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Milford chronicle., 1952-04-25
Chief Ordnance Recon-
HGiSSGHce Agents Haze
Been Appointed
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Control Detachment at Indiantown
Gap Military Reservation will staff
the school.
The day-lOng program will begin
at $3.50 a. IN, and conclude at $500
p. m, and will cover the training
and duties of Ordnance RecOnnais-
sance Units. Anyone interested in
taking the course should contact
the two county agents. DR.. Lock-
wood, or the State Department of
Civil Defense in Newark.
The new Kent County chief is q
Civil Engineer, engaged in survey
work. He graduated from the Uni
Versity of Delaware in 1888, where
he was a member of Kappa Alpha
Fraternity, and vice-president of
the Student Government Associa-
ton.
From 1941 to 1916, Major Brown
served with the Coast Artillery in
the Delaware HarbOr Defense. He
was City Manager of Dover from
1949 to 1851. The Kent County head
is a member of the vestry of Christ
Episcopal Church, and a member Of
the Society of Professional Engin-
GERS. He is married and has three
children.
Mr.. Hull is technical superinten-
dent Of the Dupont Seaford Nylon
Plant, a post he has held since
July, 1851. He has served with the
Dupont Company since 1884, hav-
ing been stationed previously in
Old Hickory, Tenn, and at the Ex-
perimental Station in Wilmington.
He is a native of Minneapolis.
and graduated from the University
of Minnesota in 1884 with the de-
gree of Chemical Engineering. Mr..
Hull is married and has four chill
dren.
Milford chronicle., 1952-04-25

rapid are the policy changes. that
the public cannot possibly know
the laws and regulations they are
supposed to live by.
Congress is no longer the effec-
tive law-making body. It's power
has been handed over to the bureau
bosses.
The stronger the Executive be-
comes, the bigger and more com
plex the government grows. the
more Free Enterprise is hampered
Private business, in fact, cannot
even keep abreast of the regulations
imposed upon it.
This is not democracy as our
Forefathers understood it. This is
not democracy as it was during the
years when this nation was becom-
ing strong and powerful.
Democracy cannot be preserved
until and unless the people recap
ture control of their government.
The first step in the process of
restoring ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
is to restore the powers of Con-
gress. And the first step in restor-
ing the powers of Congress is to
concentrate on the election of re-
sponsible men and women Senators
and Representatives in the coming
national elections.
No matter who is elected Presi-
dent, the Free Enterprise system
which made this country strong will
continue to be in peril until we re-
store our time-tried system of
Observation-Disclosures between the
branches of our government.
Milford chronicle., 1952-04-25
Poultry Group Adds
Harrington Chapter
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meeting recently. Other officers
are Thomas Peck, Harrington, vice
president; and Guy Weinbrenner,
Harrington. secretary treasurer.
The new group is sponsored by
the Greenwood Bridgeville and
Camden Wyoming locals.
The association locals hold
monthly meetings, with talks and
discussion groups on poultry prob
lens. They are made up of poultry
men in the communities. Programs
are planned in advance, usually on
a county wide basis, but there is
no set program for all groups to
follow.
Membership is voluntary. Any in
terested poultryman may join by
contracting his local group.
Milford chronicle., 1952-04-25

through the downtown area. Police
searched the town for Sprague
when train was blocked tying up
automobile traffic.
Sprague finally showed mp at the
police station and reported his car
was missing. Police told him he
could reclaim it BY paying the
charges incurred in towing his car
away.
Milford chronicle., 1952-04-25
Painted Mural Under water

Famed muralist, Diego Rivera,
has been utilizing his artistic tai
snts in an unusual way. He has
been painting a mural depicting
mans dependence on water on the
walls and bottom Of a tank that Is
part Of Mexico City's new water
system. According to Life Maga-
zine, much Of the painting will be
under water when the project is
completed. Rivera says it win not
wash away. To protect the painting
from water erosion, he has mixed
q plastic emulsion with pigments.
Milford chronicle., 1952-04-25
Home Demonstration
Club Plan For
National Observance
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eral, and the clubs activities in
the Bridgeville community. An ex-
hibit of project work will be set up
in the Community House.
For community service, the At
lanta Club is furnishing the recep-
zionist, registrars, hOstesses, and
canteen workers for the Blood
Bank at Bridgeville this month.
They are sponsors of a talent and
fashion show to raise money for
the upkeep of the Community Hall.
They will close Home Demon
stratiOn Week on May 4, by attend
ing the Trinity Church worship
services in a group.
Milford chronicle., 1952-04-25
CAR BLOCKS TRAIN

