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r?4?' 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 citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Kings Mountain, N. C.. under Act * ' ' Congress of March 3. 1873 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon ............ .. Editor-Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr. ....... .... Sports,. Circulation, News Mrs. P. D. Herndon .. Society Miss nizzabeth Stewart 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? $2.50 SIX MONTHS? $1.40 THREE MONTHS? 75c. BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Also, I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for usT Then said 1, Here ain I; send me. Isaiah 6:8. New Tax Policy It is hard to say which of two allied factors had more effect on the recent election the inference of promised tax cuts held out by the Republican party, or the fact that just about everyone has become a taxpayer in the past ten years, or both. At any rate, speculation is already rife on what kind of tax policy the Re publican - controlled Congress, which convenes in January, will adopt, and questions are being put l?y newsmen to key Congressmen who ?will have most to say about tax policy. Last weekend, Representative Joe Martin, of Massachusetts, who is sche duled to take over as speaker of the House again, did some talking on the subject with the sum total of his re marks being "maybe", though he did hold out some prospect for tax relief. Under present tax laws, the excess profits tax on corporations, is due to ex pire at mid-1.953, while the tax laws re lating to individual returns will be in force throughout 1953. It reminds that tin' tax policy is set by Congress. The President can help or hinder by his recommendations and by cracking whatever whip of power he might have at his disposal but, finally, Congress does the enacting. In North Carolina, a joint committee handles both appropriating and taxing, not a bad. combination, for the arrangement has a ? tendency to put a brake, on appropria tions. The federal Congress doesn't operate that way. ?ActuaJly, few are holding out much hope for (puck tax relief. Though there was much campaign talk about pruning the waste in the military establishment and othel- spots. IXieds are always more difficult than conversation. But it will be remembered that Senator Byrd, of Virginia, had a plan last year to pare ten billions of what lie called "fat" out of the budget. The Byrd claim was that no essential federal service or function would be impaired. It the claim is correct, it's the kind of budget-cutting the nation is most in terested in and which all would like to see. For budget-paring comes first be fore tax-cutting, the latter a legislative ?policy which is always most popular, though seemingly seldom used. Postal Deliveries Information that Kings Mountain " postoffice has requested an inspection, with a view to extending city delivery routes' will come as welcome news in many "'in-city areas w hich do not have this service enjoyed by sonic of their' neighbors. Only small route additions have been ? ' - made during the past six years, the post master reports, and that ha>s been the period of most-rapid home-building in Kings Mountain, as it has been all over the nation. What the .inspector finds, -reports and recommends would be hard to predict, but the evidence of need appears obvi ous Kings Mountain's griAvth has '.-been hea\> and t-ii.e inerea>.ingl> -upward trend in postal receipts', \vhieh has made ? t he . 'post office one .of first-class- rating, sholtld be translated into, an increase in services. 0! which eitj delivers' service js an important one. . Our congratulations and best wishes to l>r. Phillip G. Padgett, who has been elected chairman of the city recreation commission for the coming year. The work the commission has cut out for it self is not a light load. Carrying out of the plans would be a considerable bene fit to the community. Attend one of the performances of "Chicken Every Sunday", the first pro duction of the current seasoji of the Kings Mountain Little Theatre, which plays on Friday and Saturday evenings at the high school auditorium. Last Day To Register Saturday is the final day to register for the $600,000 bond election to be con ducted December 6. Thus far, registration has not been at all brisk for the forthcoming election indicating perhaps that majority of the eligible citizens are already registered and that those who are not were perhaps sated by the long months of campaign ing leading up to the general election on November 4. Persons who have been voting in city elections for the past several seasons are already registered and eligible to vote, but it would perhaps be good busi ness for those not sure to check with the registrars. Public comment on the forthcoming election has not been too considerable thus far, showing again that people get much more excited about personalities in campaigns than about inanimate ob jects. It is hard to glarhorize a piece of sewer pipe, by any stretch of the imagi nation; Majority of those who do comment on * the forthcoming decision concerning needed improvements to the city's se wage disposal system will confide that they