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Us Your Money
l A usually ready and willing to lay down more
cash on the barrelhead has voted funds to make a survey
Os the neeXi for stringing power lines from Buggs Island as
far east as Kinston. Senator Hoey made a Horatius-at-the
hridge stajad against this squandering of public funds for
a purpose’ that is in no wise needed, but which may ac
count for-a few more votes at the polls come next elec
tion and those to follow. The senator lost out and the
money was made available.
t; This is all a part of Interior Department leftwingers’
program of nationalization of the power industry. It is
jiist another segment of the argument that the department
is putting up for government construction of a power
dam at Roanoke Rapids instead of permitting private
capital to do the job.
The Carolina Power & Light Company has just com
pleted and put into service a steam generating plant at
Goldsboro which already is producing more power than
Buggs Island will deliver. That is just twenty-seven miles
from Kinston, in contrast to about 150 miles from Buggs
Island. The latter project is financed from pockets of tax
payers. The power company’s facility is costing the gov
ernment hot a penny. Yet the government is fighting for
the privilege of installing a service at public expense which
is not needed.
If Buggs Island power will be cheaper, that will be
true only because of government subsidy. If private com
panies are charging prices out of line, after allowing for
taxes they pay, it’s the government’s fault, for it must
approve ail power rates before they can be put into effect.
Not-only is the Goldsboro steam plant generating
more power already than Buggs Island Can furnish, but a
second unit is already under construction which will
double the output there, and two more are in blueprint
stage to be installed as needed. In the end, the Goldsboro
plant will have a potential at least fdpr times as great as
the Roanoke River project. Yet the government and even
the governor of North Carolina argue there is a pow
er shortage! All of which we s&nply do not believe.
I® Wherr Washington goes into this field, it Is competing
with private enterprise and threatening a system whicn
has made? America great. And don’t forget, John Q. Citizen,
it is your money they are spending; And don’t forget,
either, that they are throwing it into a venture that is not
needed. That is just plain waste and a squandering of tax
money at a time when taxes are already or about to be
come the Jughest in the history of this country, in war or
peace!—Prom The Henderson Daily Dispatch.
Carroll Services
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{Funeral services will be held
from the Mingo Baptist Church
Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock
fir Mrs. Ida Frances Carroll, 61.
v'yf Dunn, Rt. 1, who died at her
borne early Monday evening.
i;'“;*rhe Rev. I. K. Stafford, pastor,
SAI officiate, and burial will be in
the church cemetery. The body will
ti'lSf to state at the church for an
Bb prior to the service.
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Festus J. Carroll, was a native of
Sampson County and daughter of
the late William Iva and Eliza -Haw
ley Lee. She was active in welfare
work at the Mingo church, of which
she was a member, and was a pop
ular figure to her community.
She is survived by six sons, Alton
Carroll, F. J. Carroll, Jr., and Will
iam arroll, all of Dunn, Rt. 1; Her
iam Carrol, all of Dunn, Rt. 1; Her
daughters, Mrs. Hubert Tew of,
Fayetteville, Mrs. James Young of
Roseboro, Rt. 2, and Doris Carroll
of Dunn. Rt. 1; one sister. Mrs.
Thomas Hinson of Dunn, Rt. 1;
and 21 grandchildren.
These Days
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THE KOREAN TRUCE
On June 23. Jacob Malik pro
posed a cease-fire talk relating to
the Korean War. Although his
proposal of that date was no differ
ent from Soviet proposals on Oct.
2 and Dec. 9, Malik's speecto was
heralded as a break in the war
clouds and puffed up into some
thing very important. Since then,
there have been alternate talks,
quarrels, break-offs, and fighting
has continued.
On June 27, I received a memo
randum from a Chinese who fore
told much that has happened since.
As we all prefer peace to war, I
avoided the use of the contempts
of this document lest I be accused
of being a crepe-hanger. However,
as the situation has developed,
it is clear to me that my Chinese
informant was full of understand
ing. For instance, he wrote me:
“The Malik suggestion is quite
similar to the truce proposals
Chinese Communists made on the
mainland while fighting the gov
ernment troops. Whenever the
Communists were a militarily
disadvantageous position they al
i ways launched a campaign for
| truce, and appealed to General
j Marshall, then American media-
I tor, to urge the Nationalist govern
| ment to accept the truce. Thus on
V-J Day the Chinese Communists
occupied only 61 out of a total of
2,000 counties. Since V-J Day, fol
lowed by a year of truce and cease
fire, they have expanded their ter
ritories to 319 counties. ‘AH this in
a period during which formal ne
gotiations were supposed to be pro
ducing cease-fire agreements and
seeking a general, settlement,’
(Bolton Report, Page 40). On the
other hand, the hands of the Na
tional government were tied by the
cease-lire agreement reached on
Jan. 10, 1946. For instance, in
the same month the communication
hubs of Chihfeng (Jehol), gateway
to Manchuria, and Dolon, gateway
to Inner Mongolia, were yielded
to the Communists upon the ad
vice of the American mediator.
