Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Herald
A weekly newspaper devoted to tho promotion of the general welfare and published
for tho onUghtment, entertainment and benefit of tho citizen* of Kings Mountain
and its vicinity, published every Thursday by tho llorald Publishing House.
Entered as second oiass matter at tho post offiw at Kings Mountain. N. C.,
under Act of Congress at March 3. 1873.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon . Editor Publisher
Gary Stewart. Sports Editor
Miss Elizabeth Stewart.Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Miss Helen Owens .* •... Clerk
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
But the wicked slut 11 be cut »*// /»«<»* the earth, a nd the transt/resimrs shall hr routed nut of it.
Proverb» 2:22
Not Only Issue
If the political polls are right, a ma
jority of citizens in Alabama. Mississip
pi and Louisiana regard the civil rights
issue as the only one in the current
presidential campaign. They have plen
ty of company in other states of the
South, ex of the Confederacy.
And they have plenty of company
in other states of the nation with the
glaring exception that the majorities in
other states favor the civil rights legis
lation passed by the recent Congress.
It is apparent the majority of the
nation does favor the bill which be
came law in July, else it would never
have won its heavy majority in the
House of Representatives, where mem
bers are notably sensitive to the wishes
of their cDnstituents, nor in the Senate,
when* members sometimes appear less
sensitive, but which was able to vote
clotun*, generally hated by all the 100
senators, on the civil rights issue.
This division has resulted in an un
usual number of defectors and feet
draggers among leaders of both parties.
On the anti-civil rights side. Governors
Wallace of Alabama and Johnston of
Mississippi are openly bolting the Dem
ocratic party, though still wearing the
label. Senator Strom Thurmond has
gone the whole route to join the Repub
lican party. Representative Albert Wat
son, of South Carolina, is bolting the na
tional ticket for the second consecutive
time, though retaining the ”D" label.
On the pro-side, Senator Keating of
New York won’t comment on his nation
al ticket vote, and Senator Case of New
Jersey is openly for Johnson. Both are
Republicans. And there is a full stable
of lukewarmers.
In North Carolina, the Negro lead
ership can’t decide what to do about the
governor's race, being afraid of Dan
Moore’s friendship to Dr. Beverly Lake
and afraid of Bob Gavin's GOP connec
tion with Gold water.
In all of these instances — and
there are many more — the civil rights
issue is being paramounted to the seem
ing exclusion of all others.
Apparently, many folk still regard
some matters as clear-cut, black or
white, when, except for life and death,
virtually all are shades of gray. ____
And there's a wide variance of
shade between charcoal and pearl.
The Calibration
Mountaineer Days began with a
minus due to the heavy rains brought
on by Hurricane Hilda. However, Kings
Mountain Military Park officials can be
credited with correct weather - signal
calling, as they canceled Sunday's
scheduled memorial rites at the open
air Park Amphitheatre.
But the sun broke through and the
prospect is for better days as the sec
ond annual celebration continues.
Miss North Carolina comes to Kings
Mountain Thursday to judge a talent
show.
There’s a street dance Friday night.
And Saturday afternoon there's the
big Mountaineer Days parade.
Break out the coonskin caps and
long calico frocks.
Meantime, considerable apprecia
tion is in order to Charlotte's WBTV for
its Sunday "Battle of Kings Mountain"
presentation. Written by Ed H. Smith,
of Kings Mountain, the WBTV staff pre
sented an authentic fast-paced portray
al of the historic events of that rainy
October 7, 1780, battle which broke the
backs of the British in the South and
led to the final victory at Yorktown.
Congratulations: to D. B. Blalock,
re-elected chairman of the Cleveland
County ASC committee: to Mrs. L. E.
Hinnant, elected a director of the North
Carolina Society. Daughters of the
American Revolution; and to Linda
Sherer, elected Kings Mountain repre
sentative to the Carolinas Carousel.
17 Million Per Day
General Motors Corporation placed
the wage loss to 2MO.UOO striking work
ers at $7 million per day, a tidy sum.
While General Motors did not indi
cate the company loss by the work stop
page, the amount is a large one and
could easily be figured, on average, by
simple division via recent earnings re
ports.
Apparently, the strike is near set- !
tlement, which will in* happy news for 1
all concerned, including the middlemen
dealers throughout the nation, who find j
themselves in retail business with di
minished inventories. Uncle Sam loses
his tax take.
Does anyone win a war?
The World Series
The World Series, baseball's fall
wind-up and one of the nation’s more
exciting annual spectacles, began Wed
nesday. after one of baseball history’s
most exciting and close finishes.
