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Established 1889 ■0; The Kings Mountain Herald A week’;.- newspaper dr voted to thr promotion of the general welfare and published for the ( n'..ghfitient. entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and it' vicinity, published every- Thursday by the Herald Publishing House Entered a sr <md das* matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 2S086 meter Art of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon . Editor-Publisbif Gary Stewart. Sports Editor Mi Elizabeth Stewart.Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Helen Owens . Clerk MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dott-’n Houser Zrb Weathers Allen Myers Paul J i kson Mike Camp Steve Ramsey TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 M'RSCKIKTION ISA M S I \YABLK IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE O.'.T *3.30 SIX MONTHS ... $2.00 THREE MONTHS .. $1 25 IM.CS XOR-ni CAROLINA SALES TAX TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE h’nr lh‘ . r hi ( * h i' Hii i n'ii ’ i> 'l ml: i*7 >, h v liilf smni roir/rrf tiflt’i", //try have erred thr faith "• .Ii i .l ’i ,in li< ih mi,ilt n't/h in" ny xfjrrttv s. I Timolhff <■://*. Impending Decision Onco upon a time a Kings Mountain citizen w - considered to have a heavy dost* of loviitudc to |»ut his name on Mu* firing lino (and hi* |x*rson if hr won) for city office, in contrast, it was con sidered much li-ss dangerous to seek and serve a board <1 education post. Not today. A eit\ commissioner agreed recent ly it takes comparatively little nerve to day to work at fit.' Hal!. "Hut. why. he asked, “would anyone want to be on the school board?" He was referring, of course, to the course ol history since the desegregation derision by the l'. S. Supreme Court in Idol and more par tieularly of the current arrival of D-Day in that important, emotion-filled matter. But facts are facts. There is no question but that the Kings Mountain district hoard of education will effectu ate the agreement to assure continued receipt ol federal funds in a menagerie of programs. How to implement tin* de segregation requirement is another question, involving the mental, spiritual and educational welfare of more than •itXHi students, practical problems of transport of pupils, and the emotions of individual citizens, many of them par ents ol pupils. The several plans for desegregation of the schools as outlined last week by Superintendent B. X. Barnes were inter esting to say the least and tin* problem of the board of education is to find the one best for the pupils and secondarily easiest of administration. The Herald lik<'d the one labeled the "free option" plan, whereby pupils apply to tin* hoard to attend the school of his or her choice. In this instance, the board of education would play a waiting role, taking up order-giving assignment duty onl> when space limits and class over loads occurred. Vet a neighboring C.as tonia school official was quoted early this week as declaring that particular plan would produce chaos. The other plan the Herald likes ;it the moment is that of firm integration at the first grade level and suspects, from both short and long term stand points, that this plan would bo best for the pupils. Young children know no color bars. A youngstei. told a colored man was in his front yard replied, “No. that's Howard." Howard being the friendly yard man. Back in a Cleveland County school official said that immediate do segration would find a great number of Negro pupils needing to drop back a grade I some two) to meet the pace of the white schools, particularly in the higher grades. There would be excep tions. he added. Indication of the truth of this judg ment came with Charlotte’s initial de segregation The Negro youths stretched hard on the ln*oks to make low passing marks, after earning “A’s" and "B's" in the Negro schools. The board of education finds it must act more quickly than some others across the state. Not only is there the financial stake in federal funds for next year, but some of this year’s funds are involved. With a new high school being erected, the schools have not used their 1964-Ho National Defense Act grants for science equipment, with the quite prac tical idea being to use these funds in * helping to equip the new high school. Few envy the board of education its upcoming chore, but many agree the more quickly the plan is set the better. Monday is auto tag deadline day. While appending the new T>o state tags. Kings Mountain I.ions urge, pick up a new Kings Mountain tag at City Hall and attach it too. Showing a Kings Mountain tag is an evidence of commu nity pride and another brick or two for the John Gamble football stadium. In order: a