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- ----- —.kW- ■% Editorials \ v ' - Viewpoint BY TOM HIGGINS e Record Editor It occurs to me: —That North Carolina’s Re publican party was dealt a crush ing psychological blow Saturday when Congressman Char'ea R. Jonas announced that he would not be a candidate for governor. GOP leaders who a week before had envisioned “their man” in the statehouse, Sunday vere making feeble attempts to hide their de spair; a couple even admitted that whoever is the' Republican candi date wiil be nothing more than a sacrificial lamb. Jonas cou*d have won or at least made the race an exciting one. His decision not to run means that the next governor will be decided in the Democratic primary and will— be. cne of two judges—Dan K. Moore or Richardson Preyer. —That Yancey Countians should give their vote to the guberna torial candidate who will take a strong stand on road improve ments. That nothing has been done about U. S. 19 between Burns ville and the Madison County line borders on pure neglect. —That “Operation Second Chance.” the training program ■for students who quit school be fore graduation, is treading on dangerous ground in a couple of instances in which training classes vll furnrih direct competition for private business. —That the best news we’ve heard out of Washington recently is the -report that Conrad W rth will shortly retire from the De partment of The Interior. Wirth is the chap whose stubborness has held up completion of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Although the government owned a right-of way in the Linville area, Wirth adamantly refused to construct the “missing link" between Grand father Mountain and Blowing Reck, demanding a “high route” cn the mountain’s side. Even after- Hugh Morton, owner of Grand father, offered t-fi wi h route about halfway up the side cf his mountain, Wirth refused to budge. “My route or nothing,” he said. The Parkway does not have to follow the highest ridges in the Blue Ridge; in fact, it does not. In Virginia there are several places where the scenic highway runs virtually through the hearts of low-lying communi ties. Wirth’s action appears to have ben a case of an individual THE YANCEY RECORD THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1963 "trucks None Better To Get The Crop To Market! *6O Ford One Ton, Custom Cab, Low Mileage ’59 Ford F-100 Four Wheel Drive ’66 Ford, One Ton, Stake Body ’SO International, One Ton *6l Jeep Truck ’56 Ford, 1-2 Ton y ’BO GMC, 1-2 Ton ’SB Chevrolet, Two Ton YOUNG AUTO SALES, Inc. Lot Located Adjacent To B. B. Penland Co. employed by thhe government try ing to force his wUI upon a pri vate citizen through the use of public office. We have no doubt Winth’s retracement will be more reasonable. As far as the Parkwa i s concerned, a Wirth-less Depart ment of Interior will be worth fax more to North Carolina. —-That it is unreasonable sor 1 i IT NEVER FAILS WHW OONT YOIA SS’ftE RCpSrT^TAKg J NOONftN BOWaHT) MORE) SO HMuGfWS /UCENSE TO BUY /HE'LL WIMO 7He USEOFOR DOUGH *Wm -A place than] up, livin' f he’s been ONe step Grassroots Opinions ! CARLSBAD, N. M„ CURRENT ARGUS: “It is easy to fall into the error of supposing that automa tion, of which so much is heard, confronts society with problems different in kind from anything that has gone before, This is not! ■ true. . . .Consider the expert- j ence of WiHiam Caxton, one of t sc—. wrr«t, tnuMwozers m me art or ■ Printing. It was in the 15th cen -1 j tury that he set up a London es ’ | tablishment to print books in Eng t'l'sh. The Guild of Stationers ob-i ; jected to this newfangled method j t of using machinery to turn out ! ) books. They wanted to know what : would happen to the scriveners i whose livelihood depended in the - demand for books copied by hand. ) What happened was that the print -1 ing trade absorbed the copyists the Red Cross to receive more i than one-third ($2,800 of $8,887) of the proceeds which will be so*i cited by the Yancey United Fund. Many local agencies which do an riqual amount of work are much -,| harder pressed, but are receiving a much smaller amount. However, ! the loca l budget-making com mittee was reportedly powerless) and soon provided jobs for many Other men.” lj. • •• • • PELHAM, GA., JOURNAL: “It; may surprise a lot of people but ! every time a doctor stops at the scene of an accident and