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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C,
Thursday, June 16, t966»^^
Establisl^ed 1889
The Kings Mountain Heiaid
- 'Ttonh Carolina i_
'm^s association!
\ Hc"’sp2p»^T devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for tne enlightenment, 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, 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
Miss Lynda Hardin • Clerk
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
Bobby Bolin Dave Weathers Allen Myers
Paul Jackson Dave Weathers, Jr.
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Vote Saturday
Have a favorite, or two or three in
Saturday’s run-off primary?
If so, vote!
There are three run-off races in Sat
urday’s Democratic primary, for two
county commission seats and for coun
ty treasurer, and, for Republicans, there
is a run-off for United States Congress
man fro mthe tenth North Carolina dis
trict.
Nominally, in Cleveland county the
tenth North Carolina district. Dem
ocratic nomination is tantamount to
election. ,
Odds are that the “tanlomount" busi
ness holds true again this year, though
the commission nominees and Congress
man Basil L. Whitener, unopposed nomi
nee for re-election, have Republican op
position.
Republicans are not accustomed to
primaries and come nowhere near vot
ing their strength until the autumn
campaign, when it is often too late. W.
Hall Young, of Avery county, held a
sizeable lead over Challeneger Don Wir-
ick, of Gastonia, in the May 28 voting.
He has predicted, likely correctly, he
will again be the GOP choice to face
Mr. Whitener in the autumn. Yet GOP
strength in Gaston alone, if put into the
ballot box, would swamp Mr. Young. He
told Gaston folk as much in recent days.
There is no GOP candidate for county
treasurer. Thus Democarts will elect a
treasurer on Saturday.
The prediction is for a quite light vote
total, which means that the candidates
who get their friends to the polls will be
the winners.
The Whammy
This newspaper, as never, does not ap
preciate action of the city board of com
missioners in ratifying use of the radar
speed control system — better known
as the “whammy” — to control traffic
speed.
From the looks of the Monday court
docket, the officers must have done lit
tle else in recent days, other than ma
nipulate this instrument (or instru
ments, since the city has two).
The city’s financial well-being does
not indicate need for money is the rea
son. Or is that the route for employee
pay raises;
The Hffl*ald would remind the commis
sioners, all of whom are sufficiently
aged to remember, of the reputation of
Bessemer City for harrying travelers in
the days of the motorcycle policeman.
Nor would any of the commissioners
pass through Petersburg, Virginia, or
Brunswick, Georgia, could they possibly
avoid it.
mil White
sey.
Congratul
Varies
ed ppesident
ihaq^lcal
ihd
Irvin Allen. Sr.
Irvin M. Allen, Sr., is among the bet
ter police officers Kings Mountain and
Cleveland County has known.
He also was among the more shrewd
politicians to grace this county. His dic
tum: do your politicking after dark. It
was reference to fact that, in heat of a
campaign, people put two and two to
gether and often derive answers of three
or five, neither being correct.
Mr. Allen’s longtime interest and con
tinuing activity in local politics taught
him how to read minds and attitudes,
and the same stood with him to his
seemingly inherent ability as a police
officer and sheriff with the detective’s
mind — in the tradition of Dashiel Ham-
met, Earle Stanley Gardner, and Perry
Mason.
There is much to remember about
Sheriff Allen:
1) The hard-fought Allen-Raymond
Cline races for high sheriff of the coun
ty.
2) His adherence to and support of tht
Democratic party.
3) His determination, after a stroke
of paralysis, to I'etain a driver’s license
(he did).
4) His farm-grown wisdom.
5) His fine family.
Mr. Allen always clowned during po
litical seasons, but those who jousted
with him in both victory and defeat
would attest he was never a clown.
In a coma prior to the May 28 pri
mary, he aroused thereafter to under
stand that his son had been re-nomi
nated as sheriff.
It can be safely surmised that Sheriff
Allen died at peace.
Price Of Eggs (Milk)
The Charlotte Observer made big
headlines out of the news story that the
price of milk likely will advance by two
cents per quart come August.
Why not, or as the
‘pourquoi non”?
