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THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALCJ^, KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C.
Thursday, Marcli 25^ 1^65
BstabUshed 1889
The Kings Monirtain Heiald
Worth Carolina ^
^mss AssociATinSr
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the cnllghtment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain
and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
Entered as second class matter at the po.st office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1373.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
For all have sinncil and come short of ihe fflory of God.
Romans 3:3!!.
L«cal Bill Requests
The city commission has asked
Cleveland’s General Assembly delega
tion to introduce and obtain passage of
three local bills, two technical ones, the
third quite important.
One would make the city election
voting hoijrs (now 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.) con
form to the state election voting hours
of 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., which would
be a benefit to city voters and avoid
possibility of confusing the voters.
The second would provide for inaug
uration of newly elected officials-on July
1, rather than two days following bien
nial elections. City Clerk Joe McDaniel,
Jr., says a July 1 inauguration would
smoothe administrative work, particu
larly ^relating to adoption of the annual
budget. Another benefit would be that
all newly elected officials would take of
fice at the same time, as run-offs, if nec
essary, would have been .settled a month
previously. It should be said, parenthet
ically, that the rumor of a January 1
inauguration was never mentioned,
much less considered, and that the new
provision would not become effective un
til July 1, 1967. It Is without the power
of even the General Assembly to length
en terms of office of incumbents.
The requested legislation which
would eliminate the cemetery perpetual
care fund is quite important, as the city
finds itself in the position of having
(and continuing to put) money in.one
pocket which cannot be transferred to
another.
Under 1924 legislation, half of gross
proceeds from sale of cemetery lots is
assigned the perpetual care fund. In
turn, the attorney-general has ruled
that this money may be expended only
for capital improvements to the ceme
tery, with operational expenses charge
able to general fund revenues. The legis
lation of 1924 was good at the time as
Kings Mountain was then much smaller
and poorer. Today, however, Mountain
Rest cemetery is one of the city’s beauty
spots, well - planned, well - maintained,
and with no foreseeable need for major
capital imijrovements. Meantime, in
spite of expenditures for the cemetery
office building, and paving of roadways
the cemetery perpetual care fund re
mains in the $40,0()0 category.
This money should be available to
the city for whatever legitimate purpose
required.
A few years ago the city found the
armdry-building timetable unsuitable to
its current-year budget, somehow dug
up the city share of the project. All the
time, of course, the perpetual care fund
was present but was neither borrowable
nor spendable.
Upcoming is a major expenditure
for a sewage disposal system, cost of
which has not been estimated. The acti
vation of this fund would be quite help
ful.
It is hard to conceive of any city
administration “shorting” the cemetery
and a safe guess that one which did
would enjoy short tenure of office.
Never Enough Cash
About the only criticism Governor
Dan Moore has received, following last
Friday’s budget message to the General
Assembly, concerns his recommended
appropriations for capital improvements
at state-supported institutions, a total
of 912 million against indicated immedi
ate need of about $50 million.
Withal, the (Governor’s budget irec-
ommendations for the biennium total a
record $i2.1 billion, and he acknowledges
four-plus million will be required over
revenue estimates to keep the budget in
balance and thereby meet the order of
the state constitution. He hopes that
burgeoning revenues from a i^osperous
economy will permit upward revision of
revenue estimates prior to the end of
the current assembly session.
As for majority of individuals, gov
ernment at all levels never has enough
cash to, meat each and all demands,
needs and desires.
Viel Nom Step-Up
General Thomas Power, the retiied
Air Force commander, was the guest on
Sunday’s NBC-TV “Meet the Press” in
terview and quite effectively answered
questions concerning his ideas of the
nation’s military policy generally and
the VietNam policy in paaTicular.
Actually, the retired general’s poli
cy ideas seem to conform to the present
policy of the Johnson administration in
.stepping up the pressure on North Viet
Nam.
The general was forthright in his
opinions, among them:
1) The continuing pressure build
up is the only way to convince the in
vading Viet Cong to decide that they
cannot win.
2) A United States pull-out is un
thinkable.
3) Now is the time for decision when
the United States has unquestioned
military supremacy in the world.
4) Danger of expanding the war is
calculated, risk in all limited actions.
5) Communist China’s recent atomic
explosions pose no threat today, but
could five years hence.
The general’s ideas make sense, bul
warked as they are by military and in
ternational history covering centuries.
Check On Death Row
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
By MAirnn HARMOIt
Ingredients; bits of news
wisdom, humor, and comments
Directions: Take weekly, 4j
possible, but avoid
overdosage.
Area of Agreement
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At a recent meeting of the Lions
club, Sam Weir was honored as the
club’s leading fruit cake salesman, also
made a report on auto tag sales. Speak
er for the evening was Gardner-Webb’s
Dr. Eugene Poston. During his speech,
Dr. Poston, who heads the Baptist col
lege, averred he didn’t care what brand
of religion Mr. Weir practices (Presby
terian), but that he wanted Mr. Weir on
his Gardner-Webb fund - raising team.
