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THIS is
the Law
By ROBERT E. LEE
(For the N. C. Bar Association)
Detects In Highways
This is the first of a spring scries of
articles which will appear each week
throughout the next three months.
They have been written for the non
lawyer as a public service of the North
Carolina Bar Association.
There was a deep hole in the
asphalt pavement of a State
highway caused by public travel
over it. It had existed for more
than a month and had been call
ed to the attention of officials
of the State highway system. In
passing another vehicle at a le
gal rate of speed, a farmer ran
into the hole with his pick-up
truck, Jpst control of it, and
wrecked it, with the result that
his four-year-old son was killed
and the remaining seven occu
pants were injured. May there
be a recovery from the State
Highway Commission or the
State of North Carolina?
No. Neither the State nor one
of its agencies can be sued
without its consent for wrong
ful acts.
A sovereign state would not be
sovereign if it could be sued by
its citizens. The ancient maxim
that “the King can do no wrong”
has come to mean that a sov
ereign is incapable of doing
wrong.
Although North Carolina en
acted for the first time in 1951
a statute in which it consented
to be sued for the “negligent
acts” of an employee committed
while acting within the scope
of his employment, provided the
amount of damages awarded did
not exceed SIO,OOO, the Supreme
Court in 1956 held there could
be no recovery under a set of
facts similar to the above.
The Supreme Court said that
the failure to repair a hole in
the highway caused by ordinary
public travel was not a “negli
gent act”. It said; “We think
it was the intent of the Legis
lature to permit recovery only
for negligent acts of its em
ployees, for things done by them,
not for the things left undone.”
Presumably, if an employee of
the State Highway Commission
should negligently operate a ve
hicle so as to injure the person
or property of another, there
could under the 1951 statutes be
an award of damages not in ex
cess of SIO,OOO.
Is a city liable for injuries
caused by defects in streets that
its employees have negligently
permitted to exist?
Yes. A city or other incor
porated municipality is not on
titled the immunity of the sov
ereign State.
Municipalities are held liable
for their failure to maintain
their streets in a reasonable safe
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News
By CATHERINE AMAN
Assistant Horn* Economics Agent
Has your community started
the structure for a Community
4-H Club? The Ryland Com
munity Development Organiza
tion selected as their Youth Pro
ject to organize and sponsor a
4-H Club. Recently elected
committee members to work
with this project are: Mr. and
Mrs. Lester Copeland, Mr. and
Mrs. Deroy Bunch and Mrs. Eu
gene Jordan.
One of the first steps this com
mittee will make is to survey
the available youth who are po
tential 4-H members in Ryland.
These boys and girls will be
contacted and a meeting held to
organize a 4-H Club.
The Advance Community 4-H
Club members are working hard
on their special community pro
ject, which is improving the
community building grounds. On
Saturday, March 25, the girls
with the help of Mrs. Carlton
Perry, adult leader, and aided by
their mothers, made cakes and
pies for special orders. Cookies,
candy and cupcakes were sold.
The girls netted $32.00 on their
bake sale.
The boys in Advance, guided
by Adult Leaders Dick Lowe and
Carlton Perry, staged a scrap
metal drive on Saturday. The
metal will be sold at a later
date. All the money made from
these two projects will be used
to improve the Advance Com
munity Building grounds.
The North Carolina 4-H De
velopment Fund drive is still
under way. The money from
this fund will be used in four,
major areas of the 4-H program:
(1) To improve and obtain ad
ditional 4-H camps; (2) To im
prove the recognition and awards
programs; (3) To provide schol
arships—Zackie Harrell, Route 3,
Edenton, was awarded a 4-H
Scholarship from this fund last I
year; (4) To expand the Inter-1
national Farm Youth Exchange,
program.
Chowan County’s goal forthe 1
4-H Development Fund is $l,lOO. j
Last year the Chowan organiza
tion sent $740.00 to the Sta te j
Fund. Tnis year we want to!
raise the other $360.00 needed I
to complete our quota. The 4-H I
County Council voted to sell'
county license tags to raise some
of the money. The tag is about
one-half the size of a regular
license plate; .it bears the let
tering: Chowan County—Peanut
Capital of N. C. The 4-H’ers
will soon be selling these tags
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ERWIN GRIFFIN j
Erwin Griffin, formerly with
the Virginia Wildlife Service, is
now connected with the Eden- J
ton Seers Catalog Sales Officer
He will serve in the capacity of,
outside representative. |
throughout the county. When
you are asked to buy a tag—
contribute to the N. C. 4-H De
velopment Fund by buying a
county license tag. (Money con
tributed to the 4-H Development
Fund is tax deductible).
