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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 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? G> 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 MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Horace Walker Ronald Moore Ivan Weaver* Paul Jackson (??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 Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. Th* spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak. St. Mark 14:38. Bus Station When? A careful look-see every day finds no activity on the West King Street prop-* erty of Queen City Bus Company, unless the smouldering embers of the rotted out trunk of the big mulberry tree counts. ? But that occurred on Sunday and must have been purposely or accidental ly set by persons with nothing better to do than to experiment with matches. The calendar shows that mean weath er is not too far off, and that the time in which Kings Mountain, a city of more than 7,000 population serving an area populated by an estimated 12,000 per sons, has existed without a bus terminal is growing longer and longer. The last day Kings Mountain bus pa trons had cover while waiting for their buses was on February 16, 1950. Queen City Coach Company repre sentatives made tacit statements about starting dates on the construction of a ? Kings Mountain terminal, then as by past performance, disappeared into the atmosphere and thus far, have failed to reappear. The city has been quite patient, per haps too- patient, with the bus opera tore. Would it be time to pull out the meat cleaver again in the form of an official protest by the city to the Utili ties Commission? Certainly most citizens have revert ed to a former attitude on the' bus sta tion matter. They'll believe Kings Moun tain is to have a terminal when they see it. One-Two William B. Umstead's formal an nouncement last week that he would be a candidate for governor came as no surprise to anyone who had been read ing the papers for the past few months, for his potential candidacy had been well-chronicled. At the same time, many citizens wel comed the news that the former U. S. Representative and Senator had finally and definitely put his hat into the ring. It is rather easy to predict that Mr. Umstead will run one-two in next spring's Democratic primary. Of course, running second is insufficient in matters political. It appears that Mr. Umstead will not be the favorite of Governor W. Kerr Scott.' Other political rumor reports have advanced a number of possible can didates who lean closer to the gover nor's political thinking. Thus far, Capus Waynick has declined to run, and efforts to boom Judge Hubert Olive, of Lexing ton, have not produced unusual inter est. Now the boom-effort is on for Dr. Henry Jordan, chairman of the highway commission. Regardless of the candidates, Mr. Um stead will be a foremost contender. He was finishin,, strong in his losing race to the late Senator Broughton in 1948, and, it will be remembered, obtained a good majority in Baptist Cleveland County. Politically, Mr. Umstead is regarded as a moderate between the two extremes of moss-backed conservatism and ultra liberalism. Personally, he is a man of character. - t The school population continues to grow, a trend that is likely to continue. In Kings Mountain school district there is a present need for a new Negro school and a just-around-the-corner need for alnother elementary school. Available funds are not more than half sufficient. The New Drama "Then Conquer We Must!", Bob Os borne's historical drama commemorat ing the Battle of Kings Mountain, opens for a six-run performance Friday night. It is the newest of the outdoor dramas and different from the two major North Carolina shows, "Unto These Hills" and "The Lost Colony", in that it emphasizes the drama, plays down the allegory. The Kings Mountain Little Theatre took on a big job when it decided to pro duce the drama, thereby acting on the common expression around Kings Moun tain, "Why don't we capitalize on our natural historical asset?" Obviously, the Little Theatre hopes that the show will be sufficiently well received this season to justify its con tinuance next year, and the next and the next, preferably for longer runs. Full effort has been expended to make the first edition as professional as possi ble. Costumes have been rented from a veteran costume house. Much attention has been given to staging and lighting. The cast, all amateurs or with limited professional experience, has worked dil igently to master lines and stage busi ness. : '? The results of a successful run could be many. Undoubtedly it would encour age the building of a hotel and/or mo tor courts to fill a void in the city's need ed facilities. It would enhance the Kings Mountain National Military Park and Kings Mountain itself as a tourist mecca. Advance sale of tickets has been good, and with good weather, the drama pre sentation should be quite successful. Not only will Kings Mountain citi zens be tiekking to the Battleground amphitheatre, but also citizens from all over the two Carolinas and from other states as well. 