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i Page 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C W«cloasci*y, December 22, 1965 EetaMtehed I8>9 Tke Kings Mouilain Heiald A vvBskiy newspao'^*' devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for tno eniightenHici.t, cpcertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter, at the post office at. Kings Mountain, X. ('., 2SnSG under Act of Congress of Mnrch 3, 1873. MARTIN'S MEDICINE fngredienta: bits of newt wisdom, humor, and coinmenta Directiens; Taka weekly, ii Ihisaible, but avoid overdosage EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Puhiisher Gary Stewart Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society E’ditor MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Jerry Hope Dave Weathers Allen Myers Paul Jackson Steve Ramsey James Howell By MARTIN HARMON One of the problems of the publishing busihetsare the quan tities of waste paper generated. SUBSCKIPTIOXS KATES PAYABLE IX ADVANCE — BY .MAIL ANWHERE ONE YEAR .. $3:30 SIX MONTHS .. $2.00 THREE .MONTHS .. $1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROUNA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 Thus after some eleven years of embarrassment at having Herald waste paper blow into its neighbors doors and backyards, we looked witli pleasure at oc cupying this building which in cluded, among other facilities, an incinerator, for which a modest , treasure had been spent. No longer would we be a bad neigh bor ! The Light Still Shines ^ '‘-r mm TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE And the angel said unto them, Fear not: far, behold, / brinn yon good tkiing.s of great joy, which shall he to all ijeoylc. St. I.nke ^-tO- Benefits Of Debt W. E. Easterling, secretary to the North Carolina Local Government com mission, is one of the state’s most able public officials. Since the commission was created, Mr. Easterling declares. North Carolina would be a horse-and-buggy -state, he infers, were it not for the fact ot borrow ing for major improvements. Mr. Easterling’s retention of detail is amazmg.^^^^^ planning to' call before maturity date its natural gas system bonds, there was question in the minds of some officials about certain of the requirement.s. This newspaper called on Mr. Easterling, who was most busy, but spared a moment anyway. When the question was direct ed, iMi\ Easterling did not send a secre tary to the filing cabinet. He recalled from memory that the particular item was not in the prospectus but was con tained in the te.\t of the bonds. Many persons are dedicated, both personally and government-wise, to pay- as-you-go, which is fine in theory, but less fine in principle. It would not be fair, for instance, for today’s citizens to pay all the cost of the more than a million dollars re quired to effectuate sewage system im provements which are going to be used and considered to be adequate for tlie next two decades. Conversely, the Herald has long held the theory that any facility which cannot be paid for in 20 years can be ill afforded. The city is working with Mr. East erling at the moment on the aforemen tioned sewage system financing. Under the law, bond issue financing is restricted to a percentage^ of the gov ernmental unit’s taxable value. It is interesting to note that Mr. Easterling has never given a flat “no” to any bond issue request. “We don’t have to do that. You can just show them. If it is excessive they’ll back off themselves,” Mr. Easterling was quoted as saying. That’s a high compliment to the many elected local government officials throughout the state. Somersel Maugham Death has come to Somerset Maug ham, great and prodigious author, at the age of 91. He was born January 25,187.4, a month before Kings Mountain was in corporated as a town. Maugham deprecated his own prow ess by saying he merely wrote for mon ey, but his reading public did not agree, meantime making the author a quite wealthy man. Among his many finely-spun novels were “Of Human Bondage”, "Miss Thompson”, made famous on film by Joan Crawford as “Rain” and subse quently by Rita Hayworth, and “Christ mas Holiday”. Maugham was an expert at giving his tales strange and unusual twists. In “Christmas Holiday”, a story set in Britain in World War II, the serv iceman hero fell in love with a German girl who, he learned too late, was an enemy spy. Even though he loved her, he shot her. ^ While his personal life made Maugham unsavory to some, he profess ing to be an atheist and at one time be coming completely estranged with his daughter, few failed to acclaim his tale weaving quality. It is said that most authors have only one really fine novel in their repe- toire. Herman Wouk can claim four. Somerset Maugham can claim more than 20, not to mention plays and" short stories. Pray For Peace One of the happier headlines in Sat urday newspapers was the one detail ing the end of labor-management war at the Kohler Company, which had last ed more than eleven years. End of the long fight was sealed by a handshake between the representative of the United Auto Workers and Kohler’s general counsel. Regrettably, it is most sad that many more similar headlines will not be written this Christmas of 1965, par ticularly one which would signal the end of fighting in Viet Nam. Not many days since 1941 have been logged as peaceful. The Viet Nam war itself has lasted interminably, first fought by the French and now with the United States joining the Vietnamese. Is there cause for hope? On basis of history, there