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Ectablished 1899
Itie Kings MonntAin Heiald
weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the eeneral welfare and published
' the enllzhtennient, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain
kd its yicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House,
ntrreil as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 28086
under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873.
EDITOMAi:. DEPAHTMENT
rfarttn Hannon Editor-Publisher
I'Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Mias Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
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TODAY'jS BIBLE VERSE
Abutaiii frotn nil appraraners of evil. I Theamoniuns 5:22
Youth On Tho Teom
In spito of all the political science
COUISP3, the specialty schools designetj
to turn put able city managers, pnd the
sominars |ind conferences, the beat cours
es in government and/or community ac
tion remain matters of on-the-job train
ing, the expensive school of hard knocks.
This was the idea behind the city’s
youth participation program whereby
high School seniors and college students
will be appointed to the several city stat-
utoiy groups and city-constituted com
mittees.
Via this means, a number of youths
will get look-sees into the various work-
ings'of city government—from low-rent
housing to industry-seeking—and they
will learn.
Elder folk are prone to prate aboift
“today’s youth are tomorrow’s leaders”
with overtones of lip service to the junior
uninitiated.
Fact is, they’re telling the exact
truth, whether they believe what they
.say or not.
Look at it: today’s 19-year-old a dec
ade hence will be 29, with important
roles jn his church, in industry and com
merce, in civic affairs and in government.
The city anticipates major divi
dends through this interesting innova
tion Intp the workings of the city, both
today in the days ahead.
The new president of Kings Moun
tain CHahiber of Commerce reported to
the membership Monday night that work
■jis underway pn the proposition of em-
llloyfng'an executive -secretary.
President Josh Hinnant’s statement
lloes hot imply he is advancing a new'
lldea bpt'one that has hot been tested.
Principal hyrdle in the past has been
I the difficulty in marrying the organiza-
I lion’s ability to pay with a man capable
to han<Uihg a quite important job.
But the community has grown and
1 is grdVring and the date of marriage
I should be nearing if not already at hand.
The policy-makers, (officers and
iberg of the board of directors) are
equipped, by training and experi-
..fer-their role, perhaps even for the
ii” inole a full-time executive ful-
Phe joker in this deck is that the
and directors have full - time
M of their own, at bank, factory,
$ware and drug store. If they do the
chores, they undoubtedly are
cting the duties at the work which
les them to pay Chamber
dues and, in fact, to eat.
he concept of a Chamber of Com-
is that it is a big tent where
ipe is welcome, with the implica-
■i vat the organization show a pro-
imm activity for the benefit of the
bmlinity In every field of endeavor.
le Chamber of Commerce cannot
1 its full potential until a capable
ilve secretary is retained.
longratulations: to Sergeant Keith
liwinner of t^e army’s conamenda-
for service In Korea: to Chairman
.L- McGill and Vice - CJhairman
R, Tate, re-election by Kings
Ltain Public Housing Authority; and
|[meron Ware, vice-president of the
organized North Carolina Horticul-
ll Council.
!me is running out for annual tax
- - - fis
Indeed, two-thirds of the
has passed.
listing
kty a city tag—on sale at the
-tone
leet Tuesday, expects to hb.ld
vksibn in the he.wly re-farbished
^sion chaipbers, expected to be
tid in kbOut ten days.
Byinniiig Otf Bwsipess
It is no longer possible to board a
passenger train in Kings Mountain.
And the same can be .said for a vast
and growing number of cities throughout
the nation. ,
According to Time Magazine in a
recent feature on the subject, the vast
majority of the railroads want it that
way. They want to foreswear the pas-
.senger business and are doing their best
to drive would-be train riders to the
buses and airlines.
Some items:
One member of the Interstate Com
merce Commission was quoted as saying,
it was the first time he’s seen any busi
ness seek to economize by keeping dirty
washrooms.
One West Coast line arranges ilg '
schedules to assure that passengers
reaching one major railhead and going
to another arrive 35 minutes late to make
the connections.
Another puts its passengers on a bus
for the final 50 miles of what once was a
regular run.
One major rail president was very
frank with the ICC. He said, “We want
out.”
Which is the why of the push to
put the United States into the rail pas
senger business.
Senator While
A neighboring member of the Gen
eral Assembly commented recently,
“Jack White has the courage of his con
victions and the respect of his colleagues.
