THE MEWS #f Orange Comfy
Published Every Thursday by
THE NEWS, INCORPORATED
J. Roy Parker, President
Hillsboro, N. C.
Entered at the Post Office at Hillsboro, N. C., as
second-class matter.
Harry S. Large...Managing Editor
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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, April n, 1946
A WORTHY CAUSE
A drive began last week in our county to
raise funds for the betterment of crippled
children in Orange and throughout North
Carolina. Jt is a charitable organization that
backs this drive, an organization which coop:
erates with but does not duplicate the work
of other private or public agencies. It aids the
physically handcapped throughout its area
of alL ages, races and creeds, whether crippled
through birth, disease or accident. Its very
life depends upon you, its only source of funds
coming voluntarily through the sale of Eas
ter seals each spring.
This organization—the North Carolina
League for Crippled Children—is one of the
three sources from which finances for the
rehabilitation program, necessitated by the
war and and it returning veterans, are pro
cured.
In the field of education the league is do
ing, a great service despite the overwhelm
ingness of the situation. North Carolina has
63,000 physically handicapped children need
ing special education. Sufficient funds and
personnel to do the total job is not available
but the league is trying to do demonstration
work which is hoped will set the standard for
a division af special education in the state de
partment of public instruction which wifi be
financed by legislative appropriations.
The league is far from satisfied with its
accomplishments, although it has done much.
There is still a long road to run before it
reaches a goal established in Article X of the
Crippled Child’s Bill of Rights which states
in brief: “Not only for its own sake, but for
the benefit of society as £ whole, every crip
pled child has the right to the best body which
modern science can help it secure; the best
mind which modern education can provide;
the best training which modern vocational
guidance can give; the best position in life
which its physical condition, perfected as best
it may be, will permit, and the best oppor
tunity for spiritual development which its
environment affords.”
OUR PARTY 'ELDERS' DIDN’T TEACH
US TO STAY OFF THE RESERVATION
Back yonder when we came of age down in
eastern North Carolina our party elders taught
us that Rule No. 1 was to stick by the organ
ization (party) with which we swore allegi
ance. It is a political platitude we have faith
fully adhered to and on some occasions since
then we have passed the word on down to oth
er up-and-comers. Nothing has occurred dur
ing all those years to make us believe it a bad
rule—not even the*'candidacy of Al Smith.
That idea sotnehow seemed tb have thrived
best down here in the southern states area and
the p^rty bluebook in which this No 1 rule
was inscribed must have Jbeen written by our
Democratic forbears. At least, that is the way
we heard it and that is what we have been
brought up to believe was the way our gov
ernment was run. The Party System is what we
are presently writing about.
It didn’t say congressmen couldn’t team
up with Republicans to kill off their Presi
dent’s legislative program, even though that
was inferred. It is a good thing it didn’t, or
many of our southern representatives could
be charged with going against their raising;
and recently, in some quarters, suspicions have
arisen that it might even be true.
What inspired this bit of editorial filler
wasn’t congressional voting peccadilloes at all.
What we want to know is, what’s Thurmond
Chatham doing running for Congress on the
Democratic ticket? We know it is none of
our business, but it is our neck we are stick
ing out.
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TERN EDITORS’ RESOLUTIONS
Y FOLLOWING PUBLIC OPINION
When the editors and publishers of the
Carolina Press Association on Satur
t gave their unanimous approval to
resolutions affecting vital state pro
they did it safe in the knowledge that
back home were thinking in like
same folks regard the
lutiops as para
bf progress.' T ■ -
or heard of them,
you dq your own
m neigh
bors arc thinking. They arc:
1. Immediate improvement of the state’s
secondary roads and construction of all-weath
er highways just as fast as materials, equip
ment, and labqr can be secured for the job;
2. Development of the projected Medical
Care program by legislative enactment next
January; -r j
3. Open covenants by the State highway
commission with the people whom the offici
als are named to serve, by full and frank state
ment of plans and purposes—not by with
holding news of what’s ahead in the road
maintaining and constructing program.
HINT OF HOW TO MAKE THEM
DO THEIR TRADING AT HOME
The other night in Chapel Hill some fig
ures were quoted on why homte towners in
that village leave home to do their shopping.
