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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1958-11-03
ty in the state.

ty in the state.
A tax on foods may well make peo-
pie wonder about the need for taxes
and the need for foods. Taxes are paid
to supply many needs Of the people:
sewerage, water supply, police protec-
ton, fire protection, street paving and
upkeep, schools, highways, sanitation
on a local and national level, health
services of the United States Health
Department, protection by the Armed
Forces. These and many other needs
are paid for by our taxes. Somehow
none of these needs is greater than the
need for food, unless it be the need for
we.er and air.
A sales tax works an unusual hard
ship on people who have retired and
must live on limited income, on
widows who must live on relatively
low fixed income and on the many mar
ginal income families of the country.
A sales tax on foods may force many
Of these people into state Of malnutri-
tion.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1958-11-03
Now and Then
B, Bill Prouty

ty of radio had worn off There was but
one movie house and it was mainly for
the students, and there were but
few families here with autos, and those
families with cars didn't pick up their
children from the schools. For these and
other reasons We youngsters were out in
the weather more than they are nova
daygs They simply didn't have the diver
sions U keep them indoors that the
youngsters have today. And I've never
regretted it.
Every time take a dip in Bowman
Gray Swimming Pool during the fall or
winter can't help but wonder at the
grandeur Of the thing. Here we are,
I'd think, in the middle Of the fall, walk
ing around pool in swim suit and as
warm as toast. Fine, Of course, but
hard for one Of my generation from
Chapel Hill to reconcile.
There was in Bynum Gymnasium
postage stamp-sized pool, but it was
absolutely off limits for boys in the
winter. 1t wasn't big enough for the
students who wanted to swim.
But that didn't stop some Of us
kids from an occasional plunge into one
Of our holes in Bolin or Morgan Creek,
or down in Mr. Fred Sparrow's meadow,
or in the Strowds Lowgrounds. We'd
think nothing Of short swim in Sept
ember, and up through October, which,
however was about our limit. On one
occasion, ] recall a December dip. This
one, though, was on dare and was
side venture from tramp in the woods;
and 1t seems to me that one Of the Koch
boys, Fred or George, was the one who
suggested the dip. Could easily have
been so, too, for they were only re-
Gently here from the rigors Of Dakota
winters.
In any event, we survived the ordeal
and if there were any bad results from
our complete exposure to the winter
elements, | don't remember hearing of
it.
But to say that all my childhood
memories Of autumn are delightful
would be to stretch the truth a bit.
There is probably no town in this vicini-
ty with more trees than Chapel Hill,
most Of them hardwoods. And although
there is nothing more beautiful than
autumn leaves, there is also nothing
which can pile up faster on a lawn.
In the days when parents didn't
have to ask anybody if they could work
a child, they didn't. And if all the leaves
ever raked off the lawn at that big
house out in Westwood were piled
around the house now, you couldn't see
the chimneys.
I'm not complaining-I had it real
easy. I'm just wondering If the kids
nowadays had as much fun as you and
did years ago in Chapel Hill in the
fall.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1958-11-03
from $50 to $500.

from 500 70 ZOO.
The result viii be prime psychoio-
gical weapon in the next General AS
sembly-either in the hands Of Jaypee
friends or Jaypee foes.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1958-11-03
| Like Chapel Hill
BY Billy Arthur


