The Kings Mountain Herald Established 1889 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the generul 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 postofftfe at Kings Mountain, N. C, under Act Of Congress of March 3, 1873 EDITOHUU* DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon .. Editor- Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr. Sports, Circulation. News Miss Elizabeth Stewart Society Mrs. Thomas Maacham Bookkeeping, News MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Horace Walker Dawid Weathers Ivan Weaver* Charles Miller Paul Jackson ('Member of Armed Porces) TELEPHONE NUMBERS? 167 or 283 r SUBSORIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR ? 12.50 SIX MONTHS ? $1.40 THREE MONTHS? 75c BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VSRSE A merry heart doeth good like a mcdicinc: but a broken ?pirit drieth the boriea. Proverbs 17: It. Voting Day Next Tuesday is voting day in North Carolina and virtually throughout the nation. Maine has already settled its bl-. ennlal jousting, as has the Territory of Alaska which send a non voting Con gressman to Washington. Even in North Carolina the voting will be perfunctory in many of the state's countieSr as in Cleveland, where Demo cratic nomination is tantamount to elec tion. Some North Carolina counties, how ever, will be busy places, for the state wide minority party has strong points of strength and, in some spots, wins control more often than it loses. The coun ? ties of the ninth and tenth Congressional districts have real battles to settle at the polls for the two seats to the United States House of Representatives. Rep. Hugh Alexander (D) has been waging a busy campaign to offset the strong challenge of Bill Stevens (R) in the nin th district, and Rep. Charles Jonas (R) has been doing the same to stave off the onslaught of J. C. Sedberry (D) in the tenth. The opinion polls, of which there are many, are near unanimous in reporting "a Democratic trend throughout the na tion, but almost all of them, like the Herald's United States Poll, are specific in noting that the findings are nation wide and that a particular race in a par ticular district might be considerably out-of-kilter with the total findings. Such appears to be the situation in both *he heavily contested North Carolina districts, where the incumbents, Rep. Alexander and Rep. Jonas, go to the wire as favorites. Throughout the nation, pulse-feelers and political leaders ? figure the custo mary by-election trend is at work, with the party in power destined to lose Con gressional seats. It is said the Democrats will certainly win control of the House of Representatives and may win control of the Senate. But nothing is sure until the votes are tallied, as the commentators always re mind as they recall 1948 and the F ry Truman upset victory. Citizens here should go to the polls next Tuesday and cast their ballots. While the races are few and the stakes not high as far as Cleveland County is solely concerned, there are several races ' to determine at congressional and state wide level. In addition, the voters are being asked to approve, or disapprove, five amendments to the North Carolina constitution. Four of the amendments are, in es sence, procedural. One would liberalize voting provisions to enable a 30-day resident of a precinct to vote provided he had lived in the state one year. Another would eliminate short terms of office which occur between a general election and January 1, and another would authorize the General Assembly to create a parole board, transferring a present power of the governor. A fourth would enable the recall of a retired Su preme Court justice for temporary duty in event a member were temporarily in capacitated. The other proposed amendment is po , litical. It would restrict each county of the state to only one senator. Generally speaking, citizens of the smaller coun ties will favor this change, while citizens , of the larger counties, like Mecklenburg, Guilford, Forsythe, and others, oppose the change, regarding it as an effort at disfranchisement. It is good business for citizens to vote at every occasion offered, and the ma pority of good citizens do. The statement of Engineer Hair on the type of sewage disposal pit? it to be built on McGill creek will be encourag ing to many, who, indeed, had the im pression that the city was merely erect ing another over-sized septic tank. The stench from McGill creek has been of fensive for years. Second Audit Letter Careful examination of the October 19 letter of Robert H. Cooke, the city's au ditor, reveals that this clarifying letter . differs from the first letter of comment he wrote on September 14 principally in tone and emphasis. Where the September 14 letter left unanswered many questions concerning the handling of the city's financial ope rations, the second letter clarifies as fol lows: "THERE WAS NOT the slightest intimation nor indication that there were any financial irregularities nor de falcations in my report in connection with either the Mayor or Board, nor the City Clerks and Office Personnel." Re-examining, too, last week's edi torial comment on the September 14 let ter of Mr. Cooke, the Herald f inds its position remains as formerly: 1) The weak spots in internal control should be tightened. 