North Carolina Newspapers

,1 Thurs fagb 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD^ KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, October 27, 1966 EstcdsUshed 1689 The IQnfs Moontain Heiald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general walfare ftAd |iibllilhed for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the eltixens Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing Mouse. Entered as second class matter at tlie 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 Ediitor Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Soc'iet>’ Editor Miss Lynda Hardin ‘ Clerk Bobby Bolin Paul Jackson MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dave W'eathers Allen Myers Dava N^eathets, Jr. SUBSCRIPTION RATIfS PAYABLE IN ADVANCE BY M.AIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR .. 53.50 SIX MONTHS .. $2.QQ THREE MONTHS .. $1.2o PLtS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739^1 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Withhold not good from thorn to ii'hom it, is diie„ ivhen it is in the jxnver of thv hand to do it. Proverbs 3:27. Low Rank Pleasant S. Kenneth Howard, of the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill, has com pleted a report comparing North Caro lina with other states in several areas of taxation. Items: 1) North Carolina rajiks 44 th among the 50 states in the per capita amount of local and state taxes paid. 2) North Carolina ranks 4th among the 50 in the amount of state-local rev enue raised from state sources. 3) Only 28 percent of total state and local revenues are derived from proper ty taxes. ' Various special interest groups are inclined to point often to low rank status of North Carolina in many directions, per capita income, per capita expendi ture per school pupil, average teacher’s salary, etc. Withal, North Carolina shows con tinuing progress in virtually all phases of government services, lives, as is Con stitutionally required, within her in come, has a comparatively low bonded debt, and enjoys top financial rating in the money market. The .state has raised teacher pay, expenditures for pupils, cut teachers loads, has a burgeoning state college system. The highw ay program is the envy of many other states. The legis lative building is an architectural and functional masterpiece. $154)00 Insured Out of the debacle of the Great De pression came many government pro grams and projects, social security, un employment compensation, agriculture marketing allotments, public works as sistance, and many others. As is typical in government,, programs are seldom abandoned, most often expanded. Many of the programs are decried as socialistic, over-expensive, or both. But few argue with the federal gov ernment entrance into the business of insuring bank and saving and loan de posits. Vast majority of depositors can go to bed nights, knowing that their bank and savings accounts are insured by the faith and credit of the federal govern ment. The recent Congress passed legisla tion which raises from* $$10,000 to $15,000 the maximum amount of insur ance per savings account in the nation’s member savings and loan associations, an action generally applauded by the members though they realized their in surance fees will escalate. Were these claims rather than facts, North Carolina might well be shamed by the fact it ranks 44th in taxes per capita. In contrast, the fact of ranking Number 44 attests to efficiency in gov ernment. It has been said that statistics can be employed to prove almost anything and this is true. Similarly, arguments by comparison are of questionable value, for ewnpari- son should be with the ideal, not what and how* Neighbor John Does it. The tax comparison report, it has been noted, may sound the death-kneel for the urgements of county commis sions and municipalities for a local op tion sales tax, with legislators taking the position the local governments are not, after all, taxing to the upward limits of their citizens’ abilities to pay. Again, though a local option sales tax is an abhorrent means of raising local revenue, the average of 28 percent local tax-gathering does not detail the extremes. Kings Mountain, for instance, with profit-making utility sales, has reached an upwaM plaeau of revenue that results in a most favorable ad va lorem tax. The City of Charlotte, con versely, is hard-pressed for sufficient cash to meet demand for basic services. Principal ber^efit in