The Kings Mountain Herald
Established 1839
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citir.ens ot Kings Mountain
and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
Entered as second class matter at the postofiU>e at Kings Mountain, N. C., under Act
of Congress of March 3. 1873
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE. *
When they the star, they rejoiced with ejooeedmg great joy. St. Matthew B;10
Christmas 1954
Christmas, the annual religious holi
day in which a great portion of the
- world's population celebrates the birth
of the Prince of Peace, is near again ?
time for a renewal of faith in the princi
ples Jesus Christ provided.
This Christmas season is happier than
many of the past. A decade ago, United
States troops were locked in fierce bat
tle in Germany as Hitler's legions made
their last big ?ffort to avoid defeat. It
was a bitter iime for the men, and a bit
ter one for their kin at home, dreading
the arrival of the fateful telegram. Many
telegrams did arrive, some of them in
Kings Mountain.
Since that unhappy season, there
were holiday seasons punctured by the
Korean conflict, no full-scale war, but a
war which also produced the fateful
messages of casualty and death.
Tensions .still are extant, at home and
abroad, but, happily, for the second con
secutive Christmas season it appears
that American fighting men on duty
Christmas Day will put in the most rou
tine type of duty. ?
In spite of the tensions ? between the
United States and Russia and among
other nations of the world ? the climate
for peace is considered somewhat bettei
this year than last. The policy of bur
government is one ot strength with con
servatism. The United States chip is not
on the shoulder, and this is good. When
the chip is up, there is usually someone
to knock it off. ? Also, the Russian gov
ernment appears less warlike than in
some past seasons.
It remains a tragedy that men caniiot
emulate sufficiently the policies and
? practices they honor in celebration of
Christmas to avoid the groat cauldrons
of crisis which intermittently the world
has long known.
It is possible man's great advances in
science, which have shortened the dis
tance around the globe from years to
days, may eventually over-ride the phy
sical barriers of enmity which cause men
to shoot each other because of some per
son's or some nation's greed and envy?
It is a prayer all could well make on
Christmas day, applicable internation
ally, nationally and locally.
Drive With Care
The long weekend approaching is
Christmas weekend and therefore the
< most dangerous on the highways of any
v.- area, near home or away.
>; It's the season of the year when the
1 roads are crowded with people going
home to mother's, or grandmother's, for
the traditional- Christmas observance,
and some of them will have started too
late. They'll be trying to regain the lost
time of the late start with heavy feet
on accelerators of high-horscpowercd
motors.
This will not be the only group creat
? ing havoc on the highways. Some cele
I brants will not remember the inherent
* dangers of mixing drinking and driving.
There will be other careless drivers
on the roads who will increase the haz
j ards.
The motto for the- next two weeks on
t the highway should be: Drive slowly,
. drive carefully, honor the rules of the
Iroad, and keep a weather eye posted for
the driver behind the approaching
wheel.
< > Though Mrs. Zona Hord Clay, one
.time Kings Mountain citizen and school
teacher, had not lived here tor some
eight years, her tragic death in an auto
mobile accident last week saddened this
community. Many knew her as she was,
a fine woman of intelligence, bright per
sonality, vivacity and ability. The sym
ij pathy of all goes to her husband and
* family.
I
It's time to buy city auto tags for
I 1955, now on $ale at City Hall.
Subsidization Code
Last week. Fordham University in
New York abandoned football as an in
tercollegiate sport. The Rams, out of
big time football for some years, had
suffered a dismal season, and the college
said its athletic fund was exhausted.
It'll be a sad day for the old-timers
who, when radio was young, tuned to
the big Saturday battles offered by the
big networks. Fordham was followed by
the radio men, In those days the local
area games seldom got radio billing.
Fordham was a consistent power in the
East, and furnished its share of ail
Americans. Others will remember the
trip Fordham made to Chapel Hill, where
her line, dubbed the "Seven Blocks of
Granite," messed up a Carolina team
that lost no other game that season.
