The Kings Mountain Herald Established 1889 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightment, entertainment and ber.elit of the ckiwns of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House, Entered as second class matter at the postoffiei* at Kings Mountain. V C\. 2SOS8 under Act of Congress of March 3 ,1*73. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon . Editor-Publisher Dirk Woodward . Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart.Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Libby Bunch.Clerk MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dougins Houser Hussell C. Parrish Norman Camp Paul Jackson Allen Myers Monre Hunter TELEPHONE NUMBER - 739-5441 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE - BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR - *3.50 SIX MON" MS - $2.00 THREE MONTHS - 81.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TODAY’S BIBLE VERSE For I have no j dettnure »* tin death >d him that dirth. sadh the Lord (!<*l: u'h< ref ore turn noitr nr Ives, anil live ire. Ezekiel I'1: County Finance With a S2.(HK).(hn> hospital bond pro posal in the offering, it is natural lor Cleveland County citizens to become more than normally interested in coun ty finances. The records of Auditor Max Ham rick’s office show* that, at .tune .Ml, 196*1, Cleveland County will owe and aggre gate long-term debt of S2.SS-1.tHK). which it is currently discounting at the rate of $249,000 annually, and. of course, pay ing the interest on due dates. This is the general and complete count\-wide obligation. Citizens of the* Shelby school district will have an outstanding balance of 8930,000 and June 30. Presuming that the Kings Moun tain school district’* Sl.lt*0.000 authoriz ed school bonds will be sold by that date, the net King* Mountain school total will Ik‘ about S900/too. Two years of advance tax pay ments, plus some investment in terest. Mi. Hamrick estimates, will total roughly S200.000 by June 30. The sum of NJ.xM.tNHt general debt is a large one I rum the standpoint of an individual. It is a small one when con sidered against the wealth of 68,000 citi zens and tin* taxable property valuation (for 1963) of S113,00(),-1 for Kings Mountain and for Kings Mountain’s future econo mic prospects. A 200-employee industry is a size able one anywhere and moreso for a community the size of Kings Mountain. Why all the steam about need for industrial expansion' The answer lies in one word: auto mation. Recent governors of this state, as well as presidents, industrial and labor leaders, have repeatedly pointed to the need for expanding industry merely to retain current levels of employment, not to mention employing the continuing ad ditions to the employment pool of those citizens ready, willing, and able. It is a truism that one seldom holds his own. He either ptogresses or falls behind. The same truism applies to com munities. Mr. Kakassy listed several practical factors which influenced his decision to locate in Kings Mountain. All should be proud, perhaps proudest, of his state ment to local officials that he liked the people. He did not say as much for some areas he had inspected. Plaudits to President Wilson Craw ford and the Chamber of Commerce and to Mayor Glee A. Bridges and the city administration, chief agents and agen cies in the productive conversations with our Mid-West visitor. A best bow to Carl F. Mauney, new ly-elected president of the Lake Mon tonia Club. Inc. Hearty congratulations to Jerry Patterson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Patterson, recently elected to the Uni versity of North Carolina chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, national scholastic frater nity. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By MARTIN HARMON tnrjrrdirnt*: bit* of new* wisdom, humor, and comment*. Direction*: Take weekly, if jmssihl*. but avoid | overdosage. , ---- In Dir!; I^ennon's office at the >ank the othei morning. 1 l»n«l :hr pleasure of mrrt:ng ami chatting with one of First Union I National's visiting fitemrtrt. liar Ivey Livingston, of thr trust de-i partmrnt. m-m Tltis is the unit of the hank which o.ecute wills, manage ea-j 1 tales, trust an-i pension funcis. 1 private charitable foundations,! j etc. mm It adds to .1 mountain of re sponsibility for the institution, not to mention a mountain of money. Indeed. Harvey said on query, the amount in his firm’s total trust account is not general ly regarded as public information. m-m A native of Atlanta, vfr. Liv-, ; ingston nas hern in the banking ; business since 1°36. came to Char- i I lotte and Firs! Union National from Atlanta'.