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! 1 j I' ll Y - . i lilt inr Raleigh, N. C, Sept 17, A tobacco sales holiday may be call ed loon (perhaps by the time this ' reaches print) If the situation does n't ease on the weed markets soon. Redrylng plants are Jammed and some of the big tobacco companies have pulled buyers off the markets. The result has been less competl Jinn and drop In prices. In at least on Instance, sales were halted be cause of complaints by farmers over the prices bid on their offer ings. . A tobacco sales holiday was call ed by the late J. Melville Brough ton several years ago while he was governor. And Governor Scott is reported ready to call a sales holi day If the situation doesn't change for the better soon. " Among tobacco men there's a. feeling that major tobacco com panies are pulling strings to force SMITH , TOWNSHIP HEWS Mr. and Mrs. Troy Smith visited Mr. Black Williams Sunday night who Is seriously ill. Mrs. H. P. Hood of Rocky Mt. returned home after -spending a few days with relatives here. Mrs. Dora Williams of Durham v has been visiting Miss Pennle Smith and others here . Mr. and Mrs Iceland Smith and son. Miss Pennle Smith, Mrs. Dora Williams had supper with Mrs. Ike Stroud Wednesday night Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Smith and son, Mr. Clayton Smith and daughter Edna attended The Du plin Story last week. Mr. Leland Smith, Aubrey Smith, Graham Smlbt, Alvin Smith, Clay ton Smith, Troy Smith, Fred Sack ett and Raymond Smith fished at Prices Up -Sell For Cash DELIVER -OUR PLANT WAYNE AGRICULTURAL WORKS, IHC SOUTH JOHN STREET, GOLDSBORO, N. C. , II. C CONSOLIDATED HIDE CO., INC. Fool of Waynesborough Avenue G0LDSB0R0, C. On Fourth Mile From New No. 117 Truck Lane : ' Connecting Wilson, Raleieh. and Mt. Olive Ilirrhwavs. If called immediately, we will ana nogs . ?:'..- -.. FREE OF CHARGE '.-" - JUST PHONE COLLECT GOLDSBORO 1532 OR 2330 Highest Prices Paid For Hides, S!dns, Fat and Ran Bones. v oooooooooooooooooooooooo Heed Furniture?- VISIT ' - BAKER FURNITURE CO: THE Friendly Furniture Store Phone 4034 OOnoonnnnnronrrnnrrrrrrn O O f H . r w w w w y O w v. ... I'molVsmoke semeai I If h( its exactly r"D(MT otutvb u J. ,fi! weed prices down. On the face of It, it's a problem of buying more tobacco than the redrylng plants can process, with tobacco piling up at the warehouses. But these men say,, that the big companies could stop the piling up and keep buyers on the market If they wantedio -- thus keeping prices up through more competitive building. 'V. v.. ,, ' ' The Edwin Gill appointment as Collector of Internal Revenue for North Carolina - - predicted by CAPITAL REPORTER three weeks ago brought a lot of comment from the experts. Some tried to make it look as though President Truman was "agin" the Scott ad ministration and National Com mitteeman Jonathan Daniels. Some said Governor Scott didn't know anything about it Fact is, the Gov ernor knew about it and did not Snead's Ferry Saturday' night Mrs. Bryant Smith Jr. and baby have returned home after visiting her mother Mrs. Bill Stroud for a few. days. ':;: Miss Pennle Smith, Mrs. Aubrey Smith, Mrs. Graham Smith Mrs. Alvin Smith and daughters attend ed a Stanley Party at Mrs. Mel vln Stroud's Friday night ; Mrs. Hiram Williams of Durham visited net father-in-law who Is very sick. . . ' ' The Senior Class of B. F. Grady is sponsoring a dance Wednesday night, September 20, at the gym. Bob Garrls and his band will fur nish the music. Admission SO cents each. Everyone is invited. Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes Baston of Roanoke Rapids spent the week end with Mrs. J. R. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Smith of Hu ston visited Mrs. Lizzie Smith on Sunday. - ' -' .. . -. ' w Mr. and Mrs, Fitchugh Smith and son of Mt Olive spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Smith, i pick up dead tattle, mules 101-103-105 S. Queen I . 1ONST0N w. . , tiy tO l; J iv, t J .... . i he invited Gill, ACh.i.i.e Ji.i.son-for-governor-man, to quit his job as State revenue commissioner. The Job for GUI was engineered by -some Washington smoothies, this comer hears, and they weren't Senators. ' - , ' , . ii!-..'-.v.i;;-'"':-.' ,:-.:i-'::''i ; ' The ; appointment of " Charlie Johnson, ex-state treasurer and op ponent of Scott in the guberna torial race, as customs collector at Wilmington caused, a lot of raised eyebrows. He was named by Sen ator Hoey, never a bosom buddy of the Governor's, and objection by Scott could have caused a fur ther rift In the Democratic party In the State -- or t least added fuel to the flames. i ' ; i ; ( Some f olkr were surprised that Johnson would accept the job, which reportedly pays $6,400 per year to start Reports from Char lotte Indicate: v..--.