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Eitobllfhed 1889
The IQngs Moantain Heiald
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the generel welfare and publtahed
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 class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28096
under A*"! of Congress of March 3,1878.
KDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher
Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Joe Cornwell Sports Editor
Miss Linda Hardin Clerk
MECHANICAL ^EPARTMEN"
fred Hell Dave Weathers, Supt. ‘Allen Myers Paul Jackson
Bouoy Stroupe R^er Brown Rocky Martti
•On leave with the United States Army
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Grare be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesv^ Christ. Galatians 1:3.
Cheaper To Talk
The late Sir Winston Churchill .said
aptly it is much cheaper to talk than to
shoot.
Thu.s the United States is pur.suin.g
that cour.se in the USS Pueblo incident
with North Korea.
U. S. Representative Basil L. White-
ner, opining the President is following
the right course, put it this way, “We
don’t want those navy boys murdered.”
Thus it is angering, both to the
President and the whole nation, when
South Korea, a nation befriended and de
fended with the lives of Americans and
sustained economically by the United
States, sounds off against the United
States for not starting another shooting
war with North Korea.
The natural reaction is to pull out
and tell the South Koreans to tend to
their own knitting.
Again, however, haste making waste
applies, for a United Nations (largely the
United States) pull-out would result in
the whole of Korea going to the Com
munist bloc.
Likewise, in Viet Nam, where mo
rality in government is almost -non
existent, second thoughts dictate contin
uation of the effort to repulse the North
Vietnamese, though, on the short term,
it would be cheaper, both in treasure and
blood, to wash United States hands of
the whole sordid business.
The important fact, as stated by an
eminent French stragetist; a pull-out of
Southeast Asia would lose the key to the
Pacific. In that event, he added, "you can
forget your Pacific pond”. That implies
the Phillipines, subsequently Hawaii, one
of the 50 United States.
The uneasy truce between North and
South Korea has been uneasy for 14
years, with border incidents causing cas
ualties breaking out intermittently.
A Model City?
It is to be hoped that Kings Moun
tain will be selected for the second round
of the federal government’s model cities
program.
The federal program of grants-in-aid
for public projects to cities and other
agencies of government is based on the
thesis that the federal establishment will
help those who help themselves.
Fact that the Department of Housing
and Urban Development sent a represent
ative here to outline requirements for ap
proval as a model city is indicative that
regional officials in Atlanta, as well as
in Washington, feel Kings Mountain is
endeavoring to help herself.
There are many cases in point, maj
or among them being the willingness of
the citizens to vote debt upon themselves
to alleviate tw-o major probelms, sewage
disposal and water.
Another case in point is the recent
honor in which the city won honoroable
mention in the national clean-up con
test. It underscores "We’i’e trying”.
Benefits of designation as a model
city are more than monetary. Planning
fund grants enable a city so designated
(Charlotte is the lone one in North Caro
lina to date) to tie in its several programs
into a composite long-range project.
All hope the HUD people will use
the “APPROVED” stamp on the Kings
Mountain application.
Legislative Candidates
state Senators Jack H. White and
Marshali Rauch, representing the 29th
district, and State Representative W. K.
Mauney, Jr., of the 43rd House district,
are seeking re-election.
Two new faces seek the other two
.seats in the 43rd in the persons of Lester
D. Roark, the Shelby city commissioner,
and Robert Jones, Jr., a Forest City law
yer. Incumbent Representative William
D. Harrill, by indirection of saying he
would run for state superintendent of
public instruction, apparently w'on’t seek
re-election and Representative Robert Z.
Falls is still weighing decision on wheth
er to seek a third term.
There’s a change of arrangement in
the House district voting. The General
Assembly adopted the numbered seat
plan, rather than the former sweepstake.s
arrangement. Thus, Rep. Mauney has
filed for Seat Number 1, Commissioner
Roark for Seat Number 2, and Attorney
Jones for Seat Number 3. The three will
not oppose each other and future candi
dates, if any, wilt decide who of the three
they w'ish to oppose.
