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"^e Kings Mountain Herald Established 1889 r~.!'?nh Carolina MISS ASSOCIATE ?I.ii '? ? ? ? 111 ? ?' ' ???? ???'? ' 11 ?? " 1 rrn 1 1.11 . II ? I II I 1 1 ? A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the postoffire at Kings Mountain, N. C., under Act of Congress of March 3. 1873 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Mr.rtln Harmon ..... .-. ...... * . .v... ..... ... Editor- Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr. Sports, Circulation, News Mrs. P. D. Herndon ............ i .....V. Society Miss Elizabeth Stewart . Advertising, News MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Horace Waiker David Weathers Ivan Weaver* Charles Miller Paul Jackson (?Member of Armed Forces) TELEpHONE numbers? 167 or 283 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR? $2.50 SIX MONTHS? $1.40 THREE MONTHS? 75c BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE A soft answer turncth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. Proverbs 15:1. Expanding Business Governor William B. Umstead has told the legislature he wants the State highway system, through both normal split up into 15, rather than ten, divis ions, and the recommendation has brought forth much comment, some pro, some con. At first thought, it might appear that - the Governor is out-of-order in -recom mending this half-again-as-much ex pansion of the State Highway Depart ment. There would be five more com-, missioners, five more division engi neers, five more offices, five more of fice staffs, etc., etc. It looks like a big bill is going to be added, to the adminis trative set-up. Actually, the addition probably wouldn't be as large as it seems. Gener ally speaking, it must be assumed that the highway commission now employs almost enough folk to do the job. The split-up would mean addition of engi neers, principally, and would cut the load of the present over-worked, hard pressed division staffs. The argument of Governor Umstead is t hat the great expansion Of the .state highway system, through borlh normal growth and the S'JOO. million bond issue, has increased the workload sufficiently to require the expanded set-up. An opponent says it might have been all right to expand it when the road ?bonds issue was passed, not now, a statement which assumes that the state's major road-building job is done. The statement is hardly correct. Be tween building and re-building, to ac commodate the increasing number of cars and trucks, it can bo safely said that the state's road-building program is little more' than well-started. Governor Umstead's suggestion is a provocative one. The soundest'reaso'ning is that an expanding business must have increased personnel, executive as well as operative. And Ninth Carolina's highway business is certainly expand ing. Battle Lines Form "It's starting mighty early." has been an average comment on announce ments lor city political office. May does seem a considerable distance away, but the way time moves off like a jet propltl sed plant, maybe it isn't. Usually, most folk are ready for the spring political wars, after a momentary cessation, but during the p<u*t two veus. there has been a stead>1?olit ical diet here. With considerable disagreement ema nating from City Hall during the past 20 months, plus the regular county, state and national elections, there has been little surcease from matters polit- * ical. Thus the battle lines are forming now for the May voting, whereby various citizens will contest for the right to both regular and special municipal head aches, of which there will be no small amount' of each. Who will inherit the city's defective, inadequate sewage plant? Who will be. victorious, the endorsers of the city manager system, or the endorsers of the long-used council-mayor system? Who vill get the duty of carving up the near half-million dollars which comes into city coffers annually, but which never is enough to meet all needs? All these questions are to be ans wered, come May, and they are already making a leading topic of conversation among almost all citizens of the com munity. Our congratulations to Boyd Harrel son, vvho will serve as president of the Bethware Progressive club during the coming year. Teapot Tempest Many people must have thought, on reading the first crying headlines about Operation Smack, that President Eisen hower's honeymoon had already ended. Indeed, they may have read further, looking for the name Of the dissident, dissonant Democrat who started the fuss. Not so! The whole list read Republi can, from Rep. Hoffman, of Michigan, who seemed to be the biggest talker, to Rep. Bray, and others. The charges of holding a "dress raid" for the benefit of high brass and news men were of the most sensational type and undoubtedly inspired by someone who had an axe to grind, Or by someone hoping to make a stir-up. Many people are unfriendly to and suspicious of the military, and with good right. The services havfe more than the.ir share perhaps, of brass who are dull, vainglorious, and wasteful. But basic humanity does not admit to staging "show raids." A reading of the factual follow-up stories from Korea made the whole tempest look pretty silly, and there's hardly a World War II veteran axxrnnd who Won't report many a raid closely observed by high brass and newsmen. As