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MOUjNT OLIVE TRIBUNE
, Issued Each Tuesday and Friday
MltiM il 1121 Cwlw Stml
Mount Olive, N. Ci/ ■
HOMER BROCK_ii_ Publisher
CLETUS BROCK
ELMER BROCK.
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■ Editor
„ Bus. Manager
Entered as second class mall matter April 21,1904,
at the Post Office at Mount Olive, N. C.
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'Drunken Drivers Are
Not Always Convicted
The policeman watched the “gentleman”
—cursing, stumbling, defying mankind and
policeman-kind from the sanctity of ills own
property where a warrant signed by some
complainant would be necessary to enter in
order to arrest the man, obviously under the
„ influence of intoxicants. The other person
present was reluctant to go that far for family
- consideration since no damage was done and
nobody else was present to hear the mouthings
coming through said gentleman straight from
the bottle.
After an excess of such carrying on, the
man moved toward where his car was park
ed in the yard. The policeman left for the
patrol car in a hurry, saying, “If he drives
away from that yard, I’ll get him.”
The man drove away from his yard, and
the policeman DID get him and carried him
in to city hall. From this point on the story is
quite different from what you might guess, or
what the above details might lead you to be
lieve.
The witness to the foregoing asked Chief
of' Police P. O. James later in the day what
happened to the man. The chief replied, “We
sent him home.”
Somewhat shocked, the witness asked,
“No charges?” Chief James replied, “None.”
Shocked for sure now, the witness had
already expressed some disgust for such a
police department before the police chief ex
plained his side.
Here’s the gist of the reasoning which led
the chief to free a man who had been observ
ed obviously under the influence of alcohol by ,
the policeman who brought him in, as well
as the other witness, five minutes before driv
ing on Mount Olive’s streets:
The policeman observed the way the man
drove. There was no weaving, he apparently
had control of the car, made all stops and
starts as well as anybody, before being picked
up. At the police station, he walked and talk
' ■■ ed, the chief said, all right. With these things
observed, even if the shock of arrest had the
sobering effect, on what grounds could he
cite the man for driving under the influence
of intoxicants?
This didn’t completely satisfy the chiefs
questioner, but he began to see in his mind’s
eye what prompted the release of the driver.
He could see a smart defense lawyer make
a fool out of the police if they didn’t see him,
I: drink, and he drpve, walked.and talked in
a satisfactory manner. Even with two wit
nesses that he was acting in a drunken man?
ner five minutes before he drove his car, there
f.. would be little use in prosecuting such a
:• case. Who could swear he was drunk instead
i of sick, like the famous case of the judge
■ sometime ago?
A driver in the shape that man must have
been can often make a long trip without mis
; hap, as long as nothing but steering the car
; is involved. However, even one drink in the
^ drinkingest drinker around affects his re*
flexes. What if some child had darted sud
' denly in front of the car? In his condition, he
| might have pressed the accelerator instead
P of the brake. Yet, according to Chief James*
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reasoning following many such, cases, the ac
cident would be “unavoidable”—because “he
.drove straight, walked straight, and talked
straight." .
Something is wrong with a ^aw or courts
which, won’t allow conviction of a man for
drunken driving until he’s so drunk he can’t
start the car to begin with. Ask any patrol
man, anyone in the highway safety de
partment, the drinking driver most in
volved in wrecks and causing the most
'deaths and injuries is not the “sloppy”
drunk—it’s.the one who’s had “only one or
two” drinks* or a beer or two, and can “drive
straight, walk straight and talk straight.”
Just a smell of the breath is all that should
be necessary. If a man has drunk ANY alco
holic beverage, he shouldn’t drive. If he does
drive and is caught at it, there should be no
“degree” of alcoholic influence. He had it in
him, or he didn’t. • '
North Carolina.has cut traffic deaths so
far this year way under last year, an accomp
lishment which should, earn the highway pa
trol, police and drivers a pat on the upper
spine. If something could be done to put the
above type of driver off the highways, there
would be the biggest drop in traffic deaths in
motoring history. i
If some law is possible to allow the one
drink driver to suffer the penalty all drink
ing drivers deserve, it most likely will never
be passed. Why? Because drinking to some ex
tent is so universal now that there probably
will never be enough legislators who are tee
totallers, or who NEVER drive with a recent
drink under their belts, to vote for and pass
such a bill.—E.B.
ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
Writing in a national magazine recently, James
R. Morris, a University of Chicago economist and
specialist on labor unions, deals in considerable
detail with a case which, in the view of many, may
prove to be a milestone in the tangled history of
labor legislation. The case is that of Sandsberry vs.
Sante Fe, and Mr. Morris* article carries the de
scriptive title, “The Right to Work.”
