The Kings Mountain Herald
Established 1889
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain
and its vicinity, published every Friday by the Herald Publishing House.
Entered as second class matter at the portofflce at Kings Mountain, N. under Act
of Congress of March 3, 1873.
Editorial Department
Martin Harmon Ed Hot Publisher
Oh a r lea T. Carpenter, Jr . Sports, Circulation, News
Mrs. P. D. Hern don .......... Society
Mechanical Department
Eugene Matthews Horace Walker Ivan Weaver
Paul Jackson Charles Odems
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
And as ye go. preach, saying. The kingdom of heaven is at hand. St. Matthew 10:7.
Next Project
%
The title of this editorial is very hope
ful, for it refers to a needed "next pro
ject' in Kings Mountain.
That, again ? and it is probably get
ting tiresome to readers of the Herald ? ?
is a hotel for Kings Mountain.
Efforts have been made by local citi
zens and groups of citizens time and time
again to advance such a project, but
they have never jelled.
There are some bad features, of course.
Hotel operators will be quick to report
that investment in a hotel is not one of
the sure ways to fortune. The economic
mortality rate for hotel corporations is
-r- high, and, frequently, they don't begin
to pay off until the water has been
squeezed out
This factor, as much as any other one,
has probably prevented the construc
tion of a hotel here previously.
At the same time, the need still exists,
and it is further accentuated every day.
Kings Mountain's possibilities for a
hotel that would pay off, or at least
break even, appears much better than
those of some communities which al
ready have paying hotels. There is the
acknoweldged puii of the Kings Moun
tain National Military Park, the High
way 29 and 74 crossroads, and the fur
ther fact that commercial travelers v/f
ten prefer the smaller community ho
tels than the larger, big-city variety.
The Kings Mountain man who spear
heads the building of a good, if smbll,
hotel in Kings Mountain would get the
accolade hot only as the "Man of the
Year," but the "Man of the Decade," even
if the project cost his investors some
money in the long run. With the hospital
underway, Kings Mountain is coming in
a fair way toward being well-rounded in
most of its community needs.
Our congratulations to Haywood
Lynch on his assuming the presidency
of the advisory board of Jacob S. Mauney
Memorial Library. Mr. Lynch has long
been interested in the development of a
library in Kings Mountain and he will
serve the board with interest and en
thusiasm.
Two big nights remain in the district
junior college basketball tournament.
The word from local citizens who have
seen some of the teams play is that the
junior college boys play with finesse and
ability which would do justice to many
senior colleges. It's a good program for
Kings Mountain, and the gymnasium
should be packed to over-flowing.
A best bow to the organizers and offi
cers of the new Kings Mountain Commu
nity Chorus. Though the Herald is prone
to wonder at times if the city is already
over-organized, it excepts the Communi
ty Chorus. During the past 20 years, too
many people have been satisfied to take
their music the easy way, via radio and
the movies. At the same time, singers
don't develop by listening to others, and
good choral music is among the best.
V " - ? ? ?
The GI insurance dividends currently
coming through the mail look mighty
good to the ex-service men getting them,
and caused the Gastonia Gazette to
comment that, for the veteran, GI in
surance is the best deal on earth. The
taxpayer pays the administrative costs
(Which must be huge), and the only de
pletion on the "kitty" is death claims.
It's hard on the taxpayer, but a veteran
should have the insurance. Those who
have dropped their insurance should
make arrangements to have it re-in
stated.
No Middle Ground
Thus far it appears that there has
been no middle ground in the dispute be
tween American Telephone and Tele
graph Company and CIO Communica
tions Workejrs union representative 9f its
employees.
Each group ? as is not unusual in
church fights, labor disputes, politics
and about everything else ? seems in
tent on selling the public on its own side,
without admitting that a middle ground
of right for both sides exisits.
The Herald does not claim to know
the story behind the efforts of the Com
munications Workers to get more mon
ey, and is inclined to agree with the com
pany that the union has not expressed
much willingness to bargain.
At the same time, some of the propa
ganda put out by the telephone company
in its effort to rally public opinion to the
side has been weak in logic and puerile
in presentation.
Prime example was the paragraph ap
pearing in the Southern Bell advertise
ment of last weekend which read: "It
would be unfair to give telephone people
? 'who get good wages now ? an increase
that would put them out in front of oth
er workers, when the telephone custom
er would have to pay the bill." That
statement indeed is unusual for a com
pany which prides itself in its basic be
lief in the free enterprise system.
At the same time, the union is wrong
and should be prosecuted under the Taft
Hartley Act, if it walks out prior to the
termination of the present contract on
June 5, 1950. As the company proposes,
there should be plenty of time left to ad
just a contract across the bargaining
table prior to that date, and without re
source to an arbitration board.