liberal check for the heart fund. Hearty congratulations to new Eagle.Scouts Tommy Bridges, son of Mi. and Mrs. Glee E. Bridges, and to Charles Sparks, son of Mr. and Mrs. Her man Sparks. i Out On The Limb Governor Dan Moore was well-ad vised to urge the long-warring private utilities and Rural Electric Cooperatives to settle their differences at the confer ence table rather than in a General As sembly brawl and apparently they have. But there is a third group in the power selling business — the municipal distributors like Kings Mountain which were left out of the discussions. Now. Shelby’s City Manager Phin Horton charges, the power companies, in agreeing with the REA coops, have welched on an agreement with the cities. The problem is in extension of city limits by those selling power. Though no monetary formula has been spelled out in this state, as in South Carolina, for purchase and sale of distribution fa cilities. it is law that a municipal seller could buy distribution lines from the manufacturer of power in areas annexed by the city. Neighbor Horton is patently correct that power sales are very important to the financial well-being of those cities in the business. It has been some years since Kings Mountain's situation has been analyzed, but at that time power sales were* returning the city an annual net operating profit of $125,000 per year. Sales have increased handsomely since, with concurrent increases in profits. Meantime, Kings Mountain customers enjoy very favorable power rates. The Governor would do well to re summon the warriors and add the neg lected party of the third paid, the power selling municipalities. The Moore Plan Thoro is something about the man tie of public responsibility that changes a person. Thus many noted and commented on the obvious and momentary trans formation in the bearing and counten ance of Dan Moore that Saturday even ing in June when Rich Preyer was con ceding the Democratic nomination. While there was still a general election to win, the odds were heavy that Dan Mooix' was to be the next governor of North Carolina. In the Moore instance, there was a perceptible lifting of the head, firm ing of the jaw, straightening of the shoulders. The pattern of change from candi date to governor has continued and Gov ernor Moore’s address to the General Assembly last week mayhap completes the transformation of that over-worked cliche called his ••image’’. Rich Preyer was regarded the liberal candidate, Moore the middle-road man, Dr. Beverly Lake the conservative. Preyer might well have written the Moore state-of-the-state address. Preyer had not promised a state employee pay raise, but his campaign publicist opines Preyer would have had something com parable for state employees. The problem, now, is to find the $100 million extra thought necessary to implement the Moore program which has elicited favorable response from ma jority of North Carolinians. The Gover nor will supply the “how" in due time, but chief speculation is that he counts on burgeoning revenues from a growing economy to provide the difference ana enable him to honor also his pledge to enact no new taxes. In asking a $.'100 million road bond issue. Governor Moore confounded the prophets by $100 million and rightly. In his ideas on paring teaching loads, he proved more liberal than had Preyer in the campaign. Governor Moore is off to an auspici ous beginning in the tradition of North Carolina governors of this century to as sure progress within the limits of fiscal responsibility. A best bow to Scott Cloninger, t president; Nelson Council, vice-presi dent; and Sharon Gold, secretary- all are newly elected officers of the high school student body. MARTIN'S MEDICINE »T MARTIN HARMON j /nr/rudirntn: bit* o/ neir* 1 iciftdem, Aumor, onrfromrrtent* Direction*: Take weekly, i, jto**ible, but avoid I ot rrdonaffe. S rm«* year* ago N'<hI \I.hSill had suffered a black eye ir.me diatelv preceding I h e annual banquet of tho Km.'« Mountain Met chants Association. ol which Nod was then executive score tary. Nrd observed that it was customary for the person in hi* role to tell a few jokes in pro cess of making his repott. lie then won the biggest audience laugh of the owning when he added. “But as you can plainly see. the joke’s on mo!" m-m The joke was on me last week end. I was among a large number of UNC Class of IfMO membei ; summoned to Chapel Hill for a luncheon to lay plans for this spring’s Silver Anniversary re- ] union. For once I was early a whole dav early. The letter from Dr. Jim Davis, general chairman, plainly read Sunday. Febi uary 7. I thou ill i it read Saturday. See h >w one quickly comes to de pend on spectacles? m-m Bill Stauber has long been the acknowledged comic of the class. Kminently successful