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Cosier Communications
On May 14. Kings Mountain area tel
ephone subscribers will begin receiving
ballots from Southern Bell Telephone «Xr
Telegraph Company in which Bell will
inquire whether the patrons would like
to have toll tree service to Gastonia and
Dallas.
Inauguration of toll free service will
mean that Kings Mountain subscribers
can dial, minus the bother of calling
long distance as well as the toll charge,
about 17.000 additional telephones,
more than double the toll tree numbers
available now to Grover. Shelby, and
Bessemer Cit\.
In return for this additional toll-free
service. Kings Mountain residential sub
scribers will pay a slightly increased
monthly rental at a maximum of 60
cents per month. Business subscribers
will pay an additional maximum of
SI.50 per month in rental.
Bell, of course, does not know the ag
gregate feeling of their patrons concern
ing expansion of service and requires
the information, both for its own advice
and for the North Carolina Utilities
Commission which must approve this
local service extension.
The service extension to .‘10.000 toll
five phone service has the ardent en
dorsement of the Kings Mountain
Chamber of Commerce and of business
and industry. It is noted that, for any
subscriber, two |>erson-to-person calls
to Gastonia of three minutes each tno
overtime talking! costs 80 cents. Many
subscribers with regular telephonic traf
fic to Gastonia foresee the toll-free ar
rangement as a cash-saving one.
One citizen laughed, "My wife's par
ents live in Gastonia and toll-free serv
ice would save me plenty."
Speed of communications is an im
portant factor, l>oth in conducting bus
iness and in adding to the comforts of
living
The Herald endorses heartily the ef
fort of the Chamber of Commerce in
obtaining this expansion of communica
tions and looks forward to the time
when on a Gastonia call, the operator
won’t be cutting in to say, “Your three
minutes are up."
Milestones
The news media have recorded:
The death of Dr. John McSween, 75,
eminent Presbyterian minister, former
college president, theologian, and phil
osopher. and a man ot incomparable
wit.
The death of Lady Astor. unrecon
structed daughter of the Confederacy,
first woman to sit in the British Parlia
ment. sharp-tongued and controversial
naturalized Englishwoman, who pro
moted women’s suffrage, non-alcoholic
beverages, and a whole host of other
projects.
The approaching 70th birthday of J.
Edgar Hoover, for 40 years director of
the highly-efficient, highest-respected
Federal Bureau of Investigation, who.
on executive order by President John
son, will continue as boss of the FBI.
though he attains the compulsory re
tirement age on Sunday.
The approaching 80th birthday (on
Friday) of former-president Harry S.
Truman, |>eppery, active, and foil of
practical advice to a generation already
crediting him with near-greatness as a
United States chief executive.
All Must Register
Time is running out for Cleveland
County citizens to re-register for the
forthcoming May primary elections,
and. on basis of totals to date, there
are going to be many, many citizens dis
franchised when voting day arrives.
Only ten days remain to accomplish
registration, with the final opportunity
Saturday, May 16.
Meantime, in an effort to add to the
total. Number 4 Tow nship registrars are
scheduling extra registration days.
All must register, if they are to vote.
When the books opened the morning
of April 25, not one single person in
Cleveland County was registered. The
old books were relegated to history.
Those who have not registered since
April 2a, aren't.
And those who don’t vote have no
opportunity to rejoice with the winners.
commiserate with the losers, or gripe
when governmental affairs move in
channels they don’t like.
Medicare Not Needed
It must have been President Harry
Truman who first seriously advanced, in
the forties, the proposal that the fed
eral government finance adequate med
ical care for ALL the people of the
I'nited States.
The reactions were seldom temperate.
Doctors felt it was an opening road to
complete socialization of medicine, bus
inessmen could feel the press in a gov
ernment take-over of their businesses,
and insurance companies could see then
health and accident departments dimin
ishing to nothingness.
In the intervening period, soberer
minds have gone to work.
1 he late Senator Robert Kerr and
Congressman Wilbur Mills obtained en
actment of substitute legislation which
put the government's participation in
medical-hospital care for the aged as a
welfare matter. The doctors expanded
coverage of the Blue Cross and Blue
Shield insurance coverages. Private in
surance companies manipulated their
computers and began offering low-cost
hospital and medical coverage to more
elderly citizens and waiving some of the
"fine-print" rest riet ions.
