The Kings Mountain Heiald 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 Mouse. Entered as second class matter at the postofflce at Kings Mountain, N. C., under Act o? Congress of March 3, 1873 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon ..v. Editor-Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr. * Sports, Circulation, News Mrs. P. D. Herndon Society Dorothy McCarter Advertising, News MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Horace Walker Ronald Moore IVan Weaver* Paul Jackaon Charles Odoms (? ? 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 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. Job 5:2. Matter of Timing The House- of Representatives and the Senate have been ironing out differences in their respective versions of the new controls bill, at a time when the House, which acted last, was under heavy pres sures to throw all of them out. The whole controls idea has been sub ject to severe attacks since Congress voted the President authority to estab lish controls last year, only a few weeks after the Korean War began. To say that the controls have been unpopular with the big majority of in dustry and commerce would be an un derstatement, and the uncertainty over controls is given as one reason for. the . current curtailment of operations in the textile industry. While a more likely reason for the lack of textile orders is over-buying and heavy inventories, it may be that the price matter is also a factor. President Truman has appeared a vic tim of bad-timing in the whole controls picture. While many urged controls in Octo ber, the President stayed silent, not in voking them until United Nations for ces were getting the temporary set-back in North Korea in the winter. After the retreat, the battle front became more stable, the United Nations made some gains, and it appeared again that the UN forces (predominantly United States forces), would not be shoved off the pe hinswla. With the prospect of a truce in the fighting, and with plenty of civilian goods still available, free enterprising Americans want a free economy. In de fense of the President, and his failure to order strict controls last October, it must be mentioned that he had full in formation concerning military plans and must have expected, as General Mac Arthur did, that the Inchon operations would annihilate the North Korean Communists and end the fighting. In that event, controls would not have been necessary. The Chinese Communists messed up the works. Should the Kaesong talks result in a cease-fire, controls will not be at all nec essary. Should the Iran trouble spot, the Arab-Jew trouble spot, or the several others explode into an all-out war situ ation, then controls would be necessary to prevent all-out inflation. The relaxing of Regulation W con trols. as passed by the Houi.e, will help the auto, television and appliance deal er. if they are finally enacted. Today, this relaxation is needed, but who can predict for tomorrow with any degree of sureness? A best bow to C. C. Horn, new chair man, and to I*. Arnold Kiser, new vice chairman, of the Cleveland County hos pital board of trustees. Both men are veteran trustees and have rendered good service to the people of the county through their activities in promoting the improvement of Cleveland County hospital facilities. Many citizens will rejoice over the action of the city board of commission ers in requiring the cutting of weeds from vacant lots, and the group will in clude many who have been neglecting this duty and who have thereby con tributed to the growth of the rat and mosquito population and to the increase of fire hazards. The test, of course, will come in the manner of enforcement by city officials. It's easy to put a law on the books, but sometimes governing bo dies forget completely about the en forcement department. The law is suec^ fic and should he enforced. The Split Term County school children went back to their desks Monday, and, if the tempera ture remains in the higher levels as it was then, it can .be safely assumed that the majority of teachers will be beset with squirming children. In fact, some of the teachers may do sortie squirming themselves, for extra hot weather is not overly conducive to pleasant teaching. The split term . was adopted some years ago as a theoretical means of sav ing the farmer money. He needed the young folk at home during the autumn to help harvest the cotton crop. It may have proved beneficial finan cially and evidently has for recent in vitations of school officials to have their patrons vote out the split term have been to no avail. The county school board could arbi trarily change the policy, but that would be neither good politics nor good for the schools, It being assumed that,, with a heavy majority opposed to the change, school populations would drop consider ably in the cotton-picking season, the compulsory school attendance law not withstanding. Abolition of the pdious split term, which costs county school children much in the way of better education, will not come about until the majority of county school patrons put a higher val ue on the education of their children than on the immediate short-term money saving. Many farm parents wish to see the split term abolished, and someday they will find themselves in the majority. Meantime, the county school board would do well to get a straw vote on the matter from each school unit not less than every biennium. As an added note on the city budget, adopted last week, it should be mention ed that only $4,500 was set up for the laying of water and sewer lines during the current fiscal year. This sum won't lay much pipe. While it can be assumed that some of the contingency fund may go for this purpose, there is still the need xor a properties warehouse to store costly supplies. The Herald has never been in favor of a city-operated garage on two grounds: 1) Expenditure for ve hicle repair is insufficient to justify the operation of a garage (the total was $8,412.55 in 1950-51, partially under city garage operation); and 2) it - puts the city into another business when it isn't giving the best and most complete ser vice in its water and sewer businesses, basic enterprizes which private opera tors wouldn t have and which are among the principal excuses for having a city government anyway. The IJerald won ders if the garage building could not be converted into a warehouse with a min imum of expenditure, and if the ware house construction cost could not be de voted to laying water and sewer lines. An official welcome to Ben F. Moo maw, new superintendent of the Kings Mountain National Military Park. Mr. at an interesting time, when the area is about to make use of the park's natural assets for the first time through the pro duction of an historical drama, a pro ject of the Kings \?')untain Little Thea tre. The Red Cross Bloodmobile returns to Kings Mountain next Mondav and the goal of the one-day visit is 150 pints of blood. Part of it goes to save the lives of men in the armed services felled by en emy bullets. Part of it goes to save neighbors as close home as Kings Moun tain hospital. The goal should be met. 