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The Kings Mountain Herald Established 1489 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 as second class matter at the poStofflce at Kings Mountain, N. C., under Act of Congresa of March 3, 1873 v- ^ EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT , Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr Sports, Circulation, News Mrs. P. D. Herndon ?. . . . . . ... . , . ..y?k . ?. . . . . Society Mrs. Dot Ham . .. . Advertising, News MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Horace' Walker David Weathers Ivan Weaver* Charles Miller Paul Jackson (?--Member of Armed Forces) TELEPHONE NUMBERS ? 167 ox 283 SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR ? $2.50 SIX MONTHS?fl.tf THREE MONTHS? 75c BY MAIL ANYWHERE :v ? TODAY.S BIBLE VERSE ' : To fvcry thing there is o aeaaort, and <i time to every purpose under the heaven. EccletUKStea 3:1. - Herald Policy Slightly more than seven years ago, when the present ownership acquired the Herald properties, it published a statement of policy as follows: "....one aim: to present to the sub scribers of the Kings Mountain Herald a gradually improving newspaper which will serve the interests of no par ticular group or Interest, unless that group or interest represents the will of the people of this city and its environs." The Herald has kept that pledge and will continue to keep it. Briefly, the Herald regards as its first duty the reporting of the news to its readers, now numbering more than 8,000. The news is sometimes unplea sant for individuals, concerned, and for the member of the Herald staff handl ing it. Tint handling the news on the basis of whether or not it is pleasant is not the Herald's concern. The Herald does not hate. It merely reports. Editorially, it may disagree or agree with individuals on public mat ters, but it does not hate. This con stant guard against pinioning individ uals or groups means that sharp dis ? agreement on one matter does not dis . color consideration of a future matter. The Herald naturally cocks the eye brow at a lot of things, for it: has learn ed by that great .teacher, experience, that it is most popular for individuals to use a newspaper to advance personal aims of .questionable character. ?The Herald of the past seven years has invested the major portion of its earnings in expanding its physical plant and staff to bring the community the type of newspaper it should have. The Ilerajd renews its pledge and un necessarily .reminds its readers that they get the news, as it happened, un-' censored and unexpurgasted, when they read the Kings Mountain Herald." Fashion Frolic The. Junior Woman's Club will pre: sent a fashion show called "Fashion Frolic'? at the Woman's Club Friday night, and pur guess is that it will be well-attended. Almost, all women .uv interested in becoming clothes, and Friday night's show is designed to demonstrate the latest fashions in what the well-dressed lady will wear H)!- suljmer. Children's wear will coiht in for treatment, too. The show i-- being presented in Co. opell'tion v\ ith the Kings Mountain Merchants association, and the .partici pating' uJJivlia'nts air' going ' all-out to demonslna I c What they have, in sum ivier apparel. l'.oeal, merchants have participated in fashion shows here before, but not for several year s. Fashion Frolic" is a worthwhile pro ject on the part of the Juniot Woman's Club; and one that should be presented a minimum of twice annually. Work is well underway on the Kings Mountain Kiwanis Club's annual horse show, and plans' announced last week indicate that it will be another fine show, popular with both spectators and exhibitors alike. Proceeds go to worth while community work. The club used its profits last year, for instance, to pur chase a needed piece of equipment for the hospital which has already been ere dited with saving the lives of several babies. Pre-Convention Fun Both Republican and Democratic presidential hopefuls aire continuing their campaigns toward the July con vention dates, and both sides are get ting a measure of the big headlines, particularly since President Truman stole the show and announced he was not a candidate for further residence in thfe White House. Taft forces are still in the lead, ac cording to the Associated Press tabula tions, and one commentator predicted the other night that he would go to the conventions with virtually enough first-ballot votes to win. Eisenhower forces cry a loud "no", ,?nd they are probably correct. However, it does ap pear that a ride on the Ike bandwagon does not overly-tantalize many Repub licans, and that Ike could be left at the post. The Democrats are at it, too, mainly two Southerners, Senators Russell and KefaUver, neither of whom is regarded as having much chance at the con vention. Senator Russell will have diffi culty getting, the Yankee votes, and Senator Kefauver, who can get some of them, can't carrv his Southland home folk. ? The odds still point to nomination of Ciovernor Stevenson, of Illinois, \Vith perhaps Senator Russell as vice-presi dentiaT candidate". With, the