Written in chalk slate hanging locked
stack the second level at the University Library is
this:
"Out to Lanch.-Nov. g."
1t written last November g. and assume the
person must have had shad.
Before Old Mill Road was to get coat of asphalt
the contractor cut the dirt level downstwo inches be-
low the concrete curb. -
That didn't bother our Ford but had
friends up for the football game who were driving
high priced low sung automobiles and their mufflers
and bumpers scraped when they backed down drive
Now they know how | feel when l step down of I"
high curb.
Bob Bartholomew, publicist for the Division of
Health Affairs, accompanied some of the medics to
meeting in western North Carolina recently, and when
they stopped in Morganton for breather Bart decided
to buy copy Of Miss Beatrice Cobb's News Herald.
The newspaper boy didn't have change for haf dol
lar and said, Here, hold my papers while 60 get
change"
Bart sold two while he was gone.
student at Chapel Hill High School answered
current events test question who is the secretary O..
state with good as any: Bob Cox"
A local family that operates two automobiles trad
ed the oldest several weeks back for brand
The lady Of the house the mother of three wasn't
as happy about getting the other members
Of the family.
I'm going to miss it," she explained We've been
through so much together For instance when weraa
going to the hospitafor to have the last boy, th
acceerator fell out"
Another local lady reading about an eight
hour party held here recently.
III bet" she commented when that party
over the hostess girdle really pnching."
Maybe she doesn't wear girdle," another suggest
"Well, things for sure" said she "she could
have to hold herself together for that long
an ordeal"
handsome neat, clean shaven man came to our
house the other pm. and the Missus answered the
door.
Mrs Arthur" he asked
"Yes, I'm Mrs. Arthur" the Missus replied
I'm from the F.B.I. May talk to you for a whle?"
When he flashed his credentials and a loaded brief
case practically everything she had done in the past
Is years sreaked through her mind
Let me put my potatoes in the first" she
asked
That's the way she always is-ooking after he. ]
family. guess she reasoned something like if they're
going to take away for a while I'll at least have
prepared my family final meal Finally she gathered
her wits decided to tell him she wasn't going to MAKE
any statement without consulting her lawyer and
bravey marched to the inqusition.
"Nce home you have here" he said
Thank you" She wondered if she going to miss
How long have you lived here?
Going on five years." she answered then thought
ne must want to know something about what she did
before coming to Chapel Hill.
We'll, we're making security check person
you might know said the F.B.I. man.
Right them" she said later, "he looked nicer than
any man ever saw. was relieved in all my
life" Il.
Evidently there's nothing much wrong with the
United States when the general complaint concerns
womens styles.
More horsepower under the hood calls for more horse
sense behind the wheel.
|lIANTI M %liATT
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1958-11-03
JP system on Trial Tomorro~

procedures bE j. spencer beA anG his
committee lthe Bar Association Com
mit.ee IT, Study the Nor.1 Carolina
Court Sysiems) has thrown tne lime
lignt on me lack of uniformly, the
lack 81 records and the ABUSES u inc
fee-cnarging JP custom il our courts.
The Committee nas recommended the
establishment u lower court that
would n4ye much d the jurisdiction
q the presen, JP court bat 3 court
which would nave al least similar
if not uniform jurisdiction through
out tH4 state, court that would
have 10 keep records and court that
would no, be subject 70 the present
fee system. Sacn q court would handle
collection claims now handled by the JP
courts and il general serve as lover
court.
The following article written BY jay
jenkins, Raleigh correspondent Of the
Charlotte Observer, well presents the
status Of the JP courts and some Of the
criticisms Of them:
One proposed State constitutional
amendment viii be passed upon by Tar
Heel voters when they visit the polls
November 4.
1t is the question Of whether the
Jurisdiction Of justices Of the peace
should be increased from $50 TO 500
in claim and delivery cases.
Claim -and-deliyery il legal proce-
dure TO recover property, usually mer-
chandise, Oh which the purchaser has
defaulted in payment
Arguments for the amendment cent
er on the theme that it is TOO expensive
10 take cases involving more than $50
into superior courts that already have
clogged calendars.
Also, 20 these arguments, the $50
limit was fixed 81 years ago, before
-dollar-week would buy ex-
pensiye items such as spiffy boats.
Even some Of the opponents Of the
Jaypee system admit that the present
limitations Is out Of plumb, and too
low
Those who oppose the amendment,
however say that il does nothing to i'm
prove the Jaypee system and indeed,
may serve only to magnify the present
and documental injustices Of that sys-
TEN.
Among the ranks Of laymen and
Legislators who hope the 1859 Legs
lature will abolish the crackerbarrel
type Of courts, there is another fear.
If the people vote 70 extend Jaypee
jurisdiction members Of the next Leg
islature may take it as a mandate again
st Jaypee reform.
AS practical matter, friends Of the
Jaypee system probably would use the
vote as an excuse TO drum up support
Mandates, as such have not proved too
compelling in the past.
The North Carolina Merchants AS
sociation, which in other years has
law deduction Of debt from pay
check, is hot for the amendment.
So far, there is little evidence that
the public is stirred up either way on
the amendments.
The trend in recent years in the
state has been in favor of amendments.
In an earlier period, the trend was the
opposite and majority of amendments
were killed
Jaypees have received reams OF un-
favorable publicity in recent months
and years. Yet they have survived leg
islative attempts TO bring them to bay.
On November 4, the people will ex-
press their opinions, even though Jay
pee jurisdiction rather than the sys-
tenn itself win be at stake.
The outcome of the vote could prove
fer more important than the question
Of whether the limit should be raised
The people's voice., 1958-06-13

