Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Heiald
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enKghtment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kin^s Mountain
and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
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Prorerba
Gavin, The Liberal
Political definitions are hard to
hinge down and vary, state by state.
A broadly-speaking Kings Moun
tain man, who spends much time in New
York, has been quoted as saying that
New York’s governor and United States
senators. Rockefeller. Javits and Keat
ing. are “more communistic than
Khrushchev". He didn't mean they are
Communists at all, hut that they are
much more left-of-center than many
Americans and virtually all 1 ar Heels.
Thus, in New York, those North
Carolina “liberals" who have attained
high office, such as the late Senator \V.
Kerr Scott and Governor Terry Sanford,
would be regarded as rather staid con
servatives.
Yet, in North Carolina, from his
posture thus far, Robert L. Gavin, the
Republican candidate for governor, thus
far has adopted the posture of a com
paratively liberal candidate. Indeed, his
statements to date have embodied
major portions of the proposals of the
so-called liberal Democratic candidate
for governor, Richardson Preyer, who
lost.
Mr. Gavin wants a road bond issue
and lavors cutting the school teaching
load in the elementary grades. He favors
a state minimum wage of one dollar per
hour. Over the weekend, Mr. Gavin
charged North Carolina had been sell
ing new industry on North Carolina
largely on grounds of cheap labor. Gav
in also thinks state jobs unfilled for long
periods are not needed.
Meantime, the Democratic nominee.
Dan Moore, hedged on the road bond
business and on the minimum wage.
Perhaps, in the days preceding Novem
ber 3, he will become more succinct on
these and other issues.
At any rate, it is an interesting de
velopment that finds the GOP candidate
for governor a North Carolina “liberal”
and the Democratic candidate, thus far
at least, rather more to the “right".
Slate School Bonds
On November 3, North Carolinians
not only will record their choices for
presidential electors, for governor and
other state officers, but also will vote
for or against the issuance of $100 mil
lion in school construction bonds.
Only a few times in the past has the
state put its financial oar into school
buildings, the General Assembly being
content to limit state support operation
al funds, which, generally, supplies
about four of five dollars the schools
spend, other than for real estate and
buildings.
Decision of the legislature to ap
prove the upcoming school bond issue
for consideration of the voters came in
the closing days of the 1963 session and
stemmed from the fact that many coun
ties were sadly in arrears in providing
needed buildings for burgeoning school
populations. An additional fact was that
some of the poorer counties apparently
had little chance or financial ability to
catch up.
Cleveland County citizens, if they
vote wisely from their own interests,
will sup|K>rt this bond proposal. The
county unit is an estimated $3 million
behind on immediate construction
needs. Shelby unit has several over
crowded plants and insufficient money
In view to alleviate these pains. Kings
Mountain unit, momentarily perhaps in
better position than the others, is
squeezing out its high school plant
through husbanded cash balances, its
$1.1 million bond issue, and anticipated
income for capital outlay in 1965.
The Kings Mountain district is to
receive, on the Assembly - approved
formula some $376,000, a sum which
would, local school officials agree, take
the district out of the financial woods.
Cries of pain as a result of the re
cent county tax bills continue to be
heard. Yet there is no prospect of sur
cease with building needs still at the
forefront.
The beauty of the state bond issue
^. is that the state’s tax schedules can ac
\ commodate the $100 million school bond
issue with increasing taxes—impossible
jat the local level, as recent tax bills con
clusively prove.
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“Knee - Jerk" Reactions
There has horn popularized the con
notation “knee-jerk liberal”, undoubted
ly created by some reporter who had a
brush with a college course in psycholo
gy and went through the knee-jerk tests
for proper motor reactions. In the sense
of the “knee-jerk liberal”, the term
means that a person has an automatic,
built-in. largely un-thinking reaction to
about any and* all given situations. His
reactions an* inately pre-disposed.
There is, it is charged, some “knee
jerk” reactors in Cleveland County,
specifically, Shelby folk and Kings
Mountain folk. The latter group sup
posedly react as “knee-jerk red-headed
stepchildren” when the word Shelby oc
curs. and. conversely, the Shelby folk
react as “knee-jerk nyet (not sayers"
when Kings Mountain seeks a bit of con
sideration in county matters.
Many Kings Mountain citizens will
agree to the charge against them, withal
adding "with continuing good cause”,
but few Shelby folk admit to the charge
against them.
