V., 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. Thursday, June 9, 1966 Established 1889 The Kings Monntain Heiaid ^*o^h Carolina vJk ISS ASSOCIATION^! A wsrkiv newsJjappT devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for tne eniightenrriei.t, pnrertainment 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, 2S0SG under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Cary Stewart •••• Sports Editor Mi.ss Elizabeth Slevvart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Bohbv Bolin MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dave Weathers Paul JacKson Allen Mvers SL’ESCPJPTIOXS Rates payable in advance — by mail anywipere ONE year .. $3:50 SIX MONTHS .. $2.00 THREE MONTHS .. $1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE A little lc(tvcn leaveneih the whole tumii. Galutio)w 5:9; mm Run-Off Voting Time, The Healer Cleveland County will have two sec ond primaries on June 25. as it had two first primaries on May 28. Principal interest, via number of races and party numbers, will attend the Democratic run-off, where an original field of eight candidates, now reduced to four, will vie for two nominations to the county commission, and where an origi nal field of four, now reduced to two, will vie for the nomination for county treasurer. In the Republican run-off. Donald Wir- ick, the Lithium Corporation engineer, seeks to overcome the lead of W. Hall Young for the 10th district nomination fpr U. S. Congressman. In the Cleveland instance, Mr. Wirick was first to exercise his right by de manding a second primary. The Wirick action made shambles of the arguments of the money-savers about the e.xpense of a second primary. In spite of the fact there will be no new registration days during the interim, holding an election costs Cleveland County some $3500 to $4000. However, the law stipulates that elec tion in North Carolina is by majority vote, not plurality, with decision to force the rule remaining with the trailing but not defeated runners-up. This precept is as it should be. Time is a noted healer, both of in fections. and of wounds, physical and emotional. A year ago, many North Carolinians as well as former Tar Heels across the nation, were exorcised concerning the speaker^ban law', both pro and con, and the atmosphere between the two groups was charged with electricity. Angry at Governor Dan K. Moore, a group of faculty members as the Chapel Hill Branch of the University, openly contemplated boycotting the graduation exercises due to ^e presence of the Governor. Wiser heads prevailed, thank fully. However, the Governor was on the receiving end of some boos and his ap- plauders seemed to be sitting on their hands. Same scene one year later found; 1) Dr. Frank P. Graham, United Nations official and often-maligned ex-president of the Greater University on the ros trum as commencement speaker. Dr. Graham called for surcease on the speaker ban issue and for an amalgama tion of forces to enhance the service and greatness of the Gi'eater University. 2) The Chapel Hill branch of the Univer sity conferred on Governor Dan K. Moore, alumnus of both its undergradu ate and law' schools, an honorary degree. The problem for any candidate in a second primary run-off is to get his sup porters to the polls and their ballots in the boxes. Vacation seasons have start ed for the school and for business and industry as well. The fish are biting and the beaches beckon. The ballot is much shorter in number of candidates, further contributing to less voting. If interest proves less, as is historical in non-gubernatorial election years, it is unfortunate. Cleveland, Democrats are choosing two men likely to collaborate in setting county policy for four years, as well as a county treasurer. The popular song w'riter must have had such matters in mind when he wrote “What a Difference a Day Makes”. Those w'ho read Publicist Pete Ivey’s feature on the UNC Class of fifty years ago must have been intrigued that “lit tle Bobby Welch”, from the eastern hamlet of Hertford, remains the young est graduate in the school’s history. A freshman wearing knee-pants at 12, he graduated at 16. Federal Monies Detractors of the University as pro ducers of long-haired left-wingers and out-right communists, will be interested, as others, to know that “little Bobby Welch'’ today is better-known as Rob ert Welch, founder of the far-right John Birch society. Many citizens decry the spending poli cies of the federal government even those who try hardest to get a portion of them for various projects. Purpose of education is to teach young folk to use their heads for more than hat racks, in short, to think. Most heralded and publicized, of course, are the efforts of communities to retain government facilities scheduled for consolidation elsewhere or for clos ing altogether. Fact is, however, that there are many smaller government aid programs de signed to supplement community effort which are of potential benefit. Commendations are in order to Steve Goforth,winner of the 1966 award as the high school baseball team’s most val uable player, and to Nelson Connor, Kings Mountain’s lone all-conference performer. Congratulations again, too, to the Kings Mountain Rotary club on its fourth annual luncheon in honor of the high school diamond performers. Only this week has another federal