Editorial And Opinion
New Health Security for Aged
Gov. Luther Hodges has designated the week of July
1218 as a period for special attention to the interests, needs
and problems of the aged in our state. The Governor has
urged all North Carolinians to observe this week in all ap
propriate ways whirh^will bring addgfl happiness, health and
welfare to our cti/ens who are 65 and over. , ,
North Carolina1 now has approximately .loo,000 persons
in this age group and the number is increasing at a rate of
around 7,500 a year. In America 15 million person* have
reached their “golden age” and 1.2 millions more are be
coming senior citizens every year, as better health .cate
lengthens life expectancy.
The need for' improved health protection for these per
sons 65 and over is recognized as one of the foremost needs
facing our state and nation today. It is therefore encouraging
news that one Hospital Insurance group has come out with
a new Senior Citizen Blue Cross certificate which will help
to- meet this need in North Carolina. What the Governor
asked for, it seems, this group has provided.
This new hospitalization, surgical and medical care con
tract is offered to any Nrirth Carolina senior citizen 65 or
over who is in reasonably good health. The cost is about 20
cents a day per person.
’People who are 65 and over urgently need reliable
health protection. Advancing age is generally accompanied
Jbv a'higher frequency of serious illness requiring consider-1
ably more hospital and medical care than is the case among
the younger segment of the population. The new Senior
Certificate will give [people in this group the kind of pro
tection needed. -
The big concern is protesting those members of our
Senior Scxiety who are living on limited incomes from em
ployment, retirement programs, or social security. While they
"are self-supporting they are not able to meet heavy unex
pected hospital and medical expenses. These are the people
who need voluntary prepaid health care. To them the new
.Hospital Care Senior Citizen porgram seems indeed a god
.send.
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National Farm Safety Weefe
The President of the United States has proclaimed the
-week beginning July 19 as National Farm Safety Week and
.‘requests all persons ahd organizations interested in the wel
fare of farm people to support and participate in its obscr
• vance. #
The theme this year “Safety Makes Sense” is proven by
! the record in which accidental deaths among farm people
jhave been reduced from 19,500 in 1947 in the United States
•to 12,000 in 1957. The death rate based on declining farm
• population was also reduced from 66 per 100,000 farm popu
lation in 1947 to 57 in 1957.
f In North Carolina' in 1958, there were 99 farm accident
al deaths reported to the State Board of Health; this figure,
1 of course, does not include the accidental deaths that oc
f currfed in farm homes. Of the 639 home accidental deaths re
ported in 1958, it is estimated that approximately fifty per
J cent occurred in farm homes. The leading cause of farm ac
• cidental deaths was drowning, accounting for 38 deaths; rna
• chinery, 16 deaths: firearms, 8 deaths; fire and falling ob
l jects, 6 deaths; elec trie current, 5 deaths; all other accidents.
J 19 deaths. There is no data available to indicate the number
• of temporary or permanent disabilities resulting from non
• fatal farm accidental injuries; however, it is safe to assume
I that the number of injuries would be many times the num
) ber of deaths.
• Farming remains one of the most hazardous occupations;
. farm accidents still remain a serious threat to our farm popu
Jlatibn. The immediate pifrpose of National Farm Safety
Week is to arouse interest in the farm accident problem and
5 participation in farm safety activities. The ultimate ob
: jective is to make farm life safer, happier, and a more pros
4 perous way of living.
: We commend this interest and this objective to all form
1 citizens. The dividends of greater safety are worth the effort.
i. Memo .To Neglectful Parents
* Most parents would be shocked and offended by any
;; suggestion that when it comes to loving concern for their
’ children they are not models of solicitude. Yet the Health
i News Institute calls our attention to some figures which
' strongly indicate that in one vital,area of child care our pub
“ lie school systems are more conscientious parents than the
jj" parents themselves. { . =.
In the years before the widespread availability of Salk
vaccine^ according to the New York City Health Depart:
; ment, children from five to nine constituted the age group
!"■ most susceptible to paralytic polio. Today, in contrast, the
largest number of cases occur among pre-school youngsters
3! from one to four.
The reason for the change seems obvious—a systematic
program in the New York City schools to see that every
i school child receives his three Salk vaccine injections. By the
i. end of the school year 1958, nearly Goo,000 had been so pro
; tected.
Immunization of the pre-school group depends, of course,
on the initiative of the parent. Millions of adults have pro
! crastinated a>lx>ut getting their own shots. But for them to
j, fail to make ,sure that their children get the lifesaving in
[3 jections is neglect of an entirely different kind. VVe hope
p there are no such instances in our own community.
