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The Kings Monntain Herald Established 1889 A weekly riews^per devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its viclty, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. >. Entered as second class matter at the postofflce at Kings Mountain. N. C., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1S73 EDITOB1AL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr. Sports, Circulation. News Mrs. P. D. Hemdon Society Mrs. Dot Hamm Advertising, News MECHANICAL DEPABTMENT Eugene Matthews Horace Walker ' George W.' Gaynoc Ivan Weaver* Charles Miller Paul Jackson (?- -Member of Armed Forces) " 7 TELEPHONE NUMBERS? 167 or 283 SUBSCRIPTION HATES. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR ? <$2.50 SIX MONTHS? $1. 40 THREE MONTHS? 75c BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Put on therefore, as the elect of God. holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering. Colossians 3:12. Lenoir's Gain The news that Rev. T. L. Cashwell, Jr., D. D., is leaving the pastorate of First Baptist church at the end of next month is much regretted, both by the vast ma jority of the members of his church and by the community as well. ? ? In the brief period the young minister has been in Kings Mountain, he has come to know the community and his people, and has held a high place in their regard. His tenure as a Kings Mountain mini ster has been marked by forcefulness and success, and he has demonstrated the desired ministerial qualities of abili ty in the pulpit, and ability in handling the personal contacts which are requlr , ed of a pastor. Both qualities are to be desired in a minister, and some are not able to quali fy for both as fully as desired. In addition, Mr. Cashwell has made himself a reputation for efficiency and hard work in any community work he has undertaken. The most notable ex ample, of course, was the recent visit of the Red Cross Bloodmobile when a new record was set for blood collections in Kings Mountain. While Mr. Cashwell goes to a larger field, it is easy, to predict that Lenoir will hold him in no higher regard than Kings Mountain, for this community holds him in highest esteem. Truly, Lenoir gains' by Kings Moun tain's loss. The death of C, F. Ilarry, Sr.. removed from the Kind's Mountain area a worthy citizen, who had been finincially suc cessful as an industrialist. Mr. Harry was of the old school, and his treatment of his employees was tempered with the kind of paternalism which is not always found in the .modern days of high, pres sure mass production. He was liberal with his means in aiding worthwhile causes, and, in death, his will. provided, a final cont ribut ion .to his church. The Herald has not learned as yet-, whether Robert Neill will have his aerial maps of the city again available for in spection in the near future, hut those who visited him at City Hall last week found the .maps most interesting. It was quite easy to recognize the individual homes from their rooftops, and the con trasting contours of the land, some tilled and some not, outlined graphically a birdseye view of the city. *. Stories of heroism are being written regularly by Kings Mountain service men. Latest reported one comes in the heroic action of Marine Lieutenant E. L. Carlton, former .".high school coach, who risked his own life to save a wounded Marine. Since the peace talks began, ac tion in Korea has been limited. Lt. Carl ton's citation is. a graphic reminder that deadl\ Weapons are still" being fired in Korea. . Or. John McSweeii is one of I're.sbylei3 i tnism's 'Outstanding ministers. He has spoken here in the past to civic groups who uere uniformly pleased with his .practical, down to earth approach to the Spiritual aspects of life. Those who have not heard him in the past, and those who have, have a special treat in store. It's not at all too late to draw a liberal check for the Red Cross. New Hampshire Probably never before has New Hamp shire been bathed in publicity like it was during the pre-primary campaign sea son. Good or bad, however observers may see it, New Hampshire got the headlines. The results were interesting in both the Republican and Democratic races. General Eisenhower was supposed to win handily, due to the fact that the ma jority of the established New Hamp shire Republican organization was for him. But Senator Taft made a whirlwind drive and, though he gained no conven tion delegates, was only 10,000-plus votes in arrears to the General. In the Democratic balloting, Senator Kefauver won by 4,000 votes, after Presi dent Truman changed his mind arid al lowed his name to be entered. In politics, and in spite of the fact that losers usual ly learri more than winners, most politi cans think it is best to keep winning. Thus