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{& The Kings ig Hera KrtabliiH?- 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 It* vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class natter at the postoffire 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. News Miss Elizabeth Stewart Society Mrs. Thomas Meackam Bookkeeping, News MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Horace Walker * David Weathers Ivan Weaver* Charles Miller Paul Jacksoit (?Member of Armed Forces) * . . . ? . . ' & TELEPHONE NUMBERS? 167 or 283 . SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR ? $2.50 SIX MONTHS? $1.40 THREE MONTHS? 76c BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE And t)icre are diversifies of operation a, buf if ia the tame Ood which worketh all in ail. I Corinthians 1*:6. Victory Over Cherryville Kings Mountain's ardent high school football fans had a sneaking suspicion that 1954 might be "our year" for taking the measure of Cherryville on the grWi ron, and it was with keen anticipation that these fans and supporters flocked to last Friday night's game. Well might Kings Mountain fans whet ? their appetites a bit, for many are the days and. nights of disappointment Cherryville's scrappy gridmen have caused these fans through the years. Kings Mountain scored two quick touch downs, then held on, to win by a hair in 1951, for the first victory over Cherry ville in the memory of most. Cherryville won easily enough in 1952, then pulled one out of the fire with a last period touchdown last year. This year was our year, though the hustling neighbors acted like spoil sports in the first half. The fact that the Kings Mountain team was able to come back strong, erase the deficit and go on to win was a real tribute to their ability and will to win. But none is ever satisfied. As a lady fan remarked ^o a dusty, sweat-smeared player as they left the stadium last Fri day night, "Now, if we can only take Shelby." Beating Cherryville and Shelby all in one seann is almost too heady to think about without getting dizzy. Indeed, Shelby is touted as one of the top teams of the league, and Shelby's loss to-Ruth erfordton, another top power, is nothing to dim the lustre of the county seat arch rivals. There's no law against dreaming, how ever. In view of the statements of Chairman Arnold Kincaid that property owners of potential sites for a new school (which we presume to be an elementary plant) had been contacted, there seems little excuse for the school board to sit on the school survey report. Not only does every citizen have a stake in the matter of school buildings, via his tax bill, but many have a more direct interest by virtue of having children who are al ready or soon-to-be pupils. The board is undoubtedly sincere in its intentions and its desire to obt&in property as cheaply as possible, but there is considerable question that this effort can have any greater chance of success by withhold ing the site survey report. The fact that alternate sites are suggested furnishes a built-in escape from any real or imag ined price-gouging. Of course, if the de mands of the property owners are too astronomical, the school board has the condemnation weapon. Condemnation, of course, is a nasty word, and the wea pon should be used only in extreme cases. The Herald is frankly curious con cerning the possible location of the new school plant and guesses that a great mapority of citizens share that curiosity. It required a strongly phrased tele gram to President Eisenhower from Sen ator Sam Ervitr and Congressman Wood' row W. Jones, along with efforts in other directions by neighboring Congressmen, to get Cleveland and neighboring coun ties designated a drought disaster area and therefore eligible for federal drought relief. Several avenues of aid aro available, in the form of cheap hay for livestock, and other helps to the area's water-short farmers. Had Messrs. Ervin and Jonc c. not put their shoulders to the wheel and contacted the President directly, the request would have bobbl ed around among the GOP bureaucrats ? who apparently decided this area's far mers never voted right anyway and de served no relief, no matter the drought. The action is a credit to the President, if not to his party, and a credit also to Sen ator Er\ in and Congressman Jones who wasted no time in going to the top to obtain the right decision. Labor Election The National Labor Relations Board has scheduled an election at Foote Min eral Company for next Wednesday on the question of union organization. The United Steelworkers of America, a CIO affiliate, had been working on the organization for several weeks, subse quently claimed it had a sufficient num-. ber of employee signatures on member ship cards and petitioned the NLRB for recognition as bargaining agent at Foote's Kings Mountain plant. Foote Mineral's management denied the claims of the union and, after find ing an impasse at an NLRB hearing on the question of certain employees' eligi bility for union membership, asked the board to conduct an election. The com pany took the position it wants to settle the matter now. It docs not feel that the union's claims are valid and feels that the election result will fail to return a majority for the Steelworkers. As far as the Herald knows, it is the