The results were what you might expect in
any town so closely situated to other larger
towns. Hillsboro business folks would prob
ably duplicate what shoppers over in Chapel
Hill told the questioners who were making
the analysis of shopping habits.
Most of our town’s shoppers leave here be
cause they can get wider selection of goods in
the stores of nearby cities. Prices aren’t so
great a controlling factor. 7
Does that suggest anything to us small town
business folks? Of course, it does. We must
stock a larger variety of merchandise and to do
that—and do it properly—we must also en
large the places in which we do our merchan
dising. The enlargement program won’t do
all of it; there must also be modernization of
the physical plant, intensified service, plan
ned promotion, and intelligent and contin
uous advertising—and we don’t mean all of
it has to be the kind THE NEWS sells either.
BT THE EDITOR
A NEW DEVIL . . . THE NEWS boasts
the addition of a”new primer’s djevil with the
beginnig of this week. Seth L. Thomas, whose
photo and write-up you will find'on the front
page of this week’s issue of our favorite Orange
county newspaper, began Monday •‘morning
to dip his fingers in printer’s ink in spite of
the age-old and many times proven belief that
once a man gets ink on his finger? he will be
in the trade the rest of his life.
LEARNING HIS ABC’s . . . Seth, a vet
eran of World War II is learning his ABC’s
all over again, but with a little different slant
and with a lot more types of the^ alphabet to
learn. Perched atop a high stool in front of
the type cases; he’s hunting diligently like a
hunt-and-peck typist for every letter. But it’s
a double hunting proposition with type. When
he finds the letters he wants, then he has to
hunt the place to put them back.
LANDSLIDE ... It looks like the mem
bership drive of the Hillsboro Merchants
Association turned out to be a landslide. Bob
Forrest said last week that already more new
members have been secured than there were
old members. And if you saw. the Merchants
Association ad in last week’s issue of THE
NEWS, you could have counted 52 names 6n
it. That is a big enough crowd to put Hills
boro at the head of the trade race, and if the
plans made by the old members at their last
meeting are worked out, that great day should
not be far off.
ABOUT THE STOP LIGHT . . . After
years of inactivity, the stop light at the corner
of King. and4Churton streets (Hillsboro’s only
such signal) was turned on last Thursday
morning about eight o’clock. Fred Boone was
just coming down off the ladder in the middle
of the intersection when business openers and
early shoppers were beginning to take over the
street.
LIFE—SHORT LIVED . . . The alter
nate red and green traffic signal did not last
long enough-for most of the folks to learn that
it was operating after so long a time. Satur
day morning found it dead again after provok
ing a lot of temper and arguments. And un
less it has been put back into operation since
the writing of this column,it’s still dead. Some
months ago there was talk about the town
council’s deciding to put the light into oper
ation on the library corner, the blindest corn
er in town, but no further progress seems to
have been made in that direction.
SIGHT FOR SORE EYES ... For eyes
that are sore from about five years of looking
for things that have been'out .of existence be
cause of the war, there is a soothing sight at
Hillsboro’s Western Auto Store. Last ‘week,
Clarence Jones advertised a brand new 6 horse
power outboard motor. While there are. a lot
of folks not in the market for an outboard
motor, it does one good to take a look at it,
just because they have so long been a thing of
the past. Besides it creates the feeling that
some of the other scarcities will start return
ing soon.. A-.A ——. . ; .
YOUTH CENTER DOINGS ... The
folks in Hillsboro have kicked tradition out
the window and gotten the construction- of
the Youth Center underway’ in record time.
Mr. Hubard came in THE NEWS office this
week and told us the foundation had already
Deerr^iSStP'ircjr Sic yif
the idea is hardly (fry on paper and the folks
are already coughing up the necessary funds
and putting the project over in a big way.
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Soil Coaservatioa
Mews
TWO FARMER3 HOLD
DITCHING DEMONSTRATIONS
John H. Cate, Rt. 2, Chapel Hill,
held a ditching demonstration with
ditching dynamite last Friday
morning. Henry Hogan, chairman
of the supervisors of Neuse River
Soil Conservation district, and his
brothers, Jack Hogan, Hubert Ho
gan and Glenn Hogan.
