KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C,
Thursday, March 3, 1966
Thursd
EstabUshed 1889
The Kings Moimtain Heiald
'NarUi Cardins i
■ lAISOCIATK
A «iHBCk!y newapappr devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for tne enllghteninei.t, ^niertainmeat and benefit of the citi2ens 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, N. C., 280S6
under Act of Congress of March 3,1873.
EOlTOfilAL DEPARTMENT y
Martin Harmon ’ Editor-Publisher
Gary Stewart .* Sports Editor
Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
fFor the kingdom is the Lord’s: and he is the governor among the nations.
Psalm 22':2S.
The Low Requires
Two Sets Of Books
A Kings Mountain insurance agent,
somewhat harried by inquiries of poli
cyholders and sympathetic with them,
yet powerless to help after the mule is
out of the barn, galled attention this
; week to a new la’wf passed by the^l965
General Assembly ifequiring continuous
liability insurance coverage.
The teeth: A driver must deliver his
license plate to the Motor Vehicles De
partment before his insurance termi
nates. If he doesn’t, he automatically
loses hiis driver’s license for 30 days.
The insurance agent’s comment is
that the new law has received minor
publicity and that many are unwitting
ly finding themselves driverless for 30
days.
, The following is provided from the
folder of the Department of Motoh Ve
hicles:
“If you stop operating a vehicle and
want to cancel your automobile liability
insurance, turn in the plate before the
termination date of your insurance. Lat
er, when you want to begin operating
that vehicle, you may obtain another
plate, free of charge, providing, of
course, you have renewed your insur
ance coverage.
“First, you will receive from • this
Department a Form FS-5 asking you to
tell the Department the name of your
new insurance company. (The form to
use is attached to the FS-5 you receiv
ed — Form FR-3.) Your new insurance
must pick up where your old pr^ious
insurance ended. If itdoesn’t, your in
surance has not been continuous.
“If your insurance has not been
continuous, to avoid loss of your driv
er’s license you must surrender your
plate^ within 15 days of the date of the
FS-5 nbtice^we mailed you. You can’t
get this plate back but when insurance
is again in effect, you can immediately
purchase a new plate.
“If your insurance has not been con
tinuous and if you ignore our notices,
the law says the Department of Motor
Vehicles shall revoke your plate and
driver’s IJpense for 30 days. No one in
North Carolina has authority to waive
this penalty—not even the Governor.
This editorial does not concern tax
dodgers nor company crooks, but the
matter of election business in the Great
State of North Carolina.
Crookedness is not involved, though
would-be voters sometimes thing it.
The would-be’s are those who
“know’’ they are registered to vote, yet
who find themselves not on election
day.
Basically there are two sets of reg
istration books: 1) municipal and 2)
county. Sometimes there are three sets,
if a school district’s bounds vary from
a city’s.
Today’s point concerns query of” a
comparatively new citizen here on date
he can register for county officers, state
district officers, U. S. Congressman, U.
S. Senators, Vice-President and Presi
dent. The answer happens to be “come
April 30 through May 14’’.
The ■Tnquiring customer also hap
pened to be eligible to participate in the
March 15 special city bond election
which concerns the sewage system.
To be eligible to yote yea or nay on
that question, whether the city is au
thorized to borrow up to $1.3 million to
expand and modernize its sewage dis
posal system—and thereby meet a year-
overdue contractual obligation — he
must register not later than Saturday.
It happens every election, as any
ward or precinct election official will
be quick to confirm, that some citizens
are unable to vote because they register
ed last year—but not this year.
^ County, district, and state elections
are on biennfal basis, unless the elec
tion is, a special one such as the city’s
of March 15, and vice versa. The regu
lar city election is in the subsequent
year.
There are two sets of books, city
and county.
To register and vote in the March
15 city election, and find no need of reg
istering, a citizen would have voted, or
been eligible in last spring’s election for
mayor and city commissioners. ,
To be eligible to vote on March 15,
a citizen must register not later than
Saturday at sunset. .
“Where can you turn in your li
cense plate? A motorist can mail his
plate to the Department of Motor We-
hicles, turn it in at one of the offices
selling auto licenses, or to any of the
highway patrolmen or automobile in
spector.’*^
New Political Leaders
Several Kings Mountain citizens
have been honored recently by election
:to top offices in the field of politics.