North Carolina — Which has never had a failure in this segment of the financial industry — is to attract to savings and loan associa tions added savings from individuals and firms who want their every dollar in sured. In some other states, where there is no state-level regulation of the practices of associations, the effect will be to pro vide additional needed insi«ance to de positors. AIob HewconbB One of the area’s most familiar and friendly personalities died suddenly last week of respiratory complications fol lowing an appendectomy, Alan Newcombe, a radio and tele vision newsman at Charlotte’s Jefferson Standard Broadcasting Company for the past 15 years, and before that at Green ville, S. C., was a personal friend of many and a picture-tube .friend of thousands. ' ' The Cengress Congress burned the midnight oil to adjourn the ^h session Saturday night and there is little question that more far-reaching legislation was pass- sed during the 89th’s two years than in many previously. From the standpoint of the Johnson Administration, it was an excellent Con gress. One newsman, for instance, gave the President a .905 batting average for getting his recommendations endorsed by the legislative branch. Obviously, a vocative minority wish the President had more closely emulated the weak-hit- ting Dodgers of the recent World Series. Columnist Roscoe Drummond offers another thought. Praise the Congress, yes, he writes, but don’t overdo it. Mr. Drummond’s point is that 75 percent of the appropriation bill was passed in tbe waning weeks of the session sinoe Sep tember 30. How reflective can the Con gress be, acting in such haste, Mr. Druni* mond wants to knpw? The nation soon will have a 12th cabinet post in tiie Department of Transportation. An appropriation in which Kings Mountain has an immediate stake was $3.5 billion for aid to local governments in stream pollution control. Failure of the Congress to take a turcease from furthA* rights legis lation pleased a c^|iddeffdHe portion of tha nation and nrcanjlTtiT laboffallMra ihgat dsaked siiii i pginaii many others. But it will take.WeaBs ler the many Aottadii of legislatioA filter out in de- r' Many did not know of his winning bout with death a few years ago, nor, for that matter, of his World War U record with the Army Air»Force and stay in a German prisoner-of-war camp. His passing at 45 leaves a void which is hard to comprehend and whidt will be hard to fill. Don't Vote. Don*! Crdpe The first two weeks of the registra tion period for the November 8 gensral election indicates: 1) Virtually alt ellgt* bles are registered, 2) many unregister ed eligibles await the final day upcOQV ing on Saturday; or 3) some neither care about voting nor want to vote. With Cleveland County’s potezitlAl vote total at least 30,000 and wMi oplY about 20,000 registered, it would appear one-third of eligible citizens, are dlshv* tertested in having a voice in Ch/9O0UD8 the men and women wbQ wMI them services and tax them th^selefr. So be it Voting is variously deecnibed an a ^ht, duty, privilege and preneegwtive. Each term perhaps appllasw MARTIN’S MEDICINE IngliHitMs: bit» unidMOt kumf0r,un49O7imientn Sirectimt: Two* if possible, but avoid ovetiiosage. Fear Campaign? tf MABTIN HARMON When the Gardner-Webb folk put on a party they do it well, j m-m ! SO THIS 1$ NEW YOBK By NORTH CALLAHAN S-atUrday’s functions were no j exception, as any who attended | 1 V. ill relate. There wae a lunch- | i con, at which %prcsentativc 1 Basil L. Whitener spoke, the an- ^ nual homecomlnc alumni barbe- ; cue “for alumni, Bulldog Club members, and friends”, an ad- dre.ss by Governor Dan K. Moore preceding the homecoming foot ball game, and the fog-shrouded fyittinll game in Avjhigh^jinder-’ dog Gardner-VVebb played Fer- lum. of Virginia, top - ranked junior college team, to a 3-3 tie in a sterling defensive battle. n-m Tha basement floor of the beautiful new Charles L Dover campus center, was utilized for the late afternoon barbecue, which mttimcted a host of alumni, Bulldijg Club members and friends. j Alumnus Joe Lee Woodward I (circura 1926) remarked that Those who have up, iojbcDcsE ifi dmoocratic elective procew; stoouMfc •#♦ be dragged screaming* the pelli«® places. j some 40 and more years ago, he I was dining regularly at the i same spot, as the dining hall of I that era was then located. The ! quarters, of course, were hardly ! as commodious. Joe Lee also re- j members the fare well, “We ate I grits, grits and more grits," Joe j recalled, adding, “they didn’t seem to stunt our growth." Joe’s frame is indicative, as is G-W man County Commissioner Pop Simmons’. Pop was also present“ to dine on succulent barbecue, slaw, pickles and especially de licious apple pie. m. mi Ka APPROPRATE SEASON TO nominate LBd AS SCARE CROW OF THE VEAR.