1 [ ' jmm-. Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for ln> . ’ :.rhtmonf, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain a -1 it vicinity, published every Thnr'day by the Herald Publishing House. Kntered a >nd '-las* matter at tha post office at Kings Mountain, N. C.. J8096 utuler Act ol Congress of March 3. 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon . Editor-Publisher Cary Stewart.Sports Editor Mi S Kll/abe*h Stewart.Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Helen Owens. Clerk MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Douglas Houser Zeb Weathers Allen Myers Paul Ja kson Mike Camp Steve Ramsey TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 ' i VPIPTION P.vlf.s PAYABLE IX ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE . \R $350 Si\ MONTHS .. S3.no THREE MONTHS , $123 I’Ll 3 NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TODAY'S BIBLE VEBSE l.t all Inth, '/hi / •nilh. •/>■ l unit . tmd rla nitntr, ami wil s/iraki »j/. hr inti a Iran from U'ilh all . •'/< <• / thrsnms h. il. vmt. The Race For Mayor City election day comes on May 11 and already citizens an* contemplating an interesting iv ayor’s rac** between Mayoi • iit :* A. Bridges, ex-Mayor Kelly Dixon, and John Henry Moss. who. even though only II today, was serving on the i*ii> commission before some of to day’s eligible voters were horn. Mayor Bridges is a \eternn of many campaigns, h. ving won an even do/en times, against two losses, a rather repu table batting average ol SaT. Ex-Mayor Dixon is one for three, with his lone victory one of Mayor Bridges’ losses. Mr. Moss is one for one (l.t'OO) as a candidate, had practical experience in the working end ot politics as a leader in the successful campaign of l’. S. Sena tor William I’roxmire, of Wisconsin, sev en years ago. This newspaper has stated many times that all of the city’s mayors — some rated good, some fair, some indif ferent have contributed to the city's well-being, and that is true of both May or Bridges, seeking Term 7. and ex-May or Dixon. Mayor Bridges is a get-things done man and an expert expediter of work, as the paved streets, eurb-and guttei. and larger completed projects show. In his initial term Mayor Bridges picked up the gas system football from the previous administration and put it across the goal line. As Mayor. Mr. Dixon launched a major street-lighting project, refurbish .-.I City Hall, and lent dignity to the of fice. , . Mr. Moss has proved himself pub licly via his * jccess in fielding the West ern Carolina* League. When Mr. Moss first tackled this promotional work in 1959, the Herald's sympathetic well wishing sports editor shook his head, saving. “He’ll never get it off the ground.” But get it off the ground he did. There were lean days, with cities throwing in the towel even before the season's end. In the difficult third year, the league operated with only four teams. But the next year it was a solid eight-club operation with both the league and individual teams recipients of national attendance honors. From a bitter experience of 1951, the Herald has since foresworn the en dorsement of candidates for local of fices. having learned that other neigh bors of the candidates teel they know them just as well as the Herald editor, which, we add. is quite likely. There have been times when this newspaper disagreed with Mayor Bridges, also w ith Mayor Dixon. Should Mr. Moss win the office, there will be is sues on which he and the newspaper will disagree. Conversely, we regaixl each and all as warm friends of this newspaper, as they are. To paraphrase the referree in the boxing ring, "Come out fighting, and may the best man win.” Academic Question Most liiik interested in government were intrigued by Sunday's news stor> b\ an Associated Pi ess staffer on the ideas of North Carolina’s only two li\ ing ex-Governors anil of Governor Dan Moore on whether North Carolina should accord its chief executive the veto power. North Carolina is a “loner” among the oO states, in that it is the sole state which does not gi\e its governor that power. Actually, there wasn’t much new news in the story. Mr. Hodges had set forth his views a couple of years ago in his autobio graphy “Businessman Governor”. He thinks th » other l!