1) Ekhvard H. Smith, new Cleveland
)unty Republican chairman.
2) Mrs. F. A. McDaniel, Jr., new
irman of Women Democrats of
iveland County.
3) William White, new chairman of
(veland County Young Democrats.
Additionally, Bob Maner was re-
secretary and Bill Babb elected
6r of the county Republican or-
ition.
^Wlth all this top echelon grouj^ —
• ffr to party — residing in Number
*»lp, it might be anticipated that
general election will ftnd the
major battleground, as, indeed,
thre Democrats and Republi-
■ It,
Thot Bad Crossing
EUtfkient to recall, of course^,
warriors are friendly and
le poHtieal enemiea dn ba-
performance.
MARTIN’S
MEDICINE
Ingredients; bits of netn
wisdom, humor, and comments
Directions: Taka weekly, ii
possible, but avoid
The Chiselers Get the Paddle
SO THIS IS
KEW YOBK
By MARTIN HARMON ^
Zeb Plonk, the Kings .Mountain
native now of Wellesley, Mass.,
veteran executive with Liberty-
Mutual Insurance Company, re
marked a few„years ap that, if
he had opportunity to live his life
over again, lie would follow ex
actly the sa.T.o course he had fol
lowed.
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By NORTH CALLAHAN
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I hadn’t heard anyone else
make that statement and queri
ed, ‘‘You mean. Zeb. you’d repeat
that busted knee you got playing
football at Slate College?” Zeb
grinned as he replied, “Yes, I sup
pose that, too.”
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I surmised Ze'o was saying by
indirection a person must have a
tew bad days lo accompany the
good—or else he wouldn’t appre
ciate the good days
, -- m-m
Dr. W. L. Pressly, my forrner
pastor, phrased it this way: Ad
versity doesn’t build character,
but adversity proves character.-
That's a long way ’round to re
porting that, as of Wednesday
from the standpoint of Herald
tenui-e, I am old enough to vote,
as Wednesday marked my 21st
anniversary in this chore.
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I can’t make quite as strong a
statement as did Zeb, as I can
think of a few changes I would
attempt to make, though for the
most part I too would repeat
most of the course. I like to think
that the mistakes over the years
stemmed from immatui'lty or
misunderstanding and were of
the .mind rather than the heart.
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Like most folk I would concen
trate more heavily on bock-leam-
ing, particularly in the direction
of greater curriculum breadth.
One of my college roommates
was majoring in geology. He was
a most pleasant fellow, but I was
pretty sure a fellow messing with
rocks must , be a little off his
rocker. Then I found myself in
the center of the Lincoln-Gaffney
mineral belt, where lithiu.r., mica
and limestone abound.
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Whether one I’ikcs Arthur God
frey or not, there is no doubt a-
hout his being succes.sful. He be
lieves that he'has had help in a
special way along his upward
climb. Once when ho was driv
ing along a narrow Washington
street, a truck hit him head-on
and he ended up in the hospital
unconscious for a week. Then as
he slowly recovered, he listened
to the radio and often heard an
nouncers virtually shouting their
messages to the. audience and
talking as if the people were not
near but “way out there in radio
land.” Godfrey decided that this
was qot so good So he later de
veloped the soft and intimate ap
proach so that he sounds e® if
he is speaking just to the indi
vidual listener. This misfortune,
like other similar cases, turned
out to be a kind of blessing after
all.
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Viewpoints of Other Editors
SIGHTED SENSIBILITY.
SANK SAME
AIR SAFETY
In one of the great intelligence
coups of the Cold War, the Sejtti-
nel has intercepted the follow
ing disjmtch from the chief So-
vieit soy in North Carolina, Com
rade Shmirkov, to '-
the Kremlin:
Roy L. Brickey has a suburban
service station and his customers
have found that he is a man of
several talents. -The other day
one oame in with* a seUof new li
cense plates andj^^plastic covers
for them, carrying a printed set
bf directions for attaching the
covers. “These Instructions are
about as clear as thick mud,”
grumbled the customer. Roy si
lently reached out and took them,
then read them quickly and pick
ed up the plates and covers. Deft
ly he put them properly together
and then handed them to an as
sistant to be attached to the car.
