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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 ol the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Friday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Kings Mountain, N. C., under Act r of Congress of March 3, 1873 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Mrfrtin Harmon Editor-Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr .......... Sports, Circulation, News Mrs. P. D. Herndon .... Society Dorothy McCarter ..... .<> ...... ; V. ................ . Advertising. News MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Horace Walker Ronald Moore Ivan Weaver* . ? Paul Jackson Charles Odems (? ? Member of Armed Forces). TELEPHONE NUMBERS? 167 or 283 SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR? $2.50 SIX MONTHS? *1.40 THREE MONTHS? 75c BY MAIL ANYWHERE . ^ TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth Psalm 19: 1. his handiwork. Seeing Believing As this is written, negotiations be tween the United Nations and i-iorth Ko rean-Chinese Communist representa tives seeking an armistice lii Korea, have resumed again. Their resumption indicates that a stronger possibility of arranging a cease-fire exists, but few people in this nation, and, it is suspected, throughout the world will wager that the shooting will be halted. The backing and filling of the North Korean-Chinese group operated during the first days to stop the negotiations and to give that group certain propagan da gains, proving once again that it's almost impossible to do business with men of no moral honesty. This nation's leaders, remembering the quick break-up of the services fol lowing the Japanese surrender in 1945, have already used the press and radio to remind the citizenship of that waste ful and unfortunate circumstance. And certainly it would be pure folly to re E?at that performance, regardless of the orean outcome. Trouble brews today in Iran, where the strong nationalistic government of Iran is expropriating the British-owned oil fields. Britain developed the oil fields years ago. The nationalists charge that Britain has been doing the expropriat ing and they mean to bring an end to it. However, two wrongs have never been known to make a right, and the fear of the free world is that Iran, without the technicians to operate the big wells, will turn to willing Russia for such aid as is needed in keeping the pumps flow ing. Such a step would be the beginning of the end for Iran and would mean that Russia would have access to the oil she needs to fight a major war, Thinking citizens of the world are uni ted in hoping for a cease-fire in Korea, but they will recognize it as merely an armed truce, In spite of the current purr ring, dulcet tones of a Russian govern ment which none accuses of changing its policy. Russia, a master at the busl Ties of expediency, is merely Changing its methods. Seeing, again, is believing. ^ * . L. r J Two reports on city matters, publish ed recently, require little comment. It came as no surprise to anyone that many citizens are listing their property for. taxes at incredibly low figures, nor that some tightening of office proce dures was needed at City Hall. This pa per has always preferred to pay local level taxes more than state and federal taxes. Taxes paid on the local level are spent close home and their expenditure should rpsult in direct benefit to the in dividual and to the community, whereas taxes paid to higher levels of govern ment frequently seem to be going down the drainpipes of bureaucracy and waste. Our understanding is that the suggestions of Ernst & Ernst, certified public accountants are to be followed to the letter, which, in turn, should make citizens less reluctant to pay city taxes and fees in tho future. County officials might well take a look at Clarence Car penter's report on the tax listing busi ness. Mr. Carpenter, though he did r^ot mention it in his report, found in his cross-checking numerous figuring er rors in the county books which added to the county's valuation total. Citizens of Number 4 Township are mighty pleased with the Kings Moun tain hospital. Added evidence was the gift recently of a sum of money to the hospital by the Second Baptist church Vacation Bible school. A Record Budget The city budget for 1951-52, as finally passed Monday night, varies only in minor degree from the budget adopted tentatively on July SL_It again sets a record, though~the tax rate remains the same at $180 per $100 valuation. Some might object to adopting a rec ord budget made possible through a tidy surplus, the Powell bill gas tax rebate and record receipts from the sale of pub lic utilities, and prefer a tax rate cut. But when needs are compared and when it is realized that a 10-cent reduction oh the tax rate would save the taxpayers less than $10,00 on the basis of the es timated valuation, itw ould spread the savings to individuals quite thin. The administration is to be commend ed for raising the pay of its labor force. It can be assumed that better labor will be attracted and that demands for per formance can be increased by depart ment heads