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ftqe 4 KINGS MOUNTAIN HWALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, September 9, 1965 established 1M9 The Kinp Motmtain Hciald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of t le citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Her 'id Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the post office at fflngs Mountain, N. C., 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1CT3. EDltOMAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Gary Stewart Sports Editor Miss Blizabeth Stewart Circulatior Manager and Society Editor Miss Lynda Watterson Clerk-Reporter Jerry Hope MEthANICAL OEPARTMEHT Dave Weathers Paul Jackson . St(!ve Ramsey Allen Myers MARTIN'S MEDICINE Ingredients: bits of ni'ws wisdom, humor, andcomme.its Directions: Take weekly, ij possible, but avoid overdosage. By MARTIN HARMON There’s an old saying that everything happens at once and most folk have experienced iuch waves of events at some lin.e in- their lives. m-m SUB.SCRIPTIONS RATES PAYABl£ IN ADVANCE - BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR .. $3:.';0 SlX MONTHS .. $2.00 THREE MONTHS $1 05 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALI3 TAX TEtEPKOiNe number — 739-5441 TODAY'S BINlE VERSE But yc haw not so learned Christ. Ephesians i:S0. Civil Riffhls Aitd When the 1964 federal th^l,rights bill was being enacted, a Gongr^s; woman won additioh of the wrd sW to the phrase iirohibiting distnrnmailon on account of race, creed, dolor or ha- tional origin. The Herald is inclined to guess that the Congresswoman, in leisure mohjents since, as well as others whd supported this addition, may well regret that in clusion, for the word “sei” is creating all kinds of problems in administration of the law. Everyone believes, or thinks he be lieves, in equality for women. But what is equality? The Office of Equal Opportunity found itself in a dither as to whether it is still legal to advertise for a female stenographer or to •'specify a nlale ma chine operator. Indications are that the rule of reason will be followed and that it will be permissible for employers to specify males for nominally male work and females for nominally female chores. As proved during World War U, many women can discharge nominally male chores as well as men. They_ built airplanes and handled many previously all-male jobs. But that doe-'sn’t apply to all of the members of the fair sex. One Kings Mountain employer has a particular job in which he specifies that trainees shall be women, of mini mum and maximum height, must have a high school diploma and he between the ages of 18 and 22. Why? Experience has proven that trainees outside the particular specifications who prove suc cessful are very seldom exceptions. Certainly school and college folk are not expected to be considering women for football coaching duties. At least the sur^on-general’s office followed the rule of reason. Guidelines formulated and distributed by this office do not include the word “sex” in its de segregation recommendations. When Kings Mountain hospital’s manager, Grady Howard had this omis sion called to his attention, he laughed, then said, "Well, I hardly think we are that sophisticated yet.” Then he added that enforcement of this foolishly in cluded specification would often-times ease hospital space problems. Hindsight being greatly superior to foresight, the Congress would be wise to delete the “sex” item from the civil rights act. Not Much to Do A statement of George Edwards, Negro member of the Kings Mountain human relations council, to anbthCr member Monday night is a considerable tribute to Kings Mountain citizens and Kings Mountain leadership. On the public affairs committee, Mr. Edwards remarked, “We won’t have much to do. We are provided rest rooms, integrated schools, allowed to eat in restaurants and otherwise have privi leges.” His brief statement Is a most happy editorial comment on the nature of race relations here. The county tax collector has an nounced the county tax office will do some cross-checking with the North Carolina Department of Revenue on un listed or questionably listed Inventories of a few Cleveland business firms. This is a proper move. This county was among the earliest endeavoring to es tablish equity via a consistent valuation yardstick in county taxing jioliciqs. Some of the omissions are undoubtedly due to honest error. However, spurious ly low