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^jj$r The Kings Mountain Herald
A weekly newspaper devoted to tha promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enlistment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain
and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
Entered as second clasa matter at the pest office at Kings Mountain. N. C. 2S08G
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873.
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Hnavrbu 19:18
Buren S. Neill
Many Kings Mountain area citizens,
as well as others, were saddened this
week by the death of Buren Shuford
Neill.
Mr. Neill came to Kings Mountain
in the Dark Depression days of the early
thirties to become chief executive offi
cer of First National Bank. No better
rneasure of his abilities could lie found
than In the lact that First National re
opened immediately after the 1933 bank
holiday in sound fiscal condition—which
many banks throughout the nation did
not enjoy.
Mr. Neill was a witty and kind
hearted man.
One Kings Mountain businessman,
who opened a business several years ago
on a self-admitted shoestring tells how
Mr. Neill proved himself an invaluable
friend. In fact, he told the businessman
a legal means of check “kiting". Said
Mr. Neill, "You’ll be sending checks to
New York, Atlanta and all parts of the
nation. They won’t be clearing at one
time. Meantime, you’ll be having daily
receipts. Keep your bills paid and, if you
find yourself money short, we’ll make
you a loan to cover.” The businessman
did just that and has proved quite suc
cessful.
Mr. Neill successively held the posi
tions at the bank of cashier, executive
vice-president, and finally president be
fore his retirement.
Associated with civic enterprises
throughout his residence in Kings
Mountain, he made heavy contributions
to the work of Central Methodist church,
the Red Cross and virtually all other
community enterprises.
He also, for several years, served as
a valued member of the Kings Mountain
district board of education.
We shall miss friendly B. S. Neill.
As promised after Kings Mountain
telephone subscribers voted in favor of
toll-free service to Gastonia and Dallas,
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
Company has announced that line in
stallation work will be completed and
the new service ready for cut-on in May.
It is this newspaper's guess that
most folk — in all three communities —
will find themselves dialing the other
cities lar more than they anticipate.
Generally speaking, citizens who
have kinfolk in Gastonia or considerable
business activity supported the toll-free
movement as a potential cost-saver,
while some 35 percent of the subscrib
ers, with little telephonic traffic in the
Qastonia-Dallas direction opposed.
One lady was commenting in the
"l never call Gastonia vein recently”
when it was mentioned that Dallas could
be dialed cost-free, too.
"Oh, that’s better,” she beamed, “I
have a sister who lives in Dallas and I
suspect we'll have right much conversa
tion."
Congratulations to Carl F. Mau
ney on his re-election as president of the
Lake llontonia Club. The statement on
club operations showed a busy and pros
perous year during 1964.
Buy a "community” auto tag from
the Kings Mountain Lions club, if you
have a Kings Mountain postal address.
Half the proceeds will be given to the
John Gamble Stadium Fund.
Onetime Kings Mountain citisen
William P. (Bill) Saunders has been
named by Governor Dan Moore as act
ing director of the Department of Con
servation and Development, a position
Mr. Saunders filled with considerable
success in the administration of (gov
ernor Luther Hodges. The announce
ment of the Governor said Mr. Saunders
would serve through ike legislative ses
sion or until a successor is appointed.
Does Governor Moore intend to keep the
veteran in harness and make the ap
pointment permanent^. Itvfrould be a
good decision on the Governor’s part.
Fash 'Em Up
One of North Carolina's more emi
nent sons, John Motley Morehead. died
last week.
Grandson of the Tar Heel governor
(a good one) by the same name, Mr.
Morehead beeame a millionaire several
times over and worked hard at spend
ing his treasure in charitable and edu
cational projects.
More than 400 have been provided
a university education through the
Morehead scholarships, and the Univer
sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
could not have been benefit ted more in
the space age than by his gift of the
Morehead planetarium. He also shared
in the gift of the famed UXC landmark,
the Morehead-Patterson bell tower.
