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The Kings Mountain Herald Established 1889 ? A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion ef the general welfare and published (or the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Friday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second clajM matter at the postoffice at Kings Moua* tain, N.C., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Charles T. Carpenter. Jr Sports, Circulation. News Mrs. 9. D. Herndon . ... ..... . i . .. ............ Society Editor Telephones: Society 167, Other 283 SUBSCRIPTION HATES PAYABLE IN ^ADVANCE One year $2.00 Six months SI. 10 Three months .......... .CO TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. Psalm 23:1. Hail '50 Kings Mountain will join the world this weekend in bidding goodbye to the interesting year 1949 and in hailing the begin ning of 1950, marking the end of a half century and the start of another. In the past throe swift -dec ades the nation has seen the Roaring Twenties, the Terrible Thirties and the Furious Forti es. Most talk figure that the Fifties will bo somewhat furi ous too. It's a new era and a new day ... The problem, as usual, is the obtaining <*f balance. It appli es in every '.' tie. business and every bj'g business: how to get everything to run smoothly and pot every operation to come out even with the other. In Government it is a problem of balancing the budget, in la bor relations it is how to kerp tho union satisfied or, from the labor viewpoint, how to get tho most possible money without breaking the business. In ordi nary society the problem is how to" keep from being a her mit on the one extreme, or a social gadfly on the other. Only in spiritual pursuits is the problem seldom one of two extermes. Here the problem sometime appears to bo how to budget even a minimum of time for moral improvement. It's probably impossible of attainment, but a slowing of the pace during the next dec ade would unquestionably be beneficial to almost everyorie. Who would advocate a return to the old gefleral store days with the pickle jars and the cracker barrels, when a store force stayed on the job for 12 to lfi hours? None would. But tho pace was slower, and some measure of return to this more casual method of living would decrease the deaths from heart attacks. But' it's a New Year and a New Decade. The books are closing on the old and opening on the new, ar.u America, the home of the vigorous, the strong and the optimistic is looking forward to it with as much excitement as the pion *.vcs v^ho moved to the new lands of the west. The administration in Wash ington now seems to be soft pedalling talk of more taxes, which is an about-face from the posftiort of several months ago. However, the nation awaits With interest the President's annual State of ihe Union mes sage to Congress. Reason for the change in policy is rather evident, for 1950 is an election year, and incumbents . have never relished the. task of ex plaining additional taxes when on the stump. But the people would also like to see a balan ced budget for a New Year's gift. I Crowell Little The news of last week that Crowell J.ittle is going to Dav idson-next year as head foot ball coach will be pleasing to both Davidson alumni and friends in Kings Mountain andi to other citizens as well. < Mr. Little graduated from the player ranks to Kings! Mountain as high school foot-| ball coach and, though he was! here only one year, he made; ?piany friends, from * both the personal and gridiron stand points. In Kings Mountain, and since, he has demonstrated that he can handle his assign-; ments as a coach as well as he once quarterbacked a team on the' field. ? His friends are wishing him; well in what, for the past sever al years has proved a difficult coaching job. There was the usual big wave .of traffic fatalities dur ing the Christmas season, and the big portion of it was attri butable to carelessness and chance-taking on the part of drivers of automobiles. Those who successfully navigated the highways in making Christmas visits can almost uniformly re port instances of meeting road fools who raced through inter sections, passed on curves and over hills. New Year's makes another holiday weekend, and motorists should drive with ex treme care. Increase in the number of autos is in greater proportion to the increase in roads. > This is the season of the! year, insurance companies re port, when fire losses are hea-t viest. But it seems that the cold J statistics have had a move real ? meaning here recently, with! more regular blowing og the city's fire siren. Many 'ot the fires result from defective heating stoves