The Kings Mountain Herald
Established 1889 .
A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit 01 the citizens of Kings Mountain
and its vicinity, published every Thursday by (he Herald Publishing House.
Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Kings Mountain, N C.. under Act
of Congress of March 3,1873
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Ponder the path of thy feet and let all thy ways be established. Proverbs *6.
Farm Bill Veto
President Eisenhower vetoed the
hodge-podge farm bill, which contained
a pay-off for Virtually every farm inter
est and the President seemingly got by it
very well in this area. The mid-west, of
course, may write a different story.
However, the President did a little
politicking of his own along the way. He
talked about advance soil bank pay
ments by July 1, invited Congress to
pass the necessary legislation, and he
had his farm man, Secretary Benson, up
price supports for the current year, com
paring to about a quarter-loaf in rela
tion to the 90 percent parity props sup
plied in the ill-fated Congressional bill.
All the House members and one-third
of the Senate seats are to be filled come
November and the desire for votes runs
strong in Washington. There will be oth
er legislation just as sorry in this ses
sion.
The Laurinburg Exchange points out
that the great bulk of parity payments
go to 100,000 large farming firms, while
only a small portion goes to the remain
der of five million farm families. One
concern got a parity loan check last year
for $1,219,000. The product was wheat.
That is big business. It is presumed this
firm did some advance figuring and
knew what it was doing. Barring drought
or a freeze-out, growing wheat was a
sure thing.
Soil bank doesn’t make too happy a
sound either, for the principle of paying
people not to plant contravenes the ba
sic laws of nature.
A major trouble in agriculture today
is the manipulations of the State De
partment, perhaps even more than the
red-tape filled, personnel clogged Agri
culture department. Sell surplusses?
Give surpluses away? State’s Dulles
yells “no”, contending it will mess up
relations with our allies.
It is the State Department which re
fuses to restrict importation of Japan
ese textiles which are made at 10 cents
per hour.
Taking liberties with the law of sup
ply and demand is difficult business and
hardly possible of success.
Soil bank will become fact in this Con
gress and it may work in time, particu
larly the tree-planting piece of it. There
is no foreseeable end to the need for
trees — for lumber, for paper, for many
other uses.
But if anyone has a key to the latch
on the farm problem, he has yet to step
up.
Registration books for the May pri
mary open for the first time Saturday.
All in-city citizens should be reminded
that two sets of registration books are
used in elections here. One set is the city
books, used last spring, and providing a
list of eligibles to help choose the mayor
and board of city commissioners. This
year’s contests are township, county,
district, state where the county reg
istration books are used. Every voting
day, somebody comes to the polls, finds
he isn’t registered. If in doubt, a check
with the registrar should be made.
From last week’s news account, it ap
pears the hospital auxiliary organiza
tion is off to a good start. Much interest
has been evidenced in all phases of the
work of this group. Our best wishes to
Mrs. P. G. Padgett, elected chairman,
and to the several other officers and
group chairmen.
Congratulations to Horace Brown,
newly elected governor of the Kings
Mountain Moose Lodge.
Congratulations to Dean Bridges, win
ner of the forensic championship in the
division contest of the Westei'n North
Carolina High School Activities associ
ation.
Ostrich Policy
It is political season, and, with a three
man race on for 11th district Congress
man and other contests just around the
corner, candidates are accepting regu
larly invitations to speak to civic clubs
and other organizations.
However, the ground rules adopted by
almost all civic clubs effectively censors
the candidates, which is hardly Constitu
tional in the first place, and otherwise
assures a certain dullness in the ad
dresses which have a tendency to hurt
the candidates and to bore the hearers.
A Jaycee remarked recently, ‘1 heard
both of them and both w'ere lousy.” He
referred to two candidates who had
graced the Jaycee platform.
Last Thursday night, Ralph Gardner
prefaced his remarks to the Kiwanis
Club by saying he would do his best to
make a “non-political” speech. Jack
White reported earlier that his man Ba
sil Whitener had been strictly under
wraps in a speech to a civic club in one
of the neighboring communities.
The Herald refers, of course, to the
rule, sometimes formal, sometimes in
formal, which majority of civic clubs in
voke. It requires a candidate to lay off
politics, stemming from the policy of all
clubs to be non-partisan.
The Herald suggests that the policy is
somewhat akin to that of the fabled os
trich, which supposedly buries his head
in the sand when danger looms.
