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Editorial and Opinion - * * \ _1 Ob Widening Tryon Street The time is long past for the State Highway and Public Works Commission or the Town of Hillsboro to take some corrective action in connection with Tryon Street. One of --the most used streets in town, it is the main artery of traf fic for the school and two churches. Because of its narrow ness, it constitutes a distinct hazard to ifters, especially dur ing periods of heavy school traffic and church services. With parking allowed on both sides of the street, to traverse it on Sunday mornings is a tedious task, requiring all the/skill of the best drivers among us. Yet for the town or Hillsboro to restrict parking on only one side or to eliminate it altogether would work a hardship on many people. The County Commissioncr^some months back placed its approval on a petition of school an#church officials and residents calling upon the Highway Commission to widen this part of its system but no action has yet been taken. The time has now arrived when some Corrective action is almost a necessity and that already proposed to the Highway Com mission is most logical. ^ -- Frank Graham’* Future The News is glad, but not surprised, that Frank Graham shunned ahy-e^tiskleration <>f his^name in connection with the presidency of the American Red Cross. And for that matter, the much lesser discussed job as a member of the Federal Trade Commission. Since his defeat by Willis Smith last June in the political surprise of the decade, friends of the Senator have been zealous in their curosity as to what would be his course at the end of his Senate term. In some respects, the Red Cross presidency was # juicy plum indeed, high salary, little work, much prestige. However, it has too many aspects of the honorary |>ost, built especially for retired men. Frank Graham’s talents are many and his refusal to con sider such jobs as have been proposed for him were doubt less prompted by a belief within himself that he can still render valuable service to humanity in other fields more in keeping with his background and previous accomplish ments. The opportunities of real and genuine service to the people for a man of Frank Graham’s abilities are many here in North-Carolina and throughout the world. His actions to date certainly confirm our previously ex pressed belief that the June defeat was no loss to Graham. -the man. His life of. service will continue toward even grater goals as the years go by. Court Action Not Answer We in Orange County Continue to hear of the proposed suit-which a group of Negro citizens of Chapel Hill seem bent on filing to force the end of "discrimination" in the school system of that community. Until that action has been lakep formally, this newspaper will continue to hope that this drastic action will not be taken/ for surely the community as a whole has nothing to gain front it. The people of Chapel Hill and Orange County have shown by their votes in the past year that they want better schools and intend to have thenK.Xhe money appropriated to the various county units was the limit it was feit the economy could stand, and certainly no voice was raised at “ the distribution of money to be voted during the bond campaign. ^ Those who have appraised the situation in Chapel Hill have pointed out that in many respects the Negro school situation is better than the White. This is not true in many other parts of the county, where a wholesome cooperative attitude exists because citizens of both\ races have faith in one another and are cognizant of the sincere efforts that are being made to bring our schools to equitable levels. While neither race is satisfied with the present state of our school building program, they realize that neither our school boards or the" County commissioners’are responsible for the Korean War and the resulting inflationary spiral which has accompanied it. Except in Chapel Hill, there appears to be unity of thinking by leaders of both races which augurs well for future accomplishments. The county and .its citizens are committed to a program of equal school ing of Negro children and for better schools for all children. Such distractions as the issue being raised by the Chapel Hill group can do naught but harm. There is an old saying about court decisions following public opinion, and it appears this adage will be borne out if and when the unwise move of attempting court compul sion is brought to its climax. THE NEWS of Orange County Published Every Thursday By THE N E W S, I N CO RPORATF.D Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, N. C. Kbwin J. Hamlin .. . .. Editor and Publishei Don McKee . .. *......._. Associate Editoi Patricia Stanford ... Society Editor Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Hillsboro, N. C. under the Act of March 3. 