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A ryr KINGS MOUNTAIN>H»ALD, ICINGS MOUNTAIN. N/ C.- ••Hi. Established 1889 The Kings Monntain Heiald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for tl^e enllghtennient, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain •nd 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. EDITOBIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Edited Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper Dave Weathers, Supt. Douglas Weathers MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Allen Myers Paul Jackson David Myers 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 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Mr. Oleaginous Time Magazine, in its cover story of the week, once labeled Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen “Mr. Oleaginous”. Webster’s Unabridged dictionary merely indicates that Time’s label is a fancy term for “oily”. But Tinje meant more concerning the Senator from Illinois. The “oily” part referred to a mellifu- ous voice which could entrance the hearer, as the Senator’s did. There was the great command of the language, the cornfield philosophy so easy to under stand by the man-in-the-street, the far mer, to the baron of finance. Senator Dirksen is famed for many pungent statements, much as was the late great Sir Winston Spencer Chur chill, which, unequivocatingly, went di rectly to point, whether by quick wit, or vsgreasm, or both. Few tuned in via radio or television to the 1952 Republican National conven tion, can forget his dirk at Dewey, the twice-defeated candidate for president, and leading supporter of Dwight Eisen hower for the nomination. The compara tively new Senator Dirksen, supporting Senator Robert Taft, threw his dirk hard. Pointing his finger at Dewey he declared, “You have led us down the drain of defeat twice before!” Emblematic of his ability to '“get along”. Senator Dirksen became a key figure in support of the Eisenhower ad ministration, and a responsible minority leader in his machinations with the “en emy” administrations of John F. Ken nedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. The Charlotte Observer phrased it correctly when it wrote that Senator Dirksen was ^reat because, when the question was in interest of the United States of America, the Dirksen decision was right. The vacant chair in the Senate is a big seat to fill. Whert thu Series? Where the World Series of 1969? A trip ta thp west coast and San Francisco, Chicago’s Loop, Atlanta and Six Flags over Georgia, Houston and the Astrodome, back to the Pacific, Los An geles and Wilshire Boulevard, or Cincin nati or gay New York, or prideful Min neapolis, grain center of the Mid-West, or Baltimore, vintage city of baseball? With the new s^it four division ar rangement in the major leagues, no less than eight teams are possible partici pants in the finals and only Baltimore has virtually clinched one of the four semi-final berths, with a commanding 15 game lead over last year’s champs the Detroit Tigers. Surprise, surprise! Who’s a halt-game off the pace in the National League’s East division? The amazing Nev York Mets, long-time doormats of the league and going to the wire with the Chicago Cubs. Even here a last-minute streak by Pittsburgh or St. Louis could change the deal. It’s worse in the National’s West di^ vision, where today’s leader can be third tomorrow. Any five of the division’s six can be a winner with fifth-place Houston just three games back of San Francisco’s Giants. And what better way to celebrate baseball’s 100th anniversary! Steve Sisk St. Matthew 7:7. “Sin" Securities The Wall Street Journal had its cus tomarily well - developed, well - written front page feature Friday and the head line intoned “Sin Securities Cost Reyn olds Money”. Reynolds Tobacco Company had marketed .$100 million in five year de bentures the previous day at an interest rate of 7.875 per cent. Slightly dis counted at .