I A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for tlu> enliphtment, entertainment and benefit of the citizen' of Kings Mountain ami its vicinity, published every Thursday by lh«* Herald Publishing House. ? Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain. N C„ 2**Ob; { under Act of ( onpress of March 3. 1873. editorial department Martin llarmon . Editor-Publisher Dick Woodward . Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart .Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Libby Bum h . Clerk MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Paul Jackson Allen Myers Monte Hunter Douglas Houser Arnold Conner .Norman Camp TELEPHONE NUMBER 739-5441 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE - BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR •• $3-50 SIX MONTHS - $2.00 THREE MONTHS $! 25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Ami let im not In trrartt in fell Auing: fur in x*ihle, but avoid ovt rdrumqe. On a resent Sunday. Baxter Wright was in Asheville visiting hi> son B. T. Wight. Jr. B. T. re marked to his fathei that a class ified advert i- -men t in the paper advertised a “clean" 19*»t Chevro let lor sale. lie needed r. second car and suggested the two find the address end look it over. mm The oddiess was in Biltmore Forest Baxter hadn't previously iH’en in that section and when he saw the many handsome and ' mammoth homes, said to his son. That address must be a mistake, for you won’t find any lft»4 model automobles in this area.” They i-ontinued their trek, however, found the address and there was ; the \>1 Chevy forked in the drive. They were ins|*-cting •!, found it indeed was elean. when a lady emerged from the house. She said she no longer needed the Chevy as he*- friend had given ' her a new Ruick. B. T. asked the . price and said he would return next day to complete the transac tion. mm The lady continued talking, said she was r stenographer at one of the <-oiinty government of fices. She hid muted into the Biltmore ’Anrest home a* a com panion to an elderly widow, the friend who had given her the Huick. The lady had died, and left the stenographer her entire estate, which Baxter guessed to 1 be consiiierable One of the most interesting, personalities I have met recently: is Gordon Kibbler a friend of John II. Moss. Mr. Kibbler, a vio linist. was a dance band musician in the twenties, played with Paul Whiteman and Fred Waring and later formed his own l-and. He said initially all hands had six instrumentalists. Then it became a race to set* who would have the largest. Mr. Kibbler was the first to have a 30 piece orchestra. For saking the maestro’s rale in 1931.] Mr Kibbler spent the next ten years as a booking agent with the NBC agency and booked the big name bands thioughout the na tion. m-m He knew virtually cil of the big names in the popular music field. Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Glenn Gray. Hal Kemp. Kay Ky ; zer, Larry Clinton. Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman. Guy Lombardo and many, many more, including . the Kings Mountain native, Hor ace i Rudy * Rudisili, for many j years a pianist with Jan Garber. Our conversation brought back many pleasant memories, includ ing my first dance to a big “name” band. I was a youngster of 16. Hubert Adcrholdt, Snooks McDaniel and I went to the old Charlotte Armory to hear Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians. It was a banner right. The twenties and thirties are j often referred to as the "Golden Era of Jazz” and there was as much truth as poetry in the word j “golden”. A two-night engage i ment at a college campus usually cost the promoters about $5,000. and, according to Mr. Kibbler, Kyzeps final radio contract with American Tobacco Company I Ky • zee's Kollege of Musical Know i ledge sold Lucky Str>l:est was i for a cool SS.GOO.OOO. Mr. Kibbler - laughed, “Kay completed the con tract and retired. I don't blame him." The Ky/ers live at Chapel 1 Hill, where Kyzer got his start with a UNC campus hand, as did Hal Kemp. I Rotating some details of the conversation to C. E. Dengler, I found that Mr. Dengler, who liv c-d near Reading, Pa., was a neighbor to the Dorsey brothers lie says their father was also a dance hand man in the days be fore electric lights. The dance hall was lighted by smokey gas miner’s lamps. 