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Editor- PufcUaher Sport*, Circulation, New* Water Crisis Like the two great wars, Kings Moun tain's 1953 and 1954 water crises could well bear the designations Water Crisis I and II, if we mark off the sequence prior to 1929. The supply is at a very low level with estimated reserves ? barring a great rainfall total ? at less than a month's restricted supply, and the auxiliary sup plies tapped for the first time last au tumn have already been in service this year, when the drought seems even worse. Thus the city board of commissioners was wise in the action to require water conservation. When there is a crsis, strong measures are required. The good of all i? at stake, and it means that all should be saving in their water consum ption. The city administration made it a mis demeanor to use water for 1) car-wash ing, 2) watering of lawns, a^d flowers, 3) wetting - down of coal, and 4) any other unnecessary use There are many ways to save water in individual households merely by turn ing off the spigot during cooking, dish washing, tooth-brushing and similar op erations, which would save a great a m mount of water in the aggregate. The recurring crisis points anew to the city's long-term water problem, though, of course, the immediate dilem na is getting by until rains arrive in quantity. With the consumption going ever up ward, due to population increase, in creased use by industry, and the spread of air-conditioning as a commercial and residential commodity, the shortage points anew to the basic inadequacy of Kings Mountain's present sources of wa ter for five, ten and fifteen years hence. The Herald has no intention to re hash today the question of the advisa bility of utilizing the Davidson Creek source, except to remind that the stream is a small one and ? in dry periods ? will furnish only a little water. Again, the question of water supply is one of source, not of dams and reservoirs, the latter being short run adjuncts to any water supply system. Perhaps the Davidson Creek reservoir, which will first come to major usefulness next summer, will justify its cost merely for use between 1955 and the year ? which obviously can't be too far away ? when the city embarks to Buffalo, or prefera bly Broad River, for a major source of supply to end for the foreseeable future these recurring water shortages which are not only Inconvenient to all citizens but costly as well The car-washing loss to service stations is no small item, and continuing dry weather could mean curtailment on some major payrolls which help to sustain the Kings Moun tain economy. The Bethware Community Fair open ed yesterday and is hitting full stride today Pay a visit to the Bethware School ? Grounds during the weekend, and support this community enterprise. Smart fair- goers will make arrange ments to have supper at the Bethware cafeteria, as those who have eaten some of the delicious food there will be quick to recall. Bethware Fair is a fine com n unitv prelude to the annual Cleveland County Fair, opening next Tuesday, and our guess is that many of the Bethware agricultural entries, covering Number 4 Tou nship!"\vill cop a full share of the honors' at the county event. The Wall Street Journal put a big headline on a news story last Friday re porting the first gain in unemployment compensation claims in several weeks ? quite natural, since many laid off em ployees had experienced the painful sit uation of having benefit periods expire. September 1 was a new eligible date in North Carolina, and, i? is presumed, in other parts of the nation. In Kings Mountain, however, the claim-filing trend is down, signalling an upturn from the textile recession which began about t" < > >onths ago. . Test Of Greatness It is said the test of greatness is a per son, community or nation's reaction to crisis. In other word's, what will a man, a city, or a nation do when the pressure is on? Will he be weak and retreat, or strong and resolve the crisis favorably? Kings Mountain has just had a com munity crisis and has met the test of greatness. The great out-pouring of Kings Mountain citizens, alarmed over the impending suspension of Kings Mountain and its surrounding area from the Red Cross blood program, was man ifest evidence that the citizens of Kings Mountain retairf quite well the basic character ingredients which first made this nation free and which have since made it grow in strength. Fortunately or unfortunately, the av erage American has a tendency to put off doing today what can be done to morrow. In the matter of blood-giving, tomorrow came and the response ? more than doubling at 345 pints the former one-day blood collection record of 164 ? was amazing, wonderful, and inspiring There was only one untoward situa tion in the whole event, and that was the stated unwillingness and concurrent re fusal of the Bloodmobile staff to work an hour extra and process the 25-50 