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THE HEWS 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. Managing Editor.Harry D. Hollingsworth Mechanical Force. .Harry S. Large, Supt., Seth L. Thomas, A. E. Fountain, Bobby Parlier Society Editor and Bookkeeper...Doris Young Circulation Manager.Mrs. Mae V« Lark Community Representatives.Elizabeth Kirkland, New Hope; Mrs. S. H. Strayhorn, Eno; Mrs. Ira Mann, Carrboro; Mrs. Sedalia Gold, Chapel Hill; Mrs. W. V. Arm field, Palmer’s Grove; Mrs. C. H. Pender, Cedar Grove; Mrs. A. L. Stanback, Hillsboro Negro representative; and Mrs. L. Vickers, Chapel Hill—Carrboro Negro representative. 1 Year (in North Carolina)..... $2.00 6 Months (in North Carolina.).... .$1.50 1 Year (outside North Carolina)..$2.50 6 Months (outside North Carolina)....$2.00 THE NEWS of Orange County is the oldest newspaper of continuous operation in Orange County. Member North Carolina Press Association The News. June 5, 1947 The Bond Issue The future progress of the county as an efficient admin istrative unit and of the schools of the county as progressive laboratories for the training of ih^ - youth are at stake next Tuesday when the registered voters go to the polls to re ject or accept the proposed $1,045,000 bond issue. Voters will have the oppor tunity of registering their ap proval or disapproval to three questions to be submitted in the bond vote. The first question will be whether to aujthbtjze/ the is suance of $810,000 for the con struction and repairing ^ of schools in the county. Hardly ‘a school in the county will be overlooked in the tremendous building job facing-the school fathers. A new high school must be completed in Chapel Hill to replace the one burn ed in the early summer of 1943. A consolidated Negro school m'Mt be constructed in the Cedaj Grove area to han dle the overflow -of Negro children in that area. All the other schools in the county need repair work. If the issuance of $810,000 for the purpose of bettering the ■ schools in the county is-ap proved, all the schools will get the necessary repairs needed. Neither you nor the writer will benefit directly from the issuance of the school bonds^ but our children in the years to come will feel the effect of the better schools they will at tend. Your vote cast for the school bond election is a vote cast for the children of the county. Court House Bonds It is conceeded by all that Orange county has a beautiful court house, but few people in the county have to" work there. Yet, the work carried on there by the county em ployees benefits all of us. The interior of the court house is badly in need of re pair work. The employees of thp county need more space to carry on their work. Orange county has grown tremendous ly since the court house was constructed over 1 oo years' ago. Whether we will let it re main as is, or improve the in terior—leaving the exterior unmarred except to paint it and make necessary repairs— is a second question that will ' fate tfie voters. . —— inter restoration house is of better and utilization of a historic struc ture. Expanding Services Expanding services of the court house demand more room for the county employees to work. Storage of vital re cords in the court house, more conveniences for the public and better court room facili ties will consume the space in the court house, leaving only room for the clerk of court, the sheriff and the register of deeds. The welfare office, the board of education and the health office are now housed outside the courthouse. The renova tion of the court house will ease the tax Collector’s office and the tax supervisor out of the court house. Another question in the bond election .will be $150,000 for the construction of a build ing to house these'offices. A “yes” vote for this con struction work will be a vote for better county administra tive efficiency. Cramped quarters retard the work of the officials. From your county of ficials, you will get better ser vice if they are housed in com fortable quarters. Incorrect reports have been circulated that the county commissioners plan to rfpend the money now. The officials have adopted a resolution say ing that the money would not be spent until prices drop and construction costs become low er. The tax rate will go up il the bonds are passed, is anoth er report making the rounds, Orange county now enjoys the low tax rate of 88 cents. This is one of'the few counties in the state with such a low rate, Many counties pay as much as $1.45 «to $1.75. Your county tax rate will remain below a dollar if the bonds are approv ed. If we are to remain stagnant and refuse progress, we will vote against the bond issue, But if we recognize progress in the county such as is taking place on all sides of us, we will recognize the necessity of this bond issue and vote in favoi of it. * We urge you to cast youi vote for the issuance of the bonds. We’ve Beta Asking For It . Editorial writers and othe* citizens appalled by North Carolina’s terrible death rate from automobile accidents, have been whooping and hol lering for year? for somebody to do something. Ancf now it would appear an answer has - been given by the legislation enacted by the recent General Assembly. . Beginning July 1 all auto mobile drivers starting alpha betically, will be given an op portunity to show that they are competent to drive an auto mobile. Not only those who have recently learned to drive but all of us who obtained our present driver’s license under the grandpappy clause. In the first place, each mo torist is going to be asked a lot of questions concealing traf fic and safety laws. For in stance, the state wants to know if you know what the various shapes of highway signs mean. And the state will also want to know which car has the right of way at an intersection of two main highways? And what are the hand signals, rules of passing, etc., etc. On top of that, the cars themselves are going to come under scrutiny. Are the lights properly focused, and will the dimmer work? And what about the tail light, is there.a good bulb in it? And will the emer gency brake hold on a hill, or bring the car to a halt on the highway in case the foot brak es fail? inen there will be a driv-j ing test that will put to prac-j tice a motorists’ knowledge of the rules of the road and his ability to handle his machine. This test will be in company with a special highway officer who will instruct the driver to do this and that, but con trary to some public opinion, will not instruct a driver to break the law just to see whe ther or not the driver will thoughtlessly do so, rather than sticking rigidly to the rules. Backing into a parking place at the curb and turning around on the highway will probably be two of the paces the driver will be put through. Then there is the matter of seeing. A driver must meas ure up to certain specifica tions. If he needs glasses, he must