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. THE NEWS of Oraage County Published Every Thursday by THE NEWS, INCORPORATED Hillsboro, N. C. -—--; Entered at the Post Office at Hillsboro, N. C., as second-class matter. J. Roy Parker...President Harry S. Large..Editor and Manager • Sue P. Large....Secretary SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 Year (in/Oi'ange County)...$1.50 1 Year (outside Orange County):.$2.00 6 Months (in Orange County).$1.00 6 Months (outside Orange County)...$1.25 Special Rate to Service Men THE NEWS of Orange County is the oldest news paper of continuous operation in Orange County. Member North Carolina Press Association and North Carolina Weekly Newspaper Association Thursday, June 28, 1945 International Carl Durham Julia Erwin, Washington correspondent, writes the Durham Herald that Carl Dur ham of Chapel Hill is about to become an — international figure. The OWI. she reports, has from London requested the assistance of Congressman Durham’s office in the prep aration of 100-word sketch of the chairman* of the house military affairs subcommittee Which is inspecting the army stores left over in Europe from the job of defeating the Ger mans. Why hasn’t OWI hath for months an ade quate biography of the representative from the Sixth North Carolina district? This is not his first chairmanship of a subcommittee, nor is his visit abroad on a tour of inspection. No member of the military affairs committee works .harder at finding out what it is all about. Orie would really expect an outfit charged with the responsibility of telling the world as well as homefolks to have become acquainted with the informed members of Congress. But Carl Durham makes few speeches any where and indulges in no breast-beating on the floor of the house. Indeed, he gives his “ own military affairs job so much of his time that he has none left for meddling with affairs intrusted to others. 1 hat was the way of him as Chapel Hill druggist and Orange county commissioner. “Seest thou,” said one of Solomon’/ most observing ghost writers, “a man diligent in his business, h? shall stand before kings.” He may have added-—and with special reference to Carl Durham had he been privil eged with Iris acquaintance—“And the afore said diligent man will have acquired mean while such independence that if he tires of standing, he’ll sit down.” Anyhow we hope that in the 100 words OWI will in praising Congressman Dur ham include these three: “Expect no blow outs.” It’s Up To Us At a -press conference last week,. Presi dent Truman said he intends to put drastic Federal Controls oh travel if the strain on transportation becomes too great -during re deployment. His explanation was that mil lions of soldiers and vast quantities of iliater ial must be transported from Europe to the Pacific in the next ten months. A few days later ODT Director J. Mon roe Johnson warned civilians to stop making unecessary trips if they wanted to avoid rationing of travel. He said an average of gpo.ooo troops tvould be arriving in this coun try each month until June, 1946. An even larger number, he added, will be traveling on furlough at all times in that period. Because of this, Johnson--declared 50 per cent of all railroad travel facilities must be held for the military. “There will not be a seat available,” he said, “on trains’ busses, or planes for any but the most essential travel ers, and even that cannot be guaranteed.” If such a step is made, it will be one of the most drastic measures ever taken in this coun try. The individual can suffer few "greater curtailments than the restriction of his , free" dom to move around. This freedom should rank along with the inalienable freedoms of speech and religion, and from fear and want. But even intrinsic rights can be abused. When our main job is to win the war, any thing we do which interferes with this job should be stopped. It must be stopped, for the sooner the war ends, the more lives will be saved. If we want to continue traveling at all, we must restrict ourselves to more important trips. Mere pleasure traveling and non-es sential business trips should be stopped en tirely. It is up to us wether we __ shall have travel control or ^ '' —L. C. THIS MESSY BUSINESS . .The "clos ed door” operations of our state highway