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—Pete Ivey’s Town And Gown —
(Continued from Page 1)
employed cheering section. How
does he feel about full employ
ment today?
* • •
Columnist Hamlin next wrote
about “standing in line” in
Chapel Hill. He deplor
ed having to wait when he went
places. At first, that is. After
that, wrote Ed, “Everytime I
saw a line, I automatically stood
in it.”
Does that mean Mr. Hamlin is
likely to join a political band
wagon if enough inducement is
dangled?
• • *
to October, 1937, E. J. Hamlin
criticized secrecy at Spencer
Hall. Someone had stolen $33
from a girl’s room, and for a
time it was hushed up. Later,
no one could find out if the
guilty had been found. Column
ist Hamlin said it was discour
aging the way newspaper re
porters were barred from find
tog out toe facts.
Secrecy in government is a
prime issue in North Carolina to
day. Publisher and Representa
tive Hamlin will no doubt be
found defending open decisions
openly arrived at and opposed
to closed sessions and inacces
sible public records.
• * •
Hamlin commended the Uni
versity Library, also in October,
1937, for extending its evening
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hours from 10:30 to 11 p.m. That
gave students an extra 30 min
utes to study, he said.
This, too, is a splendid fore
cast of Mr. Hamlin’s interest in
intellectual pursuits. He’s on
the side of quality education.
** - *
We get down' to the bare
knuckled Ed Hamlin in Novem
ber, 1937, when he castigated up
perclassmen in the University
for meddling in freshman poli
tics. “More Muddling” was the
title of his column that day. It
seemed that two campus politic
al parties, one of them headed
by Joe Mumick, had first had a
plentiful number of candidates
for president of the freshman
class. But then some juniors and
seniors had interfered. The re
sult was that many good candi
dates withdrew, on advice of fra
ternity elements, leaving only
two candidates to fight it out.
This was bad, said columnist
Ed Hamlin. And he gave them
a “Piece of Mind.”
Elder statesmen should keep
hands off freshman politics, said
Hamlin. “All this business car
ries a stench which would de
stroy any ideal of campus de
mocracy which members of the
freshman class might have,” he
wrote. “It smacks of dirty poli
tics of the worst order all the
way through.”
.{ Hamlin added: “The freshmen
are more confused than ever.”
Now. there is the REAL Ed
Hamlin, the defender of democ
racy. He is ready to go to battle
against string pullers and others
who take unfair advantage of
political innocence of newcomers.
He defends the underdog.
* • *
On another occasion. Hamlin
wrote another column about the
cheering section, and it also
had political overtones. The
cheerleader had been removed
by student government. A new
cheerleader took over. Ed Ham
lin attacked the changing of
cheerleaders in the middle of the
stream, and left the impression
that there had been a frameup.
All in all, the Hamlin of ’37
and the Hamlin of ’63 give a
picture of staunch conservatism
balanced with liberal outlook and
public-spiritedness that will car
ry Orange County and its well
being reverberating down the
corridors of the last half of the
I 20th Century.
—Truck Crash—
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for the light to change. The light
turned green too late fbr the cars
to start moving fast enough to
get out of the truck’s way. Mr.
Harrell swerved to the left, hop
ing to go down the westbound
lane, across the parking apron in
front of the Rock Pile, and stop
beyond.
But when the light turned green
William D. Estes, a University
student who was heading west in
his 1953 Ford, started to turn
right, across the truck’s path.
When he saw the truck coming
past the line of cars in the east
bound lane, he stopped—right
where Mr. Harrell had planned to
aim toe truck.
Mr. Harrell swerved again to
the left, the weight of the tobacco
capsized the trailer, and the
truck was traveling on its right
wheels only when it hit the Rock
Pile. The tractor stopped, the cab
roof torn off, wedged on its side
in the six-foot space between the
side of the Rock Pile and a tele
phone pole beside the building.
Burlap-bound bundles of cured
tobacco leaves were strewn across
the parking apron in front of
the Rock Pile.
Mr. Harrell, 26, from Farmer,
Va„ said he had been working
for the Vance Co. for three days,
and that he was on his first trip.
