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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 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 . of Congress of March 3, 1873 ; EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon . i ........ ... Editor-Putolisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr * ? ? ? ? Sports, Clroulatlon, News ? Mrs. P. D. Herndon .................................... ; ......... . . Society Miss Elizabeth Stewart *. Advertising, News MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Horace Walker David Weathers Ivan Weaver* Charles Miller Paul Jackson '(?Member of Armed Forces) ^.ELEPHONE NUMBERS? 167 or 283 ? SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR? $2,50 IX MONTHS? $1.40 THREE MONTHS? 75c BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believer*, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, i?i faith, in piirity. 1 Timothy 4:1X. r aSociatm \? Odd Form Of Giving Dr. W. L. Halberstadt, who spoke to the Lions club the other night after a recent trip around the world, expanded on a theme many speakers, returning from overseas, have advanced in the past few years. He charged a great mistake to the United States and Great Britain in fos tering the independent state of Israel. Dr. Halberstadt said he doubts the wis dom, at any time, of displacing five per sons to accommodate a lone additional D. P. Merely being practical, he is worried he said, about the attitude-Qf-the-Arab world, which is one of the largest popu lation groups. To the more important question of ethics, he doubts the ethics of taking one man's home on the grounds of mak ing better use of it. The world is shrinking, through fast er ships and eight - mile - per - minute planes. His thought that we have be come a neighborhood, withor.t becoming a brotherhood, is an intrigu'.ng one. Who is to operate the police force, and how tough a job will the pjor policeman have? Lower Than Expected The first unofficial estimate of the city's property valuation for tax pur poses was somewhat disappointing to some people, many of whom had antici pated that the former valuation would double. Actually, the increase is going to be only about half the figure first guessed by these optimists. Nonetheless, the figure of $9, 500,000, or thereabouts, is much more realistic than the old low figure of $6,500,000, and will ease somewhat the .strain of the city fathers as they squeeze out future budgets. The city board of this year, or future years, is not going to go wild and in crease tax rates. But the principal advantage is in the change of the bonded debt-to-valuation ratio. The improvement in this formula will enable city boards to plan for public im provements with more freedom. Advantage to the property owner will vary. Some will get a bigger tax bill, some a smaller one. Theoretically, the one getting the smaller bill has been paying more than his share all along, and vice versa. But, then, equity was the will-o-the wisp being sought after from the start. It is good news to many friends that Ben Bridges is returning home to join the Kings Mountain Building & Loan association. It is always good news to learn of young people returning home, for a community which does not keep its young people soon withers- and dies away. Without making a close inven tory, it seems to the Herald that the number of Kings Mountain young peo ple returning to take responsible posi tions in the community has been on the increase during the past few years. If that is correct, it is a good sign. Our congratulations to Ollie Harris and the other newly elected officers and directors of the Kings Mountain Lions club; Mr. Harris, in succeeding to one of the community'^ more responsible civic positions, has the equipment to assure the club one of it's more prosperous years. Our best W ishes to C. J. Gault, Sr., who has retired after 60 work-filled years. All would quickly agree that Mr. Gault has earned a rest. Best guess, though, is th.-Tt the habit of work holds the upper hand and that his retirement will be more official than actual. School Consolidating -The Herald approves, and heartily, the current effort to consolidate the schools of Number 4 Township into one administrative unit, and, in turn, to build two township-wide high school plants. Indeed, a great many citizens feel such a consolk ntion would be a great stride forward in providing better edu cation, more cheaply, for all the young people of the area. The principal advantage in the edu cational realm would be the broadening of the. number of courses offered to the "young people of the township. Several years ago, a young Bethware senior re marked that he wished he could have had a course in typing, rather than agri culture. But agriculture (which he felt his father was supplying in both regu lar and concentrated form) was requir ed, and no typing was offered. Converse ly, it could be assumed that plenty of urban students would benefit greatly by a little learning about the soil and how things grow. After all, the farmer is the backbone of the nation, and everything begins in the soil. The principal advantage to the tax payer would be to give him more and better education, for his children and for his neighbor's children, for less money. Almost all the high school plants in volved in the suggested consolidation area