The Kings Mountain Heiald 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 lta vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House Entered as second class matter at the poetofflce at Kings Mountain. N. C, under Act , of Congrass of March 3, 1873 IDITOB1AL DEPARTMENT ~ Martin Harmon ....... ........... Editor-Publisher Charlee T. Carpenter, Jr., . . . i . * .V. .... 1 . . ... . . &? . Sports, Circulation, News Mrs. P. D. Herndon ..... * .1 ? ? .? . ? ? ? ? ? > ? . . ? Society Mrs. Dot Ham ...yV.-. V ...... Advertising, News MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Horace Walker Georg* W. Caynoc Ivan Weaver* Charles Miller- Paul Jackson ( ?- -Member of Armed Forces) TELEPHONE NUMBERS ? 167 or 283 ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES.PAYABLE IN ADVANCE . ? V \ OKEM'Mi *&90 SIX MONTHS- -51 .*10 THREE MONTHS ? 75c BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE The word* of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. ECCLESIASTES 9:17. V Polio Vaccination? Many newspapers gave much space last weekend to a news account of the seeming progress made by' the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and its researchers in the continuing fight against polio. v According to the news story, the scientists have been experimenting quite successfully with monkeys. They have found that a particular vaccina tion immunizes the monkeys against polio, even when heavy doses of polio virus are fed to them; The appeal of the Foundation is to pa rents to use the immunization on their children, or, at least, some of them, in order to make. the final requireed tests. Most parents will be reluctant to do this testing, and none could blame. them. However, it is a strong indication that dread polio, a nightmare for parents, may be licked in the near future. Science has minimized the danger and incidence of tuberculosis, of pneumonia, small pox, and many other diseases. Perhaps infan tile paralysis is next on the list for vir ? tual elimination. It's a reminder that research pays big dividends, and a reminder, too, that the fund drive for cancer, currently under way, aims to eliminate another dread disease. Giving to these organizations can be considered comparable to buying an in surance policy. Driver Education The note that Kings Mountain high School hopes to inaugurate a driver edu cation course' sounds like good sense. The increased automobile population means that a great many more teen agers are getting the opportunity to get under the wheel and speed down the boulevards and highways. And speed they do. There seems to be some inmate re quirement in a teen ager to get the last ounce of speed out of the four-wheeled carriage, regardless of vintage, and without any thought to the unpleasant and dangerous, possibilities which can and do occur. The safety experts report that driver education courses have proved- of. some benefit in lowering the accident rate among youthful drivers. If a life is saved thereby, the course in auto handling would quickly pay for it self. ' Our congratulations to Miss Marie Cobb, high school junior, who won the Cleveland County Schoolmasters read ing contest and thereby joins a long list of previous winners from Kings Moun tain high school. Senator Douglas has a point in his criticism of service pay regulations which provide extra pay for flyers and no extra pay for infantrymen being shot at. The American Legion requires more money in hand, if it is to field a baseball entry this summer. Baseball fans should make a donation at once, in order to as sure eontinance of the program. Nero fiddled while Rome burned. The bus companies fiddle while passengers burn, sun variety, or while they get soaked, tor freeze, according to the dic f\ / tates of'the weather. T Electrical Rates The easiest thing to do le, but avoid overdosage. Gum Battle The title above should not read "Gun Battle", and there lore is not ? typographical er ror. Nor does it refer to a ver bal Joust with friends or other wise, such as will be practiced right much during the forth coming months, as candidates argue with one another in an effort to get the biggest por tion of votes. . 9-m It refers to a little private war I had the other night with a discarded piece of "Blow-It" or some other brand of the bubble gum the youngsters de light to masticate. fl-m I slipped off to the movies to see the Fred Astaire show "Royal Wedding" and settled comfortably In my seat. The shorts were on and everything was going nicely until the bet ter half missed her pocketbook, which reminds that ladyfolk haven't learned, as men have, the benefits of hip and inside coat pockets for carrying regu lar necessities of life. Maybe they do recognize the practicali ties of these pockets, but even the few pockets in ladles' frocks and suits are only ornamental. A woman would never think of puting anything in these pock< i ets for the carrying would get the suit out-of-shape. 9-m Anyway, I did an on-the-dou ble trot, found the purse o. k., then learned there wasn't any thing in it but a couple of pieces of Kleenex, and the usual beautifiers sold by the cosmetic houses. 