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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 postoff let 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 I Society Dorothy McCarter Advertising, News MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Horacc Walker Ronald Moore Ivan Weaver* Paul Jackson (? ? Member of Armed Forces) TELEPHONE NUMBERS? 167 QX 283 SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR ? $2.50 SIX MONTHS? $1.40 THREE MONTHS ? 75c BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is i nine: the soul that sinneth shall die. Exekiel 18:14. " The Handicapped This week attention of the nation is being directed to employing the physi cally handicapped. It is a nation-wide publicizing of the success accomplished by adopting a pos itive attitude on making useful citizens of people with physical handicaps which once relegated them to lives of boredom and uselessness, but which, now, has en abled many to become useful to others and to themselves. The thesis is that just about everyone can do something, with attention to what one has, rather than what he lacks. It is no effort to fit a square peg into a round hole, but rather an effort to find the square aperture and to match the peg with it. * The several state employment servi ces are. constantly formulating specific requirement" for sper?irir> lobs in this day of specialty tasks and they are finding plenty of jobs where the pegs and the holes fit. In turn, employers in business and industry are cooperating to make the program work. , ^ It is a very healthful, morale-building program, with benefits to all. Hospital Report The report of Kings Mountain hospi tal's first six months of operation, made last week by Business Manager Joe Dix on, was a very interesting one, and re minded again of the community's need for such an institution. The fact that 498 persons had been admitted, 121 babies born at the hospi tal, and emergency treatment adminis tered to an additional 491 persons meant that 1,112 persons had directly benefited from the hospital during a six-month period. Mr. Dixon thought the bed occupancy figure of slightly less than 60 perment a little low, but there is customarily more Sickness in the winter months than in summer, and this figure will probably advance for the full year. The benefits of hospital service do not end with service to the actual pa tients. The fact of the presence of Kings Mountain hospital, well equipped as it is and nearby, must have meant much comfort for relatives of the patients re ceiving treatment here and much more convenience. The increase in the hospital facilities, now being constructed, will further en hance its benefits to the people of Kings Mountain and the large surrounding a rea. Each member of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club must have felt an extra measure of pride last week when it was learned that the club's recent gift to the hospital had been credited with saving its first life. The air-pressure lock, which takes care of infants born with breath ing difficulties, has already justified its cost to the club and over the course of time will do much -more good work. The Red Cross Bloodmobile returns to Kings Mountain Monday. The need for blood continues high, with the require ments of the services much increased by the fighting in Korea. The Red Cross is the lone nation-wide blood-collection agency. When it runs short of this life saving commodity, it means that lives are lost, and unnecessarily. The hand of welcome to Rev. B. W. Lefler, who assumed this week the pas torate of Grace Methodist church. Beyond Expectations The success of "Then Conquer We Must!", which closed its first season Sat urday night to a record crowd in excess of 1,400 persons, exceeded the expecta tion? of its most ardent wishers-well, both in the professional manner in which it was presented and from the standpoint of attracting audiences. Prior to the opening, there was some talk of possible capacity audiences, but none thought that the commemorative drama would play to "Standing Room Only" crowds for five of its six perfor mances. . Even so, many citizens of the two Ca rolinas, including home-folk as well, found their schedules too crowded and they were disappointed in having to miss it. The Kings Mountain Little Theatre, Inc., thus has an outstanding vote of confidence for the continuance of the presentation in 1952 for a longer season. Actual plans, of course, have not yet been formulated, but it is hoped that the drama can begin a regular series of per formances in July in order to attract the many visitors from other states who have come to know North Carolina as a delightful vacation playground. The Herald hopes that definite plans concerning the 1952 showings can be set soon, for in all likelihood it would be an important factor in encouraging the building of motor courts, a hotel, or oth er suitable accomodations for travelers. The job already done has been a mam duals responsible for the drama can well be proud. Area Resources A new - program launched in the schools this year should prove a fruitful one. We refer to the continuing