Fordham is not the only school to
throw in the sponge, though the demise
has been more acute in smaller schools.
It reminds that Coach E. C D.uggins,
of Appalachian, espoused some interest
ing subsidization philosophy for the
benefit and erudition of the high school
team and others at the Lions football
banquet last week. The ASTC coach,
fresh from copping his conference
championship, outlined his school's
subsidization policy with considerable
candor. Principally, he .suggested that
high school stars should make plans for
something more than- football, which at
best fills a short span of a player's life.
He said his school dian't want a young
ster interested only in football.
It is a good creed.
Everyone likes to win, but there is a
moderate approach to everything. Foot
ball subsidization bidding reached a
high point after World War II, but is
now tapering off. The' crowds were a lit
tle slimmer this season, and it will be
surprising if other schools don't follow
the route indicated as correct by the
ASTC coach.
Coach Duggins made a good speech,
one of the better of the many offered at
the many football outings of the Lions
club.
Better Business
Short holiday periods for majority of
die city's industrial firms indicates that,
as one textile man said, "we need to
run." ,
Volume of orders in the important'
textile industry has been increasing
since August after a long drought, and,
though many firms say prices at which
they can sell their products leave little
margin for profit, the fact that orders
are more plentiful is indicative of a
better season ahead than was true a
year ago.
It's not only good news for the indus
tries themselves, but for their employ
ees, for the merchant, thf service es
tablishments. and others.
All of us live together and are inter
dependent. Few prosper when some seg
ments of the economy are out of kilter.
Down at Winthrop College the other
day, the board of trustees made history.
In one stroke it voted uniforms for the
young ladies out, and men in. What a
heady situation for the mademoiselles
of the student body! Uniforms of navy
and blue had been traditional in Win
throp for years, and males were off
bounds if on campus in other than spec
ified hours!
A best bow to Dr. Paul E. Hendricks,
new vice-president of the Cleveland
County Medical society, and to James B.
Simpson, newly elected Master of the
Masonic lodge.
Congratulations are In order to Char
les Yelton, recipient of the Plonk Block
ing trophy for 1954, for his expertness at
handling the non-headline chore of cut
ting the gridiron road for the runners.
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TEARS AGO Item* of mwi about Kings Mountain araa people and events
THIS Will token Iron the 1944 01m of tke Kings Moutatn Herald.
A movement was launched last ;
I 1we*k In Shelby (or a $450,000
county ? wfcte bond election to pro
vide fundi (or doubling the si? '
I , of the Shelby hospital and build
I tag a new 56-bed hospital at
Kings Mountain. \
Social and Personal ,
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Miss Betty Patrick, a. student
at Agnes Scott, la vcndtnf tte
holidays with hfcr psutnita, Rev.
and Mrs, P.-D. Patrick.
Lynda Partoa celebrated her
second birthday last Wedneaday
and In the afternoon was hoato?
to a few of her frtaoda.
| David Nrtll,
.?on college, is
days with his
[Mrs. B. S. NflUL
?t Davfct
thfe boU
Mr. Md
days with
Mrs. F. R. Sontrs.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
B* Martin Harmoa
Ingredient*: bit* of WW,
wisdom, humor , and oom?M?t.
Direction*: Take weekly, V
pd?ible, but avoid
ovenioiaf*.
It's time lor the Christmas
spirit, lor Christmas is almost
here.
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Actually, the youngsters may
have all o 1 the best o 1 it at
Christmas - time, lor the coiner
ol the phrase "Christmas is lor -
children", at least partially
was right.
- It's sot that the young lolks
get siwwtered (spoiled) with
gilts, but that their keen antici
pation ol what Santa Claus will
bring, and IF he'll bring It,
stretches out the Christmas sea
son for a long, long time. Onte
mother, answering a question
the other day 11 her three-y^ar
old daughter were not Just the
right age to appreciate Christ
mas and Its glories this year,
replied, "Oh, my, yes...,./
since July."
