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Hie Kings Mountain Heiald 1889 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion ol 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 postoffice at Kings Mountain, N? C., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1875 V , EDITORIAL DBVABTMBHT Martin Harmon ................... Editor-Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr. . Sports, dlreulation, News Miss Elizabeth 8tewart Society Mrs. Thomas Meachaso , Bookkeeping, News MECHAlflCAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Horace Walker David Weathers . . Kan Weaver* Charles Miller ? Paul Jackson ( 'Member of Armed Forces) TELEPHONE NUMBERS? 167 or 283 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAH ? $2.50 SIX MONTHS <$1.40 *TH$EE MONTHS? 75c BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VtiRSE I can do all things through Christ which strength eneth me. Philippians 4:19. Church Loyalty Kings Mountain churches, under the impetus of the Kings Mountain Minis terial association and with the endorse ment of civic clubs and other secular groups, are collaborating in a nine-week church Ibyalty campaign. The campaign is evangelistic in its aims ? to attract non-churchmen to a continuing force for good and to increase participation by lukewarm members. Man has many facets of character. Though the devious roads of evil dra matized in the immortal "Pilgrim's Pro gress" are appealing and often boast of many travelers, the straight and narrow avenues also attract and retain their tra velers, too. Many walk the easy, evil roads befor e they reach the boulevard of high morals. ? History records that all races and peo ples have constantly sought a higher be ing than mortal man, seeking codes of living which lead to after-death life. For almost 2,000 years, Christianity has been a constantly growing force. Even the professed non - believer acknowledges that a 2,000 year record of endurance is indicative of solidity and depth. Decriers sometimes laugh at the church, using as example pontificating members who are good at lip service and the outward clothing of Christianity, but who leave their religion at the church door. Man is human, man is frail, and per fection on the earth is merely a matter of degree. There are no hundred per centers, among ministers, laymen, tea chers, workers, or in any group. But a man must answer for himself, and the beginning of the right answer is affilia tion with an institution which endeavors to further constantly the cardinal vir tues of truth, honesty, loyalty, service, kindness, humility, in short, the moral code taught by Jesus Christ. The institution propagating these vir tues is the church. Claude A. Eury The death last week of Claude Eury, onetime publisher of the Kings Mountain Herald, came as a surprise to the great majority of his newspaper friends throughout the state and also to those older Kings Mountain citizens who knew . him in the period 1907-1911 as the Herald's editor-publisher. Mr. Eury's appearance and agility be lied his age. He would have passed for a man of GO, though he was born in 1880. The present ownership of the Herald first became acquainted with Mr. Eury in 1953, when he was inviting the North Carolina Press association, which he had served as president, to make New Bern the scene of the 1953 convention. The in vitation was accepted and Mr. Eury made a very excellent host. He remem bered pleasantly his Kings Mountain days and supplied interesting and un recorded details of the Herald's earlier history. Mr. Eury graduated from the Herald to larger fields and bought in 1935 the New Bern Sun Journal, which he built into a thriving daily, with modern equip ment. Though oVer 70, Mr. Eury was still looking to the future, and, during the 1953 convention, was in the middle of a major expansion of his plant. Claude Eury demonstrated contin uously a friendliness and hospitality which obviously stemmed from the heart. Ho will be missed in New Bern and in North Carolina. Congratulations to Miss Margaret Go forth, elected last week vice-president of District IV, North Carolina Federa tion of Women's Clubs, and congratula tions, too, to the Kings Mountain Wo man's Club both for the honors achieved during the past year and on the comple tion of its handsome new ^addition. A cordial welcome to the community ,to Rev. W. C. Sides, Jr., new pastor of 'Grace Methodist church, and to Rev. Howard T. Cook, who has accepted the pastorate of Second Baptist church. Out Of Character ? If the citizens of this nation will stop to notice -r, and some of them have ? they can witness a very interesting spec tacle in the efforts of the Republican party, now the "in's" after a long drought, to win the November elections for Congress. One of the recent moves of the GOP, using the public treasury as a campaign fund, was the declaration of policy last weekend on fast tax write-offs to some 90 "defense" industries, provided these industries form or expand into work short areas. That was just one of many, including the $150 million coal giveaway to foreign nations, and the other decision of Mr. Harold Stassen to switch some contracts to domestic producers in spite of more favorable prices elsewhere. Then there was the thinly-veiled policy of speeding spending in the first half of the fiscal