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The Independent i -as w o oden ELIZABETHCITY, N.C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1935. E"jbT^ cit^N.t.XV *\?oT'aio' SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS mm* ~ John "Tash" Courted Disaster L Carrying Much Money andj Running With "Shady" Bunch Murdered Armenian Watchmaker Chose 4 Companions Who Were Not Above Mur der For Money?Took Himself For a "Ride"?Baffling Mystery living a life in which he constantly courtedj ifc?/'/<>'? if n?f wurder, John Tashjian, Jt7-year-old\ \0Oiiaii-born watchmaker and repairman of this j.;,L n-as the victim early Sunday morning of one of i tht'nnvt baffling murder mysteries to occur in this! prtioH i)l recent years. And indications are that the I of the person or persons who shot and kilLvl TaJiian >nay never be known. 11 ? 1 1.. C!?i11 ?-Q rm ?. I -r^ans cieaa wu>. I rawkd in the middle of B . road a few miles from I. va in Norfolk County, I lock Sunday morning..1 I reel-paeketed bullet1 B'.' . .bru his head, entering B I the neck and coming B fofdmdL That he was B murdered in cold blood B plausible theory as to I.- 01 .math. B . . questions are baffling B Wking on the case, but the I - st ions to which answers ? What mission took I; bat lonely dirt road in I-. . iftcr midnight Saturday ? Who accompanied him? I ,-. is the motive for the mur I An Odd Person I ib.-b.'.an. a bachelor with a I . paradoxical fondness for; I rcu men and prostitutes, was I a my amy to most euz l<:Citizens. Coming to this I; ..r.;ry from Armenia nearly 30 I :? .i^o. he worked in New York I:. inc. finally came to Eliz- i I City, in 1914. to work as a' I etch repairman for the firm of I: Selig Going into busir.c.-<i I. rent years later, he' I , . business during the I. 1919 to 1929. A clever kfRMffl Be acquired a reputation*' I: good work and was able to com-1 ?mod high price for his work. I A bankbook found among his per II il belongings this week shows I ? watchmaker made regular I l.. substantial deposits with the I 9 fogs 3ank & Trust Company of ] I ;p until 1929. a year be-' I oank closed its doors in I faith in banks after the' I of bank crashes which) I the nation. John Tashjian, I money in his office safe I ? person thereafter. I ft ? ... fond of beer, the watch | this beverage in vary I atitids almost every- night. I ty flashed a rod of bills! I ; was drinking, thus virtually | ?u .* hold-up. BC .. kind of company ne sept] *2? his strongest invitation to dis-j : For a number of years he ^r.. out the company of boys and i?ung men. and he had a young man; b -ve with hun for several years. J ? :: :.u of his youiig acquaint rally were not of the best. I ;; might have been expected ioor.or or later some of them try to rob Tashjian. ??lure recently, the watchmaker's' in depravity had turned to prostitutes as well as to i Swag men. In recent months he' ri --"<-'11 frequently in the company1 or t \ o of the town's most Mtorious prostitutes. Keeping such company, carrying :o"py on his person, and drinking a bit. John Tashjian invited, ? di-ast r that befell him early Srnday morning. But who killed him and why? ?Movements Traced iijian's movements on the ? -?t of the murder have been trac 6; until sometime after midnight, :'t the vital link of evidence that - missing is what happened be the time he was last seen and the time he was murdered 4 around three o'clock Sunday ?orni:ig. Saturday night he was in and ' of the Shamrock, a confection located in the Virginia Dare ' ,"e' building, several times, drink b^er. The last time he was ' ? liiere was between 12 o'clock. ?';-dr.ig:;r. and i2;30 a. m. He was '?one at the time and was said to carrying a roll of bank notes. 1 ? reported that Tashjian was f'r- around two o'clock Sunday - ;u:ng at the Water Edge Cafe " Placet, an infamous dive on ?' Camden side of the river, but Proprietress of the place denies - <>nd police have been unable to the report. ?? John Tashjian was at "Red's" '??j inti two o'clock Sunday morning. have driven direct from ; '.o the ..pot where he was kill '? 'i "he companions with whom Continued on Pace Three) I Murder Victim WHO murdered this man. and why? | The photograph is a recent likeness; of John Tashjian. local watchmaker of Armenian oirth. who was murder-; ed in cold blood, it is believed, on a lonely road in Vfrglnlfl-early Sun- j day morning. This picture, showing Tashjian in a typical po.