A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
? tor 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 postoffice at Kings Mountain, N. C., under Act
? of Congress of March 3, 1873
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
And into whatsoever home yo enter , first say, Peace be to this house. St. Luke 10:5.
Real Needs
The county will vote soon on some
highly important matters important to.
its present and future welfare.
The Indicated date is June 12 for the
citizens' decision on borrowing $2,500,
000 to build schools, $220,000 to build
hospital additions here and at Shelby,
and $30,000 to build a county health cen
ter. In the matter of the hospitals and
health center, the construction is an es
pecial bargain, since state and federal
overnment supplements will supply a
out two-thirds the total construction
f cost. .
In addition, the citizens will say "yes"
or "no" on gpping the allowable tax for
hospital operations from five to eight
cents per $100 valuation. For the year
ending June 30, the hospital levy is 3.75
cents.
Persons familiar at all with the prob
lems of school population are aware of
the great need for additional class
rooms and indeed, of the inadequacy
even, of the $2,500,000 bond issue. Of the
total, about $300,000 would go to the
Kings Mountain school district, with
other Kings Mountain area schools in
the county systerrt, at Grover, Bethware
and Park Grace, also receiving needed
sums.
The hospitals both here and at Shelby
find their facilities greatly over-taxed
at peak periods. Kings Mountain hospi
tal, for instance, had a half-hundred pa
tients on Saturday night and had to park
many of them in the hallways, for only
36 beds are normally available. And a
Kings Mountain physician familiar with
stork operations said the over-crowded
situation would continue throughout
. April.
The health center proposal has less
popular support, but, with the county
now renting quarters. for this purpose, it
would seem a good business proposition
to build a health plant, particularly
since funds from other agencies will
bear the greater portion of the cost.
The foregoing covers the situation as
it exists today, without any population
projections into the future. With normal
growth the necessity for handling these
two major functions of government with
present plants ? education and medical
? care ? loom more and more difficult.
It appears that the matter of arrang
ing a date for the election, in view of the
proximity of the May 29 primary and
the possibility of a second primary on
June 26, is difficult and school folk un
doubtedly would have preferred to have
schools in session when the voting takes
)lace. But Cleveland County, customari
y conservative, has also a record of be
ng conservatively progressive, and it is
ikely that Cleveland citizens will con
tinue this record by voting favorably on
these questions when voting day arrives.
The needs are not enshrounded be
hind a dark glass but protrude at almost
every nook and corner.
A cordial best bow to Rev. P. D. Pat
rick who has been re-elected to his 15th
term as. chairman of the inter-denomi
national Bible-in-the-Schools commit
tee. The- task of getting up the money to
run this program is not as easy as it
ought to be, and Mr. Patrick's willing
ness to continue in the position of top
responsibility is a credit to him.
If the slashes on the excise taxes have
the effect expected by many, the federal
government's tax take will be little im
paired, due to increased sales of many
of the items. Furriers, for instance, are
expecting a boom, and it is easy to see
what ten percent off the jeweler's wed
ding set might do for the marrying busi
ness. Maids are probably lucky it isn't
Leap Year.
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When We Boy
Two statements, both seemingly true
in themselves, form a paradox. One is:
you can't argue with statistics. The oth
er: you can prove anything with figures.
Usually, however, it is possible to
draw from figures certain conclusions
which are close to the truth. Thus, the
recent compilation of figures on retail
trade in North Carolina by the North
Carolina Research Institute are interest
ing. '
The figures for the year ending last
June 30 show that retail sales for the
year totaled slightly more than three
billion or a per capita average of $753.49
for each man, woman, and child.
Cleveland County, with $38 million in
retail sales ranked 41st among the 100
counties in sales per capita at $598.62
and considerably below the state aver
age, not to mention the average for lead
ing Mecklenburg at $1,495.44.
It is reasonable to assuihe that Meck
lenburgers may have lived somewhat
better, worldly-wise, than Clevelanders,
but hardly that much. Part of the dis
parity might be attributed to a higher
cost of living in Charlotte, particularly
for housing.
But a bigger reason for Mecklenburg's
big total would be the sales racked up
by Charlotte stores to residents of the
surrounding area, including a big bulge
of Upper South Carolina. Then, too,
Charlotte is an oasis in an otherwise al
coholic desert stretching from Salisbury
to Asheville.
