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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 its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House Entered as second class matter at the poctofflct at Kings Mountain, N. C, under Act of Congress of March S? 1873 EDITORIAL DBPABTMENT Martin Harmon ........ Editor-Publisher Chiles T. Carpenter, Jr. Sports, Circulation, News Mm. P. D. Herndon Society Miss Elizabeth Stewart . i.U i. . . .. . . . Advertising, News MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT ' \ Eugene Matthews Horace Walker David Weathers Ivan Weaver* Charles Miller Paul Jackson ('--Member of Armed Forces) ~ ~ TELEPHONE NUMBERS? 167 or 283 SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR ? f2.30 " SIX MONTHS? f 1.40 THREE MONTHS? 75c BY MAIL ANYWHERE " v : r : TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE ?> My son, despise not the chastening o} the Lord; neither be weary of his correction. Proverbs Not Long Now A good portion of the furore of months tantalizing the minds of the people of the nation and the world will come to a climax next week at Chicago, when Re publican convention delegates choose a nominee for president. As has been said repeatedly since the Republican debacle of 1936, when Alf Landon's electoral vote total against the late President Roosevelt was only that . cast by Maine and Vermont, the nation is remarking "the Republicans must win this year or go out of business". It's not necessarily true, of course, for the Re publicans have been able to keep their organization together through 20 years of extreme drought, when their only na tion-wide victory was the short-lived off-year Congressional election of 1946. It's a two-man horse race in Chicago next week, between Senator Taft and General Eisenhower. Yet npither of the faster horses may win- Just like the Ken tucky, derby, a dark horse may be the victor. Essentially, the Taft-Eisenhower fight is an underlying one between the Repub lican Old Guard and the "young Turks", or liberals, in the Republican party. A TaTt victory will mean that the nation has one more chance to reverse the trend toward a mere centralized govern ment while an Eisenhower victory will mean that the nation's left-.of-center course,, as promulgated by the Demo cratic party, w ill definitely be continued. Dewey; Lodge and the other chief Eisen hower supporters are much more liberal i it political thought than many a South ern Democrat. There has been much bombast, much nasty, rough in-fighting between the two leaders.. They have nad all the play. Republicans and Democrats alike will be glued to radio and television screen next week, an,d they, will read eagerly the reams of newspaper copy coming out with the convention hall dateline. Nat urally, the Democrats are hoping the C.Ol1 Will nominate ;l man they consider easy to defeat. The man the loyal Demo ' erats want nominated is Taft. The man the disaffected Democrats want nomi nated is. Eisenhower. What the Republicans do will have im'ich bearing on the Democratic con vention beginning In the same conven tion hall two weeks later. As the Herald ha.4* remarked before, Chicago should be Ike's biggest fight. Taft is the ,'avorite and has control of the convention. Popularity with the rank-and-file voter is helpful, but not imperative, in convention polities. Our- congratulations to Hilton Ruth, who has succeeded to the chairmanship of the trade promotion committee of the Kings Mountain Merchants association,. This is one of the association's most im portant committees and prior service by Mr. Ruth indicates that his -.tenure will be a successful one,. Many taxpayers have availed them selves the benefits of the law in taking a two percent discount on city taxes. It's a smart move, tor there's no use paying more 'axes than necessary at any time. Taxes take too big a bite anyhow Our heartfelt sympathy to the Harry family at Grover. Four grandchildren of Mrs. C. K. Harry, Sr., have fell victim to polio, another disease still baffling the best minds of< medical science. ? ? .1 ? _ * . ?