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KINGS MOUNTAIN H^LD, KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C,
Thursday, January 27, I9J
Established 1889
The Kings Mountain Herald
North Carahno i
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for tne t’niightenmci.t, cn-ertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Highway Decision
The State Highway Commission has
approved the 7.3 mile corridor projec
tion of the U. S. 74 by-pass.
Actually a thrvlway, since it trans-
verses Kings Mountain well vyithin the
city limits, the projection — as none
would have — does not please various
groups of citizens, among them 1) those
dedicated to the concept that by-passes
should transverse open country, 2)
some who find their homes and other
properties on projected right-of-way, 3)
some who find their properties either
off projected right-of-way, too far from
the projected roadbed, or minus access
to it.
The above is hardly news to the
highway commission.
Objectors to the proposed rouje of
the US 74 by-pass have expressed them
selves at two public hearings, and the
volume of objection was much less at
the second hearing than the first. Mean
time, the commission engineers review-
.ed and confirmed their initial decisions
that the projection is mosf,,feasible of
several others made previously, is
cheapest to build', and will serve most
people best, with first priority assigned
the motoring John Doe, whoever he be,
wherever from.
There are two principal objections
to the now-approved conddor projection,
which citizens noted at the public hear
ing hi April, to which this newspaper
has called attention, and which Mayor
John Henry Moss not^d to Commission
er W. B. Garrison last week;
1) Tie-in of the Waco Road partial
interchange with West King Street —
to serve crosstown traffic to the new
high school, Lambeth Rope Corporation,
Margrace plant of Massachusetts Mo
hair Plush Company, Park Yarn Mills,
Foote Mineral Company, Superior Stone
Company, and several mica operations
to the south seems most demanding.
2) Indicated dead-ending of Phenix
street, - serving expanding industry in
that area seems unwise.
Comm. Garrison assured the Mayor
formalizing of the objections would
bring full study by the commission’s en
gineering staff. A city commission reso
lution on these objections is in order.
It w'ill be several moons before any
one zooms over the new' highway, as $6,-
000,000 projects are not designed, con
tracted, built and opened to traffic over
night.
In other words, traffic flow on King
street likely will get much worse before
it is alleviated.
Take-OU Point?
There are times of boom and bust
in the lives of most people and the same*
is true of towns and cities.
Concurrently, it has been observed
that town, as it slowly grows to city
status, finds that growth accelerates
with growth and that this growth be
comes major when a community
reaches a mythical take-off point.
Is Kings Mountain near that point?
Such a feeling has been experienc
ed in times past, with a seeming fall on
the face following.
Expansion, however, during 1965,
both in new ii^dustrial citizens and ex
panding industries priorly on scene, in
dicate the point may have been reach
ed.
Already personnel managers will
confide that "anyone who wants to
work is working", as they find it diffi
cult to staff their operations. The state-
ni$nt may be somewhat extreme, for
the problem of physical ability, as well
as basic education and training, is in
volved.
It is nice to begin a year right and
the 'announcement of organization of
Kings Mountain Brick, Inc., to manu-
facture specialty brick, is good news for
all citizens.
Meantime, Kings Mill, Inc., already
Is proceeding on its planned modemiza-
tion of the Kings Mountain Manufactur-
ifiC Company property it acquired at
ind and igtveral industrial pros-
checMIp ocfPthe Kings Moun-
« for plant sites.
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Hawks And Doves
Just as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New
Deal established initials for the designa
tion of governmental agencies (NRA,
OSS, OPA, even FDR himself), so to
similes and metaphors become a part of
the language.
Arising out of the Cuban crisis dur
ing the Kennedy Administration were
the designations “hawk” and “dove”,
the hawk like North Carolina’s Air Na
tional Guard skipper ready and even
anxious to “blow Castro’s block-^off, and
the “dove" generally regarded as a
peace-at-any-price man. Nobody found
a good nickname for the moderate, who
found himself at the mid-point between
the two extremes.
There are. considerable segments of
all three in the United States, even the
world, today regarding the participation
of this nation in the Vietnamese civil
conflict.