com mission has opened more side doors than Chairman Sandy Graham and his associates will be able to slam to for some time to come. column ramrodder was in' the mood for glossing the thing over and giving its ‘•well-done’4 |o the rescinding mot ion, comes .Raleigh’s News & Observer with a column-lpng lead editorial blasting ithe daylights out of the commission for what it did behind the closed doors. • • * SUPER HIGHWAYS . . . Raleigh was left off the mapped routes for postwar super highways and the N 8c O doesn’t like it, nor does die chamber of commerce which pro tested the commission’s action on Monday of this week. ."The people of North Carolina are now learning about some of the things that happened .while the State Highway and Pub lic \Vorks Commissioned was operating un der a ‘closed-door’ policy,” says the N & O . . . and, "One of thcwe things was the adop tion of the North Carolina portions of the proposed p>stwar interregional highway sys tem, commonly referred to as ‘super-high ways’'.";" * | T*. - 71 -•MISSED A MILE . ... Still quoting. “None of the routes adopted pass through Raleigh, the Capital of the State for mor<| than j50 years * * * But, while Raleigh is 'not.included, the village of Hillsboro, once the capital of the State, is included—the pro posed route passing directly in. front of the former office of^A. H. Graham, the present chairman of the Commission” . _ . The only thing wrong with that is the prouosed road doesh’t pass through the heart of Hillsboro, or “directly in front of the former office of A. H. Graham.” The edit writer missed it a mile. * * * WE WON’T ARGUE . . . This column is content to let the battle over super high way routes be fought by those having a sight more at stake than this newspaper. We sort of like Hillsboro's being on the super-duper road, and, personally, we’re glad it doesn t pass right in front of Sandy Graham’s office. For one thing, it would be too close to this printing office if it went that route . . . We’ve had enough wartime troubles getting printing machinery bought, handled and in stalled; and we don’t want any postwar bull dozers playing around our front office. I like to watch those things at work when they’re in the right place, but not in Hillsboro’s print ing office. • • • ■ . ^ p. HAD IT Doming . , . As for the “closed-door” rule I never had the first idea that a state highway commission could op erate in North Carolina under such a policy. I can forgive the fellows for the mistake and I will go further and congratulate them for their lack of obstinacy mid bull-headedness in trying to perpetuate an idea that is foreign to conduct of public business. # # # NON I'll AN KS . . . Ihe Greensboro* Daily News neither offers congratulations nor thanks for the reversal of the “closed-door” policy. Instead, it offers an “Expression of Non-Thanks," in part, as follows: “The Daily. News- has not thanks to bestow. * * * No public agency Is to be thanked for doing merely What it ought to do. It is such agency’s duty to thank the public for the privilege of serving it instead of going high hat tnd bar ring the public from affairs which are dis tinctly the public’s own affairs., * # * Those times (executive sessions) should be few and far between, and if they do occur with suspic ious, frequency the Daily News is confident that public and press Will raise conriderably more than their eyebrows. * * * The high way and public works commission and public agencies generally have, we hoped, learned a lesson in North Carolina in how to avoid ir ritation, suspicion and disapproval which, in the former’s case at least, time and the record will have to live down.” ON WITH THE DANCE . . . Now let’s get on with our road building and other busi ness at hand. » '• —R. P. BY THE EDITOR HUMAN NATURE ... is a strange thing. As long as folks don’t have a certain thing they raise the loudest ruckus possible trying to get.it. And if it is a thing they really need, nine out of every ten realize the need only when they are without. THE MAD DOG ^ . back in the days of the famous Louis Pasteur, was one of the most dreaded creatures stalking the face of the earth. There was no cure nor prevention for rabies in that day. We still have no cure. The chill and fright we feel today from the fire alarm is nothing to the dreaded alarm of that day—some one screaming "Mad Dog!” At the mention of those two words* everyone ran desperately tor the shelter of a house, for they knew if-they were bitten, they were con derrtned to die a death more horrible than they could imagine. There was no escape, and law prohibited mercy killing. _*.