The cusomer was wide-eyed and
asked how in the world this was
.understood and done so quickly.
Are potatoes playing a role in i “Well, you see my kids often
SPUDS
B ar have followed disconcerting
standard patterns. A vulture
bke the rotor of a helicopter
; in Pakistan and 23 people died in
his chief in ! the crash: that followed; birds
! are a. . .menace to aircraft and
elaborate methods are used to
Dear Comrade Commissar; | clear them fro.m airfields, hut
Everything is going our way in' : how does one clear them from
North Carotina The University at the heoghLs
is jumping. The students and pro-'^hich helicopters fly? This is
fessors are mad at the Governor
Two of the several. . .air crash ^ ^ j—e, - - i
s since the beginning of this ! the Sihification of Albania? Do corne to me with instructions for
i.-.ay’t'ir.or.' r-.ntQ+rt.io pi,oil.. ..io their .tovs. hc replied. * So I ve
a setback, not only for the use
and trustees. The Governor and ' “^helicopters for intercity corn-
trustees are mad at the students | “on in regions where sur-
and professors. The urff^ersity transport is poor.
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I made the mistake ot disdain
ing my late journalism profes
sor’s advice to get an acquaint
anceship with the textile indus
try and know- now an apprentice
ship at leaist in textiles would
have been tnpst valuable in this
textiles-heavy area of the Pied
mont Carolinas.
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I would also have 1) attempted
to get running a derelict T-Model
Ford or “stripdown” as the me
chanically interested boys did,
and would have followed up with
a course in mechanical drawing.
Navy ordnance would have prov
ed much easier but n^st import
ant would have been more knowl
edge about machinery generally,
as the printing industry employs
many complicated machines.
administration is prostrate with equally worrying was the
chagrin. The newspapers are -r-, disappearance of a rear-engined
well, you know the capitalist; Boeing 727 in Tokyo Bay with
press. .3 j the biggest a'ir death toll on rec-
I wish I could take credit 727 to cra^sh all
this happy state of affairs or at|“^ ^hem on coming in to land,
least say it was the work of our q'he first rear-engined aircraft
local Communists of whom we : of them all, the French Caravelle,
have at least two or three in
North Carolina. But actually it
was brought about by our good
conservative allies, who so often
do the best work for us
i was trouble-free, but the second
I generation of much higher-per-
I form’ance rear-engined jets that
j replaced it have’shown a discon
certing vulnerability to stalling
trouble, i.e., at slow speeds, when
there is no longer sufficient flow
! of air to hold the aircra ft
first, an
It all started with an invitation
from some of the students to
th, schnubk who thinks LittlJ “Bsin M mosi sir.
Red Riding Flood was Lenin’s
craft do—they just fall out of
I the sky hke the. . .prototype One
! Eleven of the British Aircraft
Corporation. When wincLjtunnel
evidence was examined, it show
ed that the One Eleven.had this
tendency', but it was a tendency
that could only be detected in the
Certainly Kings Mountain must
have as dangerous rail crossings as any
city of comparable size — maybe as any
city.
One of the worse is the angled
crossing south of the city which leads
to the Margrace Mill, but this one is
blessed with flashing bell warning sig
nal.
The one with the heaviest accident,
toll is the West Gold street crossing.
A second’s difference in impact, and
this crossing likely would have claimed
yet another life Monday morning.
Each new wreck adds evidence to
need and incentive to provide a new ar
rangement for the Gold street crossing,
an expensive undertaking, in which
would be expected to share much of the
cost, if not all. The planning specialists
recommendation on downtown redevel
opment would eliminate the present
crossing and relocate south — navigat
ing the railroad by bridge or underpass
— whichever proved most feasible en
gineering-wise.
’ But this project is hardly just
around the comer.
Meantime, a 11 motorists should
stop, look and listen not once but thrice
in crossing the railroad at Gold and
more particularly when traveling east-
wardly, as the young trucker was Mon
day morning. He would have escaped
the impact had not a passenger car
ahead been attempting a left turn, he
said.
It makes sense, as a left turn is aid-,
ed, Imt not guaranteed by the traffic
signal arrangement on Battleground
Southbound and northbound traffic on
^ttleground stops with signal light
changes. But westbound traffic from
^Id which turns north often prevents
Gold’s eastbound car or truck from
exiting to the north.
