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Raleigh Round-Up Kerr Scott’s Guessing Game Sure Sign He Plans To Run By KIDD BREWER ON FEB. 10 ... On February 10, says W. Kerr Scott of Haw River, he will announce publicly his long-awaited decision about running for the U. S. Senate seat now held by Alton A. Lennon. Scott has received a lot of pub licity via the guessing game. That is, thousands upon thousands of words have been written within the past year as to whether he would actually become a candidate. Now all that kind of writing must cease come February 10. A smart politician, Scott has carried uncertainty to the limit. Since he is a blitzkrieg campaigner, he can keep you on the fence until you know not whence—or something. That he has already made up his mind to run, however, was indicat ed here last week. It didn’t get in the papers, but Bill Whitley visit ed at least two Raleigh printing concerns—names on request—can didly stating he was obtaining price lists for various types of printing and advertising to be used in W. Kerr Scott’s campaign for the U. S. Senate. Whitley may have been out ex ploring on his own, but it is doubt ful. And, you ask, just who is Bill Whitley? Well, he was last in the limelight as publicity man for one William B. Umstead in the spring of 1952. RUMORS . . . Bob Thompson, former editor of the High Point Enterprise, is now operating one of Raleigh’s most popular public relations firms. Associated with Bob in the firm is good wife Bess who is said by some to be a more adroit word handler than her husband. But Bob suits us to a T, and we miss his writings. He is still on radio, though, and nearly every body in political Raleigh delays lunch a little on Sunday to hear him on WRAL. He always has something interesting. A couple of Sundays back, for instance, he said that Gov. William B. Umstead had at last found a slot for Alton A. Lennon. Brother Bob went on to ex plain that ihe governor felt he had made a mistake in naming Lennon to the U. S. Senate—fine talk here just a few weeks prior to February 10 — and that he would name him to the State Supreme court vacancy to be cre ated when Chief Justice Devin steps down this spring. On the other hand, the rigid word around Raleigh last week end was that Kerr Scott had def initely decided not to run for the senate, but would on February 10 announce Dr. Frank Graham’s candidacy. Those who reported When you think of preserip tions, think of VARNTR’S.—adv this latter rumor always began it by saying . . now this is graveyard, but . . and ended with . I got it straight . . And to all such chatter and graveyard items a sleepy ho hum. LOOKING INTO IT . . . For three or four weeks now we have been hammering away on the strange relationship between Caro lina Motor club and the state of North Carolina. We have reported how numerous state employees have been provid ed with memberships which in clude insurance programs. All at no cost. We concluded by pointing out that this setup is unfair to oth er insurance companies and saying that the whole thing would bear looking into—. Well, at least one large daily pa per—of course without mentioning this column — last week started doing that very thing. The more it looked, the worse it got. The thing will take more hammering to get to the bottom of the pile. Of the many letters we have re ceived, I want to quote one which is rather typical from Forest City: “The Forest City Courier runs your weekly column and I enjoy reading it very much, and espe cially did I appreciate the discus sion in the December 30th issue of the Courier in regard to the Carolina Motor club as you are cor rect in every statement you made about that firm ... I am going to discuss this matter with our board, and hope that something can be done through our association and agents over the country, as it is not fair to the agents of North Carolina for them (Carolina Motor club) to have a monopoly on the insurance business.” The writer concludes his letter by saying he is sending a copy of it to S. G. Otstot, executive secre tary of the N. C. Association of In surance Agents and “trust that something can be done in this state about this unfair competition.” ILLEGAL, TOO ... To every body who has written me about this unique and altogether charming partnership between North Carolina and a privately owned enterprise, a hearty thank you. But one more thing. It it definitely against the law' to give away insurance. Yes, it’s a violation of the law to provide free insurance. We are so inform ed by the State Insurance depart ment. Well, then, it would seem to us that the Carolina Motor club is