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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 posto?fi?e at Kings Mountain, N. C*. under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon ' i. ... Editor- Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, 'Jr ,? Sports, Circulation, 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 6f Armed Forces) TELEPHONE NUMBERS? 167 or 283 ? ,i " ? SUBSCRIPTION KATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR? 42.50 SIX MONTHS? $1.40 THREE MONTHS? 75c BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE But the Lord is in his holy temple: lot all the earth, keep silence before Him. Habakkuk 2:20. A Recreation Policy From recent activities and statements of its officers, it seems that the City Parks and Recreation commission has evolved a two-fold policy which includes 1) the presentation of a public recrea tion program, low in cost but attractive in appeal, and 2) a long term effort to obtain a many-utility recreation plant. Further inferences can also be drawn, among them that the recreation com mission is expecting the plant to be a city-built operation, without the benefit of gifts, such as Shelby enjoyed. While gifts would be quite acceptable undoubt edly, it appears that no effort will be made to obtain them. It also appears that Burlington Mills' Corporation's generous offer of a site tract will be declined. Some of the rea sons are good and valid. If, indeed, a 50 aere tract is the aim, then the BurMil tract is too small. The cost of removing the Duke power line is also a limiting factor. However, the commission objec tion to BurMil's reversion clause does not seem too valid. Generally speaking, it is not unusual for donors to require that gifts be used for the designated pro jects. Many people think it is high time the city makes a start on the recreation business, with swimming pools listed as tops on the list of needs. The recreation commission is recommending a $150,000 bond issue to obtain these facilities. While this newspaper has long felt that sewer matters and water matters should take first consideration of boards of commissioners, particularly when they are considering improvements on borrowed money, it is possible that the city is in quite good enough shape to attend to all of it. Just because a man owes a balance on his home to the lend ing agency doesn't prevent his driving an auto until paying off time. The recreation commission, the Herald understands, is reasonably unanimous on the proposals Acting Chairman VV. K. Mauney, Jr., set forth recently, and our assumption is tlv.t the citizens will get their chance to approve or disapprove them within the next few months. Charles M. Graves, the recreation plant architect; impresses with his ability and experience and his state ments concerning the proper means of designing pools, buildings and play ground areas, plus his recommendation for having sufficient acreage for expan sion in the future, all make good sense. Attend The Fairl The headline to this particular note could well serve two purposes, both for the Bethware Fair which got underway Wednesday afternoon and which con tinues through Saturday night, or the renewal of the big Cleveland County Fair, which starts next Tuesday for a five-day run. With the Bethware Fair closer upon us. and certainly a next door neighbor if not completely in our own backyard, the Herald refers principally to it. The Bethware Fair has come a long way since it modestly began six years ago. It has improved annually from the standpoints of competition, . participa tion, interest and attendance, and this year's sixth presentation should con tinue that record. It is a very rine community fair, and all Bethware's neighbors not only - should support it with their visits but most likely will. Kings Mountain citizens interested in good music will want to purchase a sea son ticket in the 1953-54 Cleveland County Community Concert series. In addition to the Cleveland county per formances, the tickets entitle the pur chasers to admission to any Community Concert at other cities in the associa tion. Campaign Underway From all outward appearances the 1954 campaign for control of the Con gress, where the Democratic "outs" seek to regain the majority has begun, officially or otherwise. Former. President Harry Truman, launched it in a Labor Day speech when he advised all Democrats to keep the GOP on the griddle from now on. Pre viously, the ex-President had been more charitable toward the new administra tion than might have been expected, in the light of his vitriolic attacks during the 1952 presidential campaign. The next step in the political battle was the resignation of Martin Durkin as secretary of labor, ending a short and unhappy marriage of the GOP and Big Labor. No labor "pro", as Durkin is, can