(General George Marshall). The
mediator also tried very hard to re
strain the government from at
tacking Kalgan, the Communist
industrial center in North China,
and Harbin in Manchuria.
“When • the Chinese Communists
, were strong enough to strike again
on the mainland, no cease-fire pro
posal was ever acceptance to them.”
In a word, the Communists use
a truce as a weapon to build up
their strength for the next battle,
. depending to a large extent upon
the sincerity of the other party.
On June 2i, my informant wrote
1 that the Soviet Union was equip
ping and training an international
brigade in Manchuria of 250,000
men in addition to fresh Chinese
Communist forces. The Soviet
needed tima to complete this task.
Furthermore, it was, according
to him, the desire of Soviet Rus
sia to conduct an active and es
: fective propaganda in Europe and
America to slow down the rearma
ment program, to lessen the need
for the Eisenhower army, to give
the appearance of a change of poli
cy, to accomplish an unquestioned
repudiation of General Douglas
i MacArthur and his Far Eastern
policies. Therefore there had to be 1
an appearance of an approach to
peace.
Conversations leading to the li
quidation of the Korean War would
give the impression of peace to the
offing and would therefore accom
plish aU these purposes. "Factors
of uncertainty” have long been a
Soviet weapon, the Idea being that
as long as the Western world Is
confused, it will not unify to a war
of offense or defense. Their as
sumption is that while the West
will not accept peace at any price,
-• it nevertheless longs for peace. In
the skillful propaganda of the Rus
sians, the very word, peace, can be
used as a political opiate.
General Charles. Willoughby made
the same point to his testimony be
fore the McCarran Committee when
he said: v
. . You had that example to
what they have done to North Ko
rea, liberated by us to ’45, and
within a space of five years, con
verted to a warlike opponent of the
United States. -*
“You have seen the same thing
to China. And unless the American
policy is firm along this outpost
of Western civilization, that runs
from, roughly, Alaska through Ja
pan, through the Philippines, down
to and including the British and
Indonesian areas, if we create or
permit the development of, a
vacuum greatarui stato^,
| Meanwhile, we go on fighting to
i action?
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INCIDENTAL INTELLIGENCE
Lt. Col. H. T. Freeland, co-author (with David Englander) Os the
documentary film, “Voices From Red Korea,” has Joined Gen. Eisen.
hower’s staff in Paris (incidentally, Ike may pay a quick visit to Wash -
ington # over the weekend)... Ferlr Mesta is sponsoring a new Parisian
couturier named Jacques Griffe, a new threat to the Malqbochers, Diors,
et al Richard Aldrich, Gertie Lawrence's husband, is back in civ
vies after a stint in the Navy The Duke of Alfieri and Orson Welles
to produce television shows abroad.... T. S. Elliot, stepping ont of
character, will speak before the Congress of International Christian
Democrats in Germany Sept. 15.... “The Magnificent Yankee” Is tour
ing the English movie houses under the title, “The Man With 30 Sons.”
America’s cultural conquest of Europe continues. Met Opera tenor
Eugene Conley was signed to open La Scala’s new opera season, which
is reviving for him Verdi’s rarely heard “I Vespri Sicilian!.” David
Poleri, 27-year-old tenor from Philadelphia, who made his debut with
the City Center Opera last Spring, is a decided hit in Edinburgh in the
same composer's "La Forza del Destino” Nancy Andrews will be
the next U. S. star to hold forth in London’s swank Embassy Club
Gladys Cooper and Robert Newton will swell the growing'Anglo-Ameri
can colony in Jamaica (both plan to build there) Leora Dana, late 1
of "The Happy Time,” and Kurt Kaszner of the same show (now to
Hollywood for MGM) are long-distancing plans for a merger.