In the instance of the current Congres
sional contest, one of three men will re
present the district in Washington. It is
an important position. Thus it is impor
tant, too, that citizens get to know the
candidates and to know what they think
about the many pressing issues of the
day.
In turn, the civic club members are
going to choose at the ballot box, not en
bloc, but individually.
Civic club rostrums, of course, would
be no place to deal in personalities, nor
invectives, but the candidates should get
relieved from the “no politics” restric
tion.
A Kiwanian remai’ked the other day,
“We know the candidate is against sin
and for motherhood, but that doesn’t set
forth the candidate’s views on many an
other issue of the moment.”
Opening the club rostrum to all the
several competitors in a particular con
test should meet the civic clubs’ “non
partisaij” test.
Teacher Commuting
City district school trustees have vot
ed to alter—for a one-year period—the
rule requiring faculty members to main
tain residence in Kings Mountain during
the school term.
The rule had a worthy aim — encour
agement of teachers to become a part of
community — but like almost all rules
certain exceptions appeared mandatory
and, indeed, were made.
The school board is correct in encour
aging in-city residence, even though e
liminating the mandatory requirement.
Teachers who know the people of the
community can do more effective work
and can also do a most helpful public
relations job for the school which they
serve.
The first basic test for any teacher is,
“Can he teach?” implying as the ques
tion does both mastery of the subject
matter, ability to impart it into some- i
times unwilling juvenile crania, and ef
fectiveness as a disciplinarian. Resi
dence would fall several steps behind in
relative importance.
Draw a liberal check for the Cancer
Fund.
A best bow to Dr. John C. McGill,
newly elected director of Kings Moun
tain Building & Loan association.
YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events
THIS WEEK taken from the 1946 files of the Kings Mountain Herald.
Kings Mountain high school
was rated superior in six fea
tures of its nine-feature opera
tion, according to a report of the
evaluation committee of the
Southern Association of Secon
dary Schools and Colleges re
ceived here this week.
Members of the Kings Moun
tain Kiwanls club will honor
I their “Kiwani-Annes” on the oc
casion of the sixth anniversary
of the founding of the civic club
at the annual ladies night ban
quet at the high school cafeteria
. at 7 o'clock.
Social and Personal
The annual Junior-Senior ban.
j quet for Kings Mountain high
' school students will be held to
morrow night from 8 to 10 o'
clock in the high school cafeteria.
The theme will be a Mexican
fiesta.
Girl Scouts representing the
four girl scout troops in Kings
Mountain are selling Girl Scout
plantation cookies this week and
report that sales are good.
MARTIN'S
* MEDICINE
By Martin Hannon
Ingredients: bits of newt,
visdom, humor, and comm mt.
Directions: Take weekly, if
possible, but avoid
overdosage.
It is a better than even wa
ger that the womenfolk’s read
ership of the nation’s front
pages of newspapers escalated
heavily last week as two ma
jor celebrities got hitched. In
the middle of it, if anyone had
dared to suggest it, I would
have decried any idea that
that sort of stuff would appear
in this piece.
m-m
I saw so many pictures of the
moustached prince ( I’m not
much of a moustache man), I
got bored te .ears and even the
glamour and glimmer seemed
to be stripped off Grace Kelly.
m-m
When I heard about 450
yards of cloth in a wedding
gown, I threw up my hands at
such a seeming waste. Then I
was reminded that a wedding
(again) is one of the three big
and usually final events in a
person’s life, and the only one
the person knows about* The
other events are birth and
death.
m-m
At any rate they are mar
ried and, I hope, will live hap
pily ever after as did Cinderel
la and the handsome prince, not
to mention Snow White and
Sleping Beauty. Scarlett O’
Hara didn’t do too well, though
she did manage to wind up
filthy rich.
m-m
The wedding of the other
celebrity, Margaret • Truman,
was most decorous and, I
thought, in immense good taste.
The new Mrs. Daniel, recently
added with Zebulon, N. C., con
nections, merely the daughter
. of an ex-President, was able to
carry her big moment off with
out all the pomp, circumstance
and fanfare, which, the televi
sion man reported, Prince Rain
ier had to go through. Think
men, of going through TWO
ceremonies on successive days!
