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.i fage 2 KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. Thursday, June 13. 1968 ^hursda Establlsbed 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald A weeldy 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., 28086 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society ^itor Joe Cornwell Sports Editor Miss Linda Hardin Clerk Fred Bell Paul Jackson Rd^r Brown MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dave Weathers, Su^iL ‘AIlen'.Myers Rocky Martin Steve Martin *Un leave wirn the t’nited .'States Army SL’BSi'RIPTION RATES PA VIABLE IN ^VANCE — BY -MAU. ANYWHERE ONE VEAR. $3 50 SIX MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1 25 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE And we kn(nv tfmt aU things work together for good to them that lo^w the Lorid. RomafUi 8:28 fO THIS IS NEW YOBK By NORTH CALLAHAN "WHAT DID YOU GET YOUR DAD?" VA Questions And Answers MY DAD? HE’S IN VIETNAM •l<l| Accomplish Some More Some 194 Kings Mountain high school seniors received diplornas last week, signifying their completion of a dozen years of lormal .schooling. Marriage is around the corner for many, income-producing jobs for others, and college for some. College should be and could be for many, too. In the days before post World War 11 affluence, the great mass of high school graduates did not consider college for the financing wasn’t available. In some instances parents stretched finan cial means tight to a.ssure their children high school diplomas. It’s diflerent today. But the student and his or her par ents must have the will to try. Colleges and universities are com paratively rich in scholarships and loan lunds and the would-be entrant who asks has good chance to get. With more and more automation, in dustry is requiring more knowledge and more skills and it is a trend certain to accelerate. More than two dozen students are recipients of college scholarships at 'Kings Mountain high school this year. Others have applied. In congratulating the graduates on their educational accomplishments, a word should be added: accomplish some mort-. Good Job. Well Done One veteran Kings Mountain teacher not only concluded a year on Monday but also completed a long, fulsome and rewarding career. Retiring at the end of the cun-cnt term was Mrs. Winnie Vera Mauney Still, who has initiated a whole host of Kings Mountain youngsters into the education al process. Mrs. Still, wife of Garland E. Still, joined the East school faculty 18 years ago. The Herald joins her many friends in wishing Mrs. Still happiness and best wishes. Good News Budget planning underway by the city reveals that a larger budget for fis cal year 1968-69 won’t increase taxes. The increase in the budget will come from increases in the amount of proper ty to be taxed—new construction. Best Wishes The Herald and community extends best wishes to Teresa Jane Jolley Miss Kings Mountain, in her bid for the Miss North Carolina crown this week in Char lotte. Area citizens can view the finals on WBTV Saturday night at 8:30 of a suggestion from local Jaycees is to join them in taking groups to Charlotte to cheer Miss Jolley in the preliminaries to night and tomorrow. lob Pool Leaving The Past Behind Throughout the ages, societies have shown special concern for the widows and the fatherless. There is, of course, a Biblical in junction that one should. After the senseless and tragic round of events in Dallas in 1963, virtually the whole world properly proffered warm sympathy for the presidential family robbed of its husband and father by an assassin’s bullet. Now in June 1968 the Kennedy fam ily has been robbed again by an assas sin’s bullet. A widow, expecting her 11th child, and her 10 children have been left behind to bear the burden of loss. Many people admired the dignity which the widow of Senator Robert Francis Kennedy and her family con ducted themselves last week. Surely, good wishes are in order, coupled with the hope that future hap piness will wash away cruel memories from the past. June Dairy Month Cleveland County citizens kicked-off June Dairy Month June 1 at a breakfast in Shelby and the dairy industry of the state is calling attention .to its activities and to the part it plays in the state’s economic well being. The N. C. Dairy