8^ WTH WELLS Lett summer Joe had trouble with a rear tractor tire. What " happened I'm not aure, but he took It to Koonce In Klnston for repair. The tractor has not been used as much in the last six months or so as he would have liked, but It has been used some. Last week the same rear tire went flat again. This time he took it to Flakes Tire Ser vice in Clinton for repair. They took it off the wheel, drained out the water, took out the in ner tube and also removed a pop bottle! ? ? ? ? Have you noticed the parking lot on the East side of the Court House? Paving is like the old saying about makeup oo homely girls, it surely does help. * ? ? tf the lovely l^ral Christ mas arrangements displayed by Warsaw florist recently, are any Indication, I am sure this will be one of the prettiest Christmases yet. Our boss lady came in Tuesday wearing a basic black dress which was enchante d by a lovely holiday decoration, a green rose nested in silver ribbon. Though very simple It was a work of art. ? ? ? ? "Hie Triangle i?:Mng Station in Kenansvllle has op> :"d and closed so many times maty peo ple just discounted its ex istence. Well, it is open again, and I venture to say this time on a permanent basis. My friend and neighbor. DeLeon Qulnn, is the new proprietor and ser vice is his specialty. He has had many years experience, and is a real good operator. I predict he will be there, open many long hours each day. Thanks! P. O. Box 624 Aberdeen. N. C. 28315 November 30, 1967 Dear Editor: On Friday, November 24th, I was involved in an accident Just outside of Kenansvllle, and I would like to express my appreciation to all of .the people , who helped me following the accident. If you wiUplaase print the following note In the npact earliest edition of the "Duplin Letters Editor's Note: The following poem was seat to The Duplin Times office by Cor dell John son. son of Mr. ?id Mrs. Wil lard Johnson of Kenansvtlle. Cordell Is with the Medical Staff in Viet Nam.) LETTERS FROM HOME There's only one thing which can brighten our day; That's a letter from home, so far far away. As we open each letter, pack ace or card. It lightens our load, and makes it less hard. The news from back home is always good news; To hear of our loved ones, family and friends. Makes us more thankful of serving for them; And helps us to know we'll serve to the end. Each day when mail call comes around, We anxiously wait to see what we'll get. Everyone is hoping and thinking of course. That certainly their loved ones didn't forget. There's always a few who seem to get none. Hoping tomorrow will bring at least one. It seems like suchasmallfavor to ask; Don't you remember me, as you did in the past? As we write home, we are led to believe. That our families take pride in our serving this land. There's very little glory in fighting a war; But what we're to win is worth serving for. So as you sit down at the end of the day. Write just one letter to a friend far away. It brightens his day, and makes him fell better, To know that someone has sent him a letter. .* Sp4 Jim Stittleburg HHC 504th Fid. Dpt. Times," I will be very grate ful. I, Diane Melvin. of Aberdeen, N. C? would like to thankevery person who gave me assistance on Friday morning, November 1 24th, when I was involved in an automobile accident about one mile west of Kenansville on Highway N. C. 24. Due to your assistance, I received medical th attention very early and al- fr though I will probably never vc know you by name, I will al- ' ways be grateful for your help. Iu I would especially like to say "Thahk you" to.those persons j. who helped in the following c] I^ ? r . j ECU gets out on the 19th for Christmas. So, you can Imagine how excitement Is beginning to mount. Doors are all adorned In the dorm, with gre# big Santas andgreenery, and such. Thought I'd share a little poem I wrote. It makes Christ mas seem even nearer. Even though the weather is bleak ana bare, A feeling of Christmas fills the sir. Little bells ringing, Carolers singing. Make us glaathat Christmas is near. Snowflakes falling all over town, Friends and family coming down Presents from kin. Fruitcake and gin. Make us glad tnat Christmas is near. Why spread the bright happy tidings of cheer? Why Is this season the best oi tne year? Why be so jolly? Why gather