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THE YANCEY RECORD THURSDAY. MARCH 90, ION c :RE|ORii l iU RMS Vll^f'^RTH^AßpMNA^g^^^ ESTABLISHED INS EDWARD A. YUZIUK - EDITOR A PUBLISHER MISS REBECCA BOONE ASSOCIATE EDITOR THURMAN L. BROWN - SHOP MANAGER ARCHIE H. BALLEW - PHOTOGRAPHER & PRESSMAN PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT BURNSVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1969 NUMBER TWENTY-EIGHT SUBSCRIPTION RATES S3OO PER YEAR OUT OP COUNTY $5.00 PER YEAR i 11 " ' " v* 11 " **“ SENATOR <m \ i SAM ERVIN WASHINGTON - The advent of a new Administration is al ways a time for examining the direction wnich we may expect our country to take during (he next four years. If history is of any value in such prophesies, it leads us to conclude that what is said in a political campaign has little bearing upon the poli cies of the new Administration. The first sixty days of the Nixon Administration have brou ght a '*■ 'Jige in style and tempo, but it is still too early to say how it will (are in bringing us face to face with the realities of our time. The President has yet to re commend much to Congress. This may be good after a year when Presidents sent messages to Capitol Hill daily. The Presi dent has been cautious in his remarks, has met with the lead ers of the Western World, and has appointed most of his top Administrative officials. Having done this, the question arises if this per se will bring about a change in direction. The answer is “not necessarily", because much of government today is conducted by civil servants who have been schooled for a long time in policies and programs so vast that they touch virtually all our affairs. At the outset, every Adminis tration is confronted py a vast and unchanged bureaucracy. Human nature is reluctant to change unless it has to, and civil servants follow this ru’e unless a very strong-minded ad ministra’or takes control. More over, it takes real courage and a major battle to eliminate vir tually any Federal program once it gets s'arted. The pro gram means both jobs for the administrators and money for the beneficiaries. This, in itself, raises a formidable barrier to change. Much was said about the pov erty program In the recent canrv pa'gn. Recently leaders of the war on poverty have been meet ing in Washington to urge con tinuance of the program even though many taxpayers are tir ed of local mismanagement, pnteiage, aud even * waives in sunie ut me poverty programs. Ine Aumimsuauon has yet vo suumii us oveiau poverty pro posals, but it has already asked Congress to continue me pro gram. Foreign aid is another exam ple of the difficulty of ing any Federal program once it is authorised. More than twen ty years ago, Congress enacted the four-year Marshall Plan to aid Europe. Since then every Administration has committed itself to the continuance of that program, and in his last mes sage to Congress. President Johnson sought to commit the Nixon Administration to that program. Federal school "guidelines’' have been the source of much dissatisfaction. Actually the term is but a polite way of say ing “controls". It is still to be hoped that the new Administra tion will permit local school boards to develop an edueati n al program that wQI seek to educate rather than determine “who is going to sit next to esrtj pupil". More and more local taxpayers are voting down local bond issues for the schools. I •thir'k a good part of the expla nation lies in the fact that peo ple think that Federal officials a** in’ent upon running the schools and therefore Federal monies should fund them. The educational controls we are em banked up'Mi are damaging our whole educational svs’em. I am constrained to aav that the ini tial decisions by the new Secre tary of Health, Education, and Welfare indicate that (hart has been little improvement in this situation. The problems of this Nation ere awesome. President Nixon comes to office at a time when we need to face realities brought on by inflated commitments at home and abroad. His task is to master a government that has grown by fantastic propor tions in a generation, and w*ak the truths that must be said. This is a task that all Ameri cans must share. Sgt. Grimes Is Med Specialist FT. LEE, VA., (AHTNC) - Army Staff Sergeant Charles Grimes, 24, son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Mathis, Bald Creek, N. C., was assigned Feb 14 to the Kenney Army Hospital, Ft Lee, Va , as a medical sup ply specialist. His wife Helen, lives in Pet ersburg. Va T " AT ABB VOU OUNNM} l OOM"* \ A ’W' S On 6 / LuS «AS "X Y////A tmat rgNosn dON'T have \A u-.oeesTA*o -VA A _ v ° A ( x«a* ) f ff/ 1 A *AAIJ« OW >T WMfiM 1 CVy VOOU CAB J SftTT'N A V v* v POOCM H) '4 / /L puucso wgse r***# ?