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The Kings Mountain Hexald Established 1888 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizen* of Kings Mountain ?nd Its vicinity, published every Prldry by Herald'Publishlng House. Entered as second class matter at the postofflce at Kings Mountain, N. C, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. EDITOBIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon ?> Editor-Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, it Sports, Circulation, News Mrs. P. D. Herndon Society Dorothy McCarter .; Advertising, News MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Horace Walker Ronald Moore Ivan Weaver* Paul Jackson C.iarles Odems (? ? Member of Armed Forces) TELEPHONE NUMBERS? 167 or 283 SUBSCRIPTION HATES. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR? $2.50 SIX MONTHS ? <1.40 THREE MONTHS ? 75c BY MAIL ANYWHE. 3 TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE And he answered and said unto them. My mother and my brethren are* these which hear the word of God, end do it. St. Luke 8:21. First-Class Again While some folk'may have been in clined to decide, on reading last week's news account of the Kings Mountain postoffice's return to first-lass status, that there is no benefit to the patrons, it remains a fact that postal receipts are an excellent barometer of commercial traffic. The return to first-class status, based on receipts for the calendar year 1950, indicate that the level of business activ ity in the city has been on the upgrade. That is why all citizens hope that the Kings Mountain postoffice will continue to get further up the postal rating lad der. There are seven different break downs in the first-class category. Thus will be seen that Kings Mountain's postoffice can still advance in status. It does seem strange that raising of the class ratings provides 'little differ ence in the service, in fact, lessens it at the money-order window, which is now open two hours less each day. The Herald was hopeful that the re turn to first-class status would throw added weight to a considerable need at the postoffice for opening of two win dows, if not at all times, then at peak periods during the day, which, the Her - aid guesses, occur from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m., mornings, and from 4 p. m. to 6 p. m., afternoons, not to mention Saturday mornings, all morning. The jam-ups still continue at the one open postal window, where all regular postal window business, other than money-order, is handled. It takes long enough to clip a three cent stamp off the sheet and make the change (most patrons buy them as they need them), but when the handling of insured packages and C. O. D. arises, a lot of people do a lot of heel-cooling. If the postmaster has not asked for this portion of needed relief from last season's economy order, he should. And in the process he should let the repre sentatives in Congress have a copy of his request. Time is money, and the slow service at the window, which is not cred itable to the employees, is costing many citizens much time. Using The Talent According to the parable of the tal ents, the master was quite displeased with the servant who buried his tal ent and therefore was merely able to re turn it when accounting time came. Kings Mountain, as many persons have remarked over a period of many years, has been in the same position as the slothful servant. ? The natural asset; in early years the site of a famous Revolutionary battle, and, more recently, of a beautiful Na tional Military Park, has been largely ignored by Kings Mountain, the city which bears its name, and which is in alienably connected with the battle site. Now it appears that one group in Kings Mountain is going to do something with the talent. The Kings Mountain Little Theatre expects to produce a historical drama at the amphitheatre this autumn, and our guess is that it will be a successful promotion. As usual, it's hard to balance up, with one addition outlining the need for ano ther. Would it be asking too much to re quest that some noble citizen, or group of citizens, start organizing a hotel cor poration again? The bulk of the needed capital should be acquired before the word "site" is mentioned. If Kings Mountain is ever to benefit by its his torical natural asset, it will have to provide a place to sleep its' visitors. Natural Gas Almost concurrent with publication last week of the Kiwanis Club's recom mendation that the City of Kings Moun tain investigate the possibility of natu ral gas service, the daily papers carried a headline indicating that no further ex tensions would be immediately allowed by federal authorities. This means that the available supply coming^from the big pipeline has al ready been snapped, up by communities and individuals seeking the benefits of this cheap, efficf*nt fuel. Several times, engineering firms have discussed the survey contracts with the city board of commissioners. One firm wants to make the survey for one dol lar. In turn, the firm would supervise the construction, if any, and collect a fee totaling six percent of the construc tion cost, should the city ever go into the gas distribution business. One neighbor ing city declined these terms, preferred instead to .pay for the cost of the sur vey, which would determine 1) cost of installing the system, 2) potential im mediate demand for gas service. It is understood that Kings Mountain industry looks with much favor on the possible use of natural gas. The Herndon administration listened with interest to the engineering