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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERAUD. KINeS MOUKtAH N. C.
Thursday, Dectmber I, 1966
Thursd
SatobUahed 1889
Hie Kings Mountain Heidd
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the'enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kitvgs Mountain
and its vicinity, pyblishcd 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 Ctmgress of March 3, 1873.
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Clerk
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Walk in wisdom toward them that are iiithout, redeeming in time. / ThessaUmia*
Moore For Tax Cut
Governor Dan Moore said last
weekend he will recommend a tax cut
when he presents his budget message
to the 1967 General Assembly in Feb-
ruary.
His statement came as the Advisory
Budget Commission completed its bien
nial chore of preparing recommenda
tions on spending for the two yeai’s be
ginning next July 1.
However, the Governor declined de
tails, either as to eliminating specific
taxes or reducing specific schedules, nor
did he mention amounts.
State Treasurer Edwin Gill weeks
ago predicted a $150 million surplus for
the current biennium and the Governor
upped his surplus sights to $200 million.
Surely, it would appear, if taxes are
ever to be pared in North Carolina, sur
plus season is the proper time.
The Governor's statement did not
suit many groups, most notably the ed
ucators who already were seeking the
whole of the projected $150 million sur
plus, nor some of the financially hard-
pressed cities and counties, who see the
state as the Moses required to lead them
to a better financial land. It can be ex
pected that other state agencies also
look with disfavor on any proposed tax
reduction.
As North Carolina grows, its appro
priation bill increases yearly via a
built-in set-up. Department heads and
administrators present two budget re
quests labeled “A” and “B”. The “A”
request details funds required to main
tain services “as are”, including merit
pay increases for employees. The “B”
budget request is what is regarded as
desirable, to enable expansion of func
tions and services.
Customarily, the final appropriation
bill totals some hgure between minimal
“A” and maximal "B”.
Surpluses, the Governor may learn,
as a Gaston representative expressed
following the surplus-laden 1947 session,
mav be harder to contend with than
potential deficit, for the simple reason
that virtually all departments and their
promoters want to dip into the till.
As recently as 1963, Governor Terry
Sanford suggested a minuscule tax re
duction, in the form of increase of per
sonal Income tax exemptions for chil
dren (now only $200). But the recom
mendation was lost in the shuffle for
funds and quietly died.
Governor Moore’s proposals, what
ever they may be, could meet the same
fate.
Two deciding factors will be 1)
popularity of the particular parings he
recommends and 2) popularity of the
particular proposals with members of
the General Assembly. On the other side
of the coin will be the lobbying heft of
those groups drooling for a big bite of
the indicated surplus.
One factor favoring the Governor's
recommendations: it’s pretty hard to
argue against any kind of tax cut in a
time when tax trends are up, not down.
Last major cut in taxes in North
Carolina was in 1941, when Governor
Broughton twisted legislative arms and
won approval of his campaign pledge,
removal of the sales tax from the home
table.
Qnestion
Federal Bureau of Public Roads
confirmed in detail over the weekend
the Wednesday statement to the Herald
of R. W. McGowan, assistant chief engi
neer of the North Carolina Highway &
Public Works Commission that federal
road building allocations to the states
are being cut back.
North Carolina, in the fiscal year
starting next July 1, will receive slight
ly more than $4() million, over $11 mil
lion less than anticipated.
Engineer McGowan said there have
already been two cut-backs in the cur
rent fiscal year, which he labeled as one
of the prime reasons the U. S. 74 by
pass (thruway) Kings Mountain project
is not proceeding to fruition. The cut
backs from the federal treasury, it was
announced from Washington, represent
Is When
a part of the recently mounted effort of
the Johnson Administration to pare do
mestic expenditures in the interest of
prosecuting the Vietnamese war.
Under federal road-aid law, Inter
state highway construction costs quali
fy for 90 percent federal aid, while oth
er federally-marked roads are 50-50
shared. U. S. 74 is in the 50-50 category.
According to Elngineer McGowan,
building of the U. S. 74 strip here is and
has been no question of “if* since the
commission “proceed” action of last
January, but remains a question of
“when”.