doubt passage of the bond election, and this includes several citizens who expect to vote "yes". Generally, they point to Kings Mountain's customary record of voting against monetary ex penditures, regardless of character or need, plus the inevitable tie-in with per sonality politics. Fact that the North Carolina Board of Health has condemned the city's se wage disposal facilities should be con sidered by all thinking citizens. The City of High Point officials of the Board of Health cite as an unfortunate exam ple. Several bond elections to improve the sewage situation failed to carry. Re sulting damage suits lost by the city cost as much as paying for the facilities, which also were eventually constructed. Adequate sewage disposal is a great need in any city. It is not a frill or waste of the taxpayer's money, but a necessary investment, Kings Mountain, unfortu nately, is years behind on the matter of sewage disposal. It is becoming a danger to the community's health and well being. ? Mr. Parsons When I.. C. Parsons ceases his active du.ty with the city on December 1, he will have earned a rest. Presently retiring as superintendent of public works, a title he has held for the past several years, Mr. Parsons has given more than three decades of service to the people of Kings Mountain through a variety of tasks all connected with providing the community with munici pal services used daily. These services have expanded greatly Min e .Mr. Pardons' first association u it h the city, and he has been present to watch and to superintend' its grow th and expansion. Of the old school, Mr. Parsons has had .i minimum of vacations, during his many years of service. Once upon a time, vacations meant merely periods of 'ill ness, or emergency absence, rather than today's plan of scheduled time-off from work. It won't* seem quite the same at City Hall, with Mr. Parsons not in the envi rons. The community will add its com mendations to Mr. Parsons to that of the board of commissioners for long and valiant service. Best bows are in order to Jack Ruth, Herman Mauney, and Charles Blanton, recently honored by their respective col leges. Kings Mountain students at col leges throughout the land are continual ly making good records in scholastics and extra-curricular activities. These honors reflect credit on their schools, homes and to the community. 10 YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and evicts THIS WEEK taken from the 1942 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. Car owners in Kings Mountain will not get much metal for their SV.00 license plates this year, as the war has reduced the size to a fractional part of the size. The annual Fireman ? Police b&nquet which Wis held Friday night in the fire station in the City Hall was a most enjqyable affair. Social and Personal Mrs. Haywood E. Lynch enter tained members of her bridge club and invited guests Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Charier WilHams most de lightfully entertaln'Hi members of the Study Clu*> and invited guests at her home on North Piedmont avenue Tuesday after noon. MARTIN'S MEDICINE . By Martin Harmon . Ingredients: bits of neve, wisdom, humor, and comment. Directions: Take weekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage. Hearing The faculty or sense of hear ing, one of the several inate senses peculiar to man, as well as beast, is an interesting phy sical marvel, and, though It would sometimes seem nice to be able to plug up the ears and thereby shut out all sound and din, nevertheless, the benefits of the sense are much greater than the debit. - -h- ? Actually, it would appear that the past 30 years could well be called the "Age of Hear ing", with radio, sound movies, and now television, which like movies, combines the seeing and hearing business, added to the ring of the telephone which Alex Bell invented. -h Though much of hearing to day concerns these modern In ventions, which make it possi ble to hear around the globe and back again, hearing was once relegated to more local sounds. -h The dictionary man, ever to the fore with what something means, defines hearing as "per ceiving by the ear", which makes me wonder why the verb isn't "ear", minus the "h". It sounds funny, of course, but It's logical. For the sense of fee), the world says "feeling". . -h Hearing has some meanings of finer shade, one of them be ing "to pay regard to". This is one that constantly comes in for use in homes and schools. A youngster who has momen tarily lapsed on the business c! listening is frequently heard to excuse himself by saying, "I didn't hear you". There some times follows the parental or school ? masterish accusation, "You didn't want to hear," generally speaking often valid. In the good old days, and pro bably still practiced, a trip to the woodshed and a dose of that non-drinkable substance known as "hickory tea" was among the best medicines for fa\?lty ears among young folk. Such a dose would usually sharpen the hearing for days and months, if not years. -h Who has not heard the ex pression concerning someone, "It goes in one ear and out the other?" This type of person has ears to hear, but will not let them. ? h* Church ? goers, some prea chers say, are afflicted with