Editorial and Opinion
Support The Bond Issues
On next Tuesday, November 22, registered voters of
Orange County will go to the polls to decide two questions:
1—Shall Orange County borrow $1,000,000 to improve its
school facilities, and 2—shall Orange County borrow $250,
000 to construct a new courthouse building?
The questions have been before the voters for several
months novif, while the Commissioners sought to bolster
their own opinion of the needs with direct evidence from
citizens in the various communities, and while legal re
quirements as to due advertisement, registration, etc. were
being met for the election. A vigorous campaign has been j
conducted on a county-wide basis, speakers hhve appeared |
before gatherings in every part of the County in an effort
to present the facts in behalf of the bonds in order that
citizens may form their own opinions of the needs both as
regards the schools and the courthouse.
There has been no organized opposition to either bond
issue, as far as can be ascertained. That there is opposition
to some degree in every Community, however, is known.
For the most part, it has amounted only to personal con
tact by the opponents, and the general concensus is that a
vast majority of the voters will favor both issues in the vot
ing next Tuesday. ,
This newspaper has attempted in every way possible to
inform its readers of the issues involved and the dire need
which exists. Pictures on another pase in this edition tell
a convincing story of one phase of this need. -
We hope the bond issues will carry and we believe thev
will. Defeat-at this.time will be costly and a step backward.
Let Us Return Thanks
cans, looking.with thanks to God, will give testimony to j
their belief in a supreme being, interested in the welfare
jol men and the development of saints. . ...
Thanksgiving Day will be observed with deep emotion
by many believers in God. There will be many others, how
ever, who, despite a fundamental belief in a supreme being
and a ready acknowledgement of- divine blessings, will not
bother themselves with the special services held in the ,
churches of the land.
Among the things for which the people of this country ,
should be thankful is the freedom which has come to Ameri
can men and women. We live our lives under no compulsion
but our own willingness to attempt to approach the divine
spirit in relationshhip with other struggling human beings.
At the same .time, we are not required by the law of the
land to make any obeisance except that dictated by our
consciences. _.•__ ._,_ -, . -
The United States, above all the nations on earth, and the
American people, apparently above all other living groups,
have been abundantly blessed. Surely, if a benign provi
dence has a hand in the affairs of man, there is occasion for
reverent appreciation and grateful thanks. —
There -will be some to return thanks for their worldly
goods, others for their.sound health and still others for the
general good that has come to: them in life. The original ^
Thanksgiving Dav was designed to commemorate bounti- I
ful harvests, which assured early Americans jiifh|ienjJood^ j
for the sustenance of life. The day represents, by proclama
tions of “the President and the Governors of the American
states, a special occasion set aside for public expression of
thanks tp- Almighty God,
Hy enas-TigersVersus Autos
There are any number of reasons why we prefer to live
in the United States instead of some other area, but two of
them appeared in the newspapers of the country recently.
(1) A United Press dispatch from New Delhi, India,
’ tells how a pack of voracious hyenas have killed and eaten
ninety-seven children in villages near Lucknow in the past
few months. Two adults have been slain by the pack, says
the dispatch. --
(2) The New York Times reports that inhabitants of
four villages in Kadah, Malaya, have been terrorized by a
band of ferocious tigers. Three men and many cattle have
been carried off and the tigers have become so bold that
they pursue busses, pawing at the doors and sniffing at the
windows.
These dispatches probably send shivers down the spines of
relatively safe Americans but the parents of children in the
areas threatened by hyenas and tigers probably tell them
about the mechanical monsters that zoom all over the
United States, at incredible speeds, killing approximately
one hundred persons a day.
THE NEWS of Orange County
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- Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, N. C.
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Hope; Mrs. Ira Mann, Carrboro; Mrs. G. H. Pender, Cedar
Grove; Mrs. Mary Wilkinson, Mebane; Mrs. Marinda McPher
son4 Hillsboro Negro Community; Mrs. Golden Sellars, Chape
Hill Negro Community.
