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0y 8.# KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, November 3. 1966 ••tr « EstabUshed 1889 I'flie Kmgs Mountain Heilld 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. Eftttfred as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDn^OlnA^ DEPABTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Gary Stewart Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Lynda Hardin Clerk Bobby Bolin Paul Jackson MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dave Weathers Allen Myers Dave Weathers, Jr. MARTIN'S MEDICINE ingredients: bits of news, wUdovi, humorj and comments Directions: fake' Weekly if jiossible, but avoid overdosage. Bt martin HMtMON Off-presidential-year general elections notably attract less voters than those years when the nation is choosing a chief executive. The Reluctant Tar Heel TO THE POLLS SUBSCRIPTION rates. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE^— ^Y~MAIL ANYWHERE “one year .. $3.50 SIX MONTHS .. $2.00 THREE MONTHS .. $1.25 PVUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TEL^HONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Because the foolishness of God is wiser tha n men; and the weakness of GmI is stronger than rr^n. I Corinthians 1:25. Tuesday Voting A Modest Budget Among safest predictions for Tues day’s general election is that North Car olina, nor Cleveland County, citizens will cast record voting totals. Registration activity in Cleveland has not been great and the chairman of the county elections board has a com paratively small number of applications for absentee ballots. The Cleveland Requblican party has done a good job in fielding a team of candidates and has a longer list than usual. However, the campaigning has been couched in national rather than local issues and there have been no per sonality battles, which customarily do most to excite the voters and put votes in the ballot box. The board of directors of Kings Mountain United Fund, Inc., has adopted a budget — symonym for its 1967 cam paign fund goal — of $16,500. The direc tors and other citizens aiding in the campaign will begin the work on Mon day in w’hat they intend to be a success ful two-week campaign. The budget is lower than in previ ous years. No political observer has given John Shallcross, the GOP Senate nomi nee, a chance of upsetting U. S. Senator B. Everette Jordan, nor is Hall Young, opposing 10th district U. S. Representa tive Basil L. Whitener, accorded any better chance of defeating the incum bent than he had two years ago, when Whitener won by 20,000 votes. This is in spite of re-districting, which removed Friendly Rutherford County from the Whitener bailiwick. Whitener’s re-election is most im portant to his district. He aspires for a sixth term in.<the House, where seniority is of imperative importance. Seniority determines com mittee assignments, chairmanships and committee rank, the latter with concur rent overtones of important sub-commit- tee assignments. Of the beneficiary agencies, one is missing, Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Li brary, currently in good financial posi tion, accepted the suggestion of United Fund beneficiary members, where part ly or fully tax-siH)ported, perhaps should not properly be in the United Fund family. Six beneficiaries remain and United Fund Chairman W. J. Keeter found him self particularly impressed by the report of the Cleveland County Life-Saving and Rescue Squad, Inc., showing activities during the past year. In one month, the squad honored 61 ambulance calls. Otherwise,, Kings Mountain Boy Scouts and Girl Scout organizations are included, the budget, arrived at on a per capita enrollment basis, indicative of the heavy participation here in these two excellent youth organizations. Mr, Whitener slowly but surely con tinues to escalate in rank on the judici ary and District of Columbia commit tees. The judiciary committee is the House catch-all committee, regularly handling 60 per cent or more of legisla tion introduced. The District of Colum bia committee, moreso than its Senate counter-part, is regarded as the Dis trict’s de facto city council or commis sion. Mr. Whitener has been a key figure in two actions concerning the nation’s Capitol city: 1) he has helped prevent home rule for Washington, whereby Congress would continue to supply the money and Washington citizens would spend it; and 2) helped promote legisla tion to alleviate the terrific transpiMta- tion problem Washington, D. C., has. The work of the Red