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The Kings Mountain Heiald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of Uie general welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and ita vicinity, published every Friday by the Herald Publishing House. Bntered as second Jla* fatter at the postoffice at Kings Mountain, N. C.. under Act ci Congress of March 3, 1873. Editorial Department Martin Harmon ...... a tries T. Carpenter, J r, Mrs. P. D. HerndOn . . . . Editor- Publisher Sports, Circulation, News Society Eugene Matthews Mechanics! r*epartment Horace Walker Paul Jackson fharles Odems' Ivan Weaver TELEPHONES: Society. 167; Oilier. 283 SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE OWE YEAR? $2.00 SIX MONTHS ? $1.10 ? THREE MONTHS? .60 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity. I am be come as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. I Corinthians 13:1. The Draft Again By today, G6 Cleveland County young men will have begun to receive "greet ings" from the county selective service board, and another 100 will also be re* ceiving them for an August 24th date to determine whether they are physically fit for service in the armed forces. Dispatch of orders for pre-induction physical examinations will bring closer home the fact that the Korean War, and attending dangers of outbreaks of ag gression in other parts of the globe, is a serious matter, one which will hardly be cleared over-night, and one which is likely to continue for years to come. ?It appears, painful as it may seem, - thai ~~--yrmnp: rnr?rr-nre to spend a . portion n... m of their time in one of the branches of service. It will be a new role for a nation which, in all its past history, has never bother ed to martial its forces until the crisis had already reached the shooting stage. Only a short 1-1 years ago, there was much isolationism in this nation, as evi denced by the neutrality act and the anti-war efforts of many Congressmen and professional peace organizaztions. The sincere isolationists had ignored the shrinkage of the globe brought about by faster ships, the airplane, and other technological improvements There is little isolationist feeling be ing evidenced today, other than by groups which are Communist sympathiz ers. The quickness with which the nation's opinion crystalized on the Korean War indicates that the people will not allow their political leaders to let the nation fall behind again on the business of maintaining an adequate military force, both -in men and materiel, as long as the threat of aggression looms. It is a sad commentary that man, for ;ill his technological prowess, has failed to eliminate the waste of war. But he has not! and young men will continue to serve in t lie armed forces periodically for many years to come. The City Can Help It is not the purpose of the Herald to write the agenda for acfion by the city board of commissioners, but it would re mind the board that some effort should be generated by the city to require the bus companies to build, rent, or other wise obtain quarters here which could be called a bus station. While, essentially, the business of ob taining a bus station in Kings Mountain is perhaps more of a Chamber of Com merce function, the city has no Chamber of Commerce ? and no bus station either .?and a small city frequently finds that its city government must take on some of the functions of such an organization. The history of the obtaining of bus terminals in other communities" (and there are several examples nearby) will reveal that action by the particular city government had much to do with the successful result. It is inconceivable to most citizzens that a city of 7,200 persons has no place, other than the sidewalks, where a bus* commuter can wait for bis transporta tion. While unpleasant in the heat of sum mer. the situation will worsen with the arrival of winter weather, with its cold and rain. The Herald believes 4hat the city ad ministration would receive the plaudits of almost every citizen of the communi ty, if it would tackle the problem in a manner which would produce results. Our sympathies to the Stacey Huff stickler family. Pvt. Rufus G. Huffstick ler was the first Kings Mountain casual ty in the Korean War. Usual Action Congress got all fouled up laiit week in its arguments over what to do about price controls, rationing, etc. Some wanted to go further than Pres ident Truman wished, some didn't want to go as far. After a week's wrangling, amendments to the stand-by powers the President wants were stripped off, and the Congressmen were back where they started originally. If the declarations of the nation's leaders, in both politics and business, are true, and they have been reported as val id by several publications which custo marily have the habit of digging Into state^m^nts by anybody, there is greater Prices in all lines are going up, and they have not been limited to the few ar ticles subjected to hoarding. There is hardly a merchant in Kings Mountain who has not received news from manu facturers of price increases in almost all lines. Taxes is another matter which it ap pears the Congress will do little with un-. til the November elections are ovei. Again, it is a foolish policy. Certainly, none likes to pay taxes, but there doesn't seem to be much, sense in the policy of delaying them when the money has al ready been earmarked for spending, and for spending which the