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Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Herald
A weekly newspaper demoted to the promotion of the general welfare and pubiishe 1
for the en-ghlment, entertainment and benefit of the ritizens of Kings Mountain
and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
Entered as second class matter at Ihe jiost office at Kings Mountain. N. C.. 2S0R';
under Act of Congress of March 3. 1873.
EDITOniAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon . . Editor Publisher
Gary Stewart .Sports Fditor
Mix* Elizabeth Stewart.Circulation Manager and So -.ety Editor
Miss Helen Owens .* Clerk
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
A man shall not bt nlubhahed hi) tchhednr**: hut thr root of th> n.thtr,,,,* shall not h< nvaeri.
Prorrrhs I
‘Terrible" Terry
In a bit over a month Terry San
ford, one ol the more youthlul Gover
nors in the state's history, will turn over
this important mantle of responsibility
to Governor-elect Dan K. Moore, a suc
cessor he <tid not prefer.
The Governor is quick to acknow
ledge that he will leave office next
month as somewhat less than the most
popular chief executive the state has
had, but he does not apologize tor the
accomplishments of the past four years.
Nor should he.
The Governor wasted little time
proving himself a realist. His campaign
committment to improve education he
knew would require additional revenues
and he, in the tradition of Kerr Scott
with his road program, said the addi
tional money would have to be provid
ed. That he came by the cash by return
ing the sales tax to the home table made
Sanford a whipping boy for political
snipers — many of whom admitted
privately they felt the sales tax expan
sion quite fair.
New industry promotion, the big
push program of Governor Luther
Hodges was continued with record suc
cess.
His much-maligned highway com
mission (nothing unusual here) built
more primary roads than ever before
and ran second only to the Scott Ad
ministration in secondary road work.
His successor incidentally expects to
call for changes in the highway commis
sion set-up (as Sanford himself did) and
will get them. It will be noted, however,
that Judge Moore merely wants to re
sume the arrangement prevailing before
Governor Hodges put textile efficiency
to the commission with his seven-mem
ber board and state-wide concept. In
turn, Governor Hodges reaped perhaps
his greatest criticism in this direction.
On a personal basis, one of Gover
nor Sanford's more admirable traits is
a willingness to accept criticism without
losing his temper and it stood him in
good stead. He came closest to apparent
anger in dealing firmly with race dem
onstrations when the demonstrations
exceeded the bounds of law and order.
State Treasurer Edwin Gill’s now
classic observation that, in North Caro
lina. good government is a habit is well
supported by history.
And Governor Terry Sanford has
continued that tradition.
Sports Editor Gary Stewart’s review
of Kings Mountain high school football
ers who won all-conference honors over
the past decade made an imposing list.
Congratulations to this year’s half-dozen
honorees, Pat Murphy. Lyn Cheshire,
Hubert McGinnis, Jim Cloninger, George
Plonk and Richard Gold.
The team of Kings Mountain United
Fund solicitors have reached at last re
port the 65 percent mark on the 1965
quota of more than $23,000. It is a goal
that should be reached and can be.
Christmas Is Nsar
Where did the last 11 months go?
A Kings Mountain businessman
posed the question a few days ago and
the question is applicable to all but the
youngsters, who, traditionally, know
that Christmas will never come.
But Christmas is near, and the post
man, merchant, and others will be re
minding each and all to attend to
Christmas business early.
It’s a wise dictum to assure best
selections.
Most of us, however, will be har
riedly finishing the chores on Christ
mas Eve.
Congratulations to Dr. George
Plonk, newly elected president of the
Cleveland County Medical society.
Man of the Age
It is a popular pastime to honor
citizens for good public service by nam
ing them "man of the year" or "woman
of the year”.
Sir Winston Spencer Churchill has
this paper’s nomination as "man of the
age".
Sir Winston, who reached the age of
!Xi on Monday, had numerous career's
spanning several generations. Caustic of
tongue, he was not always popular and
during the thirties was at a low ebb of
popularity with his own party.
During World War I he was fired
as First Lord of the Admiralty after the
ill-fated Dardanelles campaign which is
still regarded by naval experts as one of
history's most brilliant military designs.
It failed because of poor execution.
Mr. Churchill is an impeccable com
mander of English prose, l>oth of the
spoken and written word. His addresses
ot World War II enheartened and in
spired not only his own nation but the
Free World, and his history of World
War II, in six documented volumes, and
his tour-volume “History of the English
Speaking Peoples" are "must” inclusion
in good libraries.