Cross, local, nationally and inter-nationally, speak for itself, whether as liason agent be tween families at home and their sons in the armed services, performing disas ter relief in Louisiana, or promoting the increasingly valuable area blood banks. Kings Mountain is proud of its fine high school band and its high school mixed chorus, and the United Fund con tribution provide these organizations their sole operating funds. The worthy aims and needs are ap parent and Campaign Chairman Donald Crawford and his aides should be greet ed with open checkbooks. Next Big Need: Water Pending his indicated re-election and results of Tuesday voting in’49 oth er state it is not known how many num bers in the seniority rank Mr. Whitener will advance. But at least four senior Democrats will not return to the 90th Congress, three having been defeated in primaries, the fourth having been re moved by death. During his five terms and ten ses sions, Representative Whitener has been continuously consistent in his support of two of North Carolina’s bread-and-but ter industries, agriculture and textiles, as well as others. A lady, before the rains came, was alarmed about the low level of the York Road water resevoir and took the time to query the Mayor concerning the city’s water supply and wondered aloud why Kings Mountain hadn’t rationed water. Fact was, the supply situation here wasn’t tenous, though an extension of the dry weather may have made the water cheese more binding. Fact is that water will become an increasing problem as the community and area grows and consumption for commerce, industry, and individuals in creases. For Cleaner City The city spent some money during the past summer in a mammoth clean up effort that has improved materially the appearance of the city in all areas. Derelict dwellings have been removed, brambly lots cleared, rat-breeding debris removed. Citizens cooperated in their own right and the effort of the city was much-applauded. Another chapter is in Store for the business district areas, where masses of debris, from wet garbage to dry trash . such as cartons, papers, and wrappings are unceremoniously dumped behind the stores. Operating a six-day per week collection, the city garbage pi<A“'up men , find it difficult to cope with loads of scattered debris, not to mention the winds which do an effeeftive scattering job. The city has awarded contract for a truck to mount a h^kiuUc pack- . er and has received bids Ma tne packer i and various-sized ceatafaiW- Action on theise Mda li^n the agen- I da of Tuesday nigfit'R leijular Novem ber meeting and K-tl tO Bte hoped that • the city commisad^ aroteed to ■ award contract for *^8 yMker and con- ; tainers. A much clealM#’Will <3|sult.. Col. W. K. Dickson, the city’s con sulting engineer, remarked recently that Kings Mountain has obtained about all the mileage possible out of the two meager watersheds tapped in 1928 and 1954 and that the city would be more than justified in laying plans to develope the watershed on Buffalo Creek which was staked out several years ago with state authorities. By its action last week in award ing contracts for building a two-million gallon storage tank on “high ground” city pl’operty bounded by Cherryville Road and McGinnis Street the city mov ed to enhance its filtered water supply and to alleviate low-pressure problems in various areas of the city's water sys tem service area. Water and water pipe are, pethaps, not particularly more glamorous than sewage disposal plants and systems, but water remains a life-blood necessity. A check of the record in the vote for tills district’s United States Representative shows that almost twice as many Cleveland County citizens — more than *18,000 — rast votes-dnpresidCTr- tial-year 1964, while less than 10,000 went to the polls in non- presidential 1962. In spite of an unusual num ber of general election contests in this normally Democratic area, the campaigning has been of the pink tea variety, rather than the slugging kind under way in California, Georgia and South Carolina, and political leaders of both Democratic and Republican faiths agree totals will be small m-m One indication of a low total ' vote is applications for jibsen- tee ballots. Elections "Board Chairman Ralph Gilbert had received only 50 requests as of Wednesday morning, 13 from ci vilians and 37 from members of the armed forces, a small to tal for a county with 20fi00 regis tered voters. Wednesday was the deadline for civilian absentee ap plications. Chairman Gilbert re- j marked, “wouldn’t have been hardly any civilian absentees were it not for Kings Mountain. Looks like you’ve got a lot of travelers in Kings Mountain.’’ SO THIS IS NEW YORK That the modern accent i s on youth there can. be little //(oodMt Viewpoints of Other Editors WAGING WAR AGAINST ALCOHOLISM Yet another indication is the comparative paucity of new reg istrants. Chairman Gilbert’s re port was, ‘Light, county-wide.” He guessed the new voters would total few more than those removed from the voting books by death and departure. With light vote totals indicated, the nartvis cUsTw^tiy fsivored The favor^'carfl^Hwiilies^ hbwever, cannot avoiu m'Jmf- marish dreams, that too many friends, assuming victoryf will be content to let old George do it. The decision of the U. S. De partment of Health, Education, and Welfare to launch a major attack against alcoholism is wel come. There is difference of opinion on whether alcoholism is a disease, but all Americans with their eyes open should agree that alcoholism is a U. S. problem that deserves more at tention than it has yet received. LOVE WAS THE THEME SPELL OF THE CAPITOL doubt. In the advertisements of fun-filled resorts, in the empha sis on sports and in the con stant overtones of sex, lively young people are depicted in every vivid way. It appears to be an unwelcome and unpleas ant experience to get old. Still, some parents breathe sighs of relief when their children be come mature and settled. And a local ’ educator said the other day, “Being an adult., today is not easy. Being a child or teen ager may be even harder. Insta bility, uncertainty, conflict and competition are age old prob lems but today they seem to touch yoqth more than in the past.” The aims of the projected Fed eral attack on alcoholism are worthy. John Gardner, the Sec retary of Health, Education, and Welfare,, saya that. the. prime pb- Jectiyps ?re,' to nnalj;e sure that' the best treatment and rehabili tation services are made avail^ able' to li. S. alcoholics; to im prove the techniques of treat ment; cmd to find effective ways of preventing alcoholism. Newest wrinkle in politics is the new law, hastily passed on the last day Congress was in session, to permit taxpayers to check a box on their income tax returns and thereby .contribute a dollar of their tax check to the next presidential campaign. If its a joint return, two bucks may be thusly designated. m-ai President Johnson had recom mended* some presidential cam paign help, such as a tax deduc tion for a modest donation. The way the bill passed is hardly what he envisioned. m*m Thirty teachers came together this summer to look intp new ways of inspiring children to learn ... ■ ’The teachers found anew that the central switch which turns on the learner is housed in the spirit and attitude — and in the degree of love — of the teach er. The theme that clearly emerg ed from the six-week ESEA Curriculum Development project was “love.” The way to infuse the pupil with spark and spirit, the way to ignite his often-times near- biisiedjcuriosity, the way to kin- <H<^vg,;dimmed awareness of the RfOlWer^of the world around rfmi'way♦ to all this is through love. . . . During the special project, In the climate engendered by small ’ Establishment of a national center for prevention and control of alcoholism, within the Nation al Institute of Mental Health at Bethesda, Md,, is planned. The center will seek to improve ed ucation on alcoholism through out the country, endeavoring to counteract what one health lead er terms “untruths, half-truths, mythology, and legend” about alcoholism. The national center also will conduct research and sponsor research at other Insti tutions. It will promote profes sional training as another means of combatting alcoholism. It will not treat alcoholics, except in connection with research pro grams. A Senate - House Conference committee approved a rider to an Administration tax bill confer ring anti-trust immunity on the merger of two professional foot ball leagues. National Football League Com missioner Pete Rozelle had threatened to postpone the pro posed merger unless the immuni ty was granted. The immunity will apply only to the act of merging, someone assures us, not to such practices as exclu sive franchises and player drafts. Two influential Louisiana leg islators, Senator Russell Long and Representative Hale Boggs, took part in the conference. New Orleans is reportedly in line for a new professional football franchise. Just to make it all perfectly logical, the measure also bans classes manned by three teachers, | televising of any pro game on Nona Brown, in the recent Sun day’s New Yor^ Tim®'! '--"’lo the ground rules and they twe intriguing. A Democrat does not designate his contribution to the Democratic coffer, nor a Republi can to the Republican treasurer, nor Socialist to Socialist, etc. There is no universally accept ed definition of alcoholism, but the World Health Organization calls a person an alcoholic if there is compulsion to drink and the drinking creates a problem for the individual, his family, or his community. 