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lEagl*. Published Every Wednesda> m the interest of Cherryville and surrounding Community__ ___ Entered as Second Class Mail matter August 10th, 1906, in the Post Office at Cherryville, N. C.f under the Act of Congress. March 3rd, 1879._ FRED K. HOUSER Editor and Publisher MRS CREOLA HOUSER—Advertising Director - MRS. CARYE BROWNE—Job Printing TELEPHONES: Office, 2101 — Residence, 2501 118 WEST MAIN STREET CHERRYVILLE, N. C One Year .... Sbc Months - SUBSCRIPTION RATES .. . $2.60 Four Months ... _ 1.26 Three Months _ 1.00 .75 NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE American Press Association new YORK. CHICAGO. .DETROIT. PHILADELPHIA WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1954 VOTE JUNE 26TH. It is not often that we deviate from our poi’. cy of steering clear of political issues or .-.ponsor ing the election of anyone to political office. How ever, at this time, it would be a dereliction of oui duty to the voters of this community if we did not direct their attention to the second primary wmch ''•ill be hi id. Saturday, June JO to, to select a can didate for Solicitor of the Fourteenth .Judicial District. It h is been the custom for many years foi the resident judge of our district to come from Mecklenburg county and for the Solicitor to come from Gaston County. The custom has been followed for such a period of time that it has become a tra dition in the two counties. Mecklenburg C.oum\ now has a Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, a superior court judge, and an assistant district solicitor. Our own county of Gaston has only the office of the district solicitor. The elec tion to be held June 26th will determine whether Mecklenburg County shall fill all the offices in our judicial district or whether Gaston County shall be permitted to furnish the solicitor as she is now do ing and has been doing fpr so many- years. The solicitor is one of the most important, of ficers for whom we have the privilege of voting. His duty is to insure that the guilty are punished and that the innocent are protected. It is neces sary that we have a man in this important office in whom we have implicit confidence. Our present solicitor, Basil L. Whitener, has been solicitor of .the Fourteenth Judicial District for more than eight years and has filled the of fice with a quality of service which has brought honor, not only to himself, but to the whole dis trict. Basil Whitener is not only an excellent law yer; he is a man of sterling character and integ rity. He is a man in whom the people can have the utmost confidence that the duties devolving upon his office will he performed promptly and ef ficiently without regard tc the personalities in volved. His experience in handling the thousands of cases which have come into his* courts during his more than eight years of tenure is an invaiua ble asset to him. The only way we can nave good government is to have good officers. That is precisely the rea son we are taking this position as to Basil W hite ner. We know he has done a most excellent ,-do and we are calling upon-all our friends to shuu him that we appreciate a hard job well done. WHAT ARE FATHERS MADE OF? a thing >nut. is farced to tini dau Whv he though ho kn A father i childbirth with A father is good . . . ami half to death. ship" in a child' He’s never . . . never the i and this worfie So he work.- too rough places in the rc will follow him. A father is a thii the first school grade they shou.d be. He scolds his ror the teacher’s fault. Fathers grow older faster than people. Because they have to stand at the train or bus station and wave goodbye to the uniform that climbs aboard. While mothers can cry where it shows. Fathers are what give daughters away to oth er men who aren’t nearly good enough ... so they can have grand-children that are smarter than any body’s. Fathers make bets ’with insurance companies about who’ll live the longest. Though they know the odds, they keep right on betting . . . more and more. And the day they lose. But fathers enjoy an earthly immortality . . . and the bet’s paid off to the part of him left be hind. I don’t know where fathers go . . . when they die. -But I’ve an idea that after a good rest . . . where-ever it is ... he won’t be happy unless there’s work to do. :He won’t just sit on a cloud and wait for the girl ’hes loved and the children she bore . . . He’ll be busy there, too . . . repairing the stairs . . . oiling the gates . . . improving the streets . . . smoothing the way. DOG CONTROL—A VITAL NEED With an estimated 18,000 dogs in Gaston county—and only 3,000 of them wearing license tags—it is obvious that county health authorities know what they’re saying when they cite the vital need for an effective dog control program. Nobody