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DARRELL AUSTIN General Manager MEMBER OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION .. The Herald la published by Herald Publishing House, P.O. Box 169, Kings Mountain, N.C. 38086. Business and editorial offices are located at 431 N. Piedmont Ave. Phone 739-7496. Second class postage paid at Kings Mountain, N.C. Single copy 15 cents. Subscription rates; $10 yearly In state. $5 six months. $11 yearly out-of- state. $5.50 six months. Student rate for nine months $7.50. USPS 931-040. Today's Bible Verse; Now abldeth faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these Is love. I Corinthians IS eDiTORiM'j&opiriicre Watch the chihlreti Ghosts and goblins, witches and werewolves, vampires on every comer. All manners of creatures parade up and down the street, giggling at one another. It Is the one day out of the 366 when reality gives way to fantasy; when kids spend the entire evening trying to scare each other silly. It Is Halloween. Halloween is a great time for children but a few safety precautions and the Kings Mountain Police Department gives these reminders. -i- Do not let your child carry a candle lit Jack o’ lantern. + Make sure that your child’s costume Is easily visible to motorists. Many Halloween costumes can be bought with reflective patterns or you may attach reflective strips yourself. + Instruct your children not to eat any candy that Is not Individually wrapped. -i-Make sure that your child stays In areas that are well Ughted; dark alleys can be dangerous. + Seta time limit on your child’s trick or treating so that he will know when vou expect him to be home. -I-Instruct your child not to walk In the street while trlck-or-treatlng; he should walk on the sidewalk or m yards. It Is also a wise Idea to go over the route your child will take before he leaves. Qilldren should stay In their neigh borhood and suxiund those homes that are familiar to them. -I-Parents should accompany small children when they go trick or treating. Older children should travel In groups. Do not let your children travel along. + Instruct your children not to accept any rides from strangers or enter the homes of people that they do not know. -t- Msdce sure that your child has emergency Information with him. This Information should Include your name, address, and telephone number. Also include any sdlergies, such as reactions to penicillin, on the card. -i-Make sure your child has enough change with him to call If he needs you. Happy Halloween. Poets Corner “ Our food cost less AUTUMN SENTIMENT The feeling of Fall grows stronger When leaves come down In showers. Making a coverlet of red and gold to comfort the fading flowers. Mother nature takes a sigh of relief When Autumn winds blow, Anticipating a season of peaceful rest perhaps under a blanket of snow. The faces of fireplaces light up When fire-wood is stacked near by. Birds in flocks fly over house tops being followed by many an eye. Oomstalks are silently standing in shock When the ears have waxed old, They cannot hear the call of crows or ripe grain withhold. The feeling of Pall grows stronger When bird nests rest with empty arms, Fall activities speed steadily up gathering In the harvest from farms. The length of a day grows shorter When the aroma of wood smoke Is In the air. On a moon-Ut night under the stars The feeling of Autumn is everywhere. VIVIAN S. BILTCLIFPE In Memory of David Lonnie Whlsnant Who passed away one year ago October 30, 1978 It may be of little comfort to you when you’re checking out at the super market, but chances are that you as an “average” American food shopper, had to work fewer hours to pay for your gorcerles than did your counterpart In most other countries. According to statlstlctd researchers with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Americans work fewer hours for the money to buy most food items than do people In a number of Industrialized countries. Last year an average wage earner In Washington, D.C. worked one hour and 27 minutes to earn the money to buy a pound of white bread, a pound of sliced bacon, a poimd of sirloin steak, a pound of pork chops, a dozen large eggs, a pound of tomatoes, a pound of broiler chicken, a dozen oranges and a pound of butter. Workers In Canada averaged better - only one hour and 24 minutes. Japanese workers on the average had to work longer than those of most of the countries surveyed. To earn the money to buy the same selection of groceries, the Japsuiese had to work seven hours and 16 minutes. The largest single cost item was sirloin steak. This cost the equivalent of $16.66 In Japan, compared to $2.17 In the U.S. And, not only the cost of