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Established 1889 '•ir’ | The Kings Mountain Heiald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the Citizens of ttlhfs 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 Dale Gibson ..•. Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart.Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Lynda Hardin ...✓....,*.... Clerk MECHANICAL department Fred Bell Dave Weathers, Su&t. ‘Alien Myers Douglas Houser Richard Blahton •On leave with the United States Army Paul Jackson Rocky Martin SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE - BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAP .. $3.50 SIX MONtHS .. $2.00 THREE MONTHS . $125 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE It is a fearful thimg to fall into the hands of the living Qo&. Hebrews 10:31. The Governor For months after his inauguration, Governor Dan K. Moore failed to elicit more than grudging respect from large segments of his constituents who had supported his leading opponent Richard son Preyer, This newspaper was among the dis enchanted. Particularly disliked by the dissi dents was the Governor’s seeming vacil lation on the issue of the speaker ban law and his unwillingness to make pow er-selling cities party to an agreement on territorial rights for service. Then last October the Governor as serted himself and began acting as a Governor (should), asserting the lead ership of the office with definitive state ments and actions on the business at hand. The dissidents raised their eye brows and only the most dyed die-hards failed to rejoice. The results are apparent. Legislative scorekeepers say Gov ernor Moore batted at least .800 in ob taining legislation he recommended, an unusual batting average in any league, especially in the governmental league, and most particularly for a lame duck Governor. More often than not a Gov ernor, majority of his appointments made constitutionally prohibited from succeeding himself, finds many maver icks cai’ping and sniping during his sec ond General Assembly. His major defeat is logged as the bill creating regional universities. The Governor had put the weight of his of fice against the Eastern Carolina bid for immediate university status and won. Even here, the regional university bill (Eastern Carolina, Western Carolina, A & T, and Appalachian State) is a com promise. One might infer that a judicial back ground does not provide the fullest of qualifications for the governor’s office. If true, Governor Moore learned fast. It is a pleasure to label him GOVER NOR Moore, in the best traditions of a state which has known good govern ment consistently since 1901. Again, as State Treasurer Ed Gill phrased: In North Carolina, good gov ernment is a habit. Congratulations to George W. Mauney on 1) his return to the board of direc tors of Kings Mountain hospital ,and 2) his election to a third term as hospital president. Congratulations, too, to Rev. S. T. Cooke, who was also elected a di rector. Congratulations to Myron A. Rhyne, Kings Mountain native and veteran May or of Graham, recently elected assistant vice-president of Cannon Mills Company. Mr. Rhyne has managed a Cannon sub sidiary for several years and his elec tion as an officer of the present com pany is a compliment to his perform ance. i The community extends especial sym pathy to the wife and family of Kenneth Hustetler, felled at 27 by a heart attack. It is always a shock when the young and near-young are removed from among us. Some Kings Mountain citizens, at least have been successful in adopting the Benjamin Franklin exhortation to save on grounds a penny saved is a penny saved. Kings Mountain folk are going a step of ahead of old Ben, cred ited as being the founder of the mam moth savings and loan industry. Kings Mountain folk are saving dollars. Postmaster Charles L. Alexander is warning vandalizing pranksters to cease and desist from damaging mail boxes, on pains of finding themselves in the clutches of federal postal officials, de tective division. Off and Running H. Pat Taylor, Jr., former Speaker of the House and Wadesboro attorney, has announced formally his candidacy for lieutenant - governor, a position held by his late father during the Kerr Scott administration. Candidate Taylor has been probing the electorate for months to determine his prospects and has made a good im pression (as he did here) in criss-cross ing the state. 1 The re-districting business for the U. S. House of Representatives resulted in making his decision to offer easier. The new eighth district has no incum bent. Thus State Senator Voit Gilmore, of Southern Pines, \Vho had also been probing concerning the lieutenaht-gov ernorship, wasted no time in seeking to establish residence in Washington, not Raleigh. Based on his legislative background, a pleasing personality, and obvious knowledge of the business of govern ment, Mr. Taylor will prove a formida ble candidate. Another leading potential cahdidate is ex-Senator Irwin (Ike) Belk of Char lotte, who, like ex-Representfttive Tay lor, did not choose to seek return to the General Assembly for the recent session. Ostensibly, both felt they needed addi tional time to better assess and enhance their chances to become lieutenant-gov ernor. Meantime, Mr. Taylor’s formal an nouncement — along with Mr. Gilmore’s for Congress — may be among the earli est in Tar Heel political history, certain ly in recent Tar Heel political history. Water a Must "Mr. Yelton won’t admit we have enough