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4 Editorial, iuiiniw office and printing plant. Kenansvillx. n. C. I ] Office. Mallard Aml. Rom Mill. N. C. J I MURPHY L. CARR. editor I | RUTH P. ORADY. ManAOIND editor A Entered At the Port Office kbnansvills. n. c.. as second class matter. A I TELEPHONE ? Kenansville. DAT iss-aiTI ? Nisht IM4MI Rods Hill, iimiii A Duplin County Journal, devoted to the rslisious. material. educational k y economic and agricultural development op duplin county. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Duplin and Adjoinino Counties Elsewhere In North Carolina s Mos. Year s Mos. Year t ? i.7b s.bo e.ee 4.so k Tax s ii Tax .or 14 i.si s.si a.aa ?.s? Outside North Carolina 0 Mos. Year ^ s.so J Vv" - v. ? fTjm^?FWy ,jn + ???? ^ arM-tr*? '"" ? "? SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK: Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me--Matthew 26:40. THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: Health is the greatest of all posesslons; a pale cobbler Is better than a sick king?Isaac Btekerstaff (1735-1812) Will Duplin Lose Her No. 1 Crop? The Federal Trade Commission Is propos ing that every package of cigarettes be brand ed with a warning such as "Caution?cig arette smoking is dangerous to health. It may cause death from cancer and other di seases." They want this warning on every advertisement and radio and television com mercial. too. The commission must be emo tionally upset and carried away with itself to make such a proposal, such warnings are not carried on many other known harmful goods and the evidence is not all in on to bacco and not conclusive by any means. There is doubt that the commission has the legal right to enforce such an order unless the to bacco companies are making false claims for the products they market. Nevertheless, the Public Health Service, an official government agency, has made a report that may have great significance on the smoking habits of millions of people Duplin farmers are concerned with the pro spect that the same government that declares smoking to be a health hazard will not offer a price support program for tobacco. Will congressmen from states not growing tobacco want to change the present leaf support plan, or maybe abandon it entirely, because they think trie commodity a possible health hazard for their people? will they think they ere working both sides of the street by voting for ceutlon labels on the product produced under a support program? Duplin had iS,291 acres of tobacco in 1963, her No. 1 crop, and produced an average of 2,131 pounds per acre to sell at 60f per pound or $19,547,189 for the crop in Duplin, a shade above the income from poultry. Farmers see a 1964 cut of 10 per cent, which in Duplin will mean 1.500 acres under last year's acreage. This of course means a cut ui farm income, but suppose the price falls back to say 1941 levels when the crop sold for 29$ a pound? Diversification may be the order of the day. Other crops, perhaps truck crops, may need to be planted that all the economy will not depend upon one crop, and that crop in trouble, not only at home but in the world market. Business men and farmers are in the same sinking boat, and some hard think ing about the future economy of Duplin is past due. if farming is to become unprofi table. then every effort must be made quick ly to secure industry to give our people work. We can not afford to wait to see what some other section or some other person is going to do about it. Action by Duplin is necessary now! Cigarettes and Liquor :!* a . i . ^ For ye?rs now. the United States Public > Health service, spurred on by cancer socie ties and other groups, has been increasingly concerned with the ill effects occasioned by those who smoke cigarettes. During the same period it has been less and less concerned about the effects of drinking liquor. Now the head of the Public Health Ser vice has gone so far as to "advise every one to discontinue smoking cigarettes' and said there would be no "foot dragging' in taking "remedial steps" to restrict smok ing. There has been no talk of "remedial steps" by the federal government to restrict drink ing. Yet. when put in the worst possible light, the number of deaths allegedly caused by smoking is quite small compared to those killed as a result of drinking. Undoubtedly some persons hasten their deaths by smok ing excessively. But they kill only them selves. Those who kill alter drinking fre quently kill others, either by driving auto mobiles while Intoxicated or by committing crimes of passion. There are other ways for heavy drinkers to kill. Their pnysical con dition not only can' deteriorate to the point of death but heavy drinking can also be conducive to mental Ulness-tne one area in which the blue ribbon panel set t*> to in vestigate the effects of heavy smoking found that the effect was beneficial to smokers. Also, heavy drinkers often