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The Kings Mountain Herald Established 1889 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the genera) welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and vicinity, published every Friday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second .ilass matter at the postofflce at Kings Mountain, N. C., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. Editorial Department Martin Harmon Editor- Publisher diaries T. Carpenter, Jr. , Sports, Circulation, News Mm P. ?. Herndon Society Mechanical Department Eugene Matthews Horace Walker Ivan Weaver Paul Jackson Charlas Odsms __ ~ i - ' ? ' ? ?? ' ' '? ' TELEPHONES; Society. 167; Other, 283 SUBSCRIPTION BATES, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR ? $2.00 SIX MONTHS? $1.10 / THREE MONTHS? .60 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE For the commandment is a lamp; and thelaw is light; and reproofs ol instruction are the way of life. Proverbs 6:23. County Races At 6 o'clock Saturday afternoon, the deadline passed for filing for county po litical offices, and it appears that Cleve land County citizens will be in for an in teresting six wefcks. Though many offices are uncontest-: ed, there are sufficient contests to gen erate plenty of enthusiasm on the part of the average citizen. Actually, it would take only one race ? the sheriff's con test ? to generate the enthusiasm, for the sheriff's race always attracts more interest than any other. Most people will tell you that Former Sheriff Raymond Cline is the man to beat -.-.in.-Uiks .pr Unai-# .fish t*^h u uttUatfiaay will adcTTnat Uioy are voting Tor etfhenit^ cumbent Hugh A. Logan, Jr., or Former Deputy Haywood Allen. Observers will add- that considerable heat and fire will come out of this race .before the May 27th voting. It has all the elements of a three-way grudge fight. Mr. Cline is an old antagonist of Former Sheriff I. M. Allen, father of the current candidate for sheriff. And Haywood Allen is the form er chief deputy of Sheriff Logan. But the purpose of this editorial was not to get involved in the sheriff's per sonality fight, but to comment on the candidacies of Wayne L. Ware and Whit ney Wells for the county board of educa tion and of Hazel B. Bumgardner for the county board of commissioners. The Herald nat urally has a keen inter est in its own, meaning the Kings Moun tain area candidates, and wishes each ot them well in the May vo'ing. The Herald has a particular interest in the local area candidates, for East Cleveland has been without much representation in county affairs during the past two years. Ollie Harris is the county coroner and R. I,. Plonk and W. H. Lutz are members of the county board of school trustees. Otherwise, representatives from this area have been hard to find when check ing the geographic roll. It behooves all Kings Mountain peo ple to support their own candidates, and the Herald believes they will get some help in other parts of the county as well. Effort is being made to expand the membership of the Farm Bureau in Cleveland County and success is being reported. A number of farmers are be coming members in the Beth-Ware com munity. The Farm Bureau i^ a farmer's trade association, just as merenants' as sociations are the trade associations of merchants, and the National Association of Manufacturers is the trade associa tion of manufacturers. It would seem logical that farmers should Join the Farm Bureau. The Herald hopes that the city board of commissioners will see its way clear to install the necessary sewer line on Sims street. The sewer problem in this area is very bad, indeed, and no great amount of money is required to install the line. That area of Kings Mountain is a fastrgrowing one and should have this attention. Most folks have their fingers crossed on the approaching foreclosure sale on DuCourt Mills, Inc., properties. They are highly hopeful that the properties will be purchased by reliable manufacturing interests who can put the mill in opera tion in the near future. Census-taking time is about to end in the City of Kings Mountain for another ten years. Persons who have not been counted should call their enumerators, or drop them cards. Likelihood is that persons missed were away from home when the enumerator called. Kings Mountain citizens