THE YANCEY RECORD THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1965 THE YANCEY RECORD EfetshUaked July, IMS ' •• t—fc. TRHNA P. POX, Editor & Publisher .. 'iHTJRMAN 1,.' BROWN, Slop Manager PUBLISHES) EVERY THURSDAY BY YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY . Second Class Postage Paid at Burnsville, N. Q, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1965 NUMBER TWENTY-ONE SUBSCRIPTION rates $2.56 PER YEAL MaterialjAbundance Is Not Enough r Pram: Industrial News Review As always, with the year’s end ing, there wiais a' flood of reports ‘ oh' what' had happened in this na tion and the world along with all manner of forecasts of things to come; Many of these summaries dealt w t)h the progress of the U. S. eco nomy during montentoois 1964. In area -after area, industry after In dustry, there were notable gains, some of truly spectacular dimen sions. Records fell like tenpins. All in all, • despite certain dark spots, the system we' call free en terprise brilliantly demonstrated its.astonishing - strength, vigor, purposefulness-, and imlag oration. And-, the material results were fully shared by the many, not just a few. In .sum, the system demon-1 strated once agai. and perhaps] more effectively than ever before, its superiority over any yet devis ed by man.. Other backward looks concerned themselves with a world situation in which question mark is piled up on-question mark, and confusion compounds - confusion. It is very certain that reappraisals of our policy have now become unavoid • able—-toward Asia, Europe, Latin America, almost everywhere. Par reaching changes took place in the world during, the 12-brief months of the year. Powerful as we are, rich as we are as a/ nation,! well meaning as. we may be. there is! no room for complacency. And that can be said of our do mestic .affairs as well as our pos ture in the larger.world. It Is very easy, When incomes are high, the standard of living is at a peak, STRENGTHEN AMERICA'S HACt POWMI &^S>;SAV?NGS : . • . c ' ■■ . . }- ... ■ 7 ' '*s* ‘ • v . • .* •* ~. / .k. - Are You . t i Properly Covered • Vhi • ■ ■ ' V i . _ in Case of Accident? — ——— i r‘ * v. ■ . ./ You should check now and see if the Insurance you carry is adequate, or if you are prop * •-* 1 — - • j.. ( erly covered in case of accident. We stand ready to help you. Burnsville Insurance Agency PHONE 68»48U BURNSVILLE, N. C. V V • • ' •or ' * and we have reached an astonish ing degree of material well-being, j to became complacent 'and to let j values become warped and atro- j phied. The point is that material abun- 1 dance is not enough. It is import- j ant—vastly so. But tfie long-run strength of a people cannot be measured just in terms of goods 1 and services. It must be measured, I rather, in what goes on within our hearts and minds. If human free dom, here or anywhere, is to be perpetuated it must continually be fought for. The weapons are many -self-reliance, a sense of Individ ual Responsibility* a concept of duty that Iras nothing to do with material advantage, and spiritual I belief. These, among others, are I eternal verities. ' It may be hard to remember and to act on this in an era in whi ch everything is huge—government, business and industry,the- labor I organizations, the farm > groups. The individual, some may think, is dwarfed by the forces that sur round his life. And so he Will be if he takes that attitude. The very conditions of today present the in dividual with his greatest chall enge. He. in the mass, decides what his nation shall be like. He in the mass, decides, for example, whether he is to retain the dignity and the independence that the founders bequeathed to him or whether he is to supinely accept a welfare state in which he can only be a statistic whose rights and liberties grow ever fewer. We need to constantly remem ber and reaffirm those principles and virtues which built this nation, during years in which living was incredibly hard and the price paid for freedom was blood and travail. Thomas Jefferson wrote long ago, “The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.” We have the gift—now it is up to us to keep it -intact. Letter to The Editor Apt. 6-J 38 Front Street v k3B Front Street Binghamton, N. Y. Mrs. Trena Fox, Editor The Yancey Record Burnsville, N. C, Dear Mrs. Fox: I will give you our heme address, to which the Record may be sent 1 rather than to the*"office address, which I gave you when we came to Bnghamton last spring). A It was with greot interest that we read tn the Dec. 17 issue, re ceived this week, that the Rev. O. Lester Brown is the author of the page for-Jam 28 in THE UPPER ROOM. We recall him well as the pa tor cf H ggins Memorial Church at the time we left Burnsville. What made that news item of spec ial interest to us. besides that fact, is that the page for Feb. 8 id"the same devotional booklet was writ ten by me. I think your readers would be interested in this coinci dence namely, that two medita tions in the same issue of THE UPPER ROOM (only eleven days apart) were written by “alumni’’ of Higgins Memorial Church. In view of the fact that among the contributors to the booklet are oersons from every part of the world, this is quite noteworthy, Dr. Cameron F. Mcßae Farm Experts Reach AIS Time High U. S. agricultural exports in fiscal year 1963-64 reached an all time record, according to a re cent report by the USDA. Value totaled s6ll billion, 26 percent above the previous year’s $5.1 billion. Volume was 20 percent over the previous year’s record. The export value was equivalent to 16 percent of the $36.9 cash re ceipts from farm marketing in 1963. The report shows that the output of 80 million acres of U. S. cropland moved abroad in 1963-64. which meant that 1 out of every 4 harvested acres produced for export. The export market provid ed a market for three-fourths of U. S. farmers wheat productions; two-thirds of the rice; three-fifths of the nonfat dry milk, half of the dry edible peas; over two-fifths of the,tallow, soybeans and hops; a third of the cotton rye, and prunes; around a fourth of the lard, dried whole milk, and to bacco and a fifth of the raisins, dry edible beans,, and cottonseed: and one-sixth of the grain sorg hums and barley. The United States is the world’s largest exporter of farm products. | U. S. farmers in 1964 supplied over one-fifths of the world’s agricul tural exports. U. S. agricultural exports in 1963-64 required financ ing, inland transportation, storage, and ocean transportation for 55 million long tons of a ’ cargo, enough to fill over 1.5 million freight cars of 5,500 cargo . ships. In moving these exports, an aver age of 15 shiploads departed each day. Os the $B.l billion of U. S. Agricultural exports in 1963-64, a record of $4.5 trillion were com mercial sales for dollars and $1.6 billion moved under P. L. 43Q and AD Programs (foreign currency sales, donations, barter and long term supply and dollar credit sales.) Moreover, so that, products such as wheat, wheat flour, cotton, rice, nonfat dry m'lk. butter, but teroil, flaxseed, .linseed oil, and some tobacco .could complete in world markets, the Commodity Credit Ccrporat on made exports payments to exporters -in cash or in kind and sold, stocks at less thaii domestic prices. An estimated $2.3 billion benefited from such export payment assistance; $1.4 billion as commercial sales for dol lars and $0.9 billion under Govern ment-financed * export programs. Th : s export assistace in the form of export payments and' sales below domestic prices is estimated at i . about SBOO million. (Ths amount is not included in the value of ag ricultural exports). Strawberry Plants Available To Farmers And 4-H’ers Again this year .the County -Ex tension Off'ce is taking orders for straw ben y * plants' for farmers, , 4-H Club members, and others who I are -interested in growing straw berries for homo use or commer cial production. The strawberry plants will be ftftftOO IN WM WtTES,IOWA,fI full-grown wpis sucked imt& A 2. GALLON GLASS 3V® WrtPouT IMriußy ;■ W&W?! IVS MOT A FISHT, But Thu ACTUAL call letters of broadcasting - stations IN THE UNITED STATES U! j GM C Trucks | 1965 i ton Fender side Pick-up Big Heater & Defroster ' Any Color Rear Bumper 6 cyl. 140 H. P. 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