The Kings Mountain Herald
'S’ 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.
Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Kings Mountain, N. C., under Act
of Congress of March 3,1873.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Martin Hannon . Editer-Bubllsher
David Baity .Sports Editor and Reporter
Mias Elizabeth Stewart.Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Mrs. La Faye Meacham ..Advertising Salesman and Bookkeeper
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Devise not evil against thy neighbor, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee Proverbs 8:29.
Pre-requisite
Each year the Herald endeavors to
publish a complete list of area college
students, also endeavors to publish news
accounts and pictures of area students
when they graduate.
Outside the basic news value, there
are other reasons the Herald features
education news.
It is an inferential effort to encourage
all high school graduates to go further
with their schooling.
Today is a day of specialities and to
morrow will be more specialized.
The day of the jack-of-all-trades is
waning.
This is not to mean that ambidexter
ity, the ability to do many tasks well, is
to be decried. Actually, the young man
or young woman who masters a special
ty, then expands on the theme to learn
more about other phases of his subject,
will be tomorrow’s executive and man
ager.
But basic knowledge is important, and
commerce and industry finds it doesn’t
have time for on-the-job training when
an employee arrives “cold”, that is,
completely uninformed about the trade
or profession.
Many firms close the door to job ap
plicants who can’t produce graduate cer
tificates from colleges and this trend is
increasing, too.
Thus it behooves all who can to get as
much college schooling as possible. It
provides entrees into many jobs, and the
basic tools for successfully discharging
duties and responsibilities.
Our congratulations and best wishes
to those attending schools and colleges
this year, and our encouragement to
those not continuing schooling this year
to successfully plan for enrollment next
year.
Paving Program
Relief fr-om the dust of summer and
mud of winter is just around the corner
for numerous Kings Mountain citizens,
as the city launches its fall paving pro
gram. Actually, the project has been un
derway for several weeks, as Grady Yel
ton, superintendent of public works, and
his men have done the required work
preliminary to actual hard-surfacing.
Nothing approves appearances of a
city, not to mention the appearance and
comfort of homes, more than paved
streets.
It is good, too, to see the city begin
ning to give some attention to sidewalks.
Sidewalk construction has been at a
minimum for some years and much is
needed, particularly in the school areas
for safe accomodation of the growing
grade school population.
A cordial welcome to Alexander J.
Maino, newly named general manager
of Neisler Mills division, Massachusetts
Mohair Plush Company, and best wishes
to him for full success in his manage
ment of this firm. The Kings Mountain
plants, which at peak employ up to one
fourth of the city’s working population,
are very important to the financial well
being of the community. All hope Mr.
Maino will be blessed with orders for
fabrics and that his principal task will
be in producing and shipping them.
It is good news that the State High
way commission has put the “go-ahead”
tag back on the West King street widen
ing project. Majority of the city’s streets
are too narrow to handle the heavy traf
fic of the fifties. This applies to the high
ways passing through the community, as
well as to residential streets.
A best bow to Fleete McCurdy, who
has been named chairman of the City
Recreation commission. The job is not
an easy one, for there are more demands
for recreation functions and facilities
than the commission can supply with its
meager funds. However, where there’s a
will, there’s a way, and apparently there
will be some form of winter program.
Our Heritage
This week is Constitution Week, an
annual observance Resigned to call at
tention of busy Americans to the real
wonders of living in the land of the free
and home of the brave.
The Constitution of the United States
was forged toy men who knew the ex
cesses of monarchy and state church.
These men, too, had just fought for
freedom and knew the costs) of that
fight. Amazingly, against all kinds of
odds, they had won it. And they did, not
intend to lose it off the battlefield.
Many of the phrases and guarantees of
freedom caused controversy, in final
form represented a compromise of more
extreme views. Today’s) document is
little changed from the original, with
exception of adding to the Bill of Rights.
What does the Constitution guaran
tee an American?
The Constitution guarantees an Amer
ican the right to work, the right to speak,
the right to express his point of view,
the right to disagree. It guarantees he
won’t go to debtor’s prison. It guaran
tees him the right to worship as he
pleases, or not to worship. It guarantees
him the right to go to the polls and to
vote to remove a scoundrel from office
or to retain a gentleman in his elective
seat.
