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"=~ i The Independent ?ni \\1V.: NO. !. ? '15. i'ublwluij Kvory Friday by W O if#iiii<lcri " ' ? | | at K,i^?" ??. *? ??' ELIZABETH CITY. N. C., FRIDAY F^PTT arV~^1 Tnr> ? ? ? ll Aia 1913- ? *- ?.^-^7^--===?? ? ' " 0"y- ?? June?. mow. *" SINGLE COPY 5 CENT; - Elizabeth City Police Patrol System Must Be Changed toj Combat Epidemic of Burglary ! 77/?' the present police (rntrol system in use in j fi:.alwtii City may be discontinued or altered in the n,- Tuimr i* currently talked as the result of a wavei 'HihJil thievery in the city during the past week, j fmler t>c present system, it is entirely ioo easy for, nvru a't" keep a check on the patrolmen and to soj afLe li< cr>we as to practically assure himself of no i'L. interference. La"*' TM"???day night, scmeoaei ... ... .. j N Weed's store on West! -i:-i ?":olc a quantity o ? * ** *.? ^ . ;! ..v.;.. Cigars, cigarettes., ?> sime iiialit. thieves pull-! (.j "bar- e:T a rear window of j Prrders North Read Street store, i cr a not? in the wall, loaded the j ' [Ij;; .-afe cn one of the little j iron* givrit away by D. P. stores -ij ceu'icn offer and carted the .jfe to a pom"- back of the gas plant, sicre:: war opened. Ca*h amount i'to $"*??*? ciga ettes. stamps and ."iier .mall items were taken. 9em?ne cai a hole in the side <ior c-f J T. Wynn's store on the i'Hie: ei Cypress and Second streets iij or. Thursday night. i Or. Friday night, a thief or thieves entered tlv Albemarle Laundry.' aten: two b aric from police heau rj.trrs. out the safe into the laun ..'r truck. opened the doors and ?rive aw.:" The t.uck was found r. We t Main street, ex I ;;ricn. The safe door had been | i-crd open ar.d $135.00 in cash and eh? g.< was missing. Likewise on Friday night, three tires and about 55 \r;rth cf candy was stolen from \r W-t End Service station on Wet M.<in street. Or Saturday night, a would-be-' thief ..T.a.'h?d the glass in the front j dcx of J.i'ir James* place but was Intiiterei away by a Negro who was1 deeping inside. Tli* rcc>; daring crime of the irt. however, occurred cn Tues iiv nighi. when a thief o~ thieves iA-h'd -wo plate glass windows of: S.ivver <fc H.rris" store on South hinoextcr street and stole three | pairs of shoes and some neckwear. Tlr;> occurred around 10 o'clock at nirht. :n the business section just' mort block; off Main street.; Only a few vards away was a white! sr.' l.nu and iwxt door several per :ur? were talking in Sedberry's! Dr:. :cre warn the windows were btktn. P rsons in the drug store ix .-d 'he glass shatter but paid no I It is believed that c:m". '.va. perpetrated by a .>::?} .- Negroes whose eyes had >yr. at: a--. 1 -o a pair cf almost tilci shoes in the window. On:j ? v." v wa. smashed las; ?' r an.i , . irniiar robbery oc L the present time. the police 'rnnrr. walk a certain beat every ( Cc.;.:-.: headquarters regular ?'.rat c?:: boxes in different parts the c.ty. This system enables; Mcquarters to keep a check on ohr:*:.- and to determine their nttx-nute whereabouts at all 'I0- 'ox :? also enables the crim ;"il :?> m ike a like check. This ?*- ... :n Elizabeth City a hirly ;;mole tiling. Thr th? .-r.-em must be changed more patrolmen added to the j e the demands made byi Elizabeth Citizens. And it is) l-fc&ole that the former may be' --Indicaticns that construction of n? propped Wilmington postoflice *111 b:- started this spring, 't r. - v. >ek in the annunee t that .-'M>d bids to furnish ;-?p:rary quarters for offices now : "he postoffice will be Mat :. 3. The annex will c-' $130.')00. ~C--tu a >v -l presented by Dr. ? 'I of the University ? nt President Frank J4^'rn Mor.ciav broke the ground j planted two native ?i Cav.i.r t hogwood trees, in m men for the pre : od trees in North fcMsna. At Death's Door ! L ^?s== THOMAS J. NIXON*. J.i.. promi nent Hertford business man. lies a: the point of death at his homo in Hertford. He suffered a paralytic ttrcko early Wednesday morning, following a long period of ill health. His two eider sons. Herbert, who is a student at Duke University, end Tc.m. who is a student at Marion Military Institute. Marion, Ala., have been summonsed hcpie.^ . < <r " M \ Nixon, frr many* years one'of the most outstanding of the younger bucine?s men of this section, is 46 years of age. He is a native of Per quimans. being a son of the late T. J. and Mrs. Alice Cox Nixon, and a member of one of the oldest fami lies cf thp county. For several years prior to his fail ing health three years ago Mr. Ntxon was general manager of the Major A: Loom:, Lumber company of Hertford, ar.d has been promi nently identified with several other business enterprises. He is a mem ber cf the board of directors of the Hertford Banking company, and also cf the Hertford Building & Loan association. loir si.oo U;:?ir u, er t. N" n |,,st w^ich corn p, '? ,!">'iad for elusive ^ fi?