2) The administration made a con siderable mistake in not taking action on the September 14 comment when it was received. 3) The administration made a mistake in paying Mr. Cooke more money than his original bid for the work. Mr. Cooke, on October 19, took pains to split hairs regarding the legal re quirement of publication of a summary of the 1953-54 audit report. What the taxpayers want is compliance with the spirit of the law, as well as its technical requirements. It is customary procedure for municipal governments to receive formally their audit reports in regular or special meeting. Usually, this is per functory, each member of the commis sion having -already received a personal copy and having perused it. However, the board had met several times since September 14, and the board took no for mal note of the 1953-54 audit. Actually, the Herald recalls only one or two instances in the past several years where the statute has been met on publication of the audit summary. However, except to meet the statute, this has not been necessary, for the sev eral audit reports have been made avail able on receipt to this newspaper, which has published each in its news columns in considerable detail, both the recom mendations of the auditor and the figures. Mr. Cooke's current audit report, which the Herald has now received, ap pears well-done, with exhibits and sche dules in even more detail than some for mer audit reports. It is unfortunate that the administra tion didn't handle the matter when it first came up, unpleasant as it appeared, for, in spite of Mr. Cooke's second letter, some citizens will retain doubts engen dered by the tone of Letter 1 and nurtur ed by the attempt to. fit on the report. School Survey Report Text of the school survey report by state department officials, published last week, seemed to be a good summary of conditions and needs for the Kings Mountain district school system. Indications are that the ever-growing population will continue to grow which means added annual pressure for school desk space. While erection of another elementary plant in the north or north west section of the city will relieve the pressure for a short period, it is conceiv able that the relief will- be temporary. The recommendation to obtain future building sites now is wise. Congratulations are in order to Mrs. Carl Mayes; top winner at the 51st Wo man's Club Floral Fair, and to the other exhibitors who, in spite of the drought, were able to present a representative display of fall flowers and help to assure the success of this annual and long-pop ular event. Citizens of Kings Mountain are looking forward to the Floral Fair to be held at the Woman's club Friday. The Fair, sponsored annually by the Woman's club, features a showing of fall flow ers along with a display of handi work, canned fruits, vegetables, and candles. Social And Pergonal Betty Jpan Falls celebrated her 13th birthday last Friday with seven vo< her friends as dinner guests. Those Invited were Betty and Jean Cash, Iris Patterson, BlUle Falls, Sarah Kincald, Kath arine Falls, Jean Lynch, and Ja nene Hallman. jty (' ~J ? -? * V1 *'? ?' ' .-'"5; Mrs. Charles Thomasson Is In Macon, Ga., visiting her ton and his wife, ltTyjind^ Mra Charles underwent ' a major operation Tuesday In a Msoon hospital. 5|; Mrs. Harold Crawford Is visit ing her husbafed at Camp Lee, Vs., this week. 1 "A/- Y\, i V ?. - MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Hanson Ingredients: bit* of new*, wisdom, humor, and comment. Direction t: Take weekly, if possible, but avoid . overdosage. Anyone can learn to like about anything, if he tries m-m How many dililgent mothers have uriod that truthful state ment in trying to. get youngs ters to forswear the sweet* for vitamin-filled vegetables, crun chy lettuce, and bone-building mllk?v m-m And it works, if the hard working mother is sufficiently persistent and, of course, can get any degree of cooperation out of the male side of the household. m-m I know, having gone the route acquiring a taste for car rots, lettuce, tomatoes, and a whole host of othfcr foods I now regard as delectable, even more so than lemon pie and other sugary good things. However, I'm still slow to reach for the cooked cabbage (though kraut is fine, cole slaw wonderful) cooked carrots (prefer 'em raw), egg plant, and slimy" okra. Maybe I'll make it some day. My father got me over the hump, then left me alone in the raw carrot department m-m The latest acquired taste I have developed slipped up on me. For years I couldn't look at a ripe olive. My initial memory was not too pleasant. Somehow recently I tried another, then another, and now they taste fine, even better than the green olive that had long been a favorite. And I am told the ripte olive is easier to digest. Bananas are in the same cate gory. Unless a banana has some dark spots, excuse me. m-m There are many exotic foods in the super markets these < days, and many of them fenjoy heavy use. Onpe upon a time, dinner tables