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The Kings Monntain Herald
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general wrlfur and published
for the cnUphtment, entertainment and benefit of the eitiaten* of Kin:** Mountain
and it* \iolnity. published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
Entered as second das* matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. 2S0RC.
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873
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Re-elect Whitenev
United States Representative Basil
L. Whitener is seeking a fifth term in
Congress.
Time was, before re-districting prior
to the 1962 elections, that any Demo
crat. as Mr. Whitener is. was a shoo-in
in that Congressional district.
The re-districting, with North Caro
lina losing a seat and accompanied by
a Republican resurgence in some seg
ments of the state, proved a difficult
task to assure continued Democratic
dominance. Mecklenburg County’s GOl*
leanings proved sufficient to keep
Charles R. Jonas in Washington, and
the new ninth district elected Republi
can James Broyhill, of Lenoir.
Mr. Whitener also figured to have
more difficulty and did. Adding the mar
gins in the 1960 counties, it was figured
Mr. Whitener might could count on no
better margin than .'>000 votes. Yet he
carried the new tenth district by nearly
double that figure and against a candi
date the Herald (and local area Repub
licans! consider was stronger than W.
Hall Young, of Avery county. Mr. White
ner’s 196-1 opponent.
Mr. Young has campaigned person
ally in the district, but has made few
pronouncements of import. Those he
made in an address here indicated a
keen desire on his part for a return to
the "good old days” — minus welfare
outlays, unemployment compensation,
and other social programs which have
proved imperative to the public welfare
of the nation.
Representative Whitener, of course,
has a record. He was instrumental in
passage of the cotton bill, which ended
the unfair competition to cotton textile
manufacturers, and he has rendered im
portant service on both the House Ju
diciary and District of Columbia com
mittees. Additionally, he has attended
to his home work, in accomplishing the
myriad informational, liason and expe
diting tasks which are the special pro
vince of the district representative.
It is a good record.
Mr. Whitener should be returned
and we predict he will be by an even
larger margin than in 1962.
The death of President Herbert
Clark Hoover removed an elder states
man who rose to a peak of popularity,
became the most-maligned chief execu
tive of the current century, then recoup
ed his esteem and popularity by a con
tinuing variety of public service work
in his post-presidential years.
President Hoover, like President
Grover Cleveland in 1H93, had already
been sworn into office before the world
was hit with a great economic depres
sion. Though he was blamed for it, his
tory students today acknowledge he was
paying the debts of those who preceded
him.
Perhaps the only valid charge
against Mr. Hoover, who took economic
improvement measures which had prov
ed good in previous business crises, was
he did not realize the scope of the de
Itression. which produced Adolph Hitler
n Germany. Conversely, during 1931-33
he was confronted with an enemy Con
gress considerably guilty of playing pea
nut politics in successful efforts to re
gain the White House.
When he entered office he was one
of the nation's most popular men. typy
fying the American dream of the self
made man. who, after earning wealth,
turned to public service — as food ad
ministrator for starving Europe and as
secretary of commerce.
In his latter years, he was a valued
advisor to Presidents Truman, Eisen
hower and Kenned)-, did yeoman service
to the nation as chairman of the com
mission which bore his name on govern
mental reorganization. Many of the pro
posals were adopted.
Besides hard and continuing work,
which Mr. Hoover regarded as better
therapy than medicine, his chief corner
stone of character was an absence of
hate, a gleaning perhaps from his Quak
er background.
All would benefit frqga practice of
the Hoover formula.
Yes Vote Self-Interest
Citizens of North Carolina, perhaps
those of this county and area more par
ticularly than some, should put in "X”
beside the “yes” square on the ballot to
determine whether North Carolina is
sues $100 million in bonds for school
construction.
It’s a matter of self-interest, both in
the direction of more adequately pro
viding classrooms for the state’s $1,200,- 1
(MX) school children and in tax-paying
frugality.
North Carolina has been blessed for
the past decade with an expanding in
dustrial base and population increase.
Via the state's tax laws, this has meant
a burgeoning of general fund revenues.
It also means that the state can issue
the $100 million in bonds and amortize
them over a 20-year period without any
increase in tax schedules.
The same is not true tor the 170 ad
ministrative school units, where majori
ty have issued school building bonds
virtually to the limits of both legal and
practical ceilings.
Repeating: Kings Mountain school
district's share is slightly over $374,000,
an amount which school officials de
clare will provide for immediate needs.
The board of education squeezed out
'•ome much-needed parts of the new
high school plans due to shortage of
cash and know judgment day is near on
required improvements and expansion
at the new Davidson plant.