impoverish their families. To be sure, the Public Health Service should collect and make public all available information about drinking and smoking and other practices detrimental to health. But be fore launching "appropriate remedies" to curb smoking, it would be well for the gov ernment to reflect upon the ultimate out come of its last action to curb use of liquor. After experiments with less drastic remedies, the 18th Amendment was adopted making Illegal the manufacture, sale and transpor tation of intoxicating liquors. After 14 years a stormy controversy, the amendment was repealed and no serious at tempt has since been made to revive it. (From The News and observer) TAXES Get Lion's Share of | TOBACCO REVENUE A TOBACCO company advertises that "21 great tobaccos make 20 wonderful smokes." But let us look at a package of cigarettes again. What Is it? It's tobacco..other materials, Including the packaging..wages..prof its..trans portation..advertising..and retailing. But mostly it is taxes. Briefly, it is 3 1/4 cents of farmer-valued tobacco plus 13 cents federal and state excise taxes plus 10 1/4 cents marketing, storage, transportation, pro cessing, packing, and retailing costs, which equal one package of 20 cigarettes. In colonial days, tobacco was money in the real sense of the word. Patrick Henry became t celebrated in a case involving value of tobacco paid to clergymen. Today, tobacco is not nor ? mally used as money, but the golden leaf is gold Indeed for many parts of our economy-most of all, the state. || EXCISE TAXES ON TOBACCO PRODUCTS V were Imposed by the Federal Government to Jihe extent of $2,025,736,000 in 1961-62. j Add to that tax load another $1,076,744,000 < collected by 47 states and the total comes to | $3,102,480,000. Compare that figure to the Si $1,291,000,000 cash value of tobacco crop to pi the farmer in 1962, and you come up with a | tax load of $2.40 for eacn $1 received by the ^grower. But that is not all the tax, an exact ^measure for which is not available. Local Kpwernment tax on tobacco products for 1962 ^?nted to about $80,000,000 (actually? H $76,354,000 the preceding year) District of. ??tefcta tax, not included in the above, was ?$<$79,000. Add still more, the sales tax lm ?oeed by many states and, in some cases. Hjnycxi have arrived at a round figure of $3 tax return for each $1 received by me grow Hh^some this ration^fabout $3 tobacco tax f) " ?? jf tobacco. But part of United SUtes product ion is exported and thus not subject to excise ux. on the other hand, imported tobacco used in American products' manufacturing would produce part of the U.S. tobacco tax revenue. Disregarding changes in stabilization stocks, net poundage available to American manu facturers- after reducing production by the 468,900,000 pounds really exported and adding back the 164.100.000 pounds of import-would be equal to only 87? of 1962 crop. These comparisons of tobacco tax revenue for 1962 to the farmer's tobacco Income for the same year are, in effect, considering only part of the crop. In reality, 1932 crop will produce most of its tax revenue two and three years later as it moves into market as finished products. Since cigarettes are taxed at somewhat higher rates than other tobacco products and represent largest part of tobacco crop, tax resulting from producers of cigarette-type tobaccos brings In substantially more than the $3 for each $1 received by the grower. FOR EACH PACKAGE OF CIGARETTES sold in America, the Federal Government collects 8 cents. States add 2 to 8 cents per package tax. All states now have a cigarette tax except North Carolina, Oregon, and Co lorado. . ' _> Tax revenue produced by tobacco products has increased much more rapidly than has farmer income from tobacco. Average gross farm income for tobacco for the period 1986 69 was $1,088,000,000. For 1962 It was $1,291. 000.00). la 1967-68 states collected $816, 218.010 for tobacco tax; but by 1961-62 state tax returns had increased to $1,076,744,000. During the same period, federal tobacco tax collections increased from $1,784,021,000 to $2,026,736,000. This large tax increase re 1 an increase in i ? iber I tax v '? rom 421047 ar increases it * tax rate. TOBAQCC TAXES HIDDEN COSTS ? ?nd the average tobacco user seldom raeiltaa low much tax he is now paying. Census Bureau report says that stste taxes on tobacco products averaged $8.91 to 1962 for avery man. woman and raid in America. Or comparison, state property tax averaged only $3.53 per capka. Public utility sales and recipes taxes, $2.30 per capita. m dollars, the states' 1963 fiscal year re turns from tax on tobacco products ranged from $1 i million in Wyoming to $128.2 million in Now York. The pack-a-dav smoker, on the average spends $96.72 for cigarettes, of this $18.28 goes to state and $29.20 for federal excise tax. Naturally, state tax revenue does not accrue o the tobacco-producing states alone. South Carolina farmers sold