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in I 8.*vi wi 1 I a.. Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Heiald KINGS MOUNTAIN HERAID. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. O MJIBTIN'S I MEDICINE ' Thursday, July 18, 194 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and publlslied for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing Hou.se. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 20086 under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Miss Linda Hardin Editor-Publisher Manager and Society Editor Clerk MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Fred Bell Dave Weatliers, Supt. ’Allen Myers Rocky Martin Steve Martin •On leave with tlie United States Army Paul Jackson Roger Brown HURRAH FOR THE PONY EXPRESS 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 TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the junoer of thine hands to do if. Proverbs 3:27. Mis-Directed Aid? Excerpts from a press release from the U. S. Department of Health, Educa tion & Wellare, Region III, 220 Seventh Street, N.E., Charlottesville, Virginia 22,901: “School districts in North Carolina that are having any difficulties as a re sult of integration can now obtain tech nical help, assistance, and special train ing lor school staff from a newly created Equal Educational Opportunities Pro gram in the Charlottesville, Virginia, Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. “Bernard V. McCusty, Regional Di rector for the Department, announced today that Mi . Joseph J. Franchina had been named head of the new program. Mr. Franchina, with 35 years of public education e.xperience, has a stafl ot pro fessional educators with extensive ex perience in public school work trained to help school districts eliminate dis crimination and segregation. "The Equal Educational Opportunities program was created by Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Title VIjof the same Act provides that Federal must be withheld trom any school dfs- trict that discriminates because of race, color, or national origin. Mr. Franchina’s efforts will be directed toward helping school districts take the necessary steps to assure equal educational opportunity arid avoid the possibility of the with holding ot Federal funds.” Well, hurrah! It is, of course, too much to expect from the bureaucrats who enjoy making law by the two-edged sword of bureau directive and economic blackmail, but it would seem, at the least, Mr. Fran china could be charged with responsibil ity of reading several times the recent Supreme Court decision on “freedom of choice” school pupil assignments and after the readings, endeavor to imple ment the text and spirit of the decision. “Freedom of choice”, said the Su preme Court opinion, isn’t wrong per se. Each individual case would be judged on its own merits. The Herald is not familiar with the facts in the New Hanover county situa tion, where the Charlottesville HEW folk are concentrating their big guns at the moment, suspects that New Hanover (county-wide consolidated years ago) has some serious problems in satisfying the Office of Education people. The Herald is familiar with the Kings Mountain district situation, where school officials wasted no time in im plementing the 1964 civil rights act and have continued to further implement the act annually, the Charlottesville folk are still unsatisfied. Segregated Park Grace and Compact won’t do, say the federal folk, but made no mention of segregated (all-White) Bethware. How now brown cow? The freedom of choice principle has worked to the (?ongress-HEW-Court sought ends here and should be contin ued, as best for the pupil, his parent, and for school administration. Local Sales Tax Test Now you have it, now you don’t. Thus the sad plight of Mecklenburg County, the City of Charlotte, Towns of Pineville, Cornelius, Huntersville, etc., which planned to ease their money and service woes with the cash from the one percent local sales tax, applicable only to Mecklenburg of the state’s hundred counties. A taxpayer group didn’t like the sales tax idea, took it to the courts, and now have put the proposition of legality to the state Supreme Court. But action isn’t anticipated until February and the