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? V, ? , . m. The Kings Mountain Herald Establish** IBM 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 clais matter at the po^toff J**e at Kings Mountain, N. C, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Edltor-PubHsher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr. Sports. Circulation, News Miss Elizabeth Stewart . . ... ....... .t? . ?7. ... . .vTr .v.- Society MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Horace Walker David Weathers Ivsn Weaver* Charles Miller Paul Jackson (?Member of Armed Forces) ?T TELEPHONE NUMBERS? 167 or 283 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE (WE YEAR? 12.50 SIX MONTHS ? $1 .40 THREE MONTHS? 75c . BY MAIL ANYWHERE ? TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE In him ivas life, and the life tww the tight of men. St, John 1:\. Telephone Service There was little detail in the recent resolution by the city board of commis sioners in which, the city fathers plan to seek better telephone service for the community. It was not stated what was meant by "better" or "improved", but, in view of the personalities involved and state ments of the past, it can be assumed that the effort will be directed toward obtaining dial service. ? Already, telephone company officials have told Kings Mountain folk that dial service is eventually to be inaugurated, but the> have always refused to even indicate a date more accuratei;' than in "a few years." It has also been indicated that Kings Mountain will be among the last cities in Southern Bell's North Car olina operation to become dial-equipped, due to the fact of ample space in the present exchange. This paper hasn't previously been t-oo excited about obtaining dial service, fi guring fairly good service is now provi ded, and having been informed by citi zens of dial-equipped communities that dial has its operating troubles, too. Dial does eliminate human error, which is constantly charged, sometimes un reasonably, to the hard-working tele phone operators. The telephone operator has long been a favorite whipping girl of irate mothers, hen-pecked husbands, and over-wrought executives. But the number of telephones contin ues to mount here, and, with rural addi tions, now tops 2,000. It means that many four-digit numbers are in the books, and this newspaper had occasion to call a number, fairly recently, which went something like this: H72-L-J-3. Needless to say, the operator had to get a couple of repeats 'when the number didn't answer immediately. She couldn't remember that long digit. Indeed, it does seem about time for Southern Bell to come through with a modern dial exchange. The First National Bank spent sever al dollars last week in purchasing a full page edvertisement in this newspaper to remind Kings Mountain citizens that their own home-town stores could fill almost any Christmas stocking not only to the brim, but with gifts that please, and at cheaper prices. It was a nice ges ture by the bank to its neighbors, the merchants, and the contentions were eternally true. Incidentally, the adver tisement was bought, not sold Plan to attend the many Christmas programs being presented at the chur ches of the community. There's no bet ter way to Ret imbued with the spirit of Christmas than in hearing the lovely Christmas music and in listening to the re-telling of the Christmas story. Buy a city tag, send in a check for Christmas seals, maki? a donation to the band fund, leave a can or two of food stuff for the Jaycee Christmas cheer baskets. Plenty to do in December, and all of it should be done. Clarence Carpenter is doing a good job of collecting city taxes, his recent report to the city commissioners shows. That's as it should be. for unpaid tax bills not only short the city of needed funds, but are unfair to the vast major ity of citizens who pay their bills when they come due. Books Open Saturday The registration books open for the first time Saturday on the forthcoming $600,000 bond issue election, and all un registered citizens should avail themsel ves the opportunity of getting their names on the books. They're going to help pay the tariff, and they should have some say-so on whether the bonds, or which portion of them, shall be issued. Actually, the registrars most likely will have plenty of time on their hands and should carry a book along for solace against the silence. Most folk are al ready registered and there will be no great business for the registrars. Odds are good that the bond issues will pass as offered. The need for more water for a growing community has been well-dramatized for the past sever al weeks, and about the only valid crir ticism of the water bond issue offering is its possible inadequacy. Some' people feel the board of