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- .. rv JFI j-^ ,v I '' * l !| r ’ ' f ^ t ly », * --V 4 y. V ^ ■. 1. * , .“ J"' fN*» >'*' PAGE SIX HARNETT COUNTY NEWS—P“fa»ghed at Lllllairton, N. C. THURSDAY, JPBQEMBER 11. 1947 S*r I: I iv'" iSi'- ^ ' Iffkt k). Ir^ r* > A. y t*V y!i^ s y*i>f !.!? 'A, \% Capital News Letter ■ (By Thompson Oreonwood) GRAHAM OUSTER? — Carolina students homo for the Thanksgiving holidays gave impetus to the rumor that powerful University of Norih Carolina alumni are attempting lu oust Dr. Ph-ank Graham as president of the Greater University of North Carolina. Dr. Graham, now in Indonesia on a peace mission for President ' I'ru- maii, is said to be too liberal for many a hard-headed business man In North Carolina. However, those who favor the ro- teutlon of Dr. Graham as president point out that he is no more liberal than he was a decade ago. He hasn t changed, they maintain, whereas many an alumnus has grown more conservative, this conservatism being in direct proportion to the wealth he has acquired, « « * FOUNDATION SECRETARY. —-1. G. Greer of Thomasville, supeidnten- dent of the Baptist orphanage and sometimes mentioned candidate for Governor of North Carolina on the Republican ticket, last week re signed the position bo has held for several years now to become execu tive secretary or director of the Busi ness Foundation at Carolina. Established by Bob Hanes (Wach ovia) and others, the 'Foundation now has about $1,000,000 available, and it is hoped this amount will be raised to $5,000,000. Carolina alum ni were pleased at the line manner in which Greer conducted the Good Health program last winter and be lieve his friendship with .North Caro lina big business may offset to some extent the rumored antipathy of dit to toward Dr, Frank Graham. 4 * * NOTES.—The feeling here is that if patrolmen would work during a football game instead of Joining the fans to watch it there would bo few er traffic hazards when it is over . . Reports are reaching Raleigh that several of the smaller towns now re gret the installation of parking me ters. Edeuton, for one, Is now work ing to have them removed . . . handi cap to business, etc. . . . Mass resig nations of nurses are planned for hospitals In Wilmington and Char lotte if officials don't meet salary and wording conditions demands ... There are now 130 co-ops operating in North Carolina, and the state is now attempting to obtain full reports on their historle.s, operatlO‘\s, etc. Meantime. State College is gathering information on co-op sentiment in the state. A dairy concern in Wilmington claims to have lost $3,000 in October because of strict milk regulations which the stale put Into effect Sept. 1 . . . But it was still able to buy out a handsome milk plant recently e.s- tabllshed at Wallace , . . $40,000 . . . and closed It to stop competition In that aiea. Incidentally, the owner of the Wilmington firm is also mayor of the New Hanover metropolis. Raleigh wants to place parking meters around Capitol Square, but officials of the state have as yet re fused. Merchants throughout the state are now expressing amazement at early Christmas shopping this year , , . Heavy sales of gifts for the past three weeks. * • « TREMENDOUS LOSS.—The with drawal of England from the tobacco market might well mean the begin ning of the end of Eastern North Carolina’s golden days of prosperity. The prontlnent place which the cur rent Issue of “Time," the weekly newsmagazine, gives to St. Jumc.s Ambassador Lewis Douglas prompted one state official to remark last week that, while Douglas Is doubtless a great man, O, Max Gardner might have saved the English tobacco mar ket If he had lived to go to England as amhassador. So, many tobacco growers wl>o did not feel a tremen dous loss in the doatli of Gardner now realize that his passing will cost thorn untold millions of dollnrs witli- iu the next five years. Some of them might also come around to the conclnsion that 0. Max Gardner was eternally right when he preached a llvo-at-homo doctrine (as opposed to money crops) when lie w.is Ciovt'i'iior of Noctli Carolina. * ♦ * 'I'WO DAYS—stirvey Just com pleted by tlie N, r, Morcliants As sociation indicates lliat more than ihree-fotirths of the business firms in North Carolina will close at least two days for Christmas. It now looks as if there may ))e a two-day batik lioliday. ♦ * ♦ IN VTRGI.NIA—Those towns near the North Caroilna-Vlrginla line whose residents have been traveling over into Virginia to do some of their big buying for the past several Years .ti'O keeping an eye on developments in the Old Dominion. Up there, they ire about to do the same thing we did hove in Noith Carolina 14 years ago—that is, adopt a sales tax. Governor R. Gregg Cherry predict ed hero last week that the moasure would pass. But It won’t, if one for mer North CaroHiilau has his way about it. Charles McFee, who until about a year ago was secretary of the .