• n ' SENATOR fj\ i sam Eivrn janA tfmimmmmm —————- T —■ ■ Washington The campaign! against subscription or so-called pay television has flooded my of fice with communications from North Carolinians in opposition to the proposal. Against Pay TV On the basis of present knowl edge I oppose subscription tele vision. I have stated that 'Con gress ought not to permit the im position of any toll, fee, subscrip tion, or other charge, directly or indirectly, on the general public for the privilege of viewing tele vision programs received over television sets owned by individ ual American citizens. Believing this as I do, I expect to vote for one of the pending measures which will make it plain that the Federal Communications Commission is without legal pow er to authorize the imposition of any such toll, fee, subscription or other charge. Trial Basis Last October, the FCC issued a public notice which said in sub stance that the Communications Act of 1934 gives it authority to grant testfe, on a trial basis, of subscription television. There is 'great interest in this as the fi nancial management and pro gramming, I feel that the present commercial television can per NAAS NOTES By IRENE JORDAN The wives of MABS held their | monthly coffee at the home of' Mrs. C. W. Boggs on Thursday, 1 January 6. Mrs. F. H. Collins served as hostess. The Chapel Choir held a pot luck dinner in honor of Chaplain C. H. Iley, who will preach his! last sermon at the chapel this; coming Sunday, at the home of Lt. and Mrs. W. A. Holmes. M-Sgt. and Mrs. R. G. Smith and family of Camp Lejeune spent the week-end of January 7 { visiting in the home of Capt. and Mrs. J. E. Groover. Mr. and Mrs. William Moore en tertained at a buffet dinner on Sunday, January 9, in their home on Badham Road. Guests pres ent were Col. and Mrs. A. R. Sta cy, Lt. Cdr. and Mrs. D. F. Dal ton, Lt. Col. and Mrs. A. R. Boag. Major and Mrs. G. H. Keller, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Flanigan, Major and Mrs. John Coffman, Floyd Swap and Dr. and Mrs. R. C. Jor dan, Jr. The NAAS Commissary open ed at 10:00 o’clock Monday morn ing, January 10. There will be a coffee after; church at the Base Chapel on Sunday, January 16th, for those! who wish to say goodbye to' Chaplain C. H. Iley and to wel come Chaplain and Mrs. M. A. Curry. Mrs. S. L. Schuster, Mrs. G. F. Bauman, Mrs. Joe Sparling, Mrs. Thomas Marshall, Mrs. James McMurray, J. E. McCaffrey and Mrs. C. M. Baker honored Mrs. Joseph Dooley at a dessert-coffee on Thursday, January 6 at 1:00 P. M„ at the home of Mrs. Bau man. NE(W POULTRY INSPECTION LAW SHOULD HELP STATE * The new federal poultry in spection law which becomes man datory the end of 1958, should help North Carolina to increase its farm income rather than retard further expansion in the state’s poultry industry. Clayton Libeau, poultry and egg marketing specialist for the N. C. Agricultural Extension Ser vice, says at present only about five per cent of our poultry pro cessing plants have federal in spection, yet more than 60 per cent of our poultry moves out of state. Under the mandatory inspection law, all out-of-state shipments will have to be inspected. This will help us to be more competi tive in the major market areas, says Libeau, since North Carolina has an abundance of labor and can move into the pre-cut and pre-cooked/product phase of poul try marketing easier than most A new pamphlet is available .explainftig Mow to apply for fed- form in the public interest.) Broadcasting has to be regulated in the public interest. I doubt that two systems, so-called free and pay, can co-exist and render public interest programming. Air Service The other day I appeared be-j fore the Civil Aeronautics Boardi here in Washington to plead for! additional air service for North Carolina. The importance of this service cannot be overlooked. While I a strict policy of not interfering as between competing sections of the State, the hearings last week greatly affected all of North Carolina. Unanimous Agreement I shall not review the recom mendations of the Senate Prepar edness Subcommittee which were unanimously concurred in by both Democrats and Republicans, Many of these recommendations are con tained -in substance in the Sym ington Subcommittee report of January, 1956, which was dis missed by the Administration as a political report. I was a mem ber of the Symington Subcommit tee and an ex-officio member of the Preparedness Subcommittee. We now have unanimous agree ment on these vital proposals. I regret that they were generally ignored two years ago. Lt. and Mrs. Jim Sells return ed to Edenton on Monday, Janu ary 3, after a six weeks tour of duty in Olathe, Kansas. Mrs. John Barnette entertain ed at a coffee in honor of Mbs. Patrick Flynn on Friday morn ing, January 7, in tier home in Westover Heights. About 25 guests were present. The Officers Wives’ Bridge Club' met at the Officers’ Club on Fri-1 day, January 7, at 1:30 P. M., with] Mrs. G. F. Bauman as hostess. I Mrs. John Barnette will be hos-j tess for bridge on