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/ |i( 'fi -i: Page 2 f/ ;v kings MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN, N C Thursday, June 16, 1966 Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Heraid * j,. Cdtol^na : ' Kl^ ASSOCIATION^ A wsehly nafwspanpr devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for tne enlightenment, £r>iertainmont and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by tlie Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C, 28086 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 MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dave Weathers r Paul JacKson J Allen Myers SUBSCRIPTIONS RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR .. $3:50 SIX MONTHS .. $2.00 THREE MONTHS .. $1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX ' TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 ~r MARTIN'S MEDICINE Ingredienta: bit* o1 nevm humor, and comments Direettona: Takm weekly, ij poaaible, but avoid By martin HARMON Majority of high schools and ! oollcges attempt to got graduat- i ini; classes to return every five i CuU'S. m-m j Thus Dr. John C, McGill went I ver to Nashville,' Tenn., last u.vkcnd for the 20th annivers- a:y gathering of his medical cla>> at Vanderbilt university, , and his wife had attended the ’ 20t!i anniversary of her Erskino I cl.iss of ’46. !tty wife logged in iioi -Number 20 at Winthrop. do remember Father!" IVE GOT LOTS WORK TO \ TODAY^S^BIBIJE^RSE Whoso loveth instruction loh'cth knoivledge: but he that^iateth reproof i.s brutish. Proverbs t- M- Tax Proposals Perhaps not in the history of North Carolina, certainly not in modern hist ory, has as much attention n to tax - increasing proposals as in tbS past few montns. A tax on tobacco products has again been supported, at least in the non growing, non-manufacturing weed areas in the state. This week the North Carolina Asso ciation of County Commissioners re solved in support of increasing the state sales tax by one percent (to four), with the residue to be rebated to the coun ties and cities on a per capita share formula. There is some conversation that the new tobacco tax, or increased sales tax, would could result in repeal of the in tangibles and inventory taxes which are rebatable to local units of government. In the general fund tax history of the state since the early thirties there have been these major and minor de velopments: 1) The Ehringhaus administration enacted the initial three percent sales tax, a substitute for the state adyalorem property tax, with the state taking over major responsibility for schools. 2) The Broughton administration, honoring a campaign pledge, won repeal of the sales tax as it applied to the home table. 3) The Hodges administration re wrote the basic revenue act, winning some changes in taxes effecting busi ness and expanding sales tax coverage to many areas (building materials, printing products, e.g.) previously not taxable. 4) The Sanford administration put the home table back on the tax menu to get enough money to meet Sanford’s campaign pledge for school improve ments. The school-managed United Forces for Education are again propagandiz ing for more money, for a variety of purposes but with the big item for teacher pay. The publicity materials compare stipends of beginning college graduates in a variety of fields, with the North Carolina teaching pay for a beginning “A’' certificate teacher $2000 in arrears at minimum. However, there, is no note to indicate that the teacher is on duty nine months rather than a dozen. , The counties and cities have been under heavy pressure in recent years to provide hospitals, school buildings, men tal health clinics, libraries, water and sewer mains and othervaried and desir ed services. Many have reached the point they must slow and amortize or find newsources of revenue. " Due to growing industrial and pop ulation the state’s tax take has been sufficient to keep normally con servative budget-makers in surplus con dition. Themonthly re^rt of the state department of revenue shows this con tinuing trend during the current year. The same happy condition has not been Jruew'ith many counties and cities. A corollary back-drop is Governor Moore’s camp^^n pledge of “no new taxes”, about w^h he was meticulous during the 1965 General Assembly. Counting noses in the 50-member Sen ate, it is hard to envision passage of a tobacco tax