and foremen without fear that the men will quit and that they can not be replaced. It will be recalled that the Herndon administration expressed willingness to pay more for better per formance. Commendations are also due on the improved pay scales for policemen, with the same thinking in mind. The Herald wonders, however, if the budget break down item for the police chief at $3,600 is sufficient to attract the man needed to set up and to administer a complete ly effective department. Two anticipated changes, are especial ly praise-worthy. The administration expects to place its employees, other than policemen, under the social secur ity system, which is now optional for cities, and also expects to start partici pating ir the state's officer retirement fund. The social security choice is the cheapest and only foreseeable means for the city to set up any kind of retirement system for its employees, and the need for it long has been recognized. Under the police officer retirement plan, per sons found guilty of misdemeanors in city recorders court have been paying two dollars per case to the state retire ment fund for years. Kings Mountain folk have been helping to retire the of ficers of other cities and counties, but^ not their' own. A City budget, of course, is much like a housewife's. About the only definitely set, unchangeable item, even after pas sag?. is the debt service department. It can be assumed that some departments will not use all the money budgeted, and that some others, due to unforseen de velopments, wiill end 1951-52 over-spent, More and more cities, short on reven ue and long on needs, are taking the position that city services should pay for themselves where at all possible. Police and fire departments are com plete drains on the tax coffers and justi fiable expenditures, but most cities are adopting water rate schedules sufficient to take care of interest on bonded in> debtedness nnd operational expense, if not payments on bond principal. Some cities have even adopted monthly sew er fees, though in neighboring Cherry vilie it proved politically embarrassing to the several commissioners at the next succeeding election. It does seem that Kings Mountain could well revise its water rates, if those in other communi ties are any criterion. Our congratulations to B. Meek Or mand,- more than 80 years young, and only living member of Fairview Lodge, A. F. & A. M., who now holds the 50-year Masonic servicte medal. One of the better programs the Lions club has had recently was the address last weok by Harvey Bumgardner, impressed the members with his know ledge of the poultry business. This young man knows how ttf talk, too. 10 YEARS AGO Xtema of newe taken from the 1941 filet of the THIS WEEK Kings Mountain Herald. Plans are now being made for the greatest step forward in po lice protection in the history of Kings Mountain. Chief of Police Jimmy Burnes and City Manager L. Burdett have been jointly working for sometime to improve, te service so that the citizens in secure an officer any hour of the day or night. Kings Mountain's water plant *%hich is said to be one of the best in North Carolina has re cently undergone a complete painting and cleaning. 80CIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. Ladd Hamrick was hos tess to members of the Study Club and Invited guests Tuesday afternoon at her home. Mrs. J. C. Nickels and Mrs. Joe Thomson were hostesses at three tables of bridge entertaining the home of the latter Saturday afternoon. J|fi)jg| Mr. and Mrs. James McGill of Columbia. S. C. visited relatives in Kings Mountain Sunday. Mrs. Annie Mae Howie and Miss Ollle Harris are spending the week at Myrtle Beach. 'Mrs. Carrie Wllkens of Mocks vllle Is a guest at the home of her sister-in-law, Mrs. C. E. Nela f'.leholas Moss Is one of the ntneie*..- *,,?d#nta from North Carolina among the 4,500 enrol led tn the Northwestern jnlver slty summer session at Evanston. ^ i IS MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Harmon Ingredients: bits of news, wisdom, humor, and comment. Directions : Take weekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage. Experimenting The Herald staff hopes that its readers wil bear with it and take the insults of slightly var ied appearance during the liftxt few weeks. I- use the word wv . suit" advisedly, for readers \\f newspapers, magazines and qther periodicals have the hab it of becoming attached to a particular style or format and sometimes they don't like it.' when the style is changed, or, at least, fiddled with. It doesn't matter too- much sometimes whether the style changes are improvements jor not, proving again that Old Man Habit is a strange and terrtble creature. ? ? ? The above paragraph is a start at answering the question that may have hit some read ers' minds when they saw this piece itself, for. here is where the experimenting starts. To day's piece is being set "eight point Indent", rather than "eight-point bold indent". Sug gestion for it was made by our friend Mr. Galaini, introduced to readers of this department last week, who had remarked, "It's too black and smashes you right in the face." My