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THE NEWS-JOUBNAL,
THURSDAY, APRIL f, 1953
The News-Journal
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Published Every Thursday at R-'ord, N. C.
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PAIX DICKSON
Entered as second-class mail matter at the post
office at Raeford. N. C, under the Act of March 3, 1870
FARM ITEMS
County Agent
SMALL GRAIN SCHOOL
The prospects for the small
grain crop in Hoke County
are very bright at this time. When
a good crop of grain is har'est
ed, the problems of marketing,
storage, insect control, and hand
ling problems always arises. Far
mers who produce small grain
and com are always seeking var
ieties that will produce larger
yields of higher quality grain.
The County Agent's office
realizing all of the problems that
confront small grain producers,
has arranged a one day small
grain school for Hoke County
farmers. The program will be
conducted by specialists from N
C. State Colleee. The school will
cover small grain and corn pro
duction, harves'ir.g and storage,
insect and disease control, mar
keting, varieties, grading, and
other subjects concerning small
grain and corn production. j
This meeting will be held ir.
the Lion's Den located in the
County office building on Thurs
day, April 16 starting at 9 00 a
m. All Hoke County farmers who
produce small grain are invited
and urged to attend this meet
ing. 4-H LIVESTOCK JUDGING
A 4-H Club livestock team from
Hoke County entered the judging
contest at the Rocky Mount Fat
Stock Show on April 1. This was
the first 4-H judging team to
represent Hoke County in a judg
ing contest. The team was com
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posed of James Potter, Bobby
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ney Turner, all members of the
Hoke County 4-H Club. They
were coached by James H. Pre
vette, County Agent.
In the contest at Rocky Mount,
the boys judged two classes of fat
hogs and two classes of fat steers
giving oral reasons on one class of
each.
The Hoke County team plac
ed 10th out of 25 teams entered
in the contest. The boys were
really proud of this placing and
are looking forward to the State
contest to be held at State College
in July.
PERSONALS
Mrs. W. C. Ketchel and Bren
da, spent Sunday with her father
Mr. John Conoly of Dundarrach.
James Alexander visited Mr.
and Mrs. L. B. Poole in Belmont
the pas, week-end.
Mrs. W. B. Crumpton of Bel
mont spent the week-end with
her m-.ther. Mrs. B. R. Gatlin.
Mrs. F. G. Leach and Anne
visited the gardens at Wilming
ton on Saturday.
Mrs. Lois Mauksby is a pati
ent at Moore County hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Webb
and daughter visited relatives at
Reidsville and Madison.
Charles Hostetler of Raleigh
visited friends in Raeford the
as! week-end.
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North Carolina Press Association
Directors Condemn Secret Sessions
The following statement was
released today by the directors
of the North Carolina Press As
sociation:
"We deplore the action of the
North Carolina General Assembly
in legalizing the secret sessions of
its Joint Appropriations Commit
tee and sub-committees.
"We have given careful, earn
est, calm study to all of the avail
able facts and considerations in
volved "Our organization represents
some 200 member newspapers.
Moreover, it appears that every
newspaper in North Carolina with
a few exceptions each speaking
for itself, is of the same mind as
all the others on this issue.
"But in what we say here, we
speak as citizens a group of cit
izens whose profession daily re
minds its members of the impor
tance, in a democracy, of the free
flow of information. . .
"And let us make it clear that
we claim for the press neither in
fallibility nor special priviledge.
We make our share of mistakes.
And such rights as we have as a
free press, we have solely because
of a larger right the right of
the people to know.
"This issue would be the same,
and equally important, if there
were not one newspaper in North
Carolina; if the people of this
state were dependent for their in
formation on pony express, or
carrier pigeon, or word of mouth
report. ,
"Indeed, what the newspapers
and what the board may say is
relatively unimportant. The facts
are important. The facts speak
7'oudest and most clearly.
"Any honest and objective con
sideration of those facts leads
straight and inevitably to the con
clusion that, in the action last
Tuesday:
"1. The General Assembly act
ed hastily.
"The votes in both Houses,
were taken under suspension of
the rules; on a voice vote, with
little debate, with no committee
study, and without public hear
ing the latter despite the fact
that both Houses were advised
that telegraphic requests for such
a hearing were en route to Ra
leigh. "2. In haste, the General As
sembly made a basic change in
the Budget Act, which for 28
years had required the Joint
and Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Lowe
of Charlotte spent the week-end
with D. Scott Poole.
