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The Kings Mountain Herald Established 1889 ' ? 1 11 11 , i ? A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and publlMied 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 jlass matter at the postofflce at Kings Mountain, N. C? under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. ?/ ' Editorial Department ? V Martin Harmon Editor- Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr i .... . Sports, Circulation, News Mrs. P. D. Herndon Society ? Mechanical Department ' Eugene Matthews Horace Walker Ivan Weaver v Paul Jackson Charles Odems TELEPHONES; Society. 167; Other. 283 SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PAVABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAK? $2 00 SIX MONTHS? $1.10 THREE MONTHS? .00 . - TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE J A faithful man shall obound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. Proverbs 28:20. Primary Post-Mortem The May 27th Democratic primary is over, and most people find that they vo ted for some winners and some losers. If there was any surprise in the re sults of the state-wide races, it was. that Senator Frank Graham polled sufficient votes to lead by over 50,000 in the hot, bitter fight between him and Willis Smith. It was also surprising in some quarters that Robert It. Reynolds ob tained as many votes as he did. Most people figured that Dr. Graham would lead the first primary, but not even his most ardent supporters would have guessed that his lead vvould be 50,000 ? votes. * . The district race for J Ith district avuiu r,c a JUtmrU.' Hamilton/of Gastonia, piled up a TO to 1 lead in his home county of Gaston, but fell by the wayside in the other si-x counties as Woodrow Jones carried each ?of the six. Mr. Jones further surprised some of his opposition ? and some of his friends ? by taking every precinct in his home county of Rutherford, in spite of th^ fact that two more Rutherford men were in the race. In the local races, Kings Mountain elected one of three candidates facing primary opposition. Our best bow to Wayne L. Ware, who placed second in the sweepstakes affair for five school board nominations, and to Whitney Wells, also seeking a school board nom- ? ination, and Hazel Bumgardner, candi date for the county board of commis sioners. Mr. Wells and Mr. Bumgardner failed, of election, but they can feel* mighty good, feeling sure they live among friends. Like Mr. Hamilton in Gaston, both Mr. Wells and Mr. Bum gaidner were heavily supported by the homefolk. Mr. Wells led the two Kings Mountain boxes by more than 200 votes over Mr. Ware, who also was roundly sup ported at home, and Mr. Bumgardner ran up the amazing total of 1,761 votes out of a possible 2,197 in the three- local boxes. . Our congratulations, too, to Will Blackburn, who obtained a clear major ity for constable against four other can didates, and to Former Citizens Hay wood Allen and Raymond Cline, who will settle the sheriff's matter on June 24. Graduation Time It's graduation season in schools and colleges all over the nation, and Kings Mountain is no exception, with some of its younger citizens graduating. from col leges, and with another graduating class at Kings Mountain high school and at Beth-Ware high school. In both instances, many 01 (he gradu ates are on the threshold of putting a way childish things and going into the business of earning a living. Ot hers have more schooling in store for .them, either for full college courses or in vocational training programs which- will equip them with more tools of particular trades. i<e it se'ling. running a machine, a type.vriter. or a farm. The best a .vivo, o! i nitso. i ? ? in ;e ;i 1 1 h)i_,!l s i in h ! g? . v 1 1 1 . ? 1 1 ^ i\ h, .1 Van , a ?.?? >? :? tinue fheir year , jU>." ev en juotv than is a da\ oi special ties, hi night tboul by ma-ts ;>i t i< ;r. Just a> a doctor f'vipient 1\ special '/es <n one phase of the profession. so is it true in en.'; io\ metit outside the pivjicvsioiiS. And it is nnpoi't:) it be equipped, en i In toofs. a man or Woman is supposed to be at a better advantage than another of com pat -abie imagination, ability to learn, and will to work. Success depends on t hose. But the last-men* toned traits of char acter are the most important. No amount of learning can compensate for lack of ambition and energy. Our host wishes to tlv several Class es of *50 and the Kings Mountain repre sentatives in tneai. 