their 1962 crop for $113 million. But the stste collected only $10.7 million In tobacco products tax. Vlr gtnla producers received $106 million for theli ? crop and the state >lle< trd $16.3 million in tobacco tax. in California. on the other hand, faraars grew no tobacco, but the state collected $63.2 million In tobacco tax. Tobacco Tax Council reports that the excise I and sales taxes on cigarettes alone "currently exceed the combined excise and sales taxes on the following Items: automobiles; radio and television sets; refrigerators; electric, gas, and oil appliances; luggage, sporting goods; jewelry; furs; end cosmetics.' The tobacco farmer may conclude that what he needs Is a larger share of total revenue produced by his golden leaf. (Prepared by Dr. Frank P. King, director Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station and published In the December Progressive Far mer). EMERGENCY CAll 1TV. REPAIR SHOP I THIS IS MRS. SMITH, I CALLED THIS MORNING ABOUT MY TV. WOT WPRKlN6..P0VtXJ THINK 1 YOU .CAN GET OUT HEREN oivr 1 M( TL"? (j 'Hioe'/ T?* w?**J -(mom won't , let us out ? in this weather i , 5 Henderson On i Smoking Report I was not surprised at the report Issued by Dr. Terry and the Advisory Committee. Most of us had etqxcted the commit tee to render a report unfavor able to smoking. The commit tee's report should not, how ever, be cause for panic. In the first place It does not con tain any new factual Informa tion, clinical date, or evidence not previously publicized. The committee was careful to point out that it performed no ex periments; did not research and developed no new facts. It sim ply made an evaluation of ex isting information. What we have then, is the in dividual and collective opinion of ten men. nine of whom are medical doctors. 1 do net be lieve there are many thoughtful persons in the United States who did not already think that heavy smoking could contribute to ill health. I do not believe that many will change long-standing i established habits because of the expressed opinion of a 10 man committee. 1 do hope and believe that as a result of this study and this report, additional experimenta tion and research can and will be done to the end that harm ful elements in tobacco can be Identified and eliminated. Bible Facts Of Interest BY MRS. ELLA V. PR1DGEN All well trained children are taught to say ' Thank You' to those hwo give gifts to them. Can't you say "Thank You" to God. A pagan Chinese emperior God. A pagan Chinese emperor of 1539 in his prayer uttered this penetrating question, "Whence do our blessing come to us." Immediately to us.' immediately after asking this question, he ans wered It thus: "It is Thou O Lord, who art the true parent of all things", How utterly true "Even life itself belongs to him who created us." (Psalm 92) "It Is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord." If you hooestlv believe this statement you will express your thanks in song. "But" you say. "I cannot carry a tune in a basket." Of course not: Baskets were not made for this purpose. Paul has given us the right Idea about Where to carry a tune "singing and making melody to the Lord with all your heart Al ways and for everything flvlng ways and for everything giving thanks in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father." It Is to God that you are offering your praise. He has given you equipment In mind, and voice for giving thanks. Use it; Maybe you can Improve It on use. We can express thanksgiving to God as we sing from our hearts some of the great praise hymns. Read the last six Psalms 145 through 150. (Taken from Adult student) ?b MfMTAMi mm nam runinlu ^TbaCaMfarttaii^ lattato^ Jww^ M, !?*?.Hw?-W. Atowtc 1W feat tew-VA. fbaaa nil, ta Ftudm to New Yark City, mm ma** Jaaaary U, 1911. MtcUgaa WW atattaJ to fee V*tarn, limn M, 1ST. 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Hpw a miu j allies I ap pointed a "Keeper of the King's Otters" to look after the peck of tame aquatic mammals tra ined to catch fish for Ms table, the National Geographic says. f 't mmtmmL: ' Thar* are a lot of good wajra to booomo o failure, bat nerer Uhtog^a obanoo la tho moat Jlfeanr From DiMiM Mums., llawtsTnrg Okie: I would like a turn back the pom at time, aaybe ?Utt yam or more, to a old (akhtoned Christmas on be farm, and atomp mow from ay feet at the kitchen door, fee oil lamp, dean and spar ing with reflector, to throw the Ight, cauae everything at that Ime muat be burniahed, pollahed >nd bright Christmas Eve and Chriatmas Jay were the climax of great (reparations. It took an entire nonth to get ready (or the cele o be decorated, the entertain nent planned, aheeta brought !rom home (or the entire atage a be apanped. Chriatmaa Eve at the achool raa really packed, everyone nne to aee the ahow. We never marled, that they would come, there waa no place elae to go. Our Chriatmaa tree at achool waa really a work at art, ao each knew