The Kings Mountain Herald
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 Kings Mountain
and Its vicinity, published every Friday by the Herald Publishing House.
Entered as second class matter at the postofflce at Kings Mountain, N. C, under Act
. of Congress of March 3, 187&
Editorial Department
Martin Harmon . Editor-Publisher
Charles T. Carpenter, Jr Sports, Circulation, News
Mrs. P. D. Herndon .. Society
V Mechanical Department
Eugene Matthews Horace Walker Ivan Weaver*
Paul Jackson Charles Odems
(??Member of Armed Forces >
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure;
making wise the simple. Psalm 19:7.
Support The Band
Now underway in Kings Mountain is
another annual fund drive, one that has
always been successful in the past and
should be this year too.
We refer to the effort to raise $2,400
to support the Kings Mountain high
school band, being conducted this year
by the Kings Mountain Lions club as a
public service project and With Tolly
Shuford as chairman.
This is one of those fund drives people
can afford to get especially excited a
bout, for the Practical reason that all
the funds aie used .is a strictly local in
vestment, with no foreign overhead of
any kind.
Another factor in the band's favor is
the willingness of its leadership to help
in any way it can to add color and zest
to any kind of community occasion. Di
rector Joe Hedden remarked recently,
''That's what we're for." This attitude
is quite correct and proper but it is not
always evident among some school
groups who define cooperation as "doing
it my way."
Proof of value of annual investment
has also been provided by the band by
the recent high rating it. has won in
competition with other schools.
The $2,400 should be obtained and ex
ceeded.
A Yugoslav medical scientist, work
ing in Chicago, has recently reported in
teresting research findings on cancer. He
thinks he may have discovered a drug
that may be successful in treatiing the
dread disease. His claims have not been
widely tested by other physicians and
his drug may be proved as worthless as
others previously thought helpful. The
point is that research continues on can
cer in direct proportion to the funds
available. Dr. Durovlc's findings may be
valuable. If not, someday, sometime, the
answer will be found. Citizens can help
shorten the time by supporting the cur
rent fund campaign of the . American
Cancer Society.
The city election law will stand some
minor cleaning at the next term of the
General Assembly too, if the primary
system proposed on a state-wide basis,
is not adopted. It is the Herald's feeling
that the filing deadline should be a min
imum of 15 days before the election, ra
ther than five, and that the voting time
on election day should coincide with
state election laws. City voting stops
at 6 p. m., while county voting stops at
6:30.
Register oh Saturday for the forth
coming city election. Persons in doubt
as to whether they are now on the books
should check witn the respective regis
trars. It happens every year that sever
al citizens arrive at the polls prepared to
vote, only to find they are not register
ed. They mistakenly felt that because
they were registered for the previous
county election they were also register
ed for the city election.
A hearty welcome to Jack White, of
Laurinburg, new model lawyer, who is
joining the office of J. Roan Davis. Mr.
White comes to Kings Mountain highly
recommended and in addition has a
Cleveland County connection through
his wife who came from Fallston.
Have your waste paper ready Sunday
afternoon. The Jaycees have scheduled
a paper collection and have already built
\ip a nice little fund from the salvage of
paper which they have earmarked for
re-investment in the community.
A Wise Action
The city board of commissioners act
ed with sagacity and perspicacity last
Wednesday on the matter of cleaning
up the city election law to provide for a
run-off election.
As this is written, House Bill 1112 has
already been passed by the state House
of Representatives, and it should be rat
ified into law before the legislators
come home to stay.
It truly would have proved embarrass
ing had Kings Mountain had six clai
mants for three city commissionerships
and two for mayor, as could have hap
pened even with the present group of
candidates now in the field. Such a situ
ation would have made Georgia, with its
experience of two governors, and Madi
son county with two sheriffs, look like
pikers.
Action by the city board was that de
sired by a majority of the citizens of the
city, if indications obtained by the Her
ald are any criterion. In addition, the
fact that the clamor for action virtually
ceased immediately following the city
board motion for a run-off arrangement
is further evidence that most citizens
want their representatives to get a ma
jority of the votes.
The Herald does not believe in plurali
ty election, though it has many practical
advantages. Plurality flection is cheap
er, both to governing bodies holding the
election and to candidates, but it is hard
ly democratic. The recent examples of
victory by Kerr Scott, Willis Smith and
Haywood Allen illustrate the point. Iiad
plurality methods been in vogue, neith
er of the three would have made it. For
the voter, such a situation will balance
up over a long period. About as many
favorites would win as lose. But it
would never balance up for the individ
ual candidates, who would never know
whether they could have won.
