The Kings Mountain Herald
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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 Thursday by the Herald Publishing House
Entered at second class matter at the poetofHoe at Kings Mountain, N. C, under Act
' - _ - ? . ? of Congress a< March 8, 1873 ,
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Harmon .................... ... . . .... .................. .. Editor-Publisher
Charles T. Carpenter, Jr. . .......... Sports, Ctrculatioii, News
Mrs. P. D. Herndon Society
Mrs. Dot Ham ........ ... . . . . . . ... .. . . ; ....... . . . . . . . . Advertising, News
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
Eugene Matthews Horace Walker George W. Gaynoc Ivan Weaver*
Charles Miller Paul Jackson
(? ? Member of Armed Forces) -
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
For there stood by me this night the angel of God. whose I am. and whom. I serve.
The Acts 27:23.
Important Year
A year ago yesterday, on April 2, 1951,
Kings Mountain Hospital opened its
doors to receive patients for the first
time. Since those 366 days* the hospital
has listed as patients almost 1,200 per
sons, an average of 100 month. Not in
cluded in the figures reported last week
are the many people who received emer
gency first aid and other services not
serious enough for admission. Neither
was there estimated the many miles of
travel saved families of the ill in visiting
their sick.
As important as any figure mention
able was the small net operating loss
shown by the hospital during its first
nine months of operation, which totaled
only $331.66.
Business Manager Joe Dixon told the
Herald that some of the trustees had
figured the hospital would be lucky to
get by the difficult first year without a
loss of at least $6,000. On that basis, the
hospital should have lost $4,500 in its
first nine month's.
Its good financial showing is attribut
able to two factors: 1 ) the good manage
ment, it has received, a credit to the
county hospital board of trustees, the
business manager and the staff; and 2)
the acceptance of the hospital as the
reputable institution it is by the citizens
of Number 1 and 5 Townships, the peo
ple the hospitai principally serves.
It has been a ijood first year at Kings
Mountain Hospital and, with the forth
coming opening of the Lottie Goforth
Memorial- Wing, plus the constant addi
tion of new medical equipment,- next
year, and the next, and the next promise
ever-improving service and benefits to
the citizens of the Kings Mountain area.
Good When Needed
In the staters' unemployment compen
sation fund- ..is-" 8172, 000, (XX), .which is a
sizable sum ol money.
It is suffieie ily sizable, in fact, that
the provisions of the employment securi
ty law make it possible ro cut the rate
which North Carolina employers must
pay on 1952 payrolls,
The employment security law can be
pretty wonderful, as has been seen in the
past nine months when textile orders
have been hard to find. Employer and
employee alike hope the tax rate can be
scaled down again at next re-figuring
time. - '
Many young folk go off to college and
forget why they're there. Football Sat
urdays, dance weekends, and other ex
t ra-curricufar activities sometimes get
the tail to wagging the dog to the. point,
that scholastics suiter. Thus it is always
a pleasure to commend those who keep
their eye on the principal reason for col
lege training. The latest of those to dem
instrate this 20 20 vision is Rill Amos,
son of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Amos, who has
been elected to membership in the Wake
Forest chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
From 'a Herald news story last week:
" in the past, Kings Mountain has had
a higher percentage of response to the
Easter 8ea! campaign than any other
section of the counts " It's another tri
bute to the, liberality of Kings Mountain
area citizens. '
Our hearty congratulations to the five
new members of Kings Mountain High
school's National Honor society. They
are Cornelia Ware, Ann McKelvie. Joyce
Biser, Delores Davidson/and Gilbert Mc
Kelvie. " ?
City Mess
The finding of a true bill against three
members of the City board of commis
sioners on charges of unlawfully cancel
ling a debt owed the city by Fred J.
Wright, Jr., and J. Elmer Rhea, came as
a surprise in many quarters.
Just about everyone thought that the
pressing of charges, involved that old
bogey man "politics", and they thought
the grand jury would think it, too.
Perhaps the grand jury did.
However, as the Herald understands
the antiquated court procedures, the
grand jury is bound to find a true bill
unless there is no question of doubt but
that the charges are spurious. Another
factor involved is the fact that failure of
a' grand jury to return a true bill on a
particular matter does not mean that a
matter is closed. It can be ? and fre
quently is ? opened by successive grand
juries. . ? . ' . ' . -
Once a criminal charge is not sustain
ed in Superior Court, the matter is clos
ed and the person charged cannot be
tried on the. same charge again.
