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The Kings Mountain Herald Established 1889 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the eniightment, 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 . Edit or-Publisher David Baity.Advertising Salesman and Bookkeeper Miss Elizabeth Stewart. Circulation Manager and Society Editor Sandra Plonk . Assistant Society Editor Harold Pearson . Sports Editor MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Douglas Metcalf Wade H. Hartsoe, Jr. Paul Jackson Monte Hunter Allen Myers TELEPHONE NUMBER _ 739-5441 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE _ BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR — 1(3.50 SIX MONTHS — $2.00 THREE MONTHS_$125 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Ood is a Spirit: and they that'worship him must must worship him in spirit and in truth. St. John *:»4 The Horn Of Plenty Secretary of Agriculture Orville Free man made an amazing statement at Fri day night’s eighth district Democratic rally. In spite of the fact this nation is ex pected to number 250 million souls in 1980, the nation will not need more land for growing food and feeds. “We’ll need 50 million fewer acres than we’re using today,” Secretary Freeman declared. There is no question but that this na tion, in happy contrast to Russia, China and other state-controlled nations, has often appeared to be operating at cross purposes in its farm program. There hasn’t been a shortage of farm products since World War II, yet the nation continues to invest heavily in ag ricultural research, in the farm exten sion program and other activities de signed to increase yield per ace. Time Magazine reports in its recent is sue that the farm program cost the fed eral treasury and, therefore, us taxpay ers a "scandalous” six billion dollars last year. It, can be argued, of course, that the copious food products stored have some value, both in price and for con sumption. It can also be said that it. is better to have a surplus of these com modities, most of them necessary for life, than to have too little, again as the aforementioned Russia, China, India and the under-developed nations of the world. Yet reducing this bill remains a major responsibility, just as the much-malign ed Ezra Taft Benson had it during the Eisenhower years. The present administration program is embodied in the Coley-Ellender bill and would attempt to treat other price-sup ported products on the same basis as tobacco - a plan that has been eminent ly successful. Strict marketing controls would accompany acreage controls. The Secretary contended at Charlotte that the plan is designed to save both the family farmer and the big farm estab lishment from financial ruin. Here again is a tie-in to the adminis tration program seeking to boost inter national trade. With a major portion of the world hungry, the United States with a farm product glut, and farm in come, though up ten percent in 1961, st ill low, there needs to be developed ex panded world trade. The need is there, but the would-be customers don’t have the buying where withal in goods, services, or dollars. Noteworthy Honor The award of the Bowl of Hygeia pla que by the North Carolina Pharma ceutical association to Charles D. Blan ton, Jr., is a noteworthy one and a de served one. Mr. Blanton is the fourth recipient of the avvrad, which Is given by A. H. Robins pharmaceutical firm and is given to a pharmacist who has distinguished himself by community service. Mr. Blanton’s civic and service work sheet over the past few years makes a long list, including work for his church, the Boy Scouts, the Jaycees, Merchants and Chamber of Commerce. Having pre viously been tapped for the Jaycec Young Man of the Year award, the new honor in effects seconds the motion of his hometown folk. Mr. Blanton is a comparatively young man. It is a safe premise that he, who has already given much time and energy to the many necessary, non-paid and, chores will continue to devote his ener gies and efforts to the continuing dream of all good citizens; to build a better community, area, state and nation. Congratulations to John Warlick, who will assume the presidency of the Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce, to George Thomasson, new member and secretary of the Cleveland County Elec tions board, and to Ranee Henderson, ‘.Man of the Year” of Phi Delta Kappa fraternity at Oregon College of Educa tion. Neisler Proffer The tender of the Neisler family of portion of one of the possible high school sites is another mark of this fam ily’s generous interest in the welfare of the community and area. It is a proffer much appreciated by the board of education and by the whole community. Whether the gift will be accepted de pends largely on this factor: relative cost of real estate in relation to develop ment cost. Conjunctive along with likely development cost of grading and othe;’ landscaping is the major factor of avail ability of utilities. Otherwise, the site is virtually sure to be close to the Kings Mountain city limits to the west, due to population bulge and concurrent growth trends, posing an operation matter of the future and particularly important in consider ing costs of transporting pupils to school. When utilities are considered, the city treasury gets involved. The board of ed ucation knows that the city will be in better position to provide water and sewage disposal