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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 . Editor-ButoUsher 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 SUBSCRIP HON RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR—83.50 SIX MONTES—$2.00 THREE MONTHS--$1.25 BY MAR, ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE ! “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are call ed according to his purposeRomans 8:28 The Rider We take it grade school children, in their studies of history and civics, are still learning the definition of a legisla tive “rider.” Nominally, the rider is a piece of legis lation attached to a bill, which rider has no particular connection with, the main purpose of the legislation but is append ed in hope that the rider will become law in the course of adoption of the prin cipal legislative aim. “ For an extreme example, a legislator or group of them, might seek to append an appropriation for a flood control pro ject to a defense appropriation bill. Thus there is current discussion on the upcoming federal education bill in which some civil rights enthusiasts would seek to deny federal funds to seg regated schools. This is not the way the bill was in troduced. The administration bill makes no segregation provisio, and Mr. Ribi coff, the secretary of Health, Education & Welfare says the purpose of the legis lation is improving the schools, whereas the civil rights complainants are seek ing a comparative free ride. The fate of the administration bill is not sure, at any rate. It will be passed rather easily by the Senate, if last year’s similar action is in dicative, but is expected to have rougher sledding in the House of Representa tives, which passed a much smaller and restricted education bill last year by a narrow margin. Since last year, House Republican membership has increased by 22. Certainly the Southern member ship of the House would help defeat any bill with the civil rights rider attached, though the South figures to be particu larly benefitted more than some other areas of the .nation. More conservative citizens decry the further entry of the federal government into education. The more moderate would approve federal construction aid, but not teacher salary supplements; which is the position of Governor Terry Sanford, as ardent as any North Caro linian on the education front. The objectors look at tomorrow and see the civil rights and other riders on the horizon, a particular one being the inherent implication that he who pays prescribes the terms, as it implies to or ders on curricula and otherwise. Construction aid is less of a bugaboo, having proved feasible in many other a reas of state-federal-local joint projects. The experience has been that once a building is constructed, and terms of the contract met, it is under local manage ment and control. Some citizens regard as a horrible prospect that of a federal teacher civil service. Local Office Needed It was in October 3959 that Kings Mountain’s Employment Service office was closed, heavy complaints of the citi zens being to no avail. The Employment Service commission had a rather unassailable answer. A par simonious skin-flinty Republican federal agency had simply pared North Caro lina’s allocation of funds and a particu lar number of employees had to be pas tured, unless they wished to work with out pay. In turn, the Kings Mountain office ser ved a comparatively small geographical area and, compared to some offices, a small number of both employers and employees. The Kings Mountain office had to go. None figured the service would be as good as in the past, and this has been the result. No derogation is intended to efforts of the Cleveland County office which as sumed the local functions. Manager John Fleming and his cohorts have stre tched themselves in seeking to give good service. Employers relate that the biggest diff erence they note is less rapport between the county office and themselves. The problem is physical, involving personal contact and time. The Kings Mountain office was opera ted. on a very reasonable cost and the Herald would hope, for the benefit of all Kings Mountain area citizens, that one immediate benefit of the change in na tional administration is the re-opening of the Kings Mountain office of the Em ployment Service. Armory Seems Assured Most citizens will be glad at the news that the National Guard Armory pro ject appears virtually assured. Though a seemingly small matter, as present governmental budgets go, dig ging up the money took some doing, and the project was saved, apparently, by the coincidental sale of Lake Montonia power lines, which will supply needed surplus cash to enable the city to deposit deeds to sufficient site and cash for local fund share by the required deadlines. There are a lot of “human” correla tions between a person and a corporate governmental entity, among them the typical one that there’s seldom sufficient money to perform all desired functions, whether it be armory projects, new streets or employee pay. One major difference between a cor porate governmental entity and a per son is an inability to take cash out of one governmental pocket, and transfer it to another. The