Kings
Established 1889
A weakly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings
and Us viotnity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
Entered as second class matter at die postoffice st Kings Mountain, If. C, under Act
of Congress of March 3,1873.
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Neale Patrick.Sports Editor
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
"For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain that we can carry nothing out.” St. Paul
to Timothy 1:6.
Sound Advice
“The challenge of the hour is one in
which we face adversity for the first
time in our history. We face a moral and
spiritual adversity within our own bor
ders brought on by a general slackening
of will, a general tendency to counten
ance cupidity and applaud cunning, a
general distrust of intellectual pursuits
and those who pursue them, each a gen
eral vagueness as to national purpose
and resolve. We have learned to distrust
the intangible, to fear the non-conform
ist, to worship the material.”
The statement, as quoted in Time
Magazine, was that of Chancellor Sam
uel Gould of the University of California,
in a commencement address at Pomona
college.
The statement was one of the meatiest
any college graduating class heard dur
ing the recent commencement season.
The Herald was shocked, some many
years ago, when a Kings Mountain citi
zen made the remark he didn’t believe
the American people had the intestinal
fortitude to fight and win another war.
He amplified by saying that too many of
us are materialists and bound by fear. It
was a different way of saying the same
statement of Dr. Gould’s.
The Herald did not agree with its
neighbor then, has had cause to wonder
since.
Most Americans, indeed, are slaves to
conformity and with reason. Public opin
ion is a heavy weapon, and mass think
ing tends to condemn the man or woman
who steps out of line. Every Alcoholic
knows the painful result of his illness.
People who don’t marry know their
friends refer to them as “old maids” or
“old bachelors”. They haven’t conform
ed.
Yet this nation grew great through
the leadership of its non-conformists.
The list of great Presidents include Tho
mas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abra
ham Lincoln, the two Roosevelts^ and
Woodrow Wilson, not a conformist in
the list.
The late Franklin D. Roosevelt will be
remembered for generations to come for
his famous moral leadership expressed,
at the depths of the Great Depression, as
the only fear we have to fear is fear it
self.
Sir Winston Churchill, outstanding
man of this age, attracted the antago
nism of the conformists in Britian. He
was low man on the British totem pole
from the time he was sacked by the
World War I government for his role in
the ill-fated Dardanelles campaign and
until he was called to be Prime Minister
in 1910 after the beginning of World
War II and fall of France.
His moral leadership enabled the free
portion of the world to beat the mad
man, Hitler.
Too many folk are content to let oth
ers do their thinking. But the only scien
tific approach is to listen with an open
mind to anyone’s thoughts.
Any other course can be labeled the
“ostrich” policy of burying one’s head
in the sand, or sweeping the dirt under
the rug.
Frank Glass
Tho Herald joins his many friends in
sadness at the death of Frank B. Glass.
Mr. Glass was a longtime Kings Moun
tain citizen and one of the community’s
more colorful characters. He was an able
businessman and well-known through
out the community. For many years, he
managed the Phenix S*tore, then opened
his own business, when the Phenix plant
was sold.
Though the Herald follows the Dem
ocratic faith as ardently as Mr. Glass as
cribed to the Republican doctrine, the
Herald knew Mr. Glass as one of its best
friends and a regular patron. In addition,
his firm was one of the several Kings
Mountain Herald news dealers.
In ill health for the past several years,
Mr. Glass relinquished ownership of the
business to his sons about three years a
go and they have carried on in their fa
ther’s footsteps.
The Herald always found Mr. Glass
forthright, plain-spoken, and truthful,
the kind of man everyone honors with
high regard.
Now For Breathing
Liberals of North Carolina breathed a
sigh of relief Saturday night when it be
came apparent that Terry Sanford had
defeated Dr. I. Beverly Lake for the
Democratic Gubernatorial nomination.
They had feared Dr. Lake, as was well
expressed by Sanford himself when he
told the loser, “You had me scared.’’
Dr. Lake’s candidacy really messed up
the campaign of all the other three can
didates.
It’s an old axiom in politics that the
way to win elections is to get the voters
emotional. Make 'em angry, make ‘em
cry, make ’em laugh, make ‘em sad. This
intangible is one reason newspaper edi
tors frequently pick losers, for they seek
to base their opinions on logic. Logic
doesn’t have the emotional appeal.
Back in 1948, when the late Kerr Scott
defeated Charles M. Johnson, farmers of
the area and over the state came to the
polls with fire in their eyes. They were
for Farmer Scott and they didn’t care
who knew it. One observer said the farm
folk had the August revival spirit, and
they did.