be a banquet in the dining room of
st. Leo's School, with speaker to be
announced at later date.
Registration for the convention will
get underway at pm. Friday, in
the lobby of the Calvert Hotel. Con-
vention sessions will be held in the
Moose Hall.
Officers of the state club in addi-
ton to President Holtz, are Mrs.
Norma Keil, Ledger, vice president;
Miss Babbie Deal, Lewistown, secre-
tary-treasurer. Regional directors are
Mrs. P. E. Tiegen, Scobey, northeast
region; Mrs. Kermit Livengood, Plev-
ma, southeast; Mrs. James Murphy,
Butte, southwest; Mrs. Ruth Black
ford, Lewistown, northcentral, and
Mrs. H. H. Tunicliff, Roberts.
The people's voice., 1958-06-13

parts of the world. But, unfortunate
ly, our economic opportunities just
don't match our healthy climate and
scenery. We are overdependent on
the fluctuating and seasonal lumber,
mining, and agricultural industries.
Recently we got national attention as
the area with the highest unemploy-
ment rate in the u. S.
The fact is that under our present
economic development our area just
can't support the people who want
to live here.
Every year we must export far too
much of our greatest treasure-our
children whom we've nurtured in our
homes, and educated in our schools
and colleges because there aren't
enough career opportunities in West
ern Montana.
The people's voice., 1958-06-13
Demo Women To Hold Convention
In Lewisfown, June 20 and Fl

FLOWEREE-The Montana State
Democratic Women's Club will hold
its annual convention in Lewistown,
Friday and Saturday, June 20 and
21, club president Charlotte Holtz
has announced.
With clubs organized in more than
half of the states counties, repre-
senting approximately 800 active
Democratic women, and with interest
in political action mounting with each
passing week because of the growing
depression, it is anticipated that this
years convention may draw a rec
ord attendance.
Fridays convention agenda will in
clude appointment of committees by
President Holtz and reports of Off
GERS and regional directors.
Saturdays schedule includes a panel
discussion on the Democratic Women's
workshop in Washington, D. c., sew
eral weeks ago. Workshop techniques
will be discussed by National COM
mitteewoman Bernice Kingsbury. Fol
lowing that there will be workshops
on program planning, precinct work
and party loyalty, and techniques on
membership and activities.
Final session of the convention will
The people's voice., 1958-06-13
SUGGEST TWO IMPORTANT
CHANGES IN BILL

In supporting this measure, we
have two points which we feel should
be carefully considered in progress
ing the proposal to it's final form.
First: Without expressing ourselves
as adamant against any change in
the public preference clause as sug-
gested by Senator Neuberger in
statement to the press, we feel that
any such change should be carefully
weighed for its potential effect on
the PUD's, and REA's.
Many of these systems are still
making important progress under the
present preference clause in extend
ing and improving their service, and
in reducing their rates to consumers.
We feel this progress should be
encouraged, not interrupted or SER
iously interferred with.
We approve as primary objective
of the proposed Columbia River De-
velopment Corporation proposal the
use of newly developed power to pro-
mate industry in the region. But we
believe that this should be done in
ouSn a way IudI IL WOH SERIOUSLY
hamper the existing public power sys-
TENS.
Second: We would like to see the
bill changed to more clearly direct
the Corporation into overall, COM
prehensive river development.
We are concerned that without
more explicit provisions the develop
ment and generation of power and
its sale could become the overriding
and sole detectives of the Corpora
lions activities, and that other values
-wildlife, fisheries, forests, preser-
yation of scenery, recreation, and
pollution control would suffer or not
De fully considered and exploited as
consistent with sound principles of
and human values.
Respectfully submitted by.
Paul X. Harlow, President,
The Committee For
Paradise Dam.
The people's voice., 1958-06-13
Paradise Dam Committee Advises Senate
Pending Columbia River Bill Offers
Hope For Western Montana PROGRESS

