js mountain neraia Established 1889 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion o f the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizen* of Kings Mountain and It* vicinity, published every Friday by the Herald Publishing Houae. Entered ia second .*lass matter at the postoffiee at Kings Mountain, N. C., under Act U Congress of March 3, 1873. Editorial Department Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr Sport*. Circulation, New* Mra. P. 0. Herrdon % Society / Mechanical Department Eugene Matthews Horace Walker Ivan Weaver ?. Paul Jackson Charles Odems TELEPHONES: Society. 1S7; Other, 283 SUBSCRIPTION RATES. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR? $2.00 SIX MONTHS? $1.10 THREE MONTHS? .60 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised. Proverbs 12:8. Expand The Board OUie Harris, chairman of the Demo cratic precinct committee for East Kings Mountain, took the opportunity of the recent meeting of the county committee ' to remind the group that citizens of the Kings Mountain area are strongly in fa vor of previously announced plans for expanding the membership of the coun ty board of commissioners to five. The p|an had the endorsement last spring of the board of county commiss ioners and has the commitments, we un derstand, of Senatoi Nominee Clyde No lan and Representative Nominee B. T. Kails, Jr., who are virtually sure to re present this county in the forthcoming Norlh Carolina General Assembly. The citizens of this- area are counting on these men to draw a suitable bill ma king the change and to present it to the Assembly early in the session. Since it is a purely local bill, introduction of the bill will be tantamount to passage, if both representatives give it their endor sement and provided it is introduced early enough. As previously pointed out, a five-man board has the principal advantage of broadening representation. People here feel, for instance, they should have a re presentative on the board, though-.they have no objection to the present mem bers. The Herald trusts that preparation and introduction of such a bill will be among, ?'a* first official acts of the coun ty's delegation to the 1051 General As sembly. Education Week Next week will be National Education Week and it is a good time for North Carolinians to review with pride the ad vancement record of the past few years, and to reded icate themselves to the job ahead. The progress of the past includes in crements in' teacher pay, improved plants, expansion of curriculum, and im provement of college-level facilities, in cluding the establishment of a state den tal school and expansion of the state medical school to a full-four-year school. But there is plenty of room for im provement. Most school districts face space shortages and teacher , pay still needs, to be raised more, to mention only two. It boils down to a little loosening of the strings on the pocket book, and who is to argue thai investment in education is a poor one ? Purchase of the Hetty Yarn Mill pro*' pet ty l\\ a New Jersey concern indicates that virtually all of Kings . Mountain's, manufacturing and industrial facilities will soon he in .operation. It is the Her ald's understanding that the Slater firm is a reputable one and one which will make a good citizen .of the industrial community. Girl Scouts of the city are current ly observing Oirl Scout Week. It would not be amiss to remark that the Girl Scout organization here is one of the most active in the area and in the state. Tri bute is due tin* troop leaders and com mittee for their active work in the Girl Scotit program. Our best wishes to the re-organized Kings Mountain Little Theatre. There has always been a considerable amount of dramatic talent among Kings Moun tain citizens. 