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■0\ I hage 2 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Thui Established 1889 The Kings Mountain Herald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published tor the enilghtenn.ent, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, pubiLshed every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kings Mountain, N. C., 2806B under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Miss Elizabeth Stewart Circulation Manager and Society Editor Miss Debbie Thornburg Clerk, Bookkeeper MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Frank Edwards •Rocky Martin Allen Myers Roger Brown David Myers • On Leave With The United States Army Paul Jackson Aay linker rJUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE — BY MAIL ANYWHERE ONE YEAR... .$3.50 SIX MONTHS... .$2.00 THREE MONTHS... .$1.35 PLUS NORTH CAROLINA SALES TAX TELEPHONE NUMBER — 739-5441 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE bn [lehools Schopl desegregation yes, busing to achieve integration no. This was the summation of Presi dent Nixon’s school policy speech. How he arrived at his conclusions can be only guess-work, but When the Supreme Court spoke in 1954, nearly 16 years ago, there was no question about the de-segregation of schools. Unfortunately, it appears now, the Supreme Court spoke in too little detail and “with all reasonable speed” now seems a mockery. It merely invited the diehards (and now not limited to the Deep South states of the Confeder acy) to stop the incoming tide. Further litigation decided by the Supreme Court have added some detail but one of the judges in the Charlotte litigation agreed there is much yet to be spelled out. The President as he is sworn to do upholds the law of the land. The Presi dent had no choice in this. Busing to achieve integration is yet another matter. That kind of busing is uneconomic per se. And just as in the East Kings Mountain situation here, it is plain stupid to bus children several mtles to school, when they can attend one in a ten-minute walk. And there is some que.stion of pro priety, when unnecessary, in having youngsters catch bu.ses at an early hour and arrive home late. Bus ’em 40 miles, if that is required. And one such situation existed in the mount£iins when a county with little Negro population and therefore few Negro student s bused them to a neigh boring county, and it approximately that distance. Don’t bus ’em one mile if unnecessary. The President must have considered such points. The Honorable Gentleman from South Carolina, Senator Strom Thur mond, has yelled "foul" at the Pi’esident, Thurmond claiming a pre-election com mittment to preserve freedom of choice. Well, the Supreme Court spoke on freedom of choice, too. It wasn’t wrong per se, said the Court, but each case would be considered on its own merits. The Department of Health, Educa tion and Welfare did not read that de cision well,, if at all, and proceeded to draw guidelines ignoring that fact. Kings Mountain district is now op erated under HEW’s now-favored geo graphical plan—which most likely led to the busing boost by the ardent de segregationists. Senator Thurtpond, of course, HEW’s predilection to write law by fiat and edict, now popularly called guideline, and his complaint would have been in better taste on this ground than the one he used. The President seems to have adopt ed a middle course that he had little other choice than to take. The Looking Glass Senator Hargrove Bowles, in his address at the Lions Farmer’s Night banquet, declared, "We need to take a good hard look at ourselves.” He further declared, “We ‘squares’ must .speak out,” and he gave some def initions of “squares. They added to be patriotic Americans, proud of their country, law abiding citizens, but who, for one reason or two, tolerate what they feel to be wrong in their community, state and union, but who remain silent. Too many say let George do it, he Indicated. “If the good folk don’t participate, our country can be destroyed.” Senator Bowles was talking down the throats of the great majority of Americans who believe in government by law, the right of peaceful (Jissent and who atill get. a. ttirill wken ^ floifl passes in a parade. Drug Advertising A Dead Horse? MARTIN'S MEDICINE It wasn’t quite like non-prean- nourveed visit by an officer of the Federal Bureau of Investi gation whieh occasions a quick questioning thought, “What