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The Kings Mountain Herald Established 18d9 . ? ???, ... ? mi,.-." ? .... ? i. ,i.' . in, ,i.,i A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vlclnty, published every Friday by the Herald Publishing Hoyse. . ? ? ? .* ?? ' ? Entered as second class mattej at the postoffice at Kings Mountain, N. C., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. Editorial Department Martin IXarmon \ Editor-Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr < Sports, Circulation, News Mrs. P. D. Herndon , . . Society Mechanical Department Eugene Matthews Horace Waiker Ivan Weaver Paul Jackson Charles Odems* TELEPHONES: Society. 167; Other. 283 SUBSCRIPTION RATES. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR? $2.50 SIX MONTHS? $1.40 THREE MONTHS? 75c BY "MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. Ecclesiastes 7:5. Pay-As-We-G? How far the Cqngress will go with a "pay-as-we-go" tax program remains to be seen. Taxes will definitely be increas ed and one Senator, Anderson of New Mexico, has even had the nerve to ad vance.the idea of a federal sales tax. Congress will probably not go as far as the Administration asks, perhaps not as far as it should, for the Congressmen have to face the electorate periodically and they'd rather hear themselves de cried for deficit financing and putting the nation in danger of bankruptcy than for taking too heavy a bite from the vo ter's pocketbook. Where shall the taxes come from? President Truman indicated in ad vance of his Monday budget speech that the government will have to bite more heavily into the incomes of middle and lower income groups, on the logical as sumption that this is where the bulk of the money is, even if more widely distri buted. How low into low income groups will Congress go? The load is already heavy. The personal exemption of $600 will do no more than buy a man's food for a year, and the present withholding tax scale on a single man making $50 per week is $6.80, plus the social security contribution, which leaves him only S42.45 with which to buy food, shelter* and clothing and make the payments on the television set. This, again, is the basic argument a gainst the general sales tax. It hits the man heaviest who can least afford to pay it, though many more than Senator Anderson feel that the sales tax is the best means of doing the twin job of bringing in the money and of siphoning off excessive buying power. Regardless of the methods of extrac tion decided on by Congress, it would seem that something must be done, and qquickly, about prices. Price controls have been in order since July 1, but have not been enacted. Though there have been some wage raises, price increases are fast out-stripping them. The low-income wage earner is in th? squeeze, and Congress should see that price controls are instituted before they bite the little man too heavily again. Congress gave him a fairly heavy lick in the October 1 tax increase. Up The Ladder On the basis of 1950 receipts, the Kings Mountain postoffice will return to first-class status on July 1, a status it en joyed briefly a few years back. From the standpoint of service, the new status means virtually nothing to patrons, postoffice officials report. However, the step up the ladder is in teresting from its reflection of business activity in the area served. The opinion of Postmaster Blakely that the current increase is "solid," and not merely a temporary boom. Is also in dicative of commercial and industrial growth in Kings Mountain during the past year. Our hope is that Kings Mountain's pos tal receipts will continue up the ladder to even higher figures. From fhe rate at which trains have been passing through Kings Mountain, it Would appear that the slow-down or dinance passed by the city board of commissioners last week is quite in or der. ? " - ' - * Economy Block In Raleigh, it is generally conceded that the state's economy-minded mem bers of the 1951 General Assembly are in control, and that, while the budget for the upcoming two years will probably set a record, it will not cause any tax increa ses of great degree. Most people will be in agreement with this projected policy, even some who or dinarily belong to the spend-more group, due to the heavy calls for taxes from the federal treasury. The fiscal picture of North Carolina is sound, but budget and tax officials have warned against too rosy an outlook for the next two years. Should consumer goods become less plentiful, as is likely, there will be less money via the sales tax. And that is the big revenue producer in the state. In periods of boom times, the state treasury