The Herald supported Mr. Sanford and
is, of course, glad he won. The Herald
will be surprised and sorely disappointed
if he does not prove to make a great
Governor.
A victory by Dr. Lake could have cost
the state much, had he carried out his
promises on the segregation situation.
The state and nation operates under ru
les of law and flouting of law has serious
overtones.
Since May 1954, when the United Sta
tes Supreme Court ruled that de-segre
gation must be, the Herald has followed
one policy: The Herald is against violen
ce and head-cracking. As stated before,
the Herald’s first feelings about the
Pearsall plan, which thus far has with
stood the Supreme Court tests, were
questioning and full of doubts that the
plan would be workable or was a good
plan, per se.
But a week before the election on the
Pearsall plan, inter-racial violence erup
ted in Clinton, Tenn. That was the kick
er to the Herald’s thinking. The Herald
endorsed the Pearsall plan in the hope
that its adoption would prevent in North
Carolina repeats of the Clinton, Tenn.,
and Little Rock situations.
Thus far it has.
Other than on his segregation stand,
Dr. Lake certainly deserved the com
mendation of his supporters in the fact
that he has a quick mind, had the equip
ment to be Governor. But every news
man has known that de-segregation has
been the biggest continuing news story
in the South since May 1954.
Everything, it is said, works together
for good for those who love the Lord and
work hard.
It is good for North Carolina and the
South that Mr. Sanford won the Dem
ocratic nomination. He typifies the
North Carolina tradition of conserva
tive, soundly-based progressiveness.
A cordial best bow to Tom Trott, who
will serve as president of the Kings
Mountain Rotary club during the com
ing year. Mr. Trott was one of the club’s
charter members and, in fact, was in
strumental in organizing the Kings
Mountain branch of this international
civic organization. Mr. Trott is a hard
worker and it is easy to envision a pros
perous upcoming year for the Rotary
club here.
Congratulations to Rev. Marion Du
Bose who has been elected chairman of
the Kings Mountain Red Cross chapter.
Rev. Mr. Dubose is a busy man, as is
any minister, and his acceptance of the 1
top spot in the very much needed Red i
Cross chapter shows he wants to serve I
the whole community, as well as mem- !
bers of Kings Mountain Baptist church, j
Best bows are in order for Dr. Thomas
Durham and Robert Green on their re
cent promotions in the North Carolina
National Guard.
It is an annual headline of the Herald
that the Kings Mountain National Guard
unit has won top honors for its perform
ance during the summer encampment.
Said before, and repeatable, are com
mendations to Capt. Humes Houston, the
officers and men of the Kings Mountain
company.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
ly Martin Barmen
Ingredient*: bit* of new*,
wisdom, humor, end comment.
Direction*: Take weekly, if
possible, but avoid
Theoretically, a person learns
something new everyday, if he
has eyes to see and ears to
hear.
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Intermittently, my friend
Howard Jackson has suggested
to me that I write a novel. He
suggests that there’s plenty of
material right here in the home
bailiwick, certanly with the re
cords of some of the city's
founding fathers, the Falls,
Mauneys, Wares, and others.
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iMiy standard reply is I doubt
I’ll ever attempt a novel, for
two principal reasons: 1) My
writing training is weak in the
short story and navelwriting
department and my previous
attempts were puny indeed;
and 2) I like it in Kings Moun
tain, don’t want to do a sequel
to the late Tom Wolfe’s “You
Can’t Go Home Again.”
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The idea is sometimes intrig
uing and my new experience of
being a patient at the Veteran’s
Administration Country Club,
Salisbury, certainly is laden
with story possibilities. I must
have met at least 100 new
friends since I logged in on
June 7 and there are some real
“characters.” It is said that on
ly ‘'characters” are good sub
jects for roles in novels.
There are some good and
smart men who are patients
in the Salisbury establishment.
Mack, from Ellenboro, is a
produce jobber who had a heart
attack in the final days of
World War II. He sells in
Kings Mountain, as well as
other places, and tells some
really ludicrous tales off how
he and a topkick collaborated
in making life hard for their
Texas Captain. On one occas
ion, the company was on the
rifle range and the Captain
was getting more and more dis
gusted with tiie poor scores his
men were making. He told ’em
to give him a rifle and he’d
show ’em haw to shoot, in quite
a bragging attitude. Mack hap
pened to be on duty as score
keeper that day, along with
the sergeant. Actually, the Tex
an was a good marksman, and
each of his shots hit in the
charmed circle. But he never
knew it. Says Mack, “We wav
ed the bloomers, indicating
he’d completely missed the
bullseye, every time he fired.