Let's Make It
Kings Mountain’s record of giving
to the United Fund, supplying funds for
several Kings Mountain civic, charit
able, and service agencies, has been
somewhat embarrassing in prior years
when compared to that of other cities,
whether of comparable, larger or small
er size.
Already this year neighboring Bes
semer City has met its goal of $15,(HX).
Mooresville, comparable in size, has ex
ceeded a $28,000 quota.
Kings Mountain's goal is slightly in
excess of $23,000, hardly a sum to
frighten a community of this size.
Prior history show results at a max
imum of 85 percent of quota, with lows
of about 50 percent.
Liberal donations are dictated.
Ruins C. Baker
Kings Mountain has lost one of its
native and life-long citizens in the per
son of Rufus C. Baker, better known to
several generations of Kings Mountain
citizens as “Mr. Rufie".
Mr. Baker, who would have observ
ed his ninety-first birthday in Novem
ber. was another of those rugged in
dividuals. born in the hard Reconstruc
tion period following the Civil War. who
learned early the requirements and ben
efits of hard work and honest dealings.
For many years a Kings Mountain
grocer. Mr. Baker was still in harness
well into his octogenarian years.
He was a man of wit and good hu
mor. a loyal churchman, devoted to his
family, his many friends and this com
munity.
For Dan Moore
Bob Gavin, making his second con
secutive bid for governor as the Repub
lican nominee, has been a much differ
ent candidate this year. In 1960, Mr.
Gavin was ill-informed on matters of
s'tate government and proved it from
the platform on many occasions.
In the current campaign. Mr. Gavin
has been articulate and informed. He
has Impressed hearers by his willingness
to answer questions on any and all is
sues. has. in tact, adopted much of the
platform of Richardson Preyer. who fail
ed in his bid for the Democratic nomina
tion.
But the Gavin vote-getting bait of
removing the food tax and providing in
come tax relief is little more than that.
Governor Terry Sanford asked, but did
not get, income tax relief from a friend
ly General Assembly. Bob Gavin could
get neither from an enemy one he would
be sure to have.
Dan Moore will make the better
governor.
MARTIN’S
MEDICINE
Wf MARTIN HARMON
Ingredient*: bit* of new*
wMow, humor, ami comment*
Dilution*: Take weekly, I,
possible. hut avoid
overdoaage.
Hiden Ramsey, editor of the
Asheville Citi/en. in a spm'h to
tin- press association some years
ago. averred, "There's nothing as
dead as yesterday's newspaper."
He was e irrect, in a measure,
hut might have added until the
old newspapers become venera
ble and yellow and valuable doc
uments of unrememhered his
tory.
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Thus, in process to writing the
story last week of President
Hoover's visit of state to Kings
Mountain in 1930, I gleaned some
detail I had not previously
known. As a lad of ten. my spot
to see ttie President. Mrs. Hoov
er and the entourage was the
side stoop of the old Mountain
View hotel. Clyde Sanders re
calls his viewing spot was from
the t>ank corner. In 1930. of
course, the West King street
bridge over the railway was nine
years distant and West Moun
tain street was the highway to
Shelby.
Particular new news out of B
J. King's Herald sprvial edition
for the occasion was the dedica
tory program for the new Fergu
son grave marker.
Trying to loam whether any
other Chief of State had ever
paid call to Kings Mountain. I
momentarily forgot that Presi
dent Franklin D. R *ose\elt pass
ed through in a motorcade to the
Green Pastures rally in Charlotte
in August. 193fi. Again the motor ,
cade route was the same, and my
viewing spot was thp Mountain
View hotel corner. Mr. Roosevelt
had boon dedicating the Clreat
Smokey Mountain National Park.
It was the occasion when some
one missed signals and the mo
torcade took the unadvertised
road through Shelby, to the ker n
embarrassment of some and the
great disappointment of many
others. The motorcade had trav
eled through sporadic summer
showers. When Roosevelt arrived
at Charlotte's Memorial Stadium
and started to begin his speech
he eyed heavenward and report
ed, “I see a rainbow in the sky!"
The crowd saw it. too. and roar
ed its approval of the inference
the battle against the Great De
pression was being won.
w-m
Ren Moomaw, the National
Park superintendent, informed
me that U. S. Senator John W.
