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■J Established 1889 The Kmg$ 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 j^iogs 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., 28088 i under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmdn .... Edltor-Publlsher Mcody Hamrick....Sports Editpr Miss Elizabeth ' Stewart ....Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Lynda Hardin .......... Clerk HECTICAL DEWHttJII Fred Bell Dave Weathers, Supt, ‘Allen Myers Paul Jackson Richard Blanton Rocky Martin tjlpuglas Jlousor Richan ‘On leave wtyi fhe Unlfed States Army ONE SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE JN ADVANCE 5 Y&AP ..$£50 SIX MONTHS .. $2.00 ' ! PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX "W* TELWWSW HUMBER - 738-5441 T9P*r* ***** A double-minded man is itnatabje in ail his ways. Jam#s 1:8. Herald Ground Hules fm Juno 13 The Herald has already informed both “wets” and “drys”, seriously if Jestingly, that it fully understands a newspaper’s role as public servant and dissiminator of the news concerning Emotionally charged public issues. Political campaigns, personal or on issues, can and often do wax hot to the point of nearly igniting the newsprint on which the type appears. The result: a newspaper fs a battle ground and any young grade school stu dent knows what, happens to a battle ground. It gets chewed by the artillery from both sides. Already, the Herald has been fuss ed at — so far in minor degree — by both sides. With the die cut and voting day 25 days distant on the question of legaliz ing sale of beer and wine for off-prem ises consumption and establishing Al coholic Beverage Control scores, both those for arid those against are girding for the days ahead and the temperature is increasing. The Herald therefore feels it in or der to set forth, for one and all, certain ground roles the Herald will enforce during the ensuing season: 1) Advertising copy will be accept ed from groups or individuals at regular advertising rates provided orders and copy are placed by 5 pan. Tuesdays for the upcoming edition. Orders will be re jected if considered libelous, per se or inferential. 2) The Herald will endeavor to pub lish all letters to the editor on the elec tion question within its space limits. These letters must meet the same tests on libel. Where a form letter appears to be in use, these letters will not be used. Only letters from Kings Mountain citi zens will be published. No firm rule is made concerning length of letters, but those of 300 words or less will have bet ter chance of being published. Good BUI KUlod A committee of the General Assemb ly has killed a bill advanced l?y Republi can minority members which Would have cut from a year to six months residence time required in North Carolina before an incoming citizen could qualify to reg ister and vote. '‘This is a change long over-due and burial of the bill is no credit tjo the Dem ocratic majority. There are obvious reasons for time limits. Tq offer an extreme example, a two \yeek or month’s residency requirement inight enable state-line border inroads Which would open the political wars to dictatorial packing, the m^n with the money-hags having enough of them. But six months is a sane residential requiremhh1 The Bough Bill Rep. Baugh of Charlotte has intro duced a hill .to placp $ five-pent tax on cigarettes, with the revenue to be re bated to the hard-pr,essed counties and cities. In times past, the Herald has advo cated a tobacco tax — in lied of increas ing the sales tax — with the same suc cess (none) Mr. Baugh can expect for his. The Herald does not now endorse a tobacco tax. Tobacco, its growing, processing, manufacture and sale, is one of the state’s major industries. North Carolina produces more than three times the cig arettes than does Virginia, runner-up in the field, not to mention chewing tobac co and other products. The whole tobacco industry has been under pressure for 13 or more years of federally-financed propaganda from the surgeon-general’s office on the slow death produced by use of cigarettes, pipes and cigars. A non-smoking high ranking state government official remarked a few years ago, “Pity the poor Governor of North Carolina should everyone start believing the attorney-general. I’d have to start smoking just to be patriotic!” He would. Mr. Baugh’s tears for the sad plight of New York, taxing smokes into the bootlegging market, has nothing to do with the price Of eggs (tobacco tax) in North Carolina. Mr. Baugh’s appeal that North Caro lina is the lone state not taxing tobacco is argument by comparison, seldom val id. Hasn’t he heard about the army priv £ te Who found is companj P9W*t9w« Moii Too many critics of government aid whether labeled as waste, hand-outs, or steps toward communism, have been content to do nothing, or less, to remedy the problems. It is