>- independent will ' "a cribers in the f* f ? ... ,, . 4*. . ? ? ^rif% territory onlv ' * i)h pi , or V) r 1 ' 00 a >'ear BmbuiV-'; ';mr>n|;hs- Counties '?a'ir . n" K(lizabeth City r" ?{'r Camden. Cur sor.' P, dtl :?are- ?at?. i-,i , . . ! 10 anlc '.Perquimans 'CriPtionT.r; the sub sl rv, ..." "L ' will b J $1.30 a year, no-;'"' fO cts. for 3 bes; d-oro: lnd?P?MMi?nt * the When A White! Woman Is Belowj A Black Man! Deploring Ihe prose nee in Klizabeth City of such "moral putridity" and "rottenness. Trial Justice W. C. Morse, Jr., in Recorder's Court Tuesday morning found Nettie Pnt chard, white, and Starkeyi Uolloinan, colored, guilty of prostitution and sentenced the woman to serve IS months in the county jail, the man to serve 12 months. It was Judge Morse's opinion that, in a prostitution case involv-1 ing a white woman and a colored, man the woman b the most guilty of the two. Foitunately for Hollo man, tho, the reeputation of the ( woman in the case was very much: against her and. besides, this section. lis0not inclined toward moo violence.j Had a colored man been caught con-1 sorting with a white woman in some j sections of the country .the result j might have been horribie. ; In response to a telephone call. Chief Kolmcs went to a vacant house j on Harney Street on Monday after- j noon to investigate a reported black-1 and-white prostitution case. After, trying the door and finding them locked. Chief Holmes called and i no one answered. He then sent | Claude Bailey, who was With him at, the time, down the street to get a key to the house. While Bailey was gene. Starkcy Holloman came out! of the back door. I Stepping to the door. Chief Holmes saw Nellie Pritchard on the inside.' with her coat and shoes ofT and, her dress torn around the breast. He; placed the white woman and the; colored man under arrest, charging; them with prostitution. The woman.. he recalled, was the some woman) who was found stark naked roam ing around in a colored residential section of the city about two years ago and who had been banished from the county for a year as a re rstflt. On that first occasion, the of ficers had quite a time getting the, ! woman into the patrol car because j ! of her weight and her fighting dis-, ! position. She proved almost equally | retractable this week. Several j Negro men of the neighborhood had, to be deputized to assist in getting, her to police headquarters, and even ' then she managed to implant a few ! ha d kicks on cifferent parts of the Chief's anatomy. Holloman's attorney tried to show i that his client had been guilty of j no wrong, had merely gone into the | house to find out who was there and had been unfortunate enough to be; caught leaving. He moved for a dismissal of the charge, but Judge; (Continued on Page Four? I <-f A*^irv. , rh~!!C I a/h<-J3ANJK CLERK ?~0 THE S^OOA JCRKE.R ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL! OH, YEAH! I , "Well, it looks as if the General | Assembly is going to adopt some sort i of sales tax in spite of the N. C. M. j A.. W. O. S.. and the devil," remark ed :he Soda Jerker. "Yer-." replied the Bank Clerk. "Our la a- makers persist in running | counter to the philosophy of that J famous political document upon which democratic government inj Ame ica was modeled." "What's that?" asked the Soda j Jei ker. "I am speaking of the Virginia , Bill of Rights, adopted in the Vir ? ! ginia Convention at Williamsburg. < Va.. on June 15. 1776. 20 days before the proclamation of the Declaration of Independence at Philadelphia." "Well, what about this Virginia i Bill of Rights?" | "Just this." replied the Bank Clerk; "The Virginia B:ll of Rights held that men are 'by nature equally free and independent and have, certain inherent rights of which. | when they enter in'o a State of i Society, they can not by any com pact deprive or divest their poster- 1 ' ity.' ' ' Democratic government in Amer- ' ica is supposed to have been pattern- J ed after the Virginia Bill of Rights! t which held that government could j 'not deprive or divest posterity of! j certain rights. And for the past I forty years government has been steadily divesting not only posterity, but its present subjects, of every de si; ab'e right by pyramiding the burden of taxation. Here in North Carolina wc have already piled up an indebtedness of 525 million dol . lars for posterity to pay with inter est compounded." "Well, all I can say is. the govern ment is the people and the people ihave been piling it on themselves," I said the Soda Jerker. "We live in a land where everybody has been | taught that everybody was created j free and equal and nothing is tooi good for us." "All too true." said the Bank Clerk.' "Thomas Jefferson turned loose a false and dangerous idea when he declared that "ALL MEN AREj CREATED EQUAL.' George Mason,1 author cf the Virginia Bill