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Letters to
the Editor
Editor
The News of Orange County
Hillsboro, N. C.
Dear Editor:
We of this community have
been made pleasantly aware of
the presence of the Hillsboro Lit
tle League during the past sev
eral weeks. Twice weekly the
crack of bats and the cheers of
players and spectators have at
tested" to the fine reception this
program has received in Hillsboro
this summer. „
flow the season is coming to an
end. As it does we aU hope that
the ideals of good sportsmanship
and the skill of playing ball have
been increased in these young
boys. Certainly, those who attend
ed games were impressed with
these attributes.
The successful conducting of
such a program is possible only
though the devoted energies of
many people who have diligently
and faithfully pursued the respon
sibilities they happily assumed in
Behalf of all the parents. As an
official of the league I cannot ex
press ample praise and gratitude
to these~fciks. Words are not a
sufficient counterbalance when
you place their work on the
scales!
We should all be aware of them
by name: Managers: Joe Murray,
Harry Lloyd, Bobby Clayton, Al
ton Williams, Frank Frederick,
Kay Winecoff, George Allison,
Kenneth Roberts. Umpires: Sonny
Riggs, Melvin Scott, Joe Rein
hardt, John Couch, with assistance
from Buddy Breeze, Everette
Kennedy, Ernest Hatley, and Ken
neth Cook.
We are also indebted to the of
ficials of Hillsboro High School
for their cooperation in the use of
the playing field and'to a number
of parents who assisted in regis
tering the players.
To them aU I would, in behalf
of the Lfttle League officials, ex
tend our thanks for a job well
done. <- s
Sincerely yours,
C. H. Reekard, President
Hillsboro Little League
Jack Gilmore's
Garden
Gossip
When I accidently chopped my
pink Lycoris <Halli Amaryllis)
bulb into several pieces last year
1 almost wept but later I found
that quartering the bulb was one
of the methods of propogation.
This year 1 have three lovdy
bloom statics. These seem terribly
meager when compared with the
hundreds of blooms that make
such an unforgettable sight in
Mrs. Sandy Graham's garden. I
wonder if I will live long enough
to have a really good show of
these, one of my favorite flowers.
The rains have brought a great
upsurge of new growth and tiny
perennial seedlings in the borders.
1 regret my failure to plant for
get-me-not and English daisy
seeds last week before the rains
came. 1 did sprinkle- seed from
the Sweet Rocket and Larkspur
about in the bare spots.
Get those cuttings of shrubs in
to the rooting beds right away.
Boxwood and Azalea root easily
if put in this month. Abelia, For
sythia and Eleaignus cuttings will
make nice shrubs in a year or
two. ArborVita and Retinspora
along with the hollies should also
be rooted this month. Katherine
Knight has rooted hundreds of
cuttings in the past years or so
and she can tell you just how suc
cessful this means of propogating
your shrubbery at very little ex
pense can be.
Now is a wonderful time to weed
ttwe borders and get them back
into good shape. Small seedlings
can be moved with scarcely no ef
fort when the ground is nice and
wet.
Every silver lining has a cloud
tho and the houseflies have ap
peared with the rains. Where IS
my swatter;
BUND TO OUR OWN
The faults of others appear so
glaring, that moftt people entirely
overlook tile glare of their own.
SOFT SOAP -
Ifs easy to acquire a reputation
fur wisdom just by applauding the
opinions of your friends.
'And He's Supposed To Be A 'Lame puck General
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Let's Get Back To Chitlin's
. • The Charlotte' News
These are the times that try men’s palates.
Snails, canned rattlesnake meat and smoked eels we can tolerate
—albeit gingerly. ^
We can even suffer through a social occasion during which the
hostess hustles fried grasshopper hors d’oeuvres, pickled octopu and
chocolate-covered ants. That is, as long as the potato chips hold out.
We haven’t tried but we might even mapage some compassion on
the subject of seawegd tea, rosepetal jam, broiled kangeroo tail ana
shark’s fin soup. After all, tve eat lobster don’t we?
But enough is enough.
We learn, to our enormoq^j-egret, that the “vei^y latest things"
among “people of refined tastes*'are ’broiled baby sparrows "(packed
four to seven inva tin), smoked skipjack tongues, fried butterfly
cocoons, jellied roostercombs, chocolate-covered grasshoppers and
squid in its own ink. This is carrying liberalism too far.