J. L. Scotton of Efland, Rt. 1,
held a ditching demonstration with
ditching dynamite last Friday
evening. A ditch was blown ap
proximately 900 feet long in one
explosion. Those attending the
demonstration were L. L. Gar
rison, Mrs. L. L. Garrison, Rev.
and Mrs. L. T. Edgerton, L. J. Rog
ers, Claude Lynch and Jack Monk,
all of Mebane, Rt. 3; Charlie Dil
lard, Talmadge Jobe, S. M. Hup
man, Hurley Riggs, and Kenette
McAdams of Mebane; I. J. Rogers
and Claude T. Pope of Cedar
Grove; Walter Truitt, Elige Cur
rie, James Currie,_ Robert Currie,
Luther Pickett, Tom Ward, Char
lie Bradsher, Claude Dunn, Mrs.
CANDIDATES FOR THE BOARD
OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
We hereby announce that we are
candidates for the Board of Com
missioners of Orange County, sub
ject to the Democratic Primary
on May 25, 1946.
Collier Cobb, Jr.
Ben F. Wilson
Hubert G. Laws
Claude Dunn, Victor Walters, Mrs.
Victor Walters, Carl Walters, Betty
Jane Walters, Rose Marie Walters,
Masey Coble, Luther Moore, May
nard Moore, Clay Dorsett, Bill
Dorsett, John Arch Thompson,
Jessie Pool, Columbus Pope, Rev.
Lee and Mrs. J. L. Scotton, all of
Efiand, Rt. 1; and W. A. Davies of
Hillsboro.
The demonstrations were di
rected under the supervision of Ed
Barnes, assistant county agent; A.
K. McAdams, AAA; G. A. Munn,
agriculture teacher at Aycock high
school; G. L, Winchester, R. L.
Mohler and Clyde Ferguson, soil
conservationists of the Neuse River
ANNOUNCEMENT
I hereby announce my candi
dacy for the office of treasurer
of Orange county, subject to the
Democratic primary of May 25,
1946.
G. G. BIVINS
To the Democratic Voters
of Orange County:
• By this means I solicit your
support sf my candidacy for the
office of Register of Deeds in the
May 25th Primary Election.
J- ED LAWS
ANNOUNCEMENT
— I hereby announce my can
didacy for the office of Clerk
of the Superior Court of Orange
County^subject to the Democratic
Primary on May 25, 1946. 4
EDWIN M. LYNCH
Soli Conservation District.
Many favorable comments were
made in regard to the success of
the demonstration, especially the
low cost in which the ditch was
blown. Since the demonst™'
Friday many farmers have vio ^
the eight o* the «£££*
where the ditch was blown
the results. 0 ***
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GETTHIG SET FO
THE OTtHSIOtl
Preparation is the key to being ready fbr^
any occasion or situation. It’s the same way
with credit. The farmer who makes
arrangements at his bank well be
- forehand Is all set when the time
to borrow arrives.
Come in and see us in advance'
of your need for a low-cost loan.
THE BANK OF CHAPEL HHX
Member of Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation
Chapel Hill
BANK CREDIT is the best FARM CREDIT
I You know our town.
What do you think about..
People respect the opinion of their pharmacist and drug store
owner. To them he is a combination of professional man, mer
chant, neighbor and friend. They value his view on subjects as
varied as health and politics.
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The purpose of this message, however, is
not to praise your pharmacist. The point
is that he and hundreds of pharmacists
all over North Carolina have a unique
responsibility to their community.
He is close to the people. The average
NSrth Carolinian visit^a drug store once
a week.
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; His place of business is trusted, perhaps
Thus, a druggist has a natural opportu
nity and responsibility to promote and
boost what is worthwhile for his commu
nity. The result may be as significant
as getting folks to understand better the
value of public health and sanitation.
Or it may be as down to earth as putting
in his store window a card advertising the
local hospital’s money raising campaign!
But whatever the worthy cause miy be,
your pharmacist is glad to help. Indeed.
more tnan any otner type oi retan
I merchandise, drug store iterrts ar?
4 _ sold upop the recommendation of
the store owner.
to do otherwise would fee to neglect
the opportunities and responsibil
ities which go with his professi''"
and business.
The North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association
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