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Established A weekly newspaper devovd to the nmmnti* .. for the enlightment, entertainment and hn »•. S**n<T*l welfare and publ'«hed '*> vlclndjr. puMtahM <* C££2 Fnto.od as aocond class matter at th^JoJoffi^”^ P'?M,,h,n* _lmt>Pr Act of OMArm* of Marih a'r> N ° • 2W« .Martin Ifarmon. Dkk Woodward . Miss Elizabeth Stewart •MI*S Libby Bunch . editorial department Paul Jackson Douglas Houser V.V.V.V.V.V;. Editor.Publisher 1 1 * ■» ****** *••••••••••*. C)t?rl( nnnin, -- - All«| My^m w Resell C Parrish ?'"* HuM*r Norman Camp TCLEPHONE NUMBER - 739-5441 “"“-j «as^?ar» •• tssts^ W-LS NORTH CAROLINA SALES T« “ *>•* TODAY’S BIBLE VERSE For rvihtntn nh.„, «.. ,w ^ ’ "" J,*w,/ *"herit the earth. Machines and Politics Through the history of American poli tics the word “machine” has often-! imes been a dirty word, and with reason. In its extreme use the word has implied the rawest kind of political corruption, in cluding kick-backs, rank favoritism to friends, harassment of enemies, and. generally, use of tin* public treasury for the private gain of the few. The leader of that type of machine frequently earned the title of "Boss . Thus history records Boss Tweed. Boss Crump. Boss Hague and many more. Louisiana's Huey Long was the "King fish.' Jim Curley, of Boston, dominated Massachusetts politics for many years. These are just a few. It is also a common practice for cam paigners to label competitors as "ma chine-' candidates. All depends, of course, on whether the choice of labels is correct, whether the word should be “machine,’ or merely "organization.” Pity the poor candidate which lacks an organization, lor he will consistently be relegated to also - ran category. Seldom does a candidate win when he is solely the so-called “candi date of the people.” Machine charges are already flowing in the campaign lor the Democratic nomination for governor. Judge Richard son Preyer is labeled by competitors the candidate of the “Sanford-Bennett ma chine.” Governor Sanford laughs off the charge with the reminder a governor seldom, if ever, enjoys an eight - hour workday. Bert L. Bennett resigned as state chairman of the Democrats before endorsing the Preyer candidacy. Another implication of the "machine” charge is one of longevity in power, hardly applicable to the reputed San ford-Bennett group. It all means another quadrennial gub ernatorial campaign is underway. It will be informative and exciting, but it is safe to assume that North Carolina will survive it, as it has those of the past. A New Bill Changes in the federal tax laws last year mean that majority of savings and loan associations will be enjoying the dubious pleasures of paying federal in come tax lor the first time. While the formula is different from general corporations, there will still In* a sizeable tax bite for these associations which, in North Carolina at least, had the status of mutual tax exempt home building associations. There were several reasons for the change. Banks, competing for funds, felt the tax laws put them in a poor and unfair competitive position. Another reason was the fact that, in contrast to North Carolina, laws governing savings and loan associations are quite different. Some associations in other states are virtually privately owned, rather than mutually as in this state. A Kings Mountain savings and loan association official views the tax change as a requirement to change somewhat the operating format of the associations. Where emphasis formerly was on in crease of assets, emphasis now, he sa>s. will switch to net earnings, much as pri vate businesses emphasize. Savings and loan associations render valuable functions to those they serve, ttoth as interest - paying savings' depo«i ories and as lending agents for improve ment of real estate, largely in the resi dential category. Another Expansion Carolina Throwing Company is a com paratively new Kings Mountain industri al citizen and is one of the community's fastest growing. Its major 1963 expansion was only re cently completed before* another was un derway. The firm puts the •‘stretch” into man made yarns. The product is used for a myriad number of end products and Carolina Throwing is one of a not too great group of manufacturers producing these yarns. It can be correctly assumed that the company’s success has been due to par ticular attention to quality production through correct and imaginative man Warning Signals The community will bo pleased that the president of Southern Railway Com pany has informed Mayor Glee A. Brid ges that early consideration to the safe ty problem at the Gold street rail cross ing will be given. It is one of the most dangerous rail crossings within the confines of Kinns ; Mountain due to 1) heavy traffic and 2) shortness of approaches from both Bat- ; tleground avenue and from Railroad ; avenue. Warning signals as used at the neigh lairing Mountain street crossing would lie beneficial, though likely the minimal safety effort that can be effected short i of closing the crossing, which, in view ' of its heavy use, would pose traffic con gestion problems for all othei crossings and elevate them to a higher point in the danger department. There is no substitute for the “stop, look, and listen” dictum when crossing j a railroad (or entering a main thorough fare). The long-term answer to minimizing the danger at this and other crossings would be