It was Mr. Morehead’s thinking that
a small percentage of the nation's citi
zens will do the thinking for the rest,
and it was for this reason he sought to
put a premium on the very quick of (
mind. It was this reason that he did not j
award scholarships on basis of financial !
need.
Speaking to a group of Morehead
scholars in his latter years, he advised,
"If you find you must push somebody
out of the way to get ahead, push ’em
— but push them up. The fellow might
become the company president some
day, and, if you'd sought to push him
out, where would you be?"
Practical, yes, and also moral.
Being Neighborly
The matter of city fire departments,
even for fees, honoring alarms to areas
outside the city limits has long been sub
ject to criticism by the North Carolina
Fire Insurance Rating Bureau, which is
again complaining about Kings Moun
tain’s policy.
Under present set-up, a citizen or
firm outside the city buys a low-cost
rider to his fire insurance, the rider
guaranteeing the city a fixed fee should
a fire occur.
On paper, of course, the rating bu
reau official is perhaps correct in won
dering whether city taxpayers should
foot the bills for equipment to answer
outside calls.
There are some areas where the
figures are less important than intangi
bles.
When a neighbor is in trouble —
and certainly a fire is sufficient trouble
—the neighborly act is to help him.
The city practiced the same neigh
borliness in giving its sub-marginal fire
truck to the new Bethlehem department.
Mgkt To Work
This newspaper has never found
particular fault with the Taft-Hartley
Act provision known as the “right-to
work” law. The implication is that,
though a union wins an election, belong
ing to it is not prerequisite to his work
ing for that firm.
President Johnson, in calling for its
repeal, is appeasing labor's leaders who
have conducted a vendetta against this
and other portions of Taft-Hartley since
its enactment.
Practically, it would seem labor is
fussing heavily over a law that is more
onerous in look than actually.
Normally, once a union organizes a
plant the rank-and-file fall in.
It was 1939 when one firm in this
state found a union supported by a thin
margin of 11 votes. A year afterward,
virtually all production employees were
union members.
Basically, the right-to-work provi
sion is fair. If a fellow doesn’t want to
join the lodge should he be required to?
King Winter finally hit this area
with a major snowfall and low area tem
perature. The variance in climate by the
several seasons is one of the benefits of
residence In this area. Weather boredom
is alleviated.
Thae is expiring for listing ef prop
erties for taxes and there is little ques
tion but that the last minute filer will
be faced with queues. And penalties are
prescribed for late filing.
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MAR'TIN'S
MEDICINE
Wr MARTIH KAMCOH
Ingredients: bits of am
iri*dom, humor, end comments
Directions: Take weekly, i,
possible, but avoid
oierdoemye.
From Jack Barham in "the
shadow of the pyramids ’, Cair >,
Egypt has arrived an interesting :
letter, his second to me since he
wont to the United Arab Repub
lie. He reports that he. wife
Helen and their three fine chil
dren had a wonderful Christmas,
feasted at Christmas dinner on j
turkey and the trimmings and :
had a Christmas tree which had
been shipped in fiom Syria.
In his initial letter. Jack had
ordered the Herald, commented
in the recent letter dated Janu t
ary 4. "The Herald has the dubi
ous distinction of being the first !
North Carolina paper to be dis
trlbuted in Egypt. Congratula
tions on your wide circulation."
Jack also related that, as he
wrote, the Arab world was lie
ginning the celeoration of Ham i
adan. ninth month of the Moslem •
year, the month in which the >
"Koran was sent 4'*wn as fluid i
an<v for the people", it is a
month of fasting, ami the fast is
binding on all adult Music r_s of :
both sexes, except f <r the aged. •
the sick, nut sing or pregnant !
women, and travelers on a pro
longed journey. Fast days miss
ed must be made up outs.de of
Ramadan. Fasting extends from
sunrise to sunset. The dictum, ac
cording to the article by Aziza
Rashad. "Eat and drink until a
white thread may be distinguish
ed from a black, then keep the
fast strictly until nightfall".