'A best bow to the Jacob S. Mauney Memorial Library board for obtaining the services of Mrs. Charles G. Dilling as librarian, succeeding the late Mrs. Charles B. Campbell. A large segment of Kings Mountain citizens know the li brarian as "Miss Willie", a very excej lent former elementary teacher in the city schools. The policy of the library has been to devote much attention to children and Mrs. Dilling's past success in this direction will mean that the pol icy will continue to be implemented in most acceptable manner. It is easy to guess that many citizens will want to share cost in the construc tion of curbs-and-gutters and sidewalks. Little work of this kind has been done since WPA days and, while not as im-. portant as a paved street in front of one's house, these installations are much to be desired and enhance prop erty values. From the standpoint of street construction, the Herald under stands that much less maintenance of paved streets is where the street is but tressed by concrete curb-and-gutter. The action of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in condemning the practices of the Ku Klux Klan and other organi zations which do not wish to identify their memberships is timely ana in or der. The rights of freedom of speech arid freedom of assembly never was intended to apply to any person or group unwil ling to accept responsibility for their ac tions. * . . ? 10 YEARS AGO Items of ncw* about Kings Mountain area people and events THIS WEEK taken from the 1941 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. - Actual work on the Kings Mountain School Stadium WPA project has been temporarily de layed according to City Manager H. L. Burd*tte. W. K. Mauney, prominent Tex tile Executive announced during the Chapel exorcises at the open ing of school recently that some boy or girl from the graduating class each year Would be awarded a scholarship, valued at $150 per year at Lenoir-Rhyne College. Gloria Corn well, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. T Cornwell, was awarded the. scholarship for this year. Social and Pergonal Members of the Daughters of the Wesley Bible Class of Cen tral Methodist Church were en tertained at the home of Mrs. E. W. Griffin on last Friday night with Mrs. O. (X Jackson and Mrs. Griffin as hostesses. Mrs. J. M. Patterson entertain ed members of the Social Club and invited guests at her home on West Mountain Street last Friday night. Miss Ottie "Pat" White with a party of friends from Shelby spent last week In Florida. Mr. Vernon Crosby Joined them at Jacksonville. Miss Phyllis Patterson left Tuesday for Erskine College, Due West. S. Cm where she is a senior. Miss Patterson was ac companied to Due West by her mother. Howard McGill of Dallas, Tex as. has been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. McGill. Rev. P. D. Patrick and Mr.] Meek Ormand are representing the *ir?t Presbyterian Chureh at Synod meeting in the Orphanage at Barium Springs, this week. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Hatmon Ingredients: bits of news, wisdom, humor, and comment. Directions : Take weekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage. . t, .. . A New Look Thousands of citizens of the two Garolinas (and' maybe some others states too) must have thought their coffee tast ed strange on Monday morn ing. I didn't, as I'd stopped over the morning edition of the Charlotte Observes in the pro cess of ?"vappiag the pajama for the underwear. But my wife thought the coffe not quite Tight.; a-n-1 Actually, the coffee was all right, but it was the "foremost newspaper of the Carolinas" which was different. a-n-1 In one-fell swoop, it appeared - the Charlotte Observer . which had been the southern proto type of what Time Magazine calls "the good, grey New York Times", had gone plumb mod ern. No longer did the Ob server look like the Observer. It still carried the same name, but otherwise it was different. The Observer had streamliened, with no formal warning at all. a-n-1 The reaction was and will be interesting. The coffee-maker at my house was pretty sure she didn't like it (women are less ready for change than men, except In fashions), Dodge dealer Warren Reynolds didn't think he liked it, and the medicinal director, though somewhat more conversant with typographical changes than the average layman, had to reserve judgment. The best that could be said is that the "new" Observer is interesting. I cast a strong vote for the new, easy-to-read body type. a-a?l Dewey Styers, the Observer's circulation representative here, will probably be able to give the best report, after a week or month-end's collection period. The change, of course, is de signed to make Dewey's sales increase arid to ease his collec tion problems. 