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I A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightment. entertainment ami benefit of the eiti/ens of King* Mountain I and its vieinity. published every Thursday by the ilrrald Publishing House « Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain. S'. C., 28flR<l I under Act of Congress of March .1, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon ... Editor-Publisher Itick Woodward . Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart...Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Libby Bunch . Clerk MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Paul Jackson Allen Myers Monte Hunter [>ougins Houser TELEPHONE NUMBER ~ 739-5441 SUBSCRIPTION HATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE - BY MAH. ANYWHERE ONE YEAR - $3.50 SIX MONTHS •• $2 00 THREE MONTHS $1 23 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Iron xh'ipcncth iron; *•> o iron itha/nm tli the rountfnnfu r <»/ his frit nrl Pnofrhn ?7:/7. A Happy Day Thursday, June 4, was a happy day in Kings Mountain history, as the state* board of education ratified high school building plans and thus marked the end of a long and arduous effort roundly opposed in some quarters-to attain a modern educational plant t o r the area. First there was the initial business of eonsolidating the area, the legal block age by dissidents, the election to obtain the building funds, then the site fight, followed by efforts to get plans which would (1) provide the necessary ac commodations, educational and physi cal. lor a growing student body, and (2) within (he framework of the money available. The latter test was met largely due to the fact that the hoard of education husband*, d capital funds, for the build ing will cost half-again as much as the million dollars initially anticipated. Bids and known additional costs, on final project approval date, totaled $1. 438.000. And none of the officials, lo cally or otherwise, teased * •''*««--'—‘s with the belief that the $14,000 includ ed for equipping the plant wouui o> ficient. And on** of the parings, some $15,000 for site grading, w ill be desired as quickly as funds become available. Nor does the total include landscaping cost s. More monies will be available prior to the completion of tin* building a nd the Kings Mountain board and state of ficials know’ that the project will squeeze through money-wise. It reminds that Kings Mountain Board Chairman James K. Herndon. Jr., shortly after his election last year, did some round-figure penciling a n d said thal the district needed $400,000 to get its several school plants abreast of needs, which proves out to be a rather accurate assessment. Meantime, the North Carolina Gen eral Assembly authorized a state school construction bond election of $100 mil lions. an election to be held on Novem ber 3. All the thm* districts of Cleveland County tCounty, Shelby, Kings Moun tain) have a considerable stake in the upcoming November 3 election. Kings Mountain, which sees its way to squeeze by lhe financial barrier, needs its projected $371,000 share bad ly. with one principal aim abandonment of the old Davidson plant. Shelby is quite money-short tor buildings needed not later than September's school open ing. and the county district, of course, due to failure of last year's bond elec tion, has on the shell plans for two high school plants of the approximate size being built here. -w Successful Clinic The Kings Mountain Lions club has rendered the area a considerable serv ice in sponsoring its first glaucoma clin ic. A total of 670 persons took the free test for a dangerous eye disease, which, if discovered and untreated, either by drugs or surgery, results In total blind ness. A total of 653 of the 670 have no problem, the tests showed, but 17 have been referred to opthaimologists for more extensive tests. Two required im mediate attention. A handsome side benefit—as was de tailed in a Monday morning news story —was the decision of 60 w ho visited the clinic to will their eyes to the state eye bank. Monday morning’s news account related that a young boy blind in one eye after suftering a damaged cornea is going to see again from Inith eyes be cause a Detroit citizen had bequeathed his eyes for that purpose. Yet another youngster apparently was on the road to seeing after two cornea transplants. Since its organization in 1938. the Kings Mountain Lions club has been aiding the visually ill in many ways. Last week’s effort was to take the stitch in time that would save nine. This particular stitch may have sav ed the vision of 17. Phone Rate Relief Public utilities, in return tor monop |y st;it ii*. are subjected to regular re views of earnings in a system regarded in the public interest. In other words, limits are placed on the amount of earnings a public utility may earn. Thus, as a side benefit to the recent federal income tax cut. Southern Hell Telephone & Telegraph Company h a s been ordered