The 4-H record book workshop
held last week in the Rocky
Hock Community Center was
well attended. L. B. Dixon, Dis
trict 4-H Club Agent, conduct
ed the class for 14 members and
6 adult leaders. Mr. Dixon ex
plained the importance of keep
ing records, not only in 4-H pro
ject work, but in all phases of
daily work. The 4-H’ers and
leaders were given Standard
Report Forms to follow while
each section of the form was
thoroughly explained.
Those attending the workshop ,
were: Mrs Emmett Jones, Mrs.
Melba Dußois, Mrs. Jack Leary,
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Evans and
Hubert Byrum, adult leaders; ,
4-H’ers were: Hubert Byrum, i
Judy, Lewis, Leon Evans, Jerry ]
White, Cal Goodwin, Johnny Du- ■
Bois, Brenda Parrish, Scot Ober,
Arlyn Bunch, Gene Harrell,
Donald Jackson, Jimmy Turner
and Joe Bass. ,
IMPROVING
Friends of Sidney Spruill will
be glad to know that he is much
improved after a spell of seri
ous illness at his home on Rt. 3.
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TRY A 1
AROUND THE FARMS
&dSIN CHOWAN COUNTY
( 'tQESP' By C. W. OVERMAN. Chowan County Agent
What Do We Spend For Food?
According to the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, 20 percent
of our ( disposable income went
lor food in 1959. If we had
bought in 1959 the same kinds
and quantities of food we ate
in 1935-39, we would have spent
only 15 percent of our 1959 in
come.
! We spent 23 Vt percent of our
disposable income for food in
1929 and 22-1/3 percent in 1939.
| Japanese spend about 42 per
jeent of their disposable income
for food, West Germans, 45 per-
I cent and Russians 56 percent.
One hour’s work in a factory
. buys more food today than it
! did 20 or 30 years ago. Pay
1 for one hour’s factory labor
; would buy: Round steak, 2.1
j pounds in 1959; 1.8 pounds in
i 1939; 1.2 in 1929; or Bacon, 3.3
1 pounds in 1959; 2 pounds in
1939; 1.3 in 1929; or Milk, 17.6
pints in 1959; 10.4 pints in 1939;
7.8 in 1929; or Oranges, 3.3 doz
en in 1959; 2.2 dozen in 1939; 1.3
in 1929.
Food costs have risen less since
1947-49 than most other consum
er items in the cost-of-living in
dex. For all items on the list,
the increase in cost to late 1960
was 27.4 percent. For all food,
the increase was 2LI percent.
The retail cost of the farm
food “market basket” is 12 per
cent higher than it was in 1947-
49, but the farm value of the
food in this market basket is 14
percent lower.
Burned Shell Lime With Mag
nesium: You can now get burn
ed shell lime containing 15%
magnesium. The product pi ay
also be purchased containing 6%,
10% or 20% potash. This may
be the answer to the problem
on soils showing a need for one
ton or more of dolomitic lime
per acre which will be planted
to peanuts or soybeans this year.
The burned shell lime should
give quicker action on soil acidi
ty than dofomitic lime. It re
quires only 1400 pounds of the
burned shell lime to equal one
ton of dolomitic lime. On the
other hand, in using burned shell
lime containing potash you need
to take into consideration the
amount of muriate of potash
contained in one ton. For ex
ample, 60% of muriate of pot-
I ash is mixed with lime in this
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instance. For example, in one
ton of 6% potash lime you would
have 200 pounds of 60% muriate
of potash and 1800 pounds of
lime. Your soil test report
shows that for peanuts your soil
needs one ton of dolomitic lime
and 100 pounds of 60% muriate
of potash. You would need to
apply 1200 pounds of burned
shell lime containing 15% mag
nesium and 6% potash. This
would give you 120 pounds of
muriate of potash and 1,080
pounds of lime which might be
a little short on the lime side
but should do a good job. To
completely supply the lime needs
on this land you would need
to apply about 500 pounds of I
dolomitic lime per acre next fall.
