THE MEWS of Orange County
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Hillsboro, N. C.
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Sue P. Large. .Secretary
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• Thursday, January 11, 1945 ———
Good For Hillsboro
The law enforcement personnel of Hills
boro have big plans for this year in the control
of town traffic. Among their plans is included
the purchase and display of city license tags
by all automobile owners living in Hillsboro.
The ruling for display of these tags has
been overlooked in the past, but it is the inten
tion of the town to see .that everyone purchases
and displays a city tag as of February i, and
. by force if necessary.
More power to Hillsboro. If city tags for
cars are going td be used, then there should
be laws and fines strong enough to require
everybody to buy the tags and use them; and
Mr. "Big-Wig” should bq fined with the rest
of them if he refuses. ——-—;— ———
' More traffic controFis needed in Hillsboro
in the form of parking regulations. For the
past several months, it has been the endeavor
of the day policeman to bring about right
hand parking in the business blocks. The job
. can be done only with laws and lines. The
best example of this is the block of main street
in front of the post office. Some parjt diag
onally, some parallel to the curb and some
park half-way between. The result is that
when the whole block is parked up, there is
■ still roopi for anywhere from six to ten more
cars, but they can’t* park because* so much
space has been wasted by the Jack of parking
lines. People just can’t park straight without
lines and should not be expected to.
Hillsboro is a small, tpwq,. but there is
usually more traffic here than 'there is place
to put it when the space is used unwisely.
With a few buckets of paint and the estate
lishment of a nominal fine for out-of-line
parking, the situation can be cleared up easily.
Up To The Hobs
As the general assembly of North Carolina
got- underway last week it was clearly demon
strated that present and to be accounted for
was John W. IJmstead, Jr., Orange county’s
veteran legislator with a mind of his own and
something usually on it.
~ ' Mr. Umstead had not' when we went to
adopted by the 1941 legislature and continued
by that of 1943 for the primary purpose of
avoiding a roll-call vote on the. prohibition
' issue but having the further effect of prevent
ing any consideration of a matter unfavorably
reported by a house committee save by two
thirds vote. The rule is so manifestly un
democratic and indecent, as to call for no
argument; as a matter of fact, Mr. Umstead
receives no rebuttal worthy of the game, but
the drinking drys simply will-mot be put on
record.
We suppose the matter will end there. !
Nor do we look for complete success of Mr.
Umstead’s efforts to limit the number of com
mittee clerks and other assembly employees,
to those who make some sort of a pass at earn
ing their wages. The speaker and lieutenant
governor control these appointments and if
not besought -by importunate friends who de
sire to throw down x bit of fodder for an
all-weather poll-worker or to defray the ex
pense of maintaining a stenographer for the
duration might easily make their lists conform
to Mr. Umstead’s estimates of what is right
and proper. But they probably won’t.
And so John’s friends are now hoping that
be iyill leave those of his colleagues who shake
in their shoes at the thought of a roll-call
liquor vote, or who have made personal com
mitments which tie their hands in a showing
thereof as to legislative household economy,
to stew in their own juice whilst hf devotes
his considerable talent and £ven greater cour
age to matters of more importance to the
whole state. *
ETAOIN SHRDLU
GETTING ACQUAINTED . . - Every
time I have a notion to neglect my education
and get along on my already-acquired intel
lectual equipment, along comes another ex
perience to change my mind. Always there
is something new, novel, and interesting to
awaken my put-to-sleep and tucked-away
smugness and mental sufficiency. . . . There
is no end to this business of getting an
education.
# * *
STUDENT GRADING . . . flight now
mv new interest is that of learning more
about systematizing the grading' of student
work in the University. I got my No. 1 les
son at a faculty meeting last week. My teachers
were experts who have been at the business
for years, and in a discussion of that kind I
was content to continue in the role of lis
tener. ... I listened but I didn’t learn. It
left me wondering if my capacity for absorp
tion had atrophied through senility or non
use, until Dean Bob House up and said some
tilings that had been running through my
mind. . . . Faculty meetings aren’t held for
news reporters to record, but I won’t violate
any rule when I tell you that uniform grading
of human beings—student, teacher, or expert
—is one of those things even the once-preva
lent New Dean Brain Trust could never have
figured out and made stick. . . . There is
too much of the human in all of us for any
of us to de-humapize the rest of us.
