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The Kings Mountain Herald Established 1889 \ 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 postoffW at Kings Mountain, N. C., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmen Editor- Publisher Charle/j T. Carpenter, Jr. Sports, Circulation. News Miss Elizabeth Stewart Society MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Horace Walker David Weathers Ivan Weaver* Charles Miller Paul Jackson (?Member of Armed Forces) 7 TELEPHONE NUMBERS ? 167 or 283 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR? $250 SIX MONTHS? 51.40 THREE MONTHS? 73c BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VBRSE When the wicked are multiplied, (rannyression increase th: but the righteous shall see tfceir fall. Pro verbs t9:16. By-Pass Questions It is almost too early to comment on the initial steps toward re-routing U. S. Highway 74 through Kings Mountain, for the highway department, as Engi neer L. B. Peck says, is merely getting information. Remembering the many, many surveys made over the years on the U. S. Highway 29 by-pass, only now about to be implemented, it can be as sumed that any U. S. Highway 74 change is some seasons away. At the moment, the highway depart ment is aiming at a March contract-let ting date on U. S. Highway 29, and some citizens, who recognized the need and were quick to agree to this by-pass, are not too sure about U. S. 74. . They prefer to see the effects of the U. S. 29 by-pass on Kings Mountain commerce, before re routing of U. S. 74. Principally, these in clude business establishments now lo cated on King street, many of which are heavily geared to handle transient traf fic. Some citizens question the wisdom of re-routing through the city limits, re jecting the thesis that such a re-routing would be^a by-pass. Like-Gastonia, Kings Mountain would get for less-than-nor mal cost a widely paved city street. How over, the Franklin avenue job is hardly a monument to the wisdom of the high way department in expending its funds. Some Gastonians hardly let the Frank lin avenue cement dry before they start ed tub-thumping for a by-pass. On the other hand, if car ownership and traffic increases during the. forth coming decade as it has in the past ten years, the city will need three or four crosstown streets and maybe a few ele vated ones, too, to keep autos off each other's fenders. Grady W. King The death last Thursday of Grady William King removed from the com mtinity an interesting personality who rendered great and good service to Kings Mountain over a long period of years. As one of the organizers and lifetime chief of the city's volunteer fire depart ment, he had major responsibility for assuring for theYlty excellent fire pro tection at very low cost. The fire-fight ing business was not only ;i business to Chief King, hut like golf to the golfer, an enjoyable recreation. He took great pride in this work and the accomplish ments of the department in holding the city's rrrmual fire loss to unusually low figures. A man of strong opinions', yet singu larly fair-minded, Mr. King wa** a me chanical magician without peer, an able diagnostian of mechanical ills who made a policy of guaranteeing his work, a po licy sometimes not to be found in the service establishment field. He was a great friend to this news paper and many times, when trouble hit, it was his willing response to the emer gency signal ? at any time, day or night ? that meant the difference between subscribers getting their paper on sche dule and getting them late. As the Herald's business neighbor, machinery and moving expert and per sonal friend, Grady King will be missed greatly. Our sympathies go to his family. The lesson of small savings building many dollars always bears repeating, and the annual reports of dividend pay ments to shareholders of the city's two building and loan associations always serves as an attention-calling reminder. Parents who instill in their children the saving habit need not fear for their fi nancial future. Small, regular savings mount to large totals with amazing ra pidity. Capitol Feuding Starts Congress reconvenes and the feuding begins in earnest. The casual observer from other nations might get the idea that the Russian leaders are not the only ones Americans dislike. They also dis like each other, if the reported Wash ington arguments are any criterion. President Eisenhower, finding the honeymoon not only over with Demo crats, but with many elements of his own Republican party, faces the prin cipal crisis of his term of office. Will he be a man or a mouse, a leader or an un willing follower? Most Americans, outside the rankest partisans, hope the President comes through all right. It is not uncommon for the motives and desires of the Pre sident to be higher than the men of the Congress. The majority of the people