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The Kings Monntain Herald Established 1889 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enllghtment, entertainment and benefit of the citizen* of Rings Mountain and Its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Klngs~Mountaln, N. C., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. Martin Harmon EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor-Publisher David Baity . Advertising Salesman and Bookkeeper Alton Stewart - S{K»rts Reporter Miss Elizabeth St wan.. Circulation Manager and Society Editor Sandra Plonk . Assistant Society Editor MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Dougins Metcalf Wade H. Hartsoe. Jr. Paul Jackson Monte Hunter Allen Myers TELEPHONE NUMBER _ 739-5441 BY MAIL ANYWHERE SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR _ *3.30 SIX MONTHS — $2.00 THREE MONTHS SI 25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX ~~ * TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Kor *o la the will of Ood, that with wall doing ye man imt to silrtuv the ignorance of foolish I M»r <;i5. men Hardly Equitable Tax listing officials, for years, have commented on the questionable tax list inn yardstick of private personal prop erty, with the exception of automobiles, : toh as furniture, television sets, lawn mowers, clothing and similar items. Glee A, Bridges, who handled the chore for the city this year and who was close to the situation during his several terms as mayor, says he saw numerous Instances where uninitiated newcomers would put down comparatively outland ish figures for these items, whereas a veteran citizen would figure his loaded wardrobe at Sf>0 to $?•>. Mercantile and industrial inventories, as well as fixtures and equipment come cio.se to being listed by the same yard stick, as do autos, where the auto deal ers' wholesale ‘ hluebook" gives a cur rent value by exact model. Apparently, there would be one av enue to establish equity, by the elimina tion of all except automobiles in the list ing requirement for individuals. Conversely. Mr. Bridges, new presi dent of the Chamber of Commerce, and rioyd Farris, president of the Shelby Chamber of Commerce, speculate that a fairer method would be a percentage of the value of the residence of the tax payer - - in event the taxing authority felt it unwise to eliminate private per sonal property of the dog and furniture variety. it is a plan followed in some other states. What about tho follow who rents? The formula there would bo the same percon taj^o of tho resident's annual rent, or in turn, same percentage of the value of the rosidonoe as assessed to tho land loixi. \ot another questionable taxing yard* stick, front t'oth count' find municipal Standpoints is the privilege license tax. These agencies tatui the state, toot ex traet taxes on businesses. desirable and needed assets to any community and a* monp the la:per ad valorem taxpayers, for the ‘'privilege of doing business in the community. Again, the worse part is the yardstick. The firm grossing S.VPOO per year often jmvs close to the annual amount of a firm grossing a half-million. Additional',', the privilege license tax doesn't return a great amount of rev enue and is worrisome and costly to col hv?.. particular those taxes applying to peddlers and other transients. 'he other side of the coin, of course, is that taxing governmental agencies never have enough income to satisfv all demands However, t is incumbent on the tax tt\g agencies to eliminate inequities where at all possible. Tin' city is moving: to conform to Lo cal Government Commission instruction in calling for pay men; gas Ivnds within the limits of its redemption fund. The system has done well in the profit cat egory, ;ts is indicated by annual reports and last month's record b l ug-s. Of eour se, a sizeable portion of the redemption fund accrued from the fact the e t\ en joyed a very low bid on. installation of the distribution system The mavirmm four percent premium pay ab’e or. bends (•Ik'd won't bo unbearable or "'crest for future years w ill tv eliminated Friday is new-tag day for all North Carolina motorists, who must show the ‘bJ nuHiel on their autos on pain of pain in court. The same applies to Kings Mountain car owners on their ItW: city tag* A best bow to the newly-elected offi cers of the Kings Mountain high school St valent Participation organization, who art'; Paul Smith, president; Donnk Free man. vice-president; and Diane Roberts, secretary. Out On A Limb A Shelby newsman commented on the effort of the Number 3 school area to es tabiish its own school administrative u ntt. It appears that these citizens are awakening to the fact they’re out on a limb and may be in a position to be shorted on quality schooling.” Some Number 3 patrons petitioned tor a separate Number 3 district, onlv to be told they couldn’t legally get their own district. Apparently, the so-called Cleveland i ounty school act of 1935 doesn’t pro vide for more than city and county units, with the Number 3 area, minus a large town or city, thereby not qualifying un der the law. ' At any rate, it appears that the Num ber .