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I'uetday, August 11, 1?5

TuMday, August 11, 1939

Coastal Carolina Area Is Changing

North Carolinians have heard for years that its link will bring more north-south traffic down the coast coastal area would one day become one of the princi- of our state.

pal resort centers along the Atlantic Coast, The change Neither can there be any doubt that many people taking place on our coast each summer bears out that who just "pass through will return to North Carolina's prediction. ^ r coastal area to enjoy the relaxation and recreation

Those who frequent the coastal areas of the state the area offers.

re aware of the increasing number of out-of-stete The day is rapidly approaching when the states cars seen in the area. They come not only from adja- coastal area will not only be a major tourist spot for cent states, but from states far to the north, south and ^ ]g,.ge area of the nation, but it will become in a midwest. Each year the number of motels and * much more real sense a year-round resort area that increases, and proprietors report no business lag with, offgj^ vacationers both summer and winter sports, the larger number of rooms and apartments available. a- ^ u* i j ^ t

In the past, North Carolina's coastal area has thi already is catching on in

served primarily as a summer retreat for residents of an increase m the number of marlin and

this state and a few people from our neighboring

states Now the picture is beginning to change. The /during the winter months is gaining greater rec-Lt-of.state tourists are becoming more numerous all now that easier access is being provided

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along the coast, and from all appearances, th^y are spending more timeand more dollars in North Carolina.

Within another month, the long-talked-of car ferry between Oracoke and Atlantic will begin its operations under the auspices of the Taylor brothers who have done so much for Carteret County. This ferry will provide a direct auto link between the northernmost stretches of the Outer Banks and^the southern portion of the banks. It will mean that motorists can travel the entire length of the Tar Heel coastal area without the long back-tracking that previously has been necessary. There can be no doubt that this new

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to the area, we may expect more sportsmen to include it on their agenda.

All of this means, of course, that the once sleepy coastal area of the state is chan,ging. Spote that once were tiny fishing villages are becoming towns boosted by tourist dollars. Stretches of dunes that once were left to tHe winds, sand and sea oats are now becoming dotted with motels and summer homes. Vast stretches of marsh land have been reclaimed into residential areas and paved roads have replaced the sand ruts which ran from one end of an island to another.

The transition is one which spells unprecedented prosperity for the coastal area of North Carolina, and one which, in time, will make the Tar Heel coast one of the most popular resort areas on the Atlantic Coast.

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By LYNN NISBET

UNION COUNTY Your reporter has been doing some research into the history of Union county for a talk before the county historical association. It is believed that a good bit of the mat(9lal would be of interest to others than Union folks.

Formed in 1843, pursuant to lglslatlve act ratified on December 19, 1842, from Anson and Mecklenburg, the area now em-bra<d in Union has been pait of aeven other counties. The iamily tree in reverse order runs like this: Union was formed In 1843 from Anson and Meek-lenborg. Mecklenburg was formed from Anson In 1762. Anson had been cut (Mit of Bladen in 1750. Bladen was formed out of New Hanover in 1734. New Hanover was carved from Craven in 1729. Craven, which was originally named Archdale (name changed in honor of William, Lord Craven, one of the Lords Proprietors) was formed from Bath in 1705. Bath had been established as a county in 1696 embracing the territory south of the Albemarle river. So the area now Union county has been in Bath. Archdale, Craven, New Hanover, Balden. Anson and Mecklenburg. See Formation of North Carolina counties 1663-1943 edited by D.L. Corbitt and published by the State Department of Archives & History).

It is generally conceded that the county was named in honor of the Federal Union. The theory has merit. The men who established the county were sons and grandsons of RevoluUon War patriots. They were proud of the new nation. Another Interesting theory, without historic auhen-tlcity, is that Anson Md Mecklenburg disputed the boundary line, each claiming larger share of the fine lands along their borders. Minor tivll war impended. Formation of the new coun^ brought the parents together. and so it was appropriately named Union.

There is also some question whether the county seat was' named in honor of James Monroe, fifth President of the United States and a Virginian, who later moved to New York, or for the Monroe family which had many members in the area. Weight of evidence favors the President, but those who contended for the native iamily source argue that if the county had been named for any President It would have been Andrew Jackson. (Maybe the Union folks resented Jacksons moving to Tennessee.)

