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Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Heiald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the 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 Paul Jackson Dave Weathens Douglas Houser Alle.n Myers Dave Weathers, Jr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANY’WHERE ONE YEAR . .,^.50 S®. MONTHS^.. $2.00 THREE MONTHS .. $1-25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE A fool uttereth all his mind: bid aHviseman keepeth it in till aftenvards. Prcnxrbs 29:11. Public Housing The public housing committee and minority housing committee of the city has been gleaning some interesting de tails for the past several weeks on pub lic housing in conference with several engineering firms, specialists in the field. With the approval last weekend of the Kings Mountain’s workable program for community improvement, the knowl edge-seeking of the committees gradu ated from theoretical to practical im portance. Item 1: Does the city need public (federal government) housing"? A glance at the map, detailing re sults of a housing survey by the com munity planning division of the state’s Department of Conservation and Devel opment, plus the very, very tight situa tion here in rental housing, indicates a rather loud and clear “yes.” Some of Kings Mountain’s residences are dere licts, while a much greater number are tagged as sub-standard. ^ Item 2: Does the city, regardless of need, want public housing? Here is a question with many rami fications. With many, federal govern ment' housing is an onerous subject, whether via political philosophy or from owmers of rental residences w'ho regard public housing as not only direct com petitions, but direct competition from their own money as paid in taxes to the respective directors of internal revenue. In this instance, current shortage of rental housing, prospect of razing of more derelicts already begun, and raz ing of other houses due to industrial ex- pension indicates public housing should be wanted in Kings Mountain. Addition- ^ ally, builders say their construction costs, plus rental fees obtainable, do not match for a profit-making result. Item 3: What is the incidence of citizens, the widows and orphans, the infirm and the elderly, who can hardly afford sub-standard rental housing and who certainly cannot afford comfort able, standand housing? This is a question to be answered through surveys, and one which will, when ansywered, determine whether any public housing will be approved for Kings Mountain and how many units. These are the generic questions. Answers to many specific ones are being learned by the committees, and each member will attest that answers are surprising, among them: 1) when a family’s income advances to the point it can afford non-public housing, it is giv en notice to move out; 2) eviction orders are issued for the unseemly in conduct or practice; 3) public housing is not a good roof for those who batten off the public weal. Congidtulations Congratulations are in order to yet another Kings Mountain citizen who has been elected head of state organiza tion. Postmaster Charles L. Alexander is the new president of the North Carolina division of the National League of Post masters. ; His election as president, after serv- ' ice as area chairman and member of the board of directors, attests to the high re- t gard his fellow postmasters tender him. i It is a further honor to the Kings I Mountain area in that he succeeds Post- T master Fain Hambright, of Grover, Kings Mountain’s near-nei^tbor ei^t ^ miles south. It’s time to buy Kings Mountain high school season football tickets. Tight Money Hits State North Carolina, where good govern ment is a habit, has long bragged of its high credit rating and the concurrent fact that the state, in turn, has enjoy ed for many years a friendly money market where it sold its bonds for very low interest cost. Yet, on Tuesday, Treasurer Edwin M. Gill announced arrangement of $60 million in bond anticipation notes with North Carolina banks at interest of four percent for a one-year period. Mr. Gill reasoned that, with the tight money market, it was doubtful that North Cai’olina could market $300 million in road bonds at four percent — an interest ceiling included in the bill which set up the road bond election. Ex-President Harry Truman, in his usual forthright manner, declared over the week end that escalating interest rates overa continuing period can and may cause a business