Population L Greater Kings Mountain 21,914 City Limits 8,256 The Greater Kings Mountain figure Is derived liom the special United States Bureau of the Census report o January 1SS6. and Includes the M.8B0 population o Humber 4 Township, and the remaining 6.124 iron Number S Township. In Cleveland County and Crowder* Mountain Township In Gaston County. Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C», Thursday, September 14, 1967 Pagos Today PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. 78 — No. 37 4 Seventy-Eighth Year Helen Logan Star Teacher; Cleland: ’Laugh At Yourself’ Scot Ministei Purveys Wit And Philosophy By ELIZABETH STEWART Laugh at yourself even when it hurts, philosophized Dr. James T. Cleland, Dean of the Chapel of Duke University, in a speech be _fore educators assembled at the •Shelby Chamber of Commerce "Education Banquet Tuesday night. And, he did. The native Scot, afflicted with shingles since August 3, admits his latest remedy for the chicken pox type virus, is flannel paja mas, bedsocks and the electric blanket. He has cancelled all other speaking engagements this month and was able to laugh with C of C President Rush Hamrick, Jr. who had remarked he was “get ting worried Dean Cleland might not appear.” The veteran educator, who re tired last year after 58 years in the classroom, has been Dean of the Chapel of Duke University since 1945. A Presbyterian minis ter, he was educated at Glasgow University and Union Theologi cal Seminary. He interspersed his address, “The What, Why and How of a Good Teacher” with wit, illus trated by favorite poems and classroom experiences. Examples: “We were strapped regularly in Scotland. Aim was to let the teacher express himself. They never got ulcers like you Ameri can teachers. We never told at home or we’d get some more.” Continuing the philosophy of •‘laughing at yourself” he told the teachers the story of his friend Mordecai, a teacher in the Duke School of Law, who had advised a young Asheville farm boy to return to the farm. “No,” the young man said. “First, I’m going to buy me the meanest mule I can find and name him Mordecai. Then, I’m going to beat — out of that mule every single day.” “You stay”, the teacher said. The boy did and is now a lawyer. A good teacher shows genuine care for pupils as people. He knows his subject, he added. After quoting favorite poets and a former schoolmate’s book, "The Art of Teaching”, he turned to Sports Illustrated for a sen tence in a report of Notre Dame’s football prospects for the fall sea son. The lead sentence said that one of Notre Dame’s greatest as sets was that the entire coaching staff returns. As one of 300 young pupils in the First Class in 1921 in Glas gow, Scotland, Dr. Cleland re called his English teacher, an Irishman, sported a monocle and said he’d gladly trade a year’s salary for one poem. He also remembered the good humor of a Latin teacher who said, “Latin is a comedy in which no death occurs, except the occa sional death of a mother-in-law.” •There were puns about mothers in-law in October 1921 as well as today, said Dr. Cleland, who suggests the snapdragon as the flower for Mother-in-Law Day. Dr. Cleland said the only thing “I can remember now about my first grade teacher was that she taught my mother.” Schoolmasters are among the men who have set the standard of Scottish villages since the Re formation. They do today, said Cleland. He closed his remarks with the closing words of Chaucer’s Can terbury Tales, “And gladly teach.” Hartsoe To loin Greer Citizen Wade Hartsoe, Jr., Kings Moun tain citizen, will join the staff of the Greer, S. C. Citizen, a weekly newspaper, on Monday as shop foreman. The Hartsoe family expects to move to Greer within the next few weeks. Mr. Hartsoe has been employ es a linotypist by the Gastonia Gazette. For four years previous ly, he was foreman in the me tchanical department of the Kings 'Mountain Herald. In Kings Mountain the Hart soes are active in Macedonia Bap tist church and Mrs. Hartsoe is St. Matthew’s Lutheran church secretary. They are parents of two children, Randy and Yvonne. STAR TEACHER — Miss Helen Logan, veteran Kings Mountain high school English teacher, was among six Cleveland Coun ty teachers tapped as "Star Teachers" by the Shelby Cham ber of Commerce Tuesday night. School Board To Meet Monday Principal items on the agenda of Monday night’s regular meet ing of Kings Mountain district board of education include con sideration of paving the student parking lot at the high school and renovations of Grover and Beth ware schools. Also on the agenda is decision on accepting an additional voca tional education teacher just al lotted by the state department. The teacher would be a special ist on introduction to vocations— a Grade 9 or freshman subject, Superinte«fctent Donald D. Jones ejcplgined. . Also scheduled for general stu dy and discussion is the 1967 school survey report. Kings Mountain English Teacher Is Among Six Miss Helen Logan, veteran English teacher at Kings Moun tain high school, was among six Clevelanders honored as “star teachers” at the first annual ed ucation banquet Tuesday of the Shelby Chamber of Commerce. For 35 years a Kings Moun tain schools faculty member, Miss Logan and the five other educa tors honored were nominated by the six area students who were National Merit Finalists in schol arship tests given in the high schools last school year. In a letter nominating Miss Logan, Larry Burton, recent KM HS graduate and one of the six Merit Scholars hip