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THURSDAY, MAY 2 J, IMS
IMPRESSIVE
Head Man Visits Plants
We were much Impressed with
Ell Reeves Callaway, new presi
dent of Burlington Industries, when
he visited the two local plants
of Pacific Mills here last week.
At the tall end of his visit, we got
together long enough to find that
he once was with the Raeford
operation before going northward
to bigger and better things with
the parent organization, of which
he became president at the last
stockholders meeting.
It was something of a problem
to whisk Callaway through the two
plants here, have him meet with
management and supervisory per
sonnel, shake the hands of workers,
chat with newsmen, and get him
airborn on schedule. Indeed, the
whole visit was off-schedule before
it started, for when Callaway's
plane droned over Raeford, the
local airport, which has no navi
gational aids, was "socken in"
and had to proceed to Fayette
ville to land. After the trip to
Raeford was made by car, the
meeting of Callaway and the mill
people here was a half hour late,
to begin with, v
Then, the party walked to the
back side of Worsted, where there
is a conference room sa.'flclently
large to accommodate all the
supervisors he was to speak to.
One knows, if he has ever toured
the plant, that one does not walk
from front office to conference
room in a matter of seconds. It's
a right good hike.
That suited Callaway Just fine.
For between front office and con
ference room were dozens of work
ers, steady on the job, some not
knowing the trim man with wavy
hair, firm handshake, and friend
ly smile until he had been Intro
duced, or had Introduced himself,
as the old man. He spoke to
many of these workers. Indeed,
had the official party not kept
prodding him right along, he might
have found out more about work
ers in the Raeford operation, who
certainly must be among the best
in the entire Burlington chain.
We think Callaway's attention
to these little details of his visit
made quite a good impression on
the local Burlington people, man
agement to millworker. We hope
our people here Impressed him
fully as much.
Cousin Chub Seawell
"Cousin" H. F. (Chub) Seawell
of Carthage is a right smart speak
er, as anybody knows who has seen
him in the courtroom or on tele
vision. But to appreciate him fully,
you must have him before you, in
the flesh, double-breasted blue
blazer and white bucks and polka
dot tie making him look fashion
ably prosperous, his spectacles In
one hand and the audience in the
other, toying with his listeners,
as a cat with a mouse, before he
hits you here and there, then
fully in the face, with what he
came to say.
Cousin Chub was saved, he says,
when as a young lawyer, he at
tended the "funerallzation" of a
great uncle and heard a gospel
preacher plant his kinsman. Ever
since, he's been giving "testi
mony" hither and yon, and he
testified here again Tuesday night.
Seawell would qualify as a "cha
racter" in just about any society
but he doesn't get away with his
"country boy" po-mouthlng, be
cause his academic honors are
impressive, and his career long
and distinguished. He hides be
hind a Negro-preacher approach,
however, to lambast intellectual
atheism, quality education, and all
of the high and mighty things he
professes to disdain.
One thing about Seawell Is most
unusual. He does not miss an
opportunity to bring the Man Up
stairs into the picture. Indeed, he
is widely regarded for his appli
cation of the Scriptures to his
court cases, and only last week,
was the subject of a column in a
nearby dally newspaper for a Blbll
can run-in with Judge H. W. R.
Burgwyn here in Hoke County.
'.Seawell is entertaining, if one
doesnt listen closely to what he
says. The lighter material of
his repertoire is classic, in a
cross of something between Amos
N Andy and Snuffy Smith, yet it
is profound in its deeper meaning.
That Cousin Cuub chooses
almost invarlbly to complain
against the ways of the world es
tablishes him as a far-heard critic,
and many a man grasps his philos
ophy simply because Chub said It
That, in itself, is not recommen
dation enough for much of what
he says.
As an after dinner speaker, how
ever, he is perhaps without equal
In these parts. Few people have
the diversity of antecdotes this
old carpetbagger totes around with
him, and few people In our experi
ence can hold him a light when it
comes to telling the country lawyer
tale.
Chub Seawell obviously does not
get his material from the writings
of Mark Twain although there
appears to be a strong similarity
between the two. Most of the
tales, well wager, come from
firsthand, or firstheard experi
ence. The tales alone make Chub
Seawell well worth listening to.
And if one happens to be soured
on the world, the whole message
might be appealing.
Sequoia trees are named after
the Cherokee chief, Sequo-Yah,
who completed the first alphabet
ever devised for an Indian tongue,
the National Geographic says.
The nickname "wildcatter" for
an oil driller was coined by pio
neers of the American oil industry.
