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A weekly newspaper devoted 1
welfare and published for tbi
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Real Plight
After the "no, period" statement
of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
regarding his running
for president on the Democratic
ticket, the rhajorit>
of the Democrats, from ward
heelers to big city bosses, made
a beeline back to Harry Truman.
Critical writers such as Walter
Lippman, Hay Tucker, and
others who keep in daily touch
with the political scene, rathej
uniformly credit Presidenl
Truman with a basic sincerity
and honesty, which,, however
becomes involved with bad ad
vice on the part of various
hangers-on an d pressure
group*- and tangled by sniping
from an enemy Congress. The
Democrats, knowing full wel
they could not win with Tru
man, appeared to be nominat
ing him anyway, as this was
written.
The Dewey-Warren ticket ii
regarded the sure-fire favorite
and, barring some unusual pen
dulum swinging, is expected t<
win going away. The Demo
crat big-wigs clon't admit this
nubliclv. but thev know it. E
. ven though behind, a man witl
the personality of the lat<
President Roosevelt migh
have been able to swing the sit
uation. Mr. Truman doesn*
have that ability.
Though the outcome in No
. vember will likely be GOP, i
is doubtful that Truman wil
absorb the licking taken b}
Herbert Hoover in 1932 or th<
worse trouncing taken by Lan
don in 1936. It is also unlikely
that the Democratic party ?ai
the GOP zealots suggest ?wil
disappear. Senator McMahon
in a radio talk prior to the con
vention, emphasized the far
that the Democratic party i<
the party of the little people
For that reason it will live, e
ven though the nation seem!
destined (some good Demo
crats would sa.V "doomed") t<
a GOP administration begin
ning January 20, 1949.
It won't be long now unti
the county school bells begir
ringing again, marking: the be.
IAJiiuiiik ui ciiiumt'i in in
There is more find more sentiment
developing for abolitior
of the split term for rtira
schools, based on the reason'
ing of an up-county citizen whc
remarked at a recent meeting
of county school district comsioners.
"Gentlemen. We can'1
put our cotton ahead of oui
children, can we?" That is
what is being done. Educators
and citizens alike have long agreed
that the split term is no1
conducive to good instruction
Pre-payment of city taxes
through July 3 showed Kings
Mountain citizens had discounted
43 percent of the 194f
levy, due and payable November
1. This is a good record anc
indicates that the city coffers
will be sufficiently filled with
tax money to eliminate tht
budgetary dangers of non-payments
so familiar in the earli
thirties.
For many farmers, the rains
came in the nick of time.
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K.n^s M >u;i:<!,. w.o-ps ' r;; ;
a: young'men, *. .. >-t ? :
the school boa;c u pcrihl? < c,uh
pc nsored dance r. .e recently c< rr.
p.e:ed gy'mnafc.ur.. Jur.ng .r.e ,<>.?!
week in July.
SOCIAL PERSONAL
, Mis Frances *Vyiror ci Lcxingibn
was a recent guest of Sara
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Duntain Herald
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:o the promotion ol the general
b enlightenment, entertainment
Kings Mountain and its vicinity.
Herald Publishing House.
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ol March 3. 1873.
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IBLE VERSE
Go. and come again, and tomort
it by thee. Proverbs 3:28.
Bethware Fair
Most people have come to
- realize over the years that the
* citizens of the Bethware com
munity are among the most
' energetic in the vicinity, or
I county for that matter. It
doesn't seem to make much
difference whether they are
preparing a big dinner-on-the
grounds, farming, playing base
1 ball, or voting for a governor.
t When they, tackle a job, they ;
* do it up in fine style.
Thus, it is with interest that j
' the announcement of the pre- [
? sentation of the Bethware'
Community Fair will be re-1
5 ceived.
j
r Complete plans on the three>
day event have not yet been
j announced, but the committee-in-charge
is working diligently,
and it is our guess that
the Fair will be successful from
5 all standpoints.
Since Governor - Nominate
I Kerr Scott's platform included
" a plank for raising teacher salaries,
it is likely that the tea~
Cher's will get a needed increase
during the next session j
* of the legislature. The long |
p range effect of this raise will be 1
t to attract more young people
into the teaching profession,
I which for years has been a
white collar job with a journeyman's
pay. That does not
j solve the immediate problem
j of teachers. Kings Mountain is
/ having its troubles, along with i
a cities all over the state. Tho^ej
who have less trouble are those i
* paying supplements above the j
R state salary. According to our
1 information, the Kings Mountain
supplement is the puniest j
I offered in North Carolina. 1
t Schools are important, and
, some steps should be taken to
improve the situation ? else
Kings Mountain will lag behind
, and the damage will be felt forj
many years to come.
, ?
