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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 pf Kings Mountain and Its vicinity, published every Friday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second jlass matter at th? postofflce at Kings Mountain, N. C, under Act of 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 Paul Jackson Charles Odems TELEPHONES: Society, 167; Other. 283 SUBSCRIPTION RATES. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR? $2.00 SIX MONTHS ? $1.10 , THREE MONTHS? fO TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Whoso walketh uprightly shall be served: but he that is perverse in his ways ?hall fall at once. Proverbs 28:18. No Push Button War The news from Korea has been any thing but good thus far, and, since Unit ed States troops are in Korea and in ac-. tion, most citizens of this nation will agree with Senator Wayne Morse that the nation is at war, whether officially declared or not. The Korean situation places the Unit- ? ed States in a new role, one formerly common to Great Britain, and known to tho United States only in smaller and less serious situations. As the world's ' leader, this natitrn now has new respon sibilities for keeping the peace. That means taking police action in many spots of the globe, where necessary. Bri tain has done it for many years. But the Korean fighting looks less like police ac tion and more like a war. ? ? One thing hart already boon provod. ? Regardless of t he post-war propaganda regarding the need for principal empha sis on an air arm, it has already been shown that air strength alone is not enough. Ground troops are still needed as an integral part of any successful war machine". Infantry has become mechani zed, but it is still the infantry. The Ko rean fighting shows again that all parts of the services are needed to successful ly conduct a campaign. The future may see it, but as yet wars have not become push-button affairs. It is to be hoped that" the American forces can arrive in Korea in sufficient force and in time to successfully repulse the communist invaders from north of the 38th parallel. It is also to be hoped that Russia is bluffing and is not yet. ready to risk a full-scale war. At the same time, success of Ameri can forces in Korea will not call for any slackening of the vigilance of this na tion against Russian aggression. Failure in Korea will require re-doubling of strength in all of the United States' world outposts. Mr. Fuller The Herald is glad to learn that the city botird of commissioners has em ployed a city administrator and that he will bo on the job on August I. M. K. Fuller has considerable experi ence in municipal and county affairs, having formerly served as auditor for Columbus county and for the past three years as city manager at Laurinburg. He comes here with highest recom mendations. and the city administration is confident that he w ill successfully dis charge the duties of top executive of the city. Running a city Is no easy task. First, the job has all the difficulties customari ly associated with the running of any or-, dinarv fjviOO.CKX") corporation. Second, while the city administrator is responsi ble first to the board of commissioners (which might compare to the average board of directors of a corporation), he has also to please the vast majority of 7,193 stockholders, which is the cilrrent population of the city. It is a vociferous .and temperamental group of stockh ld ers, too. On the other hand. Kings Mountain is ' little different, if at all, from other com munities in this respect, and our hope is that Mr. Fuller will be able not only to please the directors and stockholders, but to make them money in the sense of providing improved services for the same amount or less money. The Herald is firmly commit|ed to the need for a full-time executive for any business. /large or small, and feels that the city requires one too. Accidents In spite of the great effort on the part of press and radio, police departments, safety organizations, government offici als and others to warn motorists against chance-taking on the long July 4th holi day just past, it appeared before the In dependence Day festivities had hardly started that the nation would set a new record for getting itself battered through holiday accidents. On the evening of July 3rd, one Amer ican citizen was dying by accident every 14 minutes. By the morning of the holi day, the rate had increased to one person every ten minutes. Customarily the cause of death, par ticularly on the highways, was