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vCJC jCiC^CiC “r^sT’T-i' Page 2 K!NGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNtAIN, N. C. Thursday, December 9, 1965 Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald "".I TWgr y'HKtnh Cfl fpn^ Ass< Cflrolmo ^ association']' vip:-" •v ne-vf.c2nt>r (li'voted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for toe enlightenmt-i.l, ""'ortainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Kntered as .second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. f., 2S0S6 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Marlin Harmon Kditor-Publisher (lary Stewart Sports Editor .Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Jerry Hope MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dave Weathers Allen Myers Paul Jackson Steve Ramsey James Howell .SUBSCRIPTIONS P.ATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHflRE ONE YEAH .. $3;,*)0 SIX MONTHS .. $2.00 THREE MONTHS .. $1.23 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE let Ji>ie hr irithoid disnimultilion. Abhor that whiih it evil; ctrave to that vhirh is sioori. Foranvt 13:9. Crossed Policies Action of the Federal Reserve Bank board, by vote of 4 to 3, in raising the bank discount rate finds ministration crossed on policy with one of its key agencies. President Johnson himself has criti cized the action which followed pointed suggestion by Secretary of Commeice Henrv Fowler that no action should be taken prior to the January budget mes- SSIS6. Simply, the action makes borrowing money more dear and also tends to re strict the supply of money available for lending by btinks. Meantime, permissi ble payments by banks on time certifi cates of deposit‘or savings accounts was raised to 5.5 per cent. What effect this action will have in Nortti Carolina — where the legal in terest rate is at a maximum of six per cent — is hard to figure. Lending agen cies, of course, actually earn more than six percent on some types of loans, where special fees are added for insur ance, closing costs on mortgage loans, and other means. William McChesney Martin, chair man of the Federal Reserve, historically is a “dear” or “hard” money supporter who has a built-in fear of run-away in flation and is even more fearful with the added pressure of expense of carry ing the V'iet Nam conflict. The Johnson Administration dis agrees that inflation is threatened, pointing to the fact of greatly expanded productive capacity as compared to the days of the Korean War. As is usual in a comparatively free economy, some goods are up and some down, the governmental price index shows. Durable goods (refrigerators, autos, television sets) cost slightly less. Construction costs are higher and serv ice fees are higher. The layman is hardly qualified to offer an expert opinion, but it is historic that the average citizen lives more prosperously with cheaper money. Gordner-Webb Support Gardner-Webb college, en route to graduating to four-year status, has elic ited the active monetary support of the business and industrial communities of Cleveland and neighboring counties in its current mil!ion-pIu.s campaign for additions to physical plant. Meantime, the college has retained the long-term Baptist position of non- acceptance of governmental aid from the federal government — a quite moot question in Baptist circles. Kings Mountain area has pledged more than $100,000 to this expansion program, and the gifts have come from practitioners of various religions. This support shows enlightened self- interest, as employers seek employees capable of managing more modern ma chinery. A nearby college means avail ability of educational opportunity to many who could otherwise not have it. In the person of Dr. Eugene Poston, Gardner-W'ebb has a personable and hard-working administrator who has the big view on the role his school should play in this area of the Piedmont. Mrs. Ruth Davis Gamble Many citizens were unaware, until her last illness, that Mrs. Ruth Davis Gamble, more than 30 years executive secretary of the Kings Mountain Red Cross chapter, battled leukemia the last ten years of her life. That kind of fight requires a partic ular brand of courage which many won der whether they have and hope they never must learn. In her service with the Red Cross, Mrs. Gamble more than earned her pit tance pay. Her attention to problems ol .servicemen and their families, particu larly when tragedy struck, was legend, and she