And they like him, too.”
The Kings Mountain Senator’s three-
term record confirms the compliment.
It was further confirmed recently
when Lieutenant-Governor Pat 'Taylor
reappointed Senator White to the Local
Government Study Commission, to which
he was initially appointed by then-Lieu-
lenant-Governor Bob Scott.
Senator White, incidentally, is quite
proud of the work of the local govern
ment study commission and, more par
ticularly, its record with the 1969 Gen
eral Assembly in obtaining ratification
of a great number of its recommenda
tions, aim of which was to streamline and
ease the red tape relating to operation
of counties and municipalities.
Senator White has not failed to at
tend to the needs of his Cleveland-Gas-
ton constituents in his three terms of
able service.
Bjlgllt Decision
The Supreme Court has ruled by 5
to 3 that local selective service boards
cannot step up a 1-A registrant’s call
for induction because the registrant is
an artti->var shouter.
It is a correct decision.
The speed-up business smacks of
dictatorship and thought control.
KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C.
Thursday, Janut^B^.lW
As Mr. Justice Douglas wrote in the
majority opinion, present laws would
have to be changed to make such process
ie^al—^^if thep. Meantime, for those who
refuse induction there remains due pro
cess of law through the courts.
M&RTirS
MEDICINE
His Bird Of Paradise
Columnist Jim Bishop was In-
spliod this wtH'k to write a col
umn about 4‘(litors following the
death otf an eld4*r editor friend.
3 to 4
Dotty
otty 10s30 Td 11
m>ni
lie commented on the fact
that, for the average reader of
a large circulation newspaper,
Ihe namt'S of ace reporters, col-j
umnists and feature writers
might be household bywords,!
but they couldn’t name the edit
or.
I' '
I
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oh,
-to
At any rate I’ve been taking
some teasing about putting my
mug on the front page of last
week’s Herald, which I did large-!
ly at the demand of lellow Pub-;
lie Housing Ahth^rity member
Cai 1 Wilson. You’ve published
the others, including me, whyj
not you? He further charged Lib
Stewart has spj'cifically ash-
canned h group shot picture of
some Legion and Legion Auxili
ary folk because she was includ
ed in the picture.
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"But the bulk of the teasing has'
come in this vein, “How old is
that picture? Trying to appear,
joung?” There follows a g.uess-
in ggame and I was feeling piet- ■
ty good as most answers were
six to seven years. Bob Maner
took me to the cleaners, though.j
“I’d say 12 years,” quoth Bob.'
Give him close. It was made ISVs I
years ago.
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Saith the preacher (itis said):
Do as I say do, not as I do. It
has always been my contention
(and still is) that everyone
should have a picture struck
every five years. Maybe I’ll
make a 15-year reunion with the
picture man.
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///c/octhn^
Viewpoints of Other Editors
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I was glad to see Lou Boudreau
voted into baseball’s Hail of
Fame. I saw him play a couple
of times and thought him a
great shortstop. The personal
connection is somewhat like that
first cousin once-removed stuff.
The guy who roomed next door to
me at Columbia University mid
shipman's school had been Bou
dreau's roommate at the Uni
versity of Illinois. Tex Emmons,
too, was an outstanding athlete,
having been middle-weight AAU
wrestling champion. I never fig
ured out why “Tex” got his
nicknarqe. His hometown was
Law.renceville, III.
INQUIRY INTO
CREATION
An inquiry into the creation of
SCIENCE UNCOVERS A ,
DECLINING IQ
Diehard segregationists and
the solar system was conducted i racists of all stripes resort fre-
last week in Houston. The liun-|quenUy to claims of inherited
di-eds of scientists assembled| racial superiority,
there reached billions of years | psychologists know, however,
back into time to the primordial j although heredity may have
period when the very' elements; ^ considerable effect on indivi-
wore first formed, when the sun,(jaal intelligence, it is usually less
and the planets were born. The; important than environment and
meeting was unprecedented in the education. In any case no here-
history of science; never before
were the raw materials for sutih
an investLation available - mat
erials provided by the precious
load of moon rock and dust
brought back by the crew of A-
pollo 11 and Apollo 12.