WAXHAWS Even more interesting is derivation of the name of the Waxhaw Indians, with whom much of the early history of the section is identified. One theory Is that they were a small unattached band, possibly migrants from the west, not recogniz

ed by tribal councils In the Carolinas, and actually named by white men. Early etplorers found in the area a considerable growth of haw bushes from the berries of which wax was obtained. Maybe the name derived from these wax haw bushes.

Another suggestion is that the terrain was very similar to that in northern England and southern Scotland where the red clay lands were called wachy haughs.

Elision from that to waxhaws or waxsaws is easy.

It is recorded history that when the explorer-historian-sur-veyor John Lawson visited the area around 1700 he found a small bund of Indians called the Waxhaws. His writings constitute about aU the authentic history about them. When white men came in large numbers 25 to SO years after Lawson, all of upper

Lancaster county and what is now that no new achievement will excite us until a southwratern Union wu known

It's sometimes amazing how quickly people, particularly Americans, begin to take things for granted.

Friday, shortly after the satellite laboratory was successfully put into orbit from Cape Canaveral, we By DON SCHLIENZ

heard a fellow comment, Oh well, its just another - -w. -r.

^*^^^Well*mayU.^LTf^^^ the way he said it, one H CL ' \ IFlG '0011 OUF 3CLV

might have thought that satellites circling the earth X ^ Xi. LV^v.^X X X X \^X X-X

have become as common as automobiles or jet planes. ,___, ,

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Not many months ago Americans, like people all nd helped 29.999 other people

over the world, digested every word,of reports of watch the White Sox beat the satellite launching. Excitement ran high when there Senators, but the bailgame didn't was a successful launching, and average citizens pon- aft*thoughte^ impressions or dered the achievement of man putting one of his home- two things did: the youngsters made planets in orbit with the stars. who were guests of the Greenville

Has the real meaning of the achievement so quick- Moose, and Washington itself.

ly faded from our minds? Have we so quickly adjusted- capital city, most

visitors see the the magnificent

favorablet Long blocks of boxlike dwellings stacked side-by-side some converted to business uses; vacant buildings; occupied buildings; thousands of broken windows; all lined up on the street with the sides of each narrow little box touching boxes on either side, no space in their yards for children. . .nothing 'gracious nor happy about the

A big area of the worst-appearing dwellings have been tagged for removal and many former inhabitants have moved out; so remedial action is in the books.

Just the same, I was immeasurably more satisfied with our Greenville.

to tho new space era into which we are moving? Have buildings and memorials, thrm

we become so sophisticated in our space-age thinking to the orderly streets and beauU- should be

jnan landscaping. In other years, the writer passed through Wash-t:. XU 1 i. i-j- j ington in a hurry. . .hoping to

From the standpoint of scientific advancement, someday repeat a. tour of early

every successful launching of a man-made satellite is childhood days.

as the Waxhaws. The designation survives until today, and contributes to confusion about

nf ThA n^uch more significant than being just another sate-example, more than half of the u* x c xu _ ix was different in that the ap-

space which Bill Sharpe devoted lute. ^ Each new achievement of che space age alters proach to the stadium was in a to his story about Union County our lives whether we realize it or not. Every new roundabout way. swing through

launching takes us a step farther into the space age in eastern and southeast sec-vvhich we or our children will live. It creates new hu- impression was not

in the State Magazine dealt with incidents which occurred in South Carolina.

BOUNDARIES Union county is bounded on the north by Cabarrus and Stanly, on the east by Anson, on the south by Chesterfield and Lancaster. South Carolina, and on the west by Lancaster and Mecklenburg. There is an interesting story about how the western boundaries of Mecklenburg anl Union got in their unusual shape.

A glance at the map will show the line between the Carolinas runs from the Atlantic ocean northwesterly to a point Just below Hamlet, thence almost due west; then takes a right angle turn to due nortti for a piece, then northwest, and southwest and again north along Catawba river. Its a crazy kind of

thing. The story is that the

surveyors got caught in a snow storm at what is known as North Comer and holed up In a country grocery store. They drank up all the groceries there, heard about another store up

county and went to it. The same

thing happened twice more, before the storm cleared and the men got sober enough to read their instruments. They they adjusted courses and distances without retracing and took off again on the approximate westerly direction followed before the storm. Somewhat similar experiences are said to have messed up the line under Henderson and Transylvania before the boys got back on the latitude they were supposed to follow from Hamlet westward. Of course, nobody can prove this story; neither can an^ody prove It aint true. And it makes interesting rainy night conversation.

the showcase of America

Of course, theres a matter of perspective. We saw just a relatively small part of a very large and truly beautiful city. All big cities have a similar blight. Smaller cities also have their slums, but again, on a smaller scale. The effect of the new Washington view was more striking because it was unexpected.

man problems, opens new doors, and to some degree ^ ^

alters our pattern of life. (jtnPr r P ^PIVlTirt

And yet most of us now just take such things for X-I\.X1LWX o KJ\^^ lixy

granted, closing our eyes to the impact each new feat has upon our lives.

