:'Sfc The Kinff5 Mountain Herald
Established 1889
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
iot 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 postpffire at Kings Mountairi, N.C>, under Ac:
of Congress of March 3, 1873
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon Editor- Publisher
Charles T. Carpenter, Jr. Sports, Circulation, News
Mxa. P. EX. Herndon Society
IMiss Elizabeth Stewart Advertising, News
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
W?irn the .righteous arc in authority, the people rejoice: tut when the wicked beareth rule, the peo
ple mourn. Proverbs 29: 2. ,
Senator Lennon
Some North Carolina political leaders
seemed to gasp in shock last week, when
the announcement was made that Gov
ernor Umstead had appointed to the
United States Senate Alton Asa Lennon
.of Wilmington.
The Herald does not wish to infer
that it knows Senator Lennon any better
than the vast majority of North Caro
linans, though it can relate that a Wil
mington friend sought an endorsement
of the new senator ten days in advance
of the appointment. However, lacking
knowledge of the man, no action was
taken, fortunately or not.
Comment was frequent and fulsome,
following the announcement, on two
general lines: "Do you know him?" and
"Can he beat Kerr Scott next spring?"
The answer to Question 1 was always
"No", and the answer to Question 2 was
frequently the same.
Undoubtedly, much of the hue and
cry has stemmed from the fact that
Governor Umstead withstood the re- ?
commendations of many groups who
favored particular candidates for the
appointment and who are disappointed.
For many conferences were held, many
telegrams sent, many telephone mes
sages handed the governor.
In the instance of Senator Lennon,
no great support was supplied. Even the
Wilmington Jaycees couldn't muster a
second- to a motion that Mr. Lennon be
indorsed.
All of this lack of fanfare may be in
the new Senator's favor and in Gover
nor Umstead's, too. The pictures indicate
Senator Lennon is a nice-looking family
man, and that he has a pleasing perso
nality. He is classed as a conservative,
by virtue of supporting Mr. Umstead for
Governor and the late Willis Smith for
senator. He has political experience in
the North Carolina legislature, and he
comes from one of North Carolina's
more populous counties, New Hanover,
which, in turn, has had a long drought
since one of its sons sat in the halls of
Congress. ' ? ? - '
Majority of the citizens of the state
will convey the new junior senator only
good wishes on his appointment and will
maintain, at worse, an open mind as it
observes his*performance in represent
ing North Carolina in Washington.
Selling History
Much attention has been given to the
selling of North Carolina history in the
past two decades.
Principal point is that history is one
of the few, if any other, assets Which
can be sold, yet retained to be sold again
and again and again.
The statement Was made by an au
thoritative gentleman last weekend that
the travel industry is now North Caro
lina's second from the standpoint of dol
lars it brings into the hands of the
state's citizens.
It was a surprising statement, in view
>f the state's tobacco industry, its tex
tile industry, and its cotton industry,
flight or wrong, it is common knowledge
chat travelers invade our mountains, our
seashores and the Piedmont, many of
hem attracted by the historical shrines
>f colonial days and before.
In May, more than 14,000 persons
Iropped in to view the Kings Mountain
National Military Park museum, and,
low, through the efforts of the Kings
Vlountain Little Theatre. Inc., an his
:Orical drama further calls attention to
the interesting history of our own par
ticular segment of the Carolinas.
And the drama is getting attention.
People of other communities now ask
of their Kings Mountain friends. "How's
he drama coming along?", and news
papers far and near relate accounts of
the forthcoming production.
] Selling is hard woik, a fact little un
derstood by some, and those who have
? devoted their energies to selline: North
Carolina history de?<.rve both praise
*nd cooperation, locally and otherwise. ?
Temporary Help
Decision of the Kings Mountain dis
trict school trustees to build cafeterias
at two of the three school plants is an
indication of the continuing growth of
the local school population and the
need for more physical plant.
At first glance, some may have
thought the decision unfortunate, in
view of the currently favorable reaction
to efforts of citizens in area school dis
tricts to consolidate.