propos als, but then it took a glance at the money required for other basic needs such as sewer system clean-up, electri cal system clean-up and water-line ex tensions, and it doubted that the foreseeable future would find the city treasury in position to do much about gas. Again, the voters would have to speak favorably on the cash outlay which would be in excess of half-a-mil lion dollars, one engineer guessed. Certainly the survey findings would prove most interesting, hut the neigh boring city may have been correct in passing up the short-term free-for-noth ing dollar deal. It might be better busi ness, long-term, to buy the survey out right with no strings attached. The report of Kir.s Mountain's fi nancial institutions on semi-annual di vidends reminds again that some Kings Mountain citizens are salting a little bit of cash away for the proverbial rainy day. All citizens would benefit by adopting a regular savings policy. Roger Babson, the economist, in a recent arti cle, pricked adequately the argument that, since inflation has occurred, peo ple lose money on their savings ac counts, such as building and loan, bank savings, and life insurance. He says it isn't true, for the savings are being stacked away on inflated dollars too. His point, of course, is that thrift has al ways been a good policy, for everyone. Ex-free spenders who somehow get a round to the business of saving a por tion of their income regularly never cease to be amazed at how quickly the total mounts. Our congratulations to C. D. Blanton, who has been appointed a member of the county hospital board of trustees, and our commendations, too, to W. K. Mauney, retiring members, who work ed diligently along with other members of the board, toward bringing the Kings Mountain hospital into reality. Business and industrial firms liable for privilege licenses, rs well as out-of town concerns selling ineir wares or ser-, vices in the cfty, should purchase ?helr 1951-52 licenses prior, to July 31. There has never been any excuse for paying penalties on something that had to be paid eventually anyway. ?a /"% YEARS AGO ' Items of news taken from the 1941 filet of the X \J THIS WEEK Kings Mountain Herald. Mr. George E. Weent, Jr., of Salisbury, civil engineer of Ral eigh, has acepted a position with the City, according to City Manager H. L. Burdette. The Kings Mountain quarry began operation this week and , a considerable artiount of stone has already been crushed. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. Earl Tate entertained at her home honoring Mr*. Clifford Kircus, nee Miss Nell Jenkins, bride of last May. Miss Eoline Keeter was hostess at a delightful plCnlc supper on 1 last Wednesday evening especial- 1 ly for her house guest Miss Mar garet Greene room-mate of Miss ' Keeter at Mars Hill. Mrs. W. E. Blakely entertained members of the Home Arts Club and Invited guests at her home or West Mountain street last Wednesday. Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss Grace Ledford to Frank Morrow White. i son of Mr. and Mrs. II. H. White of Kings Creek, S. C. James Ratterree and Fred Wright spent the weekend In Boone visiting friends. Mr. and Mrs. Howard McOlll and children of Dallas, Texas are visiting relative* in Kings Moun martin's medicine PiograM. We Hope The H*rold took a Ug stop forward, w* all hops, during the past wMktn4 and. at tbe toast, tbe stop was a big on* forward production- wis*. p-w-h On the othw band. It reminds a little bit of tbe Middle East religious cult which requires that its followers go to tbe Sa-. cred Shrine by taking three steps forward and two back* ward. In tbe Herald's instance, the weekend maneuvers meant a quick back-step or two into the banker's sacred shine for a pen-dip into one of those 90 day. subject-to-renewal Jobs. P-w-h But we think it will be worth it not only from the financial viewpoint but from tbe health and welfare viewpoint and the twin position of satisfaction to our good friends, the near 9.000 folk who read tbe Herald 52 times a year. p-w-h During the past weekend, the Herald installed a brand new Intertype typesetting machine, which will make tbe shop much more ambidexterous. From the financial standpoint, it will mean that the Herald can now handle a much bigger volume of our stock-in-trade, news, advertising, and Job printing. It will also mean a wider variety of type faces to make the advertising more appealing, and the paper bet ter looking. Prom the health and welfare standpoint, blood pressures should go down. We have , been greatly embar rassed during recent weeks to be late with the paper at vary ing time*, from six to eight hours. Frankly, we were put ting out too good a paper. I don't mean that >raggtngly, and therefore sxplain quickly that we were putting out too good a paper in relation to oar personnel and production fa cilities. Sixteen and eighteen hour days do not help the blood pressure, and we have put in our share of them. Tbe new machine will be a blood pressure pop-off valve In ano ther direction. In the form of Insurance. With only one type setting machine, the Herald was at tbe mercy of tbe break down gremlins. Our elder ma chine is actually only a colt at (four years of age. but all things mechanical occasional ly haye^ their troubles, as do people. And our troubles al ways seemed to hit on the bus iest days of tbe busiest sea son. The typesetting machine is the key to the shop, and when our one went out of ac tion it meant the whole shop went out of action. p-W-h One of the nicest develop ment* of the new machine pur chase was the retain of our friend Loots