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Editorial And Opinion 'Lameduck Civil Detense, The latest word on Civil Defense to residents of this coun ty is that we should get together some funds to match federal funds to conduct a local survey to determine our facilities to enable us to serve as an evaluation area for nearby Greensboro or Durham, designated major “target cities ', in the event of enemy attack. One week we are told there is only one defense against the hydrogen bomb, and that we must prepare to evacuate the cities and towns within a hundred miles of a> ty prime tar get area because the fallout will spread out over an area of 7,000 square miles. The next week we are told to build some sort of under ground shelter, right now. and stock it with-sufficient’ food and water to last for .7 or ft days as the most that ain indiv idual citizen can do for his own and his family's protection. * 1 liese two conflicting advices were issued In the same mam federal CiViI Defense Administrator Val Petctsen. At v.-itoR-saror be held, not right now. the tune, he was urging jiidiv iditals to dig their shelters, hut next June! *2 months. ’hehcC*. This, though he rightly said, "No man has any way of knpwmg.when an actual attack may come. AVe hope it'may never cimic. But it may come sodvter than later.’’ This was in testimony before a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee. It was prompted by the appearance before the romnvttce of Gov. Christian A. Herter, of Massachusetts. who told the committee State governments are in the dark as to what should be done to protect their populations in case of an attar k. . i.Lil.ie,mimbe. told, so is everyoqe else m the dark. One reason is. that civil defense has been a matter of political patronage from the start. President Truman appointed a lame duck (.overnor of Florida1 the first.civil-defense administrator. President Eisenhower followed the same political pattern by appointing Petersen, former (.overnor of Nebraska, to the post. . Civil-defense today is pail of the militui v defense of the countrv. Idreign invaders tnay corr^B,to.this land by air for the first time since our independence. The.Congress has shown a realistic understanding ol_ the role of civil defense by giving the Armed Services Committee jurisdiction over itT The Fx ‘ ecutive should be no less realistic. There are enough retired, well-trained -arid experienced high officers of the Armed Forces to head up and-give the country the awareness, disc ip line, and cngani/atioli needed for the civil-defense effort necessary for surv ival in a hydrogen agev They should be in charge now. Every American's Business? e do not think it is President Eisenhower's position that possible hostilities involving l.’S lyrces in Formosa Strait are none of our “business, but such an attitude could easily be read into ilu’ news reports of recent days. Following his regular weekly press conference and "brief ing luncheons at the White House for leaders of both parties in the House and Senate consecutively, the American people and the world ^ lgyge were noovisrr regarding tl^e C,««pnun der-in-ChicTs intentions respec ting the Nationalist offshore is lands ol Matsu and Quemuy. Luncheon guests from both houses icported th.it they knew no more than thev had read previously in the newspa pers. Scmie said the briefing by President Eisenhower and Sec - retary of State Dulles had left them feeling neither better nor worse about the world situation. Speaker Sain Ravbuiii said, "1 don't feel any better." . Frankly, .we think,! be President is well .within bis rights Yvy keeping our intentions regarding these islands in the dark and we have long felt that so much bristling war talk is out ol order. Like him, we do not believe that -the peace of the wot Id, the tranquility of the world is being served at this mo ment by talking too much in terms of speculation about such thing's." Hearing Is Seeing 7""TyHMiipffiwdwai better with them on, you re-right! Anti similarly., those' who wear hearing aids see better when they are using them. , The. c lose partnership of the eye and ear, whic h psycholo glsts have longs aspect ed, has finally been proved in scientific te sts reported by the American, Hearing Aid Assoc iation. As otologists (ear doctors to you) have known for years, speech is.normally controlled by the ear. Thus, any substantial loss of heating winch exists at birth, oi .