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The Chapel Hill Weekly
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The Last Os The State Legislature’s
Old Curmudgeons Looses A Low Blow
Ever since Eugene Bost wound up his
stint as Speaker of the House a decade
ago, there hasn’t been a member of the
Legislature capable of flapping as acid
a tongue as John H. Kerr Jr. of Warren
County.
As a member of the House and Senate,
alternately, John Kerr has been an im
placable foe of all sorts of sloppy senti
mentality such as aid to dependent chil
dren. the minimum wage, increased ap
propriations for education, and other
nonsense that smacks of the twentieth
cent urw
lie has attacked these radical innova
tions in a free-wheeling style worthy of
Pitchfork Ben Tillman and Cotton Ed
Smith. A brilliant parliamentarian and
a terror in debate, unhampered by
scruples or other niceties, John Kerr has
heaped more scorn and invective on pro
posed legislation and their supporters
than the record could begin to imply.
Only a rare few have chosen to stand
face to face against those withering as
saults, largely because of the danger of
being incinerated and having the ashes
gleefully scattered around the Capitol
grounds.
Even in his cups, John Kerr has been
a legislator to be reckoned with. On the
Senate floor a few years ago he called
a woman reporter an 5.0.8. (without
restricting himself to initials), for no
apparent reason other than that she
just happened to be standing there. This
sort of impassioned oratory, you must
agree, quickly brings debate to an ir
reducible minimum.
His public armor of arrogance and
contempt has seldom, if ever, been shorn.
Once, being led almost forcibly from
the Senate floor, muttering incoherent
ly, his disdain remained monumental.
A Commendable Community Project
The Chapel Hill Community Council
has just issued its 1963 directory of al
most everything: social, civic and educa
tional organizations, churches and affili
ated groups, health and welfare agencies,
official boards and commissions.
This is a commendable community
project, undertaken thanklessly by the
Community Council annually. The Direc
tory gets more and more accurate every
year, and this year, as far as we can tell,
all the information contained in the five
pages is absolutely correct (or was when
the Directory was printed.)
This being a town of organizers, as
sociaters, councilers, leaguers, clubbers,
auxiliaters, commissioners, and other
species of the genus joiner, it is interest
ing to look through the Community Coun
cil’s Ultimate Group (those included in
the Directory) to see who does what
around here. The local organization situa
tion is overwhelming.
There are 64 civic, social and educa
tional organizations here, from the Al
trusa Club tcfthe Y-Teens with the Hill
Point Lodge (Odd Fellows) squarely in
the middle. These are listed in the Di
rectory alphabetically, with their leaders.
We use “leaders” as a generic term in
cluding chairmen, district chairmen, di
rectors, presidents, secretaries, execu
tive secretaries, a Worthy Matron, an
Exalted Ruler, and a Most Noble Govern
or. Nine of these organizations are
P.T.AAs.
Chapel Hill and Carrboro have 30
churches and affiliated organizations.
We have no Buddhist, Moslem, Latter
Day Saint, Greek Orthodox, Unitarian,
or Swedenborgian churches listed, but
we have just about everything else. Bap
tist and Methodist churches lead in num
bers (and. possibly, congregations) with
seven each. Others are Catholic (two
churches or affiliated organizations),
Sunday, February, 24, 1963
And again, recuperating at Memorial
Hospital from an indiscreet cup, his first
pause was not to reflect on what had
put him there, as might have been the
case with fallible souls, but to rattle the
panes on discovering that Negroes were
bedded on the same floor.
In the current Legislature, John Kerr
is again a member of the House. Last
week, sitting as a member of the Joint
Appropriations Committee, he loosed his
first low blow of the session. It was
aimed at Dr. Lewis Dowdy, acting presi
dent of the State’s Negro A & T College
in Greensboro.
“Didn't students from your college
take part in the sit-in strikes in Greens
boro, trying to do away with segrega
tion?’’ Rep. Kerr demanded.
“Yes,” Dr. Dowdy replied.
“And you come down here begging
the white folks to give more money to
your school,” said Rep. Kerr, profligate
with his usual delicate diplomacy. “Some
of us are getting tired of it.”
Actually, that is probably a rash un
derstatement, if understatement is pos
sible from John Kerr. He has always
been tired of appropriating State funds
for Negro schools and colleges, iron
hard in his belief that what education
Negroes can pick up among the cotton
rows is sufficient, if not too much.
It would be hopeless to attempt to
debate John Kerr on the illogic of scal
ing State appropriations to subservience
to segregation, to call his attention to
Governor Sanford’s recent plea for equal
opportunity, or to appeal to whatever
humanitarian instincts might flicker be
neath that icy contempt. He would cut
you to shreds, and then laugh in your
lacerated face.
