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' Page 2 EstobUshed 1889 The Kings Monntaln Herald A, ifcSskiy newsaappr devoted to the promotkm of the general weKate and published for tne eniightenmci.t, entertainment and benefit of the citizeas of Kings Mountain .and its vicinity, published every Thursday 4y the Herald PubUsbing House. Entered as second class‘matter at the pos^ office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 280S6 under Act of Congresa of ^arch 3,1873. EDITOBIAL DEfAiTMKHT . Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Gary Stevyart '. Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager ai^d St^ety Editor Bobby Bolin mechanical defabtment Dave Weathers"^ Paul JacKson < Steve Ramsey SUBSCRIPTIONS RATES PAYABLE Hi ADVAffCB — BY MAIL ANYWHERE'' ONE YEAR .'. $3:50 SK MONTHS CJjOQ THREE' MONTHS .. $1.2o PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAK TELEPHONE NUMBER ~ 739-5441 The Hoppy Result A veteran Kings Mountain political observer, active campaigner in many elections through the ^years, expressed "disbelief as he examined the results of Tuesday’s special election on the ques tion of the city’s borrowing up to $1,- 300,000 for sewage disposal. “You mean only 19 voted against the bonds? That’s impossible in Kings Mountain. No matter what the issue, there’s always more than that against it!” he declared. But the vote total of 458 “for’ only 19 “against” was coiTect. and As there are always many reasons for failure, there are always many rea sons for success. x Among the many: 1) Twenty years of'embarrassment concerning the sad state of sewage dis posal here. 2) Pressure for stream pollution clean-up on both state-wide and nation al basis, with overtones of a state-dic tated force play should the city not at tend its own sewage knitting. 3) Embarrassment on the part of many citizens at the city’s failure to meet last April’s plans-fil^ deadline in its contract with the State Streaift Sani tation committee. 4) Hard worlKand long hours on the part of the Moss-Administration in a) obtaining a year’s moratorium on the contract deadlines, b) planning of an operational timetable for completion of plans, conducting the election, obtain ing of site and easements , and c) pro viding of full and continuing informa tion to citizens concerning both plans and need. 5) Virtually solid support by civic, fraternal, and service organizations. 6) The nauseating odprs emanating from creeks intoAvhich the city’s sewage effluent flows. A seventh factor may a^lso have been involved. Kings Mountain’s sewage treatment A Borgoln '6$ School Guidelines It is an axiom of life that the danc er paying the piper calls the tune. i Thus, with the Great Expression of 1929-33 as the major spur, the federal government took over monetary re sponsibilities in many categories nomi nally the province of the states, and their subsidiaries, thej«.counties and cities. The job was not being done and the bread lines were long. The tune-calling has been an in creasing concern of the payer, too, and the trepd continues. Thus the new guideline^ for ’66 foi^ school districts, colleges and universi ties benefitting from federal largess are tighter than those for the current year ending, in June, when Kings Mountain school district and many others, most particularly in the South, experienced, even when operating in good faith, many forms, of bureaucratic run-around. That is the major danger in gov ernment by administrative fiat. Admin istrators quite easily fall into the human failing of enjoying the role of dictators. As usual the guiddlines are ambigu ous. In one section, the federal'Office of Education declares the guidelines have no intent to interfere with any school board of education in assigning teachers on basis of professional train ing and competence. Another paragraph infers, quite strongly, that lacking evidence of facul ty desegregation, a board pf education may be denied federal sub^ies in the many departments for which Uncle Sam provides. The economic squeeze has" never been a very tidy one, but, oh basis of continuing rulings by the wurts, gov ernment by administrative fiat has been endorsed repeatedly. ' These results may not be pleasant to a few or to many, but these are the facts. jwage . system was condemned dunng the Ful- ton Admini^ation by the l^dte Bpjird of PublicJIealth, perhaps earlier. The predecessor Thomson Adc^istratlon, thK Fulton Administration, apd the Still Admbiistration