I RALEIGH ROUNDUP
By EULA NIXON GREENWOOD
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(We column is written this
week by Tom Outlaw, executive
secretary, N. C. Motor Carriers
Association.)
TOURING . . . Governor Kerr
Scott, like President Harry Tru
man, gets a kick out of mingling
with the people. It is relatively
easy to lose touch with the every
day thoughts of the average citi
zens in the small towns and rur
. al communities unless you get
' out and talk with them on occas
; ' sion.
, Time was when the Governor
and the President could sit in
their offices, issue statements by
press and radio and bring the
people along with them and their
ideas and philosophies of govern
, ment. No more. The folks like
to see their leaders, shake hands
with them and show them around
the home territories. Governor
Scott knows this; and he enhanc
ed his. popularity last week by
tours into Northwestern North
Carolina, down into the storm
riddled areas of Nash and Wilson
counties, and by other down-to
earth talks here and there. In
one or two places he spoke where
no Governor before him had made
an adress. The people liked it.
REPRESENTED . . Wake
,/~T!*>re8t College is well represen
ted in the annual all-star big
league game this year. Of eight
pitchers named, two of them —
Ray Scarborough of the White
So* and Tommy Byrne with the
NOTICE
OF SERVICE BY PUBLICATION
In The Superior Court
North Carolina, Wilkes County;
Dewey Burchette, vs.
Mamie Burchette. «
The defendant, Mamie Burch
ette will take notice that an action
has been commenced in the Su
perior Court of Wilkes County,
entitled as above, for the purpose
of an absolute divorce; and the
said defendant will further take
notice that she is required to ap
pear at the office of the Clerk of
the Superior Court of Wilkes
County within 20 days after the
completion of this notice and an
swer or demur to the complaint in
said action or the plaintiff will
apply to the Court of the relief
demanded in said complaint. This
20th day of June, 1950.
C. C. HAYES,
Clerk Superior Court
7-13-4t (T)
Yanks — are alumni of the Bap
tist school.
TRAVELERS . . . The bien
nial of the State's financiers
should begin within a few days
now. The Advisory Budget Com
mission moved into Raleigh last
Thursday for a look at General
Fund revenues, from which are
paid teachers and other State
employees including presidents
of North Carolina-operated col
leges, instructors, etc. The mon
ey to build new buildings for all
these institutions»— educational,
schools for the deaf, the blind,
and others. All funds other than
for highway matters come from
the General Fund. Approximately
three-fourths of the revenue go
ing into this fund is from income
and sales and use taxes.
Assistant Budget Director D.
S.-Coltrane told the budgeteers
that the State should be able to
get through the next year of this
biennium — that is through June
30, 1951, without cutting salar
ies or reducing State services if
business conditions in the fiscal
year we went into on July 1 are
as good as in July 1, 1949 —
June 30, 1950.
WHEAT-THRASHING ... Re
member the thrashers and how
they used to thrash at Sam Jones'
place yesterday and would be at
your place the day after tomor
row? And how you dreaded it,
fearful that you might have rake
chaff? And how you loved it, too,
hoping that some day you would
be promoted to the first table?
That was before the day of the
combine. But the thrashers tour
ed, worked, ate huge meals and
wore red bandanna handkerchiefs
to keep the chaff from getting
down their shirts and up their
aosgs.
Members of the Advisory Bud
get Commission are attired dif
ferently, but they tour somewhat
in the same manner as the thrash
ers, visiting State institutions and
eating huge meals provided them
here and there. The year's first
tour begins on July 17 and con
tinues through July 26. Then,
following a two weeks' rest, the
travels will go for another week.
THE SITTING . . . Then comes
the sitting, the receiving. They
settle themselves in the Revenue
Bulding here, and the depart
ment heads —- State Department
of Labor, Agriculture Department
and on down the list — come
with their auditors and their fi
nancial needs for the biennium
1952—1953.
After much backing, tacking,
and hemming and hawing, the
Advisory Budget Commission
must present to the 1951 Legis
lature its estimate of what the
State will receive in taxes from
July 1, 1951, through June 30,
1953, and the amount of money
each department must have on
which to operate in that period.
The thrashers of 20 and 50
years ago had nothing on the
budgeteers in perspiration and
hard work. /The budget men muBt
gryess what 'business conditions
will be three years from now.
They must make expenditures no
greater tljan the expected Income
run the risk °f deficit financing
(a popular thing these days), or
go to the Legislature for new tax
es.
TWO INCHES . . . North Caro
lina's budget 2*5 years ago would
fit snugly into your hip pocket
or slip with ease (nto your lady's
purse. The reccommended budget
which the Advisory Budget Com
mission will present to the Leg
islature come January should be
approximately two inches thick.
That, gentle reader, is progress.
BEAUTY PLUS . . . North
Carolina loves its beauty queens.
There is no closed season on
them. In the summer they parade
on the beaches, they appear at
numerous festivals draped deli
cately on floats, and,in the fall
they high-step before football
thousands to "Semper Fidelis"
Mrs. Martha Brookshire has
been a winner for the past three
years in Penney's July Blanket
Event. Mrs. Brookshire has been
the winner of a $25.00 Saving's
Bond for the past two years. She
is out to take top honors this
year. Mrs. Brookshire says if she
wins this honor this year, she is
planning to give it to her church
Building Fund, just as she has
done in the past.
and various Sousa airs. The wo
men say , "Oh, she's not so pret
ty." The men don't say anything.
They Just look.
At Wrightsville Beach last
week, 17 contestants paraded for
the title "Miss North Carolina".
They were Judged on poise, per
sonality, and beauty, one of the
judges was Peahead Walker,
Wake Forest coach, who knows
poise when he sees it — on the
gridiron or off. They strutted,
pranced, and moved about as the
waves sloshed solemnly in from
the Atlantic. They brought the
breath of life to tired business
men — and heaven knows what
to such as were not tired.
Carolyn Edwards, 18-year-old
lassie from Tri-City (Leaksville,
Spray, and Draper) was declared
the winner. She will go to Atlan
tic City in September represent
ing North Carolina. *
RESIGNATION . . . J. B. Moore,
State prison head, resigned as
of July 1. He said that charges
brought against him to the effect
Mrs. 1
Martha
Brookshire
Winner In
Penney's July
Blanket Event.
I quote (I don't see how I can
miss with the Blanket values we
have to offer this year, with
higher prices, facing us and peo
ple really having a chance to save
real money. I would like to thank
my many friends for their good
will in the past.
See me at Penney's this month
for your Blanket needs. A small
deposit will hold them until No
vember, when you really need
them most.) * | ; '
that he had used prison labor
for work at his home would ser
iously effect his usefulness as
prison superintendent. "I In no
way by word or deed admit any
wrongdoing on my part in re
gard to the charges brought
against me", said Moore in his
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