Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Herald
A weekly newspaper dewoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enltghtment. entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kin^s Mountain
and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
Entered as second rlas* matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C\, 23080
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873.
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Tag Office Bid
The Kings Mountain Merchants As
sociation seeks to do something about
a long-time conversation piece.
Why it is repeatedly asked, doesn t
somebody in Kings Mountain sell state
auto licenses? Why do I have to dri\e to
Shelby or Gastonia to stand in line to
buy my tag?
The answer, presumably, is that
none sought to become a tag agent. In
deed, under a long-ago arrangement,
those firms which undertook the chores
of handling tag sales rendered a con
siderable and costly public service. At
one time the sales commission was
something like 15 cents per tag, and
vendor accepted full responsibility for
counterfeit bills, rubber checks and
theft of tags, along with paying the ex
tra help required to handle the job.
But many Kings Mountain area
auto owners would Ik* benefitted by l>e
ing able to get their tags around the
corner rather than having to drive to
other cities for them, or ordering tags
from Raleigh.
This service organization, the Mer
chants Association wants to take on the
work and the responsibility and the
Herald hopes the Department of Motor
Vehicles will honor the request.
A best bow to Joan McClure and
Phyllis Pusey, Kings Mountain students,
tapped for honors program work at the
University of North Carolina at Greens
boro. They were among 51 of 1204 fresh
men thus'honored.
Fourth UNC Unit
Chief stumbling block, it will be re
called. to according university status to
each of the three branches of the Uni
versity of North Carolina, proved to be
unwillingness of some N. C. State alum
ni to the anticipated name change,
scheduled to have been University of
North Carolina at Raleigh.
Some other rather cumbersome
name, retaining the “State’' part, was
adopted, the sports writers continue to
refer to UNC-R as State, and State and
the former Woman’s College, now UNC
G, joined the Chapel Hill branch as gen
uine universities, which among other as
sets, empowered both to admit “co-eds"
and to convey doctorates.
The Greater University of North
Carolina, consolidated during the ad
ministration of Governor O. Max Gard
ner. of Cleveland, apparently is soon to
have a fourth unit, in the collegiate per
sonage of Charlotte College.
This week the trustees of the Great
er University petitioned the General As
sembly to declare Charlotte College the
fourth member of the UNC family. Gov
ernor-elect Dan Moore concurs, which
means the General Assembly will con
cur.
Such a decision is in order and
would prove highly beneficial to West
ern North Carolina. Indeed, Charlotte
College, begun not many years ago as
something of an experiment, has enjoy
ed rapid growth, ready acceptance by
students, and is producing good pro
ducts.
Concurrently, an effort is underwav
for establishment of a state medical
school at Charlotte. Presumably, the
two would become conjunctive at some
future date.
The population base of this segment
of the Piedmont justifies the petitions
of the supporters of both UNC-C and the
proposed medical school.
The tragic accident which cost the
life of Gresham T. Thornburg last Fri
day saddened, as it shocked, his many
friends.
Born to the soil. Mr. Thornburg
knew a life of hard work, which he en
joyed. He was not a showman, but. in
contrast, a normally quiet man who
liked to listen. When he spoke, he wast
ed few words. His words were as wise,
as pointed.
Those who kaew him agree heartily
With Neil Johnson, Foote Mineral Com
pany manager, who termed this valu
able member of his team “the salt of
the earth".
Education Pays Dividends
The theme of recently-celebrated
National Education Week was “Educa
tion pays dividends”. Education does.
There are exceptions at both ends
of the education pole; unhappily, in the
persons of those high-educated, yet im
practical folk who are unable to relate
their learning to practicalities; and.
happily, in the |>ersons denied for one
reason or another formal education, but
who acquire knowledge and skills for
themselves through basic ambition and
desire to excell.
For perhaps 1)9 percent of the
world, education does pay.
The dividends are monetary, social,
and even spiritual.
There are many human satisfac
tions, but one of the most consistent and
continuous is the personal knowledge of
a job well-done, whether the chore is
weaving a fabric, establishing a point of
law, consummating a sale, or holding
the attention of an audience during a ,
sermon or after-dinner speech.
The avenue to this type of success
is education.
Most persons who have been
through the formal education hurdles
will be quick to relate that it is hard to
compensate for a late beginning. High
school loafing causes college pain, and
elementary school slovenliness means
high school troubles.
