The Kings Mountain Heiald
EftabUihsd 1889
A weekly newspaper devoied to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citteehs ot Kings Mountain
and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
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Entered as second class matter at the postoffire at Kings Mountain, N. C, under Act
of Congress of March 3. 1873
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
And yc ahull knou\ the truth, and the truth shall make j/ot i free. 6f. John 8:31..
Another Defeat
The so called Free World, including
the .United States and Western Europe
and other areas where the dignity of the
individual is not sublimated to the dicta *.
torial will of the state, is being general
ly credited with another defeat as a re
sult of the Indo-China truce between
Communist China and France, compar
ed by many to the Korean truce of last
year.
In both instances, the- Communist
world gained international real estate,
thousands of human chattels, plus the
much-talked-about "face" which alleg
edly counts most, high in the Oriental
and Asiatic mind.
Some observers, however, have read
into l In1 result in Indo-China a few rays,
of hope, among them Time Magazine,
and the Wall Street Journal. Generally,
their reasoning is that France was sure
.to lose anyway, possibly the whole of
Indo-China, had the war continued, and
that France had nothing to lose by
whatever time is gained via the truce
agreement.
It is assumed on all sides that the
Communist World will continue, via
subversion and infiltration if not by bul
lets, its war to attain the whole of Indo
China. The ink on the signatures was
hardly dry before the British plane,
strictly civilian was shot down by Red
China fighters. Whether France and, in
directly, the Free World make good use
of the truce time before the agreed upon
election a year hence is a ponderable.
In Mendes- France* the new premier
of France, this nation shattered by two
wars appears to have a strong figure at
the helm of government, a down-to
earth-man willing to admit that France
is not her former self in manpower and
in economy, and cannot undertake the
obligations of a major world power.
Mendes France has also demonstrated
a capacity for decision making which
has been almost totally lacking in .
France since World War II and before,
indicating he is not married to t.he com
mon political idea that the most impor
tant job is retaining hold on the office.
It is a refreshing approach based per
chance on the Biblical doctrine: he who
would save his life must lose it; or, in
the Douglas MacArthur vein, on the
thesis avoidance of danger never bought
security for any person or any nation.
All can be glad of the cessation of
shooting, just as the United States re
joiced at the Korean truce for that ma
jor reason.
But the principal long-term question
posed is what action will the Free World
take on the next Communist move to
take over someone else's real estate,
people, and possessions?
Even the British, who lean to the
Munich disproved theory of peaceful co
existence, must know in their hearts
that the basic theme of Communist doc
trine is continuous expansion.
Congratulations to Lewis Hovis on his
appointment, as a member of the county
hospital board of trustees. The respon
sibilities of this board are both cOnsid
erable and important. History of hospit
als is that they constantly and consis
tently show deficits to the point that
the North Carolina Medical Care com
mission was astounded to see the recent
annual report of the small Kings Moun
tain plant and to find that it showed an
operating profit, withal with room rates
and fee schedules less than at many
North Carolina hospitals. The good re
cord is due to many factors, among them
the interest and diligence of the board
of trustees in handling hospital busi
ness, good administration, and, of
course, the heavy preponderance of
health insurance purchased by Kings
Mountain area people, by individuals
and by employers for individuals.
Mosquito Problem
A lady who lives on West Gold street
called the other day to ask what could
be done about the city's mosquito prob
lem. Two of the city's free spraying Jobs
had given only momentary relief and
her youngster was fretting through the
night, and carrying whelps during the
day. Nor had the odorous preventives
done any particular good.
She knew of cities in the eastern part
of the state, in the swampy area, that
have licked the mosquito problem, she
related..
