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'Just Mix It Up—Feed Him Curves And Screwballs!' «AUEC,K« EDITORIALS ' " ' , . , / Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of Ont Ma~. -■ ■ ■ 1 '—;——And He May Be Wrong. York’s The Wrong Color Recently Americans have been crying in their beer for one of the nation’s greatest genuine heroes, Sergeant Alivin York, who was WorM War I’s most decorated soldier. For the story of his life this Tennessee mountaineer was paid a lot of money. Quite likely he thew some of it away, but he did put some of it into a charitable home for children. But somewhere along the line Sgt. York got crossed up with the leeches who sucked the taxpayers’ Wood in the Infernal Rev enue Department. They refused to give this ignorant hero the same kind of a tax-dodge ruling they gave General Ei senhower when his war memoirs were ghost written and sold for nearly a million dollars. So these pig-headed bloodsuckers from Washington have been trying to evict the paralyzed Sgt. York from his mountain home to get that last pound Of flesh. Compare this treatment of Sgt. York over a $25,000 alleged tax debt with the gracious almost apologetic release a few years back of Negro Fighter Joe Louis from more than a million dollars in taxes he allegedly owed the government. They pi ously explained that Louis would never be able to earn enough money to pay off his debts. How they suppose Sgt. York is go ing to get out of his bed and earn enough money to pay their claims is beside the point. Just this week Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, who si$ also a religious ton man, has had three, charges of income tax fraud against him dropped for the tis sue thin reason that “witnesses were abroad’’. That witness is his ex-wife Negro Pianist Hazel Scott — now married to a white Frenchman — who joined with Preacher Powell in gyping the government out of thousands of dollars of income tax. And don’t forget that a member of Powell’s office staff went to prison for helping Powell to gyp the government, but he still serves in Congress and is chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor. You should be so educated that you could get away with deliberately beating the gov ernment out of hundreds of thousands of l dollars . . . This country is in the worst fit of bathos over the negro in its history and in the past century it suffered some severe at tacks. ■ The negro can do no wrong at the na tional level. He is a saint. The Reverend Martin Luther King is above law, and presidents crowd ■ in line to swear to it. A negro girl that this emi nent negro theologian has loved and left stabs him on a New York street and she passes into posterity along with the “Un known Soldier.” Picture a white, leader getting away so lightly at the hands of the press. And so on into the. night. a No Further North There is presently before the Kinston City Council a request‘to extend commer cial zoning even further up North Queen Street. This plea shoud be rejected, and here are our reasons: Strip zoning is un-economic and a major contributor to commercial blighting. B.ut even more important is that less than half of the present area that is com mercially zoned is being used commercial ly- . This pressure process of inching a little bit further up a angle main artery is costly to taxpayers in a long list of ways. 'While a handfuil of property owners on this major artery (Queen Street in this instance) might profit by being aide to sell their land for big profits, think of the hundreds of property owners in the exist ing commercial area who are not getting a chance to sell their property because commercial sites are being made plenti ful on the mam drag. Those who own property on McLewean, Heritage, Mitchell, Bright, King, Oaswell, Gordon, North, Blount, Peyton, Washing ton, Lenoir, Vernon, Grainger between East and Mitchell are being penalized. The city’s traffic and parking problem Is being compounded by strip zoning, and it The Russians Are liars . \ ■■ *.. ?jPBjpaMsfe1 , Hie record 'will fairly well support the statement: “The Russians Are Liars”, and in the same sense It is equally undeniable that Americans are gullible. The Russians are lying about putting , the first man in space. This is not" wishful thinking, nqr an effort to be funny. The time was growing increasingly near when America was going to put a man briefly into outer space. Our monkey had cOme back safe and sound so the Russians knew that they could not postpone their “cos monSfct” puich. longer if they did not :Want to suffer a hard propaganda blow. So they came up with a • whooper. So Ibig, in fact! that a majority of theworkl seems to be accepting the word of con genital liars without the sli^steht question. The Russians had put up dogs, they claim. Rut they never claimed that thegi had or bitted the earth with a dog. Why not a simian, whose body and mind are more nearly like that of man than a doe’s? Why didn’t they first orbit an anintqTbe fore risking a man on a complete lap around the globe? Why haven’t they shown a picture of the space capsule, a picture of the rocket that put the space capsule into orbit? Why haven’t they permitted their hero to answer unfiltered questions? Why does a Russian professbr say the space ship had no windows, anqthe man describe how' beautiful the world was on his 89-miaute excursion? What tremendous engineering problems would have to be overcome to put a win dow in a space ship that mild stand up under speeds of more than 18,000 miles per hour. Why was the space man dressed in' a soft leather space helmet rather than the standard crash helmet