Meantime, the traffic continues to
increase on U. S. 74 and the Kings
Mountain bottleneck continues to be one
of the major ones between the point of
U. S. 74 origin at Wilmington and the
mountains to the west.
Worthy Profoct
A Duke professor duo will conduct
a research project, paid for by the Rich
ardson Foundation, in an effort to de
termine what other tests, other than^
high school grades and aptitude (col
lege board) tests, might be used by ad
mission boards in admitting students to
college.
With prosperity has come increas
ing enrollments at virtually every
school of higher learning in the land
and comparative difficulty for some stu
dents to gain admission.
The rigidity with which admission
boards apply the twin tests of college
board scores and high school grades has
been properly criticized as insufficient
means of determining who should have
the benefit of college training and who
shouldn’t.
Leading critic of the current system
is Edwin S. Lanier, now North Caro
lina's Commissioner of Insuranec, but
for many years the student aid boss at
the Chapel Hill branch of the Upiversity
of North Carolina. Out of long experi
ence, Mr. Lanier attacks the currant
lyatem on grounds that “gracMS aren’t
Everything” and that aptitude in har-
.n^izing with others play a great part
» learning and subsequent doing in the
yuiness of making a living and qualify
ing as good citizens.
The research project at Duke is
good news.
Neo-Noxis
Recent political developments in
Germany mark the upcoming departure
^of Chancellor Erhard and his replace
ment'by Kurt-Georg Keisinger, a mild-
mannei^ politician, and a former Nazi
during the Hitlerian era.
^^^^ristmas is leas than four weeks
Bv ijs ncraatM at the mosCtHngar-^
atitoa of the year
In the United States, where there
are only two major political parties, and
where no splinter party (even Teddy
Roosevelt’s Bull Moosers of 1912) has
ever attracted as many as five million
votes, it is hard to appreciate European
politics, where parties' are both more
numerous and vfrulent in vote - getting
and where the parliamentary system of
ten dictates govemment-by-coalition, as
has been the instance in Germany for
some years.
At the same time, this nation and
others cannot help but look askance at
political changes in Germany, regard
less of protestations of innocence of in
tent.
The German people are able engi
neers, scientists, financiers and busi
nessmen. They are also quite national
istic in spirit and, as too many Ameri
cans, British, and-«Cfiers can attest, as
tough fighting men as can be produced.
Most feel a warning mental shiver
at any indication of rt-blrth of the Nazi
movement.
Some gloss over the indication of
re-birth, however minor, by harking to
the right-wing policies of all the major
parties in WeM Germany and the fact
that the Cominunist party is barred.
himself, was ngnt^i^g.
MARTWS
MEDICINE
Ingredients: bits of netos,
u^om, humor,andcomments
Directions: tTake weekly if
yo^ibJe, but avoM
dverilosage.
By MARTIN HARMON
At precisely 11 o’clock TueS'^
day morning, I was visiting with
Yates Harbison at Winn-Dixie
for Yates’ regular weekly perus
al of the Winn-Dixie advertis
ing copy, and Green Stamp cou
pons.
Did the^Sovernor Say Food Tax?
f TAKE OFF N.a FOOD TAXI . ^
SAY.. YOU REALLY 02
BELIEVE IN SANTA CLAUS!
Suddenly, there was a clang-
clang-clang, and Yates reached
to the adjoining counter to push
the button to “off’’ on ^ alarm
clock.
st-m
“MTiat goes on?” I teased.
"You mean you have to keep an
alarm clock around to keep your
folk awake?’’
“Oh, no.” Yates replied. “We’ve
always wide-awake. It’s a mat-
a matter of scientific efficiMicy
We Idg the number of customers
who li^ve been in the* store each
hour on the hour. I enter the
number on a chart, then de
termine how many clerks, stodt-
m«i, cashiers and bag boys we
need at any particular time dur
ing the week.”
