4rr& The Kings Mountain Heiald
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.
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Phillipians 4:lf.
U. S. 29 Plans
, The State Highway and Public Works
commission has conducted engineering
surveys looking toward the building of a
new four-lane strip of U. S. 29 from a
point on the present highway north of
Archdale Farms to the state line and in
tersection with South Carolina’s portion
of this principal highway artery.
These plans*, if one is adopted, would
place a new four-lane roadbed with 260
to 300 feet of right-of-way, to the south
east of Archdale Farms and would be
damaging to several existing home sites.
It reminds that this possible new piece
of construction would put the communi
ties of Archdale (principally the farm
buildings) and Grover the end points on
a virtually private four-lane highway re
presented by the present section of U. S.
29 from Archdale to Grover. It’s hardly
conceivable that the population of Gro
ver nor Kings Mountain, and the traffic
between them, necessitate this private
four-lane boulevard.
One of the problems attending the
continued use of the present section
of U. S. 29 is the problem or right
-ofway to get through the corpoi'ate
limits of Grovei’. Business and resi
dential property needed for right-of
way in the Grover city limits would sky
rocket costs. And though the law has
been changed to require incorporated
towns and cities to pay only 20 percent
of right-of-way costs, Grover doestn’t find
itself in position to withstand the finan
cial gaff.
«
Is it possible a southward take-off spot
could be chosen which would enable the
present four-lane roadbed to be extend
ed and still skirt the Grover city limits
to the south?
There follows the question of cost. Pre
sently projected is 2.5 miles of new road
bed for which right-of-way must also be
acquired. It would appear the policy of
wisdom for the State Highway cost ex
perts to compare the potential cosit of
right-of-way and new roadbed against
the potential cost of a north-of-Grover
shoot-off.
It is just possible the commission could
save some cash, please slome home-own
ers and farmers, and avoid some litiga
tion with owners of mineral bearing pro
perties. Rough estimates place four-lane
highway construction in this area at
$225,000 to $250,000 per mile.
The Herald claims no engineering ex
pertnesls, but would like to see a cost
comparison on the proposed vs. the Gro
ver skirting.
Once upon a time, citizens along the
proposed new route would have opposed
this view, due to the old rule of thumb
that a new road doubled the value of all
lands abutting the new roadbed.
This rule of thumb is now extinct, due
to the increasingly strict requirements
limiting the aecesls to these modern,
needl'd, expensive four-lane express
highways.
Our best wishes to Rev. Howard T.
Cook, who has resigned as pastor of Sec
ond Baptist church. The Herald did not
always agree with Mr. Cook’s views on
some issues, for example, on motion pic
tures. Mr. Cook made the statement he
not only was against movies on Sunday,
but seven days a week. However, the
Herald believed Mr. Cook completely
sincere in his opinion and respected him
for it. He is friendly and frank, two ad
mirable characteristics.
One old folklore n le is to avoid giving
ministers chores outside the bailiwick of
the church, unless the an \gnment man
wants the chores left undone. Fortunate
ly, for Kings Mountain, numerous Kings
Mountain ministers are exceptions to
this rule. One of them is Rev. Douglas
Fritz, pastor of Resurrection Lutheran
church, who will do an imaginative and
competent job as chairman of the Red
Cross chapter’s blood program.
Education Trends
Mass education has become an estab
lished fact in the past 40 years, a far cry
from the experience of a knowledgeable
(if not too-schooled) Kings Mountain
man who was reminisicing recently. He
said:
When he grew up, Kings Mountain of
fered eight month’s schooling a year, but
only four of the months were tuition
free. He was a child of a large and poor
family. He went to school for the free
four months, dropped out when tuition
time came along. “It happened,” he said,
“that I could read better than some and
spell better than some, but because I was
in school only half a year, promotions
came slowly.”
When he got to be pretty big for the
third grade at age ten, he went to work
in a textile plant. Shortly thereafter, the
12-year-old minimum age restriction was
placed on manufacturing employment,
and he was “run out of the mill”. He did
other work, reached 12, returned to tex
tile work. Shortly, the age law was chan
ged again, upped to 14, and he had to
leave his work again, until his age caught
up. In spite of lack of formal schooling,
this citizen holds a very responsible pos
ition today.
It reminds that almost every young
ster today gets certain basic education
free of charge, regardless of race, creed,
social or financial position. That is good.
Many are the charges of poor results
leveled at today’s school teacher. The
correct and ready answer is that mass
education requires a teacher to beam to
the “average child”. This is of necessity,
makes the pace too slow for the quicker
children, too fast for the retarded.
But the trend is changing again. In
Greensboro, an experimental program is
underway for childreen with exception
ally high intelligence quotients. A Kings
Mountain teacher, Miss Margaret Ratt
eree, is among the teachers of this group.