it would appear that Mr. Truman's first reaction to the New Hampshire pri mary, which he termed "eyewash," was probably the correct one, politically speaking. Under persuasion, he allowed his name to be entered, after all, and he took a trouncing, His enemies in his own party, of which there seem to be many, will make capital of the New Hamp shire vote, though one of his potential opponents, Sentator Russell, of Georgia, appeared quite charitable in according the Truman licking to the "eyewash" rc 'mark. Of course, the backers of the several candidates of both political denomina tions are interpreting the results to suit themselves, as is hardly unnatural. But the more or less indenpendent ob server cannot help but be .impressed by the indications of General Eisenhower's universal popularity and, concurrently, by the lack of popularity of President Truman. It is the belief of this enwspaper, still, that Ike's biggest task Will be in winning the Republican nomination. It cannot be deni< d that, since the New Hampshire voting. General Eisenhower is eight votes nearer the initially required con vention victory. Friday is the last day for "calling all dogs," or at least their owners. The final scheduled dog vaccination clinic will be held, at City Hall, and owners who want to protect, their pets should avail them selves the opportunity of having them vaccinated. Law enforcement officers, on request of the county health depart ment, are going to cr ick down on dogs which have not been vaccinated. They should, for rabies is a dread disease. And owners do love their dogs. A lady who is trying to find her stolen pet told the Herald last week she rated dog thieves with the proverbial crook who. steals money from the church alms boxes. Most dog owners will agree that she is absolutely right. .Easter is nearby. Kings Mountain merchants have filled their shelves with desirable merchandise, and the varying price ranges should satisfy both those who are "budget" minded, and those who are not. Our congratulations of the several high school musical organizations who made a very creditable showing at the district contests In Charlotte last week. 10 I YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events THIS WEEK taken from the 1942 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. The U. & Army has increased Its strength by 31 as that many young men left Kings Mountain Tuesday for Fort Bragg, N. C. Social tin Personal Mrs. O. W. Myers was hostess to the Study club and n few invit ed guests at her home Tuesday af ternoon at 3:30. The Senior Woman's Club held its annual business meeting in the club house* Friday. Mrs. O. P. Lewis, who before her recent marriage was Miss ? Sara Kate Ormand, was honored at a delightful party on Wednes day evening of last week by Mes. d^mes Harry Page and Harold Hunnicutt at the home of the latter on North Piedmont Ave. Mr. and Mrs. Haywood E. Lynch were visitors in Lincolnton and Charlotte. Saturday. Misses Leon? Patterson and Mary Francos Gantt spent Sun day in Hickory. Mrs. ('?. D. Hambright spent several days last week in Grah am. N. C., where she was guest of Mr. and "Mrs. Myron Rhyne. Mrs. George Davis returned to Charlotte Thursday after spend ing several days with Mrs. C. E. Neisler. ? Miss Mary Foust Plonk of the Durham school faculty. Miss j Douglas Plonk of the North ' Wilkesboro school faculty, and Miss Dorothy Plonk, student at the University at Chapel Hill, were guests of their parents for the weekend. i MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Barman Ingredients: bits of new s, wisdom, humor, and comment. Direction ?: Take weekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage. Tooth Staff A .rather large segment of Kings Mountain got a look-see last Thursday night into the facts and figures on benefits to be derived from putting fluo rine, along with chlorine, lime and the other purification com- . pounds, in the city's water sup ply. t?s The Kiwanlans and the Lions and the Jaycees got together to hear Dr. Zachary Studt, Char lotte city schools dentist, report that some 37,000,000 folk in the ?United States are drinking wa ter with fluorine content and receiving thereby all the rights and benefits thereto connected, t-s Dr. Stadt proved to be a pret ty good revivalist in the fluori dation department, and un doubtedly made some converts. In spite of the statistical nature of the greater portion of his re marks, the civic club members and city board members listen ed attentively. Though they un doubtedly cannot remember the percentage Improvement in children's molars of Colorado Springs, Evanston, 111., Madi son, Wis., or the several other cltlcs used as examples, there won't be much trouble remem bering the principal point of this mass of tooth-cavity data. Over a course of