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Editorial and Opinion Ports Development A Must Almost every4citizen of North Carolina—farmers, mer chants, industrialists, bankers, laborers; in fact, all classifi cations of North Carolina's economic and social structure— is losing a share of the millions of dollars which are being diverted every year from this state to South Carolina, Geor gia, Florida, Virginia, Alabama, and other Atlantic and Gulf Coast states, because those areas are so far ahead of North Carolina in the development and expansion of their ports, Col. Gdorge W. Gillette, executive director of the North Carolina State Ports Authority, said- in. a recent . pu bl ic statement.. • __ _ And jhe most deplorable fact. Col. Gillette emphasized, is that “these millions could be kept within the boundaries of North Carolina for the benefit of all our people, in every town, every city, every county, and every township—and even more millions would eventually follow—if the people of the state as a whole can and will realize and comprehend the almost incalculable advantages to be obtained by the proper expenditure of time, .thought, energy and money on the development and expansion of North Carolina's-■ superlative natural port facilities, which are unxecelled oti either the Atlantic, Pacific or Gulf Coasts.” This newspaper believes the citizens of North Carolina should supjxirt any reasonable measures to improve the seaports and the shipping facilities of the state. This and 'every"other section would benefit by a *vigw{Hts-*nd-€om- — prehensive shipping trade through North Carolina ports. We are not familiar with the scope; the aims and the extent of authority of the Ports Authority directed by Colonel Gillette, but we recognize the need which lie cites. Ibis newspaper will welcome any information or any program with a chance oT success which is designed to accomplish— • this much needed development. Dim Those Lights “Don’t dazzle ’em . . . DIM ’em!” Motorists are thus urged to use their dimmers for safety’s sake on the highways and on city streets, in the traffic safety program of the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles and State Highway Patrol. “Blinding an oncoming driver with your headlights is one of the most foolish and unnecessary things a motorist can do,” Colonel H. J. Hatcher, Patrol Commander, said. “You are threatening your own life when you fail to lower your headlights for an approaching car. Only a few seconds of light blindness can result in tragedy. r * V * “It’s not only good manners to dim your lights when meeting another car. It’s often a matter of self-preservation. And it’s safer and more courteous, too, to use the lower beam when overtaking cars. Lights daring into a driver’s eyes from the rear-view mirror can dazzle almost as readily as when they are head-on.” Here are some pointers Colonel Hatcher gave for safer use of headlights' and dimmers: 1. —Dim lights well ahead when meeting a car on a level road. - 2. —Dim before a car cortiing over a rise or around a bend in the road catches the full force of your bright lights. - 3. —Dim when overtaking to avoid blinding the driver through the reflection in his rear-view mirror. __ 4. —Use city beam (dimmers) on heavily traveled two lane highways and in lighted areas of settled communities. 5. —Check the level and aim of your headlights fre quently and see that they are correctly beamed at all times. The special emphasis program on night traffic is part of a continuing safety education program coordinated by the Department of Motor Vehicles and sponsored nationally by the National Safety Council. THE HEWS of Orange County Published Every Thursday toy • ~ THE NEWS, INCORPORATED — —* Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, N. C. Entered at the Post Office at Hillsboro, N. C, as second-class matter. Edwin J. Hamlin...Editor and Publisher ■-mi-i—-,-:_L___ feiSWftrded Firtf Place^Genei^'L Exceffgxite byM&nh^ Caf^ lina Press Association for 1946. Community Representatives—Elizabeth Kirkland, New Hope; Mrs. Ira Mann, Carrboro; Mrs. C. H. Pender, Cedar Grove; Mary Wilkinson, Mebane; Marinda McPherson, Hills boro Negro representative. SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 Year (in North Carolina) .........$2.00 • Months (in North Carolina) .....>.$1.50 1 Year (outside North Carolina) ....$2.50 6 Months (outside North Carolina) ...$2.00 - Member North Carolina Press Association — Thursday, November 4, 1948 Give Inspection “Fair Trial” Considerable criticism has been leveled toward the state’s embryonic inspection program and some car owners have claimed undue hardship as result of it. It deserves a fair trial” in North Carolina, however, because it has proved so beneficial and successful in other states. The Department of Motor Vehicles realizes that the pro gram has not operated as smoothly and as efficiently as had been hoped and is bending every effort to improve the procedure and the facilities. If properly presented in the true light of its purpose—the reduction of accidents ancf fatalities—we are convinced the majority would be overwhelmingly in favor of it. It is believed that this past year has been the hardest one that the inspection program will have to survive because