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KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
Thursday. January 25, 1968
EslaWished 1889
_ /»gB ASSOC faTHy;
The Kings Mountain Heiald
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and publ^hed
for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain
and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
Entered as second cla.ss matter at the post office at Kings Mountain. N. C., 28066
under A^t of Congress of March 3, 1813.
BOrrORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher
Miss Elizabeth Stew.'irt Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Joe Cornwell Sports Editor
Miss Linda Hardin Clerk
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Glare br to you unit jx’uie from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesiix Christ. Galatians l:S.
A New Year
Already we are launched into 1968,
with 1967 merely another chapter in his
tory.
January is the season for the seers
of the land to look into the futuristic
crystal ball and make predictions of what
is to come. There undoubtedly are some
able seers, but they will be proved able
only by the events in the days ahead.
Since economics are the life blood
of people (moat, clothing, shelter) more
forecasting is done in this direction than
in any other.
How will 1968 be? Will it be a good
year? Will farmers, textile employees,
and owners, traders, realtors and mer
chants prosper?
While every year promises to be a
big year, indications arc that 1968 will
be bigger than normally for Kings Moun
tain.
modified to .$186 billion, which has been
bandied about ever since. By the time
the budget was formally presented to
Congress Monday, the $186 billion
figure — like an obscenity repeated
throughout a novel — had lost much of
its shock value.”
Last week’s paper reported an
nouncement by Congressman Basil
Whitener that the city had received a
grant of $450,000 for the Buffalo Creek
Water project from the Department of
Housing and Ui'ban Development. The
'.HUD grant, recommended by the Atlanta
regional office will be a major contribu
tion to the project estimated to cost $3,-
338,000. In the same edition was an
nouncement by the U. S. Representative
that the Department of Labor had agreed
'to signing of a contract with Industrial
Association of Kings Mountain Area, Inc.
for $48,913 job training program.
"Every budget has a theme, and the
President states his early and alludes
to it often. It is, briefly, that although
the United States is wealthy and mighty,
it faces stubborn and obstinate foes at
home and abroad-poverty, communism
and so on. Though the source of these
difficulties isn’t made clear, we are told
they can be overcome. But the fiscal at
tack will require us to set some hard
priorities, to increase our spending only
where we must and to cut back, ruthless
ly and even painfully, elsewhere, report
ed the Journal’s Washington correspond
ent elsewhere on the page. Stephen Mac
Donald continued, "The President ap
parently believes that the nation is not
in a spending mood, for he devotes con
siderably more space and emphasis to
the cuts. In fact three whole pages of the
budget message proper are given over to
a detailed accounting of programs that
are being reduced or reformed this year.
No comparable collation appears for the
increases.”
. Congressman Whitener telephoned
;the Herald Saturday morning news that
the Department of Housing and Urban
Development in Washington had approv
ed a $302,680 grant under the Neighbor
hood Facilities program to assist the city
in financing a proposed .$425,000 commu
nity center. The HUD grant will cover
about two-thirds of the estimated total
development.
The editorial continues, “Thus do
the planners in Washington help gener
ate the inflation which is robbing the
people’s purchasing power. In the cir
cumstances it is more than a little dis
tasteful to have the budget message pi
ously intone against inflation and insist
that the tax boost will curb it; the way
the Government does business, that is an
extremely dubious proposition.”
The Wall Street Journal in its lead
editorial, "The Frightening Future”,
Tuesday contends the Johnson Adminis
tration budget for 1969 is a “dispiriting
document the President and his advisers
have drawn up. Reckless in spending, un
sound in thinking, pedestrian in langu
age, meager in imagination — and more
than slightly frightening for the future.”
They continued, “Weeks ago the Admin
istration leaked the bad news: Federal
spending in fiscal 1969 would be on the
order of $190 billion. Later the sum was
General Douglas MacArthur must
be praised for his truth, “There’s no such
thing as security,” It was a throwback
to the late Franklin D. Roosevelt’s
speech of confidence, “The only thing we
have to fear is fear itself.”
Practically, looser money helps.
What person or family has all his buying
caught up?
Easy dollars mean turning of factory
wheels and this turning produces pay
rolls.
The basic Democratic philosphy is
correct: Spread the money in a lot of
hands and business hums. Everyone
prospers. Spread it in a few hands and
very few prosper.