was an expert in balancing emergency aid to the genuine indigent against the panderers seeking largess by hand-out. Indeed, officials relate, Mrs. Gam ble’s illness dictated the merger of the Kings Mountain chapter with the Cleve land chapter. A gracious and efficient public ser vant, Mrs. Gamble was equally a fine wife and mother. Painful North Carolina House Speaker Pat Taylor, of Wadesboro, was quite accu rate when he described the upcoming re districting chores, scheduled for a special session in late January, as less difficult than painful. As a re.sult, he is appointing a 16- man com.mittee from the counties with problems of loss of representation to rec ommend a re-districting plan to comply with the federal court ruling. One-man-one-vote defies the princi ple of the founding fathers in retaining a split .system, one legislative branch ap portioned on basis of geography, the other on basis of population. This was regarded as a check-and-balance hedge against untrammeled rough-shod treat ment by the majority against the inter ests of the minority, a live-and-let-livc philosophy. Practically, the Supremo Court felt the heavy migration to the cities posed new governmental probietrs at all levels of government that would not be coped with nor solved without a shift in repre sentation. MARTIN'S MEDICINE Jngredimt!t: bits of news wiKiiom, humor, and comments Directions: Take weekly, i, possible, but ai.'oid overdosage By MARTIN HARMON YouiigstPi'.s .IIP iiotPil litpral- ist.s and .soniptimp.s tlipir piders ai’p. loo. mm ThP GIpc E. liridgps, D. F. Hord.-i, and JL.n Antlionys were at our house for a bridge game repemly and all had some prov ing iiicidpnt.s. m-ei Tliird grader Ed Anthony had missed a couple of days of school du(> to illness. On his return, Mary Evelyn addressed a note to his I'eaeher, .Mrs. Fred Pritchard, saying the boy had been ill and suggesting that he be kept in. Come now, Congressman, a little needle never hurt anybody! so THIS iM:W YORK By NORTH C.U.L.\HAN V Later than usual coming home, Mary Evelyn asked where he’d strayed. Ed replied that Mrs. Pritchard had kept him after school. This naturally brought the question of his conduct into play. ‘‘Didn’t do anything. Mo ther, you wrote her to keep me | ini" Mary Evelyn had meant | that she wanted Ed kept in school during play period, as she w’as afraid he would have a re lapse. Mrs. Pritchard, of course, thought Mary wanted the boy to make up his missed school work. /1 m-m This tale brought one from Dr. Hold, who recalled when he was in the second grade he car ried a report card home with a "C" on conduct. "Papa Fletcher informed me that something was going to have to change. Miss Pearl Fulton was my teacher and I told her about the same tone my father had told me "My Daddy said something is going i to have to change:’’ m-m Viewpoints of Other Editors RACING FOR THE MOON SCOOTERS VS. HORSES STAMP COLLECTORS Mi.ss Futlon replied. "You have a scat, boy, and I’m going to tell you how it's going to change!’’ Among the growing number of individuals questioning the wis dom of spending $30 billion for the sake of getting an American to the moon by 1970 is Dr. War ren Weaver, mathematician, edu cator and a former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. We see a chance for a lively debate. Which is a more effec tive mount for a policeman in hot pursuit down a traffic-jam mer street or in an effort to con trol a crowd: New York’s new police scooter or a horse? Stamp colleelors are likely to oe at least a minor pr.jblom for lew Postmaster General Law rence F. O'Brien. State Senate re-districting, also or dered, apparently will pose less prob lems, though there will be some shifting of senatorial district lines. Adding mem bers to one or both houses may come later, but will require constitutional amendment. Problems are posed, too, in federal House of Representatives realignment. The 11th district of Roy Taylor has too few people on the 411,000 per representa tive ideal. Basil Whitener’s 10th is about right as is, but will be disturbed since there is no way to expand the lllh ex cept by moving eastward. In the East, the only way to move is westward. Con siderable change is indicated in the 277,- 000 1st district of the late Herbert Bon ner, and properly, not only on basis of population, but because it is most im portant to the state that senior repre sentatives be retained. m-m Now Dr. Weaver is not against going to the moon. For it is plain