CITY PLANTS CAN
SELLELECTRICITY
State Law Would Permit
Them to Sell Outside
Their Own Borders
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
15 v ,). C. BASKERVIhL
Raleigh. Feb. 26 A majority of the
cities and towns which now
iivvn and operate municipal electric
generating plants have authority un
existing laws to sell electricity to
( ~h 0!. towns and to customers in rural
districts and to build rural electrifica
tion lines. Chairman Dudley Bagley,
th' North Carolina Rural Electrifi
cation Authority, said today, as the re
milt of report just received from Dean
Malcolm McDermott, of the Duke
University law school. This report was
1: on a careful search of all the
public Local and Private Laws of
Carolina enecated between 1933
L uu j including 1935, made by students
j n the Duke University law school in
response to a request from J. L.
Horne. Jr., of Rocky Mount, a mem
,,n of the electrification authority.
Dean McDermont was asked to make
this survey for the commission after
the legal department of the Rural
Electrification Administration in
Washington had ruled that cities and
towns in North Carolina were without
authority to build electric lines ex
t nding beyond their city limits.
Law Permits It.
But this detailed report on the
search of State laws pertaining to ten
cities and towns shows that eight of
the ten have specific authority to
build transmission lines and sell elec
tee current outside the incorporated
limits of these cities and towns. In
several instances, municipalities are
given the right to build lines and sell
electricity throughout the county in
which they are located and in one
case, Lenior county, the Kinston elec-
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W. R. VAUGHAN, Agent
trie plant and other municipal plants
in Lenior county, are given the ex
clusive right to build rural lines and
r>°T? r T in the count y- (Chapter
Public-Local laws of 1929.)
Ten Cities and Towns.
The ten cities and towns included in
me survey are Kinston- Greenville,
Farmville, Fremont, Rocky Mount’,
larboro, Washington, New Bern, Wil
son and Drexel. No special laws were
found giving specific authority to
either the Wilson or Drexel plants to
engage in rural electrification, hut no
laws were found preventing them
from building lines and sellinf power
in rural areas. Bagley pointed out. In
fact, the Wilson municipal plant for
some time has been supplying power
-O several rural lines and is now con
templating the construction of many
miles of additional rural lines.
Both Greenville and Farmville have
authority under Chapter 330, Public-
Local laws of 1929, which sets up the
Greenville Electric Service District in
cluding all of Pitt county—and there
fore including Farmville—to “build
and maintain electric transmission
lines and to operate same beyond the
corporate limits of Greenville and
other towns in said district, for the
purpose of transmitting and selling
electric current throughout Pitt coun
ty.”
Kinston and other towns in Lenior
county have the same rights in Lenior
county as Greenville and Farmville
have in Pitt, under the provisions of
Chapter 346, Public-Local laws of
1929, with the added provision that
only municipal plants in the county
have the right to engage in rural elec
trification in that county, thus giving
the Kinston and other municipal
plants in the county a virtual mono
poly on both the building of and sup
plying service to rural electric lines.
Rockyi Mount's Case.
While the law with regard to the
authority of the city of Rocky Mount
to build rural lines and sell electri
city outside the city is not as clear
and specific as are those relating to
other cities, the city charter, as con
tained in Chapter 209, Private Laws
of 1907, gives the city authority to
sell electric power and water “to its
citizens and property owners and
others.” It is the belief of the electri
fication authority that the word “th
ers” gives the city of Rocky Mount
ample author to sell electric power in
rural sections, although it may not
give it authority to build rural elec
tric lines. The city of Tarboro, in
neighboring Edgecombe county, has
specific authority, under Chapter 65,
Private Laws of 1931, to engage in the
business of rural electrification and
no limit is placed on distance to which
lines may be extended and service
given.
The city of Washington, in Beaufort
county, is also given authority to en
gage in the business of rural electri
fication throughout Beaufort county
both as to the building of lines and
supplying current, under Chapter 31,
Public-Local laws of 1931. The city of
New Bern likewise is given specific
authority to build rural lines and sup
ply them with current, with the ex
ception that no limit is placed on the
distance these lines may extend.
The city of Fremont is authorized
to distribute and sell power to ad
joining towns and over and along its
transmission lines to Goldsboro.
New Law of State
To Be Promulgated
(Continued from Page One.)
Tokyo this morning by groups of sol
diers alleging that the present Japa
nese government had been drifting
away from the true spirit of Japan,
and it had usurped the prerogatives
of the emperor.