the usu al one: carelessness. Hardly a single person who successful ly- navigated -4 he~highw?vs rotild *iot re port Instances of ioolish chance^taking by motorists in too big a hurry to get where they were going. There seems little cure for the ailment. Construction of super highways and more stringent enforcement of traffic laws might help, but there's no sure way to compensate for driver error after the crash has occurred. Miss Freelove Black Retirement of Miss Freelove Black as a clerk at the Kings Mountain postoffice Is regretted by the many people whom she has served during the past three dec ades and more. Courtesy, accuracy and speed were three attributes Miss Black showed at all times, and these are found all too sel dom, not only at the postoffices of the nation, but in other businesses as well. There is a premium these days on friendliness and willingness to work in all employment, whether public or pri vate, and Miss Black was of the old school in these respects. Mortgage-burning ceremonies are al ways pleasant, and the one at the Kings Mountain Country Club last week was no exception. Burning of evidences of debt mark the attainment of a goal, and frequently are the go-ahead signal for setting of another. This is true at the Country Club, where the directors have set for the next club project the con struction of a swimming pool. It is a big project and a costly one, but the club t feels that it is merely one more phase of the over-all goal in making the Kings Mountain Country Club one of the best ! and most well-rounded small city clubs | in the nation. Our congratulations to the Kings j Mountain Legion Juniors, Coaches Lew* ! is and Bradshaw, Atht'.tic Officer W. L. | Plonk, and the hard-working athletic | committee on a successful season. Ordi narily, a record of ten victories against four losses in first-round play would insure a place in the second round. This year it was short by one game. At the i Same time, the record this year was by ; far the- best in local Legion baseball hist- j ory. The program has been improving here each year and Kings Mountain fans are looking forward to future seasons ; with anticipation. Acceptance of a call to Zionville in Watauga county by Baptist minister Rev. E. O. Gore can be described as Kings Mountain's loss and Watauga's gain. Mr. Gore was a. respected minister and citizen of this community and he served well the members of Oak View Baptist church. 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news taken from the 1940 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. Mr. Hiiton L. Ruth arrived in Kings Mountain last week to as sume managership of Belle's De partment Store, succeeding Mr. F. F. Stellworth, who has been transferred to Charlotte. . At a meeting of the Town Council held Monday night B. D. Ratterree wan named acting Town Clerk and Treasurer. The first cotton btoom of the season was reported to the Her aldcWednesday morning by Hugh Fa Hi) of the Pat.erson Grove sec tion Mr. and Mrs. J B Keeter were hosL<? i.sst Friday evening at their attractive new home on Cleveland Avenue to members of the staff of Keeter's Department Store and the Dixie Bargain Store. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Honoring their house guest, Mfcss Paulolia 'Adahr of Spartan burg,, Mr. and Mrs.'W. K. Crook entertained at four tables of bridge Tuesday evening. The following announcement has been made and is of cordial interest: Mrs. J a me* Arthur Rby ne, of Mount Holly, announces the engagement of her daughter, Chricine, to Dr. William Lee Rdmseur. The wedidng will take place in the Lutheran church at Mount Holly in August. Miss Frances Hord-was hostess at five tables of bridge entertain ing at her home Saturday even ing. In a quiet but very impressive ceremony taking place Saturday I evening at 8:30 o'clock at the ' Methodist church in Bessemer 'City, Miss Sara Elizabeth Coon and James Edward Little John j were united 1n marriage -by the ' Rev. Harold M. Robinson, pastor oT the bride. martin's medicine By Martin Harmon v Containing bit# of mvi. wis dom. humor, and comnuot To bo taken weekly* Avoid over-dosage.) Baching It |1 guarantee in no way the spelling of the tiUo of today's piece. From previous mistakes on spelling the word bachelor (1 always want to throw in a **f* to make it batchelor), 1 have come up with "baching." lor which I can find no author lty from Dr. Webster. How ever, a world of husbands are well aware that it means "liv ing by oneself while the wife is away." b-i To hear a husband tell it. he looks forward to