Editorial And Opinion
Town Should Begin Work
On Anti-Pollution Program
I'nder the State's stream sanitation few. the Town ol
Hillsboro almost ol a certainty will have to lace the problem
of sewage disposal within the next year or two.. We believe it
highly important that the Town Fathers begin making si to
dies, plans and financial preparations at once in order to
solve this problem with the least discomfort and before legal
requirements or some hitter ■court battle precipitates it.
We have been fold that classification and public' hearings,
in connection with the F.no River tinder the pollution abate
ment program ol the State Board ol Health mav he expected
next year under the present, timetable. The town of Hillsboro
whic h empties raw sewage into tire stream below its own wafer
supply is the area's worst offender!
A spokesman .lot the Si ate*-Board of Health recently, in
our. midst hiade tlm sigldific aiu statementWith our present
knowledge, there is little excuse or justification lor clumping
raw sewage into any stream today.”'.We agree rod believe that
. the majority of Town Board members and c itizens alike do
also.
During the last month ol the session Congress passed ml
the President signed a bill to coutini|c on a permanent ba.iLc
federal encouragement to light against l ive 1 and stream pol
lution. I lie ac t sets up a fund of .Syo.ooo.ooo to aid. on a
matching basis, munic ipalitie.s in eonstriu ting water -waste
Li eaLiiient plants. .
We think it is not a hit too early fot the* town hoard to
begin drafting definite plans for sue h a disposal plant, to be
investigating and learning the procedure for obtaining these
funds from the. federal government, and to he setting up a
sinking fund out of which suc h a plant could he constructed
at a del mice lime in the future. . . -
We-urge, further, that the board take the people of the
community .into its < ouljde.iic e.and let them know what plans
thev are making in this very important field. For the pollu
tion abatement problem is one of the most serious facing this
community, as iittfeythe country as a whole. When the town
faces up to its respomibility, we are confident that local in
dustry and private citizens vvjll follow suit.
Don t Forget To Register
The registration books for the special election on Sep
tember Hth will be open next Saturday for the last time,
and bnlv ili.o.se persons who are duly registered will be per
mitted. to cast ballot.
On September Hth, Orange Citizens will join with the
rest of the setters in North Carolina in determining the fate
of the school svstem in this state when they ballot on the
proposed-c cnisi i 111tional amendments.
In adopting the Pearsall plan, and calling a special elec
lion., the Ge tter; I Assembly has deemed it the wisest move to
allow John Q. Public to chart North Carolina's future course
in this important i--.uc.
-On what uilLOrange voters bal^pt on September Hth?
On Sc ptenibej Hth they will decide whether they want
to authorize the- (Xnera'I .Assembly u> provide education ex
pense grants for private education’'; , . '*"”*/ ...
The-'* \ill ai.>u decide "hctbei they want ,|JiejJ[osing of
•» : anv scodecided by the .people on a local level. —
?; important to remember that the September Hth vote
... will no.t be directly c om curedwith c losing the sc hools. 1 he
voters will be balloting on an amendment that will give them
the- right to-vote inr the xtasing;: ot schools within a spec ific
district where a situation at isy.s that is said to Ice intolerable
by those persons living in that distric t. 1 licit vote will not af
fect schools throughout the remainder.-of the state™
We believe ill democracy aud letting the people speak.
Y\®e. cTitisncfeV ‘dn elecTtcflT 'ol‘this kind vitally important To -
everyone interested in tine future of Notrh Carolina. If you
are not registered. please do so in ordet that went will have
the piivilege. along with other North Carolinians^.-to go to
the poljs, Septemlien Hrh nnd • ex|way yt>tr--T>pinhsRpv "■*
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T he most tragic aspect of Chicago's polio outbreak,
noted in this part of the country because of the the Icicns on
the Democratic Convention, is that it came at a time when
the long fight against the crippling disease was almost won.
