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mimm the kings mountain herald, kings mountain, n. c. Thursday, May 27, l%5 Thu SttabUshed 1889 Tlw Biup Mouitan Hendd A wmkly nwspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published «"’}«Jl‘«>®"t-,«»«»ta«nment and benefit of the eiUzena of Kinga Mountain Md 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. EMTOnXL OBMKTMEirr Gary Stewart Snorts Editor HePmlSwans^"'^ Circulation Manager and Society Editor MBCKANICAL OetABTMEHT 2eb Weathers Allen Myers Pam jackson Mike Camp Steve Ramsey PA1&ABLE IN ADVANCE - BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR .. $3.50 SIX MONTHS .. $2.00 THREE MONTHS SI 25 PLUS NORTH CABOUSi* SALES TAX .. TELEPHONE NUMBEJt ~ 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VEB8E Ood standgth t» the congregation of the mighty; he jtufgeth among the adds. Pmlm 8^:t. Speaker Ban Bugaboo Governor Dan Moore has determinr ed that accrediting agencies look with disfavor on North Carolina’s speaker ban law, which was enacted with undue haste and in railroading fashion virtual ly on the last day of the 19B3 assembly. Under its provisions self-avowed members of the Communist pafty, or persons who have plead the fifth consti tutional amendment to avoid testifying, are banned from- speaking on the cam puses or under the auspices of any state- supported institution. In view of the Governor’s report. Senator Jennings King has announced he will offer some amendments to the bill which would transfer to the trustees of the various schools the chore of fer reting out and keeping off-campus the same visitors deemed undesirable. Even these comparatively innocu ous amendments apparently have little chance of adoption. The word “Communist” is a buga boo, and few legislators want to risk to charge of being soft on communism, though privately they may not agree with this abridgment of academic free dom. After the law was passed, it wa.s criticized by many academicians and citizens, largely because it categorized eminent Russian scientists and men of letters on the same basis as Communist rabble rousers. It was an issue in the gubernatorial campaign, but no candidate was willing to commit himself to outright repeal. Biggest danger, of course, is that this bill infers no Communist is worth hearing for any reason. History shows that Americans sometimes fall into the trap of thinking only Americans have a patent on brains, and that all Russian Ivans are dolts. This was the common theory from the end of World War II until 1957, when Sputnik I jolted the nation to the fact Americans were sadly in arrears in the space race. America is still behind. Meantime, argument over repealing the speaker ban law seems rather aca demic. One representative told members of the higher board of education recent ly he knew the sentiment of the legisla ture and that the board might as well cease arguing about the speaker ban and proceed to other matters it could do something about. And Senator Tom White, likely the most powerful man in the upper branch, declares himself against amendment. Kings Mountain area industry, busi ness, and individuals have shown re markable public spirit in supplying $80,- 000 for the building of a new football stadium. The sad fact of the bidding, of course, tends to dull the lustre of the aggregate gift, but it should not. Cer tainly it is the large^ amount ever raised in Kings Mountain by public sub scription. The board of education and stadium committee are hopeful that bid ding will be sharper when the bids are re-invited next fall in non-building sea son. It is good news that the Moss Ad ministration is wasting no time in pro ceeding on plans for a sewage disposal system, which the city is contracted to have in operation about 19 months hence. Sewage systems are neither planned nor built overnight, and even with speed the city will probably be hard-pushed to meet its deadline. It is good news, too, that the state stream sanitation committee has indicated it will recommend, when application is filed next April 1, the fully allowable federal grant. The sum of $150,000 is not negligible, but the difference between $150,000 and $300,000 is a considerable consideration. Congratulations to George H. Mau- ney, newly-elected chairman of the Kings Mountain board of education, and to Miss Margaret Jackson, awarded a scholarship for graduate work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Rlglier Edacotien Board Governor Dan K. Moore has asked for changes in the structure of the board of higher education that, many feel, are ill-atdvised. When set up in 1955 at the instance of Governor Luther Hodges, the idea was te bring cohesion to the many state- supported colleges and universities. It was felt a super board, unconnected with the administration of any of the schools, would be able to prevent duplication of services and thereby eliminate waste. Board members feel they have been successful in these aims. The request of the Governor to have all members’ terms expire on July 1 must be termed as political. It is a fact, one member says, that vast majority