Christian Science (two), Church of
Christ, Church of God, the Community
Chur ch, Congregational-Christian &
Evangelical and Reformed, Episcopal
(two), Lutheran, and Presbyterian
(two).
There are seven health and welfare
organizations dedicated to cancer, tuber
culosis, the heart, crippled children and
adults, the poor and destitute, and gen
eral public health. Others in existence
here are not mentioned.
Finally, the Directory lists the 17 gov
ernmental, quasi-governmental, and
paragovernmental organizations which
keep Chapel Hill’s, Carrboro’s, and the
County’s public ducks in a row. These
range from aldermen and commissioners
to mayors and inspectors, and include
such dignitaries as tax collectors, town
attorneys, town managers, clerks, chiefs
of this and that, and people concerned
with public recreation, planning, adjust
ments; racial relations, alcohol, educa
tion, and libraries. There are 117 people
concerned in one way or another with the
official, public aspects of operating the
Town and the County. Many of these
people are elected to office. We note
that the dog warden and the Township
constable are not listed, nor are Civil De
fense or the Orange County Sheriff’s De
partment. Perhaps it would be a good
idea to list the ABC police and the Coun
ty game warden too.
These things will doubtless come along
in later years, as the Directory is swell
ed by the requests of people who get left
out of it. Meanwhile, we are grateful to
the Community Council for its labor in
producing the Directory. Every family
should have one.
We hope for expansion of the Direc
tory as long as the Community Coun
cil keeps it in its present quietly informal
State, and doesn’t start printing .it on
yellow pages.
“Don’t Expect Us To Snpport A School Whose
Students Believe All Americans Have Equal Rights!”
North Carolina Medicare: A Cruel Joke
When the North Carolina General As
sembly sets out to draw the fangs from
a piece of forceful legislation it may not
use the finesse of the Federal lawmak
ing machinery, but it manages to get
the job done. The difference in method
is largely that between using a pair of
rusty pliers and a dentist’s clamps.
In the latest instance of this casual
rustic avocation, a joint committee of
State senators and representatives has
gone to work on a special bill that would
establish a state-based medicare plan,
using Federal funds to serve the aged
who are incapable of paying their own
doctor bills. The proposed legislation
would exclude participation by anyone
who made over $1,500 per year, or who
held property or had savings. Admin
istration of the program would be left
largely in the hands of county commis
sioners at whose pleasure an applicant
for assistance could be approved or re
jected. Counties would have no choice
but to implement the program, but could
exercise considerable latitude in select
ing those persons whom it felt qualified.
Rep. Rachel Davis, House sponsor of
the bill has made it perfectly plain that
the State bill would provide care only
tor persons who could not pay for medi
cal care from personal resources; in brief,
The Price Os Notoriety In The King Set
Whoever arranged the visit here Friday
ot King Leopold and Princess Liliane of
Belgium seemed to have uppermost in
mind a determination to give the King
and the Princess every opportunity to
pretend they were somewhere else.
According to plan, the press and other
members of the great unwashed were
allowed to look upon the King and his
Princess as they entered the Carolina
Inn when arriving here, and when the
King and Princess came out of the Caro
lina Inn. They were allowed to watch
the King enter Phillips Hall, where the
King would be allowed to look at Univac
1105 and the Physics Department’s cos
mjc rays; they were allowed to watch
the Princess enter Memorial Hospital,
where the Princess would be allowed to
look upon heart care facilities; and they
were allowed to, watch as the King and
Princess exited from places. They
were allowed to watch the King and
Princess ascend the steps of the More
head Planetarium and vanish inside for
lunch; and they were allowed to watch
when the King and Princess reappeared,
fed.
Presumably the King and the Princess
were authorized to gaze back at their
audience on all these occasions, though
they were to remain relatively isolated
otherwise.
Naturally, news people being crusted
with crass contempt for official protocol,
as soon as word of these protective plans
got out the press set. to work to crack the
barrier.
to qualify for care, a person must first
exhaust his financial resources in his
own behalf. Presumably he can then
become a ward of the State and a perma
nent fixture on the welfare rolls.
The frustration of Sen. Ralph Scott
in his support of the bill is readily under
standable. Mr. Scott is not fond of lend
ing his endorsement to a cause, simply
because it is better than no cause at all.
To confine aid to persons who would most
likely receive it anyway is not his notion
of the issue at stake, or of a solution
thereto.
In a time when medical costs have
rendered almost one-third of the patients
in hospitals “medically indigent” (that
is, unable to meet the expenses of extend
ed illness), the proposals now being
studied are a cruel joke. The elderly, who,
barring illness, could provide for them
selves and maintain the dignity our in
stitutions supposedly guarantee, are left
little choice but to become mendicants.