The sc ientific genius df Dr. Julia's Salk ;yid oilier researchers,
coupled with the trenuyidous production effort of The ha
* - lion's pharmaceutical manufac turers, have at long last given
mankind an inexpensive, plentiful vaccine that promises to
end'for all time (her ravages of paralytic poliomyelitis. (
Whether mankind will take advantage of this,.gpJcfPU.npr
{ermtttnfv remaiif* 1 c> f>e seen. The Chicago Hoard of Health
reported that no pne who received the full three-shot series
df Salk imx.ulaiions'xontxaaed paralytic polio during the out
break, Vet at the same time, it deplored the fact that "lethar
gic and indifferent parents" were not seeing to it that their
children received their second and third shots of the vaccine.
The lesson to be drawn from this seems dear:' the noble
labors of Dr Salk, plus the dedicaed effort behind tJie pro
duction o| over Ho mljlicfri doses'bf vacc ine by the inn ion's
pliarimxeutical houses iu the last i(i months, as reported by
the Health News Institute, will have gone for naught unless
all those who need the vac t ine's protection get it. Iu the Salk
vaccine, mankind lias a powerful wedpon that mayVinstne
final victory over paralytic polio. Hut the weapon must lie
used if the battle is to be won.
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preme Court justices and officials
of the Attorney General’s staff
are in desperate need of. assis
tance.
The Attorney General's depart
ment. according to reports we get,
couid de with a general reorgani
zation — with definite duties as
signed to the assistants and
more assistants.
Our justices are overworked,
being forced io spend too fnueh
-time in petty research. Informs*
Hr n we get is that they would like
tj have six fo eight young attor
neys r, as- research assistants. In
.if 37. It Mif be 20* years since we
*-fii’-tjed-the legislative "miscro
scope on the Justice Department.
It is due again.
GOOD STROKE . . . Between
Bill Horner and 6ob Mason, the
Sanford Merald is corning up
these days with'some mighty good
reading. This one is about stirring
mash.
Anybody who has been to Wake
Forest College knows about the
Harricane section of Wake Coun
t.va pretty rough area about
three miles west of Wake Forest
toward Durham.. Be that as it
may. many a story has been told
about the Harricane and its peo
ple, none of whom — to our
knowledge — went to Wake. But ,
all good Baptists, nevertheless.
‘ They had this fellow up before
the congregation for making li
him — or kick him out. But he
said he didn't make no liquor,
didn't sell none, didn't drink
none.
"But", he sang out, "there’s
some holier—’n—thou people that
does meaner, and makes their liv
.ing less honest, and raises their
children worser than a man who
" feeds and clothes his family from
Jhe sweat of his brow a-stirring
of the mash."
And, as he became^xciled with
his talk, he placed jme fist over
,th<; other and described a wide
circle—Cas if ptdling a dogwood
pole through a vat.
At this poinf.' the chairman of
the board of deacons." sitting up.
front, leaned over to the clerk
and whispered in an admiring
voice that could be heard at the
rear of the room, "he’s" got a
right good stroke, bain’t he?”
NOTES . . . Be sure to rgad
how we are killing our ministers
in Ihe'eucrent-issue of Life Maga*-*
*me . Aren’t the newspapers
running more “private school"
advertisements this year.’'. . The
Great Smoky Mountains National
Park traffic survey showed as of.
July 24 that 25 8 per cent of the
travelers were from Tennessee,
with North" Carolina in third place
* -^-behind Ohio — with 8.9 per
eent and just ahead of Florida
with 6.5 per cent . . . 52,000 peo
ple interviewed in 15,000 cars...
Although they are doing it
for free, a lot of school principals
find themselves working harder
this summer — getting leathers,
or trying to get them — than fast
January when school was in full
.. swing . The Democrat? had
about ltJO delegates, alternates,
correspondents, and hangers-on *
at the Chicago convention . , . In
San Francisco this week, N. C.
Republicans have 82 . . not bad,
considering the distance . . .