elected him as their leader and they want his program to be effected. With an election year looming for 435 Representatives and one-third the Sen ators, his work appears cut out for him. The almightly vote will be of para mount importance in^ this _yeaj?s Con gressional session, and the tendency will" be to spend more, tax less, pork barrell here, appropriate there. It has ever been the same and the fact of the nation's governmental success, in spite of the frequent election jousting, remains an unsolved mystery. The "rush" of citizens to register for the January 16 city bond issue election indicates that many people have a very indifferent attitude about the whole business! They don't seem to care, one way or another, whether the improve ments are approved or disapproved. Those who need improvements should not carp, later on, if they are faced with the "no money" sign when seeking aid. Conversely , there should not be any carping from opponents when they get larger tax bills reflecting their shares of the improvements cost. The indiffier once of citizenship to the more impor tant issues ? as opposed to glamorous personality political battles ? is a mon ument to emotion, rather than to clear judgment. Kings Mountain's annual March of Dimes campaign begins next week and the goal of $5,000 is not too much to ask for this worthy purpose. Funds given in past campaigns have been used for most wonderful work in rehabilitating maim ed victims of infantile paralysis. Other funds given through the March of Dimes have been used in research in an effort to isolate the virus or germ causing the disease and to develope a preyentive vaccine. This research appears to be paying off. Further mass tests are pro jected for 1954 to determine whether the blood derivative, gamma globulin, is an effective vaccine against polio. If it is, everyone who has ever given to the March of Dimes can feel good inside, s id can also assume that, eventually, the ap peal for fighting infantile paralysis will diminish in size. Contributing to the March of Dimes is good business in all directions. Tax listing time is here and smart citizens will attend to this chore at once. The same goes for other annual Janu ary jobs, including buying state and city auto licenses, required hy February 1. And another matter is important, too, the paying of 1953 tax bills. January is the last "par" month on paying last year's city and county property taxes. Taxes are hard enough to pay at any time, yet some people consistently prac tice late-paying and have to doff off ex tra penalties, too. ^"V YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events X v THIS WEEK taken from the 1943 files ot the Kings Mountain Herald. Annual listing of property, both real and personal, is now under way In Kings Mountain and Cleveland County. J. B. Ellis of Orover is County Lister for Num ber Four Township and Judge O. C. OFarrell is list taker for the City of Kings Mountain. W. K. Crook was installed as Worshipful Master of Fairvlew Lodge No. 339 at the regular meeting Monday ,;lght in the lodge hall. Past Master John H.I Floyd conducted the installation service. Social And Pergonal I Mrs. J. A. Cheshire, Jr., who la visiting her parents here, was guest of honor at a party given by Miss Eoline Keeter and Miss Jo Keteter at their home last Wed nesday afternoon. Mrs. Vernon P. Crosby of Wash ington, D. C.r and Miss Doris White of Coker College spent the holidays with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn White. Pfc. and Mrs. Lewis F. HSlr of Jackson, Miss., are visiting Mrs. B. O. Weaver. Pfc. and Mrs. Hair are former residents of Kings Mountain. Pfc. John H. Moss, who is sta tioned at Island Heights, N. J, Is visiting relatives at home here. US ? MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Harmon Ingredient*: bite of news, wisdom, humor, and comment. Direction*: Take weekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage. The sands of time arte racing fast on 1954 and, quite momen tarily, the young one many of Us welcomed last Thursday evening will be out of the dia per stage and into swim trunks, at least. By now the holiday spirit (and spirits) will have eva porated and otherwiste gone the way of all holiday tinsel and all will have settled down into the familiar pattern, which, I am reminded more and more each year, is a wonderful pro position in itself. Talking to a veteran school teacher thfe oth er day, I was -not particularly surprised when she remarked on the wonders of working for a living. Work is the balance wheel that keeps the human watch ticking along as it should. Give a pterson too much leisure and he's unhappy, even more than if the workplle is overloaded. He is sickly and tired and has chronic head aches. The trouble: he has too much time to think about him self. I havte come to welcome "blue Monday" over the years, and