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1 V i Page 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, January 4, 1968 Eitoblishcd 1889 The Kings Mountain Heiald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and pubUalted for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citteens 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., 28066 under A*-! of Congress of March 3, 1873. BDITORIAL DEPARTIIENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Steve Martin Sports Editor Miss Elizabeth Stew.-rrt Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Linda Hardin Clerk MECHANICAL UEPARTMEN* fred Bell Dave Weathers, Supt. ‘Alien Myers Paul Jackaon Kouoy Stroupe Roger Brown Rocky Martte •On leave with the United States Army SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN APVaNcF^ BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR .. $3.50 SIX MONTHS .. $3.00 THREE MONTHS .. |1 JS PLUS NORTH CAROUNA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBEB — 739-5441 MARTIN'S MEDICINE Ingredients: bits of news, wisdom, humor, and comments Directions: Take weekly ij possible, but avoid overdosage. By MARTIN HARMON Postmaster Charles Alexander typed a summary of three major rate increases in mail rates which become effective for mail posted Sunday. m-m They are; 1) First class letter mail (whieh most folk use most) will cost a six-cent stamp. If the letter weighs more than an ounce its 12 cents. 2) Airmail becomes 10 cents per ounce (see below). 3) Postal cards will be five cents each. TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE And lo a voice from heamm, saying. This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleaded. Matthe-w S.'JI. St. I 4) Airmail postal cards will I cost eight cents. m-m Big Year Ahead While every year promises to be a “big” year, indications are that 1968 will be bigger than normally for Kings Moun tain. Public projects alone are major, in cluding 1) A sewer renovation and expan sion to cost approximately $1,250,000. 2) Expansion of the water system estimated to cost $3,300,000. 3) Construction of a neighborhood facilities building to cost $42.5,000. 4) A $2,500,000 public housing pro ject. The aggregate totals $7,475,000. Additionally, there is the scheduled $550,OIX) improvement to N. C. 161 (sur veying now underway), and widening of Cansler street out of the city’s $314,000 share of the state-wide $300 million road bond issue. Private enterprise, too, is expand ing. Alcan Aluminum’s new’ Kings Moun tain plant is to get into operation soon. Carolina Throwing Company will have a major addition in operation by April. Kings Mountain Knit Fabrics is dou bling plant size (i-eported in today’s edi tion). A new dyeing and finishing firm will be built off McGinnis Street (reported in today’s edition). New jobs in industry spawn new jobs in retail business and service industry. While it often proves an error to view the future through rose-colored glasses, certainly Kings Mountain’s new 1968 spectacles should have a pink tint. Calls Toll-Free Southern Bell Telephone & Tele graph was to begin posting mail ballots to subscribers in several area communi ties Tuesday to determine whether these subscribers wanted to pay a slight in crease in monthly rentals in return for toll-free service to other communities. The poll will be by postal card bal- and will compare the one conducted by Southern Bell a few years ago which (surprising to some Bell officials) re sulted in toll-free service between Kings Mountain and GastoniadDallas. Rural area citizens advanced the ex panded toll-free service proposal shortly after the Kings Mountain subscriber de cision. There is some disappointment among supporters of expanded toll-free service in the arrangements: 1) Lawndale area supporters are dis appointed there was not more advance publicity to terms of the proposals. 