1879. Community Representatives_Miss Elizabeth Kirkland, New Hope; Mrs. Ira Mann, Carrboro; Mrs. Curtis Nickles, Cedai Grove; Mrs. Mary Wilkinson. Mebane; Miss Eloise Fugleman Chapel Hill: Miss Dot Cooke. Orange Grove; JMrS.Mirinds McPherson, Hillsboro Negro Community. . ■— SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 Year (in North Caur^llna) ...... ...... $2.0< 8 Months (in North Carolina) .. ... $1.5( 1 Yaar (outside North Carolian) .... ... .1.$2.5( 6 Months (outside North Carolina) . ...$2.0< mmm m m mmm m Exclusive National Advertising Representative ★ Greater Weeklies * New York * Chicago • Detroit * Philadelphia * Umber North Carolina Press Association _ PRESS COMMENT Boys On Front Eye Hone too Note On Circulation The Robersonville Herald re cently published a 'letter home from Korea from Cpl. Dixie War • ren, sop of Mr. and Mrs. Dixie Warren of that town. He had an interesting story to tell in the language of a local boy to his old neighbors. As a member of the 34th Infantry Regiment, Warren arrived in Korea on July 3, within a week after the fighting started. “The 5th of July-we were fight ing. ... We were np there 51 days before we were relieved.” The Herald suggests that the news in this letter was a statement that “I think that by September or October "this thing will be over. The News and Observer begs to differ with its Martin County con temporary, The most interesting news in Corporal Warren’s letter was his concluding sentence: “I have been getting the weekly Herald pretty regularly since I have beerf here;' and I -"do enjoy reading it.” It throws a night light on mo dern war to note that a boy at the, front in Korea gets his home paper ‘‘pretty regularly,” even in the lines before the Communist armies. Also it emphasizes that not only are we watching the news from the front but that men there have their eyes on what we are doing at home. —The News and ‘ Observer. HARSH OLD PAYS (Morganton News-Herald) A quip in one of • the current magazines was to the effect that at least “grandmother didn’t have to defrost the old spring house.” Grandfather didn’t have to pay electric bills either, but somebody in the household had the “smelly” job of cleaning and filling the old oil lamps and keeping their wicks Trimmed. When we speak ©rthe “ “good old days” we are apt to re call the pleasant things they gave us and forget the unpleasant de tails and discomforts of life in the yester-year. -:——o-— ■ ETTRIX IS ORIGINAL (Zebulon Record) It was pleasant to see Ettrix Erantley (Mrs. Oscar) when she came to Zebulon for Miss Made line Brantley's funeral; and I was glad to see her looking so well. She had beefn too thin when I saw her last, and I told her she looks so much better now that she is plump. _ *fY<es.” she said’ with, difeatisti- " ed satisfaction; “flesh helps hide age, but it is inconvenient. You, I —,. | Drink ths Milk That's Always In Purt-Pok Handy Square Bottles V.ONG N\t /VDOVJ fAR^S DURHAM L - 901 CoHftet :.-V •J (Dianne. \J2esLu2^£ (-By Patricia Stanford) — Football speeial-especially for the early games when the weather is not so cold- -a corduroy suit. Just precious and inexpensive. Al though corduroy never seems to me to be as warm as a wool suit, this kind of weather is just perfeot for the corduroy suit alone. When it gets colder-put on your overcoat. One of the nice things about a corduroy suit is that you can afford it. lender $16. By the way, I hope that once “this football season you are fort unate enough to' receive from some ardent admirer one of the lovely crysanthemum corsages. The flow ers and the cool weather make you feel in the swing of things. -- —-o- " TT* — New gadgets-these are some old ideas with new twists-umbrellas with different covers to go with different costumes. see, sometimes I forget how large I am and try to get into little places like I used to; and now and then I get stuck, and that’s embarrassing.” This was to me an absolutely new objection to puting on weight; but Ettrix was always original. 1 Silly Practices Of World War H • ■»-( Asheboro Courier —T r ibune j We hope that we shall not have to see again the silly practices car ried on during world war two 'when air raid wardens were re quired to run about over inland towns and cities ordering lights out, nor do we want to see the blackouts in inland towns and cities. There was.never any danger of enemy bombings or attacts on small inland towns the last war, towns in which there were.located no war-producing plants. But we had the _ blackouts and all .the emergency precautions, whereas if the enemy had chosen to bomb the vast expanses of the United States, he’d have had a heck of a time pinpointing any certain spot unless mayhap some large war producing center of vital rail or large seaport. . The man who turns out the light in your refrigerator when you close the door is' at work again. We