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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. 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 . Editor-RublWher David Baity.Advertising Salesman and Bookeeper Miss Elizabeth Stewart.Circulation Manager and Society Editor Neale Patrick.Sports Editor MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Horace Walker Wade Hartsoe, Jr. | Bill Myers Charles Miller Paul Jackson Bob Myers TELEPHONE NUMBERS — 167 or 283 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR—$3.50 SIX MONTHS—$2.00 THREE MONTHS—$1.25 • BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Though I speak with the tongues of men and, of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sound ing brass, or a tinkling cymbal. I Corinthians 13:1 Situation Worsens It is not in the province of anyone to guess the lifetime of any one individual, though the insurance companies 'have done very well with their conservative mortality tables. But we’ve never heard a physician fail to suggest that a victim of a stroke of paralysis, no matter how lightly pin pointed, slow his pace thereafter, certain ly for a careful period of time. Poor President Eisenhower has had a difficult time of it during the past two years. He had a rough heart attack, a couple of bouts with ileitis, then the re cent attack. The President succumbed to the bland ishments and palaver of many who want ed him to continue as president to aid their own personal designs when he de cided to sleek a second term in the White House. It is hoped that President Eisenhower returns quickly to full health and is able to make the recovery Winston Churchill made from a slight stroke. If he does not, the nation is in a difficult situation in deed. Caretaker government will be the order of the day. Should the president resign, Vice-Pres ident Richard M. Nixon would succeed to the office. This possibility will be anath ema to virtually all party-minded Demo crats who focus much of their political ire on the young vice-president. The Herald tends to agree with the Democrats, in re Mr. Nixon, but submits it would be better to have a well man in the office than a debilitated, Eisenhower. The records! of the last months of Presi dent Franklin D. Roosevelt’s tenure show how unfortunate it can be for the nation to have an unwell president. Undoubtedly the Democrats would be pretty hard on Mr. Nixon ahd the nation could expect unceasing political warfare down to the wire of the 1960 presidential voting. But Mr. Nixon, at least, would be able to stand on his own footing. The nation wants Mr. Eisenhower in the White House, but it doesn’t expect the man to kill himself to complete his e lected term. Pre-Treating Sewage Recent inquiry concerning water and sewage service on the part of the owners of the ghost-like Loom-Tex plant, once a major contributor to the economic well being of Kings Mountain, poses a possible need for a close look-see into city policy. Reference is made to sewage service and the expectation that any dying and finishing operation refuse would require pre-treatment before it could be taken in to the city’s sewage system. To re-liven the Loom-Tex plant, or, perhaps, to attract other industry inside the city limits, it would appear that the city might pay a portion of the cost of necessary pre-treatment devices. After all, the in-city industry pays a pretty healthy tax bill, and the reslul'tant big asset of a regular and sizeable pay roll would add other major income to the City Hall treasury. It would be reasonable, wo believe, to get some cost estimates. It’s time now to plan for next year’s! Christmas shopping. The First National Bank has just opened its 1958 Christmas Savings Club. Advance indications are that a record number of members will save a record total of cash for Christmas 1958. Join now; it’s good business for the member. Our beat bow to planners of this sea son’s public Christmas decorations, who are concentrating the lighting on several beautiful Christmas trees. This will prove more effective than the rather thin string-ups of the past. Gas Policy Change It was high time the city acted to pur chase a measuring device to assure it can avoid increasingly high demand Charges from Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Cor poration. All utilities make these so-called “de mand” charges. The theory has been ac cepted that the utility mustt be able to handle potential peak loads at all times, thus must spend tlhe cash to prepare for these peaks. In turn, the demand charge penalizes a customer when he doesn’t use as much today as he did yesterday. The city’s gas system pays a particu larly high demand charge of 80 percent of the previous high peak. It resulted, city officials reported, in the city’s pay ing Transcontinental Pipeline about $600 one day last July for 260,000 cubic feet of gasl it neither received, used, nor re-sold. It means that the city system, which has a heavy incidence of heating custo mers, will have peak loads in cold mon ths, light loads in summer. This situation dictates the interruptible type contract the City contemplates with industrial users, with these customers getting ex ceptionally low rates on big quantity usage in return for buying “slurplus” gas in summer months. As a matter of record, the city adopted an interruptible rate schedule before en tering the gas distribution business, but it has never sold under this schedule. It