> states hardly out of-step. Mr. Sanford's views were recorded in the Herald and throughout the state last September. He said then and re peated his Ic lie! that the veto power would be of benefit — not as a negative weapon with which to club errant legis lators — hut as a simple matter of re sponsibility. In other words, a guberna torial signature on legislation would make it clear the chief executive favor ed the particular legislation. Mr. San tord observed that he might have vetoed only one act during his tour year tenure, that the so-called "speaker ban bill”, en acted with what many felt undue speed the last day the 1963 General Assembly was in session. The new news was the position of Governor Moore, who opined he didn't feel the veto power necessary at all, with the governor's roles as appoint ments chief and as director of the bud get quite sufficient to keep the scales even in North Carolina’s check-and halance modus operandi. All of which makes the matter aca demic. Without Governor Moore’s support such a proposal would have no chance of passage. It is not even likely that such a bill will hit the legislative hopper. What Do You Think? Want to record your opinion on public questions of the day? Many reading the results of the Sant Lubelt poll, the Lou Harris poll. Dr. Gal lup’s or Elmo Roper’s, or the results of the latest T-Y show ratings, sometimes wonder: Where do they get those re sults? Nobody ever asked me about any thing? First Union National Rank of North Carolina is changing all that for citizens in the '.>1 office areas of the state in which First Union resides. The bank is using its fancy com puter apparatus in Charlotte for more than data processing. Conducting a monthly poll on time ly national and state-wide issues. First Union is both rendering a worthwhile public service and is benefit ting itself by this good public relations job. Some of the questions are tricky, the issues themselves not lending them selves to simple black-white, yes-no answers. The February questions are: 1) Do you favor the "right-to-work” law ? This one’s not as easy as it looks. Practically, this law has littie effect, once a union wins an election, yet it re mains a goad in lai>or’s back. 2) and 3) Questions of lowering the North Carolina legal voting age to IS and switching reservists into the Na tional Guard are comparatively simple, though perhaps not to a ripening re servist nearing retirement time. 4> Approving or disapproving the “speaker ban" law is a tough one. The law bans speaking appearances at state support d schools by avowed commu nists oi any other who has ever plead the filth amendment in avoiding giving testimony. A great number of persor I favor a replacement bill tPhich wou A i spell out certain ground rules. Here again the First Union poll card fills the lull. Flip over to the back side to make hand-written comment. Though he has not discussed it with him. Senator Jack White feels confident that Governor Dan Moore's omission of city power-sellers in the bi-lateral con versations on power sale rights was in advertent. It was a fact, however, that the par ty of the third part, the City of Kings Mountain and 72 others were not pres ent and that the agreements arrived at between the power companies and Rural Electric Cooperatives, if enacted into law, would seriously hinder growth of lhose cities. Under the utility-REA deal, power-selling cities would lose the right to require either to sell the cities their utility lines when expanding city limits. A comparable situation exists in laws governing transport of children to school. The new high school plant is be ing built just outside the city limits. This means that children now living within the city limits and residing 1.5 miles or more from the school can ride to school via school bus. No in-city pupil would qualify for transport were the plant in the city. Once the school opens next September, the city limits can embrace the school and the previously eligible pupils still qualify for transport, were it not this way. city limits extension would be seriously hamstrung. Thankfully, Senator White is on the Senate committee on Puhlic Utilities. Water Resources and Control which gets one of two fii'st cracks at the proposed legislation. The Senator trom Cleveland intends to bend every effort to get the left-out cities, parties of the third part, ■■Mscluded. Forty Of Third Port MARTIN'S MEDICINE IT MARTTH HARMON Ingredient*: bit* of neve* window, humor, and comment* Direction*: Taka «n kly, i, possible, hut droid 01 mionage | 