General Earl Wheeler, cheiirman of
the joint chiefs of staff, is a hawk, as
was the late ■'General Douglas Mac-
Arthur, espouses a policy of total war
leading to total victory.
General James Gavin regards the.
United States as fighting the wrong War^
in the wrong place and would limit our
participation to strongholds subject to
virtually sure containment, minimum
losses and full suppoH by army, air,
navy and marine corps.
Senator James William Fulbright,
chairman of the foreign relations comr'
mittee is more or less staked out with
General Gavin.
The doves are less apparent in gov
ernment or its service branches but
finds many civilian membei*s of some
prominence and obvious sincerity.
The policy to date, regardless ol
the peace offensive, of the Johnson Ad
ministration is hawkish. Minus relaxa
tion of the Viet Cong, intransigance, it
will continue to be.
Interim Census
Can one set of laws be used in one
section of a state, yet not applicable to
another section?
That is what the federal civil rights
act sets forth. North Carolina law sets
forth a literacy test (reading and writ
ing a section of the North Carolina Con
stitution) as prerequisite to voting.
But the federal act applies a specif
ic test to the legality of literacy tests.
The test is percentage of adults within
a county registered to vote.
MARTIN’S
MEDICINE
lns;r0dients: bits of min
ivisdom, humor, and commontt
Dirmetiona: Take “ ujeeldy, (j
possible, but avoid
By MARTIN HARMON
j I am attemptin'i^ to write a
$1,000 letter.
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Kings Mountain is a partici
pant in WBT Radio's Community
I Pride contest, and a letter, sum-
: mating the year’s activities, is re^
{quired. Competitors are Lenoir
' in this state and Lancaster,
I Chester and Clover, S. C. The
i prize is $1,000.
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1 A perusal of newspaper f.'leg
shows 1965 to have bwn among
Kings Mountain’s best jeais in
all direction9.~'King3 Mountain
{.citizens have long had a reputa
tion for generosity and outdid
themselves in ’65. Not only were
liberal" contributions made to
cancer, heart, other medk^al re
search funds, and the United
Fund, tut area citizens gave
more than $100,000 to Gardner-
1 Webb College, and raised nearly
' $85,000 fob the building of John
I Gamble Me.T^orial Stadium,
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UTren Hurricane Betsy struck
the Gulf Coast, Kings Mountain
citizens gave cash and clothing
for the ravaged citizens of Lock-
port, La. The clothing weighed
more th^ 1200 pounds.
Divided Attention
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Toltfree telephone service to
Gastonia and Dallas was inaugu
rated in May—result of a survey
c-onducted* by Kings Mountain
Chamber of Commerce. When the
neighboring Bethware-Bethlehem
communities organized a volan-
teer fire department, the city
gav’e the new organization a
truck. '
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The Kings Mountain school dis
trict’s new $1,300,000 high school
opened in the fall with a 1014-pu
pil student body. The year 1963
also marked de-segregation of
district schools. A total of nearly
200-Negro students transferred to
previously all-white schools min
us untoward incident. A half-
Viewpoints of Other Editors
AT STORM KING
dozen Ne?ro boys lettered in, . , . ,
football. They and other mem-! ^ ^ severe rebuke
bers of the squad were honored
The unanimous decision by
the United States Court of Ap
peals setting aside the license
granted by the Federal Power
Commission to the Consolidated
Edison Company to build a $162-
million hydro power plant on
tory for the public and the pub-
Storm King Mountain is a vie-
lie-spirited conservationists who
carried the case to the courts. It
to the
F.P.C, for its failure to protect
in December at the 27th annual interest
football banquet of the Kings
Mountain Lions club. In the
spring, the Rotary Club honored
^^baH teanT at tHe club’s
Wlrn annual baseball luncheoH.
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The Mayor appointed numer
ous new and expanded boards
and commissions including a
downtown imiprovements group
for upgrading the business sec
tion. An expanded human rela
tions committee, in the words of
a Negro member, found it had
little work to do. Schools, movies,
rest rooms, restaurants and oth
er public facilities are desegre
gated, he noted.
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The community planning board
and recreation commission had
active years.
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Kings Mountain Industrial
Training Program was launched
for trainingtin skills of adults.
