The Kings Mountain Herald Established 1889 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the cltfeens ot Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. v Entered as second class matter at the postoffire at Kings Mountain, N. C., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873 1 v 11 * 1 ? ' ? ? 1 ?? ? 1 "'???" ?;? ? ? ? ?? ? ?? EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon ............... Editor- Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr "... Sports Circulation, News Miss Elizabeth Stewart Society Mrs. Thomas Meacham Bookkeeping, News 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? $2J>0 SIX MONTHS-r-51.40 THREE MONTHS? 75c BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Who is unsc, and he thall understand these thing a f prudent, and he shall know them t for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein. Uosea if:9. And Now Politics With Easter past, and with the filing period for political office also ended, it is conceivable that the public interest will be devoted more closely to affairs political, as candidates aim their cam paigns to peak on the important day of May 29, the biennial Democratic pri mary. Thus far, local area interest has been lagging, due perhaps to the late date of Easter, and, in addition, to a paucity of early - developing county and township contests, a situation virtually eliminated in the final weel^ for filing. But, with the exception of school term wind-ups, there will be little else on the scene to compete for the attention of the citizens. The Lennon - Scott contest has been simmering and will warm further. Some think it will boil over before voting day. Of course, there are four other candi dates in the field, including the vocative Alvin Wingfield, but almost all acknow ledge that the race is a Lcnnon-Scott affair. On the county level, there are several contests for offices, which should com bine to raise blood pressures during the enusing five weeks. It won't be long until the registration books open, and then the real work in ' the precicnts will start. Elections furnish a regular thermo meter reading on the temper of the peo ple. In the Scott-Lennon fight there is embodied a continuance of the struggle between liberal and conservative forces for control of the governmental set-up. Scott, when he won for governor, broke the conservative hold, but he was un able to retain it in subsequent senatorial and gubernatorial campaigns, though the voting in both instances was "squeezy". Thus far, this campaign has found Governor Scott adopting an unusually conservative attitude, as opposed to a more flamboyant liberalism on the part of Senator Lennon, the Umstead ap pointee. Neither have been accused of campaigning in character and it is anti cipated by many observers that the final lap of the race will see a change in the pattern. Traffic Toll Cleveland County recorded its third traffic fatality of the year last weekend, and all of them had occurred within the short space of a week. It reminds that one can never be too vigilant when he is traveling along the crowded thoroughfares of the nation. Recent statistics, compiled by one of the insurance companies, listed more than two million traffic casualties in 1953; a new record, while the death toll reached 38,500 up by 900. Excessive speed was listed as the chief killer, and the greatest percentage of deaths result ed from weekend wrecks. One interesting statistic: three of four wrecks occurred on dry roads in clear weather. The moral of the report is plain. Pre cautions should be taken on the open sunshine - bathed road, just as well as in drippy or icy weather. Driver error is the big trouble, which includes speeding, chance - taking, mix ing driving and alcohol, and driving too old cars with known defects. Traffic at Kings Mountain' National Military Park continues to increase by leaps and bounds. More and more people . are visiting this national shrine, which is now one of the more beautiful scenic spots of this scenic area. Travel is one of North Carolina's largest businesses, and Kings Mountain is fortunate to have the military park nearby. Movie Come-back With the advent of the home televi sion receiver in the years after World War II and its continuing spread to al most all parts of the nation, the nation's movie-goers started staying home in droves. The industry was listed as "sick", and it was, as many managements found their gross receipts halved and more. All the while, they found it impossible to cut operating expenses, for the wage trend was up, as well as taxes, and other expenses known as "overhead". Much of the trouble was in Hollywood, which, in the post-war era, seemed con tent to toss a few big-name stars into a sorry vehicle, with little attention to script and direction. The public, always willing to give a new thing a play, found it about as much fun to see "B" movies at home. ?. i But Hollywood had plenty of life left and did what the doctor ordered. In the past year, almost all the studios have produced some really good dramas that had all the earmarks of the Hollywood of old. And the public has returned in droves. A local sample of it was the showing of "From Here to Eternity", which monopolized the Academy Awards for the past year. The movie showed to standing - room - only crowds on several of its showings and drew well even on the foiyth day. In