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r? The Kings Mountain Herald A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published (or the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citteens ot Kings Mountain and Ms vicinity. published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Batered as second class natter at the poetofffce at Kings Mountain, N. C.. under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873 KDITOBML DEPARTMENT Martin Iwm Editor- Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr .. Sports, Circulation, Newt Miss Elizabeth Stewart Society Mrs. Thomas Meaebam Bookkeeping, News MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Horace Walker David Weathers Ivan Weaver* Charles Miller ' . Paul Jackson ( ?Member of Armed Force*) TELEPHONE NUMBERS? 167 or 283 ? ' SUBSCRIPTION HATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR ? $2.50 SIX MONTHS? 9 1.40 THREE MONTHS? 75c BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE And all fleih shall aee the edbyztion of Ood. St. Luke 5:6. J Catching Up The decision of the city school trus tees on the so-called Stowe site for a new i elementary school building is another Step in catching up on needs for more space to house the city's growing school population. It might be called the first 3 major step of recent date, for it is a much larger one in both size and money required than the previous additions to West and East schools and also bigger than the new Negro elementary school. The trustees pondered long on the deci sion to locate, finally deciding to build on the Stowe site rather than the so called Fulton site. The latter seemed less cluttered, but several arguments favored the choice made, including a . closer proximity to a crowded population area and a lesser proximity to other schools. With the new elementary building, "three of the city's main elementary schools will be located in what approxi mates an equilateral triangle. School trustees have indicated privately they anticipate a re districting arrangement, after the building is completed, which will enable small children to attend school without crossing the mainline Southern Railway artery and less heavi ly-traveled streets. With the site chosen and the archi tect at work, decision on plans, letting of contracts and actual construction will come in due time. However, it will most likely be 1956 before the new plant will be available for use. Meantime, all the exisiting plants for white students are being operated with some make - shift classrooms and abbreviated auditoria. It reminds again of the projection of present school population curves which, if the birth rate continues as it has, means that much more school space will have to be provided if Kings Mountain is to avoid two-shift education in the reasonably neah future. A sample was provided in the short term situation at East school, recently ended by the open ing of the new addition. The practice is in vogue in many communities of North Carolina now. While the proposed North elementary school will alleviate the space shortage only momentarily, the 12-16 new rooms will be a great help, and will be welcom ed by the parents of school children, not onlv in the site area but community wide. Draft Changes Among the controversial subjects Congress will debate in the forthcoming session will be the plan of Defense Sec retory Charles E. Wilson for providing manpower to the services. The Wilson plan has been labeled al ready in several different ways, from Universal Military Training to Reserve Program. Roth seem to fit in degree, yet basically the plan seams merely a vari ation on the Selective Service theme. Its terms tend to encourage a physically fit young man to get his service hitch be hind him on completion of high school, with the reward a shorter term in the re serve, first active, then inactive. Should the physicaljy fit young man defer the initial training, he would be in the re serve force longer. While details of the plan are many sided and perhaps not completely un folded, there is some logic to. the pro posal, considering the fact of the na tion's intention to maintain more than a semblance of military strength and the fact that discharged servicemen already ure in the reserve force for several years. Completion of high school is also a logical time for the young man to serve ? when he is unattached and fancy free. Of course, trie whole military business is unfortunate and frequently wasteful. Fire insurance is in the same category, until the house burns to the ground. Enter 1955 As the old year wanes, majority of Kings Mountain citizens can look back on an interesting, eventful and reason ably prosperous year, and can look a head with hope for' good days in 1955. During 1954, unemployment scrolls were long for several months, and there were other happenings and events which it would have been