Kings Mountain mosquitoes may be
more virulent than others and certainly
Ihey seem to have built some immunity
to J)DT, chloradane, and the other kill
ers, which indicates considerable atten
tion should be given to the problem,
both by the city and by individuals. The
unenforced city statute on lot cleaning,
if folk could.be persuaded to abide by it,
could- help, and there are several areas,
where banks of small streams are over
laid with underbiush and grass, ideal
breeding grounds. One trouble in the
Gold Mountain street area, which seems
to be one of the mosquito headquarters
operations centers, is the. open storm
drain off Mountain street which ditches
through to Gold, street and thence, we
presume, to Potts creek.
Certainly there are other areas where
similar situations exist and Where 'the
citizens are being devoured. Action is in
order.
Weekend Bargains
Kings Mountain merchants are colla
borating again this Weekend to offer a
City-wide sales event, laced with bar
gains of almost every kind and descrip
tion.
Generally, the sales event finds the
merchants taking two courses, 1) offer
ing special purchase bargains, the result !
of several weeks of shopping the jobbing
houses and manufacturing plants, and
2) down-to-thevbone markdowns on cur
rent season goods either held in too
abundant supply or reduced in number
to the point full selections are not still
available. Markdowns are cost and be
low in many instances.
It's an ideal time for the customer to
stock up.
Through the courtesy of the city, the
parking meter officer gets to give his
ticket book a rest. The keynote from the
merchants is park and shc?p to jour
heart's content Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday.
All hope the Kings Mountain Little
Theatre had all its troubles on opening
night and that the weather, the crowds,
and the utilities will be tip top for the
remainder of the 1954 "Sword or Gideon"
showing. Opening night's blackout was
beyond Control of the producers, the
power failure blacking out the whole.
Battleground area and surrounding
points. The word of next-nighters (Fri
day) is that the drama is much-changed
and highly worthy of seeing.
Polio season has arrived, incidence
of the dread disease being greater in the
summer than other ^ea^oi>? in this area.
It is a feared word in every household,
particularly where there are children.
Among the precautions listed by special
ists in the field of polio research is to
keep children from over tiring, a hard
job indeed, but one that parents would
do well to follow during the remaining
45 days of high temperatures.
Congratulations to the newly organiz
ed Credit Women's Breakfast Club and
Mrs. Charles Alexander, its first presi
dent.
"1 A TEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and etenfts
1U THIS WEEK taken from the 1944 files of the Kings Mountain Herald.
C. D. Blanton, Kings Mountain
pharmacist, and Miss Irene Clark
a Shelby nurse, have been ap
pointed co-ehalrmen for Cleve
land county in the state drive to
recruit 1500 young women In the
United States Cadet Nurse
Corps.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Miss Joan Gall Cadieu has re
turned to her home in Hamlet
after an extended visit -with her
aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Ne
vette Hughes.
Mrs. Ivan Kosenthal of New
York City and son, Carey, have
returned home after a month's
visit with Mr. and Mrs. L. C
Parsons.
Miss Margaret Williams is
spending the weak -fct Ocean
Drtve Bench. S. C.
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MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
By Martin Harmon
Ingredients : bits of neton,
wisdom, humor, and comment.
Directional Take weekly, if
possible, but avoid
overdosage. "
Exit July
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Today ends the seventh
month of 1954 which means
that the sands of time are
rapidly turning the new year
into history. Upcoming are
visits from the fuel delivery
men, fall clothes purchases,
football, Turkey Day, and San
ta Claus again.
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The Santa Claus thought
should, be cooling in a eouple
of ways, one the thought of
crisp winter weather and the
other the cold sweat occasion
ed by thought/3 of arrival of
post ? Christmas bills. Next
year, it's back to the Christmas
Savings Club for me.
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But Dog Days are still to be
facted in hot weather season,
with plenty of swimming, boat
ing, camping, picnicking, fan
ning,. moahihg about the heat,
and other cummer activities to
be handled.
