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THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
‘‘Free That One And You Get All Those”
THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1962
Southern Pines Carolina
•In taking over The Pilot no changes are conienipiatea. We will try to keep this a go
paper. We will try to make a Uttle money for aU concerned. Wherever there seems to ^
an occasion to use our influence for the public good we will try to do it. And we will
••eBt everybody alike.”—James Boyd. May 33. 1H41.
The Pilot welcomes the candidacy of
John P. Kennedy for the Democratic no
mination for 8th District Congressman.
After meeting him at Monday night’s
press conference here, when his candidacy
was formally announced, and after hear
ing him outline his “positive and for
ward-looking” attitude toward govern
ment, we are convinced that Mt. Kennedy
is the man not only to unseat the 8th
District’s Democratic, incumbent. Rep. A.
Paul Kitchin, but also the man who can
beat the Republican candidate, Charles
R. Jonas, in November.
Recently, in these columns, we noted
that the forthcoming Congressional cam
paign, in both its primary and, general
election stages, offers real issues—issues
which have been created for the most
part by the generally negative approach
of Rep. Kitchin as well as Rep. Jonas to
both domestic and foreign affairs legis
lation.
Democrats of the 8th District may well
be thankful that Mr. Kennedy has chosen
to challenge the incumbent’s record and
to give voters an opportunity to nominate
a leader who has more than a one-third
loyalty to the majority position of his
party.
Mr. Kennedy pointed out in his talk to
the press Monday night that, in the 1961
‘Willing to Run Forward’
■ session of Congress, Rep. Kitchin voted
against the majority position of the De
mocratic party 67 per cent of the time,
while “not another Democrat in our de
legation, in the House or Senate, voted
against the majority position of his party
even as much as half the time.”
Moreover, Mr. Kennedy pointed out,
in the last two years of the Eisenhower
administration, in the field of foreign
policy where Mr. Eisenhower generally
received bi-partisan support, Rep. Kitchin
supported the foreign policy only 15 per
cent of the time.
“The basic consideration,” Mr. Kennedy
said, “is an attitude toward government
and the world.”
What does Mr. Kennedy mean by a
“basic attitude?” Here’s a quotation from
his .speech Monday night;
“Tf the free world is to survive and m-e-
vail. if the South is to move out into the
forefront of America, if the Eighth Dis
trict is to build UP its industrv and
agriculture, then we must plan for the
future and run forward to meet the
future, not shrink from it and look long
ingly back toward the l*lth centrmv.”
That is good talk, -n+i-intr a tone and
pace that will, we beH<=ve: insnir^ in
creasing response from Democratc nf the
district as the campaign progresses.
We sympathize with the bemused
citizen in Bill Sanders’s cartoon on this
page, who seems in something of a quan-
dry about the Gape Fear Basin water
resources project—whethef to accept the
bird in hand (the proposed New Hope
dam on the Cape Fear which will flood
9,400 acres and cost over $25V2 million)
or to wait for the birds in the tree—the
series of smaller dams as recommended
by the Soil Conservation Service.
Congressman Cooley, whose Fourth
District includes Chatham County in
which most of the flooding would take
place, is for the SCS proposal, the small
er dams. Senator Jordan, Governor San
ford and the Army Corps of Engineers
who planned it are for the big dam pro
ject.
'There are good arguments on both
sides of the controversy, it seems to us
after reading the engineers’ report, the
speeches of the big wheels involved and
Hang on to the Bird in Hand
■ accoimts of the Congressional hearing
Chatham
and other meetings held m
County. If we were one of the 112 home-
owners whose land and dwelling would
be taken over for the big dam’s lake, we
expect we’d be objecting. On the other
hand, everylfcdy who thinks objectively
in terms of the safeguarding from flood
ing, the development of industry and re
creation and improving water supplies
for the entire Cape Fear Basin (in which
one-third of the population of North
Carolina lives) is for the big dam pro
ject.
It would admittedly be years before
the SCS plan could be perfected and
authorized. The Engineers’ plan is ready
to go, once it gets Congressional approval.
We think maybe the puzzled little man
had better hang on to the bird he has.
Rounding up and coordinating all that
crowd in the tree looks like a risky, un
certain and frustrating task.
Was This Death Necessary:
The suicide of a 15-year-old boy in a
jail cell at Fayetteville last week renews
public concern about such deaths that
occur too frequently around the stdte to
permit complacency.