The Columbia River Development Corporation proposal S 31
which held the
Public Works Committee chared by Richard Neuberger DO
according to the Committee For Paradise Dam
submitting
Paul Harlow of Thompson Falls and his
that western Montana Choking for lack the kind of development
contemplated under the BILL
Here is the of CPD
The people's voice., 1958-06-13
AREA CHOKING FOR LACK
OF DEVELOPMENT

We are an area which is economi-
cally choking for lack of the kind of
development contemplated in the Co
lumbia River Development Corpora
tion Act.
We have mineral, soil, and water
resources. We have people. We have
wonderful place to live.
We need the added spark of low
cost power in sufficient volume to
bring in the industry that will create
career possibilities here.
The Committee For Paradise Dam
supports in substance 3114 in the
belief that under its provisions we
can proceed with more continual
and rational pattern of development
of our water resources in the Colum-
bia Basin.
We think it unfortunate that under
our present leadership in the Execu-
tive Branch of our federal govern
ment that we have stifled progress
in water resource development which
is crucial both to the region and the
nation. In the current all-out competi-
tion between the free world and the
directed systems as exemplified by
the U. S. S. R. and its satellites. it
seems as especial folly to repress this
crucial and basic part of our eco
nomic development.
Our do-nothing policy in water re-
source development must seem ludic-
rOI1c to tha TT 9 y Honodo Io.
become so disgusted by our stalling
tactics that its Parliament has appro-
priated quarter of a million dollars
to investigate direct diversion of a
great volume of Columbia River flow
in lieu of joint u. S.-Dominion de-
We just can't impose moratorium
on progress in any of it's phases and
expect to compete in today's world.
The people's voice., 1958-06-13

detours and interpretations of chang
ing national administrations than the
current near-coma in such develop
ments.
We believe that the financial fea-
lures of the bill, wherein the Corpora
ton, under government direction, bor-
rows it's own money and pays its
funded debts out of income from
power produced and sold and other
services rendered, will help keep in
the public mind the essential self
liquidating nature of multi-purpose
dams.
We support the measure because
we feel it will speed up the much
needed addition in reservoir capacity
to satisfy the regions flood-control
needs.
We feel that full utilization of
water resources is the sine qua non
the essential to development and
progress for our region.
We also reaffirm the implied yard
stick principle of public power and
competition in rates between public
and private power systems as a means
of extending more equitable rates to
all consumers of electricity.
Looking at the projected power
needs of both public and private pow
er systems as furnished by the private
it's quite apparent that there
is room for vast expansion in both
systems. This, we believe, largely ne
gates the private-power-interests' cry
of grossly unfair competition used
in their arguments against this pro-
posal.
The people's voice., 1958-06-13

Senator Richard Neuberger and
other members of the subcommittee /:
In behalf of the Committee For
Paradise Dam, of which I am presi-
dent, l wish to express the Commit
tees support for the formation of a
Columbia River Development Corpo-
ration because we believe this meas
ure will promote and accomplish
steady and sound progress in COM
prehensive water resource develop
ment on the Columbia.
We believe in the objective of this
bill to organize both past and future
power and water values for the eco
nomic good of the whole region con-
sistent with sound conservation prin-
ciples.
The people's voice., 1958-06-13
BILL WOULD END
CURRENT NEAR COMA"

We feel that the continuity in re-
gional development which we believe
will follow the adoption of the Coz
lumbia River Development Corpora
tion proposal to be more nearly an
expression of the peoples determina-
tion that the development of their
resources shall continue despite the
The people's voice., 1958-06-13

&C. if there is any sign on the
horizon of a recession or an eco
nomic collapse, the full power of the
government (will be) instantly mar
shaled, instantly concentrated and
localized, to prevent that kind of
catastrophe in this country. ."-Candi-
date Eisenhower. Oct. 21, 1852.
The people's voice., 1958-06-13
WOULD ENLARGE ECONOMIC
WELFARE OF AREA