- First National something like a year ago. m-m Our conversation reminded of anothet- a few years ago with two mutual friends one. like Harvey, with the trust department of a large hank, th * other, at that ttme, rather heavy in the stock market and not doing badly. He askisl the trust hanker. "Ilow much money are you hoys play ing around with in your depart ment these days?" To the reply of some StW millions, the specu-; lating friend ejaculated. “Say how much will they charge me to work for them? It'd he worth a lot just to know what they’re buying anti selling!” Much truth , I therein, too. Mr. Livingston, the con versa- i tion revealed, had good enough I i financial sense to enter and stay I with hanking. Bu: he is some- I thing of a frustrated newspaper- < j man. having hobbied on weekends for a decade as a cartoonist. < | Even here he exhibited hanking I proclivities by making the hob hy pay a little His speciality was ^ 1 cartooning and Ralph McGill, editor of the Atlanta Conslitu- ’ tion. gave him his start. Mischief ( specialty was a Biblical cartoon, question and answer type crea tion. with both drawing and copy, which. 4Ts he says, is ageless. But ; at one time he was also doing political cartoons and another oil ' the American flag. His closest ( call to breaking with banking for , the printer's ink route was when he signed a ten-year contract | with an a - horning syndicate, j which meant to compete with King Features. Hearst. Herald Tribune and other nation-wide : suppliers of everything from Steve Canyon to Drew Pearson. But the organizer's financing j failed to pass ?crutiny of the Se curities and Exchange eommis- ' sion. Harvey still has his copy of the worthless contract. Syndicat- j ing on his own didn’t prove to pay at high hourly wage rates, as he was doing his own drawings. 1 stamping his own mats, attemding 1 to his own mailings, and serving 1 as his ow n not-too-sueoessful col ' lector, and he forsook the busi ness in 06 though the tools of his craft are still in his basement. These shop notes disposed ot. Harvey returned to his main the sis: Had Brother Harmon exam- j ined his will letely? The answer « was there nothing to examine, for the last time I examined 1 ; tore the holograph into shreds. ! This was terrible, terrible, my ! new found frirtid inferred. Did I 1 prefer that the State of North ! Carolina write my will post-mor tem? Well, probably not, anti I what about taxes? Harvey knew ' about them, too Indeed. export advice is needed by most, for so\eral factors must hi* considered .n estate planning, among the major tint's the poten 1 tial incidence <>! federal inheri tance taxes, of state inheritance 1 taxes mo S60.G00 estate exemp 1 tion here*, and to whom and for what a person wishes his estate t devoted. Other factors involved include the likely business ability of the beneficiaries, their ages, and other innumerable imponder ables aiid improbables which, life being stranger than fiction, have, occurred, do anti will happen. mm A folder ilarvev provided re minds that state legislatures have* and likely will change law* gov erning distribution of properties >f persons dying intestate anti point out that the osnly way a oerson can get his property to •hose he wishes is to make a will. Most folk know that, just asthe\ know regular visits to the dentist will prevent and defer tooth trouble. But they put off the •hore until tomorrow and the day after. Harvey suggests that the idea! location for cemetery promoters is adjacent to a bank, relating the tale of a sales engineer. This •emetery property, adjacent to a: rank, was attracting few custo mers until the sales expert erect -1 •d a sign over the entrance. “If. i you can’t take it with you, be! < hurled where you cun watch It!" |i Mail Now for an Early Refund ‘ -- ’~~■* ‘Jpwas**' r • - * > . * ;>t v; Ji. . .i Viewpoints of Other Editors ONE AND ONE MAKES NOTHING French officials express two tinds of surprise over the effects >t Gaulllsi dipicmacy these clays, ritey may well bp aware that the wo kinds cancel out. One is surprise over the tend ency of Americans and other al ied people t o “misinterpret" ’resident de Gaulle's moves as icing antialliance or anti-Ameri •an. This is an old argument now. t goes back to the time of the ie Gaulle veto of British mem lership in the Common Market. The other kaici of surprise is tower, ft apparently goes hack inly