program been approved for Cleveland County. A grant of $26,20^) for a nine-month program development project, with local share cost of $2,925, was approved this week. Our sympathy to the family and many —friends of T. J. Timms, a worthy citizen of 22 years standing, at his recent death. Through the special summer reading program of $124,000 and the pre-school “head start program” of $34,000, all fed erally paid, the Kings Mountain area benefits directly. Shelby and the county district have the same projects. It is equally true of the, $56,000 job training program approved last week. Kings Mountain shares in the neigh borhood youth corps grant. The total is a fair-sized sum of money. A community does well to put forth it’s best efforts to share in these pro grams and, in turn, to make them work. Otherwise, some other community and area gets benefits of the disdaining com munity’s share. The community-wide clean-up and beautification campaign has passed the half-way point and any who have made a tour of the city are seeing the results. Indeed, the clean-up effort is more than a passing conver.sation piece, along with baseball, and the weather. "The changes wrought on East Ridge street alone de fy the imagination. And another citi zen remarked, "My wife was out wield ing a rake yesterday for the first time in her life. This clean-up business is con tagious.” Sincere sympathy to City Manager and Mrs. Phin Horton, of Shelby, at the rediBt tragic loss of their three-year- old son. J MARTIN'S MEDICINE Ingredientn: bit* of new wisdom, humor, and comments Directions; Take weekly, ij possible, but awid By MARTIN HARMON The Dairyman and the Fiddle A year ago last -wcokt int. my wife and I attended tlu' UNC Class of ’40 silver anniversary reunion. It was my fiiv-t. m-m Grace Rutledge Hamrivk, of Shelby, was a member of the Class of ’41 and collaboiatod for this year’s silver^' annivorsary cla.ss with others of that staff on the same cliore I workoil at llie previous year, pulilisliing a six'cial edition of the school pa per, of which Grace uas asso ciate editor. She favoreii me with an advance copy, and. as I read t h e interesting reminiscences, quickly realized I knew great numbers of her class', to. many St whom I had not seen in 26 years. We thereby beca re party crashei’s for tlie Saturday night event. The county commission has indicated it will mantain the current general county ad valorem tax rate of $1.18 per $100 valuation. However, the general fund portion will decline three cents, while the general school levy gets the difference. In other words, the general fund is caring for its increased costs via the increase in property valuation, while the school fund is not. Kings Mountain school district taxpayers, it appears, will pay two cents per $100 valuation less, as increased valuation help the take for the new high school debt. In matters of taxes, cruihbs of cuts are appreciatedi m-ni Gfltes Kimball. Chaiiotto in- sunanceman in JefftMsm Stand ard’s 500 club, assured us we were welcome, noting th:tt one class spans several. Gatc^ was a foot.;all-bo.xing recruit who re sided one room up-hall from George Plonk and me in the fall of ’37. Ills claim to athletic f.ame was as a ijunner's mate tai'kle on a Irattleship team and as heavy weight boxing champion of the Pacific fleet. He repeated at UNC as all-southern in both sports, is a penmanent, officer of his class, was a navy offict'r in World War II. /3 Q 1 0 vy " I / I (its/ ipRO' SO THIS IS NEW YORK By NORTH CALLAHAN I ^ New York is literally having its ups and downs in regard to aerial transportation. For years, > travellers have complained of tlie time it takes to get to and from local airports to the heart of Manhattan. Not lon.g ago, Vice President Hubert Humph rey arrived here late for a speech which for him is a ma jor disaster—and said the reason was tliat it took longer for him to get in to tomi from the air port titan it did to fly from VVasliington to New York. He was ri.ght. So PanAm airlines did soxethin.g ab.tut it, starting helicopter service from atop their tall building in midtown, which cut the time from the in ternational airport from 45 min- iitcs on tlie ground to seven minutes hv air 3 - m-m Mrs. Henry Clark, wife of the doctor who administrates the big University hospital, remind ed I was one of thg first persons she ha d looked up after matri culating It was at the instance i Niagara Falls, the of her aunt, Miss Daisy Lovelace, I Cave, or some other Viewpoints of Other Editors VARIETY VACATIONS Choosing a \ acation trip in the old days was a simple matter. The I railroads offered excursions, and you seized the chance to see 5Iammoth wonder of BATMAN LSD This seemed just fine. Thos'e of us who fly out of the big burg once in avyhilo, which is a relief in itself, were gratified to know that hea'e at long last was a solution for the commuting to and fro. But we reckoned with out the insomniacs who live a- round Grand Central Station. One would think they would be used to anything in the way of noise and bustle by now. It is the world’s busiest traffic sec tion and I know fror.m spending ■ the night there, that noises such ‘,as backfiring taxis can awaken I you with shotgun loudness at j any time during the night. Thbse cliff-dwellers, perhaps envious of j those fortunate ones winging j their way