a proven fact that a need, left unalleviated long enough, will attract government attention, with the attend ant red tape and other undesirable Ma tures. (Medicare b.ecame fact 20 yeans after it was proposed.) Thus the imaginative, ambitious plan of downtown business area leaders to renovate and jtnodernize, in t/ertos of today’s auto-using citizehs, this vener able commercial center is particularly refreshing. On paper, as of today, Kings Moun tain qualifies for something like $900,000 in federal grants to do a renovating job. But an area official of the Department of Housing and Urbah' Development frankly ana succinctly states that grant is at least five years distant. On self-interest thesis that five years is too f^r distant, that there are also many slips between cup' and quaff, and that free enterprise cad do the job, these leaders are moving. A feasibility study is underway. If unfeasible, only a few dollars have been expended by several citizens. If feasible, and brought to fruition, the return tc the investors should be many-fold. Congratulations to Carl Wiesener, commander-elect, and the other newly elected officers and committeemen of Otis D. Green Post 155, American Legion. Best bows to Jeff Mauney and Pat Cheshire, Kings Mountain high school delegates to Boys’ State, the 'Week-long “crash” course in government sponsored by the North Carolina American Legion and the Institute of Government. It’s voting <Jay again Tuesday. A key position on the board of education, one-fifth of the policy-making body gov erning more than 4200 area school chil dren, is to be filled. Glenn Prook shire's decision to leave the field of school administration for the Department <}| Public Instruction’s pupil testing and placement division is disap pointing to the many friends he has made in the brief school year he has served as principal of Kings Mountain high school. His teachers and many par I I have long been addicted to^ the premise that a family should have as many autos as licensed drivers. While such premise is not recoipjnertded for increasing the breathing capacity, improving the heart condition', of .other phy has some fits in saving wear-and-tear on the nervous system fey speeding performance fa tfii vale of feats jfjtffd determined it should nCvef pen again) tny two-driver ft was the owner of three,c.ars. k ml m i twO-drivej itteries charged, k nOftsm “aded siep-chJJd. m-ip There is the matter of inur ing three cars Against the la bility, comprehensive, an? colli sion hazards. The tax lister adds his assessment And the Depart ment of Motor Vehicles his pound of license ta£ flesh My "third” car of years ago was a Hudson club coupe, leader in the lie-down-to-get-fn models which is all buyers cab find to day. She had been my honey moon car with all the various StSffiAS Finder, Ned McGill, Mike Milam, a South Carolina patrolman and various art? sundry other imagin ative folk. mm But when sale time came, she proved a source of some embar rassment. Since acquiring jthe Hprpld many seasons ago, I have never ceased to be amazed at the pull ing power of the classified page. For instance, for $1.60, seven German Shepherd piips were con verted into $175 for Mrs. Ruby Hughes Baker. Polling power was a little slover for the Hud son, slow as the trickle of molas ses. Hilton Ruth, then manager of Belk’s, took me to task in this vein. “Martin, your paper won’t sen your car, and yet you expect me to buy advertising”. In eight months, the Hudson had a hew owner. 9-m This is a round-about means of introducing my inadvertent, unwilling ahd rather painful re turn to the three-cat ' class. (While my family is now three, Sir Winstpn, the terrier, isn’t ypt old enough to drive.) ’ * a-m FOB SALE — 1950 Dodge 4 door Meadowbrook, 24,263 actual miles, four good heavy- tread tires, recappable spare; run-you out - of - the - car heater, freshly painted, non • dented starboard side. Inferior slightly .rough, needs new glass for front left door, has some dents on port Side, front buipper and hood- Cap bp seen at Victory Chevrolet Com pany sick bay during business hours. All reasonable offers con sidered. - m-m With the aid of friendly Hank er Josh Hinnattt, I am driving'# 1967 Chevrolet with all the cojqn - forts of home, except bath, and. since ft is my first purchase in recent years, and In £ position to weigh the question posed some seasons ago by M&tJi which was: "I dUrt’t know 'ttftfcb is peat — drive ’em 111 they atop and suffer the rough financial lick afi at once, or trade com paratively frequently and pay a likt|e along a)! the time?” his lUdr$T • " c WB If isn’t as easy tobuy a it onpe was. I instinctly that current Chevy color Royal piupi. only to be faced me veto of the petticoat was before the crash. Some wee! and several tfyquts »nd later. 