In the particular instance, however,
the consolidation effort will not be hurt
by the adding of two cafeterias. The
schools regard the three classrooms be
ing obtained by the additions as the
minimum essential to provide adequate
space for the big new crop of school
pupils. After all, it wouldn't be practi
cable to build a mezzanine, as merchants
are sometimes able to do, or to hinge
desks to the ceilings. Also, the cafeter
ias are considered essential to an ade
quate school building.
The continuing need for more class
room space does underline the basic
thought behind the consolidation recom
mendation at home.
A new, consolidated plant would not
only provide needed space for the fore
seeable future, but it would have incor
porated into it the architectural im
provements which science and industry
have provided for construction during
the years since present school plants
were built. These improvements involve
not only basic construction, but light
ing, acoustics and many other fields, the
improvements designed to make learn
ing more pleasant and simple for the
student. x
Remembering the cost of the most re
cent addition to a Kings Mountain dis
trict school, it does not seem a too de
batable thesis that new construction is
cheaper than the remodeling kind.
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The North Carolina Press association
passed a resolution last Saturday con
demning the action of the 1953 General
Assembly in passing its infamous "Sec
recy Act" as inimicable to the public in
terest. Most- legislators and newsmen
agree, privately, that the difficulty was
caused by heavy-handed action on the
part of a few representatives and a few
newsmen. At the same time, the act is
Inimicable to the public interest, for
there is enough razzle-dazzle in the leg
islative processes at all times ? which
honest legislators would be quick to ad
mit. The executive session has no place
in government, and the public worry of
law-makers about what people will mis
interpret is usually a cover-up for their
real feeling that the people won't like
what they read, nor the politicians re
sponsible therefore.
Cherryville, Kings Mountain's near
neighbor to the north, has just had a
troubling time, following the condemna
tion as germ-filled of a portion of its
water supply. It reminds that Kings
Mountain's far-sighted board of com
missioners of the late twenties, though
publicly and privately accused of trying
to bankrupt the community, rendered
a real service in providing an adequate,
sanitary water supply. About the only
criticism which can be offered is that
the adequacy of the supply will be in
question prior to the paying off of the
investment cost- But who can adequate
ly predict growth and need for even one
year, let alone 40? Citizens of Cherry
ville won't be happy about th?ir water
situation, we believe, until they aban
don the well syfctem for a more modern,
more adequate arrangement.
Congratulations to W. L. Plonk, who
has been appointed a member of the
hospital board of trustees, representing
Number 4 Township.
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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.
Kings Mountain tax rate will
' ~-naln at $1.50 for the ooming
?al year as the budget was a
>.|lopted at the City meeting Tues
lay night in the City Hall.
\m fiocuil And Personal
' Mrs. Eugene McCarter ami
Vfis? Evelyn Goforth entertained
i it bridge and rock at their home
on Piedmont Ave. Tuesday night
honoring Mrs. S. R. Suber, Jr.,
nee Miss Rosalee Polk, of Rock
ingham. a house guest of Mr. and
Mrs. S. R. Suber.
Pvt. Eugene Ross who has been
on maneuvers in California is
visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W, A. Ross.
Pvt. Clyde L. Moss, who is sta
tioned at Camp Chagee, Ark.,
has returned to his post after
visiting friends and relatives
here.
Sgt. Hubert Aderholdt has re
turned to Sebert. Ala., after visit
ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
E. Aderholdt.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
By Martin Harmon -
Ingredient ?: bits of nexoa,
wisdom, humor, and comment.
Direction t: Take weekly, if
pouible, but avoid
overdosage.
? They get better, I believe.
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I refer to the conventions of
the North Carolina Press as
sociation, of which the session
at New Bern last weekend was
Number 81. The format of the
two- day gathering is always
the same, but the content is al
ways different, and last week
end's Thursday ? to ? Saturday
confab wafi as good as has been.
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The weatherman helped
somewhat by cooling off the
temperatures, but even so, the
hotel operators were already
. prepared with room- air-con
ditioners which made a con
siderable difference on the first
hot evening.
m-m
Actually, the program looked
just a little foreboding, what
with two "big" speakers sche
duled for the first evening's
platform. Miss Gertrude Carra
way, national president of the
Daughters of th?? American
Revolution was just home from
a long tour of speech-making
and addressed the press on the
same program with Lyle Wil
son, a veteran working news
man out of Washington who
has just been elected a vice
president of the United Press.