services at city expense it the schools are also able to use city gas and electrical services, the last two income-producing ones, In contrast to the near deadweight water and sewage services. As one board member, H. O. Williams remarked, “If we’re not able to use the city’s money-making services, it won’t be much interested in furnishing us the others without our paying the bulk of the cosit.” The Phifer Road site, of which the Neisler family owns a part, is optioned by the board of education at $500 per acre, which, with the gift, would reduce the purchase price to the $25,000 to $26,000 range. The Goforth-Plonk site, on basis of partial asking prices, pencils potentially to the $95,000 to $100,000 range. Question then is the relative develop ment cast, which will require firm esti mates from the engineering division of the architectural firm the board has re tained. Again: the Herald does not envy the board of education its current responsi bility. Meantime, the Neisler family is to be commended for its generous spirit in tendering this gift. Merger Should Be The Shelby Daily Star, in a recent edi torial, urged the merger of the Number 3 school district of the county with the Shelby city administrative district, a position previously taken by this news paper. Certainly there are problems involved, but they can be surmounted to the ben efit, as the Star notes, of all parties. Thus far the Shelby district school leaders have been reluctant to accept the outlying district. A major factor was the split of Number 3 patrons themsel ves into at least three groups. Yet an other was the Negro school situation, where Shelby already finds space at a premium, and yet another, the least valid of all, was the questionable figur ing which made Shelby wonder if the merger were good for Shelby money wise. Geographically and educationally both the Shelby unit and Number 3 dis trict need to be wed, as quickly as it is possible to arrange the nuptials. Mean time, the county district must mark time, delaying needed progress toward attaining the major high school plants already projected. A best bow to the Kings Mountain high school band on its fine performance in the recent band contests at Marion. The Jaycees are offering auto seat belts at a bargain price. Tests conducted by safety experts show that injuries from accidents are often minimized by use of seat belts. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Mortis Boruoo Ingrsdients: bita of Mica, wisdom, humor, and comment. Direction*: Take meekly, if possible, but avoid overdoeage. Craig Falls joined Che Her ald staff Friday to help me cover the eighth district Demo cratioe rally and to interview Orville Freeman, Secretary of Agriculture. mm We 1) conversed with Mr. Freeman, 2) enjoyed a ride in a long, 'light limousine led by siren-blaring police cars, 3) ate a $10 per plate dinner, 4) re newed acquaintances with ma ny friends and made some new ones. m-m Senator Irwin Belk had in vited the Herald to be present and was an able host. Though Mr. Freeman’s plane was a half-hour late, the press con ference and main event weren’t hurt thereby. mm Mr. Freeman is a knowledge able man, gives a main’s 'hand shake and doesn’t pull any punches. Asked aibout Farm Bureau charges of a mess-up in the soybean program, the Secretary replied firmly the soybean program had succeed ed admirably. When decision was made to put soybeans un der the price support set-up, he said, the nation had a one-week supply. The United States was losing world markets. A year later, the nation could look at a $400 million product. “What we did,” Mr.. Freeman said, “was to put the profits into the hands of the farmers instead of in the hands of the specula tors who, formerly, had manip ulated the market to keep the price low at harvest time, then bid it up afterwards.” m-m I asked Mr. Freeman a ques tion Paul 'McGinnis and I had been discussing earlier in the week. Was it true, as had been suggested by Paul, that the desire of the ladyfolk to main tain slim, girlish figures and development of the reducing diets, to wit Metrecal, mess up the government’s butter pro gram? mm The Secretary laughed. “Let’s not blame it all on the ladies,” he replied, “men need to keep trim, too. What I’d like to see is everybody run up five flights of stairs first thing in the morning, then drink a glass of milk.” His inference was that there would be a quick end to the dairy products glut, and bulging waistlines, too. m-m At the rally, Mr. Freeman told this tale: a Hollywood mo vie star had a baby 'boy. As the nurse brought the new son to her, she cradled the babe in her arms and cooed, “If he’s lucky, he could grow up to be President. If he’s unlucky, he could grow up to be Secretary of Agriculture.” m-m Mr. Freeman has crowded much into his 43-plus years. He earned a letter as a Golden Gopher quarterback, got a Ja panese bullet in his jaw as a marine in the Pacific, took re medial therapy to 'learn how to speak again, and was a three-term Minnesota Gover nor. In process, he married a Winston-Salem girl, the form er Jane Shields. Mrs. Free man couldn’t come home Fri day, having a command perfor mance in Washington — her 16-year-old daughter’s piano re cital the same evening. mm The limousine ride was as guests of Bobo Langston and i>wight Phillips, the latter chairman of North Carolina Businessmen for Kennedy dur ing the ’60 campaign. I had met Mr. Phillips during the ’60 