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-t V t*i>bl!shed Every Tuesday and Thursday by | I ENTERPRISE PI RI.ISHING m. j} I I WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA SI RSERTPTTON’ RATES (Strictly Cnxh in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY X •A1 w w $ X ! I i ! i | One Year .. _S3 00 $ r Stx Momns - 1.75 X } OUTSIDE MARTIN C’OUNTA i » s X One Year_$3 50 X X Six Months . - - 2.00 a iv = -Li- =jj--——in;-: . -... X iv Advertising Rate Card Upnn Request ft - -.IT.—----- S X Entered at the post office in Wllliamston, ^ ft N C„ as second-class matter under the act a ft of Congress of March 3. 187ft {J I X X Address all communications to The Enter- » ft A ft prise anti not individual members of the j{J No Subscription Received Under G Months | firm Tnet flay, July 20. 1054 Misrepresenting The Taels The present national administration and others who would reduce the American far mer to serfdom are misrepresenting the facts about the farm program. Representa tive Harold Cooley in a recent radio address challenged Mr. Ezra Taft Benson and one Richard Nixon to tell the truth. Mr. Cooley said, in part: “A deliberate effort has been made 1by people in high places to lead the public to believe that the price support program which has been in operation through the years on basic agricultural commodities has resulted in tremendous losses and likewise has been responsible for the increased high cost of living. If those of you who are in terested will listen to the facts you will know the truth and upon the truth vou will he able to render vour own verdict or de cision. "The truth is that the price support pro gram on the basic agricultural commodities j has not been financially burdensome. We have six basic commodities—wheat, corn, j cotton, peanuts, rice and tobacco According to information furnished to our Committee by the Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Ben son. the losses on those six commodities dur ing the entire operation of the program over a period of twenty-one years has resulted in a net loss of only 21 million dollars, or ac tually one million dollars per year. If you vi II a act t be sugar JSfbgMJJWi ai*** on the six basic commodities 1 have named and subtract million dollars from the 2f)6 million dollar profit on the sugar program, the entire operation on the seven commodi ties will show a net profit to the taxpayers of 275 million dollars. These are the facts— THIS IS THE TRUTH—and I challenge Mr. Benson, Mr. Nixon, or anyone else to re fute the facts I have given you ..." I l nholy I nion Christian Science Monitor How long and to what extent can an en terprise with a moral purpose accept sup port from sources of dubious social mor ality and maintain its integrity unimpair ed? This is a question that has more than once compelled some soul searching on the part of college trustees and church boards. It poses a serious enough ethical problem when the support comes as a bequest with no strings attached. The money has already been made and there is no continuing de pendency or control. But where the fate of the one is wrapped up with the prosperity of the other—that can only be termed an unholy union. One of the most egregious excursions into the latter state we have yet to hear about now looms in prospect Two Texas oil mil lionaires wish to do something on a large scale for the benefit of underprivileged boys. Goodness knows, juvenile delin quency is prevalent enough to make this a worthy goal and to supply a worthy motive. But here, as V Ten cisewneTe',"TTiViTwaf!S,"" eventually would nullify the ends. These men plan to buy and operate a chain of race tracks in order to finance a chain of recrea tional. guidance, and training centers for boys. Big-time racing, stripped of fanfare, is simply big-time commercialized gambling. Thus activities presumably dedicated to pre-' vent ion of delinquency would be carried on solely by grace of other activities long known to contribute to delinquency! What a curious example in consistency and ethics to the boys involved! If these well-intentioned Texas gentle men single mindedly wish to help youth and -fight delinquency they will do better to forget lush returns from tax-exempted race tracks and let investments in the busi ness and industry th^t made America great finance their philanthropies. k Run I or Thv Rxil*. Mvi, New Wklfs?" former GOP National Since May 10. Cliairmnn Carroll Reece hah been using congressional money to run another GOP sideshow Ineptly disguised as a public in vestigation of the tax-exempt foundations. Representative Recce and some colleagues have been 'trying desperately to promote the notion that the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations and others, have been ttnder mini’vv the Republic. This spectacle might have been laughed off Capitol Hill weeks ago if the TV cameras had been turned on it. But the foolishness went on and on, steered bv a staff that made Rnv Cohn and Private Schine look like re sponsible men. In its desperate search for a headline or two, the committee even got trapped into detecting subversion in the works of Dr. Kinsey as well as two Papal encyclicals dat ed 1891 and 193-1. An able and conscientious Democrat, Rep resentative Wayne Hays, of Ohio, let the Republicans climb out on limb after limb and sawed them off witn deadly regularity almost daily. When Hays proposed, for