commissioners are not seeing the water shortage here in suffi ciently "big" perspective. Sewage disposal is a continuing and worsening problem. The $200,000 sought to rebuild the McGill tank and to lay more lines is a meagre amount ? only a bout one-third of the immediate need ? but it will be a start toward eliminating the many private septic tanks. A dimmer view is taken in some quar ters on the chances of the recreation bond and the five-cent operating tax questions. Some civic groups are going to put their shoulers to the wheel on these matters, but they have to over come general apathy on the part of some citizens concerning recreation as a municipal function, as well as the fact of no concrete plans for spending the $150, (XX), nor publicized sites on where the money will be spent. Unquestionably, the city can afford to shoulder the financial burden of an ad ditional $600,000 in bonded indebtedness, for the present high-interest indebted ness is gradually being retired and, at the end of the fiscal year next June 30, will have dipped below the $200,000 mark. Interest on the bom/j should cost something less than three percent, city officials think. All citizens should vote their opinions on January 16, and they cannot unless they are registered. The new 1954 automobiles are coming out in profusion, these days, which mearts the old bus is a year older. Soon, we suppose, the new models will be com ing out in October again, as they did in the old days. For the past few weeks, the car dealer has been having it tough, but that situation won't last. The glamour of the new model is hard on the constitu tion, and makes an old car get older even quicker than a dead battery and slick tires. America is a nation on wheels and will continue to be. The car manufacturers may have to slash off a bit of chrome and put out more economy models and less big job's, but car produc tion and sales are going to continue at a fast pace. Hearty congratulations to Ronnie Layton, who was awarded the Plonk Blocking trophy for 1953, first annual awar(T~by~ athletics-minded School Trus tee Fred W. Plonk. Congratulations to the five men who have been appointed to fie recently re novated city parks and recreation com mission. 10 YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain aroa peoplo and mats THIS WEEK taken from thf 1843 filos of tbo Kings Mountain BsraM. 2&<l*ter Members of the Lions Club wfll meet this evening in Mountain View Hotel for theU annual Christmas program. Lions Char lea Moss and Charles Stowe will -be in charge of the program which begins at 7:30. Kings Mountain stores to ac commodate Santa Claus shoppers will begin staying open until 6:30 p m. Monday according to l announcement by H. L Ruth, Merchants Association president. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Members of the Senior Wo man's club met for their initial quarterly dinner meeting in . the Woman's clubhouse Friday night. . Miss Irene Barnette ana Pvt. Jamee Upton were united In marriage December 6, in Gaffney, S. C. The bride la foaVtng her home here with her parent* Mln Betty Patrick arrived home today from Raleigh to ?pend the Chrlatmaa holidays with her parent*, Rev- and Mem. P. D. Patrick. Mr. and Mrs. 1. E. Thomaaaon left Tuesday for their winter home at Palm Harbor, Florida. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Hannoa lnffredient?: bit* of new, wisdom, humor, and comment. Direction*: Take weekly, if possible, but ovoid ovordotaoe. I could call this piece "Re port on Abstinence", or "One Year Without the Weed ? Most ly", and, needless to say, oc casioned by the recent furore over the discovery that Old De mon Nicotine, or the tar In the Nicotine weed, CAN products cancer of the lungs. m-m * ?**" The report is duck ?oup for a sidewalk medicine man like myself, buttressed as I am by the previously advertised and aforementioned cessation from years of fume and smoke. m-m ?While I have occasionally broken the pledge, have run afoul of the comfortable look ing pictures in the advertise ments, consumption of ciga rettes and related tobacco pro ducts in this department has nose-dived worse than the stock market in the 1929 crash. m-m The little memory book of accounts reveals the purchase of only one pack of those tasty, mighty fine tobaccoes in the past year, and I threw it away after two or three stilted puffs. Otherwise, I oc casionally succumb to tinseled glitter, rather than taste and enjoyment, and light a big, black cigar. Like a pipe, a cigar has Intrigued me since my first effort at six years of age, but I've never mastered the art. Sometimes, on a good day, I can handle one without any trouble, but if l ever have the temrerity to lieht up two in a row. I am quickly feeling less well than normal. It's the same with a pipe, or