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A*™?*, fig- The Kings Mountain Heiald Established 1889 A vveekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightment, 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.f under Act of Congress of March 3,1673 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon.Editor-Publisher Harbld Pearson . Advertising Salesman and Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart.Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Libby Bunch .Clerk MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Steve Hope Russell C. Parrish Jerry Hope Paul Jackson Allen Myers Monte Hunter TELEPHONE NUMBER - 739-5441 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE - BY MAIL ANYWHEBE ONE YEAR -- $3.50 SIX MONTHS - $2 00 THREE MONTHS - $1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Proverbs 27:L King Cotton If cotton is still deserving of the de scription “king”, the head of the king is in danger. Once the chief fibre in 85 percent of textile production, it is now used in not over 50 percent of finished goods. The onslaught has been two-foid: man-made fibres, plus the artificial high price of cotton, the later contrived by government price supports. A stop-gap program of the Agricul ture department, recommended to Con gress for adoption, would provide yet another subsidy to equalize the price for domestic producers, now, due to the ex port subsidy, paying about $42.50 per bale more than the world price, Ali’eady the proposal has run into dif ficult sailing in the House Agriculture committee, where mass producers in Western areas want more and more acreage for cottong, and where the older cotton producing areas want less—with high supports. The result is hardly predictable. Cotton is merely one phase of the agri culture program that poses serious prob lems. Once upon a time, members of the Congress regarded appointment to the agriculture committee of high import ance. At the current session, several Congressmen had to be assigned, for lack of volunteers, to fill vacancies. Par tially reflected are the many problems. Partially reflected is the fact the nation is becoming more and more urban, with only eight percent of the population pro ducing the farm products needed by all the rest, and enough more to over-fill warehouses. Meantime, the major problem of the majority of the world is an insufficiency of food, with mal-nutrition rampant. And, even with this nation’s gluts, the surpluses wouldn’t sustain the world’s needy for a full year, says Orville Free man, secretary of agriculture. But the great problem of interest in this area is cotton. Manufacturers who pay taxes are being penalized by foreign concerns which buy American cotton It isn’t fair. The obvious answers are the equaliza tion subsidy (which many decry), heavy restrictions on imports (which stifles trade and which many decry), or much lower support prices (which many de cry). The Heart Fund Concurrent with the spedier pace of living, the emotional toll of navigating crowded highways, more sedentary liv ing, and better diagnosis, heart diseases have taken a high place among the ail merits which claim human lives. It is the nature of man, when problems are at hand, to find ways and means of overcoming them. Thus the National Heart association was formed to spur research in the pre vention and cure of heart diseases. This is a fund campaign Kings Moun tain area citizens have supported liberal ly and they will again. Water Pollution The screws are gradually being tight ened on those who pollute streams and rivers in North Carolina, ana thats about everyone. In the not-too-distant future, cities and industrial firms which turn virtual ly raw sewage and industrial waste into streams are going to be required to clean up their messes. The reason: growing need for wa ter. Citizens of Kings Mountain, with only one modern sewage treatment plant, can anticipate a major expenditure in this direction, as can citizens of Shelby, which dumps raw sewage into its adjac ent river. Minus engineering, the cost can only be guessed. But everyone agrees it won t be small. In Good Condition The Governor made two speeches on successive days to the North Carolina General Assembly last week In the Thursday address, the biennial “state of the state” message, Governor Sanford, in an hour, touched on virtual ly every phase and activity of state government, from highways to art. A one paragraph boil-down of his ad dress was: We’ve made a good start, are pointed in the right direction, and need to continue on the road. His budget address of the following morning gave further detail to his decla ration that North Carolina is in sound condition, both fiscally and service-wise. Subsequently, he has recommended some tax relief which, while no great bonanza to any individual citizen, will cost the state some eight million dollars per year in revenues, further proof_ in light of the Constitution’s require ment that the budget be balanced _ that both the state’s current situation and future prospects are good. The Advisory Budget Commission, which completed its work last October, anticipated a $104 million general fund surplus for the biennium ending June 30, 1963. Actually, this surplus will like ly be greater. In fact, as early as a month later, Governor Sanford indicated to a press group the surplus should be about $120 millions. In light of the foregoing, it would ap pear that North Carolina’s tax burden should be unusually high. But the fact is that North Carolina operates its schools, builds its highways, conducts its welfare program, and provides many other services with revenues per capita in the lowest five of the half-hundred states. Spending of more than $1,800,000 is projected during the next two years, a new biennial record. Here again the fig ures do not embarrass. In addition to highway construction, definitely in the long term use category, the recommen dation is for expenditure for $117 mil lions for other capital