regret to learn that W. B. (Bill) Thomson is leav ing Kings Mountain to accept a position in Concord. While they will rejoice at his promotion in the field of textiles, they re gard the Thomson family as one they regret to lose. ??,.f ? ? ?? . ? Union Activity Efforts of the A. F. pf L. to organize the Frieda Mill plant at Crowder's Moun tain will be interesting to watch, as its handbill was interesting to read. Few can deny that unions, generally, at least those run by men with some measure of public interest in their make up, did some good work for employees during the thirties. However, the union picture today is not too good. The A. F. of L. has as a backdrop to its organizing effort at Frieda several de velopments of recent years and months which indicate that unions generally are more interested in the personal triumphs of their leaders than in the real welfare of their members. There was the long coal strike, when the miners were close to starvation; there was the recent "strong-arm" play at Charlotte, where the WBT radio tower blow-up plot was discovered in the nick of time; there is currently the Chrysler strike which has 87,000 people out of work and which has been running for almost three months. It is not a good backdrop for an orga nizing effort. Add to that the obvious ef fort of the A. F. of L. union to discredit the rival C. I. O. textile union, and it is easy to conclude that most unions today are more interested in increasing the power of their leaders than in promoting the welfare of their members. It is cer tainly something for a man to think about before he signs the all-inclusive union card, which assigns many of his individual freedoms to union leaders. Taxes And Railroads People are sometimes inclined to fuss about the railroads, when their train runs late, or when the express doesn't arrive quite as fast as it should, and some of the complaints have good grounds, perhaps. However, the value of railroads to the nation should not -be over-looked. As one man remarked recently, the nation can never get along without railroads for the mass movement of people and of heavy freight. Another factor which should me re membered by the citizens of the natidn, and by this community, is the fact that the railroads are tax-paying citizens of every community in which they live. In the recent issue of Ties, Southern Railway house magazine, J. C. Little john, business manager of Clemson Col lege, is quoted: "Without the taxes paid by the Southern Railway the local high school would not be possible.". In Cleveland County, Southern Rail way is one of the biggest taxpayers, and its city bill is no small thing. It would appear that majority of the people of Kings Mountain are pretty well convinced that the city needs a full-time administrator, the Kiwanis club having become the latest group to add its voice and weight to the matter. The Herald'B information is that the board of commis sioners has come around to that feeling too. Now the problem is to find the man ? one who will have the personality, knowledge, and energy to properly dis charge the duties. There are such men available, but they aren't in over-abun dant supply. Kings Mountain citizens and some 15,000 Kiwanis delegates to the Interna tional Convention are in for a treat. We j refer t<? the concert here next Wednesday night by Miles and Ernest Mauney, duo- . pianists, and to the conceit they will play at the Kiwanis convention in Miami in May. It will be the first "at home" concert for the twins since they launched their professional careers, and our guess is that the high <tchool audi torium will be well-filled for the event A best bow to Lawrence Abbott, who has been elected president of the newly formed Men's Brotherhood of First Bap tist church. The men's organization is an important adjunct of the church. ? * ?? . 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news taken from the 1940 flies of the Kings Mountain Herald. The Kings Mountain Lions club ?WMs hosts Tuesday evening to farmers throughout the county. ? Commissioner W. Kerr Scott wa9 Mm main speaker. i ? SOCIAL AJfD PERSONAL ??? Mm. B: If. Barnes was hostess to member* of the Study Clut) on ' *?[?.< '? ; 1 ' ; ?Ci ~' ' Tuesday- afternoon.