peo ple still awaiting processing at 5 p. m., the advertised closing time. _ Complaints of the strong variety should be filed to the very top of the Red Cross national Organization, if neces sary, to change this situation. After all, the only people getting paid for their time during the Bloodmobile visit were those of the Bloodmobile regular staff. The many volunteers who aided the Bloodmobile staff received not one pen ny! the?blood donors were giving both time and blood, yet the paid staff exhi bited the worse kind df clock-watching. Meantime, however, much credit is due each of the 500 people who offered their blood, the many hard-working vol unteers on the processing job, the local Re<jl Cross blood program officials, and members of the Kiwanis club, who. had accepted responsibility for recruitment in the emergency collection The city instituted Monday, at the behest of the Kings Mountain Merchants association, a new plan of handling the worrisome parking meter fine problem. The Nickel Courtesy plan, paid for by the merchants, has worked well in Smithfield and it should work here. The only revenue the city will lose ? and the parking meter arrangement was de signed not to produce revenue but to al leviate the continuing and unsolvable parking problem ? is the total of dollar fines paid by frequently irate over-park ing motorists- The new system is on trial for six months. And who wouldn't de lightfully pay back the courtesy nickel (with bonus) to escape the onerous fine, plus time and trouble of the trip to City Hall? It is right for one businessman to pay a privilege license if another does- Thus the city is right in making all citizens abide by the law. Of course, most privi lege licenses are means Of obtaining rev enue only and hardly jibe with the doc trine of free enterprise. Why a person, partnership, or corporation should pay a license to do business is indeed a ques tion in a nation which prides Itself on the right of an individual to earn a liv ing at any form of honorable employ ment or enterprise Mrs. E. K. McSwain, though primarily a Western Union employee, has been a most satisfactory operator of the Kings Mountain bus terminal. Her attention to customers ? both telegraphic and trans port- seeking ? has been somewhat ex ceptional, and Hi is with a measure of regret that the time has come fo< her to resume her duties as Belmont's Western . Union operator, her filling in here being "temporary" from her first day. 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. Schools will open Monday mor ning at 8:30 after being delayed two weeks due to the polio epi demic. Byron Keeter, Kings Mountain merchant, has been named chair man of the United War Fund tor Number Pour Township. The drive will be conducted during the month of October. Social and Personal ! N^lsses Mary Ann Crouse and Helen Ramsey were hcptessea at five tables of bridge and three : tables of rook, entertaining at | the Woman'# Club last Wednes | day night. 1 The Colonel Frederick Ham* bright chapter, DAR, met At the home of Mrs. H. T. Fulton Wed nesday afternoon. - Mrs. Lloyd Watson and twi children, ot Boone, are visiting re latives In Kings Mountain. Mrs. Evon Houser, of Dallas has been visiting at the home oi Mrs. W. K. Mauney. MARTIN'S MEDICINE fry Martin SaM IngredieAts: bit s of ?mn, iciarfom, humor, and comment. Directions: Take weekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage. The North Carolina Press as sociation and University of North Carolina co ? sponsored , this third annual news and fea ture writer's conference at Cha pel Hil* Saturday and a great number of the state's working press was present for the ses sions, which included panel and forum dJsbufcslons on how to write better of teach. - The session differed from the regular Press association con ventions and the Mid-Winter Press institute which customari ly attract the high brass of the newspapers of the statte ? the publishers and business man 'agers, who keep a keen eye peeled, As they must, on the balance sheets, advertising con tent, and circulation figures, m-m The folk at Chapel Hill Sat urday were the men and wo men ? and the average age would be in the low artea ? who bring the bulk of the news to North Carolina citizens, either via daily gazette, or weekly and semi-weekly journal. They are this folk in the slot, covering thfe beau, writing the headlines, digging up the feature material, writing the obituaries, covering the teas, speakings, meetings, and all the fevents close to the heart-beat of North Carolinians, m-m There were young girls with husbands, young girls without husbands, young men still tin gle and young men experienc ing the newness of fatherhood, with just a sprinkling of some older folk about. Among them were Kays Gary, Charlotte Ob server, once of the Shelby Dally Star, Jay Jenkins and Ray Lowery, also Star graduates and now of the Raleigh News & Observer, Julian Scheer, Charlotte