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Nnomr Porg*t That Tk*t* BdUnrinlt Are T%* Opimkmt Of On* Mm, A^dHeMmr 9* W**ng.
News St Disturber’
' Tibia one newsman to another we rec
'bgnlze the pulse-pounding and clrcula
fcon-bulldlng benefits ot a “nice” sexy
' afaryi luad we fW recognize, too, the
;.$|Ubtle” political brickbats, that **»<» es
teemed Raleigh journal Is hurling with
>>afl>tt8 righteous might. ’
^ At this Juncture, we are more “Scott
than Lennon,” insofar, as the coming
senatorial race Is concerned, but It Is
surely not because of anything the “Dis
turber’’ has said bUt Is, to the contrary,
tM t^lte of this "help" j&ey sire giving
■pfnjft&afa. Scott.
The “News. & Observer” never to hon
est enough with Itself, or l$s readers to
. come out from behind.its ’*0010 Cur
tain” and say, “We’re for Kerr Scott and
we're going to do eyerythlng in our pow
er to embarrass those on the. other side
of the fence."
Rut lnstead the “Disturber” with all
the finesse of a bull' In & china shop
snorts and roars and paws the ground,
throwing dirt not duly th the public eye
hut to' ft own little bloodshot eyes, too.
This “Affaire Sheffield” began In the
ivory towers of the “Disturbers” as a
Alter of Daniels In th
has been stripped of h<
tity by the HlghPriests
Younger and is being t
liarly enough, not byher “enemies” who
cast her aside, but by “her friends” who
want to "help” hdr. Whatever, if any,
stories that may have circulated about
Miss Sheffield could not have had the
slobbering,1 sympathetic and disastrous
effect of the “help” she is being "given”
by the “News ft Observer"
We have been far from happy with the
first nine months of the Tftnstead Ad
ministration and have not been bashful
about saying so, either. But, if Scott Is
going to be “helped” in this matter by
the Raleigh King-Maker’s Society,, then
we think It may be worth a ride over
to Beaufort County to get that hog
ralser to run for the senate. At ifeast
we’d be able (O' expect this pig farmer to
recognize manure In all its forms, and
what’s more he ought to know what to
do with It “ .
But then Scott is a dairyman who
must have had some parsing acquaint
ance with the kind of bull that Is being
so recklessly spread by this high geared,
patented manure spreader on Martin
Street in Rallegh.
All “Begs in One Askit”
number of
organisations that have been
asked to participate have turned down
the offer.. These, .are the March of
Dimes, the Tuberculosis Association, the
Cancer Society, the Heart Society, and
the Crippled Children's League.'
Each of these organisations in the
county is. headed by reasonable and In
telligent people ..who have to them
selves sufficient .reasons for refusing
to truly put alL of Lenoir County’s “Begs
In One Askit.” ■
Leaders in the UNITED FUND CAM
PAIGN have accepted these reasons
with good grace., and have not slammed
the clloor In the face of these five very
worthwhile organizations with the hope
and belief that next year each of them
trill be happy to become a part of the
UNITED FUND- . . . _ \
The week of October 12th has been
set as the week for the annual UNITED
FUND DRIVE. An all-out well planned
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ously, butvery plainly stated that this
year they ate going to make their prin
cipal donation to the UNITED FUND,
and they have most positively said that
they will not participate in further sol
icitation programs.
Since we began presiding over an edi
torial page up in Ahoskle some seven
years ago we have been a constant belev
er in the true UNITED FUND DRIVE,
and it does fret us some little that such
a considerable portion of the fund-seek
ing groups has refused to take part in
this first all-out effort toward that goal
in Lenoir County.
We repeat, without malice, what we
have said previously on this subject:
and that Is this: THE ULTIMATE AC
CEPTANCE AND SUCCE68 OF THE
UNITED FUND PRINCIPLE, UNFORT
UNATELY, LOS IN THE IMMEDIATE
FAILURE OF THOSE WHO ARE NOT
PARTICIPATING WHEN THE TIME
COMES FOR THEIR FUND RAISING.
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The Tobacco Land Economy
Yates Creech, who la local lending
; man for the SinUtoh Production Cred
it Association say* he always h^s mare
trouble with his -ulcers In July and
/*arly. August gM&ttn far, they always
have manager: 'to' taaxe". themselves,
when- the auctioneer begW ids'tiigh*
| priced chant ovW thelong goldeh piles
of old Nicotlna Talcum.
