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->75 \ Thursday, December 29, 1966 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD . ICINGS mountain, n. c. > lade I 43- Eime. >ints eers’ r 50 i the i the raise rense oun- hey f 31 and the The 3 in The lead 45-19 lith 3, c intaln Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald 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. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086 - ' under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. • EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon ... Editor-Publisher Garv Stewart . . 5^nnrtG ITrlltnr Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Lvnda Hardin riArk ■ MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Bobby Bolin Dave Weathers ^ Allen Myers Paul Jackson Dave"Weathers, Jr. SUBSCRIPTION ONE YEAR .. $3.50 RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE SIX MONTHS .. $2.00 THREE MONTHS .. $1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX ’ MARTIN'S MEDICINE Ingredients: bits of news, wisdom, humor, and comments Directions: Take weekly if possible, but avoid overdosage. By MARTIN HARMON Here stories. are som,e Christmas TELEPHONE'NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE But the wo^'d of the Lord endureth forever, ^nd this is the word which by the gospel is preach- ed unto you. I Peter 1:25. ^ ’ Issue Number 1 i Already citizens are cornmisierating in measure of sympathy with the 170 members of the General Assembly in November. 'Already on the horizon are some problematical issues, the emotion-pack ed liquor issue, catapulted to more prominence because the Supreme Court declared “brown - bagging” illegal; the Governor’s promise to recommend broad and general tax parings; the plea of cities and counties for revenue aid; the biennial plea of. school forces for more money. (See..editOirial cartoon in adjoin ing columns.) _ But the Charlotte Observer story of Wednesday may well have been cor rect that the issue to be inost hard fought of all is the proposal by buildCTs,' realtors, and savings and loan associa tions for legislation to increase the legal interest rate from six percent to .... One group has suggested to eight percent. Most think seven percent most attainable rate and, basically, all that is desired. In this area Governor Dan K. Moore, has declared himseif-*‘‘against”. - I . Builders and lenders declare the six percent rate “unrealistic” in view of the “tight money’’' situatian, which* shows littlb sign‘Of ea^ng-in'the imfhediate future. ' ’ ^ ' been a heavy' slow- ' down in the rate of building, particular ly in the residential category. Here in Kings Mountain, this news paper regularly checks building permits issued by the city. Permits issued since July 1 have been few. None has been issued, for instance, since December 15, and there have been several periods of two and more w-eeks without issuance of a single permit. Neighboring South Carolina has al lowed a seven percent rate for many years and there are times when to cjqse worry about the interest rate can be compared to losing sight of dollars fly ing by while counting pennies. A prominent Gastonia businessman ■ tells the story he acquired from his father of a citizen of some years ago who had assets, but no cash, faced bank- j ruptcy soon, and could get insufficient loans at, home. He caught a train for Richmond, Va., returned in a few days, and began paying his creditors4 The happy ending of the story was that the hard-pressed man weathered the storm and went on ;^to prosperity. Meantime, he had been 'asked by a friend the rate of interest he had pledged. At the reply of “20 per cent”, his friend ejaculated, “Man, you can’t afford to pay that kind of inter est.” The hard-pressed one had replied, “I couldn’t afford NOT to pay it.” 'A If money has not eased by the time ^ the.General Assembly convenes in Feb-’ ruary, it appears the legislators will have no ‘'choice but to Jiike^ the legal rate of interest. 