of the members of the board of higher education were quite ac tive in behalf of Governor Moore’s losing opponent Richardson Preyer, and that these same members took the Preyer de feat hatd. Indeed, says this member, only two of the members supported Governor Moore. It is natural that a Governor prefers to have political friends on state boards, rather than non-friends, and perhaps that is as it should be. Conversely, h i s recommendation that seven of the members come from borards of trustees of state-supported schools does not wash. Either the trustees would be open to charge of fav oring their particular school, or would be constrained to lean over backward to avoid such charge, perhaps to the hurt of the particular institution. AuxiUoiy President The honor accrues not only to Mr. and Mrs. Blanton, but to the whole com munity. Both hold responsible positions. Landscape Changing Mayor John Henry Moss has noted that the demise of the poles will en hance the looks <rf the community and that the change will give some measure of aid to the business section parking problem. Small world department: Mrs. Ellen Medliu Rosberg writes from Kingsport, Tenn., of her husband’s recent tranter there. She finds that the Rosberg resi dence is within 200 feet of the home of the Jones Fortune family. Until they moved from Kings Mountain, the Ros- bergs were across-the-street neighbors from Mrs, Pauline Fortune Weaver, Jones Fortune’s sister. Congratulations to Sandy Campbell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Campbell, voted into membership of Omicron Del ta Kappa, national leadership fraternity, at the University of Tennessee, and to Larry Burton, son of Mrs. Lawrence Bur ton, chosen to attend an English work- Mlfli 88 WMtcCB Carolina college for gifted students. MARTIN’S MEDICINE IngraHenU: bit* of new* wisdom, humor, and comment* Direction*: Take weekly, i; possible, but avoid overdosage. Accepted or Excepted? m-m One of the sad moments of my young life was inability my frosh year to make the staff of the Daily Tar Heel. At the tender age of 16 I was a sports buff, and my idea of heaven was cov ering football at New Orleans i one weekend. Chicago the next, and Ann Arbor the next, m-m 'But Ray Howe, the sports edi tor, now newspaperinfe in Chat tanooga, had only two vacancies and hired at the prevailing no pay rate Shelley Rolfe and Jer ry Stoff, who were most exper ienced. It was about the same situation on the news staff, and Managing Editor Reed Sarratt invited the 40 or more appli cants to be roving reporters. He would hire the best. Should we find no staMers at the Tar Heel office, we were to hang our ef forts on the hook, our names ap pended. m-m Ted Husing, the late great sports announcer, was in Chapel Hifl to get acquainted with the Colgate footballers who were opening Duke's season next day in a big intersectional game. The previous year was 193.5, when Carolina was Rose Bdwl bound until Duke prevailed 25-0. Hus- irlg had predicted the upset and it had properly enraged the Car olina crowd. Several put some cash in the kitty and wired Hus ing, challenging him to a $300 'bet. He did not accept, nor even acknowledge the proffer, m-m Several upperclassmen. Man- gum Dorm Manager Joe Derrick- son among them, crowded a- round the debonair Husing and asked why he hadn’t t^lieved them of their treasure. Husing replied, “Why should I bet you even when I had 6 to 1 odds in New York?” n N.C. COLLEGES “and universities Speaking Out By GEORGE T. MOORE, Fraaddeni Kings Mountain Ministerial Assn. ^ The tension and conflict bo tween the individual and com. munity is as ancient as man him self. Individual freedom and so cial responsibility clash, and -al ways will, to some degn'p. Wlic- ther it’s the routing of a public highway, or the legal demands for civil rights, individuals will fight according to personal in terests. Such has been the history of the human race, and a rather poor commentary it is whore set- i fish concerns have had their way. i Progress and invprovement al- ways seem to come In spite <8 self - centeredness and apoMtiaii to what is proper and right. Viewpoints of Other Editors CLICHE QUIZ FOR TEACHERS j The sceneis tne Dean's office {at Grassroots State Teachers 1 College. Dean Percy Pedaguese is I interviewing a prospective siu- ' dent. m-m As I returned to the dormitory, it suddenly dawned that my chance had arrived. I opened up the portable and wrote away. True to Sarratt’s prediction, the DTH office was vacant and I did as instructed. Next morning I picked up the paper and there it was! My story was carrying a ttwo-colmun headline on Page 1. Another Kings Mountain citizen has been honored by a state-wide organiza tion by being elected its president. The Women’s Auxiliary of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical associa tion has elected as president Mrs. Charles D. Blanton, Jr., wife of the Kings Mountain pharmacist, who himself was elected first vice-president of the parent pharmaceutical association. m-m Jatmtily that afternoon I ap proached -dhe onetime-awesome Sarratt. How did he like my story? W-hat