The Kings Mountain Herald A 'Weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare ajid published ‘ for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain vieiflityr publhdwd-evcry^ Jlrursday hy_the Herald Publishing iiouse., Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, .N. C., 280S6 under Att of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Gary Stewart Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Lynda Hardin Clerk Bobby Bolin Paul Jackson We did and do. MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dave Weathers Allen Myers Dave Weathers, Jr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE . *' ONE YEAR .'. $3.50 HSIX-MDOTHS ’.. ISIOO”" THREE^IONTHS .'. $r35“ PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Brethren let every man^ wherein he is called, therein abide with GckI. 1 Corinthians 7:2i Lile-Giving Water Christmas 1966 Recently a lady called the Herald and, in course of transacting her busi ness, mourned the icy rain of that par ticular day. The reply from the Herald end of the line; “We need rain.” “Tidings of great joy good will on earth . , .” A century ago the War Between the States had been recently ended. Rather forcible confirmation has come with the estimates of water avail ability in the City of Kings Mountain reservoirs. W. K. Dickson, the city’s vet eran consulting engineef, spelled out the growing problem in professional terms in his recent report which has dictated city commission approval with sizeable watershed most closely adjacent—Bui- falo Creek. Fifty years ago. World War I was underway and the United States was only four months distant from involve ment as a combatant. Later that cold day, I was at Sterchi’s and remark^ ta Hen derson Herndon about the out side frigidity. “Yeah,” Henderson agreed, “but I\,ow cold do you think you'd be on that swinging bridge at Grandfather Moun tain?” The morning mail had al so produced Christmas greetings from Hugh Morton, Grandfather Mountain’s owner. m-m ‘ A father here happened to see 1ft the mail # book addressed to his, teenage aon. It was a jftiblish- eT in CalUtornia and was found to be a volume of sexual fllth high ly Illustrated but masquerading under the head of something a- bout human anatomy. After care ful examination of the book, the father, who is broad-minded, [je to the definite conclusion that it was pornography and was certainly meant to arouse rather than iiMorm. He thereupon sent it to the jitostal Inspertor who looked it over and agreed with the parent “We wiU chepk into It, but it is doubtful if anything cfin be done,” the inspector re- ^ed. “The reoNit deci^ons of the 3^reme Court have tied our hands. This Califomia publisher- and that is the worst state for sending pornography through the - nudts-probably knows Just wh^ he stands legally. I recall when we made a raid bn a Brook lyn smut shop, that we found people busily mailing out jwk, but they had a complete legal li brary in his office, with files on every case of imppitanoe on re cord regarding pornography. He just stood there and laughed at us.”- , 3 Horace Greeley, famous edi- A Me ;oach er of BjC>y«:and r-And, 1 let4c..£>ep£ tlnv^rs, et .. To Ci so», ajid 0 doHA sp w kiqs and i To th cogchos o: otl^r divi To th various di To th basketball their best finish. . . Twenty-five years ago, the United States had been severely wounded at Pearl Harbor and had entered World War II. Today, Viet Nam. at Christmas season 1966- As of last week, the city’s auxiliary supply, Davidson Lake, was lapping at the third lowest of four intake valves and Engineer Dickson would credit the remainder at no more than 12 million gallons. Due to the rains, the York Koad (main) reservoir was rising slightly, and was being augmented by pumpage from the Old Gold Mine shaft, east of York Road, as well as from Davidson Lake. Then and now, much of the world pauses at Christmastide to celebrate the birth of the Prince of-Peace. At supper, I mentioned to my wife having chatted &t the lunch eon with Senator-elect Marshall Rauch. Last Easter, Marshall had favored me with a package of his Satin-Sheen Easter novelties. Anne paused little as she said, I "Oh, I wish I had some of his [ Christmas decorations. I hear they’re great.” In next morning’s mail was a handsome package of Satin-Sheen novelties in Christ mas motif. Viewpoints of Other Editors “Tidings of great joy .. . peace, good will on earth . . ." m-m road to peace proves long, devious and pot-holed, but it is right that effort con tinues to lessen the incidence of man's inhumanity to man, that continuing un fortunate fact of life. Marshall was still getting tele- OVERLOpKED ' i In their zeal to purge China of every thing remotely “Western” from men’s suits to coiffured hair, the rampaging Red Guards have i overlooked the most pervading Western influence of all WOMEN WARRIORS SYMBOLS OF CK1IX8TMAS phone orders from all over the nation. His Pyramid Mills at Bessemer City majors in quick This Is the phil3sophy«ircon ceived in the West by a Wester ner (who had only contempt for Many arguments are given for not assigning women to combat duty. They can be heard now that draft and voluntary enlistment systems are under discussion. Most of them are statements of the obvious. But one that we have never delivery via air express. The ex- 'the primitive East) and designed) heaixl before was advanced at In short; Kings Mountain