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THURSDAY, AUSUST 11. I960 v T; IdZ i EDITORIALS, FEATURES • • • Diligent stewardship of public funds noted Last spring The News cited the Orange Con my Welfare Dtp. as an example of efficiency and service in good local government; i - In the face of constantly rising governmental costs, ! ,-> the Welfare Department sought only a modest $5,000 budget increase for the current year, though its total ex penditures account for. care-fourth of the county’s new $1.6 mH l km budget While we do not intend to short change other de partments of the County Government that are also do . ing a good job, the welfare agency k now doe another round of thanks from the cki*en« of Orange, Took the initiative . . Emphasizing a forthright conscience in its expendi ture of public funds, the Department last week took the initiative to see to it that convicted bootleggers are im mediately taken off the welfare rolls. - - (Might these persons not also be held responsible for money fraudulently received in the past, too? In the case of the charged bootleggers, one is a former welfare recipient from whom several thousand dollars was recovered a few years ago when it was found she had falsified her personal assets ) j Furthermore, the Department last month moved ahead of the State Welfare Department’s own policies by-linkkiguhe'payment of benefits to the financial sta tus of-kherecipient’s family. The State asks County Wel fare Departments to “explore” the resources of all mem bers of a potential recipient’s family before putting a person onphe welfare rolls. Some can help—but don't . But in* Orange, as elsewhere, the welfare workers " have uncovered cases where a needy person’s family is jr able to, but is not helping its kindred as it could and ’ should. Therefore the Orange Courity Welfare Depart contingent on. the-giving of proper income information by all members of a family who might be expected to help out a needy" person in their family; In short, if an Orange County family is financially able to care for its own, its obligation cannot now be shifted to the public- » ' The public should know of and . appreciate this diligent stewardship of its funds for a worthy cause. ment has initiated Twin* Robert Gavins are being presented In the initial optimistic flush of their campaign, backers of Republican Robert Gavin for Governor of N. C. are billing him as all things to all potentiaf consti tuents. J First-off in the scatter-shot effort, Gavin is pro moted not as a Republican candidate—but as the “con servative” candidate—an adjective calculated to have bi partisan appeal in dominantly one-party North Caro lina. ' f Bofr Gavin may indeed be a “conservative.” But aside from his national party affiliation, his leanings in ■$3je JletoS of (Grange Count? * ' " Published Every Thursday By THE NEWS INCORPORATED Hillibiro, N. C. Chapel Hill, N. C. bo* 447 Bo* 749 Telephone 8-444. Chapel HiU; 4101 Hillsboro Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Hillsbdro, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3^ 1879 EDWIN J. HAMLIN .................. .. V?.. .Publisher ROLAND GIDUZ .. ... Editor Hillsboro Office ' Chapel Hill Office .. N. 311 E. Main St., C ION RATES ate mm. finsMa NT Cfc.~ *3.00. ana I' PM—!■> mysm. fl*o*V*£ mmtm P/X-15 MANNEt> fi US-ROCKET plane ZOOMS*UPWAfcP AT 2,150 M RH A.*PCORt> ■Walt PartymiUtfj, York Gazette ft Daily sc this direction haven’t yet become an apparent issue be tween him and Democrat Terry Sanford.. Indeed, on North Carolina’s greatest public expense, public education, Gavin has proclaimed himself in favor of a 50 per cent increase in school teacher salaries. As school boards across the state are still scrambling for teachers that are going afield for higher salaries this plank in the Gavin platform strikes a valid appeal. But it’s scarcely the platform of one wedded to "conserva tive” constituents. In realm of race .. L Another non-sequityr in the Gavin, campaign is in the realm of race relations. _Throughout the race-ridden Democratic guberna torial primrfry.' Gavin discreetly stayed away from ex ploiting the de-segregation issue. As a self-styled "mod erate” in matters of race relations, Gavin How says he still is not going to use this emotional appeal for vote gamering. _ Yet his boosters’ campaign literature makes an un siibtle thrust in this direction. Gavin “knows the role North Carolina must play in the Souh," they declare, ’’and will not sacrifice our state's heritage for national gain.” These are obvious contradictions in the person of Bob Gavin and the candidacy of Bob Gavin as his back ers present him. His campaign will bear close scrutiny. Will the GOP gubernatorial standard bearer take personal charge of his political race and run as a Re publican—and perhaps also as a conservative if he chooses this label? Will he firmly and finally put an end to ex ploitation of the race and religious issue in his cam paign? Or will be permit his partisans to continue to mold him to what they believe best attracts the voters? Don't overlook this simple virtue, either “The obligation of a country editor is only half dis charged,” says Franklin Press Editor Weimar Jones in his hew book “My Affair with a Weekly,” “when he in forms .his readers—fuHy, accurately, objectively — and stimulates them to think.” = ... ~. In a verbal nutshell the former UNC visiting pro fessor has given a worthy lecture to the weekly newspa per editors and readers ever)'where. The hometown paper, indeed, should “exalt the simple virtues.” It should be the guardian of individual liberty and welfare in a world growing constantly, more interdependent. t More important, though, is Weimar [odes inciden tal adminition that the local paper should stimulate the reader to think. . » It is easy enough to exalt the hometown, and to pat' the community on the back as a chamber of com merce. The average reader expects and appreciates this, toe, as a part of the editor’s job of exalting the simple virtues. • But the paper that airs constructive controversy, that • doesn’t fear going against the grain of prevailing opin ion, that can help to seek and show the way to com munity betterment in every way, is doing the greater service through its press. x V* This is the kind of journalism Weimar. Jones has t striven for ini' Mountainous Macon County. This simple - \ virtue, too, should foe an example to all newspapers. »■ ■■ ' ’ Newsman's Notepad ... N. C. directory for news media reveals chance for pioneering Sou thern Bell Company’s newly* issued! telephone directory of North Carolina news media reveals some interesting facts an the distribu tion of newspapers versus radio and television. The useful pocket-size guidebook shows there are almost twice as many towns and cities with"<WWS*: papers (171) as With radio sta tions (87). But the growing num ber of radio stations have come to surpass the non-daily newspa pers, though the “weekly” papers are published in more towns.. Altogether there are 1M hows, papers in the state—17 (tallies and 139 weeklies—meaning non dailies. The directory carries 143 radio stations—AM and fid. bo: not Including TV outlets. The competition is much, fiercer on the air waves than in the print ed word. There are no cities and towns with more than two dailies or non-dailies apiece, although many papers of course have wide overlapping areas of circulation and advertising competition. In fact, nowhere in North Caro lina is there daily newspaper com petition in the same town. —That went out of existence when the Charlotte Observer bought the News two years ago. v But there's yet 'thick competi tion locally between brondcast ers. Charlotte has the greatest number of radio stations—eight. And there are seven smaller ci ties with as many as four da _Bede .^dSSw—d3s9ham. Asheville, GoMshrra. Greensboro, Raleigh. Rocky Mount, and Winston-Sal em. Two places even have radio sta lks* but no newspapers—Beaufort and Maycdan. Of eouree there are several dozen towns with vioe-the versa—newspapers but do radio stations. (As a moMer-of record for tM other media, there are 11 TV sta tions in nine cities. Asheville and Charlotte each have two, and the ' ether seven ore hi Durham. Greenville, Wilmington, Washing ton, Raleigh. 'Greensboro, and Winston-Salem. Back IS the realm of the daily aewspaper. there are only eight morning dallies left la North . CarsBaa. They’re hr Asheville, Charlotte. ThoasasvBle. Whudia (See NOTEPAD, next page)
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