THE county club
HEARS J. p. LUCAS
Southern Public Utilities Offi
"" cial Speaker at
Meeting —Good Meet
ing Held.
f-ilkey, July 21.— John Paul Lu
vice-president of the Southern
Public Utilities Company, of Char
ge and editor of the Southern
Public Utilities Magazine was the
=neaker at the July meeting of the
Rutherford County Club held here
* Taking as his subject "Look
;ne forward in North Carolina," Mr.
Lucas reviewed the tremendous prog
ress that bad been made in all lines
of endeavor in the state since 1900.
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million people in 1900 the state had
grew until there is now over three
million people residing within her
borders. The estimated value of prop-
erty in North Carolina in 1900, said
Mr. Lucas, was $681,000,000. To
day it is over five billion. The value
of all manufactured products of
1900 was $94,990,000; today it ex
ceeds one billion, one hundred fifty
four million .dollars. The amount
spent for educational purposes, as
compared with thirty years ago has
increased over thirty-six times; the
value of school proptry has increas
ed six times in value. There were no
paved highways in 1900; now there
are
olina. This advantage, explained Mr.
Lucas, is due largely to industrial
development.' New industries in a
community not only gives employ
ment, x and supplies dividends, but
increases the purchasing power of
the community, thereby doubling and
trebling the amount invested in that
locality; and also results in the
creation of new markets for farm
produce and other commodities.
Thirty years ago the majority of
spindles in operation in the nation
were in the New England states.
Today the reverse is true, with near
ly nineteen million being operated
in the south and twelve million in
the New England states. Mr. Lucas
proceeded to explain the industrial
sift from New England to the south,
I and to North Carolina in particu
lar. Diversity of opportunities in
way of raw material, transportation,
climate, etc., has been a great fac
itor in this shift.
Mr. Lucas then entered into the
tpart in which the Duke Power Com
'pany has played in this shift in re
•cent years. The company conducts
ja systematic advertising campaign in
i nationally circulated magazines, set
: ting forth the advantages of the pied
! Mont section of North Carolina as
'a manufacturing and industrial cen
jter. Electric power is seldom men
tioned in this advertising, and then
sonly incidentally. Mr. Lucas stated
| that this advertising had resulted in
1 inquiries from every state of the
•union, all of the territories, from
■ South America, Canada and six coun
tries in Europe. The Duke Power
I Company, in replying, does not at-
I tempt to recommend any specific
j community, but selects those com
'munities thought to be best fitted
| lor that particular enterprise, and
THE FOREST CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1930.
refers the company to civic organ
izations in those communities. Mt.
Airy was given as a community that
had recently benefitted from this
campaign. Three new industries have
been, or is being, located in that
town.
Despite North Carolina's tremen- (
dous progress in the past thirty
years, the people of the state should
not get 'cocky', said Mr. Lucas.
There is yet room for expansion and
still greater development. Of the
sixteen major industries, North Car
olina only produces enough to sup
ply her need in three of them; tex
tiles, tobacco and lumber. For the
ether thirteen the state annually
spends .millions //f dollars out |of
North Carolina to supply them. He
stated that North Carolina spent
$215,000,000 out of the state every
year for milk and milk products;
over ten million dollars for poultry
products, while the farm population
spends over $61,000,000 in other
states every year for feed and food
products. "Needs point the way to
opportunity," said Mr. Lucas, "and
the greatest opportunity of today is
the need of constructing packing
plants to prepare and pack food and
food products, and to develop the
other thirteen major industries in
North Carolina to the end that this
immense amount of money spent
each year out of North Carolina may
be kept at home."
He touched briefly on the work of
the Southern Public Utilities Com
pany, told of their work and inter
jest in North and South Carolina, and
iof their willingness to cooperate with
'any community in which they are in
terested. The company operates in
sc\ enty communities in North Car
olina and South Carolina. The ideal
of the compony, said Mr. Lucas, is
to render to its customers the very
test service possible at lowest rates
possible; and regards itself as an es
sential part of the community in
which it operates, and is consistent
in rendering its part in development
and progress of community.
Speaking of the action of his com
pany in offering to purchase the light
and water systems of the three Ruth
erford county towns, Mr. Lucas said
his company had not considered the
actual value of the respective plants,
but had bid on the possibilities of the
plants. The same rates will apply in
the three towns as apply in Winston-
Salem, Greensboro and the other
sixty-eight communities in which the
i Southern Public Utilities Company
I operates. Their rate is eight cents
j per kilowatt hour, up to twenty-five
| kilowatts, and decreasing on a slid
ing scale for amounts above that.
The present rate is ten cents. The
lighting rate will be reduced at least
twenty percent under the present
rates in the three towns. The rate
for heating, cooking and refrigera
tion is four cents per kilowatt hour,
up to fifty hours, a decrease in the
present rate.
