The Kings Mountain Herald E*tabllsk?d 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 postoffloe 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 Mm. P. D. 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 THREK MONTHS?' 75c ? BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not. St. Luke 12:40 Water And Industry Rains, relieving the dry lands and making the fields grow green again, ar rived last weekend after the summer's longest dry spell. As one man said, "It was a pretty good rain." Whether or not enough rainfall fell In the Kings Mountain area to increase the supply of raw water at the city lake the Herald has not heard, but last week's notation that the city was short-, ly to curtail its service to some users underline what could happen regularly to this community before many seasons pass, and remind that many other com munities are already in trouble water wise. Among these watev-shy cities are Asheville, Raleigh, Burlington, and many others In Kings Mountain's instance, curtail ing water service- to some users means principally the curtailing of water serr vice to Foote Mineral Company, a rela tively new citizen which uses millions of gallons of water, both its own and that purchased from the city, for its regular operations. Foote's monthly water bill recently approached $2,000 which is a considei'able amount. As long as Foote's consumption does not force expansion of the city's water sources nor its purifying facilities, it is highly good business for the city to sell to Foote, as the monthly report of cost per million gallons will quickly show. However, Foote Mineral Company un doubtedly would find irtterruptible ser vice highly costly to its recently-treb led operations. In turn, the city would find it sub-marginal, perhaps, to have to expand its watershed and filtering fa cilities in order to continue to supply uninterrupted water service to Foote Mineral Company. The actual situation not only empha sizes a problem the city finds itself fac ing in the one instance, but another and broader one on its professed interest in attracting to Kings Mountain new, job giving industrial establishments. Three citizens attended the Conserva tion & Development seminar on indus try-getting at Marion last week, and one of the nine requisites listed by the presi dent of big Ecusta Paper Corporation was an adequate water supply. It was less than three years ago that the city sent one expanding company word "not available" on the question of whether Jt could buy two million gallons of wa ter per day. As the Herald understands it, the plant went to Hendersonville, where water was abundant. Just because Kings Mountain put it self in position to give an affirmative answer to Water supply questions would not insure a great industrial influx. But Kings Mountain is excellently located on mainline rail and highway arteries, it does have cheap power always avail able from Duke, it does have a reason able tax policy, and it does have avail able labor of quality and character. In addition to water, the community may not measure up on requirements for vocational training (other than tex tile), nor on adequate waste disposal. But provision for adequate water pro bably rates highest among the needs. To attract new industry, the city will have to overstock water. The sympathy of the community is extended to Mrs. Fred Plonk, at at the death of a sister, to Dr. P. G. Pad gett, at the death of his father, and to Mrs. Hilton Kuth, at the death of both her parents. Good News, Indeed Approval of the postal inspector for city carrier route extensions comes as good news to many citizens who have not had the best in mail service. The city carrier idea has been in prac tice for many year3, but the city has lagged behind on expanding the service for numerous reasons, ranging from the advertised lack of city street names and house numbers to, perhaps, txie deficit of the postoffice department. . When it is considered that the 1950 census showed only about 3,300 occupi ed houses in - the whole of Number 4 Township, the extension of city carrier service to 501 houses increases in im portance. And the Herald also suspects that, once the street-naming, house - number ing business gets underway, additional extensions will be forthcoming. Our commendations to Postmaster Blakely on receipt of the favorable news, and our best wishes to the city govern ment as it catches up several season's street-naming. For the 501 families, the long-awaited service is just around the corner. The large growing enrollment and crowded conditions of city, schools classrooms emphasizes the need of the area for new school construction; and the situation, in Kings Mountain is du plicated throughout the state. Thus it reminds that parents of school children, in addition to political leaders and school officials, have plenty of evidence with which to support the October 3 school bond issue election. Registration books will be open again Saturday for the forthcoming election at which citi zens of North Carolina will answer the questions: 1) shall North Carolina bor row $50 million for school construction, and 2) shall North Carolina borrow $22 million for mental institution construc tion. Though they are at odds politically, both Governor Umstead and Former Governor Scott are giving unqualified endorsement to the bond issue propos als. A good rule on the highway is to watch the other driver as closely as is humanly possible and to consider all other drivers as potential wild men at the wheel. Such will be even more true on the new, just-opened eight miles of U. S. Highway 74 and 29 connecting Kings Mountain and Gastonia. While the highway is potentially much more safe than the old two-lane, eight-mile death trap, the potential will not be realized if drivers use it for a race track, or if drivers entering the highway fail to take proper precautions. It was tragic that the new strip had been opened to traffic less than one hour, until the life of one man had already been claimed. A similar result occurred a few years ago on the fine four-lane strip between Spartanburg and Greenville, S. C. In spite of the apparent