The Kings Mountain Herald
Established 1889
A WMlOf newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general
welfare and published for the enlightenment entertainment
and benefit of the dtlaent of Kings Mountain and its vicinity,
published every Friday by the Herald Publishing House.
Entered as second class matter at the poet off ice at Kings Noua
tam. N. Cm under Act of Congress of March 3. 1873.
Martin Harmon Editor -Publisher
Cbarle* T. Carpenter. J* Sports. Circulation. News
Mr*. P. D. Herodon Society Editor '
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
I receive not honour from men. St. John. 6:41.
Scott Wins Again
Governor W. Kerr Scott has
done it again.
His Saturday victory for the
road and school bonds gives
him the means of carrying out
his campaign program to im
prove the schools and to get
the farmers out of the mud. Of
course, not all the farmers will
get out of the mud, hut a good
ly number of them will.
Cleveland County's portion
of the $200,000,000 road bond
issue will be $2,706,000. That
should do a lot of paving and
Kings Mountain area -citizens
are hopeful that som? of it will
come their way. as it will.
The Herald has previously
mentioned as roads high on the
need list vrw through the Pat
terson Grove - Oak Grove sec
tion. ? hard-surfaced rOu d to
Waco, and .the Lake Moptonia
road. There are, .of course, ma
ny others.
From the school issue of $25.
000,000, the King? Mountain
school district will receive
slightly more than $52.(K^?, bas
ed on 11. OS percent of the coun
ty's school population. This
will be of some assistance in
making needed capital im
provements.
But to go back to the Scott
victory on Saturday . . .
It would appear that Kings
Mountain, as it has nabit of
doing, voted "wrong" again, at
least from the standpoint of.
being on the winning side. Per
haps the political factions here
are too honest. The> play it as
they see it. and as they think it
should be. rather than check
ing the trend and trying to nrie
the winning horse. The Herald
takes some measure of pride'in
having guessed that both is
sues would be approved.
Politically, passage of the
bond issues last Saturday is al
so important. Next spring there
will be two contests for the U.
S. Senate, which will ir. turn
point up the 1052 state-wide
contests for governor and oth
er offices. At the rate Mr. Scott
is going, odds are good that by
1952 he will have proved that
his personal victory in last
year's gubernatorial race was
no political accident.
Kings Mountain again prov
ed its liberality in purchasing
a record total of poppies to aid
disabled veterans and their
widows and orphans. However,
the Herald suspects another
important factor in the record
breaking poppy sale was the in
dustry of the Legion Auxiliary
and its Girl Scout sales force.
Kings Mountain has its share
of tragedies, and another was
the fatal accident to 10-year
old Joe Falls Russell. A num
ber of citizens have remarked
that the death of this boy can
be charge^ in part to a neglect
ful community which thinks it
self too pQor to provide recrea
tional facilities.
Graduation Time
The president of Duke Uni- i
versity, addressing the gradu
ating class of Davidson col- ?
lege, reminded his hearers that
the piece of parchment they
were receiving tor successful
ly completing four years of
work was no sure ticket to suc
cess.
He pointed out that the diplo
ma is merely a certificate of
training, and thai the real
guage would be the manner in
" hich the graduates ti^d them
selves into their work, further
study.- or particular duties they
would choose.
This advice is good for col
lege and high school graduates
alike.
The few graduates who some
times have the feeling fh?t
they have a one-way ticket to
success are in lor a rude shoci:.
In almost all fields of endeav
or. Instructors usuall\ say that
success depends ninety percent
on hard work, only about 10
percent on talent.
Our congratulations to the
large number of students from
Kings Mountain graduating
from colleges and universities
and to the graduates of Kings
Mountain area high schools.
We wish them well in their
future activities.
A best bow to Arnold \V. Kin
caid. who has been re-elected
head of the Kings Mountain
school band association for an
other year, and to the other of
ficers of the association. Major;
work of the group v\ ill be secur
ing about S1.5fJ0 annually to
keep the band ship-shape as far
as instruments, music, and uni
forms are concerned, while
there are a host of minor yet
iinf>ortant functions w*hich the;
organization must handle. Our
guess is that the band associa
tion will do its jobs and do them
well.