'and the Little Theatre or ganization should -provide an outlet for this talent. Local talent productions re quire a great amount of work, but they always have much appeal. If you haven't already, write a liberal check for the Jacob S Mauney Memor ial Library book fund. . Sewerage Survey Our congratulations to the city board of commissioners on its current effort toward solving the city's problems of. sewerage disposal. This matter has been a constantly re curring problem for several city admin istrations, and previous efforts to solve it have been to no avail. Statements of the engineers from, the North Carolina Board of Health indicat ed that the problem of sewerage disposal is worsening with the years, which should not be surprising. Previously, emphasis on improving the system has devolved around the de fective McGill sewer disposal tank. F. R. Blaisdell, one of the engineers here last week, adds the discomforting word that two other disposal tanks are already over-loaded and he offers the possibility that it soon may be necessary to deny addition of outlets on both the Ware and Mauney tanks/ From the standpoint of community sanitation, as well as cost and inconven ience to individual citizens, it would be quite bad to increase the number of in dividual septic tanks, which have a ha bit of not working too well if too many are in the same area. Work of the board on the sewerage disposal matter is still in the talking pre-, planning stage, but the Herald hopes the board will be able to formulate suitable plans and that the citizens will approve them. Someday, some board will be. able to tag the sewerage disposal file with a "completed" notation, and the quicker it is done the better and the cheaper. Election Day Tuesday will be election day through out the United States, and while the gla mour and excitement of presidential year elections is missing, there are plen ty of states in whifch the politicking has been hot and heavy and where the citi zens find it difficult to predict the out come. The election here is quiet. In this nor mally Democratic county, where the vote-getting fireworks are customarily completed in the spring. However, in other counties of the state, where Re publicans are in sufficient ahundance, there is plenty of activity. Even in this state, there is considera ble interest in the senatorial and con gressional races of other states.' Gene rally speaking, there are many North Carolina Democrats who rather hope that Senator Robert Taft will be re-elec ted in Ohio, not because they always like the Taft policies, but because of the strong-arm methods used by his chief enemy, the CIO, to beat him. In New York, they wonder what the outcome will be following the Dewoy-Hanley po litical deal charges. One North Carolina newspaper commended that, if New Yorkers ignore the situation, it will in dicate that there is future danger for this nation because the voters are apa thetic to such "dealing". Flection day, some people think, will mark the end of a leisurely rate of mar shaling our resources for the stepped up military program, if it has been leisure ly. They reason that the administration would rather throw on the controls after election day than before. Tuesday is; the day, and citizens should make a point of visiting the polls to cast their ballots. The fact that there are no local contests and that North Car olina is normally Democratic should not prevent either the Democrats or the Re publicans from going to the polls. Some people feel that the only danger the country faces is the sometimes seeming apathy of the public toward their guar anteed freedoms, one of which is voting for or against the men who seek the res ponsibilities of government. 10 YEARS AGO. Item* of news taken from the 1940 files of the THIS W E E K Kings Mountain Herald. Deeds for the property at the! end of East Mountain Street is now in rhe safe at the but there's no denying he has practicality on his side. -s Just as fatniliar is the left over supper, which works mig hty well after a big Sunday or holiday dinner, assuming that the guests didn't eat the host out of house-and-bome, bat a left-over supper after a plain weekday dinner usually leaves something to be desired. You get that full feeling, without the accompanying satisfaction which a bang-up dinner extra ordinaire provides. -s Obviously, there are some variations to each, and the can ned soup manufacturers have done their bit to help out In cidentally. 1 am thankful that soup is not among the products on the medicinal blacklist. -?? About the only role a man can take is as chronic com plainer, and, as any veteran supper- fixer ki owg, she can silence him in short order. Af ter a complaining husband at supper, the cook can always ask after the next day's noon dessert, "What would you like for supper?" There's no ether question as devastating and confusing at this one when a man has a full stomach. The only possible answer is. 1 don't know", and there he has hung himself. .?? 