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The Kings Mountain Herald
7/t Established 1889
k weekly newspaper denroted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
ton 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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Martin Harmon . Editor-Publishes
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Mias Elizabeth Stewart.Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Neale Patrick.Sports Editor
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. Proverbs 28:1.
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Change Of Command
The administrative reigns of North
* Carolina government will be handed to
Terry Sanford Thursday, as Governor
Luther Hodges leaves the governor’s'of
fice and prepares to move to a bigger
one in Washington as occupied by the
Secretary of Commerce.
The Governor will be completing
nearly six years in office, to which he
acceded on the death of William B. Um
stead, and thereby set a modern record
for length of office on the part of a gov
ernor of this state.
The stewartship of Governor Hodges
has been good.
That the Governor pleased everyone
all the time is not true, nor would it be
fair to demand it of him. In an effort to
put business-method efficiency into gov
ernment, it was natural that the Gover
nor would trample some sensitive toes.
By very nature, purpose and function,
government is designed for the benefit
of all the people, whereas business is de
voted to a goal of profits.
There was some criticism of the con
centrated highway department arrange
ment and performance, with some feel
ing that the commission had become too
far removed from the people.
School teachers didn’t consider the
Governor a particular friend as he did
not give blanket endorsement to all the
wants of the schools. Withal, his six
years witnessed considerable expansion
in school appropriations and concurrent
increases in teacher pay.
Perhaps the Governor’s most irrita
ting statements occurred during the 19
58 recession, when he remarked several
times that North Carolina had no em
ployment problem. The Governor meant,
in these statements, that North Carolina
did not. need—or want—federal aid in
the unemployment compensation field
and that this state’s problem did not
compare in incidence or degree to the
unemployment of Pennsylvania, Michi
gan, and some other hard-hit states. But
the statements galled every North Car
olinian then looking for work and won
dering whether another job would be at
hand before his jobless pay benefits
were exhausted.
One of his most oustanding jobs, be
sides the many others which were more
methodical and means to ends rather
than end-points in themselves, was the
Governor’s success in attracting indus
try to North Carolina. The six-year total
shows that billions in investment capital
were spent in North Carolina and more
than 100,000 jobs added for Tar Heel
workers.
The other high point was the state’s
approach to the continuing problem of
de-segregating the public schools. The
Governor was a leader in adoption of the
Pearsall Plan, which thus far has attain
ed its joint aims: 1) an orderly, if slow,
transition, meeting the letter of the Uni
ted States Supreme Court decision, and
2) the prevention of violence as has em
barrassed all concerned in Little Rock
and, more recently, in New Orleans.
North Carolina, meantime, has main
tained its long-term' tradition of pro
gress, based on the rock of fiscal respon
sibility.
Many North Carolinians are confident
that Secretary Hodges will do the same
kind of job in Washington that he has
done in North Carolina, and a large seg
ment of the rest of the nafion shares
this optimism.
Kings Mountain area citizens continue
to save, as is evidenced by new record
payments of year-end dividends and in
terest by financial institutions. Develop
ment. of the savings habit is one that
some seem to adopt and maintain quite
easily, while others never acquire the
ability. It’s a matter of emphasis and
direction. Those who save successfully
determine what they can reasonably
save, then make their savings “expendi
ture” before they direct, their paychecks
to other spending. The person who
spends first, then saves, usually winds
up with little left for laying away.
It’s time to list properties for taxes.
Those who attend to the chore earliest
will find the job easiest and shortest.
Those who wait too late, or fail to list
for taxes, will find the procrastination
costly.
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How Blue Is Blue?
How blue is blue and how blue do peo
ple want their Sundays? v
Whether or not the push of the
Christmas rush was responsible for im
mediate lack of vocal opposition to the
operation of the city’s lone motion pic
ture house on Sunday is not known.
But a look-see about the community
on any Sunday will show that the city’s
ordinance restricting business opera
tions on Sunday is rather widely ignor
ed.
Many service stations are open, coin
operated washerettes are in operation,
and drug stores and non-Grade A
restaurants do not observe the dictums
of the law. (Oddly, the fcity ordinance
exempts Grade A cafes from its string
encies, perhaps due to a state statute.)
In the summer season, the city rec
reation commission, natural child of the
city itself, flaunts the ordinance as it
opens its swimming pools to the com
munity, vends soft drinks and other
concession items.
It is also understood that the soft
drink vending machine in the lobby of
city hall gets busy treatment from the
church-going thirsty between end of
Sunday school and beginning of church
services.
For a more comparative case in point,
how many citizens, no matter their feel
ings on commercial desecration of the
Sabbath, have beeer able to enforce a
living room edict against use of the
home movie theatre, the television set?
Some industry operates on Sundays,
or portions thereof.