story? The Husing interview! "That wasn’t your story," he charged, crediting it to someone else. “It’s mighty strange,’’ I shouted, “that the story is word-for^vord as I wrote it.” My protests were to no avail. It was my first victimization of plagiarism-journalistic theft. I don’t remember who the guy was credited with the story, and I’m glad I don’t. At any rate, when ^rratt was with the Charlotte News and on campus to cover the humor magazine banning, in the Fall of ’39, we had a chat and he realized he had been ■wrong. Some staffer had soldier ed. Telegraph poles have long been a landmark along railroad tracks, the rails requiring quick communication all along the route, not only to provide traffic in formation but for safety of operations. But the poles along Southern Rail way's mainline, from Washington to At lanta, are coming down, the long- familiar Morse code and teletype meth od of communication giving way to microwave radio, which requires no poles. m-m Numerous classmates took the V-7 105-day-wonder navy route during World War II, among them Johnny McNeill, now a fWhltevHle pharmacist, who roomed on the same sixth deck tfloor) of the good ship Fiurnald hall at- Columbia university. We both were good friends of Mac Nesbit, the permanent- class pres ident, knew h# was with the navy armed guard on the Russian run, and the scuttblebutt was this e.in- voy had taken a bad mauling. Both of us were hoping aloud that Mac would make it all right, when Johnny had a telephone call. It was Ensign Nesbit, just put m to port, his six-knot Moore- McCormack freighter leaking like a sieve, but home safe. John ny, incidentally, was too short for the navy physical test, out had exercised until he stretched himseK the extra required half inch of height. m-m A neighbor at Columbia and Okrolina classmate was Lewis Hamlin, ndw a Salisbury lawyer^ and an assistant federal distH, attorney during Ike’s admi tration. Classmate Anderson Brevard editor, picked up non-servioe scuttlebutt n that Luke recently colleel highMt legal fte in North Una history. m-m Classmate Walter Ashe (i] Wall, now •at Raleigh, wj down over Germany neai end and was a prisoner er^ wette. After ret the States and await! charge, he -visited me in’ marie. Was he resuming ■with Burroughs Corpoi Eventually, he was, but mediately. "After kicking, for more than four years, Uncle Sam’s army air fon ting shot at. and being a er, I’ve decided to settle I’m going to work eight per day finding a wife." mon«M lama It was bells for Brick. iDean: Miss Jones, after looking over your transcript I am sure you will fit in nicely at Grass- j roots, but I always like to have a little chat with candidates to test their professional vocabulary. I migh begin by asking you what the curriculum of the modern school is designed to meet? Miss Jones: The child’s interests, needs, and abilities. Dean: Fine. Now can you tell me how such a curriculum is dCr termined? Miss Jones: By what researefc tells us about the developmental needs of the child. Dean: Here at Grassroots we like to think we are pioneering in presenting new knowledge. What is this called? Miss Jones: It is called working on the frontiers of knowledge. Dean; And what is this knowl edge aimed to meet? Miss Jones: The new demands of our times. Dean: The thrust of the prog ram here is directed toward what? iMiss Jones: A major break through. Dean: what kind of concepts are we interested in? Miss Jones: Insightful con cepts, or meaningful concepts. Dean: No win order to meet current educational needs we are taking a certain kind of look at the curriculum. What kind of look? Miss Jones: A hard second look. Dean: Correct. And as one re sult of our hard second look what has been born? Miss Jones: A revol ution in educational techniques. 'Dean: What kind of revolu tion. Dean: One final inquiry. Do you know about what might be called the medical syndrome in education, that is, the necessity ol making educators sound like doctors? And If you are aware of 1 KNOW THAT'S WHAT 1 SAID, BUT .. THE NEXT TIME WE SEE PARIS Is it false advertisin’- to offer j ^as been sal^ in comiiaring a car for “only 1,395 bananas?- the character of British French, and then refuse to sell when a ' German life, that “in Eng- woman brings in a down pay ment of 25 bananas? When this situation recently occurred in Connecticut the woman reporteti- ly filed a complaint. In our opinion the man was fortunate that she brought a down payment and not the whole price in cold hard bananas. Ba nanas on the line, in other words. Or bananas on the barrel head. Of course, the purchasing po wer of the banana isn’t what it used to be. It is a bit dubious to say something as sound as a banana watch is a thing of the Antj as for banana diplo- .gjacy Alas, somebody is always tak ing someone literally, as that Connecticut auto dealer now has (found out. We hope the experi ence does not blight his creative instinct. (The latly did wind up getting the car for bananas.) There are enough soibersides bound to a world of dollars and cents. Surely he would not be misun derstood if he chariged his offer to something like a thousand clams. We know a follow who still has thefirst clam he ever earned. IChri.