/. m asm't see* o*l pfff,* , -i mas cusas’. M Young Americans For Freedom Urge HS Course In Freedom vs Communism WILSON, VC. - North Caro lina Young Americans for Free doom announced that it has ini tiated a statewide drive to urge the North Carolina General As sembly to enact legislation to provide for a mandatory high school course in Freedom v. Communism. The bill, which they seek to have enacted by the General Assembly, would require the successful completion of a high school level course in our pub lic schools in Freedom v. Com munism. This would be requir ed for graduation. The coursa would be on the nature of the Taylor’s Bill Would Repeal Pay Raise WASHINGTON Congress man Roy A. Taylor said Friday he feels that his bill to repeal the 41 percent pay raise for congressmen has gj trac ed fav orable attention bo'h inside and the Congress. EighUpther members of the Hcuse of Representatives have introduced similar bills since he introduced his on February 26th, he said. Additionally, the nth District Congressman said he had re ceived many letters of support from constituents and from peo ple from as far away as Oregon. Taylor’s bill, and the others now pending with it before the House Post Office and Civil Ser vice Committee, would repeal the recent pay raise plus abolish the presidential commission sys tem by which it was established. No hearings have yet been scheduled. “People who have written me seem to agree that the time was wrong to increase congressional salaries”, he said. The six-term Democrat said his mail during recent weeks re flects “a growing discontent ov er inflation, increased taxes and the prosect of more new pro grams and taxes". “It did not help matters foe Congress to allow salaries to be increased at a time when every effort should be made to etah inflation and stabilize tho Mud get ’ tie declared IT NEVER FAILS Communist system, the nature of its threa’s to human liberties and the sovereignties of na tions, and the distinc'ions be tween Communist - totalitarian forms of government and those forms of government based on economic and political freedom. The legislates of Florida, Alabama, and Louisana have al ready enacted the bill. It is now pending before a number of state legislatures. The program received the endorsement of the National Governor’s Conference in 1963. In announcing the statewide drive, J. Harold Herring, Jr., ■ ate chairman of North Caro lina Young Americans for Free dom, said, “The forces of Com munism are the greatest single threat to the liberties of free men. The ideologies and forces of Communism constitute a NEWS HI L-_ I ABOUT **l9 LEGISLATION Industry Leads Conservation And Antipollution Efforts A man can drive an automo bile for 30 years without scratch ing a fender and no one pays any attention. But, let him bump h.s neighbor’s car, and it is a different story. The troubles of the hapless automobile driver paie into insignuicance com pared to the responsibilities of companies and industries whose reputations are increasing'y measured by their ability to protect the invironment. The oil industry is a notable illustra tion. A single instance of an oil spill” or a mishap involv ing an offshore ins.alia ion such as occurred off the coast of California that results in spillage and pollution becomes an im mediate mat'er of national con cern and raises the ques.ion in the public mind about what is being done to prevent such disasters. As a matter of record, the pe'roleum industry is unsurpass ed as an aggressive leader in pollution control and conserva tion efforts Recently an official of the American Petroleum In s' was asked just how ex great threat to America and to I all free nations. Only with es-1 fective, formal education on I the nature of the Commun'st threat can we intelligently fight back. This bill is designed to accomplish this goal. We will support its enactment." Herring announced that his group will probably ist'ue a call for a North Carolina Conference on Americanism ic b* hsld in I several weeks, to discuss plane to seek the enactment of the bill. Herring also announced that represen'atives of Chambers of Commerce, Junior Chambers, the State Farm Bureau, both political parties, the V.F.W., the American Legion, the North Carolina Education Association, the North Carolina Bar Associa tion, the North Carolina Medi cal Association, and many other groups would be invited to the Conference. tensive is the petroleum indus try’s interest in air and water pollution control. He replied that the industry is working in prac tically every phase of air and water pollution control— basic research to the develop ment and ins'allation of highly specialized equipment. He re ports that total expendi ures for these purposes in the years 1966, 1967 and 1968 totaled more than $1 billion. The oil companies spend an average of more than a million dollars a day on air and water pollution, and these expenditures are paying off. The sulfur con tent of the petroleum industry’s main product—gasoline, home heating oil and diesel fuels has been reduced by more than 50 per cent since the end of World War 11. A great deal of effort has gone into controlling and cleaning up leakage of oil in harbors and other areas where marine spillage of pe roleum presents a hr.zard. Obviously, the pe'roleum industry is keenly aware of i s heavy environmen tal responsibilities
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