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ffin9s Mountain Herald Established 1889 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotlono! 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 Martin Harmon Editor- Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr. Sports, Clroulatlon, News Mrs. P, D. Herndon ,,. .u Society Miss Elizabeth Stewart .'............v.! Advertising, News MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Horace Walker . 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 Let no man den pise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. I Timothy mx. Odd Form Of Giving Dr. W. L. Halberstadt, who spoke to the Lions club the other night after a recent trip around the world, expanded on a theme many speakers, returning from overseas, have advanced in the past few years. He charged a great mistake to the United States and Great Britain in fos tering the independent state of Israel. Dr. Halberstadt said he doubts the wis dom, at any time, of displacing five per sons to accommodate a lone additional D. P. Merely being practical, he is worried, he said, about the attitude of the Arab world, which is one of the largest popu lation groups. To the more important question of ethics, he doubts the ethics of taking one man's home on the grounds of mak ing better use of it. The world is shrinking, through fast er ships and eight - mile - per - minute planes. His thought that we have be come a neighborhood, without becoming a brotherhood, is an intriguing one. "Wno is to operate the police force, and how tough a job will the poor policeman have? Lower Than Expected The first unofficial estimate of the city's property valuation for tax pur poses was somewhat disappointing to some people, many of whom had antici pated that the former valuation would double. Actually, the increase is going to be only about half the .figure first guessed by these optimists. Nonetheless, the figure Of $9,500,000, or thereabouts, is much more realistic than the old low figure of $6,500,000, and .will ease somewhat the. strain of the city fathers as they squeeze out future budgets. The city board of this year, or future years, is not going to go wild and in crease tax rates. But the principal advantage is in the change of the bonded debt-to-valuation ratio. The improvement in this formula will enable city boards to plan for public im provements with more freedom. Advantage to the property owner will vary. Some will get a bigger tax bill, some a smaller one. Theoretically, the one getting the smaller bill has been paying more than his share all along, and vice versa. But, then, equity was the v :ll-o-the wisp being sought after frojai the start. It is good news to many friends that Ben Bridges is returning home to join the Kings Mountain Building <?r Loan association. It is always good news to learn of young people returning home, for a community which does not keep its young people soon withers and dies away. Without making a close inven tory, it seems to the Herald that the number of Kings Mountain young peo ple returning to take responsible posi tions in the community has been on the increase during the past few years. If that is correct, it is a good Sign. Our congratulations to Ollie Harris and the other newly elected officers and directors of the Kings Mountain Lions club. Mr. Harris, in succeeding to one of the community's more responsible civic positions, has the equipment to assure the club one of it's more prosperous years. 4 Our best wishes to C. J. Gault, Sr., who has retired after 60 work-filled years. All would quickly agree that Mr. Gault has earned a rest. Best guess, though, is that the habit of work holds the upper hand and that his retirement will be more official than actual. School Consolidating -The Herald approves, and heartily, the current effort to consolidate the schools of Number 4 Township into one administrative unit, and, in turn, to build two township-wide high school plants. ' Indeed, a great many citizens feel such a consolidation would be a great stride forward in providing better edu cation, more cheaply, for all the young people of the area. The principal advantage in the edu cational realm would be the broadening of the number of courses offered to the young, people of the township. Several years ago, a young Bethware senior re marked that he wished he could have had a course in typing, rather than agri culture. But agriculture (which he felt his father was supplying in both regu lar and concentrated form) was requir ed, and no typing was offered. Converse ly, it could be assumed that plenty of urban students would benefit greatly by a little learning about the soil and how things grow. After all, the farmer is the backbone of the nation, and everything begins in the soil. The principal advantage to the tax payer would be to give him more and better education, for his children and for his neighbor's children, for less money. Almost all the high school plants in volved in the suggested consolidation area are bursting at the seams at the mo ment, and the prospects are that the stu dent population will get larger each year. That has been the case for many years past. The alternative to getting to gether