reminds that the city apparently lost a large industrial customer for a long period of time when it failed to get the Foote Mineral Company contract. In stallation costs were to be considerable, but Foote says it has ore reserves proven to keep it in business here a half cen tury. Buying Time The Christmas shopping season isopen in Kings Mountain with Christmas decor ations brightening the stores and ‘with the retailers displaying an excellent se lection of gift items, from apparel to no velties, toys to typewriters. It’s already early December and it will be only a relatively few days until it’s Christmas Eve, time for Old Saint Nich olas, to take his bag down the chimneys of the world to gladden the hearts of youngsters the world over. It is the part of wisdom to attend to Christmas shopping early. Selections are now at their best and it’s not much fun looking for a particular and perhaps hard-to-find item during the last-minute buying ruslh. Kings Mountain merchants have shopped bountifully and heavily for de sirable Christmas goods. It means just about everyone can check off his shopping list right at home, or, at most, just around the comer. Our best wishes to Vincent L. Beach urn, who leaves next week to become superintendent of a natural gas distri bution system at Camden, S. C. The pos ition represents a promotion for Mr. Bea chum, who has been the city’s first gas system superintendent. During his super intendence, the system has shown steady growth in customers served and has op erated at a profit. Kings Mountain Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9811 is inviting membership in this newly-revived organization. While specific dates are available, member ship generally is open to service veterans with duty outside the continental limits of the United States during time of war. It is an organization which does much good work and is worthy of support. YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events THIS WEEK taken from the 1947 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. In spite of an on-the-march mix-up in which one portion of the parade got temporarily lost, the big Christmas opening parade delighted a record crowd of youngsters and their parents last Friday afternoon who jammed the city streets to get a preview of Old Saint Nick for 1947. Social and Personal Mrs. W. W. Tolleson was host ess to the Thursday Afternoon ; Book club last week when they j came together for the last meet. ! ing of the year. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Mm tin Hannon Ingredient*a bite of news, 'wisdom, humor, and comment. Directions Take weekly, if possible, but avoid overrdosage. Bruce Thorbum went deep-sea fishing a couple of weeks ago and reports a not-too-pleasant experience. The little fishing craft was about 35 miles off shore, when the boat began to respond to some nasty weather with a series of pitches and rolls somewhat akin to the old fashioned Charleston, the shag, and rock-and-roll all rolled in to one. m-m Bruce has been known to ca vort at all kinds of dancing shin-digs, but he was no mat ch for King Neptune’s tune calling. The boat wallowed in the trough of the sea and, with each wave-slap of the keel, the passengers had the unpleasant feeling that her whole bottom would give away and they’d be drowned. m-m This group of passengers didn’t include Bruce, though. Bruce says he was sea-sick green in the worse sort ofiway, felt so badly he didn’t care whether the boat sank or not, and, at the low point, wished it would get him out of his heaving misery. m-m Seasickness is one of those illnesses which oftentimes make the sufferer think he’ll have to get better to die. m-m While in the navy, I was quite lucky along the seasick route,, though I’d never been boating on waters more rough than Lake Lure or Lake Montonia. Only once did I get any infer ences of queasiness, and this was when I was inspecting the chugging diesels which spun the screw ;(on skipper’s instru ctions to get my d - - - self downside and learn somtething about the ship’s engines) I practiced the P-T boater’s max im on this occasion and got the heck out of there, none the worse for wear. I m-m A shipmate of mine wasn’t as fortunate. He and a friend had owned a sailing boat in the pre war days, had sailed her a round the coves and capes of New England in quite-rough seas. He’d never been seasick. But he couldn’t stand the roll ing of the big football-field long ship we first joined. His complexion was green (liter ally) from Staten Island to the wharfs of Glasgow. He tried eating and that didn’t work. He tried bunking down, and that didn’t work. The last time I saw him he was more happily assigned, handling a shore job in Africa. m-m But the lad had courage. Even before the war was over he asked and got some more sea duty. Just last spring I learned he’d remained in the navy, had graduated from the reserve to regular, now wears a lot of gold braid. • m-m I don’t do much duty with the “noise-box”, as Otis Falls calls a television set, but I happened to catch “Navy-Log” the other night. It’s a Thursday night WB-TV show, with the story gleaned from actual navy rec ords, some of the more hair raising corroborated from ac tual enemy files. I was plea santly surprised to note that the film was directed by Sam Gallu, with Gallu Productions the producer. This should be the Sam Gallu I knew at 90 day-wonder school. Sam’s mon ey-earning background