inventory totals more bfteh fall into the sin of commission category. News that the Thomas Keslera are leaving Kings Mountain is in th# cate gory of regrettable news Citizens here lor the past dozen year;, the Keslers reared their children h +e and have identified themselves wit i Kings Moun tain in many pleasant and worthwhile directions. Best wishes go vHth io Plainfield, N. J. Rdnkin Balloon The Herald queried Mr. Rankin as early as .961 on whether he ever envis ioned hinself In the candidate side of politics. ;iis reply was negative at the time, he pointing out that campaigning costs In the big Tar Heel State continue to escalate With each passing year. He pointed tj the television medium as be ing quite expensive and added that bill board, newspaper and radio rates were getting no cheaper. A pe sonal friend of this newspaper of long-.''tanding, Mr. Rankin has the added gu jematorial qualifications of in tegrity, energy, imagination and open- mindedne ss. Zeiiin§ Tough Chore Robinson Crusoe, apparently alone on an Isl: nd until he and Friday discov ered each other, had to honor no regu lations e::cept those pertaining to food and shelter and, therefore, survival. In u 'ban communities, rules, laws and regu ations are necessary to assure orderly living. Thus, in Charlotte^ a motorist who over-par! s on North Tryon street in the afternoor rush hour sometimes returns to his ca • to find no car. The constabu lary has 1 owed it away — an action dele terious t(' humor, pocketbook and ulcer. Simi arly, carving a community the size of Kings Mountain into land-use zones — for business, industry, etc. — obviously must cut across private prop erty ownership and private property rights, ai id the more rugged individual ists are upset when they feel their in alienable rights have been infringed. It pcints up the difficult responsi bilities o,’ the newly reactivated Kings Mountain zoning commission. King? Mountain’s 1948 zoning ordi nance is considered quite antiquated. Except for “spot” re-zoning via amend ment, th • ordinance is the same as it was. Best custom Is massive reconsidera tions at five to ten year intervals-, the experts s ly. A p'a -tlcular problem at the moment is ref ula Ion of trailer use for residential purwses. Some don’t like trailers, even on the highways. Others do. Obviously, there is nothing illegiti mate or sinister about use of trailers for residential purposes. ■rhere is the question of keeping a community sightly, neat and clean and therefore product ive of healthful and pleasant iving. Esta -lishment of minimal standaix's for trail r residential use and traikr parks is among the first items of busi- Reas Witt whiUi the zonini group is eall? ed on to consider. A leading Democratic politician in 1940 con mehted that it was then custo mary foi North Carolina’s next governor to be ch ).sen, in effect, about two years before a dual voting day. Sine! then the pattern has changed be casi'inally, when candidates “sup posed” to w'ln lost to other candidates. Case in loint is the election of W. Kerr Scott In 1948. The story of the weekend that Ed ward L. Rankin, of Raleigh, might be the admi nisttation-backed candidate for gdverhot in 1968 seems somewhat jump ing the ?un. In fact, the early rumor could b( damaging to his candidacy, should h! offer, as there is no dearth of gubernatorial aspirants, among them Lieutena it-Governor Robert Scott, ex- state Denocratic Chairman Bert Ben nett, Senator Volt Gilmore, Representa tive David Britt, Banker Lew'is R. Hold ing (sooi to be a business citizen of Kings Mountain), Senator Robert Mor gan of Harnett, Highway Commission ChairiTiaii Joe Hunt and perhaps several others. Nom theless, none is more experi enced in mveroment than Ed Rankin, Governor Dan Moore's director of ad ministration. He has been directly iden tified with four administrations, fir.it going inio state government as public relations director of the state highway commissim (its first). Subsequently he served as secretary to William B. Um- stead, b')th when Mr. Umstead was United S1 ates Senator and Governor. He stayed or with Governor Luther Hodges, theh reti rned on invitation of Governor Moore. One of those “weeks that was” occurred recently for the Themas Keslers. Tom had made his :!eci- ■Sion to join Minerals & Ch imi- cals Phillip on a full-time b sis, .;o he and .Margaret went to Plainfield, N. J., and bought a house. Next port of call was .Minneapolis, Minn., for son Stev en’s wedding. Meantime, lilar- garct’s father was hospital ted. but telephone checks indie led his condition was impro\ ng. They catlod on arrival horn.