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The Kings Mountain Kezald Establish?*lM-v A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and publMied lor the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Klnga Mountain and Its vicinity, published every Friday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the postofftce at Kings Mountain, N. C., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. ? ' 1 ' 1 1 " ' ' ' J Editorial Department Martin Hannoa Ed Koc- Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr. . . . Sports, Circulation, News St&tfx. Mechanical Department Eugene Matthews Horace Walker Ivan Weaver Paul Jackson Charles Odema TELEPHONES: Society. 167; Otter. 283 SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR? 52.00 SIX MONTHS ? $1.10 \ THREE MONTHS? .60 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart. Proverbs 3:3. The Senate Race Announcement last weekend by Wil lis Smith, of Raleigh, that he will be a candidate for the United States Senate ? seeking the four years remaining on the term of the late J. M. Broughton ? means that the race will be even more in- ? teresting than had originally appeared. The Herald is not acquainted with Mr. Smith, except through the second-hand mediums of information that he is a for mer president of the American Bar As sociation and a former state legislator. However, a glance at newspaper com ment across the state regarding the Smith .candidacy indicates that the Graham - Smith - Reynolds - Boyd - DOS* away. battle. may develop ? jttM> a new model replica of the Scotwohrjson gu bernatorial race two springs ago, with former Senator Reynolds figuring strongly. Dr. Frank Graham is the Scott ap ointee, and it appears that the Smith acking may come from quarters which Were, strictly anti-Scott two years ago and still are. Of course, there always has been, and always will be, some crossing of lines. The only Valid objetion the Herald knows to Dr. Graham is a few of his lib eral policies, which also take on the as pects of liberality with respect to Uncle Sam's treasury, which, in turn, means our money. If Mr. Smith is, as reported, a little more middle-ground with respect to advancing the Truman administration social programs, his candidacy will at tract a large number of Votes. Most commentators are already pre dicting a second primary in this race, and that seems to be a safe prediction. It also seems reasonably safe to predict that the two top men after the May 27th voting will be Graham and Smith. Key Club The Kiwanis Club youth organization committee has done a good job in its successful organization of ..he Kings Mountain Key Club, an organization of high school boys who are being trained at an earlier age than is customary in certain of the moral obligations every citizen owes to the community In which he lives, be it large or small. The purposes, aims and activities of the Key Club to a school is comparable to the Kiwanis club's (and most civic clubs) to a community. And, for the high school population, the school is the com munity, the Center of not only educa tional effort, but of recreational and so cial activities as well. ? ? , ; v The Herald feels that the Kiwanis Club has done all concerned a good turn, the school, the community, itself and? most important ? the individual Key Club members. r Our congratulations to the officers and charter members of the Kings Moun tain Key Club. A farmer's group always likes to hear what its commissioner of agriculture has to say, and there is good reason for It. ? The economics of agricuJ*ure has become so tied in with politics, what with quotas and subsidies, that the commissioner can constantly be in position to give needed information to those who till the ? soil. Thus the Lions Club deserves to be congratulated on obtaining Commis sioner of Agriculture L. Y. (Stag) Bal lentine to speak at its annual Farmer's Night banquet. "Our congratulations to the city admin istration for the South Piedmont avenue parking change. While parallel parking might sharpen the tempers of some Bap tists and some Herald staff members for a time, we are equally confident that the South Piedmont avenue mortality rate for auto fenders will decrease considera bly. Not many streets In Kings Mountain are sufficiently wide for angle parking. New Merchants Year As the merchants move into a neiy year in their organization, the Kings Mountain Merchants association, the Herald takes the liberty of publicly won dering whether>the merchants are spend ing enough money on the one organiza tion devoted exclusively to merchants affairs. Merchants are among the first-visiteo in almost all charitable financial cam paigns and other fund-raising efforts, and they have a record in Kings Moun tain of giving and of giving liberally. Of course, one method of increasing the services and activities of the association la the formation of a Chamber of Com merce, with a merchants division .con tinuing to handle merchants' business, which is more specific in nature than the broader programs such as Chambers of Commerce advance. The broadened fi nancial base of a CharAber of. Commerce would provide the money necessary to employ sufficient full-time personnel, and the Herald is further confident that the industrial and professional represen tatives who would most certainly be at tracted by a Chamber of Comerce would be certain to get their money's worth. These remarks are not offered in any tenor of criticism, for the Herald still feels, as it remarked on the occasion, that