At the same time, the state education
department is beginning to give more
attention to the sub-marginal child. The
appropriation to the Gaston Center for
the Handicapped is one example. Anoth
er was approval by the state department
for a special teacher here for this year.
Unfortunately, specialists of this kind
are scarce like hen’s teeth. A teacher for
this work could not be obtained. Bun
* combe County schools has a special tea
cher to aid with speech dificiencies.
Some other counties do, too.
With mass education a stoundly-based
fact, it is right that the more tedious but
practical effort to give special training
to the extremes on the intelligent quoti
ent curve be increased.
It is a happy trend to note during the
current observance of American Educa
tion week, now underway.
School Traffic Safety
If trouble comes in bunches, then last
Wednesday must be an example.
Two youngsters on school treks were
struck by automobiles, striking terror to
the hearts of motorists and parents in
volved, and bringing shudders to many
other parents who fear the same result.
When the economy-minded city board
of commissioners was paring police per
sonnel last June, school was not in ses
sion. School <;hild pedestrian traffic wras
mentioned, but discussion was perfunc
tory, nothing unusual when a problem is
not immediate.
At the moment, the department is two
men short of the authorized officer
quota.
Acting Chief Martin Ware can make a
name for himself if he can figure a way
to handle the dangerous crossing points
Prior to school opening and subsequent
to school closing. The school safety pa
trols, manned by youngsters, appear
quite inadequate. The youngsters are too
small, don't know traffic direction prin
ciples.
Congratulations are in order to Steph
en Kesler and James Pressily, Kings
Mountain high school nominees for the
Morehead Scholarship to the University
of North Carolina.
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.
Central high school's home.'
coming battle with Shelby’s Lions
is scheduled tor City Stadium
tonight, a parade of bands be
ginning the student sponsored,
gala festivities at 6: 30 p.m. and
the kickoff slated for 7:30 p.m. '
Kings Mountain will join many
other cities, both small and large,
in installing parking meters, pro
vided '‘he Southern Railway Com. j
pany grants permission for such'
installations on its right-of-way. j
Social and Personal
The Thursday Book Club met
last week at the home ol Mrs.
H. T. Fulton.
Mrs. L. L. Benson was hostess
on Monday afternoon to members
of the Lula Herndon circle of the
First Baptist ch trch WMS.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
By Martin Harmon
Ingredients s bits of news,
wisdom, humor, and comment.
Directionsa Take weekly, if
possible, but avoid
overdosage.
A lew weeks ago, I slipped
into the office of Dr. O. P.
Lewis, the tooth fixer.
m-m
A front too"h had a slight
chip off and there were a
couple of tell-tale brown spots
on another.
m-m
Dr. Lewis was quick on the
chip, said there’s nothing par
ticularly unusual about them,
due to natural wear and the
angle of a normal bite, fired
up his grinder and in next to
nothing flat had the chipped
one smooth again. The brown
spots turned out to be “pits", no
fillings required, but will bear
watching.
m-m
I was feeling better all the
time, until Doc, continuing his
examination, said, “Huh, uh.
Here’s a big cavity. You’re go
ing to hear from this one one
of these days soon, if some
thing isn’t done.” Then he spot
ted a smaller cavity. Dr. Lewis
examined my dental record
card.
m-n
“Your six months are about
up,” he laughed. “The last time
you were in here was in April
1955." That figured to 30
months, a little over par for the
recommended course on regular
six-month molar check-ups.
m-m
It was last Thursday I filled
the filling apointment. Doc
wanted to know if I wanted
novacaine. I suggested he was
the doc, and that I Would take
his advice. Dr. Lewis said it
made no difference to him, that
most folk wanted pain-killer,
even on small fillings. I told
him I’d rather pay while the job
was underway, avoid the un
pleasant Interest of a numb
mou*h and the drug denoue
ment. He said he felt the same
way, and we agreed to start
clean, bring up the novacaine
reserves if they were needed,
m-m
Ninety minutes later, with no
pain having been felt nor no
after-effects other than “open
mouthitis”, I walked out the
Lewis door, my incisions some
what richer by several milli
grams of silver.
m-m
Dr. Lewis explained he uses
silver on the back side of teeth
where there’s no frontside vis
ion because silver sets up better,
lasts longer, delaying possible
filling fall-out. Front-side, of
course, he uses porcelain to con
form to the customary looks of
a tooth. “It isn’t really porce
lain,” he commented, “because
if it were, it’d have to be baked
on and the temperature would
be a bit hot.”
m-m
During the grinding out pro
cess, Dr. Lewis had stopped a
few times, run a strip of some
thing up the side. The strip
looked like over-sized black den
tal floss, but it felt like sand
paper. "It’s a kind of sand
paper,” Dr. Lewis replied to
my query, “though it’s better
than what you use on floors.