the drama market, the play's the thing, and, if Hollywood keeps grinding out good ones, the moviemen will con tinue to recoup their position in the en tertainment field. Splitting The Term Next Thursday, the 29th, Bethware school patrons will cast ballots to deter mine whether the school abandons the so-called split term, whereby schools are opened for a few weeks in the sum mer in order to be closed during harvest season when the cotton is open and ready for picking. The rules of the voting, ordered by the county school board on petition from some of the patrons, provide that the split term will be retained unless two thirds of the votes cast favor a change of policy. Indications, some patrons think, are that Bethware patrons will continue the summer opening, though the same pa trons think a simple majority decision would remove Bethware school from the split term list. The summer session has been a whip ping boy among school folk for a long time, on the thesis .that interrupted short sessions do not serve the book learning process very well, and, as the years have passed, more and more rural school patrons have enlisted in the ranks. Today Cleveland County remains one of the few North Carolina counties where the split term is in vogue. Many charges are made about the po licy, that it is not good for the children, adds administrative difficulties, and is detrimental to the educational process. The most popular argument is: propo nents of the split term are putting the welfare of the pocketbook above the welfare of the child. Rightly or wrongly, the split term is going by the boards, and it will eventual ly be abolished in cotton - growing Cleveland County. The voting on April 29 will mos; likely not be the day it is elimina^d at Beth- J ware. However, the results, of the poll may be of value in arriving at future de cisions on the matter. Dog owners should avail themselves the opportunity of getting their pets and hunting helpers vaccinated against ra bies at the series of clinics to be held on Saturday. Rabies can be completely stamped out ? and almost has been in this area ? if dog owners take the pro per precaution. YEARS AGO Items of ntws about King* Mountain area people and events THIS WEEK taken from the 1944 files of tlw Kings Mountain Herald. Annual Ladies' Night program of the Kings Mountain Klwarils club was held last Thursday even ing at the Woman's club build ing. Plans are bfelng completed for the annual Ladles Night banquet of the Kings Mountain Lions club to be held Tuesday night. May 2, at the Woman's club. Lions Hilton Ruth, Jacob Cooper, and George Houser make up the planning committee in charge of the annual evfent. Social And Penonal The American Home Depart ment of the Woman's club will meet in the club lounge with Mrs. W. W. Tolleson as hostess Friday aftemoen at 4 o'clock. Mrs. M. L. Houser Is on an ex ' 'y-V ? ? ' v ??? ~-v tended visit to relatives In New York City and Baltimore. Md. - Pvt. John H. Moss, who has been stationed at Island Heights. N. J., has returned there after visiting relatives here. Mr. and Mrs.* Guy Henderson and children of Wilmington are visiting xtlattves and MMfH here. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Harmon Ingredient*: bit ? of newt, wisdom, humor, und comment. Direction m: Take weekly, i} possible, but avoid overdosage. For the past few days I have been enjoying some Interesting Kings Mountain history, a pleasurable respite which I had been unable to accomplish for a month at least. ? mm Sevtral weeks ago I had re ceived a package from an un familiar address at Buena Vis ta, Va., and found it to be a handsomely bound copy of "Since I was Born", the edited autobiographical notes of Ro bert Lee Durham, who grew up in Kings Mountain in the era Just after the. . Southern Rail way laid Its first track, and when the pioneer citizens of the community were getting accus tomed to the new name Kings Mountain. m-m Dr. Durham, who died in 1949, was the grandson of Dr. James Wright Tra -y, a country doctor who traveled far and wide over the' countryside, de livering babies, setting broken bones, and treating the ail ments of the people Dr. Tracy, if I have correctly read the book, must have lived near the present site of the home of Mrs. J. O. Plonk, which is at the convergence of Gold and Tracy streets, the latter named, of course, for Dr. Tracy. Dr. Dur ham also noted that his grand mother gave Kings Mountain its name on request of the Southern Railway folk who wanted a name for the new sta tion. At the time, his grand mother was postmistress of "White Plains", which, I am told, derived Its name from the L'l Bethel . Bethlehem area, where the land still looks white. The naming was in 1870, the year Robert Lee Durham was born. m-m The. manuscript by Dr. Dur ham, who at his death after a long and active life as author, prominent Methodist layman, lawyer, college president, math ematician, and political leader, was president emeritus of Southern Seminary at Buena Vista, was edited by Marshall Fishwlck and published by Richmond's Whittet & Shepper son last year. It is copywright ed by Margaret Durham Robey, his daughter, who was be queathed the writings of her father for use as she wished. m-m Many older citizens, who knew Dr. Durham and his equally well-known brothers, Plato and Stonewall, will find the book "must" reading, as nostalgic reminiscences of an