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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 13. 1966 Established 1889 ^Vor.h Carolina v !k The Kings Mountain Herald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published lor the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publisliing House. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, M. 2SdS() under Act of Congres.s of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Gary Stewart ...; Sports Ei^ilor Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Lynda Hardin '. cicr!; ! r MARTIN'S MEDICINE lng7'edients: hits of news, ivisdom, hu>nor,<niii eommenls Directions: Take in' kfy if iiossibJe, but oroul i-- overdasage. Thomas Jefferson on Free Press \bi NATIONAL NiWSrAPER WEEK Bobby Bolin Paul Jack.'-on MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dave Weathers Dro, .Mien Myers Wcati'.ers, Jr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY M.\1L .■\NY\ViIERE ONE YEAR .. $3.50 SIX MONTHS .. $2.00 Tnr..:E MCXTIlS . . $1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA S.-YLES TAX XELEPEOriE NUMBER — 739-5411 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE For so is the will of Cod. that icith tecll doir.g ye may put to sllcy.rc !Jte i'l.'onr.lec of fii lish men. I Peter 2:lo. , PoHtical Season Though the candidates have b work already at seeing and wini been at work already at seeing and winning friends, the lay citizen marks the begin ning of a political campaign officially with the opening of the registration books. In this county, as in most in North Carolina, registration for the Nevember general elections begins Saturday. A special effort is being made in Cleveland County this autumn to get the names of eligible voters on the registra tion books. A bonus will be paid regis trars for names added to the books Mon days through Fridays during the regis tration period October 15-29. The special United States census of a few months ago revealed that less than half the potentially eligible voters in Cleveland County had cast ballots in the general election. In the particular instance, it meant special federal law, rather than North Carolina law, applied to elections. While the federal law posed two problems in Cleveland County, political leaders didn’t like the “principle of the thing.” Highei Insurance Rates It came as no surprise that automo bile liability rates are escalating in North Carolina. < Commissioner of Insurance Ed La nier declined a raise requested by the insurance companies and the rating bu reau last summer for further study. Even the increase granted Tuesday is only about one-fourth the amount the rating bureau recommended. Mr. Lanier, who decries increases to already high rates, comments suc cinctly, “As long as highway accidents increase, insurance rates will increase.” The Commissioner of Motor Ve hicles provides frequent reports on highway fatalities. Already over 1200 have occurred on Tar Heel highways this year, not to mention the injured. The cost of hospitalization of the injured and property damage, bills pay able for the most part via liability in surance coverage, have escalated in proportion. Industry Ranking The state Employment Security Commission reported some statistics re cently that provided some interesting reading. Analyzing payrolls, it showed the textile industry had topped a billion dol lars in payrolls for its employees, put ting it far ahead of the second ranking Tar Heel industry, which is furniture- making. CelebicSlon ^.9 The service aeaaomic> esed gra.i- ing scale of zero to lour long before civ ilian schools adopted the practice aiicr World War II. Four-point-zero, of course, com pares to one hundred and it is the grade most observers, including the most dis tinguished visitors gave last week’s 186th anniversary celebration of the Battle of Kings Mountain. ^ There were many high spots: the thrilling performances of the Green Ber ets and parachuting Golden Knights; the exhilirating performance of the 120- voice Sing Out Di.xie ’66 Group: the mamoth Saturday parade; and amateui Steve Henderson’s effort! fi’iends gave him three seconds aboard) at riding a bucking bull at Saturday night's rodeo. The Grand Ball was as advertised, a Grand Ball. Those who did not hear him would do well to read the te.xt, printed in this issue, of the celebration address of the Honorable Henry Nitze, Secretary of the Navy. It is a worthwhile lesson in the history of Kings Mountain, of the whole Revolutionary War, and of learning there which stands us in good stead