Curiously enough, as Mr. Morris points out,
. . the Supreme Court has never ruled on the
constitutionality of compulsory union membership as
a condition of employment.” Now there are several
cases involving the issue which may reach that
tribunal. And one of the most significant of these,
Mr. Morris states, is Sandsberry vs. Sante Fe.
Under the original Railroad Labor Act, passed
in 1932, compulsory union membership was prohibit
ed—any railroad worker was free to join or not
join, as he chose. In 1951, Congress amended the
act to make the union permissible. The Sante Fe
Railway opposed the demands of the unions in this
regard, even though threatened with a strike. Then
ip 1953, thirteen Sante Fe employes went into thd
108th District Court of Texas and asked for a perm
anent injunction against a union shop agreement
between the Sante Fe and the unions, on the grounds
that such an agreement would deprive them of
rights guaranteed under both federal and state condi
tions.
The jury held for the plaintiffo and against the
unions. Last February 8th the judge, E. C. Nelson,
granted the desired injunctions and, additionally, en
joined the union from striking to coerce the Sante
Fe into signing a union shop contract. It is Judge
Nelson’s reasoning which, Mr. Morris writes, .. was
based upon the jury’s findings of fact as well as
upon the Court's conclusions of law,” that is of
exceptional interest and significance. Judge Nelson
held that the section of the revised Railway Labor
Act which legalized the union shop is beyond the
power of Congress, and is a violation of the First,
Fifth, Ninth, Tenth and Thirteenth amendments to
the U. S. Constitution.
He also held the Texas right-to-work law valid
and applicable. He said Congress’ right to regulate
interstate commerce . . does not mean that
Congress has the right to regulate matters that
have no essential relation to interstate commerce
. . .” He emphasized that his decision was in no
way an attack on labor unions, which are .. rec
ognized as necessary and proper . . but that to
require membership in any organization as a condi
tion of the right to work ”... is repugnant to
American concepts of individual freedom.”
Finally, and perhaps most important of all, Judge
Nelson drew an analogy between the old, and long
outlawed “yellow dog” contracts and union shop
contracts. Here he said: “The evidence indicates
there was a period of union busting and head busting
and of *yellow dog’ contracts. That was wrong, but
that time, thank God, has passed. And it is just
as wrong now that the unions should endeavor to
compel men and women to join a union at the
price of holding their jobs. The right answer is that
they must be free to join, as they as individual per
sons choose to do.”
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Great Planet Neptune Was
Ignored When First Found
By SKI SCOPS i
Neptune is the last oi the great
planets in the solar system. You
remember, we said Uranus was dis*
covered by accident, but not Nepi
tune. Why? For a long time aatrtn
omers and scientists knew our old
friend Uranus was being “pushed
around”, something was making -it
wobble. No respectable, worthwhile
planet the size of Uranus would be
“acting up” like that. Some power,
ful outward influence was making
it stagger. J
Two men, wholly independent of
each other, set out, by calculation
and pure thinking, to locate this in
fluence, which they believed W_he
another planet. One was an En|H|h
man named John Adams, a profes
sor at the University of Cambridge.
The other was a brilliant' yoiing
French astronomer by the namfeof
LeVerrier. '
Now here is where we have''an
international controversy arming,
Adams sent his calculations to the
then British Astronomer Royal* by
the name of Airy. He must nave
been a stuffed shirt, for he scojftd
at the young man’s work and stdtfr
ed them in the dustiest pigeonhole
of his desk. He made some little
casual observation, then said no
planet. LeVerrier, not knowing of
Adam’s work, assembled his own
work and sent them to the French
Academy of Sciences. These folks
were not overly impressed, so Le
Verrier wrote to a famous German
astronomer.
Ur. uaiie aia just iaai on ine
very first night the information
reached him and low and behold
he found the new planet within
one degree of where LeVerrier
told him to look. After Galle made
his announcement things really be
gan to happen. England belatedly
claimed the victory, then th6
French press took it up and was
very bitter on the subject.
In the meantime, while this con
troversy raged, this newly found
planet, the eighth in the solar sys
tem, went serenely on its way at
the relatively glow papa of 44, miles
per second. After things cooled off
and as all true scientists do, they
put aside their claims and griev
ances, then named the new planet
Neptune, selected from the Olymp
ian deities and known as the god
of the seas.
Out of this world? Yes, just a
little. Only two and a- half billion
miles from the sun. How cold?
Just a little chilly-^-364 degrees
below zero F. This bitter cold plan
et makes its awesome journey
around the sun every 188 years.
It is really a big boy. The “waist
line” is 33,000 miles. The extreme
cold has stabilized its atmosphere
to such an extent that it is too
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NEWS for VETERANS
Veterans planning to start Ko
rean GI Bill training before the
forthcoming August 20 cut-off date
were urged by the Veteran*- Ad
ministration to give extra-special
thought to their choice cf a train
ing program.
