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 House. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Kings Mountain, N. C., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Charleii T. Carpenter, Jr Sports, Circulation, News Mrs. P. D, Hemdon .^Society Dorothy McCarter '. 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 TOPAT'S BIBLE VEB8E I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my Judgments and do them. Ezekiel 20:19. Gel Together ? * When it was first framed the civic club resolution in which four Kings Mountain organizations asked the city administra tion to administer their affairs "in a More efficient, harmonious and adult manner", appeared to be very much in order. Some thought that, after the actions of the Barry-Wright-Davis wing on Au gust 13, that the resolution was not as , needed. The civic club resolution does contain some good advice in it. It has been wild times in Kings Moun tain governmental circles since May 24, and much of the furore must be credited to Mayor Still, who had some good ideas and some rather bad ones. Perhaps his worse fault has been in his impulse-type operation, in which he proceeds to advance a new thesis or idea without giving it sufficient thought. His other principal fault has been the attitude that a person who does not agree with him is a dishonest crook, in spite of the fact that most folk are honest fundamentally. All people make mistakes, but more mistakes are made in the mind than in the heart. ' Hts willingness to use the courts to get his ends have also been unpopular. Even the lawyers will tell their clients that it is frequently better to settle dif ferences by agreement and compromise out of court. Legal battles are often like wars. The winner, when he surveys the whole situation after the air has cleared, usually finds he has lost, too. Kings Mountain's situation is not un 'usual, for many other communities in North Carolina are split politically, ranging from small ones to large cities. Among them are Morganton, Albemarle, little Claremont, Winston-Salem and a number of others. This does not mean that a split situation is desirable or to be condoned. The Herald's hope, and the hope of 'the vast majority of citizens, is that Kings Mountain's situation will settle down, and that each of the six members of the administration will remember Former Mayor Jim Herndon's advice at the first swearing in ceremony on May 12. Mr. Herndon told the new board it would prosper much more if it forswore politics and worked together. The damage already done is consider able. > It would be impossible to guess with any degree of accuracy what the results of the suit to restrain the pay of City Administrator M. K. Fuller will be, as suming that the matter is called for trial. It is a continuance of a discussion going on intermittently here for several years and reminds again that political systems of any kind are made for par ticular situations, and that a system which is wonderful one year may not be too wonderful the next. The complaint makes capital of Kings Mountain's fail ure to approve the city manager form of government in a special election three years ago. Oddly enough, many of the citizens who voted "no" in that election are today among the most ardent sup porters of Mr. Fuller, the city adminis trator, and are most anxious to have a regular, experienced head man at City ' Hall to see that work progresses. It can be said that Mr. Fuller was earning his pay up to May 24, and, if his work has not been up to caliber since that time, the reasons are quite evident. The har monious tone of the special city board meeting of August 15 indicated that Mr. Fuller will again be able to do his work in proper manner. If you haven't given already, drop a check in the mail to the Red Cross for your disaster relief contribution. Life-Saving Gift The Kings Mountain Kiwanls club is to be congratulated for its action in pur chasing an important gift for Kings Mountain hospital. . ^ The gift is an oxygen air pressure lock, designed to give respiratory aid to babies born prematurely and to babies with respiratory difficulties. News stories from other cities show that the apparatus is credited with sav ing many lives, thereby bringing joy, rather than sorrow, to many parents. Not many hospitals are equipped with the apparatus and the machine will be another means to improving the service and capacity to give only the best of treatment at Kings Mountain hospital. As President Lawrence Abbott re marked, "If the machine saves one life, the purchase price will be very, very . cheap." The Kiwanis Club shows again its generosity and its dedication to the up building of the community. Economy Proforrod With tax bills of the federal govern ment going up again, Congressmen who follow a policy of paring non-essential expenditures to the bone will come in for much favor. There is much waste and feet-drag ging in the federal government and it has appeared that some Congressmen in the past few years have forgot that the Roosevelt approach to getting appropri ations was to ask for astronomical figu res he did not expect to get. Few