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Page? THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. Ettobli^ai IIM The Kings MorniUiin Herald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the genenu welfare and published for the enl.ghtment entertainment and bAeHt 0* »*.e ClUnm of Itlnga Mountain and Its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald PuWMhlna Mouse Entered as second class matter at the post offlee at Kinjta Mountain H ‘c‘ 280«fi under Act of Congread of March 3 tSTS ’ ' ’ Thursday, March 4, I96E EDITORIAL DfEPARTMEMT Martin Harmon _ .. Gary Stewart * EditOT-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Clr^laMon Editor Miss Helen Owena : Circulation Manager and Society Editor Clerk Douglas Houser Paul Jackson MEClIAHieAL BUARTMSNT 2eb Weathers Mike Camp Allen Myers Steve Ramsey Telephone niqvbbr ^ 799.5441 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCP _ Rv matt ONE YEAR .. $3,50 SIX MONTHS . ^00 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES MONTHS .. $1.25 TODAY'S I^BLE VER^ MARTIN'S MEDICINE By MARTIN HARMON Ingredients: bits of news wisdmn. Humor, and comments Directions: Take weekly, ij possible, but avoid overdosage. Modern Atlas Though it was 20 years ago Tuesday, it seems more like yes terday that Haj-wood Lynch con veyed me title to the Kings Mountain Herald. When 1 hand ed Haj-wood the $15,000 check. !ie was .somewhat shaky. What’s I ttw matter, I asked? Haywood ! ejaculated, ‘Tve never seen that much money at one time be fore!” "Goo,” I remarked, ”I should bo the one who's shaky. I!m spending and most of it is borrowed.” m.m And why bf'lwhlcst tlum the mote that is in thy brother’s ia tune own St. Matthew 7;,7. «<>f that is The late Louis Graves wrote a pereonal column suoh as this in his Chapel Hill Weekly. At hU fifteenth anniversary, he wrote he was “sick unto death” of the continuin.g demand of deadline day. Yet he wrote his column for 15 more s oars. Adult Education A Kings Mountain citizen who failed to finish high school remarked to the Herald editor recently, "I want you to write an editorial about adult educa tion.” It developed that his wife didn’t quite qualify for her high school diplo ma either and both are interested now in finishing the job. He guesses there are many more like him. The Kings Mountain school system has had particular incidents of adult ed ucation, usually vocational training, such as te.xtile skills, or bricklaying. It can be assumed the board of ed ucation would take quick steps to offer high school night courses should suf ficient enrollment be indicated to quali fy the program with the state depart ment of public instruction. An adult education program in the high school basics would prove bene ficial in many directions, not only to the individuals, many of whom find them selves shut out of particular jobs, but in provjding needed people for business and industry and in upgrading the gross earning power of the community. Congratulations to the board of ed ucation on its quick work in moving to get John Gamble Stadium ready for use in quick-time. A best bow to Kings Mountain na tive Jack Hughes, new president of the South Carolina Turkey federation. Congratulations to Linda Falls, new holder of the Girl Scout Curved Bar, the organization’s highest award. Township Lines Ralph Gilbert, chairman of the county elections board, created a stir last spring when he proposed 1) a cur tailment of precincts and 2) require ment that all citizens be required to vote in the township of their residence. His idea on Number 1 was to save money, on Number 2 to meet requirement of the law. The former proved politically unpalatable. The latter created opposi tion in several spots but quite particu larly in the Oak Grove community, some of which lies in Number 5 township. These objectors regard themselves as attached to the Bethware - Bethlehem community, by association and interest, as they are, and the idea of switching voting business to Waco did not suit. Currently, there is being discussed possible legislation to move tue iv.ui.ioer 4-5 southern boundary northwai’d in or der to embrace these particular citizens. But here is the bizarre result of an effort to implement: no official record of township lines has been located, eith- county courthouse, or in state offices. Another problem has been posed in Ime adjacent Number 3 and 6 townships. Tax Supervisor Max Hamrick reports. The new tax mapping places a few citi zens in Number 6 who have historically been in Number 3. Perhaps, if the boundary records aren’t found, a new