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Pag« 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Established 1889 ■T“ The Kings Mountain Herald Cnrt'fiiin ' '\0 ^ " nr'VEt;.'>p<*r rtpvotod to the promotion of the general welfare and ptiblidie l for tne eiilightentTU'i.t, cn'ertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kir.^s Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing irouse. Knlercil :is second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, tiSOSfi under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Gary St<>wart Sports Editor Miss Eii/aiieth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Jerry Hope Dave Weathers Allen Mvers Paul Jackson Steve Ram.scy James Howell SEBSCRIPTIONS KATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANVWHEKE ONE YEAR .. $3:50 SIX MONTHS .. $2.00 THREE MONTHS .. $1.2.7 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SAI,ES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 Wy son TODAY’S BIBLE VERSE (lespilc not the rhnstenmu of the Lord; neither be 'weary of his rorrection. Proverbs 3:11. time. Empty Stocking Hungry children are tragic at any No Shock MARTIN'S MEDICINE Ingredients: hits of news wisdom, hi'.rnor, and comments OirecC'-ms: Take weekly, ij possible, but ai tiid overdosage. I am not knovvn, nor would claim to be, a “clean desk” man, mak.ng it imperative that none lend ,n hand at eU-ining or clear ing it. 1 vvouUt ho lost. There arc some cerielits and di ibe nefits. Seme matters wliich properly should be liandled with uomo Somewhere in Vietnam measure of dispatch do not get proper nor timely treatment. Conversely, some mtitters re main undercover until they no Inn.ger matter and conveniently can 1)0 assigned to the large grcp.i wastebasket aptly named by the services as “File 13”. Thursday, December 2, 1965 Many-Young ; Typical Pattern !n America irsday, Unco\ere<l last weekend, how ever, was the sports page of the Hickory D.aily Record of August j 21 which, along with news of the day sui h as the Twins and An gels halving a double-header, Mike Souchak leading a golfing tourney, and the bowling round up. carried an item of hi.story of i interest to Kings Mountain citi- 1 zens. The Christmas season makes their plight even more pitiful! . Kings Mountain’s Linpty Stocking Fund, an Operation Santa Claus effort, has provided Ciiri-stmas cheer to more than 300 families during the past^ two yoai’s tiic* Kings ivlounidiii i^iiniatcrs sociation has conducted the appeal for the indigent. . Last year’s Empty Stocking Fund helped 21-i lamilios and a total of $2179 was donated by Kings Mountain area citizens to provide staple items, fuel and Christmas toys tor the less fortunate. Kings Mountain ministers launched the project last weekend and it will bo continued tlirough Christmas Eve. It’s a worthy project to assure a merrier Christmas to all. If anyone fell over from shock on' the news that a panel of federal judges! lias ordered North Carolina to re-dis trict its General As.sembly and the ted- eral House of Representatives it is sur prising. Ri-m Tuesday’s decision is plain; is now. ‘when” The item: a picture of the Hickory Tennij Club of the Gay Nineties (about 1S97.) forwarded by Publisher L. C. Gifford at the instance of E W. Neal, friend I and kinsman, now of Hickory. I Hw the ladies playe(3 in those long skirts, broad-brimmed hats, and fulsoT.c blouses with leg-o- button sleeves ta.xes the imagi-1 nation of the moderns who, coin-1 cklental’y. could glance left three I Jsjt/rtysjn Christmas Is Near Where did the last 11 months go? The question is applicable to all but the youngsters, who, traditionally, know that Christmas will never come. But Christmas is near, and the post man, merchant and others w’ill be re- mintling each and all to attend to Christ mas business early. With only 23 days ’til Christmas, it’s a little late for “shop early” advice. Most of us will be hurriedly finish ing the chores on Christmas Eve. In the decision written by Judge J. Spencer Bell of the Fourth U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the three-judge panel ruled that both houses of the General Assembly and the state’s congressional a-rul see the likeness of districts must be reconstituted and re-, ' 'fMoffitt. at the mo- drawn before January 31, 1%(>. defending her title m the The court warned, “if the state’s lawmakers do not find ihoniselves equal to the task by that date tlie court will regretfully undertake to fashion a scheme of reapportionment which will permit the 1966 primaries and elections' to proceed on a just and equitable basis. , stiff miiars the men of im The judges based their ruling on Supreme Court decision that representa-! IlhlLa'^ tion in both houses of a state legislature ^ soive or cross- be determined by population. Renn Drum, Jr., Winston Salem lawyer, and son of Mrs. Renn Drum, Sr., of Shelby, filed the suit September 10th which led to the reapportionment decision. With only two months to work, both Viewpoints of Other Editors OF CONCERN Here is a disturbing statement CRIME AND ATONEMENT Women’s Tennis Invitational j to think about; “What we’re sup- toiirnpmenl. If not Rikini-shorts, posed to learn in school doesn’t Miss Billie’s were certainly short- have anything to do with things .shorts, and her blouse merely that concern us.’’ That sentence hinted at having a sleeve. is a composite of many teen-ag ers’ remarks about school. It m-m m-m Two meimfters of the club were subsequently Kings Moun- a ^ ^ al—. , A 1 , ilinil, rIJIvI Xlio itlltr xLl I \/l| I lator the wife of Kin"s Mountain Bn! Tis Chilly In Sunny South Old Man Winter made his presence very well known in the Piedmont Caro- linas the past few days. Temperatures dropped to a bitter 23 Tuesday night. Now the weather forecasters arc saying that new masses of cold air will hold the readings in the low 20’s for the next 48 hour.s. There’s no doubt about it. Winter has finally caught up with us. will have to work quickly to comply with the deadline which is close. The team of Kings Mountain United Fund solicitors have reached at last re port the one-third mark on the 1966 quota of more than .$20,000. It is a goal that should be reached and can be. Buy items for Christmas: a fruit cake from a Lion, a Christmas tree from a Jaycee. was included in a Midwest re port on school curriculums for deprived areas. It sums up, bet- accompanied. would j IPi' ‘han many previous attempts, ' the heart of the dropout pro blem. Shakespeare’s lyric Elizabeth an language may have little meaning for a 16-year-oId who has never owned a book. Algebra is i-T-portant. but it may well rate zero with a youth whose un known quantity at home is his father. Yet these and other tra ditional parts of the academic curriculum are still being thrust at many reluctant students It is not surprising that some of the I pupils do not relate to them. Nor There has been another recent | is it surprising that many such brush with hi.story, made and. it pupils, bewildered or irritated by AND ONE BALL OF l-WINE tain eitizen.o the late Arthur Hay, Kings Mountain insurance man, and his late sister Errol physician Dr. S. A. Lowery. is hoped, in the making. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Sandy Campbell and Mrs. Jean Har- lowe DeHart, Kings Mountain students, recently tapped for “Who’s Who In American Colleges and Universities” at Western Carolina college and the Uni versity of Tennessee. Hats off to Superior Stone Com pany’s Kings Mountain Operation, among three North Carolina quarries to receive a National Crushed Stone Asso ciation Gold Bar for operating at least Maxwell H. Thompson, visit ing his sister Mrs. Alex Owens, paid c,tll to relate his work as non-paid promoter for a .$20 mil lion national monument to An drew Jarkson. hero of the Bat tle of New Orleans and Presi dent of the United States. The location proposal for the ! national memo“ial to the fiery ‘ -X.'—P Jackson is/won’t be pleasing to five consecutive years without a disabi-; diehard North and South Caro- ing injury. | -IS who have w’arred for years over the question: was An- A hearty welcome to Rev. David L. Castor, who delivers his first sermon Sunday as minister of Resurrection Lu theran church. Mr. Castor comes to Kings Mountain from Philadelphia Lu theran church of Granite P'alls. Last week’s edition of the Herald, Br"w Jackson horn iust north of as well as this week’s edition, regret-' border or just south of the tably contained a large number of obit uaries, including prominent local citi zens and their relatives in other com munities. Our sincere sympathv to the bereaved families. SO THIS IS YORK By NORTH CALLAH.\N: What is it like to break the to have faith in his “hardware” Bcund barrier, I asked the man as he referred to it, but in God who should know. He is Colonel Charles E. Yeager of the United States Air Force who was in town to make a speech and who was the first human to break the sound barrier. “Well, I’ll tell you this much”, the slender much decorated officer replied with a boyish grin, “It’s not as hard as making a speech! That is the kind of ‘sound barrier' 1 really dread,” Of Course tlie historic a- chievement Was a difficult thing to approach, Colonel Yeager ad mitted. But now he is so accus tomed to flying planes at over 1,000 miles an hour, it is much like driving an automobile, he added, and in -some cases is saf er. 3— A native of Hairr.lin, West Vir ginia, Colonel Yeager