. • • *
NOT YET PERSUADED ... By way of
the editorial columns of Thg Charlotte Ob
server comes the statement that there is much
still to be said and done to convince the folks
in the paper’s primary area that a hospital of
the size recommended should be included in
the state’s hospital and medical care program.
It’s the first openly expressed question mark
attached to the plan which -ttntU now has
found few dissenters willing to be quoted.
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GAG . . . There’s been much said and writ
ten about the legislature's gag rule since the
lower house adopted one for its use last
week. The gag was first invented to stop state
wide liquor referendum bills from getting to
the voting stage. . . Right at the moment I
can think of nothing to recommend as a gag
ger that might be more effective than.whiskey.
WHAT TO WRITE ... I never fly into
tbe movie-depicted editor’s rage when one
of my newspaper readers assumes the critic
role to tell me what I ought to write about
or (more often) .what I should not write. For
one thing, it has happened too many times
for me to have taken it this long and sur
vived. Then, there’s that matter of self-educa
tion I wrote about earlier in this column. .
You never know whether the job’s a good
one until you’re told by the Boss Reader,
dr"unless you’re able to hire a Gallup to do
a job of researching for you. The trial and
error method is tbe cheaper of the two.
# * * .
FOR INSTANCE . . . Your news gatherer
on The News was advised to drop the “Orange
Man” piece months ago, for reasons not now
recalled. There was serious discussion in the
office about what to do about it. The piece
kept running and now comes this from Matt
McDade, Cedar Grove boy in Cairo, Egypt:
“Its make-up is good and so are its features
such as ‘Man of Orange,’ ‘Men and Women
in Service’ and so on.” -
. , # # #
MUTUAL CHECK-UP', .. It takes no.
invitation from this column or from any
writer to produce the unfavorable response
to a written piece but I am not hedging on
this open invitation to you to tell uswhgT
yott think bad or good about the paper.
You’re going to have recurring opportunities
to..help check up on the new and-heretofore
untried in news, features, and columns. . . .
We want a box score chart, ;
BY THE EDITOR
TURKEY HUNTING .
Some- time ago Ike Watts came into The
News-office all pushed out with pride, and
justly so—he had recently killed a .19-pound
turkey gobbler on Kirkland’s New Ground.
Ike, spent 214 hours calling the turkey with
a turkey call he made himself. This was the
real source of the pride. His 19-pound turkey
with a 12-inch beard sets him off as one of
Orange county’s leading turkey hunters this
year, and it’s a.good guess that his homemade
call leads them all.
A HUNTER’S FRIEND MISSING . .
Buster Gordon’s young bird dog has been
missing recently. That pup, the pride and
joy of Buster’s life, was recently elected dog
of the week by The News by ^virtue of his
merits according to his master. Of course
there is the question of whether the master
is prejudiced. Anyway, the pup has grown
and learned to jump fences and has “taken
a powder.”
HUNTING MONEY . . . ‘ L
Folks are beginning to get the income tax
jitters now and will keep shaking and shim
mering till after March 15. From then until
next January, they will be fussing as they
impatiently wait for refunds. But from now
until the fateful day in March we will be
tearing our hair out trying to figure out
which form is which and why,- and end up
knowing nothing about any of them and leav
ing the job for somebody else to do. So, just
fuss, cuss and stomp all you please, but you’ll
pay just the same.
ALWAYS HUNTING . . .
Everybody is always hunting for something.
Some are hunting game, some birds, some
money, and Buster is hunting for his dog.
The Marmalade
Column
Flavored news, views,, and
observations about the
people of Orange
WHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD
do the people who work in gro
cery stores talk about history the
way most people toss out a bit of
gossip? It wasn’t only the-conver
sation, either: In the meat com
partment a skinned squirrel stood
poised for action, looking as life-,
like, as a squirrel can without his1
fur coat. The effect was midriffic,
and an argument arose as to
whether or not squirrels should be
used for food, but was finally aban
doned in favor of a topic less moot.