Mayor Glee A. Bridges, it is indicat
ed, is a devotee to the Kings Mountain
rodheaded stepchild thinking.
Latest case in point, the Mayor,
with heavy support, thinks, is the de
cision to close the Kings Mountain
branch of the county welfare office,
which the Shelby Daily Star labels a
"minor administrative adjustment".
There are many others in the
course of history since Kings Mountain,
once divided between Cleveland and
Gaston counties, cast its lot with Cleve
land in 1915.
Items:
Few rural roads were paved in this
area before the Kerr Scott administra
tion. in contrast to the long hard-sur
faced Shelby area roads.
Kings Mountain will send its first
legislator to the General Assembly next
February since 1927.
The Kings Mountain Hospital his
tory is dotted with many instances in
which its small surplus treasure was
being sought for the benefit of the Shel
by unit of the county hospital system.
Hospital-wise, it is further fact that
supportive interest in the bond issue for
renovating and adding to Shelby hos
pital paled to the point of opposition in
many quarters when provision for Kings
Mountain hospital expansion funds was
included.
The proposed closing of the Kings
Mountain branch of the employment
service never excited much support in
Shelby. It was closed.
Now the welfare branch office is to
be closed, too.
The Shelby Star says, “Remember
the intangibles.”
Is there else remaining to remem
ber?
Businessman Clyde VVhetstine’s lus
ty and successful yell about removal of
a parking space in front of his service
station has even louder overtones. Mr.
Whetstine’s personal problem produced
by the now-removed “no parking” sign
was quite obvious. But his personal
problem is magnified many times in
Kings Mountain. The city’s streets were
laid out in days when the wagon popu
lation wasn't even a problem and when
there was no anticipation of the mass of
automotive horsepower to be accommo
dated, in motion or otherwise. This
growing problem which has produced
lucrative parking lot and parking ga
rage businesses in the bigger cities, has
brought parking meters to Kings Moun
tain. provided a few monthly rental
parking lots, and increased real estate
costs for those newer firms aware of the
firoblem. It is to be hoped that the city
and use survey report, now being con
ducted by the special city commission
and Department of Conservation and
Development, will provide some sound
ideas for alleviating this problem.
Congratulations to James S. For
rest, winner of an academic scholarship
at North Carolina State for the coming
year.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
•y MARTIN HARMON
Ingredient*: hit* of win
tcixilom, humor, and comment*
Directionn: Take weekly, I,
ponfbtr, hut avoid
oxerdomge.
In the more than 40 years I’ve
lieen going 10 Boyce Memorial
Associate Reformed Presbyterian
church, I and my fellow parish
ioners have had a mere four pa>
| tors.
My first memory, since toddl
ing along to church with my fa
ther. is the late Dr. J. M. Harri
son. a st lung preacher, an abb-.
God-fearing and God-preaching
man, who, church folklore has It.
didn't necessarily feel his par
ishioners ever needed a vacation
; from the pews, even if he did.
briefly each vear. from the pul
I Pit '
mm
When I got old enough to
know him. Dr. Garrison was in
his second pastorate here, which.
! of itself, speaks well of his ahili
| ty and the high regard his par
! ishioners felt for him.
m-m
Well they might. When the De
! pression hit. Dr. Garrison invit
ed the church to pare his pay.
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Dr. Garrison did the leaching
i in winter-time Saturday after-'
; noon classes in preparing us
.youngsters for membership In
i the Church. This was hard duty
1 on the students in the days when
my interests were geared to full
| Saturday afternoons at the mov
ie house, with the screen serving
heroics by such ride-’em. rope'em
' experts as Ken Maynard. Hoot
Gibson, and Buck Jones, not to
mention the latest chapters of
“The Indians Are Coming", and
other ten and twelve-chapter ser
! ial thrillers.
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Then, on church-joining Sun
day. when Dr. Garrison failed to
read my name. I stood up and
said, "You forgot me." He smil
1 ed and replied. “Come on down."
Dr. Garrison's successor was
Dr. William Moore Boyce, a
man of keen intellect, whom I
was not as well benefited to
know- as closely, due to the in
roads of college and subsequent
■ out-of-Kings Mountain work.
His successor was Dr. Robert
NTeil Baird, the incumbent when
I returned to Kings Mountain, a
good pastor, able minister, and
fine friend, felled at untimely age
| by illness, first to retirement.