The debt -cancelling matter has many
shades to it. It concerns the sewage in
stallations made by the City of Kings
Mountain in Davidson Heights, the
agreement between the City and Wright
& Rhea, as evidenced by the minutes of
the city board of commissioners, the
compiling of the bill of charges for the
city's work, over which there was and is
considerable dispute, . and the subse
quent action of the current administra
tion, by 3-2 vote, in cancelling the excess .
of charges in question. That is the boil
ed down history of the issue.
The Herald has no intention of trying
to prejudice the courts in any way, but it,
is no secret that control of the board, at
least for the remainder of this' admini
stration's term, is among the prizes
sought by Mayor Garland Still, chief of
those pressing the charges, before the
grand jury,
One fact also is paramount, it seems
to the Herald. Sewage service is a "fro?"
service of the city, and the city has a
moral obligation to furnish it to every
one of its taxpayers. .
The city never has enough money and
the practice has been followed to split
costs of large installations, it the proper
ty owner petitioner- is willing and the
board, can fipd its share of the money.
? The "trading with himself" charges !
against Mr. Davis undoubtedly- also has
many varying shades.
It should be pointed out, in fairness to
the defendants, that their indictment
merely means that trials on the charges i
will be conducted. In' the United States
courts, defendants are innocent until
proven guilty.. . j
Our best bow to Mrs. Louise Hughes
Martin,, newly installed Worthy Matron,
and to J. C. Bridges, newly installed '
Worthy Patron, of Kings Mountain chap
ter, Order of Fastern Star.
I
The Red Cross quota has been increas
ed. due to the six-state tornado disaster.
A word to the liberal is sufficient.
When you buy ,for Faster, buy at
home. Kings Mountain merchants have
well laden inventories of the many items
of apparel and gifts customarily requir
ed at Faster! ime. When you buy at home
you help yourself. '
Attend the senior class play Fridav '
night.
YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events
THIS WEEK taken from the 1942 files of the Kings Mountain Herald.
Cleveland County's three com
missioners entered their bid for
re-election by filing formally their
candidacies with the newly ap
pointed county board of elections.
Haywood E. Lynch. Editor of
the Herald made a talk Wednes
day afternoon to members of
Park Grace Parents-Teachers As
sociation.
The local high school debating,
team defeated Mooresville and
Newton teams. Friday, March 27
in the annual triangular debate
which is sponsored each year by
the Extension Division of the Uni
versity of North Carolina.
SochiI and Personal
Miss Grace Davis and Mrs.
; George Blalock entertained mem
I hers of the Rebecca Class of Cen
| tral Methodist church at fhe home
of Miss Davis at the D. L. Saun
ders residents on Grace street
Wednesday.
1 Mrs. M. A. Ware was hostess
to members of the Kings Moun
i tain Chapter United Daughters of
the Confederacy at her home last
j Friday, a fternoon.
Mrs. George Lattimore enter
jtained members of her bridge
club and guests to make up two
tables on Tuesday afternoon. I
Johnnie Elam. who is stationed |
in Florida with the U. S. Army
spent the past weekend at home.
Mrs. J. B. Falls will visit her
husband in Portsmouth. Va., for]
Easter.
Mrs. J. G. Winkler returned
Friday from a ten-day visit to Sil
ver Springs, Maryland and Wash
ington, D. C.
Mr. Wilson Griffip of E. M. L. i
Salemburg, N, C? will arrive!
home today to spend tne Easter )
holidays with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. E. W. Griffin.
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MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
Br Martin Harmon
?' ' ? .-???? 1,
Ingredient*-, bit* of uetot,
wisdom, humor, and comment.
Direction*: Take weekly , if
possible, but avoid
overdosage.
It's April
The bees are buzzing, the
tree* are flowering, and young
men's fancies are turning more
actively, If possible, to thoughts,
of LOVE. Tuesday was April
Fool's Day, and I trust the
pranks were up to par. Can't
help but wonder if super-sonic
jet propulsion has hit the April
Fool's day pranksters, too, or
whether the old trick of push
ing a lad over a bended mate is
still In vogue.
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Personally, considering the
1952-model youngster, figuring
he is just as imaginitive as any
of his forbears, and being cog
nizant of the advance of
science, it is rather easy to
guess that on Tuesday there
were practiced throughout the
commonwealth some new varia
tions on old April Fool themes,
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April Is a nice month, even if
it showers. I have not checked
with the weather man to deter
mine whether the old adage
about April showers applies to
Piedmont North Carolina, but
even if it does, the showers are
usually of short duration. Mer
chants do a thriving business in
raincoats, umbrellas and other
accoutrements, and good advice
to ladyfolk Is to be sure that
their new cotton frocks are
sanforized.