The Herald is glad to see Senators
White and Rauch and Representative
Mauney ottering again.
In about any field, experience has
long been acknowledged the best teacher,
and the axiom very definitely applies to
politics.
While not as important as in the
United States Congress, it is still a fact
that experience counts heavily in Ra
leigh, as was demonstrated by Senator
White in his second term, as he introduc
ed and won passage of legislation of
St ate-wide import.
In the freshman terms, both Senator
Rauch and Representative Mauney made
effective contributions, maintained close
contact with their constituents and did
their best to follow their constituents’
wishes.
Congratnlotions
Congratulations are in order to:
W. K. Mauney, Jr., re-elected presi-
/dent of the Industrial Association of
/Greater Kings Mountain. Inc.
Edward H. Smith, re-elected chair
man of Cleveland County Republicans.
L. E. (Josh) Hinnant, again in the
chairman’s seat for the annual appeal for
the Heart Fund.
Good Training
Kings Mountain, since Scouting’s
earliest days, has been a “Boy Scout”
town. Countless elder citizens of today
and a large number of today’s youth
have been and are participating in this
practical program which combines fun
with practical education and moral in
struction.
A Scout is honest, a Scout is loyal,
a Scout is brave, a Scout is reverent . . .
The motto: “Be Prepared”.
"... I shall keep myself physical
ly strong, mentally awake, and morally
straight.”
Add to these the many values to be
learned by the practical skills which
must be learned as a Boy Scout advances
up the ladder to Eagle Scout, the merit
badge program in over 1(K) categories,
and the benefits of Scouting to youth are
readily apparent.
In contrast, the Herald received a
letter this week from a youth signing
himself only as "Teen-Age Sailor”. It was
a “cry baby” letter about his being in
the service. He concludes: “ ... if the
answer to our question (about continuing
the war) is ‘yes’ and the war must con
tinue, then stop this world and let us off."
It is a reasonably safe wager that
this young man did not have the benefit
of Boy Scout training.
Sherman was right, for war is hell.
However, service in war is an accident
of time and age. None wants to get shot
or even shot at. But it is also a matter of
honor that a man does his duty to his
country without shirking or crying.
jA/l* kli A I t'li jIvi
KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
[gi TRurs^oy, FeBruary 8. I96C
MARTIN’S
MEDICINE
Ingredients: bits of news,
wisdom, humor, and comments
DireciioHs: Take weeMg if
I possible, but avoid
overdosage.
AS THE TWIG IS BENT---
By MAR-nN HARMON
The First Presbytery of the As
sociate Reformed Presbyterian
church gathered in Charlotte at'
Ovens Auditorium Sunday after
noon and the meeting, a rally to
launch a church-wide $1,300,000
fund-raising campaign, attracted
between 1000 and 1200 people, the
mo.st ARPs (All Right People
Wo Say; All Rotten People, some
tea.se) I’ve ever seen under one
roof at one time.
Indeed, there were only two
outlanders present as far as I
know, both Methodists. They
were Mayor Stan Brookshire, who
brought greetings on behalf of
the City of Charlotte, and Mr.
Stephenson, an excellent baritone.
Kings Mountain’s Boyce Memo
rial delegation virtually filled a
Lincoln Transit Company bus,
which is a mighty good and safer
way to go to functions of this
kind, since the wilds of Inter
state 85 had to be navigated.
When disembarking at the au
ditorium, Grady Patterson re
marked it was the longest bus
ride he’d taken in perhaps 30
years, then added it might havej
been 30 years since he’d been onj
a bus. I suppose it is quite na-'
tural that the man selling gas
for The Humble Oil Co. would
nominally travel by passenger
car.
i\
Viewpoints of Other Editors
About the only objection to the
festivities was the length thereof.
Counting the pre-meeting choir
performance, the elapsed running
time w'as three hours, seven min
utes.
m-m
It wasn’t quite that long for
Fuller and Norman McGill and
me, as we briefly played hookey.
