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A .SS iIk|A ,Yf.beiw/^r Page 2 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. " nhiniaT, April 22. 1965 Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Heiald b Carohno « ; AS90CUTIC A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for tlie enllghtment, 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 post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITOBIAL 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 Eeb Weathers Allen Myers Paul Jackson Mike Camp Steve Ramsey TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANOE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR .. $3.50 SIX MONTHS .. $2.00 THREE MONTHS .. $1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Af yc h'lrc tlicr(‘f(jrc rccehed ChiiFt JeFun the Lord, so walk ye in Him. Colossians 2:ti. Electric Cities Clobbered Kings Mountain, neighboring Shel by and Gastonia, and 70 other povver- di.stributing or “electric” cities’ and towns in North Carolina, serving 750,000 customers, got clobbered in their efforts to be included lairly in the legislation concerning power distribution in North Carolina. There was never any real question on how the voting would proceed in the House of Representatives, where Rural Electric Cooperatives, parties with the power-generating, power-selling public utilities to the advance agreement, held sway. The chance for electric cities was in the Senate. Battle Number 1 was lost in the Senate Finance committee by vote of 11-10 on a motion to report the REA- public Utility agreement favorably. Shelby City Commissioner Les Roark, told members of the Kings Mountain Lions club last week the committee chairman envisioned a very close vote, used a power company lobbyist as page to summon on the double a senator who was favorable to the REA-Utillty agree ment. He came as summoned and cast the deciding vote. The final loss was on the Senate floor. Senator Ed Kemp, of High Point, offered an amendment to give cities power to obtain distribution lines of areas annexed to city limits. This motion failed by 27 to 14. Why did the 73 municipalities lose? As usual the answer is a combina tion of reasons: 1) A 2-to-l imbalance from the be ginning with long-warring enemies REA and the Utilities bed-fellows, if strange ones, at the behest of Governor Dan K. Moore. 2) The usually effective work of the hard-working lobbyists for the Utilities and REA. 3) The declination of Governor Moore to accede, in the minutest degree, to the plea of the 73 cities. 4) Charge by ascerbic, but respect ed, Senator Ralph Scott, that the elec tric cities had been gouging their citi zens for years and now were facing judgment day. Senator Scott slandered the City of Kings Mountain, where pow'er rates compare favorably with Duke Power Company’s retail schedules in all cate gories and are cheaper in some others. Shelby’s Mr. Roark, acknowledging that Shelby’s rates are slightly higher than Kings Mountain’s, declares Shelby was slandered, too. Know’ing the Ralph Scott candor, it would be amiss not to w’onder if his generic charge is correct in some in stances, as he mistakenly applied it, news accounts related, to all 73. If the Scott charge is even partially true, here is a key rea.son the 73 cities failed to generate the political steam merited by their 750,000 citizen-custo mers. But the most important reason is Governor Moore’s declination to protect the interests of a large segment of North Carolinians. As a beginning governor, Governor Moore’s position would have been honored — as indeed it was. Meantime, it is presumed the elec tric cities will seek to re-open the case in 1967. If some municipal sellers are goug ing, they should get their houses in or der, else the 1965 legislation, which will tend to stifle city expansion by slowing the growth rate of profit-making power sales, will remain on the books. And some are reminding city fath ers of this area they may have been somewhat hasty in declining the proffer of power by the Federal Power Com mission from the Hartwell Dam hydro plant. In this instance, principal objec tion was that the FPC had an onerous contract clause whereby it could dictate rate schedules. But the prinicpal reason was that the cities had enjoyed long and pleasant association with their suppliers, largely Duke Pow'er Company and Caro lina Power and Light Company. n the recent instance, Duke and Carolina (no athletic wars here), show ed very short memories of the action favoring them, and shunting aside fed eral power. Regretted Losses St. Matthew’s Lutheran church re cently had the unfortunate and regret table situation of two funerals for its members on the same afternoon. Death removed from the church and from this community two fine gentle men in the per.sons of Dr. Ernest Jenkins Hoffman, 86, and Junius Ernest Ader- holdt, 83. Less well-known here was Dr. Hoff man, who retired to Kings Mountain aft er many years as a research chemist for the United States Department of Agri culture. He went to high school at the now extinct Gaston Female college, then to Davidson college, and won his doc torate in chemistry at John Hopkins uni versity. It was only a few' days prior to his passing that a neighbor commented on what a fine man the courtly Dr. Hoff man was. It was a judgment shared by all who knew him. Mr. Aderholdt was another gentle man of what