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Editorial, bos in ess oefici and printin? slant. Kbnansville. N. C.
MURPHY L. CARR. editor
RUTH P. GRADY. manadins editor
Entered At The Post Office Kenansville. N. C.. as second class mattkr
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A Duplin County Journal, devoted to the relioioos. material, educational
f economic and agricultural development of Duplin County.
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SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK:
The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is
single, the whole body also is full of light. - Luke 11:34.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:
It is the eyes of other people that ruin us. If all but myself were
blind. I should neither want a fine house nor fine furniture.
Benjamin Franklin.
Safety, Sanity and the Fourth
It wasn't too many years ago when fire
works were a real problem in this country.
Kids were losing fingers, hands and eyes
during the supposedly happy days of their
summer vacations.
Rallying under the battle cry, "Have a
safe and sane Fourth of July." parents, edu
cators. civic leaders and elective officials
finally curbed the fireworks problem.
But the need for safe and sane Fourth
has not diminished. Motorists and pedes
trians are literally driving and walking then*
selves to death over the Independence Day
celebration.
The North Carolina Department of Motor
Vehicles pin pointing these two holiday
accident problems, makes two suggestions
which we think make a lot of sense.
One is pretty simple. Learn to walk
right. That means crossing streets only at
intersections. Watching for turning cars at
corners. Obeying traffic signs and signals.
Never dashing into the street from between
parked cars.
The second suggestion is to cut dows
on speedy drivW. Last year, a third of the
holidays deaths/..ame from excessive speed.
A safe speed must include such factors as
road conditions, condition of traffic, the
condition of the car, the weather and visi
bility and the condition of the driver him
self.
Safe drivers, says the vehicles agency,
slow down even below the speed limit when
conditions aren't ideal.
Reduced speed and alert walking-tws
very sane keys to Fourth of July safety.
These are the ways we can free oup
selves from the tyranny of accidents.
, A good thought for Independence Day.
Dan Moore's Big Victory
Ends Lon&,_Hard Campaign ,
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We offer our congratulations to Judge
Dan K. Moore and to his supporters all over
North Carolina.
He ran a steady race and won a mag
nificent victory, carrying 93 of the 100
counties against L. Richardson Preyer and
piling up a majority in the Piedmont to go
with his overwhelming margins in the East
and the West.
The total vote was surprisingly large,
reflecting the intense interest in a number
of key issues generated by the two candi
dates. In the first primary, the three mapor
Democratic candidates for the governorship
had a combined total of 714,410 votes. Sat
urday's vote total jumped to 781,689 instead
of decreasing, us many observers had fore
cast.
The division of the vote indicated that
I. Beverly Lake's supporters followed him
faithfully when he joined forces with Moore
and Lake together got 62 per cent of the
vote in the first primary. Moore alone gath
ered in 61 per cent Saturday.
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It was a crushing disappointment for
Preyer, who resigned a federal judgeship
to seek the nomination, and for Gov. Terry
San ford, who backed Preyer privately dur
ing the early stages of the campaign and
publicly at the end. Both Sanford and Preyer
pledged their support to Moore when he
runs against Republican Robert Gavin in
November - an early move to bring the
progressive and conservative wings of the
Democratic Party together against the com
mon enemy.
On the eve of the second primary, Judge
Moore promised to work for "the most dy
namic. the mast comprehensive program
ever set forth for improving education in
North Carolina." He also called for an ex
panded plan of industrial development, an
accelerated program of highway construc
tion and maintenance, a 14-point program to
increase farm income, a special tobacco re
search program, a hold-the-line policy on
taxes and legal interest rates, and "sensible
race relations arrived at without force or
disobedience by extremists on either side."
If he carries out that pledge, he can
count on the backing of the Preyer voters
in November.
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Veteran legislator Clifton Blue ran a
better race for the lieutenant governorship
than he did in the first primary, but it was
not enough to overtake the popular Robert
Scott, son of the late W. Kerr Scott.
It is no secret that many leaders of the
conservative wing of the Democratic Party
had hoped to cut short Scott'i political
career at its very outset. But the magic of
the family name and his own political charm
brought Scott the nomination by a narrow
J 371.606 to 356,400 margin.
^ In losing the valued services of Blue,
North Carolina gains an interesting young
political leader who undoubtedly will be a
contender for higher office at some time in
the future.
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It has been a long campaign and a bitter
one and we suspect that all North Carolin
ians who participated will be happy to turn
their attention to other things for a while.
?The Charlotte Observer.
Mostly A Conversation Piece
Now that the Russians have attacked the
topless bathing suit, the only patriotic thing
for American women to do, we suppose, is
to come out in it en masse.
But we think the topless suit is destined
to fee more talked about than seen for sever
First, the habits of dress or oi undress
in any society are difficult to change. True,
brassieres are now popular among the un
biusking native women of remote Pacific is
lands. But M seems they wear them around
Second, though American men may aee
nothing wrong with the suit, American wo
men are not so much deterred by what men
may see and say as they are by what other
women may see and say.
