FIVE-DAY WEEK . . . Gov.
Kerr Scott's office has bow gone
on the five-day week, and that
makes it virtually unanimous in
State offices here as to Monday
through-Friday-period.
The five-day work week was
set up on a temporary, or ex
perimental, basis. But it has
worked out so well that it is now
a permanent fixture. So do not
come to Raleigh for Saturday
visits. You won't find anybody
home. State employees get off
work at 5:30 on Friday afternoon
and report back at 8:30 Monday
morning. The trend is ever to to
shorter hours and higher pay.
THE VOTE . . . Opinion here is
that the vote in the Senatorial
runoff on Saturday, June 24', will
fall at least 150,000 short of the
818,479 record-breaking ballot
cast in the May 27 Primary. Some
of the guessers think the total
vote will not go over 400,000.
STORE CLOSINGS . . . The
trend to shorter hours is not con
fined to State departments in
North Carolina. Most Of you can
remember when your favorite
trading places stayed open until
all hours. ... or as long as there
was anybody around to buy any
thing or to talk to. In the larger
cities now, the N. C. Merchants
Association finds,* stores open
around 9:30 and close about 5:30.
As a general rule, all employers
are providing their clerks with at
least one afternoon off a weekv In
most cases, this is Wednesday.
The old NRA and Hugh Johnson
started the early closings at night,
good business during and since
World War II pushed along the
movement, and now even the
smaller communities' stores are
open only about two-thirds the
time they were 20 years ago.
TOWARD 1700,000 . . . The
- Baptists finally voted not to ac
cept the $700,000 from the Fed
eral Government to build at their
hospital in Winston-Salem a wing.
They said they would prefer to
raise the money, that they did
not want to accept any handouts
from Uncle Sam, and that they are
tired of having the old boy peep
over their shoulders every time
any big project comes along. Peo
ple are apparently getting rather
fed up with Government interfer
ence . r-. but they love Federal
LIN BUMGARNER
3 Miles West on Highway 42]
Phone 26-F-21. North WilkMbor*
money. . . . and it Is hard to have
one without the other. So, the
Baptists are now setting quotas
for all the churches in the State
as a step toward raising the $700,
000. This will require some time,
but at 1 feast when the addition is
built it will be by the Baptists, and
not with Federal money collected
from taxpayers who thought their
taxes were being used to operate
the Government*
"PRESERVATIVES" . . . Miss
Nell Battle LewlB writes a column.
. . . and has for years ... in the
Raleigh News and Observer. She
loves the University of North
Carolina and now lives in Chapel
Hill. In a recent column she
' quotes University Comptroller W.
D. CarmiQhael's statement to
the General Alumni Association
at the commencement: "Gordon
| Gray's acceptance- of the presi
dency of the University is the
greatest thing for the State that
has happened since the Revolu
tionary War."
Miss Lewis was intrigued by
the statement and she went to
|Carmichael for more as follows:
"About Mr. Gray, said Mr. Carmi
ichael, he wanted to warn the alu
mni. The University's 'Red Badge
of Courage' and chief braggadoc
| ian Communist Hans Freidstat,
a graduate student in physics, who
I has now departed, recently re
| peated that he had previously pub
lished in a little sheet he got out
from time to time, i. e., that
"what a tobacco tycoon and Tru
man tool as President and a Cath
olic Of Wall Street as Comptrol
ler, the University had, indeed,
gone conservative.
i were to stop or to stoop to
answer Mr. Freidstadt, said Mr.
Carmichael, 'I would say that Gor
don Gray and I are not conserva
tives but preservatives, and we
will devote the rest of our active
lives to preserving the things that
have made America great and to
keeping our University true to the
faith of our fathers and mothers
and the hope of our sons and
daughters.
" 'Neither radical nor reaction
ary will ever control the Univer
sity of North Carolina. . . . ' '
SHAPPARD .... J. A. Shap
pard of Wilson was set two weeks
ago to accept employment with the
N. G. Merchants Association as
field representative'in the south
western section Of North Carolina.
. . . and on -Monday, June 12,
was to meet R. B. Tomlinson,
Association Field Secretary, at the
bus station at Sanford to begin
his training program.
On Saturday, June 10, he tele
phoned the Association that he had
made another connection . . . but
Tomlinson, out on the road, could
not be notified that his man would
not be in Sanford to meet him.
He was at the bus station as plan
ned and had Shappard called on
the public address system. No
Shappard; He called again that
afternoon, but still no Shappard.
At 6 o'clock, he had completed
his day's work and went around
to the bus station. This time Shap
pard was present. But it was R.
W. Shappard of Route 2, Sanford.
Tomlinson talked to this Shap
nard. . . . only to find after two
or thrpe stops and starts that he
had found a Shappard, but not
the right one. This new Shappard
CHIEF EXECUTIVE HAS A BUSY DAY
HAWAIIAN DSLEGATI to the National 4-H Club encampment In Wash
Jngton, Norma Ito presents President Truman with a wreath at the
White House. Agriculture Secretary Brannan looks on. (IntenuMonaiy
however, was interested, in coming
with the N. G. Merchants Associa
tion as field representative.
He went to Raleigh to see about
the position which he had stum
bled onto by being named Shap
pard. The day after he made appli
ciation, Walter H. Paramore, sec
retary of the Henderson Chamber
of Commerce and Merchants Asso
elation, resigned ■ that v position.
Having been editor and reporter
on papers at Plymouth, Raleigh,
and having pperated merchants
organisations in WhitevHle and
Fuquay Springs, he was given the
job.
On MOndky morning, June 19,
Paramore met Tomlinson at the;
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