Os course the joke isn’t on them alone.
Once a sizable body of absolutely in
digent old folk has built up, the relief
rolls will swell proportionately with the
cost of welfare support.
It could very well be that North Car
olina was meant to be a land of elderly
paupers. In any case, Rep. Davis seems
to be working directly toward that end.
One reporter called up Planetarium di
rector Tony Jenzano and asked for a job
waiting on table at the royal luncheon.
One lady reporter, her plans to tag along
with the Princess through the Hospital
shattered, reportedly considered develop
ing a severe heart condition overnight.
The language barrier was a hard one
to surmount. The word came down that
neither the King nor the Princess were to
be asked any questions. An unconfirmed
rumor had it that the Belgian Embassy
was nervous about the King giving in
discreet answers to questions about his
World War Two activities. Doubtless,
also there was some consternation in
official circles that unless preventive
measures were taken some wild-eyed
photographer would call out, “Hey, King,
hold it right there! Cheese!” in ringing
tones, or that some eager women’s page
reporter would ask Princess Liliane
about her bath salts.
All in all, the royal visit was pretty
much of a struggle for the press. The
fact that the King alighted from a shiny
automobile, climbed the steps, and en
tered the building is not exactly flash
new’s.
Through all this, we wonder about the
principals of the drama. Perhaps the
King and Princess would have had a
nicer time if they had arrived alone and
unheralded. Possibly. Such, we keep tell
ing ourselves to salve the wound of ob
scurity, is the price of notoriety.
I —Looking Back—
F’rom the Weekly’s files:
IN 1928
STROWD FETCHES
HIS FIRST FORD
FOR A CUSTOMER
Niagara Blue Sport Coupe; T. J.
WUson, 3rd. Will Probably
Be the Owner
OTHER DELIVERIES SOON
‘The first new Ford car for
sale to a customer in Chapel Hill
was driven in from Charlotte
Wednesday by Rruce Strowd . .
The price of it, delivered here
with full equipment, is $677.37.
The village was almost as excited
yesterday morning, when the
news got abroad that the sale
of Fords was about to begin, as
though Lindbergh had dropped
down on the main street in his
airplane. There was consider
able doubt during the morning
as to who would buy the car. The
University extension division had
the first call on it, but did not
want a sport coupe. Dr. E. A.
Abemethy was next in line, on
the basis of priority of orders.
The doctor . . . said he would
wait for a regular coupe. Thom
as J. Wilson, 3rd, came next . . .
“I haven’t been able to get in
touch with him yet,” said Mr.
Strowd, “but he told me he
wanted the car if the University
and Dr. Abernethy didn’t so
I suppose it’s his. . .
Chevrolet advertisement:
“NEW FEATURE - that set
a new standard in automobile
value . . . 'Motor ; . . 4-Wheel
Brakes . . Springs ... In
strument Panel . . . Gasoline
Tank . . . Steering . . . Road
ster, $571; Touring Car, $571;
Coupe, $673; 4-Door Sedan, $755;
Sport Cabriolet, $745; Imperial
Landau, $796; 1-Ton Truck, Chas
sis Only, $550: Light Delivery
Truck, Chassis Only, $430 . . .
■Pendergraft Motor Co., West
Franklin Street. . , .”
IN 1938 -
A Real Football
Game Tomorrow:
All Are Invited
At 2:30 on Fetzer Field; Let
terman, Reserves, Freshmen
'Will Make Up Two Teams
BAUGH iMAY SLING PASSES
. . The start may be a
Letters To The Editor
Dear Sir:
I thought Mr. James J. Best's
article, “The World, The Flesh,
and Jesse Helms,” published in
your newspaper on February 17
was a very fair and almost en
tirely accurate appraisal of this
station’s editorial policy. It was
a good piece of writing and I
appreciate it very much.
Cordially,
Jesse Helms
To The Editor :
“The Simple Measure of Race
Relations” (Chapel Hill Week
ly Feb. 13 > indicates lack of
consideration of many facts. All
moral and religious teaching
stresses responsibility and ac
countability. As a foil to your
editorial, will you kindly reprint
the enclosed from the Salisbury
Post of Feb. 14 “College gets
SIBI,OOO etc. . . .” (The enclosed
clipping told of Livingstone Col
lege’s Founder’s Day ceremony,
at which it was reported that
the College had received SIBI,OOO.
Also during the ceremony, a
BILLY ARTHUR
Our Annis Lillian, fast growing
up, is conscious of facial blem
ishes, unkempt hair and so forth
and is now greasing her face and
donning a hair net before retir
ing. But she has a problem.