juat what to bring, teacher would write things on a chart. Each bring ten yarda at popcorn; K you have it, aome tinael too; if not, bring (our bright balla and stars, or stars cut from can lids will do. We tied the popcorn strings together and draped them on the tree, with tinsel, bright balla and stars, it was a beauti ful sight to aee. At home it waa much the same story, at night we were busy as bees We muat have strung miles at popcorn, to take care of both Chriatmaa trees. TW OM SSwtJ^alwV?SmtbH. Kr!) u ? Win GIVES A HANDS-OFF PLAN FOR HANDLING RETIRED HUSRAND Women keep fussing over what to do with a husband when he retires and comes home to live?for 24 hours a day. There appeared here recently the account of a wife who was ready to move some mountains if necessary to snap her retired hus band out of the doldrums she saw him sinking into. There were some suggestions, which ranged from pushing him out the front door to mingle with people, to finding something that would make him mad enough to get up out of his chair and move. Now comes a wife who says that's a lot of nonsense. "Let the husband alone when he retires." she says "Let him find his adjustment and his hap piness without scolding from th: wife." And then she recounts how she manages her husband, who retired about a year ago with no desire for a job and no in terest in hobbies:. "He loves to sleep late. So I let him If I awake and get up early 1 do things that are quiet ?4 wont disturb him?dust the furtuiuie, clean the windows, write letters, iron, or mend I also make coffee and eat breakfast alone if I feel like it My bus band doesn't mind. "When he gets up I turn on the TV and get the news and weather report. He goes for a brisk walk before he has his breakfast, and while he's gone I run the vacuum cleaner. I try to accompany him on the walks two or three times a week. "After be has his breakfast he goes out to sit on our jalousied front porch to enjoy the scenery, especially the pine trees, and listen to the birds sing. "Then it is time to go to the Post Office, and while he's tone I start dinner, which we have about 1 ITM. (This couple, as you have figured by now, is retired deep in Dixie.) "Meanwhile, we do the grocery shopping together. And if there are any chores to be done around the house or yard, including mow ing the grass, he does them. But he does them only when he's in the mood, and he takes his time. "After dinner he takes a brief nap and then looks at TV for an hour After that he reads the newspaper thoroughly. Then he takes his shower. Then he goes back to sit on the porch some more He loves that porch. "When the news programs come on TV we look at them, have a light supper, then enjoy TV and reading until bedtime My husband loves to study maps of the U S. and the world, and pores over them from time to time for hours "About once a week we play bridge. We go to church on Sunday. We enjoy friends who drop by occasionally "All this may sound dull, dis mal. and sluggish But he is happy and well, and so am I.. There you have the "order of the day" of one retired couple, and it differs only in small de gree from the schedule of living that countless retired people are following. Though they usually fall into it around 71 instead of at 06. Such a pattern, for a couple who has successfully struggled through to retirement, is certain ly their right. If they want it. And one is not inclined to criticise. Htm GOLDEN TEA US M-pac* MM Hf int. SaM IN la cda <aa staappa). ta Dapt. CSPS, Sax UJI, Graai Caatral ,,.lU. M._ Tart 17. N T Boston Common set as toe in 1634 as public property, ranks as America's oldest public park, the National Geographic says. In 1830, the city fathers drove off the cows and planted nil flmffira. . An extra lavatory can take some of the pressure from an always-busy, large-family bath room. Bathroom traffic is heavy in the large family, particularly when there are many children. Much of the traffic, however, is "washing hands" and cleaning up before meals, etc. If the bathroom is large enough, a double lavatory is the answer. If there isn't enough room for such a facility, H may be possible to locate the lavatory in an adjoining room. Placing the now lavatory beek to-back with existing plumbing If desired the new lav#f*>r> can be hidden behind a room divider when not in wa. Uncle Pete From tiittlin SwM| 1 DEAR MR. EDITOR: The feller# ?t the country ' store Saturday night was in a state of confusion over the po- < lit leal situation. Most of the ' fellers was agreed the politi cal front was sitting as can- I fused as the battle lines in Viet- i nam and the Congo. Zeke Grubb reported he had , saw in the papers where candi date Rockefeller says he's win ning agin the "Four-D FOr- | mat Ion-debt, disaster, deceit, and Democrats.' flow the so ' ever and at the same time, Zeke said, Rockefeller allow ed as how he ain't promising no miracles if he gits to Wash ington. After the miracles