nine plus years, the Charlotte dentist con tends that percentage of decay ed teeth among Kings Mountain children would decline 60 to 65 ? percent, under regular drinking of fluoridated water. Charlotte began the fluorine business in 1949 and results have been quite successful; he reports. (Dr. Stadt is a native of Brook lyn, but this should not be held again him, Dr. D. F. Hord says.) t-s . Carrying even more impact than the mass of statistical data, were Dr. Stadt's human interest remarks which, at least, came close to selling the medicinal department on the fluorine business. f*? .v."' "What about staining or "mottling teeth?" Ed Goter wanted to know. Ed noted that some of his schoolmates came from a city which had fluoridat ed water for some years. Ed said their teeth were the must sound of anyone's, but that they were badly stained. "They were using too much fluorine con tent", Dr. Stadt replied. ? ' According to the visiting den tist, the City of Charlotte, in cooperation with the newspa pers and radio stations, pulled a terrible and mean trick on the good citizens who used city wa ter. t-s With much fanfare, the city announced the beginning of fluoridation. There' were public ceremonies featuring a Dr, Mc Kay of Colorado Springs, Colo., called the "father of fluorida tion", keys to the city were passed out to the visitors, and press and radio carried much news concerning the new de cay-eliminating step. t-s It wasn't very long until the fun started. t-s A photographer called to say ?he new water was "ruining'' him. He couldn't get his pic tures to print anything but a blur. Several reported their palates were being offended by the "bad taste", and one lady became "111" from drinking the | new water and went to bed for a week. Several imbibers of al coholic content beverages said their highballs were no longer the same. t-s Then the < ity and the news men confessed. The announce ment concerning the new wa ter" was a "plant". Charlotte I folk including the photograph er, the drinkers, the elderly ' lady, etc., had been using the same water they'd been1 using for years. Ail of which showed what the power of imagination can do. After this announce ment, the new addition was made, and there were few if any complaints. ' t ? ? Lone valid complaint, the dentist said, came from the ice men. Ice couldn't be cut in blocks, due to shattering. This was remedied by cdntcolling temperatures at the ice plant. The added cost to the icemen: one-half cent per ton. The cost is small. Dr. Stadt siid equipment for introduction of fluoride salts into the water would cost $1*700 here, and that * George MosA, the city's efficient water plant operator, would use from $400 to $800 worth of fluo rine salts annually. t*a No economic declines are pre dicted for the dentists. Instead of spending much time with squirming, yelling youngsters during the grinding process, See The Want Ad Section For This Week's Completed Punle ACROSS 1? ilk* 2? The that loots like a convict 7 ? Three-toed sloth 9- - A large number of fish 1 1. ? Large numbers of sheep. t J*-Either I 5? Roman numeral 1 6-?Non* flying bird JO ? Skin of a fur bearing animal 22? The only flying mammal 1J? Dfflinf? 26? To tpesk volubly 28? The lowest deck of A fthip of War 29 ? Amm.il retreats Poetical pronoun J t ? Periods of time tabbiev 33 ? Numeral J4-A flap J6 ? To ditseminat* J8 ^-Grain containfr 40? Chemical symbol' fof nickel 41? A kind of large sea duck | CROSSWORD ? ? ? By A. C. Gordon Bird % and Bcatli 4 3? Preposition 44? A kind of swift running dog 46'? Navigating implements 48? Church. dignitaries SO-*- Male aquatic bird ? I? Personal pionOun 53? Catcher of a certain kind bf-snake?)ikc JWh ,.V ?4? Toward DOWN 1? Lke 2 ? A sea duck 3 ? Homes for captured ( .??nmah * . 4? anish .attcle . 5? r.idio Frequency ? bbre v | 6? Mine name 7? With hands on hip 10? P*rn>d of time ? tbbrev | 1 J? Romas 99 14? A crustacean inhabi tant of the sea 1 6 ? Well known fish eating animal 1 7? Chemical symbol Cor teibtum ? V II? Pronoun 10 -l^nj-leitci wsding bird 20 ? The mark o I the good bird dog 2 11 ? A well- known beet la 24? American sky -colored songbird 2 5 ? The eggs of fishaa 27 ? Printers measure (pl ) 28 ? Ei tarnation of ? - discovery 32 ? Was carried on thg horse JS? A kind of worm 36? Spanish affirmative 37? Personal peonotm 39 ? That which is in* serted 4 1 ? A circuit or teseiont held by justice* 4 2? Lion language 4$ ? College degree 47 ? Indefinite articlt 48 ? Printer's measure 4 9 ? Compass direction 50 ? Chemical symbol for germanium $ I ? -Roan (abbrev.) SOCIALISM THREATENS FREE LABOR WHY (Fork8t Crrr Courier) The New York Times recently carried an article which said that Frank W. Jacobs, vice president of the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers, had repudiat ed