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fGNGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. &
Monday, December 23,
Established 1889
•s- The Kings Monntain 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
und('r Act of Congress of March 3, 1873.
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
IV/irii ihci! fiiiw jtfir 'atai-, tht-i/ firjoiml tvilli tczcvL-dmij yrrnt joy. ^ ^St. Matthew 2:10.
Christmas 1968
Christmas 1908,
change. . . .
Some items:
United Stales astronauts are orbiting
the moon.
The United States is soon to have a
new national administration with impli
cations of change on both domestic and
foreign policies.
North Carolina will have a new ad
ministration.
Kings Mountain is changing, too.
A largo new area has been anne.xod
to the city.
Major public works projects are a)
nearing completion, b) in process, or c)
on the threshold of beginning.
All the larger implications further
imply changes for individuals, as well,
here and elsewhere.
Hopefully, the captured crew of U.SS
Pueblo will be freed by the North Ko
reans, as were the eleven army men re
patriated by Cambodia in time for Christ
mas.
Painfully, the Scriptures remind of
man’s inability to live with his neighbor.
The Arab and Israeli cousins con
tinue to hate each other and to express
this hate with sporadic shooting.
The Vietnam peace talks remain
bogged in the mire of detailed protocol
as the shooting continues.
There are many generic prayers to
be offered this Christmas season; for
success of the new Nixon Administration;
for the safe return of the men in space,
and again, for peace among nations and
among neighbors.
Keeping The Faith
For many years the phrase “if and
when” has regularly appeared in minutes
of the city board of commissioners, the
phrase usually being couched in motions
to approve street improvements peti
tions.
The meaning is clear: the work will
bo done when the city treasury’s funds
permit. Work has been proceeding well
over the past many years and there are
not great numbers of unfulfilled “if and
when’s” remaining.
A similar, if unstated, policy has
been the rule in welcoming citizens of
newly annexed areas into the city.
For small groups, annexation has
meant immediate provision of fire-fight
ing, police, and garbage removal serv
ices, with the others requiring more time
and money to be provided “if and when”.
Thus citizens of the city’s new
southwest area will be pleased to learn
that the city sanitation department will
soon be making their residences regular
runs on this important service.
The city is keeping the faith.
Congratulations to Miss Beverly
Willis, Western Carolina University sen
ior, named for “Who’s Who among Stu
dents in American Colleges and Univers
ities”.
The unsafe driving season—or the
unsafest sea.son — is at hand. Holiday
seasons of all kinds produce more traffic,
more carelessness, more hurry and more
wrecks. The Christma.s-New Year season
adds the hazard often of nasty weather
and unsafer driving conditions.
Hijacking and Hope
Christmas of
Perhaps the same, as that Christmas
nearly two thousand years ago, could he
similarly categorized.
A lot of folk boarding an airplane
from Boston south for a southern destin
ation jest about the possibility of making
an unscheduled landing in Havana rath
er than Miami or other point.
If not commonplace, considering the
ratio of number of flights to those hi
jacked, a goodly number of passengers
tor the past several months have touch
ed down in Havana, the pilot intentional
ly off course because he has a pistol
pointed at him along with the flight in
structions or, iri the instance of the East
ern Airlines pilot the past week, with the
threat of blowing the big ship and her
passengers to kingdom come with a load
of TNI'. The pilot didn’t necessarily be
lieve the threat but commented, “The
threat itself was sufficient.”
Strangely, though, the pattern of hi
jacking has been as similar as the twin
results. The hijackers are taken imme
diately into Castro custody and the pi
lots, with passengers, routed to original
ports of destination.
Is Castro relaxing his hate for the
United States and is there a possibility
that in the not too distant future this isle
90 miles off the coast of Florida might
once again be a regular port of call for
United States planes and ships, for vaca
tion-bound tourists, and merchants buy
ing Cuban sugar in return for U. S.-made
goods?
Perhaps it is too much to hope.
A recent Columbia Broadcasting
System “special” on television accented
anti-United States propaganda at vir
tually all levels, grade school up, and in
dicated the Cuban peon is eating and
living better than in the days of Dictator
Batista.
But the over-all picture for Cuba
has not been brilliant. She is heavily de
pendent on Russia and Communist China
for economic breadfruit.
