Rep; Kornegay roasts Republicans f v .
Democrats unanimous
Orange County Democrats
roasted the Republicans and
elected their officers for the next
two years unanimously in a dis
play of intra-party harmony last
Saturday. .
The biennial county-wide con
vention in the county courthouse
iwas attended by about 250 per
sons. Keynote speaker for the
occasion, Sixth District Congress
man Horace Kornegay, praised
the effectiveness of the Orange
political organization in the par
ty -and-noted-that every Onange
County elective office holder was
a Democrat.
Immediately before the conven
tion was called to order the 56
member County Executive Com
raittee re-elected almost all of
its officers for the next two
years. They were: Chairman L.
J. Phipps, First Vice-Chairman
Betty June Hayes, Second Vice
Chairman Delos CBDaniel, Treas
urer Robert Satterfield, Secre
tary Earle Wallace, and Third
Vice-Chairman Hugh Wilson, who
succeeded C. D. Knight when
Knight declined re-nomination.
Pass three resolutions
J. Alex McMahon, Chairman of
the Resolutions Committee, pre
Orange County’s 25 delegates
to next Wednesday’s State Dem
ocratic Convention in Raleigh
will caucus in the capital city on
Tuesday night to fill various par
ty offices.
County Chairman L, J. Phipps
■said the meeting would be held
in the Sir Walter Hotel at about
6 p.m. in a room to be noted in
an announcement to be posted
on the bulletin board. The Sixth
District caucus will be held later
that night and the district con
.mention; the next- morning im
mediately preceding the state
convention.
Two members of the State Ex
ecutive Committee will be cho
sen at the county caucus. Mrs.
Gerald Barrett of' Chapel Hill
and EL J. Hamlin of Hillsborough
presently hold these posts. Mr.
Hamlin, a candidate for the State
House, will not be able to stand
for re-election. Members of the
judicial, senatorial, solicltorial,
and congressional committees
will also be chosen from Orange.
Following are the regular dele
gcttes’to the‘state convention as
elected at the county convention
last Saturday. Harvey D. Bennett,
Marshall Cates Jr., Carl Durham,
1 Mrs. Virginia Forrest, Roland Gi
i duz, George Harris, Eva Mae
Hill, C. R. Laws, Sandy Mcdam
roch, Jack McDade, AlexMcMa
hon, R. E. Murray, James W.
i, Oakley, L. J. Phipps, 'Mrs. James
IW. Prothro, Elaine Rountree,
| Philip C. Schinhan, George B
Spransy, Mrs. James W. Street,
| James W. Taylor, Melvin Whit
l field, Hugh M. Wilson, William
; G. Long, Frank Umstead, and
J Mrs. Herbert McKay,
j Alternate delegates—Mrs. Ray
| mbnd L. Andrews, H. Conway
! Browning, G. Paul Carr, Clyde
i C. Carter, John B. Chase, Vincent
T. Dodson, Charles Dolan, Max
M. Kennedy, Helen R. Laws, W.
L. Mace, Delos O’Daniel, David
Plessett, Parker Roland, Mrs.
1 Rickard Sparrow, Bernice L.
Ward, Sherwood Ward, Mrs. War
ren J. Wicker, Mrs. Alene Wil
! Rams, Walter G. Wren "Sr., E. T.
I Iseley, Charles W. Johnston, and
Mitchell Lloyd Jr.
sented three resolutions which
his group had endorsed as re
ceived from various precinct
meetings. One memorialized the
late W. Otey Mincey, for over
15 years the registrar of Cald
well Precinct and a long-time
active Democrat.
Miss Harriet Herring of
Chapel Hill, past vice-chairman j
of East Franklin Precinct, and '
W. Luce Mace, for many years
a Democratic leader in Cheeks
Precinct, were both given cer
tificates as "Distinguished Dem
ocrats" on motion of the Res
olutions Committee. Another
unanimously-adopted resolution
memorialized the late President
. Kennedy.
The report of Treasurer Rob
ert Satterfield showed a balance
of $323 after payment of bills
and the county's donation of $500
to the Jefferson-Jackson Day Din
ner fund-raising campaign. East
Franklin Precinct was cited as
having raised the most money
in this drive.
'Guilford bucked tradition'
As keynote speaker for the
meeting, Rep. Kornegay- noted
that his county “went against its
time-tested tradition two years
ago.” Of the five-member Guil
ford GOP delegation to the leg
islature, he recalled," “after one
term in Raleigh about half of
that car-load- wanted to be gov
ernor and the other half thought
they ought to stay home and sit
this Q|gpaUt.” It was as well that \
none have sought re-election, he
suggested, because “the people
of Guilford County are now aware
that the best people to get any
job' done are Democrats:”
The youthful Congressman,
un-opposed in his own party
for re-nomination to a third
term, left the Orange conven
tion immediately after his talk
to attend the Guilford Demo
cratic conclave. Earlier he'd
been at the Alamance Demo
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'DISTINGUISHED DEMOCRATS'—Orange County Demo
cratic Committee Chairman L. J. Phipp* (right) presents 'Dis
tinguished Democrat' certificates to long-time party workers
Miss Harriet Herring of Chapel Hill and W. Luce Mace of Ef
land, as- decreed by resolution of the party's biennial conven
tion in Hillsborough last Saturday. - ■- -
cratic convention. He received
warm applause in praising his
predecessor in office, retired
Congressman Carl Durham of
Chapel Hill, attending the con
vention as a precinct delegate.
Congressman Kornegay confi
dently predicted the election of
Lyndon Johnson as president next
fall in “a vote of confidence such
as we have not seen in this coun
try since Roosevelt—and no man
is more deserving of such a
vote.” He summarized his “rouse
men ts” at the meeting by chal
lenging the Republicans’ appeal
j for ‘'a two-party system’.’
AN HISTORIC EVENT IN WHICH YOU
WILL WANT TO TAKE PART
North Carolina’s Tribute to John F. Kennedy
for the benefit of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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