or cooking stov es, and all who use one would be making a wise move to check it carefully. An ounce of prevention can save much pain. How nice to be working! Mosft of Kings Mountain indus try took only a short pause for Christmas before starting up again, and there were few, if any, complaints. The spectre of darkened, idle plants, seen fre quently earlier in 1949, was most unpleasant for all con cerned. The fact that most folk were working made Christmas. '49 a much happier one. It's tax listing- time again The books will be open next week for the first time, and early-bird listers may -not get the worm but they will save themselves considerable time. There's always a iast-minute rush on the tax listing job. And don't forget to purchase a' city auto tag. 1A YEARS AGO It?m? of now* taken from tb# |U THIS WEEK {S?h2Si?' tb* ,U?*, Haa" J * * Fred Finger, charter member and one of the organizers of the two- j year oJd Su?g Club, was elected president succeeding Otto "Toby" .Williams, president for the last two years, according to the election re sults announced at the Club's an- . nual formal banquet last night. j Citizens of Kings Mountain are' back on the job this week after | spending a quiet but active week end in observance of Christmas. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL A wedding of simplicity and quiet ritafm was that of Mtes Ethel Hord ,*aJJonah Falls both of this city. The' ceremony was performed at nine j o'clock Sunday December 24, at St. Matthew's Lutheran church, with Rev. Boyd Hamm, pastor of the ?brldie groom officiating, using the impres sive ring ceremony, Postmoster and Mrs. W. E. Blake ly returned last night from \farens, Ga., where they spent Christmas; holidays. Mr. and Mrs. L. Arnold Kiser spent | the holidays *iiii Mrs. Riser's rela tives in Eastern North Caro'ina. Mr. and Mr*. Frank Sum ners are spending ;he holidays in Florida. Mr, J. E. Herndon and family are on a holiday trip in Florida. , ' ? 1 ? : r? - martin's medicine By Mai tin Harmon (Containing bits A news, wis dom. humor, and comment. To be taken weokly. Avoid over dosage.) Exit '49 Father Time is about to wield his sharpened scythe on another year and. this time, another de cade, as old '49 gives 'way to now model '50. ?-'49 It's been an interesting, jam packed year and 10 years, and. as usual, there are many events which would bear repeating, many which would not. e-'49 But the medicinal department today is the result of some digging in the encyclopedia aud other books of facts lor an older '49, the one of 100 years ago. There are some marked similarities in the trends of the times, and also some considerable differences. The air plane. of course, was many years distant, as was the automobile, but the train had arrived. The historians note as one oi the high water accomplisments of the year the construction of a railroad be tween Boston and New York. The horse, naturally, was the prime means of getting where one want ed to go on short hauls. e-'49 The year 1849 closed out a dec ade in American history which had also seen a war, the one with Mexico $n 1846. The result of that was not only establishment of the boundary between Texas and Mexico, which started all the trou ble. but resulted in additon of Cal ifornia. Utah. Nevada and parts of Arizona and New Mexico for the sum of SIS million which pro bably made the citizens of that day sick, but which is only a drop in the bucket in this day and age of billion-dollar budgets. e-'49 Another event of 1849 was the death of James Knox Polk* elev enth president of the Jnited States. Polk, a native North Car olinian. was a Democrat and died three months after leaving office. Incidentally, the present-day De mocrats probably have Polk turn ing over in bis grave. He believed that government should col lect no more tariffs (no income tax had been heard of) than it need ed to pay costs of government and he was against chartering na tional banks. He was also a strong pro-slavery advocate. Compare this to the tax-more, spend-more, social welfare. FEPC Democrats of today and it's hard to see the connection, other than the name. Another change from Polk's '49 can be found in the fact that the decade of 1849 saw no less than five U. 5. presidents. As the decade began. Democrat 'Martin Van Btt ren was completing his one term and was followed by Whig Wil liam Henry Harrison. Harrison died after holding office only a month, and Whig John Tyler took over. Polk went in next, served his term and evidently no kin to the late FDR, declined to offer again. He was succeeded in '49 by Zach dry Taylor, a Whig. Note that . these were the days heforethe Ci vil War, and the Solid South was unknown. Taylor, representing the party which is now known as Re publican. had a plantation in Louisiana, had never been in pol itics. His war record and Louisana residence brought him enough Southern votes to win. , ?