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The Kings Mountain Hexald Established 1889 r Carolina i 'mjj AMOCIATM 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 postoffire at Kings Mountain, N. C., under Act of Congress of March 3,. 1873 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor-Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr.. Sports, Circulation, News P. IX Hemdon Society Miss Elizabeth 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 \yain, when the tricked man turnvth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth it which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul aiiue. Ezekiel 18:27. The City Budget In spite of a slash of $53,215, the city's ess fit the spending crystal ball for >3-54 is still a sizeable sum of $427, ?.50. Df course, it is not nearlv high enough, m the point of view oi the seeker af services, the services depending on ether enough money comes in, and, course, it is still too high, from the ? .nt of view of the well-served .who is erested, first and foremost, in cutting c bills, service bills, and the other Is emanating from City Hall. Vctually, the tentative budget, which 1 most likely be adopted as is between iv and July 28, is a fairly tight one 3 the estimates of income are pared the bone, on the advice of both the y clerk and city auditor. The idea is it it is hard enough to keep spending :hin income anyway, and particularly rd when the estimates of income are too high. impact of the power rate cut, promul ted at varying moments for varying tounts last year, is fully seen now with j cut in estimate of $39,000. Another : is in street assessments, logically, ce the law allows a taxpayer five irs to pay off the assessments. While it appears that the projected tlay for sewer lines and water lines iy be a bit puny, it is undoubtedly in ; minds of some of the board of com ssioners, and publicly stated by Ma r Bridges, that the current adminis tion will endeavor to secure bond is ; approval for some of- these basic ?vices. Slightly more than ten percent of the dget is-for capital outlay, or long-term jipment items which are considered ?re of investments than as operating ocnditures. The bigger this percent- . ? can grow the better. figures, generally, are pretty dull, 1 those in city budgets are not excep ns. t should be stated, too, that budgets ? merely estimates, and can be ex ided or contracted in direct propor n to the hrrivir! of income by a simple olution of the board of commission Jut the budget figures look pretty le, all in all, and are not likely to vary . much. ^yment of semi-annual dividends by lgs Mountain financial institutions ninds that a large number of Kings untain people are thrifty souls, sav ; weekly or monthly a portion of their ome, in order to make bigger pur ises later or to provide for the pro ?bial rainy day. The dividend pay nts continue to grow each six months, e reports of the several institutions >uld serve as a reminder to those who ve not yet developed the habit of reg .r savings that it is also better to be e than never to start at all. Pennies II count up to dollars. ' Charles lilanton, the city's newest armacist and top scorer on the recent iminations conducted by the State ard of Pharmacy, has brought honor t only to himself, but to his family and his community, as a result of the earn honor he has attained by scoring ;hest of all 1953 examinees. 5"or merchants and other eligibles, it time to buy privilege licenses. The nalty is five percent per month after Iy 31. Penalties are always superflu s, it seems, when it is common know Ige that the sure things of life are ath and taxes. Yet many make it a ictice to pay both taxes AND penal s. Work Cut Out The news that the nation went into the red by nine billion dollars for the fiscal year ended June 30 should have come as a great shock, or at least a source of alarmed dismay, to the citizens of the nation. But outside of a few editorial indica tions of pain, there wasn't much outcry about it. ? Reducing the figures by tens, to get them in more understandable propor tion, assume what would happen to the officers of a corporation who reported a record gross of $650,000, yet also show ed a loss of $95,000. The percentage of loss on gross is 13 plus. While a government does not operate like a business, and shouldn't from the customary profit-making aim, it should still be operated on ? businesslike prin ciples and deficit-making is not one of them, particularly in the high key cate gory of $9.5 billion dollars. Thus far the Eisenhower administra tion has shown moments of considerable improvement in this sorry business, principally via the heavy-handed met hod in which Secretary Wilson is caus ing pain among the free-riding military services. In other respects, there is some question as to whether the administra tion is really serious about a clean-up in waste and inefficiency. Some administration should devise a method of putting on the