Industry can point with pride to its rapid growth. Milk has become a great boon to North Carolina. Milk and other dairy products have meant for many farm fam ilies here and throughout the state a cash crop, replacing a once a year cash crop, like cotton, which could make a farmer rich one season and broke the next year. Dairying has offered and still offers a cash crop opportunity to this area’s farmer. Our Sympathy Nothing saddens a community more than the death of a person at a seeming untimely age; the youngster who steps in front of a car, the teenager with an incurable disease oi the man or woman in the prime of life who dies by accident. It is true in the deaths of two Kings Mountain citizens this week. The whole community mourns the passing of Marine Corporals Gregory Wayne Thomas, 20, and W’illiarn J. Moses, Jr., 19, killed in Vietnam. Cpl. Gregory was killed on May 21. Cpl. Moses was killed on May 29th. Congratulations: John Ballew and Richard Etheridge, who have won Na tional Science Foundation Grants for summer study at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; to Princess Faye Pressley, winner of the Plonk Scholar ship scholastic medal at Kings Mountain high school; to June Frederick Grigg and Jeff Mauney, Danforth award winners at Kings Mountain high school; to Jean Davis, winner of the first annual Ameri can Legion Post 155 college scholarship; and to the 15 city policemen who grad uated from a 120-hour training course Friday. “What in the name of conscience will it take to pass a truly effective gun control law’’, demanded the President of the United States. The killing of Senator Robert F. Kennedy is the final outrage. Congress must now act to protect the nation from itself while there is still time. The Mayor’s committee on youth employment has a 151-person work pool who have filed applications for summer employment. These students want to work. Fields listed include textiles, con struction, retail sales, service station, food service and office work. For some time here there has been a sort of controversy about the value of music being played in connection with work or other day-by-day activity. It was tried out in Grand Central Station when soft melodies emanated from speakers placed around the big concourse and were heard by thousands of passengers boarding or (getting off the trains. So many ' (Complaints faulted that the music was stopped, although some of the squaw’ks arose be cause of the commercials injected into the meoldic stream. How ever. a local management firm has completed a before-and-after study of background music on worker efficiency, and has come! up with these results: depart-' ment efficiency up 2.891 after music was introduced into the background; individual efficiency up 4.1%: promptness uj) 31.291. In another study, it was found that one company reported a 38.6% decrease in key punch er rors after music was provided in the background. Book Jackets sometimes exag gerate what is inside the covers but when one states that Billy Rose was one of the most fabu lous personalities of our time, it is true. The volume is ‘The Nine Lives of Billy Rose” by his sis ter, Polly Rose Gottlieb recently published by Crown. In his teens, Billy was a champion stenogra pher, a wizard at shorthand. He wrote over a hundred popular songs, many of which are still played and sung. Rose was a re nowned theatrical producer, a Q—I am a World War 11 vet eran with a 20-year G. L ance endowment policy that will mature in a few months. Do I have to take the face value of the policy or can I convert this to another type of insurance? A—You may exchange it for a policy of lesser cash value if you present evidence of good health. However, this must be done be- fore the policy matures. Q I was recently separated from service. During service I was treated for a condition that has flared up again. Can I g^t treatment from VA? A—In all probability ydu ean. You should apply to the Veterahs Admlni.stratlon for an examina tion t*nd determination that your condition i.s .service (.