> ; ? " Curbs Going Oil The Congress is making a shambles out of the weak excuse for a price con trol law, and many think this is a wise course. Too bad, some say, Congress doesn't scrap the whole thing. Most commodities are in plentiful sup ply, and few merchants, or manufac* turers, are able to obtain the top ceiling * prices allowed by the Office of Price Stabilization. The situation, of course, could qUickly change, should the nation get involved in all-out war, or should the steel strike drag out and result in using up of the backlog of this basic commodity. Al ready, Ford Motor Company is curtail ing production, but momentary peace in the steel industry is regarded as a near by probability. It is the nature of government to ex pand and expand, yet, when the need for an agency has expired, to.continue to hang on to it. How many political leaders bombard ed their Congressional representatives to retain VVPA in 1941, when it was ob viously long un-needed, would be almost impossible of counting. Thus it seems to be now with OPS. It was not true in 19-16, when the GOP Con gress' threw controls out the window and l,et the lid off the spiral staircase of in flation. But it is true today. Congress would do the nation and tax payer a service by torpedoing the weak, ineffective price controls law. lust 200 Pints The Red Bloodmobile returns Thursday and the blood collection com mittee, headed by Rev. Vance Daniel, seeks just 200 pints of blood for the bene fit of local area hospitals and for the boys in Korea. From the poir.t of view of previous col lections (the record is 166 pints), 200 pints of blood is quite 3 lot.. From the point of view of the population of Kings Mountain. 200 pints is not a great' a niount, even after deducting the over-l age. under-age, arid others whose blood is not acceptable. Blood is a life-giving, life-saving com modity that is in increasing demand ?ach .day, more and more uses for blood a rp being found to save the lives of the ill and the injured'. The big need is to have the blood on hand, for time is fre quently the all-important factor. Few older citizens have failed to ex perience an occasional frantic effort to find blood donors of the right blood type Sometimes the donors were found too late. ?? That is the big reason for the Red Cross bipod program, based on the tru ism. "A stitch in time saves nine". Visit the bloodmobile station at the Woman's Club Thursday. Drive safely thi,s weekend. Roads are crowded, and some drivers seem to have little respect' for the lives of others, or their own. The best way, they say, is to keep one eye on the road and the other cocked on the other cars, fore, aft, port and starboard. 1 Drop a check in the mail to Dr. O. P. lewis for the Lottie Goforth Portrait Fund. This late citizen gave everything she had for thy benefit of the communi ty. Furnishing a memorial portrait is little enough for a grateful community to do in paying her honor. YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events THIS WEEK taken from the 1342 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. According to Mr. J. ft. Davis, local chairman of the War Sav ings Bonds, the people in Kings Mountain art? doing their bit in buying War Savings Bonds and Stamps. Large congregations have been in attendance at the union ser vices being held in the five down town churches. SOCIAL AXD PERSONALS Mrs. Fred Plonk was hostess to members of the Home Arts Club and invited guests entertain ing at her home Wednesday even ing. Miss Carlyle Ware is visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs. Lamar Ware in Laurens, S. C. Charles Troy Carpenter left re cently for Fort Benning, Ga. where he will take Officer's Training Course. Rufus McGM of Charleston. S. C. is visiting his mother, Mrs. Laura McGill on Kings Street. Jim Everhart spent the week end in Granite Falls where he was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fortune. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Hannoe Ingredients: bite of newt, wisdom, humor, and comment. Direction ?: Take weekly, if poeeible, but avoid overdosage. Holiday Note* It's July Fourth holiday time, and most folk are taking ad vantage of It, one way or a nother. The heat of the pre Fourth season helped many an employee and employer to de cide that the mid year work sus pension Is a pretty wonderful thing. h-n Even the Herald gets a holi day, a happy result of July 4th hitting on the weekend. Last year. Independence Day found us "in the slot" putting out the regular edttlon. ? h-n Last weekend and the first of this week there has been a mess of travel activity, but not every one has plied the highways and byways. Many have assigned for themselves (or have been assigned by their petticoat gov ernors) home duties, such as cleaning up the yard, clipping the shrubery, or painting the house. Others have found a nearby lake to cool off or fish in. It's a good thing everybody doesn't decide to do the same thing. The world would be irt an awful mess. ? h-n Ballard Night: "Charlie Bal lard night" proved quite suc cessful from all standpbints. A big crowd of fans was on hand to honor the Kings Mountain baseball veteran, who has a long record which belies his actual age. As Plato Heavener, my neighbor in the stands, re marked at the game the other night. Charlie has been a "name" in baseball since he was . a