We exited for a Coke, found no
concessions being sold in the Au
ditorium. Then we moved toward
the nearby service station, only
to find it closed and the only
available soft drinks in a
A LESSON OF SORTS IN COLD CASH |
s J you happen to be the tj-pej
Now that it has impressed the finds a temperature of 801
zip code on the national con- degrees below zero (Fahrenheit)
science, the post oiHce assures us accompanied bya good brisk wind
that the ne?tt key to winning Its ^ ^ wonderfully bracing experience,
race with disaster is pre-somng. the United States Weather Bu-
Sometimes you have to wonder. announces that it has just
I the job for you. Jointly operated
A man we know frequents a American and Canadian stations
Brooklyn corner where two of at the fringes of the Arctic CX-ean
those patriotic-colored boxes are are not yet automated and so
marked “Brooklyn” and “All still need cooks, mechanics, tech-
Other Post Offices.” He approach
10
’TEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
Items of news about Kings
Mountain area people and
events taken from the 1951
files of the Kings Mountain
Herald.
to TBIS It
NEW YOBS
By NORTH CALLAHAN
During a recent downtown visit,
I came upon the relics of a mem
orable and sad event of our his
tory. This concerns Alexander
Hamilton, the man who founded
American finance and under
whose system of bigness in capi
tal, labor and government we
live today, although the ideas of
his political opponent, Thomas
Jefferson are still highly regard
ed. Hamilton was buried in the
church yard of Trinity, which
stands Impre.ssively and sym
bolically at the head of Wall
Street. It is said to be the rlche.st
church In the world, owning much
of the property upon which the
surrounding financial capital of
the world now stands. As we
know, Hamilton did not lead an
ordinary life nor did he die an
ordinary death. Ho was killed in
a duel with Aaron Burr, and the
relics I mentioned are the pistols
used In this tragic encounter.
ed the other day, dutifully pre
sorting a Brooklyn letter from a
handful of others, to find the
boxes' contents just being collect
ignate wintering in the Arctic as
ed. After adding his “all other" 1 their number one choice. To make
letters to the batch being scoop- j an extended stay in the north
ma'chlnr Th^ air"* waT biti'lielvi ® enticing, the
cold and Fuller sueeested a cud mailman. | bureau has thoughtfully provided
^ coff^^lhe* adjlc^m “stork for-Bmoklyn, too." cerialn financial inducements^
Restauramwouldbetempting.lt .. I Starting salaries, including
was, not to mention the chocolate “That’s all right,” the mailman | ^"Utes, come to something over
cream and cocoanut cream pie in' chuckled as he added the Brook- $13,700 a year (for highest pay-
which Norman invested for the'lyn letter to his bag, "They allllng positions). But then add to
Basketball Star Faye Bolin will
reign as Queen of the first an-
nicians, and supervisors. 1 nual Homecoming at Bethware
The weather bureau seems to! school Monday night when the , .
sense that most Americans would' Buccaneers wind up their regular. the political policies of Alexander
hesitate before they would des-1 season playing Belwood. | Hamilton, As a result of this con
These guns are on view In
downtown bank. According to
their research on the subject, the
steel ball which killed Hamilton
is also buried along with him, it
having entered the abdomen,
crashed through a rib, pierced his
liver and came to rest in hp
spine. There are two of the duel
ling pistols, fine examples of the
gunsmith’s 18fh Centuiy art, and
are identical muzzle - loaders
about 16 inches long with beau
tifully carved handles of polished
wood. They have flintlocks to Ig
nite the powder and were very
accurate up to distances of 30
yards. They are known as the
Church pistols, after John Barker
Church, brother-in-law of Alex
ander Hamilton, who brought
them to this country when he re
turned from a visit to London in
1797. Church was an expert, vet
eran duellist himself and ironi
cally had fought a duel with
Burr, but neither had harmed the
other. But the guns were not to
remain idle. Two years later,
Philip Hamilton, eldest son of
Alexander, duelled with a young
lawyer, George Blacker, who hated
three of us. I didn’t tell my wife | 80 here."
until we were back at home and
her displeasure at being omitted
from the surcease was consider
able.
this: free room (heat and hot
Lawson Brown, principal of' frontation, young Hamilton wa.s
Central school, has been elected killed, saddening hisfather very
president of the Kings Mountain i much.