Miss Carraway, who, I believe,
has addressed the, Col. Frede- .
rick Hambright DAK here,
made a very good speech and
i? added to the pride of the
audience that she was onetime
an editorial writer for her
hometown paper, the New Bern
Sun-Journal.
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With a notice of at least, if not
a snide remark at, the Secrecy
Act business of the recent
North Carolina General As
sembly, Capitol Newsman Wil
son related some of the added
difficulties facing the Washing
ton reporter since bureaucracy
started growing like ivy in the
shade. During the Coolidge era,
when he first wfnt to Washing
ton. the reporters had no par
ticular difficulty seeing Cabi
net heads, getting into the
White House, or elsewhere. Re
cently, he said, he was invited
td lunch with Herbert Brownell.
Accompanying a department
official who was also a guest,
Mr. Wilson noted that entrance
was not accomplished via the
usual direct, through-the-main
office avenue. The pair pro
ceeded down a quiet corridor,
through a false door, opened
by a private key, via another
corridor into the private sanc
tum of the attorney general.
In addition, Wilson added, the
secretary has a private eleva
tor leading directly to the ga
rage below. If Mr. Brownell
wants to dodge anybody, he
takes the elevator, climbs into
the car and takes off. Needless
to say, the UP's Wilson doesn't
think that news-by-statement
and department handout is very
credible news.
mm
Friday morning's program
was furnished by the Marines
at Cherry Point and I was ab
sent to take a busman's holiday
to see the plant of the New
Bern paper. Already a clean,
well-equipped plant, an expan
sion program is currently un
derway. Particular Interest at
tended to It, because the pub
lisher of the New Bern Sun
Journal is C. A. Eury, onetime
(1907-1911) publisher of the
Kings Mountain Herald. Kings
Mountain must be a good
training ground, for many for
mer local newsmen have done
well at other locales, Mr. Eury
being one of them. Others In
clude Curtis Russ at Waynes
ville and the late B. J. King,
until his death publisher of the
Aiken, S. C., paper. Mr. Eury
wa3 reminiscing about his
tenure in Kings Mountain and
said he remembered many peo
ple here, or at least their pa
rents. Though the town was
smaller and the operation
smaller. It was amazing to note
the similarity of problems then
and' today,
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Mr. Eury is a wonderful host
and he had a Jot of helping
hosts in entertaining 'he couple
hundred press folk present.
There was no more delightful
entertainment during the con
vention than a boat ride 'n the
Neuse and Trent rivers Friday
evening. It wasn't one big boat,
but many small craft operated
by private citizens who donated
their boats and time to enter
taining the visltjng newsmen.
We disembarked for a New
Bern style fish fry at the Trent
Pines club, and I am prepared
to recommend "New Bern" as
mighty fine style.
After the convention closed
Saturday morning, the medici
nal department Journeyed to
Morehead City for an over
night visit with Mr. and Mrs.
Dave Whlchard, of the Green
ville Dally Reflector, along with
the Aaheley Futrelles of "lit
tle" Washington. The wind
II
Th*ft w*ra mora traffic casuoltfos last year than ?v?r
b?foi? h* History: 37,600 kMUd mmd 2,090,000 injurad.
Only YOU con pnvtal m?MnM
Viewpoints of Other Editors
Who , ME? by Robert Osborn
LETS NAME
OUR TOWNSHIPS
Cleveland Times
The Times Joins The Kings
Mountain Herald in its advocacy
"that the good commissioners of
Cleveland County. . . .'. .take the
several townships out of the con
vict class and assign each of
them names."
The county's eleven townships
are presently designated only by
number and we would venture
the guess than no more than a
handful of Clevelanders could de
fine their boundaries, while only
a minority of local folks could
give a rough location of town
ships by their numbers.
Cleveland's geography, as the
Herald suggests, would be great
ly simplified were township num
bers to be replaced by township
names. For example, No. 4 town
ship could be designated Kl^gs
Mountain ? township, No. 3 town
ship could be called Earl town
ship, No. 11 could be dubbed Ca
sar township, and then a great
many more Clevelanders could
tell you off-hand where the town
ships are.
