t The Kings Moiutan Herald Established 1889 for .he enlistment, entertainmentS^SfJSjTSE ™ “nd iN vi. inlry. published e\ory Th™dJT£, ,7* of Ki»*» Mountain Entered a, second Cass mnn^-u ;: ' £*u%irT , 7* *;M‘»Mng Home. __“"*r AC of cS^SST7,aVchK3nT^,m,ntair N C- ^ Martin llarmon. Dick Woodward . Miss Elizabeth Stewart Miss Libby Bunch. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT .. Ed;tor-Publisher ..Clreui.fi— w. Spr,r,s Mitor .Circulation Manager and Society Editor .Clerk r>ou<;las Houser Paul Jan the May Democratic primary, with five candidates already in the race for /the nomination. The leading three are Judge L Richardson Preyer, of Greens boro. Di. I. Beverly Lake, ol Raleigh, and Judge Dan K. Moore, of Sylva. All have strong echelons ol support and po litical observer* are predicting that the Democrats, as is usual, will witness an othei second primary battle. The Republicans, who usually settle then intra-party affairs in convention, may have a primary lor the top position, too. Don Rn rig ley. of Greensboro, wear ing the GOP “maverick’’ tag. paid his filing lee some weeks ago. His candidacy does not appeal to some GOP leaders and presumably there will be another eandidatt. The Democratic race started much earlier than usual this yeai. with Judge Moore's entry into the race. Pro-holiday politicking was busy, but not intense. Neither of the leaders wants to peak his campaign too early, which could prove fatal. Another factor has been the up coming January II vote on the “little federal” amendment. Judge Moore said it was a decision for tho voters which would be long-settled be lore his person al D-Day at the May primary. Judge Preyer, from nopulous Guiltord, opposes. There will also be a considerable step up in the pace of politicking for the GOP presidential nomination. The polling ex perts report that Senator Goldwater, of Arizona, retains a lead among party leaders, but a considerably lessened lead than he enjoyed prior to the accession ol President Ly ndon Johnson. One writer, William White, flatly pre dicts that 1 he GOP nominee will be either Governor Scranton, of Pennsyl vania. or Richard Nixon, the IP60 stand ard-bearer. The polling experts rate Mr. Nixon high. too. Senator Goidwater's demise in |>opu larity stems from tho tact that President Johnson will be the Democratic nominee and will return the sometimes dissident southern states to voting regularity in the Democratic ranks, an area of prior Goldwater strength. Economy Drive President Lyndon 8. Johnson, in the -vrly days of his presidency, continues to call for economy in the administra tion of federal affairs. He first ordered cabinet members to squeeze fat out of their budget requests for tho coming year, now has asked for a new examina tion of the administration of federal aid. He has also approved cutbacks in the detense establishment and anticipates more. fie. of course, is not the first chief executive to seek ways and means of cutting federal outgo, and only time will prove how effective his efforts are. But the effort is pleasing to the vas» majority of the nation. Most folk agree that spending for val id needs must and should be. but they decry waste. Tax listing, the annual January chore, begins Thursday. AH persons owning property are required to list it for faxes during this month, and the smarter ones attend to the job early, this way saving themselves much time. Last minute folk usually find they must wait in line. The community will miss Marion C. (Bub) Kails when they do business at Kings Mountain postoffice. Mr. Falls, for A Look at 1964 With Christmas past and New Year’s Eve greetings history, the vvork-a-day world settles down to the more prosaic business of day-to-day living and earn ing u living. It is the season when modern-day seers crystal-gaze into the future to pro vide more or less educated guesses on future happenings. Generally, the outlook is optimistic for 1964, with economists predicting a continuing high level of business activi ty and pointing to several supporting factors. Auto sales set a new high record in 1963, and the bellwether steel industry had its best year in several. Increased trade with Ilron Curtain nations promis es some improvement from the surplus of farm commodities. These sales plus the cut-back in the foreign aid program in dicate an improvement in the decline of the nation's gold reserves, a continuing problem for several years. The nation enters the year with a new president in the person of Lyndon B. Johnson, who has won a high degree of popularity among virtually all groups, from captains of finance, to labor load ers and civil tights promoters. In North Carolina, yesterday’s effective date on minimum wage payments of 85 cents per hour will put five million dol lars extra into the wage envelopes of North Carolinians and industry contin ues to favor North Carolina's “climate" by locating new plants here and by ex panding existing ones. Foresight can go awry due to many factors and often does, but the 1964 out look appears bright for North Carolina and the nation. I. Byron Keeler The death of J. Byron Keeter last Sat urday removed from the community a long-time citizen who made more than a normal share of contributions to the welfare of the community. An able merchant. Mr. Keeter was a frequent leader in various and sundry charitable enterprises, for the Red Cross, for the United Service Organization, and for his church. He was a leader in the Kings Mountain Merchants association and was a key figure in the merchants' adoption