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F«g« 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday. April 4, 1968 Established 1889 The Kings Monntain Henld A weeltly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published 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., 280S6 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Joe Cornwell Sports Editor Miss Linda Hardin Clerk MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Fred Beil Dave Weathers, Supt. *.411en Myers Paul Jackson Douglas Houser Rocky Martin Steve Martin Roger Brown *On leave with the United States Army SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR... .$3.50 SIX MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX MARTIN'S MEDICINE fngredienta! Wfa 0/ newt, tvidom, humor, and comments Directions: Take weekly if fosslhle, but avoid overdoaage. "THE GIRL RATES A SEAT UP FRONT" TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE’ The Lord Is My Shepherd, I shall not want. P,mlm 23:1 Oliver Obodiah Walker The death of Oliver Obadiah Walker shocked mtiny of his friends, some of whom had not known of his seemingly sudden illness. Indeed, his passing was quick for he had been continuing, up un til the final month, to discharge his re sponsibilities as a city commissioner. Mr. Walker was an interesting per sonality who always exhibited a witty, good humored personality. A native of South Hill, Virginia, Mr. Walker came to Kings Mountain on a construction job in 1924, found a bride, and became a Kings Mountain citizen for the remaining 44 years of his life. And a good citjzen he was. Mr. Walker might have been a major league baseball player, Clark Griffith having offered him a tryout. But Mr. Walker’s father, like Ty Cobb’s, thought baseball play, no fit means of earning a living and declined to permit his under age son to accept the offer. Shortly thereafter this country was in World War I, and young “Double O’’ Walker joined the navy, and served on battlewagons convoying soldiers to the fighting lines in F rance. It was after the war that Mr. Walk er got into construction work, later form ed his own firm. An expert story teller, Mr. Walker often made himself the butt of his gtories. When he first came to Kings Mountain, Mr. Walker often dropped in at Griffin’s Drug Store in the late ^ternoons, invari ably £isked for a large glass of water. On one occasion, his soon-to-be-lifelong friend E. W. Griffin was working at the soda fountain. When Mr. Griffin put the glass of water on the bar, he whirled and rang up “No Sale” on the cash register. "After that,” Mr. Walker declared, “I al ways managed to buy at least some chewing gum or cigarettes. Mr. Walker was serving his second term as Ward 5 city commissioner. He could not have served at a better time. Mayor John Henry Moss remarked many times that, with the city embarking on major water and sewer projects and tak ing extraordinary emergency measures to provide water for parched Kings Mountain, Mr. Walker’s experience was invaluable. Mr. Walker was a man of good char acter, always loyal to his legion of friends. Several have remarked they nev er heard him say ill of anyone. Nor did this newspaper. In navy parlance, “Double O” was “Four point O.” Who Now? If not Mr. Johnson, who? The Republican side of the ledger seems clear. The Republican nominee for President will be Richard Milhous Nixon. George Wallace of Alabama will be an independent candidate in several states. But what about the Democrats? Senator Robert F. Kennedy inspires emotions at the poles, either abject loyal ty and devotion, or downright revulsion. This fact makes him a quite controver sial candidate at best. At the moment, it appears likely that Vice-President Hubert Humphrey may be the standard-bearer for the so-called Johnson wing of the party. Then there is Senator Eugene Mc Carthy, already back-knifed by Senator Kennedy, who seemed to be committing political suicide when he became a can didate, but who has done well in New Hampshire and Wisconsin primaries. The Vice-President is well-known as a very brilliant, informed, and articulate public servant. Both he and Senator McCarthy, with the President’s decision against running again, can corral the votes of party regu lars and appeal to ttie moderate-intepem- dent vote of both the major parties. Both have good equipment. FuU Ciicle In 1960 it was quite apparent that John Fitzgerald Kennedy would win the Democratic nomination for President not later than the second ballot, that Senator Lyndon Baines Johnson would command the votes of delegates from the 13 states