9-m So I settled again, in the same seat, but this time I set tled in a different position. Per haps It was the invigorating night air I'd been trotting in. Instead of reclining comforta bly in the seat, I sai up straight and true, like the physical ed teachers say one should for best health. This time, it wasn't too healthy. I felt a little lump under me, moved a little, and the lump "gave". Shortly, I .discovered that I was wallow, ing in a nice big blob of used bubble stuff. Needless to say, i the removal operation would have been interesting to watch, and I was glad to be at the last showing and that the customers behind me had already depart ed. I have no complaints against Claude Webb, but I would like to discover the youngster who was playing April Fool jokes out-of season. g-m How does one get bubble gum off trouser seats anyway? It's hard enough to scrape a blob off a shoe sole. g-m It was my second major joust in 30 plus years with the chil dren's delights I think I've told the tale before, but when I was a youngster I lost another gum battle. g-m Youngsters love to experi ment with any and everything, and chewing gum is no excep tion. particularly after the stir gar has been chewed down to dry elastic. Thus, it happened that I was experimenting in a very uncouth manner which would have been deplored by all my elders. What effect I expected to get by rolling the gum up the side of my face I hardly know, but that's what I was doing. g-m Needless to say. I rolled too far one time, and it wouldn't roll back. It was plainly stuck in the hair. There was heck to pay. The removal process, as I recall hard ru-bbing with a kerosene accompaniment, was bad "nough. Then there was the maternal ire to handle. g-m I don't recall that I immed iately forsook the chewing gum culti but the experience must have had some lasting effect. I never mess with the stuff any> s more. g-m Chewing gum still delights the youngsters of today just as much as It ever did. The little one-cent-required gum ball ma chines spotted about the city do a nice business, and a youngster doesn't have to be much past the crawling stage to get ex cited over the colorful gum menagerie which meets his eyes. The corner grocer still keeps a good supply of bubble stuff around, and Beech-Nut and Wrigley still are large names In the chewing field. g-m New on the list is chlorphyll g?im, an effort by the gum makers to capitalize on the new "dlscoveiy" by the toothpaste boys, which, according to re ports. Is getting a wide play from the tooth-brushing public. g-m I might try the toothpaste, but I believe I'll leave off the chewing gum. I might lose an other battle. \CHOSSWORp * ? By A, C? Gordon] ACROSS 1? Kind of electric current 3 ? European city 7 ? Roman 900 9 ? Pacific Island pafadise 1 1? Scene af the 1952 Olympic. / 13 ? Com pan direction 14? T art 10? Aerial train 1 7? North European tea -(posts) 19-ImMN 31 ? Oreek letter > 1 7 ? Flower ) S? Pollute >7? To m ? 7S? The tell (pom.) 19? Bold JO - Musical not* 37 ? Preposition 34? Either 3 5? Oeogiaphksl Nomen clature (abbrev.) 36 ? Shout 3 8? Simpleton 40 ? Measure o( area Scanning the Map 47? 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Want Ad Section For This WeekY Completed Pusxle Viewpoints of Other Editors HOW MANY PARTIES? (Smithf-ieU) Herald) . There once was an old lady who glued her postage stamps on upside down to show her Southern defiance of the Unlpn whose postage service carried her mall. Just such a spirit is showed by voters In the South who In sist upon voting Democratic year after year, whether they approve of the party's principles or not, says Alexander Heard in his new book, "A Two-Party South?", re cently published by the Univer sity of North Carolina Press. Author Heard believes that the one-party system of the South "is the wayward child of Ameri can politics" and that the South would have much greater In fluence in the nation if it had a strong two-party system, with both Democrats and Republicans making promises to the South in return for votes. With the present one-party system, the Democrats think they can get the Southern bloc of votes without promising anything. Republicans feel they have no chance at' the polls even if they promised every thing. * In 1948 there were so many Southern "Democrats" who re fused to go along with Truman and the Democratic platform that they formed the splinter Dixie crat Party primarily in hopes of throwing the Presidential elec tion into the House of Represen tatives. Based upon sectional pre judices and race fears, their cam paign drew a large number of votes through the Deep South but had little effect upon ra tional polic.'^. . If the Southern conservatives whose soc'tii and economic be liefs are much nearer in line with the Republican Party than with the Democratic Party could over come their reluctance to admit they are Republicans at heart and discard the frustrating at tempt to build up a Third Party, they might put their Influence, their money and their votes where they would really count. Let them join the Republican Party, vote their convictions, and do a real service to their states by giving the South a genuine two-party system. SPRING FEVER (Elkin Tribune) This Is the time of year when the red corpusles In the average citizen's veins begin to cruise around a bit faster and he feels the urge to get out and dig In the earth, dreaming of a bountiful supply of fresh vegetables as a re ward for his labor. In other