county commissioners couldn’t tap certain monies on hand for an un budgeted project, though they’ve indi cated informally they’ll budget $10,000 for the Kings Mountain armory next year. Nor is the City of Kings Mountain ex actly cash-shy. Several funds are lodged in savings and loan accounts, without any forseeable demands on them. There is the perpetual care cemetery fund, wa ter and light department deposit funds i (which assure at least partial payment j of accounts by “skippers”), and rather i copious natural gas system funds. None j could be tapped, even for a short-term loan, to the armory pocket. Long-term, of course, these restric tions are quite sound, assuring expendi ture for intended purpose. The old saying, “Where there’s a will there’s a way”, is harder to apply to governmental situations, particularly within particular time limits. An Armory is first constructed for na tional defense, though its major peace time uses are civilian in function, as a public auditorium, for recreational acti vities, and for many other public uses. It’s a facility Kings Mountain can use to advantage and looks forward to en joying. Zoning Problems A continuing problem at City Hall is one of re-zoning. Just about everyone will agree on the contention that 1948’s initial city zoning law is something of an old model. Of course, there have been amend ments. There has been considerable “spot” re-zoning, in which the general policy of all the administrations is to rub ber stamp any re-zoning request to which there are no objections. It’s the objections that cause sport. Theoretically, block re-zoning rather than “spot” re-zoning is to be desired, but the theory doesn’t often withstand the test of practicality. Some city commission at some future date may make a serious effort at up dating its zoning ordinance, but none will envy its members their task. Gas Use Grows Some years ago when an engineer was ' “selling” the city on the advisability of becoming a natural gas distributor, there was some raising of eyebrows at his glowing predictions of potential con sumption. Indeed, the same engineer has not yet been proved correct for some communities he visited, but the results in Kings Mountain have been amazing. Though service to all its interruptible contract customers was suspended dur ing January’s extreme cold weather, the city, on two days, found other customers using more than one million cubic feet of natural gas. It’s interesting to remember that the city’s daily natural gas allocation is less j than 1,400,000 cubic feet daily. Contin- ! ued growth of the system will push the city’s consumption to the peak of the allocation. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Harmon Ingredient$: bite of new, wisdom, humor, and comment. Directions: Take weekly, if possible, but avoid over dosage. Wednesday was the 129th birthday of General George Washington, first president and called the father of our coun try. m-m As an Indian-fighting soldier, planter, general of the armies, and president, Mr. Washington was a veritable jack-of-all trades and, history records, pretty good at all af them. Washington and his colonial cohorts, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, the Adamses and oth ers, the historians relate, had within themselves a sense of grand mission, with the innate feeling they were exploring in the governmental frontier com pletely new fields which would effect the lives of unborn mil lions for years to come. No matter Washington’s vision, it is conceivable he and the oth er founding fathers would be Shocked at the growth of the nation to ISO million persons. He would also be shocked to find the Atlantic Ocean shrunk to a mere moat, in comparisan to the day, in his farewell ad dress, he urged the nation to avoid foreign entanglements. This warning of Washington has been quoted in many argu ments since and was the basis of much of the isolationist ar gument prior to World War II. In actual practice, it was never found possible to follow the precept very long. For many years, the principle was used merely in keeping the Western Hemisphere more or less invio late to European designs. To day, many, in view of the Cu ban situation, the Laos and Congo troubles, wish it were possible to follow Washing ton’s advice. But the speed of communications and the atom bomb have forever changed the course of this nation in interna tional waters. m-m Whether or not General Washington, as a youngster, was as heroic about admitting to the business of wanton de struction of his father’s cherry' is not historically delineated, but it makes a good moral. Th< truism is that delaying judg ment day can often prove more more costly tnan paying debts when due. m-m West Kings Mountain elec tion officials tvill be pleased at the action of Ralph Gilbert, county elections board chair man, in teiling the county board of commissioners he wants the card-index system throughout the county. The changes, Chairman Gilbert says, are designed to speed vot ing, and hearty seconds will come from just about all West Kings Mountain citizens, many of wham spent three hours get ting to vote last November, and many of whom didn’t get to vote because they didn’t have the time to wait. And