of the South and few others. Mr. Kennedy, of course, won on the first ballot, invited Mr. Johnson to be the vice-presidential candidate. Mr. Johnson accepted at some con siderable sacrifice. As vice-president, he could not hope to enjoy the power he had as majority leader of the Senate. The Johnson name on the ticket and his hea vy campaigning assured Kennedy the South, which proved to be the margin of victory. On President Johnson’s accession, he proved his ability by succeeding almost top well in getting his programs through the Congress, showed the nation and the world that he, too, came up the hard way and retained the liberal flavor of his two chief mentors Sam Rayburn and Frank lin D. Roosevelt. His decision not to seek re-election is being variously interpreted. As he said, he doesn’t have time for politicking, ob viously cuts out from under thev anti-ad ministration platform of Senator Robert Kennedy, between whom there is no love lost. Many Southerners calumniated Pres ident Johnson as a seller-out and turn coat — until Senator Kennedy got into the fray. Immediately, President John son began looking much better. But Sena tor Kennedy was obtaining ardent sup port in some of the other 37 states with out the South. In a way the clock had gone full cir cle, with Mr. Johnson again the darling of the South and facing some difficulties in other areas. Considering his personal situation, the President’s decision is quite under standable. There is never a moment when he can be free of what many describe as the world’s biggest job. A comparison of film of Mr. Johnson on taking office and today quickly reveals the physical drain the presidency makes on those who have the temerity to occupy the office. Internationally, the fact of a chief of state willing to step down will not be missed. Will Hanoi be impressed? None knows the answer. President Johnson, certainly, is exploring all the avenues to get the shooting stopped in Viet Nam. Congratulations to L. E. (Josh) Hin- nant, newly elected president of Kings Mountain Country Club. Best bows to John L. McGill, Dr. Thomas Baker, J. C. Briijges and George Houser, elected to the board o.f dire^ors of the Kings Mountain branch of Fii Union National Bank. k first By MARTIN HARMON One of the more enjoyable ban quet programs I have heard was the entertainment feature at the recent Kings Mountain Chamber of Commerce banquet. m-m Mrs. Larry McReed was the star, a comedy monologuist, who also sang quite well, and she was accompanied on the balalaika and mandolin by her husband. m-m Her comedy monologues were in the manner of Laura Bryson, of Asheville, who entertained at several Lions ladies night ban quets when the Plonk School of Creative Arts was doing the honors, of Cornelia Otis Skinner and an earlier-day Andy Griffith' (Whut it wuz wuz Football). m-m Among her offerings were a skit on salesladies and one on a garden club lecture. Both uvere richly funny. m-m I She mimicked the hard-sell; salesladies at a swank dress sliop | In Raleigh and in the foundation j garment department at .Macy’s in | New York. “This is YOU! When] this dress came in I told Miss| ’Bea this was YOUR dress!” Thenj they squeezed the poor customer | into the frock. No, the dress| wasn’t too tight, any bigger would not be modish. No, the length was perfect. She needed to show her pretty knees. The hard-sold customer agreed to buy and said “Charge it.” This requir ed a check with the credit man ager, who revealed that the cus tomer owed a balance of more [ than six month’s duration. Mrs. I McReed’s version of the un-sell was equally as hard as the hard sell. m-m In contrast, the New York saleslady followed the pattern of doing the customer a favor by letting her have a "goldle”. “You want a goldle? Td say you need a goidle. 'What size? Small? No. dearie you ain’t a small. You’re not even a medium. Mary, get me a Flexnit, size large. Yes, you’ll have to try it on. Nobody, 00 TB10 li NSW YOU By NORTB CALLAELlUt ■ 1..T tuff. A\^- W,/ !