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The Most Pressing Need
in one complex society on today no com
munity that sends several hundred stu
dents off to other citdes and towns Cor 4
College education each year can lay claim
to progressivene&s.
Not so many year6 ago ethildxenj whose
parents wanted them to have any eduicaj
tion bad to send them away to a< boarding
school, then came public schools through!
the high school level.
Today the -rising cost of hiving, especially
living -away from home, makes it impossi
ble far a staggering percentage of our high
school graduates to further Chedr educa
tion without literally bankrupting their par
ents, or putting themselves in hock for a
major part of their youth.
This is a situation that must be correct
ed; and the lead taken by Kinston civic
dubs, the chamber of commerce, the coun
ty board of education and now the county
board of -commissioners tends to indicate
ma t me problem wm doc emat mucm longer.
* But the final decision to® remain with
the citizens of the county, dor they will be
asked to vote sufficaaOt money to establish
and operate this long needed addition to
the county’s education eystem.
Although the date has no* yet been set,
it is likely that tbe referendum will be
held in November. Between now sod then
it becomes the jwaBiqg responsibility of
every citizen who Mfaw> in this commu
nity college program to to® college, argue
College and convince those who have seri
ous, or minor inisgivtogR on this subject
that they should also lend their support.
So far this writtnr can join Mayor Guy
Elliott who said.lComkar tost to conversa
tions with a great navy stomas from ev
ery part of the county be had not yet heard
ia single voice to-ecpotokn to this effort
to secure a coilegs to move Xjenoar and ad
joining counties.
Old Bam Burning
“Don’t tarn the ban) to get rid of rats!”
This oild saying is particularly apt a®
jour nation approaches wibat may he a de
cisive political battle in the next three
years on what is misnamed the “laberal
Oonservaitive” issue.
In political patois of the moment the
(word liberal has come to be wrongly asso
ciated with" sioKfali^ts, or those who
through ignorance would lead the nation
into the saem bureaucratic dictatorship that
has fallen upon other nations.
The original concept of political liberal
ism has no more in common with the Jon
athan Daniels type of “hbendhm” than
Christianity has with atheism.
The true liberal’s most basic character
istic is respect for the rights of others, in
•he American political climate of the mo
there is not many Said* in which it is mot
needful tot necessity tor toe federal gov
ernment to take, part
Many frietos of Ibis
have asked)
with same amazement how we could so
bitterly oppose federal aid to schools and
at the same tune support toe federally
supported urban renewal program.
Schools in North Oarottoa are a state
and county operation, but urt>am develop
huent is purely a cbgr problem. Both tod
state and county have toe power itocoutnoi
toe* tax base from wttcb toey plan such
affairs as toe operation «f schools. This
year ds a perfect Murtratiun, The state
sending of troops to rettfee * plane can
hardly be justified.
(But if in a matter of hours after the plane
ittaa Deen &wfeea ®u© iriresDCsem nan pooicecB
Up a telephone and called Fidele and said,,
"Til give you three inure to ham that
plane back in ^CJwmi, and if it’s not there
hy then we’re corning after if.’’ world opin
ion would Jnsve very largely been with tie.
In criminal law, a® it pertains to the in
dividual, .there is a great dMHanenoe be
tween an individual taking matters in bis
own bads to defend his life or pnoperiy at
the actual time either is being threatened!
and waiting a mutter of days or weeks to
do somehing about it
■ Kennedy hedged tod tong on Ads particu
lar point to turn it to the political propa
ganda benefit of our country.
No Marshalls In
New York
Junior “iG” Man Bobby Kennedy, stage-,
/manager of the “lEYeedom Rides” offered
the nattier Imp excuse for sending & covey
of federal marshalls into Alabama, thait
local law enforcement agencies had proven
insufficient to cope with the situation be
help Create.
Last week over-1,000 negroes dashed
iwith 150 New York City police, and in the
past 12 months 1,780 police have been as
saulted on the streets of “little Ole New
York” but the matioo's top legal power.—
said Younger Kennedy — has not flown a
division of “feds?’ to take over where
local li^iw enforcement agencies have prov
en insufficient to cope with mob violence.