shadow of scandals and other ailments pointing up the most unwelcome spectre of de feat, it is quite likely that the South will get better treatment out of the Democratic convention than it has in many a moon. A lot can happen, of course, in the next two months. Leadership Civip organizations live, or die, or Jimp along or. the basis of their leader ship. For this reason, a particular organi zation may have. one good year, follow ed by an inactive one, or a series of good years, followed by a bad sequence. Yet failure to pass the positions of leadership around would defeat a por tion of the excuse for a civic organiza tion's existanee, namely, as a training ground for leadership. Two Kings Mountain organizations, the Junior Chamber of Commerce and American Legion, have ? new leaders. Joe Hodden has assumed the presiden cy of the Jaycee organization and Sam Collins of the American Legion. Both have served "sufficient appren ticeships to indicate that .prosperous active years are in store for both groups. Mr. Hedden and Mr. Collins are hard workers and have proved their in , teres*. These are the two principal re quirements for success in any ficid. Actiion by a government agency in removing bans on use of steel for cer tain types of construction indicates an answer to a principal question involved in the steel dispute. There must be a good bit of steel around, it the govern ment is allowing use of it in building recreational facilities. Our congratulations to Miss Dotty Smith, who has been elected president of the Greensboro College Spanish club. A best bow, too, to OUie Harris, elect ed by the morticians of the state to a five year term on the state licensing board. 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. The Spring Flower Show, spon sored by the Woman's Club was staged at the elub house last Fri day and resulted in a display of beautiful flowers despite the re cent continued drought. Following the custom the past several years Kings Moun tain stores and business hmises will close each Tuesday at noon beginning- with the First Tues day in June. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. B. N. Barnes entertained members of the Study Club at her home in her apartment on King Street The rooms wore at tractively Arranged with roses and larkspur. Corp. Humes Houston' who has boon stationed at Fort. Jackson has been transfered to Fort Ben ning, <T.a? where he will take the officers;! training course. Mrs. Paul McGinnis and two children have been on an extend ed visit in Burlington where they were guests of Kev. and Mrs. Boyd Hamm. Mrs. G. A. Bridges and Mrs. |D. V. Hord visited their sons at Wake Forest College recently. Miss Janie Davis of Earl spent the weekend with Miss Alda Jean Davis. \V. T. Grayson and Jimmle Har ris spent the weekend in Kings Mountain. Mrs. Lewis Hair has returned home after a visit of several days to Mrs. Warren Roberts In Gas tonia. Charles Alexander, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Alexander has completed his business course In AshevJlle and is now at his home ' here. ' MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Mart Harmon Ingredients: bita of newa, wisdom, humor, and comment. Directions: Take weekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage. Dinner Tallriest I suppose people talk as much as they ever did, some too much, some not quite enough, but th?" * ^e has changed somewhat. i d.t Time was when the bulk of talking Was done via the per sonal visit method, In the even ings or Sunday afternoons, but many report that this form has fallen by the wayside with the emergence of the automobile and the faster pace of living. Television, too, has been a bane to the art of conversation, a de velopment decried by many good talkers who have to squirm during an evening's en tertainment. Bridge is no good for conversation either. One friend of mine is very blunt about the matter,, having re marked several times In no un certain terms, "If we're gonna play bridge, let's play bridge. If we're gonna talk, let's talk, and I prefer talking." d-t Day of specialization in all things. ...... d-t' But one sure avenue to good conversation, including the usual business chatter, house garden-and-chlldren notes, and nostalgic tall tales which; like trees, grow with the years, is a dinner engagement. Conver sation between bites is still one of the prevailing arts of polite society, cafe and otherwise, even If it sometimes seems to vanish at the home table where Pa and Ma take each other fof granted and figure they haven't done anything all day worth mentioning. d-t Thus it was that conversa tion reigned surpreme over at Dr. John McGill's hou.