4j£ The Kings Mountain Herald vS’* Established 1889 A weekly newspaper devoted to ihe promotion at the general welfare and published (nr the enlightment, entertainment and bonetit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and tis vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House Entered as second class matter at ihe postoffice at Kings Mountain. N. C.. 2>*K0 under Act of Congress Of March 3 .1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT J 1 I Martin Harmon . Dick Woodward . Miss Elizabeth Stewart Miss Libby Bunch .... Paul Jackson Douglas Houser . Editor-Publisher . Sports Editor .Circulation Manager and Society Editor .Clerk MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Allen Myers Monte Hunter Russell C. Parrish s'nrman Camp TELEPHONE NUMBER - 739-5441 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE - BY MAIL ANYWrfERE ONE YEAR •- S3.30 SIX MONVHS - S2.no THREE MONTHS - $1 25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE for I,,,,, ,nr,I j*|t|n> llrhniis /*»: >’' III 1*1 A Donnybrook? Decision of Jack H. White. King> Mountain attorney, to enter the race tor the 31st district Democratic Senate no mination against R. Patrick Spangln, tli<> concrete manufacturer, poses an unpleasant choice for many Kings Moun tain area voters, who know and regard highly both of these citizens. It is not an unusual situation in politics at am level, perhaps even more frequent at the local level, that a voter's personal friends often contest each other. The voter's preference would be to cast u ballot foi both, which, of course, he can not do. Neither have had legislative exper ienc« . Mr. White, the veteran judge of city recorder's court, has won high marks foi the manner in which he conducts his court and has won his spurs in the realm ol practicing attorneys. Mi. Spangler i> a businessman of pro ved ability. Though he lives in Shelby, he is an industrial citizen of more than a decade's duration in Kings Mountain. Mr. Spangler hasn t previously sought public office. Mr. White sought tin* Senate seat of Robert F. Morgan, who is retiring, in a well-fought 1960 primary in which he lost to the incumbent in a close race. Hoth candidates have family connect ions throughout the county. In short, the contest promises to Ik* a donnybrook. As concentrated campaigning gets underway, it can lu» assumed that lioth candidates will be revealing their think ing about many of the issues expected to confront the 1965 General Assembly in which both wish to represent the 31st district. A resident of Kings Mountain has not graced the General Assembly since Sen ator H. Tom Fulton. Sr., succumbed in the late twenties. In short. Kings Mountain's precincts promise to be a considerable battle ground in this race. Political Leadership The Kings Mountain area has been honored, both by Democrats and Repub licans. recently by having its citizens elected to key party positions. The Cleveland County Republican party elected Bob Mailer, of West Kings Mountain precinct, its secretary, and Bill Babb, of Bethware, treasurer. Subsequently, Cleveland County Dem ocrats elected Willard Boyles, of Beth ware. president, and James A. Lybrand, of East Kings Mountain as vice-presi dent. Many folk decry interest in politics. Always an unfortunate attitude, it l>or ders on the foolish today. An arm of government is at every turn in any citi zen’s living, whether it be the tax col lector. the highway right-of-way man. or the guy selling auto licenses. Southern Railway's president, D. W. Bros nan. writes that he and his company are naturally sympathetic with those injured, fatally or otherwise, in rail cros sing accidents-but not enough to bear cost of installing expensive warning sig nals. Does this indicate a change in Southern’s policy? City officials tail to recall, for instance, any city participa tion in the warning signals at Mountain. Piedmont avenue, or Linwood road. It can bo assumed that the city commis sion won't be satisfied, exactly, by Presi dent Brosnan's epistle. Attend the Optimist Club's Saturday night talent show and dance at the Ar mory. The entertainment will bo good and the proceeds will help forward the club's community youth program. Saturday is the final day to register for the February 29 hospital bond elect ion. f Bey Scouts One of the great movements of the world is the Boy Scout movement, which began in England before World \\ ar I and has spread to virtually all coiners of the globe. Bov Scout week is currently being observed in this country, as a rermnuer to all citizens of the benefits a lad derives from participation and of the nation's benefits from this