earlier day, and younger citi zens will be delighted that this report of Kings Mountain his tory, perhaps heard in snatches from parents and other rela tives, has been set down on paper and definitively set forth. m-m The anecdotes from the Re construction era and afterward are frequent and tickling. Dr. Durham recounts the difficul ties with which the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church, for instance, modernized to the organ from Boyce Falls' tuning fork. It almost caused a church split, but tho modernists, led by Freno Djlling. won out, the or gan was installed and the church continued to grow. m-m Dr. Durham pays consider able tribute to the late Mauney brothers for their contributions to the character and progress of the community, to the late C. E. Neisler and Mrs. Neisler for their beneficial works. The author attended the famed W. T. R. Bell school and relates many incidents of this period In the community. m-m Present day women, who sometimes deplore the lack of cleanliness in foods, will be thankful they did not live in the days of Blackwell's butcher shop nor in the time when "groceries" was the vernacular term for "groggenes", oi which there was quite ? sufficiency. Modern Kings Mountain people*, ac swallowing pills for all kinds of ailments and taught to view any infections with great care, will be happy indeed that these infections are no longer regarded as good medical signs. A festering sore In Dr.. Tracy's day was good news, for ft meant that gran grene and blood poisoning would not likely appear. And Dr. Durham says the salutary effect of woman's suffrage may not have eliminated crooked po litics but did clean up the flM lltical orations which In thai day were geared on a very vul gar and bawdy level. ? I It is impossible In column of type to more than sum up the delightful contri bution of Dr. Durham to Kings Mountain history. But I am. In debted to Mrs. Robey for my copy and I expat! * iMftjMlh the front shelf of tfce medicinal library for continuing refer ? ?- STSnfr Mi tfKfcp W&M 1 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 ? IXmotk animal 4 ? Another No. 1 acrow 7 ? Flnw denUen of the wild 9 ? The lion's *oio* 1 1 ? Bidwirtbi to p ?c-? tuade animal* 1 3- Native mineral 14 ? Lop* off ma ' ? 16 ? Diviaion of tfasse IT? Fall flower 19? To court 30 ? Chemical symbol foe terbium 11 ? Feminine ulntlv per son (abb.) 11 ? Name applied to girl ir *king cntranc* faa 14 ? Reclamation of pah 15? Musical figures 17 ? Bovine animal 19 ? In reference to 30 ? Chemical umbo! lor erbium SI? Asiatic herb need for making roc* (pi.) ?4? Part of a f Back to Nature 37? Thus 36? Shortened society 39 ? Ancient city of the Chaldcn ( dom, > 40 ? Every ooc individually 4?_? 44? Pungent plant uaed for 4ft? Position of a household animal 47? Turf used a* fad 49? Meadow 50? Similar 51 ? Scottish variation of earth .Ms S3? Aquatic I 55 ? Alkaline solution 56? Female ruminant DOWN 1 ? A plant shoot 1? Time past 3 ? Chemical symbol for tellurium 4? Perform 6 ? Function of plant seeds 1 ? Piercing characteristic e f a rose 8 ? Popular flowers 9 ? Tall grasses 10? Trail at a wild animal 11 ? To situate 13? Direction (abb.) 1 5? To start a plant 1 7 ? Consumed 18? Soak il as 11? Parts of flower* 13-tOarden vegetable* 26? Unrefined mineral 18-<-Age 31 ? Popular edible pro duced by an insect 31 ? Kitchen contafaer 33 ? Educational institutions . (abb.) 34? Cougars 35 ? Previous to 36 ? Oarden cousin of the 'jnion (pi.) 37 ? The "blood" o! a woody plant 4 1? Consumed 43 ? Animal's appendage 45 ? Archaic "the" 46 ? Ornamental tree 48 ? Kssay 50 ? Statute 51 ? Prefix denoting "down" ? See The Want Ad Section For This Week's Completed Puzzle Viewpoints of Other Editors SPRING IS FOR LAUGHTER It won't be long now, it can't be long, before spring shows its full face and keeps it in sight. And of all the spring tonics ever brewed the fight of spring itself is the most effective. Spring is bright and new and shiny, anything is possible, and you can laugh. You don't even have to take the wea ther seriously after the middle of April; you know It will even out pretty well. So before long we can open the windows wide and let spring in, and we can go out to the park or sit on a hillside and let spring In to us. And high time. If s time we looked beyond the human perl meter. You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squir rel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. And once you find that out you can begin to laugh again, both the laughter of sheer delight and the laughter of amusement at absurdity. We haven't had much laughter of eithter kind in quite a while. We've had a long winter, and not only in terms of weather. Hu mankind has achieved a kind of mass cabin fever. Life has been a serious matter, so serious that we got to forgetting that man can make a vtery funny fool of himself being serious. And taking other foolish men seriously. It has become a political crime, somehow, to laugh at some of the performers. Maybe we can 1 new get outdoors and begin to smile and chucklfe and laugh dis creetly. At the animals frit, and ?