Newspapers / The Kings Mountain Herald … / Oct. 19, 1951, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of The Kings Mountain Herald (Kings Mountain, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
The Kings Mountain Herald Established 1889 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion ol the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of King* Mountain and lt? vicinity, published every Friday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the postoff lcc at Kings Mountain, N. C., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873 EDITOBIAL Db?ABTMENT Martin HarmoA 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? fL40 THREE MONTHS? 75c BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE ' Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that fol * loweth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. St. John 8:14. Morality In Politics The recent revelations of the finan cial maneuverings by the two chairmen of the two major political parties came, unfortunately, as no particular shock or surprise to the people of the nation. They were familiar, if not in detail, certainly in idea, that the spoils sys tem was still in vogue in its more brazen form. Considerable point was made by Chairman William Boyle, of the Demo crats, that he had done nothing illegal, and there seems to be little question that his actions were illegal. To a lesser de gree, undoubtedly due to the fact that he is chairman of the minority party, the same could be said for Guy Gabriel son, Republican chairman. It reminds again that there is a con siderable difference between the letter of the law and the proper moral course. The nation is rather unanimously agreed that the actions of both Mr. Boyle and Mr. Gabrielson are reprehen sible and hardly to be condoned. Unfortunately, again, it is doubtful that the nation will hear much about the so-called scandals after the. 1952 elec tion firing is over. In most instances, better citizens re fuse to got themselves "contaminated" by activity in politics. It means that the many elective offices of the nation are not filled by the men of stature and. high moral character which is required to produce good government. There will be more Boyle incidents, intermittently, until leading citizens in business and other affairs also put their shoulder to the wheel to obtain highest caliber candidates and to require high moral codes of conduct from them. I. O. Plonk The death on Sunday of John Oates Plonk removed from the- community one of its elder citizens who, quietly and un assumingly, left a considerable imprint on the city and area in which he was an active businessman for more than half a century. Active in Plonk Brothers and Com pany, successor to Plonk and Kiser, since 1899, he was the dean of Kings Mountain retail merchants. He was without a peer as a salesman, undoubt edly because he loved people and al ways exhibited a hearty interest in their activities, their problems, their in terests and successes. He was successful in business and, in turn, personally liberal with his. means in aiding eleemonsynary causes and in aiding individuals. He was a man of high good humor and had a keen zest for living, and he was a family man in the truest meaning of the phrase. While his health had been poor for several years and even worse in the pre vious three weeks, his death, neverthe less was not immediately expected. "Mr. John", as he was known to a host of friends, will be greatly missed by young and old alike. All citizens of the community will be interested in the soon-to-be launched civic project whereby interested groups hope to make Kings Mountain the "Rose City of North Carolina". Individual beautification of residences, plus group effort to beautify unsightly public spots (of which there are several), will do much toward making Kings Mountain v a more pleasant community in which to live Survey Season Thfc year 1951 must certainly go down in Kings Mountain history as "survey season". Already underway, and soon to be received if the several engineers meet their indicated schedules, are surveys to determine present and future needs in regard to the city sewage system,, the city water system, and the city electri cal system. Last week, the city recreation com mission retained an engineer, a special ist in the field of recreation, to outline needs and formulate plans for city recre ation facilities. In the final analysis, whether these surveys are worth the maps they're out lined on will be determined by the tem per of the citizens in supplying what ever funds are needed to accomplish the several anticipated projects. It takes money to make the mare go, and the expected estimate of immediate ly needed expenditures for revamping of the sewage system alone will be no small figure. Fact is, these expenditures were needed yesterday and last year and several years before. At the same time, there is no substi tute for information, as has been pre viously noted in these columns. The survey work, in the several fields, represent. the first step on a long walk. The survey results will be interesting, in themselves, and, thinking citizens hope, productive of improved