4 a-n-1 The change-over was Editor Publisher Ralph Nicholson's first big move, though other newspaper folk had noted a number of n ore minor changes since Mr. Nicholson had taken the helm of the good ship Ob server. a-n-i One of his first was, as one North Carolina editor wrote him, comparable to stepping in a spot where an angel would Xea ? to tread. He nad stripped Jo-Jo, an Observer and South ern Institution, of his weather phrophesying Job, and relegat ed him to the simpler role of brightening the front-page by his whimsical appearance and pungent four-line verse. It wasn't many days until Jo-Jo was back in the weather busi ness, even if on modified scale. The official data now appears in the left-hand dogear on the front page, but Jo-Jo thumb nail's it as "Partly Cloudy", "Fair", "Cooler", etc. a-n-1 Actually, while It appeared that the Observer made a one fell-swoop change, some of the changing had been institut ed gradually up to the day of the big changeover. The new headline type and style had been previously introduced on the pages devoted to the mar ket reports and the business news. Also changed was the column head on the Lou Schnie der feature, using only the face photographs, which became .standard operating procedure on Monday morning (note the new-look likenesses of Wilton Garrison, Alton Blakeslee, and others). It would perhaps be asrumed bv *he Observer that only its most conservative read ers -regularly scan the finan cial news and that, if the change didn't, bring too many complaints, the full change over, according to the accom panying announcement, was to make the Observer easier to read. And the paper staff must have been pretty sure of itself, for the cost was no small one. A font of body tyoe mats must cost in the neighborhood of $200, and the last I heard the observer had about 35 type setting machines. Total figure 17,000, not to mention the cost of mats for the head line type. Thc/jgh It was not mentioned, It kino appears that the Obser ver is going to try to ease for Its readers one hard-to-handle headache which bothers almost all newspapers, small and large. That is the problem of continuations. The Herald usu ally continues it's too-long front page stories on the back of the first section, figuring the reader will find it easier to whip over a section, rather, than to turn a page. One pa per's continuation line reads ' See Number I, page 4", with the continuations numeric*^ labeled. Most newsman agree that the best way to solve the problem la to olimin4f|^MjMiln nations though this effort lM| real. problem for the news edi tor and compositor.;. The | CROSSWORD ? ? * By A. C. Gordon | See The Want Ad Section For This Week's Completed Puzzle Viewpoints of Other Editors ACROSS 1 ? Financial* m in ded athlete 13 ? Baseball marker 13~The*nd of the lint for a race horse 14? The mark of "white wash** on the scoreboard 16? Implement used by devotees of the fairways 19 ? Musical symbol meaning "medium loud" 19 ? Exclamation denoting triumph 20-? Condition of failure in a bridge game 22 ? Spectator activity at the race track 23? The supreme triumph of a fisherman < pi ) 2 7? Dar fling Hockey ( abbrev ) 28? *?oman 101 30? Toward 3lr-Siwf. of India (poss ) 33? What every sportsman pfays to do ? 35? Wave length (abbrev ) 3 7? District Attorney (abbrev ) 31? A necessity for every smooth- running racing car A 4 40 ? Bow* to athletic ? supremacy 43 ? Utla abbreviation meaning "rut* weU"V 45? Belonging to 48 ? Legitimate Speeder* (abbrev.) 4 g ? Indoor aping I port 51 ? Numeral >2 ? Meaaure of area (pi.) S3 ? Item u*ed in t*e old ahell game JV? Variation of the prefix $6 ? Born SI ? Metallic element 59 ? Roman emperor #1 ? Presently 64? Per*on who chronicle* the deed* of athlete* DOWN I ? Pertaining to the country 3 ? Battering ram of the great collegiate (port (abbrev.) 4? Alleviated . 5 ? One of ba*eball'* " position* (abbrev ) A ? At lea*t lii game* of tennia J? To be indebted 8 ? Chemical *ymbol for nickel 9 ? Equipped foe warfare 10 ? Offensive threat In ? football (two word*) 11 ? Fishermen are proverbially known at dbriplet of thi* (two word*, poiaJ IS ? Exclamation of inquiry IT ? Lwd of the iport of cricket (pent.) JO ? Implement uted In a winter tport II? To careen 24 ? Preposition J 5 ? Incline the head J6? Thua 29 ? Roma* numeral 34 ? Northern Lacrotte ( abbrev. ) 38? Pattureland 39 ? Mythological maiden 41? Officer Commanding 42 ? A Spanith married woman (abbrev.) 