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# The Kings Mountain Herald P0; 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 olaas matter at the postoffU>e at Kings Mountain, N? C, under Act > of Congress of March 3, 1873 ' ? ? . ... < . EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon ?. Editor- Publish* Charles T. Carpenter, Jr . . Sports, Circulation, News Miss Elizabeth Stewart Society Mr*. Thomas Meecham .. . . . Bookkeeping, News % MECHANICAL DSPASTMENT 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? $1.40 THREE MONTHS? 75c BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VBRSE A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved. Proverbs it :S. Politics In Full Swing With Congress adjourned and voting day looming in just a little less than six weeks, the big guns, politically speaking, are thundering their campaign oratory all over the nation. The reason is a very important one to both major political parties: control of Congress via a majority in the House and Senate. The Republicans exhort their faithful to get out the vote in order that President Eisenhower may be able to continuo his "peace and prosperity" program along the right road. The Democrats, renewing their old charge that the GOP is the party of the wealthy few, ask return to control in or der that the vast numbers of little peo ple will also enjoy peace and prosperity. Former President Truman (D) even add ed an interesting new fillip when he call ed on the voters to "save" President Eisenhower from his own party. Between the extreme appeals there are tidbits of fact and some considerable fiction, though Mr. Truman undoubtedly had a point. Had President Eisenhower not enjoyed considerable support from across the aisle during the two recent sessions of Congress, his program would ? have indeed been in sad shape. A Kings Mountain man who votes conservatively remarked the other night, "It looks as if the Republicans are out-dealing the New Deal and the Fair Deal, with the exception of taking care of the farmer. They must have forgot farmers get to vote, too." While general elections in a non-pre sidential year seldom, if ever, match the hot spring Democratic primaries in North Carolina, this area's vote on No vember 2 should be larger than usual, for certainly some of the hot campaign ing 'in the neighboring tenth Congres sional district should spill over to the eleventh district. And most citizens will get excited over the so-called key races in other states, which will claim much of the nation's press space and much of the radio commentators' time. There- is also much interest here in the situation in South Carolina, where States Right Candidate Strom Thur mond claims to be a good Democrat again and wants to be South Carolina's Senator. Thurmond, who asks the voters to write in his name, opposes State Sena tor Edgar E. Brown, the executive com mittee nominee, with the "issue" the one perpetrated by Governor Byrnes and Thurmond over the right of all the Dem ocrats to nominate via a primary. That's the propaganda. The real issue is wheth er South Carolina will send to the Se nate a Democratic loyalist or whether it will elect Eisencrat Thurmond. ? In the home Congressional district, Rep. Woodrow W. Jones is conceded to be a sure winner over R. R. Ramsey, back in the race after withdrawing. The Democrats, following the Maine gubernatorial victory, are elated over their prospects, particularly for captur ing the House of Representatives, and are hopeful of capturing the Senate. Actually, the Kings Mountain man's commentary on the situation is close to the heart of the matter. President Eisen hower and the GOP controlling influ ence is pretty liberal, and, even though the Democrats should win control of Congress, there is little livelihood of a repeat of. the divided uncontrollable sit uation of which Herbert Hoover was the victim in 1930. Initial indications are that the Cour tesy Nickel arrangement to avoid the meter policeman's handing out those de testable pink over parking tickets will operate satisfactorily. If it does, Kings Mountain will be in position to glean a great amount of good will, not being reaped in some of our neighboring com munities who are cracking down with full force on over parkers. The test is * for six months. Surely Kings Mountain ? citizens will honor this honor system and eliminate the pink over-parking ticket forever. The State Budget Even before the 1953 Genera! Assem bly convened there were hints that cer tain state tax schedules would have to be revised. Generally, the suggestions came from office-holders and bureau of ficials, and the real definition of revision was new taxes and/or increased rates. In the past two years the hints have become broader and with more frequen cy, and when the Budget Commission completed hearings on the budget for the forthcoming biennium, it appeared much paring would be necessary if the revisions are to be avoided. The squeeze has been applied from two sources, 1) the regular pattern of state agency heads seeking more money, and 