THE MEWS of Orange County
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.
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’ 1 J Thursday,- August 15, 1946
A Task for Legion and VFW
Compilation of all the facts needed by the
government to *pay the enlisted .men their
terminal pay is going to ~be a large order-feT
-the individual enlisted^riati to handle without
help from outside sources.
Information reaching us to date on filing
for the pay says that the^ individual will fill
out the form with the aid of veterans adminis
tration officers in the town or county in which
they live.
Orange county doesn’t have a veterans ad
ministration officer here full time nor is there
available to the men who served in the armed
forces the assistance of a county-paid service
officer. Inability to secure a man for the posi
tion has been op? reason why one has not
been employed, w • .
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It stands, then, tnat tne auiy ol iicipmg
the men to fill out their forms and secure the
terminal pay which they deserve falls to the
Legion and the Auxiliary and the VFW post.
The Chapel Hill American Legion post has
already made plans to aid the men in com
pleting the forms and mailing them to the
government.
The Hillsboro Legion and the newly formed
Auxiliary, with the aid of the VFW, might
be able to work out a program whereby vol
unteer assistance could be -secured at a desig
nated spot to aid with the forms when they
become available to the veterans in an esti
mated 45 days.
The Unconscious Arsonist
Arson is one of the most detested of all
crimes. The law imposes extremely severe
sentences on convicted fire-bugs. For, when a
man deliberately starts a fire, he is imperil
ing lives, to say nothing of causing potentially
great losses in property values.
There is another group which the law can’t
touch. These 3re the people who might be
called “unconscious arsonists.” That group
includes a high proportion of the population.
The sin of the “unconscious arsonist^’ is
that of omission, not commission. He doesn’t
purposely set a fire. He just fails to do the
things that will prevent fire. ' *
Have you, for example, ever put off “un
til tomorrow” fixing a frayed lamp cord? Have
you let a slightly defective heating plant go,
figuring it will last another month or so?
Have you been careless in handling inflam
mables like gasoline, on the grounds that
probably nothing will happen? Have you let
old papers and other trash accumulate in
closets and basements and attics because you
don’t feel like carting it down to the junk
man?
“These are typical examples of “uncon
scious arson.” And the man who can answer
“No” to all the questions is a rarity indeed.
The hundreds of millions of dollars of prop
erty destroyed annually by fire are a dubious
tribute to the indifference of otherwise good
citizens. So is the fact that.fire loss is showing
an alarming increase at the present time. Do
your part, in your home and business, and
fire can be licked—and the lives and dollars
it destroys will be saved.
Justice to All
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There are alarming similarities between the
current deliberations over peace treaties and
the Versailles agreements which followed
World War I—and did so much to sow the
seeds of World War II.
Again, * the great'powers are fighting for
spheres of influence. Again, the dark shadow
of “balance of power” politics hangs over the
meetings. Again, the work of the delegates is
hampered by secret commitments made dur
ing the war. This has been an especially dif
ment protests registered by Dr. Evatt of Aus
tralia are an indication of this.
What seems to have been largely lost is that
conception of “One World” which was so
brilliantly argued by Wendell Willkie and
which, in all its essentials, was once supposed
to be the guiding policy of all the Allies. It
was a conception based solidly and practically
upon the conditions of the times. Today, space
is of small importance to a nation’s security—
a bombing plane can fly anywhere in the
world in a matter of hours, and a stratosphere
missile can do it in minutes. A fragile peace,
based upon force and fear, will be only a
breathing space between the last war and the
next.
The tremendous problem before the world
is to establish a peace which will be fair to
all nations, which will respect the rights of
all nations, and which will make it possible
for all nations to live together in the world
without need of resort to arms. That kind of
peace cannot come from deals between the
great powers which use the small powers as
trading material. It can only be built upon the
sound foundation of justice to all.
A Modified OP A
The recently enacted OPA bill is a compro
mise between those who believe the Office
should be indefinitely continued in its old
form*, and those who believe that the time for
governmental tinkering with the law of sup
ply and demand is over. It is obviously de
signed as a sort of transitional measure, to
bridge the change from a government
dominated war economy to a free enterprise
peacetime economy,—
The most important new feature is its estab
lishment of a three-man “decontrol” board
with powers superior to those of the OPA
administrator. The job of this board will be
to remove controls from commodities when
supply is in sufficient quantity so that the free
market will automatically assure fair prices.
Jf the board does that job successfully, it will
be of immense' aid in getting this country
back to its traditional ways of doing business. 1
In the meantime, the consumers of the
nation must realize that the basic solution to
inflation lies not in law, but in vastly stimu
lated production and distribution. So long as
the supply of available goods is below demand,
we will continue to have black markets. So
long as labor troubles,' governmental inter
ference, or anything else blocks the produc
tion machine, an out-of-line price problem
will continue to be a major factor in our
national life.
