«. The Kings Mountain Herald
* Established 1889
A weekly newspaper demoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizen* at Kings Mountain
and Its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Kings Mountain, If. C-, under Act
of Congress of March 3,1873,
JEDITOB1AJ, DEPARTMENT
Martin Hannon . Bditer-DubHsher
David Baity..Advertising Salesman and Bookeeper
vn«m Elizabeth Stewart.Circulation Manager and Society Editor
Neale Patrick...Sports Editor
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
' When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the peo
ple mourn. Proverbs B9:2*
If You Please, Ho
Mayor Glee Bridges, obviously basing
on Shelby’s recenlt action, revived his
suggestion for a sewage service fee at
e recent meeting of the board of com
missioners.
Mayor Bridges last made the sugges
tion in offieal session two years ago. and
at that time it fell on deaf commissioner
ears. The best it got this time, at the
moment, was a suggestion for an invest
igation and rate study from Comm.
Boyce Gault.
The Mayor also suggested that Shel
by and other Cities are increasing out
side dity limits water rates. Shelby, in
cidentally, now will charge outside-city
customers double the inside rate.
The Herald and many citizens have
never taken kindly to a sewage fee for
a variety of reasons, among them:
1) Sewage service, through history a
deadweight service, has been customar
ily paid out of tax money, for a good
reason. Sewage service is one of the rea
sons citizens incorporate themselves in
to municipalities.
2) A sewage fee is a method of shift
ing a portion of the tax burden to the
city’s many financial ‘‘lightweights”
and, in turn, a bonanza to the financial
“heavyweights”. (The “miidd'leweights”
usually break about even, depending on
the fee.)
3) The city, which has done a large a
mount of catching up on city services
beginning in 1951, hasn’t yet been in the
dire financial straights necessaxy to
raise large sums of additional revenue.
(Shelby not only imposed the sewage
fee but upped its longtime-low tax rate
25 cents per $100 valuation.)
On the sewage rate matter, Mayor
Bridges might have made a better case
had he delineated some supporting rea
sons in the form of capital improve
ments.
Politically, the sewage fee imposition
can be fatal. The Mayor mentioned
Cherryville as a community imposing
the sewage fee. He did not mention that
the Cherryville voters pastuied its gov
erning team on the next chance at the
polls. It doesn’t take much imagination
to envision the treatment such a fee
would get at the barber shop and other
more-or-less male establishments.
Thex*e may be more grounds for the
outside-city water rate recommenda
tion, since water receipts—not fully a
deadweight service—do little more than
pay opex-ating expenses. Usually, the
board financing comes wholly from tax
es. In addition, outside city customere,
of course, dbn’t get an annual tax bill
from City Hall.
The Hei’ald has never thought it fully
solid giound to support a position by
comparison, in other words, what the
Jones, Smiths, Shelby, or CheiTyville are
doing. It’s all right to investigate and
see. But the Jones, Shelby, and Cherry
ville could be out-of-step, even in their
own situation. On the other hand, their
situation could be different, and likely
is, from dux's.
It is good to know Mm. Lloyd Ornxand
will assume management of the Teach
erage come September, succeeding Mrs.
Hill Carpenter who has managed the es
tablishment Since 1950. This community
facility is a needed one. While in recent
years, it has not had the occupancy of
some other yeai's, there have been sea
sons w'hen the fact of the Teacherage
enabled the school folk to start the year
With full faculties.
Let's Be Courteous
Rain natwit'hstandSng, Kings Moun
tain could be Area IV champions or out
of running by the time this comment is
circulated.
However, there have been a few inci
dents here not untypical of exciting,
never-a-dull-moment Legion Junior
baseball which, if the Juniors are still
playing need attention.
It is typical for Junior baseball action,
as it gets up the elimination ladder, to
excite both fans, coaches, and players—
particularly the fans — to points that
bring undisciplined and angry perfor
mances.
Items:
1) The Forest City coach, arguing for
cefully (too forcefid'ly) with an umpire*
here found himself being escorted out of
the ballyard by a policeman, summoned
by the ump, who, in all baseball, is su
preme, in spite of strong words, pop bot
tles, musty vegetables and other debris
propelled his way.
2) In the finale with Hickory, some
younger fans had to be contained from
dropping ice and other debris on the
Hickory bench, which adjoins the grand
stand.
3) After the game, Some Hickory play
ers and fans milled around with strident
voices and the Hickory players repaid
what they thought was a debt by van
dalizing the high school gymnasium
dressing room.
All the incidents were minor and there
were no damaged heads, but they point
to what can happen if fans and the par
ticipants forget that a baseball game, af
ter all, is merely a sports contest, a con
test of diamond skill, and hardly a life
or death matter.
As Announcer Toby Williams told the
young folk at the Hickory game, these
folk are our guests and we’re always
supposed to be courteous to guests.