bill establishing them would be required. It’s one of those technical situations that can be quite troublesome to citi zens, lawmakers and administrators alike. In the instance of the Number 4-5 line change, it is the idea of promoters to make Number 4 conform to the bounds of the Kings Mountain school district, which would ease administra tive-taxing problems considerably, and also clean up the place-of-voting prob lem. In contrast to the Senate, the House IS indicating less enthusiasm for making fledgling Charlotte college a fourth unit of the Greater University of North Caro- hna. The populous Piedmont needs the Charlotte branch at university status. Obviously, such a happy mult won’t happen over-night but it’s time to m-n Progress In 20 Years As the present ownership of this newspaper observed its twentieth anni versary of purchase Tuesday, it was re minded of Ben Moomaw’s resume be fore several civic clubs of Kings Moun tain’s progress during the years he has superintended Kings Mountain National Military Park. There was more recent warm-up exercise on this resume when Devere Smith, of Foote Mineral Com pany, inquired whether Kings Mountain is showing progress. Unlike Mr. Graves, I’ve never tired of the medicine concocting, or any other phase of newspap- ering, whether it’s selling adver tising, or chasing hot news tips. m-m As Mr. Moomaw noted, it is often easy for folk on scene to become accli mated to their local environment and fail to note what is being accomplished. A cursory, listing follows: certainly incomplete In the first issue I published (March 8, 1945), I promised to continue to strive to produce a gradually improving newspaper. It didn’t require much time to realize that this promise implied not only editorial sharpness and perception but also tools with which to work. Thus was launch ed a continual equipment pur chasing program that is still go ing on. As I remarked to Jim Rollins the other day, I haven’t been free of debt since March 2. 1945, and doubt I ever shall be. Wee Announces % New Institute For Teachers //jeeatvn/ Viewpoints of Other Editors Cullnvvlu'c An Institute for ' tea.'licis of (lisnilvantagod youlli I is .'iciicdulcd for June II July Ki. I UK)."), at Westei-n (,'ai'olin.i Uol- ‘ lege. Di'. Ray 15. Sizemore, pro- I fe.vs.n- of ('{Incalion, lias lx>i'n named director. ' The institute is .supported by I the I'cderal government Ihrotigli the .\alional Defense Education Act, and is oi)en to leaclier.s tlirouglioui llie Appalacliian re gion, including states other than ■Noilh Carolina. Enrollment will be limited to sixty, and these may receive u|) to nine quarter licurs of graduate credit. A stip end will !)(’ offered those who at lend llie institute which will in clude an allowanee f.)r their dc- pendents- Dr. C, I). Killian, head of VV'CC’s department of erlucation and special .services, .said that a grant of .$IS,i)99 makes the in stitute possible. A teacher, in order to qualify for enrollment, must be lommitti'd to leacliing classes whene more than one-half the i)upils are considered to be from disadvantaged backgrounds. The program will center on three major areas: psychologi cal insights into proble.Tis of dis advantaged children; sociologi cal; and the attitude and value influence of this type of back ground on the cliild. A staff of thirteen will include a pediatiician, nurse, social case I worker, ami edualional special- I ists. In addition, four visiting !ec- I turers will speak at various per- I iods throughout the term. I Further information may be i obtained from Dr. Ray B. Size- j more, WCC Department of Edu • cation, Cullowhee, N. C. WINTER ai-m Public and quasi-public additions in the period include Jacob S. Mauney Me morial Library, Kings Mountain Hos pital, Union Bus Terminal, Kings Moun tain Country Club opened in 194? And rebuilt after loss by fire, three major residential developments, the National Guard Armory, Interstate 8.5, North school, the new Davidson school, other school expansions and renovations. Many, many thousands of dollars have been invested In church plants. The new area high school, with adjunctive sta dium, win open in September. The municipal government has con tributed its share, while maintaining a sound fiscal structure and low taxes. Items; two modern public swimming pools, a renovated electrical distribution .system, a modem sewage treatment plant, a start on a modem "white way”, much curbing-and-gutter, doubling of the water filtration plant, a natural gas distribution system. Few city streets cu-e unpaved. Industrial expansion is greater than