The Kings MoantaJn 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 Mouatain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the po*toffi?e at Kings Mountain, N. G? under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor- Publisher Charles 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) 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 , , I Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither bo partaker of other men's sins.- keep thyself pure. 1 Timo thy 5:tt. -"'""V : Let's Buy Knowledge To put it mildJy, Mayor Glee A. Brid ges' pronouncements about the spend ing of portions of the $600, (XX) bond money voted on January 16, did not sound too good, and may have had some people regretting, in retrospect, that they supported the bond issue elections. Particularly distressing was the state ment concerning the employment of a salaried engineer to supervise the work. The indication here is that the city will have a glorified foreman handling the work, and not a licensed, responsible engineer. W. K. Dickson who supplied the estimates for the recent bond issues, may not be the desired expert but he has already collected $2,200 off ihe city for engineering work, and that amount is a big down-payment on the percen tage fee his original contract stipulates. Mr. Dickson has done a great amount of public works, and our guess would be that he is competent. The same situation exists with respect to Recreation Engineer Charles Graves, of Atlanta. Some people in this community have never n&fl much respect for experience and education. They feel they can do a Job better and cheaper themselves, and their patchwork results have been no boon to the welfare of the community nor the public treasury. The Mayor's plea concerning employ ing local labor is good vote-getting talk, but there is no reason to assume that private contractors, knowledgeable in the field of big construction, can't nor won't employ local folk. Last year it was quite hard for Char les E. Wilson, now Secretary of Defense, to understand the. impropriety of own ing stock in General Motors Corporation and still doing business with General Motors. Now, it appears, we have a compara ble small-scale situation here. The city administration could pull off its project- ? ed purchase of the Lynch-Cox-Granth am private club much easier if Commis sioner Grantham were not a party to the ownership. Our understanding is that this private lake now represents a total investment of not more than $7, (XX). In deed, the increase of the supply of water in this manner may be quite in order, but, like Mr. Wilson and his General Motors stock, it just doesn't look good. The really important matter, though, is competent supervision o t spending of the bond money, via contracts to low bidders. It is now possible to buy stocks on the installment plan, just as it is possible to buy refrigerators, television sets, auto mobiles, homes, or anything else. The stock brokers, squeezed between rising costs and lower volume of sales, hope their installment plan will increase their profits and will also provide a great res ervoir of cash for the expansion of American business. Undoubtedly, the monthly or quarterly stock investment plan will have much appeal for many people, including those who lack the nerve to "plunge" with the more conven tional purchases in 100-share lots. The United States Public Health Ser vice representative told Grady Howard, the hospital manager, last week, that the over-riding consideration on adding beds to Kings Mountain hospital should be the need for beds, and he tended to poor-pool, as irrelevant objections voic ed in some quarters on grounds of re quired increase of operating room facili ties, kitchen, and other allied quarters. The inspectors found the hospital not only full ol patients but over-full. If the state officials take the same attitude, then it would appear that further hos pital expansion here is quite possible. School Space Needs On Monday, the county board of com missioners is going to be asked to offer a county-wide bond issue election of $2, 500,000 for school construction funds. The amount is about all the school boards of the three county districts think they can ask as the present time, if not all that they need. Kings Mountain's part would be 12.04 percent (the percentage of Kings Moun tain district school pupils in the coun ty) or $301,000. That amount is insuffi cient, but it would be a great help. According to the school folk, the county tax rate would have to be in creased 24 cents per $100 valuation to take care of the principal payments and interest charges, based on the county's present taxable valuation of $82 mil lions. Some think it is a bad time to be up pi ng tax bilJf, and, of course, there are many who feel there is never a good time. They may be right, but the facts of crowded classrooms are staring the peo ple in the face. One way to handle the problem would De to put SCftOOl opera tions on a two-shift basis, but the only time such a method has been used is during a real emergency, such as occur-* red here in 