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One of the bulwarks of the American press Is its freedom. But freedom of the press also 1 means responsibility of the press. Freedom without responsibility Is

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) If you look blank-thinking of the various labor control bills now kicking around in Congressdont w(MTy. Only experts could understand them thoroughly. And they disagree.

This Is one of the greatest mish mashes in years. So moat members of the House --which Tuesday begins debate on passing some kind of blll-r-wUl probably have only a vague Idea of what theyre doing.

None of them, unless he was a specialist In labor problems, could possibly know or guess all the implications in all the details and differences, major and minor, between the bills. For example;

A bill passed by the Senate months ago has 51 sections, scores of sub-sections and sub

politicians. may be thinking how best they can create a profitable issue for themselves and against the Democrats in 1960 on the subject of labor control.

Thats not all. Most members of the House by now have probably been put under great pressure by organized labor and big business, on opposite sides of course, to vote tough or mild. The lobbying on a labor bill has been terrific.

Heres an example of the mishmash:

First, there is the Kennedy bill, passed by* the Senate 90-1 last April 25. It is named after its principal sponsor, Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass). But most organized labor, particularly the AFL-CIO, doesn't like it,

But President Eisenhower, as he revealed In his TV broad-

In the American press freedom is guaranteed, but responsibility is more or less self-assumed. And we cannot discuss the subject without agreeing that freedom and responsibility go hand in hand.

It has been said that the American press is neither free nor responsible. Russians have asserted that we have a capitalistic press, and that the newspapers are privately owned. In Russia we are told that the people own the papers, and that it is the freest press in the world. That is not true in the latter instance.

Whenever and wherever we have a press whose work is censored or regulated, we have the people receiving only the news which officials want them to know. There is no room for

out freedom of the press, wed lose freedom of speech, freedom of worship, and freedom of assembly also.

When any Individual newspaper asks Itself three questions and can answer them affirmatively. then it is a responsible newspaper. Is it honest? Is it fair? Is it accurate

If all three ingredients are not present, then the newspaper is not doing its proper job nor is it accepting its moral responsibilities.

The Daily News feels that it has a moral responsibility to fight for better tlngs for our area. If our fight does not meet with approval, then well defend the right of those to disagree with us as vigorously as we defend our right to make the fight in the first place.

If the community' does not make the fight for a better community, then is there any medium left to make the determined fight?

We recognize the fact that

As for the youngsters who rallied at 5:00 a.m. Sunday, they were a lively bunch of happy people.

The adults who escorted them had an ea.sy time preventing straying and filling their needs. Tlie nurse, Mrs. Louise Shafer, kept the two youngest boys under her wing and made the male role a breeze.

There were real baseball fans in the crowd, and watching some of the best-in-the-business .perform, proved an obvious thrill. Even so. there were no protests when it was decided to move out shortly after the start of the second game of a doubleheader.

And of course, theres nothing like the chatter of small boys on a bus ride. . .nor the aura of excitement In seeing new sights.

Some of the Moose are talking about making the trip an annual event, but that really hasnt been settled yet.

There were some misgivings before the trip about (a) sitting out a baseball game in Griffith Stadium, (b) helping to ride herd on a bunch of kids.

Actually it turned out to be an enjoyable 19-hour day.

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By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP)Im a hobbyist saloonkeeper, and a reluctant success, according to Burton Browne, who is making a fortune out of male nostalgia.

Im the only saloonkeeper who Is listed in Whos Who in America. the Social Register, and Dun I Bradstreet.

An ex-commerclal artist who once felt lucky if he got $18 for a gag cartoon, Browne Is now head of a large Chicago advertising firm specializing in electronics.

But conviviality has been a life-long hobby with the big, bluff, gray-haired executive. And now his hobby has become a big business. Hes on the way to become the J.C. Penney of cbain-store conviviality.

In business today you have to entertain a lot, he remarked. But there arent very many places where men can entertain men.