recession, adding that the current tight money market poses a very real and near-term danger of a recession. Old friend President Lyndon Johnson disagreed with Mr. Truman's judgment that recession danger is imminent. Perhaps there is merit in the posi tion of both Presidents. It will be noted, however, that the pace of business here at home in Kings Mountain is at high level. Those who want to work are working and employers are short-handed. Yet residential build ing is off considex’ably from last year’s pace. Needless to say other industries may be effected. The availability of money for loan effects, in time, every business, from the pawnbroker to the auto maker. In the instance of the highway bonds, it would be normal policy for the state to seek bids on the total batch, layed when arrangements are made to obtain only 20 percent of the voted funds. Tobacco Tax, No KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. Thursd^, September I. 1966 A drive is now underway in the state for imposition of a tobacco tax, an avenue of raising money .popular for many years in non-tobacco growing states and now extant in each of the other 49, Oregon being the latest to im pose on the weed at inhaling point. MARTIN'S MEDICINE In(/redienttt: bits of neies, ici.srfowi, htimoi', and commends Dii'cctio^is: Take \ceek1y if jiossfble, but avoid ovei^osaffe. Our Poor Relation By MARTIN HARMON The line in the venerable pop ular song “Dream, Dream, Dream” —that ^realms are not what they seem-—is quite true. m-m I have a recent cose in point. m-m It js contended by psycholo- I gists and psychiatrists that the portion of the human brain la beled the sub-conscious mind is man’s electronic computer or IBM machine logging ail, wheth- et- facts, Impressions, conversa- ttons. eter _ m-m\ The problem in memory, of course, is the imiatter of recalling the logged facts to the conscious. It is a theory that makes sense. m-m When a person is sleeping and also dreaming, however, the re call is most often Jumbled, one way or another. An upset tum my. strain, many other factors can cause bad dreams and in worse degree nightmares. Pre sumably, sleeping in quiet re pose, preened by pleasant hu mor, can cause the good dream. One iright last week I had two. First I dreamed President John son had telephoned both Mayor John Henry Moss, then me, to say he would be present at the forthcoming celebration. Subse quently, the Secret Seiwice came to town for a acurity check-out, put John and me through the test first and happily found us with passing grades. Well, we'd bet’n at work on celebration plans, reaaon enoo.rh for that one. m-n Prlora of stocks have been fall ing drastically recently and the day previously I had bei*n dis cussing the market generally and General Motors particularly with Charlie Dixon, the Victory Chevrolet major domo. G-M not long ago was selling at a peak of $112.75 per share, was buyable I the day Charlie and I were talk- I ing for $71..'>0, a price which I looked nalghty attractive. Viewpoints of Other Editors m-m My dream: I had called Ath- lene Smith at Reynolds & Cdr- panj' as the market opened, found the orice dipped tia even $70 and bought exactly .50,000 shares, then sold it in the after noon for $75, a neat one-day profit of a mere quarter-million dollars. m-m ‘Tv\as too bad to find myself awaking from that one. Initially, the proposal was advanced by the hard-pressed cities and counties who wanted the state to be their tax collector, rebating the take to the local units of government. m-m Oh, well, one can dream. I doubt very seriously if there’s much truth in another venerable ■^dream” lyric “When I Grow Too Old to Dream” m-m No dream: My venerables- 16- year-old I>odge passed the state inspection a couple of weeks ago with only a headlight adjusfi.Te!nt ailment requiring treatment, which ailment I am told is the most popular of the severad sought. m-m Norman McGill delivered the car to the house, remarked to my wife, “That's a real tight car. Martin should have it painted and reupholstered and keep tt for an heirloom.” I appreciated the compliment. It was not long, however, before the school folk joined the movement. As may be guessed, the school folk picked up the football and want to carry it downfield for themselves. Latest chap ters: the state’s shortage of 18,000 teach ers as school opened, and the call by Dr. Charles Carroll, state suj^rintendent of public instruction, for minimal pay for beginning “A” certificate teachers of $50(X) for a nine-month school term, we take it with the customary increments for longevity. Many will confess, if they think, to more sympathy with the plight of local units of government (Kings Mountain is a happy exception, though Cleveland County is pushed), than with the teach er pay plea. Outside the school estab- lisment, there are few citizens who work less than 50 weeks per year for their $3000, $5000, $8000 or more. Meantime, present state revenue taxation continues to return handsome biennial surpluses, making even the moderately liberal look askance at re quests for new taxes. 