I INJWASHINGTON j WHAT IS TAKING PLACE BY Pending in Congress for final action before adjournment is a meature which will have a vital bearing on highway-building pro gress in North Carolina. It is the bill to authorize Federal-aid funds f or the fiscal years 1940 and 1941, in keeping with the es tablished policy of making such authorizations two years in ad vance^BOuiat slate legislatures may shape state road-programs to match Federal funds. The measure which passed the House provided $ 125,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1940 and 1941 for Federal-aid on main highways, but the Senate cut the total for the former year to $75, 000,000 and the amount for the latter year to $115,000,000. Un der the $125,000,000 total. North Carolina would be apportioned $2,904,000 on January 1, 1939, and under the Senate amount would receive $1,742,000. How ever, in either event It is estima ted that on the above date ]the state will also have to its credit $1,200,000 of unabsorbed Feaerai aid funds. Senate cuts in funds for tarm to-market or secondary roads, and for grade crossing elimination are even more drastic. But it is anticipated that a large share of the $425,000,000 of the "pump priming" funds earmarked for roads will be used on secondary and local roads. , Conferences between Senate and House road leaders will be held within the next few days to adjust the differences in the pen ding bills. The Senate bill was drafted in keeping with the Pres ident's appeal for curtailment of road funds and to avoid a Presi dential veto should the amounts in the House bill prevail. Regardless of the final amounts accepted, there seems tobe a de termination in Congress to pre serve the Federal-aid principle, which has given the country a system of main roads connecting at state borders. Expenditures for this purpose have undoubtedly done much to further highway transportation and encourage car use. This has, in turn, st-imulated sales of automobiles and provided large-scale employment. The carry-overs in unabsorbed Federal-aid funds is one reason for the Senate reduction of Fed eral-aid authorizations for the fiscal years, 1940 and 1941. These carry-overs have resulted in part from the expenditure of large amounts of Federal funds irf"tbe states without any requirement that they be matched. W P A expenditures in North Carolina have alone been in excess of $36. 000,000, of which around $7, 000,000 or roughly nineteen per cent was spent on highways, roads and streets. Obviously, with road mainten ance costs now one of the heav iest- items in state budgets Fed eral-aid funds for highways make possible much new construction as the money must be used for this purpose. None of it goes for mamtenance. One of the finest jobs being done in the Federal Government today is that of the JL,* r"rea,U 0t PubIlc Koad8 and Nort-h Carolina has always coop erated in. this program. The state has set a precedent for centraliz ed road control and it is certain to mean lower road costs and ef ficiency in administration. Con tinuance of Federal-aid will of r??J8e' be he'PfuI ^ furthering road progress. FIELD DAY AT BUNN BAPTIST CHURCH At eleven o'clock Sunday, May 29, a special service will be held at Bunn Baptist Church (or the Bunn field. This is the first such service since Rev. Hartsell came on the field. An over-flow crowd is ex pected since members ot Rans dall's Chapel and Rock Springs are expected to be at this meeting. The subject for this meeting is Daily Vacation Bible Schools. Miss LasBiter, of Louisburg will aid in the services. Another meeting this week ot interest are the music schools with Miss Shearon as directress. The first class in music will meet at Bunn Thursday at 8:00, while (?he second clue will meet at Rock Springs Baptist Church, Friday at 8:00 P. M. These music classes Is for the benefit ot the whole community and many are expected to attend. Wife ? My husband's Just been taken to the hospital with a brok en head. Friend ? Don'ti cry. The doctors can fix a broken head easily enough. Wife ? Yes, but boo-hoo, boo hool They can't fix that priceless vase I hit him with. Doctor ? Tour husband will sever be able to work again. Fanny ? Ah'll go In and tell kla. It will tuttinly cheer him rip. FROM INGLESIDE -1 1 The- Rev. J. C. and Mrs. Wil '.iams, of Fayetteville, were here to attend the District Conference jin Louisburg Friday. A former beloved pastor on the Tar River Circuit, his many friends who had that pleasure, were glad to see Shim and Mrs. Williams. During jhis brief stay, Mr. Williams visit !ed a number of homes in i the (community, mostly among the sick and those recently bereaved Mrs. J. L. Spencer visited the family of her brother near Louis ' burg a few days tliis week. No damage is reported from hail which fell here during tlu rain and electrical storm Friday afternoon of last week. Electric I lights on this line were out o: commission for several hours. The Raleigh District Confer ence, which was in session in Louisburg on Friday. May 20th elected Mrs. J. Y. Beasley a dele gate to the Annual' Conference that copvenss in Elizabeth Citv. Nov. the 17th. Mrs. T. C. Gill was elected alternate. As announced in the quarterly bulletin the Young People ot Plank Chapel will have charge of the service at' Trinity Church the second Sunday in June. The ser vice will be at 3:30 in the after noon. George Finch, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Finch, suffered a painful injury a few days ago to his right hand and arm while operating a washing machine. He is recovering from, the accident in which he sustain ed lacerations and ?bruises re quiring medical attention. Mr. and Mrs. J. Y. Beasley and' children have returned from a short visit with two of Mrs. Bead ley's sisters living near Lumber ton. A good, refreshing, seasonable rain fell in this part of the coun ty Monday night. A Desoto car, in which two young men from Durham were riding, was badly wre