some might term the “old school”. Those who visited the Aderholt home through the years realized on crossing the threshold for the first time that they had never been in a more friendly, hospitable home. For many years a Kings Mountain grocer, Mr. Ad erholdt was respected as an industrious citizen, loyal to his family, his church and legions of friends, a practitioner of the Lutheran faith he embraced. MARTIN’S MEDICINE It martin HARMON Ingredients: bits of news wisdom, humor, and comments Directions: Take weekly, possible, but avoid overdosage. He's L-Lapplng Me! Senator Johnston Senator Olin D. Johnston was a de fier of traditions. With the exception of the civil rights issue, the South Carolina farm boy was initially and to his death a lib eral, in an area where the successful course usually was in another direction. In a way, he could be called the “comeback kid”. A candidate can sur vive a defeat and return to win. Yet a second defeat dictates his demise to political limbo. In the course of his long career, as South Carolina legislator, twice her governor, and subsequently United States Senator, he continually maintained his relations with the grass roots folk. In 1962, many conjectured that the Senator would 1) lose his seat to popu lar Governor Fritz Rollings, or, if not, to 2) Republican W. D. Workman in the autumn. The results made Hollings and Workman appear to be small boys as the Senator rode to landslide primary and general election victories. He was a man of stature and his death leaves a considerable void in the ranks of not only the Southern delega tion, but also in the 100-member United States Senate. President Johnson’s visit to Columbia was not only a gesture of friendship, but one of respect. I am indebted to Percy Dilling for this week’s metlicinal con coction, and, in process, the mat;- azino Argosy has gained a new reader. m-m Percy had left a m'essage with my wife which she did not com pletely understand. Percy had told her, “Tell Lute there’s a story in the December Argosy called ‘I Want to Get Back to My Little Grass Shack’; it’s got a bunch of girlie pictures with it and J. L. .Settlemyre is the au thor.” Percy had suggested that she perhaps didn't know Jake Settlemyre, but she knbw him by reputation, as well as by some of his portraits she had seen, a- mong them the striking one of Mrs. W. K. Mauney, Jr. It was the “girlie” business that had Anne mystified. Percy proved a quite correct reporter. One of the headlines read, “If you ever find yourself with five wives and eighteen goats too many, Lee Steelemyre can tell you how to handle the situation.” Jim Bama’s illustra tion showed four beautiful full- breasted Negresses, nude from waist up, ministering to a re clining American, who looks much like Jake Settlemyre. A photograph pictures Jake with [ Jeannette, termed the glamour i girl of his harem, sweet 16. and , requiring “no Maidenform bra j to keep her figure in shape.” m-m Now many folg about Kings Mountain know full well that Jake married a Miss Suggs, a school teacher and they have at least four youngsters, including twins, that Jake manages the Rock Hill, S. C., nature museum, and that there have been no re ports of any estrangement. m-m Yet the story is true. m-m Jake, literally, acquired five wives, 18 goats, a little grass shack, water gourd and knife while on a hunting expedition in Central Africa in 1961. m-m Jake’s group, which included Maurice Stans, President Eisen hower’s budget director, was hunting for the giant eland and demalisque. These sent me to the dictionary to learn that both are African antelopes. But Jake got excited when a male lion, ac companied by two lionesses, came within shooting distance. \ / Viewpoints of Other Editors October Date Kings Mountain has been honored by Charlotte Radio Station WBT by be ing tapped for one of six cities to com pete for the station’s annual Community Pride Award. As Chamber of Commerce President J. Ollie Harris comments, “It’s an honor even to compete. But we want to win!” Since the initial announcement, the Chamber of Commerce has been notified that WBT staffmen will come to Kings Mountain in October. Format calls for three advance visits, for tours of the community and recorded interviews with city officials and community lead ers. On the fourth visit, WBT will broadcast its program from Kings Mountain, featuring the interviews and reporting this community’s assets. Needless to say. Kings Mountain has worthy competitors in Newton and Lenoir in North Carolina, and Lancas ter, Chester and Clover in South Caro lina. Only two Saturdays remain to reg ister for the May 11 city and board of education elections. While majority of citipns are registered, result of the new registration of 1963, there are new citi zens not yet qualified to vote. There’s an old saying: if you don’t vote, you hove no right to cemplehf, if govern mental matters irk. He was determined to slay a lion and took the chanceof felling him, though his bullets were hard-nosed, the sofe-nose variety being recommended for lion hunting. He felled him, thbn was preparing to defend against the lady lions, who were expected to charge. But they went into the brush. m-m Returning to the native vil lage, Jake found himself the cen ter of attention of the villagers, and the object of almost hysteri cal laughter from his safari mates. t/V^hy so much fuss about killing a