was the last time I tri ed one, except you add a burn ed, charred tongue. m-m But this piece started out to be a treatise on the advantages. If any, of eliminating the weed from the daily diet, and I can summarize them quickly. m-m ' For a lightweight, one Imme diate benefit was increase in weight, five pounds almost over night, and about 15 over-all. Another was an improved re laxation factor, after about three weeks of squirming under the check-rein of "wiH power. Sitting and listening - an after-dinner speech and' the preacher became more enjoy able. In other Words, it was easier to sit still. m-m Item 3 on the improvement list was elimination of the mor ning cough. After previously postponing the roll-out-of-bed 'smoke to a second-cup-of-coffee smoke, I found that the accom panying cough advanced Its schedule, t;oo. When I quit the weed, the cough quit, too. m-m Those are the principal bene fits. Any supposed improve ment in the financial situation the average smoker puffs away is questionable. I have kept no accurate records, and realize that the price of foodstuffs has declined somewhat, but I am sure that the decline has in no wise compensated for the In crease in fuel intake resulting from the smoking surcease. m-m Results of the medical re ports on the smoking business had some immediate effects. A Jot of people who had a guilty complex about the smoking business took the pledge again. One Inveterate cigarsmoker in town (not Charlie Warllck) has quit, and a salesman told hie last week three womenfolk In one family had been scared off the cigarette. Meantime, the prices of shares of stock in Lig gett, Reynolds, American, and ' the other plummeted to new low figures for the year, though they bounced somewhat when they hit bottom. And the presidents of the several com panies yelped in alarm that the medical reports said only that smoking CAN cause lung can cer. Out of the many cases of cancer, how many are of the lungs? There were many other arguments against the conten tion by two medicoes. One not mentioned I learned from some local merchants who constantly battle the rat ptopulace with guns, gap. poison and all other weapona at their command. Om said gaa was particularly effec tive because most of the rata have tuberculosis. Everyone knows no tubercular patient smokes, at least, not for long.. But it's funny to see the tobac co companies caught In their own mesh, for each h*s bevn | claiming lor years (he only "safe" cigarette, as opposed to - 'the compel ftor's evil brand. ? v Come to think of It, people who set age records are always attributing their longevity to a comfortable pipe, but I cannot recall one bragging on the life giving powers of cigarettes. The furore dees remind el ft friend's comment a tew yvau back, aft/r they'd burled a man ACROSS Viewpoints of Other Editors FREE. AT THE GAS STATION Your car may be winterized, but that is not sufficient prepa ration to operate it in North Car olina aftpr next month. Between now and the end of the month every Tar Heel car owner and driver ought to do two things. 1. Get a copy of the booklet on the Motor Vehicle Responsibility Law, which goes into effect Jan uary 1, from a filling station. 2. Check to be sure that you carry enough liability Insurance on your car to cover claims up to $11,000. '? The reason for the first step is that this booklet tells what you must do, and heretofore did not have to do, if you are involved in an auto accident The reason for the second step is that if you are in an accident, and do not carry liability insur ance, you may end up with no driver's license and a big debt Furthermore if, after January 1 someonfe driving your uninsured car get involved in an accident, both of you may find yourselves without driving privileges. If you are the operator of a car involved In an accident in which someone was killed or in jured, or there was total property damagte to an apparent extent of $100, you will have to do the fol lowing: 1. Immediately report the acci dent to a policeman, patrolman or sheriff. 2. Within 24 hours make a writ ten report on the Department of Motor Vehicles form that you can obtain from a policeman, patrol man or sheriff. The operator of every car in volved in the accident, whether or not he was responsible for the accident, must make these two reports. If a claim results from the accident, and your liability insurance is in order, your wor ries are over, as far as this law is concerned. If however, you don't carry insurance, you may have to post security require ments, which could be as high as $11,000, within 60 days ? else lose your driver's license. Of course you won't have to raise that mon ey if other parties in the accident or the courts, obsolve you from liability. This law is an important part of North Carolina's highway safety program. It is much better than the law it will replace. Mo tor Vehicles Commissioner Ed Scheldt, who explained the law over the radio last night, and the petroleum distributors and gaso line station operators who are passing out the booklets, are all co-operating nicely to help you, the motorist learn about this law. ? Charlotte Netot, 1 License Examiners Approved 38.789 RALEIGH ? Driver license ex aminers df the State Department of Motor Vehicles approved 38, 789 applications in November in cluding renewals, duplicates and learners' ptermlts. They disapproved 9,757 appli cations during the month mainly because of applicants' failure to p?