• * *
Ethel Barrymore setting an independent film to star herself
as the famed anti-saloon crusader, Carrie Nation .... Literary agent
Madeleine Boyd, widow of critic Ernest Boyd (and discoverer of
Thomas Wolfe, among others), is titling her memoirs of the 1925’s
“Those Sad, Boozy Years.”... Victor has signed Rachel Carson,
author of that astounding book, “The Sea Around Us,” to write the
album commentary for the new Toscanini-NBC Symphony waxing of
Debussy’s “La Mel.” Gene Fowler’s blog of Jimmy Dnrante, “Sctanoz
zoia,” will be published by Viking Sept. 24 Luther Adler, the Amer
ican answer to Alec Guineas, will portray Hitler, Mussolini, Cham
• Ndslk Haile Selassie, a valet, a German officer and a couple of other
characters in Columbia’s “The Magic Face.”
•
Gene Krupa has entered Yonkers Hospital because-of complications
resulting from an appendectomy performed a fortnite ago down south.
Jack Zuckerman, former detective once assigned as bodyguard to
such celebrities as F. D. R., Molotov, Nehru, again a patient in Park
East Hospital .... They’re now calling Nancy Wiman’s husband, Arthur
William Carter, “novillero” to Mexico, because of his performance to the
bull ring in Acapulco last Winter... Gladys (Mrs. Lionel) Hampton
to write a society column for her husband’s new pocket-sized magazine.
Jet, which makes its debut in October June Havoc has decided to
eest her lot with Broadway and disposed of her Hollywood estate
Mary Talley, the seeress of Ceruttl’s, returns next week from a vacation
to France, where she was a house guest of the Countess de Mazaubran
in Paris and Biarritz. . . Greek contralto Elena Nlkolaidi has applied
for U. S. citizenship and purchased a home in New RocheUe.
«. * .
You Meet Such Interesting Readers! “May I make a few cor
rections in your column about the brave bulb? Bull fights last 2*
minutes (not lt); the bull doesn’t know any of the moves; smaller
rings have four fights and bigger ones on gala occasions as many as
eight; cows and bulls are identical—neither closes the eyes In fight
tag—but a cow, being half the size of the bull, wouldn’t look-impres
sive to the ring; the sword doesn’t pierce the heart bat punctures the
lungs. And the origin of ball fighting in Spain goes back to 41 A. D.”
—Sidney Franklin (only Brooklyn-born torero and authority on bull
fighting for the Encyclopedia Britannic) .... "Representative Al Morano.
who had your column on Spain inserted to the Congressional Record,
.wont need an English-Spanish dictionary when he visits Spain—he
both reads and speaks Spanish fluently.”-pfohn Baxter his seertary.
X-Rays Produce
Fantastic Tulips
AMSTERDAM, Holland (UP)
Dr. Willem E. De Mol Van Oud
Loosdrecht is working on the crea
tion of new and often wonderfully
colored and shaped tulips.
In his laboratory Dr. De Mol
directs the X-rays from his Roent
gen apparatus at the buds to the
tulips and produces his new
varieties.
During nearly 30 years, this
scientist developed the technique
of X-raying tulips to such a degree,
that the results stun the experts.
His latest variety Is a red tulip
of extraordinary size on a strong
and heavy stalk,
' No Surprise
"Mutations In flower bulbs are
no surprise,” De Mol said to an
interview.
“X-rays appear to cause the same
mutations as those which maw
originate spontaneously to the-bulb
but they work much faster.
“To all the work and toll of the
bulb grower, the X-ray treatment
gives the finishing touch.”
Dr. De Mol started .with hlaj
X-ray experiments to 1922. Until 1
1928 the work met with many dis
appointments. Gradually De Mol
and his assistants found new and
valuable varieties.
Scores of new varieties reached
the of people |
San Martin” iz the latest of them. |
Look t.ikm. BMs P
Dios in Hollywood
gularly shaped leave with crena-
LYNN NISBMTt
AUTHORITY - From time, to ]
time some effort is made to prove I
that the governor of North Caro
lina hag less authority than most
other state governors, to that he
does not have veto power over acts
of the legislature. Whatever that
failure detracts from his teal auth
ority is more than compensated by
certain prerogatives conferred by
statute upon the Tar Heel chief ex
ecutive. The executive budget sys
tem to effect here for the past 20
odd years gives the governor more
specific direct authority over State
business than even the president
of the United States has over na
tional affairs. The North Carolina
budget act to practical operation
gives our governor larger control
over activities of elected State of
ficials than many governors have
over comparable officials whom
they have the privilege of appoin
ting.
BUDGET—True, there is an Ad
visory Budget Commission of six
members: only two of whom are
appointed by the governor. The
other four are elected members of
the General Assembly. But this is
an advisory group, with great priv
ileges and little actual authority.