program which trains in citizenship. A lad begins to learn and practice good citizenship from the time he quali fies as a beginning tenderfoot. Those who reach the rarified atmosphere of Eagle Scout rank have not only attained a high and respected honor but have been over the hurdles of a program de signed to meet the tests of keeping a boy “...physically fit. mentally alert, and morally straight.” Special mention is due those adults w ho accept leadership responsibility in this movement. The boys are with us. Oftentimes the difficulty lies in getting men of ability to serve as leaders, espec ially at the troop level of Scoutmaster and Assistant Scoutmaster. These positions require a special type of person: he must be knowledge able in outdoor lore and like it. He must love youngsters and manage them with a special combination of firmness and patience which one associates with the able teacher or judicious parent. A salute is in order to those leaders, past and present, who provide this in valuable service. World Day ol Prayer The Christian world-and it extends around the globe-will pause Friday for the annual World Day of Prayer. In Kings Mountain, the format for the observance is changed this year, a cha nge that should produce greater partici pation in this important event. Virtually all churches will have short prayer ser vices. Merchants are cooperating by closing their doors for an hour. For those who can’t attend these services, sirens and whistles will signal a moment of silent prayer. Few professing Christians—and per haps others—will fail to attest to the power of prayer. Failible humans, even those with most exceptional abilities, run into roadblocks over which they have no control and which only a power great ei than they can overcome. The community will be a better place for living and working in proportion to the participation in Friday's services. Trouble. Trouble The fact that there have always been trouble spots around the globe doesn’t make the current ones any more pleas ant. The necessity for solving these prob lems. however, grows more acute as the globe shrinks in size through faster com munications. There’s Panama, the water cut-off by Cuba at Guantanamo Bay. the war in , South Viet-Nam. the East African trou ble. plus France’s recognition of Commu nist China. These are by no means all of them. Then there's plenty of trouble closer i home. At nearby Chapel Hill, Negroes and well-wishers claiming they seek equal rights, form themselves into human roadblocks, a rather risky business which is getting even the more liberal disgusted. One citizen put it: “I can’t figure what they want in Chapel Hill, which is prob ably the most liberal community on the race issue south of Baltimore.’* The world and North Carolina has a long way to go before the spirit of live and-let-live permeates men's minds and hearts. Draw a liberal check for the heart fund. Saturday is the final day to purchaae and display city and state motor vehicle licenses without penalty. I MARTIN'S MEDICINE By MARTIN HARMON Inqrcdirnt*: bit* of ne%p* v iidmn, humor, and comment*. Directum*: Take weekly, if po**ible, but avoid overdo* age. The band \« r» blaring, people were millin’’ .-'bout gi-eetin.: friend* and making new ones soda [h>|> was flowing. c >okios were being munched and big red apples were being popped intu i oat poekeis, all of which prompt ed .Mrs. J. II. A) thur to remark to my wife at th> Prever-for-Gov ernor headquarters ofiening in Shelby. "You sec why i like poli tical rallies!” mm The apples, incidentally, wer Kings Mountain appli > from Mountain View farms, where Cameron Ware holds forth. mm It has always bothered me when I see a face I kn>w and can't remember the tiame. Final ly. 1 walked up to the fellow and -aid "I know you, but who are you?" It was Ray Kifig, chairman of Mecklenburg Democrats, whom I tied initially rt the Charlotte rally for then-candidate John F. Kennedy and Mhscquently at an >ther Democratic clambake. As I told him. had I seen .him on Tryon street in Charlotte, the name would have clicked at once, hut he was away from his baiii wick. Ray proved to be the fel low responsible for Candidate Prayer’s meeting his busy cam paign schedule which had start ed that mot.ling in Lincoln Coun 1 ty. continued to Shelby, then to Kings Mountain, then to Dallas. , then to Charlotte. That should have been enough for a day. hut | it wasn't. Since the candidate had to tie in Greensboro by 10:30 p. m.. plane transport was arranged out of Charlotte. Expeditor Rav said he was having a good time and appeared to be. And he was quiti* efficient. He had met sche dule in Shelby, rolled