the union's former support of government electric power devel opment, and that the union is de finitely shifting in favor of pri vate ownership. Mr. Jacobs de clared that the public power pro gram "has been extended step by step to the point of peril to legiti mate free enterprise and free la bor". He added that the IBEW had learned "through bilter ex perience" that labor's rights are not protected under socialized power. A short time ago the Chicago Federation of Labor, which com prises some 50b local unions with a membership of 600,000, repeal ed one of its constitutional provi sions advocating public owner ship of power, gas, water, tele phone. and local transport facili ties. The Federation president said that his organization is for "free enterprise from top to bot tom." , In recent years, a number of other unions and individual labor leaders have expressed similar views- and some of them were hot and heavy for public owner' ship of utilities in prior times. What has happened is that labor is finally understanding that its freedom can be maintained only if free enterprise is maintained. Regardless of all differences be tween labor and management, the two freedoms are peas from the same pod. When socialism de stroys free enterprise, free labor dies with it. In all the communist countries, labor has been enslaved? and so cialism is but a milder form of communism. AH elements of a nation must be free or none will bo free. The Secretary of Agriculture says that "fertilizer, when used under proper conditions and in conjuction with other desirable practices, can bring about a greater increase in production of all crops fhan any other single, influence." dentists, in future years, will be spending the "saved" time treating the gums and the teeth of older people, who, unlike fnany older people today would still be chomping along on their own molars rather than on store-bought teeth. PRESCRIPTION SERVICE W? Fill any Doctors' Pre scriptkM* promptly and accurately at reasonable price* with the confidence ?f your physician. Kings Mountain Drag Confcpcmy THE REX ALL STORE Phonos 41 ? 81 We Call For <ind Deliver Viewpoints of Other Editors CONFINE IT? (Franklin Press) 'We ought to make this the best county In the state", someone re marked the other day. But why just "the best in the state"? Why not make this the best community in the world? That sounds pretty hard. But would it really be so difficult? With all of its faults, America probably is the best place in the world to live. Arid with all of its faults, more and more people are waking up to the fact that the South is the best part of the Unit ed States in which to live. And North Carolina generally is cre ! dited with being the best state in the South. So if we should make this the best county in the state, it is quite possible we should be creating here the finest community in the world. All of which illustrates the fact that few things are as hard as they may appear on the surface. Almost nothing is impossible! In fact, given courage, determina tion, imagination, and energy, most things are fairly easy. P. S. What would be the out standing qualities of the best community in the world? USDA, Land-Grant Colleges and others appraising the pro ductive capacity of American agriculture in the mobilization period, estimate that 70 per cent more fertilizer than was used In 1950 would be needed to achieve the level and pattern of pro duction attainable by 1955. UNLIMITED PROTECT YOUR CLOTHES i > by having them deemed regularly at . WEATOTS CLEANERS 1 Phone 55I-W North Cerolina la preponderantly a rural state, with a larger farm population than any other state in, the nation. However, it is interesting to note that during the 1940 to 1950 period $1,858,230,000 in value was added to manufacturing facilities, leading all other southern states east oi the Mississippi. North Carolina continues to move forward as a better place in which to work, play and live. Another fine example of North Carolina progress is the steadily-improving standards of operation by nc.'jlt beverage retailers in "legal control" counties. The United States Brewers Foundation policy oi cooperaU ing with such retailers, in maintaining orderly law abiding conditions for beer and ale sales, provides an important contribution to the pleasant living that is North Carolina. ? North Carolina Division UNITED STATES BREWERS FOUNDATION, INC. SUBSCRIBE TO THE HERALD! HARRIS FUNERAL HOME . ? Ambulance Service ? Phone 118 Kings Mountain, N. C A LEADER IN FARMS AND INDUSTRY! Save In 1952 By The Building & Loan Method Cnrrent Dividend Rate on Savings IS NOW Lump Sums of SI 00. Small Savings of Optional Amount You'll Be Surprised How Fast The Total Mounts * i Open An Account Today Mountain
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