it was new and untried in the State. The public has not yet been fully educated to the benefits to be derived from periodic inspections. During 1948 most of the minor de fects will be repaired so that in -1949 vehicles should have little or no trouble in passing through the inspection lanes and receiving approved stickers. The program should not be condemned until it has been given a fair trial. All car owners can cooperate with this program and work together for the common goal of reduc ing highway slaughter. Your life or the life of one of your family may be saved by this very program! ~P Rim COMMENT “ —* — —————i ... Open Fireplace Season Arrives Sandhill Citizen The season has arrived when the open fireplace and the burn ing‘wood is inviting. And speaking of this subject,. ■wT“read“a TuTir'cSIiffim in the Sunday issue of the New York Times about wood warming in open fireplaces. Let’s give you a couple of paragraphs from the Times’ article on wood-warm ing. We believe you will agree that' this man must have slung an axe at one time: The firewood is being put in now, against the winter. It is stacked along the side of the house, the overflow half cord resting between two trees in the yard. Once again the memory rustles the leaves of familiar old phrases, to find that one about the warmth of the hearth. It goes somewhat to the effect that wood warms twice—once in the cutting and once in the burning. The wise man, how ever, will settle for less than this. The wise man is he who glances casually from his win dow to see a group of total strangers stacking his wood along the house, piling the over flow between two trees. Let those who sell wood take the first .heat and be welcome, for it can be dispensed with easily, and the second will be that much warmer. No philosopher ever cuts his own firewood if he can help it. Philosophy, save of the morbid school, is an enemy of the axe. ... ■ . *' The t/ue philosopher of the winter evening sits comfortably befdre his fire. Conditions must be exactly-right or he does not philosophize. This does not „ . that his feet must be on a stool, to bring them on the If^*1 °* his head- although that 11 5|°es mean, however, that the philosopher must have --r- » win be required voices will have died and the rattle of the dinner dishes. Above all, it is necessary that the firewood bb impersonal. No man can think part of his mind considers the rapidity with which his fire burns.-Philosophy ends at the -very second the mind first admits it takes"less time to burn a log than to cut it. YOIJ MIGHT TRY THIS Elkin Tribune Usually, when a highway pa- \ trolman batches a motorist in '■ the act of breaking a traffic law, ! the next step is court, but now and then a quick-thinking driver has been able to talk his way to freedom^ Some highway patrolmen, so the story goes, were discussing their experiences. One officer related the following incident: | He was cruising along the high- [ way when suddenly a high- ' powered car whizzed by him at an outlandish rate of speed. Naturally he gave chase, and after some fifteen miles of nip and tuck driving at speeds which would turn the Ordinary motorist’s hair gray, overhauled him, siren wailing. The moment the siren blared, the speeding driver threw on his j brakes, pulled to the side of the road, jumped out of his car, and ran to the patrol car. “Thank God!” he said. “i’ve been driv ing like mad for' 30,,miles hunt ing a highway patrolnaapyThere -has been a terrible Occident about 30 miles back on the high way, and an officer is needed at once.” Noting the man’s excitement, jumped into his car and headed swiftly in the opposite direc tion. And he said that although he drove not 30 miles, but 50, he never did find any accident. Which all goes to show that a quick thinker can often extri cate himself from a tight spot. -by Mat "learning to work together. Hill..1,1 ill Our republic was established in 1709, under, the CONSTVmTION. BUT IT TOOK FAITH AND COURAGE AND PATIENCE AND TIME TO MAKE IT WORK. OUR INDIVIDUAL STATES HAD TO LEARN HOW TO WORK TOGETHER. AND IN THAT PROCESS THE CONSTITUTION ITSELF WAS STRENGTHENED BY A SERIES OF AMENDMENTS KNOWN AS THE B/U OF RIGHTS* I . Tr-iRET YEARS AGOr,THE UNITED NATIONS/EMBODYING- The r ASPIRATIONS OF THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD,CAME INTO BEING... BECAUSE MEMBER COUNTRIES MUST LEARN TO WORK TOGETHER. , BECAUSE THE ORGANIZATION MUST NECESSARILY UNDERGO A PERIOD OF TRIAL AND ERROR , WE MUST RECOGNIZE THAT FAITH AND COURAGE AND PATIENCE AND TIME WILL BE NEEDED FOR THE UNITED NATIONS TO ACHIEVE ITS HIGH AIM OF .* FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOM FOR.. ALL PEOPLES-AND LASTING PEACE. UNITED NATIONS WEEK. -* OCTOBER 17-2-4 4-H Clubbers Have Outstanding Year National 4-H Achievement Week, November 1-7, offers North Carolinians in all walks of life an I opportunity to recognize the many accomplishments of the state’s 105,000 club members during the past ear, according to L. R. Har rillstate 4-H Club leader. Mr. Harrill expressed the hope that parents in every community will understand and appreciate what their own boys and girls have accomplished in 4-H Club work and that recognition will be given to group as well as individ ual achievement./ According to the state leader, North Carolina members have pleted more than 141,000 projects in agriculture and homemaking during the past year. They have tended more than 17,000 acres of food and feed crops and more 3®!