“How old do I have to be be
fore I use hand softener?’’ she
asked.
“Old enough,” snapped the
Missus, “to get your hands in
dishwater.”
* * *
On Wednesday I went up out
of the valley to the top of the
Hill to catch an overdraft and
get a haircut. Did both, just in
time.
When I was placed in the chair
—the barber’s, not the hot seat—
my master of the scissors wished
to know how 1 wanted it cut.
I told him I didn’t know. I
usually sit down and let 'em hack
away.
“That’s the kind we have the
most trouble with,” Y. Z. Can
non spoke up. “A fellow who
knows how he wants his hair cut
is easy to deal with. But those
who don’t are the ones we have
trouble with. But, as for Billy,
just cut his hair any old way.
You can’t improve on it no mat
ter how you try.”
scrimmage instead of a kick-off,
but otherwise all the formalities
of a regular game will be ob
served. Four quarters, of 12
minutes or perhaps 15 minutes
each, will be played, and there
will he the full number of of
ficials. ‘Slinging Sammy' Baugh
of Texas, generally thought to
be the. best forward passer in
the world, is expected to do some
passing for the entertainment of
the crowd. An old-time pupil and
friend of (Coach Ray) Wolf’s, he
came here about three weeks ago
to help with the coaching . . .
Assistant Coach Johnny Vaught
. . . thinks the following players
will get into the fray: Pieffer,
Severn, Mallory, Major, Herm
son, Maronic, Kimball. Polenski.
Siewers. Siek, Desick, Slagle,
Sadoff, Blalock, Fields, Megson,
Brantley, Adam. Smith, Brant
ley. Watson, Cernugle, Stern
weiss, Radman, iMacßae, Bob
bitt, Idol, Lalanne, Osborne. Bak
er.”
IN 1948
Plans for Changes in Stadium
Are Nearly Ready for Bidders;
Construction Is Expected to Be
Finished in Time lor Football
Great Care Has Been Taken, in
Design, that Beauty of Stad
ium Shall Not Be Impaired
“Plans and for
changes in the Kenan Stadium
—for the erection of twin struc
tures, ere at the middle of each
of the concrete stands are
nearly ready . . . The one in
the north side will contain a
guest box ... the one in the
south side will provide enlarged
and improved accomodations for
the press. . . .”
“Robert Frost, the celebrated
poet who is also a philosopher and
a humorist, will give a lecture
recital at 8 o'clock next Wednes
day evening in the Hill Music
Hall. . . .”
IN 1958
'Miss Betty Hayes was crown
ed Chapel Hill High School’s
Sweetheart Queen.
Second Drive For
Community Chest
To Begin Sunday
New Real Estate
Firm Is Opened By
Young and Wilkins
Holman Succeeds MacMillan as
Head ol UNC English Department
m * mm mymmmm ' *
plaque was presented to Dan
Nichols, Salisbury businessman,
for his “humanitarian concerns,
unselfish service to the com
munity, and tireless efforts on
behalf of Livingstone College
when her capital funds cam
paign was launched.” Another
plaque was presented to attorn
ey Hayden Clement for his work
as chairman of the legal counsel
for the college for many years.
—Ed.) White people have for
many years paid taxes to furn
ish over 95 per cent of the funds
to educate the colored. Repd the
story of St. Augustine College.
Note the present situation in
Washington, D. C. Andrew Hatch
er says, “Rights demand com
mensurate responsibilities." Al
so he asks for “positive discrim
ination in favor of the colored."
As you give this “liwifc'e dis
crimination,” it wotUd De ap
propriate that you study history
and read dispassionate and ob
jective reporting of incidents in
Mississippi and in Washington in
U. S. News and World Report.
John S. Henderson
Salisbury
When Albert Powell came in
off his mail route on Wednesday
I offered my congratulations and
extended my hand for shakes.
“For what?” he asked.
So I told him that February 20
was the anniversary of the sign
ing of the first post office bill.
“Nobody said anything about it
around the post office,” he said.
“How do you know?”
I must confess that I have ac
cess to valuable information
gathered by our two children
from a ready reference. They
have in their rooms calendars
put out by some patent medicine
company. On each day of the
month important anniversaries
are noted, and our attention to
them is called at breakfast every
morning.
Some days, however, lack his
torical significance, and it is on
these that the Missus and I are
told to take something or other
for that tired, run down feeling,
headaches and neuralgia pains,
and at the first sign of a cold.
Such modern aids *to intelli
gent living are wonderful!
Overheard* at the Patio:
"When she wears that fur neck
piece, she looks like Mitch Mil
ler.”