According to news stories, the boy was
being held as a federal prisoner on
charges of parole violation. A check was
said to have been made on his cell at
2:30 p.m. and at 3:20 a cook passing the
cell saw the boy hanging by a bedsheet.
He was dead.
This account reveals no apparent of
ficial negligence. Yet, as always in these
cases, there are questions.
Should a boy of 15 ever be confined in
jail for several days (he died Thursday
and had been in jail since Tuesday)?
Shouldn’t there be some other facility to
accomodate such cases?
A crucial point, of course, is whether
the boy showed signs of emotional dis
turbance. If so,, shouldn’t extra care, such
as removing potentially lethal tools like
bed sheets, have been exercised? For that
matter, can’t it be assumed that any boy
of 15 in trouble with the law is emotional
ly disturbed?
Judgment is difficult without all the
facts—and seldom do news stories probe
beneath the surface.
Yet we cannot help but see the death
of the boy in Fayetteville, or the deaths of
other disturbed persons that have oc
curred in North Carolina jails, as a blot
on our system of justice and a warning
that the system could be improved.
There must have been considerable
hollow laughter heard at breakfast tables
over the state a few days ago as veterans
of World War II, especially those who
had served in the enlisted grades, opened
their morning papers to read that one
of five New Hampshire National Guards
men arrested in Wake County for a series
of break-ins at grocery stores told of
ficers that he was forced to steal “to make
ends meet with the $72 per month he
gets from the Army.”
Poor old New Hampshire! Did ever a
state get such a bad press as it has since
its National Guardsmen were called to
active duty at Fort Bragg? First there
was all the hullabaloo about unsuitable
quarters and other complaints and the
Governor came rushing down to see what
was wrong. Then came the “hunger
strike” because nobody would tell them
Disciplinary Grits
how long they’d be in uniform—what a
laugh that was, too, to ex-C and K ra
tion diners. Then, the classic complaint
of the accused robber: “I couldn’t make
it on my $72 per month” (plus food,
clothing, medical care and so forth).
A retired World War II combat officer,
bitterly pondering such antics by the
military this week, came up with the
perfect solution to bring recalcitrant New
Hampshirites back into line. (And The
Pilot well knows they are a minority of
the Guardsmen from that state.)
“First of all, move ’em out into the
field,” he growled. “Move ’em out and
then”—grinning fiendishly—“feed ’em
grits. Grijts. Three times a day. Grits.
That’s probably the one thing they can’t
stand to eat. That would bring
around.”
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Dangerous Neglect
It is hard to account for the neglect
and lethargy shown by large sections of
the North Carolina populace in the use
<j)f Salk polio vaccine.
Memory must be short. What would not
the residents of North Carolina have
given for this vaccine in the terrible
epidemics of 10 to 15 years agol In those
days, parents noted with dread the daily
reports of new polio cases, along with the
deaths and thfe dramatic incidents in
rushing victims to special hospitals where
physicians and nurses labored around the
clock.
Many crippled victims of those years
Grains of Sand
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Local Boy Almost
A letter has come telling about
the editorial''writers’ conference
to be held in Chapel Hill early in
May. It makes the announcement
that the speaker for the Saturday
dinner session is to be Tom Wick
er, Washington correspondent of
the New York Times and adds:
“You’ll remember that he was on
the Journal-Sentinel as reporter
and editorial writer a few years
ago.”
We do indeed remember. Also
we remember that Tom is the
nephew of Miss Gussie and Clif
Cameron and that he worked
here in Southern Pines for a year
as manager of the Chamber of
Commerce.
I
MANY TAR HEELS REMAIN UNPROTECTED
Urgent Advice: Take Polio Shots
By S. F. RAVENEL, M. D.
Chairman on Poliomyelitis
The Medical Society of the Stats
of North Carolina
The Medical Society of thd
State of North Carolina views
with grave concern the failure of
large segments of our population
to be protected against poliomye
litis with Salk vaccine. A third of
children 0-5 years,' and half the
women and two-thirds of the men
in the ag.o group 20-40 have not
hari the vaccine (national figures).
A full course (five injections) of
Salk vaccine completely prevents
paralytic poliomyelitis in well
over 90% of cases.
90% of cases.
In recent years half the para
lytic patients have been 5 years
of age and under, but very young
adults have been the most seri
ously paralyzed. In addition, h.alf
the deaths, but only one-tenth of
the cases, Were in persons over 20.