'V A slightly higher rate of interest is ' much preferrable to having no money, which means stagnation. Outlook For 1967 Ask a group of experts, economists, analysts, stock market specialists and the corner grocers their opinions on the economic outlook for 1967, and a myriad of opinions will come forth. Secretary of Commerce Connor pre dicts a good year. Many economists predict a good year, but at a slower growth i^ate. Few, if any, predict a recession of more than minor proportions. To phrase it from two Kings Moun tain cornfield philosophers: One says, “Don’t give me the good old days with cracks between the floors. W#never had it as good.’' Another: “We fuss about high taxes, but the average citizen has more spend able income than ever before. We’re get ting along all right. Some can guess the future, none can predict it. The Herald shares the feeling of yet another Kings Mountain businessman who recalls the approach of the New Year of a few years ago. The ending year had been a banner one and just about everyone, from the expert to the man in the street, was predicUng — and i expecting — the next one to be biggest and best ever. The results were some- '' what different, though the''nation did ' noj.^ fall apart economically. It merely rested a little before surging forward again. This businessman feels the air of caution very healthfuL . Journey's Start [FORECASltRS- GUIDE POST Joe Lee Woodward, after a heavy dose of telephoning be tween here and Charlotte-Air port, here and Washington, D. C., where his daughter lives, Joe Lee emplaned for a visit with Jo Anne, her three children and husband. He and fellow passengers had just sat down when the pilot said it appeared they co^uldn’t get clearance to land in Washington but he would know in a few minutes. Ten minutes later he told the passengers to fasten seat belts, douse their smokes, and gunned the plane into the high blue yonder. The pretty hostesses), .served .lunch and shortly the pilot in formed his passengers to fasten belts for landing. The plane had been high in the ozone, above the clouds. The plane broke through them into swirling snow. m-m Then the pilot intoned: “The CAA won’t clear us for landing. The runways are frozen over. We’re going back to Charlotte.” \ 6o 'SAFE 'Route .N<5£R| tax cut IN N-C. 80 imif NEWY4 By IfORTP The round-trip required less than two hours. Since airlines extract no fee unless they de liver the passenger to destina tion, Joe Lto could philosophize, “I didn’t get to see my daughter and grandchildren, but Delta Airlines gave me a mighty tasty i way out. We admit jur mistakes, free lunch.” 'in the fashion world it is now s The holiday aeasoit, her^ different things to people. ’TIo tU iMtat' a New Yorkers, "Merry C| _ is naore of a trade’ relinous greeting.' For e lotttn of the city’s popidation 3^ ish. To many more, thiii' the year holds gresder' cial and vacation stgnl than any religious reN Of the eight-mllllcai soute make* up the metropolis., per cent are Catbcrfl^ IW. RC® cent are Protestant and’t^ mainder, besides those o$, tlip Jewish faith, have, aa ^ -Jbta: formality is concerned^ ligion at all Even of thoi^; W^ .claim to be jCatholic or pROtei^ ant, only two-thirds li^eng; .tp any congregation ori pari^iSp the most appropriate greetfejf ioi^ 'can pass along here'm thialh^^ melting pot of evety- specdi^ df humanity, is "Happy Hollidays fa all”. -And to all yott good n^d- ers too. ul-r. 'l ' Viewpoints of Other Editors HIGH-YO, SILVER! i Until the fashion writer hep ped us to the fact that silver was in, we tlviught it was on its A BUMPER CROP OF GOOD BOOKS A friend trying • to holidays sent In aptinfe ’ 'jokiil. among them a n^V alt^te Pjil the war on povertjy Bum! A fool and Ms soon parted, continuw' tftii. But he»wants to knwilr Ifow/g iTOl got money in the fliilt* When a man ren»o»^ hfs/ Iiat. nowadays in a elevaw, if he,has manners and.iii fli^|tbaq of hair. At least'tMs Is tention.. . » ' ■ r. Caskie Stinnett, v<^CT|ia,!.city' ne with a' -grin seme of tompp, nonetheless comes to the ^hfenfc . I 1”^ Christmas. Says he, iia There is a danger that infla-’ Chrletnwa ts- mot* FIGHT SLUMS It used to be said of North Ca-1 tion-born pressure fer curbs on abused than marriage but ft i*- m-m ! running aheari of gold. ... ■ ’This is surprising Silver ha.s, JnJ^^r wat O ^ Suffered in j For confirmation, the critic with the yellow met-' need look no further than the rolina that more people in the - Federal spending will prevent state wrote books than read them. I war against the slums, 'rhis dan- Even if the canard were true, jger can be averted if Govern- and we deny it , the world of let : the needed intensification in the ters would be the richer for it. ' ment underwriting brings an ade- I fjuate infusion of private funds. tains a surprising rmliency,. a' persistent magic that even thfe most cynica find difficult .to. Ig nore. 