The basic strength and vitality of the
Constitution of the United States con
tinues to amaze both Americans and the
world. Dictators of past and present have
refused to believe such a document could
withstand the test of war, but those scof
fers who made the test lived to regret it.
It is right that America observes Con
stitution week. It is a document every
one should read, study and digest at
least once a year.
Water Rates
After the drought of three summers
ago, the General Assembly set up a com
mission to study water conservation and
to foster water conserva tion practices.
On its mailing pieces is the notation,
“There is no substitute for water.”
No truer words were ever sipoken. Wa
ter is necessary for life.
It is also necessary for economic life.
The industry-inviting Department of
Conservation and Development reports
that water, its availability and cost, is
high on the list of the vast majority of
industrial firms seeking to locate in this
state. An industrial firm must be assured
of a continuous supply and, to be com
petitive, must count the cost.
Thus the city is considering an indus
trial water rate schedule.
Now in better shape for water, the
city is selling less water than it was at
the peak of the 1954 drought. Though
still the city’s largest customer, Foote
Mineral Company uses much less water
than in 1954, result of heavy expendi
tures by Foote to assure the massive a
mount of water its operations require.
Today’s capacity is 2,000,000 gallons
of filtered water per day. The city could
be selling about four times the amount
it is currently selling.
Kings Mountain needs some new pay
rolls, Preferably in industry other than
textile. With water high on the priority
list of many expanding firms, it appears
the city will be following the course of
wisdom to adopt an industrial water
rate schedule considerably lower than
the amount it now charges.
Whether lowering the water rate
schedule will bring the desired new pay
rolls to help remove Kings Mountain
from the list of labor-surplus areas, none
knows. But it will be a move in the right
direction.
Our best wishes to those seeking to
reorganize a Veterans of Foreign Wars
post here. The VFW is a good organi
zation on national level. Membership is
open to those veterans who had service
outside the continental limits of the U
nited States.
10
YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events
THIS WEEK taken from the 1947 files of the Kings Mountain Herald.
Fifty percent increase over this I
year’s record membership will be
the goal of Otis D. Green Post '
155 Unit of the American Auxili.
ary in a campaign for enrollment
of 1948 members to start October
lOtH.
Season tickets for the Kings
Mountain high school football sea
son went on sale Tuesday, with
a big sales force of high school
students and members of the Ki.
wanis and Lions clubs.
Social and Personal
At a meeting of the North Caro,
lina Council of Churches held
Tuesday at the Centenary Metho
dist church in Winston-Salem,
Mrs. Aubrey Mauney was elected
as council secretary.
Members and guests of the So.
; oial club were entertained Tues.
day afternoon at the Country
club.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
By Mcrrtin Hanson
Ingredients^ bits o/ news,
wisdom, humor, and comment.
Directionss Take weekly, if
possible, but avoid
overdosage.
Chapel Hill is a nice town. ..
m-m
The wife and I made a trip
there on Saturday and we both
enjoyed it. We made the usual
trek, managed the customary
stops. Minus whammys, we nav
igated the mileage a little
quicker than usual, speculated
on the wonders of the Char
lotte by-pass which has been
building for a long time, now
has been let to contract to the
Catawba river. With Concord
out of the way and Ashe boro
by-passed the worse part of the
trip is Wilkinson Boulevard and
N. Tryon street. Of course, we
could always use N. Graham,
but the wife loves to back-seat
drive via Ivey’s and Montaldo’s
windows. This I don’t particu
larly enjoy, but it’s better to
hear, “Look at that,” than to
have her fretting about a car up
front.
m-m
I don’t know why women
have to 'backseat drive, but
they do. Is it in their physical,
spiritual, or chemical make-up?
Perhaps a little of all three.
m-m
Once upon a time I thought
that only lady non-drivers back
seat drove. That was a mistake,
as my wife quickly confirmed,
and as many other wives Wave
related. Most of them regret it,
wish they could relax and en
joy a trip with the old man at
the wheel, but they find it dif
ficult.
A teacher in the city schools
(and among the best in the busi
ness) has been driving since
she was a teen-ager. Her hus
band is a competent, hard-work
ing chap, quite conservative in
all departments except his Sun
day afternoon golf. He’s simi
larly conservative at the wheel
of a car, keeps his mind on his
driving, never takes chances.
