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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Thursday, October 20, 1966
Established 1989
' Tilt Kings Mountain Herald
A weekly iieivspaper devoted to the promotion of the "cneral welfare and published
tor enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings ?.Iounluin
and its vicinity, published every Thursday by tlie Herald Publishing House.
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under Atn 3, 1S73. ,
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Year of the Mini
I
By MARTIN HARMON
i Bobby Sellers, an E-li medic in
I the army, lias completed a tour
j of duty in Vietnam and is liome
i on leave before reporting for
I duty this week at Fort Jackson,
! S. C.
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i It was a couple of weeks ago
; I first saw Bobby since Ins re-
I turn and, as I greeted him, I no
ticed he walked a.s if he had a j
crick in his neck. When I asked '
routinely how he was, Bobbs le-
plied, “No good! Can you beat
it3l«H!veJbeen m Korea. San Dp-
TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Withhold not good from them! to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thn hand to
do it. Proverbs 3:27.
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Prke of Groceries
The good ladies of Denver, Colora
do, are incensed at the rising price of
groceries and are expressing their ire
by marching demonstrations against
four super market chains.
They vow lo buy elsewhere unless
prices are pared.
It is natural that foodstuffs should
get special attention, as most folk en
joy the traditional three square meals
daily, not to mention nibbling materials
dpring television evenings and/or bed
time snack$.
Yet the grocers probably are due
such attention less than other vendors,
•rbis big volume industry’s net profits
represent a very low percentage of gross
ssles, lowest indeed for any retail in
dustry, somewhere in the range of 2.5
cents per dollar of sales.
A Kings Mountain super market
manager was asked what he thought
about the Denver business and he jest
ed, “If they can do anything about
bringing, the price of groceries down,
more power to ’em. I buy groceries my
self.”
Housewives would also do well to
analyze their purchases, to determine
the relationship between actual food
purchases and the many non-food items
Conveniently available at food- stores.
Ope Kings Mountain housewife remark
ed for instance, “If we didn’t have to
buy soap, detergents, floor wax and
mops, my grocery bill wouldn’t seem too
large.”
A former Kings Mountain grocer
didn't sell tobacco products. He reason
ed a couple of cartons of cigarettes add
ed to a bill made prices look exorbitant.
Food prices, particularly fresh pro
duce and meats, are quickly sensitive to
supply-demand situations. It is a safe
assumption that, with bacon at a dollar
per pound, more mid-West corn will be
utilized in feeding hogs for market.
The aforementioned super market
manager says he foresees a continued
higher plateau for fresh produce prices
with the new provisions of the wage-
and-hour law operative.
New Hours Dictated
E.xcept in event of a new registra
tion, election regist:'ar.> in Cleveland
County customarily spend three rather
lonesome Saturdays at the precinct vot
ing stations.
It was true throughout Cleveland
County on the recent Saturday, first
day the books were open for registra
tion for the November 8 general elec
tion.
The law requires that the registrars
be at the polling places fiom 9 a.m. to
sunset.
In view of t’ne volinne of registra
tions (one Kings Mountain registrar
logged in four voters, the other just a
few more), it would appear the General
Assembly would do well io amend the
law to permit the registra’ s to close the
doors at 5 p.m. Exceptions could be
written into the act for the occasional
times the books are “cleaned” and a
completely new regi.«lration cidered.
Fact of the registr-.ts’ volume of
business, of course, does not indicate
they should not be busier than they are.
But some folk forget, and other citizens
simply take little interest in politics and
government, as Reporter Ed Lahey de
tailed in a story published in Wednes
day’s Charlotte Observer. (Mr. Lahey s
stoi’y was, gleaned from conversations
with fellow bus passengers en route
Charlotte to Kno.xville and quoted, with
out identifying, a Kings Mountain
woman.)
It remains fact that t’ne old sunrise-
to-sunset dicta for registering and vot
ing is a hangover from the horsc-and-
buggy days. Today, with the auto popu
lation, few, if any, are more than 15
minutes distant from their precinct
polling place.