re ply was that it had to smash folk in the face to get them to read it, but when I was scan- " nlng the finished product Thursday night It did look mighty black. There's no gua rantee that it'll , be continued this way, but the best way to ffnd out how something looks is to see it Obviously, the experimenting is due to the addition of the new typesetting machine and its concurrent new type faces, which enables us to present the news and advertising in more pleasing variety. f0m The several type .faces made available with installation of the new machine are Thl? ThU This This This ?This ?This *This *And This Already in use on the Number 1 machine was This * *1 . ' This This . Thig This ThU ^ This : And This ??? Thus the Herald now has avaiable on the typesetting ma chiftes no less than 16 differ ent faces of type, in addition to hand-set display type in sizes up to two-inch wood type, known to the newspaper trade as "war type". Readers prob ably noted som of the experi mentation had already begun in last week's edition, some bringing Joy, some disappoint ment, if not sorrow. We have already ruled out use of the Vogue series, a Sans Serif style, (note asterisks above) on the front page, for it doesn't mesh well with the black, bold type which predominates the regular news pages. But it looks mighty good for the so ciety news headlines, for ad vertising beamed at lady pur chasers, and for neat, clean Job printing. ? The popular favorite already Is the minute six-point face which sharpens up the Her ald's baseball box scores con siderably. We should have the -experimenting done within a couple of weeks, and, mean time, we'd like to have your comments on what you think of them. After all, oar first purpose is to make the Herald as readable as possible and to send Doc Morrison and Nate Reed as lktle eyestrain busi ness as possible. ? e * Speaking of experimenting, Frank Summers Is doing some experimenting this summer on the fun end frolic of the "soft life" of ROTC summer en campment at Fort Belvo!r> Va. He wrote his family that his unit was now on eight-hour shifts .... three per day. ? ? # ? Eirrwrlsnwifctg. WppoUly, Is often productive of good re sults, as wltns? the former luxuries, now necessities, of the automobile, the telephone, and , wireless and radio. Many peo ple, who have to Mw aid move fast, now regard the air plane as a necessity, and who can say how Jong it wul bs be .. - frffi'iSifofi - CROSSWORD By A* C. Cordon ACROSS 1 ? Perform 3 ? Mott popular medium of home entertainment % ? Syllable applied to note of muikal Kill ? 7 ? terfbus stage presen MtiOn 10 ? i'o expect 13 ? Popular name for radioVdispemers of - "platter ?chatter" { two words? plural) 17? Part ol verb "to be" 18*? Is deserving 10 ? Latin connective 20 ? What gamblers do with their money 22 ? Working surface for exponents of the "grunt- and- groan" art 23 ? Employed. 25? Indefinite article . 26? Printer's measure 211? Prefix signifying "not"' 29 ? Never! 30 ? Break suddenly 31? Motion of the roulette wheel 33? Ball player's mistake 36 ? One end ol the boat Entertainment For You 38 ?Popular name for South American flexure city 39 ? Worthies* coin <1? It is (poetical) " *2 ? Came borrowed from -South America 45 ? E*i?t 4 7 ? Moil popular American card (ame 48 ? Toward 49~~Partiripant in a game 50 ? Enjoyer ol one meant ol entertainment 52 ? Like 5J? Thk* * 54 ? Prehs denoting "down" DOWN 1 ? College degree 2 ? To nubliih by decree 3 ? What a croupier like* to do to the chipa 4 ? Tree* 5? How to en Joy the radio 6? Preposition 8? Directs the sight 9? ? Matter o I Science (abbrev.) . i. 1 1 ? Pronoun I 2 ? Affirmative! ? 4J-A kind of tettion tor a kind of musk IS ? Radio announcers are devotees of this kind of tup tettion 18 ? Catastrophic No- Trump (abbrev ) .10 ? Participant in a game of i peed 2 1 ? A form of the gam* of lotto 13 ? A tingle part 24? The tuccestful Defense man in football does this to th* ball carrier 27 ? Blemith 28? lncreatet tlx poker pot 30? Disappointing sign displayed for dltap* pointer! theater goert 32? A tennit barrier ? 34? Opponents in a gam* 35 ? To drench 37? Created a diaturbanc* 39 ' Sleepy- time noite 40 ? Employers 43 ? Imitated 44? -Woody plant 46? Parental nickname 48 ? Newspaper announce men! 49 ? Larg* eattern U. S. ttatt (abbrev.) 51 ? Pre ft* denoting | "again" Sm The Want Ad Section FoiThlg Work's Completed Puztle ___ . . _ - jv Other Editor's Viewpoints THE STRENGTH New York Times Start west across America in July and you travel with corn and roses. You have the rare blue of chickory flowers, and the amazing bronze of rye fields coming to ripeness and harvest. Cherries are ripening. And holly* hocks are everywhere, even a long the roadsides where they outgrow the grass and the rag weed and lift colorful faces to the sun. The Midwest has had too much rain, and much of the corn is late and small, much of it uncultivat ed and lost among the weeds. But that |s over toward the Big Ri ver, out In Corn Country itself. Before you get there you will have seen a part of the land that is lush and green and bountiful. Pennsylvania and Ohio look as though there had never