is. Wars often get worse before they get bettm*. Alas, the best laid plans of mice and men go awry. A new problem was generated, with charred black ash replac ing plain paper. in.m The problem peaked last Thursday. It was a rainy day and the ash adhered to daimp cars. A lady, otherwise uniden tified, complained to Mayor John Henry Moss as did our mechanic neighbor and trouble shooter Glenn Grigg, T don’t blame them. Henceforth, the Herald is going to make use of the city’s dally trash collection service. If that fails, to do the job, we’ll try something else. We don’t anti cipate resuming burning our waste paper. Our friend Grigg reported he had washed six cars, in for repair jobs, before return ing them to their owners. Foni nims Axe Available Four films made by the North i ('aroli'iia Film Hoard are now available to adult groups from tile local publi(- library. ' IIIG FI.SII, LITTLE FISH shows ihc piogi'css and problems i of ibe coastal fishing industry in ' .North Carolina. God so loved the world,' that he qave his only begotten son,that whosoever believeth in hinf) shall not ! .SEARCH FOR EXCELLENCE i promotes the consolidation of pu.dic schools and shows the ed- I ucalional tx'nefils derived from I a consolidated school. WHY WE Ki: L is an unusual approach lo the i)roh!em of high way safety. FOOD A.ND THE FUTURE promotes the development of the i food processing industry in North I Carolina and shows the type I farming necessary to support it. ! These films are recent addi tions to the North Carolina A- (lult Film Project a collection of 16mm films owned by all public libraries of North Carolina. H. V. Anderson, director of the pro ject, suggests that requests for any of these films be made at your public library at least two weeks prior to the time they will be u.sed. These films are not vallable for use in the pubnB schools. This is a free public li brary service. perish, but have everlasting life. JOHN Ills 16 Viewpoints of Other Editors Most hold to the thesis of the late great General Douglas MacArthur that the only way to end a war is to use every tool available and that an enemy must be defeated completely before the firing can be expected to cease. During the past year. United States commitment to the Viet Nam war has escalated until there are now upwards of 300,000 United States servicemen in the field. I had the pleasure of meeting recently Mrs Claire Brown, wife of Dion Brown who is with the Burger Barn operation. When she related that she is native to Cape Cod, Mass., I told her I spent several months in Boston in 1943. I also related that I had a shipmate from Boston named Bill Donovan, who was a -good friend of the family of the late Mayor and Congressman Jim Curley, the fabled Irish politi cian. Two of the Curley boys, al- so navy ensigns, had visit<^ Bill aboard our ship and I had met them at the time. Donovan died in an accident at Gibraltar and it is my understanding that both the Curley boys were killed. CHRISTMAS SOME THINGS DONT On Christmaa »ay a soldier in i FLY BACK TO THE ROCK Vietnam, dirty with jungle mud j You know the old legend about and blood, will tear open a let-1 Blowing Rock . . . ter from home. For a few mo- j Throw something over it, and ments he will forget his bone- i the wind is supposed to blow it aching fatigue, remembering iboy- • back to you. hood days with his family and | uow does it work? the excitement of getting and j well . .fairly well, giving gifts. | uut below the rock, you lean over and look down instead of SO THIS IS NEW YORK While the action is just as mean and deadly as it ever was, the balance has moved to our side. All will join in a Christmas prayer for victory and peace. Mrs. Brown had not known Donovan but had known the Curley boys. “Maj'or Curley was my uncle,” she lemarked. The sour-sweat smell of bar racks and the dank green odor of jungle camps will be replaced by the smell of white sheets on the old bed at home on Christ mas Eve, the pungence of Christ mas trees and the aroma of food from mother’s kitchen. The il lusion will be gone even before the letter is finished and that soldier will long for peace, mor& than you or I who have never lived on a battlefield can ever long for peace, and he may weep for a meaning that has gone out of his Ufe. out across at the mountains, you'll see one of the biggest lit- terbugging messes around. Handkerchiefs, envelopes, film boxes, pieces of newspaper, Kleenex and things that were re turned on schedule. Some fools have even thrown beer bottles over. Maybe they though they’d come back refilled.—Roy Thomp son, Journal-Sentinel m-ta Our Best Bows Congratulations to the award win ners of the ’65 high school football team; Danny Kiser, most valuable player: Chip Bridges, top blocker; Phillip Bunch, most improved play- and Larry Patrick, the team’s top schol- er ar. Father Hill, the new priest at Christ the King Catholic church, and I were chatting recenUy. I remarked that my Great-Grand father Falls had once occupied the house which is now the Cath- ! olic manse. “He can have it back,” Father Hill quipped. I told him I understand it gets a bit drafty during cold seasons. As long as that soldier feels joy from no more than the read ing of a letter on a battlefield, or has hope expressed as a long ing for peace, or repents through tears for lost meaning, we know that God is alive. (FrQ.Ti Kerygma Features — a service of the Division of Over seas Ministries, National Council of the Churches of Christ, U. S.) Special note should be made con cerning young Patrick. In