/ foi i/i >0 IJi'X. f ■4', ^ V ///oCfaJyn. Viewpoints of Other Editors KENTUCKY'S HILLS ! CAN BE SAFER j The Hills of Eastern Kentucky are alive, bet it is not with the sound of music coming from the! PIE IN THE EYE It seems that modern youth is not so immune to the customs of the past as many of their elders had supposed. In fact, the event in Columbia University’s Earl poor folk of Appalachia. Rather, ^ would have taken many an ' "' older person back to the 1920’s, doubtless filling him with nostal gia. What happened was that the Now York City director of Selec tive Service, while addressing 200 students in the hall, was hit in the face with a lemon meringue pie. Apparently the pie was flung as accurately and startlingly as ever a pie was slung in the good old days of the Mack Scnnett comedies. we keep hearing the cry for relief Irom the agonizing blast and scrape of the strip-mine opera tor. Few of the Blble-reading resi dents of the hills and hollows share the psalmists sentiment, "1 will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.” If help is to come, it will be from the General Assembly in Frankfort or the U.S. Con- but nobody, buys a goidle from j gress in Washington. Little help me but what tries it on.” There will come from the hills, where • u - follows the usual pulling and the coal mine operator is a man Of course, in the pie-throwing tugging and finally the size large wealth, power and influence. I days of the 1920’s both the throw- was in place. As the lady paid! ^ ■ er and the recipient had a wider the cashier $16.95 and left, the I More and more, our Kentucky choice. To have thrown only a saleslady commented, “They think 1 will be discussed by people in all , icmon meringue pie would have theVre smalls but they always] parts of the country, and more need size lareo ” ' and more, the subject of strip neea .size larg.. attack. My wife an? ” the Josh Hin- At the heart of the problem Is the broad-form deed, which was widely used around 1900 to sep arate the mineral rights and sur- nants and Billy Mauneys were treated to a second performance. TTie Mauneys happened to sit . . . with the entertainers during din-^ face ownership. Since strip min- ner, invited them to visit. I ing was unknown then tit wa.s ' not developed until 20 years m-m I ago), many a mountain man Caucus Breeds Order The late City Commissioner O. O. Walker holds the distinction of having cast the only “no” vote cast during the two Moss Administrations to date. He opposed city purchase of garbage con tainers in the business district, felt such purchase a responsibility of mercantile tenants. (He later changed his mind). This fact of unanimity has brought objection from some newsmen “every thing is cut and dried” prior to meeting time. Perhaps, but why not? The Herald has fought secrecy in government as much as any newspaper in North Carolina and more than manv. However, the Herald has never sought to rule out the pre-meeting caucus, recog nizes caucuses breed more orderly meet ings and operations. Otherwise, a student of government al affairs learns fairly quickly that at least 95 percent of decisions are open- and-shut cases, gain solid yes or no votes on basis of policies extant. .At a recent city board meeting for instance, eleven items were on the agenda. Ajl were rou tine. When boards make their decisions in open session, they are not legitimate tar gets for complaint. ’The McReeds are as interesting couple in private as on the stage. She is native to Norfolk, Virginia, and a first generation Greek-American. I was m-n> particularly curious gladly sold his mineral rights for a few dollars and granted the company what was "convenient or necessary” to the surface land to get the coal beneath. As one might imagine, the law! is on the side of the coal corn- seemed cheap and beggarly. Nor would it have received the sought-for laughs. In those days the air was richly and odorously filled with flyiniJ pies with all kinds of fillings and all degrees of satisfying gooeyness. Blueber ry and blackberry pies were par ticularly effective, above all when the recipient had on one of those heavy white linen suits. But, of course, the favorite of all was the custard pie, which had a un ique capacity to burst and spread gloriously. No, not only was yesterday’s pie-throwing more imaginative, but it was also not done to hum iliate a public servant seeking The first job 1 had on « news paper was that Of wrKklg oWtv- aries but I still don’t like to read them. Nonetheless, they are im- poiitiuEW. hsws oqd we jUMOt i«^y. In a ObttWMT. I aa^ly noted the poaaing 9t Frank wtirW waited .Free*’ i"- tentaUonal How- evw, seeing hja OKOin re aai«4e« aae W A *2 Which he ao# I .to«* jSW* oyer ^ years ego. It was W Yisit to New York .ond f !tilWM«bt I was on a vacation untJtl I received a phone call from ttw HnHed Fress asking qte if I woe reefy to in terview Jteyor Floirellq jLaGbw dia- ’Jitinking this wad «>**)<■ practicoi joke, I woe »»g4y to hang OP whan fyi U#* inan told me that the tiou -Oh n>y oewaswier had aritod fbe* f ^ toryiew the mayor, fet * pletu^ and invite him down to the Texas R«*e Fesfivol. I Odkod if an awmintinent for this had been made astd tde Answer^ was, “No, we thought yop could* help US op this.