program whereby the teachers study the resour ces of the area, with a view to imparting this knowledge to their students, at the same time bearing in mind the needs for development of the resources and for the specific types of knowledge re quired to supply personnel for the indus tries utilizzing their resources. This program is being launched in many of North Carolina's schools and seems to be an evolvement of the doc trine of learning about home first. In turn, it seems to recognize the truism of life that all the green pastures are not limited to far-away horizons. - The program seems a practical ap proach to the business of teaching and it should be a beneficial one. Busy citizens, taking time from their own regular duties, will be visH'.ng in dividuals and business firms this week to ask for a contribution to support the Girl Scouts through the coming year. The local enrollment of 200 speaks for itself in endorsing the need for a mini mum of $1,000 to conduct the program during the forthcoming year. The Girl Scout program compares to the Boy Scout program in that it teaches cooper ation, sportsmanship, self-reliance and courage, along with the desirable handi crafts and other specific fields of know ledge. Chairman Paul Mauney and his committee should have no trouble ob taining the necessary funds. t *m /vY EARS AGO Items o f news about Kings Mountain area people and events J, V/ THIS WEEK taken from the 1941 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. Citizens of Kings Mountain are making plans to entertain sol diers on October 18th and 19th according to general chairman of the Entertainment Committee. J. B. Thomasson. Tuesday, October 7th, marked the 161st anniversary of tf\e Bat tle of Kings Mountain, which was declared by Thomas Jefferson to be the turning point of the A merlcan Revolution. James Ratteree, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. D.'Ratterree, and member of the Junior Class at the Uni,<*r sity of North Carolina has been elected as Floor Counclor. Social and Personals Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Bailey of Washington, D. C., visited Mr. and Mrs. Hunter lAllen here last week. . v James Edward Amos, a student at Mars Hill College, visited his parents here last weekend. Miss Mary McOill and her mo ther spent the weekend in Kanna polls with Mrs. and Mrs. Allen Hemdc.i. Miss Douglas Plonk of the North Wilkesboro school faculty spent the weekend with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Plonk. Miss Pattie Anne Trower, grand-daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Norman, had her appendix removed Wednesday at the City Hospital in Gastonla. Drace Peeler, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Peeler, expected to-be called to Charlotte immediately to complete his flying instruc tions, which will' entitle him to the rating of Commercial Pilot and Instruction. MARTIN'S MEDICINE " t By Martin Barman Ingredients: bits of nmrts, wisdom, humor, and comment. Dizectioha: Take weekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage. Short Takes The year known as 1951 is rapidly going by the boards, the ninth inning of this an nual 12-lnning game already having passed and we're In the first-half of the tenth, with about two outs of that spent, which means, believe it or not, Claus are just around the cor Ciaus is Just around the cor ner. ?-t I make that note for the benefit of those smart folk who schedule their Christmas shop j ping well in advance, in order not to come up missing at the last moment. Unfortunately, I am not blessed by membership in that lodge, and though certain resolutions have been made in the past, they have never proved worth the breath they were spoken on. There are some very decent and ac ceptable reasons for same, including doing first things first, and not to motion the matter of the attitude of the loanin' expert at the bank, but I still envy the folk who say blithely a week before Christ mas, "Oh, I did all my Christ mas shopping in October!" s-t SpeaVi.?3 of the financial end oi the Christmas business, there's another group I'm go ing to be envying this season, A nice segment of folks will be receiving Christmas Savings Club checks come December and I don't (belong to that lodge either. s-t But enough of Christmas. Halbert Webb and I have a football season to live through first, it appears at the mo ment that neither Halbert nor I am going to be blessed with an undue amount of Saturday happiness this year. Halbert owes first allegiance to Duke (on the zero end of a 26-0 score last Saturday), and second al legiance to N. C. State (on the zero end of a 6-0 score to Clem son ) . ? My allegiance goes to UNC and the past two Satur days haven't been anything to brag about. After the first half against Texas Saturday, it was easy enough to forsake the radio and go back to regu lar duties. The remainder of the schedule isn't very promis ing from the probable victory standpoint. ?