2) a shrinking of state income caus ed by the business recession. North Car olina's tax schedules are geareu directly to the economy. Money rolls in with prosperity, dwindles when business is slow. Even with prosperity, the state al ready has gone into debt with bond is sues for permanent improvements, pledging some of tomorrow's income for facilities today: What will the answer be? Much depends on the general business situation existing in January. If the re venue trend is still down, the legislators will be under strong pressure not to add hew taxes. If the revenue trend has re versed, the legislature will find added taxes more palatable and will enact them. In either instance, the law-makers will probably do some viewing with rose colored glasses and appropriate more money than might come in. Generally speaking, the majority of North Carolinians t<?day are counting on the Budget Bureau to make some heavy slices in the budget requests, and, if these aren't enough, count on their re pfesentatives to squeeze enough fat and ' frills out to avoid the odious "revision". Cleveland County's annual fair extra vaganza is underway and seems this year to justify quite well the "bigger and better" designation Dr. J. S. Dorton, the veteran promoter, annually gives it. Dr. Dorton knows that the key to suc cessful entertainment promotion is the constant varying of the entertainment diet, and he seldom lacks for ideas. While the midway is the main attraction for many fair-goers, they will be missing the principal purpose and excuse for the fair if they do not see the many fine ag ricultural and educational exhibits available this year in greater number than ever. / . Kings Mountain citizens deserve com mendation on their hundred percent co operation with the ordinance restricting water consumption. Water, like many of nature's great ber^fits, seems of little importance until it is in short supply. Rains will come in their season, on Bib lical promise, but if the season does not arrive soon, greater restrictions on wa ter tise here will have to be enacted. The favorable rate at which the city's gas system revenue bonds were sold is indicative of the confidence the invest ment houses have in the use of natural gas as a fuel, and also Of Kings Moun tain's- preconstruction outlook for a large number of customers. While all of the gas tap buyers will hardly become gas users in one season, it is quite in or der to anticipate that the numher of cus tomers will increase as the years pass. This year's Kings Mountain area off- - to school group includes a record num ber of students. Parents are to be con gratulated for encouraging their chil dren to acquire more formal education and those students who are forging ahead on their own initiative deserve a double portion of congratulations for their grit and ambition. 10 YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events THIS WEEK taken from the 1944 files of the Kings Mountain Retold. Kings Mountain schools opened Monday morning after being de layed two weeks due to the polio epidemic, with an enrollment o / 1,285 pupils in the white schools, seven less than- opening day last year. Social and Personal Mrs. O. C. OFarrell entertained members of the Thursday After noon Book club Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Byron Kceter and daughters, Jo and Eoline, spfent the weekend In Clayton, where they attended the wedding of Mr. Keeter's niece, Miss Jean Hamilton. V i - Bill Davis, Flight Instructor of Albany, Ga., spent thte weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Davis. Misses Jo Ann Walker and Ma rion Arthur left Tuesday for Gainesville, Ga., where they en teved Brenau college. I MARTIN'S MEDICINE bj Martin Harmon Ingredient*: bit* of newt, wisdom, humor, and comment. Direction *: Take weekly, if possible, but ovoid overdosage. ? Evertette (Shu) Carlton, the high school football coach, has undoubtedly, by this time, been Indicted for fib-telling again. While this forte is hardly un usual in the noble profession of football Instructing, Shu, by self-admission, is getting pretty good at It -vm At both the Kiwanis dub and Lions club, where he held forth from thfe speaker's rostrum, Shu admitted a 1953 big one. Before the opening game with Bessemer City in 1953 Coach Carlton had walled loud and long over his lack of a running attack. We'll do our scoring through the air, period, he had said, outlining in detail the in ability of his backs to run any faster than the old gray mart, or with any more deception than a bull elephant. xn-m The result was somewhat em barrassing for Mr. Carlton, his slow, obvious backs rolling to a nice three touchdown victory over a Bessemer City team that was no slouch. The victory was no airplanfe trip at all, as the backs tallied 280 yards from rushing, four passes were at tempted during the game, and only one was completed. * mm Shu says a good Methodist put the bee on him the follow ing Sabbath morning. m-m Now it's happened again, with the season just two gamfes old. m-m V - ?' In talking to the two civic