Friday, Janu-| ary 21. ! —m m mmmMmmmmwwmmmrd i oat - l. sia be ~ j than the best of the Low-Price 3—for M Every Window of Every Pontiac is Safety Plate (Jlass Your money buys real big-time comfort in this one! hefty car through and through! And color-matched, Get the Chieftain’s road-leveling 122' wheelbase ~. fully carpeted interiors are standard! Why buy a man-size, stretch-out interior room ... a solid, car with a low-price name? Get a Pontiac for less! BIG BOLD PONTIAC .1. ... ... ... SEE YOUR LOCAL AUTHORIZED PONTIAC DEALER ■ CHAS. H. JENKINS MOTOR COMPANY, Inc. THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1958. Race Between Science and Death For Child With Rare Heart Defects i_,’ _ ; w T ■ jNpgyg I ■% F y|| BBwWPßMamgipK A three-year-old child with a rare combination of heart defects is the prize in a race between sci entific research and death. She is Laura Jean, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lambert of Route one, Hickory, who was born with three serious heart abnormalities: tricuspid atresia and interatrial and interventricular septal de fects. Modern surgery could handle the latter conditions, but a tech nique to correct deformity of the tricuspid valve is still in the ex perimental stag.e The question today is: will Laura Jean live long enough for medical research to perfect the necessary operation? She has already outlived by many months the time oiginally given her by physicians. In layman’s language, tricus pid atresia is a construction in the valve leading from the right au ricle of the heart in the right ven tricle. Blood from all portions of the body is received in the right auricle, pumped through the tri cuspid valve into the right ven tricle ana is then pumped to the lungs for oxygen. When the tri cuspid valve doesn’t work prop erly, blood backs up in the right auricle and puts great pressure on this chamber of the heart. In ad dition, not enough blood.s gets to the lungs to be properly oxygen ated. Complicating the picture furth er are the interatrial and inter ventricular septal defects, which are unnatural openings between the right and left sides of the heart. They allow the blood to pass back and forth aimlessly, mixing venous with arterial blood, some of it making repeated, un necessary trips to the lungs. What this means to Laura Jean is a definite lack of growth and some cynosis, or “bluengss” in the color of her skin. As she tries to increase her activities, she may KEYSTONE SEEDS §2 sfe " SELECT FROM OUR COMPLETE LINE OF GENUINE l KEYSTONE ® 8 Ul« E. L. PEARCE, Seedsman Phone 3839 Edenton experience shortness of breath, I dizziness, blackouts and other symptoms common to cases like hers. In addition, children with these defects are more suscepti ble to infections such as colds, flu, and pneumonia, as well as other diseases. Laura Jean, however, is lucky to have a mother who has given ! her careful attention. Mrs. Lam-' bert is a former laboratory tech- 1 nician and office nurse and, at the first sign of a cold or slight in fection, she takes Laura Jean to her physician, Dr. Devyitt Tri vette, who gives her proper treatment. It is believe that this accounts for the fact that the lit tle girl has lived well beyond the time thought possible. Most oth er children with defects like hers die within a year of birth. Laura Jean’s chances for life lie entirely in the hands of heart researchers. She is not the only child involved in this race against time for corrective measures to be found that will restore them to health and normal life expectan cy. Much of this research is fi -1 nanced directly through funds i raised during the annual Heart j Fund drive conducted by the j American Heart Association j through its state affiliates and 1 their chapters. This provides an j opportunity for everyone to make [contributions that will buy | months, years, even lifetimes for | children whose conditions today I mark them “hopeless”. i i TRY A HERALD CLASSIFIED Production Os Broilers In 1957 ! 11 Pet. Above ’56 j Commercial broiler production! in North Carolina during 1957 to-! taled 104,608,000 birds—ll. 2 per cent above production of 94,087,-; 'OOO birds in 1956 according to the j I North Carolina Crop Reporting 1 Service. North Carolina ranked third in | number of broilers produced last I year being exceeded by Georgia, with 261 million and Arkansas ] with 110 million. Alabama, with 102 million, ranked fourth and Texas with 101 million ranked j fifth. Alabama with 23.6 per! cent and Mississippi with 23.0! per ce-'t led all other states in I the per cent gain in production ! in 1957 oVer 1956. Georgia rank ed third in this respect with 17.2 per cent. Gross income from the sale of | broilers during 1957 in North | Carolina totaled $58,047,000 as I compared with $55,126,000 in 1956 I —an increase of 5.3 per cent. The percentage increase in gross in come in 1957 over 1956 was less than half of the increase in pro ducting owing to a drop of one cent in the average price receiv ed per pound. » _ i L,*<«»»****»**«|l | :j ,* « * * »» * » OLD I STACi J§ THE