. * . One of the finest, most in-,,
teresting, and mast attrative book-"
lets we’ve seen recently is "An
Empire ad j „ Crossroads’’,, .the
story of Eastern North Carolina
by William D. Poe, associate edi
tor of the Progressive Farmer ...
Adlai Stevenson’s grandfather,
also named Adlai, was nominated
for the vice presidency In the
Demoncratic National ponvenlibn
held in Chicago in 1892 . . . N. C
was uyie of those seconding the
nomination . , . as was the rase
last week with the younger Adlai
. . and Grandfather Adlai was
elected and served as President
Cleveland’? vice president .
A month from now , . Septem
ber 22 . .. football opens up again
in N. C. . , . We hear there is an
unusually heavy demand for
State-UNC tickets . . WF Is ex
pecting sellouts for home games
with Maryland on September 29
. . Clemson . . . State . . . and
Duke . . . all in Winston-Salem.
The vice presidents like North
Carolina . . . Two weeks ago it
was Nixon aCRidgeerest . . . and
this week it is Kefauver at Blow
ing Rock . . . Adlai Stevehson’s
great grandfather lived in Ifedell
"Mirror/ Mirror, Name Of Hall, Who It Fairest Of US All?"
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. Hugh G. Haynie in The Smithfield Herald
Bill Crowell
FREE WHEELING
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THANKS UP THERE .. . Say a
prayer if you got through last=
month without suffering auto ac
cident hurts. Motor Vehicles De
partment records show 83 per
sons killed in July traffic and
the worst is yet to come. Same
records for last year show as
cending statistics,, from. ...August _
through December. Like this:
August 82 fatalities, September
98, October 137,' November 112T
aff* VfceWvber 134. * v~
STOPPING TIP «... A good
rule “of the thumb'• for'Vfb’ft'ldy
estimating safe stopping distance
is tn. paste the figure "5” over
your speedometer: Then multi
ply any dri ving speed by five and
the result will be the approx^,- ?
mate number of feet it will take
NERVOUS N A. G S' . 'Fifty .'
gears ago the approach of “one
of them infernal hprseless carri
ages” sent Grandpa into a tizzy.
And tgith good cause for his,
team was sure to lake fright" and
bolt, a contingency the State of
North Carolina recognizes to this
very day. Even though Old Dob
5Tn figuratively"* succumbed to
the auto’age years ago he still
. can stop traffic dead. The lawts
heavily onesided in his favor as
evidenced by an obscure passage
in the Motor Vehicle Manual.
Putting ft roughly, the book
says any person mounted or lead
ing a horse has only to raise
His .hand and cars must stop,
period. And if the animal is bad
ly frightened the motorist is
further directed to shut off the
engine and if bidden to assist the
horseman to quiet the animal.
The Jaw ofiginally was passed in
1917 to “insure the safety of all
persons concerned and to pre^
vent accidents." Assemblymen
through the years have never
repealed the‘quaint law, possibly
because the Tar Heel State bdasts
the nation's greatest horse - and
mule population.
BRIEFS ... One-fourth of. the
delivered jflPice of a new car con
's'sts of taxes ... in fl0^y?ar^ the
auto industry has produced 156,
TftKi'.tXX) rmfiot Velrtttes:. at 69
mph-3000 gallons of water will
circulate through .the average
car's radiator every hour ... the
average car tbday is 5.9'years
old ... the most popular color
for new trucks is red.
it h&m
this figure, then look away
quickly and repeat it to yourself
mentally: 5 3 0 4 9 1. How did
you dw?*- «
Hdl*e »i« Chapel Hill at the
State Highway Patrol Training
School recruits are getting a
steady diet of such exercises to
develop “flash recognition" says
Sgt, e‘"W. JoneS of Asheville,
commander of the current school.
