The Kings Mountain Heiald
Established 1889
. Honh Carolina i
r HESS ASSOCI ATM
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountsln
and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
Entered as second class matter a* the postoffi^e at Kings Mountain, N. C, under Act
! : of Congress of Match 3, 1873
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Sowto yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to
seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you. Hosea 10:1 8.
Much Detail, But Worth It
Back in the summer, one enthusias
tic supporter of the proposal to consoli
date the several school districts of Num
ber 4 Township into the Kings Mountain
district talked of starting construction
in the autumn, which would be now.
That view was real optimism and be
fore the supporter had learned the mass
of detail involved in a consolidation pro
cess.
Vacation season in Raleigh, and with
a number of school officials also away
on business trips, delayed the matter
further, but now it seems that the local
school committeemen have re-arranged
the rod tape, at least, and know where
a start can be made.
Arranging an election, the officials
agreed last week, is Step No. 1, to deter
mine whether citizens of the neighbor
ing areas want to join with the Kings
Mountain district, and whether the
neighboring citizens are willing to tax
themselves 20 cents on the $100 valua
tion to equalize the special school sup
plement collected by the Kings Moun
tain district since 1937.
At the recent meeting, there was some
question advanced about rural folk be
ing assessed "city taxes". There is no
proposal whatsoever to assess rural
folk with "city taxes". Indeed, none of
the city taxes paid by in-city dwellers
go for school purposes. All school taxes
are levied, and all school funds are col
lected, by t ho county government. The
present Kings Mountain district special
school tax of 20 cents per $100 valua
tion is handled exclusively by the coun
ty government, not by the city. When
the state assumed responsibility for
staffing the schools, the municipalities
of North Carolina went out of the school
business. Former municipal functions of
providing sites and buildings were taken
over by the county governments, and
the Kings Mountain school district is
merely one sub-division in the county
school set-up, withal an autonomous
one.
After the vote is arranged, and the
Herald assumes that the several school
committees will proceed with that detail
do. First would be the voting. If approv
ed, the next step would be the setting
up of a governmental unit for the dis
trict ? r a matter which will have to a
wait the next convening of the General
Assembly in 1955.
Thus building a consolidated organi
zation is no short-term matter, either for
approving or for actually building and
using.
But great projects are seldom accom
plished! with lightning speed, nor by
feats of magic. A Ions, hard pull is the
usual rule. The agreement to make the
voting the next step must be hailed as
progress, and the Herald is glad to see it.
Much interest attaches to the propos
ed U. S. Highway 29 by-pass, now ap
proaching a reality after many years of
planning, surveying, discussing and
false starting. The current .trend is to
by-pass communities, and while there
usually is great argument locally over
the relative merits of accommodating
the ""through traffic" versus the econo
mic dislocation brought by the re-rout
ing of main highways, the by pass has
become an accepted principle of high
way engineering. Highway Commission
er Scarborough and his aides are urging
a full attendance at the Tuesday night
hearing here, and all persons interested
should avail themselves of the opportu
nity to be heard.
10
YEARS AGO Items of newt about Kings Mountain area people and events
THIS WEEK taken from the 1943 file* of the Kings Mountain Herald.
Kings Mountain ended the first
ten day period of the Third War
Loan Drive with $103,875 of sales
reported by Chairman J. R. Davis.
Out of the night swooped a BT
13 Armp plane to make a forced
landing in the field in front of
the home of Joe Neisler on the
York Road Monday about 8 p. m.
The plane was badly off its course
and due to the clouds and fog of
the Veiling "was only 100 feet. The
ship was not damaged by the
forced landing and was able to
take off Wednesday morning for
Charlotte to be refueled and to
continue to its destination. .
Personal*
Mrs. Luther P. Ware has ac
cepted a position with the local
Draft Board.
Mr. Fred Baker of Atlanta is
visiting his brother, Dr. L. P. Ba
ker an<J family.
Lt. Colonel and Mrs. O. P. Lew
is and little daughter of Camp
Shelby, are visiting Mrs.
Lewis' parent 8, Capt. and Mrs.
Meek Ornuuid.
Charles A. Goforth, Jr., and I.
B. Goforth, Jr., who are stationed
at Great Lakes. 111. are visiting
their respective parents.
Hulen Miller of the Navy is
spending a week with his mother.