How blue is blue and how blue do
Kings Mountain citizens want their Sun
days?
Most can foresee some considerable
inconvenience should the city, if legally
empowered, remove itself from its sum
mer swimming operations, place a lock
on the vending machine slots, close tight
service stations and other service estab
lishments.
There is little question that a ban on
operation of television sets on Sundays
would create a juvenile revolution, in
spite of the potential benefits of clearer
eyesv more attention to study, and peace
and ojuiet of the domicile.
B. S. Neill
First, National Bank, which last year
was merged into First Union National
Bank on North Carolina, was chartered
in 1900. \
For almost half of its existence, 29
years of it, B. S. Neill has been a key
figure in its management and therefore
a mainspring of its success, in both the
bank’s roles of giving service to the
community and dividends to its stock
holders.
Mr. Neill came to First National at a
critical time. It was December 15, 1931,
and the nation and Kings Mountain were
in the slough of depression. Bank bank
ruptcies were the order of the day, as
were bankruptcies of other businesses.
The late F. R. Summers, for many
years president of First National, was
never stinting in his praise of Mr. Neill,
for his role in seeing that First National
navigated the depression storms and e
merged therefrom to grow and prosper
and to serve the community as deposi
tory, financial adviser and source of cap
ital.
The high regard in which Mr. Neill is
held is adequate testimonial to his a
bility in conducting the business of this
institution on a sound basis and con
currently meeting the demands of bor
rowers.
The Herald joins the community in
congratulating him on a long and suc
cessful stewartship and in wishing him
a long and happy retirement.
W. P. (Bill) Saunders, the former
Kings Mountain citizen who for the past
five years has directed the work of the
state’s busy Department of Conserva
tion and Development, has announced
plans to step down, though asked to con
tinue by the incoming governor. Mr.
Saunders has done a highly creditable
job in the department’s main function of
attracting new industry and new pay
rolls to North Carolina.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
By Martin Hannon
Ingredient*: bits of
wisdom, humor, and comment.
I Directions: Take weekly, if
jWM&l* b«?
overdosaga.
By now enough of 1961
iHeve elapsed for a considi
dent to have been made
whole raft of New Year’s
lutions.
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Resolutions are a happy le
vice, particularly for paretts
who seek to instill in their off
spring those happy habits ®f
personal care and public per
formance which are designed to
bring the youngsters the com
plimentary descriptions of “lit
tle lady” or “little gentlemen”,
as the case may be.
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Older folk, rightly or wrong
ly, and perhaps toy embarrass
ing former failing experience,
tend to be more chary about
making resolutions for change
of habit and practice.
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Dick McGinnis had a non
untypical answer when I jest
ingly asked if he had a 1961 set.
“Sure,” he replied in kind, “the
same set I had last year and
the year before ithiat.”
There are some folk I know
who would like to make “A” on.
a resolution to stay awake in
church. I had never considered
this a wortd-shaking problem,
tout Simeon Stylites, writing in
the Christian Century, has done
some interesting research on
ithe subject, and, for the bene
fit of ministers and their nod
ding parishioners, sets forth
his findings.
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In general, says the writer,
special dispensation is in order
for the famier or other outdoor
workman Who finds six days of
heavy work in itlie invigorating
out-of-doors interrupted briefly
toy a day of quiet and repose.
Says the writer, “.on the
seventh day all thfeir muscular
activity in briefly halted and
the peace, perfect peace, of a
sitting position is imposed on
them as the Bible readings and
sermon descend like a clovrtl of
laudanum. A young preacher in
a country dhurch should console
himself with the thought
that he is battling against na
ture in ore of her most pow
erful moods." Laudanum, in
cidentally, was one of the earli
er developed sedatives and
painkillers.
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Two other major causes to
church-sleeping are listed, one
being carbon dioxide, which is
the gas humans exhale in the
process of aerating their bodies.
The writer says he’s been in
many CHurChes in which ho is
sure the windows haven’t been
opened in decades and charges
that a poorly-ventilated church
is one of the devil’s secret wea
pons.
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Another sleep - producing
church appurtenance is listed
as the shiny organ pipes, cross
es and other symbolic bric-a
toract, which the writer terms
as “hypnotic and soporific.”
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I Would add lighted candles,
which play tricks with one’s
eyes, as well as aiding and abet
ting the debilitating, sleep-pro
ducing gas department.
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It has been a long time since
I’ve been a victim of this illness,
but I feel for those who are.
It’s a miserable and embarrass
ing feeling to go through the
shock of the end-point head
jerk from pew sitting.