safety of the fc*ir lanes, wrecks and accident deaths were common occurences. ? Many times the cause was take-it-for-granted careless ness of the homefolk, or a citizen who failed to take precautions before enter ing the boulevard. The defeated Democrats gather in Chicago next Monday to re-assess their assets and to rally for the firs* come back attempt in the Congressional jousts a year hence. Some Southerners will be missing, among them Governor Byrnes, of South Carolina, who wasn't invited and said he wouldn't attend if he were, and some others who were in vited, but made show over not going. Why don't the dissidents go on and join with the Republicans? Sooner or later they must learn that they can't have ' theiir cake and eat it, too- And their course is not exactly honorable. None objects to anybody's being what he wants to be, but he shouldn't be asham ed of it. Of course, everyone'll have to give Ike credit for delivering to Byrnes on FEPC, at least on the COG business, though it doesn't make some of the GOP regulaVs very happy. ?? YEARS AGO Items of newt about Kings Mountain area people and events A THIS WEEK taken from the 1943 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. for r. .. __ '? ?? || A fifteen billion dollar war time financing project began here today when Kings Mountain citi zens were asked to purchase $500, 000 worth of war bonds in a coun ty-wide drive. J. R. Davis, chairman of the ? drive, said that the county's quota is S2f Central Metho dist church met Monday after noon with Mrs. Paul Hendricks. Circle No. 1 met with Mrs. Bill Howard. J. H. Arthur of Dunn spent the weekend with his family. Miss Mary Patterson is expect ed home soon from a vacation rspent in the mountains of Ashe ville and Western North Carolina. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Mattln B arm oa Inffredicnts: bUs of news, uHsdom, humor, and comment. Directions: Take weekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage. Chatting about business and other odds and ends the other evening, Ted Weir and I were discussing generally the subject of policies and the advisability of not having too many -of them. .J* . ' V-V ?***? m-m ? s As Ted said, "Rules are made to be broken." m-m Whether rules, or policies, are me de to be broken may or may not be, but it is a fact that the more policies the more di versions. m-m The dictionary defines "po licy" as "the principle on which any course or action is based." Of course, there are many other kinds of policy; such as the life insurance fire insurance and liability varie ties, not to mention the policy game known as the numbers racket. But the kind I'm vefer ring too is the "course of ac tion" definition. Sometimes, po licy is a course of inaction, and I guess that a synonym for that type is "red tape", a regular face-hitter and closed, barrier well-known to anyone who has ever been In the armed services and also well -practiced by many government operatives. m-m Just about everyone, though, has to have some established policies, personally as well as commercially and industrially. Thus one family eats lunch at l-i:30 and another has dinner at noon. A lunch eater will have dinner in the evening, but the noon dinner-eater will have to be content with supper. Inci dentally, fellow supper-suppers will be happy about the recent cold snap at)d concurrent pros pect that frost will soon kill . out the current tomato crop, bane of the existence of all sup per-eaters. m-m There have to be business po licies, too. And while the poli cies sometimes cause regret of one kind or another, most ' have found that the average person can quickly understand and sympathize with, a policy applied to all. Thus a merchant celling solely for cash can es tablish his policy fairly simply. However, if he begins to break over, he will infuriate those he has refused to tender credit in the past. m-m It once was said that politi cal parties had to have policies, and, indeed, platforms are still labored over and given great at tention. But when all is said and done, the only static policy a political party ever had is to get votes. Thus there are now two or more wings of the in cumbent Republican party and two or more of the out-in-the cold Democrats. m-m If a man changes policy too frequently he is "wishy-washy"; if he never changes he's an old "fuddy-duddy". Rep. Dan Reed, the elderly New Yorker who wants to cut the income tax, recently was called a "fud", which I assume is a short word for "fuddy-duddy", by one of his own party. But I suspect that most folk will be happy for Mr. Reed to remain one. While none wants to be either too loose nor too tight, it is hard sometimes to determine a happy middle ground to remain upon. m-m Generally speaking, It might be said that basically good po licy "evolves", meaning that the start-off wasn't bad, and that It has been refined along the way. A bad policy needs to be changed altogether. m-m At the .erald, we try to have, as few policies as we possibly can and still get out a news paper. Most of them have never been written down on paper until this moment. Among them are: - 1) In event of marriage or death, satisfy the persons or families involved, since both oc currences are quite personal matters, of interest to others, but not much of their business. 2) Answer "yes" where at all possible, since 99 percent of "yes" answers please, and since 99 percent of "no" answers In furiate. 