The distributive machine is doing a fine
job, and it is ready to do still better when
goods again become plentiful. Retailers in
all lines of merchandise have consistently
worked against price increases. They cannot,
of course, prevent price increases made neces
sary by higher wage, supply and tax costs.
But they are a constant guarantee of the lowest
price for what you buy, consistent with the
economic conditions of the time.
BY THE MEWS
CICERO H. JONES, Hillsboro’s only jus
tice of the peace and magistrate, has dis
pensed his justice of peace sentences, drawn
up warrants for officers—town, state and
county—and served as Hillsboro’s only minor
court for quite a number of years. . . . Most
of his sentences are the same—$3 and costs
for public drunkenness, $100 bond when or
dering a person held for superior court on a
reckless driving charge, etc. . . . But Deacon’s
set fine of $3 and costs comes to a stop when
a man is brought before him charged with
being drunk on Sunday. ... “A Sunday
drunk,” Deacon (as he is known by all his
friends) says when passing sentence . . . “$5
and costs.” ...
An ardent church worker, Deacon Jones
has been a member of the board of stewards
of the Chestnut Ridge Methodist Church for
49 years, 39 of which he has served as church
treasurer also. .- . . “A man should pay more
for a drunk on Sunday when he should be in
church,” Hillsboro's only magistrate asserts.
. . . “He’s desecrating the Sabbath.” So when
reading the report of hearings held before the
Deacon, a man who pays $5 and costs for
being drunk was drunk on the wrong day to
draw a $3 fine. _ ^
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RECENTLY A SUM of Confederate money
deposited in the clerk of court’s office for
settlement of an estate in 1875, some nine
years after the close of the Civil War (August
20, 1861), came in for some scrutiny by pro
fessors at the University of North Carolina.
.... The professors, headed by Dr. Roulhac
Hamilton, were interested in determining if
the bills deposited in the clerk’? office were
different frpm those the University has in
itrcollection. . . . The investigation revealed
that the bills—16 $1X5 la’s, 17 $5% 55 $io’s,
to fco's and 2 I50S—are Included in the Uni
versity’s collection, thereby no exchange be
in^ made in the bills.
Frolic
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awarded the prizes.
Short talks were made by the
following: Mr. Green, West Hills
boro Civic Organization, its aims
and objectives; E. H. Valentine,
facts about West Hillsboro; John
Terrell, garbage collection; Mrs.
"Soy- Hicks, medical loan closet;
Mrs. Robert Woodard, well baby
clinic; Mrs. Don Whitfield, HDC
work.
In a drawing conducted by W.
T. Murray^ who, awarded the $25
Government Bond, Edward Adams,
teen-age boy, held the lucky ticket.
In presenting him with the bond,
Mr. Murray said he was giving it
with one request—“that Edward
keep it until it reached maturity.”
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Edward held number 46255.
Negro singing group composed
of Nocho Walker, Gladys Jones,
McNeil Walker, Arthur Jones and
William Clark, all of Hillsboro, en
tertained with a trio of songs.
String music for the occasion
was furnished by Willis Wilder,
Rudolph Nordon and Isaac Wil
son, Jr.
It was announced that through
the courtesy of the Spur Bottling
Company of Durham, the Dur
ham Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company,
the Royal Crown Bottling Com
pany of Durham, the Burlington
Coca-Cola Company and the Dur
ham Road Dairy that extra drinks
were provided for the brunswick
stew which was one of the fea
tures of the afternoon program.
Jefferson Standard Life Ins. Co.
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GREENSBORO, N. C.
JOHN W. UMSTEAD
Manager
Ill Cordorari Street Bid* ^
DURHAM JSBr
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We have properties on sale in both Chapel Hill and
Carrboro. Also rural properties in Durham, Orange and
Chatham counties.
IF YOU HAVE PROPERTIES FOR SALE GIVE US
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Chapel Hill
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Carrboro
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1\ED I AM
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Reddy ia patient enough about waiting to serve
you. He will wait for hours there in your Reddy
box, for the flick of your switch.
But Reddy does chafe at having his hands tied
month after month by shortages of vital mate
rials. He has a big job to do . . . serving new
homes, new offices, new factories, and new
farms. He wants to get on with that job.
Construction is going
ahead on line exten
sions just as fast as
poles, wire, transform
ers, and other essential
equipment can be se
cured. We want those
who are waiting for
electric service to know
that we are doing ev
erything we can to
hurry It up.
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th. ^uuJltnonjt GtAJO&n/iS.,
NEW HOME OF PURE.OIL PRODUCTS
GENERAL REPAIR SHOP—
Service department for all makes of cars, specializing in PLYMOUTH
and DESOTQ parts replacement work.
v SERVICE STATION
Where PURE OIL products are sold exclusively.
DISPLAY WINDOW—
Show case for PLYMOUTH and DESOTO cars (when available).
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Poe-Mangum Auto Service
West Franklin Street
ChaperHiU
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