many guess, with expansions and mod ernizations by existing firms and con struction of new ones. The lithium in dustry re-opened as a war baby reborn, and the mica industry began Kings Mountain operations. Textile industry expansion was considerable, both here and nearby. Kings Mountain benefitting from the operations of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, Fibre Industries, and Chemsfrand. Carolina Throwing Com pany, a new industry, has had several expansions, as has Craftspun Yarns since its acquisition by B. V. D. Corpora tion, and Minette Mills at Grover. Du plex-Shannon, Ltd., and K Mills are new est textile additions. The Herald constructed a new building for the principal reason there was no more room to squeeze for added machinery. A rather progressive two decades in the Kings Mountain area. Extremism Is Vice Senator J. William Fulbright, of Ar kansas, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, has long been a keen student of foreign affairs. Some, naturally, do not ascribe to his views, but he is credited with being informed. In an address to an interaationaJ conference on peace recently, he told 2000 scholars and statesmen that throughout history the world has suf fered grievously at the bands of ideal ists “who have fallen victim to the fatu ous Illusion that they and they alone are in possession of the key to paradise.” Relating his declaration to the pur suit of peace, he contended that extreme idealists on both sides of the Commu nist-Capitalist cold war, by excess of real, could plunge the world into a suici dal atomic war. He continued, ‘"nie ‘tine believer’ makes war in the name of peace, and commits murder in the name of human happiness.’’ Alexander, Napoleon, Hitler — the • w ^ of Kings Mountain's Major Pat rick Ferguson — these careers sustain the I'ulbright contention, and there are many lesser li^ts today. The recent murcter of Muhammed X, himself an ex tremist who had changed his bent, was due to extremists, now practicing a new mode^ gang warfare. ^trmiets initially may produce benefits, but many fall into the dicta torial trap. T**® “Wlcal dictum orders modera tion in all things. It also required us to go into the education business, if not for mal, then of on-the-job training variety. A measure of our suc cess is our list of ’’graduates”, those who came to us as appren- ticevs and now are holding top positions with other newspapers. m-m There are no less than seven former Herald men at the Gas tonia Gazette. Horace Walker, Wade Hartsoe, and Neale Patrick were professional when we got together, but Newsmen David Baity and Harold Pearson and Shopmen Bill and Bob Myers got their first professional in struction here. m-m The Herald operation 20 years ago included Eugene Matthews, now retired and living in Char lotte, his wife who worked about half a week, Mrs. Hunter Pat terson, who handled society a- cross the counter, and me. When Mrs. Patterson resigned, Mrs. Humes Houston b^ame the Herald’s societ.v editor, and, with the end of World War H, Horace Walker returned to the shop. To day the staff and shop force numbers ten, including three high school youths doing part- time duty. m-m Subsequent society editors in cluded Mrs. P. D. Herndon, the late Mrs. Floye Oates (who would have preferred to operate a typesetting machine), and Miss Elizabeth Stewart, the present women’s editor. Outside myself, Paul Jackson, compositor, is the staff veteran, having joined us 1947. Charlie Carpenter, then sports editor hired Paul, one of the best day’s work Charlie did for the Herald. m-m Allen Myers is the third of his family to be with us and we an ticipate that his 11 - year . old fourth brother will join us when he gets older. m-m When David Baity was Heaving us for a non-newspapering office job, I asked why he was leaving the trade. He replied, "Because I’m tired writing bad things a- bout people.” I waxbd quite an gry. Did he think I enjoyed writ ing the unpleansant news? The old saying is that once a person gets tainted with printer’s ink, he’s infected for lift. It proved true in David’s case. We chanced into each other exiting from the Joy Theatre and naturally fell to talking shop. Reporter David was speaking Enthusiastically of his new newspapering duties, then paid me a much-appreciated compliment, if of the southpaw variety. "Dam it, Martin Har mon, you got me into this mess!” Guilty as charged and glad of it. m-m Our biggest battle of thE two decades was in establishing our light to print the news, minus fear or favor, without which no paper Is worth two cents. We naturally had some unpleasant confrontations In the process, ibut the peoplE with whom we Warred most are today among the Herald and my best friends, m-m That’s the way it should be. None has the time to hold grudges. To differ with a person on an issue is one maftbr, but to tmke it "pusonal”, aS John L. McGill humorously prOnocnms it, U ttn-Christian. ra-m IQngt Mountain has been •good $• me and I appreciate it I Whether winter is a corrective or not, a .