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KINGS MOUNTAIN HetAlD. ICINGS MOUNTAIN. N. <X
EstobUshed 1889
The Kings Mountain Herald
\ W^kiy nc'vspaijpr devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for tne enlighteninci.t, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain
and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing Hbuse.
Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 23086
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1^3.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher
Gary Stewart Sports Editor
Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor
MARTINIS
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uHsdom, humor, and comments
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By MARTIN HARMON
Jerry Hope
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
Dave Weathers
Paul Jackson
Allen Myers
Steve Ramsey
James Howell
Carl Mauney and 1 were chat
ting the other morning nnd he
mentioned a mutual friend who
was Ihinkifig about retiring.
Neither of us thought he was
THAT old.
"Nice Rollercoaster, except that Vietnam dip"
Thursday, December 30, 19^5
Agricuiti|u
Action
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Food surpluses might t«. 3
worry Itiat we'll soon wish
still had.
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
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shali be. RevcUilion
Sale Of Oldest Mill
The recent announcement of sale
of Kings Mountain Manufacturing
Company to Kings Mills, a new corpora
tion, confirmed rumors extant for sev-
eral weeks.
The new ownership has announced
it will concentrate all its production on
a single knitting yarn which, in turn,
will go to a lone custoiner. Sale Knit
ting Company, Martinsville, Va. Saie s
president, in turn, is a major stockhold-
ei in the new company.
It might be commented that sale
of Kings Mountain’s oldest textile plant
marks the end of an era.
The interesting history of this
plant shows that it was the first of sev
eral, launched as a community-type en
terprise to provide employment and
lile-giving payrolls. In 1888, the South
was still writhing from the ravages of
the Civil War, Kings Mountain had
strictly an agrarian economy, and as
much trade was conducted by barter as
with coin, the latter hard to obtaim
It is interesting to note that there
were exactly 100 initial stockholders
and that they numbered both white and
Negro, barbers, milliners, merchants,
and farmers.
In the intervening 73 years, thei’C
have been only four presidents, W. A.
Mauney, his brother J. S. Mauney, S. A.
Mauney and Mrs. S. A. Mauney. Tex
tiles, until recent years, has been a
feast-or-famine industry, and this firm
has enjoyed both good and poor years.
Throughout, however, the mill’s man
agement has been good and the storms
were weathered.
The new management has announc
ed it is embarking on a five-year pro
gram of modernization, with the aim to
make this plant as modern as any and
more modern than most. Indeed, the
modernization program began before
the new ownership assumed the man
agement. Two new machines have been
installed and four more are being in
stalled.
As we salute the retiring ownership
for good and faithful service, we con
vey a hearty welcome and good wishes
to the new ownership for a most suc
cessful operation.
Invalid Yelp
state Republican Chairman James
Gardner has criticized strongly the
congressional re-districting plan adopt
ed by a joint house and senate commit
tee.
While it is true that some of the
districts are pretty stretched out, there
nevertheless remains the task of bal
ancing the 11 districts by numbers of
residences.
In this respect, the committee did
a very good job.
Some looked with a jaundiced eye
at the new 10th district proposal, which
meets the test of being contiguous only
by a small place where Cleveland and
Catawba counties join. But the number
test is well met. Meantime, the district
would gain Polk and McDowell counties
and would lose Mitchell and Avery.
Meantime, the committee was able
to carve its districts in order that none
of the incumbent Congressmen will
have to oppose another. Also, the two
Republican incumbents appear to have
been strengthened on basis of past vot
ing records.
Chairman Gardner’s yelp is invalid.
Lesson In Courage
The great majority of folk express
the wish that, when death’s due date
arrives, that they pass quickly.
For some the wish is not honored,
ind one among them was John H.
Gamble, felled in 1960 with amytrophic
lateral sclerosis, a crippling disease for
which there is yet no cure.
It was a mark of his courage that
he continued to coach the high school
football team two years after he became
ill and that his spirit never seemed to
flag.