to u N'ew Year's reception at vhieh de Gaulle spoke to Premier ’astro. French officials are now surprised at the way in which iavana radio is exploiting that ;hot*t interview to impress the vorld that de Gaulle is specially lympathetio to Castro's Cuba. The implications of the Havana iroadeasts are far-reaching. The\ vould make dc Gaulle not only t promoter of French supported leutrality in Cambodia, where lis actions amount to an attack >n the American position, hut a ■upporter of Communist inroads nto the Western Hemisphere. It should he remembered that 'ranee was quick to support the Jutted States against Khrush ■hev in the missile crisis in Cuba, iut it may never he known ex telly what de Gaulle said to Jastro. So American'- sometimes enter ain an impression that do Gaulle s against them This is not sur irising since C< mmunist-support ■<1 Cubans entertain an impres ;ion that he is for them. The Chriatian Srimcr Monitor TEEN-AGERS NEED GUIDANCE High school student* need en ouragement to develop fully in icademic. 1*010110081 and social irowth. Teen agers appear t o have ome truly diltieult problems of idjustment. Even though teen igers think they are adults and ight to be treated as such, they ;til! are in need of guidance. A ►a rent's method of working with ■hiWren must change during the een years. Academically, high school stu lents have major decisions to nakh. For some, as David flydish of ,’nitod Press International points >ut. high school will he thie end if »heir formr.l education. They .hould be sure to acquire the linds of skills which will help hem in their vocation. For those vrho intend to go on o college, it is necessary that hey take the courses and achieve lie grades required for admis ion. In either case, it is advisable o take courses whicli will help he individual pursue his interests vhether it be in literature or arpeotry. The emotional and social as nvts of growing up are closely ■elated. The teens art* the years vhen the onpositc sex become mportant. The teen-ager is often ■onfused and perhaps frightened >y his own thoughts and actions, rhere is a constant need for re issurancc and understanding. The ■hild needs guidelines to follow. 1c may raise objection* but he task-ally wants limitations which lelp to develop a secure feeling. Naturally, standards must be re J: stic and reasonable. They hould be flexible and shouW not wcome so stringent that the ■hild feel* trapped. The Sanford Herald REWARD NOT IGNORANCE A Presidential commission re-; RitlV Hold the hope that vari It MmiV m maintained by he several states, would be grad-> TAKE YOUR POLITICS SERIOUSLY What happen;- when n refugee cnmes here from a subjugated part of the world? He often kiss es the earth ni the good old L'jlit cd Slates and vows he will In* forever grateful for his freedom. This is the first reaction but what transpires after the initial feeling of ecstasy? Most Americans or their an cestors eame front oppressed lands. As time passes, too many of them, though indifference, add fuel to the flames that fired gov ernment domination in the lands of their forbears. A lady anti her soil recently visited East Germany. One thing a relative then* impressed on the son was, "take your polities seri ously or you will lose your free ttnn*,like we have here." He told the hov that lack of interest in government is what brought a bout their subjugation. This mri 'lent brings home the danger of lack of interest in government. It takes effort to preserve free dom. otherwise power • hungry minority groups gain control. Vi gilance is the only weapon able to block infiltration. Political groups seek power by using the government as a gift bag. Unless th** people are alert to such methods which were us<*d in Europe, anti are now being promoted in the United States, they will find themselves burden ed with a bureaucratic yoke and unable to fret themselves. We Americans as a whole have high ideals, generous hearts and great energy. We must be vigi lant to preserve freedom for our selves and those who will follow. The Clr vein nil Timm ually and tmiformly lowered so that more Americans could and ivould participate in elections. It was noted that only a few states allowed lS-year-olds to rote, that rcsitl* nee requirements were far too severe in many states and that there were, often, other harriers to voting, such as the poll tax. Wliler voter participation in government is t.oth desirable and healthy. However, althoe.:h we agret with the commission’s gen eral conclusions, not nil of the