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Savings Instead Of Safety
Passage by the North Carolina
House of Representatives this week
of a bill which would allow twin
trailer trucks of 65 feet in length
to operate on state highways drives
home the point that the public in
terest generally fares poorly in its
conflict with private interest.
Endorsement by the lower cham
ber of the General Assembly of a
bill which would allow two vehicles
coupled together having a combined
length of 65 feet to operate on four
lane divided highways and interstate
routes illustrates well the dispro
portionate power and pursuasive
ness wielded by an interest group
in this instance, the trucker's lobby.
Apparently the bill has been view
ed as good only by the trucking
industry and its agents. Protests
against the bill came from many
varied sectors, but those persons
and groups furnishing opposition
were organized on an ad hoc basis,
and these voices of opposition fail
ed to carry far when confronted by
the powerful and skilled voice of
the trucking industry.
It is understandable that the truck
ing industry would fight to have this
measure enacted, for it provides
an opportunity to reduce cost through
increased cargo capacity. Few
could argue with the trucking Indus
try for wanting to Increase profits,
but there should be a louder and
more forceful argument raised when
the profit motive threatens to run
a collision course with public safety.
This session of the General As
sembly hasn't been exactly the
champion of highway safety. Amid
lip service for greater safety on
the state's roadways, legislators
have succeeded for all practical
purposes in crippling the State High
way Patrol's air arm.
Now comes a bill which would
make North Carolina the only state
on the Eastern Seaboard to allow
rigs of such length on public high
ways. The trucking industry has
been able to overcome widespread
individual disaffection for this bill
by exerting Its influence on the
State House.
The fate of this bill now lies with
the State Senate, where the House
version was sent Monday night. Op
ponents who view this bill as one
which sacrifices safety for savings
can only hope that more true de
fenders of the public interest can
be found in the upper chamber.
No Giveaway
The News and Observer
R will no doubt come as a discomforting
shock to many who have been caught up
in the cliche that "the poor won't work
or else they wouldn't be poor," but the
federal government has released statistics
compiled through computer analysis which
demonstrate that only 50,060 of the 7.3 mil
lion Americans on welfare, or less than one
per cent, are capable of getting off the wel
fare rolls and going to work.
The startling statistics, revealed by pres
idential assistant Joseph T. Califano in a
Washington speech Wednesday, show that of
the 7.3 million on welfare rolls: More than
2 million, mostly women, areover 65; 700,000
are either blind or "so severely handicapped,
that their work potential, if any is severely
limited"; 3.5 million are children whose
parents cannot support them; more than
1 million are the parents of those children
and two thirds of the fathers in this group
Nothing To Fear
The Smithfield Herald
"The idea of a spy in the sky will not
be accepted by our people," Representa
tive James Johnson, Jr., of Cabarrus declar
ed as the House debated the bill authoriz
ing the North Carolina Highway Patrol to
use airplanes in detecting highway speeders.
He talked as if there is something sin
ister about patrolling the roads from the
air. But observance of highways from an
airplane is not an Invasion of anyone's
privacy. When an automobile driver takes
to the road, he is in public, using a public
facility. And his conduct is subject to scrutiny
by police forces charged with responsi
bility for public safety.
No motorist is licensed to do as he
pleases when he drives along a highway.
Nor is he playing a game of "cops and
speeders" governed by rules giving a
speeder a "sporting chance" to outwit his
chaser.
The airplane bill was soundly conceiv
ed. its purpose is to discourage speeding
and save lives. The safe and law-abiding
driver has nothing to fear.
Quotes
While some of my friends are studying a
menu aft a restaurant I can, In laas time,
look around my pantry and come up with a
delicious snack or foil meal. ? William
Faafthar.
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nation.-Arthur Wing Plnero.
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are Incapacitated In one way or another.
Of course, as Callfano was quick to point
out, the emphasis now must not be on satis
faction that things are not as bad as many
welfare's critics have been saying they are,
but on the development of Innovative tech
niques to help the 50,000 who can get off
welfare to do so. Still, the figures do pro
vide new and powerful ammunition for those
I
who have been perhaps too apologetic in the
past about their concern and compassion
for those who, through no fault of their own,
have been denied full benefit of our national
bounty. It should also do much to silence
those who have been quick to exaggerate
the abuses of our welfare programs while
ignoring the rather considerable evidence
which suggests they are more than mere
"giveaways" for the "leeches of society".