lion? m-m That particular king of beasts, a few days before, had mauled and killed one of the tribe’s lead ing citizens. Bv tribal law, the men who killed the killer was accorded all the victim’s posses sions. the aforemintioned five wives (the youngest was 12), goats, etc. m-m How to get rid of them posed a problem, too. He could sell money to buy them, and tribal them, but no tribesman had the law dictated sold wives remained in the possession of the seller until the full account was paid, m-m Nor could he give them away, or proffer them too cheaply, for that would reflect on the wives. Therte followed a process of bar ter, in which Jake traded his five wives for 12 goats, bringing the goat total to 30. It struck him suddenly that all his goats were white, and he passed the word he wanted black goats and would trade on a 6 to 1 basis, m-m With hie hbrd down to five blacks, he ceremoniously pre sented one to each of his ex- wives, and was back almost to the point he started from, m-m He kept the water gourd and knife, as tokens of his tribal citi zenship. He jests in conclusion, •'Anytime my wife threatens to step out of line, I remind her... that aU I need is my ticket mon ey and a little extra to buy back my fivb wives. For I still own that hut, and I cast still go back.” m-m Jake Settlemyre is a many- talented man. As a Boy Scout he was an expert taxidermist, stu died an M IhMlt. fRs mother, Mrs. J. Lee Settlamyre, Sr., livbs at 304 W. Kii« street. SEARCH FOR TRUTH King Charles I is said to have laid down 12 rules for state craft. Two of the more import ant were; "touch no state mat ters” and "reveal no secrets.” We have more than a suspi cion that Congress believes that the Executive Branch of the United States has taken King Charles’ rulings to heart. For Congress is still scolding over the secrecy which surrounds so many White House and special government agency records. In fact, the House of Repre sentatives’ (Government Inform ation Subcommittee has just held a week’s hearings on a fed eral public records bill. The-pur- pose of the bill, similar to that of a bill passed by the Sen^e a year ago, would be to require every agency to “make all its records promptly available to any person.” The only exceptions to this rule would be certain records in whose secrecy there is general agreement. Leading the fight for light, is Rep. John E. Moss of Calif. He and his committee have been pounding on bureaucratic doors, safes, cabinets, and briefcases for a number of years and now hope that they are within sight of their goal. This is not, however, by any means certain. The agencies are fighting back with the cunning accumulated over many yeaw of evading congressional questions, “UnWisC” and ‘‘unconstitutional’' are two of the words most fre quently hurled at the congres sional effort to be let in on more government secrets. Admittedly therte are dangers in letting too many persons know too many Washingt<5n secrets. COTgressmen have friends — a- mong them many newspapermen —and sometimes things leak out. The writer of this editorial re members when he first went to the Monitor’s Washington bu reau, a quarter-century ago, be ing told by its congre'sio)nal cor respondent Richard Strout how a congressman he knew used to punctuate his talks with news papermen with the comments “this has leaked” or “this hasn’t On the other hand, we believe that it is far more dangerous for the national wCal if Congress and the public are kept in the dark. We have yet to hear that democracy thrives on lack of in formation The Christian Srietwe Visitor COLD STEEL FOR RED LEATHER Steel has long been a point of controversy between Britain’s two main parties. Labor nation alized the steel industry in its postwar period of change. Upon returning to power the Conserv atives promptly freed virtually all the nationalized portion of thte Industry. Now that Labor is back in power, it speaks of a re renationalization. But this is not labor's only innovation In the matter of steel Far more startling—in a land as tradition-minded as .Britain—is Lalxsr’s substitution of a steel budget box for the traditional leather one carrited by all Chan oellors of the Exchequer since Gladstone’s day. Traditionally brought out only on Budget Day, the battered, old, red leather box is used to kteep the government’s tax secrets from prjdng eves. We hope that the substitution of steel for leather does not mean that London now believes that thte budget situation is so expwshsf fh*f a srwngwr mater ial is needed to hold it. PEDAGUESE Gobbledygook, the an of say- I obscurely in many long words ! what is best said simply in a few j short ones, continues to steal a- cross the land in a elf-important fog. Business e.xccutives don’t start anything: they “initiate ac tion.” They don’t feel the mark et’s pulse; they "trend” it. To the social worker, people in a slum aren’t poor; they're disadvantag ed.” The Army doesn’t buy showers for the use of laborers who spill rocket fuel on themselves; it buys “rocket propellant person- neu neutralizers.” A four star .general isn’t gloomy about mat ters, like the rest of us; he has a low confidence factor." For grade A, top drawer, su perbly incomprehensible prose, however, the educators remain unchallenged. James S. LeSure has gathered some of the foggier gems into a book entitled “Guide to Pegaguese.” He offers this example: Child X, who