Don't forget: dirt breeds dis-'
ease of all kinds. This is men-1
tioned with -particular refer-'
1' ence to polio, which now is '
i quite prevalent over North I
North Carolina. While Kings,
. Mountain and Cleveland coun
- tv have not been hit as hard as j
) some other counties (Burke J
! and Guilford are thus far more;
K '1 ?*/"J . U 5 i S II /-? i il/l V* b rt r-\ r, v>4 :
- iicn wiiii '? ?? wuuiu ur i lie- pnii t
> of wisdom for all persons to see
\ that thei. premises are kept in'
as clean a condition as possi-j
t b!e. The action of the cjty in;
making an effort to destroy the
? common fly and other insects
! through a DDT spraying
should also be beneficial. The)
L Herald is glad to see that the
. city plans to do a house-tohouse
spraying job rather than
! than using the "fogging" mei
thod?which one Kings Moun
tain doctor has described as
l "not worth two/rents." Wheth
er getting at the source of poI
lio or not, the spraying should
; prove beneficial other-wise.
i ?
More and more people are
convinced that the United Stat
tes should begin shooting at
Russia. It appears that the Russians
intend to affront the Unii
ted States in every possible
way, as they have been consist
3 Items of news taken from th?
? 1937 files of the Kings Moun"
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Mrs. O. W. Myers find children
'Ef(r! ar.d Eleanor. will three F
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state, near Seneca, S. C. 18
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martin's medicine
By Mai tin Harmon
(Containing bits of uwi, wisdom.
humor, and comment. To be
taken weekly. Avoid over.'
dosage.)
Baseball Talk
Last week'* Lions-sponsored
semi-pro baseball tournament was
the gathering - ground as usuaL
not only lor some red hot baseball
fans, but major league scouts and
other people who work at the business
of baseball. The result was
an unusual mixture of baseball
experiences, camouflage, camarede,
and cut-throating as one has
never seen before. But it made interesting
listening.
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Among the scouts who made
their presence known at the tourament
Were Charley Jamerson.
who coaches at Davidson and
works for the Detroit Tigers and
ivory bunting department Tex
Millard of the Cincinnati Reds,
and Bill Harris of the New York
Giants. Whether its typical of the
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Jamerson and Harris boast quite
silvery locks. Millard probably
hasn't been in the scouting busi nes
as long as the other two.
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Invariably, discussion will always
come around to umpires, j
this authoritative men-in-blue
Who "everybody 3ays to shoot."
and there are some good stories,
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Among the best was a $tory on
Red Jones, the American League
umpire who was shelled With' a
pop bottle barrage in Washing- ,
ton several weeks ago. A rookie
had complained over a decision j
Red made, and Red gave him the
old heave-ho.
"You're out of the ball game."
Red ordered.
But the rookie was a conscientious
soul and changed his attitude.
He apologized and begged
to remain in the game.
"Please, sir." be said, 'Tve never
been tossed out of a gauie."
"That's too bad son." Red replied.
'But it's )ust like a raid on
a gambling house. The good goes
with the bad. Your're out of the ,
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And they tell this one on Bud I
Shoney, who was pitching baseball
when I was knee-high to a
duck, and who has been umpiring
for many years.
But was working in the Trl.
State league as an umpire and
complained to League President
Manly LeweLlyn that be had been
hit by a pitched ball. which* had
ruined his upper teeth, and forced
him to use store-built plate
materials
"What a story," Lewellyn is supposed
to hare replied. "Why. you
haven't had any teeth in 20 years."
But he bought him the plate
anyway.
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Bud, who strutted for the fans
here last week, has a 65-acre farm
near Hendeisonville. says his
bean crop is the fanciest in Western
North Carolina this year,
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Bad Eye Morgan, the city truck
driver, is credited with the top
barb of the tournament. Umpires I
Shaney. Ray Cline and Otto Guy- j
ton were conferring before a game
started and Bad Eye yelled:
'Good, put your heads together.
It'll make a good rock pile." I
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nci. j. i?. mnmer is a not oose*
bal fan, and Leading Layman |
Boyer Murray is too. Luring one |
night of the tourney a function 1
was scheduled at their church and
bpth were scheuled for duty. According
to reliable information
from a Methodist source, Mr..
Winkles spent most of the even- .
ing rushing into the church working
bard for fire minutes, then j
running orer to the parsonage for i
"materials." Of coarse, he didn't
stop at the parsonage but mored .
under forced draft to the ball yard.
All the time, Murray was doing
the same thing. After this had
been going on for quite sometime,
the pair met each ether entering
the church.
"Where yet been" Mr. Winkler
asked.
"On the other end of the bench."
Boyer replied.