in the immediate future in North Carolina; Hollings Landslide Ex - Governor Ernest F. Holling? barrelled Unitbd States Senator Donald Russell Tuesday for the Democratic nomination for Russell’s seat. Senator Russell conceded at 9:28 p. m. It reminds of four years ago when the shoe was on tlTe other foot, and Holl ings was trapped in a landslide by the late Senator Olin D.. Johnston, and in which primary Hollings carried only one of South Carolina’s counties. Politics creates strange bedfellows, itis said. In Tuesday’s voting, Mr. Holl ings enjoyed the active support of the late Senator’s widow, brother, and other echelons of the Johnston support of ’62. The campaign showed no great di vergence - of political philosophy be tween the two contestants. Big difference, which Hollings did not fail to remind the voters . was that Russell had tempted tradition by re signing the governorship to which he was nominated and elected handily to receive Senate appointment by his successor. He wasthe seventh Governor in his tory to attempt this coup, and he was. the sixth to fail of re-election. Only A.-B. (Happy) Chandler, of K e n t u c k y, brought it off. Senator Nominate Hollings won plaudits from non-South Carolinians for his performance as Governor. The Tues day results indicate many Sandlappers had second thoughts on his gubernator ial performance since his 1962 defeat. At 44, the Charlestonian, if elected as expected, should enjoy a long tenure as South Carolina Senator. laynes Departure Harry E. Jaynes’ recent resignation and projected departure for DeKalb County, Georgia, and a principalship in the Greater Atlanta school system iS re grettable news for Kings Mountain area citizens. His decision resulted from severa reasons. His new assignment obviously is a promotion, both in size of schoo and annual stipend. Additionally, he re gards the Greater Atlanta system as £ progressive big-city system, notes that a set policy has been established of building a large new school annually. His service here has been excellent, as school principal during the difficult if^riod between consolidation of the area schools and attainment^^of the new high school building just opened last fall. The Central building somehow housed the additional pupils, but it required what some considered magic to accomplish it. He handledhis chore in an'easy-go ing, but quite efficient manner, ap proached nroblems full faceand solved the majority of them. Mr, Jaynes further filled the role of responsible citizen in community affairs in numerous civic activities. Best wishes of Kings Mountain citi zens will attend him in his new role. Upping the sales tax for benefit of counties and cities may have easier, but certainly not easy, sledding. The American Legion Juniors are winning baseball and are provid- customary thrills of last-ditch icks and last-ditch stands familiar phase of the national pastime. Dogs are still in quarantine here, will be through June 30. m.m School officials relate that ex perience shows the Silver Anni- \c'r.<ary gatherings seem the biggest and here Saturday night the Kings Mountain high school class of 1941 held a reunion at tended by 80 persons and I crash- txi the party for conversation, though I couldn’t accept the cor dial invitation of Charlie Bal lard and others to join for din ner. m-m Other members of the class pivsent from far and near were Mrs. Rachel Smith Farley, of Raleigh, Mis_ Jo Keeter Madison, of Virginia, Mrs. Betty Cee Neis- ler Timberlake, of Virginia, and Mrs. Betty Patrick Merritt; also of Virginia, Mrs. Frances Crouse Hodden, Gene Tignor. Mrs Helen Ramsey Blanton, R. G. Plonk, and others. \ \ / SUNDAY IS FATHER’S DAY // 1 \\\l' [A DAD OC PAL, SO THIS IS NEW YORK By NORTH CALLAHAN ^^WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU? THE QUEEN AND EUROPE ’ m-m Wilson Griffin, a member of I tile class, related later that on- f ly two members, Nancy Nichels j and Gordon Barnette, remain „ , ... , . , single. Wilson enjoyed -a letter Harmless guff is a fmr dcs- of greetings from Baamette, who of the words the Queen s said his farm duties would pre-1 ministers usually put in her vent his attendance. Ho manages, Belgium (last week) he wrofe, a "too” farm, went on l allowed to say Viewpoints of Other Editors BAR AND BILL'OF RIGHTS to explain the definition of a "too” farm is “too dry, too wet, little land in cultivation, planted little land in