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3 Jul? - Court Houm Squirt HERTFORD, N.C 27944 ' Entered u second dut teatter November 15, 1934 ww wim in Hertford, RAY WARD - V General Manager ' FRANCBVE SAWYER OffiCErlRS, ii-Noon.3P.M Monday FrL ;sl v J5 ,r- PHONE-426-7109 -SUBSCRIPTION RATES -t win itAK tQ CJ i n 10 - rerqurniani county ?8 -Published by Deir Publication , :. Radio. Inc.. -Sam ; , WASHINGTON - The United States, much to our Pvsoitow js-rapidly usmg up lowcost raw materials. Fuel, .- lumber, and many ores are I 5 gettingscared. Once we relied " almost entirely on domestic ' supplies. This is rapidly " .changing and, last year, for v . example, this country im i ' . . ported about 28 per cent of its . petroleum. That figure may . k , rise to 50 per cent by 1980. t i ., , Not only .is oil in critical supply, but so is natural gas. ' " Certain types of coal are in great demand. With respect ! to ore, much or the high . quality iron ore in the ; s t Mesabi range in Minnesota , is gone. The same is true of . . . the best copper supplies in . , . , Michigan.. Many once ( abundant soft-wood, forests ' are loeeed out. This T '."depletion of .our natural ' v us: Bargain raw materials , . t .have almost ceased to exist, , , .and this has given a strong . ,, push to the chronic inflation v ; , which plagues our economy. .At the moment, a major problem is the fuel shortage. '" That problem has been ' " building up for some time ' " but has H6itf5een" a household topic until recently. Why it " 'occurred involved both . , : foreign . . and domestic .policies. Essentially, , , , however, the reason boils ..down to the fact that the ' " energy demands of this t. V country are growing at a " fantastic rate. Americans "'are consuming about 33 percent of the world's supply '' -of energy even though we ? "comprise only 6 percent of .- i the world's population. ....We face fuel shortages in ,, , many areas in the coming ,.. ..months. Some motorists ' may not be able to fill-up the 'family car at their favorite ' ''station unless, demand slackens.. At the moment, the ' "'President's-Joint Board on Fuel Supply and Fuel Transport is simply saying that "supplies of natural gas . and gasoline will be very i . i tight in the spring and j . jsummer." Shortages have trieeered harges and counter-charges j" " as to who is to blame for the Wfruel crisis. New en 1 Wiroii'mental -nnlicies. in. r asino rnnmimntinn nf ja joline- by late, model ji-L'cles, i dwindling supply "Teasi petroleum, as in-. fu . ising reliance on foreign er &;iuc;;QjI,, lack" of suf ficient refineries, and an imperfect distribution . sys em have all contributed : to iJ situation. i a critical factor in the shortage lies in the fact viiatt1iornough U.S. efineries have been built in j.etretltiyeaMi- process .'Crude petroleum for our domestic.; market. Our .lefe; running at capacity with less than eeded-teserves tn the event J-nyftteakddwn.X: . 'fhe.tipply problem has , .een-trllevJated to some hextentby,. the., President's .."prir 18th prdex suspending , (mport quotas,' and this -' along with Other policy decisions by the 1 dministratiofl.mayimprove j.a petroleum situation now . .Nixing. The perplexing fact "s that" traditionally ,t miericans use much more -;tof'uer in the summer . -4hs- than ..at oilier Jt'ns and if this occurs ; this year, current spot s.Mlaesinay worsen. u.o, For those who enjoy close calls to accidents and maybe death, or like the exciting adventure of playing chicken on the highway, my suggestion is travel as much as possible U.S. 17 north and south, the two-lane version. I have come near more accidents on this stretch than any other piece of road I've traveled. People passing seem to be the biggest problem. Motorist "1nsr making it" back to their home lane is the big highway game there. Not only poor driving habits but unconsidered persons are behind the wheels on U.S. 17. , Four-lane highways in other areas of the state and country have spoiled us all. It is a dreadful highway and one all of us leaving or entering Hertford north or south take. For the early morning Ford Co. or The Story Of Jimmy ; (CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK) . BY PAUL "SNOOKS" WHITE Jimmy said, "Mama when will you and Daddy let me go. fishing by myself again?" "Well' said Mrs. Hunter, "next summer you will be twelve years old and I think that a twelve-year-old is old enough to go fishing by himself. How about' it Albot?" "Yes, I think that will be alright, although at twelve you are still a child; be sure and look out for snakes . because in the summer . there are some in the fields. Edward killed one not too long ago and I don't want nothing to hurt my future baseball player." Jimmy gave a big smile. Mr. Hunter said, "Your mother and I heard that you could swim." "How did you and Mama find that out?" asked Jim my. ' :' : "The older boys told us all Wl nnhiMvrAYiKAmAMf11 BY CONGRESSMAN WALTER B. JONES ; Last week for the forst time in my political career I felt