Two growing trends in this state
point to improved educational products
in the future. More and moie emphasis
is being placed on lowering teaching
loads in the first three grades, where
greater individual attention produces
quicker comprehension thereafter. The
other is long-neglected expansion of vo
cational education combined with form
al instruction in a menagerie of skills.
Many other states have long recognized
the value of this program and it is good
to see North Carolina moving into this
practical swing of educational things.
High school diplomas are regarded
as minimal qualifications for employ
ment by a growing list of industries for
even the more menial tasks and college
degrees are minimal for higher echelon
positions.
Hail, The Mountaineers
Kings Mountain high school foot
ball fans have been entertained in most
royal fashion during the ten-game regu
lar season ended last week. Navigating
a ten-game schedule with no defeats is
hardly a partisan football fan's regular
diet.
Closest squeeze of the skein was the
cliff-hanger one-point win over strong
Rutherfordton-Spindale (not a suitable
game for cardiac and ulcer patients).
Great satisfaction was derived from the
eome-from-behind win over Mooresville.
and even greater pleasure from the 19-7
win over arch-rival Shelby, also contriv
ed in exemplary fashion after the enemy
had edged ahead.
The final win over Lincolnton was
quite decisive and elicited for the Moun
taineers high praise from the Lincoln
ton coach who declared Kings Mountain
the best high school team he’d seen.
All the above, and more, earned for
the Mountaineers the championship of
the Southwestern division of the 32
member Western North Carolina High
school Activities association.
But that was yesterday.
Current business at hand is at Shel
by Friday night as the Mountaineers
tangle with Hickory in pursuit of a fi
nals berth for the full-conference crown.
The word to the Mountaineers: Con
gratulations and best wishes!
A Lions Club fruit cake provides
excellent eating and aid to the indigent
blind.
! MARTIN’S
MEDICINE
By MARTIN HARMON
Ingredient*: bit* of new*
ui*dv, \ humor, and comment*
Directum*: Taka weekly, I;
possible, but avoid
orerdnsage.
It was after the Mountaineers
had logged their seventh win o!
the season, when I chanced into
Mrs. Clyde Murphy. mother of
Quarterback Pat and remarked.
"Seven down, three m >ro to go.”
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She replied. “N ;. five more.
Pat .'.on't allow me to talk about
only three!”
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Last week I said to Center*
Linehaekei Hubert McGinnis, "I
, sure hope you get this last one.”
He replied, "1 want the last
three.”
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I stood corrected again and
now the magic number of "re
quired” victories is reduced t >
two. with Hickory first, then
either Thomasville or Moores
, ville in the way of allthe-way
, football championship honors for
the full .12 • member Western
North Carolina High School Ac
tivities Ass •ciatian mow ain’t
that a tongue twister?.! Kings
Mountain’s B. \ Barnes, inci
dentally. has been president of
this organization for many years.
While sports competitions ate
the more pu dicized activities, the
association is the vehicle for oth
er com|*etitiors, including debat
ing and declaiming. The seere
tary is Wilburn Clary, of Ma n es
ville. a Gaffney, S C.. native,
and thirties football star at the
University of South Carolina,
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Tile St. Louis Cardinals cele
brated the thirtieth anniversary
of the 1931 Cardinal World
Championship, the famed "Me
iDizzy Dean* and Brother Paul"
year, by again winning the World
Championship. Tile Mountaineers
look hat k only t > 1956 for an all
the way football year, hut the
season of 3‘> years ago was quite
interesting.
W J. Fulkerson was the foot
ball coach and took a leaf out of
the college books by doing con
siderable recruiting. As team
manager, one of my chorps was 1
to transport four of the imports
home after practice. They wore
"Red” White. Labon Thornburg.
Theodore Thornburg and Clyde !
McSwain, all residents of the
Patterson Grove-Oak Grove sec
tion and big head - knockers,
toughened by summer duty be
hind the plow. Wray Barrett,
nmy.ja Baptist minister, was an
other farm lad who didn't play a
minute, suffering a broken leg
before the initial game. Jake
Early was the quarterback and a
little-butloud member of the
team was Creepy Leonard, a
drop - kicking specialist. Then
there was Cullee Short. Heman
Queen, Aaron (Big A) Hartsoe,
and John Elam, among the start
ing lineup
The previous season had been
unpleasant and the new one
started auspiciously as Leonard's
drop-kick earned a lie with Cliff
side. Transport to Cliffside was
by borrowed open truck and
some of the coys stopped off at
the Cleveland County fair on the
return jaunt.
