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Chapel Hill News Leader Danger Signal Lighted '■♦'s Great how Things Are picking up' fifth year, no. 71 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1958 Russians And Readers A visiting Russian—not one of ilu- group- '\iiose leader so irked Pete Ivey, but of an other, and they’re coming in such numbers lltat pretty soon we’ll have to give them distinguishing numbers or some other son of identification—anyway, a visiting Russian recently said something about us that hits home and Jiurts, He told a (irecnsboro re porter that “the most striking thing about the well-equipped and ‘rich’ American homes he has visited is that they have no personal libraiies. Me .said that in tiie f’.S.S.R., thougli the houses and apartments may not be so elaborate, the home library is their first pride." ^ This is too unhappily true, ('.hapel Hill, for special reasons, may be more bookish than other communities in and outside .North Carolina, but the generality holds, and plenty of homes right here could do with much mot e leading matter. One of the best ways to get Americans to act nowadavs seems to be to challenoe them H ah. Pai'hrnihar- to rival Russians. Here’s :u challenge that could be taken up to the benefit and pleasure of the contestants. There's no substitute for books, and if that’s such treason to TV’ that the set gets all het up ;nid pops a, tube, very well. Education rests on books, and education is a field recentiv full of T.S. - l\S..S.R. com- jtarisons. It’s impossible to expect a child to leel at home with the books essential to school Avho has never seen books used, respected, treasured and enjoyed at home. ’ E\ery parent might do rvell to get for him- sell (and herself), on every child’s birthdav. some books. .V good examjjle tvouhl be set. and a good rime could be had 1)\' till. Accent Is On Show' In the fuss about tvhether the breed is hon est or gimrnicked, it’s tvell to keep in miiidl that in “qui/ sho^v'’ the accent is on "show. V iewers want cntertafiinnenti Producers tvam,| rather than persons who haVe a fund of in formation, those tvho can bring it out in| dramatic fa,shion. Ehey’ll treasure, such ex-| cejjtional specimens, and go as far as theirj consciences will permit in holding ontoi those tvho prote popular. How far that isl obviouslv x'aries from show to show, pro-J ducer to producer. Much of the tvork of netvspapcrmen is ask ing people questions. They know that some-1 bodv giving an immenselv import.an't reply| may do it in dull fashion. The authoritv mtiy.i "TnnhV^r ,ah. Now let’s see," may stas’ silentl a lon.gjl;,in).e,.and ponder, may even saj-, '‘Ell| have to look .up a point. Call me or comej back tomorrow." That, ol course, would ner erl do on TV’. Quick action is wainted and the! answ'erer must be at least as much actor a's| authority. Some television programs, though regrett- Icarrics more tlnni most st.itions.) I’hcy ha\e heii tipped and Interest, besides value, but |the\ aren’t cast in the mold of a mtisier of Iceremonies. who tilready has the answer on a icard in his hand, firing tpiesiions at "human |f'ni\;tcs.’’ t\h() then midse awful faces, writlie. beat their breasts and brows, tind come up v'ith replies right or wrotig. It’s the writhing 'hat 'oiiins. if it makes watchers imirmui in |symp;nhy or, occasiontdly, snort in jiity be- jcaiisc they happen to knmv the anstvers. 'Ehc ]re[)lies are second tiny, but if a show latches (into a good'w'rither. it might nudge him or liter towtird replying right so that the pro- [gram ivouldn’t lose a star. It could almost be said that a cpii/ show jis keeping faith ivith its viewers if it comes [up nvdth a sprightlv cast. From there, it’s onlv a step to weeding out those tvho are jdull in mti'nner, hotveter bright in fact, and |culti\ating those -who put on appealing per- jfotmances .d'hat.’s the mil) of the (]uiz show Ibusiness, and it’s tis simple ;is .VBCi—f)r ClkS ably few. are reallv instructive. (V\Ah\C-T\’jgJ|or .NBC. Swinging On A Branch On the wav past a yard in East Rosemaryl .Street a few davs back, we saw a little girl swinging on the branch of a tree. little| hen Irvine arms and legs tight about it, let ts supple springiness ride her skvrvard, di[.) »irl and a great, big tree—a giant of an oak. The girl was diessed in red and the tree in’ green, and they made a lively, gay, lovely j picture. I he trees trunk shot pp rough and huge around, as though it meant to have no more to do with earth or folks on it. High overhead the first limbs thrust out. I hen one of them dipped in a gracelul curve so itS;. tip came almost to the ground—and if not just so that a ,hild tould have a place to play with a swoop and a swav, it's hard to .sav why. , I he girl would grasp the hrmich as high up as she could reach, ptdl it down to ’ "" llier earthward, rockabv her like the rhyme’s Ibabe in the rreetop, but safe from such a Sgreat fall. .