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A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enlightment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain
arid 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
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Alton Stewart ... Sports Reporter
Mjss Elizabeth Stewart.. Circulation Manager and Society Editor
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1.
Republican Doings
Thefe was a time, some years ago,
that Number 4 Township Republicans
held a clambake and made motions a
bout establishing a virile organization,
but very little occurred.
Upcoming Thursday night is another
organization meeting of township Re
publicans, this one according to the
state’GOPf plan of organization, which
in mofrtiti^illfetatches that of the item
ocrats^wit'hr'the principal exception be
ing the fact that the GOP holds its lo
cal, county, district and state gatherings
earlier than opponents.
One reason, of course, is that the GOP
does the bulk of its candidate nomi
nating at conventions, in contrast to
party primaries, and (the March state
convention date is in advance of the
filing deadline for state offices. It gives
maverick Republicans, if they are un
happy with the convention decisions,
opportunity to file and force a primary.
The Herald, believing that through
party organization is the lone practical
way for individuals to have much ef
fective voice in government, re-encour
ages again the GOP to forge a more ef
fective organization. The Herald also be
lieves in two-party government, not for
the sake of party itself, but for pro
ducing better government.
Success in politics requires organiza
tion at the precinct level in any demo
cratic system, if that party is to be suc
cessful.
All office-holders find ex-office-hold
ers will be first to say that many issues
are advanced in which there is no politi
cal mileage to be gained, regardless of
the decision the office-holders make.
These issues reap different answers a
mong the voters, encourage activity by
the “loyal opposition.”
There is little question that the so
called “independent” or “switch” voter
determines a large portion of election
results. Yet, after the votes are counted,
the organization of the winning party
takes over and the independent finds
himself a member of an uncohesive body
without a formal forceful spokesman.
Gratified, Not Satisfied
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
was a noted phrase-maker before be
coming the nation’s chief executive and,
though he has some help, still does much
of his own speech-writing. He has a defi
nite flare for word economy, withal
getting his message across to both the
educator and man-in-the-street.
Among the outstanding phrases in his
state of the union address to Congress
was his summation of his first year in
office in these words: We’re gratified,
but not satisfied.
There is no idea, said the President,
of resting on any small successes of the
past, with an obviously great amount of
distance to be made in the future.
When the President was inaugurated,
the nation was just before hitting the
bottom of a recession. The picture a
year later was on the upswing. He wants
the upswing to continue, is steering the
nation into the European Common Mar
ket, and asks authority of Congress not
only to extend the reciprocal trade act
but to broaden it.
There are two opposing wings of
thought. On the President’s side are
those who believe one must trade or die
economically. The opponents fear for
the life of their particular economic
bandwagons.
Many are inclined to follow the Presi
dent on faith, noting that he has proved
himself no wild-eyed liberal in the na
tion’s economic policies during the past
year. Item: when the economy headed
upward, he put the brakes on pump
priming. Item: he honored the pleas of
textile manufacturers for faster depreci
ation schedules, considers other ways
and means to aid this long-maligned in
dustry.
Much of Mr. Kennedy’s address con
cerned domestic matters, which some
observers guess, indicates the i 1 esi
dent’s thinking that a nation can be no
stronger abroad than it is at home.
The January 31 deadline for city and
county tax listing is fast approaching.
Insuring Everyone
Though not the only cause in sky
rocketing auto liability insurance costs,
many knowledgeable insurance agents
and executives can relate quickly that
part of the cost (others being higher
priced rolling stock, higher medical care
cost, etc.) stems in this state from com
pulsory liability coverage, in vogue since
1955.
It brings to mind the current renewal
of the effort to put medical care cover
age for the elderly under the social sec
urity program on a compulsory basis.
The proposals, as embodied in the
King-Anderson bill soon to get attention
in Congress, has the active opposition of
state medical societies, as well as that of
the parent American Medical asso
ciation, not to mention other groups.