He was en route from South Caro
lina to South Boston, Virginia.
He said he had been discharged
from the Air Force two months
ago after eight years’ service,
and that he had spent all but
about six months of his two
hitches driving Air Force trucks.
Among the trucks he drove, he
said, were missile carriers, which
weigh as much as 90,000 pounds,
are 90 feet long, and have to be
steered at both ends like a hook- .
and-ladder.
The Rock Pile was actually hit
by about 33,000 pounds, counting
the weight of the truck itself.
“I never had any kind of an
accident,” he said. “But when
your brakes get hot, there’s noth
ing you can do about it.” He had
only had time to shift down one
gear, he said, and he didn’t know
how fast he was going when he
hit the Rock Pile. “I hit the
floor. You didn’t think I was go
ing to sit up there and watch
while that thing was coming at
me, did you?”
“I don't know how you did it,”
said Mr. Estes.
“Well, I’ll tell you what I did
co,” said Mr. Harrell. “I missed
just about every damn thing. If
you hadn't turned I would have
made it.”
“I didn't even see you coming
-at-firstr* said Mr. Estes. “When
I did see you I thought, he must
be in a real big hurry, so I stop
ped to let you through.”
MRS. BOLTON HOME
Mrs. R. L. Bolton returned re
cently by plane from Pleasant
ville, N. Y., accompanied by her
daughter, Mrs. C. C. Jones,
whose home she visited during
the summer.
—Pleasant Drive—
tween the Umsteads, Carrboro
Mayor C. T. Ellington, the Chap
el Hill School Board, and High
way Department officials, the
Umsteads have agreed to dis
cuss granting |righti-of-way for
an alternate route “if the High
way Department can do it safe
ly.”
| Possible alternate routes are
1 along Weiner Street, joining the
—Preyer Poised To Plunge—
(Continued from Page 1)
The parallel between his and
Mr. Kennedy’s records has not
escaped attention.
“But I always tell them de
stroyer inen and the PT Boat
men had no love for one anoth
er,” he said.
After the -War, Mr/’ Preyer ,v
took a degree in law from Har
vard, and settled into a Greens
boro law partnership with an
old shipmate, Fred Bynum.
The partnership was dissolved
in 1956 when Gov. Luther Hodg
es appointee! him a Superior
Court Judge in the State Middle
District. He was re-elected to
the office in 1958, then appoint
ed a Federal Judge in i 960.
He has also served on toe
North Carolina Probation Com
mission, for two yeors as a
member of Gov. Sanford’s Citi
zens’ Committee for Better
Schools, as a member of the
Mental Health Hospitals Founda
tion and as chairman of the N C.
Trade Fair Commission which
went to Europe hunting markets
and industry last October.
He concedes that his biggest
asset, political and otherwise,
is his wife, the former Emily
Harris. Mrs. Preyer is a trustee
of the University and served on
the Carlylf Commission, the
group which recommended
sweeping changes in State edu
cation beyond the Hi#i School.
(Mrs. Preyer’s knowledge of poli
tics and people across the State,
he says, exceeds his many times.
His concern for the State and
his intimate knowledge of its
needs are as profound as those of
Mr. Pearsall.
“In the past eight years,” he
said, “we’ve laid the ground
work in the fields in which we
should move forward. We have
to make sure we will move, and
maintain our momentum. This
doesn't call for any great new
programs, no great expenditures
of money, and it doesn’t mean
that we won’t have problems.
'But we must insure that we
don’t lose what we’ve already
built. 1
“In agriculture we have prob
lems. We need a little more cre
ative thinking there. We’ve got
the problem of shrinking export 1
markets and lower tobacco pric
es. We’ve got so many farmers
leaving the farms. Where are
we going to find a place for 1
them? I once served on a group
making a study of part-time
farming to see if we couldn’t
strengthen the healthy pattern
we have in North Carolina —of
people living on farms and hold
ing jobs in industry in nearby
towns. North Carolina is in a
fortunate position. We have many
small farms I believe we’re
second in the Nation and no
large industrial cities, no Bir
minghams or Pittsburghs. So
we can get the virtues of the
family farm and yet get the in
come which today is essential
for the farmer. We try to make
the best of both possible worlds.