clubs, Shu admitVed his starting squad was "a fair bunch of boys", but he moaned low over the lack of reserves. No weight, no experience, no nothing, was the general summation of his second linte eleven. m-m What happened? m-m After the starters had racked up four quick touchdowns, Carl ton (who also said he wouldn't have any two-platoon problem) cleaned the bench of his spind ly second team. In the short space of a few minutes, thfese youngsters had scored twice. John McGinnls ran (if the me mory box serves me right) like his Uncle Odell did some moons ago, Mike Houser took a leaf from Father Stumpy's foot balling days and hauled off tacklfe in a beautiful long-dis tance sprint to pay dirt, and Jerry McCarter, another light weight, wheeled, off yardage like a veteran. ? m-m It must have been very em barrassing to Shu Carlton, though pleasantly. Of course, with Cherryvlllte upcoming Fri day night, Shu will be pardoned for anything this week. Outside the more or less Seri ous business of regularly using the crying towel, Shu is a good liar otherwise. The tales he tells might fcn ily cause Master Liars Peahe, d Walker, Frank Howard, and Rex Enrlght to blush, as he relates field and dressing foom incidents in the course of getting gridmen to do or die for deax old Gowanus. If I had Shu's ability, I'd try to make arrangements to gtet in on the winter banquet circuit ? at fifty bucks per speaking. m-xn Speaking of tales, Price Har mon spun another the other day, which I am delighted to pass along. m-m It was near the end of a big revival meeting and, as is some times the practice, the minister, having pitched his audience to' the proper key, ordered, "All Who want to go to heaven, stand up!" m-xn All arose lor the stretch, save onfe ' lone character near the back pew. After the audience was seated again, the minister said. "1 am gratified with this wonderful response, but I no tice one of our number failed to arise. May 1 ask him," he said, pointing the finger of guilt, "don't you want to go to heavten?" "I sure do," the sitter replied, "but not with them!" botted-notes: The Saturday Evening Post, in Its regular fea ture in which readers ale asked to Identify the particular state from a portion of map, recently used the Kings Mountain-Gas tonia section of the North Caro lina map to tantalize its read ers... ...The Bethware Fair had an excellent run this year, with record crowds attending ......in an effort to turn the calendar back a few years, I rode the fterrls wheel, pitched rings (unsuccessfully) at the ' soft drink bottles, and captured a couple of prizes at bingo Wayne Ware gave me a couple of apples out of his display and they were good ones Held Bell's cowgirl ditssed youngster was having the time CROSSWORD A. C. Gordon 1 . Wild Life 50 ? CkoalcalmaMitr rubidium (abb.)' 54? A plant used as a 1ft? ftnakrBkefiah i IS ? Chemical ?yn- -ol for natrium 20 ? F aimyard Inhabitant 1 1? Bamboolike |r?.?cs >3 ? Urp Australian bird l?-FMM>hrt)n 17 ? Stew?rd (abb.) ?0? Words of the Won 31? Oamebird 34 ? Musical note 3ft? Lath abbreviation meaning 'tor example** 38 ? Shortened "attention" 41? Latin Date (abb.) 43 ? Diminutive for several 45 ? Description of a desert 49? Shrub ueed fo? Bavoting 51? Cry of the sheep 53? Unit ef weight 55 ? Linguistic Education (abb.) 57 ? Eastern Animal Society (abb.) 58? River bland 60? Exists <1 ? Exclamation of satisfaction 63 ? Sea vessel (abb.) 64 ? Chemical symbol (or scandium (abb.) (abb.) 35 ? Female deer 5? Beverage 3 1 ? Exclamation 6 ? Creatures of the sea. 39 Public conveyance providinft a popular (abb.) food 4 0 PubUc announcements 7? Licentiate la Terminal 41 ? The children of a bird Operations (abb.) of prey ? ? In reference to 44 ? Chemical symbol for 9? Roman 550 samarium 10 ? Thick-skinned animal 4 ft ? Thui 1 2 ? Marine cruitActtn 47 ? Right Reverend (abb.) 1 5 ? Chemical symbol lot 48 ? A fruit (pL) phenyl Viewpoints of Other Editors ARMS AND MEN One of the reasons why Ger man's Luftwaffe lost the air war after 1943 was that it continued to fight with' its stockpiles of air craft which had been good enough to win victory in 194041. This is the conclusion of the British experts who have now completed thte official history of the Royal Air Force. The ill-winds of 1940 blew Britain some good in that the R. A. F., more or less starting from scratch, went on to new designs while the Germans were psychological and economic prisoners of their existing planes. It is not a particularly novel conclusion, for it grows out of a cruel dilemma that has confront ed military planners since the age of invention caught up with warfare. But it is an observation of a truth that ought to be con stantly borne in mind when, as today, a nation is confronted with a time of troubles that has no foreseeable end. The cruel dilemma is simply tl\ls. II a nation is not well armed it may be overwhelmed; Britain very nearly succumbed in 1940. Nevertheless, an excess of arms can We self-defeating; it can cre ate a false sense of security and can at times actually impede a sound defense