that man cannot — and should not — be dissuaded from I met a dental appointment ■ going there any .more than the {♦u r\«. /N n T WyicTht Krr^thoi'c ozYiiIr) nr There is much to say for New York’s innovation. The firs "sora.mble patrol" in the country, made up of 10 scooter-mounted patrolmen, it gives proof that the scooter tias many virtues. with Dr. O. P. Lewis last week and got some new information about teeth Dr. Lewis says the usual cavity may show only a veiy small dark spot but that underneath it fans out like a tur nip. My job was for a cleaning and lor repair to a tooth I’d broken oft with some Halloween hard candy. Dr. Lewis explained there was nothing to hold the filling in so he would dovetail it. He drew' a neat diagram of what ho did,. Wright brothers could or should have been dissuaded from ex perimenting with their flying machine. M'hat he is against is the hell-for-leather way the- moon program is being whipped along. As Rep. Whitener has noted, he is addressed questions on public issues due to relative seniority, is assigned an of fice on basis of seniority, and even parks his car via seniority assignment. Dr. Lewis rates good general bodily condition, with its impli cation of proper diet, as best means to dental health. Cleanli ness. he says, is almost as im portant, and tartar unremoved is a one-way ticket to the false teeth plates. "There is too much haste,” he saj-s in an interview in U. S. News & World Report. "H we are doing this as some ridiculous race against the Russians, I think that is just plain stupid... I think we are utilizing at the present time altogether too much money” and, more important, "too much of our nation’s tech nical competence. I don’t think it rates it.” There is, incidentally, evidence that the Russians are having somewhat similar thoughts about their own moon program and are paring it back accordingly. One of them is the ability to go places where a squad car cannot travel Only 30 inches wide, the scooter can slither its Way between lines of stalled traf fic, climb over curbs onto side walks, and even make its way down low staii-s. Being equipped with radios, scramble ears are able to keep in touch with each other and work in group forma tion. Under orders from Mr. Gro- nouski, the ■1-1-year-old United states Philatelic Agency i n A'sshington will cease handling orders for less tlian $25, effect ive Oct. 9. .s;hutting the door to small orders is c.xpected to save 5100,000 a year. Besides, Mr. Gronouski found that orders for less than $3 accounted for 33 per cent of the agency’s business, while 19 per cent were for less than $2.5. The reports ul casualties from the Vielnain war front cau.se sad ness here as well as cisewliere, hut a veteran of World War I looki'd r.itlier impassively as a voung pet’-son wlio w.as lelatiiig excitedly the resulis of a reci'nt battle, ’The graying vet nodded ■and then said, "ies, buddj. I know it is liiuil to accept the tragedy of war. It was hard for mo and tlie hoj's in 1917, But we soon learned tlie hard way. We had little training, we thought at first tlie war was a gloiified pienic and we didn’t have anything like tlie^ weapons and experience the U. 15. lias to day. There is nething nice aliout w'ar, you know. 5^ou think ,s.3 men is a lot to lose in one fight. Why in the lialtle of Verdun, one million men were killed before it was over." - 3 A little girl in Sunday School told her teacher that her favo rite character in the Bible was King Solomon because he was s kind to ladies and animals. Th.^^ startled teacher asked the little girl who told her that. “No one”, was tlie reply. "I read it myself in tlie Billie. It says Solomon kept .seven hundred wives and three liundred porcupines.” - 3- Manv eollege professors are criticized as -eing materialistic and even nonmoral. Hut one here. Floyd Xulli of New York University had this to say about the arts today, inckiiiing televi sion. in which he often s a pro minent performer: "It is not so .T.uili the arts on trial as it is the total abandonment of sense, taste self-di.seipline and self-re- .speet to a lunatic fringe of smart alecs ami p.seudo artists." Do there still exist, Professor Xulli demanded to know, theaters, bookstores and magazines i-n which one is not confronted with confronted with "what was once i-onfined to the liedroom or at worst to the walls of a public toilet?" - 3 Reeently the makers of an as pirin tatilet eonduetivi a nation- V r.iivif.x.. ti\ In'ttMi n The 18 percent