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The Kings MoWltaiii Herald
Established 1889
? 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 postofflre at Kings Mountain, N- C-, under Act
of Congress of March 3, 1873
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They that obteron lying vanities forsake their own mercy. Jonah B:8.
Nominating A Senator
It is hard for anyone to forsee all sit
uations in advance, and some pointed to
the South Carolina situation resulting
from the sudden death of Senator Bur
nett Maybank is a case in point.
However, the rules of the situation
were clear, requiring that a name be
supplied to go on the ballot by last Fri
day midnight, though Governor James
F. Byrnes wanted South Carolina Dem
ocrats to choose a nominee by primary
election. On the test vote, whether the
State Democratic Executive Committee
should exercise its simple prerogative of
naming a party candidate or whether it
should choose a figurehead who would
subsequently resign and be replaced by
the primary victor, the majority was 31
18 for the simple method. With that mat
ter settled, State Senator Edgar Brown
was the nominee by acclamation.
Inferentially, it was a .eat for Gov
ernor Byrnes, who broke with Mr. Brown
on the 1952 presidential election, Byrn
es rejecting his long allegiance to the
Democratic party, which had conveyed
on him almost all its highest honors, and
Brown staying regular, leading the
state to a narrow margin of victory for
Adlai Stevenson.
From his long record of 40 years in
political activity, the new. South Caro
lina senator will be somewhat more li
beral in his thinking than Governor
Byrnes now is, and slightly more liberal
than was Senator Maybank.
The late Senator, assured of re-elec
tion in November, had he lived, follow
ed the middle-road course familiar to
Southern office holders since 1933. Con
servative in matters of labor and racial
problems. Senator Maybank was liberal
in matters international and agricultur
al. He was respected in Washington as
an able man and strong leader and an
authority on money matters, out of his
long service on the Senate Banking
committee.
? Senator Maybank's was the eighth
death of a Senator in the 83rd Congress,
indicative of the killing pace the na
tion's political leaders must follow.
Technically, any citizen residing with
in the city limits of a municipality has
the right to demand the basic services ?
water, sewage disposal, fire and police *
protection ? from the municipal gov
ernment and the government is morally
obligated to provide them. Against the
theory is the practical argument of
those, usually with the services already
provided, who pooh-pooh the citizen
who heads for the outskirts to buy a
more reasonable lot, then turns on the
steam in demanding this and that kind
of service. The Herald leans to the ser
vices-for-all-citizens theory and thereby
regards as praise-worthy the action by
the city administration in relaxing
somewhat its policy on installation of
water lines, now obtainable on a olock
where only two water taps are immedi
ately anticipated. The old policy stipu
lated three taps. It is also a reminder
that cities, unless they are in position
to provide the services, should be slow
to expand their limits until abreast of
the demands for basic services by in
city citizens.
The city's rebate for street work und
er provisions of the Powell Bill was less
this year, reversing a trend, though re
ceipts from the state gasoline tax con
tinued to increase. Part of the division
formula is based on total mileage of
city-maintained streets. While the city
opened some new streets du- n g the past
year, it did not open as ma.iy, propor
tionately, as did some other cities in the
state.
School Population
Opening day enrollment figures at
Kings Mountain area schools showed a
considerable gain over last year.
While 114 pupils might not seem a
great total, the figure should perhaps be
translated into classrooms. With the
statutory teaching load now 30 pupils
per teacher in North Carolina, it can be
seen quite easily that 114 pupils total
three- plus classrooms.
Actually, of coursc, the 30 pUpil per
teacher formula merely means that tea
chers are allotted schools (one year
late) by that method. As is customary
during the first days of a school term,
school officials and teachers have been
working diligently to re-shuffle, re
arrange, and otherwise find methods of
cutting some actual teaching loads from
the 38 40 range.
The problem in the schools is like the
problem of the manufacturer or the
merchant. If total annual sales could be
divided by the number of business days,
it would be possible to operate with a
fixed staff and fixed facilities. But the
peaks and valleys occur.
