Editorial Comment
A Good Connection
The case of Josef Carl Engressia Jr., the
young blind man who carried direct distance
dialing beyond anything the telephone company
ever imagined, has come to what we hope will be
a happy ending.
Not only did Mr. Engressia listen for the dial
tone, he and his electronic devices whistled it
with perfect pitch. Beeping and chiming at the
appropriate times. Mr. Engressia created quite
a hang-up for the South Central Bell Telephone
Co. by switching his calls to cities around the
world past the operators. Feeling shortchanged,
the telephone company decided to prosecute
even while admiring Mr. Engressia's telephone
artistry.
After his arrest June 2 the blind genitu
disclosed that, despite his obvious electron^
skills and the engineering training he had picket
up at the University of South Florida, he wa;
unemployed, lonely and subsisting on a $97-a
month check he receives from the Tennesset
Welfare Department. Judge Ray Churchill
recognizing that the prosecution had a wrong
number, reduced the charges and let Mr
Engressia off with a light fine.
Now that the Milling ton telephone company
has offered Mr. Engressia a job in which he car
put his talents to a legal use, he apparently will
have good reason to whistle while he works. ?
Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial Appeal
Label Everything
The advent of labels on cigarette packages,
warning that smoking may have awful results,
has caused a rash of speculation as to what could
happen next. The Association of National
Advertisers has come up with a sharp one.
Noting that the Army has embarked on an
$11 million advertising and recruiting campaign,
the ANA proposes, that it, too, bear a label:
"Warning: Life in the Army may at best be dull,
intensively uncomfortable and underpaid."
The ANA warning is not a good one. The
United States Army is a good institution, it has
given many good men careers and before the
Indochina debacle appeared to be well managed
and to have high morale. But the ANA warning
label is about as logical as the cigarette
package label and others in the mill.
There are some fools in the population of the
United States; most Americans are not idiots
and can go through life without so many
warnings. - Roanoke (Va.) Times
Man Bites Dog
It's no longer news when customers of the
postal service complain about delays in the
mails. It's man-bites-dog news, however, when
letter carriers complain. The letter carriers'
union says that the May issue of its magazine
reached California members on May 4, whereas
subscribers living only 10 miles from the plant in
Washington that prints the magazine didn't get
their copies until May 14. Poor portal
management, the mailmen contend. We hope
their complaint gets more action than do the
gripes of the average citizens. ? Charleston (S.
C.) News and Courier
Some Pennies He Pinched!
An Air Force investigative report has
surfaced that describes a former Pentagon
employee as a "penny pincher" so stingy that he
drove an old Rambler. We pass this along solely
because that ex-employer is A. Ernest
Fitzgerald. He is the efficiency expert who was
fired by the AirForce because he told the world
that the C5A transport plane was going to cost
the taxpayers $2 billion more than it was
supposed to. The moral: The Pentagon needs
more Rambler- driving penny pinchers. ?
Iouisville (Ky.) Times.
Yo - Yo And Parking Meter
Maybe you don't know his name but you
have been affected by his products. Donald
Franklin Duncan, who died recently at the age of
78, was the promoter of the yo-yo and the parking
meter, one delightful, the other occasionally
exasperating. Both seem here to stay, the yo-yo
periodically, the parking meter permanently. ?
Oiattanooga (Tenn.) News-Free Press
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People & Issues
APPROPRIATIONS...
While the North Carolina
General Assembly has cut the
requests of groups, overall,
public service in North Carolina
for which the General Assembly
is responsible has fared quite
well.
You will never have thrift
and economy in government
when there is plenty of money
around. Only when you have a
hard time of making ends meet
will thrift and economy in
government raise their heads.
HUGH MORTON...How
many people are taking Hugh
Morton's proposed candidacy
for governor seriously, we do
not know, but one thing we feel
pretty sure about is that
Hugh himself is as serious about
it as are Pat Taylor, Skipper
Bowles and Bob Morgan.
Hugh is taking somewhat of
a different approach than is
the normal procedure. Most
A Voice
In The Wilderness
"Hie despicable act of
setting new-born puppies out on
the road side to die of starvation
is taken into consideration at
the weighing of the heart at
Judgement Day. All the acts we
perform are accountable at that
time. This irresponsible
performance is indicative of the
cruel, inhuman attitude some
people have towards the animal
world.
In due respect to the kind
hearted souls who find these
unfortunates, a suggestion of
giving aid, a "taking care of"
attitude is offered. Surely we
can store up the "treasures in
heaven" by taking in these
objects of unconcern, until the
time arrives when the humane
society can build a shelter to
take care of the over-population
of cats and dogs. We beseech
those generous souls who find
these little lost or unwanted
waifs of the animal world to
give them the care and love
they so desparately need along
with a home with themselves or
among relatives or friends.
This takes some effort and time
on the part of each individual
involved but in so, doing do we
reap the benefits of our
kindness.
ANIMAL SHELTER
BUIIDING FUND $1041
Won't you add your name to
the above by sending your
donation to help build a an
animal shelter? Send your
contribution to: The Cherokee
Clav HumaneSocietv, Inc. P. 0.
Box 660. Murphy, N. C. 28906.
Tax deductible.
The Cherokee-Clay
Humane Society. Inc. meets
every third Tuesday evening of
the month at the Power Board
Building in Murphy. The next
meeting will be July 20 at 8
o'clock. Young people are also
invited to attend. Won't you
please join us?
MARGARET SCHROEDEI
prospective candidates go to the
people with a program of some
kind. Hugh is going to the people
asking what their counties
need; how the state can help
them. etc. Listen to Hugh talk
and you can tell that Governor
Hodges strikes the Wilmington
and Grandfather Mountain man
as a pretty good type governor.