Third, in most places, the thing is
against the law.
So the Russians are due for a disap
pointment. The topless bathing suit, even is
this day of increasing decay of our national
fiber ? as a measured by the number of
topless bathing suits?is not likely to proceed
apace. ? From The Winston-Salem Journal
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SENATOR
SAM ERVIN
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The flurry of comments which surround
ed North Carolina Agricultural problems as
the gubernatorial primary ended needs to
be put in perspective.
I have always been conscious of the im
portance of agriculture to the economy of
North Carolina. I have voted and fought for
every measure to make the lives of those
who live on Atrk farfcis more abundant My ?r
support of farm programs began when 1
took the oath of office as a United States
Senator. It has continued unceasingly since
then. In March of this year, I successfully
led the fight for the tobacco farmer against
the Williams Amendment to the Cotton
Wheat Bill which would have eliminated to
bacco from the Federal agricultural pro
gram. I have repeatedly battled for tobacco
farmers, cotton growers, textile workers and
their employers to iron out difficult export
problems which have been of concern for
years. I have supported all phases of re
search which would benefit our agricultural
program and particularly cancer reseach.
As I view it, the most serious problem for
the tobacco growers, the tobacco worker, and
the tobacco industry arises out of the Feder
al l^ade Commission's order, issued last
weet. which specifies that every container
in which cigarettes are sold to the consum
ing public must bear a label reciting that
cigarette smoking is dangerous to health
and may cause death from cancer and other
diseases.
I respectfully submit that the ruling of
the Federal Trade Commission is unfair and
unjust and should be forthwith contested by
the tobacco companies in the Federal courts.
This ruling asserts as a fact something
which has been established by adequate
proof or reliable medical research. Hie next
logical step in this battle would be to con
test the FTC ruling in the courts. If this
ruling is not annulled by the courts, I shall
seek to obtain a satisfactory legislative solu
tion.
Much has been said pbout the Georgia
tobacco case and its effect upon the price
support program. That case does not chal
^ lenge the Federal statutes which set up the
tobacco program, nor does it challenge the
price-support system, nor is it an attack on
the validity of this program. The three
Georgia tobacco growers who sued the Sec
retary of Agriculture sought greater bene
fits under the program than the order ef
the Secretary would have permitted. Hie
growers' contention was that the Secretary
had no valid reason to order a 10% cut in
acreage allotments for Type 14 tobacco The
court order enjoining the Secretary from en
forcement of his order has been stayed until
the matter can be heard upon its merits. A
5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling is expect-'
ed sometime in the late fall. I am hopeful
that the Court will hold that there was no
valid ground for the original issuance of the
injunction. As 1 have sought to indicate all
along, the matter now resides in the courts
where it should be determined by that bran
ch of government. Should that court render
a decision which adversely affects the toba
cco program, then it will become a matter
for consideration by the Congress. I shall
be standing shoulder to shoulder with the
North Carolina Congresisonal Delegation to
promote useful legislation in that event.
I wish to assure the people of North
Carolina that I plan to continue my unceas
ing efforts to promote the best interests of
our State, and that includes the welfare of
our farmers.
Bible Facts
Of Interest
By: E1U V. Prldgen
By: Ell? V. Pridgen
"Mathew: Salvation For The
Outcast"
Matthew 9:9 "And as Jesus
passed forth from thence, he
saw a man, named Matthew,
styling at the receipt of cus
tom: and he sayeth unto him
Follow me. And he arose and
followed him."
"Matthew the tax collector"
The writer of the first Gospel
included this descriptive term
after his own name. "In all
this world, it is not what we
take up but what we give up,
that makes us rich," Henry
Ward Beecher wrote a hund
red years ago. When a tax col
lector named Matthew gave up
a lucrative position to follow
Jesus. Matthew's name was
Levi, and his name was chang
ed to Matthew (gift of God'
when he became a disciple of
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Capernaum, and his business
was, to collect taxes from the
firsherman who brough fish to
Capernaum, and possibly from
the traveling merchandts
of Damascus who passed thro
ugh the city.
There were two counts a
gainst tax collectors, accord
ing to the Jews. They were
working for Romans ? hated
masters of Palestine, so they
were traitors. They were un
just. Usually tax collecting was
"fanned out", the Collector
held responsible for a stated
sum and permited to keep all
he could collect above that
sum Only greed would lead to
a Jew to become a publican,
the usual run of collectors
were crooked and cruel.
, Converted Matthew had tal
ent to consecrate abilities nec
essary. He could write, he
know the Old Testament his- .
tor. All that Matthew was that
day, when Jesus called him
from his collection booth held,
for consecration service. His
Gospel alone would justify his
call. He could introduce his
friends to Jesus
Through Matthew, Jesus
would be known as Friend of
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DEAR MISTER EDITOR
The fellers at the country
store Saturday night was mak
ing some big decisions on a
number of important items.