knows how many of these 18,000 dogs have been vaccinated against rabies, but it’s a safe bet that it’s not over half of the total. There are laws covering dog control—laws providing that all dog owners declare them for tax ivurpose.s and purchase licenses for them, and that a',: dogs must be vaccinated once a year. The pro: .em .is to enforce these laws. We do hot how have the machinery to do it. That’s what the Health authorities want: A county dog pound anti personnel to effec tively cover the wnole county, pick up strays, try to t-stabli'h ownership, and see that a- many dogs -is puss; lie are licensed and v;u cinated. The Eagle is with’ the ni-a tin authorities all \V d •ei)>c:s—and ■ with ! robadly i \i them unvaccinated—\V. 1 : it lighted dismissed. i 1ll.C" LIGHTNING DANGERS With tiie thunder-'’ rm season at hand, it is in order to pass on some words of ad vice which may heip save a life: Don't pick a tree for shelter during a Sum mer storm—not even if it's an umbrella tree. So ■ tree is immune u> lightning. And some tree.' form perfect targets for bolts from the sky. Contrary to popular ire lief; variety seems to have little or nothing to do with susceptibility to light ning stroke. The taller the tree, the greater the chance that it may get tagged by lightning during an electrical storm. Each year lightning takes a heavy toll among trees. A properly installed and grounded light ning conductor on valuable trees—valuable for their beauty and protec tic n from the hot sun— can turn those deadly belts from the blue into harmless lights that pass in the night. Installation isn’t too simple, however. \ ou should not climb a tree, the experts warn. Instal lation of lightning rods calls for plenty of exper ience. it's inadvisable for anyone but an expert i to put one up. If the trees are clustered, the tallest ones should be rodded. Trees around them will be i shielded to some degree because of the “cone of I protection'' provided by a rodded tree. The taller the tree, it.- wi ;*-r it.- cone of protection. Experience has shown that the biggest and deepest-rooted trees are likely light ning victims. Consequently, many home owners are redding their trees. Golfers and others who may be caught ! out in electrical storms should shun the shelter of trees. It's better to be wet and • alive. IN 75 i'EARS this • sir is electric limit's Diamond Ju bilee; &e\Vn:y-Hve years ago Thomas hd ! --n invented :thv incandescent lamp. In that period oi' tinit— only a moment as : ii;-u>rv is ; ieasurt d- - electricity has Utter transi' rmetl the hving and working ' - amiards <-i the American people. i liis is m m o' the home. of industry, oi o.i tarm—"fie op the. industry's greatest i aohievetneids is that per cent ot ail our j farms are using electricty or have it a ■ ’callable. And the consumers ot power get j t'ai more ..or each dollar than was the case i in the nasi—-.something that can be said ot j tew other commodities or services. In | 1953, for instance, the household user I paid only one per cent oi his cost ot living expenditures for electricity, as compared with 1(3 per cent in 19111. let the a\et age use of electricity in the home quatlru pled during the intervening time. The electric industry has become one ot I the largest taxpayers at all levels of gov I ernment; some 22 per cent of its total rev 1 enties now go lor taxes. It is in the midst I of a multi billion dollar expansion program I which has made possible the meeting ot ! soaring demand even as reserve capacity has been increased. It is a lact ot the ut most significance that the onlypower shor tage have been in regions where normal private enterprise developmnt has been held back because of drivers to socialize the business and create a political power monopoly. The record speaks for itselt. There is no conceivable power need that the industry cannot satisfy, at an amazingly low charge to the consumer. A BUCK WITH A MESSAGE Few people think of a dollar bill as a ' piece of paper with a message printed on | it. But there is a picture story on the back side that suggests the need for keeping eternal vigilance over the union of states. Observe the unfinished pyramid and the eye above. The pyramid represents the growing of the union, and the eye, its I guardian. With the national debt almost at the pre I sent legal limit, and with government ! spending still exceeding income, it’s high time we thought seriously of guarding the union from financial chaos. And to do that we must not only demand economy in gov ernment, but must cheerfully accept the effects of economy on ourselves. "Please Make It Work for Other Kids' ! BEHIND THE SCENES IN AMERICAN BUSINESS — BY RLNOl.DS KNICl N'ew York, June 14 —- Buyers ai d manufacturers in this center of financing and manufacture of st mi-durable ' good# are