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?igp. The Kings Mountain Herald '?fSp' Ertabllih?d 1889 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion o f the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens ol Kings Mountain and Its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the postofflre at Kings Mountain, N. C-, under Act of Congress of March 3. 1873 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martln Harmon Editor- Publisher ? Charles T. Carpenter, Jr. ........ .. Sports, Circulation, New# Mm. P. IX Herndon J ...... 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? $1.40 THREE MONTHS?? 75c BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Every word of God in pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Proverbs 30:$. Korean Armistice The Korean War, though a skirmish compared to. the great conflict of 1939 45 known as World War II, lasted half as long, and killed people just as dead as its more comprehensive predecessor. Great majority of the casualties were in the first year, the past two years hav . ing been taken up with truce talk which finally paid ?.ff. Nevertheless, the fight ing had been going on at all times, with varying degrees of intensity. There is no agreement, among anyone, about the efficacy of the Korean War. The Communists immediately took to the radio to brag about beating the Yankee. At least, the United Nations, or its main contributor the United States, has made not boasts about winning any thing. In the sense that this nation has always fought wars ? in the MacArthur tradition* of winning by leveling the enemy to its knees ? the United States and United Nations did not come close. Many people are hopeful that the three years of limited action has served sufficient notice on the Communist ex pansionists that such action will not be tolerated in the future. But President Eisenhower, Generals Clark and Taylor, indeed, no American leaders, offer any encouragement that the armistice is more than just that. Few responsible Americans criticize this nation for leading the United Na tions into the Korean conflict. The emo tion of helping to defend against the in vader was noble, and the reasoning that aggressors can be stopped in their tracks better than after their giant steps, as with Hitler and Mussolini, was sensible and practical. The conduct of the war is what came in for criticism. It helped to cost the Democrats the 1952 election, and the continuance of the piecemeal war policy has not heightened the regard for the Eisenhower government. Time will tell whether the military re sistance to Communist aggression was in vain, and whether, as some think, the Korean truce will soon compare with "the Munich umbrella" as a sad phrase in the history of the free peoples of the world. Meantime, all will rejoice with the pa rents of draft-age youngsters that the shooting war has halted. May there be no cause for its resumption. A Friday Date Ten Kings Mountain citizens have giv en a gallon of blood via the Red Cross Bloodmobile program, which means that they have visited the Bloodmobile unit eight times to help save the life of some one else. The Red Cross Bloodmobile unit comes here again on Friday, with the ever-pressing need for blood more press ing than ever. The big new reason is "g. g.", or gam ma globulin, a blood derivative that scientists think will prevent infantile paralysis from wreaking its terrible crippling effects on those it strikes down. Some advance news of gamma globu lin was heard here 'last March when the Red Cross was conducting its annual fund drive. A big part of the Red Cross contributions go into the blood collec tion program. The results of experi ments on polio were reported as quite amazing and quite wonderful. Little did local chapter officials know at that time, nor did anyone, that 1953's polio onslaught would hit heavy in near by Newton, Hickory and Lenoir. There, unfortunately, the mass innoculations of voungst' with gamma globulin will give am '<ier great test to the. efficacy of "g. g ". If ten people give a gallon, a 150 and more can give a pint. Friday's the day. Make a date with 'the Bloodmobile registrar. Best wishes to Dr. P. G. Padgett in the difficult, important position of Blood Program chairman of the Kings Moun tain Red Cross chapter. Same Old Sandy It took a long time and a veteran shooter-from-the-hip to accomplish it, but the Umstead administration has fi nally caused a yelp by its political head chopping, whereby it is merely practic ing an old game made popular by that venerable Democrat General Andrew Jackson and a game better known as the spoils system. Reference is made, of course, to the dismissal of Miss Sheffield as the super intendent of Woman's Prison, a job which doesn't sound like it was meant for a female in the first place. All in all, the Umstead firings and dis missals have been handled with the greatest of ease. Most