Hindsight being much superior to
foresight it has long been apparent that
Sir Winston's strategic ideas on invad
ing Europe's "soft underbelly", rather
than France, would have saved the post
World War II Free World much real es
tate and treasure and would have di
minished the danger of new lethal con
frontations.
Not a man to tease himself, he ex
emplified this attitude in a 1944 state
ment: “If I am accused of this mistake,
I can only say with M. Clemenceau on a
celebrated occasion: ‘Perhaps I have
made a number of other mistakes of
which you have not heard.' ”
The Free World w ishes Sir Winston
Churchill many more happy returns of
birthdays as the venerable nonogenari
an launches his tenth decade.
Doleful for Dole
Bill Dole, 13-year veteran as head
football coach at Davidson College has
resigned, under admitted pressure.
Meantime, alumni groups have be
gun fund campaigns with the end-point
aim winning football teams.
Most agree Davidson’s football
troubles cannot be laid completely at
the Dole doorstep. Davidson's student
capacity is limited and her scholastic
requirements high. Perhaps this is as it
should be but it has not permitted grid
iron success.
Another wing of thought is that an
educational institution, be it high school
or college, should aim at excellence in
any and all activities it undertakes,
sports or debating, as well as academics.
There often exists academic faculty
jealousy of the sports group, though this
may not have been true at Davidson.
Coaches often receive a greater stipend
than other faculty members. However,
coaching tenure is seldom as long. Carl
Snavely was greatest, when with the
four-year tenure of Justice A Company
he was beating arch-rival Duke and
making New Year’s bowl trips. But the
atmosphere changed when victories
waned.
Sympathies go to Coach Dole, well
known here in Kings Mountain, along
with best wishes to Davidson that a
change of command will put the Wild
cats on the high road to more victories.
Hearty congratulations to James
Forrest. Kings Mountain student at
State, who has been tapped for mem
bership in Phi Kappa Phi, national hon
or fraternity.
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MARTIN’S
MEDICINE
•y MARTIN HARMON
Ingr+dienta btta of uric*
ictM/swii, humor, tturi comment a
Direction*: Take weekly, i,
possible, but avoid
orcrduange.
My wif»* averred at breakfast
the othci morning site was sute
that Judge (jjti M ^itt* will prove
to hi a good govern.»r. amt pai
tii uhrlj *o s'n.e he ha* appoint
ed Ed Rankin, our friend of ions;
stand,n-_ as director .if adtninis
t rat ion
M
Kd was a college classmate
and both >>f us majored in jour
nalism. U >th .if us took the navy
route dining World Wat Ii. Kd
first enlisting as a yoenian. later
bein ' tapped for a . om.i ssion
and subsequently sen ng as <k.p
per of an LST in African anti
Britain waters,
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I am considerably in Kd < debt.
It was he who got ire a job on
' the eoHeg" newspaper and who.
a year later, was my associate
editor without portfolio. Me
wrote a iiersonal column, as well
as introspective editorial copy.
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From Spencer. Kd's journalis
’ tic godfather is John Maiden
1 who trained Kd as a juvenile on
| 'he Salishurv Post. Ed followed
John in many different chore
until finally, five years ago. they
! became partners in John Harden
| Associates, a public relations
, fit m.
Ed has l>eon in and out of gov
■rnmont since 191fi. when John,
then secretary to Governor
Gregg Cherry, brought Ed from
the (' dumb.a, S. C„ Associated
Press bureau to ix* public rela
tions s|h <-alist for the State
Highway Commission. A year la
ter Kd went to Washington with
Senator W. B. Cmstead. did a
stint with John and Burlington
Industries before joining Govern
or Cmstead again in 1953 as per
sonal secretary. The late Mr. Cm
stead suffered a heart attack
just after being inaugurated as
governor and Ed had the respon
sibility of running the governor's
office for the two years Mr. I'm
stead survived. Ife stayed on as
personal secretary to Governor
Luther Hodges. It was rumored
several months ago that Ed
would assume the same role for
lovern n -eleot Moore, hut Ed
said not. For the nearly eight
years Ed was in that slot, he re
alls very few meals, breakfast,
lunch, or dinner, when he wasn’t
*nterropted by a jangling tele
phone.
It was lfljfi that a group of col
lect* friends got together in Ra
leigh after the DukeCarolina
game. Ed among them His good
friend John Harden had made
room reservations for us and
imagine Bert Premo's and my
surprise when we found that we
suddenly had acquired wives,
lohn had made the reservations
in the names of Mr. and Mrs.
Bert Premo and Mr and Mrs
Martin Harmon, though both of
us were still quite single. Both of
is could envision the good name
of our lady friends heing be
smirched but we couldn’t get that
Idea through to the desk clerk.