** 6,000 acres of garden. They have managed poultry flocks in volving more than 53,000 chickens, and their livestock projects have involved more than 20,000 ani mals. Four-H girls in North Carolina have planned and served more than a half million meals, con served nearly a million quarts of food, made approximately 100,000’ garments, flnd moi*0 than 7,000 room improvement projects. Health improvement and physi cal development have been pro moted in many ways. Achieve ments in the social phase of the program included the teaching of proper ideals and attitudes for wholesome relationships in the lome, neighborhood, and commu nity. Spiritual growth has been at tained through daily vesper pro grams at 4-H camp and state-wide observance of 4-H Church Sun day. One thousand such Sunday programs were presented with ap proximately 20,000 members par ticipating. A special achievement this year was the sending of a North Caro lina club member to Europe in the International Farm Youth Ex change project and, in return, pro viding for the entertainment for an exchange farm boy from France, further typifying the 1948 slogan, “Creating Better Homes for a More Responsible Citizenship Tomorrow.” Few N. C. Vets Seek Allowance, For Unemplo; Raleigh. Less than tWB cent, actually 1.76 P£r approximately 400,000 Ve> World War II, who have p to North Carolina and aren ly eligible for unempi0vm|L lowances when involunJJj! employed, were actually',1 unemployment allowances the G. I. Bill of Rights in’* of this year, Chairman H(^l Kendall of the Employ^ curity Commission reveals While employment in * Carolina increases frortv an age of 606,451 in June of ]*!! to 641,004 in June this year» last month for which this is available, only 7,055 war* erans were seeking ail0,J last June, as compared with l2j in June of last year. On a age basis, the number of veto* ances represented only ij.-jj cent of 641,004. the total avB* employment last June UISS_dO not... include veteji drawing self-employed • ances, since these allowances a paid to veterans who havea in self employment one thekbr ances . only' Supplement. their ■come, -up- to ■ $-100 ■■e-ttnontli.-^ The • average number of * erans filing -claims for unentp^ ment allowances has continuedi drop since June, but only a sag percentage' of „ the reduction * suits from exhaustion'of afe ances to which -veterans were® titled—potentially, fa fad, j about” 2.5 per cent of the vetai potentially eligible for-allowana had exhaytsted ihc.ir.-benefn r^n through ' June and' only” 45 p cent of the approximately 400,# veterans in the state had eve sought any unemployment a®i ances through last June. Soon after the bulk of veltqi had been demolished folMJ the end of the war, claims for# employment allowances by vet erans reached a point higher that twice the number seeking uaea ployment benefits under the ref ular State Unemployment Cm pensation program. The vetei# claims have dropped rapidly i proportion until they are down# less than half of the number seek ing benefits under the regular IS program. This indicates, Chair man Kendall said, that employ ment of veterans in steady md has been greater in post-war yew than employment of non-veteran WANTED Ladies Large Site Winter Clothing, Children’s Clothing, Men1 Suits. Sweaters of All Kinds. FOR SALE Army and-Navy Goods: Combat 8hoes, Paratrooper Bools Blankets, Khaki and AD Shirt* and Rants, Coveralls, Am* Force Jackets, Drawstring Jackets, Leggings, Rubber Boots Blackburn’s Salvage Store CARRBORO - - Sale Every Day - - Sell Remainder of Your Crop Where Top Dollar is Guaranteed Virginia-Carolina and Central Warehouses !n Danville, Virginia Prices Speak Loader Than Words. Here Am » I Sale Made for GATEWOOD A THOMPSON 300 lbs. at .68 244 lbs. at .68 276 I bit. at .68 76 lbs. at .42 92 lbs. at .68 266 lbs. at .66 204.00 165.92 187.68 31.92 62.56 175.56 1254 Total $ 827.04 Sale Made for HAMLETT, SPUMATE * WILSON Blanch, N. C.‘ , 168 lbs. at .68 . % 114.24 166 lbs. at .67 . 111.22 30 lbs. at .18 . 5.40 204 lbs. at .67 . 136.68 176 lbs. at .67 . i 17.92 148 lbs. at .67 . 99.16 892 Total $ 584.62 ^ -,i*t •' " . ... i? jsaaivi'- &’S31EaE2feSiifc«sfcje£«E Sale Made fop Lv A, PUCKETT A PARKS Madison, N. C. 250 lbs. at .57 . $ 142.50 lb«- at .65 . 195.00 300 lbs. at .65 . 195.00 300 lbs. at .66 . 198.00 244 lbs. at .67 . 163.48 214 lbs. at .67 . 143.38 280 lbs. at .61 . ’ 170.80 276 lbs. at .67 . 184.92 264 lbs. at .65 . 171.60 Sale Made fop R. W. OAKES Prospect Hill, n. C. 70 lbs. at .92 46 lbs. at .92 56 lbs. at 69 106 lbs. at .58 136 lbs. at .65 182 lbs. at .65 232 lbs. at .42 186 lbs. at .42 $ 64.40 ' 42.32 38.64 61.48 88.40 118.30 97.44 78.12 1014 Total $ 589.10 2428 Total $1564.68 ssstoaaapEgzs BRATCHER & RIMMER Hurdle Mills, N. C. 178 lbs, at .69 . $ 122.82 132 lbs. at .90 . 118.80 300 lbs. at .69 . 207.00 610 Total % 448.62 ' Sale Made f°r W. R- PIMmEF? . „ „ * 20*& 300 lbs. at .68 • * 149>60 220 lbs. at .68 • g1i9o 130 lbs. at .63 . 165,92 244 lbs. at .68 . 144.U 212 lbs. at 68 • - , i 1106 Total ♦ *
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