0 buv- lapelB — the 1968 Mountahie« 6&ys IxmonB, The inhalation tax is likely politic ally, in view of the fact North Carolina is 3 to 1 leader in national cigarette pro duction (Virginia is second) and is also leading tobacco grower, with heavy pro- dudlon in the East and a slight inci dence in thb mountain cduntles. m-m During last year’s celebration, the Mayor handed (me an official car label with the admonition, "This isn’t for the old Dodge." I replied he should not slander' that car, telling him I’d been re lieved of some $229 for automo tive repair by Glenn Grigg a few weeks previously, only $20 of which was attributable to the "Dqge”, as John pronounced it. m-m It reminds of the late Orady King who informed me that a valve-grinding job was needed on the car I owned at the time. In trading humor anyway, I sxig- igested to Mr. Grady I might should be trading. He asked if I could trade for $40. “You know better than that,” I replied, m-a “Well,” grinning as he said It, “that’s all I’m going to charge you to put her In first-class coji dltion.” 1 drove that Chevrolet two iTore years with a minimum of mechanical upkeep expense, m-m Last week on South Battle ground, depression of the sftarter brought a lone gasp. No battery. Otis Falls, Jr., «ot me off with the jumper cable. As I foUowed him up-atreet I noticed the meter showed disdharghig, when pro perty *t should have been charg iniqp on full. When Otis looked un der the hood, he said I had no fan belt. I interproaed that to Meim the belt waa loose and dtsu^- He had meant it. Thttle 'was no sign of fan belt. WHITHER THE RICH? Aristtle Bocrates Onassis Is mad at Prince Rainier of Monaco mad at Prince Rainier of Monaco, as jolly well he might be The prince thinks his tight little en clave needs a “face-lifting;” Mr. Onassis who owns ample portions' of its eyes, nose and (mouth, takes proprietor’s exception. The nub of the argument is that the prince — who, in The Wall Street Journal’s nice phrase Wall Street Journal's nice phrase, Is “determiined that his marriage to Grace Kelley shall not be his only memorable achievement” — wants to remake Monte Carlo from a bastion of the very-well- oiled to a spa for Everman. He wants more and clieaper hotels, oonventionhalls, better roads, pos- sbiliy even a telivision studio, ^r. Onassis, spent most of his tilrnie messing around in a yacht approximately as big as Monaco approximately as big as Monaco,; owns more than 50 per cent of the Societe des Bains de Mer, which in turns owns the casino, the five best hotels and a hunk of real estate. And Mr. Onassis believes that Monte Carlo should be of, by and for the very, very rich. We think he Is absoltrtely right. The rich are having a terribly hard time of it these days, and they need someone to defend them. Consider, for example, that Newport is loat to them; jazz and folk^music (fans go stomping through its streets, and the Vanderbilt estate is open to men in Hawaiian shirts and women in slacks at $1 a head. Bar Harbor is rvwty and rundown. Park Avenue has office buildings Palm Springs Has Ike and Bing Crosby and a golf tournament. Earls and dukes give personal tours of teir family castles. Forty- lkx>t yachts have to dodge Surf boards and outboard motor boats. Is nothing sacred? Is the only thing different abont the rich that they have bigger bank ac counts? What a horrifying thought! Mr. Onassis must resist the Babbit Prince. If neccesary, he must arm his Cruplers and send them forth into the breach. I Should that Tail, he must b'uy an 1 Independent Nudear Deterent, SPREADING ENGLISH Ambassador William Benton’s plea that Washington and London join efforts to make English even more conspicuosTy the worlds number one internat- iowal language has had two very different results. ® From Paris has come thehalf- sorrowful, half-wrathful demand: Why English? Asking, “What’s wrong with French?” tfee news paper Paris Presse accuses the American Ambassador