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LOCAL EDITORIAL COMMENT
The Season Of Giving
With the approach of Christ
mas, many of us give more
thought to helping others than
at any other time of year.
Perhaps this is the real mean
ing of Christmas. .Certainly,
Christmas without giving would
lose much of its value.
There are many ways in which
we express our feelings during
this time. Some like to choose
a particular family of unfortu
nates, Vhile others prefer to
give money.
Many, who are short of cash
themselves, can find some dis
carded yet useful item around
the house to give.
Whatever your method may be,
there seems to be ample oppor
tunity in our area for Its use.
The Welfare Department is
seeking people to take families,
and is also seeking cash dona
tions with which to purchase
toys and gifts for those less
fortunate than most.
The Loulsburg Jaycees are
aiming their efforts at the chil
dren by collecting used toys.
They have received some, but
far less than are needed. One
local merchant has given a siz
able amount of new toys from
his stock.
Those who wish to participate
in this, the best of all giving,
can do so easily. Simply con
tact the Welfare Department or
the Jaycees. They'll- do the
rest.
Your Christmas will be mer
rier for the doing.
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Wish Them Well
Frankllnton has taken a pro
gressive step In the formation
of a Chamber of Commerce.
Very little is accomplished
nowadays without cooperation.
It is all the more important
that businessmen in any town
act together in the best interest
of all.
Sixty-four of the businessmen
In Frankllnton have Joined to
gether, presumably to do just
this.
The annual Christmas parade,
staged In Franklinton without a
central organization, has point
ed to what can be done. It's
success coupled now with what
promises to be a strong asso
ciation, makes the future of the
Franklinton business communi
ty very bright Indeed.
' A strong business organiza
tion can add growth to a com
munity. Franklinton is to be
congratulated for this first
stepl All will wish them well.
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
Sanford May Bid Again
Henderson Dally Dispatch
Nov. 30 1 1965
In Raleigh, where part of the dally diet Is
political speculation, gossip now Is that form
er Governor Terry Sanford may make a further
bid for the State's top office in 1968. It Is not
too much to suppose he would have last year
except that any chief executive is forbidden
by the Constitution from succeeding himself.
Not within our day has any governor ever
tried for a second term in office, even after
the legal? lapse of a four-year Interval. How
well any man can succeed In such a venture
no one can say of a certainty, for no one has
tried it.
Sanford has quite a following In the State.
He attempted to project his program over- Into
the current quadrennium by handplcklng his
candidate. He was unable, however, to cast his
mantle upon the man of his choice. Perhaps he
Is meditating on whether he Is the only individual
of his own proference wTio can make the gradey
In last year's election, the State was sharply
divided in its selection of a chief executive.
Voters spilt in three ways, and the middle
man emerged In the runoff as the winner.
The ultra-liberals were not pleased with that.
Certainly the retiring governor was not.
Sanford says he thinks he could In another
term do a lot of things for the State that he
would like to do and didn't have the time to
get moving In his four years In office. *
Maybe tye could make It In another try.
We wouldn't know. Nor does any one else.
What the reaction of the voters would be can
only be conjectured, since the attempt has
not been made hitherto.
It may be seriously doubted that Sanford will
be a candidate In 1968. We made the guess
when he went out of office early this yefir,
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however, that he wasn't finished with politics.
What Is in his mind is best known to him.
Our guess is that Sanford will attempt an
other term if he can convince himself that
he can make it. But he will have to reckon
with Lt. Gov. Bob Scott, who Is almost as
certain to be a candidate as that 1968 rolls
around. It was widely assumed Sanford talked
Scott out of making the race last year In order
to strengthen his candidate's bid for the office.
Scott is a liberal as is Sanford. And lt is
reasonable to suppose that the liberals are
In the majority in this State as they are In
the country as a whole, although they were
not last year. In the long run, however, the
tendency is in that direction.