nation considers absolutely essential to survival. Conflicting estimates as to whether North Carolina will lose a Congressman, on the basis of the 1950 census, brings the hope, of course, that the Tar Heel State will continue through the next de cade with the present dozen. It will be the job of the legislature to re-district the state, should it be ordered that North Carolina lose a Congressman, and it is a job not too pleasant to handle. Obvious ly, the re-districting would Cause at least two of the present 12 Congressmen to contest each other in 1952, assuming both would wistf to continue as a Con gressman. The decision will be forth coming after the Census. Bureau for wards final reports to President Truman, scheduled for December. The recent troubles in Belgium over the return of Leopold to the throne re minds that, in spite of the -? sometimes slow workings of democracy, that the United States and Britain have the most stable governments of any nation. As bitter as elections get in this nation and in Britain, there is no question but that the majority rules. The decisions may be unpleasant to some, but they wait until the next election to change them. Of 1 course, in the United States, it required a Civil War to establish the policy of majority rule. The Shelby Lions club, participating individuals and agricultural and ? com mercial organizations, are to be congrat* ulated on their gigantic plansTor Mira cle Farm Day on August 31, when they expect to build a farm in one day at Gardner-Webb college. The purpose of the promotion is two-fold: (1) to de monstrate what can be done with mod ern machinery in agricultural pursuits; (2) and to aid Gardner-Webb college to convert a sub-marginal farm into a pro fitable producer. A welcome to the community for Lam beth Rope Corporation, which purchas ed the assets of Kings Mountain Narrow Fabrics. Inc.. and best wishes for a suc cessful operation here. 10 YEARS AGO Items of news taken from the 1940 files of the THIS WEEK Kings Mountain Herald. Ben F. Beam. Superintendent j Imperial Life Insurance Compa- i ny, J. R. Spargo, and J. B. Moore. | agent, left Wednesday no attend ] their company's mid summer j convention being held in the Seminole Hotel, Jacksonville, Fla. Their recorda were the three best of their company qualifying them f.?r this annual 3-day all-expen se paid vacation. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Oeorge F. Lattlmore, Jr.. in company with members of a tour- , ing party, is on a trip to Wash ington, New York and Atlantic Cky. # , Mr. and Mrs. 'Glee A. Bridges are spending this wetk In Pa.m Harbor, Fla., with Mr E. L. Camp bell. Mrs. O. W. Myers and children, Earle and Eleanor, are spending this week at Georgetown and Pawley's Island,S..C. Mr. Hilton rtuth attended - a two-day conference of Belk man * ' ' w ' . : * ix ' v'v*.: ager 'a in Charlotte Monday and Tuesday. Mr. M. Ik Harmon, Jr., spent the past weekend in Blowing; Rock. Mrs, Fred Plonk entertained members of her bridge club and invited gu??s making up two tables, on Friday after?oon. Miss Sara Kate Onnand was hostess at a lovely party on last Friday afternoon honoring Miss Christine Rhyne, ? Mount Holly brtdenleet Service Tales It U on'y naturai that the fighting in Koiea should re mind many rttircuu of the all too-recent World War U, in which a largo segment of the men entering aenrlce - (which also included a Tast majority of the young men of the nation) got shot at, of many experien ces which punctured the equil ibrium of those involved at the moment and which hare ling ered on as graphic memories of experiences they would take nothing for but do not care to repeat. It Some of these experiences are as hair- raining as a wild west movie, or as the delicious ghost stories most children fabricate for each other, and. almost uni formly, they are related by the particular participants with a humor and xest that belies the seriousness and danger of the actual experience. s-t Carl Finger and Jim Bennett happened in the office at the same time the other day and the stories started. Both Carl and Jim saw a sufficiency of the shooting was in their tra vels abroad, and Jim hada par ticularly interesting tale to re late about tho invasion of Italy. It was an effort to slip in. Jim said, and*tbe navy didn't both er te soften things up. The Germans knew all about it and going ashore was not ex actly like a call on a friendly port. The three of us agreed that the most eerie business we encountered was the dropping of flares by the German air . corps. The German tlares seem ed to ho the best ajjOiL -They wowhmght the Weekee* ?tigM like day,- and it seemed to { ? those on the ground side that they were pure and simply "shooting ducks." s-t Talking with W. J. Fulkerson the other night, I was remind ed of Casablanca's only air raid after the invasion was comple- - ted. 1 am not sure whether Bro ther Fulkerson arrived with the first detachment of his unit, or not but those who did disem barked off the transports on the previous afternoon. I under stand that they were offered a choice of billeting spots, one a beach area for setting up of a tent camp, the other a vacant warehouse. The unit command er chose the beach. That even ing, four Heinkel Ill's paid a call. They dropped some live bombs and some duds with on ly small damage and none to military installations. But one of the live bombs demolished an end of the vacant ware house. a-i There was a