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* Thursday, November 17, 1949
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PRESS COMMENT
Disgraceful
Tar Heel First
(An editorial from the Morganton
News-Herald)
For people who don’t deal much
in weapons of assault, it is no
doubt puzzling why there are so
many stories of violence related
in the press day after day. Mur
ders, shootings, and knifings hap
pen in many other counties besides
Burke, although it is evident, at
times that we have our share of
them. In the December term of
court are two or three cases to
be tried in connection with such
crimes and numerous ones of a
minor nature come up quite often.
The Greensboro Daily News ex
presses wonderment as to why so
many North Carolina citizens
“have to march along with guns,
knives, clubs, rocks or other in
struments ot weapons capable of
dealing violence in their hands.’’•
The'News-Reporter of Whiteyille
comes along with some pertinent
facts on the subject. On the basis
of FBI statistics, the state led the
nation in the first six months of
1949 in aggravated assaults per
hundred thousand population.
The eastern paper continues, by:
asking:
“Why? Find the answer ’ and a
real service will have been ren
dered the State. It isn’t because
North Carolina is the most illi
terate; It *isn*f because there are
f>-wer schools hehre than in South
Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee or
Georgia. We don’t have the record,i
but we suspect that North Carolina
has as many chureh-going. people
as the average. Irrevently as the
use of the words are in this-con
nection, it appears that our State
is ‘going forward’ with all the
lethal weapons as well as the
weapons of education and culture.
Why?
“The Federal Bureau of Inves
tigation is authority for the figures
which show the State occupying
first place in the slugfest parade.
If they are inaccurate or mislead
ing, a challenge is in order.”
-o--—
Undiplomatic_
Italians claim that hailstones
the sige of grapefruit fell in Rome
recently. Don’t they know that
they are likely to force senators
from Texas to vote against the
Italian aid program out of sheer
jealousy.—-St, Louis Star-Times.
Caldwell News
MRS. ELIZABETH C. MURRAY
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Nichols of,
Durham and of the community,
spent the past weekend in New
York City, where they attended
the Carolina-Notre Dame football
game.
The community welcomes Mr.
and Mrs. Grady Berry as new res
idents. The^Mung couple are oc
cupying house above the
Gates Service Station and com
munity store, which is now being
operated by Mr. Berry.
Attend Shower
Among those from the commu
nity who attended the miscellane
ous household shower given Sat
urday evening by Mrs. R. C. Dan
iel of Cedar Grove to her daugh
ter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Felix Nichols were Mr. and Mrs.
Mr. and Mrs. C. U. Nichols, Mr.
and Mrs. Dewey Briggs, Mr. and.
Mrs. Lacy Nichols, Mr. and Mrs.
Luther Clayton, Mr. and Mrs.
Clifton Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Jen
nings Smith, and Mr. and Mrs.
Grady Berry. Mrs. Berry, daugh
ter of Mrs. Daniel and sister of
Mrs. Nichols, was co-hostess with
her mother in entertaining for the
occasion.
Mrs. Harvey Blalock of Willow
Springs, North Carolina, together
with her son and dau<?hter-in-law
and small grandson, Mr. and Mrs;
Clinton Blalock and Jimmie Bla
lock. -vjtstte'd-Mr." andjfljrM: taarvgg:
Gate? and Mr. and Mrs. R. E.
Mifrray this past Weekend. ‘
.Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Nichols and,
small daughter, Bertha Jane, of j
.the Schley Community .had din-.
ner . Saturday -evening with Mr.
and Mrs. Billie McKee.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Blalock and |
small son, Charles Wesley, spent
’ast Saturday and Sunday in Ral
eigh visiting relatives.
Mr. Blalock’s neice, Mrs^Inez
BS11 has been critically dll in the
Rex Hospital of Raleigh for the
past several davs.
Mrs. Hubert Yeargan, of Chapel
Hill, spent the east weekend with
her parents, ,Mr. and Mrs. W.
Tom McKee.
Mrs. Gene Cothran, of Efland,
visited her sister-in-law, Mrs. R.
E. Murray, last Saturday evening.
The following had dinner Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
Gates, Sr.: Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Aiken, and Mr. and Mrs. F. L.
Latta of Durham, Mr. and Mrs.
R, E. Murray, Mrs. Harvey Big-.
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