politicians, who found themselves on the wrong side of the fence, knew what was coming and politely handed in their i*esignations. Others, liking the pay and having noth ing else to do, sat around and waited for the dismissal letters. The Governor even legislated some of 'em out by getting the General Assembly to change the expira tions on terms of office of the Board of Conservation and Development, and there was no audible complaint. Now, comes along Highway Chairman Sandy Graham and tries to ease out a lady. "'How come?" the lady wants to know. "I'm running my job and I deserve an explanation." Ordinarily, one would be shocked at this shocking display of lack of know ledge of the facts of political life, except that the memory box will recall the wail ing of 1949, when then-Governor Scott was trying to get his team in office. Miss Sheffield's protest and the ac companying furore causes two interest ing memories, the wails of '49 being one of them, and the personality of Highway Chairman Graham another. Graham comes of the old school of government in which the officeholder appears to have no great interest in what people think of the job he is doing. The officeholder makes a decision, the decision is right because he made it, and there's no requirement for reasons. It was the same sort of attitude that kept Mr. Graham in hot water as Governor Cherry's dictatorial, though efficient, highway commission chairman. In the particular instance, it is rather easy to agree with Mr. Graham. It is a personnel matter, he desires to make a change, and that is within his full pro vince, reason not withstanding. But it is easy to see that no change has been wrought in the personality of the man from Hillsboro, who will build and main tain our roads, in addition to superin tending our maldoers, for the next four years. All will hope for the repeal of the tax on motion picture admissions. Principal reasons are that 1) a sick industry needs some succor, and 2) it's high time some of the wartime taxes came off. None will ever be removed unless a start is made. Another tax that might well head for the chopping block is the excise tax on telephone rent. Telephones have become a necessity of life. One of the more efficiently function ing boards in local government is the county hospital board of trustees. Thus it is a pleasure to commend the retiring members on their good service, and to congratulate both the new members and the officers elected to serve during the coming year. Our best wishes to the new chairman and vice-chairman, Parris Yel ton, of Shelby, and C. F. Harry, ot Gro ver. Resignation of Rev. Vance Daniel as pastor of Resurrection Lutheran church came as a source of real regret to mem bers of his congregation and to the com munity. too. Mr. Daniel feels he has com pleted his particular task with the Re surrection church, and, indeed, the two plus years he has been here have been most productive, the physical plant and affairs of the church show. 10 YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and e rents THIS WEEK taken from the 1943 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. Soritl and Personal Mrs. John Randall is visiting ! her husband who is stationed at I Fort Pierce. Fla. A. H. Patterson is vacationing ^ at WaynesviUe and Lake Juna luska. . ? Mrs. Clarence P16nk, Jr. enter taineri with a miscellaneous show tr at her home on King street Tuesday night complimenting Miss Phyllis Patterson, brid? Mrs. H. E. Lynch was hostess :o her bridge club last Thursday afternoon at her home on Ridge street. Pfc.. John Costner who it sta tioned at Daniel Field, Augusta. Ga., is visiting relatives here. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Harmon Ingredient ?: biit of nev*, wisdom, humor, and comment. Direction* : Take weekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage. . Ttoday is the last day of city wide Clean-Up Week, and, by now, everyone should have busi.ed himself with the spray gun, mop, lawn mower, and duster and be living in the midst of purest and hnost sani tary sanitation. m-m Of course, everyone hasn't cooperated with the cleaning effort as he might have, which reminds that it is hard to get 7,206 souls ' to do everything the same way, or thinking the same thoughts at any given time. But Clean-Up Week Is all right, and the city would do well to organize a Clean-Up week about twice .each year, in spring and fall, perhaps, "to get the eyesores f-emoved and the disease breeders eliminated. m-m I heard some objections to the pity's spraying job, but it wasn't what I had thought it might be. I wondered about the low-flying plane hovering close over housetops to douse the mosquito- infested creek banks. But the yelping I heard, in several spots, Was that the spraying man did too good a job. He ran the skeeters out of the creek banks, and into the homes. Such an accusation I cannot make. It isn't safe to be outside