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By EULA N. GREENWOOD
NEWS- . . . If Governor Terry
Sanftrd should be killed In one
? of the many airplane trips he
takes, the man who would be
Governor is Clarence Stone of
Stoneville, over in Rockingham
County. He has never been de
feated for offic* Senate Presi
dent Stone, old and tired, has
a very, very big load to carry
on his shoulders this time. And,
last week, another straw was
added when a television report
er nabbed Stone the wrong way.
Sparks flew. This television re
porter said that the Number
Two man in our State Govern
ment had used bad words at
him. Tush, tush: He went run
ning to tell everybody about it.
We don't know him, but he
must "be a sensitive soul. Actu
ally, the offended one was not
a news-gatherer, but a tv com
ers man. There is a difference.
So, the event made headlines
. . .'but was hardly news.
IRISH . . . Here is what Ra
leigh Times Editor Herbert
O'Keef has to say about it:
"... If Senator Stone want
ed to be rude to this photo
grapher ... he had that right,
and the newspapers and the
TV stations of this State must
support him in that right. As
a matter of commonsense, news
papermen must realize that the
very nature of their work on
occasion must irritate people.
If that irritation causes the
people to be rude to the news
men, even to the point of cuss
ing a little or even a lot, the
newsmen would be smart to
accept such rudeness and such
cussing as a minor occupation
al hazard. Hurt feelings won't
do any good, and will only slow
down the newsman in doing his
work . .
News-gathering in these dis
illusioning, irritating, and em
bittering days is no place for
the thin-skinned. Says O'Keef:
"If the press should allow its
own braised feelings to get in
the way of doing a competent
and complete and fair job of
covering this Legislature, the
press would be in tke position
of failing the people it repre
sents."
Amen!
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LATIN . . . Herbert O'Keefs
big brother, the News k Ob
server, devoted a lot of editor
ial white space to the Incident
... but only three word*, as
follows: "Res ipsa loquitur".
Most Latin is ? let of Greek
to us. but the free translation
seems to say: "Let ua talk more
on these things".
Good, but we like the Irish
approach better.
BEHIND THE SCENES . . .
Vice President Johnson and
the missus made a big hit here
. . . though the social aspects of
their visit were far from ideal.
Incidentally, we now have a
total of 18 Secret Service men
assigned to our Vice President.
They work in the background
to prepare for trips . . . and to
protect ... gentry but firmly
. . . Lyndon Johnson. You would
think this is enough for such a
non-controversial character . . .
but Congress has been asked to
provide sufficient funds to
raise the S.S. squad to 35 . . .
for Lyndon and Lady Bird.
FAMILY ... If you or your
friends ever have Statewide
legislation ypu would like to
GET THRONGH the Legisla
ture, you'd better start your
planning months in advance.
You can KILL bills overnight
sometimes, but getting some
thing PASSED is another mat
ter. We refer to the recent
troubled death of daylight-sav
ing time. It was introduced
without advance warning, plan
ning, or strategy . . . and was
thus doomed for death while
still aborning.
Raleigh Mayor Bill Enloe, a
leading movie man in the State,
was showing how eight o'clock
coming at seven in the evening
would ruin outdoor movies. He
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referred to these show* as "fine
family entertainment" and gave
this illustration:
"Not lone ago I passed a car
with a couple on the backseat
and they apparently had seen
the movie for they wen playing
checkers. Or at least I think
they were playing checkers, be
cause I heard the girl soy, 'If
you make that move again IH
crown yon.' "
NOTES . . . Gov. Terry San
ford's Feb. 26 talk to the Sales
Executives Club of New Yoril
... Is being distributed by the
N. C. Department of Conserva
tion and Development. . . and
may soon be given 500,000 cir
culation through being distri
buted in bank statements
throughout the State . , .
"North Carolina . . . from Rip
Van Winkle to DIXIE DYNA
MO". . .
Miss Jane Pratt ...... promin
ent in Eighth District Congres
sional circle* for a generation
... is now associated with N.
C. Telephone Co. , , and looking
younger ail the time . . .
The background fight on the
Sunday BUI here (Senate Bill
141) is really between little
mercluuits and big discount
houses . , . Oliver Wendell
Holmes, a ymall Fayetteville
merchant Wm> has been in busi
ness since 1906 and who testi
fied big discount houses would
run him out of business or
force him to open on Sunday,
made Ripley's Believe It or Not
a few years ago . . . because he
and two other gentlemen nam
ed Robert Burns and Edgar A.
Poe lived in the same block in
Fayetteville . . .
Governor Sanford left some
good friends . . , and some not
so-good . . . awa-a-y out on the
limb last weekend when he
came out against road and
school bond ideas. But they
can't say they had not been
warned ? .
Somebody got down and fig
ured the new State House . . .
or Legislative Building, if you
must . . - cost each taxpayer in
North Carolina %IM.
Mississippi State echo: The
first Republican legislator in
more than 40 years was elected
a few days ago in Mississippi
ASTC To Host Debate W|
Competition Next Monday
Appalachian 9tata Twin
Callage win ba boat on Mon
day, April >, to the district de
bate competition (or the North
Carolina High School Debating
Union, it waa diecloaed thla week
by Ellis Boatmon, director of
debate at ASTC.
The tournament will ba held
In the educational building of
the Boone Methodist Chureh.
Nina high schools will be rep
resented with five affirmative
and five negative teams taking
part. They will be competing
far first place positions to rep
resent western North Carolina
in the state finals at Chapel
... Ho hum.
Those folks who were out to
"get" N. C. Congressmen Map
Bsrden . . . finally got him . . .
and the man who succeeded
him as chairman of the House
Labor and Education Commit
tee is that gre-e-a-at American
. , . Adam Clayton Powell)
Hill on April l? and M>
The high school debate topic
deal* with the question of for
eign aid.
Affirmative teams are: Erwin
of Aaherille, Chase of Forest
City, Bowman of Bakersville,
Glea Alpine, and East Surry o I
Pilot Mountain.
Negative teams are: King,
Newton-Cooover, Marion, East
Rutherford of Forest City and
Erwln of Asbevill*.
SMALL BUSINESSES
Small buainess men would be
among the moat-favored bene
ficiaries of President Kennedy's
tax program, a study indicated.
Cuts would total about $1,200,
006,000 if the plan get* ap
proval.
It was evident that small
business spokesmen were among
the gentler critics of the tax
proposals i? House Ways and
Means Committee hearings on
the tax bill.
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