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Wednesday, July 3, 1963 Aldermen Studying New Budges Today The Board of Aldermen began a detailed examination of the 1963-64 Chapel; Hill budget this afternoon in the Town Hall. A proposed budget, drawn up by Town Manager Robert Peck, was submitted to the Board at its meeting last week. The budget cannot be finally adopted until twenty days after its submission. The Board expects to adopt the final budget officially at its sec ond meeting in July . Ip the mean time, it must examine Mr. Peck’s prooosals in detail. Several hours of ctiscussion will probably be involved. The new budget totals $666,352. This is $27,767 larger than the current budget. Mr. Peck did not recommend a tax increase in his budget message, although unofficially he suggested that higher revenues would enable the Town to run its business with a wider margin for emergencies. Mr. Peck has also recommend ed that the Town join the State Local Government Employees’ Retirement System, which would cost the Town $21,600 the first year if started in October. Mr. Peck indicated that Wed nesday’s meeting would not be the last on the budget for the Aldermen. He did not know how long it would take for the ’Aider men to conclude their budget de liberations. Candy Maker Will Establish Here The Board of Adjustment last night overruled Building Inspec tor Donald Archer and granted David Henry a use certificate for a candy manufacturing plant here. The certificate was granted for a candy manufacturing plant to occupy a brick building, cwned by Mr. Henry, on the south side of the Durham Road just west of Crowell Little Ford Co. Building Inspector Donald Archer had denied the permit because, he said, he was unsure whether a new. nonconforming use pould be authorized for the building. A potjpry manufactur ing concern occupied the build ing previously. The Board found that because candy manufactur ing was of the same class as pot tery manufacturing and because less than 180 days had gone by since the pottery manufacturing business had departed, a new use certificate could be issued. The candy company will make brittle candy and will employ about 35 people. Looking .or bargains? Always read the Weekly classified ads and save. '*■" 1 I O-OyM^fG^. PAINTING ft PAPERING Durham SIS Morgan St. Dial 684-042 S WALKERS FUNERAL HOME The Home of Service J. M. Walker, Manager Ambulance Service Day or Night 120 W. Franklin St., Cbap«l Hill Telephone 042-3861 Major Appliance Repairs Specialists in the repair of all meior appliances; Radios, Televisions, Record Players, Washers, Dryers, Ranges, Refrigeration, Air Conditioners. ALL WORK GUARANTEED! APPLIANCE SERVICE CO. West Main St., Carrboro i Phone 942-6970 Basement of ToWn Hall HARRY’S Uni Summer Calls for a Cool place to Congregate .. . with «za... Cold Beer and an interesting atmosphere . /fl||f LUNCH ~ DINNER Mathesdn Honored On His Retirement ' Don Matheson retired after 34 years as Orange County’s farm agent Sunday, and while praise came at him thick and fast at a gathering in his honor in Hillsboro, he said his friends were honoring the wrong man. VOrange County has done a lot more for me than I have done for.her,” said Mr. Mathe son. ‘‘You’re honoring the wrong person. * The real people you should be honorirfg are the farm men and women of Orange Coun ty.” Nevertheless, Mr. Matheson’s friends wanted to be sure he knew they remembered: —His efforts to get rural elec tricity and telephones into the County. ‘ « —His havirig induced a live stock market to establish near Hillsboro. —His achievements in sew programs of diversified,farming, especially in dairying and pas ture grass. —'His work with community or ganizations and young people. In memory of the latter, over SI,OOO was donated to the Coun ty’s 4~H Development Fund to * BILL PROUTY “In 37 years of hacking, nothing like this has ever hap pened to me before, and nothing like this will ever happen again,” said New York City cab driver George J. Markus, at a coffee break with Gov. Terry Sanford at the Executive Mansion in Ra leigh last Saturday afternoon. Markus and 24 other Big City cabbies had just completed their trip to the western part of the State and were to go on to Wil mington to spend the night and to visit the Battleship USS North Carolina and the Orton Planta tion before flying back to New York Sunday. It was all part of the now cele brated scheme to give the New York cabbies an expense-paid tour of North Carolina in the hope that they would talk up the Old North State as a “Variety Vacationland” and send, more tourists down this way. And to show that the idea might not be as hair-brained as some of