Yet his wife acknowledges she
puts on brakes long before he
applies 'em, cringes over near
misses that aren't even close.
m-m
Another lady says she does
the same thing, and my wife
does, too.
m-m
“Martin,” says Anne, “You’re
driving too fast.” So I look at
the speedometer, notice a
whammy-safe 55 and relate the
speedometer report. Patrolmen
and I have long been friends
because I respect them and keep
that accelerator in tow.
m-m
But what happens when the
wife gets under the wheel? She
makes heavy with the foot, can
brag about quick trips. The two
ladies who were talking to me
about this matter tell me they
I do the same, drive much faster
than their husbands.
m-m
Is there any remedy? I doubt
it. The big mistake was made
when women were given the
right to vote, I suppose. That
was the day politics was going
to be cleaned, but good. But
politics somehow didn’t get
cleaned, likely never will.
m-m
I once knew a lady who lived
in Boston, Mass. She was a
very capable woman, an ardent
Democrat and an equally ar
dent Catholic. She liked people.
I Her husband was a teacher at
a prep school, a quiet sincere
and devoted man. To my know
ledge, he never raised his voice
to his wife, but laid the law
down with a firm “No” when
she talked about going to the
| races. She had a tendency to
lose too much of his money.
Again, a mania for speed.
m-m
Everyone wants to exceli at
something, and most people do.
A bookkeeper becomes an ex
pert at taxes, a minister be
! comes a forceful and incisive
i speaker. A lawyer learns to dot
the “i’s” and cross the "t’s” and
thereby can earn bigger fees.
ram
Women meet the challenge
of men. run and run and run j
until they catch one.
m-m
Perhaps that’s the reason
Women can’t fight the back
seat driving detail. Cooking a
tasty dish, making a lovely cun
tain, wrapping the package fan
cily, isn’t quite enough. She
trapped the old man one time,
knows full well he hasn’t sense
enough to drive a car in today’s
heavy traffic.
Chapel Hill is a nice town,
and I drove all the way down
and back. I accused the madame
of cringing 14 times, but she
nailed it down to twice. When
they want to, women can count.
RofeyProgress
Viewpoints of Other Editors
DOGHOUSES. SOFT SOAP
AND FEATHER BEDS
The Eisenhower ’administra
tion iwill miss the blulfif good
humor, the refreshing frankness
of Charles E. Wilson, the secre
tary of defense.
•For while Charlie Wilson of
ten put his (foot in his mouth,
he extracted it engagingly. His
errors were errors of the head
and not of the heart, and for
that reason he managed to
charm the ipants off his worst
enemies.
His departure from the Eisen
hower administration aocentu.
ates a trend .begun Iby Colonel
HObiby and continued by George
Humphrey. lAge and a Ta>ft-like
conservatism have given away to
Sherman Adams’ “modern Re
publicanism.’’
All the recent cabinet replace,
ments—iFolsom (for Hobby, Seat
on for (McKay, Anderson for
Humphrey—have the Adams
rather than the Taft mark. And
bustling 52-year-old Neil !H. Mc
Elroy, the Proctor and Gamble
soap salesman supreme tapped
to replace Wilson, is no except
ion. iMir. McElroy will be leav
ing a $285,000 annual salary to
labor in the Pentagon vineyards
for a paltry $25,000 a year. The
motto olf this P. and G. hucks
ter is, “Give them something
good and expose it to them of
ten.” That way he made mil
lions for P.. and G. and a living
for himself.
But CVfoElroy was also chair
man of the 1955 White House
Conference on Education. His
background indicates a social
consciousness which dovetails
with the Adams philospohy.
And while he has little famili
arity with the specific problems
of national defense, 'he does
have a keen business mind like
ly to catch on fast.
Charlie Wilson will Ibe glad
to relinquish his duties at this
particular time since the out
look is for stormy weather at
the Pentagon. The need there, of
course, is for a man who under
stands national political objec
tives as well as national mili
tary ’policy—that is, an execu
tive who deals as well with Fos
ter Dulles as he does with Gen
eral Twining. Besides, he must
try to fit the military concept of
national security into a con
gressional fiscal straitjaeket,
and even a soap salesman may
have trouble there.
