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f • t** Hie Kings A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the ge: for the enlightenment, entertainment arid benefit of the and Its vfefhftjt, published every Thursday by the Heral _ Entered as second class matter at the tost office at Kings ft under Act of Congress Of March 3, 1473. EDirORUd DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon . ..V.... fi^ftor.fubHifwT' Dale Gibson ............. .Sparta Editor Miss Elizabeth Stewart.Circulation Manager and Society Editor Mary Beth Ramsey......... ■/................ . Clerk MECHAffICAL JEPAfttK** Fred Bell Dave WeaKhefs, Supt *Allen My«s Paul Jacirsot Douglas Houser Richard Blanton Rocky Martin •On leave with the United States Army SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — Bl! MAIL ANYWHERE ONE TEAR .. $8.50 SIX MONTHS .. 12.00 THREE MONTHS i?MM PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 730-4441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Tfee Lord, is my portion, saith My soul: therefore wiU / hope in Him. Lamentittqons 3:24. To Battle Agalh The Shelby Daily Star, in its editorial of Wednesday entitled “Planning Board Has Been Responsible in Its1 Position*” brings into the open the knifing-in-the back a few elements of our Cleveland County society have been giving the Kings Mountain Buffalo Creek water project. , Knifihg-in-the-back by anyone the Star denies. This newspaper was present at the July 17 meeting of the county planning board. The Star need not have defended the planning board, but merely its chairman, ex-Senator Robert F. Morgah, who did a marvelous routine of repetition in dragging out a meeting and running it in a quite dictatorial fashion. Motions made and seconded Chairman Morgan Contrived to veto. "I am with you, but...” This was Chairman Morgan's position on July 17, apparently was before and Since, and is the Star’s, as of Wednes day’s editorial. To acknowledge the fact Of Kings Mountain’s crying need for wa ter is well and good, but to supply no succor makes the acknowledgment as empty as a dry well. History should be reviewed. Buffalo Creek as a Kings Mountain water source of long-term use was urged during the shortage of 1953-54 both by the state’s water resources experts and by Col. W. K. Dickson, then and now the city engineer. A short-term course was elected in the form of doubling filtration capacity ahd building the Davidson Lake resevolr. In 1962, Buffalo Crek Was staked out as a Kings Mountain water source by the state and the stake-out is formal. Buffalo is the closest major water source to Kings Mountain. Any other is fts temporary and make-shift as the two streams being utilized—yea, with army pipe. Low level Davidson Lake had to be tapped again because the dry season lowered the level of the two auxiliary Streams. The city board of commissioners is on record: water from the Buffalo Creek project will be made available to any who wish it, either via creation of a wa ter district or wholesale to other water districts or firms or individuals, which ever is most desirable and practicable. The Star wants to know about rates, hardly ready for good-guess estimate un til construction costs are firm bids. Asperions have been cast on Kings fountain’s ability to finance the project and the inference that prospect of legal fiquor sales profits was in the figuring never entered into it. Enough. The Star position was well-stated: “Kings Mountain’s water problems are serious. They must be effectively alle vlated.Nevertheless ...” More succinctly stated: “I’m for you, but . . . ” New School Total Kings ^fountain district schools re open Thursday for the 1967-68 term. Buildings have been polished and re furbished. The venerable Central plant finds a major $180,000 renovation being com pleted. There is no shortage of space—though a shortage of space in some spots. The faculty is complete. Most youngsters decline to admit it, but they’re really glad to be back to the boohs. Fall and football are in the offing. Time is running out for pre-payment of 1967 city and county taxes jn order to earn the two percent discount, maxi mum attainable. Last day is September i A-I Paragraph The ICings Mountain board of educa tion has adopted a 17-page personnel handbook, a first for the systefh. In the handbook, school policies re lating to hours of work, use and care of school equipment, discipline Of pupils, extra-curricula activities, teacher sick leave and other subjects are summated. Where in the past, certain information was learned by Word-of-mouth Or, partic ularly for teachers new to the system, had to be sought out from principal or superintendent, this information is avail able on the teacher’s desk. While great majority of the informa tion is of particular interest to the teach ers and, inferentially, to the pupils, one paragraph is of particular interest to ev eryone in the Kings Mountain school dis trict. It reads: “The use of school buildingsfor civic orcommuni ty meetings of all kinds which may be beneficial to the members of the community is encouraged where? ever such use does not interfere with school