“Smart operation,” I compli
mented.
m-m
“You bet,” says Yates, adding,
“now understand this. If you
ever come in this store and 'find
us short-handed, it’s not our
fault. It’s yours. You simply
came at the wrong hour on the
wrong day.”
m*m
Mrs. William 'Lawrence Plonk
says she counts on Husband Bill
to attend to details and to keep
her posted thereupon. Thus, when
Bill recently told her she’d bet
ter get her driver's license re-
nwed, on pains of being w’itHout
a license. Marguerite left the
three little ones with Bill and
hied to the patrol office — exam
ination station on U. S. 74
SO THIS IS
NEW YOBK
By NORTH CALLAHAN
Parties can be risky as well as
colorful, I noticed as Amy Van
derbilt hovered over the inviting
food table at a recent one on
Park Avenue. She was selecting
her calories with care, she told
me, and it was a good example
for lalJ of us weight watchers.
Viewpoints of Other Editors
SLIPS AND BLOOPERS
Anybody could get a little mix
-up if he were asked to deal
out millions to save the beauti
ful and historic- spots of the
United States. So we cannot be
too hard on federal officials if
they occasionally goof in their
current vast cultural effort.
PROBLEMS AT UN
The UN, which some people
have called “man’s” best hope
for peace,” is beset these days
with many problems.
There’s a shortage of space at
the New York headquarters.
They could build more rooms at
the same location, but some
^ ^ j . want, instead, to move the
We were not too shocked to shebang to some other
After she sucoeasfuUy passed
the test, the examiner inquired,
“Did the department write you
a special letter to come in?”
learn of that trouble on Cape
Cod some weeks ago when mis
guided (^cial tree planters
sought to "landscape” the curv
ed sand slopes of a bare duhe.
We were, however, glad of the
outcome. So convlneing ware the
protests of local people who
wanted their dunes au nature!
that the planters, apparently cur
tailed their operations.
No, the department hadn’t.
“Well,” the examiner continu
ed, “come back over in about 11
months. Your license doesn’t ex
pire until then.”
Marguerite had no regrets. “It
was worth a free afternoon,” she
commented.
A slightly different kind of
problem has ari^n in a small
New Hampshire city. Washing
ton has designated “a bam near
Lebanon, N. H.” as a historic
monumenl Under new I^isla-
tion money would be available
for its preservation, but unfor
tunately neither the mayor, the
city manager, not even the com
munity’s (dd-tipiers can think of
any local barn worthy of a
bronze plaque. They have almost
given up the search.
Several weeks ago Elizabeth
Plonk Mercer, “on duty” with Lt.-
Col. Jim with the army in Ger
many, was at a reception given
by the mayw of Wurtzburg- The
wife of the 3rd Division chief of
staff, (she calls Charlotte home),
had been packing for home
shores and, while examining a
stack of old music, had found a
program of the Battle of Kings
Mountain sesqui - centennial of
1930. It was at the reception, Lib
was handed the program.
Lib writes: “I had a terrible
time holding it and not belnr
able to look at it ... I did not
know that so many people from
New York and other cities had
such a part in the celebration.
Frankly, I only remember people
tainting and being brought into
our house. They were all over
the rooftop and the fence in the
front of the house was complete
ly torn down. 'The revlewinf
stand was directly across the
street on Mr. S. C. Ratterree’r
lawn.”
Could it be that some other
Lebanon was meant? Perhaps
one in Pennsylvania, that state
of beautiful edd Dutch barns.
We don’t want to seem critical
of the government in mentioning
these little slips. In a country as
big as the United States, where
you can have 17 Lebanons in as
many stated, the wonder is that
these embarrassing episodes are
JO rare. ~ The Christian Science
Monitor.
TO IflNTH PLACH
As Lib suggests, *tis a small
world, indeed.
In the mail from Bob Me
DanicL ax - Kings Mountaineer
and foirmer historian at Kingi
Mountain National Militaty
Park comes a subacriptioa le-
newal.
m*m
Bob’s
Mountain
saddened
deaths.”
postscriot: “Kina'
kas cwtalnljr teM
by many untimeo
during thu wanuig yeir Anno
Domini 1966.