\t last the pendulum lift and let (would end, and then she’d do it again. She Her, seemed to tire of the game no more than the tree did. Fiictories have vet to wake a teeter-totter, the fanciest, costliest, most spring-equipped and finely balanced, tha't could give a child more fun than that girl was having. Each taut line of her young hotly told of joy as tlmugh It Was a simple scene, but all the rest of that (lav seemed brighter for h.vving spied it. Perhaps that was because a hajipy child, made so with tlie aid of Nature, was at its center, she had fountl out how to flv. By DAN ANDERSON Try to imagine how it vVould be if all traffic beteeen Glen Len nox and the center of Chapel Hill were stopped — except maybe mule-rides. Roughly, that’s the threat fac ing thousands of that special sort of Americans, New York City com- imuters. Men in gray flannel suits, the patsies of “Rally Round the Flag, Boys!’’ and dvyellea-s in Ex- urbia would be worse off than the hardest-hearted author ever made them if the 'ax fell. Presidents of two raUroads hold the ax poised, to cut off co.m- muiter-itrain service between Man hattan and the clustered towns called “tlie city's bedrooms” that lie m Westchester and other New York State counties and in nearby Connecticut, mainly in Fairfield County. ‘Losiilg,’ They Wail They’re losing money, say the railroaders, and can’t keep up .service unless they get tax a-elief, -subsidies, higher fares — probably a combination. President Alfred E.. Perlman of the New York Central Railroad growled in July it must at least reduce losses or end commuter service. President George Alpert of the New York, Nevv' Haven & Hartford Railroad, which serves Connecticut, echoed, more strong ly, more recently. Alpert: says the New Haven lo.st $5,000,000 on com- m II tea's in 1057. He announced plans to talk with officials of New' York City and Westchester and Fairfield Coun ties about granting the road $2.- 000.000 to $2,500,000 hi tax cuts, subsidies or both. If that's not fortlicomlng, he added sternly, he’ll seek — ''immediately”—to end the service. How Can They Lose? Plain folks may wonder why a dependable, regular, heavy flow of traffic is luiprofitable. The New Haven hauls 30,000 comanuters to hiid from New York each week day, but says tins doesn’t pay, even at more than $30 a montli for a cammutation ticket to far points. If ithe average fare is only $20. :tliat's $600,000 a month, but the New Haven manages to lose On it. Railroading is a weird busi ness! Chaos and calamity would re sult from halting the trains. Thou sands live a life attuned to the railroads — and, for many years, fostered by the railroads vaunting and improving the 'service they now itlii'eaten to halt. Commuters get the twin advan tages of work in the city, life in country. They pay for it in money for tickets and time spent travel ing. A man from Wastport, Conn., will take a train shortly after 7 a.m. for his metropolitan job, get home around 7 p.m. If his office is downtown in Manhattan, adding a subway ride to tlie train trip, he may spend over four hours a day going to and fro. But his chil dren grow up seeing trees, his wife enjoys a house rather than being cooped in an apartment. Big Investments These people, often highly paid by advertising, finance, TV and radio, have put lots of money into their homes. They’ve caused real estate and business booms — in cluding setting up by New York fu’ms of suburban and e.xurban branches, Waiiamaker’s having even closed its Manliattan store to concentrate on a netwoa'k of outlying shops. What could the commuters do it the link—the lifeline! — were cut? Take buses? Form carpools for round trips often more than 100 imdes daily? They’d make more mess than the highways could take. New York coulthTt hold them if they tried to move