Both the New York Yankees and
St. Louis Cardinals had a one-game
edge when the season’s 162nd games
were logged in, and in the National
League, until the 27th New York Met
was out on Sunday, there was a tie pos
sibility.
What'll be new in the ’64 Series?
Will Mantle homer and break the
great Babe Ruth’s World Series record?
Will Johnny Keane employ a “Williams
shift” on one of the better-hitting
Yankees? Will anyone duplicate Don
Larsen’s perfectly pitched game? Will
some bench-rider be the Series star, as
was Rock Hill’s Dusty Rhodes in 1954?
Football, allegedly, is taking over
baseball's long-claimed role as the “na
tional sport".
But this weekend football will take
a back seat to baseball.
Mom Wanning Up
Gubernatorial Candidate Dan K.
Moore, in contrast to the customary
stance of North Carolina’s Democratic
nominees for governor, began the gen
eral election season with a seeming re
luctance to warm up to the national par
ty ticket of Johnson and Humphrey.
True. Candidate Moore said from
the beginning he had a record as a life
long Democrat, is now. and would be on
election day and would vote according
ly, but in many public speeches he failed
to mention the national ticket.
A high party official attempted to
apologize to this newspaper for the
Moore stance by saying there was no
precedent for a Democratic gubernatori
al candidate to extend his neck particu
larly for the national ticket. However,
the contention doesn't hold water. Kerr
Scott was plainly for Mr. Truman in
1948, Bill Umstead for Stevenson in
1952, Luther Hodges for Stevenson in
1956, and Terry Sanford for Kennedy in
1960. And, of course, in the four previous
elections, the nominees were solidly for
FDR.
Whether he looked at the calendar
or not. Candidate Moore, exactly a
month before election day. used a plat
form appearance at Wilmington Satur
day to make his strongest statement to
date in support of the national ticket.
He had no idea. Judge Moore de
clared, that North Carolina would vote
for the Republican party to which North
Carolina “owes nothing".
The Wilmington statement has a
lot of party-line Democrats feeling
much more charitable toward their
nominee.
The City of Shelby has a multi*
million bond issue election upcoming
Tuesday to build a sewage disposal sys
tem. Kings Mountain citizens will view
the results with interest. While they
have no personal stake In the outcome,
they know that Kings Mountain, too. is
nearing the deadline on handling its
sewage disposal problem in the western
portion of the city. It is high time engi*
neering work on the Kings Mountain
project was begun.
JT2
MARTIN'S
EDICINE
MARTIN HARMON
rnomHnt*: hita of win
iviadom, humor, and commenta
Directions: Take weektjf, b
l**sib/e, hut avoid
ovcrtloaage.
The bright idea the Met. hams
Association had to ask Mrs. Lyn
don Johns m to make Kings
Mountain a port of call Wednes
day on the ls4th anniversary of
the Hattie of Kings Mountain
didn’t get results, likely because
her itenerary called for a swing
through central South Carolina
to Columbia and thence to
Charleston
l
m-m
Rut the same idea of theyoung
1 lady who edits the Woman's Col
ilege i whoops, UNC-G, news pap
I er, the Carolinian, did. She wired
' Mrs. Johnson's press secretary
and the fad was unbeknown to
UNC-G officials First a repl>
i came that Mrs. Johnson couldn't
n-ake it nut the same day Great
er UNC President Hill Friday re
ceived a telephone call that Mrs.
Johnson would indeed stop at
Greensboro. President Friday
I called the UNC-G folk and they,
too. were in the dark. It resulted
in some hurried i becking, but
the stop-over was set up.
m-m
Many Cleveland citizens met
Mrs. Johnson in 1960, when she
spoke at a rally in Shelby, along
with then-Governor Uuford El
lington, of Tennessee, and U. S.
Senator George Smathers. She is
very gracious.
am
Many are evidencing boredom 1
with the current presidential
campaign, in spite of the fact
that the Republican nomination
of Senator Barry Gold water in
dicated a real choice between
two conflicting philosophies of
government Yet both Goidwater
and President Johnson have been j
attracting mammoth crowds in
their personal appearances over
the nation.
The polls continue to show j
Johnson far In the lead, which i
frightens the Democrats, who
fear complaceny among Demo
crats. and the polling experts,
who remember painfully theTru.
man victory of 1948. Since that
unhappy year for Dr. Gallup, all !
of the pollsters have taken new
precautions in gathering political
infoi-mation.
