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VSifr. The Kings Mountain Herald Established 1889 HUJ ASSOClAIH A weekly nwspaptr devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlistment entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as .second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin narmon . Editor-Publisher Dick Woodward . Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart.Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Libby Bunch . Clerk MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Paul Jackson Allen Myers Monte Hunter Douglas Houser Zob Weathers TELEPHONE NUMBER - 739-5441 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE - BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR — 83.50 SIX MONTHS — $2.00 THREE MONTHS -• SI 25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA RALES TAX TODAY’S BIBLE VERSE Far and is not the author 'oj con f union, hat o/ pcarr, ns in all > him hen of the naints. I Corintliinnn /$ *.'7.7 Goldwater In Extremis Abstracts are difficult of definition. What is liberty, or truth, or hones ty, or charity, radicalism right, radical ism left, liberalism, conservatism, or ex tremism? One man's pie may be another's poison, if one has a cast-iron stomach and the other an ulcerated tummy. Thus results the furore in some quarters (and loud and long hallaleulias in others) from the statement by Sena tor Barry Goldwater. Republican candi date for president, that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, nor moderation in the pursuit of freedom no virtue. There were mixed feelings by his hearers and by those who read and re read that statement, made by Senator Goldwater in his speech accepting the GOP nomination. Those not exceptionally partisan are inclined to see how Mr. Goldwater developes the theme in the course of the presidential campaign between now and voting day on November 4. It is broadly advertised that Mr. Goldwater will con duct a campaign which will utilize a minimum of whistle stops and a maxi mum of television and other mass media exposure, with as little forum type con frontation with the nation's press corps (all media) as possible. The Senator won’t be able to escape all, and odds are that he will be asked, even forced, to amplify on that state ment many, many times between now and November 4. Certainly the valid comments and post-mortems on the GOP convention at San Francisco have already been covered (in extreme). All agree that the nation will have a choice between a so cailed liberal (President Johnson) and conservative (Senator Goldwater) for the nation's top office for the first time since 1936, when Governor Alf Landon, the Kansas conservative, was swamped by the liberal, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Certainly the GOP Old Guard, re placed after 1936 in party control by the more liberal Eastern wing, is happy. This group represents the Mid-West, Far West and Southern Republicans, aided by disaffected southern Demo crats, who are those responsible for Goldwater’s easy, assured in advance, first-ballot victory. The new development of the Wal lace withdrawal gives full indication that the fall campaign, initially an ap parent shoo-in for the incumbent, will be quite a donnybrook, in the tradition of the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon contest, and the 1948 one of Truman-Dewey, both of which kept interested citizens awake all night, in spite of computer projec tions and predictions of the “experts”. Next principal item on the political agenda will be the selection of the Dem ocratic nominee for vice-president, an item of ardent speculation for both Democrats and the Republicans, known today only by President Johnson, and perhaps not by him at this date. A full season’s political entertain ment is promised. The mileage rate cuts for rural sub scribers (here and throughout North Carolina) by Southern Bell Telephone St Telegraph company spells handsome dollar savings for these subscribers and should spur additional phone installa tions in the rural areas, and therefore improved communications throughout North Carolina. Meantime, with the other rate shavings effected, it is easy to agree with Bell spokesmen that ef ficiency of modern equipment and good management by Bell officials has made it possible for rates to decline. Long distance tolls have been cut for the third time in three years. "As near as your telephone” means monetarily nearer, too. Time is running out for purchasing privilege licenses without penalty. Best bows to Scouts Phillip and Wendell Bunch, recently awarded the Gloria et Patria award, and to William fOorty) Fulton and Charles Padgett, recently become Eagle Sqgpts. Mrs. Noisier The death of Mrs. Ida Mauney Noisier removed from Kings Mountain not only one of its eldest citizens in point of years, but one of its eldest in point of residence, and a citizen who made most valuable contributions to the well-being of this community. Relatives recall that her father — to become the first mayor of Kings Mountain — moved here on Easter Monday 