GalainL for 32 Tears an Intertype installation man. Louis installed our first new Xntertype In early 1947. and he is quite a character. Fact is. I told Louis h? should more to Kings Mountain from New Jersey. Just about every body in Kings Mountain is a character of sorts, and another character would fit in welL p-w-h Louis is a real wizard with machinery, even adding a hint or two about running the au tomatic press. An Assyrian . bom in Beirut he didn't argue much with his parents when they immigrated to New York when he was age one. H? 1* a Catholic, his wife a Slovak Lu theran, and thereby hangs an an interesting tale. When the subject of marriage was set tled- they visited Louis' bishop and asked If he vould do the hitching Job. Th? bishop want ed to know if the future Mn. Ckdalni would heroine a Ca tholic. Mr. Galalni's reply was: -Would you become Protest ant?** The answer wae ess in dignant "no.** The story got a round and It wasn't long 'til the bishop's parishioners put the beat on and be married them after all. ' ' p-w-h Louis spins another interest ing true story which I proba bly shouldn't telL During his courting days. Louis was plag ued by his wife's very strict parents, and. on Me occasion -ta-law-to~be had forbade the daughter to go oat lor the evening. This, as cur era young ladtos will tragic. Later, moth er complained of a ? and the solicitous ran to the bay aspirin; She bought lng pi lie. .Roma went to sleep and daughter filled her date, p-w-h When Loufe told floe Satur day he was Catholic. 1 Inferr ed him we had m Catholic church, and that the nearest ones were la Shelby and das. tonla. A little quizzing Sab bath afteraodb revealeg that the 'c on*! ufee ofhiirrimn'at the B. ft. Peeler heme, fee which I chlded him heavily. P-w-h *e'u quite a family man with five children and and h? CROSSWORD By A. C . i'.o rdtm | ?CRPENS MAV PROTtCT ~ VAlin li/Va*#- l?MA. A DEMOCRATS HAPPY Stanley News and Press Leaders in the top ranks of the National Democratic party have been low in spirits in recent weeks, but during the past ten days there have been reports of more and more delegates to the National Republican convention pledging their support to Sena tor Robert A. Taft for President. It is no wonder that such news' sounds good to them, for it is a generally accepted fact that Mr. Taft wil be the easiest man for the Democrats to beat They feel that they can even do it with Mr. j Truman, and certainly there can be no question about General Ei senhower winning on either tick et. Mr. Taft's nomination would leave the Democrats free to take Mr. Truman or the General, with Mr. Truman likely being willing to step down if Eisenhower is available for the Democrats. / The reports indicate that much of the Taft support is coming from Southern Republicans, which reveals that they need to study the situation in a more thorough manner, and that Is ex pressing our opinion mildly. TIME PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD Belmont Banner The action last week of the Congress in extending controlls for 30 days but allowing no roll backs has people guessing and talking. One paper, against the Administration, says, "The ad ministration (meaning President Truman) waited too long to ask for curbs on prices." Another pa per. sort of Pro-Truman, says. children horribly when ho gets hen* from his many travels to Install new typesetting ma chines or to provide medication ' for old one#. p-w-h Intertype, incidentally, has ' sold a few fiarilhwi during the post four-plus yean. Serial numbers s how that this Brook - , lyn corporation har produced exactly MOO sine* oar Number 1 arrived In January '47. "Congress waited too long to put a curb on prices." So you see both papers are right. But the thing is that the Congress can clip the wings o 1 the President anytime it gets ready. The trouble Is the Senate and House get away by blaming everything on President Truman. He can't spend a dime that the Congress doesn't give him to spend. He can't do anything un less Congress gives him the pow er. So if we have a weak Presi dent then why doesn't Congress do something. Is it that we have both a weak Executive branch and a weak Legislative branch of the government. You know there are only three branches, the third being the Judicial. Congress can roll back or roll forward. At the present they seem to be rolling In a circle and the public doesn't know which way to turn. Write your opinions to' your Senators and your Con gressmen. After you do that, to help yourself, then offer a word of prayer for them, for you and for the future guidance of this great Nation. PETS RATIONED They'r? planning to ration cats and dogs in Newark, N. J, and limit folks to two pets per family. Thank goodnea# HOLSUM BREAD is not rationed; it's the "pet" of most families here! BREAD IF TOU HAD A MILLION DOLLARS YOU COULDNT BUY BETTER BREAD 5 FUNERAL HOME ?Ambulance Service ? Kings Mountain, N. C. Phone 118 TwiddU O* Dt and gosh all ' AiortimrMopt h hardly . ? *4* Spills hit tog upon hit On his coat ths t,j,m Must lotk awful Hot plaetd his ^ cloths* in tx port cart tut yoJd bt wrong as yodd toon LET US FIX THAT OLD WATCH Thar# U probably many year* of good Mrrio* in It U repaired by an upMt craftsman ?AND THEN ELECTRONICALLY TESTED "||||^ We ?4y i ew?tf and looa ?Tr?l>?pod on problem watch*,*. but w* use quality replacement parte. ? then teM all of our work electronically on our WAICHMfifvrUi. a ?ci?n tific Instrument which PRINTS a roc 3rd. PROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF THE REPAIRS
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