having a quiet wrestling match over the immediate future of business. Re tailers have had a disappointing half-year. However, they are full of enthusiasm for the fall season, and feel a bit let down because makers of apparel, pocketbooks, and the like don't seem to share this hopefulness. The manufacturers reply that the volume they have attained so far in 11)54 has been profitless. So they intend to produce hand-to mouth, with nothing going into inventory. This policy, naturally, means that they hope to raise prices. Lower volume without price rises means simply that losses wrl he larger, because overhead can’t be cut along with Moreover, say the sellers, the buyers are really asking for larg er assortments from wihch they will buy fewer pieces of each article; with no actual increases in their purchases. The sellers’ complaint is a little unfari. Des pite the Hi king retailers took on invento: v last fall, they interased their inventories by $200,000,001) in March anil April, while manu facturers and wholo-akeis were .'.till ret reaching Thi him nearly t.lw.-iy than the irumtifa' u od thing; if the I, ; buying, the nut i* soon recall his rctt.il - mi fat hund: \ K li D K D from Mir Of li.'t.tf I. I' Avia It take it ’dicMo ut World War 1! ale the fig iighter. Mr. P ji -ms fm‘ a World W: 11,1 Dti.oOO for one of 1 Air Force planes. * Building Republic'-' 050-mile-' Sat.-hour Thunderstreak. the Air Forres's fir ' sw.-pt-wing tighter homber requires the: skills of SS different kind.- of engineers. This complexity stems from the in e'rt a’sir.gly varied and difficult tasks military planes must per form. The Thunderstreak, for example, is not only an atomic bomb carrier; it is designed also foi speed enough to fly high-alti tude interceptor missions, and for long-range escort duty. THINGS TO COME — A new punch-card payroll preparing ma chine turns out 27,000 paychecks an hour ... A new transparent plastic portable cabinet for re pariman or salesman has 24 shal low drawers into which its carrier can see ... A dog food company has a booklet which lists all the hotels and motor courts in every state which allow the tourist’s dog to accompany him ... A person ality flashlight comes with a strip of gold foil along the side. Write your names on the foil with a ball-point, peel it off, and the name remains. COMMUNITY HIGHBALL — Officials of the .Joseph S. Finch distillery at Schenley, Pa. noticed recently that one of the employes was spending his lunch hour try I ing to drive ready-for-the-discard golf balls across the Allegheny I liver. At the plant site the river [ is 234 yards wide. Noting the intense interest with which his fellow workers regard ed this pastime, the officials de cided to put the game on a broad er basis. Thus was born a Schen ley-and-Water Invitational tour nament. Any golfer who thought hr had a chance was invited to come to the plant on June 12 and try to carry the river with a drive. Contestants showed up from as far off as Pittsburg, 40 miles away. Each w'as supplied with three brand new tournament balls. Anyone who placed a' ball or the far shore was given a Golfer.? and their friends were, quests afterward at an open house celebration. The occasion was voted an outstanding athletic ; ami social success. Community re- j iations, said the pleased Finch : t ass, were advanced as much in j a single day as in some year-long programs. PRICE CURRENTS — The j wholesale once index continues to i show the same apparent stability made up of an unusual number of price movements in opposite di rections. Pork cuts have begun to follow live hog prices downward as fed erally inspected hog slaughters move upward. Lumber prices, af ter standing still during the seal spring upturn, have advanc ed on continuing high housing starts. Bread flour goes up; water- | melons, under the impact of new j varieties which can get started in comparatively low night tempera- , tores, have started to fall ini price at a date when there were | none for sale just a few years back. PITS O’ BUSINESS- Lead and zinc' buying for the government stockpile will he stepped up July 1 . . . Steel production last week climbed back up to the rate of j last February . . . Unemployment declined ami employment rose a- j fain; -< and building contractor put on workers ... 1 he i oni r cnc 1P partment forecast ex- • pe'nditi;' oil 'plant and equip ment at a billion annual rate in the July-September quar ter just ahead. News In The World Of Religion BY W. W. REID I rh» National MethpdLt Town, j ^ud < 'ountry Conference will In’ held- on the campus of Indiana • University at Bloomington, Ind., I July. 22-2S'. 