Already classes have been con
ducted in commercial floreU ar
ranging and brick-laying.
The Storm King project would
be located in an area of unique
beauty and great historical sig
nificance — the Hudson Rteh-
lands. In ordering the Cotwilils-
sion to .reconsider its deciMbn,
the court warned that the preser
vation of natural beauty and his
toric shrines must be one of the
F.P.C.’s basic concerns in the
new proceedings. The judges de
clared that cost was not the only
factor to be considered.
The many shortcomings of the
F.P.C. in failing to give proper
consideration to various aspects
of the public interest, mainly be
cause they could not be readily
measured in dollars and cents,
demand remedy. Congress might
do well to make F.P.C. decisions
affecting sites of natural Le.iuty
subject to review by an official
or agency less blind than th? F.
P.C. has shown itself to b;>.
The New Ycn'k Times
LETTER WRITERS
A University of Michigan stu
dy of the affiliations of citizens
who write letters to their con
gressmen, newspapers, and mag
azines has concluded that the
conservatives arid ultra-conserva
tives account for far more of the
mall than their numbers would
suggest.
The number of people, of any
political persuasion, who write
political letters is amazingly
amall, the political scientists
found. “The large bulk of letters
to public officials or the printed
media come from a tiny fraction
of the population, which tends
to write veri^ repetitively.’’ A-
bout 15 percent of the population
sends much letters at all, and
two-thirds of these come from a
scant 3 percent of the adult pop
ulation, These letters go mainly
to public officials. Less than one-
half of 1 percent of the popula
tion accounts for two-thirds of
the letters to newspapers and
magazines.
JUNE GRADUATES
News from the ived halls of
the more fashionable women’s
colleges as reported in the pub
lic cheers us. We expect to greet
in June a host of bright young
women, eager to take a letter,
type a manuscript, and keep pro
blems from our door.
This has not always been the
advice dispensed in women’s col
leges. Some teachers have coun
seled their charges to avoid these
mundane skills lest they meet a
fate worse than debt, that of be
coming a secretary. But many
girls have discovered that secre
tarial skills provide an entree to
other interesting careers. If this
information is sufficiently dis
seminated, prospective employers
are going to enjoy a new e.xperi-
ence come June. They will not
have to turn away bright young
graduates whose ambition is
“to research and editorial work’’
but who forgot to get acquainted
with a typewriter.
The Washingov Post
This test has already abrogated the
literacy requirement in several Tar Heel
counties, may ip Cleveland.
One of several borderline counties,
the federal Bureau of the Census has set
up shop for an interim census, which,
comparing the population of voting age
to number trf citizens Eligible by regis
tration, will determine whether regis
trars abrogate the Tar Heel law.
Whether literacy should be a test is
a moot question.
Meantime, speculators on Cleve
land County’s population growth rate
can have some fun with guesses, even
wagers. , i
Industrial expansion continued,
both new organizations and'ex
isting industry. Burlington Indus
tries made availa'cle property to
the city for a public park,
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Most outstanding conn-Tiunity
event of the year was the week-
long celebration of the 185th
anniversary of the Battle of
Kings Mountain. Events were
conducted daily, building to the
climax of the grand parade on
October 9. More than 40,000 per
sons viewed the 228-unit parade,
featuring beauty queens, armed
services units, congressmen, o'h-
er governmental officials, and
dignitaries, including the com
manding general-of Fort Bragg,
the adjutant general of the Nortn
Carolina National Guard, Con
gressmen Basil L. Whitener and-
Charles Raper Jonas, and Stan
ley Resor, secretary of the army.
Miss North Carolina. Miss South
Carolina, and Miss World Physi
cal Culture were augmented by
high school beauty queens from
neighboring cities of both the
Carolinas. Secretary Resor made
the featured address at Kings
Mountain National Military Park,
following a parachuting exhibi
tion by the fauned Golden
Knights, the army's international
t^ampion piurachute team.
And the county gets an interim
count that should be beneficial in sev
eral directions, among them the formu
la by which the state provides Powell
Bill street monies. Half the allocation
is based on population. Gastonia paid
for an interim population count a few
years ago, quickly got its money back
via the Powell Bill check.