^^^^^^^^^ Mrs. E. A. Smith was hostess to her bridge club entertaining at her. home Tuesday afternoon. The Business Woman's Circle of the First Baptist churcn met at the home of Mrs. J. K. Willis on Monday evening with Mrs. Willie Among (hose who accompanied the band to Greensboro for the State Musk; com est -were: Mr. and Mrs. Byron Keeter, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Hum rick. Dr. and Mrs. L. P. Baker, Mrs. L. V. Shuford. and Superintendent and Mt?. B. W. ??,r?srrr ? ,7^: atedicine By Martiu Harmon (Containing blU of news, wis dom, humor, and bonuneni To b? taken weekly. Avoid i over-do*ago.> I Tales Of Sprfw-^ . ? * Spring is about to come, in spit* of the dying gap* of 1949-50 King Winter, and this means two big new seasons lor two medicinal favorites, base ball and politics. Both produce c lot of S?od stories, a lot a lot of fun ? If you don't take either too seriously. V . t-O-S But troll start with baseball, which officially opened in the major leagues this week, and which already sees the high school boys tolling for victory on the diamond, t-o-s William Plonk, the Legion Post's athletic director, has been a rabid baseball fan tar a' ] long time dating back several gray hairs to the days when he was secretary to then-Cong ress man Yates Webb in Washing ton and when Walter Johnson was the best pitcher in base ball. But William told a new one on himself the other night, which I'd never heard before. It was his one and only experien ce as an umpire and resulted in a decision never. to touch any similar duty the root of his life. t-o-? In France, during the first World War, there was a civilian Civil service group, which, while working for the army, was otherwise free of the rig ors of service discipline.- and this seeming favored treatment did not please the servicemen of that- day too welL?and par ticularly a marine ?rps de tachment stationed in the area. **4*9' ? Both groups bad a baseball team, and the marines challen ged the civil service outfit to a game. quite confident, of course, that the lousy civil ser- ] vice boys couldn't play base- j ball. The yarn* was scheduled , several days prior to the play ing date and the marines were as self-confident then as they were in World War II. The wa gers were flying thick and fast, and it was not unusual for a marine to give heavy odds and bet his all on the marine base ball team, ? ? ? t-o-s It was against this back- I ground that William got invol ved, just by being a nice fol low, No base umpire was to be found, and William, ?*r? army sergeant was about the closest neutral person available, and he agreed to serve. t-o-s To shorten a long story, the marines were not as superior as they thought they were, though they did enter the first of the ninth with a 2-1 lead. Here things started to pop. The first civil servicer walked, and the next batter really tailed one. The first runner scored, and the hitter rounded *ecqiif " charging for third. Umpire Plonk was behind the play be short and 996M94 and tbo throw was close. From the Plonk vantage point, the run ner was safe and ho spread his hands in the familiar way. The marines started hollering bloody murder,* and. to mahtf .. matter* worse, the next civil servicer sent a Texas Loaguier over short to put the name* behind M, Bedlam wan the keynote as tbo marine batters went down one. two* three. t-o-s William was not unaware of tli* Mlmn in the stands and, frankly, was not fooling too happy about the matter, 80 It was with groat rollof that ho found himself beside a 70U119 marine lieutenant he had known in Washington. "You'd hotter com* with me. and fasti" the lieutenant said, "tor these guys ore In mighty bad spirits." t-o-S About a week later, a group of marine* accosted the other umpire and accused him of being Umpir* Plonk. When ho protested that they had the wrong fellow, it made 'em < angrier, and they boat the poor innocent guy to a pulp. Wil liam said he didn't leave his qaartan foe a month tbereaft ter. Sm since, ho has taken his hftsehall from the safety of the ? ?> . ? *?*;-. , Politic* has Its funny stories m. and reminds that a mi, ' terity up hin^H| j this vein: Tee clerk of rtOS M f-.rt I'm ? ?**?*. t r*o mK my :ilin xvo 1 ly.hut his ?? had all they o<ml? #* aCTatch?d m tirJr? 