.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. Soi
ewton-
rls bet
irms ca
The
sea.sor
ear, an
ish prl
ounges
boin
A A f
Set;
rotesfs
tsqualif
le seat
Wal
icility i
lan fh(
) the El
Las!
eld goa
Som
ction it
Duk
fth in I
verage.
Duk
uartert
'alley c
Her
arsily
930.
As i
)uke U
ied for
In ;
Hue De
Lk
lead of
arrollb
Duk
’laik at
The
pains w
Pterans
II Alpir
V
Whi
itchei
as list'
By
ipril 17
One
n Apri
ertifiea
The
urnod |
‘•W
ind I lo
ipcause
"Tl:
“Th
R('x
Pirates
jenod. 1
inight n
ii’O con
.Fry
tned
((fstay !
Ihe toba
ment.
VVh(
baseball
Whi
hall — <
execute!
four-gar
31-June
produce
The
of the o
There v\
Kenwor
strike, t
skipped
The
June 2 '
ivhen ti
patter a
McNerti
iunt do
ried foi
(Jertney
Edd
•jireer h
d. Said
; ill run
Mcl
f the ti
h-aw)
' id cau
^Mai
^Saii
cry fe
trikes i