to- dav. Presenting the celebration was a genuine community effort involving much work on the part of many indi viduals and organizations and the cele bration result could be nothing less than a compliment, not only to Kings Moun tain but to cities of much larger size. Particular mention should be ^ade of Harry Reeder, the general manager who, like Joe Vale last year; came on the job “cold” as far as knowing many ol the people with whom he was to work at top speed; and who coordinated the many activities with a’ sure hand. The same must be said, again, of Mayor John Henry Moss, who burned midnight oil for several weeks in dis charging the duties of chairman in ad dition to his considerable duties as Mayor. As the ex-great baseball pitcher Dizzy Dean quipped, “It ain’t braggin’ if you can do it.” Kings Mountain did it. Impact ol Newspapers People read newspapers for differ ent reasons. Some like the comics, some like the news columns, some like features on bi zarre events. Many women turn first to the news of social events while many men seek out the sports section. Busi nessmen regard the financial section as required reading. As readers get older they give increasing attention to the ob ituary columns. Surprise in the report was apparel manufacture, which has lapped the to bacco manufacturing industry and claimed third place. It would be interesting to note, in some instances, in just what category particular industries are rated. In the Kings Mountain Herald, many readers relate they are de voted readers of the classified advertis ing, whether or not they are seeking bargains, employment, information on a lost pet, or a house to buy or rent. Budg et-conscious shoppers peruse the offer ings of wares in ther merchandise marts for bargains in the whole spectrum of consumer good, from groceries to autos to pianos. Thus papers. the multi-appeal of news- I^' Mauiiey Hosiery Company, of Kings ^^Duntain, which makes and sells merPs hosiery, a textile manufacturer or apparel manufacturer? And how did the statisticians breakdown the big Burlington Industries payroll, Burling ton making many varied products? City Commissioner T. J. Ellison says, “Put something in the Herald to get people to keep their pets up.” In EUison’s area recently, a youngster jit the seat of his pants to a snapping W By MARTIN HARMON it was "great wTebratlbn. m-m The weather could not have been moi-o perfect for an out door event, and witn .Secretary of the Navy Nitze’s parl> on tai'- get as to time, tiie tight sched ule ua.^ met near peiintly with at least one bright evlia event s.U'idw ;i tuxl in. Ik " V. Jill SO THIS IS IVlilW YORK By NORTH CALLAHAN m-m i The Pershing Rifles, tlemson j Uni\eisit;i’s deluxe diiU team ! utilized the ninth hole fairway] on the t'ountry Club golf course ' to demonstrate' their difficult precision marches and tiij’ir i ■prowess— at - handling'- cli:na.x was an aggregatj.; .iiTng salute from a kneeling position.' .The \isiting dignilai ies .vere I hlgh.ly complimentai’.v. ; m-m I Xlorc folk appeared for the' lun •liecti honoring the Seere- ! lary than were sea's but none | seemed to iniiul. Altej wards, ■ Mayor Joiin lien.y Moss pre sented the guests and. minus iiotes, demonstrated exceptional ability at n membeiir.g names of man>' \ isitors hp had ,1ust met. Three n?en, two 4^ whom I'd met, declined intrdduction. To my insistence they present themselves, they merely grinned. Finally, the Mayor jestingly presented them a s “Jones, Brown and Smith”. Represent ative Basil Whitener confided to me after the luncheon, “They didn’t want to be presented. They,re Secret Servicemen.” m-m U. S. Senator B. Everett Jor dan is a brother-in-law of Henry Sprinkle, onetime pastor of Cen tral Methodist Church and re- <9 There was a time when visi tors came to New York that they wei’i? most impressed bx the sky- scrapers. That was before poo- i pie had traveled so much, had i seen movies and television ex- ! tensively and were loss-educated. A recent group of foreign visi tors gave interesting evidence I of what first-time visitors to this big burg are most interest ed In. This tnoujie of tourists I were from Scandinavia but Ihe.v ' echoed Up? opinions e.xpresscd by ' so many people who have come here in the past few years. Their i eye.s were cast up bi-iefly, of j cour.se, at the giants of consti'uc- j tion vsliich fill mucli of Man hattan. But mostly tlieir eyes looked straight ahead — ,^at the , people. ' “ ■ T“ p CONSTITUTIONAl fiOARAI^ Viewpoints of Other Editors SPACE SPEAK The New Space Spejik is en riching and debasing the lan