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The Kings Mountain Herald Established 1889 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promoUc.i 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, 1873 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr. Sports, Circulation, News Mrs. P. D. Herndon Society Dorothy McCarter Advertising, News MECHAtlCAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Horace Walter Ronald Moore Ivan Weaver* Paul Jackson > < v Charles Odems (* ? Member of Armed Forces) TELEpHON? WUMBERS_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 Fox to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Romans 8:6. A Noble Effort The acceptance of contracts to serve as head coach at Kings Mountain high school by Art Weiner mark a change hn the school's athletic policy, which, at times, has appeared to be weaker than many sports fans preferred. Mr. Weiner, a former Ail-American football player and endowed with con siderable basketball prowess, comes to Kings Mountain highly recommended by University of North Carolina officials. Needless to say, he- will begin his work here with the confidence of the com munity. Tacit proof of that is shown by The Mountaineer Club's ability to raise, in one day, sufficient pledges of funds to meet his salary requirements. There is, of course, no guarantee that Mr. Weiner will produce all-winning teams, nor that his teams will win any games. Feats of magic are performed only by the magicians. At the same time, the decision of the school board to bring Mr. Weiner here is a noble effort and experiment, in an swer to public demand. There has been criticism, much of it probably undeserv ed, of previous school administrations for not going all out to employ the coaching to produce winning teams. The employment of Mr. Weiner effec tively answers that criticism, and the results, of course, will depend largely on him. The Herald wishes him weil and, congratulates the school adminis tration and the public-spirited citizens who made possible the Weiner contract. Terminal Plans Members of the city board of commis sioners and others who saw the archi tect's plans for the Kings Mountain bus terminal, to be erected by Queen City Coach Company, are highly pleased with them and feel that the terminal will be adequate to serve Kings Moun tain's many bus passengers for a num ber of years. To the statement of Queen City's J. H. Quattlebaum that the station is not too expansive, the board members re marked that it would be much more commodious and satisfactory than the city has ever enjoyed. The Herald, which editorially has raked Queen City considerably in the past for first, its refusal to erect a sta tion, then its delay in getting along with the job, is glad that its editorial columns now can comment on Queen City activi ties in a commendatory and complimen tary vein. Obviously, the Herald, like all citizens, is anxious to see work on the terminal begin. EJven if the work begins on sche dule the last week in August, it will be a race with the weatherman to save local passengers another mean, bitter winter in the cold and rain. Now that the property appraisal firms have agreed to the county's counter-of fer for a revaluation of properties for tax purposes, we trust that the county commissioners will not delay in author izing signing of the .necessary con tracts, The inequities cropping up in one year can be considerable, and when they are multiplied by 20 and more, it can be easily seen that revaluation is needed. If the same measuring stick is used, the percentage value used for tax purposes makes little difference. Cleveland's board is sufficiently conservative to keep the county's tax burden at lowest possible levels. ^ Big Enough Today Kings Mountain, from the standpoint of expansion of city services, is quite large enough today, perhaps too large if the ommissions in water and sewer service are used as the measuring rod. The fact that an estimated half-mil lion dollars is already required to put the city's . sewage disposal system in shape and that additional monies are needed to extend water lines and to re place old corroded and over-loaded ones, plus the other needs of the city which include revamping of its electrical sys tem, indicates that the Mayor's effort to stir up enthusiasm over expansion of the city limits must be chargeable to political maneuvering. Outlying areas would be brought into the city and the citizens would be pay ing taxe? without commensurate servi ces, a situation already too prevalent. The city has a moral obligation to pro vide the same services to all its citizens, and the services do not stop with the several already-mentioned basics. There would exist, in addition, the dead-weight services of police and fire protection, of garbage collection, and others. About the only benefit would be a small increase in next year's receipts on the Powell Bill gas tax rebate. The Herald would suggest that the Mayor cease his