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N. Carolina Resources Neglected, Director Says COULD INCREASE INCOME HUNDRED MILLION, CLAIMED Conservation Depart ment Can Do Little Be cause Of Lack Of Funds, He Explains. By strengthening and improving North Carolina’s conservation laws, the natural resources of the state can be made to increase its annual income by not less than $100,000,000, accord ing to Colonel J. W. Harrelson, direc tor of the state department of con servation and development. The huge amount of money from natural resources can be earned with out a further drain on the general fund of the state, he continued. The method is simply to arrange proper fees and taxes to be paid by the people who enjoy or exploit the natural resources. One of the greatest needs of the state, said Colonel Harrelsbn, is a state-wide program for protection of the forest from fires. The pres ent system, although effective in the counties which accept the terms of as the laws leave to county commis sioners, and not to the owners of the forest lands, the decision of whether or not the forest are to be protected. Changing conditions in each general election place the protection of forests at the mercy of politics. One cent an acre a year, or $210,000 for North Carolina’s 21,000,000 acres of forest land, will furnish adequate protec tion from fire, he declared. n • 1 1 . . . /* L’_ _ X lie midUU ui apwii. uanmg tion is also unsatisfactory, the de partment director continued. He favors a moderate state-wide fishing license requirement with which the de partment would be able to increase the state’s six fish hatcheries and to give farmers assistance in the build ing of farm fish ponds. It is possible, he said, to bring millions of dollars to farmers in returns from food fish which can be produced in farm fish ponds. Thousands of these should be constructed under supervision of the state but the department is unable, through lack of funds, to furnish assistance to farmers wYio -would gladly use their spare time during the winter months in construction of fish ponds. Also the present capacity of fish hat cheries would not permit stocking of these ponds in case they were built. He described the condition of com mercial or coastal fishermen of the state as deplorable. Because of lack of funds for planting seed oysters and carrying forward a complete de velopment program, the fishermen are losing about $10,000,000 a year. The state should either make it possible for seed oysters to be planted over a good part of the more than 1,000,000 acres of good oyster bottoms or should change the present unreasonable law which permits an individul to lease only 200 acres of oyster bottoms, said Colonel Harrelson. There are mineral deposits in tne state valued at hundreds of millions of dollars that cannot be surveyed because the state cannot put experi enced men in the field, he contin ued. It is known that one mining company has spent more than $80, 000 in North Carolina during the last 18 months in investigating vari ous mineral deposits. As the informa tion collected is private, the state does not have the advantage of any of the data collected prospective developers,, it was declared, should be encouraged to the extent of being fur nished with, at least, fundamental facts about the state’s mineral resourc es. Colonel Harrelson pointed out that his program does not necessarily re quire a further heavy drain on the state’s general fund. Appropriations required for a comprehensive develop ment of the natural resources can usually be collected from taxes or fees levied against the industry. He urged the need of the state s making plans at once, in co-opera tion with the United States Geologi cal survey, to complete a topogra phic map of North Carolina. Some arrangements should be made also to furnish large industries looking southward for locations with infor mation about the advantages offered by North Carolina. in , • e ._ _1_ ivian id ui *«**'*•**■ — eludes man,” he said "No state pro gram for the improvement, education, welfare, character, development and pastime of our citizens will be com plete without considering parks and plaverounds with school houses, tim ber production with tobacco and cot ton products, fish and game with high school and college athletics, waterfalls and beautiful mountains with public libraries, lakes and wild flowers and art galleries, or all phases of outdoor recreation with the wel fare of the public in general. Do Your Christmas Shopping NOW! Uncle Sam Pays Huge Sum For Gun Salutes It costs Uncle Sam about $315,000 ,annually to salute the Stars and Stripes at sunrise and sunset and welcome visiting army generals and govern mental personages. It was estimated at Eight Corps Area headquarters at Fort Sam Hous ton that the powder used at the army’s 300 posts throughout the nation and possessions in firing reveille and re treat guns cost $265,000 a year. It requires another $50,000 for sa lutes to visiting civilian and military dignitaries. Corps area headquarters estimated it took $1.21 to fire a first-class