sought successfully, to obtain funds for a sewage-system clean up. . The first Bridges Administration wqn approval of borrowing auihprlty which resulted in moderniied' sewage disposal serving that portiop of the city on the eastern side of the ridge serv^ by the Catawba River b^in. With water a concurrent problem the Bridges Administration stretched ' t h ^ city’s" bond-financing autho|ity to upwc^ limits to offer a water bond issue (also approved). With this long background of need, with the iniprovement of the city’s fi nancial position via good management and growth, majority of former oppo nents of past efforts voted “yes” Tues day. The Herald believes that Tuesday’s 19 opponents, as the project comes to fmition with its many attendant bene fits, will be glad the winners won. Few of the many, however, would faU to assert ^at the schoi^-portion of today’s tgx bills from district, county and state are insufficient. - We Fcnrw bne-Oi^One k. . * ■ . With filing deadline for office at county and, state district legislative level only a month distant, and with dis- wt rotation agreements thrown into' lintbo 1) by the redistricting in all but a few instances and 2) a Itttle Jcnown law concerning legislative re-districting agreemente imposing a mias/ed deadline, the Herald re-states its priprly printed opinion and the expressed Qpinlons of niunerous political leaders in Cleveland, Rutherford and Polk counties. KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALOv KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Tlyrsday, March 17, 1966 TOUArS BIBLE VEBSE Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, ivh^-eunto thou art also called, and has pro fessed a good profession before many witnesses. / Timothy 6:12. The aggregate opinion Id that the re-districting law gives the three-county 43rd House district three state repre sentatives, therefore making it possible or the election of one member from* each- county. I Inferred, of course, are the “tTs” of marrying opposing Democratic factions, where factionalism is rampant. ’Regardless of one’s personal feel ings about the fedei^ medicare pro- gr^ which becomes operative July 1. only the most rancorous and insensitive would advise an eligible eltizen to for swear the $36 annual cost of buying the extended coverage available. The Kings Mountain hospital sts^ astounded area social security st^ by offering advice concqipihg expended b^llts and furtheiif encotui^lhg pur chase of this bargain extra insurance. ^ The clinics being conducted eaeh Tuesday afternoon at Oto court room have enjoyed increasing numbers of customers. Social, security representatives have two RKire clinics scheduled at City bid tODucatfon l^aalis tguvSe. es The Herald and the political leaders with whom the proposition has been dis cussed agrfee that the desired end is worthwhile, both from the standpoint of the party’s welfare and from the other of charitabiUty on part of the. heavier populated counties to the smaller ones. Best bows to Rick Ggforth. elected' vice-president ot his freta^ty at West ern Carolina college, an<| to Suzanne Amos and Tom kenned, grammar graders adjudged winners df the history medals awarded annually by CqI. Fred- ariek cbAPiezi Paugb^ra of the Aaserhsan ^evoKition. MARTIN’S MEDiCiNg iviadom,hHm Uta 0/ »e«oa and ootnments Direetiom: Taka weekiy, ii possible, but ovokl By’ MARTIN HARMON , Our neighbor, Kelly Wilson, now approaching her fourth birthday, paid a visit recently primaruy to play with our Bos ton terrier, Sir Winston. My wife was starting a -bath and seeing that Kelly was properly enter tained excused herself and con tinued the ablutions. U’ln When she had finished, she found the dog in his tig card board box which is as tall as Kelly. u-n How did Sir Winston get into his bo.x? Kelly replied, “He told me he wanted in and I just thixnv him in.” ■* Then she said^Anne. your dog is just like minK was.” Anne didn’t recall it as^^JBoston and asked, ‘‘What do yi^ mean?” Kelly’s bright answer, "If you pull his tail, he’ll bite you!” Road Sign WARNING! NO LITTERBUGGIN6 ^50 FINE TO THROW TRASH ALONG HIGHWAY Another three - year - old girl friend of .Tine is Ray and Sylvia Holmes’ daughter Lindsay. Lind say, with her mother, paid a visit to the office last pressday. She is quite a tease. Whett her four- year-old brother came in she said, “He hangs around our neighborhood.” ns-m iWhen I asked his name, he replied succintly, “Christopher Michael Holmes.” > I