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TWO Editorial And Opinion Slow Down.. Your Life's At Stake “You’ve got to slow down, Charlie." Or Hill. Or Jim. Many a middle-aged executive has heard such advice from his physician—and good advice it is. Actually, this advice applies not only to overworked adults, but to prac tically everybody. This summer it is partic ularly applicable to drivers of automobiles who show symp tom of having been bitten by the “Hurry Bug.” A nation wide “Slow Down and Live" campaign, now being conducted by the National Conference of State Safety Coordinators in an attempt to reduce traffic fatalities between now and Labor Day, deserves our thoughtful attention. It would be wrong of us to dismiss this campaign as being aimed otdy at the speeders who habitually ignore (Misted speed limits. They may be the one most obviously in need o( . such advice, but the campaign strikes more broadly at all "in a .hurry*" attitudes and even at the fleeting impulses which .rr«^ipmt'ljy v.i/limm-ahe tncist lescived^cjl di'vcis. The campaign seeks to eliminate not only illegal speeding, but driving too fast for conditions, improper passing, failure to yield right of ivay, following too closely—all mistakes that are know accidents producers. This campaign has the pledged support of the Governor's Traffic Safety Council and the Department of Motor Vehicles plus : ■ long list of public spirited organizations including this newspaer. But to be successful it must have the active coopera tion of each driver—and there are over a million and a quar ter jn North Carolina. That’s where the* hitch comes in. Realizing the impotant role we play in any venture, of this type, and bein^ in full agreement with the objective of saving lives in traffic, the least we can do is give the “Slow Dow n and Live” idea a chance by practicing these rules of safe driving this summer: 1. Allow an extra margin ol time lor each motor' trip, to avoid the need for’rush-action on the highway. 2. Always obey legal speed limits, and exercise good judg ment by "further reducingspeed in bad Weather or in heavy traffic. .......... ‘j. Allow adequate distance between your car and the one -ahead. ;(Aj least one cat length for each ten miles per hour of 4. Resist the impulse to pass a slov? moving vehicle on a hill or curve. 5. Reduce s|x-d when approaching intersections, be pre pared to yield right of way not only when the law requires it but whenever yielding appears necesary to prevent a collision. 6. Develop attitudes of patience and forbearance instead of yielding to the more dangerousattitudes of impatience and anger white driving. . . . ' Our Loss ^HMtorth Carolina suffered the loss of a notable citizen last , .aireeR In the.pers n of Attorney General Harry McMullan, who for a time had residence in Orange while his children ed the University. larry McMullan, a native of Hertford, North Carolina, It^d in Lav the Universityqf: North Carolina and em Srkcd t’poii the police of Law at Wavbuigioft, North €5ur-. ciiha.dh was appointed Attorney General by Governor’"Hoey on Ak il 30, 1938 and occupied that office from that time until his death on June 24, 1955. “As a practicing lawyer and as a member ol the State's Judiciary, wrote Senator Sam Ervin, I know that Attorney General McMullan was confronted by more numerous and more troublcsomgJegal problems, than any of Jiis predecessors. His learning and wisdom enabled him to find satisfactory solutions for these problems. As a consequence, history will assign him high rank among the many able men who have served as Attorney General.” --- ■_il Unfinished Business “The people of the Republic, of Korea and, their Gov v eminent," says President Syngnun. Rhee ill a message to the: '• • >~Teiuh. "Antiiv&r&if^ iXMnuumliliAUkt' meetings* cif the UnitCi Nations in San Franciyco, “are more keenly aware than ever of the historic importance of the United Nations organi/a __ tiort and its bc.ic objectives. These object ives—peace, freedom and human progress—are shaied by men of good will everyf ■where.V To restore world peace “now", President Rhee jirges the withdrawal -of foreign troops from Korea* His country asks Y.ffys*, Ik%. says, "tlte w iihd| ayval of Chinese Cotninun.ist troops, with tire assuranc e that they- wilt never .renew their aggressive actions. When they all leave, we know full well the United Nations forces will be happy to return home. “Only if tour neighbors reciprocate the peaceful inten tions -of the Republic of Korea, shall we be in a. position to enter-into •friendly relations, whether it be with Soviet Russia,, Red .China, or even japan. , “As long as there are powers who believe they can con quer the world, even talks of peace are practically impossible." In closing his •greeting. Or. Rltee comes up with a provo ative and cogent thought: “We hope all world statesmen will take sides at this times The so-called neutral nations, in death struggle between Communism and democracy, ate friends of one tai enemies of the other. No individual or nation can serve*, two masters in terms of permanent relations.” In view of the foregoing advices, requests and recom mendations, so aiptly and tersely put, we think we can-, ap