pjg^tl^xjplin ?nme.s-progreaa^mg^mam4. 1964 II ~~~ SENTINEL I MURPHY l CARR. Editor j ruth P. 0RAOY. Manmim Editor f a intm At Tns post omci Kmmwvmu n. c.. as means class nattsr. 1 i TIUPHONI ? kxnansvills. oat isa-aiti ? nmht ???->141 A Duplin County Journal, pstuiio to tms usurious, material. sdocatmnau | i boon on ic ana asmcultural dsvxlopmsnt op durun county. i a SUBSCRIPTION RATES duplin and aojoinins countiss elaswmsrs in north carolina smos. Tsar smos. Tsar ? i et-ts a. so ms ass k Tax s it Tax at ia i .si s.ai ml a.aa Owtmds North Carouna A smos. Tsar | r.ts no ^ SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK: Woe to him that is alone when he falteth; for he hath not another to help him up! ? Ecclesiasters 4:10 THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: Education is what you have left over when you subtract what you've forgotten from what you learned. ? Unknown. Duplin Farm Land Taxes Should Be Reduced Tobacco was used as a (actor to deter mine the value of a (arm at the time at the new appraisal several years ago. Wood land had one value, pasture land another, good land was valued higher than poor soB. Land having a tobacco allotment was valued highest at all. This was not a tax on tobacco, but a tax on the value that tobacco has to the pro perty. Tobacco is tied to the property and cannot be removed without an actual trans fer of acreage. A farm with a tobacco allot ment will bring more at auction than equally as good land right beside it without an al lotment. This places a false value on the land. It does not stand on its own bottom, but its value is based on a piece of paper, the allotment. The Federal Government has now order ed a 10% cut in allotments. Hiis caused the property to lose value. The reduction in value of the farm is in direct proportion to the cut in allotment. Should there be a re duction in tax base to compensate for this loss in value? Duplin's reduction in tobacco acreage amounts to more than 1.500 acres. If no reduction is made in taxes, the fann ers will be paying many thousands of dollars for idle land appraised at tobacco levels. President Johnson seems to have the only voice beard even mentioning economy, but many services added as war measures are still being carried on. An evaluation of all services could be made towards a reduc tion of all real property taxes. This wq^(| help secure industry to replace farm losep* and help all our people in their struggle tp meet the high cost of existence. It ig hoped that the Federal income tax reduction wfll be contagious to our State and County What Have You Done For Me Lately : ?? * j ? VAIIUU) /ilAar (The following tele was related recently by Senator Stephen M. Young of Ohio) A young man lived with his parents in a low-cost housing development in Hamilton County. He attended P#c school, rode the tree school bus, enjoyed the free lunch pro gram. Following graduation from high school, he entered the army and upon dis charge kept his National Service Life Insur ance. He then enrolled in an Ohio University, receiving regularly his GI check. Upon graduation, he married a Public Health nurse, bought a farm in southern Ohio with an FHA loan. Later going into the feed and hardware business in addition to farming, he secured help from the Small Business Administration when his business faltered. His first baby was born in the County hospital. This was built in part with Hill-Burton funds. Then he bought consider able additional acreage adjoining his farm, and obtained emergency feed from the gov ernment. He then put part of his land under the Eisenhower Soil Bank program and used the payments for not growing crops but to help pay his debts. His parents, elderly by now, were living comfortably in the smaller of his two farm homes, using their Security and Old Age Assistance checks. Lacking electricity at first, the Rural Electrification Administra tion supplied the lines, and a loan from the Farmers Home Aamimsirauuii, ircipcu vi?u the land and secure the best from it. That agent suggested building a pond, and the government stocked it with fjgh. The Gov ernment guaranteed him a sale for his farm products. The County public library delivered books to his farm door. He, of course, bonk ed his money in an institution which a Gov ernment agency had insured up to tlO.MO for every depositor. As the community grew, he signed a petition seeking federal assistance in de veloping an industrial project to help the economy of his area. About that time he pur chased business and real estate at the coun ty seat aided by an FHA loan. He was elect ed to office in the local chamber of com merce. It was rumored he joined a ceil of