-onnected. un<;e thb has been accomplish ed. you should have no trouble getting treatment from VA. Q—I am a veteran with a ser vice-connected condition, recog nized by VA as 60 per cent dis abling. Does this degree of dis ability entitle my children to any type of educational assistance? ■ A—No. Only children who.so parent is rated by VA as 100 Dor cent service-connected disabled and who Is permanently disabled i.s entitled to assistance. Such children—and children of vet erans who died in service or from service-connected causes are eli gible for War Orphans Education al Assistance Benefits. ■ li'. Viewpoints of Other Editors VOTES FOR 18-YEAR-OLDS? world’s fair producer (he invent-, AMERICA OF HATRED, ed the Aquacade), a mghtclub Maj.y Baker Eddy, the founder! operator (Billy Rose’s Diamondnewspaper, many years! President Johnson now favors Horseshoe), a syndicated news-i warned mankind that "Hat-1 giving 18-year-olds the right to paper columnist He become inflames the brutal propensi-1 vote. His stand is in line with a big Wall Street operator and i {jpg-j-i^p united States, a nation mid-May announcement that 44 owned more shares of A.T. & T.| „^g principles of'senators, including the majority than any other individual. brotherhood of man, has of and minority leaders, had already endorsed an amendment propo sal. It is also in line weith other wartime bids to balance battle field and voting-booth age re quirements. World W'ar II saw was a director of the Nevv York I,s{p js„pp increasing victim to Central Railroad and owned large | {prees of hatred, mur- blocks of shares in other violence, and brutality. The panies. In later years he tutn^ i gpp Robert F. Ken- to art and amassed one of the, coming almost upon the world's most notable collections Luther King. tLrarwell\"s d^attag fmihP' ’® and (jnly four and po{„ip ^pppon {pr the 18-year- lion dollars worth to Isriel. Bil- K"nnedy’s^as4'‘ssinaUon cries out Iv Rose was married five times, 1 assassination, cries out, ^ p,-pwar 17 percent, but Con- ly nose was maiiwu iive , pj jj^p necessity for Amen- ,i,o ampn.i- all of these ending in divorce. At i combat immediatelv and drf not pass the amend this ha was not successful cans to combat, immeaiaieiy ana. pjpp{ During the Korean war this, he was not succe actively, the mental attitudes and ,i,,ic support edged up further a I human passions which lead men {„ gg percent, and again an It’if i^rted that there is an’‘ amendment drive fell short. The 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items 0/ news about Kings Mountain area •people and events taken from the 1957 files of. the Kings Mountain Herald. Yon And Social Security Q. In 1966, I filed a claim for disability and could not get pay ments because I had only worked 3 years after leaving college. Do the changes in social security af fect my case? A. There is a change in the law affecting young disabled workers. It is possible that you would have enough work now. If you became disabli-d by the time you reached age 27 and have 3 years work in a Job where you paid social security taxes, you would meet the special work re- upsiuIfer Tn the membership of As The Christian Science Board I41wic*4pp4t^4''M percenf a'l^d the Daughters of the American of Directors said in a Pi'Wic ^ . {jpjp gj^p^ {p Revolution, something which may' statement upon the occasion of thi? chnnsTo ^ surprise those who think of thejthe King tra,gedy, that events ® organization as a stodgy and an-!"should awaken all Americans to tiquated throwback to our early, the urgency of meeting hate with history. All across the country, I practical humanity and brother- accordirtg to the records, young hood based on a keener under women who can meet the stiff standing of the one God of all requirements — proof of direct men, w'ho is infinite Love." descent from some one w-ho aided, This spring’s drive to . lower porous to the point of fighting so- the voting age, however, cannot [ cial change, likely to rush wi(h be dismi.ssed as a bymoduct of | red flags to the campus of Colum the heightened political aware- bia to extoll Che and Mao along- ness that always accompanies i side the young beards, wartime. i But impulses are at work here and everywhere, as the news from A second county-wide Demo-| qtiiremcnt. cratic Primary election was or- i Q- I am now age 42 but haw dered Monday, when J. Broadus I been disabled since I was ^ Ellis, the Grover county commis- years old. I asked about disabil- sion candidate, and first primary i ity at the Social Security Office second runner, notified the coun-, three or four times, but was told ty elections board he wanted a lhat 1 needed more quarters. I recond race. ] don’t like to keep bothering the Gene Roberts has been named' people at the social security of- new president of the Kings Moun-1 Uce, but I would like to try tain Band Association. 