The Kings Mountain Herald
Established 1889
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
tor 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 postoffice at Kings.Mountain, N. C., undeir Act
oi Congre&s of March 3, 1873.
Editorial Department *
Martin Harmon . ^ Editor- Publisher
Charles T? Carpenter, Jr. Sports, Circulation, News
Mr*. P. D. Herndon . Society
Mechanical Department
' Eugene Matthews Horace Walker Ivan Weaver
Paul Jackson Charles Odems
TELEPHONES: Society. 167; Other. 283
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TODAY S BIBLE VERSE
For the Son oi Man is come to save that which waf lost. St. Matthew 18:11.
Military Vs. Diplomats
All the current fighting, if indications
in the press and via radio in recent days
means anything, is nut confined to Ko
rea.
I
Secretary of the Navy Matthews
seemed to start things off with his "un
official" speech, in which he stated it.
was sometimes necessary to "institute
a war to preserve the peace." The State
Department immediately hit the ceiling,
as naturally it would, for it is easy to see
what Russia's propagandists could do
with a statement like that. It would, of
course, be Immediately applied to this
notion's action in Korea, completely ig
noring the fact that the Korean Reds
started the action by invading the free
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Following was the withdrawal by
General Douglas MacArthur of a mes
sage which dealt with Formosa and
which was supposed to have been read
to a veterans' organization convention.
What it contained is now known and ft is
known that Mac Arthur's recent visit to
Chiang Kai Click did not particularly
please the President nor the State De
partment.
It is an old tussle between the military
and the civilian branch of the adminis
tration dealing with foreign affairs.
?
? The military sometimes is inclined to
bull its way through, in the manner. of
the late General Patton. and many peo
ple are hopeful the nation never has an
other military graduate as its President,
on this account alone. They reason that
there is little democracy in the army (or
other service,) and that military men
would not be inclined to uphold the de
mocratic precepts oh which thks na
tion's government is based,
The embarrassment .caused to this
government does not come in relations
with the Russians, but in the effect of the
statements on other nations who are in
a position to sit in'the middle, and, at the
moment at least, not get too pro-United
States or pro-Russian.
Friends in Kings Mountain of F. C.
Brandon, Jr., former city engineer and
supervisor, were glad to learn last week
of Mr. Brandon's appointment as city
manager of Burlington. This is another
step up the ladder for the former Kings
Mountain official-, who left here to go to
Asheboro as cit> manager.
This is probably an expensive sug
gestion, but the addition' of a number of
light poles in areas, where new con
struction is rapidly rising makes one
wonder if it w'ould not be possible for
the city to begin installing its power fa
cilities underground. The Herald has no
engineering knowledge on the matter,
either as to cost or other factors. But
it would be mighty helpful to the beauty
of the landscape, if all wiring were un
derground.
. The Herald's best. wishes to two min
isters. one who is leaving t i ^ communi
ty today, and one \* ho is arriving today.
We refer to Rev. W. II. Stender, leaving
for Cameron. S. C., follow ing more than
five years as pastor of St. Matthew's Lu
theran church, and to Rev. T. P. Cash
well, Jr., who will assume the duties- of
pastor of First Baptist church. Rev. Mr.
Stender has made a good record during
his tenure in Kings Mountain. He is a
forceful minister and a deep thinker and
it is with regret that the community sees
him depart. Rev. Mr. Cashwell comes to
Kings Mountain with highest recommen
dations apd with predictions on all sides
that he, too. will serve his church and
his community well.
New Social Security
The new amendments, broadening co
verage and expanding benefits of the So
" cial Security, program, have now been
signed Into law. The immediate effect
will be increased benefits for almost ev
ery person already receiving them. A
near-immediate effect will be more cov
erage ? on a wide number of persons who
have not been under the program?be
ginning January 1. A longer term effect
win be increase in "contributions," from
both wage earner and employer. Anoth
er new phase of the program is inclusion
of self-employed persons..
The long term effect, of course, proves
again that one seldom gets something
for nothing, which, perhaps, i s as it
Obviously, there was a need for over
hauling the program. Increase of prices
has made the former scale of benefits
. out-of-date for those absolutely depen
dent for their livlihood on this source.