\sliovillo .Merchants .\ssooiatlon, is now e.'tocutlve secretary of the Vir ginia Retail Merchants Association. The 'natter will ho introduced to the Virginia Lawmakers in about throe weeks, and the merchants are ready ing I heir ammunition. .\nother border state, Tennessee, put on the sales tax last July 10. and South Carolina is expected to consider it next year. i> * 4 TURN ABOUT—R. L, Fritz, Jr., former principal of Hudson Schools in Caldwell County, many months ago said he would support Chas. M, Johnson for Govoruor. Since ho was president of the N. C. Education Association at (he time (and still is. for that matter) t)iis statomont car ried strougtii for .Tolinson. Sliortly after ho became an ardent Johnson supporter, however' ho was found guilty by the State Board of Educa tion of Juggling school vouchers. He repaid the money, and there are hundreds of members of NCEA who are apparently on his side. Anyhow, ilie State Board revoked Fritz’ cortiflcale to teach. Now he is going to ho brought ))eforc the Cald well County grand Jury for allegedly obtaining money under false pre tenses. Now, Johnson snys he is going to spearhead a 'move in the Stale Board of Education, of which ho is a inem- ber, to pul Ibe Fritz certificate back in force, providing the Jury acquits liim next week. Teacho.s—some of them, anyway —iiavo , eon ^saying all along that ■the Fritz case is mired in politics. After Johnson made his statement here last week many a Raleigh ob server gave* a solemn nod of ugree- mem. It must be admitted that John son’s little utterance regarding aid for Fritz will got him a lot of teach ers’ votes—whether the jury acquits the NCE.A president or not. * * 'll MORE STORES NEEDED?—Since January 1, 8,l4(i drivers in North Carolina have had their lioonse.s re voked for druuken driving. This tar surpasses all previous figures in this bracket. Perhaps we need more ABC (.Mcohollc Beverage Control) stores. It is obvious we aren’t doing much to control the stuff with our present number of outlets. . 4 4 4 T-EADS THE NATION—North Car olina received a report on its honesty frotn a native son last Friday. Speak ing in Charlotte. Lamar Caudle, As-' sfetant U. S. Attorney General and Wadesboro native, said- that this state leads all the rest in the-number | of lax evasion caSes bandied by the ^ .iustice Department, tM 'I'wo days before Caudle cast this pall of shame on the people of North, Carolina, Tarheella’s leading drama-', list was speaking here at the annual meet lug of the N. C. Art Society. Paul Green was throwing out a few •idjeciives which would describe each state. He used, “sturdy” for lo-wa, “Glamorous" for California, and ■‘efficient’’ for New York. “North Carolina Is an .honest, forthright State.” said Green. i Ga.idle declared: “I do not know why .so many North Carolinians have been guilty of tax evasion, but it is W a condition that existed before I a.s- S Slimed my position." I i I HEER-WINE LAW—If 15 percent ^ of the registered voters of any clty'jj or town in the Stale sign a petition .^ asV^lng for a local referendum on w beer and wine, the election can now'S be held. The revised beer-wine lawjS fixed it so that no elections could 'he-'S liekl until 160 days had elapsed af-'5j| ter tlie law had become effective if (July 1). There are reports that one or t>ivoi« units are considering the move. iS Chances are that few elections will 'S be held. Counties and cilms and ^ towns are in need of money, and are ^ reluctant to sacrifice the revenue jjf which beer and wine brings them. Iff NOTES—Robert Humber, that'2 world federalist and world federa-'S tlonlst, said while in Raleigh the ^ other day that ho would oppose Con-i^ gressman Herbert Bonner in the ff ' First Congressional District again, iff . , . State Employees received a 20 per cent Increase in pay on July l.