yHCA / ffcPW VOLUMN 3 Assembly Gets j Touchy Bills On ! .Highways, Taxes RALEIGH (IP) The Sen ate Roads Committee recei ved Gov. William R. Urn stead’s touqhy proposal for reorganization of the State Highway Commission today and 25 senators opened a fight for personal state in come tax reductions as the Assembly approach wed the hall-way mark pf its 1953 session. The Senate group, headed by Sen. James H. Pou Bailey of Raleigh Introduced a bill to provide for auto-’ matlc income tax reduction when general fund revenues exceed budget estimates in a fiscal year. Under the proposal, budget offi cials set their estimate of revenue for the year as a mark. If the rev enues exceed the estimate, then the will issue a proclamation reducing all schedules of the in come tax by a perecntage sufficient to absorb the general fund surplus. TAX CREDIT The reduction would be In the form of a credit for each income taxpayer to be applied to the tax due for the calendar year ending immediately after the fiscal year in . which the surplus existed. The tax return forms would Indicate -.the percentage credit to be applied ‘ Wen tax bills. ,' The bill Is modeled after Vir ginia’s unique Byrd Automatic Tax Reduction Act. The Virginia law written in 1949 by State Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr., son of that state’s sen ior senator, has given Virginia tax payers tax reductions each year since it was enacted. Bailey said the bill “will have the effect oi; reducing personal and business taxes whenever such reduc 2>tion is possible without reducing * necessary services. It should aid the . work of future legislators and great ly encourage business in this state.” WELFARE RECORDS In short session test night the Senate received a bill which would open welfare records to public in spectlon in North Carolina. Sen. Fred H. Mclntyre of Char lotte introduced the measure that) would require registration four times welfare MBs public records in the office of each superior court clerk. •Republican. Rep. Ralph R. Fisher asked for higher pensions Jot wi dows of Confederate veterans. Un der Fisher’s bl-U a disabled widow would get $720 a year from the state instead of S6OO and others would get $372 Instead of $312. The Senate gave final passage to ‘Continued on Pago 7) * Play makers To Be At Campbell When the Carolina Playmakers open their production of ‘The In spector General” in the D. Rich Memorial Auditorium at Campbell College on Monday February 16, they will be. In effect, continuing their fine tradition of folk comedy. *W* “The Inspector General” is full of delightful characters; officiate with discriminating sense In the fine points of petty graft and brib ery; ladies of rural society; and especially the Petersburg bookkeeper who enjoys to the fullest, his pri vilege as the supposed Inspector Gred Young, who plays this character, will be familiar td many in the audience as last season's * Old Rom In the Paul Green sump * honlc drama "The Lost Colony.” Directed by Harry Davis, the presentation will be sponsored by the Campbell College Concert Association. Bundy To Speak At * Rotary Ladies Nite Sam D. Bundy of Farmville, one of the State's best known aftje dlnner speakers, will address a lA • dies’ Night banquet of the Du* Rotary Club on Friday night at 7 o’clock at Johnson’B Restaurant.- Plans for the ladles’ night event" were announced here this morning by Earl H. Mahone, chairman of the club’s program committee for thttj said he felt the club | was unsually fortunate In securing Mr. Bundy as the speaker. He Is in | great demand and has spoken to, business, professional, fraternal, civ- j ic, church and school groups'to the Dr.’ Charlie Byrd, club president. I will preside over the programandj the speaker will be introduced by »& tieSzTJjzr a , j (Caottoaed a* page tire) TELEPHONES; 3117 • 311$ • 3119 ;j L V.. • fill I w VSNhHPPWPf’’ wKBmKKKKKm: HOMECOMING QUEEN Miss Mildred Clayton was crowned Varsity Queen on Friday night as LiUington High School observed its first Homecoming. The pretty queen was the choice of the boys basketball team from seven pretty contestants. She Is shown with Leo McDonald, captain of the boys’ team, as he placed the crown on her head at the half. Basketball games between the boys and girls teams of Llllington and Erwin highlighted the event. Winners were Erwin girls and LiUington boys. A dance foUowed to the V. F. W. hut. Student participation was fair, alumni turn-out disappointing. But sponsors said, "It’s a start to a better celebration next year.” (Daily Record photo by T. M. Stewart). Golf Club Several Plans farjjffee sprite «nd tum oral big and cblofful golf tourae mente slated-*were made at a joint meeting of the. board of directors and the tournament and publicity ; committees of Chioora Country dub 1 here last night. The meeting was held at the of ' flee of Vice President Willard Mix on at Pope and Mixon Building Supply Company nere. President Guyton Smith presided. John R. Dalrymple is chairman of the tournament committee and Gravel Pit Damage Suit Still Pending Plaintiffs in the $60,000 civil, suit 1 against the Superior Stone Co. of 1 Raleigh arising out of the drown ing of a’ four-year-old child, wIU 1 continue evidence today in Harnett L Superior Court. Melvin Brown of Dunn is seeking ' compensation for the accidental death of his son, William Gilbert I Brown on January 18, 1952. He al -1 leges the company was negligent 1 to allowing a gravel pit hole to be . come a public hazard. Die small child was drowned to a water hold ! on the gravel pH operated by the , stope company. t * Yesterday found the plaintiffs seeking support for testimony ; for - _ . • : v ,; . jmmr a mmm. 73 I (lJ rl .rfr- » Planning Tourney^ & were outlined last night for a Spring Handicap Tournament to late April or early May. a club Tournament in September and Oct ober, a big Field Day in July, a Ladles Tournament and for a num ber of other tournament events. Dates for the tournaments and other events will' be announced la ter. SUPPER MEETING SET On next Monday night, a gen (Con tinned On Page Six) the contention that the gravel pit, located near Baersville, was a pop ular gathering place for children. Cross examination by defense at torneys showed the stone company was equally busy trying to prove that the water hole was in an iso lated spot. Witnesses who testified yesterday were Dallas Stewart a‘ night watch man at the gravel pit, Joe And rews, 18-year-old Dunn high school student. M. M. Whittington and Leonard McLeod; Stewart said he visited the com pany office in (toe gravel pit area 1' nightly and that he went down of • ten in the afternoons and had seen children playing there many times. He also testified he "stepped off” the distance from the “shanty” where the T3rown family lived and the hole and found it 90 feet. - On cross examination Stewart ad : mitted that he had served time on the roads for selling liquor. How ever, he also insisted he had seen children in the gravel pit, but would not go so far as to say he I' saw any child lees than four or five years of age. [ Andrews said on direct exam r ation he had visited the gravel pit I -rea many times and that the pit I ad been tor years a favorite place t o play. ' l Singer Is Fined [ $2,400 For Parking tickets Violations I NEW YORK m -1» was a sad | piece es cake the judre dished up I bit with her recording- of “If I I Knew C^minvrd^ I During his stay ltt Dunn, of the town. He was acttvejßf ■ ■ the Methodist Church. «•« chairman of the Board of >Ofl| and Evangelism ofthe local ehffl|g C daughter of Mr. and RPresswood. They have