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. 1^ I '."'■ ^ “ ■ ', ■'* . ' ’ •• ■ li I ' -/ :?■, WK‘: S'‘ HARNETT COUNTY NEWS CONSTRUCTIVE ... Harnett'* Only C:oimty»eat Newspaper ... PROCUtESSlVE Vol. XaCIX—No. 12 $2.00 PER YEAR-^ A, COPY Lillington, N. C„ Tliuraclay, March 20, 1047 *Tf It Concern* Harnett, It*s In THE NEWS** Executives Want New Appraisals TO PLAN FOR RE-ASSESSMENT during year COMMISSIONERS INSTFlUCT OOUN- TY ATTORNEY STRICKLAND TO HAVE SPECIAL ACT PASS ED TO THAT EPPKCT Where Are You, Fred? OVEft QUARTER MILLION MORE FOR REA LINES Flued Out The Board ot County Commission ers see the necessity for a county- wide re-assessment of property for taxation, and the board at its meet ing here Monday Instructed County Attorney K. C. Strickland to confer, with Senator L. M, Chaffin in hav ing a bill drawn for passage at the presc-nt session of the Gonoral As sembly allowing the Commissioners to order the new assessment. The board was agreed that the new assessment Is necessary on ac count of so many inetiultles being found in appraisals of property throughout the county. It has been found that not only is property “badly out of line” in cer tain-townships, but that property of equal .value in the various townships do not “tally’’ in appraisal figures. So much of an irregularity In list ing values has been found .that it is deemed altogether essential that an entirely new appraisal of all propei'ty be made. County Tax Supervisor Series Johnson told the board that if he could get the re-assessnient complet- €d this year he could get it on the lax abstracts in the listing starting next .lanuary in time for the levy of 1948. TTle board wa> unanimous in ap proval of the new appraisal. Com missioner Ferd Jackson, sick at his home In Buie’s Creek, delegated Commissioner Lonnie Byrd to cast his vote upon whatever measures miglit come beforo the board. Mr. Prel R. Byrd Is wanted, and if tie knew '^hat the Bed Cross knows, he'd want tp be wanted. Mr. Byrd was last loaown as living on Lillington “Rli'D," so far as tlie Red Croas can leam. He was 90 yvars old in llKSiSt and a United States War Bond was is- .sited in his name. Frieudf or relatlvos will confer a favor if they will let Mrs. Flora Moons excMiutive secretary of Hiuiiett CliapCer, Red Cfcoss, Lill ington, know wliere Fi‘cd can be found. CONGRESSMAN BAYARD CLARK INFORMS THE NEWS THAT $392,000 ADDITIONAIj HA.S BEEN ALLOTTED TO OEMC ANNUAL SENIOR CLASS PLAY AT LOCAL SCHOOL •A READY-MADE PAMD^Y” IS TI- TLE OP ENTERTAINMENT TO BE PRESENTED NIJ3CT FRI DAY NIGHT, MARCH 21 Farmiers* Meeting Here Next Tuesday A meeting for farmers of Harnett county who are interested in hybrid corn and pasture work .will be held in the courthouse In Lillington on 'fuesday night, March 26, at 7:30, stated C. R. Ammons, County Farm .\gent, today. Dr, E. R. Collins, agronomy. ex tension specialist of State College, w>n be the principal speaker and will discuss hybrid corn and will also give suggestions on pastures for this .area. County Agent .\mmon8 urges the attendance of every farmer interest ed in this phase of their farming operations. The annual -senior play, always an outstanding event of the nchool year, will, bo presented Friday night, March Jlst, at 8 o’clock in the Llll' ington high school auditorium by members of the 1947 graduating class. , Selected for this year’s presenta tion is “A Ready-Made Family,’’ a three-act force which features the difficulties facing a v'idow and widower, whose chlldrec object to having a step-mother and stop-fath er, when they decide to marry. The children of each p,ictu)* the other as a scheming fortune' -hunter and the tactics they use in an attempt to break up the marriage furnish a full evening's entertalniuant. Zell Carlson portfays the part of Agnes Martyn, a widow ^hose three children. Bob, Edward 'MacDonald; Merllu. Josephine Bryan; Oracle, El sie Byrd; and sister-lu-law, Miss Lydia, portrayed by Pessy Stewart, do all in their power to prevent her marriage to Henry Tumor, a widow er, Hoyt Sellers, while his two child ren Doris, Pat McRae and Sammle, Raymond Hester do all in their power to prevent his marriage to Miss Agnes Martyn. Additional com edy is furiTlshed by Gwot Wllborn as the darky cook and Hernion Allen as the colored handy man. In a telegram to The News. Con gressman J. Bayard Clark states that the Rural Electrification Authority has approved $3iS2,000 for the'Cen- tral Electric Membership Corpora tion for constructing additional lines, including 25 miles in Harnett county.