are bursting at the seams at the mo ment, and the prospects are that the stu dent population will get larger each year. That has been the case for many years past. The alternative to getting to gether and building two fine, weli equipped, modern plants which would be expandable as future student load re quires, is a multitude of small, strugg ling high schools, doing, at best, a limit ed job with patchwork facilities. The present high school plants, once the consolidated ones are in operation, would be available to accommodate adequately the incoming elementary and grammar pupils for many years to come. There are problems, to be sure, but the major one undoubtedly is the initial outlay. After the original outlay is handled, the schooling bill for Number 4 Township would be cheaper. With good paved roads and modern transportation, the problem of getting the youngsters to school is no longer a major one. . The Herald agrees with a number, of its friends, representing almost all of the various districts involved, in feeling that the many side issues involv ed should be satisfactorily answered prior to final action. But there should be no slowness in proceeding with the investigation of these side issues, and, where snarls exist, finding ways to straighten them. Grover school patrons answered re soundingly the question on the split term issue last Friday, voting almost 2 tr 1 to abandon this old-fashioned, out worn method. Grover patrons are to be commended on their farsightedness and in their interest in seeing that the chil dren of their community are not handi capped by a stop-and-start school term. Best bows are in order to Dr. W. P. Gerbeiding, E. E. Marlowe, and B. T. Wright, Sr., who have just been appoint ed to membership on the. city recreation commission. New ideas take a long time to sell due to more factors than mere newness, though that one, sometimes, is a major one. At any rate, public rec reation has been advocated by a grad ually growing group here for almost a decade now, and one of these days the idea will produce major, and desired, re sults. 10 YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events THIS WEEK taken from the 1943 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. Total sales made oil Poppy Day In Kings Mountain Saturday a mounted to $65.85, according to report of American Legion Auxi liary officials. Social And Per/tonal A wedding of much interest in Kings Mountain wag that of Miss Rosalie Bennet Polk of Rocking , ham, N. C. and Corporal Samuel Robe.t Suber, Jr. of Kings Moun tain, which took place Thursday evening, May 20 at 8 o'clock in the Camp Kilmer chapel in New Brunswick, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Hul lender are announcing this week the marriage of their daughter, Jennie Fiances, to Sgt. George M. Gasky which was solemnized on May 5 in Gulfport, Miss. Mrs. Garland E. Still was hos tess at six tables of bridge, en tertaining at her home on Pied mont avenue last Thursday even ing. Mrs. V. C. Schley of Wilming ton spent the weekend with Mrs. Grady King. Elizabeth Plonk, a member of the graduating class at Lenlor f^hyne college, spent the week end with her folks In Kings Moun tain. i Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Murray had as guests Friday a former pastor. Rev. F. R. Barber and Mrs. Bar ber of Marlon, N. C. Messers C. J. Gault and C. J. Gault, Jr. are In New York City where they are visiting Pic. Ro bert E. Gault who Is stationed with the armed forces near there. A - is'".-' . ? I.- '? . MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Harmon Ingredient a: bit a of newa, wiadotn, humor, and comment. Direction a: Take weekly, if poaaibte, but ovoid overdoaage. fane Opener Writing anything, particular ly a personal essay, has been anything but a nice chore dur ing the past few days, with the cool mountainous climate again run oil by another heat wave. It just plain looks like the weatherman is in collusion , with the air-conditioning deal ers. At live down and live a week, could we lose? J-o Thursday night is opening night lor the Legion baseball kids in the 1953 wars, and there is a glimmer of quiet optimism in the attitude of Coach Hal Dedmon and Legion ollic'.aii. They like the looks ol their players and they leel they'll do better than in some previous seasons. Jo They also like the arrange ment of eliminations this year. All teams play through a 14 game stand lor the area title. However, the linal winner is determined by a round-robin playoll, similar to the Shaugh nessy playoll used by many ol the pro leagues, except that all teams are involved. It means that a team which loses its llrst live games doesn't throw in the towel and quit. The change should help the spirit ol all teams, and the general condi tion ol the several team trea suries, too. Jo OlHe Harris is the athletic olllcer this season, and I have already nicknamed him "John Henry Moss" Harris, John Henry, now operating out in Wisconsin, having teen the most promotin' baseball pro motor In this town in recent seasons. Back when John Henry was running the semi pro Kings Mountain Vets, he was also on the city board ol commissioners, and John was always bringing up needed ball yard improvements. Another ol his pleas was. "That light rate is out ol reason." Ollie qualilied for the "John Henry" title when he invited the present