In remote areas of Pennsylvania,
wild cats fought at night over food
scraps left by daytime drilling
crews.
Madagascar produces more than
half the world's vanilla, selling
most of it to the United States, the
National Geographic says.
The famous silver jewelry
made by Navajo Indians Is a bor
rowed art. They learned silver
smithing from Mexicans in the
mid-19th century, the1 National Geo
graphic says.
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CUFF BLUE...
People & Issues Vb
mtmmtfty jm Taylor'
'Body' Mystery
Is No More
Several weeks ago. before
this column was suspended for
couple of Issues, I wrote i
front page story ibout "The
Woman on the Road."
It told of my encountering
the body of woman on the
shoulder of the road on a Rob
eson County highway (Just out
side Hoke.) A little girl was
standing beside die fallen wo
man, crying. When asked what
was the matter, the child re
plied: "They shot my Mama."
I rushed from die scene,
where several cars had stop
ped, to telephone for an am
bulance. When I returned, the
woman, the girl, and the spec
tators were gone. The scene
was empty.
Subsequent investigations and
reports indicated nobody had
been shot in that vicinity that
day. nor had there been report
of a serious accident or other
unusual event Officers knew
nothing of the incident.
Nor did the newspapers re
port it in their columns. Nat
urally, I became quite con
cerned, for I'm not accustomed
to encountering "Ha'nts" on
my rounds.
I checked, through police fa
cilities, with law enforcement
authorities In Robeson. They
promised to investigate, and
to reveal their findings.
In the meantime, the woman,
herself, telephoned The News
Journal, but I was out. .She
left a message that she was
the "body" at the side of the
road, and that she had fallen
at the scene.
Other reports confirmed that
she had been loaded, and she
admitted as much in her tele
phone report.
That eased my mind, and was
exactly what Sheriff Dave Bar
rlngton had predicted the mys
tery would turn out to be. A
bout 90 per cent of such re
ports involve drunk persons ly
ing on the shoulder of the
road," Barrlngton said.
Well, 1 1 was the first such
incident I had ever encountered,
and throughout that week end,
I thought about the little girl.
What a horrible experience it
must have been for her, a 4-5
year-old girl who believed her
mama had been killed.
In addition to several reports
on the actual happening, I re
ceived dozens of telephone calls
and was asked by many people
on the street about the mystery.
Today. I report that it Is
a mystery no more.
When I left to call an am
bulance, eyewitnesses say, the
woman was removed from the
road and carried to a nearby
home (Where she and the little
girl lived). Naturally, when
the center of attention was re
moved, the cars and spectators
left. That accounted for the
desertion of the scene.
I am glad the woman ap
parently wa s drank ( as she
admitted) Instead of dead.
Not so much for the woman,
as for the little girl.
A horrible eplsodehas ended.
Horse racing almost went
the way of professional box
ing and several other major
sports Saturday when the an
nual running of The preakness
(The Baltimore event)--was run
in late afternoon.
It marked the second time
In two outings that Dancer's Na
tive, a son of Native Dancer,
had been disqualified in an im
portant race.
Earlier, he had won the rich
Kentucky Derby, but was dis
qualified in a subsequent action
after examination showed he
had been given quantities of drug
not permitted under Derby
rules.
Saturday, he was running his
usual race -- trailing on the in
side as the horses came into
(he home stretch. Then Dancer
made his tamous move. He
turned on the steam and headed
for the front. It was not to be,
however, because the inside
was blocked by two other hors
es. An expert Jockey can some
times create a hole when none
is there, and Dancer's rider
apparently tried that. Dancer
wedged between the two horses,
but was forced hack. He came
on again. This time, he clearly
bumped, or was bumbed by the
two horses. That , of course,
was an infraction and he was
disqualified.
What difference does It make?
None, In particular, because
I do not attend horse races
anymore.
There seems a mystery,
though, as to why Dancerhasn't
been able to come home with
the cabbage in the big ones.
Although he Is said to have
weak ankles, he is among the
fastest horses in the world
and might well have captured
the coveted triple crown of
racing The Kentucky Derby,
The Preakness, and the Wood
Memorial.
Had he been able to win only
two of the three, he might have
jumped In value to the million
dollar bracket. As it is, he
is Just another horse, for breed
ing and information are little
value when an Impressive per
formance Is not present.
On the other hand. Jet Pilot,
winner of both the Derby (After
Dancer's disqualification) and
the Preakness. is emerging as
a vaiunoie piece of property
and will likely be another of
those fabulous studs after his
racing days are over.
