, RALEIGH ROUNDUP
By EULA NIXON GREENWOOD
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POWER AND POWER . . . L.
L. Ray, Alamance County native
-who until a few weeks ago was
executive secretary of the N. C.
Dairy Products Association, has
been succeeded In this position by
Lloyd Langdon.
Ray, before he took the dairy
job about seven years ago, was a
representative of the Duke Power
Company. Langdon, prior to
coming to Raleigh with the dairymen,
was Buncombe County commercial
and agricultural agent
for the Carolina Power and Light
Co. Ray is now in charge Of the
various foundations at State College
and people are already calling
him "Doctor" here and there
which shows what a college can
do for you.
Ray moved to Raleigh three
weeks ago, but is still on the go
most of the time. For Instance,
on Monday, July 10, he was in
Florida with Agriculture Com'
missioner L. Y. Ballentine looking
oyer the cattle situation down
there. On Tuesday evening, July
11, he was In Boone speaking to
the Watauga County Merchants
Association. As for Langdon, he'
is getting closer home, having
grown up in Johnston. County.
NO BUNCOMBE . . . While in
Buncombe, Langdon served for a
time as chairman of the Asheville
Chamber of Commerce Agricultural
Committee and sold / the
organization on having the Doane
Agricultural Service Of St. Louis
make a survey of the county. As
a direct result of the Council's
work, 50 Grade A daries were
opened in Buncombe last year,
many farmers started growing
chickens as a money crop and new
agricultural Interest was stimulated.
You can very readily see that
the light and power which L. I«.
Ray brought to the dairymen
(Coble of Lexington, Chatham of
Elkin, Biltmore Of Asheville,
Foremost of Charlotte, Pine^State
Of Raleigh, Melville of Burlington,
Meadows of Leaksville, and other
fine dairy plants throughout the
State) will continue with Lloyd
Langdon.
SURPLUS OR NOT? . . . This
column several weeks ago pointed
to the fact that Section 20 1-2
of the Appropriations Bill adopted
by the 1949 Legislature might
knock into a cocked hat any idea
of a surplus at the end of the
fiscal year which rolled around
on June 30.
When the Governor ahd the
1949 General Assembly were!
wrestling over how much to raise
the teachers, the legislators were
fearful that the full increase wanted
by Governor W. Kerr Scott
might play havoc with the plans
for the budget — particularly if
bad business set in. So, the legislators
gave the pedagogues a
great amount of what the Governor
and the school people wanted
and inserted the section which
said the full salary range requested
for teachers — $2,200 to $3,100,
or as far toward this as the
money would go — would be allowed
if the State had sufficient
funds as of the end of business
this fiscal year, which endd^l on
June 30.
HAS IT . . . Well, the State
now has that surplus — about
$12,000,000. But that old Section
20 1-2 slyly sitpulates that the
State Board of Education must
request the funds for more pay
for the teachers. If the Board files
application for the money, the
State will in all probability find
Itself short of funds for the 194 951
biennium.
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FOR SALE
w Grade A dairy farm, consisting
of 104 acres—dairy and farm
equipment, 30 head dairy stock,
new tractor and farm machinery.
Located 4 miles west of Sparta
off Highway 18 about 1 mile.
School bus and milk trucks pass
by door. For further information
see or write—
Gaither L Evans
Whitehead, N. C.
DR. JAMES KINLAW
Optometrist
• ANNOUNCES
the opening of his offices for the
CARE OF VISION
Office on Second Floor Jomlinson Department Store Building
Phone 1059
Baby Pole Sitter
ATOP THIS 20-FOOT light pole at
Cabrillo Beach, Calif., is a spunky
four-year-old girl who eluded her
"sitter." After resisting rescue by
life-guards, the youngster is about
to be brought down safely by firemen.
(International Soundphoto)
RED? ... In other words, the
teachers can throw North Carolina
Into the red wltln the next
eight to 10 months — business
remaining as it is — if they want
to, and if the Attorney Qeneral,
Harry McMullan by name, rules
that' it is legal and constitutional
for the State to dip into the middle
of the 1949-51 biennium and
queer the budget for the remaining
year.
The matter will probably not be
decided until August. By that
time the State will be finished
past fiscal year; and on that date
the State Board of Education is
scheduled to meet.
"UNTO THESE HILi,S" ... In
the western part of the Slate this
year — 56 miles west of Asheville
in the most beautiful country in
Eastern America — another folk
drama ia in progress and is being
most enthusiastically received by
thousands of travelers through
the mountains. At Cherokee, in the
great Smokies, the history Of the
Cherokee Nation moves across the
stage with the solemn strains of
"Amazing Grace" as a fitting prelude.
Whereas the "Lost Colony"
shows the struggles of our first
white settlers with the flat country
Indians, "Unto These Hills" protrays
the hill country Indians'
struggles with the white settlers.
If you have not seen the "Lost
Colony," see it this summer by all
means. But please do not fail to
witness "Unto These Hills." If
war fears sweep over you, carry
your family today into the heart
of the Blue Ridge and live for
a few hours with the first Americans.
You will find new strength.
The sweeping majesty Of "Unto
These Hills" will overwhelm you
and give you new pride in your
forerunners.
BRIDGES . . . For many years
now residents of Washington, Tyrrell,
Hyde, and Dare counties have
been looking to the day when upState
visitors to Manteo, Nags
Head, and other tourist spots of
that portion of the North Carolina
coast could make the trip without
having to virtually dip into Southern
Virginia to get there.
Scores of meetings have been
held, thousands of pages have been
written and countless speaches
have been made — not to mention
delegations coming to Raleigh
— in the interest 0( having
a highway which could swing the
visitor through Washington, Tyr(Continued
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