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Editorial And Opinion Congratulations, 4-H'ers! -The observance of National |-ll (dub Week, March ^13, is an opportunity to salute tlte more than two million 4-H boys and girls who are taking important strides toward finer citizenship. Whether it be learning better care and operation of farm equipment or mastering a homemaking skill, {-11 members acquire initiative, responsibility and leadership. \\re commend them' for their dedication to the fourfold develop ment of fjc^d,-Heart, Hands, and Health through the { H program - Fast-And Loose! - • Asked iy his pressconle.rettc e for Iris opinion ol il\e Dem * obligation bv $ap. andarlding $20 lb tlie exemption lor. each * depende nt. President !• isenhower expressed vigorous objec tion to the reduction and resentment of the fact that it is presented as .01 amendruent to-the- corporation .'and excise. l.i\ hill and not “on its .own merits . _L_~ l_ln .lm_lengtliy. icpiy .Lu .the. cpteMiim, (lie. Presidcnfrccog 1 i/ed .that “any proposal to reduce taxes is, of course, popu I 1. hut declared with some heat.that since the (.oveiument “1, still spending somewhat more than it takes in, we are * *roa hing, wore kintis ol heights in Iiseal•«responsibillty • \Ve Can only agree with the President, that, under the * present continuance of deficit spending, a reduction in taxes is illogical, unwise’ add carries with it a certain political ..lldllia, ..._^ y-r-^-— -v.s- but. UlicrlnM or amL .dux'lokxji tcdrictiau.. .lnliicir wordd s,rv< :hc average. taxpayer biu little, at alux.sofS2.800. JOOjpoo" to the licaMii v 1'this l)emo< ram maneuver brings two points, uilo shatp L<X US. first. the Elsenhower pledge-fa sal; me the budget is still, in spite of all the pruning ihusfar, r pious.hope. Second, the. opposition, with the notable excfcp- » ion of Senator Harry Byrd, Representative Martin Dies and a handful of other patriots, was jumping the gun on the Presidents hint ol a Republican tax .ml in 1 p hi contained in his budget message ol last January. * \s rt looks .from here ihe <>nh pfntcctibn^igafrwt sin !i fiscal irresponsibility by either party is iegislaiion to pre vent out law-givers from appropriating money the 1 rcasury hasn't got ; . t type of legislation to which the Congress Iras thuslar given the back of its hand. Fair Price For Full Measure rlie Senate. IA ,1 vale c >1 t>L> to 2|. agreed with ihc 1 louse . It ■drfd-'mted’m-X^-tti t-HW-th+k- - Federal judic iary should get molt pay. The Senators were a little more spartan about the matter and voted themselves only $7,500 a year as compared with the $10,000 raise House members thought they should have. Jfli c onference, it was.-cptirkly. agreed to split the difference, and throw in Itve additional tripsjtome per year at public expense. Thus. Our solons will now receive $25,500 a year, of which $22,000 is salary, plus $1,250 tax-free for office ex pense. Actually, we think a man who measures up to a seat in Congress is worth at least $25,000 a> year — and having to live in Washington, need-, it. but the idea that it pays for a year's' wm k, not six .months, should be taken more seriously. Some* how we doubt that those five extra trips home will help in .elm Scientific Nerves *— “ A friend tells us of an ojd fellow wfureame limping into a gas station our inf the county the other day. The operator ■ a'skviMum • if jt vu-O .iiU,-;w tin jlis- pi .his iheuiuaiism. xljat M ..is . Lot her lug him. ' ’ ■ * “\eithei one,” replied the old gentleman, "according to the doctor ,, . it s my scientific nerve.” AVli.il with the atom bombs bursting in the nil mci the Nevada desert, the Civil Defense authorities scolding us for not worrying more noisily about enemy attack, and trying 1 to decide among Themselves whether to tell ns to get under the bed or cut and run . . it could be the doctor is right. It could be that a lot ol us are stiflering, whether we re limp ing or not, from scientific; nerves. “Curiosity,” Grandma used to sa<y, “killecl a rat.” But that execution, it is now apparent, was just a starter. In spite of all we've found out since then, our curiosity is um quern bed. It may even lead us to the discovery of cures, for both arthritis and rheumatism. But if looks as though we ll have to learn to live with out scientific nerves. sweat-*. t as, vm-ma&va*. ./• -■ djc Jfrtos of (©range Count? Published Every Thursday By THE NEWS, INCORPORATED Hillsboro and Cbapel Hill, N. C. « - — ynyTTJ J HAMT.TV Editor and Publisher Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at hulsboro, , . North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1870. Exclusive National Advertising Representative , GREATER WEEKLIES New York * Chicago A Detroit A Philadelphia SUBSCRIPTION RATES" ONE. YEAR (inside North Carolina)___$2.00 SIX MONTHS (inside North Carolina)___ $1.50 ONE YEAR (outside Nort^ Carolina)----*2.50 Legislative Summary (NOTE: This is the seventh of a series of w'eekly summa ries prepared by 4he legislative staff of the Institute of