If Scott and Sanford, and then a candidate
of the Moore faction are all In th$ contest
three years hence, the State will be In for
a repetition of the 1964 campaign. It would
be a clash of tactions that could even shade
j that of a year ago. ? ,
But 1968 is a lorl^ way in the future as of
now A lot of water will run over, the dam
by then. Unforeseen events could alter or
cloud the picture. But, politics being what
it is, there are those who dote upon specula
tions of this character, and are laying their
plans accordingly.
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Can You Explain, Governor?
Poets and nature lovers alike
delight In extolling the Spring
time as the season when the
saps begin to rise. And, ai
one reflects upon the lact that
most of those who met her*
recently In a special session
of the legislature will next
Spring Jm running for office
again, It seems not altogether
a coincidence that the Spring
time was long ago selected
as the season for political pri
mary campaigns.
It Is instructive to view the
legislature's "virtual repeal of
the communist speaker ban law
as an opportunity to learn more
about politics and polltlcians
and perhaps, colncldentally,
about saps and how they rise.
At the very least, we should
learn next spring whether saps
merely cast votes, or seek
them.
When one begins to appraise
the action of the General As
sembly In the last session, the
Apostle Paul put It pretty well
In the 19th chapter of The
Acts, 32nd verse. "Some
therefore cried one thing, and
some another: for," Jfeul said,
"the assembly was confused;
and the more part knew not
wherefore they were come to
gether."
The Assembly was Indeed con
tused when It came to Raleigh.
It was contused about Its duty,
Its responsibility, and certain
ly Its opportunity. The legis
lators could not have worse
botched all three. Clearly they
came together to surrender
quickly, compromise surely,
and wave aside carelessly every
suggestion designed to relieve
the concern of the people whom
they were elected to represent.
One contemplates with sad
ness that much of this concern
might Indeed have been believed
had the legislators taken the
time, and demonstrated the will,
to understand, as the Apostle
Paul put It, wherefore they were
come together.
But they did not. Indeed, the
General Assembly negated
every argument which It might
have used In defense of Its de
cision. It refused to let the
people have their say. K re
fused to stipulate that reason
able records shall be kept to
measure the faithfulness of
those employed by the state,
and paid by the taxpayers, to
administer the affairs of North
Carolina's colleges and di
versity . It was a full-scale
retreat.
It was, In a sense, more even
than that. It was an abdica
tion by the General Assembly
of its constitutional responsi
bilities. It was not a question
of political Interference, but one
of who will do the Interfering.
In short, the General Assembly
of NorthCarollna knuckled un^
der to the threats and Intimi
dation of the Southern Associa
tion of Colleges and Schools.
But It Is (Tone. And now the
explanations and the excuses
will begin. Perhaps, as one
legislator commented, the
people will have forgotten the
whole matter within a week.
This remains to be seen.
We suspect that the people will
not forget so quickly, or so
easily. They have not yet for
gotten the promises by all three
of the major Democratic candi
dates for Governor when asked,
in the Springtime of 1964, about
how they stood on the question
of communists speaking on our
campysejg^ M .. ...
There will, we suspect, be a
considerable exercise imor*
the people of North Carolina of
that "freedom of Inquiry" which
we have heard so much about
of late. Next Spring, there may
be more freedom of inquiry than
some candidates can stand.
But, at the moment, it Is Im
portant to remember tim the
legislature has not--regardless
Prefers Jail
Nashville, Tenn ?? Mt?s Sara
Elizabeth Dorrla', 65, Is spend
ing her tenth month Is Jail
rather than remove her MO ,000
house from a restricted sub
division area. She sold 23
acres of land to a construction
company with the right to buy
t*o lota. Miss Dorrls ou
Jailed when she refused to obey
a court order to move the
house.
Witch Doctors
Unhappy
Johannesburg, 8. Africa ??
Members of South Afrioa's
Witch Doctor's Association
claim a movie mad* locally
dlscredlta their profession,
the movie, "Tokokwhe," baa
a seen* In which a death spall
is cast on a youth. The witch
doctors claim their purpoae
la to cur* not kill.
at what It frncles to be the
case- -eliminated the unrest
which It claimed had been pro
voked by the banning of com
munists from our campuses.