said, “Lindsay, you’ve-been teasing me. Not only does he hang about the neighborhood, but he lives at y-our house.” She grinned an acknowledgement m-m I was chatting recently.»Xith Jim and Kate Smith, and Kate re lated the story of the adoption of their daughter, now Mrs. Rachel Smith Farley, wife of the Raleigh physician Bill Farley. Kate and Jim had been unsuc- tessful In Hhding a child avail able for adoption^ at a foundling hane and decided to visit the Episcopal Thompson orphanage. The"' Thompson administrator said they only had one child a- vailable, a three-year-old girl. Brought to them, Rachel treated them to a rendition of “Jesus Loves Me”_ Cute, yes, but tliey weren’t sure. Kate didn’t say it. but I got the impression they were interested in adopting a boy. Viewpoints of Other Editors MOONLIGHTING MILLIONS THE TYPICAL FARM _.J,‘Moonlighter, n.j'^a person holding two jobs at the same time.” (Webster’s, 1965 edition.} Looking for the typical farm? I You’ll probably never find it. They come in all v2U’ieties. LETTERS WITHOUT SUBSIDY SO THIS IS NEW YORK By NORTH CALLAHAN It is not easy to visualize New York without its big Stock Ex change, a landmark down on Broad Street near Wall for many years. It is not apt to move des pite fising taxes but there are those, it seems, who would wel come it elsewhere. One of these is Irving Rosenthal, president of tlie Palisades Amusement Park across the Hudson River in New Jersey In fact, he backed Up his offer by preferring a gift of ten acres of land on which to build the new exchange. Also the taxes in New Jersey are not so hi.’h, it is pointed out, and this is one reason a number of large cor porations have located there. It seems rather ironical that an a- rmisement park would be the site of the stock exchange, though. To those who lose ,money in its uncertain transactions, the mar ket is anything but amusing. But then why take life.-so serioiSsly? -3- The draftee was awakened roughly by his platoon sergeant after the rookie’s first night in the army barracks. This new usage indicates a so cial change. Many people moon light today for reasons' w'e re gard as worthy. S,nall farmers work swing shifts in factories to buy the machinery they need to keep farming. Busy mothers moonlight by day in mill or shop (doing their mam job of home- making by night, and over long weekends) in ordecto send their a 1 children to college. 'Many heads of househlds take double employ ment just to make ends meet. these are individuals acting frci.n personal motives. Now we see moonlighting being used by public officials to meet labor shortages in professional fields. This can mean a largescale sal vaging of untapped training and talent. Some are highly productive; others turn out very little. Many produce a single type of product; others have several enterprises. Some may take up a vast amount of land; others only a fmetion of an acre Some have assets of $10 million or more; others, less than $10,000. Some are operated by highly skilled farmers; others by persons just the opposite. m*ai There was a long winding drive into the orphanage and the^d navigat^ only half its length when each looked at the other. “Let’s tell him we want the igirl,” Kate said and Jim drove back to the buUding. The Chicago school system, for example, has engaged off-duty policemen, mailmen, and airline hostesses with college degrees as substitute teachers. The Chicago Police Department, with 243 col lege graduates in Rs ranks, has cooperated by authorizing its men to moonlight up to 20 hours a week. In other city school sys tems, college-educate homemak ers are being sought as teacher aides. m.m It was about three weeks be fore the administrator called to tel) them they could come for the child. It was a Saturday. Kate recalls, “The poor kid’s ^re^s were too amall and her sho^ were worn out.” ’The first stop was to buy Rachel some clones. Next morning vfas Sun day amd Kate and Jim, with Uieir daughter, were riding about to^m before church services. On North Piedmont avenue they found the late Mr. Obarlie Nris- ler walking, promj&tly stopped to introduce him to Rachrt. m*m “Look what we have!”, Kate said. When she had finished tell ing him Rachel was their new daughter, Mr. Charlie ejaculated, “I must be Rip Van Winkle!” \|ponlighting has much to com mend it if pursued in moderation It should not be encouraged, how ever, ifrhen it prevents the hiring of qualified unemployed persons. Nor, except under pressing de