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Editorial And Opinion FOR The Pearsall Plan On SatuttJ^y, Orange County citi/eps, ong. witIi those throughout the State get an opportunity to tore on one of the most momentus questions the electorate lias been (ailed upon to decide in several generations. Opinions \afy widefv. hut f>\ and large, eve feel, the sent iment is preponderantly in favor of the so-called Peats; d School amendment, which*'in a special railed session ol the legislature in Julv. the Senate approved pi to o. and the Mouse of Representatives by t .it* to a. I he News has pre\ic>usly gone’on record in favor ol the plan as lIu- most modet;'.e approach to the sc hool integt » lion | roblcni vet devised by a Southern State, and the most democratic since it leaves tlu- most vital, decisions involve1 to people most directly concerned—the citi/eijs in a given school 01 schcK)l area, " , late recent violence in Tennessee and Texas ac company ing aitempts to integrate h; » cunfitaned our earlier convic tion that the Pearsall Plan is needed to provide the state wide flexibility so badly nede.d. We want no riots, no mob actions tit North Caiolina This plan. we feel goes a long wav. tm, aid preventing them, We respectfully, as we have done in the past, urge every C'ti/en to vote on .Saturday as an ac t «,>i good citizenship. and recommend that the ballot he cast TOR the scitobf amend ment. What Responsible Leaders Say: l)i. Lhtnlt’x Can oil. Stair,. S npeii ntendenL of Public fu el nit lion: "Aw re of the dec isivc months and years,that lie ahead I subscribe' to the rccimimend.nions~ (nT'ttre'PcaTsarlf commit tee) for these- basic reasons: "i A more realistic, workable proposal than'That of fered by the Advisory Committee has not been submitted. f J "2-. What, is contemplated seems to provide a minimum interrupt ion with our present public: school system." “y. I am confident North Carolinians will find : ‘wav' ^ to educate their children. ' “|- 1 hay-e faith in thf intelligence and integrity of the® chosen representatives of the people to the point of knowing they will periodically correct any weaknesses in the legislation that might be revealed by time and experience. “5 The legislation provides for the c itizens of this State and of each community .within the State to decide by majority vote the course of ac tion they desire. 1 have profound respec t for the democratic process.” * Stale I'erasure tcKd icim CUIlya member of I he State Hoard of Education: -yy l hi-Pearsall Plan is a “sincere, frank, and practical an •stesiMij.iht' cUifciu education created hv die* destructive* rf iti education created by the destructive ef lecw^f tTfc dfflkfc ps of the Supreme Court. V As l i lf-!v ‘As a life-l 'Crg hietiel of the public schools.and of a svs tetft of edr wt.ioo vvliicl) has been such a blessing to all -races in Not i iolina. I am lot it.” V1'-- William I Joyner, prominent Xorlli Carolina at torney and member of the Pearsall committee: I he plan is a moderate r*ny| constitutionally sound stef toward solution ol North Carolina's school problem." I). Hiden Ilanney, prominent Xorlh (.nyoliiui ednailm It should ‘|);ii(' us the ilisoidi'is winch have developed in other .smies and vvliith have embittered the relations he-, luteti the tWii rniis H, the injun ui both. liie public s< hool system must-be pre<ecved .The rte sit in lion oi ut . e weakening (»l the system would be a I right ltd calamity, bli-ahting die lives of dieahihlteti of both races anct.cimiug the- luuireol the state. » " 1 *H‘ majority of the white people o| North Carolina ate not vet ready for anv general desegregation. Any determined or widespread attempt ;it this time to impose any consider; ble integration would wreck the public school system. I have learned from long experience and extensive observation that out public, sc bools c an not be better than or different- bom * what the people wish them to he. I nhappilv, there is. no obv ious road whic h we c an choose in .the coninfenee that it will c arry nm public sc hool system safely through the present crisiy. We must t. \c calc u lated c hantes. never losing sightnf the .supreme objective of sav ng the public sc hool system lor the children of both races. Alter weighingicarefully the argument in favor of and against the Pearsall program, I have decided to vote lor ilitf constitutional ; iiendment which the general assembly lias submitted to the-jienple for ratification or rejection. I he plan appe.ds to me jxrsonallv as being the- Inst that has been contrived or suggested. I think that >! in all p tames less dangers than any alternative. It should buy for us the lime which we desperately need if we are to produce a wise, lasting and peaceful solution^>1 the problem created : uuptlv lor us by the SupremeCourt. It should spare us the disorders which have developed in other states and which emhtliered. the relations Irettveen the two races to the iniuw ol noth. ' ’ of (Grange County Published Every Thursday By - • THE NEWS, INCORPORATED Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, N. C. EDWIN J HAMLIN_ - ---—- Editor and Publisher Entered as Second Class Matter at the Pott office at l..drt»ro North Carolina, under the Act of March 3. 