the screening on Mountain Street at night at anytime from June to October and I am trying to find the source of the trouble, without success. m-m Cleaning up can be fun. The Herald, coincidentally, got it's spring cleaning started a few months late and just as Clean Up Week got underway. Mike Everhart and his painting crew invaded and made the paint and rubbish fly. It has been quite sometime since this treatment had been applied in any direction, and the produc tion headquarters hadn't been treated since the building was built. For anyone who wishes to try It, I am happy to report that, on a non-painting mara thon, the first five years are the hardest. After that the dirt doesn't show as fast. m-m But I don't recommend it. We'd made several false starts toward the clean-up job and were loijfd many times, for as many reasons. Finally we got the bulging building cracks daubed, then the roof covered, then the carpentry repaired, and finally came the painters. The repair pro gram really started last Janu ary and is being more or less completed eight months later. mm What's the old saying? It's easier (and cheaper) to build than to repair. I am inclined to believe it. m-m ' Speaking of cleaning up re minds that a number of folk got to preview an interesting motion picture last Friday morning with Ed Tutor, the new Joy-Dixie combine execu tive, as host. It was entitled "Reaching From Heaven" and is booked for public showing a couple of weeks hence. The film, as Ed says, "carries a message" and an ages-old one. It suggests that Christianity is practical in a workaday world and It portrays some rather graphic examples of the messes in which folk can find them selves. The picture is entertain ing and the message is not of fensively given. Neither, as Dr. W. P. Gerberding noted, is the story filled up with the sort of blackmail practiced in the re ligious technicolor movie of not too long ago, I forget the name. No seven veils In it, but plenty of believable make-believe. If cleanliness is next to Godliness, then the world could use an extra dose of "Reaching From Heaven", m-m Hugh Falls may not have been cleaning up last Friday, but a bumble bee cleaned up on him. Unusually, or it seemed to Hugh and me. no trouble re sulted for about four hours. Then the stung spot started swelling and hurting. Bumble bees are not ni??e folk to do business with Claude Hambright. long a long-day worker who used to be the first breakfast customer to the ear liest opening cafe, still puts in the same sort of day but the hours have changed some. "I don't g^t up 'til 6:30 now." Claude confides: .... ,wh i ch still sounds something like the middle of the night to a 7:45 man ...... and had you noticed the faliish tinge in the air?. ... ..still plenty of hot weather ahead, but nights will be cooler, and quilts will get some early morning attention from the | lady folk, who, usually, are either too hot, or too cold and Byron Keeter says he sold a winter coat the other day .to an early-bird buyer made me swelter to think about it. .but believe it or not, lit tle ones, school bell* will he ringing a month hence Who , ME? I?v Robert Osfoorn TH? Twl?ri Sofaty S?ryke In 1952, 6,650 p*d?*trians w*r? killed and 265,000 hurt. OWy YOU can pr?v*nt traffic accident*! Viewpoints of Other Editors FOR THE CHILDREN. GIVE PINT OF BLOOD The polio epidemic in Caldwell and Catwaba counties has em phasized the need for more do nations of blood to the Red Cross. In Caldwell County nearly 13, OOOchildren were inoculated with gamma globulin. Catawba Coun ty is asking for enough to give shots to 15,000 children. If this demand is met, 28,000 shots will be required for the children of the two counties. The average shot is one unit, or five cubic cen timeters, depending on the age of the child, and It takes a pint of blood to process one unit. To meet the demand for gamma globulin in these two counties, therefore, will require 28,000 pints of talood, not to mention the calls from oth er counties all over the country. For the sake of the children of North Carolina, now is the time for everybody who is In physical condition to give a pint of blood to give it at once. The Red Cross processes the blood for gamma globulin, and the supply is des perately short. This blood can be made to serve a double purpose, because, after the gamma globulin is extracted, the blood elements left can still be used on the battlefields in Ko rea and in cases of serious acci dent. Gamma globulin does not pre vent polio, but in many cases it will prevent the crippling effects of the disease. The child who has had a shot in time has a much better chance for complete re covery. The pint of blood . you give, therefore, may make the dif ference between a child's return to health and his being a lifelong, cripple. It is worth a pint of anybody's blood. ? Charlotte Observer. Rites Conducted For Mr. Sellers Funeral services for \V. P. Sel lers, 