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Page Two He Cbpd HB ffetkly LOUIS GRAVES Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES~ On* Year W Ktowd m ■witrr Fifervaty tK IMS. at the nootaAoo at CHap«£ HUL. North Carolina, under the act of March S. i97s. We've Got to Pay for ’Em ts we want modem improve ment? and modem conveniences, we’ve got to pay for ‘em. This is J a solid and not particularly agreeable truth that is impressed upon all of us when we give at tention to town and county tax rates. At the moment 1 am consider-, ing not the so-called "higher things" of life, such as schools and libraries (though these cost more and more, too), but phys ical matters. \ The town s tentative budget, which is the subject of an article in another column, indicates an operating expense tax rate of 95 cents. (It may be up or down from that, a little, when the permanent budget is fixed.) To be added are the rates for town debt service, school operation, and school debt service. The total last year was $1.58. What it will be this year is not yet de cided. Some j*eople may grumble that the town tax rate is too high, \ But it is not as high as it will have to be if we get the things we want. There are the side walks. for example; everybody is getting tired of having gravel piled on, and washed away, and piled on again, year after year, and of having it. while it re —mains present.wear —out —soir? and sometimes crawl inside the shoes to hurt the feet. And other street improvements, besides sidewalks, are needed. And we must have a larger sewage dis posal plant and larger and better sewer lines. And we must keep on improving the public health service, and police protection, and fire protection, posal plant and keep on improv ing the public health service, and police protection, and tire protect ion. The burden upon citizens may be distributed more fairly, later on, by an expansion of the cor porate limits. And it may be lightened if the trustees’ com mittee now studying University tax exemptions can work out a way either for the taxing of in come-bearing property or for the contribution by the University to the town of a suitable amount of money in lieu of taxes. But whatever may be accomplished in those directions, the chances are that our demand for more and better public services will call for heavier taxes. When I was a boy in Chapel Hill fifty years ago there was no water supply except from wells and no running waler in the houses, no paved street or side walk anywhere in town, no. street lighting, no fire company, no policemen except a man called a constable who wasn’t seen 1 once a month. Some physicians! would vaccinate some patients against smallpox, but there was; no other kind of immunization. A public )iealth service was yet undreamed of. Milk inspection was equally unknown; every family kept a cow, and after we had made the best shift we could to clean the milk buckets and the cows’ udders, we were satis fied that the milk had had all the care it needed. People may have been as happy then as they are now, but those who were living then and are living now certainly wouldn’t like to put up with the old-time lack of sanitation and of other present-day advantages. Apart from the services of a public nature (water, lighting, and such like), there are the innumerable conveniences and pleasures that have come from invention. I am w * 1 amazed sometimes when I name over the things I want—some I consider I actually nqpd— that I had never even heard of a little while.ago: automobile, movies, radio, electric lights, electric cookstove. electric fans. And little gadgets for squeezing or anges and other short-cut ope ra tions. And window screens! I had got well along in years be- 1 fori' I was introduced to a means of keeping flies and other insects out of the house; now I fee! cruelly imposed upon if one or two get in and buzz around while I’m reading. 1 will leave it to philosophers and other abstractionists to de- I bate about w hether or not all these things have made human beings any happier. What I am interested in saving now—l am not telling you anything you don’t know, but am maybe re minding you of something you may sometimes forget is that our whole standard of living has become a great deal higher than it used to be and that this stand ard can be enjoyed only by the spendingjjf a whale of a lot of money compared to what we used to have to spend And when people in what we call moderate circumstances spend money the way they do on automobiles, and movies, and all the comforts and luxuries around the home, there j is not much sense in their being : surprised at. or grumbling at, I having to pay more and more for : what they need to get on the j government side health serv ! ice, jk>l ice and fire protection, i water lines, sewer lines, street [lighting, street improvements. and public recreation facilities. 1 incline to the belief that they gel just as great value for their tax money as for any other money they part with. Leaflet Warfare Leaflet warfare is. a phrase that is used to describe the drop ping of printed matter from air planes to influence the enemy to surrender instead of fighting to the bitter end. Or, sometimes, the printed matter is dropped in great quantities over cities and countrysides in the effort to weaken the national will to re sist by convincing the civilian population that continued re sisiance can have no other re sult than the continued loss of life and property. Leaflet war fare is one division of what is called psychological warfare. For a while there were some persons who were ratfier in clined to scoff at leaflet warfare, but the men most com(>etent to I pass judgment on it have al ways realized its potential value. 