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The Kings Mountain Herald vfiS? Established 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 postofflre at Kings Mountain, N. C., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon .V... ??.;>, . .... . .. ... Editor-Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr. Sports, Circulation, News Mrs. P. 0. Herndon ....'. 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 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. I Corinthians 1 :19. . Nut At The Wheel The traffic safety program the Lions club enjoyed at its recent meeting was a good one. The speakers knew whereof they spoke and gave some interesting information concerning the combatting of traffic accidents. But the final statement in the dis course of each of them concerned that old bugaboo "the nut at the wheel". Patrolman C. D. Fortune says there should be some way to replace, or to tighten, that nut but he hasn't found it. Generally speaking, one crop of nuts doesn't get cured until another crop comes along. The result has been higher insurance rates for cars driven by folk under 25, not to mention the increasing accident rate. In Cleveland County, more traffic fatalities have already occurred in 1953 than in all of 1952. Driver education courses, tightened laws, more hard-boiled officers, improv ed safety efforts by the highway engi neers will help. But parents, if they could brrng themselves to be tough with their loved ones, could do more than anyone to tighten the nut at the wheel. The chief of police, recently talking to a youthful driver with a reckless rep utation, said, "Son, I'm telling you in ad vance, I'm going to see your father." The lad liked that prospect least of any. The city treasury pulled up into better shape during the last six weeks of the fiscal year ending June 30 due to better than customary tax collections, City Clerk Joe Hendrick said in commenting on the city's 1952-53 operations. The city slowed spending during that period, too, which also helped. Full collection efforts Should be utilized to collect city tax bills, both real and personal, for it is not fair to require some to pay and to allow others to get by. Nor did the au ditor's statement that some old tax bills and street assessments are deemed un collectible make good reading to the vast majority of folk who had paid theirs. Congratulations to the new ad ministration on their attention to these matters of collection. Announcement of Rowell Lane, high -school principal, of the possibility of ex panding high school elective courses, is a mere sample of one of the advantages awaiting the future school pupils of Number 1 Township if the citizens ef fect a high school consolidation pro grain. The Kings Mountain expansion is being made possible through the addi tion of one teacher. Since teachers are alloted on a numerical formula, it is easy to see that a larger school population would result in a larger faculty and that a larger faculty would enable further broadening of the courses to be offered. Many pupils will be quick to take advan tage of the opportunity for these new courses, our guess ist ., r Hearty congratulations to C. D. Blan ton, who has been elected a vice-presi dent of the North Carolina Pharmacy association for the year beginning next May. Recognition by others throughout the state is not only a signal personal honor, but an honor to his business part nership and to the community, too. Cutting costs and improving service at the same time sometimes is kn un usual combination, but Western Union is doing just that -in its plan to change location to the Bus Station. If the change is approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, as it most like ly will be, service will be available 12 hours daily. Industrial Expansion In naming a three-man industrial di versification committee, the city board of commissioners recognizes the advan tages of expanding payroll opportuni ties in a growing community. ? There is an old saying that standing still means that one is sliding backward, for he is not keeping pace with others who are going forward. The statement applies to communities as well. Kings Mountain has numerous advan tages it can brag about and, of course, some deficiencies it needs to correct, if it is to attract new worthwhile industry to its environs. Some fly-by-night opera tors are not to be desired. Actually, there is a middle ground on the industrial expansion business be tween the approach of some southern states in giving the incoming citizen everything from free water to surcease from property tax bills for ten years, to the other extreme of obstructing the in flux of new industry. Good business citizens expect to pay their own way. What they