volun tarily renders emergency aid, he is taking a risk. For. strange as it seems, they can be suad if the victim they stop to help dies or is maimed. Recently one state en acted a law to protect the human ! itarian doctor who stops to render I aid in emergency. Thq^ ! passed on'y after it became known that insurance companies and law yers were sometimes advising doctors to keep moving when they came upon a wreck!” •* • • STOUX RAPIDS, IOWA, BULLE TIN-PRESS: “There is no logical or common sense reason for any one to be a pessimist living in the United States, if he will only open ito refuse the Red Cross request (which was not made by local Red Cross officials, but outsiders) 1 m the face of what can only be termed as “reprisals.” Such a 'arge allotment to one agency, such as the Red Cross, necessitated the ommission from Yancey’s bud get of other worthy organizations, such as the Salvation Army. his eyes and see. As an individual in the United States, you have free access to Us gigantic wealth thro ugh your own initiative and ] ability. As long as you do not en croach upon the rights of others, you can acquire as much of it as your capacity warrants. It is all yours.” „ w , •• • • LA PORTE. If®., HERALD ARGUS: "At times in the recent raoe upheavals in this nation the church (all faiths) has taken quite a beating. Charges have been leveled at churchmen that they had not assumed their Christian ro l * and lived up to what they teach. Therefore, it should not go unnoticed that in Chicago’s recent race disturbances the most used line of communication between] the reces has been traced through tho churches. . . .One Chicago church federation, composed of both Protestants and Catholics, I actually has served as the Peace maker in urban renewal and pub lic school misunderstandings be tween the races.”. ** • * LITITZ, PA., RECORD- EX PRESS: “There are indications that the banning of books is on the increase in the United States. This apparently reflects the growth of a widespread but mis taken idea that someone ought to be telling others what to read. . . . In 1954, for example, Hans Chris tian Anderson’s beloved fairy tales were stamped in red ink, ‘For Adult Readers Only,’ by order of I the Illinois secretary of state. Mark Twain’s ‘Huckleberry Finn,’ possibly America’s greatest novel, was banned in New York, because an influential organizat ion disliked one of its characters. Other examples, involving eveh such masterpieces as plays by Shakespeare, are numerous.” TIIJB YANCEY RECORD j Established July, 1936 TQM HIGGINS, Editor and Publisher THURMAN L, BROWN, Shop Manager j PUBLISHED iiV'SRY THURSDAY BY YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY Second Clast Postage Paid at Burnsville, N. C. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1963 NUMBER ELEVEN SUBSCRIPTION RATES «.W) PER YEAR —ms—»——» -—————- r - - - - --- -nr ir _ . n r Job Printing? The Yancey Record : I -•* • > igfft ! f ; TtiVMmlßox E£ i*4 mL’-'V . fcf. •. To Tl» Editor of The Recor#.- The civil rights of all ' Am' ericans are guaranteed by the Constitution. But recent studies show that President Kennedy’s civil rights hill may give the At torney General powers apparently prohibited by the Constitution. This strong shift in the thrust of federal Power is especially not able in the matter of voting, rights. It destroys more civil rights of more citizens than it protects. Everyone agrees that only the individual states can set ’ the qualifications of voters. It is the the duty of each state to protect its citizens against those who are incapable of casting a democra tic vote. As recently as 1959, the U. S. Supreme Court held that the plain words of the Constitution require voters in federal elect ions to meet the standards set in each state. And in the question of poll tax, many state legisla tures 'have agreed that only a Constitutional amendment can set it aside as a qualification in fed eral elections. But the President’s civil rights bi*i attempts to set aside the poll tax at a time when no Constitu tional amendment has been passed. The Attorney General could file suit to ignore one of the qualifications which the citi zens of a state have set up under the guarantees cf the U. S. Con stitution. •PiU In a second provision, the Presi- I dent also seeks to give the At ! tornoy General power to ignore a state’s literacy test in a case wliere