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None who had the bitter ex
perience at one of the early
horse shows here will need the
pre-shrinking advice. It was at
the last of the war and goods
were scarce. Any ojd rag could
be sold and some were. Several
ladies at the horse show, caught
in a spring deluge, ran up the
street holding their dress tails
down. The shrinkage had be
gun, and the holding-down was
n't very successful.
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On the basis of rainfall thus
far this year, April shouldn't be
too much of a showering month,
During the equinoctial rains
weekend before last, the ground
soaked -up quite an amount of
water. A number of people got
a tickle out of the Dixie Theatre
marquee listing which read
j "Cloudburst". 1 haven't checked
I with Charlie Cash to see wheth
er rain helped, or hurt, his busi
! ness on "Cloudburst". -
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j The nicest part about April
i in Kings Mourtfain, and in this
whole section, is that the com
plete changeover is made from
winter to spring, Motorists ord
I er up lighter weight oil from
I their service station operators,
[ men get to shed their vests and
women shed their hose and cor
1 sets (except for "dress ocea
| sions). Ifs really a shedding
I season.
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j It's the time of year that the
1 by ways make a li vely weel"?nd
i afteri.obn drive. rastUres are
i growing green. land is freshly
| tilled, the air is fresh and the
sky's blue. The sap is up in the
trees, and something akin to
the process happens in people,
too. They throw off the winter
tin. e 'fthargy and want to do
[ something. "Old men", as I
have heard some golf widows
call them, head for the golf
course or other sporting marts,
and the lady-folk, themselves, '
start putting the ' pressure on.
for a re decorating job in the
kitchen, and an upholstering
job in the livihg room. The soap
manufacturers profit, too. from j
this general re-awakening, for j
the sun shows that the dark
spot in the comer and on the
Venetian blinds is just plain
dirty
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Change of season is one of
the nicest times of the year, and
I l>elieve I'll cast my vote for
spring; along 'with the school
boys and girls, who can smeU
vacation season just around the \
corner, even if it is a couple Of |
months away.
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This year, April not only
meatis lightweight clothes, the !
crack of the baseball ba' the |
just-returning white sidewajl
tires, and the gamboling on the
green, but it means Easter, too, j
a hallowed season of spiritual ?!
rebirth.
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Easter 'is "later" this year, a
benefit to merctiant and custo
mer alike. When Easter is early,
the merchant has a short sell
ing season, and spring business
is sometimes not all that could
. be desired. A "late" Easter hot
only gives the merchant more
time to sell his goods, but the
customer more time to get up
the money to pay for the lady's
new bonnet, suit, hat. bag and
gloves. Of course, the male
usually manages to get up
enough to handle the aforemen
tioned female appearel items
anyhow, but with a late Easter,
he has a better chance of sport
ing a new hat or pair of shoes
himself, In teh annual Easter
parade.
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It's nice to have spring back.
And, Just ae a reminder, even
though Easter is "late", it's
only 10 days away.
| CROSSWORD ? ? ? By A. C. Gordon
ACROSS
1? To perceive wrongly
1 1 ? Further; remoter
1 2 ? Compote direction
14 ? It situated %
1 5? Latin connective
16? A Uandard of
perfection
f7? Chemical tymbol fot
tantalum
It? Bone
19? Breeding horte
20 ? Language peculiar to
a people
12? Part of a bridge
* 3? Part of verb "to be"
14? A dittinctive doctrine
26 ? Re la net
2 7? Behold
29? Beatt of burden
30? Dance ttep
3 1 ? Spanr.h affirmative
32 ? Prrttet
33 ? Humor
35? Chemical tymbol for
cerium
36? To acofl
Gt tetal I nlere it
38? A fragrant oleoretin
40? -A kind of Jfrult dis
tilled into a drink
41? Like
42? Feminine suffix
41 ? Something that tervet
at a symbol
44? -Indefinite article
4 5? Bough
47? Comparative tufhx
48? To declare openly .
50? Nothing
? I? Stale of thining
brilliantly ..
DOWN
I?A great number , ,
?fl ? One of Homer's great
ep*c stone*
J ? F< minine abbrevia*
lion for ' saint"
4? Variation of tht prefix
"et"
5? -Two thingt of a kind
(abbrev.)