of more temperate hours. Mr. Keeter was a kind man. liberal with his means for the community good and to individuals. He had been in ill health for the past several years. The community joins his family in j mourning the loss of a leading citizen, loyal Kiwanian and Baptist, and sports- i man. Kings Mountain citizens opened their |H»cketbooks. along with their hearts, to provide well over $1600 for the use of Kings Mountain pastors in providing i hristmas to the needy of the area. Some 84 families were given gifts of toys, fuel, clothing, and or food. The pastors deserve commendation, too. Not only is it no easy work in preparing the gifts, but their delivery was made even more difficult by the pre-Christmas ice cover ing. They, with assists from the police department and individuals, completed thoir work of practical Christianity by Christmas morning. Saturday is the final day to register for the January 14 election when voters will determine whethei two amendments to the North Carolina Constitution will be adopted. One tand the more publiciz ed) would change the basis of represen tation in both houses of the General As sembly. paring House membership to 100 (from 120) and upping Senate mem bership to 70 (from 50). The other would liberalize the law respecting the rights of property for wives. I MARTIN'S MEDICINE By MABTIH HARMON Ingredients: bit a of MM iriMlom, humor, and lornmmts. Directions: Taler weekly, if possible, but avoid \ overdosage. . Ice gla/ings. as occurred here December 22 and 23 are not un usual for Kings Mountain at the Christmas season, for I can re member Christmases when visit ‘-lg plans had to he changed at the last minute ami more-or-less makeshift repasts prepared. But I , ne\or remember a lack of good I food. Some can hardiy say the same for a particular Christmas se\ oral years ago, when the heavy icing not only caused lieavy tree damage, but resulted in broken |M>wcr lines. That was rough on those folk w'ho had forsaken the old wood stove and disdained gas for electric cooking. I teased Bill Brown, manage! 1 of Belk’s who had Imhyi wistful ly calling for falling white stuff for two wrecks to put an edge on the Christmas spirit and Inlying spirit as well. Asked if he had got enough whiteness. Bill laugh ed. "Too much." m-m Tim Gibson, at Center Service, accommodated me hv putting some chains on my vintage Dodge. That type of service sta tion dul> is rnecn work and caus ed Jim to observe. “I feel there must he some easier way to earn a living." Chains installation is not a chore where glbves can be very successfully used, and Gem* McCarter, of Bast King Esso, had numerous. abrasions literally down to his fingertips. The ice is sharp, too. and I collected sever al nicks merelv cleaning a wind shield. The State Highway commission employees and city street crew did a good job in clearing -n-rts once the sleet stopped falling. Shoveling ice and snow is hardly easy work, as 1 learned again by a short span of shoveling work. I evidently moved some chest and shoulder muscles that hadn't been recently moved, for they "talked" to me for a couple of days. Two days after Christmas, my wife and 1 paid visits to Wood ruff and Greer. S. C.. to visit kin folk. My grandmother, hv mar riage. is 'Mrs. r. 0. James, Sr.. and the only grandmother I have b.*en benefit ted to know. She is 90 years old, bid, in spite of the ice. fel (constrained to visit her beautician the day before Christmas, which she did. And subsequently she enjoyed relat ing the event of being bodily lift ed via human transport from ear to beautician's chair in order that she would not risk a fall on the ice. On yet another visit in Greer. I showed more than usual brav ery. We went by my sister-in law's to deliver gifts and to in spect her new home. Unfortu nateiy for tin* elder red headed son Ricky, he’d come down with the mumps, an ailment I have thus far esea|ied. it was initially suggested that I remain in the ear while my wife mack* a quiek visit inside, but 1 felt embarrass ed to be "chicken”. Needless to say. my greetings to the big-jaw ed nephew were passed some dis tance from his bed. I was again reminded of the* power of sug gestion. Though I made no com ment. my jaws seemed a bit son1 en route home, though I am told the incubation period is about two weeks. My brother-in-law suggested that n spiro of mumps might pro vide a good rest. I had mado the samp kind of comment to Attor ney J. ft. Davis last year, when he was flat on his back in hospi tal recuperatin', from a broken hip. suffered in a slip on last Jan uary's ire. Mr. Davis rejoined. "Not this way. not this way!” Illness and injury take the sport out of rest, no' to mention the enforced nature of the "rest”. My brother-in-law also related tluit he was awakened Christmas morning by ejaculations from the basement, as his older sort < mumps notwithstanding > was examining his gifts with not-too muffled shouts of “oh. boy!” Fa ther snap|ied on the lights to find it was 2:.jn a.m.. ordered the son hack to bed. This awakened the younger boy, with the result that Father was questioned at half-hour intedvels on whether the lads could arise. Finally, he relented at 6 a.m. in order than Papa could get his nap out. ) After an unusually mild au , tumn. with minimum of rain and no snow, it was time. I suppose, for King Winter to take over, and he's produced some days and nights which really “shiver the timbers". The strains of "Auld Lang Syne" have been played and aung In Kings Mountain and through the world several