2) Kings Mountain area citizens are disappointed free service to Cherryville- Waco was not included. Be that as it may, the Herald sup ports a “yes” vote on the current pro posals on grounds that any expansion or speeding of communications is bene ficial. Presumably, further desired expan sions can be considered in the reasonab ly near future. The death of Dudley Carroll Hughes, on duty with the Navy Seabees in Viet Nam was a shock to the community, moreso perhaps because he apparently ^ died of a heart attack at the age of 21. A reservist for 18 months, he had been on active duty for nine months in Okina wa and Viet Nam. He was a deservingly popular young man with all who knew him. The sympathy of the community goes to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Hughes, Sr. Time s Man of *68 Time Magazine editors tapped their first Man of the Year in 1927. He was Charles A. Lindbergh, first to fly over the Atlantic Ocean alone. For 1967, as for 1964, Time tapped President Lyndon Baines Johnson. The circumstances are somewhat different. In 1964, President Johnson had just been re-elected to the presidency in his own right, after acceding to the office on the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. It was a resounding victory, Mr. Johnson having received the largest popular vote in history. For his 1967 honor, Time compares the President to Shakespeare’s King Lear, much buffeted by the copious trials and tribulations which seem to increase daily for the United States chief of state. Particularly noted are: international problems with Viet Nam at the top of the scale; domestic problems, with under cutting by some members of his own party besetting and upsetting, and riot ing in urban ghettos at the top of the scale. Time editors infer, if they fail to spell out, that President Johnson is cop ing with his problems with considerable ability, certainly better than many of the critics wh® can offer little else but criti- Time editors also give a thinly veiled warning to the Republican party to avoid over-optimism. Pity the presidential nominee, they infer, when he’s on the firing line and in the sights of Mr. Johnson’s rifle, the sights of course being telescopic. Water Pipe Plea Cartoonists and caricaturists have been known to depict financially hard- pressed citizens as a suitor pleading on bended knee for the (writing) hand of the beautiful damsel, in this instance the banker. Mayor John Henry Moss will be in the hard-pressed position Thursday, and at a subsequent gathering, on the matter of renewal of the city’s loan of water pipe from the army corps of engineers. On Thursday, the Mayor, the city engineer, and others will confer with civilian defense state officials in Raleigh, the city having been notified the present loan of more than five miles of eight- inch pipe would not be renewed. ’The loan of this pipe to date has been literally life-saving, as it has pro vided means for obtaining a million gal lons of raw water daily. Meantime, citizens showed hand somely they wanted and expected to help themselves at earliest opportunity, vot ing 20 to 1 to build facilities designed to alleviate the city’s water problems for years to come. But big projects won’t come to frui tion overnight. How long the need for the firmy’s pipe? At best, a year, say the engineers, in spite of recent rains, and barring future and frequent gulley-washers. Congratulations to Kenneth Bun- kowski, Jr., tapped for membership in Tau Beta Pi, honorary engineering frat ernity, by the North Carolina chapter. He is a junior at North Carolina State University at Raleigh. Otis D. Green Post 155, American Legion, deserves commendattop on its decision (o award college scnplarships to desening children of p«rel m^bers. A basic scholarship %v'ard of $2Oo0 an nually will make, payable at $500 per year over a four-year period with the customary conilitions that a recipient score satisfactory marks in scholarship and conduct, 'rtie scholarship program replaces a loan pUip which had proved difficult to administer and, when fun(}s were unavailable, unfair to some (Reserv ing youngsters. The Postmaster received num erous telephone calls about the effective date of the new rates, many thinking they were effec tive Tuesday. Some made unwit ting voluntary contributions to the postal receipts. Letter of Recommendation SO THIS If NEWYOHH By NORTH VAUJMM m-m However, the rate changes—for some mailers—aren’t as simple to understand as Charlie’s sum mary, nor for postal employees. THE bearer, TO WHOM IT MAY concern: MR. NINETEEN SIXTY SEVEN HAS' BEEN IN MY EMPLOY , SINCE LAST JAN. OWING TO THE LIBEL LAWS I HAVE NOTHINQJ FURTHER TO SAY ABOUT THIS CHARACTER . yOURS TRULy, f / All of the bank robbeyies and attempts at same do not appear in the press. One sqch event oc curred here i«cently when a man appeared at the teller window of a