The several firms generally
use variations of the same meth
ods. Yet the sampling is quite
small. Dr Gallup, for instance,
according to recent reports in the
Wall Street Journal and Time
Magazine, projects nation - wide
results on samplings of 1300 peo- j
pie. an atomically small segment |
of a potential 80 million voters.
The polling people for the most
part use part-time interviewers
and their biggest chance of er
ror derives from cheating inter
viewers -those who do imaginary
interviews in the privacy of a ho
tel room. Gallup <and others)
have formed the policy of spot
checking the interviews for ac
curacy.
The polling people charge from
$3 to $7 per interview. Time re
ports. while the Journal says
some go as high as $15. which
makes the polling information
Cadillac-costly, even though the
sampling is Volkswagen size The
services of Pollster Lou Harris,
a college friend and school news
paper compatriot of mine, are
said to have cost the late Presi
dent Kennedy nearly SI million
in I960. No small change!
Lou, incidentally’, is quite sym
pathetic with those who lose by
one-whether the Reds and Phil
lies. who lost the pennant to the
Cardinals by one game, or poli
tical losers, like Aaron Burr, who
lost the presidency to Thomas
Jefferson by a lone vote in the
H o u se of Representatives.
Charles I of England, who lost
his head by margin of one vote
in parliament, or Sam Tildeit
who lost the presidency by two
one-vote votes. Returns from the
1876 election gave Rutherford
Hayfes a one vote electoral mar
gin. but there were many charges
of election irregularities to the
extent that an electoral commis
sion of 15 persons was named to
investigate the results. The com
mission voted 8 to 7 to reject all
the contested returns and Hayes
succeeded President Grant
Lou Harris lost the editorship
of the Daily Tar Heel. UNC stu
dent newspaper, to Orville Camp
bell. now publisher of the Chapel
Hill Weekly, by one vote. As re
cently as two years ago. Time
Magazine quoted Lou as saying
that loss was the major disap
pointment of his life to that date.
Two of Orville's current staff
members. Jim Shumaker and
Jim Dunn told me recently that
in Chapel Hill Orville is referred
to still as “Landslide Campbell".
The voter registration
pea Saturday.. .eke vote IS tm
Ounce of Prevention Is Cheaper
Fire Prevention Week
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Viewpoints of Other Editors
YOUNG PEOPLE
FROM WATTS
In the suburban community of
Watts, in the southeast portion
of greater Los Angeles, a group
of young colored people decided
to spend their spare time seeing
what they could do to improve
their surroundings.
They turned down the sugges
tion of peaceful picketing.
Instead they chose to make a
survey of Watts to see just what
they might do They found six i
empty old buildings that were
eyesores They found some rick
ety old fencing, and several ra
ther hazardous broken curbs, a
bandoned foundations, stumps
and other unsightly objects.
The youngsters organized into
committees, set to work. Some of
them cleaned up a few fences
and lots and made them look
better. Others called upon citi
zens in the block to put a shoul
der to the wheel, and found the
adults willing to help. It wasn’t
long before the city council heard
of the activities. Some of the |
empty buildings disappeared. As
enthusiasm grew Watts became
cleaner, presented a more invit- i
ing appearance.
The community now has more
pride. Chances are it will contin
ue to raise itself from a down-at.
the-heels colored section toward
the goal of a wholesome commu
nity. The people hold their heads
high and look to the future.
Those young people started
something that wins our respect
and admiration. They are on the
road toward full participation in
citizenship. People of all races
will welcutne them. Their pride
in self help and self improve
ment merits the respect of their
fellow countrymen.
If this spirit spreads there'll be
little need for the Rumford Act,
the FECP or the national civil
rights law. Turlock > Calif.)
Doily Journal
MENTION MY NAME
Being of some small service to
others, especially when it means
giving them the benefit of super
ior experience, confers a little
glow of satisfaction on the person
to whom the opportunity falls.
Not at all. we murmur on being
thanked, and we mean it because
the action has cost us practically
nothing in time or energy-. The
reward is all the greater when
we are able to back a recommen
dation for a friend with the
weighty words: "Mention my
name if you like.’’ There is much
credit to be drawn fr >m the re
mark ...
Sometimes, one must suppose,
the magic words produce the
right effect. “I was dining the
other evening with a Mr. So-and
So and he recommended me to
come and see you.” The idea is
that the mention of So-and-So's
name will . . .revive memories
overflowing with such gratitude
that heaven and earth will be
moved to give satisfaction ....