1 Victor by phono. . . . m-m For seveial weeks wo had dif ficulty in adjusting the ink flow •m the big newspaper press. One page would lie too dark, another too light. Tlien. three editions 1 ago while printing the inside sec tion. two of the eight pages re fused to pr.nt at all. What had I happened” ! Pressman Paul Jackson noted : that the big impression cylinder I on the lower deck wasn't touch I ing the forms on the imprinted sale. What to do” m-m Sujiorintendont Dave Weathers placed a call to Issinard Wright, of LincolnP n. who doctored the same type press for many years at the Lincoln Times. Dave relat es I the difficulty and Kxpert I Wright told him quickly what 1 had happened and what to do a I bout it. We were quickly back in | business. Praise lx- know led ga ble folk and Alexander Graham I Hell, inventor . * the telephonic talkbox. I The same type of doctoring , proved most lortuious recently ' for my friend Jonah Falls, who suffered the misfortune of hav ing a picker stick off his textile machine invade his left eyeball. At kings fountain Hospital. , I Jonah was invited to the emer- t gene} ro>m where Dr. Frank Sincox was already occupied. Jo- | nah relates that Dr. Sincox and Mrs. Carl Childers, the nurse. ; consulted briefly and that Mrs. j Childers was told to make a tele- ' , phono call. As she was calling, . Dr. Sincox told Jonah to get on ! ihe tahie and administered a sed ative to alleviate Jonah's ex treme pain. Call completed. Dr. Sincox took ; | the wire, talked briefly, then ! j went to work on Jonah, putting ! five stitches in the injured eve hall. ram Party of the second part in the l i Sincox conversation was Dr. M. 1 J. Kreshon. the Charlotte opthal mologist. who was giving Frank instructions on what to do for Jonah. Proof of the pudding is in the j eating, or. in this instance, the I seeing. A few days later. Dr. j Kreshon asked Dr. Sincox. "You mean that fellow hasn't gone back to work yeti" Six days later Dr. Sincox lex.oved the stitches and Jonch missed only <-ne more work day. Jonah is likewise thankful - for Dr. Sincox. Mrs. Childers, Dr. Kreshon and Alexander Graham Bell. Except for a case of red eye. Jonah is none the worse for wear and his vision is unimpair ed. Senator Jack White s surgical bout of the recent Saturday didn't involve the telephone. He was playing golf a couple of months ago with Dr. George Plank, remarked to George he had a bit of a knot on his left shoulder. George took a look, told Jack a butterhean size cyst was present. "Come by thp office and I'll hull it out." said George. "There's nothing to it and the only bandage vou'll need will be a Band-Aid." The Senator delayed, the cyst btecame infected, and the bandage Jack was wearing Monday morn ing was considerably more than a Band-Aid. Some years ago I apprized Dr. J. E. Anthony of a little pea-siz ed knot on an ear. He diagnosed a small cyst, told me 1 should have it removed, adding that the danger is that the little sac housing the pea might break. Af ter that, he said, there was likeli hood of recurrent trouble. Who should I get to do it? He said any surgeon would be hap py to accommodate me. “Why not Dr. Anthony?" 1 asked. He agreed he could do the job and I replied. ‘Til drop in here one of J these days and haveyou do It.** M Dr. Anthony has never been a man to mince words or fail to get down to cases. "What's wrong with right now?" Caught. I gulped. "Uh. uh, nothing sir ” In short order, he was showing me the little cyst, neatly wrap ped in its little sac. Dr. Kreshon. incidentally, was ' one of the opthalmolorrista dir | acting last summer’s Kings Mountain Lions Club Gtaucom {clinic. He is of Polish extraction, told my srth ha is a cometist and once had to decide whether to devote his life to sight conser vation or jazz musicianship. "In a 'ell of a 'ole" A&rVuf ///ccah^ry Bell Invents Unique Tube With hardly a ripple, one of the most amazing and exacting manufacturing i*»l»s ever utulci taker for the liell System has slipped ffitn r mmtmications iti«. tory. Produ< tton of a unique elec Iran amplifier tube. built t > op orate continuously for 20 years or more at the bottom of the sen. was enncltalcd at Western Electric's Allentown. I*a.. plant when tuts* nu rlter 67.201 tea- It ed the end of the special aaactn Hy line. said lit van Houck. lo. a I telephone manager. Development of eointnunii i liens satellites and advances in transistor tcehnohigy