French say it
kings Mwiataiiu is-trying to stretch
up and does not need to develope the
reputation of being a hick town. Via U.
S. Bureau of the Census edict Kings
Mountain 1) qualified for “city” desig
nation by attaining 5,000 population in
1930 and 2) showed population of 8,256
in the recent special census of the bu
reau.
The farmer has been one of the more
protected souls of the United States.
Reasons are several, including the na
tive rural background of this nation,
fear of the farmer by urbanites, the
farmer's native conservatism and con
sequent appreciation of protectionism as
represented one time by his tariff policy,
today by his willingness to lean on arms
of government for marketing quotas,
farm extension services, and, in this
state, the milk commission.
TODAY’S BIBLE VERSE
And me knom that all things xoork together for goad to them that love God. to them icho are the
called according to his purpose. Romans S:28.
MARTIN’S
MEDICINE
Ingredients: bits of news
wfedotn, humor, and comments
Directions: Take weekly, »;
possible, but at'oid
By MARTIN HARMON
Death Valley Days
Bill Bridges, the barber, was
teasing Dr. John C. .McCiill re
cently about a sign liis wife and
daughter found on his oHice
door recently.
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The text read sQ.T.cthing like
this: “Wanted; Cowboy for im
mediate employment. Good work
ing conditions. Fringe benefits'.*
cut-rate medical care (milk fev
er, broken cones). Apply inside,
leave hoi'se liitchcd outside.
■Rancher’ J. McGill.''
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John’s cows in neighboring j
South Carolina had crashed j
through the fence cUid taken |
French leave. At the time, an j
even dozen were .still AWOL. I
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Author of the joke was Bill's!
j barbering cousin, Roy Cridge.s, |
and he was merely repaying |
John for an earlier prank per
petrated by the doctor. Shortly
after the barber shops started
closing all day Wednesdays,!
i John was .going to a reunion on I
a Wednesday and w.as' in dire j
need of a trim, both for general |
good grooming and to remo\ e |
sore five years worth of gray. I
But no shops were open John!
put a sign on Roy’s emporium j
reading: “For emergency hair-1
out service, phone the j
number of course being Roy’s |
home phone. |
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Pop Simmons, the county com
missioner. paid call recently to
buy some campaign advertising.
We started talking about base
ball and Pop re.T.ained more
than an hour. I told Pop my first
memory of him was when I was
TO gov's
MANSION
SO THIS IS
NEW YORK
By NORTH CALLAHAN
With people living ever closer
together, with automation noisi
ly abuzz and still with human
natiure requiring the same a-
mount of relaxation and repose,
sleep has become one of our ma
jor problematic goals. There,
just is no sucstitute for, it and
as far as I know, medical slj^cnce
is not even trying to find one. I
shall never forget what our
football coach said to a group of
us once, after we liad been out
late on a week-end and sliowcd
up at practice bleary-eyed and
wobble-legged: “Boys, just re
member this. There’s nothing
that will put it into you like
sleep;’’ The importance of slum
ber can be found in the writings
of our greatest literati. Mark
Twain once defined a snorer as
a “sound sleeper” and wrote one
of his incomparable essa3's on
wonderment of why snorers
coiuld not hear them.?elves saw
ing logs. Then there was the
lady who became exasperated
with her husband instead of
talking in his sleep, he just grin
ned.
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Viewpoints of Other Editors
MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC
SYSTEMS NEED RELIEF
FROM 1965 LAW
It is now abundantly clear that
a youngster and he was making' the 1965 legislation setting ter-
regular calls next door to court j ritorial rights for private power
my beautiful blonde neighbor j companies and rural co-ops 'was
Helen Collins Pop had the un-' passed at the future expense of
welcome news that she had suc
cumbed three years ago.
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The first money Pop earned
playing baseball was for the
Margrace semi-pros of 1923. He
the 73 municipally owned electri
cal systems in the state.