First off, Ed DooUttle ask fer
the floor to make a few re
marks about the kind of mail
service we was now gitting
from them folks in Washing
ton. lie reported he had went
to town Saturday afternoon to
buy a stamp and the dad-ber
ned window was closed. Ed is
mighty touchy about the these
matters when the Democrats
was in power. Under the Re
publicans he would call it real
economy.
Anyhow, he allowed as how
any Guvernment business that
would cut back the service and
raise rates at the same time
was in mighty pore shape. He
was of the opinion that with
the volume of mail gitting big
ger and bigger they had ought
to go on a >4- hour base in
stead of shutting down more
and more.
Clem Webster agreed with
Ed, claimed if the public coul
dn't make a phone call on Sun
days or after midnight the
Congress would meet in spec
ial session and take over the
telephone business. Clem fig
gered if private enterpirse
could run the railroads and
telephone business under Guv
ernment regulations, it could
run the mail business the same
way.
It was voted unanimous, Mis
ter Editor, to put the U. S.
Post Office up fer sale.
1 Josh Clodhopper said he was
I reading where a farmer in
i South Carolina had wrote to
President Johnson asking to git
i put on the poverty handout,
said he was $19,458, in debt
and things was gitting worse
all the time. The fellers was a
greed that anybody with that
much credit ought to git out
of farming and git into the
banking business.
Zeke Grubb reported he had
saw by the papers where
deaths on U. S. Highways hit
a alltime high in May. He said
he could recollect back 50 year
ago when horses was afraid of
automobiles and folks was
laughing at the horses. He al
lowed as how this was more
proof they ain't no substitte fer
horse sense.
It was agreed that just as
soon as we git the Post Office
sold and git poverty abolished
we ought to put on a campaign
agin highway slaughter. Bug
muimwm
on traffic safety and showed
the crowd a bottle of pills, all
of 'em looking exact alike.
They was 331 pills in the bottle
and all was harmless except
one. and it would kill you
dead. When he ask how many
in the audience was willing to
from A
take a chanct and swaller one
of the pills, not a hand went
up. Them he said many of them
was taking the same chanct in
their cgr ever day. that one out
of ever 331 attempts to beat a
traffic light got somebody kil
led.
As Dean Rusk would say,
Mister Editor, it was a very
"fruitful" session.
Yours truly,
U"C>e PCt*
ROOF MURAL . . . Modem
totic painting by PFC Robert
Moultbrop adorns roof of an
A-shaped garage at Washing
tonviUe, N. Y The 24-ft. moral
to done on wood backed tar
paper with latex exterior
homo potato.
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From Mr*. Thomas P. Patter
son, Galax, Virginia: "The other
day I sent my steam-dry iron to
be repaired and hunted up an al
most forgotten electric iron to
use. Although this substitute iron
had five different settings, for five
different temperatures, I felt
abused having to use an iron that
wouldn't steam?until I remem
bered BO years ago.
"I remembered that I had to
iron my ruffled, full-skirted,
tucked, ruffled embroidered dress
es with their corresponding three
petticoats each with a flat or
'sad' iron. It was made of solid
iron and heated on a wood-burn
ing 'stove or on the hearth in
front of a Are that had burned
down to red coals.
"Each time I picked up the
iron with a thick, padded cloth
holder, I had to rub the face of
the iron with a rag to clean off
the soot and ashes and then rub
it over with paraffin to make it
iron smoothly. Since washables in
those days were heavily starched,
the face of the iron would soon
be coated with starch and the iron
had to be rubbed over a pile of
salt U> remove the starch.
the Iron cooled: 'I would
put it back dh the stoVe or hearth
to re-heat and pick up another
iron to use. What a treat it would
have been to have any old electric
iron then. It would have seemed
a miracle!"
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July 3 mark* the beginning of "Dog Day*"?a tern applied by
early Greek* and Reman* to the period between July 3 and August
11, when Sirlaa, the Dog Star, reae with the sun. Today the term
apptiea to aboet forty days of the hottest season.
Jnly 4th is INDEPENDENCE DAT.
Levi P. Morton, the American Minister, accepted the Statue of
Liberty In Paris, from Count de Lesseps, Jnly 5, ISM.
Louis Pasteur inoculated the Srst human being against rabies. July
8, 1885. Tin Srst all-talkie movie, "Lights of New York," was shown
in New York City, Jnly f, 1928.
Construction began on Boulder Dam, July 7, 1939.
The Liberty Bell cracked, July 8, 1S3S. Experimental delivery of
air mall by helicopter in metropolitan areas was established, July S,
1944.
Zachary Taylor, 12th U.8. president, dies July 9, 1859. Organised '
resistance ended on Sal pan, July 9, 1944.
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