enjoys a boom. In pe riods of recession or .depression, the state treasury finds its receipts much lower. Indications by . ^onomy bloc leaders are that they will examine very careful ly all budget requests and that some pruning will be done. In most instances, we suspect, the pruning will not greatly curtail the really vital services of the state. Give Liberally It is easy to say, "Give," when urging contributions to the annual March of Dimes campaign. This area has been blessed for the past two years by having a fairly low inci dence of polio cases, but the nation as a whole has had no respite from regular epidemics of this dread disease. While, since the last heavy epidemic year of 1948, North Carolina has not had an epidemic, other states have, and the national total of infantile paralysis cases has continued to mount each year. This has meant such a heavy drain on finances of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis that its funds are not only exhausted, but show a deficit. Few can fail to remember 1948. This is one financial campaign which Kings Mountain, Number 4 Township and Cleveland County will do well to over-subsmribe. In spite of the considerable hullabaloo, it is hard for the Herald to get steamed up over the new efforts to get a motor vehicle inspection law. Perhaps it is the bad taste left by the last one. Fact re mains that the principal cause of the mounting total of auto accidnets is dri ver error, rather than mechanical fail ure. None will object, however, if the new law, when passed, has provisions for easy administration. Not only members of St. Matthew's Lutheran church, but many others of the community regretted to leam of the res ignation of Franklin Pethel as the St. Matthew's minister of music. Mr. Pethel did a good job during the 19 months he was. associated with the church, and, in addition, was very active in other com munity affairs. Like many other young men, he is entering the armed services. ? Tax listing time is fast running out. A call to the tax lister's office now will save time, and failure to make the visit by January 31 will result in needless penalty. 10 YEARS AGO Items of news taken liom the 1941 files of the THIS W E E K Kings Mountain Herald. The Kings Mountain school board in a call meeting yester day at 1 p. ,m. voted to close the school from today, Jan. 16, until Tuesday morning, Jan. 21, a$ a precautionary measure to pre vent the spread of flu which has been sweeping the country from west to east. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL < The American Legion Auxili ary held its monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. T. G. Hudgepeth with Mrs. Blanche Poplin joint hostess on Tuesday afternoon. Members of the Stag Club of Kings Mountain entertained their I lady friends at a spaghetti sup per at Pine Knot on Monady ev ening. Mrs. E. A. Smith* Jr.. was hos tess to the Tuesday Afternoon Bridge club entertaining at her home on Piedmont avenue. Miss Elizabeth Neill was host ess to members of the Youth Council of Central Methodist church at her home on Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Fred Plonk and baby son have returned from Memorial Hospital, Charlotte, and are now at their home on Gold street. Mr. and Mrs. George Herndon of Asheville wwe visitors In Kings Mountain Monday. Revs. P. D. Patrick, H. G. Fish er, R. N. Baird are expected to re turn this evening from High Point where they attended the North Carolina Council of Chur ches. Mr. O. W. Myers is recuperating from an attack of flu. Mr. Humes Houston is ill with influenza. Mr. Jacob Cooper is recupera ting from an attack of flu. Mrs. C. A. Hagar and baby of Hickory were guests of Mm Ha gar's mother, Mm. R."S. Plonk last week. martin's - v. medicine ty Martin Harmon (Containing bits of mwi, wls iosa, bum or, and comment. To bo taken weekly. Milt'fi: over-dosage.) Into The Service This is a more or less serious piece. i-t-s er - - Appearing regularly Li every newspaper and other um pe riodical, over the radi-i, and through other medl"rru. is news concerning the need for men in the armed forces and of hoa ry enlistments and draft quo tas. y i-t-s It wis only ten years ago that draft call lists were ap pearing in newspapers, and here it is again, causing un rest among the youth of the land, and worry, strain and anxiety among parents and other interested kin. 1-t-s With the prospects of mili tary service Just around* the coiner, it is natural that young men now 18 or Just turning the age corner to draft eligibility demonstrate restlessness. They are faced with certain decis ions, and, no matter the choice, they can't be sure whether they're going the light way on not. .? i-t-s At Chapel Rill, college stu dents are leaving school to join the services by droves, the Al umni Review reporting that 800 have already resigned from col lege classes. And the same thing is happening all over the state, at small schools and lar ge,, and all over the nation. Many are enlisting in some branch of the service, with the air force seaming to be more popular than any, at least in this area. Word of a possible freeze of air force enlistments is out, which seems to act as a catalyst on the young men en couraging them to seek these assignments more diligently. 