water?” Mayor John Henry Moss grinned as he noted the superintendent of public works’ viewing with alarm in spite of recent improvement in the resevoirs. Nor is Mr. Yelton difficult of believ ing. His Wednesday report: The main York Rond resevoir is five feet below spillway; the Davidson Lake (two weeks previously Davidson Mud hole) is 20 feet below spillway; the city continues to augment its raw water sup ply with pumpage from two creeks, the Gold Mine shaft, and the 1923 wells; hot sunshine evaporates; in normal seasons dry months are promised through Octo ber. Procession at "full speed ahead” on fruition of the Buffalo Creek project is dictated, for a project of this size can not be completed over-night, as, com paratively, was the emergency project in which army pipe was utilized to pro vide over a million gallons of raw water daily, half the city’s daily requirement. If the Herald interprets correctly, the city commission, in its resolution Tuesday approving the final plans and specifications, made formal what it had indicated previously. The resolution al so committed the city to cooperate with all agencies in bringing the project to fruition. Engineer W. K. Dickson sug gested that treated water, ready for hu man consumption, would not only be abundant but sufficiently Abundant to supply Grover, Bethelehem, other east ern communities, and also to augment the supply of the City of Shelby, if Shel by needs and desires. The Buffalo Creek project is not fresh from the idea board, state officials and Engineer Dickson himself recom mending utilization of Buffalo Creek with its large and steady flow as long as 13 years ago. Buffalo is the closest major source of water to Kings Mountain, and Kings Mountain is near posting the "out” sign of its water supply. MARTIN'S MEDICINE Ingredient*: bits of nevm, wisdom, humor, and comments Directions: Take weekly if possible, but avoid overdosage. i —— if MARTIN HARMON Who’s for judo? nt-m Recently retired Superintendent Of Schools B. N. Barnes still laughs About a bit of propaganda which, he thinks, riiight have helped hirtl discharge successfully his first school assignment. Just graduated from Wake forest, he was persuaded (conned?) into taking a somewhat difficult prin cipdlship' in his home county ol Robeson. The problem had been one of discipline, the farm lads being big, raw-boned and disre spectful the prior year to the ex tent that they enjoyed the min istrations of no less than three principals. Two had left in ter ror. The third had demonstrated more grit. He would finish the term but he would NOT—repeat NOT—return. His employer^ spread the word that Principal-elect Barnes was a Wake Forest boxer. The ad vance news (Mr. Barhes had box ed intra-murally, not intercolle glatelyi did not prevent the usual first-of-school test of the "fresh meat" but Mr. Barnes does feel the advance notices helped limit his disciplining to the palm-of hand-oti-aft thrashing of a lone malcreant. m-m I have related that story be fore and regard it worth retel ling. But there’s" a sideline rea son. m-m Any advertising about the jiu jitsu (judo) proficiency of James C. Atkinson* new-on-the-job prin cipal of Kings Mountain high school is not propaganda. He’s an ex-marine out of World War II with an added year’s duty during the Korean business. He laughs as he gives his own def inition of jiu-jitsu; "I call it dirty fighting.” And he’s taught his daughters the art. This and other facts were gleaned a recent evening when rhy wife and I paid call on Prin cipal and Mrs- Atkinson, .our new around-the-corner neighbors in the Gutney Grantham residence, (West Mountain street is about to become Education Alley, as Superintendent and Mrs. Donald G. Jones are our around-the-cor ner neighbors to the east.) m-m Before heading for the South Pacific, Marine Atkinson was as signed to guard duty at the navy department building gin Wash ington. Then - Under - Secretary James Forrest a 1 i s recalled as a man "always in a hurry”. Yet he would occasionally slow his stride to pass a word with the leather, necks who had greeted him with a salute. m-m One morning later, when Sgt. Atkinson emerged from his Iwoj Jima foxhole, he was wiping the' sun out of his eyes and found Secretary Forrestal standing by a sight for sore eyes. Principal Atkinson laughs about his buddy who decried the duties of digging foxholes. It was shortly after the Iwo invasion and they’d found their two-man foxhole uncomfortably shallow during the Ispairraid when Sgt. Atkinson returned late next day from a work detail, his “lazy” buddy was no longer lazy. “All I could see was the top of his shov el as another wad of sand came out. I thought he was going to dig that hole to China.” m-m Mr. Atkinson (his wife calls him Jake reports himself pleased to be In Kings Mountain for many reasons, not least among them juxtaposition to two major Revolutionary War shrines, Kings Mountain and Cowpens. A major in history, Principal Atkinson says he is a Revolutionary War buff, in contrast to many South er history teachers and WTiterst who dote on the Civil War. He has been lucky In this respect, having come here from Rocking ham county, near the site of two other major Revolution battle fields, Moore’s Creek and Guilford Courthouse. Another contribution the Atkin son family is making to the Mountain street community is the canine member, a brown dog with a sharp voice, and namesake of Socrates, the Greek philosoph er. He joins such worthies at Cae sar at the Willis home, Napoleon at the Ballews, and Sir