. 6 ? Paitrtes
7 ? Decay
6 ? Comparative suffix
4 ? Suffer t patiently
0 ? Want
J? That may be grouped
or segregated
,$ ? Repeat*
1 ? State of being left out
9-HSponith a/firmstive
1 ? Pronoun
2 ? Abbreviated
afternoon
3 ? Pottettive pronoun
5? Sea vcttel ? abbrev.)
8 ? Unrefined mineral
?--A ktnd of fish ipl.)
0? Greek letter
3? Per tonal pronoun
4 ? Part of verb "to be"
7? To exist ' ' .
9 ? To ape
0? Implement of fnow
travel t variation)
1? Soon
4? Thoroughfare
( abbrev.)
6? Tavern
>8 ? Man's nickname
9 ? War Department
(abbrev >
See The Want Ad Section For iThl? Week's Completed Puzzle
NEWSPAPER
OBLIGATION
(Ruthsrt?ro County News) '
The Opellka, Ala., Daily News
has demonstrated the facts that a
newspaper is obligated to print
the news of its community fear
lessly and fairly.
A few days ago the editor of
The News received a telephone
call from an advertiser who ob
jected to publication of the name
of a person convieteu of driving
an automoblie while intoxicated.
The abvertiser threatened to can
cel all his copy unless the convict
ed person's name was omitted.
The News printed the name and
the advertising was cancelled.
There the matter rests except for
i few ditys later in the editorial ;
columns. It read as follows:
This advertiser, we hope shall j
soon return to the columns of this
newspaper. The Daily News man
agement feels that advertising in
The Daily News pays off. We
don't consider an order for an ad
as a gift or a favor. .We regard
advertising space as merchandise
that We have for sale just as the
merchant has his stock-in-trade.
If there could have been any
possible way to omit the name in
volved in the DWI charges, this
advertiser's threat would have
blocked it. Ht>w could a newspa
per, under such circumstances,
maintain its self-rrspoct?
We don't make the new? we
print it. If a man is convicted of j
! driving while intoxicated, that is '
clearly news.
The Daily News has no person
al grudge to cause it to report
these cases. Like others, it feels
i a compassion for those un for tun
j ate ones involved. In every case,
we wish it had' not happened. We
wish, too. there was something we
coukTdo to prevent it . from ever
happening agflin. '
j LETTER I
TO THE EDITOR
FREE SPEECH
Looks like it's a sort Of hard
| job for me to get some of you
folks straightened out oh this
free speech business. To begin
with, there Is in .North Carolina
all the freedom of thought,
speech, and action that anybody
in the world could ask. I have
been in these parts for more
years tha.n I like to admit, and I
have never heard of any fellow
wanting to say his say' who
couldn't do it.
Of course, if you are connected
with a college, church, newspa
per. or dny other Institution
which is responsible for your ac
tions or your meal tickets, and
you take a, notion to say and do
a lot of things contrary to the
policies of that institution, then
you ought to resign. And make
no fuss about It.
Maybe what you want to say
ought to be said. Maybe it is the
truth. Your first loyalty is to the
truth as you see the truth. But
the other fellow must be free as
well as you.
You have no rigtit to make him
responsible for your words, or
itable for ymrr support, while
you are busy tearing down what
he Is trying to build up.
This is Just plain common
sense, and ordinary justice.
If you have a burden on your !
soul and want to get Jt ?*f.
ply arrange for the performance
in such a way that no one is re
sponsible for it eiecept you. and
then go to it. Then we will all
see to it that you are unmolest
though we may not believe a
word you say.
You may confidently tell the
I NO SPLIT HERE
(Chatham Ne\vs>
Every time we hear a public
speaker mention the city-rural
split, real or imaginary, we be
come increasingly thankful that
such a split exists here only in the
minds of little people who try to
create a .cleavage where none
exists solely to further some per
sonal aim.
In Chatham County we are all
rural whether we actually live on
a farm or in one of the towns that
dot tiie countryside. Our aims are
similar and we are dependent on
one another for all future devel
opment.
Let's take a look at our indus
tries. They can, possibly, bo called
"citified" but their dependance
for workers is on the men and wo
men who do not necessarily live
"in town" but live on the farms.
And farm folks can thank their
stars that these industries are
among us- -because they afford
gainful employment to many men
and women whose incomes make
farm development possible.
It is apparent, therefore, that
there is not and never will be, ftny
real split among our people. Dis
agree they may but not for long ?
because pur goals are the same ?
and even our methods.
world that thought and speech
and action are as free as the air
here in North Carolina.' I
Man ley R. Dunaway
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