It is somewhat Ironic that
Dancer's Son, probably a bet
ter horse than Jet Pilot, had as
much going for him and threw
it away. The decisions of the
stewards (or whoever race of
ficials are) are not to be ques
tioned. If the horse broke the
rules, it broke the rules.
Fact Is, the horse also broke
the back of his owner, because
a million bucks is a high price
to pay for two Infractions of
the rules.
Puppy
Creek
Philosopher
Dear edltar:
I found this newspaper caught
on ioim weeds In my front yard
out hr. on this bermuda grass
farm I know you'r. supposed
to keep a lawn mowed and
trimmed under soma rules I
didnt vote on, but how many
neatly mowed ldwns have you
ver seen that w.r. worth any
thine at catching wind-blown
n.wtpaptrs? When It cornel to
mowing or being Informed,
a thinking man knowi where to
draw the line, and besides,
weeds have their rights, the
sam. as colle g students. Just
because they're obnoxious la no
reason for getting rid of th.m.
Give th.m time, they'll both
go to sd sooner or later.
At any rat., I pulled that
newspaper off th patch of weeds
and sat down on th. front porch
and right off ran Into two items
that startled me.
One said that Prime Minister
Lester Pearson of Canada, who
has retired, wlU become a pro
fessor of International affairs
at a university up there, and
the oth.r said President John
son, when he leaves the Presi
dency In January, will also be
come a college prottssor.
I've been thinking, do those
fellows know what they're get
ting Into? Aren't they Jump
ing from the frying pan Into
the fire?
If President Johnson thinks
Viet Nam is a headache, wait
till he runs into a bunch of
militant college students. Lp
to now, the V. S. President's
office has been safe in Wash
ington, but look what can happen
to a college president's office.
Why I can Imagine General
Westmoreland over In Viet Nam
saying, "All right, move me
to Washington as Chief of Staff
or leave me here with the war,
but whatever you do, don't make
me president of a college. I've
got my family to think of."
Somebody ought to let the
President and the Prime Minis
ter know what they're getting
Into, and L they still persist
in going ahead, the least their
governments can do Is provide
them with a life-time use of
tanks for getting to snd from
class., and underground bomb
shelters to teach In.
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
DAN MCORE ... Dan Moore
ha tun made a spectacular
governor by any means but lie
has made a "solid" governor.
; o is nor easily pushed around.
However, we suspect that the
"Mountain Man" is one of the
very few governors since World
War n who. had he been dibble
to succeed himself, could have
been reelected.
We think that Moore could
have been renominated and re
elected, and maybe a reason for
this i that Dan has not been
cai rylnA out the duties of his
office with one eye peeled to
wards flic next election.
Governor Moore has not
manifest-.1 any interest in seek
ing a seat In the United States
enate as has several of our
past governors, but we would
n't be surprised to see the
"Mountain Man" getting a lit
tle touch of Potomac fever about
a year from now.
3ELKS ... A fine family
and a generous family in North
Carolina if the Belk family
the t'iree sons of die late Wil
liam Henry Belk Irwin, Tom
and Henderson These three
brothers have s reat heritage
and they are living up to it and
carryin0 on in a great tradi
tion. Recently The Belk Foundation
and other Belk Interests an
nounced a $300,000 gift for the
construction of a chapel at Saint
Andrews College InLaurinburg.
Not a great while ago they made
a very substantial Ift to Chowan
College in Murfreesboro, and
also toCampbellCollegetnBues
Creek.
William Henry Belk was a
great merchant a successful
merchant, a leader In his church
and in his community. His sons
and daughters have been carry
ing on in the fine tradition of
their father in working to make
the communities they serve with
their stores a better place in
which to live.
CONVENTIONS ... The peo
ple who constitute the grass
roots of the Democratic part)'
had their opportunity to be
come involved In the party
machinery at the precinct meet
ings on May 11.
On Saturday, May 25 the pro
cess will advance to the county
conventions across the State
with the county chairmen and
other party officials being
named, and also dele pates to the
State Convention to De held on
June 6 chosen.
While North Carolina does
SENATOR
SAM ERVIN
SAYS
WASHINGTON The Poor
Peoples March on Washington
is a matter of concern to every
American, Poverty and the
conditions which It breeds are
serious problems for our coun
try and our people. No one
denies that.
Moreover, there is no ques
tion that the Individuals con
ducting this campaign have the
legal right to petition the gov
ernment for a redress of griev
ances so long as they do so In
an orderly manner. There is
concern, however, about the
wisdom of bringing Urge num
bers of people for any pro
longed camp-In In Washington.