> patrons have one of two choices: U vote themselves into the Shelby dis trict. or 2) continue in the county set-up. Thus far, Shelby district school offi cials haven’t indicated they want the Number 3 addition, which makes stran ge reading, in view of the long-term dream by some that Cleveland somedav will become, like Mecklenburg and New Hanover counties, a one-countv school unit. Geographically, the Number 3-Shelbv district merger appears ideal. Adminis tratively. of course, problems are always extant, but not insurmountably. From tbo paying-the-freight standpoint, it would appeal' the Fibre Industries Tax toll would be a balancing factor of con siderable weight. It is said the Shelby district envisages early space pressure in its now high school plant, but. it is presumed, this plant is expandable. On Again Russian Premier Khrusehev continues *o earn well the nickname “On Again, Oft Again Finnegan", M the moment, result of the spy sway hast weekend, the “on" button is pun ohed. as it was shortly after President Kennedy's inauguration when two other pilots were freed. On the tvrsonal basis, it can be taken joyfully that U-2 Pilot Powers and Stu dent Fred Pryor are home, just as it can be assumed Colonel Rudolph Abel, the Russian oleak-and-dagger expert will be glad to see home and fireside again. Put is there any great reason for hope that the swap-offs harbinger settlements ef the principal points of differences be tween Russia and the United States” After all, Mr. Khrusehev has had plenty of "off" moments in the interim. Some think yes, maybe, pointing to the Russian fear of increasing difficul ties with her China satelite. the appar ent Russian awareness that none can e merge the w inner in a nuclear war, and other related factors. History doesn't relate a long-time “on" signal from Moscow, nor does it in dicate the United States should relax its demand for step-by-step mutual inspec tion of mutual disarmament - - should that happy day ever arrive and both na tions be able to divert their energy and treasure in more desirable and peaceful directions. It is a safe guess that virtually every organ . ation within the Kings Mountain school district will have endorsed the forthcoming construction bond issue in advance of voting day March lt\ Regis tration totals of last Saturday were greater than they might have been, con sidering the fact citizens always wax more excited over personality cam paigns than about those involving brick, concrete, sewer pipe and w ater lines, the inanimate elections often being more im portant than the animate. Two Satur days remain to register for the March 10 election, and its an all-new registra tion. Congratulations to David Adams, who placed second in the county oratorical contest sponsored by the American Legion. MARTIN'S MEDICINE ®T Martin Ramon Ingredients: bits of mourn, wisdom, humor, and comment. Directions: Take weekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage. The medicinal library was enhanced twice test week. m-m On Tuesday, Bill Sharpe, ed itor of State Magazine paid call and left a copy of his “A New Geography of North Car olina, Volume III”, the latest of four projected volumes, de signed to include all of North Carolina's 100 counties. m-m Volume III includes 26 coun ties, Cleveland among them, bringing to 72 the coverage of the three, with 28 projected for the final work. m-m Handsomely bound, the edi tions are printed by Edwards & Broughton, of Raleigh, with Bill's State Magazine the pub lisher. 'Bill labels his work “the first detailed description of North Carolina by counties since "Wheeler's History." Ac tually, the texts have already appealed in "The State Maga I zine”, written in ex-newsman Sharpe's easy-to-read style and I containing much more than the : sometimes dry facts of the cus tomarily • known geography. The book is well-illustrated, contains maps of each county, with details on both general i and specific history, the county ; economy, and with details on incorporated communities of each. m-m In the Cleveland County sec tion is contained one of the best pictures of the late Governor Senator Clyde Roark Hoey, I've ever seen. m-m In addition to the factual con tent on one-fourth of the state. 1 was particularly charmed with Bill’s dedication which reads, “For E. N. Pope. They don't hanlly ever make this kind anymore.” m-m The then-projected geogra phy of the state had the praise of former - Governors Cherry. Uinstead and Hodges, and its first volumes elicited the com mendations of Hugh Lefler.. one of the state’s eminent pro fessional historians, of Inglis Fletcher, the specialist In his torical novels. and major eche lon's of the state’s press. Of the several favorable comments on the work. I find it easy to agree with all. At $d for vol ume HI. the Salisbury Post comment is both apt and suc cinct. “Bargain in painless edu cation.’’ m-m I. too. among many, look for ward to Volume IV. m-m The other addition is a copy of Dr. Jana's Carpenter's study on Charles Gone, the English theologian, what I would term a “deep’’ work from a partial perusal. This tale doesn’t con ivm the work itself, but the cimiitous means by which Clarence Carpenter, the auth or’s father acquired a few co pies. m-m It was last Juno when Clar ence cabled the publisher, Faith fttss, London, for some copies, with instructions to shap to his posted fcoe box a:>d tall him through First Union National. Instead of handling the order as instructed, the publisher did a little questionable file-check ing, meanwhile guessing that a purchaser of a book of this type would be a relative and possibly a former customer. Upshot was that Clarence’s or der was shipped to a one-time Faith customer, a Rev. Mr. Car penter. of TVwento. Canada. The Toronto minister had died, and the books went to his son. Herald Carpenter. Myssifwd and eurioct-s To ronto's Harold Carpenter did what Clarence terms an excel lent “Royal Mounoe’ job in contacting him as the possible ctahomer A bst put-oat Clar ence wrote the London publish er hts displeasure The reply: Ctarence shouldn’t expect him w know where Kings Mountain was. anymore than the publish er »wiM expect CSasence to know whether Nether WaMow is in Kngland. Gotland or Ire land. At last reports. Clarence, who finds Kings Mountain <but not Nether Wallow) listed in Webster's Gaaeteer. is seeking a work on the Battle of Kings Mountain to ah- nail to Lon Meantime. CSasetve finally «o< the publishers MU. has had ditSodbr translating IS pounds* » shflings sixpence. into A mertcan cask From English man Albert Dusme; a sfczlSsng is «nebm«Mt of a pound, a pence one-twehech a shd&«. wkh the fixed pound exchange price Shopping Around By Rolfe “Stop looking like you wanted that one. or the girl will think you are henpecked!” Viewpoints of Other Editors A SALLY FROM THE IVORY LAB Thorp are encouraging signs : that natural scientists are grop ing their way toward an effective role in practical politics. This is long overdue. The findings, potential applica tion, and long-term significance of the sciences often have a cri tical bearing on national and in ternational decisions. Yet their influence on these decisions has been weak, if exception is made for the White House science ad visers. The problem, in large part, has been due to the uncertainty of scientists generally as to what they should do. Some have entered political de bate in aid of specific causes. Their frequent neglect of objec ' tivity has not contributed to pub lic enlightenment. Others have taken refuge in the fallacy that the camaraderie of international science could by it self be a path toward peace. Talks among East-West scientists and cooperative research have been poor catalysts for political negotiations. There is growing support with in the American Association for the Advancement of Science for what seems to us a more con structive approach. It is based on two self-evident propositions: As citizens, scientists have no special political wisdom and are entitled to one vote each. As experts- they the custodians of specialized knowledge of great public importance and have the duty to see that they fellow citi zens are alerted to things they should know' about and to the im plications of these things. This puts a professional onus osv those who would use special knowledge as leverage for a cer tain course of political action. At the same time, it recognizes that international cooperation in re search, as such, is politically neutral. In this view, the most effective action scientists can take politi cally, is to work to build an in formed public opinion. Both formal and informal dis cussions at the recent AAAS meeting in Denver showed that this view is taking hold in the American scsetassfie community. St suggests a growing political sophistie&n. A1ME AAAS members would go even further. It was they who issued the call for a ‘‘acsessoe of survival’ reported during the Denver meeting. They are urging scientists, wherever possible. to search out and work on scientific problems related to maintenance of peace and establishment of human wefi being. The technical aspects of toms control are a case in past They would carry the chic duty of sdfsaists beyond that of mere ly informing the public as to cur rent knowledge. They would in clude the generating of specific Neither the AAAS nor the Bri twh Association tor the Advance SMSS&i’iii’ttaS! A PROMISING FIELD OF HUMAN ENDEAVOR According to the New York Times, the Air Force is install ing a warning system in some of its bombers that informs the pi lot with a recorded woman’s voi ce that something has gone wrong with the plane. The system is called VIPS — voiiee interceptor priority system — and experiments have shown that not ottly does a pilot re spond with a good deal more a laerity to the VIPS than to a red-light warning system, but he responds with particular vigor when :.te VIP's voice is a wo man’s three seconds reaction time for a female