Winston Cfttnwwu- at th* Har mons. "That Makes Three or Four Times" */aTauga7DISth 1CT *Vf#y CAUWEUWfJ CATAWBA BUMS CUmAHD\ GASTON WHITE HER TERRITORY | tBF— sfA/f&A*'/ »s&ew0ty/ Viewpoints ot Utiier tditors This Week In Tar Heel HISTORY By ED H. SMITH James H. Southgate, of Dur ham, was one of the two North Carolina citizens whose name has appeared on the ballot for the office of Vice President of the United States. He was born July 12, 1859. A successful businessmari with little political experience, South - gate was the candidate of the Prohibition Party in 1896. His running mate, for President, was Charles E. Brantley, of Nebraska. Two men born in North'Caro lina have been elected to the of fice of Vice President, Andrew Johnson and William King, but both did so after moving to other states. The only other candidate to run while a citizen of this state was William A. Graham, a for mer governor, U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Navy, who, iron ically, was defeated by King in 1852. * • * In an odd twist of fate, North Carolina was associated with two of the most famous sets of Siamese Twins in medical his tory. The original Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng—from whom the name was derived — settled in this state, in Surry County. And on July 11, 1851, another pair, Negro slave girls named Milli-Christine, were born in Co lumbus County. Joined from the waist down, they were billed by a travelling side show as “Far more Surprising and Wonderful than the Siamese Twins". On July 12, 1813, the state had its only real scare in the War of 1812. A British fleet under Ad miral Cockburn occupied Ports mouth and Okracoke, seizing two privateering vessels, and remain ing for five days before N. C. militia gathered and hurried their withdrawal. Died July 11, 1874, in mid-term, Governor Tod R. Caldwell, of Morganton, generally regarded as the most capable of N. C.’s four Republican governors. * * * Died JUly 12, 1849, at the age of 82, Dolley Payne Madison, wid ow of our fourth President. Born in N. C., she was one of our nation's most famous First Ladies. She presided at the first Inaugural Ball, and is credited with having popul*H*ed ice cream by serving it at i,V White House. ACCENT ON YOUTH Both major political parties are aware of the value of young voters next year. The Democrats sent out 40 House members, most ly young, to tour university cam puses across the nation. The Re publicans counter with visits by freshman Senator Charles H. Percy of Illinois to California in mdi-May. Gov. GeoTge Romney of Michigan, a front-running Re publican hopeful for next year, has invaded Georgia universities. The collegiate group may be noisy at times but it is far sharp er politically than its predeces sors of two generations ago. They generate vocal enthusi asm for candidates and causes in greater degree than their elders. They are less responsive to or ganizational pleas along strict party lines.. They could well be a tone in deciding the 1968 elec tions^—The Daily Oklahoman • SPELLING BEE The final moments of this year’s national spelling bee again illustrated what we users of the English language are all up against. The five words that sorted out the last two contend ers, Jennifer Reinke of Deshler, Neb., and Anne Clark of Huh tington, W. Va., were lulus: fleche, spinnaker, pogrom, mih line, and chihuahua. The welcome our language ex tends to newcomers from varied .sources helps make English ex pressive, but all the harder to spell. Fleche is French for arrow, arid appropriated for the slender structures church architects have come to prefer to steeples with belfries. Pogrom is a Russian word, meaning devastation or destruction, and related to the word for thunder. In English, it is a 20th-century word, applied to ferocious anti-Semitic persecu tions. Chihuahua began as the name of a Mexican city and pro vince, and later was used to ; name a bred of dog. All three have in recent times been incor porated into English just as they stood In French, Russian, or Spanish. Spinnaker is not easy, especial ly for girls living far from the nearest yacht harbor. It is said to be derived from a mispronun ciation of Sphinx (a Greek word), the name of the first boAt to! make much use of this kind of sail. Milline is made by telescop- j ing million and line. If any Eng lish word could have three con secutive L’s this would. Ad men know it refers to a million cop ise of one agate line of space. One of the girls evidently con fused it with malign, which it was for her. The hazards of our spelling are I part of the price we pay for hav ing a wonderfully cosmopolitan,' resourceful vocabulary. —Chicago Tribune NO DRINK. NO CHANGE. NO APOLOGY Some of the most inspired writing in a newspaper shop is done on vending machines. It is done for the benefit of those who service the machines. ‘‘Vending" is, in a great mahy eases, erroneous. Vexing mach ines might be a more appropriate, term. “This'(censored) machine owes | me 25 cents,” the message will| read. “When the blankety-blank are you going to put in a decent machine?” Little notices adorn machines t throughout the plant. They are; scotch-taped or pasted on. Some-1 times messages in grease pencil I are written right on the machine itself. “This monster owes Joe Blow 15 cents.” Then a list of names will follow: John Doe, 10 cents Mary Miff, 20 cents Hank E. Panky, 15 cents _ Etc. ’ Sometimes the disappointed get their money back; sometimes not. We are in the impersonal | age. The serviceman may simply