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"RALEIGH ROUNDUP’’
DENNIS DAY ... We exchange
Christinas cards with a lot of folks,
and we receive some very. inter
esting ones, buf none are more in
teresting than the one we get each
year from Dennis Day.
Dennis of the Jack Benny radio
and television programs is known
to .millions as the brash young man
with the million dollar voice. Yours
truly served syith him in the navy
out in the South Pacific during
world War Two. Shortly after the
war we visited Dennis and his wife
Peggy in Hollywood. Peggy gave
birth to the first child, during our
visit. They named him • Patrick.
Each year since our visit we have
received a Christmas card from
Dennis and Peggy and every year
or so a new name is added to the
card. First it was Dennis and Peg
gy. Then is was Dennis, Peggy and
Patrick. Next it was Dennis, Peg
gy, Patrick and Dennis, The list
kept getting longer and longer as
the years passed.
This year the card was signed,
Dennis, Peggy, Patrick, Dennis,
Michael, Margaret, Eileen, Paul,
Thomas and Mary Kate.
One of these days Dennis and
Peggy may start one of the “fam
. ily shows” on television. They ceV
tainly have the family with which to
do it.
SAM J. ERVIN, JR. . . . The
best guess among political observ
ers around Raleigh is that U. S.
Senator Sam Ervin will have no
major opposition for the Demo
cratic nomination for another term
in the Senate. Senator Ervin is not
the type man who creates opposition.
He does a good job of keeping his
political fences mended. He does
this by doing his job in the Senate
and by keeping in touch with the
folks back home.
Senator Sam has an able staff
beaded by Jack Spain and they
look after the home folks who write
or who come to Washington for
help. From here it looks like a
Happy New Year for Senator Er
vin.
PLAY FOR PAY . . . With two
national football leagues bidding for
the services of the graduating col
lege football stars, it has reached
the point where the grades made on
the gridiron are as important as
those made in the classroom, "the
salaries being paid for the services
of the star players today by the
Pro teams make it a very lucrative
business.
Some of the top players get ten
to fifteen thousand dollars a year—
and keep in mind that they play
only about three months out of the
year. The rest of the time these
players are free to take other jobs,
which they can continue in full
time after their playing days are
over.
Before Pro Football became lu
crative the college stars uslially
looked forward to getting a coach
ing job when they graduated. They
usually had to start in a high scool
and hope that later they would get
a chance to get on the coaching
staff of some college by developing
some good high school teams.
Speaking of high school coaching
jobs, a lot of the coaches in the
small high, schools of North Caro
lina are making more money, due
to local subsidies, than are the
coaches of some of the larger high
schools.
We heard recently about a coach
in one of the smaller towns of the
state being contacted regarding the
coaching job in one of the largest
towns’ in the state — and it was
found that the coach in the small
town would have to take a two
thousand dollar cut in salary in or
der to make the change. He didn’t
do it.
NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS . . .
A lot of folks we know make New
Year Resolutions each year without
any serious intent of keeping them.
One of them put it this way, “It
gives me something to put off do
ing during the’first few weeks of
the New Year.”
We know one fellow who last
year kept his resolution to stop
smoking. "This year,” he says, “I
have have made a resolution to
lose the twenty five pounds I gain
ed from over eating while keeping
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, Gardyloo!
Civilization has changed since the
days when a shout of “gardyloo”
from an Edinburgh window warned
the passerby to scurry before a
deluge of dishwater or worse was
tossed into the most convenient
waste disposal facility — the street.
Now, in the United States, “City
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B” and dumps tons of domestic
and industrial wa$te into the river
from Which City B gets it drinking
water. Lately modem technology
has begun tossing a newer type of
pollutant into 'the nation’s streams.
Usually the first inkling that some
thing alien is coming through the
kitchen tap comes in the form of a
foamy “head” on the householder’s
glass of water.
from smoking.’,
MISSING . . . The past year has
seen an new list of names in the
presss. This is always true in the
case of changing politicial admin
strations. Still we miss seeing
names such as Bill Rogers, former
Highway Chief Engineer, Ben
Douglas, former Director of Con
servation and Development, and
many many others too numerous
to mention.
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Chemical wastes, especially de
tergents — and these enter water
supplies through kitchen as well as
industrial drains — constitute this
new ingredient. Little is now known
about the ultimate effect of the
presence of these substances in
water supplies.
The American Public Health
Service armed with new powers and
new funds granted by the last ses
sion of Congress, is embarked on
an encouraging program to speed
building of sewage treatment plants.
But many chemical wastes—and
this is especially true of detergents
—are not affected by present meth
ods of treatment. Additional money
for research, provided in 1961 legis
lation, will enable the PHS to push
for a solution to this problem.
Industries, most of which are not
shirking their responsibility, are
conducting private research on
methods of control.
Where wanton disregard of pub
lie welfare is apparent, the power
exists, and should-be used, to bring
offenders to account. Where the
problem is lack of knowledge, not
irresponsibility, the parallel efforts
of government and industry prom
ise ultimate solution. — Christian
Science Monitor.
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