Two Worthy Appeals
Two Fund Campaigns are now un
derway.
One tends to prevent heart trouble.
The other fights birth defects.
Gifts to the March of Dimes helps
children with birth defects through more
than 70 March of Dimes Birth Defects
Centers across the nation, providing the.
kind of medical teamwork which can
treat and often correct almost 80 percent
of all birth defects. A Mother’s March
by the Kings Mountain Junior Woman’s
club last Thursday night collected $110.
Today is the last day to list your
property taxes and avoid penalty. The
old saying is there is nothing sure in life
except death and taxes and it’s likely the
fellow who coined the phrase never
heard of income taxes, gift taxes, inherit
ance taxes, etc. It’s also required of all
citizens to list their properties for ad
valorem taxes. The job must be done,
and it’s a little late to be an early-bird.
In turn, people here and elsewhere
are contributing this month to the heart
fund campaign headed in Kings Moun
tain by L. E. (Josh) Hinnant, providing
funds for research to improve techniques
in treating heart diseases and most im
portant in fighting ways and means to
prevent the excess strain on hearts pro
duced by fast-paced jet age living.
Both appeals are quite worthy and
equally in order. Give liberally.
Congratulations are in order to Fred
(Rick) Finger, III, high school senior
among six finalists from District IX for
a 1968 Morehead Scholarship to the Uni
versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;
to the eight high school seniors inducted
by the KMHS National Honor Society
recently; and to Glenn Wern^er, who has
completed training as an Eastern Air
lines licensed mechanic.
The War in Vietnam came close
home again this week with news on Tues
day of the death of Army Pfc. Harold H.
Welch, 21, Kings Mountain native, who
was reportedly killed in action Monday
The young man, son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Welch, had most recently
made his home with a sister, Mrs. Evelyn
Graham, in Shelby. Several weeks ago
Mrs. Graham called the Herald to place
an airmail subscription to her brother.
“He knows more about events in Kings
Mountain than I do and keeps up with
everything,” said Mrs. Graham. The
Herald and community extend sincere
sympathy to his loved ones.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
ngredients: bits of news,
w^aom, humor, and comments
"irections: Take 'weekly if
possible, but avoid
overdosage.
SUGAR SEASON STARTS IN MAY
By ELIZABETH STEWART
Only the young appreciate
winter and bemoan the lack of
deep snow.
m.m
The older folk become sated
with cold weather following the
first breath of winter. Then it’s
strictly for the Eskimos.
How cold was the weather in
January?
Figures on local temperatures
supplied by Transcontinental
3as Pipeline Company in connec
tion with their monthly bills to
the city igas department tend to
show it was quite cold in Kings
Mountain in January, much cold
er than the year before.
'o.
PRIMARY
And, gas consumption figures
reflected the cold weather, too,
this year with the grand total
(water, gas and lights) $1.5,497
more than a year ago in January.
Gas users spent $54,336.34 in Jan
uary 1968, $46,151.86 in January
1967.
Billings in January included:
residential, $26,838.87 against $23,-
233..56 a year ago and $20,008.78
in December 1967; Small Com
mercial, $5,(»4.97 against $4,107.63
in December 1967 and $5,069.21 a j
year ago; Large commercial, $7,-
832.51 against $7,879.83 in Decern-1
ber 1967 and $5,744.13 a year
ago; Interruptible, $12,1M.85
against $14.10.75 in December
1967 and $10,62 a year ago; Public
buildings, $1,915.14 against $1,-
391.34 in December 1967 and $1,-
482.96 a year ago; Gas, $54,336.34
a-ainst $47,398.33 in December
1967 and $46,151.86 a year ago.
SO THIS IS
NEW YORK
By NORTH CALLAHAN
Even if women's fashions are
appropriate, some of them seem
ridiculous, "rake ear-piercing, for
example—and you can have it!
In a tiny shop at Lexington Ave
nue and 56th Street, Sol Kaplan,
a Jeweler, pierces, he says, from
three to five hundred women’s
ears each week, and the incisive
custom seems to be growing. In
cidentally Sol sells earrings. He
estimates that in his forty years
in business, he has run tlirough
the ears of 50.009 women who
wish to comply with the dictates
of Dame Fashion even if it
hurts. The process requires only
one minute for one jab, and then
just to be on the safe side, Sol
cauterizes the wound. What hap
pens? Well, sometimes the wom
en scream, others are calm, he
relates. He is convinced that no
two women in this world are
alike.