preciate dir. Rhee’s cryptic closing line: "More power to you on the tenth anniversary of the United Nations.” Published Every Thursday By “ , « THE NEWS, INCORPORATED 1 Hillsboro and Chapel Hill, N. C. EDWIN J. HAMLIN _ __Editor and Publisher Entered as Second Clou Matter at the Past Office at UMsboro, North Carolina, under the Act of March 9, 1879. Exclusive National Advertising Representative GREATER WEEKLIES Near York * Chicago * Detroit A Philadelphia SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR (inside North Carolina) __$2.00 SIX MONTHS (inside North Carolina)_$1.90 pNE YEAR (outside North Carolina) , , j , . - $2/* . (Continued from raae 1) come Up with a whole fistful 'of key jobs or committee posit ions to be filled. With each ap pointment, he naturally gains political strength. If it’s not judges, then it’s higher cduca tioifi and it’s not water resources, it’s nfcmbers of the State Utili ties" Conimissiopv ..Nfui conies an , AttorneyGen wF - T ■ • X On the present staff, there are at least three able assistants. Wade Bruton, Montgomery bounty native, is oldest in point of service. He was exceedingly close to McMullan. He knows the department through and through. Bruton has been named acting head. Then there is Ralph Moody of Murphy, who is regarded by those who know him in Raleigh as something of a legal wizard and deep-digging scholar on intri cate legal matters. Moody has been with the Attorney General’s office for about ten years. He is^ a former chief counsel for, and chairman of, the Employment Security Commission. - Newcomer of the three fs' Dr.~ Beverly Lake of l^ake Forest. Eiftyish son of the late head, of the Department of Physics at the Baptist school,’ Lake was for a time head of the Wake Forest Law School, ami is something of a controversial figure. There you have them. Will the Governor go to Montgomery County, to Cherokee, or over to Wake Forest? He may not name in the Democr*ic primary next named must run for the office spring if he wants to hold the job beyond the fall of 1956. Since the appointee will have been on the assignment less than a year at that time, chances are he will have opposition But if he can get by that one, he should have scaiit cause for worry about his political future Attorneys'generarTh NortT Car olina have had no trouble in the past in downing any opponents having the ambition and the nerve to try for that particular office. JOINING HANDS . Nobody paid too much jttention to the announcement last week that much of the operation of the big Job P. Wyatt hardware firm here would be moved frpm its Wilmington Street quarters to a big new building to be construct. etf 'our on tire edge of town: The same newspaper article pointed out that a large portion of the store being vacated Would eventually be used by the Hud son-Belk Co. through a tunnel to he -constructed frohy the pres ent store under Wilmington Street to the vacated Wyatt building. v ,. ..This is just another case of Baptists and Presbyterians join ing hands, a rather rare in cident in North Carolina church circles. It so happens that the aggres sive head of the Hudson-Belk store in Raleigh is Karl Hudson, Jr., whose family have been great benefactors of- many a ' Presbyterian cause in this State. His wife is the former Catherine Wyatt, daughter of Will Wyatt, and from one of the most prom inent Baptist families in the South. The Baptist and Presbyterian denominations would be meas urably poorer in many more ways than money without the help of the Wyatt’s and the Hud. son’s. It is only proper that their oFm We wish them continued suc cess in their new and expanded endeavors. WEATHER ... It may be hot as blazes here by the time this reaches you, but this summer — so far — has been the most com fortable in many a day in Ra leigh, which ordinarily7 is not the coolest place in the world at this time of year. The Weather Bureau took a brief glance back ward for me last Sunday after noon and reported this June, to June 26, as the coolest in Ra leigh in eighj years. ;s are joined in marriage SIB erwise. ‘ THE GLPKIOU.S FOURTH OF JULY 1 \Vv * ' f tf ■ jA»GH PRlNClPiEs •t ' THIS IS THE LAW ADOPTED CHILDREN May~2n adopted child take the surname of its adoptive parents? Yes. It is customary for the adoptive parents to make such request in their petition for the adoption of the child. A new birth certificate is issued in the changed name of the child. An adoption is a formalized legal proceeding. Alexander executes a will. Sub* seguently. Alexander and his wile adopt a child. Alexander does hot change the terms of his will and there is no mention of the child in the will. Does the adopted child inherit'anything from Alex ander? -Yes.. Under a mew law. .passed by the-11955 General Assembly and taking effect on July 1, 1^55, the after-born child is.entitled to such share in the estate of Alex ander as it would be entitled to if Alexander' had died \vithotit a will. The will of Alexander is not otherwise revoked or affected. The new law gives to an after adopted child the same rights of -inheritance that are presently -given to a natural child-born af ter the execution-of a will If the particular child had been "born into the family or