— SAftSY GOLDWATBIt Si] Viewpoints of Other Editors UPDATING THE RAINCOAT American college youth, as well as their elders, have long accepted the conservative British type of raincoat as normal wet- Taken in tow^by ^rs^^Elugene j indeed, so great is the appeal of the simple, tai- BEE LINING ROLL OUT THE BOARD Poston, wife of the Gardner- Webb president and a Kings,, ^ ^ - Mountain native, we coincident- ! lofed tan topper that in recent ally jouied at table Solicitor years it has been virtually a Leonard Lowe, of Rutherford campus uniform, county, and Mrs. Lowe, Congress man and Mrs. Whitener, and ex Congres-sman and Mrs. Woodrow .Tones. I had not heard the afternoon football scores and asked Mr. Lolw about Carolina-Wake For est., This not ojjly proved to be a *^0- mistake' on a Carolina man’s part, but the relish with which FViend Lowe reported gave clear indication of his collegiate How, then, are Americans to stand the shock of learning that a pink cotton raincoat for men has appeared in England? And not only pink, but light blue and gold also. And not only that, but the Menswear Association of Britain has awarded an Oscar statuette to the firm that broke the color hairier. It is somewhat reassuring to background. Wake Forest - man {read that Charles Ling, who ac- Jones also wore a broad grin, cepted the Oscar for his com- Congressman Whitener. when the' football conversation was gen- pany, insists that the new flashy erated, snjiled but it was of the j models will not replace the wan variety. HU alma mater j firm’s more sober, established Duke had been subjected to a | line. They will only supplement sa4 football afternoon at the hands of the State Wolf pack. More sadness was nearby, in the person of Kings Mountain Coach Bin Bates. Someone had asked. Bill related, how he could be up and about after the trouncing by Shelby, 19-0, the night before. “Couldn’t sit still," he had replied, 'jJ)Ad to do some thing:’* BiH’s anafysis of the loss to ardi-rival Shelby: “We could have won the game. But we made six major mistakes, while Shelby made only two. That was the ball game.” Charlie Justice, the former Uni versity of North Carolina all- American and professional per- tormer with the Washington Red skins, was the featured speaker and made a not-too-facetious declaration concerning the esca lation of admission requirements and scholastic • average main tenance requirements for college football players. Justice noted that some guys are swift at the books, while others are swift on the football field. He contends the football players and other athletes keep the alumni excited and funnellng funds into col lege coffers. it. That is all right. But how far will the Carnaby Street influence go? What if the London gentle man’s bowler hat were to give way to a sombrero, or his neatly furled umbrella to, a multicolor ed parasol? If that happened, the world that follows London’s men’s fashions would surely copy, and then where would we be? It is the responsibility of Great Britain to see that the brakes of the fashion domain are applied in time. — The Christian Science Monitor. IN FOR UFE "At Chapal Hill, averyone «p- preciatM th* great oontributions of John Motley Morehead. the Pattersons, Mr. Kenan and the Reynolds family. But how many peoide ge to Chapel Hill for the induction ceremony of the Phi Beta Kappa candidates? A foot ball game attracts 49^000 people.” CharUe-'s (amUy is a sample of the speeding; passage of time, With bhn and his pi^y wife waqy yqqng Otarlie, age 18, and their teen-agp daughter; YestWf*-. day, it sceam I. met Weodyow snd Rachel. Jones’ swe young ‘‘OM passing a fnelbalt in tha haokyarg. The Saturday reports ’he boje ane t4 and 26; and both are marrledv Tiww ig another aUig kl thR too: the citizeni tkIia. dgesutt voRgAt^BsIh his license to gripe. Rt-aa The Gardner • Webb folk know Itow to piaftinn, wfiother ft be in academlCB or entei4alnment, and each vistt to this growings school oainforces tha eontinulncr thaS GaMMr Wehh will Men have been caging animals in zoos for at least 3,000 years. Wild animals accustomed to roaming freely over the country side and birds