and building two fine, well equipped, modern plants which would be expandable as future student load re quires, is a multitude of small, strugg ling high schools, doing, at best, a limit ed job with patchwork facilities. The present high school plants, once the consolidated ones are in operation, would be available to accommodate adequately the incoming elementary and grammar pupils for many years to come. There are problems, to be sure, but the major one undoubtedly is the initial outlay. After the original outlay is handled, the schooling bill for Number ?1 Township would be cheaper. With good paved roads and. modern transportation, the problem of getting the youngsters to school is no longer a major one. . . j The Herald agrees with a number of its friends, representing almost all of the various districts involved, in feeling that the many side issues involv ed should be satisfactorily answered prior to final action. But there should be no slowness in proceeding with the investigation of these side issues, and, where snarls exist, finding ways to straighten them. Grover school patrons answered re soundingly the question on the split term issue last Friday, voting almost 2 to 1 to abandon this old-fashioned, out worn method. Grover patrons are to be commended on their farsightedness and in their interest in seeing that the chil dren of their community are not handi capped by a stop-and-start school term. Best bows are in order to Dr. W. P. Gerberding, E. E. Marlowe, and B. T. Wright, Sr., who have just been appoint ed to membership on the city recreation, commission. New ideas take a long time to sell due to more factors than mere newness, though that one, sometimes, is a major one. At any rate, public rec reation has been advocated by a grad ually growing group here for almost a decade now, and one of these days the ( idea will produce major, and desired, re sults. ' - 10 YEARS AGO It?ms of news about Kings Mountain area people dnd events THIS WEEK taken from the 1943 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. Total sales made on Poppy Day in Kings Mountain Saturday a mounted to $65.85, according to report of American Legion Auxi liary officials. Sorutl And Persono'l A wedding of much interest in Kings Mountain was that of Miss Rosalie Bennet Polk of Rocking ham, N. C. and Corporal Samuel Robe.t Suber, Jr. of Kings Moun tain, which took place Thursday everting, May 20 at 8 o'clock in the Camp Kilmer chapel in New Brunswick, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Hul lender are announcing this week ihe marflage of their, daughter. Jennie Frances, to Sgt. M. Gasky which was solemnized on May 5 In Gulfport, Miss, Mrs. Carland E. Still was hos tess at six tables of bridge, en tertaining at her home on Pied mont avenue last Thursday even ing. Mrs. V. C. Schley of Wilming ton spent the weekend with Mrs. Grady King. Elizabeth Plonk, a member of the graduating class at Lenior Rjhyne college, spent the week end with her folks In Kings Moun tain. i Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Murray had as guests Friday a former pastor. Rev, F. R. Barber and Mrs. Bar ber of Marion, N. C, Messers C. J. Gault and C. J., Gault, Jr. are In New York City where they are visiting Pic. Ro bert E. Gault who is stationed with the Armed forces near there. : : /X ? ? '? ' MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Hanson Ingredient*: bits of newt, wisdom, humor, and comment. Directi^nM: Take weekly, if possible, but ovoid overdosage. June Opener Writing anything, particular ly a personal essay, has been anything but a nice chore dur ing the past few days, with the cool mountainous climate again run oft by another heat wave. It Just plain looks like the weatherman is in collusion with the air-conditioning deal ers. At live down and five a week, could we lose? j-o Thursday night is opening night lor the Legion baseball kids in the 1953 wars, and there is a glimmer of quiet optimism in the attitude of Coach Hal Dedmon and Legion offic'.aU. They like the looks bf their players and they feel they'll do better than in some previous seasons. J-o They also like the- arrange ment of eliminations this year. All teams play through a 14 game stand for the area title. However, the final winner is determined by a round-robin playoff, similar to the Shaugh nessy playoff used by many of the pro leagues, except that all teams are involved. It means that a team which loses its first five games doesn't throw in the towel and quit. The change should help the spirit of all teams, and the general condi tion of the several team trea suries, too. J-o Ollie Harris is the athletic officer this season, and I have already nicknamed him "John Henry Moss" Harris, John Henry, now operating out in Wisconsin, having been the most promotin' baseball pro motor in this town in recent seasons. Back when John Henry was running the semi pro Kings Mountain Vets, he was also on the city board of commissioners, and John was always bringing up needed ball yard improvements. Another of his pleas was, "That light fate is out of reason." Ollie qualified for the "John Henry" title when he invited the present administration to provide some light rate relief on ballyard tenants. He