ELGIN, Ill. (P)-When Donald L.
sprague, Of nearby Aurora visits
this city again, he'll watch how he
parks his car.
He parked his car on the Chica-
go and North Western Railroad
tracks which cut diagonally
Milford chronicle., 1952-04-25
THE "SMALL MAN" PAYS

There was time when the average man
and woman didn't have to do too much wOr-
rylng about the cost of running the govern
ment. In that lOng-dead era, it was common
ly said the rich paid most of the bill any,
how, and the rest of the people got the bene-
fits practically free
Anyone who still believes that, lives in a
world of sheer fantasy. We have finally
reached the point where the cost of govern
ment is so huge that even the cOnfscatOrv
taxes paid by people in the high-income
groups hardly make dent in the total-and
the people of small and moderate means must
carry the bulk of the burden.
Early in 1851, Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder presented some revealing facts to a
House committee. They concerned the dis
trlOutlon OF SurtaX net incOme-Which is the
income left after deductions for personal
exemptions and dependents. In that wear.
Mr.. Snyder said, surtax net income totaled
100000, 100000. Of this, $4,000. 900 600
was IN the barckets of $4,000 and under
(S62.OOO, 100000 being in the under-$2 900
clasSlilcatlOn) and only $8,000,OOO,OO0 was
IN the brackets above $4,000.
This should certainly take care of the
Illusion that we can keep on meeting the cost
OF government by soaking the rich" If we
appropriated every nickle of income the rich
nave, the resulting revenue would carry the
government for only a matter of weeks It's
the small man" who must pay-as tens of
millions learned last March Is. And it's the
small man" who has the most to gain from
eIilclent, economical government, and reduc-
ed taxes.
Milford chronicle., 1952-04-25
A FOREIGN POLICY FOR AMERICANS
Americas Role in the Defense
Of Europe Against Aggression
By SENATOR ROBERT 4. TAFT
cHAPTER 9

CHAPTER
When to the third and fourth nronosols ., .s;t
europe sha We 60 to the European countries defense if they
are attacked by Russia shall we commits Ae
can troops in time of peace international army - he d
IN Erope however, enter more controversial feld
United States to war in Russia attacks ~ M
ms we have not done anywhere else world excep as
70 the island nations of Japan the Philippine Republic Aaa
Milford chronicle., 1952-04-25

opposition to compulsory government
health insurance is especially strong in agri-
culture. A short time ago the largest of the
farm organizations, the American Farm
Bureau Federation, with a membership of
more than 1,450,000 families, went uneuui-
vOcally on record against the scheme. The
National Grange has taken a similar stand
Rural rejection of government health in
surance has been little recognized in larger
cities, which usually hear much of labor's
viewpoint. But though labor's call for COM
pulSOry health insurance has been much bet
ter publiciZed, it remains the demand of
minority. Meantime agriculture provides a
balance against labor on this issue and a for
midable safeguard.
There is one deduction that can safely be
made from this: The strength of America
lies in the grass roots. Compulsory govern
ment health insurance is part and parcel of
the grand scheme to sOcialize the energies.
industries and resources of this nation on a
plece-meal basis. And it is also part and par
Gel OF the drive to make the people more and
more dependent on government for the very
necessities Of eXiStence-and to pay through
the nose for the privilege of being bossed by
politicians. i.
The campaign for sOcialized medicine has
been moribund lately, but it hasn't been
abandoned by long shot. 1t will be revi-
tallzed by the Washington bureaucrats in
one guise or another. It's lucky for the cOun-
try that agriculture is sOlidly aligned with
the forces of freedom and human independ-
ence
Milford chronicle., 1952-04-25

Office in as crucial period as the nation has
ever known-and it is certain that it will
have to face domestic and international prob
lens of incredible delicacy and difficulty. The
whole world will be intently watching both
the nominating conventions and the election
which will follow in November.
Milford chronicle., 1952-04-25
Better StUl