In case you haven’t heard the story
*of the man in the Richmond mor
gue, drop by J. L. Brown and Son’s
store and ask Mr. Goodwin to tell
you about it.
h—:—--ooOoo-.—•
ANOTHER PLEASANT PLACE
is the Farmer’s Mutual Exchange.
Neat! Tt has the pin beat a full mil
limeter. The floor was so clean I
felt like entering through a win
dow to keep my muddy feet from
touching it. Business was proceed
ing as usual, although it was New
Year’s Day, but Mr. McAdams out
front and Mrs. Stanfield in the of
fice took care of it with no trou
ble and answered liny unceasing
questions graciously in addition.
You ought to go by there just for
the inspirational value of seeing
how clean that kind of place can
be. ■ .' . ■ -
ooOoo
Mrs. Felix Forrest was in the
library and we talked a little
while about various things. But
the whole time I was thinking
to myself, “Why wasn’t I bless
ed with eyes like hers?”
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MRS. WILLIAMS WAS BUSY
with library matters so we just
smiled at each other. The new li
brarian, Mrs, Ethel Whetstone,
came in and we chatted. She pro
mised to let me go on one of her
bookmobile trips, later on.
ooOoo
T.HERE ARE PLENTY WORK
ing wives in Hillsboro: Mrs. Stan
field working away at the Far
mer’s Mutual' Exchange; feeling
glad that she has something to oc
cupy her all day. When she’s at
home there is her. little boy to dis
tract her mind (and from what
she said about his activities, he
probably succeeds admirably!)
Then at the Little Pep cafe, there’s
Mrs. Frederick, whose husband is
overseas. Lt Cornelius Whetstone
is overseas now, too, which is the
reason his wife is the new county
librarian. She' smilingly says she
would rather be with him, but
since she can’t she feels lucky to
be at home again with such inter
esting work to keep her Jbusy.
Those are the only three- war
wives I happened to meet on this
particular day, but,.4here are no
doubt plenty more doing their bit
While their husbands are_away
fighting.
ooOoo
ONE OF MYGREATUNCLES
went to the academy in Hills
boro until the Civil War (refer
red to in North Carolina by con
stitutional amendment '’" as the.
War Between the States) inter
rupted his scholastic career, and
my grandmother raught in Hills
boro once. From thetr reports
I gather they found the people
here then as nice as I find them
here now.
—Mrs. Eugene Smith
Young American
OPINION
(Uncetlsored editorials by
members of the class in
Country Journalism, Uni
versity of North Carolina.)
“OUR BOB." OH! BOB!
“Term expires 1945. Robert R.
Reynolds, D„ P. O. Address, Ashe
ville.” That is the way the 1944
World Almanac describes Robert
Rice Reynolds, perhaps better
known in former days as “Our
Bob.” That term gives a clue to
Mr. Reynolds’ popularity at one
time, ' ' * .
Mr. Reynolds comes from the
metropolis of the mountains.
Mountain-folk love to tell tales.
We have in mind one which some
mduntain-folk (and we suspect
that this tale is told principally
by Mr. Reynolds’ political foes)
tell that goes like this: When
Mr. Reynolds was in the!* throes
of his first campaign (and he Was
elected to the Senate twice) he,
clad in tattered overalls and old
straw hat, drove around the hills
of Western North Carolina in a
rattletrap Ford car. It got votes. It
was legal. So what If it did play on
the gullibility of the*'hill-folk?
Advertisers do that even in these
so-called sophisticated times.
Ptrhaps the thing .that contri-!
Luted the most tb Mr. Reynolds’
downfall was his vote of “No”
on the declaration of war. Despite
our low-rate opinion of Senator
Reynolds, we have to admire him
for adhering to his convictions and
refusing to submit to the coercion
of politicians, whether friend or
foe (and several of the former
have become the latter when they
found that they could not influence
him.) . , , .