to pare revenues in North Carolina by some si .369.000 yearly. The full details, as they apply to particular patrons, haven’t yet been announced, but will be reflected in bills received by customers in July. Among the planned cuts will be in cluded base area extensions, which will have the effect of lowering mileage charges tor rural customers. Another is for special charges, such as special amplifying devices for those with hear ing deficiencies. Long distance calls of more than 83 miles will cost less with in North Carolina. Property Revaluation The county's current property revalu ation at fair market value—described by Auditor and Tax Supervisor Max ii am lick as a “very reasonable” lair market value- is over 8260 millions. Needless to say, this is a better re flection of the county’s property value than the former figure of something like sm millions, which was based on HH5 values. Prices have escalated con siderably since 1945 and there have been natural increments in realty val ues. Onetime acres ot farmland are now residential developments. The total, ot course, is not as impor tant as the use of an equitable yard stick. a program inaugurated by Cleve land County in the fifties for ihe first time and a program in which Cleveland was one of the leading counties in the state. Sotting of assessment ratio, province of the county commission, after consul tation with municipalities and school district agencies, is important. Bonded debt limits are set by the assessment ratio and, from the standpoint of sev eral. amounts of revenue returnable un der special tax levies are controlled thereby. Cleveland County, limited to a general fund levy of 20 cents per $100 valuation, could obtain much more rev enue from a 100 per cent ratio than from any amount less. The city recrea tion return trom a five cent levy would escalate considerably under a full as sessment ratio. The same story obtains tor the Kings Mountain and Shelby school districts on special taxes for op erational purposes. There is no question but that numer ous firms and individuals will have some complaints concerning the new valuations, province of the county com mission to honor, alleviate ot reject. But the principal job is done and gov ernmental agencies can proceed w ith the annual business of iormulating budgets. Tax rates, of course, may Ik* down during the coming year—but the tax bite won't be less. Hall-Hearted Endorsement Dr. I. Beverly Lake's endorsement of Judge Dan K. Moore for governor, was something less than the all-out variety Judge Moore would have preferred. Indeed, Dr. Lake left himself an out, reserving the privilege of changing his mind if events in the second primary campaigning don’t suit him. Meantime. Judge Moore has commit ted himself to lace his administration with the initial supporters of Dr. Lake and to seek counsel of Dr. Lake during the Moore Administration—if there is one. The "If" is more than a little one. Hearty congratulations to Jo Bridges, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C Bridges, Kings Mountain high school’s top schol ar of 1963-64. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By MARTIN HARMON Ingredient*: bit* of uric* tnsdrnn. humor, and rommr»t* Direction*: Take icrckljf, i, l*i**ihtr, but avoid nrrrdosagr. The death of C. Hush Hamrick. ! Sr.. <*ost rn- .. good friend of nearl> thr<“" dr . ade duration of his 7s year mm I came to know Mr. Hamrick ! well by the coincidence of his el i dor son's tnati iculation at the 1 Chapel Hill aranch of the L'niver i sity and the f.ct that both Rush, ftie junior, and I were involved as neophyte n.-wsmen. working fot Sltelbiat Will Arey. ,lr.. on the Daily Tat Heel. ram A few months later I was a candidate t.»r (dltor of the cam pus paper - Ik- only elective of fi<*e I ever soi*Kht> and Mr. Ham rid: pro\ ided a quite handsome political contribution. a tin of .V) Muriel Senaio. cigars, which. I im sun*, we: e rcs|>onsil>lr for sev oral favor a "|p \otcs. The subsequent year young I Hush and I wen* roommates. ; Carolina enrollces if not the best of students, tr.'i devoting perhaps •rtore time than we should to the newspaper, v ekend frolics to i the big name bands, football. and ! other extra • curricular* which [ have their inoclihle educational tx-.iefits bi t do not contribute to >uch honor*: us the Dean's List tnd initiation .eto F*hi Deta Kap mm We had a good room in 313 Maug'.im. if; ptincipal advantage being that >t liad two lull closets. Additionally, we’d dressed it a I hit with a couple of occasional chairs, curtains, and a verbotcn hot plate, piu- coffee pot. At anyj rate, it was a pietty good gather ing place ar.d t.ot the unoccasion - al site of a poker session, i Pok er is one <»f those instructional extra curri ulars not necessarily: aligned with tcp grades.' mm There was a fair-sized sessi Hi underway one winter poker| er af ternoon. For some reason I! wasn't plav'iig. either due to thej fa t that the game was already full of players