hours ago It Is still not oo late to wish New Day of Reckoning Viewpoints of Other Editors OUT OF IT Not so very long ago young men with the requisite scholastic achievements were encouraged to compete ?or a place in the Indian Civil Service by the prospect ol retirement in their early fifties, with a pension of a then substan tial value. It could he said that this was an over-prudent ap proach to a career and that youth should he thinking of challenges and opportunities and not of tranquil security. What is re markable is that few then thought of release from the cares of of fice as purgatorial. Hut now it is given the status of a Social Problem on which advice must be given and study classes offerer!. At a Yorkshire mansion now specially devoted to seminars oj adult education, four days next year will he devoted to “Prepar a ratio, i for Retirement." with sim*. ial session; on attitudes of mind, the use ol leisure, and the necessary, "psychological a d just moots." That is in the trend of our highly educational time. We are now to he schooled out of our jobs as well as into them. Psychology like Alexander and Burn's honnie Lesley, continually spreads its conquests farther: with our retirement tutors and with doctors learned in the new wisdom of geriatrics we are to he given personally conducted tours through years once deemed easily enjoyable without academic guid ance If there are no great physical deprivations, withdrawal from the business of life need not be regarded as an cxchanbe of otic burden for another. Nor lias it been so in the past. Macbeth thought that the natural com panions of “||je scar, the yellow leaf" were “honour, love, obedi ence. tioops of friends" although he had not gone out of his way to acquire any of these. To the brisk youth of Ku|>eit Brooke, age was “that unhoped sore«**": 'lolhing problematic about that. When Milton praised "retired Leisure" he was doubtless think ing more of a personal solitude than of a profession!! retreat. But he linked this retirem<%it with |ieace and quiet and hearing “The Muses in a ring." The last phrase should he remind us that a full education in the arts is now threatheiicd for many stu dents by the necessity of a com plete specialization of the scien ces. Yet the former is surely the most likely mitigation of tediium during the long holiday enforced by years. He who has learnt to read, which means more than decinh ering letters, is proof against homlom and should nead no tu toring in what use to make of re tirement's idle hours. The Timex (London) A WISE DECISION Sitting In Wallingford, Circuit Court Judge George Wise decid ed this week to send a 16-year-old boy to tail not to stay, hut to visit the alcoholic ward. "I want you to observe what you are headed for.” the judge told tlie youth.... Judge Wise also fcnpoaed a $15 fine after finding the defendant guilty of intoxication, hut he in dicated he expected the boy will see at New Haven to have a much greater impact. The judge made clear that he will hi* harsh on anyone convict ed of providing liquor to minors. While he didn't say so. perhaps he intends to send these people to jail... not to visit the alcohol ic ward, but at guests of the state. With so many youths now ap pearing in courts because of drtaking. Judge Wise's decision | is of particular interest as It; concerns both the youths and those who supply them with liq PUTTING ON DOG In a nation often accused, if that he the right word, of an ex cessive devotion to ii<>gs ignor ance of the fitter points of canine breeding, of the intricacies of { pedigree, is. in all probability, j profound and extensive. The in stinet of most people will be at once to deny the charge. The dog owner, and lover, may back him self to name and identify any four-footed stranger he mis-ls, and if chance should straightway introduce him t-> say. an Airedale, a I-ekingnc.se. an Alsatian, or a Dachshund he will justify his boast. But this amounts to no more than a pass degree in dog | lore. What if he should come a cross a Tibetan Apso. a Shill Tzus, ’or even a Finnish Spitz? The odds are that he does not know them by sight and yet they 1 all appeared at a recent and emi nent championship show. If it lie urged that is unfair to introduce such exotic anil foreign breeds into the argument, is the ordinary owner on firm ground even when his own precious |»os session is involved? He may as sure himself that it is a pure bred spaniel, but it is more than possible that it rather resembles those .dogs drawn by Thurber 1 larger," in his own words, "than a spaniel and not so shaggy, hut I confess, though I am not a spaniel man, that there are eer-j tain basic resemblances lietween* my dog anil all other dogs with long ears and troubled eyes.” That is the point and the trou ble. So many dogs have basic re semblances to one well-known breisl or other yet they would be blackballed by those with the real Vero De Vero blood of the tribe running blue in their veins. To the eye of love all this matters not a lot. Indeed a mingling ol ■trains can. and docs, add an ex tra touch of intelligence and charm, and the world with dogs consisting solely of impeccable aristocrats and without a single endearing mongrel in sight would be a poorer place. 7hr Ti.nr# ( LottilmO tears ago - THIS WEEK ft mm of «nn about Cbp ttoemtaen arm people am event* taken from the 196 file* of the Ktnge Hoantah deraUL. i The county hospital board of trustees will o|cn formally its newest property Sunday after noon when it holds open house at the new K