of orders for more than $25 worth of .stamps brought in 75 percent of the agency’s receipts. But then there is the case for the horse. The handsome steed of the mounted police.Tian, sym bol of the dignity of the law, has almost disappeared from the A- meriean scene. But Boston, which retains a 10-horse mounted unit, finds the police cavalry still use ful. m-m Congratulations to: Mr. and Mrs. Sandy Campbell and Miss Jean Harlow, named to Who’s Who in American Col leges and Universities, and to Misses Zelma Scruggs, Mary Wright, Margaret Swans.son, and Kay Mauney, Mrs. Becky Stowe Fisher and Paul Smith, recent graduates of King’s College, and to Sam uel Humes Houston, Jr., who recently completed undergraduate work at Ap palachian State Teacher’s College. De. Lewis once had an elderly tabby cat which has last all her teeth. However, the roots were extant, and occasionally her jaw would swell with an absce.ssed root. On one such occasion she disappeared for a couple of days. When she returned, Dr. Lewis relates, the swelling was down. Her jaw was shaved as if it had been done with a sharp straight razor and the neat scar on her jaw might have been done with a surgeon’s scapel The cat had operated on herself! “1 wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it," he adds. The passing of Mrs. Grace Berry Plonk removed from the community a citizen of long-standing, who, in her roles as wife, mother and active church- woman made many valuable contribu tions to her fellow citiz.ens. Congratulations to Superintendent Jay Powell and his confreres at Superior Stone Company’s Kings Mountain quar ry for compiling a five-year record of on the job safety, in work which has per haps more than a normal share of po tentially hazardous operations. Make a liberal donation to the Emp ty Stocking fund. General Charles de Gaulle, the in- transigant Frenchman, was handed a rebuff Sunday in his re-election bid. There is no question that his successful efforts in giving stability to the French government has been good for France, but apparently many FTenchmen agree with non-French that Do Gaulle’s un willingness to cooperate with other na tions, be it NATO, nuclear power, or the Common Market has been detrimental to France. Death is never a happy event for kin and friend, but it seems unusually harsh when it strikes youth. Our groat sympathy to Rickie Wilson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wilson, and to his sister, who survive him. When World War II in Europe had ended, then-Col. Lewds was at Camp Lucky Strike awaiting pass-age hoine. In the course of his duties, he became acquaint- e<l with some interesting people, among them a long, lanky Negro toy named John. Col. Lewis hap pened onto a dice game one night of major monetary propor tions and the Negro boy had money piled high in front of him. Dr. Lewis asked, “John, what are you going to do with all that money?" He replied, “When I get back to New York r.m going to buy the longest Cadillac I can find and take all my friends to ride.” Two days later, John had lost all of his winnings. What was he going to do now? Dr. Lewis asked. m-m “Aw,” he said, "some of my friends will have a Cadillac and they’ll take me to ride.” One Kings Mountain teacher had a lad in her room who was very shy. On the third daj;_ of school, he raised his hand timid ly. “Pardon me, ma’am,” he .osk- ed, but will you tell me your name again? My Mother said I better not comO home another day and not know my teacher’s name!” It is unfortunate, we think, that a good many people are likely to focus attention on Dr. Weaver’s estimate of what might be done with $30 billion — "a co.Tipletely unimaginable figure to any citizen of this country”— if it were spent elsewhere. It would, for instance, "give every teacher in the U. S. a 10% raise a year for 10 years; endow 200 small colleges with $10 each... build 10 new medical schools at $200 million each,” and consider ably more. But that line of ar gument is much like saying that if all Americans stopped smok ing here would be about $8 bil lion annually available for good causes Where the emphasis rightly should fall is on Dr. Weaver’s assertion that "the great ideas that develop within the body of science— strange and improbable as this sounds—arise from curi osity and not from urgency,’ and that the moon program has caused a massive diversion of scientists and engineers from possibly more productive fields “Of course,” he says, "it is noble to