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». 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 of the citizens of Kings Mountain and its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. EnteredTas second class matter at the postoffice at Kings Mountain, N. C., under Act of Congress of March 3,1873. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Hannon . Editor-Publisher Robert L. Hoffman...Sports Editor and Reporter Miss Elizabeth Stewart.Circulation Manager and Society Editor Mrs. La Faye Meachajn.Advertising Salesman and Bookkeeper MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Horace Walker Jack Heavener Bill Myers Charles Miller Paul Jackson TELEPHONE NUMBERS — 167 or 283 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR—$2.50 SIX MONTHS—$1.40 THREE MONTHS—75c BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Then Peter opened hie mouth, and said, Of a truth 1 preceive that God is no respecter of persons. The Acts 10: Si. Local Soil-Banking Through last Thursday Cleveland County farmers had placed more than 3,000 acres, which would have normally been planted to. 1957 wheat, in the soil bank. This was over 25 percent of the county’s 1956 acreage quota, though not as much as was planted, since the law allows a farmer to market 15 acres' of wheat, regardless of his quota. What does this mean in terms of dol lars? It means that, next spring, Cleveland County farmers will receive government checks totaling some $75,000 for doing nothing except signing their names. It’s pay for not planting. The same program will be followed next spring for cotton, Cleveland’s other big basic commodity. It is likely more wheat will be “banked" before the October 5 deadline. On the face of it, the United States would appear to have gone off its noggin’ in paying folk for not planting. Indeed, it may have. However, the soil bank is an effort to cut surpluses to enable the government to get out of the price-prop ping business, or, at least, to put market prices above support prices and thus get the government off the hook with its huge warehoused stocks of commodities. After all, price-propping appears just as silly. It was a worthwhile program when it was inaugurated — as encour agement for machinery-shy, manpower lacking formers to strain every effort during World War II to produce more and more of those then-needed basic crops. Like so many well-intentioned government programs, it stayed around, after its end had been served. Economically, the theory is that the law of supply and demand will operate to cause more production of needed goods, less production of unneeded goods. Theoretically, too, a man who finds he can’t produce something profit ably will quit and produce something else or another article. Actually, nothing works that simply and agriculture seemingly least of all. Ignored in the theories are the human factors, the fact that man gets hitched to a product or trade, knows nothing else and finds it difficult to change over until bankruptcy provides the necessary force. Long term, the nation might be better off if the law of supply and demand were allowed to operate. Short term, it would be catastrophic for many individuals. And politics being the pseudo-science it is, it is the easy (one might say the re quired course) for the politicians to bail out certain segments of the economy with the people’s money. It’s always easier to spend somebody else’s. The farmer of course, is far from the lone beneficiary. Ship lines are heavily subsidozed, the taxpayers furnishing a big portion of the funds for most new ships which come off the ways. Other in dustries benefit by gimmicks in the tax structure. Publications benefit by favor able mailing rates. Maybe it’s all sup posed to balance in the end. The soil bank idea is now going through its first test. If it reduces pro duction, empties the warehouses and firms prices of the basic commodities, it will remove temporarily one of the soft spots in the American economy. But the gains likely will be temporary. If prices of wheat are firm next autumn, farmers will want to plant — won’t be at all in terested in soil banking 1958 wheat. Today we have both price-propping and soil banking, a sorry marriage. It would appear operation of the one tends to defeat the other, long term and vice versa. J. W. (Bill) Osborne should make a capable replacement for Clerk of Su perior Court Everett Houser, Jr. Mr. Osborne, by virture of his profession as a lawyer, plus his prior six-year service as deputy clerk of court, will'have no dif ficulty with the ramifications of the of fice. In addition, in his service as chair man of the county elections board, Mr. Osborne has been most efficient, with particular attention to detail and speci fic regards for the letter of the law in county voting. He will make a good Clerk of Court. Matching Funds Latest suggestion for North Carolina use of an old government aid matching funds formula comes from Governor Hodges regarding operation of schools and building of school buildings. The state school folk have asked the advisory budget