Personalities Make News
The world has been treated, lately, to
the antics of some prima donnas, some
of elderly vintage, who may be charged
on the one hand with inability to grow
up and on the other with inability to
withstand prosperity.
There’s Governor Earl Long, of Lou
isiana, the Irish writer who blitzed Lon
don before returning to an Irish hospi
tal, the Dictator Khruschev, who, just
this week, took keen offense to some
criticisms in the Swedish press and sum
marily notified the Swedes that he, his
wife and daughters would not be coming
to Sweden. Then there’s the pretty In
gersoll girl from New Mexico who made
big press over telling the Catholic Arch
bishop, Overbiscddct, she’d definitely
compete and now has withdrawn be
cause, she charged, Miss Universe offi
cials held her a virtual prisoner.
It would seem that many folks—per
haps everyone at sometime or some
place in their lives—have this difficulty.
It is said that the instinct of self-pres
ervation is man’s strongest.
Is it possible that this instinct some
times gets mixed up with another of
man’s normal human instincts to do as
he pleases?
Happy Speed Up
Announcement by James H. Black,
president of Fiber Industries, Inc., that
the big $50 million plant now under con
struction at Earl will be in production
a year hence, rather than the initially
projected date of-mid-year 1961, is good
news to Cleveland County and her ad
joining counties.
Production blueprints call for begin
ning employment of 450 persons, with
eventual full-production employment of
1500 persons, receiving an aggregate
payroll of $10 million.
A million dollars may not be what it
once was, but ten of them still add to a
very, very nice sum, which can not help
but bolster the economic welfare of both
employees and all other citizens of
Cleveland and its surrounding area.
Kings Mountain will benefit hand
somely, too.
■ fl years
X V/ THIS
AGO taken from the 1949 files of the Kings Mountain Herald.
WEEK Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events
Coach Evertette Cal ton announ
ced plans for pre-season training
for Kings Mountain high school
football team candidates this
week, wiith the drill sessions to
gin on August 15.
Flaps for building a Memorial
Building will be discussed at a
special called meeting of Otis D.
Green Post 156, American Legion,
to be held at C4ty Haiti Friday
nigiht
Social and Personal
'Mrs. J. M. Patterson delightful
ly entertained members of the
Thursday Afternoon (Book duto
and a number at invited guests
Thursday afternoon.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
By Martin Hanson
Ingredient*: bit* of new*,
wisdom, humor, and comment.
Direction*: Take weekly, if
possible, but avoid
overdosage.
A portion of this piece will
be dedicate} to "Confessions'’
of a husband after one week of
so-called bachelor bliss.
m-m
Woman’s work, indeed, is nev
er done. As usual, I declined my
mother’s kind invitation ito live
with her ifor the week, on cus
tomary grounds that years of
bafbdit — the rater and shaving
lotion always in the same place,
ditto the socks, shirts, and
shoes, not to mention being
accustomed to places to dodge
and thtereby missing knocking
the side Of a chair or bed with
barefeet — make temporary
moving unsettling. Then, too,
I’m an expert at poaching the
breakfast egg. >
m-m
But a week can get to be a
'long time.
Atflter the third night, I decided
ft was time to go to sletep to an
made-up bed. Needless to say,
the bed-making result wasn't
particularly expert, but *twas
an improvement.
I can’t brag much about
sweeping and dusting as I
found myself rather winded af
ter 90 minutes of dish-washing,
trash-emptying, putting away
'laundry and related chores;
m-m
There’s another apology ow- •
ed, too. I was nevter a devotee
of instant coffee which I term
ed "ersatz” or “substitute” and I
was inclined to carp a bit ait
home when, in the interest of
sipteed and less washing duty,
the ground up Stuff was filled
with hot water to make a quick
cupful. Not once did I brew for
myself an old-fashioned pot.
And by the thud' day, the in
stant variety was tasting pret
ty good.
m-m
Nealfe Patrick, th!e Herald
sports editor, thinks the Kings
Mountain area unusual for the
odd-ball plants it sometimes
grows. He was moved to com
ment when Fuller McGill was
showing him a sevbn-head cab
bage, all on one stalk. Fuller
didn’t know the brand, or the
why, but said he’d bought his
plants from Ted Ledford. Inci
dentally, he gave me otnfe of the
heads, which was lush green
and ideal for delicious cole
slaw.
m-m
Dr. W. P. Gerberdlipg, looking
frbsh and rested after ihis an
nual trek to see his sons an the
Mid-West, was/is pleased with
the showing of the Legion Jun
iors.
m-m
And I am indebted to Ruth
Randall, doing some drawer
cleaning at Dr. Anthony’s es
tablishment sometime ago, for
a clipping of the definition of
"A Secretary.” Herewith:
Here tiz:
A secretary is a pferson, usu
ally female, whom the boss oft
en tells everybody but her he
couldn’t do without. .If the boss
is a young bachelor, hfe has to
'be on ihis guard; if he is an old
married man, she has to be on
her guard.