Govern ment on the work of the North Carolina General Assembly of 1955. It is confined to discus sions of matters of general in terest and major importance.) • * * The past week brought a no ticeable increase in the intro duction of bills sponsored by State departments and , agencies. By mutual consent, the. two houses have agreed to hold Fri day to permit committees to meet in the morning. The presi dent prt> tem, Senator Jones of Pitt, reminded the senators on Friday of their rule requiring introduction of all local bills by March 1 and all bills prepared by State agencies by March 10. On Thursday afternoon the Joint Appropriations Committee heard several members suggest ways of reducing the spending recom mended by the Governor and Ad visory Budget Commission. This was the first clear indication there may be more than token efforts to balance the budget by some method other than increase ing revenues. As expected, the water resources and higher edu cation' bills mentioned in earl ier bulletins have aiTOused sub stantial .• interest. At a publie hearing this week, heads of most of the state-supported colleges prosented their views of the Higher Education Commission's plan to establish centralized supervision of the institutions of higher learning. The bill has now been referred to a subcommittee unde/ the chairmanship of Rep. Senators Bunn and Kirkmati in* WomblcMy Forsyth. On Thursday traduced a water resources pro posal plainly designed as an al ternative to the one previously presented by. the special com mission which studied North Carolina’s water resources. Motor Vehicles In each session of the General Assembbly motor vehicles and highway safety are favorite sub jects. for new bills. The 1955 ' GeneraF AssemblyIs' no excep tion, and each week finds addi tional proposals Affecting the motoring public being offered. This week the Department of Motor Vehicles (primarily through the two’Vcfads committee chair man) began introducing its leg islative program: Just as in each session since 1947, a compulsory mechanical inspection of vehicles has been proposed. The 1955 ver sion is almost identical with that of 1953: It calls for annual in spection of a limited numb.er of safety feautres on cars, to be done by licensed private inspec tion stations.- Other Department , SUMJBtfllUjliSfcfe. changes in the title and registrar'; tion laws, the Financial Respons ibllity Act, and the Driver License Act—including one which would have the effect of extend ing the life of vehicle license plates would not begin unt|l^ Feb 15 (instead" of Jan 31 as is nuw ihe... case), .but the sale of plates would not begin until Jan. 1, a month later than the usual starting date.... SB 194 makes evidence obtained through chemical analysis of-the amount of alcohol in a defendant’s blood admissible in evidence upon a charge of drunken driving, sets out presumptions of guilt or in nocence depending upon the per centage of alcohol in the blood, and permits suspension of the defendant’s driver license for re fusal to submit to the chemical test. HB 385 authorizes the Motor Vehicles Department to set up a point system for driver dicense suspensions. Convictions for motor vehicles violations would be assigned points depend ing upon the seriousness of the tion of a certain numberof points within a year (the Department is to determine this nunmber and and publish it). Most widely publicized of all motor vehicle bills is the “whammy’.’ bill, a proposal to curb use of radar arid speed clocking devices. A House judiciary committee held public hearings on the bill, and a syplt vote, reported it favor ably. After a time consuming wrangle on the floor, the House first, defeated a motion to send the bill to the Roads Committee for further consideration (a move to “kill”- dhfe hill, proponents charged), and then reversed it self. 4 (See SUMMARY, Page 6) "HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN IN THE MIRROR? Garden Time —- Robert Schmidt -— Tfiefe is a growing demand for" kinds of flowers that will keep well when cut and that can be easily used for hospital, church, .or livig room arrangements. ^ For the person who is looking for a colorful and easy-to-grow cut flower, the gladiolus should prove most satisfactory. They will grow in any type soil as long as It is well drained and piety of water can be supplied The should have full sunshine all day for best results. Go easy on the fertilizer, especially fer tilizers rich in nitrogen. Care must be taken that the fertilizer does not come into contact with the bulb at planting time. Bulbs should be planted 4 to 5 inches 4 deep and spaced from 4 to 6 inches apart in the row. For early blooms plantings may be made now in eastern North Carolina, during March in the the piedmont and during April in the,, moun tains. Foe a succession of blooms. make.additional plantings at two to three week intervals. If you buy your bulbs at local bujbsj^tfeey will give ipuch bet ter results than the large, flat, * sfiiltow ^dhes. —^ - The gladiolus fan who . is greatly