finalists, wrote: “Miss Logan has the na tural talent to arouse the stu dent’s interest. Her appropriate wit and store house of literary knowledge invites the student’s opinion yet offers him advice. In her counsel, she understands. Time has not stolen her youth.” Burton, son of Mrs. Lawrence Burton, is a freshmen at George town University, Washington, D C. Other “star teachers” recogniz ed were Mrs. Clarine Robertson of R-S Central, nominated by David Ruppe, now a Duke Uni versity freshman; Mrs. Van De Nesbit of Shelby high school, nominated by Robin Wright, now a Smith college freshman; A. M. Church of Bums at Fallston, nominated by Mike Champion, now a freshman at Massachu setts Institute of Technology; Mrs. James Rogers of Shelby high school," nominatdSnjy 'Wtfh lon Putnam, now a freshman at UNC-G; and Reid Parker of Shel (Continued On Page Six) Committee Recommends Kings Mountain Airport Dr. Francis J. Sincox, chairman of the city airport committee, summarized a detailed report or the feasibility and need for a general airport for the board oi commissioners Tuesday night. The committee recommends proceeding on the airport pro ject. Chairman Sincox stated his committee, on its findings, fell the chief benefit of an airporl would be to spur industrial de velopment, though he added s survey showed existing industrj did not require such service. He said a Kings Mountain air port would spur interest in pleas ure flying by Kings Mountair citizens, reminding that 20 years ago a total of ten privately own ed 'planes were hangared here “Today, were the airport sttl here, there would be 30,” he ad ded. He added another potentia benefit is tourist traffic—to se< Kings Mountain National Mili tary Park. He estimated cost of an air port at $300,000, of which King! Mountain’s share would be one fourth, North Carolina’s one-fourtl and the Federal Aviation Agen cy’s one-half. Additional cost to the city would be net maintenance cost for a ten-year period. “The airport committee only attempted to find out if the pro ject appeared good. If the com mission wishes us to proceed, some money would be required,” Chairman Sincox continued. The money would be needed to obtain an option for three to four years on a tract of about 80 acres and retention of a site en gineer. He said a mile-long run way would be required and that easements from owners of adja cent lands would be required to assure clear approaches to run ; ways. Commissioner Ray Cline com mented that he felt the only bar to proceeding on the airport project is the city’s need for water. On unanimous vote ,the com i mission authorized the Mayor to appoint a group of commission ers to peruse the project further. Other members of the Sincox t committee are Tommy Bridges, Scarr Morrison, and J. C. Brid i ges. All the committeemen are pilots. Bobbie Barrett, Dorothy Spencer, Both Single, Mothers To live After they met Bobbie Barrett and Dorothy Spencer for the first time at Junior Village Orphanage in Washington, D. C., two weeks ago, the five children kept say ing again and again: “Are you really going to be our mommies?” Last Wednesday they weren’t asking Miss Barrett, formerly of Kings Mountain, and Miss Spen cer, former Gastonian, that ques tion anymore. They had lived two nights and days with them and seemed to know it was true. Miss Barrett wrote her Kings Mountain relatives this week that she and her roommate, both of whom have taught the past three years in Fairfax, Va., and for five years previously were missionaries to Japan, have be come the first single women ever licensed as foster parents in Washington, D. C Miss Barrett is 32. Miss Speneer is 38. Both women have worked for FLOC (For Love Of Children) the past three years. FLOC, an organ ization which seeks out foster hmes for Junior Village orph anage children, will pay Miss Barrett a salary as a full-time house parent, rent a home for the two women, and make up the difference between Welfare Department foster child boarding fees and what it really costs. Miss Spencer will continue to teach during the day at Woodson high school. The adopted children, Miss Barrett wrote relatives here, are from the same family; four girls, six to 11 years old, and a boy, 12, “bright and not unsmiling and mechanical like many other children who have spent their entire lives in an orphanage like D. C. village. “Their parents drank. Occasionally they would claim their children but a week or so later would always abandon them again. They would be found wandering around the streets and there would be nothing to do but to return them to the orphan age.” (Continued O* Page Six) DREWES HONORED — Fred Drewes, tax analyst and consultant, has been elected into membership by Associated Business f Writers of America. APPOINTED — Governor Dan K. Moore has announced the appointment of Arthur Allen, Jr., Kings Mountain native, as a second lieutenant in the North Carolina Army National Guard. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Allen, Sr., of Kings Mountain was among 53 new lieutenants receiving gold bars in recent graduation exercises ,g|Fort Bragg. A member 'of Co. B’, 105th Engineers Battalion of Gastonia, Allen is married to the former Marlene Weir, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Weir, Jr., of Kings Mountain. The Allens reside in Charlotte. Park Historian To Georgia Post Frank Pridemore, historian at Kings Mountain National Military Park the past four years, has been transferred to Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park in Marietta,