I had a hard time making the
singleton demanded in the Uni
ted States. And the Prince
showed the strain, too. He was
squirming around, the camera
revealed, like a man in most
acute discomfort on the initial
day’s civil rites. Next day, he
seemed more accustomed to the
vow ordeal. At any rate, it was
in the Prince’s squirming that
I felt a kindred spirit, and the
objection to the moustache re
lented. Some waggish husbands
would add, in the presence of
menfolk only, that the Prince’s
squirming had just begun and
would increase as the days and
years go by. May be.
m-m
I also felt a bit of kindred
spirit for Clifton Daniel, the
New York Times newsman,
who married Margaret Tru
man. Daniel preceded me and
many others through the Uni
versity’s journalism school and
was something of a hero in the
department’s faculty and stu
dent thinking by the time I
first heard of him. He had a
, job. This was in the middle
and middle-plus thirties, and
anybody having a job was
something of a somebody. And
Daniel had a job which appear
ed to be supplying not only the
meat and potatoes, but occa
sionally, it was opined, a new
suit of clothes.
m-m
Oh, well, back to war, crime,
tragedy, and politics, which is
the regular diet of front pages
these days. It reminds of the
story about a Yankee paper
during jhe Civil War, which
ran a humorous story on the
front page, because the editor
figured the clientele had had
such a run of bad news it need
ed. and badly, a change of diet.
I forgot the paper, but it could
have been the New York Times.
m-m
I served as chauffeur last
Saturday for a trip to Greens
boro and the state piano con
test, and it was my first trip,
via four lanes, to Greensboro.
The new stretches of limited
access U. S. 29 make a real
dream road, leaving only Gas
tonia. Charlotte and Salisbury
un-by-passed. And the Charlotte
district commissioner of the
highway department recently
envisaged and cited the need
for a six-lane boulevard to
Kings Mountain ... at any
rate, the four-lane arrangement
is most helpful, for we didn’t
have a single close brush with
accident ash-heap all the- way
down and back. (I cross the
fingers as I make that state
ment, for fear of future repri
sal.)
m-m
Saturday night we stopped at
Hotel Albemarle and found the
accommodations, service, and
cuisine quite excellent as usual.
When I called for room ser
vice next morning, old friend
Bob Richards, the manager,
answered jovially, "Little Wal
dorf." I’ve never had break
fast-in-bed at the Waldorf
Astoria, the deluxe New York
hotel, but I don’t believe the
Waldorf’s scrambled eggs could
have tasted any better.
Eclipse
Viewpoints of Other Editors
CAPS ARE BACK
Here, for a change, are some
spring fashion tidings of interest
to the male of the species: dress
caps are being made again. All
over the country, moribound cap
plants are being bombarded with
orders for a type of headgear
which had all but disappeared
from the American noggin, ex
cept as an article of sportswear.
Who can tell what initiated
this cap renaissance? It is said
to have started in .the colleges,
where the Juniper Joes are al
ways thinking up some new
thing. Trim, close-fitting, short
visored, and with no rear over
hang, the cap has overrun the
campuses of the land and is in
vading commerce and industry.
The ‘*Ivy League,” as the new
style is called, has a rather gay
design. Probabjy something more
conservative Will be devised for
the solid citizen. It is too much
to hope for, that the financial dis
tricts of our cities will soon be
crowded at the noon hour with
bankers and business (executives
going forth for their cratkers
and milk in caps with zebra
stripes.
What caused the cap to fall
from favor? One theory is that
the public had come to identify
it as an article of gangster wear.
Certainly caps were worn by
all well-dressed movie thugs of
the Twenties and early Thirties,
but who copied whom? Never
mind, the dress cap is proper
wear again, and it has many
merits. Hats get out of shape
easily. Moreover, just about the
time a hat begins to get comfor
table, women start campaigning
against it, demand to know
WHEN the wearer is going to get
a new one? *A cap can baffle
them a long time, (even if it gets
sat on now and then. Let us all
lift our hats to the cap and throw
the hats away as we welcome a
ntew fad that makes sense.—The
Providence Journal.
WHAT THE ILLINOIS
VOTE SHOWS
The final returns in the Illinois
primary apparently will show
that the Democrats and Repub
lican parties polled almost the
same number of votes. They will
also show, on the basis of nearly
complete returns, that President
Eisenhower and former Gov.
Stevenson ran an almost even
race in preferential votes with
a slight edge going to the Presi
dent.
Adlai Stevenson led in Demo
cratic Chicago and Cook County
by a vote of approximately 2
to 1, but the President won strong
support in traditionally Republi
can downstate to make just a
bout a dead heat of it.
No one can bo sure what this
portends for November. Yet it is
clear that the Republican vote
has fallen off markedly in terms
of the Democratic primary vote.
