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A weekly newspaper devoted to the pf&motion of the general welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the cltleens of Kings Mountain and Ita vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the postoffioe 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, Hews Miss Elizabeth Stewart Society Mrs. Thomas Meacham Bookkeeping, 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? fl. 40 THREE MONTHS? 75c BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Envy not thrnt the 'oppressor, and choose none of his ways. Proverbs 3:31. Political Notes Saturday's the day of victory and de feat, success and failure, progress and sliding backward for numerous North Carolinians, those who have had the te merity and desire to seek political of fice. A candidate remarked at the Herald last week, "It's pretty much of a strain," undoubtedly an understatement. The pseudo-science of politics has long been one of the most fascinating, disappoint ing, spirit-lifting of man's activities, at least for those who live in the free world where the voters mark ballots according to their convictions. The voters some times appear fickle, sometimes foolish, sometimes capricious. Voters, being people, are human and sometimes make mistakes. But the saving grace of the democratic process is that a bad enough office holder usually gets pastured on the next go-round. It has been frequent ly remarked, and correctly, that the de mocratic process sacrifices some effici ency for the right to kick a blackguard out of office, or to keep a scoundrel from attaining office. Will it be Lennon or Scott? Will there be a second primary in the big race for the United States Senate nomination? Will local officeholders be returned to their positions, or will new faces dot the ranks of Cleveland CoufTTy officialdom? These are the questions to be answer ed on Saturday in Democratic North Carolina and Cleveland County where the party nomination is customarily tantamount to election in November. Saturday is crossroads day for Former Governor W. Kerr Scott, the contover sial, strong-minded former governor, a bout-facing completely in this campaign to accentuate the positive in compliance with an earlier announced "Code of Poli tical Ethics." If Mr. Scott wins a six-year term as United States Senator, he will be a factor in the future course of the state's political affairs. If he loses, it is unlikely that he will be. a major factor in future matters political. To less degree, the primary is a cross roads for Senator Lennon. If he wins, he, too, will have the opportunity to make his influence felt for many years to come. Mr. Lennon, however, is not yet the acknowledged chief of his organiza tion as is Mr. Scott. A loss for Mr. Len non, launched less than a year into a ca reer in government via appointment of the governor, will not necessarily rele gate him to the political ashheap. Scott is the acknowledged liberal can didate, and Lennon is the acknowledged conservative candidate, but both, in the many campaign statements, have mov ed toward the middle ground. The county races have followed the frequent pattern of personality contests. Most of the candidates are relying on personal friendships to carry them through, and no basic issues of the course of government have been advan ced as this is written. Indeed, majority of the candidates, have had a friendly word to say for their opponents. It is an old axiom that citizens who fail to go to the polls have no grounds for complaint if the election results do not please them, nor if successful candi dates prove out to be mistakes. How many shoppers fussed last week end during the successful Dollar Days promotion about the lack of parking space and the good work of the park ing meters? The Herald heard several womenfolk wishing for a vacant spot and praising the parking meters for "keeping"' 'em moving." It reminds that parking becomes- an increasing problem with the growth of the community. The Merchants Association might do well to list the parking problem on the agenda of needs for improving the community as a shopping center. Parking space, bulging inventories of desirable goods, and bargain counter pricing, plus con stant promotion will do much to accom plish the trade-at home practice the merchants must enjoy if they and the community are to prosper. The Court Ruling Majority of the comments of Kings Mountain citizens on the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court de claring segregation in the schools ille gal have been restrained and responsi ble. . Surprise at the ruling was occasioned much more by the fact of the unanimous decision than by the fact of the ruling itself.' . The great South Carolinian, John C. Calhoun, in his senior years as a leader of the nation, fought against what' he called the will of the unreasoning, over riding majority. Senator Calhoun's bat tle was the secession battle, forerunner of the non segregation ruling of the Su preme Court last week. Noi'th Carolina political leaders have expressed regret at the ruling for they felt the state and the. South were work ing out their own salvation in the impor tant matter of race relations. Northern governors have