- to find he had passed away while they were en route. Marg .ret wa.s then put to bed by a n; sty virus and it appeared she wi uld not be able to attend the flum ral. Drs. John McGill and Frank .'.in cox plied her with medicines, one of which she was allergic 00, with a heavy rash the result. m-m Pei^fect Fit, No Alterations I THERE’S BEEN A LOT iu !>» \ -| OF TALK. BUT y^WEAR IT PROUDLY! Endowment Campaign Set I By Eisbine '4c O wii lili a In still pretty ill, she, Tom ■ind Frank weighed possibilities of the trip to Pennsylvania .md Frank decided it would be be'ter for her to attend the fune'al, though unwell, than not to at tend. Frank wrote a note to the airline that Margaret’s rash \,-as in no wise contagious and the and Tom caught a 4 a.m. fir.jht north. iX. Viewpoints of Other Editors THE PRESIDENT'S ANSWER THE LADY LORDSHIP m-m The medicines began doing their duty and Margaret, buoyed in spirit, improved steadily. m-m Said Tom when the sequence of events had passed. "We ;elt we’d had it." m-m The Paul Neisler family, as many of the Neisler clan, .tre loyal supporters of Davidiion college. Paul, Sr., went to school there as did his three sons, end it was natural they wanted the grandsons to follow in the sa-ne ^ecessai y destroy footpaths. However, Tripp, hefl,. eldest grandson, shied away from I Davidson, even though his gra ,od- mother said she’d buy him an au tomobile if he would change his mind. m-m Some we^s ago. No. 2 grand son Alex asked his grandmoti er, “Did you promise Tripp a cat if he went to Davidson?” Miss Katherine said she’d forgot en all about it but replied, "Yes, I believe I did.” Headlines go to hard news the doubling of draft calls, com- imitment of another .li. ision to Vietnam, the decision not to call reserves now But the headlines, because they skip the familiar, are likely to miss the persistent difficulty re flected in the president’s speech yestei day explaining the neces sity to fight, of defining stiate- gic goals in a war that is not the Armageddon. It would be nice to know wliat W. S. Gilbert w„uld have made of the appointment for the fiist time in Brilain of a woman to he a judje of the High Couit of Justice. We doubt whether Judge Eliza beth Lane. Q.C.. (whose appoint ment to the High Court has just been announced! wouki ever sung like the Learned Judge in "Trial by Jury”. Let national leaders fail and slip into an epic iwar, and expla nations become easy. In a World War I or II, it's obvious to all that the goals are simple a:id the enemy, stamp out their evil influence, in stitute at last the world-wide Such goals may lead to disillu sionment later, but during th? conflict they explain away doubt and gird men for sacrifice. In Westminster Hall I danced a dance. Like a semi-despendent fury; For 1 thought I .should never hit on a chance z Of addressing a British jury. BLUE MIST Many motorists, unfortunately, whiz along the highways loo fast to enjoy some of the attrac tions nature has to offer. We're Blinking of particularly of chic ory, a lovely azure-due wildflo- . nuio \VK.'?T. s. c. K The a- Iwaril - winning I.ivin.g Endow- itienl Campai.gn ol Firskine Col- ' Icgc Will ;cl aridri' way in C(>n- 11 ral. .South Carolina and in ' Ninth Camlina Friday, .Septem- her 11). as Towers Club (special ; gills! l■llai!■me!l frcm Iho.se two jiilwsioii^ hnlil a meeting at 7 p. m, i!! li!C Fdks Club in Rock Hill. I)!'. ,1. M. l.c.scsnc, Erskine piesideiit, will adUrcss chapter and (livisioT! chairmen at the meeting, one of lluee during the week that will launeli Erskine alumni drive that has four times earned n.ational awards from the Amel'iean Alumni Council. Ray Wilson ol Abheville, Tow ers Cliih chairman for the 196:‘)- (ill carpaign, will instruct cam pai.gn chaiimcn and workers at the meeting. Division ehaiiman for Central, .South Carolina is S. FL McCuen of Columbia. .Miss Rachel Spen cer of Gastonia, N. C. is division chairman for North Carolina. F’vi rette Carson of Bastonia Is overall ehaiiman for the 1965-66 Living Fhidowment Campaign, Chapter campaign chairmen for the Iw) Towers Club divi sions include: Central Soulh Carolina — Rant Taylor. Clioster; J. M. Dick son, Chive!