I believe there is a place for
the family farm, but this pat
tern needs encouragement. I
hope we can go down that path.”
Another reason Judge Preyer
feels North Carolina needs a
blend of agriculture and indus
try is a rather interesting popu
lation pattern. North Carolina
has the second-lowest death rate
(Continued from Page 1)
Airport Road via the approach
road to Horace Williams Air
port; and a completely new
stretch of Road across the
Town’s sanitary landfill joining
the Airport Road at the end of
Estes Drive.
Mayor Ellington, who had
planned to meet District High
way Commissioner James Mac-
Lamroc and Mr. Burton last
week, said yesterday he doubted
if this meeting would take place.
He said he had been informed
by Mr. Burton, however, that
the Highway Department had
not abandoned the proposed road,
and that if the allocated $52,000
were to be re allocated, the
Town of Carrboro would be noti
fied first.
"As far as the hazardous in
tersection is concerned,” said
Mr. Ellington, "I think it’s the
Highway Department’s respon
sibility to work that out.” He
said he thought an Umstead
Drive-Airport Road intersection
might be made feasible with a
stoplight or a policeman on point
duty during rush hours. “It’s
not the best intersection in the
world," said Mr. Ellington, “but
it’s the Highway Department’s
responsibility to work these
things out. Everybody in Can
boro, the Commissioners and all
the merchants, are one hundred
per cent behind it.”
The Town of Chapel Hill, whose
cemetery property the road
would cross, will probably grant
the State the necessary right-of
way. Mayor Sandy McClamroch
met with Highway Department
officials Friday, examined the
Pleasant Drive extension situa
tion, and said afterward that he
would recommend to (he Aider
men tomorrow nigit that right
of-way be granted across Town
property for the road.
The Town’s granting right-of
way does not affect die route
the road will follow alter cross
ing the Umsteads’ property.
THE CHAPEL HILL WISELY
in the country, and the average
size of its families ranks about
fourth.
“This means that we have
more old people and very young,
and fewer to the middle bracket.
They are the ones carrying the
lo®d,'-and that points opt that we
have to raise the per capita in
come some way. Through part
time farming, we can bring in
come up.
“f would describe the way we
ou£it to be going in the next
four years as ‘moderate.’ Hie
time is riftot for a broad coali
tion. I don’t think we’ve got a
tiger in the house, but we’ve
got a lot of ants. If you’ve got a
tiger, you can stir up a let of
enthusiasm and energy for new
programs, but what we really
have to guard against' is to keep
the ants from undermining the
house and eating us bit by bit.
“to industrialization we’ve got
our problems. Textiles ere going
to require plenty of attention, be
cause of the new countries which
want to industrialize. You get
this to every new nation. And
the first industry is textiles.
Textiles are a ‘natural’ for those
countries with low technologies,
it requires no greet pool of skill
ed manpower. Textiles have been
our number one industry, and
we want to keep it that way.
We don’t have to worry about
the industry following the cheep
labor southward. Technical ad
vances automation, protect us
against I believe that
North Carolina, with its insti
tutes and universities concen
trating on research, will secure
its position for us. I’m sure
we’U keep the textile industry.
“In education we’ve accom
plished an enormous amount, but
when you look at the figures
you see it's no time to look back
and pat ourselves on the beck.
Among all the states we’re
twelfth to population, but 40th
to educational statistics.
“I think it’s important to know
something has happened, and I
am convinced that when the
State supports its educational sys
tem, something happens. Our
competitive position has improv
ed. We jumped from 39th to 32nd
in teachers' salaries, and this
meant something. To give you
an example, a teachers’ recruit
er from Maryland came to one
of our teachers colleges this past
year and recruited only seven
teachers. The year before he
bed recruited 42. He attributed
this to the increased financial
benefits here, but more import
antly to the intangible change
that is taking place. Teachers
want to know that people think
what they’re doing is important.