A good rule when traveling east on
Gold and crossing the railroad: Turn
only south (or right).‘It may be a
roundabout way of getting to a north
erly destination, but a much more sure
and safe one.
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We’ve had our share of tough
times, machinery - wise, with
breakdowns of one kind and an
other, most of which are attribu-
taitle to human error or what
Charlie Carpenter, former Her
ald staffer, referred to as lack o*f
first-echelon maintenance.
This invitation spread panic a-
cross the state. The Governor
roared. The trustees trembled.
The university administration,
professors and students pleaded.
The press cried outrage. Then the 1 light of hindsight.
Governor and trustees ruled that
Aptheker could not speak to the
students. Between us, Comrade
Commisiftar, I believe this is the
best b^ak for corhmunism in
years—Aptheker is a bore even
by Moscow standards
potatoes—usually considered a their toys,” he j:'eplied
poor man’s vegetable, at least | had experience.’
when boiled—have some conceal- ^ . ...
ed yet highly significant role as ! Walking along the street with
weapons or agents of cultural in-, Gscar Cargill, eminent profesior
fluence? ' and author, I was surprised when
i he reached into his pocket upon
Few people are bigger potato i being accosted 'by a bum. Quiet-
eaters than the British and the j ly Oscar extract^ a quarter and
Irish. Yet the al.T.ost national ha- handed it to the beggar. I shodk
bit of potatoes as an obligatory my head and asked him why he
vegetable on the dinner plate : did this, when so many of these
owed something to the Ameritfes ; dead-beats approach us here,
in the first place. Potatoes were,: “Oh, I always give the first one
in fact, never indigenous to Eu-! who asks a quarter,” he replied,
rope. They first came from | “It’s a good deed accomplished
South America. But when they . for the day.”
crossed the Ati&ntic for the first —3—
time four centuries ago, the , Rounding the upper tip of
saucepan seems quickly to have ! Manhattan one4he west side, one
boiled away whatever American-! gets a glimpse of the lordly Hud-
nesfs they brought with them. i son River alTOSt- up ' to Tarr>'-
BuF now America is quietly | town where Washington Irving
having its revenge. To a Briton,, wrote his delightful tales. There
potato chips are potato crisps, in his beloved home, ".Sunny-
And what a Briton calls cliips—! side”, which has teen restored to
as in “fish and chips” in Amer- much of its original form, Irv-
ica are French fries. Britons ; ing could sit in is cozy study and
have already yielded tat least in; look out across the grand sweep
their citiesi to hamburgers and |-of the Hudson and pen his stor-
hot dogs. Now the potato, after j ies. He was not married but some
, a four-hundred-year delaj’, is | children missed having a marve-
*'*1^ j boring at British English from lous father; for he wrote with his
anfu, insifje apparent retaliation for ] nieces and nephews so much in
having been initially.so ruthless-1 mind that at times his language
ly Anglicized Believe it or not,
at Stt'en'sham in Worcestershire,
just outside th^J^vely old ai,bey
town of TewKesbury, the new
restaurant on the M-5 highway
serves what the .menu caJlc
“French fried potatoes.
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In course of 21 years, I have
witnessed the state administra
tions of Governors Gregg Cher
ry, Kerr Scott, William Umstead,
Luther Hodges, Terry Sanford
and now Dan Moore.
M^ell, there it Is. The way
things are going in this state%ill
be ju.mping for months. And, by
the way, next month Robert
Welch, the President of the John
What emerged "then was the
disturbing discovery that al
though stalling is as old as avia
tion, there were big gaps in our
knowledge about stalling, and
wind tunnels in use across the
world did not adequately show
this up because the speed and
volume of air going through
them was not designed to. These
gaps in knowledge were not no
ticed while aircraft had their en-
Birch Society, will speak at the j Sines in the normal place. But
University. He’s the peerless lead-1 they are cruciaLto the design of
er who said Eisenhower was a I high performance, rear-engined
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In Kings Mountain, I have
worked with Mayors Joe Thomp-
vjn, Tom Fwon, Jim Herndon,
Sr., CSarland Still, Glee Bridges.