have mail" it unnecessary to continue man ul.uturin; tin* tube. which was built t«i serve as the basic voice signal amplifier in rigid undei sea repealer*. Spliced into tram oceanic leleph >ne cables at 31 i mile intervals, the repcatei* strengthen voice currents. To insure dcjicndahility. West ern Kleetric assembled the tuix-* with painstaking care in special iy designed, super-dean facili ties at Allentown. Tin* air was •arefullv filtered: employees wore lint free uniforms; parts A were sheltered under protective ■ hoods (luting assembly; people and materials entered through air locks to keep out even slrav par titles of dust. Earh tube required nine months .d production time, .which inclurled 2.9SP inspections and hours of simulated op oration. Oni> about one of everv ten tubes passed a final, rigorous analysis t»y a committee of West ern Electric and Hell Lahorator i ies engineers. Viewpoints of Other Editors STIMULATES THINKING < Most of the 6.000 young people i who applied for admission in the , first class of 600 at the new Air Force Academy in Colorado were eliminated for two reasons: 1 "More of these young peo- ■ pie than we want to admit never j in their lives had written a 300 word theme, and hence had nev er learned to properly express themselves in writing,” the colo nel in charge of selection declar ed to a group of newspaper edi tors. 2- “More of these 6.000 stu dents than we like to admit nev er in their lives had been c >m liclled to do anything they didn’t want to do.” the colonel said. Why are these points impor tant? Because, as the officer ex plained. the Air Force must have leaders who dearly express them selves when making necessary ivports. And they must accept orders, whether or not they a gree with the-n. A person who has never d n million on the ater. o|>eid. and concert tickets, t the millions our cities e earning activities. There is the lack of education, as well as the lack of training. There are many types of pover ty A greater area of poverty. I think is the poverty -f the mind. The disturbing fact here is not limited to any one level or area. It crosses all lines and stitlcs growth in ail areas. It is quite evident ir one. ev eryday example. TV broadcast ing. One has g me so far as to describe this niece of furniture as the ‘idiot box.' To tie sure it's not all bad for there is potential value and there is some good broadcasting. However, we sit idly by and let the networks I1«vmI our homes with trash. The off hours of the day are filled with childish, fool ish an«l worthless junk. Even in the prime hours many programs 1 Heave much to tie desired. After we make allowances for varied | opinions, likes and dislikes, most of the so-called pnirrtainmcnt falls far short of good. clean, worthwhile enjoyment for the normal home If much that we se<- is true commentary on our way of life. God help us! Another area of concern is found in the material we are in vited to read, if we read mot • than the morning paper. Appar ently the trash is being read for it is being printed and sold in ever increasing volume. There is a wealth of stimulating, good, thought provoking, helpful ma terial. if we would but use it. f can't see that all those filthy four-letter words add anything hut depredation to the human mind. Public opinion is another area w hich seems to reveal the povet ty pf the mind. Currently we are ■ aught up in a real revolution/ social, economic and scientific" This gets, for the most part, re sentment and opposition or. at best, indifference. A basic fad to all this is the evident truth that the human ! nature resents change. It would ' well be that in some situations the greater fact is the reality <>! j selfishness. We tend to resent j anything which might upset the l way things are. which is usually I the way we want it. We don't like ideas or things which would disturb us. even though it might he for the general welfare. President Johnson delights in quoting from the prophet Isaiah, as he said, "Come let us reason together." That's a pretty good approach to dealing with the poverty of the mind. It's using j one of the great blessings given 'us by God, that we might grow, develop, mature, not only for the safe of self, but for the sake of our world. Any war on poverty I must include war on complacent minds. Who's ready to fight? KEEP YOUH 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 i SUBSCRIBE TO THf JERALD