1932 when the Central plant burned. Our guess is that the parents would rather pay a bigger tax bill for ex panded plants. Ike's First Budget President Eisenhower has presented his first budget, at least his first from the standpoint of having sole responsi bility for it. Last year, just in office, the President presented his quickie version of Harry Truman's budget. Of the huge total of $65.8 billions for 1954-55, two dollars of every three is earmarked for national security, includ ing planes, guns, atomic weapons, ships, shells, and servicemen's pay. The other biggest lick is for interest, 10-plus cents of each dollar going to pay interest on a menagerie of government obligations, including the familiar "E" bond almost everyone has held at some time during the past dozen years. Generally, President Ike is being cred ited with presenting a "tight" budget. Certainly it is a reversal of the trend which found each succeeding budget bigger. If there is any particular "fat" in the budget, the North Carolina Congression al delegation would have us believe it is in foreign aid, which is becoming a very popular whipping boy indeed. If other Congressmen feel the same *ay, then President Eisenhower's budget ? which allows for another $2.9 billion in red ink ? might wind up balanced. The language of the North Carolina Utilities Commission order granting a certificate of convenience and necessi ty to the City of Kings Mountain fbr dis tributing natural gas was definitely "reluctant." The commission, most ob viously, favored Public Service Compa ny of -North Carolina, a private utility, but was confronted with the refusal of the city to grant Public Service a fran chise and with the tentative allotment of natural gas to the city by the Federal Power Commission. While some citizens declined to get particularly excited a bout the matter, it does seem logical for the city, already in the utilities business with its water and power distribution, to distribute the additional, and in some measures competitive, utility tural ?as. The certificate should ease culatjon policy breeds extreme waste In the billing department and disrespect for the publcia tion. It does help to forget. as*m Cigarette sales aren't doing too well these days, due the dire medical implications, the Increase in cigar purchases, or somfe reason, but it reminds of a comment I ran across recent ly, which may or may not be true: "If you see a package of chewing tobacco In a man's back pocket you can be pretty sure that he's free from sto mach trouble and ulcers; for hat reason yoa may fenvy him." And from the same source, "Next to being young and pretty, the best bet is to be old and rich." m-as ' , Pick-ups: Friday night's snow was the first In somfe sea sons to hang around long enough to see it. and really accommodating 19^|||U school youngsters, coming on a Friday night, and being ready for a tree Saturday. . . . city's new street signs look pretty good, slble to And one's way about the community .big man boxfea being posted around in dicate that the expanded dtf carrier Mrvto* la Just around the corner...... S CROSSWORD By A . C. Gordon Viewpoints of Other Editors > ACROSS 1 ? Ancient Rmiu i port in j arena ? ? Action oi th? roulette wheal. 10 ? Outoui element ? 1 J? To atorm 16? Tikn la ? popu lar indoor "eport" If ? Parlor poaint came 11 ? Compaq direction 12 ? In the neighborhood i*-&y ? _atcher of lamprera 26? Latin "and" 11? educational Canto ta (abb.) H ? Abbreviated apart 31 ? Rate epoetin 33? Partook in ? i IS? United India (abb.) ?7? Bncliah title (abb.) 58 ? Previoua (toot) to ? Daaerlptl?a of m ?s The Sporting Side *S ? Proaecutfai* officer of a diatrtct (atvb.) a? Th* Want Ad SK?oa For L^Vm (mbb > Completed runto TH PoSP?St: NO haven FOR SWEATSHOPS cJthe ^?AIdfent ot the New York j State CIO Council and those Southern industrialists who don't ? ?hoineW indU8tries established n their communities have some thing in common. They are in o feCsLSi^ngthe.nl"? the position n P ^dustry in the South. But not only that, They TIIM. * stand against sS 1U'M'K aiaiiUaida in the South generally. livings to the sLm Zk fhl ^7VL8Weat8hop industries in the Southern states. But the real SSuSTSS ta our Jrom sweatshop status unde^an taCTeasingly enlightened leader riiip. Burlington Mills, which has fi^M f n wonders with its Smith. SSiSSr^1? a prime example of enlightened leadership in Sou Ss'SP' T?? once back ^f0?Lf^th 18 coming of age. In Rm nniy6 f8 wel1 as otherwise, o? way to retard our h,^^?SS 011(1 glve sweatshop in dustry a new lease on life is to keep new industries from coming Hurti^6^ .h' We need more in dustry to give employment to displaced farm workters. A large SSfiSTl. plUs sweatshop wage scales adds up to an econo mic drag that Is felt in te?, of a lower living standard by every the Sh?r Profe??ionai i*an S fnr or.by GVery Southerner for that matter. H York 010 official un derstandably is worried by the J North^? %,*dUMtry 0114 of th6 Northeast Every time a factory worker^ Jl ??* ?Dd move* on workers are thrown out of em ?SEnfndh d,,flcUlt gnomic have to. ** ma