sa lute to a rising sun. Items: One pound 'of powder, primer, cap, felt wad and two cents’ worth of rubbering paint to seal the charge. Overhead charges such as pay of officers and men who complete the ceremony and wear and tear on equip ment were not taken into considera tion. Salutes to visitors come a little higher, due to the fact that 1 1-2 pounds of powder are used. Tliese were estimated to cost $1.47 each. Read The Watchman Ads. TWO ROWAN COUNTY NEGROES DIE IN THE ELECTRIC CHAIR FOR MURDER OF FRANK STEWART Raleigh—Two Rowan county black boys, J. W. Ballard, 17, and Bernice Matthews, 18, gave the state’s electric chair one of the hardest pulls in its service of nearly 23 years Dec. 11 when they were put to death for the murder of Frank Stewart, filling station operator, on Labor day of this year. Effacing them was a job. The younger and guiltier, Ballard, went out almost blithely, but his heart would not stop beating. The state played the current of electricity on him for more than three minutes. And when attendants picked him up to carry him to the dead wagon, one of his ears was burned half off. His co-slayer died more easily, but not so gracefully. Ballard went into the chair and gave it a perfect sur vey. He joined the preachers in their chants, but when they lifted a hymn his mouth was bound and the cur rent was devouring him before they had finished the first line of "Pass Me Not, O Gentle Saviour.” While there was life he was all talk. He was inviting everybody to join him in the life above and asked particularly that his sister meet him in heaven. To the minister’s question as to his guilt, he said without equivocation that he was Stewart’s murderer. The slender black had confessed many times but always left the im pression that he killed Frank Stewart as the result of a quarrel over 35 cents said to be due the prisoner by the dead man. But robbery was the manifest motive. Rowan witnesses to the execution said the boys gathered $40 from the killing. Ballard did the shooting, but he said Matthews fur nished the gun. When the attendants carried the youth out, Matthews came in. He chanted with much more difficulty the appropriate scriptures. "Thou anointest my head with oil,” he mumbled as the attendants clamped the helmet over his head and fast ened it under his chin. Matthews made a strange outcry as though the leather was choking him, but he was warming to a religious fervor. He was caught in a song. There was something weird about the anoint ment of the black boy’s head with oil, when the attendants were press ing down the headgear that guarantees sudden death. But they did anoint him and his associate with water. Thrice the warden poured from a bucket a mug of liquid to make the killing more certain. The floor and the chair were saturated and Matthews was seated on a bottom from which the water had been wiped. The state found him easier than his junior. Both died hard. Three neighbors of the dead man drove down from Salisbury to see it. his 21-year-old son, Frank and John Kenerly, Rowan deputy, witnessed the execution, the first that they had ever seen. Mr. Shoaf’s father was for many years constable in Rowan and Mr. Kenerly’s father had been superinten dent of the Rowan prison camps. The boys were too young to have establis ed much of a record for crime. They never perfected their appeals when they tried in Rowan, but the Supreme court reviewed their case anyway and found no error in it. NOW THAT DOESN’T HELP Motorist (changing tire): "Oh, Muscle Shoals!” Passerby: "Why Muscle Shoals?” Motorist: "Its the biggest dam I know of.”—Southern News Bulletin. W O O 1> OF ALL KINDS AT CUT-RATE PRICES! LOADS DELIVERED FROM $1.00up A. D. MISENHEIMER 226 LONG STREET EAST SPENCER, N. C. . > • - • ■ * IT IS NOT the cost of the gift, but the thought that lies behind the giving that warms the cockles of the heart on Christmas morning. Then, instead of some short-lived trinket, how much nicer to give something that will bring solace and delight for many days after the Christmas tree is gone; until the New Year is on its way. For the cigarette smoker, man or woman, of course give Camels. A blend of choice Turkish and mild, sun-ripened Domestic tobaccos, they are kept fresh and prime by the Camel Humidor Pack, with their natural moisture unimpaired by 'parching or toasting. In appropriate holiday wrapping, Camels come both in attractive Christmas cartons containing ten packages of twenty and in cartons containing four boxes of fifty each. For the man who smokes a pipe, we suggest either a pound tin or one of those crystal glass humidors of good old PRINCE ALBERT. Here is a present that goes straight as a Christmas carol to a man’s heart; P.A., the best loved pipe tobacco in the world, all dressed for the occasion in bright Christmas costume. What gift can you think of that will be more welcome or give more genuine pleasure and satisfaction? Don’t you hope someone will think of such a friendly gift for you? We wish you Merry Christmas! "Are you Listenin’?” R. J. 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