This Week
In Tar Heel
HISTORY
•CLASSIC* PAP
Public Service Company of
Gastonia keeps a record of aver
age temperatures for each day
of the calendar month but said
they would not have an accurate
figure before February 10th.
• Dix Hill Hospital For the
Insane in Raleigh was authorized
on Jan. 29, 1849. bj the General
Assembly. It was named after
Dorothea Dix, the mid-19th Cen
There is good sense in the ad-|
vice to return the classics to the'
classroom. Much more solid fare
than "Dick and Jane’’ and the
like is to be recommended even at
the lowest grades. But what is a
classic? Certainly not a book that
! has been bowdlerized and other
wise watered-down to suit a pre
conceived pupil taste or capacity.
The National Council of Teach-
10
years ago
THIS WEEK
Viewpoiijts of Other Editors
This is a different if not a bet
ter world, especially when one
contemplates the passing of such
a thing as the movie newsreel.
For as long as I can remember,
sitting in the quiet rcstfulness of
a darkened theater and seeing
before the feature film, a vivid
and entertaining version of news
on the screen helped to bring it
home in an effective and lasting
way. Now this has ended. The
news film recently bowed out
with the last of the Universal
ers of English points out that i rolet Company sales manager, is j^e^.gi.eeis. Ed Herlihy. who for
there arc at least five “student-1 Kings Mountain’s Young Man of 25 years had been its resounding
designed" versions of Mark year for 1957. voice, sadly recited its obituary.
Twain’s "Adventures of Huckle-; _ | He recalled other names in the
Items of news about Kings
Mountain area people and
evenis taken from the 1957
^Ues of the Kings Mountain
Herald.
Charles E. Dixon, Victory Chev
A policeman found a note on
a car parked in a no-parking
area off of 5th Avenue, which
stated; "I have circled this block
ten times and found no parking
place. I have an appointment
which if I do not keep, I will
lose my job. Forgive us our tres
passes.” The cop wrote a reply
and stuck it on the ear: "I have
circled this block for twenty
years. If I do not give you a tic
ket, I will lose my job. Lead us
not into temptation."
tury Crusader whose efforts re-
suited in the establishment of | pinn” on the market and! Members of the Kings Moun-! Graham McNamce, Lew
. .1 ... j-kV\ D I . . . __ •• . _>x.' I » ■ ^ _i mi r>n 111
What excuse do we have for: improved mental institutions ‘tt Jn schools. The original text has I tain Merchants Association areji,,ohr, Ed Thorgerson and Paul
writing this piece?
m-m
Our dependence on modern
New York, Pennsylvania, N. C. ijeen tampered with, the council j currently to elect offi l Douglas. T\', rising costs and
.nmrnvial /iTVioy* ctatos a,_ u*._ 1 sy-. *Uy. ...itVi. ^ ® i rx€ Klzy/»lr Krynlzina IfHIPrl tho
and several other states
Other events of importance in
reports, “to bring the text with
in the range of readers with a
limited vocabulary, to condense
the story for the sake of rapid
reading, and to eliminate the
stumbling blocks of dialect and
solecism.
cers for the coming year.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Miss Betty Lynn Wagner,
end of block booking killed the
newsreel. Too bad.
house.
m-ui i Thomas Burke escaped captivity 1 development, improve read- progiam, . ,
' in Charleston, S. C. and return- ■ and for comprehension North Carolina ’ at Tuesday s
Our yearning for the good old to the state. Burke, his entireuseful literary devices as!meeting of the Study club. .
days centers cniefly on tne times Council, led a number of raids on' dialect.
when a fireplace was a source i jjillsboro the preceding Septem-! bad enough to feed young 1
of warmth and there was always 1 jjgf
a stack of logs around to take
the place of modern inventions! • In 1796 a wnvention was
and their lack of consideration I held
for folks who are not mechani “
cal geniuses.