Congratulations to Mr. Weir on the hon
or accorded by his fellow members in
naming him Lion-of-the-Year.
II was a big clambake at Gartl-
nci -VVobb college Monday night.
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The dinner gatliering attract
ed over 360 persons to listen to
the president of Southern Rail
way Comi)any.
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John Henry Moss spotted him
very ((uickly as he arrived, and
Marion Dl.xon remarked, "Tliat’s
tile guy with cinders in his eye."
But Pat Spangler stole the
show.
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Pat, in process of oblainin.g
easli and pled,ges totaling more ^
than $75(),(H)0 (vs. the Gardner- |
VVebl) decade of progress goal of
S1.12.>.()00) reported one gift of .
$12.5.000. In turn he made light !
of his chore and <lisclaimed any '
effort on his part to get up the ;
money. Said I’at. "They just ■
come by and leave it." j
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Dr. Gene Poston (who married j
i Plato Goforth's niece ( is the
pre.sident of Gardner-Webb col- ;
lege and is quite forthright.
Gardner-Webb's history, he re
ported. indicates a president
might stay on scene about five
years. “That's why I decided wo
should have a decade of pro
gress, I want to stay ten." he de
clared.
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The Gardner-Wdbb fund-rais
ing team bought profe.ssional ad
vice on liow' to raise the desired
cash.
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A chart delineated a remind
er of 1957. when W. K. Maunev’
gave several of us younger chaps
a lesson in fund-raising. Just to
laise $1(X),000, Mr. Will said, re
quires a certain number of
$5,000 givers, a certain number
of $1,000 donors, etc., etc., and
multitudinous givers is the small
donor division.
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The professionals informed the
I G-W folk that raising $1,125,000
would require: One $150,000 do
nor. two $100,000 donors, lour
$50,000 donors, eight $25,000 do
nors, 29 So.O'OO donors. 50 $1,000
donors and $30,275 from faculty
and employees.
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.Mr. Moss, Mr. Dixon, Charlie
Alexander and I chatted with
Southern President D. W. Bros-
nan before dinner, learned he's
a Georgia Tech man.
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Sitting at our tablq were Mrs.
O. Max (Gardner, Sr. and Ralph
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cd students is three years of
hard study. Before long a fourth
year (on-the job training in a
rongregation) will iH' required.
Thai's four years of college plus
four years at the seminal y.
Compare all that to the educa
tional requirements for other
professions and you begin to see
tho tliMTiand-
ing and lengthy period of prep
aration. Eor the budding minis
ter the result, however, leads on
ly (0 a Bachel.)r's degree, the
Bachelor of Divinity degree.
in order to gel more than that
tilde's at least two more years
required, even to receive a Mas
ter's degree. TIte Doctor's degree
would require additional time,
beyond all that listed ubrive.
Very few professions demand so
much.
VVlial is the result? Fewer
men are considering the ministry
as a profession. .No. one dws (or
! should noli enter the ministry
1 for a degree, title or larg(* sal-
'■ ary! Most, I'm sure, don't. How
ever, thes(* factors do influence
young people in their planning
for their lifi‘’s work.
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Another important factor is
the attitu(U“s of parents and oth
er intercstt-d adults. You don t
find many encouraging our youth
to consider entering the minis
try. The reasons given are many.
It demands too much education.
It doesn't pay enough. The work
is too demanding, and the hours
too long. Your life is not your
own as you have to meet the
needs, the whim and fancy, of a
lot of different iteople. You can
earn much more out in the busi
ness world.
Viewpoints of Other Editors
CODE JOSEPHINE?
Even after their marriage was
annulled, Napoleon sometimes
sought the counsel of Josephine.
Probably no one has under-esti
mated the power of a French
woman even during the long
years of legal discrimination a-
gainst French wives. We never
theless welcome the prospect of
their release from restrictions
lingering in the Code Napoleon.
’The State Highway Commission is
sending a team of traffic engineers to
Gaston County this week to determine
the reason, other than carele.ss human
error, no less than nine persons have
died on the Gastonia by-pass strip Inter
state 85 since December 1963, when the
strip was opened to traffic.
From the still-extant motorist’s lay
point of view, the intersection of U. S.
74 with 1-85, particularly its intersection
from the east, is a nightmare. One Kings
Mountain citizen says of entering from
the east, “I’ve decided the safest means
of entry is to drive as fast as I can and
outrun everyone else.” Some others con
cur. Yet what happens as a result of col
lision at high speed is colloquiallv
known as “curtains”, a one-way trip to
the mortuary.