Kelly Dixon, and now John Hen
ry Moss. As has been noted pre
viously, the several governors
and mayors have had different
’deas and promoted varying fav
orite projects. But all have made
important contributions to the
welfare of the state and city.
tool of the Communist conspira
cy. With enemies like Wdlch, who
needs friends?
Submerging again,
Shmirkov
aircraft.
Most British rear-engined air
craft have had stalling trouble,
mercifully detected while still on
test. The Douglas DC 9 has
Winston-Salem Sentinel I hardly been In. service long
enough for any trouble to show
but is it what has downed the
727s in succession? There is pres
sure among scientists in Britain
for a special, $9.8 million wind
tunnel to test this sort of thing.
Someone ought to built it—quick
ly. — The Economist (London).
ON MISCHIEF
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Revealing an uncomplicated
Weltanschauung before the
House Foreign Affairs Commit
tee the other day, Dean Rusk
■ Thade world problems as clear as
night and dajr. Said the secre
We occasionally are on the re
:;eiving end of some brickbats,
but the compliments outnumber.
It’s always pleasing -tp learn an
advertisement has more than
earned it» cost, whether it be 80
cents worth ofclassified or altull
page of display.
tary;
"The world is round. Only one
third of the people of the world
are asleep at any given moment.
The other two-thirds are awake
and probably stirring up mis
chief ecmewhere.”
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But the highest compliment re
mains, “I read your column,” or
"I read your story.”
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My wife is Irjfected too, sayS"
she wa» thrilled to note * man
standing on a street corner Sat
urday reading the King* Moun
tain Herald.
While I would be less than
truthful to claim agreement with
Cousin Zeb Plonk, I would also
^b»-les8 than truthful to d«ny I
{have et^oyed^most hours and
1 Riinu^ of (hej^ast 21 years.
. While we can only guess as to
what the secretary would pro
pose to do about this, his analysis
suggests that if we intend to
catch our enemies napping, we’ll
have to stay awake.
Charlotte Observer
THOVQffTFULNESS
is almost that of a child speak
ing to another.
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Earl Nightingale says that
what every man, weman and
child needs is one very close
friend of his or her own sex. No
But whqt has that to do with j matter how close a man and
the Sinification of Albania? Well, I woman may be in marriage,
at the beginning of this month, j there are things a woman will
a Chinese freighter almost cir-: only discuss with a very close
bring a woman friend. The same is true
cumnavigated Asia to
cargo to the Albanian port of j of men. Every man needs one
Durres. “Five thousand working very close friend. And an hour
people of all circles” turned out or an evening spent with this in
to give it an enthusiastic wol-■ dividual can be of enormous
"ome. The Chinese ambassador ' benefit,
was on hand to join in thp cere-' —3—
monies. The cheers of the crowd : Here and There; one woman
thundered "along the .Adriatic [ said to another, “The thing I
•leashore”—so Pekinig radio re- hate most about parking a car is
ported. ! that awful, sickening crash!”...
What did the ship carry? Jade? Liverpool Cathedral, the world’s
Yak’s, tails? Ivory carvings? ' langest, is being designed by
Pigs’ bristles? Ginger? Or other | Frederick Gibberd, a Methodist,
-simply seed pota-
'pices? No
toes.
The Christian Science Monitor!
while 800 yards away, the Angli
can Cathedral was designed by
Gilbert Scott, a Catholic.
10
YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
ftsms of
Mountain
news
area
events taken from
files of the Kings
Sterald.
about King
people ant
the 195
Mountaii
Kings Mountain Knitting Co.,
Inc. will start operations within
the next week.
George Thorr.asson, -Kings
Mountain lawyer, will-manage
the Kings Mountain area cam
paign of Ralph Gardner, who
seeks the Democratic nomination
for 11th district Congressman.
At the side of the road a wom
an looked helplessly at a flat
tire. A passing motorist stopped
to help her. After the tire was
changed, the woman thanked her
benefactor and cautioned:
“Please let down the jack easy,
My husband is sleeping In
the back seat.”—Armstrong Tra^ Sheeting at the home of Mrs. J
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Mrs. M .A. Ware spoke to mem
bers ,of the Bessemer City
den cluhSlt the club’s
T. Hamrick last we^.
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