You take a client to a supper club for a couple of drinks and a steak dinner, and what happens? By 9:30 youre both standing outside on the curb wondering what to do.

Browne and a group of friends solved the problem In 1953 by organizing a private key club for gentlemen, deliberately decorated In the plush decor of 1906.

There the tired businessman could foregather with his pals around the bowl that cheers, make deals, be pampered by beauUful waitresses dressed la scanty turn-of-the-century dance hall costumes, and sing old-time songs around an old-time tinkling piano.

We picked a 1906 atmosphere,* said Browne, because that was the last time man was really king and millionaires really lived like millionaires.

The club was a huge success from the start. So were later clubs he organized in Manhattan and the nations capital.

But they are only the beginning In Brownes big nostalgia bonanza. So many members complained of a lack of robust male conviviality In their own hometowns that Browne noW is franchising a nationwide chain.

Twenty clubs are already un-cay wayor being plannedIn cities ranging from San Francisco to Atlanta. Browne eventually foresees a network of 200.

They are ideal for Americas booming new expense account aristocracy. A lifetime membership costs $25. Any drinkfrom Ringer ale to 50-year-old brandy is $1.26. Sandwiches are a nickel When you walk into one of the clubs, said Browne, you are automatically a millionaire, 1906 vintage.

Although they are strictly gentlemens clubs, members can bring their wives. But wives cant come alone.

Surprisingly, we havent had any objections from the wives, said Browne. Our waitresses have to be pretty, but after five minutes a wife can sec they are no threat.

Most of our members have daughters as old as the waitresses. Its all Innocent fun. The waitress some of them are young actresses are for Ipok-ing. not pinching. Browne said.

If a member dates a waitress, his key Is liftedand she is fired.

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the Houae Labor Committee is similar to it but has at least 100 differences.

A Uiird bill, similar to both of them, has some more differences of its own, and is much tougher on labor unions than cither. Still a fourth bill, mildest of idl but in many ways similar to the others, is not <iuite the same as any of them.

All four bills, because of a general feeling in Congress that some labor controls are needed, propose doing something to the extent of setting up rules and penalties against despotic, unfair and corrupt labor practices.

And all contain a ^blll of rights, or protections for individual union members In voting and saying what they think. But, starting there, tho bills go in opposite directions. They differ 00 penalties and protections.

And they differ on what questionable union practices should be banned.

House members will not be aoUng in a pure and pious vacuum. Theyll have different moUves for the way they vote, for what they put in a bill or take out.

Some, particularly Democrats, are under obligation to organized labor for helping them get dec

either. Ineffective, he called it.

Then theres the Elliot bill-named after its chief sponsor, Rep. Carl Elliott (D-Ala)-^which

exists insofar as the individual newspapers are concerned.

In America two newspapers only a few miles apart or two newspapers in the same city often disagree with each other on policy. One might be Republican and the other Democrat. One

was approved July 15 by the House ^ liberal and the other con-

Labor Committee although only five of the 30 committee members had a kind word for it.

The rest either denounced it or looked down their noses at it. The only reason they let It get out of their committee was to get it up to the House floor for debate, changes, and a vote. It will certainly be changed on the floor.

Although the Elliott bill has been called a middle-of-the-road attempt to control bad labor practices, Eisenhower considers it inadequate to do the job he says needs doing.

And APL-CIO President George Meany, who doesnt like the Kennedy biU, doesnt like the Elliott bill, cither. He said It would make it extremely dlffi-do its normal business, its normal business.

The bill Meany likes-sponsor-ed by Rep. John P. Shelley (D-Calif) and the mildest of all-see ms the one with the least chance of all.

What Eisenhowerand a bunch of Republicans and South-

servative. But both of the newspapers in question have one fundamental rightto print the news as each sees It. And each has the right to express whatever opinions each might hold cn any question.

We could hardly lose freedom of the press without losing our other ireedoms att he same time. The press is the champion torch bearer for all freedoms, and with-

gress. We realize that some people perhaps do not want freedom of the pre.s. Just as freedom and responsibility go hand in hand, so do license and selfish motivation go hand in hand.

This Pamlico area belongs to each of us who lives here and to all of us. If a newspaper bases its editorial stand on what is popular or most profitable financially, then it has confused freedom of the pres.s with licen.se of the press. It has accepted freedom without accepting responsibility.

So long as newspapers accept a full measure of ^ responsibility wiUi a guaranteed measure of full freedom, then all our American freedoms will remain intact.

