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A ttwklv newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the rnlightment. entertainment and benefit of the eiti/ens of K;m:>s Mountain and it* vicinity. published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House Entered a* second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain. N. (*, 2W,sf> under Art of Congress of March .1. 1873 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon . Editor-Publisher Dirk Woodward . Sports Kditor Miss Elizabeth Stewart.Cireulation Manager and Society Kditor Miss Libby Bunch . Clerk MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Paul Jackson Alien Myers Monte Hunter Douglas Houser Arnold Conner Norman Camp _TELEPHONE NUMBER - 739-5441 SUBSCRIPTION WATT'S PAYABLE IN ADVANCE • BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR - $3.50 SIX MONTHS - $2.00 THREE MONTHS -- $1 23 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Rrmmpimtr to no matt for rut. Proruic things homst in tht s„,ht of nil mm. Romans 11:17 II Timothy 2f "Hotting Up" Tho gubernatorial campaign is wax ing warmer. The leading Democratic candidates, who for a long season appeared to differ little in the direction of aims, merely on avenues of arriving there, have begun to slug each other. Some observers f**el (and regret) the verbal slugging has begun mighty early, with the May 30th primary still six weeks away. Politics, of course, is a game which must be played by ear. min us hanl-a fid-fast rules. A move by one candidate dictates a move by another. Thus there are charges and counter charges, including some backing and fil ling. The hackles seemed to rise once the three leaders — Preyer, Moore and Lake — confronted each other on the rostrum at North Carolina State. Judge Dan Moore hit hot water via his confrontation with the AFL-CIO or ganization. The AFL-CIO leaders said Judge Dan Moore’s answers to a ques tionnaire were most suitable of any re ceived. but they expressed suspicion of Judge Moore's supporters. Subsequently, the delegates endorsed Judge Richard son Preycr, who had equivocated on 35 of 50 questions with “undecided" an swers. After the endorsement of Preyer, Judge Moore declared he felt 85 cents per hour a sufficient minimum wage “at this time". Judge Preyer urges a raise to SI. retaining present exclusions, principally for farm help. Over the past weekend. Judge Preyer elicited a heated response from Judge Moore when he recommended a consid erable tightening of North Carolina laws governing activities and expenditures by lobbyists. Judge Moore issued a state ment in whice he cast himself in defense of lobbyists. Judge Preyer replied the Moore answer was “as expected'". * Then there was Candidate Kidd Brew er’s campaign kick-off party, in which he declared a broom would be his cam paign symbol. The implication is clear that he. if elected, would do a mess of sweeping out. The jousting, with voting day still dis tant. reminds that the campaign was launched much earlier than is custo mary in North Carolina. Judge Moore was the first in the field, obviously car rying the banner of the more conserva tive wing of the Democratic party, hop ing to attract anti-Kennedy votes who decried Dr. Lake's heavy segregation ist pitch of 1960. President Kennedy’s assassination cau sed these initial plans to be ot quest ion ’ able value. It will require wanner weather to steam the mass of voters, but the candi dates are steamed. Help Lick Cancer Cancer remains one of the most dread words in any language. It is not as dread a word, in some in stances, as it was a few years ago. New surgical techniques, combined with X ray, have made most external cancers removable with permanent recovery. Medical and surgical techniques have combined to provide many other victims of cancer virtual guarantees of longer life spans, if not permanent cures. Credit for the improvements is due to continuing research in an effort to lick this dread disease. And the researchers hove high hope of favorable results. Work continues in direct relationship to funds provided, and a major source of research funds is derived from the gifts of citizens through the American C&ncer Society, of which the Cleveland Cbunty unit is an adjunct. Concurrently, the local unit provides funds for treat ment and relief of cancer patients. In view of the success in relegating typhoid