He got so angry he didn’t know
what to do and claimed the
rifle was defective.” On anoth
er occasion, in Italy, the Cap
tain came up with five fifths
of choice state-side bourbon.
Mack and the sergeant steam
ed off the seals, poured a fifth
of each fifth in a bottle of their
own, replaced the difference
with tap water, then replaced
the five bottles. Says Mack,
“The Captain never knew the
difference.”
Another interesting patient
is Louis, from Blacksburg, S.
C.„ native American of German
extraction. For ten years fol
lowing World War II, Louis
owned and managed “The
Scri'be,” a fancy bar and res
taurant on New York’s famed
"Steak Row.’’ A neighbor res
taurant was the “Pen and Pen
cil.” “Why the newspaper nam
es?” I asked. Louis said his
place on 45th street, between
Second and Third Avenues,
was across the street from the
New York Daily Mirror. One
of his regular customers was
Dorothy Kilgallen, the gal re
porter who is a regular panelist
on television’s “What’s Mjy
Line?”, as well as her father,
also newsman. The location is
also close to New York’s “ad
alley.” Louis, now over the half
hundred mark, found that the
tough, confining restaurant
business was a younger man’s
department and sold out. He
bought a farm at Blacksburg,
now is raising beef cattle. His
missus I met subsequently and
she is native German. Heading
for the USA, she was caught
up in World War H, spent the
duration in Hamburg, where i
Allied bombers and riflemen
were responsible for the death
of 56,000 civilians. Louis is a
patient for observation and ex
amination in connection with1
the VA’s intended cancellation
of a disability pension. One of
Louis distant German cousins
let him have a rifle butt in the
teeth during the hostilities,
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Another character is George, 1
a Negro, native of Whiteville,
but an employee of the Senate ]
postoffice in Washington, D.
C. George says he does extra
duty by weekend chauffering
for Senator Sam Erwin. Mack
rcmerrtbers George from a pre
vious co-stay at Salisbury, re
calls that George’s I. Q. was
126. The Doctor who told Geor
ge his score, had remarked,
“Yours is higher than mine
Which is only 119.” I know one
thing, George plays a fast game
of hearts, usually manages to
let me catch the point-loaded
queen of spades.
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Another patient is from Nor
th Wilkesboro, says he worked
on the big VA plant when it
was being built He remarked
ruefully, "I never thought I’d
see it from the inside out”
Log Rolling Contest
Viewpoints of Other Editors
TRANSCONTINENTAL
STROLL
Two British paratroop sergeants
have just proved that two British
paratroop sergeants can walk a
cross the .United States in ten
days’ less time than any Amer
ican stroller has ever managed.
They did it by covering the
3,022 miles between San Fran
cisco’s Golden Gate Bridge and
New York, Columbus Circle in
66 days, 4 hours, and 17 minutes.
Average speed: about 4 1-2 miles
per hour (as compared to nor
mal British paratroop marching
speed of 3 miles per hour.) Ob
stacles: Sierra Nevada moun
tain, deserts, rain, hail, traffic,
autograph hunters.
If any American thinks this is
; a simple hike, let him try it. A
mericans, in fact, seem to have
got out of the habit of walking
across their country. Thirty-four
years have elapsed since the last
try. And the previous record was
set in 1910, when 71-year-old Ed
ward Weston paced from Los
Angeles to New York. (His 77
day, 3,483-mile trip actually was
made at almost the same speed
per day as that of the sergeants.)
At any rate we are delighted
to see Britons walking America.
It’s a fitting rejoinder to all
those Americans swimming the
channel. And it might even serve!
to remind some Americans of
the values and pleasures of thlat!
nearly extinct old art of walk-1
ing.
The sergeants deserve a good'
ride home. — The Christian Sci
ence Monitor.
HOW TO BE HAPPY
The University of Michigan’s
survey Research Center, after a
searching nationwide inventory
on what makes people tick, came
up last week with what seems
like a fairly obvious finding: the1
major reason for unhappiness in!
this country is not enough mon
ey.
In addition to children, the
survey showed the major reason1
for happiness was enough money.
Among other findings:
Only 17 per cent of those in
terviewed said marriage alone
made them happy.
Only 14 per cent cited their
jobs as a major source of happi-!
ness.
