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By MIKE DUNNAGAN
The textbook rental plan has
surmounted all obstacles and is
now ready to function as soon as
the machinery can be set up for
local distribution of the school
books at a rental of one-third the
cost and free to delinquents.
Shipments could actually be start
ed this week. Only the condition
of infantile paralysis would pre
vent schools generally opening on
time and, with improved condi
tions, that may not delay them
long.
Employment shows a decrease
of 1.5 per cent for identical in
dustries in the past six months,
all traceable to manufacturing in
dustries, all except hosiery mills
showing a decrease. Commission
er of Labor A. L. Fletcher re
ports. Hosiery showed a slight
employment increase, but textile
mills, which nave a majority of
the workers, show a decrease o’
5:8 per cent in employment, fur
niture factories decreased 2.1 per
cent, and miscellaneous manufac
turing plants show a 14.1 per cent
decrease. All groups of non-man
ufacturing industries show a pick
up in employment, lumbering in
creasing 12.7 per cent, mercantile
4.4 per cent, laundries 25.6 and
miscellaneous plants, 20.5 per cent
increase.
Building permits showed a Dig
jump in July over those of July,
1934, and indicate a huge in
crease in neiw construction over
the State in towns of 10,000 popu
lation or more. Estimated cost
of new residences started in July
was $390,970, as against $99,998
in July, 1934. Non-residence build
ings increased from $109,093 to
$309,899 and additions and altera
tions, from $86,236 to $212,683,
Major Fletcher’s report shows.
Twenty-two highway projects
are to be included in the letting
to be held September 6 by the
State Highway and Public Works
Commission, the largest in many
months. Most of them are in the
new program in which the State
and Federal governents pay half
of the cost each, but seven are in
the old program in which all Is
:paid by the Federal government.
Most of them call for bitulithic
surface treatment, a few grading
and structures and two or three
paving of streets in sities and
towns. There is no project in
Halifax county.
Prof. C. E. McIntosh, director of
the N. C. Youth Administration,
met at the Woman’s College,
Greensboro, Tuesday with heads
or representatives of all colleges
of the State and outlined the plan
for Federal aid for students in
all of the colleges which operate
on a non-profit basis. Students
will be able to earn $20 or less in
doing part-time work at the col
leges. They secure this aid
through the head of the college
they plan to attend, direct.
Construction of historical mark
ers on highways near spots of in
terest was definitely started at a
meeting of the executive commit
tee held at State College in Ra
leigh Wednesday, in which the
Department of Conservation and
Development and the N. C. His
torical Commission cooperate with
the State Highway division, which
pays the cost. Models were pre
sented and a specific design and
material for the markers were se
lected. Four places to be marked
first are: birthplace of Zebulon
B. Vance, Buncombe county;
Green Hill Place, Franklin county,
site of the first Methodist Epis
copal Church conference in Ameri
ca; First English Colonies, on
Roanoke Island, and site of home
of John Penn, ,one of the three N.
C. signers of the Declaration of
Independence. The committee ex
pects to mark probably as many
1 Maybe Not This Year—1
NEW YORK . . . Tennis experts
gay “maybe not this year, but . . .
Miss Kay Stammers (above),
British net star, will bear watch
ing. “ She has the prideful record
of having defeated both Helen Wills
Moody and Helen Jacobs, U S. aces,
in singles matches this season, the
former in England and the latter
here.
as 200 such places in the next
year or two.
Governor Ehringhaus anti mem
bers of his family who have been
louring Canada, came back into
the United States last week, vis
iting points of interest in New
England. They expect lo spend
this week in New York and prob
ably return home some time next
week, after a vacation trip of a
bout a month. Among other in
teresting sights, they saw the
Dionne quintuplets in Canada.
Charles G. Powell, private secre
tary, who has been holding down
the office, was out a few days
last week, due to illness.
Representatives of the six ma
jor power distributing companies
operating in North Carolina met
last week with the State Rural E
lectrification Authority and prom
ised full cooperation in extending
lines in accordance with the Fed
eral yardstick, which requires that
a line repay 20 per cent of the
cost of construction the first year.