fever, smallpox, and other vir ulent killers largely to items of history, it is apparent that liberal gifts via the current cancer fund campaign are dicta ted, not only by liberality, but by self iaterest. Salute To Industry Cleveland County and Kings Moun tain are cooperating with North Carol ina in the celebration of Industry Ap preciation Week, as proclaimed by Gov ernor Terry Sanford. It is particularly fitting that the state, which has majored in encouraging in dustrial expansion for several years, and the county relate its appreciation to manufacturers, both older industrial ci tizens and newer ones, for the contribu tions they have made and are making to the welfare of this area and the whole county. It is within recent memory that cotton was the bread-and-butter industry of this county. Suddenly, cotton was no longer king, the county had a burgeon ing unemployment problem, and the ci tizens commuting to other places for employment were many. The needs were obvious: most farmers had to find a new product or quit, and here the answer was found in dairying and poultry raising: new industrial jobs were needed to take up the employment slack and to compensate for increasing automation. The record of the past ten years has lieen good. The county has been blessed by an influx of new industries, both large and small, and older industrial ci tizens have modernized and expanded. The record of progress detailed by the retiring president of the Kings Mountain Chamber of Commerce for the year 1963 amazed many. And it is particularly fitting that In dustry Appreciation Week follows by a few days announcement of the immed iately forthcoming launching of constru ction of the new K Mills. Inc., which its owners anticipate will grow to a 200 employee manufacturer within two years. Kings Mountain appreciates its indus trial citizens and wishes them contin uing success. A best bow to: Dr. L. P. Baker, Sam R. Suber, and Ben R. Willeford. 30-year Masons; to Aubrey Mauney, among dis tinguished citizens listed in the recent edition of “Who’s Who in America"; and to Donn Freeman, winner of a George Foster Hankins scholarship to Wake Forest college. Rough fob Among the more difficult chores in county government is that of an elec tions board member, with even more emphasis on that of the chairmanship. The laws governing elections are many and technical, most of them de signed to protect both candidate and voter in the exercise of his democratic prerogative. In the instance of the can didate, the law seeks to assure fair elec tions. For the voter, the law seeks to assure the exercise of his free choice by secret ballot and proper recordation of his vote. Most citizens learn government throu gh the hard school of experience, includ ing candidates, voters campaign man agers, and promoters. Thus, during el ection season, the attorney-general’s of fice gets plenty of business for both rulings and interpretations. It makes sense that a member of one party cannot seek nomination from an other party, for a primary is a public family fight. Over the weekend, the Cleveland County Elections board sought to make the voting system more efficient by 1) establishing and mapping precinct lines, and 2) by eliminating seven precincts where vote totals — even in the record total cast at the I960 general election — were in th range of 100. The elections board anticipates the county will spend for scheduled elections during 1964 about $14,000 under the pre sent set-up. reasoned that consolidation of the seven precincts with others would save the taxpayers $3,500 in 1964 alone and would put no undue burden on any ol the precincts. Monday morning the situation was hot, with ringing telephones and vituper ative visits. Then it was learned that the necessary 20 days to advertise the chan ges prior to beginning of registration weren’t available. There was a lot of fussing’ (and cussin') for nothing, at least at the moment. Any candidates for election board duty? II MARTIN’S MEDICINE ■y MARTIN HARMON j hiqmlirnts; bits o/ nrws liristtom, tiHinor. and coni m ruts , MrrrtH'H*: Take irccklii, i,' jmshiblr, but ncoM Wfl'rflilMH/*. *- ■ . Over the past weekend, several items at personal interest caught my attention. mm A bulletin in the Saturday af lteino<in papers reported that the first ship to which I was assign ed by I'nele Sam’s navy nsd tried to make Charleston. S. C.. harbor in the fog. had missed the chan nel by .