-t The Wake Forest supporters remain happy, and appear to be about the only North Caro lina fans who will stand to lose by the Southern Confer ence's reversion to the old Gra ham plan where bowl games are taboo. ??t The Kings Mountain high school team remains most in teresting to watch, and last week's one-point loss will hardly spell a disastrous sea son. The injured will mend, the younger substitutes will get ex perience, and Kings Mountain should win a good share of its remaining games. ?*t As usual, Kings Mountain was rather heavily out-weigh . ed last Friday night, giving rise to a discussion of why Kings Mountain gridders grow as little as they do. Amateur ^?Unctr Tot)y Williams (better than a host of pros, J1* ^tabling his amateur standing because he works for nothing) remarked, "I've al ways understood the trouble wmi Kings Mountain football teams is that the kids are too smart By the time they're bl* enough to pl?y football, they re already graduated." It ?va* d*rk wben I was talking 10 Toby, and I couldn't tell whether or, not he had Wis tongue in his cheek. ?-t No matter one's age, he learning something new all the time. Thus, when the *lgh ,**001 trotted to the sidelines Friday- night for a brief chat with Coach Wein er, r nearly dropped my teeth, as did a number of other folk nearby. No penahies, no nettl ing. It was the first time I'd ever seen it. but Clarence Flowers said it was legal, I've not checked the rule book. - Other football* notes: The new concrete stands looked mighty 3harp and it must be 1? contemplate that . 2ST.J ^ there Xor a time ?nd won t be rotting out every sea son . . somebody with musi cal arranging ability should make one for the high school tune of In the Garden of To morrow" . . . Fans have become ? aeoistomed to the fight think it's the school song and the men pull off their to? - ? Assistant Coacli Jaol t Sink does the ?n the future enemies D|.v "**n hl* own team Play only once ... last -week be watched Friday night's op ponent. Rutherfordton - Spin aaie, trounce Tryon 33-0. H *>dds and ends: Jake Earlv ls?^Minron?^e baseball wars! w selling Dodge ears for War ren Reynolds . . . Jake was glad | CROSSWORD By A, C. Gordon . ACROSS ? ? PntaWat to the mtdicft] study of mental disorders 12? Worth Auriisn Uk? 13 ? Ltdra with years 14? Dry It ? The thing, In Uw IT? Irritated 1 9 ? Prefix denoting three II ? "reposition >1? A title of a monk or Here and Thlf* ^ 37 ? Musical Mto ? IS? Peminli* - 19 ? Above (_ 40 ? Ofeek letter 41 ? Mythological of the dews 43? A European fiatft* 4 J ? Retting place 4*? Plat-bottomed boat 4?? Day before ? holiday 4?? *? SO ? Takes a tea voyage U? To cook <? ? certain friar ?? Past lf-P??try 24 ? Roman 900 IS? Appearing In successive parts 17 ? Latin npfetden for "tjma" It ? Prtta denoting "not" >0 ? Bachelor of Educa tional Music (abbrev.) SI ? Vapon 14? Part of the body 14? A lofty dwelling DOWN I ? Sulfa signifying s condition J? Grain 3? Abbreviation in dates to ihow a time tat 4 ? A fabric 5? Abbreviation "right1' <5 ? Period of time 7? ruth itatiou* 10 _ ? II ? Csuttotu. prudent 1} ? Durations of time IS? Dull. 1 7 ? Man'* name I Si ? Eipire II ? Conclusive J J? Slowing fragment IS ? Fish eggs IS? Vegetable 3 1 ? Pace SI ? The populace S3? Most certain 34? Spanish dante 3 S? Abbreviated religion 35 ? To Uve through; endure 42 ? Sudden break 44? Roman numeral 4 S? Foundation 47? To secure 49 ? Dance step SI ? Legal Navigation (abbrev.) S3? Order of Unions (abbrev.) _ See The Want Ad Section For This Week's Completed Puzzle Viewpoints of Othfer Editors RESIST THE YANKEES Stanley News and Press There seems to be a rapidly de veloping idea on the part of Yan kees living in the northern sec tions of the country and some transplanted to the southern ar eas of the nation that if segre gation were abolished, allowing Negroes and whites to mingle in aH walks of life, all the problems of the world would be immediate ly solved. Some have gone so far as to say that If this step were taken, the Christian religion would then have reached its full stature, and there would be no further need to cultivate and nourish it. Some of the church literature is full of this doctrine, also. The tragedy of such thinking lies in the fact that the abolition of segregation will not do the things that so badly need to be dbne. We say with all frankness that the white race has not been entirely fair with the Negro race, but some progress is being made. At the same time, we do hot think the progress is rapid enough, but anti-segregation talk will not im prove the situation. The Negro race needs better living quarters, better police pro tection- from members n? that race, better educational opportun ities, streets, sidewalks, lights, water, and sewage in their resi dential sections. And they should have them. What we want to say is that those who come down from the North and condemn us because of segregation would acomplish so much more in a constructive way if these other matters were stressed, and stressed continually. The Yankees' attitude on this matter is reaching the place where it is becoming obnoxious to the people who are living in this section of the Country, but we believe that we have the reme day. Let motion pictures, news paper pictures, and other mater ial about the slums in all the lar ger cities be prepared, and