1 again. SOQAL AND PERSONAL | A. By all means, you should Miss Rachel Ann Hardin of ask again. It is no bother to us at Kings .Mountain and Hertry Car- j social security to answer your roll Cline of Granite Falls were questions, and it may well be married Sunday in Grover’s First | that you will now qualify. There Baptist church. ' has been a recent change in the ’ jaw that allows people who be- the cause of American indep/cnd-j Hatred is a corrosive, whose i Today’s youth is in many w-ays | Rpsurrppiipp uity to Prague make.-: ence—are joining and bringing! effects upon a nation are as readier to vote taan he has ever pjpa,. Boredom with affluence, new blood into the sturdy and baneful and deadly as upon an; been. There is much to be said | i,ppj,{jpppp pj^ j,j,gpp{p{jppj^ patriotic society. Thousands are'individual. It solves no problems;i lot’ 'he Prc.sident’s rernark at irreverence for established lead being added each year and the (it only intensifies them. It opens; Texas Christian University that gj.,.—p|] ({,53^ factors play their total membership is now nearing .no paths .to progress; it only' tne grouji he would enfranchise, p^rt. The United States, with its 2(X),()00. After the folk singer, | shuts men’s minds and hearts tojore the "brightest and best-train-, i,p,ppyp|.jgf,g^ economic class and ■Topti Paez, tpei to rent the'that higher inspiration which inifti generation” ho had ever swn., j{j, excluded Negro race, has one DAR’s Constitution Hall and was the end is the only dependable! The success of Sen. Eugene Me-j pj |{|p j^p^p yp|g{jjg ..upgjjpp^ pp "(•fused, Mrs. Henry Sullivan, the guide to progress. | Carthy’s campaign youth corps, j{g hanji, present regent explained, "Joan j in their trek from New Hamp- g.j,p lesson emerging from the Baez is a.^ainst everything we These three recent shootings of^ shire to Oregon, has accented the prpppfj confusion, as it is emerg- stand for. She’s again.st patrio- high public figures, plus the m-nv effectiveness of the young in the {j.pp, {{^p anti-Stallnist tur- ’Ism, the flag and promoted civil acts of violence which continual- political theater. moil in Czechoslovakia and from disobedience.’’ ; ly mar American life, cast a oiti-! would granting 18-year-olds the tbe ghettos of American cities, . less spotlight unon the n<vd of ^^jp jjp,p phapppi thpir Is that no nation, no society and : that society to rid its thinking of ppp^gipj through the established no system can afford to fail attitudes which have no place in - ^ —j An irate a.spiring author had political framework? Most likely, i asleep at the switch, ever, and submitted a manuW to an a modam amendment to _pa.ss.| dnfyinto^^bel^f that changes come disabled before age 31 to qualify with less work. Many people have inquired as you did, or actually filed a claim only to have it denied becau.sc they did not meet the previous work re- qquirement. Thcsi* people .should also check with us again. Q. Does a disabled widow need to bring a doctor’s report when she comes in to file a claim? A. No. One or more medical reports will be reque.stod after the claim is filed depending on the extent of her treatment. But medical evidence prior to appli cation is unnecessary. editor who had promptly reject- acts the national irnoge is ! however, not only mu.st tradition-1 aren’t needed. The vitality of im ed it. The author rushed to the, its tremendous, obiectinns be ov-j volvement, participation and; editor’s office and demanded to'"""’ ercome hut also a rising public movement are deep needs of all talk with him. Upon being seated encouragement is given to similar antidisorder sentiment-in part men. And men, even Frenchmen, | in the office, the author cried elsewhere. {hp actions of the can be deceptively passive until; out, "Look here, young man, I, our sympathy goes to the young people themselves. some impulse ignites the latent 1 positively know that you did not Rpnnedy family, two of whose —Christian Science M<ymtor discontents whwe safety valves read my story, because I pasted niembers have now paid such a together pages 7 and 8 and the 1 pj-jpg foj. public