esT 4BLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878
lirADOO NOT A
I CANDIDATE
IvcAdooSer-es Notice That
I H ; s Political Fued With A1
mi th U Far From End
Vashinston. Sept., 17— William
Ir/bb' McAdoo announced today;
b ‘‘ a candidate for the i
■ Itemerratic presidential nomination’
I next vear.
I ir burned all his bridges behind
| hinl when he said definitely: “I |
I *lll not be a candidate for the Dem
■ ‘ raric presidential nomination in
I 1928."
qj. re fusal to enter the race was
I contained in a letter to George F.
I Mdton. publisher of the Chatta-
I ‘ iga News. Milton, publicity
I manager for McAdoo in 1924, had
I hi mto be a candidate again.
Feud not Ended
M the same time McAdoo ser-
I ved notice that his political feud
I with Governor A1 Smith of New
I York, which deadlocked the Demo-
I c -ats in the sweltering heat cf Mad-
I jj 0n Square Garden in 1924, is far
I from ended. He said he would con-!;
I time to fight for the triumph of
I principles in the party,
I and for the suppression of the nul-
I ificationists. or the wets.
| , A desire to tree the party from
Ba repetition of the disastrous 1924 ]
■ fehr was a tranced by Mr. McAdoo j
M a? .-.no of hi.- chief reasons for re
m .tiring. He said also that he had
m earned a respite, “an honorable :
I discharge." from the rigors of act- ■
I ive political life.
H He warned the party that defeat ■
m lay ahead in 1928 if the next eon
■ vention degenerated “into a mere'
9 struggle of individuals for person.- 1
m a! preferment at the expense of 1
■ principles and policies of "funda- ;
I mental importance to party char- 1
a acter and to the welfare of the
■ nation.” u
Progressive Policies
“My chief concern,” he said, “is
a the supremacy of Democratic prin- ;
I c: and progressive policies, for
a these mean the preservation, unim-
I paired, of the Constitution of the 1
I Lrated States; the suppression of !
K r.udnication and the enforcement of !
I . with ut which stable govern- 1
S * r !s impossible and without which 1
blessing.- of liberty will disap- 1
my-- 1 " justice to agriculture, with- <
he farmers cannot get 1
B rightful share of national 1
I 'Parity; and social economic ]
101 ail classes, without
I human opportunity cannot <
I be widened. ji
I I
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I A NEAR-DISASTROUS 1
AUTOMOBILE COLLISION <
I
I A> Mr. B. Nooe, accompanied by :
- Essie and Gladys Peterson, 1
I Pded homeward Monday evening ]
IA - a.ter dark from Ridgeway. S. ! ]
I -• "here they had been to visit 1
I Ahhlck and other of Mr. <
chib Iren, seven cr eight ]
of Pittsboro, the Dodge <
I. f" Una southbound car con- <
I r^ lng SeVen ne £ roes * That car d
£ summersault, landing on 1
I C v u The seven colore d folk <
I ji ‘ b u. unhurt. The Dodge left *
I _ roa d with a bent axle and other i'
;;r- Uri - but, fortunately,, i
L n?nt . n ° * n,!ury to any of the occu
lt
f) wardsurfacing
0N HIGHWAY ninety
a • _ ‘ " I *
f 0) ‘ ' °us to see the Zeigler i 1
w,>k ,*d Pittsboro without any!
leading d ° ne on hi ghway 90;
thantiesT 1 ; hiKhway au -
Up ,- T . ha,i seemingly determined;
street / ,! ?et north of depot',
h as ( !J ‘ of 90, but there |
and (p 0 asiderable restlessness
fiioicp 8 aCt ' on because of that
caused r We fear that that has 1
ta ?e of ' Wn t 0 * ose a( * van " 1
a Se ; 1 immediate pavement of'
road f L a half-mile or a mile of
An r ° m 75 eastward,
is „ ; a,V ’ l ' ie Zeigler equipment
whe n ng an<i t b ere is no telling
' aid »Pon f °:L° t f y PaVement Wi " be
f&ZS find
Vic Chatßam Record
The A vent Ferry
Bridge Opening
An Account of the Opening Cere
monies and a Sketch of the His
tory of the Old Ferry.