the John Birch society in the county seat He wrote his senators and congressman protest ing excessive government spending and Ugh taxes, and enclosed John Birch pamphlets, some containing outlandishly false state ments. He wrote, "I believe in rugged in dividualism. People should stand on their own two feet, not expect government aid. I stand on my own two feet. I oppose all those socialistic trends you have been voting for and demand return to the free enterprise system of our forefathers, I and my neigh bors intend to vote against you next year." Anybody Anything Anywhere 'We will teach anybody anything any wnere. That philosophy being put into practice by Dr. H. B. Monroe of the Wayne Technical Institute in Goldsboro already is showing re sults. In the five-county region of Wayne, Johnston, Sampson, Greene and Duplin both day and night classes are being taught in a wide range of subjects. One of the most interesting phases of the comprehensive educational program is that 200 people are learning how to read and write under the well-known Laubach system. Moreover, says Dr. Monroe, "we are pre pared to carry these students on through col lege if they so desire." The Wayne Institute's program is an ex cellent example of what is envisioned for the comprehensive community college in North Carolina. It is recognition of the fact that "the day of muscle alone is gone," and that education of the intellectually and econ omically improverished is of prime impor tance to the entire State. Significant, too, hi the Wayne program is the fact that it is carrying education to the people, and not simply waiting for the people to come to M. Here is a school that is not only fulfilling it| function but pushing onward to ever greater promise and potential. ? The News and Observer East Carolina Will Outdo Rest Of State In Industiy Eastern North Carolina ia at the (tart of a great expansion. Eastern North Caro lina today stands at the point where the Piedmont stood at the time this section be gan to make such splendid growth. This column has been making this asser tion of fact for so long that it sounds like a broken record. We have pointed out that the region's unexceBed assets of climate, people, loca tion, water, transportation and raw mater ials offer background (or building an econo my equal to that of the rich and populous In recent days a study of growth lor too next six years has been issued It was I School of the University of North Carolina ? iff ?m grant made by the N. C. Motor umm Association. The Blaine report reduces to percentage* baaed on evaluation of all factor*, the proa pecta for expansion to 1170. Eastern North Carolina lead* in all cate gories cited. The findings should give encouragement t the new drive forward now getting start* in most counties of the section. The report should stimulate all Easter North Carolina business men in their sot tion, to cooperate to the end that we ma utilise the resources we have. Here is how the "Smithfield Herald sums up the Blaine findings: Piedmont North Carolina will contiiw centhun to be the loading industrial an to the state, but Piedmont industrial gres .mtfo/.wucsv th in the next six years will be slower than industrial growth in Eastern Carolina. The East should anticipate a 13 per cent increase in the number of industrial plants; the Piedmont, 10 per cent; Western Caro lina, ?, per cent. The East should experience a 16 per cent increase in new industrial investment; the Piedmont, 12 per cent; Western Carolina. 12 per cent; Western Carolina, 10, per cent. Professor Blaine's projections also indi CUBmarwn n.n v wvwm cate that Eastern Carolina's indsu trial pay roll will have a 90 per cent advance between now and 1970; the Piedmont's payroll will rise 12 will increase 10 per cent. In making the projects tor the next six years. Professor Blaine measured industrial growth in North Carolina from 1964 to 1909. The most impressive aspect of the trend is the emergence of Eastern Carolina aa an industrial region," ? GoldSboro News-Argus SENATOR SAM ERYIN * * The closeness of the Senate votes rejecting the Morton Amendment which would have guaranteed the right of trial by jury without limitation in all criminal contempt cases'a rising out of the civil rights proposals is an indicator that there are many reservations about the measure by half of the Senate. When all is said, it is not surprising that this is so. The bill was created at a time when never-ending agitation on racial subjects by both desi *n ing and sincere men had some what impaired our national perspective. More recently there has been considerable study of the bill. The Senate now finds that there is much