I i Page 2 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday. April 1. 1965 EstoMished 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published f«r the enllghtment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second clasa matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EOITOBIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Gary Stewart Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Helen Owens Clerk MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT ”” Douglas Houser Zob Weathers Allen Mvers ^-‘J-kson Mike camp B.eso l2Z TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 ’ SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANOE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR .. $3.50 SIX MONTHS .. $2.00 THREE MONTHS SI 25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE For God Kent not his Son into the icorUI to ,SMuiemn the u-orld; but that the ivortd through Him might be saved. ot,- Vehicle Inspection The North Carolina Traffic Safety council is surveying newspapers of the state to determine: 1) What percentage of their readers would favor an annual motor vehicle in spection program by state - supervised private stations, and 2) What the newspapers feel are the primary objections to tbe proposal. The president of the organization is Robert P. Holding, Jr., of Charlotte and Smithflcld. The Herald has no sure means of guessing the percentage of its readers who favor such a law, but suspects that more favor .such a law today than might once it became operative, which is quite natural. Older residents remember the pain ful waits of the late forties when such a law was in operation and the inspection was at state - ope-rated stations. They also remember such bizarre incidents as aged vehicles passing with flying colors, while more up-to-date models were or dered to the garage for repairs of one kind or another, with a subsequent re check required at the state stations. The second question of the Traffic Safety council is therefore answered. The problem is the administration of the vehicle checks, it being remembered that North Carolina now has on its motor scroll more than two million cars and trucks. But North Cajrolina’s continually mounting accident toll, with more than 1500 highway deaths in 1964, and an additional 22,000 injured sufficiently to get ambulance conveyance for hospital and medical attention dictates serious efforts to making driving more safe. The promoters of this legislation realize that mechanical troubles are re sponsible for only a small percentage of the accidents, with driver error, either consciously contrived, or contrived thi'ough unintentional lapse, I'emaining the core of the problem. Yet prevention of even ten acci dents, or even one accident, is to be de sired. Proper lights, brakes, and steer ing can spell the difference between col lision and safe passage and, of course, the difference between life and death. With private garages and service stations as the inspection team, it is con ceivable the administration of the law would prove palatable to the public, as well as insuring against mechanical fail ure on the highways. Such a law is before the General Assembly now. Should it not prove workable it could be amended or repeal ed within two years of effective date. C & D Birthday In his address to the Kiwanis Club last week, W. P. (Bill) Saunders, acting director of the North Carolina Depart ment of Conservation and Development, noted that the department is 40 years of age this year, having been formed in 1925. The department has eight service divisions, commerce and industry, com munity planning, commercial fisheries, geodetic survey, forestry, state parks, mineral resources and travel informa tion. It might be noted that the com merce and industry division has enjoyed its most noted success during the past 11 years, since the beginning of the Hodges Administration, and with Mr. Saunders, the onetime Kings Mountain citizen, as director during five of those yealrs. A Monday morning headline and news story also detailed the success of travel information division, the func tions including active promotion of tour ist attractions. Success last year was measured at $1.1 billion gross and C5ov- emor Dan Moore foresees its growth to a two million figure in the near future. The various functions, of course, tend to complement each other. The state parks, for instance, are continuing tourist at tractions. North Carolina is a better, more prosperous state today because of the foresightedness of the General Assembly in 1925 in setting up this department. It is reasonable to believe that its good service will expand as it observes future birthdays. The Extremists Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is hard ly a favorite in the South, with the vast majority of citizens mystified as to his selection for the Nobel Peace prize. Ap parently, he attempts to be a modern Ghandi, advocating peace, yet foment ing trouble. Conversely, the vast majority of Southerners condemn the e.xtremists on the other side of the coin, tho.se who have no regard for life and who have perpetrated murder in Mississippi, Geoi’- gia and Alabama and also in North Caro lina. Dr. King’s latest call to “peaceful” arms is for an economic boycott of the whole of Alabama, as evil per se as the forces King fights. He would damage the whole Alabama, forgetting that many white Alabamians approve the adver tised King goals of equal voting rights for the colored population. What equal voting rights are is a moot que.stion. North Carolina, for instance, speci fies a literacy test. It was applied fully in last year’s county-wide re-registra tion. A number of former voters found themselves disfranchised. Particularly saddening was the statement of a Kings Mountain citizen who remarked. “My mother can’t read and write, but she has always voted and is mighty sad she won’t be able to vote*this year.” Others hold with another Kings Mountain citizen who says, “If a persvj.. can’t read and write, he really isn’t qualified to vote.” Back to Alabama, Dr. King would hurt even liberal Tuskegee, home of the long-famed Tuskegee Institute, and a cuiTent model of good race relations in that troubled state. The colored popu lation outnumbers the white population, yet leaders of both groups have estab lished an accommodation. Extremists, of whatever faith and bent, tend to view problems as matters of black and white, when, in actuality, most of them (excepting life, death and taxes) are varying shades of gray, from dark oxford to near-white pearl. Congratulations to George W. Mau- ney, who is the newly elected president of Kings Mountain Country Club, and to Harold Glass, appointed a national aide-de-camp of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Cleveland’s Senator Jack White cast the only audible “no” on the bill to allow married women to order sterili zation operations without the consent of their husbands. Ostensibly, the women ordering such operations would be those abandoned by their husbands, but not necessarily. 