back there. The city and all the towns have big stakes in keeping commuters riding. Perlman and Alpert may have talked, hoping for conces sions, more fiercely ithan they’d ever act. Solutions may — real ly, must — be found. Yet here’s a gloomy amen for all the 'sprawling metropolitan areas of the nation, of which New York was fu'st and is foriemost. After giving thanks tliey aren’t in such a bind. Chapel Hlllians who care how the rest of the country lives vv'dl watch what happens around New York. How ABC Stores Helped What follows is reprinted from the Durham Morning Herald. It tells how tlie city and Durham County benefit from profits of ABC liquor stores — in money and otherwise. Results could be sunilarly happy for Orange County if voters approved es- tablisluneiit here of ABC stores in the referendum February 7. Duii'liam County’s bootleggers and moonshiners have taken a bad beating smee the ABC system w as established here in 1937. Weaning tipplers away from "Speakeasies, legal liquor at the safe time has provided profits that proved a boon to county and city budgets, and thereby a blessing to tlie taxpayer. ‘Ten-lble’ without It Thanks and Congrats,.. lo Richard (.alhooii for beiiio- liQsen to fill the vacanev on tlie Bi R’jrd ol .■\ldernien: It mu.st be pleasant to know yonr rolleao-ues wanted vou so nuu b tiiat ihcv voted you in. —.Nnd Dean D. I). Carroll, appropriateb' elected permanent Cliairnia.'n of the Hiunan Relations Commis.sion: a dedicated and ap- able man who has ati also dedicated and cap able committee workino- tvirh Irim.;—A bio- job ii'itd an impoitant one, too. — fo .Mrs. Ralph Cheek. ptibli{itv ebair- man ol the Carrboro Elementary Sfliodl and her associate,s who arrano-ed such an attraeti\ c open house at the netv huildino that it teas iieces-saiy to tuin lit^iit.s out to discotira.o-e the overflow of \ i,si tors. lo the two Jims, C.arsc and Jordan, and C.laude Sliotrs for the prooTam tliev put on at Camp Xew Hope to ojve freshmen a birds- eye \iet\ oi the lni\er,sity and a rveleomc to it. \\ ith fiuger.s crossed for tvliat s ahead, cong-ratufations to Churlie Hubbard, tvho .scored the winning- touchdown for fihapel Hill High School’s AVildcats, and to all the rest of the football team on vietorv in tlieir first .game of the season. —.And we feel almost as distressed.as Play wright Paul Green nuist about the tvay the dish died off in the pond at his home at .Greenwood, Those who ask for appropriations at bud get henri)igs i)i Raleigh may find the old Or- uoital susnig—"Hearing is obeying”—fails to hold. -If * # Sudden reali/ation that they haveii’t been seen so mut li lately, nor missed, either—sac k dresses. Reading- the international news often ca'uses. mneh the same helpless feeling as looking at the climhing thermometer on si hot day. * # * , . .A Erench pro'cerh say.s, ".A meal without ovine is like a dav without sun," and effort to phrase a paraliel about the best meal of the day can find nothing stronger tlia'ii day without a good breakfast is like a day without a good breakfast.’’ # # // the mail were worth the hurry folks go lo lo gel il in. they could hardly stand the c.\( ileineni of reading il. Don’t count vonr rabbits before tliev’re luitclied. # # # Cot ernor Hodges says State employees fare well "in .tomparison with their fellow .N'oith Carolinians,” which according to latest .statistics doesn’t put them in the qi j)er cent inii.mie lax bracket. "The city and county would be in terrible shape financially if we had not had ABC imoney,” a coun ty commissioner asserted recent ly. "The tax rates would certain ly exceed their present status.” Record's show that a total of $57,- 926.926 worth of hard drink was •sold by local ABC stores since their opening through last June 30. Profits were distributed in this 'manner: to the City of Durha,m. $3,964,310; 'to the County of Dur ham. $4,084,'310, and to the State of North Carolina, in 10 per cent sales tax, $4,961,099. The federal government Realized its big take at the source, being paid by the distiller at the rate of $10.50 for each gallon of 100 proof liquor. The city and county split the profits 50-50 until a couple of years ago w'hen tlie county assumed sole responsibility of the operation of the Health Department. At that time it was agreed that the comity would take 70 per cent of ABC profits and the city 30 per