Words to the wise being sufficient
and all area citizens beii^ wise, they
will attend to their annual tax listing
chores not later than Tuesday. Reward
to the unwise: penalty.
Culture was not neglected.
Church choirs sang eentatas at
Easter and CTtristmas and the
Cleveland County. Choral Society
made Us second annual appear
ance here, singing "The Messiah”
by Handel. Jacob S. Mauney LK^
brary continued to expand Its
volumes and 9ervlce»_
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At year-end, the traffic engi
neering team of the highway
commission, on reouest of the
dty, completed a study desired
to. inaprove traffic flow through
the dty on U. S. 74-
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A big year was 1965 In Ktnga
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DIAL A CURVE?
No one can deny that this is
the age of the pushbutton and
the dial. It is natural that many
people welcoitne thie trend to
ward push and twirl operation
as a labor-saving gift. Those who
do doubtless are w.aiting eagerly
for the “wrist-twist” instant
steering which the Ford Motor
Company ha.s field-tested over
the last year and is now study
ing further.
The dial would enable the driv
er to steer the car so easily that
on a turn he can guide it with
one finger. Arm rests* would be
provid^ for his conifort. (He
would still have to watch the
road.)
i We commend the ingenuity of
automotive designers who are
working on such improvements.
But we hope the manufacturers
will not rule out all manual op
erations. There are still many
who enjoy thenu
These are the folk^who look
upon driving an automobile not
as a chore but as an art and a
pleasure. For example, they pre
fer a (gear rttlft to automatic
transmission. They take an ar
tist’s pride in their no-grrr oper
ation and their smooth shifting
rhythm. Th^ scorn to use a but
ton.
We hope the manufacturers
will give consideration in future
models to this Important minori
ty. Some carmakers have done
this in offering stick-ahift models
In this day of buttons. We hope
they will always offer the option
of a steering wheel, even though
the future produces a computer-
driven vehlde.
Christian Science Monitor
CALENDAR ART
. The calendar? a humble If use-
fiH device for measuring the
passage of time, is undergoing a
transition. There are many fsn-
Inlne Redlywood stars who got
their beginning by displayin*'
their charms on calendars. Cal
endar art has always been at its
stpidest in barber shops and ga
rages, fbr there the calendar has
Rourlahed uninhibited. But ac-
ooi^lnt to one reemt report, cal
endars are hegfamlng to become
About three-fourths of all vot
ers tend to class themselves as In
the middle of the ideological
spectrum, but the letter writers
are clustered mainly in the con
servative end. Last September,
(1964) Goldwater-inclined writers
outstripped the Johnson camp
by writing 40 percent more let
ters. The study concluded that
among ultra-conservatives “what
had been lacking around the
country in bodies was made up
for in dedication.’’
The Federalist
quite superior artistically *o the
familiar girlie calendars of 20
years ago.
The National Geographical So
ciety says that this year 400 mil
lion calendars will be distributed.
Banks and other financial insti
tutions, who wouldn’t dare dis
tribute a girlie calendar lest it
Impugn their integrity, have a
great deal to do with setting the
trend.
But of all the calendars that
■are distributed, the best-knowr
and probably the best-loved are
the old, familiaj* Currier and Ives
reproductions that are distributed
by the thousands every year by
the 'Travelers Insurance Com
panies. Some of these have be
come collector’s items,- and some
have been used purely for decor
ative purpose's. One thing is cer
tain: -"No calendar approaches
this one in its ability to evoke
nostalgia.
-Hartford Coxirant
YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
Items of
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area
events taken from
fUes/^of the Kings
Herald.
Obottf King
people am
the 19S
Mountais
Charles Alexander, Elmer Lum
ber Company employee, is likely
to be appointed a permaneni
postmaster in Kings Mountain
In the near future.
The City of Kings Mountain
was presented a certificate of
merit Friday for outsiandirig ac
oomplishments in traffic safety
by the North Carolina State Au
tomobile Association.
Paul Walker of Myers Depart
ment Store has been elected
oresldent of the Kings Mountain
Merchants Association foi- i956-
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
CJontrmct Bridge dub members
met Tuesday afternoon at the!
home of M». W. S. FuKen, Jr.