-- 1. That Johnson was not too happy in his job there, despite a salary estimated at anywhere from $10,000 to $18,000 per. year. 2. That Johnson's boss and the former State Treasurer were ex actly pals.vv''.:;;. . w ' 3. That other Charlotte bankers did not cotton to the addition of Johnson to their ranks. - The new job will give Johnson plenty of leisure time and he is expected to live on his farm, some 12 miles from Wilmington. The new job should hamper him politically, since technically his hands will be supposedly tied by the Hatch Act That's the law prohibiting federal employees from messing around in politics, it says.' - - , North Carolina bankers are mov ing to head off at least one Yankee invasion, A , bunch of New York money men recently came to tne State to investigate possibilities of a time-payment plan, for cattle buyers. : ; v.K ; It would 'work just like buying a car or refrigerator. So much down, so much a week or month, In some- Instances, they said, no down payment would be necess ary. , ;, : . -. The New Yorkers liked what they saw, went back home for their money bags and said they'd be back this way soon. .; Well, sir. Tar Heel bankers re acted like a heifer jabbed with a 'Pitchfork. The : North :' Carolina Bankers Association has called a meeting of "representative agri culture-minded bankers" v They'll meet here in Raleigh October 17 with State Commissioner of Banks Gurney P. Hood, C. B. Ratchford of the N. C State College Extension Service, and other interested people.- --,;' ' Vj. .$&'-;':-Their aimMt's to set up a com mittee and begin work Immediately on a livestock-financing program. , Mebbe we could .stand having some more Yankees coming down to show the way. If you'rt gonna borrow money, It's always nicer to owe somebody you know. ji" t - , . : ", Over at High Point there's a gaso line price war going on. Some folks started a self-service station, where you till up your own tank, and were able to lower prices. , The result, believe It or not has been that every major gas com pany slashed prices some four cents a gallon in High Point. For ex ample, the same gas that sells in Greensboro far 31 cents a gallon sells for a neat 27 cents in High point - :.,V'r..v Thlshas revived some talk last heard during the Better Schools and Roads campaign. Then the gas companies were fighting the $200, 000,000 road bond issue.-It waj suggested that since the gas com panies raised price's - without ap parent rhyme or reason, (Incident ally,, anqther price, hike of about a penny a gallon is reported coming soon), and since gasoline has be come a public necessity, that per- ' REMEMBER TODAY ! T0M0X20W - f - WITH A PHOTOGRAPH KRAFT'S I i SMO , IN MOUNT OUVE . Phones 217-4 or 239 . ' PUOTOGRrai A SPECIALTY , r CORQSERCIAL - f 6IMPLV TOOK THIS OLD BU5 OVfcWTO . UOTOaCO. AlIIS ti AC TtlKtA -m IT t ONE OPTWfclW Fi-fcClAL f ' " put t. the SU. j i . . u That Wou'-t a l.owl, c course, but, no explanation of how gas prices were determined by the big companler. t i---f, ".; Now, some folks' are wondering how the same gasoline can be sold by the big companies some four cents a 'gallon cheaper in High Point than it is In nearby cities. , Operators of the High Point self service', station ; charge that . the price cut is being made by the ma jor 'companies In order to run them out of business. If that isn't the reason, Ihey charge, then the big boys would cut prices all over the State.: ;' v .. It has raised the distinct poss ibility of a bill being presented to the legislature calling for the Util ities Commission's control of Jhe gasoline Industry la North Caro lina, however. '.':: -; ur; . Since milk has become a necess ity for. families with children, it also has been, suggested that the dairy industry should be put un der the Utilities Commission. The argument is that milk, at least could easily be classified as a pub lic utility. It may not be possible under the law, but it makes inter esting conversation, anyhow. ; One prominent, dairymen, how living In Raleigh, was asked about the idea. He said that if he were allowed the same margin of pro fit as ' the ' power companies, he would welcome such a move. ; "The dairy . Industry would make more money than it does now," he said. fAnd the cost of milk would go up to about 28 cents a quart here in Raleigh, making milk cost as much as Coca-Cola." ;, -;''; i CAPITAL : REPORTER Shears that several prominent N. C State College alumnae will ask the 1051 Legislature for $5,000,000 to move the railroad tracks which now run through the middle of the college's campus. The . trains have killed several students In the past and also damage delicate Instruments used at the school. - I. . . , An other $4,000,000 will be asked to build a center to houseythe State Art Gallery, the Museum of Nat uray History, The Hall of History, and State Archives. All now are scattered, and the proposed build ing would put them under one roof and more accessible to more then 200,000 people who visit them every year. One argument to aid in the financing of such A building may be that the space now used could be turned back into offices, perhaps eliminating some of the proposed new office building, t p ,,;ir:;- fr";; .' ;---v, A.'tj.: ' If the 5,000 farmers here for the State-wide Farmers Cooperative Exchange meeting can be used as : -i V, i!.-.