'The divvying, hoy/ever, is bas ed on the total haf^n-wide vote fOT President in tRe previous elec tion. Under the .gmund rules, a party’s first five million votes is deducted, 'then the remainder is divided. A splinter party r^.-ree. Tree, Townsendite, Farmer- Labor, Socialist) which attains more than five million votes, can collect one dollar per vote over the five million, Just as can the major parties. i Congratvlations to: Edith Ham- bright, Kings Mountain high school DAR good citizen; Sandra .Mullinax, Kings Mountain Wfih school homecoming queen; andNV^ard K. McMaclrfn, Kings Mountain native recently promoted by Wachovia Bank & Trust Company^ Except that, writes the New York Tlmeswortian, were there no third, fourth or fifth par*<«»<! oe* ting as many as five million bi 19M, the Democrats and Repub licans might be aUe to divide $60,000,000 between each other. The potential, if all taxpayer: wei« to contribute, is $100 mil lion per year. ^ihere’t another cute Joker in the deck, too. Even if the take fdr each pntiy Is only $lo million each, how could the cortl^n«#»er - general (arbiter of the fWvWonl approve from than a WrfRidh dor bach, or any, par ty’ A prior law puts a $3 mll- beUtng on expenditures of Miy MitloMl eowMSfrittee. Will Congress pass another law to dlwy up the indicated huge excess for use at state levels? There are, in the United States, some four to five million people regarded as alcoholics. But alcoholism directly affects the welfare of an additional 16 to 20 million Americans who are members of the families of al coholics. The cost of alcoholism to Industry has been placed at $2 billion or more annually. Only 3 to 8 per cent of U. S. alcoholics are said to be of the "Skid Rbw type.” The rest live with their Camilles and work — or try to work — In income - producing jobs. love became a solid object. It resided in full force wherever the teachers and their children were .... From the condition that exist ed during the special project the knowledge grew that the flow of love would have to be resumed in the regular school session, no matter how greatly the pupils out-number the teacher. All that happened during the project can not be repeated in regular session, everyone agreed. But the inspired l^al that was the pinnacle on which the pro ject ended will be taken by the teacher into her crowded, rou tine-filled, schedule-bound days ahead. . . . The impact of the Summer will go into the schools in the fall, John iL. Cleveland, ESEA Co ordinator, predicts. . . . “With experimentation now a trend, the teachers will find an accepting climate for their need to try new ways and to keep trylnior imtil the right one is found,” Cleveland said. “The teachers will, consciously or not, serve as a kind of pressure group.” Consensus of opinion is that the teacher will approach the regular school session with an Friday night or Saturday after noon within 75 miles of any high school football game. There are strange things done neath the closing gun by men who ply for votes. Adjournment nights have seen strange sights; but none more strange they ere can tell, Than now to bawl for pro foot ball, on cue from Pete Ro zelle. — The Wall Street Journal. A lot of campaign money- rftiaera might wither away with Health leaders tell us that the cause of alcoholism is not known, but the condition can be treated and its consequences can be largely averted if techniques 3f treatnrtent are applied early. Not everyone will agree that the cause is unknown. Many a Prohibitionist will Insist that the cause of alcoholism is alcohol and that the sure Way to prevent It is total abstinence from im bibing alcoholic beverages. True. But this is like saying that the catise of automobile accidents is automobiles and that the sure way to prevent automobile acci dents is to abstain from use of autOmobUes. The reality is that alcoholic drinking is tgoiog to contimie in the United States, just as auto nobile driving is going to con tinue. The best we can hope for, if we are realistic, is greatar