Where the boss and callers
are concerned, a secretary acts
either as a gobetween or a
stay-bei tween.
A secretary, must know how
to translate the Boss’ rambling
dictation into statements which
are crisp and straight-forward
and yet leave plenty of loop
holes and side exits, so that he
is pretty proud of himself When
he reads what he thinks he dic
tated.
If the boss doesn' t know some
thing, he asks his secretary; if
she doesn’t know, she is dumb.
The boss is not dumb for not
knowing, on account of what
has he got a secretary for?
No man is a hero to his valet,
and no boss is a hero to his sec
rotary. When a secretary real
izes that Her boss wouldn’t be
worth fifteen dollars a week
■without her, she has to console
herself with the fact that She
wouldn’t be getting her thirty
five per without him.
If secretaries didn’t need their
jobs, half the bosses in the
country would be Washed up. If
secretaries published their
bosses’ confidential memos, the
other half would be locked Up.
A secretary must know where
her boss is every minute, so
she can tteM the right people
the wrong place.
A secretary must know how
to keep the Boss’ wife secure in
the feteiing that she not only
wears the pants in the Boss’
family but the skirts also Oth
erwise. the secretary must
know how ito hunt another job.
The secretary who takes her
work seriously and shows an
honest interest in the business
and really makes a career of
her job is the secretary who
twenty-five years later, is stHl
a secretary, onfly with dyed
hair and typewriter spread.
An office boy starts at the
bottom and works up; a secre
tary starts as a secretary and
works.
“It’s a new act form—aU yon need is paint and a trampoline.”
Viewpoints of Other Editors
THE PARABLE
OF THE KILLER
(Ed. Note — The flollowtng ar
ticle was written (by tihle Rev.
Wand Patterson, pastor of the
Antioch Christian Church! in Da
viess County, Indiana, (hiring the
summer of 1958. (Hte had just wit
nessed a bad accident involving
teen-agers and then wrote this
in the p attern of the 15th Chapter
of Duke.)
Htear then the parable of the
killer. A certain man had a son.
And the son said (to his father,
‘'Father, give me the portion of
goods that falleth to me, that I
may buy a 'rod’ that will really
'scat’, and his farther divided unto
'him a portion of his Jiving.
And not many days after, thte
son gathered all his inheritanice
together, and took Mis journey
to a car lot, and there bought a
shiny heap' with a motor that
was 'hot.’
And when he had spent all,
there arose a great pride in his
'heart And he spent Ms hours pol
ishing and tuning until the time
when he should show It to his
friends with great rejoicing.
And it came to pass What he
called together his friends, say
ing unto them, "Rejoice with1 me,
for I have found me a ‘rod’ that
will really ‘drag.’ ” And his
friends joined themselves to Mm
and they ‘pealed out.’
And Wires spun, and the stones
flew, and the motor roared, and
the speedometer needle roste, and
great was the rise of it. And the
driver said within 'himself, “Man,
rthou hast much skill laid up for
many eurvtes; take thine chances,
dig, drag, and 'be daring.”
And Whey thought within them
selves, “This is smart! This is
great! This 'gets attention.” And
the citizens of (the country looked
on in horror.
And it came to pass that a
curve turnted mare quickly than
expected. The car crossed the
center line and struck another
head-in, and great was the crash
of it.
‘And whten In the hospital he
came to himself the driver cried,
‘•How doeth the others?” And
the doctor turned and spoke, say
ing, ‘Two have given up the spir
it, ante may soon perish, and one
will never walk again.
And the youth would fain have
taken his own life in his great re
morse. And he cried in great an
guish, T have sinned against
hteaven and before all and am no
more worthy to be called a man.”
Verily I say unto you, he that
seeketh attention geteth It (for
the papers carry the bloody
story), but grteat is the price
thereof. — Forest City Courier.
SUPERIOR STRATEGY
An Atlanta furniture store
manager was worried. His com
petitor across the street was
drawing crowds to his window,
having employed a gorgeous
brunette to sit on one of his easy
chairs, manicuring her nails and
at the same time smiling at the
crowd outside.
After considerable thought, the
worried manager found an ans
wer for his problem. The next
morning a ravishing blonde was
seated on a reclining chair in his
window—but her back was to the
street.
In a matter of minutes there
was a milling crowd inside the
store—some at them looking at
the furniture two. — We The Peo
ple.
HOW TO ENJOY
DANCING
Most maddfleaged men enjoy
dancing if they can sit close to
the stage. — Changing Times.