statutory deadline for county and municipal budget adoption July 28. To budget or not to budget, that is the question. To raise rates, or not to raise them, is another question. While D-Day is short term, leaving J^he questions hanging for only one fiscal year, any who have ever served on local governing bodies know fully well that ^cohAtituentx cah ImpatjeiH when aervr ices they need and deserve are liot pro vided immediately. Odds are, on face, the local option sales tax will be ruled legal. But there is another legal principle and question involved concerning purely local bills and bills generic to the whole state. This principle made it necessary, then-Representative B. T. Falls, Jr., thought, that the bill empioyering Cleve land county to get into the water and .sewer line business (to serve Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company’s new' plant) apply not to Cleveland alone but to the whole of North Carolina—which is the way the bill was drawn and enacted into law. Phoenix Resignation It is the observation of many Cleve land County citizens that the county schools lost a capable superintendent in the person of Lee Phoenix, who is be coming an assistant superintendent of Gaston County’s consolidated system. Mr. Phoenix took a rough lick early in his five years in Cleveland. County system residents declined to vote funds tor 1) needed high school buildings and 2) a supplemental tax which would have made the system more competitive in bidding for teachers and supplied other operational funds needed for supplies and maintenance. He took it in stride, took pride when the citizens, with only the building pro gram on the agenda, soundly endorsed construction of two consolidated high schools. Then the roof fell in, literally, that being the gymnasium roof which caved under the excessive weight of ice and snow'. The guy (guys) in the slot in the kudos, when it’s good, and the brick bats, w'hen it’s bad. Results of the spring primary, when only one incumbent won re-nomination put the hand-writing on the wall. Mr. Phoenix moves to Gaston.. He prefei’s to eat. National Champions -mV I Kings Mountain claims no Jack Kramer in the tennis world, has sup plied only two players to the major base ball leagues, one to the professional foot ball ranks, and few of national rank, if any in other sports. Not so in the world of duckpin bowling. For the third time in five years. Kings Mountain’s mixed bowling entry in the national duckpin championship competition, has brought home the hon or and cash (‘bout paid expenses, one member Said) of a national champion ship. A second mixed team entry copped third, and sixth, seventh and tenth place finishes were recorded in other compe titions. Hearty congratulations to this team, which included Betty Hullender, Lib Gault, John Dllling, Albert Brackett and Ronnie Culbertson. And Bowler Dllling’s rather proud on a personal basis: his three-line 415 was good for a 74th place finish in the men’s singles division. Penalty date nears on privilege li censes, and the City Hall office reports purchases sparse. BT martin HARMON We were finishing lunch Mon- j day at my Mother’s when then*! was a noise like a whirring lawn I mower and Sir Winston, the dog,< started barking. ThP. !•: ’ -dj operating procedure for Rif Win*! ston when lawn mowers are iii{ action, big trucks are passing, or I when he sees and/or smells an-1 other dog. | m>m [ I Shortly thereafter 1 was giving j Winston his aftcr-lunch walk and Icund the reason for the barking. He’d heard the noise of the city I electrical department’s cherry I picker being lifted to a pole on I the houseboat lot. j Already, Lineman Dutch Wil son and. Clarence Auten (veteran of fire days with the depart ment) were working on the job at hand: tightening the cables supporting the road number signs east of the King-Battleground \ stoplight. Jim Leigh had noticed one or more of the higher trucks scrap ing the cable when passing un derneath and had told Electrical Superintendent Hunter Allen, who! dispatched a crew to tighten ca-1 ble. I FIVE DAYS ..If WE DELIVERED 5EVEH ")J atufaejj J >». 