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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C
Thursday, May 26, 1966
Estoblished 1889
The Kings Moimtain Hezaid
✓’Sonh Cawli
'RESS ASSOCIATION
A weskiy nev/spai}'*!' devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and publislied
for tne eniightennici.t, entertainment and benefit of the citizens 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, 2S0S6
under Act of Congress of 'March 3, 1873,
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher
Gary Stewart Sports Editor
Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Bobby Bolin
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Dave Weathers
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TODAY'S BZBX,£ VERSE
Wherefore putting awaxj lying, speak every man one of another,
truth ivith his tieighbor: for ice atv
members
Ephesians 4:25.
Ambulance Service
Another wave of getting out-of-the-
ambulance-service business is hitting
beaches of the area, as funeral homes
seek to abandon a costly service, which
seldom if ever pays its own vvay.
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Equipment is quite expensive.
Oftentimes, additional manpower
required.'
Fees for the service are customari
ly insufficient and some users of the
service simply don’t pay.
One operator remarked, “When yoja
take a person banged up in a wreck to
a hospital, or, for that matter, even a
man who is ill, it is hardly the proper
time to bring up the matter of his bill."
This is, of course, another side to the
coin.
The burying industry is a high-mark
up industry, again justifiably, on ac
count of high cost of esfablishrhent and
working equipment, requirement, for 24-
hour duty, and twin fact that, happily,
this phase of the business^hardly com
pares with the fast turnover of the super
market.
Few businesses operate without loss
services, also quite proper in thh role of
service.
To toss this related service into the
laps of city and county commissioners
is aa effort on the part of the funeral
homes to retain all financial gravy.
Kings Mountain area funeral estab
lishments and the voluntary public-sup
ported Kings Mountain and Grover res
cue squads are to be congratulated on
their agreement Wednesday to continue
ambulance service on long-established
policy.
N^ed A Must
What has been
comes a must.
Cl growing need be-
Conservation projecting a nursing
home for the homeless elderly and the
ill, not ill enough to require hospital
treatment has been continuing here for
several years, but with no action forth
coming.
With the advent of medicare and con
current funds for the over 65 age group,
demands for this service will escalate
by giant leaps. Already, bed space in
these homes is at a premium.
The Nursing Home association has
one solution to the spurring of more
nursing homes, with a concurrent sav
ing of federal and state funds. The so
lution: let the welfare board authorize
payment to nursing homes of the ap
proximate per diem of $10 per day, rath
er thap the current rate of $5.67.
Few are trained or perhaps interested
in operating such a business. But the po
tential is apparent, as both private and
church-operated institutions’ waiting
' lists wil confirm.
Month Is Short
i
A month is a short time.
Yet much can be accomplished in a
period of 30 days, if . . . <
The big IF is typical of any chore.
The only way to complete any job is
to get started toward completion.
The same is true with the city’s com
munity-wide clean-up and beautification
campaign, and, not only has a start
been made, but a head start.
Already results are showing though
thfr-campaign started officially only last
Saturday.
Citizens should take a drive on East
Ridge and view the results at the corner
of East Ridge and Deal. It*s a beautiful
sample of the benefit of lmagination„,jpf-
fort and work.
Cherryville is conducting a clean-up
campaign on, apparently a comparable
format and the clly manager was quoted
as saying his desk is brimming over
with requests to haul debris, mow lots,
and other chores.
The same is true at Kings Mountain’s
Ci^ Hall, but the hard-working offlcials
knd q*ews aren’t complaining.
The word here; keep pli|Kg It we’ll
remove it. *
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A Numbers' Gome
With the short row’s of the primary
season at hand and candidates working
at a killing pace, it is a reasonably safe
guess that few’ find it necessary to re
sort to the sheep-counting game to put
themselves to sleep.
It may also be a reasonable guess that
many will be dreaming about numbers,
and justifiably.
What will be Saturday’s total vote in
the Democratic primary?
That, by total and by precinct, is’most
important to many candidates. Heavy
vote totals sometime, though not al
ways, mean trouble for incumbents.
Light vote totals sometimes, but not
always, mean also-ran positions for the
chaljlengers.
New dimensions to the numbers’ game
occur this year in races for the state
House of Representatives and Senate,
w’here voting patterns and totals in oth
er counties have been analyzed and re
analyzed by candidates who must attain
votes away from home.