Mr. and Mrs. Price Patterson
of Savannah, Ga., visited rela
tives in Kings Mountain during
the weekend.
A Taxing Delusion
There is quite an amount of talk a
mong business and political leaders
these days concerning a general federal
sales tax, and, though almost all Con
gressmen throw up their hands in hor
ror when it is mentioned, its enactment,
in some form, either at the wholesale
or retail level, is a definite possibility.
If anything, the federal government
should be thinking about repeal of some
of the sales taxes it already collects, i. e.,
the terribly expensive tax on telephones,
leather goods, cosmetics, and others
known as excises.
While businessmen generally approve
sales taxes, as opposed to the heavy,
confiscatory income taxes the public
has come to know, these same propo
nents who envision a big saving on in
come taxes may be' deluding themselves.
Income taxes are here to stay. There
may be some rate cuts now and then, as
well as some upward adjustments, as at
the onset of the Korean War, but taxing
of incomes will continue.
It's an old and true axiom of govern
ment that it is much easier to enact a
tax than to repeal one. A most likely re
sult would be ever-increasing pressure
from the let-Washington-do-it groups
to increase the take from a federal sales
tax, concurrently with the income tax.
Many think a sales tax quite fair, on
the grounds that everybody has to pay.
Others says it is unfair, contending that
it is a tax predominantly on the poor.
Regardless of that argument, putting
the federal government in the taxing
business in still another area is bad busi
ness for the taxpayer. And the puny es
timates of what a four percent sales tax,
for example, would return is pitiable in
comparison to the huge sums required
to finance the government.
Considerable Gamble
Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wil
son is credited by many with being the
most outstanding cabinet appointment,
by far, of the new Republican adminis
tration. He has not only brought to the
sprawling defense establishment his
great knowledge of running big works,
but has shown an unusual ability at
cracking the heads of the so-called
"brass", which, many citizens have sus
pected, needed cracking many months
ago.
But many of these same admirers
question his policy Of concentrating de
fense production among a few big com
panies and feel that Secretary Wilson is
not properly assessing the lesson of the
devasting fire at General Motors' hydra
matic transmission plant, which ma
terially hampered the production of au
tomobiles. . ' .
The Wilson policy is wonderful for
desired economy and perhaps a help in
standardizing defense establishment
purchasing ? an area long responsible
for great wastefulness.
But a well-placed bomb, either by
enemy bombt r or by saboteur, would be
much more damaging in the highly con
centrated defense production set-up.
As one man, speaking in the extreme,
remarked, "We could lose the war be
fore it started."
At least 125 Kings Mountain young
people, including 17 Negro students, are
listed this year in the area's orf-to
school list. Majority are attending regu*
lar accredited collepfes, while some are
enrolled in specialized trade schools. *
The list continues to increase annually
as more students and parents realize
the need for better preparation in a so
ciety that grows more complicated and
more specialized each year. The old days
of one-family self - sufficiency are gone
forever, which means the advantages of
more specialized education continue to
increase.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
By Martin Hanson
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Ingredient ?: bite o/ n?toa,
urttdom, fcu mar, and comment.
Direction*-. Take weekly, if
possible, but avoid
overdosage.
Best yet.
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That was the advance billing
on the Bethware Fair and It can
serve, too, for the actual report
of the event, which, in its sixth
season, topped all others for at
tendance, tiring out urchins,
people signing tickets for no
strings- attached prize draw
ings, and just about every other
phase of this growing commu
nity event.
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Not being a farm expert
exactly, I am disinclined to
compare the crop exhibits with
those of previous years, except
to say that this season's looked
good to me, in spite of dry
weather. I heard Will Watter
son say a bale of hay he ex
hibited was cut just prior to the
dry weather onset some weeks
ago. But the com entries filled
the space, in spite of the
drought.
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I also got acquainted with'
"milo", James S. Ware, the ex
postmaster, acquainting me
with its name and uses.
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The number of cars parked In
and around the spacious school
grounds Saturday night shows
that local area auto dealers
have done a good job of selling
and that most folk regard a
reasonably new model as a ne
cessity for 1953 living. Once
upon a time. In the memory of
most of us. a car was consider
ed the height of luxury.
