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Thursday, February 10
WESTERN STYLE. — When
New Mexico Senator Clinton I .
Anderson moved into Rale.gh last
^v^h-end to make the main ad
dress at the Jefferson-Jackson Day
Dinner, he was wearing one of
these big broad-brimmed, light tan
western hats.
Well, Gov. Luther Hodges also
has one of the western -tyle top
pers. As the official host for his
old friend, Clinton Anderson, Gov.
Hodges wore his western hat just
to make the western visitor feel
right at home here in the South.
NOT ENOUGH ROOM. — Soon
er or later Democratic big-wigs of
the state must do something about
the location—at least the seating
arrangements—for the Jefferson
Jackson dinner.
There are usually from 500 to
€00 at the event. This past Sat
urday night they had 600 good
Democrats devouring their food at
a per plate cost of $50.
Now when you pay $50 for a
plate of food—makes no difference
if it is unusually fancy—you are
going to do a little complaining
if you are away off in another
room an i ar.’t even see the speak
er. You hear the proceedings, of
ourse. but the big business is
entir ly out of view.
It may be that upwards of lot
Saturday night didn’t see Clinton
Anderson speak a word. Chances
are a goodly nunr er of these here
for the occasion never orjce got tc
see the speaker. Y e just don t have
in downtown Raleigh accommoda
tions in one room for more than
approximately 350 diners. That s
why the Raleigh Chamber of Com
merce holds its annual meeting in
the big dining room at Meredith
college.
There was quite a bit of com
plaining among those who could
not get in the main room for the
events at the dinner. To keep
everybody happy, plans should be
made to' carry future dinners to
Meredith college or probably to
State college.
TAXES. — You will recall that
we wrote here two. three weeks
ago that—despite ail the talk you
may be hearing—there is a good
chance the legislature will not put
taxes on soft drinks as proposed in
Gov. Hodges message—or on to
bacco. also as outlined in the gov
ernor's address.
The governor has told the leg
islators where they can find the
revenue which the advisory budget
commission says is needed. We
doubt that he will get in a fight
with the general assembly if they
stray from his recommendations.
We still think they will stray,
too — with a sales tax straight
across the board, with the possi
ble exception of fertilizer, feed, etc.
—and leave additional taxes off
soft drinks and tobacco.
WASHINGTON' DEMOCRATS—
Next month—March 19—the N. C.
Democrats cluh of Washington, D.
C., will hold its annual banquet
in honor of the Tar Heel congres
sional delegation.
No special invitation is required
to attend; and reservations can be
made through the offices of our
congressmen and senators. The
banquet is usually a colorful and
beautiful affair and frequently at
tracts upwards of 500 people. The
club gives prizes for the most
constituents present from the var
ious congressional districts.
Although the fifth district ha;
been winning the top prize hand;
down now for several years, at
least two other districts are out
to beat Thurmond Chatham and hi;
crew this time.
TO EUROPE.—Everett Jordan
the squire of Saxapahaw and dem
ocratic national committeeman foi
North Carolina, is leaving for ar
extended tour of Europe. He i;
scheduled to depart about the mid
dle of this month, will be gone i
couple of months.
Someone said he might mis:
some ex-.ting legislative occur
rences during his absence. But
slow-moving session in some ways.
For instance, all committees of
both houses are usually named
within the first two weeks of the
session.
But within the past few days
committees were still being ap
pointed in the house. The delay
with committees may be due to the
new approach which has beer, iol
lowed this time on budgetary mat
ters. , . ,
In order that the members might
be thoroughly versed on the mone
tary problem's facing the state, the
members of this year's legislature
sat as a committee for several
we eks while Revenue Commission
er Eugene Shaw, Tax Research
Head Jim Currie, Asst. Budget Di
rector D. S. Coltrane, and other
experts in the field of taxation
and spending came and talked to
them, answered their questions,
etc.
The legislature still has a long
way to go in arriving at any solu
tion to the fiscal problems, but at
least the taxation education has
been made available to the mem
bers.
thos? .T1
National
he know have assured
Committeeman Jordan
■gis.ature will still be in
when he returns here
middle T April.
HILL AND LITTLE. — Crowell
Little, one of the hottest backs
ever to hit southern gridirons
when he starred for Carolina, is
the new president of the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro Merchants associa
tion and Chamber of Commerce.
Little is the sole owner of the
Ford agency of Chapel Hill, hav
ing bought out Grady Pritchard,
also a Carolina great and a mem
ber of its athletic council.
One of Little’s good friends and
a fair country center when he
played at Duke was Dan Hill. Dan
only played about 98.3 per cent
of the time in the year 1937 when
the Blue Devils went undefeated,
untied, and unscored-upon. He
was one of Duke’s first All-Amer
icans.
After graduation, Hill became
assistant director of athletics—a
job he held until relatively recent
ly when he became associated with
one of the largest paper and card
board container firms in the busi
ness. Hill is in charge of the
southern territory, is finding his
work enjoyable and more lucrative
than his athletic endeavors. A na
tural salesman—he proved that by
bringing a lot of good high school
football talent to Duke—Dan Hill
has within a short time proven
himself to be one of the star sales
men in the corporation of which he
is a part.