<« c ms soon thereafter, will •h-mderboilr language development and the' establislmiem of adequate speech habits. And we can now add that vision, as well as hearing, will be less perceptive. Anothei. established lact, not well enough understood, is tliat nearing losses- which occur after childhood may cause speec h delec ts in those who previously spoke- in a normal manner. W hen the ear can no kinger serve as a monitor—when you can t hear your ow n voice clearly=-a slow speech degenera tion sets in Fininciation becomes blurred. Monotony replaces tlte normal melody ol speech. Intonations disappear and the voice becomes rigid And, as the hearing loss grows, the speak ti lose.s control ol the loudness of his own voiefe. I’nfortunattely, a hearing loss can be so gradual that it s la. more difficult to. the individual to detect than impair cm ol vision. T hus, it is of the utmost importance that if there is any suspicion of hearing loss-especially with children ist wdh deHyP VS1Cian’ ?n ear dOCtOT °r 3 hearinS aid spec ial When you see better, you hear better-and vic e-versa. * . - ’ EDWIN J. HAMLIN Published Every Thursday By THE NEWS, INCORPORATED Hillsboro and Chapel HiIlr N. G. -li-,7-S iuntp Editor and Publisher tntereiZkSer°nd, at the Post °*fice at Lulsboro, North Caroling, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Exclusive National Advertising Representative GREATER WEEKLIES - New York * Chicago ★ Detroit A Philadelphia m SUBSCRIPTION RATES’ ONE YEAR (Inside North Carolina) SIX MONTHS (inside North Carolina) ONE YEAR (outside North Carolina) $2.00 $1.50 - $2/^ (Continued from Page 1.) speed is exceeded the buzzeT goes off to wain the driver? DUMMY WHAMMY ... While on. the subject of speed, do you want to stow down the flow of traffic by your place? Just stretch 'smm road about fifty feet ap^-t This will Jpok enough like a whammy setup to change the trend of thought of the’ speeding ny>*or ists. This Is guaranfed to reduce the speed and increase the sound of screeching brakes. HI DIDDLE DIDDLE ... Do you know which of the nursery rhymes is the favorite of Mrs. Luther Hodges? “Hi Diddle Did dle, the Cat and the Fiddle". Wanta know how I know? She said so at Wilmington last week, when one of the floats passed ' which was decorated tn the nurs ery rhyme motif. MISCELLANEOUS ... Under the “what will they do next” sub ject comes the fact that you can now rent yourself a shower door. Yessiree! Just call the man and he will install a beautiful glass doll on your present bath tub, and you can throw away the old shower curtains and enjoy your bath behind a beautiful glass shower door for only a few cents a day. And what’s more, when you have paid rent for fourteen years, the door becomes yours and no further payments! > %. *■ • » , r . AGRICULTURE .. 'The recent freeze which destroyed the peach crop in N. C is just another ex ample of Hie uncertainty found by those in agriculture in a State where the economy is so depen dent "upon, the farm. It is impor tant we do everything to assist the peach grower in his hour of distress, and the same goes for those others whose livelihood comes from the soil. When our agricultural economy fails apart the rest of the economy is found to' collapse. ■ How the farthers" have; survived as well as they have is difficult to understand. The farm prices appear to be put of line with those charged at the consumer outlet. The difference in the price of beef on the hoof,, for exam ple, to that charged for steak con* tinues to- mystify most of us. If there is anyone who has made a profit raising beef cat tle in North Carolina during the past two years, we have not heard about him. ■ -j Book News “And we are nut always averse to mediocrity . . . But we are not happy in our mediocrity. It suits neither our Episcopalianism in the east nor our Calvinism in the west. No sooner are we com fortably settled in ambition, duty, and idealism gets us on the glory road, and so we issue declarations of indepen dence, fight battles, write books, speak speeches, found universi ties, organize great business, and raise cain in general . . . Yes, we Tar Heels have our ups and downs. Ordinarily we are willing enough to sip the weak tea of mediocrity, but ever so often there comes a time when we go off on a root-tooting binge in spired by our incurable thirst for ‘Old Excellence Guaranteed 200-proof,’ even though we know it won’t last.” "That Don't Mean Us—We Are The Machine" POLITICAL HEA»£tWBrets THIS IS THE LAW Farm Crops This is the first of a spring series of articles that will appear each week throughout the next three months. They have been written for the non-lawyer as a public service of the North Car olina Bar Association. ^M'li^i^h the writer is current ly writing p series of articles tin . der the heading ‘.