the above ailment, and petients, doctors say, have these trou bles, too, IiU3bands hav* the same aliment, wives will quick-' ly relate. No wives .are afflict ed. according to the best re search available here. -la Wives. however, have sharp ened senses of hearing in the hours from 8 p. m. to 6 a. m. This sharpened facility is much more exaggerated if the mjm of the house is away, particularly put for an evening with the boys. There is no successful re cord of a husband slipping in late, quiet like a mouse, and failing to awaken the madame,. who always pops out the. unwel come question, "What time is it?" -h During these hours, wives have been known to summon the police to investigate a flap ping window sash or door, which they knew to be. a burg lar. - h - Men, on the other hand, are ' not noted for hearing very well during these hours, When the youngster wails at 2 a. m., the ears of the males dqn't function, and most men manage to sleep through tlie terrible clangs of a sounding alarm clock at any given gettirig-tip time. They.are quite good, however, at hearing the honk of the golfing part ner's horn. -h- - Why is it people care less about hearing the good, than the bad, of do they? Theoreti cally, radiomen and. newsmen, too, give the big play to the bad. Some observe, left-handed ly. that the big abundance of happenings are good, therefore do not qualify as sufficiently unusual to make the biggest headlines. But it is true that a nasty bit of malicious gossip can travel faster and further in a given period of time than any good word ever spoken, or at least it seems that way some times. Maybe the same reason ing goes. *h* Hearing Is a wonderful insti tution and it would be bad to be without it. as thoae who lose this sense know too painfully. Still, many would like to have some physical apparatus like a radio switch button to enable them to tune in when they wished and tune out when they wished. - -h But too much tuning in has never been as bad as too much broadcasting, it is said. | CROSSWORD By A, C? Cordon] ACROSS l-M(?0T?c(tfn i ? Plmoui EnglUh interns! m of tlx 1 5th century 7? Ancient country of culture (abbrev.) 9? Rom?n toldier itiiomin II ? American Revolu tionary patriot 1 1? Roman 2,000 14- Doctor of Scientific . Achievement (abbrev.) ! 6? Parental nickoama 1 7 ? Famed BritUh poet 19? Military cap worn by American CHrll War ?oldier* 1 1 ? F?*h egg* 7 2 ? Cereal train* 2 J ? Employer* 2 7 ? Nationality of the buccaneer. Henry Morgan 2 S? Pronoun 29? Greek letter Jt-Cut 10 ? HoutewUe'* protaetK* garment It? Composer of AmfrtcM ^KJM^al AptbM Back Into Hiitory J?? Equality 40 ? Noun itiNU denoting ? dieea** 41? Famou* in van tot (paaa.) 42 ? In reference to 44 ? Corded fabrig' 48 ?? Pronoun 40? The capital of thh country la the omit city In the world (POM.)' 48 ? Former EnglUh Un? SI? Bono II? ihop 11? Thu* . DOWN I ?Typo of electrtg current ?? Ancient E?yptlan ruler I ? Ancient ?un god 4? Medieval knightly fraternity I ? Expunge 6 ? Com paM diroction T ? Former U. ?. Pretldent (pooa.) ? ? In reference to 10 ? Printer'* meaaure 12 ? Chemical tymbol for 13? A vulgar fellow 17? Tltlo applied to the knight* U? FWh egg* 19? A former proiperou* Ruuian farmer emanation 10 ? Hero of the Battle Of Lake Erie 11? Vigilant 14? Famed Irlah dramatitt ( do**, y 1# ?Object of ancient worship IT ? Quality of George Bernard Shaw** writing* II? Diatoverer of the North Pole (poti.) 31? Chemical *ulTU 31? Situation 13? Poa*e**ive pronoun 15 ? Lubricator* 34? Adam'a position in world hiitory 19 ? A laaaoer 43? Comparative tuffix 43? Exclamation 46? ThUa 47? Like 49? Prefix denoting down 50-? Perform See The Want Ad Section For Thla Week's Completed Puzzle Viewpoints of Other Editors HOW NOT TO IMPROVE AUTOS Milwaukbk Journal The 1953 model of a stock auto mobile will have a 205 horse power engine. It has peeled off a 100-mile test run. in less than 53 minutes. Two other manufact urers are reported to have sim ilar soom wagons in mind. Hold on, now! What are you going to do with 200 horses un der your hood? On what public highway are you going to drive a car 115 miles an hour? .-. . It seems to us this thing is getting out of hand. Why build power and speed into automo biles far beyond what the road system can safely handle or will be able to handle in the forsee able future? Isn't it just suicide on the highways? Competition, says the indust' ry; you've got to offer more pow er than your competitors to out sell them. We doubt that. We be lieve it would ibe smart business lor the industry to concentrate on cars that would best meet the conditions under which they have to be used ? cars that you can park, that use less fuel, that are maneuverable in modern traffic, that contain less acreage of expensive sheet steel and don't cost you $200 per bump. Crawford's Carrier Returns From Korea . U. S. PACIFIC FLEET (De layed) (FHTNC) ? Returned to the United States aboard the at tack carrier USS Princeton last week, was Bobby L. Crawford, fireman, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Crawford, and husband of Mrs. Betty L. Crawford all of 105 East Ridge St., Kings Moun tain. N. C. the Princeton had eight mon ths of combat duty in Korea and its planes participated in some of