pre.senting the award. Coach Bill Bates reported that young Patrick’s report cards, from his first grade to the present, had never known any letter of the alphabet other than “A”. That’s quite a record. m-m Congratulations to Dr. Frank Sin- cox, who will serve as chief of the medi cal staff of Kings Mountain hospital dur ing the coming year, and to R. Howard Bridges, new master of Fairview Lodge 339, A. F. & A. M. A Christmas Gilt Announcement by A. E. Yarbro that he will soon raze a derelict dwelling can be considered a Christmas gift to the community. Will others do the same? Mayor John Henry Moss hopes that others who ow-n sub-standard and un tenable residences will follow Mr. Yar- bro’s example. Nothing mars the appearance of a community more than vacant, falling- down properties. When my wife attended the Reis ■ Burke nuptials Saturday morning, it was the first time she had attended a Catholic wed ding. Not sure of what she was supposed to do, she decided to watch Rev. Bob Hadeii, the Epis copal rector and follow his lead. It worked quite well, she said. She reported the service most im pressive. New Tox Lister The county commission is to be congratulated on appointment of L. L. Benson a township tax lister. Meantime, mention should be made of the long and good service in that po sition by Conrad Hughes, who is ill and could not continue in that post this year. Mr. Hughes always handled his work with dispatch and with full courte sy to all citizens. Observance of the rules of the road should be practiced 365 days per year and 366 in leap years, but, at the Christ mas seawn, with unusually heavy traf fic, driving by the rules is even more important. Persons traveling should start early and remember that many accidents occur because drivers get im- patteiU and foiget pUkK old-fa^Ooned courtesy. m-tn Afterward, at the reception, she was surprised to find Frank Pridemore serving cake. Mrs. Pridemore, like Anne, was a non working guest. Frank served like a professional, Anne adds, m-m Christmas frwn another re- legion comes via Christmas card from James K. Kyzer, better known as Kay Kyzer, the former band leader. Mr. Kyzer lives in Cnapel Hill and devotes time to advancing the Christian Science movement via the Christian Sci ence committee on publication for North Carolina. The card re- iminds that Mrs. Kyzer, the for mer vocalist Georgia Carroll, and the former Eleanor Myers, were across the hall neighbors at Durham’s Watts hospital, when both were having their first children. m-m The message ”It Is Christmas” was written by Dorothy Chase Adams and appeared first in the Christian Science Sentinel, De cember 20, 1952. It reads: Did love speak to you today In some new glorious way? Then it is Christmas. Did faith move in upon the scene Where doubt and darkness once had been? Then it is Christmas. Did hope replace a nagging fear Or sadness yield its ptace to cheer? Then it is Christmas. And when you know God's love for you I* just the s«nM the whele-year; tlUMIgll Each day M Christmas. THE RELEVANCE OF GOD The Christian world, long challenged from without, has now been challenged Irom with in, as to the relevance and mean ingfulness of the concept of God. The so-called "new” or “radical" theologians have questioned the knowability and the very exist ence of God. In effect, these theologians are voicing — each with his own special emphasis — something a- kin to Friedrich Nietzche’s 19th- century pronouncement that "God is dead.” Without accept ing in the least such a conclu sion, one can appreciate the searching appraisal which leads to these challenging questions. The secularizing trends of the modem world run deep. The churches themselves are by no means immune, as this recent de velopment in theology attests. But even while secularism has flourished, developments in Christian thought have brought, for many, considerably greater depth, breadth, and spiritual con tent to the concept of God. During the last hundred years the concept of a personal God, in the sense of a Deity in the im age of human p^sonality, has lost its hold on much of Chris tendom. This change may be traced in the thought of certain noted Christian theologians of the period, such as the late Paul Tillich, to whom God was “the infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being.” It may be seen in reappraisals of Chris tian thought such as that under taken by John A. T. Robinson, Bishop of Woolwich, in his work “Honest to God.” Although the past century has witnessed a veritable revolution tn the people's concept of God, it is, from one point of view, but a small beginning. Many Chris tians affirm they have never been able to develop a satisfy ing sense of Deity. They say they have never felt the presence of God. Against this must be set the empirical fact that not a few. Christians today attest to exp«i- endng unmistakably in their own Hwae tit*- prwetje*, power, and love of Godi Tmir alto ltave'» sl^lBfyIne concept of Deity By NORTH CALLAHAN IF CrVIUZATION WILL NOT DEFEND ITSELF . .Surely it is immoral to have majority rule if the consequences of it are to create a worse gov ernment and far worse condi tions than exist where govern ments are elected by the civili-z- ed. One felt a great sympathy for the Rhodesian White, who, when questioned on British television about the paltry percentage of Blacks who had exercised the vote which they had been given, said: ‘Well, of course, the vote is something strange to tiiom. They can’t kill it. They can’t eat it and they can’t sleep with it!”