the elec tion counting wasn’t finished until 5 a. m. the following morning. Mr. Gilbert told the board the elections body has the au thority to order a new registra tion, but he felt die county com mission should be forewarned since the cost will be out of thecounty treasury. Most folks will feel the cost justified. m-m The county elections board, incidentally, is pretty well load ed with authority. Last fall I made a talk on election pro cedures to a seventh grade class and likely learned more about election laws than the students. One item of election board au thority the students seemed to appreciate more than any oth er. The elecions board, if it wishes, can, in effect, com mandeer a school building for use in an election and, if elec tion day comes on a school day, can order the superintendent or principal to close the school for the day. The youngsters liked the holiday idea. m-m Immediately, after the elec tion last fall West Kings Moun tain ofirials suggested that this large precinct should be split. Bethware citizens have issued an invitation to West Kings j Mountain to change the bound aries in order to give more : voters to Bethware. Says Cam eron Ware, Bethware Dem ocratic chairman, “We need i some more Democrats.” Look ing at the vote total last fall, there’s no surety- a change of boundaries would give Cameron his desired result. m-m Inflation note: A bill being offered in the General Assem bly would up the petty larceny limit to $200, rather than the present $100. Rough Winter I, Viewpoints oi Other Editors CASE OF THE PURPOSEFUL PORPOISE Naughty Natty won’t swim at full speed. The Navy is dis appointed. Navy scientists had great plans for Natty, a 12-foot por poise netted in the Pacific last year. They wanlted her to tell them how — or why — porpoises develop mare horsepower per pound than any other critter known to man. Porpoises ait sea have observ ed frolicking around the bows of 30-knot ships. But, after months of supervised testing, Notty’s top performance to date has been 16 knots. The scientists theorize that maybe Notty is being naughty because the speed trials take place in an enclosed tank—315 feet long, but enclosed neverthe less. They’re talking about a big ger place, perhaps an inlet that can be fenced off with submar ine nets. We have a different theory. We simply believe that por poises are smarter than people. They have built-in radar sys tems, can communicate with each other in high pitched squeaks, get plenty to eat for the gulping, can frolic all the live-long day and retire to war mer dlimes when the bitter cold sets in, with no worry about transportation costs, room rent, or, at the end of their lives, medi cal care for the aged or Social Se curity. Why put on a show for the Navy? No purpose to it, not for a por poise. — The Charlotte Observer. 'WANTED: A CAUSE With nothing very personal in mind we glanced recently at the personal columns of The Specta tor. There, crowded in among companions - between - engage ments, and novelists searching for an isolated cottage was an i tem calculated to delight Lord Byron, Florence Nightingale, or Ernest Hemingway. It read: Wanted: A Cause. Young man, 25, adequate unearned income, will go anywhere, do. anything, for nothing, in any worthwhile hause. Box 7348. Well, we’d like to advise Box 7348 (wherever he may be by now, In whatever adventurous pursuit) that his mere placing of that ad serves a pretty worth while cause. Not long ago educators and parents and anthropologists were shaking their heads in sad a greement over the condition of modem youth. Security, they said, security was all the young graduate craved; a safe job, a safe suburb, conformity, retire ment income all settled at age' 25. Or at the opposite extreme' “rebels without a cause.” For a while this seemed to be| the story of many Western you- : ths. But lately the pendulum has begun to swing back toward a1 more adventurous, inventive, confident attitude. Box 7348 is perhaps an extre me example. Adequate uneam -1 ed income” is not a widespread; commodity. But nevertheless hq typifies the reviving confidence of Western youth. It remains to be seen whether Box 7348 raid his contemporaries; will know a worthwhile cause; when they see one. History in clines us to the view that if they know enough to be looking for! one, they will recognize it when! they encounter it. — The Chris- j tian Science Monitor. PUNCTUALITY'S Eastern North Carolina is de-; veloping a fierce grudge against, punctuality. Of course, unsoph isticated folks be live an invita tion means what it says, but1 there is a bewildering impression; in many quarters that punctu ality is gauche and naive, un mistakeably small-townish. The feeling is that if you go to a sav in o’clock function at 7:30, no >ne will be there but the host md hostess and they will be! half-dressed. Maybe this impression is a; wicked by-product of the old to- i iacco warehouse dance, festival, :xr coronation. Girls didn’t want) to arrive until plenty of stags I lad accumulated, back when tweaking” was acceptable. Too, there was the theory that the o-i ODD-SHAPED ROOMS A British real estate agent, of fering a domicile which includes a room 12 feet long by (three feet wide, suggests it