This peace package for the
co.r.panies and the co-ops was
widely hailed as a major tri
umph for the Moore administra-
EARLIER TO SCHOOL
The most famous sleep in
America was said to have taken
place some miles above here at
storied Tarrytown but some one
has observed that the twenty-
year siesta of Rip Van 'Winkle
was not disturbed by loud tele
vision sets of neighbors. Benja
min Franklin, who had some
thing to say about virtually
everything, commented that
I “sleep is the best medicine, fa
tigue is the best pillow.” And
JOB CORPS JITTERS
The New Bedford City Coun-; what schoolchild doe.s not recall
declares the co.tpetition was tooltion. The voices of the municipal
heavy for a fellow of his youth Tties unfortunately were all but
in that era. He chuckled about drowned out in the approbation
Badcye Guthrie, one of the star those who benefited,
pitchers for Kings Mountain. While it was highly desirable
“Man, he was wicked,” Pop re-|to C-fect some kind of truce be-
called. “He would have cursed the private, taxpaying
his grandmother had he thought | companies and the tax-subsldiz
it would produce a single strike rural cooperatives, the inter-
on the batter.” Bill Saunders, e®ts of the cities were given lit-
Bob Southwell’s father-in-law, ! consideration,
was playing manager, Rfunt! Moore, who urged
Lowe the catcher. Snag Ormand, ^he territorial agreement, obvi-
Charlie Moss recalls, was releas-: oosly did not understand at that
ed by Shelby, walked from Shel
by to Kings Mountain, signed on
the Margrace team and de
feated Shelby the following day.
Shelby fans found it hard to un
derstand whj' Snag could lose
'for'Shelby and win for
Mountain
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When my wife was about age
ten, her church had a visiting
evangelist. At one morning ses
sion the subject was alcoholic
beverages and attendant ills.
Near the conclusion, the young
sters were invited to sign a
pledge that the.v would never
use alcoholic drinks in any form
nor vend it. Anne didn’t sign,
and won the accord of hergrand-
The federal government has continu
ally excluded the farmer from the'min-
imum wage law. The farmer, unlike th€
grocer, is not required to report as in
come for taxes, what he removes from
inventory (his products) for the home
table.*
There comes a time for reckoning and
the prospect of an increase in the price
of milk is a harbinger.
'The Hemld regretjs the departure of
William H. White, asistant city attorney
and solicitor of recorder’s court, to the
Brevard law firm of Hamlin and Ram-
No longer can a man become a farm
er with a mortgaged mule, an in-ad
vance crop lein for his food, a plow and
set of plow points.
Those wild worked with him closely
maiii him M step step ahead of the
average yolfHig lawyer.
Best wisNto •ttehd him and his family
in Transylvpjh County.
His investment is large and his tools
are complicated. His onetime tenants
are now in so-called public works. Many
dairymen, selling quantities of milk in
bulk, go to the super markets for their
dairy products.
Why should a child be requir-■
ed to wait around until he is six | cil’S demand that the Federal j memorable, Early to bed
to go to school? Educators are j government close the Ford Rod-j early to rise, makes ^
finding that small boys and girls man Job Corps Center has quite | wealthy and wise. Al-
will do much better work in the j properly been rejected by R-i j. known to have,
first grade if they have attend-1 Sargent Shriver. died from it, insomnia can be a
ed kindergaren, and still better . . . '
if they have had experience in Admittedly, a small minority | health hazards, loss of vitality
what is termed “prekindergar- center s 2d0 trainees be- j and even illness. In the Biblical^
ten” classes They think children embroiled in skirmishes I book of Proverbs there is a say
who begin this kind of prepara-1local youth and the police, jing,
tion when they are four are less’ But the answer to the problem
likely to fail in later grades. j does not lie 1"
But only about half of the na- j
tion’s five-year-olds are now in \ water,
kindergarten. Less than 25 per-1 ^ article in the current New
cent of the nations school dis- j Yorker magazine by John Bain-
tricts offer classes. A much bridge on the Job Corps Center
smaller numl'cer are enrolled in'^t ca^p Kilmer, N. J., vividly
nursery schools. Project Head | illustrates both the same pro..-
mother, who said, ‘,‘You were
right for ‘never’ is a mighty long
time.” A recent eveijt confirms
her grandi.Tiother’s good judg
ment.