is “producing minimally for his peer group,” is an “under achiever.” His “grade achieve ment under the multiple track plan reflects his predisposition to those factors frequently asso ciated with late bloomers lack ing the development key of meaningful motivation and with out the felt need to effectuate the tasks involved in the learn ing process.” Apparently he isn’t a “deiiberator-abstractor.” Roughly translated from the pedaguese, this means that Child X is doing rather poorly com pared with others in his age group. It isn’t that he’s stupid; apparently he just isn’t interest ed in learning. Speaking Out Bt GEORGE T. MOORE, PrwUent Kings Mounteda MlaisIMtad Assn. Anniversaries are supposed to have some value, if providing no thing more than nostalgic mem ories. If all were observed these would be both sad and pleasant memories. It would be better If something of greater value could be gleaned from such observ ances. For several years we’vte been reminded of war centennials particularly celebrations (which is hardly the proper word) oDhe Civil War anniversary. A dred years is a long time to^te- member, unless we have learnetl a lesson. This past week the centennial of Linc-oln’s death was brought to our attention. That’s a jialh- ful memory, especially since a much more recent assassination showed Jhat it could happen a- galn. It seems that our stx-iely, in Hs wgy of doing things, has a long way to. go. Another president’s death was also in the ntews last week. Just 20 years ago President Roosevelt died bt Warm Springs, tieorgia. It was, indeed, a time of crisis' as the war effort passed Into other hands. ' That reminder took nfe back to a Pacific island my war. The enemy, as close as the .nearest sniper’s bullet, was Japan, pic tured as a sadistic, evil foe. To day that enemy is a friend and thte war memories, with the hatred, grow dim. It would ap pear that we did learn something from that conflict, in both Asia and Europe. I wonder how much we’ve real ly learned from that war'.whicli split North and South. In m*ny areas the wounds are still raw. Soma of the eaustes and injustices are yet in the process of being corrected. Hatreds still linger in cowardly night riders, hid^A behind white sheets. ^ Another anniversary made the headlines this past Sunday. We call it Easter, with ail Christen dom celebrating the Reeurrectipn of Christ. That, hi Itself, is a pleasant, happy memory. Our beautiful chufehes and persopa) finbry are expressive of the an- nilal festive mood. i ‘However, one can’t help ,but be disturbed bv the apparent shallowness which is rather hard to cover up, even with Easier lilies. It started a long jime ago. The Eastern and Western branches of the Christian Church split' sorjite 900 years ago.’ Why? TlYBy couldn’t agree on the date tor celebrating Elasiter. > TtJday’-a divisions af Churcii bodibs and denominations isn't v^ry gopd corntti^hlary on, the Blaster message. Neither is the failun* to recognize the rights of other na<tes of minority grijvips, within or without the- Ghyrch. What’s it worth if we fail to IhT up to'tehat wc profess to believe. ■Whgt’s the value of an anni versary? It can be of great Val ue. It .can be the reminder of a Idve which transfomted life for you. It can be the painful view of a mistake once made. In any situation it can proWde the re solve that tomorrow, and next year, the best Will be in control, aiid- not the worst. Pterhaps pedaguese. his teacher speaks Milwaukee Journal TEST The test of character for a woman is whether she can let the telephone ring and ring and go unanswered. The Charleston News and Courier Items of Mountain TEARS AGO THIS WEEK about King people am the 195 Mountain news area events taken from files of the Kings Herald. Three more citizens became candidates for city offices dur ing thte past week, assuring con tests for the City Hall elective offices. The new candidates are Ralph R. Carrigan, Luther Ben nett and R. Coleman Stroupe. The Junior Woman’s club will conduct a house-to-house canvass Friday night to solicit funds for the 1955 Cancer Drive now un derway in Kings Mountain. Dr. .James M. Lane, for the past 10 months associated with Dr. Paul E. Hendricks in the general practice of medicine, has beten orclered to i-eport for active duty with the Air Force Medical Corps on Sunday. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Plonk ob served their golden wedding an niversary at open house W^nes- day afternoon at their home. Th'e Couple was married 50 years ago on April 20, 1905. MSs fJvdlJTI ClWe ikOT present HARRIS ^mtrat96nm KINGS MOUNTAIN. NO»TH CAUCRINA Dear fri.ends,, ,; ., DO you know thati.tWe funeral director is under hwuy - if he fails to confom'NS-th ce*,^ tain state reguUtiofts? / Ve have always betto gl»6 cooperate with the .author-xtaes^ in these matters besause^ue^- realize the importance el the regulation*• ‘ Each deaiili 1*^ repotted oti a standard farm. (This, informa tion is used statistically» te* indicate the development a^ . control of disease. The welfare of the public is thus served. Respectfully, (kjULu WMSCssYiNviirOTiow 0 NAnONAt SUSCTSO MOSTICUm her Junior voice recital at Gull- The Christian Science Monitor ford College Friday night. KEEP YOUB RADIO DIAL SETAT 1220 Kings Mountain, R. C. Ne-ws & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between
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