-; A. N. Whitesides, t'olumliia; Brown Wylie, Lan- eastei'; and W. M. Kennedy, Rock Hill. Noith Carolina E. D. Craig, Gastonia, Mrs, John Cheshire, .li'.. Kings Mountain; Dr. Leon Kennedy of Charlotte, Mecklon- hui'g Chapter; and Mrs. Paul Ashhin-n, .Statesville. Campaign walkers within the chapters are Dr. J. M. Bigham, Miss Mary .Sutherland, and Tho mas S. Walt, Columbia; Ea.'e I>. liarron. Si-., and Mrs. B. O. Pvr.s- ley of Rock Hill and J. Dixon Lcsslie of F'oit Mill, Rock Hill I'haptci'; Rachel Spencer, John M. Alexander: and Charles B. Todd. Gastonia; John Cheshire, For one thing, she is entirely worthy of the piecedent-making honor conferred upon her. And as a cormissioner, acting in the wer with notched petals the size of silver dollars, which at spcixls of 60 miles an hour or so ap peal's to the tra\elcr as patches of soft blue mist hanging low along the roadsides. One of our scouts who drove the length of Illinoi.s the other day reports the chicory seems more abundant than ever this summer, outbid-j ...i.i J- ,^1 mo(*t at ding the ox-eye daisies, h aek-1, ^ . 1 "av inn: am eyed Susans, and yarrow for the attention of th ise who take time to notice it. Kings Mountain; and Mrs. Chicory is a plant which es caped from cultivation in Europe where its leaves are used for reign of goedness and iu.slicc.of a High Court judge, she I naiads and hay, and its roots arc has already dressed as hoard herself ‘his Lordship,” ad- The anomalies and paradoxes of British tradition and protocol But a leader .may seek to pre- i baffling to an outsider, vent the immense sacrifice of an -^on-Britons. for oxamnle. c.nn Said Alex pointedly, ing.” ‘I’m go- Naturally, he’s getting the car. Most ministers feel constrain ed to help folk who come toth.-m with tales of financial woe, and it is natural that they sometimes hold but two gallons,” Otis re- Sr., was recalling such an in stance when the late Dr. W. P. Gerberding was victimized. A man had approached Dr. Gerberding for some cash 'or gasoline, saying he was away from home, out of money, and needed five gallons to get to lis destination. Dr. Gerberding Cell ed Otis, told him to provide the five gallons and charge it to him. “The iguy’s gas tank wouldn’t hold but two gallons,” Itis re members, and when he inforned the wanderer, the fellow pulled a can obt of the trunk and told Otis to put the other three gal lons in the can. m-B Otis told him, “You scoundrel, I don’t believe I ought to do that.” He called Dr. Gerberding Who said, “You’re undoubteilly right, Otis, but fill his can. I promised him in good faith.’’ m-m Dr. W. Li. Pressly and Dr. P. D. Patrick, both living on U_ S. 74, got a great amount of that kind of traffic. m-m Dr. FTessly often teased his friend Dr. Patrick, accusing him of routing begg«rs up-streot to his door. "earning” a living are undoubt d- ly quick-minded, could makt a good living quite honestly if they devoted their wits to Icgi- timniate enterprise. epic war by asking lesser sacri fices earlier. Tlien, though the people may follow his leadership, their doubts are nearly impossi ble to still. In battlefields like Korea or Vietnam, the question remains, as the President aptly phrased it, "Why must young Americans—born into a land ex ultant with hope and golden with promise—toil and suffer and sometimes die in such a re.-note and distant place?” The question cannot be brush ed aside. Vietnam is not only a far but o strange land. Who rules it is of no consequense in the daily affairs of Americans, and all too often it seems that the Vietnamese themselves put too little value in their freedom. It is not easy to say to what pur pose Americans die there. Yet it seems to us that the President has answered the ques tion as well as any man could “If we are driven from the fields in Vietnam, then no nation can ever have the same confi dence in our promise or protec tion. In each land the forces of independence would be weaken ed. . . The battle would be re newed in one country and then another, bringing with it per haps even larger and crueler conflict, as we have learned from the lessons of history. Non-Britons, for example, can hardly ever get British styles and titles right. The solecisms that appear in American news papers, we know, must often be galling to the editor of Debrett. But Britons must be indulgent with those outsiders who get mixed up. We know they them selves will take seriously and in their stride Judge Lane—suitably bewigged being known i-n fu ture as Mr. Justice Lane. It could be even more perplexing 11 -as with High Court judges hitherto--^the Sovereign confer red upon Jbuge Lane the