Meantime, the national Blue Cross as
sociations have come forward with an
alternate plan, whereby rates for cov
erage of the elderly would be on a sli
ding scale plan based on the income of
the insured. Further, it is noted, about
six percent of the present Blue Cross in
sured in North Carolina, for instance,
are 65 and older.
Prime objection to coverage under
social security - - to many others than
those directly effected such as doctors,
hospitals, and insurance sellers - - is the
fact that social security has a heavy
load to carry now. Another is the al
lcady-law escalation of social security
rates, which will rise in a few years to
12 percent of gross basic payrolls (six
percent paid by employee, the other
half by employer).
There is little valid objection to some
effort on the part of the federal govern
ment to assure medical care for the eld
erly indigent, as provided in measure
through the Kerr-Mills bill of last year.
It has been charged that Kerr-Mills is
insufficient and that one difficulty is
that the states haven’t properly imple
mented its laws to take advantage of
these federal appropriations.
The position of the North Carolina
Medical society is that the General As
sembly appronriated seven millions in
1961 to provide for health care needs of
the indigent and medically indigent, re
gardless of age, and that this sum, with
other avenues available, can handle the
matter to large degree.
Responsible folk who sell insurance
would be the last to suggest that a per
son can cover all risks. The basic idea of
insurance is to cover the major ones, in
effect insuring against a major disaster.
A comparatively new field in health
insurance is the so-called “major medi
cal’’ variety, where months of required
medical care and hospitalization, result
of illness or injury, can quickly deva
state a bank or savings account.
At Majority
Retiring President Charles Neisler
was much younger when the Kings
Mountain Kiwanis club was chartered
in 1940 and he felt it would be beneficial
to club members, both old and young
and incoming to have a capsule review
of the work of the organization.
Thus was distributed to members last
week a history of the club written by
Edward H. Smith.
It was a worthy review and delineates
well the contributions this organization
has made to the community through the
years. The club’s scholarship loan fund
alone is sufficient for its existence and
all must have been impressed with the
fact the club has supplied more than
15,000 meals to indigent school children.
All must have chuckled over the
meaning of “kiwanis”, borrowed from
an Indian tribe, the meaning being, “We
have a good time; we make a noise.” No
doubt 21-plus years of fellowship have
produced plenty of good times, and the
long activity list is proof that the Kings
Mountain Kiwanis club, indeed, has
made an effective and worthwhile noise.
The Herald regrets to learn of the
transfer of Patrolman Dale Kimbrell to
another station. Officer Kimbrell has
shown himself a good offic er and citizen
in his five years on the Kings Mountain
assignment.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
By Martin Haixaon
Ingredient*: bits of netoa,
wisdom, humor, and comment.
Directions: Take weekly, if
possible, but avoid
overdosage.
After hearing him speak here
last week, I told Sheriff Hay
wooq Alien he could well for
sake the sheriff’s chore and
make a good living speaking
for fees ais a 'banquet circuit
professional.
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The Sheriff, like his father,
is loaded with Wilt, and he can
deliver it effectively from the
platform. Developing a gener
al theme of “we law enforce
ment officers run into a lot of
strange events,” Haywood kept
his audience well-entertained.
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A fellow, the Sheriff said,
had a flower in his lapel and
another addressed him, “That’s
a prety chrysanthemum, you’re
wearing.” The other replied,
“No, it’s not a chrysanthemum,
it’s a rose.”
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Remonsfcrations continued
back and forth until the flow
er-wearer, somewhat heatedly,
said, “Well, maybe it is a
chrysanthemum, tout how do
you spell it?”
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The other replied, “It's a
rose.”
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Another tale he spun at the
expense of the barbers. A bar
ber was shaving a one-armed
fellow, made a slip of the wrist
and cut a deep gash which was
bleeding quite profusely. Em
barrassed, the barber tried to
staunch the wound with a to
wel, kept up a rapid-fire run
of conversation to divert the
patient’s attention. Finally the
barber asked, *T don’t remem
ber you. Have I ever shaved
you before?”
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The customer replied, “No,
you haven’t. I lost that arm at
the sawmill."
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Another the Sheriff spun at
the expense of the South’s ex
Yankee imports.