interested in new varie ties will find that he can get good spikes of flowers from small to medium-sized bulbs listed as No. -3 and. No. 4 siae at njifch lower , prices than he would have to pay for the larger sizes. Mixtures are usually cheaper in price than named varieties hut there is a great satisfaction in Jknow mg varieties by name. A few very fine varieties that are rea sonably prices are: Snow Prin cess, Florence Nightingale, Mar garet Beaton, Corona, Elizabeth the Queen, Picardy, Blue Beauty, Red Charm, Spotlight, Spic and Span, Patrol, Chamouny, El mer’s Sose, King David, and Bur ma. There are many other good ones in a wide range of colors.' In cutting the flowers, three " or four of the lower Heaves should be left in order to develop the new bulb for next year. Thrips, small sucking insects, may damage the flowers*—espec ially in hot dry weather. They can ,be controlled by spraying or dusting, with DDT every week or 10 days. ALARMS AND SOLUTIONS There is no doubt that the alarms raised and the solutions offered by men like Wilson and RcandeiSr members of one gen eration, were unlike those of Mitchell and Tugyvell, members r-ol another*. The -first eaiiedupon public authority -to regulate;:the* second, to plan. And today, bas ically, the critics of big busi ness—^recognizing that it is an agency of power; fearful of the destruction of the individual's autonomy—are talking of the need for the assumption of re sponsibility that power' connotes if it is to be socially acceptable, on the one hand, and the main tenance of countervailing forces (equally big, perhaps) on the other. —N. Y. Times Book Review BUBBLES By. Jim Lee lit |f. C. WilJtifg Jt e«*»rce« Commttsiom "And when I grow up, I want to live in dean waters, please!" Does Baseball Deserve It's Privileges? It could be that organized baseball is in for some interesting times. The Supreme Court has ruled that not only the theater but also professional boxing, another form of entertainment, cOmes under antitrust acts. Away back in 1952, ruling on an attempt to set up a #third major league, the Federal, the Supreme Court affirmed that a baseball game was “local in its beginning and in its end." There fore professional baseball could pot be classed as interstate com merce. Congress, said the court, did not intend that it be subject to antitrust laws, has* had the matter under consideration, but for 30 years (before 1922) has allowed baseball to develop on an assumption of its immunity. This ruling was reaffirmed in 1953 on much the same grounds, and the court held that remedy for whatever evils may exist lay in legislation: Now' the high tribunal states it is'not bound by its own decisions on baseball or by Congress’ past intentions to assume that “ail forms of sport and entertain ment are immune. And the cases before it being concerned with boxing, and the theater, the court rules them subject to antitrjjst laws. Associate Justice Frankfurter, dissenting, has some fun with a phrase in the original baseball opinion which held that transpor tation of players and equipment between state “is a mere inci dent.” Says fie: . When boxers travel from state to state, carrying their shorts and fancy dressing robes in a ditty bag, in order to participate in a boxing bout which is wholly intrastate, it is now held by this court that the boxing bout be comes interstate commerce. ' There seems litle doubt that without some control over the contracts of players, organized hence the pennants, gravitating to the'richest clubs in the biggest cities. But this series of decisions, while leaving baseball where it was legally, exposes it as a lone exception, soon, perhaps, to be challenged to prove to court or Congress that it deserves its priv ilegs. — from Christian Science Monitor 1= " A retiring college professor was giving a few words of advice to the new instructor. “In every class, you’ll find one student who always wants to argue. Don’t be too hard on him, He’s probably the only one who’s listening.”.— ' fairn and Ranch. I By BILL WHITLEY FIGURES. The February issue nf The progressive Farmer has IT interesting facts u* ,«« ures about the incomes of various types of workers. They are in cluded in an editorial that calls for quick action by Congress to help increase farm income. The basic argument set forth by the editorial is one for higher in come for farmers at a time when operating costs are rising. Quoting figures compiled by, the magazine U. S. News and World Report, the editorial graphically shows how farmers, despite increased production, are <uitierin2 sieuuj declines in in St? m tsf 1951, the figures shows when farmer* were averaging 107 per cent o£ parity for their products, they had an annual average net income of only $1,718 as com pared with $3,416 for industrial workers. HOME. When the figures are analyzed, they drive home that old, painful fact about per capi ta income in North Carolina. To give a cross-section, 12 major income groups were list ed. Of the 12, there are very few workers in the top six income groups in North Carolina. The groups earning the largest in comes—weekly incomes after taxes—are: factory workers, auto workers, steelworkers, soft-coal miners, machinery? manufactur ing workers and farm implement workers. The lowest six groups, in-which are included the bulk of the working people in North Carolina, are; railroad workers, school teachers federal emplo yees, textile workers, clothing workers and farm 0»„ REVEALING. The | most revealing. The ] in the 12 groups workers, who have „ weekly net income of] lowest are the farmers an average weekly net’j only $37.24. The texti which make up a la, of, wage earners in olina, are the.third come group, with weekly net income of i Another revealing of the . 