Politically speaking, the city adminis
tration handled a "hot potato" issue
with finesse and a fair-mindedness
sometimes not exhibited by governing
bodies in similar situations. Of the pres
ent administration, four men of the six
seek election again. It is conceivable
that the practical political' advantage
would have been to leave the situation
"as was," under the plea of lack of time
for passage by the General Assembly, or
to return to the plurality method.
Our commendations to the incumbents
for their action and their willingness to
secrifice a possible short term personal
benefit in the interest of a long-term de
mocratic principle.
Insurance Rates
The Herald agrees wholeheartedly
with the efforts of the city board to re
tain Class VI rating with the Southeas
tern Bureau of Fire Insurance underwri
ters.
Vast amounts of money are spent
each year by Kings Mountain business
firms, home owners and others for fire
insurance, and if the city, by spending a
little extra to meet minimum require
ments for paid firemen, can save its citi
zens $7,000 annually, the added expen
se to the city would be quite justifiable,
not to mention the concurrent improve
ment in efficiency of the fire department
itself.
Our sympathies to the family of Rob
ert G. McDaniel, who succumbed recent
ly following a heart attack. Many people
visited his bier and attended his funer
al, which is a tacit reflection of the spir
it of good will he exhibited to others
and, naturally, received in return.
?| YEARS AGO Remi of new* taken from the 1911 file* of the
X Vy THIS Vij' E E K King* Mountain Herald.
With only 20 days left to file
for the coming Town Election,
only one man threw his hat in
the ring during the past week.
The new candidate this week Is
W. O. "Ows" Styers, who- filed
Jast Thursday lor the Town
Council from Ward 4.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Miss Norma Crook and Fred
Ertle Powers were married Fri
day afternoon at six o'clock <. at
the home of the bride's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Crook.
Mm. V. L. Hlnson entertained
members of her family at a sur
prise birthday dinner at her
home on Lackey street Saturday
honoring her aon, Boyoe Hi n son.
Miss Octavia Crawford whoso
marriage to Mr. Harold Coggirvs
wilt be solemnized at the First
Baptist church tonight, was com
plimented by her two sister-ln
lawa, Mrs. Wilson Crawford and
Mrs. Harold Crawford who enter
tained with a large bridge and
rook party at the Woman's Club
Friday night.
Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Ramseur
were hosts at a buffet supper
and bridge party at their home
on West Mountain street Friday
evening.
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Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jenkins.
Miss Viols White and Mb* Pearl
Reynold* visited Camp Jackson
last weekend and attended the
maneuvers and parade.
Mi* Humes Houston, nee Miss
Eva M?o Suber, was the inspire
tion of a lovely party when her
mother-in-law, Mrs. H. H. Hous
ton, entertained In hec honor at
her home In Pageland Friday ev
ening.
Mr. and Mr*. W. K. Crook en
tertained at three tables of bridge
on Tuesdsy s evening at their
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martin's
medicine
?y Martin Harmon
(Containing bit* of news, wis
dom* i"'""", commuL To
bo taken weekly- Avoid
over-dosage.)
Identification
/ "The act of making or prov
ing tp be the same" Is Dr. Web
ster's definition of todayV topic
for medicinal discussion. That
act frequently prove* an inter
esting one in many situations,
and. indeed, is much more
broad a subject than many
would suspect
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Almost everyone has had ex
perience with the identification
problem, occuring most fre
quently In relation to check
writing and check-cashing.
Merchants, bankers, and other
business men are somewhat
leery of taking checks from
people not known, regardless of
the evidences of high moral
character indicated by manner,
dress and look out of tb ? eye.
Those who aren't properly
leery have had occasion to re
gret it. About once a year a
check- (lasher works Kings
Mountain and the city's busi
ness men are usually good for
a fairly nice sum. The best rule
on the check business, they tell
me. is not to cash 'em unless
the person is known. Of cour
se. It follows that it won't do
sometimes to cash 'em when
the person is known.
But Identification problems
are hard!/ limited to the world
of commerce. The armed forc
es do a very big business in the
identification field. In war
time. Ob period of strained in
ternational relations, it is Im
perative that identification sig
nals of all kinds are available,
known to all friends, and secret
to all enemies. To aid the se
crecy matter, they are chang
ed constantly. The compllca
cations gnow and grow in Joint
o pea tl ons with other nations.