SWISS LADIES'
MOVEMENT
Women in Upper Volta and
Burundi have been, granted the
right to v'ote.,But in democratic,
wealthy Switzerland the men
still regard woman suffrage as
a dangerous “foreign import’’ —
and they have repeatedly refused
to allow it.
Tradition-minded SiViss men
have, in fact, voted “No” 23
times since 1919 against politica
enfranchisement for the ladies
That was about the time the'
won it in America. And now ibotl.
political parties here regard th'
potential power of women at the
polls with awe.
Even some .Swiss women dc
not like the idea. But the wall
■nay be crumbling. Suffragettes
and their supporters have woi
the privilege of women voting or
local issues in three of the cour
try’s 22 cantons. A prediction has
been made that by 1970 all Swis
women will have full votin-
rights. What is good enough fo
Burundi may soon be g o o r
enough for the Alpine heart o'
Europe.
The Boston Glob(
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NEW YORK
By NORTH CALLAHAN I
From blackout to walk-out, n
the words of mdffern slang, thil
city has had it. Its 44year-olJ
mayor, Jolm Lindsay has aged
his bitter trial b/ fire during hil
first days in office. Although ijT
the opinion of most people, bj
has come through the traffic crl
sis tj^ther well, a few more suci
strikes and he would doubtlesJ
join union loaders in the hospital
A cynical New Yorker remarked
that the new mayor promised td
get the city moving again—and
he did—on foot. He found a waj
to stop crime on the subways
no subways were running And
in a restaurant at the end of thJ
strike, I saw a sign which readf
“Special today, Quill cocktail
Manhattan on the rocks!” -
A young mother was trying to
use persuasive logic to break hei]
young son of thui.Tib-sucking. She
asked him if hi.s thumb tastec
good. Then she wondered out|
loud if the thumb was good to
chew on. Again he replied in thel
negative. So she climaxed hcrl
questions by asking what wasl
good about sucking his thumb.f
He though for a moment. “Well,”|
he said, “it’s non-fattening,”
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Theodore Roosevelt was a|
brave man and at times an advo
cate of war to protect this coun
try, but when his son, Quentin,
was killed in World War I, the]
former President was greatly
saddened and never again urged]
such combat. I happened to be
sitting beside a veteran of that
war, Augustus Smith, who served |
with the young Roosevelt at
Y’pres in 1918. “He was a nice I
young .man,” Smith commented.
“And when his plape'was lost, it
was my sad duty to notify his |
father of the death of his son.”
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A street in Prestonburg, Ken
tucky has been named after a
former governor of the state,
Bert Combs. But a- new street
sign appeared on .it as “BertI
Comb Drive”. Commenting on
the incident, Mr. Combs said, |
“Tve been misquoted, misled,
misjudged and misused. I .might |
as well be misspelled too.”
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Dag Hammarskjold never had I
a home in the ordinary sense of j
the word, says an old friend,]
Sven Stolpe, in a -nevv book pub
lished by Scribners. Although he I
was very successful, -all his life]
he remained a restless man, ac
cording to the author. It was as I
If for all his intelligence, loyalty
and comradeship, he was living |
somehow alongside life.” Per
haps so. But Hammarskjold left |
i rich legacy of unasha.ned be
lief in God in a world where all I
;oo many skeptics dOught His |
oresence. Ii’onically, with the
oassing o fthe prime minister of |
that country, there is a book in.
he Dag Hammarskjold Library
vt the United Nations, containing I
1,896 pages and entitled, “India
It a cilance.”
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According to t h e. Peacock
’ress, Adlai Stevenson when
tovernor of Illinois, w.as a lover |
if cats. In 1949 when a bill to
lunish cats and fine their own-
irs came to his desk, he vetoed
t using the following words:
‘The problem of cat versus bird I
3 as old as tinae. If we attempt-
to resolve it by legislation, who
tnows what we may be called
ipon to take sides as well in the
ge-old problem of dog versus j
'at, bird versus bird or even
lird versus worm. In my opinion,
he State of Illinois and its lo-
^al governing, bodies already
lave enough to do without try-
ng to control feline delinquen
cy.”
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