Unit of the North Carolina Edu-[ —
cation Association for the com-; Alexander Hamilton had been
ing year. ! Secretary of the Treasury in
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL | first cabinet of George WashigJ
In an exchange of vows Sun- ton, and Aaron Burr was at tHW
day afternoon at 4 o’clock In, time, Vice President of the United
Grover First Baptist church Miss States. Hamilton not only disHk
Hilda Jane Herndon and Emmett; ed but distrusted Burr and re
water presumably included), free; Less Moss were united in mar-, marked that he was * a dangerous
; man who ought not to be trusted
K-m
In his remarks the Rev. Harris
NO CURB ON KEYS
As noted in a recent editorial
here, Dallas business firms have
Blair made a pointed reference) been receiving cii^lars that of
to church philosophy at it relates
to the fund-raising campaign.
Said Rev. Mr. Blaii', "We're saved
by grace but we get rewarded by
deeds.”
m-m
j board, free clothing for the job,
free transportation (not that
you’ll be darting about too
much), and free recreation faci-
I lities (ice hockey and snow shoe
ing?).
1 When we read this last para
graph, we were tempted to ap
ply forthwith. But fortunately,
fer to sell, by mail, master keys
guaranteed to ‘‘open doors and; ^ack at the first sen-
of ‘ho f"'s‘ paragraph,
built I sonaehow, this provid^ us with
: just the strength we needed to
A recent issue of the Dallas
Better Business Bureau pointed
out that not all of the recipients
of these mail-order offers fit the
categories—“new car dealers, po
lice agencies, body shops, park
ing lots, etc.”—listed on the cir-
resist the temptation,
Christian Science Monitor
nage.
In a formal wedding Saturday
afternoon at half after four
o'clock In Statesville’s Broad
with the reins of government."
Whereupon, Burr challenged
Hamilton to a duel, atid public
Street Methodist church Miss‘opinion being what it was, the
Betty Lynne Wagner and Charles I latter felt obliged to accept. So
Frederick Mauney were united Uks bis son, he borrowed the
Church pistols. However, he re
solved to hold his fire the first
time. The night before the fight.
in marriage.
On the other hand, wo do have
some corroboration that the high-1 he wrote out his will, set his leg-
er they go, the faster plants «! affairs in order, then penned
grow. One need only cite Jack’s | a sweetly-sad note to his wife, in
experience with beanstalk to be. which It appears he felt he wa.s
Joe Patrick, of Greenwood, S.
C., is the general chairman of
the campaign and was the first
speaker to introduce a bit of
welcome humor into the pro
ceedings. In the campaign kit | culars.
was a pin, a miniature violin. He
opened his talk by some free ad
vertising for his brick-making
business, saying he was taking
advantage of his capitive audi
ence to say that his concern on the road—or in the parking!
I of world Interest.
makes the best brick made any
where.
For $12 anyone answering one
of these offers can buy a set of
FETING DON PABLO
World news is brightened this
week by reports of a simple hap
pening In Puerto Rico. A man’s
90th birthday is beinj celebrated.
This would surely not be an event
for the wires in ordinary circum
stances. But in this case the man
keys suitable for picking up just ‘ c
about any American vehicle now; honored is ^blo (>s^s, and
„„ „»,i,i_„l‘hat makes the celebration one
People of many nations rejoice
• to read that the musician-human-
The BBB reports that though itarian is present to tnjoy the
legislation to curb Indiscriminate musical programs t"' en to rele-
Only trouble, he added, a few interstate sale of master keys,prate his birthday.
years ago his brick and the brick
of other South Carolina manu-
was proposed by Sen. Kibicoff in
1966, no such law has yet been
facturers weren't selling in suf-1 enacted. The Dallas unit and oth-
ficlent quantity. Result was that j er Better Business Bureaus across
the industry association retained j the nation have given their
a consultant to “tell us what’s ‘ strong support to regulation of
wrong". the masterkey trade. Such regu
lation is plainly needed.