sue- ''ess than we have had in -con- troj^ and prevention of abuses. It is the aim of the Department of Health, Education, and Wel fare to make a raalMlc aUaok on alcoholism, what it proposes to do is good. — ’The Smlthfield C. ) Herald; 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events taken from the 1956 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. SAD BUT TRUE They say by the time a fellow gets to the greener pastures, he’s not able to climb over the fence. —Rosseau (Minn.) Times-Region expectation of change — more flexibility, more learning ma terials, more close looks at the contents of the school day, more alterations of the classroom re gime to allow for contacts with students. . . . The many benefits of the sum mer can not be taken by the teacher into her regular school experience, all agreed. But an awareness of their need can be taken back to the classroom. And the love can. — Unified School District newspaper (Berk ley, Calif.) The Houston, Texas Police Ete- partment has issued a folder en titled, “How to Raise a Delin quent”, by Dr. John Winters Fleming which sets forth the fol lowing: 1 Begin with infancy to give the child everything he wants. In this way he will grow up to believe that the world owes Tiim a living. 2. When he picks up bad words, laugh at him. This will make him think he is cute. It will also encourage him to pick up ‘cuter’ phrases that will blow off the top of your head later on. 3. Never give him any spiritual training. Wait until he is twenty- one and then let him ‘decide for himself.’ 4. Avoid the use of the word ‘wrong’. It may develop a guilt complex. This will condition hirv to believe later when he is ar- i,re.sted for stealing a car, that society is against him and that he is being persecuted. 5. Pick up-«verjdhing he leaves lying around — books, clothes, shoes. Do everything for him so that he will be experienced in throwing responsibility to oth ers. 6. Let him read any printed matter Re can get his hands on. Have no concern whatever for what goes into his mind. Be careful that the silverware and drinking glasses are sterilized but let his mind feast on gar bage 7. Quarrel frequently in the presence of your children. In this way they will not be too shocked when the home is broken up later. Give him all the spending money he wants. Never let him. earn his own. WRv should he have things as tough as you had them? 9. Satisfy his everv craving for food, drink and comfort. See that everv sensual desire is gratified. Denial may lead to harmful frustrations. 10. Praise him in his presence to all the neighbors. Show how much smarter he is than the neighbors’ children. Take his part against ne'fthbors, teachers and policemen. They are all pre judiced against yolur child. 11. When he gets into real trouble, aoologize for vourself by saving,’ “I never could do any thing with him!” 12. Prepare for a life of grief. You will be likely to have it.” In a juvenile court here re cently, the judge was about to hand down a stiff sentence to a young hoodlum. But before he made his pronouncement, he paused and looked at the mother of the boy. "I really should be sentencing yt^u,” he said. ‘ Evi dently it was your indulgence which allowed this young man to become a criminal.” Cleveland County Republicans will hold a rally in Shelby Fri day night, with Mrs. Louis G. Rogers, Republican national committee woman Xo make the principal address. Lithium Corporation of Amer ica will raise wages at its Bes semer City plant from 8 to 12 cents per hour effective Mon day, it was announced yesterday by Bruce Thorbbrn, personnel manager. Dr. Harold J. 'Dudley, of Ra- llegh, general secretary of the Presbyterian Synod of North Cartriinai, will conduct a week of spedal services at the First Presbyterian church beginning Sunday. Social and Personal Use of fabrics in the home wUl be the theme of the pro gram 'Monday night at 7:30 p.m. at the reguW meeting of the Junior Woman’s club. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Moore and daughter, Debbie, of Green Cove, Fla., apent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs..P R. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Clave Moore. They 'Came espedally to accompany young RobMa Moore home. KEEP TODRISDIO MU SETH 1220 Kings Momitain, N. C. News & We<3ther every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the iialf hour. Fiae enterto-iament in between * * Thur sv» by I gam star: Care Soul thre N. ( Easi Ste\ Mite coin wini to t on 1 the seas cha fina ball last qua full as nan for toui N,