The figures tend to remind that traf
fic is still important in boosting sales.
They also remind that local folk, when
they don't trade at home, contribute tp
the welfare of others to the detriment
of themselves.
Excellent Report
Commendations are in order . to a
great many individuals and groups for
the very, very excellent and unusual fi
nancial report compiled by Kings Moun
tain hospital in the year ending Decem
ber 31.
The report was unusual because hos
pitals, as a general rule, are a money
losing operation. Operating the new
teaching hospital at Chapel Hill cost
the taxpayer-! almost a million dollars
last year, and almost all hospitals return
red ink figures in more or less degree.
Further tribute is due those responsi
ble for the good report of Kings Moun
tain hospital because it is a small 36
bed plant. As recently reported in this
newspaper, officials of the North Caro
lina Medical Care commission could
hardly believe their own eyes when they
found a plant of less than 50 beds mak
ing ends meet.
Major credit must accrue to Business
Manager Grady Howard, on the one
hand, for running a "taut ship", as mari
ner's say, and, secondly, to the major
segment of Kings Mountain industry
which makes hospital insurance avail
able to employees either cost-free, or at
a very reasonable bargain rate.
Partial credit certainly de'volves on
the Kings Mountain medical corps. Part
of the financial troubles of some hospi
tals would be relieved if the medichi
staff were less profligate with hospital
properties and space.
And much credit is also due to the ma- ?
jority of the more than 1,690 patients
and their families who patronized the
hospital, then paid for the services ren
dered.
Lastly creditable, are the hospital
trustees, who chart the course of opera
tions, set the policies, and are charged
with the responsibility of the operation.
Good efforts are usually productive
and they have been in this instance.
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TEARS AGO Items of nnri about King* Mountain area people and iftnU
THIS WEEK taken from the 1944 files Of the Sings Mountain Herald.
Ten candidates have filed with
W. L. Angel, chairman of the
Cleveland County Board of Elec
tions, indicating officially their
Intention of entering the Demo
cratic primary on May 27.
Dr. C. C. Warren, pastor of
First Baptist church of Charlotte,
will address members of the Kl
wanis club at their meeting this
evening at 7 o'clock at the Wo
man's club.
Social And Personal
Thte Fine Arts Department of
the Woman's club Will meet next
Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock at
the home of Mrs. W. M. Gantt
Vernon Lee Owensby celebrat
ed his 10th birthday anniversary
Monday evening and was honor
ed at his homte at a party.
Mrs. Humes Houston of Wino
na, Miss., Is visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Suber.
Miss Peggy Baker, student at
Greensboro college, was a recent
visitor at her home here.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
By Martin Harmon
I ngredientt : bits of nexna,
unsdom, humor, and comment.
Direction*: Take t oeekly, if
possible, but avoid
overdosage. '
If this colu..in still carried a
title I would name It "April
comments", or something gen
eral like that. However, today's
situation is precisely thte reason
the title plan was dropped. At
least four or five times a year
it doesn't suit to develope a 'lone
theme, and many times the situ
ation occurs in spring.
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m-m
Needfcss to say, the birdshot
situation is closely connected
with spring fever and failure
to take sufficient sulphur-and
'lasses, a project I ceased as
quickly as growing pains ended,
but which may have been ef
ficlacious nevertheless. I
haven't asked the medicoes, but
I wonder if the old sulphur-and
'lasses business wasn't a worthy
grandpappy of the little white
sulphur pills they prescribe
these days.
m-m
Spring seemed finally to ar
rlvte over the past weekend, but
it came too late. The oil man
had to be summoned to both
toil spot and domicile in the
last week of March, which
means I've got more fuel inven
tory than I like to carry
through the summer months.
Thus far, I've been ablte to elude
the coal man, but the bin Is get
ting low.
m-m
It's quite pleasant to see the
baseball box scores reappear
ing in the newspapers around,
and in the Herald as wtell. Foot
ball is great and basketball
fine, but baseball's the best of
all.
m-m
Another sign of spring was
the appearance of the riding de
vices here last week, a sore sub
ject with Amos Dean, the Bulck
dealer, who went to work one
morning and found a merry
mixup blocking his back door.