It’s got diamond dust on it.”
Unlike the porcelain, the dia
mond dust isn't synthetic. The
hard abrasive quality of the
diamond dust is just the right
Pern to dispose of rough spots
on the tooth, as left by the
grinder.
m-m
Dr. Lewis was Col. Lewis
during World War n, and his
principal duties were in admin
istration, rather than in prac
ticing dentistry. But he had a
few jobs to do, one in England
for a chicken colonel who
wouldn’t trust the younger
lieutenants and captains, these
the specialists in filling and
pulling. The specialists had ask
ed Col. Lewis to see the ada
mant officer. When Dr. Lewis
greeted the man, his visitor re
plied happily, “Thank God!
That’s the first southern drawl
I’ve heard since I left Tennes
see.”
Though Dr. Lewis insisted
Ms corps could handle a Ten
nessee mountaineer’s pulling re
quirements as well as any, the
colonel wouldn’t agree. “I’ve
got some man-sized roots to
my teeth, and I want you to do
it,” he contended.
m-m
Dr. Lewis said, “o. k.”, found
the Tennessean wasn’t kidding
about the man-sized roots. X
rays, says Dr. Lewis, make a
■bou4- any dental job compara
tively simple. In this instnce,
says Doc, one could have pulled
on the colonel’s molars all day
without unhitching ’em. A mi
nor operation was performed,
with the gum being cut side
wise and the ailing molar re
moved “out *he side door”. A
couple of stitches completed the
job. “The guy thought I was
wonderful,” Dr. Lewis laughs,
“and we became quite good
friends. Actually, I didn’t do
anything the other fellows
wouldn’t have done.”
m-m
Going to see the dentist can
be fun, as it was for me. Next
time I shan’t let my six-month
check-up get quite as overdue.
Why Not Lowt. - rices?
SEE THE NEW
LOW LOOK
LOWER SILHOUETTE
LOWER DOWN PAYMENT
LOWER FUEL CONSOWf ,
LOWtp wi
Viewpoints of Other Editors
VINDICATION—
AND DEMOLITION
The significance of yesterday’s
general election in Virginia is to
be read largely in two things. One
is the vindication of the position
taken fey Senator Harry F. Byrd.
The other lies in the demolition of
Republican hopes below the Po
tomac.
The stunning victory of J. Lind
say Almond, Jr., in the guberna
torial contest was not so much
a personal triumph, though we
mean to take nothing away from
the high qualifications of Vir
ginia’s next Governor. Neither
was it, in the usual sense, a party
victory. More than anything, it
was a vote of over-whelming con
fidence in the position of "mass
ive resistance” taken by Senator
Byrd against the integration of
public schools.
Th'is was the sole issue on which
the Democratic and Republican
nominees pitched their campaigns.
They disagreed to fee sure,, on
some subordinate matters: Mr.
Dalton advocated voting for 18
year-olds, Mr. Almond -did not.
Mr. Dalton favored a referendum
on poll tax repeal, Mr. Almond
opposed this. Mr. Dalton pro
posed a somewhat higher salary
scale for schoolteachers than Mr.
Almond would agree to. Bu* both
opposed higher taxes, both favor,
ed the tourist trade, both wished
to encourage new industry, both
firmly denounced juvenile delin
quency and slaughter on the high,
ways. None of this mattered. In
the end, it was public school poli
cy and nothing else, with Mr. Dal
ton willing to accept some racial
intergration and Mr. Almond will
ing to accept none at all.
On this question, the issue went
to the voters, and yesterday half
a million Virginians resolved it.
They voted the Byrd candidate,
the spokesman of massive resis.
tance, into office by a margin of
more than 135,000 votes. There
can be no question, now, that the
position taken fey Senator Byrd,
and fey the General Assembly a
year ago, fairly represents the
position desired by the majority
of Virginia voters. If ever a public
servant had a mandate from the
people, Lindsay Almond has one :
today.
But the voters not only buttres- :
sed ■their position on racial inte- ■
gration yesterday: they also f
knocked the props from under a <
growing two-party system. The ]
discouraging fact that Republi. j
'an leaders face today is that 12 1
/ears ago, in 'the perfunctory ]
campaign waged by Republican 1
Floyd Landreth against Demo- .!
:rat William M. Tuck, the GOP i
lominee garnered 32 per cent of
:he vote. Yesterday, after enor.
nous exertion. Mr. Dalton could
-laim 36 per cent only. Four years *
igo, in his astonishing race a- J
gainst Tom Stanly, Mr. Dalton <
parried 20 counties and nine cities, }
ie swept the Sixth and Tenth Dis- 1
rricts and rpn a marvelously good!
