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^2 KINSS MOUNTAIN HERALD, iKINeS MOUNTAIN, N. & / Established . V. -North Carolina j MESS ASSOCUTX A wBcffioWwspinwr^i^oted io the protsidon of the^neral welfare and published for tne enlightenrnci.t,''£:"^ertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and ft* vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald PubUsRiYlg fi^se. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain; N. C., 280S6 under Act of Congress of March 3,1873. V EblTOWAt DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher, Gary Stewart ' Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Jerry Hope MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dave Weathers Allen Myers Paul Jackson / Steve Ramsey SUBSCRIPTIONS RATES PAYABLE IN ADV.4NCE ONE YEAR .. $3:50 SIX MOjjfTHS ,. $2.00 BY MAIL ANYWHERE THREE MONTHS .. $1.25 PLUS north’CARLIN A S.4LES TAX MARTIN’S MEDICINE Ingredients: bite of netoa wisdom, humor, and comments Directions: Take 'weekly, ij nossiVle, but avoid TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Put away from thee a froward moiitHj and p&'verse lips put far from thee. Proverbs Cities Need Help. But... ^ Some years ago, Frank ^ DanielSj member of a 'faX study commission're writing the state’s revenue act, waS be ing ^belabored for being party to recom mendations’ that cities be allow'ed - to charge an income tax on cornmuters working in the cities and to permit cities to charge up to §10 for an aufo license Publisher Daniels, after noting that a 15-member body never reports minus give-and-take then defended by declar ing that effort was being made to aid the cities. “Every major city in North Carolina is broke except one and it would be if it provided the services it should.” The right-to-work tax, as this news paper labeled the proposal, and the $10 auto tag fee proposal were defeated. The hue-and-cry for financial re lief to the cities (counties are crying too) continues today, with wealthy, fast-growing Charlotte a leader in the movement, quite obviously with good reason as demand for services out-strip growing, but insufficient, revenues. W. J. Smith,' First Union National Bank’s senior vice-president, on behalf of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, appeared before the state*? tax study commission last weefiT with three sug gestions whereby the cities could obtain relief: ^ 1) Impose an additional one percent sales tax, rebatable to the cities and counties sending the money to the reve nue ! department. 2) Impose a tobacco tax,.jsiinilarljf rebatable. 3) Permit cities to charge up to $10 for auto license tags. Cities and counties surrounding to Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Durham, Raleigh and other of the larger cities, which by very nature zwe mer cantile meccas, should be adamant against proposal Number 1 on the sales tax imposition with rebate to source of payment. Were it not for the sales tax dollars deposited in Charlotte, for most major example, by citizens of many counties and cities in bothii North and South Carolina, Charlotte’s monthly payments of North Carolina sales tax would plum met. Awfully rebatable sales tax imposi tion would not be rebated to the real source. North Carolina is one of two states (the other is Oregon) which does not impose a tax on tobacco, but North Carolina is the leader in manufacture of tobacco products, as well as a leading grower, of this product?much-maligned by both taxing legislatures and health purveyors. In both the tobacco tax suggestion and the $10 aiuto tag proposal, the rev enues would be more nearly paid direct ly by the potential beneficiaries. Auto Inspection By MARTIN HARMON Death claimed la«t week Mrs. Katherine Ca-ssels Provence Falls Frazier, who in the past 16 years has signed her name Katie Falls Frazier, and whom I knew from childhood as Aunt Katie follow ing her second marriage to my late great uncle^ m-m Back in June 1957, Aunt Katie wrote; ‘‘Dear -Martin Luther; I am sending .vou a few items a- bout myself so when the end COITW3 you will have these facts. I did appreciate the splendid ar ticle that you wrote about Dr. Falls, a grand person. I hope to see you and your family some time. With all good wishes, fond ly, Aunt KalP-” m-m The notes about Aunt Kate had been in a cubbyhole of the desk since. m-m She w'as a woman of .verve, vi vacity and intellect, and, per haps most important, of irre pressible spirit. Her notes got her 'born at the an<?estral homo of her grandparents but the year, I suspect intentionally, was omit As of Wednesday, mechanical auto inspection in North Cai'olina became mandatory. ‘ , A commentator saidMhis week, “I i t^-indeed, her niea, M^. Bewth t^uess I’m a prophet of doom, but thej smd Aunt Katie told aucaa x « ~ ^ ’ ^ ^ age about a ye.ar-ago, but inspection _i^siness^ will ^st on y u ,;tiErrfigU"h~ was safficjeitfiy^ shbclr-~" the next General Assembly convenes, remember Remembering the debacle of some exactly whether she was 88 or 89. years ago, this newspaper is inclined to agree. Long waits for inspections, paucity of inspection stations (then state oper ation), and concurrent delay in getting re-inspection resulted in a quick demise of that effort to cut highway accident and death tolls via check of the vehicle. "We'vtf come out of wars before." m-m My last indirect contact with her occurred some 18 months a- go in Raleigh, where a civil de fense convention was in progress and I became acquainted with the civil defense directar for Ire dell County. Did he know Aunt Katie? " m-m “Why I was talking to her on the telephone yesterday,” he re plied. The gentleman was plan ning to open a .home for the el derly some three to four miles out of Statesville, where Aunt Katie maintained a large Victor ian home at 506 Walnut street, r She W'as projecting closing her . , , ^ ^ , on TVT -.1. h-ine and moving to the new As of last September 30, North home and, app.aren-tly, lik- Carolina was gaining ground on deaths ed the report on appointments, by motor vehicle accident by exactly I cost, and other details. Then, Most folk who have operated ma chines agree that machinery, if proper ly treated, will do the job. Highway safety officials, including just last week chief of the Oklahoma motor vehicles dep^'tment, know that human error is the^hief contributor to motor vehicle mayhem. ///ccaJvn/' W . i-s- rr— =i-—— Viewpoints of Qther Editors FERVOR — SI. FROTH — NO Books Open Sc^rdoy City registmlon boo^iTopen Satur day fol" a three-week pieriod in contem plation of the forthcoming city bond election issue whereby the voters de cide: .1 1) Whether the city shall be em powered to issue $1.3 million in bonds to modernize and expand its sewage ueat- ment plant, and 2) Whether the city shall meet its overdue contractual obligations with the State Stream Sanitjation committee to modernize and expand its sewage treatment system. ' ’ There’s never been a piece of sew age pipe, or sewage treatment plant, which won a beauty contest. No glamour there. Yet sewage treatment, along with -Water supply ftnd service, police and fire protection, and when' public utilities couldn’t supply utHities such as Dower, gAs and phone service, are fh’e lol^rea- sbns for any corporate entity kn^h as a municipality to exist * • Anyone who would predict a record vote total — pro or con result of no mat ter would be foolhardy. Yet the total and the result is much mpre important than the city’s usually I'erord^ifipeakiiig'" biennial' struggles for at City Rail. *.registration books, open for thbee weeks effective Saturday, should l^act aljl unregistered Citizens". “ For newcomers, the test Is North residence of one year; precinct of thPee months. ': , ' ‘ --1* -y I . . noting she no longer operated a car and could not frequently be goia^ into the city, she inquired, “Ate you going to have a beauty parlor?” m-m On yet another occasion, she had called to relate the sudden and early-age de^th of Don Shields, husband of Elizabeth Wimbish, the niece Aunt Katie had reared. After I gleaned the details, I asked, “Aunt Katie, how are you getting along?" Her irrepressible reply; “Martin, the old gray mare ain’t what she used to te, but you got to keep your chin up!” m-m Aunt Katie was quite health conscious and for good reasons: Her mother had died when she was two years old. and her first husband died in 1909 after a long bout with tuberculosis which took them to New .Mexico and open air living in the desert. Of her two children born her arid Dr. Falls, one died as a childjaadl the other did not live at birth. It’s not surprising therefore that she was a devotee of the late Ber- narr McFadden, health enthusi ast, nor that she enrolled in his spa. m-m She taught school in New Alex- The Coker operation, stemming j ico, and both Carolinas, includ- from a generation or three of bio-chem- ing the now-department school ists and other scientists, reported re-1 on what is now Phenix street and cently that King Cotton perhaps has an ^" then the Town of heir in the South in the person Of Coker Kings Mountain. Among her 413, a new strain of cotton seed that will produce cotton of high tensile strength (90,()()0-plus pounds per square inch) and up to 1 5/16 length of staple. 