Meantime, unregistered citizens are
again reminded: 1) they must register
in order to vote; 2) a 20-year-old today
may register if he will observe his birth
day not later than November 8; and 3)
having voted in the city election last
May does not mean a citizen is regis
tered to vote in the November election.
If in doubt, check with the registrars.
A Good Report
'The special edition of the Shelby
Daily Star, labeled “Cleveland Report”,
published last Friday, was a worthy
contribution to Cleveland County, past
and present.
Its contents were well-edited and
its historical content served to jog the
m^nqories of elder citizens and to pro
vide erudition to the younger.
Other newspaper folk, perhaps, ap
preciate more than the lay reader the
backbreaking work, covering weeks and
months, which the Star staffs — editori-
Ki, advertising, and mechanical — ac
complished in producing “Cleveland Re
port”.
Ticky
f iwsldeiit Al«iKinder
It is always an honor to be honor
ed pne’s fellows by being chosen for
office in trade, religious, or civic organi
zations, whether at local, district, state
or federal level.
Obviously, the degree of honor in-
OMases as the breadth of area increases.
Thus the election of Postmaster
Claries L. Alexander, at the recent
meeting in Puerto Rico, as president of
th« President’s Club of the National
^t^ue of Postmasters is a particularly
hlgn honoj*, conveying as it does the re^-
gard ivithi wiiich his 49 fellows hold this
KUini MppiitaiR citizen and the concur
rent respect they hold for the discharge
of his ro^o^bilities as postmaster
here.
The oommynity adds its aggregate
pongrgfplgtlgn?.
A Negro friend employs a colloqui
alism “ ’ticky” for the word “particu
lar” which is a very effective substitute
also for “tilting with windmills”, “nit
picking” and other synonyms.
Thus the charge by the president
of the University of North Carolina
(Chapel Hill) branch of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People who has charged the ad
ministration with discrimination in the
matter of assigning students to rooms.
In an effort to feiTet out the truth,
a Charlotte Observer reporter inter
viewed 17 of the Negro students. Only
two, women students, felt they had been
discrimination victims. They were room
mates and also objected to being assign
ed to a room at the end of the hall. It
may be observed that students most de
sirous of serious study like the corner
rooms as being quieter and most con
ducive to study.
In contrast to young James Cof-
field’s questionable charge, was the ad
vice in Burlington this week of Charles
C. Diggs, Negro U. S. Representative
from Michigan, who, in effect, advised
a Negro political action group, to attend
to advancement of the race by the avail
able and obvious means: education, pro
ductive work, and use of the ballot.
UNC at Chapel Hill first integrated
on basis of race in 1951 without fanfare
or incident.
And it appears young Mr. Coffield
has manufactured an issue which
doesn’t exist.
A begk IjQiv to Neil McCarter, Ers-
kine college sophomore, who is one of
M studiMils ofeoaen for the college’s
CiMe tor eompUing highest aca-
49«ifi
mingo, and Vietntrmrnevef"^f^'
I'urt nor sick. I return to Kings
Meuntain and rink good, pure
filtered water instead of that
slush filled stuff in Vietnam.
Now I’m going to the doctor, get
ting shots and taking pills for
a virus infection and strep
throat I"
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Such is life.
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Bobby had good advice for us
at the Herald as well as for kin
and friends of other servicemen
at sea and on foreign soil. A
seeming minor error in the ad
dress on his H.'raid delayed de
livery for weeks, ev'en though
Bobby was one of the several
overseas servicemen paying 40
cents extra per week for air mail
delivery of the paper. “It finally
got straightened out and the
Herald arrived about five days
after leaving Kings Mountain
postoffice,’’ he related.
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MOTHERS
WHO DRE$6
LIKE
DAUGHTERS
LEAVE
CONSIDERABLE
TO BE
DESIRED
V/h'\
fey
DAUGHTERS IN
MINISKIRTS
LOOK
DELIGHTFULLY
ATTIRED
Viewpoints of Other Editors
so THIS IS
NEW YOHK
By NORTH CALLAHAN
VIETNAM AND
ELECTIONS
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Cadet Phillip Bunch, son of j
Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Bunch, is a j _
plcbe at the United States Army | lead or follow opinion always
Military Academy. I have been intensifies for politicians as an
The quandary of whether to
searching memory box and have
inquired of others, but I have
not as yet been able to learn of
any other cadet Kings Mountain
Ins supplied to officer school at
West Point.