facilities, not only to serve a growing population, but to enhance its future growth, wel fare and prosperity. Most members of the Lions club were quite interested in the outline of the county's property revaluation program heard last week at the regular meeting of the club. According to the brief out line of the manner in which the revalua tion firm will go about its work, the job of re-appraising the property of the county will be quite a large task, even for the 30 to 40 men which the com pany will have on the job at odd mo ments. Most of the Lions expressed the feeling tha$ the revaluation program is much-needed and long-overdue, but with all the detail required, they are aware that the establishment of tax equity is a most difficult task. Generally speak ing, most- persons are confident that the revaluation job will eliminate many of the current inequities, if not all of them. The benefits of the Powell Bill, where by North Carolina cities get a small share of the gasoline tax money collec ted by the state, are already showing up here. Should the Powell Bill remain law for the course of several years, as it will if the urban citizens of the state have their way, Kings Mountain should be criss-crossed almost completely with hard-surfaced streets. The result will be a much improved community, with more desirable lots for residential building, and with a cleaner community. The av erage citizen living on a dusty road can't get very excited about painting his house, when a few days of street dust spoils the investment. A best bow to Frank A. Summers, who has been elected president of the Geor gia Tech chapter of Alpha Pi Mu, nation al industrial engineering fraternity. If you haven't already, write a check this week for the Girl Scout fund. 10 YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events THIS WEEK token from the 1941 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. Kings Mountain will play an important p;ir? i'v the U. S. Army maneuvers beginning next Mon day morning when airplane spot ters begin their 12 hour watch from the top of the old Presby terian churph. The Little Theatre of The Best Town in the State, will present the best comedy, "Don't Take My Penny" by Ann Coulter Martens at the High School auditorium next Thursday evening, October 23 at 8:15 o'clock. There are 250 new books on the shelves of the Kings Mountain Fubllc Library and citizens are invited to stop in the public in istitution and select a book of | their choice. Social and Personal Mr. Haywood E. Lyrich was the recipient of a surprise birthday party on last Thursday evening when Mrs. Lynch entertained at seven tables of bridge. | George, Ernest and Miles Mau ley will spend the weekend at home. They come especially for the twenty-fifth wedding anniver sary of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Mauney which will be celebrated Saturday night. Mrs. J. R. Davis has as her guest Mrs. Roy Keaster ol Waih ling ton, D. C. i i Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tucker of York, S. C. were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fulton Sunday. Martin L. Harmon of Albe marle and Hubert Aderholdt of this place left Tuesday for a visit at ?he home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Aderholdt in New Orleans. Mrs. M. L. plonk left this morning for Kilgore, Texas, where she will visit for several months with Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Dickson. Mrs. Hazel Crenshaw and chil dren were visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Goforth I Sunday. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Harmon Ingredients: bits of news, wisdom, humor, and comment. Directions: Take tueekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage. Heat The subject of heat is a most interesting one, particularly at this season of the year, when those of us who complained about the excess heat of sum mer are reversing their field and complaining about the chill morning and evening tempera ture*. -b* . This may or may not be cor rect, but it is an impression that women are more subject to temperature changes than are men. In other words, women suffer more than men from the heat of summer and also more than men from the cold of win ter. - ? ? Whether or no, I heard one Kings Mountain man, just mar ried last spring, say that his madame had informed him in hardly uncertain terms to "get that stove up". That was last week, when the mercury in the thermometer plummetted. The fact that he was a salesman for a firm sclliftg oil heaters did n't help him, for he was busy installing for other folk, and, as usual in the service trades, found himself poor in his own stock. -h A check of "Old Faithful", Dr. * Webster's fact-filled dic tionary, reveals that heat is a very fact-filled subject, cov ering virtually a column of lit tle type. The major definition is rather scientifically profes sional, to say the least. It reads, in part, "A condition of mat ter believed to consist in a cer tain motion or vibration of the ultimate molecules of which bodies are composed; it is a condition or exhibition of ener gy of which motion, light, gra vity, electricity, etc., are other exhibitions