The Kings Mountain Heiald ' Established 1889 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kinga Mountain and its vicinity, published every Friday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered aa second ^laas matter at the postofflce at Kinga Mountain, N. C., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. Editorial Department ?wtln Harmon Editor- Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr Sports, Circulation, News Mrs. f. D. Herndon : Society Mechanical Department Bugene Matthews Horaoe Walker Ivan Weaver Paul Jackson Charles Odems ~ ZZZ TELEPHONES; Society. 167; Other, 283 SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE TEAR ? 42.00 SIX MONTH''/? 41.10 THREE MONTHS? .60 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but be that followeth vain per sons is void of understanding. Proverbs 12:11. More Money ? . ? Requests by the various state depart ments to the advisory budget commis sion, which wiU, in turn, go before the General Assembly in the session start ing in January, are uniformly increased and brought a statement from Governor Scott that revenues will have to be in creased also. It is only natural that more spending requires more mony, but the prospect of increasing state taxes, at a time, when the federal government is taking a big ger bite for military spending, does not make pleasant reading. At tne samd time, Governor Scott list ed two "musts," one the continuance of the medical care program, and second a doption of the $2,200 to $3,100 range on teacher pay scales. - Few w#l argtte~Wlth thtf Governor's two "musts." The medical care program was set up to take advantage of federal grants for hospital buildings, and, if counties are to obtain the federal supple ments, then the stale must furnish its share too. ' Obviously, teacher pay scales adopted in 1949 and considered adequate by mid dle-grounders at that time, are not now, with {.rices continuing upward. At t lie same time, the average citizen hopes that the legislature will give sear ching attention to the several budget re quests. Roosevelt introduced the policy of asking for sometimes astromical ap propriations which ho did not expect to Ket. However, the -"leavings" usually met his expectations. In recent years, howr ever, it appears that both federal and state legislatures have taken all budget requests at face value and with the as sumption that amounts requested were the absolute minimum for operating the particular branches. Surveillance should be the watchword of the legislators who meet in Raleigh in jin January. ^ Phone Matters The comments of V. W. Chase, tele phone engineer for the North Carolina Utilities commission, were not designed to please ?J,ose who want a dial system hope. . In his letter to Faison Barnes, of the Merchants association, Mr. Chase opined that the present manual service was just as good as dial service, though he failed to give supporting reasons. His com ments that the staff of the local ex change do their bpst to give good ser vice would find little argument here. .It could also be said that Mr. Chase's statement about the comparative effici ency of dial vs. manual service does not hold water in the light of the current pol icy of Southern Bell Telephone & Tele graph Company, which operates dial in stallations in more than 80 percent of its North Carolina exchanges and which is installing more all the time. Odds are that Kings Mountain will be one of the last communities to get dial service, but that fact, nor Mr. Chase's Weak arguments, do not prevent the sub scribers from wanting dial service. Rev. T. L. Cashwell, Jr., made a very thought-provoking address last week to members of the Kings Mountain Lions club, speaking on a subject which must have posed questions to Christians a round the globe. "Love can end war,"" Mr. Cashwell said, but he doubts that force of arms can, nor the current policy of the nation, advanced and held by the press and radio, of loving, one's neighbors and hating one's enemies. Mr. Cashwell's dis cussion was essentially philosophical, but the Herald infers from the address that the minister would suggest a great increase in both foreign and home mis sion work, advancing the doctrine of Christianity in both theory and practive, as the only way to attain the universal goal of peace. Truth For The Free The current week, beginning on Sun day, is being observed as National News paper Week, with newspapers all over the country joining in reminding their readers of the services of their papers and reminding themselves of the duties they have to their subscribers.. Briefly, it is the duty of any newspa per, large or small, daily or weekly, to print the news, gathered completely in sofar as it possibly can be, written hon estly, with first attention to fact, and with especial effort to avoid the color ings of human opinion. Another duty is to refuse the publication of advertising which is questionable as to honest con tent. . Unfortunately, all newspapers are not dedicated to