Tar Heel People & issues . . . r ,
Cliff eyes the reluctant 'patriots
waiting to be called as candidates
By Cliff Blue
STAG BALLENTINE . . . State
Commissioner of Agriculture L.
Y. (Stag) Ballentine has been
quoted hi the newspapers as say
ing he is available as a candi
date for governor in 1964, but
fhat he had no plans for seek
ing the nomination.
tfStag Ballentine is an able,
l^own - to - earth, plain speak
ing sort of a man, who would
ake a good governor. For sev
al years Stag has been men
oned as a' possible candidate
,r governor and back in 1948
years 'ago—he gave "serious
consideration to making the race
Ibefore running for Commissioner
of Agriculture when Kerr Scott
(then Commissioner of Agricul
ture) tossed his hat in the race
for governor.
Should Stag decide to enter
The race for governor he will
have a valuable assistant in
/his able, efficient and attrac
tive wife, Bessie, who is the
i N. C. Automobile Dealers As
Executive Secretary of th»
sociation.
COMMISSIONER . . . Should
Ballentine run for governor, Jim
Graham who is manager of the
Raleigh Farmers Market is re
garded as a certain candidate
for Commissioner-of Agriculture.
Another person who would prob
ably be in the race is Robert
Scott of Haw River, son of the
forme* Governor and U. S. Sen
ator, W. Kerr Scott,
— CHANCE ... In past years
we have had many able men
mentioned as candidates for gov
ernor — men of greater ability
than some who have run and j
won, but they did not become [
candidates because of the chance!
they would have had to take.
“Politics is a fickle mistress’ to
quote . Gov. Sanford, and we
have long considered that being
willing to take a chance is a
major factor in adding up what
it takes to be a success in pol
itics.
Of course, and this is besic,
it is useless and felly to take
the chance unless you .first
possess the fundamental quali
ties to fulfill the responsibili
ties of the office to which you
aspire. We ere just trying fo
say: “Nothing ventured, noth
ing gained/
KURFEES . . . Marshall Kur
Kurfees, former mayor of Wins
ton-Salem is an unusual person
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mirror so often and they would
* n’t feel so riled up about old and
ugly faces, as one sees only
what ho or she wants to see.
Wisdom and vision does not
appear in every one however, it
takes age, with wisdom, toge
ther with\ the young, with a
strong' back and willing mind
and hearts, to run this cock
eyed world. I cannot visualise a
world that doesn’t have both.
There is entirely to much em
phasis placed on old age. It
seams that certain groups are
trying to place the older citi
zens ia a helpless category; not
realizing they themselves will
someday be in this class. Who
has the vision and wisdom to
tell the difference between atom
ic age and old age?? We have
both at the present. r r
W- G. WRENN
I | Hillsboro
in many respects. Marshall has
run for numerous offices to be
defeated, but he always gets up
and starts fresh again. Before
being elected Mayor of Winston
Salem he ran for the State
House one or more times. While
serving as Mayor of Winston
Salem he ran for the U. S. Sen
ate against Sam Ervin and for
Congress against Ralph Scott.
Last spring Marshall retired
voluntarily from the Winston
Salem mayor’s pest and now
he la heading up the Wincton
Salem - "Committee JFor A
Model Community," as a full
time paid director. Marshall
has enlisted the cooperation
and assistance of businessmen,
ministers in his round-the
clock drive to make Winston
Salem e "model community."
SOLDIERS ft GENERALS . . .
Prominently displayed in the of
fice of 0. Arthur Kirkman in
High (Point is this timely quota
tion from Oliver Wendell
Holmes: “One must be a soldier
before one can he a general.”
Some are wondering if Arthur
will he the general to lead Guil
ford back into the Democratic
fold!
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Carrington Smith to head 'dimes drive' again
The appointment of ST Car
rington Smith, Chapel Hill, as
County Director of the 1963
March of Dimes was announced
by the State March of Dimes
Chairman, Mr. Wendell H. Ey
senbach 6f Winston_Salem.
In accepting the Directorship,
Mr. Smith pointed out that Jan
uary marks the 25th Anniver
sary of The National Foundation
(March of Dimes) which was
founded by the late President,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in
1938.
The National Foundation
launched its expanded program
to include birth defects and ar
thritis in 1959 while promising
to continue significant aid to
polio victims. The much larger
portion of March of Dimes fundi
is still being expended for polio ■—
victims, according to the cam
paign director.
The most recent Treatment
Center is the North Carolina.
Birth Defects Special Treatment
Center which received official
approval from The Foundation,
and grants from over 70 North
Carolina Chapters, on Nov. 6.
The new center is being estab
lished at the University of North
Carolina Medical School, Chapel
Hill, and will serve the entire
state.
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