Miss tor Mrs.) Rashad says
that fasting does not merely im
ply a physical fast. Five things
the prophet stated annul a fast:
a lie, backbiting, slander, a false
oath and a glance of passion —
which strikes me as a pretty good
moral code.
Official UAR government
hours during Ramadan are from
10 a m. to 2 p m.. and it is cus
tomary for the tasters to nap un
til sunset when they eat the Iftar
meal.
Smoking is forbidden during
Ramadan and coffee is also ta
boo, as are alcoholic beverages.
Jack didn’t relate that he was
observing the celebration.
His address is US AID Cairo,
State Department. Washington,
P. C., 20521.
From Robert Munson, with the
Peace Corps in Lagunillas, Vene
zuela. which he describes as a
city about the size of Kings
Mountain and located high in the
Andes Mountains, comes an in
teresting story, carried elsewhere
in today's edition, about his first
Christmas In that Souh American
country
1 have only spent one Christ
mas in a foreign country, that
one in French Morroeco during
World War II. The French peo
ple there celebrated the event
much as we do. I recall hearing
the mel3dy "White Christmas’*
for the first time there but not
at Christmastime. A young navy
ensign named Levin arrived in
February and it was the only
tune he could manipulate on the
piano.
I'm bragging • little
Henry NeisWs report that
Dicey Fabrics’ brown tweed up
holstery material was chosen by
Mrs. Lyndon Johnson for a spe
cial chair i subsequently expand
*xl to a dozen) for the White
House gave me a tickle, for it's
the same fabric I chose last sum
mer for the tiring room sofa. It
is obvious that Mrs. Johnson has
impeccable taste.
The day we visted Dicey, Hen
ry gave my wife and me a tour
of the plant. A few days later I
chanced into his father and re
marked. "You folk sure are
making some pretty stuff."
Paul jested in reply. “Yes. but
we’re making some, too. that I
think is mighty ugly, but it aalis.
and I guess that's the point."
Paul. Sr., also uses the samto
fabric Mrs Johnson chose at his
residence.
John Caveny. o f Margrace
Fabrics, agrees with Mg. Nelsler
lie Khs Mamed by mtpetrimce
that the fabrics he prefers may
not be what John #. Mttic
wants at an—and vice versa.
His Words Gave Us Strength
Ice Capades
To Featnre
25th Show
CHARLOTTE. N. C dee Ca
padiN 23th anniversary show
coming to the Charlotte Colu»eurn
Friday. February 12th through
Monday. February 15th is really
seven big show* in one.
There are seven big production
numbei s and over 20 specialty
acts in the show which will lx*
.staged once on Friday, three
times on Saturday, twi«v on Sun
day and once on Monday.
Over 100 skaters are starred
and featured in the show. Cos
tumes alone cost over 82.i0.000
and the big tw->-Iev«»l stage. With
dancers performing on the to
level over the skatiTs emu many
thousands more.
Stars of the show include the
always popular Romayne &
Steele, the badminton champ
Hugh Forgie. Comedians I*ibiv
que anil Hussey and Hans Leiter,
Lynn Finnegan. Brigitte, Otto
and Maria Jelinek, the Japanese
star Sashi Kuchiki and Spank >
the skating chimpanzee.
Newcomers include the Czech
oslovakian champion Aja Zanova.
the German champion Peter
Voss, new American champion
Tommy Lit/ and the Japanese
marvei, Mitsuko Funskoshi.
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Show t: res are 8:00 p.m. Fri
day, 1:00. 5:00 and 9:00 p.m.
Saturday. 1:30 and 5:30 Sunday
anil 8:00 p.m Monday. Ticket;
priced at $2.00. $2.50. $3.00 and
$3.50 may be purchased at the
Charlotte Coliseum or ordered by
mail. Children will he admitted
for half price Monday.
Viewpoints of Other Editors
PRESIDENTIAL AND
VICE-PRESIDENTIAL i
SUCCESSION
Two solemn and related ques- j
tions. which have long hung (ire,1
seem likely to be resolved this !
year. They are: procedures (or
determining presidential disabil- !
