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Bureaucrats Making Laws ,
In 1964, the Congress passed a
Civil Rights Act. It called for certain
things to be done and prohibited
others from continuing to be done.
No where in the Act did the Congress
require many of the things that have
been done by the bureaucrats in Wash- *
ington. ?
Since the Congress did not cause
the doing and since the people, for the
most part, made no great outcry, the
bureaucrats continued on their merry
way. Late last year, facing the elec
tions, Congress failed to remedy the
situation.
That same Congress, still facing the
elections, refused to enact a gun regis
tration law. Thousands of Americans
? voters ? wrote, wired and called in
opposition to such legislation and the
Congress responded by defeating all
gun registration bills. The only gun
bill passed wasone restricting inter
state and mail-order sales of firearms.
It was, one would assume, not the""
intention of Congress that this coun
try have gun registration.
In spite of this obvious intent of ?
Congress, on November 6 ? one day
after the election ? in the Federal
Register, Volumne 23, No. 217, the
Internal Revenue Service served notice
that it is prepared to enforce new
rults ? not the law ? on reporting the
sales of ammunition or firearms.
Under the new rules, any person
buying firearms or ammunition from a
dealer will have to report his name
and address, height and weight, place
and date of birth, and provide identifi
cation. Further the rules' will enpower
the regional offices of IRS to require
regular reports from all dealers on the
names and addresses of all presons
buying firearms.
Thus, every firearm purchase will
be a permanent record in the files of
the Internal Revenue Service. And this
is gun registration ^- not by the laws
of Congress ? but by bureaucrat in
defiance of the clearly expressed will
of the Congress of the United States:
There may be some merit in the
registration of guns under some cir
cumstances,, although these merits are
overshadowed by something far more
frightening than an unregistered gun.
That is that the Internal Revenue
Service would take it upon itself to
do, on its own, what the Congress
refused to make the law of the land.
Frightening, yes.- Surprising, no.
The Department of Health, Education
and Welfare has been writing its own
laws for years.
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Rate Set At $1.71
4 ? Hail Damage May Reach (200,000
9 Resignation Of Third Policeman
Stin Some Members Of Town
Council \
16 ? District Court Gets Franklin
School Plans \ .
18 - Groups Form Private Schools
23 ? Council Raises Pay Of Town Em
ployees
25 ? County To Get Geodetic Surrey
30 ? Hosiery Mill Plans To Locate At
Franklinton
August
1 - Aycock School Head Named
Louisburg Principal
6 ? Court Orders Total Integration
This Fall
8 - Board Files Petition For Stay Of
Court Order
15 ? Board Attorneys To Meet With
Judge Butler
20 - Teachers Notified To Report Aug.
28
22 -School Officials Await District
Court Decision
27 - Fourth Circuit Denies Stay, Move
Hearing To Octobei
29 ? Zones, Schools. Teachers Assign
ments Announced
cants or a work shirt for 39 centa
Indeed prosperity was sohie#here
around the corner
_ - The County Commiiaioners met
that year In December to cut the pay
' of the SherifT. the Register of Deeds
and the Clerk of Court. twenty fWe
percent. Latar they asked the General
Assembly to enact legislation allowing
this to be done. And fresh ha ma were
selling for 12 cent* a pound. Turkeys
and chickens or even oranges were not
"Wad la grocery ada. The State Ad
visory Budget Commission was recom
wndlat to the 1933 General At
sembly that salaries of state em
ployees, including teachers, be cut and
that road and school programs be
curtailed.
"All over fhe country '', the
Timet editor wrote, "people are
\ (earning how to live without ..
September
3 - Schools, Public And ? Private, To
Open Monday *'.
i$ ? Board Wrestles With School Open- "
ing Problems Until 2 A.M.
10 - Fountain Investigates Franklin
/ -?> School Situation
12 - Sen. Enrin Blasts Attorney Gen
eral's Uk Of "National Police
Force" Here
17 Raleigh Newspaper Hits Speed's
N Road Interest
19 - Board Of Education's Tuition
Policy Criticized
24 Questions Raised Over Attack On
Franklin School Tuition - ?