groceries and gasoline are escalating, among other things, but next year’s bride will spend more for her wedding gown and veil, approximately $810, say NCSU agricultural extension specialists who report the overall wedding Industry has $12 billion In annual sales. Top manufacturers of wedding dresses say that their sales this year will be up 10 percent. One Industry spokesman says that not only are total marriages on the rise, but there Is edso a trend back to formal weddings. Our hearts are filled with sadness. Our eyes shed many a tear, God only knows how we miss you. At the end of one sad year. Congratulations to Laura Marie McOlnnU, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James B. McOlnnls, who last week was chosen Kings MounUln High School’s DAR Good Citizen... Some may think we are not lonely. When at times they see us smile. But little do they know the heartache That we suffer all the while. Congratulations to the Kings Mountain Junior High Jayvee football team which last Wednesday defeated arch rival Shelby 13-6 to win the Western Junior High Athletic Association championship with a 6-0-1 record. loved AND SADLY MISSED THE CHIUIREN OnS, BERNICE. VADER A EVELYN The Herald and the community welcome newcomei-s Michael, Denise, Jason and Chuck Goudelock. Rev. Goudelock Is the new pastor of Oak Grove Baptist Church. , GN!V ‘JTeWhRT The class of ’49 Kings Mountain High School’s Class of 1949 held Its 30th reunion Saturday at Kings Mountain Inn with 26 classmates attending. People came from the two Carollnas, Virginia, Florida and Georgia and one classmate, Herman Mauney, came all the way from Albuquerque, N.M., to be with his friends. The highlight of the evening' came when the group talked over long distance hookup to many of their classmates who could not attend. Special guests included former Principal J.E. Honeycutt, former Superintendent B.N. Barnes and former teachers Mrs. W.T. Weir and Alice Rldenhour Wise. Jack Ruth served as master of ceremonies, Charles Blanton welcomed his classmates back to Kings Mountain, Demauth Blanton responded, Garlsuid Still recognized guests and Doris Mc Daniel Plyler presented prizes. A memorial was given by Demauth Blanton for the four deceased members of the class. In whose memory the reunion booklet was dedicated. Those four Included Benny Gene Carpenter, Denver Gladden, Betty Llngerfelt Roper and Hunter Warllck. surviving class officers were present,, Jicludlng president Demauth Blanton, vice president HUton Lamar Ruth Jr., and treasurer Garland Still Jr. Members of the committee which planned the special night were Charles Blanton, Billie Sue McDaniel Bldson, Doris McDaniel Plyler, Jack Ruth and Garland Still. Mrs. Plyler, who was the contact person with the Herald, spent several days prior to the reunion at the doctor’s office being treated for high blood pressure. "My husband said he knew it was because I was excited about the reunion,” she said. V« ..V GLASS REUNION—Plotored above ate members of the KMHS Class of '49, which held its SOth reunloii Saturday at Kings Mountain Inn. First row, left to right. Myrtle Roee, John Ellison, Peggy Lawlng, Louise Early, Doris Plyler, JaoUe Wright, Doris MeOlnais, Martha Poteat, BUlle Eldson, Hasel Mltchem. Second row. Will Herndon, Jack Ledford, Jack Ruth, Donald Wilson, Charies Blanton. Back row, BUI BlackweU, J.R. Weaver, Demauth Blanton, Herman Mauney, Joe Noisier Jr., Don Eng, Garland StUI and J.D. Barrett. In photo below. Principal J.E. Honeycutt talks over long distance telephone- microphone hookup to a member of the class that could not attend as other class members Usten over loud speaker. Photos by Gary Stewart Goblins’ll getcha 1116 goblins’ll getcha If you don’t watch out... It’s spook time again, and another season for the witches to gallivant on their broomsticks, the youngest to don masks of weird variety and time to make a grinning jack-o-lantem of the nearest available pumpkin. Tommy Barnette, who owns a used furniture store next door to the Herald office on North Piedmont Avenue, came by the other day and I asked him If he saw the Goodyear blimp fly over town. "I’m glad you saw that,” he said. "I told some people down the street that I saw the Goodyear blimp fly over top of Kings Tam, and they accused me of having a few too many.” Speaking of the blimp, I was on my way back from lunch that day and one of my neighbors was sitting In the middle of the road In his car. He flagged me down and I thought he had car trouble. He pointed up to the sky and I saw the blimp coming across the top of some trees. As usual, when something like that happens, I didn’t have a camera with me. I rushed back home and got one but remembered It