1373. GREATER WEEKLIES New York * Chicago * Detroit * Philadelphia ^ V SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR (inside North Carolina! SIX MONTHS (inside North Carolina) A“” * ‘ “ i J * - Noittb Carolina) $2.50 $1.75 $3 00 (Continued from Pape 1) would now he planning to go into the Governor's office next Jan uary. AS it turned out, his man lo>t. Ivaiseli and friends were accused of putting on an ineffective cam paign. ai. i the man who was mov ing up so fast gave up political life (he had served four terms in th<* Legislature) and returned to Rocky Mount to his widely vary ing and successful business inter ests! LUCK AND PLUCK . . . That hr is now on the. political move -again is attributable to Tam Pear sall’s fine appearance, contacts, political know’-how — and the fact that the late Governor Urn stead made him chairman of the Governor's Advisory Committee on School Segregation. You see. all this racial business, we are face-to-face with today in, our Schools began developing in the U. S. Supreme Court shortly after W. B. Umstead was elect:.I Governor — and is to a great ex tent responsible for his untimely death. His friends still talk of how he worried about it, losing sleep over it, as he lumped it into the educational Pandora's box with other educational ills. Governor Hodges reappointed Pearsall. Then came the Pearsall Committee.* It came to be refer red to as that rather than the Ad visory Committee. The committee worked out a program. It became known as the Pearsall Plan. Tom Pearsall and his cohorts’ fought for the. project. The Legislature met and adopted it with little dif ficulty, virtually no change. Thus it is that by luck—and by pluck—Tom Pearsall’s name has become a household wprd in North Carolina. Not since Junius Powell came up with the famous Powell Bill five years ago has a name been so synonymous with a plan. - . Since the kren east of Raleigh has not had a man it could claim ps native’ son in the' Governor's chair in twenty years <J. V. B. Ehringhaus, elected in 1928, was the last Governor from east of Raleigh), it might pay you to keep an eye on Tom Pedrsall of Rocky Mount.. • The vote on September 8 will have political reverberations in I960. VOTE . . . Information we re ceived over the weekend is that those carrying the ball, for the "! ; Pearsall Rian - now anticipate vs much larger vote than th<>y had figured on a week ago. Reason: the racial troubles in nearby Clinton, Tenn , and down in Mansfield, Texas',' last week. These incidents could well in crease the size of the North Caro lina vote by. ten per cent—possi bly even more than that. NOTES . E.. C. Daniel. Sr., who has been one of Wake Coun ty's most prominent citizens and merchants—a druggist for more than 50 years and now the father in-law of Margaret Truman—is in line for another honor shortly . . . . ; x The word we get is that scores of schools from one end of thp State to the other opene-l their doors for the new term this week still short of the number of teachers needed for a full staff . . . What's the answer? Weather Note: The six weeks neriod from Ittlv 15 to Au gust 30 was one of the wettest ever-known for this time of year in Kaleigh area , . . hut in Norlh western North Carolina — and in areas around Asheville — the gre-’n hills you associate with that seel ion arc a brassy brown. Don’t forget to vote on September 8 The school you save, may be your own. .Staff members pf the Agricul ujfl Marketing Service announce hat fluid milk and cream sales o consumers by North'parol ina iistrubutors were up ' approx i nately eight per cent over the irst six months of 1955 and right it 20 per cent above sales for 1954. donthly gains were greatest in ,lay ai,d June, but 11 six, months rere above 1954 and 1855 levels. VJ1 sales gains were above four ler cent. As late as 1870 it is reported that there were less thaw 150 hos - pitals in tV y. §., and thejt. wev confined chiefly to the eastern seaboard cities. Booze In The Knight KNIGHTS CViKKPACKC I— PART/ An Open Letter To Drivers Of Orange County And Area Dear Driver: * You don't know my little daughter Sarah who is just a few days under six and has started her first year of school. You haven't seen how she can turn-from eager enthusiasm to sojemn unconcern to youthful wisdom. No, you couldn’t know her oi love her as I do—that’s why it seems strange that I have to trust her very life to you! Yes. to you—because as she marches off to a new school on a busy highway regularly. ahe’JL be crossing streets, playing along the v ay, frolicking around tfie school. 