year to revive the economic pulse. Much will be the jockeying between now and November 2. Of course, the Democrats, during their long years in office, left plenty of pat terns tor the Republicans to follow. There was the grain policy change of 1948 which materially aided the re-elec tion campaign of President Harry Tru man. There were continuous expansions of social security, which the GOP also adopted, and, oi course, the huge bu reaucracy Roosevelt built, both oefore and during the war, which tended to hang Qn aiterward. Many times the pub lic weliare clause has been stretched to gain votes under the guise of helping the nation, some of the stretches with dubi ous foundation and result. The point, though, is that the Repub licans are somewnat out ot character, here in election season 1954. Starting out with a hard money policy which helped to engender the subsequent re cession, the <JOP started loosening not only on finance manipulations, but in thesex many other directions. ? What do they mean? Will they revert, immediately arter November 2, to their real selves and their hard money, trickle down policy, or have they really switch ed to New Dealism under the GOP tag? Only time ? and perhaps the election results ? will determine the answer. Freedom's Forum This week has been National News paper week, the annual observance of the free press, which informs for the benefit of all. In North Carolina, much attention has been given, not only in the past week but since the General Assembly of 1953, to the passage of the so-called Secrecy Act, whereby a statute was put on the books making certain meetings of the appropriations, sub - committee execu tive, that is* closed to the press and pub lie. . , : Though the meetings seldom are clos ed in practice, permissive legislation is also on the books which give boards of county commissioners and school boards legal authority to close their meetings. These statutes strike at the heart of freedom of the press, and therefore at the heart of the freedom of the public, for the press is merely the agent of the public. Indications are that these laws will be repealed come 1955, and they should be. Information on the handling of public affairs and public monies is the business of the public, down to the simplest deci sions and the smallest expenditures. At $18.60 minimum, the tariff tor a trip to city jail has become right steep.' Addition of the solicitorial fee of $3.50 runs the court costs up to rather con siderable heights. It will behoove mal doers and miscreants to attend to their doings in cheaper areas, though likely the threat of costs will hardly be remem bered when the extra nightcap or mug of beer is poured. 10 YEARS AGO Items of ,?wi about Kings Mountain area people and events THIS WEEK taken from the 1944 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. "I don't see how Kings Moun tain has gotten along without a hospital, you need one, you de serve one, and I hope you get one," Dr. James L. Pressly, Medi cal Director of the Long Hospital of Statesvllle, told members of the Kiwanls club Thursday night. Dr. Pressly referred to a hos pital as "the pulse of a coromu nlty. He was Introduced by Frank R. Summers, chairman of the Public Affairs committed of the club. Social and Personal The Junior Woman's club met Monday night at the clubhouse with Mrs. Lynnwood Part on and Mrs. Giles Com well as hostesses. Mrs. J. M. Rhea was hostess to members of the American Legion Auxiliary, entertaining at her home on West Mountain street. Tuesday night. Miss Betty Estes, of Asheville, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. B. N. iBweifc ? ' ' MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Harmon Ingredient*-. bit a of newf, wimiom, humor, and comment. Direction a: Take weekly, if possible, but avoid over dotage. m "He who tooteth not his own horn, the same shall not be tooted. m-m The paraphacse in the lang uage of the Puritans is quite apropos as noted in last w^ek"fe Herald story headlined "Next Week 'Week' Week". In the course of last week's story, three "weeks" were mentioned, including National Employ the Physically Handicapped week, National Letter-Writing week, and National Newspaper week. At least one was missed, and that is National Fire Preven tion week. A tie-in observance with the Newspaper week ob servance is A. B. C. week, thle alphabet series not referring to certain popular state - owned stores, but meaning Audit Bu reau of Circulations. m-m October seems to be a popu lar month for weeks, and more will be forthcoming. m-m The daily newspapers have had their columns filled with activities aboiit newspapering ? how much advertising lineage they carry, their circulation, their big payrolls, how they operate, how many carrter boys have learned and are learning to be little businessmen. There have been open houses at the bigger papers, editorials, fea tures, etc., etc., as the news papers put their best foot for ward (which is the function of public relations as adequately described here a few years ago by John Harden, the Burlington Mills vice-president, in a speech at the Lions club.) m-m The Herald's attention to Na tional Newspaper week won't approximate those of the lar ger papers, but we'll get In our bit, too. We'll pass up the pro clamations from president, gov ernor, and mayor, agreeing (for once) with South Caro lina's Governor Byrnes who thinks proclamations should be saved- for the world - shaking and not given to every promo tion that comes in for atten tion. . m-m Few laymen realize the amount of labor which goes in to the editions of their favorite newspapers. Proof could well be the statements of cub report ers and apprentice printers who quickly find that the se crets to the magic in the news business are skill, which can be developed, and continuing hard work, the latter nerve-racking yet tantalizing, frustrating yet rewarding. ? ' /. m-m A newspaper Is personal, for It deals with personalities. It is general, for it deals with every thing and everybody. m-m From the pages of a news paper, through a period of years, can be recorded a pier son's history, from the three major events of his life (birth, marriage, death), to the In between details: an accident at school, subsequent recovery, graduation with honors, civic club offices, parenthood, busi ness success, wedding of the daughter, grandfatherhood, ad infinitum. m-m Divorced from the personal treatment accorded Individuals Is the general and public func tion of a ntewspaper, which should mirror the public con science, should promote the good, and cotdemn the evil, m-m The theme of this year's Newspaper Week observance is "Your Newspaper ? Freedom's Forum"- Information means knowledge for all those who will read and absorb it. And it is the business of the news paper to inform, whatever the facts, no matter their un pleasantness. In this sensfe the personal must be sabordinated to the general, just as in war time the navy does not seek a man overboard for fear of los ing the whole ship. The welfare of the Individual is secondary to the welfare of the whole. m-m The newspaper cannot be freedom's forum if it does not print the news without fear, favor, or prejudice. A cardinal rule of the Herald is that no personal difference over an in dividual action, or issue, is con tinued In other non-related areas. To differ is not to dis like. Another rule is to give everyone the privilege of the public prints. m-m In other words, a newspaper Is a quasi-public organization, and owners o{ newspapers, who come and go with the passage of lime, arc merely temporary trustees ol a quasi public institution. That is the Herald's creed and It should be the creed of all newspapers which claim to be general cir culation newspapers, serving nil of the people in a given area. It la not amlsa for the na tion's newspaptors to renew once annually their pledge to continue to practice the policies which enable them to function as "Freedom's Forum". . ? ;; CROSSWORD IfWW is " ?? . 49 ? *Tki ImnM bit" * N ? SnMcfty pnotaort ymfrM? ? ?vio< SO ? Great Lake in World War II DOWN ? ? wvw\??n u>tv ?? n. ... ? J 0 ? Poetical "aboW I? Scottiah bland I J? African river (poaa.) ? i ? South American city JI .. - ^ M ? BCoWbh county (pott.) 3 ? Italian city with a ff A til ??"Ba? 1# ? Life* faanouabay 4*? Mm* UdUa (abbrrr.) 37 ? Southern U. 8. itatc 4 ? U. S. wettern .tata 41? Fbfar (taka (abbrrr.) S ? UllyoM woman 41-TkoNoatlw Wdt 2* ? For roar nam* of No. 6 ? State d tbc Oftat 44 ? Ancient Wail god at 1 Acres* Salt IjU the booM ' JI ? Pwtaink>? to a 7 ? Correapoodinc utenaQ 4?? Black bird of tbe European country 9 ? Hl?h print of brad ' cuckoo family Sm Thm Want Ad Section Pet ThU WmICi Completed Paxil* Viewpoints of Other Editors THIS ROBBER DID'NT READ THE PAPER A freckled young gunman this week held up a drive-in branch of a Rocky Mount bank and escaped with some $8,000. As We write the robber is still at large How long he will elude the officers no one can tell, but the chances are that he won't be a fugitive long, and there are a Wo overwhelming odds that his venture in crime will prove a financial flop. On the day before the Rocky Mount robbbry, the Winston-Sal em Journal carried a feature ar tide by Chester Davis which drove home the point that "bank robbery is low-paying work in this state." This Is the way Mr. Davis ar rived at such a conclusion: Since January 30, 1947, there had been 28 bank robberies in North Carolina. Twenty-four of the robberies he listed as solved Two occurred only in August 'On the record of performance," the Fol with the aid of other po lice agencies "should crack these unsolved cases wide open before too many weeks have passed." Mr. Davis goes on to say: "Over the pasi eight years bank robbers have saqkted a variety of small North Carolina banks for some thing over $400,000. But that take is not so irapressivf when you rea lite that these larcenous gentle men were compelled to refund over .