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2 ICINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. ICINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. Thun Thursday, Juna 2, 1966 Ym SatobUshed 1889 Tile Kiifi Moimtain Hexaid A ^weekly devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and publish^ for Ifte «llghtemTie..t, jniertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and Its vicinity, ptibHshed every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered a» second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C, 29086 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITOBIAI. OEPAKTMBMT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Gary Stewart Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Bobby Bolin MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dave Weathers Paul JacKson Allen Myers SUBSCRIPTIONS RaTES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEXtl .. S3:30 SIX MONTHS ., 52.00 THREE MONTHS .. 51 25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODATS BIBLE VERSE Now the parable i« this: The seed is the word o/ God. St. Luke S:1J. PriflMiry Anolyiis As is traditional, non-gubernatorial year voting total in Cleveland County and North Carolina was off in last Sat urday's Democratic primary. Yet Cleveland recorded its third highest total of the past 22 years. Credit must go in thh main to Shel by citizens, who, by comparison, out voted their neighbors. Number 4 Town ship cast only 1476 Democratic ballots and has a population sufficient to cast 3000-plus about any day in the week. Other factor in cutting the vote total was the. mild tenor of the cam paign. At the two big gath^*fings at tracting candidates and interested Dem ocrats, the tone was almost completely one of sweetness and light, with the few barbs passed mere hints and with ma jority of candidates commending their opponents as gentlemen, scholars and fine fellows. Cleveland County, apparently, will have more General Assembly represent ation in the 1%7 session than ever be fore, presuming the Democratic nomi nees defeat far outnumbered Republi cans. As a result of distri(|ting the House of Representatives, has two Democratic nomin<fej sentative Robert Z. Falls Mauney, Jr., and a Democ: torial nominee Senator Jack leveland Repre- W. K. ic sena- White. se, after assembly Kings Mountain, of coi many years of General drought, is pleased to find itvlf in the heady position of anticipating members in both branches, a first in thi memory of elder citizens who have baen active in politics since the turn of the century and before. In the sheriffs race. Kings Moun tain joined the other Democrats in pro viding Sheriff Haywood E, Allen his fifth nomination, in spite of pre-election discovery of theft of confiscated liquor, safe-keeping of which was thd Sheriffs responsibility. The result shows that the majority of citizens regard Sheriff Allen as untainted ana that they feel his exhibited abilities m the investiga tive phase of his wol% far outweigh looseness in the matter of disposing of confiscated liquor. At this writing, two contests re main unsettled. Run-offs are indicated for treasurer and for county commis sioner, provided the second-runners want them. Large fields in both races made attaining a majority difficult. Ad ditionally, the two incumbent county commissioners, who led Saturday’s bal loting, have been faced with some dif ficult problems and issues in recent months. Cleveland joined her 99 Tar Heel neighbor counties in re-nominating Unned States Senator Everett Jordan, running against a freshman to state wide Piloting. The Senator led the Cleveland ticket. lt*B Daily Montli One-Shot-ing In sweepstakes voting, there is cus tomarily an incidence of one-shot or two-shot voting, intentional or other wise. Some of it is promoted by the candidates, who, in the heat of cam paigning, accentuate in their minds the fact that any vote against them could be the one producing defeat. Some folk tend to vote only for people they know. Analysis of Saturday’s voting in three-seat House of Representatives race and the two-seat Senate race shows some one-shot and two-shot vot ing extant. Though they log the names on the pollbooks, registrars are not required to report for the official canvas Humber of persons casting ballots. Estimates of one-shot balloting are gleaned by totaling the highest number of votes cast for any particular office, then applying that maximum figure to the sweepstakes races. Thus in the Sen ate race, since