A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enUghtment, entertainment and benefit of the eitlzens of Kings Mountain
and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House
Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain. N\ t\. 2S086
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873.
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The Money Bludgeon
North Carolina school officials as
weil as those throughout the South arc
getting a close of the facts of lift* as they
respect use of federal funds.
At a recent seminar at Hickory, for
instance, Attorney-General Wade Bru
ton informed Kings Mountain and other
school officials in the western portion
of North Carolina that the statement
they must sign, under the lfltvl federal
civil rights act, to continue to receive
federal funds, likely would not prove as
innocuous as it might initially appear.
The statement itself merely declares
that the particular hoard of education
will abide by the act.
This will not be news to many. The
federal government has long spent
share-type money with the states in
building highways and specify minimal
standards relating to type of construc
tion and access.
Contractors on federal projects
know they are subject to the federal
minimum wage act. whether or not they
are in inter-state commerce.
Similar situations exist in other
federal aid areas.
In a way, the educators are merely
being called “home”.
It is natural for the fund-furnisher
to tell the fiddler what to play, or at
least how to play.
At last report, school officials had
not totaled the federal contributions to
the operations of the schools In the re
cent fiscal year, a chore which requires
some specific analyzing, since much of
the federal monies are parts of three
way share situations. However, the
lunchroom contribution alone, some
$35,000 or more, is sufficient indication
that majority of boards can ill afford to
fail to sign the agreement with the fed
eral department of Health, Education
and Welfare.
Will signing of the agreement speed
integration of Kings Mountain area
schools?
One school board member, discuss
ing the law informally last week, thinks
not. Whether or not the agreement is
signed, then* are other legal means of
speeding integration, he said, as has
been proved in other nearby states.
Best Bow, Kiwanis
The civic club movement, rather
much spawned in the United States and
spread to other countries, has been a
phenonomen of this century, showing
phenomenal growth and phenomenal
success.
There are the Kiwanians, the Lions,
the Optimists. Rotarians and Civitans.
others we take it. too. and the sum total
or civic service on both local, national,
and world-wide basis would be hard to
total without the larger computers.
Among the oldest of the interna
tional groups is Kiwanis International,
now celebrating its Golden Anniversary.
Each tends to attempt to advance a
special, if not exclusive program of
service. With the Lions, it’s blind aid
and sight conservation. With the Op
timists. It's youth work.
FVom the standpoint of the Kiwanis
motto, it is possible Kiwanis Interna
tional is among the more generic in pur
pose. This motto is “We Build *.
Kings Mountain Kiwanis club is
exactly half the age of its parent organi
zation.
Ortainly, the Kings Mountain unit
has honored throughout its 25 years the
"We Build" pledge. The Kings Mountain
club has been Identified with virtually
every community-wide endeavor during
that period. In addition to many it has
handled alOrte.
A hearty best bow on these twin
anniversaries to Kiwanians here and
everywhere.
Ooaely approaching deadline*: tax
listing (business and industry should
not forget the twin duty of supply in
ventory figures to the county tax super
visor) and the pre-penalty payment of
1964 tax bills.
I
Amos F. Dean
The death of Amos F. Dean shock
ed his many friends, many of whom did
not know his health could have been
better for the past two to three years.
Mr. Dean was an especial friend of
this newspaper and had been since he
opened his automobile dealership here
some 16 to 17 years ago.
He was always friendly and frank,
attributes which do not always travel
together. No native, he was as loyal to
this community as any citizen. His high
character showed in many directions,
chief among them his regular practice
of taking the right course, rather than
the expedient one.
There is a saying, not necessarily
true, that the good die young.
But it applied to Amos Franklin
Dean.
Sir Winston, Himself
Sir Winston Churchill was an ac
knowledged master of English prose,
both spoken and written, and his pro
ducts of English prose, both spoken and
written, were copious.
Last summer, on the occasion of
Mr. Churchill’s retirement from the
House of Commons, the New York
Times published a series of Mr. Church
ill's quotations under the headline "The
Churchill Spirit — In His Ow n Words".
Here are a few of this newspaper’s
favorites:
In 1944 — “A love of tradition has
never weakened a nation, indeed it has
strengthened nations in their hour of
peril; but the new view must come, the
world must roll forward.”
In 1945 — “The inherent vice of
Capitalism is the unequal sharing of
blessings; the inherent value of Social
ism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
In 1947 — “No one pretends that
democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed
it has been said that democracy is the
worst form of government except all
those other forms that have been tried
Irom time to time."
In 1915 — "The truth is incontro
vertible. Panic may resent it; ignorance
may deride it: malice may distort it, but
there it is."
In 1952 — "It is a fine thing to be
honest, but it is also very important to
be right."
In 1950 — “I do not consider that
prefixing the words T am informed that
. . . .’ relieves one of all responsibility.”