went into the Army Air Force in 1941 when he was 18 years of age. There he has bee-n ever since,^- coming a {iglit(>r piilot in World War li and being shot down sev eral times bj' enemy planes. But the Jix times in his career when he has had to inail out of an, air- plan.' have taught him not bn. whom the officer believes watch ed over him even high in the firmament. In 1956, the experi mental plane, X-1 had been pre li'minarily checked out by civil ian test pilots who were also of fered a bonus of $150,000 to fly it at full speed. But no qualifiec’ civilian pilot was willing to take the offer. Then some one remark od, “It was significant tha' Chuck Yeager took the Job ir line of duty for a captain’s sala ry which was $511.50 a month and that included flying pay and extras." —3— Colonel Yeager told me that before planes were con.structed especially for breaking the speed I of sound, pilots would lose cOh- ' trol of them as the craft ap proached the necessary speed. "They would shake like a cat- going over a corduroy i-oad”, he said. “But when we got the pro per tail 'mechatiisln, we could handle them easily.” Between 1949 and 1953, the i^urageous colonel flew more than forty test flights in the Bell XS-1, exceeding 1,000 mik's an hour and being at times. 70,000 feet high. At one time, he flew two and one-half times the spei-d of sound. When asked how it felt to be shooting at other men, -olcinel Yeager replied, “I can Realize that this a timely ques- ‘ion, now witli people beitig kill 'd in Vietnam. But w-e must re member that this is war and here is very little that is nice bout it. We who are in the mill- ’.ary service are trained to fight o the limit, to try to destroy our 'oes who are the enemies of our 'ountry. So as hard as it may sound, I can only say that with such training, killing hecomes automatic." -3- He agreed that his speed is a far cr>' from the first flight made by tlie Wright brothers 62 years ago at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, when they pioneered with 852 feet in 59 seconds. But that took courage too. Once, Colonel Yeager related, when he pushed the button to bail out, the seat of the plane was also eject ed and struck him as it flew out, setting his uniform on fire. bordi'f? Tile proposed location of the national monument is to bisect the state lines of North and -South Carolina and con- iunclively the county lines of Tar Heel Union county and Sand lapper Lancaster county. m-m This proposal has been ad vanced by the Charlotte Cham ber of Commerce. The site, with out limitation on needed acreage, has been tendered as a gift by Henderson Belk. of the Belk’s stores organization. Mr. Thomp son says provision of the site is pre requisite to favorable by the Congress m-m T.arget date for fruition of the protect is March 15, 1967, the 200th anniversary of Jackson’s I'tirth. m-m Mr. Thompson lives in north ern Lancaster County at Van Wyck and is quick to acknow ledge that his promotional ef forts are not popular with some of his South Carolina neighbors who contend Old Andy never set foot in North Carolina, let alone let himself be bom there. Die hard North Carolinians shout as much. m-m On his visit to the Herald, Mr. Thompson had more than history projects to accompany him. I also had the pleasure of meeting his two nieces, Kathryn and Margaret Owens, Alex’s daughters, and their cousin, Kar la, Richard Owens’ granddaugh ter, three pretty girls and. no, they had no objections to having their names In the papier. m-m Done, this date. a sense of irrelevancy, drop out of school. Being realistic about school sU'Tjects and the way they are taught does not mean that the more advanced classes have to be downgraded. More and more educators are recognizing, how ever, that curriculums should be better adapted to the particular type of student in each school. What is right for a well-to-do su burb may not be practicable in a slum area. The reluctant student should be taught mainly within his frame of reference, though some effort must of course be made to expand his horizons. He may not receive an ideal education, but it will be a great deal better than the one he would be getting as a dropout. — Turlock (Calif.! Daily Journal FALLS GENEROUS ENCORE We feel for the Purdue Uni versity weatherman who recent ly tried to make a statisHcal stu dy of Indian summer weather and found that it eluded him. After drawing graphs of tem perature variations of three re cent Indian summers, L. A. Schaal, this weather expert, con fessed he couldn’t answer the often-asked question: “Just what is Indian summer?” There Is, indeed, no statistical way of measuring its lovely characteristics. Who can chart the soft mists at the horizon, the dreamy, relaxed