adopted ~ into the family of Alexander be fore the execution of his will, and had not been given anything under the terms of the will, the child waUffi, not “have inherited j.anything from the estatelof Alex ander. A parent is not obligated to leave anything by will to his chil dren'. But if there a,re either af By Robert E. Lee' (For tho N. C. Bar Association) ter-born or after-adopted children, and there is no provision what soever in the will in reference to them or an indication in the will that the testator intentional ly did not make specific provis ion therein for them, the law will give them what they would get had he died without a will. This is on the theory that the testator would ave done so himself if he had gotten around to changing his will. A man dies without a will, ^e is survived by two natural chil dren and one adopted child. Will the three children share equally in the distribution of his estate? Yes. The estate will be divided equally among the three children. Albert Biggs and his wife adopt a child. Subsequently Albert dies. Later his father dies without a will. Can the adopted child in herit anything from the estate 6f 'Albert's father. —— Yes. The adopted child will be the representation of his adop tive father, “stand in the shoes of his adoptive father”, and take Uhe shaife his adoptive father would have received had he been 4U¥ir-:-,-’ ■ I ---— .. •• This is the last of a spring series of articles that have ap peared weekly during the past thre months. They have been written for the non-lawyer as a public service of the North Caro lina Bar‘'Association. HE NEVER MARRIED MbpWhen Robert Schumaa was asfc-> ed by friends why he remained a bachelor, the French foreign min ister answered this way: “One day when I was young, as I walked in the subway I stepped on a woman’s foot: Without look ing at- me she shouted,- ‘Studid lout, why can’t you ge careful?’ ' .‘‘l-was very ^surprised and was trying to answer when she,turned to face me and grasped, ’Oh, I am so sorry, sir, I thought you were my husband.—Heathwaus. THE ALL IMPORTANT ASSISTANT r Tar Heel PEOPLE & ISSUES by Cliff Blue McMULLAN ... The death of Attorney General Harry McMu! Ia in Raleigh last Friday again brings to focus the fact.that many of North Carolina’s lead ing public officials gain their way to high office and public service by appointment rather than by election of the people. McMullan. himself went to the Attorney General post through appoint ment by Governor Hoey upon the elevation of the late A.A.Fj Sea 2SHi from that position, to Associ ate Jusitce of-the Supreme Court. OTHERS . . . There are seven members of the Council of State, they being the Secretary of State, State Auditor, State Treasurer, Superintendent of Public Instruc tion. Commissioner of Agricul ture, Commissioner of Labor and Commissioner of Insurance, all elected by the people. The At torney General who is elected by the people is the legal adviser to the Executive Department. A chock reveals that of the seven members of the Council of State, only two reached the posi tion by election of the people, tfhey being Thad Eure, Secre -fcary of State, and L. Y. (Stag) Ballentine. Secretary-of Agricul ture. The five others. State Aud itor Henry Bridges, State Treas urer Edwin Gill, Supt.,of Public Instructie.n Charles TV Carroil. Commissioner of Labor Frank Crane and Commissioner of In surance Charles F. Gold were all first appointed to their respec tive positions. Including in the list the At torney General, making a total of eight, only two of the eight or one-fourth were first eieeted by the people. LESSIO.N ... The lession which the above facts point out is that if you want a high office in North Carolina you can generally reach,, it through 'friendship with thej Governor better than through a vote of the people. Men appoint ed by the Governor to State posi-“ tions are usually able to win nom inatioos.. anji'£kction_,when vot ing time rolls around. However, this has not held in cases of U.S. Senatorial appointments in the past although the odds are now that Senator Sam J. Ervin. Jr.. will upset the tradition when He faces the voters eleven months hence... VIRGINIA ... We were in Richmond, Virginia recently and while there talked with a leading citizen and member of the Harry Byrd^wing of the Democratic party. He said that while the Byrd group had provided good government for Virginia that the group had kept -out -new blood which was necessary and that un less-they did accept new blood in to the group that they would likely lose out soon. - WORTHINGTON ... When Rep. Sam 0. Worthington accepted re appointment to the State Utilities Commission, the foes of school intregation lost a strong support er in any special session of the General Assembly which may be called. Along with Rep. B. I. Sat terfield of Person County, Worth ington was one of the most un compromising advocates of con tinued school segregation in the 1955 General Assembly, Worth ington is an independent man whose quiet Southern drawl has often proved very effective. He toyed with the idea of running for Speaker last year and would have run had Larry Moore de cided not to make tbe race. HODGES ... Hodges' reappoint ment of