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The Kings Mountain Herald
Established 1889
North Carolina i
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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, pubHshed evecy Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
Entered as Second class matter at the postoffire at Kings Mountain, N, C., under Act
, of Congress of March 3, 1873
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon Edltor-Pul^laher
Charles T. Carpenter, Jr Sports. Circulation, News
Mr a. P. IX Herndon .' Society
Miss Elizabeth Stewart Advertising, News
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
Eugene Matthews Horace Walker David Weathers Ivan Weaver*
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(?Member of Armed Forces) ?
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
If any man have ears to hear, let Mm hear. St. Mark 7:16.
Water Can Be Dear
For some years the Herald has made
the point that the city would have to
spend some more money, in large
amount, on its water plant, before pay
ing off the original indebtedness on the
present plant built in 1929. '
Purpose of the point was two-fold, 1)
to encourage attention of citizens and
their representatives at City Hall to the
water demands of a growing city, and
2) to discourage 40-year financing,
which counts up to an awful pile of in
terest.
At any rate, the need for water plant
expenditure is already with us, as was
forcefully stated by last week's Herald
streamer "CITIZENS ARE ASKED TO
CONSERVE WATER".
Water is a bountiful gift of nature, us
ually available in abundance, until too
many people settle in one particular
spot. Though housewives are prone to
complain about the amounts of their
water bills, and though the amount of
water which can leak out in a month
through a pin-point hole in a pipe is
amazing, water, still, is a very cheap
commodity, and is required hundreds of
times daily for a variety of needs and
tasks. Only when there is some question
of continued supply, or when the chemi
cal purification formula is changed, is
there much discussion about water,
At the moment, the city plant is run
ning three shifts to pump about 900,000
gallons per day. A few weeks ago, the
pumpage was at the peak of the plant's
rated capacity. And watershed capacity,
in seasons with normal rainfall quite
adequate, moves dangerously lower in
droughts such as the area has known
in the past few weeks. Were it early sum
mer, rather than autumn, there would
be real cause for alarm concerning the
city's water supply.
At the same time, there is no guaran
tee that rains will come in great quanti
ty, and the city's conservation. plea was
quite in' order.
Also in order is tho upcoming proposal
to spend a quarter-million dollars to in
crease both purification capacity and
watershed capacity. While it is true that
Foote Mineral Company, a firm with an
interruptible water contract, uses about
one-third of present pumpage, it is also
true that Foote's very livelihood here
depends on water. In turn, the livelihood
of many people depend on whether
Foote gets water. Shutdowns are always
costly and, with operating costs as high
as they are, even moreso today.
Citizens should insure adequate water
supply for the future when they get the
opportunity at a city bond election a few
weeks hence.
Argument is underway on whether to
let the law apply and allow the social
security tax bite to increase on January
1 to four percent, against the prevailing
three percent now nipped out of pay en
velopes the nation over. Due to the great
surplus in the social security fund, and
due to the fact of the government book
keeping practices of putting from the
right pocket to the left pocket, many
people have long opposed the scheduled
increase in rates, which, as originally
designed would eventually bite about
five percent from the pay envelope. In
view of the fact that the social security ?
money is being used, in return for I. O.
U.'s by the government in its regular
operations, it would seem that the oppo
nents of the increase, in the feeling tax
money will have to pay the social securi
ty benefit bill anyway, are arrayed on
the side of light and wisdom.
Currently underway is the American
Legion Auxiliary's membership drive.
The Auxiliary, as an important adjunct
of the American Legion is an organiza
tion devoted to noble ideals and worthy
of the activity of (hose eligible for its
rolls. Since World War II and the Ko
rean War, almost every , woman is eligi
ble.
Atomic Electricity
Announcement last week that the
Atomic Energy Commission is planning
to build an atomic power plant to pro
duce electricity is among the most plea
sant news about the atom yet to be pub
lished in a public history of eight years.
The first the public knew about atom
ic power was in 1945, when atomic
bombs were first used against an enemy.
Since that time, the news on the atom
has been principally devoted to bigger
and smaller -.veapons. While much re
search is being done with the atomic de
rivatives of uranium, and much prospect
is held for its use in treating diseases
and other humane needs, the effort to
convert the atom to mass civilian use
is tfie first large-scale project in this di
rection.
Will atomic power be cheaper than
steam power or electric power? None
knows the answer, but odds are that
atomic electricity will become, in the
course of a few years, an important ad
junct to the nation's economy.
Actually, the announcement was
couched in a blaze of propaganda, with
the angled point plainly stated for world
consumption that the United States ex
pected to be first in the business of tam
ing the atom for the uses of a peaceful
people.
Deeds always speak louder and more
succinctly than words, and that is the
big trouble Russia, who counter-claims
supremacy in the atom race, has.