In practice a projector flashes on’
the wall a series of six scrambled
digits for intervals of one hun
dredth of a second. Instructors
then question the class to see
who remembered. It’s good to
report tttkt most of the rookie
troopers .have .sticky ..minds for
such details. It’ll »erve them well
later on when they might have
only seconds to,, identify a flee
ing car’s license plate.
SENATOR
SAM ERVIN
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WASHINGTON — Among the
2878 bills passed by the 84th Con
gress were acts which fall in the
field of social legislation.
Social Security
A major step was taken by the
Congress when it passed a bill
broadly revising the Social Se
curity program. It marked the
finftl piece of major legislation
promoted by Senator George of
Georgia. Among other things, it
gives women the optional privi
lege of retiring at 62 rather than
County, near Harmony, around
1830:34 .moving-from there to
the Kentucky-Illinois area. Al
though he is not a log.yabin pro
duct, what presidential candidate
could have a better hometown
name than Libertyville? . . .
The average salary of engineer
ing graduates of N. C. State going
into private, employment- this
summer is $421.84 per month . . .
as compared w.ith last year's $386.
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«5, and maxes. dtsatjied persons
eligible for fyll benefits at age
50, and increases tjie tax on both
employer, and employee to 2Y*
per cent starting next January.
The tax now is g per. cent.
Of specjori interest to . North
Carolina was the amendment to.
the Security bill which
'permits policemen and firemen
to volupUiHly be covered by So
cial Security for retirement pur
poses.
No action was taken on the
President’s request for a health
insurance program.
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Per TW People
Other bills for the people adopt
ed by Congress were such as the
Federal flood insurance act, ex
tension of the polio-vaccination
program, broadened and extend
ed the school milk program, a
three-year $90 million program
of building non-Federal facilities
for research in crippling diseas
es, increased benefit payments
Garden Time
Robert Schmidt
In the flower garden this is a
good'time to plant seed of spring
and early summer blooming per
ennials.
Ii' these seeds are planted now
in flats, coldframes, or well-pre
pared seed beds, and transplant
ed as ‘ soon as large enough to
handle, they will bloom next year.
If you plant the seeds in the
spring most of these plants will
not bloom until the following
year.
. August apd September are good
months to plant seed of pansies*
and winter annuals such as an
nual larkspur, annual phlox, shtr
ley poppies and cornflower. Pan
ai.es .should be transplanted but
the other may be Iefr ar seeded.
They are all hardy to winter tem
peratures: All are early'spring
bloomers.
Wev haw received reqiupsts of
information about peonies — will
they grow here? Should they be
divided? When should they be
moved? When and how should
new plantings be marie?
Peonies are more easily grown
in the piedmont and mountain
sections of North Carolina, but
they ean also be grown in eoastai
plan areas with better care.
The time for making new plant
ings. or for moving or dividing
old plants would be October and
November in eastern North Caro
lina and September and October
the Western and mountain
sections af the state. Don t move
.them unless there is good reason
to do so. Peonies do not like to
be disturbed. If you have a 'clump
doing well and producing good
blooms, let it alone. Loss of roots
in digging will be harmful.
It is not necessary to divide,
and move peonies every two 6r
three years as we do iris and
daffodils It a plant is not bloom
ing satisfactorily then it may i>e*
advisable, to move it to a better
location, or perhaps it h'as been
planted too deep and should be
taken up and replanted.
under the railroad retirement pc,q.
grimt, fUHfls for vocationaf reha
bilitation, research in cancer,
heart disease and other ailments
broadened the water pollution
^control actj and increased the
penalties for trafficking in nar
cotics, just to mention a few of
the bills.
Minimum Wage
Ondt ftf the big items of the
first session of the 84th Congress
was the Passage of a bill to in
crease the minimum wage from
seventy-five cents to one dollar
perhour This law became effec
tive earlier this year. * ■
Highway tiff ~'
Perhaps the most important
domestic legislation this session
wfc the multi-billion dollar high
way bill, it is a 13.year pr e
to build 41.000 miles of intestate
superhighways; increased taxes
on gas. tires, etc. will help pay
for the .program. This program
Tn'1 therLe 88 a powerful stimulus
XX. Ic h“"h ,h'
far Heel "I
PEOPLE & ISSUES!
