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The Kings Mountain Herald Established 1889 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published to t the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizen* of Kings Mountain and its vieinlty, published every Friday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Kings Mountain, N. C., under Act ai Congress of March 3, 1873. Editorial Department Martin Harmon Editor- Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr. . . Sports, Circulation, News Mrs. P. D. Herndon .. . . . Society Mechanical Department _ Eugene Matthews Horace Walker Ivan Weaver - ? ? - -9*Mt{-i*ckaan~~}- Chartes Odems TELEPHOWES; Society. 167; Other. 283 SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR ? $2.00 SIX MONTHS ? $1 JO THREE MONTHS? .60 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Tbou sbolt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. Exodus 23:1. ? O. Max Gardner, fr Announcement that O. Max Gardner, Jr., 27-year-old son of the former Gover nor~and- Ambassador, would seek_JQ?>Jaalv- . nation and election to the No*h Caroli na Senate from the 27th district, was well-received in Cleveland County and throughout the other counties of the district. ? The citizens of the state generally and of this area in particular are mindful of the contributions his father made to this state and nation and they .feel that his son will follow in his footsteps. Young Mr. Gardner had already evi denced in the past few years a keen in terest in political and governmental af fairs, and he is already marked by those who know him as not only a "comer" in politics, but as a young man blessed with fair-mindedness and keen judg ment. The.HeraJd's guess is that O. Max Gardner, Jr., will win nomination and rlection and that he will serve the dis trict and North Carolina capably. New Idea On Roads The North Carolina League of Muni cipalities has tendered the State High way Commission a recommendation that the state take over the building of city streets as well as primary highways and secondary roads. Of course, it is not anticipated that the Highway Commission will look with favor on the recommendation for the commission's hands are already full. Reason for the recommendation of the League, which is the spokesman for the majority of city governments of the state, are several, it would appear. They include the fact that cities have no rev enue for the building of streets, other than assessments and taxes, and the fact that they receive a very minor portion of the income from the state's gasoline tax. './? This paper has long felt the cities do not get their proper share of the gaso line tax, though it was raised by the 1949 General Assembly from $1,000,000 to $2.500, 000. At the same time, strings arc attached. The share of each city, bas ed on population, amounts to a "book" credit, which is first used on primary highways passing through the particular city, then for other streets. If the fund is not spent during the fiscal year, then it re vert 8 to the general highway fund, with no carry-over credit provision. City governments asked for one cent of the gas tax revenue, and this weems a logical division, for certainly one seventh of the gasoline burned is burn ed on city streets. In addition, the Her ald feels that the money should be paid out to the cities in actual cash, for use on Whatever streets the cities wish, much in the same plan that the intangibles tax is returned to the cities and counties. The City of Kings Mountain's financial statement for the first six month's of the current fiscal year showed the city op erating below its anticipated expendi tures. It is unfortunate that other gov ernment entities don't do the same*. There are a lot of ways to avoid deficits and the most simple method is putting a brake on the spending department. A best bow to Rev. W. H. Stender, who has been named to head the Kings Mountain district Boy Scout organiza tion during the coming year. Those who haven't paid their 1949 tax bills to the city and county will find it to their benefit to pay them prior to Febru ary 1,'when penalties for late payment apply. It's hard fenough to pay taxes anyway, and there seems no necessity for adding penalties to the bill too. ' Light Rate Revision Prop .sal by the city board of commis sioners to revise the city rate for use of ? electrhlity seems a logical step, particu larly in this day and age when more and more homes are using more and more electric power. On basis of discussion by the commis sioners at their January meeting, it seems that the proposition is to adopt one light rate, rather than three, with a sliding scale rate (as already used on all three present rates), for greater con sumption. At the same time, every consumer would be paying the same amount for the first minimum number of kilowatts burned, a lesser rate for the next group, and so on as electricity usage increases. The adoption of the lone light rate would have the benefit of eliminating confusion among customers, and any in equities which might exist, and it would benefit the city by saving time on me ter-reading, billing, cost of meters and meter installation. The city's electricity customers and the Herald will await with interest the results of the survey by the city power department on the proposal. 1 As the Herald understands it, the city does not anticipate either increasing, or greatly decreasing, its gross receipts from the sale of leectricity. To the Herald it was interesting that two of the bity's three civic clubs heard programs last week devoted to the in crease in government and the threats of Communism. Most interesting was the magazine "U. S. S. R.'