outward, have put up ' such a howl that it has been who launched me and hundreds | the geography books. Or, if you more Kings Mountain youngsters | had a car, you took off for a in the first .grade. With her bus-1 city or lake you could visit on band on sabatical in Holland. ; ypur brief holiday. Only she had as esc.art her father-in- wealthy toured Europe. That law. Clals^s of ’01. {took more time and money than m-m imost folks had. I hadn’t sebn Ike Grainger 1 We look back with a touch of since a Pinehurst poln match in ! nostalgia at this time of simple tho wnntov r»f Ml Kut (if arivpntiirmiQl rimple, there is a way out. Farm er. editor of the Greensboro Dai ly News, Dick Morris, sports editor, and Bill Bruner, business manager. Bruner is president of a Columbia S. C., rbank. McGaug hey forsook newspapering for TV. mayhaps with good reason, m-m He was managing editor of the Little Rock, Ark., Gazette during the Faubus - Eisenhower - federal troops-integration fun. Another staffer, Martha Clampitt Mc Kay, resides in Chapel Hill, is a former Democratic National commit teewom an. m-m Bill Beerman, sports writer during my era, boxers Kimball, Bob Farris, and Red Sanders were recalling a match with Thb Citadel in Charleston Bill was complaining that Red got him self knocked through the ropes—, into the ringside pressbox and intp. Beerman’s lap. Beerman, father ot five girls, ages 8 to 20, handles public relations for Bur lington Industries. m-m Among the other local con nections: The Dawson twins, one in Spartanburg, S. C., the other in Connecticutt, inquired of the health of their fraternity broth er, Dr. George Plonk; Goldsbor o’s Bill Dees does legal work for Freno Ware, Kings Mountain na tive; Raleigh’s Trent Ragland, Superior Stone Company presi dent who lived here briefly in the late forties, enjoyed introduc ing Anne and me to his wife as Mr. and Mrs. Martin Luther Harmon King, Jr. m-m Hargrove (Skipper) Bowles, another permanent officer of '41, led the ticket for the House of Represeiftatives in the rfecent primary in Guilford. He was bragging on Grace Hamrick’s ever-increasing beauty. "Opfen with Care’’ Rush did not quip with care: “She should, she’s been working at it all day,’’ Rush interjected. m-m Ex-Governor Terry Sanford ’39 and wife Margaret Rose were present. I haven’t figured it out but Rosb claims the successive Classes of ’39, ’40, and '41. m-m Jim Lalanne, the ace quartor- 'back was over from Greensboro, but this class had another ers are taking summer boarders again, encouraged to do so by the U.S Department of Agricul ture. A swing under the apple tree, steaks on the grill beside the erfeek, and horses to ride sound inviting to some. Others, with foresight, are thinking they had better see morie of their own planet before soace travel opens n'ew vacation possibilities. Christian Science Monitor DETROIT TO MOSCOW? The long-drawn-out negotia tioas between Fiat and the Rus sians over the purchase of a complete motorcar plant came to a appy conclusion with a formal signature in the Fiat museum in Turin (May 4.) Significantly enough the agreements were signed by the Italian credit in stitute involved as well as by Professor-Valletta, .since clearly credit terms are a vital part of the deal. The only figure relbased is that capacity of the plant will be 2,000 vehicles a day. This is very large—about half a million cars a ybar—half Fiat’s total capacity being created in one fell swoop and the capital cost cannot be less than $560 million. The deal is a moTTorial to Profbssor Valletta as he re tires- and to Mr. Khrushchev, already retired, who first hatch ed the deal during the professor’s visit toMoscow four years ago. Thb size of the deal, the,same as that now proposed bv the Russians to the Japanese Toyerta j company, is so great that Fiat is 1 probably the only European com pany big and intergrated enough to copie with the problems in volved in planning production and ordering the right machin ery. Even 'Toyota was taken a- back by the -size of the proposi tion. So it would not be altogethbr surprising if the Russians turn ed to one of the American motor giants for their next deal, since a 11^ thrbe have considerable ex- priencG of working on the scale ’■"nulred bv the Russians. And they are used to designing cars suitablle for w^ild extremes of climate over a vast continent. Si beria and N'o*dh Dakota have very similar clirooteB. The Economist (London) " second childhood. But the expla- ^ nation is that Batman is “camp,” a term used to describe some thing that is so bad that—in the reverse - perverse psychology of pop art—it has, in fact, to be good, or “in.” Batman is definite ly very “in” in the United States! this spring. While young people follow the episodes as straight drama, the adults watch purely for laughs— or so they say. The first thing in the morning newspapers to which many adults turn is the “funnies,” where daily are de picted dramas involving a host of diverse characters. ABC’s master stroke has been to trans fer this addiction to television. The guinea pig it chose was a character invented 27 years ago by Boip Kane, whose Batman and Robin comic strip began to be nationally syndicated shortly be fore the outbreak of the second world war. The sponsors decid ed boldly to play the comics straight and square, just like colored strips in the Sunday oomic supplements. Mr Adam West as Batman is an earnest, unsmiling model of rectitude, the e.