FEWER UNWANTED
CHILDREN
Four hundred thousand chil
dren are growing up on public
relief in this city, the great bulk
of them in fatherless homes. The
readers on pap. It is intolerablei steady smokers to continue?
that they be fed on pap falsely ] Should any university profit from
labeled as beef steak.
Oregonian.
— The
one in the .state or defense de
partments, for example, who
strives and worries for long
hours to help produce the best
policy for our country's welf tre,
then when it is put into effect,
sometimes gets publicly crucified
I a device that probably will have j for it. or perhaps even loses his
this result? Is this not an anoma- ,iob, what is his reward? So let
THE PAPER EXPLOSION
A House subcommittee on Cen
sus and Statistics has taken a
long look at the Federal Govern-
I, I those who can do a belter job;
llous position for any educationaL ,,
institution to be in?
North Carolina had ceded to the
Federal government in 1790. Its
presiding officer was William
Blount, member of a prominent
N. C. family. The convention vot
ed to enter the Union as the
State of Tennessee. j ment’s “paper work," and stands, against cigarettes is hopeless,| "George Washington; the Pictor-
1 1781 General - back aghast at it. In the words one of the great educational instl- ial Biography” recently published
Now, evidently on the premise
that the educational campaign
Clark Kinnaird has produced
an interesting and colorful book.
• On Feb.
William Lee Davidson was killed
, . . <5n ■ at Cowan’s Ford on the Catawba
decision of the State Board ^ attempting to prevent the
cial Welfare requiring local wel- gf Cornwallis’ troops.
Davidson was commander of
militia forces in the Charlotte
fare districts to make known the
availability of birth-control serv
ices should help curb the steep
rise in this huge total of chil
dren born into poverty and de
spair.
The new rule lorbids pressure
on welfare recipients to use birth-
control devices or to limit the size
of other families, but it also re
moves the senseless prohibition
that heretofore had kept case
Salisbury area. Davidson College
of the Washington Post, “Paper-
pushing remains a dominant Fed-
tutions in the country dramati
cally announces nothing less than
eral pro-occupation. A large parti its "sponsorship” of a filter that,
of the time of all Government, while it may reduce the health
employees is given to it. The com-1 hazard, will probably increase
mittee estimates the cost of thisjthe smoking habit,
paper work at 8 billion dollars.”
, „ .J ^ Notes On facts about It as di-' The Columbia filter (as it was
and Davidson County were nam- ; study; It requires' dubbed within 24 hours) could be general and Pre.sident. Also the
ed in his honor. 1 :... . ' _ . _.i_ u u—i,,v,—..,,1, it father of his country is shown
by Hastings House. The stated
purpose of the volume is to show
not a man whom nobody knew
but the Washington that Every
body Should Know. In the vivid
pages are shown the self.educat-
ed boy, the militiaman, the land
The Columbia filter (as it was | speculator, husband, legislator.
ed in his honor. different foVm's. Federal I a research breakthrough. But it
• The next day, Feb. 2, 1781, directives alone run to 2.6 mil- does not diminish the obh^gatioii
footsore, discouraged American lion pages a year. And the ug- ' ‘ “ '' '
conveniences is never brought to j January (exact dates unknown).
f”lirnic^%Ues1o^uncHon^^^^^^^^^ • In 1753, in Essex, England, reading, and to eliminate the -vi.ss nta.y ”7“^’; joe Smith says that if someW^
prlv b^au^ romeelectronic^gad-1 Nathaniel Rice died, chief execu- stumbling blocks of dialect and whose marriage to Charles F. i ^ life who
net frets out Of whack and one live of resistance to governmen- solecism.” Mauney will be an event of Feb-'go freely criticize our govern-
to freezing temt^ratures ■ Uil excesses. Rice served only aj Let’s have done with that. Statesville, is being nienl officials were to try to do
mtide the house merely because brief period. Of principal that,There is enough good literature honored at several parties prior their demanding jobs at thelow-
sornething d°^t kick off the Rice had plotted to assassinate, at hand to fill students’ readmg P® P .^ey usually get,
^Th ne thar warms UD the him. !‘inie. The original, not the re- to the wedding. | uncertain ten-
' I t i-rco r'oo i "'ft*®'’® fumbling pencil, is w'hat Paul Mauney presented ure of careers, the critics would
• In lajte January of 178Z, uov.I needed to stimulate vocabu-'^^^ -nm “Folk Lore In'be more generous. Take some
grejate product of it runs to such
■an ^avalanche that Washington
army halted its retreat in Salis
bury. While there, a patriotic inn
keeper and Mrs. Elizabeth Steele
_ revived Gen. Nathaniel Greene’s
workers from telling clients that spirits with "a good warm meal”,
there were facilities for guidance land her life savings, a bag of I of filing and storing the endless
on how to stop having children gold. This deed is said to have] output of documents, records, etc.