Daniels, of Virgihia. was the
chief speaker at the centennial
ceremonies at the battlefield, j
when the centennial monument *
was dedicated. Ben also reports
an interesting sidelight. Photo
graphy was an undeveloped art
in those days and Harper's
Weekly was the pictorial news
magazine of that day. Harper's j
employed artists to depict sp<-cia1
events anil dispatched one to
cover the centennial celebration.
The unnamed artist, unfortunate- j
ly. imbibed a bit too heavily of
the drink that cheers, hut blears
However, he still did his draw- \
ings which were subsequently
published. But he depicted Sena- ,
tor Daniels, speaking from the
podium on two sound legs. The
Senator had lost a leg in Pick- J
ett's charge at Gettysburg, walk- i
ed on crutches and pinned up his
pants leg.
My best presidential reviewing
spot was at Chapel Hill when
Roosevelt spoke there in the late
thirties on a cold, rainy night
headed hack to Washington from
Warm Springs, Ga. As a clarinet
footer I had virtually a front
row seat and we played “Hail to
the Chief" enthusiastically. When
President Kennedy spoke at Ke
nan Stadium in 1961, I was mys
tified when the band omitted the
traditional musical salute to
presidents. Later I learned Mr.
Kennedy had requested the omis
sion.
President Harding passed be
fore I would have been old en
ough to remember him. 1 never
saw Presidents Coolidge. Tru
man. or Eisenhower in person,
nor have I seen President John
son in person. Had I been less
stupid. I would have seen then
General Eisenhower at the war
time Caseblanca conference. I
had company. We working in
communications knew there were
some big doings underway, but
read about the meeting of Roose
velt and Churchill and other ma
jor leaders of the Allied team in
the PMit Morocaine. Caseblanca
newspaper after the chiefs had
departed.
Next door neighbor George Wil
son. just back from an lX-month
baseball stint in Japan, had two
ex Zero pilots as coaches on his
team. Invariably, he relates,
when he makes a new Japanese
acquaintance he is ashed, "Why
did you drop the bombs on us?”
The point was to convince Japan
they were beaten anti, first, to
save American lives. I'ndoubted
ty. Japanese lives were saved,
too.
George's little girl Kelly play
ed with Japanese children, quick
Ip learned to con versa la Japan
ese. Says her Mother. "She’d talk
to us In Japanese and we didn’t
know what ah
Can:c.
Aantty///ccaton,
Viewpoints of Other Editors
WILL THE REAL
PRESS STAND UP?
Even Journalists fa" into the
habit of referring to "the press,"
and we suppose there is no con
venient way of getting around
the term.
It is nevertheless a badly mis
leading noun when it is used as
the object of specific praise or
criticism.
Take the role of the nation's
newspapers, news magazines and
television networks in the cur
rent presidential campaign, for
example. Everyone is familiar
with the attacks on “the press”
by many Ooldwater supporters
for showing an alleged bias a
gainst their candidate.
But what "press" are they
talking about? Few newspapers
are more vigorous in their edi
torial support for a candidate
than the Charleston News &
Courier, the Chicago Tribune, the
Cincinnati Enquirer and the Oak
land Tribune for Sen. Ooldwater.
A lonely minority, someone
says?
Not so at all. The trade journal
Editor & Publisher questioned
777 daily newspapers late in
September and found that 493
had taken a possession in the
presidential race.
A majority--250 newspapers —
had come out in favor of the Ari
zona senator, while 343 endorsed
the President.
Parenthetically, the papers
which supported Johnson had a
total of twice the circulation of
the Ooldwater - oriented papers.
But given the clearly discernible
appeals of the two campaigners
—Mr. Johnson to urban popula
tions and Mr. Ooldwater to the
towns and cities of rural Amer
ica - the circulation figures are
not illogical.
It is not even very accurate to
speak of “the liberal press” or
“the conservative press.” This
newspaper has occasionally been
labeled by readers as “liberal.”
We yield to no such pat descrip
tion. and we are certain that
members of the New York Post
would consider us the next thing
to die-hard reactionaries on some
issues.
Conversely, t h e Charleston
News A Courier and the Chicago
Tribune are both staunchily con
servative, as the term is current
ly used, hut they are many
leagues apart on the key ques
tion of racial policy.
There is a "press,” all right,
but like so many other things
these days, it defies a simple and
expedient definition.
The Charlotte Obnrrvrr
SANCTUARY
Help can come from unexpect
ed places.
The Raleigh News and Observ
er is running on its editorial page
a series of quotes by Barry Gold
water entitled "Goldwaterisms.”
Monday's Goldwateristn was:
Fraternities: “Where fraterni
ties are not allowed, communism
flourishes.”