*>00 feet, and had lodged in a mud-bank. Long again a civil tan ship, she is the American Ex port Lines S.S. Executor. Millard Caldwell, as I. first knew her as ' USS Almaack. Millard having helped rebuild her during World War II. mm Another dispatch related that ! Joe Wise, of Rock Hill. S. C.. is chairman of Rock Hill s third an nual comc-see-me weekend. Joe would remember Executor, too. He was an army passenger a board, en route the Algiers inva ! sion. and a recently • married shavetail lieutenant. Joe was a Tennessean who had married a j Rock Hill girl, m-e Hambright, and some kin to the Hambright i clan of Kings Mountain. m-m II. Pat Taylor’s death was re | ported. I first knew Attorney Taylor when several of us Albe marle folk testified before the Utilities Commission in behalf of his client. Queen City Coach com panv. favoring a route franchise 1 extension. Mr. Taylor was. a few years later, lieutenant-governor ; during the Gregg Cherry admin istration. American League President Joe Cronin was pictured presenting President Lyndon B. Johnson with a pass, a long-continuing tradition of major league base ball. I never met either in person, butl shan't forget Joe Cronin, in his late playing days and player manager of" the Boston Red Sox. who selected himself to pinch-hit in the ninth inning, then slam med a home run to win the game. , m-m Reading is the key. That’s a long-way ’round to getting to National Library week. ’ currently underway, and with the '61 theme “reading is the key", j m-m It would appear that I didn’t get out of the library periodical section last weekend < though I did*, but. indeed, these bits of personal - interest news would have remained had I not perused the public garottes. m-m It is true that much of my read ing is done in periodicals, as a newsman must be reasonably a hp-ast of the news. Coincidental* lv. on Monday. 1 had lust perused a New York Times Magazine ar ticle. speculating on the course of U. S. Russion relations after Khrushchev iwho will be 70 Fri day*, when I heard the report of the rumor that Mr. Khrushchev had expired. (He hadn’t* m-m I manage less reading for fun ! than 1 would prefer, bat have di gested a few worthwhile novels recently, amom: them Michener’s "Caravans". Knebel & Bailey’s "Seven Days in May", and a light hut exciting wartime shoot-’em i up VVestheimer's "Von Ryan’s Fxprbss." Generally, my taste runs to history’, and I have se\eral un read books on the shelf I antici pate will be historical jewels. One is the second volume of Bruce Catton’s Civil War hiatorv. an other concerns a phase of fhe Wilson administration. There is also "Mandate for Chanee" m-. corning Ike's campaign and 1952 victory, and seven more volumes of Admiral Morison’s naval his tory of World War II But this is library week. Kings Mountain citizens are deeply ap preciative of this growing area asset, as circulation volume shows. The re-furbishing and ex ■ pansion of the physical plant dur ing the past summer was money well-spent. Now the chief aim of the new library board is to put the library on a firm operating basis, with sufficient regular in come to expand the volumes in all categories, including current fiction and non-fiction, encydo ued'a and other reference works, *nd w*th books of interest to children. Those who visit the library on ly* occasionally should visit the library this week. They’ll be proud of this community asset and find that reading, indeed, is the key to greater eniovment of life, as well as to increased know ledge. IT BE LICKED? Avnxjy fyecahms Check It with a Check! Viewpoints of Other Editors THE ONLY ANSWER In these day:; of anxiety and complexity, people are seeking desperately for a way out of the Forest of Confi sio’.i in which they find themselves lost and wander ing. They are looking for solu tions for prohli ms which threaten and challenge them. And in their despot ation. they appear to be willing to aeivpt almost any doc trine except the one which offers them the most hope. At a time when the atheistic Communism looms large as a threat t * fi-eodom and faith ev erywhere, the Western world seems on the verge of accepting a new religion Secularism. As one observer puts it. midway through the Twentieth Century, we are living by the religion of Ph.Deism under the reign of Da ta. It is a d >etrine of the self- ; sufficiency of material