-e the other night, and it was most pleasant for the medicinal op erator, who lists conversation as Hobby No. 1. d-t It was a session of ARP's, the Bill Fultons, Marriott Phi fers, and John Cheshires being also present, And I learned again, if I had forgot, that the ARP's are pretty good talkers, d't ? The only pictures we saw had ? no script attached, other than Dr. John's pleasant non-verbose comments. In addition to being a specialist at pulse-feeling, pill-prescribing and other medi cal arts,, the good doctor is also an expert with the color camera and demonstrated some of his photographic shots which he mad? while holding sick call for the army in Japan, not to mention a series of tempting numbers protographed during' the big snow of a few months back. 1 dt But the audience laughed most at John's shot of an office front of a Japanese chiroprac tor, who was not as modest in his advertising as Dr. L. T. An derson or others of his profes sion. The Japanese sign, in both English and Japanese, read: "Fracture - Contusion - Disloca tion - Wrench Bonesettinger. Y. Ishi"! John didn't admit to do ing business With Mr. Ishi. d-t The talk, as it would in such a group, turned, to - rtivitios -at trskine College, v. H >re a good portion of the ten folk, six by actual count, had attended school and thereby got an extra punch or two in their heaven bound ticket. (The tale goes that an ARP will have trouble with St. Peter, unless "he has visited, at least, Erskine Col lege, at Due West, S C.) d-t The tick st punching? of some of the group indicated possible derailment, however. As with the majority of college boys and girls, pranks and stunts held an uppermost place in their minds, and John Che shire confessed that a recent donation to the college was a payment, in a measure, for some coal he "borrowed" from the gymnasium pile while an undergraduate. d-t I would like to tell Marriott Phifer's "Wild Man" experien ces. but that is one of those . tales Which, like some of the rituals in fraternal orders, are permitted to be told only by word of mouth and then to persons by age and or scholas tic accomplishment above the status of beginning freshmen, at Erskine. But it's a mighty good tale; ask him about it. d-t Among other matters settled In the pro-dinner high level talks, as the diplomats and headline writers label them, was an argument I've been hav ing with the lady of the house, Who, at times, has taken excep tion to certain remarks made here about the nefarious activi ties of women in capturing hus band>t, My lady had made the raiii statement, after denying fully the charges, that, alter all, there were six women to every man anyhow. The other ladies helped me out somewhat by placing the globe's woman 1 crossword By A. C, Cordon ") Hi Ml ? m l Li ? M Mi Ml ii ACROSS I? To talk perauatlvely 6? Refer 1 1 ? Furthermore 1 2 ? Lubricate ' 14 ? Holdin? a po*ltioa at the apex i t J? To make a kind of lac? 1$ ? Oiva forth 1 T? Theological Education . Society (abbrcvj 15 ? Otrl'? name .. >0? Man of Uh hour tl? To contumt In a lit erary way >3 ? To rabe t J? Negative If? Prefts denoting ?urt GeneraliUet 39? Knock <0 ? Harvest 47? Nobleman 44? Debtor 46? Public transportation (abbrev.) 4 ?? Charge for admlMlon 49? Colloquial fori policeman 10 ? Chemical lymbol lot manganeee ? I? Scoffer* SJ-Paid attanttaA SS ? A I way* ? 50? Beverage ST? Obaerve ??Speak S9 ? Printer** i so ? lii'iu 31 ? U.S. aouthem (tat* I (abbrev.) -Rant i 15? Literary wJCt&on ? ?vIjown 1 -FrovMoo anowanee 1? Daah -Ptrfor 10? Kind of .alt (po*a ) 13? Roman numeral l?? Brftith -r* 30? Cut of meat 12? Combining form for "air" 14? Poetical "alwayt" 10? Bgai J*? OM'? nam* 30? Man'* nam* 31? High mountain >4? Detain* SI ? Pertaining to a Mg evert It-Potti' "abova" 31? Water vet**l* tfr 0? Either T ? Dntitute H natural covering -Thua -Want s=saa 40? To be 41? To 43? At all 43 ? Sorrow 4?? To cleave SO ? Apportion ft ? Man'* nam* 14 ? Small mark See The Want Ad Section For This Week's Completed Puzzle Viewpoints of Other Editors THEY BUILT. TOO (State Magazine) Trouble with ola newspaper people is that they think every thing has been written, and trouble with the fledgling is that he thinks nothing has been writ ten. It is not uncommon for THE STATE to get manuscripts from writers, beginning their careers, who complain irritably that the vast wealth of material on North Carolina has never been consider ed lor publication. Quite frequent ly they enclose Jpanuscripts on Subjects which have been covered by newspapers , in the state for generations. . This musing is prompted by some of the astonishment you hear about the line new resort accommodations going up around North Carolina. The fact is that with very few, if any, exceptions, the era of "great" resort hotels was over in North Carolina be fore this generation was ever born. We cannot recollect at the moment anything new which would touch in luxury, or at least in pretentions to splendor, such old places as Grove Park, May view Manor or Piedmont's Caro lina. Even before these appeared on the scene, North Carolina had a great day in the tourist business. Mitchell County never saw be fore, and will never see again, anything like the great Cloud land Hotel which perched high on Roan Mountain ur.til about 1906, when it was abandoned. They say this hotel had 268 rooms, spacious lobbies and ver andas, and huge fireplaces. Weal thy folks from all over America came to the Roan and stayed, not overnight and not for a week, but for weeks and months on end. Some of our ?c<?ders may have turhed off 61 and gone back to look in