The city board, Incidentally,
edicted against ln-clty rides last
Thursday night, but the young
folk were giving 'em a pretty
good play. Actually, appearance
of the riding troupe must have
sfeemed like old times to many
folk, for that lot was onetime
frequently used for visiting car
nivals. I remember two in par
ticular. One featured riding de
vices, and I spent every dime I
could get on the merry-go-round
imitating Ken Maynard, Hoot
Gibson and cowboy heroes of
the era. Changing mechanical
gallopers while the merry-go
round was moving was rarte
good sport.
m-m
Another visitor was a medi
cine show which held forth for
several nights and relieved
many a man with the proverbi
al brick in his stomach of
shiny green dollars for thte
black elixir that was guaran
teed to cure everything from
chilbains to backache. The
darkfaced minstrel men were
pretty good, but I didn't have
the money to buy the felixir.
That was in the late twenties
when Jack Dempsey, then Gene
Tunney, was heavyweight box
ing champion, and when men's
wallets wert> much bigger than
they arc now, to accommodate
the much bigger bills of that
era. Today's greenback is a
midget compared to the old one.
m-m
Springtime is driving time.
Car sales boom and highways
get clogged as fetet begin to
itch and the desire to move,
Just anywhere, becomes impos
sible to resist One of these days
U. S. 29 is going to be a very
fine highway, though therte is
a very bad stretch ? soon to
be eliminated ? between Kan
napolis and Salisbury. If possi
ble, it is now worse than the old
strip betweeiv here and Gas
tonia, prior- to the added lante.
Many people are already using
the new stretch of highway
from Grover to Lyman, S. C.,
?ven though the signs at Grover
clearly Indicate "stay out". But
there are no such signs at the a
Lyman fend.
' m-m
April notes: George H. Mau
ney has a city block-size tract
at the East Kings Mountain city
limits he's subdividing for home
sites at a reasonable tariff. ....
and Arthur Biltcllffe has an in- j
teresting "floor plan" for his
orchard, now about to hit full
bloom .... -"Green thumb" folk
are plowing gardens, putting in
the seed apd making thing* ,
look good, but unless someone
takes pity on the medicinal de
partment it'll have to stay wKh
Blrdseye, Dulaney. and the oth
er frozen food
maybte Hill Carpenter will help
me out Byron Keeter went ?
to Charlotte for the Stevenson
speech last weekend's
balmy bifeeaes proved a boon to
merchants, as many started
completing Easter wardrobes.
Eastertime la . dress-up
time the nation over, and par
ticularly for the Itttle folk
the old site of Leon'a Cibtn.
mors recently Abetter's Gro
cery, will be the office of Lith
ium Corporation of Ameri
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By A. C. Cordon]
CROSSWORD
The Wont Ad Section For Thi? Week's Completed Pttnle
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Viewpoints of Other Editors
VISITING AT
THE HOSPITAL
Generally speaking, It might be
said that the hospital is no place
to go visiting or calling on
friends. Of course there is a place
for, and a time for, visiting and
the calling should bte designed
solely for the good of the patient,
and not for the entertainment of
the visitors. Sick people who are
much sick don't need visitors.
Cards, letters, flowers, and re
membranctes in one way and a
nother, are all fine and good, but
too much and too frequent per
sonal appearance can have the
opposite effiect.
There are patients in the hos- j
pital always, ambulatory and |
ptherwlste, who are not serious |
sick and who can receive and en
joy company. But there are oth- 1
ers who are too ill to be pestered. |
There are circumstances too j
which Often make it lnadvlsablte
to go visiting at the hospital too ,
much. If three or four patients
are being cared for in the same
room, and one is not too ill to
have company, there may be a
mother in the same room who is
in no way able to havte people
milling Ground and talking in the
room. v." <
All hospitals have this problem
to deal with. It is a problem at
the local hospital. Effort Is made
to control It, to keep it from get
ting out of bounds. But oftentimes
the hospital Is powerless to do
much about it. Then it becomes a
matter of good cdnsctence and o i
consideration for the sl<5k and for
the hospital staff who may be
hampered and hindered in caring
for the sick and carrying out their
duties. A good plan is to think
twice before going to the hospital
and if we go let's not stay too
long. Let's not "gang up" on the
sick in twos, fours, slxtes, and
sometimes larger numbers. ?
