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
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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.
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‘ 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.”- ,
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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 . . ."
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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 ttt<UUonal
carols.
tor in New York, once received
a letter from a woman stating
that her church was in distres
sing financial straits. The congre-
gadon had tried chickensuppers,
grab-bags, box socials, every
thing. Would Mr. Greeley be kind
enough to suggest some new idea
tq' ki^p the struggling church
from disbanding. 'The editor re-
pli^: “Try religion.”
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It wasn’t exactly a Christmas
gift, but Hunter Patterson was
recently depositing a $1000 check
which City Commissioner Sei-
more Biddix, representative of
Pilot 'Life Insurance ’Company,
had delivered. Mr. Patterson
grinned as he inscribed the de
posit. , “They didn’t expect to
write this check to me,” he said,
‘but I fooled ’em.”
Short-term proponents were fear
ful of the financial strain the major
project would produce and perhaps
rightly, with the city’s annual gross less
than a half-million dollars. Conversely,
sufficient water should have accelerated
the city’s industrial, commercial and
.residential growth and construction
costs in the mid-fifties were far below
construction costs today.
Charlotte voters liked the idea of
eliminating a nasty traffic botHeneck
by supplying funds to build Y new
bridge, said they wanted commOTious
quarters for their law enforcement of
ficers and the culprits lodged in jail, ap
proved improvements to Dopglas Air
port, and also liked the idea of wider
streets.
There is no longer need to beg the
old question, as D-Day not only nears,
but is at hand.
The city is taking all steps to as
sure its two reservoirs are spilling over
by next May 1. The new two-million
gallon storage tank is expected to go
into service by March 1, raising to 2,-
800,000 gallons storage capacity for
treated water. The Gold Mine shaft is
beittg pumped, not only to augment cur
rent supply, but to determine how much
this vmderground source might be ex
pected to provide if needed next sum
mer. And the city fathers are praying
for a wet winter. That's about all that
can be done for the short term.
The comparative lack of enthusi
asm for urban renewal indicates some
measure of blindness and personal or
self-interest, for 20/20 vision is not re
quired to see that much of aging down
town charlotte is in sad need of refurb
ishing.
Appeals for the civic center were
made in the name of enhancing Char
lotte’s “culture”, a word of various def
initions but often construed by some
many regard as an unwanted frill,'
Overtone for Kings Mountain of the
Charlotte election on urban renewal is
the urban renewal project underway
here.
Meantime, the commission has mov
ed with dispatch to obtain water in
quantity for the years ahead.
All citizens interested — through
pkWiophy, business interest, or other-
should attend the public hear-
City Hall December 27 after
'le city commission will deter-
fphether it will endeavor to em-
a public housing project for
>untain.
we}coi
Jo$ei
when he arrives
R. Smiti), newly
of Kings
_ JAittpeiation.
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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<xo, at the venerable Klnf'
3eorge V Hotel, where navy per
;onpel were billeted. A young en
sign named Levin had just ar-
ived from stateside end played
‘White Christmas” constantly or
^he piano in the lobby. It develop
ed “White Christmas” waa the
only number he could play.
a really interesting revolution.
From The St. Louis Post- Dis
patch.
NO TRAVEL TAX
Secretary of thj^Treasury Hen
ry H. Fowler has made it plain in
recent -days that he is unsym
pathetic to a head tax on Ameri
cans traveling abroad and to
other attempts to discourage fo
reign travel. His position is, sound
and deserves support.
It is truefthat if all Americans
stayed at home the balance of
payments deficit would disappear.
But measures to discourage the
movement of persons are aisT iso
lationist and backward as are
tariffs on the movement of goods.
A slow but positive approach is
to encourage more Europeans to
travel in this country.^^hich the
Government and the travel in
dustry are now doing-t-Ncw
York Times.
SASSAMANESH
We haven’t run upon an oppor
tunity—or an Indian—to check
the pronunciation. Proably most
folks wouldn’t know they were
eating that anyway.. .even if we
said it right. There’s a certain
imagination-stirring charm in
“sass-a-ma-nesh," though, that
makes “cranberries” sound pretty
uninspired. Struck by obvious de
rivation of, say, blueberry, we
tracked the elusive cran. ,One
dictionary suggeeted that the
word might be a corruption of the
German kranebere, which sounds
as likely an explanation as any.
But that, as it well may, USDA
says that this year’s crop is a
big one—1.6 million barrels (or
160 million pounds If your think
ing nuns to pounds) big. Whidi
almut 8 percent bigger than
the biggest ever harvested ’tt)
now—which was last year’s.'Ulje
Mttle red fruit’s new-'found ver
satility makes thils bumper crop
’velcome.,new8 for everyone—In
cluding sassamanesh growers
^News England -Farm Finance
News.
We wonder what prompted Dr
Mead to classify her sex as fierce
wari'iors. Was she thinking about
Boadice^i, the Anglican queen
who led a revolt against Roman
oppressors in the first century
A.D.? The lady was a great fight
er; she sacked three cities before
the enemy 'crushed her army A
battalion of Boadloeas might be
too formidable for a commander
to handle.
Although the ))irtificiglity of the
family gatheredjq^MBtd th# tele
vision eet railipir the heai>
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.”
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of 'Gastoii
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Pl^lgram.
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PRSt year
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for givinj
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“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.
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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.”
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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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