abund ance. with little regard for the spiritual values which long have supplied human beings with hope. "Nominally." wrote Authot Louis Kronrtiberger. not long a go. " a great age of scientific in quiry. ours ha; actually neeome an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its nonmystical methods; abo\. all all of ex ternal verities; of traffic-cop mo rality and rabbit-test truth." Man’s search for Truth—and his rejection of truths which have been accepted for ages — has brought him to the sad state where he is lo king for some thing without knowing for sure what it is. He is tutfting to var ious empirical theories for ans wers to the soul’s questioning. And he becomes more perplexed every day. more uncertain of him self and of his untimatc destiny. A not**) psychiatrist, after spending a lifetime in the study of human problems, decided that, at last, he had found the answei • in religion. In his hook, "A Few Buttons Missing." Dr. James T. Fisher wrote: “I believe the following to be true: If you were to take the sum total of all the authoritative arti cles ever written by the most qualified psychologists and psy ■ hiatlists on the subject of men tal hygiene if you wei** to com bine them, and refine them, and cleave out the excess verbiage—if you were to take the whole of the meat and none of the parsley, and if you were to have these unadult ciated hits oi pure scientific knowledge concisely expressed by the most capable poets, you would have an awkward and incompk-te summation of the Sermon on the | Mount. And it would suffer im measurably thtough comparison,” For nearly 2.000 years, Doctoi Fisher said. th< Christian world has been holding in its hands the complete answer to humanity's restless and fruitless strivings Here, and in otner great religious teachings of the world, he declar ed "rests the blueprint for suc cessful human life and optimum mental health and contentment." In other words, while man flounders in a mam* of confusion and seeks in human theories so lutions for the problems which disturb his snu«. the real answer lies within his reach. It is found in the eternal truths of religion, which continue to ab‘de while man’s temporary theories pass and his materialistic world crum bles about him This is a lesson the human rare, after all these* •en tunes, has yet to learn. Lubbock (Texami AvaJaucho THE WALLPAPER IS FOR FRAMING The United States is growing uglier while the taste of Ameri cans is growing better. A rash generalization, perhaps, but it comes to mind when one drives through the grrish clutter of a suburban highway—and drops in on a young couple with a house or apartment oecorated by them selves. Now the paradox has been dra matized by comments from two men who would go along with Thoreau when he says. "The per ception of beauty is a moral test." “In 50 years- we do everything rapidly — we've converted this country from one of the most beautiful on earth to one of the ugliest," said architect Edward Durell Stone ai the Universalis! Church of New York on Sunday. Lamenting the despoil<*d forests and the “jerty built diners," he said that “we can afford every thing but beauty.” At almost the same time, ac cording to the Associated Prc-ss. designer Raymond F. Loewy said that, despite all the examples of bad taste, there is less to criti cize today that; there ever was. He said Americans are going through a re\oluti»n of good taste: “If you want a cross sec tion of good taste, flip through a mail-order catalogue from a good department store. Even the wall paper looks good enough t o frame.” Mr. Loewy is concerned with, among bigger things, the shape of tooth-paste tubes and milk cartons. Peopl- may not set them on tlie mantel, but they contri bute to a country’s atmosphere. Perhaps a nation that becomes usod to good design in -mall mat ters will eventually resist the ug lification of its surroundings. \tr. Stone noted “significant straws in the wind that we may he on the eve of a spiritual and artis tic renaissance" It is “just as praiseworthy to share and pro vide beauty to feed men’s souls as it is to give food and shelter to care for their bodies.” We agree, but we wouldn’t want our renaissance to be at the expense of a widening circle of the poor, with more and mor beauty available to fewer and fewer. Thoreau combined endur ing truth with relative cold com fort when he said. “The setting sun is reflected from the win dows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man’s asuode." The Christian Rrieurr Monitor I 1 A YEARS AGO ' lv THIS WEEK Itcmt of netca about Kingsi Mountain amt people and i events taken from the 195+ filet of the Kings Mountain Herald. Kings Mountain citizens were readying for the annual observ ance of Easter this week The Optimist club of Kings Mountain received its national charter and installed officers Thursday night. