North Carolina Newspapers

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. <We don't know how j Peter behaved before Jesus . called him to be one of his , disciples. We wonder why the , Master did it. Peter was al- , ways too sure of himself. Peter i told his Master "though all the , rest of the disciples forsake , Thee, I will not", and then denied Him. We cannot know , how Peter suffered over his fall, but we know his heart was almost broken. He was in des pair when the risen Christ appeared to him and took him back as one of his most loved disciples. We understand why Peter was qualified to write a message back as one of his most loved disciples. We un derstand why Peter was qual ified to write a message of light and comfort to people who had also suffered. The civil lized world at the time when Peter wrote his let ters was in the hands of the Romans, every one was expect ed to burn incense to the Rom an Emperor. Yet these Christians pos sessed a gift beyond all other gifts. They had been born into a new life because Jesus had died and risen from the dead. This new life would go on for ever and provide for them an inseritance beyond their wild est dreams. They were not protected by God's power. Why, then, should they fear what any man could do to them? (I Peter) 2:14. "He him self bore our sins in his body on the tree that we might die to sin and live to righteousness By his wounds yon have been healed." Peter reassures them about God's case. "Accept trouble," he writes; "be willing to be abused." God can use trouble to mature you and make you better than you are. But be on your guard. Don't understimate the devil. He does pot want you to win the moral struggle; resist him, hold fast to your faith. He does not tempt only you; every Christian is tempt ed by him. After you have suffered a little while. God will himself restore, establish, and streng then you, whom he has called to live with Himself forever Peter suffered terribly in the service of Christ, he thought of his pagan converts as weak lings. There were as many pro fessing Christians in his day as there are today, who wanted to be Christians if it didn't cost any thing. Read the letters of Peter to the Christians. little toe Front * Min Switch ? BAR MiatttR EDITOR: I m by the papers where ir war agin poverty Is mov ig along real fMMk tW BMe iys charity had ought to be in at home and our Congress mo was handling this poverty roblem Just like it was order i in the Good Book. They 4,/ sited at home. It was set back a little when hat 910.000 a year hike in their My had to be decided on a roil :all vote. With a election com ng up. they had to back off to teep their names out of the pa tters. Incidental. I am of the jpirion that roll call votes on sverything in the Congress wuld save the taxpayers a bil lion dollars s year. We need a amendment to the Constitution requiring a roll call vote on ever matter to come before the Congress. It's great pity the Pounding Fathers didn't put it j in the first paragraph of the Constitution. But Congressman Pike of New York was listing a few items showing how our Con gressmen was winning the pov erty battle without no hike in pay. He says they git a heap of "fringe benefits" the people don't know about. First off, he said they was gitting haircuts fer 75 cent in the Capitol barber shop. The barbers git $2 but they was subsidized by the Guvernment. Then it was a old custom dat ing back to George Washington that ever member of the Con gress was entitled to a free spit ton onct a year. On ac count of Congressmen has a bout quit spitting, he said, a heap of them was giving spit toons to friends fer souvenirs and some was using 'em for flower pots. These spittoons about $6 each and since we got 536 members in the Congress, this spittoon business puts a heap of money in circulation in the war agin poverty. Congressman Pike also re ported it was a old custom in the Congress fer exer member to git presented with a comb and hair brush at the start of ever session. Judging from the pictures I see in the papers, about half our Congressmen is bald headed. I'm strong. Mis ter Editor, fer all these fringe benefits our Congressmen was gitting in the war agin poverty, including swimming pools, barber shops and free lunches, but I think if they was turning off the lights in the White House to save on the power bill, they could save a little money by skipping baldheaded Congressmen with them combs and brushes. But they was another side of the coin. Mister Editor. Sen ator Fulbright of Arkansas re ported the other day that a heap of them small countries was doing away with represen tative guvernment as a "econo my move." He tokl the Senate he hoped the American people "would continue to regard the Congress as one extravagance with which they will not part." I reckon free haircuts and free spittoons is better than free jails. Yours truly. Code Pete Rev. ROBERT H. HARPER FlOWR exriosioN rhe poet has written, "What is so rare as a day in June?" But ae lived about a thousand miles lorth of where I live and I might say that it all depends upon where you live that determines what day is rare. We have read or heard much recently about the population explosion, today?to be exact the last day but one of March, when these lines are writ ten?I can see what I would call a flower explosion all about me. The roadside is turning green and pecan trees which, according to old tradition, are never caught by the cold, are budding, a robin redbreast has appeared and then gone on toward the north, and other birds are busy about the place. And the flowers! All over our city the azaleas are in full bloom, blue phlox, pansy, violet. Iris, calendula, daffodil, and elae, all these make a flower explosion that should not alarm any of us. You will bear in mind that I am writing a month in advance of your reading. What more can be said of the floral beauty that greets your eyes as you may look off from the reading? And you should be prepared to receive the lesson the Master emphasized when he said: "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin, and yet I aay unto you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like ooe of these." CROSSWORD PUZZLE | ACROSS 1.1USA ? thread O.PTeahman Wert Point? re: ear. 10. Gem U. Competitor IS. Rub away and marry 14. Omit, aa a syllable 15. Adult males 14. Clattered 18. Dwelling 19 Hospital worker 53. Indefinite article SS. Back 54.Ttny p?rt? at bread ?.?M0ita mderTceUa so.Ufiy old M.Jewtab month SB. Incite S4. Apart Sd.Hlgb ?? ptoelre j9. Librarian: 4S.Port 43. On fire 45. Harangue 44 . Black and blue UHendUmd ?? 4. Short sleep 5. Make be lieve 6. Singe cheer fully 7. Wicked 8. Requested to come: dial. ?.Vehicle wit runners 11. Cipher 17. Candlenut tree 18 . and haw 19. Exclama tion 30. Man's nam 21. Excavated 23. Ani mal's ? 24. Mani pulate fraudu lently 26. Poem 27. Light h steel helmet 29. Regret 32. Morsel 34. Rugged mountain crest 35. To portion out e 34. God of thunder 37. Rodent 33. Elliptical 39. Dwall 40. Flower 41. SlMpiar p| | CM 44. The hand: flL II II u ? 1 ' 1 " r r * i"? *?iiizi? pppi PIP H T llllilillll PUZZLE NO, 811