Ity. and prxedures (or filling a j
vacancy in the vice-presidency.
There is often some under
standable hesitation in facing
questions of this nature. But the
assassination of Predident Ken
nedy, the resulting vacancy in
the vice - presidency, and the
vagueness and ambiguity of the
Constitution of the United States
concerning vacancy and disabil
ity in high office have combined
to make these issues pressing
ones for Congress.
Indeed, Congress already has
before it a resolution sponsored
by Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana
setting forth measures by which
the vice-president could accede to
the presidency in the event of the
president being judged incapable
of performing his duties. This
bill also provides the means for
choosing a new vice-president.
The Senate passed this bill in the
fall of 1961 hut the House of
Representatives adjourned before
acting upon a companion meas- t
ure
fnw i
Economic Development has pre
sented recommendations on both
these important topics following
a long and careful study.
It is an indication of the wide
spread measure of agreement
felt throughout the United States
on these issues that the Bayh
resolution and the CED propos
als are remarkably similar.
On filling a vacancy in the
vice-presidency both the Bayh
bill and the CED study recom
mend that it be dine through
presidential nomination with ap
proval of a majority of tioth
houses of Congress. The only dif
ference is that the CEl> recom
mends that congressional appro
val be given in a jc'nt session.
On the quest i >n of determining
presidential disability, there is
only a slight difference between
the two recommendations. Under
the Bayh resolution the president
in writing could declare himself
unable to carry out his duties. If
the president did not. the vice
president with the written con
currence of a majority of the
Cabinet or any other body speci
fied by Congress, could declare in
writing to the Congress that such
disability exists. If. however, the
president disagreed with the vice
president bother over the form
president either over the farm
such disability had ended, the
president would either retain or
resume office, unless a two-thirds
vote of both Senate and House of
Representatives agreed ihai dis
ability did exist. In any event,
the vice • preddent would dis
charge the duties and powers of
the office, but would not inherit
the office itself.
Under the CED. the vice-presi
dent or any Cabinet member
could initiate discussion of presi
dential disability. Here, again, a
majority vote of the Cabinet
would be needed for action. As
for determining when a disability
had ended, the CED recommends
that this be a Cabinet responsi
bility. with the president concur
ring
Since these two recommends
ttons — one by a Senate subcom
mittee. and one by an impartial
board of thoughtful. pubUefnlnd
od citizens — are in substantial
agreement, there would seem to
be wisdom In proceeding along
these Urns to an early solution
‘RENEWAL* AMONG *
THE HYMNS i
The problems of "renewal,” of
modernization, among the
churches are pointedly Illustrat
ed by the compilation of a new
Anglican hymnal The volume
will drop, among other hymns
that have acquired a patina of
familiarity, “Nearer My God to
Thee." on the ground that it is
sentimental, but "doctrinally
vague.” The charges may be ac
curate enough but much tradi
tion has gathered about the
hymn, and there will be many in
the Church of England who will
miss it.
It is easier to make out a case
against “From Greenland's Icy
Mountains.” although it has its
own connotations of sacrifice and
heroism in the missionary' field.
. .Nevertheless, for whatever the
old song may have of nostalgia,
there will be regret.. .There is a
price to pay for renewal, and
while it may be small in contrast
to the gain, it has the sting of
loss. -Sew York Herald Tribune
The first snowfall is semiwel
come. Perhaps you cannot argue
the point with the children. They
clap their hands at the sight of
the snjw that the rest of us
would have been content to await
a little while longer Ski enthusi
asts. too- they do not have pro
perly open minds on the subject.
In cities and suburbs where
more and more of us live, that
wonderland effect of newly fall
en snow soon tarnishes. Car
wheels churn up sparkling white.
The sand that public authorities
spread along the roads stains it
•brown.
And just about then, no matter
how lon< ago or how recently the
last snow came, it is time for the
next. Make it an inch, or better
two or three. Not more, or we
are back in a traffic jam.