nice not to have known. But the storms proved minor and were weathered and, almost uniformly, the prophets and seers of events to come exude optimism for the coming 365 days. , Booming construction is foreseen as booming even more, mining is predicted to continue its fabulous pace, and tex tiles are predicted to continue their snapback, begun in August. Meantime, the cost of living will remain "remark ably stable", the Secretary of the Trea sury predicts. He is bulwarked by the re cent statistical report which showed a six-tenths percent rise in a recent month and then only if a new '55 highway flyer were figured into the totals. Internationally, the world prospects are for peace, in spite of the tensions and the multitude of trouble spots, and no more important prediction could come true for the world. The reasoning is that the potential antagonists do not consi der themselves ready for winning a war and that the nations seeking peace will endeavor to handle any incidents with diplomatic rather than death - dealing ' weapons. , None can read the future with com plete success, but the weight of opinion is that 1955 will be a happy and pros perous New Year, a happy thought and prospect for the farmer, the merchant, the manufacturer, the housewife, and everyone. Local Improvements , Kings Mountain should be a better place in which to live at the end of 1955 than at its beginning. Items: . ? 1) By the end of 1955, Kings Mountain hospital's addition, bringing it to 50-bed capacity and into full . hospital status, should be completed. 2) The city's program of pmblic works should be nearing completion, meaning public recreation for the summer mon ths, sewage service for many citizens now dependent on septic tank disposal, and a cessation from two summer's worry about the water supply. 3) The U. S. 29 by-pass of the commu nity should be completed, resulting in less noise from the big truck traffic and less congestion on one Of the city's prin cipal thoroughfares. These are among the more major pro jects underway. , ? All of them will contribute, along with the works of individuals, to make Kings Mountain a better community in which to live. And it is already among the state's better communities. The Christmas holiday accident toll was another high figure. While the strong effort of the many agencies pro pagating highway safety seemed to have some effect in lowering the number of accident injuries and deaths, other types of accidents, particularly in the home, mounted over former years. Tragedies involving children ? from Christmas tree fires to other similar accidents ? filled the newspapers and saddened many families. Majority of them stem- ?{ med from the usual factor, human error. Down near Greenville, a newspaper re* j ported, a driver had "straightened out a curve". His car found the tree in the path a sad landing place. Conceivably, the foot was too heavy on the throttle. A good rule for '55 is to take a measure of precaution in every activity. Congratulations to Rev. Phillip Shore. Jr., who has' been elected president of the Kings Mountain Ministerial associa tion. ' _ _ _ t I ? | , ? i - ? ' . .v ' . 1 A YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events 1U THIS WEEK taken from the 1944 files of the Slags Mountain Herald. i ?' ' * ' Holiday business with Kings fountain merchants topped all ecords. Sales were unusually >risk right up to the last minute '.aturday night. Bticiekl And Per$onat Misses Jeanne Griffin and Ma. Urn Arthur spent yesterday in Charlotte. Mr. and Mrs. Haywood Allen, of Oakland, spent Christmas with relatives here. Mrs. G. D. Hambrlght, Mrs. Myron Rhyne, and Miss Mary Helen Hambrlght st>ent Christ mas Day with relatives In Rock Hill. / R. G. Plonk, Jr., and Eddie Campbell, of Balnbrldge, Md., ?pent the holidays at their respee tlve homes In Kings Mountain. Cpl. Blfi Throne burg, ol Camp Seiben, Ala., spent Christmas at hi* home here. . " MARTIN'S MEDI CI N E By Martin Harmon Ingredients: bits of ne ton, wisdom, humor, and comment. Directions : Take weekly, it possible, but avoid overdosage. If* time to predict and time to resolve. m-m . It's hard to believe it, but ano&er 365 days oft the calen dar have' about run their course, the pages of the 1954 calendar have become wastebasket ma* terial, and the events of those days ? some of them dull, some of them exciting, some of them profitable, some costly ? are now relegated to history, some of the events recorded in print, some merely recorded in mem ory and some not even record ed at all. ? ? m-m Father Time is a fast man with the reaper, but as fast as he cuts, up comes another year ly eherub to offer prospects for more interesting events, ful fillment of hopes and dreams, and opportunities for accom plishment. Thus we're on the brink of 1955, bright and shiny as a newly ? minted half-dollar. xn-m While the old January 1 reso lution practice is