Laurinburg Exchange
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REAL MEN IN THOSE
DAYS
There seems to be a school of
thought, evidenced at hearings
and discussions on Juvenile delin
quency, for instance, that today's
youngsters lack the standards
and abilities of their fathers.
It's not a new idea. Men have
held it, probably, since they lived
in caves. When you look at young
sters of today and say. "Now
when I was young," you're saying
what your father said to you, and
his father to him, and so on. |
Irwin Edmait the writer and
philosopher, touches on this
theitfe in the current issue of A
merlcan Scholar, Phi Beta Kap- 1
pa magazine. And he recalls the
story of an outbreak in Rartmoor
Prison in England a few years a
go. The chairman of the royal
commission went to the prison to
see what was wrong. He inter
viewed an old man who had bteen
in the prison for years^What cau
sed the trouble? ,
"Well, sir," said the old man
confidentially, "I have been a
member of this prison, man and
boy, for 40 years. I think, air. I
may properly clatm to call this
place rny home. Now some says
of* thing, sir, and some says js
nother. But. it's my belief. sSr,
we're not fating the stamp ot
man in 'ere we uaed to." ?
MOwaM Journal . . .. 1
< What a crazy civilization! ?
hat brims gtet narrower as ciga
rettes get longer and therefore
can't be smoked in the rain ?
Florida TiMtf-Union. it
AND WHO IS TO SAY?
"A university should have on its ,
faculty members representing as |
many respectable viewpoints as
possible."
That statement was made by j
Victor S. Bryant, of Durham,
mtembers of the executive com
mittee o't, the University of North
Carolina board of trustees, in a
speech in Raleigh last week. DIs- j
cussing academic freedom, Mr.
Bryant vigorously upheld the ne
cessity for the teachfer to be free,
In research, in thought, and in
teaching. He added that intellec
tual stimulation, and thus pro
gress, results from the clash of
conflicting viewpoints, rather
than from conformity in think
ing.
He left unanswered two ques
tions:
But Mr, Bryant would confine
those viewpoints to "respectable"
ones.
What is a" "respectable" view
point? And even more important,
WHO is to say which viewpoint is
respectable and which is not?
The questions are Important for |
all of us, not Just for thoste on
college campuses, because many
of today's generally accepted I
deas were, considered anything
but "respectable" when they first
were voiced. ? Franklin Press
A BOSS HAS GOT A
RIGHT TO KICK
?Events in the past year go to
prove that it all depends upon
which side of the fence you are
on in this matter of folks firing
other folks. When Truman fired
.MacArthur and whfen Scott fired
Coltrane it was a helnious situa
tion to plenty folks. Now Eisen
hower has booted Manion and
TJmstead has kicked a lady off
the Prison's, Advisory Board. We
can see little basic difference be
tween the Reasoning of Truman,
Ike, Scott, or Umstead in any of
the cases. The only thing foolish
in the situation was the lyay some
folks got so heated about the en
tire thing.
If we had to choose between
the cases, however; we would still
pick Truman and Scott as the
men with more cause for their
actions. Both booted underlings
who were doing their damndest to
undermine the program decreed
by the chief. The Ike case against
Manion and the booting of Mrs.
Kate Johnson by Governor Um
stead art cases of folks who were
paid to criticize being booted ^Tf?r
doing Just that Both Mr. Manion
aftd Mrs. Johnson were serving
on commissions the function of
which was to study, criticize, and
make recommendations ? recom
mendations that might or might
not agree- with the ideas of the
boss. But |n all the cases, the boss
still had the right ? even the
duty ? to exercise his booting
privilege if he so desired or
thought it necessary. ~ Bertie
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ADMINISTRATRIX'S NOTICE
Having qualified as adminis
tratrix for the estate of Thomas
W. Sellers before the Clerk Su
perlot Court for Cleveland Coun
ty, all persons are hereby notifi
ed to file their claims with the
undersigned on or before the 6th
flay of April, 1395 or this notice
will be (.leaded in bar of their
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'< AREA Sq. Ft. L ? J ?
Living Area 892 -H
t Garage 175 [TwiTJi r
Basement (optional) 284 ^"^2 Ft /
Approximately 12,814 cu. ft . ? ?
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