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The folk had a good time at
the annual banquet of the Kings
Mountain Chamlter of Comme.ic,
as they were regaled with hales
by Gene Tracy, a professional
entertainer. .
dltary intellectual superiority can
be shown to exist in one race
compared to another.
A study of basic intelligence
and development made among
3-14 black children in Mississippi
has provided material for a re-
The mystery of creation is soUpaling report just released by „ . resoonsibUitv each
profound that it wa.s predictablel or. H. Jack Geiger of the Tuftsi^^^rirDlrt toTn^aMtheDrw-
s^lare the positioTSf the Lm-
suriaco wouKi raise at least as study was made by Dr.
many-questions as they answered Halpern. a olinioal psy-
Thus it was not une.xpected th'at Ljioiogise, and Dr. Roy E. Brown,
the proponents of several radicj ^ pertiairician at the Tufts Delta
.ally different theories could find g
COMMITTEES TO SPARE
Mrs. Mary T. Bake
Ml'S. QUle E. Bealy|
Clarence Bratton
Mrs, Docia ■ C. Cas^
Hubert Q. 'Oleinijion
Mm. Floyd F. ‘Her
Mrs. James A. HHl
Arthur W. Huffstetl r
Roger Lewis-
Mrs. Grace T. Philb ck
Mrs. Frank -L- Bian' on
Burman Coley’iBryar
Mrs. Jimmy P. burr;
Mrs. Mollle M. Gofo ih
Mrs. George (Jordon
Clarence Grayson, .1 ■.
Mrs. David Hannah
Paul Preston Harlsoe
Eugene David Hill I
■Sidney pulfn Huffst^Uer
Hubert T- ilames, si.
Mrs. Cairo] H. Laughter
Gloria Mozell
Mm. Thelma H. Mdrgan
James Andrew: Moss
•Mrs. -Harold -D,, Peterson
John'Lee Philbeck
Mm. Beverly D. Sellers
Mrs. William G. Waldrop
Martin Luther Wilson, Sr.
ADMUTED 'THURSDAY
Joyce Baalne Falis
Mm. Ralph E. Stewart
Mm. Ferrlest Turner, Jr.
ADMITTED FRIDAY
Mm. Sherman bakes
Mrs. Violet F. Fo.ster
Leonard Franklin Gamble
Mrs. Dean A. Stamper
ADMITTED SATURDAY
Allen Daniel Bridge.s
Mrs, Pau] H. Green
Crll Thomas MuUinax
ADMITTED SUNDAY
Cubic Lee Mltchem
Billy Gene McCarter
Lester S. Puckett
Mrs. Don Sellers
Marcus Goedan Whitehurst
ADMITTED MONDAY
Ralph Kelly Hoffman
Lloyd Rxabert Houser
Mrs. Judson Morton
•Mrs. Dock G. Smith
James Monroe Staley
Jimniy Ray Ellis
'Mm. James L. Brendle
Mrs. Woodrow Wells
Back in 1946 the congress de
cided that it had too many com
mittees and approved the La Pol-
•lette - Monroney reorganization
bill, which tjut the number sharp
ly. That meant, of course, that
senators and repreaentatives had
limited opportunities to become ADMITTED TUESDAY
chairmen of committees. So I Mrs. Bertie C. Gossett
somebody hatched the idea of|
creating subcomriittees. Nowi
there are 137 in the house and 114
in the senate, fn the senate that|
is 14 more subcommittees than;
senators, so everyone could be a|
chaiiTOan If the senate wanted to:
make assignments that way.
Each committee and subcom-;
mittee fights for more money and
Mrs. Carrie F. Long
Mrs. John A. Ellis
Mrs. Fraver White
Mf*. B. Jor\es
Bari MnUgAh Hollifield
Mrs. Roy Guinn
Jency Ann Reese
FtLMtt tt!ATJIRE9T
QRpS$. GftQSS
You're told thst Hollywood
makes so fdw fantily-type mottqn
pictures ihtS^ days because thOy
aren’t well attended.
evidence that enablml them to
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Zsa Zsa Gabor, he said, w.is
forced to miss an enigagenii nt
due to a heavy chest cold. “Tliosc
feerms,” Tracy avened, “suie
Iqiow how to live it up.”
hold fast to their views. Never
theless. the area of uncertainty
and ignorance lias bt'en diminish
ed significantly.