Miss Katherine Blue of Char
lotte spent the Easter vacation
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
H. Blue.
Mrs. H. B. Nixon has been visit
ing relatives and friends in Mt.
Airy.
WASHINGTON Tnere is a note
worthy dearth of birthday greetings-chappy
or otherwise in Con
gress for the income tax, which
marks its 40th anniversary this
year.
This no doubt is due principally
to Congressional preoccupation
with the argument over whether
individual income taxes should be
reduced June 30, as Rep. Reed
(R-N.Y.) and his supporters want
or December 31, as prescribed by
the present law.
The intensity of . this debate,
which flares spasmodically and
promises to grow warmer, is iron
ic in view of the way the income
tax was born.
Its opponents then were less
concerned with its effects on in
come than with the fear that it
would work to reduce protective
tariffs by making revenues from
those tariffs unnecessary, which
it did. Its supporters were bi
partisan. Most of its supporters viewed
the income tax as something to be
used only in wartime or .other
period of grave emergency. Few
of them foresaw that it quickly
would become the country's chief
revenue producer. And it seems
safe to say that none of them ex
pected that this tax, which pro
duced less than 1 per cent of
about $700 million in total reven
ues in 1913, would account for
nearly 80 per cent of more than
YOU and
YOUR fl
.CONGRESS
Appropriations Committee and its
subcommittee to hold open ses
sions. "This provision was written in
to the law not to meet a tempor
ary situation as last Thursday's
ammendmcnt was but as a nec
essary and just part of the law
providing for a state budget; as
a protection of the people's right
to know not only how their tax
money is apportioned, but why it
is os apportioned. The necessity
and Tightness of this provision
never before had beeen seriously
questioned. It may not always
have been scrupulously obeyed,
but we suggest that one violation
of a law does not justify another:
nor do we repeal a law simply be
cause it sometimes is broken.
"3. The General Assembly set
a dangerous precedent.
"If it is right for a committee of
the North Carolina legislature to
decide, behind closed doors, how
some three-quarters of a billion
dollars of the taxpayers money
is to be spent, why is it not right
for every county and municipal
board in this state to do the pub
lic's business in secret?
"The truth is The General As
sembly, in its haste and determin-
! ation to slap down capitol report
ers really slapped down the peo
ple of North Carolina. That is
what majorities in both Houses
did. But be it said to their credit,
a small but courageous minority
had the hardihood to speak out
in protest against this violation
of both good sense and basic free
dom. "The annoying quest of report
ers, in their role as the people's
information representatives, for
all the facts, is a necessary part
of the democratic process. It is so
recognized by both our federal
and state constitutions. And we
submit that this annoyance is a
small price indeed to pay for our
political and other freedoms
freedoms that can live only where
there is full freedom of the mind.
"The members of the appro
priations subcommittee have de
fended their action in meeting
behind closed doors by saying
that they can work more speedily
in secrecy. Whether this be true
or untrue is of no consequence,
for it has never been claimed for
the democratic form of govern
ment that one of its virtues is
speed.
"The best government, the most
$70 billion in over-all tax collec
tions this year.
Neither House nor Senate held
hearings in 1909 on the joint re
solution to amend the Constitu
tion to permit an income tax not
levied on the basis of state popu
lations (16th Amendment). Neith
er chamber debated the measure
more than a couple of hours and
the House passed it 318-14; the
Senate, 77-0. The necessary 36
states ratified the proposed
making it effective in February,
1913.
The new income tax was first
put in force, in a minor way, in
1913.
Lengthy debate over tariff re
vision in the Senate in 1909, in
volving nearly 850 amendments
to a House-passed bill and recur
ring argument over an income
tax, ran into June before being
broken by President Taft with a
compromise.
He asked Congress to propose
a Constitutional amendment to
permit a federal income tax and,
meanwhile, to pass a small cor
poration tax as an excise on the
privilege of doing business rather
than levy on corporate income.
I A Constitutional amendmbent was
considered necessary to clear the
legal air. The Supreme Court up
held an income tax which was
imposed during the Civil War
and expired in 1872 but subse
quently held that a later one, en
acted in 1894quently held that a
later one, enacted in 1894, was
unconstitutional.
President Taft's intervention in
June, 1909 tipped the scales. A
resolution to amend the Consti
tution for income tax purposes,
which Senator Norris Brown (R
Neb. ) had introduced back in
April, was dusted off by the Sen
ate Finance Committee and, as
noted, sailed through handily.
