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EDITORIALS,, FEATURES... U -t . And it now seems as The only remaining step wwaid the fraiuonasHhe * United Forces for Edumtion ^program navr is to w* that the available money goes for the purpose that the pub— lie, in its expression of •confidence at the polls, ^nurts it to go for. . t. ’ '■ County can't afford this cool necessity' Superior Court Judge Clarence Hall of Durham has asked the Orange County cornmisskmers to seriously consider air conditioning the courtroom of the county courthouse. He feeh that “air conditioning has become a ne cessity, rather than a luxury.” Orange County, the good Judge from Durham paints out, has “the finest court room in the district and the only-one that is oot tur conditioned.” Cost of imtxDiag the equipment to cool the judges, court officials, - attorneys, jurort, witnesses, and spectator!,, has been estimated at $to,ooo. ” Perhaps, there's no harm in asking. You cSfn’tfind fault with someone just for seeking to make life in the heat of Orange County’s summer more bearable. But we .trust that the commissioners in their good judgment'of '‘first tilings first” will indeed NOT '‘seriously consider” this, request. / It's ^already obvious that the million-plus total budget estimate that has been filed by the commission ersisgoing to have to be pared by about a million dot ~ -The Sao.ooo cost of the courtroom air conditioning is equal to two and one-half cents on the county’s cur rent $.<)", tax rate. This sum is approximately the same as the cost of an elementary school classroom. It would gift ev5*y county employee a $20 a monh salary increase jlement of about half as much to the pay of e\Rr jBHffic school teacher in Orange. Pweary thousand dollars is nearly 20 times the oft contested appropriation sought by the Research Triangle Planning Commission too. Furthermore a number of county offices that are used eight hours a day—far more than the courtroom—are not air conditioned. If air conditioning is a "necessity” for the court room this County simply cannot now afford such “ne cessities.” The judges and lawyers can just sweat it out with the other taxpayers. Orange Blossoms;.. * —To the County Museum directors in their plans for historical mural paintings on the museum walls. —To a public-spirited anonymous donor who is of fering the money to build a swimming pool in the Chap el Hill Negro community. —And to Aubrey MacLennon, newly-appointed to the C,ounty Zoning Committee, a group with an im portant job to do. - ; , Notepad (continued from page 1) do justice to the background for the Chapel Hill Board's request. But it illustrates a typical phase of the type of problem that con tinually crops up before the com missioners in their appropriations for the two separate school sy» terns. YOU'Lt LIKE OUR. FRESH PRODUCE t. MARLOW'S CBOnay wnWIml Airport Rdad Op*it Sunday 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Sanford punctures his political honor .Governor-nominate Terry San ford painfully punctured his own political reputation last weekend by the strategy he chose in his approach to the candidates at the Democratic national convention.1 It’s scarcely surprising that j he’s brought his own house of cards down on his head with gen eral criticism in the press this; week both from the papers that supported and opposed him in the Democratic primary. Politically astute in his own campaigning, be completely muf fed the boil with his one-two tac tics before and at Los Angeles. First Hon was the inappro priate statement that North Carolina should bo on the win ning sido at the Democratic convention, that it should not , "cast its vote down a rathola" —in affect that it .should wait and sail its votes to the odds on horse. Whan Sanford than come out for Kennedy his en dorsement served to cost doubts on the integrity behind his pledge. Terry Sanford was right — up to aV><nt—when he said that North Carolina shouldn't “cast its vote down a rat hole.” It did By CHif B)w G&X&TEST ACCOMPLISH MENT? . . \. Whit would you con of the Hodges Administration? WeB. Paul JohnAon. one of Governor Hodges’ right hand men and his Director of Administra tion, says he considers the way that the State has handled the school segregation question the outstanding accomplishment oi the Hodges , administration, and we suspect many would agree with Piul. , •• SMjuaar . , . ah win-admit million that its much better not 16 Xff*W mu Tt IKRf wonting for thr State, for the salaries paid do not matchr salaries paid erthslisu, empteynmnt m State government can wpen-vpportufu yan wre capable and do agoed j«h. • • Pot- nearly six years Paul John ston has btjj waking in Raleigh and has not been doing bad, sal ary-wise. He is now getting in the neighborhood of $14,000 per year which is much better than he was