in He i» not here; for he is risen, ax he •/iai(l,Come, see the iilace u-here the Lord piy. Work S8:6. In the twenties, a pharmacist could attend pharmacy school for two years, pass the state examination and go about his business. Sometime later, a four year college cour.se became pre-requisite. Now a fifth year (saving grace be ing it can be managed with four quar ters as on-the-drug store pharmaceutical a.ssistants) is required. Maybe the extra time is necessary, as the drug industry's pills of today are new models, with old faithful remedies consigned to the pharmaceutical mu seum. Would-be journalists of the state are now blessed with a School of Journalism. Older model professionals like Vermont Royster, editor of the Wall Street Jour nal, Clifton Daniel, managing editor of the New York Times, Morris Rosenberg, manager of the Associated Press Paris bureau, and many others must question whether the ministrations of the School of Journalism are a great improvement over the ministrations of the three-man department these men had pleasure of enjoying. Now the drug folk are talking about adopting a professional code of ethics, one phrase of which has brought a loud question from Eckerd’s, major drug chain. It infers there should be no drug advertising, such being beneath the dig nity of the pill-rollers. Well, today, the pill-roller has be come in essence a pill counter. Few doc tors prescribe those old time consuming, hard-to-make powders anymore. A pharmacist today is a knowledge able chemist. A journalist today is what he’s been for years, a craftsman w’ho reads much, knows people and can re port events correctly. (Some of us ain’t journalists.) Some medics and legal eagles would do well to strike the clause from their codes of ethics, too. the world have I tioiie?’’ m-m The nlce-Iookirig young man in his late twenties introduced him self as a detective with the Dis trict of Columbia Metropolitan police and addod^ "Could I talk to you a minute?” m-m He merely wanted a bit of free advertising. Congress has au thorized increase of the Capitol City’s 4100-man police force to 5100. Do you want to be a police officer in Washington? If you do, visit the recruiting office for an interview on Saturday, April 4, at 10 a.m.. or on Monday, Ap ril 6, at 6:30 pjn. The o-ffice is in the Charlotte p<istorftce building, 401 W<‘st Trade, Room 21.1A. If you need moia* information than appears here, phone Charlotte 372-0714, Extension 658, He Is Risen / m-m Requirements In brief; Mini mum education a high school di ploma; ages 21 to 28; minimum height 5 feet 7. m-m Remuneration; starting salary $8,000 per year, moving expenses also paid. fm KINGS MOUNTAIN Hospital Log VraiTINO HOURS 3 to 4 p.m. aad 7 to 8 p-m. DaUr 10:30 To 11:30 cum. 6 m-m Jame.s D. Bennett had just come home from Pittsburgh, Pa., where he had .set up a recruiting arrangement tliere. m-m Ye.s, home is correct. The Kings Mountain native won his diploma from Kings Mountain higli school in 1959, spent four years in Uncle Samuel’s Air Force, and has been with the DC police force six years. He hopes, he said, to get some applicants from his hometown ai-ea. Reports of the -Metropolitan force activity got to Congress and to the White Hou.se. There is some talk about building the force to 6,000. “It has been decided by Congress to attack the Washing ton law enforcement problems with more men,” he continued. astei renews the hope of the worhl Viewpoints of Other Editors THE DRUG TRAFFIC The head of Chapr'l Hill’s Drug Action Committee was quoted a f«w days ago to the effect that it is easy to go downtown on COST OF THE PRESIDENCY IA GRASS-ROOTS SUCCESS It’s one of the more interesting pastimes to try to figure out A few months ago, several of our retired ciitzens decided it wa.s time to do something about home Franklin Street and within five ' president in office. The official minutes buy almost anything | White House budget at the mo- you want, from marijuana to ; ment is a shade under $4 mil- heroin. lion. But it doesn’t include the 340 persons working for Presi- how much it costs to maintain a health care .service in Chapel Hill. They knew there was very little available and they also m-m Another former Kings Mountain ' man named MuIlLs (I forgot the first name) is also on the force. It was noted that the Shelby Clham- ber of Commerce is seeking to revive the county-wide school consolidation is sue. An answer was given rather graphi cally