these intermit tent periods with anticipation and intent, and big plans are made for spending free. un trammeled evening* out with the boys. It is not necessary, when baching, to hang up clothes, wash dishes, make up beds, or do anything along the domestic line which is ordinar ily required of husbands, and there's no danger of embarrass ment from ringing telephones when evening passes are over stayed. bl Actually, baching it isn't so Dad. or wasn't for a short spell last week. b-l 1 have became a quite profi cient breakfast - cookes and economy is the keynote, though 1 admit to a curtailment of the breakfast fare. Bacon takes a longer time to prepare than 1 could' customarily allot, and. since the frying pans eventual-., ly run out bacon-cooking poses a pan -washing problem. Dishes are used sparingly, too. as Is silverware. A nation of bach elors would bo hard on . thej facturers. for one spoon, one fork. one plate and one cup and saucer will suffice, a tar cry from the eight and twelve place settings the ladles aim at. ?>-i " Anticipation is the spice of life, they say. but baching plans seldom work out as ex pected. I refer especially to the evening -with- the -boys propo sition. A ' bachelor -<ft-tne- mo ment will come In on bis first night of freedom and grab the telephone with enthusiasm. Somehow the day's duties haven't tired him as much as usual. He i^ngs a friend's num ber. and Invites him over. But no, Joe is tied up. What Joe really means is that his ma dame hasn't gone to mamma's. Alter several more calls, with the same result Ihe temporary bachelor gives up. to try ano ther night He tries, but it's no sale, and he begins to decide that his trip belore the preach er might have been pretty wise aftei all. b-i Bachelor liie is bettor, il the larder is 16ft well-stocked. Last winter. I had an evening's free dom due to a concert of some kind, and found myself in no mood to.go out on u<3 to n. A nice T-Bone steak was waiting in the freezer compartment and 1 went to work, it proba bly wasn't too balanced a meal, but there were also some Bsussel sprouts present too, so I looked at the directions and dumped 'em all in the pot. Cof fee rounded out the meal, and it was a good one. though tt took somewhat longer to pre pare than the average cooking time. Ther* must have been a dosen Btussel sprouts, and 1 thought I had to eat 'em alL The steak was my first from the cooking standpoint and it worked out very welL No ptomaine resulted and I was bragging about my ability in public later on, when Jim An thony, an excellent chef in his own right, deflated me some what. "It's the quality of beef that tolls the tale In a steak", Jim semarked. "Anybody can cook one." b-1 Occasional short periods of baching It are o. k.. but one of too much duration might got pretty wearing, probably in ; direct proportion to the number of buttons which pap off shirts. b-l Pick-ups: Bob Osborne, the Western Union man, ?ays that the signal corps outfit MOcAr thur sent Into Kama last week Is his former unit . ? . Legion junior fans were moaning ow the Juno 10th game at Lincoln ton last week . . . rained out In the fourth inning with Kings Mountain loading *> to 4, it was the replay (third try) of the Juno 10th game that Binge Mountain tost to Lincoln ton June 29 by S to 1. A victory Juno 10th would |Nv? cinched a second sound place tot Kings Mountain . . . at the same time the current ssasou has been the most successful any Kings ' Mountain Junior team has eves knoWn . . . half of IBM is by the boards . . . nn half your goals for the year accomplish ed? . . . and fcow many reoohi still valid cssd unbroken? CROSSW ORD ? ? ? By A. C. Gordon Other Editor's Viewpoints ACROSS I ? World- famous man who initiated plan for ?lengthening, demo cratic nations < poss ) 10 ? Well known military strategist ipoaa. > 12 ? Units 13? American general's "trademark" 1 5 ? Shortened ""reign" 16 Persecutes 18 -Popular beverage 1 9 ?Noah's conveyance 20' ? To endeavor ? 2,7-To "stack up" the bets at the race track 2 4 ? Fields of physical prowess 2 7? Number 28 ? Elongated fi#h 2 Q ? Mammary glands 33 ? Approbation 36 ? -Never J 7 To soak . aa flam or hemp 38 ? Domestic animal 4 1 ? Alleviates 43 ? Floor covering 4 5 ? A kind o 4 fruit used for making spirits 4 7? To cut sfl current Mntcrci? 