Only four per cent said they!
were unhappy in 1957 because of
world tensions and the possibili-1
ty of war.
One interesting sidelight turn
ed up in the survey: college ed
ucated people suffer from anxie
ty ailments — headaches, loss of
appetite, insomnia — more often!
than people in lower educational
levels.
The logical conclusion to be
drawn from all of this is that
your best bet to achieve substan !
tial happiness in this world is to I
accumulate a couple of million
dollars while avoiding education
like the plague.
Hmmmmmm. — Chapel Hill
Weekly.
HOLDING THE LINE
When can a county or a state
afford to “rest upon its laurels”,
and do what some politicians call
“hold the line.”?
In the light of current events
in North Carolina it might be!
well for the people of the state
to ask themselves that question.
Certainly, North Carolina is
not in that position today. With
a rating in the bottom ten sta-i
tes so far as education is con-!
cemed, with a standard of living
somewhat below that of much of,
the nation, and with an average;
per capita income which should
make us blush, it is no time to!
speak of holding the line.
There is only one direction in
which we can go very far — and,
that is upward. It isn’t far to the'
bottom, in spite of our boastful
statements about the greatness
of the “Odd North State."
North Carolina has problems,:
OUR TONY HAD
TUTTI-FRUITTI
There is an ice cream truck
which rolls slowly through our
town. It is an ice cream factory
on motored wheels. As it rolls, a
mechanical bell tolls its approa
ch to the small fry.
I said “tolls” and that is the
way it sounds to these ears. Its
never - changing dang, dang,
dang, repeated at five-second in
tervals has the call of a dirge or
of the church bells ringing their
last call for a departed one.
The tolling bell has none of
the happy individuality of the
bell which Tony,, the small, wiz
ened Italian-born fellow had on
his ice cream pushcart as he
rolled it through Monroe when
we we were young.
There were a couple of large
cans of ice cream sunk into wells
in Tony’s cart There must have
been crushed ice around the caps.
To one side were the cones, 1
centers, 3-centers and whopping
big 5-centers.
To the other side was a recep
tacle into which Tony plunged
the scoop he used in taking the
ice cream from the cans and put
ting it into the cones.
Never did Tony have more than
two flavors. Dim recollection it,
though, that on special days he
had tutti-frutti, a two-on-one
flavor, as well as vanilla.
Tony always wore a long white
apron. He stood between the two
handles of his cart to dish out
his delights.
He smiled easily. But he talk
ed little. Maybe he was fearful
lest we urchins find his faltering
accent funny.
The life of this quiet one and
his family must have been lone
ly. Save for Sam Lee, the laun
dryman, they were just about the
only foreign-born citizens. —
Henry Belle in The Greensboro
Daily News.
but it also has potential. That
potential cannot be realized in
any way other than through de
termined effort.
Where would North Carolina
be today with regard to educa
tion if Charles Brantley Aycock
had said, in effect, "I would like
for the state to have good pub
lic schools, but we must hold
the line.”?
What sort of highway system
■vould we have had if Governor
D. Max Gardner had comment
ed. “I know we are in grave need
of better roads, but we must
bold the line.”?
Would the farmers have ever
gotten ‘‘out of the mud” if the
late W. Kerr Scott had said, ‘‘We
need farm to market roads but
-ve must hold the line.”?
So long as we, as a people, are
not satisfied with what we have
we cannot afford to hold the
line.
We must strive to go forward
xlucationally, industrially, ag
-iculturally, and culturally. —
Stanly News & Press.
TEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
Items of news about Kings
Mountain area people and
events taken from the 1950
files of the Kings Mountain
Herald.
Kings Mountain citizens, along
with the nation, and the world,
vere watolling the Korean War
ivith crossed fingers this week.
The big question was whether
the invasion of South Karea by
Communist troops of North Ko
rea would furnish the match to
light the i rae of another World
War.
Social and Personal
Mrs. W. K. Crook and Mrs. I.
G. Patterson entertained with a
series of parties, beautiful in ev
ery detail, last week at the home
of Mrs. Croc*.
Members of the Duplicate Brid
ge club held a meeting Monday
afternoon with Mrs. George Hou
ser as hostess at her home on
Ridge street.
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Cotton-the South’s symbol of better living for many
generations-continues to play a major role in North
Carolina’s economy. Ranking third in total crop value,
our cotton is produced mainly on small, family-owned !
farms of 15 acres or less. Yet its importance to our
economic well-being may be measured by the fact that!
more North Carolinians directly or indirectly depend
on cotton for their living than on any other product!
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