first labor election conducted in Kings Mountain, a community where union or ganization is unknown, and, in fact, where union activity has been limited. Twenty , years ago, in 1934, there was momentary union activity here during the great effort to organize the textile employees. It was the period of the "Fly ing Squadron" type of enthusiasm, and a company of the National Guard was sertf here to assure order and to prevent vio lence. The effort was unsuccessful. The few efforts since that time have been both few and less spectacular. Actually, only one met public notice, when the AFL failed to organize the employees of Frieda Manufacturing Company, now Carlon, Inc. While the election primarily involves the employees of Foote and the company itself, the election naturally has strong overtones for the whole community and it is safe to say that almost all have an indirect interest in its outpome. j It has appeared odd to some that the# Steelworkers picked Foote for organiza tion, for Foote, indeed, has a good story ? based on performance ? ? to remind its employees. First, Foote Mineral Company's pay scale is among the highest in Kings Mountain and the immediate area. This is perhaps most important since the basic theme in union programmes is the hiking of wage scales. Second, Foote Mineral Company pro vides extra pay for all employees ? bas ed on profits, through a monthly bonus plan. A portion of the profits is credited to each employee each month, and the payments are made each six months, half in cash, half in company stock. Foote stock, incidentally, has enjoyed a phenomenal price increase during the past 12 months. Third, Foote Mineral Company is li beral with the so-called and currently popular "fringe" benefits, paying for a $2,000 life insurance policy on every em ployee, a hospitalization policy for each employee, and granting each employee an annual vacation of a week with pay. An employee bargaining organization might be able to obtain a higher pay scale and broadened benefits in return for the dues and assessments it will re ceive from its members, but it is also conceivable that the liberal policy Foote has already been practicing without union goading would be replaced with a new less liberal policy based on the thinking, "What will the union ask next?" ^ Congratulations to the five citizens named to the long.vacant positions on the city zoning adjustment board. Their job will not prove an easy one. The ap pointment reminds that the zoning law, periodically, should be examined with a view to amending it. Periodic review and amendment would be a better poHcv than occasional approval for "excep tions", which has been the policy since the zoning ordinance was adopted. ?? -II I I'" ? I I II I II I ' ? .YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events THIS WEEK taken from the 1944 files of the Kings Mountain HerakL > ; Rev. L.- C. Pinnix, of Jackson- Statesville, will address members at the home of Mr.- and Mrs. J. H. vllle, N. C., has accepted the call of the Kings Mountain Kiwanls Arthun of First Baptist church. He is to club at their meeting this evening Lt and Mrs. Gradv K Howard assume his duties here the last in the Woman's club building. who have been living at Quantico o* October acco-ding to Glee A. Social and P?rnonal v? haw s.on tk. 1 .Uros. clui -man of the pulpit Ml-# f e ty Divisc:: eveJ lard- , * e ? 1 committee. no. Webb college last wce'c. "r> s parents, Mr, anAMra. Hem? D . James L. Pressly, Medical M . iina'M b. F.ank Arthur, of McGlnnis,' befo e going to thei DLector of the Long Hospital of Jau. lotto, were v.eJt<Md gucsU new home at New IUve yN. C. MARTIN'S MEDICINE I By Martin Harmon Ingredients: b ft? of news, u>i adorn, humor, and comment. Direction*: Take weekly, if possible, but avoids ? ? overdosage. Crossword puzzle f an* here abouts are getting a good work out on the elusive teaseru the Charlotte Observer has been running lor cash prizes, with no winners to date. The puzzles are easy, but the catch is that sever al of the words are Variable and the rules say the contest ants must read exactly the mind of the puzzle concocter. If* a big order, where live or six variable* exist. A hoss race ligurer might supply the odds on success. At any rate, 36,000 missed last week. m-m And speaking ol teasers, last week's Herald Mystery Farm stumped the readers by lar and away better than any had yet. It stumped me, too. m-m The high school would do well to give Bobby Suber a seat at every ball game, then sell re served seats around him. Bob Is a better comment - maker than Dizzy Dean, and he had his neighbors In uproars at laftt week's Cherryvllle game. ..... Friday night the Mountaineers head 1 or Forest City, which is an hour's slow driving time, and.it is conceivable that loads ol Kings Mountain autos will be making the trtek .There's nothing like the scent ol vic tory to make the turnstiles click. .... .which reminds that I haven't picked my World Se ries lavorite as yet and must have a -little chat with my Irlend and fellow baseball lan Claude Webb Mr. Webb kept thinking the Dodgers would con^e through, but they didn't. . . ; . ; However, Mr. Webb is usually clairvoyant on mat ters ol picking the- winners and I'll be Inclined to back his judg ment. m-m \ With autumn arrived, it's sup posed to be