“What difference does it make?”
he shrugged. "The cost is the
same." Returning to Kings
Mountain the next day I worried
the whole 171> miles that I might
have an aeeident with resulting
unpleasant, painful and unde
served publicity.
Ii was with Ed that I atteded
my first Duke banquet during
the mid-winter press institute.
Our late journalism professor
had got us tickets and we hailed
a ride with the late Bill Arp
Lowrance. of Charlotte. The
speaker was an AP military an
alyst and we knew the food was
good, though wc didn't know
what we were eating In that we
had plenty of company. The piece
de resistance was roasted breast
of kect Many of the state's top
editors confirmed later that they
had to check their dictionaries to
learn that keet is a synonym for
guinea.
Another debt I owe Ed is my
interesting and educational
months on the state probation
commission. I had guessed that
Ed had recommended me to Gov
ernor Hodges and that assess
ment proved correct.
Ed is a walking bank of infor
mation on North Carolina gov
ernmental history. It was he who
informed me that the Governor's
Mansion was built during the ad
ministration of Governor Jarvis
and that the Mansion was
promptly referred to as "Jarvis'
Folly''. It was also he who told
I me that the new State Legisla
J five building cost $1.2-1 per man
woman, and child In North Caro
lina
It was November 30 two years
| ago that Ed. in a rundown with
Kill Joslln. my wife and me. list- j
| <*d among the likely successful
I candidates for governor both
Judge Dan Moore and Judge j
Richardson Preyer. which proved j
quite prescient.
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If Governor Moore’s other ap- J
point men ts are as eminent as his
appointment of Ed Rankin Mr. I
Moore will have a great learn |
Some Like'em Real Short
WHAT DO YOU SAY
TO CUTTING OFF
10% ?
htoVvy
tyooown,
Celanese Nets
.45 Dividends
NEW YORK Directors of
Celanese Corporation of America
today declared a dividend of 15
i-ent* a share on the common
stork, payable Dererr.her 22 :‘*U.
to shareholder* of regard Decem
hor s. linil.
The hoaid voted regular quar
lerlv d.vidends of SI 12's per
share on the preferred stock,
series A. and SI 75 per shale on
the 7 percent second prefei red
stock. Both preferred stock divi
dends are payable January 1.
1965. to shareholdeis <>f record
December S. 11*91.
The hoard also vol«*d an initial
dividend of »!.«»•* [>er shat** on
the convertible preference stock
payable January 1. IfHi.-* to hold
ers <>f record at the ilose of bus
ness on December *. 1961. The
dividend is foi liie period I mm
September l. 1961. the date to
which dividends on the • .inverti
ble preference stock <>f t'hamplin
Oil and Ri fining t’o were paid
prior to the merger with Ocla
nese. to December 31, 1961.
Winn-Dixie Notes
Soles Increase
Winn Dixie's 640 supermarkets
here and throughout the South
recorded a 5.H3 sales increase
during the four week period end
ed Nov. II compared to the eor
responding period last year.
The voiame was $70,263,321
compared to $66,394,713 a year
ago. For the twenty-week p<-rf<«l
ended Nov. 11. sales were $311,
.365.726 eompari*d to S323.152.93S.
an increase of 5.63 percent.
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Viewpoints of Other Editors
24-CARAT NONSENSE
That glod-plalcd girl who re
; oently adorned the cover of Life
magazine is hatred from tele
vision. thanks to some unabash
ed dalliance between a labor un
ion and the 1' S. Government.
She's a British lass named
i Shirley Baton, here to tout the
film "Goldfin jer." the latest
lames Bond epic to he immortal
ized on celluloid. In it she plays
ihe lady friend of a villain who
does her in. sup|H>sedly from skin
suffocation, by augmenting her
.natural state with head to-toe
gold. Her uromoters wanted to
i ake advantage of obvious oppor
tunities by scheduling her on
some TV shows. But the Immi
gration Service refused to issue
her a work permit because she
was opjmsed by the television
performers’ unions.
At first blush, this may seem
an unadorned case of upholding
native interests against foreign
nnes. But it seems American in
terests would have been fully
covered by the promoters' offers
to donate fees from her TV per
formances to the union and hire
American actresses just to stand
by. Moreover, there were plenty
nf U. S. interests on her side —
the moxie exhibitors wanted her
to appear, the television people
wanted her to appear, and very
likely, a good hunk of American
manhood wanted her to appear
In any case, you might suppose
Governmental rules could be ad
ministered with a bare minimum
of common sense. But perhaps
it's too much to expect that gold
en quality when decisions come
from union brass.