find Sundays a hard day, due principally to Insufficient exercise and concurrent accent on food intake. Of course, there are exceptions to the work rulfe, for some seem to laze away the years with the ease of a track star taking the hur dles. And the Sunday golf widows know their husbands have no trouble with once-a week stuffiness. But most folk fall in the glad-to-see-Monday category. It's bteen ten years since I had any extended pe riod of feisure time, and bore dom is the princiDal memory. But C. B. Markham, Duke university's fine treasurer and father of Mrs. Tolly Shuford is the smartest Sunday navigator I know. He is a seven-day-per week eornbread and cabbage eater and, no matter who visits the Markham menage nor how tempting th^ - delicacies,, Mr. Markham is sferved eornbread and cabbage. No more stuffy Sundays for him, he reports, nor blue Mondays either. m-m It was good to get the Christ mas - New Year season com pleted. m-m Hal Boyle, the present-day Ernie Pyle, is one of my fa vorite columnists and I was much impressed with his New Ytear's Day piece of last week, whten he quoted some of the famous resolutions from fa mous people and famous Works. Many people would benefit by practicing Swift's resolve: "A man should never be ashamed to own he has bfeen in the wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser to day than he was yesterday." m-m But the quotation which is tragically applicable to many people? Including some young er generation folk who did not enjoy the educational benefits of the Great Depression ? is Seneca's "When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind." m-m The books have closed on an Interesting, If troublesome ytear, and the new one should match it, or exceed it, in many diife-. rent ways. For example, color T V most likely will be showing up in the homes of" Kings Mountain folk by year's fend, and, when mass production gets underway, the price should be pared to put color T-V, like it? black-and-white parent, within reach of almost everyone, from the wealthy to the welfare pen sioner. I am not being facetious about the latter. Time Maga zine reports that Chicago citi zens own more T-V sets than bathtubs. m-m Pefuonally, I would take the tub beforte the T-V set, but It merely goes to show tit- it peo ple are different. Anent previous pieces about cigarette smoking addictioA, it is a pleasure to add the follow ing dictum on th* subject of surcease from F. H. Jeter, edi tor for the State College fix tension service, which comes by way of the Franklin Pre**. Someone, learning Frank had stopped smoking some )*&*: ago, asked him If he had taper ed off. "No," Mr. Jeter prompt ly replied. "I found out a long time ago that the only way to cut * pig's tall off was to cut It off. Jf you try to cut a. pig's tail off a little at a time, you have a sore tall and a squealing pig on your hands for the rest of your Ufe." I CROSSWORD * * l ? ii. i ii i ? By A. C. Gordon] Hlttory't Page* K-hM4(?UM?ito ?*? il II ? Oreatmt lt*m oi cban?t 34 ? Pi . j!iiiiwj ?<iMw i*?r, >1 C<?H?M diwctioB ca li ? Aoclot Roman port IT? tg ?0? thZh tor T ? ??? ?i ? <?bb.) ii? a! *1 ? BirthpUc* ol Shale*- 31? Sc ACROSS 1? Wan ?nao?*4 to 4m N*. 41 Down ?? Britlah naval hero 11 ? Seen* et famous Amfi can naval I 4 To'portnuS t"meo 1 1? Ofllctf oi th? Owj : at (abb.) 1?? Antricaa i?? !r "rwi?bi <abb.) Viewpoints of Other Editors NEW USES FOR BUTTER Thte Agriculture department, which has some 250 million pounds of butter tucked away In its ice boxes, is seeking new uses for this surplus and the latest idea is to sell it as a substitute for -cocoa butter.?* . ? ???' Cocoa butter is made from the cocoa bean, the supply of which, it steems, is not quite large enough to satisfy the candy and cookie makers of the world. So the Agriculture department plan ners want to experiment with di luting the cocoa butter with cow's butter In order to simultane ously rellevte the shortage of co coa butter and the surplus of cow's butter. Cocoa butter consumption at present is between twenty-five and thirty million pounds a year, in the U, S, If the confectionary makers woultf dilute it half-and half this would use up about fif teen million pounds of cow's but ter a year. The Agriculture de partment could dispose of its sur plus In a little over fifteen years if it could just figure out some way not to add any more to the surplus during that time. Frankly, we don't know what will come of this plan or what difference a little cow's butter will make in a chocolate drop. But we certainly sympathize with the idea of developing new uses for cow's butter. Possibly one new use for but ter would be as a substitute for margarine. Today's children don't know much about butter but years ago we used to eat it all the time, and perhaps with a little educational campaign children could be persuaded to spread It on