-e, was found among the belongings in his repair shop on South PoindexterJ Street Monday night. The murder, mystery has not yet been solved. ; Cause of Death Of Two Children I Still Unknown Until Dr. J. A. Gill returns from his vacation, and perhaps eveni after his return, the malady which1 on Sunday snuffed out the lives of; 11-year-old Gerald Hall and nine year-old Elizabeth Hall, of this city.' and threatened the lives of a young er brother and the mother of the children may remain a medical my-; stery. The two children, son and daugh-! ter of C. T. Hall of Parsonage Street.1 extended, died within an hour and a quarter of one another on Sun day afternoon. Gerald died at 1.30 p. m.. and Elizabeth followed him in; death at 2:45 o'clock the same after- j noon. Four members of the Hall family,! Elizabeth, C. T. Hall. Jr.. and Mrs. Hall, were taken ill almost simul-; taneously on or around. August 1. their illness being caused presum ably by something they ate. Dr. Gfil was called on the case, and one of his first acts was to take blood tests and send the blood samples to the State Board of Health at Ral eigh. After attending the Hall fam ily for a few days, Dr. Gill went to New York State to get his wife who was vacationing there. The; blood tests did not arrive from Ral- j eigh until a day or so after he left,; so the exact nature of the malady that brought tragedy in the Hall home will not be known until Dr. Gill's return, and perhaps not even then. Dr. I. A. Ward was called on thej case after Dr. Gill left, and when' he had to leave town for a few days| the case was turned over to Dr.1 Mercer Bailey. One of the doctors thought the malady was typhoid J fever, and another thought it was ptomaine poisoning or an aggravat-j ed case of ulcerated stomachs. Dr. Gill's blood tests may or may not; reveal the nature of the malady. I Mrs. Hall and her youngest child, six-year-old C. T. Hall, Jr., are still sick but arc improving rapidly and are expected to recover. Mr. Hall, strangely, has not been ill at all. The children who died were ill for , 17 days prior to their death. Mr. Hall, operator of the City street sweeper, has been an employe of the City for a number of years Danger Signal Badly Needed On Th's Curve i The acute need for some sort of danger warnings on the approaches to the sharp curve in X. C. 311 at Curri tuck Courthouse was seen again last week end when J three i>crsons were injured when a truck failed to make the curve and turned over twice. , Chester Morris, Currituck attor ney, who lives beside the highway on the northwest side of this curve, ' pictures this need as follows: "The Currituck curve is one of the most deceitful-looking curves in the ' State. The motorist who is not J thinking or who is a stranger in this section is more than likely to come upon this curve doing 40 or 50 miles an hour before he is aware that the : curve is there, or at least that it is . as sharp a curve as it is. I hear the brakes squeal and the tires . screech almost every day ,as cars round the curve on two wheels, or ] almost. "There has not been a week end | ( this summer, I think, but that there! has been an accident on this curve, j, It has reached the point where I ami! almost afraid to sit on my front j porch Sunday afternoons and nights' for fear that a car will leave the!1 curve and rrash into my porch. "I don't know of any curve where ! a danger signal is more badly need-1 ed." On at least two occasions within j the past three or four years cars; have crashed into the home where1' Mr. Morris lives. In last week end's accident, a 1 small bey, Dan Watson Knight, 5 year-old son of Daniel Watson Knight of Belhaven, was painfully cut, and his father and brother sustained minor injuries when the' truck in which they were riding got) out of control on the curve and turn ed over twice, landing only a few yards from Mr. Morris' home. Lot's 0' History Might Be Dug Up In This Section | That some of our American arche- j ologists and museum collectors might do well to do some excavating in I Northeastern North Carolina Instead | of spending so many years in Egypt, Asia Minor. Greece and Italy, is the i opinion advanced this week by an| Elizabeth Citizen upon hearing news | of the discovery at Hatteras of a ship's fig" rehcad believed to date j back to around 1000 A. D. The Albemarle section, rich in his-1 tory, should afford several promising | archeological sites. For instance, might there not be beneath the sand i dunes on the north end of Roanoke, Island some trace of the ill-fated | colonies of Sir Walter Raleigh, thej first English settlements in Amer ica? And might there not be hid den beneath the shifting sands along the Dare Coast archeological evi dences of settlements or ships dat- j ing back several centuries? There is| good reason to believe that Spanish vessels, and perhaps Viking ships, j visited the North Carolina coast i hundreds of years ago. And this section is ricn in inaiani lore. Innumerable Indian relics | have been recovered from mounds' at Point Harbor, at the lower tip of! Currituck County, and in the vicin-1 ity of Nags Head. There are also traces of an Indian settlement on Colington Island and of another slightly north of Duck. It is said that there are two enormous Indian pots or kettles over in Perquimans County, the tops which are visible but which have never been dug up because of their