CAPITAL LETTERS BY THOMPSON' GREENWOOD $100,000,000?Two weeks ago this column said that a special session of the Legislature might be called ?for the primary pur pose o( laying the foundation for a vote of the people on whether they wish to float bonds for a gigantic highway building pro gram. It was pointed out here that a bond Issue of between S100,000.000 and 4150,000,000 would be needed. On the day the column appear ed in most papers- Thursday, January 22?Herbert Peele of Elizabeth City, former president of the N. C. Press Association, made a plea at the annual News paper Institute held at Chapel Hill and Duke University for just .such a program. His figure, how ever, was .$100,000,000. NOT WORRYING Despite the tremendous increase in conver s. tion relati ng to Kerr (give it the Scotch pronounciation and not the mongrel dog lingo?car. not cur) Scott's running for Gov ernor. Charles Johnson's followers ate not showing any jitters at the possibility of the Commission er of Agriculture's candidacy. If they are scared, they are certain ly doing a good job of being quiet about it. As a matter of fact, the men tion of Scott's hat in the ring has done more than anything else to solidify Johnson support. DO RE MI?Some of Kerr Ccott's closest friends are begging him not to make the race for Governor unless he can be sure his friends will spend at least .$100,000 in his behalf. Consequent ly, the main tune in the Scott camp for several days now has hit on only three notes in the scale?to wit. do and re and mi. If the songsters can once reach fa. they might become members of the choir, with Scott as lead er. of course. For he knows only too well?and regrets it even as you and everybody else?that a North Carolina gubernatorial race is exactly like the musical scale: It begins with do and ends with do. The re, the mi, the fa, and even the so la. hardly 'amount to a tinker's damn on a, j frosty morning. BIG BUSINESS?Your State of i North Carolina, then, is--to a; great extent?run by big business, by the money boys. They seem to be able to control elections when, j and if, they wish to do so. Their1 strength was most apparent in ?the J. C. B. Erhinghaus and Dick Fountain battle in 1P32 and in the Clyde R. Hoey and Dr. Ralph McDonald fight in 1936. They did jsome pitching in 1040 and quite a bit in 1944. I Anyone who knows about North j Carolina politics knows this is 'true. In the upper brackets, don | ations come in the $10,000. $20, 000, and $30,000 brackets?and even higher, if need be. Yes, big business operates North Carolina. But is this bad ? When other states were having major j financial scandals, North Carolina was free of them. This must be I admitted. The State is operated in the same manner as that of! the big businesses which largely I control elections and subsequent ly have a big voice in the gov- ] eminent. This means efficient ad ministration, but the thousands of minor stockholders throughout the length and breadth of the Old North State frequently feel left out of things. That's why McDonald received such a huge vote in 1936. and that is also one of the mail reasons so many peo ple want Kerr Scott to run for Governor in 1948. NOTES?Appointment of Sam Ervin, Jr., of Morganton, to the State Supreme Court last week was liked in Raleigh and in other sections of the State . y. . His sal ary will be $10.000 per year . . . The N. C. Merchants Association 46th annual convention will be held in Asheville on May 16 through May 18 . . . There are 'now approximately 50.000 students ESSO-ALL THE WAY! Gasoline - Motor Oil - Lubricants You simply cannot beat them for service And Satisfaction ! WILSON ARNOLD U. S. No. 17 Supply, N. G. -INSURANCE AUTO . . LIABILITY . . FIRE . . COLLISION LIFE . . HOSPITALIZATION J. B. HEWETT ? Insurance of All Kinds ? SHALLOTTE, - - - NORTH CAROLINA ; in North Carolina colleges ? ? ? Scores of rural schools through- : out the State are now laying j plans to have school on Saturdays j . The bad weather of the past j three weeks will force most of i them to carry the school term; well into June ... The only mem-, ber of 'the State Supreme Court1 who won his seat through the! vote of the people Is Chief Jus-| tice Stacy . . . The others arriv-| ed there by appointment of the1 Governor . . . The largest city Merchants As [ sociation in the United States is | in Charlotte, with over 600 mem- j [bers . . . Since writing the above, [comments on Kerr Scott, your columnist has been informed