“If you go in a school you
can see what is happening. The
morale teacher and student
is higher, the students are
working harder. Ibis is not just
a boondoggle that raises
body's salary.
“But we’re still confronted
with the fact that only 19 per
cent of our high school students
go to college. That’s lower than
Mississippi’s rate. And only six
per cent of them ever get out
of college. We rank 43rd in the
number of ‘functional’ illiter
ates.”
As to politics, partisan and
otherwise, Judge Preyer feels
that he must keep his silence un
til his decision is made. He will
venture a distaste for political
factionism. He prefers, he says,
to “speak seriously on e more
philosophical plane: this isn’t a
time for partisan politics.
"When partisan politics gets
too bitter you go off into side
issues, you lose the big pic
ture.” He subscribes wholeheart
edly to Winston Churchill’s
aphorism: “If we open up a
quarrel between the past and
the present, we shall lose the
future.” It could become his cam
paign slogan.
“(Factionalism) dredges up
the quarrels of the past; it dredg
es up many fights that have al
ready been lost," he continued.
Implicit and explicit to hid
thoughts about the Governor-
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rope in Republicans in sufficient
quantity almost to make his can
didacy a popular movement.
“I’m surprised by the num
ber of Republicans who have
written me and I have stacks of
letters from them saying they’ll
support me. This indicates that
a number of people will vote for
the man and on the issues rather
than just blindly' voteTßeptilrti
can In protest.”
This does not mean that Judge
Preyer has dismissed the Re
publican threat to North Caro
lina with a wave of the hand.
The GOP revival to the State is
an unavoidable consequence of
growth and the immigration of
new people. “I think it’s some
thing inevitable and I see nothing
unhealthy about it. It's not sim
ply a protest growth.”
Protest growth or not, Judge
Preyer’s supporters hope to deal
with Guilford County Republican
ism once and for all, and expect
this as a side benefit oPhis can
didacy. They admit they have
little hope of dislodging State
Rep. William Osteen, but 1962’s
clean Republican sweep of local
offices will not be repeated to
1964, they hope.
"People for Preyer” cam
paign headquarters was set up
in a former clothing store on
Greensboro’s South Elm Street,
in the heart of town. Last week
it was still going strong, with
signs in the windows proclaim
ing, “Judge Preyer, We Want
You To Run For Governor”.
. . . “Come In. Sign Up Now.".
•„ . . “Make Your Name Count”.
. . . Inside, retired Greensboro
Police Captain “Moose” Geiger
manned a pair of telephones and
supplied signers with pens and
petitions
"You know, it’s amazing the
way people are coming in of
their own volition to sign. For
anything else, you have to drag
’em in. Some of them are regis
tered Republicans. It’s a real
people’s movement,” he said.
Greensboro businessman Per
cy Wall echoed Captain Geiger’s
sunny view of the movement.
Mr. Wall, a close friend of “Cit
izens for Preyer” chairman Caf
frey and a principal in the drive,
agreed he’d never seen anything
quite like the response.
“Bill just started with a few
petitions, but then it got going
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petitions printed, borrowed some
money and opened this place.
The manpower, the volunteers
have been unlimited . . . literally
hundreds of people pitched in.
They came in, got the petitions
and just went, and we never
could keep track of the response
by precincts. That’s impossible
now. We used radio and TV
spots, to*,- and Saturday we hod
booths in the shopping centers
and Jefferson Square, staffed by
ladies. ... we feel the indi
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has been overwhelming. Our job
has been to convince the Judge,
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“It would be the salvation of
the party here in Guilford Coun
ty, if he ran. So many people
have committed themselves to
voting for the man rather than
the party. That's what beat us
before."
Mr. Wall said he felt support
from the Judge was coming from
political moderates. “It's my
opinion that this is not anti-Lake.
h The moderate people of toe area »
seem to feel that here is a man
that can best fit their needs at
this time. It’s his reputation for
complete fairness, people re
cognize that Preyer is going to
make his own decisions without
influence.”