Therefore, immunizing children
under 5 prevents most of the par
alysis: but vaccination of teen
agers and adults prevents death
(and family dissolution from loss
of the bread-winner or home
maker).
Palk vaccine is compulsory bv
law in North Carolina for chil
dren 2 months to 6 years of age.
Unfortunately, the teeth in this
law u.sually bite onlv at the time
of school admission. Manv chil
dren under 5. receive Salk vac
cine from private physicians and
in health department clinics,, but
there is no easy way for health
authorities to know which chil
dren in this age group are not im
munized and to see they ar.<'. The
protection of these children re
mains the voluntary responsibil
ity of their parents and a primary
duty of their physicians.
Booster Shots
Immunity to poliomyelitis after
Salk vaccine declines at a vari
able rate in different people.
However, in most there is an ap
preciable drop in protection level
after two years. In the light of
present knowledge, it is consider
ed absolutely necessary for every
one to receive a booster Salk shot
at least every two years.
Many private physicians, inclu
ding myself, prefer to give a
booster every year, irrespective
of the number of shots previously
received. However, this Commit
tee and the State Health Depart
ment go along with the American
Academy of Pediatrics in recom
mending a booster at least every
two years.
Oral Vaccine
No one can afford to defer pri
mary Salk immuinization or
boosters in the hope that oral live
vaccine will soon be here. Its gen
eral availability and its immedi
ate role in our poliomyelitis pro
tection efforts are still unanswer
ed questions. It certainly will
not be available in sufficient
quantity and sufficiently early to
be of much help this present poli
omyelitis year.
Accordingly, our urgent advice
to the people of North Carolina
(1) Every immunized person
who did not receive a Salk boost
er last year should get one now—
in th.3 month of March.
(2) Every citizen under 45 who
has not completed the basic im-
rhunizing course of three injec
tions should begin that course im
mediately. A considerable degree
of protection may be achieved for
this poliomyelitis season.
Believe It Or Not
One of the oddest advertising
gimmicks to appear recently had
to do with sv'eatshirts. ,A good
solid commodity, you’d say, un
likely to need fancying up with
this or that, in the way of decora
tion, to make it appealing.
That’s what you’d think. Not so
the Madison Avenue boys. But it
seemed this time, as if the smart
guys got a bit mixed up.
As it was in early February,
they tried first to capitalize on
Valentine’s Day with a slogan
about “A Sweetheart of a Sweat
shirt.” But did their sweat
shirts have hearts on them or
Cupid with his bow and arrows?
They did not; they had—guess—
but you never could. They had
imprints, life-size, of the heads of
Beethoven, Brahms, and Bach.
One to each shirt. You took your
choice.
Each of these gentlemen had his
hallowed name printed under his,
(so folks wouldn’t get him con
fused with Elvis Presley, for in
stance.) Each one was looking ex
tremely sour.
As might be guessed. You can
picture a baseball kid buying a
sweatshirt with Micky Mantle or
Yogi Barra on it, or a movie fan
wearing Marilyn billowing on hi^
chest, but what musician would
subject one of the Great Three to
jogging up and down on his front
in time to his fiddling?
, They should have stuck to the
Valentine motif and let thg music
masters alone. But they could
have im.proved on that Valentine
slogan, to our way of thinking.
Howabout; “A Sweet Sweatshirt
for a Sweaty Sweetheart?”
i ho Public Speaking
Carthage Man Praises
Candidates for Office
To the Editor:
Upon my return from another
sojourn at the VA Hospital in
1etteville, I was delighted to
lead in our county papers of W.
P. Saunders’s announcement as
a candidate for state senator.
I worked for Bill Saunders at
the Robbins plant in the machine
shop, under Charlie West and
many other fine gentlemen, for
three months. Bill Saunders is as
fine a gentleman as I have ever
known to w'ork with or for.
Moore County Democrats could
produce a real ticket by the nom-
WATER
For the ancients, water was
O ily' another word for life. Color
less, scentless, shapeless, so pow
erful that it could break granite
mountains apart, so frail it could
trickle' through the fingers, as
suming whatever shape men de-
.sirc-d and reflecting all the colors
around it, vanishing into steam
when a fire was lit under it, turn
ing into ice on the high moun
tains, it possessed a mysterious,
• ghostly presence, aware of its
power to destroy and to save,
aware of the impenetrable secrets
locked in every single globule,
the latent power, the lightning in
the water drop. Inevitably those
who could make water serve the
community acquired something of
the stature of gods.