As the editor of the Record, hav
ing to choose between missing the
j A vent Ferry bridge opening and
■ the Bentonville Marker Unveiling
, last ten days ago, chose to go to
Bentonville, he makes up this week
for lack of a full report of that
1 epochal event by giving below the
i story of the occasion and a sketch
of the history of the old ferry
which appeared in the Sanford Ex
press last week:
“Fcr the past year The Express;
has from time to time told its read- j
ers of the progress that was being !
made on the construction of the!
conci'ete bridge at Avent’s Ferry, j
a few miles above the Buckhorn
Power plant, and some two or three
months ago suggested that the for
mal opening of the bridge to the 1
public be celebrated in some fitting
way. Those who were concerned irv
presenting and receiving the bridge |
on the day of its completion got
busy and the successful celebration
that was held last Thursday was
the result.
Several hundred people from Lee,
Chatham and Wake counties were i
present to attend the celebration,
hear speeches by a number of prem
inent citizens and enjoy an old fash
ioned barbecue and picnic dinner.:
The housewives afnd cooks of that
section are to be congratulated for
the manner in which they prepared
and served the meal. If any one
went away from that table hungry
it was his own fault.
W. W. Robards. Business Manag
er of the Lee County Chamber of
Commerce, acted as master of cere- |
monies. After the crowd had as-!
sembled in the shade of the trees
near the bridge he called on Rev. j
O. I. Hinson, of Jonesboro, to offer I
the invocation.
Gilbert C. White and Col. C. E. ;
Boesch, of Durham, then presented
the bridge to the two counties after !
it had in tain been officially turned
over to these engineers by W. B.
Kiker, of Reidsville, for the firm of
Kiker and Yount, the contractors.
These builders of roads and bridges
told in brief talks the difficulties I
encountered and conquered in the
erection of the bridge. They de-;
dared that Lee and Chatham has j
something of which they could
point with civic pride.
Hon. D. L. Bell of Pittsboro, re
ceived the bridge in behalf of the
board of commissioners of Chatham j
county. J. U. Gunter, chairman of
the Lee county commissioners, ac
cepted it for the county.
For years the public spirited citi- 1
zens of Sanford and Lee county
have been campaigning for an out
let by the way of Jonesboro and
Holly Springs. Progress was slow
and the deep Cape Fear river loom
ed as the stumbling block to the j
1
plans of good road construction. The I
only route from the eastern section
of Lee to Raleigh was byway of !
Sanford and thence on Route 50. A !
lone ferry across the river connect- j
ed Avent’s Ferry road from Lee to j
Chatham and into Wake county. 1
Traffic by this ferry was out of the
question. It was too slow.
However, more than a year ago
the plans for a shorter highway be
tween Sanford and Raleigh began
to mature and then reached a de- ;
finite stage when the commission- j
ers of Lee and Chatham counties
decided to build a bridge of their
own and not wait for the state to
solve the problem.
Gilbert C. White and Company, of j
Durham, consulting engineers, were :
called in for advice and Mr. White i
told the joint boards that the bridge j
could be built without spending any j
fortune. The commissioners voted I
for the bridge, called for bids and
| then shook hands.
Work was started on the project ,
| in August, 1926, and slightly more
than a year loiter, it was formally
accepted and opened.
The handsome bridge was built at
a cost of $82,000, by Kiker and
Yount, contractors, of Reidsville.
The cost is borne equally by Chat
(Continued on page 8)
PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, SEPT. 29,1927
CHATHAM FAIR
Annual Event Only a Few Days
Off—Many Attractions Sched
uled for the Week.
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Next week is Fair week. Manager
Elkins has been pushing things and
expects to have the best fair the
county has had. Quite a list of
worthwhile premiums are offered
and it is hoped the people will re
spond with many entries. Many
amusements are scheduled.
Moncure Plans Big
Celebration Monday
j Opening of New Bank to Be Cele-
I
brated With Brass Band and Big
Barbecue for All Comers.
I
I
Capt. Wissler, president of the
new Bank of Moncure, which starts
1 business next week superseding the
Farmers Bank of Pittsboro and
combining that institution’s capital,
prestige, and good will with Mon
; cure capital backed by the enthus
iastic support of the community,
was here Tuesday, announcing that
the opening of the bank would be
j celebrated Monday in great style,
with band music and a big barbe
-1 cue dinner for all comers.