rank ol Knight Bachelor. (She is in fact a married woman.) Yet as always, the age-old tra ditionalism of the British can b< made the vehicle of quite revo lutionary innovation. The Christian Srieme Monitm ANSWERS NEEDED “We haye learned—at a terri ble and brutal cost—that retreat does not bring safety, or weak ness peace.” The President’s answer is not one to comfort any man’s heart, or even to explain away all doubt, but it is not an answer that any of us can surely put a- side. Wall Street Journal jUUge SPEAKS OUT Public welfare should be a ve hicle for raising the stands of the recipient, not a reward for indol ence and depravity, says Judge Kidd Stout of Philadelphia ... I What this country needs . . . before it drops more billion.s of tax dollars into welfare and anti poverty programs ... is for .someone to come up with a few clear, concise answers and/or il lustrations on just what, if any thing, these astronomical bil lions are buying and,/or accom plishing. Federal . state welfare programs alone currently are costing us in the neighborhood of five billions a year. Something like 41 separate antipoverty pro grams which will cost the tax payers 15 billions in 1964 are in the hands of six separate Federal agencies. — Rockville, Md., Mon itor. gro'.ind and roasted as a sulisti- tute or adulterant for coffee. Throughout mucli ,if this country and southern Canada it leads such an unregimented life along roadsides and in waste places that some unthinking people re gard it as a weed. Perhaps that accounts for some of the uncom plimentary -names, such as coffee weed and (for shamoi bunk, a- long with succory, blue daisy, and blue sailor, that are given this plant which botanists know as cichorium intybus. Regardless of what you call it. a patch of chicory brightens the roadside and lifts the spirit on a sweltering sumrer day. It's bet ter than looking at liili oards. And that's no bunk. Chiruyo Tribune I-; A. Anderson, Paul Miller, Dr. L<iwr.\ I’rcssly, and Dr. Paul A. Stroup. Mecklenburg Chap ter. Other kickoff moetin-gs for the campaign during the week are '■(■iKxluled Thursday, Sept. 9. in Greenwood, where Western South Carolina Towers Club chairmen p.m. at the Holi- I day Inn; and Saturday, Septem ber n. at 9:30 a.m. at the Alum ni Hou.s<‘ in Due West, where Caixpaign Chairman Everette Carson and Fhskine Alumni Di rector Winnie M. Phillips will explain the mochanies of th^ ■ainpaign and distribute matei^ in Is to be used to division and cliapter chairmen in the general '■olieitations plia.se of the cam paign. The general solicitations phase of the campaign will be launched in all of Firskinc’s -l-l alumni chapters during campaign kick off meetings beginning later this month and eonlinuing through OctotM'i'. Flrskine last year had 71 per cent aluTdi ii.arlicipation in the campaign that provides current oi«'iating funds for the college, a record Ihit'e times the national avera.'c. In 1983 61, last cam paign rated ty the American Alinnni Council, Erskine led the nation's small eo - (Klut'ational eollegis in three areas of alum ni .giving. Steer Here... For Full Protection! We’re e.xperienced in arranging adenuate coverage for boat owners, for full financial protection in any eventuality. Get details, here. THE ARTHUR HAY AGENCY "ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE" RHONE 739-4659 10 TEARS AGO THIS WEEK Iteme of news about King Mountain area people am events taken from the 19S files of the Kings Mountah ' Berald. Miss Frances Goforth, Kings Mountain native, has co-author ed a drama, "Ark of Safety”, which will be televised nation ally by NK on the Goodyear Playhouse ^nday evening. The ninth annual Bethware have the deepest sympathy for [Community Fair, sponsored by the good mother struggling to the Bethware Progressive club, bring up her children on a wel fare grant ... But I deplore a sy.stem that regards the hand! g out of checks as its prime fui c- tlon, that subsidizes the lazy and immoral home with the taxpay ers’ dollar ...” — Lake City, S. C. Times-Herald. will open at 1 p.m. Wednesday social ond Personol Children of the late Mr. and Mrs. E. F. White held a reunion Sunday at Maple Springs Pool. State Senator Robert Morgan will address a meeting of the Kings Mountain Woman’s club WKBy hl^ $l 1:90. KEEP YOUR RADIO DIAL SET AT 1220 Kings Mountain, N. C. Ne-ws & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between Thurst
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