Earlier last month, Washington
suffered a tragic riot, and any
condition which might lead to
further disorders la of great
concern. Congress la probing
th plans by the Federal Gov
ernment to maintain law and
order during the March on
Washington.
There is much concern, too,
about how the demands present
ed to th. Federal Government
for Increased social and wel
fare programs will fit Into an
already deficit-ridden spending
program. The leaders of the
March on Washington have de
manded among other things" a
guaranteed annual Income".
Congress Is presently wrestling
with a proposed $ie billion bud
get submitted by the President
that he will resist any budget
cuta that exceed $4 billion.
Moreover, Congress is faced
with Federal spending authori
sations carried over from prior
yeara touting $222 billion. To
put the matter simply, the im
poverished citizen has com.
to the most deflclt-rldden trea
sury on earth to propose new
demands for Federal spending.
It Is w.11 to mention that al
ready F.deral relief costs ex
ceed $9 billion annually. Educa
tion, training, and free health
programs to the poor total an
other $S billion annually. Oth.r
Federal programs for the bene
fit of the poor amount to about
910 billion annually. So before
any new demands for the poor
are considered, Congress will
be considering a $21 btlUon
outlay for the poor. I do not
nor have a presidential primary
as do several of the States -
the people can express diem
selves throu-h the precinct
meetings, county, district and
state conventions although tt
is not the easiest way.
Hie great masses of the peo
ple never bother to artend die
precinct, county, district or
state political conventions. They
leave It up to the "politicians" 1
and office holders, and frankly
they do a pretty good Job, gen
erally, of representing the peo-nle.
OBPsmFXTtAl . . . Thori-U
very little favorable sentiment
for any of the three major con
tenders for the Democratic pre
sidential nomination. It Is pret
ty much of a "lesser of the
evils" and it may well be the
same way with the Republicans.
Someone said afewdays a;,othat
the never expected to see the
day when Hubert Humphrey
would be the favorite candidate
of the South.
EDUCATION ... We arc
striving for "quality education"
but one sure way not to get
It Is to let the students dictate
school and college policy.
Bob Scott was on solid ground
last week when he said: '1
deplore the day when the stu
dents In our public school sys-
tem dictate the policies of
schools and unsurp the legal
authority of elected school
boards and appointed adminis
trators. I am sure the great
majority of North Carolinians f
do not want our schools dom
inated by students . . ."
KENNEDY . .. Bobby Kennedy
is demonstrating that money can
still be a powerful factor in
pushing forward a particular
person in politics.
Without riches Kennedy could
never have received 51 of the
vote in Nebraska. Kennedy has
now won in Indiana and Wash
ington, D.C., as well as Ne
braska. Don't rule him out as
the 1968 Democratic nominee for
president, and If he wins it will
make the going tough for the '
Democrats in North Carolina.
SECOND PRIMARY . . . Poll
officials had it tough, workin ,
into the wee hours of the night
on Saturday, May 4.
However, with only one state-
wide contest - and that by the
Republicans where the vote is
very small -- Ihe ballot count
ing should be over in a few
minutes after the polls close
on Saturday. June 1.
think this budget is particular
ly stingy.
Of particular legislative con
cern is the demand that Con
gress should pass a bill guar
anteeing that every American
shall have an annual income of
$4000 or aome other large
amount. I cannot think of any
legislation thai would be mo.e
tragic for our nation and our
people than for the Federal
Government to pay everybody a
wage for existing. This one
act would rob Americana of the
incentive to produce the goods
and services essential to the
functioning of our economy. It
la conceivable that the effect
of this bill would be to create
a situation that would deprive
everybody of essential goods and
services, because many Indivi
duals would no longer care whe
ther they worked and produced
or aat around In ldlesness all
day.
Grievances by any citizen
should be considered by the
Congress, but after such con
sideration, I am hopeful that
Congress will exercise both
courage and Intelligence In Its
deliberations. Traditionally,
Congress has taken th. position
that It will not legislate under
coercion. I think it would be
tragic for Congr.es to legis
late merely to meet demands
rather than enacting sensible
legislation. I am hopeful that
clear thinking will prevail and
that law and order will be maintained.
Divers Divers
Deepaea divera, operating hun
dreds of miles from the neareit
sea, were important to the suc
cess of a mining; operation in
Northern Manitoba. The divera
plunged into CO feet of swampy
water to help link a mine shaft
being developed for International
Nickel.
latteries letter Camels
The vented rechargeable nickel
cadmium batteries used for emer
gency lighting have been designed
to rebuilt addition of water only
once every 10 years.