wrrant officer a board, the first ship I joined named "Pay" Godwin, the pay master in the supply depart ment and a long-time navy vet eran. Pay's most hair-raising experience had come shortly af ter Pearl Harbor when he was aboard the USS Chicago in the Pacific. Pay's battle station was far below deck in the stern of ' the ship where computations were made for firing the big guns. Submarines were sighted i and all men were at general < quarters. Suddenly the ship's loud speakes boomed with the Captain's voice. HI* words were. "Stand by to take torpedo aft." Pay said the next few seconds were the longest he bad ever known. When the voice on the loud speaker spoke again. It reported that the Jape had ac> commodatingly set the torpedo too low. It had soomed under the ?hlp without touching it ??t Another skipper I met almost had heart failure early In IMS when he received a routine des tination message sent out from the Casablanca shor? station Sailing la the Mediterranean was not the most healthy pas time of the day. and those ships which moved east from Algiers were sending out engraved in vitations for bombs and tor pedoes. The final sentence of the decoded message had read. "Proceed to Malta." Thongh much relieved to find that the message should have read "Troceed to Gibraltar." the skipper was so angry cbout the new gray hairs and wrinkles he had sprouted, be made a diligent search to learn who had made the error. It was la ter chalked up to radio recep tion difficulties and the easy poertbiMMesof ewer In the par ticular code system used for , the message. s-t Censorship of mall was one of the dulL painful duties which fell my lot a couple ef uftomoons a .week, but the most interest In a letter I ever ACROSS 1? Of the nature of mi explanation II ? Detffved 1 3? Commanded 1 6? Piece* of paper 18? -Tokens of esteem 20? To feel indisposed 2 2 ? Thorough f/sr? (abbrev.) 2 3? One* who bring legal action against 2 6? Parental nickname 2 7? Royal Genealogy < abbrev ) 2V? Thui . ? . * ' 3! ? To check or ?top in advance 3 3 ? One of the continent! ? ( abbrev ) 35 --Roman numeral 37--Ancien? Egyptian sun.god -Prefix dcrwllnc "il.rce" -Genuine -Syllable applied to ' muttcit) note 38 39 42 J_ This and That 4 4 ? Thoroughfare ( abbrev. ) 4 5 ? Chemical symbol for samarium 46 ? Place of public contest 48 ? Scottish variation of ??can" SO? Raises the ante 52 ? Slopes 54 ? To travel again S7r? f?nglish boys' school 59 ? To adjust 62? Quality of being superior in excellence DOWN 2 ? Enth miasm 3 ? Printer's measure 4 ? Approaches 5 ? Chemical symbol 'for . terbium 6 Possessive prorvoixn 7 ? Spiritlike 8 ? -Golf device ? 9 ? Mental image 10 ? Unit of weight I 2 ? A Moslem 1 4 ? Exclamation of satisfaction 1 5 ? Terminate* I 7 ? : Timepieces 19? To dine 21 ? A squeezing 24 ? Period of time 25 ? Sea going vessel (abbrev ) 28 ? A chemisette, with sleeves 30 ? A proposal 32?' Triumphant Trium virates (abbrev.) 34 ? Chemical symbol f of radon 36 ? Vexation 40 ? Chemical symbol for calcium 41 ? Printer's measure (pi.) 4 3 ? An* affection of tbc skin 4 7 ? To bring Into Une ' 49? Part of a build** 51 -Celestial body 53? Thus 55 ? Mineral 56 ? Male domestic anUwsl 58 ? Negative 60 ? Chemical lymbol for nickel 61 ? College degree See The Wast Aa Section Fox TmIs Week's Completed Puzzle Other Editor's Viewpoints iWILL THM POLICY WIN? (Smlthfield Herald) Are we struggling to save and strengthen democracy or are we merely fighting communism? The distinction is Important because, the Communists aren't the world's only enemies of the democratic way of life. The spirit of Hitler and fascism is still hovering over us and an American policy which overlooks this realty is a policy not likely to preserve either democracy or peace. The Senate this week seemed to be more determined to crush communism than to add vigor to democracy. By a vote of 65 to 15, it approved a $100 million dollar loan to the government of Dicta tor Franco in Spain, for Franco's country is considered an impor tant ally in the war against com munism. . ? . But Spain is no democracy. Not only does it follow undemocratic principles. It has a government which came into power by over throwing the legally elected gov ernment by force. Franco was able to succeed in his aggression I against democratic forces be- 1 cause Hitler and Mussolini, our erstwhile enemies, backed him with money and military might. The Senate's approval of sup' port for the rotten Spanish gov ernment is damaging enough to the American cause throughout the world. But if the House should ADMINISTRATRIX' NOTICE Having qualified as adminis tratrix for the estate of Robert D. Miller, deceased, before the Clerk of the Superior Court of Cleveland County, all persons having claims against said es tate are required to file $ame with the undersigned on or be fore the 22nd day of June, 1951, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said es tate will please make immediate payment. This the 22nd day of June, 1950. MARGARET L. MILLER, Administratrix J 23 a 11 t .1, ^ i - - ii i i j , ? ? _ AUTOMATIC wimuf in the action, wi-grin have_ 'snrrer^nrr^pai-a'BTe^ loss Irt our bid to win favor among the peo ple of Europe and Asia in the battle of ideas with the Commu nists. America, if it is to police the world, needs allies abroad. We can toy propaganda try to get the people of the Far East and Eu rope to stick with our side. 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