In 1954, on when he would retire as
I*rime Minister — "One does not leave
a convivial party before closing time.”
Sir Winston, himself.
Coming Of Ago
Kings Mountain Chamber of Com
merce, or today's model, is the successor
to ill-fated Chambers of Commerce of
past years.
From the results of recent years, it
appears today’s Chamber of Commerce
is well-past the infant stage and at least
to boyhood.
Retiring President Bob Maner’s re
port at the recent annual meeting show
ed both an active year in both complet
ing and launching community projects
and the organization's healthiest finan
cial condition since its founding in the
mid-fifties.
Congratulations are due him and
the other officers and directors on their
good stewardship.
The new team, with Ollie Harris in
the president’s chair, will continue in
the same direction.
There are several concepts in any
C ham her of Commerce’s program, chief
•mo ig them that it is an organization
Tor every citizen, of every field of activi
ty and thereby serves to weld the com
munity on needed community projects
Another Is that the Chamber of Com
merce furnishes leadership in pointing
tne road to specific current and future
needs.
Mr. Harris understands well the or
ganization's role and will make a good
president.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
Bf MARTIN HARMON
Ingredient*: bit* of nnv*
wisdom, humor, and comment*
Direction*: Taka weekly, i,
possible, Out avoid
oicrdoaage.
The great man. to paraphrase I
the |>oet t.ord Tennyson, cross j
cd the bar, a courageous fighter
in death. as he was in life.
My fit<t definitive memory of
Sir Winston Spencer Churchill.
Man of the Century, was his
famous "blood, tears, toil ami j
sweat” speech in 19to. which I j
heard via radio in a friend's !
small community grocery store. :
It had a particular impact for 1
me. nearing draft age. and with
the l.’nitod Stales slowly, if sure
ly. nearing war.
Master of hoth tin* written ami
spoken word, lie was expert at
tile direct, forceful statement, es
pecial mastet of the often face
tious understatement, seldom
guilty of the overstatement,
though it often appeared he was
during the dark years of World
War II. when fJreat Britain !
fought alone, absorbed continued j
defeats, had only the sinkings of !
the (Iraf S|>eo and Bismarck a.- 1
offensive victories and the defen- J
sive victories in the Battle of ,
Britain and salvage of the Men I
of Dunkerque.
One of his over-statements fas
it subsequently was proved i an
gered me. as it may have other
Americans in similar situations.
It was the early evening of No |
vember 10. 1!M2. ami mv ship. |
after several close calls, iiad tied
up to an Algiers pier to dis
charge cargo floering's bombers.
Junkers ss's anil Stukas. were
paying call daily for breakfast,
lunch, and dinner. We off-duty
men were tuned in to Mr.
Churchill's address of triumph in
which he declared boastfully. “I
did not become the King's first
minister to superintend the li
quidation of the British Empire."
1 and some friends didn't fig
ure that was the reason we were
where we were.
But the comparatively impec
cable benefit of hindsight pro
vides better insight. It was a
first step on the road hack. Mr
Churchill was using the device to
shore up the morale of Britisher*
'.round the globe. Unfortunately
however, the rising tide for In
dependence was well underway
and India's later departure from
rolonial status triggered contin
ued liquidation of Cr >wn colo
“>ies. though few were ready to
manage well their own affairs.
mm
Britisher Peter Mason, now of
King* Mountain, from the roe’
mining area of Yorkshire, recall?
•hat Mr. Churchill's quelling of
•he coal strikes in the t wen tie
'eft Churcitill few friends amon**
his neighbors. "But we kind
for-ave hirr after World War
II." Peter adds.
fn 1943, returning to the USA
’ found in the ship's library an
analysis of Churchill's ill-fated
World War I Dardanelles cam
taign. Written by a U S. Navy
tdmiral. the final sememe read
!t was a surety that Great Bri
tain would never again win r
major conflict with Churchill in
any position of military import
ance. I have never been able tc
-ecall that ill-analy/ing admiral's
name.
One of the embarrassing and
frustrating memories is the fact
we communications personnel
handling what we knew to hr
"hot" messages, learned of the
Casablanca conference, after the
principals had departed, and then
in the French language Casa
blanca newspaper
All the T V networks did them
selves proud Sunday night, as
hex presented documentary re
■•umes of the long-enduring life
-nd times of Sir Winston Spencer
Churchill. I particularly liked the
words of ABC's Howard K.
Smith, who said. "Until t». when
most of us think of retiring. Mr
Churchill was merely remarka
ble. After that he was great.”
And Herald Shop Foreman
Dave Weathers got a tickle from
the NBC commentator's state
ment it could go down as a mira
cle of the century that Churchill,
who stuck loyally to two of his
loves, big black cigars and co
gnac. succumbed neither to lun;
cancer nor cirrhosis of the liver.
