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The Kings Mountain Herald 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. Enjered 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, Circulation, News Mrs. P. D. Hemdon Society Miss Elizabeth Stewart ...i... Advertising, News v MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Horace Walker Dav.ld 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 the congregation of hyitocrites stiall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. Job Reasonable Debt Not Evil History records many evidences of man's failings, among them two oppo site poles of financial policy, both of which are unwise, if not evil. One is the spendthrift policy of wan ton spending and wastefulness, which practices the theory of living today be fore dying on the morrow. The result, many times, compares with the experi ence of the old gentleman in Alabama who retired with millions and, knowing he couldn't carry it along with him, de termined to spend as much of it as pos sible. But, sadly, the money ran out first, the gay spender living much long er than a customary life span. The same happens daily and yearly with many people. The other policy which is almost equally foolish and wrong is the policy of skinflint economy. Was in Ben Frank lin's argument that a man could quite easily be penny wise and pound foolish? In such a situation the tight one, or ones, as the case may be, squeeze their assets so closely they don't recognize a bargain when they see one Two titans of the business world in the mail order field have been following these diverse policies since the end of World War II. One has outstripped the other in increasing assets, volume of business and profits. The other, who felt that doomsday was just around the Corner, can yet be right. But doomsday will have to hurry. Thus the matter of timing is also in volved in the decision as to spending and non-spending. North Carolina's citizens will make a comparable decision on October 3, by approving or disapproving the issuance of $50 million for school construction and $22 million for mental institution construction. It is possible to approve one and to disapprove the other. Many persons are supporting the two bond is sues on the basis of need, which can hardly be denied. Over-populated schools are the rule, rather than the exception, and Kings Mountain's school situation is compara ble to that in other areas of the state. Only a few counties have shouldered properly their school-building responsi bilities, and Cleveland is not among ihem. Thus the potential sums obtaina ble olit of the $50 million bond issue are appealing to parents of school children and to harried school officials. The mental Institution issue is even more deserving, if that is possible. The state is not too poor to care for its men tal patients, but it has been acting as if it were. Many rather conservative persons are supporting the bond issues in spite of a natural disinclination to eat tomorrow's bread today, and many are supporting it in spite' of a distaste for the action of the General Assembly in shorting these obvious needs by failure to pare expen ses in some other spot. Fiscally, North Carolina's geared-to-income tax struc ture is built for pay-as-you-go spending, not deficit spending. The registration books are open for the first time Saturday. Our congratulations to the city board of commissioners on their quickness in filling the position of superintendent of public works, and our best wishes to Emory C. Nicholson in a difficult task. Mr. Nicholson works for more than 7,000 people, whatever the city's population is these days, and that is a large number of persons to keep happy. Now that contracts are let, improved facilities for the Negro school popula tion are just around the corner. The wait has been long enough, as anyone familial* with the Davidson school plant will quickly agree. Traffic Engineering Among the many fields of endeavor the auto has brought us in the past few years is that of traffic engineering. The knowledge of determining how to move traffic along at a rapid, yet safe, pace has become a science, which, if not ex act, is well out of the pseudo-science stage. The positions pay good money, and the holders thereof earn it. Point was made at the recent traffic safety meeting of the Lions club that rule-of-thumb solving of traffic prob lems is sorry business, which is easy to believe. Too many times, citizens a:.d government officials ai*e inclined to lean too heavily on the erection of stop and-go signals for traffic direction, or to let personal whims get the best of their aims at traffic improvement. It would appear that Kings Mountain, plagued for the most part with too-nar row streets, could well spend a little money for traffic engineering service. Movement of motor traffic at the mo ment may actually be relatively good, but there are numerous blind corners, narrow intersections, and other spots not conducive to either swift or safe in city traffic movement. 9 Praise The Senators While both branches of the Congress have been whipping boys for the past few years, on indictment for letting the executive lead them around by the nose, it would be amiss not to ride the mule the other way and to commend the United States Senate for finally saying "no" to an executive demand. The negative reply, of course, was to the debt limit raising appeal to which, t lie Senate surprisingly turned a deaf car. Amazingly, a month afterward, the same gentleman who was crying that the government would not be able to pay its bills and mayhem would result has changed his tune- A re-shuffle of the figures, he says, shows that the govern ment will get by all right on the small remaining borrowing authority it re tains. The recent statement of Secretary Humphrey, who is already establishing something of a reputation for himself as a start-stop-and-back-up operator, is an admission of what the average citi zen has known for years. Qno sure way to get along, when the cupboard is bare, is to tighten the belt and