could be used to house an “unbidden guest”, or alternatively a pet serpent. The advertisement does more than display ingenious salesmanship. It suggests that the people who planned the house you live in now may have built more meth od than madness into the struc ture. Why some rooms take the sha pes they do has long been a my stery wrapped in a real estate | deed. How did that panhandle grow on grandfather's bedroom? Why was the pantry built re shaped? Sometimes, of course, one’s room’s triumph was another room’s disaster. Many houses were built from the outside in— and if that Rhenish tower was to achieve fusion with a Georgian chassis, something “had to give.” Rooms achieved a remarkable degree of conformity — even comprehensively — when archi tects could forgo secret stair cases, and built-in closets. But rooms that start out geometri cally on the square can develop all the aesthetic deviousness of their inhabitants. The real estate agent peddling the 12-by-three guest room has perhaps ithd only solution for ctrtcun rooms v.*c oil Iisvp coah It is not to try to remodel the dwelling for normal habitation but to make the occupant fit the room. — The Christian Science Monitor. dor of fertilizer was less offen sive after midnight. But now the warehause is glisteningly usur ped by homes, lawns, country clubs and community centers. Church services start on time, even 'if some of the snazzier folks always anrive late Most funerals start on time but the undertak ers know some pallbearers are always tardy. Most sessions of Superior (fount give the same credence to dlbcks the operators of the railroads did in the 1890’s. Many business men assume the appointment Will be a little late and hardly anyone Is ever pun ctual far a 'luncheon engagement. And there has always been a reeling that nothing important happens at a play until 20 min utes after the show has started. Perhaps if it weren’t for beau ty operators, ail the master wat chmakers would commit suicide. They mean ten o’clock when they say it and the woman who was late at her own wed ding gets to the beauty parlor appointment on time if the side walk is hemstitched. — Raleigh News and Observer. I TSARS AGO JL THIS WEEK Items of news about King« Mountain area people and events taken from the 1951 file* of the Kings Mountain Herald. Dr. F, L. Conrad of Salisbury, president of the United Evange lical Lutheran Synod in North Carolina, will be the officiating officer at ground breaking serv ices for the Lutheran Mission in Kings Mountain on Sunday aft ernoon at 3 o’clock. There was no formal political activity for the forthcoming city elections up to noon Thursday, but the rumor mill was grindingI more heavily than in the past few i days. Social and Personal Mrs. J. R. Davis was hostess on Tuesday afternoon entertaining with five tables of canasta. Mrs. W. K. Croc* entertained members of the Study club and additional guests at her home Tuesday night. The American Legion Auxiliary met with Mrs. Dickie Tate last Thursday night with Mrs Clar ence Black as co-hostess. CHEER WINE odds delightful emphasis to tho toste of hot dogs and other foods. riuya H carton toda ! to North Carolina... a glass of beer means many things To those Counties and Municipalities in our state wherein the “legal sale” of beer and ale is permitted, it means an added Two and a Half Million Dollars in Tax Revenue. And—to the state's more than Three Million , citizens a glass of beer means better living... a better economy. Just one of the reasons why civic-minded citizens enjoy the light, bright refreshment that makes these community advantages possible. North Carolina Division UNITED STATES BREWERS FOUNDATION, INC. 1 Telephone - Talk BORN IN FEBRUARY? You’re in good company. So were such “greats” \ as George Washington, Abraham Lin ^ coin, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Lind bergh and Babe Ruth—to mention only a few. * * * ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, another Great Ameri can whose birthday comes in March, was spurred on to invent the telephone through his interest in helping deaf persons. We think Mr. Bell would be happy to know about a recent development of Bell Laboratories—the electronic larynx which makes speech possible to those who have lost their larynxes and ability to speak. The electronic larynx is available to those who need it at just what it costs to produce. For more information, inquire at our Business Office. ♦ * * JUST BECAUSE YOU WANT TO ... is a good enough reason to pick up the phone and enjoy a Long Distance visit. Some one you’ve been missing—young sters off at school, a relative who lives far away. Long Distance rates are low with extra bargains after 6 p.m. and on Sundays. Why not call tonight—Just because you want to? * * * CASTLE IN SPAIN, ANYONE? A turreted, storied castle in Spain, built in the 14th century, is for sale because the nearest telephone is two kilometers away. Its owners will part with this old landmark for $4,000 because that is how much they need to j build a telephone exchange. The price is right if you have ' the money and want to buy a castle, but think how lone ly you’d be without a tele J phone!
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