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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 postoff ire at Kings Mountain, C., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873 EDITORIAL DEPABTMENT Martin Harmon . Editor- Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr Sports, Circulation, News Miss Elizabeth Stewart Society Mrs. Thomas Meacham ....... t Bookkeeping, News MECHANICAL DEPABTMENT Eogene Matthews Horace Walker David Weathers Ivan Weaver* Charles Miller Paul Jackson ('Member of Armed Fo/ces) TELEPHONE NUMBERS? 167 or 283 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR? $2iW SIX MONTHS? <1.40 THREE MONTHS? 75c BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also', knowing that tribulation worketh patience. Ro mans 5:3. War ol Mud Steve Mitchell, National Democratic ? chairman, went out on a new tack last week when he charger J resident Eisen hower with succumbing to the influence of his golfing partner, ex-Champ Bobby Jones,' on the recently negotiated con tract on the power plant to take up the slack as TVA serves the Paducah, Ky., atomic installation. The contract, Mr. Mitchell said, went to the Dixon-Yates syndicate at $140 millions, though the government could have contracted with another syndicate for $90 millions. Tennessee Valley Au thority claimed it could build the plant even cheaper. The connection between the success- ' ful Dixon-Yates syndicate is the fact ? that Mr. Yates is chairman of the board of Southern Company, the power utility, which numbers among its directors Hob by Jones. Following the Mitchell blast, political ly an effort to remove some of the glitter from the President's herb halo, the Re publicans yelled "foul" quite loundly and the Office of the President issued a denial, as did Mr. Jones. Unquestionably, the area subject to examination is the $50 millions of al leged difference in the negotiated con tract. The lack of competitive bidding in itself is certainly open to question though most observing folk would re ject the TVA plea as typical of govern ment agencies which can always "do it cheaper" until the doing starts. It is con ceivable, too, that the unsuccessful syn dicate gave insufficient evidence of ability to handle the job as, indeed, the Eisenhower administration contended in an answer to the charges published Sun day- ?* V In short, most folk, Republicans and Democrats alike, credit President Eisen hower with complete honesty of intent and purpose, though many in both main . political parties question his political acumen and his basic ability for coping with the many different imponderables which he must face. The fact that most folk feel as they do should rjot shield the President from the look-ins of the investigators, for in vestigation of the facts will show one of two results: 1) The Mitchell charges are correct, or 2) the Mitchell charges are incorrect. If incorrect then Chairman Mitchell will be excoriated for launching a cam paign of personal assassination and the excoriation will boomerang to the heavy advantage of the President and his par ty. The Bethware Fair Wor.k is already well-underway on the 1954 Bethware Community Fair, a Num ber 4 Township event, to be presented the weekend of Septembr 8-11 for the seventh consecutive year. On Wednesday night, the Bethware community entertained fair exhibitors, sponsors and program advertisers at the annual pre fair barbecue, always a de lightful outing. rhe Bethware Fair has met the test of getting bigger and better each year, and the good work undoubtedly will con tinue for 195-1. Congratulations to Meek Carpenter, incoming president cf the Kings Moup. tain Little Theatre, Tr."; In view of the large job of the Little Theatre In pre senting an annual summer outdoor dra ma of a month's duration, it is easy to assume that the presidency of the Little Theatre is one of the city's most arduous and mammoth civic responsibilities. It reminds that congratulations are also in order to Mrs. P. G. Padgett, retiring president, for a job well-done. Congratulations to I. Ben Goforth, Jr., who received the degree of Master of - Arts in education and mathematics at summer commencement at Appalachian State Teachers college last week. New School Term Schools open again for the 1954-55 term on Tuesday with another record enrollment predicted, including a bum per crop of beginners. Principals and vocational instructors are already on duty making ready for opening day, which, the children will confide, comes around all too quickly. They really can't believe three months of carefree school-less days have passed. Space-wise, the city schools will be in somewhat better shape than at the be ginning of the 1953-54 term. New rooms are available at West school, and com pletion of new classrooms at East school is just around the corner. Negro pupils in the lower grades will enjoy a brand new plant, as quickly as a heating plant error by the contractor is corrected and subsequent approval by state school au thorities is obtained. Thankfully, too, some montfy is in the till from the recent county wide bond issue voting to pro vide more new classrooms. With four additional teachers alloted, it is also thought by school officials and trustees that several of the over-loaded teaching situations of