in flagrant violation of the law in providing free club member ships carrying with them free in surance policies. What about that, Charlie Gold? HALF-A-MILLION ... The other day we were looking over a news Every ounce of JFG Special coffee is "PREMIUM FIAVOR" coffee! §JFG SPECIAL The besf part of the meal paper in another state when we ran across this filler down there at the end of an article we were reading: “In North Carolina, Lloyd A. Griffin has traveled nearly a half million miles in the last 20 years to teach Sunday school. His office is in Raleigh and his Sunday school is in his old home of Edenton, 144 miles away.” That’s right, Fill — and it’s a much better item than one like there were 180 million kangaroos hatched in Australia last year or some such drivel. Lloyd Griffin came to the State Senate in 1933 —and hasn’t been around home in Edenton too much since then. In 1935 he was made executive secre tary of the now-extinct State School Commission, which was a real power in its day. When Gov ernor Broughton came in, Griffin resigned. In 1942 he formed the N. C. Citizens association. Griffin’s wife teaches school in Edenton. He has maintained the same old, modest but comfortable home, going to Edenton each week end by bus, and back to Raleigh again on Monday morning. For years now his room has been on Blount street — just across the street from the governor’s man sion, geographically — but often closer than that. THE BIG CHANGE ... If you read the paper even a little bit or listen to the radio at all, you know something about “The Big Change.’' The big change is a program being pushed by the N. C. Bank ers association. It points up the changes which have occurred in this state within the past 50 years. Most of these changes have been brought about by men like John P. Steadman of Lumberton, president of the N. C. Bankers association. The man who is mak ing you read, listen to, and talk about the Big Change is none other than our old friend, Jesse Helms, now executive secretary of the N. C. Bankers association. The bankers have them a secre tary, a speaker, a writer, and a cracking good public relations man, all tied together in Jesse Helms. NOTES . . . We were in Miami for the Orange Bowl game, visited with Jim and Edna Tatum. I pre dict he will be back in North Caro lina in some capacity — as State college coach or otherwise — with in two years. Glad to see our nominee for the past two or three years finally come through as North Carolinian for 1953. We are referring to L. V. Sutton, president of Carolina Pow er and Light Co. and chosen as N. C. Man-of-the-Year by State maga zine. What The 4-H Club Means To Me By JUDY MIMS Member Rosebud Community 4-H Club Before I joined the 4-H club I had heard quite a bit about it, but didn’t know all the wonderful things one could learn to do by be longing to it. Our club was organized last sum mer with Mrs. A. E. Norville, a member of the North Brevard Home Demonstration club as our leader. We had nine members and called ourselves the Rosebud club. Here we learned to conduct a busi ness-like meeting and working to gether. Our first project was simple sew ing. We made a needle case, a pot holder, a tea towel and an apron. I hemmed the sashes of my ap ron three times; hemmed and whipped the lace on my tea towel four times or more. Believe me, I was really proud when I won blue ribbons on these things the day we displayed our sewing at the Home Demonstration Achievement Day last fall. Our next project was cooking. There are three units in this. The breakfast, lunch and dinner units. We learn how to plan menus and then cook and serve the finished meal in this project. This gave me a thrill when I discovered I could bake biscuits al most as good as my mom’s. I want to be a dietitian when ] grow up so I feel that the 4-H clut: is really helping me get started and this means a lot to me. JUST BEGINNING A young girl, seeing names like “Surrender” and “My Sin” on the perfume counter, timidly asked the saleswoman, “Don’t you have anything for a beginner?” Wonderful Help /^Child's Cough For coughs and acute bronchitis due to colds you can now get Creomuision specially prepared for Children in anew pink and blue package and be sure: (1) Your child will like it (2) It contains only safe, proven ingredients. (3) It contains no narcotics to dis turb nature’s processes. (4) It will aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed throat and bronchial membranes, thus relieving the cough and promoting rest and sleep.. Ask for Creomuision for Chil dren in the pink and blue package. 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