- The- CEMC, with headquarters in Sanford, has on its construction maps lines that extend into Western I Harnett. Another RE'A unit, the South River Electric Membership Corpora tion. with headquarters at Stednjan in Cumberland county, has more ex tensive construction plans in Har nett. The SREMC lines begin at Wll- ■born’8 Station on Highway 15-A a couple of miles south of Lillington, and extend to the following points, after branching in various ways: Broadway, Manchester and Raven Rock. The SREMC linos include 235 miles 111 Harnett county. R. R. Ed wards, with offices at Stedman is general manager, and there are nine directors for Harnett. The Cline Con struction Company is building the REA lines for the SREMC in this county. A portion of the crew is mak ing headquarters in Lillington. Around 9,000 students were absent IWwn chissroonw in Harnett rounty schools Monday as the re- , suit of influenza, accordins to Siipt. Cl Reid Ross, who estimated a.s hifili a.s 45 iier cent wore absent from Home of the sohool.s, notably Boone which closed lost WtNliiesrtay afternoon till Monday iiiomiiig of thiH week. Hupt. Ross thinks tiie schools will bo oi>erat«l on a normal basis withiii a few- days. There are about 12,000 students in the Harnett scliools. Some of tlie faculty members were alho out on account of flu lllnc.ss. Prospect of Acquiring Campbell Plant Halts Selection School Site HEAVY DOCKET 1 Will Hi. College Move? BEING UNLOADED AT RAPID PACE TAX COLLECTOR NOW GIVING HIS SOIJCITOR JACK HOOKS MAKING GOOD progress in RELIEV ING CRIMINAL DOCKET OF NUMEROUS CASES From present appearances a much T>x-aT A 1 lir A lightened criminal docket will bo the F IIN Ah W AlxNliNlj ] result of Solicitor Jack Hooks’ I strenuous work this week in Harnett The court went Superior Court. The court PENALTY 1NCREA.SKS A G A I N I straightway to work at ten o’clock Monday morning when Judge Paul APRIL 1, AND LIST OP IjAND FOR DELINQUENT TAX SALE TO APPEAR Ai»RIL 10 SOME GO OVER TOP IN DRIVE .'Anderson Cretik .and Neill’s Creek Quickly Raise Their Quotas in Red Cross Fund Drive IN HOSPITAL Douglas Schafron, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Schafron, underwent an appendectomy at Higbsmlth Hospi tal, Fayetteville, Thursday. He Is "re cuperating nicely and in able to have visitors. Chapter Chairman R. B. O’Qulnu of Lillington reports that at least two of the townships within the chapter’s Jurisdiction have gone over the top in raising tlielr quotas In the current Red Cross drive. Andoison Creek' raised its quota of $160 by the 14th of March. It was the first to raise its quota, and Chairman O’Qulnn gives Prof. Yates credit for holding the^ record of An derson Creek, which has raised Its quota, for the past four years. - Another township, Neill’s Creek, raised its quota of $260 by the^ 17th of March. Miss Ada Cobb, the town ship leader, is given credit for this accomplishment. Chairman O’Quinn states that he is hoping to complete the drive this week. Harnett County Tax Collector W. D. Harrington has been warning de linquents all along, but now he has arrived at his final appeal for set tlement ot 1946 taxez. Giving notice that the penalty for nonpayment will again increase af- t'er April 1st, the collector also warns that -his list of property to be offered for sale on Monday, May 6th, will appear in the county’s news- paper.s I’or the first time on April 10. The list will contlnulr in ..the adver tisement* till the last week' In April Mr, Harrington hw noticed a de cided Improvement ^ taxpaying .the past few weeks. Since last fall his collections had been running rather slow as compared with former years, but in his last monthly report to the Commissioners he showed that his j ,;pm'ntuee of .the le^vy collected had taken a pleasing boost Those who have not settled for 1946 taxes can save not only the -ex tra cost of the Increased penalty but ail added cost 11' their -property Is -id- vei'tisfd for sale'bei^nnlng April 10 ' BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Robert Baggett an nounce the birth of a son, 'VViniam Baggett, on Thui-sday, March I3lh, at Pittman Hospital, Payotteville, Local Ladly’a Faither Dies In Halifax Mrs. Mamie .