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tim. The Kings Mountain Heiald % Ertabllshed 1889 ?> 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 postoffice at Kings Mountain, N. C, under Act of Congress of March 1873 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon .................. . .V. Editor- Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr . Sports, Circulation. News Mrs. P. D. He/ndon ................. ............................... Society Miss Elizabeth Stewart , 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 They profess that they know God ; mut in works They profess that they know Cyd; but in works and unto every good work reprobate. Titua 1:16. Trimming Fat The fat-trimming business promised by the Eisenhower administration is be ing practiced by the Department of De fense, according to occasional, usually buried news reports. Perhaps the trim ming is not getting the attention it de serves. Postmaster General Summerfield gets a big play for saving $20,000 per year via a few fourth class postoffice close ups, but the $20,000 is peanuts compai^c! to what's supposed to be going on in the Defense Department. An army captain who works in the quartermaster corps was chatting re cently about some interesting changes at his present station. On an inspection early after his arrival, exactly 21 civi lian employees, all rated high up the pay scale, were found holding their hands. VVorsq than that, they didn't try to get busy when the brass came around. The thumb-twiddling obviously had been go ing on quite a long time, long enough that the workmen felt no embarrass ment. ? ' The captain says the cutdown has come and that many of these 21, and of their counterparts on other shifts, are no longer in the employ of Uncle Sam. lie estimates the monetary cut on pay roll at this one base at one million per year. He says the efficiency, rather than being impaired, has been considerably increased. The workers' now have room to work and something to do. They don't fall over themselves. That's the kind of fat that needs to be cut out and remind.1' again that Mr. Wilson, the Secretary of Defense, must have known what he was talking about when he proposed a five billion cut in the defense budget. If the army has the kind of fat outlined above, then the Air Force fat must be much fatter, if the re cent yelps of pain are any criterion. It's waste folk want cut out of govern ment, not defense, not postal service, not other worthwhile needs. Let's Name The Townships The Herald doesn't desire in any way, nor will it, got into any argument like ? he famous one on naming Arkansas (or Arkansaw), but the thought has occur red lately that the good commissioners of Cleveland County might do well to lake the several townships out of the 'convict class and assign each of them names. There are eleven townships in Cleve land, and each of them bears merely an unexciting and non-descriptive number. Why ? None probably knows. Outside the esthetic field, it would ap pear that naming of the townships would be of some assistance in helping newer model citizens, either youthful ones or those newly arrived in Cleveland, or both, to learn the geography of the county. Where is Number 7 Township? Our guess is that more readers of this newspaper can't answer that question than can. And where is Number 11, Number 9, or Number 1? The assumption is that almost every one knows that Shelby is located in and forms the btdk of Number 6 Township, and that Kings Mountain is in Number 4 Township. But a lot of folk would not know that Casar is located in Number 11 township. Generally sneaking, naming a town-" ship after the principal town in the township would probably be the best plan. But regardless of the particular name, the townships deserve better than numerical treatment. Congratulations a r e d u e M a s o n Hughes. Jr., James Rikard, Jr.. Melba Andrews. Joyce Ann Childers, and Mar garet Frances Hunter, winners of the fifth grade citizenship medals DAR at the several Kings Mountain area schools. Running Hot According to the report of George Moss, the city's efficient water plant operator, the water plant almost ran a hot-box in May, as a new month's re cord for water pumpage was set. During the month, thirsty industry, business and individuals used sufficient water to require operation of the plant an average of 20.3 hours per day and to require pumpage of 28,350,000 gallons. Mr. Moss, reporting to the board of city commissioners, said that little more water could actually be pumped, due to the inconsistency of consumption. In other words, housewives do their wash ing on Monday, and industry doesn't use much water on Sunday. The spell-out is a look into the future at a rather large impending outlay, for more water filtering capacity and for more storage capacity. The Moss report was not intended to alarm because consumption is not as great every month as it was in May. Al so, if worse came to worse, big customer Foote Mineral could be cut down on con sumption, but that would be hard on Foote, and therefore undesirable. Even so, assuming