1955 according: to Ur. Clcmi F. Sanford, head of the ! I o partiiieiT of Town and Coun iuv' Work of the Board of Mis sions. Methodist Church. The Council of Bishops of the Met fl ood Ft Church has issued the call for i In* conference which has been plan red by the Interboard Com mittee on Town and Country I Work, Bishop Lloyd C. Wicke, [Pittsburgh, Fa., chairman. Held | once every four years, the con 5 ference is attended by thousands i of town and country ministers, i rural workers, and laymen and j women. ‘'Shiftin'! of industry, new methods of farming, improv ed educational and living condi tions for all, together with other changes have created a serious problem for the church in rural areas,” says Dr. Sanford. Such a strategy should come out of the study and the conference.” On a secretarial visit to the Orient, the Rev. Dr. Thoburn T. Brumbaugh, administrative secre tary of the Division of World Missions, .Methodist Church, re cently stopped in Tokyo, Japan, and represented the Japan Inter national Christian University Foundation and the cooperating churches and mission boards in the United States and Canada at the ddeication of the new church on the Mitaka campus. In these ceremonies the congregation of this new university church, com posed of students, faculty mem bers and community leaders was also consecrated. On behalf of the (interdenominational) Iowa Committee and the churches of Icwa which provided $70,000 in funds for the new church, Dr. Brumbaugh then presented the new edifice to the President of the Board of Trustees of the In ternational Christian University. Of a student body of 350, about one hundred are church members. Protestant and Jewish women of the American community at Anspaeh, Germany, have been or ganized into an “Association of Church Women,” with Mrs. Char les Rhodes, a member of First j Presbyterian Church, Branson, Mo., wife of Lt. Charles Khodes, as president. The association was organized through the cooperation of Chaplain James S. Griffes, a Presbyterian from Dayton, Ohio and Chaplain Charles T. Gartner, of the United Lutheran Church. All Protestant and Jewish women have been invited to join. The women have outlined a religious, social and welfare program. They are sponsoring an American Sun day school and supervising a nur Christian church rolls in Japan list 218,556 persons as Protest ants, and 185,284 as adherents of the# Roman Catholic Church, says the Xational Christian Council of Japan. But this total is only one half of one percent of the na tion's 87,000,000. Ninety-one per cent of the Protestant Christians in Japan belong to denominations cooperating in the Council, "it re ports. The number of small sects, mostly from America but some from Europe, that have sent mis sionaries to Japan is noted from the fact that while there are list ed 62 Protestant denominations or churches serving* in the land, the 91 percent of the members belong to only five churches— counting as one church the Unit ed Church which is a union of eight former separate denomina tions. The grand total of Protest ant churches in Japan is 2,238, to which should be added 947 “preaching places” without church buildings. These churches are served by 2,424 Japanese pastors and 899 missionaries, pour hun dred of these missionaries repre sent the groups outside the Na tional Council. A statement calling upon the U. S. Government to "avoid unilateral decision to use atomic, hydrogen, cobalt, or other wea pons of mass destruction,’’ and to stop "future experiments as would endanger the lives or food supplies of our own or other peo ples,” has Been made by United t. hurch Women. The organization, an arm o' the National Council of Churches, has also sent a let tn to the Women's Commission of the National Christian Council of ii mi i mi——H 11 Japan, expressing it® “deep con cern” over the effects of recent U. S. hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific and the damage and loss to Japanese fishing. The state ment also commends President Eisenhower’s proposal that the U. N. create an atomic energy agency to encourage “the use of fissionable materials for raising staindards of living in all coun tries’’; and asks the U. S. Gov ernment to “persist in its determ ination not to initiate thermo nuclear warfare and to continue efforts .through the U. N. Disarm ament Commission to achieve an enforceable system of general dis armament ANNOUNCING New Bedding Department AT RAINWATER FURNITURE CO. THE MOST COMPLETE LINE OF MATTRESSES AND SPRINGS IN THIS SECTION We have every sort of good mattress and spring any one could wish for. Some Of Our Better Brands Are BEAUTYREST FOAM RUBBER ORDERPEDIC ORDEREST KINGSDOWN By SIMMONS By SEALY By ORDERS By ORDERS By McBANE HAV A REST By TAYLOR HOTEL SPECIAL By TAYLOR SUPERIOR By ORDERS DUAL COMFORT By SIMMONS V/e have Hard Mattresses - Med., Soft In Order That We Might Introduce This New Bedding Department, We Are Giving Away. 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