youngster, starring on the high school and Legion teams here, before advancing to fast semi-pro and professional com pany. When the announcer in vited Kings Mountain fans to stand up, a big proportion of the audience did. Several folk behind me had remarked that "Charlie won't do no good to night. too much pressure on". But Charlie did all right for himself. The game was only minutes old before he had speared a heaven-bound throw from across the infield and adeptly tagged the base for what proved to a run-saving put ouf. Litter he doubled down the left field line and stole a base. It wasn't a bad night for a guy with the pressure on him. And Shelby won. to make the evening near-perfect. h-n Lincolnton. the enemy-of-the moment and the loser, had plenty of representation too. It is one of Shelby's arch-rivals; and players and fans have oc casionally mixed it up, fist-wise. Clarence Black was sitting in a crowd of Shelby folk who were evidently quite serious about winning the game. Until Clar ence cheered for Charlie Bal lord, he nad been eyed with considerable suspicion, he re ports. h-n Speaking of baseball, the Herald had an interesting ex perience recently. A former citi /eri who lives 300-plus miles distant telephoned one morning recently to say that he had noted in the Herald that the Legion Baseball Fund wasn t in the best of condition and that he wanted to help out, His method: "Find threo deserving youngsters who cant afford to pay to see the games, give them season tickets and send me the hill." His only condition was that he not be identified. The youngsters were found and they are deserving. One of the lads has a paper route, hut he is one of a family of twelve that has only one person earning a regular wage. h-n We thought it unique that a man would put himself to, that much difficulty to help a civic enterprise in his former com munity and quickly came to the conclusion that it more people, both those at home and at dis tant points, had the same kind of interest and put it into ef fect. Kings Mountain would really take off as a good com munity in which to live. - h-n I would like to identify the gentleman, but I promised I wouldn't. i h-n About the , only people I've run into not complaining about the long, mercury-bustin' heat wave has been the farmers, who, it would seem, got the hot test of the heat. Cotton farmers like it. for it works on boll wee .vil and other ruinous pests. h-n The fans and air-conditioning boys have had a banner season. If 1 were in the appliance bus iness in any way. I think I'd be laying plans ior a dealer ship. or two, on air-condition ing for next season. Five doll ars down and a couple of bucks per week have filled up the homes of the nation with wash Lucky You by Dick Shaw Lucky yon ? you other sit|e and reached the Viewpoints of Other Editors WE MOVE FAST Statb MaoaZinb Some of the highway ideas we are putting down in solid con crete are out-of-date almost be- j lore the pavement is dry. In the lobby of the Robert E. Lee in Winston Salem the other day, we ran into Getty Browning who was poring over an interesting-look ing map. It turned out to be one of a proposed super-highway to carry express traffic right through Winston-Salem. This speedway will replace the idea which Winston-Salem people have nurtured for some time of having a belt of truck highways around the city. "The by pass, as such,, is al ready out-of-date," said Browning. "You remember that 70 and 64, which by-pass Hickory and par allel the city limits for about six miles, originally was through an undeveloptd section. But what happened? Now business and res idences are- moving on the high way, lining it on both sides until the by pass will he the heart of a new area of congestion. The developments along these by passes are creating a lot of turn in and turn-out local traffic which is making. the by-pass .lust like any main street in a city." , The Winston-Salem speedway, on the other hand, will be a double-lane highway which will cut across town. The streets which now cross the right-of-way will either t^eadend at the new highway, or will follow secondary streets paralleling the highway, or will tunnel under or go over it. Access to it will be possible in the city, but the access streets will tap the super highway with ela borate .entries and exits which will include deceleration zone9. This means that motorists wish ing to turn off the superhigh way will first turn into a slow down lane near the exit intersec tion, thus permitting the rapid flow of through traffic past these intersections. The new houlevard is yet in pockets full of maps and his face Browning gets to town with his the talking stage, hut when Getty full of talk an.denthusiasm, it is