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Dotted notes: Dick Mauney, the
ML- Pleasant pitcher -. outfielder
who wrenched his knee sliding
into third in the semi-finals game
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woaoa * va J*vi sTIUfi WOl IVIIUVTlf
with tho Phllllos. Whsq th*r
wanted to cut hte salary $800 a
month, ha dad dad ba'd stay with
tha aami-proa. reason for tha
Toylored 11a folks knowing Foul
FsMs. tha big southpaw whoaa
eligibility was guostionod. was
that both ML Ploasant and Taylorsotllo
had boon bidding for his
'ntly doing. Unless some radial
change comes in the leadof
the Russian people,
var between the two rations
ippears inevitable, with th'
- ^'^stion the date it wir
legin. "The Jlitlrr ct??** 'enrr
>roved that turning of the oth .?
r "heek only add? to the rrree |
i rules who lest for territor.
ind power.
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Miricci ..Taylorsville had lost r
that round .... The Scouts spend
hall their time looking at ball R
games, a quarter trying to sign
talent and the other quarter tell- i
ing other scouts they're recdly U]
not interested in Lefty Jones, hoping
to get the competitors of the Mn
trail ... .. Among the pitehem at- jjc
tracting particular interest of the
scouts were Frisbee. the Swan- fQ
nanoa ace who whiffed 22 men In pC
an early round game., Blackburn f0
and Hllliard, of Taylorsville. and e(j
Morris, the capable right-hander pr
from Derita who had the misfor- to
tune to catch Frisbee in his only sh
tourney, appearance. Morris, inci- m
dentally, allowed only seven hits
and whiffed 10 ? after working a jG
full day from 6:30 a. m. to S:30 p. cr
m. and having only a hastily- tf;
gulped sandwich for supper. ti<
Avoid Sunstroke. d
Heat Exhaustion
With the approach of high tem- j
peratures and the rush of the har- I
vesting season it is easy to be over- ,
come by heat illness, says H. M., '
Ellis, in pharco of FvtPncinn Aari.
cultural Engineering at State Col- j
lege.
When heat illness strikes it can be
serious, sometimes fatal, Mr. Ellis
said. Be on the guard against heat
sickness and take the necessary pre
cautions this summer to avoid over- | ^
exposure to the sun or prolonged .
physical exertion in extreme-?heat.
Heat exhaustion and sun stroke 1
are two entirely different things, even
though both may seem tq result i
frqm exposure to high external heat
With heat exhaustion, the patient's
skin is cold and clammy ? while
with sun stroke, the skin is hot and j
dfy. A simple rule may serve as a
guide and avoid confusion regarding
the treatment. Briefly, it fs ths:
If the patent is cold, make him \
warm; if he is hot, make him cool.
You can protect yourself against
heat sicknes by following these Na- ;
tional Safety Council recommenda- j
tions: "
Avoid overexertion, particularly in :
the early part of the heat wave. j
; Avoid too much exposure to di- j
rect sun rays, or extreme indoor tern t
peratures and high humidity ?wear |
| a. hat while out of dobrs.
1 West light, porous clothing and
avoid tight fitting clothes.
Increase the use of salt on food,
or use salt tablets or salt In drink- _
ing water to offset the excessive loss
of xalt from the body through perspl/ation.
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isiiuK water oiien uirougnout tne
day, one glass at a time. f
Eat nutritious food but avoid overeating
? vitamin C^st through
perspiration should be replaced with
fruit Juices.
Get plenty of sleep and bathe regularly.
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Avoid ice cold water and alcohol.
- Republicans and Democrats Tie
In the calendar period 1880-1892 i
; the Republican and Democratic par- 1
ties won two presidential elections j
each, bift in neiyier of these electj
ions did the winning party poll a
1 majority of the popular vote.
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Copies of a recently revised popar
bulletin of the State College
ctension Service entitled "A Farm
g Guide for North Carolina," is
>w available for distribution. 1
The publication contains much inrmaticn
dealing with the more im
irtant farming operations. This in*
rmation, condensed and presentI
as "jobs to be done, by months," i
ovides a check list for the farmer
use in planning work which
ould be done on his farm each J
onth.
The calendar of work Includes
bs to be done for livestock, field
ops, fruits and vegetables, poul> ,
and general operation. In addi- i
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immended varieties, seeding 'rates,
ind fertilizer requirements for crops
s included.
The information was furnished by
he appropriate departments of the
College and Extension Service, and
he publication was compiled by
he Extension farm management de
jartment. Authors of the original elition
were R. W. Shoffner, district
tgent: H. B. James, in charge, farm
nanagement research; and C. B_
iatchford, in charge, Extension
arm management. The revision was
nade by Moyle S. Williams, farm
nanagement specialist.
Copies may be obtained free by
vritlng the Agricultural Editor,,
state College, Raleigh. Please ask.
or Extension Circular No. 263.
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