branch of th Chase Manhattan Bank and handed the young lady there a ten dollar hill with a note attached. She looked at it and found it stated he was a dqpe addict, needed only $2,000 in $100 bills, adding that she should make no trouble for he had a gun. Stooping down as if she were getting the bills ftw. underneath the counter, the girl pressed an alarm buzzer instead. She remained stooping and ap parently he thought she had gone downstairs after the money. Meanwhile, the lalnrm alerted some male employes, one of whom walked over and engaged the man in casual oonversation. The alarm had also sounded in nearby police station, so that within minutes, eight armed eop.s appeared on the scene, poun' on the would-be robber, and little episode was over. m-m The "Postal Bulletin" of De cember 28 lists some other inter-1 esting changes, only two repre-; sentlng decreases in rates. i Viewpoints of Other Editors m-m I Postmaster General Lawrence j j O’Brien has announced publicly ! the new bargain offer for parcel post (PAL) to military personnel in Hawaii, Alaska, and anywhere else. For payment of an extra dollar over surface carrier rates, a person may send a parcel weighing up to 30 pounds and not exceeding 60 inches in length and girth combined to service men with APO and FPO address es. This Week In Tor Heel HISTORY FEW FAMILY FILMS By EO B. SMITH On December 24, 1821, the Ca- nova statue of George Washing ton was unveiled in the rotunda of the State House in Raleigh. Sculpted in Italy, it was regarded at that time as a classical work of art. It was destroyed when the Capitol Building burned in 1831. 'i'he other bargain: "The free mailing privilege for the blind IS extended to physically handi- A replica of the statue was presented to the state this year. A retjuest to place, the new statue in the rotunda of the present capped persons who are unable I Capitol Balding cau^ contro- to read normal reading material, versy in the General Assembly and additional categories of mail matter may be mailed postage free.” m-m Yet another bargain may be applicable to the Herald and some of its present subscribers, but its not yet operable. The new law authorizes the transportation by air on a space available basis of second-class mail publications upon request by the publisher or news agent and payment of reg ular postage plus additional charges prescribed by the Post master General. TTie bargain, of course, depends, on Mr. O'Brien’s decision on “extra charges’’. A 16-page Herald mailed locally after bulk mailings has cost sev en cents. Airmail to APO and FPO addresses has cost 40 cents. over its artistic style. On Dec. 28, 1700, the English explorer John Lawson left Charleston with six English com panions, three Indians and a “squaw cook’’ to explore the back country of what is now Carolina. What’s happened to the movie the 'Whole family can see? It was possible once for a father or mo ther to say, "Let’s go to the mov ies," with reasonable assurance that there would be a suitable film somewhere around the neigh borhood. Now there’s no assur ance tltat what’s playing is some thing children should watch. Nobody expects a solid diet Of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," the "Wizard of Oz,’’ or even a charming hit such as “Sound of Music,” one of the few exceptions to the ultra • frank trend that dominates the motion picture industry today. Indeed, we’ve come a long way from the time when the word “damn!” (spoken by one of the characters in “Gone with the Wind”) caused a nationwide shock wave. Nor are we saying that this a- dult generation should be fore closed from films that are strict ly for adults. Grownups ought to be privileged to watch grownup fare. By reading the advertise ments and the criticisms, they have plenty of opportunity to judge whether a particular film North suits their tastes. Lawson’s book, “A New Voyage to Carolina" was published In London in 1709, making him one of the state’s earliest historians. The book was republished tliis year by the UNC Press. Lawson served as Surveyor General of the colony until he was killed by Indians in 1711. . According to the “North C^aro- Airmail on regular rates will be HistorTcal Almanack", the 50 cents next week. The new airmail rate of ten cents per ounce, incidentally, will apply only to the first seven ounces. Air parcel post rates apply thereafter. m-m