The reason, VA said, la that aft
er the cut-off date, the law tight
ens up appreciably on n veteran’s
right to change Ida course. He
no longer wiH be allowed to make
hie one-and-only course change
with the same ease that it could
be made before toe deadline.
At any time before the cut-off
date, the Korean GI Bill permits
a veteran one change of course.
So leng as Ida conduct and prog
reee were satisfactory, he has a
relatively free hand in making the
change. It could be from law to
engineering; from air condition
ing to airplane mechanics; the
choice was his.
But once the cut-off date peases,
VA said, the one-and-only free
change-of-course provision no long
er holds good. After that time, a
veteran may change his course
ooly under **n#» of the fallowing
circumstances:
1. The course he went* to change
to ia a normal progression from
the course he has already taken.
For example, if he obtained US
AB degree, he would be permitted
to change to an MA degree. .!
3. He haan't been making sat
isfactory progress In the course
he was taking, due to no fault of
his own. If this is the case, tm
will be required to undergo VA
vocational counseling, to help hhg
select a new ooune mere in keep
ing with hie aptitudes nad abili
ties.
The August 9B Korean 61 HI
cut-off applies only to puet-KoseS
veterans separated' mot settop
service before August 90, 1909.
Veterans who got out of active
service after that date have ten
years from separation fe;whicb to.
begin their training. 1
Newly-separated veterans in toil*
latter group need not worry abort
having their cos change-of-coume
rights curtailed until after their
individual cutoff date* wine
around, VA said. .
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thick and rigid to permit an ac
curate estimlate of the planet’s
speed of revolution. Its day is about
16 of our hours. Neptune has one
large moon called Triton, which is
a trifle larger than our moon. It
also has maybe one or two very
.small moons. Triton has a retro
grade movement,* that is, it moves
backwards, from east to west.
Neptune is too faint to be visible
with the naked eye. A good pair of
opera glasses or a small telescope
will show it. With a large telescope
it appears to have a greenish cast
and is easiy perceived. It has a sol
id central core, a thick layer of ice
and a cold deep complex atmos
phere; which follows the unpleasant
pattern of the giant planets in be
ing composed targelV of methane.
Neptune must be a Cold lonely plan
et, without the remotest vestige of
life whatsoever.
Indian Springs
(By Jackie Coker) *
Hie Rev. W. W. Clarke of Duke
University will fill his regular ap
pointment Sunday morning at the
Indian Springs Methodist church.
Jackie Coker spent Thursday
night in Greenville with Mr. and
Mrs. W. W. Ballenger.
Miss Angeline Coker left Satur
day for a month’s visit in Colum
bia, S. C., with Mr. andMrs. Wil
lie Coker. , , „
Mr. and Mrs. Jones and family
of Kentucky are new neighbors
in this section.
R. K. Lewis, Mrs. Viola Hines
and Bobbie Anderson left Sunday
for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Whicker of Washington, D. C.
Mary and Merrill Carter* of
Goldsboro are visiting their grand
parents, Ilf/aMfM T. A. Cart
er, this week.
OToSW;ittve a barbecue
dinner Sunday Tn honor of bis
unmet ~—
wife’s birthday. Among the ap
proximately T5 that attended were
guests fronf Virginia.
Mr. and Mrs. Genell Rose and
family of Selma spent Sunday with
Mrs. Mamie Turner. ^ ._
Mr and Mrs. L. E. Creechwere
visited* Monday by Mrs. L H.
Witherington and children of New
Bern. » , ,
Mrs. Babbie Amette and son of
the Long Ridge community are
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Roland Kor
To&
*wjert Dickinspn left Sunday for
Military Reserve camp with a
group from Goldsboro.
Marion Shivar of Daly’s Chapel
is visiting the Rev.- and Mrs. Wes
ley Price. „ „ ,.
Mrs. Kenneth Carter of Golds
boro visited Mrs. Walter Creech
*'Sr?3and Mrs. A. K. Holmes . of .
Seven Springs visited Mr. and Mrs.
John Hancock Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Junior Hollowell ■J\i
of Kinston visited Mr. atad Mrs.
Sam Hardison Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Pearsall of
Norfolk, Va., Is visiting Mrs. T.
L. Sasser. ..'t '
T. K. Holmes of High Falls is
visiting in this neighborhood.
The Woman’s Auxiliary of the
Free Will Baptist meets Friday
night in the home of Mrs, Paul
Smith.
M/Sgt. Nathan Garner and his
Wife, Mae; of Fort Bragg and
Mount Olive, respectively, were
victors at Wayne’s Chapel Sunday
night.
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