as a prankster who rolled on
of government to educate thei the ground in mirth on occasion,
people — including college stu- Even a smiling portrait is re-
dents—to the dangers of smok-j vealed, something unusual foi
storehouses are at a loss to ac-1 ing cigarettes.—New York -Dmes ■ George,
comodate it. I
Aside from the enormous cost'
they did not want
^ cruel were the effects of the
old ban on volunteering informa
tion that many case workers risk
ed their Jobs by disregarding it.
"If I didn’t talk about birth con
trol to clients, the chances are
very remote that they would ever
find out about it on their owm,”
one Welfare Department social
moved Greene to write on the ■ Government efficiency is impair-
back of a picture of George 1H, I ed by the loss of really useful,
"0 George, hide thy face and j data in the paper wilderness, j
mourn.” That just isn’t Washington’s!
. , „ (problem and headache, for a vast,
• Died Feb. 3, 189o, Rufus ^rj number of the forms and reports,
ringer, of Cabarrus County, bn- hoarded there by tlie.
gadier general of N. C. troops J", agencies ordering and receiving
the Civil War. He fought in 26| nriade out by citizens)
0,0. ...e- — engagements, vvas i and business establishments re-,
worker told a Times reporter just i^ina 19“'''®‘I 1
a few days ago. .killed berieath him before being| subcommittee reaching the;
Federal welfare authorities re-|®®Pt“r®'I „ 'conclusion that a h.alt should he;
ported earlier this year that an • On Feb. 4. 1834, Wake For-j proliferation is.
overwhelming majority of moth-1 estl^^^Pute opened ,ts 'ioors. In j, chairman Robert N.l
ers receiving public assistance did *1956 Wake Forest College mov^
not want any more children but I® Winston-Salem. The rampus n ig called the Nix Committee,
did not know how to keep from I *h Wake Forest is now a Baptist ^ name is altogether appro- ]
having them. No comparable j seminary. 1 priate.—The Nashville Banner |
knowledge gap exists for most ■ ■ — ' •
women of greater affluence. The' JACKSON'S STAMP ' COLUMBIA'S riGARETTE ;
new ruling, which we have long! The new Andrew Jackson, FILTER !
KEEP YOUR RADIO DIAL SET AT
advocated, guarantees that those j stamp, for initial issuance March
sunk deepest in economic dls- 15 at Hermitage, Tenn.. will ^ar
tress can now have the same in-
iormation.
Mayor Lindsay and Welfare
Commissioner Mitchell L Gins
Columbia has acquired rights
if usS^ for postage from there I to a new cigarette filter which
the added distinction of an his- sharply reduces inhaled tar and
nicotine. The filler will be made
available to all cigarette comran-
ieis, and the expressed hone is
tnric postmark.
At Reo. Richard Fulton’s re-
berg, who sought for six months quest, the Postmaster General ^
to persuade the state board to) has scheduled the event that way,' that the health hazards will be
remove the former taboo, have! coinciding with the 20th annlver- significantly reduced,
made a major contribution to-1 sarv of the seventh President’s j Some difficult otiestions arise
ward checking the cycle of In- birthday. It is an appropriate ob-' from the Columbia announce-
herited poverty that condemns I servance, commanding reg*onal, m"nt: Will news of this ’’.safe”
many New Yorkers to an extra j intaregt: the setting "Old Hick-.filter only serve to increase
1 s.— I At i_ .ft 1 ft t : evan/alg 1 rt rr 9 thA
burden of heartbreak. Every oth-
fr community In the state wtti
share in the benefits.
—New York ’Hbim
ory” ioved in life, and grateful: smoking? Will the fact that Co-
generaUons bavo consecratad to liimbla University endorses the
his memory. ' Wter lndu(» young people to
—The Nashville Banner start smoking and encourage
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