##. SO PASTEUR . . . worked Qn the problem, rilkirig his very life to perfect a prevention. He finally discovered it and it has been accep ted and approved by medical science. His dis "Doc” Lyons Writes Rotarians In 112 Degree India Weather Orange countians complained incessantly and bitterly about the weather they got last week and the week before that . . • and they’ll be griping from now on whenever the thermometei gets up in the go’s, just'as they did last Sprii% when they shivered-from the sudden drop in temperatures. They don t know a thing about this hot weather business, as Major Dot Lyons writes in the letter that follows. The letter was writ ten to the Chapel Hill Rotary club last Wednesday night. June 11, 1945 Somewhere in India Dear Rotary: It’s kind of hard to believe that on May 23rd— less than three weeks ago—I was with you back in Chapel Hill. And now, here in the heat of another continent, I sit in shoes and shorts—typewriter propped on the bunk of an eight-man bar racks section—swallowing dust and listening to the cursing of colleagues who are stuck here as I am for the time being. Gentle men, if yah happen to be think-, ing it’s hot when this missive comes to you—please do me a favor ami go put on your over coats! You just don’t know no thin’! One of the kids said a few minutes ago: “Boy, there would be one nice thing about dying to night and going to hell; at least we’d get a lower temperature.” You could never Christianize the natives here by threatening them with the burning fires of Hell; their common sense would tell them that it couldn’t be any hot ter than this part of India. May be that’s one of the reasons why our missionaries have been so no try! Just to think that one week ago tonight I was having dinner in Washington, D. C.. With eight stops, of which only three were for as much as one night or more (the other five were just short stops for meals) here I am more than 8000 miles away and have advanced the watch eight and one half hours during the trip. One of the big thrills was when we dipped our wings at Bethlehem and Jerusalem at daybreak one morning. One of the short stops was at a point on the Persian gulf where they assembled the airplanes that we Lend-Leased to the Russians. We had a balky motor and were there five hours instead of the one that we were supposed to stay. The tempera ture was 112 and the perspiration dried up before it. had a chance to wet your shist. I drank more non-alcoholic liquid in the five hours than I had in the preceding six months. Much to my surprise, it evaporated so fast that it didn’t take the time to rust rfty pipes. If it keeps this up, maybe I will develop into a water-drinker. Wouldn’t that be horrible! The disintegration of Lyons you might call it. How some chaps have managed to endure two and a half years on the Persian gulf is be yond me; of those who didn’t go completely crazy, I am sure that their brains must have gotten somewhat softened.-L The point where I am is the redistribution' center' for this -the ater. and. everyone!,.who comes and gets stuck here for at least • six days. They recheck your papers, look over your medical' record, and shoot you full of new variet ies of venom. Gentlemen, I truly feel sorry for any of these flies or mosquitos that happen to bite .me now; it is going to catch more disease than it ever thought ex isted. In his book, I NEVER LEFT HOME, Boh Hope says that there is one peculiar thing about flies in Tunisia—when you try to blow them off, they blow back at you. Well, any mosquito that tries^o poison me now is sure going to be surprised; he will die about six different kinds of horrible deaths. After about a week, We’ll covery has saved countless thous ands of lives. • * * BACK TO HUMAN NATURE . . . People in that day were screaming for a cure or pre vention for the dreaded disease— rabies. And they got it. We have it now, but hardly ever give a second thought. According to an article in this week’s issue of THE NEWS, the rabies clinic