are looking for is a good climate, non-excessive tax structurer-the physical-facilities they re quire in transportation, water, and pow er, and available labor, of the skills de manded. Several neighboring cities have been quite successful in attracting new enter prises, including Gastonia, eight miles distant, and Rock Hill, home of Celanese and other major enterprises. Kings Mountain's expansion has not been phenomenal in the past decade, and has been limited principally to min ing or expansion of facilities of old in dustrial citizens. Incidentally, however, the last-mentioned is just as important and just as desirable as getting new citi zens. ? The Herald congratulates Messrs. Os borne, Marlowe and Grantham on their appointment, and wishes them well in their task. GOP Call To Anns It had 'been many a moon since the Kings Mountain Herald had handled a headline similar to "Republicans Issue Call to Arms. ,...." which appeared in its edition last week. Through disinterest, a long drought nationally, and a longer one state-wise, all the rank-and-file elements of the Re publican party and many of the patri archs had switched allegiance to the hated Democrats. Of course, the switch was nominal in many instances,, and didn't carry through to the November general elections, but it did mean that the GOP, for all intents and purposes, was dead at the local level. It even stopped going through the motions of putting out a ticket for county offices. At times, the state ticket was hard to fill. Nothing succeeds like success, it is said, and the national victory of the party in November has ambition surg ing in the breasts of Republicans the na tion over. Kings Mountain is no excep tion and at combine of older and younger me.nbers of the party is at work to form an organization that will return the GOP to its former pre-1900 potency in Num ber 4 Townsh p <*nd Cleveland County. Some Demc>.;:ats are inclined to scoff at the efforts and remind of the Hoover victory in 1928 and subsequent return to the Democratic fold. But a younger member of the newly revitalized GOP says, "It is a fact that Number 4 Township, on the basis of the vote last fall, is Republican." He's right, by votes. It's an old Herald cliche, by now, but, tru,ly, the results of the GOP revitaliza tion effort here will be interesting to watch. 10 ? I YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and erects THIS WEEK taken from the 1943 files of the Kings Mountain Hera?*. Kirigs Mountain schools will open Wednesday morning. Sept. 1st at 8:30. according to Supt. B. N. Barnes. Holders of gas B and C Ration books number R527 A and R528-A must turn them Into the local Ra tion Board before Sept. 1st. Social And Personal Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Covington Bowling of Shelby, announce the engagement of their daughter, Marjorie Lee to S/Sgt. Robert Ce cil Crook of Kings Mountain and Columbus. Ohio. Miss Phyllis Patterson became ? the bride of Cadet John AUyn Cheshire. Jr., in a ceremony of beautiful simplicity, last Saturday at ?rrtoon, August 14th at 5:30 o'clock. Pvt. Ben Bridges was home from Camp Croft for the week end. Pvts. Otto Payne and Ted Ram ey were home for the weekend. Mrs. Philip G. Padgett and children have returned from a visit with relatives in Houston, Texas. Mrs. , Elizabeth Heavner of Long Island. N. Y. is visiting Mr*. Claude Rhyne and Mrs. Marvin Houser. Misses Betty Lynch and Betsy Tolleson have returned home af' ter spending a week at Camp Latta. Cpl. Robert E. Gault returned Tuesday to Westover Field, Mas*, after visiting his parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Gault. Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Sanders and Mrs. Yates Connor spent "he weekend in Wilmington with Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Saunders. , ' ? ? ... SjAj&V* y. , . ? MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Harmon Ingredient a: bita of netoe, wisdom, humor, and comment. Directions: Take weekly , it possible, but avoid overdosage. In a conversation with Sage Fulton, the city commissioner, Hubert Aderholdt, Ed Tutor and Dan Blanton the other night, the conversation turned to sugar. Mr. Fulton sells Dixie Crystal brand, and Ed remarked that he had kinfolk in Florida who live near a sugar plant, adding that the kinfolk, in the auto business, always said, don't say sugar, say "Dixie Crystal". m-m This brought on a story by Mr. Fulton concerning a trip he took through a Florida sug ar plant a few years back. He ha? never ceased to be amazed, * h<i remarked, about the com pactness, completeness and complete efficiency of the mo dern sugar plant, and he went on to relate how . the rail cars of sugar cane were rolled into the plant, the cane dumped on