'Vi 'ip. / VI m-m Mr. Auten’s tenure with city was almost ended. m-m I ■ the; Viewpoints of Other Editors OUT OF PLACE Auten was pulling on the lino, as Dutch operated a tightening mechanism. Suddenly, there was a zinging “zup”. The line had slipped and zinged past Auten’s head. He ducked and 1 thought J menLs. So are geographers, for a moment he was going to dive out of the basket. The steel cable was setting speed records. Political observers, disoriented by the mystifying turns of events in American politics this year, ‘ can take heart. They are not alone in having to make adjust- 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of ne'ics about Kings Mountain area jx’ople and events taken from the 1957 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. Greenland, at least its north- , ern tip, is not where it is sup- I posed to be—according to most m-m j maps, anyway. A team of polar I explorers recently returned trom j Auten shook his head and the northern wastes of Greenland * pastor of Second Baptist church, twitched his handle-bar mous-, reported that Cape Morris Jessup I left Monday for Gamaliel, Ky., is actually 12 miles farther east, where he will assume the pastor- jjj and one mile farther north than ate duties of Gamaliel’s First 1 is shown on maps. Moreover, the • Baptist church. It’s all in next explorers discovered it is an is-' (iovernor Luther KINGS MOUNTAIN Hospital Log VIBITINO HOURS 3 to 4 pjn. oad 7 to • pJk) Dally 10:30 To 11:30 un. Mr. Ambrose Crowe Mr. James Gamble Mrs. Bythla Hammett .Mrs. N. S. Hardin Mr. M. L. Harmon Mrs. Flossie Hawkins Mrs. Sidney Dulin Huffstetler Mr. John Leach Mr. A. C. Ledford Mrs. Ida Smith Mrs. Mattie Wise Mrs. Roy iBallard Mrs. Buford Bell Gregory Brown Mrs. Paul Byers Mr. John Dulin Mrs. Dora Emery Mr. Robert Herndon Mr. William Houser Mrs. Florence Lynn Mr. John Mitchem Mrs. Mary McAbee Mrs. Willie Mae Roberts Mrs. Gladys Timms Mrs. Cleo VanDyke Mr. Willie Glenn White Mr. Joe Lee Woodwaid Mrs. Clara Wright Mr. Leroy Brown ADMI’TTED THURSDAY Mrs. Harold Huffstetler, Rt. Mrs. Azaiiah Jamerson, Roi 1, Shelby Mrs. K. E. Morrison, City ADMITTED FRIDAY Mrs. James Dellinger, Route 2 Mrs. Miles Gantt, Route 2, Chcrryville Mr. Robert Hovls, Route 3 Mr. Leroy Brown, 210 Wattor son St. Mrs. George Clary, 201 Gaston St. I Mrs. Robert Moses, 507 Lee 1 St., Bessemer City j ADMITTED SATURDAY ; Randolph Campbell, 826 Firstj St. Mrs. John T. Lee, 605 Mica Si YE OLDE INN BEDS I Mrs. Jean Love, 201 Ki/gs One’s point of view can makei -'hjj- St., - o a delightful difference, as a re- ^r. ^ cent exchange ot letters in Thei Times of London points up. <;mnrt 824 Grace An American tall man. feeling' Mrs. Herbert Smart, 824 Grac. crimped on a stay in England,, ■ tache. Quoth Dutch: week’s paycheck.” Rev. Howard T. Cook, former H. Hodges , land, not a peninsula. announced in Raleigh Wednesday , appointment of Martin Harmon, The new finding.s, made with j. Kings Mountain Herald editor, to the lajest navigational jnstru- ■ state Probation Commission, ments, are being checked by L>S.; . Charles H. Moss returned to Army Map Service. | Neisler Division of Massachusetts Pending further study, the ap- Mohair Plush Company Monday, parent discrepancy could neces-; j, announced by Alex Maino, sitate a complete revision of all, general manager m m 1 Greenland’s entire nor-1 SOCIAL AND PERSONAL I them coast, which is important Mrs. M. H. Biser was hostess It reminds that “all in a day’s i because of the extensive nuclear \ Monday night to the regular m-m Forernan Floyd Thornburg re trieved the cable, passed it to the bucketmen and they renewed their chore, this time bringing it off. wrote: “May I suggesit some .sym pathetic tourist association com pile a helpful Toll Mem's Guide for the British Isles. “Being six-ten I have suffered acutely during my vacation stay here, having to endure endless mini-beds and on several occa sions finding myself in hotel rooms where it was impossible to stand without fear of decapi tation. The farther one travels outside London, the greater the hazards, and it would be wel come to many people like myself to steer clear of intense discom fort by avoiding quaint pictures que but miniature accommoda tion, and its dangers.” Alas, he gained little pity. An Englishman, presumably of med ium height, wrote: “Mr. T.H.’si letter clearly reveals a dastard Mrs. Mary Martin, Route 1, Grover ADMITTED