up to City Halt here with two minutes to spare. Highway Commissioner Clint Newton was giving Candidate Richardson a thumbnail sketch of a lew problems in various sec ! tions and areas on which Preyer should inform himself, among them a problem in one of the western counties among the fox hunters. Clint had learned that the fox-hunters are very upset They had set their dogs on the chase, but the dogs don’t return. The fox-hunters are sure that Reynard isn’t doing mayhem to the dogs, and have deep suspi cions concerning the game war den. Preyer grinned ruefully, said he guessed he better get a bit more up-to-date non his fox-hunt ing. Then Itis Cleveland County manager, Charlie Peeler, offered the suggestion that Rich flood that county with his 1963 Christ-, mas card. "That oughta show’em you're on the side of the dogs.’ , Charlie laughed. as-as As related here previously, the Preyer Christmas greeting pic tured the seven-member Preyer clan, all but the littlest holding a wee puppy. The youngest held two. Rich confirmed my specula tion that their dog had borne a litter of eight, also reported that all arc healhy. hungry, and grow ing. Indeed, a candidate for office must have a much broader know ledge than me»v matters of roads, schools, taxes, industry-hunting, ports, courts, resorts, history, etc., ad infinitum. Rich’s maternal grandfather, for wham the candidate was nam ed, was Lunsford Richardson, a pharmacist, who developed Vick's Vaporuh in 1891. but Vick's didn't get wide consumer acceptance at firsi. Indeed, his grandfather Al tered the soft drink business to tide over his family until his real love. liU home remedies, began to sell. That was in 1905. and it required the flu epidemic during World War I to make Vick's a household word and medicine cabinet old faithful The Preyer surname, inciden tally. is German. It is pronounc ed “pryer”. ■* Prayer's guirt-aunt was the wife of the lat * J. Foster Barnes, for many years director of music, social icligious work at Duke. Dr Barnes' an hi* male doubleoctet was a command performance favorite of thr North Carolina Press association. Rich was particularly plcasixl to have among his greeters here Capt. Mee!: Ormand, soon to cele brate his 95th birthday. Judge Preyer's visit last week was of the whirlwind variety,I part of his projected tour which will take him to each of the state's 100 counties. He'll return to Cleveland next month for a longer stay, men* concentrated touring of the county, and for a formal speech. Among his friends in Grvbni boro are Mr. and Mrs. Fran Pethel, he the onetime organic at St. Matthew's Lutheran churcl she the former Tootsie Gillespii She told bar mother she was i ■ fraid Rich wouldn't win. addid| i “He’s too honest.” SPEECH *t€ I /^roty/j/ccakny HAVE SUITCASE, WILL TRAVEL THE Accurate Complete News Coverage Printed ir BUiTON LOS ANGELES LONDON 1 Year $22 6 Months $11 3 Month* $5.53 CH» thr* •d»Ofti»*n»int oid Hlam it with four >ild Mao Tse-tung. so the story goes, agreed to go tiger shifting. The tigei appear ed out of the long grass. Mao fiml first and missed. Nikita then fired. Ttv- Tiger rolled over dead The two men went up to it, measured it, found it was too heavy for their bearers to carry away. Nikita said he would go and get help, leaving Mao on the spot. When he returned there was no tiger to be seen. "But but where is the tiger?" he said. Mao Tse-tung was courteously inter ested. "What tiger,” he replied. Nikita applies his full diaicsti cal method. "Look, you remem ber we set ou; to shoot a tiger?” - "Yes.” “We saw the tiger.” "Certain ly.” "You fired first and missed.” "I did.” "You fired a sec Cod time, and missed.”—"That is true.” “Then I fired and got the tig or.” “Certainly, first shot,” "We went up to it and touched it." “We did.' “It was too heavy for us to move, so I volunteered to go off and get more help.” "Yes. quite correct.” "But when I came back the tiger had gon-- ” What fitter?” Those who do not wish to see the Si no-Soviet rift getting wider might consider sending copies of the Warsaw story to both Mr. Khrushchev and Mao Tse-tung It makes more sense than some of the exchanges. The Tihies f Loinlonl You have to change the Negro to fit tiie system. You can't legislate equality.” A questioner ask| his cap ital in order to help himself,” the speaker said. "Since our capital istic system i:; a competitive sys tem. the Negro must learn to* compete with his fellow man. He must not only seek jobs, hut he. must own establishments which will give jobs to others.” The firm of which Mr. Fuller isj president manufacturers cosmet ics, docs $1).000,000 of business annuallv and was