The same number of first-graders do
not enter school annually, nor do the
same number continue schooling after
reaching their sixteenth birthday. Thus
the wide disparity appears between the
figure of 252 first-graders and 80 high
school seniors.
Should the school population gain
steadily at 114 pupils per year, it will
mean that, in four years, the total class
room need will be a minimum of 12 more
rooms, precisely the amount of rooms
for which the city system now thinks It
has the money, and not mentioning the
several make-shifts which have left
West, East and Central schools with
abbreviated auditoriums.
A New Yorker in town last week re
ported that shift schooling has long
been in vogue there. Unless citizens oi
Kings Mountain and Cleveland County
are willing to dig much deeper into their
wallets for new schools than they have
in the past, the day of shift schooling in
Kings Mountain is just around the. pro
verbial corner.
No Surcease
It seems there will be no surCease
from aggressive incidents perpetrated
by the Red governments until a full
fledged shooting war has been started,
fought and won.
Can the shooting down of United Sta
tes planes be continually written off?
Will Red China be permitted to take
Quemoy and the other islands between
the China coast and Formosa?
The United States is being constantly
pushed by the masters of aggression and
real estate looting.
The climate is stormy. ?
Each new incident should remind
Americans that the Communist danger
is ever present, that weakness is exactly
what the Communists are seeking, and
that outward declarations of friendship
are attempts to conceal with the right
hand the probing and pushing of the
evil left hand. 1 v V
At some moment, if the trend of inci
dents continues, the Russian govern
ment will have gone too far, and the
shooting \Var will be on full-scale.
The Bethware Fair opens next Wed
nesday with many improvements in fa
cilities for this seventh annual Number
4 Township event. Nightly foreworks
displays are scheduled, and the Beth
ware school cafetria will be open night
ly to provide good food for hungry fair
goers. It is a community event which
should be supported by all citizens of
'he township.
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YEARS AGO Items of news about Mountain area people and mati
THIS WEEK taken from the 1944 files of the Kings Mountain Berald.
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Housewives are asked to go i street so. that It can be picked up.
through their attics, basements,! Social and Pergonal
and closets for waste paper and Earle Myers, son of Mr. and
have their bundles ready tomor- 1 Mrs. O. W. Myers, left Tuesday
row afternoon when the city I for Rome, Gd., where he has been
trucks will collect it to be usea enrolled in Darlington School lor
In the war effort Boy Scouts will Boys.
call at every home in Kings Moun Miss Carolyn McDanlel, who
tain and place the bundles on the has been spending the summer
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with Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Jackson
in Washington, O. C., Is at home
for a ahort visit before entering
Mara Hill Junior college.
Mrs J. D. Montgomery and
daughter, Joanne, apent last week
With Mr. and Mrs, D. J. Mont
gomery In Grow.
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MEDICINE
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Ingredient*: bit* of net o?,
wi*dom, humor, and comment.
Direction *: Take weekly, if
possible, but ovoid
overdosage. # -
The Important commodity
meat has been very much in
the headlines during the past
several days as the health de
partment operatives of the
state, Gabton and Mecklenburg
counties have passed out war
rants charging butchers with
doctoring their offerings with
sodium sulphite, a type of salt
which makes non-fresh meat
retain its rosy glow of fresh
ness.
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At least a dozen ?Gastonites
havt been called to task by the
sanitary specialists and the
Charlotte Observer noted that
five Mecklenburg meat dealers
are in Dutch on the same
charge.
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I have not noted whether this
sulphite treatment does any
damage to the eaters, but, of
course, if meat gets old enough,
it'll get tainted and could re
sult in upset tummies and epide
mics of ptomaine poisoning.
Even if the meat hasn't reached
the tainted point, the sulphite
using butchers have fudged a
little, making their product ap
pear somewhat different from
what it actually was.