Get the word out. Boys. The
Captain promises to see to it that
we don’t lack for something good
j to eat, and the Captain’s word is
about as good as a geld bond.
HARD SURFACE REACHES
PITTSBORO ON HIGHWAY
Mere Than Half of Section of 75
Between Pittsboro and Chapel
Hill New Hardsurfaced.
When Zeigler Brothers began
operations on laying the pavement
upon route 75 and began on the
middle ground between Chapel Hill
| and Pittsboro, it was estimated that
i the section toward Pittsboro would
be completed by October 1, and 10,
; the concrete surface touched noses
with the old hardsurface at the
northern edge of town Wednesday,
two days before the fiist of Oc
tober.
The last two days brought a city
1 hubbub into the quiet lanes of the
old town. The crushed stone pile
just above town that had been sup
! posed sufficient to finish the job.
gave out when there was a section
of 2,000 feet to lay, and the strug
gling locomotive on the branch qf
I. the S.A.L. had to groan its way j
! with heavy train loads of rocks and
sand from Moncure up the hills to |
Pittsboro.
Monday evening, the great grab-
I it-up machine used for loading
! stone and gravel nosed itself into
town on its caterpillar truck and!
finally stationed itself where it
could gobble up the carloads of
sand and gravel from the car at the
j depot, and all during the night it
was reaching into the cars with
1 great grabs and filling the bodies
j j
i of the snorting and rumbling trucks |
! conveying the material to the field '
j of operations just out of town. The j
| noise was comparable to those that j
i disturb the slumbers of Pittsbo-1
j
rians when they perchance spend a
night in a busy city.
Zeigler Brothers have a great
outfit and their work moves along
as smoothly as perfect machinery
1 and a perfect organization make
! possible.
All the while Frank Page,
though his alert agents, has had his
eye upon the character and quantity
of the material going into the road
i bed. At the rock and sand piles one
! man has watched the proportions,
! while another has kept his eye upon
I the advancing layer of concrete,
j The engineering force, directed by
I Mr. Kennedy, has preceded, deter
mining locations and marking lev
els.
. The several groups of men and
machines, in fact, appear to have
been perfectly coordinated, making
the whole one great, steadily mov
ing machine.
“It’s as plain as the nose on your
face,” said the tactless idiot as he
tried to explain something to his
sweetie.
Bank Organization
Already Effected
i * >
While final arrangements for
the charter were underway
Tuesday, the organizers of the
Bank of Moncure were assured
that the demands of the corp
j oration commission were about
j fully complied with. The full
' $25,000 of stock is subscribed
and paid in. Officers have been
| elected; Capt. Wissler as presi
dent; W. F. Bland, president of
the discontinuing Farmers’
bank, vice-president; W. L.
Langley, cashier of the Farm
ers’ Bank, cashier; Miss Mary
Bland, assistant cashier.
The opening of the bank will
I be auspiciously celebrated Mon
day with band music and a
barbecue, and, presumably,
speeches.
Hurrah for Moncure.
Baptists Launch Big
Drive For Funds
Plan to Raise About 81,500,000.00
As A Centennial Memorial As
Close of 100 Years Organized
The Centennial Campaign Com
mittee of the Sandy Creek Associa- j
tion held their first meeting Tues-1
day night in the Baptist!
church at Sanford in order to make
i |
Teague, the chairman of the com- j
I mittee, called the meeting and pre-!
plans for their work. Mr. D. B. ;
sided. Others present were Mrs.
June Gunter, Sanford, Mrs. G. B.
Emmerson, Bear Creek, Miss Lucile
Loving, Cameron, Mrs. R. G. Far
i rell, Aberdeen, Mrs. P. H., St.
Clair, Sanford, Mr. Jas. L. Griffin,
Pittsboro, Mr. M. J. Jordan, Gulf, :
Mr. A. S. Ballard,,Aberdeen, Mr. T.
IT. Lanier, Jonesboro, Mr. D. E.