If William Shakespeare were
on television, the'odds are that
his option would liot'be renewed.
a result of a scholastic ppU
It Columbia University, it has
■jeen shown that Bill has slip
ped badly. He pas, in fact, be^n
leposed by John Steinbeck of
stapes of Wrath fame. Shake
speare now is indeed occupying
ninth place, just about where you
would expect to find the New
fork Mets. He shares this spot
n a tie with F. Scott Fitzgerald
whose works seemed to be com
ing back into public esteem in
recent years.
EngUsh authors seemed to be
lealt with rather harshly by
hese college students. Also
riummetlng with Shakespeare
'Vere Charles Dickens, a Q.
Wells and George Bernard Shaw.
Uso cast into outer daiHnf^
vere such famed authors ad Ma*
?hlaveUi, Jana AtKlcn. Plato, D.
H. Lawrence, Eugene Q’NolU and
\ chap called airnply Homer.
Tha new favoritos, besldea
Steinbadc, ware Albeft Camus,
Jmest Hemmingwak tX Sal
nger, Janies Joy^, Sin<dalr Lew
a and Feodor Oosteyevi^. One
night find a cemmon dene«>l
Mtor here if he searched hard
enough. The only question ia
How durable tha newcomer*
going to be? Will SaUnger be
top dog in 1906? WIU Steinbeek
stiU tov the Uat 20 years hence?
We doubt It And we also doubt
that Bill Shakespeare vrill be
country because, among other
things, the cost of living is so
high in the USA.
There’s the money problem: in
sufficient funds for all the
peace - seeking and peace-keep
ing activities. The USSR and
France won’t pay their back dues
unless the US will pay some
more advance dues. The US isn’t
sure it will pay all current dues
unless the UN first pays back
some it has already borrowed,
.^d some member countries
can’t pay their dues until the
UN gets enough In the bank so
that they can borrow from it.
“rhen, there’s the problem of
being ign<»ed. After going to all
the trouble to pass a resolution
condemning South Africa and
declaring Southwest Africa
should no longer be ruled by the
condemned South Africa, the UN
flnds that not only does South
Africa ignore the resolution, but
so also does nearly everyone
who helped pass it.
Also, there’s the problem of
finding a safe place to practice
peace • making. Vietnam is too
dangerous. Places like Hungary
and Tibet are out of bounds.
Those congenial little countries
generally known as the African
bloc have been trying to get
Great Britain to go to war
against Rhodesia. That’s a pos
sibility.
But Southwest Africa seems
the “best hope” in a situation
which looks increasingly hope
less. Compared to New York that
should be something of a low
rent area, bringing down the cost
of. living. From there the UN
pcace-ke^rs could conveniently
launch their own war against
Rhodeeia and not have to rely
upon the reluctant Britons. We’re
sura South Africa wouldn’t ig
nore that resolution then, and
might even provide some more
peace-keeping practice.
As for money, once set up in
a place all its own, the UN could
do as Uncle Sam does — just
print what is needed.
And, If the UN moves out of
New York, the child-mayor of
that city might have enough of
fice space to house all his new
kJ**lihgs, —« Lincoln ’Times-News
Voices have been raised in
horror at the suggestion‘that we
should broaden our fish diet to
include some currently unfash
ionable types. As for encourag
ing the British housewife to
adopt “fish sausages,” the idea
has been laughed out of the kit
chen. In our view, these mock
ers and scoffers only show their
gastronomical illiteracy.
ponnanaatly Ia nltith place. Hi
haa too much afuff on the ball
Arid aucKiwdiiti^ UlwAiy fans, m
BRITISH PALATE
The genial Miss Vanderbilt
who has organized, in addition
to her m5Tiad activities, the Se
lect Arts Society which enables
people to purchase good books
and paintings without leaving
their homes, is fond of parties
ws~ well wharthesr ran'
do to the waistline and time
schedule. This one in the elegant
home of F. Bryan Williams, was
given by James F. Fox in honor
of the heads of Unipron, which
I learned is an international pub
lic relations organization with
headquarters in Brussels and rep
resentatives in major European
cities who coordinate their serv
ices. One minute I would be
standing beside ChrLstopher
Maude - Roxby from London,
the next, Margaret Lathbury
from Rome. One guest with a
copious beard resembled the
well - publicized Commander
Whitehead, whom he had met,
he told me. This individual turn
ed out to be Paul Jenkins, an
artist whose paintings sell for
thousands of dollars each and
ho admitted he looked 60 al
though being only 43 But fortu
nately at this gay gathering, ev
eryone seemed young, Jim Fox
especially.