harriers to mass voting are bad. The educational or literacy test, if applied tairly to all. is not a hail test. The founding fathers of the* country did not intend that the illiterate or functionally illi terate should enjoy the same right to vote as the conscientious educated citizen. To vote is tlie responsibility of every qualified citizen. It is also (he responsibility of every citizen to become qualified to vote. Thr Hrrntit, AhnxKie TMM AGO THIS WEEK /(■ms of news about King. Mountain arm people am sweats taken from the 1M film of the Ktnge HoaateP Harold Home Building A Loan associa tion stockholders held their 30th annual meeting Tuesday after noon. heard reports of officers showing the association enjoyed a highly successful year, and re jected all dire* tors. An entertainment program of pantomimes and impersonations hy a group of seven children of the Cast Harper school, at Le noir. will be the entertainment feature of the annual banquet of the Kings Mountain Merchants Association to re held at Masonic Hall on Monday night at 7:30. 90CIAL ASD PERSONAL Mrs. G. A. Bridges was hostess Thursday night at her home to theTaftfar fimtuiv of Amm can Legion Auxiliary t The Body Of Christ Or. Paul K. Ausley. Pastor First Presbyterian Church i TEXT: "For as wo havo many ' memher* in ono body, ami all -] momhoK have not tho same ol ( fU-e: so wo. being many, aro one ( hoily at Christ, and every ono , momhors ono >f anolhor." ! Romans 12:1-3 j At this Kpipnany Season, we i recall tho visit of tho Wiso Men « from the Easj to Bethlehem; ami i remembering that they were not i I Jews hut Gentiles, we see in them I j and their visit tho first mnnitos ] | tation of Christ to people beyond i i tho bordet* of His own race, Bo ing Gentiles ourselves, we tlitik 1 it very natural that this should < ! havo taken place But when you consider some of the stumbling J ; blocks to believing in a Christnn ity that should transcend all ra cial harriers, a - you find them in Simon Peter, even after Ponte- j coat hatl occurred, you realise ■ ; what a vast advance thin repre sented. j< Wo do not know what would • havo hap|toned if the "Jidai/ers" had had their lull way. and St. • Paul had not mine in wit i his in sistence that Ine Gospel was f«>r all. and that he was tho apostle | to tho Gentiles. The Christian movement might then have Iteen i cut off in its prime ov the spiri tual myopia of its own adherents, as many another spiritual move ment has boon. If anything was Providential in ilv* early Chris tian movement it was the Spit it of God at work in tho m*:id of Paul and hi* insistence ihat the Gentiles must also share in this great gift of Salvation. Gentiles were permitted t o come into the Christian fold. They , were exempted from tho Jewish rite of incorporation into their ■ spiritual fold, and brought in on ly by P.aptism which was a dis tinctively Christian Sacrament. They did two things in the early i Church without thinking <> f them: They came to believe in the Risen Christ and they were hapti/cd into His Church. It would not have occurred to any of them that the only important thing was to understand the ethi cal ideals of .testis, and that such came from an ultimate relation ship with Him. St. Raul is fond of railing the Church Christ's “body”. He did not take a spiritual symbol, anti call the Church Christ's company or brotherhood or spirit he took a physical symbol and called if His Body, yet it was a society, a fellowship, a brotherhood. The hotly hoerme a convenient symbol for hint. The people com ivtg in were a I read v diverse, anti they would become more diverse. That original company had had in it very differing type*, tem poramentally considered; hut they had been I used together in to a kintl of unity hv the actual presence of Jesus. Now that He was physicalh gone, anti more people were coming in. St. Ratd cast about for some way of think ing about the fundamental unity which might bind together such i diversity. He found it in the hu man body. “As we have many members." he said, “and ail mem bers have not the same office: so w«\ being many, are one body in ! Christ, and everyone members one of another." The "Body of Christ" then 1m* came the “hotly of believers.” “We. I icing many, are one hotly in Christ." There was no one who believed in Christ that needed to remain outside. They came to Him by faith and they became members of His Hotly hv baptism anti confirmation. What was true then, is true now. Any >ne of us can become a "member of the hotly of Christ" by