bread. Also, housewives might use it in cooking: it adds a novtel flavor to vegetables. We advance the suggestion timorously. But it does have one advantage over the cocoa butter scheme. It would both use up the surplus and stop a further sur plus because tt isn't necessary to mix the butter with margarine. Many people would be willing to eat cow's butter straight. ? Wall Street Journal SOMEWHAT PARADOXICAL On another page there is a dis cussion of the Increase in Em ployment Security Taxes which many businessmen found them selves facing for the coming year. This Increase comes at n time when business and industrv have completed a year of high employment and comparatively little drain on the reserve funds for benefit navments to those cov ered by this insurance. Responsibility *for this seeming MMdox Is the unprece^ntetf jj*? crease in wages by JYorth Caro lina employers di?r|ne the year ending last June 90. which is the bas* pxjw mt flu computation of the employment taxes for tftte coming year. This almormal In crease in Wages paid by concerns covered by the employment se curity laws threw the reserve fund for all covered concerns out of ratio to twrnw# consequently, a lareer reeer*** had to jfcfc built >ip to moot the fe*a1 reouire**>*n??. !? ?* H-neve-* thN la a temoo^rv ?ftu*Hnn that will *61ust l?*" v**e, teouM* can be an amend ment bv the i iiojfll session of th? Oener-al Aaae?*?Wv which win vent the re<~"r*>enee of *hU slt"? t*wi in the future ? Ws Yh* Pmo. HHSlliSKL ? Enjoy rtlltf from awolUa, Mac W?ti, arthrMa, rtui?tlon. latter IiiiImio %r ?? cal?ta ? or m ?* ?? rtm for trying (M? praaeriptloa rrnula oallod Maa*to-AM, wtdohr oaad THE LOCAL PAPER LEADS In the comparatively recent past, the local newspaper was about the only place where mer chants could advertise their wares. Since thten, other impor tant media have come into exls tence ? notably the radio and television. But, despite' the in roads these have made on retail er's advertising budgets, the newspaper is still the dominant factor in the field by a wide mar gin.. That statement is substantiated by a recent survey of the adver tising practices of department stores in all sections of thte coun try. It found that the typical store allocated 80 per cent of the advertising dollar to newspapers, nine per cent to televsion, four per cent u, radio, three pfer cent to direct mall, and four per cent to other media. The local newsn^oer offers the surest means of reaching the masses of the people ? whether with news story or an editorial opinion or an advertising mes sage. And that's why merchants place it first when dividing up their advertising appropriations. Incidentally, one^ wonders if there are still people who rfecrard advertising, as a waste which adds unnecessarily to the cost of goods. Actually advertising acts as a possible factor In holding prices down by creating the wid est possible demand for mer chants, and thus making mass production and mass distribution possible. ? Lincoln Times. The nation's railroads have an investment of almost twice as much capital pter employee as the nation's manufacturing indus tries. The average railroad in vestment after allowance for de predation amounts to $21,410 per employe, compared with the na tional average of $12,500 per em ployee for manufacturing com panies. . * . . stfjiSCRIBB TO Veterans, Or Non-Veterans K am 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 onto, vacant kit ? ? ? other property, or what do yon have? E. T. Plott | Builder ToifcBd. Phone 874 o-s-tfn IN trouble, faced with the loss of your home and every thing In It ... . That's a time when you don't want to have questions about your insurance protection. You want to know that your In surance U dependable . . . know that your Agent has given your insurance the constant attention that makes for ade quate, up-to-date protection. When your insurance affairs are in our bands, you ABE ready for trouble. If disaster strikes and you need a helpful friend in a hurry . . . you can be sure you've got one I . C. E. WARLICK INSURANCE AGENCY 203 West Mountain St ? Kings Mountain, N. C. Phone: 9 ? like having ? insurance service. 1954 JANUARY 1954 Along about now Southern Bell folks like to look back a the year's record of telephone growth, and ahead toward our job of providing more and better service for North Carolina. More than 25,000 new tttapbooes were added making a total of about 400,000 in the state. Over $21,000,000 were ?pent in providing cable, central office and other equipment to imps ore and expand the service. Wherever you look, North Carolina k moving ab*ad. This means another Iwqr year for us ? building to meet ' continuing telephone needs. To get investors to supply the money to < tinue expending sod improving telephone t k? requires a fair profit on the money ahs
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