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Mfeat is a dirty business, at
best, and the sulphite business
reminds that North Carolina's
sanitation laws, subject 10
much cussing in year* past,
have done much to make the
meat business cleaner. '/
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Some years ago, I had a
roommate who was a health de
partment sanitarian and I oc
casionally accompanied him on
his Inspection trips. On one oc
casion he confided as we -jn'ier
ed the door of a rural meat dls
penser that he had been "run
out" on his last trip. The meat
dealer was a man of notfed tem
per, and the sanitarian was
aware of the weapons available
hanging on the wall. Though he
had beat a retreat, he had
warned the man from the rela
tive safety of thfe door that he
would return again and that
failure to clean up the musty
freezers and Counters would re
sult in a padlocking action.
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It was with some fear and
trembling that we entered. The
, butcher wag just as squat,
brawny, and dark-visaged as
those Hollywood rustle up for
roles as German restauran
teurs. But I need not have fear
ed The butcher had his place
shiny clean, got a "B" rating
and the promise of an "A" with
a modem equipment replace
ment ox two. And he seemed
real proud of the shine.
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In that day, hot water was
just taking the day in the but
cher shop, and the sanitarians
would virtually promise the de
sired "A" grade if sink and hot
water tank were installed. To
day. I don't believe there's a
meat counter in Kings Moun
tain not served by hot Water,
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The sanitary laws of North
Carolina have done much to im
prove the situation and while
they've made the overhead
much hteavier for the butcher,
it is quite conceivable that the
Improvement in sanitation has
been a major factor in the in
creasing consumption of meat,
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It hasn't been too long ago
that fresh meat was limited to
wintertime tables, due to lack
of refrigeration and depen
dence on winter temperatures
to preserve meat for cooking.
As perhaps mentioned before,
the tales of Robert Durham in
his book "Since I Was Born"
concerning the community's
butcher of the 1880*8 hardly en
hance the appetite.
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The nation has become one
of meat eaters though meat'
has been a large component of
the diet since th-? days of
Daniel Boone and the buffalo
hunter#. Deer, rabbit, squirrel
and other animals were com
monplace on the backwoods ta
ble. These are still the prizes of
sportsmen, who eat them with
gusto, but moat folk who
haven't cultivated the taste for
wild meat find this kind of
meat tough and the *i?t ?
strong.
Though the dry weather of
the past two summers has
damjiened iillliwlrt
of those who have predicted
that this area will'.
k*t from the Mid-West, It is still
a possibility, for, given rain
fall at all, this area la a top
grass grower. Farmers have
told me the principal difference
in choice Western beef and lo
cal beef is the method of fatten
ing, with Western growers us
ing a fast-fattening, eom-feed
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Viewpoints of Other Editors
COMPETITION AND
PRICES
Three major department stores
in St. Louis have decided to meet
the competition of discount hou
ses on the discounters' home
grounds of price-cuts.
The heads of all three stores
emphasized that their new policy
of meeting price-cuts with price
cuts was not a temporary expe
dient to recover some lost trade.
They agreed that the discount
houses were a new and growing
form of competition which can
not be met by a policy of selling
the same goods at higher prices.
The way they are meeting the
competition is to shop about and
if a discount house ? ... another
department store, for tl?at mat
ter ? is selling items for less mo
ney than they are getting, their
own prices are immediately low
ered. This Includes nationally ad
vertised brands. Thus the depart
merit stores tossted over a policy
of generally selling such mer
chandise at the manufacturers'
advertised retail list prices, which
is the objective manufacturers
seek through enforcement of the
so-called fair trade laws.
Missouri has no such law. But
it seems to us that what is hap
pening in St. Louis Indicates that
even the staunchest advocates of
fair trade laws ought to take a
nother look at their policy of
compulsion. For what is happen
ing there will happen elsewhere
also. One of the three St. Louis
stores is the central link in a
chain of ten department stores,
fifteen branch stores and a shop
ping center located In nine cities.
Two factors provided the im
petus for the new policy. One was
that the customers generally
aren't' a bit interested in uphold
ing fair trade laws which hurt
their own pocketbooks. The other
was that the store officials re
cognize the price-cutters as ano
ther form of mass distribution
providing competition and that
the competition must be met.
