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The PwMittod l?*ry Times m of to**. (mi Your Award Winning County Newspaper LOCAL EDITORIAL COMMENT Slip Showing The Democratic Party is likened to the stylish lady whose slip has been showing all day. She doesn't find it out until she gets home and her husband has the nerve to tell her. North Carolina's personable-and sometimes plain spoken- Democratic Party Executive Director Chuck Bar bour has played the part, in recent days, of the courageous husband. In no uncertain terms, Barbour has told the national crowd what everybody else has been knowing for quite some time. The party's slip is showing and rf it doesn't adjust the straps pretty soon, it's going to face disaster. Flushed with the synthetic accep tance of aft the liberal shenanigans under the Johnson Administration and with the bag still over the don key's head, following blindly behind an even more liberal-minded Hubert Humphrey the Democratic Party -it seems to us -should have learned by defeat. Whatever, National Party Chair man, Sen. Fred Harris of Oklahoma hopes to achieve by his more-liberal than-thou approach to party pickles he is in for a rude awakening. He can write off the South -including Tarhee lia -and he can just take a reading of the 1968 election returns. There'll be np need to go through the emotions emocrstic campaign for national Sen. Harris and other bigwigs of tl e party have lived in the ivory tower o Washington liberalism so long, their e eballs have become dimmed to the li |ht that shirtes across the ttorizon. G ranted thitpVoters breath ohly at the direction of Washington politicians, there are those who have again and again pointed out that the natives are growing restless. A peek at George Wallace's vote- if Senator Harris hasn't the stomache for Richard Nixon's should tell it louder than even friend Barbour. This may come as a sudden and intolerable shock to those with blind ers, but liberalism has about had it The heyday of the Johnson giveaway programs and the Kennedy charm have- like the dinosaur, bigness and all -passed away. Even those sincere voters who fell to the charisma of John Kennedy and were blinded to the chameleon charac ter of Lyndon Johnson, discovered after seven years, that Hubert Hump hrey was more of the same. The _ country--the South included~is tired of being told that the liberals have all the answers. Surprisingly, a number of folks are finding out they don't. North Carol ina- until driven out of the national camp last year-was as Democratic as any state in the Union. Folks voted for people they never heard of just because they ran as Democrats. Incumbents stayed in of fice for life and most just laughed off Republican opposition. Not any mora No, sir. Not any more. If Senator Harris and other nation al Democrats didn't hear the word last November it is unlikely he or they will hear now, but Chuck Barbour is giving them some very sound advice. They ought to listen befwa the Democratic Party becomes compltfely undressed. OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE ?Hi JOHN J. SYNONl When you were little, did you ever play "wishing"? I did. All the time. Formally, fitting in a circle, outwiihing the leu imaginative; and In formally, just In my head. And not only when I was little. I remember when I began shaving and wearing long pants, how I wished I had a girl. And I am still at the wish ing business, though, these halting years, I dont engage In the sport as often as once I did. But when I do wish, now, 1 come down hard. . Like today. It's Monday and around my feet are 50, maybe 75 weekly newspap ers, all arrived today. There will be as many more tomor row and then they will trickle off until by Friday tha mail will bring but a delinquent six, maybe 10. All run Synon. I go through them, con fessedly, to aee how and how often they play the column. And I can tell you, I am patifled ? thank you, one and all ? for the position milords accord thia pillar of wisdom. But what I wanted to say was this: If I had my days to fo over, neither United Press nor a half-dozen dailies I could name would lure this one Into their net. No, sir. By hook or by crook ? probably the latter ? I would get me a weekly, boy, and let the rest of the world go by. That's my wish for today. Lordy, how I wish I were the one-a-week publishing Pooh Bah of a community, say, of ' 10,000. Me and my circula tion of 4,000. That's Ihrtng. Grinning up at me from . the top of the heap Is Bob Plowden's PrattviUe, Alaba