Militarily, the Florida coast remains
just 90 .short miles away and then there
is the United States naval bastion at
Guantanamo Bay on her own east coast.
Home Rule Issue
Advance indications on the upcom
ing report of the legislative commission
studying needed constitutional changes
are that some recommendations will be
forthcoming to grant counties and cities
more authority in deciding what the lo
cal governments will do concerning their
own problems.
The subject is popularly known as
“home rule”.
The commission on constitution re
vision has worked closely with the joint
legislative committee studying the pro
blems of local government, of which two
Clevelanders, Senator Jack White and
Representative Robert Falls are mem
bers.
There are several areas in which the
General Assembly could relieve itself of
many bothersome, or, at least, time-con
suming bills which should not be the
province of the General Assembly. For
examples here are some, it could be safe
ly contended that the New Hanover dele
gation could hardly care less what Kings
Mountain chooses to pay its mayor and
commissioners. For and upcoming case
in point, it can be safely contended 99
percent of the General Assembly could
hardly care less how Kings Mountain
changes its political geography to imple
ment the recent annexation to the south
west.
If the Herald memory is correct, the
number of local bills processed in the
1967 session of the legislature far out
numbered the general bills or bills of
state-wide import.
General Assembly reluctance to part
with power has been a major factor in
the unsuccessful efforts for more home
rule in the past. Legislative appoint
ments of magistrates and boards of edu
cation were factors therein, and these
are no longer operative.
Home rule won’t be complete but a
relaxation of requirements for counties
cities to run to Raleigh for everything is
expected to be offered the voters for de
cision.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
By MAR'HN HARMON
I do not nominally spend much
time with the television talkbox,
but gave it more .Satuiday than
On any rect-nt day.
KINGS mountain
Hospital Loqf
vrsjTiiirG HOURS
3 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 8 p.m.
Dally 10:30 To 11:30 oja.
PA'nENTS IN KINGS MOUNTAl
HOSPITAL AS OF NOON WEP
tneSDAY:
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Tlie morning eggs and I cony
pletcd our business just in time,
fo tune in for the waning minutes j
of countdown before the Apolloi
d UD-'
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Astronauts were catapulted up
ward and outiward for a close
Christmas season look at the
moon. I did mot envy these three
men their .seats, thor.gh I envied
their courage.
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When the tube brought throui’h
their cut-off of the first stage
engine the burst of flame looked
a.s if the whole apparatus was
going. The folk watching on col
or sets report they got an even
bigger, chillier thi-ill.
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Man has arways been challeng
ed by the unkno^vn. Whether it
was Eric the Red (earlier) or
Columbus of 14f>?. both fi.-.i'-rvi
here was somethitJig more thaN
falUl f at the end o,. .iic
and they were right. The Astro-]
nauts of today, in contrast to the
legendary Jason and friends,*
searching for the Golden Fleece, j
have to compensate for what the I
world since 1M5 has come to]
know as fall-out.
THROUGH HESU^i
Christ OUR lordi
20MAN9
Mr. James Le.ach, Jr.
Mrs. Doris Harris
.Mr. Walker AriohV(K)d
Mr. Wc.sley R. Baily
Mrs, David Camiphell
Mr. Hubert G. Demmons
Mr. Kemp Ledfoild
.Mrs. Ora D. .Mauney
Mr. Joseph E. Melloii
Mrs. .Mattie M. Mellon
.Mrs. Ethel Mullens
.Mrs, Minnie Plilft'r
Mrs. Gussie Ra.vfield
Sharon Hyers
Mr. Ha.s-kel L. Clark
Mr. Doytt E. Falls
Mr. Richai-d E. Fite
Mrs. Jack E. Gaddy
Mr. John S. Gladden
.Ml'. Lloyd Hall
Mr. Marlin L. Harmon, .Sr.