'The Herald agrees with the White “no”, having always looked askance at sterilization, with exception of instances where medical doctors rec ommend sterilization on grounds of safe ty of the wife’s health. A doctor’s dictum is scientifically determined. An aban doned wife’s is not. Nor is it without the bounds of probability that the abandon ed wife may at some future time re marry, then wish too late to have chil dren. Tampering with nature tends to move man into the role of pla.ving God. Dr. J. E. Anthony remarked of his pro fession some years ago, “We can help nature out, but we can’t improve on it.” MARTIN’S MEDICINE Bt MARTIN HARMON ingredients: bits of news wisdom, humor, and comments Directions: Take weekly, possible, but avoid overdosage. Thursday is All Fool's Day, al so known as April 1, or April Fool. m-m The People Will Approve much thrill in seeing a fine piece I of machinery destroyed. The|^ is less thrill in .seeing a life lo.^ I crushed or liurned to death. The dictionary gives .more than a little attention to the subject, to wit: an April Fool Is one who is sportively imposed upon; to .\pril foot is to sportively imposed upon one, or to make an April Fool of. m-m The New York Times Maga zine of the recent Sunday enum erated, via the hand of Edward Murphy, some very interesting quotations on the Fool’s Day business from several philoso phers, some of them the corn field variety, so.me of them of the quite literate literati. m-m The late Justice Oliver Wen dell Holmes, Jr., said; "A man who calls everybody a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather -he only shows that he is not adapted to his environ ment, not that the environment is wrong." Commented Essayist Charles Lamb: “Here cometh April again a-nd as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.” Said Josh Billings: “Take all the fools and the good luck out of this world and it would trou ble many of us to get a living.” m-m Last week at Gardner-Webb College, I chatted briefly with Tom Roi'oerts, now of Forest City, hut .ahem) just a FEW years ago a high school class mate. Tom is like me and some others of that vintage. His bar ber is worth five years to him, as long as the barber crops his hair short. To.m, incidentally, has a daughter beginning the college route at Duke. m-m But just 30 years ago Thurs day, Tom was a much wiser man than I. The argument for the testing I an'- ing dangers, this doesn’t make it right. Yes, I here is danger on a foot ball field or on a ski slope, but that’s a far eiy from the firing of a lethal weapon around a curving track, surrounded by other such weapons just as dan gerous. It is time we took a serious look at our ideas of fun and en joyment. I question their validity at the speedway! I question it because it gets carried over to our public highways, where speed is constantly changing thrills in to tragedies. What’s a life worth? As to the thrill, the emphasis always seem to he on the crack- ups which occur. It is considered to be a dull race if there are no accidents. However, there isn’t QUICKREUEFOgWOi Asfc About 15-DaY Trial Offer! MEDICAL PHARMACY, INC. KINGS MOUNTAIN DRUG CO. 2:4-3:11 Still, father and son divorces prove that today’s generation is not completely without class and a certain verve. Isn’t that en couraging. ' The Chajjel Hill Weekly m-m But there's much morfe to April than April Fooling. The dictionary, for instance, details (though obsolete) that an April Gentleman is a newly married man. And Shakespeare wrote, “The April’s in her byes; it is love’s spring.” George Gisslng, however, cap ped the April Fool 'business, all of April, and every other day In the year, when he said: “It is idlie to rage against man’s fatui ty as to hope that he will ever be less a fool.” 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about King Mountain area people ant events taken from the 195 files of the Kings Mountait Herald. '■ Two candidates added their names to the May 10 city and school district ballots during the past week. Arnold W. Kincaid, as was expected, filed his candidacy for re-clbction as Ward 3 school trustee, and Paul Ledford filed his candidacy for Ward 4 com missioner. The curtain opens Thursday night at 8 o’clock on the senior class play, Charley’s Aunt, which will also be presented again on Friday night. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. Hunter R. Nbisler won the sweepstakes award and Mrs. W. L. Pressley was winner of the trliCWloT seat ht the annual spring flower show of the Kings Mountain Council o 1 Garden TEACHERS CORPS An imaginative adaptation of the Peace Corps plan has been proposed, simultaneously hut ap parently independently, by Sen. Gaylord Nelson and Sen. Ed ward M. Kennedy. They aim to recruit and train young men a-nd women who want to become teachers in poverty - impacted schools. .... In rough outline, the plans would 'provide for sending teach er trainees to universities coop erating in the program to learn teaching techniques a-nd do other graduate work. They would be assigned, as soon as they had sufficient preparation, to a pov erty-impacted school to teach there as part of a team under the supervision of an experienc ed teacher. They would receive a beginning teacher’s salary, have their tuition at the university paid by the United States and, at the end of two years, be award ed a Master of Arts Degree in teaching. We have no doubt that a great many young people graduating from colleges all over the coun try would jump at a chance to participate in this program. And we have no dou'ht, either, that their idealism, enthusiasm and training could make an invalu able contribution to the joint at tack on poverty and ignorance. There are problems in this ap proach, however—fittnig the re cruits into existing school stalls and reconciling the methods they have learned with those practic ed in the school being most con spicuous among them. But no doubt these problems can be overcome by the kind of tact and deference to local authority de monstrated by the Peace Corps. The Washington Post NO OWN YOUR HOME! DOWN PAYMENT ... for veterans with a GI Loan. NO DOWN PAYMENT ... for non-veterans who own a lot. JUST 37o DOWN FHA LOAN. «• See us immediately. We’ll be happy to handle all the paper work for you. Let us show you our large selection of floor plans. We’ll help you select the ideal plan for your family. 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