cent. What It Does How has ABC profits helped Durham? Before the recent profits per centage change, a 4 1-2 to 5 per cent saving was reflected in tlie county tax rate tlirougli ABC 'monies. ABC profits have entirely fi nanced Dm'ham’s share of the Raleigh-Durham Airport. Until its recent closing ( due to the opening of Gravely at Chapel HUD, Hie Durham County TuberciUosis San atorium. was operated s o le 1 y 'tln'ough ABC profits. Lincoln Hospital has been aided greatly, coimty teachers have been employed, industrial utilities help ed. warehouse equipment obtained. public librai'ies supported, the Committee of 100 aided, outside fire protection financed, garbage disposal service made avaUable, county rabies Inspection program ■financed, and given a financial shot-in-the-arm through tlie legal sale of alcoholic beverages. How Money Divides Here is where the money goes for a bottle of ABC whisky. Take for example a fifth of a popular brand seUmg for $3.95. The federal government (based on $10.50 per 100-proof gallon), receives 45.7 per cent or $1,806; ,the State of North Carolina re ceives 10 per cent of the selling price or 39.1-2 cents; the County of Durham (70 per cent of the net profits t receives 8.7 per cent or approximately 34 1-2 cents; the City of Durham (30 per cent of the net profits) receives 3.7 pei- cent or nearly , 15 cents; to law enforce ment goes 1.4 per cent nearly 5 1-2 cents; co.st of handling, stor age and transportation totals about 2 cents; ABC operating costs total about 21 cents; and costs of beverage totals 24.7 per cent or about 97 1-2 cents. Wewsiitan’s notepad So Like Chapel Hill-So Unlike By ROLAND GIDUZ Going off the hometown news beat and changing over to the big city has been quite a switch for The New'sman.and his brood . . . We’d imagined that in moving from one University community to another, things would be pretty quiet in Cambridge this season of the year ,as they are in Chapel Hill. One thing we didn’t reckon on, it seems, is that Cambridge (Pop. 120,000) is a University “village” surrounded by Boston (Pop. 800,- 000) and about two dozen other small towns, each approximately the size of Raleigh. Nothing quiet about that many people in one place. And our family zoo of five certainly hasn’t served to lessen the clatter. Having been out of Orange County overnight less than a doz en times since 1950, a four-day auto trip, family and furnishings in tow, proved quite an exper ience. The AAA-plotted route for the 750-mile journey went by Rich mond. Washington, Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia, New York, New Haven, WorChester, and Boston .... But it actually went “by” all of them. Durham was the biggest city we went through, other than Washington, on this “express” route between Chapel Hill and Boston. Thru- w'ays, by passes, boulevards, park- wa.y:S, and turnpikes, as they’re variously known, routed through traffic around every single place mentioned .... And a boule vard bypass around the nation’s capital is now under construction, too. $5.20 In Tolls .. Disclaimer.. By DAN ANDERSON Special for The News Leader “If a reader thinks he's seen Similarity between Characters in Hiis book and Real folks, he 'must understand It’s by piu'e coincidence. And he mustn’t take offense.” That’s what writers often say, But I’ll put it, if I may. In a somewhat different way: “If, sweetheart, you think at itimes You’ve discovered in my rhymes Some real girl recipient Of my praise and compliment, Be assured it isn’t true — Unless that real girl is you!” N. C.’s Unique Position North Carolina is in a rather unique position witli regard to highways in that we are one of only four States which assumes final responsibility at the State level for primary as well as coun ty roads. Our Commission has the total responsibility for design ing, building, improving and main taining ivell oyer 70,000 miles of public roads and highways. In this respect qur' responsibility is larger than that of tpjy other State. —Gov. Hodges. Of course all this wasn’t free. The family accountant tabulated tolls totalling $5.20 for the full 720 miles — coveting turnpike, bridge, and ferry tolls. Needless to say, it was a good buy. The ferry toll came in because of the different way we chose to enter New York City (a side trip from the official routing). Leaving the ■New Jersey Turnpike at Eliza