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Items of news token from the 1941 file* of the Kings Mountain Herald. The W. P. Fulton building lo cated or the corner of Mountain and Cherokee streets which has been the home of the retail mer chandise establishment for many years is soon to undergo exten sive remodeling and enlarging according to Sage Fulton. The building is now occupied by My ers Department store and Dress Shoppe. Mesdames W. K. Mauney, Jr. and George Houser of Kings Mountain and Mrs. Garland Still of Winston-Salem who la visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs, R. L. Mauney, went to Bessemer City Friday night where they served as judges at a beauty contest sponsored by the Band Booster's Club of that place. Social end Persona la Mrs. E. W .Hord was honoree at a surprise birthday dinner giv en by her daughters, Mrs. John , Phil Wilson of CherryvlUe and Mrs. Dewltt Ware of Kings Mountain on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. John McGill were dinner hosts on Tuesday evening, honoring Mrs. William Anthony of Charlotte, house guests at the home of Mr. W. A. Ware. Mrs. J. D. (lord and Miss Jean Hord returned last week alter a visit of several week* with Mr*. Hord In Henderson, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Fulton and , E. C. McClain are attending the furniture market in High Point this week. Mr. J. B. Dllllng and son, John Dilling, of Kannapolls spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Gra dy King Miss Edna Ruth Houser Is on . an extended visit at the home of | her sifter, Mrs. Pinkie Stoke* and Mr. Stokes at Ruffln, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. Hal Plock of Con cord were recent guests of rela tives in Kings Mountain. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Harmon Ingredients: bits of newt, wisdom, humor, and comment. Direction*: Take weekly, it possible, but avoid overdosage. Inly Closeout If Kings Mountain had an of ficial weatherman, my guess is that the mercury would be run ning out the top of his then mometer and that he would be busy checking the records to learn whether 1951 had been the hottest summer ever en joyed by Kings Mountain citi zens. J-c Even folk who spend a con siderable portion of their time at Lake Montonla during the summer and boast that the cooling lake environs mean a ten-degree lower average tem perature have admitted to suf fering with the heat this sea son. Johnny McGill, blessed most of the time with an air conditioning system, said a valve got turned the wrong way recently and the two days the system was out of action nearly sent him to bed. At least one Kings Mountain busi ness man is thinking about go ing into the air-conditioning h sines?. He figures *h?u coopera tion of the 1951 variety from the .weatherman would result in heavy sales, and I have heard numerous churchmen turning over the need for air conditioning of churches In their minds and In their con versations. |-c It has long been a thesis of this department that churches would do well to start budget ing some funds for air-condit ioning, more comfortable pews and cushioned seats. Times have changed since the days when, church-goers sat on un backed benches hewn out of logs and suffered out a three-hour ser mon. But churches are still not competitive in the comfort ca tegory. There seems little rea son to believe that a man couldn't get his soul comforted as well in comfortable appoint- . ments as In uncomfortable ones. One man remarked Sun day, 'It is the nature of man to be enticed by the sin spots and plenty of them arte air conditioned. The material faci lities of the institutions de voted to moral uplift should certainly be on a par." J-c In spite of hot weather, the Kings Mountain Little Theatre is moving in high gear towards Its ambitious fall production of Bob Osborne's Then Conquer We Must. This department has not completed" the script, but there Is plenty of interesting action in the opening act, and those who have read it says it continues. Bob's work Is not a pageant but a drama, more like a Cecil B. DeMllle style pro duction. The upcoming produc tion has attracted the consider able int- <*st of surrounding communities and their Little Theatre groups and the area will be well-represented in the cast. Not only has the produc tion already attracted the in terest of local folk, but prom inent citizens throughout the Site have contacted the Little eatre concerning its plans. If is easy to guess that Kings Mountain National Military Park will set a new record for visitors this autumn. l*c Census Note: The prelimin ary report of the 195t> agricul ture census is subject to revi sion when final checking Is done but it shows some inter esting figures on the changes wrought in Clevelan county during th' past five years. Most impressive Is the contin ued rapid transfer of agricul ture from the mule-and-plow age to a mechanized industry. During the ' past five years, farm trucks have doubled in number, while farm tractors , have almost trebled. Still the horse and mule population of the county totaled 2,731 plus 448 colts and ponies. Percent age of farm tenancy had de clined from 57.1 percent, to 53.2 percent. MeanwhUe the num ber of farrr?rs, both white and colored, ht J ncnased. f?* ? ... v ' ' Travel Time: While Kings' Mountain folk aim at Indepen dence Day vacations, not all of them get off at the same time, and many wait .until late July and August to hunt for tooling beach brteaes and crisp moun tain air. Others take longer trips and a quartet of Kings' Mountain men, . BUJy Gene Meisler, Tootle Allen, Pride Ratteree, and Gene McCarter, * left Monday for a tour to the West Coast. They are traveling In Billy Gene's Lincoln conver tible, known in some quarters I aa "Sex Appeal", and I suggest ed to Tootle that, considering the characters involved, it might be wise to send the pony express in advance and warn all citixsns along th? route to batten1 down their hatches. t" Closing out July isn't too u*>? happy, not if August will bring a gust of cooling breezes, 4nd 1 perhapo K will. 1 CROSSWORD By A. C. Gordon Current Interest 3 ? World-popular name for American *oldier DOWN 1 ? 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