1-t-s Much of It comes, of course, from a natural disinclination on the part of the youngkters to avoid duty In the infantry, the serrice of Spartan -living which customarily, collects an "out-mod ed" tag between each war. but which always proves pre-requisite to any complete victory. Tet there are some men no furthec away than the house around the block or across the street who have been through the infantry mill in plenty, of combat who, if they return to duty, would want nothing else. i-t-s Which proves, if nothing else, that ifs, a good thing tastes vary. ? its The enlistment business is a pretty good proposition, though, fo* if s only human nature for a man who has made a choice to work harder to prove that his choice was right. Its Personally, I would not hank* er too much for the air force department. The brief flying I have done didn't completely sell me on the bird business, and I don't know that I'd want to be iiandlin g 500-pound bomb* during an enemy visit. I would prefer another term in Undo Sam's navy, where one only has to worry (about torpe does. mines, air raids, enemy shore batteries, and. in bad weather, possibility of collision at sea. But it's all a matter of taste ? . . , i-t-s The above bravodo is not to be termed a request for active duty, of course. |-t-s Seriously, again, it all boils down to one elemental fact: Ifs never very pleasant to get shot at. On the brighter side, it is a happy fact that few troops, sailors, or marines get regular sustained duty on the firing lines. An old navy chief, who had fought through two wars, described duty in the service as "long periods of boredom, punctured by moments of in tense excitement.*' I found that to be quite true. and moat of my veteran friends agree. !?!?? ? It is a fact that wartime ser vice in the armed forces on the part of young men Is customar ily a greater strain on their parents, .thetr wives and inter ested kin than on the men themselves. And there an many benefits. There's nothing nfcm nn^e ilesclpllne to lemti a man In the way he should go. and. like every other new ex ?ROSSW ORD ? ? ? By A. C. Gordon I Othei Editor's Viewpoints ACROSS 1? World'* largett UUnd 9? Well known Mrditer r anftn Uland 10 ? The Buckeye State '? (POM.) 11? Buipqr < 13 ? Roman 54 IS? A ve**d 1 ?? Likely IS? Fruit* 20 ? Royal Northwe*t " ) (abbrev.) II ? Compaw direction 22? A tailor 23 ? Consume 2 5 ? Spanith affirmative 26 ? Pierce* 2S ? Native of ancient k tatle country 30 ? A witch ( colloq. ) 31? Lubricant 32 ? Waterway* 34 ? Spittle 37 ? Chemical tymbol for ?ilver 38 ? Compaa* direction 30 ? Assimilated form of "in" Around the World <0 ? College degree 41 ? Through 43? Ire 47 ? A citrua drink 4#? Man** nam* 50 ? Noun nRii 51 ? A tchime 52? Country one* known a* Iberia 54 ? One time military weapon 50 ? Canadian city (pa**.) DOWN v I ? Sandlike particle* 2 ? A colot 3 ? Latin conjunction 4 ? Fiaher* of lamprey* 5 ? Rrartce't largett river (pou.) 6? Exclamation of ' *ati*f action 7 ? A pen point 0 ? Entrance 9 ? Large Scandanavian city (pou.) It ? I*land on which ? Columbu* landed (two word*) 1 2? Weathercock 14 ? Southern itat* (abbrev.) 16? rwofold 15? Equal 19 ? To declare 22? State of the "Union 24? A kind of BaMbc 27 ? Numeral V 29 ? Human numeral 32 ? A land promontory extending into water 33? Meadow 35 ? Atmosphere 36? To aid ' 42 ? A stout cord 44 ? Italian firtt name for 45 ? Chemical tymbol for germanium 40 ? Previously (arthaK-) 47 ? Exclamation of sorrow 49 ? Sorrowful ; 51 ? Writing implement 53 ? "I am" contracted SS ? Italian river See The Want Ad Section Fob This Week's Completed Puxile STARK TRAGEDY (Stanly News & Press) The automobile manufacturers of this country built more than 8,000,000 motor vehicles last year, and other manufacturers turned out tremendous quantities of ra dio and television sets, refrigera tors, stoves, furniture and thous ands of other items that make for better living. But it appears now that practically all of these fa cilities will foe converted to the manufacture of weapons and am munition with which to