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of orange county THE NEWS—THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1962 SEC. II, PAGE 1 What can you discern from election results? Because of the diversity of issues involved and die extreme diversity of the type of residents Orange County » harbors, it is not easy to see broad trends in the outcome of last Saturday’s elections. Was the swing to conservatism in government? Chap el Hill School District voters rejected a modest tax in crease proposal. But an advocate of the tax hike was mid dle nominee among- those successful in the comity com. missioner races. :■ r Was the vote 2 protest against the existing county 'board? Two incumbents were defeated, but another was re-elected by a peculiar combination of geographical bal. lots. Protest against zoning ... Was the election a protest against the proposed coun ty land use ordinance? —At least on this question there is no doubt. The word zoning is perennially a red flag to many of those un-zoned. A strong and effective cam paign was waged against any candidate who did not ex press a vociferous opinion against rural zoning as such for Orange County, ----- Was the election a victory for Chapel Hill or rural Orange? Will it serve to weld together the peculiar ani mal that is embodied in the 398 square miles of Orange County? Or is the town-gown-rural cleavage a twain that is no closer to meeting? ^ ^ _ The answer to this for the near future will he suc cessfully given only by the hot-stove league analysts. A county board of commissioners composed of four Chapel Hill persons and one rural member, himself elected strict ly by Chapel Hill votes, could be unhealthy for Orange County as a whole. But whether or not it will be is up to the good consciences of the Board members, all of whom have proclaimed from the stump they would “rep resent all the people.” Prefer ability to geography . . . The News indeed prefers to have candidates elected on the basis of ability rather than geography. Yet any good principle can be carried to an un-sound extreme. Thus the Orange County commissioners and.commission er-nominates have a heavier-than-ever responsibility and a more difficult task than ever before facing thern Td prop-" erly,answer and most constructively react to the questions asked above. „ „ ' At the very least the winners deserve sincere con gratulations from all people seriously concerned, with ... €°od government in Orange County. The losers, incum bents and challengers alike, merit sincere thanks for their interest and service. And all parties must agree that the natural scars of a heated campaign will best be healed and the job best done by a more totally cooperative spirit from this junc ture. J • Your own view* on th* opinions expressed above are invited. If you agree, disapref, or hove spine additional insight on this m*ttor you a** invited *0 give the public the benefit of vour thinking in a “letter to the editor." Please limit these to 300 words. {RjeJ&toS of (Grange Count? Published Every Thursday By THE NEWS INCORPORATED Hillsboro, N. C. Chapel Hill, N. C. Box 647 Box 749 Telephone 968-4444, Chapel Hill; 4191 Hillsboro Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Hillsboro, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879 j EDWIN J. HAMLIN ... Publisher ROLAND GIDUZ ._....... Editor Hillsboro Office __"_N. Cburlon St. Chapel Hill Office---311 E. Main St., Carrboro SUBSCRIPTION RATES_•__:__ $230, one year, $1.75, six mo. (inside N. C.); $3.00, one year, outside N. C. -t war iceberg -Watt Partyrniller, York Gazette * Daily . . . .The people; yes and a hollow feeling The people, yes the people Until the people are taken care of one way or another Until the people are solved somehow for the day and hour Until then one hears “Yes, hut the people, ^ What about the people?” Sometimes as though the people is a child to be pleased or fed Or again a hoodlum you havelolse ioughwithT. . In the sh ove an d whirlof unforeseen co m b us (ions The people, yes the people - „——-——;— Move eternally in the elements of surprise Changing from hammer to bayonet and back to hammer The Hallelujah chorus forever shifting its star soloist, "The martial lines of renown poet Carl Sandburg have been ironically brought to mind during the past few days in reflecting on the rejection, by the voters^ of the Chapel Hill School District, of the proposed district supplementary tax increase. In the moment of truth when the returns were final ly tabulated, we could only reflect soberly, “The j>eop!e, yes. ...” There is no arguing no recourse after the voice of the people is heard. There is no arguing with the peo ple though in an