Congressmen, in view of the in ternational stresses and strains, are willing to clip much off military budget requests, though they recognize that much money is wasted by the services. It would seem appropriate for some enterprising Congressman to take over the watch-dog roll with respect to gov ernment expenditures and do some con centrating on the services. Servicemen have related tales of fla grant waste which makes one'fc hair stand on end. Kings Mountain citizens who knew Fred Daugherty , able superintendent of Burlington IViills Phenix Plant, regretted to learn thai he was leaving Kings Mountain, though they are glad to see him advance on the ladder of promotion. Mr. Daugherty was a public-spirited cit izzen who was always ready to pull his share of the load on whatever civic task which came up. The hand of welcome goes out to his successor, John Lathem, and the community's best wishes go with Mr. Daugherty and his family in their new endeavors in Robeson county. All things do come to those who work and wait. After some four years of work by three city administrations, permission finally has been obtained from Southern Railway Company to install traffic sig nal lights at the Mountain-Battleground and Mountain-Railroad intersections. The safety of motorists will be consider ably enhanced by the installations" of these traffic signal lights. Citizens of the Beth-Ware community are already hard at work to make the forthcoming Beth-Ware Community Fair the best it has ever been. Our prediction is that these efforts will be successful. The Herald is very glad the Wesleyan Methodist Conference saw fit to return Rev. J. W. Phillips to First Wesleyan church as its pastor for a sixth consecu tive year. Mr. Phillips is a hard worker and a good citizzen and the Herald con gratulates him on the distinction he now holds of serving First Wesleyan church longer than any other pastor. .j Y EARS AGO Item* oi new* ab?^ Mountain area people and mats y THIS WEEK token from the 1941 Wet of the Kings Mountain Herald. Water and light rates for Kings Mountain customers were reduced at a meeting of the Town Council held Monday night in the City Hall. The water minimum was cut to $1.00 instead o* the old rate $1.15. The light minimum "\vas cut to 75c instead of the old rate 85c for 10 kllowats. Social and Pergonal Mr. and Mm. M. A. Ware en tertained with a reception of un usual beauty and elegance at their home on Gaston Street Sat urday evening in celebration of their 25th wedding anniversary. Mr s(. Claud Rhyme was hostess to members of her book club and Invited guests at her home on West Mountain Street last Thurs day afternoon. I Miss Mable Logan left last week for Omaha, Neb? where she is attending gj jWftWflOWwl vention of United lean war veterans. Mr. and Mrs. John Baiter of Frultland, Fla., were Friday guests of Mr. C. E. Neisler, their brother-in-law. Mesdames J. M. Garrison. Mln Inie McFadden, Lona Mr-Gill, and Sage Fulton are attending the summer conference at Bon ClaMc en. : ?, ? ? Mrs. W. D. McDaniel, Delores and have stay MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Harmon Ingredient a: bit# of nerve, wisdom, humor, and comment. Directional Take weekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage . Beach Trip 'The medicinal department accomplished several firsts last weekend by venturing forth to the annual summer' convention of the North Carolina Press As sociation. . bt It was the first time I'd ever been to Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach, and the first time I'd ever Jumped the waves In the ocean, and both the trip and wave - jumping proved delightful. b-t In a way, these new exper iences must be credited to my wife, a beachcomber if there ever was one. As an old moun tain man, who prefers (or thought he did) the cool, fra grant mountains, I had never been too enthusiastic about beach conventions, and the press group makes a habit of holding its gathering at the beach one season and In the mountains the next. Until this one, I had never attended one of the beach conventions. The map always made 'em look pretty far away. This year the maidenly judgment at my house prevailed (no news in - that, huh!) and I am not sorry that it did. b-t I am also improving as a ses sion-atttending conventioneer. In times past I have been in volved in the favorite medicin al hobby, conversation, and fre quently passed up more ses sions than I should have. Need less' to say I indulged sufficent ly in that hobby during the course of three days, and I Sus pect that the same hobby is the favorite of many other pub lishers, and newspaper folk. The subjects vary, of course, but in the end problems of cir culation, news gathering, ma chinery, etc., always hpld top' place. b*t With a state-wide election season just around the c6rner, there was speculation about candidates, and the names most frequently mentioned for gov ernor were those of Former Senator W. B. Umstead, of Dur ham, and of Judge Hubert Ol ive, of Lexington. I was kidding Bob Thompson, the High Point editor who, has attracted a con siderable state-wide audience through his 15-minute Sunday evening