kill hu man beings. Is it possible to imagine any thing more tragic? Weare not mad at the Russians, Chinese or other Communists na tions of the earth which seem bent on conquering the whole world. They are regimenting their people so that they can wage ef fective war, and this means that they are not enjoying the good things of life as we know them here in this country. If we had a choice between sup plying those Communist coun tries with 50 billion dollars wor th of peacetime goods in 1951, without any cost to them, think how much better the world would be at the end of this year. And we could afford to dp It. The tragedy of the whole sit uation lies in the fact that a com paratively few men and wo men, less than 5 million in Rus sia, control the lives arid desti nies of the citizens of that na tion. In China, about 6,000,000 be long to the Communist party, but the leaders say that this number is too large, so they have set a bout in a purge that will reduce the ranks to about 3,000,000. We need to attack, not the whole 'nations of China and Rus sia, but the ruling groups, and it must be done 1n a subtle but sure manner. We are too Ideal istic in this country about the way to get at these comparative ly small groups, and this ideal ism will result in Dark Ages that may last for more than a 100 years unless we use our resour ces to attack them In their weak spots. . FARMERS' TASK ( ( Bladen Journal ) As has been the case in the past when this nation was call ed upon to mobollze for military preparedness and defense, the farmers of the country will again play a leading part in the ef fort. There will be need for in creased production of food and feed crops to meet theemergen cy, and this necessity must be met with fewer people working on the farms ? with less man power. Many of the young men are being ealledfrom the farms Into the armed service of the na tion, and that naturally will re duce the farm labor. And yet, nothing ia more im-< portant during time of war than plenty of farm products. One fortunate thing ig that much of the farm work formerly done by man and beast is now done by farm machinery. That is, more acres can .be worked by feweT men under the present set-up, Arms are no more necessary in preparedness for war ot;.in wag ing war than food, and for that reason the tarmers uf America have a task to meet. They have met 4t in pasf emergencies, and no doubt will meet it again. Several Franklin County broiler producers started broods of baby chicks during the Christmas hoi idays. By starting their chicks early, the producers hope to have ther birds ready for market dur ing the period of expected peak prices In March. Better Cough Relief When new drugs or old fail to stop your couth or chest cold don't delay. Creomulsion contains only safe, help ful, proven ingredients and no nar cotics to disturb nature's process. It goes right to the seat of the trouble to aid nature soothe and heal raw, ten der, inflamed bronchial membrane*.. Guaranteed to please yon or druggist .refunds money. Creomulsion has stood the test of many millions of users. CREOMULSION ^ rowtf Announcement Dr. James S. Bailey announces that he has returned to his office , for the practice of optometry Fridays only Phone 40 214 Mountain Street . (Next door to Imperial Theatre) -^Quality Cleaning? That's The Bland Yoa Get At WEAVER'S CLEANING Phone 328-1 WHEN COLDS START... heres an ANTI-HISTAMINE THAT YOU CAN TRUSTI AH ANTI HISTAMINE TABLETS Cold's distresses are stepped in many the first day. ? " \ J. 7 ?: ? ? ' ' * . THERE'S NOTHING FINER THAN TO LIVE IN NORTH CAROLINA For instance You can hunt quail through January 31 -also rabbit, wild tur key and ruffed grouse ?raccoon end opossum through February 15. Midwinter skeet at Pinehurst February 3-4. Fox hunting (in jeeps) at Nags Head February 14-17. February 2 is Ground Hog Day? and all "trigger happy" North Carolinians should know that one oi Nortn Carolina's favorite characters in history, Daniel Boone, Sorn February 11, 1733. oi cotton, corn, oats, onions, turnips, potatoes. These aire just a few of the happenings that go on to make North Carolina a grand place to live? and, for refreshing relaxation any time, most of us oan enjoy a temperate glass of beer? sold under our ABC system of oi legal control that is working so well. North Carolina Division UNITED STATES BREWERS FOUNDATION, INC. February 26-March 2? Pinehurst Seniors Golf Championships. _ Yes, (here is plenty of work and play for all, in North Car* olina next month? it's early planting time for a host oi garden vegetables, to say nothing Printing ? Phone 167 and 203
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