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The ^EIttbu^ 1884
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 vlclty, published every Thursday 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, 1373
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher
Charles T. Carpenter, Jr. Sports, Circulation, News
Mrs. P. D. Hemdon. ........ Society
Mrs. Dot Hamm .1. . . ". Advertising, News
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
He that tilleth the land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons
U void of understanding. Proverbs 12:11.
A New Monarch
It is hard for some Americans to Un
derstand the British in their high regard
for a royal family.
Some wonder if Britain, in her dis
traught financial situation, might not
dispense to practical advantage with
this tradition of centuries.
Britain, in fact, has. dispensed with
that portion of a monarch's pierogatives
which once gave the king power of life
and death over his subjects.
Yet Britain and the British people, if
given a choice, would likely forego a
hike in the meat ration, rather than de
sert the tradition of the monarchy.
And certainly there are benefits to the
system for Britain.
The late George VI was non partisan
head of the state, working the same way
with Attlee as he did with Churchill, and
vice , versa. He was also non-partisan
head of two churches, the Church of
England, and the Presbyterian church of
Scotland. Queen Elizabeth II will be the
same. Perhaps it is through this system
that Britain gets much of its strength.
There is one person, always, who thinks
first and only of the good of the whole,
without the questionable shades of par - ?
tisan politics or conflicting interests of
. average individuals.
The King is dead; long live the Queen.
Fine Response
Response of Kings Mountain citizens
to the appeal for blood donations at the
recent visit of the Bloodrnobile was the
best it had ever been. A new record was
set, and the donors can take a good mea
sure of satisfaction, for they will be
helping to save the lives of the injured,
the ill. or, otherwise, speeding their re
turn to health
Credit is due all who gave blocd and
all who gave their services in aiding the
Rod Cross collection.
Credit is also due to Rev. T. L. Cash
wvll, Jr.. the local chapter's program
v-liairmati, for a job done well.
Kings Mountain, the beneficiary of "
blood collections as weil as the donor,
should resolve to respond similarly to
future appeals for blood, a life:giyirig.
life-saBhg substance.
According to reports of the several of
ficials. Kings Mountain citizens have a
good record of compliance on the sever
al required January jobs, which include
listing property for taxes, paying 1951
tax bills, and buying 1952 auto tags. It
, is interesting to note that the auto popu
lation ot the city, on the basis of tag
sales, indicates one car is owned by
every seventh person. Assuming some
motorists haven't yet bought city tags,
that ratio may well be changed to one in
six. It is a day of moving on w heels.
The Rev. Peter J. iVxnis comes to
Kings Mountain Sunday for a week's
preaching mission at Ressurrection Lu
theran church. He brings with him a
reputation -as minister of exceptional
ability. Those who attend the special
services will undoubtedly benefit by
hearing him .
If you haven't yet, write a check today
for the Kings Mountain District Boy
Scout fund. It is a worthy investment in
good Citizenship and the many fine traits
good citizenship implies.
Ingenuity Better Term
The army brass made headlines again
recently, in the charge by General
Ridgeway's public information officer
that correspondents covering the armis
tice discussions at PanmunJom, Korea,
were fraternizing and trafficking with
the enemy.
This was a very interesting charge.
Continuing through the news account
it appeared that the "trafficking" might
better be termed "ingenuity."
According to the news story, this
"trafficking" had resulted in the news
men's obtaining pictures, tape-recorded
interviews, and other data about United
Nations prisoners of the North Korean
Chinese Communist forces. Among the
pictures and Information thus obtained
was the same on Gen. William F. Dean.
This information both the Army and ci
tizens considered valuable.
No other instance of "trafficking" was
reported, and, indeed, the request of Col.
Welch, public relations officer, was
couched in such mild terms otherwise,
it was hard to find just what cause for
complaint the1 colonel had.
It's rather historic (hat the brass hats
like to keep a close ?J ec' on the press,
and frequently the cloai. * "military se
curity" is used when it h merely a mat
ter of turning out, or not 'rning out, in
formation unfavorable tu individuals in
volved.