-'’ # *sk®4 V were kidding, sqvioined that ws wos tny firs* risk and i hardly knew anyoo®. gariteWSrly the mayor. Frank Jtoto then came on the phone and we chaf" ted. He doubted if W« eould get an interview and piotune .nut wanted to know I WOOld jlkc* to try anyway. No Kood eaporter could rehuse such a challenge so I told him yes. Frank knew one of the mayor’s bodyguards and I talked' to one of his secretaries who wae not entirely discouraging- So I bought sonte “Texas” roses gt a flower shop and met Frank at the sub way entrance. Lugging his heavy- camera and its stgnd, he and I went to the city hall and up to the floor where the mayor was holding a hearing. At the oppo site end of the hall, we found a little room where Frank set up the camera and focused it on the flowers we had brought, now OPEN Homsoia Open housing is the sjiecific issue. . . . But the question to be resolved by Columbia voters is 'far broader than that. The issue at the heart of the matter is not whether housing will be open to all races. Rather, the issue is whether the doctrine of equal opportunity can ^ a ^ceiy arranged on a table. Leav- down-to-earth, workable reci^ ^ ^^us set, we made for all ^ple, or only good-' ^ ^^g^ng room sounding theory. where the mayor was presiding Opponents of fair housing say, and sat in the audience. The sub- their property rights will be je-.ject of discussion was garbage, opardized if the measure passes, and at the time, the slogans about how a native of West Rus-'pany—regardless of the injustice Uo explain his often thankless sia could acquire the name Lar-i which is done to the surface land. job. -Clwistian Science Monitor ry McReed. He explained that the Not only is a large amount of Germans captured his town short-] jgnd moved by strip mining; it ly before he was to be conscript- also is a major contributor to ed. On the hope he -was saving soil erosion, landslides both above his neck, he joined the German and below the cut and makes it army. Later his unit was captur ed by the Americans, so he co operated with our side and later joined the American army, serv ing with special forces (the Green Beret) and spending 32 months on duty with Japan. JOHNNY. MIND YOUR RUBBERS easier for flooding and wash outs to occur in the hills. Kentucky has already started] People on land are used to de touring around water. But folks ! at sea seldom have to detour around cities. But this may be coming. The British Ministry of strip mine law is the strongest in the nation—far tougher than the federal strip mine law intro- m-m I Uuced in Congress recently—but After a spy incident or two, I it still needs to be made strong- the Army tightened security re-1 er. l£.T,'» O' H. to heard! to meet the problem. Our 1966 Technology has unveiled propo- "* ‘ sals for a city built at sea, some 15 miles from Great Yarmouth on the Norfolk coast. It would hold 30,000 persons, be built on piles in shoal water, and be pro. accept discharge, nothing Irom his family since his town was captured by the Ger man, doesn’t know whether his Father is alive. However, on chance he had somehow surviv ed, he decided that a name change was in order after he became an American citizen in 1958. It cost $122 in 'legal fees. But why Mc Reed? the coal m.iner to get his coal and then return the land to a safe condition by grad ing and the planting of trees and shrubs. We ilirmly support stronger strip mine laws which will on the one hand protect the coal mining industry (which was Kentucky’s The Governor has appointed a 25- member commission to devise anij rec ommend a new state constitution. Much of this aged document is archaic and should he scrapped. Big issues will be qyesticaif of J.) granting the governor veto power and 2) permitting him to suc ceed himself. leading cash crop last year with “1 am the original flag-waver! $400 million), but which and loved the army,” McReed re-1 gigo protect the residents of piled. "I also like war movies | gggte,.n and Western Kentucky and was particularly impressed i from the many slag heaps and with -a hero in one who wasj^jangerous conditions whicli have i on which we are strictly from named Sergeant Reed. Since it-boon created in the past. Missouri. tected by a breakwater of water filled plastic bags. Sea City would thus outdo Venice, which is built more on mud than on water. It would take on the mysterious qualities of those misty cities of the Round Table, which leave one with the feeling that they are swimming, not resting, on the earth. But the whole idea is quite utilitarian. Its purpose, and of any others which might follow it, would be to relieve urban conges tion and release land for -agricul ture. Whether this would be a thrifty way to gain such ends is another matter. This is a project the painted on all citv trucks was "Let’s Keep Our City Clean — Yours and Mine”. A small man^ from the Bronx arose and dressed the mayor. “Mr. M-ayor!