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Page 2 The kings mountain herald, kings mountain, n. c. Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Heiald A weekly newispaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enl.ghtment, entertainment and benefit of the citiaens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C. 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Edltor-Publlsher Gary Stewart Sports £klitoir Miss Elizabeth Stewart CirculaUon Manager’and Swiety Edlto MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Douglas Houser Zcb Weathers Allen Myers Paul Jackson Mike Camp gteve Ramsey TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANOE - BY MAIL ANYWHPRP ONE YEAR .. $3.50 SI.X MONTHS .. $2.00 THREE MONTHS $125 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX " ^ TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE A.S ye hm-c therefore received Chrwl Jef^us the Lord, so w,lk ye >» Him. j bolossians 2:h. Political Season It is the biennial city political sea son, and in Kings Mountain, at least, this season is customarily a strenuous one. Many good, competent, and know ledgeable citizens are seeking office, and, for many of their neighbors, choos ing between friends — as majority of them are — poses a difficult decision, or several decisions. Politics, like all areas dealing with the human mind and emotion, remains at the peak of the pseudo-sciences, and it is a moot question who is the most sensitive: the politician wanting his neighbor’s vote, or the mother protect ing and loving her child. Candidates, like mothers, tend to see all as black or white. “Either the guy is voting for me or voting against me.” Thus it is hard for any candidate to understand that a neighbor may prefer him for chairman of the church council but his opponent for mayor. Candidates here are now espousing policies, defending records, damning records and otherwise transporting themselves as candidates normally do. Meantime, it would not be amiss to note a few recent headlines, usually of less import than today, but not in polit ical season, among them: 1) Mayor Candidate John Henry Moss pledges a full effort to obtain a return of the state Employment Security Commission office (more commonly called the employment office) to Kings Mountain. Naturally designed to a vote getting platform plank, it is neverthe less a most worthy one. The ESC opened an office here during labor-short World War II. It was closed in the late fifties when the Eisenhower Administration cut appropriations for North Carolina’s ESC, as an economy measure. It was then, and is now, false economy. Cost was a matter of modest rent and modest e.xpenditure for utilities, for the hard working personnel was merely transfer red elsewhere. 2) A ditto mark can be used for last week’s timely report on the favorable position of city bank balances ($194,- 338), conjunctive with the report that the city is operating well within its in come and operating budget. Here is a plus for the incumbent administration. 3) Last week’s Herald noted that the hold-up sign had been posted on pos sible change of the 1924 arrangement on perpetual care cemetery funds, which the attorney-general has ruled can be used only for specific purposes, and hardly within the intent of the many demised leaders who carved the original arrangement. Last week the administra tion made the hold-up official and perm anent. The city will continue to be in a position of needing to borrow when it has money in its jeans. The Administra tion bowed — the Herald thinks unwise ly — to minority pressure due to the forthcoming election. 4) This week’s Herald will include statements from challenging candidates and anti-administration supporters tak ing advantage of the momentary em barrassment in which the city did not meet its first deadline (of three) on the April 1963 agreement with the state stream sanitation committee. The Herald would caution its read ers to take Herald headlines and news accounts with a grain of salt and with a reading between the lineS. There will be many more. Voting day is still almost a month distant on May 11. Meantime, the books are open and unregistered citizens should not bore the registrars as they did on last Saturday when the books opened. She said, “I had the busiest day — not one new vSter, not even a transfer.” ICT-DE —ETC. ’Tis high time. Noble Experiment Thus the professional school folk deny the facts of life, which they at tempt to teach children. Industry pays on performance, busi ness pays on performance, but not the degree-minded education trade. All tends to a norm in the teaching business, based on the almighty degree and ignor ing the practical fact that the better pro duct deserves a higher price. It reminds that educational tele- visipn, piloted in this state by the Ford Foundation, is bogged down, in spite of the record that some subjects can be taught as weli to 150 students as to 30— by one teacher. Could it be suggested that there is an artificial teacher shortage? Academic thinking can be very, very good. It can also be very, very poor. Killer Cancer The word “cancer” is probably the most dreaded in Webster’s dictionary. It is a synonym for sure death, and is therefore worse than the word “death” itself. Cancer, however, is not as dread, or as deadly, as twenty years ago, for the medical researchers have done great work in discovering means