Under the law the governor is dir
ector of the budget, and in prac
tice administration of the budget
is in the hands of an assistant dir
ector named by the governor and
responsible only to him. In other
words, the budget bureau Is an in
tegral part of the governor's office.
PURCHASE The Division of
Purchase and Contract is also dn
integral part of the governor’s of
fice, being to all essential purposes
a portion of the budget bureau. The
1925 act setting up the .budget bur
eau states as its purpose “to vest
in the governor of the State a dir
ect and effective supervision of all
agencies, institutions, departments,
bureaus, boards, commissions, and
■ every State agency by whatsoever
name now or hereafter called . . j
The first tu the 1931 act (
setting up the division of purchase
and contract reads: “There is here
by created in the governor’s of.
fice a division to be known as the
Division of Purchase * and Con
tract ...”
MEANFUL—Lest there might be
some misunderstanding about the
meaning of these words, the legis
lators of a quarter century ago,
during the administrations of Gov
ernors A. W. McLean and Max
’ Gardner, spelled out the detailed
functions of these agencies. For in
stance, the 1925 act as brought for
ward in the general statutes (G.
S. 143-2) has this to say: “The
test as to whether an institution,
department, agency, board, com
mission. or corporation or person
is included within the purpose and
powers of the budget bureau shall
be whether such agency or. person
receives for use, or exponds, any of
the funds of the State of North
Carolina, including funds appro
priated by the General Assembly
and funds arising from the. collec
tion of fees, taxes, donations ap
propriative, or otherwise.” That
would seem to bring under com
i plete control of the budget bureau,
which means the governor, all func
tions. of Oxford Orphanage, the
: State Symphony and Art societies,
the Roanoke Island and Cherokee
I Historical Associations, and other
, groups which have sought and ob
, tained appropriations from the
General Assembly.
N
CONTRACTS—Authority of the
director of purchase and contract
as a personal agent of the gover
nor is also spelled out to detail by
the 193 act brought forward as G.
S. 148-49 (d) (d> et seq. “To pur-
I chase or coptraclj tor all telephones,
telegraph, electric light power, nos
tal and any and all contractual ser
vices and needs of the state gov
eftmaen’,, or any of Us departments,
[ institutions, or agencies . ” “To
rag Tar lease all grounds,' buildings,
offices, or other space required by
pjjpL ,~t- institution o r
have general of' all
Mpwoopis and stores operated by
ige state government, or any of its
‘ »UEU»NGa—One of the most
Ogrtous instances of failure to com.
WF w&h provisions pf the law is
Attkitkook, September 4, mi
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] designated as the master policy
I holder to group life, casualty and
retirement insurance for highway
employees. The commissioner of in
surance, under authority of a 1951
legislative act, buys insurance on
state property where the stogie risk
is to excess of $50,000, without nec
essity of obtaining approval of the
purchase and contract division.
SATISFACTORY—These various
operations have been non - legal
rather than illegal and have prov
en generally satisfactory. Truth of
the matter is the director of pur
chase and contract has been pleas
ed to be relieved of the responsib
ility of handling details of some of
these transactions, and there has
been no intimation x>f malfeasance,
misfeasance or other failure on
part of those handling them. Fur
thermore, many citizens have been
pleased that here are some govern
mental functions that the gover
nor and his immediate appointees
have not directly handled. It Just
happens that the statutes say they
should be channeled through the
Division of Purchase and Contract
.or the Budget Bureau. And even
if the Shakespearean character was
right to saying "the law is an ass,”
it is still the law.
LETTER TO
THE
EDITOR
116 Conway Avenue*
Narberth, Pa.
TO THE EDITOR:
In the latest edition of the Daily
Record, I see that letters are start
ing to come in from those of us
who had the good fortune to be
stationed in Dunn. N ,
As one of those persons who has
since returned to civilian life, I
do not want to be among the last
to express my deep appreciation
for the splendid example of coop
eration between the civilian popu
lus and the men of the Army.
If ever the Army would be in
terested in how to go about get
ting on with townsfolk they would
do well to look back on the units
stationed in your splendid city.
We will meet again, I’m sure, for
I made some firm friends in your
town.
Sincerely,
JOSEPH P. O’NEILL.
Drive Heralds
Better Living
By Lynn Nisbet
RALEIGH Many counties in
North Carolina wiU participate in
the campaign for improved living
conditions, better farming opera
tions and livlier community spirit,
which got underway Saturday.