service. For Sen- manuscript was returned with gtor Kennedy the sinister attack them still pasted. Ju.st because; him is compounded by the I’m an unknown author, you {hgt it came at a moment of WHILE FRANCE SLEPT Charles de Gaulle may use time have rusted, stltution. ■ The Atlanta Con- N O W OPEN Kiddie Korner Nursery for Children 6 a.ni. to 6 p.m. home oi Mrs. Sarah Ruppe two miles West of Kings Mountain On US 74 PHONE 739-3885 6:13-7:4 _ and concessions to ride out the don’t think you can get aivay, poij{ipaj‘{riumph vvhen, after his revolution in France. Such sud- with not reading my story!” Thejse{haci{ jf, the Oregon primarv,, den storms can abate as well as long-suffering editor renli^, “Ma- he had won strongly in the Cali-i grow. But he and France, and the dam. when I eat my breakfast, I don’t have to eat the whole egg to know it’s rotten.' fornla primary. \Vliat the effect will be upon the race for the presidency, none can sa.v. But the Western World have learned a lesson that will last. Neither economic affluence, nor shooting cannot help but have a I prestige, nor asser- deeo and immediate effect npon,{,g^ national grandeur can STARLINGS Hawks and doves don’t stand and loyalties, j Vn^ulate eren"the“ moJt highly Other congratulations to: George Adams, chosen qs an “honorable men tion” player on the 1968 “Coach and Athlete” Prep All-America Team; and to Boys’ State delegates Ross Springer and Philip Fisher who will represent Ameri can Legion Post 155 at Boys’ State to be Held this month of the campus of Wake Forribt University at Winston-Salem. nored. a chance in Washington, D. C.i jt is a truism that liberty is' civilized society against political The starlings win without ruf-| in^i^j.ibip become convulsion if discontents are ig- fling a feather. At dusk great! „ , . . , flocks of the noisy birds return j ®9ually clear to Americans that from the suburbs to roost on 1 violence is also indivisible. A federal buildings. . . . (people cannot have violence in Special wiring on many build-relations, violence in the ings shocks the birds. But they lend to regroup on the nearest unprotected edifice—or tree. The White House uses more subtle measures. At twilight a shrill recording of a starling in tics, distress Is amplified over the vast lawn. The bogus cry usually keeps the grounds clear. streets, violence on television, sin’een and radio, violence on the highways, and so on, and expect to rule violence out of other as pects of their lives, such as poll De Gaulle had brought pride i and prosperity to France. Sudden- Iv he had to deal with the results ( of that. The people wanted more. , All of his posturing in foreign | affairs brought him no immunity j from discontent at home. The po g.l lltical passivity his rule had In- ... A well-intentioned philan thropist — Eugene Seheifflin — Imported the starlings from Eng land as part of a project to bring We see two steps which this latest tragedy makes more than ever ne<»ssary. The first is early congressional action on 'a strong and effetrtive legislation to con duced burst into vitality and op position. Gaullist France will not be the same again. Since anything can happen, it would be foolhardy to say it can't happen in America. But it would be equally absurd to equate con temporary American society with trol and limit the ownership and tci America all the birds mention-jugg fire-arms. The second is ed in Shakespeare. ... , • Unnumbered millions of star-H»'' American to make the lings now Inhabit North America. ■ Individual effort to replace hat- Thcy have pushed north to Cana da, south to Mexico, and west to (SklffortHa. —' The Uationnt- Geo- prapfiif Society Kbwe ^Bulletin, red with love, division with bro therhood in his heart. —Christian Science Monitor France, or American institutions with the French. Political debate and ferment, for instance, certain ly have not been stilled under Lyndon Johnson as they have been under de Gaulle; on the con trary, Johnson has been the most sorely beset president since Her bert. Hoover. Nor are American l»bor union members, often pros- KEEP YOUR RADIO DIAL SET AT 1220 Kings Monntain, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between .Stea the rs ghi. T1 tturdai 9d. ■ Sine anager 'eryont IITOtt 11 loVild g A 1' held' >1 an c lits. 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