holly? Because, just because, CHRISTMAS IS NEAR!II Merry Christmas! Carol Ann Tucker ways: The several persons who lift ed the car and the others who pulled roe free. The members of the Rescue Squad who carried me to the hospital and stayed with me until 1 was comfortably placed in a room. The doctor and nurses who gave me skilled attention at the Kenansville Hospital and with out whose aid mv recovery would be more painful and pro longed. Trie State Highway Patrolman who very under standingly and courteously invest is at edthe ac cident. ttae to your kindness. I wish to remember Kenansville as a town where a stranger receives assistance needed, rather than just a place where I had an automobile accident. Very sincerely yours, Miss Diane Melvin Frame A Legend To ipread the Christmas spirit iroughout the house, exchange amed pictures which hang in >ur home through the year for ligious or winter scenes. The Pic ge.and Frame Institute suggests gipod pictures of tr*4itiaq*l,hpli ty jtories or scenes depicting hrfstmas legends. ^ - - ? SENATOR SAM ERVIN ? SAY * WASHINGTON - The British travail over the devaluation of the pound brings somber warming to Americans who up to now have been content to say that financial worries apply to other nations, but not to us. Assurances have been given by our top (iiunftial experts that the dollar corttfpues strong, Dies. AD this calls to rnlmrfhe prophesy made long agobyEng1 land'S poet, Rudyard Kipling,In ?"a literary masterpiece entitled "Gods of the Copybook Head ings". In that poem, Kipling warned that men would suffer if they forsook the gods of wisdom to pay themselves merely for existing in lieu of toiling in the world market. Consider the magnitude of the British tragedy and the road which we are traveling in Ame rica. England was the cradle of American liberty and democra cy. The genius of our free en terprise system came from England. England gave us slan guage. a system oflaws, and the spiritual ideals to build a great nation. During the proud days of England, her ships laden with commerce plied the Seven Seas and the sun never set upon the ?, ' British flag. Then came the day when poli ticians sought votes and pro mised to care for British citi zens from the cradle to the grave. England, who had won two world wars with our help, lost the initiative and her covet rnments have floundered ui the as the greatest traders for ge nerations was eroded by the dulling effects of statism. In the end, an economy was built that could not pay its way in the world market and her credit ranout. ine warning lor us Is Clear. For years, our government has dwelt upon the "new" econo mics and its theories extolling the virtues of deficit financing. Many of these theories were borrowed from the same Eng lish economists who advised the British Government. Nor have we realistically reckoned with the huge Treasury defi cits that we have piled up in recent years. Simply put, there has been more emphasis on "keeping the economy going" than on sound financing. The results have not been hard to find. Deficits caused by Federal spending have caused huge borrowings by our Government. Recently we have had to resort to borrow ing fro m the International Mo netary Fund, ' a Fund that Eng land has been relying upon to protect her currency reserves. This U. S. budget deficit has caused inflation here at home, and has lessened our ability to export our goods in the world trade markets. For some time, we have been unable to balance our deficit trade accounts with other nations. Settlement of these trade ac counts has been a continuing drain upon our gold reserves, one of many concerns in this situation. At the turn of the 20th cen tury, we had to recognize that our once "limitless" conti nental frontier was In fact "li mited"/ We adjusted our think ing to the limits of our land resources. Now we must recog nize that even a wealthy nation has limits to its financial re sources and the means to which it will put them. We cannot continue to disregard the perils which our spending policies are posing for the immediate future and for the decade ahead. This is a problem of crucial importance to every American. The sooner we Impose the ne cessary discipline to correct it, the sooner we will have bolstered our future liberties. Hill Monday night for "M" night services. White fringe beetle found In county. One year old Pine seedlings are being set in many areas of Duplin County at a cost of $4.25 per thousand. Miss Zona Qulnn of Warsaw I.