When we of T1JE NEWS think of
“Our Bob” (and we use the ex
pression for the sake of conven
ience only), we are rgminded of
a quotation which we read, once
inscribed ran a memorial tq
the Huguenots in the Rue de Riv
oli in Paris: “He who knows not,
and knows not that he knows not,
is a fool. Shun him.” -V
We hope (and believe) that Or
ange Countians will not find it
fiecessary to shun Clyde R. Hoey
who will replace the editor of the
Isolationist “National Record’ in
the United States Sg^ate. -
W. H. H„ Jr.
Men and Women
In the Service
I "Sgt. OSBORNE Z. ASHLEY,
who is stationed at the Army War
college in Washington, D. C., spent
three days with his parents, Mr.
,and Mrs. II. C. Ashley, last week.
His sister, Mrs. David Lemore, ac
companied by her husband and
child were home for several days.
EDGAR L. RILEY, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Bun F. Riley of West
Hillsboro, is spending a leave at
home with his parents for the first
time in three years. He has been
overseas two years.
At the end of his 20-day fur
lough, Riley will report to a camp
in Texas. For the past two years,
he has been in the Aleutian Islands.
CALVIN C. LYNN, son of Mrs.
Ella Pugh of Hillsboro, has re
ceived an honorable discharge
from th.e army and returned to
Hillsboro from-Fort £xagg re
cently. -—■— -r
After two years in service, Lynn
was stationed at Fort Ord, Calif.7
where he was given notice to re
turn to Fort Bragg to receive a
medical discharge. _ -
Capt. CHARLES M. WALKER,
JR., arrived home on Christmas
day as a surprise to his family.
He has been overseas for the last
30 months and had no way of let
ting his family know when he
would be home.'
He is spending his 21-day leave
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.
M. Walker. He has been stationed
in England, North Africa, and
Italy.
- S .! .
Pvt. HAROLD C&LBRETH is
spending a furlough with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Culbreti?
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RATIONING REMINDERS FOR
WEEK OF^JANUARY 8TH -
MEATS, FATS—Red Stamps
Q5 through X5 good indefinitely.
No new stamps until January 28.
PROCESSED FOODS—Blue
Stamps X5 through Z5; A2' thru
G2 good indefinitely. No new blue
stamps will be validated until Feb
ruary 1.
SUGAR-—Sugar Stamp 34 good
for five pounds indefinitely. No
new stamp until February 1.
FUEL OIL-—East and Far West
1 and 2 period coupons good in
defnflely. Period 3 coupon in the
East win become good on January
15» Period 3 coupon m Far West
will become good on January 8.
Mid-West and South Period 1, 2
and 3 coupons good throughout the
heating year. .
SHOES—Airplane stamps l, <
and 3 in Book Three, good indef
initely. .
Efland
Robert Nichols is a patient in
Watts hospital.
Mrs. Margaret Ketner has re
turned to Greensboro after spend
ing some time with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thompson.
Last week, Mrs. Gary Lloyd of
Hillsboro, and Mrs. A. B. Lloyd
visited Mr. Lloyd, who is a patient
at Watts hospital.
FHOMPSON RETURNS,
Brodie S. Thompson of Chapel
Hill has just
Island where he visited his daugh
;er, Mrs. Pat Patterson.
Bernard Allison
Back From Europe j
First Lieutenant Bernard Alii
son is spending a 21-day furloug
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. ]
F. Allison. He arrived in Hillsbor
Wednesday, January 3. This wa
his first furlough home in over
year. He had been home only abou
six days in two and a half year
of service.
Lieutenant Allison has been it
th^European theater for the past
nine" months, during which time
he has completed 30 missions ovei
Germany. He has been awarded
the air medal, five oak leaf clus
ters and has received a Presiden
tial citation.
Allison will return to Miami
Beach, Fla., for three weeks of rest
before being assigned further du
ties. He was First Pilot on a B-17
Flying-Fortress in the eighth stra
tegic army air force commanded
by General Doolittle.
THE NEWS
Hillsboro, N. C,
I would like to be included among the subscribers of The News.
Start me with next week’s copy.
nAme....
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