This policy, of course, is not limited
to service brass hats, but to a wide army
of bureaucrats spread-across this nation,
and the world.
Many feel that, if there were free pas
sage of information between the Iron
Curtain countries and the other nations
of the globe, world tensions would be
greatly eased. There would ,be. as al
ways, momentary incidents of volatile
nature. But experience usually proves
it's better to get the news into the open
air rather than to sit on it.
Research
Technical gains of the world can be.
credited largely to those people who de
vise new, shorter and improved methods
of making the material Roods which
make life more pleasant to live.
The airplane, the automobile, the tie
phone, the electric light and the radio
are old hash, now, though it is easy to
guess that researchers are still working
daily to perfect contemplated refine
ments of each. As a matter of fact, com
parisons of the improvements in each of
the mentioned commodities developed
in the past few years arc readily known
to all.
Newer in the field is the wonder of
television. People in Kings Mountain can
sit in their living room and see a show
originating in Hollywood, a boxing
match in Detroit, or a ball game in New
York.
New products, and improvements for
old ones, require first the ability to
"see", or to comprehend, then a mass of
detailed work and consequent expendi
ture of funds to perfect the idea and to
transmit it to reality.
Two "business features" in last week's
Herald related the part imagination and
work play in developing products; indus
try and jobs in Kings Mountain. One was
the brief account of the development of
lithium for use in a great variety of pro *
ducts by Foote Mineral Company. The
other told of a new Neisler Mills product,
jacquard- woven plastic.
These are two interesting samples of
what the combination of imagination
and will to work can accomplish.
YEARS AGO Items of newt about Kin9t Mountain area people and erents
J[ THIS WEEK taken from the 1942 filet of the Kings Mountain Herald.
Members of the Town Council
Monday night authorized City
Mananer H. L. Burdette to pur
chase and install a two way po
lice radio system.
After four years of successful
pratflfa in Winston Salem, N. C.
Dr. VV. L. M.uinpv will open
his nffice here to prac'lce 'Chiro
pody and Foot Orthopedics.
SofwJ and Pcr&oruti
In a cerenunny of charm and
beauty Miss Sara Kate Ormand
of Kings Mountain became the
bride of Major O. P. Lewis of
Kings Mountain &nd Camp Shel
by( Hattlesburg, Miss.
I John Dilling. Jr.. of Kannapo
lis. spent the weekend at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Grady
King.
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Barnhart
and little daughter. Shirley, who
moved back to Charlotte from
Columbia, recently were visitors
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Thomson during the weekend.
Mrs. Barnhart was before her
marriage Miss Mildred Ormand.
Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Brackmer
and son, Arthur Norman of New
York are guests of Mr. and Mrs.
L,. L. Benson. Mr. and Mrs. Ben
son Went to Kannapolls to see
their son who is sick.
Mr. and Mrs. E. VV. Griffin and
children were guests of Mrs. Grif
fin's sister and family Hi Elkin
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. VV. K. Mauney,
Jr.. spentMast week in New York
and Philadelphia.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
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By Martin Hanson
Ingredient*-, bite of newt,
wisdom, humor, and comment.
Direction a: Take weekly, if
possible, but avoid
overdosage.
Valentine Greetings
The calendar dictates today's
medicinal subject, for better
or for worse, as the marryln' ^
parsons say.
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It Just might be for worse,
for I've been out of the Val
entine Greeting league for
some several moons, and have
not yet dreamed up a good sec
ond line for "Roses are red,
violets are blue ..." I suppose
I could slip into the five-and
dime store, or some other card
selling spot, and steal a few
lines, but I haven't.
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Neither are the medicinal 11
brary stores in too good a
shape for Valentine's Day, but
the calendar has spoken.
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A slightly aged Compton's
Encyclopedia devotes only a
couple of paragraphs to St.