was successful, and, from the tenure of last Fri day's game, It was a good thing. J-o Legion baseball remains, the best brand of all from the spec tator standpoint. Anything can happen, and quite frequently does, when Legion teams hook up for a nine-inning setto. J-o Dotted jpts: Grady Howard, rapidly learning the intricacies of operating a hospital, says one of the things he's already learned is that no hospital, large or small, ever has all the various types of. equipment it needs. .. ...recently the Kings Mountain plant had need for a portable X- Ray machine, be cause it couldn't move some pa tients injured in a wreck, even as far as the X-Ray room. Grady wonders if some civic group wouldn't like to make a donation. .... .At the recent pharmacy association conven tion at Pinehurst, Charles Blan ton, president of the Junior Pharmacy association, riade a report on the activities of the Junior group. .... .and among the prizes offered to the drug gists attending were a pair of chinchillas Jo A. U. Tindall, the Southern Railroader, is also a good gar dener in his off moments, and was vending tomato plants last Saturday ..sorry I'm no gardener, for I know Mr. Tin dall's are nice 'uns Mike Milam, now a New York sales man for Neisler Mills Com pany, was in town briefly last week, he has not bothered to pick up a Yankee accent as yet ...... Ray Kiser, son of Gus Kiser who lives up the Cherry - ville Road, has recently receiv. ed a promotion in the county agent's organization, having been appointed assistant county agent" in Stanly County (Albe marle, county seat) his immediate superior will be Ver non Hunneycutt, promoted from the aseslstant's job, and onetime agriculture teacher at Grover ...... J-o Speaking of air-conditioning (again), one of my neighboring friends doubts the advislbility of air-conditioning churches. He says a preacher will have a hard time bringing up visions of Hell and the smell of brim stone, il hl? hearer la too cool and comfortable. May be right. ...... And. since they're air conditioning ears, it would not b? amiss to ietAmos Dean give a demonstration of this form of summer motoring comfort . . better still, ask to try out his air - conditioned demonstrator for a fe* days ? ~'K. ??>' * -i Ski Viewpoints of Other Editors ACROSS 1? The country known as "down under" 9-? French river turnout in World War 1 10 ? English textile city 1 2 ? Vehicle* 13 ? Water on the geographical map 1 S? Wholly absorbed 17 ? Abbreviation for a southern continent 18 ? Facing toward the direction from which an overriding glacier impinged 20 ? Abbreviation for ? world-tamoui desert I 1 ? Small U S state (abbrev ) SI ? River m Great Britain 23 ? Small bag 2 St- Latin abbreviation foe "that it" 2* ? Water rur rounded tract o I land 2S? City once (amoui foe tu culture 3* ? Indefinite article 3 1 ? Chemical aymbol log erbium 32 ? An old German ttate I poet ) Sm The Wont Ad Around the World 35? Asiatic country 38? Printer's memurt 39 ? Thus 40? ? Latin connective 4 I ? 1 Real Land (abbrev.) 4 2? Playing card 4 4 ? French city 48 ? Discharge a debt 41 ? Alaskan city 51? *A watery expanse between Arabia and Africa 52 ? Profits 53 ? African rivet SS ? Largest rivet J* France 57 ? Western dam naaned after lU S. pmi desK DOWN 1 ? Swim river (paaa. ) 1 ? Ancient ciey af tW Chaldtes (pose.) 1 ? Chemical aymbol fee ttannum 4 ? Experimented 5 ? Northern territory ??Landed Educated (abbrev.) 7 ? Noun suffix equiva lent to "eer" t ? Oirl'i name (poaa.) Fot This Woe] ? ? Hawaiian island (pott.) 1 1 ? European country 12? Large southern expanse of water 14? Eligible Orders (abbrev. ) 16 ? Division of northern 3reece (post ) 15 ? Japanese coin 19-^To rest 12 ? Natives of a Scandinavian < ountr> 14? The (heater (abbrev.) 27 ? Scottish hoy !?? To diminish 33? City in the Canal Zone 34 ? Correlative ?f "neither" 3 S? Legal foe "the thing" J J? Angry 41 ?Arabian military commander 43 ? Sins 44 ? Latin abbreviation foe "that ia" 4 7? Romaii ISIS 48 Sprightly so? TheacM 52? Nothing 54 ? Enlightened Offers (abbrev.) 3* ? Old Enghah (abbrrv.) 's Completed Puzzle CROSSWORD By A. C. Gordon | MUST WE FEAR THE "CONTROVERSIAL" Smith field Herald American books used on for eign information programs are hereafter not to be written by "Communists, fellow travellers, or persons who might be consid ered controversial." This strange decreo comes from the State Department at Washington which Is asking book publishers who submit books for these purposes to certi fy that they are clean of such l Influences. v .? Thus is one more nail being driven into the coffin of free dom. If this official trend is main tained we can look forward to the time when an American citi zen will be a kind of neuter, blank In the head and carrying a vacuum where knowledge and judgment are ordinarily expected. The United States was born amid controversy, rebellion, and defiance of constituted authority. The government of George III was objectionable to the found ing fathers, and their spokesman questioned it and denounced it without stint although thousands of people on both sides of the Atlantic revered it as good and sound if not sacred. The republic set up by feeble colonies in the latter part of the 18th century has passed