- crowned "Sweetheart of Cobb Dorm" at University of N.C. at Greensboro. 30 Years Ago MINISTERS DESK By: D. E. Parkerson Carboro, N. C. Honorable OrVille L. Free man, U, S. Secretary of /gri culture, told the story recent ly of a group of scientists who had created the ultimate com I outer - a computer equipped for the first time with insight and the potential for abstract reasoning. To test their awe some creation, the scientists asked it the oldest question in the world: "Is there a God?" The machine whirred for a; moment and then brought jferth this omlnoqt aosW)?j: 5lf i jhere ^?sn't before?4dfcas ?^THts " sfory by 'SUBy Freeman is a fairy talf, of cottrse, but it does cctoain a great deal of insight into nor mal everyday ^doings today. Men gtt smarter and smarter , and they are building machines that are smarter than men - at least in regard to some things. If scientists continue to build m achiries with more and more of what compares to human bril liance I hesitate to think of all the implications. Is it possible that our own creations and in ventions, as Secretary Free man's story indicates, nave be come our gods? Is it possible that our lives and our desti nies are being shaped by our dependence on our own me chanical, technological, and scientific inventions? On some college campuses computers are being consulted In the picking of dates for spe cial events. United Press In ternational reported such an event a few months ago where three boys consulted a com puter for the selection of dates. One youth wound up with seven girls and the other two were paired with each other. It was probably the boy who got the seven girls who fed the infor mation into the computer in the first place. Progress in every area of Duplin County to have iron lUhg, thanks to Wallace group. Twelve year old boy, Ernest Williams admits robolng gro cery store near Wallace. Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Brown of Warsaw are complimented on 25th wedding anniversary. Duplin saw its first snow fall of the season Sunday with light snow over most all the county. ^Tjnole Pete From 1 | Chittlin Switch I T . DEAR MISTER EDITOR: Ed Dpollttle ?m reporting to the feller* at the country store Saturday night that be couldn't give this term of the Congress a passing grade. Now that they was gone home to mend their fences, said Ed. he figgered this session would go down in his tory in the minus column. Zeke Grubb was agreed with Ed, but he was of the opinion if things didn't git better in Wash ington they wasn't going to be no history to go down in. Clem Webster of the Great Society was defending the Con gress, said he had saw a report from the Bureau of Labor Sta tistics where a family of four wasn't living the good life of these times if it didn't have ?S, 000 a year to spend. Since Clem aint got but two in his family, Ed couldn't pin him down on these statics, but Ed allowed as how under them figgers, most of the folks in this community tint been living the good life. Ed allowed as how this cut in spending they was bragging about didnt amount to enough to offset them traveling Jun kets our Congressmen would take this winter, along with their wives, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Fer instant, said Ed, we still got 400 Federal hand-out programs run by 180 different Guverament agencies. Bug Hookum reported he was reading the other day where njt have buMwo^lpers outsidr eign affairs and one for the Bug, this piece reported We had a balanced budget all the gears t. ffaransi was TVaialHnnt 11 trl SO 11 Wa 9 M3& Confidential, Mister Editor. I ??????????? in i - ? - - - ? f * dont put much store by Bug's opinion on things. He was so lazy be aint never contributed \ , nothing fer the upkeep of the country. He makes me recollect a story my Pa used to tell. He said he had two Plymouth Bock roosters and one of them was so lazy that when the other one crowed fer daylight he just nod ded his head in approval. But, like Clem Webster was saying at a recent session, them science fellers might come up with a lec trie spark to put to fellers like Bug and be could git to be