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r CDITOMAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Gary Stewart Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Helen Owens Clerk Jerry Hope Paul uau'kson MECHAniCAL DEPARTMENT Zeb Weathers Mike Camp Allen Myers '^‘eve Ramsey SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE - BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR .. $3.50 SIX MONTHS .. $2.00 THREE MONTHS .. $1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROUNA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739*5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE The nnts fare « pevple ftot ftrong, m they prepare {their (nieuf the summer. Provei'b.'i 30:25. Speoker Ban Boiling The Herald has seen it happen be fore, but not too many times. in 1954, the press was meeting in New Bern and Miss Gertrude Carraway, ex newspaper woman, then national presi dent of the Daughters of the American Revolution, made an address in which she endorsed some forms of censorship. The following address was by Lyle Wil son, chief of the United Press bureau in Washington, D. C. Mr. Wilson, loj^g ^ battler with bureaucrats who sought to suppress or at least color the news, hard- ly in the public interest, replied strongly Miss Carraway was wrong. Mr. Wilson remarked afterward he felt quite ungallant in attacking the views of a lady in her own home city but ^dded, “I had no choice.” Dr. Edgar M. Knight, president of Duke University, said the same Monday as he addressed the graduating class at the University of North Carolina (Chap el Hill). His confrontation was with Gov ernor Dan K. Moore who took the ros trum to defend his position on amend ment of the speaker ban law-, passed in the closing minutes of the 1963 General Assembly, and most odious to the educa tional community as well as many other citizens. The Moore plan is to appoint a study commission to examine the law, its ramifications, effects, and, in turn, recommendations for retention, amend ment, or repeal. Those who favor repeal and/or amendment are angry and upset that the Governor himself will not recom mend to the General Assembly a course of action, in the face of his own findings that the University faces loss of accredi tation. The chief issue is wnether the trustees have the power to manage the University. A concurrent and equaily important issue is whether the state is adopting the ostritch policy of putting its head in the sand when anything fearsome or un pleasant appears on the horizon. Such a policy is not in keeping with twentieth century North Carolina where, as Treas urer Edwin Gill says, “Good government is a habit.” UNC Chancellor Paul Sharp ad dressed last Saturday a large gathering of alumni of the Class of 1940, with a solid attack on the speaker ban or gag law. Many out-of-state alumni present were already very upset over the pros pect of losing accreditation, as well as alumni North Carolinians. An ex-Smith- field graduate, now an Ohio physician and active in the Republican party, left the Sharp address saying, “I wasn’t sure about the speaker ban law but Dr. Sharp convinced me. It’s wrong.” The Sharp address had brought a rising and pro longed ovation. The Herald feels, too, that the Gov ernor’s study commission plan is akin to beating around the bush. Many suspect he is relying for ad vice on Dr. Beverly Lake, to whom he is In debt for election, and that this is neither in keeping with the leadership responsibilities of the governor’s office nor in the tradition of the office since 1901. Citizens also recall that the Demo cratic party has twice denied Dr. Lake ^e nomination for governor, f^or do citizens feel a defeated aspirant should m allowed to be the skipper of the ship p| state. Professionalism &lp Severeid, the television com- itator, commented recently on the pt that master’s degrees and doctor- Stjes are becoming as commonplace as pschclor degrees once were. Dr. Paul Sharp, chancellor of the University at Chapel Hill, confirmed the tend in a remark to an alumni group last weekend. It is intended policy, he Sid, to maintain the present level or en- Slment of undergraduates, some 10,- HDO. Future expansion attention will fo- is on the graduate and professional iiools, with indicated enrollment of It 5d)0Q, pr » mssipum of 15,000 stu- Rev. George T. Moore Resurrection Lutheran church is losing its pastor and the Herald a con tributing columnist via the decision of Rev. George T. Moore to accept