guage. Astronauts and ground con trol converse in a jargon incom- cently retired editor of World prehensible to lavmen Outlook, national Methodist pul- lication. I was away from Kings HARDLY THE WEAKER SEX The English - speaking world is rightly proud of what it has done over the past half-century to ensure that women have full er rights as citizens. Indeed, ,, there are some who claim that At its best it brings in vjvid i keys to the de- Mountain during Mr. Sprinkle’s w ” AnothiS a^“\we?k'hfirn^ ^ civilization attained by pastorate but, recognizing him ^ ' tweak burn. i society is the way it treats from his picture, made his ac-! . ‘burn is a short burst of its women. We are inclined to Q'uaintance in a navy chow linei when a space engine is turn- with them. But at the same _ _ . in Norfolk, Va. in 1942. By thei®*^ ^ “tweak burn” is I time, we think that the English-iH- Scott, the general manager, time the Korean War began, little itsy-bitsy push of a few jj^peaking world sometimes falls I maximal attention to this the Dastor whs a reserve naval I ®®eonds. I into the trap of being too self-1 minute mistake and at once of- p i commander in the chaplain Purists, however, rebel against! righteous about its treatment of to refund the charge, a the same problem. Carl ^ . . • , — had been told that Americans YEAR OF THE MINI This seems to be a mini sea son. And it’s not only because of the skirts. We don’t know if the English girl’s pet white mouse was nam ed Minnie, as many a mouse is, but despite its minimum size it wafi charged a dog’s fare in Glossop. The fairness of this fare was at once questioned and the matter referred to the West Riding Automobile Company. A. I What impressed Iho.te visitors"" most was the warm friendliness i of Americans. This may be hard i to believe about New York City, i But you scratch a local city-ite land underneath is a human be- I ing, usually, even if some of, I them don’t look like it. “It is i.f- i credible in such a big country that so many people are inter ested in }’Ou,” said Susan An- derson, a member of this Peo- j pie-to-People delegation from : Sweden, after arriving here from a cross-country bus tour and I visits to several homes. She said I that the bus drivers literally went out of their way to point out scenic spots and be of help. Susan is engaged to be married and when asked where she plans to spend her honeymoon im mediately replied, the United States. “We will stay a few hours in New York and then go to Wisconsin,” she explained add ing that the highlight of her stay was in Sheboygan, where she was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence J. Weber. Carl Lundborg of the same group understood English rather well but fpOnd/lt hard to com prehend the slangXused by our American young people — some one should have told him that corps, the Senator relates, andjfome space speak. An example i women. victory for the minim. Interestingly, it is Asia that! Now we turn to the Soviet has given the world not only its I Union for more mini news. It first but its first two women! i® found in a column of popular Prime Ministers — Mrs. Banda-1 sfi^nce facts in a coming publi- asked for active duty. The navy I the word “nominal.” Webster’s d e c li n e d telling Commander | soys nominal m^ans, “in name Sprinkle younger ministers were only,’’ or “unreal” (Latin root “ being activated, lieutenant junior} nomen” [name]). _ . grade pay being much less ex-1 So-xiehow the armed forces ] ranaike in Ceylon (who admit-Russian Digest, to be is- pensive. 1 .ave almost reversed its accepted } tedly rather botched things) andl®^®*^ Moscow m-m 'meaning. |Mrs. Gandhi, now shouldering, dummy Among the ladies grai;ing the reviewing stand were Mrs. Jor- "" ’ " ' “when we compute the fuel we dan, Mrs. Claude Bowers, wife of the parade marshal, Major General Bowers, and Shelby’s Mrs. O. Max Gardner, wife of trailing. ; ..vxio. VZCkltUilAy iiWW ailCAUiUdiJlg > . J . Capsule comm’unicator'tor NA-! tho tremendous burden of >the! ^ Eng^ V f— 1„ —J I premiership in tire world’s most striking ststement. populous democracy. It was also , years^verage Asia that gave the world its first' human height has increased woman Foreign Minister: Mrs.} 2.75 inches to 4 inches.” In New York one of the long compute it on a nominal.” If things go “e.xactly ideally,” he continued,>then it’s neminal. It is I Meir of Israel, a rock and a “Wait a xjir, the late Governor and Ambas-1 so used almost univerally in space | steadying influence under often 3,wait a Mm- - - - ■ difficult circumstances. M"?’ No one seems to know just Purist' rhartrp that thio is o Novv Africa is Showing that i why, but it gws to show the sador to Great Britain. m-m Among the ex-Mayors o f Kings Mountain present w’ere Jee H. Thomson, W. K. Mauney, H. Tom Fulton, and Kelly Dixon. [Chatting with Tom, I was tun ing a transistor radio in effort ‘ to get a World Series score. Tom reported that Dodger pitcher Claude Osteen is a down-the- street neighbor in Tennessee, m-m darkly hint that sa.ne general or 11’/®*? office there. In Ghana, the admiral thinks “normal” and “nominal” are the same wiord. SUDS AND BOWLS A few years back the makers of a leading washday detergent advertised that a box of their product would generate enough suds to fill a bus. It was purely Speaking of the punctuality 1 a statistical projection, and they of .Secretary Nitze and his party. Senator Ike Belk, of Charlotte, 'who vzas in the group led by ! the highway patrol said he came ' through Kings Mountain faster . than ever in his life--and his in flection indicated he’d rather be transported at slower pace- m-m were momentarily taken aback when asked by a national maga zine to make the claim good be fore the cameras. They did, al though whom that left the (iriv- ing to. We don’t know. Anyway, we were reminded of this the other night when a ! former American decathlon National Liberation Council — headed by the very soldierly and matter-of-fact General An- krah — has chosen a woman for one of the toughest jobs in clean ing up the excesses of the Nkrumah regime. She is Mrs. Annie Jiagge, a High Court judge, who has been appointed to head a commission to inquire into the extent. haps it is because there is so much bigness at the present time — big buildings, big in dustries, enormous universities, and so on. Whatever the reason, it is pleasant, for a change, to read about littleness. —The Christian Science Monitor would be friendly but he was not sure until he had actually come and seen for himself. Now he is certain that he had been correctly informed, and felt that foreigners with a hostile attitude toward Uncle Sam should come here by choice w othorwise and learn the .tnith.vFIridtjof Boitn- kessel of Copenhagen visHiftdtfte stockyards in Kansas City and brought traffic to a halt, in the main thoroughfares of the cat tle pen section when he showed great excitement over a cowboy named Rudy Pinter who looked like a movie version of one ex cept he had a walkie-talkie in his holster instead of a six-gun. ranged, dental appointments wedged in — all coming to a crescendo just after Labor Day, nature and | with Mother ready for the psy- method of acquisition of proper- chiatrist and Father wondering ties by anybody who held an of- I whether the living room will ev- ficial position at any time after 1957. Mrs. Jiagge’s commission has the power to make such rec- er be neat again. Then, you might think, would come a few days of blissful re- i Major Ed Davis, commander j champion, who now hawks I of the Green Berets team, pre- j breakfast cereal for a livini=f, sented bronze statues of a Green Gold the television audience that I to Secretary Nitze, Senator Jor-I enough bowls of his favorite i flan and Mayor Moss. The Green! crunchies are poured every year Berets team arrived on October] to fill the Rose Bowl up to the ;Oth and many folk were lntn-|5sth row. gued to see them sitting on the (ledge of the Joy Theatre roof,] The image thus summoned up Ith^r legs hanging over. Mor4! intriguing was fact that a lady [ (was piesent and doing the sanic-ion^lt heforr. t? ^ 'My wife met her subsequently}t^f hnn.T tot? f l and to the question she replied, I .J' j jege swain, it. McNamara confirm- ^ ® Leilgei Star (Norfolk, ed. Her prior e.xperience as a! The multi-impact results. The editorial cartoon appearing to day in adjoining columns depicts the im portance President Thomas Jefferson gave to newspapers — even in a day when newspapers had not attained great imminence as mass circulation media or as public service institutions devoted to accurate reporting of the news. On the occasion of National News paper Week, this newspaper rededicates its efforts to accurate presentation of news events, with particular emphasis on fairness to all — regardless of race, creed, color, or national origin — and to a reasoned editorial policy designed to analyze news events and to endorse courses of action for the community good. circus trapeze performer stood | her in good stead. m-m Sgt. Jack Hughes, native to Pittsburgh, P-a., particularly en- ! joyed his trip here. “I love to be in hill country,” he com