26 - Reld Not Instructor At State Uni
versity |
October -
. 1 - Murray To Get Outside Jurors
3 - Commissioners Approve Purchase
? _ Of Land For Education Building
10 - Franklin School Case Heard In
Richmond
T5 ? Two Youths Killed In Saturday
Crash
17 - FBI Back In Franklin County
Investigating School Operation
22 - Accountant's Avistant Testifies
As Murray Trial Enters Second
Inflation
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money. That it the way our
primitive ancestor t lived-by
barter. "
On March 10, 1933 the new Presi
dent, Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
closed the banks. Seven days later, The
' Timet reported that "new confidence
had been built" in the country.
And the editor wrote: "Our coun- .
try is now paying the price of cheap
money snd easy credit during the
boom days. That is all that lies at the
bottom of our present difficult fi
nancial status."
the U.S. Press Association, aid in Its
December Issue: "Inflation can, after
all, bring the ame kind at torment to
our land." That inflation has hit the
, land most surely cannot be denied.
That torment may follow could be Just -
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Washington, D. C. . .This
week marks new beginnings
in your government both at
the state and national levels.
On the same dates, our
new governor formally takes
Week
24 -Murray Can May Go To Jury
Today
29 - Murray Attorneys File Appeal
Following Conviction
November
5 - Voters Turning Out In Record
Numbers
7 - Wallace, Scott Carry Franklin
County
14 ? NLRB Affirms Ruling In Sports
wear Appeal
19 - Friends Of Murray To Petition
Court
21 -College Combines Homecoming,
Alumni Day
26 - Thugs Hit Three Local Businesses
28 - New Court System Goes Into Ef
fect Monday
December
10 - Fourth Circuit Court Upholds Dis
trict Court Ruling In Franklin
* School Case
12 - Road Project Not Approved
17 - Smith Nam^d Man Of The Year
19 - Commissioners Accept Court
house
24 - Commissioners Give Industrial .
Committment
SI Loulsburg Tobacconist. Stoter-In
Law Killed In Wake County Crash
The Marcu, 1933 issue of The
Franklin Times carried a cartoon
showing the devil-wearing a banner
saying "Fear"~choking an American. . -
Fear Itself was the only thing we had
to fear back thfn according to Presi
dent Roosevelt
An ad In The Times cried: "Satur
day April 1st Is positively the last day
of the sale of bankrupt
stock". An ad on April 4th said: -
"Your old friend '
is now in New York
purchasing brand new and up-to-date
nwliimli* and will roopfn ?oon
Three days later, he did. The country
was on Its way back.
Or was It on its way to $6,000
automobiles. $1.16 steak and 65 cent
cheeef? Inflation or depression, if you
doot have the money . . . It's torment
Draft ft
College Grads
Waahlngton ? Sine*
graduate student! have
become eligible for Induction
laat July, the percentage of
draft*** ha* more .than
tripled. The Department of
D?t*na* Mtimates that 16
percent of th* drafted men
from July through October
wan eoflkge graduate*.
Vietnam And Paris
Th* United SUte* ha*
Inducted South Vietnam to
Join Pari* talk* by (trongty
rMfOrmlng It* promlan to
mate no com prom l*e? to the
Communltta that would
Imperil th* Integrity and
Independence of th* Silgon
Hit NILVAI KK K?l BNAL
AH ????>?? i tmt't* If?
NMn> in h?'i fr^?*
'Something new has been added to your territory.'
nriffimiT audi
From Th* Office Of
Congressman Fountain
New Beginnings
office in Raleigh and the 91st
Confess, beginning the 181st
year/of constitutional govern
mem in our nation, is sworn
in here in Washington.
The fact that these events
take place at the same time is
a little unfortunate to 'me
personally because I will not
be able to be present to see
Bob Scott begin his term as
North Carolina's chief ex
ecutive. I am sure this will be
the feeling of other members
of the North Carolina con
gressional delegation also.
Although the new -presi
dent does not take office for
almost three weeks. Congress
will be busy as it usually is
when a new Congress is or
ganized.
Even before we take the
oath of office, both major
parties will have met in
caucus to choose candidates
for various House offices such
as speaker and clerk, to dis
cus* committee assignments
and other pending House
business. '?
While waiting for the
Nixon administration to take
over, we will receive the pro
posed budget for the year
beginning July 1 from the
outgoing Johnson Adminis
tration.
Although there has been
no formal word from the
White House, there is some
speculation here that the new
budget will be a-"tlght" one
and that a small surplus might
actually be shown in the bud
get for the current fiscal year.
Thus, Congrats will have
had a chance to organize it
self for business and will have
1iad a look at proposed spend
ing for the new fiscal year.
The final budget, of course,
depends on just how much '
Congress appropriates for
various purposes. ?