For the fourth consecutive year
the United States pushed its elec
tricity generation to a new high
with a record 4S1a- -billon-kilowatt
hour increase over l949, a 1871 pc
cent gain.
Milford chronicle., 1952-04-25

were capable of directing their gov
ernment. They rested their belief
on the assumption that the people
would know what government was
doing.
But hand in hand with the weak
ening Of Congress, we have seen
the growth of government to the
point where it is now so big that
the people have difficulty in keep
ing track of what it is up to.
%&
Military and financial commit
ments are made to other nations
long before the American people
have heard of them. Without con-
sulting the Congress, the Executive
branch makes decisions which di-
rectly affect the lives of American
soldiers.
Relations between our govern
ment and other governments, of a
kind which were formerly dealt
with by treaties after full discus
sion in Congress, are now settled.
without public discussion, by the
Executive alone.
On the domestic front, govern
ment is run and laws are made
through a multitude of agencies
and sub-ageneies responsible to the
Executive alone. The decisions of
these agencies do not represent the
considered will Of the people, as
arrived at through Congressional
debate. Such decisions represent
the will of the bureaucrats, and
only that.
So many directives are issued
every day by these bureaus, and so
Milford chronicle., 1952-04-25
OGOSG
TAX SLASHES WAGES

II you wonder why you can't afford a new
suit to replace your shiny old stand-bv take
look at what government is costing Won!
Don't expect your Federal and State in
come taxes to give you the whole picture
They are painful enough to pay, but in addi-
ton you have indirect taxes and local taxes
The distressing truth is that taxes for
Federal, State, and local government are TAX
ing nearly one-third of all wages, salaries.
interest, rents, profits, dividends, and other
income. O'-'9l
If your income is $1,5OO, your total Fed
erai, State, and local taxes, including indi-
aect Go, taxes but not social security taxes, take
9ooi.oO' supposlng you're unmarried. If
your you re .Ill unmarried and earn $12,5OO, these
SO take your old suit to the tailor and coo
II ne can sponge some of the shine off it!
Milford chronicle., 1952-04-25
Your United States By Floyd 'Cramer

The biggest task before the Am
erican people today is to restore
the powers Of Congress-to bring
them back to the level at which
they stood twenty-five years ago.
For a quarter of a century.
through depression, war, and threat
OF war, we have lived in an atmes-
phere of one crisis after another.
And in every crisis we have in
creased the powers Of the Presi-
dency at the expense of the DOW
ers Of the Congress.
Luckily for us there is no one on
the national scene who is likely to
misuse the great powers of the
Presidential Oficei The fact is.
however, that if a man Of dictator
ial mind were ever elected. he
could run every moment of our
lives. And he wouldn't need any
new grant of power, either. The
power is there already.
Our forefathers were wise when
they set up the Executive and Leg
islative branches Of the govern
ment to act as checks upon each
other, and they were particularly
wise when they gave the President
certain limited powers and left the
rest with the Congress.
But we have gotten away from
that sound system. We have weak
ened the very branch of Govern
ment-the Congress-which was in
tended to be the closest representa-
tive Of the will Of the people.
The Founding Fathers also be-
lieyed, and rightly that the people
Milford chronicle., 1952-04-25
Lee compIete Armino

We have no choice now except to
complete as rapidly as possible the
arming Of Western Europe Il It de-
sires to be armed. That is the policy
decided on In the Atlantic Pact,
and I am in favor Of carrying out
this commitment, as worked out BY
the Council and General Eisenhow.
er under the Pact.
In the beginning Of 1851. how
ever. we were suddenly committed
70 a new project. without any con-
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From "A Foreign Policy for Amer.
cans" Copyright 1851 by Robert A. TAFT.
Published BY Doubleday and Company.
Inc. Released by The Register and iris
une Syndicate and WNu.)
Milford chronicle., 1952-04-25

The Founding Fathers also be-
leyed, and rightly that the people
Milford chronicle., 1952-04-25

NEXT WEEK: The Russian
menace IN the Far East and
Far Eastern policy.
Milford chronicle., 1952-04-25
THE FARMERS SAY NO

5000
The Key West citizen., 1952-11-05

THE DEVIL blows his trumpet
on Halloween. calling together
al the inps and witches and
others Of his motley crew Of
cvildoers. Maybe he's calling
his troops out to a mission Of
evil deeds. This Satan was
doing his evil best 10 make the
Truman School Carnival q
bowling success. Halloween Ii
the season Of the year which
the ancients supposed 10 be
dedicated to the powers Of
darkness. II was then that al
the spirits Of the dead were
released to return 10 their
homes for one night.
The daily record., 1952-02-22
Goats Girl Is
Eta President

Mary 10 johnson of Coats has
been chosen as president of the
Future Teachers of America at
East Carolina College and will soon
begin her duties as leader of the
student educational organization.
A senior at the college. Miss
johnson is specializing in gram
mar grade education. She Is a
member of the campus branch of
the Association for Childhood Edu-
cation and has served as chair
man of the committee on social
service Of the Eta and as q mem-
ber of the Women's Chorus Of the
College. Recently she headed q
drive to aid Koreans impoverished
by the war, as result Of which
f76 pounds Of clothing were ship
ped abroad for distribution.
Miss johnson is the daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe M johnson oi
Goats.
The daily record., 1952-02-22
Formers oId How
To Up Cotton Yield