compelled to vote "present" on a legislative matter. The bill involved regulatory action , by the Congress between banks and Savings and Loans Associations. Since I am?" presently Director of a large Savings and Loan Association, I felt it proper to abstain from voting either yes or no, thereby eliminating any possible conflict of interest which might have existed. On May 10, the House in an unprecedented action, amended an appropriation bill to provide that no money contained therein could be spent on land, or in the air, or off the shores of Cam bodia. Several times in the past, the House has failed to take a positive position on its opposition to the fighting in Southeast Asia. The margin by which this mandate was approved was rather surprising, for it carried 219 to 188. The question concerned the transfer of $430 million of Defense funds within the Department. The opposition was based on the fact that it was believed that these transferred funds would be used to continue the bombing of Cambodia. So, the first motion was to refuse to permit the transfer of the funds to the end that they would have to refuse to permit the transfer of the funds to the transfer of the funds to the end that they would have to be spent for the purpose for which they were originally ap propriated. The second motion which carried by an even greater margin, 224 to 172, was the one which provided that no monies could be spent for , land, air, or off the shores of Cambodia. The fact which troubles many of us is that this Ad ministration is making all sorts of conciliatory gestures to both Russia and Red China. This includes, of course, generous low interest, long term credit to Russia in order that they might purchase our grain and other food stuffs. So, if we are attempting to compromise our position with these two large Communist nations, it hardly seems logical that we should be fighting communism in Cambodia, In other words, it puts this nation in the position of saying there are "good communists and bad communists.". This office shares the concern of many , regarding the threatened oil shortage; and more -particularly, as it might adversely affect the tobacco curing during the coming months. In an effort to be of assistance, the Congress has ap proved legislation which permits the President to allocate quotas to different sections of the country to meet agricultural, medical, and public needs. So, on May joths U, S.; Depart- -ment of Treasury announced Z a voluntary compliance plan with a promise that if this fails, . more stringent measures will be taken by the Administration. Basically, it provides that each rcf iner u. wketcr, jobber end distributer will aree to maY availclla in czzh ztzis ta each cf -it3 cuctcr.crs,. t.i3 tzzr'ZTczz.' cf it t:tdl t---ly cf cmi2 cil crJ f rc Z-zi3 C : il r . ;-. -Izi . durir c;th c .rt:r cf a t:3 r -i:l . 3 Izzz peri: ! h f -' r rt:r cf 1-71 zzl V..3 first 1 ' - i itoaa names 'Catfish' about it. We were glad to - know that you could swim." ."Thanks, said Jimmy. I can swim real good; my brothers told me not to say anything about it because they were afraid that it would worry you and Mama." . Mrs. Hunter said, "Yes, they were afraid of that but a little later on they told us one . night because they thought it was wrong of them to force you to keep a secret from us. It made us all glad to know that you could swim, but be careful and don't take any chances when you . go swimming. Some of the best - swimmers drown by taking too many chances. Just like the best automobile drivers get killed from taking too many chances; so you see what we mean? Always take our advice,. son." "I . will always try, Mama," said Jimmy. - "I love to hear my little man talk like that," said Mr. Hunter. v Navy yard workers who use the highway, caution should be taken. Those other Perquimans County thivers going to Elizabeth City or ?dsEwhere must be cautious as well. Tourist, who use the road to travel to Florida from the northeast are no doubt shocked at the highway. Lord knows two Perquimans County Highway Patrolmen, Troopers Charlie Mims and Y.Z. Newberry are on that stretch to enforce laws. Many evenings one or both have stopped some careless motorist to warn or issue a citation for inadequate driving ability. , . Many a night the flashing blue lights have "caught" another creep who could km j or- mane some in , nocent victim. Perquimans County residents beware and be careful of U.S: 17 -it's a killer. Hunter Jimmy smiled and said. "Daddy I will soon be a young man won't I?" "You sure will," said Mr, Hunter, "time sure does fly; it doesn't wait for anyone." "Mama, do you know something? I know that I have got the best Mama and Daddy that ever lived." "OH, thank you, but all good children think that about their parents and all parents : think that about their children. Jimmy, it won't be long before you will be sixteen, then you will be driving an automobile and you will be going to Nags Head, Ocean View, Virginia Beach and the swimming pool over