program. The problem has never been as great for this country as it is to day. It is wrapped up in the die bate over the size of the Air Force over the building program for the Navy, over the prototype, vs. the production line models of all sorts of weapdns. And it is at the hteart of the debate over universal mili tary training. # Anyone who served in the last war knows that we did not win with the weapons with which we bt i?an. Victory came not Just be cause wte built in quantity but because we junked old models and conceived new ones. ( And look back only a few years: Kow strong would we be now with ar. Air Force, no matter how tremendous in size, compos ed of the planes oi 1^9* What is true of machines is al so true of men. It is an illusion to suppose that men trained as sol diers four, six or ten years ago form a great body of soldier's skilled for today's war. In the last war the French army collapsed, the German and Japanese armies were defeated; these countries had compulsory military training. The controlling factors lie else where. So neither a p-eat pile of wea pons nor a great body of ex-sol diers offers a sure solution to the task of defending the country; it would be comforting If they did. Both men and machines suffer the great hazard of obsolescense. ' It can be a grave hazard ami the most difficult questions, week the Deputy Chief ot Naval Operations pat them in concrete form. The U. S. Navy la now the biggest and most mo dern but it face* "bloc obsoles oence" beginning in 1958. Should yn try to rebuild the whole Navy en bloc? Or If not, In what pro portion and with what kind of of her life and Grady Seism reported that one King; Mountain madron bought ?5 tickets ? on the merry-goround one afternoon, part of the en tertainment for her youngster' s birthday party. It finally rained Sabbath afternoon, but the quantity was disappointing for water - abort Kings Mountain however, the rains damp ened the dust, which was some halp...... BREAKFAST Better Breakfast Month ? now that's one month we will stand up for. The decline and fall of the great American breakfast seems to us a sign and portent of decadence. Nutritionist are worried about It. We lay it to . -rious classes of people: (X) boys and girls who are afraid they, will be late for schoql; (2) office workers who had rather sleep than eat; (3) women who are In training for the flat look; and (4) sinners who have sat up too late the night be fore. v , 'I We'll bet Longfellow's black smith ("the smith, a mighty man was he") ate a big breakfast, in cluding black bread, beans, cod fish cakes and pie. George Wash ington, John Marshall, William McKinley and William Howard Taft all lQok like big breakfast eaters to us. Franklin and Jeffer- . son may havfe been subverted to | some extent by the "continental breakfast" but we doubt it. An drew. Jackson and Calvin Cooiid ge obviously didn't eat enough breakfast. ' A breakfast that consists of a little cereal, a miniature glass of , orange Juice, a piede of toast and ] a cup of coffee, possibly accom panied by a lonesome egg, is al most as bad as no breakfast at all. ' . ? ' Our idea of a 100 per pent American breakfast is one thSt has most, if not all, of these art icles on the mtenu: A big bowl of oatmeal with plenty ot sugar, salt, butter and cream. ' At least half a cantaloupe. Eggs (plural) fried, boiled, scrambled, coddled, et cetera. Bacon, old country ham, sausa ges, (patties not links), fried chicken, and salt herring role. Rolls, toast, doughnuts, waf fles, buckwheat cakes and bls cults. $ Coffee, just a few cups. It may take a litte time to eat such a breakfast but it will be worth it. Don't ask up who's go ing to cook it. ? Oreensboro Dai ly Newt OWED TO THEMSELVES An apartmtent building in New York City was sold recently to a group of its tenants. ? while en vious neighbors perhaps are won dering out loud whether the new owners will have to raise the rents on themselves ? to keep up the payments.^? The New Orleans \Timee-Picayune. . ships for what kind of war? There are no pat answers. Those who urge ? super-defense program, that we build the most of the bMSt of everything, have good arguments. Yet to be armed to the teeth at all timet risks be ing armed with obsolescent equip ment when the trial comes while meantime burdening the country fatally with demands on its eco nomic resources and manpower. But if there are no pat answers there "-c guldeposts in expert 'enc*. ones this country is some times prone to disregard as It ?Wings back and forth from com placency to fright. One guidepost, of course, com mends us to keep out arsenal in steady and determined repair. Yet there is another too often for got by those who clamor for still greater armaments, greater piles of today's guns, ships, planes and bombs. Safety is measured by the proficiency of the weapons as weil as numbers, and sometimes, as the German lesson gives time ly warning, beneath too great an SS?-"S5.K2 DR. BLAKE M. McWHTRTER OPTOMETRIST Room 1, Morrison Bldg. 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