Measures which should result in
an increase in the yield of fields
planted to cotton in Harnett Coun-
ty were explained to an interested
group at meeting of the Cotton
Industry Group. held at the Dunn
Armory and the Ellington court
house yesterday.
George E. Jones. Extension En-
tomologist of the State College told
the group of the value of the va
rious methods of spraying and
busting in insect control.
Knowing just what to do and
the proper time to do it often
means the difference between a
good and a bad CROP" he declared.
Sin some sections and during some
years. it is not necessary to use
preventatives."
Charlie Boyce. representative of
the Cotton Council cited the in
roads that synthetics are making
on the demand for cotton. Speak
The daily record., 1952-02-22
Breakfast Held
.To0pen Drive

Sparked by a ham and egg
breakfast at Johnson's Restaurant
at 1880 this morning, given by CO.,
chairinen Al Wullenwaber and
Locke Muse, group of members
If the Dunn Chamber of Commerce
rot their annual membership drive
IF to a good start.
Manager Norman Suttles con-
identity predicts that the major
oortion of the drive will be COM
,leted today, and he anticipates
sew call-backs tomorrow and Mon
lay. The drive, he points out. has
'een well pllblicized and the can
'assers will be expected at most OF
he business places in Dunn.
SEEK 100 PER CENT
The Dunn Chamber of Commerce
striving for 100 percent member
hip among the business concerns
t the community. Building a better
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Newton Groves
Bank To0pen

A new unit of the First Citizens
Bank and Trust Company Will Open
in Newton Grove Saturday, giving
this progressive Sampson County
town its first banking institution.
The Newton Grove branch was
recently authorized by the State
Banking Commission.
Harold Talton of Smithfield, who
has been associated with the
Smithfield branch of the First
Citizens, has been named assist
ant cashier and manager of the
new bank. Mr.. Talton is well known
in banking circles of Eastern Caro-
lima.
BESIDE POST OFFICE
The new bank is housed in a
modern new brick building, located
beside the Newton Grove Post Of
flee. Modern fixtures have been
installed and the institution offers
complete banking service.
Opening of the new bank full
fills a longtime ambition of New
ton Grove citizens.
On Friday afternoon, and even-
ing. the bank was open from to
8 O'Clock for inspection by the
public.
The First Citizens Bank and
Trust Company is now one Of the
States largest and strongest banks,
with assets totaling more than 200
million dollars. The institution Of
fers every service in keeping with
good banking policy.
The daily record., 1952-02-22
Duke Economist Cites Need
For Balancing The Budget
BY LOUIS DEARBORN
Record Staff Writer

Heavier taxation and balanced
budget were cited last night as
possible antidotes against a run
away Initiation by DR.. Benjaslain
Ulysses Ratchfefd, economist Sspf
Dsiie Unieersit Or. sEatchfofaa aaaasks
guest speaker at the second meet
ing of the Dunn Information Clinic.
There is no dodging the fact
that economics is a difficult SUBJ
ject." DR.. Ratchford declared, "and
unfortunately, can offer you no
ready answers to the problems. I
can only supply the facts and let
you draw your own conclusions. +"
Economics. the speaker said, is q
big and complex system in which
we all have part. The economist
is concerned with anything that
any person does for an economic
reward.
Most of you can remember when
our economic system was much
simpler" DR.. Ratchford declared
However, during the past 20 or
80 years we have become more in
terdependant. and have come to
depend upon the system rather than
upon our own efforts"
Economists, he said. are concern
ed with the underlying principles
of the system. rather than any par
ticular field. Consider" he said
"the mass Of effort that goes into
the making Of as simple thing as
so cent notebook"
PROUD OF ECONOMY
We have. in America, an economy
of which we can be proud. Ratch-
ford declared, and we should strive
to make it continue. Economic
stabilization should be an aid to
business and not q strait-iacket
What we want, he declared. is q
moving equilibrium.
To illustrate, he pointed out that
in times like these we must otter
change direction sharply but at the
same time retain our balance. Ir
a free economy, every man should
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The daily record., 1952-02-22
BeIk Rites
Will Be Held
In Charlotte