administration to provide some light rate reliel on ballyard tenants. He was auccesslul, and, from the tenure ol last Fri day's game, it was a good thing. J-o Legion baseball remains the best brand ol all Irom the spec tator standpoint. Anything can happen, and quite Irequently does, when Legion teams hook up lor a nine-Inning setto. Jo Dotted jots: Grady Howard, rapidly learning the Intricacies ol operating a hospital, says one of the things he's already learned is that ho hospital, large or small, ever has all the various types ol equipment it needs. .... .recently the Kings Mountain plant had need lor a portable X-Ray machine, be cause it couldn't move some pa tients injured in a wreck, even as |ar as the X-Ray room. ..... Grady wonders 11 some civic group wouldn't like to make a donation. .... .At the recent pharmacy assocfation conven tion at Pinehurst. Charles Blan ton, president ol the Junior Pharmacy association, made a report on the activities ol the Junior group and among the prizes ollered to the drug gists attending were a pair ol rhinrhillac J-o A. U. Tindall, the Southern Railroader, is also a good gar dener In his off moments, and was vending tomato plants last Saturday ...... sorry I'm no gardener, for I know Mr. Tln dall's are nice 'uns .Mike Milam, now a New York sales man for Neisler Mills Com pany, was in town briefly last week, he has not bothered to pick up a Yankee accent as yet. .... Ray Kiser, son of Gus Kiser who lives up the Cherry ville Road, has recently receiv- | ed a promotion in the county agent's organization, h a v In g been appointed assistant county agent in Stanly County (Albe marle. county seat) ..... .his immediate superior Will be Ver-' non Hunneycutt, promoted from the asesistant's Job, and onetime agriculture teacher at Grover. ..... i J-o Speaking of alr-eonditloning (again), one of my neighboring friends doubts the adviafbllity of air-conditioning churches. He saya a preacher will have a hard time bringing up visions of Hell and the .smell of brim stone, if his hoairer is too cool and comfortable. May be right. .And. since they're air conditioning ears. It would not be amiss to let Amos Dean give a demonstration of this form of summer motoring comfort. , better still, ask to try out hit air - conditioned demonstrator for a few days Viewpoints of Other Editors ?? By A. C. Gordon | ACROSS 1? The country known at "down under*' ?-?French fiver famous in World War 1 '10? English textile city 1 2 ? Vehicle* 13 ? Water on the geographical map 1 5 ? Wholly absorbed 1 7? .Abbreviation for a southern continent II? Facipi toward the direction from which an overriding glacier impinged 20 ? Abbreviation for a world-famous dctert 1 1 ? Small U 8 tint* < abbrev ) 3 1 ? River m Oreat Britain 23 ? Small bag 2 S? Latvn abbreviation for "thai is" 26 ? W atersur rounded * trad o I land 2S ? City once famous foe It* culture 30 ? Indefinite article 3 1 ? Chemical symbol for erbium 32 ? An old German state (POM ) 35? Asiatic country 38? Printer's measure 31> ? Thus 40 ? Latin collective 4 I ? Real Land (Abbrev.) 4 fr? Playing card 44 ? French city 48 ? Discharge a debt 4 f? Alaskan City 51 ? A watery expanse between Arabia and Africa 52 ? Profits 53? African river 5 5? Largest river in Prance 57 ? Weatern dam named after a U S. pftsi DOWN 1 ? Swim rim (pew ) 1 ? Aacfcnl cfey of 1lM Clwldm (pom.) I ? Cktmktl symbol lor 4? Experimented 3 ? Northern territory * ? Landed EdunMn (abbrev.) 7? Noun tuft* equiva lent to "eer" ? ? Oirl'i name (poM.) ? ? Hawaiian island (pott.) 1 1 ? European country 12? Large touthein expanse of wattr 14? Eligible Ordert ( abbrev ) 16 ? Divnlon of northern Oreece (pott f 1 1 ? Japanete coin 1 9 ? To re? 21 ? Nativet of a Scandinavian country 24 ? The theater (abbrev.) 21? Scottish boy If? To diminish 33 ? City in the Canal Zosse 34? Correlative ot "neither" 36? Legal (or "the thine" Jj? Angry Arabian military commander 46? Latin abbreviation for "that ia" 4T? Roman I >31 46? Sprightly SO? The teW 31? Nothing 54 ? Enlightened Offer* (abbrev.) 36 ? Old English (abbrev.) S? Thm Want Ad Section For Thii Waek'a Completed Puzzle MUST WE FEAR THE "CONTROVERSIAL" Smithfield Herald American books used on for eign information programs are hereafter not to be written by "Communists, fellow travellers, or persons who might be consid ered controversial." This strange decree comes from the State Department at Washington which is asking book publishers who submit books for these purposes to certi fy that they are clean of such MQuences. * Thus is one more nail being driven into the coffin of free dom. If this official trend is main tained we can look forward to the time when an American citi zen will be a kind of neuter, | blank in the head and carrying a vacuum where knowledge and judgment are ordinarily expected. The United States was born amid controversy, rebellion, and defiance of constituted authority. The government of George HI was objectionable to the found ing fathers, and their spokesman questioned it and denounced it without stint although thousands of people on both sides of the Atlantic revered It as good and sound If not sacred. The republic set up by feeble colonies in -the latter part of the 18th century has passed thorugh many storms and stresses, and has weathered a thousand con troversies and a million differ ences of opinion, without