The new scale of benefits will help some,
' though there should still be plenty of in
centive loft for. people to save, through
the regular mediums to prepare for later
years when they will be living on past
savings, rather than present earnings.
Biggest headache of the new social "se
curity program, it appears, will be cov
erage on domestic help. The housewives
and Uncle Sam's representatives are go
ing to be in for a messy time, most folk
suspect.
Mentality Rejections
A large number of rejections for army
service, duo to failure on the part of
young men being examined to pass basic
army mental tests, brought a blast last
week from the state's selective service
director against the state's educational
system.
Dr. Clyde Erwin answered that he
needed truant officers to force school
attendance,, and some army veterans re
called that they weren't given mental
tests until AFTER they had raised their
hands and been sworn into the Army of
the United States. It also raised the
question in the minds of some of the
army veterans as to possible malingering
on the tests by some of the examinees.
The rejection rate does appear high
for state which had made the strides
it has in public education, beginning in
1900. That the general level of intelli
gence has been greatly raised cannot be
questioned, and it does seem strange
that rejections on intelligence grounds
should be as large as they have been.
As to Dr. Erwin's contentions con
cerning the need for truant officers, it is
quite possible that this would insure at
tendance by some youngsters who are
sometimes not too anxious to answer j
"present" as the classrooms r^H4s called.
At the same time, most teachers will
be quick to say. that some effort is re
quired by the pupil himself. He can't
get it all by the absorption process.
The doctor who served the army with
$1,125 worth of X-Rays in one day must
not have heard of socialized medicine. It
is men like this in the medical profession
who are inviting the ogre the doctors
fear and which the majority of thinking
people do not want. Theoretically, the
American Medical Association is a self
policing organization. Incidents such as
the above cause thinking people to won-,
der if the association could not do more
toward preventing such incidents.
10
YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
Items of news taken from the 1940 files of the
Kings Mountain Herald.
Kings Mountain school-will o
pen Tuesday morning Septem
ber 3, according to Supt. Barnes.
The buildings have been cleaned
and repaired and put in , first
class condition for the opening.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Mrs. Fred Plonk was hostess
to members of the Home Ana
Club and invited guests at her
home on Gold street Tuesday af
ternoon.
Mrs. Harold HunniCutt was
hostess to her bridge club last
Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. P. D. Padgett entertained
at four tables of bridge last week
with Mr.-?. George l.attimore scor
ing high and Mrs. Harold Hunni'
"cutt. low,
t Mrs. Garland Still entertained
with five tables of bridge at the
home o her parents. Mr. and Mrs.
R. L. Mauney, last week.
| -Members of the Thursday af
ternoon Book Club and a number
of invited guests were entertain
ed it the home of Mrs. Rufus
Plonk,' Jr., at her home in Besse
mer City.
| Mrs.'Jimmle Harris was hostess
at three tables of bridge enter
taining at her home on Piedmont {
avenue on Friday eveninft
. Mrs. R. J. Willeford of Palm,
Harbor, Fla., has returned home i
after visiting Mr. and Mrs. E. L,
I Campbell. .
i Miss Vera Ruth of Raleigh, and
Mrs. R. B. Davis of Salisbury have
returned to their homes after vis
iting their brother, Mr. Hilton
I Ruth and family.
Miss Addie Page of Charlotte
| w?j? a guest of her brother, Hsr
ry Page, and family for several
I days Jast weeV .
* martin's
medicine
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By Martin Harmon
(Containing bits oi acwi, wis
dom. humor, and comment. To
b? taken wsskly. Avoid
over-dosage.)
September Starter
Here it. is September, and I
trust everyone is getting oit in
to the first month of falL and
school, and football at a rapid
pace, and via self-starter. It s
Just possible this department is
beginning via the old Model T
crank method, which is a far
cry indeed from the speedy hy
dr am a tic, ultramatic, dyna
flow, powerglide and other
methods of getting underway
in the fast ? flying year of 1950.
s-s
The year 1950 Is fast speeding
away, and, if anyone hadn t
bothered to notice v It. must
now be sprouting a beard, for
it's two -thirds gone.
s-s
The New York Times, which
manages a delicious nature ed
itorial every Sabbath, would
do more justice to September
than I can, but September Is a
most interesting month. Things
begin to hum again, after a
summer lag which begins on
July 4th and continues through
the month of August. The Her
ald has postlve proof about the
lag. From a situation of excess
news, where the mechanical
staff is hard put to it to find
room for it alL July and August
presented an opposite situation.