'The reveler 5^'; the-/ home from the office party, es the reverent ,on Ae way\:jbo The prospect of such a crea-[ mWnight servlow, and a ^upl iivf pm Iji(.'i Miip IP civiv i . a---—-— ^ ration has been brought closer out, presents'arp.;dia.r Hordes! Story Three paragraphs in the December 21 edition of the Herald consumed more time in development thereof than any of the other 15 news accounts* appearing ’ on the front page and of any other in that edition. - It concerned the minor altercation of two Kings Mountain high school girls, qne Caucasian, the other Negro. The work of the Herald was to ob tain and publish the facts, if any, of an incident which, apparently, had blown ^ out of proportion by persons who be lieved what they heard and proceeded to add thereunto. This is a very human failing and trained reporters are sometimes victims thereof. The happy result was asceported, only two persons involved inTHl’minor altercation, not a half-dozen, and neither participant was more than sWghtly hurt, certainly not hospitalized. At least 50 percent, sometimes 70 percent or more of the time, a news paper’s principal reportorial function is, as Jack Webb intoned on television in his detective role, “The facts, just gim me the facts.” The facts tend to get warped when there ace emotional overtones. is * .Wnt state book awVids. In tic- live partnership jn civic .regene- ;forbearffnce prevails. fn nL/n .Miller of ’ up, patted him on the cheek, and wen), with politics. In the hO’s, Biaden Countv won the Sii- Wal- neS time^’^jV Admits Award for fiction 1 tongued orator of tlie Platte,” with her novel, ’’Tehants of llie ^ - twenty years ^ tired mjfsses of peoph* with en-1 House ” The Mayflower Award ^ ® ■ I thusiasm for free coinage of | for nonfiction went a second time r - . . , , . . silver. Bur despite his three na-! to Glenn Tucker of Flat Rock for „ business, la- jtional campaigns for the presi-: his biography, “Zeb Venice.” [bpr and government that the The mercury in thprrxiometers! could not win on this} ^ pioblems of urban, redevelop- plunged early Christmas morn-Ms.sue and the country stuck 4o Mi s’! .'Vliller is a member of I ment are too clossal for solution ;— —t— ... ., its gpict standard. - ' by the testimony given to a Seri ate subcommittee (recently) by David Rockefeller, president of the Chase Manhattan Bank. ing to beldWf2(l raTrige. In the wee hours, Mrs. William Lawrence Plonk awakehedUo an unusually cold drafti thought the furnace was out-qf-order. Investigating, she found' the front door wide open. ’The latch wasn’t defective. u - m-m Lately silver has been losing its prestige as a metal for coin age.. The silver dollar and "half dollar have practically disappear ed from circulation. (Quarters are no longer made of silver.''. In song silver fared rather well. ‘‘.Silver threads among the gold” was a pretty sentiment But where was the woman who want ed silver threads among her gold or, chesnut locks? Nowhere un til fashion siuggested, tentatively that a bleached streak of silver would provide an attractive con trast to a girl’s raven hair. Thus proved a breakthrough for silver. Now, amazingly, silver Lynda Hardin of the Herald staff was helping with ,ho ® .^d' Christmas Eve festivities at directed to the gi Next morning the mystery was cleared by Number 2 daughter. Janice. She was taking no chances on old Ho-Ho-Ho’s I b('- ing able to fit through the chim ney. She had opened the door to be sure he eqjuld gain access to the Janice Plonk stocking. 'that writin' tribe of Ro.sses ip I without a massive application of Improvements Needed Two state highways, both heavily traveled, in bad need of improvements, particularly of widening, deserve the at tention of Commissioner W. B. Garrison and the State Highway Commission. « These are Highway 216 from Kings Mountain to Cherryville and Highway 161 from Kings Mountain to the South Carolina line. « Any driver knows that regaining the roadbed after slipping on the shoul der of a road is very tricky and, if in correctly manipulated, will put him on the wreck list. Neither of these roads was designed for cars with today’s wide wheel bases. The Woter Eifort ! Obtaining.more water, Kings Moun tain and elsewhere, is no overnight pro position. Plans must be formulated, financ ing arranged (usually