we've had in Washington fer the last 12 year, like Billy Sol Estes and Bobby Baker, fer instant, I hope whoever wins will give us a few small ones to taper off on so's to keep us from creak ing up and girting the heebie It's hard, Mister Editor, to flgger out them politicians. A Republican candidate will sit up on the stump and say trie country is zigging, and the De mocrat candidate will allow as how the Democrats has been busy fer four years trying to git the sag out of the zls from Ike's eight year in Washington. A heap of tne candidates ain't got the answers to nothing, but I never knowed one that didn't keep a big stock of replies on hand. Farthermore. it has got so the candidates at national level is using a heap of new words that was contusing to the voters. F ?r Instant, one Teller running fer Congress says we need more '??roupmanshij ' amongst our antes abroad. I reckon this Is First cousin to that "together ness" business we been hear ing about. J 1 may be glttlng old and fcet In my ways but It's hard far me to see what groupmtn shlp has got to do with our bodks . being $315 billion In the red / add $8 billion out of balance fer the year. While the Go vernment Is flxUw us up vdth fall-out shelters <gln wast might come from Russia, $aj ougnt to give us oxygen tents fer what we know Is coming from Washington. Even Ed Dooltaje, that Is a authority on politics, special the Republican brand, $ays hecm t tell up from down or frant from back about the polit$al double talk now going about the candidates. Ed says It makes him recollect about the fellers in the cafe complaining to me waiter the water was mutfy. < The waiter Jumped all over the feller, claiming he couldn't see rl, said they wasn't nothing matter wttn the water, jhe glass was Just dirty.. Zeke was of the-opinion bath sides would have to set up some of them Msrkus of Queenberhy rules or the water was going to too muddy Or the gldss too dirty fer the voters to mil from nothing what it'ssllsbcw. Yours truly Uncle Pete. y . j llf. ROBERT B. HARPER FIXING TNI lUMf < SOON AFTER the late President 1 Kennedy died of an asaaasin'i 1 fun in Dallas, Texas, certain 1 knowing ones over the country began to enlighten the rest of us as to our responsibility for the slaying. The three quarter of a million people in Dallas are not all guilty because the crime was committed in that city What mat ters is that thousands in Dallas had given a great welcome to the President of their country, the thousands who dwell there par ticipated. Notwithstanding the fact that the high-powered rifle mmssm inhabitants of that city are in nocent Such criticism as has been di rected to Dallas because of the slaying of the late President would be ridiculous if it were not so tragic. It reveals the preju dice of some who cling to "sec tionalism." Not all the people who dwell in the south are wicked and abandoned men Neither are all the people of Dallas to be blamed as evil any more than all actors should be condemned because an actor. John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln Cairn terriers got their name from their ability to squeeze in to rock piles for foxes and wild cats. i ? ? forth* : REM: A push-button snU-OMt oil spray is the newest aid dor protecting tire chains, ice skates, tied runners, snowblowers and tee choppers from the effects of Win ter sleet and snow. When spnfed on equipment, the anti-rust sol vent leaves a thin protective abat ing. which will not rub off*tar contact with cloth, paper or w*>d. ITEM: A coffee can that oAns like a pack of cigarettes is being test marketed in aome aectftos of the country. The new (toe pound metal container featia-es an easy-pull opening of aluminum foil tape on the side oMheim virtually all products ?Udf use key-open collar style cans, inctad ing such food items as shortening and nuts y - ? ? ? ITEM: When painting large surfaces (walls, ceilings, etc.), select colors that are best suited to meet lighting conditions. White provides the greatest amount, of reflection. While providing less reflection than white, the pastel hues are superior to the darker tones. ? ? ? REM: Experts say a period sleeps best in a space 39 inches wide and at least fl inches longer than he is. When sleeping spbee is not enough for healthful, com fortable rest, the supersixe ntot tress (2 feet wider and B in ches longer) will solve the prob lem. _ lMark SBetajr? 9 Pick animal 14 Choice ml 15 Acceaa It Reflection 17 Amdi It Oerbof 19 mnch sculpt or 20 Mr. Tome 21 Trick 22 Muter?? 22 Astral 29 Atoll 27 BectricaUr chargee atom 29 Laaao 29 Before 22 Fractured 39 Deprived of natural qualities 39 Gambol 39 Trill 4$ Sweet (3b|Uih river 44 Russian city 43 Vermin 48 Affair of honor 47 Modified 3! Rah! 34 Circulate 34 --- Peron 37 Man's name 84 Back of the neck 50 Verity 40 Line ap 41 Pieces oat 42 Dwarf 83 Drink to 44 Dispatched 45 Predicament DOWN k -?*;>' i:. 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