\ demonstrated by. Mrs. W. T. Weir, which, she said, sud denly appeared one day last fall in the library mail box and which has been coming regularly ever since. If there are real dangers that the United States might sell its democratic birthright for a mess of communistic pottage, they stem from two sources: (1) apathy by the people themselves, and (2) support of the idea that the people can attain something for nothing, merely by let ting the federal government do it. ? The Jaycees of Kings Mountain along with their confreres of the nation, are joining together in an effort called "Op eration Economy", in which they ex pect to keep the members of the United States Congress acquainted with back home reaction to the government's shoddy, unreal fiscal policy which winks at waste artd deficit spending. The Jay cees here are merely asking citizens to contact their Congressional representa tives with a plea for elimination of du plications of service and other waste in the federal government as recommended by the Hoover report. And the organiza tion deserves the cooperation of all on this worthwhile effort. * Kings Mountain citizens are glad that Former Citizen Ladd W. Hamrick has been awarded the Silver Beaver for ser vice to boyhood. Mr. Hamrick has long been Interested in the Boy Scout move ment, and while a citizen here gave valu able assistance to the Scouting pro gram. The New York Times reported In its Sunday edition that sales tor the first week of the semi-annual Chicago Furni ture Market topped last July's by more than 100 percent. It a samjle of the business optimism prevailing for the first half of 1950. and. Of course, furni ture is one of the barometers of general business conditions. 10 teAis ago THIS WEEK Items of new* taken from the 1940 file* of the Kings Mountain Herald. W. K. Mauney Was honored by being presented the Sliver Beaver Award for oiftstanding contribu tion to boyhood and scouting at the annual meeting and banquet of the Piedmont Council at the headquarters building in Gas. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mr. and Mr*. Paul Neisler en tertained nrvmhers of the Even ing Bridge club and invited guests at one of the. most delight ful parties of the winter season. Mrs. Andrew Jenkins was hos beuer one if those who could and i tonia. I tess at a lovely party and show er on la? fhursday evening, hon oring Mrs. J. B, Falls, nee Miss Ethel Hord. The Kings Mountain Unit of the American Legion Auxiliary held an enjoyable meo<lng for January with Mrs. Paul Mauney f hostess. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Fulkerson have bought the J- R Davis old ; home place on East King street. I Miss Betty Cash is back in school after having bed flu. Miss Jean Cash 4s still out. Miss Patricia Ann Neisler^ dau. ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Neisler Is still out o| school be cause of Ilu. The H. E. Lynch home is under construction on Ridge street. The Lynch's sold their home to Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Hord. The Hord'S expect to move In April. Master Henry Neisler, eon of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Neisfes, is con valesclng from a recent si.Kness. martin's ?fJifiiia By Martin Harmon (Containing bit* of news, wis. | Horn, humor, and comment To bo takon weekly. Avoid 1 . .? over-dosage.) - Odds And Ends Tho Hor aid and medicinal column are mutually gratotui for ttao kind words paiitd their way on installation of tb? now new^xyor preu, which is de signed to males the papor more .1 ; readable end otherwise ploas 1 ing in appearance. o-a-e ? And it U with the hops that tho several readers of this piece will not be bored with further shop talk that we report tho lurid details of tbe last quarter of last week's Herald football game, which resulted In mak ing the paper late getting to the news stands, and which made the Herald staff know exactly bow the Carolina football team felt In the last quarter at New TotV when Hotre Dame turned a football game Into a field Hit o-a-e Things had run along pretty smooth, what with install ing tbe new press and trying to meet a deadline too. but In sufficient time had been allow ed to work on tho now nm> paper folder. Tho big job was tbe press, for a paper must bo printed before It can be fold ed. That Is where trouble be gan. o-a-e Folders are notably the most troublesome pieces of machin ery known to newspaper shops and this one was true to the breed. One paper would come through folded properly, but tbe next would be out-of-line. would Jam into the rollers. Af ter an hour's effort to correct the various mechanisms, it W decided that the foldet better be forgotten for one issue and the old manpower method used, something foreign to tho Her ald shop for more than three years. But this called for re arrangement of tbe papers al ready run. First decision was- to stop the ink flow and re-run the papers through the press, cut ting them as they came throu gh, so the ink rollers were cut out Then it was decided to print the remaining ones, be fore working on the others, so Bed Walker fired up and start ed running. After tho first doz en or so. the print got lighter and lighter, and it required 1$ minutes to realise that the roll ers had been cut out This was taken care of. and after the next dozen or so. the ink be- ? came too heavy ? result of opening the ink fountain pot cocks while the roller was dis engaged. t ? o-a-e - It was Just a plain case of demoralization, <md I suppose wo did as well as possible last week in the faco of a rough schedule. Next day we found another reason. What could one expect with an issue dated Fri day, the thirteenth? o-a-o We're hoping for batter things. | with that rough date passed, o-a-e The weather has been plumb unseasonable for January, I which m tails that there may be I something to that "June in i January" song El Bingo Crosby popularised many moons ago j . . 