12 listed, exception of textile i farmers — have incn net income fenw ' yngrs anywhere three dollars a week. Farmers are' earning] age of over five dollar less now than they years ago. Textile wo make about two doll* less than they did The school teachers ed the largest incn make about eight do! more than in 1950. .-largest gain has be the steelworkers, about seven dollars now than five years TOTAL? When the added up, it means thaH two largest income North Carolina - textile workers * sharp ’drops in others have enjoyed Where the need for i com.e lies, is obvious, by,'which these incon increased, however, is] * the most troublesome of thp day. Umstead's Column On Legislature (Continued from Page 1) tax. Re-Organization Pending While the questions of appro priations and revenue will really determine the length of this ses sion there are many other matters of great importance that will have to, tie considered before we can leavTJtaleigh .Otie of ihe.se mat ters is that of re-organization of state government. The 195a leg islature authorized the appoint ment of jl commission to make a study of this problem. This com mission, after giving it much time and thought, has brought to this legislature several suggestions that many of us think will make for more efficient state government and with less cost to the taxpayers. These suggestions in the form of bills have already been introduced but final action has not been taken on the most important of them.-—r'-—r— Another matter of importance -U.UU115 uie pa several.years inadequate wat supply has been' a problem th has faced practically- every ci and town in the state. We a told by those who have made study of the water situaion th some steps must be taken by tl legislature or the. problem will b< come progressively greater as ti years pass, Something should be done take care of human needs f water as well as the needs of i dustry. The 1953 legislature, , the suggestion "of Governor Ur stead, passed a resolution callii for the' appointment of a cor mission to study the problem a make a report to this session the legislature. As a result of studies a bill has been prepar and offered to both bodies. Anot er bill by Senator Bunn of Na will be considered along bill represent my She thi the commission appointed ernor Umstead. / High-way Safety Still another matter importance to the peopli state is that of safety highways of the state. I t ! htfi'e ' <<•_,<• -i*' previously, but for the'p weeks it Ini'- ... me one most discussed questions the 1955 session. This was by the action of judiciary te number one when itj with favorable action 3 I would for all purposes e the use of the "whamnij means of making our 1 safer for those who wish I by the traffic laws. Those of us who stand use of any justifiable ra make the highways safer all in our power to defeat' when it conies to thejtot ...IJause, if,-by -way chav-c: it get by the committee « to' which it was sent a favorable report by me < tee -on--Judiciary lasUtf So far as Orange Co concerned this 1955 unique in that no local been introduced. Early in sion I notified the M merit units that 1 would to introduceII bills that It approval?''! have had only suggested and that has to. the election of the men the Chattel Hill School 8 the people. The suggestions et ^ Board for the Chapel Hill istrative Unit will be co by a member of the ‘ General’s staff and a bl11 senting the- board's wishes presented to the house consideration. SENATOR valiant work Washington _ Washington witnessed an unusual ceremony during the past week when Mrs. Jessie Taylor, of Southport, North Carolina, was awarded the meri torious service medal by the United States Weather Bureau for her highly intelligent and valiant work during Hurricane Hazel. LONG SERVICE As one who has been a volun tary cooperative observer of the United States Weather Bureau for 55 of her 75-years, Mrs. Jes sie Taylor has expert knowledge of the tides and winds Atlantic coast in the ^ area. As a result oi knowledge, Mr. Tayl°r * to give advance warm”” approach and course ’ cane Haael. Her acta'^ doing undoubtedly ,e?s the saving of many l1' Mrs. Taylor visited " last week to receive *■’ which she so justly "!f‘‘ charm and heroisnj 1 j all who were' pcivile?1' this most gracihtts, 2 North Carolina -is,
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