the min isterial duty at Spencer’s Calvary Luth eran church. Mr. Moore’s record of six years of stewardship here is good. Members have been added, church debt halved, plant and equipment expanded. Meantinie, the busy Mr. Moore has furthered his semi nary study and also found time to serve actively on the board of trustees of the Lowman Home at White Rock, S. C. His Herald column “Speaking Out” has appeared regularly for several months on the editorial page. His writ ings contain sound philosophy and wise opinions. Kings Mountain loses as Spencer gains. ful to admit last weekend’s 25th anniversary reunion at the Chap el Hill branch of the Greater Uni versity is the first I’ve attended, but I do not intend for it to be my last, the good Lord willing, m-m I have not yet learned the act ual number of members of the Cla.ss of ’40. tiieir spouses and children present, but tliere inust have been 500 persons at the Sat urday night banquet. A oneUme football player, Leo Slotnick, flew in from Guam with his lovely Eurasian wife, and copped the prize for making the longest trek back to Chapel Hill. Running sec ond was a onetime cross country man. Bill Gordon, Epi.scopal bish op of Alaska. Louis Sutton, with Date Extended The State Stream Sanitation com mittee has granted Kings Mountain grace periods on the city’s several con tracted deadlines for modernizing its sewage disposal system 1) by doubling capacity of the overloaded but modern McGill treatment plant, built in 1954, and 2) constructing a modern disposal plant to serve the western area of the community. Wilbur E. Long, secretary to the committee, was plain in his address to the city commission. If evidence of good faith in proceed ing on the project were shown, he would recommend an extension. Otherwise, he would not. The new Moss administration promptly resolved to proceed with all due haste. , , ... Much work is to be done before bids can be invited and contracts let for the rather mammoth task in store. A site must be obtained on a stream with sufficient minimal average flow. Plans and specifications must be drawn and approved. Cost must be estimated and borrowing authority voted. 'The sewage project foreseeably will be the most major of the present admin istration. R. S. Dickson & Company Charlotte, I nominated for tlic baldest, and he won by acclama tion. Clark Totherow, a navy commander, Initially from Wins ton-Salem, got the prize for fathering the most children, sev en. The prize: a miniature loving cup. Tom Pitts, High Point furni ture manufacturer had the youngest child, age five months. It was my opinion that blonde Tom. a wrestler in college, Drew- ry Troutman, of Aberdeen, anoth er cross country man, and Jan Williams, Fieldcrest textilist at Spray, appeared least changed of any of us when all the measure ments (girth, hair, etc.) were considered. Bunk Anderson, of Charlotte, had added most pounds (80), but J. B. Harris, of Durham, had the most girth. The tape measure wouldn’t meet, m-m Margaret Herndon, then from Grover and a sister of Mrs. i Charles Dixon, was present with husband Jim Kirk and family of Birmingham, Ala. Jim posed one of my chief memory problems. I ! knew I’d known him previously I but couldn’t connect him as a classmate. After two days, light dawned. I’d heard Jim speak for Charlie at the Rotary Club here, subsequently socialized with him that evening. m-m Duncan McColl, of Bennetts- ville, S. C., was inquiring about their friends the Tom Trotts and Mrs. Paul Hendricks. Asked his major. Dune replied “cwnmcrce”, then recalled that then-Dean D. D. Carroll was a tough taskmas ter. “He kicked me out twice, but he kickeid his son and namesake out three times,” Dune recalled. D. Carroll, Jr., was also a classmate and very much pres ent. m-m Dining companion at one func tion was the family of Dr. Otho Ross, of Charlotte. Ross’ sister Jane is the wife of Phil Hammer, predecessor editor to me of the Daily Tar Heel, and for whom Linda Biser Ahrens worked a time in Washington, D. C. m-m Charlie Wood, president of the class our junior year, in yarn sales, had had lunch recently with Billy and Charles Mauney. Editor Retires Mrs. Grace Rutledge Hamrick re cently announced she was retiring as editor of the neighboring Cleveland Times at Shelby, a newspaper with which she has had intermittent associa tion since it was founded in 1941. Not that Mrs. Hamrick has reached anywhere close to retirement age. Family responsibilities furnish the reason. Daughter of