Tha job cut out was to dig up
sufficient happenings to fill
up. The paper's news depart
ment decided Kings Mountain
folk had signed off from all ex
cess activity until fall. Of
course. It's pretty good occas
ionally for th?; news depart
ment to find it this way. it
sharpens the news-gathering
then.
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Hero comes school again, and
though the youngsters wail a
bout the demise of free, fun
filled days of play, they really
wouldn't miss it for the world.
This remindo that there's a
large group of "new" tepchers
who'll greet the youngsters this
season, and, as 1 recall, there
were several on the list with a
"Miss" before their names,
which reminds that school
opening time holds interest for
others than the pupils and their
! mothers. School opening has
long been a signal for the
, young swains about town to
survey the educational situa
tion, and. of course, a check of
j married couples around the city
I will reveal that this survey is
frequently fraught with dan
| ger. Paraphrasing a well
? known local man, many a
! young man has chased a young
I Kings Mountain school teacher
right up to the point where she
caught him. (I recognize that
the female point of view will
be somewhat different in this
matter, but there's an old say
ing that "it's a man's world."
Just a saying of course.) ,
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A pre-September visitor to the
city during the ptcsi weekend
was Mr. Les McGinnis. down
for one of his occassional bus
iness > and ? pleasure visits.
The business part was a regu
lar physical check-up by Dr. J. I
E. Anthony, and the pleasure j
part included visits with old J
friends and their offspring.
Mr. McGinnis is a former Her
ald man (though It may have
been called ft&jjsetStinti else at
the time), he is a <,ood talker
with a wonderful memory, and
he likes to talk news papering,
which makes his visits to the
Herald office most interesting
and entertaining.
s-s
Mr. McGinnis describes him
self as a "printer's devil," who
worked on Kings Mountain pa
pers as a young man for the i
late H. P. Allison. Mn McGln- |
nis. in turn, says Mr. Allison
was one of the best weekly ed
itors in North Carolina. "He
couldn't walk and had to op
erate out of a wheel chair,** Mr. I
McGinnis says, "but he could
get the news and did."
Most interesting to me was
Mr. McGinnis' reminiscences a
bout the extra hot election j
(1909, 1 believe it was), when
Kings Mountain, th<*n half In
Cleveland County and half In
Gaston County, was deciding
by ballot which way it would
go. Mr. McGinnis was working
in Washington at the time, but
he came home for the election.
As he necallud, the issue was
pretty hot, with the Mauneys
and the late H. S. Plonk spear
heading the pro-Cleveland forc
es. and with the late Or. O. G?
Falls and Capt. Dilllng spear
heading the pro-Gaftton forces.
He didn't recall the exact vote,
which put all of Kings Moun
tain In Cleveland county, but It
' was a close one.
S-s
Mr. McGinnis arrived in time
I last week to make tho Central
Methodist church pidnc, said
he hod a heavy tussle with
temptation when he reached
the pie and pastry table. His
diet doesn't call for much in the
rich sweet line.
CROSSW ORD * ? ? By A. C. Gordon
ACROSS*
1 -Financial minded
athlete *
} 2 Baseball marker
1 J The end of the line
for a t?ce horse
14 -The mark of "white
wajih" on the
vcorcbo'srd ,
; (? Implement u?ed by
<!fwol'c of the
- -fairways
1 * Musical symbol
meaning "medium
. loud'
10 Evdaroatiort (itnetuif
triumph
/0 Condition of failure in
a hridj;e game
2 2 Spectator activity at
the tare tra*k * .
2 J The supreme triumph
of 41 fisherman < pi )
^7 --Da/y:litig Hockey
' jitbrrv. ?
}H Roman 101
??? Tru.ud
"I - Si >>ii *?f India /joss )
< What every v}H?i!sman
p!.?V< to do
* if - Wave length (abbrev )
.j 7 - District Attcrriry
? al t rev V ?
i#t ^ necessity for eveiv .
smooth running racing
Car ?