\he birds, but eventually at men. And eventually we may recover our perspective if enough of us begin to laugh at those who have so long Insisted on being taken seriously with their absurd per formances. It's time we opened a lot of windows. It's time we laugh ed again, in delight as well as re lief. It's time to be rid of a few inhibitions and a lot of suspicions. It's timte for spring. ? New Yorlc i iiMI. INDUSTRY XS ATTRACT ED TO GOOD COMMUNI TIES FIRST A GOOD community is more attractive to new industry than siderable emphasis has been plac many other factor d on which con ed in recent years by Southern cities and towns. j This is the opinion of The Watt St i eel Journal which- recently made a study of why plants have located in certain spots through out the South. It found that the manufactur ing concerns which any commu nity would be glad to have are not Interested in free plant sites, tiut concessions, and artificial In ducements. They prefer to pay their own way, for this relieves them of obligations which they automatically assume when they accept concession Since more and more automa tic machinery is being Installed, a big labor pool is not now re garded as vital. However, In moat instances, good rail services la essential. When a manufacturer aets out to pick a town at city for a new plant In Ms expansion program he la concerned with finding a community tai which his employ ees will like to live. This means that It must have adequate municipal fadlMsa, a good shopping district, good achools with adequate plants, ac ANSWERS HIMSELF Herbert Brownell, Jr., U. S. at torney general, in an address in Chapel Hill the other day, urged enactment of a law to permit use of evidence obtained by wire-tap ping in federal courts. The attorney general probably made more converts among those in the audience by his attitude than by his arguments. He gave thte impression of attempting to be entirely fair, discussed many of the objections to the law, and, at the end of his address, answer ed questions from the audience with remarkable candor. Perhaps the strongest argu ments against use of wire-tapping evidence, though, came from Mr. Brownell himself. < He emphasized that he would favor such a law only where the wire-tapping was "conducted by trusted lato enforcement officers, under strict supervision." ThAt, of course, would be mak ing this a government by men rather than by law ? a concept contrary to the whole political tradition of this nation. And, in reply to a question, he quoted the frequent remark that wire-tapping is "dirty business", adding that "I don't, myself, like wire - tapping", and that he would not sanction its use except where national security is involv ed, and perhaps in kidnap cases. On its face, that sounds rea sonable enough. But nobody can carefully examlnte the statement without coming up against the question: If wire - tapping isn't wrong, why not use it in any and all cases? Singling out certain critical areas for its use is Just another form of the old, dishonest argu ment that a good end Justifies any means. That, it will be re membered, was the argument of Hitler and Stalin, ? Franklin Press. tive churches, recreational facili ties, and long-range planning and zoning. Albemarle would like to have some additional Industries, and sooner or later we will have them. Either outside industries will move in or we will establish our own. In the meantime, we should never lose sight of the fact that evtery step we take to make Albe marle a better city improves our chrnces of attracting additional' industry ? Stanly Neu>s <6 Pres*. j Commercial slaughter of cattle, calvfes, sheep, lambs and hogs in North Carolina during February totaled 21,031.000 pounds live weight, the highest on record for the month.' : J pr BKWnoN SERVICE I UTo FID mat Doctors' Pro scription* promptly and accurately at raasooabl* of yoar physician. GRAYSON'S JEWELRY Mtn. St. Phone rca Victor t??* DAVIS SISTKKS MTTY CODY I VICTOR Coble Presented Insurance Awasd R. F., Coble, associate manager j n charge of the Kings Mountain >lfice of the Vuglnia Life Insur i nee Co., was recently presented i gold watch in recognition of 25 rears service with the company. Presentation of the award was made by W. Randolph Toler, as sociate vice-president of the Lite Insurance Co., of . Virginia, at a neeting attended by all repre sentatives of the Gastonia dis trict office. During the next 30 days, 174 field and home offtte Employees who have served with the com pany for 25 years or more will receive watches from the Virgin la company. Sinqinq Convention At Methodist Sunday > An old-tlmte singing convention, featuring the favorite gospel and sacred songs of old and modern iay. wlll be held Sunday after noon, April 25, at the Missionary Methodist church, Second street. Kings Mountain. Doors of the church Will be op en at 1:30 p. m. and the singing convention, which will featurte top name gospel and sacred singing groups of the Carolina Christian Singers Association, will get un derway at 2 p, m. ' ? Noted groups expected to sjng at the convention will be the White Quartet, the Smith Broth ers Quartet, the Clyde Randall singers, the Nelll Quartet, and other leading Christian groups. Sroups interested in singing $t the convention are invited to call D. P. McDaniel in Kings Moun tain at telephone 684-W. There will be no admission charge, there'll be lots of park ing space available, and everyone Is Invited to be out for the sing ing, the Rev. Clyde Maloney, pas tor, said, in making the announce ment. STOP LITTLE WATCH TROUBLES Before They Get BIGI Our tp*datbh wtlt mak* your old watch work ai?oo4 a* iww.PricM J or* r*a