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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.
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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,
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“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:
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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.”
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“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.
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