Thus, Mrs. Elva Gheen, in the Tues
day Cleveland Times, dug into history
and found that only twice in two dec
ades have Cleveland Democrats cast
more than 10,000 votes in primaries. In
1950 (the sheriff's race was a dilly) the
total was 11,880. In 1964 (a hot guber
natorial primary) the record of 14,309
was recorded.
As recently as 1962, the top total was
5017.
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Cleveland Democrats are running in
greater profusion this year than in sev
eral and so-called “long” tickets tend to
produce large vote totals. Yet, both at
the county convention and at Monday
night’s barbecue, the consistent com
ment was, “Where’s the fire and furor?”
While a bew' barbed shafts were thrown,
the order of the evening was for can
didates to say, in effect, the opponents
are mighty fine fellows, too.
It is important that Cleveland cast
its ballots if it is to maintain represen
tation in both branches of the General
Assembly, particularly so in the Senate,
where Cleveland is aligned with much
more populace Gaston. While Cleveland
nominally out-polls Rutherford and Polk
combined, large votes there, accompan
ied by allergy toward the polls such as
in 1962 and even 1946 (7459), would put
severe strain on the nerves of Cleveland
House aspirants.
Kings Mountain, of course, has an es
pecial stake in the House and Senate
contests.
Senator Jack White seeks re-election
and socks-maker W. K. Mauney, Jr., is
a leading candidate for the House. Vic
tory for both would mean that Kings
Mountain, at least in the memory of old
er citizens, would provide members of
both Houses of the General Assembly
for the first time.
With home-county support in
amounts Cleveland is capable, both
should be victorious Saturday.
Senator White’s first-term record (in
cluding two special sessions) was very
Candidate Mauney’s management
ability is buttressed by a working knowl
edge of state government, plus an in
tensive campaign which indicates his
~g9ITtfine interest in the responsible work
ing-honor he seeks.
' Congratulations to Lewis Hovis, hard
working Optimist, just elected president
of the Kings Mountain club.
A best bow to Mrs. F. A. McDaniel,
Jr., who has been re-el?cted first vice-
ehahrman of Cleveland County Demo-
«pa«s.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
fftfiredienta: bits of netot
wisdom, humor, and comments
Directions: Take weekly, i]
possible, but avoid
By MARTIN HARMON
The Little League opened the
1966 season Monday afternoon
with some interesting actian by
some over-ripe stars Mayor John
Henry Moss, president of the
Western Carolinas League, was
the opening pitcher. His battery-
mate was Commissioner O. O.
Walker, Commissioner Seimoie
Biddix was the base umpire. I
was the batter and looked like a
performer by virtue of the loan
of Roy Pearson’s cap.
Attention! Citizens of North Carolina!
m-m
The Mayor was a little wild on
the first two pitches. 'Then he set
tled down, threw one down the
middle, but my washer-woman
swing was a foot wrong. The
next one came in fat. Result: a
weak dribbler which the youngs
ter on first fielded with alacrity.
He beat me to the bag by a mile.
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Commissioner Walker showed
so.me kinship to the catcher’s
mitt and 1 inquired had he been
a baseball player. He had been a
catcher and was offered a con
tract by the Washington Senat
ors, circum 1919, season after his
World War I discharge from the
navy. Like Ty Cobb's father, Mr.
Walker’s had little sympathy
with the game, wouldn’t let his
son sign. His baseball prowess,
however, was worth $50 per week
for three games in a semi-pro I
league. A baseball in his mouth !
cost him two fron^ teeth, a foul j
tip a broken finger.
SO THIS IS
NEW YORK
By NORTH CALLAHAN
Amidst strikes, wars and poli
tics, it is good to note the news
from Yemen where a miracle in
our foreign aid has occurred.
People here, though wise in the
ways of the world, have taken
time to rejoice over this. For the
gladsome information is that
tribesmen of that barren and re
mote land were so appreciative
of Ai.rerican willingness to help
them, that they scraped out an
airstrip in one day, to receive the
engineer who is showing tlierft
how to dig badly needed water
wells. And the Yemenese people,
as poor as they are, have already
raised half the money for the
project and will do all the labor.
They plead for American experi
ence and equipment to help them.