SUNDAY Mr. Joe Herndon, 106 N. Oriental Ave. Mrs. Mildred Miller, Route 2, Bessemer City Mrs. James Robinson, SOS Rhodes Ave. J. Robert Thompson, Jr., ■Smyrna, S. C. Mr. Alvin Correll, Route 1, Gastonia ADMITTED MONDAY Mrs. Ida Norman, 1002 Sheli"^ Rd. Mrs. George Collins, 208 S. Myrtle School Rd., Gastonia Mrs. Roy Edward Huffstetler, 318 Fulton St. Mr. Jasper Philbcck, Route 3 Mr. Winfred Russell, 510 Mon- work” in many seemingly routhie i submarine operations under the mppting of Circle 9 of Cential down^to size. ly English plot to cut Americans | roe Ave. jobs is not necessarily routine and, contrarily, danger-filled. m-m Supt. Allen, crossing his fingers and knocking on wood, says, ”In the years since 1931 when I join ed the department we’ve been mighty lucky—never had a ser ious accident.” m-m There’s always a first time, ’tis said. m-m I’ve been fiddlin’ with news- papering since I was 12 years old which means a total of 36 years. I’d heard about it happen ing, nearly seen it happen, but at presstime on last week’s edi tion. I .saw it happen. m-m As a man was putting the edi torial page on the dumb waiter for the trip downside to the press room, the page slipped off. It plummetted downward and all the type pied (spewed out of the form). The Herald employs two typesetting machines, but Shop Superintendent Dave VveaUie, was on vacation. This was ter rible. Already several would-be Herald buyers had been told, ’’Just ten minutes.” m-m But we went to work, retrieved the editorials type, rounded up a Herald advertisement, and fount some unused guest editoria type. Meantime, Fred Bell bega’ resetting the masthead, martin’.s .-nedicine, and the WKMT adver- isement. Bob Myers and I put he mish-mashed editorials into (alleys, took proofs, and started he jig-saw puzzle job of putting he lines into proper order. m-m Bob and I did pretty well.- Vhen we finished, all editorials vere in apple-pie order except or one missing line of type, /hen Fred finished, other make- p had been finished by Paul ackson and all there was to do ■/as lock up, lock the page on the iress and push the button. I lldn’t have a stop watch, but 1 Jon’t believe the clean-up requir- ■"d more than 40 minutes. Team work can do the job anytime. m-m I was relating the event to Don Crawford and Ken Pruitt, told them if I can gain surcease from pled pages for 36 more years. I'll welcome another. polar icecap. ; Methodist cliurch. It appears that not only somCj pet political theories are due to| The marriage of Miss Addic be shaken this year. Some maps Sue Sandei-s to William Earl may be, too.—Dallas Morning Stroupe, Jr. took place July 5th Stas. I at 7 o’clock in Gaffney, S. C. WASHINGTON REPORT by ' ertheless, the means and the ul- Congressmon James T. Broyhill ' timate costs are not at all clear CRIME, HOUSING AND HEALTH i and, again, the Congress was, in The leadership in Congress re-; effect, signing a blank check. By turned frbm the July 4 recess de- doing this, it has conferred tre- termined to wind up the work of mendous new powers upon the this session and adjourn during’Department of Housing and Ur- the first few days in August. But i ban Development and agreed to by mid-week, the engine was : a number of ’’backdoor finane- sputtering and it looks now as ■ ing” plans over which the Con- ihough the session could drag on! gress avill have little or no con- into September or October. It is ■ trol. true that many oi the legislative! In my opinion, this bill, despite demands of the White House have | some new and desirable features have not been enacted. Even so, i such as provisions to encourage the country would probably be home ownership by poor families, .wtter off if the session were; was a big bite that I believe fu- mded as soon as the remaining i ture Congresses will find very essential measures can be pass-, difficult to digest. The problems ed. I of housing and slums are serious, A jumble of bills, large and but the shotgun approach of this imall, were consider^ and pass-, bill is more likely to satisfy the jd by the House of Representa- Administration’s public relations ives last week. One of these needs rather than provide a .measures would set up a joint sound housing program that will Jongressional committee to in-! make the