B-B
In the matter ol grown-ups,
I would guess that the women
folk get the Christmas spirit a
bit earlier and keep It longer
thn the menlolk, though this
would not be a hard and last
rule. But. then, what lemme ;|
latale, 16 w 60, doesn't expect
some Santa Claus to provide
the Christmas treatment, be it
bauble, or linery, or odorous
sweetness, or that sweetness
which adds to the waistline?
And quite lrequently even the
most unromantic ol unromantlc
males lor 364 days ol the year
hark back to the earlier years
lor the popular habit ol the
surprise gilt, the little some
thing extra and unanticipated
that soitens the most shrewish
countenance.
Yes. Christmas Is lor chil
dren, but the age ol the children
varies by may decades. '
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Christmas is the relaxing sea
son of the year, though it may
not begin 'til duties arte done on
Christmas Eve. The push, push,
rush, rush, get this, buy that,
wrap this, label that, all culmi
nate when the tasks are done
in a big sigh of satisfaction for
a job well done. It's right much
like a big dinner. A few minutes
of heavy duty with the knifte
and fork can mess up a power
ful sight Of labor. Thus It is
with all the planning and tedi
ous labor of gift . gathering
and gift ? wrapping. But isn't
it nice?
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Getting the Christmas Spirit
is a sometime thing which oc
curs at different moments for
different people, but almost
teveryone gets it. After all, it's
hard to avoid the infectious
touch of the handsome, gaily
colored Christmas greetings
(prettier this year, I believe,
than ever) and the cheerily giv
en personal greeting of "Merry
Christmas", a nice substitution
in the everyday greeting
scheme of "Good morning",
?"Good afternoon" and "Good
evening".
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One father remarked the
other day that he didn't gtet
very peppy anymore since the
youngsters 'were grown and he'd
turned over the shopping chores
to the maternal side. Certainly
there would normally be some
difference and perhaps a let
down for a few years but he
can look forward to something
even better. A lady was report
ing on her father, long a non
shopper at Christmastime, who
had long ftassted out a bit of
cash with 'his "Merry Christ
mas" and a plain-spoken dic
tum to "buy yourself some
thing you want". But a grand
son is now aboard and ihfe sit
uation has changed. Grandpa
now shops for one major pre
sent and the task is handled
.with tedious care. :
The fun of Christmas for
grown ups is giving, seeing
someone else with pleased
smiles and delighted eyes.
Thus the civic clubs do theii
work, the Jaycees with their
food for the needy, the Lions
with their visits to the poor of
sight, the churches with their
remembrances of the ill and in
digent. The Ktwanis club, I
understand, vetoed a suggestion
to handle its Christmas gift
work via a welfare agency.
The members wanted to get the
fun of <k>lng the giving them
selves.
Giving need not necessarily
be tangible loot nor valuable
CROSSWORD
Viewpoints of Other Editors
WHAT'S THE ANSWER?
How can we get people to stop
throwing things into the street?
This is a question that has the
town council stumped. As well as
anybody who stops to think about
it
We put trash cans, plainly lab
elled, around the streets. They
stand empty while the ground
around them is littered with ;
every imaginable sort of trash.
(Take a look at the one in front
ol A and P, if you doubt It. Es
pecially on a Saturday.)
We put boxes on poles along;
the sidewalk. Thafs supposed to
be easier, but apparently it's not
considered so.
At a recent council meeting, one
of* the city fathers reported the
following discouraging remark,
which he had overheard as he
tossed his empty cigarette pack
into the gutter. To which he re
plied:
"Th'ow it in that little ole box
on the pole? What 'yuh mean?
a man'ud be a fool to put trash
in a box when he kin just drop it
in the gutter."
Anybody got any ideas? ?
Southern Pmes Pilot
THIS CATALYST WAS~"
NEEDED
It should surprise no one who
has spent any time in the woods
or sawmills of the Northwest, or
on its fishing fleets, to learn that
an adequate supply of snuff -had
to bb flown in before the salmon
fishermen could shove off from
Petersburg, Alaska.