^ By Cliff Blue
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NOTABLE WEEK ... For the
writer last week’siOemocratic Na
tional Convention held in Chicago
will be a week long to be remem
bered. For more than 20 years we
have attended ppunty and state
conventions of the Democratic
party but this was our first at
tendance at a national political
convention.
We went to the convention as
one of the delegates from the 8th
North Carolina congressional dis
trict committed to the support of
AdUi SteflVenson. Despite a flur
ry of opposition led by former
President Truman, Stevenson won
by a landslide as we had expected
since his victory over Kgfauver
in California a few weeks ago.
TICE PRESIDENT . . . While
the nomination for the pfesidem
. cy was the big apple of the con
vention, the high mark so far as
excitement came during the bal
loting for the vice presidency.
The victory of Estes Kefauver
over Senator John E. Kennedy
was a photo finish after the
youthful senetor from Massa
chusetts came within 20-odd votes
of victory, then in the course
of minutes see one of the most
dramatic swings in political his
tory to the slow-talking Tennessee
Senator who through his tremend
ous hand-shaking campaigns is
often referred to as “The Hand."
It was almost like dozzling a
stick of red candy in front of a
three years old child and then
hand it to his elder brother. Ken
nedy was ^-probably as surprised
as most others at his large vote.
He thought the nomination was
as good as won but before, he
could make the trip from the
Stock Yards Restaurant to the
scene of the convention hall, a
two to five minute expedition,
the tide had turned and Estes was
Walking away with the' stick of
candy. To appreciate the excite
ment which surrounds such a vic
tory you must be present in per
son.
TRUMAN ... Former President
an* Mrs. iTruman had a box in
the balcony just to fhe left in
front oT the Tar Heel delegation
throughout the convention. It was
bur privilege to observe him and
note his expressions from time to
timef- While the delegates abso
lutely declined to follow his re
commendation and vote for Har- -
riman, he was nevertheless quite
popular and gjt tremenj
tions every time he spot?*
. But from the political
got absolutely nothing M
his darhest to stop Steve3
the delegates turned a de*
nominating him overwh*
He has long been again**
er, and the people in - - J
free convention pinned 9
presidential tag on the t9
Senator. We have often s3
pie who lose a big battlJ
ed in a barrel without *
A cartoon showing Trumj9
ing the convention witho9
the barrel might not be 9
priate,
HELPED STEVEN.J
Erankly., we think TrmJ
termination to stop sJ
helper! the former Illinois*
nor for it proved to be as9
ing factor for the former*
governor and 1952 pre J
candidate at the very tuJ
of his delegates were eyingl
possibilities.
FRANK . . . But Tram J
many outstanding qualities^!
insure him a big place in h*
Following Stevenson's nmn9
he admitted that he had h J
on a real shelly-king and pi*
his full support tg the tick*
NEW YORK . . . New Yfl
one of the large stales whirl
entimes tries to dominate I
tional political convention!
Chicago they left just like!
man. Carmine DeSapio, N. yfl
tional Committeeman and I
many Boss was all out for dl
nor Harriman of New York!
riman lost. The N. Y. del*
then backed Mayor Rob*
Wagner for vice president ■
Wagner made a poor show*
the first ballot, New York!
cast the bulk of its votes fori
nedy, and Kennedy lost. The!
York delegation was settiagl
the North Carol ina^dtle*
with only Pennsylvania b*
and we observed them close*
they yyould caucus from I*
-time. ‘-V "W I
PENSION COSTS I
The pensions paid to sal
of the U. S. wJky ived J
Revolutionary war amountil
more than $70 ndUwn, acaJ
to the records of the treaswl
war departments.
Publicity And Then Some
Christian Science M01*
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