normal growth of the com munity, the day is much nearer than it once was when the citv must re-invest in water. The summertime newspaper headlines of water shortages in various neighbor ing communities are anything but plea sant, and they remind that their citizen ship was asleep at the switch concerning fresh water requirements. Connected with the guess into the fu ture is the fact that the present plant won't be paid for until 1966. Still out standing is a bonded indebtedness of $117,000, on which interest alone, at four and three-quarters per cent, will cost $5^557.50 during the forthcoming fiscal year. Salute For Service Retirement of two of Kings Moun tain's veteran teachers, Mrs. C. Q. Rhyne and Miss Carlyle Ware, is de serving of special attention, for both have rendered long and valiant service to the people and schools of the commu nity. . Mrs. Rhyne, who served as principal of West school for many years and taught fifth grade, had a reputation for being a sometimes stern and always de manding teacher. Youngsters knew to. "stand around", as the saying goes," when they were doing business with Mrs. Rhyne. But the value of the de manding discipline of Mrs. Rhyne was well-expressed by a parent when he said of his young daughter, "Her ? grades maybe could have been better, but she learned plenty under Mrs. Rhyne." Miss Ware had the reputation of being a good disciplinarian, too, though on a different basis and naturally, since her charges were second graders. Miss Ware was not only an excellent teacher in the regular classroom work, but also em phasized to lasting benefit sturdy traits of character, chief among them truth fulness and fair play. While both have earned retirement, undoubtedly both will have a bit of trouble getting accustomed to their change of habit when school bells ring next fall. And the pupils and patrons of West School will have a bit of trouble getting accustomed to the change, too. Public reaction to the proposal qf state board cf education officials on consolidating the several adjoining school districts and on subsequently building and equipping two modern high schools has been preponderantly favorable. Citizens like the prospect of better educational facilities and a broad er base of courses for their children, and they also find the thoughts of mare edu cation for less cost provocative. 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. A Minute Man Flag was prf . senied Saturday to the Superior Stone Company w ith chairman of the' bond sale. J. R. Davis mak jng the presentation address. The local Draft Board has re ceived the July call which is for 25 white selectees for July 7th. for Camp Croft, S. C. and 15 co lored selectees for July 8th, for Fort Bragg, N. C. Social and Personal Mrs. E. A. Smith was hostess o her bridge club Tuesday after noon. Pvt. Ben feridges was home for a few hours Sunday. Howard McGill and son, Ho ward, Jr., left last Friday (or Dall, Texas atfter a vish to re latives in Kings Mountain. Word has been received here hat Cpl. Lester L. Etters has ar ived safely In North Africa. Cpl. Jim R. McCarter in officer training. New Rkve, N. C. hat been spending a few days with his father pending new assign ment. Pvt. Samuel G. Dover of Daniel Field. Augusta, Ga? is spending a ten day furlough with hit wife and other relative*. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Mcrrtlp Harmon Ingredient*: bits of nexus, uHsdam, humor, and comment. Directional Take weekly, if possible, but ovoid - overdosage. Father's Day again....... mm I was laying out a father's Day advertisement last week when a father of at least three came into the office. When he saw my work he snorts, "Al ways putting on the pressure to buy gifts, huh!" I replied, "Well, the merchants have learned long ago that folks like to buy, and all they need is an excuse." mm After my friend left, I re membered that he had three daughters. That meant, with his wife's, four gifts he gets to buy himself in June, which is i vacation time, too, and there fore a further rough inroad in to the wallet. But I'll wager he'll handle his Father's Day chore with a big broad smile and be tickled too. ? m-m But Father's Day is all right. Many a man gets his full ward robe via such holidays as Father's Day, birthday and Christmas, and the men's ap parel makers perhaps would be in bad shape were it not for this fact. (Some would say the womenfolk are the biggest fac tor in men|s apparel selling. Be fore a guy is married, he has to spruce up to catch her. After he's caught, she requires him to keep up to par.) . m-m Storm damage: With news paper headlines of death-deal ing tornadoes, the recent storms didn't make people feel too good. Last week, about the I time the Herald was due to go to press, and in time for a chang?, a ball of fire seemed to run about my typewriter and the machinery in the back and school was out... ...All we could get out of the power was a buzz, which Dr. Hunter Allen diagnosed as "one leg out", whatever that means in elec trical language...... Floyd Thornburg shinnied up the pole and replaced the "leg", and