eat his words on the repeal of the Taft Hartley act, even though the law has not ruined'the unions, as was freely pre dicted. The Democratic speed-up of their of fensive continued in Chicago Monday' with the rally of party leaders and the nation-wide speech of Adlai Stevenson. Congress is Just slightly in the hands of the GOP, and the appointment of a successor to Senator Taft is likely to make it still closer. Thus a few vote shifts in 1954, which is historical in off-year elections, would put the Democrats back in control of Congress. Sometimes, this course is fatal to presidents, as it was to much maligned Herbert Hoover. It probably would not be for President Eisenhower, since the change would merely put the; more conservative wing of Southern Democrats back in control of Congress and its key committees. The GOP is going to have trouble per suading the farmer, who finds the price of his salable goods down 12 percent and the price of his purchases up one per cent, that the bad medicine had to come and really tastes good. Otherwise, the GOP can brag about ending the Korean mess and, regardless of the general atti tude that the United States nJight have sold . the South Korean government down the river, it is still a fact that the GOP halted the shooting and the dread ed casualty lists. That's hard to argue against. . It is also assumed that, with elections upcoming, the GOP will cut taxes fn all directions come January, which will be strong vote-getting appeal to everyone. The voting will not come in most states for 12 months yet, and the best bet is that the several situations, eco nomic, international, Russian, etc.. near er voting time will determine whether President Eisenhower, generally well liked on both sides of the fence, will get a new Congress of the desired faith. The completion of the nurse's home at the Kings Mountain hospital plant is another landmark in the building of this widely used, valuable public facility. It will mean that an important inducement can be added to all others that the hos pital management has at hand in keep ing the hospital well-staffed with cap able nurses. Due to marriages, heavy de mand and short supply, the turnover In nursing staffs at almost all hospitals is great. The new nurse's home should help to fill vacancies when they occur and also to stabilize the Kings Mountain hospital corps. Saturday is the last day for unregis tered citizens to get their isames on the voting scrolls in order to cast a ballot in the state'3 $72 million bond elections. It was not generally expected there would be a great registrator but the unusual inactivity has cause J many leaders to deplore the apathy a citi zenship which is not particularly excit ed, either for or against, on the subject of whether the state borrows large sums of money. 10 YEARS AGO Items of newt about King* Mountain area people and erents THIS WEEK taken from the 1943 file* of the Kings Mountain Herald. The Third War Bond Drive is going "good", according to Chair man J. R. Davis, who stated yes terday afternoon that he did not have any definite figures, but from all indications the first week of the drive was "very success ful." James G. Darracott.- J*-, recent ly won his Navy "Wings of Gold" and was commissioned an Ensign in the Naval Reserves. Social And Personal Mr. and Mrs. Byron Keeter are in New York on a business trip for Keeter's Department store. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jenkins) are expected home today from : , Baltimore, Md., where they have been visiting. Miss Virginia Summers left Tuesday for Gulf Park college, Gulf Park, Miss., where she is enrolled as a Student. Mrs. B. O. Weaver left Wednes day afternoon to be at the bedside of her father. G. F. Hambrtght, a patient at York County hospital. MARTIN'S MEDICINE Bf Martin Harmon Ingredients: bits of news, wisdom, humor, and comment. Direction ?: Take weekly, if possible, but ovoid overdosage. The first few days o I Sep tember came close to being the earliest iall on record, many people say, with low tempera: tures causing a sudden boom in fuel oil and coal, sales. Those who didn't lire up their fur naces or stoves had to dig deep for winter clothing, and even then they suffered with snif flitis. mm But fall must surely be pre sent with the football season underway, reminding that a number of local folk went to. Columbia the other night to see the early- season Redskin Steeler pro clash, among them Paul McGinnis and Neal Gris som. Ollie Harris, the elder, remarked that he would have gone himself, had not Xeal beat him to the draw. ? m-m - * Speaking of football ?!?? re minds that, if the high school Mountaineers are as good at making touchdowns as Coach Shu Carlton is at talking, the 1953 team should win a major share of its games. Shu made a good talk at the Lions club the other