used to soaring across continents have been con- find behind bars for life — cramped in unsanitary, unnatur al ceUs. Comdr. Peter Scott, British conservationist, speaking at the first international conference on the role of zoological gardena in serving wild animals, called for the elimination of the old-style, pri3on>'like zoo. Zoo reform has come a long way in recent yeara But some cittos still maintain zoos that are a disgrace to civilized socie ty. It should be elementary that animals need dean, sanitary sur roundings, adequate room, an environment closely simulating their natural habitat; and period and place of quiet and privacy, away from public view ing. *1116 better zoos today pro vide for theee things. Zoos ought not to CMNrlbnte tq the •xtlnctlAO. but to. the sal vation o# rare and threatened species. And they should work in cooperation with game n serves, protected rongee, and game famie tar scientific nest ing and breeding. We are taken yrith the «m- ospt of a zee adopted by ofie American city? the anliqals run wtM IhMugheut a large area while the peO|rfe who choose to ■watoh -tiMMi- aw -seciirely caged. If we were a.s hungry for sweets as the pioneers, chances are that more men and boys would go afield on a mellow day and attempt to track wild bees to their woodland home. In the days when many gen eral farms kept a few hives of the social insects, a queen would lead thousands of bees from a hive after a new queen hatched from a queen cell. The old queen and her retinue swarmed in a nearby tree. Scouts located a new home in a hollow tree and _the old queen led group away. The newiy-liatci.v.d queen took her mating flight and re turned to the hive. In the new woodland home worker bees built combs; they gathered pollen and nectar. The queen laid several hundred eggs a day and soon there was a thriving colony. By September, a goodly supply of honey had been stored for winter food. It was this honey that a bee-liner wanted. A small glass - topped box with a piece of cimb filled with sugar water was the equipment. A bee or bees from a goldenrod or aster was brushed into the box. When the bees had taken a load the box was opened and one watched the line of flight. II fortune smile^^Hi^rorlglnal bees came back with others and the process was repeated. Each time, with bees in the box, one walked closer to the bee tree be fore releasing the bees. It was fair sport. Oftentimes the bees were from a farmer’s hive. Often one could not find the bee tree in dense woods. The reward was a pailful or two of honey. One had to expect a few sharp stings v/hen the bee tree came down. Bee lining isn’t a popular sport. But it is pleasant pastime on a sunny day when one can harvest the feeling “of fall along with the possibility of the best of sxveets — The Hart ford Courant. roach ito 4MRn» of hMOtolii^ • iTumabout, as thejn’sey^ it Talr jfour-yekr ooHage In the not too pl«y- — The Christian Science I distant future. I Monitor. On a hot summer weekend as many as 100,000 surfers, mostly teenagers, crowd California beaches. And most of them are now wondering whether other towns will copy the City of Newport Beach, 40 miles south of ILos Angeles, which has im posed a license fee of $3 a year on owners of surfboards who want to ride them off the mu nicipal shore. The sport is to balance on one of these flat pieces of wood, more or less skillfully and more or less safe ly, skimming in to the beach on the foam of a breaking wave. Boy and girl tandems are par ticularly spectacular performers at the contests along the Pacific Coast. In return for the fee the surf er receives a small license plate, with his name, a number and descriptive details of his board. This will help the police to identify stolen boards; thefts are widespread. Moreover, the income from the license fees, and from the $10 fine to be im posed on unlicensed surfers, will be a helpful addition to the town’s revenue — provided that the 5,000 surfers who now use Newport Beach do not just go elsewhere. They are protesting that if they have to pay to go into the water, so should bath ers. But the local authority ar gues that any youngster who can afford $100 or more for a surfboard can also pay for the use of a beach or beaches No one gets more, or more consistent, use of them than does the dedicated surfer. He spends all day, every day — or as much time as he can get away from his job — during the long summer, and sometimes (luring the winter as well, out beyond