1873, when Mrs. Noisier was a girl of slightly over two years. There was to follow a virtual life long residence here, in which she be came a wife and mother of eight chil dren. and was actively identified with the vast majority of civic, charitable, and patriotic movements throughout ! her long life, in addition to giving un- j stintedly of her time and treasure to ( the work of First Presbyterian church I and its agencies. I Her services and charity to Kings j Mountain's needy during the hard de pression years are well-remembered by j older citizens. She was a willing and ef- ! fectlve volunteer worker in the Red Cross, gave liberally of her means in supporting worthwhile projects. Cross nore school, at Crossnore, was heavily benefitted through the years through her beneficence and support. Mrs. Neisler was another of the breed, strong in body, mind, and spirit, which experienced in their early years the hardships of the post-Civil War Re construction period. She was witty, warm-hearted, practically-minded, and maintained to the point of death a keen interest in her legions of kin and friend. Tax Rates And Bites The county commission, initially de ciding it would levy taxes only on the basis of 55 percent of the new valuation (since upped to 65 percent), indicated that the low assessment ratio was adopted for several practical reasons. One of them was the tendency to up ward creepage of rates, as citizens pro moted pet projects with the plea, “It’ll only add a cent or two to the tax rate.” Normally, there is a respite of a year or two, but the general county rate of §1.19 reflects a certain amount of upward creepage in the first year the new valuation is operative. On basis of last year’s effective val uation versus this year’s a general tax rate of 99 cents should have returned about the same amount ot coin. Where for the extra? A good por tion goes to schools for future construc tion, land purchase or for long-lasting equipment. Indeed, there’s an extra seven cents in this category to which the commission informally has agreed for a three-year period. In another in stance, the commission levied the full 20 cents allowable for the hard-pressed general fund. In neither of these instances is there reason for criticism for the need is quite apparent. All the three school districts are hard-pressed for construc tion monies. Shelby is short of money to build a project needed yesterday, Kings Mountain shaved items for its high school which must be re-included, and the county school district is two high school plants short, at minimum. The general fund supplies funds for numerous purposes, and tax-time plus balances quickly return to neai> minuses. Meantime, the county commission apparent’/ is declining to levy the 20 cent maximum supplemental operations tax for the Kings Mountain school dis trict. paring the Kings Mountain board of education request to 18 cents. Still, the 18-cent levy on the new valuation will return a third more money. Auditor Max Hamrick estimates. These are samples of the upward creepage the commission, which gets the brick-bats from the taxpayers, was concerned about in advance. 1 MARTIN'S MEDICINE By MARTIN HARMON Ingredient*: Mi of newt H'indom, humor, and commenta Direct with: Take weekly, i, possible, but avoid ovcrdOMage. I havt» some suspicion that Lyle Edwards. e:t\ iditor of the Gas tonia Gantt * has been fomenting less than Ins rrrnml self in re cent weeks. A: least, I fi'el sure his city edit'.ig business is taking a back seat t > another and that would be following the Gastoma Legion Juniors who wore to open a state semi finals series Wednes day nieht. >.'ot only is I.yle a former dia mond perfo-n* i of import (Er skine <-oiieo’>», but his son. Rod dy Edwards, is one of the stars of the curr«.tt Gaston aggrega tion. Last Friday night. Roddy limited Hickory to six hits, drove in three runs n what would have been enough to catapult Gastonia up the ladder toward state, re gional. sectoral and national tournaments. m-m Roddy is a Western Carolina sophomore. *s six feet, three in ches. scales in at ISO. and plays outfield when hi isn't pitching. Father I.yle fully intended for his son to b;* ? baseball perform er and has been glooming him in that direction for many years. Case in poi*-* comes from Mrs. Edwards, wio described some of the activities or this thvee-mem her family on a motor tup to the Wes Coast a few years ago. Do parting Gasroiba early one morn in®. the Edc a-iis family reached Cincinnati i.t l:mc for a night double-header. Chicago was next port of call. if. disappointingly, only for a single major league game. But Milwaukee's Braves, the next day. provided another double bill Virginia related. "As if that weren't enough hasbball. when we stepped along the high ways to streich our legs and take a rest. Lyle ar.d Roddy got out j the gloves and baseball for a' tossing session ’ It was in too thirties that the; Gastonia «try went the full ; route to a national Legion base- I hall championship. Buddy Lewis j subsequently graduating to the! majors with Washington and sev-l eral other pi. vers having careers in professional baseball. Gastonia had another strong team I re: icmbCr particularly well in 19‘1. A. that time, I lived m Albemarle and Albemarle had what many -onsidered a better balanced team than the previous year when it edged San Diego three games to two for the na tional flag Porter Sheppard, the Gastonian and ox-Wak • Torest star, coach oi Albemarle the pre vious year, ’’ad gone home to Gastonia as rotch, and his form er assistant. Fran! Marhry. was the AHiemarc coach. It was a hot series. Caste.’ is winning. Among the players on that team was George Wilson, normally today my next-door •oeighboi'. hut cur rently living in Japan and plav in® b»«ebal.. At.other was Walter Carroll, a sirmnortime resident at Lake V.ontonin. and today a Gastonia brood maker. Albemarle hnd another great team in 194-. ’osing to Cincinnati in the national finals at Minne apolis by one ; an in the finale. That club h'rt one of mv bosses at the Stanly News Ar Press somewhat in :he same condition I think my friend Lyle Edwards is today. Ralpi Andrew, tnon. and now a hot baseball fan. also a former play*’:*, was father of one of the team’s leading pitchers. Tommy Andrew, now business manager of the Albemarle paper. An outstanding game I remember was Tommy? 1-0 seetlonals-wln ning victory over New- Orleans at Charleston Several of us had squeezed oie* gas ration cards ta make the trip We picked up pic ture plates of the game, courtesy of the Charleston News 4 Cour ier sports department, etc a very lath supper a; famous Henry’s, got home to Albemarle at 4:30 a. m. Kid Hal! excites fans most of any. Anything can happen and often does. Then there’s the add ed tension of the sudden-death tournaments. It's an expensive spo*-t. Whlfc I’m not acquainted with the pre sent fund foimula, in the old da vs the oniv way a club could finish a season with plenty ol coin in the hank was to lose hi *he state firaN. Once the state fi nals were settled, the teams were under the domain of national Le gion headquarters, which suppli ed actual expenses only, and only for 15 players, and one coach. Ob viously. the assistant coaches had to make the ttips. along with the hard - work-ng athletic offirbr, and who would think of leaving the bat boy at home merely ho nu«e his ex|<erses weren’t being paid? Fans found !t hard *o under stand why Albemarle's Hill post after the huge crowds of 1940 and 1IM4. w.-r» ant sacking fundi the following season to field a team again. Riding The Crest Family Buying Survey Set * ; In April of ••'is year. R.9 fami 1 lie* out of c. ry hundred wore planning to buy a new car within ja year, and 17.1 families had in te.itions of huvit.g household np ■ plianee within six months. In ■ tioth rases, ihi.; war. a higher per : lentanp th-»n a jtttr ago April. However. t;,n number of families Intending to huv now homes dur ' ing the next v< at. 1.H in one hun dred dropped slightly since April ■ 1963. , Such data ,»n consumer buying ! Intentions a** * gathered quarter ly by the U. 3. Bureau of the Cen i sus as a par tf its monthly Our ; rent Papula* on Survey. Questions which will provide comparable in formation for the month of July , are included .n tliis month’s Sur vey. according te Dim-tor Joseph R. Norwood, of the Census Bu 1 reau rt'gion 'i office at Charlotte. . Tliese inquires are in addition to 1 the regular n or.thly ones on cm ‘ ployment nrd unemployment. Families :n< luded in the Cur rent Populat-or Survey here and in 336 oth-r areas of tlie count ry are scientifically chosen to pro vide a repr*-Tentative sample of the Nation’.; pouulation. Census Bu-«au interviewer who will vi'.i' local household* the week of July 19 include: Mrs France; C. Hedden. s< | Meadowbrook Road. Kings Moun tain. N. C. 29T-S6. Mrs. Ft hoi S. Rockett, f-AS -South | Street. Caste, dr.. N. C. 29032. Once the o\ erseas telephone link had hri *i establislicd be tween New York and London In 1927. the sendee was introduced to countries all over the glob--, said Bryan Houck. local telephone , manager. Viewpoints of Other Editors EVERYBODY NEEDS ONE The othe*- bay \vc hoard about an advertising copywriter who was paid .S7.,V:;( a year just to have lunch wdh somebody once a month. Now TV Guide ttdls us of Zeno Klinkci: “For years one1 of Klinker's jobs as a tap writer! for Edgar Bergen was to follow! his boss atomic, and ineonspicu- j ously slip him '.ties to spice his J conversation " We are n-.t limply noting the |»oetie injustice involved in some one else’# pidtmg words into a ventriloquist"# r.'outh. We are de-' clarring that :-i tirre-s like these everyone should have a Zeno! Klinker at Ins rlbow. Klinkerist.t begins at home. “You call yourself an editorial writer! Why you won't even rate a position on what to have for dinner." Quick, Zeno, what do we say? Men in p'blie life need their respective ''•inker*, too. “But. Sir, if we keen both civil. rights and Vietnam out of the campaign, tiiciC'll tie nothing left to talk abou* hut us beagles." | “But. Sir. if you can’t decide i whom to support, how do you ex-! pect ordinary Republicans to?” j "But. Sir. some people insist you can’t put your heart into en forcing a lav you think will re quire the creation of a police state." “But. Sir, did you know that the man you ar>> going to nominate said the bi'i y^u worked *n hard for was unconstitutional?” “But.Sir, ymir opponent maybe impulsive, ba: what about a man who doesn’t start to run until the race is almost ever?” “But. Sir. do you think coming back to the country now will real ly help?” “But. Sir. Ringo may have cha risma and ?!