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Page 2 '“T KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thursday, December 5, I96P Established 1889 ••if'' The Kings Mountain Herald A weekly 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. Martin Harmon EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Miss Elizabeth Stewart . MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Dave Weathers, Supt. Allen Myers Paul Jackson Steve Martin Kay Barrett 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 MARTIN'S MIDICINI HAKtOl iU|iM«N Thanlcsgivlng was a rot^ ^ay for pofttofts thfi J- C- family wd yet they hi|U as'nnwh to be thankful as <i\ imy previous ThatikdgfYblR .holiday, ihd per- haips most ever. ^ Mr. and Mrs. Bridges were re turning daughter Jo to her stu dies at Lenoir-fthyne oollew. A’ bout five miles north at Lindoiln- ton oh the Stariawn raaid Ihere were suddenly dead ahead ^o large obstructions. Thete was a cohsidetable crash. m-ai TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Ami I gavfl them my atntiiten, and eheu^d them my judgments, whirh, if a man do, he shall en tire in them. Ezekiel .10:11. County Government The commission make-up is three freshmen, two holdovers, with B. E. (Pop) Simmons, one of the holdovers the new chairman. There has been some public viewing of alarm about what the new men, who unseated three incumbents, will do. County Manager Joe Hendrick is depart ing to Lumberton and a very obvious fear — generating a campaign with some measure of pressure —that the new men would abandon the manager system and revert to the old one, where department heads would be directly re sponsible to the commission. New member Fritz Morehead cam paigned as much against the manager as against his opponents and his victory ex cited citizens dedicated to the manager form of government (which this news paper does not prefer). The populace of Cleveland need not fear for several reasons, principal among them: 1) county commissioners are strictly limited by law as to what they can do; 2) minus raising tax rates county commissioners are strictly limited as to what they can do; and 3) the look at government (at any level) is much dif ferent from the responsible inside than from the challenging outside. As to the county board of educa tion, platforms of the winners were for traditional better schools, spelled out in to a supplement for operations. Here lies the problem of both boards. Kings Mountain citizens voice fre quently at tax-paying time, “I don’t mind paying my city tax bill but that big county bill makes me mad. " Liklihood, of course, is that the county bill will get bigger for the simple rea.son that the county’s revenue from other than ad valorem taxes is puny in deed. It was patently shown in the in stance of Kings Mountain Hospital’s plea for a seemingly small $100,000 to aug ment its construction funds. Here, for the county board, there was only one avenue. The $100,000 had to come from non-tax sources and was inst not thor-^. Otherwise, the $100,000 had to be VOteN by the people or be derived {ren tlM three steps torward, two oacKwai u uona- ed debt rule. A special state commission is study ing the problem of local government fi nancing and will report soon. Mecklenburg showed the way by voting a one percent sales tax, which may be the best and easiest route to easier financial strains (they’ll never be easy) for local governments. Add Note On Extension A petitioner for city limits extension of the city limits to the southwest passes on an added potential benefit for these citizens who want to become city tax payers. The Herald mentioned a half-dozen last week, hadn’t thought of this one. Property taxes, the petitioner point ed out, are deductible items every April 1.5 on federal and state income tax re turns. Assuming minimal income tax payments, a $100 local tax bill should net out at about $80. Congratulations to Carl B. Moss, newly-named dean and vice-president of King’s Business college. Compact Notes Three new county commissioners were sworn Monday along with ail mem bers of the county board of education, only one of whom was a holdover mem ber. There is yet another angle. Learning to i.