-neans of balancing the year, is debatable. But it certain ly clears the air in more ways than one. It strips the natural world of its fundamentals, hill and valley, tree and bush. It gives the great wind-tides both strength and substance as they surge and sweep across the land. It reasserts the elemental power of cold and ice; and it makes of fire a comforting and rehabilitat ing primal force. It makes life, the very persistence of life, im portant. THE WORLD TALKS ■That a United Nations could exist at this stage of world his tory is a remarkable thing. Even such a simple thing as a snowflake or an ice crystal is, in a way, a frag.ment of univers al truth. The form and beauty, the infinite variety within a six fold pattern, of a snowflake is beyond human achievement. But there it is. The power in an ice crystal manifested in winter dwarfs the Energy in a man- fractured atom. When you realize that titcro are buttons in this world that can be pressed and destroy all of mankind, you realize what a miracle it is to have a delibera tive body where the nations of the world can at least talk. I laugh at the complaints aljout some not paying their dues, some Vetoing this or that, some being rude, unreasonable—all of this is nothing seen in the light that a parliament of nations does in deed exist. Suppose it doesn’t always set tle things? Still the UN has tnnde trEmendous settlements be ginning with the Soviet’s attempt to take over Iran Even so rudimentary a thing as a root, a seed or an insect egg is an expression of insistent vi tality, of life inself. Somehow the germ of growth is hoarded and protected through the cold, dark weeks and .months, awaiting an other spring. Life, which will persist whether man is here to see it or not. Winter, which is as simple as a snowdrift and as complex as protoplasm itself. We live with it, and wonder at it, and occasionally we catch a glimpse of its elemental mean ing. — The New York Thnes But suppose they settled no thing? Suppose they settled no thing at all in the next five yEars? What of it? You are deal ing with a moral idea and the basic thing is for nations to re main in communication and in constant session. Speaking Out bt GEORGE T. MOORE, President Kings Mountain Minist''^rial Assn. Let’s talk about advertising! It's a big business. Advertising spends millions every year in or der to sell l)illions of dollars worth of merchandise Our whole economy is tied to, and depeiitl- ent upon, advertising. TAKE BLUE BOY DOWN Down in Seoaucus, N. J., there a huge billboard by the side of the highwa.v which advErtises I culture. Superimposed on it is an enormous rtproduction of Thom as Gainsborough’s “Blue Boy.” That’s all. No “Buy Binkies,” no “Drive a .Stiroeemobile,” no “Yote for Bassoon.” Is it not a miracle that for the first time in the history of man. representatives of the nations of the world are actually discuss ing such things as a Declaration of Human Rights, a Convention on GEnocide? _ Harry Golden in The North Carolina Isralite NEW MARKET FOR JUNK The advertising company be hind the endeavor plans to rEpro- duce other works of art on other billboards which hapnen to be empty at the time. “Billboards,” the president of thecompanv told a reporter, “are the general pub lic’s art gallery.” While the idea undoubtedly comes straight from the heart, we wonder if it is wise. From the point of view of safety, what would happen if they put reoro- ductions of Picasso’s wild "Guer nica” or Gova’s sedutive protrait of his 'mistress up there? And from another point of view, it would seem kind of ri diculous if they hid the real landscape with landscape paint ings. If We havE to have billboards, let’s keep those good old ads on them. WE ttiink the oiiblic’s art gallery is still >n tiie museums. The Boston Herald Elephants, it has boon said, try to keEp secret the location of their burial grounds. Unfortu- natel.v, such is not tlio case with automobiles. Heaps of wrecked and discarded autos, of no eco nomic interest to anyone in the depress’ed market for steel scran blight the countrvsidp alo-ng tho nation’s highwa.vs. Seldom is anv thing done to