Efficient Hog Production: I
have just read with interest a
brief article on a master swine
producer, William Hemik, in the
State of lowa for 1960. The
article states that Mr. Hernik
led the 25 lowa master swine
producers last year. 'He wean
ed and marketed an average of
10.4 pigs per litter.
Mr. Hernik is not a real large
hog producer but he does keep
24 brood sows on which this
record was made. We have
many swine producers in Cho
wan County who keep about
this many brood sows. I haven’t
heard of a single producer in
Chowan County who has averag
ed weaning and marketing 10
pigs per litter for two litters in
any one year.
This record might be termed
fantastic but on the other hand
it is very possible. It can only
be obtained by following all
good swine production practices.
If Chowan County swine pro
ducers could average marketing
nine pigs per litter, our net re-,
turn on hogs would be greatly
increased. How many swine
producers in Chowan County
will shoot for this goal in 1961?
Cotton Situation 'in Chowan
Cejunty: The ASC Office has 1
just given me the fallowing in
formation on our cotton situa
tion in Chowan County. Re
quests for additional allotment
this year amount to 1,053 acres.
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There has been 524 acres re-J
leased. This leaves 529 acres to
come from further releases or
from the state pool.
April 5, Wednesday of next
week, is the closing date for re
leasing cotton acreage this year.
I hope that every cotton pro
ducer who will not have releas
ed his cotton acreage by that
time will plant it so that we can
hold our full allotment in Cho
wan County. Mr. liandy West
also informs me that he has been
informed they will receive
enough acreage to take care of
all requests for this year.
We are in the process of mail
ing to cotton growers a sheet
entitled “High Yield, High Qual
ity Cotton Production Suggest
ions.” This sheet lists all of
the improved practices we can
think of in cotton production.
I hope that you will look over
this carefully, plan to follow it
for a most profitable cotton crop
this year, and also file this sheet
for future reference.
Tarkington Sent ITO
Office In Wilmington
Raymond A. Tarkington, who
has been staff manager for the
Southern Life Insurance Com
pany in Edenton, has been no
tified that he is being trans
ferred to Wilmington, N. C.
While his official title will re
main as staff manager, it is a
definite advancement, in that it
is a much larger staff. The po
sition offers him many more op
portunities for advancement.
Mr. Tarkington came to Eden
ton. in 1941 as agent for South
ern Life Insurance Company. In
1944 he affiliated with Nation
wide Insurance Company, being
promoted and sent to Hender
son in 1946. He returned to
Edenton and went back with
Southern Life Insurance Com-
E. C. Harrell, Jr.
Radio & IT
Service
Valhalla, N. C.
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pany as staff manager in 1951.
The Tarkington family loves
Edenton and it was with reluct
ance that Mr. Tarkington ac
cepted this transfer. But he re
alizes that if he is to advance
with his company he must go
where they send him.
Though Mr. Tarkington is
scheduled to report for his new
duties on April 4, his family
will remain in Edenton for some
time.
New Corporation Is
Formed In Edenton
A new corporation has been
formed in Edenton, the Long
beach Land Company, developers
of Longbeach estates located 3Va
miles below New Hope in Per
quimans County. The corpora
tion is composed of Edenton men
including Frank Habit, Don
Moyer and Bob Kline.
Habit is a native Edentonian,
while Moyer is from 'Battle
Creek, Mich., and Kline hails
from Lansing, Mich. The latter
two recently moved to Edenton
and purchased the Ralph Blades
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The new sub-division includes
35 acres of waterfront property |
near the mouth of PerqUkrMtn*
River and Albemarle efpctf f
includes park facilities for pic
nics and other outdoor activities.
The new development will
open Wednesday, April 5, when
desirable lots will be off wed for
sale, varying in size an# price.
CALL OFF MEETU|G
Edenton Lions have called off
their weekly meeting nejt Mon
day, April 3, due to the observe
anCe of Eastern Monday.^
Eddie Whaler
Exterior And Intesor
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