expenditures _ with projected borrowings only $22 mil lions The borrowings would be handled minus a vote of citizens, under the pro vision which allows the state govern ment to borrow up to two-thirds of the previous biennium’s net debt retirement. Other budget - tightenings are recom mended, principal one being the relief of the highway commission from 12 mil lion in diversions of funds to be devoted to secondary road-building. North Carolinians can take much pride in the continuing record of their state for progress in completely respon sible fashion. Young Man o! '62 The community shares the emotions of being proud of, and proud for William Donald Crawford, recipient of the Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Service award for 1962. As is often-times the case, Mr. Craw ford’s long record of service in commun ity and religious affairs was not limited merely to 1962, but extends over several years. Mr. Crawford is a serious-minded young man, with an abiding interest in activities aiding children, be the activi ties church-connected, school-connected, Scouting-connected, or Red Cross-con nected. In designating Mr. Crawford for the Jaycee 1962 honor, the unannounced committee deserves commendations, along with the recipient. Congratulations to the Kings Moun tain high school students who compiled grades qualifying them for the high school honor roll. The courses of instruc tion are more difficult today than a few years ago and there is no surcease in. the demand for a youngster’s time Ih both extra-curricular school activities and other sidelines. Friday is T-Day, or auto tag day. It’s the final permissible date for driving with the old-model 1962 license plates, both state and city. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By MARTIN HARMON Ingredients: bits of news vnsdom, humor, and comments. Directions: Take weekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage. North Carolina newspapermen were guests oi the Governor Thursday for 1) lunch, buffet va riety, and 2) a briefing on the 19 63-66 budget, the friefing con ducted by Hugh Cannon, director of administration, who, in about 90 minutes boiled down the 1379 pages of “line-for-line" detail con tained in the three volume spend ing recommendations of the Ad visory Budget commission for the upcoming biennium. mm As has neen read, the state budget commission recommends expenditures of more than $900 million por year during the next two years, with an average of better than $200 million of this annual amount to be federal funds. m-m Whether North Carolina’s newsmen are merely hungry or Interested in state government, the gubernatorial invitation at tracted many and also provided opportunity for a look-see at the new General Assembly building, in which one can get lost. Its ba sic design reminds of India’s famed Taj Mahal and the roof construction of a Japanese tea house. The newsmen were im pressed. A wide red carpet leads from the entrance up a mam moth staircase to the assembly hall galleries, and the furnish ings utilize walnut, brass, lea ther and considerable color. In the House the legislator’s seats are cushioned in black, in the Se nate (50 vs. 120) in yellow. m-m My wife and I were strolling around the new building, when Bill Williams, of the Gastonia Gazette teased, “You’re walking around here like you own the place.” My wife replied, “I guess we all do, a little bit of it.” La tor, Ed Rankin, the Raleigh pub lic relations man, said the build ing represented an expenditure of $1.24 for each man, woman and child in North Carolina, which would mean the average family of four has an invest ment of $4.96. That would repre sent several concrete blocks, but few would be able to claim one of the big pieces of marble on the exterior wall. m-m Several weeks ago, I comment ed here about looking up some data on Governor Jarvis (1879 1885). My friend Rankin, a col lege roommate of Jarvis' great grandson, supplied the informa tion that the Governor’s Mansion was constructed during his ad ministration and was labeled by conservative North Carolinians as “Jarvis’ Folly”. Yet the Man sion is still very much in use. m-m At the luncheon, the Governor handed his guests the plates and napkins. “This way,” he grinned, “I’ll be sure to speak to every one.” There must have been at least 100 present, from as far distant points as Elizabeth City on the coast to Waynesville in the mountains. m-m Holt McPherson, formerly of the Shelby Star, was asked to say the blessing. After he finish ed, Robert Campbell, of the Wins ton-Salem Journal, related a blessir.g he’d heard Holt (now of the High Point Enterprise) make at a recent function. It was: “Lord, save us from the extreme right. Lord, save us from the ex treme left. Lord, save us from the extreme middle. Lord, bless this food. Amen.” Holt must have been using this one regularly, for he appeared much slimmer than I’d last seen him. m-m The Governor had elicited a laugh when he had suggested his wife had prepared dinner. Later, Mrs. Sanford acknowledged that one dish, a sphagetti casserole, was her contribution. She’s seen the recipe recently, thought it looked good. And it was. m-m Among the folk I met for the first time were the Governor’s mother, Mrs. Cecil Sanford, who said she’d been unable to tell Life Magazine when and how her son became interested in politics, William Johnson, commissioner of revenue, and two members of the revenue staff. One, a Mr. Gupton, Rowan county native, had passed through Kings Moun tain many times, having wed a Spartanburg, S. C., girl, and Phil Garris, Anson native and one time Shelby resident when asso ciated with the Blackwell ac counting firm. Garris confessed to having navigated Kings Moun tain many times, too. When he was living in Shelby, he was do Ing his courting at home in An son county. m-m A tady from West Jefferscr asked that her greetings be con veyed to Mrs. Robert Suber, a onetime Rockingham neighbor and Dave Dear, of ihe Elizabeth City paper, asked