48 ? Lower part of a blast furnace 4 9 ?Process which took place in some of the world's monetary units in 1049 52 -A color prorhinent in the world's pews (pi.) *53 -World-popular name for American soldier DOWN 1 ? Countenance 2 ? Beast of burden 3 ? Prefi* mcani ig "again" 4 ? Underhanded ' 5?His Honor (abbrev ) 6 ? The main artery ,P~U lev ) 8? French article 9? Unmarried Spanish lady (abbrev ) 10 ? "John Bull" 11 ? Military greetings 1 2? Either 14 ? In (r of the matter 16 ? Popular name for article of feminine ?PfMltl l s?v 7? Lega] Writings ( ahhi< 1 7 ? Drink slowly 19 ? Man's nickname 21 ? Nickname popularly applied to an Amer ican warship 2 2. ? English items that have shrunk 23? Popular name for an unpopular member of a certain party 2 5? Old Portuguese coin 26 ? Vehicle of the frozen north 30-- Printer's measure 3 1 ? Fish eggs 32? Delays 33 ? To remunerate in sdvance 34 ? fl'ht thing. In law 35 ? preposition 39? Laden with years 40 ? One who advances 4 2? Worthless coin 4 3 -Chess piece 4 4 ? A U S. maritime or* sni* at ion (abbrev ) 46 ? The day before an event 4 8? Grain receptacle 50? Public announcement 51 ? Chemical symbol for tantalum 8** T*?e Want M Section For Tui* Week's Completed Pnule LET'S KEEP COOL (Smithfield Herald) Any -yyarfflfe aiiywhere m world in times ^ international tension la a serious threat to world peace and should not be dealt with lightly. And there can be no denying that the news of hostilities in Korea enhances our feeling of in security. But those alarmists among us who are predicting that the third world war will be underway in a matter of weeks not only lack basic for such wild talk. They make It more difficult for the peace-loving nations to keep a cool head in seeking a solution to the Korean crisis. We will help the situation if we keep our comments related to the facts. It is a fact that' North Korea is at war with South Korea. News men have reported that troops of the Russian -supported govern ment of North Korea Sunday, lanched an Invasio- into the ter ritory of the Amei .can -sponsored Republic of South Korea. It is not fact that Russia has in/aded American territory, nor is it true that Russia and Ameri ca are at war. Our authohties Jn Washington are very much concerned over this conflict in the Far East, but they do not believe it means that the third world war is about to start. THEY MAKE US WEARY (The Philadelphia Inquirer) It is practically impossible to repress a feeling of admiration for that famed scientist, Dr. Rob ert A. Millikan, who after three long and weary hours of "pre liminaries" at a. dinner in Cali fornia, abandoned his speech. * He called it off with the obser vation, "At this hour I fear the mind is too weary to listen to the speech I have prepared." The practice of stalling off the guest speaker far, far into the night is of too frequent occur- 1 rence. It's not essential to take < have been individuals deserving of a different use of those wea pons. But it is heartening to observe in Dr. Millikan's reaction in the California instance demonstra tion of a still sturdy American spirit that can be pushed Just so far. This affair may or may not serve as a warning lor too prolix toastmaster and others who get on a dinner program and wear it to shreds. Other victims may a dopt Dr. Millkan's system of get ting up. and bucking ... I ' Uncle Sam Says ikiij of vbu arc slfepi.'>K ->utind Ihese nights, secure in the r? u' tiom- 1* paid r, ll.il thnr's mi education fund jdy to dr.w u;>on for that sod or tughter ready f#' It ?can't take a financial wizard to :ure out that thr regular purchase i 13, S. Sai'ings Bonds is a safe roiitabie and sure way of saving ??e of the best ever Invented. To iay is th> time to join the Payroll ?rings Flan at your -office or the tdnd-A-Month Plan at your hank. That spells . t^anclal security. 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Use H now to " scuttle " Crabgrdss before it takes over your lawn. a.l (a, 400 iq ft Box ? $ .95 "SCUTTLf" 1250 >1 " "ox- 1.95 550Q sq H Bgg _ 6 85 WARD'S SEED & FEED STORE Cherokee St. Phone 396 Expert workmanship, prompt serrlce and reasonable prices. All york Guaranteed. Crystals fitted while yeu wait Whan you "Uke a mux'* measure," chances u* yoa ?iM him ?p for his worth to til* community. A business hi judged tho sun* W?y. Ii it to l?gtl . . . law-abiding . . . pay* it* share of taxes and fill, a community Mid . . . than it ds**rvos public rMpaet and patronago. A good oxamplo is tho Browing Industry. It ll a legal, law-abiding buainaaa. A aoureo of many Jobs with a larga payroll, it alao contributas thous ands of dollar* in addod r avenue for public sorvicos in your community. And it i* taking positive stop* to iasurm that it does not lay itaolf opon to criticism. flow? 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