! then to death.
The other of my pastors I've
known best is Dr. William Lau
rens 'Bill* Piessly, shortly to
vacate his position as clean of
Kings Mountain ministers after
! nearly is years in Boyce Memor
ial service.
Dr. Pressly tells me. “We’ve
usually seen eye to-eye". Certain
ly that is true from my view
point. 1 have never heard him
preach that I did not leave with
nuggets of truth. The same goes
for short personal conversations.
Indeed, the conversations with
him have customarily been not
only short, but too short.
A man of wit. Dr. Pressly en
joys a good yarn and spins one.
Only recently, he gave me a new
twist to the old joke about minis
ters praying for light over calls!
to new charges. The particular
pastor, he related, strode into
the manse and told his wife they
were moving to s larger church,
«t increased stipend. Tht* wife
asked. “Aren't you going to pray
over it?” “Sure.” he replied.
"You pack while I pray ”
Dr. Pressly recalls a visit sev
eral years ago to Coddle Creek
ARP church, where he is to be
come pastor, at which I was pro J
sent, along with Mariott Phifer
and several others from here
During dinner, a stranger looked
in the direction of the Kings
Mountain group and asked his
neighbor, “Is that him?” Dr.
Pressly says “I didn't know
whether they meant you. or me,
or another one of us.” Then he
heard, "Yeah, that's him.”
“Say”, asks the guy address
ing Dr. Pressly, are you on the
Synod apportionment commit
tee?” Dr. Pressly was. Upshot
was that the fellow Wanted his
church's apportionment cut and
supported thb plea by the con
tention that the Synod contribu
tion was 20 percent of the budget.
Dr. Pressley replied. “Yes. our
church w-ould like to get its ap
portionment cut. too. Ours is 30
percent of the total budget.'*
Needless to say. there was no
further conversation in that di
rection. A man of few words. Dr.
Pressly. and to the point I*m
jealous of the Coddle Creek folk.
"She's new around here, ain't she?"
HOPE you
BOYS WILLj
KEEP IT
CLEAN !
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The Veterans
Comer
EDITOR S NOTE: Relow are
authoritative answers by the Vet
erans Administration to some or
the many current questions from
former servicemen and their
. families: Further information on
veterans benefits may be obtain
ed at any VA office.
g I tiaxe a policy loan on my
World War II Hie insurants- po
licy. Can payments on this loan
tie made In any amount, or are
there restrictions?
A The only restriction is that
] the payment be at least five dol
lars. Any payment of five tlol
lars or more is acceptable.
g I have t<cen receiving ST.',
compensation because of my
son’s death in service. Has this
1 rate been increased lately?
A A new law provides grad
uated rates t<> parents. de|M-nding
upon their other income which
must he estimated and reported
each year. Rates have been in
' creased about 10 percent.
Q Will the VA let me kno^^
who is listed as beneficiary ■■
my government life insuran.e^^
A Yes. the VA will give you
. that information upon request,
i However, if you are not sure who
the beneficiaries are. it is prv
* ferable to make a new designs
tion the way you want it now
This will cancel all previous de
signations.
I
Viewpoints of Other Editors
LIVING MEMORIAL
Tlx* good that men do may oft
ho interred with their bones; but
sometimes it is remembered, and
gratefully, at least by its bene
ficiaries. At any rate, it is heart
ening to find an Instance of such
remembrance and a richly de
served one. too. At the Pine
Ridge. South Dakota, Indian Re- j
servation, the Felix S. Cohen
Memorial Home for the Elderly
was dedicated. A joint undertak
ing by the Oglala Sioux Tribe of
South Dakota which contributed
the land, the United States Pub
lie Housing Administration which
financed the construction and the
Pine Ridge Settlement House
which will furnish and subsidize
the Home through public sub
scriptions, this is the first hous
ing for elderly residents on an
Indian Reservation and the first
to be built by all-Indian labor.
Much of Felix Cohen’s life —
he died in 1953 — was a free and
generous and loving gift to the
Oglala Tribe and indeed, to In
dians generally. An attorney de
voted to their interests in private
practice and during hi* 15-yeai
tenure in the Interior Depart
ment, he drafted the Indian Re
organization Act and worked with
tribal councils on constitutions,
by-laws and regulations that gave
them self-government for the
first time in American history.