probably In vogue as much as ever, along with blackteyed peas and hog jowl for a luck - producing New Year's Day dinner, a new prac tice has been gaining momen tum over the years and It is now customary for newspapers to print guesses by experts, actual and so-called, on the forthcoming pattern of events in the days and months ahead. Thus Mr. Babson, on a neigh boring page, sticks his neck out (for a slight fee) -for the bene fit and erudition of the popu lace on what gives for '55. It's an interesting discourse and worthy of reading. Mr. Babson is not timid, listing his guesstes on about 40 subjects concern ing the ecgnomy as Americans may expect it in the months .to come. And Mr. Babson is Just one of many. For . almost all the business publications plus many family magazines and news sheets publish at this sea son the forecasts of economists, politicians, financiers and busi ness tycoons. m-m Remembering laBt year, it would appear- the consensus of opinion is that 1955 will start on a higher level of activity than did currently retiring 1954. Last year the predictions werte not too rosy, but they were us ually accompanied by "it won't be too bad a year" phrases which some construed as whist ling in the dark. The prediction currently is for a healthy first-half of activi ty in almost all dlrecti.ns. m-m Rfememb?ring the hindsight better-than-foresight dictum. I present the above repertorially, without crashing the prognosti cator circle. m-m At resolutions, I can do some what better, though history shows they sometimes make thfe ash heap mighty quickly. The custom frequently involves re solves lor change of habit or habits and tftnt's where the atui heap gets Its pile. Habit is a wonderful and terrible proposi tion. Were it not for habit, everything would run out-of kilter. Folk wouldn't get to work on time, or would forget to get to work at alL It is hard to change the so-called good habits, once ingrained, Just as it is seemingly impossible to change thfe bad ones. m-m Inventorying, I find a long list of habits it would be de sirable to change. I could quit smoking (again), but 1 probab ly won't. I could resolve on the semi-annual dental check-up to considerable advantage, and I could resolve to firmly set bunk time at 11 p. m., all of which would make worthwhile chartges in my pattern of living. But my worse habit, I think, is getting up on the wrong side of the bed ? displaying an incor rigible early morning disposi tion which finds me snapping heatedly at any untoward noise, be it alarm clock bell, musical note from the cooking depart ment, oc conversation over the morning headlines. My thawing out time usually runs from 30 to 40 minutes. - I do envy and admire the many people who awake to gay, bright spirit, full of zip and zest for the world about them and the affairs of the day. While 1 have improved some what on thte thawing out, I have some distance to go. X ?i-m ? ' It's not lopg 'til '56. ft" New Tear to eaeh and all! | CROSSWORD By A* & Cowtot?| M? Printer*. wwn 36? la coaMcUM with 37 ? Lltnuy Education <*bo.) Viewpoints of Other Editors NO OPPOSITION Mr. Hoey told this one: Your distinguished president in dicated that I had held a great many political' offices, and I have. When I was 17 years of age, along the same time 1 was run ning this newspaper, I went as a delegate to a congressional con vention that met over the moun tains in my state. In those days, you know, we nominated the members of Congress in conven tions, and at this convention the delegates were filled up with things, a good many of them, oth er than enthusiasm. We stayed in session all night, trying to nominate a candidate. Early morning came, sunrise,, and we adjourned for breakfast. In that town close by was living a distinguished educator, Dr. R. L. Abernethy, who was then presi dent of Rutherford College, a tall, handsome man who wore a Prince Albert coat and silk hat and presented a- very impressive appearance. One delegate, half in toxicated, didn't know who he was and clapped him on the shoulder and said, "What officie are you running for?" "I am a candidate for the king dom of Heaven," said Dr. Aber nethy. "Brother," said the inebriated one, "you will be elected. There is not another man in this town running against you." ? We The People. . \ KISSING ROOM A news story from Philadelphia tells us that there is at least one architect in this country who is not unmoved by romance. Of course there. may be others, but this one Is brave enough to de clare his feelings. What this coun try needs, he says, I* a kissing room at every airport ? (and presumably railroad stations and bus terminal); where husbands and wives, or those who plan to be husbands and wives, who arte about to be parted by the mtrjia of transportation, can say good bye with proper tenderness shield ed from the vulgar gaze. Appar ently such a room would be pro perly furnished and