NEWS OF FIVE. TEN. 25 YEARS AGO
Looking Backward
Into The Record
May 23. 1962
John Graham High School won Its tenth
straight baseball game on Wednesday after
noon when it downed Aurellan Springs for
the conference championship, and ended its
most successful year in sports history at
the local high school, winning in football,
basketball and baseball.
Filling of the Gaston reservoir Is expect
ed to start in October, Charles Beverage,
operating engineer for VEPCO, said yes
terday.
Jesse Helms of Raleigh will be the com
mencement speaker at John Graham High
School on June 4,
Charles T. Johnson, Jr., formerly of War
r en ton, has been named assistant trust officer
of First Citizens Bank and Trust Company
in Kir. rton.
May 24, 1957
Next week marks the end of the 1956-57
school year with exercises beginning on
Wednesday afternoon.
Polio vaccine for ages 20 to 40 is avail
able in small amounts a* the Health Center.
Little League baseball play will begin In
the county on June 2.
The John Graham High School Band will
present its annual spring concert tonight In
the school auditorium.
Applications for cMining sugar are now be
ing mads at the local rationing office.
Bicycles being ridden at night must carry
a light, warns Slat* Highway Patrolman
Parks Alexander this weak.
Boy Soouts will call for eor*> iron, old
papera and other salvage material needed
for the war effort, each Wednesday afternoon,
Harry Cohan, County Scout Chairman, an
nounced yeaterday. i ? fi v
Mrs. J. K. Allen, Had Cross production
chairman, this week issaad a call for mora
vdanteer cutters and sewers to eomptate a
DR. HUNTLEY
Dr. Huntley
Named Assoc.
Professor
CHAPEL HILL-Dr. Robert
R. Huntley has been promot
ed from assistant professor to
associate professor at the
University of North Carolina
School of Medicine, effective
July 1.
He joined the medical facul
ty here as an instructor in
medicine and preventive
medicine in 1959 after six
years as a family physician
in Warrenton.
Dr. Huntley Is a chemistry
graduate of Davidson College
(1947) and earned his medical
degree at Bowman Gray School
of Medicine (1951).
He served a rotating intern
ship and a year of residency
in general practice at the Uni
versity of Michigan Hospital
before establishing his prac
tice in Warrenton.
He was a Fellow In Med
icine and a resident in medi
cine here and In 1964-65 was
a special student in blostatls
tlcs and epidemiology at the
UNC School of Public Health.
Dr. Huntley is a native of
Wadesboro, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. George W. Huntley
of 305 Morven St., and Is mar
ried to the former Anne Rod
well, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Clyde E. Rod well of War
renton.
Dr. and Mrs. Huntley have
five children, Mary Katherine,
15; Robert Dickey, 14; Julia
Ann, 12; Elizabeth Ross, 9;
and Jeffress Rodwell, 7.
Dr. Huntley is engaged In
medical care research and In
the training of family physi
cians.
MENUS
May 29 ? June 2
MARIAM BOYD
Monday?Roast beef, wild
rice, gravy, turnip greens,
cornbread, Jello, milk.
Tuesday?Fish loaf, steam
ed cabbage, glazed carrots,
congealed salad, cookies,
milk.
Wednesday ? Beef hash,
garden peas, rolls, apple
sauce, milk, orange Juice.
Thursday - Cheese and ma
caroni, l/2 deviled egg, green
beans, rolls, sweet potato
fluff.
Friday ? Beefburgers, cole
slaw, butterbeans, rice pud
ding, milk.
NORLINA
Monday ? Hamburgers, to
mato and lettuce, parsleyed
potatoes, buns, rice pudding,
butter, milk.
Tuesday ? Beef and vege
table soup, peanut butter sand
wich, brownie, crackers, ^ut
It's not easy to face
up to this very
unpleasant subject.
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Thenossfirilityof yourown
death is simply a tact of
life.
You probably have great
plans for your family's fu
ture. And we'd like to show
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Dr. Morgan Writes LimMbn Story 60 Years Ago
uy DR. S. L. MORGAN
I am Invited to write a ser
ies of Reminiscences of Lit
tleton 60 years ago. I went
there as pastor of the Baptist
church 63 years ago?In
August 1904, going from a
8-yoar pastorate ill Fail moiit,
W. Va., just after finishing
at Crozer Seminary, Chester,
Pa. .
Looking back over the
years, I feel sure it was the
happiest pastorate of my life.
At that time Littleton was
"on the map." It was, indeed,
an educational center. Little
ton College, under President
and Mrs. J. M. Rhodes, had
300 girls and an excellent fac
ulty. Under the same manage
ment was a good academy for
boys, also a Baptist academy
under Professor and Mrs. L.