this, particular creed. "Some are b illing to sell thelriSOtrtSTlSo to speak, for V.ie newspaper god of circulation. They dote on the sensational, the sordid, and the questionable. Some will accept any type of advertising, as long as , the bill is paid. These papers, though some are large ones, are in the minority. The vast ma jority follow the newspaper creed of truth to a free people. They have found over the years that such a policy is not only the pleasant and honest one, but .that, in the long run, it is also good bus iness. This newspaper is seldom beset with trials nnd problems which some have. Kings Mountain merchants do not try to advertise falsely. Kings Mountain people want the truth and do not try to write the news from .their particular view points. On the world stage, there .is great need today for expanding the American doctrine of free speech throughout the world. The newspaper profession likes to think that, if unbiased reports of world events could get circulation all over the globe, a great contribution to world peace would the the result. In Russia, we think, the average Russian citizen could not help but wonder If their United Na? tions representatives were right on all the many vetoes recorded. Truthful information in this nation is taken for granted. Locally, the Herald does not take the occasion of National Newspaper week for a person..! tub-thumping. Our limi tations are recognized. Our pledge is to endeavor constantly to broaden our phy sical facilities to do a continuingly better job and to continue to provide truth to the free people of Kings Mountain and the Kings Mountain area. The Herald^s best wishes, along with i those of the members of Grace Metho dist church and the community, go with Rfv. G. W. Fink to his new pastorate near Mocksville in Davie county. The record of Grace Methodist church during the four-year tenure of Mr. Fink as its pas tor has been an outstanding one and much credit for it must go to the pastor, who must provide the leadefship, the enthusiasm and the many other neces sary ingredients ort which religious pro gress depends. The new minister, Rev. T. W. Hager, comes to a good church, and the community is looking forward to get ting acquainted with him. The next visit of the Bloodmobile to Kings Mountain is scheduled for Octo ber i7th, when it will set up at Margrace Mill clubhouse. The Korean War great ly increased the need for blood and re serves of this life-giving "medicine" are considerably depleted. Kings Mountain, as it has done in the past, will respond liberally again. Our congratulations to Mr*. E. W. Griffin, general chairman of the forth coming 1950 Floral Fair, and our best wishes for this annual event, to which the community looks forward with an ticipation. 4 /A YEARS AGO Items of newt taken from the 1940 files of the THIS WEEK Kings Mountain Herald. The 21st annua) meeting of the Third District North Carolina ' Daughters of the American Revo lution met here ,last Thursday in the Finn Presbyterian church, j with the Colonel Frederick Ham i frright Chapter acting as hostess. j The Kings Mountain Band will leave here today at 1:00 p. m. for Greettvllle. S. C., where they will play for the Text-lie Festival. The seventy four musicians wfl make the trip by bus, and will return late tonight. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. T. P. McCill was hostess m a delightful meeting of the Home Arts Club entertaining at her home on Gaston street last Wed nesday afternoon. | Mrs. I. B. Goforth entertained members of the Social Club at her home on West Mountain iftreet Tuesday afternoon. Joe and Hunter Neialer left yesterday afternoon for a deer hunting trip In Eastern Carolina with some of the employees of the Neistar Mills. ? Miss May Plonk la visiting rel atives tn High Mnt and Win - ston-Salem. . martin's medicine ?y Martin Harmon v Containing bit* of MWL wis dom. humor, and commint To bo takon weekly. Avoid ' over-dosage.) T-V Party I suppose today's pioco would not have materialised, at least in the same form, had not Sat urday's Notxe Dame-North Car olina scoro beon 14-7 instead oi 42-6, or tome other outlandish figure indicating an Irish runa way. (But the thrilling game which Carolina first gave away, then got back, then loot again, is not too bad for an introduc tion into a report on Dan Huff stations television party, pre sented last Saturday afternoon in the Mav>nic lodge for (1) tho delight and enjoyment of tho guests, and (2) to lncrease'tbe sale of Phiko television sots, via Baird Furniture, either for cash or on the easy-payment method. t-v-p Purpose No. 1. the delight and enjoyment department came through with flying colors, though 1 hare had no reports on Purpose No. 2. Looking a round the audlsnce a bit. 1 dis covered there were several friends In the category of the medicinal department. with not a down-payment among 'em. but on theother hand, there wore several gents who looked fairly we 11 -bee led too. and when Bud Wallace side -wheeled a - round end for the Carolina game-tying score. 