ma, Sun. And next to It I see the spunky sheet Roy Eth ridge publishes. The Free Prut of Anderson, S. C. (Monday is deep-South day at the poet office, I guess. L_ J. , Shuffle the pile a mite and there it a (tack of Nick Mur ray 'i ray 'a venture*..,, four, five, lix, seven of them. The one on top it the Poncha toula. La., New Herald, with Synon sharing Page One with Nick'a own mug shot. Glory be, how they run on. Every last one of them doing the thing I should have been doing these frittered SO years. Well, It's not to be; I know that. But no harm done. Aa I say, I am just wishing, though "bemoaning" seems the bat ter word. And it it no vagrant thing, this particular wish of mine, not aa my wiahea war* va grant in the long ago. Thia wish Is the eaaence, what I have come to know as the highest calling: To serve a community that is not so large as to be beyond one's comprehenaion; to fight tor one's own people; to rejoice as they rejoice, and sorrow with them, too. Even to scrape, as most weekly edi tors do scrape, to pay the The Times IfTO ftTfca Tfc. Franklin 71m?. Inc mc I ?UMOUrnOff BATH ? Y?r, |U4;?1 MW0Mr OwT??.$? SO Mi printer*, tne newsprint 1 people, and the Installment on the press. That's living. Some of my weakly-editor Mends know I lire on a point of land that overlooks Vir ginia's Chesapeake Bay. My home to a quiet place where Rah, dan, pheasant, quail, mocking birds, and jack rab bita abound. Jack rsbblta or bunny rabbits, I dont know the difference And there are thoee among my Ink-stained friends who think my rural home quite dandy and will wonder have I taken lee re of my senaaa, writing ao of the weekly field, of what they call "hard scrabble". For doing so, I will frt a few who-you-kiddtng notes but I will disdainfully to* them aside. I can enjoy an occasional aberration If I plsaae. It's no skin off their thin noses. ' All I'm saying la if I had to to do on again, I'd be on the receiving end of these dispatches Taxes (Continued from Paga 1)* teak* full. All. bowtm, I* not yd I Thoughtful texpayan cm ?n bwt tha MHm. Clganttas *nd i drinks- -tmllkt pa-can ba (tend. J ttmty cants can stfl bf araad on a carton of eiprattaa purchaatd bd MKt Wtdnaaday and al> canta can ?vad on tack aarton of aqfl drinks. Mwrhintl will ba raqulrad to | tha taxaa on all ctfsrattas and i drinki on band at th*c|oaa of buab Tuaaday. Tha customr will not pay tha I is ?ueb whan ha makaa hta purcbai Hi*t la. tM <MWar ?? not ring api prtaa of tha Item gat a subtotal i idd tax. Tha tax win ba paid to I rtata by tha distributors Thh coat 1 W paaad on to tha consumer. 1 .Wolf at the door 'Zzohxso>m~ ^itttUMoao cmiv u**>? WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING Overpaid, Underpaid, Who? The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer Life magazine has uncovered no treat sandal in Aiken County, S. C., >ut the facts it printed about highway and transactions tarnta Sen. Strom rhurmond's halo considerably. Thurmond is more than merely self ighteous when it comes to the ethics )f other public servants. Now it has >een shown that he has feet of clay when it comes to getting top dollar from government once the right op portunity it at hand. No violation of law was involved when Thurmond and his former law partner. Federal Judge Charles E. jimons, Jr., got $492 an acre for 66 teres of land condemned for. the instruction of an interstate highway. Dnly $32,472 changed hands. But here's the rub. The Thurmond Simmons land was independently ippraised at a high of $192 and a low >f $130 an acre. Other less prominent andowners received an average of (200 an acre for their holdings in the tame general area. Thurmond and Simons contend :heir land was a prime industrial site :hat would have brought between (50,000 and $75,000 in a private sale. This value is disputed by appraisers vhose opinions were solicited by Life. \nd other facts in the case suggest itrongly that the two men traded on :heir prominence in public life to get no re than twice the amount paid to ess influential property owners. The record, to the degree that it is pelted out by the magazine, bears this >ut. Negotiation were carried on hrough the South Carolina Highway )epartment, although the U. S. iureau of Roads pays 90 per cent of he cost for Interstate highway land. Vhen Thurmond and Simons rejected'' he state's offer of $200 an acre, the tate arrived at $750 an acre. It did so ifter weighing its chances with a jury n a possible civil action against Thur nond and Simons in Aiken County. The Bureau