'Even as long ago as the first World War, Hindenburg com | plained that on certain sections [of the Western front his sol diers' will to fight had been weakened by propaganda with which the Americans had suc ceeded in penetrating the Ger man lines. Os course, leaflet warfare is ' not of any good by itself; it has Ito be used in connection with demonstrations of power. There ! is abundant proof that, when so used, it is highly effective. Many times enemy soldiers have come out of trenches and caves, and across no-man’s land, waving circulars that told them the exact procedure to follow if they wanted to quit fighting and find safety, good food, and humane treatment in American prisoner of-war camps. I>ast month came the news that Japs were run ning out of their caves on Oki nawa holding aloft circulars in token of surrender. us pray that more of them can be per suaded to show such good sense! Mervin Van Heeke Returns Mervin Van Ifecke of Atlanta has returned to Chapel Hill and is a student at the University. THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY ‘ Town's Tentative Operating Budget, $67,500 (Continued from ftret page) ject to taxation; or, if the ex emption remains in effect, whether or not the University should make a contribution equi valent to what it would pay in taxes if its income-bearing prop erties were not exempted. Pend ing a settlement of this question, it is not likely that the contribu tion from the University, for op erating expenses, will show any great change from last year. Last yegr the tax rate for the town's operating expenses was ' 78 cents on the SIOO of assessed valuations. On the basis of the. tentative budget, tjhe tax rate for this year will be around 95 cents. The town’s total tax rate last year was made up as follows: town operation $0.78; town debt Important to Apply Promptly for Supplemental Gas Rations Because of a change in the OPA regulations about gasoline ra tions, it is now necessary that all applicants for the renewal of sup plemental gasoline rations renew their applications at least ten days ahead of the earliest renewal date which is posted on the front of the identification folders in which the coupons are en closed. In order for each applicant to receive his gasoline coupons by the date of renewal, it is necessary for the application to be turned into the office of the local War Price and Ration Board completely filled out and signed by the applicant and by his employer. The license number must l>e the one for 1945, and the applicant must turn in his mileage ration record for the car for which he is ap plying for gasoline. When the members of the War Price and Ration Board have considered and approved the application, it is then sent to a mailing center which issues and mails the coupons directly back to the applicant. Moody Durham, chairman of the board, emphasizes the impor tance of getting in applications right away. An English Family | A letter to Mrs. Hope S. Cham berlain gives a pictlire nl Lhe_ kind of life that an English fam ily. people like you and me, have been living in the last five With the letter is a kodak pic ture of the father and mother, grandmother and three children,: Lwi the lawn of their home. The youngest boy is perched on a bi cycle that is held steady by the fat her. The grandmother is j seated on a log with the small daughter beside her. Enclosures, besides the kodak picture, are a "guide for visit ors,” a leaflet issued by a church at Stratford-on-Avon, and a canceled railway ticket, "Strat ! ford-on-Avon to Rugby.” , “We all celebrated the im minence of VE Day,” writes R. |G. Trevithick, who lives at Rug by, “by a visit to the Shakes ! |>eare Festival where we saw ‘Much Ado about Nothing’ .... Nowadays 75' '< of the audience i is American. “1 have just been to London and slept undisturbed by raid sirens for the first time. When ! 1 was last there, in January, the rockets were dropping around; the destruction during 1944-45 has surpassed that of the 1940- 41 blitzes. “My young brother was shot down over Berlin. We heard from him after a long period of anxiety. He arrived home for VE Day, and this helped my mother, who was seriously ill, ! to rally.” j (Mr. Trevithick here tells of receiving from Mrs. Chamber-1 lain, “via Eugene, Oregon,” sev eral copies of the Chapel Hill newspaper, and says: “We owe your daughter an eternal debt of gratitude for her kindness in in viting our children to Oregon in the anxious days of 1940” .... “Permit me to introduce you to my wife’s mother, Mrs. Treays, age 70, who hails from Plymouth. Most of her home went west when a Hun bomb demolished it in December 1940. When I visit ed her the next month I found her very bright and cheery with her broken wrist and minor cuts. I collected her from the hospital a few hours before the Germans dropped an incendiary , bomb right on the bed she had i vacated .... j “Much of Rugby is the same as 1 service $0.48; school operation $0,151/2; school debt service $0.16i/ 2; total $1.58. The county’s tax rate was SO.BB, making the total com bined rate, for town and county, $2.46. j Principal items in the town budget for this year are (with approximate amounts): protec i tion to person and property (po lice). $13,500; fire department, $16,900; sanitation (including j sewer service), $14,500; streets and utilities, lights, and hy drants, $11,700; conservation of health and welfare, $1,500; re- Icorder’s court, $3,300; adminis tration (town manager, town clerk, auditor, etc.), $8,200. lit was in Tom Brown’s day. Caldecott’s spinney is still there, [and Billon Grange, where our Paul (age 0 1 > go* Hr-a--pre-p --sehool.” Mrs. Kirkland in Vermont Mrs. Mary C. Kirkland has | gone to Thetford, Vt., to spend j the summer with her son, Dr. vard Kirkland. Her grand son, Edward Kirkland, Jr., ar rived in Thetford from Ger- I many, where he had been pris oner of war, the same day she arrived from Chapel Hill. Tak ing into account the tempera ture in Chapel Hill in the last few weeks, you might say (you, meaning the editor, in this case) that grandson and grandmother had come to Vermont from two different kinds of hell. Richard Kent Stewart, 2nd A son was, born to Lt. and Mrs. Richard Kent Stewart June 17 in Watts hospital. His name is Richard Kent Stewart, 2nd. | Mrs. Stewart is the former Miss I Jo Johnston. V.. 3 AUCTION SALES OF LAND Wednesday, July 11 At Pittsboro and Near Chapel Hill First sale at 2:30 in Pittsboro; 2 houses and 20 lots, known as the Col vert and Moore property. Easy terms. House SSOO cash and balance S4O a month. Lots $25 cash and bal ance $lO a month. Second sale on highway between Pittsboro and Bynum; 44 acres to be sold as one tract. Easy terms. One fourth cash, balance 6 and 12 months. Third sale at 6 P.M., 4 miles west of Chapel Hill, near Cal vander; known as Tom Lloyd or Faucette place; beautiful 6-room house, rebuilt as good as new, with lights and fine well, good roads, mail service. Subdivided into several small lots and tracts. Home, SSOO cash and balance S4O a month. Lots, $25 cash and balance $lO a month. Cash Prizes to Be Given Away. UNIVERSITY AUCTION COMPANY Geddie Fields, Auctioneer ■!— The Bull's Head Bookshop Groand Floor, University Library, West Door Arthur Ktollrr: “The Yogi and the Commissar” > t ’ ' • . * Burch Gets Hurt in Wreck on Durham Road (Continued from firet page) man in a soldier’s uniform and a woman companion. (Whether she was the man’s wife or not is not known). .In the upset they were thrown clear of the car. They hailed a passing motorist, asked him to take them to the hospital to have their injuries treated, and didn’t even mention the fact, that there was a man pinned underneath the over turned car. It happened that this passing motorist was a friend of Clyde’s. All unsuspect ing he went on with the two strangers and left them at the Duke hospital emergency ward. It was not until he got back to Chape] Hill that he knew any thing about Clyde’s having been in the accident. L. R. Crotts, whose home is on the Durham road near where the accident occurred, brought Movies in Next 3 Days Today (Friday): Carolina "Son of Lassie” (drama), with Donald Crisp and June Lockhart ...Pick “Nothing but Trouble” (comedy), with Paul ette Goddard. Saturday: Carolina—“ Son of Lassie” . . . Pick “California Joe” (Western), with Ken Mur ray. Sunday: Carolina—“ Valley of Decision” (drama), with Greer Garson and Gregory Peck . . . Pick “Hollywood Canteen” (musical), with all-star cast. (“Valley of Decision” will be | repeated Monday at Carolina.) Ford Production Plans " Bruce Strowd, passing on in formation he gets, from bulletins from Detroit headquarters, tells of the production plans of the Ford Motor Company. The com pany has a 150-million-dollar expansion program. New cars for civilian use have already begun to come off the assembly line. Henry Ford, 2nd says: “We will do everything we to shorten the transition period be tween war production and peace production and to prevent a ser ious slump in employment.” New Red Cross Officers The new officers of the Chapel Mill chapter of the Red Cross | are W. D. Carmichael, Sr., presi dent;, George B. Cutten, vice president ; arid Robert. Evans, | vice-president for Carrboro. ' Mrs. G. A. Harrer has been re elected secretary; and Harvey Bennett treasurer. Friday, July 6, 1945 some neighbors to the scene, got Clyde out from under the car, and had him taken to the hos pital. When inquiry was made about the two strangers, by telephone to Duke hospital, it was found that they had had their cuts and bruises treated, had given no names, and had hurried away. The Burch car was just about demolished. When Clyde’s fa ther took it to Bruce Strowd and asked for an estimate of its sal vage value, Bruce examined it carefully and said the’most he could offer for it was S6O. CAROLINA FRIDAY-SATURDAY NEW THRILLS! NEW ADVENTURE! IN TECHNICOLOR! >p*ctocvlar . sequel to m starring I mhLAWFORD'ImmCRISP/ i»t LOCKOUT-aw MICE | J^, , j£ D SEVERH J LASSIE* * d°LADDIE I' SUNDAY-MONDAY GREER GARSON <2 GREGORY PECK with DONALD CRISP- LIONEL BARRYMORF TUESDAY Nancy KILLY 1 WJM William GARGAN (dd.. OUILLAN MR Georg* DOLIN7 FY|A Funy KNIGHT /. WEDNESDAY THURSDAY wm. M.
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