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The Waynesville Mountain- [
eer last week published a 62-j
page special farm edition com-|
memorating the six-month's- 1
old Haywood county communi-l
ty development program. By
"setting up working Chambers
of Commerce In all rural com-;
munities," writes Mountaineer)
Editor W. Curtis Russ, "the re-i
suits have been amazing." In;
four months, commercial broil- i
er population of the county1
grew from 3,000 to 300,000, and,
several rural churches are be-!
ing built as a direct result of
the program. The Haywood
program shows what can be
done by cooperation, hard work
and imagination. The special
farm edition is another feather
in the cap for the Mountaineer, ;
one of the state's best semi-j
weekly newspapers.
The Herald conveys its
heartfelt sympathy to the fam
ily of Ed Bridges, who lost his
life in a plane crash last week.
Mr. Bridges was a good citizen,
and it is indeed a tragedy that
his life should be snuffed out at
such an early age.
1A YEARS AG
iU THIS WEE
J. W. Milam, popular manager of
the Home Stores, was elected presi
dent of the Lions t'iub, succeeding
Howard Jackson, at .He meeting
field l-a?t Thursday even'nc in the
Mountain View House.
The second annual Ladies Night
of the Lions Club will be held next
Thursday nighi in the Womanselub
building.
Crowell Linle, former star quarter
l?ack at the University of North Car
olina, and last year coach at the
tocal high school, has t?een appoint
ed freshman coach at Davidson col
lege. tt was announced Tuesday.
Items of news taken from th?
1939 filet of the Kings Moun
tain Herald.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Miss Mar} Elizabeth Simpson of
Hickory became the bride of William !
Kemp Mctuney, Jr.. of Kings ^loun j
tain in a'wedding ceremony in the
ciidi'j*! o? tiie A^'oiision, t.pi?eopal,i
Hickory, at 5 {>. m. Friday afternoon, i
Mr. and Mrs. Haywood E. Lynch j
and girls have gone to Goldsboro for
the weekend.
Mr. L. P. Stowe Is a business visi
tor in Raleigh.
Mr- and Mrs. David Cash and chil- [
dren are vacationing at Myrtle
Be^ch.
martin's medicine
By Martin Harmon
(Containing bits of new*, wis
dom. humor, and comment To be
taken weekly. Avoid over
dosage.)
Television
Mow thut ouci* ttmufi"' Huff
stetien has nought tne lust set said
by a iocal nouse. i suppose uie
meaicinux column can conclude
that the age oi television has oili
ciafkx aritved. even tnough it wili
be a short time before btoaoca?is
can oe seen on tne screen local
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Television has ueen coming ior
a number of years, ana Vvi iC is
planmay 10 start tvievis ion broaa
casts tt.^nd July la, i-uri, Wait
er t<>la me not long ago. Tnis suits
appliance dealers ana prospective
television tans just line, ana ooth
are already loo King wit n arooling
anticipation at the beaih maps,
wmcu snows Kings Mountain on
a very direct line from the spen
cer Mountain transmitter. "And, i
of course," the salesmen add. !
"you're on a direct line with
Gie?nsboro. too. and Greenville." I
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Television is just coming into its
own, after being en route tor a
long time. At the Chicago World's
Fair in 1934, there was one show
which called itsell television and,
it 1 remember correctly, was a '
Westing house promotion. A visi
tor would stand on the stage, and
bis friends could see him in a
nearby screen. Kadar, too, that
famed invention which informed
ships of approaching enemy air
craft and snips, must be a form
of television. While the picture is
not shown on the screen, it gets a
nice wave of the line, which serv
es the same purpose.
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Actually. I have never seen in 1
operation the Mew v television
which will be common as dirt in
a few year*. Though it was oper- |
ating in New York two summers , '
ago. it was impossible to get In - j
side the door of the public estab
lishments (principally bars)
where television screens were
enticing the customers.