individual’s own particular view the people may at the moment be “a chid to be pleased or fed” or “a hoodlum you have to be tough with.” No otherwise avoidable crisis . That the people of the Chapel Hill School .District have rejected the school tax. increase issue is not finan cially a tragedy of the moment. It will not cause art other wise avoidable educational crisis'"'next, year! And it is like ly. though not definitely assured, that the hoped-for ad ditional school funds may be granted by “the people” in a near future year. The only loss of the moment is a matter of the mind —what The New,s termed-“the heart and souTof Cihapel Hill” in writing on this topic- last week. Gha'pel Hill, the well-to-do and quite affluent educational center of the region, has turned down a requestTo increase its taxpaid investment in public education. On Monday of this week Consolidated University President William Friday- initiated before the trustees. a campaign for $5 million iti faculty salary increases. He of course received the backing of the trustees. . .. Did Friday feel it? . . . Did Bill Friday have a hollow feeling inside as he asked for $5 million in salary increases for a community that wouldn’t support an average per taxpayer increase of $6 a year in the name of public education? We hope that when the President makes this same plea before the General Assembly next year that some leg islator in questioning him doesn’t inquire about this paradox. * —Verily, “The people, yes the people Move eternally in the elements of surprise.'’ Untouched by eloquence (Editorial in The Smithfield Herald) Maybe the Kennedy administrations ‘'literacy bill" has some unwise features, as some critics contend. Maybe a six-grade education isn’t the safest measure of a cit izen’s competency to exercise^thevoting right. Maybe the administration’s bill is Unconstitutional, a federal (Editorials Continued on Page 2) Nawiman's Notepad ’ Just who are Liz and Eddie? '-Only in CHI' This comes under the heading of “Only in Chapel Hill...*' -v-It- was late of a social even ing and several couples were siting-around a pitcher of Mich elet*. The talk was of many cas ual isues — religion, television,' and politics. Tere was a momentary lull in the conversation. Then a helpful young haus frau asked brightly: “What do you think about Liz and Eddie?” “ “7Liz and Eddie?’ I don’t be lieve 1 know ’em,” replied an other contributor. “Who are they?” . At the telling of this to a friend recently, he declared sim ply -“Only in Chapel Hilt — and aren't we glad!” Will another tragedy be necessary locally? The State Highway Commis sion, so we see by the papers, is going to investigate the haz ardous conditions at the eastern entrance to Chapel Hill where the in^bound Durham Road forks off from the bypass high way. As a result of alarm over the double fatality at the overpass bridge near this spot it's likely that an improved exit from the boulevard into Chapel Hill can be arranged. Word from state highway representatives was that they were glad to look into the hazard, and hadn’t previously known of it. 7 "" J -Now this may be- true. But The Newsman recalls clearly the results about six or seven years ago when this entrance was first opened up. There were, by actu al count, six wrecks reported*by the State Highway Patrol at this spot during the first wo weeks it was traversed. One poor fel low driving a Volkswagen had a moment of uneasiness calcu lating the turn-off in broad day light and rolled • over and over In tils car most of the way down the one-way length of the link of this lane, V / - Unsteady moment . . . - Newsman is jio more than a middling hand at driving. But in hundreds of crossings of this cut-off in the intervening years, he’s never failed to experience a split second's unsteadiness be fore nudging the wheel ’at just the right attitude to negotiate the straight-ahead turn-off from the natural southward curve of the highway. . . It will -be a boon to auto safe ty and the nervous system of drivers in general to have im proved signing and better mark ing of this cutoff. If nothing more than a center white line is drawn from the main high way across the hump of the cut off and down the road a piece it will be a major improvement, albeit brought about by a trage dy. —And how long now, before a similar tragedy at - nearby Eastgate Shopping Center, will bring about obviously needed remedies there? Women—not the League felt target of critics The League of Women Voters of Chapel Hill, should not need defense from the press for its program of non-partisan public Service in getting the people bet (See NOTEPAD, Page 3)
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