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A would-be suicide was stand
ing on the ledge of a church
spire and the police chief was
trying to persuade 'him not to
jump. “Don’t jump, don’t
jump!’ the Chief yelled, “Think
of your wife and children!”
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“I haven’t wife and children,
get out of the way, I’m a-going
to jump,” replied the guy who
wanted to it end it all.
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“Then think of your mother
and father!” the Chief pleaded.
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Got no mother and father;
get out of the way I’m going
jump!”
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“Wait a minute, wait a min
ute, I’ll think of something,”
the Chief continued. “Don’t
jump. Think of General Robert
E. Lee!”
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“I never heard of General Ro
bert Lee,” came the reply.
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The Chief, a patriotic South
erner, then yelled, “Never
heard of General Robert E.
Lee! Jump, you damnyankee,
jump!”
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The Sheriff told another a ■
bout a Chief of Police who’d
been noticing that a very pret
ty lady driver was a bit care
less when under the wheel.
One day he was cruising in the
oar and observed the lady trav
eling a bit too fast. He blew
the siren and stepped out to
draft a speeding ticket. As he
was beginning to write, he re
marked, “I’ve had my eye on
you.’’ She replied in her most
oome-hither manner, "Are you
going to pinch me for speed
ing?”
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On another occasion a deputy
who wasn’t the most expert
with the English language, was
starting to write a man a ci
tation for a driving infraction.
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“What is your name?" the
deputy asked.
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“Zachariah Demittriopolis Jef
ferson Jones,” came the reply.
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The poor spelling deputy clos
ed his book and instructed,
•Don’t you ever let me catch
you doing this again!”
Yes, the Sheriff can spin a
yarn.
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Shopping Around
EfRoffe
•‘Harry wouldn’t hear the boom of jungle drums. He’d
be thinking of the BONG of bill collectors!"
Viewpoints oi Other Editors
THE ENGINES
OF GROWTH
(Much of the argument over
future U. S. economic growth is
political, generated by those who
urge much greater Government
spending as the chief propellant
of growth. Yet there are real e
oonomic and social considerations
in this political issue, and they
deserve more emphasis than they
get.
'At a recent meeting of econo
mists, for example, Edward F.
Denison, of the Committee for
Economic Development lifted 13
steps for raising the growth rate
(using the term in the sense of
output) by one percentage point
by 1980. Mr. Denison made clear
he was delivering no political po
lemic; in fact, he said he was
not particularly advocating a
doption of his list He was mere-j
ly saying that if the nation does
want to increase its growth rate,'
these are some of the ways it can
'be done.
One of the most interesting
things about the list is 'that Gov
ernment spending is not given as
a step toward growth. Almost e
qually instructive are some of
the items that did make the list.!
Increased capital formation, forj
one, and a particularly important
one in view of the new study by
Simon Kuznefcs warning that cap-!
ital, at the rate it is forming, mayj
not be adequate for future needs.
Here are some other growth steps;
Mr. Denison mentioned:
Working three hours a week
longer than we otherwise would
in 1980. Removing barriers to in-;
temational trade. Doing away
with “fair trade” price-laws. E
liminating union • imposed ofb-i
staeles to the most efficient use!
of resources.
Whatever one s politics, it
seems to us such requirements
'are self-evident. It is just com
mon sense to say that if the U. S.
economy is to achieve a higher
growth rate, capital must be
forthcoming and people must be
willing to work and artificial im
pediments to efficiency and com
petition must disappear.
Yet what are the attitudes that
actually prevail among many
people in this country today?
For one, there is the big new
union push for shorter hours.
This is one of the major current
goals of the AFL-CIO, and it is
dismally dramatized by the de-;
mand of an electricians’ local
for a 1,0-hour week. Throughout
industry is a seemingly growing
desire to avoid work, to be paid
more for working less or not at
aJL
How does that square with the
demands for greater economic
growth? The answer is painfully
simple: It doesn’t.
Or consider some of the Gov
ernment’s policies in relation to
growth. The present Administra-I
tion is committed, it’s true, to the
aim of freer international trade,
but in innumerable other ways it
seeks to protect various segments
of the economy from the effort
of competition.