commission to commit virtually all of the 1956 state cash sur plus of $38 millions and all of the antici pated 1957 surplus to schools, most of it for teacher pay. Governor Hodges sees the request as a continuing trend, views with alarm the prospects for budget requests for schools ten years hence. He suggests it is possible the state should furnish now a ten percent teach er pay increase, earmark enough funds for another five percent, provided the lo • cal school districts dig up another five. This method attempts 1) to continue the state policy of equalizing the educa tional opportunity of North Carolina children AT A MINIMUM LEVEL, and 2) to help those communities wanting and wiJiing to help themselves. In fact, this plan is an expansion of the situation as it exists today. Charlotte, Winston-Salem and some other school districts pay large supplements to their teachers. It is presumed their faculty staffing problems are least of any in the state. It is the school which depends sole ly on state teacher payment that has trouble finding teachers. The Governor only inferred interest in the matching idea for school building construction, but herein seemed to lie better spot for matching funds. The policy has resulted in burgeoning hospi tal capacity and many other public faci lities. State school authorities, looking over the high birth rate, say that North Caro lina will require $391 million in new school buildings to house the growing population within the next few years. Happy Kings Mountain, with a brand new 14-room school, is off the hook to day, but not for long. There’s not a single vacant classroom in the city district this year, in spite of the new 14-room build ing. The matching fund idea seems to have merit in both school categories. Politics Second Fiddle When writers like David Lawrence, Arthur Knock and other veteran and astute observers of political affairs point out the possibilities of a Democratic vic tory in the 1956 general election, it is time for the semi-pros to take notice. An upset could be in the wind. The problem for both parties this sea son appears to be getting out their votes. Eisenhower is tremendously popular, but many party-line Democrats, while liking Ike, will mark their ballots for Adlai Stevenson. There are more regis tered Democrats than registered Repub licans and this fact gives the GOP cause for alarm. Should the Republicans them selves sit on their hands and forget to stroll by the polling place on November 6, the evening election parties will be ex cruciating for the GOP. Thus far, there is evidence that the 1956' campaigns of both candidates are having a bit of trouble getting off the ground. The citizens, without the emo tional appeals of either 1952 or 1954, are giving politics a back seat, sublimating politics to work, football, rides in the countryside, and other activities. The tempo may well change before election day, but, just now, none segms too excit ed outside the hard corps of profes sionals. And some of the pros aren’t. Thinking citizens find neither party anywhere near perfection, but this is a quite natural situation, since both are hodge-podges of diversified thinking, in cluding (as both party does) far right conservatives, moderates, and rather leftish liberals. It is fortunate for the na tion that both tickets are headed by men of moderate persuasion. I YEARS AGO X yJ this% WEEK Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events taken from the 1946 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. On Monday Kings Mountain will celebrate in a quiet manner the 166th anniversary of the Bat tle of Kings Mountain, which turned the tide of the Revolu tionary War. Cleveland County’s 23rd an nual fair closed up shop last Slat z urday night after the customary five-day m.i, but not until 197, 050 persons had passed through the gates to enjoy the festivi ties. Kings Mountain churches and I their membership are collaborat i ing again this year in the ob ( I >ervancte of the seventh world wide communion on the forth coming Sunday, October 6. Social and Personal Mrs, E. L. Campbell was hos tess yesterday to Colonel Frede rick Hambright chapter, DAR, at her home. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Hannon Ingredients: bits of news, wisdom, humor, and comment. Directions: Take weekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage. As the errant ones in the Philbrick T-V show who con fess their “errors and stupidi ties,” I must confess to sub version (accidentally, of course) of the general aims of the SPB, better known as the Society for Prevention of Bach elorhood. m-m It was last Friday night be fore the ballgame and I droppted into Melton Kiser’s to pick up some sandwiches. On one stool was Bachelor James Bennett, and on another was Bachelor Paul Walker. I slid onto the va cant stool between them. m-m “Your wife gone off, too?” jested Bachelor Bennett. m-m Before I could dream up a simple white lie like “yes,” I blurted out, “This is OUR Sup pler!” m-m The deleterious effects on the __ two friends was instan taneous. They guffawed in uni