last year will be alleviated, If not eliminated. Schools are big business in North Carolina, claiming the major portion of the state's general fund expenses, as well as local funds for buildings and so called frills not included in the state's Spartan program. And the schools are doing a good job, in the short space of a quarter century having lowered to a minor figure the state's illiteracy percentage. Sixteen ? year - olds having quitting school in their minds should be strongly encouraged by their parents to continue their studies through the regular high school course. Batting Average The Eisenhower administration, with its second session of Congress now his tory, is boasting of its effectiveness in obtaining Congressional support for its program. Of the major issues, the Eisen hower administration got its way in 19, lost on seven, it claims. Among the major successes were the new tax bill, flexible farm price support legislation, and expanded social securi ty, both in coverage and increased bene fits. ? Another area the administration crows about is in cutting the federal bud get, though it has still not been able to boast of a balanced one and doubts that it will. Time and November 2 elections will determine whether the Congressional successes were actually real successes, that is, what most of the folk really wanted. Much will be heard in favor of the record and against it in the two-plus months between now and November. Generally speaking, all but the most liberal elements of the South are reason ably in accord with the general results of the Eisenhower domestic program, minus the pockets of enmity developed by the Eisenhower administration in cutting farm price suppo* and includ ing masses of farm workers under social security, and the TVA-area citizens who charge the GOP is trying to rob them of cheap power. . In the field of foreign policy, the re sults are not too good. Our boys are home from Korea but the international inspection team proves out to be noth ing but means of espionage for the Com munists. Our boys are not in Indo^China, but much of Indo-China is lost to Com munism and the rest may be easy pick ings. The European Defense Community is about to collapse, and United States relations with neutral Asians have wor sened. There is much to talk about between now and November. A cordial welcome to the community to Hoover Smith, the new pastor of Se cond Wesleyan church. 10 YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events THIS WEEK taken from the 1944 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. S. R. Suber received a letter! Sunday morning from a Mrs. | Stroud of Taylors, S. C., apprais ing him of the fact that his son, | Sgt. Bobby Suber, was a German | prisoner and a patient in a prison hospital, where he is recovering from a wound, having been shot in his arm June 13th. Bocial and Personal Mrs. Humes Houston received a letter from her husband, Lt. Houston, informing her that he had arrived in England. Miss Sara Barber froijn Monroe General Hospital spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Banks Barber. She was ac companied by her class mate, Mrs. Helen Harrison. Lt. Luther Morrison who was 'wounded in the South Pacific sometime ago, arrived at the Gov ernment hospital, Swannanoa, N. C., Tuesday, and hopes to come home (or a visit after a physical check-up. t Wilson Griffin and Baxter Pay seur have met in Africa and it would have been worth a lot tc have witnessed that meeting. ? Here's hoping these two One boyi [see a lot of each other. ? MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Harmon Ingredient ?: bit* of t unos, wisdom, humor, and comment. Directions. Take weekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage. Kings Mountain has had Its share of summer storms In the past two weeks, and while the rains have been much needed and appreciated, the heavy winds and lightning have wreaked some havoc mm Last Thursday's storm was no exception, resulting in sev eral claims for damages under extended coverage insurance clauses, and resulting in plenty ol extra work for the city's power department, the phone company service corps, and others who have the job of fix ing the damages. m-m ? | The blow on August 18th caught the Herald just as the press had started rolling on the final run. Perhaps 25 papers had been finished of the 2325 press run, when there was a crackle near the front door. The stuff Ben Franklin fiddled with hit the transformer nearby; pre.,* and folder ground to a halt, and the lights fade<} out Frank Blanton, of the city corps was called and asked, "Are you already wet?" To which came the practical re ply, "Nope, and I'm not gonna be until this lightning stops." m-m But the storm had done worse damage in other areas, felling lines and blacking out a portion of East King street and clipping lour major power lines on North Gaston near the sub station. These lines controlled the pump which brings' water from the city lake to the fliter plant and demanded first pri ority. A fire whilt the water supply was disengaged could have been rough. At any rate, Hunter Allen pressed ex line sman, now policeman. Jack Stone Into service, and the Herald got in action again af ter a 105-minute delay. Jack re ported he finished up Thursday night