Raiejgh Round-Up
Special Session Of Legislature Expected
To Convene, Organize,,SetUp Business
BY KIDD BREWER
SPECIAL SESSION? . . . Dur
ing the hottest days of the 1957
session of the General Assem
bly — along about June 1 when
the session still had several days
to run — a movement began
which would have fixed it so the
1959 legislative term would be
gin about the middle of Janu
ary.
Due to the last-minute rush of
other matters, the idea did not
become legal, and so the next
regular session of the Legisla
ture is scheduled to meet “on
the first Wednesday after the
first Monday in February next
after their election, unless a dif
ferent day be provided by law
Only the Governor himself has
the power to bring the legislators
back to Raleigh before next Feb
ruary 4. He can do it by calling
for a special session . . . “on ex
traordinary occasions”.
Governor Luther Hodges has
had one special session — the
one to nut the Pearsall Plan into
effect — and we hear he may
have another. If he does, the Leg
islature would convene, become
organized and set up for busin
ess, and then convene for regular
business on February 4. Hard
work!
REASONS . . . The Governor has
stated over and over again that he
When you think of prescriptions,
think of Varner’s. —Adv.
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Up To $10,000
Why Take Lest
When You Can
Get More!
WE PAY
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thinks the 1959 legislative session
will be the most troublesome in
years. Extraordinary! If indeed he
is considering calling a special
session, he will do it to avoid keep
ing the General Session here un
til July. We have no record of a
special session having been called
to do the work usually done by a
regular session. Also, in the past,
it has been estimated that a special
session of the Legislature costs a
minimum of $100,000.
Until 1957, the Legislature met
on the first Wednesday after the
first Monday in January. We
amended our State Constitution in
1950 to make the change. Govern
or Hodges must have the approval
of the Council of State to call a
special session. The idea seems to
j have great merit.
ANOTHER AMENDMENT . . .
Speaking of amendments to the
State Constitution, at least one
more will be voted on in Novem
ber.
At the present time, magis
trates or justices of the peace
have powers generally limited to
items in which value of the prop
erty is not over S50.
If the people approve the con
stitution change, justices of the
peace can be of greater service
to business people or reposses
sions, claim and delivery papers,
and legal business of this type.
At the present, a lot of these
matters have to go through al
ready-cluttered court calendars.
This means delay and extra ex
pense.
Provision for the November
vote was made bv the 1957 Gen
eral Assembly, Father of the bill
was W. Lunsford Crew, Fourth
District Senator.
PRISON CHAPEL ... A pro
ieca begun more than five years
ago by Edwin Pou in the Legisla
ture is being brought to comple
tion by our friend. Bill Bailey, head
of State Prison.
Pou. son of the late George Ross
Pou, saw' the need for the new pris
on chapel at Central Prison here.
Although he is no longer in the
Legislature — having voluntarily
retired from that office — he is
’ iving some satisfaction in see
•ng realization of his idea.
We might observe in passing,
too. that never in our recollection
■ve the prisons of North Carolina
1 cen in better hands than they are
^dav under the capable guidance
William Bailee.
! .
RETURNING ... One of our
i f vorite people, Mrs. Roy Parker
of Ahoskie, widow of Hertford
j County Representative J. Roy
Parker, will be hostess at the Me
A CONCRETE lot helps you raise
more beef with less feed and labor
A paved feed lot boosts beef production because on
concrete the feed is eaten—not trampled in the mud.
Less work is needed to keep the lot clean and a great
deal more manure can be recovered.
The cost of a concrete barnyard is surprisingly low.
Many farmers find that a paved lot actually pays for
itself in as little as one year. On concrete cattle can
be fed to heavier weights before marketing—no need
to ship lightweight cattle in the “muddy season/*
A concrete barnyard requires little or no upkeep
yet puts extra profits in the bank year after year.
Mail coupon today for free booklet on concrete feed
lots or information on other concrete improvements.