The problem starts with the
simple password in the field,*
and goes on up the ladder to.
call signals for ship*. Identifi
cation means for airplanes, etc.
The Importance of this field can
be easily seen from the many
tragic death-dealing mistakes
made in World War IL All De
member instances of planes
bombing their own ships, or
ground forces throwing ack
ack at friendly planes.
Dr. Walter rfau. la his Inter
esting discussion 'of "Off -Base
English" at tbe Klwanis club
larfifs night party last week,
mentioned the identification
business in the Decent war as
it concerned foiling the Japan
ese. Ke said. 1 believe, that
Japanese hare a difficult time
with the consonant *T*. Thus,
?ocal identification signals of
the Far East army always had
plenty of *Ts" In them. An A
merican soldier returning from
patrol could handle 'em per
fectly, but the enemy soldier
would garble the words badly.
A garble meant a target, ?pron
to.
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Everyone, ol course, is famil
iar with the identification
cards in use at war plants, but
these cards are also in great
use at other places. During my
college days. Carolina never
superimposed a picture on
these cards. Thus, some stu
dents who didn't care for foot
ball (small minority, of course.)
could command big prices at
sell-out games on their stu
dent passbooks, which they got
at cut rates. The practice was
discouraged and it was difficult
for an olds* man to got by wiu>
aDOttbOOk. thouah VMUMtftB
ones could sail en through. But.
adoption of the picture policy
virtually pat an end to the
practice.
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The piece de resistance, in
fact the Inspiration, for this
column, is an interesting iden
tification story told by Johnny
McGill. A ladv ira m a neigh
boring South Catvlisa city was
on a buying trip at the l*elsler
Mills clothroom. had inadver
tently left her wallet at home,
ana, with her new drapes all
picked out ran into the cloth
room rale of "no checks." Con
a hurried trip uptown to try to
cash a check. Johnny heard the
banker. In the lady's town sag
him would snefcle his firm to
cash the check. She called her
husband, then and had him to
get Johnny's hmksr friend to
place a call. The banker told
Johnny something like this:
Mrs. Blank can write a check
of hes own cheering and it will
bo cleared. Of coarse. I don't
|y Wk*r whether this lady who
claims to he Mrs. Mil Is ac
tually Mrs. " ' "
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By A. C* Gordon
ACROSS
I ? Hypnotism
9- ? Proposition
1 1 ?-Separation of anything
into constituent parts
1 3- ? Anc,f"t
16? To store fodder
IS? A small quantity
21 ? Man's nickname
3 7 ? Cases
25? Personal pronoun
26 ? Army Officer (abbrev )
28 ? Exclamation ol
surprise or )oy
29? To make neat
previously
31 ? Poetical for ' always"*
3 3-r Public conveyance
tabbrev )
35 ? Pronoun
36? Dined
37 ? Specimens
40 ? Pronoun
?4 2? Printer's measure
4 3? A sound asking fo*
silence
44 ? To turn over
46? Behold!
4? ? A count/y
40? Popular liliaceous
'plant of southwestern
U S (pit. -
53 ? Either
54 ? An amount ol twirling
58 -r -Exist
59 ? Pertaining to equality
ol measure
DOWN
7? Made a living in
scanty, fashion
3? Parental' nickname
4 ? To invest or clothe
5 ? Ancient sun god
6? Adjective suffix
denoting * per taming
to"
7? To combine
8 ? Manuscripts (abbrev )
Q? A Moslem
10 ? In an uifdistmguished
or obscure miinner
17 ? Roman double
14 ? Advance
15? Flat container
1 7? Rudimenlat
19? Impostors
70? Chart
7 3-~ Prefix denoting three
74 ? Thoroughfare tabbrev )
7 7 ? A house featuring *
certain popular bev
erage t two words)
30 ? Chemical symbol for
radium
32? A quantity of paper
(abbrev ). .. ."
34 ? A corded fabric
38 ? Per cent.fabbrey )
39? Southern South
America tabbrev )
41-r-Gull-like seabifd
4 5 ? Likeness
4 8? Prefix denoting
??jomed"
50 ? Command Post i
tabbrev ?
51 ? Roman 107 *
52 ? Satisfaction Not
Obtained tabbrev |
55? Part of verb "to be"
56 ? Latin connective
5? ? Mathematical term
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S? The Want Ad S??tlon Fob This Week's Completed Puulo
Other Editor's Viewpoints
WHAT IS NORMAL?