of Rights, i used less incendiary language when he said that men are 'BY NATURE EQUALLY FREE AND INDEPEN DENT.' And the French Revolu tionists who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789. stated the preposition in better language still when they declared: 'MEN ARE ECRN AND REMAIN EQUALLY FREE IN RIGHTS'." "Language is a dangerous thing," reflected the Scda Jerker: "Three men can start out with the same idea in mind and try to say the same thing, and every one of them will say it differently., And in a simple rearrangement of 'the same little words one man will convey an idea to the public that may be entirely foreign to what-he actually had in mind. Maybe that's what happened in Jefferson's case when he said ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL.' They may have been created equally free or born equally free in rights, but they don't stay ' that way. And as for all men being equal, that's a piece of poppycock : that can be as easily demonstrated j as the difference between black and ' white." 85 per cent of ah> people have de fective vision. Are you one of these? Have your eyes examined today. DR. J .D. HATHAWAY. Carolina Building. Culpepper Asks For Moratorium On All Debts A bill ti> declaiv a iwo-yoar moratorium on open accounts receivable and payable in North Carolina was introduc ed in the House of Represent atives today by W. T. ("ulpep-j per, of Pasquotank. The billj provides for a suspension for; a two-year period of the statute of limitations against; open accounts receivable and pav-1 able either owing to or owed by j merchants in the State. Notes, mortgages and any claim j or account that is acknowledged or [ preferred claims are not effected by provisions of the bill. Coming under j its changes are any debts that arc unsecured or having no other evi- J dence cf their existence except ledger accounts. Effect of the measuce would be to make it impossible for any creditor to reduce an account to judgment before expiration of the moratorium period. "In my opinion this action is necessary to prevent the continued. drain on North Carolina rcsources."j Mr. Culpepper said in speaking of j his reasons for introduction of the j measure. "There are many merchants in! this State who will have to close their doors if the accounts on their I books are allowed to run out of date, i and there are many of them who I would hesitate to try to collect these j obligations in this depression period | when it is all their customers can I do to get enough to eat. let alone acr cumulate enough money to pay then taxes. "I believe nearly every person in the state who owes a bill to hie merohant will be glad of the op- j portunity of an extension of hb I time of payment, knowing that i:; he cannot pay he will not be fo ced ; into bankruptcy or sued to reduce | the account to a judgment. "Voluntary bankruptcy is cowardly trick, and" I don't Wltcvc1 there are but mighty few people who wish to get out of the payment of their just and honest debts. "This bill will not have the effect of making it unnecessary for a man i to pay his bills within the two-year j moratorium period, because when he | has enough extra money he will j want to get his obligations paid off j as soon as possible. ' If customers cannot meet their; debts promptly, the merchants can-1 not pay their own bills, and this j measure will give the merchants an! extension of time equal to that of | their customers. "Unless steps are taken to stop j the drain of cash, the people of! North Carolina will soon be in a I position where they will have to stand in breadlines every day be cause all their property will have j been taken away from them to sat isfy their debts in a period when they are temporarily unable to pay.! "Unless steps are taken to relieve the merchants of the immediate [ necessity of meeting their cbliga- ] tions until they can collect from | their customers. ,the whole business j life of the state will be at a stand- j still and the morale and credit of j the state suffer thereby. "While the farmer must be taken care of. the best way to aid him is! to stop the running of the statute of i limitations against his debts. The | merchants get their business from | farme rs and other urban customers. | i Merchandising in North Carolina i employs more employees than in- i dustry and is the backbone of news papers which carry daily events into j j the homes of the state. And so, if J merchandising goes under, the press ( would do likewise, and our people i i would be deprived of the newspaper.; ; our greatest educational institution.' ' and would not be able to keep up 1 with the happenings of the world ( every day. In my opinion my bill is i I proposed in substance and if passed, | ! will be as good a piece of legislation ? | for the come back of the State of j ; No. th Carolina to its normal condi j tion