highest number of votes cast in Cleveland was for sheriff, the potential Cleveland vote for two sena tor candidates was 20,238. The total was 17,078. In Gaston county, top wte claimer was the county commission con test between Dr. Charles Glenn and George Jenkins, where 13,3^ votes were recorded, for a potential Senate vote of 26,716. The total for the five candidates was 23,560. To the Herald, one-shot voting has always seemed, somehow, un-sporting— unless, of course, a voter cannot stom ach enough of the candidates to fill out the slate. But the way a man votes when he goes behind the curtain remains his right, privilege and prerogative. MARTIN’S MEDICINE InffraHenta: bUa of Mwt wtsdom, kwmor, and ccmmvtu* Dtrectiotut Tak* weekly, i pottible, but avoM Bt martin HARMON j The tel Charles dining room ' was \ irtually lull W'ednesday morning as dair>men and hus.- %ie>3Tcn gathered !• to launch : the an.iual observance of June I Dairy Month, 2) to eat a deli- j I It us breakfast, and 3> to hear ar. address by Lieutenant-Gov- erno." Bob .Svott, lumsell a dairy man. ■ How Fair is the Draff? at-m The breakfast featured scram bled eg^. toast, butter and jelly, grits, sausage, coffee and milk. Vet another disli was new to me. There w as a bowl of c-inflakcs with a big blob of ice cream on :o;>. I did nos sample, but my v.ife said this combination tast ed gi>od. Milk distribuios's in she area were repiesented alter nately at each piate. Mina was* -ewis-VVolfe Sunrise Dairy, my wife’s Biltmore. Across the ta- ole were Forer.ost and Carolina Dairy. J:-hn Burn, the amiable Soot of Carolina Dairy, sat near by, must have drawn a foreign brand for he drank coffc* in stead. I SO ms IS IVCW YORK By NORTH CALLAHAN 90 ni-iii Favors were miniature cow- I cells, but Mayor John Henrj' ! Moss was accorded a pasture- 1 size replica for his service of 1 reading the Dairy Week proria- I matron. The Mayor stated his ap- {preclaUon, adding he had long I been a friend of the dairy indus- (ly. ‘Tou See," he said, “I mar- I ried the daughter of a Wisconsin ! dairinnan." U' Viewpoints of Other Editors WATERWAYS Lt.-Gov. Scott noted that the farmer .,js a businessman, too. A RARE OPPORTUNITY As far as pa.st and future fin ance is concerned, the Yonkers Historical .Sonety has a unique* situation. Recently, officials of the .society deposited $24 in a lo cal savings bank and asked that the money remain there 335 years. The ar.ount commemo rates the sale of Manhattan Is land by the Indians to the Dutch almost 3'L' centuries a.go. The far-sighted president of the hi.s- torioal .society has calculated tliat with compound interest, the money will at the end of tlic ime deposited, total si.v billicn dollars at six percent interest. But he admits that he is unable to estimate just how much a dol lar will be worth at that time, especially if the current rate of inflation continues. _3 - The proposal by Secretary of Defense, Robc*rt McNamara that all young Americans serve a year or tw'o in the military or sore other gov'ernment service is far from new. The same idea was put forth by Secretary of War, Henry Knox, the first to hold the post which Mr. McNa mara now occupies, and was suggested about 170 years ago. This far - sighted member of President Washington’s cabinet, ! for whom Fort Knox is named, I saw much virtue in the discipline I and regular habits afforded by • the armed forces. He did not 'think of the plan for universal I service so much in the way of I war as being in itself beneficial to the young people of the new ! nation. And it might just cut !dowTi on juvenile delinquency I too. ! —3— , About the sai.r.e time in the LSth century, another wise man, the English I SEAGRIT WORLD | ! Tristan da Cunha, rising bleak Senator Tydings' assault on j and barren from the South At- j boat pollution of our streams j iantic, is not to be confused with! Indonesia’s new regime is go “He has to be,”-he added, point- merits hearty support Boatin" ^"^ about changing Sukarno’s * Samuel John-^n, ing to the great mechanical ad- L-,, become a delitxhiful rpcrea” many persons felt a course faster than could possib-j and critic of the foibles oi vances made in the industry! . T r^^rea- t^.yinge of disappointment upon ly have been anticipated abroad, i took notice of how .since the end of World War II.' for millions of people in this reading that 13 Lsland families;and perhaps even in Jakarta, many people were trying to re- He said dairying is a $75 million f t^duntry, and much greater u.se have now moved permanently