Mr, J. D. Hord
-Mr. William Houser
Mrs. Sidney D. HiJ.fsIc-tler
Sheila Jrtbn.son
Mrs. Mack Jordan
Mrs. Jessie M. Rlppy
Mrs. Paul .Sanders
Mrs. Ida Smith ^
Mr. Jimmy Wells H
Clara Wright ^
Mrs. Rachel Rrafcher
Mrs. Lola Mae Morris
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A watdhing Winn-Dixie’s “Win
With the Stars” (I didn’t), a show
I like because the tunes are us
ually vintage one, two an'J. three
decades ai?o, I stayed with Jackie
Gleason’s Christmas show and its
choreographic presentation of the
fairy tales Of childhood. There
were Old Mother Hubbard, who
had so many children she didn’t
ADMITTED THURSDAY
Mr. Eddie .M. Adcock, City
Lany C. Webster, City
Mrs. Clint H. Day, Bessemer
City
Viewpoints of Other Editors
CHRISTMAS I
On Christmas Day a soldier in*
Vietnam, dirty with jungle: mud|
■and blood, w'ill tear open a letter
from home. For a few moments:
know what to do, the march of [he will forget his bone-aching
the tin soldiers, the three bears!fatigue, remembering boyhood]
and Goldilocks, and many more, days with his family and the ex-
Cl was afrafd Little Bear wasicitement of getting
going to lose his diapers, but he gifts
SPACEBALL
Ten Years Ago
ttems of interest xchich Oecnr-
:d aiiproximately ten years ago
ADMITTED FRIDAY
Mrs. Stephen E. Brown, Besso
mer City
Mrs. Willie E. Hamhright, City
Mrs, Ollie M. Roberts, City
•Mr. Lorn L. Barkley, City
'Mr. Bratx-y Moore, City
iMi's. Carrie M. Price, Bessemor
If a baseball game were re
ported in the jargon of a space City
mission, the batter would actuatel Mrs. Laurence Allen, City
his interception device in an ef-| Mrs. Washington Wilson, City
didn’t.) And Gleason was at his
pantomimic best.
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Then I switched channels to
The sour-sKveait smell of bar
racks and the dank green odor
of jungle camp-s will be replaced
by the smell of white .sheets on
the old bed at home on Christ-
Lawrerfee Welk’s Christmas an-i™’®^ Eve, the pungence of Christ-
nicity, in which he features fam- trees and the aroma of food
ilies of his musicians, leadingoff: mother’s kitchen. The
with the largest family. It would
, Mrs. Henry Neisler won first
ami giving place in the door decorating con-
te.st and Mrs. W. K. Mauney, Jr.
copped second place honors in
the contest sponsored by the
House and Garden club.
St. Matthew’s Lutheran church
will hold the traditional Christ
mas Eve Musicale at 11 p.m.
Wednesday nig'ht.
College students will present
fort to impact a horsehide mod-,
ule over the left field fence. I Ai^ITTED SATURDAY
Thomas A. BreakfieM, City
Of course, if the integrity otj Samuel P. Stewart, Gii-
his swing were le.ss than A-OK,l tonia
his strike configuration might be
such that he would have to
egress the batter’s box.
Destruct the um-pirel j
Winston-Salem \(N. \C.) fSentinrl
Mrs. Sarah Littlejohn, City
Mrs. No)'man E. .Sipe, City
Mrs. Glonaid Owens, Gastrmial
ADMITTED SUNDAY ,
iMrs. Joe D. Bratton, Kuii
HONORING CHRISTMAS
appear that the papas should
look to their laurels and keep
sharp. The youngsters are com
ing of age in the mu.sical world,
too.
in-in
No, I didn’t invest in Bing Cros
by, Danny Kaye, Rosemary CIoo-
lusion wiU be gone even beforo|the program at Sunday services
the leKer is finished and that; at First Pi’esbyterian church,
soldier will long for peace, more
than you or I who have never SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
lived on a battlefield can ever]
“I will honor Christmas in my
heart, and try to keep it all
ycai.”
So wrote Charles Dickens, for
whom Christmas was a favorite
tn«^incr’ timt ^ Completed plans for her marriage^ topic — so much s)«) that moat
fra meaning that has gone out Darrell Loyd A’ustin which j people, asked to name somepne
who wrote albout
df his life.
As long as that soldier Ifeels
joy from no more than the rcad-
Loyd
will take place Sunday, Decern
J „ , , I in'g of a letter on a battlefield, i
ney, and Dean Jaggers Wnite qj. has hope expressed as a long-
Chnstmas again. I must have if,g peace, or repents through
seen that one three to four times - -
her 28th, at 4 p.m.