activity along these lines. Park Yarn Mills Company, the Herald understands, is currently having its properties engineered, with the even tual expectation of instrlling its own water and sewer system in its 75-house village. With any immediate possibility of becoming in-city, property it is easy to see that the directors of the company would forego this progressive, expensive step and would wait for the city to do the job and pay the bill. Should the city ever catch up on its expansion of basic services, it is quite reasonable to expect that adjacent areas would want to come in, paying city taxes in return for those services. Such has happened in many other North Carolina communities. However, the city must be several years and perhaps a million-plus dol lars away from that happy state. Ordering to army duty of Dr. Paul E. Hendricks creates a shortage in Kings Mountain's corps of general practioners. Some think it makes critical a shortage that already existed. It is a fact that when Dr. J. E. Anthony began practicing medicine here over 40 years ago, he was the fourth Kings Mountain physician. With Dr. Hendricks here, Kir.gs foun tain still had four general practitioners. Now there are three. Obviously, the im provement in means of transportation, including roads and vehicles, and the building of Kings Mountain hospital, means that fewer doctors can see and treat quite adequately a greater number of persons. However, Dr. Hendricks' go ing to active duty means that the three Kings Mountain doctors will have to serve an average of almost 4,000 citi zens each. i Our congratulations to Pfc. Tommy Baker, wizard builder of model air planes, who recently broke his old rec ord for jet model speed flying. The of ficial accepted record for jet model speed is now 155.12 miles per hour, bet tering the old Baker record of 148.09 miles per hour. Our guess is that iUC opening per formance of "Then Conquer We Must," scheduled for September 21, will play to a capacity audience. 10 YEARS AGO ltems o{ news about Kingt Mountain area people and events THIS WEEK taken from the 1941 filet of the King* Mountain Herald. The Kings Mountain School system will open for the new term Wednesday morning, Sept. 3rd at 8:30 a. m. Daylight Sav ing Time, according to Supt. B, N.Barnes. \> Social and Personal Misses Florence and Majorie Rhea entertained at a dance Sat urday night from nine until twelve at the .Woman's Club building honoring Misses Sara Justice of Charlotte, Nina Yelver ton of Fountain and Eloise Gar rlss of Pikesville. Mrs. Manly Morehead was hos ess to her Book Club and a num ber of invited guests Friday af ternoon at her home on Piedmont Avenue. Honoring Miss Mikie Barber of Atlanta Miss Dorothy Hoke en tertained at bridge Friday after noon at the home of her parents. Corp. Eugene Gotorth of Fort Jackson spent the weekend In Kings Mountain. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Dllling and daughter, Annie Mobley, went to Wrightsville to attend the County Commissioners Con vention. John Hal Oliver of Lumberton and Jimmy Rich Oliver of Mariet ta, N. C., are guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mauney this week. Vernon Crosby, who is now stationed with the Signal Corp at Tampa, Florida, spent the weekend here with relatives. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Harmon Ingredient s: bite of ne we, wisdom, humor, and comment. Directions: 'fake weekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage. Fair Gome The medicinal department resumes today on a theme it has previously considered. It results from another communi cation from sunny Italy, a let ter from the young lady of "the unhappy little heart", who wrote us several weeks ago to get her bid in for an Ameri can lawyer husband. t- 9 Readers will recall that the medicinal department's search to make Loretta Santolli's heart happy resulted in only one finding. George Thomas son, soon to take the North Carolina Bar . examinations, seemed to be the only legal eagle available in Kings Moun tain. Incidentally, Miss Santel li was quite pleased with the recommendation and has fur ther requested Lawyer Thorn asson's address, which this de partment is more than happy to supply. '??? 1 1 hi - ? ~ ??? " On the other hand. Miss San telli writes that, since she is a lady lawyer and a lawyer is her preference for a husband, she will' not confine her inter ests to this flfciu alone. Though still preferring a lawyer, she writes, "But if you can help me in some other way, a doctor, an industrial, an engineer or something of this k'nd, I'll be very, very grateful to you.". ; It was a mystery, readers of the original piece will recall, concerning the addressing of the young lady's letter to the "Kingsmont Herald. Kings mont; N. C.", and I speculated at the time that Miss Santelll must have known some Kings Mountain serviceman who made Taranto, Italy, during the course of his all-expenses paid overseas trip during World War II. But that isn't