night, and, with a bit more regular experience, he could make the Peahead Walk er-Frank Howard league. m-m Shu drew big laughs on a number of stories and also when he bragged about Bud Mayes, his heavyweight lino man. Shu says Kings Mountain somehow seems to grow "little 'uns", and that no purchases of football trousers of greater girth than 36 inches had been made in five years. Young Mayes requires a 40, I believe the report was, and Shu wishes for more of the same, , ; . m-m The Carlton talk Ignited a continuing football discussion in the after-meeting drug store * bull session, and Wilson Craw ford, who once earned the nick name of "Cueball" for his un willingness to don a helmet in a football game, made a good contribution, on the subject of injuries. m.m i ''A coach told me onetime," Wilson said, "that a properly trained football player who plays hard and alert on every play would never be seriously injured, -if at all. Along during the season we were playing some team and I got a little tired. After stopping two plays ?y8I\ ?nter dead, I figured they d leave me alone the next time and I could rest a little. The next thing I knew they were over me like a steamroll ?r- , euy took me high, another low, and another fell on my leg. I heard a crunch, and spent the next six weeks on crutches with a busted leg The coach was right. If I hadn't been loafing I wouldn't have been hurt." m-m Wilson was playing at Mars Hill at the time, and later held down center for Ersklne, if Im not mistaken. He added that the same Mars Hill coach also said the difference be tween many good players and a 6, who make the all America selections was that self same loafing. "All-Amerl eans play 60 minutes," the coach said, "but those other talented boys don't play but say 40 or 50 minutes. They loaf the rest of the time." ? mm The same situation undoubt edly comes in more important business than football. m-ro In Gastonia a minute the other day, I dropped by the HoUum Bread plant and Mr Sanders and Walt Carroll, who ives mainly at Lake Montonia in. the summertime, showed me through the plant. It was the first time I'd ever Inspected the mechanical operation of a bread - making establJ hment, and it's really pretty wonder ful. Machines conduct every operation that grandma used to do when turning out loaf bread, even to a new one which is one of Holsum's more recent additions, a depanner. This machine merely dumps the bak ed loaf onto a. waiting rack but think how many man hours it 8?yes there are other ma chines for mixing, cutting, kneading, rolling, and wrapi Pmg, to mention a few The only human hands I ?aw touching the bread . was one pair. .... .the hands of the guy who placed every fourth or fif th loaf on the scales to insure that the cutting apparatus was working right and that the cus tomer wasn't getting cheated. . ? ... .In spite of the weekend ru?h. the bakery was pin A youngster was talking to a city garbage collector the other *? four-yea rold youngs tert afe wont to do and was heard to say, "Mama's going to have a baby tomorrow." The garbage collector "That's fine" TS^n the four-year- old asked. "Do you want one?" I now am able to report that the young man was CfcM cous* of traffic deaths and injuries in 1952 was speeding on straight roods. Only YOU con prevent ?rrlrisniil Viewpoints of Other Editors OPEN SEASON ON OYSTERS From the month of May through the month of August, oy sters aro not supposed to be in season, according to the popular legend, because the letter "R" does not appear in those months. According to newest informa tion, however, oysters in Ameri ca are every bit as good during these months as they are during the rest qf the year. In fact, says Dr. Thurlow C. Nelson, professor of Zoology at Rutgers University, oysters are their very best in fla vor, succulence, ahd food value in May. The legend about R-less mon ths grew up with European colo nists who brought to this country their unpleasant experiences re sulting from eating European oys ters during the four Spring and Summer months. European oys ters, Dr. Nelson says, are diffe rent from those native to the United States, for the former are likely to be gritty because the pa rents house the babies within their shells. 