100. As of December 31, the Grim Reap er was equally ahead. That is the reason the 1965 General Assembly, attempting to avoid the pit- falls of the' late forties, passed yet another^^ motor vehicle inspection law. Few legislators had faith in the law’s success. Less had faith in its con tinuance. The citizens second the motions. But with 49,000 highway accident deaths, compounded by maiming and hospitalization of many, many more, the General Assembly and the citizens will ^give the new inspection law a trial. All hope, with jaundiced eye and questioning brow, that this groping in the dark will prove a bit of an answer to driver error. King Cotton Again Venerable citizens of North Caro lina, more particularly those of old friendly rivals Robeson and Cleveland counties, must have felt a minor dose of Ponce de Leon’s fountain of youth with the recent news report of Coker 13. Most important, of course, is that this strain has been grown in nearby York County quite successfully. Also most important is that this new-strain cotton meets the test of high speed ma chinery. Once upon a time, when cotton was King, it was an annual race between '"'Cleveland County and Robeson County for the honor of producing most cotton per annum in North Carolina. As it evolved, the honors proved empty when irriga,t(Bd, flat, dry, good-for-cotton sec tions of Caiiforaia and Arizona proved to be champions"in cotton growing, both in cost and ease. South Carolina’s General Assembly, on report of results, considered making niandatbfy tHeTgrdMng dnTy of Cdkier 413, ^ich may have been more practi- cal oT paternal than otherwise. Nor is there enough seed, yet. • f ,tv l^ut it is not to early to guess that a new deal tnay be the order of the day in the riottoh business. If cotton is nostalgia in Cleveland, Robeson and Nortfa^^rolitta — for the Southeast — perhaps the Coker operk'tloft in cObperatibn \Vith the re searchers at Cletnson University — will have* regained for the South a certain prc-en^ehed !t ertjoy^ both before and’ after th^'Wjir'Between the'Stafesi young pupils was Arnold Kiser, Arnold recalls that Aunt Kate invariably wore stylist shoes, wdth heels somewhat higher than most lady school teachers. One day Aunt Katie caught a heel on a step and off came the heel; Arnold laughed, which he recalls was a correct laugh but definite ly at the wrong time. “She fail ed me good,” Arnold remembers, m-m I first heard the tale in the forties, picked it up again from Pete Avery, a 'UNC friend now a Statesville lawyer in 1961 the day President Kennedy sooke at Chapel Hill. Bill WilUams it in “Well TTiere’s Life” in Sunday’s Gastonia Gazette: m-m I once wrote a story about Mrs. George Frazier, a fine, capa ble woman who had three very successful marriages. She always bragged that she married Dr. Province of Ruther ford College (the first marriage) fyr love, and -got^.: Her second marriage was to Dr. O. S. Falls of Kings Moun tain, for money; she got it. He was a millibhnaire. Her third marriage was to a lawyer, GeoTge Frazier of Statesi- ville, “for nothing,” she said, "and I got H.” Her remarks were made in lest, of course,' for all three of her marriages were filled with Has the froth gone, but the fervor re.mains'? We are speak ing about American youth and its attitude toward the great so cial and moral problems with which the United States is grap pling, A year ago at this time college campuses were* in white-hot fer ment. Beards, blue jeans, and Baez were the rage. * Slowly America has awoken to the fact that this year things are quite otherwise. Surveys from campuses across the country in dicate that last year’s attitudes (at least the more publicized ones) are no longer either typt' cal or widespread. A survey conducted at the Uni versity of Wisconsin belies, the dean of students says, the pic ture of students as “volatile, an gry,. unhappy creatimes.” An ar ticle in The New York Times magazine speaks of remake-the- world campus orators drowning “in their own -unheard exhorta tions." In Boston a college dean from the Middle West and anoth er from a New England college match notes and find that this yeai^ freshman class is conspicu ously different from its immedi ate predecessors, being neatly clad, shod, and shaven. Has a reaction set in, and, if BO, how stronig is it and how far has it gone? Perhaps the best, and hopefullest answer comes frtnn a journalist who has just toured a number of college caimp- fuses to weight attitudes and out look. He found, above all among students with a strong religious ouUook, an even deeper commit ment to constructive social work. iBut he also found a dispositiem to carry on this work quietly, mod estly, and with little interest in fanfare or publicity. We welcome this assessment. We should find it a sad national loss were the volcahic energy of youth either capped or turned solely into selfish channels. Youth is a time of immense and idealistic enthusiasm. America and the world will be much the richer for the new and fresh out look which young men and wom en-bring to problems which to their elders often see old, fam iliar and persistent. Perhaps