a matter of record, some of the high brass and newsmen got wounded or kill ed for their pains. In the tempest, the identity of the per son or persons who made the Operation Smack pot boil over may have been overlooked. They should be feretted out and marked for irresponsibility, at ?he very least. The army, navy, marines, and air corps are anything but sacrosanct, and undoubtedly deserving of criticism in many directions. But the latest tempest seems to be a very low blow. Various and sundry are always point ing out defects in the much-amended city charter, but it seems to the Herald that one defect is the provision which al lows filing for office as late as five days before the election. It hardly gives the clerk time enough to get the ballots printed. Another defect is the question able definition of a quorum, much-aired during the past two years. Some, of course, think the pay of city mommis si'one.rs is somewhat brief. At present,. a commissioner gets $10 per month, pro sided he attends the regular monthly meeting. The spetial meetings don't count. It won't be long, County Commission er Hazel Bumgardner says, before citi zens will be receiving notices of proper ty assessments as a result of the current revaluation work, a job long overdue in Cleveland County and never done on anything approaching a scientific basis. Mr. Bumgardner says the citizens need not worry about excess taxation, which is encouraging, and he makes bloods boil when he reports such property "findings" as 35-unit housing develop ments. Many, who have thought they were getting by the tax collector cheap ly have, in fact, been penalized, Mr. Bumgardner says. With the first of February past, taxes already listed, old tax bills paid and new, shiny auto tags on the car, every one can relax momentarily until the ap * proaeh of March 15 brings on anqther deadline day. Life seems to be one con tinual meeting of deadlines, particularly the taxing kind. ? I Our congratulations to J. W. Webster, who has been elected chairman of the Kings Mountain district Boy Scout or ganization for the coming year. 10 YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events THIS WEEK taken from the 1943 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. The infantile paralysis drive i for funds which was conducted here last week totaled $405.29 ac cording to Supt. B. N. Barnes. 68 young men will depart to morrow morning (Friday) byi special bus at 9:52 a. m. for in duction in the army at Fort Bragg. Social and personal Mrs. Luther Cansler was hos tess to members of the Home Art* Club on last Wednesday af ternoon. Mra. J. B. Falls has returned from Everett, Washington, where she has been visiting her husband, J. B. Falls who is in the Air Dorp, and stationed at Painefield. Mrs. Vendell Phifer has re turned from a visit with her hus band at Albuquerque, New Mexi co. -Pvt. D. H. Welch, a member of the Paratroopers at Fort Bragg is .visiting friends and relatives here. Miss Sara Herndon, student at Furman University in Greenville, S. C. was accompanied home for a short visit by her roommate of PlainvUle, New York. ?reSfi Mrs. Floy Oates, who for the past three months has been em ployed In a defense plant in Can ton, N. C. Is visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Oates until she Joins her husband, Lt. "Bus" Oates who is now stationed at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. Mrs. H. R. Parton left early Tuesday morning for Waynes vi?.e where she was called on ac count of the critical illness of her aged father. Miss Betty Lynch has been sick with a. cold. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Harmon Ingredient a: bita of newa, wiadom, humor, and comment. I Directional Take wee My, if possible, but avoia overdoaage. Auctions For who knows how long, the auction has been an interesting selling device to dispose of pro perty of one kind or another, and virtually every kind of pro perty, from fine silks to real estate, have changed hands through this interesting selling method. - Auctions have long been a favorite method of disposing of livestock, such as horses, cow's, prize bulbs, etc., and It will be remembered that only a short time ago Neisler Mills auction ed its fine registered herd of Guernseys. -q A growth of another type auc tion, typical of the age, is the automobile auction, u s u a 1 1 y limited to dealers. It seems like a pretty good stunt/If a dealer has an auto which has been hanging around the lot too long, he can put it on the block and find himself a different model that might move better. -e? The attraction of auctions to buyers is, of course, the hope of the buyer of obtaining a bar gain, which sometime occurs and sometimes doesn't. About the only time a buyer can be sure of a chance at a bargain is when the auction is "absolute", whdh the property is sold under court order and sure to be knocked down, regardless of the bid. Usually, a bid of this kind can pe raised within a given period of time, necessitating another auotion, but, eventual ly, somebody gets it. i -a Non-absolute auctions, unless the bids go high enough to suit the owner, can be "bid in" by the owner and the sale ended. -a- > Some people I know find it quite dangerous to go to auc tions. The excitement of the bidding pervades them and t'hev lose ail sense of restraint. Wo I??"