as can be enacted in the 1933 I Session of General Assembly. As j I it does seem to me that the mer-1 chants of our state are always left j out as it should be admitted that i they are one of the states greatest assets. "This legislature is proposing to declare a moratorium on real estate : mortgages and tax sales certificates, and the only way the merchant is mentioned is insofar as he might be aided by the relief given to the farmer. Now the merchants find j themselves in the position where ;they &.e in dire need of relief and I yet this General Assembly now in [session proposes to place the un supportable burden of a General Sales Tax in the shoulders of an al j ready over burdened business which I am very much opposed to. In I substance it all seems up to this. The merchant may have his thousands of dollars of open accounts due him (Continued on Page Eight) ONE POLITICAL POT THAT AINT KOH.IXO FAST Willi tlu' local municipal election only about ten weeks oil", political ''insiders" and "dopesters" are strangely silent and uncommunicative as to the prospects, and rumors concerning candida cies are mysteriously non existent or hidden. There simply hasn't been any talk, to dale, regarding the city election to be held on May 2. The current situation in this re spec: is unusual. Not in many years, according to old-timers, have poli tical talk, gossip and announce ment of candidacies been stifled or witheld until a date so late. That there is some reason for the strange cilence on the part cf the politicians and the political-minded seems cer tain. But what? Cne possible reason has been ad vanced. It is thought in some quarters that W. T. Culpepper, Pas a.uctank county's rep:esentative in the General Assembly, may seek the office cf Mayer again this year. Mr. Culpepper no doubt would like to be Mayor. The fact that he has twice sought the office would indicate thl.r. It is also pretty generally known that the clement that is cp po:ed to Mayor Jerome B. Flora is planning to make another deter mined fight against the administra tion and is on the alert for a lead er. That this leader may be Mr. Culpepper is the one and only rumor to* come to the writer's ears con cerning the approaching election. If this be the case, the reason for the unusual silence is made obvious. If Mr. Culpepper is to seek the mayoralty, it would not be discreet for him to let his aspirations along thLs lino to known too far in advance of -the AkflUcn. The 1931 General Assembly, it will be remembered, almost en til Juno. If the 1933 session should lag along, Mr. Culpepper might have to remain in Raleigh almost until the date cf the election, and certainly no man could represent his county in the General Assembly in Raleigh and campaign for the mayoralty in his home town, 170 miles distant, at the same time. Also, there would remain the possi bility of Mr. Culpepper committing some indiscretion, such as .support ing an unpopular bill, before the Legislature should adjourn. So, if he is the man who is to lead the anti-administration ticket in the municipal election in May, he and h:.s supporters naturally would say nothing about it as yet. As for Mayor Flora and the other incumbent municipal officeholders, 1 they, of course, are not prone to let ' their plans and intentions be known until the opposition has been heard j from. It is just possible thaX this may explain the mystery of com 1 plete and utter silence on the part j I of all the politicians ,with the elec I tion so near at haKd. - A i |P. U. C. Refuses jTo Reduce Light Current Ratesj Insisting thai it could not) i make a reduction in the localj |electric light current rate "ati the present time and under present conditions" and still meet its periodic bond pay j incuts, the Public Utilities iCommission on Tuesday night flatly spurned the reeom i mendation of the Young I Men's Civic Club that the light .current late be cut from 12 to eight (cents a kilowatt hour. The attitude I of the Commission suggested that Ino relief,in the form of lower rates j could be expected by Elizabeth Citi i zens at any time in the near future, i "We would like very much to grant I this reduction," said Dr. A. L. Pen i dleton. chairman of the P. U. C.. "but we see no possible way in which we can do this and still retire ^our bends as they come due. No :cne is more anxious than the mem bers of the Commission to reduce the electric light rate, but it simply cannot be done at present." j The Civic Club committee argue i and expostulated with the Commis sion for about an hour and a half, ? but to no avail. No amount of i arguing could have influenced the Commission to grant a reduction I frcm the 12 cent rate. The commit-1 itee tried to show that the Public | Utilities Commission, during the few! years it has operated the public i utilities of the city, has met all in | terest and principal