less than a year ago when voters by a considerable majority declined a proposal to raise the supplemental school tax ot .50 cents per $100 valuation. School officials pledged to levy in the immediate future merely 40 cents, maximum being charged at that time in the Shelby school district.) Tax equalization is the answer to the continuing consolidation teaser. But the problem lies in the variance. Shelby’s 40-cents maximum is fol lowed by Kings Mountain’s 20-cents maximum. The county district cannot get the voters, or has not yet, to approve any supplement. Shelby is not willing to retrogress, the county isn’t willing to vote asupple- ment. These are the extremes of the pole. But each of the three districts re corded solid majorities against the 50- cent proposal. A 40-cent supplement would have meant nothing additional to Shelby district. m-m He was not arquainted. he .said,' with another former Kings Moun tain man, who is in similar work, in the Capitol City, Jesse Wilson. Je.sse, a fleet halfback for the | high school Mountaineers, in the thirties, has been with the secur ity division of the Department of Interior for many years. A student at the high school here, a user and small-time deal er in drugs, estimates that from forty to sixty per cent of the students in the high school have used some sort of illegal ijai-- cotlc at least once. The number ct; habitual users is. of course, much smaller by his estimates, but still large enough to consti tute a major problem. m-m A member of one UNC frater- ity in Chapel Hill figures that up to eighty-five percent of 'his brothers hav'e tried marijuana. Maybe a fourth of that number ■use it with some frequency. Senator Hargrove (Skipixn) Bo-wiles, who spoke here at the annual Parmer’s Night l;an<uiet said he felt like a Lion. He was in Tokyo on business Iasi slim mer during the Lions Inlenia- tional convention. He couldn’t find a hotel room, catch a call. Or do much of anything. Ho found a friendly Lion and relat ed his plight. "I believe you can forget worrying about that,” the Lion said, handing him a Lion kewpie hat. Somewhere beSween forty and seventy per cent of the entire UNC student body of more than 16,000 has used marijuana or drugs at least once, according to pictty goixl sources. The drug traffic in the junior hi.gh schools and among those who aren’t in either the Univer sity or public schools is impossi ble to estimate. But there is some ti-affic theie too. That took care of everything, the Skipper related. He got hotel room at convention rates, found that meals in the restaurants were billed at discounts. Trans portation was no longer a pro blem. Regardless of whether you take the high or low figures and maybe e\'cn divide the whole by lialf to be conservative about it, this amounts to an incredibly heavy flow in a town this size. “I guess,’ "you can Lion." the Skipper said, call me a bootleg m-m Farmer-Lion Bill Plonk, who presented tlie speaker, said he learned Bowles had some farm er in him, too, being a director of a hog-raising firm in one of the Rocky Mountain states. With 4500 hogs, a fair-sized farmer credential. m-m Essentially, of course, the tenor of thinking was that “taxe.s are high enough’. There followed the onc-cent optional sales tax levy. Cleveland’s thinking on the “taxes are high enough” tenor came through loud and strong again. County - wide school consolidation may not be a dead horse but today, due perhaps in the main to the tax situation at county, state and federal levels of government, but the poor fellow is spavined and sick. There is question whether he should be belabored until he has recuperated somewhat. Hearty congratulations to Captain B. Meek Ormand, who observed his lOIst birthday, and to Mrs. W. F. Styers, a new nonogenarian. Originally from Monroe, both Skipper and the older brother John worked their ways to Uni versity of North Carolina diplo mas. Both waited tables at the school dining halls. Skipper sold i-orsages for the students to give their lady imports on week end football games and dance sets, liad a couple more opera tions, was president of his class his sophomore year — and some how managed to earn solid pass ing gra.les. John was president of Rexall Drug Company for several years, now is described by Skipper as a "professional corporate diiector”. John serves on several boards, one an lish fiinn, who pis him o.cr the wa cr for ...d i.iveungs four ti..icj u year. ^ Skipper is a near-neighbor, having married Jessamine Boyce of Geustonia. He certainly is a kindred spirit to Associate Re formed Presbyterians, a forebear of his wife being Erskine Ebe- nezer Boyce, for whom Boyce Memorial ARP (Jhureh is named. One of Skipper’s boys carries Er skine in his nomendature. Arrayed against this tnaltficai’e the thin and overworked ranks of local and County law enforce ment officers, and whatever help we can get from the State Bu reau of Investigation. At present, the S-BI has a gran.