television season again, with many of thfe better programs back on the air after summer vacations, and now with another station (Ashe ville) available some people have a three or four-station set. The Asheville station's taking the air should mean rush sea son for T-V servicemen Stowe and Bridges, for all will want to expand their offering . Many people report they tune in Asheville pretty well with their regular , rabbit-ears aeri als, but others get only a snowy picture G. L. Wright, says hte gets Asheville fine, but Bax ter Wright, who lives only a few hundred feet away, can't get Asheville at all Tele vision remains a marvel of the age ...... and II its technical improvements occur as fast as radio, It won't be long until color will be a common T-V commodity and stets won't par ticularly require high aerials that now grace many rooftops. ......But the television fad is fast settling to the pattern of radio. .....a person can live without seeing all the pro-, grams ..... .In other words.'l T-V sets are present for us*? on desired programs For the first month we had a set, I car- ' ried an acute case of red eye m-m The Kings Mountain Wo man's Club showed off its new ly expanded and redecorated building to representatives from District IX yesterday and there were many commenda tions. .. ...it's really a hand- -j some building and the new au ditorium will undoubtedly be a much-ustd facility, not to inten tion the ofher accommodations of the cluu. m-m Many auto models plan ma jor changes in the 1935 models, which Will 'generally be shown somewhat earlier than last year's numbers ...... Reader's Digest this month carries an in teresting condensation of an ar ticle from one of the scientific magazines on the experimental gas turbine engine shown in a Plymouth seveoil months ago. .......One spark plug ignites the fire in the gas turbine ten glhe, and hot air causes gears to turn the drive shaft...... Fuel is gasoline, or kersoene, or fuel oil. .... .Could be I suppose that would be a real "hot rod"... .. .Dan Payne, who does odd Jobs for the Herald' after school hours, has a Mo del A Ford flivver he thinks is the best car around. .. ... - With a new carburetor, Dan claims 22 miles per gallon of gas, com pared to three mites per gallon with his old carburetor. .... . Every time I drive to G <s tonia now, I cah't help but com ment on the wonders of the four-lane, two-strip boulevard, and no longer do I find cold sweat popping out on the fore head when behind a truck mak ing Gamble Hill It was al ways a tantalizing thought on what would happen If the truck should stall and his brakes wouldn't hold The 29 by fass around Kings Mountain will move much traffic out of ?he business district .Won - '"t wh.it the latest highway de partment traffic check shows 1 CROSSWORD *> + ? By A. C.Gordon /% w titimmwr* mm ?1 23 MV mmMMM aaaiai umummM M'bdh- yi. m-*fi ?itdm urn MMMmmv ? .:.m -mm mwm yii ACROSS 30 ? Indefinite article 11? Mutkal not* 22? Veneration 13? Uk* 35? Before 36 ? Conjunction IT? Lower JO? Dwell 33 ? Oreek letter ?H ? PreAa denoting "down* 3 5 ? Homicide 38 ? Intelligence 41 ? Mmurr of area 41 ? Auditory implement If ere and There $&**** 47- " 4#? tot i 1 ? Behold! 53 ? Kacuto .'Vf' 5 5 ? Pronoun 56? Bora 35? Divinity St-libt 61? Fruit 62? To father DOWN 1? Parental nickname 2 ? Beverage -Roman numeral 4? Breed at dog 5 ? Circle portion ?? Behold! 7 ? American poet 9 ? Muaica' note 11? Moiatur* 12 ? Render 14? Ancient MOMMM : iun god <?bb.? 40? Oratlhr to the utmoat 45 ? Klectrif: jtl particle 4 ?? Either 4$? Without &t> ?Female aheep 52 ? Oarden vegetable 5 57? Man'i ???In regard nickname .rdW See Th? Want Ad Section Fot T Ms Week's Completed Poole Viewpoints of Other Editors WHITE ? COLLAR ROBOTS What future competition the office-worker Will meet from the mechanical brain still seems to be in doubt. In the United States, live office employees are more than holding their own, the Labor Department reports. They now number about eight million, 64 percent morte than in 1940. The department predicts clerical em ployment will continue to expand despite all the automatic files, cash registers, adding machines and "thinkers" coming on the market However, the International La bor Organization Jias reported in a worldwide survey, the transfer of work from men to machines is proceeding in office* much fas ter than it did in Industry. Office machine production in the United States especially Is booming, sales being about four times what they were before the war. As a result, says the report, many businesses, including especially banks and in surance companies, are reducing office personnel. The report pre dicts that in the long run v^orld demand for such Jobs will exceed the supply. It is likely tHat the officework er, while continuing in demand, will, like the horse aro* the bicy cte, take on new functions as ma chines absorb more office rou tine. Hence those expecting to compete with the office robots will need more diversified educa tion, They would do wlell to ac quire a few skills that the robots cannot duplicate. ? Washington Post 1* ? BIG EDUCATION COSTS MORE The bigger education gets to be the more it costs. Increased ap propriations for State institutions of higher learning, as well as huge endowments and expansion programs for private colleges