Garden Clubs Leadi
Anti-Utterbug Drive
By MIRIAM KABB
Garden Clubs throughout the
State are leading anti-lttierbug
campaign* in cooperation with the
"Keep North Carolina Beautiful"
program sponsored by the Governor's
Committee for Clean Highways*
Mr*. J. R Bennett of Rocky
Mount, who with Mrs. Ennia
Jackson of Gaatonia represent!
the Garden Club of North Carolina
on the Clean Highways Committee.
said this week that over
50 cluba had sent in detailed reports
of clean-up and beautifiestion
campaigns.
With auto litterbagB, posters,
window stickers, and full support
of press, radio and city officials,
the Garden Club women are reminding
the public to do its part
in the war against litterbugs.
The results are showing up in
cleaner highways, streets and
parks, from coast to mountains.
"This local leadership by the
Garden Clubs is bringing the
clean-up campaign home to people
all over North Carolina," said
Committee Chairman Voit Gilmore
of Southern Pines. "The effects
of the work which the Garden
Clubs are doing is evident in
edltoriala, in letters and comments
indicating that the public conscience
is being aroused. That la one
of the chief objectives of our
"Keep North Carolina Beautiful"
campaign, and we are grateful to
the Garden Clubs for helping show
the way."
Some highlights of the reports
which Mrs. Bennett has received
are:
Henderson's Mayor H. T. Powell
proclaimed April 12-19 as "AntiLitterbug
Week" and local Garden
Clubs began an intensive drive to
bsnish litterbugs from that city.
Members of Roxboro's two garden
clubs petitioned the City
Board of Commissioners to pass
an ordinance making it illegal to
toss trash on the city streets.
In Kinston, the Dirt Daubers'
Garden Clnb mapped out an anti
litterbug drive asd conducted an
intensive campaign the week of
April IS, wtth civic clubs, raerchuti,
Girl Scout*, and other (roup*
With the eadorsenent of Mayor
W. D. Lytch, Laurinburg's two
garden club* are conducting an
anti-litterbug campaign.
District X of the Garden Club of
North Carolina' (with cluba from
Nash County to the coait represented)
made the anti-litterbug
campaign the theme of a special
meeting. Every club representative
present reported her group
was either already at work or
planning to begin work on a local
anti-Utterbug drive.
At Rockv Mount where Mayor
P. K. Gravely issued a vigorous
proclamation against litterbug*
and endoried the Governor'* Committee
for Clean Highways, the
Garden Club it spearheading a
clean-up and beautifieation campaign.
The Rocky Mount Children'*
Museum cooperated by building
and displaying a model of i "litterbug"
which has been seen by
over 15,000 museum visitors.
Muieum guide* tell of the litterbug'*
"annoying, unsanitary and
ugly practice*", and the litterbug
wa* featured on one of the muieum'*
television program* on
WITN, Washington.
Old Glory Floats 4$
Grandfather Height*
LinvUlc. — They crowned the
Kins of the Blue Ridge with the
Stars and Stripe* Monday. '
This latest tribute to rugged
Grandfather Mountain came exactly
five yean, to the hour, after
Gov. William B. Umatead stepped
onto the mile-high swinging bridge,
opening the way for what waa to
become ooe of the east's top tourist
favorites.
Gov. Umstead wasn't present for
the fifth anniversary party. He
died nearly three years ago.
But the little girl who held his
hand and bravely marched with
him across the then-untried bridge,
came back to old Grandfather Monday,
this time as an attractive teenager
of 15, wearing high heels instead
of bobby socks.
With Merle Bradley Umstead
on this second trip across the
slightly-swaying bridge was her
mother, widow of the governor.
First, they helped raise the new
flag to a point more than one mile
above sea level.
Then, they stepped to the bridge,
where Mrs. Umatead snipped the
red ribbon—a ceremony that was
not held when the bridge was dedicated
five years ago.
Following Mrs. Umstead and
Jferle onto the bridge were U. S.
Sen. Sam Ervin of Morgan ton,
principal speaker at the flag-raising
ceremony; Grady Cole of Char
lotto, muter of ceremonies; Hugh
Morton, the owner of what he bill*
as "Carolina's Top Scenic Attraction";
and Norman Cordon oI
Chapel Hill, a former Metropolitan
Opera (tar, who sang The Star
Spangled Banner at the ceremony.
The flag la perhapa the highest
flying one in eastern America, for
it reaches 3,345 feet above the
aes
Grandfather, the moat ragged
mountain in eastern America, is the
highest in the Blue Ridge chain.
THE CANCER FIGHT
A four-scientist team at the National
Cancer Institute, at Betheada,
Md., has found that three
antibiotics—aureomycin, terramycin—seek
out cancers better than
any other known drugs. The antibiotics
show a unique affinity for
cancerous tissue, seek out a greater
variety of tumors than any other
known drugs, shining with a
bright yellow fluorescence under
ultraviolet light, and remain in
FEDERAL PAT RISE
A House bill, calling for an
eleven per cent annual pay rise,
which would affect about 1,000,000
Federal white collar workers, is
expected to be passed. It would
add some 1530,000 to Federal payroll
costs.