1 am sum this institution ef light and learning has added abeolutely nothing to solving the community's supper pro blem, but If any bright house wife, husband or ether indivi they will be gladly received, both for pewt uensldsratfea. as well as public. CROSSWORD ? 4 * By .4. C. (rordon See The Want Ad Section Foe This Wwk'i Computed Puz*Ie ACROSS I To ikmdcr K Otic who e?reU mi any thine U# Diamatic n?iitK*l competition* I I Ardor ) 7 Pfrtatninc to th^ rlfr'ty I* to lie* ?0 No! at all ? Thu* i2 "Co?rw . ,)S Chemk ul'iymN'l 'or chromium j 0 -Behold' IR? N?RAtivf .10- Pre|x?titton .\| " To CXU?fe i \ T tine of the d-?v .15- Pronoun <7--E??i ? <0 PuMk- announcement 40 ? -To endure 4 ? Syllable npplird to htUlktl note * 4 Roman 9?0 ?(?- Printer'* meat ure , H* Correlative of "either" ?*> To ditcoifcerf SI ; Like Syllable applied to musical note SS DeserVed 5 7 ?Moral Principles M - Ancient Roman moon K oddest 62 -Tumultuously 65 ? One of the month* ' (abbrev ) 6 6 lieitowal of patronage by reason of relation ? hip DOWN > - Gemi 3 ? Thut 4 -.-Pertaining to one of the British ltlet 5 ? District Attorney b -Latin abbreviation Mg nifytng Mand to forth" 7 Bakery goodt 8 ? Atmosphere 9? To co.*retj>ond exactly 10 -To acccmpeny I I ? Danger 13- In or of t>?* thing 1 5 Liberal Education (abbrev ) lft -A tyjie of electrical da play 1 9-~Coptutjie J3--~To tteal hy force 1 4 ---Pronoun 2 7? Pertaining to a . dramatic tinging held 29 Myit tr Sanskrit word . 32 ? Parental nickname 34 ?College Degree 36? -Greek letter J8- Preh* denoting "out of" 4 0 ? Spanith dance 4 1 ? Ancient tun god 43-- Doctrine 4 5 -T o pott ? T'-Symbol of courage' 50- ? A kind of meat 51 --Word of talutntion 53 Rrndert teriselett 56- Printer "t meatiuf? 58 ?Ardent *" *9 ? Pronoun 60- To- luring court tctioo Against 63 --Abbreviated Spain 64 ? Chemical tymbol foe yttrium Other Editor's Viewpoints NOT ALL BLACK (Smithfield Herald) The schools of America are having a difficult time measur ing up to desirable standards be cause classroom additions and qualified teaching personnel haven't kept pace with the vast increase in schoolage population. But the whple educational pic ture is by no means black. For example, there is encour agement in the results of a re cent survey to test the reading skills of sixth grade pupils. In six schools at Springfield, Mo., comparisons were made to deter mine 'whether sixth - graders of 1948 were better readers than sixth-graders with' similar back ground in 1931. The study was conducted by the College of Education of the University of Illinois. These were some of the find ings: The reading scores of sixth grade children in 1948 were su perior to the scores of those en rolled in the same grade in 1931. ? The children tested in 1948 are about one and one-half months younger on the average thair those in the same grade in 1931, The younger group learned to read somewhat better than their predecessors. Those making the survey con cluded that the improvement in reading skills was a result of better teaching methods. DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY (Elkln Tribune) The President's Conference on Industrial Safety is currently foe using national attention on the problems of occupational acci dents, and the tremendous toll in lives and money which these eveidents take every year. This publicity is all to the good, and a very healthy thing it is indeed. However, we should not forget for one moment that many more workers are killed and injured off the job each year than on the job. As a matter of fact, twice as many men and women suffer dis abling injuries or, death on a hol iday. over a weekend of after business hours as they do in the factory, business office or other place of work. A great many of the casualties are caused by traf fic accidents, but drowning, falls, bums, poisons and other acci- 1 dents also help to swell the total. Last year in America, death rode the highway with ,16,500 off the-job workers, while his fellow-, traveler, accidental injuries, paid an unwelcome visit to 550,000 others. Driving on the wrong side of the road, speeding, reckless or drunk driving ? these are some of i the principal causes of automo- j bile accidents. Meanwhile, homej PRESCRIPTION SERVICE W? Pill any Doctors' Pro ?crtpthma promptly and accurately at reasonable price* with the confidence if your phyildaB. Kings