News bright boy, and hosts of others. m-m I sat next to Gary at the sup per stession (half a barbecued ctUcken, with delicious trim mings) and Kays' opinion is that the Jonas-Sed berry affair m the tenth congressional dis trict will be a rather close _donny brook, with Jonas hold '"S aTS,,?ht as of now. u? ^ay H"skhis, self-styled pu b llsher-edl tor-errand boy of the StattesviUe Daily Record Landmark, thought that Con gressman Hugh Alexander (D) will withstand the heavy on slaught Bill Stevens (R) is making in the ninth district Jay says the main plea, of both Is party-line, with Stevens rurt "ln8 oji the "Ike-Needs-Me" themlp, and Alexander on the plea that the Democrats need him to be able to organize the House via a Democratic majori ty. Since both are favorite o t industrialists promlhent in the district,. Jay figures their votes on matters in the upcoming Congress would differ only on the Initial vote to organize the House. mm But the meetings piece de resistance, outside of the con versational shoptalk, was the Saturday night addrvas of James H. Street, the author and short story writer, who delight ed the working newsfolk with interesting anecdotes out of a long background of newspaper *nd writing. Street, who went to work for the Arkansas Gazette when hte was 14, and who subsequently was a short Ufne Baptist minister, got his big break, he said, from an agalnst-orders feature he did In the late twenties. A mid-west railroad was abandoning a 60 year-old run from Memphis to Ntew Orleans, a train Street Md watched pass all his boy hood. The feature attracted the attention of the Associated Press boss, and he was made. A short time later, another fea ture took him to William Ran dolph Hearst, where he was well paid but quit on the 'Jour nalists code of honor. He couldn't stomach the Hearst editing and taboos. ' ? nj-m Among the Street suggesv Uona on feature writing were: Look tot features in. the so-call ed straight news ahd make features out of the future rath er than the historic past He also advised the working press to concentrate less on money and more on thte story. m-m Trip notes: Bypasses are wonderful, it now being -xwsible mate the Chapel Hill trek with only Gastonia and Cha* lotte Intervening, on a good road C ^Ke U. S. 40 to Ashe bcro) *11 the way the trip was also good for a car wa3h, Chapel Hill having no short a2e ? ? ? but thte Catawba was the only river or creek en route that seemed to be up to normal levels.. ....Hugh Morton, the Grandfather Mountain owner promoter - secretary . clerk, reported a good season. He also . consumed an Interesting break fast Sunday morning, including 4 e?ga and bacon (eaten first be SJUf? he 1,k?? ?E8* hot), eante loupe, cereal, blueberry muf fins and iced coffee Miri am Rabb, of the State News | btP56)fORP ? ? ? Bjy A, C. MHUHiil WMiflUH 4i mm MMf& yn a MM MMMWMUM am >d?mw**m Muwt mm ? MM UMM am M Mamma m ammau am am am am Mm am ? a yiui yy m -dm ama aa m Mawmam aammam am ym^iHi jr m am #wm Mm m Biographical Ubb.) >9 ? Afditwr wf? )*-TWi4f 31? Aacieat Babylonian It? Ante* rivar, rick la 3 4? Chemical (jabot hr 1 i? _ 38 ? Britfah author of "Tha OiliUl pM tb? seta! 3 1 ? Famed German Can* 35-E?.(53iL. 14 ? hocwd ^ f 3 5 ? la rcfrrrnc* to V 36? Dfacavmdbjr li-r A ? ^ 3?? Co5w5SPtU" 41 4 J -Broker fairy lata 4 & ? Clw^ati a's rivif (poea.> I of aeta SI? CV rairal ?HM foe rt^an >3 ? Chemical aymbol for 7 ? Chemical tyrabol (or S 7? Mythological maiden chanced into a heller ? ? t?-'? - ' iBllnjiuLtiutifa 3ir? VlmftJ AQUuOpOK>|lia (abb.) (2 ? DkUirt Attorney 8h Tbm Want Ad Soctloa rot TMs WnTi Completed Pfasslo Viewpoints of Other Editors THE ROW PROVES THE NEED FOR VOTING MACHINES Election rows don't add streng th to democracy. The longer these rows are drawn out the more peo ple are inclined to become dis gusted with the ways o f politics. There arfe legal rights involved, of course. Sheriff Henry haa his and former Sheriff Denning has his. And each has sympathizers in the currtent wrangling over recounts. But the deeper this con troversy becomes imbedded in le gal issues not easily grasped by laymen, the more the people be come unsympathetic with both sides. Perhaps this is not ihe way of democracy. Perhaps the people should be slow to pass Judgment on the two antagonists. Each an tagonist feels he has rights that deserve protection, and no doubt each feels that his Is a fight to uphold the Integrity of Elections. But the bald reality is that pub lic opinion looks "upon the Henry Denning squabble with increasing disgust, not being convinced that' either side has Its cause clothed lit sanctity. . : The Herald doesn't intend to take a stand editorially for either Sheriff Henry or former Sheriff Denning. But we do have a pair of hopes to express. Hope No. 1 is simply that jus tice will prevail ? speedily ? as this election dispute moves through the courts. Hope No. 2 Is that the people of the county, spurred by their Impatience