\mmons left I’uesday monUug for Halifax coiunty to be present, at the funeral of her father, Mr. John Rlggan, who died early Tuesday morning at the age of 93, after being quite ill since last Dec ember. Sunday Speaker Edmunsou of Goldsboro,-newly ap pointed Jurist, ordered Sheriff Bill Salmon to open the court. Judge Edmunson, holding his first court in Harnett, omitted a charge to the Grand Jury so that the Jurors could get along with their in vestigations immediately. Pour cases were disposed of before noon Monday. They were: -Carson Adams, pleading guilty ot forgery, was given 18 months on the roads, suspended upon* five years probatioh. Charlie Smith- was given 90 days on the roads for assault on Ruth McLamb, but sentence was suspend ed two years uppu good behavior and payment of cost. Thomas Mauldin was fined $25 and cost for driving without a li cense. * J, L. Massey was given 12 months on the roads for assault with a dead ly w’eapon, suspended two years upon payment of cost and good behaivlor. Solicitor Hooks sent to the Grand Jury an indictment against Reuben Bass of Sampson county, charging him with assault and robbery upon Mr. George William Butler, i*etlred merchant of Dunn. Mr. Butler is the father- of Mrs. Kyle Matthews of Lillingto'n. Worth Allen, charged with house breaking and la-rceny, plead not guil ty. He was found guilty of .forcible trespass. Prayer for judgment con- tlmied two yqar.s upon payment of costs and $100 for S. Y. Weaver, and remain of -good behavior, Eulas Norris, forcible trespass, plead guilty, 6 months on roadSj .sus pended 2 years upon payment of cost and $60 fine, and Temalu of good behavior. Leon McLean .pleaded guilty of second degree murder. Sentence is yet to be pronounced. Mary Lee Davis was found guilty of forgery.' Sentence is yet to be .pro- SCHOOL BOARD WAITS TO HEAR BAPTISTS PLANS BUGGEHTION THAT ROUTHERX a4ITI8T CONVENTION MAY DK- TIDE TO MOVE COLLEGE OCEN9 NEW ASPECT PRESIDENT LESLIE CAMPBELIi President Campbell views the pos sibility of his school, Campbell College, being., moved from its present location. It depends upon whai the Baptist decide at their meeting in May. MAY SEEK PAY FOR MAYOR AND COUNCILMEN SENA’TOR CHAFFIN WIIiL LOOK IN'TO PROVISIONS OF CHARTER AND MAY INTRODUCE llILIi 'TO MAKE SAIjARIES “Forgotten Dreams’’ is the sub ject of the radio address of Bishop Paul E. Martin of Little Rock, Ark., over the Methodist Hour radio .pro- nounced gram on Sunday morning, March 23. As The News goes .to press the 'rite broadcast can heard over sta- case of Sanford E. Si*oad, charged tion WPTP at 8:30 A. M. PROSPECT? with murder. Is being heard. He is charged with slabbing a Negro wo man to death in Dunn. Solicitor Hooks thinks he can com plete the coHirt’s work by this (Thursday) afternoon or night. Harnett’s Senator Loo M. Chaffin, esldent of Lillington, has been ask ed., to introduce a bill in the present General Assembly to .provide for a small salary to the Mayor of Lilting- ton and each of Its five Councilmen. When approached upon the suh- joct. Senator Chaffin staled that he is under tile Impression that the town can pay Us Mayor and Council' men if it sees fit. However, he stat ed, ho will look Into the charter and SCO wholher any such provision is made. It is not the intent to employ an “all-lime Mayor qpd Councilmen” but to attach to their term of office a small sum sufficient to pay for time in attending mootings and looking after the affairs of the town. A mass meeting is called to bo held April 7 to nominate a Mayor and five Councilmen to succeed tho.se who have served for the past two years, some of them for several terms. Mayor John O. Sutton has let it be known that he will not accept another term. How many ot the five Councilmen are agreeable .to another term has not .been ascertained. The general election to confirm these nominations will be held May 5. Notice of .the meeting is being given in The News. ATTEND SCHOOL IN GOLDSBORO Sugar Calendar Agent O’Qulnn, Joined Cameron, Jr., and Tlllinon Smith Attend Mai'liinery. School T. D. O’Quinn, Assistant Farm Agent ot Harnett County, James Cameron, Jr., ot. the Boone Trail Community, and Tlllmon Smith of the LaFayotte Community, 4-H Club hoys, have been attending a machin ery school conducted -in Goldsboro for 4-H Club boys of eastern North Carolina, on Mai-ch 17th, 18th, and i 19th. Siiare Stamp 59, for 5 itouiids, expirt'H March 31. S|iure .Stiuiip 11, for lO i>oundH, g(HMl Api-il 1. .