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Annual Husband's Night of the Kings Mountain Woman's club will be held Friday night. Mrs. T. E. Summarrow, Jr. of Gastonia will toe guest speaker. Come-See-Me ^ Event Set At Bode ffill ROCK TIILL. S. C.. Glen cairn. Rock >nil's (anutl munici pal garden. ha? won mi award from the American Association of Nurserymen, and Sidney B. Hut ton. Jr., Vii**-President of the or ganization. will make tin* presen tation on the evening of April 17 at the “Come-See-Me!" Tollies at Sullivan Junior High School. Mayor David Lyle will accept the award foi the City of Rock Hill. This award is one of onl> two such awards given in the l-nited States and Canada thi year. Mr. Hutton ir also president of the Conard-Pyle Company of West Grove. Pennsylvania. This • company has introduced some of America's most beautiful roses, including the famous “pea<e" rose, which was grown expert mentally in Rink Hill. Glcncairn will be at its peak of beauty during the third annual “Come-See-Me!" weekend a n d will be the focal point of the aeti vities planned for visitors. Thou sands of red. v hite and pink a/a les will he in lull bloom, lining the winding paths nestled amid stately oak trees. The gartkrn open to the public without charg Kifti'en private gardens will lx open from April IS-19 for "Come Sec-Me!" A tour of homes will be neid on Friday, Aprii 17 from J to 6 p.m.. sponsored i»y tin Amei ican Association of Tniversity 1 Women. Many edible fruits are members of the rose family. According t<< the Book of Know ledge, this i the ease with the cherry, plum, apple, pear, straw herr\ raspboi | ry. blackberry and ma’’y others. Favorite Chapters In The Bible By DR. W. L. PRESSLY Pastor Boyce Memorial ARP Church A study of the Favorite Chap , tors in the Bible has provoked much interest in Bible study at . the Family Service in Boyce Me morial Associate Reformed Pres byterian Church. Shortly after Christinas mem bers of the congregation were asked to list twenty of their fav orite chapters. Many individuals cooperated in this effort and the response was excellent. Since Christmas, on Sunday Evenings at the Family Service a Favorite Chapter has been studied. In this study it has hten observed that some of the gri at chapters of the Bible are not necessarily favorite chapters. Each vveeek for ten weeks the congregation will continue to stu dy the favorite chapters that were 1 listed. Many lovorite comments have comb from the members ot I he congregation, which has prov ed both interesting and helpful A list of the chapters to t>e studi ed in 1961 is as follows: The Creation Genesis 1 The Education of Man Ex<kUis 2<i Forgiveness Psalm 32 The Worship Psafm Psalm 103 A Virtuous Woman Proverbs 31 Time For All Things Ecclesiastes 3 Sermon on the Mountain Matt. 5, : 6. 7. Christ's Death Luke 23:26 hi Salvation Romans s , The Art Gallery of Faith Heb. 11 The Fall of Men Genesis 3 : God of The Old Testament Isa. 40 Tin- Shepherd Psalm Psaim 23 Tlie Travelers Psalm Psalm 121 Remember Now Thy Creator Ec clesiastes 12 Birth of Christ Luke 2 .V- Matt. 2 Christ's Death Isaiah 53 Christ's Death Luke 23 Resumption Matt. 2s & l Cor. 15 Heaven Revelation 21 Paul's Hymn of Love I Cor. 13 Many other chapters were sug gested and wit' be suggested. This study Is the result of a method used at Princeton Semi nary in 1931 in t he senior class Each member of the class sought to name what he considered the twenty great chapters. In the last thirty years many variations of the plan have been used. Members of Boyce Memorial Church feel that this is a most profitable method of Bible Study. It would lie wonderful r we would mem orize many of these chapters. KEEP YOUR BADIO DIAL SET AT 1220 WKMT Kings Montak E €. Neir< 6 W earner every hour ou cn» hour. Weather every hour on the hall hour. Fine entertainment in between Subscribe To Tbo Herald
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