functions and maintenance. Any group so desiring to use school facilities must obtain permission from trte super intendent through the principal.” It reminds of the flapdoodle of a fOw years ago when' school cafeterias were ruled off-limits to civic Clubs, a bit Of foolishness the General Assembly hap pily corrected. Obviously, school functions must fake first priority. Not in use public property should al ways be available to any responsible group. The public' pays the bills. Well-Done’ The Kings Mountain Beduty ftageaift, except for a r^spywas as professional a job as arty amateur group may expect to attain. Virtually alf the hard-working Jay cees put their shoulders to the pageant wheel to present ar fine event. It wpuld be mutually remiss to fail to compliment the nine beautiful contes tants, who not only displayed pulchri tude apd pqise, but offered an unusual array of entertainment talent. A best bow to the Jaycees. Congratulations to Miss Teresa Jane Jolley, Miss Kihgs Mountain of 196$, to Miss J6an McClure, runner-up, to Miss John King, second runner-oft and to Miss Helen Owens, Miss Congeniality on vote of her fellow contestants. Cooperation The landscape changing effected by earth-rpbvirtg equipment never ceases to be amazing and ,the sample in the area bounded by the Bonnie Mill, Gasrton and Gold streets and Falls street extension is a near-town sarhple. And the benefits indicated are con siderable to all concerned. No more important benefit to all the cotndninity, particularly of Southside residents will be extension of Falls street to York road. This will provide another badly-need ed crosstown street, connecting N. C. Highways 216 jand 161, Kings Mountain being painfully short oft crosstown streets. Potential alleviation of heavily trafficked King Street and Gold street fe apparent. Congratulations to the 134 industrial trainees have cates for successfu. . -^--3, ^ triad training hn-the-jjob courses. VMARTIN'S, EP19 .Utiii bits „ 'pvotd overdosage. Bf itXVflH HARMON Parents are sometimes wont to their children interesting, odd names. On ripening a.lit tle, the growing young folk sometimes wish their parents had been less imaginative and simply used the old familiar ones like Jim, John, Jane, or Sue. m-m A long-time friend of mine never forgave his folk, for giving him “Benjamin Franklin” as a handle to Holeman. Ex Shelbian William Griffin Arey, Jr., who is boss of the federal travel bureau, was once plagued with William Joshua Arey, indicating a Biblical bent, once, perhaps still, a popu fechniq — » — *— a .* • • lar naming technique, on the part of his parents. As apparent, Will did something about it. When he reached 21, he invested $25 with the Clerk of Superior Court and swapped off “Joshua” for “Grif c fa te. m-m Except for being rather heavy iw Weight, my name “Martin Lu the£” never bothered much. In Grade 8', 2 shorted Luther to “L.” j (my father going by Luther) and a feiw years later became plain; “Martin”. 1 was named for my; Father, but it was a mystery why j he, boffh a Methodist and a prac ticing Associate Reformed Pres byterian, Was named as he was. Mg Mother explained: “His 'Grandmother was a German-Lu thefrn Beam (Baum) and your Esther was bom oh Reformation Sunday. He had to be named as he was.” m-W Purpose of this essay, however, is not people names, but street names, many of which are as in teresting as to content and deri vation as those of people. m-m Steve Martin, who soon takes; over the sports desk here, lives I at Shelby’s 711 Annieline Drive. I That was a new street name for; me. m-m Recently, when John Graham and Gene Woodleaf of Superior Stone Company, Billy Mauney, and Mayor John Henry Moss were outlining the changes in landscape and street extension underway in the area between Gold and Falls streets, it devel oped that, minus changes, Falls street to York Road will be very confusing to the uninitiated. m-m Falls will be extended to what is mapped to be Kemp street. Then Kemp Will be extended to what is already Owens street. !*•!* I suggested to the Mayor, “You’ll have to flip a coin or oth erwise decide the name of this street. We’ve eitough situations in town where, for instance, Tracy street becomes Crescent Hill .drive and where Cansler j street becomes Meadowbrock road.” | m-m : The Mayor said he knew the ’problem very well. “You know i; live on Crescent H)ll drive and! ■ I have •. much trouble trying to direct strangers to my residence." iJilly proffered some folklore which I had never heard before. “Release all three names for oth er streets and name this one Diine street, i understand' that, when the forefather's laid off the town, they labeled four consecu tive east-west parallel streets ‘Kings’, ‘Mountain’, ‘Gold’, and Jdine’.’’ m-m The idea is logical, considering the fact that the Rings Mountain Gold Mfoe was the major area industry at the time Kings Moun tain was chartered In 1874. Al ready fee have the first three, though the ‘s’ has been dropped froth “Rings”. BUI Carrigan questioned Wil son Crawford about hfs choice of Falllngwood Drive, where the Carrtgans were building. "Lot of tries around you,” Wilson repli ed, “and we’re going to cut a lot of ’em. Fallingwood drive.” Then the next street Would be Brook wood drive. tt-tb “Sure,” sew Wilson, “plenty of trees and the road ends at the brook.” What’s la • street twine? Gone NA^i+|i TheuWind? .. ‘V*’ fM±: world Viewpoints of Other Editors This Week In Tor Heel HISTORY By ED H. SMITH Few people today have heard of Nat Turner. In 1831, however, his name was a familiar one in North Carolina. Turner had a profound effect upon the history of this state, even though we may never have set foot in it. An obscure Negro slave and part-time preacher, Nat Turner set out upon a slave uprising with six followers on the night, of Aug. 21, 1831, in Southamp ton County, Va. i Before they were captured and hanged, they had murdered be tween 55 and sixty people. I Word of the uprising spreadj quickly, and several similar plots j were uncovered in eastern N. C.! The result was widespread unrest | among both blacks and whites.! Six Negroes were hanged in Wil-i mington that fall. j i Historians regard the Turner uprising as a turning point in the attitude toward slavery—and the conditions under which it was practiced—in this state. Until then, there had been a great deal of antf-slavery senti ment In North 'Carolina. After-j wards, however, laws concerning that "institution” were made; more severe, and most Carolin ians began defending their neces slfy. Among other things, it became1 illegal to teach slaves to read ( and Write. j BIRTHS AND DEATHS Digd Aug. 20, 1953, former gov ernor Cameron Morrison, while an a visit to Quebec, Canada. Morrison was a native of Rich mond County, but later moved to Mecklenburg. He served as chief executive of the state from 1921 25. In 1930 he was appointed to. fill out the unexpired term of! [ U.S. Senator Lee S. Overman. In1 1943 he was elected to Congress. F ! - ' y’YSVl Morrison came to prominence! iA the 1890’s as a leader in the ! Red Shirts, an organization dedi-1 [cat edto militant white suprema [ cy. As governor his chief accom plishment was in paving the state’s primary roads. A total Of 5300 miles were paved, linking all the state’s county seats and principal cities. • • * Died Aug. 22, 1847, in Pender Co., Hinton James, first alumnus of the University of North Caro lina, civil engineer and state leg islator. James had walked from Wil mington to Chapel Hill to be came the first student to enroll at the University in 1785 Lollipops In the News There is something about a lol lipop. No dignified adult would be caught licking one, but the most conservative grown-up can enjoy the pleasure of giving one to a child and getting a smile for it. The gift of a lollipop can be an adult’s key to entrance into the happy world of small boys and girls. News items about lollipops ap pear now and then. There was this recent one about the Lolli pop Man of Thornbury, England. (Officially Ted Williams is a traffic warden but to children he is the Lollipop Man.) At a recent sports day in his city, the candy giver was saluted by 420 of his small friends who marched by him in a body. He didn’t know how to thank them in words so he said it with more lollipops. In Boston there is a person list ed in the telephone directory as “Ltdlipop Foundation.” We rang this mah (who wouldn’t reveal his name) and learned that he started giving all-day suckers to kids seven years ago when he discovered a little girl in a hos pital who was getting no atten tion from her kin. He bought her lollipops while she'- remained there, then extended his giving to other children in need of cheering. Now he gives some 200,000 a year. A wholesale can dy company delivers them to the institutions. The lollipop may yet figure in politics. If Shirley Temple Black, who danced and sang her way to fame as a child star, runs for Congress (as many California i Republicans hope she will) her movie hit melody could become her campaign theme song. And she just might sail into office “On the good ship Lollipop." —Christian Service Monitor PLYMOUTH ROCS th to oqtlhfe tf»A effect at tlw auto mobile on American life. Just how insolent the automobile could ft* eVep the autfieS> know. Now It appears historic Plymouth ftobfc may have to get out of its way. Allen Stapleton, managing di rector of the Plymouth, Mass., Chamber of Commerce, reports the National Park Service Is studying establishment of a pa-1 tional park ff the site of the Pft-| grim landing in the New World and may recommend moving the rock farther from the shore. It seems a parking lot Is planned where the rock’s portico now stand* Will the National Park Service entertain a question in the inter est of history epd tradition? Wouldn’t it b* better to move the parking lot and leave Plymouth Rock wher* it is? —The Times (San Mateo, Calif.) Aristophanes In trouble Aristophanes, who wrote plays four hundfed yea» before the birth of Christ, is in trouble With the Army junta now riding Greece. So are Aeschylus, Euri pides and Sophocles. On orders cf Col. George Papadopouk*, min ister in Charge of the Premier’s office, a theatrical control board has been set up to “protect the moral, spiritual, artistic add cul tural standards” of the Greek people. The first act of the colonels turned-critics was to ban from this summer's festivals the sal tiest comedies and tragedies of these Greek playwrights. Madam, Greeks who Want M sea “Protee-j b YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events taken from the 1957 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. Paul Walker, assistant man ager of Myers Department Store, will serve as chairman of kings Mountain’s 1958 Red Cross fund drive campaign. Kings Mountain merchants will collaborate Thursday, Friday and Saturday on a weekend Crazy Days sale. Foote Mineral Company will show its Kings Mountain opera tion to area citizens at a mam moth open house Sunday after noon. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. John W. Gamble was in stalled as president of the Amer ican Legion Post 155 Auxttiary at its meeting Thursday night. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Gamble announce the engagement of their daughter, Margaret Lois, to Howard Gene Blanton,, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Wiley Blan ton. Both families are of Kings Mountain. theus Bound” or “The Birds" or “Phoenician Women” will have to. leave the country where they were written. The colonels know what they are doing. These playwrights are dangerous. Mdte than two thous and years ago they asked their countrymen to think for them selves and not accept the die tates ot mortals. The great Greek playwrights were jingcists for peace,, and po litical pamphleteers. In “The Clouds,’’ one of the specially banned plays of 1967, Aristopha nes discredits the war party: “Ne’er again shall the War-God have welcome from me,/Or Join in our feast and national song.” By purging its playwrights — thus reviving a* 1M2 law passed whil^ Greece was under Nazi oc cupation—the regime of Colonels commits a new form of infanti cide in the cradle of democracy. a —New York Times ma Ilf NEW YORK By NORTH Beside A modern, highway the rolling hills of pTcturesqij northwestern New Jersey, the is a unique institution. It is Bij relle’s Press ^flipping Bureau afl is housed in a low, streamlir building that fits Well into lovely landscape. Some twentj five years ago, not long afte had come to New York, I visit Burrelle’s in lower Maphatta and it was a far cry from th new and four-times larger ganization. But then as now, was cpierated by Harold ais Arthur Wynne, presently grow more mature of course, but, still active and frfhndly. Arthur WjmnO, Jr., And his brother/ Frederick are currently cogs Of importance in. this thriving busi ness which left the noise and dwt of New York City to bask and grow hi the pretty Jersey country side. Its task: to clip out articles from newspapers and sell them to those concerned. A dynamic saleslady with a thick Southern accent who goes by the name of Loree Dew ha's long represented the clipping service and still holds forth ef fectively among the Manhattan ites. It was interesting to visit the new plant and be shown how it operates. According to Arthur Wynne, Sr., the bureau subscribes to 1,800 0. S. daily newspapers, 9,500 Weeklies, 3,500 magazines, and various Other publications Every day, 75 bags of mail ar rive at the bureau from its Liv ingstoit, New Jersey postoffice These newspapers are then sort ed and placed in cubby holes hy state, then by city and date. In a spacious, well-lighted room I saw the 175 readers going over the papers, each with her read er’s book beside her, which lists the bureau’s 4,000 clients. With each client furnishing an aver age of four titles or references, each reader therefore has a total of 16,000 such listings to remem ber «— or at least try to. When the reader comes across a refer ence she is seeking, it is mark ed, put a$ide and then the arti cle is cut from the newspaper and sent along to the proper place to be labelled With name, date and circulation of the publication. Then the finished clipping Is placed inside An envelope along with other clippings of the same reference and mailed to the client. ■M ■ •• J . ... A ”0) . ■ ,V(r x} : V'i* . The interesting visit Was inter rupted by luncheon at Rod’s 1920’s ibid House, “down the road a piece”, a colorful restau rant with a genuine old Pullman car as part of its motif. I was later informed that Burrelle’s is the world’s largest clipping bu reau and' is n'6w almost 80 years old. Frank Burrelle, a newspaper columnist, was leaning against a Park ROW bar in New York city When he overheard two' men talk ing aljoui something which had appeared in the newspapers in Philadelphia, but they had npt seen them. One remarked that he wished he cbuld hire some One to read the papers for him, and fiurrelle tapped* hifh oh the shoulder and said, “You’re on!” [That flight on the Burrelle kitch en table, the bureau was born. Early customers were mostly so cial climbers, celebrities or others who liked to see their names in print, they wore initially Charg ed 3 cents a clipping, WUW of course it is several times that amount. «. - ■' ^ I uDTovmonnuicm WKMT Kings Mountain, If. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between
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