In 1952 the Republican total was
approximately 1,400,000 while the
Democratic total was silghtly
under 900,000. But this year it ap
pears that each party has cast
something more than 700,000 on
arr even-Stephen basis.
This Republican declinb must
be explained in terms other than
that intra-party contests brought
the Democratic voters to the
polls. Gov. Stratton, who has
won renomination, had a contest
with State Treasurer Warren E.
Wright, and Republican Secre
tary of State Carpenter, who al
so won renomination, had a fight
from Alderman Nicholas J. Boh
ling of Chicago. So there was
just as much reason for Repub
licans to go to the polls as for
the Democrats to vote in the race
for nomination for Governor,
won by Cook County Treasurer
Herbert Faschbn.
If Senator Estes Kefauver of
Tennessee received any substan
tial write-in vote it will not come
out until the official canvass. On
the basis of unofficial returns,
which do not show all the write
ins, The Tennessee aspirant for
the Democratic presidential no
mination received relatively few
write-ins. The Stevenson total,
matching that of the President
with all the latter’s prestige,
gives a new impetus to the for
mer Illinois Governor1 s cam-1
paign.
Minnesota, Wisconsin and now
Illinois make it plain that as of
April 1956 the Republican appeal.
PILLS
pills'live up to the prespectus,
they will undoubtedly be a sum
mer’s boon. But they still leave
a little to be desired.
A pill filled with 8-MOP pro
mises to help you get a suntan
without a sunburn. It builds up
your natural defenses against
blistering and (encourages that
first pleasant pink to mellow in
to a nice tan. The veriest pale
face can soon emerge as a stylish
charcoal brown, exuding health
all over.
And we will have lost our last
defenses. Come the crocus and
the robin we’ll no longer be able
to remind the lady of -the house
what the sun does to us. We will
be hard put this year to put off
spading that unshielded south
west comer. Come the crab-grass
and the dog days, we’ll have faint
excuse to flee the trowel for the
hammock. The plea that a writ
ing man needs moments to medi
tate has long since worn out, and
now we will be told just to re
member to take our pills.
We are sure that a healthy
tan is a happy thing and we are
all for pills that produce it. But
a happier thing would be a pill
that tans while snoozing in the
shade.—Wall Street Journal.
BARBER SHOP RACKET
Saturday morning in a crowd
ed Chapel Hill barber shop a man
in a hurry came in to get a hair
cut. Since he didn’t have much
time to spare from his business
he was about to leave without
sitting down when he saw his
ten-year-old son and found out
the boy had befen there a while
and was indeed next in line.
“I’ll just trade places with my
son,” the man told the barber
whose chair was being vacated.
“I’ll take his place and he can
take mine when it comes up.”
This was all right with the bar
ber, but not with the boy, who
objected so strenuously (and so
loudly) that the father left the
shop, saying he would come back
for his haircut some other day.
Another man waiting his turn
said he was reminded of a bar
ber shop racket he had as a boy.
“I discovered it by accident,” he
said, “when a man in a hurry of
fered me ten cents for my place
in line. After that I'd go down
to the barber shop almost every
Saturday, and as often as not
somebody wiuld buy my turn.
Some days I made as much as
thirty cents. That was a lot to a
boy in those days.
“But the barbers didn’t appre
ciate it. When they saw what I
was doing, one of them went to
my father and asked him to
make me stop. - Anothey thing
about those days was that boys
had to do what their parents told
them, so that was the end of my
little racket.”—Joe Jones in the
Chapel Hill Weekly.
EXPLANATION IN ORDER
While a judge may be an indi
vidualist of the first order, as
suming that he has the right to
temper justice with mercy, even
to the extent of completely for
getting that justice has any part
in the proceedings, it becomes in
creasing evident that many a
judge .needs to have his reason
ing put on a sound basis once
more.
Over in Charlotte, two men
were caught red-handed selling
drugs illegally to truck drivers
and teen agers. These drugs,
varying in effect, were calcula
ted to stimulate or "produce sleep.
There was no question about
the guilt of these “vermin” who
would sell any sort of drug to
a teen ager, yet the judge gave
them one year each in prison,
the sentences being suspended
upon the payments of fines of
$500 and $300.
We imagine they were back
in their illegal business before
sunset, and in less than a week
had made enough money to pay
the fines.
The public has a right to know
what Peasoning a judge follows
in reaching a decision to impose
such light punishment. We be
lieve he should be asked to ex
plain.—Stanly News & Press.
does not enjoy popular favor in
the same proportions as four
years ago.—The St Louis Post
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