conveyors, run to shredders, etc., and all through the pro cess. ? m-m ^ "You didn't see any rattle snakes along with the cane?" Mr. Aderholdt inquired. m-m Hubert spent several seasons as a sugar chemist in Louisiana and Florida and recalled a time when he was conducting a visit ing couple on a tour of the plant. As a car of cane was dumped on the conveyor, a big five-foot rattlesnake raised its head and sought means of es cape. But it was too late. The conveyors rolled on to the shredders and Mr. Rattler, which Hubert says was about as big as a man's arm, Was shortly a series of hand-size rattle snake filets. . ? m-m The female part of the visit ing couple looked sharply at Hubert and demanded, "When do they get the snake out?" m-m "Actually they don't," Hubert replied, to which the lady ex citedly cried. "I'll never taste sugar again!" m-m In spite of his efforts to con sole the visitor and to explain that the several chemical pro cesses involved eliminated all debris, Mr. Rattler included, Hubert is pretty sure the world sugar market lost one customer that day. - m-m The big "highway of steel" being erected by R. H. Bouligny & Company for Duke Power Company is going up quickly and, when completed, will be a mainline power artery be tween Duke's River Bend plant and its Tiger station at Dun can, S. C. The span is 77 miles. The line uses the right-of-way obtained by the P. & N. Rail road a quarter century ago and never used for the new P. & N. extension because it was de nied by the Interstate Com merce commission. m-m Many owners of the property along the right-of-way had for got about granting it. One feP low remarked.it won't be long untjl his farm will be complete ly covered up with rights-of way, with a couple of power lines, gas line, and roads al ready crossing it. But highways of all kinds are essential to progress. m-m Looking after the big con struction job is a Gastonia electrical construction veteran who spent years on the West Coast and officially retired two years ago, after stringing big wire all over that area, around Boulder Dam and elsewhere. m-m "I tried two years of retire ment," Vivian Rankin says, "but that was all I could stand. You know, a lifetime of getting up at the bust of dawn or ear lier leaves its mark." m-m Mr. Rankin says the historic reason for the early starting day for construction folk is to "build a dry" before tfc* sun gets too hot, or afternoon show ers force a stoppage. "Of course," he adds, "after we knock off we always stand a round and build towers for the i-est of the afternoon. That's part of the Job." ? m-m The Country Club's Friday night Stag Night party hits on my wedding anniversary as 1 told Charlie Neisler, It Is plain to we I won't be present the city will be rolling In money, what with the Powell Bill money hitting $2,500 more than anticipated, the intangi bles tax up (1.000, and tax payers rushing to pay up and ask Jim Rollins to tell you the story about the reluctant wooer which Police Chief Wiley told at the Lions meeting last week. I I T>? Tftvlfi Softty S?rv<? I THr*? out of four accidonts in 1952 happonod in door woathor on dry roadt. Only YOU can prov?nt traffic accidents! " 1 ~ "* Viewpoints of Other Editors DEFINITION FOR LOTTERIES Because of two court decisions, the Post Office Department has reversed its position in part with respect to what constitutes "con sideration" in a lottery. Now this word "consideration" is also somthing to ponder. The Post Office Department is very strict in not permitting the mail ing of literature which is consid ered a lottery and violation of the lottery regulation denies to a newspaper its second class mail ing privileges and subjects the mailer of such literature to a heavy fine. In view of the prevalence of so many promotions of sales, charity drives and the like, the following definition should be of interest generally: "In order for a prize scheme to be held in violation of this sec tion (36.6, P. L. & R., 1948), it is necessary to show (in addition to the fact that the prizes are a warded by means of lot- or chance) that the 'consideration' involves, for example, the pay ment of money for the purchase of merchandise, chance on admis sion ticket, or as payment on an account, or require? an expendi ture of substantial effort or time. On the other hand, if it is re quired merely that one's name be registered at a store in order to be eligible for the prize, consider ation is not deemed to be pre sent." In addition to the above regu lation by the Post Office Depart ment, the operation of lotteries not promoted by the use of mall is in violation of the laws of the State of North Carolina. It is well, therefore, to obtain a ruling from the Attorney General on what constitutes a lottery if