Primary Road Bonds
Highway Chairman Sandy Graham
said last week his organization needs
$200 million to put the state's primary'
highways, which, he noted, carry 80 per
cent of the traffic, into good shape, and
he added that this amount, obviously
dictated a bond issue.
However, the chairman added, it
wasn't in his mind to suggest it right
now.
Generally speaking, it may be assum
ed that Chairman Graham's remarks are
the opening of a campaign for another
state-wide bond matter which could be
decided in the 1955 General Assembly.
This state has always regarded road
building as good business, since it bor
rowed the first $100 million in road
money under Governor Morrison. Gover
nor Scott's $200 million for rural roads
eliminated the "mud tax", and the extra
penny of gas tax has returned more than 1
enough to retire the bonds and pay the
interest thus far. Of course, there are
some 16 more years before the bonds
will be retired.
Meantime, Governor Umstead has a
tidy surplus of last year's road money
to allocate.
Many argue concerning whether the
trucker, as against the passenger car,
pays his just tolls for use of the high
ways. But if both keep using them and
buying North Carolina gasoline as they
have in the past, the Tar Heel state will
have a goodly sum of road money to ex
pend.
President Eisenhower deserves com
mendation on his loyalty to Secretary
of Agriculture Ezra Benson, coming to
bat for him at a time when the agricul
ture boss is being buffeted about by com
plaints from farmers, farm organization
leaders, and farm-state congressmen.
Only time will tell whether the President
is also to be commended for his political
acumen. If Mr. Benson doesn't come up
with a more suitable answer to the far
mers than he has thus far given, the
President may wish he had tossed him
to the wolves.
Our congratulations to the many
hard workers who made the Kings
Mountain Woman's Club Golden Anni
versary Floral Fair a resounding suc
cess. And a best bow, too, to the individ
uals who captured prizes in the many
competitive divisions.
?? YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events
JL THIS WEEK taken from the 1943 files of the Kings Mountain Herald.
The annual Floral Fair will be
held tomorrow (Friday) at the
Woman's club. Meals are to be
served at noon and in the even
ing.
Kings Mountain's $5,000,000
United War Fund drive will begin
Monday and from all indications
the goal will be reached during
the week set aside for 'be cam
paign, according to Haywood E.
Lynch, general chairman.
Social and Personal
Announcement has been made
of the marriage of Miss Louise
Wallace to Seaman First Class
Ben Hardin in Gaffney. S. C.,
Sunday night.
Miss Salena Parton, bride
elect. was honored at a lovely
party at the home of Miss Mary
Frances Gantt at her home on
Gaston st. last Thursday night. ,
Mrs. W. C. Whisnant of Gra- j
nite Falls is a guest of Mrs. A. A.
Allran this week.
Mrs. I. B. Goforth and Bobby
Goforth were dinner guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Hazel Crenshaw in
Belmont Tuesday night.
Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Jenkins and
son were guests Sunday of Mr.
and Mrs. P. vr on Keeter.
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MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
By Martin Harmon
Ingredient a: bits of news,
wisdom, humor, and comment.
Directions: Take weekly, if
possible, but avoid
overdosage.
Ordinarily today's medicinal
offering would hit the news
columns, but the subject is de
serving of something a little
different from straight news
treatment.
mm
. I refer to Dr, Herbert
Spaugh's appearance at the
Kings Mountain Kiwanis club
| last Thursday night and his
statements of sound advice to
any and all about slowing the
pace of living below the boiler
bursting point.
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Whether Dr. Spaugh's advice
"took" or not, has not been de
termined, but at least more
than a half-hundred Kings
Mountain businessmen let some
steam for 20-odd minutes, for
the speaker kept 'em chuckling
with laughter, all the while get
ting across his non-medicinal
medical advice.
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Dr. Spaugh, who serves up a
smaller portion of advice daily
in his column "Everyday Coun
selor", lists two major causes
of many of the known ailments
which doctors try to cure. One
of them, he says, is "hurryitls".
You cdlild almost hear the Kt
wanians breathe out a chorus
of "amens" on that one. The
next one, he said, is "pressure",
which he defined as "inside
hurry before the outside starts
to move." The two, of course,
are interrelated, and the hurryi
tls causes the pressure.
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' What happens," he continu
ed, Vis that everyone moves on
and on at an ever quicker, fast
er pace. Then the steam valve
sticks or the pressure gets too
great, and something, whatever
the particular person's weak
spot is, gives."
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For some people it may be
weak heart. Others may have
trouble in their feet, their legs,
their back, or in about any
other spot. "All of us,' the doc
tors say, have certain weak
nesses which are usually in
herited. When we go too hard,
the weak spot gives," Dr.