Dan Finger replaced a bunch .of fuses and we were back in action again. .... .but some folk weren't as fortunate a few nights earlier lightening struck the Earl Carpenter home on Linwood Road and did right much damage and oates growers could look out on "down" fields Richard Owens, was reported to have had 370 turkeys get excited and smother themselves, which is a fate worse than getting on a Thanksgiving dinner table. Chief Hugh Logan says he lost a bam roof in the storm that damaged the county home. .' Chief Logan figures it's just as well Dr. Dorton hadn't got the Fairgrounds grand stand rebuilt, for the storm would probably have leveled it again I am not a storm lover. ..... ? m-m Pick-ups around town: Lt. Frank Summers, on duty with the army engineers in Korea, wrote his folks that the first piece of mail to reach him since he boarded an ocean-go ing transport plane on the West Coast, was the May 7 issue of the Herald, which would havo been the last issue immediately prior to the city election needless to say, he was interest ed in getting the next one A nuhnber of folk are air mail ing each week's edition to their sons overseas... ..the postal tariff varies with the weight. ...... Allen Herndon. who man ages the Paul Neisler farm just south of the state border, is using a unique method to keep his big crop of broilers happy. Allen keeps a radio fired up in his chicken houses 24 hours per day, setting it at mid night on an all-night station. advantage is keeping chickens accustomed to noise. ......when feeders or visitors enter, the chicks pay 'em no attention, don't huddle up and endanger themselves m-m Lutheran Preacher W. P. Gerberding, who has great love (?> for the neighboring City of Gastonia due to former rela tions with the traffic depart ment. bemoans Franklin ave nue's 21 stoplights Count em. says the minister. Sunday was annual Flag Day which reminds that the DAR Is doing the neighborhood a favor in reminding of the special holi days that require flag-display ing At the Herald. Mrs. P. D. Herrtdon. chief of the social bureau, is flag chairman, and Lib Stewart, chief of the bookkeeping bureau, is deputy flag chairman taxes are always In the, forefront but more so these days with the new property valuations one block I noticed the other day had quadrupled in tax value, and one local industry had quintupled... and there Is some question about the city limits line. George Houser was talking about 16-plus fecres he had thought outside now seemed to be in which must be something like making an erro< In your own *v when figuring the bank bal ance 1 did that last month CROSSWORD ? ? ? By A. C? Gordon . 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Combining form (oi "air" 74 ? Poetical "alwajV Rggt 28 ? O.-.i't name 30 ? Man'r name 32 ? High mountain 34 ? Detaint 3} ? Pertaining to a big event ,it> ? PoeU' "above" 37 ? Water veaaela 38 ? Postpone* 40 ? To be contrit* 41 ? To wei?)i mentally 43 ? At all time* (poet.) 45 ? Sorrow 4 7 ? To cleave SO ? Apportion it ? Man'i name . 54 ? Small mark See The Want Ad Section For This Week's Completed Puzzle Viewpoints of Other Editors LONG OVERDUE G aston ia Gazette It seems to The Gazette there is undeniable merit in the sug gestion of Kenneth Dellinger, well known Gastonlan, contained in an open forum letter appear ing recently In this newspaper, that legislation should be passed controlling the operation of mo !tor boats and all types of small craft on the Catawba river. Such legislation is, in fact, al I ready long overdue. | Eigl.t lives have been claimed ;by the Catawba already this sea j son. since the first warm weather | of early spring. | Naturally such a law would have to be drafted to apply not only to the Catawba but to the operation of boats on all waters in the territory included. To Mr. Dellinger's general sug gestion for such legislation The Gazette would add these specific recommendations. 1. No boat, either for public hire by commercial boat renters, or privately owned for the per sonal use of the owner and friends, should be permitted on deep water when overloaded. A 1 definite passenger load limit, in ] accordance with the footage and j capacity of the boat, should be [established and enforced. Many I of our tragedies on the water , have occurred from boat over j loading. j 2. No boat should be permitted on the water unless every pas isenger is equipped with a life belt or jacket. 3. Boats offered to the public for rent should be frequently and thoroughly inspected and requir ed to meet rigid safety standards. 4. The law should have suffi cient teeth, putting the burden of complying with the law on the owners of the boats. 