had color film In It. I got some excellent color shots when It came over top of my house, but, as you know, color shots don’t reproduce so well In the paper. So, I took the exposed color film out and put In a roll of black and white. But by that time, the blimp had already gone out of sight. I Jumped In Betsy (that’s my old faith ful Ford, you know) and struck out toward the South Carolina line. I’m thankful the S.C. Highway Patrol wasn’t out In the Antioch community because I I suppose It would be proper to call Otis Falls the city’s pumpkin man, for he has sold quite a few of them each season, some for Jack-o-lantems and some for a delicacy known as pumpkin pie. But the late "Soup” Roberts used to take the honors as the super salesman of pumpkins In these parts. A supposed Yankee car was passing through and stopped at Mountsdn View Farms, admired the "csuitaloupes” and pur chased one. Mr. Roberts declared he never told the mistaken customer the difference. Lib Stewart But, tomorrow night Is the annual Halloween celebration when, according wasTaylng some fresh tracks. I finally to an old-model dictionary, the young tradltioiudly play pnmks. Halloween celebrations have taken a different form from days of yore- cmd the change Is a thankful one. The moppets, In their masks and garb, once gathered In the city’s business district shortly after dusk to display their weird costumes. What kind of dellgdit was obtained from hitting another masked marvel over the head with a stuffed stocking, I can't rightly remember. And, Just what year or years that this type celebration changed, I don’t know. But, whoever exhibited the brain for orgsuilzed Halloween parties at the schools, the churches, and now the popular Jaycee-sponsored Horror House, did the commimlty a real favor. It was sdso old-style Halloween, not necessarily abandoned, to play pranks on older folks. Yard gates and mall boxes were prime targets and doorbells LOOKIMG BhCk From the Nov. 4,1949 edition of The Kings Mountain Herald caught the blimp near Blacksburg and snapped the black and white photo which was In last Thursday’s paper. Here’s a question we’d like tor some of you to answer. A newcomer to our city stopped by the other day and asked where the nickname "Tar Heels” came from. I gave him my version of it, but I’m not sure It’s right. He said he had asked 16 different people since coming to KM and he’d received about that many different answers. I’ve made It a point to ask since then and I, too, have received many different responses. If you think you know, write me at P.O. Box 762, or give me a call at 789-7496. got fui overtime workout The doorbell la still In use, and It wUl not be unwise tor citizens to have good supplies of candles on hand to pay the hiankmaii to the young folk on their tiick or treat propositions. At least one church group. Centred United Methodist (3iurch Youth, will be trlck-or-treatlng for funds tor the United Nation’s Children’s Fund. Though Halloween Is primarily a frolic tor the young, the holiday has Its benefits for us older people too. The color favorite of the Fall season, orange and black, solves the decoration problems for this sesuran hostess. I don’t know what we women folk would do without a special holiday. Hie men get a break, too, on SOCIAL AND PERSONAL )| % )| • )| % >1 • Halloween. A mask for the young one, candles and apples for the vendors, but ) no regularly-required gift line Is ad vertised on Hsdloween for the ladyfolk, unless her birthday or anniversary falls (XI that day. One member of our family, Leigh Anne, daughter of Gary and Mary Jo Stewart, celebrates her sixth birthday tomorrow and so Halloween Is a reid family celebration at their house. But If Halloween Is here, then | Christmas must be Just around the comer. Whew, how time does race... Dixon Presbyterian Church will be dedicated at special services Sunday afternoon, less than five mcxiths after the holding of the first service In the new sanctuary. Kings Mountain church women will observe World Community Day Friday night at a special service at St. Mat thew’s Lutheran Church at which they will supply "Pieces for Peace” to aid needy people of the world. Bverette (Shu) Carlton, football coach of the Klgns Mountain Hlg^ School team for thb past two years, was named to the North Carolina Shrine Bowl coaching staff this week. i Mrs. Garland E. Still entertained the Tuesday Afternoon Club at her home last week. The members of the Home Arts Club were entertained Tuesday afternoon by Mrs. W.L. Pressly. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Anthony were hosts to the Couple’s Club at their home Thursday night.
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