culiva'ion, planted tOD late...” etc., etc. something. Dr. m-m Bill Farlev and,.. Rachel Brussels had craftily greeted her that morning with a display of folkloric mummery calculat- ied to touch chords of European kinship in every British televi sion set. At a state banquet that were interested in getting the re-' King Baudouin, straight- lationship of Dr. John 3. Rhodes, speaking as he has .een since he With far/less fanfare than it deserves, the Board of Govei*n- ors of the American Bar Associ- AUTOMATED HOG CALLING The achievements of those who do research in farm mechaniza tion always arouse our admira- ation has approved creation of a tion. It is cheering to think that new Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities The propos al will put before the House of Delegates in August. Forty-two stories above 42nd Street in the elegant Pinnacle Club, I attended a gathering to launch a new book japtly titled "I Protest” by E. W. Scripps and edited by Oliver Knight. Crusty Mr. Scripps, who did not relish social occasions and once turned dow'n an invitation to lunch with Woodrow Wilson, would have grimly laughed had he been present at all this to-do over him. (When asked if he thought it was right to refuse a Presi dential invitation to eat, Scripps replied, “Not right but it was a record) Since that ti.r.e, some 60 years ago, much has been added to the record of Edward Willis Scripps, especially the famous exploits of his in founding a great newspaper chain and e.xcr- cising whenever he felt like it which was often—a fabulously acid tongue. —3— ' E. W. Scripps was born on a farm in Illinois, the youngest and loudest of 13 children. His father had been a bookbinder in London before' coming to Amer ica. E. W. thought he was an un wanted child, held no affection for his mother, and turned to his half-sister, Ellen, for affec tion, the two remaining devoted •all their lives She introduced him to the world of books and of men, particularly individual, in dependent and dynamic men, such as he hi.rrself became. On winter evenings at the family farm, the family gathered a- round the fireplace and listened as Ellen read to them in her precise English. Throughout ! childhood, E. W. was sickly and knew little of ordinary children’s pleasures. Usually he was bored with his playmatfes or angered by their criticism. He was an unusual person with a creative flair and a shell of individual ism. Solitude to him meant os the Raleigh urologist, 10' Kings Mountain folk, which is: Dr. Rhodes is,,half-brother of Mrs. ch-eerily reminded the almast-in- dependent Congolese in 1960 just What they owed to his predeces- Fergie Plonk, wife of Fred. John I Leopold II, plunge d fight is first cousin to Fred. As far as' Would Britain like to become I know, Mr. and Mrs. Plonk are 1 Europe? no kin. 1 This time the Belgian advisers r m-m ’had it right. No Lumumba she, Dr. Farley, a pediatrician, was Queen Elizabeth duly replied that a classmate of mine at UNC, 1 like so many things in life the though we weren’t acquainted desirable is not always immedi closely on ca-mpus. He did his medical sudies at Duke, entered the service, and I first renewed ac*quaintances with him in the forties on a football weekend jaunt to Durham with the Tolly Shuford family. The Farleys liv ed next door to Charlotte’s fam ily. ately attainable, but yes thank you, Britain woiuld. m-m The class motto of ’41 “Deeds, not Words” m-m Wilson Griffin was reviewing some of the deeds, such as .Meek Carpenter’s ''.eing the “yoangest father”, with a two-month*' old baby as his house, and Mrs. Juanita Warren, the high school faculty member, being a grand mother. Right (.much doin’, I’d say. Currently being filed with the prop er government agency is a “total plan for the development of Kings Mountain”. Approval would imply share-basis fed eral grants for some projects, loans for others. If approved, much responsibil ity will accrue to the five-member re development commission named last week, as well as theadvisory and minor ityhousing committees now being nam ed. Potential benefits could rei^amp the face of the community in many benefi cial directions. Next morning the Daily Ex press, horrifically solemn, duly blew its top. It was “monstrous” that Her .Majesty should have been asked to make this declar ation; “there must be,” the Daily Express felt, “a deep sense of shock and dismay”—a notion that had the Daily Mail’s court