1 mustered enough veto* to; override the veto. wm My Bootblack Friend Don Ban nix informed n me I would drive; tb* |!U» a WW tomorrow, he promSea, ,fyo»iiTl be driving that yellow car.” Successful Revolt A*nhy //f&oa/w Viewpoints oi Other Editors This Week I" 1m B«f I HISTORY By ED B. SMITH On IVJay 16,1771, there occurred the Battleof Alamance, near Burlington ip Alamanoe County. Royal Governor William Tryon, commanding an' 1100-man force of North Carolina Colonial Mili tia, smashed a force of 2,000 in surgents In a two-hour battle, bringing about the' collapse of ;tgie Regulator ‘Rebellibn. The Regulator movement had (spread throughout the" backcoun ,try settlements, caused hy resent ment against taxes and corrupt, ‘inefficient officials. , c Tryon hanged six leaders of the movement, and set out upon & march which took him from Hillsborough to Salisbury to Sal em buttling and destroying the property di thdse prominently in volved in the rebellibn. * * * * May 20, 1775, is one of the two dates emblazoned on the state flag. On #ds date, in fhe frontier settlement of Charlotte To?yvp, patriotic /settlers met Jed the Mgyhlenburg -r-op <?f independence, an ticipating by pearly a ybar the action taken by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia on July 1, jlT76.' been fired 09 in Apjrtl; Lincoln had e*Med for trdoj?? and ft# way had already begun. Onpe committed, however, do ,stgje would contribute more to the papse than d*d North Carolina. BIRTHS ANP DEATHS On May If m». forjner gover ernor. tt»<? confcd «#rai Assem was elected gover when the foputfst it the State’s Demo On May 20, 1861, «; another group of North Caro years lat linians — in- the General Assem bly — would vote to assert thpir independence , frop? the United States of America. On this day the' Mate s'^ded frojnrtthe Unidh and getttioned far admission to ti# Confederate States of Amer ffT '■ . ip state took this action more 17, 174), in Virginia, One Of North Caro $ignej*s of the Dec govern for the Others: Died Ma&- J6. 1920, Hebert !B. Glenn, $o*£rci«f 190^ '^Dled May 17, 1819, Willhrm Hawkins, governor (181114) tfur kig the War of iSl2. Bom May 17, 1862, in Wash ington. N, C., Josephus Daniels, rotary oft® Navy and Ambas sador Af Mexico. IMPROPER QUESTIONS Certain tests and questionnaires used by the federal government threaten an unjustified invasion of the privacy of government employees. For several yeaA, Sen. Sam J. Ervin’s subcommit tee on constitutional rights has kept a sharp eye open to detect possible infringement of individ ual liberties. The Subcommittee extensively probed, the psychological testing of federal government employees. Ijt panted to the use of some testing forms which include what many would consider objection able questions relating ito re ligion, 'sex, and other personal maufers. From one test, the following, for example, wore to be answer ed "true" or “false”: “dtirist performed miracles.” "I pray several times a week,” ‘*1 like Jo talji about sex.” “I am a special agent of God.” More recently, tlte subcommiit tee found thgt various govern ment agencies ware using a "re port of Medical History” which includes questions of an extreme ly personal nature, some of which nave ho apparent bearing op the individual’s physical fitness. After the subcommittee and the American Civil Liberties Union pressed the matter with the Unit ed States Civil Service C>mmis slon, the commission dropped the form for all Civilian employees artd job applicants. But the De fense Department continues to ude it for military personnel. A “false or dishonest answer” to this questionnaire is punish able by fine or Imprisonment. It was by no means clear that ac cess to thede forms would be strfctiy limited t6 ihedical staff, tf they were made available to pegrsoppel or security officers, an swers Irrelevant to physical fit ness might well have resulted in exclusion from government ser vice. Government must, of course, obtain certain information about applicants In order to select able, Conscientious, and reliable em ployees. But there are some per sonal matters which government has no right to extract from fin individual as a condition of em ployment. Wg are encouraged that both Congress and an organization dedicated to the preservation Of civil liberties have seen fit to look into the matter.'It deserves —The Christian Science Monitor continuing surveillance. the case of the Peace Corps, .t has bred the sort of fference that goes with acceptance of an established Institution. The corps’ fifth an a#T report was submitted to f by President Johnson recently with almost no general 1 . ■ Imaginative ideas are rare in >. w* one wa*s first put Senator John F. i a few weeks after he SfeT mocratic party noth in Jgeo. The Peace Corps operating the following n he was President. By overseas tours. ‘ Corps attracts un ^ men and worsen who tqe! unique experience of irinnersing theniselves for two years or more In an alien cul ture. The basic service they per lorn? in underdeveloped regions is 1|g Mi tirtff rf IMlft f8¥n‘ ed manpower." In YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events taken from the 1957 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. Kings Mountain citizens voted resoundingly Tuesday to fluori date the city’s’ water supply. The result was 1193-to 576, or better than 2 to 1 majority. Garland E. Still, A. Dewitte Cornwell and R. Coleman Stroupe have called formally for run-off elections in their contests for city offices. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL George William Sellers, J*-. cele brated his Second birthday Sun dayy, May 12th. Mr. and.Mrs. Paul Cole hon ored their daughter, Paula, on her 14th birthday Friday at a lawn party at their home on Mc Ginnis street. the United States is not generally popular, partly because of Viet nam and partly because its im mense wealth and power arouse suspicions of “imperialist” de signs, the Peace Corps workers are the best kind of diplomats. They are in no sense a brain washed outfit. Last month, hun dreds of former members asked Mr. Johnson to stop the bombing of North Vietnam. As the annual report just is sued points out, the biggest con tribution in the Peace Corps comes from educated middle-and upper-class citizens. They help the United States by doing prac tical, useful, unselfish and much needed work in ‘uncomfortable circumstances and for very little pay. It was an act of faith to be lieve that thousands of young Americans would be willing' to volunteer. With a sixth anniver sary approaching, the Peace Corps deserves attention and ap plause, and what is more iifipop tant, money and support.—The New York Times SO THIS 1$ PW YORK By NORTH CALLAHAN Soon for many students grad uation will come and commence ment oratory will flow like milk and honey on this important day of their young lives. One official, J. C. Matthews, president of North Texas State University, sums up the situation: “It will be said of the university students in mis day, that some wore their hair long; some grew beard?, some protested rules; some violated rules; some de clared that God is dead; some obeyed only the laws they liked; some declared no concern for other peoPle’s life or safety or comfort; some threatened others. But it must be recognized that the great majority conducted themselves as the ladies and gentlemen they are.” Pussywillovv, a taffy-colored cat residing in Washington, D. C., received a cat basket from a friend of Jier master’s In New York. The gift, sent from a pet shop, was addressed to Miss I Pussywillow. Sirice then, the cat has received offers to subscribe to ‘Harper’s” and the “Atlantic” and to becorne a jnem.ber of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Riding in a taxi I noted that the name of the driver was Jose Sandoval and asked him where he was from. He said that he was the first of 3.0Q0 volunteers from the Philippine Islands to join the American forces in World War I. Then he stayed in this country. As to why he volun teered for that war, he answered .that President Woodrow Wilson sent a cablegram to his home land asking for men to help save the world for democracy. Evidently Jose Sandoval took this message seriously. ‘I felt loyal to Uncle,,J he said. How differing aspects iget dif ferent results is shown by what jhdppened a few years ago when an architect was visiting the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. jHe was admiring the residence of the Superintendent, the oldest building there, when he learned to his dismay that it was soon to be torn down to be replaced by \ barracks. The architect went to Washington and button - holed Congressmen but could interest none. Then he had an inspira tion: he called on the late Sena tor Harry F. Byrd of Virgihia and told him that the famous home of General Robert E. Lee, which he occupied while Super intendent of West Point, was about to be destroyed. The sena tor ^could hardly believe it. He called the Academy on the phone immediately. The result: the land mark still stands. Noticing a large “nest egg” on the desk of a banker, I asked him how the name originated and he did not kjiow. One could tell that he had never been for tunate enough to g.royv up on a farm. So I was glad to remind him—as one who had—that this was once used to keep in the hen’s nest, the belief being that she would thus be ippre attached to the nest and stay there to lay her eggs- Although nest eggs were artificial, they looked al most exactly like the real thing e$d I suppose we will never know whether the hen Was real ly fooled or not. Now Of course the expansion is used--4>y this bank in advertising—as a sug gested saving of money for a rainly day—or just any kind. 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather eyery hour qj* the hour. 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