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THE YANCEY RECORD Established July, 1936 TOENA P. FOX, Editor ft Publisher THURMAN L. BROWN, Shop Manager ARCHIE BALLEW, Photographer ft Pressman 4 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY fANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY Second Class Postage Paid at Burnsville, N. C. THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1965 NUMBER FORTY-FIVE SUBSCRIPTION RATES |2.50 PER YEAR — . Dried Beans "Wo were walking down the aisle of the supermarket," the man said, "when I saw that stack ;of dried beana. I Just stopped and looked.” He said it. dawned on him that many a leaf had been pulled from the calendar since he had had a mesa of food old Navy beans, plntos, or dried lima*, or bufcterbean* of whatever y on want to call them. He persuaded his write to eook a pot of Navy beans anti the next day she performed the service. For dinner, he said he ItUfd a large plate, pulled out an onion, chopping it Into the beans, and downed the whole * mess with a gob of tomato catsup. It had been so long, he said, since he’d had a mess of dried beans 'hat he gobbled them down and then told his Wife ‘‘that’s Ui? best meal I’ve had In months." This abused our friend to mount the soup box for some more philosophising. “Used to be a time when we had dried beans several times a week, and how we hated ’em. Those were the days when you had to make dimes count, sort of like today, but worse. "Have we forgotten In those times what good old plain food tastes like? I think perhaps we have. We’re so accustom ed to steaks, chops, chicken, frozen foods, instant dinners that we’ve forgotten what plain food tastes like. That plate of beans was so good that we’ve had them several tlree then, and we’ve all enjoyed them. J "Never thought I’d live to see the day when I'd look forward to a pot of dried beans cooked with a bit of ham hdokl” he continued. He was so downright enthusiastic about hi* re-dtscover*- •d food that when he finally did leave there were visions of beans, onions, and catsup all around—and ruined the •1.75 blue plate special at lunch time. All because there were am dried beans on the plate. Hamberger Dimes? President Johnson’s proposal to mint "hamburger'* coins his been cheereo by vending machine operators, silver users, and professional coin collectors, but It is going to take a k>t of catsup to make it palatable to us. Dimes and quarters With red edges where the copper cores show through aren’t our idea of what the coinage of the world’s leading realm ought to be Anybody who has ever had the coins of many nations Jingling In his pocket knows that there are some rather basic difference in the kinds of stuff that passes for legal tender, and to some extent It reflects the Image of the na tion which Issues it. Great Britain’s heavy half-crown pieces and florins feel good. So do Switzerland’s five-franc pieces. They seem to bespeak the strength of the nations which issue them, whether or not the strength is really there. France’s coinage system, ’ike many things in Prance to day Is ridiculous. Here Is a "new franc” which Is worth so much and there Is “old franc” which is worth so much. The visitor can’t tell which is which from what it says on the face, but he can tell by close inspection that there is a real difference When you cross f-om free West Berlin Into Communist Germany you have to trade your solid West German coins for pieces of aluminum which pass for money but even by the pocketful! fall to Jingle. We appreciate the necessity to do something about the coin shortage. Certainly there is a shortage of silver and certainly the increasing demands of automatic vending machines and grand scale cotn speculators have combined to make the situation exceedingly difflept. But we don’t think Johnson has found the right ahswer. [ We don’t propose any solution, but we do think that consideration ought to be given to a couple of things First, wc think some real effort should be made to break loose the .treasure chest which Is now In ttie hands of people who speculate In coins In current use. Second, we think that some of our government econo mists ought to take a realistic look at the silver sales policy of the U. S. Treasury Department and decide whether or not keeping the price pegged at $1 29 an ounce Isn’t discour aging thr ruining of silver and contributing v o the shortage of the metafr-r Peorla Journal Star THE YANCEY RECORD '■RhHßto Kwra gB&S? aHgRv iSSS ....... SSkov.v... .wX'" .SwwS. .... #?s«<■. r-JSxfefcti** Gag Law Represses Freedom, Graham Says In opening the 25th anni versary season of the showing of Paul Green’s symphonic drama, THE LOST COLONY, on the very shores on which Sir Waiter Raleigh’s colonists in 1587 built the first English