$997.50 for a $1000 debenture, yield was a healthy 7.9 per cent, which Mrs. Devere Smith, registered agent for Reynolds & Company, labeled a pretty fine “widows and orphans” investment. But tobacco and liquor are the two stocks in the “sin” category, and many investors, the Journal relates, shy away from them, both on moral and practical grounds. The result: Reynolds will be paying about $1.5 million more for the use of $100 million for five years than some other less sinful operation, such as cement-making, furniture selling, or cloth manufacture. The reasons advanced by various groups are interesting: A trust in 'the mid-west managing a teacher retirement fund account won’t buy high-yield “sin” securities because teachers don’t want their pupils to grow up smokers or drinkers. An insurance company quit buying either a decade ago reasoning that smoking (much-maligned as a killer via lungs, heart and otherwise) didn’t har monize with life insurance and that drinking (increasing accident toll) hard ly harmonized with the auto insurance division. A more important point to many is the high cost of money to a gilt-edged company like Reynolds, diversifying in to foods and various other operations, and which carries on its books the value of its trademarks at ju.st ,$1. (Most folk would walk many a mile for the Camel trademark at $1.) Even non-sinful Duke Power Com pany mortgage bonds, due 1999, are be ing offered to customers at eight per cent. If these folk are paying in that range, as they are, poor John Doe may be get ting a bargain at the 18 per cent he’s paying on chattel accounts, revolving credit charge accounts, and other high rate means of credit. If the trend doesn’t reverse soon. Old Runaway Inflation is going to look like a beauty contest winner and Old Tight Money like a Bowery Bum. Attend the Fair The Bethware Community Fair opened Wednesday night for its 22nd year. Birthday 22 another tribute to its community-type format, its cleanness (no girlie shows, no rigged gambling games), but most important a tribute to the members of the Bethware Progres sive Club who work hard each year to present a tip-top event. Fair officials report a bigger-than- usual number of agricultural exhibits, some new rides to excite the young folk, and other new events. Kings Mountain remembers Steve Sisje as a gangly youngster whose major asset to perform in sports was desire. But Steve Sisk matured to become a great pitcher in baseball and a star per former in football—sufficient to attract a scholarship from Coach Paul Dietzel and the University of South Carolina. Young Mr. Sisk, son of Ray Sisk, manager of Kings Mountain state park, and Mrs. Sisk, was popular with his fel lows, as were his parents. The sympathy of the community goes to his family at his untimely death at 18 following a heat stroke, suffered at football practice. But the Herald thinks one of the more looked at exhibits will be that of the Cleveland County Bantam Associa tion, presenting 400 bantam hens and roosters. A guess would be that the Ban tam association is a breeder organiza tion. Many will look just to see. And many who look will be regular readers of Gaffney’s “Grit and Steel”, bible of the chicken-fighting cult as is the Daily Racing Form to the track follower. MARTINS MEPICINE Ingredients: Bits of humor, wisdom, humor and com ments. Directions: Take weekly, if possible, but a- void overdosage. By MAR’TIN HARMON Bill Bates must have surprised members ol the Lions club Tues day night, as he did me. He is ithe first football coach I’ve ever heard who expressed optimism I at .season’s beginning over the prospect of his charges for a fair share of victories — and maybe even a little more. Gotta Have I+! This is in spite of the fact that the average weight of the Kings I Mountain squad is an un hefty 1157 pounds, the median figure ar rived by dividing 44 (number on the varsity) into total avoirdu pois. Tackle Luther Hicks, inci dentally, weHihed in initially as among the heavyweights at 215. Three days of practice, however, pared him to 198. "He’s not gain ed a pound of it back either,” Bill bragged. Here are a few of Bill’s opti- jmistic statements; j ‘'We’ll pass more this year. We I have good receivers ( Gerald Cline . and Bobby Eltheridge starting ends) for the first time in four years.” "We feel football is on the rise at Kings Mountain high school.’ “Kings Mountain could surprise a lot of people.” He didn’t label it per se, but Bill also is pleased with depth, where the Number 2 men are pushing the Number 1 men and qualified to take over in event of injury or other distraction. He was pleased that movies of the Bessemer City game, won by KINGS MOUNTAIN Hospital Log viaiTim aouBB $ to 4 pjn. and 7 to 8 pja. Dally 10:30 To 11:30 cbm. PATIENTS IN KINGS MOUNTAIN HOSPITAL AS OF NOON WEDNESDAY 0, Mrs. John F. Boheler Mrs. Ida Greene Mrs. Ethel Mae Hambright Mrs. Cora E. Laughter Mrs. Bessie G. Watterson Mrs. Gaylen Covington Mrs. Marie Cain Feweli. Mrs. Henry Fite Mark Anthony Greene v Mrs. Gertrude E. Hamrltk William Franklin Houser Mrs. Sidney Dulin Huffst^ler Mrs. Homer KiBgore William White Mauney Mrs. Lonnie E. Peeler Freelon Ramsey Mrs. Bobby W. Rhea Elijah Ross Mrs. Mary Ruth Rush \ Mrs. James Shields \ Mrs. Symantha Coleen Williar^ Mrs. Ada Guyton \ AD.MITTED THURSDAY one Mot Rut ■ James Andrew Moss, City Everette Glenn Lovelace ADMITTED FRIDAY I Viewpoints of Other Editors PENTAGON OFF LIMITS? Ten Years Ago Items of interest which occur- ed approximately ten years ago It’s Fair Time a^ain and the 12th season for the Bethware Community Fair which gets un. derway Wednesday. Kings Mountain Drug Com pany has begun a remodeling pro gram designed to provide improv. The House Armed Services Com mittee, in typical and tender con- the Mountaineers 24 to 0, rated oern for the sensitivities of the his team in the opening game at I Pentagon, has proposed to make 2.6 on the 5.0 rating system the lit illegal to gather, demonstrate, coaches use, not only to rate thejor protest on the Pentagon team performance, but to rate grounds, and four of its members individual players. i have gathered to protest that this is unconstitutional. Unconsitution- al or not, it is a wretched idea. I did not make notes but re call the point-rating system of in-1 Constitution says, in the dividual players this way- carry- Amendment, that “Congress ing out an assignment rates a ®’’*®** make no law respecting an ed facilities and additional floor point and doinp it >well adds an-^ religion; or pro- space. other. An esp^ially extra-effort *’**’‘**’’8 City Auto and Truck Parts, Inc., gets another and a brilliant iob I • ‘■‘Sht of the people peace-i which opened for business in such as carrying out an assign- assemble, and to petition'June, will hold open house Wed ment then, for instance blockig government for a redress ofjnesday, oUt a second opponent 'another grievances.” Why should the Pen- etc. ’.tagon be exempt? Why should (Americans not have right of ac- I cess to it? Goodness knows that Tackle Jerry Lovelace took the , if there is one building of govern- point honors against Bessemer ment in whose people and policies City. The game movies rateci they have a rightful concern, it him 4.3. | is this one. It is in this building : wiiere the lion’s share of their ™'“* I painfully-paid taxes are spent. Bill was not alarmed that Lau-'-and where policies are made or ren Whisnant, center and the implemented that may cost them team place-kicker, failed in foar; their lives, point-after-touchdown attem MRS. O’HAIR AGAIN? Madelyn Murray O’Hair’s sui) to prevent American astronauts from practicing religion while on duly on earth or in space had to come sooner or later. That gal long ago made it clear she was out to eradicate the practice of religion from the face of the uni verse. It’s just as well, perhaps, that the suit has been filed. Let’s go on and .get it over with, one way or another. Rolandes P. Seism, City Mrs. James E. Adams, Besse- ’ mer City Venelia Renee Wright, City Jackie Lee Bcfwen, City Hugh Allen Evans, City AD.MITTED SATURDAY Mrs. Claude J. Chapman, Bes semer City Glenn Curtis Patterson, Shelby ADMrrTED SUNDAY He had little chance, said the There could not be a more fit- Coach, what with bad passes from ‘‘"2 P®°P*? center and questionable ball- assemble peaceably and peti- holding. Bill also blames himse]f.|“°" ^ grievances "We didn’t put the stop watch on '^ey have cause for more that operation and a piece of “^amst the Pentagon second means a lot. You may be except possibly for sure we will,” he explained. With Capitol. And the Capitol, as the high school rules now chang ed to the college variety, running or passing for the points-after- touchdown, Bill allows the Moun- tainMrs will do their share of seeking the doubleton, rather than the more conservative sin gleton. This weekend it’s off to the Bethware Fair. A best bow to First Presbyterian church, again the leader of its presby tery in per capita giving. Congratulations to Miss Nancy Reyn olds, Queen of the Fair at Bethware. m-m petitioning and protesting Quak ers found... has already been rul ed oft limits for those citizens who would gather there to make their grievances known. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Miss Jerrie Lea McCarter be came the bride of William Eu gene Patterson Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock in an all-pink wed ding performed in First Presby terian church. Mrs. J. W. Rayfield honored her daughter, Judy, on her seventh birthday Saturday. Mrs. O’Hair has been the world’s best known atheist ever since the Supreme Court ruled in her favor in and outlawed the slightest sem blance of anything like official prayer in public schools, "fhe court agreed that any hint of of ficial claim about prayer in a public school constituted a form of constitutionally-prohibited gov ernmental action concerning the ’’establishment of religiofc;” CLASSICS COMING Mrs. O’Hair’s latest suit, how ever, goes far beyond that. She would not allow individual as tronauts to engage in the prac tice of religion anyiwhere oi earth, in space or on the moon, while on official duty. That eon The Germans with the Volks , . wagens have achieved something■ t^ntion brings up two interesting like a stable design for the small car buying public. And the Brit ish likewise find no need to com promise their luxury class Rolls- Royce with petty year-to-year changes. 'But American car builders hav questions: Does the writ of the Unitei States Supreme Court run into outer space, and if so, how far? What about the other side of the constitutional coin concerning freedom of religion and separa- preme Court Building? There is far too much feeling among the ... . people already that the great, im- machine of government Bill switch gears.Lgg regard for their wishes, etrotoo. matters of|anj „o ear to lend to their griev- a 4”®”* comments on gnees. Some of the sturdiest roots team than I of our discontent lie in the grow ths dajs. Bill said I ing belief that Washington is bent omr-in,. Strategy was to gp its present course regardless m Ho ^ Knute Rocknejof what the people want. Will made famous as an end at Notre Congess justiiy this belief by for Dame on two plays of five. Kings malizing its distrust of its citi- however, were, zons? Are the seats of power to hrtwinij the pigskin ’’soft', in- ug accessible only to those who ^tation to interception, so the or | g^n afford a lobby? ^ ,'’®?iuarters went out] Courier Journal (Louisville) to switch to the control-the balll looking lines early each fall. Usu ally a basic model change was really maide only once every three years, with clever or gaudy What will be next? HEW? The! alterations in trim expected to do Agriculture Department? The Su- the job of obsolescing the previ ous year’s stock. long tried to turn out different Hon of church and state — the ■ side saying there can be no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion? game. ai-m A fine-point on passing I didn’t know; throwing with the weight WOMEN ALOFT It didn’t seem women would ever crack the sex barrier that has kept them Qut of the pilot’s on the front foot sends the ball seat on passenger flights. Just a out soft like a lob in tennis. Thei week or so ago. of the 28,000 pi- hard-to-intercept bullets derive'jots flying major United States from pitches off the back foot. I. airlines not one was a woman recall (digging deep here about (This despite the fact that 70 three^decades back) that’s -the women held air transport ratings way -am Baugh, tapped for some-'_and another 1,700 held corn- body’s all-time All-American this] mercial licenses, week, did it in his instruction sessions at Carolina after he’d! But now Miss Jo Claire Welch, This fall, however, auto writers are commenting on hoiw much the 1970 cars resemble last year’s Chevrolet, clearly the trend-setter for the industry, has decided t( Thomas Walker Bryant, Cil Mrs. Joe N. Weaver, Bessen City Mrs. Carl Webber Sisk Mrs. Etta Doris Ayers, GrovI Mrs. Larry Mincey, Bogar Citi N. C. Lawrence Carl Spicer, City Mrs. Grady Cash, Grover ADMITTED MONDAY Mrs. Emma Burleson, Besse mer City Mrs. James L. Hallman, City John Henry Kendrick. Groi Mrs. John H. Foster, City Morris