atmosphere, the shimmer in the wanm air? Everyone knows it is a period of mild weather that comes with winter’s cold already at the threshold. But no authority gives its exact dates. It usually comes in October or November, they say, .but it can happen in late September or early December. Even the origin of its name is vague. There are several theo ries, all involving Indians and early American colonists. The name see-rs to be an American ism, and it did first appear in nrint in this country when George Washington was Presi dent. But by 1830 it had migrated to Canada and England and had become accepted British English. ’To write in praise of Indian summer Is now a literary con vention of three continents,” writes one authority, giving A- nfieTieanfe something to boast of. Who would flout so pleasant a tradition? We add our word of praise for this season of gentle sunshine, blue skies, and warmth after the arrtval of chin winds —fall’s ever-surprising, generous erijore. Tie Christian Science Monitor The South continues to be a region of contrasts, and of rough i We hadn’t really given much but steady progress. In Char-1 thought how our ball of twine lotte, N. C., night bombers struck I and tape measure should be haus- the homes of four Negro civil 1 ed until we ran across some ad rights leaders. They and their 1 vertisements the other day. Oh, families might have been killed; we did realize that packaging luckily, they escaped injury. I had become a vital industry and Unlike many of the Alabaima i that the container can be every and Mississippi bombings, how- bit as important as the tiling n:ic out of two brides tills year i\ill he uodci- ‘Jd. The same ratio will end up in sp))aration of di- I voix'e. act oi'ding to Changing ' Times repoi ling on ’’Wliat hap- I pons lo ttvii-agc marriages?” 1 'ilip chance of succe.ss for a I torn-age niari'iage in tiie U. S. is about a third as good as for mar riages of those in their twenties, fhe fact is that today more girls mat ry at age IS ttian at nn.v oili er ago and tliis tendnecy to imar- ry young is one is iicculiar to tile United States, It’s not just the women eitlicr; nearly lialf of all American young men are married by the time tiiey are 2.), compared with only a quarter in most of Europe and as few as a tenth in Norway and Ireland. Only in Asia do you find a marry-young pal tern com parable to that of the U. S. Interested in improving the chance of success of thousands of marrying teens. Changing Times offers these guidelines: The young married - particu larly (he groom must under stand the necessity of completing high school, and, if possible, go ing on to c-ollege or other ad vanced training. More needs to be done to help teen-agers understand what mar riage entails realistic educa tion on what marriage is like, what obstacles must be over come. why money is important. More help is needed for mar ried eounles in trouble in fctiily' counseling, b.aby care, supple mentary education, and general encouragement in making the best of the situation And, parents must not cringe at prospects of a teen-age crisis. Wise parents can accept what is and give every- support tiiey can. ever, these brought an immedi ate outcry from the white com munity. Not only were the crimes denounced while state and city officials sought the cul prits, but white civic leaders launched an “operation re'^uild- ing’’ drive to raise funds for re pair. And the response has been heartening. Charlotte is a progressive city; and, until the bombings, its race relations had been largely peace ful. Apparently, Charlotte’s lead ers are determined to keep It that way, whatever crimes may be committed by mindless rab ble. And this is increasingly the pattern in an area becoming im patient with those who interpret the “Southern way of life" as a license for brutality. Nexo York Herald Tribune Fanners Okay Cotton Quota Cleveland County cotton farm ers V'oled overwhi'lmingly in fa vor of the cotton marketing ref- contained. But we hadn’t realiz-] wendum Tuesday, aoeording to ed just how much more import- Ralph Harrill, manager of the ant it could be. Agricultural Stabilization and About this time of year people I Conservation Service office in begin looking around for suit*-j Shelby. tqie gifts for the man or woman ^ut of a total of 439 voting in “who has everything.” And mcr- the county, only six voted SAVE OUR HERITAGE Contrary to the practice in other nations, government at all levels has done little to preserve historic and architeetunal land marks in the United States. Too long has laissez faire been the rule here. As a result many precious relics along with not a few perfectly serviceable struc tures have been destroyed. Pri vate efforts at preservation