The conclusion: "You boys
have been fiddlin’ and living on
your past while other products
have been promoted to claim
what was formerly the exclusive
market of the brick maker.” He
elucidated by pointing out the
gains of prestressed concrete, of
aluminum siding, and of cera
mics, which had invaded the:
once-exclusive domain of brick. I
m-m I
Admittedly, these devices have
their legitimate uses. But sold
through the mall to anyone with
$12 and knowledge of the firm's
address, the master-key operation
can obviously be the car thiefs
best friend.
As The News commented be
fore, the law is inconsistent in
punishing motorists for not lock
ing their cars, while It blithely
Don Pablo, as he is affection
ately called, has long been re
garded as a great cellist. So well
known is he in this role that al
most anyone Interested in music,
seeing a rearview picture of a
round figure playing abig string
ed Instrument, would Identify it!
at once as a photograph of Ca-|
sals. I
But his warm appeal is based
on more than his superb music, j
He is honored so widely because,
he has given assurance of the]
dignity ofma n by his quiet pro-1
tests against tyranny every
where. These Include his self-exile]
form his native, beloved Spain
for the duration of the Franco
dictatorship.
"I believe the right to liberty
and d^nity is a God-given heri-
convinced of that.
Did not Albert Einstein also
suggest that, when objects in
space reach the speed of light,
our concept tof them changed?
Who would deny that, with an
onion, this might easily happen
at a far lower speed?
One of our more knowledgeable
colleagues suggests that weight
lessness might have something
to do with the onion’s faster
growth In outer space. This
raises fascinating questions. What
if we were to shoot a, say, five-
year-old Into outer space for a
short period. Would he return an
inch taller and five pounds heav
ier? In fact, would a trip to Mars
and back have turned Tom
Thumb into Jack’s giant?
—Christian Sdence Monitor
Tho that itage to mankind,” he once re
locking a car a waste of marked to an interviewer. He
campaign and got some of their
markets back.
time.
“I subnjit,” Chairman Patrick
added, ”us ARPs have been fid
dlin’.” He pointed to the fact of
35 vacant pulpits in the 27,000
member denomination and the
slow membership growth rate
since World War II, in contrast
to the experience of many other
denominations, as case in point.
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"What Joe said was all right
for the most part,” Bennett Brick
ATIIcman ■Garrison Goforth re
marked, "but I’m gonna have to
write him a letter and tell ■him
Bennett makes the best brick
made."
has oonsistentlv held to this right
and has done his utmost to help
others win it.
The world can be thankful he
the master keys are offered only continues to spread this g08[»l
The firnns mailing out these cir .
culars would no doubt claim that |
to those who have legitimate
need for them. But one of the
Dallas businesses that got the
mall-out was a mortician’s sup
ply company.
As the head of the company
suggested, providing master keys
..—Christian Science Monitor
ONIONS IN ORBIT
Out favorite story for today
comes from Russia. It reads in
full: "A visit to outer space
makes anions grow faster, the
Soviet press agency Tass reported
today, and Soviet scientists don’t
to the citizenry in this casuaL. ^ „
fashion furnishes too many op-
' ‘“"s ** fluite different than It is
plan to engage in Illegal under- ^
universal agreement that all vis-
ftartts trohi •outer spaee tan ittto
the category of "little green
men.”
takings.
—The OaUoi Koodiig Bewa
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going to die.
The two men did not meet in
Manhattan but across the Hudson
River, high on a hill in Weehaw-
ken, New Jersey, in sight of the
buildings of Wall Street. By a toss
of the coin, Hamilton won the
best position. But that was all.
The men fated each other, bowed
slightly, turned and walked ten
paces, then faced about and fir
ed. Hamilton fell, his pistol dis
charging into a tree. But the bul
let of Burr found Its mark. He
was not fooling. A.s a doctor ran
to Hamilton on the ground, he
remarked to him that his was a
fatal wound. Unconscious, thp^
financier was carried from tif J
field to the home of a frleni^
where he died next day.