But the piece-de-resistance of
the season was a 6-6 tie with
Cherryville. first time in the
school's then-short football his
tory that victory had been de
nied the Ironmen. As has happen
ed since in Cherryville. as when
Kings Mountain logged its first
victory over Cherryville in 1951.
tempers of both fans and players
wwxed hoi. Jack Kiser, now' Lin
colnton's athletic director, was
the Cherry coach and as both
squads milk'd into the gym words
ww passed between the compar
atively small Coach Kiser and
towering Bon Thornburg Scrap
py Jack went to the attack, but
no blood was spilled, as others
separated the battlers.
Dr. George Plonk relates •
personal incident from that sea
son on his baptism into football
game fire. He'd been fuming a
bout riding the bench. Newton,
with Dick Gurley coaching, was
the powerhouse of that era, and
invaded the Mountaineer ball
yard located on the site of the
present American Legion Build
ing. 9ome Nearton player stuck a
cleat into big Bon's brow and he
headed for the sidelines, blood
streaming. George recalls. "Ful
kerson looked up and down
the bench and I guts* he had
trouble spotting me for, after
what they’d done to Bon, I no
longer minded warming the
bench.” He commanded. "Get in
there Plonk!” George adds, "I
did, but I was scared to death.”
Last game of the season was
at Morganton with the School
for the Deaf. Though our ranks
had been depleted by some quit
tees and dropouts, we all felt
sorry, during the pre-game warm
up, for those little fellows who
could neither speak nor hear.
The sympathy lasted little long
er than the initial play, for our
hosts proved gracious only after
the whistle had tooted the end
of a play. They often extended a
helping-hand to these big Moun
taineers they'd just superimposed
on the ground. Final score:
for the Deaf. 30. Kings Mountain
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Words and Music by Lyndon B. Johnson
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IN THE
SADDLE
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The Veterans I
Corner
EDITOR'S .NOTE: Below arc
authoritative answers by the
Veterans Administration to some
of the many current questions
from former servh-cmon and
their families. Further informa
tion on veterans benefits may he
obtained at any VA office.
Q I am a mem cr of the po
lice force, and I find tliat there
are some restrictions in life in
surance |>olicies because of this.
Is this true also of my <21 life
insurance?
A Tire restrictions you men
lion are those imposed Ireeause
larv enfoivem«-nt is considered a
hazardous oeeupation There are
no such real tie! ions on <»I insut
anee. The veteian may engage in
i any oeeupati.*. no matter how
ha/ardons. without affect on the
1 terms of the policy.
Q 1 pay premiums on m\ <11
insurance Quarterly. and I am
* concerned luvause I have not re
ceived my |>remium due notice. | (
feel uneasy about waiting any
i longer to make this payment.
Should 1 wait until I receive this
notice?
I
A By all means pay your pre
miums when they beenme due,
■ even if you do not receivt* the
- premium due notice. Remember
you hare a 31-day grace period
i from the due date. Be certain to
include your policy number with
your remiltance.
Viewpoints of Other Editors
THE TOO LONG
CAMPAIGN
Although if took until the final
clay of the 1964 campaign, the
candidates for Vice President fi
nally agreed on one thing: Poli
tical campaigns ate too long.
Campaigns have '.;ecome "too
long, too expensive, too arduous
on the candidates and 100 boring 1
for the public," said Representa
tive Miller. On the Today tele
vision program Senator Hum- ,
phrey said the campaign "may
very well have been too long”
and suggested that both major
parties hold their conventions in j
early September and* begin cam-i
paigning in mid-September or \
later.
A more compact campaign
would allow Congress to keep at
the Nation's business into the
summer without the diversion of j
conventions and would make the
candidates present their argu
ments more concisely. The short
er campaign might also decrease
sensational claims and charges
that seem to emanate from poli
ticians having too long to talk
and too little to say. and would
offer the political parties an op- I
portunily to cut campaign costs. ,
There are other persuasive
reasons for both National Com- j
mittecs to give Mr. Humphrey's
suggestion cartful study. One is j
that the campaign schedule as
now constituted is a serious (
threat to the health of the candi- j
dates. No longer can a campaign
manager decline speaking invi
tations because of distance or
lack of time. Local political lead
ers are insistent. They want the
magic of a presidential candi
date In the flesh. If the pace
must he maintained, perhaps the
distance of the race can be re
duced.