brakes, after the appropriating season, when income is less than . estimated, as was the in stance this year by three billion dollars. It will never be done though, as long as some, members of Congress exhibit the same kind of density they showed in recent interrogations of the Secretary of the Treasury. As the Secretary said it, some Congressmen couldn't seem to understand that mere Congressional ap propriating did not mean the money magically became available. First, the money has to get in the till before it can go out. The Herald believes strongly that the merchants of the community would find it mutually advantageous to cooperate ?on opening and closing schedules, both as to hours and holidays. The situation in this respect has been gradually de teriorating for the past several years, and the leadership of the Merchants As sociation would be wise to devote some considerable effort to re-establishing a reasonable schedule which those of ex treme view would find more readily ac ceptable as a middle ground of compro mise. The finance houses have proved long ujp that reasonaVe hours are easi ly maintained if all work together. Other types of business can do it too. Recommended for October 3 are the bond issue votes which the good mem bers of the 1953 General Assembly left to the people to decide, including $50 millions for school construction and $22 million for permanent improvements to the state's mental institutions. The leg islators went ahead and took the rap for the other bond issue on construction for other state institutions. They recognized it had least a chance of passing. The most needy projects were left to the peo ple to decide. Another Kings Mountain citizen has also brought recognition to the commu nity, through his election as president of the North Carolina Chiropody Asso ciation. A cordial bow to Dr. William Lawrence Mauney, who was elected to this office at the Winston-Salem con vention last week. /vY EARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events [ v/T HIS WEEK taken from the 1943 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. i t . ? ? . ? - ? ? ? loys are reminded by the local 1 *ft Board that they trust r<>R ;r on their 18th birthdays, ighbors arc asked to remind ing men of this duty. Socio I And Personal Jr. and Mrs. Aubrey Mauncy ertained with a cake-cutting thteir home on Gaston Street t Tuesday, having as their ssts the entire Pteher- Mauney jding party and close relatives (the bride. JIss Helena Parton wjis h<? t at a Jov?>;\ ? par* . 'i'. r?sd?> ht when ena* v [two tables of bridge and two of i rook, honoring Mrs. C. P. Fisher. hoc Miss Martha Lou Maitney, whose marriage was an event of I last week and Mrs. Charles iThomasson, Jr., nee Miss Lena 1 Wright, a bride of early summer. Mr. S. C. Ratterree is visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Blalock in (South HiU, Va. \ Pvt. R. A. Jolly who is station jed in Austin. Texas, spent SJunday at home^ lie made the trip by plane, ' Cpl. Billy Thornburg has re ,:u. n?'d to Carr.p Sieber, A>a. af:et spending a ten day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Y. F. Thronburg. Pvt. Fred Ware of Fort Oix. N. J. spent several days recently with his mother, Mrs. Flossie Ware and daughter. Pvt. Lloyd Kistler of Jackson. Miss, spent Wednesday here with friends. Rev, arid Mrs. C. P. Fisher whose marriage took place at St. Matthews Lutheran Church last week have been visiting relatives In Kings Mountain after return ing from their wedding trip. . MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Harmon Ingredient*: bits of news, wisdom, humor, and comment. Direction t: Take weekly, if vowible , but avoid overdosage. 1 hope all had a nice Inde pendence Day holiday, were it Saturday or held over as the movlemen say, to Monday. - B'B ; Y... '* , J. C. Bridges, Who has a fancy, easy-to-work 300-year calendar he carries . around in his pocket, had no great trou ble figuring out the past and iuture years in which July 4 ai rived, or arrives, on Satur day. ' ? n ill ; Alter he said 1942 was the last time such had occurred un til this year, I reasoned that the closing problem could not have been a problem in 1942, with the country embroiled hi war. Obviously, I thought to myself, everybody had to be patriotic and undoubtedly the town was shut down tight. m-m . But another fellow had exactly the opposite idea. Oh, no, he opined, everything was going full blast in the war. Nothing would have^ closed. Which view prevailed, I do not know. A search of the files, both before and after Satur day, July 4, 1942, reveals noth ing. Perhaps some old Mer chants Association minutes would relate the answer. m-m But I remember what I was doing on that particular day. It wasn't exactly a holiday, for I was at midshipman school and the good navy boys had to help put on a show. Then-Veep Hen Wallace, as the late H. Y. Belk called him, was the re viewing guest of supreme rank and it was the usual New York city