’nation of W. P. Saunders for the
Senate, and our good friend Cliff
Blue for the House, with Cliff
standing an excellent chance to
be the next House Speaker, he
having served longer than any
man ever elected from Moore
County in the General Assembly.
Cliff’s ability and qualifications
are recognized throughout the
state..
Moore County would indeed be
in an ideal position to really do
something for Moore County and
the State of North Carolina. I
sincerely trust Moore County
Democrats will rally to the sup
port of these two fine gentlemen.
We already have two, of the
finest United States Senators in
Senator Sam Ervin, Jr., and Sen
ator B. Everett Jordan, and an
outstanding congressman in A.
Paul Kitchin. These men really
put forth .-'fforts for Moore Coun
ty veterans and for anything wor
thy of support endorsed by rep
utable Moore County citizens. We
owe a great debt to the Senators
and Congressman Paul Kitchin
for the many things they have
accomplished for Moore County
and for the State, they serve so
noblv.
JAMES LLOYD McGRAW
Carthage
Thanks, Anyway, C. O.
Not long ago the Charlotte Ob
server, engaged in making a brief
study of the newly-mapped
Eighth District, spoke of this area
as a country club.
■‘If Mecklinburg County is the
department store of the Eighth
District,” it said, “then Moore
County is its country club.”
Illustrated with photographs of
H. Clifton Blue, Sandhill Citizen
publisher, and our representative
in the legislature and A&R presi
dent Forrest Lockey, the article
had a good word to say for vari
ous facets of this section. But it
left out a couple of the most im
portant. It told about the golf and
the peaches and the Republicans,
but it said never a word of the
pine trees or the Moore County
Hounds.
Oh well; if you tried to list all
the good points of the Sandhills,
you’d never get through.
The PILOT
Armor School Graduate
In Local Guard Unit
Published Every Thursday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated
Southern Pines, North Carolina
—Robert Payne in
Builders.”
‘The Canal
HARD TO TAKE
are with us still—yet as a physician-
spokesman for the North Carolina Medi
cal Society notes in an article on this
page, we are now so careless about polio
protection that an estimated one third of
children under school age and a large
proportion of young adults have not re
ceived the protection of Salk shots.
The matter of “booster” shots is also
important, as the physician points out—
yet many parents .neglect to see that these
boosters are given, after children have
received the shots necessary, by law, to
get them into school.
We ought to thank what gods there be
For nonconformists and dissenters,
And screwballs (some will say like me)
And heretics and malcontenters.
Being restless with the status quo.
They see in i) no good whatever.
In consequence to them we owe
All inspiration to endeavor.
Admittedly they’re hard to take.
Which makes it hard to be forgiving.
Without them, life would be an ache.
And with them, hardly worth the living.
— Joseph S. Newman
To the Editor:
We wish to acknowledge our
appreciation for your article in
last week’s Pilot concerning Ser
geant Harry Hazelwood, a recent
graduate of the U. S. Army Armor
School’s Track Vehicle Mainte
nance Course. As a matter of unit
pride, w.e would like to point out
that Sergeant Hazelwood is a
member of our local National
Guard unit.
The Army rightfully reported
Sergeant Hazelwood’s schooling
as an Army item, recognizing that
our local Guardsmen are part of
the Army team—active and re
serve forces which together form
an integral part of our nation’s
first-line defenses.
Our unit is proud of the part
we play in defending the nation,
and we ane proud of Sergeant
Hazelwood’s accomplishments.
JAMES E. HARRINGTON, JR.
Captain, Armor, NC ARNCl
Commanding.
1941—JAMES BOYD—1944
Katharine Boyd
C. Benedict
Dan S. Ray
C. G. Council
Second-class Postage paid at
Southern Pines, N. C.
Pop On TV
More couch-thoughts. The psy
chos have been testing children
for their reactions to words and
symbols: father, mother, for in
stance. They state that the major
ity of children think of their fath
er as “larger, stronger, darker,
dirtier, more angular and more
dangerous than their mother.”
But they do add that most of
his attitude is induced by Pop on
TV and in the movies. Pop’s not
REALLY like that. Not QUITE so
angular, strong, dirty, dark, for
irstance.
Editor
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