construction of underpasses (or overpasses where terrain dictates) to pare traffic over rail crossings. Here the indication would be for expenditure of large sums of treasure. Such projects require expert planning, as well as cash, and are never attainable on an over-night basis. However, with (Kipulation of both autos and people crowing, it is conceivable that under pass projects should get the attention of the several agencies which have a stake in the safety problem. Heady Report It is a safe guess that vast majority of 1 the members of the Kings Mountain Chamber of Commerce were pleasantly surprised at the annual membership meeting when retiring President J. Wil- ! son Crawford summated the work of the organization during the past year. The review of the community's indus trial growth during the 12 months was impressive. While much of it had been publicized, the summation made a long er list than most had realized. Mr. Crawford stated that continuance of the rate of growth of 1963 would mean that Kings Mountain's population would double in a matter of eight years, a ra ther heady thought. Much of the community’s 1963 pro gross was due to the efforts of the Cham ber of Commerce, in collaboration with the city administration, as well as num erous individuals. The 1963 record is indicative of what can be accomplished through the leader ship of a well-functioning Chamber of Commerce, an organization that brings together all segments of a community for the general welfare. Congratulations are due Mr. Crawford for a most successful administration, and to Bob Maner. his newly elected suc cessor. Heart Fond The Kings Mountain area has been especially generous in recent years in answering the annual appeal for dona tions to the Heart Fund. This generosity shows a growing awareness on the part of citizens to the fact that heart di sease. in its various forms, is near the top in the list of fatal physical illness. The answer to these medical problems, as others, lies in research. Proof is avail able in the vast strides made in this di rection within the past few years, and these strides will continue only as re search funds are supplied. Medical men today regard their con freres of a century ago as in the medi cal dark ages, guess that, a century hence, doctors of the future will think the same of this era. Liberal contributions to the heart fund are indicated to insure that happy situation. Some items of business for quick hand ling: tax listing, paying 1963 tax bills, and purchasing motor vehicle licenses. Penalties are prescribed for the laggers. Congratulations to Corbett Nicholson, re-elected captain of the Cleveland County Life-Saving and Rescue Squad and to the other newly elected nffitiers MARTIN'S MEDICINE Sy MARTIN HARMON Infpredirnt*: bit* of Mm u i*dom, humor, and comment*. Direction*: Take treekly, if poenibl*, hrrt avoid overdotage. < loorge Thomason. the attorn ey. secretary of the county elec tions board and son-in law ol Mrs. J. H. Arthur, registrar for th« West King* Mountain toting pro cinct, suggests i lint tho lloralr try to get across to citizens th< fact that in county election there are only two voting pro cincts. West Kings Mountain now located at the Nationa Guard lArmory. and East King Mountain. at City Hall rourttoom in contrast, tor city election. there are five voting precincts. m-tn It has long been and likely wil i continue to be a point of con fusion that in North Caroline there are two sets of election books City registration does nol <|uallfv ih«‘ voter for partidpu tion in county elections and via versa. Tins situation apparently is not true in some other states where one registration qualifies ior all elections. Jack Mouse!, ex of New York city, tells me that, when a citi zen register*, he is given a regi stration card which he mUst sign at the time of Issue. Whoh he visits the trolling place, lie must produce his card and sign tho poilbook. the signature being scrutinized by the election offi cials to be sure the card holder and voter are one and the same person. I have done no checking, hut ii is possible ig&i could hi* a record year for number of elections in Cleveland County. Already there has been one election, the Janu ary 14th one on state constitu tion amendments. On February 29. there will be held the county wide bond election tor hospital construction. There will follow the biennial pnmaries in May and. with five i Iready in the field for the Democratic nomination for governor, three considered leading cod tenders, most folk arc betting a run-off primary will be required in June. (Judge Prey er. of course, predicted Saturday hi- would get a majority in May, and it is safe to assume similar predictions will come from the other contenders.) m-m After that sequence of elec tions Ls completed there will fol low the November general elec tion. At some time during the year, on authorization of the General Assembly, the Oovemor will call a state-wide bond elec tion for $100 millions for school construction. Most think the Gov ernor. in the interest of saving money for the state and its 100 counties, will set the date of this election on the same day as the general election. But he Is not re quired to. Anolher election in the offing is a possible county • wide de cision on legal liquor. There Is hardly a question that those de siring the ABC vote will have any difficulty obtaining the necessary 2S<)0-plus signatures