"Certainly,” says Neil McEl.
roy, “ I don’t Ibelieve I’m jump
ing into *a feather bed.” No, in
deed, (Mr. P. and G. The possi
bilities are more on the order of
a Wilson doghouse. And it will
take more than soft soap to
stay out.— GREENSBORO DAI
LY NEWS.
NOBODY'S BUSINESS?
William U. O’Donnell, a New
York subway conductor on the
midnight shift, has arrested or
participated In the arrest of 181
lawbreakers while on his job.
All 181 of his prisoners have
been convicted in court.
He does it this iway: If he
thinks he can handle the mis
creant himself, he does so. If he
thinks he can’t he goes to the
next station tooting the distress
signal on the train’s whistle.
If a subway policeman doesn’t
happen to ibe there, he follows
the offender up the street, blow
ing a whistle he carries ‘‘like
crazy.”
And why does this conductor
get into unpleasant and often
risky .situations being a volun
teer aid to the law? Because,
says he, "I like good conduct on
my trains.”
Happily, Mr. O’Donnell’s good
offices have not gone unrecog
nized. flhe Transit Authority
has awarded him 75 commen
dations.
No one wants to be a busy
body—and he can make him
self one by shaking a reproving !
finger, actually or figuratively, i
at small things that "shouldn't
be done.” But there are bigger
things, even if not so big as
those Mr. O'Donnell takes care s
at. Everyone in some way can i
join with him in disproving the i
old saw: *What’s everybody’s .
business is nobody’s business,” 1
Christian Science Monitor
MARKET IS NEEDED
Announcement oof plans for a
swine market in Stanly County
is good news.
iHog raising has increased in
the county in the past few years
as one part olf the diversified
farming programs of Stanly
farmers. With a better market it
bids fair increase still more.
The market will be of great
convenience to small hog grow
ers who have only a few head
to sell at one time. They can
load them up, drive to Albemar
le, receive a check for them, and
!be back at home in time to do a
day’s work. As things are now
it is necessary to drive some
distance and spend consider
able time in selling small lots
olf Jhogs.
Too, farmers often do some
trading when they go to market
and receive a Cheek for produce
or livestock. Albemarle merch
ants should encourage farmers
of Stanly and the surrounding
area to sell in Allbemarle and to
this respect.
'For Albemarle this market
will mean an additional place
where farmers can bring their
produce and sell it. We feel
strongly that Albemarle should
do its Ibest to provide a good
market for all or most of the
products of Stanly farmers. If
they grow crops and livestock it
just makes sense for Allbemarle
to provide them with a satis
factory place at which to sell
them.—STANLY NEWS AND
PRESS.
WILL THE BEST
MANAGER WIN
Soon over this fair land, a
complaisant captive off Indian
Summer, will spread America’s
annual moon-madness - World
Series fever,. Early symptoms
are discernible. Grown men,
still boys at heart—rich or poor,
salesman or scientist, clergy
man, cobbler or company exe
cutive—already are arguing
happily over whether playing
skill or managerial strategy will
determine the winner.
Some of us, a lucky few, will
be on hand personally to test
our observation of "inside base
ball”, exemplified ibest toy the
secrets of signaling, as against
individual skill and prowess.
This being a workaday world,
however, it is before a radio or
television set that millions of
fans will gather to follow
breathlessly every play of the
October classic.
Most important forget your
-ares and have ffun during the
Series. We’re going to —NEWS
OF ORANGE COUNTY
AIN'T IT SO?
By BILLY ARTHUR
The bone ol contention is al
ways the jaw.
Mr. Truman says there’s a
alaoe for paddling a child in the
school. Yes sir, the same place
>ur parents used in the home, in
the front yard, in the back yard
>r wherever it was that we had
misbehaved.
**»*
Woman is said to be a curse,
t>ut isn’t she merely a matter of
form?
An article says horsehair is
made from grass. Isn’t that the
same way Old Dobbin made it?
The season is at hand when the
fool goes hunting and looks down
he barrel of his gun to see if it’s
oaded. No flowers, please.
If you’re not pretty when you’re
roung, don’t forget that in 50
fears you'll be pretty old.
The Ladies Home Journal story
ibout the ten richest women in
he world proves that a poor girl
vas to be very good looking to be
ittractrve and a rich girl has to
»e awfully ugly to be unattrac
ive.
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