*' he shouted in a high-pitdied voice, “Your garbage in our neighborhood is terrible. It smells to high heaven and it’s piled up in a messy mountain. Your gar bage there, Mr. Mayor, is simply awful. Something has got to bo done about your. LaGuardia in- torrupted, yelling. “Stop calling it MY garbage!” Undaunted, the little Bronx man shot back. "Well, vours and mine!” By this time the fiery mayor of New York had had enough. "Throw him out!” he thundered. So the bodyguards made for the com- olainer, took him bv the collar and iltei-ajly threw him out into *he h<\Jl and ordered him out of the building. Frank Merta- and I looked at «ach other. After sueh a perfor mance. what chance did we have 'f talking' to the mayor and get- tirtz a picture of him. Anvway, '<s the hearing was about to end, we made our way back out into ‘he hall before the crowd started ’eaving and I planted myself right in the center of it, with Frank behind and betwe^ ' me and the room with camera ahd flowers. We did not have long to wait. Out of the hearing room strode “The Little Flower” as Mayor Lal^uardia himself wa This was one of the same argu ments used by those whp oppos ed the abolition of slavery a hundred years ago. In the first half of the 19th century most Negroes in America were themselves property—^Just like real estate. They were bought and sold in the market place. In December, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln said: “In a cer tain sense the libertion of slaves is the destruction of property— property acquired by descent or by purchase, the same as any other property. . . .” Slavery was abolished in this country because enlightened citi zens recognized it was incom patible with democratic ideals. The country decided that basic human rights transcended prop erty rights. » Since that time great strides have been made to enable all Americans to share In the har vest of the American dream. Ev en so, the ball-and-chain of fear and intolerance still shackle one- tenth of our nation’s population to second-class citizenship. The eyes of the country will be on Columbia, watching to see if the forces of tolerance and jus tice will emerge to reaffirm what is indeed the spirit of Am erica: the right to an equal chance for a full life regardless of color, creed or national origin The measure shquld pass—be cause it is right. Then Columbia can lift its head proudly, assured that its decision is a mandate for I nicknamed, a bodyguard on eith principle. i er side of him, coming stralgln —The Columbia Missourian! toward us. I stood my ground. 8 common practice in the army for a fellow to greet another soldier he doesn’t know with a “Hlya Mac”, I decided on the sur name McReed, don’t know how r came up with Larry.” a-m McReed had introduced the balalaika as a genuine Russian Invention, not like the airplane. He had read in Russian history books in his youth about the Russian who had invented the airplane, rather than North Car olina’s famed Wright Brothers. a-m -The Leinngton (Ky.) Leader ] Yet the idea is one which does Laws can be made to protect j to the ministry’s power of both Interests. I imagination, or, more specifiical- ly, to that of an organization called the Pilkington Glass Age Development Committee. Today’s problems call lor broad imagina tion; tomo.rrow’s problems will call for even bolder thinking. Sea City is a good start. -Christian Science Monitor Sian literature under her hus band-to-be. All that school year at Old Dominion college, she con trived to have different escorts at social functions, hoping her Prof would recognize she wasn’t seriously courting anyone. m-m It almost boomeranged. Typi cal of Old Country mores, the idea of a girl having too many The story of their marriage is; swains proved her to be a hussy, as witty as one of Mrs. McReed’s Mrs. McReed finally learned, skits. It is a raaUlfe atony of tha- After Utat. W was a qlearer track pupil marrylbJ the professor, ito the altar. Mrs. McReed was studying Rus- i m I Did you know that cardiacs I CAN work? A free leaflet avail-i able from the North Carolina Heart Association shows that the majority of heart attack patients recover and go back to work, often at the same job. 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