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CIVILRIGHTS PARADOXES I-1
Hie Democrats ire already tack
their too* tkttiah problem for
platform ouanittte does tUa
•wedt in Chicago ‘oik this lame' -witf
help shape tlie course of the con
vention there neat week. '' -
Deed the ofcofcp of a presiden
«rt neminoe is tBrectly related to,
^ ^-r^-ta plank. And preli
Amtory discussions disclose several
lllwninatine paradoxes. ,
notMiig about civil rights in 80
veain T^„
Hris fact is related to another
SfeTSSEa
aiiy strong action by Congress but
uneaey about what might be done
by'presidential action—for several
desegregation steps bwe been
taken by executive orders as well
as through the courts.
For instance, President Roose
v«flt set up the original Fair Em
fdoynkent-Practices Committee and
President Eisenhower has carried
out a platform pledge to end of.
fitfal segregation in the District of
Columbia. This situation ties in
with another anomaly: The more
moderate the presidential candi
date the less alarm Southern Dem
ocrats will tafcefrom a stiff civil.'
rights Plank. Thus Averett ‘Harrl
man is under more pressure to
"g!B easy” ..than is Adlai Stevenson.
' .The Chicago plank shapers are
also aware that many Negroes vote
Democratic less because of plat
'form promises on eirtl rights than
because of labor and social legisla
closed in the efforts of most
era political leaden to prevent a
split in the convention over civil
rights. At a time whenthe school
question has aroused the South
more than it has been in this cen
tury they are far less militant than
in 1948 or 1952. This is partly be
cause bolting has often proved “ex
pensive.” Governor Shivers is only
the most notable example of those
who “paid.”
The -Citizens Councils may yet
promote a revolt in the South, but
the congressional leaders will try
Hard to avoid it—and they are in
fluential at Chicago. They are per
suaded that they can do more to
“protect states rights” by keeping
control of Congress — and their
'committee chairmanships — than
by leading an ineffective third
party move. -
The net result is that party re:
sponsibility on the national scale is
almost nonexistent. Although more
than two-thirds of the Democrats
favor a strong civil-rights position
rigutges will probably still largely
orders.
innl afBcuu. 7!tet U where N»
«n»8 will PTObaNy continue to
1<** *>r $reiter civil tights, re
gardlesh ofthefora ot words the
plstfenn carpenters fashion in
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ies in TDE
ed for Tobacco Damacre
Mai
H
chemist of
•rtmant of
peculiar damage to tobacco
doxen fields in that area.His
®s <»»h of the six samples
in srtwtance, “Nothing afc
al was discovered in oonnee
Beierring) to the six samples Dr.
Constable’s report says, in part,
“None pf the above findings appear
to offer any explanation of the
damage to tobacco plants which
■Was reported to the department!
In summary, and contusion of the
report, toe department has 'not been
able, by chemical means,*to find
toe cause of the damage to toe to
banco plants. The damage may
have been due to some such cir
cumstance as sensitivity of plants,
peculiar seasonal growth condi
tions which may have existed at
toe time of application, or other
causes yet undiscovered. Plans
have been made to tort some of
this concentrate on growing plants,
under -controlled conditions. Such
tfeste, however, may require spec
ial arra'ngements which cannot be
readily set up on short notice. Such
planned testa are not at hand at
the time of this writing”.
So still the question remains:
What tod damage toe tobacco? No
one has denied that toe tobacco
was materially damaged. *
Uneasy and uncertain are the
jbert descriptive words for the Kin
ston Tobacco Warehouse situation
as the end approaches to a five
year agreement which stopped toe
building boom that got underway
back in 1950. That agreement
jwt only stopped further budding
for a five-year period but also kept
two large warehouses off the mar
kOt that were well along toward
construction when the agreement
was reached.
Now, with the end of that five
year agreement in right, rumors
are plentiful that considerable
changes are just ahead in die to
bacco selling business of Kinston,
the world’s second largest market
for flue-cured tobacco.
Most of these rumors begin with
talk of new warehouses. Mrs. L.
B. Jenkins owns Tapps’ Warehouse,
Jones owns the Carolina and Eagle
Warehouses. Goodman is a former
partner in Old Knott Warehouse,
Inc. and is part owner in the Ban
ner Warehouse, one of the two
winch haye been kept off the mar
ket in a rental agreement under
which the operating houses of Kin
ston paid an annual rental of
$42,000; $18,000 to the Banner Ware
house owned oy Goodman, K. W.
Loftin and Bruce Heath and $24,000
per year to W. I. Herring for his
never-used warehouse just south
of Sheppard’s No. 2 on the Rich,
lands Highway.
Mrs. Jenkins and Jones, both
plagued with small floor'space in
their present warehouses and fur
ther tugassed by double taxes are
reported in the best rumor circles
to be considering, if not planning,
some disposal of their current
holdintes aid construction of new
warehouses outside the double
taxation area.
When the present agreement was
reached it appeared that the Kin
stop market was going to build
itself into bankruptcy. Jones had
purchased land just south of Kin
ston oh the Pink Hill Highway
where he proposed to build “the
world’s biggest warehouse”. Her
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X
e Kills Big Rattler
©•VW t. Bey«Me of Pink HMI
rowlo Oft* improved Ms neighbor
ho polished of this, cbnebreak rat
Hot ho held* above. Beyett. says
ho wo* riding down th* read less
H.*n two-tenths of a milo north of
Pbdt Hill on fh* Carl Howard f§rm
whan ho saw this "geritloman"
com* up out of Hi* ditch and start
aeros# tfw road. Ho dieve on for
•bout IS or N yards and started
back with a 14-btch pipe wrench to
give th* snak* a headache. Said
snake didn't like Hie Idea tee much
and coiled up! to "talk things over
with Boyette". After art extremely
brief conversation, Boyette agreed,
with th* snak* that a 14-inch
wrench was nothing to start banging
on a rattle shale* with. So he is.
hnnod to his car arid came back
armed wtth a four-foot timber Mr.
Snake decided that ho was in no
condition to argue with that kind
of Boyette logic so he started to
lMyh with a few sassy swishes of
Ms noisy toil. Boyette insisted that
He stay a little longer and finally
mad* Ms point by knocking said
rattler's head off. Minus head but
with Ms 14 rattles and one butter
thi* cMMbrMk terror measured h
•t five foot four Wches. Plus hood
ho would havo probably addad an
other three to four inches. Ho was
oifeht inches around his waist and
mean as hall ovary inch of the way.
ring who owns in partnership the
Central Warehouse in Kinston had
riwpped off . in the same direction
to get a bigger slice of the mar
ket’s selling time. The Old Knott
Warehouse group aimed in the
Same direction with its Banner
warehouse building. Sheppard and
the New Knott Warehouse were
getting ready to knock out walls
and add more un-needed floor
space. The Kinston Cooperative
Warehouse got started on the same
kind of expansion.
Selling time is based on the use
ful square footage of a warehouse
and that is the cause for the un
necessary building spree that
threatened the market in 1951 and
is .reported^ threatening again
now.
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