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Page 2 Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald A wpckly npwspappr dfivotpd to thp promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, pubiished every Thursday by the Heraid Pubiishing 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 Editor Dave Weathers. Supt. MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Allen Myers Paul Jackson Steve Martin 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 Bill mil Gnu Kitail ,siu</<f.i/ off i/ow/- nvuil itt^rorilinfj to hin riches in iflorj/. Philippians Read It Again Biblical .students will confirm that re-reading of the Bible, whether for the second time or for the fiftieth, reveals insights of truth which had been missed in previous readings. The .same is true for the Constitu tion of the United States, this amazing generic document which is the legal base for this nation’s being. How could the men of the late eighteenth century been as prescient? After its initial enactment, the Con stitution has been amended only 12 times in the intervening years, actually a net of ten, since a subsequent amend ment nullified Number 18, the Volstead prohibition amendment, which President Herbert Hoover labeled “the noble ex periment". It was, of course, an experi ment that failed. The Constitution is more than a legal base, it is this nation’s base of democracy. Sir Winston Churchill said in Parlia ment in 1956: there are those who con tend that democracy is the worse form of government, to which I am inclined to agree, except that it has been far more successful than any other form yet tried. The "Warren Supreme Court” (thei e are nine justices but the Chief Justice [caps the credits) has been much ma- med by many individuals. The Warren Court is not the first to be' maligned, nor will it be the last. Yet the interpretative services of the Supreme Court through all the years have kept this venerable document up-to-date. Read the Constitution again during Constitution week 1968. Homefolk Expand Announcement by Carolina Throw ing Company officials of a mammoth e.x- pansion which will increase productive capacity by about 90 percent is quite as good news as the recent announcements of decision of other firms to become in dustrial citizens of Kings Mountain. Overtones are that local industry ex pansion may be even better. The obvious inference is that the people on scene have found a happy cli mate in which to operate, from the stand point of available experienced personnel, available trainable personnel, low-cost municipal services, and favorable ad va lorem tax rates. Since its founding a dozen years ago, Carolina Throwing Company has been expanding continually, a commendation to the management for its imagination and productive know-how. Fair At Majority Legal age in North Carolina remains 21. which means that the Bethware Fair, this year, is officially and legally a grown man. Most folk have thought it grown up all the time, as, since the first fair "1 years ago, the annual event has prove.l one of the more enjoyable of the early fall season. It is a communitv fair in fact as well as name, provides all the trappings nec essary for good clean fun and without some others that should be left off any way. Congratulations to Dr. Cobia Dwight Goforth who recently earned his doc torate in zoology at the University of •Tertnessee. Tomorrow. Maybe Of ten applicants in the Carolinas, neighboring Rock Hill, S. C., and High Point were the initial two chosen for model cities grants in the current fiscal year. Passed over, along with Kings Moun tain, were Asheville, Beauford, Durham, Greensboro and Zebulon, in this state, and Spartanburg and Atlantic Beach in South Carolina. The text of Bob Dennis’ report on the model cities action in the Charlotte Observer is enheartening. He wrote: “The announcement said that addi tional model cities selections will be made in the future. It was emphasized that those citibs not included in the Fri day announcement might receive model cities funds in the future." The Herald does not know how much of the model cities appropriations, con tained in an omnibus $5.3 billions ap propriation, which included low rent housing and other blight removal pro jects, was allocated to the seven - state Southeast region of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Nor does the Dennis report indieate whether more funds are