and universities, are followed inevita bly by an increase in the cost of education. The bigger the college or the university, the more It costs to go to that college or uni versity. This fact is pointed up in some operating costs problems that are facing the Greater University of North Garolina. Legislature after Legislature has appropriated mil lions and millions of dollars to the University at Chapel Hill and to N. C. State college for physical expansion. And new buildings have mushroomed all over the campuses, but with the huge new facilities and the broader curricu la, these institutions find that If* going to cost a boy or a girl to more to get an education. The next question Is whether that extra cost or a part of It. shall be charged to the studeht. Or must the taxpayer pick up the check? Probably and equable ar rangement would be a little of both. Let the student pay a little more, and the taxpayer a little more. If we insist on more and better education we must be will ing to pay for it. Laurlmbttrg Exchange this traffic to be. . but the nicest riddance will be the lttt4? < sir^ly delael oowered trucks. The equinoctial season , brought little rain after all, the two small showers of early last ' week doing little more than dampening the dust Funny ' how the weather operates, Amos Dean said he went to ! Flint Mich., not long ago, found plenty of rain the other sldfc of Charleston, W. Va., all the way to Flint. But the CM between i ier* and Charleston Was dry i i a chip. ifi GOOD MEDICINE Thfcre will be general. approval of the directed not-guilty verdict in the case of the Burlington fa- , ther who .whipped his boys for | stealing. Also there will be wide spread questioning as to why in the world hie was arrested. His sons, aged 10 and 13, slip ped out at night, broke into a school building and stole proper ty. When their father found out he whipped them good- and in the process left jnarks on their legs about an Inch wide ? just about j the width of a belt. Thte boys were j temporarily marked but not dam aged. It is, of course, possible that the father spanked with some indignation. It is also possi ble that not even the whipping will do the boys any good. A little touch of the belt, howevter, cer tainly did them no harm. And , clearly the best place to deal di-l rectiy with Juvenile delinquency Is in the home. A father in his outrage may sometimes swing thfe belt a little too hard. But a society in which a man is arrested for making a superficial mark on a bad boy may very well consider whether it is not more concerned for soft ness than for character. ? Ra leigh News and Observer PECULIARITIES We all have our peculiarities, some big, some little, but they are peculiarities. Wiflte Smith's peculiarity was Btammering. A fine lady, good soul, to whom he was talking, said to him very sympathetically: "It must be very embarrassing to you at times, the way you stam mer." "O-Oh no," said Mr. Smith, "everybody has his own little p-peculiarities. Stammering is m-m-mlme; what is y -yours?" "Well really, Mr. Smith, I am not awart that I have any." - 1 "W-which hand d-do you stir y-your tea with?" "The right hand, of course." "W-well, that Is ^our peculiari ty; most p-people u-use a t-tea spoon." ? Winston-Salem Journal COOL WEATHER IS HERE. WE HOPE IT STAYS Wle sincerely hope that this nice cool weather that has descended upon us means that fall is here. It's time, that summer is over; It's almost October. And those hot sultry days lasted long enough for everybody to get their full of swimming, and trying to keep cool and sipping cool drinks. Now it's the time to put on war mer clothes, and drink a hot cup of something, and enter into the hustle and bustle that comes with autumn. The fall color will soon appear In the mountains, and we can all snjoy this wonderful aspect of Mature by taking a short trip to thte west W* can enjoy the tomfortable ruling of coming int? a warm louse from the chill outside ? ind realizing that we are k lot luckier than most of the other people in the world in having a (varm house and some food to put an thte table. Among other blessings, we won't have to trifle with that art? nuisance, the common fly. And when our garbage sits In the back yard, waiting tot the rare | tfslt of the collector, we won't have to worry as much about the , rxior, and the flies an dotWW ver | naJn; ? Forest City Courier f More than half of all cotton gin trea can be traced to son* type >f foreign material in the cotton mCfc as wooden matches, meta? or ) ? r ^ "V I I . - : if . v; :. ; ~ * I p?$E?r/'" -?.<*? I _ f*. ^ 7\ ,?? jr. >' gf IS X a' ?' ;?* a' 4 st ' Si -3 V 29w^? ifrtt'-* **V f ?: ?* / HARRIS FUNERAL HOME Phone 118 Kg ?'>?*'.; v Kings Mountain, N. C. ? Ambulance Service ? aOa Wm^'-VA r DR. BLAKE M. McWHJRTER OPTOMETRIST Room 1, Morrison Bldg. Phone 316-W m*-<: Office Hours 9-5 Daily 'Except Fridays 9-1 Eveniit?s by Appointment COMPLETE VISUAL ANALYSIS ^"""""wB^uRS^MiTSaSsABPTAiB^SF""?1" Arthritis - Rheumatism ' | MMi.n,n Mawrafntn li.iu.ttfi mmA MmimIm ? f ^ _|_t M| M A A ft E-t ? A ^ A | i f|I| jg fjftj .J l|| |m| j|a A# I ^ J __ | H _ |I.A Jft |A A V^LI^a^ Imlaiw B ^ ^BB?^B^PB ^^^B^P BPBH^B9v ^P^Pw <P ? ^P^BB^^BB BWr - WBP^^^PI^^p BP^B^B^^p i uautM wiftMi at. p^ffl nn ?? 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