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Newspaper
Kings Mountain Herald
Location
Kings Mountain, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1940
Page
10
Kerr Scott reports that sulfite removal from meats protects consumers and raises quality. He cites state policing, regular inspection laws, and chemists checking ingredients to prevent inferior products. The remarks praise the impact on consumer protection and market standards for food.
The Pit in Kings Mountain is under new management as William Hagley of Shelby has purchased the business and assumes control. Hagley, a friendly American Legion member, plans to move with his wife soon and invites locals to visit the barbecue shop next to the Dixie Theatre.
Horticulturist M R Niswenger urges farm families to eat well and stock reserves with canned fruit and jelly. He prescribes 12 pounds 24 quarts of canned fruit and five pints of jelly per person, plus garden care instructions for vines raspberries and grapes and notes on manure and fertilizer use. The note also covers tuberculosis advances including pneumothorax treatment and skin tests followed by x rays.
Scouts gathered at York Road School Recreation Park for a uniformed display of patrol projects including First Aid Relay and Tent Pitching. Leaders and Scouts from Kings Mountain Troops 1 2 4 507 and others attended, with plans to attend Piedmont Council Camp for a week in summer.
The Kings Mountain Board of Commissioners sets the 1940 41 license rates for circus and traveling shows motor vehicle peddlers hotels restaurants billiard and bowling establishments tobacco outdoor advertising and other trades. Rates vary by vehicle count vendor type and business category with notable items including circus car fees 15 to 150 dollars peddler fees 10 to 25 dollars hotel 10 dollars restaurant 10 dollars billiard table 25 dollars and tobacco products 200 dollars.
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