mented. He says the flat Fort I Bragg area of sand and pines and heat gets boring. a-m All of the many bands In the parade gave sharp performanees. YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of new's about Kings Mountain area people and events taken from the 1066 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. I was surprised, that none of the Annual floral fair of the Kings Mountain Woman’s club will be held Wednesday at the marching bands gave out with •“Anchors Aweigh” as the re- , viewing stand was passed. But ! the sixth district naval band dl- I rented by 22-year veteran Chieif ,!Schultz used it as a climax [after a rollicking rendition of clubhouse. Theme of the flower show of which .Mrs. P- G. Pad gett is chairman is “Autiunn In Carolina ” Jonas Bridges, manager of Ra dio Station WKMT, will head the 1957 March of Dimes. Registration books open on that other navy favorite “Bell Saturday for the November 6 Bottom Trousers”. general election. It will be the m-m I renewed in-person acquain tance with Jessie James Russell, high school classmate and wife of Roy Russell, the Elkin band master after SO-phis years, as a majorette. She and the other pretty ^rls used my office as a dressing room. Their daughter served Father first of three registration days with registrars to be at the sev- oral voting precincts throughout each day. Social and Personal Miss Carolyn Robinson and Lt. Jason R. Llneberger were mar ried at 8 o’clock Saturday In Gastonia’s Olney Presbyterian ^urch. ommendations as it may think for relaxing while contem- i plating the pangs over the fledg- Under circumstances less open jings who have left the nest, to rational explanation by out- 3^^ ^o, the whole pace of adult siders, women are also playing activity immediately quickens. a_.part (albeit modest) on both, citizen duties, PTAs, clubs, the si(Ks in the great purge or “cul-1 chiirch bulding fund all spring turaL revolution” under way^ in | fuH blown with demands on your China. The magazine, China’s i time. Someday yet we may be Women, has lost its hitherto edi-ldcver enough to devise a vaca- tor in chief and publisher, Miss! tion from vacations. — Wash- Tun?, Pien. Presumably she has i ington Post been shunted into the same ob- — Ecurity to which have already i been condemned prominent per sonages thought bothersome to the new team of Mao-Tse-tuhg' and Lin Plao. j Apparently Chairman Mao’s j bringing up of Marshal Lin toj the number wo position, and the' accompanying relegation of Liu I Shao-chi to a place low in the] hierarchy, has had side effects! on the position of some of thei Chinese wives. Marshal Lin is a j bachelor. And so, to have a lady at the top table on important oc casions, Chairman Mao has been obliged to bring to the fore his hitherto retiring actress wife. She is now appearing on public platforms with him — in uni form and even saying what a good job the Red Guards are do ing! (Christian Science Monitor! END OF SUMMER The last days of summer va cation begin to pall even on youngsters. The marvelous sense of unlimited time that descend ed in June has yielded to bore dom, ‘frustration over projects uncompleted and anxious antici pation of the inevitable cmiflict between freedom and discipline that soon will dissolve in new scholastic Interests and football rallies. For parents It Is a of frenzy tinged with regret. The toddler must be readied for kin dergarten, the son packed off to «rtlege, dresses altered, new ehoes bought, music lessons ar- KEEP YOUR RADIO DIAL SET AT 1220 WKMT Kings Moontain, N. C. Neivs & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. _ Fine entertainment in between if/ B Sat culmi week 186th of K affai of 30 Wc and < “Eeverybody is so good to us“ chorused Elizabeth Pierret and Odile Tortat of France who had somehow gotten into the Scan dinavian group. Erik Khristen- sen of Denmark told his hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Earl W. Main of Red Bank, New Jersey, “When we rettirn home and tell of our experiences, more will want to come. I like your people. I like your country but right now it is hot.” The warm comments of these young visitors are heard at a fitting time, when we are being maligned by so many peo ple abroad. Chairman of the People-to-People movement is Dwight D. Eisenhower who founded it ten years ago. It is a nonprofit, nonpolitical effort of private citizens to promote in ternational understanding by a nationwide community action and service program for home and family. ■ -1 Phil! c of ar
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