Valentines Day and frankly
admits Its researchers didn't
uncover too much reputable
data on the card-&ending prac
tice. As early as Chaucer's
time, Compton's reports, young
folk in the hamlets of Eng
land, Scotland and France
were holding Valentine frolics.
They would assemble and
draw names, and the girl's
name on the slip a lad drew
was his "Valentine" or sweet
heart for a year. Later on the
upper classes took up the cus
tom, exchanging presents and
performing services, such as a
medieval knight might attend
to for his lady.
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The only thing that sounds
unreasonable about Compton's
version of the Valentine festi
val is putting a year's worth of
cupld business on the lucl; of
the draw, much like placing
the whole bankroll on the nose
or one horse. If the nag doesn't
come in. you'd be broke, but
Rood. I dare say the youth of
Chaucer's day looked around a
bit, in spite of custom, provid
ed the draw didn't suit,
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As is generally acknowledg
ed. St.. Valentine's Day gets its
name from a Roman Christian
who was expert in converting
the pagans of his day. Comp
ton's thinks that the start of
Valentine's Day was an ef
fort of Christians in Italy to
make "proper" a holiday the
pagans already celebrated, to
wit. the feast of Lupercalia
Supposedly. the Christians
couldn't halt the custom, so
like modern folk, they compro
mised. But Compton's won't
guess on the start of the greet
ing business, saying "none
knows."
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Another reference work, cor
roborates the St. Valentine
story, from the standpoint of
origination, and further adds
the note that St. Valentine
was a Bishop of Rome. He was
so eloquent of speech and able
in persuading the pagans to
Christianity that he made the
Emperor jealous.
Another check made by the
medicinal department led to a
children's book called "Really
So Stories," by ElizabetA Gor
don. Though she doesn't relate
how the greeting card business
started, she do*s say that it
had nearly diea out, until a
New England lady named Es
ther Howland, of Worcester,
Mass.,, received a lacy Valen
tine greeting from a friend in
England. Miss Howland figur
ed she could make some mon
ey out of the business of mak
ing and selling Valentine
greetings. Needless to say.
Miss Howland did ail right,
and the Hallmark folk, and
other card makers, will- prob- (
ably be in her debt forever. ,
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Miss Gordon added another
note on old St. Valentine him
self. Not reported by other
sources, but delineated in ,
"Really So", was the state
ment that the jealous emperor
used his royal prerogative to
have St. Valentine's head
chopped off, a sad end foi the
old boy in the year" 270 A. D.
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Thus we nave Valentine's ,
Day, with its symbol of Cupid |
as the leading figure, and |
young folk . today are still
drawing names, posting Val
entines and using the excuse
to wax romantic.
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Older folk remember Valen
tine's Day, too. Older men had
, better. However, it's not greet
ing cards their ladles want,
but candy, or hose, or Jewelry,
or some other suitable person
al gift. Failure to purchase a
valentine ? decorated gift item
is a dangerous risk of a trip to
the doghouse.*
A Valentine verse for male
spouses:
Roses are ted, violets are
are blue
Buy some candy to take to
the shrew.
She'll relax her vigil, think
you are fine;
It might earn a night's free
dom from the clinging .vine. ,
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THIS BUSINESS OF I
RECREATION
(Forest City Courier )
A graphic concept of the
amounr of the American tax bill
can be grasped from a compari
son of the amount of taxes paid
last year with the cost of food for
the 150 million American people.
Statisticians report that the
United States spent 52 Vi million
dollars for food.
Taxes for all units of govern
ment totaled $57 million.
These facts do not necessarily
mean that either taxes or food
are higher than inflation would
normally force these costs. It
merely shows how much of the
national income is consumed by
government expenses. There was
a time in the history of the coun
try's economy when a worker be
lelved that if he could get suffi
cient money to feed his family,
he would not have to worry too
much about the cost of govern
ment.