to | ^vhen the military began its cau-'^ofm others. He noted that quite per year business in North Caro-! of rivers, canals and other wa-] ^tigland. lorccd to flee the is-jtious isolation of the president, few of the lower classes in line and thp nrnerram farts and I tAviMoaro lan(M in 1961 when a volcano j nrt»ianr'v nf tho rvxiiritrtz»« England and France were June is annual Dairy Month,, A few years ago, when cotton was King, a great number of North Caro- liMasis couldn't have cared less. Today, Kofth Carolinians in great numbers participate in the promotion, for good reason. Though one farmer friend remark ed he usually switched too late, farm ers know how to switch gears to new products as well as any group and bet ter than most. Here in Cleveland County, dairy- t|^ beef cattle and poultry production hstii taken the slack from cotton’s mi- l^itlen to the Far West flatlands. In nMt^boring York County, grape-grow- » a bui^eontng new fanri Industry. . KUk is one of this area’s major ftmp product^. Dairying is confining, i-days-per-week work. Equipment be modern to enable the dairy? te meet sanitation laW require- ' and the equipment is expensive. ; fcaSt be grown and sOos built, work and investment involved thought or two whan drink- lUbBs of Grade A pasteurized- ^ HdUl or mui]»sai|i|( & (ibile lanft on the ne^t summer day. Happy Birthday Twenty-five years ago two person al friends of the current Herald editor, Sheibians Will Arey, Jr., and C. Rush Hamrick, Jr., launched the Cleveland Times. Mr. Arey was Editor Martin Hannon’s former boss, Mr. Hamrick a former employee on the University of North Carolina Daily Tar Heel. It was a most ambitious undertak ing, as the Times opened as a weekly with the six-day Shelby Daily Star lit erally across the street. The history of new newspapers in that day and this was and is a sad one. Failures far out-number successes in competitive situations, for several rea sons, principal among them 1) high cost of machinery, 2) high cost of labor in the highly skilled printing trade, and 3) reading habit. Case in point: During the life of the Gaston Citizen, a Gastonian was com menting on the “new Gastonia paper”, waxed eloquent on his very good friends who were publishing the Citizen. Later ^ he remarked he didn’t subscribe. The why: “I’ve got to have the Gastonia Gazette and I don’t need two news papers.’' The Times is the Herald’s good friend. Several times in the past two decades Herald readers would not have received issues on schedule had it not been for the succor of the Times when breakdowns, as they inevitably do, oc cur. The Herald reciprocates, of course, but the credit balance is on the Times account. The Times has been consistently well-edited during the quarter-century since May 1941 and its record of service to Cleveland County — its stated pur pose — is imposing. Our congratulations to Editor Elva Gheen, Co-owner-Superintendent C C McMurray, Jr., and other staff members of both today and yesterday. Una and the prograoi facts and I torways for pleasure may be an-1'”“-“‘.‘”1 The urgency of the country’s ^ . .v, figures reported Cleveland Coun- Lj ^j-he moun‘ine volume 1 i economic plight has been a upper crust ty’s contributioin to the 1965 j England^ore el^tmg to re-L„ guharto and his col-; gross as $1,437,018. it impera- turn to Tristan da Cunha. ‘leagues to carry out a house• Dr Johnson had httle j live that boatmen stop contam-! Why did they change th^r, .patience with some of them i mating waters that serve them Rosemary Green, a 20-Ijjqj.j of Communist influence and j Icvelers, he said, wish Scott noted that the expense i j, year-old school teacher, *riissed gain the ^hem- of buying more modem equip- “the television, the twist, and foreign countries cap-' cannot tear lev- ment, often outmoded before the _ ^ j being able to go into a shop and]j.jjjp Trantin*^ needed assist-! ’ mortgage is satisfied, has tend-1 Tydings bill would modi- buy a can of food.” She loved i a^ce. ” i —0— ed to make the big dairy bigger |fy the W’ater Quality Control Act riding buses. Imagine that. Oth- j revealed bv the Sultan of ^ college education in the attd the smaB one extinct. [so as to pressure the states intolers agreed, in effect, that their who i«: hnnmin^iUnion, unlike that in the applying antipollution stand- ^l^^ed little ^agrit world h^^^^ States is “f^.” But been a dump all along. As James exnorts are fallir<T anri “h^re is naturally a catch m this. OI.» p.,. It: “JUS, wind *"<1 IdTuUon d^oTurs Irl hard work.’ rnroiir., a state to give a student a higher There is no point resenting the laborer a full day’s nav i graduate is e.x- fact that mundane and often enou<»h ^rioe ^ superficial aspects of civilization ^ until “ th? June | seem to have turned the island- harvest ^ ^ ^ j most needed in the country. lit ers against their home. In fact.: ™ , ,, , i di\1dual prefernce is often over- the simple life of these sturdy That the free world should re- ruled, folk is appreciated mainly as a spend generously but prudently j 3 Jn^w? c'hSse 'we^'^do'^nofS ThJ UnUed Sates^LpSy^has I Do^btle®® one reason why our choose. Neither do they, nor does unu.sual opportunity to help | c a regime that appears ready to i f- ; wninoui evc.i un!,turn back from Sukarno’s trou-^'^ff for U Take the modern 'ble making role. birthday wlebration here for ex- ’Tlie Administration’s granting i ^^P^/ '^oen I was a child, we of a five-year credit for the pur-^*'^"^^ ®ahsfied with He said North Carolina has | ards to mariUme waters as wea been a surplus-milk state for the j as to municipal and industrial past decade, but that the trend!waste. If the states should fail is reversing. ni-ia Complaints about the high cost of food are not completely valid, he contended, noting that the super markets do an excellent .merchandising job and sell many items other than foodstuff. He jested, “A housewife can get a- ‘ way with a lot at the super mar ket. She can buy many more items than food, charge it to the grocery account, and her hus band never knows the differ ence.” to provide adequate protection, the Federal Government would apply standards of its own. This is not a drastic approach. The astonishing thing is that Con gress should have passed its Clearwater bill only last year without provision for dealing with raw sewage and dumped into waterways. trash Washington has a special in terest in this bill. A vast num ber of boats and marinas are anyone who knows the facts where life is “quaint” and spoiled.” — SL Louis Post-Dis patch. HIGH-FLOWN Since at least one survey indi- He spun a tale at the expense of Dairyman WaWer Davis. Back when Walter owned a lone heif er a super salesman sold Waltef a milker, pointing to the fact he could do other choree while the milker milked, or simply rest. On a cold rromlng, Walter al legedly rigged the milker, re turned to the fireside and fell a- sleep. Some three hours later, Walter awaked with a start and rushed to the bairt to find the niilker still chugging away and his cow prostrate. Tlie milk had spilled over the pail and covered oer 01 ooais ana mannas are ^ates that more than half of air a step in the right direction An worsening the pollution of the travelers don’t care about in-iindon^ia devoted to bettering Potomac River. Fishermen and; flight entertainment, both over-1 the lot of its people instead (rf boaters have no more Iken^ to I s®*® domestic airlines seem indulging in flamboyant saber- befoul the river than have cities and industries. — Washington Post. POOH POOHI to be spending an inordinate amount of time debating what to do about amusing their pas sengers . . . 'The Civil Aeronau tics Board has tentatively ap proved an International Air Transport Association rattling could have a deep ef feet on Asian affairs. — Phila delphia Bulletin. (base of 50,000 tons of rice 'is ® small gift purely commercial transaction blowing out the fm candles, to meet an emergency, but it is Wealthy youngsters hereabciuts feel such stuff is for the birds- and wee birds at that. Now they are treated—many of them at least—to dog acts, magicians, theater parties, films, show busi ness celebrations who pay per sonal calls to their homes—for a fee—and almost anything else traction for customers when! dream up. as well as everybody has It. 'The CAB how- s^’me thing you can’t, or at least agree-j ever, turned thumbs down on the! ^ 12-year-old child ment establishing a flat charge j proposed ban. . . , [here recently was given a birth- We ha.sten to assure our read- for in-flight entertainment oni The airlines may want to run'^^y which the food a- ers, under six and over, that we On most in-[this in-flight feature through!»<me cost over $5.(^. It smrs ^ ! fAfnafi/vrsoi • a.!. _•—, ... » ' 111091 lavish enteftainers A. % A.t_ « A a. I tcrnBtional carriars today, ^irst» their viewers a^Ain it'o \%n l€hat p--«- -loy at noi;sthrar‘"f pooorijrn^^ Questionable reflection on therrr k-—<*w|,iKeiy mat a jot or people these lines are well-to-do questionaoie reiiwtion on me p^arge sound movies, music or balk at being made to pay for' grandparents who for some reas- t{m#k • nAMincr f^SltllPAC ■ -i_u . - I<snr»thor /Irv T Scott gave some definitions of dairyingr anaong them: the floor. Aptdogizing, Walter | other time - passing features 1 something the airiines" fw of! I on or'another, do not spend aakedhtocowhowshefelt.