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news taken from, the 1940 files of the i Kings Mountain Herald. W. K Miiijnfy, prcimmcni io cal Church and Oyic -leader, and yira. Mauney, .have offered to Le noir -Rhyne College, whore Mr. Alau'ney is a mom nor of (he board of Trustees, an endowment of $25,000, according to an announ cement made to the College Mon day, during Alumni Day activi ties SOCIAL AND PERSONAL The Junior Woman's Club will meet Monday evening, June 3, at ?he home of Mrs. Proctor Thomp son, wish Mrs. Thompson and Miss Niiu? Jaclwon a-j hostesses. M rs. Jonej Brown of Greens boro spending the week with Mr i. J. R. L>avis. Postmaster W. E. Blakely has returned from Asheville where he attended the annua] meeting of the North Carolina Chapter of the National Association oi Foatmas iteri. Mrs. Charles Djlling is visiting her sister in Kinston, N. C. Mr. BHly Fulton and Miss Phyl lis Patterson are home tor the summer vacation from Erskjne College, I>ue Wes*. S. C. 1 I | Paul Neisler, Jr., is home from McCallie Pw?p School, In Knox- \ 'ville, Tenn., for the summer hoi |id?y* . Good News There was some question in the Her ald news department last week as to ; whether the Democratic primary deserv ed the first-place news position. It was not that the Herald, or any newspaper, would minimize the impor tance of news of considerable interest to some 10,000 citizens of the area, but the fact of the resumption of operations at the farmer DuCout Plant ? now Loom Tex Corporation ? certainly was impor tant to virtually every man, woman and child in the city. It was also good news that the assets of Kings Mountain Narrow Fabrics, Inc., will be up for auction on June 12. This Economic news has been quite good in the past fortnight, and indicates that 1950 will be a good year for business in the United States. Week before last, the Associated Press reported sale on Worth street in New York, center of the textile sales organizations, of 150,000,000 yards of cloth. It was enough to set off a buying wave in textiles and already prices are firming. Another factor was the report of arrangements whereby the cut-throat competition of Japanese and other forei gn textile producers has been partially nullified at least. Another bullish factor was the an nouncement that General Motors had signed a five-year contract with the CIO auto workers union. The feeling was that smart businessmen don't hitch themsel ves to long-term contracts without "knowing something." Certainly, Gener al Motors is confident that business gen erally will be reasonably good for the forthcoming five years. Loom-Tex, of course, is the big news locally. Seventeen months of idleness by this plant, which had a $15,000 weekly payroll, created a definite soft spot in the local economy, hurting directly the people depending on the mill for em ployment, and. indirectly, general bus iness for the city's mercantile and ser vice establishments, as well as others. The Herald wishes tne Loom-Tex Cor poration well in its Kings Mountain ven ture. Particular note should be made of the graduation from the Lutheran Theologi cal Seminary at Columbia, S. C., of Wil liam Frank Medlin and Hoyle Lee White sides, two Kings Mountain m^n soon to be ordained into the Lutheran minis try. It is particularly noteworthy that two young Kings Mountain men are (en tering thrs profession at a time when seminary classes are not. as full as they might be. Some church groups, in fact, have insufficient graduates to fill ex isting vacancies. They are entering a difficult profession, where the hope of 1 irge monetary reward is negligible, the work hard, and the hours irregular. We wish them much success?, A best bmv to IV. William Kemp Mau ncy, w iio "graduated" to a doctorate on M >! day morning, through the avenues oTj>ui>!iv service, success in business, and devotion to his church, hiS school and his community. His friends in Kings Mountain will take pleasure in replac ing the customary "Mr." with the new' t : m " i">r." Lenoir-Rhyne college con f erred the honorary degree of Doctor of 1 .a\vs on Dr. Mauney. It would appear