mands, should a person moon light when it means denying him self time to study, think, and participate in civic affairs, or perhaps paint a picture. We might expand the definition of ixoonlighting to include such un paid but useful after-job activi ties. The Christian Science Monitor So, how do you go about look ing for a farm that is successful and likely to continue that way? One of the best guides is gross Plans to give aid to humanistic scholare and writers merit ap proval. A great nation should show proper appreciation of those who contribute important ly to its intellectual life. But we should not forget that some of the best of humane learning and lit- eiatuie will always derive from men and women who travel a lonely road with little thought ol supporting agencies to succor them. Grouping all the farms in the United States on this basis, less than half produce nine-tenths of the fanm products. This is the commercial part of agriculture. There were fewer farms in the commercial sector in 1964 (when the latest census of agriculture was taken) than at any other time in the^20th century. How ever, this has been the trend for many years. At the same time, the size of commercial farming operations has grown steadily, particularly in the last. 5 years. Fan.T.s feeding 200 to 400 cattle annually, raising 400 to 600 hogs,, or milking 80 or more cows were much more common in 1964 than in 1959. DRUG ENFORCEMENT The Food and Drug Adminis tration is showing admirable vigor In enforcing the law under the leadership of Dr. James L. Goddard, the new Commissioner. Bigger in terms of pixiduction and gross sales, today’s commer cial farms also use more purchas ed inputs—such as fertilizers, machinery, hybrid seeds. They also are much more highly spe cialized than ever befoi^, produc ing only one kind of crop or live stock. In the current issue of The Anterican Scholar Miss Marchette Chute, a brilliant writer and a humane scholar,■* quotes some random advice that Hardin Craig was accustomed to igive his stu dents, advice on “How to be a productive scholar without any time to work.” These notes prompt Miss Chute to observe that the dedicated author doe.. not wait to be subsidized, but un dertakes "some beloved piece ol writing which no one has asked him to do and for which, it may well be, he never will be paid.” Such work will be done in time salvaged from routine duties; it necessarily will have to be done with intensity “combined with a long patience. It was probably in sonie such fashion that a • very bu^ public official wrote The Canterbury Tales and therefore was never obliged to turn to a patron.” But the essential ingredient in the growth of commercial agri- cqlture is still the farmer. The gaitix in his experience, education, and management ability have been behind all other changes. He is a*decision-maker, a technician, and an analyst “We couldn't' have had a daughter who has been any more Joy to us nor kinder to us,” Kate compliments, and she and Jk-n are mighty glad they changed their minds that day 38 years a* go. Certainly, none could have grown up to be any more beau tiful than Rachel, as those who know here will attest quickly. (A recent) order halting m-m Ex-Govemor Terry Sanford, in hia book “But What about the Peo|)ile”i tella a story about a qjLiite * intrepid yroung girl who was etudltioning for the School of Fine Arts in bcUIet. Agnes deMiUe WAS conducting the audi tion and the applicant wasn’t a ufell-trained ballerina. Miss de MiUe was <m the verge of deny ing the ghrl’a Application, when she ai^tted she'd never had a bfdket lesson in her life. The rough performance she was aNe to. five she had developed from watching ballet on tel^- s|on and attempting to practice vfhat she saw. Wlwn Miss deMille l^med Oiat she Bsdd, ''You’ve fljot to be enroUed.” and she waa m*9 Thgt’t Ihf iag*e4lent thAl pwpieiftai. Ipu big leagueiVk and govaggg^ future sale of antibiotic loaenges is a desirable cpunter-attack In field where ^releesnesS and loose practices have developed, "nie lozenges are not hannful, but neither have they been shown to do any good. Since the revision of the drug law worked out In 1962 by the late Senator Estes KeCauver, the Food and Drug Administratioin has had the au thority to bar products which had not been fully tested for effect iveness, but he FDA has been re luctant to exercise that respon sibility. Rigorous enforcement is im- poiHant both to the consumer’s health and to his pocket-bomc. In a