*? the rules of-the-road Hit. The eMjntners collected face in the amount of S73.7M.30i, 'Tf who had passed away, via a stoma** ailment at a compara- - tivety early **e. The friend re marked. "Well If Jim had bom a drinking man, they'd have said liquor killed him. But we Ml know H couldn't have befcn Honor with J ?n, for)* was too tight to boy any." Maybe the in the cigarette business. . ^ - . ; . jl ? l..iv ; KHwii .-'mO.' 'Int mtHa GOOD SENATORS DON'T A prominent member of the United States Senate is fond of saying, as he did to a New Jersey audience a couple of nights ago, "You don't go skunk-hunting In striped trousers and a tall hat while waving a lace handker chief". This picturesquely and I typically. irrelevant remark may' or may not satisfy his listeners, but it may also raise some ques tions in their minds about other things you don't ? or shouldn't ? do. You don't trifle with your country's security for purposes of self . glorification. You don't ig nore the Constitution, specifically4 the First Amendment, in order to intimidate your opponents. You don't attempt to destroy reputa tions with groundless Insinua tions to score a political point, whether the victim is a candidate for high office of the opposing party or a nominee to high office of your own party. You don't prove yourself willing, and eager to undermine the foundations of your Government's foreign policy by the most unrestrained and vio lent attack on our strongest and oldest allies. You don't attempt to wreck your country's propa ganda program by holding a pub lic carnival, especially when you know that needed reforms are be ing carefully and meticulously studied without fanfare by some of your most a bite colleagues. You don't aid the Communists to erode your country's well-deserv ed reputation as the strong-hold of liberal democracy by doing everything in your power to make It appear to be a citadel of j anti-liberalism, anti - intellfectua llsm and reaction. You don't publicize classified military documents In order to make a headline. You don't ig nore your responsibilities as .a public official by promoting mis trust, suspicion and disunity .?? mong your fellow - citizens. You don't forget that our beloved country will remain uie hope of the free world* which is the only kind of world worth lfving In, as long as Its people remain true to the liberal, democratic principles on which this Republic was j founded. ? New York Time*. TRADE WITH HOME MERCHANTS Again the Christmas shopping season has arrived In Lincoln ton, and again local merchants are ready for It Which again brings this newspaper's reminder: "Trade at home." In today's edition, and others to come, will be found hundreds of advertised values, and in the stores are many more. In local stores can be found the same Christmas goods, with the "name" labels, and at the right prices fo* the shoppers pocket book that shoppers sometimes go hundreds of miles to "big city" stores to buy. It's still a puzzle Itfttt, why some people ? ?BE-of town looking for |? chandlse, when they can flni fM same Item on the shelves or racks ISA'the hometown merchant's ?MM had you thought of your hometown merchant in thte light?; They're friendly and pro* gresslve public spirited, and Mr port movements for the bet iterment of the general ooblic of Ifhe cfty and count*. They pay taxes and employ local people. They teff tM* test nlictftns of Chrftti kl ? ? ? iRfr- ..luM!. DR. D.M. MORRISON EYES EXAMINED CLASSES FITTED ? zoraa moowtjuh n Mwonrmnrr TTIUOAY ? FRIDAY ATTEHNOOHS MOHHLSOH BLDO. ITOIML nornm ?i?-j ? oci DnQPwr Tomorrow! TODAY! CHEER WINE PROVIDES HEEDED ENERGY Drink to your hearth. Drink for thrills. Next time and every time, drink delicious CHEERWINC. Cheerwine is in twie with your tmste ?Veterans, Ox Non-Veterans ? I con building some homes on Rhodes Avenue. Small down payments and these payments cheaper than vent Fi nancing down payment easy, quick, simple. Tour equity in auto, vacant lot other property, or what do you have? E. T. Plott, Builder York Rd. Phone 874 O-8-tfn Get ahead of the
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