The Herald will get another pocketbook lick in the form of ad dress correction notices. These, in some quantity, have been arriv ing at the rate of a dime (once a nickel) and advance next week to 15 cents. m-m first session of the General As sembly to be held in the new State House in Raleigh opened its doors on Dec. 30, 1794. Thirty-six years later, on Dec. 27, 1830, another session .of the General Assembly passed a reso lution to re-shingle the Governor’s House, repaint the Capitol roof and repair the leaks in its gut ters. Hollywood seems to have opted for sophistication over family fare, tho “Sound of Music" proves that a warm, lively musical can make plenty of money. The indus try’s theory seems to be that ul tra frankness makes even more money. The result is that films saturated with sex and violenee dominate the screens of neighbor hood theaters. 10 YEARS AGO this week Items of news about Kings Mountain area people a»d event* taken from the 19o7 Ides of the Kings Mountain Herald. Myers Department Store, lead ing Kings Mountain retail estab lishment, will be liquidated, O. W Myers, owner of the 20-year-old establishment, announced this week. It’s here. The new Picturephone which means face-to-face tele phone service and for the present 1$ connected only with <^cago and Washington. It can accommo date comfortably as many as five people for a business conference. New products can be seen and thus demonstrated, auditions held, 'fashions displayed and ap plicants interviewed. Servicemen can visit visibly with their dis tant families, grandparents can greet the cute, new baby and the main feature of cour8<> is being able to he seen as well as to be heard. Many people will soon be in pictures. John A. Cheshire, Jr. will be insialled Thursday night as pres ident of the Kings Mountain club. He will succeed Harold Coggins. Scott WiUard Norris, apparent ly the winner of the Kirtgs Moun tain Baby Derby as well as the Cleveland County contest, arrived just 12 seconds afte^’ the joyous shout, Happy New Year, went up. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. Aubrey Mauney and Miss Margaret Goforth will present the program at Monday night s meet ing of the Junior Woman’s club. Korean War, drew much of the backing for hLs lavish campaign from Democrats. He got many of their votes too, as well as those of Republican moderates who liked neither the escalation of the war nor Mrs. Black’s advice that war was best left to gen erals. ’The Republican organization It is true, of course, the climate |-^yiU close ranks behind Mr. Me- has changed since the days when] ciqskey who is expected to win 4c. jjjg run.off easily. But the party Shortly afterwards, as men tioned above, the building was destroyed by fire. Andrew Johnson, seventeenth President of the United States, was born in Raleigh on Dec. 29, 1794. the Motion Picture Producers’ As sociation feared to produce films that spoke out honestly lest pres sure groups descend on them. A new and, in some respects, wel come frankness has permeated literature, painting, dress, and thetheate r arts. Liberally fitj the times, and topics once discussed in whispers are now common talk. We cannot expect the mo tion picture industry to stand a- side from this trend. But the film- goer, especially the film-going family, deserves a wider choice than the film industry is giving. The trouble is that the film in dustry is giving too little cansid- eration to family enjoyment. TV, bein^ government-regulated, can be required to provide a certain amount of public service pro gramming. Movies are produced His birthplace, a tiny clapboardl Many mailers employ permit imprints. One of the principal ones in Kings Mountain is the! City of Kings Mountain utilities' una inhihi department which uses a postal house situated behind tl^ i ^^:"'’BSrh^sn’t ?he ^ndu^m card type bill. The postage im-ijvhere his ^rents wo^ed, has But has h pe 000 billing cards. For 60 days, Postmaster Alexander is author-! controversy of the Recon cannot hide its disappointmenL ’The defeat of the former child star was the first rebuff to Gov ernor Ronald Reagan’s conserva tives. Even so, the California Re publican parly will not be push ed Into advocating "peace." But Mr. McCloskey’s victory empha sises the growing Importance of that issue in American politics; it also proves that you do not have to be a film star to win votes in California.