See The Want Ad S?
Grrut Sporl
40 ? Bows to athletic
supremacy
4 3-^-Latln abbreviation
meaning "ntle well'*
4 5- ? Belonging to
46? Legitimate Speeder*.
(abbrev )
4 8 ? Indoor aping, sport
51 ? Numeral
SI ? Measure of are*} (pi )
53 ? Item used in the old
shell came
55- -Variation <?f the
prefix "e'\
56 Born
5J8 ? Metallic element
50 ? Roman emj>eror
61 ? Present ?y
64-- -Person who chronicle*
the deeds of athlete*
DOWN
2 ? Pertaining t* the
country _
J- : Buttering ram of the
grtat collegiate sport
l abbrev.)
4 Alleviated
5 One of baseball's
poMti'on* I abbrev >
(?. At. least six tames of
- s tennis
7 -To be indebted
H Chemical s>'tnl>ol for
nicKel
f for warfare
ction For This Week'i
10 Offensive thieat in
football (two words)
1 I ? Fishermen arc
proverbially known as
disciples of this, man
(two words, poss.)
1 5? Exclamation of inquiry
17? Land of the sport of .
cruket (poss.)
2P ? Implement u?ed in a
Winter sporl
2 1 ? T o car een
H Preposition
2 5? -Itirline the head
2 6 ? Thus
29 -Ko.nnn rjumeial
J4- ~ No/thern Lacrotse
f abbrev )
36 - P.?%tm i '.and
*9 Mythological maiden
4 1 ? OMatr Commanding
4 2 ? A Sp.mi?ft married
woman (abbrev )
4 4 -r-ExiSt
4 7 .-.-S|>orts tcftn. rtteahmr.
to win every came of
a series
4 9-.~ Enthusiasm
Si) ^Baseball turf {tippu
54- Printer's measure 4
Sli Neither
5 7 -Femunne suffix
tK) Ko;n.m Oideri "
( abbrev *
h ' ? Exclamation of jfain
0.1. Chemical symbol for
' ni- Lei
Completed Puzzle
jtn ? ii hi i MWilMlj J*11 rii am ' 1 " 11 " ' 'Q ' 1 ' ?"! IT H r' 'T ~ T 'I
Other Editor s Viewpoints . . . . .
LAUGHING AT RUSSIA i
? Stanly News and Press J
?Reports have come that the j
"Voice of America" is beginning'
to inject a bit of humor into the;
broadcasts beamed towards Rus- j
sia and the other communist
countries of the world. This is. the
i most encouraging news that has
! developed in the propaganda war
in recent months, for the stilted
language of the State Depart- :
ment has not been calculated to i
do the job which needs to be
done.
In addition to injecting con
siderable humor which the com
munist ? dominated people can
understand, we should start
laughing at them. Nothing is $o
effective as ridicule. Here in this
country, politicians know that
nothing can do more damage to
1 their campaigns than ridicule.
| The "Voice of America" should
laugh at their silly claims about
inventing the many mechanical
and scientific developments of
the past 50 years, and it should
always contrast living conditions
in this country and in those lands
behind the Iron Curtain.
We were just thinking this
week that if the story of the Fi"t
reunion which was held Sunday
could be read over the "yolce of
America" channels, it would be
about the most effective message
that could be broadcast. Gather
ing from all parts of this state
and from other places more than
3,000 -miles away, one big family
came together for a day of renew
ing acquaintances. They were
dressed well, they came in auto
mobiles which belonged to them,
and when the food was to be
spread out it was necessary to
set up four extra tables. And
this stil] did not provide suffici
ent room, so many in the group
did not even take their baskets
out of the cars, carrying the food
back home.
That is the sort of life which is
possible in a tend of free enter
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this kind that we can portray,!
the more dissatisfied the people!'
of those lands will become^ Tell I ,
them about the life in this coun-M
try, and then laugh at them for j
being suckers to listen to Joe !
Stalin and his fellow gangsters. |
"Two million acres in Ladino
clover" Is the goal of the Green
Pastures campaign now being
conducted by all agricultural a
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