All who have navigated the safety-
engineered .super highways in unfamiliar
areas are aware that confusion can be
and often is commonplace.
The recent spate of accidents on I-
85 (three dead last weekend) certainly
dictates the survey.
Highway department experts are at
work and research continues into vari
colored road-signing, pavement and as
phalt coloring, also painting of exit
areas, none of which have yet proved
satisfactory.
Doug Corrigan made history by fly
ing the Atlantic successfully in a small
plane when he intentionally flew the
wrong course. The wrong course on the
interstate throughfares spells disaster.
Gardner, -Mrs. Rush Stroup, all
What bothers us is that the
emancipation bill’s passage
through Parliament is being pi;e-
dicted at least partly in terms of
its advantages during an election
year. Why do political motiva
tions have to be attributed to so
many obvious reforms in human
[ life?
! VVe prefer to think that the
French effort to diminish the
of Shelby, and Ivy Cowan, presi- | husband’s legal role ol "lord and
dent of Stonecutter’s Mill of " ' i—. •
In The Short Rows
Already contributions to John Gam
ble Stadium fund represent the largest
amount of money Kings Mountain area
citizens have given for a community
wide project.
Meantime, construction plans have
been prepaired and invitation for bids
awaits merely completion of the fund
drive. The key question as Co-Chairmen
Carl Mauney and Charles Neisler noted
last week is not whether the stadium is
to be built, but whether the fund-drive
is completed in time to have the stadium
ready for use by autumn ’65, rather than
autumn ’66.
At a clean-up meeting of the fund
raising committee last Friday night, the
$80,000 minimum goal was within $13,-
000 of home plate.
Spindale.
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Back to Pat Spangler. He left
no doubt about his feeling that
the $1,125,000 challenge goal is
attainable. “People really love
and appreciate this school he
said. People know it has a tre
mendous future. If they didn’t
believe this they wouldn’t fool
with this campaign for five
minutes. People don’t invest their
money in a loser.”
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Would the $1,125,000 enable
the Boiling Spring institution to
assume four-year college status
without another fund campaign?
President Poston says the fund
would provide the buildings for
a four-year program but would
not enrich the endowment fund
to the point that a shift to four-
year status could be made without
jeopardizing the caliber of the
academic program. It would take
master” is not politics but real
ism. It suggests that France’s
age of enlightenment
really ended.
has not
BUT. OFFICER . . .
When a registrar of motor ve- |
hides gets a parking ticket, as
happened recently in Massachu
setts, the heart of the ordinary 1
driver is inexplicably lightened. I
It positively soars when the re
gistrar explains that ho was late
for an appointment and there
was no other place to park.
This is not to bring officialdom
down in the world, but the rest
of us up a little. Suddenly our ex
cuses, even if expressed only to
ourselves, sound as good as any
body else's.
Of course, they are as bad, too.
Just because a registrar pays
the two dollars, that is no reason
for us to violate regulations now
and pay later.
Speaking Out
By
GEORGE T. MOORE. President
Kings Mountain Ministerial
Assn.
This past Sunday I had the op
portunity to attend a most im
pressive Service. It was the
‘'Groundbreaking’’ for a new
chapel. This one will be quite
special, a chapel for the Luthe
ran Seminary in Columbia, S. C.
We enjoy the wry wisdom of
the French commentator who
said of the proposed law that
Frenchwomen "have at last been
reduced to the status of their
husbands.”
Yet the episode suggests that
we are all in the same boat, or
parking space, and there is a
common interest in improving
public transportation to get cars
i off the road. There will never
be enough room to get them off
the street.
Christian Science Monitor
However, it’s not that chapel
or that seminary which I hold up
before you. All of us, in our var
ious denominations, support sim
ilar facilities. The greater inter
est lies in the services these cen
ters of education render, and the
results.
The result is obvious. Vacant
churches remain far too long.
Each year the search ranges
wider, as fewer ministers be
come available. Couple that to
I the calling of ordained men into
I educational o r administrative
posts (because most laymen
won’t consider such jobs at the
salary offered, and you can see
the distressing trend.
If the ministry of the Chris-
t i a n churches is a worthy
profession, performing an essen
tial service, it’s worthy of a
change of attitude. It is worth
the encouragement of concerned
people, holding up this profession
as good, worthwhile, meaningful
and essential. It is quite true
that many are not qualified for
this work, or do not feel called
to it, but many more would con
sider th possibilities if the chal
lenge was put before them. What
do you think?
A seminary is the place for
theological education, for train
ing men and women for full-time
Christian service. In this special
ized area of education the pat
tern is pretty well set and most
denominations confor.m to it.
I But perhaps we should say,
, "Au contraire.” For if the rest of
I Parliament joins its eight wom
en members in voting intelli
gently on the measure, it will be
French husbands who have rais
ed themselves to the status of
their wives.
