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
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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 <about the
monthly utilities bill is to fuss about
how high it is, and plenty of people in
dulge themselves in the pastime, even
though it seldom does any good.
Many people do note the upward
creepage of the grand total, seldom re
membering about the electrical addi
tions in their homes. Scads of electric
stoves, water heaters, radios, television
sets, big-watt bulbs, washers, ironers,
and similar electrical appliances have
been sold during the past decade. Ob
viously, the power bill for most folk hu3
gone up.
At the moment, an electrical engineer
is earning some of the city's money by
studying the city rate schedules. He is
to furnish the city recommendations on
rate revisions with an effoi . to obtain
equity.
One example used by Max Miller, the
engineer, was quite interesting. Through
use of a heating or cooking appli
ance, the customer can use 200 watts
for less money than others pay for 100
watts. This hardly seems fair.
Who is at fault? Probably no person
or groups of persons in particular. Jt is
quite natural that changing times and
new inventions can make a rate schedule
which was equitable in 1930 or 1935 out
dated and unfair today.
Since Mr. Miller's instructions are to
'prepare a rate schedule which will re
turn the same gross income to city cof
fers. it is obvious that the power bill of
some customers ? will go up, whereas
others will come down. Not reported in
last week's Herald news story concern
ing the rate study was Mr. Miller's off
hand remark, "Your merchants sure do
pay plenty and I don't see how they
stand it." No question about the mer
chants 'agreeing with this statement.
It's another effort at catching the will
o the wisp called equity, always a hard
fellow to capture.
But from the initial example cited by
Mr. Miller, it would appear that ttie ef-'
fort is liVuch in order and will be appre
ciated by fair minded citizens.
Saving To Spend
The Associated Press reported last
week that the American people saved a
total of $13 billion during 1951, a sharp
increase over the amount they saved the
previous year.
The figure amounted to about $325
per three-person family.
Most people save to spend, even
though they sometimes change their
minds. After a particular saving goal is
reached, the thoughts of the long period
required in reaching the goal sometimes
makes the originally desired merchan
dise lose some of its lustre.
But saving a portion of earnings has
never been foolhardy policy. Regular
saying provides an individual with inde
pendence ht? cannot otherwise obtain,
regardless of the inalienable rights
grante I legally by the Constitution.
Incidentally, the person who failed to
save SHI last year is below average.
Now Governor Stevenson won't run.
it begins to look like the national Demo
cratic convention may become a greater
dogfight than the Republican fracas.
Both parties meet in Chicago. A city
which lived through the great fire, a
World's Fair and Al Capone can proba
bly take the political bombast in stride.
10
YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events
THIS WEEK taken from the 1942 files of the Kings Mountain Herald.
A field of 20 candidates for the
17 county offices squared off last
Saturday as filing lists closed for
the spring primary to be held Sat
uiday. May 30.
T. V. Hill began his dtities as a
member of the Kings Mountain
Police Department Tuesday night,
according to Chief Jimmy Byrns.
Social and Personal
Mrs. Haywood E. Lynch and
Mrs, Aubrey Mauney left Tuesday
to attend the State Convention of
the N". C. Federation of Woman's
Clubs to be held at the George
Vanderbilt Hotel in Asheville.
Mrs. O. P. Lewis and Mrs. J C.
Williams recent bride were
honor guests at a most delightful
bridge party at the Woman's Club
Saturday afternoon when Mrs.
Hugh Ormand and Miss Mary
Mitchell entertained guests mak
ing up ten tables.
Mrs. Grady Patterson was hos
tess to members of the Study club
entertaining at her home on Gold
street Tuesday.
Announcement has been made
of the marriage of Miss Mary
Dean Allen, daughter Of Mr. and
Mrs. Will Allen of Kings Moun
tain, and Mr. Runne Sw^nnson of
Shelby. The marriage took place
April 12.
Mrs. Paul MoGinnls spent sev
eral days in Shelby visiting her
sister.
Wendell Phifer, who has been
in training at Aubuquerque, New
Mexico, has been on a visit to his
wife and parents in Kings Moun
tain.
Corporal Clyde L. Rhea of Fort
Benning, Ga.. spent an eight day
furlough with his parents, Mr,
and Mrs. G. A. Rhea.
MARTIN'S I
MEDICINE
By Martin Hanson
Ingredient t: .. bit* of net c?,
wisdom, humor, and comment.
Direction *: Take weekly, if
po**Q>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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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? Term popularly ap
plied to an American
soldier
43 ? Pertaining to one of
the continents
43? Old England (abbrev )
46 ? Popular term (or one
of the British lake
(two word*) '
49? Binding ribbon
50 ? Part of a ship
37 ? Prepoait'on
S3? English city
34 ? Latin conjunction
DOWN
1? Exclamation of
aMkracthae
1? Country of the
Weetern Nembphere
7 ? Greek letter
4 ? P**e>s<**y
9 ? Asiatic country
< ? Thus'
7 ? French city on Strait
of Dover
? ? Possessive pronoun
10 ? Pronoun
1 7 ? Pronoun
1 5? Man's n*me
17 ? Bay in the Indian
Ocean >
It ? Spanish (or mountains
19 ? European country
30 ? Prevarication
73? Rodeni
74 ? French river
26 ? Small child
77 ? 8ign of the Zodiac
>1 ? Sea near Oreece
$3 ? Lament
33 ? South European
country
37? Flexible
33 ? River In Kansas
39 ? Lost brilliance
41? Cabbage ^
43? Unit of measure
44 ? Chemical symbol (or
nickel
47 ? College decree
43 ? Shortened "standard"
49?' Toward*
31 ? Unit of precious stone
weight (*bbrev.)
"H*? 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.
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SERVICE
We Fill any Doctors' Pre
scriptions promptly and
accurately at reasonable
prices with the confidence
of your physician.
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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
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KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C.
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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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