This fresh whiteness is more
welcome than was the first. It
covers the worn places in our
winter. It does not deprive us of
green stretches of lawn aa did ;
the first snowfall. It does not
pull a white dust cover over the
salons of autumn or the captive
visions of a past summer that we
had hung on their walls.
It is all gain. Unless, that is, it
comes too late in April, or too
early in May.
Christina Science Monitor
10
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Herald.
B. S. Peeler. Jr. wu named
Kings Mountain's Young Man of
the Year lor 1954 at the regular
meeting of the Junior Chamber
of Commerce Tuesday night.
Formal opening of the new ed
ucational building at Central
Methodist church will be observ
ed for a week beginning Sunday
morning, with Kings Mountain
dtiaens being invited to an open
house from *10 to 4:30 o’clock.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Members of the Kings Moun
tain Garden dub met Wednesday
afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Dsn Finger.
Speaking Out
»Y
GEORGE T. MOORE. President
Kings Mountain Ministerial
Aim.
By GEORGE T. MOORE
A foot of snow is big news,
especially for an area which en
joys the best year round climate
one could want. It's a fact. This
part of the Piedmont is hard to
beat as far as weather is con j
cemed. I’ll take it in preference
to any other locality I’ve ever
known.
I suppose it’s only natural,'
therefore, to speak of crisis when >
the weather gets out of kilter for!
us. As many have said. “We just,
aren’t prepared for such condi-1
lions." Schools are closed. Busi- j
nesses run on a limited schedule
or dose early. Churches call off
services and other related activi- j
ties.
On the other hand there are
increased demands on particular
services and items. Boots, heavy
clothing, fuel and tire chains are
sought and purchased. Work
crews and equipment labor long
hours under adverse conditions.
Normal activities are replaced
by the abnormal.
In the face of the current situ
ation of plenty of snow it Is rath
er interesting to note, more than
anything else, the human reac
tions to the ‘crisis.’ reactions
which seem to be typical for
most crises.
There is always the reaction of
excitement. We never seem to get
entirely free from the thrill, even
as adults. It’s the sort of excite
ment which draws people to
wrecks and fires. It doesn't seem
to matter that adversity creates
danger or hardship for many.
To be sure, a snow is a beauti
ful sight. It has a special attrac
tiveness. It covers up for a brief
time the dull and d*ab landscape
of winter. It provides a special
diversion and play situation for
youngsters and adults alike.
That’s good!
In contrast to that there is the
reaction of ‘negativism’ which
gives vent to all sorts or excuses,
cither for complaint or lor halt
ing all activity. It is true that
for the sake of safety and well
being one must exercise can- and
caution. However, there is a vast
difference between facing ad
versity and giving in to it. Com
plaints never helped anyone.
They simply stifle the human
spirit.
To sit down and do nothing is
to surrender to weaknesses which
always need to be overcome. To
do nothing is to refuse opportu
nities which could both enrich
and strengthen.
There is a place for relaxation
an-t enjoyment and I suppose
that the TV could help to some
extent — even though most pro
grams aren’t worth your time.
There's the greater opportunity
for other activities we normally
neglect. How about reading a
good book, a worthwhile book?
How about writing a letter to
that relative or friend long neg
lected? How about reading a
book at the Bible, one you have
n't read in a long time?
How about that special repair
job you keep putting off. or the
refinishing of that pieoe of furni
ture? How about playing a game
with the children, games we used
to play before we got so busy?
You have your own opportuni
ties. Make time your useful ser
vant. Don't let it became your
cruel taskmaster. It's one of your
most precious possessions!
An advertising slogan asserts:
"You weigh 10 >pars too many."
The fart of the matter is that a
person's ideal weight may be his
we.-ht back when he was in his
early twenties-and the North
Carolina Heart Association oar
tainly agrees that -verwelght
should bo avoided. Fad diets,
however, can be har.nful to heart
and health, and the state heart
group urges consultation with
the family physician before un
dertaking special weight-reducing
diets.
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