‘This Is *the Law” once, a’ ww>k* for a numbdf of the daily newspapers publish ed in the State,' the contents of the articles to be. published in this newspaper are to be differ ent. Does a purchaser of land, ac quire ownership to the growing crops on the land at the time of the sal^? Yet. The general rule is that a deed to land passes growing crops to the grante of the deed in the absence of -a i*ese r v a tion -to- 4 he contrary. This is true even though, crops have already ripened and are merely standing unsevered in the field at, the time and deed is given. As between seller aiid buy er of the land, the. law considers the land and the crops attached to it as being united The principle Applies to cot ton, corn, (obacco, grain, and all kinds of vegetables,, fruits.. and berries that ‘have not bCeh har vested and are still attached1 to' ' By Robert E. Lee (For the N. C. Bar Association) the soil. If the land conveyed by deed is in the possession of a tenant, the grantee of the deed merely acquires the grantor’s title or in terest--in—the-land, -The. tenant's. tease is not terminated and the tenant is mot deprived of any of his rights under his lease. The tenant simply acquires a new landlord. May there be an oral agree inent that a sale of the land does not include the annual crops at tached tq the land? Yes. Although a conveyance of the.Jandjp£_a con toast to convey the land must be in writing, the law of North Carolina pernyits an oral ""reservation of the annual crops to the seller. But there cannot* De an oral. .. agreement to except from the pro visions of a deed the- fruit On trees -and the berries or products of perennial plants. Perennial trees, bushes, shrubs, and vines pass with the title to the land and'there cannot be an oral res ervation to the seller of either them or their .products. Prcnnial crops are those which are pro duced year after year- from the same roptij” treesfor bushes wSJF out animal planting Unsfcvered they are a part, of the -kind- to wfcich they ire "attached, and con-": tracts -.elating to them must be in writing. "John Jones by will gives a farm to Mary Smith. There is an unharvested drop of bran, tobao . 00, cotton, and vegetables on .the farm as of the ffnie"Br the'Tleath' of John Jones. Does Mary Smith L-.lC;:.j . XjOU ijy Dick bliaw r-—_E \ {attire.uzm:-( 1 ; pR&PARZ 7 ■ \\ ST&W I H j S) LL Lucky you—you cheated the undertaker with your broken down, car Garden Time Robert Schmidt Iri a few days those dahlias that you left in the ground over winter will send up sprouts. They should be dug up.-divided ahd re planted. If they are not taken up and divided they will send up several stalks which will give yop some nice early blooms, but the fall flowers will usually be inferior. In dividing dahlia clumps b> sure that each division has : at least one root and one good eye or sprout. There,is no advantage in having more than that.- If-you took up the dahlia clumps last fall and put them in storage you will find that they are beginning to show well- de veloped eyes or sprouts and can be easily divided now. After divid ing, keep them covered with slightly dampened peat moss or sawdust so that they' will not dry out until it is time to plant. In Jthg-contra! poHion ' of the state. a good planting date ts“Majf T to 15; in eastern areas a few days later, would be best and in the mountains early May would be about right. Dahlias grow well in any typ< of soil as.long as it is well drain ed. If the soil ndt well drained you many lose 'many plants after periods of heavy rainfall. On the other hand, it is necessary to keep dahlias well watered during extended periods of hot, dry weather. —Dahlia roots may-fee purchased now at seed stores or from cer tified dahlia -nursenes A few varieties are: - Cherokee Braver < ed ). Edna—1). .(red), Jersey’s Beauty (pink). D-Day (pink). Kirsten Flagstad (orange). 'Cali fornia' Pageant (orange), Jane Cowl (buff), Edgar Guest (yel low), Alleg.'ease (yellow), Cal mour (purple), The' Real ..Glory (white), ,5-Star General warn pink).and Jean Trimbce (purple). Good small flowered vS.neties are Baby Royal, Fairy, Fuchsia -Gem, Red Charm. White Fawn, Varies Orange, Little Lemon Lrop and Sylvia. A few good' pompon varieties are: Sherry, Snowqlad. Morning Mist,- Little Edith, Yellow Gem and Lattle Marvel. become the owner of the unhar vested crop? No. In the absence of a clearly stated provision in the will to the contrary the ungathered crop be longs to the executor or admin istrator of the estate of John Jones as a part of the personal „ .Ok <:' *11 ere is a statute in North Car olina expresly so providing. In most of the other states there is no such statute, and in these states Mary Smith woud become the owner of not only the farm but also the urtharvestfcd crop. If John Jones had not left a will and Mary Smith had inherit ed the farm as an heir, the same principle would apple. The un harvested crop would belong to the executor or administrator of the estate of John Jones. There will be a continuation, of the subject of farm crops next WCfck, ■ * *. J* SENATOR SAM ERVIN ,«»* i WASHINGTON—The extremes of weather conditions 'have caus ed a major problem with respect to agriculture in North Carolina and the Southeast. Weather Damage Following the severe damage to early crops caused by the recent freeze, the Farmers Home Ad ministration declared 87 of North Carolina’s 100 counties eligible for farmers to make application for emergency loans. In the Senate last week I was joined by eSnator Scott in the mtrnrhHi'o" at a bill to authorize an app‘ropriation'“qV repair’damage to the beach front along North Carolina’s coast caused by Hurricane Hazel. I am greatly interested in seeing this bijj enacted. It provides that funds so appropriated shall be expended for repairs by the Chief of Engineers of the Army, under the direction of the Secretary of the Army, and for grants by the the Secretary to local authorities to assist in financing repairs made' ’under their direction. Burley Tobacco The burley tobacco bill passed the Senate last week. The Sena tors from Tennessee and West Virginia joined with North Caro lina's Senators in trying to pre vent a further reduction in the small burley tobaego grower’s acreage. One amendment which I offered would have prevented an allotment cut to growers of less than seven-tenth’s of an acne. It failed to pass. I supported the burley tobacco bill-on final pass age because acreage allotments seem to be absolutely necessary in order to avoid serious trouble in the program. Burley tobacco is grown in the mountain counties .-of..Western. North Carolina. In my report of next week I hope to discuss my CXp^ an observer of an atom explosion. Last Friday i the Nevada Atomic TeJt near Las Vegas to wi^ Of the current atomic tm Subcommittee As the chairman of a mittee of the Senate Am vices Committee it has) duty to study the Statu*, Treaty or Agreement, governments have acquit nal jurisdiction oevr f forces stationed abroad executive agreements ant ty. We have been making into the matter. Our go* has exclusive jurlsdictj persons subject-to its i law and primary over a member of a i civilian component it countries. We are revi« way the treaty has worke if justice is being done, j is ta conclude the mat! soon and to make a reog full committee. * Defense Debate' The American Forum Air has invited me to ap its nationally televised and cast program for April] resenta'tive Dewey Shod will' disCUss the national program. Many school groups ha ed visiting WashingK* visits, coinciding with thi of Spring, have brighten lative offices and e aroud the Capitol. The cold weather di about one-third of the Cherry blossoms around A Basin, but the Festival success. North Carolina i tifully represented by Mis Graham during, the page Meaning Of The Symbol Could the shape of i<pr, Easter Seal, whic h ap|fl long for the first time, symbolize the change in the n attitude toward its crippled throughout tire years' It's thing to think about. The National Society for Crippled Children and, which sponsors the drive, is the oldest and largest \o agency servin'; the crippled .and in its g | yen's of sov .proved that sccmtuJjic 'em. be dorfe to helpt-ripuldl Before the National Society waL tTgaihagj* aaliO the n ippled were few and far between. Today, througfc affiliated f asted Seal Societies located in even state,tb trict ol Columbia, Alaska; Hawaii and Puerto Rico, thoj of person arc being readied and countless services are set ut in. remotest areas. In N. C, alone there .lie 27.20 c-ren with orthopedic handicaps. f aster Seals.have helped prove that handicapped| can be rehabilitated into tax-paying citizens rather ill main tax-supported ones. In Chapel Hill the N. C. Society for Crippled Cl and Adults, our own Easter Seal Society, is providing purchasing physical llterapy equipment used in N CA ial.J1 oxpiLai,.,purchase;of.wheel charicrvfor amputees am legics, spec ial eduaetion .material fqr a class lor tripplt dun s camp at (lamp New Hope, N. C. It's 0111 in*nald advance tlie work, oi retiabifitatihg crippled farther. I he f aster Seal campaign continues to.-* —— -f-—-■ ■ -===* - -IVI- -CAN BE-TH ANKFUL lor the nerdv-rrrrpt^ blockade of Berlin, if it puts a damper on the cutioust 1 asm of the free world leaders for a Big Four Conferee I it at ion ol tire Yalta papers should have.been suffirii'1'1 1 «Uy.:togetjief;Mitl> president Eisenhowers demand W of good faith, rather than words, from the335icn; Bet haps, in c lamping prohibitive taxes on the tme ted this Iree island in the Red Waste, the Krcutlin ^ ,ls horn,another Yalta, another Teheran,; another.?*! another Panmunjom. It would he worth anothertH Lilt. - ... - ■. - .■■■•■ BUBBLES —— Ry Jim I—:--—....._*_?---— ’Aodmy dear, i N. C* Wildlife Resourr (came fiqrn a polluted , -
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