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Raleigh Round-Up Scott Is Not Displeased Over Alvin Wingfield's Entry In Senate Race By KIDD BREWER NOTES ON ALVIN . . . Don’t start scheme-dreaming in your thinking about Alvin Wingfield’s decision to run for the U. S. Sen ate. Kerr Scott didn’t have anything to do with it. It would suit Scott all right if nobody were running ex cept him and Sen. Alton Lennon. You may be sure that neither Len non nor any of his folks were in on the decision. They would have much preferred that Wingfield stay out of it Well, you ask, then just what happened? Nothing, really, outside of Wingfield’s mind. He just de cided he wanted to be the junior U. S. senator from North Carolina. Anything wong with that? He’s free, white, and of age. He had, apparently, the $250 filing fee. Don’t try to read any deals, any cloak-and-dagger smoke-filled room plans into the statement. There were none. There are none. Scott people were at first pleased with the announcement. They still are not too unhappy about it. The House of Lennon was seen to sway slightly like a tall pine in a May fceeze. But it recovered quickly enough. Its recovery became com plete when Wingfield’s Wake coun ty courthouse talk here attracted 63 people last Friday night. The Lennon people ieei uiai Wingfield’s entry may push the contest into a second pimary. There are four men—not all of them bad, either — running be sides Scott, Lennon, and Wingfield. They are Olla Ray Boyd, whom you have no doubt head of before, A. E. Turner, H. L. Sprinkle, and W. M. Bostick. We understand that Turner plans to spend some money and that Sprinkle has plenty to spend if he wants to, so don’t sell these fellows short just because you have never heard of them. Ten years ago you clidn’t even know Adlai Stevenson existed, and now look. Anyway, Lennon people say there will be a second primary — and that’s just the briarpatch they’re looking for. BURGEON . . . With Spring busting out all over and momen tous things in the air for educa tion in North Carolina and else where, there is a word with which all good Tar Heels should become familiar — and an interesting story in connection with it. Ever heard of “burgeon?” Chances are you have not in all your horn days uttered the word in ordinary conversation. Odds are just as great that you have never heard it used except pos sibly in some address. Well, a burgeon is a bud. To burgeon is to commence growth in the bud. The word has become peculiarly North Carolina’s be cause one man made it famous 40 years ago. It ranks in importance right along with “equal,” “inde pendence,” and “feedom” with us NOTICE State of North Carolina, County of Transylvania. The undersigned, having quali fied as Administrator of the es tate of Bertha E. Tinsley, deceased, late of Transylvania County, North Carolina, this is to notify all per sons having claims against said es tate to present them properly veri fied to the undersigned on or be fore the 1st day of April, A. D., 1955, at his office in Brevard, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All persons indebted to said es tate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This 26th day of March, 1954. THOMAS R. ELLER, Administrator of the Es tate of Bertha E. Tinsley, Deceased. 4-l-6tc USE ANY KIND OF FUEL YOU CHOOSE^ WE'LL CHASE AWAY THOSE FURNACE 8UJES, 7m licked' e LOCAL TRADEMARKS* tefe 8-2121 PREtflEMBORME #Jk*PLf/MBlN&4 HEATING ^auu'su * •L'^' 4 • • • BRE VaTc N.C. in this state. Gov. Chales B. Ay cock pleaded in one of his speech es for “the equal right of every child born on earth to burgeon out all that is within him.” But it wasn’t until some 20 years after his death that chil dren of tobacco-growing Colum bus, for instance, had school fa cilities equal to those available to the children of tobacco-manu facturing Forsyth. This came on ly after the state took over the Schools 20 years ago. And the burgeoning in many areas has been retarded until recently because of inadequate schoolhouses. Many a county in this state neglected their school buildings for colored children until the state first appropriated funds and voted bonds for school plants in 1949. QUOTES . . . Writing in the News and Observer last week, Col umnist Marguerite Smethurst said she was suprised to find in “The Life and Speeches of Charles B. Aycock” by Clarence Poe and R. D. W. Connor the phrase “to bur geon out all that is within him” set off by quotation marks. Did Aycock borrow the state ment from some great word mer chant of another era? Not at all, it developed. Clarence Poe came for ward with the explanation in a let ter to Mrs. Smethurst. Dr. Poe, now famous, middle-aged and semi-re tired, married one of Aycock’s daughters. They were in a hurry to get started to Europe on their wedding trip. “In preparing the manuscript of his last speech . . . instuctions to put this phrase in italics so as to emphasize it somehow got mis phrased into ‘put into quotes’,” wrote Dr. Poe to Mrs. Smethurst. The quotes stayed there, for Dr. Poe never got to check on the book after it was set in type. It may surprise you to know that Aycock never made the speech from which the quotation was lift ed. Ready to run for the U. S. Sen ate, he dictated the address for the announcement of his candidacy, but died in Birmingham, Ala., while making a speech there and thus never delivered, in the usual sense of the word, the great “equal and burgeon” address. BYRDIAN . . . When you hear Kerr Scott doing any talkink about saving money, you may know he is running for public of fice. Henry Flood Byrd and W. Kerr Scott are, ordinarily, about as much alike as Sen. Joe McCarthy and Adlai Stevenson. But last week in Clayton when Scott said that Uncle Sam could save upwards of §300,000,000 by investing some of its idle money instead of letting it sleep in New York banks, he was snuggling right up close to Byrd. Scott knows a good campaign point when he