campaign, and, chatting with him, didn’t note the Charlot teans on Tryon and Trade stop ping to stare at the motorcade. But Craig did, stalled waving to the crowds like a true digni tary, which he is. mm John Kennedy, the Chariot tea n who iS challenging Con gressman Paul Kitchen, seem ed to be making considerable vote mileage. In fact, Mr. Kit chin and I waited several min utes before we could shake Kennedy’s hand. mm Kennedy’s father, a surgeon, is the senior partner of Dr. "Sad” Pressly, brother of Dr. W. L. Pressly, the ARP minis ter. mm Congressman Kitchin is a debonair gentleman, one of the few I known who wears a moustache which doesn’t of fend. mm I’d never noted it before, but look alikes in my book are Mrs. George Houser and Mrs. L. Y. Ballentine, wife of the Commissioner of Agriculture. Shopping Around By Rolfe fLOWER SEEDS 154= ■p •v “Sorry, lady—when I said ‘15 cents’ I said all I know ab<v* •'etunias!” Viewpoints of Other Editors COORDINATING COMPOSERS IA talented composer in the Soviet Union, unlike some ol his counterparts in the U. S., is like ly to have few financial worries. If he agrees to accept coordina tion by the State, he can expect subsidies that will at least af ford hiim a comfortable living. Sometimes, of course, the State’s advice is a little hard to understand. The other day, for example, the Congress of Soviet Composers was criticized 'because “sadly melancholic moods” had begun to pervade much Russian muslic. At the same time, an Es tonian composer was attacked be cause his composition had failed to express the “anger and pro test, the pathos of the struggle against fascism.” Since the days of Stalin, the composers were told, the govern ment has “opened wide scope for bold research” in music. On the other hand, the congress was warned against “fruitless exper imentation.” There may be times, now and then, when a subsidized Soviet composer, however comfortable, longs for a little less coordina tion. —The Wall Street Journal. WHODUNIT? It is easy to blame someone else for the shrill increase in de linquency and crime. It’s a shock to have blame handed to you. 'Not criminals but citzens were chiefly held responsible by Cali fornia’s Crime Prevention Con rerence. “Speaker after speaker,” said a news report, “approached what was called the growing crime challenge, both nationally and for California, as fundamen tally a Challenge to the individ ual.” The individual tends, in the phrase of California’s Attorney General Stanley Mask, to set “a double standard, one for him, one for the other fellow.” This sets a climate for crime. This two-faced attitude toward self and society can begin with the simplest decisions — to justify Cheating, to hit harder than you want to be hit, to play it cool. Such attitudes become breeding swamps 'for delinquency. "Ninety per cent of the major racketeers would 'be out of bus iness this year,” said federal At torney General Knnedy, “if the ordinary citizen, the businessman, the lawyer, the union leader, and the public authority stood up to 'be counted and refused to par ticipate.” You. Not the criminal, but the citizen. Who tolerates the sly glorifi cation of killing in the netertain ment industries? Who shrugs his sihoulers at the terrible corrosion Which the gambling industries in flict on society? Who talks cyn cally about government in such a way that it seems justifiable to conceal tax income or jeer at the police? Who sees no harm in countless well merchandised ways to overstimulate the human bo dy until the poise of the mind cracks? Who sees no connection between social rebellion and the stubborn parent who communi cates so poorly that he builds rebellion in a youngster? Not, the criminal himself but those who permit the germinat ing of crime. All those In the community who permit the weak ening of the defenses of decency in the human mind. To record this does not relieve the delinquent of his responsibil ity in th eslightest. It does con vict many fancied innocents. — The Christian Science Monitor. MECHANICAL BRAIN A sury is making the rounds these days — about some scien tists who designed an English to Russion translating machine. To test the device, they fed it the sentence. “The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.” Back came the translation, "The liquor is good but the food is lousy.” — John G. Fuller, in the Saturday Review. CHEATING HURTS ALL (Rapid increase in estimated cost of the interstate highway system and projection of its com pletion farther into the future are at least partially explained by findings about the operation in Massacusetts. They parallel disclosures in several other sta tes. Rep. John Blatnik’s Public Works subcommittee has opened hearings in Congress in further ance of What has already been discovered in the Bay State. The iMassadhustts frauds apparently were accomplished with state hired appraisers and negotiators. These are Charged with having raised the price of real estate Massacusetts had to acquire to build the highway system. After the property owner was paid an inflated price, he divided the loot with state employees. In one case the state was charged $60,000 for property the owner would have sold for $30,000. Since the federal government reimburses t’he state for 90 per cent of the cost of the interstate system, the connivers may have argued that the overcharge would not hurt the state since it came from national taxpayers. But the system