they will be a thousand times worse to see die Giants come through to the National League pen nant since he had flayed with a number of the chaps at Min neapolis, a Giant farm . . Jake says Willie Mays should develops into one of the best baseballers in the business. . . . James Moss writes from Bristol, . Va? that the Hbuld, In its off-to-ichool list, put Bris tol's King College down as a 'business school, which It isn't It's a liberal arts college of the Presbyterian 4 church, and James is a pre-divlnity stu dent, prior to entering the church's Columbia Theological seminary. THIS YEAR'S COTTON Forest City Courier A story in this newspaper last week emphasized the grade and quality of the 1951 cotton crop in Rutherford county, but admitted that the drop will not measure up to the county's usual average in bale production. However, as County Agent F. E. Patton explains it, there Is no cause for alarm because Ruther ford is losing several thousand bales production in cotton this year. He says much of the land which ordinarily would have been put Into cotton has been seeded down to permanent pastures and that Rutherford farmers are wak ing up to the fact that money can be made in the dairy business and raising beef cattle. Well estab lished dairies bring in a year around income, rather than a pay check one time a ytar. Likewise, beef cattle are proving very pro fitable over the county. The movement away from cot ton has been slow, but it is gain ing momentum. As for a cash crop, son)e far mers are turning to the more pro fitable Turkish tobacco. Although still in its infancey, a large quan tity was sold at the Rutherford County fair ground auction Tues day, bringing excellent prices. More and more farmers are be coming interested in Turkish to bacco, as the returns are more per acre than cotton, in dollars and cents. As farmers learn more about the growth and curing of the tobacco, more of it will be grown .taking still more acreage out of cotton production. Rutherford will not be among the "big ten" cotton producing counties of North Carolina this year, but she will have something fundamental to show why she is not included. . _ ___ ? than can be found in moat places in the South, and let us raise the question with our critics as to why they do not do something about the situations that exist closer to them. We have a feeling that this will serve to quiet them down quickly. However, not for one moment would we want to give the im pression that we feel that the white people in the South can hold up their heads with pride. We have a long way to go, as we sakl earlier, and we are not mov ing fast enough. What we need is some self-?iitics who are ready to do something, and we would have no objections to intelligent Yankees helping us to approach the problems in a realistic man ner. But we are in favor of resisting those who talk and write as if one step will make the world safe for Democracy nad Christianity. i - .1 than any Robbs Graduates From A & M School Robert C. Robbs has graduated from the air force's automotive preventive maintenance school at Okmulgee A A M Technical school, according to Capt. H. L. Thompson, commanding officer of the 3453rd School Squadron. Pfc. Robbs, whose home is Rt. 3 Kings Mountain, finished the nine weeks course in driving. He Is one of the 735 air force trainees who will be trained at Okmulgee A & M Tech, a voca tional institution of over 30 trades, under the present contract extension. The program has been in operation at the Okmulgee i>v.iiool? branch of Oklahoma A & M college, since March 5. Trainees are being brought to Okmulgee -Tech from Lackland air force base at San Antonio, Texas. Twenty-eight new trainees arrive each week and 28 complete their course, maintaining a total of 252 men in training at a given time. Men are quartered and fed on the Okmulgee Tech campus, which is composed of 92 perman ent- type buildings connected by all-weather covered ramps or hall ways. The school is housed In buildlnes which formerly con tained the army's Glennan Gener- 1 al hospital. ?' > ? -? .1. . ? ? ?: - J ? . Agriculture Is the nation's old est and most basic industry. Handle Cow Makes Record PETERBOROUGH, N. H. ? A. registered Guernsey cow, Pinnacle View Sweepstake Josie, owned by Walter Randle, Kings Mount ain, North Carolina has com pleted an official Advanced Reg istry record of 6,693 pounds of milk and 402 pounds of butter fat on twice dally milking for a ten-month period, starting her record as a Junior 2 year-old. "Josie" is the daughter of the registered Guernsey sire, Clear Springs' Sweepstake, that has 1 daughter in. the Performance Register of The American Cattle club. This record, was supervised, by the North Carolina State College and was reported to The Ameri can Guernsey Cattle Club for approval and publication. Four North Caroliri ccmties produced more ihan 40,000 cords of pulpwood t>ach in 1950. They were Onslow, Jackson, Bladen, and Brunswick. Dr. L 7 . Anderson i I Chiropractor Morrison JJidcj. Kirnj* MtnJ HARRIS FUNERAL HOME Phone 118 ??Ambulance Service ? Kings Mountain, N. C. 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