1 am not much for unsea- , son able weather, preferring I that it be hot when if s suppos ed to be and cold when its sup posed to be . . . and 1 am also reminded that I'm glad again I'm not a peach farmer . . . wouldn't be surprised to see the bads a-poppln' any day if warm weather continues . . . bat it's usually warm for a spell in January .t. . and cold at Caster here . . . o-a-e I ' With the polio fund cam ! paign underway, it's a1 re ; minder that giving season is , here again, with the Bay Scout drive and Red Cross drive not I far distant . . . talks are some times inclined to complain a bout the number and frequen cy of charitable appeals, -bat there are few that find they hare really given too much out the income tax reports . . . then thsy find that the total of contrltmtkms doesn't add up to near as much as they thought it would, nor. foe income tax j purposes. they wish It would . ? , Other Editors' Viewpoints DRAGGING THEIR FEET (Stanly News and Press) This Is the season o> the year when a great many calls will be made f<jr contributions to various causes and for dues to certain civic organizations. i In this connection, it might be well to point out two things: I (1) The men who get out and ,make the calls do It through a sense of civic pride, k costs them in dollars and cents to be away from their business establish ments. but they feel that the causes are worthy ? that the community will be at better one If we respond generously to the causes and pay liberally to those worthwhile organizations that have as itheir purpose the better ment of the city. (2) The men who give grading ly or not at all, or who give only a small part of what they should give, are literally "dragging their feet," and are making the task harder for those in <he first group. This world would indeed be a beter one If those who could and should walk would do so instead of "dragging their feet." * . Negro Farmers Seek Better Dairy Stock Quality of the dairy stock own ed by Negro farmers in Bladen County will be improved consid erably as a result of recent pur chases, says A; C. McLendon, Ne gro county agent for the State College Extension Service. > ' The purchases include 20 reg istered Jersey bull calves and one heifer, ail obtained from Biltmore Dairy Farms near Asheviile. The heifer was placed with R. D. Cro martie, and the bulls were dis tributed among 4-H Club and New Farmers of America mem bers and adult farmers. "I believe this* addition to, the Hairy stock will tfuiia* up our dairy Interest by supply ing the county with some good heifer offsprings," say s M*Len don. He adds that Negro farmers in the county now have a total of 28 registered bulls, and perma nent pasture acreage was increa- ' sed last fall from 21 to 119 acres. Perry Simpson, Malcolm Tread well, and Landis Riggans, NFA members at Bladen County Train lng School, received three of the ' bulls. Jack Brown and W. Davis, East Arcadia NFA boys, received j two. Hie 4-H members receiving bulls were Alfred Neil, Robert Melvin, J. Smith and L. Shaw. Adult farmers obtaining bull , calves included J. B. Carter, A. 7. Smith, Preston Bowen, Mrs. Callle B. Carter, Mrs. James A. Melvin and W. L. Shaw. CARD OF THANKS I We wish to extend our many, thanks and appreciation tor the kindness shown us by our nei ghbor /and friends during ths loftg Illness and death of our husband and father, January 10. His constant prayer was that each of our friends meet him in Heaven one day. May God Bless you all. Mrs. Graver Hoyle and Children Statement of Condition Associatifll - c c-r- v ?. . ? :' ' M % i ?. t V ??1 *" | " v.. 'v ! v ' of Kings Mountain, N. C, as of December 31, 1949 (Copy oi Sworn Statement Submitted To The Commissioner of Insurance a* Required by Law.) Assets THE ASSOCIATION OWNS: Cash on Hand and in Banks $ 30,850.94 State of North Carolina and U. S. Government Bonds . . . . $ 89,800.00 Stock in Feleral Home Loan Bank ' $ Mortgage Loans , . . . . $744,231.59 Money loaned to shareholders for the purpose of enabling them to own their homes. Each loan secured by first mort gage on local improved real estate. . ^ Share Loans $ 9,776.00 Advances made to our shareholders against their shares. No loan exceeds 90% of amount actually paid in. , Advances for Insurance, Taxes, Etc. $ 171.57 Office Funiiture and Fixtures $ 600.00 Office Building $ 12,500.00 Real Estate Owned $ Real Estate Sold Under Contract . . I $ Other Assets . $ 2,226.41 TOTAL $890,156.51 / Liabilities THE ASSOCIATION OWES: , To Shareholders ?j Funds entrusted to our care in the form of payments on shares as follows: Installment Shares $ 94,704.75 Full-Paid Shares $475,90000 Prepaid Shares $ 3,626.00 Running Shares $249,285.27 Other Shares $ $823,516.02 Notes Payable, Federal Home Loan Bank Nono Notes Payable, Other None . , .... v MfiOfXjiPXKWed fojoise in making loans to members, or re - wring matured shares. Each note approved by at least two thirds of entire Board of Directors as required by law. Accounts Payable ?. $. Loans in Process % . '. $.... Undivided Profits \ ........ t $ 11,598.77 Earnings held in trust for distribution to share- holders at maturity of their shares. . Federal Insurance Reserve (If Insured) $ Reserve for Contingencies ,....? $ 55,000.00 To be used for the payment of any losses, if sustained. This reserve increases the safety and strength of the Association. _ _ ? Other Liabilities ...... $ 41.72 ....TOTAL $890,156.51 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CLEVELAND ss: A. H. PATTERSON, Secretary-Treasurer of the p.bove named Asso ciation personally appeared before me this day, and bt.-ing duly sworn, says that the foregoing statement is true to the best of his knowledge and belief. A. H. PATTERSON, Secretary-Treasurer Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 13th day of January, 1950. Mildred L. Moss, Notary Public. My Com. Ex. 4-16-51 ' The Herald - $2.00 Per Year * - ? - ? A KINC AID'S G | ? '
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