-i- total of 65 cigents in the field, to be spread across North Carolina’s 100 counties. ’Their duties cover a wide range of activities other than narcotics. The SBI has fin ally managed to cr©.ite a special narcotics squad, but its manpow er and resources aae nowhere near equal to the challenge. According to SBI Director Charles Dunn, “It is no problem today to buy illegal drugs. Most if not all college and un versity campuses have access to miiri- juana, heroin, and the increasing array of hallucinogenic drugs." To compound the problem, col leges, univei-slties and public schools are doing virtually no thing to stem the traffic. TheT position, Dunn says, is that it isn’t their problem. ♦ dent Nixon but “detailed" to oth Or departments. Nor the presi dent's share of the 10 jets which transport high government of ficials. Nor the million dollars or so it costs to outfit and man the two personally owned but government-maintained presiden tial retreats at Key Biscayne and San Clemente l nor the Navy- maintained Camp David). Nor the carpenters and gardeners, police and Secret Service men who maintain the White House grounds and guard the president. The Wall Street Journal’s rough guess is that the costs of the presidency would total about $70 million. There’s a -reticence in government circles to break out the president’s full share of other departments’ budgets. Of course, secrecyi must be main tained On White House protective measures. And the president’s men may well feel that if the total weie ever really worked out, the public might not be too happy. This July, President Nixotj is taking a step fottward candor in White House amoounting. Its ac knowledged budget for the next ■fiscal year will more than dou ble to $8,500,000, because it will now include the cost of aides farmed out to other departments. This is still far from the full story, however — far less titan the Internal Revenue would ac cept from the rest of us. Christian Science Monitdr Our position is that it’s every body’s problem and, even though MEASURING HAPPINESS There is a black lady we know who is absolutely bursting with happiness and joy of living. True, she lives in a depresslngly poor slum. Yes, all around her are the most terrible problems, a frightening crime rate, the continuous picture of persons who have almost had the heart taken outof them by the prob lems, the setbacks, the discour agement, the discrimination that they have met. Yet this woman, vVho herself woiuld have no dearth of reasons for legitimate complaint, is as joytful a person as one could meet anywhere any time? And her secret? An old but very simple one. She devotes her life to helping others, loving others, convforting others. It is this deep devot on to mankind which lifts her above the annoy ances ani.’l shoclcs which make so m-any - rich as well as poor attacking the traffic is not the | - disgruntled and angry. She has knew there was a need for it. Some retired citizens who didn’t want to be packed off to rest homes seriously considering re-! retiring to other towns where home health .service would be available. With John Harkness and Dr. Graham Cook and a handful of others leading the way, this group of concerned citizens set about creating an agency here. They consulted with experts at Memo rial Hospital, the UNC, Medical School,, the State Board of Health, the Durham-Orange County Medi cal Society, the UNC Department of Public Health Nursing, the UNC School of Public Health, the District Health Department, and federal officials to find out what could be done and how it ought to be done. Gus S. Bennett Mrs. Belle T. Ca-rico Rmsst'll E. Ellis Mrs. Florence L. Falls Mrs. Margaret C. Karris Mamie G, Gill Everello Goixie Mrs. Virginia M. Herndon Mrs. Lissie S. Joiirison Mrs. Annie B. Jolly Haskel F. Baumgardnor ■Mrs. Mamie D. Pannier Mrs. Sara E. Propst Mrs. Cora L. Rhyne Mrs. James Baity William T. Bridges Mrs. Bruce Brlgman Mrs. Lois N. Camp Carl E. Conrad