—^The Econ omist (London) Passing throqgh lower Man- iiattan, I noticed the front of the famed Delmonico Restaurant. which is a mellow part of this ^ city’s history. Now some 130 years old, the restaurant’s orig- j Inal structure catered to old tim ers who loved elegant variety. | The 11-page menu offered a choice of 12 soups, 32 hors d'- oeuvres, 28 beef entrees, 46 kinds | of veal, 20 of mutton or lamb, 46 varieties of fish. 51 vegetaNc] and egg dishes and 57 desserts care how 'writers look. Tho thoughts of 60 or 70 are not as absurd or pitiable as 'faces of the same age may be when revealed to the great public. If you em brace the (vriting profession, she says, it is a close and long em brace. It lasts for |Ue and may be as vital at the end of bfe as it was in the first young ap proach. Some one has estimated that over half the people in our eoun- try are less than 25 years of age. These youngsters do not Isnow what a depression is, have iwver used a ration coupon, have never seen g town or city washed away by flood, have never had to stand in a biead line, never ridden a freight car, never cashed a $13 che^, could not describe an ice box, would not know haw to light a kerosene lamp, couldn’t^ put a patch on an Inner tube or wouldn’t be able to tell you “ Fred Allen was. So, it is do you think they are ready^ self-government? ized to accept the out-of-date im-! prints, accompanied, of course, by the new postage rate at a nickel each. m-m I do not know what the city’s utility billing stock backlog is, but apparentjy some 6500 (about 325Q ^-moiith) can be used as are. The girls at City Hall hope , JSie backlog is low. Otherwise, they face a lot of stamp licking. Ugh! Even the postoffice h»s com plained that the rate .‘dVance came about too quickl,'. The s amp vending machines must be changed to provide for receiving five conttl ipsteed cS tout, six cents instead of fivs^ an(l ten cents instead of eight. struction Period shadowed John son’s term and helped obscure the fact that he was a better Presi dent than often supposed. FALLEN TEMPLE William Richardson Davie, gov ernor (1798-99), here of the Amer- icap Revolution, delegate to the U. S. Constitutional Convention, and "Father of the University of North Carolln'a", died In Decem ber of 1820. Davie’s place in the history of North Carolina is an illustrious one, yet oddly enough he was neither bom nor died in this state. He was born in Egremont, England, and emigrated to Amer ica as a youth. After his term as governor hq moved to South ^r- o'lna and is burled in Lancaster County. The man who beat Mrs. Shirley Temple Black has invited Presi dent Johnson to listen to whpt goes on In San Mateo county In the coming month. Mr. Paul Mc- Closkey won the Republican nom ination, In a free-for-all primary election for a vacant congression al aeat, with his modulated call (or the United States to take stronger initiatives for peace in Vietnam. Now he facse a run-;off election on December 12th with tre Democratic front-runner, who has generally supported the Johnson Administration’s war policies. The debate between the two men will swirl around alter native ways of enticing the North Vietnamese into what pre called “ipeanlngful negotiations." Mr. McCloskey, whfl it ... a lawyer and a formar Marina of ficer decorated for bravery In the KEEP TOUR BAOIO DIAL SET AT Moiiiitdiii. N. C. NeWB & Weather eveiy how on tit hour. Woothar hpwr on hgH hour. Fine •ntertainmeni in bet\ Margaret Culkin Banning s4ys 11 that writers are most fortunate 11 in not having to retire when 11 they grow older. Like actors, j I they may have a big public, but I the public does not piutieulaply 11 Thursdai App App they hat ship of ( lerminat ionship 1 But this seaf ist yea jme an ^ins agi The along w son. esta 2,338 po This accurate set the 1 nents he The Novemb several the ASl 1966-67 trophy ; Can San Redskin true? S( ing if he Si against thing al how luc Mel lias finti ijie SUIT be nj gular imp. Th( 1966 th was no a brigh On* Sam lef ed in hi Linats’ tier 70 ( Ion in Th Johnny con Jor w ere oi l)est of he droj Af Packer been p * home f Ik players ee the Or sally 1 swbo ^ Fo wRo dc in'the the Pa I £ a mud But I ( to hav last ye colder Da a warn Ot Mount: The sh ball h£ Ot scorer 10th gi ties. k Gc us fi ints nent ill the
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