... But people must realize that is is not only protection for the Whites that is being sought, but protection for civilization. If the civilized world is not willing to protect itself it can hardly expect the uncivilized to do so. — Martin Johnson, South African Financial Gazette. which they find increasingly meaningful and relevant to daily experience. We know many individuals who—out of deep conviction bas ed on their own experience — would reply to the assertion that “God is dead,” in the words of Job, "I know that my Redeemer llveth.” Whether one gains a positive sense of the presence of God de pends upon the way in which he searches. Referring to prayer, Mary Baker Eddy, the Founder of this newspaper, has said, "It makes new and scientific discov- cries of God, of His goodness and power. It shows us more clearly than we saw before, what we al ready have and are; and most of all, it shows us what God is.” The Christian Science Monitor 10 TEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of Mountain news area evente taken from files of the Sings Berald. about Sing people ant the 195 Mountais Ernest V. Horvath, president of Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company, reported last Friday morning completion of the trans action whereby Horvath Textile Interests acquired the operating! facilities of Nelsler Mills, Inc. St. Matthew's Lutheran church will hold two special Christmas services this weekend. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Forty children attended the Margrace Woman’s dub’s an- mri emriatmw wty S^urtlB}^ aftenio«» at tSe Mai^rrace club-' house. In special keeping of the holi days is the spectacle of service men and women in New York. And the USO does an admiraible job of playing host to them. I re call twenty years ago when I was getting out of the army here that one of the nicest things about it—besides the fact of course that World War II was over—was the friendliness which local people showed to us re turning veterans. Now each week, military transports move those wlio praise them. Be polite. II you are, others will be polite to you. Be helpful. That is the first definition of success. Bo cheerful. There are enough crepe- hangers around. Don’t be envi ous. It is better to assume that what the other fellow does, you can do as w-ell or 'better.” These are good thoughts for the holi days. Others are: you can make more friends in two months by- becoming interested in people that you can in two years try ing to get other people interested in you Nearly ail revolts Involve hate. On the heights of New York University overlooking a battle field of the American Revolu tion. stands the impressive Hall of Fame. It is a graceful, curv ing colonnade 630 feet long euid open to the air like a Greek tem ple. It is interesting to note that one of those enshrined tliere is Robert E. Lee. a .Southerner who rose above sectionalism in his in tegrity and nobility. Lee married the great-granddaughter of Mar tha Washington who.se husband defeated the British. But not at this hattleficld. In the autumn of 1776, the redcoats stationed heru^^ captured For Washington nearb.^^ which was named after George. Henry M. MacCracken, NYU Chanc»‘llor and founder of the Hall of Fame had this to say: "Lost to the invaders of ITTC, this summit is now retaken by over a thousand servicemen and now reiaiseii u.v women in and out of tlie Port of'“-oop of ‘Great Amer- New York. The navy brings in an average of 100,000 officers and men annually. Stationed a- round the local area are 120,000 other service men and wometi, so these alone make up a sizea ble city and they are usually in a holiday mood when they are here. So it is with paj'ticular sig nificance that the throngs in the city are mixed with uniforms a- dorning our young people who are trying so hard to bring peace on this earth and good will to all meti. A person in charge of the vis ual aids program of a school wanted to find out about a cer tain movie in order to see if it were suitable for showing. He dialed a telephone number and asked, "Is this the Legion of De cency?” There was a slight pause. “No”, came the answer, “but you have the. next thing to it. This is the Pure Oil Com pany.” Old-timers who stroll through Central Park miss the familiar figure of Bernard Baruch whr used to sit on a bench there and philosophize. Said he, "Be quick to praise. People like to praise i leans’. General Washington their leader. They enter into posses sion of these Heights and are destined to hold them, we trust, forever.” _3- An organization devoted to preventing blindness says that needless eye accidents will spoil the fun of 12,000 American chil dren during the holidays ahead. Some of these are caused by toys of the missile type, dart guns, sharp edges and plastics that shatter. Be especially eafeful a- bout the Christmas tree, the spokesman added, keep it in wa ter, away from heat, spray it with a preventive, check electri cal wiring and never use candles for it, -3- Offlce parties here are not be ing held in offices as much as they were because time and mon. oy is saved by having them in hotels and restaurants, it Is re ported, "Also”, states a hotel manager, “there is lesi^ •‘iisr- 'ty, there is a definite ■, ' md ending time and t . >'|a -ihone rings at the offi K not answerctl by some ■ / • . ing wag who misrepresents* ft e firm. KEEPYOUBRADIODIALSETAT 1220 Kiiigs Mountain, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertaimnent in between
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