-, specially, are noted for Jiu, f I 8 at auct,onS. particu larly where the articles offered are gleaming silver, big dia Imr f n *iS and othc* similar stuff. It also helps if the lady folk operate out of a joint bank ?vn?,UU; Th? success of this t>pt of auction, customarily using the come-on give-away gimmick, can be judged from the fact that it has swept all the resort areas in the past Jew seasons. Once upon a time the auctions of this type of goods weren t too plentiful. -o The dictionary notes that the word "auction" originates from the Latin "audio", which means an increasing". That ties in veiy well and indicates that the auction business had its begin ning in Old Italy. -a But I learned of a new type of auction by examining the dictionary, and this is a "Dutch auction". The pattern here is vice versa. An auctioneer, or seller, puts a price on an article offered for sale. It is obviously too high. Then the auctioneer lowers the price. The first peep or nod of the head gets it. -a The best auction held around here recently was conducted at the Lions club last week. Carl i launey agreed to contribute $50 to the March of Dimes pro vided other members of the club would tally up $150. Dr. Nathan Reed, the spec man, was doing the auctioneering and at first it wasn't going too wel1; "Gradually, attention was spotlighted on Dave L. Saun ders, well-known and self-ad vertised as a man who never de lights in parting with coin, frame- up or not, this guy and that guy kept extricating bills f?"di,ionln- thelr on a matching bill by Dave. Among the chief cheerleaders In this business was Dr. D. M. Morri son another spec man, also a well known and self-ad vertised penny- plncher and nlckle- squee zer. Slowly but surely Dave's blood began to boll. His hard went to his wallet pocket, and, as the "encouragement*' of many mounted. Dave seemed to take exception to Doc Morrl son's blandishments, and ad ?hL:n w,th ? challenge. 1 1 match you dollar for dol lar, Dave said. Dr. Morrison slowed up and winced perceptl blybly but only for a minute. That suits me", he replied. * r?Ut./our m?ney." With I that Dr. Morrison extricated a bill which turned out to be a twenty. Date, who la somewhat hai ling, turned sickly pale all over, including his head, until Doc muttered, "You give me your ten. WE'LL give the tewn ty together." The club had a lot of fun and the March of Dimes was $204 nejrwjf. quota, after the . JmHhKhP CROSSWORD ? ? ? By A. C. Gordon ACROSS 1 ? Parental nickname 3? -Skill 5 ? Kind of bean 7? Exclamation 9? -Exude 10? Hied 1 2 ? Smooth 1 3 ? Compau direction 14? Journalistic revisers 17 ? Registered Statutes ( abbrev. ) 1 8 ? T avern 20 ? Mystic Sanskrit word 2 1 ? Either 2 2? To teed 23 ? Everyone individually (abbrev.) 2 5? Turf 2 7< ? Parental nickname . 28? Praises 3 1 ? Fruit drink 3 3 ? Pronoun 34 ? A point in debatt 35 ? Perform 36 ? Miscue 38 ? Occurrence' .41? -Indefinite article 42? Optic infection 44 ? Preposition 4 5 ? Sesame ,47 ? Laughing found '48 ? Bone 50? * ?, "J**1* child 51? Roman 99 ? Tuneful mSi'** th* m*dk*1 57 ? Advice 5i? K*ist " ? Combining form jtjgtoWa #3? Novel Notions (?bbre?.) DOWN ?? Subservient 1 ? So be itl ? Din-d In order s ? Heir net 6 ? Affirmative 7? Beloved of Leaoder 8 ? "tlpooH 1 1 ? Prepoeition 1 5 ? Perform 16? Public conveyance (abbrev.) 19 ? Indifferent 11-? Affect* with grief 14 ? Paid announcement 18 ? An attack 17? G reek letter 19 ? Gaseous element _ 30 ? Title of respect 31 ? C-ehaped 31 ? Division of geological flaw 3 6 ? Unimpaired 37 ? Prepoeition 39 ? Chemical symbol for virginium 40 ? Muscle connector 45 ? Dinner course 43 ? Mountain ilnglng style . 4(1 ? Prosen 47 ? Pronoun 49 ? Spanish affirmative 5 1 ? Portent 53? Males 54? Either , 55 ? Retting place MlKvfl See The Want Ad Section For This Week's Completed Puzzle Viewpoints of Other Editors STILL THE WELFARE STATE News of Okangb County Americans are characteristical ly humanitarian. They are known the world over for this trait. Friends and enemies alike take advantage of it. It has been a complicating element in our re latioVi? with the Communists ? they confuse it with softness And right h<;re in our own country our humanitarian ?nstincts often lead us astray. An excellent recent example in volves the' report of the Presi dent's Commission on th? Health Needs of the Nation. Not long ago when the report was released many of the country's leading publications, after a cursory glance, headlined it as a boon to the country. The introduction to the report is a masterly appeal to the humanitarian. But in between the lines is another story, an old story. The report recommends the ex penditure of more than two bil lion dollars of tax money. The answer proposed for the solution to almost every problem is addi tional federal funds. Aside from the question of how these funds are to be raised, in the back ground of all these endeavors lurks the shadow of federal con trol. Health is conditioned by food, housing and education, so the re port advances the old argument that control of all these factors as well as health measures per se should come under the direction of an all-wise federal govern ment. In other words, without naming it the report has describ ed the welfare state. We are all interested in the steady improvement of health and medical care. However, the experience of other nations, es pecially Great