doing with the Institute of Government In Chapel Hill. Now he la leader Sept. 1 *® ’ accept -t much mote lucrative Job with Buriing'on Mills. John Hlrtti, ChHiy*s Secretary while Governor, also does work with Burlington Mills, and' is doing quite well. Ed Rankin, Who served as II ms lead's secretary, and Hodges’ until a few months ago is in a Public Relations firm with John Harden, and no doubt doing ok. RETIREMENT . . . We do not know of a better retirement sys tem than the benefits which can be derived by State employees as they not only get State retire ment pay, but Social Security also. We see nothing wrong with the State acting as a training institu tion for smart young men. As the late Governor Cherry used to say: There are always plenty of patriots willing to fill their places when they move on. TO CONFER WITH SANFORD . . . Gov. Hodges is expected to cooler with Governor-nominate Terry Sanford before Oiling Paid . Johnston's position as Director of Administration. Johnston’s re signation will be. effective Sept. 1. It is one of the£ey positions in a Governor's Administration and it will certainly be to San ford’s advantage to have some one .here before he takes over learning the ropes (hat he may have some experienced counsel from his own camp fc begin with. OPPORTUNITY ... U was 64 years age, July 8. that William Jeraiags Bryan delivered his fa mous “Cross of Gold” speech at the Democratic National conven tion in Chicago in 1896. Bryan was a little-known young ex-congress man who bad 'bean gerryman dered out of Congress and had a couple of years -before -been de feated for the U. S. Senate in n't do so in ISM and 1952 when it supported Adlai Stevenson at the party's convention. It wouldn’t do so at this week’s convention, either,... voting for Kennedy. Johnson, or even Stev enson again — unless the Tar Heels walked out if their camj?-' late didn't win. That's wfiefl*fKr vote goes down the rathole. Kebralka^ •' Dr Clarence E. Maoartney, ttfr; noted ■Presbyterian minister, in one of hfe sefmdos said that acme years before" Bryan’s death it W25, that he was driv>3 across Chicago wiJj the "Great Com moner-” On their way they parsed :«*r the mtifrimn where he delivered i the great speech which made ten three times the candidate of Ms! (tarty for the -presidency, and which conducted with (he famous peretatHm, -‘You shall net press down* upon the brew of labor tide craws of (horns. Yon* shell not crucify mankind upon a cross.of 9M , Or, -Afarerhnfcy said to Bryn*. “Mr. Bryan. I suppose, many times before, you had made juet as stole a speech as that, and that it was never heard Of .” Bryan replied: "Yes; I suppose- that Is true. Blit that .convention was my oppor tunity. and! made the most of it." Maeartney mH tint Bryan warn cHestier * aiemeet, as Ms great head rested against the cushion of the twticab, and the tight of irmisisesnef -and re trospecticn came into his eyes. After a moment Bryan broke the silent* with these words: "And that’s about all we do in this wort*—lose or use our opport unity.” AT CHICAGO . , . Four years ago we attended the Democratic! National ccnvwv'i u in Chicago as i a delegate. We saw and heard ! [ Gov. Clement of Tennessee try1 I to repeat Bryan’s 18% perform £’.ice as he delivered the keynote j address. He even paraphrased the “Great Ccmmoner’s” cksing per oration. but it did not have the ring of a crusader as did Bryan’s ■ in ’%. TOURING THE STATE ... For > .fho -writer will 'te MKIk the State’s institution® front taeenoun ^-is to^the'taa-ta n —Wm of ,he-Wlvisary Budget Ooaamaswn. Ibis, -wefeel-wiH bewo-itaqpostisg trip - and we expect to-4W With these travels and ia«tiiutt»na dur ing '-the next ttaee weekfc^Meoa hitrs of the Advviory fielptXkm* mrsi-« Ja aififrn to the Gov entcr JtougMoirof AJ iogtmny.Joe tisgie of flTikw*. O. Arthur Kirkman of Gufltottt Clyde ‘H. Harris® of Rowmisffld H. CKf -Blue of V*#t> ■Otortr. _~i. ' .Iitiii ran ——«e A preliminary "hearing is scheduled Tuesday -<oe ■ Chapel Hill Negro rhfgadfn 'a shooting scrape Hurt week end. Raymond Cooley, *1, has been released oh hOO bend after admitting to police that ^ie fired five shots from « .22 pistol at Percy- OtNest. The latter was charged wiHraaeault witlra deadly weapon for al legedly threatening Cooley with a knife dm4ng an argu ment late Friday night that erupted into the shooting. According Ur information given Detective Howard Pen der graph. Cooley said that O’Neal 28. and another man jumped on him in front of a lceal cafe and drew a knife on him. The Negro defendant admit ted firing five shots at O’Neai, who was injured when one bullet lodged in his back. He was to be discharged form the Hrapital around the middle of this week. OLSON'S Rentals Sales Music of Durham Sheet Music Teaching Supplies
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