The naming of the Memorial
Home in his honor is a tribute
not alone to him personally but
also In a way to all those unsung
Government workers who labor
selflessly for the minority rights
which are indispensable to a true
democracy.
The Washington Post
A BOON FOR THE ARTS
After nine years’ atudy. the
Federal Copyright Office has in-;
traduced in Congress a bill to
modernize the 1909 U. S. Copy- j
right Law. it was high time. Not
only in tax matters, but in their
very Incomb itself, writers, ar
tists and composers have long
been an object of discrimination.
The present law gives a writer,
exclusive rights to his works for
2X years. He may renew for an-1
other 2S. but after 56 years, any
one may copy his work without
permission or payment. The pro
posed revision would extend the
period to include the author’s life
plus 50 years.
The revision would also in
crease royalty payments to com
posers for recordings, and re
move an exemption now given to
jukebox operators. This last may
arouse controversy, but all op
ponents of cacophony will en
dorse it.
In one respect, however, the
bOl see ms to open to question. It
would permit exceptions, tf they
are "in the public interest.” to
the present rule that no govern
ment publication may be copy
righted. This could violate the,
principle that government publi-!
cations are the public’s proper
ty. and could prevent free access
te public information at the whim
of a department head. This sec
tion should bear done scrutiny.
Aosta* CHoA*
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PARIS IN AUGUST
April in Paris is for the song-j
writers. Paris in August is what
the most of the rest of us re mem i
her. This is the month when Pa
risians are expected to evaruat|
their glorious city before a bar
harian invasion, leaving only
rear guard of restaurateurs, at
tique and souvenier shopkeepef
taxi drivers.
Nowadays, as already repo
on this page, the evacuatioi
less general than it used tof-e.
More Parisians are discovc|hg
what the tourist sees in Pari
August, and staying for a spire
of the view.
This, to be sure, has to ir
masses of tourists glower!]
one another at their sidewi
bles at the Cafe’ de la Pa
Fouquet’s. Probably the
look no better to Parisiar
to one another.
But the red and yellow f looms
In the sun-flooded Tuilerrs de
light the Parisian ami his# ourist
equivalent alike. A lakesae walk
in the Bois de Boulogne* in the
evening charitably disgip-es the
quiet tourist from the
live—or rather, makes)
guise necessary.
The visitor from ov
make his own special
in Paris in August
some of the tourists i:
capital are themselvi
When he has got
idea he begins to fi
pie as interesting
sights he came to
taking their French
part of Paris in A
The Christian
s may
iscoveries
is that|
•he Frencf
French!
-sed to thit
these pe**
the oth»
Hiey t<9.
'irancies. ;|e
ust.
mer MonS$r
lids at in a rm
pleasures of sun
seers* to us tlv
beat*/ are gel
corps'a ting a r|
ir oil' in the j
igear at Clfianfa
girt were tur#
ieri.n make-uy I
d *tke heel.* I ’
Nisid ooiffurii
sire along He
v® lost. Th *
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■ ’tier’s herj '
si comes foth d
rr 's cIothc*s file
fcucers at lam
f their best <>r w
> little girlflook
>s, there® era
best veanln a i
ust let tl
v way?
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Sias acce|
• Kings
1 and bet
le and t
lie par sot
CIAL AJ
nbers oft
‘lub men
at le home ij
mr and hea®
R. O. Bownvfl
or for the >W
C arlotte. I
Mr. and >#
NO TYKES HI SPIKES.
Pretty maids
one of the pleasi
time, but it
presarios of beai
bit far in incori
for 5-10 year
Universe Pag<
The little
like their eldei
ing suits and
were primped
But somewl
the charm
none of the
that tugs
his child fi
up in mom
ents and pi
patently
to make t
the big
some of t
young
Why n
the old.
out
They
line i
was i
nse 1
when,
dolled!
ie par- j
ami ap
v worst, ■
ook like j
erasing i
n a girl’s
grow up|
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Items >/ snn fbout Kings
Moun t in area ,
rvewtltcken /•#» f*e 19*4
files If the K
Hem l.
E. E. Saw. of Morehead
the pastorate
iintaln Church
[ his duties Sun
family moved
|t> on Thursday.
PERSONAL
Magnolia Gar-'
iday afternoon
Irs. Martin Har
an address by
interior decorat-1
Mford House, in
Bobby Bridges
Asheville.
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