> been the easiest cho The Chicdfe Repert Temperance r Schools are prone to become emo tional subjects, at least those one has served or attended. Alumni dig into their pocketbooks for annual giving cam paigns, building funds, semi-professional athletic teams, and other excuses lor giving. A Tough Christmas List /A' KINGS MOUNTAIW^ Hospital Lo^ VISITINO HOURS 3 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 8 pja Dally 10:30 To lli30 Two, horses were on the hood, into the windeitield arid catapult ing over the car’s long roof. Olass was raining inside. at-aa The poor, horses vrere down, with broken fegs. 'The sfatibh wagon Was a mess. Thus the Compact friends’ plea for maintenance of Compact as a .school is quite understandable. The plea is further understandable when one peruses the history of Com pact, unknown it is estimated to majority of Kings Mountain citizens, as to tne Herald, until the historical report of last week. It is quite interesting that this school dates to 1872 and the demise of the Reconstruction era Freedman’s Bu reau school. “Integration is fine, but we want Compact whether integrated or not,” the Compact Parents Association declared. It is not to be, per the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the ministrations ot the Office of Education, Department of Health, Education and Weliare. A S'’' -''’ '“icial remarked recent ly: “Our prou. l*'is. De-segregation we have; inug t« * have not. " tether has never The three Bridges, miraculous ly, were unhurt. a»-ia I didn’t confirm this, but a ifriend said Bdith, when she brushed her hair, created another, gloss shower. Op- • The horses had to be destroy ed. They proved to be the proper ty of Harold Deal, of Hickory, who when he came to the scene, found the gate of the barn lot'one of the mb^t unlocked and nine more df his essential-of {dl Vie¥fpoints of Other Editors * I IMHITB HQURE HISTORIAN prized horses gamboling on th^ green, happily riot on the road bed. m-m How did the horses get out? m-m Mr. Deal speculatls that some careless hunter, or hunters, 1^ the gate open. m-At To criticize our own brethren of the communications world may be un-meet, but the Herald feels 1) the newspaper and television people overplayed the Chi cago mess at the Democratic convention and 2) overplayed the report released this week on the alleged “police riot” of Chicago police. The strong arm of the law being wantonly strong-armed deserves public attack. But the strong arm tactics of will fully disrupting hippies, ’way out stu dents, and others deserve equally strong public attack. Mayor Richard Daley said last spring that he would talk after order was established, but that the order would come first. He, with the aid of the Chicago po lice force, simply kept his word. Notably, Negroes were not involved in the Chicago business. After the serious Chicago racial troubles a couple or three years ago, the Negro leadership decided to take the positive approach of law and order with redress of grievances to be obtained through regular channels. And, before the convention. Mayor Daley passed the word the Negro com munity could hot participate in riots and get largess from City Hall at the same time. This doesn’t concern the subject of temperance — at the bar, the dinner table, or several other spots people tend to over-exert themselves. It concerns the statement of Sena tor Roman Hriiska, of Nebraska, who called down the zealots, seeking identi fication with a popular vote-getting movement or absolutely sincere, in the hearings underway to deterrnihe “why” of the high cost of automotive repairs. While the zealots sought to damn just about the whole of the auto