available for allocation in the two Carolinas. Hopefully, funds do remain for the Carolinas and that Kings Mountain will be among those to qualify. As the Herald understands the mod el cities program, it is designed to tie together all federal grant projects, which sometimes seem to be working either at cross or duplicating purposes. In congratulating Rock Hill and High Point, Kings Mountain voices the hope that tomorrow will bring model cities designation and that tomorrow is just around the next corner. Happy Report Analysis of school population fig ures in the Kings Mountain system as of the fifth school day indicates: 1) High schooler dropoutitis has di minished and 2) The next pressing building chore for the board of education is an addition to the high school, just entering its four th year of service. With fifth day population up 80 over the previous year, the head count shows 75 of these at Kings Mountain high school. North Carolina’s compulsory attend ance law remains at 16, meaning that many pupils, by the time they are ready tor the junior year, are in position via age to say “chuck it" to books and regi men and “ole Miss So-and-So who never liked me anyway”. In the past, many have said just that. Fact that the high school population shows a gain indicates the 16-year-olds are standing hitched and this is good. Much is to be gained by the student in the final two seasons of formal high school book-training. If the swelled population in the high school spells space pains for the board of education and administrative team, they won’t object. The instant news lads of the tele vision tube can attempt to crucify Chir cago’s Mayor Daley all they wish con cerning his firm and/or strong arm (take your choice) means of maintaining law and order. The Chicago Mayor, early in the season promised exactly what was dbled out. It is charged some innocents were brutalized which poses the ques tion: why weren’t they home ihstead of milling around with the hippies and yip- pies? KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday. September 19. 196 There may be some alternatives, when the additional rooms at North school become available next year, such as including Grade 9 in the junior high scheme and limiting high school to the final three grades. But the high school had no wasted space the day it opened and e.xpansion day for the new Phifer Road plant iS a matter of when (including available building dollars), not if. Commendations are in order, mean time, to the administration on opening school with a near-compiete faculty at a time when many other schools in the state were very teacher-shy. All would do well to emulate Mrs. Bertie Jones Wallace who died recently at 66. Felled by a massive stroke of par alysis several years ago. Miss Bertie, as she was known to her many fricndr maintained an optimistic attitude and her courage never flagged. She taught herself to walk again and made herself useful to herself and to others. NABTIN’S MEDICINE By MAR'nH HARMON "He Just Looked At The Prices" Summertime is waning and a bit faster in the mountains where occasional clumps of trees are al ready taking on the riotous hues of autumn. It’s mid-September, m-m “September is summertime put ting away some of her lush greenery and getting ready to de part the scene of her fruitful warmth... It is frost flowers showing along the roadsides and the goldenrods, with their fleecy canes bringing splotches of vivid color to hedgerow and fence cor ner. .. It is the nervous twittering of the birds in the shortened day light, as they sense the days of their leave-taking are near.. .Sep tomber is the time of ripening... It is fodder in the shock and the hurley tobacco, cut and impaled on up-ended sticks, drying in the crisp air—like tiny pale tepees... It’s golden pumpkins and red ap ples. great globs of purplish, frosty-looking weed blossoms and the warm breath of the motors leaving vapor trails in the cool of the morning.. .September is a| fruitful span between hot days I and growing things and fun ini the sun and October's gaudy color I and the frigid gales of winter time. . .September is school again! and summer residents takimj their leave. ..It’s the sound of katy dids, raspingly telling of things to come and it’s the first house hold heat when evening’s sha dows fall.. .September is a turn ing point, an open gate, a time of fulfillment and the tremulous cadence of the screech