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a: The Kings Mountain Hesald 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 3,1871 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon . Editor-Publisher 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 NUMBER — 739-5441 8UBSCKXP HON RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR—$3.50 SIX MONTHS—$2.00 THREE MONTHS- -$1.25 BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VEBSE The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand. Proverbs IS:7 I Amazing Document The Constitltion of the United States remains after 173 years one of the world’s most amazing documents. In it the founding fathers took pre cautions against the known traps and pitfalls they had experienced, yet made provisions for the basic law of change, which is the law of life. The change route is the Bill of Rights, or amendments. Ten of these admend ments were adopted before all the 13 co lonies were willing to amalgamate. It is somewhat amazing that only twelve have been adopted since. One of these, the prohibition act has been repealed. An other, limiting a president to two terms, is not as popular as when it was adopted, with many disbenefits apparent. Presi dent Eisenhower is the first to work un der the obvious handicap of being a four-year “lame-duck”. With the Constitution’s provisions for frequent elections and obvious leanings toward the protective thesis of throwing the rascals out, it is a wonder to some students of government how the nation gets enough efficiency to operate. Yet it does. The founding fathers must have known that man is weak, subject to the pitfalls of power prosperity, and that two or more heads are often better than one. The result was the three separate branches of government, legislative, ju dicial, and executive, a three-way hedge against dictatorship, a built-in check and balance system that has withstood the test of time. It behooves all to study the Constitu tion and to know and practice its prin ciples and guaranties of individual and collective freedom. These principles have not been main tained because they were written on pieces of parchment, but because the people have put them into practice. Campaign Notes The politico! campaign is warming, and developments are sufficiently fast to make a lot of heads swim. Here are just a few of the happenings in the past few days: 1) Dr. Norman Vincent Peale disavow ed his “mistaken” association with the National “separation of church and state” group, an obvious anti-Kennedy organization. 2) A group of South Carolina Dem ocrats organized into a Democrats-for Nixon outfit. 3) Jesse Page, the Charlottean who claims to have once been a Democrat, found managing the campaign of Re publican Bob Gavin too much work and resigned. 4) Jack Kennedy got a big welcome from North Carolina Democrats in a one-day, 700-mile tour of the Tar Heel state. 5) Dick Nixon shocked Midwest farm ers with a plan to pay ‘cm in grain, not cash, for farm subsidies. These developments alone are enough to indicate plenty of fun and fireworks between now and November 8. Dr. Peale’s comedown is interesting. He is an avowed and ardent Nixon sup porter. But the Wall Street Journal re ports his activities were causing rejoic ing among big city Democrats, where re action was adverse. Additionally, the Philadelphia Inquirer, endorsing Nixon and Lodge, simultaneously announced it was cancelling Dr. Peale’s column. He wasn’t hired as a political columnist, the Inquirer reasoned. It’s no wonder the Midwesterners sat in shocked silence when Mr. Nixon of fered his new farm plan. These farmers have grain. It’s a reminder that the pro blem of farm surpluses is tricky ground from the standpoint of vote-getting. As the candidate of the adminstration par ty, it’s more tricky for Mr. Nixon. There’ll be many more developments in the relatively short time until vo ting day. Congratulations to Otto (Toby) Wil liams, chairman, and to Nevette Hughes, vice-chairman, on their election to rep resent this township to the Cleveland County ASC committee. More Money For Schools Though only the most optimistic would expect the 1961 General Assembly to enact in a complete package all the recommendations for schools of the U nited Forces for Education, all can anti cipate a decent percentage of the recom mendations will become fact. Education has been pinpointed more particularly in the past couple of years than in many previously. Terry Sanford, the Democratic nominee for Governor, is committed to the United Forces pro gram and his opponent Republican Ro bert Gavin, though he backed off from a 50 percent teacher pay increase, remains committed to improvement of the state’s schools within, as he says, limits of a vailable funds. Cloyd Philpott, Democratic nominee for lieutenant-governor, also is commit ted to the UFE program. It can be safely guessed: 1) Teachers will get a pay raise. 