shorten the ration. Not pleasant maybe, but effica cious for solvency. Action of the board of city commis sioners in pulling the four-year-old Dickson sewage survey report out of the files indicates the board plans to seek again, as have boards in the past, to im prove the sewage disposal situation, stijl badly needed, the Herald suspects, in spite of the magical "solving" of the problem early last spring. The Herald, and many of its citizens, will await with interest the bringing up to date of the report, with its concurrent estimates of construction costs for a re-building of the McGill tank on Potts creek. The bond Issue request in 1949 was $175,000 for sewage disposal expenditure. How much will four years of delay have cost because of price increases, not to men tion the inconvenience, discomfort, and expense to individuals due to lack of city service? Indeed, some streets, it is said, should have their names changed to "Septic Tank Boulevard1." 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 local Ration Board has re ceived instructions that no gas will be allowed for the purpose of taking students to college. Social And Pemonals Pvt. Samuel E. Hamrick has re turned to Camp Howze, Texas, after visiting his wife and pa rents here. Mr. and Mrs. Van Wrape and two children of Sevlersville, Tenn. are guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Ware and other relatives. Mr. George Womack. Sr., who is now employed in Savannah, Ga. spenj the weekend in Kings Mountain. Misses Martha and Rachel Mc Clain left this week to resume their studies at Mars Hill Col lege. . . . Mrs, George Ware is moving into the Herndon apartment re cently, vacated by Mr. and Mrs. ?M? ? Jimmy Harris, who. moved to their residence on Cansler street. Mesdames George Houser, W. K. Maunpy, Jr., Proctor Thomp son and Mrs. Donald Beck of Gas tonia are spending sometime at the Mauney cottage, Sadie-De-Sea at Crescent Beach. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest White had as their guests recently, Mrs. Joe Ball of Atlanta, Ga.f and Mrs. Jack D?W of Charlotte. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Hannea Ingredients: bits of mim, wisdom, humor, and comment. Direction*: Take weekly, if posaible, but avoid overdosage. When the city board of com missioners turned attention to street marking recently, they found the seemingly simple business was neither simple nor without cost. m-m Purchase price of one street name marker, at $14.50, sounds reasonable enough, but the figure mounts quickly when it is multiplied by 150. At first though, one would wonder that the small city of Kings Moun tain has that many streets, much less unmarked ones, but so it does. m-m First instruction of the board, before placing its order, was that the city map be examined to eliminate double - named streets. It wasn't too many moons ago that the fire depart ment got a call to put out a fire on Elm street, I believe it was. Fire Chief Grady King hightailed it to the Elm street address, but found no fire. The blaze was burning away at another Elm street across town. Two minutes sometimes mean the difference between total loss and small damage, fire fighters and insurance statis ticians say. Thus it is very un fortunate to have a fire on a double - named street, not to mention the inconvenience of getting somebody else's mall, and the other possible mix-ups. m-m The medicinal department, In | the course of looking for same I named streets, took a second glance at some other question able street '? naming prac tices from the past. While it is possible to differen tiate between Bennett Drive and Bennett avenue, for in stance, it is also just as possi ble to mix them up, and one of these should be re named. There are also Joyce street and Boyce street, just slightly less mix able, and Hill street and Mill street, according to the 1948 city zoning map. m-m If I am not mistaken, the city's tax map, just obtained from the Joyce Mapping Com pany, via the Cleveland County tax office, shoWs numerous , btreet-name duplications which do not appear on. the zoning map. m-m However, the zoning map fur nishes a full quota of inconsis tencies, not to mention some downright "tacky" street names. m-m A prime inconsistency is Gold street which starts on the east at Sadie Mill and goes straight as an arrow until it intersects with Battleground avenue at the B. & B. Restaurant corner. By proceeding several feet to the north on Battleground, it is possible to hit Gold street again, proceed across the rail road tracks and continue for a nine-block cruise to Juniper. Since Gold street's two seg ments are neither continuous, nor contiguous, it would appear that one end should be re-nam ed. Another street in this cate gory is Juniper street itself. Some unimaginative or unin formed person or persons call-_ ed the street in front of the new nurse's home Juniper street, though a person traveling north on Juniper would go into a pri vate yard if he continued on the s t r a i g h t a w ay. What's now North Jupiter should be named Wray Williams bouvelard, or Golfer's Hazard, the linksmen report. , ... m-m Another, inconsistency is the application of two names to the same street. This situation exists for Crescent Hill Road Tracy street, Hawthorne Road Cedar street, Meadowbrook Road - Cansler street. Battle ground Road - East Railroad avenue, and probably others, m-m If a newcomer ever got lost in this town he might never find his way out. m-m At least one other map nota tion lists what is generally called Childers street as Parker street, which might be right II the word "extension" were add ed. But in that instance, Wilson street should become South Piedmont avenue extension. m-m City Postal Carrier Wiley Blanton has been working with city officials on the problem, and, indeed, the work is being done at the immediate Instance of the postoffice department which# Is approving dty carrier route extensions provided the streets are properly nameu and numbered. xn-m i * I am inclined to agree with City Clerk Joe Hendrick who thinks that th?