that he has been virtually promised! the world with a ring around it If he will not run for Governor j . . . So, there must be some j worrying somewhere . . . ASHEVILLE SUPPORT?Now | that he is backing Brandon Hod-1 ges for State Treasurer, Governor , R. Gregg Cherry is said to be I applying some pressure to Don I Elias, Deacon Greene, and Hiden | Ramsey for them to help hi3, friend Senator W. B. Umstead, in | the Asheville area in the Primary j in May. Prior to Hodges' announcement for Treasurer, Asheville was re garded as a J. M. Broughton stronghold. It may still be, but i Governor Cherry has put the ' Asheville friends of Hodges on S the spot. R. Gregg has reported-j ly told friends he will throw his 1 entire support to the Asheville1 [champion if he can receive some assurance from Buncombe that | |Senator Umstead will have first! j place in their hearts. The Deacon, Elias. et als, may! j be willing to trade, for it has I been more than 30 years since ; Asheville has had a man on the j Council of State ... If memory i serves correctly. Their last big j boy In State politics was Gov ' ernor Locke Craig (1912-16). If the extreme western part of the State has had a constitutional officer since then, this column I would like to be informed of, it. i Of course, William Newland of Lenoir was Lieutenant Governor , in the early years of this cen : tury?as was the late Rufe Doughton of Sparta. Doughton was later head of the State High way Commission and of the Re venue Department. North Carolina has gone as far, west as Shelby (twice) and Gas tonia for its Governors?other-, wise, that area has been pretty! well out of the running. That's why some wholesale j trading may be in the offing. The principal food of the com mon octopus is crabs, which it t paralyzes with a poison secreted by Salivary glands. Since the founding of the Turk ish Republic, Turkey has had a larger proportion of women as I members of Parliament than Great Britain or the United Sta tes. Grandmother's petticoat is black in granddaughter's wardrobe this spring. It may be bright colored j taffeta or embroidered white cot-1 ton and sometimes peeks beneath the hemline. 614 BUILDINGS MUST BE SOLD AT ONCE! Tremendous selection. Good used Yellow Pine?Seasoned ?Dry. 2x4's?2x6's?2x8's?Sheathing, Flooring, etc. HUNDREDS OF SALVAGE ITEMS?HERE ARE A FEW OF THE VALUES! SPACE HEATERS WATER HEATERS HOT AIR FURNACES HEATING BOILERS RADIATION HOT WATER TANKS ARMY COOK RANGES SINKS?URINALS TOILETS-LAVATORIES REFRIGERATORS DOORS?WINDOWS EXHAUST FANS MESS TABLES FIRE EXTINGUISHERS DRINKING FOUNTAINS ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES SHOWERS?VALVES PIPE?FITTINGS SALES OFFICE: CAMP DAVIS HOLLY RIDGE, N. C. Phono Holly Ridge 201 LOCATED HALF-WAY between WILMINGTON and JACKSONVILLE, ROUTE 17 Position Of Farm Bureau On Tobacco Quotas Is Outlined Spokesman Says Policy Is To Produce All Of Leaf Which Can Be Sold At Fair Price The position of the North Car olina Farm Bureau on the ques tion of quotas was stated em phatically at Smlthfield a few Jays ago by Carl T. Hicks. "The historic position of the North Carolina Farm Bureau has always been that growers produce all the flue-cured tobacco they can sell at a fair price," Mr. Hicks declared. "When there were less than 1,500 members in the North Car olina Farm Bureau," Hicks said, "the organization was successful in having enacted into law the AAA program. The State Farm Bureau has always stood staunch ly behind provisions of this legis lation, which involves among other things acreage control and the formula for determining when tobacco is in surplus. ; "The legislation governing the production of flue-cured tobacco is designed to keep supply in line with demand in accordance with the law. The Farm Bureau has always insisted that the Se cretary of Agriculture, in his annual December 1 quota an nouncement, always comply with the law which fixes the quota on the basis of the surplus existing beyond the necessary, normal 'supply on hand.' " Since the secretary's announce ment of a 27.52 per cent tobacco acreage reduction last December 1, Hicks said, there has been no indication of a reduction of sur ! plus stocks In this country. If there should be a change before March 1, he added the secretary has the right to reduce tho fig ure. i "In the past three years," Hicks pointed out, "flue-cured tobacco growers have been producing an nually 200,000,000 pounds more than was being consumed. Of the [total, about 