Worthjngtpn is a clear indication that the Qoyernor does not hold it against a man for M iftwing his Ava coamiioas even Ibough in daihf sfl he offposcj the Governor’s, program. Worth ington fought the Governor’s pro posed tax on tobacco tooth and toe-nail, and he was also at odds with the Governor on his ap proach to the segregation prob lem. This tolerant attitude has not always held sway in the Gov nor’s office. Its another sign that Luther Hodges is no small man. AUTO SALES .... The auto i is still on in North Carolina May Ford Jed in car sales 27® 2683 for Chevrolet. Howe Chevrolet led in truck sales to 592, giving Chevrolet an o all car and truck combinai Washington_Rep£^ Of Bodyguards And Horses Nam RUSSIANS. Soviet Foreign Min ister Molotov’s visit to the United States for the 10th anniversary meeting of the United Nations is causing some interesting side line talk. Take the matter of Russian bodyguards, for instance. The word is that during the San Francisco meeting of the' U. N.,„ poker-faced, stuffy-looking bodyguards hovered over Molo tov—never letting him get out of reach. . The bodyguards who watch over - top' Russian officials al e members of the £oviet /secret Police' and -are- counterparts- to, members of the -U. S. Secret S'er viee, who agents watch over Pres ' ident Eisenhower.' CONTRAST. There is a great contrast in the way Russian agents and U. S. Secret Service men operate. When President Eisenhower is Garden Time Robert Schmidt ■ The time is at hand for sowing seed for some of the fall crop vegetables that are transplanted. Seed of tomatoes should be sown at once arid seed of broccoli, cauliflower, collards, Brussels sprouts and cabbage should, be sown during the next two weeks for fall plants: In the western part of the slate it is also time to plant rutabaga, turnips if you have use for this vegetable. Also, there is still plenty of time left to plant, succession crops of butterbeans, snap beans and sweet corn, although late sweet corn is usually severely at tacked by earworms. You will notice that many of our fall vegetable crops are close ly related to cabbage and mus tard. That means that you prob ably will have trouble With' the harlequin cabbage bug, some times called “terrapjn bug”. The **> best control ‘ for this insect is ^,20% sabadilla dust applied as soon as you see a tew of the in sects. Fall tomatoes will have to be sprayed A’ith tribasic copper sulphate to Icontrol leaf spot and .. . lafe blight,-If your-soilis heavily infected with rootknot nematodes you probably will-not be.sucessful late tomatoes. In the flower garden it js time ly to divide and replant or plant new varieties of iris. Also, some 1 °f the best -fall /flowers are 6B-~ tained from Zinnias and mari golds sown right now. all acr and truck combination lead of 234. Chevrolet's total for cars and trucks being 3615 as compared with 3381 for Ford. Other May auto"sales in North Carolina were B'uirik 1045, Ply-' mouth 1007, Pontiac 925, Olds - mobile 894, Mercury 566, Dodge . 354, Chrysler. 237, Cadillac 181, DeSota 175, Nash 127, Studebaker 126, Packard 58, Hudson 55, Lin coln 47, Henry-J i, miscellaneous . 25 ♦ -/ ' / - Other truck sales: CMC ,169, International 130, Dodge 114, Mack 43, White 41, St«debaker . 35, WilIys-J.eep-27,-Uiamond-T 7,, Re(T2, Divco 1, miscellaneous 11. in a crowd, it is n b e even for a ^ pick out the Secret §• who are watching ians make far raor( out of this sore of tb> agents wear const* with .45 automatic | ing in their pockets, spicuous, however, that they keep the guarding closely all times. Even if someone tjj inate a Russian 'hj wo»ld have'to fim way. through thc guards. -.-^-1 Is ' CONTEST A {ew 11-year-old No«| boy wrote Senator Sfl eded him to help n, in a contest he wai The Senator has when he wrote the j fered his suggestion tor pointed out th dairy farmer—he | more experience in i Scott wrote the bo “T am suggesting but I think you ca think of some that in ter.” The youth is entaj test in an etlort to «ii The winnoi o( the coq awarded a $5,000 .a larship and 500 rum get bicycles. The twy; that he -isn’t intern! scholarship, but won# thing^to win one oil As a matter of recoi the names Scott sugg Flasher, Blaze Face, I Squeeze Me. Scott said thc name real meaning, but theji fancy. PAINT Ii juj iievs U. S. ‘Capitol at nighlj always remember iti brilliance that makes out more prominently other building on the! .skyline. In daylight! appears light gray, but it’s very br ight and ii The secret is in tin special concoction tint exceptional brilliance ificial light. ■ftTlJces1*a fhbusiridl paint to give thc da coat. To paint the don front of the Capitol,! ^taxayers $65,000'. Since 1862, the Dorn 30 coats of ‘paint-on -every tbrer- years.— NO PINCKNEY POi In my book (>n the write about Mr. Chartt ney of South Carolinat absolutely obsessed I idea of religious freed* -jaww dignity—J—JfiJ therefore to hear Iroml erby, director of tto * dina Archives,' in an'stt inquiry, that there is* . of Pinckney in .UsfeSMl nor a statue anywhen City of Columbia. Th*! me very much. Charles was one of the, imrnord English - speaking -—jhwvy Coblnun,003 Hie. , Misguided Missiles in chon
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