-‘I’m! th«f«stk condensing of ^ to their seats via ear-!fered fref as a lur^to get them I much time with their progeny, beat,” Boaay repUed, “but, oh, that toe phonpg economy class aboard. — The Wall street so they try to do it all up in one proud.” J .nTtfnn, I big birthday bundle. undertaken the new editions of, 51 The lATA plans to charge 1 1. evtwybody who chooses to use the earphones $2.50. Now only last year the Inter national carriers were pressing for a complete ban on in-flight - .entertainment. They had dis- books ^e written: “I was five covered what supermarkets al- when the first book ^e out. ^ady knew from their experi- I had no trouble understanding ence with trading stamps which, like in-flight movies, originally were a competitive device: A gimmick loses some of its at- the Pooh books, whh 90 percent of the text deleted, finds Pooh- isms “very sophisticated,” must _ be weighed against the asser- Dairying is desparately need-'i®" of Christopher Robin Milne, ing a new living room suite and whom, 40 years ago, the buying three more cows instead. Dairying is hoping for your top milker to be blessbd with a purebred heifer calf and discov ering too late that the fence be tween you and your neighbor Is down. SMU it.” Who would want to be short changed in regMd to the com ments of Pooh, who had con- fes.sed, “I am a Bear of Very Lit tle Brain, and long words Both- Walter Davis replied in kind, er me,” and, on being told about Did you meet the train? Rufus Phifer, just retired mail messenger at Kings Mountain postoffice did just that with amazing regularity during the 16 years he handled that work. He missed one due to a broken arm, found a sub stitute necessary due to a four-day ill ness. He met all the others. The record IS typical of his character and responsi bility. Mms Kings Mountain, in the person ^ pretty Linda Sherrer, is now Miss compete next year in the Miss North Carolina contest. Our con- fftfolatloi^ to this talented young lady. ScOtfS late father, Davis said, always said there were three re- quire.T.ent8 for his son to be as- .suibd of going to heaven. He moat be a Presbyterian, a dairy man, and maintain a herd of puiti'jred jersey cows. On a wecMmd visit to the Soott home, Walter said he found his host met the active Presbyterian test and was quite obviously a dairy man. He saw no trace of a jer sey herd. “We want this fellow to go to heaven,” Walter con tinued, "and we’ve d'ecided to give him a purbred jersey calf.” The calf was brought in. oi-in Earl Proptt and Bill Plonk ar ranged the brieakfaat Snd it was nwst tueceasfol. It was the flnrt tittle my Wife luid wen a baby :calf...and thinks It looked Idn to a fawn. customary procedure," asked, in the most sophisticated Pooh tone, “What does Crustimoney Proseedcake mean?” What normal presdiooler wants to be denied those fasci nating long words he doe.sn‘t understand and therefore Is free to toss about and mispronounce with sheer Pooh-Bear abandon? Especially when he already has a working knowledge of such 10 YEARS AGO nos WEEK fteme of newt about King Mountain area people am wenta taken from €he 19S HUm of the King$ Mountak WdrsOd. Basil L. Whltenbr was still pondering Wednesday his option to call a second primary in the quest between him and Ralph Gardner of Shelby the 11th Dis trict Congressional nomination. El Bethel Methodist church re terms “Gemini astronaut” • ceived memorial gifts Sunday as and “Agena rocket” and “guid ed missile” and “UFO”? We have no doubt that the publishers of the unabridged Pooh will continue to safeguard their public’s rights and privl- legw-CbrtMittil Bdsnee Monl- itor. a feature of traditional Ha.T>- comlng services. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Seven Kings Mountain girls will be among the Sub-Debu tantes to he presented to West ern North Carolina society at the Shitty Ja«loy Charity League Sub-Debutante Ball. BP TOUR RADIO DIAL SET AT 1220 Kings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the V hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between Thi tain plon in tl spot rani and lele real thej Mol fei’e Mol was at t athl one inju era! ing Goll also wee Sch belt ra:d fici SLO] ye£ Bri pro an( Tl