been quoted as fre quently expressing the wish that their race relations problem was in as good shape as North Carolina's. The prediction of the Governor, the Mayor, and other citizens that no great difficulties are anticipated .will be en dangered only by the extremists, both white and colored, who forget their manners. While it is common practice to use ra cial and religious epithets in condemn ing individuals, what the condemner, right or wrong, means is, "The guy's a scroundel." A local man commenting rather bit terly on what he called the "bad news" stated subsequently that he numbered many colored people among his good friends, underlining the attitude of the South, a very personal attitude a mong its citizens, white, black, Jew, Gentile, or Catholic. The Supreme Court has already been criticized for its indications of interest in determining how to implement its de cision. It is a just criticism. The Su preme Court perhaps is within its au thority to set a date for implementation of its edict, but determining the "how", is a legislative function primarily of the several states. Reasonableness and sanity is the or der of the day, and North Carolina has a reputation for these two admirable traits. ? Kill Cancer Kings Mountain has a continuing suc cessful record of supporting the annual appeal of the American Cancer Soci. ty for funds to fight the dread disease which is known as a leading killer among diseases. The funds are used by medical ex perts to determine improved techniques for finding, arresting, and curing can cer. Some success has been the result. As in most diseases, early discovery of cancer in some. areas of the body mean?, that it can be cured, and there are many walking examples of proof. But other forms of cancer are as deadly as ever. Scientists will do the job if they are provide*! the means. The Junior Woman's Club, which will conduct the $1,000 fund appea'., should have no trouble in obtaining the goal. Our congratulations to Mrs. J. E. Lip ford, who succeeds Mrs. F. R. Summers in the upper councils of the Cleveland County Democratic organization. Mayor Bridges' figures on the Tjst of utilizing Buffalo Creek as a source of city water appear reasonable, and the board of commissioners would do well to direct a survey by a civil engineer to definitely establish the cost estimate. Already the engineers have labeled the present source plans as temporary, good , for three to four years. 1 f\ YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain ana people and events X U THIS WEEK taken from the 1944 files the Kings Mountain Harold. A total of 78 boys and girls from the 11th and 12th grades are scheduled to graduate from Kings Mountain high school at com mencement exercises to be held Sunday and Monday nights. The Solvay Process Company, which operates the large spodu mene mining plant near the southeastern city limits, will dou ble the consumption of water fil tered from the City Water Plant, according to City Manager H, L, Burdette who completed arrange ments with R. C. Hastings, genwr. al manager. Social and Ptrtonal Mrs. C. A. Jones and children , left Tuesday night for a visit with Mr; and Mrs. Ector Short at Kuie Beach and Mr. and Mrs. Guy Henderson in WlkningtoOk Joe Thomson will leave today! for Montreat, where be will at tend thte meeting of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Lloydl Watson and daugh ters, Shirley and Jean have re turned to their home In Boone after a visit th Kings Mountain. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Harmon Ingredient*: bits of newt, wisdom, humor, and comment. Direction*: Take weekly , ?/ possible, but avoid overdosage. The customary definition of "news" is that it is new, fresh, up-to-the-minute, and, o X course, until publication, not a fact of general knowledge. m-xa The definition therefore poses problems for the weekly news journal, be it magazine or newspaper, which do not at tend publication of a daily ga zette of light, learning, and in formation. It is the reason a ; weekly paper gets into a press day Jam-up, as all do who en deavor to keep themselves a once-a-week daily. , m-m Some news has definite time limitations, either subject to changes In a developing situa tion, or, at best, a change to past tense. m-m The Herald had an instance last week. After the Hoey fu neral in Shelby, and Just prior to the departure of the trainful of political le^rs ? on the .re turn trip to Washington, Sena tor Knowland, of California, the GOP majority leader, was waiting for a late-arriving in terviewer at Evans Lackey's Buick establishment. The Sena tor was to do a tape-recorded job for Shelby Radio Station WOHS. I quite accidentally dropped in with Harvey Wray and a few others and naturally posed a few questions to the California law maker. The ma jor answer came on my query.: "Senator, when are you folk going to shut off our Washing ton T-V show?" m-m "I think that'll wind up In about a we$k," he said. This was worth a story, coming from thte Senator supposedly closest to the President, but it was easily recognizable tliat the statement could go to limbo with developments two days later. However, the committee seemed to be of the same frame of mind and I wrote the story about press time. An