about 11 o'clock: Next day, numerous rural area lines were still down and some rural folk were still without tele phone service. m-m Last Wednesday's storm fin ished what an earlier one had started. The McGinnls Furni ture Company television aerial, Iteft dangling by an earlier blow, was completely decapitat ed last Wednesday. Another vic tim was the Optimist Club's traffic safety sign at Battle ground and Mountain. The stanchions were nicely bent about 18 inches from the ground, giving the sign the gen eral appearance of the prover bial leanln' -drunk sailor. m-m Some people are more afraid of storms than others, but I daresay no person could say truthfully he enjoyed them. m-m Two Kings Mountain golfers were out on a recent Sunday when a blow came up and onte became obviously alarmed. To bolster his confidence, he asked of the partner, "You scared of storms?" The second golfer answered, . "Only on a golf course on Sun days when I probably should bfe somewhere else." m-m If I lived in Florida, I'd want to emigrate during the storm, seasons. ? ' m-m I am indebted to my friend Price Harmon for this tale: A normally rough-talking fel low was attending church aVid listened attentively. After the sermon he shook hands with the preacher and said, "Preach er, that was a damn good ser mon, I really enjoyed it!" The minister replied, some what sternly, "Friend, I'm glad you enjoyed the sermon but I can't say I like your language." Unperturbed, the layman con tinued, "Yeah, I liked It mighty good, so well I dropped a $100 bill into the collection plate!" "The hell you say!" the min ister ejaculated. Reunion steason is weL under-, way for 1954, and reports indi cate that the country h/s?a is out in force, not to mention the delectable pastries/ and cakes which tickle delightfully as they go down the red lane it reminds of ? waistllne-ftedue lng conversation I heard be tween Fred Plonk and Bob Lewis, the dairyman, last week Fred was outlining the diet requirements and Bob was willing to forego sugar In his coffee, bread and potatoes, but when it got around to eliminat ing apple pie. Bob threw up his hands. .. . . .my problem has always been to find weight enough minion picnic* should turn the trick. I crossworS DOWN t ? MatHe of Morocco M I. m m ? ? - - **?" * onojiencu crcuit 3? Kathode (abb.) 4 ? Body at water tomt OMtario (abfc.) s* The Want Ad Section Fox ITU Week's Completed Pu ale Viewpoints of Other Editors GOAI, SHOULD BE BALANCED BUDGET Republican leaders have indi cated that the struggle for the control of the House- and Senate during the next two years wil: be no namby-pamby affair this fall. They intend to try to hold every seat they he '3 now, and will seek a comfortable margir. over the Democrat? by unseating some of the present members ol Congress. Here In North Carolina, the Republicans already ^ have one Congressman, and after survey ing the situation, have decided that perhaps they can also elect William Stevens over Hugh Alex ander in the Ninth district. President Eistenhower is having his picture made with more than 100 individual Republican con gressmen and seuators as well as new candidates like Mr. Stevens. The pictures will be used in the campaign to show thfe folks that Eisenhower wants these men in Washington. Economic conditions will be a determining factor In the fall elections. A man who enjoyed prosperity during the 20 years, of Democratic rule, but who voted Republican in 1952, may be in clined to vote Democratic again this fall if he is without a Job, or is working on short time. Knowing this, the administration is already priming the pump gent ly, and will likely do more of it ere November arrives. The present administration stet out to balance the federal budget bat soon found that this would not be possible yet. Some expen ses have been cut, but many ob serving peoplte are . fearful that perhaps they have been cut at the wrong places, because it will be disastrously short-sighted to reduce our fighting strength to the point where we arte easy prey for our enemies. Taxes have been cut sharply, and there Is certainly some ques tion as to the wisdom of this step, particularly in certain cases whtere the large corporations are to benefit extensively. They are the ones, incidentally, who have always been able to pass on taxes to the ultimate consumer. We fetel that it 1* extremely Im portant that the federal budget be balanced as soon as possible if our economic structure is to re main sufficiently sdund to meet the tests to which it will be put by changing world conditions. The Democrats ntever showed too much concern about balanc ing the budget, and it would ap- j pear that the Republicans have not been sufficiently concerned about it. : Certainly, It would be in order for the leaders in both parttes to make some definite pledge with regard to this very vital matter before election day. ? ? Stanly Ne%o? & Press ENFORCED IDLENESS) Recently or* of the union* at Kttlmat had a long session with the management discussing a 35 cent-an-hour pay increase and a The comment of one of the workers on these discussions is noteworthy. He said: "An In crease in pay is Just what I need but my complaint' has not been few hours only which I am allow ed to work at the rate. On a rough calculation of 108 hours