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Among the many farmer and
merchant- friends I chatted with
at the fair was Franklin Davis
who is the Bethware area par
ticipant in the Better Acres con
test this year. Myers Ham- .
bright, the fair manager and
Bethware agriculture teacher.
f?Plained that the farmers in
the Better Acres contest merely
agree to carry out during the
year a particular project re
commended by extension de
partment, soil conservation and
other agriculture officials.
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They don't have to agree to do
anything they don't want to "
Myers said. But Mr. Davis coun
tered that he had agreed to al
most every recommendation,
general and specific, and com
parfson of his Oak Grove farm
before and after shows it,
Myers notes and the pictures
show. A photograph of the
Davis Better Acres exhibit ap
pears elsewhere in this issue.
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Mr. Davis' farm Is on the Oak
Grove Road just past the Hus
key place, and I asked where
is the boundary line between
Patterson Grove and Oak
Grove. Mr. Davis said hid place
is just about on the line. Other
dovetailing communities, which
get their names from churches
in the vicnity, are El Bethel
and Bethlehem, all of them to
gether making Up what Myers
calls the Greater Bethware
community", a good name for
it, indeed.
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.. * ?et for the first time, of.
ficlally. Erwin Hughes,
son of Conrad Hughes, and
postman on the navy's USS
Eflisto. a low-slung Ice breaker.
The Edlsto is one of several
navy ice-breakers and is bas**i
Boston' which means that
Sailor Hughes commutes regu
larly between three principal
points, Boston, Kings Mountain
and the Arctic regions. The Ice
breaker has a short flight deck
which can accommodate heli
copters.
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North Harmon, whom I
hadn't seen for ages, reported,
I m still on the farm, but I
don't do much. A man oughta
learn something as he goes
along." Farmers don't sell dairy
products to the retail trade any
more, due to the restrictions of
public health edicts, but Mr.
Harmon's butter was always a
premium product.
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Among local firms displaying
their wares were Ben Goforth's
Plumbing company, ' BUI Lo
gan's Supply company, Baird,
McGinnis and Cooper furniture,
and Margrace Store. I got a
kick out of seeing Bill
McGinnls showing the ladies a
fancy stitch1 on the Necchi sew
ing machine. I didn't know
Bill was a seamster.
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This week, of course, the big,
colorful, glarrlbrous, bigger
and older brother of the Beth
ware Fair, the Cleveland Coun
ty Fair, is underway. But the
Beth ware Fair was a good sam
ple and a tribute to the many,
many people of the Bethware
Community which * a hand
In it v .
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ME? by Robert Osborn
r ? ? ? - ) ) ji
Mora than 15,000 per* on* were killed and neart y
750,000 hurt in week-end accidents la?t year. Only
YOU can prevent traffic accident*!
Viewpoints of Other Editors
'WATER FIRST.
THEN INDUSTRY'
One thing that will have to be
considered before the campaign
to bring more industries to North
Carolina augments is the present
water supply situation. The pro
longed drought that has lasted
almost all summer has reduced
not a few towns and cities to
sharp regulations in the use of
water. Some of the affected towns
would be in a disastrous plight,
if in addition to ordinary users
they had new and aggressive in
dustries demanding large vol
upies of water. ' ?
The ruinous drought has not
been confined to the great agri
cultural areas of the Piedmont
and Eastern Carolina areas, but
has been equally hard on the
mountain chains where freely
running water has always been
abundant. Even the city of Ashe
ville has had to restrict water
consumption, while the mountain
sides and passes that have always
been damp or wet have been as
dry as old bones.
It seems evident that before
the conservation and development
forces go out after the major in
dustries they must be in a posi
tion to assure those industries of
clean and inexhaustible sources
of water, whether droughts occur
or not.
We need a new and practical
study of the state's water resour
ces in all its various sections, and
then we ought to have a new and
revised water policy. It is plain
that in some spots and areas wa
ter is handled wastefully. So
much is this true that in various
places the water table has sunk
far below old levels and wells,
springs, and even creeks have
dried up that never failed before.
The ww factor that has enter
ed the situation is Industry. Hou
ses and shops and offices can get
along with a moderate supply of
water, but Industry can function
only if it gets unlimited volume.