jester, for one, rolling in the aisles. Still, the Express had a point of a sort. as a result of their efforts, a fan.Tier can now relax before his j cape and an opportunity t.o do television while an automated vvhat he pleased which was usu- timer sets , in motion the augers ally reading and daydreaming, that feed his livestock. : , In a way, it is remarkable that I the ABA has for so long ignored But automation usually brings | At the age of 15, E_ W. Scripps the relative i.rportance of the I new problems. Indiana farmers , left school -because his father most fundamental laws of our 1 found that the noise _made by had a lingering last illness The society. If has had sections on \ their , hog - feeding rnachinery4 j-oting son even took over the such matters as patent law, but iwhen loading acted as a dinner I farm. But instead of working on has left Bill of Rights matters to lesser committees which fre quently were inactive. It is not necessary to depreciate patent law to stress that the bar should be even more concerned with freedom of speech, religion, as- semily and movement, and en- joyi.ment of property, fair trial and equality before the law. Because many eminent consti tutional lawyers felt this way, the Board of Governors has re sponded. Indeed, more than 850 members of the legal profession. Including deans 'of many law schools, signed the petition for the new Section. ABA President Edward W. Kuhn supports it as “an excellent forum for consid ering some of the fundamental questions that confront the Ar merican people.” Presidentelect Orison S. Maiden calls it “a con structive step in the public in terest.” bell for the hogs. It was as ef fective as the old-t|me farmers “soo-ee, soo-ee.” Unfortunately the animals heard it too soon— before dinner was ready. Forget- ! tin.g their maners they jostled each other harmfully as they struggled to find Hood at the still - empty through, reducing their market value. it, he got neighbor boys to do the wprk in the fields, while he sat in a fence corner and read. In 1872, E. W. decided he wanted to be a nev(^ap^i,^^man. He had a half-brother vvh^ was editor of a newspaper ^’Detroit, tut that individual did not share the am bitions of E. W_ So, for a time, the Michigan avienuC to journal- . , ! istic success was closed. But the To find a way to overcome the, ggpjj,j^jjQj.^g young Scripps -dinner bell effect was a task ^yei-g not to be denied. The ne.xt foi thg experts. The Product Re- year, he went to Detroit any- search Dep^tment 'Of the Indi- g painting signs ana Fairh Bureau Cooperative | g^j advertising on windoy Apociation went to work on it. | until his brother took him Their solution was 'cased on jnto the job shop of the paper. I swine psychology. If the ducts were filled for the next meal while the hog.s were busy eating, the-hogs would not heed the noise, they reasoned. A new tim ing mechanism was devised The f dinner bel effect was (ended. m-m Betty Timberlake was class oresident and it was especially nice to renew friendship with her and husband Buck, who. the previous weekend, had been forc ed to miss the UNC Class of ’41 reunion due to a commencement sea-son of his own at Mary Bald win college, whfere Buck is a vice-president. m-m The Class of ’41, like others.-of the era, both high school and college, were “war” classes, and most of the men were in service. All appeared remarkaMy well- preserved in spite of those ex periences. Mr. Wilson, whose policy- the monarch was exactly voicing, down to theambiguities, might deny that the .matter was one of “keen and even bitter political controvei'sy” seeing that he and Mr. Heath are agreed on it (and Mr. Grimond, too, if Mr. Wilson any longer had reason to care what Mr. Grimond thinks). But controversial it still is. And no bad thing. m-m The Queien is accepted as a mouthpiece of British views. She should not say anything her own loyal oposition, or any body of opinion strong enough to be rep resented !oy a significant parlia mentary party, fiercely disputes. But she should not be kept silent when all three parliamentary parties are in agreement and the opposition to British entry to the Common Market has bfeen reduced to a heterogeneous rump. The politics of consensus Which apply" to tire Quieen do not require total unanimity. — The Economist (London) Chatting later with Mrs. Crady Howard, I wa* reminded that our high school class has nbver reuned and that 