of bona fide citizens. Indeed, one petition, one of the supporters of this-special election reports, bore the signa ture of some 3,000 citizens, when an error was discovered in the way the petition was drawn. This one was sent to the waste basket and a new and correctly drawn petition will be circulated. Yet another election could be held, though it would not be county • wide. The county district schools may re-offer a proposal for school construction funds, though no announcement con cerning it has been made. That’s right much voting for one calendar year. Mayor Glee A. Bridges and Ho bart Dye were among the cara vaners to Greensboro for !lte Preyer rally last Saturday. Not only did Mayor Bridges provide a police escort through Kings Mountain, but (.lerted Kannapolit officers and towel city officicers did the same. Grandfather Glee, an c\peri eni-ed hand at the business, did a brief baby-sitting chore for Mrs. Preyer. The ycimger children of five* were getting a bit tired and one was beginning to sniffle. Glee tended the least one while Mrs. Preyer attended the other. As Mayor. Glee regards his ioIc as that of official greeter to all persons of prominence, including all candidates. He attended the rally as the official representative of the city and plans equal treat ment to the others. To the suggestion that Candi date Preyer apparently made a good speech. Glee replied. “Yea he did. And more than that, he didn’t drag it out. That suited me fine.” 1 take it Glee belongs to the cult which agree with the preacher who noted. “I never figured I saved many souls aft er 30 minutes in the pulpit." N.C. 5CN001S A*rOu/AfcCcJun, Accurate Complete News Coverage ( r nl d " BOSTON LOS ANGELES I ru.pnkj I Yw $22 ? Month t $5.50 Cky Him HmHhmm* •«< Man it with tow chuck or ■nancy liter to: The ChrMtian tciaoca Monitor On* Norway Slice* ■ailan. Mail 021 IS 1:9 • : ATTACK ON POVERTY STARTS HERE! ■ i Viewpoints of Other Editors VACANCIES For anyone who lias had to listen to the neighbors through the high-fidelity walls of some new low-cost apartments, the latest federal housing experiment will have special meaning. A number of more serious advan tages could also flow from the plan to help more needy families make use o f vacant existing buildings rather than new public ly (-(instructed ones. Under this plan, which has al ready been successfully tried on a small scale, families would pa\ what they can in tent. The gov ernment would make up the dif ference between this and an eco-; nomically appropriate rental. To protect all concerned and this shows a sensitivity to morale as well as an awareness of possible^ abuses the federal government] would pay subsidies to local hous ing authorities. The authorities would lease or buy available pro perties. and the tenants would deal directly w:th them. It is expected that 15.000 slum families would he helped under the experiment this year, in addi tion to those placed in the 33.000 new public dwellings usually built annually. The net cost in using the old housing is estimated to he less. For many families the result1 would bb a move from slums to middle-class neighborhoods. Tak en from an atmosphere in which poverty seems to breed poverty.: they might find themselves re sponding to improved conditions with progress out of proportion \ to the dollars-and-cents invest mdit. At least it would seem such an approach is worth trying. We hope the Congress will give every consideration to this kind of fresh thinking on eortinuing problems when the proposal comes before t it soon as one of President John son's anti-poverty measures. Though Americans are becom ing more aware of the poverty in their midst, there are other more acutely distressed countries in which their help is needed and ' hot just through foreign aid. In Colombia, for example various agencies are working with the labor unions to provide coopera tive low-cost dwellings for their workers. One problem is leans porting materials to remote ar eas. which the individual cannot afford: another is an economic situation that makes banks reluc tant to give workers long-term mortgages.. And the project faces delay through lack of Americans with co-op experience and other qualifications necessary to help 1 get it moving. Thfci is one of those situations, multiplied endlessly in which the qualified man faces thee hoice of staying comfortably where he Is. or absenting himself from felici ty awhile, coin," forth into that harsh world which for many is no less harsh now than it was when Shakespeare wrote about it. The Chriatiaa Science Monitor LAW IGNORED The Christian Science Monitor, one of the nation's finest news papers. has. in the wake of the tragic events in Dallas, stepped up it campaign to tighten laws oil ownership and (sissession of firearms. To illustrate how jumbled the picture is, the Monitor recently I published a list of the 50 states giving the law* regulating fire* I arms in each. It is confusing but possibly not even the Monitor knows just how confusing. For example, the newspaper declares that the law in South • Carolina forbids the sale or man ufacture of handguns, perhaps the clearest and least ambiguous statement made of any atate. Well, we don't know about manufacturing pistols in South IShiHm felt )g| THE CEREAL BOX POTENTIAL With nil that wheat going to the Russians, vve hope someone is sending them a few Americanl breakfast cereal boxes. Somehow these boxes