the breakers waiting for a suitable wave to carry him triumphantly to the shore. So ag'gressive and singleminded are surfers in Southern California that they have driven everybody else out of the sea by now. if the authorities had not banned them from <»rtain beaches or restricted the hours at which a beach is open to surfers. — The Economist (London). Chatting with Frederick R. Kappel after ho had made a talk to a group of us, 1 could not help I but compare him with another i executive who had recently vislt- I ed here. Mr. Kappel is head of ] the largest corporation in the ! country, the Ameiican Telephone i and Telegraph Company: the ! other man, Lyndon Johnson, is of course head of our nation. Botli have come up from simple I beginnings in Western states, both are near sixty years of age, more or lo.s8, and each has a quiet quality that can surely be £a 1 igd .dxaailUvyeL when Lyn - don went' back to Washington, he was optimistic after visiting and mingling here; while Fred erick appeared rather .serious about our prospects. Perhaps the one approach was political, the other from a firm bi^iness standpoint. But one thing stood out as strongly typical of both men, a characteristic as common to each as if they were broth ers: they were both obviously and deeply interested in people. And this is probably the main reason the two executives are successful. —3— When the slow - moving clerk in a small store was not around one morning, a customer asked, “Where’s Eddie? He isn't sick, is he?” The store owner’s son replied, “Nope, Eddie doesn’t work here no more." “Well,” in quired the cu.stomer, “do you have anyone in mind for the vacancy?” “Nope,” replied the son, “Eddie didn’t leave no va cancy!” 10 YEARS AQO THIS WEEK Itmm of news about Kings Mountain area people and events taken from the 19S€ files of the Kings Mountain Herald. A large amount of time is taken up in conversation among parents, in listening to the sub ject on radio and television, and in reading about it in news papers and magazines. It is the problem of teen-agers and the resultant frustration of parents^ in trying to deal with the sensi tive subject. Devoted forebears who once thought their children were little angels now seem to think they are devils. Samuel Wesley asked his wife why she repeated instructions, rebukes and directions as often as twen ty times to their children. She replied that if she didn’t, the preceding nineteen times would have been wasted. “Parents are prone to efel,” says Lucretia Hanson, “that their efforts to in still manners, religious ideals and desirable habits are all go ing for naught. And very often this apparently is true, "rhat is, until the children get out of their teens. Then that 20th or 120th time you repeated a statement begins to fear fruit. When the children get into their late 30’s and their early 40’s, they will re mind you ot some of the habits and attitudes you sought to in still. Then you will realize that the 19 times you said something was not actuall.v wasted.” —3— Here and There: sign at a Marble, N, C., tombstone works, ‘Drive safely — we can wait” . . . “Clown Town”, a song by Gladys Shelley, was the theme song of the P. T. Barnum Festi val . . . some one has said that the greatest two highway men aces are drivers under 25 going 65 and drivers over 65 going 25 . . . an automobile inspector says that some of the newer cars are in worse shape than the older ones because owners neglect the brakes, headlights rmcl steering ... an estimated 50 million gallons of moonshine was made last year. Why? The retailer’s profit on a $5.94 bottle of whiskey is about 41 cents, that of a moonshiner for the same amount, $3.74. Bethware, Patterson Grove and Compact schools in the covm ty system will re-open resuming the present term after dosing lor fall harvest season. Kings Mountain Jaycees will conduct a waste paper pick-up on November 4, it was announced by J. T. MeOlnnis, president. Miss Mona Hamrick and Jack Sdsm were manied at 12 tJpon Sunday in Patterson Grove Bap tist church Miss Martha Jane Putnam of CtierryviUe and WilUam Donald Rfowers of Kings Mountain were married Saturday at 8 p.m. in Cljerryvine’s First Baptist church. , Mrs. Carl Mayes won the sweepstakes award in last Wed nesday’s Woman’s club floral fair KEEP YOUR RADIO DIAL SET AT 1220 WK Kings Mountain. N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hoilr. FiftO! euteitouament in between m M( to b opp has peri torj Aga intc peri a 9 Kl