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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. - ; ,
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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.
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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.
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