W. Bagley. The college was
regarded as the biggest com
munity asset. Its burning,
after a few years, was a
tragic loss. All the community
for many miles arourd suf
fered a great cultural loss.
Panacea Springs, with its
hotel and mineral water, ship
ped rather widely then, was
boosted as a health resort.
My diary records that I spent
my first night in town at the
Shaw hotel, which was old and
nothing to boast of. I was young
and single, and always regard
ed the college faculty as one
of the finest prospects of my
lifetime to find an excellent
wife. But I felt, maybe too
keenly, the fear of being a
"courting man" in the public
eye would harm my influence.
In my 3 l/2 years my
"courting" hardly went far
ter, milk.
Wednesday - Irish stew,
mixed greens, beets, rolls,
cherry cobbler, butter, milk.
Thursday?(Bag lunches 1
6) Pimento cheese sandwich,
peanut butter cracker, french
fries, fruit, butter, milk.
Friday - Spanish rice, bak
ed squash, tossed salad, rolls,
chocolate pudding, butter,
milk.
Monday, June 5 ? Hot dogs,
chili, onions, slaw, macaroni
salad, buns, pineapple upside
down cake, butter, milk.
?One problem that Jet
planes have given us is that
there are no longer any dis
tant relatives.
ther than my taking a teacher
now and then to a night ser
vice at church. I dearly lov
ed all my people, so that my
heart warms now on reading
in my diary, that my first Sun
day evening supper was at the
table of Mrs. A. W r.rpwi, whn
was to be one of my most valu
ed women and closest friends.
And a letter several years ago
from her married daughter,
maybe in Florida, was a de
light.
Deacon Harvey and his fam
ily was specially "close", and
my diary reminds me his
daughter Lucy gave me my
first church wedding. Married
to Lindsay Price.
I was still abachelor, young
enough to win something a bit
closer from teen-age girls
than mere devotion to a pas
tor, and all the years since a
trio of teen-age girls in the
church have continued very
dear to me: Willie Vassar,
Annie Harvey, and Susie
Finch. Susie married and
has now been In heaven a
good many years. But my
memory of that trio remains
very dear to this day.
Another 16-year-old glri a
student In Littleton college,
has continued down to the pre
sent a very special friend
Emma Myrlck, to become the
wife of the famed head of
the great Rose 5 and 10?
store system Long a widow
now aged and infirm, our ear
ly friendship has brought us
together In Henderson a few
times, and I've repeatedly told
her of an Incident:
"I could never forget you
as we met in Littleton one
morning on the avenue, you
on your way to college. I
thought you the loveliest teen
age girl In town; and I thought,
?If only you were older or I
younger, how wonderful It
would be to have you for the
preacher's life-partner'.
A lovely and superb col
lege teacher, Miss Pulllam,
was my rhoiro among the
teachers. I admired and liked
her greatly, and had her and
Miss Bridges to report to my
church the great Student Vol
unteer convention in Nash
ville. It convinced me all the
more of her fitness to be my
wife. But I left Littleton after
3 l/2 years, with no "entangl
ing alliance" with a woman,
and that waited till I met and
married Isabelle Robeson in
Red Springs at the end of my
two-year pastorate of Red
Springs and Maxton, taking her
to be my great partner as pas
tor of First Baptist Church
of Burlington. An honor gradu
ate of Flora Macdonald col
lege and a superb person, I
never doubted for a moment
she was fully my equal in
every respect.
I had been called to succeed
Dr. L M. Mercer as pastor of
the First Baptist Church of
Washington, N. C., but the
fascinating Col. Jones of the
Red Springs Military Ac a
demy, acting for Red Springs
and Maxton Churches, did a
superb Job in painting the fu
ture of the two churches in
the two admirable towns 12
miles apart, so that I felt
led to accept this call. Later
doing In opening the way for
me to fine the superb wife I
did.
TWO SHORT NOTES
Clearly I write with the
tone of affection ? after 60
years for the people of Lit
tleton, Enterprise and Vaugh
an. And nothing could please
me more than letters from
people in those communities,
reminiscent of my pastorates.
Second, likely readers may
discover in my notes evidence
of a handicap. No wonder; two
weeks ago I losb an eye. I
became aware of something
strange going on in an eye,
then of a stickly something
covering the eyeball, then
sight gone forever. The other
not good, but 1 easily read
this type?and read newspaper
headings. And I'm to be 96
Sept. 23.
Baptist Home, Hamilton, N. C.
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