explore the unknown, but let's be a little bit sensible about it.” Certainly a calmer consldera tion of scientific priorities seems in order. Victory in the moon race would be hollow indeed If it were purchased at the price of needed technical progress right here on earth. iWaU Street Journal CAROL SING Junior-High and Senior-High young people of Central Meth odist church will go carol sing ing Sunday afternoon follow ing the Christmas program to be given by children of the church. PRESBYTERIAN Dr. Paul Ausley’s sermon top ic Sunday at First Presbyterian church will be "Our Sivica,” Special music will be rendered by the choir under direction of Mrs. Darrell Austin. Its experience convinces us there is an argument lor the horse in this debate. The horse, too, can slip between rows of stalled oars and climb curbs, What is more, it can back up without shift of gears, it can make friends, and it can disci pline people without offending them. “When a patrolman pushes a crowd back, people resent it, says Lt. John Lynch, in charge of Boston’s mounted unit. "But nobody takes offense at a horse. People just move back for him. One horse is worth 15 men in a crowd situation.” Remembering how pleasant It is to give a policeman’s horse a pat on the nose or to slip him a lump of sugar, we are happy to think there may be a place in cities of the future for both mo torized and equine mounts. Christian Science Monitor 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about King Mountain area people aru events taken from the 195 files of the Kings itountaii HercUd. Santa Claus will pay an of ficial visit to Kings Mountain Thursday afternoon. The annual Christmas parade will be high lighted by the appearance of Ole Saint Nick and what a reception he will have. The change may lie good bust ness, but it w m’t endear the Po.st Office to hobbyists around the countiy who have been -iiy- ing stamps from the Philatelic Agency in Washington. They may not form a bloc vote, but thehy knew a fresh vvell-rentered block of stamps when tlioy sei- it. ’The Miauii He wide surves- to learn about folk remeilies for the common cold whieh will soon be upon us wide ly with winter. Here are some of tile remedies: Mount Holly, North Carolina; "I drink lo's of cailionatcd soft drinks." ( ■San Diego. California: “.Starve yourself.” Des Moines, Iowa: “Eat all the fond you can.” Chambers-burg, Pennsylvania; “Go to a chiropractor.’’ Virginia. .Minriesita: “Take garlic capsules and vinegar pic kles." Carthage, Texas: “Drink but termilk and soda water." Springfield, Ohio: “Iodine Ls the answer.” Canton, Mississippi; “Raw sea- ;rulil soiled peanuts, ehi'W well." M/.tii Orvec InrUann' “Pl.'lf OVER ALL? A statistic to be alarmed about was released (recently) by the United States Bureau of Public Roads. Auto.TKiCiles arc increas ing in number twice as fast as people. The bureau said the 75,02-1,000 cars on the road this year arc 4.3 percent more than last. The human population wont up only 2 percent and the birth rate shows signs of slowing down. If the trend continues, accord ing to the statisticians, autos may soon be in the majority The impact will be tremendous, but we don’t think it will go as far as a television network im plies by putting on a show call ed “My Mother, the Car.” The Miami Herald poultice of hot mashed onions on vour chest." 3 Here and There: first Christ mas card received here was from Charles C. Clayton, former edi tor of Sigma Delta Chi’s maga zine, Quill. It was mailed from Hong Kong on October S and arrived a month later by regu lar .mail. Thanks, Charlie!..-the Hudson River has tides reaching as far up as Troy...when junk ed, an automobile ends up in a 2x2x1'2 foot cube worth about $20 in scrap...poor hralth forces four out of ten men to retire. .. travel agency sign: "Let Your self Go’’!...once upon .a time when you said your battery was dead you wore talking about your car, not your toothbrush... the American Mixlical Associa-J tion says, if you get a cold, stay' home in bed. Keep warm. Cynthia Plott has been elected a member of the student council of Marion college in Marion, Va. Social and Personal Mrs. Hilda Halliburton of Clyde, Worthy Grand Matron of the Order of Eastern Star of North Carolina, will make her official visit to Kings Mountain ChAfkttt 123, OES, oh FrldAy night. KEEP YOUR RADIO DIAL SET AT 1220 W K MT Kings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between
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