hour later an afternoon paper arrived with a blaring headline on President Elsenhower's state ment that the Army-McCarthy show should go on. therfeby consigning the Knowland re marks, and the Herald type, to the hell-box, the last resting place of unused production from the typesetting machines. m-m Published today on the ad joining page Is thfe Herald's - biennial report of its drcula tlofi audit by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the auditing firm w^ich checks up to see if the Herald subscribers really pay for the papers. It is the lone auditing bureau recognized as knowledgeable in the field of circulation auditing, and, among many others, audits Life and Time magazines Sat urday Evening Post, the 'New York Times, and, in fact, all the major publications. Our "visitor" this year arriv ed on Eastfer Monday and his card read G. H. Wakefield, ori ginally from Chicago, he said, but about to take out citizen ship In North Carolina, having been assigned to circulction auditing jobs in the area since last October. For sure, he said, ] he was going to buy a North Carolina fishing license. Mr. Wakefield started out by "x-ing" 25 name at random from the mailing Then he kept the full Herald front office staff busy tracking down I receipts and cash entries on the 25 subscribers, both for 1952 53 and 1953-54. Later he ordered 1 the newsprint usage check, first requiring invoices on all purchases over the two-year period. Then he demanded canceled checks, final proof that the invoices were valid. The newsprint check has been the downfall of numerous manipulators of circulation figures. If the Journals aren't using enough paper to substan tiate the totals, embarrassing and well-publicized suspension from the lodgfe can result. Mr. Wakefield, as did his predeces sor in 1952, commended the Herald circulation department for Its good record-keeping, say ing the records were better . maintained than in the majori ty of wtsekly papers. Mr. Wake field left here for points north east, with the Gaatonla Gazette, Charlotte Observer end Char lotte News on his assignment I list. Saturday Is voting day but you'd hardly know It. When has an election been as quiet in Cleveland County* The Big Senate race waa supposed to excite, not to mention the half dozen local level races. The why's are not immediately evi dent, but one reason coukl bfe that moat folk quietly made up their minds on the direction of their votes several weeks ago. Another factor must be the higher level tor* of the cam paigning. The barbs have been few and. particularly In the lo cal contests, have not been ex tant, a self made compliment to each of the 14 candidates *Mk leg to wprw oi their -dttam rtl? PttSSlTl^ Scctic by Jefferson Machamer A 1400 Mil* wt,k?md trip planned to Hi* split Viewpoints of Other Editors TO THE '54 GRADUATE It's graduation time in Transyl vania, a joyous time for the boys and girls receiving their diplo mas. It's a challenging time, a few brief moments to pause for a salute on a goal attained and a time to look ahead to a brighter, a richer tomorrow. A record number of graduates will receive diplomas both here at Brevard and- at Rosman. Bre vard college also has a fine grad uating class, and we take great pleasure In saluting the graduates at the three schools. Education is the backbone of all constructive progress in a democracy and every year we take pleasure in turning the spot light of publicity upon our schools, so that our readers may have a better understanding of our educational progress and of the educational needs of today. For the 1954 graduate, com mencement means the beginning of careers at an unparalleled time In history. The struggle be tween democracy and commun ism is be|ng waged; scientists are daily discovering and expanding new fields which open doors to careers unheard of a few years ago; the churches are realizing as never before that an extra effort must be made to expand the tea chings of Christ at home and a broad. This is Indeed a chalieng lng age filled with unequaled op portunity. Many high school graduates will enter college to secure more education and this is indeed for tunate; for in this new scientific agte, additional education will be found useful. Others will enter military' ser vice and this may delay some of your future plans. Along with our congratulation* to the '54 graduates go our sin cere best wishes for continued success. Graduation Is an achi evement and an Inspiration, and commencement should serve as an opportunity for broader fields of service. It has been said that success does not come from talent alone, but from concentration and per severance, and this is a hint well worth remembering by the grad uate of today. ? Transylvania Times. THE MESS WE'RE IN Perhaps the best way to under stand the mess we are in in the United States today Is to try to see how we got Into It. And per haps the best way to see how we got Into it Is to consider two suggestions made by a great A merlcan on how to get out of it Dr. Harold C. Urey, Nobel prize winning nuclear chemist of thfe University of Chicago, in an ad dress in Chapel Hill the other day, suggested two very simple remedies: X "Calm thinking". '2. "Stop accusing each other of being criminals