the present operational arrange ment of the Merchants Association is as good or better than it has previously been. Give This Week Several lines of type have already been devoted, during the past recent is sues of the Herald, to the 1950 Red Cross campaign, the continued and con tinuing need for its suppoit, and of its services as Number 4 Township's princi pal welfare agency. Most people may not be aware of it, but there's plenty of welfare work to be done, good times and bad. The principal reminder today is that the people who are doing the job of rais ing the money with which to operate this valuable agency during the coming year are busy people, giving freely of their time and energy to help a worthy appeal. They should be met with waiting checks. The current year should see the com pletion of hard-surfacing of the Oak Grove-Kings Mountain Road, the first county road to be paved under the state's $200 million rural road-paving program. Some are inclined to feel that this area did not get quite as good treat ment in the first phase of the program as it should have, and, considering the fact that rural road-paving around Kings Mountain had been almost com pletely unheard of for many years, the critics may have a point. At the same time, the Herald js confident that High way Commissioner Graham is aware of the situation, and that some effort at helping the Kings Mountain area to cat ch up during the remaining phase of the program will be made by him. The fact of one road-paving job is a big improve ment over prior history. The tragic death last Saturday of Rob-' ert David Miller came as a great shock to this community, as it was to his fami ly and many friends. If Bob Miller had ever harmed anyone, we hadn't heard about it. He was of most friendly and courteous disposition and he was well regarded by all wtio knew him. Attend the layree Minstrel of 1950 on Tuesday night. The wo?d from Javcc of ficials is that the show viiJ be one, and it's being advertised ? ~ r-u; old-fashioned minstr*1 *>:'.? "il cast. Little more needs be faid. 10 TEARS AGO items of new* token from the 1940 files of the THIS WEEK Kings Mountain Herald. The "Parent-Teacher First Aid room at Central School is begin ning to take definite Shape, with many of the needed piece* ot e quipment already In place and some of k In use/ ^ j, ^1; The Pearl Fulton Memorial Heading Medal, presented annu ally by the family of |be farmer Central School teacher, waa won last Thursday evening by Miss Vivian Prince, member ot the Ju nior class of Central high school ?Qcial Am femonju. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thompeon en tertained at a dinner ? bridge i last Friday evening. Colorful cut "flowers and pot plants were arranged in thelivlng room and dining room. Mrs. Blllle Mauney will enter tain this afternoon the Ace of Clubs, a new bridge club consis ting of twe tables. This is the first meeting of the dub. The of Ruffln, N. C., are guests of ifrs. M. L. Houser. , v; v Miss Ollie 1 1.< rifan] i and Miss Helen Stewart attended the Na t tonal Beautician Thrum held at Hotel Charlotte, Charlotte, this Mrs. Jonah B Fells, nee Miss Ethel Word, of Vera'sBeauty Shop atteiMed the N. C. Cesrwetltogist "TV^r mw-up earn Wlfc >?>??" "I want my cus martin's medicine By Martin Harmon tetoaMMng bits ot nmw.-wUf ? . >. humor, and osaUMStii To 'FMpiwSf ag riith Candle This p*ec? could bar* b?stt titled any of several. caul d#-/.' would hare fit the bill. It could have been called "Five-Year ?PUm," aad while there's no con jMMft'- to ' the loo Stalin rke?*li !i - related in a degree. Or it might hare been called "Catching Up." Better still might be Try ing to Catch Up." The title choeon is correct too. however, for it does mark the closing out of the medl-rtnal department's fifth year. t)M 280th medicinal concoction of bits of "news, wisdom, humor and comment" and 1 trust the good readers havo taken tho di rections literally and avoided over-dosage. Over-dosage Just plain won't do. whether ff3iJ': Martin's medicine, castor oil or an tl - histamine. (You'll note 1 did not Include the now wonder medicine HadacoL a> no report has yet been received from tho medicinal research division.) But back on the trade .... f-c ?: In a way. operation of the medicine column and the Her ald for tho past five years (the anniversary date was March 2) has been somewhat like, tho first Busslan five-year plan of sharing tho wealth, only there hasn't been much wealth. >At any rate, the short, swift five years have boon devoted to reg ular visits, to the creditors with interest payments and/or dis count payments, not only for the original outlay, but' for now machinery. t'JB I can not a mechanical man. My Unit Introduction to the in tricacies of gears and cam oper ations was .in Uncle Sam's ' navy, and tbe introduction was too hasty to gather even. fr speaking knowledge of them. Thus 1 hit the Herald virtually plumb cold on the matter of tools, and qfcickly had thrust upon me the basic fact ef life that a carpenter must have a hammer, saw. nails, scaffolds and various and sundry other accountrements before he can start building a house. f-c Publishing a newspaper is exactly the same. It merely re quires different toob. nch as pr?? ? , saws, linotype machin es. typo, and other odds and ends that rate more important nomenclature when the Invol ces arrtve. lt also helps If the machinery is in relatively good condition, for it's a considera ble strain on the constitution and nervous system when the tools of the trade are aged