> that, but so far there is no assurance he will ac cept a draft.” The trouSI-» ’.s thbre will never be enough Zeno Klinkers to go around. The Chrint'/iH Srienre Monitor ! OLD BLACKSMITH SHOP It wasn't iuv h to look at--just an old, wcVhi rbcaten, rambling shop at the village edge. Around it was a tangied mass of old cul tivators, wagons, wheels, sleds, plows and ha'rows. Inside, the floor was Mark with dirt and lit tered with h«.of parings. Windows wen* gray-streaked with grime 1 and half coii'-<*aled with masses of old cobwebs I Overhead on the stringers were i rows of new shoes dainty, light , weight shot*s for Morgan roaders ; and heavy ones for hig work horse*. In one **orner was a heap of discarded shoes plus a tangled mass of odds and ends of metal. At one side was the forge with its big leather bellows; near it was the old anvil and the half tub of black-looking scummy water. It was fu:i for small boys to watch the old .-mith as he heated a shoe red hot in the glowing coals and th«*n pounded the shoe i to shape on the anvil. i The old siri'h talked as he worked and told boys stories of 1 long ago wnen he shod as many I oxen as horses. Perhaps he heat ! ed the shoe again and pounded it again for an -xact fit. Then he drove nails through the hoof and the holes in the shoe. He twisted off the nail ends and filed the ends smooth with the big rasp. Old blacksmith shops are gone —gone with the wagons and sleighs of yesteryear. But there l are men in office and factory who | look back crrtr the yean and re member the pleasant hours they ■pent in an -df blacksmith shop. | m Boston Herald N. C. CAN TAKE PRIDE IN BIG VOTE 1 Regardless of the candidate they preferred In the second pri mary Saturday, all Democrats of, the state should take pride in1 the fact that a record turnout of, voters went to the polls to de-'| cide the party's nominee. The record number of voters for a second primary, together with the fact that there were mote voters Saturday than in the first primary, bespeaks thei great interest generated in the p«ty in the run-off election. As a rule, the number of vot ers attracted by a second pri- j mary is far less than in the] first primary. In the past this) generally has been attributed to I the fact that fewer candidates! appear on the ballot, and the! fact that many who vote in the ‘ first primary are not as interest- j ed a month later. Saturday’s j election clearly showed that the. voters of the state did not lose interest from the first to the, second primary this year. In-' deed, the record vote indicates1 the period between the first and j second primaries generated greater voter interest on the part of the party’s gubernatorial nomination. What applies generally to North Carolina, also applies ini Pitt County. Four years ago in this county there were approxi- j mately 2,000 less votes cast in j the second primary than in thej first. This year the unofficial re-: turns show there were about 20] more votes east in the second-1 [ ary primary than in the first. I The Democrats of Pitt, like those in other parts of the state, did! not leave it to the “other fel low” to decide in the second pri-1 mary which of the candidates] would receive the nomination. The fact that voters tamed | out in record numbers across the state for the second primary is a healthy sign for North Caro-1 Una and a healthy sign for the Democratic party in the state. — I Q is—villa Dolly Reflector. YEAES AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events taken from the 196 i \ files of the Kings Mountain | Herald. Lewis Hovis. Kings Mountain I businessman, has been appoint ed a member of the county board of hospital trustees, repre senting Number 4 township. His term will expire in 1957. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Members of the Study Club met Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. M. H. Biaer. Dr. and Mrs. W. P. Gerberding and family returned home yes I terday from a visit with rela- j [ fives and friends In St. Paul and i Duluth. Minnesota, Grand Rap-' ids, Michigan, and Milwaukee,1 Don't Bids Getting “HU'' Where It Hurt* I \ truck or auto accident on the road or on your farm can cost you plenty if you’re not fully protected by insur anre. See u^ today for accident and liability coverage. AGENCY "ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE" PHONE 739-3659 THE ARTHUR HAY #•». * J* 'f 'V '# «* , t * % KEEP TOUR RADIO DIAL SET AT 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between — Macdkt Tt Ik Imid
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