If. for example, the message
was intended for the manager of
a charming little restaurant in
Dubrovnik, it is probable that
the person who has been favored
with the carrying of it will have
forgotten all about it by the time
he gets there. Even if he has
not. It is unlikely that the res
tauranteur will remember So
and-So. who visited the restau
rant twice and who.. .exchanged
names and a few domestic confi
dences with him . . .No one is, in
affect, one scrap the better off—
except in some inexplicable way
the person who was simposkd to
he conferring the benefit
The Time* (Umtom)
•IF YOU LIVE
AMONG WOLVES..
Mr. Khrushchev said he did not
want to use the "monstrous" nu
clear weapons about which he
told his Japanese visitors But he
went on to quote a Russian pro- <
verb: “If you live among wolves,
you have to act like a wolf.”
Such statements have a mo
mentary logic. And the West may I
take some ironic comfort in the i
circumstance that three years a
go, when Mr. Khrushchov was
brandishing weapons, he thought
of the wolves as Western. Now i
he obviously is threatening Com- j
munist China.
The power of a new larger
weapon, if there is one. does not
mark a significant advance in
fhitltary effectiveness. Previous
weapons were big enough, or
could be made big enough But if
Mr. Khrushchev is going to be a
wolf among wolves, there may
be a psychological advantage in
unmistakably baring his teeth.
Then, however, the proverbial
wolfish wisdom breaks dowm
For if you live among wolves you
do not have to act like a wolf.
Indeed, it becomes especially im
portant to act like a man.
This is what the West is des
perately trying to do. In Vietnam,
for example, a big wolf could
easily tear apart the little wolves
of the north. But a man sees the
consequences of such action and
tries instead to work, however
fumbltagly, with understanding
and compassion, limiting the use
of fang and claw with political
intelligence.
This is what more than 100
countries, including Mr. Khrush
chev’s own, were trying to do in
signing the limited-nuclear-test
ban treaty. It is what eight non
aligned countries were trying to
do at the conclusion of this year's
disarmament talks at Geneva —
by urging the nuclear powers to
extend the test ban to under
ground detonations.
As long as Communist China—
and France, for that matter —
does not participate in ending
nuclear tests, many countries
will feel that there are still
wolves to reckon with. They will
keep the rifles ready. But the
measure of their enlightenment
will be the degree to which they
remember they are men. Know
ing the weapons stockpiles are
already* sufficient to destroy
themselves, they will work to
ward taming wolves instead of
acting like them.
Christian Science Monitor
1 A YEARS AGO
JL \J THIS WEEK
Items of news about Kings
Mountain area people and
events taken from the J9S4
files of the Kings Mountains
Herald.
Richard S. < Dick > Lennon.
Mullins. S. C. banker, lias been
elected vice-president and cashier [
of First National Bank.
Rev. W. C. Side*. Jr. is the new
pastor of Grace Methodist
church.
SOCIAL ASD PERSONAL
The Kings Mountain Woman's ,
club's 51st annual flower show. .
‘'Autumn Harvest ", will be pre
sented et the Womsut's dub Wed.
n—day with officials predicting
a Mner and better fair than in
USA
The Veteran j
Comer
EDITOR'S NOTE: Below arc
I authoritative answer* by the Vet.
! erans Administration to suirw* of
the many current questions from
! former servicemen and their
families. Further information on
veterans benefit* may la- obtain
ed at any VA office.
ty What pnx-edure should I
follow to obtain an increase in
compensation?
A If you can present evidence
to your VA Regional Office that
your service-eonni’cted disability
: is possibly worse than when pre
I viously rated, a rating examina
, tion will he arranged and your
right to an increase will he bas
ed on the evidence.
Q How can I make sure I w ill
i be buried in a National Onn
' tery?
A -Make your desire to have
this done known to your next of
kin or best friend. Have your
military discharge in a place
; known to the persons or persons
, you will depend on to carry out
i y ur plan in order that they can
identify you as an eligible per
' son when contact is made with
1 the Superintendent of the Come
tery /
Q -My father is permanent f
1 and totally disabled due to scr
1 vice-connected causes. How can I
1 obtain educational or training
benefits?
A -Make application to the VA
Regional Office and attach the
service papers which identify
your veteran parent and your
j own birth certificate. If. accord
! ing to the laws of the state, you
] are considered to be a minor,
1 your parent should also sign
your application.
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Dear friends,
Two little girls stopped
at the curb. They looked both
ways before crossing the street.
We just witnessed this occur
rence, and it shows that these
little girls have been coached
by soaeone, probably parents
and teachers, to be careful
about traffic.
Now if we can impress
drivers to be more careful, I
our safety problems would be 1
largely solved. J
Respectfully,