to a week, I find T sleep 70 hours, line up for food hours, eat: food 7 hours, lie on my bed or have nothing to do for 40 hours and work 48 hours. It will, there fore, be easily understood Why I do not Wish to ftm* myself work ing for 40 hours and flopping a SUMMER PEEVE The average newspaper Veader is not expected to know about Jie techniques of headline- writ ing nor of the troubles the writer has in making things lit a limit ed space, all the while retaining the thought he seeks to express. That's why there are so iriahy references to President Eisen hower as Just plain "Ike." There is no familiarity or disrespect in tended. "Ike" fits lots better than the man's full name. . But don't get us wrong ? we are not condoning the practice. This one or nor any of the others that continue to crop up from time to 1 tirrte in this newspaper and In others. Here of late the Democrats in North Carolina have been in the news for one reason or another. In numerous of the exchanges that come across this desk there have been headline references to "Demos" ? the story following identifies them as Democrats ex cept in one case, heaven help us, where the body of the story car ried out the headline contraction and referred to p meeting of "Young Demos." Once was toad enough . . . but when the dam thing kept recur ring we began to notice an edgi ness in our usually mild temper. At first we charged it all to the hot weather. Why concern one self with such trivia? But the thing haunted us and we lay awake nights thinking of ghastly headlines referring to Methodists as "Methos" and Presbyterians as "Presbys" and Baptists as "Baps" ? oh, yeas, there were other contractions that haunted us ? the thought for instance, how millions of words had been written in .pro test against the use of **Xmas" for Christmas ? all to no avail. We- nearly forgot to mention this ? there are also such things, to the lazy headline writer, as "Repubs." ? Chatham County News. ^ PROFESSOR STORY Another University professor was visiting a friend one day and happened t6 sit down in an over stuffed chair which had a coat hanger placed on the back. Dur ing the course of the conversa tion the coathanger slipped down in the profs collar. When it was timie to leave, the professor rose from his chair, gripped his back, ? and groaned, 'Tm getting old. i The most terrible pains are shoot ing up my back." The friend grin ned and pulled out the source of the pains. the pains ? Chapel Hill New* Leader J g ? : y,.. round unproductively for 4? hours per week. The only major commercial disadvantage of Kit! mat to me I* that the hours of work are not long enough and thereby follows that the condfequ ent pay cheque on an hourly basis is also insufficient." Enforced idleness as a result of the 40-hour week must be parti cularly unwelcome on prolectr like Kitimat and others In wnotr places ift Canada. Nor Is enforce** Idleness really welcome in mopr populated centers ? but in thest places the workers can do some thing about It. In fact, thte 40 hour week has created a new class of workers known as "moon lighters".' These are men and wo men Who have two Jobs. They d< one Job during the short workda> of the 40-hour week and have another Job to occupy their eveu ing hours. The fact seems to be that manj workers do not reslW like idle neea. Winnipeg TrQmite A Traffic Accidents Took 1400 Toll In Nation last Year; Bigness Killet "A total of 4,400 children under 15 years old were killed, in traf fic accidents last year," Chief Hugh A. Logan, Jr., said today. Mr. Logan said that this terri ble ch^ld death toll in itself would bte reason enough for the child traffic safety program which the police department is sponsoHng in Kings Mountain in cooperation with the National Safety Coun cil. "But the number of fatalities is only part" of the picture," he said. "In addition, approximately 225,000 children were injured in traffic accidents in 1953, accord ing to thte National Safety Coun cil." Many of these injuries, Chief Logan pointed out, will leave the youthful victims maimed or scar red for life. "There is no quick, easy remedy for this deplorable situation of our streets and highways," hte said. "Instead, it will take a long range program of public educa tion to bring about a lasting im provement. Motorists must come to realize Jh?lr responsibility for the lives of unpredictable chil dren and must exerclste extra cau tion when driving in areas where youngsters may be walking or playing. And parents, too, must be made to understand the seri ous danger Involved, and teach their children saftety precautions. "Many people today do not rea lize that traffic is the number one killer of children between the ages of one and 14." Traffic accidents kill more chil dren in this agfe group than ony one of the highly-publicized child hood diseases, Chief Logan said. "Figures for 1951, the most re cent year for which complete sta tistics are available, show that for the one to 14 age group therte were 3,888 deaths due to motor vehicle accidents," he said. "This was five times a many child deaths as were caused the same' ytear by polio, and three times as many as were caused by tuberculosis. There were 800 few FARM BUREAU MUTUAL AUTO INSURANCE CO. . 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