i:i adver tising. Bill could have been an earlier day Andy Griffith. Editor of the humor magazine. Bill out lined plans for a 2.71h anniver sary edition and was in rare form. But Dr. Davis is a plat form wit, too. and from Sunday's showing could do quite well as a comedian. When one classmate suggested he’d like to see Jim run the mile again. Jim address ed the audience and asked. “Any body have any more pertinent suggestions?" Actually, the extra day proved most fortuitous. My chore for the reunion is to edit an anni- j versary edition of the Daily Tar Heel, and I had many loose ends to catch up with Spike Saunders, the Alumni secretary. Pete Ivey, the news bureau chief. Orville Campbell, who prints the Tar Heel, and Fred Seely. Jr., cur rently co-editor. It was a partic ular pleasure to meet young Seely, of Asheville, as I had known his parents for many years. More venerable members | of the KM Lions club v\ ill re member hie aunt. Laura Bryson, a very comic pantomimic and [entertainer with the Plonk School of Arts group at a ladies night event. As I entered the Chi Psi lodge, a student offered his hand and said. "I'm John Harmon." I re plied. “I'm Martin Harmon." He is a fine looking young man from Warsaw in Sampson county. When Seely remarked th" Gen eral Assembly “as usual" is an gry at the Tar Heel, a lad across the room, commented. "Yes. and you deserve every bit of it." The comment was worth an introduc tion, and the lad proved to be the son of Paul Dickson, a good friend and editor of the Raef ord paper. m-m In town for a Saturday wed ding was Molly Albritton Hud son, belle of '39, from Margaret Rose Sanford's home; own of Hopkinsville. Ky. We conversed 'til 2 a m. and might be talking yet. except for the pv>r guy next door who finally had enough and banged on the door with his shoe. Xext morning there was breakfast conversation with Ruth Curtis Robeson Howell, a belle of '40. now mother of two. fos ter mother of four, and also godmother to 200 Hereford eows in Haywood county. She’s a daughter of a former Virginia congressman. Among the members of our class who have been Congres sional secretaries are Harry Cat ton (Senators Smith. Lennon and Ervin), now secretary of the banker's trade association, Ed Rankin (Senator I'mstead*. and Mrs. Cation, a Michigan lass who worked for Senator Smith. From the class of '40. it is pos sible to get any and all kinds of medical sen-ice. general cutting work from Dr. Jim Davis and Dr. George Plonk, child care from Dr. Jack Lynch, the year book editor, and eye work from Dr. Sam McPherson. Add others in Dr, Tod Blount. Dr. Eddie Yount and Dr. Bill Shull. Ernie King is the brother-in law of Andy Griffith and Ernie's wedding of lfMO was the first in which I appeared. His wife | wasn't present and inquired as ! to the health of his five children, i Hb commented. "There's going I to be a sixth about July.” j Phil Ellis, who recently re i signed from the traffic safety council, was to report for duty at a Durham TV station Mon day. and Stuart Ficklen. a Greenville, n. C.. tobacconist, i was glad to see I hadn't forsak en the weM. George Plonk accused me of stHl politicking, charging “1 see you're kissing all the pretty girls:” I asked him and ask the world: could you blame me for that? The Thinking Cap Illocc&i/rv h.c t6»StKf°RS 4-H’ers Tapped • For Scholarships Two Clwliwl Cnnij- Ml m< nmor*. Sara U .1 Spruling and Paul V. Washburn have been nominated f >r North Carolina 1 II Development Fund Seholai ships. The t leveland County I I i Development Fund Seholarship Commit Ire selected I IIVr< Spui ling and Washburn alter studying tin* applications of I II numbers from Number Thus-, Crest and Kurus at Faliston high schools rh< sc application* vs ill 11* submitted to III ■ N. C D* vel opmem Fund nenclcpiai lei s in Role ,'h .where they will la" judo ed along >vith n*>rinc*es of ntii< 1 i.Himie*. One boy and one pit I will tv selected from each Evien stott district Selection will lie made on th • basis of seolasti ability, I il Achievement. and financial need. Sara Lou Spurting i« presently serving a- President of tin* Pel wood Community 21! Clult and as Secretary of the ('leveland County l II County Council Through the past six years site has l» .