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Page 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday. May 16. 1^68 Estoblkdied 1819 ) The Kings Moimtain Heuld A weeWy newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general weltore and published for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citlaens of Kinpi Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the H«ald PublMing iiouae. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086 under Act of Congress of Match 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 Bell Dave Weathers, Supt. ‘Allen Myers Paul Jaclespn Rocky Martin Steve Martin Roger JBrown *Un leave witn the United States Army SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN fRyANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR... .$3.50 SIX MCWTHS... .82.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1.25 PLUS NORTH CAROUNA SALES TAX TODATm BOLE VERSE T.ct I/s ncnrch and try our ways and turn again to the lAxrd. Lamentations S:i0. Importance Of PrimarfoR How important are the pnritMMll primaries conducted by only H tukBdful of the 50 states? The correct answer is, “That all de pends . . . . ” Year-in, year-out the presidential primaries are not as important as the in stant news lads of the television industry play them to be. How important in 1968? Reviewing more recent history on the Democratic side of the ledger, one primary, that in West Virginia, proved very important in 1960 for then-Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy and then-Sen ator Hubert Humphrey. In a Protestant state, Roman Catho lic Kennedy showed he could attract Pro testant votes, showed Protestant Hum phrey under. Humphrey had e.xhausted his campaign treasure and threw in the towel In 1956, Senator Estes Kefauver won all the primaries, but Adlai Stevenson was easy winner at the convention. Per haps the primary victories enabled Ke fauver to win second place on the ticket, in a close several ballot contest with Sen ator John F. Kennedy. This season, on the Republican side, Richard M. Nixon is entering all the pri maries to prove that a two-time loser can be a third time winner. He is doing very well. Oregon and California will be watched tor trends. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who en tered the hustings late, is also doing very well. Senator Eugene McCarthy is run ning second but also doing very well in comparison with what was anticipated of him when he first announced his can didacy The apparent convention vote lead er, now Vice-President Humphrey, isn’t bothering about primaries this season, but got over 10,000 votes via write-in in Nebraska Tuesday. California adds a fillip with interest ing crystal bail overtones, hardly under standable in North Carolina where pri maries are regarded as strict family fights, where Republicans vote for Re publicans, Democrats choose among Democrats, and where Independents need get excited about how to vote only at the general election. In California, anybody, whether GOP, Democrat, Independent, Green Tree, Old Timer, or otherwise, can vote for anybody. But in both parties, primary results instruct only for the first ballot. It’s still the convention that elects and convention politics are hardly kin to primary politics. Wolk Foi Youth Present laws limiting youth and their labors for pay stemmed from two bad situations: 1) Children of a mere dozen years were going to work in factories and mines on long-day schedules. 2) These same children were adding long term troubles at the same time by shorting their formal education. It would seem that the compulsory school attendance laws have taken care of the sweat-shop troubles of yesteryear. Meantime, an extra grade has been add ed and the customary high school grad uation age is 18. A two-year void is created (mini mum work age now 16) for young people who should be learning the practical as well as the academic. 'ITie just-formed Mayor’s committee, seeking to marry available young people in the Kings Mountain area to employee- needing industry and commerce, should get full cooperation from all agencies. It is estimated there are 400 high school youths wanting summer employ ment in this area, probably another 300 college students. Industry needs. A textile superintendent told the Herald Wednesday the employment sit uation is worse than he has seen It, even during labor-short World War II. Aiabitions Campaign A newspaper publishing friend of the Herald keeps a framed dictum on his of fice wall. It reads, “The improbable we do to day. The impossible we do tomorrow.’’ Thus, in the light of Kings Mountain area history, the upcoming fund cam paign to assure the badly needed addi tion at Kings Mountain hospital cannot escape “improbable” category. The Herald does not Intend to be a kill-joy Area citizens’ largess in giving reached its top bounds (and by far) in the fund campaign for Gamble Memorial Stadium at the high school. Last report on this figure was something over $1(X),- 000. The "improbable today" designation also takes another turn. Under state law, bond issue authori ty unused for a five-year period evapo rates. And, for Cleveland Cpunty’s half- million bond issue authority for Kings Mountain Hospital construction, evapo ration date is in February 1969, just nine months distant The county commission has not yet found a non-tax source to provide funds from the regular budget. The county’s non-tax funds, of course, are considerably limited. Meantime, hospitals