Snuff (pronounced "snoos," and
spelled "snus" by the Scandinavi
ans who introduced it) Is the cat
alyst that transforms a husky
woodsman or fisherman into a
wonderfully efficient machine.
With an index ? flngerful of snoos
in his lower lip such a man will
spend, endless, hours at the end of
a crosscut saw, amidst a torrent
of boards on the green-chain, or
tugging at a wet and heavy net
in a bobbing boat Deprive him
of his pacifier, however, and
you've got a mighty big problem
on your hands.
A constantly refilled pot of
black coffee on the stove, with
maybe some brannvtn with which
to lace It when if s cold. Is essen
tial, too. But definitely that takes
second place to snoos. The man
agement was wise not to order
the fishing boats out before the
plane with Its precious cargo got
In from Juneau, -r- The Oregon***
THE CHRISTMAS BUSH
Although everyone talks about
shopping early for Christmas, and
many do it, there are many more
who wait uhtll the last minute,
and it is these people who con
stitute what is known as the last
minute rush that get shoppers
and clerks alike into a nervous
dither on the eve of Christinas.
There are many ifeasons for
shopping early. And one of the
best reasons is, selections are bet.
ter and service on the part of the
store personnel Is less hurried.
The shopper has more time to de
cide than if hustled and bustled
around by huge last ? minute
MEDICAL ADVICE FOR
THE NERVOUS AGE
When thfe American Medical
Association selected a North Car
olinian ? Dr. Karl B. Pace of
Greenville ? as America's "fami
ly doctor of the year," the honor
appeared well deserved in the
light of statements made by the
physician in expressing some of
his ideas about his profession and
people.
While his record of service as
a general practitioner was the
basis for his selection from a- j
morig nominees from fevery state j
in the union, hi* comments about |
changes he has observed in the |
practice _of medicine during the j
past 40 years are significants
"Forty yean ago," he said, "on- 1
ly about ten per cent of my pa
tients had some psychosomatic i
or emotional trouble. Now it's
easily 60 per cent." And he went
on: "Physically there's little or
nothing wrong with them. The
doctor has to be a family counse
lor to learn thte psychological
cause of their aches and pains.
You can help by listening sympa
thetically to their story in detail, I
then draw up a plan to heipj
them solve their problem."
This stress and strain of a fas
ter tempo of living have affected
the practice of medicine by creat
ing problems during a period j
when Dr. Pace has seen malaria,
typhoid and diphtheria virtually j
abolished.
Dr. Pace has done. more than
simply rtecognize the changes
which have come. He has develop
ed a certain philosophy as the
best medicine against the nerves
and tension. Hear him:
"Live each day as It comes < ?
don't worry about ntext week
Learn to live instead of try
ing to get rich Never stay
mad...... Start out by liking
everyone you meet Take a
siesta after lunch to help you re
lax
"And if marital quarrels are
causing your ulcer, hfeadache or
other pains, I fell a husband or
wife ? If either one of you tried
one-twentieth as hard to make a
go of your marriage as you do
finding fault with each other,
you'd probably have no problem.
And never go to bled mad at each'
other r
This good advice from a 66
year old physician who has Just
been acclaimed the No. 1 family
doctor In America should lib
heeded by fast-moving Americans
for ? longer, healthier, happier
life. ? lforg? lun Www Herald
would profit? No one except the
very lew who might net! a gift
on thb last tew days before
Christmas
What is meint by shopping ear
ly is, in truth, a bit puzzling. Per
haps it means for people to space
out shopping to all wouldn't ar
rive at the store at one time,
whether in the first week of De
cember or the last week. If there
was mm way to space out the
Christmas shopping to six weeks,
and thea some way to g?* one
sixth of the shopper* to take the
first week, and another sixth the
second, and so bn down thte line,
then the problisa of what do
and happiness.
WARE & BURTON GROCERY
* 218 Railroad Are.
Paul Ware - ? R. H? (Doc) Burton