last year’s effervescence was unavoid able. But we are happy to hear that it has turned into this year’s more realistic committment. The Christian Science Monitor I , ing loVe that a m'”i ye*rns for. She gave these and more. Th's week. Mrs. George Fraz ier died In Statesville, She was (burled yestetrday. Many people in this area re- ntenoiber ber-abd mourn her loss. Amen, BUL Items of Mountain TEARS AGO THIS WEEK neuw area events taken from tUee of the Kings NetMtZd. , about King people am the m Mountain A record attendance is being predicted by officials of the Kings Mountain Merdiants Asso- ctation for Monday night’s an nual employee • employer ban quet A near capacity, crowd of ap proximately 150 Boy Scouts, their fathers and friends flocked to Kings Mountain Woman’s clqb. Monday night for the an nual Spout-Father banquet. BOOtJTb JtmrVERSOJTAL Mrs. W , L. Mauney entertain ed members of the Ace of Clubs at her home last Thursday after noon! The Central P-TA will hold a Pouftaer'a Day proigram Wednes day at 3:30 p.m. in the school audkoilunv . I PRAVDA'S LEAP A igreat truth has dawned on Pravda—clothes interest women. For the first time, that relentless newspaper published a woman’s fashion story! And eight pictures of clothes. It must have -been a triumphant moment for the Rus sians. Their revolution will soon be 50 years old and so far, ap parently, their clothes have been beneath discussion. They mu.9t obviously have been wearing something since 1917, but they didn’t care to talk about it. Not much anyway. And when they did they spoke slightingly, on the whole, about the things they were being ask ed to wear. The more so because the notion seem.s to have been gaming ground that a Soviet citi zen has a duty to look smart or even (in the opinion of N. Lvoy, writing last year in “Soviet Mol davia”) beautiful. “The outward appearance of the builder of communism must correspond to his inner beauty and-essence. Let our tailofs and shoemakers keep that in mind.” Mr. Lvoy had been badly disappointed in the work of ’Soroka Clothing PaetbTy No. 4, the Ungen Consumer Serv ice Combine, and a shoe factory called Benderi No. 3. Krokodil joined in with a pointed inquiry as to why a pro vincial clothing store—the Bel gorod Gorpromtorg—had order ed 110,000 rubies worth of black plush jackets. Nobody in their senses^ said Krokodil reasonably enough, would wear a black plush jacket. There is no , ac counting for taste, though, in Russia o r anywhere else. Last wear, aparently; Russian men took to wearing mauve evening suits. • The Guardian fManchester) ON i^ROVING WELFARE To hear some people telp it, practically any public welfare problem can be solved merely by pouring in more government money. That theory, howeveh, got a sharp jolt in New’York City the other day. 'TTie occasion was a hearing called by State Senator William Thompson, chairman of a Joint Legislative Committee on Child Care Needs. With some 300 wel fare agency representatives in attendance, the committee hoped to elicit recommendations for improving child welfare work. Committee members got sug gestions all right. But instead of asking for more local, state or Federal funds, as welfare agen cies might have l)een expected tc do, the agencies requested such things as a single state agency to be responsible for coordinating and planning child welfare work a central registry oLall aigencles that work with children and a central reporting system for all agency contacts with courts and police. -- - The Idea obviously is to reduce the confusion and overlapping effort that lead to waste .in pres ent- programs, a situation that is iMtrdly Mmlted to New Yorfc ^ Chairman ’Thompson co.-r then ted l»i some surprise, “Nobody want? to build anything new; they want better use of what we’ve got.” A sensible notion, indeed, well calculated to improve children’s welfare. If widely adopted, it could do a lot for the taxpayers’ welfare too. The Wall Street Journal VEST-|bCKET PARKS Fortunate is the big modern city that has reserved a bit of green park space in its most built-up area. Downtown parks come high if they are not hand ed down by farsighted city fathers, as was Boston’sr Com mon. '1 Proliibitively high? Not for New York City. In the intensive ly used center of Manhattan, two j new ‘ vest - pocket parks” are I now assured. One is the millioh- I dollar gift pf a philanthropist I who bought the former Stork Club property — 42 by 100 feet — when it was left vacant. The other is made possible by the cooperation of a bridge authori ty (which permits' Use of its land) and a landmarks preser vation society. to the father of William S. Pa- ley of Columbia Broadcasting ■Company, is just off the Fifth Avenue shopping district. Its small locust grove and vral^rT fall will provide a resting spot VIVE