1,1 S^sT^*0-1 w * 5TJ 5* By A . C. Cordon] CROSSWORD Government 44 ? To fore* air with violence through lb* now 44 ? Mineral tlnwiil 47? Parnate drer (pi.) 49 ? In the time past S?? Ventilates $1 ? Animal 53? Appraised $S ? United by treaty Into a league - DOWN I ? Scheme 1 ? What the candidate did for election .3? Either (abbrev ) 4 ? Grimace* (colloq ) 5 ? Satrr* 6? Man'i nickname ACROSS 1 ?The "top man" in a ? republic Void of embellishment 10 ? Dni|nl 11 ? Pan of the day 13? Posses* IS ? Measured duration 17? The thin?a a candidate for public office needi to win 19 ? Patent 1 I ? A cavity ? f 1 ? The pmident of an aasembly haa to do thia for attention ? 14 ? Personal pronoun IS? Language peculiar to ? peoptetpl.) J7 ? Picturesque Jl* ? Royal Law (abbrev ) ? io ? Measure af area SI ? Part of the human limb* (pt.) JS ? Soluble mineral salt 31? Symbol for tantalum 39 ? Compos* direction 40 ? United State* Senate ? ( abbrev ) 41 ? American Officeholders (abbrev ) 41? To subside 11 ? Baglike part a< a plant ;0 ? Newspaper announcement 11? Receive the vole* of the people 13 ? The highest part* 14 ? Not* at the musical ?rah 1* ? To irritate 15 ? National Recovery Administration (abbrev ) 11 ? A > .five viceroy of India 33- -Suffix used to denote feminine noun* 14? A legislative body 35 ? Dawn of the day 16 ? Abbreviation for tank landing craft 37? Scottish landed proprietor 43 ? A kind of meat 4 5 ^-Officer of the guard (abbrev ) 4 1? Secured 4S? Scottish "so" 8? Animal appendage 9 ? Italian river 1 1. ? Chemical symbol for samarium 1 1 ? Proposed a candidate ' faraflka 14? Weight (abbrev ) 1 6 ? The act of c boos in* men for public office afca J Other Editor's | FOR A CLEAN CAMPAIGN ? (Kin. -rt on Dally Free Press) There's an old saying that "ev erything is fair tn hove and poli tics." The saying is more theore tical than practical. The Free Press had hoped that the United States senatorial race so far as the principal candidates were concerned would be kept de cent and clean, free of mud-sling? ing. This paper was distinctly disappointed the other night | when Willis Smith; who is oppos ing Senator Frank P. Graham, stooped to the tactics of insinua tion and innuendo to attack Frank Graham and ascribe to him unpatriotic and subversive motives. It Wis beneath the dig nity of the campaign that Mr. I Smith was expected to conduct. There are those in the State and elsewhere who have undertaken jn the past to ascribe ulterior and subversive motives to Frank Gra ham and each time his traduc ers have come off as bad losers. Every investigation and Inquiry has resulted In strengthening him in the esteem of the people of this Stata and the country. Frank Graham may be more liberal in some Of his views than are the rank ond file of his fel low citizens. But they don't lack confidence In his integrity, in his ability and In the great service that he has rendered In every capacity in which he has served. As a teacher, as president of a great University, a a an emissary many times of his Government, as United States senator and in duthadi that the conversation ended forthwith. t-O-S Springtime is famous in ano too. an4 there in in Kings Mountain Battleground Cruising around through eourttn' couple stopped squarely In the middle of the road. and, a short time later, pamd ano ther car where It was hard to tell who was Sitting under the wheel, him or her. t-o-s But that subject would re quire more space than availa ble ^lor r r ? ' Transparcnf~Piasti< [ j&j* Finish every other capacity he has rend ered a service second to none. f We apprehend that Mr. Smith or any others who undertake to traduce the character of Frank Graham,, will find that the peo ple will rally to his support and resent such attacks. We repeat, let's keep the cam paign clean and decent. ' "Bargain" policies are only cheap ii you don't have a loss, but you buy insurance to protect you against loss, so get your money's ' worth by placing your busi ness through - this agency. Tried mm Tried WAT? Get Gulf's greatest gasoline? specially designed for today's powerful new engines lt'? great for NEW CARS and great for OLDER CARS (Good Gulf? our "regular" gMoline ? U better than ever, toot) COMFORT. CONVENIENCE 0 Maytag Washers ? Westinghonse Products ? Electric Ranges ? Refrigerators ? Myers Pumps ? Plumbing Installations 4 Logan Supply Co. Phono 317-W Cleveland Ave. - KING STREET GUU" SERVICE Brae* McDanleL Dealer ?. 1 - ? M-- 1 4* >?' V . ? 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