44 ? Exist 4 7 ? Sport* term; meaning to win every game of a teriet 49 ? Enthusiasm 50 ? Bateball turf grippet 54? Printer-* nseasur* 56 ? Neither 57 ? Feminine suffix 60? Roman Order* ( abbrev ) 62? Exclamation of pain 63 ? ChemK <1 symbol for ' nickel ADULTS AT SCHOOL New York Times September starts the school season lor the children of the land. In a grudging fashion our youngsters give up their vacation pursuits to start the regulated round of classes which help them to become the knowledgeable citi zens of the future. September Is also the start of the school sea son for adults, with many univer sities, colleges and libraries offer ing hundreds of courses in the evening for our older citizenry. The variety of courses offered is astoundingt with new ones be ing added as new needs are made known to the administrators of these adult education programs. A representative list points up renewed interest in English, liter ature, foreign languages, science, social studies, psychology and philosophy. In addition there are new courses to help develop com petence In interior decoration, writing, television, publishing, Greensboro Daily News, I be lieve, has had more success with this effort than any other North Carolina daily. The Ob server used only four continued stories on Its Monday change over paper. a-n-i The reaction will be interest ing to follow, but habit is a wonderful institution and, with in a month, most Observer readers would find that a re version to the former style would be Just as foreign as the Observer's "new look" was on ' Monday. building attics, gardening and other skills too numerous to men tion. Until recently education was thought to have ceased for most persons with the acquisition, of a college degree, but that is no lon ger the case. The development of these adult programs has shown that persons are always eager to learn if a course they are inter ested in Is offered. Continuing education means continuing growth. Adult educa tion is not a cure-all, but when adults go to school again their individual and social problems become easier to understand and solve. RAGS AMID RICHES Lincoln Times' The vagaries of human nature continue to intrigue those who study the conduct of man but no- * where is there more mystery than in the few individuals who live wretched and poverty-strick en lives, possessing ample and abundant wealth. Illustrating this strange beha vior of individuals, we call atten tion to the fact that police In Jersey City recently found two elderly sisters, well up in the seventies, in their home. One was dead and the other unconscious, but in a pitiful condition from malnutrition. When police examined the con tents of the fifth-floor apartment, they Uncovered strong boxes in closets and furniture. One con tained gold pieces of $8,000 and other gold certificates and cur rency. The two-day search uncov ered $61,725 in cash in the apart Hay Crop Reported Lowest In 10 Years Based on reports from farmers as of September 1, the production of hays in 1951 will be the smal lest tonnage produced in North Carolina since 1941. Total production of all hays as of September 1 is estimated at 1,153,000 tons or an average yield of 1.0 ton per acre. This is not the lowest yield for the period but ment Other indications were that the sisters were the holders of numerous mortgages. .Apparent ly, they had more money than they could possibly, spend for comforts and necessities of life. For some strange reason, they preferred to live as misers, hord ing their wealth and even starv ing themselves. due to the fact that careage is the second smallest since 1941, total tonnage will be lower. Acreage in 1951 at 1,153,000 acres is 1.1 per cent greater than in I960. The 1.0 ton yield forecast for this year is 180 pounds below the 1950 yield of J..09 tons. Weather conditions continued on the dry side in Piedmont and Mountain counties throughout most of the month of August. Late summer hays such as clov er-timothy and soybeans suffer ed from the August dry weather and did not make the growth nec essary for good tonnage. ?. . , , Of course, the spring hay crops and many of the summer hay crops had been harvested by Sep tember 1. (generally, weather has been good for cutting and field curing of hay crops. ; / ; HOLE NEWS Good news for G I Joe: the French have come up with a me chanical foxhole digger. Good news for you: HOLSUM BREAD Is one nourishing food that doesn't put a hole in your pocketbook. ? ' BREAD IF YOU RAD A MILLION DOLLARS YOU COULDN'T BUY BETTER BREAD Job Printing # Phones 167 and 283 There is Nothing Finer than to Live in North Carolina October ushers in ooz moat spectacular Mason? and anyone who ha? never seen western North Carolina in Octo ber is missing something very wonderful right here at home. And, (or those natives - who like a change from mountain scenery, you can't beat channel bass fishing on the North Carolina coast in October . . . and in between more than 20 county fairs will at- (. tract many thousands. In fact, anywhere you live or go in North CarO* lina in October makes you glad to be alive. " And almost everywhere too, you can enjoy a cool, tem perate glass of beer? sold under our State ABC sys tem of l*gal control that is working so well. North Carolina Division UNITED STATES BREWERS FOUNDATION, INC.
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