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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.
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Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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But just 30 years ago Thurs
day, Tom was a much wiser man
than I.
The argument for the testing
I an<l improving automotive de-
j sign isn't V(ny strong either. The
same Ihing c-an be said about
! wars, since some of our greatest
technical advaiuvs come as the
r(*sult of war-<lesigned inven
tions. Yet, I hardly think that
anyone would say that war Is
good, ev<‘n for the sake of ad
vanced technology.
Anyway, every auto manufac
turer has his owm way and place
for conducting tests, better ways
offer greater possibilities than a
race. The race track is simply
the place to show olf what has
already been done.
The sa:ne applies to the many
allitsl items involved, such as the
vast array of pelroleum pro
ducts, .Much more is d.one in the
way of improvements in the lab
oratory and in controlled field
tests than on a race track. The
track, again, becomes the placb
for publicity and advertisement.
1 know there is a very thin
line of distinction when it comes
to comparing and judging sports,
especially when a sti'ong factor
is the profit involved. Most sports
are big business. ’Ihey attract the
best professionals because they
pay well.
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Viewpoints of Other Editors
THE CAUTIOUS THE TN' SET
MOTORISTS ! The latest thing with the
A number of Congressmen, j country’s “in” set, in case you
mostly liberal Democrats, are a happened to be looking the other
little unhappy with the ground | way, is father and son divorces,
rules of a recently authorized
study of Congressional organiza
tion and procedures.
As high school ju-niors, most
of us decided we were too ma
ture for the old pranks such as:
‘'Your shoe’s untied, ha, ha, April
Fool!”, or othcT kid tricks -such
as pushing a guy over the prone
back of another. We were ma
ture and going to do something
about it.
Specifically, the legislators ob
ject to the fact that the joint
Senate-House committee will be
(barred from making “recommen
dations with respect to the rules,
parliamentary procedure, prac
tices, and/or precedents” of eith
er House. In other words, such
procedures as unlimited debate
and choice of committee chair
men by seniority won’t come un
der the group’s gaze. ,
The result was mass exodus,
after lunch hour, of the great
bulk of the junior class. We
simply walked out. Though cash
and autos were at a premium,
there were enough of both to ac
commodate the April Fools
through the streets of Kings
Mountain initially, then to a so
da at Swectland’s Restaurant
a-nd Soda Shop in Gastonia,
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Memories dim in 30 years, but
I remember being somewhat
shocked that Hoyle McDaniel,
Bruce’s elder ibrolher, shouted to
us, “That’s exactly what you are.
April Fools!”
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Obviously, it developed that
Hoyle was quite correct, and
that Tom Roberts, his late sister
Jeanette, Martha Plonk, and a
few others were the more ma
ture of the many.
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_ Mayor Glee Bridges says that pre
liminary plans for the required sewage
treatment plant to serve the western
area of the city will be filed with the
proper state agencies by Thursday’s due
date. This is a long overdue project
which will cost treasure, but which is
important to the health and welfare of
all Kings Mountain citizens as well as
neighbors along creek beds the city sew
age affluent long has contaminated.
Congratulations to Central Metho
dist church on plans to replace the cur-
o^!JlJ"®'^®9uate structure with a new
$200,000 edifice.
The Senate committee on public
utilities conducted a public hearing Wed-
n^day on the controversial legislation
which materially changes present pow-
ers of power-selling cities. The cities are
fighting hard, all being well-aware that
power profits sustain in large measure
many deadweight services. Euchring out
the cities seems selfish policy on the
part of the power companies and rural
electric coops.
We quirkie strikers paid for
our sins, if less than we deserv-
Wi. There was embarrassment
before the whole of the student
body and suspension from school.
Big trouble about the suspen
sion, of course, was that it began
Friday afternoon and ended
precisely at class timb Monday
morning. The conduct grade for
the month (now it’s labeled citi-
zenshipl was “D”, that little
fourth letter in the alphabet
spelling failure. In those days a
proner avbragc meant exemption
from examinations but no b«d
conduct student was ever ex
empted. We malcreants, many of
us otherwise qualified, stood the
exams.
According to Rep. Udall of
izona, this amounts to “telling
mechanics to look over this au
tomobile of ours with only one
reservation- they can’t examine
the engine.” He and other lib
eral legislators are convinced
that Congress needs a more tho
rough-going overhaul.
Maybe so. But it’s worth not
ing that another study group, op
erating under the same restric
tion, laid the groundwork for
the Legislative Reorganization
Act of 1946. Among other things,
that act reduced the number of
standing committees and im
proved their procedures, revamp,
ed appropriations processes and
provided the legislators with ad
equate and professional staffs.
So it is by no means sure that
the coming study will accomplish
nothing.
As for Congress’ parliamen
tary rules and procedures, per
haps it is true that they could be
improved. But some lawmakers
presumably remember that un
limited debate, whatever its
faults, can serve liberal as well
as conservative causes by assur
ing a minority a chance at least
to air its case. And some of the
legislators certainly wonder
whether committee chairmen se
lected iby some new means would
always be more able than those
who rise to their posts through
long experience.
In short, most Congressmen
aren’t convinced that new rules
and procedures would be any
real improvement over what
they have now. And no cautious
motorist is likely to let the me
chanics pull out his engine un
less he has lots of confidence in
what goes in its place.
Vi'all Street Journal
Earl Wilson, saloon columnist
tor countless newspapei-s, stum
bled on this interesting phenom
enon the other night in Toots
Shor’s. That’s where he found
Jack Jones, son of Allan Jones.
Allan Jones went to the top of
the pile after singing "Donkey
Serenade" in a Jeannette Mac
Donald picture 25 years ago.
Jack, 27 and a singer too. Is
getting a divorce. So is Allan.
Their concurrent divorces have
brought father and son closer
than ever, said Jack, and ther-g
4s greater understanding. “We
can counsel each other." he said.
“In fact, last week Dad and I
went to the Playboy Club in
Hollywood together."
Speaking Out
By
GEORGE T. MOORE, President
Kings Mountain Ministerial
Assn.
I will nbver understand the
attraction of watching a lot of
“souped-up” vehicles i-acing each
other around a track. It all
seems such a waste of manpower
and equipment. Such is my reac
tion to last weeks Sebring race.
Father -and son divorces fol
low by several years mother and
daughter pregnancies, and bro
ther and sister homicides. In
fact, they are decades behind
mother and children mayhem, as
popularized by Ma Barker and
sons, and at least a couple of
years behind his a-nd her play-
suits.
Oh, I know all the arguments
for such activities. It’s an .excit
ing, thrilling sport which tests
the training and skill of daring
drivers. It makes possible im
provements and advancements in
automotive design. It enables
manufacturers to exnibit and
lest their products. Race tracks
bring a lot of business and in
come into the particular areas in
volved.
Then, too, the atti'active spor^^
for the spectator are those which
provide the greater lexcitement
and thrill. You don't find many
people paying $5 a ticket to
watch a chess tournament. You
will find a lot paying that, and
more, to watch an auto race.
Yet, when you come down to
it, the basic question is not one
of 'economics, but one of concern
for the human values. Even
though a lot of people seem to
got their thrills from death-def>'-
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
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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
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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
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Clubs Wednesday. A large crowd
vlsitbd theWoman’s club for the
1955 show.
Mrs. Franklin Pethel of the
Child Welfare division of the
Gaston County Department of
Public Welfare had the program
at a meeting of the Sens Souci
Book club March 29.
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