there is any doubt whatever in the mind of the promoter. ? Shelby Daily Star. HONESTY One of the great virtues of the true Christian is honesty. This is shown in many phases of our lives. This virtue is one of the neglected virtues in our age, it seems. We rarely hear now, as we did in our younger days, the statement ribout a person that, "His word is as good as his bond." This is still true about many people, and It should be true about all of us Christians. Honesty in speech we call truth fulness. Anything that varies from the truth is not honest. It is likely to cause harm to some one. Honesty in cur thoughts and In our dealings with others we some times call slnwity. Honesty In business dealings is sometimes termed integrity. It Is sometimes called righteousness. It is a sad spectacle to see men in high places in government or ; in any position who practice dis honesty. who for the sake of J friendship, bribe, or personal , gain, whether it be for the fake 1 of holding an office, or for a mink coat or a deep freeze, or for any other such questionable gain, will give a special favor to another, conniving or excusing taxes due. or awarding a contract which honestly would go to another. Yet our papers are full of that kind of thing in these days. Those who break into a bank and steal a large sum of money ? or a small sum ? If caught are sent to pri son. But thoae who "beat the rac ket" are allowed to go free; they profited at the expense of the taxpayers. This is not honest. Dis- < honesty should be made unprofit- . ab?? insofar as possible, and hon- ' est men should be held tn high esteem. ? 'Auodate Reformed Presbyterian The decrease in numbers of horses and mulee the United States since World War I has released about 70,000,000 acres from raising feed for work ani mal*. ; " vfifc v ? . FREEZE THE SOCIAL SECURITY TAX The President, in his budget message, said that the increase in the social security levy, which under the present law will go in to effect on the first of next year, should be postponed. The increase would raise the rate on both em ployers and employees from one and-one-half to two per cent. It would, therefore, . amount to an automatic jump in the income taxes of all the millions of people under social security. The case for freezing the tax rate is a very strong one. Social security reserves are enormous ? some $18,000,000,000. And an nual collections are . running greatly in excess of benefit pay ments and expenses. Moreover, few believe that the present social security set-up is sound and equitable. The House Ways and Means Committee has established a sub-committee to make an exhaustive study of the entire social security system ? a matter which will take consider able time. Other authoritative non - governmental studies have been started, including at least one which seeks ways for putting social security on a pay-as-we-go basis. In the light of all this ? to say nothing of the fact that the Administration is pledged to eventual tax reduction, not tax increases ? the levy should be frozen. The danger lies in the fact that, simply through inac tion on the part of Congress, the automatic provision of the pre sent law will be allowed tq be come operative and all of us will suffer another tax bite. Here's a case where ortly specific Con gressional action to change the law can do a needed job. ? Forest City Courier. Will YOU make the headlines? rrs not a wy pleasant thought, but tomorrow** newspaper could carry a story of a fire in your bomel *v YOU want to fed your best all day bog ttofceiows it's ciiwgtoiiQ, A too. Try the 3-o-doy wo y. 3 a day heir. " kee> Keep Bay It by Ike ,: >? P I N n Great with food CHCCftWmC IS m TtoNI WITH YOUt taste Family Security Comes From What Yon Save While incomes are steady, we Invite you to save a part of each week's earnings and yon will be surpris ed how fast the account will grow. Xf you have saved $100.00 or 31.000.00 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 ceqt. Your account with us is always worth 100 cents on j the dollar, free from fluctuation. All accounts are insured up to S10.000.CC when in vested in the HOME BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION Corn#* of Mountain and ChnokM Streets KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. A. H. Patterson, Secretary ? Treasurer Drink Sunrise # It's Pasteurized # It's Homogenized '? It's Hlch In Healthy, Wholesome Goodness CHILDREN LIKE SONBISE fust give the Children sanrise Milk and yoiiH find they truly like it. It's the best . . - way to prove how good It really is. And. too, when yon Bay Sunrise yon are building the dairy industry in yoar own % ' Sunrise ?- i lJ ? ?. f.\ * GfiSTONTA.N.C,
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