settlement in the New World, Frank P. Graham, former President of the University of North Carolina, U. 8. Senator, and U. N. Mediator, called again for the repeal or dras tic amendment of the North Carolina speaker ban law. This law prohibits any Com munist or pleador of the fif th Amendment to speak at any state institution in North Carolina. Speaking as a North Carolinian, Mr. Graham poin ted out that the Issue here was not the employment of a teacher who was a member of a party whose line automa tically shifted with orders from above, contrary to the principles of academic free dom, the open forum and the American Bill of Rights. Rath er, he emphasised, the issue was the right of a responsi ble faculty and student com _ mittee to Invite speakers to open forum for hearing all points of view, including tha extreme right, * conservative, liberal, moderate, and the ex treme left, all subject to cross examination and reply. Such open forums are a pa~t of the educational process for equip ping students for understands ing our own democracy and for Informed grappling with the problems of the present age. Buch open forums also are of the ve-y substance of aca demic freedom, our historic * civil liberties and the Ameri can Bill of Rights. The free market of ideas in the histor ic American view Is a basic part of the American tradition of free enterprise. Gag laws repressing the freedom of as sembly and speech are ex pressions of the totalitarian way and are contrary to the American way— explicit tn our heritage of freedom ana our hope for the preservation of the very civil liberies which not only gave birth to our Republic but also provide the foundations for the sur vival and progress of a free society in the modern world. He said the “gag law” wRs a reflection on the Intelli gence of youth and the re sponsible freedom of students in the State’s colleges and an expression of a lack of faith in the robustness of our democracy. < He said it was historically anomalous that the State of North Carolina, which refused to ratify the Constitution of the United States, until after its leaders. In line with Jeff erson’s strategy, were given assurance that at the earliest opportunity the Bill of Rights would be made a basic part of the Constitution, is the very State, and the only State of the fifty States, which adopt ed a “gag law” which is In vloatlon of the Bill of Rights. To her shame, as an educa tional, agricultural, Industrial and humane leader of the risen South, North Carolina now has a statute which con stitutes a political interference with the responsibility of the Boards of Trustees of the University and the State Col leges for the responsible in tellectual «freedom and moral autonomy of the State's edu cational Institutions at basic parts of the human liberties of our free society. He expressed the view that there wou d be a continuing rallying of not only almost all the newspapers, the presi dents and chancellors, the faculties, students, the alum ri and alumnae, not only of the state Institutions, but al so of the church-related col leges, as boldlv expressed, for exampe. by Wake Forest and Davidson, and of the privately endowed national Duke Uni versity, as e’oquently voiced at Chapel Hill by President THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1965 Douglas M. Knight, In moral support of the responsible freedom of all our colleges and universities. As in the past, when basic liberties and far-visioned state undertakings were in issue, so again there will surely be organized a state-wide move ment of the. people of North Carolina, rolling on In gath ering power from the moun tains to the sea, to redeem and refurbish her great name,, and, In this case, to bring to an end this mlsrepresentative reaction against our American heritage and this violation of the American Bill of Rights, which North Carolina had a part in making one of the foundations of the greatness of a free American and, in turn, the United States had a part, under the leadership of a noble American woman, in making a part of the Univer sal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations. Drive Safely, Warns fi.C. Motor Clnb Take it easy when you’re driving over the Fourth of July weekend so that you dor.’t go off with a bang and be- * come one of the 18 victims who the N. C. State Motor Club warns will be killed in traffic accidents on North Carolina’s streets and high ways during the holiday per iod. The state will count its July Fou th holiday highway fatalities from 6 p. m. FYiday, July 2, through midnight Monday, July 5, a 78-hour per iod. For the same period last year, North Carolina’s traffic toll c imbed to 17 persons kill ed and 666 others injured In 951 accidents.
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