-lit action in regard to selection of a site for the new schoolhouse at Buie's Creek is definitely, held in abeyance by virtue of a decision ot. the Board of Education taken at a meeting Monday morning. No fur- th«.r attempt will be made to select ing the site till after the ig^eeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in May. Mr. Charles -Ross and Judge Floyd Taylor appeared before the special meeting of the County School Board in its offices in the AgrlouUure Building Monday morning. The' pos sibility that, because of the removal of Wake Forest College to Winston- Salem, the Baptists might want to inbve Campbell College to Wake Forest or make some- other plans whereby the denomination's -prepara tory schools In this section may co ordinate or merge their work, was presented to the Board of Education. 'Upon this presentation, the School Board decided It will be wise to await that decision. Prospect of acquiring the Camp bell College plant In its entirely is held out by the possibility of such a move on the part of the Baptists reacted very favorably with the School Board members, who have grow-n weary of the task of selecting a site in Buie’s Creek that will bo agreeable to all partlea. President Leslie Campbell of Campbell College, who was present at the Board of Education meeting, w.'is questioned by The News con cerning the possibility of his school’s icnioval from Its present site. Praal- dent Campbell explained that In the absence of definite Information upon plans that might be adopted by the Baptist Convention, he could not ad vance any opinion. But he did not speak in any unfavorable terms re garding such transfer. If and when It should be made. For some time there -has been talk of the possibility of removal ot Campbell College when the transfer of Wake Forest College takes place, q'his has been discussed both In con nection with and separate from the likelihood that the Baptists' will make some disposition ot the Mere dith College plant. Since the pre sent-day trend is definitely favor ing co-educaiiona) instluitlons, both Campbell College and Meredith Col lege may be moved, to Wake Poroat to supplant the old Institution that will be moved to Winston-Batem. In its present stage, all this is hardly above the line of speculation., but those who have given the mat ter serious »tu*y feel quite certain that something of the kind will he done, and the decision to do what ever is finally done will probably be (Continued on page, ten) “GONE GOSLING”? (By Gerald W. Johnson) Why wriggle and squirm and pus syfoot to avoid facing the truth that in the end must ho faced anyhow? Everyone in North Carolina seems to be trying to dodge the necessity of saying so, but everyone knows that the minute that Reynolds gltt was made to Wake Forest, Meredith Col- Thla tractor and machinery school is being conducted under the super vision of J. C, Ferguson of the Agrl-’ culture Engineering Department of State College, and one of the major oil companies, Two schools of This type are being conducted in the State where two 4-II-Club boys’ from -the (various counties havo an opportunity to study a close-up of the operation, maintenance, repair and upkeep of mechanized farm equipment. Superior Court Judsre Is Slain in.His Home Prospect of the Harnett county* nchool system being able to acquire the plant of Campbell College to add to its -group of consolidated schools, was brought to the front Monday morning when suggestion was made to the Board of Education that the time may not be far distant when Campbell College may be moved, probably .to Wake Forest. The Education Board, in its quest for-a site for a new public school building at Buie's Creek, bath been stjunied for some weeks through dis agreement of patrons in that dis trict over a suitable slto'for the new building. It was at a special meeiinis of the School Board Monday- morning that decision on a site was expected to be reached. The suggestion ot being able to acquire the