The Washington Boat
Q. AMD A.
(Recentlyl 300 airline steward
esses had a convention in Chica
go. One of the questions they
asked of their bosses concerned
the food service for passengers
on the coming Mach 3 (three
times the speed of sound* flights.
For example, on such a flight
from London to Los Angeles, if
the trip left at 6 a.m. it would
pass over Tulsa at 1:15 a.m. the
same day and land at Los Ange
les at 12:30 «.m.. five and one
half hours before leaving Lon
don. Would breakfast he served
aloft?
Or. stewardesses will be leav
ing Manila at 11 a m. on the
fifth of the month, pass over Los
Angeles at 10:30 pm. on the
fourth and land at St. Louis at
1:15 a.m. on th« fifth. They may
transfer tmmedUtHy to a west
bound flight taking off at 2 a.m
on the fifth and land at Hono
lulu. their home baas, at 11:30
on the fourth. Assuming they re
ceive their pay up to and includ
ing the fifth, would they owe the
company when they’ get home
on the fourth?
Answers: Never mind break
fast. We're too dumbfounded to
eat And. wait in St. Louis a day.
There's a fine zoo in Forest Park.
The Tulaa (Oklahoma* Tribune
I
REALISM AND IDEALISM
The United Nations has just
celebrated if that is the right
word - its 19th birthday. It has
beer, ridiculed, ignored, misun
derstood. and misrepresented in
its short life to an extent and de
cree known only to religious in
stitutions. It has been seen to try j
to do too much or too little.
What Matthew Arnold said of
the Christian Church could apply
equally to the United Nations
i men cannot do with it as it is
anti yet they cannot do without
it). In the modern world the fact
of UN's survival is in itself no
small achievement. But neither it
noj-jfs future can be taken for
!st>ntrd.
In the nuclear age it is not
easy for nations or groups of na
tions to be "wise as serpents”
and “harmless as doves." Yet it
is this blend of idealism and real
ism which best serves the inter
ests of the UN. It is exemplified
more in the Secretary-Genera I U
Thant's proposal that Commu
nist China should be included in
a summit conference of the nu
etear Powers than in his sugges
tion —however desirable it would
bo—that Mr. Khrushchev should
he permitted to make a public
statement on the circumstances
leading to his replacement.
The UN can only gain in sta
‘ure anti influence as it is seen
•o he as much aware of the harsh
realities of power as of the limits
which must be placed on the ex
ercise or violation of that power
It is not enough for the UN
stmpl.v to survive; it must be
helped to grow. There is urgency
in that growth.
Sir Hugh Foot is not to be dis
missed as an alarmist when he
says that “time is short for the
UN” He speaks with command
'ng realism when he points to
the ugly fact of racial conflict
He speaks as a realist when he
shows how the conflict in South
Africa could spread to the whole
of Africa and beyond. But even
warnings — like pious hopes of
eventual world government- are
insufficient in themselves. Bri
tain is likely to be wrell served in
having Sir Hugh as its perma
nent representative at the UN.
To his difficult tasks Sir Hugh
will bring, along with his obvious
dedication, determination, exper
ience and skill. The new govern
ment, after all. is pledged not
only to support the UN but to
seek means to strengthen its ef
fectiveness.
The Manchester Guardian
Weekly
1 A TEAKS AGO
1U ran week
/ferns of new* about Kings
Mountain area people and
events taken from the 1M4
files of the Kinge Mountain
Herald.
The Central Methodist church
Senior Choir, under the direction
of Miss Bonnie McIntosh, will
present a Thanksgiving cantata.
“The White Pilgrim’’ on Sunday
evening at 7:30.
The Beth ware school Parent
Teacher Association will sponsor
a fall festival at the school Fri
dey.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Members of the Double Deck
Bridge dub held its November
meeting last Tuesday night at
the home of Mrs. W. M. Moor
head.
Mrs. J. M. Rhea was hostess
to members of the Study dub at
her home Tuesday.
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