set m to have bigger and bigger outsides and smaller and smaller irsides. They would make the wheat go a l<mg way. | As for portability, statistics show, or ough* to, that four out of five small children prefer cereal to steak if the cereal box' is left on the table. We're work-! ing nti a theory that if the pic tures and words and free offers on the box are interesting e ! nough. it doesn't matter what is: inside it. Of course, at tables of two or more children, there must be an «ptal number of interesting box es. or a single box must he placed at llie nro|N>r angle for viewing1 by all. However it is the box itself, so wide, so thin. Scot the children, which should In exported first. Bark of the hula hoop warehouse there must be one full of Buck Rogers boxes from 23 years ago, when the Ameiican comics were so timid as to put Burk and his spaceships in the 23th century. That would give the Russians a laugh right there. But would they lie amused when they sent in the box top' and a ruble in stamps and found that their full-size disintergrator ray gun. arriving by return mall three weeks later, was made of cardboard. With the present day boxes it seems children have to send in1 more money and fewer box frag ments. But they have to wait hist as long, even if plastic has taken I the place of cardboard in the free1 premiums field What brought all this to mind is that one cercalmakcr has |>aus cd in ap|>ealing to the naked greed of youngsters. Its offer was that, for every box bit turn ed in. it would make a contribu tion to the needy. We hope the Russians, well knowing that charity begins abroad, will ap plaud with us this new example of enlightened captalism. The Christum Srirncc Monitor lived here for a single week can tell you that the law prohibiting their sale is a fan-e. Pistols as veil as rifles can he bought in any pawnshop or sport ing goods store, and at a good many department stores, with no difficulty at all. The law to the contrary simply is ignored. We salute the Monitor's effort but we warn it that if .South Ca rolina is a valid example the problem is greater than it thinks. The Orreneillr Seus «Greenville, S. C.t With contributions trickling in at a *low rate. Kings Mountain Marrh of Oimea officials are counting on the youth of the com munity to do s major job in Mjrtng increese the flow of fund* to fight polio. The Cntie-Nous Teen-Age club will present the program at Thursday nigh'‘a Kiwants club meeting. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Sober, Jr, mn hosts to members of the Couple's Bridge dub at Mr home Friday night All Agree About Life MARION O. DuBOSE. JR. P«t»r. Kings Mountain Baptist Church We often hnvc been I old the world is divided between the “haves" and the "have-nots".This is a reference especially to the possessions or lack of the mater ial goods of liit. Thoie are some things, however, which all men possess, wherexer they live and whatever theii circumstances Most im|>ortaiit is life itself. Life is wonderful, full of mar vels and mireiles and always astonishing aid exciting to us! Life also is r eaningful. Ancient poets and modern scientists a gree that all lt‘e from the most minute microscopic form to the planets that wheel through space - is full of plan and purpose. This world o| oui> forever is giving us evidences of unity and order. Growth ond maturity iM life are according to plan. This world is a cosmos, not a chaos Nothing occurs acdden'ally. Life is meaningful and the more we studv life through the great approaches offered through the sciences the more certain we become that Ik hind the orderli ness of life in an Almighty Mind When circumstances become con fused we know the explanation is not to be founo within the ele mental fabric of our universe but rather in the tinkering ay man in the order of life. The late William Temple. Archbishop of C a n to r h u r y, wrote: "The fundamental facts a bout ma/i are two: he is mads* in * In* image of OikI. and this image is, so l« speak, stamped upon an animal nature. Hot ween these two there is a constant tensio: resulting in |ierpetual tragedy." When God fashiotied Ilis world lie looked upon it. the Bible tclU us. and saw that it was good. Tti Creation gave to our universe.^ perfect character. Them h"/ happen***!'.’ Man. created in tin image of his Cieator hut possess ing a free will. dlsturh«*d tics perfection, lie sinned! S i n brought chaos into an otheru > harmonious universe. The |ierfection of the universe (ean tie restored only when met lwill fully surrender their less.-t purposes to the greater purposes I of the Eternal. Jesus Christ, wh • shared both the natures of hu inanity and divinity, is the Cue1' who shows us how mortal nt« 1 may know and follow the will of our llea\enly Father. In Him we detect the perfection of God and through Him we may achieve God's wonderful purposes for our lives. The scientist Ke|t|er s|Kike el thinking (kid’s thought after Hint That is a commendable way *>f expressing a life of devotkM t<* God. When we think His thought* we recognize cur creaturelines Then we rely on Him alone wh* can bring Iron-, tin* conclusion <*t our lives the kind of plan and purpose which God huilt into tin fundamental structure of His un verse. KEEP YOUBKADIO DIAL SET AT 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain. N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. 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