Edwai^d W. Dellinger Oscar E. Gladden Mis. Eula G. Hardin Sidney D. Huffsietler Ervin A. Jenkins Laur J. Laws James Moss Mrs. James E. Moss Judge L. Phillips Mrs. Eugene H. Roberts Mrs. Antieho P. Smith Mrs. Jame.s P. .Sneisi Marlin L. Wil.son, .Sr. Carl J. Trupletl Mrs. Fannie K White Jolin C. Waller Mis. Ronald M. Price Admitted Thursday Ernest Hood Admitted Friday Mrs. Lois N. Camp Mrs. Wilhurn H. Abernalhy Admitted Saturday Hubert G. Clemmons Mrs. Mary P. FarrLs Mrs. Ricky D. Hal) Nancy E. McCarter Hazel C. Queen Mrs. James Roseboro Mrs. Lee R. Sellers Gary E. Gunter Admitted Sunday Mrs. S. W. Worthen Mrs. Earl A.. Wright Admitted Monday John B. Husklns John C. Talley James E. Castles Mrs. Hcrshel Davis Mrs. Lemuel Hamrick Paul G. Harding Mrs. Horace L. Patterson Harry P. Roark, Jr. Robert A. Smith Bobby G. Sutherland Frances B. Wilson Mrs. Stoye Lt'e Mrs. Alonzo W. Manley Mrs. Wilburn W. Stylos Admitted Tuesday Billy A. Baynard Earl D. Hicks Mrs. Hillard S. Smith Bert Van Ynndlo Guy W. Carlan Mrs. Harvey L. Grant Ra us. U that read goal.' this later "R Ihetr whic 18 in tion. struc eour; stude obsei them lul. In week Then they surveyed the com munity to identify as precisely as passible the .specific needs. The result is the brand-new Chapel Hill Home Health Agency, the fruit of a grass-roots effort that is possibly unique in the country. Building Permits Issued By City Two city building permits were issued during the past week. Pei-mil was issued to Charles and Ruby Alexander for con struction of a six-room brick veneer dwelling, estimated cost $18,000, at .502 Ellenwood Drive. .Marion Dixon is contrac or. Permit was issued to Grace Davis for construction of foui „ ^ , r, room brick veneer dwell ng, es Mr. Harkness, Dr. Cook, Dr. timated to cost $.8,000, in the 100 Ruth Grout, Mrs. Mary Snyder, Miss Julia Watkins and Mrs. Wilder Towle—the original mem bers of that group of concerned block of S, Gaston street. citizens — deserve our standing door to contentment. sake alone will ojicn a magici applause. —Chapel HUl Weekly are not, af course, counseling a supine acceptance of a wrong place or a wrong position. We are not speaking of those who— thoughtfully and -tjarefully — change their base of operations An English writer said th “Happiness is like time or space — we make and measu It ourselves." The black lady whom we spoke learned th truth early on when she fir extended a watm, strong hai because they ean make better' to persons in need. She has bet use of their talents elsewhere. Nor are we talking of those who, with every right in the ivvorld, fight to free themselves from poverty and discrimination. We think, rather, of those who dream that change for change’s happy - far happier than t average man or woman — ev since. It seems to u.s that this lesson which these trouble striving, cantankerous, imrestf times might well benefit from. Christian Science Monit r- rr.: final solution or maybe even the Itest one, it is one thing that must be done. learned, through the inborn The only way it can be done is to give our law enforcement a- gencies, local and county as well a t’le SIBI, the manpower and her resources commensurate with the job. In a few weeks our Town and County governments will be set ting up new budgets. That is when we can decide whether we really want to fight drug traffic on the local level and appropri ate the money for it, or Whether ,wc w<Htld prefer to wait and hope for somebody else to do it for us. You might give k a thought, Chaptl Hill Weekly goodness of her character, a Ics-1 son which we all have been told but which too ifeiw of us take to heart. This is that, at rock bot tom, material circumstances a- lone cannot noake one happy'. We thought instinctively of this lady the ot.her day when we read two different newspaper ar ticles. One told of how millions of Americans yearn to leave ehe cities and go live in the country. The other told of the "dullness” of small town life ami how so many countryside dwellers long ed for the "excitement” of city living. In short, that old grass looked a mighty lot greener in the other fejiow's yard. Yet how many persons actual ly find happiness through m^cre discontent 'and restlessness? We Keep You Radio IMal Set At 1220 WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. News & Weather e'very hour on the heur. Weather every hour on the half hour. Fine entertainment in between
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