Which pfrovee, among other things,
that Yates Is old as he looks,
w at least thai^hd >has not been in
' the money-tehdisagbttsiness for a great
wtmt years, for there have been times
when tobacco-selling time made ulcers
dieted and us Democrats who were
painting the halls with gloom are hav
ing to eat 'crow, or more simply, forget
our dire predictions of of the mid-sum
mer season. . (
This is one occasion in which we
‘are^more' thanhappyto be wrong, as
we said, when we were, saying sadly
in July, "We hope we are wrong but
it looks like a 15 to 2Q per cent drop
Frightened by TV and the many forms
of 3-D, Hollywood, so the reports say, is
going to atop making “B” pictures and
concentrate on nothing but "A” pic
tures. Which usually means 10,000 ex
tras in technicolor, % carefully and al
most completely exposed girl with a
basket of bosomry. With all the great
stories in literature crying to be made
into movies why does Hollywood still
spend its money on Salome, the wiggling
Salmaj and other such wenches. Don't
tell us. We know.
It seems to us that interest' In the
October - Third state-wfl|de bond elec
tion for 72 million dollars is next to
zero in this part -of .the forest We
guess, and hope that everybody is 100
per cent in favor of both thb school
and mental hospital bonds being pass
ed since both are in great heed of
more space. There’s also a Lenoir
County school bond issue for one mil
lion bucks on the same day that ought
to be passed and if you don’t know why
at this late date we're not wasting our
time to tell you.
Two more murders have, been written
into Lenoir County records over the
Steven’s, ruling that a death bed state
ment was not competent and not sigi!
flcient to convict a person of murder.
Or, in other words, if you kill 'saaiBjMAf
and there age-no eye-witnesses you
can’t be convioted. That’s Stevens’
ruling but it ls<. not the law, and he
ought to know .it. •
We see that Polly Adler has written
her autobiography. It ought to be In
teresting reading .and judging by some
of the junk that passes as literature It
ought to be a masterpiece, since “For
ever Amber” and such so-called litera
ture had nothing to recommend them
but their bedroom scenes and New
York's No. 1 madame ought tp be able
to write the bedroom piece to end all
bedroom pieces.
Carl Caudill takes care of our record
department with his column, “Off the
Record,” but we’d like to add, since he’s
skipped it so far, that “Ebb Tide” on a.
London label Is the most, beautiful,-most
emotional recordwe*ve heard in a long,
long time. It’s the kind that you can
play over and over again.
We particularly commend to our read
es an article in this issue on "The
Church and Alcohol” by a learned Bap
tist preacher and teacher;
JONES JOURNAL
JACK
UtTBTB,
Published Every
County News
Vernon, Ave.,
Publisher..
Business ' Manager
yU*^ Lenoir
£- 403 West
N. p„ Phene 5415.
Entered
1040, at "jd
North
r May 5,
tobacco allocation oserplairted by nearly
40 acres in Jones sad* Lenoir Counties.
Ko doubt a great dial at bis anger
sterna fmm being caught/ “with bis
plants down” and s6* late in the season
after be had every reason td believe that
I’ve sees enough “caught” people to
know that they all get mad when
caught and they are never Irritated With
themselves for having tri$d and failed,
but axe always mad With the “taw"
that them and the newsman
that reports -tticu, One part of
Jones’ irritation towards me stems from
the fact that other so-called- news
sources around here have for reasons
sat on the story of theblggefet tobacco
fanner In Jones Csuqty helpe-fined over
$10,000 which,' to, me does seem worthy
of some small notice.
X admit, and freely, that I have been
liberal with my reportings $ this event,
and liberal with a^r crmdtsns of Jones.
For tobacco IS the UfeWood of the local
economy, Tpbace^lhhtaL*e gat a stab
threatened the radio station
for which I report local news that he
would cancel his advertising contract if
I did not Stop “commenting” about
him. He chased me out of his ware
house as I was delivering some printing,
ordered prior to' his “being caught,” He
cancelled another small printing order
that we had not completed. So, ft Is not
difficult to undestand that lie believes
that the same motive which actuates his
every breath—love of money—can also
be held over other heads, and as effec
tively as It would control him. My wife
sayp that I’m good for two more years
in Kinston and byf that timO I will have
made every business house mad with
me about something and Weil have to
fold up our tent and look another town
to alienate affections and chase away
business in.
I can look at our bookaand see bow
right she really is: * There was a sudden
drop off of business from some of “my
friends” when I started the hospital in
junction suit. Something in which I cer
tainly had nothing but the very best
wishes for* the community h*. Yet peo
ple suddenly quit advertisirig in this pa
per the same wieek this suit hit the
courts.