Chairman Dudley Bagley this
week is holding conferences with
city and town officials w'hich op
erate municipal electric plants in
order to interest them in extend
ing their own lines into rural a
reas. Several of the 60-odd mu
nicipal plants in the State have
already commenced. Loans from
the PWA are available to power
companies and municipalities for
construction of lines coming up to
the “yardstock”. Approximately
1,000 miles of the recently sur
veyed lines meet the requirement,
Mr. Bagley said. Halifax County
projects failed to do so, it is re
ported.
The State Department of Reve
nue is going after the chain store
tax on the county liquor stores in
the 16 counties now operating
stores. Commissioner A. J. Max
well contends that the counties
are liable for that tax, which is
$50 a year on each store after
the first, just as are other chain
stores. Some of the counties are
resisting the tax. The State so
far gets only the sales tax from
the liquor sales, but probably will
also collect the chain store tax.
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Wednesday services, 8 p.m.
Reading Room open every Tues
day and Friday from 10 to 12.
The public is cordially invited
to attend our services and visit
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Subject Sunday: “Christ Jesus.”
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5 Out For Governor;
Barnhill May Announce
Against Senator Bailey
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(Special to The Herald)
Raleigh, Aug. 29. - Dr. Ralph
VV. McDonald’s entry last week
into the race for the Democratic
nomination for Governor has them
taking and asking questions, as to
w hat kind of a race he will make,
from whom he will take his
strength, how he will finance a
campaign, how he, native of Illi
nois, reared in Arkansas and
teacher in the State for some
years, wlil strike the fancy of the
voters and come out in the pri
mary.
The 33-year-old former Salem
College teacher, active church lay
man and novice in politics caused
lots of trouble to many legislators
and State offfiials in his hook-up
in the 1935 General Assembly with
W. L. Lumpkin, Franklin county
legislator, in his fight against the
sales tax, for higher appropria
tions for schools, against liquor
control, and, mainly, probably, a
gainst Governor Ehringhaus and
the State administration in gen
eral.
Announcing that he favors e
limination of the sales tax, tax
ing incom* i more in the higher
brackets, getting a tax on what
liquor is sold, and not increasing
it on land, he calls for more for
schools. He attacks the other can
didates as lined up with the “in
terests”, and frankly admits that
he will have to depend for cam
paign funds on contributions from
thsi who see as he does. He may
take to the road in a sound ma
chine, he intimates.
His entry swells to five the
seekers after the Governorship. A.
H. (Sandy) Graham, Hillsboro;
Clyde R. Hoey, Shelby, and John
A. McRae, Charlotte, are announc
ed candidates, while Col. T. L.
Kirkpatrick, Charlotte, has been
in the running for months, he
states. Dr. J. T. Burrus, Guilford
Senator, who thought seriously of
making the race, is not now ex
pected to enter.
Mr. Lumpkin, who may be run
ning hard for Lieutenant-Gover
nor, has not yet announced. It’s
said he disliked the idea of an
actual hook-up with Mr. McDon
ald, as the latter suggested.
Lumpkin is his “own-steam” type.
He is expected to announce, based
on his earlier assertion that he
would run. In this race already
are Paul D. Grady, Kelley; W. P.
Horton, Pittsboro, and George Mc
Neill, Fayetteville.
Senator J. W. Bailey has only
“Dick” Fountain publicly opposing
him. The name of Senator John
Sprunt Hill, Durham, is a new
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not enter, Judge M. V. Barnhill,
Rocky Mount, is almost sure to.
Henry Stevens, Warsaw, and 'John
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Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Sulivan and
daughter, Ruth, spent Sunday at
Ocean View.
F. J. Hawley spent the week
end in Christiansburg, Va. He
was accompanied home by Mrs.
Hawley and Frank, Jr., who have
been spending the summer with
Mrs. Hawley’s parents.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Pridgen and
daughters, Hazel and Irma, spent
Sunday at Ocean View.
Chester Chase and John Ogle
tree spent Sunday in Norfolk.
Mrs. W. H. Allsbrook is visiting
her daughter in Norfolk.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kidd of
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Miss Katherine Armstrong is
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Mrs. E. I. Philips and children
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Mr. and Mrs. Joe Butts of Hen
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Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Merritt
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Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Turner and
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