56, resident of Paw Creek, I S. C., and native of Kings Moun tain, were conducted Friday at 5 p. m. from McEwen West Cha pel. Rev. Charles Auten, pastor of Thrift Baptist church, officiated and burial was in Forest Lawn cemetery. Mr. Sellers died at his home | early Thursday morning. Born November 27, 1896, he was | the son of David W. and Roxanna [ Adams Sellers of Kings Mountain. For more than 33 years, he was employed by the Thrift terminal of Esso Standard Oil Co. He was a member of Thrift Baptist church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Julia Falls Sellers, three daugh ters, Mrs. H. L. Walker of Dur ham, Mrs. Joyce T. Bolton of Richmond, Va., and Miss Carolyn Sellers of the home, and one son, Charles Curtis Sellers of the home. Also surviving. ire three broth- ? ers, Giles Sellers of Kings Moun tain, C, B. Sellers of Charlotte,] and Ralph Sellers of Cllffside; ? two sisters, Mrs. Marvin Goforth and Miss Emma Sellers, both of Kings Mountain, an <2 iive grand children. Day-to-day and year-to-year changes In farming techniques present the American farmer with many problems. SELL IT THRU THE MSB A LD WANT ADS ON THE MATTER OF SHAPE We note that The Charlotte News and the Asheville Citizen are entangled in the challenge of putting square ice cubes in round bottlenecks; That the editorial battle of the Smithfield ham still rages be tween Eastern North Carolina and the all of Virginia; That The Greensboro Daily News has opened a whole new field of study in peeking the final [answer as to which of the berries ? straw, rasp, dew, etc. ? is the tastiest; That the North and the South are locked in deadly journalese ' on the merits of grits. (Shall we eat 'em or use 'em for plaster?) All this on the heels of last year's devastating editorial bat tle on the palatabillty of the cat fish. (In Eastern N. C. they throw the cats back; In Western N. C. they are a delicacy.) This reminds us that nobody { has taken time out to whip up interest in the fellow working on the theory that hens should lay square eggs. The square egg Idea fascinates us. You can stack 'em better, sit 'em on the sideboard and they'll sit there, and put 'em in a square sandwich and they won't run a round the edges. Of course, The News and The Citizen might have difficulty cooking a square egg in a round pan; North Carolina and Virginia j might be thrown into armed con flict if the egg question further beclouds the ham argument ? the same for the North and South on grits; and the* egg debate might do away forever with the catfish discussion. A full airing of the question, nevertheless, might throw some light on a long-standing egg question. At the moment the fel low who's working on the new idea says positively that, square or round, you still can't unscram ble 'em. ? Shelby Daily Star. | The life of tobacco shade cloth has been increased from one to &ree seasons by recent research. If all U. S. tobacco farmers used only cloth treated to last three seasons instead of one that could save between two and three mil lion dollars a year. Small Salvage I THOUGH you may save some easy-to-remove posses sions, before a fire drives you out, chances are you can't save very much. Don't gamble your hard* earned personal property dollars. Count up today's value of vhat's inside your house. Then call on us for adequate insurance! , C. E. WARLICK Insurance Agency Phone 9 203 W. Moos tain SL PROMOTED PACIFIC FLEET (FHTNC) ? William P. Gerberding, son of W. P. Gertoerding of 200 Piedmont st., Kings Mountain, N. C., and husband of Mrs. Ruth Gerber dlng of Le &ueur, Minn., was re cently congratulated toy Navy Capt. F- C. Stelter, Jr., command ing officer of the heavy cruiser USS Saint Paul, upon being pro moted to the rank of Navy Lieu tenant (junior grade). Lt (J*) Geriberdlng was graduated from Maealester College, St. Paul, Minn., .prior to entering the Navy. V ? - . ? Current prospects lor the 1953 North Carolina apple crop point to a. total production of 844,000 bushels, compared with la?t year's record high of 2,053,000 bushels. So Your ChHd Doesn't Like Mtfk ? SISK FUNERAL HOME 309 E. King St. Telephone 37 SAFE. DEPENDABLE Ambulance Service REASONABLE RATES? S2 PER TRIP in the Kings Mountain area Free Ambulance Service in Kings Mtn. City Limits Do this ami keH drink it h ?jmd tike k ami yeU for more you provide yarn cWd wHh pkwn or -1 L~^~ ; odd CMKWMI ottd wo*c+t Ms a neat WM4e trick fbat works ? or?d it enetgy to rwUk. ?WINE B IN TUNC WITH YOUR TASTE Drink Sunrise # It's Pasteurized # It's Homogenized m It's Rich In Healthy. Wholesome Goodness CHED3EN LIKE SUNRISE Inst ghre the Children samise Milk and yonH find they truly like it It's the best way to prove how good it really Is. And. too, when yon Buy Sunrise yon are building the dairy Industry in your own county. S r GASTONI A, H. C. ? . He , ?' jLLii v'., SeSa -is. , p y- ' - ' vjIm
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