hear that an electric when you close the closet door is now being manufactured. There is a new gadget on the market which will come to the aid of the button-sewer. It’s, now an easy mattter to sew a button so its just right, ’not too tight nor too loose. - - - - ■ -o-—— ; ' _ Here is an untried , trick for the home canner- -when your hands are discolored with vege table or fruit stains, wash them in cool water and dry them.slight ly. Then put. your moist hands over a burned match. The stain should leave. ^ t • Advisory Budget Commission hearings have pointed to one fact: the State is going to have dig up more money to operate on during the coming biennium. Conservative estimates put the additional cost of operation during the coming two years- -1951-53- - at $20,000,000 more thap this bien nium’s record expenditures. All of which brings up one big question- -where’s the extra mo ney going to be found.' Privately, at least, members of the budget commission are talking about a straight across the board safes tax. Elimination of all sales tax exemptions, they believe, would probably bring in enough money to keep "from raising taxes. And that’s one thing that they want to avoid- -at least the more conservative members are bitter ly opposed to new taxes. But the new building upkeep, plus new personnel needed for expanded services, means that more revenue must come from somewhere. Everybody wants a raise, too. And the general feel ing is; that eliminating sales tax exemptions would be the most painless tmethod. You can expect a big fight over that in the coming General As sembly, anyhow. - . --— ; — ifl John Vernon of Burlington, a member of the Young Democrats’ committee arranging for the Ala mance rally says everything is ready for the big do. I.t’11 be held at Governor Scott’s Haw River home at 5 p. m. October. 6. Party leaders- -including Senator-^No minee Willis Smith--have been invited and are expected to attend the barbecue and speaking. Pre parations are. being made for an expected 3,000 folks. —* Some of the Governor's firmest supporters were afraid he would not go all out in promotion of party harmony at the recent YDC convention in Asheville. But even astic about his introduction of Wil lis Smith and his call for a united Democratic party in the November general election. - Reports from those attending the convention are that Kerr Scott was by far the most enthusiastic booster of party harmony on .the convention program. It seems to this corner that no other Democrat can do otherwise. Registration as a Democrat, and voting as a Democrat in the pri mary commits the voter to abide by the majority decision. Whether he likes the decision or not is beside the point, if he is a believer ienocrjtj, in the little “d” de of doing things. You hear a lot of State by disgruntled Some are talking 0f sw#c from the polls. of voting for the RenuMT <iidete. Some are m defeated Frank GrahZ on the ballot. ’ ham*« 1 feel, sure that Frank r would be the fiJst to deS*! latter. aecrT! The best way for North (w Democrats ,to show that rw believers in democracy if?1 a unanimous vote for their, ca ndidate November 7, __ They may not like their, candidate. They may not ap» of campaign methods in v mary. But they implied a wtf ness to abide by the maiari wishes when they voted 7 primary. ' If they aren’t willing to by that majority decision, nn ter how distasteful, they on, get out of the Democratic - But they should remember rule~ -regardless of how «. the decision was reached fundamental precept of denw If you don’t like what the has done, the only way to i it is to stay in the part fight out your battles. ,*** there will be other prin While fen the subject of pohfi here aie the latest trial baUooi being floated in the 1952 guba natorial maneuvers: /Bob Har* and Gordon Gray now are beis mentioned. Both are natives i Winston-Salem- -and incidental smoke the same brand of cigi rettes. Hanes is president of Hi chovia Bank and “acceptable" I conservatives, while Gray, the n* president of the University« North Carolina/ would find ing among liberals. Actually, i ther of the two would make i good Governor for the State, i It’s not., tob riar-fetchediiaii. that twe could have an all-? would be a mighty calm camps® though, because it would be alma impossible to find, anything ii either’s record ort which io by mud-slinging propaganda.. Here’s a little behind-the sorct report on the teachers bonus Hast Wednesday, a revised ea rn ate of Statfe revenues was [rt sented to the Advisory 3ud? Commission. Revenue Cornea sioner Gene Shaw, told the mission that indications are 9 the General Fund will net $131 500,000 instead of the previous estimated $129.000.000._ **»? Hutu*, , o. w 4 *> *a* mb*t29a*~ m * 2=00 pm S*0, ■A I *'**•**? *"*• ^o/cfei l*OT* **•«* 4ss®, e* 8r °tte fs £
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