now estimated to cost $40 billion (the original figure was $15 billion) could easily cost billions more and face an indefi nitely postponed completion date if graft continue to be uncovered. San Mateo (Calif.) Times. BROADMINDED Are you (broadminded? Gener ally we feel complimented wthen we are called 'broadminded. Is it a compliment? A person refer red to as being broadminded is usually inclined to sanction any thing approved by the crowd. That could mean being willing to accept every new theory, scheme or doctrine, just because the crowd says it is good. Are the people in the United States going to give up their freedom in trying ' u be too broadminded. For some time we have been advised that the economic grow th of our country depends upon massive governmental spending which will have a tendency to put all citizens upon the same economic level. The essence of which seems to 'be that you can reap where you have not sown, and that indeed is an intriguing idea. No government has any money of its own, and so in or der to pass out gratuities to hun gry people in far offplaces, it must first collect funds from its citizens and redistribute such funds to those from Whom they cannot collect, retaining of cour se a heavy overhead charge for the collecting and distribution. When the government distri butes money from, people outside the government who have work ed and toiled to try to have a few dollars over and above the cost of living. These left over dollars have to be divided with the government by a process cal led taxation. Wealth cannot be pulled out of a hat, or off the printing presses. It comes only as a result of work and saving. Are we broadminded enough to believe it is the proper function of government to take our sav ings and spend them in sending a man to the moon? — We The People. I •f TEARS AGO X U THIS week Items of news about Kingt Mountain area people ana events taken from the 19S1 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. The Kings Mountain Lions club will hold its 15th annual ladies night banqet Tuesday night, with a varied program of en tertainment featuring the event. The Kings Mountain Little Theatre Will present its current drama, “The Campbells Are Com ing”, in a comedy in three acts on Monday and Tuesday evening in Central auditorium. Social and Personal The Tuesday Afternoon Bridge club met this week with Mrs. Hugh Ormand at the Country Club. Numbered With Sinners By Rev. George T. Moore Pastor Resurrection Lutheran Church Text: “He poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors.’’ (Isaiah 53: 12b). Of all the arguments put forth by the Jewish people, in what they believed to be absolute proof of the falseness of Jesus, the falseness of all He claimed to be, it was the fact of His asso ciation with sinners. “Look at Him,” .they said, “He eats with tax collectors and sinners.” The picture is not hard to grasp and, in fact, if we capture the whole picture, it’s easy enough to sym pathize with His critics. They didn’t know any better. They wore only following what they had been taught. The laws of Moses were quite rigid. Couple such legalism with the traditional laws added over the centuries by the religious leaders, and you can see the na tural emergence of many “a boos,” and many “thou shalt mots” on which they could well be critical. They had been taught and rightly so, that the children of Israel were “a chosen people,” one to be held apart from all pa gan influences. They were “a holy people”, called out and a part from all pagan influences. They were “a holy people,” call ed out and apart for a specific task, a task which had to do with their part in the establishment of God’s lordship over the world. All unrighteousness and all sinfulness were never to be tol erated. All against-the-law acts were to ibe strictly avoided. Had not Moses destroyed thieves and murderers and harlots, those who had been the “breakers of the law” instead of the “keepers of the law?” These faqts had been drummed into every gener ation, century after century, It was the clean versus the un clean, the good versus the evil, the right versus the wrong. lax collectors were not accep table. They had sullied themsel ves in their contacts with the Roman overlods, the hated pa gans. Prostitutes were not accep table. They had deliberately and flagrantly broken the Sixth Com mandment. God’s own holy Law. Sinners, in general, were not ac ceptable. They had, in all manner of ways, given denial to all of God’s laws, as they continued to break them. Little wonder the descendants of Abraham and Mo ses looked wiith disfavor upon Jesus, as He spent much of his time, not with the religiously ac ceptable, but with the unaccep table. Why, these low and awful citizens 'couldn’t even come into the temple to offer sacrifice to God! God would have nothing to do with them. They were in all respects, according to the Law of God, unclean! Of course it’s quite easy, on the other hand, to look back and cri ticize the critics, now that we have the full story of the minis try and sacrifice of our Lord. Human concepts of grace and love and mercy have a way of glassing over God’s ancient hist ory, painting a very' pretty pic ture of love and fellowship with ail'l mankind. But, to some, in HSs day, it was not a pretty pic ture. They simply could not see God at such a low level, associ ating with the very people they had been taught to avoid Once we make this contempor