payments on j utilities bonds, has given cash to , the city's general fund annually, has I donated lights and water to the city I in the amount of $165,547.88 and, in I addition to all this, has been able to j carry into its operating surplus ac count a total of $163,385.32, or in ex cess of $22,000 each year. \ The committee argued that, with j operating expenses held down to the , level or possibly cut a little more, as Superintendent J. C. Parker has ' intimated they might, with no ap parent need of any fixed improve i ments such as water meters, a white I way, et cetera, for some time to j come, and in view of the virtual (Continued on Page Four) . I Balance The Budget and Go Home | Without Levying More Taxes By W. O. SAUNDERS The members of the General Assembly of North Carolina now in session were elected with one supreme mandate from the people: to reduce taxes. And they seem to have been chiefly con cerned with ways and means to find more taxes since they gather ed in Raleigh early in January. They no v propose to raise more taxes by either a sales or I luxury tax; so long as the people have a dollar to spend the State will continue to grab a greater and greater share of that dollar. They must have six or eight million dollars that a sales tax will provide, taxing the bread and butter or the pleasures of the poor? take your choice. They would bankrupt hundreds of border line merchants by driving much of their trade to States having no sales tax. They would bankrupt every merchant whose margin ' of net profit is already less than the sales tax it is proposed to levy Why resort to a sales or luxury tax? Why add to the crush ing tax burden of the people and why drive thousands of strug gling merchants to the wall? Why not do the simple, sensible expedient thing and cut the State budget another six or eight million dollars. Why persist in spending money we haven't got, pursuing the folly and madness of digging ourselves into a hole so deep that we can never climb out. By the simple process of lopping two, three or even four months off the public school term in North Carolina for the next two years, the tax payers can save six millions, eight millions or twelve millions a year for the next two years. The General Assembly can balance the State budget overnight and go home. Away with all the talk about the sanctity of education and the future of our children! Nothing is more sacred than the preservation of the home and the conservation of public health. The children of the masses in North Carolina?and their parents ?are in want for clothes for their backs and food for their bellies. And we would jeopardize all private property and impoverish our people in the interest of mass education. It is all so obviously simple. Reduce the school term in North Carolina that is costing 24 million dollars a year for main tenance alone; reduce it to the number of months we can afford to pav for: Balance the budget without resort to additional taxes ) and go home, Mr. Legislator, go home! t I ELIZABETH CITY T 0 CELEBRATE ROOSEVELT DAY SAT., MARCH 4th That the inauguration o f Roosevelt and Garner on Satur day, March 4 will mark the be ginning of the turn in the worst financial depression in American history and will be in fact the in aguration of better times, Eliz abeth City merchants?most of them?will celebrate Roosevelt Day with a city wide exhibit of new spring merchandise and bar gains, bargains, bargains. It is confidently believed that Saturday, March 4 will be the biggest trade day ever organized in Elizabeth City. Elizabeth City stores, restaurants and theatres will put their best foot forward. | Watch the big issue of this nsws | paper next week. The following business estab lishments are co-operating: i McCabe & Grice Louis Selig D. Walter Harris E. S. Chesson & Son Sunshine Grocery Virginia Dare Coffee Shoppe Buxton White Seed Co. I Carolina and Alkrama Theatres Garrett Hardware Co. D. M. Jones Co. Leslie Belanga The Apothecary Shop Service News Co. Culpepper Hardware Co. Sawyer & Harris Elizabeth City Floral Co. Elizabeth & Suburban Gas Co. M. G. Morrisette & Co. Sawyer Co. Rucker & Sheely Co. Puritan Cafe Stevens Tire Store Gerald's Confectionery Jim Barkley Continues To Get Acquittals As the result of a case tried in Pasquotank Superior court this week, Calvin Blackwell ("Baby") Brakley, notorious ycung bootlegger of this ] city, will face another charge of pos session of liquor for the purpose of sale as soon as he completes a term he is now serving at a Federal pri son camp in Virginia on a liquor charge, it is- now believed. Young Barkley's father, James A. Barkley, was acquitted by a Jury Tuesday of a charge of possession of eight pints of liquor which police found concealed in false drawers In a desk in his blacksmith shop last Fall. Defense witnesses testified ! that the liquor was hidden