instance, that the committee explore the works of H. L. Hunt’s Facts Forum, the Republicans ex ploded and shed their last trappings of im partiality. Now Reece and his colleagues have fin ally faced the facts of their disaster. Recog nizing that the onlv political pickings to be had by continuing this folly would accrue to the Democrats, they voted to call the whole thing off. In announcing his show was folding, Reece refrained from the charge that he had been lured into a trup bv Clark Clifford. Instead he blamed the whole thing on Rep resentative Hays. He charged the Ohio Democrat with interrupting testimony and vigorously cross-examining witneses. As is well known, there is only one investigator on Capitol Hill who is permitted to carry on this way, and he has been out of town for weeks. So we’ll have to face it. The Ford Foun dation and the Rockefellers will remain poised at the Nation's jugular all summer long. Si fin Of fi eaknPHs It is apparent that President Eisenhower will have had enough of politics by the time his current term expires. It is also apparent that some are making an around-the-clock effort to push one Little Richard Nixon into the front as a possible successor to Eisen hower. Tt bas~been""s£ucT tfiat1'i^75WT"was ‘plckeVr by the politicians because they could put their fingers on him at any and all times. It is glaringly evident that the Republican Party is terribly weak when it can do no better than talk Poor Little Richard for the high office. If the Republican Party can do no better than look to Nixon for leadership, it will do well to fold up and quit. MUST HAVE Miss Emily Post says potato chips may be eaten with the fingers. Something tells us Miss Post must have tried to spear one with a fork.—Macon Telegram. GO Second Sermons By Fred Dodge TEXT: “Grant that T may always desire more than I can accomplish." —Michelangelo Two businessmen sat to gether at lunch talking about old times. “Tell me." one of them asked, “were any of your boyish ambitions ever realized?" es,” replied the other, "When my moth er used to cut my hair, 1 often wished that I might be baid-headed." * * * At time we protest because some folks ap I'lf'in'1 ini'rafTitTiTiouT” We feel ihai' tnev t>arm' pie tradition; they alter the accepted way of doing things. Perhaps we envy them a little, too. It is better that we live in a world stirred by men of ambition than to drift listlessly through a life planned for us bv someone else. Man's ambitions have been the base for all progress. Where his ambitions have been curbed by kings or dictators, progress has been slo’v and uncertain. Where am bition is free to achieve, there are no heights which man cannot reach. Ambition stands on the shoulders of ambition when there is a reward for climbing. Remove that re ward; penalize ambition, and progress ends. That is the simple truth which has given Americans more comfort, fnofe luxuries, more leisure- and more ambition than any other nation in the world. -ht wants tar know. Ef 4-gnin your pleasures wuri and says—Ther danger of lung car.ee!' frum cigarett-smoke, aint rmthin, long side of their hn-pure an- we breathe; putrv?fiod by burnt carbon-gas, spit-out by ther [ mllyuns, and milvuns, and mily uns of spit-gmnvs calld autotno ! biles; and gas-boats; and flyin | planes; tractors; trucks; and ther [ Lord only knows how many mhre monsters tlig,t burns gasoline into monoxide, and fouids ther aii' we breathe with it. Course, most folks knows that any kind of gas in ther air is on ther up-lift, and gits way frum ther earth pronto us possible. But when its constant cummin, speedy whar automo biles an thick as beetle-bugs on a bee n-bush; plus all ther other contraptions thats spittin too; and dm in these long hot spells whar ther low-eelin is pressin ther air right down on the r earth, hits hard to rise-up way frum us, and we gits more monoxide to hep out the cigarets. And whats to be dun bout it? Aii we all headed to die nf lung-cancer becaus of ther things • we smart-guys hav thought-up to rob old-age of its glorys? Now ther cigaret-smake skeer, haint bin proved yit, but hits got lots of folks to thinkin on-easy like, but the mipmp-sticks that thay use-to-be calld, has now gut sum big-company to share the rblame. But whilst congress mout be agitatted into tryin to do sumthin bout it that mout tetch heavy heavy on her cigaret fac tories, and the Tobacco growers, and all ther trade-people thats beny-fitin by tobacco-money, what bout ther airfume biznesses? While Mr. Reynels mout hav to step down and ast greater Wake Fores fer a job at fire-stokin, moutnyt Ginral Motors hav to tear-down thay factorvs and plant sum bread-corn for in to eat? Jest magin combine Air Craft bavin to live on earth, caus ther law won! let’en go-up and spit lung-pizen on us here below? And jest main ther hot-rodders goin into hidin, and livin fer-ever, cause thuy cant hurt thay heads Atomic Energy For Airplanes —«— Close on the heels of the an nouncement recently that the Air Force had a jet fighter plane cap able of speeds up to 1500 miles an hour, comes the statement from Robert LeBaron, U. S. atomic spe cialist, that this country will have an ariplane driven by nuclear power within six or seven years. LeBaron is chairman of the military liaison committee for the Atomic Energy Commission. He says work is proeeding on de velopment of an atomic-powered aircraft engine. He hints that the