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Thursday, April 14. 1966 BOnrpIlAL OSMtlTMEMT Martin Hannon 1 ....... ....... Edltor.Publlsher Gary Stewart Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Bobby Bolin . MECBMtlCAL pEPAltTMENT / 1 *„ . Dave Weathers • Paul lacimon Steve Ramsey Allen Myers SUBSCRIPTIONS RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE •» BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YE.\R .. $3:50 .SIX MONTHS .. $2.00 * THREE MONTHS .. $1 PLUS north CAROLINA sales TAX - TBLlSPHONE NUMBER ~ 739-5441 ' TODAY'S BIBLE VSBSE For -Mohom the Lord coirecteth; even aa a father the son in whom he delighteth. Proverbs 3:12. Ploy Boll Major league baseball opened for the 1966 season with the traditional get- off-flrst game at Washington, apd all teams not prevented by weather were In action Tuesday. Of particular interest to "Piedmont Carolines fans is transfer of the Nation al League Braves’ franchise (remember when if was the Boston Braves?)^ from Milwaukee to Atlanta. Once upon a time, the only major league action within reasonable dis tance was at the nation’s capitol. Mov ing of a franchise to Baltimore provided another comparatively - near baseball mecca. Once upon a time, Atlanta would have been no closer. ]but not now. With Interstate 85 now open to At lanta, travelers of this route report they navigate from Kings Mountain to Atlan ta In three-plus hours and don’t press down their accelerators too heavily. Several Carolinians grace the roster of the Atlanta Braves, principal among them Iron Station’s Tony Clonlnger yvho graduated to the major leagues via the Legion baseball program and who is among the top echelon of baseball s pitching corps. For the inveterate fan, it will be possible to leave Kings Mountain at 2 p.m. Friday afternoon, reach Atlanta by auto, enjoy a leisurely dinner, end reach a seat in the new Atlanta stadium by gametime. He can see the Saturday game and Sunday doubleheader and still be home in his own bed by mid night, or lass. Imporlcuice ol the Fam James A. Graham, commissioner of agriculture, in a swiftly-paced address at the Tuesday night Farmer’s .Bahquet of the kings Mountain Lions club, made an effective case for the value of agri culture to the whole economy. Few realized his state department administers 81 laws, not to mention hundreds of regulations, which inter twine for the benefit of farmer, busi nessman, industrialist and housewife. few in the public interest are 1) checking of toxic effects of pesticides, 2) food-testing and inspecting, 3) ^d testing, 4) soil testing, 5) checking of weights and measures "from cotton gin to the super market’’. "Many cuts of meat ruled unfit,for human consumption would otherwise find thejr way.to the home table,’’ Com missioner Graham declared. He pooh-poohed talk about the high cost of food, saying, ‘It’s really the high cost, of high Ii>dng.’’ |. Bkoc Brondon The sudden passing of Rev. J. Max Brandon, pastor of Grace Methodist church, shocked his congregation and his many other friends throughout kings Mountain and Cleveland county. While he had some history of heart difficulty in the past, he was in appar ent jzood health. Certainly his busy :heau’ * ' scnedule, both as pastor and in other g^ctivities, belied any serious illness. Outside his church, Mr. Brandon’s major activity was in the work of the Lions club, in which he held perfect at tendance of some 20 years, first with the Fallston, club, subsequently here. He was not merely a knife-and-foric mem ber, but an active participant in all club activities. Brown-Bag Booie A group of South Carolinians were recently dining in a swanky prominent restaurant., After examination of the cocktail list they Informed the waitress their wishes. In rather hoity-toity fashion, the waitress replied the restaurant merely supplied allied ingredients, oth er than alcoholic, then added the clinch er, "This-is NORTH CAROLINA!’’ Shortly thereafter a Charlotte re corder’s court judge put restauranteurs, law enforcement officers, and bag carrying citizens in a considerable swivet by ruling the use of hard liquor outside a person’s own residence illegal. An opinion by an assistant attorney gen eral, sustained the Charlotte judge. Since beer and wine are legal for more public consumption ip Mecklen burg, champagne, the bubbly wine, will be served at a party welcoming the president of Charlotte college. Charlotte sbught during the 1965 legislature, legislation to lekRlize the sale of liquor by the drink, a boon to the restauranteurs, to Charlotte in its co^n- vention-seeking efforts, and to those who decry the brown-bag practice, as well as the club locker practice. Best guesses are that the lower court ruling stemmed from this Char lotte effort as a left-handed means of applying pressure to the 1967 General Assembly to modify the state’s laws governing both sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages. Charlotte restauranteurs have launched a test ckse on the ruling and sought an enjoinder against law en forcement officers. Hearing is scheduled for Mcvpday before Superior Court Judge H. L. kiddle. Whatever Judge kiddle’s decision, the case is high court bound. Much of North Carolina, Cleveland County included, continues toTdrlnkiwet; while voting dry. Meantime, south of our 'border in South Carolina, where liquor is avail able by the package, tightaning of laws governing brown-bag cohsumj^ion are being' advanced, too., V A Columbia, S. C., ne>vspaper made a cogent comment: the old stoi^ about the governor of South CarofUna remark ing to the governor of North Carolina "It’s been a long time between drinks” may becOhxe a quite serious fact. Able Candidate W. k.' Mauhey, Jr., the Kings Moun tain hosiery mahufacturer, is a candi date for one of the three seats allotted the 43rd district in the North Carolina House of Representatives. Mr. Mauney recalls, if some young er citizens do not, that he sought un successfully a county commission seat in 1948. “There’s been a lot of water over the dam since then,” he remarked. "I didn’t work as much as I should have, and I’ve learned much more about gov ernment since.” The Herald regarded Mr. Mauney as an able candidate in 1948, and, in agreement with him, that he is an even more able candidate today. As a boy, Mr. Mauney was always interested in mechanics, built a roller coaster in his backyard. Congratulations to William Hem- don, three-time winner of the elemen tary school spelling contest and the privilege of representing Kings Moun tain district in the Charlotte Observer spelling bee, to Meredith McGill, run ner-up, and to all the other representa tives of their respbstive schools In the district contest. After completing formal schooling, he was a key figure in launching Mau ney Hosiery Mills, a firm which has be come oiie of Kings Mountain’s major in dustrial enterprises, indeed is starting yet another expansion. Bast bows torvjCIty Commissioner CBinOi membei^^# five - gallon Linda Ross, contMt win! ‘^AbU» candidate” is an apt label. Ingredients: bits of netos uHsdetn, humor, and comments DireatioHs: Take weekty, ij possible, but avoid By MARTIN HARMON Therp may be nothing new un der the sun, but there is sore- thinor new to someone every day. m-m A few days previously I had nicked a thumb and knew not where nor why. By Monday morning, it was nicely swollen, sore to pressure, and colored an ugly dull red svhich bode no good. “You have a run-around,” Dr. John C. McGill informed. Where have I been all my life? Everybody had heard of a "run around”, colloquial terminology for a staphylocei infection, ex cept me. 'The swelluig is respond ing coop^atively to treatment w-ith anti^otics. ni-m Nor was that the first new news of the same day. "Folks over In Charlotte very accommodatin'" m-m Monday evening I attended a meeting of the Kings Mountain area alumni of Erskine College, which featured (not necessarily in order of importance) a deli cious covered dish dinner, conver sation with the new Erskine pr^ident and his wife, and an in teresting color-photo presentation of the Erskine ca.Tpus, activ-ities, buildings and building plans, with Don Crawford at the slide ma- diine. SO THIS IS NEW YORK By NORTH CALLAHAN m-m As the slide sexies opens (it has a sound tt*^k), the strains of the Ei-skine alma mater are play ed. The words were different, of course, ^t the music is the same as thiftt of "Hark! The Sound”, the University of North Carolina (CH) alma mater. I’d always known Cornell used the same tune, but first time I knew Er skine does. Viewpoints of Other Editors