the most spectacular air raids pi the Korean conflict. They blew up the important Siuho Dam close by the Manchu rlan border, were the first to at tack through the heavy* flak at Pyongyang, at Kowon, and at vi tal power plants just south of the Yalu River. They gave close air support to UN troops at White Horse Moun tain. Chorwon, and Sniper Ridge. The ship received high pralrfe from Commander Naval Forces Far East. .The U. S. Department of Ag riculture has bought more than 12 million pounds of frozen ready-to-cook turkeys from the 1952 crop. PRESCRIPTION SERVICE V . - ? " J n , ? - . . We Fill oar Doctors' Pre scriptions promptly and accurately at reasonable prices with the confidence of your physician. Kings Mountain Drug Company THE REXALL STORE Phones 41?81 We Call For and Deliver IS THE SOUTH READY NOW? | Smithfield Hkrald If the eleetion proved any thing about politics in the South, is that there seems now to ibe a very real possibility of devel oping two strong parties. Al though Stevenson?s electoral vote came almost exclusively from the South, he failed to crary the traditionally Democratic states of Virginia, Florida, Tex as, Oklahoma and Tennesse. Odd ly enough, he took the four states which went Dixiecrat in 1948^ Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. "It is the beginning of the two party system in the South," says Paul Helliwell of Miami, vice chairman of the Florida for Eis enhower Committee, "and free dom of the South from economic bondage." Perhaps so. But it will take at least another Presidential election in 1956 to determine whether the 1952 Republican landslide was a real success for the party or merely a personal Eisenhower triumph. Back in 1948 it was not considered really "respect able" in the South to vote for the Republican Party, so the strong anti-Truman fact ion carried four Southern states off into the bypass of the Dixie crats. In 1952 it was respectable to vote for Eisenhower, a nation al he.c and a man not previous ly tagged as even belonging to the Republican Party. If Eisenhower, having won tre mendous popular support throughout the South, can hold his Democratic backsliders in a newly remodeled Republican Party, he may be the man who can give strength as well as respectability to the Republican Party in the South. We suggest that he read Alexander Heafds, book, "A Two- Party South?" and take some of Professor Heard's advice on the (best methods of building up a strong two-party system in all the Southern states. Iraq today occupies most of the area of ancient Mespotamla. 0EFORE INSURANCE, AN OLD SOCK WAS USED Cousins Stationed At Paris Island 1 Pvta. Jack Sims, James Carpen ter, and Fred E. Loltln are serv ing with the Marine 4th division, stationed at Parrls Island. They are sons of Mr. and Mia. Charlie Slmms, Mr. and Mrs. James Car penter of Kings Mountain and Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Loftln of York, S. C. The three cousins have been together since they entered the service several months ago. Pvt. Sims address is: 1340234 Pit 536 O. 4th Bn. Parrls Island, S. C. Pvt. Carpenter's address, 1340236 Pit 638 Co. O 4th Bn. Parr is Island, S. C. and Pvt. Lof tlns' Is 1352410 Pit 550 N Co. 4th Bn. Parrls, Island, S. C. Danny Jonas' Dog Wins Prise In Show "Mike", the Boston screwtail dog entered by young . Danny Jonas, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Jonas, Jr., 603 Price street, Forest City, won the Most Valuable Dog award at the recent Pooch Parade and Show, sponsored.by Vlckery's Farm Service, Mrs, Van Vickery announced this week. Young Jonas Is the grandson of the late Thomas Cecil and Minnie Clark Bennett, of Kings Moun tain. Gross farm income will be slightly higher than In 1951, but the increase Is about matched by higher costs, of. production. This year's realized net Income Is estimated at 14.2 billion doll ars. Pearson Rites L-*- ' -? . ,*-* * - ^ : ."J11?.- ? * ?. Held Saturday Funeral services for Galther M. Pearson; 59, father of Howard Pearson of route 1 were conduct ed Saturday at 3 o'clock p. m. from Calvery Baptist Church, near Shelby. Rev. W. T. Furr officiated, as sisted by Rev. Leroy Jones and Rev. H. E. Waldrop. Burial waa In the Union Church cemetery, i . Mr. Pearson, a retired farmer of route 2, Shelby, died Thursday afternoon at his home following an illness of five week*. He was a member of Calvary Baptist Church and was the son of the late Thomas Pearson and Carrie Jones Pearson. His first wife, Jannie Howard Pearson died in 1944., ? Surviving in addition to his son are his wife, Mys. Priscllla Powell Clark Pearsoiv; a son, James Pearson of Shelby; two stepsons, Summy Clark of Shelby and Charles Clark of Newport News, Va.; one daughter, Mrs. Roy Sweezy of Shelby; a brother, Sum mle Pearson of Shelby; one sister, Mrs. Seal Jeffries of Lawndale; and 10 grandchildren. <8 % JELL IT THRU THE HEBALD WANT AIM 310 Nohth Pmpmont Atindi ? Kin aa Mountain, N. C. Healthy i. . 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 you'll find they truly like iL It's the best way to prove how good it really is. And, too, when you Buy Sunrise you are building the dairy Industry In your own cvrniyt >r rise GASTONU.N.C.
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