a sign that steam shovels are not far behind. Murray Released To Inactive Status Mack Murray. W O J G. U. S. Afmy, Special Services Division, was released to inactive duty on June 1, and has returned to his home in Kings Mountain. He is now again active in ,the operation of his East kings Moun tain business, Murray's, General Merchandisers, which has been operated, in his absence, by his fathe. and sister. ? ', 1 Mr. Murray extends an invita tion to all his friends and. former customers to drop by and sec him. ing machines, radios, electric stoves and hot water heaters. The television population is growing and why not air-con ditioning units, at least in the bedroom? h-n Happy Independence Day! PRESCRIPTION SERVICE Ws Fill any Doctor** Pre scription* 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 WHO KILLED THIS MAN ? By Gene Tkammell It happens to hundreds. You sit in a small fox hole and all is quiet. Suddenly, you think that the whole world has been blown to bits. You could be up in a plane or a ship ? when it happens, it's all the same. You burn ? from the top of your head to the tip of your toes ? every muscle in your body draws and pulls at your brain. You don't know how badly you're hurt, you know only that you need help. You feel like you're going to scream with pain ? and sometimes you do. Then all is black. You come to for a brief second ?long enough to see the concern ed face of a medic. "You need blood," he says. "A few transfu sions." "A few transfusions" you think. You remember that before this raid your company was already short of blood ^.plasma. You rea lize that others were hurt before you ? that they, too, needed blood. You remember that your company's supply of blood was cut because the shipment from home was low. People "forgot" to go by the Red Cross at lunch Or ort the way home. Others were "scared." Don't they realize that we'ret scared too? You lie there on a dirty .cot, looking at the swimming sky a bove you, and you wait. You rea lize that they have sent to a di vision close by for more blood, but, perhaps belike yo-ir buddy gets back, he'll need the blood more than you do and still you wait. The pain! Will it never end! The throbbing in your head be comes more severe .your in sides feel as if they are going to burst ....... and then you feel nothing! All pain Is gone ? and you know why. Your breath gets a litle shorter, but that ter rible pain is gone. You sigh deeply ? and slip in to a peace that you've never known before. But as you leave all pain behind, one though domi nates your mind? But for a pint of YOUR blood I could have been home for Christmas. .? *y- /v?. PROTECT YOUR CLOTHES ? . . by having tham cleaned regularly at . . . WEAVER'S CLEANERS Phono S51-W aldrin Aldrin is the fast-acting, powerful, low-cost answer to your boll weevil problem. Quick Kills: If the weevil eats, touches, or breathe3 aldrin, he dies. Dead weevils show inside of two hours. Low Cost: Aldrin's Killing Power is measured in just ounces pel acre. That gives you weevil control at exceptionally low cost. ? m Easy-to-use ... as Dust or Spray: Aldrin handles easily m any conventional application equipment . . . comes in dust cr spray form. And aldrin's low concentration means less clogging of spray nozzles. BOLL WORMS? For highet t kills, use diddrin-DDT. This lethal combination has proveo < give best control of the profit-thieving bollworm as well as boil weevil. So, at the first sign of bollworm trouble, spray or dust with dieldrin-DDT. See your insecticide dealer now aldrin &dieldrin SHELL CHEMICAL CORPORATION P. O. Box 2099, Houston 1, Ttxat 80# William-Oliver Building, Atlanta 1, Georgia 1221 iocott Sfroef, St. LouU 3, Missouri ?Job Printing ? Phone 167 or 283? LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir: This year's Easter Seal Sale was perhaps the best we have ever conducted In North Carolina. While complete return* have not yet been received, we have strong reason tor believing that we will approximate or slightly increase our receipts over last year. The success of this campaign was due in no small measure to the excellent cooperation which we Received from you and through the lacilities of your newspaper. All of us who have any respon sibility for the activities of the North Carolina Society for Crip pled Children are grateful to you. You have made a contribution of tremendous value to one of the most appealing causes in our state. Cordially yours, President ? \ D. Hlden Ramsey In Accordance With The Proclamation Of The Governor First National Bank Willi Be Closed Friday and Saturday Inly 4th & 5th In Observance of Legal Banking Holidays First National Bank Member FDIC r
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