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'I Wonder When He'll Stop Stealing My Thunder? ' 4- m" ORIALS f ' Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man, -And He May Be Wrong. Larkins vs. Sanford Now, two months before the tiling dead line it becomes increasingly clear that John Larkins of Trenton and Terry Sanford of Fayetteville will be the major candidates for governor this year. There’s no secret that this paper is for John Larkins, 107 per cent. Our reasons are two. 1. Larkins is a close personal friend. 2. Larkins is the best qualified man to seek the office in this century. Look at the record: Served in nine ses sions of the General Assembly as senator from the 7th district—eight regular and one special session. He served on every standing committee in the senate. He served twice as chairman of the most powerful senate committee: Appropriations. He served twice as chairman of the Ad visory Budget Commission. He was twice voted by the legislative news corps the most effective member of the general as sembly- He'served; as Governor Hodges’ first legislative laison oficer, and with re markable success. He served four years a chairman of the Democratic Party in North Carolina and is currently serving as the Democratic Na tional Committeeman from North Carolina. He has visited—not once but several times—every governmental institution in North Carolina, including hospitals, schools, ports, farms, prisons. He knows their needs, their weaknesses and their Strengths. He knows not only where the state’s money goes, but where it comes from. On the basis of record Sanford runs a weak second; so it would seem that San ford if he is to- win will have to win on personality and even in that department no one who knows both men can rate Sanford ahead of Larkins when it comes to shak ing hands, winning friends and influencing voters. Barden’s Resignation The sudden announcement by Third Dis trict Congressman Graham Barden that he would retire at the end: of his present term shook Washington because of the national significance of his decision and stirred up the district Barden has represented for 26 "years with purely individual problems. Barden’s departure from congress will promote Negro Preacher Adam Clayton Powell to the chairmanship of the key education and labor committee, over which Bardten has ruled, so long so well. Barden has almost single-handedly blocked fed eral interference in pdbhc schools and ever widening power for organized labor. During the first session of the 80th Congress Bar den was given major credit for passage of legMjstion that is intended to curb some of the escesses recently exposed in organized by the thought of what Powell may try to do with this committee. Here at home the problem is much less complicated. In Pamlico, Craven, Jones, Wayne, Duplin, Onslow, Carteret, Sampbon and Pender counties the question is very simple: Who will take Barden’s place? There has been a sudden rash of volunteers. Craven County popped up with two; state legislators Sam Whitehurst and Jimmy Smgkkis. ShnpMns has staked out Barden as private territory by running against Km four years ago and getting trimmed 21/127 to 9,330. Jones County Attorney George Hughes, a long-time close associate of Barden, has also been carefully testing the district wa The Dividing Line Many a fine academic shine can be cut in determining where to draw the Hoe between exploitation and the indtvfahiars unwilling ness to help himself. Those millions who perhaps watched an NBC telecast Saturday night on Castro’s Cuba were exposed to an hour of brain washing which supported oastro’s. confisca tion of private property because of the poverty of many who tHled that soil. The only, thing NBC deplored about the com munization of Cuban property was that Oastro is beginning to exhibit most of the recognisable tracts of a leftist dictator. This paper does not enjoy seeing or hear ing about any individual or any group be ing sunk in poverty, but this paper cannot accept poverty as a sufficient excuse for the expropriation of private property.. The B'to'e, and common sense combine to remind us that the poor will always be with us. No amount of training or wealth will remove some people from poverty, and the ugly appari tions that automatically at tach themselves to the poverty stricken. Castro has become' an idol to hundreds of thousands of poverty stricken Cubans by promising them land, houses, .hospitals and schools. But in practice his promises be come a glorified “Robin Hood” Mnd of government in which the rich are robbed to make less poor the poor. Among people, as in the milk bottle, cream rises to the top. Every political ef fort to homogenize the economy is doomed to failure, just as now In Russia the profit T The First Commandment “He won’t stand hitched1’. When a politician has that description ap plied to him. he is through. Addison Hewlett is getting a full dose of this bitter medicine now, and apparently does not like its taste. Politicians never fall out with a fellow for fighting them, but they never forgive a fellow who “won’t stand1, hitched". This does not mean