, Mr. Mosher took the unusual
^ At' step of writing to every one*of
liriti. Ai '
election approaches. The dilem
ma is heightened this year by
the ambiguous na^re of the
Vietnam War. ^he Dublic pulse
IS emitting confusing signals, as
ni-m I Republican Repre.sentative
i He survived what the cadets! Charles A. Mosher
I refer to as “Beast Barracks”, the | covered in his own Ohio district,
j rough first summer at W''est
I Point which compares
army’s rugged basic traini..o- --- . ,
i last report, he had also survived j ^he 130,d41 homes there and
1 plebe football cuts and was found in the 4,596 replies he re-
I .••mong 45 candidates, of whom | ceived such contradictory senti-
• I 40 would be retained on the , rnents prevailing as that it was
: .squad. If my ears did not garble | • . , ,
! Kelly s wo,ds, just about every . ^ '^‘^take for the United States
i plebe was a candidate for the i to get so deeply involved in the
' first-year team. Did Kelly say ; war; that the Administration
I 1400 candidates? j should “try harder for peace ne-
I m-m I gotiations,” some holding that
1 The Herald received a card Mbe Viet Cong should be a party
I from a Kings Mountain native, j to the talks; and, that the United
I Mrs. Margaret Ware McKeever, j states should “intensify and ex-
who wrote: “I am the daughter
THE PRESIDENT
AND THE POLLS
President Johnson’s slip in the
THE MINISKIRT
Anita Loes is a dear lady who
probably is unknown to our
public popularity polls ha si younger readers. Indeed she re-
something to do with him, of; minds us that we probably ought
course. But it is also indicative to be in a museum of history,
of the trend of events in the what brings her to mind are
world and nation and the way remarks she volunteered re-
cvents alter and shape the mood gently on contemporary fash-
of the country. , gj^g ^ great one for
When things are going well, clothes even back in the days
the President gets the credit. I of John Held Jr. She always be-
When they go poorly, he gets the J lieved that for a girl dresses
blame, whether or not it is in were better friends than dia-
his power to change the situa
tion.
Back in May, 1964, the Louis
Harris survey found that 78 per
cent of those questioned rated
monds.
She is somewhat distre.ssed
about the miniskirt. And, for
that matter, so are we. But we
are glad to hear that it is not
the President as doing a good ^ problem for her. She can
or excellent job. Today the fig- j transform one into something
ure has dropped to 54 percent, much more acceptable merely
If is actually below 50 percent! by putting it on, being only 4
in all parts of the country ex-jfegt, 11. Indee4i everj^ing is
cept the South where it has been 1 relative. — St. Louis Post-Dis-
risin,
With the election approaching,
Mark Van Doren tells me of the
experience of a Presidential
candidate of the 1940’s, Wendell
Willkie, a son qf Indiana. Some
years before he ran for the top
office, Mr. Willkie came upon
something which he considered
in a way almost as important.
He was president of a large
Southern power corporation and
was in Atlanta for a meeting of
the executives. One of them told
him of a book manuscript which
a local girl had written and won
dered if Mr. Willkie would take
It back to New York with him
and lODtr trt It" ^“route- to see
If h4 though it had possibilities
for publication He did and it
did. The manuscript was that of
Gone With The Wind.
There was a time when tele
phone numbers here often held
a bit of poetic sound in their
prefixes or even history. Mur
ray Hill wms one, Rhindelander
another, as well as Plaza, Re
gent and Whitehall. Now these
have been replaced by digits
which some one has said re
semble the serial listing on the
base plate of a drill press. But
a local hotel discovered that ev
en such Iwigthy numbers can
be impressive if you write them
out. It wrote into the heading
of an advertisement, “Dial two
billion, one hundred twenty-four
million, two hundred ten thou
sand, nine hundred.”