Coach Gamble was held in high es
teem by all who knew him, board of ed
ucation members, football players, oth
er coaches, and the whole Kings Moun
tain community.
Our sincere sympathy to his wife
and family.
Tax Listing Change
Most folk have Tong been at a loss
on how to list household properties for
taxes and 1) be fair to the county gov
ernment and 2) not rob themselves.
Some years ago, when Glee A.
Bridges was mayor, a new Kings Moun
tain citizen listed his household proper
ties unusually high. When the Mayor
noted it, he told the citizen that, on
basis of most others listings, he was
valuing his goods too high. The new
citizen was pleased at the favor, said
he was using the yardstick employed in
Wake county, where he had resided for
many years.
Under the new plan, citizens may
list household properties by itemization,
as before, or may list them at ten per
cent of the value of the house in which
they reside. For persons who rent or
lease, the same option prevails, or he
may list his household furnishings at
six times the monthly rental fee.
With the yardstick the same, none
can get hurt in comparison to his
neighbors.
It is guessed that 85 to 90 percent
of the county’s taxpayers will avail
themselves of the “lump sum’’ ten per
cent option. An exception will be the
homeowner who has recently construct
ed his home and doesn’t yet have it
completely furnished. Here itemization
likely will prove cheaper.
Tax listing begins Monday and con
tinues through Februai-y 1.
Those who attend to the job early
will save time.
Craig Falls
Hord Retirement
It won’t seem the same to a legion
of Kings Mountain area citizens to find
George B. Hord not present at Kings
Mountain postoffice, where he has la
bored for 42 years, the last 25 of them
as assistant postmaster, a position of
considerable responsibility.
Sometimes gruff in manner, Mr.
Hord nevertheless knew the rules of the
department and the fact that the prin
cipal point of the postal service is to
speed delivery of mail, incoming or out
going.
Perhaps no better compliment
could be paid him than that of one of
his employees who, in commenting with
friends on Mr, Hord’s retirement said,
“He was a mighty fine man to work
for.”
We congratulate him on his long
and good service and wish him well In
his retirement.
The sudden death of Craig Falls
shocked his legion of friends.
At “the one party we attend” on
the previous Friday evening, he was
the usual, jovial, joking Craig Falls. A
week later he was buried.
As it was, at 57, Mr. Falls lived 15
years longer than he might have. Fell
ed with a circulatory ailment, it was
feared at that time he would not sur
vive.
This newspaper has many pleasant
memories of its association with Mr.
Falls.
He accompanied the editor to a
press conference with Secretary of Ag
riculture Orville Freeman in 1962. His
dark suit, set off by his gray hair, made
him look, literally, the man of distinc
tion. En route to Park Center, where
the Secretary spoke, Mr. Falls and the
editor rode in the rear seat of a huge
Cadillac. The sirens were blaring and
people along the streets stopped to look.
Mr. Fails played the role in full, tipping
his hat to the crowds, as a dignitary
would.
Mayor John Henw Moss recalls Mr.
Falls’ role at the October Battle of
Kings Mountain celebration. Mr. Falls,
an ardent Democrat, was to drive one
of the visiting dignitaries. He told the
Mayor, as they were awaiting the arriv
al of the plane at Charlotte Airport, “I
want to haul Charlie Jonas (Republican
Congressman). I’ll have 30 miles and
I’m either going to make a Democrat
out of him, or he'll make a Republican
out of me.” He did drive Mr. Jonas, who
enjoyed Mr. Falls' teasing.
We miss Craig Falls.
Then came the second thoughts.
After all, I averred, I forget I'm
logging a year every year, too.
Carl laughed. "That’s right. Once
upon a time I thought a man 50
years old was OLD." Having
rounded that mark, Carl now re-
gaftb iiO as youthful, if not
young.
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It reminded of a paragraph in
the Christmas letter from Fran
cis Starnes, the Albe.narle jewel
er. It read, "Business lias been
good but somehow the work
seems to get harder and harder.