With the life-giving project well
under way, John Stewart of the
American aid mission there, stat
ed something so contrasting with
the waste of our gifts so often
elsewhere, that it is hard to be
lieve: “All this hasn’t cost us a
penny,” he observed. “All we
did was provide the spark, the
encouragement and help show the
way. The Yemenese people did
the rest. And they love the Unit
ed States for helping thc.-n.”
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Viewpoints of Other Editors
m-m
Baseball in youngster leagues
was a far cry from today’s from
standpoint of equipment, with
.T.uch make shift doings the only
way the game corld be played by
•COMFORT OF THE I
SCRIPTURES' !
This year has been designated •
“The Year of the Bible.’’ We hope j
that it will be so in every sense |
HARVARD'S GAMBLE
poor folk. Commissioner Walker j of the word. It is no mere empty,
recalls playing against a team ' P‘o;^ Phrase to say that seldom
from a country community by i'"history has there been a time
the name of Red Duck. The nine' ^hen the matchless messa,ge oL
players arrived in a lone Model-T 1 »oly Writ was more deeply noed-
Ford. Their bats had not been ^o- ^ . .
honed by Hillerich & Bradsby. 1 Ninteen sixty-six was chosen
the long-time .supplier to major- | foj; this honor because it is the
ity of the game’s top players. The 11^0^^ anniversary of the found-
Red Duck lads had carved their
bats out of Hickory and honed
them the.Tselves. The Red Dock
ers played in bare feet.
Mr. Walker, “A rabbit
have caught’em.’’
Recalls
couldn’t
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Will Grice, who vies with May-
of
ing of the American Bible So
ciety. This event occurred in the
heart of hearts of America’s
greatest city, taking place in
New York’s City Hall. The choice
was fortunate, for, ever since, the
ABS has shown the same kind
of irresistible dynamism charac
teristic of New York's restless,
or Moss, Sam Sober, John George, • driving, expanding nature.
Sr., Clark Rushing, Commission- | Only nine years ago the society
er Ray Cline and numerous other j pi'esented its 500,000.000th vol-
Kings Mountain folk for the title jume to
President Eisenhower.
of “biggest Kings Mountain base
ball fan’’ went to Atlanta Sunday
on the Legion • chartered bus
jaunt. Waxing eloquent concern
ing the brand new Atlanta Stad
ium, he said, “There’s no use to
tr>’ to describe it. You’ll just have
to see it.”
ROCKING CHAIR j
PHILOSOPHY '
One evening, a while ago. I j least one university - Har-
was sitting in my old cane-bot- j vard — is learning that there are
tomed rocking chair on the porch ! ways of testing other than col-
of my home down on Ossipt'e ! lege board test grades.
Lane. It was quiet and peaceful, i
The last faint tints of color from! Harvard gambled with more
Lynda Johnson and George
Hamilton had a rendezvous at
Palisades Amusement Park in
New Jersey recently. But this
was not the President’s daughter
and her handsome actor frietYl.
It was Lynda Johnson, 6, of New
York City, and George Hamilton,
5. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
who were among the 73 children
that showed up at the lost chil
dren’s area. The two met briefly,
hardly gave each other a second
look, were treated to lollypops
and then re-united with their re
lieved parents.
the sunset were reflected on the j than 200 youths who ordinarily j j Henry Hardenfelder and
clouds and off on the distant j would not have been admitted as ; other friends in regretting to see
mountains soft shadows were ! students. The youths were chosen i the wreckers making chaos out
forming. Tliis is the time of day | j -J , couraceous re- ^ of World’s Fair site in Flush-
I’ve always enjoyed and as I sat courageous le , Meadows. But if vou are fair-
thero, taking in the charm of the isponse to a childhood of PO'^^o^fY-! pyj punninglv m
fading twilight, I suddenly realiz- j Most were reared in city slu.xs. ° ?ear 00^^" iSurnev
ed that I had watched this chang- 1 Many attended unaccredited high
schools.
ing scene, from this same
chair.. .for over forty years.
old
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I note via his molher-in-law’s
obituary that Leslie Mode, a
childhood neighbor and playmate,
now lives in Patterson. N. J. It
reminds that Leslie was a catch
er on the high school team of
some years ago, was like Yogi
Berra when he first caught for
the Yankees, long on desire but
a dia.Tiond in the rough quite un
polished. It was in the era when
.Vlickey Cochrane was among the
top catchers in the majors and
Leslie was promptly nick named
“Mickey” by his teammates.