that Dr. Paul Hen dricks puts the same enthusiasm into a money-raising venture as he il'.d when he was Hand Director Hendricks. Our congratulations to him and to his aides in securing sufficient funds to over-sub scribe the $1,500 quota for the school band. And our commendations to the do nors. who recognize a good thing when they see it. martin's medicine By Martin Harmon (Containing bits of nows. wis dom. humor, and commint To bo taken weekly. Avoid over-dosage.) Election Sidelights | One devoted lady reader of this column, who reads it she ?ays, like 1 read Time Maga- i *ine (read three lines and, cuss ono), told me in the wee hours of last Sunday morning at a private election party that now that the primary was a matter of near- history', she hoped the medicinal dosage would get a way from political ingredients, j I do hope she'll forgive me one more time, and I believe she wilL ? o-s . . Saturday's primary election, which was a record-breaker in j the matter of total votes cast in Kings Mountain, as well as in North Carolina, but it was a I quiet one in many ways, the decorum and peaceful attitude of the voters belieing the inten sity of the U. S. Senate and sheriff's contests. Chief N. M. Farr said be and his force had a light day's work, with a min imum of disturbance. e-s Folks here were Interested first in the sheriff's race, second in the Senate race, and the oth- i ers paled in comparison. Judge ! Craig Falls, at the East Kings < Mountain box, remarked thart he was surprised to find many a person marking the county ballot, then throwing away the state ticket. "I regard the state I tickets as most important," : Craig remarked. The same thing must have happened at West Kings Mountain too. for several blank ballots were de posited in the state box. The word "if" is undoubtedly j (6 the biggest? wo?l tea-. , , guage. but it takes on bigger usage among politicians, par- ' ticularly in the post-mortem ing which always follows elec tions. e-s Thus one may assume that much speculation was going on around the state campaign headquarters of both Senator Frank Graham and Second Runner Willis Smith in the "if" vein. Unquestionably the Gra ham folks were saying: "IF Bob Reynolds hadn't run. we'd 1 have won it hands down." "IF Frank Graham hadn't develop- I ed pneumonia, he'd have had a J clear majority anyway." o-s On the other hand, the Smith i forces will be "if-fing" in this manner*: "IF Bob Reynolds hand't run, we'd have won." "IF we'd started earlier we'd have won." "IF it hadn't been i for Dre Pearson, we'd have j won." e-s In the sheriff's race, it's a sure bet that Sheriff Logan's forces will "if" for many years over the last- week develop ment of the McSwain reward money mess, regardless of the effect it had. Some will contend it ruined htm. others (and nome of them Logan supporters) say | it had no effect at alL and if any. strengthened him, So it goes, and reminds oi the old saying about the bullfrog. The frog would live a happier life IF he had wings. e-s Most average folks dread the second primary. If there Is a voting on June 24, and (this be ing written on May 29, before the candidates mata up their minds) there are too many pos sibilities to Indicate there | won't be one in some category. They dread it because second primaries have a habit of be coming somewhat rough and { rugged., as was tasted in the | U. S. Senate race. e-s I figure things were pretty i busy, among the Smith forces [ I (Graham's, too) ut Raleigh || over the weekend, but the , strain was on the Smith folk. 1 Their candidate was 50,000 vo- ! tes behind, and that's a lot of ! votes. In spite of the fact that ! Smith ran in the hope of draw- I ing it out to two primaries ? as I Scott did in 1948? he and his supporters must examine the j campaign expenses of the first race, then examine the contri butor's list to see if the big con tributors are willing to do a re peat performance. Some will, some won't. Some, even those who were originally his most ' militant supporters, will look at the 50,000 votes, examine their check- books. then remember the old axiom Ben *"r?