1966 marks our thirtieth anniversary. Clyde Greene and Dorothy Plonk Lewis have .made suggestions for a get- to-gether in the past, and I sug gested to Susie that we shotdd make 1966 the year. Class Presi dent Elarl McGill lives in nearby Blacksburg, S. C., many of the class resicte here, and many more are within easy traveling distance of Kings Mountain. Dr, Martha Plonk, who lives prob ably the most distant at Corval lis, Oregon, will be home for the summeir. Why not this ybar? m-m “You want me to do all tfie work and I’m not going to do it,” Susie teased. But she agreed to help. A simple solution. The larger No doubt there will he a few i Pi’oblems brought on by automa- me.mbers of the House of Dele-j tion often seem insoluble. But gates in opposition. Some law-1 they are not. It is a matter of yers appear to regard the Bill of scale, the bigger problem calling for far greater effort. Agricul- The elder Scripps founded the,^ Detroit Evlening News and 0/3 of carrier boys was E_ W. who i turned out to be such a success- that he w'as making $50 a week in a fe w months. At 21, he was editor of the paper and bought one share of stock in the News. That was 1877, a far cry from the 40 million dollars Scripps was worth at the time of his death in 1926. Rights as either a dead letter or a radical document But the A- merioan Bar Association can on ly claim ^ "deep concern for American law if it applies that concern to the individual free dom for which the nation stands. The delegates ought to accept tural research has not only de vised such ingenious devices as pickers far corn, but has placed -3— DESERT VICTORY In a way it was a victory. Thb Screen Actors Guild declared that "Rat Patrol,” a new TV serlca, could be filmed in the Mojave DeSbrt only, under strict union rules, and no one made the Guild officials budge. The producers wanted to use residents of nearby Barstow, Calif., In certain crowd scenes. The Guild, however, in^sted that any extras would have to be hauled out to the desert from Hollywood, more than 100 miles away. Maybe we can bring it off. Then, too, there was a possibil ity that U.S. Army personnel might appear In various scenes of the series, a World War II story of fottf commandos. That would be fine, the Guild said, but for every on-camera soldier one union member would have to bb hired to stand around on the set. the series shot up to $110,000 per half-hour episode, nearly 50 per cent abovTe the industry average and a lot of money to gamble on the risky television ratings game. Unable to dent the union’s position, the producers retreated; the series will be shot in Spain. Some union members may ap plaud the Gu^W and other labor organizations in their battles to preserve make-work rules. To others, we suspect, the union’s victories are bbcoming pretty P>Trhic. The Wall Street Jottmal Los Angeles. j TEARS AGO ^THIB WEEK Items of news cfbout King Mountain area people am events taken from the 195 files of the KHtga Mountait Herald. 'The city board of school trua- tebs discussed without action Monday night possibilities of converting the Central plant Into a Juntor-Senlor high school for the 1966-57 term. William B. McDaniel has been graduated from the Gupton- Jones-Dallas Institute and Col lege of Embalming, after com pletion of its nine month course. Partly bcouM of roctrictions like thOM, the batimated cost of SOCIAL A^D PERSONAL Mr. and Mrs. Charles Alexan der, Rbggle and Cynthia, and Mrs. T. E. Moss have returned from a week’s vacation at Day tona Beach, Fla. KEEP YOUB RADIO DIAL SET AT 1220 WK Kings Monntain. N. C. News & Weather every hour on the a hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between From that time on, the carber of E. W. Scripps was meteoric. He became editor of the Cleve land Prbss and adopted the poli- I cy that it would print the news the bars on the cornstalk in a ( no matter whose name was in- n .u convenient for the me-1 volved. Within ten years, he had their governor’s proposal as | ^I’^n'cal hand that removes it [ control of the Cincinnati Post, in ,. . i celebrated by foiunding the Ken- patiently conducted, should bejucky Post. In 1907, E. W. able to find answers to the hu- j Scripps established the United man problems brought on when Press and by the next year, he machinbs replace men. ! newspapers from Mem- Christian Science Monitor 1 pbis to Hi of V
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