to makte the privacy complete, should be di vided into booths with curtains, Tike a voting place. There is one major objection and one minor objection to this plan. The minor one Is that it would cost considerable money. Unfess the federal government could be persuaded" that this was one of the things the government owed the people. But the big objection that ft is very doubtful if the kissers Would use It, or whether it would de crease the amount of kissing that take* place at the gates. Imagine a fellow saying to ^ls girl, "let's go into the kissing room." Out the window goes all spontaneity and romance. Says the girl, "What's the mat ter? Ashamed to be seen kissing So they would separate mad Instead of sweetly sad. And the kissing room would have to have a doorman who would demand to see your ticket before going in the room to make sure this was rteally goodbye kissing and not Just ordinary smooching. Also some method would have to be found to put time limit on good byes, or yoo would have potential travellers on the 11:30 p m. start ing to say goodbye at 6: 15 p. at The fellow has wonderful In tentions. but It won't work. ? Kmosport, Tenn. Times. SAMS OLD ACT* > All the world Is a stage -r- and right now the show being pre sen ted t? kwsy, ? The Davenport Iowa Democrat, ? J . ;? ?. *' ' ' ?? '"j , ?_ . :' ~4] ? \* , ' ?/ ' " *5 FORGETTING PEARL HARBOR President Roosevelt called it "a day that will livt in infamy!" Sdmebody even wrote a song that started off "Let's remember Pearl Harbor, as we go to meet the foe; Remember Pearl Harbor, as Wte did the Alamo. Despite these predictions, it is apparent that the American peo ple, or at least the segment of the people that we come in con tact with, have Just about for gotten December 7, which came and went this week with no for mal notice and very little notice of any kind. We did see one friend, filling out some' kind of blank that had to have a datte on it, who asked, "What's the date of today?" When told that it was Decern-, ber 7, he muttered "By. ueorge!" and then made some comment a bout how the date of the Japanese attack had slipped into oblivion in 13 short years. We went to a civic club meet ing the night of December 7; no comment at all was made on the occasion, if it is an occasion. This is, we think, for the beat. Timfe has passed. It is beat that a nation live in the present, look ing to the future. Our former ene mies are now assuming the sta tus of trusted friends; some of our former allies are now, clear ly, our major (enemies. Let's remember Pearl Harbor, but only as a reminder that a nother similar attack would ha far more disastrous than that one was, even knocking out a major portion of our fleet as It did. Let* s be on guard ? but let's look forward, not backward. >? Foreat City Courier. . KOT STUPID , ? ... : From Charlie Craven's column In the "News and Observer" comtes the story of the Raleigh man who was on his way home from a service station where he' had Just had a flat tire changed. The man noticed that the car wasn't driving a*' it should and so he stopped to see what was the matter. He pulled off to thte side of the road to front of the state mental Institution which Is locat ed in Raleigh. A quick examination of the car revealed that the mechanic who had changed the tire had faded to put the lugs back on the bolts, and the wheel was wobbling and almost off. i . The man stood by the ear scrat ching his head In puzzlement, wondering how he was going to get the car back to the service sta tion. As he stood there looking at the wheel and wondering what to do, an inmate and a guard from the institution came up. "What can I do," the matttSj^H the guard. *? The guard didn't say anything, but the patient spoke up, That's simple. Take one lug off each ol the other three wheels and put on the fourth wheel; and then you can drive the car back to the ser vice station." The man turned to the patient to amazement. 'That's okay," said the patient, T? crazy, but I'm not stupid."? Jim barker, Chatham Neww LOTS MORE There an musical note? which are inaudible to the human ear," says a scientist. We want move of this kind. ? Punch (Ltm*m). mtVllon j^ndT^mUkin ^ Ortoben DR. BLAKE M. McWHIRTER OPTOMETRIST Room 1, Morrison Bldg. Phone 316- W '?? \ ?. *"? ' "5 ^ ?"*!?:' *? Office Hours 9-5 Daily Except Fridays 9-1 Evenings by Appointment COMPLETE VISUAL ANALYSIS Lounge around all yon like. Dont cramp your style to pamper your clothes. Let US do the pampering. We'll bring back that "like new" look in a flash for small cash. Give us a ringl ,v? WEAVERS CLEANEBS Phone 910 t 910 If. Piedmont Arm. feel fresh / look f re*h . think fresh Lomond tune fcifliPi i your. 1 iaiw! UNWOOD COLLEGE RESTAURANT Located on Linwood Road ONLT 5Va MILES FROM KINGS MOUNTAIN Private Dining Rooms Small or Large Parlies unnse USE HERALD WANT A
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