started in 193.1 with $2.1 in working capital. Mr. ■ Fuller was born in Louisiana, went to school through the sixth grade. Hi- is a Negro and can boast that lie Is amifcig the high est paid business executives in the land. Charleston is. C.i Even in if Post tears! THIS WEEK of itmli lofcM from Iks Ilf films of thm Kings Koimlafr HmM. Kings Moun.ain citizens are being urged U contribute their blood to the Rcti Cross area bloo< bank when it returns Thursday for a one-day visit. Kings Mountain Little Theatre will present, "The Ghost Train”, three-act mystery drama. Satur day night in Central auditorium SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. Charles Dilling was host ess Tuesday to members of the The Lenten Call ■Y DR. W. P. GER1ERDING Pot tor. St Matthew's Lutheran Church Then he loo., unto him Hu twelve, and sain unlo thorn. Be hold. we go up to Jerusalem, anti all things that are written by tin prophets ei.iu-ei ning the Son ol man shall be accomplished. For he shall he delivered unto the Gentiles, e.\d shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spit ted on: And they sh ill scourge him. md put him t<- death; and the third day he shall rise egain Luke is; 31-33. Lent has Just in-gob. Tne word comes from an Anglo - Saxon word meaning "length", because the days are getting longer; therefore, it ir somewhat the same as Spring. The majority ol ('hristiun Churches have observ ed it for ceniuiios. It is a period of forty days, not counting Sun days. Many p« oplo ask. "Why tell people to ue good for forty days only?" It ir a well known fact of life that no one can keep at a high pea’: of effort all the time, so it is a wonderful oppor tunity for Chtistians to experi ence a higher degree of spiritual ity for a certain period of time While we just used the word "ef fort", it is also just the opposite namely, a period of Best or ees sat ion from many of the n<*edlc*. activities of nut lives. Its real meaning could is* expressed by n familiar sign rt railroad cross ings: Stop, !,ooj and Listen. 1. Stop. At a time when ten sions keep mounting nervou.* breakdowns, heart attacks, ul cent, even menial illness, are Is coming inerea: ingly common it is plain common sense that wi slow up a bit and stop so much of our feverish activities. Jesus frequently said to His disciples "Come ye apart and rest awhile." So that is the first lieiu-fit ol Lenl. Bead the Bible more often not necessarilv to learn more, hut to let the Holy Spirit lead us l< Christ our Savor. Pray more of ten: "Not my will, hid Thine, C Lord, ue done." Attend Church more often; worship with ourfel low believers h a s o great strengthening el fret. So. slow hi ■ a 'oil. 2. Look. “Look unto Me an live.” The one rt'.ilral filing about Lein is that we look lo Jesus as lie suffered and died for our site-. It) our Church, we read the enin • Passion Slory iimmg our Wed nesday and Holy Week Services While He hung upon the Cros we are fold that "the> wait In d Him there". Th« Cross is the ten tral theme oi the whole Itihl. Christ dust lo pay the penalty for our sins; He made Atonement^^ them. That merits that He ivconeiled us t-i Hod by tliednIV of Ilis Son. All that separates us from Him. our till, has t«-en don away and we ate now at-ont* will) Him again as Ilis dear children 3. Listen. All of the words of Jesus are life giving fond for out souls. He IS tin Word, hut |mm haps none of liis words an* more vital than the Seven Words from the C«<»ss. Ite i:ll. and listen t Him interceding for others. f.> all Ilis perseeuters, the dvin thief, amt His mother. Ttien li> ten to thevv out* of Ilis ag*n>. s'lrti He Mi forsaken, when lh thirsted, when lie announced tin completion, of our ftetlemplion. and when He showed us how i • die. committing His life into Un hands of the Father. Now. d • you begin to set the reason foi Lent? "God forhid that I should glory, save in the Cross of Chri*' my Lord.” We plead with you to picas* hear and heed the Lenten Call When 1 snrv« y the wondrous Cross O-i which th Prince of Glory died. My richest gain I count but loss And pour -ontempl on all m> pride. Were flu* whole l-ealm of na lure mine. That were o* offering far to* small; l>»ve so amn/ing, so divine. Demands mv soul, my life Isaac Wan* HARRIS <3unaxd 96rme KINGS MOUNTAIN. NORTH CAROllNA Dear friends, In the absence of pre-, arrangement, the next of kin alone has the right to choose the funeral director and to decide the funeral arrangements. No one should attempt to influence or usurp this right of choice. Advice should be given only when asked, as the selection of a funeral director is a very personal matter. Respectfully, Q- (QjU