I suppose it’s for the same reas
on the hills seem a little steeper
and the stei)s a little higher."
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I have never been an invete
rate bridge player and therefore
do not rate my prowess very
highly. However, we enjoyed
quite an evening of bridge at my
mother - in - law’s recently. My
wife was playing with her mo
ther, and I was partner with
Margie McMeekin, quite a com
petitor at anything she does,
whether it be golf or bridge.
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We started playing shortly
after dinner and suddenly it was
eight rubbers later and the clock
was striking midnight. Margie
and I lost—by the thin margin of
100 points.
That would be a new twist for
our fanr.ers They’vo been bio.
ger titan the job for years. Glow,
ing mote food and fi er on loss
land with loss farmers. Too
much, as a matter of fact. So the
surplusf>s i)ilcd up. The controls
came. .Not necessarily in that or
der. An.sway, a new twist is a-
round the be-nd.
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Viewpoints of Other Editors
RENEWING HISTORY
THE LAST ROMANTIC
The city of Salem, Mass., found- Only la.st month Somersr't
ed in 1626, is now embroiled in' Alaugham was listed in the Sun-
a bitter dispute over an urban ■ day Times of London among 100
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George Plonk, the surgeon, is
another who likes bridge very
much. He recalls that this was
the chief delight of his return
voyage from Italy after World
War II. Another army passenger
was Bob Barber, of Asheville, a
college classmate. On one occa
sion. when Bob left the game
briefly. George and friends de
cided they’d play a trick. The
deck was stacked so that Bob
would be dealth 13 spades.
renewal plan. It is the familiar
i collision between co.-nmerce and
i conservation, between history
I and highways. The greatly ad
mired Old Town Hail, now 130
years old, is to be adjoined by a
parking garage and a block of
new stores. The Peabody Muse-
I um, founded in 1799, is to lose
I part of its plant to a road-wid-
I ening project; another parking
garage is to face it.
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When Bob picked up his cards,
he waxed very excited, promptly
bid 13 no trumps and went down
13 tricks.
'They were passengers on the
navy carrier USS Card, sunk at
the dock several months ago in
Saigon
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The conversation at the sup
per table the other evening had
turned to college discipline, and
Margie recalled a threat of sus
pension one summer when she
was in summer school at the
University of South Carolina.
She and two other girls had gone
to the movie, returned on time
at 11:15.
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They were greeted icily by the
housemother, who asked where
the other two girls were. Margie
replied there were no other girls,
only to learn that the rules did
not permit unescorted young la
dies to go out in le.ss than groups
of five.
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Margie asked, "How silly can
you get?”, which raised the
house mother’s hackles even
more.
My wife asked, “Kow old were
you then?”
Margie replied, "My goodness,
I was 40!"
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She had finished off the house
mother by telling her she could
ship her U she wished. "How
ever,” she added, "I don’t know
where you can ship me to. My
father’s dead and my mother’s
dead. My home is my ear and its
parked right out in front.”
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After that round, Margie had
no further trouble.
Happy New Year!
The renewal plan is supported
‘by men who argue that a city
icannot live on its memories, how
ever distinguished. They are
right, but economic sur\ival does
not require ugly design and blind
planning. A parking garage can
be put underneath a central pla
za (as Alexandria, for example,
is doing) rather than on the
plaza as the Salem plan proposes
Theie is a regrettable tenden
cy for large Federal programs
like renewal, housing and high
way construction to inflict trite
and ready-made design upon ci
ties that are too small or loo
careless to protect their local
character and tradition. In the
case of Salo.Ti, there is an o'bvi-
ous national interest in the pres
ervation of its notable buildings
in settings that will enhance
them. The Federal Urban Re
newal Administration has a re
sponsibility to protect that inter
est.