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Among summer's activities
are the proverbial beauty con
tests, getting particular atten
tion in the Carolinas momen
. tarily becausb the pretty frec
ke-faced Winnsboro farm girl
won the Judges' nod (after
three conferences) for the title
Miss Universe. That title takes
'in a lot of territory, and, of
course, in the finals took in
and ovter Miss Bahia, of Bra
zil, a Latin somewhat south of
Manhattan.
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The nice added fillip to the
background of Miriam Steven
son, the beauty from Lander
College, is that she's really just
a robust farm girl, not to men
tion the well-reported perfect
proportions of figure which
captured for her loads of pub
licity, hosts of admirers and a
$200 per week movie contract.
According to the home angle
story on Miriam, she is a cattle
grower, a result of 4-H club
activity, and shte still owns
some of the cows in the family
herd. Lucky cows!
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As an old beauty contest"
reriembers certain
details of such activity in the
nightmare vein, I could easily
rTut th.at M,!riam's honors in
California will effectively an
patrons
0081 ,evel contest. The
customary answer of the die
hards and partisans in a beauty
contest is, "It was fixed In ad
vance, similar to the cry of
wh? Klng P0114108! Partisans
who charge the winners with
stealing the Election.
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Though looks are not every
thing in Hollywood (Marilyn
J???nU,r<\e ,DiMa^,? notwlth
standing), looks help a lot, and
perhaps Miss Marlam Steven
f?n' beauty of the universe In
this interesting year of 1954,
rLL ^ or out8hlne Ava
Gardner and other Carolinians
who havte managed to get their
names on marquees the world
thfffcnJi" t0 1)6 hoped of course
that Miriam will retain the feet
on-ground demeanor and soli
I ?L r rural background
whl^hK tin??led decor
which has become synonymous
with stage and screen stardom.
tq*n
While Piedmont area ga
zettes have not carried the syn
dicated work of Grantland Rice
in many a moon and while oth
er reporters in the field of
sport both radio and press
**fr known to moder
nists, older folk read with re
nostalgia recently of
writers the dean of *ports
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Rice started work for $5 a
week as a youngster out of col
lege- majored In sports writing
XJV!" covtered th? Nash
ville. Tenn.. county courthouse
quickly graduated to Atlanta
and later to the New York pa
pers. It wasRtce who first took
notice of Ty Cobb, after an
avalanche of telegrams and let
ters reporting that Cobb was
the baseball diamond-ln-th^
?f. M** era- Rice went to
P^y and was con
?nd h,s Promotion of
with Vs wa* cred"ed
with Cobb a signing with De
r?HK f??n ot yean ^ter,
Cobb confessed to Rice that thfe
telegrams and Utters came
from the hand of Cobb himself
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A IZL yearm the chief all
American football team to
make was Grantland Rice's
personally-choeen efcven, and
among the characteristics n?!
ed through Rice's yean of typ
ing out sports copy was the fact
he was always nice to every.
?n!y pra,,ln? the stars
but being charitable to the duf
fen
But the short pofcm he did
on sportsmanship is perhaps
his most quoted of 53 years of
ahh^r^n"^th* 0n* Wh,ch Prob
ably will be moat remembered.
It goes:
Cp^* comw
TPJ*** against your name,
Hrtl wrltte not "won" or "k> cfV
But how you played the
Sarvic*
in 1953.
Sp??d and Car?t?stn??s Killed
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Viewpoints of Other Editors
SPELLING AND
GEOGRAPHY
The public schools are not do
ing the job they should in teach
ing geography and spelling, a
fact that has been . known lor
years.
, So says "Changing Times' J, the
Kiplinger magazine, in an article
on YThe Truth About Our Public
(?Schools."
But considering the fact that
the area of genera} knowledge
has broadened so much in the
past quarter of a century, this is
not surprising. Educators attri
bute this lack of ability to spell
to the methods of teaching spell
ing which have not kept pace with
the methods of teaching reading.