1 hoped I was preparing her when I threw in some advice about The safe way to do These things—in answering her questions about ail the wonders of the firstr grade. - » «L-J* But this is pretty new ft) her and she rjty ntak* mistakes.' Sarah isr’t irresponsible, yet she is not responsible. For het, the crushing dangers of traffic are not real. I can tell be like describing the Giant in ihe story of Jack and (he Beanstalk. But you know and you can watch for her. You can watch for her as she plays on the way home from- school, and you can use caution when you see her ready to cross the street. You can be ready to stop if she should .dash out from behind a parked car or follow a rolling ball into the street. If you remember how" dear she is to me you'll drive slowly through every school zone. Since you have been granted the privilege to. drive, I have to assume thijt you will do these’ things But will you? Will you drive carefuiiy whereVer there are chi Id rad", not only because it is your legal responsibility, bift because you care as much as I do that the frightening-foar of traffic death— of the Giant—never becomes real for a little girl who has so much ahead of her to learn? Sincerely, Ed Hamlin ' • < Box 247. Hillsboro, N. (’. Bill Whitley Writes High Stakes In Congressional Elections Coming This Fall ELECTION. The stakes are unusually high this year for North Carolina and the South in the Congressional elections. j|f the Republicans gain controf of Congress, it will mean that the .South will lose a majority of the major, committee chairmanships in both the House ancj Senate. When committee chairmanships are considered in/light of civil rights and other legislation in which the South has a deep in terest. this year’s elections <be co'mcs even more important.* SENATE. In the Senate, for example, if the Republicans gain control pf Congress, it will mean that Sen. James Eastland of Mississippi will be replaced as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee by Sen. Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin. This is the committee that handles all civil rights legislation. Just as important is the Senate • Labor and Public Welfare Com mottee, which hany^es nfost *f' the social legislation other than civil 'rights. Jf • the Democrats lose controj pf Congress, Sen. Lister Hill pf Alabama will be re placed a$ <fhairn^8n of this com mittee by Sett. Alexander Smith of New Jersey. ; Other -Senate eommittee chair manships that would be taken from southerners if the RepabU cans win Congress are: 4§ * Agriculture, now held by Sen. Allen Ellehder of Louisiana would go to Sen. George Aiken of Vermont; Armed Services, now held by Sen. Richard Rua sell oC Georgia' would go to Sen. Slvl'w Bridges of New Hamp shire; Banking and Currency, nowdield by Sen. J; W. Fuibright of Arkansas would go to Sen. Homer Capehart of Indiana: Fi nance^ now held by Sen. Harry Byrd of Virginia would go to Sen. Edward Martin of Pennsylvania; Government Operations now held by Sen. John McClellan of Ark ansas would go to Sen. Joseph McCip-thy of Wisconsin; and Post Office and Civil Service, now held by Sen. Olin Johnston of South Carolina would go ta Sen. Frank Carlson of Kansas. HOUSE. In the House, North CarolHn? woidd feel njore of an immediate gffect if the Demo crat* lose control on "Congress. Rep. Harold Cooley woijld be replaced as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, Rep. Graham Barden would lose the ^jheirmanshif) of the House Labor and Education Committee, and Rep. Herberf Bonner would be replaced as chairman of th$ House Merchant Marine and Fish eries Committee. Rep. Carl Durham would also lose his up-coming, post as chair man of the powerful Joint Com mittee on Atomic Energy. . In addition to. these nine oth er southerners would be replaced as chairmen1 of House commit ices. I FUEL CBNTER About one-half the U. S. natural gas supply comes from Texas. Garden Time Robert Schmidt I have just received a copy of the. N., C. State Fair catalog which reminds me that many community and county fairs will be held during the next six weeks. v Every gardener should take an interest in the local.fair and the State fair. If you have anything worth .exhibiting, *you should take pride in showing it. How many times have you, stood in' ffbnt of a prize winding ;flower, vegetable oh fruit at a fair and said, either to those with you or to yourself, “I’ve got a--better one than that home in the garden right nmv” ' You may be absolutely right. Onlyr having it winning a blue ribbon on the show table and having it growing in the garden are two entirely, different*things. The paint is to get it from the garden to the show table and still have it good enough to win over the other entries. Before you enter an exhibit, read over carefully the instruc tions in threatahig. Be'sure to enter the exhibit in the proper class. Have it properly labeled, If the class calls for a plate of 12 specimens be sure that you hk\>e. 12 — no more and no less. ' In vegetable exhibits, speci mens should be of best market able size except where the cata log calls for the ‘Ifarg-stT as in the ease of piihipkin. Where the class calls for a plate, tray, peck or bushel, the individual speci mens should he as nearly alike • in size, shape and color as 'possi ble,, and they should be free from blemishes and have the true characteristics of that particular variety. Potatoes need not „be washed unless it will improve their appearance. However, if not washed they should be brushed with g.soft brush or cloth. Flower exhibits call for per Tar Heel PEOPLE & ISSUES By CJiff Blue SCOTT ... A paragraph ir» the Moore County News last week had this tf> s»y:s “Local friends of. Senator rferr Scott are slightly miffed over the manner In which he was ignored at the Chicago convention by both Governor Stevenson and Governor Hodges. His