sees one. Politics makes strange bedfellows. We know certain folks who yell loud enough to be heard from here to the barn at the mere mention of Byrd’s name. They love Scott like a schoolboy loves his pie, like an old Ken tucky colonel loves his rock and rye. It may surprise Kerr Scott to find that Harry Byrd has been plucking for years on the same strings now being harped on by the gentleman from Alamance. As the Greensboro Daily News said editorially last Saturday: “It doesn’t make much sense to give them (the banks) several million dollars a year when the govern ment deficit is increasing, and government should be doing ev erything it can to get its expen ditures in balance.” What we’re getting at, too, is that this is the first time we have heard Kerr Scott say any thing about saving money since his campaign for governor in 1948. Right now he’s a little Byrdian. He’s likely to remain that way right on until May 28— or a month thereafter. But to paraphrase an old song: Will he love us in December as he does in May? Will he love us in that same old Byrdian way? GOOD THING . . . Parents and teachers having difficulty persuad ing some children to study and to attend school regularly would do well to quote from the December 31, 1953, records of the N. C. Pro bation Commission. There were 4,113 under proba tion in North Carolina for various crimes. Of this number, 3,308 had never been to high school. Only 77 of the 4,113 probationers had re ceived any training beyond high school. Only 19 of the more than 4,000 were college graduates. This would seem to indicate that education is, after all, really a pret ty good thing, don’t you think? TIP . . . Watch it. That inno cent looking little green car away back there behind you may be a patrolman. Those wires across the road may be there to check your speed. Be safe. Drive carefully. Band Now Giving Spring Concerts During the past several weeks the Brevard high school band has been busy preparing for its spring concert season. Two appearances have already been made. At the last regular meeting of the high school P-TA the band pre sented a 30 minute program of mu sic. The selections ranged from Sousa’s marches to Larghetto by Handel. The band traveled to Asheville on Tuesday, March 23, for their first concert at Lee Edwards high school. After playing for a very enthusiastic and appreciative audi ence, the group enjoyed hearing the Asheville band rehearse for thir next concert. United States farmers produced a total of 352.8 million pounds of clean alfalfa, lespedeza, timothy and red, alsike and sweetclover seed in 1953. Animal proteins such as those in meat, milk and eggs are not dam aged by cooking and some are im proved. Marshalls Chosen For Graduation Eight marshalls for graduation exercises have been chosen from I the junior class. They are as fol lows: Nancy Pickelsimer, chief; Jean Pickelsimer, Patsy Duncan, Beverly Hargis, Vivian Hollings worth, Diane Younghusband, Clif ton Metcalf and Eugene Baker. All marshalls must maintain an all “A” average through their third year in high school. TRY TIMES WANT ADS! William Edwards Is Given A Promotion William N. Edwards, 21, son of Mrs. Josey Edwards, Route 1, Pis* gah Forest, recently was promoted to corporal while serving in Ger* many with the 43rd Infantry divis* ion’s 169th Regiment. The “Winged Victory” division is receiving intensive training in southern Germany as part of the U. S. Seventh army. Edwards was employed by the [Dodge Maine before entering the [army in January, 1953. Essential to You-Your Family-Your Country In Order to Keep Blood Supply Available and Assure Meeting the Blood Needs of Those Participating In the Program, a Change In Policy Now Becomes Necessary On the Following Basis: That there will continue to be no charge for blood given through Red Cross. The only charge made to the patient re ceiving this blood will be the usual administrative charge covering the sterile tray, cross matching, administering, and supplies and transportation, which is a hospital charge made by all hospitals through out the nation. That a card be issued to each donor to cover the blood needs for husband or wife, dependent children and/or dependent pa rents, for a period of one year. That Red Cross will meet the blood needs of all dire emer gencies and certain hardship cases regardless of that per son’s coverage. That a reserve of 5% of blood collected be made available for natural disasters. That repeat donors, already covered themselves, may dedi cate their second and other do nations to someone else who may need protection. That Gallon Club members have protection to last for the duration of the Red Cross Blood Program. Therefore, they may dedicate all subsequent dona tions to others unable to pro vide blood for themselves. THIS SPACE CONTRIBUTED BY Ecusta Paper Corporation SUBSIDIARY OF OLIN INDUSTRIES, INC. PISGAH FOREST, N. C. That if 35% of an organized group, with a membership of 25 or more (either employees or members), give blood, all members of the group will be granted protection for a period of one year. No blood donor may be counted in more than one group. IMPORTANT—That since the program is open to everyone who wants to protect his or her family, and also help his fel lowman, those who do not give blood and who do not hold a current donor certificate when admitted to the hospital, will be asked to get PRIOR TO THE OPERATION (unless it is a dire emergency) a donor for each pint of blood expected to be needed. This is the only fair means of maintaining an ade quate supply for the families of card holders. FOR BLOOD DONORS AND THEIR FAMILIES Expires Blood Group RH Factor Record Of Blood Donations Date Place Initials TO HOSPITAL: This card entitles the donor and his immediate family (husband, wife, dependent children, dependent parents) to Red Cross blood without obligation to replace or pay for blood. 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