The unrest Is still there, and
sometimes It speaks in pathetic
language.
Governor Moore on November
17 received a telegram from a
lady in Enfield. /'My son's
life," she wired the Governor,
"is on the altar in Vietnam,
12,000 miles away, to oppose
Communism. In North Carolina
my taxes must support college
forums for communist speak
ers. Governor, can you explain
this to my son?"
Can you, Governor?
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Birdie says his kid came home the other day saying, "I
want a Beatle haircut"... a Beatle wtiat? Have you been no
ticing the new hairdos of some of the boys around? Fortu
nately, ndt too many local lads are Joining in. The big question
in our minds. ..why? Who are these young men trying to im
press?
Seems we remember years back. ..a boy_ wore his hair to
suit himself.. and boys being lazy, even then... the fad was
a short hairline... to do away with combing and less washing.
Of course, it wasn't too long until the part in the middle and
the old slickum went into use as the years gained on us and
we found out about girls.
We can remember If a girl thought a boy looked good with a
strand hanging down in his eyes... the lad went blind... until
another sweet young thing came along and said it looked better
combed.
What Is bothering us today Is that the Beatle mop is not
easy to wash? > If, indeed, it ever is, and certainly, if it should
require combing (we have our doubts), that would be a monu
mental task. So.. .all that's left is to believe it's the girls
who are causing the new look.
If this be the case... we* re In trouble. Boys have always been
Inclined to try the daring. ..the new. ..eating gold fish. ..packing
phone booths. ..and Beatle haircuts. It has been the girls who
hare been called on to straighten them out since time began.
If the sweet young things are failing in this important point...
pity us all.
Nothing replaces the neat, well-groomed young man... stand urn;
straight and tall... and there just Isn't that feeling when we sight
the Beatles coming down the street They look like we did
before we got enough money to go to the barber shop You
remember... when ma cut our hair with a pot on our treads
Come to think of it... some of today's boys would look better
if they were wearing a pot.
after you sea
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NEW NEW NEW
Shearon's Lawn Mower
Shop
EPSOM, N. C.
OPENING SAT., DEC. 4th
Sales & Service
Small Gasoline Engines
Chain Saws, Lawn Mowers, Garden Tractors
FIRST FIVE SAWS GO AT COST!
WHERE'S
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Cato's
Might Throw It Up To Her
"Then you wouldn't let him
propose?" ?
"Not last night."
"Why ?*?**?
"We were at bridge."
"Hasn't lit' won you?*'
'?Yes, but 1 didn't want it
said ho won . me at a bridge
party."
We go to all the trouble of
redesigning our interiors,
improving out handling,
and refining our Wide-Track ride,
and some people buy us i
just for our looks. x
Our new E?truh*e Hardtoo Couoe L'h a u 1966 Pontiaf < t includes out&'d* mirrtf, pa.id**l ,dff?h and visors, backup
i'phtt, front and rear seat be Is. dual- speed wmdshretd wipers, and n-as^e's to clean /oui .v 'Vs^c/tf for tetter visibility.
Just one# we'd like to have people fall in
love with the inside of our cars before they
Hip for the outside We spend so much
time and effort in there.
Why, thia year alone we've made avail
able brand-new wraparound buckets and
profile bench seats. Not to mention extend
ing our use of rich, genuine walnut panel
ing. And nicer instrument clusters you've
never seen.
We've even had our engineers take our
test cars apart to see it they can makejhem
smoother, quieter, and more luxurious.'
And they came up with impro^ement^that,
incredibly enough, make our Pontiacs even
more enjoyable to drive.
Really, though? we don't care which one
of our features gets you inside one of our
new Pontiacs, just as long as it gets you
there. And it will. At least judging by the
number of Pontiacs you see on the road.
Everything's new in tiger country. Wide-Track Pontiac/'66
COM! TO TICtR COUNTRY, YOU* PONTIAC OIALtR-A GOOD PLACI TO BUY USED CARS, TOO.
D. & J. Pontine -Olds., Inc.
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