-nbodiment of red-blooded Americanism, a quot- er of copybook maxims and the sworn enemy of all crime and ! sin. His faithful young assistant Robin (Mr. Burt Ward)—in a relationship calculated these days to arouse sniggers—is the be placed under strict federal i^^issenters a happy landin.g. controls. litis hoped that helicopters can Legal measures taken to pre-; be made less noisy—as well as vent unauthorized u.se of LSD j their critics, could prove extremely difficult to enforce and might raise troublesome constitutional ques tions. Still, .slich laws should constitute a certain restraint. The primary restraint, however, will surely come in the growing realization that LSD has no lasting positive value to the user , , . . , and may actually jeopardize his their bags at a counter ni the Ever since last December 21st when were were given a fine Christmas present of this new aerial service, hundreds of pas sengers a day have simply check- future well being. Three men vvlio have had ex tensive personal experience with psychedelic or “consciousness expanding” drugs recently wrote the Daily Iowan, Iowa State Uni versity, that “searching for last ing positive value ... we con clude that drugs constitute only a subtle escape from the con scious effort that eventually must be made.” In pointing out that no au- Pan American Building, ridden the world’s fastest elevators to the 57th floor, proceeded to the roof and then took the helicop ters. The “chopper” carries 25 passengers and 7,.500 pounds of baggage and is the type used by the Marine Corps, but for com mercial service, instead of con-, taining leathernecks, it has a soft carpet and a pretty steward- thentic Eastern philosophies or ess. As it leaves its “pad”, the spiritual teachings “have ever copter, somewhat noisily one thTlZl? of drugs ini^^^j its way a- the quest of increased aware-1 , e hove the crags and canyons of New York’s skyscrapers and through a sdene unlike any other wide-eyed, breathless type, given to such expressions of deep emo tion as “Holy barracuda.” . . . For ABC, this transfusion from one medium to another has paid off fantastically. “Batman” is now among the top ten popu lar shows according to the Tren- dex ratings. It has inspired a whole culture, including records of Batman thefne music, a new dance devised by Arthur Mur ray, the Batusi, a rock-and-roll group, Batman sweat shirts; in all they should bring in $3 mil lion this year. Moreover, this may be thb curtain-raiser to a comic 'book marathon on American televi sion, succeeding the Westerns, and possibly as pervasive Next year Batman may well be joined on thb home screen by the Sha dow, the Phantom, Mandrake the Magician, Superman (already the subject of a Bro'adway stage show) and who knows who else. Dleadpan actors, form up in line. The Economist (London) ness and enlightenment,” they i quote .4vatar Mclier Baba, whom tliey describe as a widely ac knowledged authority on higher states of consciousness, as say ing: “The experiences which drugs induce are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage from wa ter. No matter how much you pursue the mirage you will nev er quench your thirst, and the search for Truth through drugs must end in disillusionment...” The three say that their own experience only corroborates his statement. They add: “Drugs of any kind inevitably become a i blind alley for self-fulfillment. To rely on external means is to ignore one’s inherent capacity to realize his own greatest poten tial.” In all the babble of contro- in the world_ From 1,200 feet up, the passengers havb a quick but imposing look at the Chrysler Building, the Unitbd Nations and the bridges from Manhattan to Queens and Brooklyn, all at cruising speed, the helicopter takes its occupants on a colorful sightseeing tour as well as to the airport. Many people think the ride over the myriad lights at night is better than that in the daytime. 10 TEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about Kinp Mountain area people am events taken from the 196 We* of the Kings Mountai* f/erald. to I quality and quantity. Two ■ i women undergraduate dor- athletic. It had mo^ feminlrt* | jee in the fall of ’39 to augment beauty than emy befefe, both a,* lone Spencer. City officials are busy making preparations for adoption of the 1956-57 budget. The Cleveland County tax rate likely will be up for the coming year. Just how much of an In crease will be tacked on the $1.24 per $100 valuation is not defin ite. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Among girls to be presented to society at the 30th annual debu- ante ball in Raleigh in Septem ber will be Miss Anne Moaley Dilling, daughter of Mr. arid Mrs. Charles Dining of Kings Mountain. KEEP YOUR RADIO DIAL SET AT 1220 WKMT Kings Monntain. N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between Ttiursdi versy over LSD, this seems to us to constitute an eminently sane appraisal. — Christian Science Monitor. Leoi K of No and t bistri last V L in sti ters of tl ing : Miss Leoi reac VVal Uh rani 3 ti KM Ole to r timi timi afte ace the Moi mai ing cau Gol tro] .471 Pos kej D( Ihr an( ovt kni m sto als fin Ca cal ral gn on th, Gc tai Be ne of fir St sh in St \vi a\ sc a fi fc \v b: ir fi 2-