2) Funds will be appropriated to en able the state to get full benefits from the federal government’s matching funds under the National Defense Edu cation act. Other recommendations include a re duction in class size (now based on 30 pupils per class), five days annual cum ulative sick leave for teachers, extension of work days for principals and teachers, and clerical assistance where needed. All of these recommendations, it is doubted, will be taken. One that should is the sick leave pro vision. Teaching is one of the few pro fessions where the professionals work by the day. In other words, they’re paid for days taught, rather than by the mon th, and substitutes are paid by the tea chers themselves when sickness strikes. A five-day sick leave provision isn’t much and fails to compare with sick leave allowances for other state em ployees, but it would be a start, at least. Some folk are mystified w'hen they hear a teacher has 35 to 36 or more pu pils, acquainted as the public is with the 30-pupil per class formula. However, all numbers aren’t divisible by 30, and grade populations vary with the birth rate, which some years is greater than others. Biggest reason for optimism by sup porters of increased appropriations for schools is the prospect of a state general fund surplus of more than $40 million at next June 30. Legislators, like individuals, find it easier to spend when the cash is in the till. Not Exorbitant The second annual budget of Kings Mountain United Fund, at $17,000, is not a great amount of money for a commun ity of Kings Mountain’s size. In fact, un usual for money-raising ventures of any type, whether charitable, governmental, or business-wise, the budget is less this year, by $1,000, than a year ago. This is another benefit of the United Fund type of operation. The board of directors assumes the responsibility of checking the budget re quests of several organizations and trims out any apparent “fat” before pre senting the requests to the people in the form of solicitations for contributions. Eight organizations are participating in this year’s campaign, all of them ren dering worthy functions in the Kings Mountain area. The budget should be met, and the Herald believes it will be. It would seem that Kings Mountain insurance agents, in their willingness to underwrite fire-fighting fees to the city, have removed any and all bars to the city’s informing the state rating bureau that the former “protected suburban” areas adjacent to the city have blanket fire-fighting coverage. The insurance a gents, whether or not successful in their efforts to maintain lower insurance ra tes in this area, deserve commendation. Agents’ commissions would be greater with higher rates. However, as they have in the past, Kings Mountain agents work diligently to maintain lowest pos sible rates for their customers. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Mortis Harmon Ingredients: bits ef neiot, wisdom, humor, and comment. Directions: Take weekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage. Some Cleveland County De mocrats got a good laugh at themselves Saturday. m-m Schedule for the motorcade to the Charlotte rally for Jack Kennedy called for a join-up of Kings (Mountain folk with the group gathering at Shelby for 1:15 p. m. ait the Kings Mountain National Guard build ing. But time-squeezers found no evidence of Democrats, un til they reached the outskirts of Gastonia and found the del egation parked on the highway. m-m The Rutherford county motor cade had balled the jack throu gh Kings Mountain and the lo cal folk thought it was the Cleveland group. i m-m County Chairman Virgil Wea thers was (Hoping that each pre cinct would be represented at the rally and he got his wish from Number 4 Township. m-m Among those present were Mrs. J. E. Lipford, county vice chairman; Miss Margaret Ken drick; Hugh Ormand, West Kings Mountain chairman; Ol lie Harris, East Kings Moun tain chairman; County Com missioner and Mrs. Broadus Ellis, of Grover; Cameron Ware, Beth ware chairman; Wil lard Boyles; Clarence (Ledford; Hall Goforth; Dean Spearman; Mrs. Gene Timms; Mrs. Hunter Patterson; Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Lawrence Plonk; the Charlie Dixons with No. 2 daughter; Mrs. J. H. Arthur: and Mayor Glee Bridges. m-m Television is worthwhile, Hut it’s still no substitute for per sonal appearances. There’s something about a crowd that produces a spirit of enthusiasm which is otherwise missing. m-m Part of the fun is seeing friends of past and present. m-m I renewed acquaintance of 20 plus years, for instance, with Gladys Tillett Coddington, who, apparently, is following in her mother’s footsteps as an ardent, and hard-working Nor th Carolina Democrat. Mrs. Coddington was in charge of ushering duties at the Char lotte rally. Her mother presen ted Candidate Kennedy. m-m It was also a pleasure to sit with Faison Barnes, the form er Kings Mountain lawyer, Who's now plying his profes sion in Charlotte. Faison ad mits Charlotte is a hotbed