thorugh many storms and stresses, and has weathered a thousand con troversies and a million differ ences of opinion, without being overthrown. Are we now so a fraid of Communist opinion and doctrine that we must take fright at controversy lest it lead into Communism? The State Department used to be regarded as one of the solidest government institutions. But here lately .it seems to be suffering from nerves as Indicated by a tendency toward nightmares and a temptation to see hobgoblins on dark nights. What has be come of the Uncle Sam who used to be pictured as a fearless figure' with asquare jaw. ? Final census ginnings for the 1952 season Indicate a North Carolina cotton crop of 569,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight, compared with 542,000 bales in 1951, and 181,000 in 1950. NOSTH CAROLINA CLEVELAND COUNTY IN THE SUPERIOR COUNT Flora Alton. Plaintiff , Vs. V Elmer Maynard Allen, Defendant Notice The defendant above named will take notice that an action as above entitled L as been com menced in the Superior Court of Cleveland County, North Caro lina, wherein the plaintiff seeks a divorce from the defendant; that said defendant will alao take notice that he Is required to appear at the Cleric of Court's Office at Shelby. North Carolina, within twenty (20) days after the- 29th day of June, 1953 and answer of demur to the com plaint now on file in th? Clerit'a Office, or the plaintiff will ap ply to the court for the relief de- J manded in aald complaint. . .This 29th day of May, 1953 .. E. A. Houser, Jr. Clerk Superior Court 6:4 2S-H APPOINTMENT WITHOUT POLITICS The Chatham News Sound -thinking North Carolini ans are applauding Governor Um stead's appointment of Ed Scheldt, former FBI man as Com missioner of Motor Vehicles. They are applauding the appointment on several counts but more par ticularly because it could mean an end to politics in this vastly important state agency. As an FBI man with a long record of outstanding service, Mr. Scheldt surely has learned how to keep politics out of the ad ministration of an important Job. Few agencies In government have had as clean a record as has the FBI when It comes to getting a long with whatever political par ty is in control. Even the most amateur of ob servers will have discerned, in the past, the political maneuver ing that has been a part of the motor vehicles picture. In the first place, the commissioner's job is one of the choicest plums that falls to the Governor to hand out, often as a reward for politi cal support. In recent years the Job has been a political "hot spot". Gov ernor W. Kerr Scott's retention of Chatham's Landon Rosser as a holdover from the Cherry ad ministration caused many people to forecast an end to politics. Governor Scott subsequently fired Rosser because of differ ences in last year's primary cam paign .even though It was gen erally conceded that Colonel Ros ser had done a creditable Job. L. R. Fisher succeeded Rosser with Governor Umstead subsequently exercising his perogative to re place In av^jointlng Ed Scheldt It is difficult to see what political im plications there could be in such a course. Mr. Scheldt has been out of North Carolina for a num ber of years ? adding to his sta ture as an able law enforcement officer. He surely cannot Be ? member of any "ring" or "clique" that could prove valuable in poli tical contests that loom in the future. 1 Battle Draxia Has Personal Style By Charlene Padgett For the third season the pro duction of the historical drama about the Battle of Kings Moun tain, The Sward of Gideon" puts into effect Its own personal style In the realm of outdoor histori cal dramas. It 1s sponsored by the Kings Mountain Little Theatre, Inc., and the entire cast and produc tion crew of over 150 people are In the venture purely out of love for the theatre, or the desire to see their section of the Carolina* put Its best foot forward. The only person who gets any mon ey is the author, who receives a royalty. By throwing the drama open to all Interested groups *nd In dividuals, a great reservoir of talent has been made available. Intensive talent auditions are held and all of the main roles are usually filled by acton with years of experience In various non . professional groups. They come from Gastonla, Shelby, Kings Mountain, Besemer City, N. C., and from Rock Hill and Yortc, S. C Backstage an even higher de gree of professional skill has been utilized. Electricians offer their services as lighting men; carpenters build sets and stages; beauticians act : as make-up girls; all in their spare time, and all for free because they believe in the play and want to see It succeed. The result of this Is a smoothly-staged, professional production. A proposed project this year is to award dramatics scholarships to outstanding high school ac tors appearing in the play. The production will be given 12 times this summer In the Kings (Mountain National Mili tary Park amphitheatre, begin ning July 23rd and continuing on Thursday, Friday, and Satur day through August 15th, at 8 p; m. ? ? ? ? It's Pasteurized # It's Homogenized ? It's Rich In Healthy. Wholesome Goodness CHILDREN LIKE SUNRISE * . ?? "? 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