Hugh plans to visit in each of the
100 counties and have a
professional poll taken before
arrivng at a decision, which
seems to be a pretty good way to
approach the matter.
SUPREME COURT...We
have not been able to applaud
many of the decisions handed
down by the UJ5. Supreme
Court in recent years because
we feel that they have been
more attuned to the protection
of the criminals than the law
abiding citizens and contributed
to the rise in crime and
disrespect for law, order and
justice.
However, we can applaud
the Court's decision in
upholding the First Amendment
and the freedom of the press in
the issue dealing with the
classified Pentagon papers.
However, the news media
must ever be mindful that they
have a great and serious
responsibility and not rush
forward to print news which
might unnecessarily and
without compensating good
weaken the security of the
nation. But for the Court's June
30 decision we are most
thankful.
ZOO BOND ISSUE...We are
glad to note that the General
Assembly has seen fit to submit
to the people a $2,000,000 bond
issue for the purpose of
establishing a State Zoological
Park at Purgatory Mountain
near Asheboro. We feel that a
zoo park such as is being
proposed for Purgatory
Mountain will be of great
benefit to the people and hope
that the voters will approve it.
However, bond issues are not
having too much success these
days and if it is to succeed it will
have to count largely on support
within 75 to 100 miles of
Asheboro to put it across.
On the other hand, if the
bond issue fails, it might pay the
property owners in the
Asheboro area to put on a
campaign and ante up, for, we
are told that land values
in the area have increased
tremendously since Purgatory
Mountain was selected as the
site for the zoo park.
BEDFORD W.
BLACK The sudden passing
of Bedford W. Black,
Kannapolis attorney and
former state legislator removes
from life and outstanding and
unusual man. Bedford's name,
according to our information,
was stricken from the Cabarrus
"establishment" list in 1950
when after committing himself
jo Dr. Frank P. Graham's
candidacy for the U.S. Senate,
ne refused to go along with the
local "establishment"' in
support of the late Willis Smith.
Bedford Black was an
unorthodox man, unbending in
his ways and loyal to his
friends.
TAYLOR & BOWLES...The
weekly Bessmer City Record in
a front page editorial comes out
strong in defense of Skipper
Bowles who the paper feels has
been blocked at most every turn
by the leadership in the State
Senate headed by Lt. Governor
H. Pat Taylor and takes some
left-handed slaps at the
lieutenant governor. Both
Taylor and Bowles are
regarded as avowed, although
unannounced candidates for
governor.
OPPORTUNITY....With so
many of the young people
taking to dope and narcotics
throwing themselves away so
far as leadership is concerned,
for those who yield not to the
temptation and properly
prepare themselves there
should be plenty of
opportunities in the years to
come. Sounds tragic, but in
many instances such is life.
Where one person stumbles,
another person will make the
same stumbling block a step to
success.
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Country music stars are made,
not born. And there is no such thing as
an overnight success. Two of the
show-stopping acts Saturday night at
the Jaycees Country Music Jamboree
talked about the one-night stands and
(he autographs and selling their
records on the rocky road toward
success and the coveted contract with
die Grand Ole Opry...
Willa Crisp (her last name should
have tipped us off) said she was a
Graham County Girl, from
Robbinsville. We said we knew
Graham County fairly well and if she
really was from Snowbird or Tapoco
or Sawyer Creek, just say so. She
laughed and said she was really from
Stecoah, she was a Lovin before her
marriage to Gary Crisp and they left
Stecoah and are now living in
Atlanta.
She has been working as a
secretary but had always sung
around Stecoah at churches and
"every talent show they had" and just
naturally kept on singing wherever
she could in Atlanta. So now she
has this new record out, the song is
called "My Man," written by a
famous country music writer named
Merle Kilgore and she has high hopes.
In a short skirt outfit and tight
white boots, Wilma is a ball of fire on
stage, belting out what her Mark Four
Records publicity man calls "uptown
country." Formerly a forward on the
Stecoah girls basketball team
(graduating Class of '58) she'll need
stamina for the grueling road shows
ahead. She has done one TV show in
Nashville and was well-received
there, but only time will tell.
The Learn on Sisters Jan and
Gayle, are farther along the
road than Willa Crisp, but they still
haven't made it to the Opry and
stardom in Nashville. With a solid
background of experience in gospel
singing since childhood, they
performed Friday and Saturday with
polish and stage savvy earned
through the past two years of hard
work.
They have the determination,
according to their mother, to stick
with the tough schedule of driving all
night, strange motels, and bad coffee
that can lead to the Opry. Now in their
early 20's, their dream is the Opry.
One of them was engaged once, Mrs.
Leamon said, but turned down
marriage because of the burning
desire to make it big in Nashville.
They were offered an Opry slot
several months ago but decided
against it because they wanted to
go in riding on a hit. Their current
record, "I'll Regret It In The
Morning," is doing well and they just
know their next one will be the hit
they've been waiting for.
Gayle, the older sister, says she
wants them to make it big by the time
she's 25. Poppa Leamon says it's
coming sooner than that, says his
girls will be on the Opry inside of s*x
months. They left Murphy about
midnight Saturday to drive all night
for a show in Florida, after which
they'll be leaving on a USO tour of
military bases in Vietnam and
Thailand.
But if the big hit and the big
contract elude the Leamons, (pause
here for a record sale to an admiring
fan, an autograph and then pose
together for a snapshot) marriage
and children and a home will beckon
strongly. Gayle laughed and added
"I'm not gonna be an old maid."
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Once your air conditioning is installed, you can do a number of
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? Partially close drapes on sunny side of house.
? Keep windows and outside doors closed.
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