are a func tion of county government, buildable and operable only on vote of the citizens. In other words, “doing the impossi ble tomorrow’’ leaves very few tomor rows. The improbable must be done today. Our commendations to George Hous er for his willingness to undertake an im perative task. Should Be Resolved Local folk attending the meeting of the Gaston county board of education Monday night, report the East Kings Mountain folk — citizens of the City of Kings Mountain and of the Gaston school district — filed a new petition for release from Gaston in order that their children can attend Kings Mountain schools. These children, of course, have been attending Kings Mountain schools his torically, though during the past two years via order of the Superior Court. Key point in the business is that many of these children are in easy walk ing of Kings Mountain’s East school, whereas they would Gaston county schools via bus transport. This looks plain silly, particularly when the State of North Carolina is now paying probably 85 percent of all schools’ operational bills. During the past year, as a measure of fairness to district taxpayers, the sessed a fee of $60 per pupil for out-of- Kings Mountain board of education as- district pupils — a hardship where sev eral children in one family were school- goers. Even so, via latest petition, the East Kings Mountain group offered to pay both Kings Mountain district and (Sas- ton county school taxes. 'The Gaston board's attorney opined that would be very questionable law and subject to interpretation by the courts. Certainly, it’s of questionable fair ness. The Gaston board convenes again the coming Monday, May 20, to further consider the plight of the East Kings Mountain residents. It is time for the Kings Moun^n commtmity to rally to the cause of these East Kings Mountain'citizens -non-citi- MARUN'S MEDICINE tngmUenU: Mts wisdom, hmsor, and eommants Diractians: Take weeHg H posdtle, b%d oaeid overdossfe. Scott: "I Wear No Man's Collar" Bt martin HARMON Years ago it was that Harvey Bumgardner (he hadn’t his doc torate then) was billed tor speech at the Kings Mountain Lions club on the subject ol his specialty which was poultry science. I had helped nurse near- drowned chicks (my mother dried them in the kitchen oven), fed them (grain, kitchen scraps and oyster shell), and eaten them in quantity (tried, baked, tricaseed, etc.). I was quite familiar with the popular brands of my child hood, which were Domineeker, Rhode Island Red, Buff, and White Leghorn. The White Leg horn had not been regarded as "society” at my house, where white eggs were frowned upon. Black chickens were not to be desired either. in.ai In other words, I knew, I thought, right much about chick ens. m-m I frankly rather anticipated a rather boring evening at the Lions’ gathering, maybe a cut! above films, but not too much. m-in It was, of course, one of THE interesting programs of the year.i What I didn’t know about poul try filled many, many books. In- d^, \<liat the specialists like I Harvey didn’t know kept them I working to find out. The results 'were already showing and have since burgeoned to help satisfy I the nation and world appetite for . chicken of all kinds and their SO THIS 19 NEW YORK By NORTH CALLAHAJI i I ^^/6AT(0l*S| OR Deals NO liNOWlOUA^ OR GROUP ■ VN’.. Viewpoints of Other Editors WISDOM MUST BE ACQUIRED ■ It is a marvelously simple thing ' to destroy. Anyone can do it. You can demolish buildings, wax dolls, dignity and social institutions. THEY ALSO SERVE It is all too easy for the casual observer to think of American young men today as sharply di vided between those who bear their share of the country’s bur dens in the Vietnam fighting and those who protest the immorality or futility of our being there at all. There are young men who manage to do both. One was Pfc. The young are particularly u. u . II , - 1 « adept at destroying, or trying to. eggs which move in all lends students are tradition- circles from cake to cocktails, j j^jjy self-appointed destroyers. I Having reached the age when m-m ] they become aware of the injus- I have recently learned a hit'' •^"^nathan M. Spicer. USMC more about beef cattle from j. Spicer, son of a deceased Progressive Farmer, via Dr.' . ^ j. Methodist minister, was a consci- John C. McGill, who spends off-|g ^^“^g^.^clusion leaps to entious objector. In spite ol that, hours on the farm watching minis , . , ‘hoiir he joined the Marines. He was cattle grow. failed. 1 assigned to a medical battalion I I near Khe Sanh. I With the natural confidence of -On March 11, the ’Viet Cong j night. ’The March issue of Progres-' youth they then plunge in to opened fire on a helicopter en- pavid Plonk and Phillip Pad- sive Farmer features in four make right that which they be- gaged in evacuating the wound- colors on its front cover a red Itove to be wrong ... to make ■ ed from the beleaguered outpost, barn, white fence, green verdure, fiood that which they believe to i ignoring an order to get into a But the dominant figure in the be evU. Having learned to destroy, bunker, Pfc. Spicer rushed for- picture is Columbus of Wye, a fbey feel that that’s all it takes.' ward to help the wounded Into stem-faced Aberdeeri Angus bull Destroy! And like Phoenix rising their airborne ambulance. Ene- . ... 5 . .. j> rvf ocViae TVia orrtrtrt UfiTl fl • owned by Wye plantation of;®?