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Red McClain asked me the oth
er day if 1 were going to buy a
television set. and 1 had to hedge
the answer, first making a mental
note of the bank account. After
the check-up. I figured that tele
vision for the mfciicinal depart
ments was at least two years a
way. and even then pending pos
siole price declines, ,
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Of course, there are other fac
tors to be taken into consideration.
When I get ar/ound to signing the
time-payment contract for tele- i
vision, I am real anxious to get a
set with several switch-off byit
tonr on it. In other words, I want
a set where the screen can be
blanked out if desired, and the
program continued. It would also
come in handy vice versa ? to view
with quietness and pleasure some
of the good looking damsels who
get there on their looks, but not
on their abilities to warble, or act.
or dance.
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Television, as emythir-j which
Is big and new, has it's disrupting
influences. Radio sales hare not
been too good in the past year,
particularly on the big console
jobs, as the customers wait to get
it all at once with sight added.
The prospects oi television have
also had Hollywood in a dither, as
well as some of the radio stars.
One wonders if some of the radio
stars will go the way of some of the
movie heroes of silent days. Most
striking example was the late
John Gilbert who had entranced
the women ol the land for years
with his on- film love-making.
Then the talkies came along and
his high-pitched voice didn't lit
In with the Valentino-Cable-Van
Johnson technique. Mr. Gilbert
bowed out.
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Some are predicting a future
dearth of movie customers, due to
this new entertainment fore*, but
I doubt it About 75 percent of ra
dio is so bad. that most people pra
ter seeing a movie. Most like
ly possibility is that Hollywood
will have to get bade on the beam
and produce some better pictures.
Since the beginning of the war.
the movie- makers in large past
have been trying to get by with
nam* stars in poor vehicles. They
are going to have to spend more
for scripts. The probable result
will be better products on all sides.
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It's quite possible Uncle Henry
Hulfstetler got himself in a mess
by buying the first television sot.
At least that is the opinion of a
group of potential customers who
were discussing the matter a cou
ple of months ago. One remarked
thai when he bought a set he
wanted to have it installed during
the wee hours of the night and
was going to lay down strict or
ders to his family not to advertise
the purchase to even closest
friends. "They tell me." he said,
'that you can't live in peace when
you get one. About 7 o'clock at
night your doorbell starts ring
ing and not only friends but peo
pi* you're D?m smd b?ior* 'say. ;
"W? ve com? to M* your talrrlilon 1
. Ml' It proves a hardship on (he
entertainment part of the budget."
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Which means that "Uncle Hen
ry," in self-defense, better add
himself to Jimmy Dot racott's and
Skimp Stowe's sales staffs. A few.
more sales would at least split the
crowds.
Four Cases On Monday
Recorder Court Slate
Four cases were heard in regular I
weekly session ol City Recorders!
court, held at City Hall Monda> af- j
ternoon. Hay 30, Judge Faison Barn
est, presiding.
One defendant was convicted on
I charges ol public drunkenness.
Eddie King, ol Mobile, Ala;, for
feited $25 bond on a speeding char
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| Herman Gill, Negro, charged with
?no drivers license, second offense,
was .sent to the road for GO days af- 1
j ter he failed to pay $50 and costs.
Grady L. Burrisi, for possession of
non tax-paid whiskey, was fined
$25 and costs.
forefather* fought ? great battle for
freedom and opportunity at Bunker
Hill. Rarh one of jou realize* that to
maintain the freedom and opportunity
for which the; fought ; ou must be
ever vigilant in doing your share. One
of the country'* greatest mmii it a
?ound eV-onoiuy whirh you ran help to
uphold. Your government i* provid
ing the opportunity through the U. S.
Saving* Bond* program. If not already
enrolled for the oafe, automatic way
of piirrha*ing Saving* Bond*, the
great Opportunity Drive, now in
progrr**, i* your own individual op
portunity.
U.S. Ttemxur r OtpMitmrat
Formerly in Great Britain certain I
qualifications of rank of property ,
were required of those who killed !
game.
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Kings Mountain, N. C.
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