held in the county last fall turned out to be a complete flop. And there are cases of rabies reported in the coiunty* at the present. Sure, If we are bitten, we can take the treatment to prevent the disease from killing us, but why wait un til then to realize the need. We can look ahead and prevent it by innoculation of dogs. There are two very effective ways to in noculate dogs—one is to have the veterinarian use a serum; the other way is with a shotgun. MY OWN DOORSTEP . . Ms pretty well cluttered up with a pooch that* adopted us recently. It must haVe Seen an outcast for ad vertising failed to bring either its old master or a new one. So I will enter this as a last plea in behalf of the mut. If you'have a place for it—come get it and for goodness sake have it vaccinated against rabies. Either by one of the above two methods, or maybe chloroform. Otherwise, its days are numbered and it will be vac cinated at home, but not by a vet erinarian. Church aflnd Lodge Directory Hillsboro Episcopal Church R. C. Masterton, Pastor First Sunday, ^Holy Communion, 11:00 a. m. Second Sunday, Holy Commun ion, 8:00 a. m. Morning service, 11:00 a. m. » Third Sunday, Holy Communion, 11:00 a. m. Fourth Sunday, Holy Commun ion, 8:00 a. m. Morning service and Litany, 11:00 a. m. Fifth Sunday, Morning service, 11:00 a. m. Saints Days, Holy Communion, 11:00.~ - ~ Hillsboro Methodist — Rev. Samuel F. Nicks, Pastor First and Second Sunday at li a. m. Third Sunday at 7:30 p. m; Sunday School every Sunday at 9:45 a.m. New Sharon Church First Sunday, 11 a.m. Third Sunday, 11 a.m. Fifth Sunday, 11 a.m. Palmer Grove Church Second Sunday, 7:30 p.m. probably ~%tart on our next hop. The instaljation here is the one in which the British 8th Army was staged and-trained before it entered the North African Cam paign. We have marvelled at their exploits and wondered how they got so tough. After even a few days here, I understand completely! And the boys back from China on their way home are the most encouraging. They say, “You think this is rough? Well, friend, you have revelations coming to you. The motto in China is: ‘China is no place for softies. If y,ou can’t take it, you’d better turn around and go home. You boys from the European theater have got things to learn.’,v” I did enjoy the brief visit 'in Chapel Hill—and seeing all of you again. I think that those of us who have been away will appreci ate more than ever the joys of living in the village when we get back. Keep Bruce Strowd, Fred Bowman, Vic Huggins, John Hols houser, Hugh Lefler, Bob Connor, Erie Peacock (especially Erie) and all the rest out of trouble—and the best to you in all yoUr under takings (particularly Ladies Nights!). . ' ; ' - k; Sincerely, “Doe Lyons ;. . News, ads or printing? THE NEWS will serve you with all three if you will call 55 or pay a visit to the- shop in Hillsboro. BOWL A HIGH SCORE IN HEALTH More exercise means better health—bowling is the answer. Keep in trim with a game that’s fun for everyone. Make^ a date to play tonight. FAIR VIEW Bowling Alley LAUD POSTING SIGNS Now On Sale at The News Office in Hillsboro ; i Protect Your Property by Posting It Me each 3 FOR 25c TRADE AT THE Young Men’s Shop QUALITY - - - 8TYLE Hillsboro, N. C. Hillsboro Radio Repair w. W. McDade, Owner Located Next to Osbun Theater Service .. ON ALL MAKE8 RADIOS Fourth Sunday, 3 P-m. Union Grove Church Second Sunday, 3 p m. Fourth Sunday, 11 ajn. Sunday School every Sunday morning. Hillsboro First Baptist Rev W. W. Abernethy, Pastor Sunday School every Sunday, 9:45. H. E. Singletary, Supt. Worship every Sunday morning, 11 o’clock; every Sunday night ex cept first Sunday nights, 7:30.. Prayer service every Wednes day night, 7:30. Brotherhood every Sunday eve ning, 6 o clocK. Every fifth Sunday night will be Hymn-Time service. Everyone is invited to attend any or all of these services. A warm welcome awaits you. West Hillsboro Baptist Rev. E. D. Young, Pastor --(Continued on page 4) Dr. Jno. L Frizzelle ' * Chiropractor Offices over Rogers’ Drugstore Practiced in Durham For 20 Years —_=_ • —phones— Office L-0361 Res. X-3942 J. L. LOCKHART INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE Hillsboro, N. C. n„,. Comte* 1 Taise WM ■ " __t to'onmj la a Pu*J?iort. 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