In addition, It would not be a
mlss for the commissioners to
consider the advisability of mark
ing township boundaries, at leasi
on the county's main highways.
If township boundaries are use
ful, let's get them more clearly
marked and titled more descrip
tively so that people can know
them and use them.
Vacation Areas
Free Of Polio
RALEIGH ? Dr. J. W. R. Nor
ton, North Carolina State Health
Officers, declared here that "no
polio exists in the tourist regions
of the mountains or along the
roast", and that "there is noth
ing connected with the polio sit
uation in North Carolina to in
terfere with tourist travel."
Dr. Norton made his statement
after a survey of the polio out
break in Caldwell County, which
has been the subject of wide na
tional publicity because of the
mass Inoculations with gamma
globlulin. He said he was Issuing
a formal statement because he.
was recelvng telephone eallk and
letters from all parts of the coun
try Inquiring If the Caldwell
County outbreak presented a
health hazard to vacations In
North Carolina's mountain and
coastal resorts.
Dr. Norton's statement follows:
"There is nothing connected
with the polio situation In North
Carolina which would interfere
with tourist travel to any part of
the state. The only area affected
is Caldwell County and to some
extent of the three adjacent coun
ties of Catawba, Burk?, and
Wilkes counties. No polio exists
as of this date 'Tuly 9) in the
summer tourist regions or 'to any
extent in any of the other 96
counties In North Carolina.
"Our resorts, assemblies, and
summer camps, are all well- pro
tected under our existing sanitary
laws, and under strict health in
spection at all times."
w.w cold and we didn't even
get a big toe wet, but the gen
erally relaxing ministrations of
seaside atmosphere were as ef
fective as ever. I am right par
tial to the More head City strand
which partisans claim is the
cleanest, safest beach on the
Eastern seaboard. Right or
wrong, they can make a good
case for It.
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Sunday It was a long trek
back, and, though the Monday
a. m. headlines didn't indicate
It, the Sunday drivers teemcC
to be saner than usual.
JULY DECLARATION
New York Times
July is hot sun and thunder
showers, corn weather In the Mid
west, wheat harvest in the Plains
country, hay time in New Eng
land. July is when a farmer
grows his own independence, the
farmer and the land and the wea
ther. Maybe it wasn't wholly co
incidence that the Declaration
was'proclaiined in early July, for
in that day ew^fone lived much
closer to the I.iitti. A man with
his footing in th? soil has little
patience with outside Interfer
ence in July. He's too busy with
natural problems to be very to
lerant of manmade ones.
Corn has to be "laid by," cul
tivated the last time, cleaned of
weeds before it begins to "taw
sel" and shoot up eight feet high.
Hay has to be cut and cured and
baled or stacked, and if rain
comes while it's drying there's
more trouble than a whole poli
tical convention can think up.
Hay time waits on no man.
Wheat has to be harvested when
it's ripe. Too early, the grain isn't
properly filled. Too late, it shat
ters in the head and the farmer
loses half his crop. Harvest time
for wheat happens to be hail
time, thunderstorm time; and
even a high wind can level a field
of ripe wheat. Hail can devastate
a whole wheat harvest.
And meanwhile there are oats
to be tended and harvested. There
are silos to be filled. There are
the daily chores. There's the gar
den to tend? a farmer can't leave
all the gardening to his wife, no
matter how willing. She, too, has
other things to do, what with
young chickens and canning and
freezing for next winter, and
daily cooking and all the routine
of the farmhouse. But the garden,
too. is a part of the independence.
The Declaration is a document
well remembered. But there is
another declaration, unwritten ex
cept on sweaty faces, that Is there
for anyone to see, come July. It
says the same thing as the writ
ten one, and it say* it >ear after
year, on farm after farm.
The cost of a single item of
livestock feed, in many areas,
represents nearly one-half the
total cost of dairy farm opera
tions.
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If you hare saved $100.00 or Sl.000.00 and wish to
invest this lump sum for a regular cash income you
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you July 1st and December 31st each year. The cur
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KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
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