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It doesn’t happen only in
church. Mayor Glee Bridges
was a victim at the recent
Lions football banquet. He’d
been up early and had a busy
day. The banquet fare was co
pious and delicious and the
Mayor consumed the victuals in
a fashion designed to compli
ment the cook. During the pro
gram, it was obvious that the
Mayor was fighting to remain
awake. However, he retained
good control with a well-con
cealed half-doze, never once
punctured by a head-drop or a
bleating snore.
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The sleep-in-churoh research
er has some words of advice for
the preachers. Movement will
help, he suggests, which impli
es the preacher might do well
to arrange his service for a
good bit of getting up and sit
ting down on the part of the
parishioners, hot to mention a
leaping on his part from sharp
point to sharp point. Another
ministerial aid suggested is the
use of the rhetorical question,
the- more disturbing aixi con
science-pricking the better.
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If none of these devices prove
out, there is solace for all in
the long-accepted contention
that ability to douse off at any
given time or place is unques
tioned evidence that the sleeper
is blessed with a dear conscien
ce.
n inocentf)
^it could
enough — each service
lo each thing best."
Ameri
sales
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n of
Indiana
tax,
is
n incre
J-mission
a local
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its re
DIVIDING TH
AREAS
Thirty-three of
can states levy a ge:
tax. Kentucky became
addition to this list
its Legislature this y<
collects a gross "eo:
which is similar in effj
In nearly all cases 1 .
2 or 3 per cent, but Mi rate.
month voted a constitgan. as
mendment to authoriz511^ a‘
ase to 4 per cent.
'A numlber of cities i\ .
es in New York State,1
New York City, under ^udl.ng
by the Legislature i
j sales tax. Now a sped
sion on economic expi
pointed by Governor:
kefeller has included
port a recommendatioii, . ...
tax be made gtatewideP*? t*}ls
proceeds to go to Iocet1®1 me
merit. 11 g°vertv
When the Sixteenth . ,
mient to the Constitute A111600
tified in 1913 authorialwas
uated income tax it gal a gr.^l'
eral government the rf f ’
tive source of revenue.
United States. This has 1016
factor #n the extension ^
powers through deperv.^J’81
federal aid. I 8,100 oa 1
With a recognition . .
graduated income taj1. s.la"j
to become duplicativeaw(s tena
hibitory, the recent te, P™
been to reduce these, i'0110^.oa»
state and local governr 00818 OI
been going up; thdren^f, ,haX®
more than doubled d . uag5JS
1950’s. Hence they are nng
dependable revenues be1 ^
possibilities of ad valo.°™ tfte
erty taxes, though thos™ Prc5?'
improved. ' can ae
The sales tax seems ti .
logical area left for V® most
state government. $’hetVnanC!Sg
jeotions that it is regress: ar<L
ing most heavily oif thos^e’ !K:ar'
incomes. But in view of0 01 ,ow
{tively broad and evendissa, rela’
of earning power an£lbatl,?n
steepness of federal intor of the
rates, the popularity of stf110 tax
taxes is understandable. rte sal;s
tian Science Monitor. Ghris
SUNDAY CLOSING Hix.c
A group of laws wicLAWa
United States Supreme CiP
under advisement conewfur* ^as
legality of state laws v. jns the
hibit or limit commercial! PIT,
on Sunday. Two of the ca |aaUvlty
from Pennsylvania, one3
Maryland and one fromi
ehusetts.
Approximately 40 of the]
tes have laws on their »
ithis subject, some enforce
overlooked; all might be”]
by the court’s decision. \i_
In the oral arguments,^attor
neys opposing the so-callei “blue
laws" conceded the righit ofgtates
to legislate that one day ir seVen
be observed as a day of rat. But
the right to designate a specific
day was challenged, njj.jng that
Mohammedans consiier Friday
a holy day and Jews ^serve Sat
urday as the Sabba«| Also con
tested are laws whicf|>ermit sale
of merchandise in Some areas but
not in others on Sunday,
In behalf of specific S inday
closing laws it «us argued that
if soto establistfhents are llow
ed to observe a different closing
day from others (the enforcement
system will break down arid a
virtual seven - day businesshteek
ensue.
The (trend in tlkut direction is
all too prevalentmany srarts
of the United States. Supermark
ets stay open at night and their
smaller competitors are under
pressure to work extra hours A
suburban store advertises Sun
day sales and downtown sores
are at a disadvantage.
The question becomes onej of
social policy, labkr welfare and
fair competition as well as cf re
ligion- In fact, if religionists were
conceded the right to choose
their day of rest, Here would still
be legitimate concern to prevent
a tendency towardUreating a”
days alike. Whatever the Suprerr
Court may rule, tlere prob$>i
will be serious questions left fc
state legislatures. Christia
Science Monitor,
f, tlere
quektio:
n.