leave a little pile of change on ' top of the machine. The people who have been shorted are at work in so many departments that he can’t look them all up. We like to brag about the steps we’re taking ill automation. | But the people In a great many I places of business spend as much; time pounding on vexing mach ines as they do on typewriters. We know dne In an who has! resolved to give the venders no YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events taken from the 1957 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. The back to school bell Mon day morning will herald the opening of Bethware and Com- j pact schools for their split term: summer session. Robert M. Kennedy, Jr. of Monroe, a former dean of men at Erskine college in Due West, S. C., has been elected principal of East school for the coming school term. Haywood E. Lynch, Kings Mountain merchanCand realtor, indicated this week'he will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the House of Representatives in next spring’s Primary. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL In a candlelight wedding Fri day at 6:30 in Central Methodist church, Miss Margaret Elizabeth McLarty became the bride of William Harden Cochrane. more of his business until they get some of the bugs worked out Of their robot merchants. He’s tired of putting a quarter in a drink machine, which keeps the quarter, gives him no change but, worst of all, igives him no drink either. There are machines which keep the whole dime for a nickel item. There are iced-drink machines Which fill the cup one-quarter full. There are machines which belch out a drink before you even make your selection. You’re lucky i| it’s what you wanted. But worst of all are those which just stand there, cold, un blinking, impersonal and indif ferent to any complaint. They are dehumanizing us as well as keeping our money. No wonder kids are rioting in the streets. They’re growing up in an age in which they spend half their time beating on con stipated vending machines. —The Charlotte Observer SO THIS IS NEW YORK By NORTH CALLAHAN After taking a recent''-look at Harlem, I cannot agree with those prophets of doom Who dire fully predict that there will be big and extended Hots there this summer. Not if Improvement means anything. For although there are still areas of slums and poverty in this black settle ment, what impresses one most, after viewing it off and oh for a quarter of a century, is the mod ernization of the place. Where once stood dingy tenement build ings now tower into the Manhat tan sky tall, heat and rather new apartments. The drab lots of debris have been replaced with spanky attractive parks set off with green grass and trees as well as play equipment for the young. Harlem still has a long way to go, but so do most other places. And the encouraging as pect of this famous and colorful community is that it is obviously on its way. Noticing a small book on the newstands about Hedy Laifjt I was reminded of my experi^B? not with her, but without Her. as it happened. Apparently she has reached some kind of a low, writing a book which exposes her personal life as much as did the nude scenes in her early European movie. But I recall when I was in Hollywood writing some stories about the stars that on the MGM lot, they would let me see and talk with any of the actors, such as Robert Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Robert Preston and Maureen O’Sullivan but not Hedy Lamarr. She had just been imported from Vienna and was being so groomed for glamor that Louis B. Mayer, the studio head, would not allow any interviews with her. And she did have a successful career, grossing, she says, 30 million dollars. But now this sordid book—how the migh ty have fallen! Victor Borge, a more whole some entertaiher, says his first names used to be Robert Charles Arthur Victor Borge and he drop ped the first three of them. Ask ed why, the debonair pianist and comedian quipped in his usual style, "I got tired of being called RCA-Victor.” Passing “Sunnyside”, the^fc tingly named and lovely MB' of Washington Irving up the i Hudson, I thought of the two great names herein connected. My visits there have impressed me that it is an inspiration to any writer to pause Inside and look at his study overlooking his "lordly river”, $ room restored by the Rockefellers to its original state with every piece of its fur niture being the original. The or igin of his first name is equally remindful of our early history which we now so need to be re minded of. Irving was born on April 3, 1783 and must have had a history — and firm-minded mother. When asked the name of the baby, she replied, “Wash ington’s work is ended (how lit tle she knew) and the child shall be named after him.” Here and There: John Milton said “A good book is the pre cious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured ub on purpose to a life beyond life” . . . cash register sign in a , restaurant: “Do not ask for ere- ( dit. You knew yesterday you would have to eat today” ... some one remarked that a nickel goes a long way today. You can I carry it around for weeks before you find anything you can buy with it . . . signs of the times— seen in a school hallway: “In the event of an atomic atjMk, ’ the Supreme Court ruling agfllst prayer in the school will be tern porarily suspended" . KEEP YOUR RADIO DIAL SET AT 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. - Fine entertainment in between .. I:
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