$300,000 worth of their loot. For their net ? a bit under $100, received a total of-al most 800 years in prison (that fig ure is on the low side since six of thle robbers stiU await trial) which brings their average earn ing down to something like $2 a week ? about what an ambitious twelve-year-old could make mow ing lawns and raking leaves " It seems certain that the Rocky Mount bank robber didn't rtad Mr. Davis' article. If he did, he belongs to the class of fools who keep on putting nickels and quar ters in slot machines in defiance of the well-known fact that slot machines always ream the player in the long run. ? Smithfield Herald fS5?rtD22P OF WATER SHOULD BE CONSERVED ON OUR FARMS .?3?e. lack ot water a thirsty land is a problem which cannot be regarded lightly. Many areas of this country have been dry for years, and there ??E?aiV.u no rel,ef 1,1 8'ght. Some of them are In North Caro lina, but although Stanly has been dry this summer, she has not suf fered too much as yet. Whether the dry trend will continue lor several >wn, as It has in other places, is a question which can not yet be answered. Albemarle Is extremely fortu nate in that s few years ago she went to the Yadkin as a source of ?upply lor her municipal needs. Had we been depending on the re8e?0h\ wfe would now likely be In the same shape as Greensboro, Mooresvllfe, Gas tonla, Lincolnton, Raleigh, and dozens of other communities In the state which havfe passed rigid ordinances calculated to conserve dwindling water supplies It seems to us that It Is good sense to have poiida on every farm, and farmers should use every means possible to hold all the wnter that falls on their land, either through proper terracing or by building small dams to cre ate ponds. We do not have any idea how much of the rainfall here Anally reachee the ocean, but we are con vlnced that It should be reduced wat*? minimum through iS* i*m pond1 also^offers a CLAUDE EURY ? A REAL NEWSPAPERMAN Gastonia feels a special sadness in noting the passing of Claude A. Eury, New Bern publisher, who died at Duke Hospital last Satur day. Claude spent his youth and his school days in Gastonia, his fam ily having come here from Cabar rus county when he was an in fant. And so he has many warm friends here who" have, through the years, watched with keen in terest and satisfaction his pro gress in thte newspaper world. Always exceedingly modest and retiring in disposition, he never figured to any grejtt extent in the passing parade of publicity. De voted to his family and friends, he stuck prtetty close to home base and devoted himself whole heartedly to his duties. .vj Returning home from a four year stretch in the navy, in the early 1900's, Claude did not hesi tate in deciding 'on a life work. During his service on the seas he wrote numerous letters to the hometown newspaper, The Ga zette, and discovered that hb had a talent along that line. Home but a short time, he Went to work on this newspaper, later publish ing his own weekly paper here, and soon progressing to papters at Kings Mountain, Henderson, Raleigh, Winston-Salem, Danville and lastly to New Bern where, for 19 years he had owned' and pub lished The Sun-Journal. True to the principles instilled in him in a Christian home ? his mother, known to this writer for many years, was a devout and active Christian worker who put her religion into her everyday life ? he went through life. main taining those high ideals in his business, church and civic life. North Carolina ntewspaperdom was proud of Claude Eury as it is of all men in the profession who hold aloft the banner of freedom, of aggressive defense of the peo ple's rights and the best interests of the community in which he lives. So we say a long farewell to Iciaude, resting in the assurance that he has gone to greener ffcids and a happier clime. ? The Gos tonia Gazette. PECULIARTIES We all have our peculiarities, some big, some little, but they are peculiarities. j Willie Smith's peculiarity was stammering. A fine lady, good jsoul, to Whom he ' was talking, 'said to him very sympathetically: 'It must be very embarrasing to you at times, the way you stair* mer." ::v '?* "O-Oh no," said Mr. Smith, ?everybody has his own little p-pecullaritles. Stammering is m m-mlne; what la y-yours?" "Well, really, Mr. Smith, I am not awaife that I have any." "W whieh hand J-do your stir y-your tea with?" "The right hand, of course." "W-well, that is your peculiari ty; most people u-ttse a t-tea spoon." - Wtnt ton- Salem Journal source of water for <?r**ation purposes, and if the dry trend continues, irrigation wilj raion be come ? f*rm necessity. ? Stanly Newt and Pr?*. The more than 10 million bus hels of corn held In storafce both on. and off terms In North Caro lina are lower than for several previous years but slightly mort> than last yea?. Removing n lajMf tjjii li 1 big down poultry parasites will SHUT 'SMART LOOK" This family's got itl They look smart . because they ARE smart . . . and on* of the smartest things they do Is to send all their clothes to as for our thorough, but-oh-so-gentle dry clea ning . . . which always brings back that like-new snap and sparklel . WEAVER'S CLEANERS Phone 910 ? 310 M. Piedmont Ave. Want the in Town? Pick a man who has a fine reputation as a dealer DEAN BUICK CO. THIS IS AN INSURED SAVINGS PLAN WITH UNUSUAL FEATURES "Ask about our New Premium Refund INVESTMENT PLAN ... ... - ? g n, i, .. - f||| -T|- ? ? , .. , % ; yyrr, i:*", > For fnstanco ? ? ? V A MONEY BACK MATURE If you die before the end of 20 yean, your beoeficlary win receive the full face amount of the insurance policy plus return of all your premium deposits. 2. AN INVESTMENT AND RETIREMENT FEATURE The plan offers a good cash profit at your retirement, in addition to life insurance protection in the meantime. C. E. WARLICK s 9 Waxlick Agency Kings Mountain Representative Jefferson Standard UFB IKSIIBANCK CO. HOMiomci ? OTUMaoio. m. c Over 1M DIUUm Dollar ? Ufm Irumrmmtm to Fore*
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