I have the idea Mr. Churchill
would have been tickled, too.
i As in Bill Mauldin's drawing
with the British lion showing a
big tear in hi* eye. so does lanky,
frock-coated, top-hatted, starred
and-stripped Unde Sam.
They Run Together
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PADA Contest %
Woik Ahead
Thursday Night
CHARLOTTE Plans lo make
' the community development con
14*91 of the Piedmont Area Do
1 velopmont Association even more
, survossful in lien it -v®!< •*'
| 1901 will bo made Thursday
j night. Jan. 2S.
A mooting will bo hold at 6:30
p.m. in Charlottetown Mall, ae
cording to Pastor Stanley L. Sti
ver of Claremont. community do
volopmont loader for PADA.
Community development com
mittee loaders from thi* lti itsiniy
two-state association are urged
to attend.
"Competition was keen
throughout tlu- an-a in 1961,
says Stiver. It is almost oeitain
t<i be oven keener in 196T> We
are 1 Hiking for a givat program
this year.”
Community development <-om
petition is divided into five cate
gories: fat m. non farm, small
t-iwns and villages; Negro farm,
and non farm.
Thi- Piedmont An-a Dewlop
merit Association was formed
with the announced gi»al of "im
proving tin* living standards of|
every man. woman, and child in
the 16-county area.”
it embraces in addition to com
munity development. agii<-ultural
betterment. travel and recrea
tion. anil industrial development.
South Carolina counties involv
ed are Cherokee. Chester. Chest
erfield. Lancaster and York.
North Carolina's counties are
Anson. Cabarrus. Catawba. Cleve
land. Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln.
Mecklenburg. Dowan. Stanly and
Cnlon.
Viewpoints of Other Editors
MAKING HISTORY
Our nation's capital is full of
museums, art galleries and li
braries. and is on the way to get
tin^ a center for the performing'1
arts. So »e suppose it Mas only
a matter of Ibhe before some
dotty figured out that the thing
Washington nCMb but hasn't got I
is a center for historical study. |
What is a center for historical
study? Well, accobdkig to a pro
posal put before the American
ifistorical Association, meeting in
Washington the other day, it
M-ould he a sort df “lntertt>ciual
rossrnads." a center providing
living quarters for visiting schol
ars, a library of l-eferencv works,
onference rooms, dinin' facili
ties and a staff of guides to shou
he scholars the sights. The coat?
iomi'where around $50 million.
Though history indicates that
t's hard to establish a eonnec
ion heiM-een a scholar's achieve
ments anti his degree of comfort,
here is no reason why histoiians
n the nation's capital should not
■e made as com or table us possi
»le. Yet we think the historians
r.ay he missing a bet «h 1 t ie>
.idicate, in the de;ails so fir clis
iosed. that a sin able share o.
he center's financing should
■ome fn>ni the Federal fl >vern
neni.
In these days of Federal sub
sidies for this, that ant! almost
•verything. you'd think the his
torians would have a special in
tcrest in handling the financing
an their own That May, after
ill their experience in M-riting
history, they Mould have the
ihrill of makin; some of it.
WOMEN'S BANKS?
rrs too much
The fairer sex has the upper
hand in this matriarchy in which
we live.
The ladies live longer. they
hold the family purse strings
■ollect on the insuiance policies
outnumber male voters at thr
polls and generally set the pact
for daily living. They dictate
men's fashions, diets and social
habits. Through it all they rule
with the velvet touch.
It is not surprising, therefore,
to learn the ladies are quite log
ically extending their controls
into the field of i-ankin*.
In Edinburgh. Scotland, a new
bank was opened for the exclu
sive use of women. It will nav«
10 male employes, except the
•anitor, possibly. It is to oe a
headquarters of sorts for women
shopjRTs.
This shrewd approach to cor
nering the feminine banking
business some female ingenuitj
is indicated could easily catch
on in the U.S.. and probably will
since the lidies control the na
tion's wealth Our glacial male
banking gentry can put up no
effective defense.
Until the fairer sex can keep ;
a more accurate bank balance,
we will not agree that male »u- j
periority is meaningless, al- j
though there art* points in favor ,
of lady bankers. Most likely they
xn turn down the request for a
loan in more gracious manner
than we have been accustomed
to encounter.
The 8am
Antonio
THE UftfiFtJLlffiSS
OF WEALTH
Giving away money is itself an
art. and in all the world of the
irttellert m> one bears a heavier
responsibility than the patron.
The beneficiaries of the Ford
Foundation have now reached
the astonishing sunt of $2.2 bil
lion, an endlessly diverse invest
ment in scholarship and sculp
ture. public health and civil
rights, and above all on educa
tion.
One of the uses of this vast
philanthropy is to throw atten
tion to those subjects which
are transcemlently mportnnt
The Foundation's work in the
shixs of half a dozen American
cities was the precedent for some
of the most promising aspects of
the Federal poverty program.