Jack Frye, Shelby Mrs. Norman Lowe, Shelby Mrs. Paul D. McGinnis Jet Edward Parker Mrs. Douglas M. Propos, Bes^ semer City Mrs. Jerry L. Rockholt Mrs. Berfiice Joy Thomas Kathy Lynn Woody, Bessemer City 'Mrs. Jena Eba Lou Biddix, City \ Thomas Oliver Dennis, City Dan Falls, City Morris Jack Frye, Shelby Mrs. Jerry Gaddy. City Ml’S. Norman Lowe. Shelby Mrs, Elbert Mote, Gastonia Yea lock two scoi the Ians hea' a to ] han ing gan ard tain 8eai def( |)ec ADMITTED TUESDAY f ev ak Somehow or another we don’t early Thunderbird, the 1935 Ford and other models won a longtime following because their lines were satisfying in the true sense of the word “classic.” Though we wouldn’t presume to guess how many 1970 models go again with the same basic body stand the test of a more time- design that it introduced in thi . taste, we're pleased Detroit fall of 1964. American Motors’ models are likewise little chang ed. And so it goes. We think it makes good sens* for automakers to play down model changes. There’s no reason for a good design to go out of style in one year or five years, or even ten. Of course, the automakers have gotten around yearly changes in part by offering an array of sporty, family, or executive mod els created -for special markets. These markets don’t change much in their tastes from year to year. Hence, there probably will never again be another Model T whicl nearly everybody drove. The new American consensus car would probably be several vehicles gear el to the likes of the rather well defined markets finished his college pitching ati®Uractive and young enough to Auto watchers 'also note how Texas Christian, Ditto Sweet Jim- mistaken for a hostess when my Lalanne, the great Tar Heel I sh® steps up the boarding ramp, r>asser from Lafayette, La. (Jim- has flown as copilot of Air East my now domiciles at Greensboro Airlines’ new Houston to Austin, as does Choo Choo Justice and Art Weiner, later day Tar Hcrl ;rid saints. w-m '■But back to the subject: Coach Bates philosophized that a facul ty crack On a student head in the classroom would have a 100 folk seeking the sdioolmaster scalp. "If you don’t crack’em in foot ball, you’ve more than a 100 ready to fire you.” Tevas, run. m-m '"me, the Houston-Austin cir cuit does not cariy the prestige that a cross-continent or inter national assignment would. And copiloting is not quite piloting, s( far as the image of who’s running the ship is concerned. Yet Miss Welch’s assigntpent is a tardy and significant break through in recognizin)g women’s skill aloft. The Communistic bl<K nations, as one might expect have had women flying transport craft He closed with the real cue to, for years. But in the West, only his optimism: "This club hasjScandanavian Airlines System I character.” much more GM-Iike are the pro ducts of the other automakers. Not that this is bad. The sheer volume of GM products on the road tends to dispose the public in their favor. And this adds to the general stability of new car design. Sometimes bv a quirk car mod els will be recognized as “elass- ics.’’ The Edsel and Corvair have had this status bestowed on them after their production was halted to avoid financial disaster. 'The malor airlines. The Federal Aviation Adminis tration is scrupulous in certify ing pilots. Surely women who win its approval should be given the chance to perform. Christian Science Monitor News & Weather every hour on the hour. Weather every hour on the half hour. has eased up on its policy of changeovers just for the sake of change. Christian Science Monitor Mrs. Sherman Oakes, City Clem Hoyle, City Alphild Johnson, City Haze! Patterson, City 'Lee Anderson Sanders, Gastonia Mrs. Ewart Ball, City Jeffery Scott Hamrick, City Craig Harrill Lackey, Bessemer City Walter Darvin Morrison, City Mrs. William Ross, Blacksburg, S. C. jegi ADMITTED WEDNESDAY Mrs. Clara Estelle Harrill semer City Mrs. Dora C. Powell, Grover Bes- think the courts of the United, States will go so far as to rule that an astronaut gives up hiA , constitutional right to practice his4 ' religion every time he rides a 4 rocket into space. At least we 4 hope they won’t. Greenville News vie' i4-i Keep Your Radio Dial Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Mqnntain. N. C. Ba;
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