By EULA N. GREENWOOD TO RUNT ... As of this past week end it looked as if W. Z. Wood of Winston-Salem had all but definitely decided to run against incumbent Ralph Scott of Danbury for the Fifth Dist rict seat in Congress. Wood, who became 38 years on February 13, led the ticket when he came to the Legisla ture in 1000. Liberals vs con servatives? Statewide interest? Regarded as leaning heavily to the liberal side of things, Wood was also the father of the law which laid low the sale of poi son liquor; and was one of the parents of the bill to curtail retail sales on Sunday. He is former Young Democratic Na tional Committeeman. A native of Yadkin county, Wood ? like Scott ? is an alum nus of the Wake Forest College Law School. He has been up to his neck In Forsyth county Democratic politics since begin ning the practice of law there some ten years ago. His father, a Yadkin county farmer, died when young Wood was five; bis mother when he was 17. He sweated it out in India during much of World War II. He has one wife, three children, is a Presbyterian. If Wood decides to make the race, he will be taking on a man who has served one term in the State Legislature. Scott is a conservative, became 90 last fall, and was in Wake For est Law School with two other colleagues, Congressmen Lennon and Kitchin. Lennon is one year younger than Scott. Kitchin is three years younger. Representative Scott is in his sixth year in Congress. His sec retary is Harold Thomerson. He is a Mason, Shriner, Elk, and Baptist. Scott is about half the size of Wood, regards himself as "conservative Democrat." The Fifth is a long district now, reaching from within 29 miles of Raleigh in Granville Ceunty t? the mountains of Wil kejs. In it could come on May 20 the answer to whether N. C. in 1002 is liberal or conservative. With Wood in the race with Scott, there would be no middle ground. RIGHT MAN . . . When we saw in one of the papers the other day that W. H. Belk, founder of the far-flung Belk retail empire, died ten years ago in February, we were re minded again of an incident in volving him and George W. Dowdy, manager and executive vice president of the Belk store in Charlotte. All airplane crashes info your home. b *h? damag* covered by your Insurance? Boone Insurance Agency, Inc. MenloMl Bnildlnf Boom, N. C. ? AM 447SS Tour Independent Insurance Afent Serve* To* Vint . It wi* about 40 year* ago, and Mr. Dowdy *u a young em ployee in the Durham (tore. He had been worVti g long hour*, waiting on customers and in the stock room. This was an afternoop during tHe middle of the week, as I re call the story, and young Dowdy took advantage of a lull in busi ness to steal back to the rear of the store for a few momenta rest. He suddenly found himself nodding. But then his half-conscious mind heard the shuffle of feet. Dowdy, in the midst of a nod, found himself looking at the floor, staring at a big pair of shoes. He knew those shoes and those big feet could belong to only one person. He looked at them for a moment, closed his eyes again and gently said: "Amen!" ! It wasn't long after this inci dent that Dowdy heard he had been recommended for a promo tion by Good Presbyterian Belk. KIND OF TAX ... I don't re call that Virginia Electric and Power Co. has seen fit as yet to reply to Governor Sanford's charge that their high rates for electricity in Northeastern North Carolina is discouraging to industry thinking of locating there. But at least one of the papers in the area, the "Scotland Neck Commonwealth," defended VEPCO and in so doing showed how some hard-pressed munici palities of that section of the State help make ends meet. A large number of towns in the northeastern counties buy the power from the company at wholesale rates and then retail it to local customers. The pro fit therefrom helps to keep city taxes down. This is not confined to the CEPCO region. Our information is that it ex ists in varying degrees through out the U. S. A. . . . but we have not checked to be sure about' this. All of this means that VEPCO and these other light and pow er companies are rendering a big assist to the smaller com munities ? and to some not so small! They are able to secure a little revenue in this way from people who ows no land and who thus contribute very little to the city government ! operation. But they all uae electricity. Since few municipalities have a sale* tax in the U. S. and since personal property taxes, etc., are so small, Municipalities are only too glad to work with the light and power companies. That is the impression we get. This is one answer to Gov ernor Sanford's blast at VEPCC. U there are others ? and we would think there are ? then VEPCO should come forward with them. NOTES . . . If there is dis sension in the Democratic Party it does not seem to affect their rallies! Word around here is that the Jefferson-Jackson Din ner coming up in about three weeks is expected to be a sell out. . . . The Kennedy Cabinet's only Republican (once remov ed?), Treasury Secretary Dil lon, will be the speaker for the forthcoming annual dihner of the N. C. Citizens Associa tion here. Sixte?p per cent ... 16 out of every 100 students in the 17 State - supported colleges last year ... were from out of the State. . . . The high was at the Chapel Hill unit of the Greater University, where 30 per cent of the students were from outside N. C. . . . The entire issue of the March "Retailer," official pub lication of the N. C. Merchants News Items Zionville Mr. and Mrs. Harold Eller of Cherry Point (pent the wee' end with Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle and other relative!. Recent viiitori with Mr. and Mr*. W. A. Stephen* were Mr. and Mr*. Alex South of Route 2, Boone, Misses Mancy Ste phens, Mary Francis Hartley and Anna Mae Stephens of Boone. Supper guests Saturday with Mrs. Maggie Norris were Mrs. Myrtle Packer of Michigan, and Mn. Gladys Greene of Silver stone. J Dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wilson were the Rev. and Mrs. Herbert Mc Coy and family of Tamarack. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Isaacs of Sugar Grove and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wagner and J. R. visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Olen Stephens. Mils Hettie Greer and Mrs. Bill Greer have returned to their home here after a visit with Mrs. Edwin Harrison and sons in Boone. Association, is devoted to the control of shoplifting . . . and points to ways in which the press can be of assistance. Tri - State Hereford Breeders Sale FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1962 Show 9s30 A. M. ? Sale 1 sOO P. M. TruState Sale Pavilion 3 Miles East of Bristol, Vjl, on U. S. Highway 11 31 BULLS 26 FEMALES Featuring 2-Year-Old Bulla and Bred Females Sponsored by: ? Tri- State Hereford Breeders Assn. For Catalogue Write Arthur L. Livesay ? Pennington Gap, Va. 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