Cgnipbell Coliege plant put at rest all activity In re- ga'rd to the site selecl.ion, and the luattor was postponed till sometinie after the Southern Baptist Cdnven' tlon to .be held In May. Pi esldent Leslie Qampbell was loath to advance an opinion about -the acquisition of the college plant, nor for that matter would he sug gest -that the college definitely may be moved. But he entertains the opinion, along with other leading Baptists, that some important move will be made in regard to Harnett’s Junior College when tlic Baptists meet in May, The removal of Wake Forest College to Winston-Salem is mainly prompting the suggestion that the .Baptists may soe fit to place Campbell College on the Wake For est site, together, possibly, with Meredith College at Raleigh. “The Baptists have large plans for their schools in North Carolina,” suggest ed one promine'nt citiz'en who is as much in the “know” as' anyone else. The plant at^ Campbell College would fit in nicely with Harnett's ambition for a' Junior college, a vo cational, business and -home econom ics school, centrally located. It .would put Harnett's' school system on the educdtioual map In North Carolina with outstanding importance. Superior Court Judge Everett Thompson was shot to death last Sunday night as he not 'In hto home -reading a newspaper. George E. Pritchard, who had held a longtime grudge ''against Judge Thompson, fired the shot through a window, then killed himself -before leaving the home. Judge Thompson, who had held coast a number of .times in Lllling- ‘ton,- was very popular here where hundreds of hla' acquaintances and friends were shocked to learn of’ nls death. lege was a gone gosling. How could it be otherwise? In ac cepting the gift North Carolina .Bap tists accepted the reaponslbUlty of making Wake Forest worth an In vestment of ten millions, plus what ever may be put into the building mind. It is solely the Baptists’ re sponsibility, for the Reynolds fam ily merely endowed the Institution, They studiously . avoided making the slightest ‘suggestion as to how it should be run. That is left entirely to the Baptists. But common decency requires that a -group that has accepted so large a gift must make an adequate re- turp. The only return the Baptists can make Is to .run that college well, extremely weN. The highest level of excellence it can possibly attain is the least It can do to Justify the Investment ot so much money. Yet if Wake Forest rises to the academic level that decency requires it to reach. It will be'by long odds the best Baptist college In existence —for Elrown and Chicago are both- eftiversities. Well, ^ women are al ready admitted to Wake Forest and have been lor some years. Is a North Carolina 'Baptist girl, then, likely to bo content with poorly equipped, skimpily endowed Meredith when she can ju-jt as easily attend a college, also Baptists, but among the best In the country? Not if she has intelU- genee enough to be college material in the first place. The, problem facing the North Carolina Baptists, therefore. Is not what to do with ,fhe property at Wake Forest, but what to do with that at, Raleigh. The logical answer is to sell it to the State for incorpor ation with the University of North Carolina branch there. If sentiment forbids the Immedi ate demobilization of Meredith, let it move to Wake Forest for the* time being; Indeed, It might serve ns the nucleus for creation of a large and extremely ivaluable Junior college that would be an eastern feeder (or the college at Winston-Salem, -bal ancing Mars Hill in the west. The name Is an honorable one, not only for the record the college has made under "heavy handlcapi, but aa per petuating the memory ot one ot the early battlers for the edueatton ot North Carolina women. There is no reason why It should not be preserv ed- as the name -of a ‘ -preparatory school of an ozcollence rivaling, on Us own level, that of the college at Winston-Salem. But It Is idle to shut our eyes to the fact that Meredith is sunk, un less, indeed. Wake Forest shirks Us plain duty; for Us duty is to set up and maintain a standard that will put it completely‘out of the class of colleges that have not its oppor tunity. iiUMiiilM
Harnett County News (Lillington, N.C.)
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