CHARLOTTE - William
Henry Belk, 80, founder of
the Belk Bros. Co., promin-
ent Presbyterian layman,
and generous benefactor to
churches, hospitals and
schools, died in a Charlotte
hospital at about $3.50 o.
clock yesterday afternoon
after a heart attack.
In spite of his ao-anced years.
Mr.. Belk had been fairly active
until the last few days. He entered
the hospital yesterday.
Funeral services are tentatively
planned for Sunday afternoon at
the home at 220 Hawthorne Lane.
Definite arrangements, however,
will not be made until the arrival
of his son, Captain John Belk, from
Japan. Burial will be in Elmwood
Cemetery.
Mr.. Belk is survived by Mrs.
Belk, the former Miss Mary Irwin
of Charlotte. six children, w. H.
Belk Jr., Miss Sarah Belk. John
Belk, Irwin Belk, Henderson Belk
and Tom Belk, all of this city. and
four grandchildren, w. H. Belk, III.
Irene Belk, Tommy Belk. and Mary
Henry Belk
The body will lie in state at the
Harry and Bryant Chapel in the
Oaks from noon today until A
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The daily record., 1952-02-22
Name Leaders
In Cross Drive

Committees for the Dunn drive
for the Dunn Erwin Chapter of
the American Red Cross have been
named and the goal for Dunn set.
at $500, it was announced today
by o, w. (Billy) Goodwin, Jr,, fund
chairman. e.
The drive by the advance gifts
committee is already underway and
the main drive will start after a
kickoff breakfast at Johnson's Res
taurant Monday, March 3, at 800
am.
The goal for the Advance Gifts
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The daily record., 1952-02-22
Tar Heel Solon Involved In RFC Scanda
Monroe Redden
Denies Profit
From RFC Deal

WASHINGTON up = Rep.
Monroe M. Redden (D-NC)
said today that he and his
brother each got $4,000
real estate brokerage fees
in the form of "IOU'S" for
arranging the sale of a firm
which obtained a $46O,OI
RFC loan and then "went
broke"
The Justice Department said the
FBI is investigating the case for
the departments criminal division.
Il would welcome an investigation"
Redden' said
Redden said he and his brother
got the "TOU's" in October, 1850,
two months after the Reconstruc-
tion Finance Corp. granted a loan
to the Skyland Processing Corp.
of Hendersonville, N. c., Redden's
home town. But he said the notes
spelled out terms of payment agreed
upon in December. 1949. six months
before the firm sought an RFC
loan.
ADMITS WRITING LETTER
He acknowledged that he wrote
alletter to the RFC before the loan
wac granted, telling the government
loan agency it would benefit his
congressional district. He said, how
ever. that the ''IOU's" had nothing
to do with the RFC loan.
Il defy anyone to show in any
way that I profited one cent or
received one cent, directly or in
directly. in connection with this
loan," Redden said
He said the $50,0o0 fee for him
and his brother. Arthur J. Redden,
was for arranging sale Of Skyiand,
a frozen food processing plant, by
its previous owner, Ivor Pardee, to
Harry r. Playford.
Reddft> said the firms Bnrlica-
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ing of cotton in relation to other
fiber substitutes. he pointed out
that Rayon, Nylon and other syn
.thetics, had cut in badly on cot
ton markets.
"The Cotton Council is aware of
this" he said, "and is constantly
working to find new uses for cot
ton products, in order to count
eract the inroads of synthetics."
Fred johnson OF North Carolina
Department of Agriculture, told
the group that a certain amount of
potash and nitrogen was necessary
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I beIleVe that We nave peen Tar
too lax in our internal security
laws" declared Mr. Carlyle, on a
visit to Dunn few days ago land
I think it's high time we did some
thing about it."
Congressman Carlyle said his bill
would provide that any person
convicted of advocating. teaching or
attempting to overthrow our con-
stitutional form of government be
The daily record., 1952-02-22

and worldly wise. They met soon
after Jimmy Durante had started
to climb in the world.
Durante, the Cyrano Of the cell
lars, by the early le2O's. had moved
upstairs" to lead his own band
at his own place. He pounded his
piano. became increasingly popular
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OF these three. Clayton became
<,gimmy's chief mainstay, his adj
visor, confidant best friend and
sometimes severe disciplinarian.
Broadway set down the love these
two men had one for the others as
one Of its outstanding miracles.
Clayton. five or six years older
than Jim, was much more mature
The daily record., 1952-02-22

deported to some other country.
PRISON WITHOUT PAROL
And if they can't be deported
for the reason that no other coun-
try wants them, then advocate a
mandatory prison sentence for the
rest of that persons natural life
and the further provision that no
pardon or parole can be granted" :"
He said short prison term or
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