"Reading methods which are
pretty widely credited with being |
excellent," says the article, "are
based nowadays ' on t foclising
young eyes on the word- as a
whole rather than on the letters
that make up the word." So they
do not stress formation* of the j
word, nor is there as much drill
ing on spelling as there should be.
School systems throughout the
country are beginning to swing
back to more intensive spelling
study.
In the field of geography, the
emphasis has been on the social
side, with the result that the ave
rage student has no idea as to the
location of states, countries, ci
ties, rivers and mountains. But
here too, changes are coming.
Compared to a half century a
go, there is so much more to be
taught in the schools, and a good
over-all job is being done.
Many improvements have been
made in educational processes,
and the fact that thousands of
highly educated men and women
are pouring out o? our colleges
every year attests to the fact that .
the schools are doing effective |
teaching.
That they are falling down In
perhaps only two spots must be ,
regarded ?s an excellent average. |
And the consciousness of a need
for changes in these two particu
lars is encouraging.
Incidentally, we hope within
the near future to re-produce this
entire article on schools ? Sternly
News and Press.
WHY FARMERS
^MECHANIZED
Cornell University economists
have come up with the real rea
son farmers In the United States
have turned to mechanization.
The economists have been study
ing the actual cost of keeping a
horse, or horses, In operation on
the farm.
According to the results of this
study, it costs $141 to maintain a
horse In harness on the farm. A
team of horses would, therefore, |
cost (282 a year. The cost break
down Is divided into two parts,
about one-half is the cost of feed i
and bedding. Other costs make
up the other fifty per cent of the
total.
One of the costs figured by the
Cornell economists is the labor
cost. The economists arrived at
a figure of sixty-two hours, which
they say represents the labor re
quired In a year to keep up a hor
se. This labor is figured at &0
In brief, this labor item means
that a farm team costs approxi
mately ?? cents an hour for every
hour of work on the farm. When
one considers the low cost of trac
tors and figures out the hourly
coat of using s tractor, he can
see that it compares favorably
with the cost of using a t -am of
horses, or even mules. That 1*
[short, is the answer to the quee
itlofe of why f armeff have been
I turning from horses and mules
to tractor* and mechanized equip
Each fan, Wake (Forest College
sponsors a debate tournament, in
vfting novice debate)
North Carolina, South
sad Virginia.
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TOO LITTLE RAIN
Last year, at about this same
time, we wrote a piece about irri
gation and the need for it in this
section of the World. We were in
the midst of a terrible drought
that threatened complete crop
failure.
Our conceit was largely for
the future as We believed then,
as we do now, that the weather
was going through a cycle change
and that we might be in for dras
tic droughts 111 years to come.
"Oh, it'll never be this dry two
years in a row," we were told by
the (experts who pointed out the
high cost of irrigation systems
and the trouble attached to their
operation.
Well, here it is another sum
mer and we've just had a break
in the drought which has been
just about as serious, if not more
so, than the one of last year.
Exponents ~ of the irrigation ,
principle say it is the only hope
that farmers have of coping with
recurring dry spells. In an area
that is chock full of fish ponds
and small lakes it would appear
to be good business practice for
farmers to install the equipment
neteded to make use of impounded
water in times of drought. ?
Chatham County News
TWO CENTS ON
THE DOLLAR
When you spend a dollar in a 1
department store, how much of It
is kept by the owners as profit?
A new survey, covering stores
with an aggregate sales volume
of $4,200,000,000, provldfes the an
swer ? and It will be a highly
surpristhg answer to many of us.
In each of the years 1952 and
1953, the profit Was just 2.3 cents
for each dollar of sales. That is
the lowest level of earnings -per
centage-wise in more than 20
yfears, with the exception of 1938.
The reason for such small pro
fits, the surveys say, 1 s found in
soaring operating expenses, es
pecially payroll. .
If you think your shopping dol
lar doesn't go ?? far as It should,
ihafs your right But you cer
tainly can't blame the situation
on retail profits. ? Belmont Ban
ner. ?
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