words, this is spring, ami what if a few mornings are frosty, what if the ralnr come. They cannot last forever. Unfortunately, the urge to gar den is not always as permanent as needs be for best results. For instance, "the businessman who ac quires a garden plot will spend more money on garden tools, equipment, seed and fertilizer In one week than the results of his gardening would be worth in five years. And in too many cases, once the ground is dug and the seed are planted, that is about the end of that. For after the first glow of interest when the seed sprout and send up their first tiny shoots, the fishing season, and the baseball season, and the season of just plain laziness comes along, and if the good wife doesn't come to the rescue, what started out to be a prize vegetable garden will turn out to be an area of excep tionally large and well-pleased weeds. PRESCRIPTION SERVICE We Fill any Doctors' Pre scriptions promptly and accurately at reasonable prices with the confidence of your physician. Kings Mountain Drag Company THE REXALL STORE Phones 41?81 We Call For and Deliver TRY HERALD CLASSIFIEDS Dear Sirs: It has been called to my atten tion that a statement appeared in the Thursday ' issue of your paper to the effect that a Frank Cooke had been charged with dis orderly conduct and drunkenness and ordered to remain out of Cleveland County except in Cort matters. There are several Prank Cookes, Including myself, and It has caused me some embarras ment inasmuch as I am an attor ney, and the article inferred that it might have been me, and that the p&rty was ordered to stay out of the county except in Court matters. . I would appreciate it very much if you would publish a statement that it is not the Frank P. Cooke, Attorney, of Gastonia, North Car olina. ^ Yours very truly, - . ? Frank P. Cooke, Attorney at Law. Gastonia, N. C. (Ed. Note: Lawyer Cooke i* not the Frank Cooke ordered out of Cleveland County by Judge E. 4. Harrill in City Recorder's court on April 7. The Herald to glad fo make thle clarification.) Dear Mr. Harmon, Dr. D. F. Hord has been kind enough to forward the several issues of "The Herald" in which you published a series of articles on fluoridation and then your March 20th column "Martin's Medicine". I am sure that the articles will help your readers to understand more fully what fluoridation is all about. As for your "Medicine" column ? it was done with the pen of a master columnist. Td like to send some copies of K around There were 162,000 more per sons injured in U. S, motor ve hicle accidents last year than in 1950. Ninety-seven per cent ol drive rs involved In ? J51 accidents had at least one year of experience behind the wheel. There were 92 per cent more fatal accidents on icy roads last year than in 1950. , The fewer fatal highway acci dents last year in North Carolina occured on Tuesday and Thursday "My hair spring needs adjusting badly" ? We repairetj^g^^ the v^^-^watch wrote? "Feeling fine and running right on the dot" Expert repairing lirst, and then, scientific checking. When our work is com pleted, every watch writes its own record of the efficiency of our work ? through an amazing electronic instrument called the ... Corns in nnd have your natch tested ? FREE grayson's jewelry *!?*? Mountain Mtrdimti AiixittiM . mihkr mt _ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR... TOR RESULTS FEED Pinnacle Laying Mash We also manufacture: THESE PINNACLE FEEDS: ? Starting Mash ? Hi-Energy Broiler Mash ? lt% Dairy Feed ? Fig Starter ? Grower ? Big Hog Feed Tour needs with regard to custom mixing will hare our most careful attention. We can furnish most any protein concentrate such as Fish Meal and Meat Meal. Ask Tour Dealer Ware & Sons ' ? * > KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. ??..-A to folks In dental public health and would appreciate your send ing hall a dozen clippings of It. In the column you stated that "37,000,000 people In the U. S. are drinking fluoridated water". The real figure is something on the following order: a. People. receiving natural flou ride- bearing water (0.90 ppm or more) 4,000,000; b. People receiv ing flouride- treated water 6,000, 000; Total 10,000,000. Enclosed are some Items of In terest; Fluoridation ? North America in., and an excerpt from a paper on "Better Dental Health Through Water Fluoridation". De velopments In the field are quite rapid, so that figures are out-of date almost as soon as they leave .the press or typewriter. St. Louis has approved fluoridation and De troit has gone through a "first reading" with an affirmative vote. ' ; v,..v When we can combine a well rounded program of water fluori dation for communities with dis tribution systems, topical fluoride application in school areas where there are no distribution systems, establishment of the practice of brushing or thoroughly rinsing the teeth after eating, moderation in the use of sweets, and early and regular dental, care from the age of two, then we will be on the way to control of the dental health problem. Insofar as fluoridation is con cerned, the only thing we have to lose Is time. And however hack neyed?the more the delay, the more the decay. Best wishes and regards. Sincerely, Zachary M. Stadt, D. M. D. Dental Health Officer. 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