of Roads balked at >750 but agreed to settle at $492 an ere before the case want to trial. Legal all the wey? Yes. But should ve expect something more from a Jnited States senator and a federal Lidge than a routine squeeze play on hair state and federal governments? ? t ? ? new in crowd price of cigarettes and ?oft drinki wtll than become iub)ect to Ml another and mora familar bug-a o?t. boo, tha aalaa tax. yat Apln taking simple arithmetic, a 10ft houaawlfe purchasing a carton of cig tad srettes and two carton* of ioft drinki ach at today's price pays 10 cent* salee 'ore tax. Next weak. If ihe buy? them b, together, tfie wtll pay. 11 cents aalaa tax. Bought sepsratsly, shell pay 12 >?y oenta. ioft Fortunately, the customer doesnt lea hare to trouble hlmaalf with tbeae ? technic allttea The merchants, the dis tu tributors and the State Department of m Revenue wtll handle thaee little ehorea. th* All the forma^ will be filed out and lD(] fled by them. All the taxpayer has to Uk do Is what he does bast-pay the tax. rill There '? an old saylng-not generally <h. In ua* nowadayi- that suns up the % We certainly should. Unless there were some strikingly different characteristics of their land from that of adjoining property owners, Thurmond and Simons were overpaid because of who they were and what they and their legal counsel could wring out of that fact. If they were not overpaid, then Thurmond's fellow South Carolinians who settled for $200 an acre got it in the neck. Leaving aside for the moment Judge Simons' ownership intarectt til postoffices leased to the federal gov ernment, which is another, quite dif ferent question one would expect men of this prominence and reputation in the government not to put the tax payers over this kind of barrel. No Substitute The Ashboro (N.C.) Courier-Tribune Rumors persist of financial diffi culties facing many publications. When such respected institutions as the late Saturday Evening Post find it impossible to make both ends meet, people cannot be blamed for wonder ing if the written word is to become a thing of the past. One authority gives an encouraging answer to the contrary so far as newspapers are concerned. The dean of the school of journa lism of a large university observed that, "Only the newspaper, of all the news media today, can fully live up to the challenge of providing the people with the news they are searching for . . . Nobody can fight City Hall - if City Hall has to be fought - like a crusading city editor. Nobody knows wtjere the body is buried like a good reporter. Nobody can interpret the . news in meaningful fashion like a good editorial writer. Nobody can be closer to understanding the impact of the news on the people of the com munity than a working publisher who is part of the life of that community." , The archives of the local newspaper constitute the only printed record of community life. Learning to reed is a useful achievement- and will remain so. taxpayer 'i best chance* Kipling wrote it. k "Iter it just aa you "re a mind Jo, " but -and here he take* command. For whoever pays the turn old Mua' Hobden owns the land." So, If you're not orerjoyed next Wednesday when he cashier walta patiently for y<ui to dole out a little more of your Wt) -earned cash, re member It's us' Hobden" who own* the land-snd It's the tax pay ar who own* the rote. ASCS (Continued from Fife 1) > man, Oeorfe O. Foetsr, Member, Gar ner Dement, First Alternate, L. S. Neal, Second Alternate Hurls: Raeford Baker, Chairman, Bobby Land, Vice-chairman, Harold 'COME TO THINK OF IT..." by frank count Y'all don't know "Fuzzy" Fletcher. I ain't never diacuMtfl him with you in this column. I ain't never discussed him with you anywhere. Fact is, I aint never discussed "Fuzzy" at all. "Fuzzy" left this section a long timfe ago. He come back last week. He's retired now. I dont know why and I 'dont know from what, but he says he's retired. The little woman says she heard he got fired but I dont put much stock in anything the little woman hear*. I dont put much stock in any thing she tells either. "Fuzzy" been up North. He talks like Melvin Smudge did that time he got lost in Norlina and had to stay overnight. I cant understand exactly everything "Fuzzy" says but I like to hear him talk. Sometime* he sounds like his old self and when he remembers he sound* like a boy 1 usta know in service. He starved to death. Nobody could ever tell what he waa trying to say. We figured after it was too late that he was saying he was hungry. I k no wed