(Stanly News & Press)
A person who was bom about
the turn of the century has lived
through some very trying tlmps,
and when an analysis is made
of the first SO years of this cen
tury, one wonders what can be
considered "normal times."
Back in 1907, there was a panic,
which was followed by a World
War that began in 1914 and end
ed in 1918. Then in 1921, there
came a brief panic, or depression,
with the boom coming in the late
'20's. The bubble burst In 1929,
and it was 1936 before the coun
try got started back towards what
might be regarded as normal.
Three years had hardly passed
before war broke out in, Europe,
and we set frantically to work to
prepare for out inevitable part in
the conflict. It was 1945 before we
stopped, and when we did stop,
our whole military strength, the
greatest in the world at that time,
collapsed. And all of us know the
story since then, with conflict be
ginning again in the summer at
1930.
Undoubtedly we must regard
this period of a half century as
"normal times." War, depression,
prosperity ? a cycle that leaves
one in doubt as to whether we
can direct our economy in such a
way as to enjoy long pediods of
peace and prosperity.
How much better the world
would be today if we could de
vise some way to take "all the
money that is expended for war,
and use it for peaoeful purpo
ses!
We could make the world
blossom like a rose for all peo
ple if we tried as hard as we do
to prepare tot conflict.
and we don't know of anything
that can be done about It. The
winter of 1949*50 was unusually
warm, as you will remember, and
then dn April of last year there
way as to enjoy long periods of
the fruit crop and damaged and
delayed the spring crops in gen
eral. The following from The
Christian Science Monitor on this
subject makes interesting read
ing:
Winter has not necessarily
ended Just because spring has
begun. This is a discovery every
inhabitant of the north temper
ate zone has to make for himself
? at least once a year. The poet
wrote;
If winter comes, can spring be
far behind? He might have writ
ten . . . but any reader can re
vise the line adequately on a
March day when the flurry threa
tens to become a blizzard and
prospects of another complete
winter ahead buffet the anxious
imagination. One swallow doesn't
make a summer, but, still, one
winter out to make a winter.
Now is the winter of our dis
content.
Yes, Sbakespear had a line for
every occasion ? and though this
one was not penned specifically
for our purpose it will do as well
as another to celebrate the win
ter that follows spring.
North Carolina's huge cigar
ette industry boosts its U. S. In
ternal Revenue collections to rn
er the billion mark annually.
Collections for 1950 totalled 51.
131,615,783.
Certain vegetables and fruits
ar* needed in the diet every day,
say nutrition specialists at State
College.' r.V,
RETURN VISIT PLAYS
HAVOC
(Bladen Journal)
It is the winter that make* a.
return engagement alter the ar
rival of spring which plays ha
voc with fruit and vegetable
crops, and not the winter weath
er at the prescribed winter sea
son. That frequently happens.
Should you K ought
THC wrong BND
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Don't Make The Mistake . . ,
Tour boat policy Is complete coverage. By all means, use ut
most caution when diivksg. Sut never make the mistake of
thinking careful driving Is a substitute top insurance. There
IS NO substitute. Accidents are often uncontrollable. See us
today and get good, complete coverage for your automobile.
The Aithar Hay Agency
, ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE ,
.'Phone 182
? ?S-The American Way SET ? ?
"HAY-POLING"
Before th? day of hone drawn hay rack*,
hay was carried to the bam by what was
called "poling." Two Img poles were slipped
under a pile of hay and two men carried the
load. Neighborly cooperation was necessary
to get the Job done In a reasonable length of
tfSMi
For many years we have been the means by which
neighborly cooperation has helped other people. The
money saved here by you and your friends has made
home ownership possible to credit-worthy families
to buy or build homes, and they repay it in conveni
ent monthly installments, like rent. Of course, they
pay interest on the money borrowed, and that inter
est credited to savings accounts as dividends.
HO Ml
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The firat time you atand back
and admire your new Pontim
and than fat behind the wheel
for your first thrilling drive ...
you'll M^oy t b* Wonderful,
glowing experience of owning a
triil y gnat motor car.
But tb? next few yaara will gfaa
you aa men Mr idea of how
aoundyour judgment waa when
yoo choHc a Pontine. For, by
that time youTl have d?x>vernd
that this beautiful car k aa
confrrn as a car can ba. .
Only the yeara and the happy
mQaa will tell you how really
true it la that, Dollar for Dollar
You Can't Beat a Pontiacl