We must hope that, in the same
fashion, the Foundation's pop
ulation research will provide a
precedent for action among the
men who command the even
greater resources o f govern
ments. both here and abroad. Mr.
Ifeald, the president of the Foun
lation. opens his new annual re
port with solemn words:
Since 19£>t. when the Fort!
Foundation made its first im
portant grant in the field of pap
ulation. the family of man has
increased by 600 million people,
the equivalent of the combined
populations of the United States,
til of South America, and the
Soviet Union. . .
It has been less than 200
/ears since man tamed nature
sufficiently to break the stale
rate that had imposed on him
in average life span of between
IS and 33 years. It is now neces
sary to applv the same decree
of deliberate human effort to as
suring that this victory does not
rob mankind of the g<»od life.
The Foundation's population
nogram is not very large by
Ford standards. But it has been
iubstantialiy increased within
he last year, an accurate guage
>f the world's rising concern
over the destructive arithmetic
of human increase.
The Washington Pant
TEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
Item a of newt about King
I Mountain area people am
•"rents taken from the 195
filt-a of the Kinga Mount ah
Herald.
Sam Collins, partner and man
ager of City Auto and Homi
Supply, will be installed as presi
dent of the Kings Mountain Mer
chants Association at the organ
ixation's annual employer em
ployee banquet Monday night.
The city's newly-created Natu
ral Gas Department got into bus
iness on the afternoon of Janu
ary 19. as sendee was inaugural
ed for its first customer. Wed
nesday at noon the city listed 14
gas users.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Members of the House and
Garden club will spjnsor a bene
fit bridge, rook and canas'.a par
ty at the Woman's club February
8th with proceeds to be used to
purchase shrubbery for planting
at Kings Mountain hospital.
Speaking Out
»Y
sconce t. moors. p>mumi
Kings Mountain Ministerial
Assn.
The daily news always brings
to our attention grim realities
which should give pause for
some sober reflections, especial
ly in the area of the care of self.
State and national leaders are
hit by illnesses. One of the great
men of history. Sir Winston
Churchill, dies.
On the local scene there is the
passing of friends and acquaint
ances, the involvement in hospi
tal confinements and the doctor's
nstructions for careful attention
o diet and health.
In the face of such realities it
s said and related many times
hat "we are living too fast."
.•Vw would argue with this con
tusion. The "merry-go-round"
>f modern-day living seems to
spin faster and faster for most
of us. Aim «t before we know it
h-> pressures and demands get
the upper hand.
All this suggests to me the ad
monition given a long time ago
>y one quite wise, the writer of
his line from llte Book ol Pro
verbs: “A man without self-con
:rol is like a city rroken into and
left without walls" i Proverbs
25:IS)
It's true that thbrc are many
things we cannot control. Trage
dies come in spite of restraint
and temperate living. Care of
self doesn't always insure the
longevity of health and life.
Death takes its toll and comes,
eventually, to all.
This, however, is no excuse for
Ignoring what is obvious, true
and needful. Self-control is not
only a worthwhile virtue. It is a
demand to be met and accepted,
just as one accepts life itself.
This is temperance in its proper
and broader sense, the modera
tion of living which helps keep
the human being on an even keel
and in the best possible covtai
tion. ready to meet the affairs of
| life.
Yet, there is the other side of
the i-oth. and It. too. makes its
' demands. Narrow temperance
diNrtt to its ext tv me and you get
total absinence. This is good for
things are harmful, but it's tragic
for things worthwhile. A matt
without a "cause" or a reason
for living is a vegetable - not a
man!
This is the God-given reminder
that wp ate a |»art of a creation
which has order and purpose,
i Our world and generation needs.
• desperately, uncommon men to
; do anti to champion the right
| things of life.
' Withdrawal, for the sake of^fc
self, is just as bad as the intern
pc ranee in the care of self All
this would seem to be a paradox.
It's not! It’s simply saying that
we need to be “at our best." phy
sically. emotionally and spiritual
ly, in order that we might give
—of our best." both to our fel
low-man and to our God.
Veterans Officer
Sets Visit Here
Jack C. Winchester, district of
ficer of the N. C. Veterans Com
mission, will he in Shelby Keb l
and 15 to assist local veterans
.and their dependents.
lie will be at the County Vet
erans Service Office in the old
t agriculture building on E, Mar
ion St. each of the two days be
i tween 10: Ti a.m and 3 p.m.
On Keb. IS he will lie with the
county serv ice officer in the City
Hall at Kings Mountain.
t A new law pertaining to vet
erans was signed in l»ftl which
allows changes in pension ami
enables some veterans to obtain
‘ free medicines. Changes in the
law |M-rtaining to service insur
aniv have also been made.
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