size and weight. All told, the spades of archeolo gists, either amateurs or profession als, might turn up many articles of interest and historical value in Northeastern North Carolina. I The figurehead dug up at Hatteras this month is in the form of a dragonhead. It is in a good state of preservation, altho buried for hundreds of years. It is believed to have come from an African or Vik- j ing vessel. The spot where the figurehead was! found by R. H. Gray of Wanchese | is known to have been beneath the | center of a large sand dune at the time the original Hatteras Light house was built around 200 years ^ ago. The sand dune, during the in l tervening years, moved steadily, as i the sand dunes do on the coast of 1 Dare, until it finally left a portion I of the figurehead exposed, i Miles Clark, to whom the figure- j I head was presented, says it must date back to around the year 1000 A D. He hopes to trace Its historv. North Carolina Aged May Have To Wait 2 Years for Pensions Because Governor Ehringhaus Made No Move To Anticipate Requirements of The Kind of Federal Pension Bill He Knew Was in the Making With the recent passage of the social security bill by Congress, the way is open for the greatest | measure of social protection to America citizensj ever afforded by their government, but the aged needy. in North Carolina and many other states may have, to ivait two years for the pensions the bill provides' them. The social security bill provides, imong other things, a pension of $15 i month for the indigent aged overl >5 years, conditional upon the states | >upplemcnting the pension with a| pension of $15 or more, making the. ,otal $30 a month. The string to be ;ied to the government's pensions for ;he aged were known to Governor! Ehringhaus and to every member of \ he last General Assembly, but our Legislature did nothing about it and 3overnor Ehringhaus tipped off his tey men in the General Assembly ;o do nothing about it. Governor Ehringhaus didn't want to spoil his( 'budget balancing,'' and passed the puck to his successor in office. | The Social Security Act throws an: tnchor of safeguard to about 30,-! 100,000 Americans. It directly affects j ihree groups: the aged, uie unem ployed. and women and children. Old' people have under its provisions a system of pensions and a system oi l insurance. States Must Now Act Unemployed will have a form of insurance against joblessness just rs fast as state legislatures adopt federal provisions. Through an enormous expansion of federal services, aid to children and to mothers will be available on un precedented scale. The first year's cost will run to $100,000,000. but by 1950 a pay-roll tax is expected to channel annually about $2,700,000,000 into a vast sta bilizing fund intended to reduce the pinch of depressions and give every worker a reserve upon which he can fall when the specter of unemploy ment descends. The entire system, in President Roosevest's word on signing the bill, is part of a structure . . that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness." President Defines Intent The President's statement follows: "Today a hope of many years' standing is in large part fulfilled. The civisization of the past hundred years, with its startling industrial changes, has tended more and more to make life insecure. Young peo ple have come to wonder what would be their lot when they came to old (Continued on Page Three) The Albemarle Hospital In Good Financial Shape Hospital statistics for 1934 cover ing 70 hospitals in the two Caro linas speak well for the manage ment of Albemarle Hospital at Eliz- I abeth City. The average operating cost of the 70 hospitals was $3.00 a day; the] operating cost of Albemarle Hospi- i tal was $2.75 a day, or 25 cents a day j under the average cost of hospital I operation in 70 hospitals in two j states. And this in face of the fact that j the free days of treatment in Albs-j marie Hospital increased from 2,687; in 1933 to 4.588 in 1934. The average j number of patients per day increas-. cd from 13.8 in in 1933 to 19.2 in 1934, boosting the operating expense of the hospital $3,551 in 1934. The; total operating expense in 1934 was $19,350. j More gratifying to the hospital | trustees is the fact that Albemarle] Hospital has weathered the worst depression in the country's history i without once going into the red, a record that few hospitals anywhere in America can boost. ? Starlings Good For One Thing i ) The appearance of European star jlings in Elizabeth City this summer' means that these hardy, aggressive ' little birds are with us to stay. They !are a worse nuisance than English : sparrows, because of their tendency i to roost in great numbers on build ings and in trees along sidewalks, be : fouling everything underneath with J their droppings. Washington City I spends thousands of dollars in chas ing them from its trees. But the starling has its