1 Mr. Kibbler's business today is Miami Beach Vacations, Inc., which arranges promotional va cations for baseball clubs, super markets and ether firms using that type of promotion to attract people through the turnstiles and to the food islands. He and John first met four years ago and a couple of West ern Carolina* teams are using the Kibbler services for opening night promotions this weekend. Mr. Kibbler and John had a dinner engagement in Charlotte and I didn’t get to talk with him as much as I wished. / MA,y3oi Prescription for • Healthy State Social Secmity Details Needed You should get in touch wi.JB your social •orvrity office well a head of your planned retirement date so that you can find out what proofs, if any. you will have to supply. This will enable you to begin your payments as *0011 a* possible after your retirement This is especially important t-. the person about to retire, a« cording to Lex G. Barkley. manager of the (iastonia, N. C. social security office, since the largest part of his retirement in come may be his roda! security payment. Mr. Barkley indicated that when you check ahead of time it is usually only a mattci of bringing in your social aecun ty card, proof of your age and proof of your earnings for the last year. Proof of your age can he a birth certificate or some old record that shows your age. Prod on your earnings can be your \V _* form (Withholding Tax Stall menti or, if you are self-employ ed. a copy of your FYderal Income Tax Return your Schedule C or K Your cancelled check or some n ccipt is also nci>dc^ ned retirement date, even if you do not have the proofs readily a vailable. Me indicated the social security office will oe able to help you determine whore to lo cate proofs anti the nest proof for you to gbt. Viewpoints of Other Editors HARD MAPLE Farmers call it the hard maple — that dignified tree of the wood land family thet gives its sap to man. Some call it the rock maple and others the sugar maple, but the name is not important. The huge, gnarled, rought-bark od trees in the sugar grove re mind one of elderly patriarchs! that look with tolerance on the foinles and blunderings of man kind. Somehow a hard maple is a sacred tree to the countryman: he regards it as the Norsemen think of their Yggdrasil. That fa bled ash is important in history' and legend but no ash ever yield ed sap that could become sweet syrup. In 1791 wh'*n Thomas Jefferson travelled to Vcrmopt, he was so j Interested in the hard maples and their sweet products, that he or- 1 dered 60 trees transplanted to his estate in Albermarle County. The trees did not grow. Jefferson did not realize that a hard maple wants highland ground, studded with granite locks, and on a south slope where Mai eh breezes can play tag in warm sunshine after a frosty night. Rich soil and easy living is not good for either a hard maple or a man. The maple that produces the most syrup has its roots in rocky soil; it fights for the nourishment that brings sap, blossoms and leaves. And when the time of autumn has come and the flaming glory of the foliage lights a bonfire on the countryside, one thinks of the struggle that c tree has made to achieve its great moment. And a man. if he will, can look to a hard maple oa the hillside, and take courage. It is always the struggle a gainst odds that brings the best in achievement. Boston Herttld I TRAFFIC AND DIPLOMACY When in Rome, do ns the Rom ans do unless you’re a diplomat. The exception to the rule is spotlighted by the growing feud between Washington and other capitals throughout the world over the abuse of the special pri vileges and immunities which tra dition and custom have decreed for the striped pants set. To improve the traffic situation and traffic safety in Washington, D. C.. the State Department no tified he foreign diplomatic corps there that cars with diplomatic tags should not violate traffic laws or he violations would be subject to the regular rules which are enforced for motorists in general. Enforcement of traffic regula tions where diplomatic cars are | involved, however, has brewed a 1 storm of increasing intensity with 1 repercussions against United | States diplomats stationed in oth ' er countries. To stem the tide of possible incidents involving U. S. diplomatic personnel, the State Department ha sissued orders for their strict compliance with local regulations. On the same basis that charity should begin at home, diplomacy ought to start with good public relations reflected in Obedience to local laws. If the diplomats can't agree to ahid** bv such a small thing as local traffic >meulations. it’s hardlv anv wonder that little progress is being made on the big issues over which the world is di vided. Wichita Faffs (Texas) Times SPHINX ON THE LABEL I Noodle and other cicken soups are in hot water in America. Ar gument proceeds angrily on the amount of chicken they should contain. This news will be receiv ed in Britain with sympathy and some surprise. The Americans are generally thought to have Taken a much tougher line than we do in this matter of laying down how far the ingredients of tin. bottle or carton and of other enigmatic goods should be made plain and in detail for the bene fit of prospective buyers. There have been changes in recent years in reaction against tradi tional reticense. But many people still find it hard to explain why some producers of good stuff should not be proud to proclaim exactly what it is made of. Why do they so often seem to t>e coy about sailing under their own colors? Margarine is still capable of a rousing a pleasant little contro versy about whether its “g" should be hard or soft in collo quial speech. But all reasonable men or women will agree that it Is healthy and millions find it most palatable. From time to time, however, those* who make it publicly confess that they are cross because they are not allow ed to call it butter Lawyers and other experts may say what they will; ordinary folk take butter and cream to come from cows. They know, too, that the nice sticky spre*ads which they and their children hc*ap on to the butter 01 the margarine cannot, as a general rule, be ex pected to consist largely of fruit Still when they read such state ment as “farmhouse Burbleherry jam” they wouid much prefer to have more space and emphasis given to informing them how many burbleherries are to bo found in a pound and what else is there. The convention of wrapping it up in flowery words is far from being limited to the things we eat and drink. It is not so long since questions were asked about the meaning of “all wool,” and other well-aired phrases in the clothing line. Happily the curious custo mer is not left in the dark as much as he used to be. But he continues to ask himself how long he will have to wait liefore all manufacturers come to regard it at a point of honor to put in the forefront of their appeal to him a factual rendering of what they have to sell. The Times (London> TEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events taken from the 1984 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. Wilson Griffin, Kings Mountain druggist, is to be installed as president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce at the cltfb’s annual ladies’ night banquet at the Ma sonic Hall Tuesday night. Registration books open Satur day for the first time for the May 29 primary election at all the 28 county voting precincts. SOCIAL AST) PERSONAL Annual May Day festivities will be held Monday night at 8 o’clock at the high school ball park. Telephone TjUK ■t P. B. HOUCK If you’re typical of telephone users in the South Atlantic region, you turn to the Yellow Pages an average of 56 times a year. • At least that's what was shown in a Yellow Pages usage study conducted recently in the four-state region of North and South Carolina. I Georgia and Florida. The study, conducted by an independent re search organization for the Bell Telephone Sys tem, found that in nine out of ten cases, when you look something up in the Yellow Pages, you take some action: a visit, telephone call or letter. Of those interviewed in North and South Car olina, Georgia and Florida, 69'< said they use the Yellow Pages. While men and women were found to turn to the Yellow Pages the same number of times, men used it more frequently — averaging 69.2 references to 43.1 for women. Men’s uses were for business or work 65% of the time, while 61% of women’s uses w-ere for personal reasons. 39% for work or business. Heavy usage was reported in all age groups from 20 to 49. after which usage was found to trail off somewhat. Of those 20 to 29, 73% used the Yellow’ Pages 62.8 times each. In the 30-39 age group, the figures were 81%, and 63.2 uses. And in the 40-49 category. 72% reported usage averaging 75.3 per year. Usage also was found to grow with income. Eighty per cent of these making $7,500 - $9,999 a year averaged 76.3 uses, and of those with annual incomes of $10,000 or more 76% con sulted the directory 80 times per user. The study w as conducted among adults 20 years and older. tar Information and enrollment forms HEALTH MSUMNCT tor pMpfe 65 or ever your in AND TEL NO. HURRY! OKN BNROUJHMT AML RD4MV $0 ONLY! 4S7-S37S IAMSS M, WHDRR 312 S. Thompson St Shelby. M. C. Subscribe To The Herald