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■■'ism*-" r. ~ --■■I ’ niw VOLUME IX . .BPon^PobaSco Pole; Industry Is Monopoly An arocie in me current issue of Headers* Digest brings into the light of its 16 million readership ■what has been generally known for some years about the cigarette end of tie tobacco industry. Mot surprising at all to a ma jority of the people in this area whose fortunes so largely depend upon tobacco is the fact that fil ter tips cigarettes, never were -intended by the tobacco industry . as a disease preventative but were basically a mechanical device to increase profits of the cigarette i Fortunately for the cigarette * makers the hugely publicized.lung cancer scare coincided with the ■ in that cigarette trade’s plans direction. ' It boils very simply down to " this: With' the king-sized cigarette of 3 and five/sixteenths indies length it doesn’t take ah Einstein to understand what’s going on when thirteen/sixteenths of that cigarette is same kind of filter, which costs the . cigarette matter , ahoht one hundredth of the average Mice of tobacco. test lies the advised by their own scientists that their product is not adding to, the annual death toll by hung canter, then why bother to manufacture a product aimed at quieting the nervous tensions of the habitual smoker? The why is unanswerable, unless one tosses iridedicately into the controversy the factor of increased profits. Every major cigarette manu facturer is devoting a king-sized portion of its advertising to the filter tip brand which it would have ''the public believe is the answer to everything on the troubled mind of the nicotine fiend. In addition to substituting cot ton or celluose for tobacco in 24.5 per cent of filter tipped brands the - little old tobacco companies are using a brand -new trick to stretch the tobacco leaf and their jprt&ts- This device which is now in use by all the cigarette makers to one degree or another is the ginwnic -known as “re-constituted Very simply put this is the en tire leaf as it comes from the Warehouse floor ground into a pow der, mixed with some adhesive and rolled out In a wide.sheet ra ther like a paper making machine. Ste Tobacco Papa 3 much cigar July Schedule - , -rate Social Security ..Contact Sta tion Schedule for July in Jones an Lenoir Counties is as1 follows; ..1 ‘.'ff.. —*■> 1 North Carolina WillBe Honored in Navy Plans The State of North Carolina will be honored by the United States Navy this summer during the world’s largest homecoming at the world’s largest naval training cen ter. A “Salute to North Carolina” will take place at Great Lakes Navy Homecoming during the week of September 2 to September 8. •The thousands of North Caro lians who have trained at Great fcakes are extended an open in vitation to visit their service Alma Mater. The “seabag alumni” of the Tarheel .state are part of the al most two million men and women who have received training here in the past forty-six years. Saturday, September 7, will be (the high point of ceremonies hon oring North Carolina’s contribution to the Navy — and the nation. A special all-North Carolina recruit company will graduate Saturday morning in an impressive review on Methodist Ministers Assigned for Year Among closing functions of the annual North Carolina Methodist Conference convention in New Bern last week was the assignment of pastors for ‘the coming year. In Lenoir County the following were named: 1 Marvin Vick Jr. to the Queen Street Methodist Church, R. M. Gradeless to St. John’s, Bruce Pate to St. Mail’s, H. L. Watson to Westminister, Bob Foster to the Rural Charge, J. B. Parvin to In stitute, Van T. Crawford fo La Grange and H. L- Harrell to Pink Hill. Jones County assignments in cdude: Robert Moore to Maysville, Louis Hillman to Trenton and H. H. _Cash to Pollockssville. Other assignments in this area include R. I. Epps to Grifton, R. R. Blankenhorn to Dover, W. B. Cot ton to Richlands and H. G. Quigley to the Richlands Rural charge and T. C. West to Seven Springs. yitation to attend the open house and homecoming includes the gen eral public. According to training center rmmander, Capt. A. C. Burrows, <i» visit (Jreat Lakes and get re acquainted with tiie Navy any time during the summer-long open house.” Body of Drowned Boy Recovered This was the ihacabre scene early last Wednesday when the body of 16 year-old Herbert Wilt liam Wiggs was dragged onto the sandbar under the King Street Bridge across'Neuse River in Kin ston. The yotrth, an inmate of Cas well Training School, was drowned at 3:45 Monday afternoon after he and two other patients at the school had walked away from the school and followed the river bank to Kin storl. There they decided to go swimming under the bridge, where the water is over 12 feet deep. Wiggs was drowned and in spite of almost constant effort by rescue squads his body was not recovered until it came up and was found an estimated 600 yards downstream onl Wednesday morning. Tobacco Identification Begun By Daring Young Men Recently L.ast wee* in roDaccoiana, U. S. A.” a courageous corps of young men went into the field, not to do battle, but to perform a task that may ultimately equal that of battle. Their’s is the risky job of telling a farmer what kind of to bacco he planted. As one part of the effort to en force the lowered parity support for three high-yielding tpyes of tobacco the ASC offices in all flue cured tobacco growing counties are 'charged with the job of identifying PPPWiwW? Ookers 139 and 140 and Dixie Bright 244 are the three types of tobacco that have been penalized Era o£ Propaganda Leaves Masses Uncertain on Accepted Standards Never before in the history of the world has mankind been so vulnerable to propaganda, because never before in history have there been so, many dever instruments Books are as old as Gutenberg, politicians with venal ambition existed when man was living in trees and