Washington Post
HAIL THE CHUNKALONA
When we consider the ancient
lineage of the sausage (dating
from Homeric times), we feel wc
should salute the group of re
searchers at Cornell University
who have succe.ssfully designed
and launched a new variety. Un
like the classical meat sausages
—the Greek salami, the Roman
salsus, the Scotch black pudding
- this one is made of chicken.
In keeping with tradition, it
really should be named for Itha
ca, N. Y., the city of its origin,
just as frankfurters got their
name from Frankfurt, Germany;
wieners from Vienna (Wein);
baloney from Bologna, Italy But
these are different times. When
a sausage prepares to make its
debut in the United States it
needs a name that will help
sell it.
Those who took part in the
market-expanding project at the
Cornell Agricultural Experiment
Station were aware of this. To
find a catchy name they consid
ered the characteristics of the
new sausage—chunks of chicken
in an emulsion stuffed into a
casing like that of a bologna.
“Chicken Chunkalona,” they de
cided.
Economists put the new pro
duct through extensive cost and
iraarket tests, visualized them
with charts and tables, and pub
lished them in a bulletin. We
think authors of this research
publication were on solid ground
when they concluded that Chick
en Chunkalona would be a good
sideline for a sausage manufac:
turer. But will it find its way in
to literature as did the orya and
laml Greece?
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key rcpi'eseiitatives of modem
letters. Certainly the author of
“The Moon and Sixpence” and
“Of Human Bondage,” whose
long career has just ended, had
the characteristically "cool” look
of the modern.
SO THIS IS
INEW YORK
By NORTH C.4LLAHAN
Born in Paris and an original
i.T.em'oer of the Riviera's interna
tional set, he was cosmopolitan,
if not out-and-oui rootless.
He endured botli people and
experience with skepticism and
a degree of alienation. No mat-
it might happen to, he appeared
ter what might liappen, or wliom
teady to pull out one of those
fastidious writer's notebooks he
maintained and clinicallv record
all.
Nol>ody views world events
j quite like a newspaper man who
has been on tin ,-;vne and Rob
ert Kuns'oii of tao Associated
Press is no e.xceplion. Ho is just
l>ack from the fighting front in
Vietnam and reminded me that
we ai'e not so bad off as many
people seem to tliiuk in this re
spect. "Wl'.y only 15 years ago
we well' upset ami depressed a-
bout tile war in Korea," lie said.
A study in aloofness, he culti
vated the unloved and unloving
face of a man early and thor
oughly disillusioned in his nurs
ery by a succession of indiffer
ent nannies — as indeed was the
case.
But another less visible Maug
ham co-existed with the elegant
ly blase worldling.
This was the Maugham who
had ecstatiscally read ail of
Scott before lie was ten.
This was the Maugham who
could out-Stevenson Stevenson
on the Pacific: “You sail through
an unKTiaginable silence upon a
magic sea. . . .”
Long before James Bond, the
British secret agent Ashenden
had been fantastlcated by this
other Maugham, a masterful in
ventor of bravura plots at a time
when plot was going out of stylo.
Inside the weary sophisticate,
then, an unjaded child seemed
to be signaling wildly to get out.
It is almost unintentionally win
some Maugham who is most like
ly to survive—less as a modern,
if one may contradict the Sunday
Times, than as the last of tho
19th-eentury romantic.9.
Christian Science Monitor
10
YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
Items of news about King
Mountain area people am
events taken from the 195
files of the Kings Mountau
Herald.
Neil O. Johnson, currently tech
nical representative of Hercules
Power Division of E. I. DuPont
de Nemours, Wilmington, Del.,
has been appointed general man
ager of Foote Mineral Company’s
Kings Mountain Operation.
The Kings Mountain Police De
partment distributed toys, food
and clothing to 71 needy fa.-ni-
iics in this area during the
Christmas season. Police Chief
Hugh A. Logan, Jr. reported this
week.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
■Festivities celebrating the ar
rival of New Year of 1956 ■will be
held in Kings Mountain Saturday
night.