prior to his enlistment was as a choral director with Fred Waring. There should be enough story material In navy files to fill plenty of half-hour T-V engage ments. ra-m I find myself getting increas ingly more envious of my friends who can find time and cash (all at the same time) to take a cruise, be it to Bermuda or Aruba, Le Harve or to Rio. But it’ll probably be my luck, if such ever happens, to have lost my seasickness immunity and have to invest heavily in dramamine, the anti-seasick drug. m-m Dotted notes: Delbert Dixon, I understand, drew the Miss North Carolina local transpor tation assignment for Wednes day afternoon's parade. While I’m aware Delbert is a Jaycee past-president, it strikes me as strange some of the merchant singletons couldn’t draw this job. There was Paul Walker who should have been eligible, or Johnny Warlick, among some others. Looks like they could have tossed a coin . . . Thanks giving’s fog proved no particu lar bar to the hunters, as num rous people oiled their shooting irons and sought to stock the larder with rabbit, squirrel and venison ... . The Red McKee family did quite well on the venison business .... Young Mike shot a big fellow Thurs day, and Father Red seconded the motion Saturday . . . Said cost-conscious Jack Gaddy, non-hunter: “Yep, they’re going to mount both heads. That sounds like about $80 worth of mounting costs to me.” "You Might Have Known" ■SPUTNIKS^ Viewpoints of Other Editors MORE SMOKE THAN LIGHT The New York State Health Department, we see toy thepapers, is considering a campaign aimed at cigarette smoking. The an nounced objective is to reduce lung cancer. Two associates of the state Commissioner of Health present ed a paper before the American Public Health Association’s an. nual meeting in Cleveland and i they suggested that the political campaign against cigarette smok ing be financed by a tax on ciga rettes. Dr. Morotn Lewin, New York’s Assistant Commissioner of Health thinks that everybody ought to know about the dangers of smok ing, and that if everyone now smoking just quit there would be a lung cancer death rate reduc tion of 43 per cent nationwide. Meanwhile, a study by a pro fessor of pharmacology from the Medical College of Virginia and the research director of the A. merican Tobacco Company of smoking habits and health of some 11,000 workers in the nine plants of the tobacco company led them to the conclusion that it is “ evident that cigarette smok ing per se is not necessarily or invariably associated with a high er risk of lung cancer...” or heart disease or shortened life. The American Cancer Society’s director of statistical research concludes that the tobacco com. pany’s study didn’t mean much because it didn’t compare the death rate of employees who smoked heavily with those who didn’t smoke at all. The company survey did show, however, that in comparison with the general public twice as many workers smoke more than a pack a day and that they lived longer. Well, we don’t know whether smoking cigarettes contributes to lung cancer deaths or not. The last time we discussed this with our doctor he advised us to cut down on cigarettes, sweets, gin rummy, martinis, long auto trips and editorials that question the advisability of some aspects of the foreign aid program. Your doctor may have vastly different ideas about all these things. The fact is that nobody has yet proved any case against ciga rettes to our satisfaction. We’d suppose that cigarettes are bad for some people and not for oth ers, but much the same statement may be made about crossing the street. We do think, though, that until; there is conclusive proof one way | or another the state health de partments would be wise to re strict their endeavors to research and stay out of the missionary campaign business. For two reasons: One, ciga rettes cost quite enough now with out making the smoker pay an extra tax to read unproved prop aganda about how bad it is for him to smoke. Two, the next step from a gov emmental policy against smok. ing. And even Mr. Valstead would probably testify that bis law did more harm than good.—Wall Street Journal HORSES AND NAGS “I thought your wife’s name was Mabel,” Joe remarked to a neighbor. “How come you call her Peg?" “Oh,” replied the neighbor. "Peg is just a little Pet name I have for her.” I Then he added in a confidential whisper: “You see. Peg is short for ‘Peg. asus,’ the immortal steed. An im mortal steed is an everlasting! nag.”—The McAnad News, Mo Alester, Okla. SQUELCH A fussy customer was shown; some puppies in a pet shop. “No, I mu^t have an older dog,” he said. When the proprietor trott ed out older dogs for inspection, he objected, “They’re all to ex. pensive.” “Then, sir, if I may suggest,” the owner said haughtily, "per. haps you should look up a used cur dealer.”—Mrs. Lois Thurston, in Coronet SPINNING WHEEL Seaman Sam says: “The mod. em girl adores spinning wheels, but she wants four of them and a spare.”—Sub-Base Ballast AUTOMATION FOR HUMANS? Just because you are on the move, don’t be too sure that you are not being appraised by some kind of “seeing eye.’’ The wonders of automation are only begining. One of the large aeronautical companies describes in an adver. tisement a “nuclear density gauge” which can weigh liquids or semi-liquid materials while they flow through a pipe. An inventor displays an elec tronic machine designed to make change for dollar bills—which, of course, includes rejecting any counterfeit bill, foreign money, or bill of the wrong denomina tion though the paper be crumpl. ed, soiled, or ragged. Such devices seem most readily adapted, of course, to dealing with inanimate materials. But will the time come when they can make some sort of rough appraisals of human beings too? For instance, the electric eye might omit to open the door for the shopper who is “merely looking” or the small boy who is apt to cause a distur bance in the movie theatre. What the supermarkets most need at the moment, apparently, is some kind of radar that will detect when a patron is pushing one of those rolling baskets be yond the confines of the parking lot and will yell, “Hey come back with that cart!” — Christian Science Monitor MORE CHICKENS Most people find it quite a chore to make sense out of eco nomic and financial theory. This is particularly so in a country such as ours where our economy is influenced by the many facets of free enterprise capitalistic sys tem. The following comments of the Warner & Swassey Co., discuss one of the more basic of our A merican economic truths: “You repair shoes, he pumps gasoline, I raise chickens. We sell to each other and to the man next door—a retired school teach er on a pension. “Somebody convinces me I can make just as much for less work, so I raise fewer chickens but in crease the price of those I do raise. “But, you aren’t going to repair more shoes in exchange for a chicken; he isn’t going to give me more gasoline for a chicken. It’s the same chicken; I haven’t made it worth any more to you. So all you do is raise the price of gasoline. But the retired school teacher can’t raise his pension; he just gives up chicken. “So all I’ve done is lose one customer and traded dollars with the others.” ‘Tf I had worked more efficient ly (maybe invested in a mechani cal brooder) I would have had more chickens to trade for re pair work and more gasoline, and by cutting costs and prices a bit, got two teachers as customers in. stead of none. “An more people could be en joying chicken.”—Pubelo (Colo.) he objected. "They’re all too ex AIN'T IT SO? By BILLY ABTHUR One thing we can say about the communists is that they’re trying to make people all over the world as happy as they are in Russia. Headlines says “Personal Touch is Valued in Christmas Gifts.” But not by dad when he’s touched too much. How about that California wo. man who has been divorced 14 times? To her wedding 'bells must have sounded like an alarm clock. When two women mee1: a doub le chin usually develops. Some people itch for things when they ought to be scratching for them. It was hard to convince motor, ists leaving the Duke-Carolina game that there are only about 50,000,000 automobiles in opera tion today. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC? Popular? Country? Gospel? Rock & Roll? Calypso? You'll hear it all on WKMT Kings Mountain, N. C. 1220 in your dial WE STICK TO OUR LASTS There was a time when pharmacists x often were called “Doc.” Doubtless it was a complimentary gesture. Even in this late day, the pharmacist frequently is asked to diagnose and prescribe by his customers. But like the shoemaker, we pharmacists stick to our own lasts. We neither diagnose nor v prescribe. These health team functions faU within |Vu> special province of physicians > ' both by law and professional training. As a member of the health team, we are an) Intermediary, serving both the doctor jand the patient. Our job is to compound ^ your prescriptions parefully and promptly. > HUNGS MOUNTAIN! moms™* DRUG company PHONE 41&8I THE CITY'S MODERN STORE Telephone Talk by FLOYD FARRIS Your Telephone Manager WHAT’LL I GIVE FOR CHRISTMAS? Oh-oh, it’s that time again, time to start thinking about gifts to please the hard to please. If this is your problem, here’s a good tip—extension phones in beautiful colors. Just one call to Mrs. Hager or Mrs. Hopper and you can strike ever so many names from you list! We’ll gift wrap and de liver before Christmas, or if you prefer we can lurmsn girt certificates. And why not equip gift phones with extras, too: light-up dials, no-tangle spring cords, volume controls that let you tune up or down the voice of the person you’re talking to. Try it! See if Merry Christmas phones won’t wrap up a lot of your “what-to-give worries,” make your shopping easier and put a smile on the face of those who receive them. Additional telephones in color make wonderful gifts foj* Christmas or any other time of the year! Thousands have found that this practical gift is unequaled as a lasting reminder of thoughtfulness. And there s no shopping problem involved. For a few minutes a day, there’s no other gift that can save the recipient time, lend comfort through safety or be daily multiplied in value bv the steps it saves. y Additional telephones may be ordered in 9 blend ing colors. Just call Mrs. Hager or Mrs. Hopper for further information. ^ AND CHARGE IT, PLEASE! That’s what yon can say to the operator when you have a Long Distance Credit Card For salesmen and other folks who travel a good bit it s really handy because it can be used anywhere- in public; phone booths, in a customer’s office, at a friend’s. The charges will be put on your home or office bill which ever you like. Think you might like your own Long Dis tance Credit Card? Call us, and we’ll fix you up. Try Herald Classified Ads
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