a newspaper publisher, Mrs. Hamrick has provided bright and forceful editorial leadership to the Cleveland Times, as well as sharp and honest reporting. There is a saying in the newspaper profession that printer’s ink is as con taminating as a malaria-carrying mos quito, and there is some suspicion that Mrs. Hamrick will find her long associa tion with printer’s ink equally contami nating, as has been indicated in her case in the past. The Herald’s best wishes to her and congratulations for good and faithful service to her readers. It*s Dairy Mogth June is dairy month and Cleveland County, which in the past decade has moved into this phase of fanning with gre^t incidence is calling special atten tion to the observance. Four dairies are holding open house through hflxt Wednesday, with all citi zens invited to tour their layouts and see what energy and effort must be ex pended before one may purchase a quart of milk, pint of ice cream, or other dairy product at the comer grocer’s or have it delivered to his front porch. For Kings Mountain area citizens the nearest port of call is the J. C Ran dall dairy. To see the full operation, best time to call would be at milking time, usually from 3:30 to 6 p.m. in the after noon. But tours of the dairy will be con ducted at any hour. wUl b« an iaUresUng tour for the Ed. Note: The above coxtoon oppeared in a special edition of the Doily Tar Heel, University of North Carolina student publication, edited by Herald Editor Martin Harmon in connection with bis doss' Silver Annivetsory issue. The drawing is by David Baity, former Herald staff member now with the Gostonio Gazette. The cartoon is typical of Silver Anniversary gatherings at high schools and colleges everywhere. Viewpoints of Other Editors STREET CAR POLITESSE i Remember the days when street car operators were allow ed to have beards, when for one fare you could hitch your bicycle to the rear platform, when there was a regulation restricting the speed of street cars past churches on Sunday morning to 4 miles per hour? JOBLESS FIGURE: FACT OB FANCY? Just how serious and how ex tensive is unemployment in the United States today? To answer this question the government cites the national rate of unem ployment as determined by its own surveys. m-a John Dorsey, initially from Shelby, now lives In Maryland and works for the Central Intelli gence Agency. He recalls intro ducing Jimmy Harris to Carolyn and adds, "About two months later they were married.” m-m Dave Bowman, of New York, recalls he came to Carolina *s a very poor boy, who could play The government maintains The exemplary qualities in To-1 that, despite a decline over the ronto then were good manners, I last couple of years, the rate is j a puritanical outlook ind a re- I still excessively high. Recently, gy eontrast, the National As- spect for money. All of them ■ public problem analyst Sannucl sociation of Manufacturers sees I would indicate. ' Some say that the Labor De partment has a vested interest in high unemployment statistics The AFL-CIO, on the other hand, maintains that the government figures are too low. Citing “in- visible unemployment’’ and invo luntary "under-employment,’’ it would place the unemployment rate at about ^ percent rather than the govern.T.ent’s 4.8 per cent. leap from the pages of a 26-page ; Lubeil challenged the meaning- booklet of rules and regulations issued by the Toronto Street Railway to its conductors and motormen in 1908 which was re cently unearthed and sent to To ronto Transit Commissioner Ford Brand. A gentle time? You bet it was, as witness this section: The conductor must be ready to assist ladies, children and el derly or infirm persons in get ting on and off but must not place his hands upon any person unless his assistance is needed. A frugal time? You bet it was, as witness this one: Uniform buttons are supplied by the com basketball. Said Dave, “I was too j pany and must be returned on poor to live in a dormitory so one of the coaches fixed me up with cubbyhole room under the stands of the baseball field. The rats were plentiful. Fact is, they even ran across my bed with me in it. One night something hap pened. No rats, you know I got so lonesome I couldn’t go to iea\^ng the service when the money paid will be refunded. Beards were in and It was the shavers the railway was concern ed about. “Men who shave must do so regularly,” it commanded. Politeness was demanded. “Dis puting and quarrelling are not allowed. Should any