owl in the dead of night.” m-m ’That description of waning summer in the mountains comes from a native who has watched! and recorded the mutations of many Septembers in the Boone area. It is from the typewriter of my longtime friend Robert R.i Rivera, Jr., editor of the Wau kings mountain Hospital Log VISITINO HOURS 3 to 4 p-m. and 7 to 8 poB. Daily 10:30 To 11:30 cun ZA’HENTS IN KINGS MOUNTAtN HOSWTAL AS OF NOON WED- .4ESDAV: [ ///OGClhlU , Viewpoints of Other Editors Henry G. Bailey Nettie J. Benfiold Claude P. Camp Ethel G. Clonlnger Vennie L. Crawford Martin L. Harmon Minnie E. Herndon Anthony W. Holden Sidney D. Huffsteilcr Josie H. Queen Ida L. Smith Julius P. Stamey Garland R. Still ArtlvuV E. Williams Bessie S. Wilson Cynthia T. Creighton Alice H. Hardy William F. Houser Mary K. Jordan E>avid Lawing Florence Lynn Mary S. Myers Margaret F. McClure Opal E. Schrock James T. Sisk Shelby J. Smith Judy K. Tessenoer Cleo R. Van Dyke Virginia Wilson Jane E. Woods Clara B. Wright Mollie C. Goforth ADMITTED THURSDAY Floyd R. Falls, Shelby Jonah B. Falls. Kings Moun tain ADMITTED FRIDAY Thomas A. Pollock, Kings Mountain Mary L. Barnes, Shelby John H. .Mitchem, Kings Moun tain Evelyn H. Moss, Kings Moun tain THE CONSTITUTION ED. NOTE—Mr. Thomasson , . , . I is an attorney-at-law and judge ga E^mocrat, a weekl^y news-, qj Kings Mountain Recorder’s paper of high quality which pre- court dates the Kings Mountain Herald; ^ little known fact to most of and its several predecessor fore bears by one year. The Demo crat was established in 1888. m-m us is that the Constitution of the' United States was adopted One Hundred and Eighty-One years a- go Tuesday. I think that it is fit- For 45 years Ro^rt C. Rivers,] that during these days of cJ’publisher. Now list-1 trial and tribulation in the United ^ on the masthead is a third states, we should set aside the generation Rivers. Rachel, whoL,f.ek of September 17-23 as Con- IS managing editor. stitution Week so that we can all 10 -I YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events taken from the 1957 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. A HALE TIME I The advent of fall is a bracing I time. The mature colorations — I reds and yellows and browns and tonia I oranges — begin to crown thej aviartha I long summer period of determin-1 Mountain I ed, arch-green growth. Trula S. ! The air is clear of vapor waves! City ADMITTED SATURDAY Zelma B. Hay, Bessemer City Mary G. Honeycutt, Forest City Doris Webb Pendleton, Gas- J. Wilson, Kings Payseur, Bessemer and hazy exhalations. It is a time to ride in the country and collect vivid impressions to stay one The Wall Street Journal report- i through the visually dampening! City ADMITTED SUNDAY Clara A. Anderson, Bessemer Katie W. Boyce, Kings Moun- which nearly ed last week that Scranton Cor- j ^^.Jhe“Ldlrand geese and lesser! ‘ain Con.tl,Wto„.Ton..t«=C<.n..l.«. l/’ISl, co“S EKl. B. S..dor., King, Moun- - Muiuai oroaocaaiing v,.uin j ...uu^ain reflect on the meaning of the bled in size, but a typewriter desk sits at the exact spot I used many weeks to type news copy and headlines for the Blowing Rock paper. Today, though an electric typewriter graces the| tution. wo should show proper re- I spect tor law and order. Violence i tiots are an end result of dis- I dropped by the Democrat a- j respect for our Constitution and bMt noon closing time last Sat-i what it means. Wo don’t have to uraay.and chatted briefly w'ithlgo to the bti» cities cither to find Aflr “C4-511 ... .. ” . this disrespect. m-m The building I knew housed the Democrat nearly tion is the back-bone of Ameri-: »“r^XTro^dcasHne I »» »he South. Those humans with has been dou- can V«w. All of our Democraticj 4^6 arfdiate sta I *he patien^ to wait out the sum- processes are based on the Con- | mer months for their vacations stitoition; Freedom of Speech,! Freedom of Religion, States Rights, and so forth. In order to protect our Const!