At le.Tst three key facts have
emerged which will have to be
.acrouni d for when and if a sat-
bers. But there are exceptions to
evetything. Two congressmen
want to abolish the jqint com
mittee on disposition of exdcutive! But the entertainment maga-
papere, created In 1344. Nedzi (D-|*ihe Variety in its Jan. 7, issu#
Miss. They made detailed physi- Mich.) and Pettis '(R-Calif.) say; l«lls a different story,
isfnc.ory explanation of creation ponents of mental functioning,
cal, nutritional and psychological| that it has no undeMtandaWe
examinations of apparently heal-j purpose,
thy black infants between the
ares of three months and three
years.
Using Ihe Gesell Development
Scale, which measures basic com
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Tracy contended he was born
unlucky and inherited the mala
dy. His father, a poor man, sav
ed and saved and saved until he
amassed a $1000 to buy a burial
lot. Two weeks later he drowned
at .sea.
evolved. .lud.ging by the evi
dence of the oldest lunar dust
brought back, the moon wa.s born
about 4.6 billion years ago. Yet
they found the children had an
avera.ge developmentt quotient of
117 at the age of 13 weeks or un
der. This figure compared to a
the oldest lunar rocks found soi national norm of 100 for white
far aTo onJy about 3.5 billion*thoy said,
y ears old, leaving a puzzling lime j news Is enough to give a
^ billion years for supremacist the screaming
Periodioally, the menibcM are
handed long U.sts of numbers and
asked to sigh them. When Nedzi
and Pettis asked whfit the num
bers represented they got little
explanation. When they asked
Surveying Wg-rental lilms of
196!
Dial
969, the magazine discloses that
‘The Love -Bug” (released in Jatf-
uary, 1969) has grossed 817 mil
lion. t
“Funny Girl” (DeoemLer, 19881
rates second with $16,5 million.
BuUitt,” on the bol-4 si<Je but'
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I liked his story about the fel
low who took a salesman’s short
course and sought a job at a
haberdashery. The proprietor
was impressed only by the appli
cant’s insistence that he could
sell anything. Could he .sell that
blue-green suit in the rack? Sure.
Could he sell that lemon and
gold lemon? Sure, he could.
Could he sell that candy-stripe
four-year-old? Sure! He could
sell ANYTHING. The proprietor
was in his office heard a custo
mer inquire of the new salesman
about a suit of clothes or flwo.
He also heard considerable com
motion. Later the neav salesman
staggered Into the proprietor’s
office, his clothes half torn off,
his nose and ear spouting blood.
“I sold’em,” the salesman proud
ly declared. All three of the
aged white elephants were gone.
Had the customer offered much
resistance, the proprietor wanted
to know. “Oh, no,” the mangled
salesman replied, "but that see
ing eye dog nearly tore me up!”
had always been done that way.
So they -want their job abolishaid.
Their unheard- of mlssipn is a
landmark in a oongreis (hat is
I setting a record for exjiandlng
Which there is no explanation. I ;„-”-{,;Td;es iV Valirmean j
Finally, it is now evident thafi blaick children are more intelll-' "
the moon is an extremely hetero-| gent than white?
—Milwaulcee Journal.
geneous body, with a peculiar
chemistry of its own that is very
different in many respects from
the chemistry of the earth. This
last fact makes it seem unlikely
that, as some scientists have hith
erto supposed, that he moon was
The real reason for the differ
ence, Geiger suggested, is prob
ably that weaker black children
had already died, giving a better
average to the stronger survivors.
But what hlappened as the chil
dren grew older? Their scores de-
once part of the earth hut was ^lined, until by the time the chll-
tom away by tidal or other for-l^r^n were three years old, they
; averaged 86 points compared to
The proceedings of the Houston | the white average of 100.
meeting suggest that the fruitsl prom an intelligence quotient
of the Apollo flights will be pro- actually hiigiher than the white
ducive indeed for science. But the average, the bl'ack children drop-
complexity of the problems pose.i ped wel] below that average
by the new. evidence explains why] within three years. They had a
scientlst.s have been pleading foi” plentiful supply of intelligence
a sloavdown in the schedule of j when they were born — not retd-
Apollo flights. As Prof. Edward ly rnore than the white children.