*ti a dress revue winner and e >mpleted projects in healih. clothing. foods, home improve ment. anti money management. Site plans to attend Appalachian^^ College and major i’t English Paid Washburn. currently is^^ serving as Pivsitlent of th«» Crest I II Cluti. He ha< Iteen very a* live in the III dmeonstration piogram. presenting demonstra tions in Soil anti Water and For jestrv. He has been district win •ter in Soil an<i Water Conserva tion Demonstration. His project work has included home grounds bcauiification. forestry, safety, crafts, career explorations, and money management. He plans to enter Gardner-WeH> this fall. Viewpoints of Other Editors WHAT'S COOKING? No shelves in the bookshops are more crowded in (hose limes than the shelves that h >ld the cookery hooks. They offer a fine confusing choice, like those enor mous menus in expensive res taurants. You may buy a bulg- ’ ing treatise, or a collection of menus for every day of the year, designed presumably as a kind of insurance against beans on toast. The style of the writing is sometimes reverent, approaching the mystery of haute eui*ine on tiptoe: but more often it is chat- . tv, tripping lightly through the | kitchen towards a brilliantly im provised snack. What a pity it is that we can not know what proporti >n of these publications is bought by mothers for daughters, by young wives determined to do better in future, by bachelors, by middle aged cooks siek of the old rou tine. and so on. With a couple of graphs and a bit of conjecture 1 one might write a fine report on the subject. Considered as literature, the piles of cookery hooks close a ; serious gap in our inheritance. English literature, rich to the point of meals consumed, in tales of feasting, and good cheer, has had less to say about the prepar tion of food. Mrs. Forrester, of Cranford, was famed for broad-jelly, but bequeathed the reeipe to Miss Matty, not to us. Arnold Benet praised tripe as a glorious dish, but did not set down in his Jour mil instructions for the prepara tion of say, t ripen a la mode de Caen. Thee Men in a Boat does, indeed, describe in detail the as sembly at Shiplake of a dish in which "the remains of the cold beef" figure, with potatoes peel ed and unpeelcd. a cabrage and a half peck of peas, half a pork I pie and a hit of cold boiled ba , con, half a tie. of salmon, a cou j pie of tggs. and other ingredi jents which J. refrains from list - I ing; but the dish was only Irish | stew after all, and most house holds possess their own. much safer, notes on its preparation. The same might !>e said of Rob I Iimoh CntH-tc, The immortal cast away is generous with culinary details, but few of them are rel evant to this island as distinct from his. The Time* i London i I ‘CALICHE* PUZZLE President Lyndon B. Johnson in his State of ihe Union .ncs sage spoke of the area in Texas where he was horn and reared. ' He said in part that “little would grow in the harsh caliche soil." That word ••caliche” puzzled a 1 good many of those who heard i the talk or read the text. It pre sumably still does, considering the oversion of numerous indi viduals in our mklst to using the dictionary The word can be found in the i medium-sized desk dictionary we have, hut the definition is brief and not entirely satisfactory. Go to the unabridged, though, and you will find caliche described as “a crust or succession of crusts of calcium carbonate that forms within or on top of the atony soil of arid or semiarid regions, es pecially in Arizona.” So much for the meaning and on to the pronunciation. The President made it sound like “caleechee.” but the unabridged suggests that it sound more like “kah-ldr-chay.” It is not much, perhaps, but any variation from talk of tarns is welcome. The Commercial Appeal (Mem INNOVATION IN THE THEATER The Berlin Theatre manager, Bolt-slaw Baring, decided last season to eject anyone who boo ed in his theatre. There were re peated instances of booing at the premieres of modern plays in the Schiller Theatre and in the “Werksatt" a he Workshop"*. The boos were not intended for any particular prtxluction; they were meant to snow disapproval of modern theatrical ideas. But the move achieved nothing inter nally Plays did. however, suddenly become the centre of discussions -plays by authors hitherto un known. The public started dis cussing the plays and the play wrights. Tlie borers had made a considerable contribution t o wards reviving theatrical life... Anything new on tne stage whatever is provocative in style or context — is always going to arouse argument. Where the works are artistically mediocre, no matter how “absurd" or “ad vanced.” such arguments ... has shown that new plays, from Beckett. Ionesco, or Harold Pin ter, are not put on without their share of noises from the audi ence. The wild protests unleashed ten years ago against Beckett and Ionesco or against Pinter s “Caretaker" in Dusseldori. have prepared a path into the theatri cal programmes for a new gen eration of playwrights. The new plays audiences were faced with then have since become “reapoc table." A play like Beskett's “Waiting For Godot” is now re garded as a “classic of modern But what is "new is hy no means limited to the latest dra matists and their plays. Newness ran also be f »und in plays