- Mr. Rivers. “Still newspaperin*^, I guess?” Mr. Rivers’ was more SOCIAL AND PERSONAL j being rewarded by engaging Last Wednesday the September 'mature at her ripest moment, meeting of the House and Garden j But fall in the city is grand club.was held at the home of; too. Restaurants too far to reach Mrs. Jacob Cooper. Mrs. Paul, in hot weather now seem irresist- Neisler, president, presided. fble destinations for a lucnh- . hour walk. The hustle of the ride HORROR OK TELEVI&IOK , irritations of hotter weather. The Supreme Court of the statement than question. “Oh, j United States has done more than yes,^ I replied. “You know when’any other single body to under- you’re holding a bear by the tail it’s sometimes hard to turn loose.” He laughed. “Bet there are times you want to.” m-m The conversation turned to mine the Constitution. In their ef fort to protect the rights of in dividuals and criminals as in the Miranda and Gault cases, they (have distorted the real meaning politics. My friend is true to his newspaper’s name, both Demo crat and democrat. No, he didn’t go to Chicago, first time he’d of our Constitution, and this pro cess will continue until there is a change of personnel on the Bench. I look forward to getting a weekly newsletter from Semitor missed a Democratic convention Sam Ervin, Jr. because he is one in 20 or more years. “I had press tickets, but it didn’t suit to Ro. But I wasn’t scared of getting killed.” m-m How about Cousin Hubert Ho ratio? m-m Pretty good, if he doesn’t talk too much, he commented, add ing. “You remember what I said 29 years ago”. Not only did I re member. but I’ve told the story several hundred times. My vyife and I, married less than a week, were visiting with him and talk ing about the recent Philadelphia convention to which he had been ■a delegate. "I like Mr. Truman fine," I said, “but couldn’t you folk have chosen a candidate more popular.” m-m “I know what you mean," Mr. Rivers replied, “and I kinda had the same feeling until I got to Philadelphia. But you knew, I "an feel it coming on. About the first of October I’m going to be ‘he hottest Truman supporter in Wautauga County.” m-m He added that he had made articular point in Philadelphia o talk to working people, the 'ab drivers who took him to ':onvention Hall and the wait- ■esses in the restaurants. “Mar in,” he said, “the working peo- ile like Mr. Truman.” m-m Delegate Rivers showed siml- tr political prescience four ears later. He was one of five forth Carolina delegates (Kerr ‘cott was another) who vbt^ 'or nominee Adlai Stevenson on he first ballot. Tlie rest of the ’elegation were wasting their ■otes on Senator Richard Rus sell of Georgia. m-m Politics in Wautauga County is lard-fought. It is a close county ■nd neitiier Democrats nor Re publicans give much quarter. And the incidence of the "indepen dent” is infinitesimally sihall. tii Waut.igua, either you is or you ain’t”. fo the remaining stalwarts in de fending and protecting the Con stitution as its meaning was in tended by our forefathers who a- doplcd it On September 17, 1787. We should read the Constitu tion for ourselve.s and see its true meaning and in doing so, we shall all ga:in a true perspective on the meaning of respect of law and order and devotion to God and our Country. America will continue to progress under our Constitution. Let us do what we can to guide it in the right direc tion. George B. Thomasson Are there limits television re-j Yard chores are performed when porting should observe, or has it almost any excuse to be outdoors the license of a Goya to depict! is welcome, the horors of war? Films have] * hale time, which does been taken in Nigeria of a mur-1 not allow for petty abridgements der and a judicial execution. Is it!of vision. Welcome. right to show them, with or with out editing? The case for show-] ing them is part of the general; case for the truthful reporting, in j any m^ium, of events as they| happen. It is a good thing that! The Christian Science Monitor ADMITTED MONDAY Elliott Hill, Kings Mountain Shirley A. Barrett, Kings I Mountain Betty H. Beam, Cherryville Manning E. Carroll, Grover Louise L. Cole, Kings Moun tain S. T. Geentry, Kings Mountain Dennis R. Ledbetter, Kings Mountain Williams H. Lewis, Kings Mountain Steven D. Williams, Shelby Mildred D. Painter, Gastonia Arnold Philbeok, Grover Gail A. Ramy, Bessemer City Joyce L. Cook, Shelby Rebecca S. St. Laurent, Besse mer City OLD SOLDIER The most cheerful story we’ve people everywhere Should be noticed in this period of largely made aware of the nature of the uncheerful ones is the short item wars that are in progress. It ex- that General Dwight Eisenhower cites their concern and assists! i® making such favorable pro- their judgment. gross, following his seventh heart ADMITTED TUESDAY Gertrude Smith, Grover 'Blanche P. ’Turner, Gastonia Arthur Cooper, Belmont Television, because of the viva city of its images, is an especially potent instrument for doing this. Its coverage of the Vietnam war. attack, that daily bulletins on his health will be discontinued. 