—-PASTE COUPON ON BACK OF POSTCARD AND MAIL TODAY
PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION
1401 State Planters Bank Bldg., Richmond 19, Virginia
A national organization to improve and extend the uses ot portland cement
and concrete ... through scientific research and engineering field work
Send booklet on concrete
teed lots and (list subject):
St. or R. No.
Post Office...
..State.
Iver Dormitory for girls, Univer- !
sity of North Carolina, this year.
Roy taught at the University
from 1941 until 1946. His son,
Roy, is one of the editors of the
Parker Brothers papers pub
j lished in the counties of Hert
I ford, Northampton, Gates, and
I Bertie. Top people, the Parkers.
NOTES . . . October 12-18 has I
been set aside as Careers in Re-1
tailing Week . . . with this slogan:
“Get ahead faster in retailing” . . .
Stores wishing to participate
should write Stephen K. Small, Na
tional Retail Merchants Associa
tion, 100 West 31st Street, New
York 1, N. Y., or Thompson Green
wood, N. C. Merchants Association,
Raleigh Building, Raleigh . . .
.... Recently when we were
bragging that Raleigh went for
more than a year without a single
traffic death, we were advised of
this fact: Albemarle, down* in
Stanly County, has gone for 17
\ ears without a fatal pedestrian ac
cident . . . This requires constant
work, constant education . . .
Speaking of careers, 12.000 out
standing high school students re
cently voted this way on their car
eer preferences: teaching, 30 per
! cent; science and engineering, 27.4:
medicine and nursing, 13.3; busin
ess, 7 per cent; communications,
2.5; law, 2.2__ and all other car
eers, 17.6 . . . and the thing that
surprises is that so many would
prefer teaching ... in view of
wages, etc. . .
The other day wre saw' this de
scription of a reckless driver: “One
who passes you in spite of all your
car can do It required a
death on the Raleigh-Durham Bou
levard the other day to remind mo
torists that when a school bus is
stopped on a one-way road, cars in
the other lane — even though it
may be many feet away — must
stop, too . . . This out-of-State mo
torist was killed when he plowed
into the rear of a car stopped for
a school bus in the adjoining one
way thoroughfare ... In Graham
County, n0 racial problems exist
whatever ... It is the only county
j in Southeastern U. S. A., which has
not one Negro citizen.
NOTICE
North Carolina
Transylvania County
The undersigned, having quali
fied as administrator of the estate
cf C. C. Jordan, deceased, late of
Transylvania County, this is to no
tify all persons having claims
against said estate to present them j
to the undersigned on or before the.
11th day of September, 1959 or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery. A1 persons indebted
to said estate will please make im
mediate payment to the undersign
ed.
This the 8th day of September.
1958.
J. H. Tinsley, Administrator
c-o Robert T. Gash, Attv.
5 McMinn Building
Brevard, N. C. 9-ll-6tc
When you think of prescriptions
think of Varner’s. —Adv.
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Where’s the new
going, mister
That’s a good question, son!
A LOT MORE than a youngster’s idle curiosity is at
stake in the answer to this question. The location of
a new superhighway can vitally affect — for all time -
the future industrial development of u community.
Often, vacant land along a railroad is ideally suited for
industry. Factories locating on it create new home-town
job opportunities and new sources of local tax revenue.
The land when thus put to industrial use becomes a
valuable community asset.
Certainly, no forward-looking civic planner would
intentionally do anything to destroy this asset. But,
through oversight, it can be wiped out completely and
forever by locating the new highway too close to the
railroad. When this is done, the highway blocks off
easy, economical access to the rail service that most
industries must have.
On the other hand, when an adequate strip of land is
left between the existing railroad and the proposed
superhighway, the land becomes doubly attractive to
industry. Then it can offer modern rail service on one
side and a modern highway on the other.
Good planning when the new highway is still on the
drawing board will mean lasting benefits to you and
your community. - - ^
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
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WASHINGTON, D. C.
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