dollars spent effective, /estigate crime. Although I sup-, it seemed to me that this is the oorted this proposal, it seems to ’test we must apply if we are to me that a great majority of the j reconcile all this with the income American people are tired of sub-1 tax increase and budget reduc- itituting studies for more posi- tion that the Congress passed And this from a fellow-Ameri- can of yet different stature: ’’Tourist T.H. complains of Eng land’s mini-beds and low ceil ings. He is nearly seven feet tall. ’’Leave ye olde inn beds and ceilings as they arc. Natural se lection will eventually restpre men to their ideal .size. I am five feet four inches tall.” —Christian Science Monitor FLAN TRIP The Kings Mountain Kiwanis club members and their fami lies will accompany members of the club’s sponsored Little League baseball team to At lanta, Ga. August 6th for a game between the Atlanta Braves and the Chicago Cubs. Heading the committee on ar rangements are John L. McGill and Paul Ham. ON DEAN'S LIST George Webb Plonk. Jr., junior student at the Univer sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was listed on the dean’s list for the spring quarter. He is son of Dr. and Mrs. George W. Plonk of Kings Mountain. Mr. Ed Adams. Route 1, Grover Mr. William Allen, Route 1, Grover Mrs. Homer Kilgore, Route 2 ADMITTED TUESDAY Mr. Ben Black, Route 2 Mrs. Joe Farris, 306 E. Tenn. Ave., Bessemer City Mr. Conway Gault, Jr., 104 N. Goforth St. 1 Mr. Wm. Frank Herndon, Rt. 2 Mrs. Bertha Martin, 501 Lime St., Blacksburg, S. C. Mrs. Gerald Lutz, 623 E. King St. Mrs. Richard Goforth, Route 1, Grover Mr. C. M. Lovelace, 307 Silver St. DIXON SERVICE William Alexander, Bible teacher in the schools, will fill the pulpit at morning worship services Sunday at Dixon Pres byterian church. Members are asked to note the service sche, ‘ ule change. Sunday School w be held at 9:30 a.m. followe, by the morning worship service at 11. when it was in an economy mood several weeks ago. In still another bill, the House extended the existing program of grants for the regional medical programs for heart disease, stroke, and cancer; to provide :ve action. In my opinion, a needed step 'orward in dealing with one ele- nent of the crime problem took place as the House approved a )ill providing increased penalties ’or persons trafficking in and ossessing certain drugs. The health services for migratory ag-1 intention of this bill, which I co- ricultural workers; and for the iponsored, is to help police in construction and operation of lealing with the use of LSD and facilities for narcotics addicts. In ither dangerous drugs which are' addition, the bill provides help issociated with many young peo-' for community mental health lie today. | centers. The blockbuster legislation of! The legislation continues these he week was the omnibus hous- imaginative, but cautious pro ng bill which passed the House’grams In the public health field fter a long debate. This 2S0- which the Congress establiished lage proposal with more than several years ago. Since I helped 00 sections is a vast assortment to write the original legislation if good and bad plans to deal i in the House Interstate and FOr- wlth the nation’^ slums and hous-! elgn Commerce Committee, I am ng problems. In its first year, ^ glad that the experience with the the cost of the bill would be over 55 billion. However, the long term cost of the bill is probably learer $50 billion. It provides for a 40-year program and raises many serious questions about its financing. In this bill are more bright pro mises for the nation’s poor. It would be better, however, if the chances were brighter that we (jould keep these promises. Nev- programs has proved they were based upon careful and produc tive thinkimg. North Carolina has been among the leaders in utiliz ing Federal and State resources to set up these programs and wo iiave seen the potential benefits (hat they contain. ’The continued development of these medloal programs will yield pgsltlve afid long-teirm results for the good of all our people. Keep Your Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Moiuitain, N. C. News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between
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