its critics might have at first thought, Markus, who seemed to voice the consensus of his fellow cabbies, added: "We’d be ingrates if we didn’t try to reciprocate.” And they’ll tell their fares about their trip South, don’t worry about that. In my over two years’ residency in Brook lyn during WW 11, I came to know many cabbies, some of them quite well. They fell into two general categories, I found. Either they answered your ques tions in reluctant monosyllabic grunts, or they were off to the oral races at the drop of a verb, or for that matter, before provide. prizes as incentives to work with the latest argicultural advances. Mr. Matheson himself was pre sented a silver tray. Mrs. Math eson was given a wreath of ros es. Mr. Matheson’s friends have also commissioned a portrait of him to be painted by Hillsboro artist Edmund Strudwick. The portrait will hang in the County agriculture building. Mr. Matheson paid tribute to Ed Barnes, who succeeds him. Mrs. Quentin Patterson, mas ter of Pomona Grange, was piaster of ceremonies, steering the program to the concluding refreshments and receiving line. After the invocation by Rev. Samuel R. Fudge, pastor of New Hope Presbyterian Church, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Roberts re counted Mr. Matheson’s achieve ments, Other recollections were by Glenn Caruthers, and Henry S. Hogan, who knew Mr. Matheson "back when.” Mrs. Henry Walker, wife of one of Orange. County’s com missioners, presented the tray and rose wreath. -1 you had a chance to do anything but say where you wanted to go. And you can bet your last travel folder that the N. C. De partment of Conservation and Development, which is bound to be the ramrod behind this whole scheme, wouldn’t go for any “dummies" among the cabbies selected for the tour. And don’t thirk that words like “ingrates” and "recipro cate,” which George Markus used so easily at the Governor’s coffee break, are strangers among New York cabbies. As a whole they’re a highly articulate groqp of people, many of them well educated, and nearly all of them possessing a marked zest for living. I’U never forget one New York cabbie with whom I be came quite well acquainted. Sal loved good music, art, politics, world affairs and was convers ant in all the finer aspects of living. He was soft of voice and of gentle demeanor, and for his hobbies he grew roses and col lected stamps. He took great pride in showing me his work in '‘philately,’’ which word he ticked off without batting an eye. Sal, who was exempt from the draft because of perforated ear drums (he was proud of having a “hole in his head” like Leo “Lippy” Durocher, the fiery Brooklyn Dodger manager, who was exempt for the same cause) was, nonetheless quite patriotic. With amazing candor he told me that he had never as yet ‘Tolled a drunk service man” but that he did occasionally "take care” of one of those “obstreperous” well-heeled de fense workers for a barkeep triend of his. But that’s another story, and it’s quite probable that none of the 25 cabbies who have just completed their North Carolina tour, are quite as “versatile” as was my pal Sal, though no doubt they are just as smart. Nor is there much doubt that they will all give their future fares an earful of the vacation possibili ties of the "Good Old North State.” But to an old-time North Caro linian, though not a "Tar Heel born,” certainly a "Tar Heel bred,” there arises from ail of this hullabaloo about “Variety Vacationland" a persistent ques tion: Aren’t we overselling North Carolina as a tourist attraction? Sure, we have the terrific Blue Ridge .and Smoky Mountains in the west and the quaint Outer Banks in the east whieb are gen uine attractions for tourists. But if there’s anything in between the two that calls for apy more that a few hours’ stop-over for any but the most curious tourists, then I’m darned if I can recall where it is. And while I was riding around in New York City in one of those cabs back in the IMS’s, in one of the greatest population centers in the world, with hundreds of things to see, and in a Stat* with unlimited tourist appeal, all I could think of was getting back to little ole North Carolina, with its beautiful and lonely moun tains and its wild and untrampled coast country, its tall, wind-whis pering pines and its sturdy hard wood forests, to its scratchy farms and dusty hot country roads, to its rad clay soil and to its fields of tobacco and its rusty tin-topped tobacco barns, and, most of all, to its contented people, maybe not the most worldly in the land, but smart enough to be happy with what' they have and where it is. 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