field so complex and competi tive as the imarketing of drugs, the Government has the duty to be vlgllsmt. New York Times Inci-easingly, today’s farmer has a college education behind him. A third of the farmers pror during $40,000 or more of farm products for sale during 1964 had been to college; one in eight of those with sales of $20,000 to the I $39,999 had some higher educa- tion. — The Agricultural tion (USDA) Situa- EXPERIENCED Prom Moscow comes word that six diemical plant officials were put on trial for polluting the Vol ga River and kiliing caviar-pro ducing sturgean. We should offer the Soviets, some of our Chattahoochee cat- ‘V hut th«f’fq 1 The 10 tears ago THIS WEEK Itema of Mountain neum area eyaaU taken from fxlea of the Kings Rovjid. about King people ant the I9A MountaH C. A. (Gus) Hulfstetler, incum bent constable for No. 4 Town ship, will seek Democratic renom ination In the May 26 primary, he announced this week. Miss Fraitces Summers, solo- ist, of Charlotte, will present a program of folk songs at the regular meeting of the Kings MoifflitaJn Kiwaninclub Thursday night. * And Miss Chute makes a fur ther co.nment that “It is a fine thing to have public support, but it is quite possible to survive without it...It is no misfortune to be obliged to travel this parti cular terrain. The air may be thin, but it is good mountain air and can be quite exhilarating.” We should remember that even the best hothouse will not insure the rapid growth of literature or learning. Great scholarship and ‘!Lt’s 4:30”! ro.ared the sergeant. “Four-thirty”! gasped the re- 2ruit. “Man, you’d better get to bed. We’ve got a big day tomor row.”' —3— When the Civil War Between the States was over, many peo ple there fled northward to oth er h'-omes. Glenn Tucker is an ex ception. He was a successful New York advertising executive and when he had reached the peak of his career, decided to go South and write about tlie Civil War. ' Now he lives at Flat Rock, North Carolina, not far from another Yankee expatriate, Carl Sand burg. The latest book by Glenn Tucker is “Zeb Vance: Champion of Personal Freedom” just pub lished by Bobbs-Merrill, It is the exciting story of the energetic and controversial Civil War gov ernor of North Carolina who, in recent years at least,^legend says defended the young Tom Dooley, for whom the popular song is named. But as Glenn vividly brings out in his impressive vol ume, Vance was much more. He prepared North Carolina for a war but insisted at the same time that the people of the state retain their personal rights. Of all the governors, North and >outh, Zeb Vance was the only one who maintained the import ant writ of habeas corpus. Even President Abraham Lincoln sus- oended this means of personal freedom in the North. Glenn Tucker astutely argues in this book which contains miuch humor as well as pathos, that Vance would have succeeded Jefferson Davis as President, had the South won the memorable war. —3— Some of the television com mentators who sound off'so pon derously on world affairs leave some of their listeners rather cold. Especially do these self- designated authorities fail to move those who know that-most of them do not even write the stuff they broadcast, much less know much about it. The "years of name bands may be almost over but there are a few around to re.mind us who remember warmly the mellow days of Tommy Dorsey and Wayne King and others. Among the society orchestra leaders of New York, Ben Cutler has been outstandin g and is a man of fine background personally as well as an accomplished musician. Now he has charge of the music at the Hotel Pierre, the sedate hos- great literature will continue to j telry on 5th Avenue, where Stan thrive without benefit of founda- lly North and his smooth orches Hons in the cold, clear air of the tra has been playing for 18 years lonely mountain where men are alone with themselves. ' The Washington Post Edward Seay reminds me that Nancy Manning, who performed with Peter Duchin’s orchestra. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL ^ Mr. and Mrs. Glee E. Bridges entertained members of the Couple’s Bridge club at the Coun try Club Friday night. , The Tovyn ahd Country Garden fliil, Tfhfy w’t ivoiioa aaviar, Thwriday night to plant shrubbery KU>gi Mpij|p lain Woman’s Club Friday night PTorauunoDULmAT 1220 W K M T Kings Mowtain. N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. 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