a wheelhorse in the community. It aint that Bug was tight with . his money, he just never earns enough to git tight with. Josh Clodhopper was the one that was tight with a dollar. The fellers at the store claim here a few year back, when Josh had to have his car towed in and found it was going to cost him $10, he sneaked the door open and put on the brakes. I reckon, Mister Editor, I was about the only one at the coun try store that was perfect. Yours truly Uncle Pets life is needed. No one in his right mind would want to re turn to a day when many of the modern inventions were not present. Those who talk about the "good old days" would not go back to them if you got up a bus load right now. Thank God for scientific progress. Yet the real danger of our inventions is that they might make us lose the beauty and magnificence of God's crea tions and the power of God Himself. An example of what I mean can be found in a story by Marjorie Brophy in "Good Housekeeping" recently. It in volved a little girl, named Ann, who visited her cousin on Cape Cod this past summer. After a morning on the beach, Ann's cousin came in for lunch, proud ly waving a shiny big oyster shell he nad found. "That's not "1? is^oo,'"Isafd*her cousin stoutly, "ft Is Mot,*" fiftllif?. I the Fifth Avertue a&haeoWgist, "It's an ashtray." cause only 350 seats are avail able for each presentation, re servations are required. Each reservation request is confirm ed by return mail and a study ' guide to be used In preparing the calss for their Planetarium visit is included "Star of Bethlehem" begins in Chapel Hill with a pro jected panoramic scene of the university campus. The Plane tarium instructor then shifts the scene to modern day Beth lehem. /ifter time has been run back nearly twenty cen turies through the use of the giant Zeiss sky projector, va rious possibilities are ex- I amlned which might explain what the Wise Men saw as the "star in the East". The Christ mas time favorite concludes with a retelling, through mu sic, narration, lights and ape- j 1, 3, 4 and 8:30 p.m. and SutH> days at 2, 3, 4 and 8:30 p.ni.? but no reservations may be made for these times. Extra ? 3:00 p.m. holiday presentations will be given on November 22, 23, 24; December 26, 27, 28 28 and January 1. The Plane tarium will be closed on De cember 24 and 25 only. Star Of Bethlehem CHAPEL HILL - A. F. Jen zano, Morehead Planetarium Director, announced today that reservations are being accept ed from school groups for the 1967 edition of "Star of Beth lehem". The program Is of fered Monday through Friday at 11 a.m., 1 and 4 p.m. now through December 19tb. Be a real conversation piece... i ^^^oior telephone -?= WflB < : : . ? :::: ..s,. '? I I 1 Year Ago Mrs. Russell Sanderson of Beulaville is installed as pre sident of the Duplin County De mocratic Woman's Club. Long time public servants. D. J. Oates, Arthur Wood, J. D. Grady. Robert (Bob) Marea dy, and R. V. Wells honored in special ceremony. Awards made by Claude Hepler, Chair man Duplin County Board of Elections. Cedar Fork Community re ceives first place honor in SENCland contest. Mr4. Leora O. Powell sworn in as first lady Justice of the peace in Duplin County. 5 Years Ago Moose Lodge operator, Jerry Martin, draws 9600 fine as liquor raid trials begin. Warsaw without water for 36 hour period while lines are flushed and sterilized. Moyer McMillian, Wallace, is appointed head of March of Dimes Drive for 1963. R. V. Wells completes 44 years as Clerk of Superior Court. ?. T< 10 Years Ago Smiths Dry Cleaners installs all new equipment in Kenans ville plant. 682 Baptist gathered in Rose Duplin Times Progress Sentinel Published Weekly by Progress Sentinel, Inc. KenanmrlUe, N. C. 28349 Second Class Postage Paidat I Kenansville, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION PRICES Single Copy lie In Duplin and Adjoining ? Mos.-31.ll 1 Yr.?3341 Outside Of Duplin and Adjoining Counties 3 Mos.-M.12 1 Yr?3444 Obct N. C. 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Plat-topped "?start hill II. Lsak slowly 13. Kind of MXUU "'KB*0 30. Tbfcrew 31. Ohm waiOma up hold It 33. FMlsalok 33. Mlntrtw 34. Swmanllke 33. Well-mad*, a* a auit IT. Knight work 33. Prised ooaan flsh 33. Vipara 33. MR Late 34. Old aaQor 37. Auaale bird k 40. Dtaplaoad 43 SUTsojt William*