TIME FOR REVISION
Another old saw tlfit needs ri
vision is the one aboSt death ar
taxes. Death doesn't1*** won
every time Congress Wets. -
- Tew. r
Other Editors
COMPULSORY CARE
Strong efforts will toe made in
:he next session of Congress to
njake medical care for the aged
i part of the social security pro
gram. It will mean an upping of -
the social security raites paid by (
oath employer and employee and
nvill make medical care a manda
tory part of the social security
program of the nation.
There is a place for the federal
and state governments in seeing
that proper medical care is ex
tended those needing it, tout there
are strong and logical objections
w(hy it should not be a part of so
cial security.
There are some 12 million A
merican people now past 65 years
of age, who are covered by social
security. What about these peo
ple? Many of them are unable to
meet high medical expenses. They
will have to go through old age
agencies c.s (they do today.
The government Should see that
all elderly people have the medi
cal attention they need. But there
are still people Who want to work
out some of their problems them
selves. The push to place ah me
dical care for the aged under so
eal security will be one more
ove towards making the govern
ment wholly responsible for all
the".needs of the people.
Evei;w time the (government ta
kes oveL some function of so-cal
led putofijc need, it means more
money f%-om somewhere. Some of
these newjs are real and should
toe faced/ others are urged for
political {reasons. iBut there is get
ting to The too much compulsion
in puttirig some of these pro
grams ijfuto effect. — Owosso
(Mich.)i> Argus Press.
WH;eN THIS HAPPENS.
YCju'RE AN OLD MAN
A irian is supposed to be as old
as Ife feels. That means that the
important question is: What ma
kes a man feel old?
lAlbout itlhe best answer to that
question we’ve seen is the answer
given by Harry Golden, the Char
lotte sage who edits The Caroli
na Israelite.
iHe says the older you get the
nore concerned you are about
-our insurance, your will, and
-our health. But these things
lon’t make you feel old. What
loes it is ithe realization that “the
nsurance salesman, the lawyer,
ind the doctor are all younger
ban you.”
Even so, says Harry, “You can
hide the advent of age by ignor
ing insurance, wills, and medical
Checkups, but only for so long.”
Then: “One day you will look up
and discover that ithe President
of he United States is fifteen
yea -s younger han you and then
you re had it.” :— Smithfield Her
ald.
1 n YEARS ago
l \J THIS WEEK
Items of news about Kings
Mountain area people and
events taken from the 1951
jdes of the Kings Mountain
Herald.
Sam Stallings, Chairman of the
No. 4 Township March of Dimes
campaign for 1951, announced
Thursday major committee heads
for (the $6,000 fund drive.
Business was brisk at City
Hall this week as a large number
of citizens, accomplished their an
nual job of listing propperty for
taxes.
•Winners of the Christmas dec
oration contest sponsored by two
Kings (Mountain Garden clubs
were the W. K. Mauney home,
first, and the Rev. T. L. Cash
well home, second.
Social and Personal
The Senior Woman's Club and
Junior Womian’s Club held open
, house at the clubhouse on Satur
day night. . >
W. K. (Mauney, Jr., Howard
Jackson and E. E. (Marlowe at
tended the Gator Bowl game at
Jacksonville, Fla..., on New Year’s
Day.
Miss Martha Plonk, member of
the faculty of the University of
West Virginia, returned this week
to Morgantown, W. Va. affcer
spending the holidays at ban*). ;
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EVERY 3 SECONDS A
Jew PAPA IS BORN! And
it you tmnK that s
a lot of papas,
you’re right. Now
that we’re start
ing another new
year, I thought it
would be interest
ing to look at some
figures on our in
creasing popula
tion. Today there
are 3 billion peo
ple in the world
—twice as many
as 100 years ago.
United rs at ions estimate! ? cw forecast tnat oy .ne year
2000 there’ll probably b: tuween 6 and 7 billion. The
United States, with 180 ni bn now will most likely pass
the 3 hundred million mar in the next 40 years. In our
business—communications- -this growth means a lot of
planning ahead to meet t ic needs of our fast-growing
population, and you may be sure we’re not sleeping at
the switchboard!
TELEPHONE MILESTONE_Just to back me up about
not sleeping at the switchboard, here’s news about an
event that happened recently in this country. The 60
millionth telephone in the Bell System was installed!
Actually, America’s telephone "population” is now more
than 75 million, including the stations operated by the
3,500 Independent companies. You know, the more
phones there are, the naoire valuable telephone service
becomes to everyone.
THE KINGS MOUNTAIN area citizens are to be
congratulated for the fhe support given the re
cent visit of the Bloodnobile. A total of 120 per
sons gave blood. The doibrs listed included seven
Grover citizens. Maunev Hosiery Company em
ployees led industrial gx>uP donors with 19, fol
lowed by Mauney Mill employees with 11.
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