of Republicanism, but he thinks the Democrats are beginning to work with vim and vigor and that inroads will be made prior to November 8. m-m Most folk were amazed to find Candidate Kennedy look ing fresh as a daisy, in spite of a morning tour which found him speaking at Greenville and Greensboro and air-parked over fogbound Asheville. Same could not be said for the press corps, many of whom looked as if they were pretty well fagged out. m-m It was a Kennedy show and formalities were held to a min imum. However, biggest audi ence acclaim for the North Carolina dignitaries presented went to Terry Sanford, Demo cratic nominee for Governor, and to Dave Clark, who seeks again to unseat Rep. Charlie Jonas in the 10th Congression al district, which includes pop ulous Mecklenburg county. m-m Rally pick-ups: A couple of elderly ladies were talking to Arthur Smith of the Cracker jacks and wanting to know how he’d lost 70 pounds _ Paul Lemmons, the Shelby Star photographer, was staging a photo with the Democratic j donkey, had a beauteous brun ette usher in tow and was ; looking for “that good-looking blonde I saw a minute ago.” j He said later he’d found her i and got his picture .... Jack Wood, the haberdasher, was : functioning in his role as a : member of the Kennedy com ' mittee-Kennedy got a lot of cheering mileage during his 13-minute speech, particularly I when he accused the GOP of seeking a love affair with the South "every four years” and when he asked rhetorically if anyone could cite any positive legislative proposals espoused by the Republican party. The crowd roared a long, loud "No’.” , Happy Landings! V\\ M/S // AfR‘cA y ? , iiil i.il iiV iiWT.i Viewpoints of Other Editors TIME TO BEGIN IS NOW Now, at the beginning of the school year, is the time tor par ents and students to make their first move toward insuring a successful school term. What we mean is that in or der to get the best out of school it is necessary to start work just as soon as school opens. The pu pil who takes it easy for the first few weeks of school will soon get so far behind that he will have great difficulty in catching up. As a rule, the first few days of a school year are taken up with reviewing the last word done the year before and introducing that which is to come during the year which is 'beginning. Some educa tors say that students, as a rule, lose some of their last year’s pro gress dining the summer vaca tion. This can 'be regained quick ly, but special effort is neces sary. Parents are usually interested in the report card brought home by a son or daughter at the close of school. If the marks on that report card are not satisfactory, they immediately blame the tea cher, blame the pupil, or some other factor in the situation. They suddenly think that little Johnnie or Susie is not getting a square deal at school. But if these same parents had been interested in the children’s schoolwork all during the year the chances are themarks on the final report would have been satisfactory. Albemarle teachers indicate that there is a high de gree of correlation between the students who do good work and the ones where parents manifest a keen interest in the educational prograss being made by their children. Likewise, there is a re lation between the number of children who fail to pass their work and the homes in which parents take no interest in their children’s achievements. Teachers have supervision of boys and girls only a few hours per day. Parents have them most of the remainder of the time. Teachers cannot do in those few hours all the teaching expected of them and give individual at tention to each pupil in their classes. Most parents today have sufficient education to be able to assist and supervise their chil | dren’s study, at least through the I elementary grades. All parents can see to it that their children | do the studying and homework j assigned. | Some years ago it became quite unpopular to require homework of the students. The opinion has now changed somewhat with re gard to homework, and more of it is being asked of pupils. They learn by doing and we believe homework serves a very useful purpose in our educational setup. It can link the parents with the children’s schoolwork if the par ents will take the proper interest in it. Right now, at the beginning of the school year, is the time for parents to take the proper inter est. Followed up throughout the year, this will almost insure sat-j isfactory progress at the close of. the year. — Stanly News & Press.' THE AGE OF WORRY. WORRY, WORRY A famous physician recently said that about one-third of all the ailments which came to his attention originated in the mind, as a result of worry. 