-"Vlin or some other philosopher pat out about throwing good money af ter bad. It will be hard for Smith to overcome the defeat ist complex generated among j some of his supporters by a SO. OOO vote deficit. e-s Dotted Notes: Early-bird vo ters in the three local boxes may br may not have got the ' worm, as far as voting for win ners was concerned, but the three early birds who cast the { first ballots in their respective ] boxes here were: at East Kings Mountain, D.. B. Blalock. at West Kings Mountain. Plato 1 Heavcner, and ~t Beth- Ware. Hal Morris . . . . second and third voters at the West box were Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Allen . . . Ott? Qaytas expert vote getter. hod his fifth-grade-age dae?:<t?r On the Job too Sato* i CROSSWORD * ?? * By A. C. Gordon Travel ACROSS I ? Important part of tht automobile 1 J ? Popular medium of travel I? ? A kind'of truck 1 3? pwKmi equipment 16 ? Public traveling con vryariffi 17? Gauge for 'the auto mobile electric#! system 70 ?To place 2 1 ? An account (pot* ) 23 ? Enclamation of satisfaction 24 ? Thu* 2 3- Summet Utopia (abbrev ) 26 ? An article wielded dexterously by Dude Ranch performers 29 ? Egyptian sun god 30 ? That man 31 ?In prosody. a foot con fitting of a short syllable followed by a long one (pi ) 35 ? The man following the president (abbrev ) 17 ? Greek letter ' 38? South Latitude < abbrev > 39 ? To 'degrade 4 2 ? Means of inow.ttavel 44 ? An eruptive spectacle for tourists 46 ? Noun suffix 4 7? Skill 48 ? Smooth 4 9--rOI advanced years SI ? Part of the body 53 ? Mecca for traveling honey mooners (two words) < DOWN 2 --Details 3 ? Note of the mutical scale 4 ?A kind of down 5? A public traveling conveyance (abbrev ) 6? A fragrant ointment 7? A flower 8 ?One of the chief defenders of ancient Troy f ? Utopian land found by hero of one of Hilton's books 10? Paft of an automobile that conducts the engtne power to the axle I 4 ? Printer's measure 1 S ? Permits 18? Travels for pleasure 1 9 ?Scottish river 2 2 ? Abbreviated each'* 26 ? Even 2 7 ? Thu? 28? 1 exist 3 2 --Soluble mineral salt 33 ?To exist 34? Avtotton term "meaning to "turn the engine over'* 36 ? A horse's gait 40 ? A dominant feature 4 1 ? A deprestion m the abdomen 43? An extent of plane surface 4 5 ? Chemical symbol for neon SO ? District Attorney (abbrev ) SI ?Laughing exclamation 5 3? Parent See The Want Ad Section Fox Til* Week's Completed Puzzle Other Editor's Viewpoints .-.-. , v-i - SEES A NEW SOUTH (The Camden, Maine, Herald) We have just returned from the first far distant venture out of Maine in the past fifteen years. In most things fifteen years is a long time, but judging from the progress and obvious accom plishments made .throughout the South during this period we were | all impressed with the fact that little time hap been wasted in making that section of the coun try a better place to live. Insttead of the inferior roads we traveled on previous trips, we j were able to speed over the best ! surfaces we have ever traveled on Instead of faking a chance on the places where we stopped, as in the past, we found them all uni formly good and noticed a tre mendous amount of construction to increise these tourist facilities,' underway: We noticed much evidence of : industrial expansion and farm , improvement wherever 'we went,' but probably the one thing that attracted our attention the most was the tremendous recently 1 completed and in process new j school construction throughout i the South. In many places we visited we ; made quick inspection of some of these buildings and found many towns and cities the size of Cam- ' den and larger with new schools I for white and others, for Negro es which apparently had been built from the same set of plans. ; It perhaps has been a long : time in coming but the South is. going all out to improve andj raise its standard of living throu- 1 gh educational advantages and industrial opportunities. We returned with the feeling that the North, rather than trying | day pas&ing out cards for Hugh Logan, she was referring to the opposition candid a t e s as "Puny" Allen and "Old- Man" Cline ... it became obvious quite early in the day that (Kings Mountain would vote a record total . . . the pace was fast and registrars were bless ed with "clean" books, which helped speed things along. J ONfilNES * W1TTNAUERS WATCHES ? DaUfKKA'S VJOKL SHOP Kings Mountain's Leading Jewelers HOME ?Ambulance Phone 11S tain, N. 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