just because we do not agree with each other." It was our failure to do those two things that got us Into the mesa. Maybe doing them will get us out of it- ? FnmkUn Prm ss ' TUL BU/MUf 1 ft K SlwRT BHOWEH A recent editorial which sought to make suggestions about ways of conserving water stated that "a bath consumes less water than a leisurely shower, end half a tub yffl do as well as a fall one." An Interested and expert leedsr brings to our attention .the feet that a normal bath, depending on the stas of the tub, consumes 20 to *> gallons, while a shower In which a washer wets himself. as commissioner, court clerk, judge, sol I ri tor., constable. That is as It should " "'if'*! i"* JUST ONE DRINK The British Medical Associa tion, after 18 months o f .study, has arrived at the opinion that a man is not necessarily drunk because (1) he cannot walk a chalk line without weaving, or (2) he cannot repeat "The Lelth police dlsmisseth us." He could be simply ill. Also, no doubt, the British med ical men ran into the same prob lem that other less homespun tests have encountered in prov ing themselves as tests of inebrl acy ? the gadgets, often referred to as "drunkometers", may be ac curate but ? people differ. What might have slight effect on one person could make another one staggering drunk. It is this variation in people, not in the machines, that makes both the Federal Bureau of In vestigation and the American Psychiatric Association cautious about the "lie detectors." They are not without value In pointing to clues. But as to furnishing con clusive evidence on which, might hang a man's If ie or his reputa tion, the hardened criminal and the shameless liar are given a better chance of "acquittal" by the machine than is the sensitive person possessed of ideals and a conscience. But to get back tp the chalk line and the lisp: the British me dicos give small comfort to the drinking driver who is confident he can "handle his liquor." One drink can make you a hazard on the highway! ? The Elkin Tri bune. . ' NOT THE ENP Wte woke up with considerable relief ? glad to find the bed still under us and everything In the bedroom in its- accustomed place. We looked out the. window and were relieved to sete trees, houses and traffic just about the same as they had been. And we were even more relieved as wte came 'down town to find the same policemen at the same posts; In fact, to note no strangers or changes at all. But we may never know how close a shave this okl world had last night While we arte proud that we did not slip Into an Orson Welles panic, the fact Is that Mars was as close to this, globe last night a a it ever can get. If all those little men in their fan tastic space suits and- carrying their even more fantastic wea pons ever had a chance. It was last night. ? ... . But maybe we are sounding the "all clear" too soon. Mars Is going to be juat a. Jump beyond our ethereal shores until the latter part of June ? Just a 40,000,000 mile Jump from our altars, our hearths and the graves of our sires. Sky-watchers had better be kept on the alert ? if only to spot the winners in the bpat races on those canals. ? Bt. Lovit Po*t Dia patch shuts off the water, soaps up. and then turns on the water again to rinse consumes only 10 gallons. A good point. But we had in rrind, the u*ual leisurely showfer thattj Invariably consumes all the ver ses of "The Road to Mandalay" and a good deal more than 30 gal. lona of water. Shu* water con servation la the point we would like to call attention to the fact that a short shower beAts even a half -filled tub. ? The New York ?RRPV^ RE-ELECT f> rJ Reuben L. Elam Judge of Cleveland Recorder's Court Democratic Primary May 29 f: in Cleveland County FAIR ? IMPARTIAL Democratic Primary May 29 , (P?U Political A4r.> BOY THAN (Eeach statement herein has been approved by , Competent attorney*) In Addition to o great mass of detail, including keeping court records and many files of various sorts and doing lots of recording, the clerk of Superior court does the following, among many other things: ? He appoints admlnls- + He U the legal admin traton and guardian*, ap- istrator for ail estates prtw their bends and is where the grass value of ttcfele (or the soundness of personal piopetty is $500.* snch hoods. He also pro- 00 or less, and handles batee all wills. He allows these funds, commissions to fHSdiSM 9 He fills vacancies in the and administrators and at- lsard of County Commis frame? fees In all eases *ioner? by appointment In when minors or mental event of death or resigna ix?compe tents are Involved. tion of Board m snba ?f He Is responsible for seeing ***, % Be commits aMStaf.^ rnust ssnmiite ana approve tlents to State hospitals or ?*???*?*? them. veterans facilities and ? He ??????? commission. mast under the law as* ers to divide or seU real *?*? V fosponslbtlttY tor estate for division among finding that rucfc patients heirs and to awurd wid- should be sent to Instltu. ow*s dowers. '? U *"*? a w. i- th- - -? ' ? the Judge of fo ? *? *? etatuterf veuile Court toj virtue m,< guardian of all miners and his office. In that capacity Incompetents in the counfr 1m not only tries all law fdukMBMfStlpqHfi. 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