that first night "Fuzzy" showed up at the store, he wont going to make it big with the boys. He started o(Y trying to tell all his experiences since he left and how great New York was. Right off, Z eke asked him why he didnt stay up there. Then "Fuzzy" said he'd always wanted to come back to the land of his boyhood and Rob told him right off he was nuts. We did find out, though, that "Fuzzy" worked in soma kind of government job up north. This didnt set too good with Creech Goosh. His government w el (are check hadnt come. Creech had even took the flag out Of his window. H* even talked of becoming a Republican if his checks didnt gat better. We figured Creech was just joshing. He's right patriotic. He even visited a Army base a few years back when they was having open house. He said he saluted the officers, but I aint sure Creech knowed a officer when he seen one. I think "Fuzzy's" main mistake was when he left his hair long when he comeback. He was a swinger up noirth to hear him tell it, but he wont doing ao good down here. Zeke ? offered to shear him, but It's been so long sine* ke knowed what you shear, "Fuzzy" backed tfut. I After he left, we felt sorry for him. I told the boys wont no sense in making Fuzzy feel bad. He'd come back ao he could spend his last days with the fellows he growed up with and we ought to make him feel at home. Moat of them agreed, but they thought there ought to be come changes made in Fuzzy. I was one of them agreeing to that. I was elected a committee of one to go talk to Fuzzy. The store boys love to point committees and I always git caught. They say I got the most community spirit just because I keep my lawn mowed. When I come up, I seen Fuzzy setting on his front steps holding his head in his hands. It was still stuck on his neck, a course. I just wrote it that way. Thought you'd git a chuckle out of It. "Fuzzy", I said, "Whatcha doing setting there looking io down and out and htfw come you breathing so hard. How come you tucking is so strong?" It took him awhile before he'd stop his curious breathing and answer me. "Frank", he said, "I'm smelling". Well, he didnt have to draw me no picture of that. I could tall be was smelling when I left the store. "To tell you the truth, Frank, I ain't really smelling. I'm remembering smells. That's what I'm doing, Frank. Remem bering smells." He kept on talking. "Flank", he Aid, "I can remember how a lightning bug use to smell when we'd put it in a hot jar. And remember how a new pair of overalls smelled, Frank? And ? kettle steaming on the stove or a new fielder's glove just bean oiled; or a new oil cloth on the table or tobacco Inrthe barn. Remember, Frank, how ink use to smell when it come in a bottle and the old sticky fly paper? Remember the smell of a just fired shotgun, Frank, on a cold winter day In the woodi and how It use to smell on the farm after a summer's rain? And, Frank, remember how them mustard plasters use to smell. Mm, I can remember. And remember them old wool bathing suits when they was wet, Frank? "Yeah, Frank. I just been setting here remembering smelts and it shore Is good to be home." Yeah, I though, and It's good to have you. Fuzzy. Itara' alnt nothing a committee ought to change sbout you. Murphy, Member Sidney Strickland, First Alternate, J. H. Floyd, Second Alternate. Hayearllle: W. D. Foster, Chairman, Staley T. Ayacue, Vice-chairman, Charles T. Eavea, Member, WIBIam E. Aycock, Flrat Alternate, Richard Q. Ayacue, Second Alternate. Loukburg: Ruasell Nelma, Chair man, Wilbur Southall, Vice-chairman, H. Walton Hayes, Member, Elmo May, Flrat Alternate, Ed. C. Rogers, Second Alternate. Sandy Creek: H. T. Edward*. Chair man, 0. F. Tharrlngton, Vice-chair man, J. C. Tharrlngton, Member, E. N. Perdue, Fbat Alternate, J. B. Marshall, Second Alternate. Young srille Bland J. Hill, Chair man, Clifton HID, Vice-chairman, Ray mond S. Keith, Member, A1 De Porter, Fbat Alternate. Frank Bowling, Se cond Alternate. Borman's Visit Moacow ? U. S. Aatronaut Frank Barman ended hi* eight day tour of the Soviet Union at a farewell reception after meeting with aome of Ruaria'a top apace acientista. Borman said at the reception that his meeting wen "very encouraging and beneflcW when we think of coopera tion in tpece." Humphrey I Senate Washington - Former Vice Preaident Hubert Humphrey Mid he b considering running to r the Senate In MlnnnoU next year Since Senator Gu ?ene McCarthy, (D-MInn) mM he will not nan for reelection.
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