Dr. John S. Rhodes, retiring president
of the North Carolina Medical society,
told the doctors Monday that North
Carolina's implementation of the Kerr
Mills program meant that a federal
medical care program (such as embod
ied in the King-Anderson bill) is not
needed in Tat Heelia. It isn’t.
Few denied the fact of need when
Mr. Truman made his proposal. Now it
appears a palatable, reasonable and less
expensive method of providing health
insurance has not only been found, but
is tact.
Highways and Politics
Candidate Dan K. Moore has singled
out the state highway commission for
attack as an evil instrument of a diabol
ical political machine and, one of the
chief malefactors, according to Mr.
Moore, is J. Clint Newton, of Shelby and
Lawndale, a district highway commis
sioner.
It is no shock, of course, that Mr.
Newton, in the current Democratic fam
ily jousting, is in the camp of Candidate
Richardson Preyer, rather than that of
Candidate Moore.
Attacking the highway commission,
in political campaigns is hardly new,
and protestations who are "out" that
they will remove politics from the high
way commission are tantamount to say
ing they, if elected, will move the en
emy politicians out..
Governor Luther Hodges sought to
remove politics from the highway com
mission with only modest success. He
pared the commission to seven mem
bers, instructed it to think "state-wide,’'
but made his campaign manager boss
of the secondary roads division. Effort
was made to abide by a priority point
system in improving rural roads, but
most of the money was channeled for
primary thoroughfares. Thus Terry
Sanford gained many votes by promis
ing to return the road business to the
people. He did by naming 19 highway
commissioners, each with an area of
responsibility, and with some leeeway
in determining secondary roads mat
ters.
On Candidate Moore's charge. Com
missioner Newton replied. "No com
ment.”
Whoever succeeds to the governor
ship in January, he will not remove road
matters from “politics" though the los
ers’ supporters will cry and wail that
he should.
Congratulations to Jan Williams, hon
ored with a scholarship to the summer
time Governor’s School for the study of
English, and to Judy Morris and Caro
lyn Heavener, high school representa
tives to annual Girls’ State.
Dos: Draw* a check for the Cancer
fund: draw a check for the Kennedy
Memorial Library; buy a broom from a
Lion and aid the blind.
Congratulations to Mrs. Wanza Davis,
newly elected president of the Kings
Mountain Hospital auxiliary, and to
Harry Jaynes, newly elected president
of the Kings Mountain Lions club.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
By MARTIN HARMON
InqrnlM nt*r bit* of weir*
ui*dow, hutiiar. and comment*
[ Direction*: Take weekly, i,
/«>s*>t.le. but avoid
orOrdnnafte,
At the current pace of register
: ing for Hu- May 30 primaries.
! there are g >ing to be quite a
number of lisappointed people in
the K inu’s Mountain area when
| voting (lav arrives,
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mm
In spite of concentrated dosage
of "you meat register to vote" by
all news nuxlit., not to mention
partisans for particular candi
dates, vote totals to date find
many unregistered.
It's a brand now registration.
When the registrars in the coun
i ty's 2S voting precincts went to
work on Ap.;l 25. not r. single
IH-rson was registered to vote in
' the broad breadth of Cleveland
(County, and only those who have
thus fer viutod their registrars.
‘ provided the required in forma
I tion. and pf fixed their signatures
| to tw > registration cards are eli
i gitile to participate in the May
3t)th voting, or for the June 27
second primary vote, should sec
ond primaries he called.
I attended to my registration
last Saturday end was interested
m perusing the McMillan system
which the county is installing
with the current new registration.
The McMillan system is designed
1 to sjieed voting, to avoid dupliea
| linns when citizens change rosi
; lienee within the county from one
precinct to another, and to pro
vide for the removal of the
names of d*“-eased persons. The
I prime benefit to the voter, as j
well as to the election officials, is1
the fact that the names of voters j
will he absolutely alphabetized, t
mm
Ii will he possible to break up a
precinct's hooks as demand indi
cates need. F o r instance, in
heavily populated precincts like
West and East Kings Mountain,
the election officials may find it
necessary to have several lines
for would-be voters, one with
those voters with surnames he
"inning from "A" to “I'', another
from ' T to “P" and a third from
“P” through "7".
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In other words, the county elec
ts >ns board is intending to pre
vent reoccurence of the situation
in the 1960 genera! election, when
most voters hart to remain in
line not less than an hour before
getting their ballots. Those were
the lucky ones. Many waited
three hours to vote.