Murchison, Rev. G. C. Phil-;
iips, Bear Creek,fßev. O. A. Keller,;
Jonesboro, W. A. Crabtree, Chas. C.;
Cheek, S. J. Husketh, J. A. Over- j
ton, Chas. P. Rogers and C. H. Rid- !
die of Sanford. Some others were
unavoidably detained.
! The Centennial Campaign is a!
movement among the Baptists of
North Carolina to celebrate the!
of/Ane hundred years of or-!
! gamized ypi& in this state by rais
ing a fund of 81,500,000.00 to;
strengthen their seven colleges and I
schdols. *A'he State Convention was 1
J organized in 1930 and the plan is I
i to raise this educational fund this
fall in subscriptions which shall be
| paid in full by 1930, in order to ob- j
; serve the Centennial in that year
with the schools greatly strength- j
ened.. 4
r* • ,
! Hon. O. ,Max Gardner is chair
| man of the movement throughout
the statb and he has appointed Mr.
Teague to be chairman in this asso
ciation. Mr. Teague in turn is ask
; ing each church in the Associatiaon
to appoint a Centennial Campaign
chairman and a key woman. Mrs. I
June Gunter of Sanford has been
appointed as head of the women’s
division of the Campaign in the as
sociation. She is assisting in the
; work by selecting the key women
; to work with the church chairmen
j in perfecting their plans and com
j mittees.
The next step in behalf of this
movement will be a great meeting
i at Meredith College, Thursday eve
ning, Sept. 15th at 6:30. The girls
at the college will serve a compli
mentry supper. There will be rep
resentatives at this meeting from
all sections of the state. Invita
tions to this meeting are being sent
to all the pastors, chairmen and key
women of all the Baptist Churches
of the Sandy Creek Association. Mr. j
Teague is hoping for a large dele
gation from the Sanford Creek at!
this meeting.
The seven Colleges and schools
for which the Centennial Campaign
Fund is being raised are as follows: I
Wake Forest, Meredith, Campbell
(formerly Buies Creek) Chowan of
Murfreesboro, Mars Hill, Wingate
Junior College and Boiling Springs
High School, Forty five thousand
boys and girls have been educated
in these schools in the past and the
enrollment for the coming year is
the largest yet recorded, v
— . j,'
Speeding Motorist: How about
calling it square for $5 ?
POE TO SPEAK
Distinguished Son of Chatham To
Deliver Address at Fair Next
Tuesday.
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It is gratifying to learn that Edi- j
s ; i
tor Clarence Poe of the Progressive
Farmer will deliver an address at
the opening of the Chatham county
fair next Tuesday. Dr_ Poe is one
of Chatham’s most distinguished
I sons and it is exceedingly appro- 1
priate that; he speak on this occas- j
ion. Knowing Chatham as he does i
and chug full of farm lore as he is,
and the address coming at a transi
tion period in Chatham county
farming, the address should be of
great value and should be heard by
as many Chatham farmers as pos
sible.
Chatham’s Forage
Crop Is Great One
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i
County Agent Advises Selection of
j
Seed Corn in Field—Lespedeza i
Proves Success Early planted j
Oats Best.
This week, the county agent has
I visited a number of fields which
j was sown in Lespedeza, or Japan
j clover, last spring and the preced
| ing one. Judging from the growth
i this crop has made, especially on
| very poor soil, I believe that it is
; the best hay, pasture, or soil im
; proving crop that can be grown in
this county. It is particularly
adapted to the soil of this county, 1
as the wild strain has been grown
here for sometime.
The seed for these demonstra-;
stions were in most cases obtained
,in Mississippi, and this strain
i
shews considerable more growth i
j than cur native strain. Lespedeza .
[seed should be drilled or sown in ;
! late February or March. If drilled,
; 12 pounds of seed per acre are re- ;
: quired, if sown, one bushel of seed
; per acre are required. It is not
necessary to the land, aside !
j from harrowmg. &
•'Chatham countyJfe' preparing for
the greatest crop in its history j
i this fall. I have steen a number of
! farmers who are actually construct-!
ing additional barn room for their l
hay; others who have not sufficient
barn room are curing and stacking
; soy bean hay in the field. Several
I farmers, having harvested enough
hay for their needs, are turning un
der a few acres of soy beans, in
tending to follow this in corn next
spring. L
On Monday, Prof. E. C. Blair and !