indus try, from Detroit to guy at thb karagb down the street, Senator Hruska remind ed that hearings are to determine the facts, not for mass condemnations. Wage scales at the auto assembly lines, where the parts are made, and otherwise, are pretty well known. Cars are somewhat more complicated than in the days of the famed T-Model Ford. Senator Hruska vt'asn’t particularly defending anybody. was niereiy ing some of his fellow legislators to calm down. Or should one say '‘cool It"? ^wnaget to th« Br^tgea ou* have not yet beeti estimated by inauranee adjustors. J. C. philos- ophizes, “You can buy a now Car, not another ILfC.'* Any average treatise oh White House aides.i(nd a^istants to the President W0UW fpil to mention ubiquitous and (to President Johnson at least); He is,the Pres ident’s "ojfleial''. photogf-sipher, by nsihe o^, Yolchi; Robert Oka- motfl- , He said he and all passengers were riding with fheir seat bielts fastened securely, MUhks this ipet saved the three from very serious If you hapien to an ambas- sador visi^ne tfe White House, let' US say,'«td you noticed an able, tactful mpn clickinsr his camera ai ariy and every sort of meeting (even when no press lRiotegra|8iei« were on hand) that was “Olile.” This Yonkers- bom iridividaai woriied for the U. S; 'Infonoatlon Agency and be gan snapping LftJ when he was viceipresldent. fie dW so well that he was brought to' the White House when Jqlmapn took office. 'Mr. Okamoto reWrned to USIA suddeply, for a tlmej when a re porter disciosbd that, he had tak en DiODB phetbg qf tiie'President in pis first sevep weeks of olMice. Bpi aftw the . 1864 elections, he returned. The ebulilcrtt LfflJ has g Texas- injury, perhaps their lives. It fonmptipn of a president’s wae an harrowing eiqWrienoe. fN* "*_■*:*. kware Ten Years Ago Items of interest which occur- 3d approjnmately ten years ago David Plonk, Kings Mountain high school senior, is among three Cleveland County high school seniors nominated for a 1959 Morehead Scholarship to the Uni versity of North Carolina. Grover Community took fourth place honors in the Piedmont Area Development county develgpment WHY EMBARRASSED? PA'nENTS IN KINCB MOU: HOSPITAL AS OF NOON NESDAY: Mr. Hobeit Metcalf Mrs. Huren Dellinger Mrs. Fannie Furse ■Mrs. Ida Hamrick Mrs. A<|uilla Huffstetle:' Mrs. Homes Kilgare ■Mrs. Elliott .McCleai-y Mrs. Maggie McClain Mrs. Arlliur Patterson ■Mr. Nathaniel Alexander Miss Nancy Childers Hoyt Dai by Elizabeth Fitcli Mrs. Carl Frazier Mr. .M. L. Harmon, Sr. Mr. Charles Franklin Harry .M. William Hastings Mr. Arthur Hawkins Mr. J. D. Hord Mr. William Houser Mrs. Sidney Hufstetler Mr. Oscar Huffstickler Sheila John.son Mrs. Mack Jordan Mr. David Lawing Mrs. Harold Loftin Mr. Bobby Lovelace Mrs. Florence Lynn . '.Mrs. Elmer Martin A Mr. James Moss I Mrs, Amzie McClain Mrs. Charlie Powell William Charles Putnam Mrs. Paul Sanders Mrs. Ida Smith Mrs. Ernest Smith Mrs. Childs Wood Mrs. Clara Wright Sharon Byers ADMITTED THURSDAY Brenda Kay Lowe, Fourth St. 1 Mrs. Bertha Martin, 501 L^ S24 ;:,N Jr., St., Blacksburg. S. C. ADMITTED FRIDAY Mrs. A. R. Hawkins, Walnut St. Mrs. Jimmy Curry, Rt. 2 : Mrs. Donald .Sisk, P.O. Box ifjl ■ ADMITTED SATURDAY Jim Nabors, young actor fioni| Mrs. Bobby ,Toe Cates, KRl Sylacauga who plays Comer Pyle,j RlflRP St., Gastonia ; made news when he was over- Nr. William Cockrell, Grovetr, come by the temptation to buy a I N. C. Rolls-Royce. “Me and my sl.sters Mrs. Henry File, Rt. 2 —‘Ruth and Freddie—used to Mrs. David Campbell, 202 walk every place in Sylucaugii oi l Washington Ave., Bes.s»mer City hitch rides. I fell in love with Mr. Claude Palmer Camp, Gro- this car and I just felt I had to! ''"r. N. C. have it.” < ADMITTED SUNDAY Mrs. Lois Nivens, 30R Parke^ . I bought it, but not wilh-| ij^j, . fjpnoon PO Box l-llS Sst iC ?ash^ n*’’’"''‘a" Mr Llovd Hall, 307 E. Le s! . _ ....1 conte^, it I fashion. The question ,.s, why! 3 g pj,„ was annourteed today at a Char-. induged himself in such luxurious “vs:>‘-mer v,ny lotte luncheon. | should he feel guilty? He's hit it I big In the entertainment business, i Why shouldn’t he be able to blow Mrs. Ersten Watterson and | a bundle on an expensive oar daughters, Lynda and Vickie, are 1 without pangs of conscience? visiting Mrs. Watterson’s parents , .... "tSlw. “ - ■M.iiCarJIon H.nr,. 