crossing from one side to the other. Bach 'political campaign is a new war and each time new linos, new allies and new strategy are mapped out. Refusing to stand hitched in the politi cian’s book means the felldw who jumps froim one side to the other to butter his own toast. Hewlett was elected speaker of the 1959 house by those who did not like Governor Hodges’ program. Once elected Hewlett de cided that Hodges could help him more than the majority of the men in the house who had elected him, and Hewlett spent the rest of the session “toting' water” for Hodiges. i Now Hewlett is bitter because nobody seems to trust him. He and Clifton Blue canvassed the state and particularly the money bags of the Piedmont very care fully, and like the blind hog, they picked up an acorn here and there but not nearly enough to put any candidate on a floored pen. Now that tiie money-rug has vanished from beneath Hewlett, the gubernatorial candidate, the News & Observer and Terry Sanford folks have rushed forward to tell him that the “Btg Rock dandy Mountain" is just around the corner if he’ll only run against Everett Jordan for the United States Senate. Hewlett .will probably be persuaded by this chant, but he will find that for the same reason he will run into the same prob lem in this or any other major campaign in which money is needed in large chunks. “He won’t stand hitched.’’ district populaltionf-wise. One may safely predict that Barden’s successor will not be known until after a second primary has separated the men from the boys. We say not less than six candidates wfll be on the ticket in Hay in the preMmdnaiy match. JONES JOURNAL JACK RIDER, Publisher Published Every Thursday by The Lenoir County N«tw* Company, ln<j., 406 Went Vernon Ave., Kinston, N. C., Phone JA 3 2375, Entered as Second Class Hatter Hay 5, IMS, at the Poet Office at Trenton North Carolina, under the Act of'March 3, 1B79. By Hail in Fir* Zone-f3.00 Per Year. Subscription Rates Payable in ^dvanice. bodies, clothe ttwfir becks and pacify their SOUlS. ' • - • :^u4'; Only a nigged, fawltic fringe can Urn oft promises atone/ The vaat majority of pep pie couldn’t care jess about government, but they call gelt/excited about a chance to keep up with the “Joneses” whether, they are next-door or next-continent neighbors. Castro’s oommunization of Cuba cannot exist in the first economic premise so near to the gold coast & Florida. Today, or was' it yesterday—Cuba’s economy was based on selling Su^ar and Havana-type sin to Americans. Benevolent despots cannot sur vive in bankruptcy, as Fidele is finding out Friendliness is becoming, both morning, noon, and night, and in youth, maturity, and old age. , Everybody likes to feel important now and then. To help this along, every hus band and wife should make a contribution by tolling the other how wonderful they are at least once a week." PERSONAL PARA6RAPHS BY _JACK RIDER Bad as it is to have a local bank stuck up, it’s good that nobody got hurt by the thief. All bank employees are repeatedly told to cooperate with bandits; to do noth ing to irritate them. And that’s exactly what the trio working in the bank plus one customer did Wednesday morning. The thief got away with $5,723, a fairly good size chunk of cash. But if he were familiar with the records, and I’m sure he’s not, he’d know that robbing banks is a mighty hard way to make a living. The vast majority are caught, and most of them dlon’t even stay free long enough to spend any considerable part of the money they steal. When an exciting crime of this kind hits, everybody has a theory, and that includes me. It’s nice to sit down and guess about things of this kind. My guess, and I’ll pro bably be stuck with it, is; The thief was a local person, and in my expert opinion, the same fellow that robbed the Green Acres Shell Station, a year or so ago and slug ged the attendant there What do I base my guess on? This. Both thieves stole a ear in town, went into the edge of town, did their robbing, drove the ear back into town and abandoned it. And I might add that both cars were abandoned within a very few blocks of each, other. AH I have to do to prove my theory is to catch the man, and then let him confess. Up until now there is not a witness—to either of these robberies—who could make a positive identification. The man who was slugged at the filling station was very bad ly hurt and his memory never has been clear as to description of the robber. Wednesday four people saw the bank rob ber at close range. So they know his sire approximately, but the silk Stocking he bad pulled over his face distorted his features, and perhaps even bis speech to such a de gree that identification' would be a tedious matter. There is the slender hope that a finger print may be found on the car, which as this is being written is being gone over with a great deal of care by tap fingerprint ex perts. Catching the man with the money would be a great stroke of hick, but even then the money alone would not convict him, since Oommemiai National Bank money tooks like evervbodv rise's ntonev.
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