Henry Kaessler is a children’s
doctor, although he has the im
pression that some of his chil
dren never grow up, because
thej^ keep coming back to him
even after they reach maturity.
One reason is Henry carries his
Rotary Club precept, “Service
Above Self" into his daily life
and continues to advise and help
his patients long after they stop
paying him. His office lobby is
often filled with chattering chil
dren and petulent par«its who
would try the patience of a Job
But this does not bother Henry
Kaessler. He smiles his way
right through it all and usually
the little ones soon contract the
good-naturedness. A sign on the
wall states: “God could not be
everywhere. Therefore He made
mother.”
j of Vivian Summitte Ware and
• the late Ben Tillman Ware of
: Kings Mountain. My husband
j and I live in Fort Wayne, Ind.
I was proud of my hometown
when a girl friend of mine
i heard all about your parade on 1 cators, for both parties seem to
I our Paul Harvey’s noon news ra-
I Clio program ’Tuesday. I often
I speak on our historical city and
j wlien she heard the name of
I Kings Mountain, her ears picked
I it up like an antenna. She al
most bubbled ever when she
■ told me they mentioned my
: maiden name as a man by the
‘ name of Red Ware had won a
1 contest. It was for growing a
beard and eating ice cream or
I some such thing. My brother, .
Richard was in the parade and iclarify matters,
The Gallup Poll’s figure in
August showed 51 percent ap
proving the way the President
was handling his job.
The Harris survey recorded
dropping public confidence in
Mr. Johnson’s handling of the
economy, civil rights, the anti-
poverty program, farm prob
lems, labor - management mat
ters, taxes, and cost of living.
It attributed this to the infla
tion threat, stock market drops,
racial violence, talk of black
power, criticism of the handling
of the war on poverty, prolong
ed strikes, and the jump in fo^
prices.
While the Harris Poll stressed
the domestic scene as holding
the key to the President’s diffi
culties, Dr. Gallup in n U. S.
News & World Report interview
sees the unsettled Vietnam con-
I tllct as Mr. Johnson’s number-
never been involved in a war one public opinion problem, fol-
! patch.
pand the war until Hanoi quits."
Mr. Mosher does not contend
♦hat this urvey is "truly scien
tific.” But its results presumably
conform in general to other indi-
be shaping their Vietnam posi
tions in this election year to the
confused pattern of thought it
reflects.
The congressional leaders of
the Republican Party, for exam
ple, announced their cx)nviction
last week that the country has
“more unpopular and so little
Ben, Jr., was making pictures,
I which I’ll be anxious to receive
1 soon. Maybe the people of Kings
j Mountain mighi like to know
[ their little city made the news
i in Fort Wayne, as Paul Harvey
they came down flatly on both
sides of the question. As the
“party of peace,” they urged a
settlement of the conflict through
an all-Asian peace conference.
always has interesting stories to But they also reaffirmed their
tell with news, and everyone | “determination that Communist
Industry and service business em
ployment in North Carolina reached
new high levels in North Carolina,
Labor Commi.ssioner Frank Crane re
ports. The figures are interesting but
not surprising to hard-pressed employ
ers and personnel managers endeavor
ing to keep positiqns filled.
here considers him one of the
! best.”
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I The celebration news traveled
j a bit.
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I Another celebration sidelight
! was a call from a Mr. Spangler
,<his week to relate he’cl found
a wallet on Mcnintaln street the
day of the parade. It contained
no money nor identification, but
there were a number of Juvenile
pictures, leading him to believe
it was a youngster’s wallet. I put
him in contact with Principal
Bob Franklin of Central school
but haven’t learned whether the
owner has been found.
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Dave Saunders, the dry clean-
er,w as parked at the Central
Methodist church corner late
Monday afternoon as I stopped
to look the mail. When I went
over to chat and sat down In the
car, he said, “I’ll tell you why
I’m waiting here. Do you see that
wagon on the sidewalk? That’s
my wagon and somebody has
stolen it. I’m hoping whoever
took it is coming back for It.”