The competition cannot be met
unless the prices are met, and it
is on that simple merchandising
rule that the fair trade laws must .
eventually be repealed or they
will eventually be Ignored. For
the laws ignore the other rule
that people will not -pay higher
prices for goods when they can
get them for lower. And indeed
there is no reason why they
should. ? Wall Street Journal
RECALL TEXAS
'BORROWER' ,a
Despite the feet that the FBI
has solved all except one of the
seven bank hold-ups in the state
this year, th* re appear to M
those among as who feel that
this is the easy way to gather in
the coin of the realm. However,
if they will not learn from obser
vation. they can do so behind pri
son wai'm when there is mote t'me
to coo ten-plate the folly of their
way* V.
Up until a short time ago, all
the banker* have promptly obey
ed the instructions of the men be
hind the guns, and none have
been Injured. Hcfwever, about 10
days'ago, a banker down at Rose
Hill took a big chance. When he
walker into the bank In the morn
ing. he sensed something was
wrong, and dashed for <he front
door to sound the alarm. The
holdup man fled without getting
any money. ? . ?
Btlt when the banker made his
dash, Ms left three other employ
ee? of the bank, one being his
wife, under the gun. If the man
with his fln^r on the trigger had
bWk a nervous sott of chap, he
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TOMATOES
Tomatoes ripen, and 'there is re
joicing among those who know
good gan>n food whten they taste
it. There is private celebration,
which might very well be made
public. II it were, perhaps we
would be able, once and for all,
to scotch that nonsense about to
matoes being long considered po
isonous. Every now and then the
old tale comes up. Not long ago a
radio announcer said they were
considered poisonous fifty years
ago. Why, fifty years ago toma
toes were sold all over America, .
canned and succulent the year|
around! One < encyclopedia says
they weren't considered edible un
til "within the last century". That
is also nonsense.
. The tomato is ? native Ameri
can. It was grown and eaten by
Aztecs and Incas when the white
man first arrived. The name
comes from the Aztec word "to- 1
matl." The Spaniards took toma
to seeds back to Spain early In
the sixteenth century, and the
tomato has been grown, eater}
and Improved there ever since.
Gardeners In England knew and
grew the tomato -in the seven
teenth century. The tomato was
grown here In the colonies before
1750, from seted .imported from
England' and Spain.
Thomas Jefferson grew toma
toes. Among his garden records
is mention of the "Spanish toma
to (very much larger than the|
common kind)," which indicates
that there was a "common kind."
Jefferson grew them in his salad
garden, and thtey were neither
exotic nor a curiosity. In fact,
they were on sale in the Wash
ington markets long, long ago,
by Jefferson's own account So
let's be through with the "poiso
nous tomato" nonsense. ? New
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CHEST COMPLAINTS ?
We agree with the scientist
who says that a man who sings
at the top of his voice for an
hour a day won't be troubled by
chtest complaints in his old age.
The neighbors will see to that ?
Cairo. Oa., Meatengcr.
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TIME FOR WONDER
When politicians agree, the an
gels may rejoice but the voters
Just wonder what's cooking ?
Boston Globe.
might have openled up on those
who were left behind. And he
could have winged the banker (Hi
the ^un had he been a sharpshoot
er. <'? .
We are hopteful that those who
would rob banks With the aid of
a gun will give up the practice as
? losing proposition. However, la
case they do ?.*, we recommend
to all those who work behind
bank ebuntera that they offer no
ifcetetanoe. Of course, it's quite
nice to be headlined as "alert
to preventing * robbery but since
all banks are insured against fi
nancial loss by hold-ups, we can
imagine no mine ignominious
death than to die for an tafor
anee company.
And then there's always the
possibility that the hold-up man
la * chap who was jtuipad down
applied for ? loan. A
get a loan by fair means t*ad a
to:*Mftln the
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OPTOMETRIST
Room 1, Morrison Bldg. . Phone 316- W
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that like-new snap and sparklet
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KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C.