and infirm and held together with baling wire. Baling wire is all right for emergencies, bat lfll always break at the moet Inop portune moment. f-c Which is a prelude to report ing that thf medicinal depart ment has been limited on the so-called luxuries of life during the past hall-decade. There are two major exception*. The year IMS was an "one op Uon" year and | spent it like a sailor on shore leave. To wit. 1 bought a new automobile and took unto myself a wife. 1 made that re mark to a recently-married young man the other day. and. though I can't reveal his name. 1 can report that be was rather definite in the opt&ion that the latter - mentioned luxury Is quite an expensive ens. How ever, now being somewhat over the initial shock of the venture. I can console him with the promise of better things to come. For one doesn't bay furniture every year. ' f-c From the standpoint of the Harold (and it goes for a vidua! it's a mating how plans and ambitions change. When I concocted Martin's Medicine about today fivo years ago. I did not dare to Imagine that the end of five years weald find all motor eqptjpaaee' _ (fust accomplished with daddy-sts* newspay in January.) a large number of relatively minor odditHaa. and '"> and thiee-^aaAiisj>igj mvw en phis. (The odd I.) 1 would __ IMS that the Bd have had the completely caught ap. It I On anniversary day 19S4, it ap pears w? art lust Martin?. H reminds me vary much of ? bit ei 1" I CHOSSWORD By A. (.. Gordon ?' ? ? ? ? i Other Editor's ORGANIZATION ASTRAY (L?xltlgton Dispatch) We had thought that about ev erybody had organized almost every wayp ossdble. But we were wrong. One day this week there came through the mail an urgent plea for an association for the protection of stray cats for the editor to try and <k> something a bout the awful slaughter among this division of Uving things. Evidently editors have been so engrossed in such routine sub jects as the possible slaughter of whole populations by use of atomic "borrftxs of varying de structive degrees that they have overlooked something right under, their noses ? or their windows at night. The press is palpably neglecting Its duty toward stray cats. t Stray cats do have some pow erful enemies. Many hunters who go afield at considerable in vestment In prepararation - and time and return empty-handed often blame their poor luck on the ground that prowling cats got there first. Signs along our paved roads in the morning indicate the perambulating pussies come out best against night highway traf fic. Maybe the tabbies should carry tall lights for protection. Frankly, about the orily prac tical protection we can think of for the stray cat army Is a bet ter system of kitten birth con trol. Then legitimate owners wouldn't have so much surplus to deposit on the premises of un willing neighbors. It may sound s lktle hard hearted, but we sometimes won der If society is not a bit over organized, even here in our nei ghborly small cHy; so we must decline to lend a hand to forming a local society for the protection of friendless felines. rf ? ~ - y.? -h minq 0 gradually improving mun?7*intertst, reporting tbs aews objectively and *s It hap pened. and X believe the Her ald has maids good on the pro mise. At the same time, I rec ognise that the promise oenld not harm been fulfilled without of the east majority of the peo ple the Hssakl serves. f4T ? PRESCRIPTION . SERVICE Doctor* fn PIMM 41? ?1 NO LAWS? MUCH TALK (Transylvania Times) Congress during the month of January failed to enact a single law, but one should r?ot infer from this that the lawmakers were Idle. Decidedly not. The house was in session 17 days for 94 hours, the senate was in ses sion <19 days for 94 hours and the debate filled 1280 pages of the Congressional Record, at not less than 9100.00 a- page. The senate passed three bills and the - house one. NORTH CAROLINA, s CLEVELAND COUNTY. NOTICE ' The undersigned having quali fied as Administratrix of the Es tate of J. B. Self, deceased, late of Cleveland Oourity, this I* to no tify all persons having claims a gainst said Estate to present them to the undersigned on or before the 17th day of February, 1951, or this notice will be plead ed 4n bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate will please make immediate pay ment to the undersigned. This the 17th day of February, 1950. ? Mrs. J. B. Self, Administratrix of the Estate of J. B. Self, deceased. 1 Beware Coughs From Common Colds That HANG ON ? Creoniulsioo relieve* prompt I y because it goes right to the scat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. Tell your druggist to sell you ft bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding you mutt tike the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have vour money bark. CREOMULS'GN for Coughs, Chest Colds, bronci THE HERALD *2.00 PER YEAR eyes examined glasses pitted DR. D. M. MORRISON OPTOMETRIST IN KINGS MOUNTAIN On Each Tuesday and Friday Afternoons Hours I to 5 9. M. MORRISON BUILDING Telephone 316-J - AFPOINTMElft IN SHELBY Monday, Wednesday and SATURDAY lANtoSV.H. Tuesday and TiMi! - ' ? A. M. to IS Noon Banter Building Telephone 1064 ?Quality Cleaning? That's The Brand Ton CM At WEAVER'S CLEANING ?? ? > ? ? - i tl&jZ, -v. .? ?>. ; ? - ' Phone 568-J ?ADO AMD TIUVtStON STAB UNNY ROSS YTi ; ? ? i. ?AOtO ANO RCCOSMNO Am* FRAN WARREN FAMOUS (KMtTSCASiat ,i ' BILL STERN *?S, CAMS IS *K SO MIU> ? Ims ?? ?t m<a mn4 MOT ON? SI NO LI CASS or netoAi mmitatsom IUTZ-YELTON
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