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itbn, Jr,, newly install-
Carolina Phar-
__ loh;
flSjc.,. tapped for the su-
To keep in business, he must raise his
prices.
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My Wife owns a few shares of
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Com
pany stock. Wiat I thought was
the regular quarterly dividend
check arrived on proper sched
ule. I didn’t open the letter and
delivered it sealed to Anne. ’That
evening when I arrived home,
she declared she was going to
sell Liggett & Myers.
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Wasn’t that the regular divi
dend check?” I inquired. Oh, the
check was enclosed, she replied.
Then what’s the trouble?”, I
queried. She handed me another
enclosure which was an an
nouncement that L & M in late
May had acquired The Padding
ton Corporation. Paddington’s
claim to fame is that it » sole
distributor in the United States
for high-toned J. & B. Scotch
whiskey, and in turn controls
another company which markets
two other "premiiuih” beverages,
including Bcimbay gin.
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“I've always had a mental
reservation against being a par
ty to selling that stuff,” she de
clared.
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Mrs. O. J. Coffin, of Chapel
Hill, ^dow of the late Skipper
of the journalism school, is na
tive of Haywood County and full
of what many consider native
mountain wit. Her son had
■bpooght her to a press dinner
but couldn’t remain himself.
Two cents on 30 is 6.67 percent, shade
higher than the President’s hold-the-llne
3.2 percent.
lu^t project at Wes-
.Oavid Wilson, 1966
Green Post 155,
t^nnual Boys’ Stete.
But itr is hardly likely the increase
will bankrupt many — even a guy like
Senator Robert Kennedy with nine
youngsters to serve with milk, ice cream
and butter.
>What did her son do? "He took
my advice” she replied. “I al-
wdsn told him not to try to sell
something people didn’t want
much of but to sell something
they'd take away from him,
like liquor or tobacco. He works
for American Tobacco Com
pany.”
time the possible consequences
to the city systems. His recent
comments about their predica-
iment reveal that in 1965 he was
merely engaging in some wish
ful thinking about their welfare,
Kings' than assuring it through
' provisions of the law.
Prior to passage of the 1965
law, which permits non-munici
pal s.N'stems to serve consumers
within 300 feet of their existing
lines, even when the lines are
within cities which have their
own systems, the municipalitie'-
were reasonably able to expand
their systems as city limits linee
were expanded.
The standard practice when an
annexation took place was for
the city to purchase existing fa
cilities from private power co.t.-
panies or co-ops, usually at a
negotiated price that took de
preciation into consideration.
The 1965 law has all but end
ed that practice, and in the pro
cess has ended much of the in
centive and desire for cities to
add to their populations and
areas by annexation. Ironically
this comes at a time when citie*
hard-pressed for revenue depend
more and more on expanding
utility revenues to make ends
meet.
Cities all over the state have
reported either no definite re
sponse or flat refusal from co
operatives, Carolina Power and
Light Co. and Duke Power Co.
when they sought to acquire fa*
duties within their limits or in
areas to be annexed.
There was a slight bre.ak in
this pattern this week when i(
was reported that Duke would
negotiate with Shelby for the
sale of facilities serving six cus
tomers inside the city limits
Shelby began seeking these fa
cilities in 1964, but all progresf
on the matter stopped after the
1965 legislation was passed.
Now. after direct contact with
Gov, Moore and Duke Power’.*
president, it appears that the
sale will be worked out. Still
pending, however, is a decision
of Shelby to annex a substantia’
residential area, a move that
could not proifitatly be made un
lets there was some assurancr
that its electrical sales can be
expanded as well.
'This Is only one case, Gov
Moore now says that he ,gave nc
firm assurances to cities but sim
ply had no reason to believe that
the power companies and the co
ops would refuse to sell under
the new law.
It is with good reasem, then,
that the N . C. Munidpally Own
ed Electric Systems organization
plans a 1967 amendment to the
territorial - agrcs.-nent law. It
would proyida.itiat sfsteni-ovn
Start, and the like.
It is encouraging to note ^
growing movement among edu
cators in favor of extending pub
lic education downward to the
very young. The National Edu
cation Association’s policy com
mission has just recommended
that free preschool education be
jffered to all the nation's chil
dren at the age of four.