The Kiwanis Club's gift to an invalid
Negro woman, Willie McCrimmon, was
a most interesting one. Her ability to
sew well, even though paralyzed from
the waist down and unable to sit erect,
is truly amazing. The gift itself is inter
esting because it is an effort by a local
organization to make an indigent person
self-supporting or at least partially self
supporting. If more social work took the
form of aid of this type, rather than
hand-outs, the indigent would be happi
er and tax bills would be less.
News that Kay McCarter is recovering
satisfactorily from her serious heart op
eration must have been most graitfying
to all those who had a part in giving her
a chance to live. Had more funds been
needed than the $1,107 actually donated,
the Herald is confident that they would
have been supplied^ for several citizens
have offered contributions since the
fund appeal was concluded.
The Herald is inclined to believe that
the city board made a wise move in or
dering further study of the electric rate
situation before finally vetoing the pos
sibility of installing a lone light rate. The
Herald believes in the basic fairness of
the proposal and further feels that the
city has an opportunity to save consider
able over-head through its adoption.
Some citizen you know will more than
likely be around this week to pick up
your check for the Kings Mountain dis
trict Boy Scout organization. The citizen
will be a friend, and he wHl be a busy
man, taking time off from his work to
help the Boy Scouts. A good policy will
be to have the check ready, to conserve
his time and yours.
?f /\ TEARS AGO Items of news taken frotr the 1940 filet of the
1U THIS WEEK Kings Mountain Herald.
Safety ? one orf the paramount
issues in -the world today was
brought direotfy to the boys and
girls of Kings Mountain yester
day during the installation serv.
Joes of the Safety Patrol sponsor
ed by the Lions Club.
The stack in the business that
was felt during the cold weather
1* M<me and folks are busy sell
ing and buying more than ever
before.
SOCIAL AND KBONAL
The meeting of the American
Legion Auxiliary w?, held at the
home of Mrs. J. M. Rhea on Tues
day afternoon with Mrs J. E.
Mauney, as co^hostesa.
Mra. E W. Neal was hostess to
members of her book club enter
taining at the home of Mrs'. II. M.
Cooper last Thursday evening.
Members of the Woman's Bible
Class of the Boyce Memorial A HP
church were entertained at the
home of Mrs. Grady Patterson on
Monday evening with Mrs. Pat
tersOn, Mrs. ?. L. Black and Miss
Free love Black as hostesses.
Miss Marjorte Rhea, student et
Meredith college. Raleigh, win
spend the weekend at -her home
in King* Mountain.
Mrs Arthur Hay haa returned
from Palm Harbor, Pla., where
she was a guest of Mrs. C. C.
Nettler.
Mrs. Norman Morow of <3sa
toots was e guest of Mas S. W.
Griffin during the weekend.
Mrs. Joe Thomson and Mrs.
Grady King spent MondSy in
Charlotte.
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By Martin Harmon
(Containing bit# of m*l wis
dom, humor, and comment To
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Television Evening
I indebted to Mr. and Mr#.
Skimp Stow* lor today's col
umn as wo II as for a most
pleasant evening, spent recent
ly In the Stowe's movie house.
No. Skimp hasn't opened a
theatre, but his living room
has been converted into a tele
vision room as well* and seeing
the show, so to speak, is much ,
like seeing a movie. Skimp has i
a beautiful big set with a large
screen, and the characters come
in real well. It was the first 1
medicinal sitting as a televis
ion audience. Of course. I bnd
soon the stuff when WBT first
started broadcasting, and 1
must treport the broadcasts
have Improved considerably
since.
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We got in for the tail-end of
the youngsters' delight. H ?pa
long Cassldy. then caught the
Ed Wynn and Ken Murray
shows and the T-V news. It was
really an interesting evening.
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Skimp, as would be expected
considering his long-time ex
perience with radio of all typ
es ? from short-wave ham op
erations to the commercial va
riety ? was one of the first
local folk to get really excited
by the approaching T-V era.
Shortly after broadcasts started
from the Charlotte station.
Skimp had remarked, Tou
know, some people after see
ing the first broadcasts here
are inclined to be right disap
pointed about this television
stuff. What they're getting
isn't near as good as the mov
ies, and probably won't be for
sometime. They'll have to get
ineli ^inijiiinslef improved^
and their broadcasting techni
ques Improved. But if you
?Mwh it through, television Is
still pretty wonderful, even In
its present stags. Just think a
bout seeing the guy that's do- j
lng the talking right then and
there I"
t-e ,
Progarmming and production
Is improving already. s and,
needless to say. Skimp Is still
pretty excited about it all.