faith and hy baptism. The Church is the one universal society to which every one caii belong if he will. Let me say some things that I think We need to remember about the Church. First, think m the meaning <»f ! that phrase "one body in Christ.” Thinking as we do today in r us we made “a member i of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven." Something very tremen dous has happened and the tre- . mendous |>art of it lies in the Grace that ha> been bestowed. It 1 is not a rite or ceremony, it is a : Sacrament, anti a Sacrament is "an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace." I {| Second, will you think of the answer to the problem of "unity i in diversity” represented by the ! words *%e beU.g many, are one 1 body in Chriat". We look back to.' ipuBWBtf 0MM as the MM But < i*y had their controversies, as |j ou will sec in Acts: limy prnh ibly diverged a» much as wo do. Vn> woro oonse-rvatlvo and lib ra! groups \\ illiin Iho oarlv *huix-h. There woro signs oven he,i <>f iho lator groat division. •Highly called Catholic and Pro pstanl. There has never Ison a imo in the history of tho Church rhon unity vv as not throathonofl ir destroyed by diversity. All de alerships. whet her political or vligious. out this knot by est.i dishing thoir own kind of unity, t is bought at a groat price, anil he price is lihei ty surrendered. Two things held that oarlv Thurch together: they had all pul heir faith in the Kiacn Christ, md. at Pentecost, when gathered •with one accord in one plaev. hey found a d< ep unity in the Inly Spirit. They could swing a mrt on many things, because the> were bound closely together on a few things. St. Paul said to tho >rinthia»s, There are divers! ios of g’fts. hut tho same Spirit, rhero are diversities of adminis rations, hut tho same Lord. Jjj Ptu-ro are diversities of opera lions. but it is the same f hen ate utterly irreconcilable .nth others except upon a basis that, “we, being many, are one vwly in Christ." That should make us appreciate worth where .te see ;t. and sincerity where we rind it: it should make us declare falsehood where we see it. anil *X| ose unreality where we finti t. There will he clashes and dis agreements oniy they will Is* fatnlh quarrels because there is i Head of the family, and in Hint ite find, not a pattern for all to follow, hut a spirit for all to K*ek. Hie unity is ideal and not lierefore unreal, only unrealixed: thediversity is real, but not neei> tarily disruptive. Much rich fel lowship and eo-opera'ion is pos sihle lietween all who love and itelieve in Jesus Christ, even in Ihedivided slate of 11 is Church now. 1 Third, if it is hard !■> hold to gether |>enp!e in the fellowship of the Church, it is indefinitely lianler to hold them together in the fellowship of the nation, and (tarder still in the company of nations. 1 think that the only kind of unity wo shoul I seek in demoera •ies. or in the larger democracy if tile family <>f nations, is the unity represented in Voltaire’s memorable statement: "I wholly lisapprovo of what you say but .vill “defend to the death your right to say it.' There is more fu ture and promise in any nation ihat will siriv. towards that, however conservative it may ap [>oar. than in any nation that ab rogates that principle in favor of .that looks like progressa nd ad- V rami'. In this sense, many so-4 ■ailed liberals have abandoned liberalism and gone in for collec. ivism. ami the only real liberals left are the old-fashioned eonser Liitivex that still believe in liber ty I believe that truth lu'kt under IkI. and liberty pursued not as a -elfish end Inn as the itreat priv of all men everywhere, are Ik- twin north stars of national »r international unity. I believe hat the more of God there is in people, the moir there will he of ighteotisness and truth, and here fore the less then* will lie >f disunity and division of spirit. iVithout Christianity iherr* prob ihly would have hoen no freedom in dno democracy. as we under stand them. The Churt h is a society tien on me groat end: the winning of ill nwn. and the whole world, to ’hrist. I'ntil you fell pulsing In four blood the seeking and spirt tial need of people at home and hef ar ends of the eartn. you are nit a baby in the rhurrh family teedfjg to grow ■;> and take our own part. God lu*lp us to realize the priv lege of belonging to Christ's 'hutch, to understand the won lerful and sacred mystery of it^^Bj lature, to love it as our own ipir^ tuai famllv. and to labor with iut ccatiif f<+ Its extension to