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Questions demanded of the
voter under the new system es
sentially arc little different from
those under the former one-book
system, though there is a bit
more detail. For instance, a nat
uralized citizen is required to re
port the date he liecame a citizen
and what court approved his citi
zenship. Another change is re
quirement that the registrant
sign his registration information,
which he does under oath.
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There is another change, per
haps of greater interest to the
lady-folk. There's no more 21
plus business on the matter of
age. The exact date of birth is re
quired. A friend suggested Satur
day that registrants should be
wary of fudging on the matter oi
age. and the advice would apply
to any person who arrived before
the state in which he was horn
set up a bureau of vital statistics.
The friend reported her voter re
gistration certificate was honored
as evidence of birthdate in a pen
sion matter. If I am not mistak
en. North Carolina set up a vital
statistics bureau in 1911.
Registrars have been instruct
ed to follow the law in the mat
ter of requiring a would-be re
gistrant to demonstrate proof of
reading and writing, where doubt
exists Thanks to a long sequence
of public education accent in
North Carolina, the vast majority
of citizens free, 21. and therefore
eligible to vote on those require
ments. are literate. YW one regis
trar said four persons were re
jected last Saturday for that rea
son.
Actually, it is possible to vote.
in a primary without having at-'
rained the age of 21 years. A per
son may register to vote, if he
‘or she) will have attained the
age of 21 by the general election
subsequent to the primary. For
present purposes. It means that
20 year-olds who will he 21 by
November 3. 1964. can register
and vote on May 30.
But no persons registering as
“Independents" will get to vote
in the primaries. North Carolina
tin contrast to Wisconsin. Cali
fornia and some other states)
treats primaries, regardless of
party, as family fights in which
only members of the particular
i family can scrap.
Avrtu////ocatons
For you, Mommy!"
Dairy Merger
b Announced
Shelby — The merger of CUi
land Dairy of Cherryville wits
Burke Farmer’s Dairy of Mot
gatiton was announced today I.
K. Cline wlio has been operating
Clineland Dairy in this area fr-t
15 \ears .and by Sam We'sthroot
(general Manager of Burke Farm
er’s Dairy in Morganton.
• We will continue to provide
, top quality products processed it
the Burke plant ... the most
modern plant In the southeast ”
Mr.. Cline said when common■
ing on the merger.
"We considered merging with
quite a few com panic's bc'fore we
ctecided on Bi'rke Daily.” Clin
comnienli'd. "We finally decided
to mc'rge with Iturke because
they have the fastest growin.
companv in the area. Burk<
Dairy has the newest, most mo t
em plant in the southeast with
very capable personnel in all dc
partments. This will assure you
of the pure's!, safest, and highc-i
| quality milk products available
anywhere." Mr. Cline concluded
Since liurkc Farmer’s Dairy is
a cooperative owned by dairy
farmers. Mr. ('line will become
an important mc'mber owner
who has already been appointed
to the hoard of directors of Burke
l>airy.
The Grade A raw milk
still be produeed on the Clin™
land farm and on farms of nine
other producer owners in this
immediate area. The* sales office
will Ik- moved from Cherryville
to a building soon to be con
slriicted in the1 Shelby area.
There* are no plans for any per
sonnel changes and the* Cline
j land bottle's and cartons will he
used for sometime* to come.
Viewpoints of Other Editors
CANT “FORGET THE
ERRAND"
i “'Do iiot forget that you art'
j hen* to enrich the world, and you
impoverish yourselves it you for
get the errand." ins charge de
livered to a college group by
President Woodrow Wilson seems
more applicable today than it did
nearly .VI yea it ago. For from
every corner now we are being
pressed to "enrich the world" in
i one wav or another.
[
The big riddle we encounter is
| just how do we identify and con
I tain an enriching responsibility,
I or how tio we get specific? We
know vve face an overwhelming
poverty problem here at home,
but our riddle becomes more of a
ma/e when ve begin to think in
terms of what to do for or about
fhe men, women and children
i who live about us in squalor and
! who seem not able or willing to
i assist in the lalxir necessary to
. lift themselves above abject pov
| erty.
In spite of long years of coon
! cern. of study and planning in
high and low places, and in spite
of a booming economy of long
standing we are In-getting larger
and more indifferent crops of the
lau-oncerned, the indifferent and
literal armies of people who sin
cerely believe the nation, or
somebody else owes them a liv
ing.