to theU.N. Educational, Social, and Cultural BLUE HANDS. GREEN LEGS ANDRED FACES The advertising industry, so often attacked as a useless ap pendage of our society, sd.T.etimes seems determined to make things har der on itself. Consider a study of the teenage market published recently by I>oyle Dane Bernbach a New York agency. so THIS IS K* NEW YORK Sy NORTH CALLAHAN An expert on window screens, E. J. Sisto has had intipate looks into homes of the-famous- He re- calls that of the famous maestro, •Arturo Toscannini, who lived in Riverdale and - what not many people knew - was going blind in his latter years. The last home of this great musician was on the banks of the Hudson River and each day after lunch, he would go to his study and lie on a lounge near the window from which he could look out and see the lordly, peaceful stream, its quiet waters moving slowly to ward the v/aiting sea Then after a few mirmtes rest.- sometJiUlg everyone should do St this time - the 5-foot-tall fiery little dynamo of a man would spring up and play his ancient piano on which were several pictures of friends of younger days. It was said that no one could control Toscanini except he himself - when he chose to do so. He had a temperament which was mostly temper and got by with odditiew which would cost the average person his job. Even so, no one has yet comg a- long who has really filled his place. Among the things learned from the recent airlines strike was that it is not always necessary for Salesman Joe Smith to have lunch in Chicago tomorrow with Cus tomer Bill Jones. There are other ways to handle it - the telephone being almost as good a substitute a.s the personal visit, as Lowell Brown, a big genial Texas execu tive once pointed out so well. A well-written letter could also save Joe that trip, or a telegram If more speed is required. Many people found out that life does not have to be lived in such a hurry. 3 According to the study’s author psychologist Charles Slack, “The underlying problem of teenagera today is that of achieving digr nity.” Unfortunately, attainment Organization o!f “going to war | of the goal is hampered by a lack against French.” Worst of all, it j of maturity. And that, he reasons, says that MMr. Benton uses his j offers a great opportunity to ad- ' UNESCO office in Paris (of all | vertisers to appeal to the new, places) to map out his anti- emerging “image df the nobility Frenh cact.T.tpaign. But now comes te unkinejest cut of all. Before a crowd of 50.(X)0 Flemish-speakers in Bel- giumthe other day, Flemish lead er" Hendrik 'Borginon told them 'that their language war with Bleigiuin.s Fren^-speakers would of youth.” • Mr, Slaok says there are “many things teenagers want to do and can’t.” Hence advertisers ought to devise “powerful tie-ups.. .be tween a prodl.:ct and a youth’s psyche.” For instance, a feeling of “super-intelligence” is l.ruch A prominent Long Island lady has solved the problem of own ing a big house. Hers had 65 rooms with high taxes and tough maintenance, so she simply had it torn down and used the lumber to build 15 small houses which she now rents, a real gain tax- wise, she finds. But she still lives in a mansion, another one she owned. On the third floor, she raises dogs. Each day, truck leads of choice meat arrive for these lucky canines. So in this case, a dog’s life is better than that of many humans. 3 Some gems from younger stu dents taken from a recent exa mination on music: A yirtuoso is a musician with high morals. I know what a sextet is but had ra ther not say...When a singer hot settle anything in the end. 1 desired by teenagers, so the can- Why? Because, he said, Europe,s ^y-coated popcorn is brain food” ■main language would evenually j ought to sell a lot of popcorn, be French in any case. . .. Or, since younsters yearn for , wrthink That" M^Vo^SnOT at which they can drive [sings he stirs up the air and Is at the very least" somi^hat' ^ suggests presenting a, makes it hit any passing ear- p^’cmatuie in his piSiS7^^^ ^ that'drums. But if he is good, he pr^aiuie in nis preoicuons. teenager into i from hurt But we do beheve, along with j-Kg driver’s seat sooner “Everv-! keep it from hurt- tne anvers seai sooner. , ing.. .Music .sung by two people body knows this can’t be true,” | ^ duel. Pianissimo is a the author concedes, t>ut proper-1 g word for when you cannot ly presented ’ the .advertiser ^hh. Tempo is ^ haw fast people are playing when also thinks that barrels of mon-j longer be measured ey t^ald be