Sponsored by a dozen Statewide
organizations dedicated to enrich
ment of rural life, and with full
support of the newspapers and bus
iness interests throughout the state,
the “County Progress Programs”
will be carried on at community
level through individual coopera
tion.
At end of the current campaign
on September 1, 1952, the Progress
ive Farmer will award SI,OOO to the
county showing the greatest im
provement during the year. Gordon
Gray, president of the University,
will give a second prize of SSOO
- cash and merchandise prizes
will be offered for community 1 ef
forts and for excellence to special
phases of the program. Sponsors of
the plan insist, however, that the
greatest “prize” will be the contin
uing enhancement of the better
things for country living.
SUGGESTED BY EDITOR
The suggestion for a Statewide
contest originated with Dr. Clarence
Poe, editor of the Progressive Farm
er, after he had seen what a few
counties have accomplished. No
table examples are Haywood and
Cleveland to North Carolina, Car
roll and Grayson to Virginia and
York county to South Carolina.
These counties showed tremendous
progress last year In developing
community consciousness and co
operation with resultant improve
ment to general living conditions,
brought about by better methods of
farming, beautificaiton of home,
church and school premises, pro
motion of recreational facilities, an
similar activities.
The goal is a better state, made
up of the sum of more progressive
counties growing out of community
development through cooperation
of individual bpmeowners. in ntw
words, the goal is attainable only
tiwough every individual carrying
his part of the load There will be
additional publicity from time to
formation from 'and h
I wu i m fw*i j
Frederick
OTHMAN
SmPPENSBURG, Pa. You
swelterets will be pleased to learn
even as was I, that winter Is on
the way. The red-picket snow
fences even now are being unfurled
along the northern sides of Penn
sylvania’s highways. That’s a good
sign.
The Carlisle County Fair Is gong
great guns. This, too, Indicates
that summer’s nearly done. So does
the camp meeting of one of the
picturesque sects of so-called plain
people to a giant tabernacle down
Roxbury way. ,
As for the politicians back to
Washington, D. C., they don’t cut
much pumpkin in these parts. The
folks are too busy getting in the
crops. Putting marcel waves to
the coats of their fair-bound cattle,
and freshening the hex signs on
their barns to worry much about
mink coats, Joe McCarthy, or even
higher taxes.
Our masters to the capital don’t
seem so Important to me, even, and
I’ve only been here two days. My
bride and I roUed up her through
the harvest fileds for our annual
visit with our old friends, John
and Hilda Hosfeld. It was, as usual,
a comforting experience.
The rest of the world may be
coming to an end, but the hard
working natives of this lush coun
tryside figure on proceeding calmly
until the end of time.
Everybody here is well fed. In
cluding the fish. I tried to vain to
catch one of the whoppers to John’s
pdnd, but in fat worms he had no
interest. So I jumped to with him.
Very cooling. The rest of the time,
somehow, I seemed to spend eatliig
fresh com and peaches and such
like with hospitable Pennsylvanians.
One of these latter, a Harris
burg attorney by the name of
Scott, had an elegant scheme to
keep his wife In her place. His
theory is that women long have
been to uppity and mysterious
about their cooking. Where there’s
something fancy to be baked at
his house, he does it himself.
To prove it he brought along a
large yellow layer cake with thick
white icing and you should have
seen the females squirm when he
sliced into it. He really fixed ’em
then by telling them hi? recipe for
chicken divan. This is chicken nest
ling on broccoli in cream sauce,
dusted with Parmesan cheese and
baked under a coating of whipped
cream. He had those ladles grove*
ling, just in the telling.
So we drove over with the Hos
felds to Boiling Springs, where
their daughter, Ann, is one of the
leading ladies in a summer theater
there. On the way we saw a farmer
refurbishing the hex sign over the
door of his thre-story bam with
green 'and orange paint. Nobody
beltanes in evil spirits hereabouts
anymore, but a sign to keep ’em out
is good insurance, anyhow.
We also stopped by one of the
camp meetings for a while. All she
ladies wore lace caps; most of the
gentlemen whiskers. The latter also
wore high stiff collars, but no neck
ties.
These were devout people, wor
shiping in their own way and I am
not one even to smile at £hem.
Some of their daughters I must re
port, looked like Lana Turner with
out rduge. Mostly they were blonde;
mostly their dresses were dark and
mostly according to John they
were the daughters of the most
prosperous farmers to the neigh
borhood.
Tomorrow I’ll be back in Wash
ington. I can’t say that the pros
pect pleases. I’d rather watch the
road gangs erect snow fences.
agents, vocational teachers, State
College or the Progressive Farmer.
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