Which should prove beyond
a reasonable doubt that there
t any communism flourishing
around Chapel Hill And presum
ably even Beverly Lake wtll take
jpai typoldwater's w0td for it
Chapaf Hitt Weekly
NOT A CURE
Dr. Murray Ross, president of i
York University, offered sound
advice to 100 freshmen when he
assured them that the use of sti
mulants would not help students
become productive persons; not
would the cultivation of an un
kempt or unclean appearance
make creative poets of them.
There is. as Dr. Ro6s went on
to point out, no short cut to the
development of talent; no gim
micks that can he used to induce
talent. There can be no substi
tute for consistent, determined
and disciplined work.
The student who turns to pep
pills, however, may be doing so
as a result of emotional stress
rather than in any attempt to
release hidden talents. In neither
case, of course, can stimulants
be regarded as a solution, but Dr.
Ross, having informed the fresh
men that they should not look to
the pill box for help, might ha\e
gone on to offer a healthier al
ternative.
A survey carried out among
University of Toronto students
by the Student Administrative
Council earlier this year reveal
ed that half the male students
i ai.d 64 percent of the female stu
, demz felt they needed help with
I emotional, financial, academic or
social problems.
Perhaps the most significant
j point elicited by the survey, how
| ever, was that 75 percent of the
men and 63 percent of the worn
| en did not even know that such
limited counseling services as ex
ist at the university were avail
able to them. This by itself
, should he enough to prompt uni
. versity authorities to dev clop
; counseling services and encour
age their use by the students.
The Globe trtul Man f Toronto)
THE MOLEHILL
Oud Solomon's-VVisdom or Jus
| tice-Tempored - with - Mercy A
i ward this week goes to Atlanta
Police Lt. B. F. Marler. He was
' called to a restaurant where a
man and his wife were 23 cents
short on their check. (We won't
say what kind of award the res
tauranteur gets., Lt. Marler set
tled the problem quickly: He
loaned the couple the 23 cents. "1
wish tW*y were all that easy." he
said.
If there were more men like
Lt. Marler around, maybe there
wouldn't he so many problems
to begin with.
Atlanta Constitution
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1 A TEARS AGO
L \J THIS WEEK
Item* of newt about Kings
Mountain area people and.
events taken from the 1954
files of the Kings Mountain
Herald. i
Kings Mountain and Cleveland
County citizens will go to the
polls Tuesday to conskler four
separate ballots and to help de
termine the results of North Ca
; rolina’s biennial election.
The Kings Mountain school
band attended the University of
; North Carolina • Wake Forest
football game at Chapel Hill last
Saturday
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
New officers of the Study club
were elected Tuesday night at a
tegular meeting at the home of
Mrs. B. S. Heater, Sr.
The Veterans
Cenex
EDITOR'S NOTE: Below are
authoritative answer* hv the
Veterans Administration to some
of the many current questions
from former servicemen and
their familk*s. Further informa
tion on veterans benefits may l»e
obtained at any VA office.
Q Is a peacetime veteran pro
teetod by re employment rights?
A Yes. if he left other than a
temporary job to enter service
and if this service did not ex
ceed four years. Usually he must
apply to his former employer
within 90 days after seperation
from active service. However, re
servists and National Guards
men who perform service of
from three to six months must
apply within 31 clays of their re
lease from active duty.
A principal beneficiary under
a National Service Life Insur
ance policy elected to t ike* the
proceeds on a monthly install
ment plan, even though a lump
sum stcelement was availahlo^^
He died before receiving all
the installments. Who reeelvec^^
the unpaid portion of the police-,
the* continigent benefifiary?
A The remaining installments
would not he paid to the contin
gent beneficiary. Where the prin
cipal beneficiary has the option
of a lump sum payment and sur
vives the insured, the* rights of
the contingent beneficiary are
wiped out. The commuted value
of the unpaid installments would
be paid to the estate of the prin
cipal beneficiary.
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DRIVING CAREFULLY
Isn't Always Enough!
No matter whose fault It is. an accident is ALWAYS cosily!
Be sure financial coats are covered by insurance.
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KINGS MOUNTAIN. NORTH CAR CHINA
Dear friends,
Drive safelyl Everybody
advises it, but the needless
sacrifices go on at the same
terrible rate.
Perhaps if the public
could see the consequences of
highway accidents as we see
them, the appeal for safety
would have some effect.
Time after time the awful
waste of human life has been
brought home to us and we wonder
why it has to be. In the name of
humanity, let us drive carefully
Respectfully,
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