Some of the most
picturesque
from along the path of tbe Blue
Ridge Parkway Which wends a-
long an average 3,000 foot ele
vation In Western North Carolina.
“The Lost Colony,” Amerloa’s Yellow,” the most
number one outdoor drama tells
the story nightly each summer
of the first ^glish settlement in
formed near Manteo on the very
spot where Sir Walter Raleigh’s
colony landed iii 1587 and then
vanished.
why they should sign ■ liids of | sordid, has rackrt up 816i4 \
"'illion since its release l„ Jantf-'
ar.v, 1969.
■ you have "Batch Cassidy
and The Sundance Kid” lOctobw.
1969) $15 million; “Romeo and
■Juliet” t-Octoher. 1968) $14.5 mil
lion; and "True Grit’’ (May, 1^9)
811 .5 million.
Top grosser amonj the shock-
type films was “Midnight Cow
boy” (June, 1969) with 8,11 mil
lion.
“Oliver” .'(December,- 1968) so
whj^'at least keeps it seye^
steps ahead of “I Am Curious '—
them all. with a gross
million. '
In these statistics, as you catii
see, there are a lot ot dollar-!
yotes for motion pictures that)
are reasonably wholeeome. \
■—Charlotte Obs^nwr.i
Anders of the University of Chic
ago observed, the scientists need
time to sit and ponder the impli
cations of (he rich evidence that
Apollo 11 and 12 have given them.
This is no time to overwhelm
them with evidence from numer
ous new- flights.
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but certainly not less. Their en
vironment simply '.id not provide
the stimulation intelligence re
quires.
This is the real tragedy of cul
tural deprivation, that it does
more than starve the body.
. J , i 11 dulls the mind and iwarps
The scientists’ need for time Ahetnlle Citizen.
makes it particularly fortunate . . _
that a tight budget is moving manship was of "unnecessarily
But the Tracy stor>' I liked beat
was about the mother of two
graimnar grade lads who took
considerable offense to her sons’
cussin’t proclivity. At her wits!
end, she visited her pastor to'
ask advice. She admitted to]
thrashing her boys at each of-'
fense. The pastor tor'- the ea.sy
tone, sus-o-sting •s’-e tn t!;? soli
sell, the .-c.i.snnlnj Uvatment.
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Next mornirtg the boys came
down for breakfast. Sweetly, she
asked the j-oungest what he
wanted for breakfast. He replied,
“I want some damn corn flakes.”
Mama lost her temper and slap
ped him into the comer.” Re-
gainln.g her composure, she ask
ed the older boy his menu. He
replied with respect, "I don’t
want no damn oom flakas”
NASA toward the schedule chan- h gh quality.” It seems that the
ges the scientisl.s want. Now that artisan’s insistence on quality
the first priceless lunar rocks and craft.sman.ship slowed up produc-
dus .are available it is pk.in that tion.
the mystery of creation will he, -ghp sanctification of medioc-
solved more readily by giving; j- ty by a court of law is ejepress-
scientists time to think than by, ing. Even sadder is Che rebuke
piling up more and more mooniio jbe perfeotionlsm of 'Mr.
rocks, most of which may simply -Welch. If the conscientious
llcate material and informa-! craftsman is of a philosophical
..on already available. turn of mind, he may take com-
The New York Times., fort in the reflection that all mer-
— I it is an affront to the slack and
MPDTftrBrpv ' slipshod. A passion for excellence
MEDlvJCnlTY ■ pv^n more pernicious when it
ENTHRONED | conflicts with the profit motive.
The pursuit of exrx'llence may| —Pittsburgh Post-Oazettc.
give meaning to the lives of some| ■■■■"■ ■
inhabitants of planet E.arth. For! Old Salem, settle! in the mid-
Septimus Welch, a 54-year-old ISth century by the Moravians,
London carpenter, the desire to, has been re-created at Winston
e.xcel has meant only frustration.! Salem for visitors to observe the
A British court has upheld an, simple and devout way of life
employer’s right to fire Mr. | that the German desoeft'dant's
V/elcb because the man’s work- pracUoad.
Keep Your Ra4io Dial Set At
Kings Honntain. V. 6.
IY9W9 & Weather $v9iy hour on ihm
hour. Weathor evory hour on tho
half hour.
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