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The medicine man Is some
what excited too. though not to
the point yet that he's ready
to Invest in a set. But It does
gst you, this business of tele
vision, and if s quits possible
that a few more sittings could
make me ready to sign my
name on the dotted line for
$50 down and the rets in easy,
convenient, never-mlss-lt week
ly payments. Momentarily. I
thought I got helped out a lit
tle bit on the down-payment
department this week when my
Gl insurance dividend arrived
quicker than 1 had expected.
But if s already earmarked for
the rat- hole, coming just in
Hm? to help out with March
15th income tax day.
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But I'm digressing as usu
al ...
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Sldmp's set is a Fada, I be
Ueve. and has 20-odd tubes.
This, he reports. Is an improv
ed model, as some of the first
had as many as 30-odd.
t-e
So for the shows are still a
little weak, though Ed Wynn
puts out a pretty good show
and so does Murray. What the
T-V boys are already finding
out is that more work will be
required to put on a T-V show
than the regular radio show,
and, as more sets are bcagbt
competition will get keener to
put out better programs. Ken
Murray has already cut his
show to an evtef-other-waek
model and it Is likely that the
better ones will eventually run
only about once per month.
Skimp thinks. For what a T-V
broadcast amounts to is the pro
duction of a show Just like a
stage production. Even experts
can't memorize lines and get
the timing sight on a once-a
week schedule. In radio there
Is the script sheet but the
script has to be thrown away
for T-V.
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It also av pears that televis
ion Is tha greatest thing for ac
ter; Sxhe nottXL both -real ?d
imagined. aniouUed and net
Hiiliiiifoit than the hey -de* of
vaudeville. The radio ?d '
sowrd on the movie screen put
the Mds under I'MrfMlll
Now it appears that televttten
?sight bring i t back, with the
1Mb yewr living room (or the
' ioow ftn tbf*
ease ssay be.) Hollywood Is re
ported wonted dmt ?he T-V
Snpact bat Hollywood can
?Met He.lt. with better Mrtpt
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By A, C. Gordon]
CROSSWORD
Other Editors*
Viewpoints
-Urrfr PREVENT ABUSES
? (Sraithfleld Herald)
Last year brought a rise in un
employment in the United States.
Department of Commerce figures
show an average of 3,400,000 un
employed in 1919, quite a Jump
from the 2,100,000 average l.i 1&47
and 1948.
The increase resulted in record-,
breaking payments of unemploy
ment insurance. While these
payments brought forth a wave
of fresh criticism against patern
alistic government, k remains
that the majority of American
people have approved the prin
ciple of unemployment compen
sation.
There is nothing wrong with
the principle. It is based on hu
manitarian ideals, it has the
practical advantage of offering
the country a cushion against de
pression tendencies.
But the principle of unernploy
expansion for the bigger
screens that are sure to come.
?-?
Five years should mean much
in T -V. They're already talking
color, and its anybody's guess
how many Mta will be sold be
tween now and Feb. 17, 1955.
ment insurance can be abused by
poor administration. The people
have a right to expect the admin,
istration to be on guard to pre
vent habitual loafers from taking
undue advantage of the insur
ance plan. And the people have
the duty to cooperate with the
tsggssisdfcrmt
which they may detect.
TURKISH TOBACCO
(Forest City Courier)
' Latest reports from the County
Agent's office indicate now that
more than 200 Rutherford county
farmers will plant Turkish tobac
co this year, ?? a cash crop or
supplemental cash crop.
Regardless of how well a farm
er may plan his crops and diver
sify, there will always be a need
for cash crops, and In this area
that has always meatn cotton.
With this winter's warm weather,
it will not only be useless, but
almost foolish to try to grow cot
ton this year. The fields and
woods are saturated with boil
weevils, and at the first Mnt of
summer they will swarm over
die fields Hke a plague o< lo
custs, sweeping every stalk of
cotton before them.
Therefore, Rutherford farmers
must look elsewhere this year for
a cash crop. Local investigation
has about ruled out th^ prospect
for castor beans this year. Es
tablishment of a dairy herd and
permanent pasturesls" a continu
^EWEILfiy
^ble prices
ing process, and little can be ex
pected the first year from an'in*'
vestment. It see/na that the farm
ers' best bet this years is Turkish
tobacco.
Rutherford's so(l is peculiarly
adapted to the growth of this
plant, and there is a ready steady
market assured at a good price.
Cultivation methods are intense,
and it requires a lot of work to
make an acre of tobacco, but re
turns from an acre are astronom
ical compared to returns from an
acre of cotton. In fact, a farmer
In most instances can make more
from one acne of Turkish tobac
co than he can from ten or 12
acres of cotton. Curing methods
are simple.
Therefore, we feel that Ruther
ford farmers are wise in switch
ing from cotton to Turkish tobac
co, and after a year's experiment
among the limited few now
planting, we believe many oth
??.**? Join the ranks and make
? l the prlr.dpetl
Turkish tobacco counties in the
state.
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