200,000,000 pounds are in foreign stocks, 100,000,0!)0 in stocks of export leaf dealers, and 300,000,000 held under loan by the Stabilization Corporation. "We must agree that the 1948 projected acreage of some 900, 000 acres could yield 1,000,000,000 founds of flue-cured tobacco, bas ed on the production of the last three years. If this yield should result, where will it go? "Between 65 and 66 million pounds will be bought by domes tic manufacturers, if the home consumption peak is maintained. This would leave some 300 to 340 million pounds for export, but, under the Marshall Plan, the 16 Western European countries have asked for a total of 425 to 450 million pounds of all types of to bacco. The most flue-cured grow ers could expect to export under the Marshall Plan would be 340 to 360 million pounds. However, the Marshall Plan has not yet been adopted and no one knows how it will come out in final form." * If we were foolish enough to go "all out" and build up our surplus this year, Hicks said, our price structure in 1949 would fall apart because the price of tobac co would be depressed and the government would lose millions of dollars be cause of its support of our product at 90 per cent of parity. "Let's not be stampeded and our strength dissipated," Hicks advised. "We must stand solidly together and hold on to the gains made and fought so hard for through the years since we have been organized." Carolina Golden Gloves Meet Set For February 10 Outstanding Boxing Event Is Sponsored By Raleigh Times And Exchange Club RALEIGH?The 1948 edition of the Eastern Carolina Golden Gloves boxing tournament in Me 'morial Auditorium here February 10, 11, and 12 promises to, be the biggest and best in the ten year history of the amateur ring J extravaganza which draws lea ! ther-pushers from throughout Coastal North Carolina. Service camp and club teams have indicated plans for entering the event and now are in train I ing for the classis. Full eight man teams are due to enter from the 82nd Airborne Division of Fort Bragg and from the Marine Air Station at Cherry Point. Al so scheduled to be on hand are < full or near-full teams from Whiteville, Wilmington, Fayette ville, Lumberton, Dunn, Durham, Chapel Hill, Greensboro and other cities in the area. Open to any amateur boxer 16 years of age or over, the tourney! is sponsored by The Raleigh Times and the Raleigh Exchange Club under the sanction of the Carolinas Amateur 'Athletic Union. Competition will be open ! in the junior and senior divisions in each of the eight ,AAU-rez cognized weight classes. The junior division is for all youths 16 and 17 years of age, and the senior division for ama teurs 18 years and over and all servicemen. Weighing in exercises and pair ings will be Iteld at Memorial Auditorium here on the after noon of Tuesday, February 10, the date the tournament opens. Meals and hotel lodging will be furnish 'ed all contestants through break fast of the morning following their last match. I Champions in both the junior and senior divisions will be award ed handsome trophies almost a foot high while runners-up in each division will be given other awards. In addition the winners in the senior division will be sent travel expenses paid to the Caro linas Golden Gloves championships in Charlotte a few weeks after the local tourney. Complete information and en try blanks for the tourney 'may be obtained from the sports editor j of The Raleigh Times. Shrimp Survey Promises To Continued From Page One with heavy steel drag lines. With I holds ample for ice and shrimp [and fish cargoes, these boats can go out and stay out for days if | necessary. They will be able to j take full advantage of any dis | tant, shrimping grounds that may ! be located and chartered in the proposed survey. J Against the Southport and Brunswick county boats the aver se length of shrimp trawler, used North of Southport will hardly exceed 36-feet. Going any distance will be more or less i dangerous for the most of these craft. To better illustrate things, if large shrimp and grounds fav orable for operation are discover ed at a distance off Southport the boats here can start opera j tions at once. If a like discovery is made off Atlantic or some northern points, bigger and better boats than the present type will i have to be acquired there, or the ! time during which operations may be carried on will be very limit ed. From the beginning of the j shrimping industry in North Car jolina the