screen this junk but a better solution may be de veloping. It's a rare individual who gets through a day without being con fronted by the appealing quali ties of at least one product. The business world knows that “it pays to advertise.” Products are promoted and publiciz.cd in order to reach prospective buyers. This is, and can be, very goofi. Through advertising wc learn what’s available, the price, the chaiaeteristics or quality of a world of items. Then. too. advertising makes possible and provides a vast ar- -ay of benefits, especially in the entertainment field. Radio and T\^ broadcasting would be vir tually impossible without the promotional activities and fin- .ancing of business. These arc re alities because industry wants to sell. We Enjoy the results. However, I have a complaint. It has to do with what a large segment of the advertisin," thinks of me and you. It is not very complimentary. There is the “offensive” sales pitch which invades the privacy of the individual and his body. Nasal passages, body odors, in ternal organs and the like are help up for public inspection, if is in poor tasto. My reaction is rebellion! There is the “exclusive” sales pitch which implies value in only one particular product. Brand I “X ” and all the ollicis are worth 1 less. This, of course, is idiotic : and absurd, an insult to any in- I telligent person. It’s funny and ridiculous to hear such identical claims follow in sequence within a brief period of radio time. There is the "solve all the problems ’ sales pitch which im plies that health, hapincss, men tal stability and inner tensions find solution in the use of one paiticular product. Are we stu pid as to fall for that sort of nonsense? There is the "sex” appe.il which suggest .success in romance anti .social status with the use of a protluct. It makes one feel quite insecure and unacceptable to tlie crowd, unless "the” product is at hand. Link all these to silly jingles, magical actions, tranquil, peace- of-mind lEsults and you quickly get tile idea of what "they” think of you. Advertising is invaluable. It provides much of benefit, far more than many of us realize. It could add to the respect of tiu* human race, giving credit to hu man intelligence and dignity. However, it will not be changed unless we, the consumers, see ourselves in the proper light, God-created persons of value an<l worth, and wo let the world of business know how we feel. It’s a real joy to hear it said: "This program is brought to you by the Company, makErs •tf • We hope you enjoy it.” That’s respect for the con sumer, deserving of i-cspect in return. By the time today’s girls reach their thirteenth birthday, 69.3 piT cent have started using lip stick and 67.1 per cent have used perfume, and American Girl sur- voy shows. The Interior Deparfmhnt’s Bu reau of Mines renort it has beer> learned that rusty scrap, when mixed with nonmagnetic taconite ore and heated, crEates a ohemi- cal reaction that makes the ore , magnetic and usable in blast j furnaces. And apparently the rust from old autos could itsoH be recovered for ironmaking, af ter it had made taconite market able. Any such a'lneal to the Poeketbook should be persuasive wdth iunk dealers whose yards disfigure the face of A'merica. St. Louis Po.st-Dispatrh NOT ALONfE The human race is not alone in the (universe. . . . It’s -almost certain that we are not the most advanced of living thini'’'s. In fact, we mav bE very dumb. Y’ou m«v nav. “Well whv didn’t they coenniimicate with us?” Tfs neissible. and I think al- most (v»Hain. that thpv sent out thetr wisdom through soaee mil lions of years ago. I think that we have all this informafiori .all arMnd ns if we onlv )rt>ew how to Ume In on it!—Dr. John TinkevlEh. "The ChnUenae of Oreatness." New York ZAfe In- sitrmmce Gpempanv. 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about King Mountain area people am events taken from the 195 tiles of the Kings Motmtai'. ' Herald. Stump-hauling and sewer line problems viEd with Sunday mov ies for top billing Thursday night, as the city board of com missioners held a busy session. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL The Kin-gs Mountain Lions club will sponsor the first of two square dances Saturday night in Central Gymnasium. Mrs. Eddie Campbell was host ess at her home Tuesclay night to mEmbers of the Queen of Chfbe. KEEP YOUR RADIO DIAL SET AT 1220 PRICC AD El THRO MAR( FF SI WKMT c/ 01 Kings Monntdn, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between SUBSCRIBE TO THE HERALD
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