Pupil Placement Act. So far, it has stood the test in the courts and we have had no violence in North Carolina. Why trade a law that works for a nebulous “plan” about which we know nothing? We do know that attempts to ignore the ruling in other states have brou ght only strife and bitterness. We don’t want that for North Carolina. And the best way to in sure continuance of trouble-free operation of our schools is for the voters to reject Dr. Lake’s bid for governor. — Mooreaville Tribune. TEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events taken from the 1950 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. Twenty-five Kings Mountain girls will vie for two beauty ti tles Friday night at the high school auditorium as the Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce conducts contests to determine who shall be designa ted “Miss Kings Mountain of 1950” and "Miss Kings Mountain Junior of 1950.” Arnold W. Kincaid, prominent Kings Mountain citizen and Bes semer City manufacturer, was e lected associate grand patron of the Eastern Star of North Caro lina at the 45th Grand Chapter session held this week in Greens boro. Social and Personal Mrs. P. G. Ratterree entertain ed the members of the Double Deck Bridge club and one addi tional guest, Miss Margaret Rat teree, at her home Tuesday night. Members of the Contract Brid ge club met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Hal Plonk at her home on Crescent Hill. 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