that 1 have already made treatrieal his ' lory. Production and staging can throw thelight of a completely modern interpretation on to classical plays. . . . No theatre can forgo what Is new. because it cannot go against the times There are productive changes in ensemble. Playwrights and producers change the theatre scene-- the flux of this colhrbora 1 tion conditions the fertility of ' theatrical culture. People who shout “boo" may he getting on the nfervts of the manager but in most cases, they are basically involuntary trail • bla/ers. New ness does not come creeping in on rubber soles. It has the crea tive right to intellectual rebellion Kieler Swhrirhlen, Kiel flermanii I 1 A YEARS AGO iVF THIS WEEK Items of netea about King Mountain area people ant events taken from the 195 I files of the Kings Mountain > L Herald. j Weekend fires in frigid wea i ther resulted in complete loss of [ David's Baptist church near Bethware school and slight dam i ages to Dixie Theatre The Kings Mountain Minister i a 1 Association unanimously went on record Monday against showing of motion pictures on Sunday in Kings Mountain. SOCIAL A.VD PKKSOXAL The Kings Mountain Woman's club is readying for its 1955 Spring Fashion Show scheduled this year on March 1 at 8 o’clock at the Woman’s dub. Speaking Out by GEORGE T. MOORE. President Kings Mountain Ministerial Assn. Let's talk about cheating, it , demands our attention lor :t is not limited to isolated cases which make the headlines. The recent news of cheating among our finest at the Air Force Aist demy simply reminds one of an ever-present evil which is found everywhere, i-n all walks of life. We cheat because it's our na ture to do so. Human pride pro vokes one to oe deceitful, in or der to maintain the desired self image .if excellence. Couple that with the fear of "losing far" and the result is obvious. The re sult is cheating. These facts are true, therefore, in school and out of school. They hold It uc tor business anti la bor. They reveal themselves in politics and religion. In every area of life deception rears its ugly head. In anti of ourselves, in varying degree-., we are de ceitful. However, with school cheating the big news, lei's probe deeper into that parti, ular problem. Be side the fact of human nature, why is cheating so prevalent in our schools? The first reaction is to blame the students, the ones who cheat. It seems that some want to pro fit by selling solen test papers, or their own knowledge. W .st want to get bettor grades. When these things happen the blame is justified. Vet. I would place some of the blame on the so-called Honor System. It won't work. Honor may appeal to somehut n >tto all. Tie that in with our demands for excellence and the system falls apart. Itsimply provides fertile ground for gaining excellence in any possible way. This points right to another area which must share the blame, our demands for that excellence marked, primarily, by a .'is* l grade. Far tw> many parents arc "A" <• mscientious. t>et all "A’s" no matter what it takes. If Sus> y makes an •’A" then you have to make tin- same. Your brother math* the Honor Roll. You have to make the Honor Roll! These demands are extremel> hard on many. There is a vast difference between askin'* for the host a child can do. and de manding that he meet a fixed standard, equal to every other child. We all have varying ahil ities and capacities. To ignore that is to provoke cheating. The primary purpose of education is to learn to the best of our indi vidual ability. Teachers, too. must share th<^^ blame. Thcv have no btpines^^P leaving stilhents during :i test or exam. They must lx- vary care ful to eliminate all potential for cheating within their areas of control. Teacher emphasis should !>e on learning t h e subject through their Ih*sI efforts, not on all pupils meeting a particular grading standard. All this leads me to one con elusion. Our way of doing things has led us to the seeking of sue cess for the sake of success a lone. All of use. therefore, share in the blame for the resulting failures and wrongs. Let's strive for good character and honesty. LpFs do our best, iust as we are. These are worth far more than a perfect report card. Cotton Pickers Now On Increase JACKSON The increase In the number of mechanical cotton nickers oil Northampton Count> farms is evidence of the almost unhelieveablc growth in farm nechani/ation. comments B. H. Hat roll, county extension chai man. In 1W0 there were only three pickers in the entire county.This number has grown to over U0»» At> iut sp per cent of the 19IVI crop was mechanicallv harvest^^ ed. V KEEP YOUR RADIO DIAL SET AT 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain. N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between