1 thought I could see T-V gleams in their eyes and hand movement In the general direction of their wallet*. ?' t t-v-p Dan bad at least one qlltr to purchase. Dare Saunders said . : " .? model lor $250. t-T-p It was really a nice party and the television reception was excellent, much better ifc cs most folk bad expected. Wheth er this was due to the excellen ce of the Philco sets, the care fulness In setting them up. or the unsuspected abilities of the Carolina football team. I do not know. But I am sure television sold itself as a coming Ameri can Institution to the.vast ma jority of the football fans pres ent How many attended I haven't heard, but from the ravages Into the sandwich and cold drink population furnished by the host there must have# been 200-plus. However, Glee Bridges admitted to redding the refreshment table at least twice and this may cut down the to tal some. The school folk put cat their attendance figures on an average dally attendance basis, and I suppose the aver age quarterly attendance at the Baird party must have been in of 50. There was g lot of going and coming, with totaif slipping off from busy Satur day afternoon labor for a quar ter's respite, before returning to the customers. As a mat'.er of record, one quarter was all I had allocated to the T-V show, but once arrived I had to see it alL t-v-p The party reminded me of the tccond Dempsey ? Tunney fight which must have been in 1927 and when 1 hadn't gone too far up the school age ladder. I doubt 11 Kings Mountain's ra dio population in those days Was aft great as the television population of today, since time payment sales were not as pro fessionally developed as In this great age of 1950. If the mem ory box Isn't Curving me too much. Will Mauney was selling Fords and Atwater-Kent radios, and he put on a party, much as Dan did last Saturday, for the big fight. A radio was superim posed on a truck, and the com munity gathered to hear "the blow-by-blow account I doubt that the loes by Favorite Demp sey discouraged radio sales very much. : t-v-p That's been 23 years ago and look where radio has come to*, day, with simple sets you can pick up and carry to the next socket portable sets, no aerials, Grady Cole (excuse men. God frey. etc.. etc. t-v-p Saturday's audience was am uniformly partisan aft It was en thusiastic. Several Joined me in war hoops when the Tar Heels mad* advances. emd there were universal groans wbea the a? BroaUyn 7. Philadelphia Dink Bennett made the heat crack of the day in my hearing. "Wonder If Notre Dame couldn't fumble?-, I hopefully remarked. -Ho." Dink replied. "They tumbled once last ye Oft." But whether it was mental tela r not the Irish did it latos In t-v-p of the top CROSSWORD ACROSS 1-r-Tht country known at "down under" 9 ? French nvrr famous in World War 1 .. 10 ? English ten tile city I 2? Vehicle* I J ? Water on tM geographical map I 5? Wholly absorbed 1 7 ? Abbreviation for a southern continent 11? Facing toward the direction from which an overriding glacier impinged 20 ? Abbreviation for a world-famous desert 2 1 -Small U 5 state v 1 abbrev > 21 ? River in Great Britain 2 3? Small bag 2 5? Latin abbreviation lor "that ?" 26? Water surrounded tract of land 29 ? City once famous foe It* culture 30 ? Indefinite article 31 ? Chemical symbol foe erbium 32 ? An old Qerman state t first, because Americans are possessive people. It is always, "this Is mine" or "I own that." This man was talking about conservation practices, urging his listeners to hand over to those who follow, everything just .a little Wt better condition than while he had it.: We think that is a good Idea for soil and other conservation practices, and we think It would be good for soul conservation, too. As the preacher might say, we. are "sharecroppers" for the Lord, or tenants for eternity." North Carolina will harvest a larger sweet potato crop this year than any other State except Lou isiana. CARLISLE STUDIO ? Portraiture ? Commercial ? Weddings MorrUen Bldg ? Phone 646 O Kings Mountain, N. C. DR. NATHAN H. REED , '' Optometrist Professional Bldg. ? Over Home Building & Loan Eyes Examined " Visual Care Glasses Fitted Hours ? 9 to 5 p. m. dally Wednesday and Evenings by Appointment Phone 492 Kings Mountain N. C. BROADWAY Wittily it has been said that dentists are the men who put teeth in our longer-life expectancy. How true * that is. every man and woman in ' this community knows. Your dentist is a sincere specialist. Oral hy , giene is his life's work. He knows the bone structure and diseases of your teeth as scientifically as your physician knows the most sensitive tissues of your 4>ody. Equipped with years of schooling and practice, ' ? ' ? " " .v not to mention his considerable investment in most modern instruments for dental surgery, your dentist is a contributor to your health and happiness. See him at least twice a yearl eJk&W ? MM CO. ^ GASTONIA. N. C. ? 1 %? Kings Mountains Dentists The Herald ? $2.00 Per Year TwUtrougfity 1*<>