ary the picture gets in that self same pattern, does it not? For, wlho are our associates, we, wlho consider ourselves to be the re ligiously acceptable? Do we not stand on the level with the scri bes and pharisees, with the “keepers of the law?" Do we not avoid the sinners, that is, those, wlho openly and deliberately break the law, man’s law as well as God’s Law? IWe do put the limits on our associations, both for our Children and for oursel ves. We say, “Respectable chur ches are for respectable people." Yet,one cannot hide from the facts, and one cannot tout be dis turbed by the facts. It is God’s truth that the Son of God did associate with sinners, intimate ly so. He did it when the chos sen people of God would not. He did it in the face of the open cri ticism by the religiously accep table. It was for this purpose that He came, just as the prophet Isaiah predicted. “He was num bered with the transgressors,” even bight up to the point and place of death. At the very end He was crucified between two thieves. The world thought that this was only just. As he had lived, so let Him die. the friend and associates or sinners. God saw that it was just, but for another reason, t!he reason of salvation. He came into the world to save sinners. He came to call, not the righteous, but the unrighteous, to repentance! There are two vivid facts invol ved here, facts Which have some thing to say to us as we consid er Him Who endured all things for us. The first fact is the pic ture of need. Jesus was able to work among and with and for the unacceptable because they were acutely aware of their des perate needs. They knew they were evil, in sight of God as well as in the sight of men. They didn’t have to be told they were sinners. And v'.en the Lord of life 'confronted them, they saw possibilities unlimited, possibili ties of the greatest transforma tion. On the other hand, the accep table of the day, the “'keepers of the law,” didn’t feel there was any such need in their lives. Did not they obey God in all matters of the Law? Did not they bring their gifts and offerings and sac rifices? Did not they come at the proper times for worship? Where God was concerned, and they thought He was concerned only with religious things, they had it made. It didn’t matter What they did the Test of the time. It didn’t matter that they were selfish, or that they looked lustfully at every pretty girl walking down the street. These desires were, they thought, hidden within themselves Where no one could examine secret ideas or attitu des. To them, sUdh sins did not count against themselves. (Yet, was not their problem the problem of need, and who could say who had the greater need? The needs of individuals do vary, in many respects, but the human race has one need in common, the need of a Savior! And how contemporary this becomes, as we know our own hidden thou ghts and desires, our envies and our hates, our selfishness and our selfcenteredness. The prob lem of need, and What if anoth er’s need, on the surface, is greater than our own? Is this reason for snobbery? No, it Is cause for concern, for Christ centered, loving concern-! So, just as the first fact is the picture of need, the second fact is the pic ture of purpose. In this case the purpose of the Church and those Who are a part of the church! therefore it becomes our purpo se. | Jesus did not, associate with sinners just to toe with sinners. His was not a slapping on the toaok With a Closing of the eyes to the sordid filth around Him. He came to sinners with the pur pose of transformation, a trans formation in Which he would make them clean and pure and holy. His coming changed lives. The record of Scripture and hist ory gives the evidence, of those Who were untolean, tout Who, in the presence and power of God, were now dean. At every point of contact, in the fact of His as sociation, something was accom plished for the 'better. Make that contemporary. Bring that into the present day scene, and you can readily see God's purpose for you and me. God wants respectable churches, tout He wants all mankind to be memlbers of His Church. The Son came to give His life that this might 'be so. This is the Challenge of the Christian life. This is the one Mission of the Church, is it not? God calls His own to asso ciate with sinners, no matter their condition. His Son died for just such as these, even the very worst. Christ died for all men, not because they were good, but because they were evil. Here is Where our love Is re vealed for what it is; either it is God’s lbve, or it is human, self centered love. God’s love will not let us alone. It sends us out where we do not want to go, to those we do not want to see, so that we can point to ourselves, and confess, “He is my Lord, and my God, for in me. He was numbered With the transgres sors.” But, thanks be to God, we can also say, “You and I have the same need, the need of a Sa vior.” And we can add with sure conviction, “This Savior has a purpose for you and me, the purpose of a better life, a life of service and love for all mankind. Be ever thankful, ever grateful, that He did “pour out His soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors,” for in that mighty and wonderful act, you and I found life, and the heart of God! Amen. PjUKIUC*l||nFM^ Money .Orders, A NEW SERVICE AT OUR STORE > A CONVENIENT WAY TO MT IUI] -\WRr»awcPT,
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