VISITOR. — The midwinter
sports banquet held at Wake For
est college this past week-end had
as one of its honored guests Lin
Hollowed, Jr., of Gastonia. Al
though the son of a Duke alumnus,
young Hollowed likes Wake For
est. He hasn't made up his mind
where he will play basketball next
year. Meantime, several schools
are after him as he is one of the
better high school players in Dixie
this year. Incidentally, his dad is
chairman of the Democratic Execu
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BLACK BEAR
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Nature thrill writers have a
times tried to pep up their stone:
by claiming that their particular!;
villainous bear character was s
cinnamon bear and not a blacl
bear. They might with equal jus
tice claim that a white pigeon hac
qualities superior to those of i
blue pigeon. Cinnamon bears an
simply color phases of the blacl
bear. As David Newell aptly pu
it in his children’s rhyme,—
"And black bear cubs, are brown
sometimes,
A thing we can’t explain ii
rhymes;
But anyway it’s really true
That brown bears are just blacl
bears too.”
Of course this does not appl;
to the Alaskan brown bear whicl
is another species but it does ap
ply to the cinnamon bear.
Black bears are most successfu
animals. They have managed t<
maintain their existence across th‘
continent in spite of man. The;
were originally found in most o
North America except in easteri
California, eastern Oregon, eastern
Washington, Nevada and westeri
Utah. There are 10 subspecie
tive Committee in Gaston county.
NEW DEMANDS. — We an
reading and writing a lot about th
legislature and schools and mone;
and segregation, etc., but all thi
could change overnight if wa
should come as the result of recen
action in Asia. The entire legis
lative picture would be changed
and an agency which is now seldon
mentioned at all would be in th
news forefront. 1 refer to civiliai
defense—an organization whicl
would tomorrow become more im
portant than our entire school sys
tern, our legislature, and our seg
regation problem. A shift in event
can control the importance of ac
tion.
minor except to zoologis • -
foun(j in wooded areas and otten
more commonly near centers oi
i-,,r an population.
\ black bear is about 6 feet long
and 3 feet high at the shoulder.
t ,. <„out is 1 mg and usua.iy ‘|Pni'
. coilired. There is usually a
white throat patch. The tail •
,hort. Bears walk flat-foote^
Normally a black bear may shou
front foot tracks measuring 3*4
inches with 5 claw marks and hind
foot tracks measuring 4 by <
es also with 5 claw marks. In con
trast to this a grizzly bear may
make hind foot tracks measuring
5 by 12 inches. Black bears weigh
up'to 300 pounds; grizzlies to
more than three times that amount.
Black bears mate for the season
only, usually in June. The 1 to
young are bom 7 months later
usually when the mother is in hib
ernation. The cubs weigh about
u pound each, are blind and prac
tically helpless. They remain with
the mother at least until fall- The
mother commonly bears young e\
ery other year and may live to be
about 25 years old.
The food of black bears is var
ied and includes almost any ani
mal matter, living or dead. ' ea
tables and fruits are also popular
in season and an individual may
range over an area 30 miles across
in maintaining its existence.
Normally black bears will not
molest human beings but a wound
ed bear or a mother defending her
voung, or a starved bear seeking
food, may be dangerously aggres
sive. They are not to be trusted
and park visitors who attempt to
feed them do so at their own risk.
These bears are clowns and their
cages or dens in zoos are invariably
popular. Bear meat is edible, par
ticularly if the animal has fed on
fruits and berries. The fur has
a durability 85 per cent that of the
standard otter.
The National Wildlife Federa
tion encourages a better under
standing of bears for the good of
man and of the bears.—E. Laur
ence Palmer.
• TRY THE CLASSIFIEDS •
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had
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-aped,
a vp a
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ey. Then a local
lectod. and a5 a
there was controversy
now water-over-tn -
county school hoard
made a worse select 10
There are about for
of school ground to hr
Mi SI ford’s idea is
pood artist make the over-all plat
and then allot certain sections i
the various civic club* in the
itv. These clubs could place »
permanent marker on their \ 0 •
and then take pride in keeping n
up The North Carolina Board of
Education does not furnish funds
for recreation, other than to build
the gymnasium as a part of the
regular building. All over Amer
ica civic clubs* are called unon to
do things which should be done by
general taxation, insofar as it con
cerns our schools. One problem
which must he solved sooner or
later is an athletic field, and this
will loom large in the outside dec
oration.
On this trip one can not keep
from thinking, that here lies a
preat responsibility. Before our
eyes moved a cross-section of fu
ture America. At the age of six
these pupils had entered the pri
mary department, and its new
phases of human relations. For
about eight years they had been
getting ready to enter this higher
realm, from which in another four
years they will walk out into a
wide, yet very closely related
world. * In the "Grades’’^ their
teachers had had a big tasK. Per
haps not so much for them, but
for others that came into the free
lunch problem and patronized the
“Clothes Closet." In our admira
tion for the new school we should
never forget where its pupils first
got the educational idea.
Today the students at Owen High
are a feast for tired eyes. A half
century ago there would have been
a few “Show-offs" and perhaps a
big bully that sooner or later would
have to be taken down a few notch
es. We could not find this at our
new high school. Things are dif
ferent now. They have learned
young
studio *°
that surro..
may th^v
them when
long jonm
fro!
,he ancient mountains
I our peaceful valley,
strengthened by a
. thnt will sustain
•V. y take off on a long.
*!th,.ugh over 6.600 squirrels
1
pen season m 1964
fp . t’- National Forest ' o
, kCanagt eat
V, a enough remained to use up
K heavy ,r P of acorns complete
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