or that my wallet . was reduced. But I was present) as a kibitzer when there was a1 gentle rap en the door. * Some smart-alec sounded off, with one oi those get-in-the-best j way-you-can Invitations reputed ly received b> President Wood-j row Wilson when he paid call to his old room at Davidson college., Theonly response was another knock. I opened the door and, there was Mr. Hamrick, smiling | at his innocent best. m-tn Needless 10 say. there were few smiles -in the inside >f ihat room. Young T'.ush happened to lx- facing the t.oor. All the play ers arose al super sonic speed j and those \\ no r *omed elsewhercj made hastv ex.ts. The large cigar ] young Rush was nursing tumbled i floor,vard like a diver ooing ai triple jackk.iitc. As it turned out.j young Rush had sudden o us in ess ! for tne Tar heel, or a professor, > or somebodv. was therefore un-: available for supper as ! was. But 1 shall nev« r h rget Mr. Ham rick’s comment returning to the i dormitory, lie said. ■’Martin. I know college boys and I know they're going to have some fun. hut 1 DO wish he’d study a little bit." It was another lesson in my young life that older folk aren’t unreasonable killjoys. mm I have n?vtr known a person more energeti or indefatigable. Everytime ? saw liim he was on the move, whether it was to rush through breakfast and off to work, or leive an office chore to catch tire fvwvnis meeting, from which he invr.riably returned to work. He is the Hist land only> per son 1 ever knew to eat quantities <>f hoi s- radish at breakfast, and. when I was quite a green young ster. he won me an interview for the jon of secretary of ihe Shel by Chamber cf Commerce. In later v,-ais. he reminded me in stature, apj :arance and action of the late J. 1-oster Barnes, the Duke mus<-ian And they were kin otherw- ;e. as Mr. Hamrick sang for veal's in the Shelby First Baptist i hoir and was an instrumentalist in addition. He was an inveterate traveler. On'.y a few years ago my wife and I stopped at Red Bridges’ place abo-.’ 11:30 p.m. for a snack. Ther? was Mr. Kararick, servicing th» vending machines. With that chore done, he was Atlanta-ho-md immediately. Sleep wasn't for him with a grand daughter to visit. Quite a man. C- Rush Hamrick, Sr. Fused For A Blow-up? tf/ccaJurc Ridgecrest Conference Set HidroTr^l Wilh the com in : of ihi* summer months life again returns to '{WitfcrMl Baptist As sembly, Ridgecrest. N. (\ Totfci. marks the official opening of ih> Assembly w-licit will ho>t thitleei week# of religious confetemvs. American ami international college stuit'-n’- anil youth work ers from across the nation haw con verged at h’dgcreat today to the thirty-eighth annual student retreat. Together they will ex plore the conference theme "Kn counter. .Commitment”. The program ill feature me sages by: H<-n. Broo'-s Ha) White Ilouae Consultant and pro fessor at R'-tg-us University. New Brunswick. N. a.; Bill (>loss. All American, all-pro fool lull player for the Cleveland Browns; and Dr. Ralph Overman, nuclear ph\ sicist from Oak Ridge. Ttennessei Other progr; rr. personalities in dude Dr. Chester E. Swor, .Missi sippi author, counselor and |. tuier. Dr. Kenneth Chat'in. as--tci at« professor o| evangelism «t Southwestern Baptist TTioologi. d Seminary. ***ort Worth, and Di James L. Si.!|ivan. executive se ctary-treasurer of the Southei 1 Baptist's Sunday School Board Missions responsihilitiy w ill / emphasized. Spccal seminai > topi<*s of current interest will emphasized. S|.ecial seminars on topics of current Interest will t» held for college students, reconi , high school graduates, interna i tional students- and youth work ers. I The Rid7«m st student eetieai is sponsored by the Student de partment of the Sunday School Board. David K. Alexander 01 Nashville will serve as the din tor of the ccnlerence which wil run through June 10. Viewpoints of Other Editors j THE PICTUREPHONE Tin* Bell Telephone System is about to open up its Pitcture photie device. operating to start with between New York and Chi cago. You will need a special booth and Slfi to S27 a minute depending on distance to send a picture over the wire. The lunatic, the lover, the poet . . . are the only people who want to pay that kind of money, so for the time being we arc safe. But it's the beginning of the I end. Before we are much older the device will be standard equipment . . . and then the fat will be in the fire They say ydb caff" *urn the picture ptrt off. and so you can, but who will remember to except orderly people who are dressed at any hour from 6 A. M. to midnight, whose homes are always tidy, whose spouses do not make faces at the spouse who is phoning, and who never tell ev- j en the smallest white lie? Out of the window go all the excuses all the tergiversations, all the polite fictions. “Sure I'm ready to go . . . No. We haven't' sat down to supper yet . . . We were just doing our homework . . . John would love *o come...! It's been nice cheating with you . . . You didn’t disturb us: one bit.” And out go all thej ideals, when a swain sees what his date looks like two hours be- , fore date time. And the pro prieties; sooner or later one is! bound to answer the phone drip ping and with a towel insecure- j ly hung about one. The only— faint—comfort is that there will be a ready made answer for that • old question. Did I get you out of bed?”