being overthrown. Are we now so a frald of Cdmmunist opinion and doctrine that we must take fright at controversy lest it lead into Communism? The State Department used to be regarded ad one of the solidest government institutions. But here lately it seems to be suffering from nerves .as indicated by a tendency toward jilghtmares and a temptation to see hobgoblins on dark nights. What has be come of the Uncle Sam who used to be pictured as a fearless figure' with asquare Jaw. Final census ginnings for the 1952 season indicate a North Carolina cotton crop of 569,000 bales of 500 pounds cross weight, compared with 542,000 bales in 1951, ami 181,000 In 1950. NORTH CAROLINA CLEVELAND COUNTY IN THE SUPERIOR COUNT Flora Alton. Plaintiff Vs. Elmer Mctynard Allen, Defendant NOTICE The defendant above named will take notice that an action as above entitled has been com menced In the Superior court of Cleveland County, North Caro lina, wherein the plaintiff aeefcr a divorce from the defendant; that said defendant will also take notice that he la required to appear at the Cierk of Courfa Office at Shelby, North Carolina, within twenty (20) days after the- 29th day of June, 1953 and answer or demur to the com plaint now on file in the Clerk's Office, or the plaintiff will ap ply to the court for the relief de manded in said complaint. .... . This 29th day at May. 1953 . . E. A. Houaer, Jr. Clerk Superior Court 6:4 25-H ? - * ? ,? ft V?"c.fv [g, 1 ?' ?' ' - nr'fr mWinflB APPOINTMENT WITHOUT POLITICS The Chatham News Sound-thinking North Carolini ans are applauding Governor Urn stead's appointment of Ed Scheldt, former FBI man as Com missioner of Motor Vehicles. They are applauding the appointment on several counts but more par ticularly because it could mean an end to politics in this vastly important state agency. As an FBI man with a long record of outstanding service, Mr. Scheldt surely has learned how to keep politics out of the ad ministration of an important Job. Few agencies in government have had as clean a record as has the FBI when it comes to getting a long with whatever political par ty is in control. Even the most amateur of ob servers will have discerned, in the past, the political maneuver ing that has been a part of the motor vehicles picture. In the first place, the commissioner's Job is one of the choicest plums that falls to the Governor to hand out, often as a reward for politi cal support. In recent years the Job has been a political "hot spot". G*~ ernor W. Kerr Scott's retent. >\ of Chatham's Landon Rosser as a holdover from the Cherry ad ministration caused many people to forecast an end to politics. Governor Scott subsequently fired Rosser because of differ ences in last year's primary cam paign .even though It was gen erally conceded that Colonel Ros ser had done a creditable Job. L. R. Fisher succeeded Rosser with Governor Umstead subsequently exercising his perogatlve to re place him. In appointing Ed Scheldt it is difficult to see what political im plications there could be in such a course. Mr. Scheldt has been out of North Carolina for ? num ber of years ? adding to his Ma ture as an able law enforcement officer. He surely cannot He * member of any "ring" or "clique" that could prove valuable In poli tical contests that loom in the future. Battle Drama Has Personal Style By Charles* Padgett For the third season, the IHo ductlon of the historical drama about the. Battle of Kings Moun tain, "The Sward of Gideon" puts Into effect its own personal, style in the realm of outdoor histori cal dramas. It Is sponsored by the Kings Mountain Little Theatre, Inc., and the entire cast and produc tion crew of over 160 people are in the venture purely out of love for the theatre, or the desire to see their section of the Carollnas put its best foot forward. The only person who gets any mon ey Is the author, who receives a royalty. By throwing the drama open to all interested groups and in dividuals, a great reservoir of talent has been made available. Intensive talent auditions are held and all of the main roles are usually tilled by acton with years of experience in various non ? professional groups. They come from Gastonla, Shelby, Kings Mountain, Betemer City, N. C., and from Rock Hill and Yoric. S. C. Backstage sin even higher de? gree of professional skill has been utilized. Electricians offer their services as lighting men; carpenters build sets and stages; beauticians act as make-up girls; all in their spare time, and all for free because they believe in the play and want to see It succeed. The result of this Is a smoothly-staged, professional production. A proposed project this year Is to award dramatics scholarships to outstanding high school ac tors appearing In the pi ay. The production will toe given 12 times this summer in the Kings Mountain National Mili tary Park amphitheatre, begin ning July 23rd and continuing on Thursday, Friday, and Saturr day through August 15th, at 8 p. m. GRADE # lllUc 'A /? # It's Pasteurized # It's Homogenized ? It's Rich In Healthy. Wholesome Goodness CHILDREN LIKE SUNRISE " . N * r ' ' - * lust give the Children sunrise Milk and you'll find they truly like 1L 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 county. S unrise 1 ?V ? K'f "* <T ' GASTONIA.N.C. v. ? ? *? FOR RESULTS PEED I
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