-'49 The list reminds that the Re * publicans have long loved to run war heroes for vote -getters. There was Washington, the first Harri son. Taylor. Grant and Teddy Roosevelt. They haven't changed much. During the recent war they were trying to get MacArthur and now they're after Ike. ?-*49. - The big question of 1849 was slavery, and a fellow named Abe Lincoln who was later to toad the government in a bloody civil wot, had already been on the rec ord as Congresman Abe Lincoln against the War with Mexico. ??*49 Other 1849 facts: It was the year of the Califorla gold rush, but oold had been discovered U^ere a year ?oilier . . . The Germans had been fighting as usual, and had completed and arm i$ tic with Denmark ... if was one year be fore the birth of Po?t Robert Louis Stevenson, and one of the nation's 14-year-old lads was 8am Clem ens. later to becom? Mark Twain. Louisa May Aleott since respon sible for many a sad-eyed tear for - many a generation with h?r "Lit tle Women." was 17 . . . chief Jtord ventions of the year included the magazine- type gup. the steam pressure guag?, and the lafedl needle iar knitting machines. An other was the daddy at the mod ern txig-pap^r newspaper press: curved plates for a rotating cylin der for printing presses. Mercerts-j sd cotton, lite* Stevenson, was a year awry . . . '?iWm&'M.- wt Wond ?.? what news, inventions, literary. .wntfca. <0?d still be worth mentioning a hun- . dred rears hone*? Toj ay part I'm willing to hana around and see. HAffPY NSW TEAR! - Turkey Schools; To Be Conducted Three meetings fqr grow ers will be held by the Slate Col - , ieee Extension Service in large tur- : key producing areas -of the state , during January. The first be held in the city hall at. Cherry vUle, Gaston Cou^V at 11 a. m. on January US, the r-.A at Marshyille, Union County, at Warn, on January 1"; and the <mrd in the school house at <?n ^a'np^on County* ai 10 a. ? January 30. -.'. J The-pragram for ail the meetings will be the same Poult ^ce<jj^g will be discussed by L. W. Her rick, extension ^rkoy speciali-, production of oats and corn, by ur. E R. CoHins. in charge of agronomy extension; feed requirements _ for turkeys, by Dr. Joi Kelly of the 3l3t? poultry department; poultry diagnostic service at State College, by Frank Craig, also of the poultry department. Colored slides wiH be used to il lustrate some of the talks^ . With interest in larSeSC/lle^ l key production increasing in Norm Carolina, large attendance are ex npcted at the meetings, according fo Merrick. He added that all Urge and smalt growers, feed and equip ment salesmen, and allied indus try men are invited to attend tne meeting most convenient for them. United States Historical park, Co lonial, in Virginia, has an acreage of 7.233.49 acres. ' | Beware Coughs From Common Colds That KANtf OM * sstsss ; ' to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm and -id nature '?,i"iuhe , heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial , mucous mcpibf.inC5.Tell y^ur druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding you muse liKe the wav it quickly allays the coug-t or you are to have your moneyback. CREOMULSION for Coughs, ChestColds, Bronchitis A gla*? of Golden guernsey Mitk ii a healthful course in ittelf. Vet GOLDEN GUERNSEY * n alio Ideal for ute in cream i?upi . . . gravies . . . olhf r cooked diihek You can even make delightful whipped cream from rich GOLDEN GUERNSEY 'op milk! Here'* hoari Let GOLDEN GUERNSEY top milk ttand 24 hours. Chill turo hnurs in fretting tray. Chill bowf and beater Vhf ' THY SOME Or OUB GOLDEN GUERNSEY CREAM TO'iAY! XX Heavy Whipping Cream. Vijt . . 40c Coffee ot Cereal Cream* pt 25c Axchdaie Farms 2405 mo M SOUP TO DESSikT GowmmsEYM/K THE RIGHT IDEA Save now for your future needs. Prepare for life's harsh winter. A !i+tle saved regularly now makes al! the dlfferertce later. Don't de-. ley . . . Std* t today. HOME B. & L. ASSOCIATION A. H. Patterson, Sec.-Treas. Hj Dr. James S. Bailey OPTOMETRISTT . Examination, Diagnosi$, Glasses Fitted Office open each Friday 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. 250 FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING '.J F or Highest Quality Foods RLALOCK GROCERY Serving Kings Mountain Over 13 Tears Phone 58 HARRIS FUNERAL HOME Phone 118 ? Ambulance Service ? Kings Mountain, N. C. _ I* VOU HAD A MILLION DOLLARS YOU COULOM'T aiT* ?ETTE* BREAD
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