And there could hardly be a
more powerful deterrent to in-;
creased private capital formation
than our confiscatory tax system.;
In addition, we have the persis
tent inflation of decades, with lit
tle indication the Government
will finally halt it. If It is not
halted, talk of real economic
growth is so much wina.
Government politics work dam
age in more subtle ways. An
healthy state of mind is emtS'!
ing from the combination of
Government growth and thf de
mands of pressure groups f*' ev-|
er more Government haiiouts.
Whatever may be said of the
morality of that oolluskr be
tween Government and s/he peo
pfle, it is plainly econorpc weak
ness. A people changini from
self - reliance to depepcnce on
the State may be in Anger of
losing thir resources or growth.
In such eireumstajos, it is a
grievous fault for government;
officials to propane, in word
and deed, the myththat the Gov
ernment tan ape# the nathm
into economic The Gov
ernment can spu*n unstable in
flationary boom®*1 * time. but
mOy the people,Jy working hand
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SHARED EXPERIENCES_
WHAT FLAVOR?
With thousands , o£ students
pouring into American colleges
[and universities from emerging
lands of Asia, Africa, and Latin
America, It is easy to assume
that these young people will all
be impressed with the good fea
tures of the United States and
become its champions in their
homelands.
The Institute of International
Education, however, has made
public the results of a survey
whidh can give Americans food
for serious thought. The Institute
asked more than a thousand Af
rican students about their exper
i. nee in American colleges and
! universities.
Though more than a third of
them gave Americans credit for
friendliness, few of them reported
they had made many friends, ev
en among American Negroes,
while here. Three out of four
had experienced some kind of
discrimination, many of them
more than they had expected,
and were critical of American
social and political values in con
sequence.
Certainly there is much to be
gained by exchange student pro
grams and by scholarships for
students from overseas. But it
does not automatically follow
that all such contacts will result
in mutual good will.
Yosuke M'atsuoka, whc became
foreign minister of Japan and
led ithe Konoye government into
alliance with Hitler and Mussoli
ni, had graduted with honors
from the University of Oregon
Law School, Where he earned
most of 'his expenses as a dish
washer and servant.
Dr. Cheddi lagan, whose polit
ical successes in British Guiana
have caused both' Britain and the
United States much uneasiness,
studied at Howard University
and Northwestern University in
the United States.
Dr. Kwame Nkruma/i , Prime
Minister of the Gold /Coast in
West Africa, graduated from
Lincoln University in Pennsylva
nia and attended tKe London
School of Economics but has
seemed at times to'mix some of
the thinking of Mo*cow with that
of his Western mentors.
In short, the sharing of edu
cational experience is of unques
tionable value fut is no panacea
for intematioml ills. Much de
pends on the Character of the
experience, tie personal qualities
of the student, and the tactfulness
of the host cjuntry. — The Chris
tian Science Monitor.
and saving and investing, can
build sourd growth.
No pojticking can excuse the
lie that work and thrift, the very
things that made this country,
are nq'tonger necessary. They
may more nesessary than ev
er inthe decades ahead. The U.
S. isnot immune to decline. It
canjbt afford to trade in the real
emanes of growth for the delus
ion of a Government utopia. —
Tf> Wall Street Journal.
ir.
n 1 ft tears ago
X \/ THIS WEEK
Items of news about Kingt
Mountain area people ana
events taken from the 1951
files of the Kings Mountain
Herald.
Burlington Mills Corporation
will trade the city a 17-acre tract
off the Bessemer City road for
a stadium site in return a similar
size tract outside the city limits.
Paul W. Owens was installed
for the second year as worship
ful master of Fairview Lodge 339
AF&AlM at a stated communica
tion held Monday night et the
logo hall.
Social and Personal
(Mrs. H. C. Mayes entertained
members of the Study dub and ■
idktttional guests at her home _
ruesday night.
Members of the King of Hearts <i
bridge dub met Tuesday night f
with Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Kerns.
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