by bonds), and construction completed. The time factor, increasing con sumption, and the past summer’s drought are the trio of reasons for the flartk-speed-ahead command being car ried out by city officials. The major problem of supply will not be solved by summer of 1967 by tap ping a new source of water, for summer 1967 is only six months distant. Should winter rains and snow fill the present'two resevoirs and next Sum mer produce normal rainfall, the present racing of the water motors will prove to be waste motion for, while the capac ity of the treatment plant nears niaxi- mum capacity, that problem can be handled. Yet the city can. not responsibly in dulge in wishful thinking on the impor tant matter of potable water. And regardless of hoped for good fortune io 1967, D-Day on sufficient wa ter is just around the next corner. girls. brother’s house. The three-year- paVrf ‘‘'’''‘'i;ifmaU.'Ta^is luver'^'S^^^^^ "JingTe Bells'” ^ siiiginj, nails and, yes even silver lip- m.m We think that is going to iar. i A silvery moon is certainly con- A note on a Christma.s pneel-; duetive to romance, but a me- ing from the Tom Harpers at! tallic-haired girl with silver lips? Bunker Hill Air Force Base, In-| We'll stick to the gold and ruby diana, reveals that Susie, the' standard. — (The Christian Sri- eldest- daughter and a fresliman j cnee Monitor) at Purdue University, has been j regularly reminding her parents' UNDERSTAND?, .Stanley County, and in addition to her fiction, she has won na tional praise for her poetry. She is observant and sensitive, with a style all her own. Glenn Tucker is a newspaper man who forsook the pressure chamber of big city reporting to go to the North Carolina moun tains to raise apples and books. Both crops have flourished. He combines the patience for exhaus tive research with a narrative skill that earlier won tor him the Mayflower Award.- What makes the literary a- funds from Washington got no cncouragemertt from Mr. Rocke feller. He told the Senators that, with proper incentives for in vestors, it was perfectly credi ble *0 expect that $5 of private capital would be available for every dollar supplied by Federal, state and municipal treasuries in making over America’s cities The Rockefeller approach, bas ed on projects already initiated by his own bank and other corp orate investors, would relegate public funds to the function of “seed money,” However neither he nor the Senators underesti- wardk’ an especially satisfying mated the difficulties ihvolved in dvenris that both Mrs. Miller and Tucker „ mined a strictly North "I’ll be <the only Purdue student NOT in ^Pasadena for the Ros( Bowl game.” My wife’s nephew, Tommy Leopard, of Greer, S. C., is a four th grader and a youngste curious bent — curious to point he investigated the.trunk of his Mother’s car a couple of weeks before Christmas. Thai night, for no apparent r(‘ason. Tommy suddenly started crying. Was he 111? What hurt? wiial’s the matter, son? Tommy finally blurted, “I’m pot going to get hut one present Tasked for atGbrist mas!” Clemson - tough* Father Leopard chided severely, “That'.s what you get for peeping.” It was a very happy Tomrny on Christmas morning, among his scads of gifts. But all can imag- ir]ie the miserable, miserable days he spent between times. m-m Several male members of the Hinkle McGinnis family engaged Monday in their annual Yuli*- tlde penny-ante poker game. Thi' results for Dick McGinnis under lined the penny-ante nature Ol thegame. Dick’s losses totaled one penny. For Brother Paul the story was different. Paul placed (was second) on many hands., Everyone should understand that Casi: Canfield, head of the book-publishing firm of Harper & Row, was the father-in-law of -My. Jacqueline Kennedy’s younger sister. Princess Lee Rad- ziwill, when she was married, as „f I she is no longer, to his son Mich- Ihe'del by his first marriage, and is now the father-in-law of John Cowles Jr., who married a daughter of Mr. Canfield’s .sec ond wife and is not only'on the board ot Harper’s with Mr. Can- fi(dd, but is the nephew of Gardner Cowles, the head of the cornpany that publishes .Look, which has the magazin'g rights to the book to be published by Harper & Row. — From Column ist Charles McDowjell'Jr. YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about Kings Mountain Larea Ljteople i.and files of the Kings Mountain rvemts^ taken from