virtues; for in I stance, it is one of the most effec tive enemies of the Japanese beetle. There is no form of nerve disorder 'that may not be caused or aggra j vated by Eye Strain. For a thorough j Eve examination see. DR. J. D. I HATHAWAY. Ln sv~in\ ^ *, / ?i O/heSANK CLERK TUE SODA JLQKE.G BOOTLEGGERS ANI) THE A. B. C. STORE "I sec by The Daily Agony that an Elizabeth City bootlegger boasts ( that he is doing a bigger business now than before Pasquotank's A. B. j C. liquor store opened, all of which] causes The Daily Agony to agonize | right much and shed crocodile tears] for fear that the liquor store will' make conditions worse rather than better." The Soda Jerker speaking.] I "Yes, I too have read The Daliyl Agony's editorials based upon thei statement of an anoymous bootleg-j ger who said in the presence of one | of its reporters that he was doing aj big business in buying liquor from the A. B. C. store and selling it to his customers at a higher price. "It's a pity The Daily Agony saw fit to conceal the identity of its bootlegger informant. We can only guess who the bootlegger was, but it j sounded very much like our old I friend Keppy Perrell talking to save] his face. Or it may have been any one of a number cf local booUeggersj whose reputation for veracity is nil. Most of the bootleggers I know are ' notorious liars. "But if any bootlegger in Elizabeth City is making a profit by buying1 liquor from the county's A. B. cJ store and selling it at an added pro fit, what's that to agonize about?! He is at least supplying his custom-' ers with legal whisky manufacture ed under government supervision, and paying revenue to the county. "I doubt that any bootlegger is finding any considerable sale for liquor bought from the A. B. C. store. To assume that any consid erable number of people would pay a hnotlesrgpr a higher Drice for their liquor than they would have to pay j at the liquor store is to assume that the Drink-Wet and Vote-Dry prohi- j bitionists in our midst exist in larg-1 er numbers than any one suspect. | "Of course we all know that there are a lot of pious frauds and hypo crites who will preach prohibition and cuss out the liquor store, and go right home and swill liquor from a jug and chew orange peel to cover! up. This breed of cattle has done J more than any other class to mud- J die the liquor problem. Our church es are full of them. You can spot a lot of them who come in this drug store every morning for a dose of sal liepatica or pluto water; their consumption of much raw whisky keeps them constipated." ""I hadn't thought about that," said the Soda Jcrker, "but, come to think about it, there are a lot of sheepish looking Amcn-cornerites who come in here for a morning purgative, and I know they aint in the fix little Mary was in?" "What kind of fix was little Mary in?" asked the Bank Cierk. "It was about like this," said the Soda Jerker: "Mary had a little watch, } She swallowed it one day, "And then she took a little pill Just to pass the time away." (NOTE: A new book of The Bank Clerk and The Soda Jerker, 84 gen erous pages, printed on antique ! finish book paper from a new face I of Garamond type, attractively bound in paper covers, now obtain j able of this newspaper at 50c a copy, (postage prepaid in the U. S. A. and MR. GOAN TELLS WPA PLANS FOR NO. CAROLINA! In an address before thej North Carolina County Com-; niissioners Association a t Wrightsville Beach, State Ad ministrator, George W. Coan, Jr., outlined in simple lan guage, the plans and purposes of the Works Progress Ad ministration, that his message might he carried hack to the citizens of the counties thru out North Carolina. Every effort is being made, stated State Administrator Coan, to speed the program and begin work as early as possible. Organization of State and District offices have been com pleted, and over $9,000,000 in pro jects has been dispatched to Wash ington for final review and approval. The approval of these projects will immediately place thousands of North Carolina workers on Works Progress Administration pay rolls. Dristrict offices for the State have been located in Elizabeth City. New Bern, Raleigh, Fayetteville, Greens boro, Winston-Salem, Charlotte and; Asheville, with a District Director; and Administrative staff familiar i with problems confronting their re- j spcctivc communities. On an approved w. P. A. project, i the Federal Government will pay I the total labor coat and other than labor coots, including materials, rental of equipment, etc., up to 20 per cent of labor costs. All pro jects must have the sponsorship of a local governmental agency, such1 as Board of Commissioners, Alder mcnt, etc., with careful consideration being given to the type of project that it may be of useful and per manent benefit to the community, and at the same time, be of a na ture that the community can furnish adequate labor of a type suitable