The ladies of Gilkey, under direc
tion of Mrs. C. F. Cline, served the
luncheon to forty guests, in the Gil
key Consolidated school building,
Rev. J. W. Parker of Gilkey, asked
the blessing. Dr. A. C. Duncan re
ported for the Boy Scout committee
appointed at the last meeting, anc
the committee continued. Z. O. Jen
| kins, C. F. Cline and Dr. A. C. Dun-'
can were appointed a committee to
confer with the civic clubs iti Mc-
Dowell, Henderson and Polk counties
in reference to those counties join
ing Rutherford in a fair this fall.
| The, County Club went on record as
l sponsoring this move.
David Lindsay protested the revo
cation of the fishing license by the
board of county commissioners. Re
marks on this subject were heard
from Ivy Cowan and Dr. L. B. Morse.
It was brought out that the license
had been revoked by the commis
sioners because they believed the
county was not securing any aid
from the state or federal government.
Dr. Morse stated that the federal
government was taking a great in
terest in the county, and had placed
190,000 fish in Lake Lure 75,-
000 in Broad River and tributaries.
A committee consisting of David
Lindsay, R. R. Hunter and Dr. L. B.
J Morse was appointed to confer with
: the commissioners in regard to hav
ing the fishing license reinstated.
The speaker was introduced by
attorney M. L. Edwards.
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OBE ELLIS DIES ■;
! IN BROOKLYN, N. Y.
I
World War Veteran, Native of j
, Rutherford, Passes in Na
! val Hospital, in Nciw '
i York.
1
Mooresboro, R-l, July 21. —Mr.
Obe Ellis, a native of Rutherford i
( county, and World war veterans, ]
died at the Naval Hospital ,Brook- ]
lyn, N. Y., July 16, and was laid to 1
rest in Cypress Hills National ceme- «
tery, Brooklyn, N. Y. He volunteer- 
ed when war was declared and serv- i
ed over-seas during the war. ]
He leaves one brother, Kirk Ellis 1
and two sisters, Mrs. Peggy Wilson,
and Mrs. B. R. Turner, all of Spar- (
tanburg, S. C., and one brother V. {
Quince Ellis, of Brookford, N. C.
He spent the most of his life at
Cliffside until he returned from ,
, France .He has been making his .
home in Virginia for some time.
It was a surprise to his acquaintances
to hear of his death. He was about
35 years old. I
The fine rains of the past week J
have- greatly improved crops in this
( commuinty.
I The SundayJ school at * Goode's
Creek is improving nicely,
j Mrs. L. L. Scruggs and two sons,
of Hollis, visited relatives in this |
community the latter part of last j
week.
! Mr. Guy Scruggs and sisters, Miss
es Clara and Maybeth Scruggs visit
ed their sister, Miss Irene Scruggs,
at Boone summer school last week
'end. They were accompanied by Mr.
Baxter White and reported a fine
trip.
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THEY WANT TO SEE BAILEY.
I -
j What does that part of the coun
try other than the South, where the
North Carolina political contest at
tracted much attention, think of
'Josiah W. Bailey, the Democratic
j nominee for the United States Sen
ate? All reports so far indicate that
the East and North expect an un
usual personage when Simmons'
successor reaches Washington and
| gets into action. The following in
(teresting comment concerning the
i Tar Heel nominee appeared in the
( Boston Transcript:
| "What's this? 'He is the equal of
Senator Borah in both brain and
plausibility, and the county will so
(discover before he becomes a sec
- ond-term senator.' Thus is fame
• thrust and the country's attention
focused upon Josiah W. Bailey of
North Carolina, nominated to succeed
Furnifcld M. Simmons because Mr.
'Simmons bolted Governor Smith. The
tribute comes from John W. Hester
of Durham, N. Q.„ via the columns
*of the Baltimore Sun, who declares
that he (Hester) probably is the
most outspoken opponent of national
'prohibition in North Carolina, and
, that Mr. Bailey is its hottest sup
porter., If this eulogist is correct,
) Senator Bailey bids fair to go Sena
tor Borah one better, for Borah is
at heart a gentle soul, thinking in
terms of measures and not of men,
while Mr. Hester writes of Bailey:
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"He is able, easily the equal with
both tongue and pen, of any man in
the South, and he cannot only answ
er his opponent but take his hide off
as well."- This is encouraging news
for the senatorialists, who have found
little in the dull talk of the Senate
for the last year and a half to stir
their blood. Tillman of South Caro
lina once punched the head of a
colleague; Bailey's namesake of
Texas—also the equal of Borah and
much resembling him—assaulted a
newspaper man in the Senate lobby;
Heflin of Alabalna shot a negro in
the streets of Washington, and even
Joe Robinson of Arkansas iknocked
down a fellow-player on Maryland
golf course. But here is a man who,
not content with such mild gymnas
tics, actually "takes the hide offen
'Cm." We yearn for the assembling
of the Seventy-second Congress.—
Cleveland Star.
The corn crop In Onslow county
will be increased by 200,000 bushels
this season due to improved meth
ods and the effort to decrease the
shortage of 400,000 bushels exist
ing last yt&r.
G. M. Huntley & Son
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Tax Matters
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