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The rB-surge of the New York
Yankees, since Ralph Houk re-
umed as manager, has resulted
in a notable improvement to the
eneral well-being and disposition
of the aforementioned Sam Su-
oer as well as John C. McGill, Jr.,
both give-no-quarter Yankee sup
porters.
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The vote-gletting game, rather
’han baseball, is the pri'T.e inter-
'st through Saturday for candi-
lates and their supporters.
m-m
Sheriff candidate Brbadus Ham-
'•ick said at Monday’s Democratic
'ally the pace of campaigning
’lad pared his weight by 20
oounds. What has campaigning
lone to Billy Mauney’s rotund
figure, he was asked. “I’m galn-
ng,” Billy replied.
m-m
It was a barbecue dinner and
n his speech Billy recalled a re-
ent similar occa.sion and a con-
/ersation with Dr. Eugene Post-
■n, the Gardner-Webb president.
Someone asked whether a person
xmld eat pork and go to heav-
in. “Sure,” Dr. Poston replied.
The more you eat the quicker
ou’H .get there.”
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, Senator Jack White must be a
good politician. At least, he’s re-
‘rleved his mother-in-law’s'vote
and support. Shortly after the
1965 session was convened. Jack’s
family was plagued with a series
of illnesses. With Jack in Raleigh
Mrs. Cline found herself in the
nursing business. She had threat-
ented, "You run next time and
I’ll not only vote against you. I’ll
work against you.”
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Buc as former Sheriff Irvin
Allan was fond ckf saying, “Blood
is thldcer than watar,” In-law
blaad, tab, Mrs. GlliHe oowfasaos-
This year it presented its 750,-
000,000th to President Johnson.
And this growth rate is rising al
most vertically, for the ABS
reckons that it should distribute
at lea.st 75.000,000 yearly merely
to keep up with the world’s de
mands.
It is not easy to write freshly
* or adequately about the Bible.
Men have drunk healing, inspira
tion, and spiritual enlightenment
fram it so inexhaustibly and for
so long that o"® blenches at the
task of seeking to weigh or to
desciUbe its meaning lor man
kind.
Yet it is vitally important that
each new generation come to un
derstand on its own what the Bi
ble can mean to it. And an era
which is' wracked with fears of
nuclear war, torn by racial
strife, dissatisfied with mere ma
terial wealth, concerned over
crime, juvenile delinquency, men
tal ill-health, and a rising host of
other social problems, is no era
which can afford to disregard
the spiritual guidance which the
Bible gives.
The ABS is as aware as any
of us that it is not enough mere
ly to distribute Bibles. They must
be cherished and read with spirit
ual insight if one is to grasp the
full implication of Christ Jesus’
statement: “Ye do err, not know
ing the'seriptures, nor the power
of God”
Yet the Bible cannot be known
until it is first laid in one’s hand.
We salute as a benefactor of
mankind thie American Bible So
ciety for having labored so long
and well to open to humanity the
“comfort of the scriptures.”
Christian Science Monitor
How tiiT.es have changed! Why,
Tcah remem.ler when folks milk
ed their cows and drank the milk
without staking it to a Tactory;
When the womenfolks boiled cof
fee and settled it with an egg;
When ladies rode side-saddle, and
a boy didn’t 'have to have a ve
hicle in whiciv
.ness. . . .
Eighty-five per cent of those
selected have been graduated, .»
number with honors and one with
a Rhodes scholarship.
to Montreal and see a 183-day
exposition which is expected to
attract 30 million United States
visitors to its festive features.
The fair there will last from Ap
ril 28 to October 27th and will
,«to pursue happi-
Other colleges and unWersities
might well take a similar gamble.
If it can pay oil at Haivara, it
should pay off elsewhere. — Palo
Alto (Calif.! Times.
{ fittingly be called. Expo 67. -
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NO TAX ON TOURISM
My memory goes back to the
time a candidate had to be eco-,
nomy-minded to get elected to
office; When neighbors asktHl a-
bout your family—and meant it.