equality One by one they tumble, the traditional legal-Yestrietions up on women which have denied them their rights in home and 'business. The most recent example is the removal of a whole^ set of, legal injustices impos^cl upon French Jhursd^y. February 17, 1966 SO THIS IS NEW YORK By NORTH CALLAHAN Older people arp not the only ones concerned— with our pro blems of education and progress. There appears to be an increas ing -number of younger persons, jespecially educators, who are wondering what the answers are to growing dclinquency.’T) have just talked to a student teacher in New York City and the follow ing is the account; —3— “My expeVlence at P.S. . .in Manhattan was both an unusual and enlightening one. Although I have taken numerous education coui'ses. . .1 was n6t in the slight est prepared for what I encoun tered. My fifth grade class was made up of approximately twenty-six children (I say approximately 26 ''cecause pupils transferred in and out of both the class and the school weekly.) Of the original twenty-six, one was white, five Negro and tw'enty Puerto Rican. The entire problem of educat ing and disciplining these chil dren in my opinion stems from .the fact that they are lacking the experiences in life before kindergarten that so-called “nor mal” children have. Due . to the language barrier and perhaps hack of funds, or simply the un- . oaring attitude of the parents, these ehildven rarely leave the slum neighborhood in which they are born. Another factor which contribu ted to the lack of discipline was this particular teacher. He was an educated man and an experi enced teacher but allowed the students to literally “get away with murder”. . .The children w’ould get up and walk around the room without permission to sharpen a pencil, get a drink or merely talk to a friend and were rarely if ever reprimanded. They brought in-dolls and toys which • they played with whenever they want^ to. ■When ho-re work was assign ed, It was hardly ever done. It was neve r gone over -or collect ed and so those who did do it eventually lost interest and didn’t-. bother with future assignments. There were many instances of physical violence which had to bebroken up by the teacher. The children spit on the floor, called out of turn, cursed frequently and stole from the school, the teacher and one another. Anoth er tremendous problem was that Both park.s are to be equip ped for practical u.se and are not' of lyin-T. On one occasion when lo bo mere beauty .spots. The | the teacher was fcsent and a Samuel Paley Plaza, a memorial substitute took over, a child grabbefd his coat'ran out the door and did not return. . Absences were frequdht and varied excuses were given. Many times when The .children were roaming the streets during school for the city dweller as' well as! hours, the parents did not even for any bird that braves down-; know that the children were not town New York. in school. I received many notes ] asking the teacher to excuse the New York’s example is an ex cellent one. So is Chicago’s. In that city, owners of skyscrapers in the Michigan Avenue bridge area have recently completed two landscaped plazas which of fer rest spots to the city-bound. One building sacrificed costly land to do this. We hope other cities will fol low this trend. The newly coined word “parklet” should find a place in the nation’s vocabulary. Christian Science Monitor. wives in the Code Napoleon of 1804. This “second Waterloo” was long overdue. New legislation in France, ef fective Feb. 1, -makes “la pa- tronne,” tha woman- who runs her own business, owner in fact as well as i-n name. It assures her many other legal rights: She can get a job without Mon sieur’s consent, can spend her earnings as she pleases, and s» on. The Christian Science Mmitor ginning will be in sight.” child because he had to baby-sit for younger siblings or because the parents did not feel v^ell Most of the children came from j broken homes, many never even knowing a father. They are oft en so strictly controlled at home I that the school is the only place | for them to let out their energy. . .As schooling is mandatory un-1 til sixteen years of age in New York State, there is no place toj send them but to the public [ schools. It has been estimated that sev-| enty per cent of a teacher’s time I is spent in disciplining the chil-| r(ren, 'and in many of the New I York public schools, I feel that| this a fair estimate. In conclusion I would say that I this is a proijlem which will not! be solved in the forseeable fu-j ture, but perhaps at some later I date through the further educa-l tion of parents and teachers, ^dj through programs like Operation! Headstart, an end and a new be-r KEEPTOOBBUlIODULSETin 1220 WKMT " ' i . 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