under different con ditions. It is the cause of flui dity and evaporation. It ex pands all bodies, but the ex pansions arc different in dif ferent substances ..." A lot of words to say that heat is that condition which makes one perspire inl Summer and keeps the lady-folk happy iri vyinter! -h There are other kinds of heat, such as the heat of an ger, a heat of a Jrace, heat of battle, heat of the body (stand ard 98.6 degrees), etc. -h There is black heat, black red heat, "red heat and white heat. Younger folk may not be too familiar with these several degrees of heat, but anyone who has ever been around the old-time blacksmith shop will know them quite well. These degrees of heat are important in welding, in steel-making and many other forms of manufac ture. -h Then there's that brand of heat in the nether regions be low, which the preachers warn about. Everybody wants to avoid that brand of heat. ?fa Today there is much interest in the future development of atomic heat, it being proven long ago that the business of cracking the molecule and iso lating briefly the atom will produce large amounts of heat from a very small beginning substance. The problem there is to harness the heat and to con seiye it until it is demanded for use. ?h But the big interest of most folk in the Northern Hemis phere today is that of the sales man's wife, to wit, the instal lation of a heating unit in the home, or the opening up of the corner fireplace, or some other means of keeping warm. Central heating Is a wonder ful development of the heating process and a far cry from the, days of the caveman, who, it is presumed, warmed himself over a fllnt-and-steel built fire in a cold, damp cave, cut-out on the lee side of a hill. - b - We at the Hkram> have b?en particularly interested in the heating business for the past several weeks, the interest be ing not only academic, but prac tical and financial as well. ?h* Ben Goforth has been instal | ling a central heating plant here and, due to material hold ups, ran a virtual dead "heat" with King Winter to see which would arrive first, our heat or cold weather. ?h Ben was having "poor in his | own stock" difficulties too. In | an air of alarm, I called Ben ! last week to remind that our : partial plant wasn't in shape for firing up and that the tempera j ture was a bit chill. His wife : answered the phone for the ab sent Ben and exhibited com plete understanding of the lo cal situation. 'Til find him," ,she said "He was trying to fool folks today, for he left here wearing a short-sleev ed sport shirt and with the remark 1f? not really cold'. He said he wasn't going to fire his own home furnace until he got his customers satisfied. I don't see Viewpoints of Other Editors [ CROSSW ORD ? ? ? By A. C . Gordon '.fyytsit--- ? ? <>?*? ACROSS 1 ? Popular home enter tainment I ? The man who wins the m Fun and Recreation 9? Indefinite article 10 ? Ond letter 1 1 ? Triumph* 13? rPrepotition 1 4 ? Frequently 15 ? Domettk fowl !?? A brace (abbrev.) 17 ? Well-known Sower IS? AWng 19 ? North American wttfry upMH 70? Bate ball Watcher* (abbrev.) 11? Contracted "It 1*" M?To bobble the baaeball t>? Spritaa ' 1 6? Comparative wflN 17 ? Implement uaed In ? Revohi to win lor DOWN 19? Exclamation o ( tatltf action 10 ? Oolflni Implement* ? 1? A tenia ball "net ticker" ? J- Trouble 33? Indefinite article 84? Unable to epeak See The Want Ad Section 1 1 ? Participants tn a popu lar winter eport 1 1? A defeat In a tame to which the Voter fella to acore (colloq. poee.) I J? Either 14?Eaetern. 16? The primary aim of every tame 1 7 ? Ataimilated form d the prefer "in" 19 ? Comparative euMx 70 ? Something every mar kt man draw* on hi* target 11 ? Fairway implement 14 ? Public ce'.rtjrk^ (abbrev.) 17? That which I* unueual (pott.) 18? Scottiah "one" II? Meneure of weight 31? Implement* uaed by the bow-pulling epoetaman 35 ? Abbreviated manuscript 37? Queriet 38 ? Pronoun 40 ? Beaat of burden 41 ? Part 0 1 horteracing 43 ? Tract of land 4A ? Chemical ty.nbol for radon This Week's Completed Puzzle ABOUT ABC STORES _ Rutherford County News Last Friday morning the Char lotte Observer carried an editor ial headed "ABC Store System | Continues Gaining." It was car ried by the Tryon Daily Bulletin and other papers, with credit line Sunday in the Open Forum of the Observer, Rev. R. M. Hauss of Shelby, Executlv Director of the Allied Church League of N. C. replied in part as follows: "Since 1937, twenty-nine coun ty-wide ABC elections have ibeen held. Only Mecklenburg, Rowan and Catawba have approved the ABC system. Of the eighteen counties voting in Eastern North Carolina since the above date the Drys have not lost a single election. All of the gains in the last fourteen years have been for ced votes by special legislative enactment. This includes the three cities and three towns which have approved the stores. In your editorial you stated that "no coUnty or municipality that has adopted the system has abandoned it." In 1937, Johnson county voted ip ABC stores by a vote of 4,074 to 3,768. In 1940 this county voted out the stores 7,579 to 3,956. Franklin county voted in stores in 1935, 1,624 to 1,075 and voted them out In 1941 by 