feeling that this measure, in addition to other defects and ambiguities, is patently incon sistent with fundamental jus tice in enforcement provisions. This is demonstrated over the right to jury trials and the fai lure of the proposals to guar antee this right when Congress has done so in other acts. In 1932, Congress passed the Norris-La Guardia Act, which provided that everyone involv ed in a contempt action arising from a labor dispute would have a right to a trial by jury. Again in MtS?, the Landrum Griffin Act relating to labor management practices provid ed the right af- trial by jury to everyone charged with crimin al contempt under that Act. With the rejection of the Mor ton Amendment, there is the split approach for a partial remedy for offenders under the bill with the Mansfield Dirsken substitute. It would allow a judge to try a man wihtout a jury for criminal contempt in civil rights mat ters where the fine does not exceed $300 or the imprison ment does not exceed 30 days. I do not favor this approach 'because I do not like any kind of judicial tyranny. I believe it is judicial tyranny to allow a judge to try a man without a jury and sentence him to im prisonment in this type of case. It does not make any difference whether the impri sonment is short or long, or whether the punishment is a big or little fine. Judicial ty ranny is not bettered by plac ing powder on the hideous face of tyranny. The rejection of the Morton Amendment giving unlimited Jury trials in criminal con tempts cast an insupportable indictment against a whole people. It casts a baseless as persion on the intergrity of juries. More particularly, it calls attention to the impracti cality of a measure that pro ponents fear cannot safely be entrusted to the people for en forcement. It also calls atten tion to the injustice of a mea sure that is described by many proponents as inapplicable to their region of the nation. In these areas constituents are admonished that the teeth in this measure are not sharpen ed for them, but only for Sou therners. Congress would do well to pause and ponder this indis putable fact: If these provis ions can be used today to make legal pariahs and se cond class litigants out of Sou therners in civil rights cases, they can be used with equal facility tomorrow to reduce other Americans to a like stat us. This, I think, is causing some sobering second thoughts about medicine which may not taste so good when it is ad ministered at home. V MMBTANT PATES AN! EVENTS IMM VESTEBTEAaS Kegalar *ir audi service started between New York City and Washington, May 15, 1915. The Irst Memphis Cetten Festival was held May 15, 1931. Fresldsat Roosevelt asked Congress for 59,999 warplanes, May 15, 1999. Iceland severed peraaasl anion with Denasark, May 19, 1991. The Irst Keatacky Derby was held. May 11, 1915. The Irst adhe- . shre UA postage stamp was laaaed, May 11, 1M1. Soae 399 colonists were mssssmd by Indians in Virginia, May IS, , 1999. The Panama Canal opened to regalar trafic. May It, 1919. The Irst immigration qaota act passed by UA, May 19, 1931. , Priam Minister Winston Charchill addressed the UA Congress, May 19, 1993. Charles A. Lindbergh took off on the Irst solo trans-Atlantic light, May 39, 1931. The American Eed Cross was foanded. May 31, 1U1. IpMEMBT days before refrigeration, deep freeaes and tin can*. Usually sev eral storehouses harbored the many farm foods. One underground haven was 1 called "the fruit cellar." There was an air vent through the in d sulated roof. It kept the contents s therein cool in summer and free - from freezing in winter. In this cellar were long rows of peeking out of glass Jars. The shelves groaned, also, with pickles 0 Big? crocks' of sauerkraut, a m barrel or two of cider, containers ' stored there, too. ""*** i Another place of stoeage was the "root cellar." This was used for the more hardy vegetables like squash, turnips, cabbages, carrots. The cool milk house was an other item. Huge, round pans held the strained milk, shelf after ahelf, and as the cream rose to the top It was removed with a "skimmer." The cream accumu lated and was turned into butter once or twicaa week in a wooden churn. JMj jjHHHjjH M| K? ?? Bible Facts |J Of Interest | ay: Ella V. PrMgea D, I Pater 4:11 "Beloved, do tot be surprised at the fiery 01 irdeal which comes upon you in o prove you. as something u strange were happening to you g IS) but rejoice in so far as nc rou share Christ's suffering, pi hat you may also rejoice and *? >e glad when his glory is re- at /ealed-" It is doubtful whether any t human being ever suffered , more than Peter did in the , first year of his efforts to foi- j low Jesus.