which would afford dozens of times more protection? Is the gap between Russian and Ameri can metallurgy and chemistry great enough to permit the Russians to have a liquid propelled rocket that is dozens of times more powerful than our most powerful? The reader should ask: If you have all these uneducated doubts about Russian ac complishment, why don’t some experts have some of the same? They do, and many more; but they cannot speak the truth for fear their operation funds Will be slash ed. The war between Soviet dictatorship and America’s creeping'socialism is hot mil itary, but economic. Everytime an Ameri can president panics and funs to congress for for another handfull of billions to throw down the missile rat hole the Soviets have won another big battle. Every detached expert who has visited Russia J in the past three years says the Russians do not have the tremendous technological apparatus to produce the things it is claiming. Russian cars, air planes, tanks are all poor copies of models bought or stolen from the western world. Yet in spite of such massive technologi cal plagiarism as this our leaders tell us apd expect us to believe the the Russians in one tiny industrial cell have not only passed but. have passed us by years, and that there is really very little chance of us ever catching them. V Any realistic apprasial of the story told last week by the Russians cannot reach hut one conclusion: The Russians Are, Liars. ought to stop now and stay stopped until a much larger percentage of the 'already available commercial property has been used. - -— ■-, -—■ , JONES JOURNAL JACK RUMOR, Publisher Published Every Thursday by The Lenoir County Nome Company, fix*, MB West Vernon Ave., Kinston, N. C., Phone JA 3 33TC. Entered as Second Ctess Matter May 5, 1949, at the Fust Office at Trenton North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. By Mail in First Zone—$3.00 Per Year. Subscription Rates Payable in Advance. BY JACK RIDER The election this week in Kinston has been a painful lesson to leaders in the ne gro community. They have learned that the way of a politician is not an easy one. They,have learned, the hard way that, the best made plans often go awry in the political byways. -—att.t ' ' *< t';' » Two years ago Mrs. J. J. Hannibal made local history by becoming the first negro, and the first woman ever elected to the, Kinston Board of Aldermen. There were many — including myself — who had fears over jier election.' But time has quited my fears. Mrs." Hannibal has .conducted herself well, has not, tried to use. the city council as a sounding board for extremist views. By common consensus up until the filing dead'-' line on April 1st she was expected to go back fpr another two-year, term, But >n the final filing day — Just minutes before the deadline, two other negro candidates filed. This made three negro candidates and 10 white candidates. This automati cally made each of,the 1961 negro voters three times as powerful as the 7138 wlpte voters insofar as supporting candidates of their own race whs concerned. Negro leaders backing Mrs. Hannibal turned every possible stone in-their ef fort to persuade the white voters'that the negroes were not going to vote for all, three negro candidates. Their selling Mb was not succesful, as file vote Tuesday indicates. Hundreds of white voters who original ly had intended to vote for Mrs. Hannibal changed thei^ minds when the mathema tical possibility of three negro aldermen confronted them. Despite this fear Mrs. Hannibal still got over 600 white votes. The negro leaders were right in saying that they were not going to support the. other two negro candidates. Franklin (Moore got only 491 votes and Melvin Bell got only 396. But the white community had no way of knowing that the negroes would keep their word until the votes were count ed. Personally I Relieve at this time it was bad for the city council to lose Mrs. Han nibal, but it is my absolute conviction that her defeat was - not caused by the law which fodbid’s single-shot voting, nor by blind racial attitudes of the white voters, but was caused by the threat — however remote it may have been — of having three negro aldermen. This is not the kind of statement that can be supported by iron clad facts, but it is supported by state ments made to me by dozens — more than a 100 voters who said, in substance, “I Was going to vote for Mrs. Hannibal but I’m afraid the white candidates may need my vote worse than she.” ___i_ Two yearns ago when Mrs. Hannibal was elected the white vote was split between 20 candidates. This year it was divided between only 10 candidates; this automa tically made her election more difficult — in fact, impossible if voting were done in this election as it was in I960 along strictly racial lines. Two years ago she was elected' with 1254 votes, and not less than 1200 of those were negro votes. This year - she got 1449 votes and over 500 ot those were white votes. For some reason, perhaps the split over the negro candidates, the negroes did not vote in strength this .year.- • For instance in Precincts 1 and 2 where the bulk of the negro vote is located — 844 registered negroes in Precinct 1 — Mrs. Hannibal only got 379 votes and in Precinct 2 where there are 1091 negro voters re gistered Mrs, Hannibal only got 576 votes. The other five precincts only include 98 registered negro voters. Yet in those five precincts Mrs. Hannibal got S94 votes, proving at least theoretically that a con siderable part of the vote Mrs. Hannibal got in Precincts 1 and 2 was also white Continued on pag. 3
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