1 In the field of giving advice, I perhaps the best advice one can i give to those inclined to worry ! is "Stop Worrying.” To empha size the fruit less ness of worry, one should keep in mind the fol lowing things: First, about 40 per cent of the things people worry about never happen. Second, another 30 per cent of the things we worry a bout have already happened and thus are beyond our control.. Therefore, about 70 per cent of the things we worry about have already happened or will not happen, so the chances are — whenever you worry — that you are wasting your time and con tributing to the deterioration of LESSONS FROM THE STORM Major stoims may vary in in tensity, direction, and duration, but tihe problems they pose for humanity follow a general pat tern and lend themselves to e ventual, if not exactly easy, so lution. I Hurricane Donna’s legacy does not consist solely of property damjage. It includes also increas ed knowledge of how to cope with so-called natural disasters. Reliability of the advance warning system has had a fresh test, and meteorologists have ga thered new data that can be ex pected to enhance this valuable asset still further. A demonstrated willingness of civic officials and private em ployers, as well as the public in general, to take these watnings seriously made possible a more orderly and timely preparation. Reduced damage is a deadly apparent dividend. Admiration and gratitude is due to those thousands of work ers ait all levels of authority who stayed at vital tasks during and immediately after the storm’s passage. Unusual pressure for Utility, transportation, and other services frequently called forth the kind of heroic effort that earns medals and a nation’s deep appreciation in time of emergen cy. Families and businesses now embarked on a rebuilding effort deserve an immediate helping hand from more fortunate nei ghbors. After that, the long-range lessons of the storm should come up for thoughtful examination. I Where could trouble have been avoided by more intelligent plan ning? Were new potential weaknesses uncovered? What mental preparation is most con ducive to wise conduct before and during a warned-of disaster? The answers will surely bear fruit both for the individual and the community as they face whatever future challenges may arise. — Christian Science Moni tor. your health. Another 12 per cent of the things we worry about are ima ginary, and a further 10 per cent of them are concerned with those who are well able to, take care of themselves, and either do not need our worry, or do not want it. This leaves only eight per cent of our worries which have any relation to reality, and while eight per cent of our worrying may be legitimate worrying, a bout things which will happen some 92 per cent of our worry ing is wasted effort. — The Elkin Tribune. 1 A TEARS AGO 1V/ THIS WEEK Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and eyent3 taken from the 1950 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. I Six Kings Mountain textile plants reported wage increases this week. Thus a total of seven textile firms here have upped wages. i Letters were mailed last week to some 250 Kings Mountain sportsmen urging them to join •Che (Mountaineer Club. Social and Personal One of the largest and loveli est parties of the week was giv en Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. E. W. Griffin, when she and her daughter, Mrs. R. S. Bargar, of Jamestown, N. Y., entertained with a drop-in party. The Frances Hord Circle of the First Baptist chinch gathered at the home of Mrs. Will Weaver for their monthly meeting Wed nesday afternoon. CHEERWINE adds delightful emphasis to the taste of hot dogs and other foods. DON'T RUN OUT! Get More SUNRISE AIL STAB MILK for the weekend! p=r Sunrise Dairy UN-7-6354 SOMETHING NEW! • Yes there is something new in town! WKMT has a new sc hedule of programs and br and new programming too. All day, every day Jonas Brid ges, Don Curtis, Ray Eddy, Ed Whitehead and Grady Queen, the W K M T music makers, bring you a balance of music, news, time, temper ature, sports, weather, and shopping information — all especially keyed to this area. Why don't you tune WKMT everyday and see how you like the new programming. 1220 ON THE RADIO KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Teach Your Children Thrift with jO^GREEN STAMPS . Matiy families use S&H Green Stamps to help their children learn the all-important habit of saving; They use them as awards for doing chores around the home. For instance ... So many S&H Green Stamps each week to daugh ter for drying the dishes or helping clean house .. . so many to sonny for mowing the lawn or for other odd jobs. Many housewives tell us it’s a wonderful way ^twofold purpose of rewarding youngs ters for tasks well done and showing them how thrift pays. «ur°UngScfS of fvery age from tots to teens love S&H Green Stamps because they can redeem them for a wide variety of quality items that are dear .to chil dren s hearts. Try this plan in your home. You’ll be truly amazed to find how well it works. • I 1 \ NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION The Sperry and Hutchinson Company T,’or * Cbarlche N C
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