Congress also enacted the corpor
ation excise levy to meet immed
iate revenue needs and it was up
held by the Supreme Court, which
decided it was not an income tax.
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showed that leafspot of peanuts
can be controlled by using sul
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just government, and the only
government that governs by right,
is that government which reflects
the matured judgement of the
majority of its citizens.
"The majority of American cit
izens can be trusted, to distinguish
truth from error, and to make
wise and right dicUions.
"Last Thursday's legislative
action dealing with a matter of
vital Importance, set a danger
ous precedent. It should be re
scinded. "By such action, the legisla
ture would be doing a service to
the cause of good government,
and to the cause of freedom.
"We believe these things. And
we are convinced that most mem
bers of this assembly, in their
hearts, believe them too."
RESOLUTION"
Be it resolved by the
Board of the North Carolina
Press Association in special emer
gency meeting assembled in Ra
leigh, N. C, on this March thirty
first, 1953:
1. The Board of pirectors of
the North Carolina Press Asso
ciation respectfully petitions the
General Assembly to repeal the
law permitting censorship bud
get deliberations by the joint ap
propriations committee and the
sub-committees. .
2. The Board also requests that
a public hearing be held, after
due notice on the bill to repeal
the secrecy law.
3. The Board commends the ac
tions of the Capitol newspaper
reporters in resisting this or any
other infringement of the right of
the' people to know how their
public affairs are managed.
Scouts Planning;
(Continued from Page 1)
check in at headquarters and a
meeting of discussion leaders
and advisors plus a meeting of
Scoutmasters, Assistant Scout
masters and Senior Patrol lead
ers will follow.
Saturday, April 18, the Invoca
tion will be given by Reverend
D. C. Webber, pastor of Carolina
Beach Community Church. May
or A. L. Mansfield of Carolina
Beach will give the Welcome ad
dress and Wallace West, Council
Training Chairman, will give the
Greeting Message.
In addition, Clifton L. Moore,
District Solicitor and Council
Commissioner, will deliver the
keynote address and Gray Collier,
Conference Secretary and Scout
in troop 627, Bladenboro, will
address the gathering on "Scout
Ideals."
Saturday's program also will
include 10 group discussions on
subjects chosen by the Scouts.
They include: "Getting Parents
and Troop Committees Interest
ed;" Achieving Discipline through
Leadership and Planning," "Con-
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ducting Patrol Meetings"; "Emer
gency Service and Civil Defense";
"Patrol Hiking and Camping;"
and "Investiture and Installation
Ceremonies and the Boy Scout
Advancement Program."
In addition five groups of Pa
trol Leaders and Assistants; two
groups of Senior Patrol Leaders;
one group of Explorer Crew
Leaders and Assistants; one group
of Troop Scribes and Quarter
masters; and one group Den
Chiefs will meet in discussion
sessions.
Sunday's program will include
Scout worship services and final
adjournment
Cornwall advised all Scouts
planning to attend the Conference
250 persons and is on a first come,
first served basis. Scouts are al
so advised to bring their own
blankets, sheets and pillow cases.
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ence Committee, all Boy Scouts
who are responsible for the pro
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gram and their Troops are: Mar
vin Register, Troop 204, Wilming
ton; Levi Hunt, Conference Chair
man Troop 327, Pembroke; Don
ald Hearn, "Troop 447, Laurin
burg; Bert Womblc, Troop 18,
Winter Park; Malcolm McLean,
Troop 301, Lumberton; Scooter
Jordan, Post 447, Laurinburg;
John E. Thompson, Jr., Troop
501, Whiteville; Chris Spivey,
Troop 504 Chadbourn; and John
Durner, Troop 732, Burgaw.
Also Bobby Melvin. Post 800,
Elizabethtown; Gray Collier,
Troop 627, Bladenboro; Carl Britt,
Ship 32, Lumb8erton; Joe Mc
Leod, Troop 401, Raeford; Ken
ny Crutchfield, Troop 320, Fair
mont; Paul Gentry, Troop 425, '
Laurel Hill; Allen Cochran Troop
203, Wilmington; Charles M.
Stoudenmire, Post 203, Wilming
ton; Wayne Simmons, Troop 735,
Hampstead; Sam Scott, Jr., Troop
503, Fair Bluff, and Charles Cot
tingham. Troop 202, Wilmington.
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