parade, with the line of march about 70 blocks up Fifth Avenue. m-m It was a very hot day, and, as mentioned previously, I was very lucky to be a clarinet too ter rather than a bass horn blower. And march we did. Sad part of the whole thing was that we had no nearby conven ing place for the trip back home. Our march over to the East River for a return trip by navy barge was longer than the parade route. Several midship men conked out from the heat. m-m That parade reminds me that about everything anyone ever did in the military service was probably good experience but that one time was and is enough. m-m Speaking of the military ser vice reminds that the 3 D show "Fort Ti" was the real thing as far as "realistic" depth was con cerned. I had read some of the blurb notices and they left a big question-mark sticking out. But I really did pummel the back of my seat when the blazing tomahawk came straight at me. mm Third Dimension, be it three D, cinemascope or cinerama, whichever is perfected to be I the best system, is going to be a big thii g in returning movies to their old pinnacle at the top of the mass entertainment field. It may not be as great a development as the talkies, but it certainly ranks with technicolor. Remember Sylvia Sydney and Henry Fonda in the "Trail of the Lonesome Pine"? If I'm not mistaken, that was Number 1 for a full length technicolor film. xn-m Third dimension is pretty good stuff. mm In the July heat, air-condi tioning salesmen should go to town. A number of business folk are weighing seriously the merits of the system as against the demerit (cost of installa tion) .... . .and Aubrey Mauney has installed at Kings Moun tain Manufacturing office the GE heat pump system, which heats in winter and cools In summer and supposedly ex tracts its heat, or lack of it, from the air electrically operated, the cost. Aubrey says, isn't too great, either initial or o p e r a 1 1 o nal they were complimenting Ben Jenkins, the farm management opera tor the other night, about keep ing boll weevil down to ten per cent Infestation In his several cotton fields ..sounds like a lot of dusting. .... .but I helped check a field the other afternoon and didn't find a weevil in a pretty good area. Sam Hamrick doubted I knew what I was looking for, or recognized ft when I saw it. G. C. Kelly, Craftspun Yarns t o p m a n , gets called both George and Clayton. I was dividing time between the tw6 until I asked and learned he prefers the "George" CROSSWORD ? ? ? By A. C. Portion | ACROSS 1 ? Military procession S? To cheek 10 ? Public notice 1 I ? Shellac ingredient 1 3? Preposition 14? N native 1 6 ? Chosen 19 ? Division ol the day 2 0 ? Doctrine 2 2 ?Chemical ijrinbol for silver 23? Either - 7 4 ? Small drink J S? Within 27 ? Noun suflVx equivalent to "ier" 19 ? Parent * 30 ? Animal 33 ? Pointer ' 3 5 ? Southern U. ?. ?tate (abb.) 36 ? A paradise (pi,) 37 ? A couple (abb.) 38 ? Kind ol meat 40 ? Auction* 43? Roman 60 Generalities 44 ? Affirmative voti 46 ? Pronoun 4 7 ? The sheltered side 49 ? My* trie Sanskrit word 50 ? Latin abbreviation for "note well" 52 ? A speck 34 ? Lines (abb.) 33 ? Make wider 38 ? Chemical symbol for ruthenium 60 ? That iaM (abb.) 61 ? Sboebonean Indian 62? Exclamation o I inquiry 63 ? Retard DOWN 2 ? Ancient sun eod 3 ? Citric drink 4 ? Lyrical poets fc ? Free 7? Printer's miaann H ? Type of electric IS? Bona 17 ? Musical note 1 1? Comparative sufllx 19 ? Jumbled type 21 ? A marvel 24? Tested 36 ? Compass direction 3 8 ? Adversary 39 ? Musical note 31 ? Girl's name 32? Adults 33 ? Beast of burden 34 ? Previously 38 ? Roar 39 ? Bovine 4 1 ? Exist 42? Planet 4 4 ? Love aflslr 4 5 ? Terminated 48 ? Aerial train 49 ? Either 51 ? Part of verb "to be" S3 ? Noun suffix denoting state of quality S3 ? Water 56 ? Toward 57 ? Snare 60 ? Preposition 63 ? Exclamation Sm The Want Ad Section For This Week's Completed Puzzle ( Viewpoints of Other Editors REST FOR A WARRIOR New York Times There Is probably iioi.iiiii& in the world Winston Churchill would rather do than go some where on a ship, preferably a battleship. There is probably no project dearer to his heart than a full agreement with the United States and France and some kind of settlement with Russia that would lift from the world the aw ful fear of war. When, therefore, he accepts the verdict of two phy sicians that he must not go to Bermuda "for at least a month" the world can be sure that wear iness has at last diminished his enormous energy. ^ The Bermuda conference ran into difficulties from the very beginning. It might have taken place and been over by this time if the French had been able to form a Government. Now, just as the French have their Govern ment, this new postponement be comes inevitable. For another month, possibly for a longer time, Bermuda will remain a playground and not a spot where fate writes her decisions. The diplomatic illness is a fa miliar thing, but it is impossible to believe that Winston Churchill, man of