with the on - and .'on wrangling, wiH demand that the county explore without delay the feasibility of using voting ma chines in the elections of future years. As long as human beings are Involved in elections, 'dishon est elections will remain possible. But voting machines, where they have been tried, have reduced the opportunities fat dishonesty by eliminating the chance of stuff ing ballot boxes, and by doing a way with the "long count" and the accompanying confusion in the tabulation and reporting of returns. v ... It is reasonable to conclude that had Johnston County ui&irotlng machines in all Its precincts on May 29, the Democrats would long, ago have had a nominee fpr shterlff. As things are, 4he folks are beginning to wonder if we will have a nominee declared in time far the fast-approaching No vember election. Sinithfield Herald. 3 >'?* -*'sOP HOW TO BECOME A PUBLIC SPEAKER Has training for public speak ing bfeen neglected in our schools? Or should courses in public speak ing be required in schools? editor' of- the StanMjNPW arid Press think*' fh# MMMMjl # both queries is "Yes." He says so jjffris editorial iwrtWliiTtolt week. Hte reasons that 96 percent of persons who make public speakers show no aptitude at platform manners; also, he cites the case of one of his county's 4-H youngsters winning sneaking honors in a statewide contest be* caus^tfeyMta man had Bureau, was bragging on the , ^-$1 performance of "Sword of Gideon^, ai|L;,.|*Kret?ing the Military park is in South Caro lina. waa interested in the folk lore which holds that the line is r rooked boranso the surveyors mapped H 1* the diredftKli^ the nearest hooch still ? M ~ ' LET'S CONSERVE WATER Transylvania and other sec tions of the Western Carollnas are experiencing 'dry times, and the streams and rivers are at a low point. The Davidson river is said to be lower than it was last year, when Che county had one of its dryest summers in history. Here in Brevard the water sup ply at the present time is ample, ample, that is, if everybody will conservte. The mayor has asked that citi zens refrafn from washing cars, watering lawns and gardens, etc. Brevard uses over a million gal lons per day, and during dry spells this is about the amount of the intake. If the dry weather should continue indefinitely, the situation could become acute and create' a serious hazard in case of A fire. For the protection of our town, and the general welfare of . our citizenry, let's use that water sparingly at all times, and re member, a leaky faucet can waste hundreds of gallon* in no time at all. ? Transylvania Timet. | ? . I ^_v? . - - PERFECT HOSTESS A lady was telling us recently that shte had spent a most de lightful afternoon with Mrs. Abee. "I can't remember when I enjoyed myself more," the lady said. "Mrs. Abee is a perfect hos tess.''. Wishing to do our good deed for the day, wfe relayed the compliment to Mrs. Abee. She sighed retrospectively. "I'm so glad she did," Mrs. Abee smiled as she spoke. Then she added: "For two solid hours, without in terruption, my guest talked about herself and her possessions. ? .... all of which were at a 100 per cent valuation." But weren't you a bit bored?". ye couldn't resist asking. Mrs. Abee took a deep breath, "My dear, every time I thought I couldn't take one more sentence, I forced myself to remember that the first duty to a guest was to see that they were tenjoying them selves."' She hesitated and then with a smile said: "Well, I guess I was successful." ? Waynes utile Mountaineer. training in public speaking. From these facts, he Infers that courses in public speaking would make | good platform orators out of all of us. . We agree with the Albemarle . editor that no less than 95 per cent of "persons who makte spee ches in public", know little about the platform art Also, from what, we know about 4-H clubbers and their activities, we'd say his fel Tow Stanly Countian earned att the honors he got at Raleigh. But, no amqunt of courses In schools or training in platform manners will make a speaker out of 99 per cent of the 96 per cent the Albemarle editor was writing about. The trouble, as we have it diagnosed, is that those who cart make public speeches had nothing to say when they "arose to their feet." The one course We'd like to see offered ? In school, at college, In political organizations. At Ro tary or Kfwanls or Lions club ^meetings, at conventions,' and sometimes even in church ? is * one denying the privileges of the floor to any perapn who has noth ing worth saying; and to those who have the sense to stop talk ing and sit down when the facts have run out, wte would give sum ma cum laude honors. ? Hertford County Herald. . .i s DR. BLAKE M. McWHIRTER . :? - -v. \Nv- ' '.'A OPTOMETRIST Room 1, Morrison Bldg. Phone 316- W Office Hours 9 5 Dally Except Fridays 9-1 Evenings by Appointment COMPLETE VISUAL ANALYSIS ? 1'.'" 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