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->< ?? , The Kings Mountain Herald Established 1889 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizen* 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 Congress of March 3, 1873 EDITOBIAL DEPABTMENT V Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr . ? /. Sports, Circulation, New? Mrs. P. D. Heradon , Society Miss Elizabeth Stewart Advertising, News ? MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT v' Eugene Matthews Horace Walker David Weathers - Ivan Weaver* V ' : . Charles Miller Paul Jackaon * 'V v " (;?- -Member of Armed Forces) ? '? ~ "TELEPHONE NUMBERS? 167 or 283 . SUBSCRIPTION RATES. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR? $2.50 SIX MONTHS-?UO THREE MONTHS ? 75c BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you, Ephesians v:S2. Utopia Arrived? The city bo?rd of commissioners final ly succumbed last week to a small thoug highly vocal minority of its power customers last week and put the knife to future power billings for each and every customer. The parings will be effective with No vember 1 billings and it is estimated that the city's revenue for. the remainder of the fiscal year will suffer by about $23, 000. The Herald has noted two principal, reactions to the rate slashes: 1 (joy from the minority which though itself pena lised; 2) Wonder from some businessmen as to how the board expects to get by the remainder of the year without show ing ;i deficit on its record-high anticipat ed spending. Generally, the outward reaction to t lib parings is favorable, for who can be angry at a.lowered bill of any kind? This does iiot apply to those who pre fer that the city keep its income from property taxes low and its "profit" from power sales high. ' With tight operation, the city should get by without showing a deficit this fiscal year by. t he medium of making up the difference with some of the $S5,000 surplus carry over shown at the end of the recent fiscal year. This amount was not included in the budget adopted by . the board. I'nless city spending is rather sharply curtailed, however, most of that surplus' will likely be eaten up, for the budget is predicated on the collection of $27,000 in street assessments owed the city. The board voted the other night to advertise all assessments, back to 1942, and, if the resolution is implemented, some of the assessments will be paid during the fiscal year. Hut s<>me assess ments w ill not be paid promptly, the pro perty owners electing to pay the addi tional, interest charges for .the privilege of delaying payment. But, in Kings Mountain, the politi cian's l-topia, that dreamland of perfec tion. has seenvingl\ arrived, at least tem porarily. We have on one hand record ? spending, always pleasing, to those, need ing services, \yhile on -i lie other hand we. hiiv" .t lowered tax rati.' plus low ered ,>ow or bills, the two principal sources of city revenue. ; The honeymoon created bv this scout ing paradox -of more spending" On less revenue ma\ well he slvort-hv ed. but all yre' prepared .to. enjoy it while-. it lasts. Till dead >a ! dragged ou! on Senator Nixdn, the t iv ?l * vuB-proNulBitial n. .m nee, ?Vneeriiing his private political or ganization indicates that the campaign in- the white hot last-miintte days is. go ing to get Bret ty rough and mnddy. The silliest stat?'!})(M)t in the whole business was that ot t.h.e opI'iMV ot' the Nixon "/issoeiat ion w ho id not one single favor had., been asked of Senator Nixon by any of the contrilnHor.v. in that e\ ent. the fa'vorsluist h.ne been done without specific IccBiesi . If you haven't >e: seen The-Sword of Gideon" make >our plans for Bus w eek end Or next. The production N weil worth seeing and much 'above the level of the average amateur production. Only two wee ken (Is remain. The count \ fair now being past, folk can get back to the business at hand of making the weekly payment on the washing machine or electric stove, thereby going further along the road to ward a clear title to the appliance. Remember foe Ball Few people could have been shocked at last Friday's statement, duly tran scribed for the radio air lanes, by Gover nor Jim Byrnes, of S6uth Carolina, that he was not only taking a walk from his lifetime association in support of all and sundry Democratic tickets, but that he was clambering aboard the Republican bandwagon. A nation of television set sentinels re member, some pleasantly, others un pleasantly, the Byrnes actions at the Demo ratic National convention, When he declined, from first to last, to operate oh any set of conditions other than his own. Governor Byrnes, at the conven tion, resembled quite closely a bantam rooster ready to spring at any moment. He sprang last Thursday. Needless to say, the Republicans are hopping happy over the Byrnes defec tion, and the Democrats are discounting the potential ill effects of it. Loyalist Democrats are criticizing the govenor, on the grounds that officeholders should remain loyal or resign from of fice and party. Republicans, though al ways glad to welcome recruits into the. ranks, will laugh up their