Dave’s private - personal de
aggression in South Vietnam
shall be overcome.”
The position of the Johnson
-Administration and most Demo
cratic candidates is not much
different from the Republicans.
President Johnson has endorsed
an all-Asian peace conference.
But the counterpoint of bis
peace talk has been a steady
stream of announcements from
Saigon of record numbers of
bombing attacks against North
Vietnam
Eighteen months of air at
tacks, steadily mounting in fe
rocity, have failed to bomb
North Vietnam into submission.
Nor have they succeeded In re
ducing armed infiltration into
the South, which has multiplied
more than three-fold during; this
period.
Would peace negotiations be
advanced by halting escalation
and accepting the existence of
a stalemate? No one can bo
sure. But nothing would be sac
rificed by trying this course. And
the voters might even appreciate
lowed by civil rights
It is the continuing drop in
the polls that doubtless influenc
ed the President to barnstorm
the country. He can take com
fort in the fact that other presi
dents have dropped dangerously
low and bounced back.
Much can happen before 1968.
It is still too early to predict that
Mr. Johnson will have trouble
regaining the White House. But
he is not likely to Ignore the
signs which indicate he might
well find himself in serious dif
ficulty. — The Christian Science
Monitor,
REDS AND RED TAPE
In recent years the Soviet
Union, once considered the maj
or menace to world peace, has
become a little less occupied
with stirring up trouble abroad
and a bit more interested in her
problems at home. A possible
clue to this mellowing came out
of Moscow the other day in an
Associated Press story which
said the Russians want to buy
computers from the Wet to help
them cut through tangles of bu
reaucratic red tape.
“'The late Soviet economist V.
S. Nepichinov,” said the stwy,
“once predicted that if some
thing radical was not done and
if growth rates of the 1950’s con
tinned, the entire adult popula
tion of the Soviet Union would
have to be engaged in economic
planning and administration by
1980.”
That sounds promising. Maybe
after a few more years of build
ing communism, Red China will
be in a similar fix and will quiet
down, too. — Ledger-Star (Nor
folk, Va.).
tective work, after a half-hour,! i .ii
proved to no avail. As he loaded ; leaderehip in this di
the wagon )nto hif car, h? {tgraed | rather than policiw
to my jest, “Pave, nobc^y really i reflect their ewn oenfusions. —r
stole It, he just borrowed It.” The New York Times.
YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
Items of news about Kings
Mountain area people and
events taken from the 1956
files of the Kings Mountain
Herald.
Mrs. C. El Cash. Mrs. Carl Mau-
ney and Mrs. A. W. Kincaid won
top honors in Wednesday’s floral
fair of the Kings Mountain Wo
man’s club.
Harold Coggins, secretary
treasurer of Cooper’s, Inc., local
furnitufe firm, was elected presi
dent of the Kings Mountain Ki-
wanls dub for the coming year
at Thursday's meetjng at the
Woman’s club.
So0(d erad Pdrs^ed
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ray
Hughes and family of Newberry,
S. C., spent the weekend vidth
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Caldwell
and other relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. ft- H. Webb spent
the weekend in Raleigh with
their son, Dick, a graduate stu
dent at North Carolina State col
lege. They attended the p\^e
football game during the week
end.
Sitting in a restaurant, I hap
pened to overhear a group of
cross-country truck drivers tallc-
ing about their violations of
traffic laws and the penalties.
My 'first impression was that one
can scarcely encounter a more
hardboiled type of human being.
Mostly they seemed to concen
trate on the bribes taken by po
lice officers to overlook their
breaking of traffic laws. One
stated that if e truck driver is
caught in or near Chicago, all
he has to do is produce a roll
of bills, give the cop some and
then drive on. This was also
true, another remarked, about
the dock area of New Jersey.
'They seemed to have respect for
the nforers of highway laws in
th South, One caustic driver
complained that he paid a fine
of $127 in Virginia for having
a device which jammed the ra
dar of the police so that they
could not tell how fast he was
going. But they oaught up with
him and jammed him for the
stiff fine
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