Mountain Drug CmmK' THE REZALt STORE flitiijir <1 Wo OQ Poraad Deliver accidents cause many more dis abling injuries, and almost as many deaths, as do their widely publicized big brother, traffic ac cidents. Last year, for example, accidents in the home killed 7,500 Americans and injured more than one million others. When you're off the Job, good sense and watchful vigilance are the best defense against having a tragic accident ? the best gua rantee of being back on the Job, the same as always. GUARANTEED hair growth to skin irritations on dogs and livestock or moncv back AT bhCTU & FEED STORES distributed by Kendall Medicine Co- Shelby XiA& Z/c/i/u/ficxA. " tf cut dog t&w/d Letter To Editor Have you ever thought about 1 what a big kick you get out of trying to kick a wad of gum off your feet? If you haven't, just stop and get a laugh ,at the oth er fellow. I think teachers that do not allow their pupils to chew gum in classes should teach them the art of it, and if their parents do not have the means of buy ing gum, they should buy them a pack with instructions, not to be opened until Sunday morning. Then Just after reaching church, open it up and take the whole pack in their mouths as they en ter Sunday school class and pro cede "Chawing" which will he'P them concentrate on what the teacher is saying. If they should have a Scripture verse to recite they can make several big chaws while they are thinking u. he part forgotten. After they have mastered the are of chewing gum, they will not depart from it when they grow older. The gum will last until church time and then continue chewing until after church. They can take notice in older folks chewing thelr's which will be very instructive for them. The old woman or man ?will a musethem greatly, If they pay particular 'attention to how they keep time with slow motion mu sic or by patting their foot. Also note very carefully how their cheek bones work up and down, like an old mule, without teeth, trying to chew hard corn. A pro file view is also very interesting and if you imagine a goatee on his phin, you would have a per fect Old Goat chewing his cud, with ease and satisfaction. Then when leaving church, you may toss the cud on the steps and watch some one fall over it ir loose a shoe trying. to kick it off; or might be alright to throw it into the street and wreck a car. But if you do not want to depart from the aroma of that sweet cud of gum, you can take it home, stick it under the table, and pro ceed chewing after you have finished dinner; and in this way it will save you the trouble of brushing your teeth. Of course, you can not chew it on through the night but you can have a lot of fun by sticking two black cats tails together with it and throw them across a cloth line. Then the lire works begfn, and if one cat is lucky enough to get a 14 the gum, you may be able io relrieve it next morning and continue as heretofore. a CITIZEN. Pardon Her Pride ! We're proud too, to be able to bring you wonderful -tatting GOLDEN GUERNSEY MUk. Every quart you uae, either in cooking or a* a mealtime and between-meal drink, ha* more energy-value than ten eggtt Im agine what that can mean to your family nutrition program! Important food-energy In a pleasant, cany -to- take way GOLDEN GUERNSEY Milkl TRY SOME OF OUR GOLDEN GUERNSEY CBEAM TODAY! XX Heavy Whipping Cream, Vs P** ? ? 35c Coffee or Cereal Cream.- V2 P*- * . 20c Archdale Farms Phono 2405 Try Herald Classifieds They Bring Result* My voice is my ^ living. So it's only f natural that I smoke the ^ cigarette that agrees ? with my throat ? CAMEL! SINGING BAND LEADER CAMELS Ml SO MILO that in a coast-to-coast lest of hundreds of men and women who smoked Camels? and only Camels? for 50 days, noted throat specialists, mak ing weekly examinations, reported Not one tingle com of throat irritation due fo smoking CAMELS WE ANNOUNCE THE OPENING OF OUR Here's a club to which all can belong? a club that will help you do the things you desire next Christmas! Put in a little each week, receive a substantial Christmas ? * check next year. That's all there is to it but its the surest recipe we know for a Merry Christmas and a debt-iree New Year. First .. * "? * National Bank Deposit Each Week for 50 W*efcs 50c $1.00 $2.00 $S.OO Receive Early Next Decernttff $25.00 $50.00 $100.00 fcVXUX) m u a n n ii n n ii i ii ii iii in n ii H linMlinrf