the 1956 Herald. I The 1957 March of Dimes campaigni is underway in Kings Mountain with various fund-rais ing‘projects already planned for thg drive. Social and Personfal Wesleyan Service Guild of Carolina lode, Mrs, Miller cxplar^ ing the - “company town” that once was so familiar in textile centers, Tucker bringing to life again one of the state’s-politicians who always seemed larger than life. As they say in sports. North Carolina’s literati have a "bench,” also-rans in the recent contest, of first-team calibre. Reynolds Price ond Doris Betts, to men tion a couple of examples. We’re writing more, reading more and enjoying it litugely. The Chariot te- Observer attracting large-scale investment in areas of extreme blight — where redevelopment is;, most needed. One possible answer to this problem lies in the ambitious project, n.ow under considera tion in the White House, for a housing counterpart of the Com munications Satellite Corpora- ti.on. This quasi-public corpora tion would have authority to ac quire large tracts in slum dis tricts, then use private investors as ‘contractors” to make them llvabrle.'- Out of such teamwori might come the pace of progjjifis essentially if urban center tributed, glasses are fillejd,; am hearths’ blaze, anmv good will reigns. It’s a , thing and the most asptet of it all is that ft lsii’t- really spurious.” SomehcMVit, tlie^ holidays don’t seem th*’; alkiwiv with Walt Disney gone. I Ao unusiual Christoa* took place here when 25D children received gifts with, thnir- names written on them from a blind Santa Clausejllijejit the kiddies were allpweii.tq 1*6® the ^trunk of a baby eWhat^; The party was given CA on West 23rd Str^t ,* sirtd 5 Santa Claus was played tti'v-; ing Sells, director of The iteb-f ciated Blind. The tWo-ye^-old,: 750-pound elephant yvas bmrn in,; Burma and belongs to * leeiti| attorney named Greer MarieOhaT .- Not only were the thSaUdfull youngsters allowed to strike'heid' trunk, but also fed the'-’g^tle. animal carrots and bananas;.^ ,, ■ ■' -.i’ .* 7 Oceasionaliy I am asked ihow, much performers make on-tele-’ vision and usually, of courte,. I do hot know. But it is r^ivt^'' that Ginger Rogers receivcd^l^,^: 000 for doing her first TY'-C0|i»i'' raercial recently, something f^p, the Perfume-by-Wire servlo^. ^ observance of this, she wm |RaMt of honor at what was called * 2000th anniversary party .Iwa, so called, it was'said becliulielit was the 2(XX)th anniveraary iof- the Greeks devising tte tern of distance" commuhlcawn. Greek royalty, acccMrding..the , _ are i factual or fan^ul. histori4m of to outrun the decay that threat- I the evend, usedtto dispatch mes- ens to engulf them all — (New \ sengers with flanilng torches to Yojjc Times) ' ' 1 their sweehearts oJ^mlles -a.'Wsy^ OH THE GIRLS ARE FEW AT PURDUE Some budding journalist at Purdue University got a cute idea in linking the fact that the coeds | are outnumbered by the eds 3 to 1, with the further fact that so many oeds are signing up for a course in judo that two extra clksses have had to be added. But we believe ho, or more like ly she, is barking up the wrong tree, and maybe oven barking the wrong bark. There is such a thing as male psychology, and we thought we would jus't men tion it. • - ' One recalls a similar situation at another university not so long ago as to have been in the dark \ages. 'Thc-'ro the regnant male seeking 'a date on campus was obliged to ask two or three weeks in advance, which he regarded as an indignity not to be suffer ed lightly. So most of the dating was done with coeds at universities in two neighboring -cities, while those at the home campus were left with ample oppiortunity to medi tate on the way of a man with a maid. It may all, of course, work out quite ciit'fcrcntl,v on the Lafayette, » 1 , - , 1-n Methodist church held its * single pot in the lo"-j Wsday night meeting .. , minute session. He lost .some-ig^ jj^e home of Miss Loraine i Ind., campus. Our only Suggestion tning over seven dollars. ! jonas on Jacksoi^ street. is that judo could quite as well j -1 Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Cooke were! be used to assure a gal that when | i hosts December 23 at a familyjshe throw.s a guy for a loop he | And now for New" Yi'ar’s Day j dinner attended by all members will stay looped, resolves. 1 of tlie Cooke family. 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