The Wall Street Journal
NO TWINKLE
When Eve ale that apple, she
set off a series of perplexing
events that have led. thus far. to
such un-Edenlike things as the
hydrogen bomb and the presiden
tial campaign.
Since hers was such a fateful
hunger, it is disappointing that
the Bible doesn't say whether shr
enjoyed her snack or not. Consid
(■ring all the trouble she caused
us, it should have been the most
succulent apple in all the uni
verse.
Odds are. however, that it was
only a run-of-the-orchard apple
with only an ordinary flavor.
Since it must have been a glossy
red beauty to provoke her to dis
obey orders, she may even have
been disappointed with the first
bite.
That's the way new found
knowledge is sometimes.
Take the experience of the
Lockheed test pilots who have
been making their first flights
through the fringe of the earth's
atmosphere in the new K-1(V
fighters. And tlv* U-2 pilots whr
have been cruising around IT
miles alx>vc the earth.
They learned that the starr
don't really twinkle. They pro
luce nothing better than a pin
point glow.
Students of science have knowr
for some time that the atmo*
there diffuses the light coming
from the stars, but this little ray
of unwanted enlightenment ha'
been kept from the couples in
lovers la neat and most of us ordi
nary star gazers.
Knowledge is really quite de
pressing.
If the stars don’t twinkle, this
•neon isn't made out of cheese
»nd a rainbow leads to noth n"
more promising than a field o#
wet leaped tv a. what are we left
with?
The Charlotte
SO GROWS THE OAK
Some won't like this. We're
not even sure we do. But it's
somethin*; to consider at least.
We're speaking of the trend
rapidly becoming an avalanche
in our Twentieth Century of ana
lyzing. categorizing and defining
anti-social behavior. More and
more often, it seems, the whole
vastly complex phenomenon of
crime is being heaped upon the
parents
We're not psychologists. We
speak entirely on whatever qua
lifications are established by be
ing citizens of the phenomenon.
We're not sure who started
this escape valve type of clinical
don’t • blame • me - blame • my •
parents battle cry ... It see.r.s
to us it's a little too pat. a little
too easy, and a trifle overwork
ed . .. .
Not all of us came from homes
where dad was a pal; mom a
trusted confidant, but some did.
Some? Many hundreds did,
and that's too many exceptions
to the rule of parental blame.
-So, to excuse the world’s soci
ological ills, in the final desper
ate microscopic analysis as some
sort of weakness in the fabric
and morality of home-life is tor
conveniently casting stones
where they are least deserved. As
a matter of fact, recent medical
research suggests a child’s "anti
social patterns" will soon be pin
pointed five years after birth. In
other words, the twig has a)
ready been pretty well bent be
fore subjugation to excess home
maladjustments.
Home and parents didn't send
many of us here, and we've tor
long overplayed that hand. But
perhaps the parents are at fault
in one way They've encouraged
and abetted the idea they were to
blame for our bank faced igno
rance. For right down to the end
they attempt to shoulder our own
blame and gladly accept the re
tponsibility because of that cer
tain indefinable something a par
?nt holds for his child.
Some won't like this; the skill
?d may even dispute it. Yet.
somehow, we feel we’re right.
San Quentin (Prison/ Sews
TEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
Item* of unci about King*
Mountain area people and
event* taken from the 1954
filet of the King* Mount ait -
Herald. '
Santa Claus comes to town for
a public appearance next Wed
nesday afternoon and mm
rowtls are expected in King.
Mountain for a record-size Chnai
mas opening parade sponsor?
•y the K.ngs Mountain Mer
chants Association in cooperatio
with numerous other civic, indus
rial and church groups.
Dr. D. F. Hord, Jr. was elected
,unior grand master of the Nort.
-'arolina chapter of Psi Omega
dental fraternity, at the annual
omention at Chapel Hill Satur
day,
SOCIAL A.\D PERSONAL
Mrs John O. Plonk has return
ed from a week's visit with Mr
and Mrs. W. H. McElwee ant
family of Burlington. She alsc
visited Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Weav
er in Greensboro.
Hie Holiday Season . . .
Always brings extra lighting problems for the home. espe
dally with the Christmas dor-orated rooms. Be sun* your lights
are properly installer! . . . and see us for insurance.
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Dear friends,
... A suggests tliat we
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«oalAi ‘ If everyone
would do this, we believe
there would be wore happiness
and much less co«pi*int.
thankful for th^°
P«t year,C<>ne t0 duri"*
May your Thanksgiving be
* happy one! g be
Sincerely,
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