varied mostly via different treatment of the staples. It would.be interesting to check a unit inventory' count of a grocery store 20 years ago and c. .npare the offerings of the present day. ? m-m It is said Americans eat bet ter than any other race,, and undoubtedly they do. It is also said that people ihould eat to live, rather titan living to teat, which is a most noble theory indeed. But there would be no real objection, perhaps, to com bining the two. m-m Fop years, tobacco manufac turer* have propounded their particular contentions about taste in cigarettes, cigars, and smoking tobacco, and the pro pounding has "took". Hardly can one find a regular smoker who doesn't call lor a particu lar brand with the same degree of habit he lights up another cigarette or big black cigar. m-m Ask the smoker, and he will recite strong opinions about his particular brand Using the best, though the blindfold test is like ly to disprove the contentions. m-m At any rate, each brand has its favorites, indicating that some people like the extra dose of sweety aroma which Turkish tobacco provides, white others like a greater dose of domestic. Newest development in this field, of "taste" is the emer gence of filter tip cigarettes, a result of the medical research into the incidence of luny can cer among smokers and non smokers. Latest reports from the researchers are labeling the cigarette paper, rather than the tobacco, as the evil-doer cancer wise. The bad by-product is benzpyrene. It apptears plausi ble, since paper Is made by a chemical process and, when the paper is burned, would natural ly give off some kind of chemi cal gas. If this reasoning is fol lowed, the filter-tip should be of sbme benefit. Already the reports havto non-smokers wjio have difficulty with car-sick ness and similar ailments won dering if they, too. don't get a ?lore of benzpyrene, or some other tummy - queasing sub-, stance in the course of being around the fun**. "V * "csy. yj* ?.];* Jjtr ? - V. V'X/J# But smoking remains, as the manufacturers contend, a mat* ter of taste. Like the youngs ters, the smokers can acquire the filtered taste if they try, and many have. m m - ;'v ? ? Taste b? clothes Is less sblkl a science than eating and smok ing, but Just as definite in the short period of a season. Old and ytnt decide they want, down to color area, and thafs what want Next season. It vie* wan. 9? Tbm Want Ad S?ctloa Tot ThU WMkTi CcapMtd X Viewpoints of Other Editors "PLOTICIANS" ARE BUSY A typographical error in writ ing the word "politician" gives us an interesting word and we think it hits the nail pretty .squarely on the head. "Piotfcians" are busy in both political camps at present and they are really paying more at tention to the opponent's speech es than they are to their own. Defense Secretary Charles Wil son knows this better than any other man. His .remarks about bird dogs and kennel-fed pooches set off a wave of stinging criti cism that all but washed the GOP wagon out to sea. We do not at all disagree with what Mr. Wilson said, bilt then, nobody cares what wte think. Bird dogs are better than kennel fed dogs we believe. People who' fjp out looking for jobs are more worthy perhaps than those who sit and wait. BUT, Mr. Wilson should have known that many peoplfe are seeking work and cannot find It and any reference then to unem ployed people and dogs would na- 1 tit rally stir up criticism. The whole thing boil* down to tills: Responsible people in !&>' sponslbfe positions should very careful what they say and do. We don't believe that Mr. Wil son actually meant to identify un employed people with dogs . by any means. But it does make good campaign fodder. Some man made an off-thte-cuff remark recently to the effect that during the Democratic adminis tration, there were Democrats floating around Washington like waiters. A storm brewed. Ttote man was quick to add that he certainly did not intend to say that waiters were anything like Democrats. It's a vicious circle, ain't it? ? | The Cleveland Timet HOWBIG - SHOULD A MAN BE? We know a lot of people who ai% not satisfied with their size. We know fat people who would give anything to lose some weight; we know skinny folks who ttry and try, without success, to gala some. We know some tall folks who wish thpy dtdafcqapM': out" so in a crowd; short friends of our acquaintance keep envying the talfer arte*. We even know one six-footer who wears small heel lifts to make himself appear taller. He knows he's tall, all right, but he just feels that he's not qiiltte tall enough. How big should a man be? He should be big enough to look every other man in the eye, feeling neither fear . of fctni or superiority over him, and to walk down the street with the spring of pride in his step. He .should be strong enough to do his share of the work, whether this consists of doing your part when you're on a team aimed at accomplishing a gdal or simply in gtvlftg another man an hoot* day's work for an hon^ljMffL He wi9? i?ui riui or GX Loan , DOWN PAYMENT AS LOW AS FIVE PERCENT OF YOUR CONSTRUCTION COSTS. IN SOME INSTANCES. TOUR LOT MAY'. 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