■ace in the Third. If it had not j
seen for one unfortunate speech,
n which Me needlessly advocated J
he issuance of general high-way
ponds, Mr. Dalton might even
pave won the 1953 election. His
Party emerged from that cam
paign with high hopes and the
nucleus of a good organization
putside the traditional Republican
strongholds of the Valley and the;
southwest. i
All that groundwork lies in! (
shambles today. As this is written,1 ,
t appears that Mr. Dalton carried \
>nly 13 Counties and two cities,!
ind with few exceptions, these ;
vere such unshakeable Republi- ]
pan localities as Carroll, Grayson,
Eloyd and Wythe. He squeaked
hrough in the Tenth District; he (
•an fairly well in the Ninth. t
Everywhere else the devastation
vas complete.
Consider Henrico. Four years <
sgo, this young surbuban area «
vent for Mr. DaPon by 5,100 to
1,300. Yesterday Henrico voters
urned against him in droves. The s
inofficial count today shows Al.
nond 10,736, Dalton 3,211. Four
•ears ago Mr. Dalton carried the l
Jity of Norfolk by 900 votes; yes. 1
erday, despite the support of the
nfluential Virginian-Pilot, Mr.
lalton ran woefully behind. Roa- «
loke City and Roanoke County <
lad been growing into real cen- t
ers of Republican strength; yes- i
erday they desired Mr. Dalton in t
A HEALTHY SHOCK
Americans have liked children
in paradise for a long time. They
have been surrounded by the
“good life”. Still not satisfied
they have beseiged government
in massive pressure groups for
special benefits and privileges.
Inflation has beent destroying the
only common measure for mater
ial value we have—the dollar. In
one case federal military auth
ority is being used over the oppo
sition of state and local agen
cies, to enforce federal court or
ders by sheer might. Our people,
by their abuses and lack of re
straint, are threatening this re
public.
They need a healthy shock,
and they have it in the Russian
“Moon" which circled the earth
at 18,000 miles an hour.
Senator Bridges, in comment
ing on the Russian- rocket a
chievement, aptly calls for “an
immediate revision of National
psychology...
“The time has clearly come to
be less concerned with the depth
of the pile on the new broadloom
rug or the height of the tail fin
on the new car and to be more
prepared to shed blood, sweat
and tears if this country and the
free world are to survive.
Stanly News and Press
unmistakable fafehion.
This is the harvest of Little
Rock; it is the whirlwind reaped
by a Republican administration
that chose to sow the winds of
social revolution. It is a pity, in
i way, that this had to strike Mr.
Dalton, for he remains one of the
most attractive and likeable men
in high office in the State. He said
rothing during the course of an
jxhausting campaign that cannot
ue forgiven as an excess of ad
/ocacy, and he will contiue to
have the personal (best wishes
sf many Virginians who felt they
rad to oppose the position and
:he party with which he was i
ientified.
Uic nil IV) Jiiigut UV
emphasized 'that there is nothing
>f the mere gesture in the con
gratulations offered to Mr. Al
nond today. He has served Vir
ginia well over a long period of
fears, as judge, as Congressman,
is Attorney-General. He has been
n the thick of a bitter fight in
vhich most of us, perforce, have
>een on the sidelines. He has con.
lucted himself througout his pub.
ic career, with dignity, firmness,
ind steadfastness of purposes. He
las not engaged in idle promises.
Ie has waged an honest cam
>aign, and he will take office in
anuary with no pledges he is
lot ready to fulfill.
Virginia did well in yesterday's
lection. Judge Almond and his
olleagues— Lieutenant-Governor
Stephens and incoming Attorney.
General Harrison— will serve 'the
State devotedly during the next
our years. They enjoy an over
whelming vote of confidence to
lay: and that confidence, We be
ieve devoutly, is not misplaced.
lichmond News—Leader
AIN'T IT SO?
By BILLY ARTHUR
One thing good aibout Sputniks
and II is that they can circle the
■arth in less time than it takes
he Russians to brag about them.
*****
A man in a motel where his
mcestora stop while en route to
>ecome his descendants.
• * * * •
.They’re called soft drinks be
au se the other kind are hard on
he wallet.
*****
The meek may inherit the
arth, but it takes a real estate
sgent to sell it
*****
Old King Coal is a costly old
ouL
In otherwords, Zukhov was
looted out because of poor pub
ic relations.
(Hi-fi sets in the new high pow
red automobiles should be so e
[uipped that when you press the
ccelerator to the floor board a
ecord will play "Nearer My God
a Thee."
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