made it the use of miigs per hour. Refrain means npnskintone colors bewmes a a refrain in music is teenage fad, the younsters per- ^ ^ad better not try haps dyemg their hands blue and .Probably the most mar- their legs green. ® and challenge the Monacan force de frappe. C2aiy Grant would dmke « wonderful oommander-in- chief. GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS Mr, Benton, that English has a far greater nole to play in the world than even the widespread role alredy vouohsafedit. It is crystal clear that the world n^s and demands an internat ional tongue. For many reasons —^nohe of which reflect unfavor ably upon French — English is Increasingly playing this role. Furthermore, given the oppor- ■timlty, the use of English would increase even faster. As Mr. Benton pointed out, there are lands where the demand for Eftnglishteachers is ten times greater than the available supply greater than the available supply. It seems only sensible for America and Britian, with valued help fra.n the other English speaking lands to seek this need. Christitan Science Monitor That may be, although it is hard to see what blue hands and green legs have to do with a teenage search for dignity or no-1 lioven wrote music even though velous fugue was the one between the Hatfields and McCoys. My very best-liked piece is the Bronze Lullaby. Most composers do not live until they are dead...Beet- billty. It isn’t, however, hard to i he was deaf. He was so deaf he Imagine faces at the Federal I wrote loud music. He took long Trade Commission turning bright YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Jtevm of nows about Kings Mountain area people and events taken from the 19B6 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. The ninth annual BethMrare Community F^ir, sponsored the Bethware Progressive c4ub, will open at 1 o’clock next Wed nesday. OpcMng day enroSlment in Kings Mountain schools TXiesday totaled $2,292 pupils, off 45 (from opening day of 1955 and the first dixjp In opmlng day school en rollment in several yean. Miss Frances Goforth, Kings Mountain native, hOs ooauUtcpred a drama, “Ark of SofeSy”, wMch wtil be televisdd nationally by NBC on the Goodyear PMytwuSe Sunday evening. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL State Senator Robstt F Morgan of Shelby will address moTtoert of Ktfigs MoumaSn ‘Woman’ta elub at the rtub's first general meettn|< of the year Friday night at 7:30 pan. Mrs. Btn F. Emm sntcrhdiied members of the la Ftto IMok at her home Tuasday night. NO SPARKLERS? Speaking to the Soroptondst Congress in Stockholm, a British woman, PhiliiH>a Harris, advo cated the abolishment df the titles of "Miss” and “Mrs” and loud were the cheers from the women assembled from 19 na tions. Mrs.(pardon the expression) Harris said the titles tefleot a woman’s success In findilngi a husband and are rldiouilous in this day when women are fight ing for independence and their most Important accomplishment no longer is mniarriage. Harris, as presuonably a fully liberated woman should be known, goes even further than the Stockholm newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, which last fall dedkled that it would call all women "Mrs." regardless of martoll status. AH men are called "Mr.”, or the equivalient in other laftguiiges than English, and to be entirely fair all wdmen should be addresed as "Mrs.", It was argued. Like the cheers the lady called HaiTris evoked, the paper received maos approbation Ifrom its fenv inine n^ers. One wondera, how ever, if the ladles j^ividually would be equally Eithuslastilc about the altolishingf^ another eEymbol of auaceaof.M snaring a mate^H— the dtamo "MS'.'" is expected W left hand? > THE OREGONIAN red at the appearance of any selling gimmick ‘ ‘ everybody knows... can't be true.” Plainly, lack of maturity is not a monopo ly of teenagers.—^The Wall Street Journal. ring her for her KEEP YOUR RADIO DIAL SET AT 122a MT IQngs Moontaiii. N. C. Ne’Ws & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fin^ entertainineiit in between I walks in the forest even when everybody was calling him. I guess he could not hear so good, Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died from this. She played the Messiah well until her fingers flew off the Handel. Do, re me is music in the pocketbook. Thursd A Br -K at it r 'for th( openo) \V ing to hard i last y Li finisht Reme; co-ctic KMHS K hacks last y ties cs T Sept, hut, 1 year. 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