action and quick decision that he is, could ever have a dip lomatic illness or a diplomatic weariness. If there is any profit out of the episode, it is that the delay will give time for new de velopments in the world situation. There may be a truce in Korea when the Big Three come at last to Bermuda. The Russian policy, if out of Moscow's apparent con fusion a policy is soon to come, may be clearer. The arguments for or against a Big Four con ference following the Big Three conference may become more ex plicit. History will not stop flow ing because there is no confer ence. The tides of our affairs rise and fall whether great men are sick or tired or active, whether they ' meet or whether they go fishing. But as to one point there is no need for speculation. There will be practically a unanimoiis hope herA and throughout the demo cratic world for Mr. Churchill's early restoration to full health and vigor. The Prime Minister's friends say that he has "had no respite for a long time." One can Imagine the indignation .with which he would receive any sug gestion that the time for his re tirement had arrived. If he were to send a message It would un doubtedly be the familiar "V" for victory. He is that kind of man. He has lived through worse ordeals than that caused by the fatigue of office. American per capita annual consumption of milk dropped from 824 pounds (based on fat solids) in 1939 to 695 pounds in 1952, a record low. HOW NOT TO END THE INSURANCE RACKETS Smithfield Herald Representative Clifton Blue of Moore County Is right in challeng ing State Insurance Commission er Waldo Cheek on Cheek's strange way of ending one par ticularly foul racket by certain health and accident companies. Some of these companies have been cancelling policies at tha very moment when they are needed ? that is, when sickness or accident comes. In such cases the policy owner may find he has no redress, and can't even ex pect a warning. Mr. Blue introduced a bill in the last legislature looking to wards an end of this racket. The bill was quietly strangled to death by one of those processes which the big interests know how to work on legislatures. But the issue would not stay down and Commissioner Cheek was obliged to take note of it. But observe how he did it. He named a committee to investi gate the matter and recommend any needed changes. The com mittee was made up entirely of insurance men. Not one member was named to represent the pub lic interest or push action on complaints. This principle, If observed else where, would name robbers to re form robbery, or appoint grafters to suggest changes in current grafting methods. Representative Blue wrote to Cheek pointing out that the omis sion to give the policy-buying public a voice or vote makes it look like a whitewash job. Even a suggested second committee to consist of public representatives might be soothing, but would not necessarily end the racket or even reform it. Plainly, the racket ought to be stopped in its tracks. Irresponsi ble insurance companies ought not to be allowed to operate one moment in the state of North Carolina. They cast discredit on the whole insurance business, and we hope Representative Blue keeps right after their racket un til it Is thoroughly scotched. ^ARTHRITIS? I have been wonderfully bless ed in feeing restored to active life after being crippled In nearly every Joint In my body and with muscular soreness from head to foot. I had Rheumatoid Arthritis and other forms of Rheumatism, hands deformed and my ankles were set. Limited sapce prohibits telling you more hiere, but If you will write me I will reply at once and tell you how I received this won derful relief. Mrs. Lelck S. Wier 2805 Arbor Hills Drirs P. O. Box 3122 Jackson 7, Mississippi 3 A DAY HELPS KEEP FATIGUE AWAY CNCttWtMC is a tost* thriller that helps you look and feel *"??? J ? 1 310 Family Security Comes From What Yon Save While incomes axe steady, we invite 70a to savea part of each week's earnings and you will be surpris ed how fast the account will grow. XI you have saved $1004)0 or $1,000.00 and wish to invest this lump sum for a regular cash income you may do so and dividend check will be mailed out to you July 1st and December 31st each year. The cur rent rate is 3 per cent ,4 Your account with us Is always worth 100 cents on the dollar, free from fluctuation. All accounts are insured up to $10,000.00 when in vested in the Kinoa Mountain. N. C. HOME BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION Comer of Mountain and Cherokee Streets KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. JL H. Patterson. Secretary & Treasurer Drink Sunrise # It's Pasteurized # It's Homogenised # It's Rich In Healthy, Wholesome Goodness CHILDREN LIKE SUNBBE fast give the Children sunrise Milk and yonll 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 dairy industry in your county. Sunrise GASTONIA, N. C. \ CLASSIFIEDS
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