and methods of arresting and killing cancer. Today’s top medical men regard their predecessors of even 50 years ago as living in the medical dark ages. They are equally sure they will be so regarded a half-century hence. And they hope they are. Liberal gifts to the current cam- pRlgn fol' fund* foT the American CSll- cer society should be made. •yl IhwA.LVAbziuilt ThtR^day, April 18,1965 MARTIN'S MEDICINE By MARTIN HARMON Ingredients: bits of news wisdom, humor, and comments Directions: Take weekly, j, possible, but avoid overdosage. Haunting HIs Footsteps Normally, this column docs not employ the same the.tie two weeks consecutively, but a per sonal interview with Mrs. Joan Crawford Steele, motion picture star from the silents to tomor row, Academy Award winner, director of the PepsiCola Com pany, mother of four. United Service Oiyanization wo-tian-of- tht-year (the first), is in the na ture of a command performance. m-m Miss Crawford is the first woman to be honored with the USO title and is successor to such worthies as Bob 'Hope, Ro ger Blough, president of United States Steel Corporation, and the late General Douglas Mac- Arihur. m-m North Carolina is slowly catching up on its vocational training programs of education, both in the vocational field in the school room, and the work-in- service type of training known locally as distributive education (merchandis ing) and industrial cooperative training (printing, auto mechanics, textiles, etc.). A few years ago, when the principal business of all was to somehow get bread, clothing and shelter, a great ma jority had not the wherewithal to at tend college. Actually, the business at hand concerned Pepsi Cola. On hand were Herb Barnette, chairman of the board, who is also a direc- j tor of Columbia Pictures, Jim Sommerall. who four hours be fore had been elevaled to vice- president and general manager of all United States operation j Mitchell Cox, vice-president in charge of public relations, and other company officials — all on hand to give the Charlotte area bottler a surprise party com memorating his 60th year with Pepsi-Cola. Octogtnarian Fowler thought he was going out to din ner with his daughter and grand children, not with some 500 fiiends and neighbors from all ! over. ///ockuhru Today the colleges have insufficient accommodations to provide space and faculty for even those who have the means to enroll. Yet it is estimated per haps 50 percent have neither the apti tude, cash, or desire to attend college. The answer is in increased local level training in vocations. The Herald is most sympathetic with this program, which it has been doing by on-the-job-training for many years. On-the-job-training is a matter of osmosis. Trainees apparently know nothing until someone becomes ill or departs for other fields. Then the trainee fills the breach, acceptably, if not on par with the absent professional. On-the-job training is invaluable, as any college - trained initiate quickly learns from the experienced “uneducat ed” professional superior. Yet the form al schooling connected adds a new and important dimension. Home study and class performance are required, as well as on-the-job performance, a most worthwhile combination. m-m A.S previously related, my per sonal acquaintances with film stars is limited. Now Tve chat ted and shaken hands with two. Mitchell Cox played the male lead in “Strait Jacket”. He cred ited Miss Crawford with getting him the role, then jested, “I must have bteen lousy, for she’s never got me another.” Miss Crawford replied quite seriously, “No, that’s not it. i'll get you another. The right role for you just hasn't come along.” Viewpoints of Other Editors m-m After G-M Barnette had been quizzed about Pepsi-Cola’s deci sion, in contrast to competitors, to use the trade.mark name on low calorie Diet Pepsi, the Char lotte News’ Emery Wister elicit ed Miss Crawford's ire and a heavie-ho threat when he referr ed to Diet Rite, rather without Pepsi’s family circle. Kings Mountain schools launched the industrial cooperative training pro gram for the first time this year and this year’s results promise burgeoning bene fits to the students, in the form of earn ings while learning and the promise of future increased incomes, as well as em ployers who find periodically a paucity of able replacements. It is a program that should and will grow. After pilot programs in a few places, the consensus of professional senool teachers is: merit pay in the teaching profession is not recommended. m-m Joan Crawford’s most recent ly completed film is a thriller named “I Saw What You Did”, due for release in Junie or July, with John Ireland (“I Shot Jessie James”) the male lead. Two teen age girls, when left alone, play a ga.Te in which they call tele- bhone numbers at random and tease the male who answers with considerable flirtation. If mama answers the phone, it is suggest ed that Henry has left Bridget waiting at the club for more than an hour and isn’t he coming? Another line the girls use in their teasing game is “I saw what you did.” The real action begins when this line is present ed to Ireland, who has just 'mur dered his wife with a butcher knife. Says Joan Crawford, “I "?et the butcher, knife right in here,” as she gestured to her mid-section. Merit pay arrangements would re quire too many supervisors, the report said. m-m Last week Td been unable to j rfecall the lady lead in “■Pygma- j lion”, predecessor to "My Fair jLady”. The Leslie Howard ver sion or the earlier film? As she supplied Wendy Hiller as the Howard “Liza”, Miss Crawford remarked, "That (th'e pre-How ard film) Is one of the few things bdfore my time.” Nor did I know there was earlier one. m-m Her initial response on ques tion of hfer favorite actor and actress was Clark Gable and Greta Garbo, then she added she has many favorites, Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy and oth ers ad infinitum. m-m At the recent Acadbrny Award event. Miss Crawford presented George Cukor his award and de clared it’s as big a thrill to pre sent as to receive onb, as she did for best actress in “Mildred Pierce” in 1945. m-m Rehearsals for the Academy telecast required two 8 a.m. to midnight stints, and shb thought Bob Hope’s insistence on the use of “idiot cards” very effective in keeping the performers full face to camera. She dbsigns all her Own clothes, with the e.xception of one dress per year, the Acad- em>^ Award gown always design ed by Edith Head. m-m Tm not as much a whodunit- thriller devotbe as I once was, and, though I didn’t tell her, I regard Miss Crawford’s role as Crystal In Clare Boothe luce’.s “The Women” as my personal favorite. m-m I have Jfttt 1ft) cMMhlftg nor gracious lady. NEW PRESIDENT IN OUR MIDST Thb man or woman who will be inaugurated President of the United States on January 20, 2(X)1 is among us now or will be born this year. The President e- lected in the year 2000 will havb to be 35 years Of age on inaugu ration day, if the present consti tutional age requirement for presidents continues. If the new president is the average age of presidents at in auguration — that is, 54 — he or she has already graduated from high school or will finish this summer. If the future President is as old as our oldest at inaugiuratlon (William Henry Harrison, 68). he is now 33. If he is as yotfng- as our youngest (Theodore Roosevelt, 42), he is or shortly will be 7. Whether the turn-of-the-cen- tury President is a new-born babe, this year’s high school gi-aduate, or a relative oldster, he will have a much lar.ger consti tuency than Lyndon B. Johnson. The most doleful of our popula tion experts think we may have almost 400 million citizens in the year 2001. The 'more optimistic, conscious of increased activity in education on family planning, place the figure some tens of millions below the 400 million mark. What will this furere president talk about, besides taxes? About the cost of untangling thb traffic jams that 350 to 400 million peo ple can cause. About the cost of educating 350 to 400 million people. About the cost of providing recreation for 350 to 4(10 million people. In other words, he’ll talk about taxes! The Courrier-Tribiine, Asheboro EDUCATION FOR LEADERSHIP SIGN OF THE THAMES? In days of yore (alas, poor Yoriek), British actors crossed the swell. Bringing Shakespeare to old New Yoriek And other hamlets (we knbw them well). Centuries later. Ignoring the natives, Oscar (a fellow of infinite 'jest) Honors J'ulie and Re.x and Pet er, Evbry one a British guest. It seems (O, most excellent fancy) That Britons make the wilder ness 'Bloom with drama Even in days dt Cinerama. The Christian lScienee\Monitor \ .. UNTIL PROVED GUILTY Many employers folldw the practice of asking job applicants whether they have even been ar rested. An affirmative answbr usually results in denial of em ployment. We deplore this practice as a violation of the spirit of the common law presumption that a man is innocent until proved guilty. Betwben two and three million Americans are arrested each year for nontra'ffic viola tions without their arrest result ing in a conviction. Countless' of those arrested are completely in- noebnt of any offense whatso ever. THeir arrest may simply have been a case of mistaken identity. Even as we are glad to hear of employers who ^ve fex-con- ployers who refuse to use the It is axiomatic that a demo cratic society needs more leaders than a centralized dictatorship. It needs responsible and dedicat ed leaders in every co'.rimunity, profession, business, and field of social endeavor. It needs leaders of varying points of view and in terests. It is also axiomatic that a dem ocratic country which has assum ed a position of leadbrship throughout the world must de velop more leaders than one which limits itself to domestic concerns, and that many leaders must have co.Tipetencb in dealing with international proiblems. Further, it is axiomatic that a democratic society i-n a period of dynamic change needs 'far more leaders than one in a period of stability. What is not always cibar is how does a democratic society as sure itself that it will have the leaders it needs to meet its re sponsibilities at home and in world leadbrship in a time of dynamic change This is the problem faced by the United States in 1965. It is certain that we cannot rely on automatic forces to solve our problem. We have to help thb process along with both intelli gent decision and sustained ac tion. America for many years has become accustomed to meeting its vastly increasing nbeds for goods and services by ingenious extensions of -mass production and large-scale organization. But such approaches are not efficient in producing leaders. Rather, they absorb more leaders than they contribute. ■rhe development of leaders re quires methods which empha size the