PEACE IN THE KITCHEN I Dr. Joseph Wightman recently- succeeded Dr. J. M. Lesesne, re tired, as president of this Asso- c i a t e Reformed Presbyterian church schDol. Dr. Wight,.ran is a native Scot who grew up in England, an Episcopalian until ten years ago, had no idea he, ten years hence, would be presi dent of an ARP college, in South Carolina, a deacon in the ARP church, anti a citizen of the Unit ed States. Any kitchen is a noisy place with the dishwasher splashing, the automatic washer swishing, and the children romping and tussling. That was what bothered Mrs. Mary Houchens, Ohio farm woman and miother of seven tots under 11 years. That is, it troubl ed her until she was struck with an idea which got her into the news. Why not put a telephone booth in the kitchen? She per suaded the telephone company to sell her a used booth for $10, and her husband carted it home. SNOW BANK We’re growing accustomed to the seemingly infinite variety of consumer goods and services that is susceptible to being financed by progressive lending institu tions. Still, we count it a day lost when we don’t learn of the man who doesn’t quite have every thing. A Time For Beauty m>m We are happy that the booth- in-kitchen solved her pr,:l Jem. “I can look through the glass, keep an eye on the children, and still have privacy,” she said. Taxes are the talk of this town as well as yours. The main differ ence is that there are more peo ple here to squawk aLout them. Not only do New Yorkers have state and Federal taxes to pay; they must face up to new local levies spearheaded by the new mayor who in this respect is now about as popular as the proverb ial rattlesnake. He has tt'ied to dodge from this 'orm and that form of additional taxation but no matter where he turiis, it is going to cost some group some thing and this young cut veteran politician is finding out that when a man is hit In his pocket- book, he hollers the loudest. So the local money music goes round and round and comes out — of our pockets! —3— A reader inquires if there is anyone who is bored with the tyranny of youth, who is terribly tired of skin-tight blue jeans, dirty shirts, beards and sneakers, who thinks that long hair on i*ien is both silly and unattract ive, who doesn’t like thudding ‘ guitar music accompanied by a screaming vocalist, anti who has had all that he can take of the cult of slothfulness? This reader hopes that the day may soon be approaching when some of these youngsters may be led first to the barber shop and then to the woodshed. In a related way, J. B. Priestley, the English writer, has an answer. He says, “I have never seen why young men in universities, turning themselves into mischievous and sometimes dangerous mobs, should be treat ed indulgently, as if they were quite different fxom mol.9 of garage hands, apprentice fitters, bus drivers. Indeed, there is a case for more severity. Students are not supposed to be ignorant and stupid. If they are, then they j should be sent home and not re- 1 ceiv'e education at public expense. ; They are wasting not only their i own time but other people’s as well, their energy and money. • He artivM rathe^' 'by coinci-* dence. A Baptist minister from South Carolina had swapped pul pits for a year with a Baptist minister of Weymouth, England. Dr. Wightman was teaching his tory In. a Weymouth school and one of the South Carolina pas tor’s sons was in his class. Dur ing wurse of the year, the son of President I.,esesne came to visit and also to enroll in Weymouth school. The two boys gave their teacher high marks, and the re sult was an invitation from Dr. Lesesne for Professor Wightman to spend a year as an Erskine professor. m>in Professor and Mrs. Wightman liked South Carolina, Erskine and her people, returne d to Eng land for a year, then back to America on permanent basis. He completed work for his doctorate at the University of South Caro lina, became Erskine’s academic dean, then acting president, now president. We give her credit not only for originality butalso for her abil ity to persuade a highly organ ized company to do something for which it had no rules. When winter months have passed J away And lovely spring appears, ' And breezes w’hisper soft and gay I That bring a lot of cheers, t 41, 1 i It’s time for beauty to adorn