JUST CANT WAIT
The child prodigy finished her
piano selection. “And what do
you think of her execution?” the
doting father foolishly asked a
boned visitor. “When is it going
to be?” was the eager reply. —
Excavating Engineer.
IT IS TO BE HOPED
It is to be hoped that when A
merioans eventually succeed in
landing on thfe moon (hey wont
fmd a sign reading, “Kilroysky
was here." — Grit.
'HAM-AND-EGGERS'
The exchange of comments be
tween President Eisenhower and
certain art experts is quilte in
(teresting.
While we do nolt claim that
Ike is a competent art critic and
neilther are we, it does seem that
from some of our examples of
modern ant (the Russians could
get (the idea:
That we are a crazy, mixed-up
people.
That we have violated most of
the rules of art: in composing
some of our pictures.
We often don’t know what we
are doing.
We are lagging terribly in a
bility as artists.
We might even be easily whip
ped in all-out combat if we can’t
fight any better than we can
paint.
And former President Truman
had a point when he said a lot
of modem painters are ham-and
eggers. This is his explanation
of it: “They just throw an egg at
the canvas and mix in a little
Warn.” — Stanly News & Press*
WE'D MISS GUNSMOKE
We don’t claim cousins any
more, at least (those beyond sec
ond degree. Some people don’t
even claim second cousins. Some
will turn their backs on first
cousins, while still others, con-1
eerned with social status, don’t1
go around bragging about bro
thers and sisters.
It has been more than 20 years
ago that a third or fourth cou
sin was considered to be practic
ally a member of the immediate
family. It was always “Cousin
Henry” or “Cousin Mary” or
what have you. And anything
within (the fifth degree of cou
sins was considered to be a
"kissin’ cousin.”
But not anymore. We’ve lost
'the knack of developing closely
knit families for (the simple rea
son that there are too many oth
er things to do. Family connect
ions don’t' (mean what they did
a generation ago. And we’ll nev
er return It© the day when every
one had a favorite aunt or un
cle. For unless the aunt or uncle
lives next door, we never see
them anymore. After all, we’d
miss “Gunsmoke” if we got in
the habit of calling on relatives.
And offhand, I can’t think of
anything worse than that. — The
Sampsonian,
SOMETHING IN COMMON
The older generation thought
nothing of arising at 4 a. m. _
and the younger generation
doesn’t seem to think much of it
either. — Successful Farming.
AIN'T IT SO?
»Y BILLY ARTHUR
First thing we know, they’ll
have gasoline taxes so high to fi
nance highways that we can’t af
ford to drive on them.
******
Headline: “People Just Don’t
Understand Us, Stripper Says.”
Well, seeing is btedieving.
******
The Democrats axe trying to a
dhieve party harmony, and If the
effort is successful the Republi
cans may also get thfe idea there
is some hope.
******
A soft answer may turn away
wrath, but a soft tire doesn’t.
The oyster is said to produce
about 50 million eggs during its
lifetime. It’s a good thing for
Wrjghtsville Beach that oysters
don’t cackle.
Economists say our great na
tional debt was caused by wars.
Meaning, we suppose, that the
next one we Ught will have to be
a cheap onfe.
A pessimist is a man who judg
es unemployment in North Caro
lina by the number of persons
preparing to run for governor
each ytear.
Don't Take Needless Risks...
Make sure your cigarette or cigar is out before
you leave it on the asSh tray or elsewhere in the
house. And be sure you have adequate insurance.
The Arthur Hay Agency
ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE
Phone 182
HARRIS FUNERAL HOME
—Ambulance Service—
Phone 118 Kings Mountain, N. C.
THERE'S A NEW
SOUND ABOUND—
Time ill
Don Cnrtis, Host
“Soundhouse”
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Kings Monntain
Telephone
Talk
by
FLOYD FARRIS
xooz Telephone Manager
SHOPPING MADE EASY! No need to get out in the
sizzling sun ... hire a baby sitter ... arrange to have the
car ... or leave duties at home! Just do as millions are
doing these days. Shop by telephone! It’s the modern
trend. In fact, some businesses report that today as much
as 25% of their sales come to them by phone. This
method of easy shopping has become increasingly popular
during the last ten years. Reasons? It’s convenient, time
saving, econon. cal. One more way your telephone helps
make life easier for you!
* * *
AND THE YELLOW PAGES of your telephone directory
will tell you where to find many of the products or services
you’re looking for.
* * ' *
VACATIONING BY AUTO? Along with the familiar
sight of roadside picnic areas, you’ll be seeing another
landmark of happy, carefree living. Public telephone
booths conveniently placed to make “keeping in touch”
so easy. You’ll find these booths handy for phoning ahead
for reservations ... contacting friends along the way
or giving advance notice of your arrival. Remember, Long
Distance costs so little. Costs even less when you call
station-to-station, with extra bargains after 6 P.M. and
on Sundays. "
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