■We approve this objective.
There are indications that lack
of preschool education is one
cause of the high dropout rate in
elementary and high school
classes.
But these recommendations
raise a question. If preschool ed
ucation is made universal, will it
be the right kind? Are there
enough teachers who know how
and what to teach very small
children? As the
mendation makes clear, pre-
school teaching must not be
merely a simplified version of
first grade work but a program
“uniquely adapted to children of
ages four and five.” It must be
free of regimentation, giving
rein to a teacher’s imagination
and spontaneity. It would call
for a vast recruitment effort and
many new courses in teacher
colleges.
All this is obtainable in time.
But it is important that any pro
gram adoped on a nationwide
scale take into account these
basic needs and not overleap it
self. With a view to the future,
preparation for earlier education
should begin now—on a national
scale.
Christian Science Monitor
le.Ti and how to solve it. . .
Jerome M Ziegler, director of
the local center, pointed the way
to appropriate corrective action
when he asked that “our neigh
bors in New Bedford... meet us
and above all get to know you
(trainees) as individuals.” What
happens at Rodman, as Ziegler
said, “may well affect the whole
Job Corps program of the coun
try.”
Boston Globe
“Drowsiness shall clothe a
man in rags.” Many figures of V,
speech have originated around ;
the idea of sleep. For example: 1
“Now you have made your bed,
sleep in it.” There is an old cus- ■
tom of stuffing money into mat
tresses, references to getting out
of bed on the wrong side and re
marks about sleeping with one
eye open.
AMBASSADOR
OF UNITY
We’d conceded Linda Louise
Sheerer of Kings Mountain to be
a lovely and gracious recipient
of the Miss Shelby title well in
advance of reading the results
NEA recom-}Of staffer Pat Borden’s girl-to-
j girl interview, which was pub
lished on woman’s pages of last
Saturday.
It appears now that she’ll be
an ambassador of unity as well.
"You know,” she told our re
porter, “I hope my being Miss
Shelby this year will help Kings
Mountain and Shelby form some
sort of unity. It’s about time and
I hope I can help in some way.”
It is about time!
Beauty and youth just may be
the perfect antidotes for long-
stanciing two-way cussedness.
At any rate, ' Miss Shelby of
Kings Mountain has our best
wishes for a reign of unity.
Shelby Daily Star
After a nation-wide survey, the
National Association of Bedding
Manufacturers have come up
with the conclusion that one
reason people have trouble get
ting to sleep is that their mat
tresses are too small for them.
Statistics show that millions of
Americans are taller than their
fathers but are still sleeping in
the same short beds. Sixty-five
years ago, only one out of every
25 American men between the
ages of 25 and 30 reached the
heighth of six feet or more. To
day one out of every five is six
feet tall, and with all the milk,
orange juice and vitamins, to
day’s kids are growing even tall
er. More roomy beds are neces
sary and king-size mattresses
are coming more into demand.
'Though the big beds are more
expensive, this is said to repre
sent a good investment in the
sleep and rest which are so es
sential to today’s fast pace of
life It is well, the manufacturers
urge, to meaiiyr? the mattresses
of your growing youngsters to
assure that they are long enough
for them.
acquire power facilities within
hieir existing or expanded city
limits through the right of emi
nent domain.
The principles of municipal
franchising authority and miunic-
'pal operation of utilities in this
state are well established. They
were not given sufficient consid
eration in 1965 when two natural
enemies,, the private power com-
oanies and the co-ops, bowed to
gubernatorial pressure to sign a
territorial agreement.
The governor and the legisla
ture are obligated to correct that
oversight if the companies and
the co-ops fall to come to some
agreement separately with mem
bers of NCMOES
The Charlotte Observer
TEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
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Mountain area people am
events taken from the 195
fVles of the Kings Mountaii
fTenOd.
Basil L. Whitener made up his
first primary deficit to Ralph
Gardner with plenty of room to
■pare last Saturday as he won
the 11th District Democratic
Ostogrsssional nomination by
ing.,-munidpalltieB would be ablel 1106 vote*.
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