VIPS as opposed to about fifteen for a red light is the telling statistic. When something goes wrong with the plane Miss VIPS come through over the plane’s inter com coolly calling the pilot’s at tention to such current events as “Your right wing is falling off. your right wing is falling off. your right_” Here is a magnificent field of human endeavor bare’ scratch ed, it seems, by hr ns. At the moment, in add! tic . to VXPS, we have tiie recorded messages in the telephone system that tell you what time it is, pray for you, answer another person's tele phone, and point out acidly that you have reached a wrong num ber. There have been experiments with sleep - learning, a method of installing facts into the heads of youth by means of a recording repeating "10S6”, the Battle of Hastings,” and similar flash news quietly under the pillow. These are mere preliminaries. World events could be shaped and molded with the recorded mes sage. A lender Slavis voice mur muring persuasively “You will wake up feeling benevolent, kind ly', tractable, unders anding, per ceptive ...” under Air. Khrush chev's pillow at night could work wonders. A recording of Bobby Kenne dy’s voice saying in level tones, “Watch your step, you're on pret ty thin ice, watch your step.” sneaked to within earshot of Jimmy' Hoffa might produce star tling results in the Teamsters’ Union. You can also get pocket tape recorders now. You park your car, set the recorder, go into a shop, and eleven minutes later the recorder warns. “Feed the parking meter, one minute to go ... feed the parking meter, fifty seconds to go ... feed the_” Visualize a young couple pre paring for a trip by car. Wife has recorded a list of things they must take. The car is loaded, husband starts the motor, wife starts the tape recorder: “Shirts, skirts, blouses, underwear, tooth brushes. socks, baby bottle, two dozen diapers, safety pins, pow der. pacifier...” *Dh my God, we forgot the ba by'" You can take this from here yourself. — Chapei HOI Weekijf. *| A TEARS AGO | 1 v! THIS WEES Itema of mourn about Kmgt Annual esjpfajw * onxployee haexjuK of the Kings Mountain MwdiaaB Associtfios will be hcid Mondav nigrat at Masocx Hail Kings Mountain and No. 4 Township rassvd a total of $4. 835.73 is. tbe annual March of Danes find campaign for infan r Nowhere Fast By Paul K. Ausley, Th.D. Minister First Presbyterian Church | “The gate is narrow and i to life, and those who find One night two young couples were discussing the days they had spent in ithe establishment of their homes. All the matters of mutual interest to the two young couples were on the docket for discussion — finding a home, having a family, balancing the budget, providing financial secur ity, all the dreams they hoped the future Would bring forth. It was one of those sessions when you take down your hair, open up your heart, and talk straight. At last one of the four said, "We; are about where we were when we started some years ago. When we make progress on one hand we seem to 'be confronted with mounting difficulties in an other area.” He concluded his pessimism with the words, “We don’t seem to be getting anywhere fast.” I What this young man was sen sing in the magnitude of the task before him and his limited abili-; ties to measure up to that task,' is no isolated experience. In fact,' it is the unanimous testimony of ; all of us. Jesus came to the same ! conclusion: “The gate is narrow ) and the way is hard, that leads ; to life, and those who find it are few.” Science, which has seemed to be confronted by no obstacle as it marched into the unknown to discover a cure-all for every dif-' ficulty, would not seem to accept the verdict of this young man a bout the requirements of life. Yet ponder these words of Madame Curie as she stands, robed in hon or, before the Academy of Scien ce in Paris: “No one of us can do much: each of us can perhaps catch some gleam of knowledge which added together shall bring nearer man’s dream of truth. It is by these small candles in our darkness that we see little by lit tle the outline of the dream and that great plan which shapes the , universe.’’ An empire builder would seem, to be the last to come to the mo dest conclusion that life’s respon sibilities are too vast for our po wers. Cecil Rhodes, who staked out a world in the Black Conti nent. came to his final hours un j satisfied with his work and cried out in famous last words: “So little done — so much to do!” By the time one becomes a so phomore in High School, he un derstands that there is no royal road to teaming. Truth is a most exacting mistress. She will not yield her treasures without the disciplines of constant applica tion and honest toil. Before toe lawyer, the doctor, the engineer or the minister can rightfully hang out his shingle and go to work, he must accomplish four year's of high school training, go on to four years of college in struction and complete at least three years of postgraduate Study. We must give ourselves to obtain knowledge. The Christian experience is up hill