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BDGI? . r'dGt 1Ob <br />"January 25, 1969 <br />This is to acknowledge receipt of your letter of January 19th. All <br />such criticism of the Board is well received. We welcome e_xnression•from <br />either parties' executive committee and from other groups in the county with <br />political interest. .However, we are expecially interested in criticism <br />and reports from groups in the county that are moving Orange County ahead <br />without any political motivation. Political parties are the backbone of our <br />system and we wish more folks would become active. Our party needs no more <br />"Chicago's" to portray and foment our differences; but a party big enough to <br />have these differences work together for the benefit of all. <br />Your first paragraph: It would be fine to see you lead though we are <br />glad to have you join in causes. Let's be interested in the welfare of all <br />groups in Orange County and not in just the groups whose cause is to our <br />liking. County Commissioners, who do their jobs, must operate for all and <br />not to "hold politically" or stay in office. If your executive committee is <br />unanimous on all such actions, then it is poorly representative of the <br />Democratic Party, which has moved forward and made progress with its differences. <br />If our human Relations Council makes progress, it will be done the same way, <br />with the differences in our county working together. No group in this party <br />can be "all right" and the other "all wrong". <br />Your second paragraph: What facts do you have that we don't that would <br />prompt such irresponsible words as "mis-handled'", "rectify", "concession to <br />recalcitrant whites", being put into print? Where have you been for the past <br />few months? Our nossible action has been known for some time. <br />Your third paragraph: You should know that the Republican Executive <br />Committee asked for this first. It was during the primary and we told them <br />we thought the timing was wrong but would do it after the fall elections. <br />The.Orange County Hoard of Commissioners endorsed it second. The Board of <br />Elections endorsed it third. With your endorsement, this makes it almost <br />unanimous, our records show that we are waiting to have a meeting with Mr. <br />Brock and that the Board of Elections have agreed to arrange such a meeting. <br />Your fourth paragraph: I assume that this is yours and not the executive <br />committee's action. I have endorsed this for a long time and most of this <br />time I have been alone. However, if this is to work, we start out by accepting <br />our differences; we work for an all-Orange County run system and not a Chapel <br />Hill run system. <br />Your fifth paragraph: Yes, we need to keep better records and we will <br />do what we can on this. However, to be better informed, attendance at these <br />meetings will certainly be more informative than pouring over records. We <br />would welcome an observer from the executive committee as we do from The <br />League of Women's Voters. And, I am certain actions of the executive committee <br />could be more effective with information so gathered. <br />Your sixth paragraph: We will be glad to meet with you anytime it is <br />mutually convenient. <br />Since with your letter from the executive committee, you have enclosed <br />three more papers, it may be that they should have my comments on them also. <br />First in reply to "A Personal Statement By Roger B. Foushee Re: Community <br />Services Consultant Program." <br />We are not this hard to reach. I agree with your third paragraph and unless <br />the Community Action Program, the Agricultural Department workers, and the Welfare <br />Department workers and other agencies of the county step in to fill this gap, <br />then we have erred. These agencies must accept some responsibility for the gap <br />being there to start with as this is in the area of their responsibility. <br />Second in reply to "A RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT THE CO MUNITY SERVICES <br />CONSULTANT" <br />In the second whereas, there are others I know who have recognized this. We <br />have not received from the Welfare Board a letter either way. <br />In the use of the words "equally essential" you must not feel the position is <br />very important without Mrs. Gamble in it. Do you not feel that some other <br />county can benefit from her services; some county that has never had a community <br />services consultant or a community action program? <br />It is fine to want Orange County to have everything but this would not be in <br />the best interest of North Carolina. Let's try and praise what we are doing 1 <br />and have accomplished and be thankful rather than disappointed that every- <br />thing is not as we want. <br />Third in reply to "A Resolution In Support Of The Creation Of An Orange <br />County Human Reaations Council" <br />In your fourth whereas, you use the words "undue delay". It would have been <br />better to use the word "some" as here again you don't have all the facts. <br />Thus "the pat on the back is better than a slap on the face" when you want <br />cooperation.