1,429 to 1,169. The same coun ty held a vote in 1946 and the Drys won toy an even larger ma jority. You will observe the above facts that the ABC system has gained only one county aiiu six municipalities in their intensive drive to gain territory. Not toeing able to win on petitions,, the ABC advocates have restored to spec ial legislative enactment." P. S. Editor's Note: Mr. Hauss gives the Observer and the pub lic some valuable information which we wish to "pass on," any reason why I should freeze to death just because he has a few Jobs to finish." ?fa Ben admitted next day that his wife's wisdom had prevail ed. ?fa We think central heat Is go ing to be pretty wonderful. Gene Matthews says he hasn't ever enjoyed a warm winter at the Hhuju>. For Bnibitis Foi Clubs Quality workmanship and ma terials. plus law coat ad loot MCVte* moaa SATISFACTION wfaon yon order nibbw stumps hor* for yotu baslMM or ehiK Stamp Pods For Sato HERALD PUBLISHING HOUSE Phone* 187 & 283 GOOD SAMARITANS (Colonel C. Woodson, Jr., Supt., Virginia State Police, in Virgin ia Highway Users Magazine) Truckers must become awfully tired of abuse and criticsm springing from the fact that their vehicles arouse resentment a mong private citizens simply be cause they are larger and hard er to pass than an ordinary auto mobile. There are backsliders and incompetents of course, as in all lines of work. However, truck ers are for the most part skillful, able and conscientious handlers of their equipment. Police offlce ers recognize that and there us ually exists between them a carrt araderie of the highway. What police officer who has worked bad crashes at night or in bad weather hasn't a big place in his heart for trucker^? . . , Truckers stop at the scene of trouble ? always. Not as the irri tating and hindering curiosity seeker but as an able assistant. They know what they are doing and can be trusted not only for sincerity but for competence. Ask them to set out flares and keep traffic moving and the po lice officers can turn to his stern er duties with no worry. If e^tu flares, fire extinguish ers or other equipment are need ed, the trucker will have it and know how to use It. Not only the big Jobs but the smaller ones like getting a car out of a ditch find him pulling oft the road and offering his assistance. In time of trouble, he'll run any errand and run it with total disregard of his own convenience. ? The trucking boys don't get their merited appreciation for all they do to help the police and make the highways safer. May be If the average motorist could see and understand just what they do and how they do it, he wouldn't be so prone to fume whenever he Is detained momen tarily on a hill behind a truck or is mildly disturbed by the nec essary "gunning" of a motor. We have our llttVs difficulties, but many a trooper has had and will have occasion to be thankful when he's in a tough spot and sees ? big unit grind to a stop. World apple production, includ ing cider apples, is expected to total 575 million bushels in 1951 52. This compares with 675 mil lion bushels produced in 1950-51 and a 1935-39 average of 496 mil lion bushels. There is Nothing Finer than to Live in North Carolina Big doings in November in North Carolina? Home Demon* atration Agent* meet in Durham, Nut. 2-3; Ryder Cup Professional Pinehurst, Not. 2-4; National United Daugh ters of Confederacy, Ashaville, 3-9; 49th North and South Open Golf, Pinehurst, Nov. 7-11, and Hunting Season, rabbits, ruffed grouse, quail and wild turkey, opens Nov. 22 on Thanksgiving Day, All over North Carolina this is the season for doing the outdoor chores and repairs about the house and barn. November has its quick changes in weather, too. Some call it "Octem bruary," and with good reason. Average date first killing frost Raleigh, November 3. \ , But after work or play almost everyone can relax over a temperate glass of beer? sold under our State ABC system of Sega/ control that is work ing so well. North Carolina Division UNITED STATES BREWERS FOUNDATION, INC. Our aptitudes are all quite different but regardless of how we earn our livelihoods, we should give great consideration to wise use of our earnings. If jo* are having trouble in making your Income meet Your needs, then let us guide you in sound spending and saving. FIBST NATIONAL BANK First National Bank PRESENTS INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT NORTH CAROLINA FIRST PAVED ROADS IN NORTH CAROLINA The first paved roads in North Carolina were paved with planks. This was accomplished by putting down runners and then placing the planks across them. In 1854 the longest paved road in the world was completed between FayettevilJe and ?a!em. The road was 129 miles long. DOGWOOD WANTED 20 ? 40 - 60 inches. S inches and up. Log* with red heart, hollow, or dote in center mast have 2 1/2 inches or more of sound white wood. 20 inch lengths ? must he free from defects. 40 inch lengths ? may have 1 defect (center of bolt). 80 inch lengths ? maj have 2 defects (18 inches between
The Kings Mountain Herald (Kings Mountain, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Oct. 19, 1951, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75