the way it was. She writes: "&ell, I am sor ry to tell you that has happen ed In a very different way of which you thought and wrote. In fact I didn't know a service man of the last War H, but I found the name of the newspa per reading the American book the 'Bright Leafs' of Foster Fitzsimons. In that book there are nice descriptions of North Carolina and Kingsmont and often recurred the name of the Herald and I don't know how has burned in my heart the idea to write to you, maybe a little sprite of my great fancy and the great admiration I has of America and its people has suggested me ... " i-g How far do these novels tra vel? Bright Leaf, incidentally, was a good one, and coinciden tally, concerned the city of Durham, rather than Kings Mountain. The postoffice did a good Job of delivering the ori ginal letter. But to consider the title of today's piece, in connection with the expanded viewpoint of Miss Santelli, I suppose it would be the very courteous thing to survey the gentlemen of the city who might be con sidered fair game. While I have heard some ladles of our fair community complain that the marital game is limited this season due to wanton de struction by previous lady hun ters, a quick perusal shows that a good marksman might still be successful. For the ben eflt of Miss Santelli (and any others), it is a great pleasure to list the following: B. S. Pee ler, Jr., lumber dealer, Wilson Griffin, druggist, Dr. Bob Ba ker, dentist, Dick Cahnady, banker, the aforementioned George Thomasson, Paul Walk er. retailer, Dr. L. T. Anderson, chiropractor, Jack Sink and Howard Coble, teachers, Billy Gene Nelsler. industrialist, Pride Ratterree, coach, and I. M, (Tootle) Allen, Jr., farmer. All are reachable at a plain Kings Mountain, N. C., address. Of course, there are many more, but, as the old popular song goes, they're either too young or too old. t-g I trust the above gentlemen will have no objections to this free advertising, and I apolo gise for omitting several eligi ble!, some of whom are al ready trapped, if not gigged. i-9 Actually, I can understand why some of the maidens and mamas have been complaining of a dearth of eligible* this season. Ifs not even leap year and several worthy gentlemen of once seemingly permanent bachelor status, have finally been winged by Cupid's Dart. I have been a little shell-shock ed myself, for certain recent weddings have license to oc cur only In leap year. Ned Mc Gill dropped off the list, as did Faison Barnes, and last week I had a wedding announcement f?om an old (well.about 43) die hard roommate of mine. There Is also an unconfirmed rumor going the rounds that former citizen Mike Milam is about to take the leap In the Milam instance, I had to apologize for | CROSSWORD ? + By Gordon ACROSS I ? Involuntary oral sound Minifying indigeatkm V? Dwciple oi Iim< Walton 1 1 ? Flat surface 12 ? Popular name for a popular muiicat instrument 14 ? To drru a blade 15 ? Communities 1 8 ? Meadow* 19 ? Require 2 I ? Sea eagk 23 ? To take from forcibly 2 5? Melody 2 7 ? Chemical symbol for ailver 28? College degree | 29- ? Omniscient Order* (abbrev ) 31 ? Personal pronoun 3 2 ? One direction {obbrev > 33 ? Church dignitary Here and There 36 ? Chemical symbol for terbium 38 ? In a sincere mariner 40 ? Most capable 42 ? Man's r>ame 44 ? Carbonated liquid 4 5? Biblical high priest 47? Combining form meaning oil 48 ? Printer's measure 49 ? Hastened 50 ? Wave Length (abbrev > 5 1 ?Nourishes 52 ? Aeriform fluids DOWN ... 1 ? To deal with 2/-- Veaatioo 3 ? Pari of any room 4 ? Animal container 5 ? English taverns 6 ? Decorative plant 7 ? Article of apparel 8 ? A rowdy (colloq ) 9 ? Terminal 10 ? To save 13? Popular term for a * sudden end to a boxing match 16 ? Headpaece 1 7 ? Botder 20 ? Perform 22 ? Rodent 2 3 ? Penetrates again 24? Blustering 26 ? Snare 28 ? Ooes astray 30 ? Man * name ' 32? Cause 33 ? Songs of joy 34? Legal Endeavors (abbrev > 35 ? Part of the human arm (pi > 37 ? Stupefies 38? The older 39? Scottish ales 4 1, ? Benevolent Orders (abbrev^) 43 ? Scottish "one" 46 ? Syllable applied to a musical note See The Want Ad Section For This Week's Completed Puzzle 9 Viewpoints of Other Editors BOUNTIFUL HARVEST New York Times We shall have a bountiful har vest this year, the second best in our history, the Department of Agriculture has Just reported. But for the fact that several mil lion acres of crops in the midwest were destroyed by recent floods, this might have been the largest harvest in our history Even so, our farmers expect to gather well over 3,000,000,000 bushels of corn, almost 1,000,000,000 bushels of wheat, and record or near-record crops of soybeans, tobacco, hay, rice, cotton and other products. To be sure, all crops are not yet harvested, but the outlook is most encouraging. Both consumers and farmers are naturally concerned over the impact of this new harvest upon prices over the next year. No one can accurately forecast now how prices will respond to the