coast off Southport has steadily held the lead in product j ion. Commercial production first started here 40 or more years ago sailing boats then being used. The gas engines brought about I an evolution in the industry. Dur ing the past six years the diesel engine and the bigger boats have brought on a still greater change. Last year's catch of dressed shrimp,- while far below expecta tion, was 750,000 pounds. Atlantic with 390,000 pounds was the next largest producer in the state. The shrimp survey may bring along a still greater development off Southport and Brunswick county coast. Interviews with fishermen who have operated ex Canned peach juice may be served as a starter for a baked ham dinner. GET READY FOR INSPECTION! Save time, save money, save embarrass ment. ... Let us get your car or truck ready to pass through the inspection lane with every item checked "O.K." Big Line of Genuine Plymouth and Dodge Parts. WILLIAMSON MOTOR CO. Dodge - Plymouth Dealer SHALLOTTE, N. C. tensively along the whole of the! Carolina coast indicate a belief ^ that fine grounds may be located I within a shorter distance off, Southport than at other points. | However, the survey which starts here will be complete. Every pos sible effort will be made to locate new trawling grounds both here land elsewhere. A five-man commission has | charge of the work. Two of these[ ? \V. S. Wells and L. J. Hardee, j are from Southport. Mr. Wells is j chairman. A third member is a' i Wilmington resident and the re-1 ! maining two are from Carteret. j and Currituck counfies. The work, | | of course, is under the State De-, I partment of Conservation and, Development. In Louisiona, resulting from a j survey similar to this one, it was discovered that after shrimp had j passed the breeding age, they I moved to waters futher offshore, where they grew bigger and fat ter than any found at the usual j fishing grounds. This made them much the more desirable. An ad- ( ditional point is that if the big shrimp are found and can be tak .en from points far off-shore the ( small breeding stock near shore i will not be so much molested. Working on the big shrimp, the little shrimp near shore will havej a chance to raised still moref little shrimp to move out into the distant grounds. LENGTHY DOCKET (Continued from page one) tion, $25.00 and costs. Arthur Otto Herring, reckless operation, $15.00 and costs. Ellis Roberts, possession, fined $10.00 and costs. Eugene Tate, speeding, $10.00 and costs. Joe Willetts. drunk driving, con tinued. Leonard R. Shepard, speeding, capias issued. Martin B. Glover, reckless op eration without lights, failure to stop at signal from officer, not guilty. Isiah Robinson, assault with deadly weapon, continued. Herbert Charles Sutton, assault, carrying concealed weapon, 30 days on roads suspended on pay ment of a fine of $60.00 and costs, gun confiscated. George R. Nlven, speeding, call ed and failed, capias issued. John Samuel Clark, reckless op eration, fined $40.00 and costs and required to make restitution for all damage. Claud Bernard, failure to de liver title to motor vehicle, con tinued. Russell E. Jones, speeding, fin ed $10.00 and. costs. Serge Barkin, speeding, fined $10.00 and costs. Adolph Cliff, speeding, finwl $10.00 and costs. Earl Babson, reckless operation, damage to property, fined $50.00 and costs, fine remitted on condi tion that he make restitution to G. VV. Cox, notice of appeal given. Willie Bergman, disturbance and damage to property, motion for jury trial. John A. Robbins, possession, fined $10.00 and costs. Ben Hankins, Jr., assault with deadly weapon, 90 days on roads, suspended on condition that he pay costs and not assault his wife again. NEW DOCTOR NOW (Continued from page one) during the war, has gone to New York where he will take post graduate work. Dr. Taubenhaus comes to Brunswick county from Houston. Texas, where he has been engag ed in private practice since his release from active service with the U. S. Navy with rank of .Lieutenant Command: incjUl, {in his war record wa? i JJJ dential unit citalinn for servi< ; with the 1st Marine Kvision ' Guadacanal. Dr. Tai'henhau Is , ?? ?iUa. of tht medical >.n tea?! in tl ?medical school al I!a> ? , lVv ' sity. Dr. Taubenhaus is i 'has a two-year old daughter. ri ! family will occupy ?? i: baum home. i No matlcr how many medicines you have tried \ou ?ct relief fro;.; your cough or )our money back. 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