for the completion of the project. All projects under P. A. super vision wlil be completed with funds allocated at the time of approval. Especially desirable projects to' submit for W. P. A. consideration are sanitation, drainage, farm to market roadways, rural recreational pl:?ygrounds, airports, school build ings and also gymnasiums where the total cost does not exceed $25,000, stated Administrator Coan. Ninety per cent of workers on W. P. A. projects will be selected fromi relief rolls, and only one member of I a family may be employed simul-l taneously on work projects. To be! eligible for work on W. P. A. pro jects, it is necessary that registra tion be made with the U. S. Re employment Service, offices which are located through the State, as all workers will be drawn from the U.| S. Re-employment rolls. W. P. A.| {workers in North Carolina will re ceive the Security Wage, ranging from $19.00 per month of 140 hours for unskilled labor, to $39.00 per month for professional and techni cal workers on W. P. A. projects. While work projects are given first consideration adequate provision is made to assist other members of the , family, with C. C. Camps to care for youths, and an educational program to assist needy students. J It is the desire of Works progress; Administrator Coan, that North' Carolina obtain its full share of thej Federal grant, and that the money) I thus obtained be used in a way that1 [will be of permanent benefit to the' State and assist the recovery of I business to a point where every W. jp. A. worker will be able to obtain permanent work in private industry. Mr. Coan requested individuals, local civic groups, municipalities and state organizations to make a com plete investigation of W. P. A. pos sibilities and offered the services of i his State and District staff to assist; those interested in obtaining full in- i formation regarding the W. P, A. program. Rupert West Quits Camp Weaver To Supervise Wildlife Rupert E. West, for sometime di rector of Camp Weaver, the govern ment's transient conservation camp at Nags Head, will leave the camp September 1st to take over the supervision of game in the north eastern district for the N. C. De partment of Conservation and Deve lopment. In announcing his acceptance of the new post, Mr. West says: "While I have not had time to go into plans for the new work, I am inclined to I favor a program pf enlightment as to the real status of our wildlife rather than a program of drastic law enforcement." Labor threatens a general strike; that's what industry has been on for some time. Heads W. P. A. j] -I' GEORGE W. COAN, JR., State Ad- j 1 ministrator of the Works Progress J Administration, gave the North S Carolina County Commissioners at 1 Wrightsville Beach this week a < statement, of the aims and objects of the VTA. Mr. Coan's statement i appears on another page of this 1 newspaper. i Contestants Hit : Home Stretch In , Big Campaign < ii Contestants are coming down theij home stretch in The Independent's ( subscription campaign, which will , close Saturday at 5 p. m. If you have promised any one of J the four contestants making a driv- ( ing finish your subscription, this is ^ the last call to make good on that , promise. Your friend, who has been , making a gallant fight, expects and J deserves the subscription and you need The Independent for another ( year, or two, or three years. The Standing Mrs. Will Godfrey, j Shiloh 1,602,500 r Mrs. B. Ray Cohoon, Columbia 1,580,0001 Mrs. John A. Holmes, lEdenton 1,542,500 J Mrs. Mary Jcnings, Elizabeth City, RFD 2-1,520,000 j, Some Voting j ( New "higlis" were rcacnea in mcij voting on the part of the quartette remaining in the finish fight for j choice of an $895 Dodge Four Door, Sedan, an $805 Pontiac Two Door | Sedan, a $798 Master Chevrolet Fourj Door Sedan, a $785 Ford Four Door] Touring Sedan, or chiice of $700! Cash; the $300 Cash second prize,] the $75 Cash third prize, and $25 Cash fourth prize. Mrs. Will God frey, of Shiloh, still holds first posi tion, which she has never relinquish-1 ( ed during the campaign, but had to' vote 502,500 votes to do it. Mrs. B. Ray Cohoon, of Columbia, who start ed several weeks after the race be gan, votes 485,000 votes to hang on to second place. Mrs. John A. Holmes, of Edenton, voted 462,500 votes, which was good enough for her to cling to third position, and Mrs. Mary Jennings, Elizabeth City, RFD 2, cast 445,000 votes, and is ! fourth. The slim margin of 82.500 votes marks the difference in today's (printed standing between first and i 1 fourth, between choice of a brand | new cars or $700 cash, and a $25 j consolation award. ! The campaign ends at 5 p. m. next Saturday. Just as soon as the re . turns can be checked over the win ners will receive their awards, and next weeks' Independent will carry j the final total votes cast by these | four rontestants, and results will be | surprising, even