** *be ashes, the good will a Queenstown, Md. i m-m i Because of their you they have!he died. ; not yet learned how to build. They Spicer has been i econr One of Columbus’ off-spring, haven’t yet learned that this mended for the silv^ star and Merrit of Wye, provides the lo- takes the best of the best men, *be Navy cross for his heroism that it is the stamp of greatness under fire and for his disregard to contribute something of posi tive worth. This man we call ge nius. ’The students haven’t yet learned a shockingly simple truth oai angle to the story. . . . so simple that, according to rather in the memory of his deed. Robert Ruark, the Basutos, a prim- John and Dr. Ted Westmore land, the veterinarian (who breeds Boston Terriers as well as beef), bought Merrit for breed-| itive tribe of Africa, know: in? purposes. Subsequtntly, John: ... i.. bought Ted’s interest, now owns! R * *uuu does away with his Merrit all by himself. ; traditional way of living and I throws away his good customs, I he had better first make certain 1 that he has something of value Who also got his picture in thei to replace them.” Pr^ressive Farmer? Merrit didJ something of value to replace John was more plea^d than if it; had been his own likeness. i ! Usually, there is belief that I something of value is offered ( when, in fact, it is simply a time- Too little attention k seams Is given publicly to the letters from our men in Vietnam. Rectmtly Sergeant Craig .McDaniel of Lake Arrowliead, California, wrote back homo the following: “I used to be a Lake Arrow head bum. with a wecKly ine ol beer parties and young punk ac tions which usually led to a great relationship between me and the sheriirs department. 1 didn’t have a care in the world except my long hair and enough money to chip in for a case of beer. But it seems as though in the last three years, my attitude toward these subjects has chang ed. I must be very lucky to have witnessed the things I have, tc curb the solid belief I had about the responsibilities of life. My mom and dad always preached to mo about manners, appear ance etc. Well, I didn’t listen be cause I knew everything there was to know." "The first time I came home leave after entering the army, my parents found out they had raised a son instead of a vegetable. The true meaning of Communism anc its effects have been opened be fore me. Right now it is about lOf degrees and it’s only 10 a.m About every ten minutes 1 have to pull blood-sucking leeches oft my body. Last week, we engaged eight Viet Cong, killing five. II was the most horrllying scene to witness human bodies torn apart Right now F-lOO jets are dropping bombs about 1,000 meters away. We are fighting Communist in doctrinated tro<H)s who hav« in filtrated from the north. ’They fight effectively and are equip ped with weapons equal to our.s. At present we make a stand in the war in their backyard, not ours. Many say “pull out of Viet Nam". Well, the way these VC fight today. I’d hate to see them 10 years from now landing on some other free country like Japan or -Australia. Communi.sm Mrs. Aubrey Mauney of Kings 1* RR® cancer. If you don t rtop Mountain was elected president 1* early, its cells attack healthy of the North Carolina Lutheran! ones and overtake them, toy, the Synod’s Seminary Auxiliary at' d's get so mad hearing all the annual meeting last week at the riots and love-ins. IVs too Wilmington’s St. Paul’s church, i 6ad these trouble-makers can t (come over here and witness this Rev. R. Douglas Fritz, pastor i stinking war. ’Then they’d realize of Resurrection Lutheran chuix*, the freedoms they have and ■was nominated for president of| ^ould not disrupt them, 4 [the Kings Mountain Lions clubj ^ “I had really taken everydW life for granted, not remembering all those who died in previous wars earning it for us. Well 1 guess you could say that we are I re-earning it. You’d be surprised at the things I miss most. The little things like real milk, a chance to brush my teeth and take a shower and even to smell fresh air without the odor of de caying flesh. When I get back i I’ll look forward to the privilege 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about Kings ifoun tain area ‘people and events taken from the 1967 files of the Kings ilountain Herald. gett, Jr. will attend Boy’s State June 8-14 as delegates from American Legion Post 155. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Miss Shirley Elizabeth Arthur my shelling continued. The med-i, „ „ . , has completed plans for her mar ie Manne was hit, and three days ' k-!„. of his o.wn>«3ety for the sake of his comrades’ lives. As with all heroes, his real distinction is not expressed in medals but m-m ■In a time of torment for many members of his generation, Pfc sorts of replies, but boiled down,' the results indicate, according to] Snioer fulfilled with honor his! The Times of London, that: I’ll bet Tve read more of the Bible over here than I have in my obligations to his conscience and; “The ones likely to live longestl whole to his country. - WosWtifffon 1 seem to be those who do not Star. ' -smoke, do not drink, who live in the couiitry (preferably southeast CENTER FOR COMMUNITYi England), do everything in mod eration, have regular habits, raise In the city of Atlanta, Georgia, a most unusual new "shopping center" shortly will arise. Actu ally, it will be a community cen ter where a wide variety ol wel fare services -and educational op- The tape on Merrit: Merrit of Wye is one of worn formula long ago disproven | portunities will be available to the and discarded. Social reforms do bulls . . . believed to have an ex- not take place in a vacuum. Their tra pair of ribs. He weaned at 1 effects are far reaching into un- 591 pounds, gained 3.15 pounds' expected areas and often in un- a day on feed test, and tvnghedl desirable ways. Sometimes these 1,032 pounds at a year old." Some effects are downright injurious bull. ! and the loss outweighs the gain. : Pmdcnce then demands caution, a-m I not speed, when making social I reforms. „ . Impetus for the featorel you have to admit the young vocational education, and welfare What’s an Extra Pair of R>hs < 5^ commended for their case work. Worth?”, was just that. Accord-Ueai. They should be praised for. Similar concentrations of many ing to BUI Johnson, the author,'ujej, concern and their inquirv. | activities in a single community some 45,000 persons. On this five-acie plot local citi zens will find a junior high school, gymnasium, theater, play rooms, welfare offices. Services offered will include job training and counseling, surplus-food dis tribution, housing and relocation] advice, community - action pro grams, prekindergarten classes. a close-knit family, work like the dickens, and trust in God with a contented mind.” One gerontologist, looking at Ihc replies, says that hard-work bit should be changed to advise working only "to make enough money to enjoy a full and active retirement.” But then, of course,' reason to fight back at Comm he’s not a centenarian, not yet.—I nism. ’Hiere is no difference ’ Christian Science Monitor. j tween black and white over h- ■ Both have red blood. cattle, sheep, hogs, and horses normally have 13 pairs of ribs. Over the years breeding work has maiie some changes. Land- .'aCe hogs (new brand to me) This is a healthy, vigorous condi-1 development have been underway tion which should be encouraged; in Britain and other countries. In one or two instances, in Britain, the new community - center area has become available because a and applauded, even though you may disapprove of their ideas. , Only when they go beyond their tormally have 14 pair. Horse mental gymnastics and begin un- large church with dwindling con breeders have worked it in re-] disciplined action should they be, gregatlon has been redeveloped verse and have bred out a pairj reined. I into a smaller church plus local n a line of Arabian horses. ’Thej Jn time, hopefully, they will educational and welfare agencies.] iheory here is that less ribs en-| leam. But they won’t learn unless] The net result is that an over-i »bte the horse to turn in less'they are taught and sometimes Uij^ed and outmoded church has space, an equine version of turn ing on • dime and throwing 'rack a nickel change. According to Johnson, it is not hat the Wye line is solid on the l4-rU> business, but there are M suspects in the Wye herd. The bonus is up to six extra Tbone steaks. Writes Johnson, “It’s this ?xtra high ■ priced meat that is rightfully creating the excite ment among breeders and re searchers.” Ba-m the lessons are harsh. This too! been newly enlivened, and religl- they must learn. Much of this | ous activity has been included as teaching must come from adults.] an essential element in the life'- We must not fail to offer soimd ] of the community. — Christian guides. And we must not fail to] Science UonHor. punish when punishment is need ed. To do less would be to com mit a grave injustice. To make It too easy is not an act of love. In time they ■will learn al though the process is often exas perating. In time they will leam not to take the limited view. ’They will learn about NO SOUR GRAPES which .exist in the world. In the mysteriously entity called "life.” And in time, with enough learn ing. with enough experience and John's excited too, but allows'with enough thought and evalua- it may prove costly. “1 can’t | tion, they might, just might, mind keep that bull with all Urat stray 1 you, acquire a touc(i of w^om.— stuff I have. I’ll have to upgrade! T. N. Alexakos in the Berkeley the herd.” (Calif.) Gazette. Now here’s something the Brit ish dc skillfully. The Queen sends out greeting telegrams each year] to anyone who has turned one 1 hundred. And the Deciduous Fruit ] relationships Board — yes, that’s the name, and it includes grape-importers — sends 10-pound boxes of grapea to all British centenarians. This year, In keeping with these inquisitive times, the board also sent a questionnaire to the 800 to 1,000 men and women who are 100 or over. It asked “what makes a centenarian?” It received all KEEP TOUR RADIO DIAL SET AT 1220 fings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hmir. Fine entertainment in between riage to Dr. Robert Eugene Kin- [neman, Jr. The wedding wdll ■take place Saturday evening at 8 o’clock in First Presbyterian church ^ George William Sellers, jr..i of taking my family ^ diurch son of Mr. and Mrs. George Sel- “J* dressed up and dean, lera, celebrated his third birth-'deep on shrets and to get a hair dav Mav 12th I and to sleep calm without the ay "t®y ] worry of getting mortared or at- — 1 tacked at 3 a.m. didn’t know. Maybe what I am doing today will better the world situation for my son when he is my age. I am not about to fall back and not face this mess, leav ing it for my kids to take care of. My brother is in the army now and he will probably be arriving here as I have. I’ve noticed a big change in him. I’ve lost a lot of buddies over here, including my cousin. It just gives me another
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