Christian Science Monitor
PART OF THE STOCK . . .
We’re not suggesting that em
ployers stand in line at the front
gate to hire ex-convicts as they
walk out of prison; and we’re
sick of trite little phrases such
as: “It’s Good Business to Hire
Ex-Convicts."
The requirements for entrance
include a college degree. Tlie
seminary involvement lor enroll-
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A RUSSIAN LESSON
FOR US HERE
But what about society’s moral
investment in all of humanity?
Like it or not, we’re part of the
stock—part of the speculative in
vestment Man has in Mankind...
For some time, stories have
been coming out of Russia telling
of drastic, if severely limited.
an endowment of $3 million, says j changes in economic policy. The
Poston. I gist of them is that the Soviets
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Tlie subject of fund drives re- splsed capitalist principles as the
minds of the current $80,000
fund drive to build John Gamble
Stadium and the Central Metho
dist church building fund drive
for $200,000 for a new church
sanctuary at its present site a-
cross from the postoffice. A pro
gress chart in the lobby of the j
church notes that members have j
raised over $70,000 and antici
pate beginning building of the
projected plant when the $80,000
mark is passed. Completion date !
for the project is spring of '66.
profit motive in order to stimu
late production and indifferent
administrators.
Now, it seems, another lengthy
step is being taken. It has been
announced that by the end of
1965 a third of Russia’s consum
er-goods factories w'ill also be op
erating on a capitalist principle.
They will produce only what
retailers can sell.
I Aiiis certainly won’t strike
Americans as remarkable. That’s
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Items of
Mountain
events taken from
files of the Kings
Herald.
Then Senior Choir of Central
Methodist church, under the dir
ection of Miss Bonnie McIntosh,
will present “Requiem” by Jo
hannes Brahms, on Sunday at
7:30 p.m.
I exactly the way things are done
I in this country under our system
of free, competitive mass pro-
; duction and distribution. But in
j Russia, just the opposite policy
I has been followed. Factories
have been told by the planners
what to make and in what quan
tity. As a result, stores are stock
ed with inferior, over-priced, un
wanted goods. And consumers
have been vigoroojsly complain
ing.
The Kings Mountain sch(x>l
band, advancing to Group IV
competition, was awarded a
grade of superior (1) at the dis
trict music contests held at Salis
bury Saturday.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Annual spring flower show of
the Kings Mountain Council of
Garden Clubs will be held at the
So Russia, even if slowly, is
moving toward a supply-demand
consumer economy, complete with
a certain amount of profit mo
tive. One may be sura that this
is being done out of reluctant
necessity — it must be something
of a humiliation to the Soviet
hierarchy to imitate capitalism to
any degree, and Karl Marx, .very
likely, is revolving in his grave.
At any rate, there is a lesson in
this for us. Our productlon-distri.
button system, working ail the
way from the sources of raw ma
Woman’s club Wednesday, doors , terials to our splendid retail
An ex-convict, by the very na
ture of his status, has built-in
“incentive.” More so than any
John Doe Citizen, perhaps. Plus,
he ha.s the added weight of hav
ing to make good. The worst
thing that can happen to most
employees for botching a job is
being fired. For a parolee, it
means a ticket back to prison.
We can’t think of any em
ployee who could possess more
incentive, purpose, dedication,
punctuality, efficiency and down
right determination to succeed
than a parolee. Can you, Mr. Em
ploye ? Think about it and be
honest with yourself and us.
Remember that John Doe, good
citizen, has merely to make a
living. John Doe, ex-convict, has
to do the same—plus one little
thing more.
He has to make a life.
San Quentin (Prison) News
BILL SHOULD PASS
Is anything more inhuman
than brutality against children?
Last year in the United States
there were more than 10,000
cases of child cruelty, with near
ly 300 reported in North Caro
lina. About a third resulted in
injury to the brain and mental
retardation.
SOUTHWELL
FORD
Has The Sharpest
Pencil In Town!
The committee is confident the
sbort rowfr will be plewed in sufficiently
short order.
to open from 2 o’clock until 9 p.
m. Flower show conunittees will
hold a meeting Thursday irtght
at the home of Mrs, Sam Davis.
stores, does more g(5od for more
people than- any other system
man has been able to (Whit up.
AhUskie Herald
In an effort to cut down on
these cruelties. Sen. Jyles Cog
gins of Wake County has intro
duced a bill in the General As
sembly that would protect phy
sicians and others when they
report the physical abuse and
neglect of children. Mr. Coggins
explained that doctors, teachers,
welfare workers and others who
come in contact with children
who liave been beaten are afraid
to report the cases because of
the chance of legal action.
This bill should pass. These
children don't have a lobbyist in
Raleigh, but the' conscience of
the legislators ought to be en
ough for passage.
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