at Elizabeth City and many more places so please be careful. Always put God first in everything you do, no matter what you do or where you go, whether it be fishing, driving a car, walking on the road, or even playing baseball when you grow up to be a baseball pitcher; always ask God to be with you on that pitching ound. You and all the other layers will certainly need im all the time, so always trust in God." "I will, said Jimmy. I still remember my first day in school. That morning when you told me to always trust in God. Do you remember that Mama?" f "I sure do and what you said made me laugh a little, ; which I shouldn't have done, but it did sound cute. Do you know what you 'said?" Jimmy smiled and said, "If I had a store I would trust God because he is a good man. I won't ever forget my first day in school; and Mama if I go fishing next summer I think that I can out run an old ugly laze bear." : They all three laughed alittle, then Mrs. Hunter said, "Now, Jimmy, don't ever forget what your daddy said to you about having to much conficence in yourself or. not enough. Always believe that you can do these things but also remember that you could fall down running from that bear." "That's right, said Jimmy, "then you would really need God." "We need God aU the time," said Mr. Hunter. Jimmy said, "Daddy, are there really bears in Beach Springs?" "No, but we had to frighten you a little when we caught you with that catfish because you were too little to go way back in that field by yourself. There used to be some bears -around Bear Swamp a long , time ago; that's where it got it's name, God gave all of you children to your Mother - and me to love and cherish and we don't want nothing to happen to any of you. - Now I, Paul (Snooks) White can remember back in 1933 when some little. Rogerson children and some of their little friends drove a mule and cart to a children day program to the Great Hope Church. They didn't: : live too far from the church. On- their way noma that night, the mule saw a bear on the side of the swamp. He Jumped and ran; the little . boys held the driving lines : . but they couldn't stop the mule. The little girls held onto the cartrails as tight as they could. The mule went on home but it was wonderful that the children didn't get hurt.- Jjmmy $aid, "I am gclt-g ' slecy, I am gcirj to bed. good nifht everybody." CCNTI.NUI.3 KZXT A Look Backward MAY 193S By VIRGINIA WHITE TRANSEAU PREPARING TO WIDEN ROUTE THROUGH TOWN: . Work on the thirty-foot high way to be constructed ' through the Town of Hert ford will begin within the next month. This im provement on Route 342 within the town limits of : Hertford, includes the widening of Church Street and the widening of a portion -of Edenton Road, as well as the paving of DobbsStreet. STORES .WILL OBSERVE THURSDAY HOLIDAY: The Thursday afternoon half holiday will begin for business houses on June 6, continuing through August ;vv-:-;-':Vv-:;-- CLAUDE BRINN NAMED LIFE GUARD FOR BEACH: Claude Brinn was appointed life guard for the Hertford bathing beach for the summer at the meeting of the Town Council on - Tuesday night, Mr. Brinn will take over his duties on June 1st, and will be on guard every week day from 2 to 5 o'clock. DOG SHOT AFTER BITING TWO COWS AND SIX DOGS: A mad dog appeared in Winfall Tuesday and bit two cows and six dogs before it was shot. Its head was sent to Raleigh for examination, and the report received from the laboratory indicated that the dog was afflicted with rabies. One of the dogs bitten belongs to Mrs. W.G. Hollowell, two were owned by Bred Win slow, one belonged to S.F. Stallings, one was owned by Garland Stanton and one belonged to G.W. Jackson. FREAK WIND CARRIES ROOF OFF SHELTER: W.A. Lowe and his young son were putting up the car at his home in the Lake Com munity Tuesday afternoon during the freak wind storm when the roof was lifted from the shelter of the garage where they were standing, and carried into a field near by. WHEDBEE AND BROWN RETURN FROM RALEIGH : Hon. Charles Whedbee returned home on Saturday. Mr. Whedbee has been in Raleigh since the convening of the General Assembly in January, where he has served as legislative adviser to : the Governor. W.T. Brown, Perquimans County's representative in the Legislature, has also returned. RETURNS TO HERT FORD: Robert Riddick, who for the past several weeks has held a position with the State Highway Commission at Wallace, has been tran sferred , to the Hertford . division and returned home this week. This By ROBERT E.LEE (SPONSORED BY THE LAWYERS OF . NORTH CAROLINA) Are the statutes which make it a criminal of fense to publish, sell, or . distribute the so-called "obscene" books or magazines contrary to the freedoms of speech and press guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments : of' the Federal Constitution? The constitutional test used most frequently in recent years by the United States Supreme Court in judging ob scenity : has , been "whether to the average person, applying con temporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interests". The word "prurient" has been defined by the dictionary as "inclined to or characterized by lascivious thoughts". General Statutes 14 189.1, enacted by the General Assembly of North Carolina in ic;7, dcfir.es ctsccrity rscrs . fully and ins greater detail. It suSst-r.tu"y fvilows ti.3 sts.