'I^e General’s indomitable courage is beginning to convince the nation Birth Announcements the occupation of Prague, and the. V’’*! some old soldiers not only Biafran conflict has undeniably! * u*® *’ut don’t even fade a- and beneficially heightened its Mr. and Mrs. Coy Bolin, Kings Mountain, a girl, September 11. LIKE SCOUTS, PREACHERS HAVE TO BE PREPARED Mail messages for Greensboro and Goldsboro often get mixed up. What is intended for Greensboro goes to Goldsboro and vice versa. The other Sunday First Presby terian church of Goldsboro had arranged to have a visiting pastor come from Richmond for the morning service. The pastor, mis taking the city which wanted him, bought a plane ticket to Greensboro. Arrivin’r at the Guilford capi- audience’s understanding of these conflicts. Where death, suffering and the commission of atrocities occur they are part of the charac ter of the conflict, and they ought to be made known. The case against showing films of the extremes of pain or savag ery is of a different kin.i. Nor ! dies it rest simply on a respect for people’s susceptibilities. Pi,ib- I lie executions were discontinued in this country long before exe cutions were discontinued. That was beeause they came to be de grading spectacles pandering to sadistic or morbid curiosity. The same objection can be raised when television bring.s a rubllc execution in verisimilitude into; every home. ...Apart from the' perversion which television films of such a kind can feed, there is the more straightforward conse quence that repeated exposure to vicarious brutality and suffering may induce callousness. It must remain a matter of The Wall Street Jourr.al Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bickley, Kings Mountain, a boy, Septem ber 12. fifAS ITS DRAWBACKS The trouble with blowing one’s own horn is that it seldom leaves any wind for climbing, — Con struction Digest. Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Rhodes, Bessemer City, a girl, September 12. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Anderson, Bessemer City, a girl, September 15. tal he asked someone at the air-| port desk to tell him how to get [judgment whether the showing of to the First Presbyterian church, la particular film does.more harm The party did. And the visitoi* than good in particular ciroum- went to the church before he dis-1 stances. But there are two gen- covered he was in the wrong city, j eral rules oi guidance to be ob- "rhe minister telephoned First [served. Details of suffering or Presbyterian in (Joldsboro and ex-1 brutality should never be shown plained his predicament. 1 beyond what is strictly necessary Fortunately the minister, son- to illuminate the public concern. In-law of Mrs. A. K. Robertson, he Rev. Jack Ware, of Port Ar thur, Texas, a Presbyterian min ister, was in a pew a!t Goldsboro’s First Presbyterian church wait ing for the service to begin. ’The ‘lead usher .touched him on the shoulder, whispered to him the story of the mix-up and asked him to fill the pulpit. The Rev. Mr. Ware agreed and went to the ptil^if to $e£in the service. Henry BMk in Ooldsbotk) News-Argus ing the ciiaracter oi the events reported. And never should tele vision camera teams film events of this kind which appear in any! ■way to be staged for their bene fit, or influenced for the worse by their presence. The general tendency of television to modify the course of an event merely by its presence is well known. It is not impossible that this tendency could aiCgravafe s'avdlgieries it is sought to record. The Tim«)s (Londoml Keep Youi fiadio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT lOmp Moaitlaiii, ILC. News Sc W^<3th«r evBiry hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainiReilf M - -M' BACK day ni (50). V The Cc Patriots fOiason V Juhn Gs Slielby. The P ter Grigf play a si ■m Oct. : The th i’atriots (lay). Be 'Oct. 16) All hoi CENT] ’layer foith Fi ’’i-etl VVi )avid C larlen I fai-k G( pmy St jii-ry T jrk Fa alvin C lus Ha; I'ent Li .Ifi’ed / ,andy I Jan Pa )on Bor ’i-ed \Vi ohn Br Jyi'on ( ’rank S ’lank V Jhris Jo Phil Bra Warren Jerry B1 Barry Ji Bernard Jackife I R'qnie ittjiGoo IVffi'CUS Jake Bri V
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