son, and I could almost feel their patting themselves on the back for their agility at avoid ing the trek down the altar. m-m Needless to say, I’ve already been raked over the coals by the society director at my house. m-m Mauney Mill had a lucKy" fire last week, in the sense that it could have been much worse. Chatting with George H. Mau ney after the fire was extin guished, I mentioned construc tion precautions and George laughed. He had sprinklers in stalled in his home basement, later had a fire. Where was the fire? On the top floor, of course, and the sprinklers did no good. m-m I was impressed with the thickness of the brick wall of the Mauney Mill, which was revealed when a hole had to be sledge-hammered to permit en trance to the fire area. It was a good 18 inches thick, four cours es of brick plus cement. This mill must have been built a round the turn of the century and the builders meant for it to stay there. Today, a 12 to 13 inch wall is considered "standard” for many typtes of industrial construction. m-m Coincidentally, the Herald fire report of the same morn ing noted fire alarms had been missing all month. m-m The flooding of North school basement reveals that build ings have to have thfeir “shake downs” as well as ships. Minor errors in big installations will show, in spite of efforts or ar chitects, builders, and others in volved. It reminds that nothing human is letter perfect. m-m Don Blanton was crying a bout his golf game the other day on the friendly shoulder of Paul McGinnis, frequently a golfing companion of Don’s. Druggist Don was quite scien tifically explaining his trou bles with iron shots after “straight and long” get-aways from the tees. Don had just been eliminated in the coun try club’s fall match play by Franklin Dean, the pint-sizted high school lad, who is becom ing a craftsman at sinking the white pellet in a tin-cupped gopher hole. After the dis course, Don suddenly laughed, "I don’t know why I’m moan ing, Franklin shoots better scores than I fever have any way. And, besides, he’d already eliminated Jack White.” m-m Dan agrees with me in an old complaint of the business men: Would it not be possible to start fotball games at 8 o'clock instead of 7:30? It’s hard to make kick-off time af ter closin gtime and avoid do ing it on an empty stomach. m-m The football team of '56, I hear, boasts a passel of youngs ters with good appetites. Otis Falls treated the squad to,wa termelon recently and, accord ing to official count, the ladi did away with no less than 41 of them. With 60 chaps on the var sity and Jayvee squads, that’s a pretty good score on the me lon course. m-m Borrowed wisdom from the Imperial Type Metal Magazine: “Good ideas may go unre garded because advanced at in appropriate times.” “The early lawmakers must have mistrusted everyone; oth erwise they would not have made the terms of elective of ficers so short. Maybe they were right at that." m-m Time sign: next week it’ll be October. Awfully Close Viewpoints of Other Editors USEFUL DISTINCTION At his press conference Mr. Stevenson said, “It is no secret that a don’t think much of the recent conduct of our foreign af fairs.” All. the same, Mr. Steven son very sensibly refused to eri ticize the Administration’s hand ling of the Suez dispute. We think this reflects an im portant distinction. The so-called bipartisan approach to foreign af fairs can be dangerous when, it tends to remove from political discussion the broad policies on which thb question of war or peace depends. Neither party, on the evidence so far, intends to fall into that trap. The Democrats, as Mr. Ste venson indicates, profess to be deeply dissatisfied with the Ad ministration’s foreign policies in general. And though their criti cisms have not been very pene trating, they are certainly entitl ed to make them. The Republi cans, for their part, consider the record of achieving and keeping peace one of their strongest cam paign cards. To the extent there is an issue here, it should cer tainly be developed. But it is not “bipartisanship” to refrain from attacking the Administration on an aspect of foreign policy which is currently the subject of international ne gotiation and the results of which remain to be seen. No one can categorically say whether the United States is pursuing the wis est course through the Suez maze, but it is plain that necessarily jeopardize the peaceful solution it seeks. Mr. Stevenson has thus distin guished between the propriety of general partisan criticism of for eign policy and the impropriety of trying to draw political advan tage from adding, as he said, “to the difficulties of the President and the Secretary of State” in a particular application of the po licy. It is a distinction which might usefully be borne in the mind by both parties during the campaign. — Wall Street Journal. BEFORE YOU DIET Reducing diets seem to have reached the dimension of a craze in this country. A word of warn ing is in order. Elemental wis dom demands that no one should undertake a diet — especially those of an experimental and strenuous kind — without