' the county agent held a seed corn |'
! selection demonstration at the i!
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county home. ’ Ten farmers in the ‘
vicinity of the county home attend- j (
ed this meeting. Prof. Blair em- j'
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phasizzed the necessity of selecting j
seed corn in the field rather than in !
the crib. He «aid further, that in '
| selecting seejd corn,. the following
factors should be taken into con
sideration; selection of an ear free !
from diseasq, medium distanced on
the stalk with a tight husk, short
shank, and well covered at the tip.
The stalk should be of medium
height, rather stocky, with broad
blades. The ears should be hang
ing down, with the tips towards the
ground, and corn should be selected
from stalks bearing two good ears.
Seed fro mthis selection should be j
planted in a seed patch, and the 1
best seed corn possible should be
selected from this seed patch each
year.
The opportunity is being taken
here again to emphasize the ne
cessity of every farmer in the coun-
I ty sowing winter cover crops, and
I hay crops. Proper preparation of
! the land, earliness of sowing and
proper fertilization are the three
factors to observe in sowing fall
grain and hay crops this year. Es-
I pecially does earliness apply to the
sowing of oats. Experiments con
ducted year after year show a much
higher yield of oats when sown on
October 1 than on successive later
dates. Fertilization is also impor
tant, and on our red soil, it must be
remembered that a sufficient
amount of Acid Phosphate is abso
lutely necessary for the best growth
of wheat and oats. Some iarmers
use a 16-4-2 fertilizer under wheat
on our red soil, .others using a 12-
Wake Forest (College
Gets SIO,OOO From
Mrs. Seaman’s Est’e
Daughter of Renowned Missionary,
M. T. Yates, Remembers Her F.a
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ther’s College—Baptist Orphan*
age Gets $5,000.
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Forty minutes’ ride from Pitts
boro, just over In Wake, was born
j Matthew T. Yates, who became the
| first missionary to China from
North Carolina, ana was forty or
fifty years recognized as one of the
outstanding world characters, not
only establishing the first Baptist
church in China but winning dis
tinction as a representative of the
British government during our war
of 1861-65, when he was cut off
from support by the Southern Bap
tist convention, and later serving
the United States as vice consul i
general in China, and being offered
higher posts.
Being a man of unusual business'
instincts, he invested his spare cash N
so successfully that he became inde
pendent of the support of the
churches at home and served as j
missionary for many years with- j
out salary. I
He died in 1887, in the arms of i
a first-cousin of the editor of the j
Record, closing a life full of ser
vice and honors. He left one daugh-'
ter, who had married a Mr. Sea-i
man, a man of wealth. It is she
who by her last will and testament
has left to Wake Forest the hand
some sum of SIO,OOO as a memorial
to her father.
Out of his moderate means Dr.
Yates made no small contributions
to Wake Forest Colleke: $250 in
1875; SI,OOO in 1878; S2OO in 1886;
and $4,350 in 1887. During his last
years he was forming plans for the
larger endowment of the college,and
the year of his death he wrote Dr.
Charles E. Taylor, “I delight to
pray for Wake Forest College.”
This interest was the inheritance of
Mrs. Seaman, his daughter, who
has now, “as a memorial to her fa
ther,” left this SIO,OOO bequest to
Wake Forest.
In her will Mrs. Seaman made
special bequests to the amount of
$90,000. Among North Carolina
beneficiaries of the will are the
i
Thomasville Baptist Orphanage,
$5,000; Ann-ie Seaman Jones, of Sal- 1
isbury, $5,000; to the daughters of
her late cousin, Susan Wempe
Carleton, deceased, of Durham,
$10,000; to the children of her
uncle, Lucian B. Yates, $10,000; to
the children of her aunt, Betty Lane!
Johnson, $10,000; to Cornelia Nor-i
riss, of Raleigh, 5,000; to Elsie
Hunter, of Raleigh, the only daugh- j
ter of her cousin, Emma Hunter,;
$5,000. The residuary estate,which |
includes all real estate, both in the
United States and in China, and i
much Oriential furniture, .embroid
eries, screens, wall hanging, and
curios, is left to her daughter, Miss
Josephine Gaskin Seaman. W. S. |
Yates of Raleigh, is one of the six 1
children of the Lucian B. Yates re
ferred to.