Spaugh continued. He added
that he was a minister not a
medico, but checked his theo
ries frequently with his friends
?f the medical profession.
"They don't argue much," he
adds.
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Dr. Spaugh listed some reme
dies, too, which are both simple
and costless. Generally, it
could be said that the sum-up
would be thought, or attention
to keeping the pressure low.
He suggested kind words at
home, in the office, or at the
shop, an occasional compli
ment, to replace frequent com
plaint. "You'll be surprised," he
predicted, "how easy it is and
what wonders it works." (Since
last Thursday I've given this
matter some thought and at*
tentlon, but that early morning
attitude of nail-biting before
the first cup of coffee is hard
to change, once ingrained.)
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Another relaxing mechanism
suggested by Dr.* Spaugh is
stopping all activity and lying
down Jn the middle of the floor.
"Ie noted that he had written
about this method in a column,
and predlted it with being un
usual and different". "But you'd
be surprised," he added, "how
many people wrote that they
had practiced floorboard relax
ation for years." That method
came from the farm. It used to
be the farmer's brief siesta
after a big Countystyle plow
man's dinner, before he return
ed to the arduous task of an
afternoon of mule- following in
the searing, broiling sun. From
the same springs probably flow
the medical recommendations
to use board-like hard mat
tresses. for most relaxing rest.
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Dr. Spaugh himself Is rather
much of a walking testimony
to his own philosophy. A Mora
vian pastor, with fulltime min
isterial and pastoral duties In
Charlotte, he also has done
mMch . work with Alcoholics
Anonymous. , makes talks like
he did at the Kiwanis Club and.
in addition, dictates a half, i
do/en columns a week for his
string of 40 newspapers. He
admits he practices often his
fViajor theme, "Prayer changes
things".
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Another recommended tool
useful in relaxing Is the five
verse portion of Psalm 103,
which begins "Bless the Lord,
oh, my soul " Dr. Spaugh
says, "Memorize It and repeat It
when you get up In the morn
ing." As a good Psalm-singing
ARP, the Spaugh dictum should
be easy to practice, and I expect
to try it
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I am Indebted to Dr. W. P.
Oerberding for the invitation to
hear Dr. Spaugh, and, after
hearing him, find it quite easy
to recommend his down-to
earth suggestions for preserv
ing human steam plant*.
CROSSWORD ? ? ? By A. C. Gordon
16? Ancient name of the
Spaimh peninsula
17 ? French river (pots.)
20 ? Circle portion
22 ? Girl'* name
23 ? Northern continent
(abhrev.>
2 5 ? Mischievous child
2 7 ? Ancient Chaldeean city
20? Mexico produce* most
of this metal
31 ? Island in the Irish Sea
33 ? City famous for a
kind of cheese
34 ? Destitute of
3 5 ? Sea between Greece
and Italy
36? Anger
37 ? Resort city in the
Bahama Islands
38? To pierce with a sharp
stick
39 ? Left tide of a ship
40? To lose life
45 ? English river ,
46 ? Small U.S. state
(abbrev.)
48 ? Printers' s measure
49 ? Electrified particles
52 ? Chines* unit of
measure
iS? Aerial train
%1 ? Perform
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Viewpoints of Other Editors
ACROSS
1 ? Famous artificial
waterway
6 ? Large European rlvef
{ pos*. >
1 1? On an ocean voyage
1 2 ? -South American city
14 ? Island of the East
Indies
1 5 ? To fit up a ship
1 6 ? Articles
18 ? Debits (abbrev.)
19 ? Natives of an Asiatic
country
21? Weird
24 ? Unrefined metal
26 ? Norn suffix equivalent
to "eer"
28 ? Preposition
30 ? Italian violin city
31 ? Masculine title
32? Latin abbreviation
denoting "that la**
34? One of the world's
continents (abbrev.)
85 ? Watery expanse south
of Asia
38 ? Expanse of land sur
rounded by water
41 ? Measure of area
42 ? Furnish with weapons
43? Indefinite article
44? En tiller*
Globe Trotting
47? Former name of the
: < country of Iran
50 ? Roman numeral
51 ? Moslem religion
53 ? Theoretical, force
54? First-class ((wo words)
56 ? To be indisposed
57? Native of a Scandi
navian country
58? Native Norwegian
( abbrev. )
59 ? Man's nickname
60? The self
61 ? Chemical symbol for
stannum
DOWN
I ?Equality
2 ? A continent
3 ? South American river
4? Automobile AuocU
tion (abbrev.)
5 ? Skill.
6? Italian city
7 ? Internal Belgium
(abVi-v.)