views were sought-by neither gentleman although Senator Scott was a vociferous Stevenson man four years ago. The Scott friends are disposed to overlook the Stev enson slight on the grounds that the Democratic presidential nomi nee was too busy to look up all of his old friends in the 48 states, but they are not charitably dis posed toward Governor Hodges." As a matier of fact, both Scott and Stevenson are conscious of the fact that there may appear to be a coolness between the two when such was not intended by either. In Chicago, Scott explain ed to a mutual friend that while he had not been saying it from the house-top that he had been strong for Adlai all along, but thought it better to let others (meaning the Hodges group of course) take the lead, this time; Later the same night, Mrs. Ives, Adlai’s sister told the same per son that she and Adlai hoped that. Senator Scott would take • no exception, to the fact that neither Adlai or she mentioned Scott when they appeared before the Tar Heel caucus in Chicago at different-times. Mrs. Ives as sured the mutual friend that it was absolutely unintentional' There is no question but that the Hodges faction was in the majority in the Tar Heel delega tion. Hodges was-for Kennedy for vice- President while Senator Scott supported Kefauver. The North Carolina vote on the seconi ballot was pretty typical of the line-up with Kefauver receiving 9l-2 votes to 1?*^ for Kennedy. Gore of Tennessee received 7%. ★ NOT UNUSUAL ... The fact that Senator Scott was» dog in fhe'Tar Heel 3 was nothing unifort -of Haw River. pour when he was Govern stead had been nominat primary, to give him , delegation elected the l eron Morrison as ehairm delegation, but Scott Ca to win the Senatorial tion two years later, i comes to party meetings ventions he is almost6} the minority, but when to the people back ho total vote, he has alts able to come out on tm he has been able to th march ahead on slights] top party hr^ss. ★ HODGES ... Ever, became Governor, Hod pears to have been a 1 ■pleased with the State, Commission set-up One first things he did was cize the Highway Study which had been made. Last week Hodges tool ter the Highway Cot again, saying that it hai “deplorable job” of u the public on the Stata million interstate high) gram. Many informed over the State could little ground for the Other than to needle the Commission and Chairm am in particular. Chairman Graham cai with a strong statement he said: “In my opini people of the State are fill of the fact that the 21 (meaning Federal tun provided solely for the ii system.” Don’t be surprised Chairman Graham headi for Hillsboro before his pires next spring (See PEOPLE & ISSUES,! SENATOR SAM ERVIN *JAYS * WASHINGTON—Red tape is not exactly new in matters per taining to the Federal Govern ment. Lack of Authority' When Dolly Madison was the First Lady of t.h e Land! she ^bought a small looking glass in a gold fram^ in France for $40 and charge^it to Hie government of the United States. She ap ■ patently did’ not have written, permission or authority to pur chase it, so an argument follow fection. Good stems, healthy fol iage, and a perfect bloom are essential. It is important to have fjnw^rs ig good condition at the time of judging. A rose bloom should be from one-half to three fourths open—a tight bud will not be considered by judges. Fruits, such as apples and pears, should- have true varietal characteristics, should be well colored and not over-ripe. They should be free from disease and insect damagg. Stems must not be removed Boom apples and pears. All specimens in a plate or tray should be uniform in size, shape, and color. •— * 'Get.Ready, Get Set . . Hertford County Herald ed as to whether fir not erment should honor the Congress argued the ma two weeks before agre let the FederaJ Governu for it. Visitors to the Vice Pr< Room at the FapEt ’« 'Jhe Senate Floor level I the. mirror which eauseil rumpus so long ago and on governmental red tap* past era. Vice President’s R« The - Vice Presidents contains , a wealth of f memorabilia. There is t ous portrait Of George ton bjy Rembrandt. P.® sidered bv scholars' as t painting of the First F owned by the Governm** is a bookcase fr mi the Buchanan, a French fi from the native North Cl James K. Polk’s adminW One of the most attract ures fit the room is th* chandelier removed Ir! White House by Theodnrt volt. The storv is told h Roosevelt didn't like delier’s tinkling. noise «* nerf ,bv a Drccyt ordered that ittak _ Capital, placed in thf ident's room to keep *11 I cannot vouch for the a' tv of the motive, but H that the White. House* still remains in the « One- Vice I*residont the office—Henry “Dolly" or “DoH'f I wrote a momentj* Dolly Madisons loo*1", glass and the trouble i . long ago- Now I *'ant * something, that I ly about her. Mrs. M .christened “Dorthe3. “Dolly” is said to apP«" marriage certificate, she wrote her name P" she signed her will Hi so point out that-the *_ ing appears to hjVe ^ tl>. ttannrt ^ «in tlie report of her estate, and also on ner esiaic, ant* ... oment that marks her» Montpelier, Virgin'^ We are. of course. vO of Mrs. Madison’s N°r'h connections in f.uilfor.
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