eaves. Radio is hardly old enough to vote. Television is still wearing its diapers, both chronolgically and intellectually. There are newspapers by flie billion, magazines in the same vast quantities, movies, radio, TV, books, pamphlets and just plain talkers who have a pulpit or a street corner. And in this year of 1957 it ap pears that a very large percentage of all these propaganda instru ments is playing the same theme; to wit, the only possible salvation for the United States, either do mestically or internationally is to suddenly mongrelize the white and negro races! > \ Some fear this is inevitable; others, of course, hope It is Inevita ble., s ' ' ■ ■’ , Negroes were first brought to tids country in the 17th century and no great number has been brought to these shores since the 19th cen tury when stove trading became unprofitable to the fine New Eqg families who engaged in tfcat tal of aH ways to amass than 200 years of constant and dose proximity to the white race a very large percentage of the American negro papulation is pure negro. This is a • fact denied by the •mongrelizing propagandist both in and out of the south. But it is a fact. To insist that the “pure black” is the only negro is to deny the truth abouf the native coloration of the negro in Africa. The color scale in Africa ranges from the cold black to the checolate-hued, to the ginger brown. It would. be equally unrealistic to suggest that there has been no sexual intermingling of the white and black races in the south. But the fact that for 300 years — in the South — both races have lived together with so little of this in terracial intercourse is the soundest commentary possible upon the pride of both races of their heritage. The racist propagandist Insist that 00 per cent of the South is a mixture of white and negro blood. This is not only insulting, but is an outright lie, but there are mil lions of Americans quite capable of believing it; simply because it has been said by a man or a media who commanded some kind of pub lic pktfonm, and hence some kind of infatoUMMty. That angle baa been exploited to its fullest. \ Then there to toe religious an - wl unrin uw couxvu pwptv wvv suddenly discovered that the of 1957 years in the to 1 .','v '«v*' i --t wrong. What’s more they have found in this neiw theology that the Act of Creation was wrong. That the Creator of aU-ethings was" wrong when he made men, and birds, and fish, and flowers of different colors, and odors, and flavors. So now the suiper-religionists among us mount their tinsel pul pits and thunder forth with theories of mongrelization that must literal ly rot their teeth and breath. But it is the last propagandist who is the worst, for he is the Creator of all the others. He is the political propagandist, the [basest of all animals that crawl the face of the earth, for delibera tely and with malice and jealousy aforethought this political propa gandist subverts religion, reason, not to mention rhyme. For the mess of political potage called high office the Nixons, the Eisenhowers, the Stevensous, the RooSevelts, the Humphreys, the ives, the Lehmans climb upon the podium and mouth horrible lies that must corrode their souls even as they are uttered. Not one at these political propa gandists from Earl Warren to Diwight Eisenhower down to the cheapest ward heelef would have bis family married into a negro family, yet they preach the gospel that can lead intimately to ne other goal except racial amalgamation. Goefcbels lies rotting in his grave, once called the Prince,of Propagandists, but his heirs clut ter the American Seme today with the same techni«M: The Kg lie told loud enough and Often enough soon becomes the truth. V f with a lowered parity support of 50 per cent. These young men who look to the field in this identification bat tle last week are very largely the same men who earlier this year measured the tobacco on all farms in their counties. Now after a brief indoctrination in the characteristics of these three “outlawed” tobaccos they return in a much less exact capacity than that of simply measurement. It ie difficult to contradict arith metic but ASC officials and others expect considerable argument on the heretofore never tried task of tobacco identification. These young men in each county have been instructed NOT TO ARGUE with landowners; ana for several reasons which include the risk involved as well as the possi bility that the identification may be wrong. Under the system set up to han dle this tricky task each farmer has 10 days in which he can appeal from an identification. After that a team of two “identifyers” will be sent out from the Raleigh ASC of fice fOr a further check. This first appeal group of “idenlifyers1' files its finding and the landowner is notified, and he has another 10 day appeal period. After a second appeal another, but different Raleigh team of “iden tifyers” comes out. This third group’s iyord is final so far as the ASC is concerned, for the good and obvious reason that the" to bacco will ah be out of the field by that time. If after all of these appeals have proven futile so far as the farmer is concerned he still has the right to appeal to court, where the bur den will be upon Mm to prove that he did not have one of the three ostracized types of tobacco. ASC officials with a perfect po ker face say that Coker 139 and 140 and Dixie Bright 244 can be positively identified in the field and they add for good measure that laboratory analysis of the to bacco will further confirm this field identification, This certainty of identification is not shared by a vast majority of the men who grow, and presuma bly know tobacco best. The vast majority of tobacco growers has readily agreed to by the tobacco program and ““ J to someother tobacco to much-loved, high es that have been by the 50 per ICO INSPECTION, on peg* 12
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