The psychology class at the Uni-1
versity cf Minnesota is teaching;
worms and mice to turn to the j
right. If it succeeds in teaching;
traffic observance to these higher j
forms of life, the class hopes next
to experiment pedestrains.—
Chicago Tribune.
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4-2. For best results, use three
hundred pounds per acre of one of
the above formulae. Lime, when
applied with wheat or oats in the
fall will also increase yields and
where clover or alfalfa is being
planted, it is almost necessary to
use lime. Our grey and light soils
require more potash than is shown
in the above mixtures, a mixture
as 10-3-6 may be used in this case.
Top dressing in the spring with
Soda or Ammonium Sulphate at the
rate of 75-100 pounds per acre in
creases yields also. Some farmers
prefer to use Acid alone in the fall,
and top dress with Sulphate of Am
monia or Nitrate of Soda in the
spring.
(By N. C. Shiver, County Ageht.
September 24, 1927.)
In office, Saturdays and first
Mondays.
VOLUME NO. 4*
ft. R. SEEK TO
RAISE RAM
’ Proposals For Change In
sification Generally Mean
Increased Charges
Raleigh, Sept 24—Proposals
changes in classification in a large
.
number of items of freight in the
Southeastern territorv have not >et
\
been made to the Inters*.ate Com
merce Commission by the railroads, -
according to Corporation
sioner A. J. Maxwell, who returned
yesterday from Washington, but
the carriers are holding hearings
on their own he ok.
Mr. Maxwell went to Washing
ton to attend a hearing relative t<J>
* refrigeration charges from the
| Southern territory. This investiga
tion is being made by tne iutaouN
| Commerce Commission, and Mr
; Maxwell believes will result in sub«
' stantial reductions in charges in
many cases.
Mr. Maxwell was in Atlanta last
week to attend a meeting of the
j railroad commissioners of the
j Southeast. They discussed the pro
posals of the carriers, but as they
are not yet before the Interstate
Commerce Commission, no action
was taken. The Southern Traffic
I League, meeting at the same time
and place, adopted resolutions call
ing on the Interstate Commerce
Commission to conduct an investi
gation of its own instead of leaving
lit up to the carriers.
The proposals for changes in
classification by the carriers gen
erally would mean an increase by
lifting items from a lower to a
higher class though there are some
adjustments proposed. The car
riers propose to put these changes
in classifications into effect at the
same time as the change in the
rates schedules from the Southeast
ern territory to the Middle West,
which have been ordered by the
I.C.C.
Adoption of the new rate sched
ules into the Middle West under
order of the
Commission will have the effect of
making changes in classification
apply to through freight from the
I Southeast to the Middle West. For
, this reason the proposals have
more than a sectional interest.
The proposals for change in classi
fication do not involve changes in
rates except as they are involved in
changes in classification.
The Interstate Commerce Com
-1 . #
mission recently rejected the pro
posals of the carriers for changes
: in its order for changes in freight
] schedules from the Southeast to the
! Middle Order, and the changed or
dered to be made by it, resulting
lin substantial reductions in many
; instances, are due to go into effect
about the first of the year.
Shippers in North Carolina and
i other Southern States are taking
I steps to oppose changes in classifi
cation of freight, which would have
1 the effect in many instances*©fv«ul
jlifying the reductions secured in the
i order of the I.C.C. of April 13, 1926,
sand supplemental order of July 19,
1 1926, as a result of the Southern
| Freight Rate Investigation.
Corporation Commissioner A. J.
■ Maxwell took an active part in the
fight to secure reductions in freight
rates that would place North Caro
lina on a parity with Virginia cities,
| which have long had more favorable
rates to Middle Western territory,
and he wrote an able answer for the
North Carolina Corporation Com
mission opposing the changes pro
posed by the carrier.
CLINTON OIL WELL BUB
BLE IS EXPLODED
Herman Bryson, State Geologist,
scored again in his war on project
ed oil wells in North Carolina when
Jeffrey Stanback, chemist of the
State Department of Agriculture,
reported that a sample of oil said to
be taken from the well near Clinton
was not crude oil.
The ‘oil” was “discovered” in
the well shortly after some of the
drillers were indicted for violating
the prohibition laws..
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