We feel that under this kind of
organization the power production
from this area richly endowed in
water resources can be used both to
the benefit of the consumers through
direct service to REA's and PUBS,
through the effect this yardstick has
on power rates to other consumers,
and to enlarge the economic welfare
of the Northwest region through the
encouragement of new industry and
the expansion of existing industry.
The organization which l represent,
the Committee For Paradise Dam, is
a grass-roots organization with a
bona fide membership of more than
eight hundred Western Montanans
who are working for comprehensive
river development on the Columbia
River, which, in Western Montana
Dam. Our organization has the sup
port of organized labor, the Farmers
Union, and the Montana Democratic
Party.
The elements which oppose the
construction of Paradise Dam and
other sound water development on
the Columbia consist largely of pri-
vate utility interests and those who
serve them. Currently they are trying
to damn the Columbia Valley Develop
ment Corporation idea as a "back
door, or sneak Columbia Valley Au-
thority", which, they claim, would
be threat to free enterprise in the
Northwest.
We resist this type of faulty and
self-seeking distortion of the facts.
The Columbia River Regional Cor
poration as set forth in S. 3114, has
much narrower powers than had IVA |
Or the eva proposals.
The people's voice., 1958-06-13
IVA PAID OFF MANY
TIMES TO NATION

IVA, instead OF being a threat
to free enterprise in its area, created
so improved climate of economic
activity that the resulting increase
in the standard of living that our
governments investment in the area
has paid off many times over in
simple ways like increased income
taxes. And this is in addition to the
repayment of the peoples investment
from power revenues. This is the
kind of catalysis that should be
wrought for the benefit of more
regions, including the Northwest. We
feel that it's significant that there's
no serious opposition to IVA in its
home region except, perhaps, from
the same self-seeking interests who
oppose overall water-resource devel-
opment in the Northwest.
We see no reason why American
initiative and enterprise should not
be put to work directly for the specific
use of the American people through
their government as proposed in the
Columbia River Development Corpo-
ration Bill, and we see in this pro-
posal no threat to our way of life.
In Western Montana we are in
desperate need for the kind of eco
nomic progress that low-cost power
and the new industry which it can
bring will mean for us.
We like, what Senator Neuberger
knows to be one of the most gorgeous
The people's voice., 1958-06-13
Millions at Stake in Referendum

Wheat Referendum
bushel
prevails, $100
prevails The figures
pared Agricultural Marketing Service
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1958-08-01
College Station

The Golden Rule District Sun
day School congress and usher
board ended their week meeting
last Fridey night at Antioch
church. Arthur Akin of Cali
fornia and Mrs. JULIA Akin of
Chicago are here for the fun
eral services Of their brother.
Marvelee Akin. Frank OAR
row and j. Pittman have been
discharged from the hospital. af-
ter suffering from injuries from
car wreck last Sunday.
William Akin of Chicago is
here to attend the funeral SER
vices of his brother, Marve. &c
Akin. Mrs. Clara Mae Leas-
ley was funeralized last Sunday
at Antioch church. Mrs. Ruth
lie Mae Campbell of Milwaukee
is here to attend the fularal OF
her brother Marvelee Akin. &.
Also here to attend Marvelee's
Funeral is E mer Akin of Chi
cago. Jake Polk Of Oklahoma
City is here visiting his broth
er, Guy Polk and his sister, Mrs.
Adell Fields Mrs. Florence
Bolil of New York City is here
visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Jas
Fitch, Steve Helm of Cold
Spur returned home after at
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1958-08-01

During the week when you're
work-bound and the heat and
humidity team up to make you
utterly miserable. do you yearn
for seashore or lake? Would Mt
it be nice to dangle your feet in
cool water or take an icy plunge?
Well, here are some cooling,
at-home cures for when the dog
days hit. Your bath can pinch
hit for the lake or ocean if you
take the proper approach. Make
it a tepid tub. A warm-t o-hot
one is apt to hull you to sleep,
and cold one makes you
doubly conscious of the contrast
between bath water and hot air
when you step out of the tub.
Add half pound of baking
soda to the water. Because of
soda's alkaline properties it gives
your bath a healthful Sparkle
quality that soothes the rip-roar-
ing sunburn and such common
Summer complaints as poison
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1958-08-01

church. Rev. ]. Y. Williams, pas
tor, officiated The burial was in
the Parson Hill cemetery. !:
Vergil Brunson passed on July
2lSt. Funeral arrangements are
incomplete at this writing. Mr..
and Mrs, Solomon Brunson and
Caleb Brunson were called here
to attend the funeral services Of
their father, Vergil Brunson: :.
Miss Minnie Witherspoon is va
cationing in Milw0 ukee with her
sister, Addie. Thought f-r the
week, Everybody is Somebody.