We propose stern measures: Organization of a Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Diners, sanity tests for cooks, a roostercomb
tax, torchlight parades, maybe even a direct appeal to Bertrand Rus
sell. Eventually, lobster may have to go, but we’ll go after the baby
sparrow lobby first. ^ '
Then, if our plan succeeds, southerners can once again settle
back in safety and contentment with such sensible delicacies as chitt
lin’s, ragout of possum, catfish stew, pickled pig’s feet and cracklin’
bread.—The Charlotte News
We'd Miss Gunsmolce
The Sampsonian
We don’t .claim cousins any more, at least those beyond second
degree. Some people don’t even claim second cousins. Some will turn
their backs on first cousins, while still others, concerned with social
status, don’t go around bragging about brothers and sisters.
It has not been more than 20 ydars ago that a thi^d or fourth
cousin was considered to be practically a member of the immediate
family. It was always ‘‘Cousin Henry" or “Cousin Mary” or what have
you. And anything within the fifth degree of cousins was considered
to be a “kissin’ cousin.” ^
But not anymore. We’ve lost the knack of developing closely-knit
families for the simple reason that there are too many other things
to do. Family connections don't mean what they did a generation ago.
And we’ll never return to the day when everyone had a favorite
aunt or uncle. For unless the aunt or uncle lives next door, we never
see them anymore. After all. we’d miss “Gunsmoke” if we got in
the habit of calling on relatives. And offhand, I can’t think of any
thing worse than that.—The Sampsonian
All For Only A Hound
News & Observer
Luke Chastain got a medal at Asheville for having worked 18
days to free his coon hound, Old Touse, caught in a rock cleft, and
some folks will say, “It was only a dog, Why so much trouble? Why
so much celebration?”
They’ll hssert that if that much effort had been spent on amelio
rating the sad lot of orphans in Baluchistan, or spreading the doc
trine of home sanitation among the Kaffirs, the world would have
benefited far more than from the saving of one mixed-breed dog.
They have a point there, and they tni'ss another, and a big one.
Luke Chastain’s opportunity was to save Old Touse, and that is what
he did. He had compassion. He sacrificed time and toil. He did not
do what someboy else would have had him do, but what the moment
and tne circumstances told him to do.
He calls Old Touse “the best coon hound in the country.” Surely
he’s prejudiced, and maybe Old Touse Isn’t quite that. Even if he’s
not, Luke Chastain rescued him, and go^fj, works are good hcwever
humble their object
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Sounds Heard At A Catfight
An actress at a party, seeing an authoress Whom she disliked,
went over to congratulate her on her latest book.
=%*- “I enjoyed, it. my dear,” she saW, "Who wrote it for you?” .
"Darling,” replied the authoress, I’m glad you liked it. Who read
Ij to you?”'^ifbn^ir^ir
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By CAR! HUM
Most of us who have liwed a
goodly span of years must have
experienced this feeliiTg from time
to time:
Suddenly, for no apparent rea
son, we find that someone has en
tered our thoughts—someone who
is apart and, in one way or an
other, dear to us.
Maybe the thought, persists, and
then — if we do nothing about it
—it fades away as we get involved
in the busy-ness of the day.
Recently I have had the convic
tion that there was a good reason,
whether I knew it or not, why that
dear one should come into my
mind out of the blue — and the
further conviction that 1 must do
something about it. Thereupon I
stop whatever comparatively un
important thing I have been do
ing, and telephone that person if
near, or write a letter, if distant.
Just to say, at least, “I was think
ing of you . ...”
Invariably there comes the de
lighted response: “Isn’t it
strange? I was thinking of you,
too!”
What could be, in these short
days and years of ours, of greater
importance than acting on such
an inspiration? Try it the 'next
time it happens to you — and dis
cover tor yourself a wondrous
reward.
Recent and Readable
By MRS. W. E. NIVEN
DISTRICT LIBRARIAN
THE LIGHT INFANTRY BALL,
Basso: Set in South Carolina, this
is a portrait of the town of Pom
pey’s Head as the Confederacy
came into being.
I HE THIRD CHOICE, Janeway: A
newcomer to the list of fiction
best sellers, it is a long, subjec
tive novel which should please
feminine readers.
CELIA GARTH, Bristow: The big
hit for summer, this new novel by
the author of JUBILEE TRAIL
tells the story of Celia Garth, a
patriot >>py during the period Tar
leton’s Britishers overran South
Carolina.
TO APPOMATTOX, 9 APRIL DAYS,
Burke Davis: A Greensboro au
thor writes of the last tragic days
of the Confederacy.
And keep in mind: Niven Busch’s
CALIFORNIA STREET; Pearl
Buck’s COMMAND THE MORNING
F. Van Wyck Mason's THE YOUNG
TITAN; and Taylor Caldwell’s
DEAR AND GLORIOUS PHYSICI
AN. Visit ycur public library and
enjoy the company of a good book.