#? The .owr?t point
t ? Oerman river
10? Feminine relative
(coltoq)
t )? Abbreviated Latin
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CURSE OF
NORTH CAROLINA
For a long time ? as many
year/ as the editor has been
plodding from place to place ?
inter-town rivalry in North Caro
lina has pained us. This state
scarcely has a county in which
there are two municipalities
where bickering and petty jeal
ousy are not conspicuous.
The people in such communi
ties are good North Carolinians.
They are neighborly, far-visioned,
and intelligent. That is, until they
deal with their nearest neighbor.
Suddenly, many of their fine
qualities disappear. They become
mean, sometimes bitter. They
shed intelligence, vision and
neighbourliness. They act like kids,
or neurotic old women. Their
communities, small in size, be
come even smaller in spirit.
Small towns are the blessing
of North Carolina. Small townism
is the greatest curse we have and.
the biggest barrier to progress ?
and .we're, not talking about foot
ball rivalry, either.
This has been on our minds but
what provokes the writing of it
is an editorial in the Carteret
County Netos-Timea. It is too long
for full republication, but some
paragraphs should be pasted up
in every city hall and chamber of
commerce office in this state:
"There is a certain widely >held
theory that* in our opinion, needs
to be exploded and abandoned ?
that what helps Beaufort hurts
Morehead City and what helps
Morehead City hurts Beaufort.
There is competition to be sure,
and the competition is good be
cause it keeps everybody working
at their top; but what is involved
here is more than business com
petition.
'The terrible thing about the
world we live in is that we are
all inter-dependent. It would be
perhaps much easier if Beaufort
could go its own way and More
head City Its way, and never the
twain should meet. There are
some in both communities who
seem to feel that this would be
best. Unfortunately, lor these
few, It is utterly impossible.
"Furthermore it is not desira
ble. We must wake up to the fact
that business in both towns draw
from both towns. That instead of
having a business area limited in
its pulling power to one commu
nity, both communities benefit by
drawing customers from each ot
her.
"Instead of being opposed, the
interests of both communities in
many over-riding fields are iden
tical. They could best be served
by a common organization, the
Carteret, County Chamber of
Commerce. We could do le
t
VERY DANGEROUS
TO WHAT OR TO WHOM?
The Young Democrats in con
vention at Raleigh squelched Sel
ma Newspaperman Tom Davis'
resolution condemning secret ses
sions of governmental bodies.
Jesse Helms, administrative as
sistant to Senator Lennon, called
the resolution "very dangerous"
and questioned the propriety oi
its consideration by the Young
Democrats.
Very dangerous to what? Very
dangerous to whom?
Certainly a condemnation of
secrecy in government isn't dan
gerous to democracy, for the very
life of democracy depends on
keeping the people's business in
the open so that voters may know
what their elected representatives
think and to, and upon, this
knowledge may cast ballots in
telligently.
Certainly a condemnation of
secrecy in government isn't dan
gerous to the people generally,
though it may be dangerous to the
political security of office holders
who insist on the right to conduct
the people's business behind clos
ed doors.
And why isn't -it proper for
Young Democrats to consider a
resolution on so vital a matter
as secrecy in government?
If the YDC Is simply an orga
nization to further the selfish po
litical ambitions of its members,
we could accept Mr. Helms' view
that the Davis resolution was not
a proper matter for consideration
by the organization. For consid
eration of the resolution could
put the politically ambitious mem
bers on the spot and serve. In
some instances at least to retard,
not advance, their political ca
reers..
But if the YDC is an organiza
tion designed to promote the
principles of the Democratic par
ty, it could properly be concerned
over the growing tendency of
public business in the dark. For
the great principles championed
by the Democratic party from its
beginning are based on a firm
belief In the ability of the people
to govern themselves when they
are informed about the workings
of government and are familiar
with the opinions and the actions
of their representatives in public
places.
When Democrats, young and
old, cease to be deeply interested
In the struggle against secrecy In
government, their party .will
cease to be worthy of the peo
ple's trust ? SmUhfield Herald
than learn from the example set
by the Dare County Tourist Bu
reau." ? ThU State.
THAT "SMART LOOK"
This family's got it! They look smart
because they ARE smart . . . and one
of the smartest things they do is to
send all their clothes to us for our
thorough, but-oh-so-gentle dry clea
ning . . . which always brings back
that like-new snap and sparklet
WEAVER'S CLEANEBS
Phone 910 ? 310 N. Piedmont Ave.
Veterans, Or Non- Veterans
I qm building some homes on Rhodes
Avenue. Small down payments and
these payments cheaper than rent. Fi
nancing down payment easy, quick.
simple. Your equity in auto, vacant lot
?
other property, or what do you have?
E. T. Plott, Builder
Yoik Rd. Phone S74
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