-J:rcl ect by C.3 Ur.itci States Z-rc.s Court Li 1"7. Others LikeUurl own A New York friend visited me in mv now TWtfnrH home and lovud the quiet and peace we have here. He is a newspaper reporter who lived for several years In Manhattan He remembers the filth, transit strikes, rude and inconsiderate people of "the city" and finds Hertford beautiful. "You people don't know what you have here," he said in bis Yankee drawl. He was sitting near the Perquimans River bank, just looking. , - After an early supper we walked downtown. The bus station on the main section was the only business open. Some people were inside playing the pinball machine, drinking cokes and 'waiting for the bus. The shops and stores were closed. It was a good hour before dusk. He wanted to see our town. "You know, this town reminds nie of the towns in Dick and Jane books. Everything was so un complicated in those books. Everyone knew their policeman, fireman, postman, druggist and shop keeper by name, Just like in this town," he said. ' , The old houses which have been in families for generations interested my friend. The huge porches with folks out rocking in chairs and reading their afternoon paper interested him. L "It's all so pe-r'ect here," he said. Yellow flowers were blooming from the sides and cracks in the sidewalk. "Flowers don't grow In New York. Once a rose bloomed in Spanish Harlem and they wrote a song about it," he said. We do know what we have here in Perquimans County. We have clean air, little crime, friendship, a clean river, sunshine and happiness. We have to work to keep our storybook town as it is. Part of the job is appreciation of our town; the other is love. 1 j rill BY VERNON JAMES REPRESENTATIVE The closing days of this session are upon us. We are now trying to wind down and have set May 18 as our adjournment date. Todate, 531 bills have been ratified, making them law. House Bill 1101 has been introduced which would appropriate $600,000 to the North Carolina Drug Authority for specific purposes. The Drug Authority would be required to contract with the North Carolina Department of Mental Health for implementation with the department being required to produce a plan for expenditure constant with the State plan for Drug Abuse Prevention. The Department may spend up to $25,000 for administrative expenses, but all other funds are to be granted to local mental health authorities on a matching basis. The basis for match ing is: (a) counties under 30,000 population, for the first $2,000 of State funds, the ration is $2 of State funds to $1 local. Over $2,000, it is on a $1 to $1 basis, (b) For counties with more than 30,000 population, the ration of State to local dollars is one to one. A House and Senate Joint Resolution urges TV stations and networks to refrain from showing ob scene, profane or indecent program material and requests vigorous federal prosecution against the same. Urges Federal Communications Commission to forbid showing on TV unedited X or R rated movies which are harmful to minors, and to monitor edited versions to insure that they do not offend prevailing community standards. ... ... a , House Bill 1306 provides additional appropriations to the Department of Motw Vehicles for 50 additional highway patrolmen. At the present time there is about 1 trooper for every 500 miles of highway in North Carolina. This bill was sent to Appropriations Com mittee. ' . -. ' ; We are very honored to have in our district the Fred S. Spencer famUy of Creswell, in Washington County. The Spencer family was selected as the Farm Family of the Year in North Carolina. They were honored at a luncheon on Friday, May 4 by some 400 people, including Governor Holshouser, who was the main speaker; friends, family, North Carolina Representatives, and United States Representative Walter B. Jones. We enjoyed a visit here at the Legislative Building from Mr; and Mrs. Spencer and their children, Freddie, Allan arid Christy. I know that the entire county is very proud of the Spencer family. Is The Obscenity does not mean the same thing to all people, all the time, everywhere. As stated by Chief Justice Warren, "The line, dividing the salacious " or V por nographic from literature or science is not straight and unwavering.". Although the Supreme Court has been careful to , state that obscenity is not protected by the freedoms of speech and press guaranteed by the Constitution, it has within the past fifteen years imposed tight limits on permissible censorshiop for obscenity. In a leading case decided in 1957, the Court said: "The portrayal of sex, e.g., in art, literature and scientific works, is , not sufficient reason to deny material the con stitutional protection of freedom of speech and press. Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has in dicputsbly been a subject of atcorbirg ir. tercet to mar.!Jnd throughout the e""3; it is one cf the viizl fr:i::z-.$ of h.a in t:rct and r-L!l2 con cern. The frecrn of sDch and cf press fuarastsei .by the Censtituyn er.lraces at TT Law the least the liberty to discuss publicly and truthfully all matters of public concern without previous restraint or fear of subsequent punish ment." ; Justice Stewart, in a concurring opinion filed in 1968 in the Ginsburg case, wrote: "The First Amendment guarantees liberty of human ex pression in order to preserve in our Nation what Mr. Justice Holmes called a "Free trade in ideas". To that end, the Constitution protects more than just a man's freedom to say or write or publish what he wants . It secures as well for . himself what he will read and to what he will listen. The Constitution guarantees, in short, a society of ' free choice. Such a society presup poses the capacity of its members to choose." The United States Supreme Court, however, held in 1SC5 that it was not unconstitutional for a state to accord to miners a more restricted richt than that assured "to adults to judse and determine for themselves what sex material they may read and sea. Ervin Against U, S. Senator Sam Ervin, Jr. (D-NC). tod introduced a bill to prohil the forced busing, of pub. school children and to secu to children the right to attei public schools chosen t their parents.SenatorErvinf bill was offered amendment to the 1964 CW lights Act and follows tl Senator's introductid earlier this year of proposed constitution amendment to , prohib forced busing In introducing his bit " v in dci iui ui aia pruicipi objectives of the propose legislation: "(1) Tb restoi to local school boards tl power to administer th public schools over whic they have responsibility; O right to choose the publi schools their children at tend; (3) To' secure t children the rieht to atten the puUic schools chosen) their parents; (4) To mak ministrators and teachers o public schools to serve in th schools in which they cpri tract to serve; (5) To end th misintemretation nf th Equal Protection Clause n the Fourteenth Amendmen by judicial activists and crusading bureaucrats; (6 To end the disobedience o Acts of Congress by judicial activists and crusading; bureaucrats." 1 Outlining the necessity foi mis legislation, Senator Ervin emDhasized "nasi judicial and bureaucratiq perversion of the equal protection clause of the! FTAllrtaonth A v.nM.lv. ... B ww miiii nilldlUlUCIIl which, properly interpreted prohibits a State from treating persons similarly! . situated in a different manner." Ervin said, "the Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka held that a State violated the clause if it denies any child admission to any of its pubfic schools on account of the child's race. Over the past decade, the Federal Courts and the Department of ; Health, Education at)d Welfare have turned their backs on the mandate of the . 1954 Supreme Court decision--that race be eliminated as a criterion in .assigning children to public schools" "Paradoxically," Ervin continued, "the Federal Courts and the Department of Health, Education and welfare have come to insist that race be used as a basis " for pupil assignment. They have required the adoption of school assignment plans which are ? expressly designed to alter the racial composition of schools to satisfy some mysterious, mathematical level deemed sociologically acceptable by the courts and the bureaucracy." v. The senior Senator from North Carolina pointed out that, "it is indeed a great and sad irony that the Federal Courts and , ; the Federal bureaucracy would require the use of racial quotas to effectuate, a constitutional r rinciple which forbids the . Government fronj treating people differently on ac ; count of their race." . In detailing the provisions ! of his bill, Srvin stressed that, "the proposal would not only establish a freedom of choice system for neigh borhood school attendance, but ;,- would . restrict the jurisdiction : of Federal Courts and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare with, respect to public school policies. " Ervin said the bill "forbids HEW to withhold, or threaten to withhold, Federal financial assistance form any public school operating , under a freedom of choice plan because of the racial com position of its student body. Specifically, the bill would prohibit HEW from withholding financial assistance in order to coerce or induce the local school board to transfer either pupils or teachers for the purpose of altering faculty or student racial composition." "It would empower any school board or parent of any student so affected to sue the United States in Federa. Court to obtain such relief as is necessary to redress violation or prevent threatened violation. - Busing
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