2T,» first return to her native land. Joyce Lovelace Whetstine and Walter Edwin Babb were mar ried Saturday at 5 p.m. in Besse- SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. Lewis Benfield, 023 Ath- enia Place. Be.ssemer City Mcs. Julia Dawkins, 207 Can.s- i ler St. Mrs. Willv West. Rt. 1 ADMITTED MONDAY ■Mrs. William Hudson, Mrs. Samuel Hopper, Cherryville Grovcf Rt. 2, ■i-m Does Alslktnia opeq stock laiw? still have fvt that hif;tqflari4 -f- appreciating a plctb|1ai as well as a wbrdy rcc- dPd — will value an Intimate, oortj^te holographic collection which his caug.ht a vigorous ptbsWent at. rhoiijbnts great and sqj8.ll-.—whether conferring in top aicpet session or admiring his graridsbh. Years ago eight of uS then- young coliege yduths sveie en route, in station wagon, to titw Orleans on a fixnball jiuilt. Somewhere in the wilds of Ala bama, in the 2(}-mlle stretch be tween Mcmtgoiripry and M'Obllei In the wee hburs^f the mornUiig, there suddenly appeared in |he headlights a large cow. The swerve was ■ stucescful. mer City’s Ragan Mill Wesleyan •Methodist church. Jane Hayes, Bethware high School senior, will represent that :communlty as ‘iMiss Bethware” in the Shelby Christmas parade. NEWSPAPERS' FUTURE There is a bright future for quality newspapers in the 1970s, according to Lord Thomson of Fleet. .’17 N. American mores about the us-' ofi Gastonia wealth, David iBrinkley's com-1 Nrs. David Burris, Jr. ment about sums it up: “An at-i titude widely held in this country' Nrs. H. C. Bell, 203 N. Walter-1 (but almost nowhere elsei is that's"!! it may not always be sinful toi 'Nrs. Billy Allison, 419 N, Pied- have a lot of money, but it isi mont vaguely sinful to enjoy it and un-' Nr. James Welch, .507 Broad' forgivably sinful to do so iq pub- lie.' The Alabama Journal THE LONG-HAIRS At that time. Al^^kamiaAs let their stock roam fKe. ft was said that motoriats who had the mlalfartune to wrspk with a seroh cow, spavined mule, or ritfrawny hog, paid long bloodline prii for their dastardly crimes. M-m The auto, of course, has been a dangerous animal evef, whidh can rear, buck, and 1^ pt a moment's notice. <q-Di Mrs. JakxA) Coopcr iewntly, 4it route to Charlotte, sA» a oaf suddenly swerve, gytHtic tjif^ times in the road. He was luc^ the closest oar wasp’t quite doae enough. She speoulaJes the qAC hit a sliek sMt an the road, tm it wag a eold dpy. as-n I’ve disenjoyCd that Kperience twice and hope never ro W^WI- ence it agalh. jity frijffllk of tine first one, cirdifn 1940, were Jim Anthony, the cnaifHietv, andSEFea Firtget., The sWon& rani <ir«a a few years ago, on l^riwntaa Hve, the Gteeranftajilbmig hlgMray, tny Wife my jiaaM^igkr, (Which ground tsdval If there is an unsightly _ but more and more common -- phe- . nomenon it is a school bov with The Plain ^aler concurs in his, hair as long as a girl’s. Only two estimated; assessment. It also is In agree-1 things seem more out of place the condition he at-1 The first is a school io, somehow,' an 1,000 photagra^'s have accum-! ment with ..i- ; me iirst is a school tonoho.. ulaMid. Same Wjfl go 16 the LBJ | tpches—that in order to bo sue- standing in front of a picture of llbraty at tftf yniversity of Tex-! cessful, those who print the news George Washineton telling a o!as? ad. We wouyn't want have to must understand the role of the StotMMrlia* dkasetaaraU. AKiw — I wbindw through the otfiers, if the iRovitig iian twis waitiiiig at-the door. - If President kepnedy. had His ,"lri|t8hC hlatorian" 'at the White Housp, Lyndon- Johnson has had his “instant - pictorial’’ historian. OHristian Science Monitor THE LAST RAII-IIAH Resolved:- That the university ii ifn institution should’ tqke a mote active rtrie in social service. ’Dits qqestion is being debated press in the electronic age and '‘shape it so that it is complemen tary to and not just competitive yvith new media.” The -fast advance of hi’her ed ucation requires the quality news paper to be published for a more intelligent . readersliip, and it must be written and edited by ever-better educated and trained persons. The medium of television con- fy the human appetite for news, tinues to whet rather than satis- Not only does it create demand for thorougiht explanation of the avel-mare earnestly today by thel^®*® “ bulletins, it presses up- ■' on the newspaper industry to speed up its own technological advance, in Thppison's view, ami CMlumbtik's Jacques Bdrzun, for eigample, arguCs that the univer sity sHduld stress the liberal edu cation of students rather thdn al low tba school’g energy to be sapped by social activist projects. One sign of the student mood is fhe decline of the fratenjity and aorbrity. At the University of California at Berkeley, t h e d^rth of new .pledges has led to dstimatM that naif the edmpus’s 39 fiWts will soon fold. Those tliat fare iiirviviriig have had to dhdef'take commuriity projects, ifid, iudridoriih^ policies of ex- oHislon, admit Oriental^ d n d bUicks. •W. ttr or ’The one-time fun days o| pledg ing, haziqg, arid of homeeeming queens sdem reniiote for todiw’s dtmfius. When young pei^le fr? brought together more arid more by eaUsee, social and pollticaj, mere |s somethihg tiaivfcl^ poig- na>It fit the Itme^ of one un- siKxHisnuI fratcenjiy recruiter; “We were just looking fOr the Kirid of g^4 Whb'd fit in With the rest of us — fhe kind of fel- IbW ytni’d do budihess d^th later.” rkd OHatiap JMpum JfMkor that boys with long hair are un- American. The second is a Sun day School teacher in front of a picture of the man from Naza reth telling a class that boys with long hair are'un-Christian. *Tha ,Na.shvi!le Tennessean Navy ships carry special flags to fly when the President, vice president and other high-ranking navy officials are aboard. Mr, Thomas Turner, .306 E. Ga. Ave., Bessemer City Went Bankrupt Mark 'r w a i n CS a m u e li' Clemens), wliose boolc, “In nocents Abroad.■’ gros.sed more , than $.500,000 for his publishers when the auttior was still in his .30s, was bankrupt.by the time he was 58 due to bad business investments. French Cravat The cravat, as a term for a -man's necktie, was originated by the French in tlie reign of I.oiiis XlV to describe the neck scarf worn by the Croatian sold iers enlisted in the RnvaL Croatian regiment. ours, that which brings about more efficient production and distribution of a better product has obvious benefits both for netwapapers and their readers. Thomson sees room for new newspapers to be started in lo cal areas -where population shifts occur. He -also sees a need for the established press to lend a hand to the development of news papers in developing countries. Those are not the words of an erithusiastic newcomer to news- pajjering. They are from a man who heads one of the world's largest publishing empires. At afd 74, Lord Thomsoh continues to demonstrate his tremendous capacity for thinking ahead. Lord Thomson’s view of news papers in the 19708 is wide-angle, not limited in focus or scope to Great Britain and Canada where his enterprises are best known. He js especially qualified to in clude the Atnurtcan seeqe because among his extensive holdings are mqre than SO newspapers in the United Sttlfcs, several of them in Oftjio. The press ini the public it serVes can Df^lt from his fore- auMt—Thf Plain Dealfr ■ Keep Your Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. Ne’ws & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between Tl'
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