is fortu nate that today is in December, with normal winter rains and snow ahead, rather than May 1, traditional begin ning of the long, hot, and sometimes dry summer. Last summer was a dry one, with less than normal rainfall. Congratulations to Bobby C. Brid ges, newly elected Master of Pairview Lodge AF & AM, 40 & 8. press company gathers shipments at the mill, door by truck, flies the shipments to city of destina tion, where another truck trans- iports the shipments to the pur- to be applied to technologically advanced Western society—Mar xism. Ironically, it is in Yhe very name of this alien ideology that In recommending the current water program. Engineer Dickson reminded the commission that his 1966 advice is merely up-dated as to cost and design from the same advice he gave before the Davidson Lake was built. “You’ve got all the mileage you’re going to get out of the supply system you have,” he de clared. A best bow to Kings Mountain high school’s outstanding gridiron perform ers of 1966: Sandy-Mauney and Tommy Finger, most valuable; Kenny Plonk, best blocker; Eddie Bridges, most im proved; and Chucky Gladden, top scho lar. A Squeaky VotA Meantime, usage of water increas- The issue of whether to employ the short-term approach taken, or whether then to tap Buffalo Creek, was hotly and sometimes acrimoniously fought. Some government bondborrowings are popular, others are not. It is a rule of thumb in North Carolina that voting citizens, nine of ten times, will support bond issues for roads and the public schools. Who was right in 1953-54? A dozen years later cases can be made for both opinions. (Charlotte’s six-issue election Satur day, in which four issues were approved handily, one was defeated by a squeaky 114 votes, and another was favored by a squeaky margin of 414 deserve analy sis and has overtones of importance to virtually every city in North Carolina. chaser. Time of delivery is tele- j the dogmatic Chinese teen-agers typed to Pyramid by the air [are carrying out their excesses, hauler. Maybe one of these days they * Ifih wake up to the contradic- “>■« j/Ron. * Such an event could result in Senator-elect Rauch is a North Carolinian first because he ma triculated at Duke as- a basket ball whiiz kid fondly by choice Service in World War II with Uncle Sam prevented his grad uating. “At that time I was only interested in basketball, “Marsh all recalls. “Now I wish I’d been more interested in academics.” recent conference by M'ftrgar^ Mead, anthropologist and author of aiuthoritatlve books about pri mitive people. Dr. Mead was for opening more army posts to wo men but held they should not be given field assignments because they fight too fiercely. “Men have such nice rules, like not figh^g on Christmas,” she added. Christinas is symbo- llaed by biukly. burning jnile log," Of to’ iSie NW York City televisioft shttfam has con cluded. It h«s annpqiioed plans to cancel regular ly scheduled com mercials oh .chmtinM Eve to bring Us viewer# an i;dUliteniupt- €ld cracklirtg' 'f^c .tdew wiU toe acc(Hnpanied[*.hy tttuntain. we}coi Jo$ei when he arrives R. Smiti), newly of Kings _ JAittpeiation. 1, A Kings Mountain businessman re marked facetiously 20 years ago, “What this town needs is a good fire that would burn out the business district — and everybody have plenty of insurance.” There have been some extensive re modelings and new construction in the business district during those two dec ades, but much remains that is simply 20 years more derelict. Meantime, traf fic problems of both flow and parking have increased. In Kings Mountain, city borrowing for urban renewal is not planned, with individuals to shoulder the cost, supple-' menting the federal gl:‘ant sought. But, like Charlotte, Kings Mountain is in dire need of urban renewal. Congratulations to Captain David Kincaid, North Carolina Army National Guard, recently promoted to that rank. Just fifty years before Mr. Pat terson had bought a $1000 life nsijrance policy on which he'd lutifully paid a $2'.50 monthly >remium since. The terms callec or the policy to endow wher Jr. Hunter attained the age o ’5, which Mr. Patterson had lone. One of the recent Saturday night movies on the T-V talkbox was “White Christmas”, starring- Bing Crosby, Danny Kayej, Janet Leigh, Mitzi Gaynor and Dean Tagger. I had seen it before sea sons ago, but enjoyed It as much 13 if I hadn’t. As one reviewer opined: it had Crosby and Kaye ind loads of Irving Berlin music nd had to be good. It is more: a musical with sharp dialogue and oace. I was late hearing Berlin’ White Christmas”, which firs' raced the 1942 Chriatmas hi larade, but I caught up in Feb uary '42 in Casablanca, French VIorro th itself leaves pe coid, we are inclined to approve off the expert- meftt, given tto tact that moat of the potential Viewers hav* no fireside of ' 'tWfto own. Even though they to smell the buntinf warmth, and ih ^ oa«.,of most, enjoy the color' Of the flames, the imaginiatidn;:o^ work won ders.- N. ’■■'■'v't/' Or perhaps Dr. Mead had Joan of Arc in mind. ’The Maid must have hurt the pride of many a French officer when she chal lenged their lack of aggressive action, led troops, and defeated the English at Patay. History does not call her fierce, but her actions could not be termed gentle. Perhaps America today could use an occasional Boadlcea or Joan, but we think It would get fore value from its enlisted wo- manpower if it put these volun teers to work on more delicate missions. Women always hav© shown great skill in achieving their ends through diplomacy. The Army could well make use at this talent. The Chrlstain Science Monitor. The Chri3tm«(( tree^ which has become a meefttoitf^ sym'bol for many, contift^f^;^ trend toward the artificial ai^ tRdrthetic. 