sleeves at the development. . ; It reminds of former Senator Joe Ball, who made the trip the other way (Re publican to Roosevelt) in 1911. What happened to Senator Ball? There were no public pay-offs for the change from the victorious Democrats, and, on the next whirl of the election roulette wheel, the voter pastured him but good. There, are many comparable exam ples, with the late Teddy Roosevelt pro bahly the most famous one. .Governor Byrnes is not a young man. Arj ex-New Dealer of the most ardent brand, the. defection will go down in his tory as a result of his personal pique with President Truman. The Byrnes defection should in no wise detract from his record as a good governor of the neighboring state, for undoubtedly Mr; Byrnes is its best in several seasons. But the Byrnes move is not "regular" and will he excoriated, publicly by his ex-partners among the Democrats, -uid privately by the Repub lican regulars who also behove in party loyalty. '? ? On Korea Nothing Neither of the two presidential Candi dates have ben reported as saying-. any thing explicit on- what to do about end ing 1 1n; Korean War. General Eisenhower has criticized severely the administration's Far East policies. and "bringing on the conflict", but that is as far as he has gone. .Gover nor Stevenson's statenie?1,s indicate, he is generally in accord with the present policy of holding the line on the ground and. bv heavy air bombardment, seek ing to induce the enemy to adopt a frame of iiiind conducive to a truce. It is therefore assumed, unless Gen eral Ike comes up with something, that his policy would be the same. Consider ably divergent from the MaeArthur-Taft field of thought, or the other extreme, the Governor Dewey thinking. Gover nor Denes wants a -NATO organization in the Pacific, too. . ' The question is an imponderable that few can answer with any degree of suc cess. Barents of servicemen would be happy to see the whole business thrown i.n the -waste basket, and the troops pull ed home, and a summary end to the busi ness. But neither candidate .seems to of fer this largj? segment of Citizens any hope of that. .It is a tragedy of the campaign and oftheora. Someone once wrote. "You Can't Do Business with Hitler". The same book would seemingly cover Marshal Stalin and the Communists. Yet it was found that Hitler could not be ignored. 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. Supt. of Mountain Rest Come' tery, Sain Suber, has boon beauti fying the grounds and opening up now lots. A new area has been cleaned off and some of the most desirable lots :n the cemetery are n<>w available. The second sheet, A 2. gasoline ration tickets in the basic A ra tion books are now good and can be used during the next 60 days between Sept. 22nd and >jov. 22nd. Social and Personal Miss Salena f'arton was the in spiration for a lovely surprise birthday party given at her home on East King Street last Wednes day night with her sister in law. M rs. Lymvood Parton. as hostess. Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Norman re turned Monday night from New Orleans, La., where they had a two weeks stay -while Dr. Nor man attended the Eye Clinic in the hospital at that place. Mrs. Don Olive a(l<J small son. Jerry, of Florida, are here for a visit to Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Olive and will also visit Mrs. Olive's parents in Charlotte. Mr. Don Olive, who has been in the Coast Guard . Service on the Florida coast is to be transfered to some other branch of service in Vir ginia. Mrs. I. V. Lowder of Norwood is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Her man Fisher. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Harmon Ingredients : bits of newt, wisdom, humor, and comment. Direction ?: Take weekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage. \ RUles And Roads Nine months shot In 1952, and just three more to go before new calendar time. r-a-r Speaking of being "shot" re minds that Dr. Bob Baker, the ? tooth doctor, has done an inter esting bit of research lately, on Impetus supplied by the rifles used by the play acting soldiers in ."The Sword of Gideon". r-a-r Dr. Bob, who could almost be called a curator of things old and odd, was giving some of the stage rifles a once-over and found that all were of vintage variety, with the oldest one dis covered an 1806 model Spring field muzzle-loader. That is quite sometime ago, and while it isn't as old as the Ferguson rifle at the museum, It Is unique that a 146-year-old rifle is still kicking around. Of course, it is not in firing condition, but that would be too much to ask. r-a-r Bob says almost all of the rifles are Winchesters, model 1864, which, if the rifles- could talk, would reveal much history about the Civil War. It would not be the kind of history which goes into history books, but the personal-interest kind of his tory, Indubitably, many of the rifles had "cussln' " custodians. _ Some would " relate prayers where the rifleman was, in a tight spot. Too bad rifles aren't parrots. ; r-a-r Pursuing his research, Bob went to an encyclopedia which turned up more information on the