Britain, has shown that good niedical care and health cannot necessarily be bought at a given price. Here in our own country, ever since the founding of the nation, we had continuous | and . In late years spectacular growth in both living standards and medical achievements. These igreat advances have been a nor mal development in a land where people are free to pursue their chosen occupations' and live their lives without Interference from govei^irnent. Whenever govern ment Interferes, progress stops. And in the last analysis, every health proposal that has so far been submitted for federal legis lative action would mean aban doning the way of freedom and adopting the old world philosophy that government can do for us better than we can do for our selves. This philosophy is a dead end road at the end of which lies ser vitude. When confronted with such a philosophy, no matter how | attractively presented, the Ameri can people must not let their hu manitarian instincts betray them. Kenneth L. Hantrick Returning To U.S. WITH THE 43 RD INFANTRY DIV. IN GERMANY. ? Pvt Ken neth L. Hamrlck. son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Hamrlck, G rover, N. C., is returning to the U. S. after a tour of duty with the 43rd In fantry Division in Germany. A former New England Na tional Guard outfit, the division came to Europe in October 1951 and Joined the NATO Army. I Private Hamrlck, who was ? rifleman in Heavy Mortar Com pany, 172nd Infantry Regiment, arrived in Europe last August. He entered the Army in March 1951. 1 OUT OF THE BARREN DESERT Smith fikup Herald More chickens, pigs, beef and dairy cattle have produced better race relations. That, in substance, is what Dr. W. W. Alexander, farmer of Cha pel Hill and former vice president of the Julius Rosenwald Founda tion, says has happened in the South, where a great change has taken place from what he calls "a barren desert of rural pover ty." Dr. Alexander's opinion accords with that often expressed in these columns ? that up until recent years there has not been enough wealth in the South to meet the needs of one race, much less two. And racial conflicts have resulted from attempts to i'<vide a too scanty portion of the ration's pro duced wealth. There has long been needed a change from a great devotion to a one-crop agricultural and social system, which in the past has produced a living but not much more. That change is, taking place in the direction noted by Dr. Alex ander. Now what is plainly needed in addition to . a more diversified farming system is a fair admix ture of agriculture and industry. North Carolina, for instance, is still sunk largely in the role of producer of raw materials which, except textiles, are manufactured elsewhere. In the old days of 5-cent cotton North Carolina would buy back that cotton from the Swiss fac tories in the form of lace costing $1 to $5 a pound. So North Carolina jraised the cotton and Switzerland reaped the profits. The percentage al ways ran against the raiser of the raw material. Evidence of the Improvement in agriculture is visible on every hand. The next step is to add Im proved industry to Improved agri culture. Now TRY THIS fo- Child's Cough For coughs and acute bronchitis dm to colds you can now jet Creomulsion specially prepared for Children in anew pink and blue package and be sure: (1) Your child *Tn like it. (2) It contains only safe, proven ingredient*. (3) It contains no narcotics to dis turb nature's processes. (4) It aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed throat and bronchial membranes, thus relieving the cough and promoting rest and sleep. Ask for GreomuUoo for Chil dren in the pink and blue package. CREOMUCSION FOR CHILDREN PRESCRIPTION SEKVICE We Fill out Doctors' Pre scriptions promptly and c mm mm ? ibwI BAJi ? AM Jtlkl A accurately ax reasonaoie prices with tlie of you physician. . Kings Mountain. .Drag Company THE STORE Phones 41 ? 81 V We Call For and Deliver loseph Hullender Gets European Duty TAMPA, FLA. ? Airman Third Class Joseph A. Hullender, United States Air Force, son of Mr, and Mrs. Frank J. Hullender, Route 2, Kings Mountain, has been transferred overseas for duty in the European Theatre. , Young Hullendei attended Kings Mountain High School and received his diploma through the Air Force educational program. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1951 and attended electricians school in 1952, Prior to his transfer the Kings Mountain native was stationed at MacDlll Air Force Base, Florida, where ne was assigned to the 1928th AACS Squadron, one part. of the far flung airways and air communications service that maintain and operate navigation al aids for Air Force planes all over the world. As an electrician he performs maintenance work on electrical, power units. The young airman expects to spend several days at home visit ing relatives and friends before departing for his overseas assign ment. y. To Relieve ^ ^5 ^ ? 666 ^^^UQMO M nwutf ? MMI MOI naif f SUBSCRIBE TO THE HERALD - ? r EYES EXAMINED GLASSES FITTED DR. D. M. MORRISON OVTOKETB&T .. ' * oa ^22ST2!2S7Am ' m&bhisoh BonjDma rtuat mwiMi Boon i to t *. m. . xvj?nta?ir Sinkamtjort A Friend In Need... You know the old saying a>bout "a friend in need ... Ade quate insurance coverage is "a friend, indeed" at a time of need! 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