have succeeded on occasion, but soar ing real estate values and Amer icans’ strange insensitivity to their heritage usually have prov en Insurmountable barriers. Collective action may be forth coming, however. With a grant from the Ford Foundation, the U. S. Conference of Mayors and Federal officials have Joined to gether for a study that is intend ed to result in recommendations for national and local historic preservation legislation as well as methods for funding preserva tion efforts. The study, which Is to be pui'olished in January, could well become one of this Nation's most important historic docu ments. The Washington Post 10 TEARS AGO THIS WEEK Iteme of news about King Mountain area people atu events taken from the 199 fUes of the Kings Mountain Herald. The Kings Mountain Mer chants Association was busy this week completing plans for the Dec. 8 Christmas parade, which officials report, should be Kings Mountain’s “biggest and best ever.” Kings Mountain citizens are 'being urged to contribute their blood to the Red Cross area blood bank when the bloodmo- bile returns here for a one-day vWt. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. Myers Hambright enter tained Saturday night at her horn-' at a party paying compli- mdnt to iviisa Laura Lane Mor ris, bride-elect. Miss Joyce Blser entertained latft Wednesday at her on Gold stijeet at bridge honoring Miss Janice Allen, bride-elect. . Club Night will be held at Kings Mountain Country Club Saturday night. chants kindly oblige by provid ing appropriate lists. On one such list we found just the thing — especially manufactured to house om* 20-cent ball of twine— a sterling silver sphere for onl.v $49. It should certainly brighten up the twine drawer. The only problem was that right next to our ball of twine we habitually keep our tape measure. We got to thinking that it would look rather shoddy alongside that shining sphere. Imagine our delight when wo discovered that for only $10 wo could buy another tape me.a.siire in its own special stcrlin.g silver case. Pi'oblem solved! We glanced briefly at the of fer of a 14-knrat gold 6 inch rul er for $270 but felt that at that price the container f jr it would surely be a bit more than wc could afford. While we were musing over these matters, a friend came by. She told us that since the man who has everything doe;5 have everything, she was going to take the money for his gift this gainst the referendum, with 433 voting in favor of it, Harrill said. Mr. Harrill noted that since the marketing quota was approv ed nationwide there will be a new cotton assessments referen dum which will authorize cotton ginners to hold out 15 cents per hale to be sent to the North Car olina Cotton Promotion A.'socia- tion. The money will be used for research, legislation, nr what ever purpose the association sees fit, if it is for the benefit of North Carolina cotton growers, Harrill added. Bowen Assigned To 2nd Armored FORT HOOD, TEX. (AHTNCl —Army Pvt, Charles M. Bowen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Bowen, 405 Parker .St., Kings Mountain, N. C., was assigtfOd lo the 2d Armored Division at Fotr Hood, Tex., Nov. 18. Bowen, 17. attended Kintgs Mountain High School. year and send it to help some of the exchequer, appeared at the the children of the world who I National Press Clit ) in Washing don’t have anything. (ton the other dav and the inovi- Somehow we think we’ll leave | table question came up: the drawer the way it is. The Christian Science Monitor DIDN'T EXIST Although much of the free world is either admonishing or looking askance at Britain for its lingering balance of payments difficulties, the man at the cen ter of this vortex has managed to retain a sense of humor. James Callaghan, chancellor of ‘Why do you have l)alanco of payments problems now, when you didn’t have them .50 year.s ago?” Callaghan’s reply: "There were no balance of payments problems 50 years ago Iwf'ause there were no balance of payments stati.s- tics.” A foolish question deserves a devastatingly clever answer. Milwaukee Journal KEET loin msio Dui srr AT 1220 WK Kings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between Shady G R. J. KiUor 10 A.M. Su 11 H.m. Wt] Sunday B in. ftii JWi'Miyer i St. Pflrul Rfv, i. M. iiupt. o. V. 10 A.M. U1 31 A .M. M -lid Hinl 4\ t:00—MonUr |:00—BaptSfl f lOO—Pi’eafch ln«tiky: rrOCMilAp OAK GRO Rev. 1 anday Schos .'ty: ):0l) ^ Suiu l lOOMomlng THE rJU .OG Uc upt. .Sunday uoday Schoc /•onhip 8trr fetUnfi^ty q] * 7:30 p. DL insins «v«rF Ebene: Rev. R. D. James B.T. Rev. Bol rod Bowens. DIXON PR] Kev. Jtt fuAdap- 9:80 A. ^ L040 A. U. Bmt, Uma uiday School Wofii eiho^ y<K ■tt^ntne Rarvi fo
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