^ljf Teachers received a -30 per cent in- iff crease. If the State’s present rate of ^ income continues, it will have'aboutj! $47,000,000 as a surplus at the end of this fiscal year, In view of mount- Ing living costs, the salary increases^ were woefully small. So small, iu jijf fact, that city and county superin-,ff teudonts’formally requested Gover- ff nor R. Gregg Cherry last week to g call a special session of the Legisla-jS lure to raise teachers’ salaries. So ^ far. .State employees have done noth- lug except to'complaln a little thatjjf the decrease in the value of the dol-iff lar has made their 20 per cent I't-jS crease of little real benefit . . . Gov-ig eriior Cherry says he isn’t going to'B call any special session in the “im-|^ mediate future." He may be forced to liave one, though, if living costs ^ continue to climb ... Iff Tlie belief here is that if any sur- ^ prise occurs in the gubernatorial campaign it will be the strength! wliich Muyne Albright is gathering out there. , Decision of Kenneth Royall not to,^ run for Governor created hardly a ripple on Raleigh political waters . . . Your reporter has traveled throughoiif the State within the past six week.s. He found little real In terest in who will be Governor. Most people said, rather nonchalantly about it and with a futile .shrug, "Well, it looks like Johnson." -But there doesn’t seem to be any special enthusiasm for Johnson or for any body else . . . However, in the Sen atorial race you can get an-argument with,little trouble. There seems to be plenty of interest in that race . . . For the State offices, nobody seems to give a hang what happens. St . CHAMBER*' . Wti-skipM* COMPOORt We Are-Flattered That So Many Imitations Have' Appeared On The Market When You Want Ham Insurance Be Sure With Chambers’ Anti- Skipper Compound N, J. BODDIE The H»m Iniurance Man BOX 483 DURHAM. N.C. Merry Christmas TO ALL Red Goose and Friedman Shelby Shoes for the entire family Complete line of Dry Goods and Notions Rubber Footwear for the entire family Powell & Hardee Fuquay Springs, N. C. WE HAVE NICE GIFTS FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMUY Mother Early American Old Spice Friendship’s Garden Desert Flower Per- ' fume $1.00, $3.50 Bath Salt, Soaps, Dusting Powder Toilet Water and Perfume Dusting Powder in Gift Box from ■ $1.25 to $5.00 Tussey Gift Sets— $1.00 to $6.00 Woodbury & JeVgen Gift Sets Pond’s Gift Sets Nyton Hair Brushes $1.00 to $1.98 Costume Jewelry 59c to $1.00 Nice Assortment of Box Stationery $1.29 Ladies’ Hanks Scrap Books, Photo Albums $1, $1.49 Vanity Sets $5.95 Bedroom Slippers for Women & Children Robes for Ladies Embroidered & Hem stitched Pillow Cases Tablecloths & Vanity Sets Gloves Dad 'Brother Early -American Old Spice Woodbury ^ Jergen Gift Sets Pond’s Gift Sets Nice Assortment of Box Stationery $1.29 Men’s Hanks Men’s Ties $1.00 to $1.50 Socks 50c to 59c for Men Men’s White Broad cloth Shirts Men’s Pajamas Scrap Books, Photo Albums $1, $1.49 Robes for Men Towel Sets for “Him and Her” Gloves Imported Bridge Sets Billfolds $1.50 to $6.00 MOTHER Slips, Gowns “Maiden Form” Brassieres Ladies’ Dresses and Coats, Raincoats Ladies’ Dress Shoes and Oxfords Ladies’ Metal Belts $1.00-$2.95 Blue Swan Panties .Billfolds $1.50 to $6.00 Nice Assortment of Box Stationery $1.29 Men’s Hanks Scrap Books, Photo Albums $1, $1.49 Robes for Men Men’s Ties $1.00 to $1.50 Gloves Sister ' c Costume Jewelry 59c to $1.00 Nice Assortment of Box' Stationery $1.29 Ladies’ Hanks Scrap Books, Photo Albums $1, $1.49 Vanity Sets $5.95 Bedroom Slippers for Women & Children I Slips, Gowns Socks 50c to 59c for “Maiden Form” Men Men’s Pajamas ! Boys’ Sport & Dress ; Flannel Shirts Boys’ and Girls’ Sweaters Little Boys’ Tommy , Tucker Suits Children’s Oxfords Children’s Pocket ; Books $1.00, $2.95 Rubber Balls 59c, 89c Children’s Coats and and Suits MOTHER Hose, Ladies’ Nylon, ; Gordon & Mojud Ladies’ Scarfs 1 Ladies’ Handbags $3.95-$10.00 Towel Sets for “Him and Her” Imported Bridge Sets SPECIAL—50 per cent Wool Blankets 72x84, assorted colors, $5.98. Special ^lot of Striped Outing, 36 in. wide-—29c a yard. Millinery for Ladies and Children. Assortment of Christmas Candies. Curtains and Oil Cloth, yard goods, simplicity patterns. Infants’ Dresses and Coats. Infants’ Knitted Suits and Sweaters. Towels and Bath Cloths. Table Cloths. Window Shades. KESLER READY-TO-WEAR FUQUAY SPRINGS, N. C I I R K 8 Brassieres Blue Swan Panties Boys’ and Girls’ Sweaters Embroidered & Hem stitched Pillow Cases Ladies’ Dresses and Coats, Raincoats Ladies’ Dress Shoes and Oxfords Children’s Coats and and Suits Ladies’ Metal Belts $1.00-$2.95 Hose, Ladies’ Nylon, Gordon & Mojud Children’s Pocket Books $1.00, $2.95 Ladies’ Handbags $3.95^10.00 Ladies’ Scarfs Rubber Balls 59c, 89c Children’s Oxfords Gloves K K K K I K K K K yi K K K K K \(i Ht K K K
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