in the 'desk by "Baby" Barkley just before he left here early in October to ge to Washington to receive his sent ence in U. S. District Court there Mr. Barkley, it was claimed, knew | nothing of the whereabouts of the liquor. The Jury accepted this story voted for acquittal. But acquittal of the father by n< means ended the case. The police : have sworn testimony^ that the eigh | pints of liquor found in the desk ii ; Barkley's blacksmith shop were tl* I property of "Baby" pairJer an' were placed there by him. Sfc aid hi return here after completing hi present sentence, the police in al probability will arrest him on thi ! charge. Congress Denies Consideration Of Bill for Roanoke Island Settlement Celebration In 1934 Congress has turned thumbs down on any con sideration of an appropriation for the proposed cele bration of the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of English-speaking civilization in Amer ica on Roanoke Island in 1934. congressmen warrens win yiuvm lng for an appropriation of $50,000 had received the unanimous appro val of the Congressional Committee : to which it had been referred. The 'bill with unanimous committee ap 1 proval came to the floor of the House Tuesday. The Clerk called the bill. Two members of the House objected, i And that was the end of It. The day before the House hag killed a bill providing for participation in j the centennial of the State of Texas: ' last week it killed a bill providing | for a celebration of the bi-centen nial of the State of Georgia. | Neither of these last named bills 'carried an appropriation. | It will be utterly impossible to get i any action from this Congress, say ] Ccngre&sman Warren, who suggests ; that funds might be solicited from I private sources. | There is also a suggestion that the celebration be postponed until the 1 year 1935, in hopes that a revival of ' confidence and improved business : and financial conditions might war rant another effort to get a Federal appropriation. It has been propos ! ed to celebrate the birth of English ! speaking civilization in America, the 350th anniversary of which would I fall in 1934, the year of the landing i of the first expedition of Sir Walter i Raleigh on Roanoke Island. The first actual settlement in America was not made on Roanoke Island until 1585 and the year 1935 would mark the 350th anniversary of the First English Settlement in America. W. O. Saunders, president of Roa noke Island Historical Association and originator of the idea of a cele bration of national importance on Roanoke Island, frankly professes discouragement. "I am not a man to take a licking lying down." he said, "but I feel no encouragement to go ahead In the face of adverse circumstances and in a State that Is characterized by apathy, inertia and the spirit of 'let George do it." I am having a pretty tough uphill fight keeping my cwn little business going. I can not risk a sacrifice of | my own business and the bread and butter of my family by undertaking the task of going out into the high ways and by-ways and sandbagging wealthy patriots to get the funds necessary to stage an Important celebration. I might somehow suc ceed in putting the thing over and erecting a monument for myself, but my family can't live on a tomb ' stone." j A meeting of the directors of the . Roanoke Island Historical Associ j ation will be called at an early date ; to determine the next move. The idea of celebrating the 350th I anniversary of the birth of English i speaking civilization on Roanoke IIsland in 1934 will not be abandon jed. Something will be done about j It. I New Telephone Directory In Our iPrinters Hands i Copy for the spring, stim I mer and fall issue of The Nor j folk Si Carolina Telephone Si ! Telegraph Company's direc tory was completed this week and is now in the hands of The Independent for ;?r ting. The new directory will to ready 'for distribution to subscribers on or jbefore April 1st. Typing and print ing a telephone directory Ls not a (rush job; proofs must be read and ' re-read to Insure the accurate liat ! ing of the telephone numbers of ' thousands of subscribers in Elizabeth '> I City. Hertford. Edenton. Manteo I'and on rural lines. The Indepen ? ? dent has printed this telephone di rectory for many years. Your tele 1 phone company keeps this big print - ign job at home. Automatic presses, folding ma 1 chinery, stitching machinery, power * driven paper cutters and the "know ? how" enables The Independent tb handle jobs like a telephone di > rectory with sped and satisfaction. 6 t ?A petition damanding that cvlc l tions of ^he unemployed be stopped, ? and that water and lights be fur i nJshed the jobless families of the e city, was drar-.d by the executive s committee of the Durham unem J ployment council this week and will c be presented before the city coun cil at their next meeting.