Sic Semper Tymamnis
valuations it couM summarily enforce to
a very large degree the improvement of
private properties in blighted areas.
In an example we used two weeks ago
there is offered positive proof ot this sty
mie faced by city officials. The Tapp Ware
house property on the center of King- and
Heritage streets includes 62,700 square feet
of extremely valuable real state upon,
which an unprodUcfiitve warehouse is locat
ed. It adds immeasurably to the blight of
djhte badly blighted block. Yet it is on the
(tax books for only $35,756.
The opposite corner of that same block
at Queen and Caswell is, owned by the
Brody Brothers and includes 5,544 square
feet. This lot is on the tax books for $45,
450. Tax 'Hated for nearly $10,000 more but
inducting less than one-tenth the square
area.
She Brady property is taxed at that rate
because it has a good hoOding on it, white
the Tapp property is taxied so tew because
it bas a sub-standard building on it
To entertain any idea of correcting the
Might even theoretically on Ibis block con
siderable amounts of money are necessary.
The city cannot 'borrow money under i*->
strictions of itbe local Government Com
mission beyond a certain limit, and (ben
only with the permission of a majority of
the voters.
To stimulate building and to protect and
connect central business districts that are
suffering blight congress decided to help
herd-pressed cities caught with a problem
and without the resources to cope with that
problem. 'y"-;A
That j» not socialism.
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The weekend story grabbed: aU the world
headlines oo the ere of a ooncdliatory
speech fay Boss Ru% Khrushchev,, in which
be sweetly suggested that the French, En
glish, Americans, and himself trill down and
decode what is going to he done about Ger
many. But it is the propaganda aspects of
this latest orbit that I icainnot swallow.
Consider, just one little absurdity in the
midst of 6o much connivance — to wit,
this “Eagle” closing down shop and taking
a 7 1/2 hour nap. No doubt the Russians
bad some kind of hardware spinning around
the earth, and it may faaire bad a tape re
cording of this “Eagle’s” sitting up ex
ercises, Ids leisurely half-hour meal and
his belly laugh about, “1 don’t care what
(you do, but I’m: going to bed.”
The Russians may have crack scientists,
but .they are badly in need of script writers,
dust last Friday Colonel Cohn Hamilton of
Seymour Johnson Air Base iwas telling the
Kinston Kiwanis Club what a physical or
deail a 26-hour flight in a B-52 is, and how
impossible it is to' sleep on such missions.
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From 6 a. m. June 5th, 1944 until, 8 p. m.
‘June 6th, 19441 didn’t sleep a single solitary
wink. That was any major contribution to
‘‘D-Day”, but it proves to me ibb point, if
no other; that bis “Eagle” who so casually
Slipped into his pajamas and drifted off to
dreamland while spinning around the world
is nothing more than a figment of some
sterile imagination.
Imagine, Lindberg nodding while bis au
tomatic pilot winged: him toward Pam;
of course, lindbeng had. no automatic pilot
hud he didn’t sleep one second of wee 33
hours, 29 minutes and 30 seconds it took him
to fly from New York to Pam. One could
fill a book with illustrations of top utter
impossibility of this Russian spending near
ly a third of his entire flight in the sack.
Then, how about the world takjnig a peek
at the gadget that tossed him into orbit?
How about a Hook at the 5-ton space ship
occupied by this steeping eagle? AM you or
I or anybody else has seen tf this engineer
ing marvel is an “artist’s conception.’’
Where did .these orhitting Russians take
off from? (Land? Not even the follow travel
ling comnwiinast® can answer such very
Simple questions. How did the cosmonauts
a JO — — V O /IwAflfltM IV.mliO Tm UMI ..
Early this year it was announced by our
.propagandists that we woidd1 shoot some
brave soul into the air, if all went well some
time in (May. So- the Russfens bad ftve
snonth notice ot what deadline they bad
to beat. So they beat us with Yngi Gagwrinte
quack zip about the globe. But, to date toe
capsule pas not been put in the Kremlin
museum, nor paraded down Red Square,
nor wen seen by mortal man. Ditto for the
new, sleepy-type Cossack’s Flying Mat