GEMS OF THOUGHT
WORK
There is work that is work and
there is play that is play; there
is play that is toork and work
that is play. And in only one
of these lies happiness. — Gelett
Burgess
• a* if it att depended, on
God, but work as if it all depend
ed on Laurence Jones
Tar Haal
PEOPLE & ISSUES
By Cliff Blue
SOUTHERN GOVERNORS . . •
A year and more ago Governor
Faubus of Arkansas wa? making
the headlines across the nation on
account of the Little Rock integra
tion crisis.
Now, a year later another South
ern governor, this time Earl Long
of Louisiana, has -been holding the
headlines. Both episodes have at
tract^) tremendous reader ihter- ^
est in North Carolina, and we'
would guess in the nation as well.
PRESS MEETING ... The an
nual convention of the .North Car
olina Press Association will be
held at Morehead City this Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, July
16-17-18. Last year the convention
was held in Asheville. Newspaper
people are generally pretty inter
ested and well-informed on people
and issues in the political arena.
BILL ROGERS . . . It was not
top surprising when veteran Chief
highway Engineer W. H. (BilH
Regers Jr., threw up his hands
and called.it quits with the State
Highway last week. Word is that
Regers has never been very hap
py since Babcock came in as Di
rector of Hignways a couple of
years ago.
ISSUE . . . Many people will
tell you that one of the major is
sues in the 1960 gubernatorial
campaign will be the highway set
up with one or more of the can
didates running on a platform to
“give the highways back to the
people.” Since the seven-man
highway commission has been in
effect, now for two years, people
wanting to discuss road needs
hardly know which way to turn.
Several months ago Hodges said
that more, authority was being
placed in the hands of the County
Commissioners. However, as a
matter of fact, county commis
sioners now have no more author
ity than they had under Scott and
Umstead. They can recommend
and this is all.
Under the old 14-division system,
people interested in roads could
look up their division highway
commission and discuss their
needs with him. But the present
seven-man highway commission is
not regarded as being dose to the
people. In a TV program during
the General Assembly, salty Rep.
Ashley Munphy of Pender County
said that they reminded him of
“pallbearers at a funeral.’’ The
Highway Commission will certain
ly come in for attention during the
1960 primary. Word is that former
Highway Chairman Sandy Graham
and a goodly number of those Who
served with him under the Um
stead Administration at the pres
ent time are smiling in the direc
tion of John Larkins, and-others
in the direction of Addison Hew
lett, both of whom are expected
to advocate "giving the highways
back to the people.” Don’t be sur
prised to see some of the candi
dates advocating a road-building
bond issue* to take care of highway
needs.
MINIMUM WAGE ... If passed
by Congress, the proposed amend
ment to the Federal minimum
wage law, approved last i
by a Senate Labor
would be more far-rtachl®
the 75 cents minimum **
enacted by the 1959 GenjJ
sembly. The minimum wa»
range from $1 to $125.
pushed by Senator John p
nedy, Massachusetts Dq
who is a candidate for the
cratic Presidential nomim
LINDSAY WARREN
the Court Reform biil W4
tered down in the Genet
sembly, and finally killed, tl
and venerable Senator from
fort, Lindsay Warren, said]
was to blame. Last week h
Washington, N. C., civic d
Senator himself was not i
to taking claim for the <M
ing: “If ever I rendered ai
service to North Carolina
lieve I did it in this instau
Anyway, the credit or tit
for the court reform failure
more to Lindsay Warren
Senate and John Kerr i
House than any other men
are able legislators and havt
influence. During the court
in the Senate, Senator !
Bell of Charlotte is rep®
have said that he would
have Senator Warren on lj
supporting him than ten
votes.
PRESIDENTIAL ... I*
Democrats and others win
delegates to the 1956 Dea
National Convention are m
literature from the backers
didates for the 1960 nornim
few days ago a material I
prints came in telling of tit
ness of Senator Stuart Sji
of Mirsouri, folio red by I
material from New Jersey®
ernor Meyner of that sti
article on Meyner boasts!
New Jersey governor hat
the line of state aid to 1
•forcing local communities It
der this leading expense " !
says, “When they got the
from the state they are let
ful how they spend it." 1
taxes is an especially choia
boasting by friends of Me)
New Jersey is one of only
states that boast neither si
income tax.
Traffic Tanglw
JUMPING JASPER
He always will pass
on a hill
To freeze your spine
with icy chill
And then, bad luck
there came a truck
A ten-ton job
he couldn’t duck’
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