to those who have j 'followed the various fortunes of I ] their favorites in the rade. j In its initial announcement of1 Friday, June 14, The Independent! :offered prizes and cash commissions! j to those who would take part in the; irace. Every contestant competing so! [far has drawn 20 per cent in cash as! a commission on all cash shbscrip-' 'Continued on Page Six) Many Negroes Will Vote In NextTiiesday's School Election Negro Pedagogs Active in Registering Mem bers of Their Race to Vote1 for Nine Months School Term?Election' Results May be Close, With the Politico Pedagogs Determined to Win The probable outcome of the special election to be held here next Tuesday, August 27, to decide whether or not Elizabeth City shall have a nine-months school term with additional month financed by means of an increased tax levy remains very much in doubt, but indications are that there is going to be a real scrap and that the result xvill be close. /I Wtttl U1 l,iij pcioviio IVgWVVi :d to vote in this special election, he total being divided as follows: ?irst Ward, 168; Second Ward, 341; Third Ward, 276, and Fourth Ward, 190. A majority of the total regis ration is required to carry the elec tion, hence it will take 588 votes to :arry the increased term to victory >r defeat. Large numbers of Negroes in the hird and fourth wards of the city were registered for this election, nost of them being hauled to the egistration offices by Negro teach :rs interested in the extra month's >ay a nine months school term would jive them. Last Saturday was the final day >n which the registration books for this election were open. Prior ,o that time, according to Superln ;endent Edgar E. Bundy, there were >60 persons registered to vote in the special election. When the books :losed last Saturday night, there were 1,175 voters registered. This neans that the registration was nore than doubled on the last day. 3ut whether those who registered Saturday were chiefly opponents or proponents of the nine-months term :an not be determined. There is a possibility that Sat arday's heavy registration resulted from this newspaper's expose last week of how a small minority of the raters of Elizabeth City could slip a line-months school term and high-.. :r taxes over on the public In next Tuesday's election. Elizabeth Citizens generally were totally unaware until last week of the quiet but concerted movement the local school forces were engaged n. The 1933 General Assembly pass ed a school law whereby the State Look over the operation of all public schools in the State and agreed to aperate them with a standard eight months term. Individual counties and municipalities were given the privilege, however, of increasing their school terms to nine months, providing the people of the county were willing to do this and would pay for the additional month of aperation. * erwtial ine law cuvermij uicot D|ivv<? elections holds that there must be a new registration for such elections, and that a majority of the register ed voters must vote for the nine months term to make it legal. The school teachers and their friends, working thru the Parent-Teachers Association, went to work quietly and rounded up as many favorable voters they could find and saw that they registered for the special elec tion. School teachers' salaries be ing what they are lr No"v Caro lina, an extra months .m- a ould be most welcome, naturall>, to the local teachers. The general public, in the meanwhile, was unaware of what was going on and did not know until this newspaper exposed the machinations of the school forces, that a handful of school teachers and. their families and friends were very likely to saddle the taxpayers of the City with the cost of operation of the City schools for a ninth month at a cost of around $8,000 thus boosting the tax rate by some 11 cents. So last Saturday's heavy regis tration may have been opponents of the increased term who had been unaware until last week of the im portance of their registration for this school tax election. On the other hand, the P. T. A. members, foreseeing danger after their hand had been exposed, may have bestir red themselves more actively than ever last Saturday and registered many more of their friends. No one has any idea how the election may go, but it is believed that there will be a rather close con test. I One thoughtful citizen vmo will vote against the nine months school term says: "I am opposed to be ing taxed to provide an extra month's schooling for a state sys tem. The State says eight months are sufficient and State universities and colleges are geared to the eight months school term. The State sends nearly 80 high school students from Camden County to our Eliz abeth City High Sohool, and will bring in about 60 high school stu dents from Newland this fall. It all (Continued on Page Five)
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