'Along the Eastern seaboard, where American oysters are bred in oyster "farms", the oysters feed themselves by pumping as many as 48 quarts of water through their bodies each day to strain out the algae which make up most of their food. The oys ter's pumping apparatus also casts eggs and sperm Into the surrounding water, instead of al lowing them to remain within the parent. We must admit that we used to put some stock in the legend and never ate oysters during those four months until ? Years back, Bud Aman and the gang of us would get out the old Sandpiper and haul anchor down the river. About mid-day we'd beach the boat and go in the slough and dig for clams and oys ters. That was In the summer tlTT/e. There wasn't a thing wrong with them except that the oys ters are just not fat in the sum mer months as they are in the cool. It's all in the look of them, not the taste, take it from me and us who found that out long before Dr. Nelson. ? Jacksonville Neios and Viexon, THANKS FOR WATER SUPPLY With cities like Asheville, Bur lington, and Raleigh deeply con cerned over their water supply, Albemarle can give thanks that local citizens several years ago,' under the leadership of a former mayor and city council, approved a bond issue which made possible our present water supply system. Had we been depending on the Long creek reservoir, water ra tioning would likely now be the order pf the day. Water has always been essen tial to life, but in congested com munities where it Is not possible for every householder to have a spring or a well, the leaders mu&t show wisdom in obtaining sour ces of water that will not fall in periods of drought. A failing water supply consti tutes a real danger to a large city, for conceivably fire could wreak terrible damage unless there is sufficient water to con trol fife. There are also health and comfort factors that should not be discounted. Albemarle has the best possible available source of water, one of the principal rivers of the state. Of course. AM! of money to establish a pumping station, lay a water line to the river, and build * MpR-YWKrvoir to the north of the city. there will be many times In the vears ahead when every citizen W^^pree- that the syfggMpS; %rorth every cent It ?*|fc Stanly Ne u* and Press t i 'ii i'.i ?gin i Tiif? n ??V.. i i i n a little off on his date and num ber; LETS BE EXTRA CAREFUL The local schools have started and hundreds of students of all ages from tiny tots up are walk ing the streets to make their way to their respective^ school build ings or standing on the highways waiting for school busses. They will be on the streets In large numbers. Many of them gay and without being as alert as they should be. This means that it is up to us, the motorists, to watch out Small children, making their way along the sidewalks to and from school, are not responsible for their actions. And that means that every driver should take It upon himself to be responsible for the children. For no one knows when a youngster absorb ed in play, is going to dart out into the street, or step from be hind a parked car. Children just don't think sometimes. And another thing... Those "Slow, School" warning signs placed along the sides of the streets near our own local schools weren't put there simply to ad vertise a soft drink. They were put there to warn motorists to slow down and to keep a wary eye out for youngsters as they drive by a school building. The life of one child is worth far more than getting somewhere a minute or two earlier than the law allows. ? Belmont Banner Lint yield per acre for North Carolina cotton in 1953 is esti mated at 290 pounds. The 10 year average is 345 pounds. ' PRESCRIPTION SERVICE We Fill any Doctors' Pre scriptions promptly cmd accurately at reasonable prices with the confidence of your phyiician. Kings Mountain Drag Company THE REX ALL STORE Phones 41?81 We Call For and Deliver S1SK FUNERAL HOME 309 E. King St. Telephone 37 SAFE. DEPENDABLE Ambnlance Service REASONABLE RATES? ?2 PER TRIP in the Kings Mountain area Free Ambulance Service in Kings Mtn. City Limits AT EASE, MEN! Lounge around all you like. Don't cramp your style to pamper your clothes. Let US do the pampering. Well bring back that "like new" v look In a flash for small cash. Give us a ringl WEAVER'S CLEANERS Phone 910 ? 310 N. Piedmont Ave YOU want to feel your best afl day long (WIHE is more tbori de*ick>M$ ? it's energizing, too. Try the 3-o-dSy way. 3 ado* I i mips Groat with food CHEERWtME IS IN TUNE WiTH YOUR TASTE UNLIMITED TAR HEEL FARMING IS BIG! With about one-third of North Carolina's population interested in agriculture, it it interesting to note that their 290,000 farm* had a cash income of $955 million in 1951. This amount equals the total income of 380,000 fully em ployed average textile workers! The ever-increasing farm income in our state goes far in helping to make North Carolina a better ptoce In which to work, play ond Uve for all of us. Another contributing factor to more pleasant living for North Carolinians is the brewing industry's ??K-regutatlon program where brewers, wholesalers and retailers? In coun ties where malt beverage vjles are permitted under State control ? cooperate to maintain wholesome conditions for the legal sale of beer and ote. North Carolina Division TJNIYED STATES BREWERS FOUNDAIiOH, INC. THE BEVfRAGf OF MODERATION TO THE HERALD! 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