It sliouldn't be too long before
dll' problem is going (o be how
to grow more food and fiber, not
less. The re:ison i:s simjily foibs
Lots more folks. Twice as manv
folks as tliere are right now.
You can attack this thing from
two sides. Cut down on tlie folks
or get more fond and fiber from
somewhere. Obviously, a linje of
bolli might be in Older.
Just a little documentation for
die record. Tile world birth rate
right -now excreds the death rate
by about 5,600 people per hour.
In oilier words, about fiftya^es
die size of San FranciseiH||.
created eaeh year. In Win
words, we liave a'bout three bil
lion people in the world now, but
there will he over twice that
many by the end of this lenlur.v.
test between the two presidential
candidates.
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As for Pre.sident Sukanio of
Indonesia, Bob said he has been
walking a tight rope between tho
army and tlie Communists and
die latter tried to upset this. This
attempt came too soon and tho
Communist were set upon by the
army wliieh reacted quickly It
looks now as if they were in for
a Itig sct-lxick in Indonesia, ju.q
as we liope they are mi Vietnam.
Here transportation is the bi.g
go.st problem for us, 1 was in
formed, and tlie Viet Cong con
trols it. Not only is the ground
transportation rough and hazard
ous but the entry by sea is ham
peri'd by good liarbors and by
the guerilla fighters who hover
adout. Boh reminded me that
Ciiiiia held Vietnaim. for ten cen
turies and naturally feel it has a
kind of vested interest in thi'
place, besides the Communist tiis
e.xisting. The little East Asian
country could be the leader of
that part of the world if it were
free of warring factions. BuOhe
French ruled it for a hui^M
ye.ns and did not find thit^F
swer. flow can we? Well out
fighting men are working at it
I ing a decisive role.
"Our f trees were leireating. So
the present situation in Vietnam ' P"'"*
is lietler tliati lliat. And look at
Soutli Korea now. It is prosper
ous, a fine new country which
thanks to us, has improved a
thousand per cent over wliat it
was before the war."
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Robert Eunson has bci-n with
tile Associated I’ress for 21 years
and hails from the West, having
Being ro.T.inded of the recent i *'<’en born in .Montana and edu-
retircmenl of tlie Russian loader, 1 eatod in Arizona. Then he went
■Mikoyan, Bob Eunson recalled I Kranciseo where he head-
taking part with him in a press 1 <'<• <he AP therefor several years
conference in 'I'okyo. The Riis- ■ l>ef"re being sent to Europi- and
sians would only allow one rep-|l>M'n the P>i.st. During the Kore-
resentative ot tlie pres.s to ask ^'i war he supervised press oov-
queslions and Bob was designa- 1 '‘rage tliere and wrote the bullet-
It'd to do tills. He aro.se and put >» announcing tho signing of the
the questions to .Mikoyan and armistice at Panunjom. Recently
was dismayed to receive back ')<-> lias had charge of covering
through the interpreter, impii-1 the fighting in Vietnam until he
dent and personally insulting an
swers. Tile AP man was on the
point of stopping his questions
and walking out, wlien a friend
nearby who knew tlie Russian
language said it vva.s not .Mikoy
an who was .saying the insulting
things but only the interpreter.
Bob commented on how prosper
ous Tokyo i.s nowadays. It man
ufactures twice as many ships as
any other place in the world, and
like Korea, is experiencing m:ire
of a boom than before World
Mar II, As for Iho recent elec
tions in tlie Philippines, I was
told that it was a popularity con-
was transferred to New York
where all he has to fight is the
crowds. He is a mwiiiun-sized
man with a friendly and down-
to-earth personality. Although in
concedes that his present assignj
meiit is different fra.m, those he
has lield in tlie past, he gallantl:
says it is just as challenging am
in its own way just as excitim
as covering wars on the far-
flung fronts. Like many others.
Bob finds time to do extra writ
ing. Not long ago he did the text
of an illustrated book ondjOPja
tlie commentary for a
film on the war in Vietna
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