\ "tackiest" name on the city books is Tin Top Alley. I hope the commissioners change that one. L '? ME? by Robert Osborn TK* TroviUci Sofvty S*Mc? Thrae out of four traffic accidonts in 1952 involved laitenger car*. Only YOU can pravtnl accidents! Viewpoints of Other Editors GOODBYE SLATS A springs manufacturing com pany in Hickory, says a little item in the papers, is Introducing "per ma-slats ? a new and revolution ary type of bed slat that will eli minate falling, wraping, splitting and breaking. It's an all-metal rig that lock:, onto bed rails in all four direc tions; adjustable, it will fit full size or twin beds. Soon, say its makers, it will become a standard part of bed manufacture. Well, sir, that's going to elimi nate one of the oldest practical jokes among the gay blades ? loosening all the slats in the spare bedroom when prim guests are being received. Also, it will mean that movers no longer will have the fun of mixing up their customer's bed slats. Instead of seeing that dou ble-bed people wind up with sin glebed slats and that three-quar ter bed people get extra-wide bed slats and that nobody receives slats that fit his bed. they are go ing to face the dreary business of moving into every house perma slats that can be shape to any bed. Moreover, this new-fangled bed room fixture Is going to dampen the coverage of police court. Never again will a witness say: "When she lifted the bedslat at me is wfien I stabbed her with that little frog-sticker. I loved her so well." And how is the next generation going to know what the old man is talking about when he says the widow down the street is built like a slat? ? Sanford Herald. NOSTALGIC NOTES Hat manufacturers and retail ers report that although some of tHe old-time straw work hats are being made and sold, the busin ness isn't as pert as }' used to be. Farmers are turning to close fit ting helmets to keep the hair out of their eyes . and to long-billed hats er caps to shade their eyes -from the sun. One argument a gainst the old-style straw hat is that it persists in the annoying babit of blowing off when the farmer is scooting around on a tractor. This may be progress, but something goes out of country life with the old straw hat which Mother lined with green cloth to take care of the shading chore. On hot days, you remember, some broad green leaves were plucked on the way to work and placed in the crown to make a perfect pro tecting against the relentless beating down?of the sun's rays. As for blowing off, a string at tached to each side and tied und er the chin took cart? of that. And while on the subject of headgear, a 77-year-old California woman gardner attributes her outstanding success with bloom ing plants to the fact that she wouldn't even go Into her garden without wearing an old-fashioned, blue sun -bonnet. Around these parts a woman gardner seems to feel that she's undressed unless she has on shorts up to here. And a lot of them wear big hais to protect the face from the sun which Is con sidered so beneficial for the neth er extremities. What I'm waiting to see now is a well stacked gal in .South Caro lina .horts sporting a sunbonnet a lsi California and whacking *. wav at that late summer L. N. Foy, to the Oreenville, (8. CJ Newt. ?????? vwltrMtrt/vme HERALD Rffi H that detects any irregu* larities in any watch, a certificate of accuracy to Com? in and wt will ** yoor p mem watch WHO RUNS THE TOWN? Are the really ^important de cisions in a town "made by its e lected officials? ?>o the mayor and the city council establish the "policies that actually determine what sort of town we live in? I In a new book from the Univer. sity of North Carolina Press, "Community Power Structure," Floyd Hunter says "No." Before writing his book Professor Hun ter carefully studied a real city of half a milliion population, which he calls "Regional City." "It has been evident to the wri ter for years," he says, "that pol icies on vital matters affecting community life seem to appear suddenly. They are acted upon, but with no previous knowledge on the part of the majority of ci tizens as to how these policies originated or by whom they are really sponsored. Much is done, but much is left undone. Some of the things done appear to be ma nipulated to tne advantage of the relatively few." An expert of the "power struc ture" of Regional City showed that 40 persons actually "ran" buriness, government, Mvic asso ciations and society activities. What these 40 persons decided should be done in Regional City was done. If they decided some thing should not be done, it was not done. Of the 40 persons who ran the city, the largest number (11) op erated large commercial enter al ses. Seven were bankers. Six were professional men (five law yers and one dentist). Five were connected with industry. Four were governmental personnel, two were labor leaders, and five were classified as "leisure person nel." Six of the 40, by the way, were women. Mr. Hunter brings up a fasci nating field for conjecture in his study of "community power structure." Who runs our town? ? Smithfield Herald. North Carolina cotton farmers estimate this year's total produc tion at 460,000 bales (500- pound gross weight), or 19.2 per cent less than their 1952 production. ^brnmand tlUi PhottctiQH WHEN YOU BUY A NEW WATCH We test every watch on the mmm Jewel Bex HARRIS FUNERAL HOME ? Ambulance Service ? Phone 118 Kings Mountain, N. C Davis Sheet Metal & Furnace Co. York Rd. ? Phone 100 a sis* for every home! 1. THE LO-BOY Air Conditioner 7 Sixes Tor home* of S to ? Ave;ue-Sln Rooms 2. THE HI-BOY 3 Sixes For Homes of 3 to S Average-SlM Rooms 3. THE DOWNFLO 2 Sixes For home* of 5 to T Avertft^lw Rooms 4. SUSPENDED 4 Sixes For homes without hi? ms Commercial hulkllrurs wbe floor space la precious. ? 5. B-300 SERIES Air Conditioner 6 Sixes I The Ideal unit for Urasr homes, stores, churches* schools. garMMS 10 -Tear Written Factory Guarantee In besting, tfce best costs less Is the long run. Before you buy, look ?t the Wsterbury line. 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