During my recent tour of
the Second District, many of
you wondered what to expect
from the new administration.
This was and stBI is a difficult
question to ansyvr at this
time*
ror instance. I nave
known the new secretary of
Defense, Rep. Melvln Laird of
Wiaconain, since we both
cam to Confreas in 1953.
And, although I have known
him a* a Congressman and
not ai a departmental admin
istrator. he ha* served In po
sitions of leadership in his
party and on the House Ap
propriations Committee, es
pecially in the fields of de
fense and health, education
and welfare.
One of the most Important
departments to our area ia the
Apiculture Department. Mr.
Nixon's choice to head this
department. President Clif
ford Hardin of the Unhmstty
of Nebraska. Is not widely
known in North Carolina nor
la his outlook concerning the
baric commodities we prow.
Basically, these and Other
cabinet memben^leaifnate
and other appointees to .
policy making positions ap
pear to hare the basic quallfl
cations for serving at a, high
level. Only time will tell, of
course, and it is the quality of
'their service which counts,
not just their individual back
grounds.
I believe most Americans
at the present time are more
concerned with the progress
of our country than with the
success of any particular
political party" or individual.
It is in this spirit that I
believe most of us stand
ready to give the new admin
istration a chance to prove
'itself. ? ?
In any event. I plan to do
what I always have done in
supporting the administration
when I feel it Is right and
opposing it when I think it is
wrong.
Come To Think Of It -
^ By Frank Count
New Year's Day aia't the best time in the world to write a
column. Some nut always wants to have a party on New Year*!/
Eve and some other nuts always go to it. It's the American
way and some nuts suffer a mite for the doing on the next
morn. Let's face it. partying ain't one of my strong points.
After listening to that long haired juvenile blow his brains
out on that shiny horn most ol
the night . . , some light-Angered
neighbor decided to blast stumps
all night. The Normandy landing
was quiet compared to my
neighborhood . . . and who ever
hear of celebrating New Year's
at 3 o'clock in the morning?
1 I ain't miite sure yet whether
or not I have survived. But in
case I do, I'm gonna make me
some New Year's resolutions. I
ain't gonna keep them . . . but I
sure, granny, am gonna make
them.
I, Franklin (No Middle Name)
. Count do hereby and herewith make and proclaim the
following resolutions on this .the very first day of 1969 and
you can feel free to take any or all as your very own:
1 resolute to become 39 years old this year .<*. again.
I also resolute to continue dying my hair . what's left of
it
? ? , \
I ain't gonna shine .my shoes this year . . . just like I didn't
shine them last year.
I'm gonna a try real hard to eat as much as I been
( eating . . . but I ain't gonna gain no weight. -
If Washington don't take their hands off my money, I'm
gonna take Washington's picture off it.
I'm gonna live within my income (and starve to death). This . -
way I won't have as many worries. .. and I won't have as ?
many anything eises either. , "
I'm gonna remember that quiet people ain't the only ones
who ain't got nothing to say.
I am also gonna resolve to remember that if her lips are on
fire and she trembles in my arms that she's probably got
malaria.
And I will remember that only a hankerchief maker wants
people to stick their noses in his business.
I will also try to concentrate and look folks in the eye. In
this day of miniskirts, bikinis and lo* cut gowns . . . it ain't
gonna be ?asy. -
And I'm -gonna keep smiling. It makes everybody wonder
what I've been up to.
And I will join in some of the demonstrations. When they
holler to get rid of socialism, communism. and anarchism .
I'm gonna tell 'em to lets throw out rheumatism, too.
V
And I ain't gonna tell nobody I'm boss at my house. They'd
think I'd lie about other things, too.
But, 1 am going to resolve to be kinder to the little woman.
'Cau9e until a husband can get alimony by crossing his legs and
winking at the judge, there ain't noequai rights.
FOR CAR BUYERS WHO HATE TO
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MONTEGO ? Lincoln-Mercury leads the way with
a grebt new team of intermediates. Hardtops.
sedans, a station wagon and a convertible ... a
full line of $ars with the widest possible optional
equipment combination. In our line of car's you
don't have to pay extra for luxury ? it's built in
For example, the heaotifol
car shown above sells for
only $11.00 more thao the
Chevrolet Chevelle 300*
on
r?t?ll prk? for comparably ?qulp(>?d
BUY FROM STOCK AND SAVE. SEE YOUR MERCURY MAN
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