difficulty oc- r wlVr^“ss“e7g;^^ k j temper and use civil language 'even under the greatest provoca tion.” the Interwoven division of Kay ser-Roth, hosiery manufacturers m-m Bill Stauber, the Durham ad vertising executive, could have been a Bob Hope had he chosen. As master of ceremonies Friday evening, he kept the crowd roar Under the heading of hatiits, the railway laid it on the line. “Employees must be of sober habits. The use of liquor whilst on duty is prohibited. Any men fulness of the government’s sta tistics. “As a nation," he said, ‘Hve need a new, sharper defini tion of who is to be counted as unemployed.” The government arrives at the official figure by taking a survey of 35,000 households. If an .di vidual answers “yes” to the question, “Have you been look ing for work?" he is counted as u-nemployed. the government figure as includ ing many who are not really in ncetl of jobs or who would not be able to hold jo:s. The Wall Street Journal, viewing the fig ure as inflated, charges that “it has become a convenient tool for politicians eager to tap the Trea sury." We would urge the Labor De partment to revise its question in order to arrive at a more mcan- 1 ingful figure. Government fig- Mr. Lubeil notes that the an- i ures should show what percent- swer to this question in no way jobless present a gen- indicates the degree of hardship among the jobless. Nor does it reveal the percentage of unem ployed who have real trouble uine unemployment problem for the country. The figure, on which are based policy decisions hav ing significant economic, social, getting jobs. Nor of those whose j find political repercussions, difficiTlties are such that they should not be a matter of con- would be unable to get jobs in troversy. The department should any event. necessary steps to end , ^ the confusion At the same time that the ILet’s talk about religion. The ultimate question, of course, re volves around its place and im portance in human life. It de serves a better tieal than it has been getting of late. These are the facts. Today’s re sponse to religious activities and institutions is at a low ebb. 'riiis trend toward minimal participa tion is not limited to any one group, denomination or section of the country. There arc several reasons for this disenchantment and depart ure. One is the current situation of peace. This is world peace in the sense that there is no inime- ! Idlate threat from any ol tlie i great world powers. Tied to this I is a general prosperity in which 1 there is little threat to personal 1 security. Most everyone is roa- ! sonably happy and satisfied, j with not much awareness of re- I ligious needs. There arc more en- j joyable things to do. Another reason is the lack of any great threat to religion it self. History bears out the truth that the absence of per.secution^^ develops an unhealthy “take or leave it" attitude, even among^^ religious people. Religion, unop posed, is taken for grantqd It’s just not that important. ^ paral lel example is life itself. It doesn’t moan nearly so much as when the possibility of losing it arises. A third reason is found in tlie emphases which are being pro moted by so many of the 1 churches today, especially in the ’ area of social concerns. These in- ! volve action and change which do not appeal to many. The re sult is a slackcnin.g of interest. Those who object say tliat re ligion should comfort, not chal lenge. Talk is alright, just so long as it does not demand ac tion. These and other reasons which detract from personal participa tion and commitment to religion stem from gross misconceptions cxincerning religion. In it’s basic sense roligion centers around one’s relationship to God. "niis is the fact of personal relation ships, person to person. It is en counter, the human with the di vine person of God. God creates and njan comes in to existence. Gqd speaks and man must listen. God calls and man must respond. However, this is no automatic process. There is the freedom of the will, that is. _ the freedom to refuse, a freedom4^ which has been exercised by all^N men. In ortier to re-establish the re lationship. God came into our woifd. Helived in our midst, in the flesh. This God, the Son of God. provided the way back. He overcame the wrongness, offer ing his own righteousness to the world. Religion is the involve ment in that, in acceptance and response All this points to the truth that this is God’s world, created for his purposes. Life, anpl all that it