Methodist church.
in Central
already. The tune, of course,
brings back interesting memories
but not of a white Christmas. I
tears for lost meaning, we know
that God is alive.
(From Kerygma Feaitures — a
Christmas,
answer.
BROKEN A-STRING
Pianist Vladimir Horowitz wasi
deep in Racbmaninotf’s B Flat
service of the Division of Over-'Sonata during a concert in New
Hrst heard it at the old Kinglg^^^ Ministries, National (Council' York City when the piano went
i Of the Churches of CTirist, U. S.)
IN THE BLACK
George V hotel, where I was a
domicile, in February 1943, the
hotel being located in Casablanca,
French Morrocco. The French cele
brate Christmas the same time we
do. But the song “White Christ-! "went out of business last Decem-
mas” arrived with a young navy ■ ber. a small committee of con-
lad name^ Levin who’d still been i gresswomen got together and
boing.” Mr. Hoixjwitz pressed
onward, and then the piano made
a jangling sound.
The pianist paused while a
When the House beauty salon I technician raced onstage and
snipped a broken A-string from
the bass area of the instrument.
would immediately
"Dickens.”
Not only Dickens, but almost
every writer, from 4he little-
known to the famous, has been
inspired at some time in his ca
reer to “honor Christmas” in
prose oi- poetry. For instance —
At Christmas I no more desire a
rose
Than wis'h a snow in May’s new
fangled mirth.
But like ol each thing that in
season grows.
William Shakespeare
Creek, S. C. ,
.Mrs. Claude E. Andcrson,,City
Ltndaunted Mr. Horowitz backed
! At
and make
stateside. The hotel lobby boa.sted | took it o\'Pr. To finance the sa-
a Diano and Levin could play.... j Ion. operated for the benefit of
“White Christmas” period. , congresswomen, congressme n ’ s
[wives, and female members ofjderous and he played
******* ‘House office staffs, the ladies. cores.
The lads at the postoffice were for a loan of $15,000 from | Lesser artists would have been
the House contingency fund. Thei undone by a broken A-string, and
Christmas play
up a few measures and plunged i S.*'**''’ u .
back into the work, w-^en her°''"
year.
Thomas Tus.ser
finished the applause was thun-'
four en
closing shop at 3 p.m. Saturday
afternoon and were declaring 1)
the peak passed and 2) volume
diminished, which is hard to ana
lyze. 1) I have some out-going
■Stuff yet, in the true last-minute
tradition, and 2) my incoming has
been heavy with a profusion of
greetings from far and near.
My most distant greeting came
from my around ■ the . corner
neighbor, except that Lt.-Col. Bob
Cox is not around the corner at
loan was approved
The ladies hired a new manag
er to run the salon, and now
rules were established. The com
mittee wanted the salon to oper
ate in the black, so the word
went out; Patrons df the salon
would have to pay prices compe
titive to those charged in other
salons; nothing would be free.
Under their guidance, the salon
has prospered. This week. Con
gressman Martha Griffiths re
turned $7,500 of the borrowed
money to the Hoiuse. She said
Mr. Horowitz is not noted as the
least temperamental of pianists.
We suspect h i s performance
gained him some new fans. One
doesn’t have to know anythin'^
about music to admire a man
who keeps his cool in trying cir
cumstances.
Boston Herald Traveler
PREACHING
ISN'T PRACTICED
The congress required that the
president cut spending by $6 bill
ion. At the same time It boosted
For somehow, not only at Christ
mas, but all the long year
through,
The jo>' .that you give to others
is the joy that comes back
to you.
John Greenleaf Whittier
——, a « •
England was merry Bhigland
iwhen
Old Christmas brought his sports
again.
Sir Walter iScott
For the children, this is tin'
very best Christmas that ever
was. The adults agree — b4t still,
they look back a little wistJ
at the Christmases of yesleil
with nostalgic thoughts oi
good old-ifashioncd Christmas,’’
or of a special Christmas mem
or>'.