By EARL L. DOUGLASS EVERYTHING HAS A PRICE TAG

For some people one of lifes hardest lessons is to . learn that goodness of life comes through effort.

These same people are Perfectly willing to admit that there can be no business success Without effort. They will tell you that the body cannot be made strong without exercise. They will even admit that the finest qualities of character are built up as the result of ones meeting lifes hard circumstances and wrestling with them.

That figure of wrestling reminds us of the patriarch Jacob who. we are told in the Book of Genesis, thought he could rise up and cross the stream Jabbok and on the other side meet his brother Esau whom he had wronged, and again hoodwink that stupid, evil "brother. But as he got to the other side of the stream he found himself grasped by the strong arms of a manor was It an angel?and then a wrestling match started. Jacob and his opponent wrestled through the night. In the morning Jacob and his opponent wrestled

through the night. In the morning Jacob had a new name, but what was vastly more important, he had a new nature. He thought he could triumph just as he was: God showed him that it wguld take a newa renewedJacob to win a real victory.

It takes effort to achieve goodness Just as it takes effort to achieve success in any field. We wrestle with angels, with men men often, with ourselves. A million dollars cannot be earned without effort. Neither can good character or self-restraint be otherwise achieved.

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Vets Abandon Borrowina Power

2$5S. They know gth Dt>mocraiwaiats to. see

Tose'thetr seats'hr thew0^elic* tion if labor turns against them for what they do now.

Some House members, In S5's-pathy with labor, want a mild bill. Some others will honestly want a tough one. Still others will want a tough one. Still others will want a tough one because they seem to have an ingrained antagonism to organized labor.

And some Republicans, being

bill. This was offered by Reps. Phil M. Landrum (D-Ga) and Robert P. Griffin (R*Mlch).

This bill toughest of all. is the one Meany likes least.

yntil Elsenhower pitched for the Landrum-Orlffin bill It seemed likely a middle-of-the-road bill had the best chance of passage. Now the whole thing seems up fur grabs. .

By ELMER R0E8SNER It appeals ^hat veterans of World War II are abandoning about $65 bUUoQ in borrowing power.

In 1944, Congress passed law granting the veterans generous backing for loans. It authorized the Veterans Administration to guarantee loans to qualified veterans for purchasing, building or improving a home; for buying a farm nr farm supplies, or., for

Congress has set July 25, 1960. as the cut-off date for the.ie benefits. An additional year Is allowed for processing or actual closing of these loans. Korean veterans, under similar legislation, have until January 31, 1965, to make loan applications.

$40 BILLION BORROWED So far, almost 5,000,000 veterans have made GI loans of ,a

total face value of almost $40 billion. But thats only 35 per cent of the veterans eligible.

Conceivably, the other 9,ooo,-000 veterans could ask for more than $65 billion more in home building and farm and business expansion.

However, there are some natural checks. First, many of the veterans dont need govern-mient-guaranteed loans for those purposes. Second, if they all did.

BUY-NOW DRIVES

In the months ahead, there will surely'be many campaigns urging veterans to utllixe their rights. But these drives will be aeU-defeating. The more veterans seek lending money, the higher it will be. In fact, most money offered to borrowers today is offered at rates higher than VA limits. .

This situation may be a factor in the Federal Resei ves pre-

. builders, farm dealers and suppliers, and business brokers should have no qualms about encouraging veterans to make these loans if they can and if the borrowing benefits them. The existing checks will prevent such loans from becoming greatly inflationary.

AUTHOR FINDS CITY MAKES AS MUCH AS HE Paul Steiner, author of Useless Information, the encyclq-

The government does not put up the money. It .simply guarantees repayment. Veterans fiist have to find some institution or person to lend the money under Veterans Administration terms. Then the government will guarantee repayment. And veterans (and everyone else) are having a hard lime finding money under those terms.

lending rates down. If it did reduce themand It has powers with which It can-=-it would channel billion of doUars into the veterans market, whipping up more inflation than you can get out of an aerosol can.

Nevertheless, eligible veterans who can use these benefits should explore the possibilities of gainiug advantages, and

he Ls in a limlked partnership with New York City. On every copy of his book sold In New Yorkone of his best markifts he gets a 3-cent royalty. The city gets the same amount in sales tax. Mr. Steiner talked to his lawyer who assured him that there was no way of getting the city to reciprocate by giving him half of its income.