5. Enforcement of such a law should properly be placed in the hands of the game wardens, who already have the duty of patrol ing the heavily-trafficked waters to s^ek out fishing law violators. Due to probable strong oppo sition from Eastern North Caro lina coastal areas. It is probably unlikely that passage of such leg islation on a State-wide basis could be obtained. But local legislation for Gaston county, to reduce tragedies on our local waters, would certainly be possible. and it was a real catastrophe. - ...... a lot worse than finding I had spent it by mistake m-m Don't forget Father. CLEVELAND SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION Shelby Star Residents of Southeastern Cleveland are tackling an area wide problem with a fortitude that is admirable. Two meetings have been held, another is planned, on the matter of consolidating schools in Kings Mountain and No. 4 Township. The proposal, if carried out, would set up two high schools, one Negro and one white, for the entire corner of Cleveland. It is not a proposal to be taken lightly for it will affect every school home within the area. At present, for instance. Kings Mountain and Grover high schools are on straight terms; Bethware has a split summer ses sion so that students can be out of school in the early fall to help in harvesting the cotton crop. There is the matter of location. At the moment, at least, senti ment seems to lean toward plac ing the new buildings outside of Kings Mountain but not too far out sincfc Kings Mountain high school students will have to be transported. The bulk of the stu dents in the proposed new district would come from Kings Moun tain. Financing the proposed venture will call on every taxpayer in the area to examine his cons cience for the consolidation will not come cheaply. More than balancing the cost, however, would be the tremen dous advantage to the estimated 650-700 high school students who would attend classes In the new building, using fully equipped fa cilities. ' There is as yet no possibility of determining the proper course to take. Legal, administrative and finanical questions must be an swered satisfactorily. The entire proposal must be explained in detail to the voters who will de termine the course of education in their area. The approach to the idea has thus far been excellent. Small groups have held bi-weekly meet ings. A representative committee has been named to sound out sentiment before further steps are taken. Perhaps most important, the groups who have attended the meeting so far have agreed that, "This is the opportunity for us to decide how good an education we want for our children." World production of the three principal hard cardage fibers reached a n&w peak In 1952 of approximately 1,372,000,000 pounds. CHEERWINE odds tHrilHng zest to fruit punch 9(>w PmwcIi TW?t Zmg a*d Sp*fMe For fcwfca <i?gHng punch your gwe*sw??l hmc about, use sfec boWle* of ONM VMMC to one No. M> con erf pjwenrrfil* * - * ? - m rt ^ 1 ? ? mm ?^1 m ? #mhJbMT JVI06 Of cwy Coim)tn<m0f? yon ? Oil? KWIIIK IS IN TUNf WITN YOM TASTE - The Herald S&50 Per Year - Bites Conducted For Ruius Hager Funeral services for Rufus L. Hager, 55, resident of route 1. Bessemer City, and father of Mrs. James White of . Kings Mountain, were conducted Sun day at 3 p. m. from Concord Me thodist church Rev. R. W. Blanchard, the pas tor, officiated and interment was in the church cemetery. Mr. Hager died at his home Friday night at 10:30 folltJwing a lingering Illness. He was a well known farnier and active in the affairs of the Tryon com munity. He was a life-long mem ber of Concord Methodist church. Survivors include: his wlffe, Mrs. Addle Carpenter Hager; a son, Joe A. Hager of 'Dallas; three daughters, Mrs. Lewis Ramsey of Bessemer City, Mrs. James' White of Kings Mountain, and Miss Mae Hager of the home. Also surviving are four broth ers, H. A. Hager of Shelby, G. A. Hager of Bessemer City, M. R. Hager of Aiken, S. C., and Her man Hager of Cherryvllle; a sis ter, Mrs* W. B, Morrow of Gasto nia; a granddaughter, Miss Jo Elaine Hager, and a daughter j in-law, Mrs. Tom Hager of Indi | ana. I While U. S. population contin ues to increase, the per capita consumption of wneKt has declin ed. ,Durlng periods of relatively high income people tend to eat more meat, milk and eggs and i less grain. Family Security Comes From What You Save While incomes ore steady, we invite you to save a part of each week's earnings and you will be surpris ed how fast the account will grow. If you have saved $100.00 or $1,000.00 and wish to invest this lump sum for a regular cash income you may do so and dividend check will be mailed out to you July 1st and December 31st each year. The cur rent rate is 3 per cent. Your account with us is always worth 100 cents on the dollar, free from fluctuation. All accounts are insured up to $10,000.00 when in vested in the HOME BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION Corner of Mountain and Cherokee Streets KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. A. H. Patterson. Secretary & Treasurer Stay Healthy si? Drink Sunrise # It's Pasteurized ? It's Homogenised # It's Rich In Healthy, Wholesome ' Goodness CHILDREN LIKE SUNRISE last give the Children sunrise Milk and you'll find they truly like it. It's the best way to prove how good it really is. f And, too. when you Buy Sunrise you are building the dairy industry In your own county. Sunrise
The Kings Mountain Herald (Kings Mountain, N.C.)
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