'Hie industry prefew %o call plastic, foam, or qlUffti^itm ;frres “per- maneht.” D^te the fact that sprays on the mtael^X guarantee to reproduce a ^ihe aro ma for the (artificial) tree, we somehow retain a pre ference for the tMng Iltoelf. and diplomacy, it is not easy to a clear perspective of' what M Actually happening in a mili tary way in Vietnam. So it is en- Ug^jbemrig tp evaluate the state ment ol a high army officer in Waahington: “The growing num ber 'of prisoners captured, the rise in the number of defectors frilfn conununism are impreS- siw. This may be significant in reA^kig growing disillusion ment. ’The enemy has been liv- ing In abject misery for the past year, harassed night and day from the air and driven from one sanctuary lib another by e und pressure. Certainly the les of thousands of tons of riOe and the vast quantities of salt which have been over-run ai^ captured hav© been serious bi^s to the communist military forces which depend on local sources for these staples.” 3- : .To R( scqrekeep of 'Gastoii mlniiQner, Pl^lgram. ■' To th glfg and. '.To al tea PRSt year tpfinis in To tl for givinj ketball ai phies to t . To ti quets wh( speak to To C Bowling ( pate in tl m«Bi “White Christmas” is far and »way the all-time leader ol secu lar Christmas songs, Crosby’* "be cording alone having sold 41 mil lion records, not to mention ad ditional records disced by othei singers. 10 TEARS AGO THIS WEEK 'ferns of nem about Kings Mountain area peopte and files of the Kings ^fountain events talfen from the 1956 Heraid. Am I right? The CSirMinas cards still get prettier every year. m-m Merry Christmas. - The city board of commission- ers upped base power rate sched ules for large commercial users by approximately 40 percent at a special session Wednesday aft ernoon SOCIAL AND personal Mr. and Mrs. A. Hunter Patter son have issued Invitations to friends to attend a ’Thursday night reception honoring them on their SOth wedding anniversary. Ten members of the Study club Wrtii to Charlotte Tuesday ftl^t tpjtear .tbe “Staging Christaqu tha ftumbers — ‘free.” Science Monitor. Smne synftols irf Chrittims are rather more iiv accord with its original ptWTpio#©; than others. Judging .by Yj repent iMue of one liquor -f^fiAcatlon, mil- Hpn* hiyie the season- primaMif the pro duce of this'iapst^.y^ting “all the buying urim tttat areompany the Christinas 4p«aah;* the trade journal statui liwt tt .^tooks like a boom ChrlStt|riWlf^ ever saw NAMES OF NUMBERS It seems that a professor of psychology heard that some of us have been complaining (1) about all the long numbers we have to try to remember (only our army serial number is indel ibly Impressed) and (2) about becoming a mere number In the great mathematical society. See ing his opportunity to ease our lot, he worked out a solution which he, with the appropriate professorial flair, denominated the Dodecalogue. We at first assumed that he meant Dodeca-logue, but finding 10, not 12, parts to his system, we concluded that he meant, in stead, Do-decalogue. Having man aged to get by the name, we ap preached the system itself. ’To make life easier for us all, or perhaps more romantic, he sub stitutes syllables for numbers. Thus! 0—Do; l^Fa; 2—Ge; 3~ Ha; 4—Ko; La; 6—Me; 7— Pa; 8-—Ro; 9—So. We tried putting the system In to prartice. Social Security num ber 8^-44-5757 becomes Romedo Koko Lapalapa. Our phone num ber comes out Sokola Rogedodo, ext. Hasohaha. After giving the system a fair trial, we decided to return to ttfe prosaic numeral. For all who took grade school music, it’s bit confusing to encounter some of the syllables of the diatonic scale (do, fa, so, la) but not thej others. In a society where numbers really ccunt, w»’U oqntlnu* td go ChrisUaft There was a time when mid dle age was considered to be any thing from 40 on, but with the lengthening of the life span-in some age groups, others have been very little affected - near some of the rest.' of us. appears optimistic when he considers hlm- s^f to be middle-aged. Even so, he makes some encouraging re marks for those who have pass ed the half‘century mark: “Mid dle age Js such a marvelous time of one’s life ’Fheie is the infin ite delight of not having to hurry. You no longer your life hasten ing ari(nmd the comer for some thing nvhich is never there. ’The a>yful tetirions and fears you have as a ypung num disappear. 'The apprehensive years are be hind you. You have a much dear er view of what it is all.” -. . r- 3 ’ , ■ Here and There: Benjamin 4 'Tp e ways call may be g Tp fc lege spor JDD. . - • Tp tl Country < ca^d in f Tp tl Kipai w fim read To tl seU t^ke evbntai. . a While Cjihristjft*# for some may mean one hbetic .round of pur chasing and phirtylnc, we trust that for other* Jit wUl symbolize the peace “wfik* paareth aH un derstanding " Christian' Sejenoe Mwitor. FranHUh said, "There is no Bttje enemy”... and Frank I4oyd Wright ocKnmented, “Give me the luxuries of life and 1 will willing ly do without the necessltiiQ#’... 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