first obtaining competent medical ad vice. An example is provided by two new low-protein diets which have been given much publicity. One is based on a liquid combination of corn oil, evaporated milk and dex trose. The other employs regular foods, but the foods chosen con tain little protein. Two physicians and the Ame rican Medical Association’s coun cil on foods and nutrition have now warned against the indiscri minate use of these diets. Their statements appear in a recent is sue of the AMA Journal. One statement questions both the safety and effectiveness of the diets. The other two urge that people use them only under strict medical supervision. A note of discouragement enters too—even patients on whom the original diets were tested successfully re gained weight when they quit the diets. It is also pointed out that some people wrongly blame protein for causing their obesity and, left to :heir own devices, may go to a dangerous extreme of protein re duction or elimination. The sci ence of dietetics has proven that a substantial intake is necessary to the mental and physical vigor af the great majority of people. In any event—before you diet, see your doctor. — Transylvania rimes. GUIDES An elderly lady from Boston who drove down to visit Wash ington said she had no objec tion to the American habit of lit tering the highways with beer Jans pitched from car windows. "It helps me drive at night,” she explained. “All those things shining in the car lights show me where the edge of the road s."—Minneapolis Tribune. SNAKE'S TONGUE: A FABLE One day the serptent was stretched upon a creek bank, in an entirely relaxed manner, when the raven glided down the track. Upon spying the sferpent, the ra ven looked surprised. “I was attracted by the smoke rising from that clump of sour woods,” he said. “I did not ex pect to see you. Where have you been all thesfe weeks?” The serpent stared in the di rection of the raven and blinked. He inclined his head somewhat and sighted downward. This setemed to improve his focus. "I believe the smoke is from the little submarine still over there,” the serpent said to the raven. He spoke very carefully. “Interesting operation. I’ve been observing it for some time. It’s possible you will find a dram of the product in this jar I hap pen to have handy. Won’t you try it?” The raven shook his head. “You know,” he said, "my beak won’t reach that far down. I could remedy that by dropping in stones, of course, but that’s real ly a bigger job than school child ren who know the story might suppose. Besides”—and he eyed the serpent closely—“I don’t go for the stuff.” The serpent hiccoughed gently. “As you wish,” he said. “As for me, I can take it or leave it a lone.” A month later, the raven found the serpent in the woods. The serpent lay in a bed of leaves, which rattled with his vibrations. He seemed much agitated as the raveri approached. “Please forgive me, dear old friend,” the serpent gasped at length. “When you came along, I thought you were a human be ing. The truth is, that delusion has been a cursfe to me of late. “However, I am happy to see you: you must have heard I have been asking for you. The sheriff’s men came one day and tore up the little still where I was amusing myself. Now I won der if you would be good enough to fly high up, upon the prospect of spotting the smoke from ano ther. Then you could direct me to it. I chanced to bite my lip the other day, and I don’t want to take any chances, you know. I need a drink. The raven looked steadily at the serpent. “I thought,” he said in a disapproving tone, "you could take it or leave it alone.” The serpent shook his head. “You are right, my friend,” he sighed. “When last I saw you, the jug was wet and I could leave it alone. But now the jug is dry. I am very much in a mood to take it."—Sanford Herald. MATTER OF BRAINS Irvin Berlin takes a worthless piece of paper, and writes a song hit He sells the copy for $50, 000 That’s glenius John D. Rockafellter would sign his name to a piece of paper and make it worth a half million, rhat’s capital. A man can buy 55 worth of steel and make $1,000 worth of watch springs out of it. rhat’s skill. A cop can take a worthless piece of papier and write your number on it—and make you out ten bucks. That’s your hard luck as a motorist. But — when a man drives a round and is looking for an a partment, finds just what he wants—and when the manager asks, "Have you any children?” puts on a long facfe and answers, ‘Yes, but they are in the ceme tery,” pays six months rent in advance, gets a receipt, then goes to the cemetery, gets his child ren, and brings them to the a partment—that’s brains. — For sat City Courier. THE AGE OF OPTIMISM Thfe human being is an incu rable optimist. He believes that he has a pretty good chance to win i lottery prize but that there is scarcely the slightest chance of his getting killed in a traffic ac ridfent. — The Jackson (Miss.) State Times. f carton •r cat* today. drink HARRIS FUNERAL HOME —Ambulance Service— Kings Mountain, N. C. 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