subject, and indieatec' 'hat the 1800-model was little 'm proved until the turn of the cerir tury, when percussion caps be came the order of the day in firearms. Bob also learned that a Frenchman, around 1850, re ceived the equivalent of $100, 000 as an award for redesign ing the bullet from ball or pel let to the long job that with Improvements is still in vogue. The ball was only effective for about 60 yards, a close-range proposition, whereas the new bullet was effective at much longer range. r-a-r This information should en gender much more respect for the frontiersmen of early days. It would have been bad to miss Indian, bear, or buffalo at the close range of 60 yards'." r-a-r Roads continue in the news, as -they will as long as automo biles travel like rifle-shots, which is likely. r-a-r Governor Scott and Gover nor Nominee Umstead v.erc on hand together last Friday for the dedication of what Scott calls the '"football road", con necting .Chapel Hill and Dur ham". those two m cocas of fall ? football gatherings.. MorfefliSn four miles is cut off the dis tance between the two cities, and it will he a boon to the swarms of people who haunt the stadia on football Satur days, Only one two lane strip Is yet complete, but grading has been done for the other, which will make it a boulevard, like the new model being done be tween here and Gas to ni a. r-a-r Opening of the "football road" reminds that it frequent ly requires many years to get new roads from an engineering dream to reality. I remember ! quite di^tlnc'ly that, during my j school days, the proposed Cha | pel llill-Durham road furnished ! a lead story for the college I sheet. And {hat was some i several moons and four presi dential sea sobs ago. r-a-r Comparatively. the new | Kings M. ".r.tnin-Gastonia boule | vard will be a "quickie" job. Hut this two .iv>e. addition has already been underway in ac tual construction for more than two years. It will be a wonder ful traffic improvement, pro vided too many people don't press too hard on the accelera tor and others remember to "stop, look and listen" when - entering from the sidelines. r-a-r People traveling Wilkinson < boulevard are wondering how long It will be until another road will have to be built to accommodate the heavy traffic on this thoroughfare. The late Dr. J. M. Garrison predicted years ago that, someday, the area between Charlotte-Gas tonla-Klngs Mountain would be all city, seemingly connected. With the continual addition of buildings aloqg <he route, and addition of stoplights, it would appear that the prediction was a correct one, with Wilkinson Boulevard someday to become Charlotte-Kings Mountain Main Street. r-?-r It's a world on wheels. CROSSWORD 4 ? ?. By A. C. Gordon | ACROSS I? Wh?rt the heart is 4? Fashions one'i own garment* 7 ? Kitchen container 8 ? Uncooked 10? Goddeis of dswn 1 2 ? Rhyming writer 1 3-* Citric concoction 14 ? Where the latch string should be on the outside 16 ? Peculiar ! 7? A valuable possession 19 ? It takes at least this to make s quarrel 20 ? FrOse'n dessert dish 2 1 ? Something to cucjdle at home 23? Articles of furnitur* 26 ? Skiing maneuver 29? Food in Hawaii 30? New grass for the yard 31 ? Exist 32? -Skill with the brush 3 5 ? Household pet 37 ? Printer!? meaiute 39? 'Bills are "this" on the first of the month About the House 40 ? Beverage 41 ? Male pet 44? Insect, pests 46 ? Fourth Arabian caliph 48 ? Household winter necessity SO? To alter the hue of clothes 5 1 -~By woid -of mouth 52 ? Regret 53? Poetical always 54 ? Decorated. the inner man 55? To look at slyly 56 ? Household resting place DOWN 1? Worked in the garden 2 ? New York Qiant immortal 3 ? Eradicates 4 ? Ridi the floor of dirt 5 ? United, maritally speakinc 6? Burned dirt 7 ? Seed covering 9? Paid notices I \ ? Xo activate the garden 12? rTo send the letter on its way 15? Home compartment 1 7? Powerful bridge card 1 8? Means of communica tion (abbr'ev.) 20 ? Homer's masterpiec^ 22 ? Experiment with food 24? Mimic 25? Botanical Orders (abbrev.) 2 7? Behold! 28? Poem 31? Saturday's rite 33 ? Floor covering 34 ? Favorite kind of beef 35? Furniihes food 36 ? Man's nickname fposs ) 38? Communication rftediurn 4 2? Above (poet ) 4 3? Treat roughly 4 5? Affirmative vote 16 ? Flat expanse ? 7 ? Boy 49 ? Golfer's implement 51? Away from See The Want Ad Section For This Week's Completed Puzzle f " 1 ' Viewpoints of Other editors THE STARS LEAN CLOSER New York Times The stars lean closer now, with summer's last full moon ten days past and the night sky arched ov er the hilltops in early darkness. Sun time will soon be ours again and for a little while we shall have an evening; but dusk is short, this time of year, by any tinW. The Dipper hangs early in the northwest with Cassiopeia's Chair high and beyond the Pole Star to the east, and Cygnus, the Swan, flies almost overhead. Au tumn's gleam is already on them all. In the up-country you feel the threat of frost on clear nights, even as you see it in the stars. But even more clearly you see it before the stars appear, at the long-light time of day just before sunset. Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see au tumn glowing through the leaves. The deep, lush green is gone. The promise of gold and crimson is there among the branches, though as yet it is achieved on only a stray leaf, an impatient limb or an occasional small tree which has not yet learned to time its changes. Or look down a long hill side in that light and you see au tumn full-blown for a few min utes. the pre-sunset light bring ing out all the gold and russet on the bronzed heads and bronzing stems of the seed-ripe grasses. Krost is not yet on the stars or the maple leaves, not quite; but first frost is not far away. And the stars lean close in the moonless early night, as 'hough to see the windfall pears beneath (he backyard tree, themselves like stari in the grass; as though to gauge the turn of the sumac clumps, and the ripeness of the fox grapes twined in the aspens along the river, and the faint touch of purple on the arrowwood leaves in the lowlands. Marine Regulations Revision Announced RALEIGH- -The Marine Corps today announced a revision of its recruiting regulations to permit enlistment of married men be tween the ages of 17 and 31. in clusive in the Marine Corps Re serve. and -their immediate assignment td active duty. The new regulation will re main in effect for the remainder of the. month. Captain Robert G. Parrish, assistant director of Marine recruiting for the state, said. The number of sucvh category men that may be enlisted in BETTY WON THE ; DEBATE (Lexington Dispatch) A fellow named Harry Go?den writes and publishes at Charlotte the most unique paper in the Car olinas, called "The Carolina Israe lite". Outside of what Editor Gol den writes himself, or some of the letters prompted by his observa tions, the paper is made up of modest size, ads with no heavy display lines. They come from all over the State and a few from outside. Golden says forty per cent of his subscribers are non Jews and it appears that a larger per cent of its advertisers are of the same classification. His first little editorial of the July issue, just now out, says "America is a place where a fel low can write anything that comes into his head and if it is not obscene or libelous he can put it in a press and print him self a newspaper. This, you can not do anywhere else in the world." But we stalled out to say some thing about Golden's description of the "debate" between Betty Furness and the Republican ora tors at Chicago. Betty was on hand for the Democratic con clave, too, but since the "ins" were praising, not "viewing with a larm." there apparently was no conflict between them and the beauteous Betty, "that wonder ful Wostinghouse Electric girl," las Editor Golden put it. "Betty Furness won every round," said Golden. "When Gen eral MacArthur said the country is going to the dogs, the TV came ra switched immediately ta Betty Furness who said that now you have a gadget that takes the moisture out of the air. so that when you sit in your living room reading the paper you do not have to worry that the air has any moisture in it. Then when Sena tor Joe McCarthy came back and said that America is going down the drain of creeping Socialism. Betty came right back and show ed a new broiler where you don't havt? to lift the lid in order to see how the turkey is roasting." And he concluded that "Betty Furness was in there punching all the time, on top of which, she was certainly better to look at, too." North Carolina is now unlimited, the captain said. Previously; no vacancies ex isted for enlistment of men in thjs catagory. For further information see the Marine Recruiting Sergant who is in room no. 25 Gastonia Post Office Monday through Thursday from 8 a- m. to 4:30 p. m Indelible Ink STAMPING KITS 60c Herald Publishing : ^ House Phone 167 & 283 gf BIC LIFT J/g to Better Farming Better farming, new methods and machines, better livestock, and improved marketing are helping bring about a new era of progress and prosperity in Dixie. Rural telephones (they tripled in number since World War II in the area served by Southern Bell) are bringing a big lift to farm work and farm living. During the first eight months of this year, we installed more than 92,000 rural telephones. We'll keep on putting them in as fast as we can ? because we know how much they mean to pros perity on the farm and in town . . . and to a strong, well-fed America. More farm telephones also mean more valuable telephone service for everyone. SOUTHERN KILL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANT looo only-Time wzIITffl OVER. AMD CUE*. THB7KT0FAO6AHCTTE S STEW/ SMOKING,' TEST CAMELS FOR, SO IW5. y3UR* T-ZONE* WILL "IELL yJU HOW MM.D AND FUNlCRRX-CMElS ARE,fWX AFTER BVK' Stay Healthy . . . Drink Sunrise $ It's Pasteurized # It's Homogenized ? It's Rich In Healthy, Wholesome Goodness CHILDREN LIKE SUNRISE lust give the Children sunrise Milk and youll find they truly like it. It's the best way to prove how good it really is. And, too, when you Buy Sunrise you are building the da'ry industry in your own county. % Sunrise Dairy GASTON1A.N.C. * ' ' ? ' : '* . I ? . r '. . ' ' '
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