I can even re.Tember when folks .-. c- • 1 . »
J . ‘ i with ofxicial statements express-
used toothpicks and were still ,
polite — and the neighbors got
In a group of three^ oxnert
I who appeared on a panel here
: John Gunther was the most vi
cal. Perhaps that is because h
j makes his living with words, / i
I any rate, he said “If you live b -
I yond your income. I’m afraol
I you’re jest like me and almost
everybody else^ I think the real
Reports that thie Administra
tion is once again considering a
tax on American tourists travel-1 , , .
ina abroad are hard to reconcile why almost all of us are
guilty of at least some overspend-
fresh liver at hog killing time,
when two or three people could
meet without passing the hat;
when parents were the only baby
sitters and men worked for an
honest living, instead of wishing
for one.
ing satisfaction over progress in
reducing the deficit in the na
tion’s balance of payments.
I seem to recall the time when
if a feller put up a flimsey, flat
sided building with a low sloping
roof, a big window and no cellar
—he put his poultry in it and call
ed it a henhouse, and not a home
—When a man’s word was his
bond,—and when, if some old
coot slept twenty years, like Rip
Van Winkle did—no one asked
him to indorse a mattress. Now
this may be hard to believe, but
I can even re.r.ember when men
made the same wife do for a life
time—^Yes, folks, when you come
to think of it; forty years is a
mighty long time, but not half
long enough to watch the sunsets
fade into twilight from an old
rocking chair—on an old porch,
on the shore of Osslpee lake. —
John Noyes in Carroll County In
dependent (Center 0«si])ee, N.
H.)
ing is the immense, unprecedent
ed material wealth of the United
States and the natural desire or
its citizens to share in this bonan
za whether they can afford to or
not. There is a tendency to over
soend whether a pbrson makes
$5,000 a year or ^0,000. Amer
icans like to keep up appear
ances, and prestige counts.”
Admittedly, spending by Amer
icans a:road has been very hea
vy, amounting to a net outflow
of about $1.8 billion last year.
But attempting to limit the tour
ist outflow through tax deterents
is the most distasteful and un-
fairest cure for what ails the
dollar. It would hit hardest at
Americans in thb lower-iftcome
brackets—students, teachers and
run-of-thesmill tourists who j an electric hair brush, a battery-
have most to gain from going a- operated pepper mill, a lemon-
j broad. It would be a heavy blow! tvvlsr knife, an instant glass-
to Canada, Mexico and the less '
developed countries, which count
on tourism as a major earner of
foreign exchange. And it would
invitfe retaliation.
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The mail order catalog of a lo
cal merchandiser offers for sale
jeopardizing
SEE IT NOW
The Democrats are talking a-
boat selling the television cover
age of their national conventions.
We can see it now:
Coverage of the caucuses spon
sored, naturally by El Ropo, the
cigar for the smoke-filled room.
The platform committee siessions
oattemed after "What’s My
Line?” The nominating huddles
in “I’ve Got A Secret" style. The
winning camlidate’s appearance
snoneoiied by the cereal for the
"AH->Ainseriican boy” and los
ers ooyly turning to display th^r
black eye.
Gov. George Wallace no doubt
could do his own version of “Pet
ticoat Junction" and Bobby-and
Teddy could do a “Smothers
Brothers” act. And for Hubert
Humphrey — “Get Smart.” Sen
ator Morse would star in his own
“Guiding Light” while Senator
Fulbright would star in "Hulla
baloo.”
And who do you suppose would
appear as ‘^Batman**^?
Memphis Commercial Appeal
10
TEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
the Administration’s efforts to
encourage foreigners to visit the
United States.
New Yox'k Times
froster, an electric sweater drier
and an electric “sleep sound”
which lulls you to sleep with a
blend of appropriate rhythemic
tones designed to counteract the
night-time clamor from cars, air-
pljfnesr pepper mills and noisy
electric hair brushes.
rteme of neum obouf King
iroMnfalii area people an
evente taken from the m
fUen of the Kksgt Mountai
NersaJd.
Today’s Herald was published
in the newspaper’s new South
Piedmont Avenue building.
The Rev. James B. McLarty,
pastor of Central Methodist
church, will deliver the Central
high school baccalaureate ser
mon Sunday at 8 p.m. in the high
school auditorium.
Dr. Nathan Reedi Kings Moun
tain optometrist, was elected
president of the Kings Mountain
Lions club at the rneeting of the
civic organization Tuesday night.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Nine members of the Azalea
Garden club wfent to Charlotte
Tuesday night for a dinner meet
ing.
Children of Mrs. Ella Davis En
tertained Sunday at Paulino Mill
Woman’s clubhouse honoring
their mother who was celebrat
ing her 88th birthday annivers
ary.
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