Because of the poteVitia adapta-j The woodland and the sod, . .. k w r blhty for a number of New Eng-1 ^ They should^ reading books land banks our cur^nt nomina-, handiwork of God. ’ tion for a timely credit package 1 goes to the West Coast, where a i it’s time to watch the roses bud bank at Seattle, Washington, has ! And spread their petals fair, put together a special "Ski Ti'.Tel while skies send down a sunny Plan” . . . which offers to finance | flood ski equipment, lift tickets, ski , Of mellow light and air; lessons, transportation, and com- | And maybe ere the day is o’er plete ski resort vacations. Under | The clouds above may stand, their plan, ski shops are encour- j And from the bounty of their aged to discount ski equipment ! store purchase contracts, and the bank { Send rain uport the land.. Her big test will come, how ever, when her seven little ones become teen-agers and want to use thephone themselves. One teen-ager with an extension cord and a sofa can easily keep a line busy for an hour. What will hap pen when Mrs. Houchen’s seven get old enough to enjoy the priv acy of a conversation under glass? They might even attempt, as prankish college students did not long ago, to seehow many of them, a booth would hold. ’This would mean calling in a couple dozen or more neighborhood teen agers to help pack thecublcle to squeezed-in (. bulging capacity. issues scrip to borrowers for tlie purchase of lift tickets and serv ices at cooperating ski areas. Some banks might prefer to mod ify the mechanics of this plan — ' for example, bv substituting a personal checking account .for the less flexi le scrip — but the idea of making a special effort to meet the seasonal needs of this | concentrated recreational market | challenges the imagination. After a reputation as a “Snow Bank,” it would seem, only appropriate that the institution designate the appropriate loan officer, “Chair man of the Boards”! Farm Finance It’s time for beauty—spring is here And grass is growing green; A blessed season of the year That brings a wondrous scene. With flowers blooming in the lawn And blo.ssoms on the trees, When songs of birds at early dawn Are wafted on the breeze. Pi'esent at a meeting of the Author’s Guild, I notic^ particu larly Moderator Leo Rosten’s re mark that there was once a time when a person arose to leave aft er a dinner meeting, some friend would remark, “It must have been something he ate.” Nowa days, sontinued Rosten, if some one does this, the remark is more apt to be, “I wonder what’s eat ing him.” How would Mrs. Houchens cope wit hthat? m-m Elaine Taylor Wightman Is a teacher; too, first, grade. My wife noted, and I agreed, that she re sembles in appearance Mrs. Paul Hendricks—until she speaks. Mrs. Wightman’s clipped British ac cent is miles distant from Mrs. Hendrick's South Carolina drawl. IB>IB I noted that Historian 'Wight man has succeeded Historian Le sesne. "Oh, yes,” he replied, we’re long on history at Erskine. The business ^manager is an his torian as will be the nm academ ic dean.” .. m-m His remarks from the floor were punctuated with wit. During a six-week period Dr. Lesesne was taking a recuperative rest Dr. Wightman found it necessary to don spectacles for the first time. On return, Dr. Lesesne jest ed, ‘You can’t handle this job. It required years to wear me out. See what they^ve done to you In six weeks!" It was true. Dr. Wightnian, continued. “From no glasses to bifocals. I couldn’t see well. Now I can’t see anything.” He has been identified with all charitable enterprises during the past two decades and longer, has held num* erous responsible civic positions, and is active In the work and support of his chureh. m«« In World War H, Dr. Wight- man served in the Slst High landers in Egypt, subsequently in an intelligence unit in Italy and on a Yugoslav Island. He had married hte wife on leave before going to the Middle East, They MW each other 27 months after. If it seems a bit odd lor an ARP college to have a native BrItiBher as president, it anight tw r*tn«nrj«red that the presby- tan who settled in this aectlen were largely Scot-Irtoh. We trust she will come up with another novel answer. If she does, it will be helpful to all those par ents whose friends complain that when they try to call them of an evening they get a perpetual busy signal. 