What, for example, is that
most delectable French dish
“Quenelles de Brochet,” made
from the much despised pike,
but a fish sausage? And “Rkie
au Beurre Nolr,” which takes
pride of place on many a smart
French menu, is only common
skate cooked in burnt butter.
Suave headwaiter at the Hotel
^ierre here is George Sargent
who is equally as outgoing with
unknown customers as he is
with some of the regulars w'ho
frequent the Cafe such as John
ny Weismuller. George is proud
of the fact that his is the only
supper room in New York City
where people can dance even be
fore it gets dark, to refreshingly
smooth music. Two other favor
ite customers of his are Jack
Wrather and Bonita Granville
who have been married to each
other much longer than most
Hollywood personalities. Jack
hails from Tyler, Texas and well
remembers that city, a “plfice of
oil and roses.”
So let the scoffers and mock
ers eat their words, since they
so clearly know little about eat
ing anything else. — The Sunday
Telegraph (London).
TAKE CARE WITH-CARE
The possible prevalence of
“care” as a suffix, what with the
stimulating precedent of medi
care, may become a thing to be
reckoned with. We are moved to
say so by the coinage of a word
by some inventive minds at the
National Endowment for the
Arts who refer to their grants to
performing artists as thespicare.
Shipping subsidies could easi
ly — perhaps too eeisily — be
come maricare, housing subsidies
resicare, educaUonal grants stu-
dicare, federal highway aid road-
icare, and so endlessly forth. In
the event of grants to the O)-
operative for American Remit
tances to Europe, the temptation
might be virtually irresistible in
some quarters to refer to it as
carccare boogie with a hot-cha-
cha.
10
YEARS AOO
THIS WEEK
Items of news about Kings
Momtain area jpeofle and
avents taken from the
/Use of the Kings Mountain
Merald.
A final word to those who care
enough: There Is, we believe, yet
time. — St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
For three hundred years a
small patch of land in New York
Harbor has stood as the military
symbol of protection for this, the
greatest shipping port in the
world. It is Governors Island and
is ao named because the early
Dutch governors of New Neth
erlands made it their headquart
ers. Housewives carried milk
across the narrow strip of water
to Brooklyn — it could be waded
then — so now this is known
as Buttermilk Channel. For many
yeara, this island was military
headquarters for this area until
recently when this was changed
and now it has become a Coast
Guard installation. I was sta
tioned on Governors Island dur
ing World War II and found it
an interesting post, even though
most of us wanted to go over
seas before we did My com
manding officer was Colonel Le-
Roy W. Yarborough, 'father of
General William P. Yarborough,
who was at Fort Bragg, North
Carolina for a time as head of
the Special Troops. The young
general found the thriving city
of nearby Fayetteville as hos
pitable as his father did Gov
ernors Island, in his leadership
of the Green Berets.
An estimated 5,000 per$ona
Jammed Kings Mountain Wed
nesday afternoon for the Kings
Mountain Merchant Associatiooi’s
annual Christmas opening pa
rade.
Miss Shirley Falls will be pre
sented in ber senior organ redtal
by the Greensboro College Sdiobl
of Music next Wednesday at 8
a’clock in Odell Auditorium In
Greensboro.
Seeled emd Rsrssaal
Betty Jeanne Plonk, dai^hter
of Mr. and Mra Wray A. noqk.
has been selected to rajotMIbt
“l^e Hartford (Cdnh.) Courant. Good Citizen contest.
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