project will require more time, since the engine will probably have to be lighter than a similar engine already successfully used in the submarine Nautilus, The greatest advantage atomic power will provide, in aircraft engines, is the capacity to operate over extremely long periods with out the necessity of refueling. Le Bamn predicts that aircraft using atomic energy engines could fly around the world several times Without refueling. He also notes that atomic energy is potentially a much cheaper source of electric power than coal or fuel oil. In (his connection, he says that a pound of Uranium-235 would have a heat value roughly equi valent to that of about 1.500 tons of coal One can imagine the re whitirrrra-f y such a fuel would produce Speeds wduld also be greatly increased, so (hat it might even be possible for Americans to "spend the day” abroad, returning that afternoon. Life Insurance In Force (.limbing In The Nation Life insurance in force climb ed from $1222.000,000.000 in 1941 to 304,000,000,000 at the beginning of 1 j>54, an increase of 194 per cent. The number of life insur ance companies has increased by more than 300 in those years to a total of 800 and more than 24, 000,000 new policyholders were added to the lists. Payments to policyholders and beneficiaries amounted tc $4,540,929,000 in ‘53, nearly twice the annual payments in 1941. do-away with lung-cancer, wud you stand-it? And now cums a-nuther sientif Hamilton Church Has Coronation i On Sunday evening, July lfi. at i eight o’clock, in the Hamilton I Baptist Church, the Oirls' Auxili ary held its fifth annual corona ! linn service, ] All of thf girlsnroiv. wh/hj^jy^ I ning dresses with corsages of j green carnations on a white star background carrying out the G. A. ! colors and emblem. Three Intermediate G. A.'s eon j ducted the opening part of the 1 service. Kave Gossett acted as | leader announcing the songs. Mv rna Adams read several passages j from the Bible and Patricia Bui j lock led the congregation in I prayer. I During a musical interlude, M.v rna and Patricia lighted the can dles for the actual coronation ser vice. Acting as herald, Faye an nounced each group of G. A.’s as they came to receive their awards, j Maidens, Ann Haislip, Joyce Coffield, and Phyllis Stalls, came first. After proving their merit as maidens, they received the green emblem of the Girls' Aux iliary. Having attained two steps in one year, Ann, Joyce, and Phyllis j came forward again with Cyn jthia Everett and Janice Scott to receive the white star of the Lad ies- in-waiting. Only one G. A., Lizzie Baker, had done the work necessary to become a Queen. Lizzie carried her arrangement of green carna tions on her white Bible. Pre ceded by her flower girl, Sandra Bullock, and her crown-bearer, Connie Hutchinson, she came to be crowned Queen and to receive the gold band for her G. A. em blem. The little girls who are Sunbeams, also wore white dress es with green carnation corsages and bandeaus of white organdy and pink flowers. In each instance the girls were examined by Mrs R E. Baekley, Young People's Director, and pre sented to Mrs. L. F. Stokes, Wo man”!! Missionary Union Presi MtAkMMrifia3»^^ner>rip. was kilt ed in a North Carolina traffic ac cident, on the average, once every 8 hours, a study by the Motor Ve hicles Department reveals The 1958 traffic death toll in our sta*e reached 1,118, or three mohe than the previous year. Dur ing the same period, the nation's death toll from auto accidents rose from 88,000 in ’52 to 28,300 last year. More than half of the 1,258 drivers involved in fatal traffic collisions last year in North Ca rolina had driving experience o( longer than five years the Motor Vehicles Department reports. Of the same number 908 were licensed Tar Heel drivers. dent, who made the awards. The church was decorated with White gladioli and white candles, which were the only lights used. Over the pulpit in gold letters on a green background was the G. A motto, “Arise, shine for thy light has come, Isaiah 60:1.” D - rectly beneath the motto was a white star with an open Bible on it. The G. A. leader, Mrs. W. J. Beach, planned and directed the entire ceremony. The pianist was Idalia Oglesby. After rehearsal on Saturday af ternoon, Mis Beach entertained the entire group at a watermelon cutting. At this time Mrs Beach presented each person taking part in the service with a gift wrapped in white paper and tied with yel low ribbon for the Intermediate G. A.’s, green for the Junior O. A.'s, white for the Sunbeams, and lavender for the W. M. U. par ticipants. i The five most common errors committed by drivers involved in riiiimmiiiimmw last year were: 1. Exceeded stated speed limit. ? Driving on wrong side M road. !i Under influence of alcohol 4. Failed to grant right of way 5 Disregarded stop sign or sig : ^ .. The Motor Vehicles Department points out that although many violations may be unintentional, : the effect is as disnsterous us if they were committed deliberate ! ly. fic accidents in Winston-Salem last ypar according to a report Itotn the Motor Vehicles Depart ment Charlotte and Clreensboio each had six pedestrian death Other Tar Heel towns havin mo'-p than one pedestrian dea were as follows: Dunn 4; Ash i viHe 3; Durham 2: Vayettevi | 2: New Bern 2; and Rocky Mot 2. Your Birthstone is t fiery Ruby You are sensit and sensible. 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