3) Print the news, regardless of fear or favor, a newspaper's only excuse for existing. - m-m Those are the principal ones. We have deadlines in order to get published on publication day. We require payment lor the paper, because the adverti sers want to know that the readers want the paper. We don't publish anymore names of persons charged with public drunkenness because we learn ed from experience that publi cation thereof made no contri bution to the sobriety of the community and embarrassed occasionally a citizen who, most of the time, is 99.44 percent pure, like that soap they talk about. m-m But too many policies won't work; . _ . ^ v ? ' V'iI 1" ' ~f n 'ii IV ho , ME? by .Robert Osborn In nine out of ten traffic accidents last year, the driver ? not the car ? wot at fault. Only YOU can pro vent accident?! Viewpoints of Other Editors AESOP UP TO DATE (Many people, says a right wing columnist are getting bored by the controversy over "method" in lighting domestic communism; they want the job done, they don't [care how.) Once upon a time there was a large and prosperous community which suffered an Infestation by certain harmful pests. Some were weasels, some were rats, some were merely mice. But in the dark or under cover they did much harm. In order to keep their nefari ous depredations concealed these pests became expert at Imitating useful and harmless creatures. Some would make themselves look and sound like dogs, some like cats, and others like little dogs and kittens. And they fooled a few of these harmless creatures into helping them.' So the citizens for a time didn't krtow which were which. But the city fathers had skilled hunters who knew how to watch these pests at work and how to track them to their lairs. To make sure no tragic , mistakes were made these hunters, when they had caught a creature acting sus piciously, would bring it before certain learned men for careful examination. Then these learned men would say, "No, This is a cat and not a weasel. Let it go." Or, "Yes, This Is a rat, not a dog. Dispose of it where it can no long er harm us." All of this went on rather quietly for some time. But then the good citizens suddenly be came alarmed. Weasels and cats and mltje. had been found in places thought securely locked. And the fright spread. Then came other men who, hop ing to win the people's favor, said, "We will rid you of these pests quickly." So with great ado they spread large nets which caught all sorts of creatures. A bout one they would say, "Yes, it looks like a dog. But It snarled at us. So it must be a rat" And of another, "It might be a cat. But it has a slinky look we do not like. It must be a weasel." So other hunters joined the chase. Some tried a little poison in the wells ' that supplied the community with water. The pests drank of it, but so did the useful creatures and the people. Others sprayed the air the pests must breathe with noxious fumes. But the useful creatures and the peo ple had to breathe It too. And all the while no one en Joyed the excitement more than the rats, the weasels, and the mice. For they were very skillful about lying low and letting good people chase and strike blindly at the dogs, the cats, and the kittens. And the community was thrown into confusion and turmoil. Which is Just what the weasels, the rats, and the mice had set out to ac complish in the first place. | Moral: Methods do matter ? especially if they lead to ends no hady wants but the enemy. ? The Christian Science Monitor. A COMMUNITY LOSS In the passing t>f Mrs. H. D. Froneberger a loss has been sus tained not only by her own famil> and many Mends, but by the com munity of Gastoaia as wen. Mrs. Froneberger, a Christian lady ever faithful to her duties in her home and church, was deep ly interested in the community's betterment and the fine work she did in the various acthrHW ol Holy Trinity Lutheran church, tn the Brownie troop division of the 'int fronting program, and in other beneficial enterprises stands and will reraiw# JMng monument to her memory. She was one of those rare per sonalities who not only . believes In goodness, but In doing good, and In working actively toward the achievement of good through every avenue of opportunity. , As a worker for Christian cau A FOREST CITY LEADER DIED An old Welsh Triad says there are three things, if possessed by a man, entitle him to be called a chief of neighbors: that he speak on behalf of his neighbor and be listened to; that he fight on be half of his neighbor and be fear ed; and that he offer himself as a pledge for his neighbor and be accepted. - Mr. Tilden Rucker Padgett ful filled all these points, and more. In down-to-earth language he was a good neighbor. For more than a half-century he occupied a business establish ment on the square in Forest City; but more important he oc cupied a niche in the hearts of people in the city and county a cross three generations. No one ever called on Mr. Pad gett In an hour of need without being heard. He enshrined him self in the hearts of hundreds by his many good deeds, which he himself would scorn to term charity. . He served his city and county well in the economic life of the area. He was at one time or a nother a stockholder or official of numerous business enterprises in the city and county. He was deep ly interested in the advancement of Forest City and was always ready to turn his efforts to any enterprise or movement which would benefit the city, and lend aid to its further growth. His church and home were an integral part of him. He long served the First Baptist church as a deacon, where his advice was sought and listened to. But it is in his home life, among a set of fine sons and daughters, where his counsel will be so greatly missed. Forest City and Rutherford county are immeasurably poorer in the loss of Mr. Padgett, but they are richer by his having spent 77 years In the area. ? Forest City Courier. ses and a loving wife and mother In the home she earned that tri bute so rarely deserved ? "Well done, thou good and faithful ser vant" The sympathy of the entire community goes out to her loved ones In their hour of bereave ment. ? Qaatonia Gazette. THE DOLLAR value of your home and its contents has Increased tremendously in the past few years. And that means danger! You may be under-insured. Disaster may rob you of un protected dollars. Let us * make sure NOW that you have adequate protection. C. E. WARLICK Insurance Agency PbOM 9 203 W. Mountain St. worth KINGS MOUNTAIN THE STORE DRUG COMPANY PHONE 41 &.6I TME CITY'S, MODERN STORE 20 DOZ. EGGS 100 LBS. OF FEED rHimtw * 1 MM.rnm uti ?J Satisfied wiHi your egg profits? Getting TOP RESULTS like this? If you're not, you con . . . with "SQ" All-Maih Laying, ? good layers and good management. Other folks are doing it right now! Just oae feed to buy . . . nothing else. 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