—The Sun (Baltimore! LOSS OF A TREE Recently, there was the oc ; rasion to praise Gov. Edmund G. Brown’s pledge that ... no state park redwood would be destroyed to make way for a highway. Now — unfortunately—there’s a watering-down of the gover nor's position; he suggests a ‘ tree for a tree” program where new highway construction goes through a redwood park. But this sort of deal misses the entire point of California's redwood parks; they have not been acquired tby purchase or by gift) to save individual trees nor can the substitution of a tree outside park boundaries for one inside be a fair exchange. Redwood parks are planned to be self-sufficient and self• renew [ ing areas, ecological units where the trees gain life and strength from one another. Destroy na ture’s balance, change the en vironment which has existed for thousands of years by introduc ing a freeway through the heart of a forest, and far more than ■ individual trees are gone. In t stead the entire forest is endang ered. The answer to the growing competition between highways and parks is to give the final | responsibility of deciding If and [where highways can traverse i park lands to park people. As it stands presently, it is the high way builders who make the fin al decision. With park land growing more scarce than highway routes in our state, the emphasis must be on the preservation of Cali fornia's scenic assets . . . But the goal can’t be reached by the governor looking at the trees in stead of at the forest — Sunny vale, (Calif.) Daily Standard. THE DROPOUT "Dropout’' is getting to bo a hail word, an expletive as crush-J ing as “teen-ager," its coinage, debased by ill-usage. School drop-outs, in this currency, an* shiftless, prideless youngsters, perversely opposed to an educa-' tion, probably of weak mentali ty, and either juvenile delinqu-! ents or naturally doomed to be-, come so. it is heartening to see active measures being taken to correct that cruel delusion, as in a .Vow York forum at which some inn children gave their, own views. Boys and girls do not so much 1 drop out of school as they are discouraged out by parents who do not care, intimidated out by racial discrimination, bored out by failure of teachers to rouse their interes*. sometimes even pushed out by schools that don’t want them either, the seminar showed. The problem of school dropouts will be dealt with pro* duetively. no' by heaping ana thema upon it. but by treating the ills of a whole society that make it inevitable — St. Louis! Post-Dispatch. ’OF THE SAME DIGNITY*; Either a man is a citizen or' he isn't. The latest Supreme*! Court decision takes a new stop' beyond any halfway position. It [ declares unconstitutional a fed-] oral law under which natural- j ized American citizens have lost their citizenship through stay ing more than three years in their native lands. Three dissenting Associate Justices pointed out the compli cations in foreign relations and the difficulties that migh* arise "because thousands of |>ersons living throughout the world will come under the court's broad sweep ” But wp agree with Justice, Douglas. speaking for th«* ma-i jcrity against “second-class cit izenship.” We become parochial, especial ly in today's interrelated world, if we deny the premise” that the rights of citizenship of the na tive-born and of the naturalized person are of the same digni’y and are coextensive.” There will still be a few “pass port Americans” to bedevil con sular officers. They save their half-hearted citizenship for what it can do for them. They may get aid and comfort from the decision. But this rightly has not pre vented the court from deciding according to a just principle. It is. as Mr. Douglas said, an “im permissible assumption that nat uralized citizens as a class are less reliable and bear less alle giance to the country.” Christian Science Monitor. 1 A YEARS AGO lV THIS WEEK /terns of netes about Kings Mountain area people and •vents taken from the 1954 'Has of the Kings Mountain TernId. Kings Mountain area citizens w” ■»' hors th’-onifh Mt ClswnHnrt County on Satur day as thev take part in a coun ty-wide electlr..' social a:* d PSKSONAL Twins of Mr. and Mrs. Theo dore Huffman celebrated their second birthda> May 28th at their home on route two. Mrs. Denver King entertained ; Tuesday at dinner. Guests were I retiring officers of the Kings DON'T LET YOUR ASSETS GO UP IN SMOKE Make sun- your farm is adequately covered with in surance in step with today's higher replacement costs. Let us review your policy .... soon. No obligation. 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