<itmn 'Science [Monitor land everything is permissible that is not strictly forbidden, in Germany everything is forbidden that is not specifically perrriitted, but that in France everything has been forbidden at sometime i or other but tliat all is permissi ble.” Frenchmen would, of course, be right in indignantly denying that any such thing was true. Yet the French do seem to have an unusual capacity for issuing vast nuirtbers of ‘decrets’’ or reg- lulations without greatly interfer ing with the Frenchman’s happy Independence. Even so, a new test npw con fronts the Parisian’s finlly hon ed skill of adapting laws to his own individualistic outlook. For on a single day 147 new sanitary regulations rained down upon the city. Furthermore, the;ie ran the gamut of Parisian life. House wives, butchers, cafe owners, taximen, the subway, buses, pet owners, and a vast number of other facets of Paris wore af fected. Yet, \ e use this word “affect ed" tenh tively. For we fully ex pect tha’ the next time we see Paris, it will be its own old, free- wheelirfg self. iT/ie Chrintian (Science Monitor TRAVEL SAFETY American railroads continue to better their already enviable tra vel safety record. The Associa tion of American Railroads re ports that only 11 passenger fa talities occurred last year in car rying 314 million people for a total of 18.3 billion passenger miles. This is a fatality rate of only 0.06 per 100 million passen ger miles. Compared with other forms of travel, on the basis of miles tra veled, the railroads were twice as safe as domestic airlines, 40 percent safer than buses and 20 times as safe as private automo biles. But a big question is how much longer passenger train service will remain available for many towns and cities in various parts of the nation. Passenger train patronage continues to de crease annually. Safety, it would seem, is no longer a paramount consideration in travel. \Da1Ms ,Morning News This is illustrated, trajHaOIii so, in the promulfeatlon ol an ios sidious, hateJfilled organlzatioR such as the Ku Klux ts'iau. l.\- cept for the crippling waves o£ community contact, forcing them selves into the public life, this group would not be worthy ot comment or attention. However, when the attempt is made to trust this type of pro|)a- ganda upon the social scene, representative of the thought of! our section of the nation, it’.s time to speak out. Play acting rituals carried on under hooded costumes is one thing. Calling this the bulwark of human rights is another. The lie simply can not face the truth. Cross-burninig activities are in tended to give a Christian flavor to the zealous attempts of tlie Klan to preserve and protect tlie white race, as though a particu lar color of skin has a special privilege where God is concern ed. To me, this brings only one picture to mind, that of ancient, pagan Rome, burning its crosses if execution, crosses bearing true and faithful Christians of the first century. Those were the people opposing a despotic em pire and way of life, not the cross-burners. To even suggest a Christian touch in present day Klan ritual is nauseating, indeed! Last week’s marriage, per formed under the ban-ner of the Klan, simply bears out the tragic absurdities of what the organiza tion represents—not the God- given blessing upon family and life, hut Ihe sinful rejection of the g(jod and decent. It probably does little good to expend critieism against such narrowness and Ignorance. I pity _ those caught up in the destrue- tlve mesh of bigotry. I would oray for change and transforma tion. For the community - at - large the better approach would be to let all know that this community and all other communities stand for human decency and human rights. It is worth a thousand ex hibitions of night - hidden marches, gatherings and rant- ings, for one individual to stand up and speak clearly the truth. iWe have a state which has made tremendous progress in human relationships. We will not lot this be lost or set aside. 'You can help. DON'T LET A STORM STRIKE YOUR POCKETROOK... INSURE Storm damage may happen any time, but at all times, proper farm insurance coverage can make sure you don’t suffer fi nancial loss. Cost is low. Check with us. THE ARTHUR HAY AGENCY •ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE'’ PHONE 739-4659 this can you give me an example at the vacabulary? Miss Jones: Yes sir — if I want to fjei^^ad^gnostician at first YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about King Mountain area people am events taken from the 19S tiles of the Kings Mountain \Berald. |jigs M-ountain high school’s ^encement exercises for the rf 1955 will begin Sunday \with the baccalaureate [nd will conclude Tues- with graduation ex events will be held school auditoriu.Ti gin at 8 o’clock. Fif- lints are candidates bl diplomas. Bnfl/’kl m f a in 'L'I tarn Man KEEP YOUR RADIODIAL SETAT 1220 WKMT Kings Menntain, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. 4
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