12 MILLION TROMBONES It’s garden time—it’s time to plow And cultivate the soil; It’s time when farmers hav'e to bow To honest, earnest toil; For if our tables furnish meals To keep us -all alive, In this fiscal season, the fol lowing story seorr.s to be appro priate: an influential business man lay dying. He summoned his best friend and elicited from him a promise to see that his mortal remains would be cremat ed. The friend agreed but with cautious reverence asked what should be done with the ashes. Without hesitation, the dying man replied, “Why place them in an envelope and send them to the Collector of Internal Revenue and tell hitT, ‘Now you have every thing!”’ Here and 'There ‘Percy Whiting Christian Science Monitor CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICANA The term “pop art” had not been invented some TO years ago when Maxfleld Parrish launched forth on his career as painter and illustrator. But through the sev en decades that followed he used his brush in a manner that de lighted people ki many walks of life. His romantic castles and gardens, his skies of a translu cent blue, and his storybook fig- ures winged the imagination of the beholders. There is much going on in South Vietnam that we don’t know about. Mysteries abound, i confusion proliferates. The other day the Observer of London re ports, a firm in Singapore got an order from Saigon for 12 million trombones. Even with American soldiers and their rock and roll proclMtles pouring into the area, with American entertainers flock ing after them and with South Vietnamese youngsters taking up Axierican habits, this seemed too much. A French commercial at tache^ finally explained it all. It comes from gardens and the i says that when he ' was in the I third grade, his teacher was so It’s time for love to fill our soils! she didnt teach history. She And makes us sweet and kind; i bered it ... the lonliest Tf’e 4 u-,4. . ! place in the world is the human S i '^hen love is absent.. .Wilt mhaf vTiocff'" u 4 Ghamberlain, the 7-foot, 1-inch That blesses heart and mind, 1 center of the Philadelphia 76ers, Its time for beauty we must j a record-setter from NYU, won T ^ , ; the door prize at a recent lunch- In character and face, I gon. It was a book entitled, “How Ar^ let the world about us know. to play Basketball” ... a woman "" sued a driving school after she smashed her car against a tree. God fills us with His grace. Walter E. Isenhour, Minister, Taylorsville, N. C. on the grounds that they should have known before they took her money that she could never learn Great numbers of people hung reproductions of these paintings, with their “Maxfleld Parrish blue” backgrounds, over their fireplaces. High-school girls had them in their rooms to dream over. Even oollege youth, found a place for his “Garden of Allah” among their trophies on dormi tory walls during the 1920’s and 1930’8. Trombone is a type of French paper clip. And 12 million 1 wouldn’t seem too many for the growing South Vietnam bureau cracy. Milwaukee Journal 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of Mountain news area events taken from files of the Kings ttenM. about King people am the 198 Mountah David Kincaid was recently elected to the national organiza tion of Scabbard & Blade at N. C. State college In Raleigh where he la a junior. Robert Plonk, fifth grade West school student, woa the Nelsler declamation medal in the annual . ! contests conducted at Central Parrish illustrations were used j school Wednesday, by leading magazines and pub- But Mt. Parrtoh PeHSONAL ed essentially modest. “I’ve al ways regarded myself as a popu lar artist,” he said. His works will remain a last ing contribution to Americana, j “pop art” In It* bitwdMt sense. CArieMan Beienee Mmitor The Bessemer City Garden club will present a spring flower show, “Spring Flowers With Budding Branches", Thursday at Bessemer City Woman’s club. Chip Melton first birthday Ai son of Mr. an' Milton. celebrated his lOril Tth. He la the d Mrs. Harry R. KEEP YOUR RADIODIAL SETAT 1220 Kings Mountain, N. C, News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between Thursday Snyde Dav hopes o at the f ball Bai Sny that he other N choice, ! 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