amazement at the grea*. .?ilk of what was once Toxaway Hotel, a place of 500 rooms, and even in its dilapidation, plainly showing that it was once a place of luxury and quality. There were others, some of them on a re duced scale, but all of them equal ing in their day and, according to the background of the tastes of that generation, anything which we have in this state now. Take a look at the old Balsam Hotel, at Fairfield Inn, and many more which are reminders that our grandfathers were plungers, too, and were perhaps bolder in their optimism than the motor court tycoons of 1952. Government tests show that a home sheathed with plywood is twice as strong and rigid as a house sheathed with diagonal boards. to-man ratio at about 1.5 to 1. But when I pointed out that the Bethware graduating class which received diplomas Mon day night Included about twice as many chaps as lassies, I re ceived this knowledgeable femi nine reply, "Oh, but mfmy of the girls get married when they reach the tenth grade." d-t Amen. HOW FRANCE LOST (Dunn Daily Record) Many a war has been callfed "the war of lost opportunities," but a good case could be made out for applying this title particular ly to World War II. A surprising revelation has just been made by Gen. Siegfried Westphal, Chief of staff for Rommel in North Af rica, Kesselrtng in Italy and Rundstedt, the ablest of the Ger man generals, in France. In his new book, "The German Army in the West," Westphal discloses that the French army, which col lapsed early in the war, could have won almost before the con flict started. For several months the French and German armies remained al most motionless, the French be hind the Maginot line, the Ger mans behind the West Wall, both supposedly impregnable. Neither barrier lived up to its reputation. According to Westphal, if the French had attacked the West Wall when the war started and the main German forces were tied up in the Polish campaign, they could have reached the Rhine in two weeks, and com pletely demoralized the German plan. Why did they not move? Partly because they were inadequately equipped, partly because their commander-in-chief, Gen. Baurlce Gamelln, was decorative and re sourceful when it was a Question of alibis, but completely lacking in drive. A Gen. Patton at the head of the French army could have broken through the over praised West Wall, and perhaps forced Germany to settle for peace. Instead; Gamelln waited for Germany to make a move. When she did, the vaunted French forces offered resistance only here and there. France was con quered, and regained indepen dence only through the efforts of her allies. Farmer cost of living in 1952 will be at lerit as high In 195L The purchasing power of farm ers' net Income probably will be lower than in any year of the last decade except 1950. IBB* HERALD WANT ADS GUARANTEED h?l? growth to to h? H?| aad ?pot*, aobt Atafi? -or motnj btck. AT D?UG AMD FEED STOHLS Distributed By HI MxIlclM Co. *. C. ASK F O * MAPPJ JACK ? *Oll? D'O .. WOUID For County Board of Education Ve\ For EDWIN MOORE ?etm Mrs. Saunders' Funeral Held Funeral services for Mrs. T. L Saunders, of Kannapolis, were held Saturday morning at Stan ley Methodist church, with the Rev. T. B. Honeycutt conducting, assisted by Rev. Rufus Cuthbert son. .Mrs. $aunders was a former Kings Mountain citizen and well known here. Burial was in Stanley cemetery. A former resident of Stanley, Mrs. Saunders, 74, died Thursday night In a Caburrus county hospi tal, following a heart attack. Sne had been making her home in Kannapolis with her daughter, Mrs. C. P. McXlnley, for the past two years. Daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Julius Gaston, member of the family for whom Gaston county was named, Mrs. Saund ers was the widow of T. L. Satm ders, who died six years ago. She was a member of Stanley Metho dist church. Surviving, in addition to Mrs. McKlnley are six sons, R. L. Saun ders, Rockingham, W. P. Saun ders, Southern Pines, L. A. Saun ders, Stanley, C. E. Saunders, Dallas, Tex., T. J. Saunders, South Boston, Va., and A, V. Saunders, Burlington; four sis ters, Mrs. Cora Klrks^y and Mrs. C. L. Spargo, of River Bend, Mrs. Betty Murphy, Miami, Fla., and Mrs. B. L. Bumgardner, of Shel by; and two brothers, Lester Gas ton and John Gaston, both of Stanley. Also surviving are 19 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. No! No! LET US FIX THAT OLD WATCH Is probably many of good. Nrric* in R If repaired by an expert craftsman AND THEN ELECTRONICALLY TESTED . ON A W# not only employ watchmakers who are skilled and long experienced . on problem watches, but we use quality replacement parts. ? then test all of our work electronically on our WATCHMASTER, a scien tific instrument which PRINTS a record, ? PROVING THE EFFICIENCY Of THE REPAIRS Dtmomd tkh protection. 4 GRAYSON'S JEWELRY HOME-OWNED W. Mountain St. Likes Sunrise Milk # Homogenized for Consistency . Pasteurized lor Extra Safety # BOUGHT AND SOLD in KINGS MOUNTAIN ? L Fiesta Ice Cream Good Anytime! An Ideal Dessert Or Mid-Meal Snack! Sunrise - ? , ? 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