beth, we crossed Goethgls Bridge onto Staten Island and entered Manhattan at th.e Battery; land ing via the Staten Island Ferry ($ .65) from St. George. To our thinking this harbor approach is and alwhys wll be New; (York’s most interesting tourist sight. Three-year-old Bob seemed to enjoy the boat ride, toO'. He sur veyed the expanse of the tower ing skyline in front of him, the Statue of Liberty to his left, the water in front, and commented sagely: “Mama, it’s deep.” Meals were the most trying part of the whole endeavor. Few restaurants are equipped for fam ily service, though we found that some spots with lollipops, bal loons, high chairs, children’s plates—and, most important—fast service—made things far los.s painful. But take a gang of chil dren into a crowded Times Square Cafeteria at 6 p.m. and try to get ’em fed. Try it, sometime. You just can’t do it! The boys seemed to have a fair time for the overnight stay in mid-town New York. They en joyed their first subway ride (no charge—walked under the turn stile) . . . were fascinated by Times Square’s neon phenomena, and interested in the view from the Empire State Building tow er. But nobody disagreed when young Bill volunteered simply— “New York’s'too big. It’s got too many people and too many cars.” Constant Question Most frequently-asked question in the entire four days was; “How many miles?” One of the boys asked it at least every mile—just about on the mile. 'We developed a stock, though scarcely creative answer: Every time we. replied “Fifty miles.” This was usually incorrect, but we never got any kick-back on it! And talking about congestion . . . We expected it quite natural ly in the cities of New York and Washington. On the parkways, turnpikes, or boulevard wbat- ■chamacallits we never saw any congestion. —Except on our heading northward out of New York in the early morning. The ih-bcund la'nes on the Merritt Parkways were solid wdth fast- moving double lanes of cars. Then at one point for about 100 feet, that side of the highway was squeezed into a single lane where some road repairs were in progress. —From that point hack the cars were packed solid for a little over two miles in a fast growing snail - pace procession through the single-lane bottle neck. the rim 'of the panel win ping it over the door ha puling it up. This man, \ was a jewel. Truly he the tourist family’s Con| Medal of HonO'r. Ineider learned he was a rece Maryland grad and a t who was well-acquaim Chapel Hill, having f: run the mile against ( Jim Beatty. On arriving here ,Frid noon it made us feel home to see the congt Harvard Square. It was more so at its least than and Columbia at its me There were plenty of th made the downtown sc like the hometown U community . . . Ivy-cover ings on the Harvard across from the Ivy clothing stores and eate dent sport cars and faculi “Used Textbooks” embla poster paint on store ’ and even a few “Welcc dents” signs left over f fall. Harbinger of Chapel come, though was one of and most obvious sights downtown Square: Park ers—dozens of ’em, all a curbs and solid back-to-b public parking, lot, right of the Harvard Commons body for shoe leather? Washington, a stopover for two nights and a day, wasn’t without its highlights, either. Natm-ally we had to take the hoys to the National Zoological Park for most of a day . . . There they saw the okapis, rhinos, ele phants, anteaters, tigers, alpacas, two teed sloths, and lions, etc. And what would you supporse six year-old Bill said he liked the most?—A corral full 'Of prairie dogs—commo^n desert rats. Locked Out of Car Traveling with a family of three young boys complicates any type of journey, to make a bit of an undErstatement. We soon found out that mornings were much bet ter than afternoons for travel. Also: Post-meal journeying was smoother than pre-meal times. (— We needed a 700-mile trip to dis cover that????) . That was no less of a let down than the climax to a brief walk through the Capital building. On returning to the car we found it locked solid with the keys still in the ignition. But within min utes an ingenious and helpful policeman had it open. He used the old trick of insert ing a coat-hanger loop through Chapil Hm News Li Published every MdndiJ Thursday by the News Company, Inc. Mailing Address: Box 749 Chapel Hill, N. C. 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