That time has passed. Perhaps
there will never be a return of
s\ich conditions. Governments are
doing more things, performing
more serviecs for more people
than ever before. On its fsce that
may seem be t -ogress, but it
tends to bring about a condition
in which the individual depends
less on himself and his own ef
forts and initiative than op the
state. The farther along this road
we travel the nearer will be our
approach to the Sbcialism of Eng
land and ultimately the Commun
istic system of Russia.
Both bring dictatorship. The
initial steps in this direction are
bureaucratic directives for the
regulation of the economic life
of the people. Many Americans
got some satifaction Over the vic
tory of Churchill and his party
In England, but time will show
that there is little "Winnie" and
his crowd can do to unscramble
the Socialistic egg the English
people voted on themselves when
they elected. a labor group to Par
liament. Britishers have merely
swapped one set of bureau bosses
for another. The regulations, im
posed from above, will continue
doing business about as usual.
There is a direct relation be
tween the percentage of the na
tional earnings paid in taxes and
dictatorship by government bur.
?aus. The public overlooks that
despite the. fact that most people
accept the truth of the old maxim
that "he who pays the fiddler
palls the tune." When the govern
ment and its officials control the
expenditures of a third of the na
tional income, it means that these
same officials must regulatfe the
jpendlng of the balance in order
to insure that they can continue
to get their take from earnings.
Demonstrations to test the life
if treated and untreated fence
posts have been set up at the
:ounty fair grounds in Craven
fcnd Beaufort counties. They are
the first such demonstrations to
be started in North Carolina.
The new Maryland No. 1 breed
of hog which was established in
1941 carries approximately 62 per
rent Landrace and 38 per cent
Berkshire blood.
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TAXES AND FOOD
(Lincoln Timbs)
During the year 1950, more
than a quarter of a billion dollars
was spent on recreation. Private
financing accounted for only four
per cent of the total, which of
course, means that the taxpayer
is playing the biggest role In the
multimillion dollar recreation
business.
According to the mld-oentury
edition of the Recreation and
Park Yearbook published by the
National Recreation Association,
there were only about a dozen
cities in the nation that had play
grounds for small children at the
turn of the century.' Now the na
tion boasts over 24 thousand play
grounds. recreation building, and
other indoor centers.
Early playgrounds had only a
sandbox, swings, seesaws, and a
bench for mothers. Now some
communities have bathing beach
es. archery ranges, bridal paths,
camps, gardens, nature trails,
shooting ranges, outdoor theaters
and toboggan slides. The import
ance of proper recreation is thus
being realized in America's cities.
From the report, It appears
that swimming centers attract
the largest gross attendance, with
softbail diamonds, picnic areas,
and zoos following in that order.
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Bites Conducted
Fox H. ML Dover
Funeral services for Robert
Marion Dover, 85, ol Grover,
route 1, were conducted Friday
afternoon at 3 o'clock from Pleas
ant Hill church.
Rev. Lawrence Roberts officiat
ed, assisted by Rev. E. M. Smith
and Interment was in the church
cemetery.
? Mr. Dover died at his home
Wednesday at 8 p. hi. He had
been ill sine.: September and ser
iously ill for three weeks.
Before his retirement, he had
operated a farm. He was a broth
er of the late John R. Dover, of
Shelby, founder of Dover Mill*.
He.was a native of York. S. C.,
and moved to Cleveland county
In 1874. He wu a member of
Pleasant {1111 Baptist church and
for Several year* he was superin
tendent of the Sunday School.
Mr. Dover i* survived by his
wife, Mrs. Rebecca Lowery Dov
er; his stepmother, Mrs. Jane
Dover, of Shelby; five son*, Bob
by Dover and Hugh Dover, of <
Kings Mountain, route 2; William
T. Dover and Carl P. Dover of
Dover Mill and Brady Dover, of
Grover, 'route 1; and a daughter,
Mrs. Max Ponder, of Orlando,
Fla.
Also surviving are 12 grand
children; one great-grandchild; a
half-brother, George Dover oil '
Shelby; and a half-sister, Mrs.
Herman Holcomb.
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