have glasses to drive. They figure it will take a matter of three or four years to wo^ through the list of all dfivefT And then the whole business will start all over again, with the renewal of li censes to be mandatdyy ev ery four years. Another phase of the pro gram will be a person’s ability to pay damages in event he wrecks another’s car or maims or kills a person. In event you should be responsible for an accident and are assessed dam ages, you will, have 60 days to pay offv If you cannot, then you lose not only your license to drive, but your car tag as well. And they won’t be re instated until you either post $11,000 in cash or securities or else take but a liability in surance policy. You’re * either able to pay for ah accident or, brother, you ain’t gonna drive no mo’. We’ve all asked that some thing be done. Here’s the an swer as dished up by our legis lature. Let’s hope to goodness it proves effective. And we can make it effective1 by driving at all times. —Elkin Tribune By The News PICNIC TIME AGAIN The Farmers Dairy Coopera tive picnic last Friday night at Hogart’s lake launched for Us the picnic season. . . We attended the affair given by George Cline, man ager of the cooperative, and Hhet folks who compose the group and left with a stomach full of rich vittels and some extra ice cream for the folks left behind in Hills boro. . . Ed Barnes, assistant county agent, provided the trans portation and introduced us to some of the people there. . . One person we met, Mrs. Ed Warren, is a former Goldsboro resident and a high school class mate. , . She is now working in the office of the Dairy Cooperative in Chapel Hill ANOTHER CHAPEL HILL WRITER ' Another promising young writ er has gained recognition with her first novel, and she comes from Chapel Hill’s rapidly, growing writing colony. Twenty-three year old Daphne ^thas, who has received encour agement from Betty Smith of “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” fame, is author of “the Weather of the f * I Heart," just released by Appleton Century, which was given much space in, a favorable review in Time Magazine this week. Pointing out that the title is borrowed from Poet Dylan Thom as’s line: “A process in the weath e rof the heart turns damp to dry,” Time’s review says “It is seldom enough that novelists of any age guage the process so surely.' ’The Weather of the Heart’ gives some meaning to that worn publisher’s tag, ‘a new writer of distinction.’ ” Plot of the novel centers around the adolescent love affair between Eliza Wall, a well-bred, teen-age school girl, and a one-eyed French Canadian kid named Claw Moreau^ whose family was on town relief. The Time review concludes: “ ‘The Weathef of the Heart” has its faults, mostly structural and ob viously resulting from lack of ex perience. They will be forgiven easily by readers whose weary eyes have lately seen a lot of old formulas passed as' new fiction.” vMiss Athas is a New Englander —from Gloucester, Mass. She at tended Chapel Hill High School along with Betty Smith’s two daughters. Betty Smith says of her book: “It reveals a knowledge of values and emotions, and a restraint and wisdom that would do credit to an experienced writer.” Paul Green, the playwright, says: “There is no doubt about it," she is a vivid and tal&nted writer.” letters TO THE EDITOR Thl» column doe« not necessari* ly reflect the view* or opinion* of thie newspaper. To The Editor: The letter of Mr. Grover C. Bush of Chapel Hill in your issue of May 22 was evidently based on misunderstanding of the facts re garding the school bond issue, am sure he will be glad to hav® some correctipn mrde. Mr. Busn is, as he says, a school man who has had to do with voting school bond issues in other counties and undoubtedly intends i<? be a sup porter of education. His letter suggests unintentionally I am sure, that the taxpayers of Orange County have just built a new building in Chapel Hill and that we are asking for more buildings. What has recently been built is on ly part of a new building that is obviously incomplete and quite in adequate to feerve. the needs of the children now in Chapel Hill, to say nothing of those to come in a community which, whether fort unately or unfortunately, is grow ing quite rapidly. „ As a matter of fact, the taxpay ers of Orange county have so far invested an almost negligible .mount in school building W Chapel Hill. The present elemen tary school, which formerly serv ed both high and elementary schools, was paid for iah taxpayers of Chapel Hill. 8 school building that burned was built on a 55-45 basis by the county and PWA and the county collected in insurance more than it had ever paid in. Consequent ly after the unfortunate fire, the county had actually gained in dol lars rather than being out-of pocket for that building. The Or ange County Training School for Negroes was originally built to a great extent from donated funds, although the county has subse quently made a substantial but in adequate addition to that build ing. The fact that the county has yet done so little building in Cha pel Hill is due not at all to lack of interest in the schools of the southern part of the county but only to the special conditions that prevailed in tfie past. Yet it is on ly proper that taxpayers should have in mind the fact that this is the first time that the county has ever been called upon to pay the full cost of any school building in Chapel Hill, notwithstanding that two of the Chapel Hill schools are “consolidated”, serving city and county children and partly at Cha pel Hill expense. The reason the county is called upon now is that the present State law requires the county to furnish school b and no complete building w been furnished in Char*! while other buildings the county are in great n«Prl the bond issue is for J* anyone-want the State law ed to make each small stand on its own feet? Neither Chapel Hill nor other part of the county ask, anything fancy but only tual recognized needs, few people outside of cw realize the conditions under our schools have labored in years, using basements here there, and some frame houses crowding everywhere. For a siderable time the colored even had to work some gran two shifts. Eighth gra^ l pupils have had to stay out 2 the country elementary <^7? when they should have come? to the consolidated school at nT pel Hill which serves both ^ and country children. Hardly where else in the state, and tainly no where in the count* have children and parents had u exercise so much patience 2 faith that ultimately the minim? community needs would be in accordance with State law. such conditions prevailed in other part of the county the tax. payers^ of every section of thl county including Chapel Hill would See (LEXTERS) on Page g »0« ^ »<°°“ \*ve - *t\\ <**' <*A Wo®4 —jj on®5 \VvO®® a catfse ^ tf*** \OOi yj&*
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