Some of the towns now hope
fully laying plans to acquire new
industries may .thank their stars
they haven't got them at present,
and may also be thankful that
they will have time to tap hew
water sources before any new
industries arrive. Their slogan
might well be, "Water First. Then
Industry." ? ? Smithfield Herald
LAWYERS GET
MOST JOBS
Lawyers get most of the big po
litical jobs. Alton D. Lennon of
Wilmington, Governor Umstead's
choice for U. S. Senator to' suc
ceed the late Willis Smith, is a
lawyer. Senator Smith was a law
yer. Senator Broughton was a
lawyer and Senator Clyde .R.
ifoney Is a lawyer. Senator Frank
Graham was not a lawyer. There
Is nothing against lawyers as
such, and they take to public life
naturally. A knowledge of the law
certainly is a fine asset for a man
who is going to help make the
country's legislation and sit in It*
highest legislative body. Some of
the members of Congress, some
of the governors, and some of
the presidents, come from pro
fessions other than the law. But
take It as a whole and lawyers
hojd most of the big political jobs.
Kerr Scott was the State's only
non-lawyer governor* In recent
times, and Harry Truman came
up to the presidency without a
lawyer's license. But one's chan
ces of becoming governor or
United, States senator are greatly
enhanced If he Is a lawyer In food
standing, and the same goes for
members of. the political jobs
that are prized most ? Lauri*
burg Exchange v ,
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An adequate supply of home
meats is essential for the well
balanced diet on the North Caro
lina farm.
MINISTERS PREFER TO
BE ADDRESSED AS
"MISTER"'. NOT
"PREACHER"
A.Salisbury minister, speaking
before a civic club in Hickory re
cently, discussed the titles which
are applied to preachers, but,
much to our surprise, he had no
thing to say about the greatly
abused "Reverend".
He said that most ministers
worthy of the name prefer to be
addressed as "Mister", better
known by its abbreviation, "Mr."
Rarely does the leader of a
ilock" like the term, "Preacher",
as a method of greeting address
or introduction. '
In more recent years and a
mong certain denominations, the
title, "Pastor", is being used more
and more, but our Rowan county
friend does not like this title eit
her. However, he did say that
"Pastor" is much to be preferred
over "Preacher".
Since he said nothing about
"Reverend", we suppose that he
took it for granted that everybody
know? that it is absolutely wrong
to greet, address, or Introduce
a minister as "Reverend" Jones.
But in assuming this position, he
erred greatly, for if we are any
judge of the use of various terms,
it seems to us that "Reverend" is
being used more and more, and
unless folks learn better, it will
sooner or later come to be re
garded as correct.
"Reverend" and "Honorable"
are titles of courtesy and re
spect. We would not think of re
ferring to a man as "Honorable"
Jones, and neither should We ad
dress a minister as "Reverend"
Jones. It is quite correct to ad
dress a man as "Honorable" Al
bert' Jones, or "Rev." Henry
Jones, but without the given
name, the use of these title* of
respect are incorrect.
From time to time, you will
see "Rev," Jones In this news
paper, but that does not make it
correct. It simply means that this
lesson in grammar has still not
made any impression on reporters
and proof readers. ? Stanley
New & Preaa.
Carlton Speaker
Aft laycee Meeting
Football Coach Shu Carlton of
Kings Mountain high school dis
cussed prospects for his club at
the regular meeting of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce held at
Masonic diiiing hall Tuesday
night. September 15.
President Paul WaUc*r presided
and some 40 Jaycees were pre
sent. Coaches Carlton, Don Park
er and John Charles were guests
of the club, along with 12 mem
bers of the Jaycee Little League
baseball team.
Herbert Mitchem was welcom
ed as a new member by Grady
Howard of the membership com
mittee and Tommy Owens was a
guest of the club.
Bill Fulton introduced Coach
Carlton, who said that the de
fensive play of the Mountaineers
would improve in coming games
and that the club's passing attack
would also improffc
Members of the Llttl? League
team present were Punch Parker,
Jerry Proctor, Jerry Black, Gene
Gibson. Bill Small, Roger Bollin
ger, Junior Whetstine, Benny
Martin, Dor Giadden/Don Park
er, Sammy Houston and Mike B.
Wart., '"IPP
loco fwifcjp|jr Sail
ender and Arnold Falls were re
cognized.
North Carolina cotton for har
vest this yesr is currently esti
mated at 763,000 acres, 17,000
more acres than harvested in
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