-f. ;H . YOU i -' oil the farm, i .3 spett ., their support for flood control, was well received. Seemed like everybody wanted to shake his hand .and say howdy. J . . j In fact folks were of the opin ion that farm people generally are stronger than ever lit their sup port of the Governor. This was particularly true of the western part of the State, they said. A number of farm women and men, interviewed by CAPITAL RE PORTER, expressed the same op inion. It was reminiscent of a pub lic hearing on roads 04 the 1949 legislature. . Farm folks streamed in from over the State to tell the lawmakers how .. they telt about voting on the road bond issue. They summed up the situation, as concerns the Governor and his program, with the same words at the FC$ meeting: "Kerr Scott's our boy.' We want what he wants." ', j-'.;-..;, ljc f:-: ; In another speech at Wilmington, Scott said $80,000,000 In new In dustrial construction now is going on In North Carolina. In 1949 con struction of new industrial plants In the State totaled above $300r 000,000. He sees this as a vindica tion of his often-repeated claim that road-building and expansion of utilities will, bring prosperity, and sees a possible new industrial building total of $480,000,000 by January .1. .: ::,li:,j;,-i.;s-;y:: ;:.,4;v:;:.;, :-h: ' - - "Mr. Fair" Or. J. S. Dorton of Shelby staged his fall "coming out" party, this week. He ' ramrodded the Cleveland County Fair at Shelby. Two weeks hence he'll be In the middle of the Southern. States Fair at Charlotte, and October 17-21 he'll be here in Raleigh managing the 1950 N. C. State' Fair . - the granddaddy , of them alL 't1 Next Monday, Tuesday and Wed nesday the N. C Communications Commission will meet in Raleigh with its advisory committee of SO business men, , industrial people, educators, newspapermen and ra diomen. :V,. s,.'y?-.r ;;"!.. V.-; The Commission was created by the 1949 General Assembly to study the part of audio-visual facilities (radio, motion pictures, and .other media) should play in formal edu cation.';:; :.--vv :: !-,'-7 ';'; The report is expected to cause quite a fuss,- particularly from the N. C. Education ' Association. . It seems Mrs. Ethel Parkins Edwards, NCEA executive secretary, doesn't like some of the provisions. .v v:--.r. .-:zm- Speaking of NCEA, I hear that the rank and file of the classroom teachers are not disturbed about their failure to get a hunk of the State's 13,000,000 bank balance as of last June 30.- ' s y J A COMPLETE STOCK FOR WOMEN AT WILL PLEASE YOU Select Your Drosses - Lfc;:rie - Sprtevczr Clthtis WILL FIND ALL YOUR NEEDS ON OUR SECOND FLO O It V. J- t bill fjviug t..e t. ju,us a bo rn g raise if tne ,aue naa a sur plus". Well, the decision was made that the State would cqt, know whether or not it bad a surplus until the end' of thq blennlum. NCEA leaders talked a lot about the pay raise ebing due "now". But the classroom teachers didn't raise any fuss. !i'-': v,T i1!-'' ' "'-'-' ' Incidentally, the NCEA has three sections one for principals,, one for superintendents, and one for classroom teachers. The classroom teachers are unhappy - and have been for years about what they call their lack of voice in their own organization.. In some sections of the State, even now, pressure from r superiors keeps t teachers from belonging to the Classroom Teacher Association although they are members of NCEA. Principals and superintendents, along with State NOEA officials, have been "railroading their own ideas thru for years," one teacher told me. t "And when your boss is breath ing down your neck .you've got to gol along with his Ideas even in your own organization," she said. The State has earned more than $1,500,000 cold cash by investing its idle money - - a hot 1948 guberna torial issue "--during the fiscal year which ended June 30. Addi tional accrued interest not yet paid, totals more than $600,000. That will send the total the .State earned through Investing .instead of letting Its cash lie around to more than $2,000,000. . State Trea'surer Brandon Hodges will do the honors for the Governor -.--.-..ivr."-''- '." OF FALL FASIIIOIIS PRICES THAT Clothes Ikv- CI ana, l.a., C. v . .. . bus Day. sesjiua ,viA. t , 353. big shots from-this c. . . . and . Latin America. Governors from North Carolina, South Caro lina, Georgia and Florida are hosts. Idea of. the powwow is to "cement inter-American relationship on ma jor objectives of our' government in its program of national security Number one speaker will be U. S. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer. , , The Young Democrats' proposed code of ethics for political . cam paigns can't come too soon to suit most folks. The idea brouhf kind words from the Republicans,', who seconded the. "motion ; and ald they'd take a slice of that too. The only' trouble is that there's always someone who thinks the ends jus tifies the means, that it doesn't matted how he wins so long as. he wins. It's kinda like spring house-: cleaning. Just about the time you get everything epic and span, some one comes strolling in wearing muddy boots. -,.'.,". ..... - From Washington via Raleigh: Look -for a draft speed-up, with all physically fit, non-veteran be tween 19 and 25 being tapped seen. Drafting of married men of that age bracket can be expected soon. Young veterans now exempt are likely to lose their exemption in early 1951. The .26-30 group is not likely to be touched, barring- a spread Of war. Top brass, my infor mant says, doesn't believe sudden spread of war likely." They think Russia will take no chances, but In the same breath say the place to .watchta.Berlm..;.wr-"'.','S ; - r - i ;'H.:f,';i:i: .... -,.t - -7-V,: : ! '.
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