been a better season. Almost any July is lush, and to see this land then is to feel that there is no limit to its growth and its plenty. Even the trees seem, this year, to have put on twice as many leaves as they usually do, And every leaf seems to be 4 brighter green. Perhaps it is only July itself, but it is a wonderful sight, one that makes you believe in ail good things that ever grew. For this is a green land, a land of fertile soil and eager fields. One should- go and see those fields, from time to time, even if only to rest the eye and re assure the heart. For there they are, year after year, season after season, out of sight of the cities, quietly renewing the strength of America. Seeing them noy, one musti know that the strength is there. But not an inevitable strength; a strength, rather that must be plowed and planted and tended and harvested each year. This is the growing season, and the growth is lush. an ambitiousTroject Gabtonia Gazette From Kings Mountain last week came the announcement that the Little Theatei is setting out to produce the historical dra ma, "Then Conquer We Must!" Our neighbors from Cleveland county are ambitious folk, just as their forefathers were. We Gas tonites will probably have a part In this production, too. That be reasonable enough, since Rome of our great grandfathers and great-great grandfathers carried a smoking squirrel rifle on the day history was being made at Kings Mountain during the revo lution We are happy over the decision of the Kings Mountain Little Theater to undertake this pro ject. It is rightfully their role to get things organized and start the ball rolling. And it will be partly our responsibility to help them make it a success. The Battle oif Kings Mountain stands out as one of the most im portant in American history. It was at Kings Mountain that the tide was turned in the Revolu tionary War, leading to Corwal \lz' defeats at other placet in the South and his eventual surrend er at Yorktown a year later. The Little Theater group at Kings Mountain *"? permission to put on the drama In the am phitheater near the battleground. fore the television set qualified in the necemty category. Ex sis pate anything like that in our minor experimetrtinf. " 7 . - ; This will be an Ideal setting, and the production should draw many people to the national park who have never been there, although living in this section most of their lives. As things shape up now, the Little Theater wjll start their cas ting next Monday. .Then, feeling their way along, they, expect to be ready by September to start a run of about two weeks' duration. If that proves successful, they will start out next spring with plans to build a production as big as Manteo's "Lost Colony" and Cherokee's "Unto These Hills." The drama should be interest ing to follow and thrilling to watch. History is always easier to learn when put to words 6nd music. J Our Kings Mountain folk need every encouragement we can give them. They have a big job cut out. But they have a good drama, well written by Robert Osborne, and they have the spir it to put it across. We wish theip well. ? L.E. A strong demand exists in the Far East for cigarettes and to bacco from the United States, al though tariffs, exchange difficul ties, and other factors are having a limiting effect on the trade, says the U. S. Department of Ag riculture. Pethel Graduated From Army School FORT SLOCUM, N. Y. ? Pvt. James Franklin Pethel, of Kan naipoLLs, North Carolina, is one of 90 enlisted men enrolled in a class . of Army chaplain assist ant* training here at the Chap lain school. In addition to training pro fessionally qualified clergymen for the', military service, the, Chaplain schooi offers a course for chaplain assistants to cer tain enlisted mey. The main pur pose of this course Is to them to shoulder the responsibil ity oi the technical and adminis trative functions of the chap lain's office in order to free the chaplain to give his entire time to his professional activities. The chaplain assistants study such subjects as administration of a chaplain's office, music for chaplain's assistants, religious facilities and supplies, funerals and burials, denominational co verage, motor maintenance and other , relative subjects to reli gious' military duties. The course for Army chaplain assistants is running concurrent ly with a five-week course for Ali Forcfe chaplains, the present class includes 51 students, the majority of whom are reserve of ficers called to extended active duty with the Air Force. , The school moved to Fort Slo cum Just two- and-one- half mon ths ago from Carlisle Barracks, Pa. This enlisted men's class Is the first of its kind to be trained at the school's new location. It is the largest chaplain assistant/? class in the history of the school. Graduation exercises were held on July 14th. Pvt. Pethel Is to be stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. ' > * DRINK hove you hod q , CHEERWINE since yesterday? it's better than ever! Novellfe Venetian Blind Mfg. C* WSMmmMi &tm Fans, Prugpgft* in thovktor room in Savtngt
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