that his greet ings be conveyed to Dr. and Mrs Paul Ausley. GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS and how's your heart? Rheumatic fever, a frequent forerunner of rheumatic heart disease, can be prevented by treatment of the preceding “strep" infection — most often strep store throat—with peni cillinand other drugs, according to the North Carolina Ufeart As sociation. ©&fe666 biMributed fftyt* BOSTON LOS ANGELES LONDON CHICAGO Interesting Accurate Complete; International New* Coverage The Christian Science Monitor One Norway St., Boston 15, Mass. Send your newspaper .for the time checked. Enclosed find my check or money order. □ 1 year $22. □ 6 months $11 □ 3 months $530 Name Address City Zone State 1:10 - 2:14 pd. Viewpoints of Other Editors ADAM'S LEGACY There is something of the gar dener in all men, as befits des cendants of Adam, and wherever they go, however barren the land, they try to make green things grow. It was this ii^tinctive chal lenge which led scientists at the South Pole station in Antairtica to plant seeds. And there, under the glow of fluorescentn lamps and a tungsten bulb, a garden blooms, bright with marigolds and green with ivy. The polar garden has become an important part of the lonely life at the station. As one sclem tist says, “It’s like home, an ear thy green smell—you know what I mean?” Anyone who has been long without greenery knows exactly what he means Doubtless, when man reaches the moon, one of the first things he’ll do is plant a garden.—San Mateo (CaKfJ Times FROST A brook, a scthe, a lichened wall; and from the darkling su gar maple woods a look straight into the heart of man. A look so steady, sure, and stripped of pre tense that it brought the Alexan der of the modem world to call, and summoned common listeners who had long since shrugged off poets as dreamers out of tempo with the age of acceleration. A man, we sometimes say, gets old enough to tell us what he re ally means. Frost started that way. He took the risk of simple frankness at the start. And in saying what he meant so long grew to say it with that essen-1 tial simplicity few achieve. Man was his subject; nature his medium. The end he sought was love (called neighborliness); the means, not dependence but independence. Loneliness dwelt in the New England stillness he gave words to. But always it led back to brotherliness. ‘‘Men work together,” I told him from the heart, ‘Whether they work toge ther or apart.”’ Like Thoreau he listened to a different drummer—or as he said, took the road less traveled by. But he was neither a recluse nor a Diogenes telling emperors to get out of his light. Frost way a rustic who loved the cities o the world; a loner who delighted in bouts of gregariousness; hum ble but outspoken; neglected hal' his life, awash in honors the oth er half. Such contemporaneous praise makes the historian skeptical n bout future fame. But if Englisi is the Latin of this day, his sim pie georgisc should live throug) to give descendants somethin' of what Vergil left us. His landscapes are memorable bleak as Edward Munch’s, aus tere as Andrew Wyeth’s—but i! is his descriptions of that roac' “less traveled by," the path o‘ individualism, that matter most: I do not see why I should e’e turn back, Or those should not set fort! upon my track To overtake me, who shoult miss rne here And long to know if still I hel them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew Only more sure of all I thought was true. The Christian Science Monitor ARE YOU A SQUARE? A Madison Avenue advertising agency president has come out foursquare to restore a six-letter word to its proper place in every day talk. The word is “square.” We think he’s got hold of some thing. Adam Charles H. Brower re minds us that back in Mark hwain’s day, "square” was one of the best wards in the language.. you gave a man a square deal if you were honest. (He adds:) “You gave him a square meal when he was hungry. When you got out of debt, you were square with the world. And that was when you could look your fellow man square in the eye.” Then a lot of characters ran down the word. Result: “A square today is a man who nev er learned to get away with it; a Joe who volunteers when he doe sn’t have to; a guy who gets his kick from trying to do something better than anyone else can. “This country was discovered, put together,, fought for and sav ed by squares—Nathan Hale, Patrick Henry, Paul Revere, George Washington .” Brower dares us to get with it —get back to this nation’s old be liefs in such things as “ideas, pride, patriotism, loyalty, devo tion even hard work.” How about joining the club? Montana Citizen MOON SHINE Through the ages, the moon has been believed to exert bale ful influence on our earthly lives, turning some men into beasts, ot hers into romanticists and driv ing dogs crazy. Nothing science has discovered has removed this from the realm of superstition, though it is at least plain that the proximity of the moon is having a profound effect upon the size of the na tion’s space budget. The Shelby Daily Star *1 A YEARS AGO | U THIS WEEK Items of news about King. Mountain area people am events taken from the 19S files of the Kings Mountain HeralcL. Former Sheriff Hugh A. Lo gan, Jr. is Kings Mountain’s new police chief. He assumed his duties last Thursday. Paul Ware and W. R. Peter son are announcing this week their purchase of Plonk’s Gro cery. Social a»d Personal Members of the Study club were entertained Tuesday night when Mrs. W. K. Crook wus hostess to the club at her home on W. Mountain street Mr. and Mrs. Amos Dean en tertained at dinner-bridge Friday night. Members of the Ace of (Tubs and their husbands were guests. Some People Tell Us... That they have plenty of insurance, when, as a mat ter of fact, they are far from belsg protected. If you are in doubt, COME IN TO SEE US! Hie Arthur Hay Agency "All Kinds of Insurance" PHONE 739-3659 MILK for the weekend! 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