radio show, about hom ing the Charlotte minister. Dr. Warren for governor. But Bob claimed Innocence, saying he only threw out the possibility as a rumor and had not previ ously met Dr. Warren. b-t . Tom Robinson, publisher of the CHARLom News, was pay the high tribute to the abilities of Ralph Nicholson, the new publisher of his chief competi tor the CHABLorr* Obskrvkr and Tom thinks that accidentally and coinddentally he himself is somewhat responsible for put ting Mr. Nicholson In contact with the Observer. Tom knew a fellow he wanted for adver tising manager of the News and invited him to Charlotte. But the man really wanted to be advertising manager of the Charlotts Observes, did not ac cept Tom's offer and later con tacted his old boss. Mr. Nichol son in Florida and asked that he recommend him to the Ob server. Mr. Nicholson picked up the phone and called the American Trust Company, exe cutors of the Curtis B. John son estate. The American Trust Company official replied some thing like this* "Thank you, Mr. Nicholson, but the position you speak of Is not the one we really want to fill. We are looking for the highest caliber man available, one to be the publisher and therefore the head of the organization." Mr. Nicholson was quick to size up the situation and replied in this vein, "Well, In that event you're talking to the man yoa want," ' b-i I worked (?) on one conven tion committee with Asheiy Futrell, of Washington, and Joe Sink, of Lexington. It was our duty to audit the associa tion books, and required all of two seconds. Ashety*s report was: "We find Miss Beatrice Cobb guilty of the same thing she's been guilty of far 30 years. She Is guilty of keeping the books right." b-i New president of the associa tion is Tom Lasslter, of Smith field, than whom there Is none finer. His wife, when she learn ed of his election, was, like the Observer's Mr. Nicholson, also ? quick to six* up the situation. "That means two new evening dresses will be absolutely re quired during the next year," she said. b-t The beach was very nice, the Ocean Terrace hotel- rates cheap enough, the rooms not CROSSWORD By A . C. Gordon ThU World of Ourt 41 ? Palm 44? A Iswles* leader 46? Aa affray 41 ? To shoot ?t surreptitiously M ? Laden with )mn SI? Vessel 53 ? Clothing; garment* 54? Scottish river 55 ? Playing card* ACROSS It? Wa* situated JJ? Englkh river 1 1 ? Runian mountalat* II ? Nkknamc of ?n^ American Pitiiilint 14? At one time 15? New York town made lamou* by Washing ton Irving II? Printer*. measu/e 1ft? Chemical symbol for akW ? JO ? Pronoun 11 ? Country of the United Kingdom (po*a.) 1? ? Bipanse of water 1* ? Oarden vegitsble 30 ? Diminutive erf great II? Well-known Oerman "bat in" orr*OlM|a||VR Many people Ujji(i f'tjr months past that considerable money was being spent on im provement Of Highway North Carolina, but many prob- , ably were surprised by the an. nouncement from the State High way Commission's office that 15 projects, involving total expen diture of more than alx million dollar*, are under construction or on the drawing boards. Some of them arenearlng completion. Yfw project! am scattered along ttk^TOOT, %Nfa Kings Mountain, near the South Caro llnaHne, to Ruffln, near the fjti gtnia border. One of the most im portant Is that, involving grading and other improvement of the highway for a dlatMMi of MA miles between Charlotte and Con cord. Some of the pro)r Route 39, which extends from Washington to Atlahta, has been called the "Main Street of the South." The North C?reQn* .|MNfe tlon Is the most heavily-travel ed highway In the State. It tra mm iip^r^^y'|iMy'S,inost densely' pppwlstiit .,|ni iw through or skirting the impor tant cities of Charlotte, Greens boro, High Point. Oastatila, Sal* isbury, Reidsville, Concord. Kan napoiis, Lexington, and Thomas viile, and passes within 16 or 30 miles of Winston-Salem, second largest cttjr hi the SbM, The six mnikui dollar improve ment program w 'c benefit a very large portion of North Carolina's population ad thousands of peo ple to Louisiana. Production of ?i|p by North Carolina farm flocks during June totaled 92 million eggs, a drop of 17 per cent from May Production. HERALD PUBLISHING tSHOU tlS ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE Having qualified as adminis trator lor the estate of D. H. Houser, all persons having claims against said estate please file with the undersigned on or before, the 27th day of July, 1952 or this notice will be pleaded In bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate please make immediate payment This the 25th day of July, 1951. V Mrs. Lela B. Houser Administratrix > JU-27-A-31 EYES EXAMINED GLASSES FITTED DR. D. M. MORRISON OPTOMETRIST IN KINGS MOUNTAIN MORRISON BUILDING On Each Tuesday and Telephone 316-J Friday Afternoons EVENINGS BT Hours 1 to 5 P. M. APPOINTMENT MURRAY'S GROCERY ? Tour patronage during our four years in business have been responsible lor our success. Our pledge is to give the beet In products and prompt service. STONE STREET # PHONE C84-I 157,680,000 TIMES A YEAR! T W to y"? 'NSPECTION ^"**+?"'*1 j TO e.C?i NOT'c* / fey -225 ***? i r?^ w **6StHxs