a voter applicant has com pleted six years of school. It is important to note that this in fnngament of tire rights of the citizens in each state is not based on race. A few weeks ago, the President Indicated that the problem of Olhers Say... FROM THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY The two serious candidates who have announced for the Demo cratic Gubernatorial nomination have promised to try to eliminate North Carolina’s public school book fees. Richardson Preyer said last week that he would support steps to do away the book fees and , out-of-date texts in the 1965 Gen eral Assembly. He described the fees as “a hidden tuition cost in our free public schools that has been an embarrassment and a burden for too long.” Dan K. Moore earlier had Pro posed that textbook and all other unnecessary fees be eliminated. | Dr. Charles Carroll, State Sup erintendent of Public Instruction, i long ago began calling for elimi ' nation of the bock, fees and sub stantial reductions in other costs that students must bear. In addi tion to the embarrassment cited by Mr. Preyer, Dr. Carroll said the fees were a major reason for schoo l dropouts and often constitut ed an unreasonable burden for , people living on marginal incomes. The Advisory Budget Commiss ion reduced the basic textbook | fee by $1 last year, but this ob viously does not solve the pro | blem. Local school boards, including the one in Chapel Hill, have ; shown litt>e inclination to reduce . student fees since it would mean ■ a sizeable cut in operating funds. On the contrary, school boards have been Prone to pass instruct ional costs on to students wl,erever possible. So, it is up to the State to take the necessary step. The two Guber natorial candidates have perform ed a valuable service to the State in calling attention to the matter. Mteragy Was widespread. He said tKat *fie-fst9th of all the young men who took selective service examinations fai%d the mental test. Even though nearly every ' • state has eight to ten years of, ’ compulsory education, one man | . out of focr could not fulfill his j I civic duties because he could not, iead or do simple arithmetic. Ne, erthetess, the President 1 ’ would allow the Attorney Gen eral to bring suit to force many of these same men onto the vot ing rolls. The President would do this even though the Consti tution and the Supreme Court have explicitly left this power to the states—which are in a better position to guard their citizens against an illiterate elec torate. In still a third Provision, the President directs his brother to intervene in any state or federal election he chooses. The Attorney Genera' is empowered to set J aside the local voting officio’". He need only allege to a federal tourt that less than 15 per cent! of the prospective qualified vot-' ers of any race have not been! registered in that district. Without taking evidence or | making any finding, the court j must immediately appoint tern-. porary federal voting referees, j The federal referees will then interpret the qualifactions of appli cants as they see fit. And then the election wi'l h- held. After the election has been decided, court will proceed to take evidence on the Attorney General’s ai'egation. If it is found to be weak or in error, it will be dismissed, and the un qualified voters removed from the rolls. But whatever the fina' outcome of the complaint, the election is valid. Civil lights experts have con cluded that this procedure vio lates the due process of law which is guaranteed to ah citi zens by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. Due process re quires that no matter be decided until hearings and a fair trial. But the method chosen by the President allows the Attorney General to attain his desired end before the case is decided. For these reasons, more and more observer feel that this ex tension of the Attorney General’s Office Supply & Equipment Co. SPRUCE PINE; N. C. TWO DOORS FROM NORTHWESTERN BANK MEMBER YANCEY CHAM BER OF COMMERCE J— • ———— — wmm — PRICES 1 CUT! On Chain Saws Guaranteed To CUT>- NOW ON SALE - Our Com plete Line of Famous Quality Remington Chain Saws, Both New and Used. There Is No More Dependable Saw On The Market • • • DEYTON FARM jjjr ' j 3 | SUPPLY • • '. > 11. Fewer into the everyday lives of cTeens is a disturbing p; ospect. 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