involves, is eternally dependent upon Him. There is no life with out Him. Any other approach i.s self-destruction. Such truth says that every moment belongs to Him. Religious activities and in stitutions are simply a part of human response. They deserve our participation. This is not to say that our re ligious organizations and activi ties are perfect. As humans we place our stamps of imperfection upon them. However, God watches over his own. He will, if we would but let Him, guide us into truth. He will preserve that which is right. It’s worth your response because it's worth your life. ing for two hours with quips and I seen entering or leaving a saloon cracks about college-boy antics of! in uniform will be liable to dis- Da yesteryear. Jim Davis, general chairman of the reunion pro gram, was also in good form. m-m 'The question I had to answer most during the weekend was: Where are Rush and Grace Hamrick and George Plonk?” The Hamricks were not class mates and George is soon to ^e his eldest daughter married, 1 re plied. m-m Air Force Colonel Buddy Nor- dan said he awakened at 3 a.m. Saturday morning, started think ing about the reunion, arose, dressed, went to the airport and flew down. Mac Nisbit, perma nent class president, flew in from Puerto Rico, Nick Gianakos, a Shell oil executive, from New York, Vance Hobbs, onetime head cheerleader, from Fort Worth, Texas. Thata and many moat- I k #na a giaal yarfy. missal. Chewing tobacco or gum and smoking are not .allowed whilst on duty.” Under the heading Caution, the booklet says: "Never put a pas senger off while the car is in mo tion or make any sign of move ment which would cause a pas senger to jump off from fear or anything else.” Smoking was allowed on the rear platforms of some cars and in the three back seats of other cars. "Spitting in the car or on the plaHorm is prohibited,” the booklet said. “If any passenger is guilty of the offense, the con ductor must politely but firmly caution him. If the offense is re peated. the conductor may stop the car and eject the offender using no more force than is necessary.” Passengers were not allowed to stand on the front platforms at optu cars unlesa the seats ¥»w¥ wet or they were consta- government claims widespread unemployment, there exists a la bor shortage, however paradoxi cal this may seem -at first glance. Help - wanted advertisements in local papers and unfilled jobs at employment agencies bear this out. Shortages appear to be due to uneven geographical distribution of unemployed workers, lack of applicants with sufficient train ing and skills, unfavorable wage and working conditions, and stringent hiring specifications. But they may also be due In part to less severe unemployment than the government figure -bles. On the use of gongs, the rail way seemed to adopt the philoso phy the more the merrier—ex cept on Sunday. “Sunday cars m'lst nexer ex ceed 4 miles per hour when pass ing any church, place of public worship or Sunday school build ing during hours of service with in 200 feet of any such place to avoid accidents,” it intoned. The one that got Mr. Brand was No. 73. ‘lUsten to this,” he said to his fellow commissioners. “All motormen must carry pnp pair of pliers and one screw driver which will be furnished by the company and must be return ed or paid for when called for.” An official coughed nervously, “That one’s still In there,” he said sbeeDiiibly- — DopM Car- micMaal in The Olebe and MnU (Toronto). Christian Science Monitor 10 Your * i f / HEART FUND ..fights them all YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items 0/ newt ai>out King Mountain area people am event! taken from the 195 filet of the Kinge Mountak Herald. The shining new Deal Street swimming pool may open for customers this weekend, probab- > ly Friday, City Recreation Dlrec- ! tor Doug Salley said Wednesday. I Charles D. Blanton, now com- ' pleting two years service in the Army, will rejoin the pharmacy staff of Kings Mountain Drug Company Monday, it was an nounced by the management. Social and Fersonal Mr, and Mrs. Major Loftin an nounce the birth of a daughter, June 3. Kings Mountain ho.spttal. MeatAttMk strain NigliBl04<nHture iMiwntEftwr Summei Stoims Often result in fire damage from lightning or crop damage from hail and wipds. See us for complete 'Sne insurance protection. THE ABTHUB HAY AGENCY “ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE" riraBKTM^ I'!
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