individual rather than numbers, close relationships ra ther than size, and human values rather than knowledge alone. — J. Douglas Brown, Dean of the Faculty, Princeton University, at conference of National Associa tion <tf Independent Schools (Boston) Speaking Ouf •t QEOBOE T. MOORE, PresidiMt Kings Meunttfln MlnMeilal Thb present-day title of “news paper” is, to a disturbing degree, a misnomer. The judgment Is not made because of the. great variety of material found wltlj- in today’s publications. Neither does it point to thb many and varied editorials wlierein opin ions are expressed — and should be. It points to the news itself, or the handling of it. I suppose it » only natural for papets, editors and rbpd'rtere to write according to their points of view. However, if the pomt of view becomes the paramount fac tor, the news is simply not news. It beromes a platform for com- mbntary. My concern is for objective, un biased reporting which is sup posed te be the basic principle for all newspaper work. It is for the proper balance of importance and emphasis, no matter What thb subject. The misuse of these principles is quifts evident in writing whioj^ conccrAs issues, personalities i^P Volved in issues of personalities In genbral. Take, for example, (he Civil Rigjlts issue. S6 often today’s reporting reflects ap proval ‘or disapproval, d^etid- ing uflcn a.particular Was. 'That’s ricrt obr|ectiv1ty. Thai’s not news reporting. That Is forcing an opinion upon the reader. Polities, political issues and politicians get the same treat ment. It is Very easy to use so- called “straight” reporting as an iristrument of influence, either to guin support or to oppose it. The possibilities are many, over and above the .choice of words. Space allotment, page position and placement can in dicate opinions, oftentimes one man's opinion. The very fact that an Item Is printed gives in dication of the bias. Many such factors can, and do, reflect the “stenting” intended. In eases the “slanting” is justified, where it works for the bettermeqt of the sqnimuqity. or the ri'ghti’ng of a wrong. It has its ^ace in the support of a worthwhile causb. However, the line of <|istinctlon.is a thin, suh- )le one. Any reporter attempting to straddle it must have keen in sight and much wisdom. In every situation, in the handl ing of news, there must bb a sense of obligation and respoi^i^* bility. There must, be a det^P sense of obligation and respon sibility. There inust be a dl^p sense of concern fbr the rights and dignity Df one’s felloteTnan. There must t>e VeSpfytl for the Intelligence of the reader. Objective sincerity is a must in the newspaper fiqid, if the media is to be true to its daJh),. .^y one failure in the bhslc ptrnciple wbakens the Whole struchfre. The walls need a better founda tion! Garden Time Thanks to Mrs. Willialm. P. Gheen, The Cleveland Times, Shelby, for responding to my re- qi*st for information on targe holly trees found growing in North Careiihh. This trre is growing on the home grounds of Mrs. E. R. Van Aken. It is reported to be 75 yeaia old and a Christmastime visual treat foi; all. the . friends and neighbors. From Mrs. Ghebn's well described physical characftertistics of the tree it nVust 'be a beauty. I hope I can drop in ,thi# summet for a closer loiOK and S<»me notes of my own. You may rememlber that I wrote about the giant.trbe found growing nearN^W Bern and the plans to develop the grounds a- rednd the tree into a holly boretum. At the same time I qubsted readers to send in info: maUon about unusually large hollies, if found in their nei,?h- (borhood. White on the subject of hollies, I might pass on to my readers a report recently compiled by the Holly Society of America. Thb holljes.^do especially .well In North Carolina and have be come Increasingly popular In the last 20 ySars due to their beau- NO OWM YOUR nOMEl DOWN PAYMENT .. for veteAns witii a GI Loan. DOWN PAYMENT ... for non-veteraBS who own a lot. JURIr 3% DOWN FH^ tiOAH. See us immediately. We-U be happy to handle aU the paper work for you. LAt us shorW you'oiir large setactlon of floor plans. We’U h^p you select the Melal plan fW your family. SEE FIELDS YOUIIG — 125 R. MORGAN ST. NO C; •1461 3:18-4S IIII4...4 mere fact of arrest as the basis for dbnylng to an Individual equal employment opportunity. The Christian iScienre Monitor 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news Mountain area events taken from files of the Kings Herald. about King people ant The 195 Mountah The candidate list for six city and two school elective offices, to be deteemined at the dty elec tion less than four weeks away, increased by one during the phst week. Registratfon books for the May 10 City election will open for the first time Saturday, with registrars to be at the five ward polling places from 7 a.m. to 7 1 m. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. Hal Plonk was hostess Tuesday afternoon .at the Coun try Club to members of the Con tract Bridgb club. Colonel Frederick Ham'bright Chapter, DAR, held its regular meeting last Wednesday after noon at the home of Mrs. C. S. Plonk. Mr. and Mrs. Houston Black of Socklnghasmi.BpentJhb with Mr. and Mrs. tTaren?e‘ Black. KEEPYdmiBADIODIALSETAT 1220 Kings MonilMtt, N. C. Nd-ws & Weather every hour bn thb hour. Weather every hohr oh tht holf hbuh Fine entertainment in between
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