going. It’s tough too. Christi anity, is no pill that one may take in an easy gulp — and for ever after hare all of it. Kierke gard, the Danish theologian, said to our generation, “Choose the Christian way. It is toe only way of life. But remember as" you' choose it, that it won’t he easy. Christianity is difficult." It asks toe impossible. It asks us to have faith in the impossible — like Abraham trusting God’s promise of blessing for his seed at the very instant God called upon him to slay his only son Isaac. It asks us to say, “I wall” where reason stops. That is what faith is — to«p miracle which ! sweeps us on where the mind cannot go. It begets belief where we do not see. It asks us to do! the impossible — calling upon us to make Christianity live amid the brute facts of the market place. More than these, we are to ask other people to share this impossible Faith! Our easv-going Christianity, needs Kierkegard’s shot-m-the^rra stimulus and challenge. It’s hard to be a Christian. “The gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few.’ Consider with me now that this painstakingly stow process of achievement is as it ought to the way is hard, that leads it are few.” Matthew T:lit he. Often we do not seem to be getting anywhere fast because real growth is so slow that it is imperceptible. The elements of stability and permanence are not achieved overnight. !For yet one other reason, life cannot give at one time all of its gifts to men: because the over all pattern erf B'ife is too vast, too glorious and too prophetic for any of us to see it entirely Con sider the confusion involved if Jesus had made his appearance in the second chapter of Genesis rather than in the second chap ter of Luke. There was a whole nation — yes, a whole world — which needed to be prepared for that revelation. It was a long, slow, agonizing process. Those who saw far ahead, cried out, “O Lord how long? But before the consummation, a people must first be turned from the many gods of their neighbors to the one God, the Lord of Hosts. There must be the molding of these mot ley twelve tribes into a nation of spiritually sensitive people, to whom God could reveal himself at last in his Son. Everything for a thousand years had been shap ing up for this happy occasion when God would walk down the stairs from heaven to Bethlehem with the baby Jesus in his arms and lay him on the bosom of a waiting world. It is a truth we are not prepared to receive in Genesis. It dawns upon us grad ually. Cod is still doing his business with us this way. God hp,s yet more light and truth ready to break forth from his holy Word. But God must slow up his reveal ing ait times, lest we get more than we can hand’c. God dare not reveal his full hand - the fu ture is too bright, too glorious for us ito understand. He gives it to us bit by bit, as we are pre pared to understand it There can be no revelation - signed, sealed, stamped and de livered: I believe ithat “God kept talking after his book had gone to press.” These tragic days in which we live are one evidence that God is desperately trying to show somthing to our world - through the discoveries of scien ce, but we cannot see! Right now we are wondering how mankind will respond to the knowledge of outer space. I find comfort in the fact that it can be historically demonstrated that we have been permitted to grasp new knowled ge only -when we were prepared in a measure to receive it. A great gasp of fear must have ac companied the advent of fire. Men saw the whole world going up in smoke. But God made sure that the structure of the universe was fireproof before he permitted us to plav around with matches. All knowledge comes slowly and with agony. What lies ahead mm can onlv conieeture. Paul understood well that the future was too glorious to be comprehended. “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man. the things which God hath prepared for them that love hum. ’ God is revealing them unto us by His Spirit. In every age men fumbling with the circum stances and necessities of life have not understood how God could bnng these things to pass. They ask, with Nicodemus, “How can these things be?” Still God's great plans unfold as life con tinues. I would want you t» see the faith which gives me hope in these crucial days. Take that long view. Evil has its dav. Onlv Hjc blind refuse to concede thai Ev>! surges forward with bound mg leaps. Good seems restrained, inhibited, limited, thwarted. But cast an eye over the long sweep of Gods history and see man kind moving forward. “Here a little, there a little." A few case enter by She narrow gate, a lim fted number of ideals come up the hard way, yet these all are the integral parts of that great plan which shapes the future Iht^pess iS uv>hiii business. That is why we do not seem to be fretting anywhere fast. AJ1 good whISSr'Skf a !ong time •**» a**1 k wwkta* * them, when discouraged we need to remember that “the gate is nar Way ha«l that leads to life."
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