Though the tide seems to be
running against us. and our na
tional resources are overtaxed in
the attempt to even keep abrpast
of the problem, the challenge to
improve the lot of the impover
ished remains glaringly before
us. So much so that we can hard
ly “forget the errand."
Ln nr in burg Exchange
AMATEURS IN
AGRICULTURE
I
Agriculture, declared N ik i t a
Khrushchev the other day. “is no
place for amateurs who don’t
know their business."
So saying, the Soviet Premier
launched vet another sweeping
overhaul of Russian farming.
Even more titan before, there L- ,
an admitted effort to emulate
the U. S. and tnus, hopefully, to
achieve America's food abund
ance.
"We must borrow in our agri
culture everything progressive
that has been created in the capi
talist states.' declared Mr. Krush
chev "There is nothing shame- -
ful in this."
Among the things he has in ‘
mind are agricultural training j
' manuals, textbooks and educa-j
and efforts to in- I
dure farmers to use them. Russia t
also may purchase some types of
form equipment from the U. S. j
Well, better methods and ma-,
chlnery are fine, but Mr. Krush-1
chev may be carrying this bor
row-from-the-U. S. idea a bit toot
far. For to oversee all of this .
modernization he has named a
huge, high-level farm planning!
commission, consisting of half a
dozen members of the Commu
nist Party Presidium, seven gov
ernment ministers and officials
from all of th« Soviet's 15 ifc
publics.
Agricultural amateurs don’t
pose much of a problem for A
merica If Mr. Krushchev will 1
take a closer look at his model, j
however, he'll find that a quite.
different farm problem can ha
caused by too many politico] pros.
Tie Wall Street Mtmrnal
YOU CANT
ESCAPE IT
Brian Sullivan, the Metropoli
tan opera tenor, came to town
the other day for an appearance
and complato'Kl bitterly that "A
mericans see-n to have lost the
simple resnect for another man's
privacy.”
Sullivan's complaint was this: j
Everywhere a man goes these
days there is music-in airplanes •
terminals, taxicabs, hotels, res
taurants and v hat have you. As;
a man whose life is devoted to
music. Sullivan is opposed only to
being drowned in it. There is so I
much that he tinds that it Inter
feres with his own need to study 1
scores he intends to sing.
Well. Sullivan's is an easy com - j
. plaint with wh‘ch to agree. But •
does even he know hov. far this
business has gone? In London
the other day. opposite the city's
airport. Charles Forte opened his
new Airport hotel. It is advert!*- ’
ed as having just about the most
of everything it not only has
underwater lights in its swim
ming pool but underwater tnusie!
That’s right. If you ean hold your
breath long enough, it is said
that you are entertained by some
unusual sound effects. The sys
tem was tested by holding young
executives' heads under water, it
, is explained. Yes. Mr. Sullivan
you just can't escape it anywhere.
The Milwaukee Journal
SONNETS A SCHOLARS
; In one of the flurry of -100th
anniversary books on Shakes
peare. Peter Quennell notes how
often Shakespeare clearly "ador
ed the visi-de world” but was
"fascinated by images of evanes
leence." Now the British poet lau
. reate John Marefield, concluding
a memorial sonnet, writes:
He has attained; and marveled;
knowing well
The need, vet nothingness,
of earth and hell.
It is unexpectedly contemporary
thought in a poem of old-fashion
ed diction.
What would Shakespeare have
thought of the controversy con
tinuing to surround his own son
nets? Who was that “W. H." to
whom they were addressed? In
comparison with t h e sonnets
themselves ;ierhaps, the question
deserves an image of avanes
<*nce.
But now another scholar, Leslie
Hotson of Yale, has entered the
debate with a theory that W. H.1
was a prince o* the revels. Willi-,
am Hatcliffe. The Earl of Pem- j
broke and the Earl of Southamp- j
ton have been other contenders, >
with the latter getting the vote of t
Mr. Quennell and historian A. L.!
Rowse. who said without typical
British reserve that he had solv
ed the problem “for the first
time, and definitively.”
We admire their industry. But
sometimes a Falstaffian mood
seizes us, we want to have
Shakespeare to ourselves, and we
long to say to the scholarly
sleuths: “No more of that. Hal.
an thou love*t me!"
The Christian 8/-inter Monitor
1 A TEARS AGO 1
1 \/ THIS WEEK
Items of ne%oa about Kings
Mountain area people and
events taken from the 1954 >
files of the Kings Mountain
Herald.
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service Monday morning, serving
SM additional houses.
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