new supply, for much depends also upon demand factors. What does seem clear, however, is that there is no reason for any sharp in flationary 'upsurge in basic food prices in the next few months unless something extraordinary happens. The mere fact of this huge new supply should quiet ap prehensions of any food shortage and prevent any frantic bidding up of prices. Beef suplles, however, will ap parently be less this year than next, since farmers are trying to build up their herds for greater 1952 production. Finally, there seems no reason for farmers to expect any catastrophic declines in prices resulting from this good harvest. There is every prospect that urban employment and in comes wil remain high, creating the effective demand needed to consume at high levels. Moreov er, government support levels put floors under tfie variation we can expect In many crop prices. No commentary on this abun dant harvest would be complete without paying tribute to the millions of men and women whose hard wtork has made It possible. The cotton growers in Dixie, those who raise corn and wheat in the Midwest, the sugar beet raisers in the Irrigated val leys of California and the Rocky Mountains, the orchardists all ov er the country, these and others have labored strenuously and well for this culmination. Behind them are the scientists, the men who have created hybrid corn, rust-resistant wheat and other new and more bountiful varieties of food plants. In the picture, too, are those who have produced the innumerable Hinds of farm ma chinery, insecticides and synthe tic fertilizers which played so great a role in making this har vest possible. In this rich new 1961 harvest there should be ab undant satisfaction and abund ant honor for all who played a part. CALLS THE TUNE Thb Fbanklan Pubs Last wwk the flow of welfare funds ? money for the aged, the blind, and dependent children ? from Washington Into Indiana wai abrupt (y halted. 1 The money for this aid comes from the . federal government the states, and the counties; and Washington shut off . Its lion's share. Insofar as Indiana la con cerned. because of a new Indiaha law. The Indiana legislature has enacted a statute opening for public Inspection the rolls' of those receiving welfare funds. This flatly oppoaes a law pas calling my friendly Informant a liar. f*? [ Happy hunting: sed by congress requiring that these names not be made avail able to the public; and Oscar R. Ewing, federal security adminis trator, said hie had no choice but to stop sending any federal welfare money into Indiana. This incident raises a question that has been in many minds. From a sociological viewpoint. It may be wise to keep secret the Identity of those receiving wel fare grants. But such a policy surely is In violation of a basic American concept; the detail, where his money goes ? to whom it is paid, and for what. The Indiana case, incidentally, should give pause to the large number who believe it is possible to have federal aid to education without federal control. It still seems to be true that "he who pays the piper calls the tune". In recent years, American cot ton growers have been harvest ing as much cotton from 160 acres as they did from 270 acres a quarter of a century ago. EYES EXAMINED GLASSES FITTED PR. D M. MORRISON OPTOMETRIST IN KINGS MOUNTAIN MORRISON BUILDING On Each Tuesday and Telephone 318- J Friday Afternoons EVENINGS BT Hours 1 to 5 P. M. APPOINTMENT have you had a C H E E R W I N E ? ; ?j g? - - ? ? Jay? DRINK < eerwine it's better than evert ... MURRAY'S GROCERY Tour patronage during our lour years in business haro boon responsible for our success. Our pledge is to glv* the best In products and prompt service. STONE STREET ? PHONE 684-1 i . PROTECT YOUR clothes . . i by having them deemed regularly at ... WEAVER'S CLEANERS Phone S51-W Cleaner verses by MACTT Oh me' Oh my, ughtd ..[/Moling, Here wt go a' reno vating r he fitl/e woman's found a book. Our homt'n foundation ' wiltb* shook. Upon one t/ung You can re/y, A/( their jabfict they wUI dye IWcCurdy Cleaners-Dye ra Prompt Efficient Cash A Carry Service Phone 257 % COMPARED WITH CTHKR THINGS YOU BUT... TELEPHONE SERVICE is still a Big Bargain! ! During the past ten years, the price of telephone service in North Carolina hat gone up, in the overall, Jess than half as much as prices in general. Meanwhile, throughout most of North Carolina, die number of local tele phones you can call has nearly tripled. And die service is faster and better. Consider, too, the fact that North Carolina telephone rates have increased less than one-fourth as much as industrial wages. Than you realize that tele phone service is today an even better buy than it was ten years ago -swtf ? relatively smaller item in die family budget . H. G. Booth, North Carolina Manager^' -k southum ??u viLimoftl So Big hi Setvke ... So Uttk In Cost , : V:- *" * ? / ? " . i?fL' ? * 3?? -? Uin SfiML* i..
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