■Memories enhance the seasonal
joys, and with good reason, for
Christmas is a memorable time
Since tile first Holy Night, some
of the most important events of
both religious and secular his
tory have taken place at the
Christmas season.
A look at the past reveals mo
mentous occasions, joyous or
poignant, as well as many of the
little thinirs that give bygone
times living meaning - and all
taking place on or about Christ
mas Day.
And soft and sweet the words re
peat.
“God is not dead, nor doth he
sleep."
Henry Wadsv/orth
Longfellow
the moment, but spending me iml-1 ;ran,rha^^^^^^ remain-
P '"'g would be repaid early'(he congressional budget to al-i
in 1969, and that the salon there-l mo.st $300 billion. It called on the;
'Yllmmgton, used j giffpr. for the first time in 33 president to cut payrolls. Mean-;
torp^h?it P'e-'years, would pay the House an while congressional payrolls have |
I heard the bells on Christmas
Day
Their old familiar carols play,
■So shall we learn to understand
The simple faith of shepherds
then.
And clasping kindly hand in
hand,
.Sing, Peace on earth, gotxl will
to men!"
James Rus.sell Lowell
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'Happy Christmas to all, a;
' all a goodnight.”
Clement Clarke Mo(
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inp^i’in*7Mnp%ho annual sum in lieu of rent,
ing up. Julie, the eldest, graduated I The ladies’ success inputting
the beauty salon on a profitable
basis prompted some suggestions
from college and acquired a bus
band. The Mortons are pictured
in front of the quaint Linville
church in which Julie wa.s wed.
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Whatta you want for Christ
mas? There are those $a50 shoes
at a Charlotte store (shoes $50,
buckles $809) with some sales
being made (-more shoes than
buckles). The mink men, sold up
on short coate, is pushing the
from their male colleagues. Con-
reached 12,000.
Last year the senate voted a
refor mbill. It wasn’t drastic, but
did provide for some basic and
necessary changes. For instance, I
gressman George Andrews of|)( tightened controls on lobbyists’
Alabama remarked that it might
be a good idea to turn over the
operation of the House restau-
and took postmasters and some
other employees out of the pa
tronage area. It hit at the com-
could succeed in making the rest
aurant a profitable venture. Not
a bad idea, that, and when the
ladies finished with the restau
rant, they might be persuaded to
Inner n-nrini 1-1, —1 , ■ j tadtlc thc federal budget. With
g m e . The mmk reminds i^nack for successful finan-
If the guy iwbo, aparently, rath
er wanted to tell his girl friend
matrimony was not his intent.
The gift: a mink-covered clothes
pin.
A Santa Claus letter across the
desk closes, ”I’ve been a good
boy so don’t bring me switches.”
And Tim Gladden’s three-year-
old wants to follow in Grand
father R. L. Plonk’s footsteps.
What does Gerald want for
Christmas. “A farm!”
rant to the ladies to see if they mittee system to a degree. It
' would curb some of the arbitrary!
powers of chairmen. Minority
part>’ com-mittee members would
be given staff to help them stu
dy bills and form policy.
Speaker McCormack ignored
the precedent under which the
cial management, they might be
able to put Uncle Sam
black, too.
Richmond (Va.) |Neu's Leader
THE ’SAVER'
He goes 50 or 60 in a 30 m.p.h.
zone zooming angrily around car
a'fter car while forcing oncoming
drivers to apply their brakes to
avoid a collision, in a frenzy to
“sa've” an eighth or tenth of a
second. Then he slams on his
brakes and all df the cars he
passed have to come to a sciwch-
iri? halt -behind him as he turns
Into a drlv^wa.T a half block
from where his speed
started.
Indianapolis Star
1964 measure on congressional
In the reorganization was sent straight
to the floor. He sent the senate
bill, instead, to the rules commit
tee. After a few hours dt hear
ings in April of 1967, the com
mittee chairman bottled up the
hill and kept it there. Insistence
upon action has brought so much
bargaining that the bill is reduc
ed to almost nothing. Rep. Mad
den (iD-Ind.i. house sponsor of
the senate approved measure,
says the compromise bill Is
‘Hvorse than nothing.”
Reform, the house leadership
seems to be saying, is something
spr«e'for other people.
Milwaulcee Journal
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