Newspaper translations of the
statement contained this passage:
“If this condition is permitted to
continue, the relation of Japan to
China, Russia, Britain and the United
States will become explosive in na
ture.”
who delivered copies of the
statement were reported to have said
that another announcement would be
issued at 5 o’clock this evening at
which time a “new law of state will
be promulgated.”
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RELISfIAL
Only Alternative Is More
Jobs; Labor Act Heads
for Supreme Court
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
New York, Feb. 26. —Relief, of
course, will have to be put on a soun
der basis. States do not desire to en
force states’ rights in regard to re
lief, there being no invasion of pri
vate property rights at stake.
This column remarked two years
ago that unless President Roosevelt
put relief and public works into the
hands of a bi-partisan commission,
he would be subject to a serious
boomerang.
It is true that relief can be admin
istered better with a local agency, but
that agency has to be part of the na
tional setup, not a hit or miss af
fair obtaining money from the Fed
eral government.
Not less organization (or regimen
tation) is required, but more, experi
enced cial workers assert. Thoroughly
organized agencies from top to bot
tom will be needed before this tre
mendous problem is conquered.
And the budget will be greatly un
balanced in the process, but the na
tion may be saved, these critics add,
admitting at the same time that re
lief is not the basis of the problem.
The real problem remains: Work for
aIL
Until, however, the economic and
social system provide for an equal
sharing of resources an dincrement,
the relief problem not merely will be
with us, but will grow, these critics
insist.
LABOR IS VICTOR
It will be recalled that Terre Haute
Ind., had a general strike for two
days last July. Then Gov. Paul V. Mc-
Nutt hurled in national guardsmen
and crushed the strike. (Martial law
was lifted only a few days ago.)
The strike concerned the bringing
in of strikebreakers by the Colum
bian Enameling and Stamping com
pany, which refused to treat with
unions.
The National Labor Relations
Board now has declared against the
company. It has ordered the company
to discharge all production employes
not employed prior to the strike last
spring, and to employ as many strik
ers as are needed.
Incidentally, companies everywhere
are testing the constitutionality of
the labor relations -board. Perhaps the
Know Your Road
The fellow who is determined to
break automobile speed records
should go to Indianapolis.
If he wants to set a new trans
continental record, let him get him
self an airplane. There is no place
on the highways for the speed de
mon.
And particularly is this true
when it comes to strange roads.
There is no excuse for excessive
speed anywhere —even on a high
way that has been traveled daily
for year after year, a highway
whose every curve and every lit
tle idiosyncrasy of engineering
has been memorized by the motor
ist. And there is less excuse for
, speed on strange highways.
Some motorists are foolish enough
to “try for a record” on highways
they have never traveled before.
They may want to get from one
city to another as quickly as the
man who travels that route regu
larly—or even more quickly. It is
a foolish thing to , attempt.
Every highway, regardless of its j
engineering excellence, has some j
peculiarities. There may be a curve j
that is npt banked just right or §
depression in the road bed that
might cause an accident to a cay
traveling at excessive speed. There
Supreme Court will declare it uncon
stitutional.
BATTLE BY SXPERTS
Republican presidential possibilities
are employing talented newspapermen
to prepare and man their publicity
fortifications.
Victory at the Cleveland convention
thus may depend on who has the best
newspaperman. Colonel Frank Knox
has an advantage—as a newspaper
publisher he is a good judge of talent.
Premier Okada and
Two Other Cabinet
Members Are Slain
(Continued from Page One.)
Office to embassies abroad stated that
Taka’nashi died of his wounds.)
A navy office communique was the
first intimation that the fleets had
been ordered out. It said the first
and second fleets were proceeding to
Tokyo and Osaka bays for the pur
pose of guarding those ports and that
they would reach their destinations
Thursday.
Coastal defense already
had arrived off Tpky© late tonight.
Premier Won Ejection
The recent parliamentary election,
which demonstrated a swing toward
liberalism in the Japanese electorate,
had established Premier Okada more
firmly in power than he had been
since his induction into office in 1934.
The young officers previously had
criticized Okada ’as not sufficiently
supporting the military program on
the Asiatic mainland.
Cabinet ministers who were safe
remained in their homes. It was said
that they made this decision on the
advice of military authorities.
The story of the shooting of Wata
nabe was typical of the action of
the assassins in every case.
Buildings Guarded
Uniformed men surrounded his resi
dence in a suburb of Tokyo, then
called him out at dawn and shot him
down.
The home office issued a communi
que asserting:
“Peace and order have been main
tained throughout the empire, and
the situation is quiet.”
The majority of Tokyo public build
ings, however, were closed. The city
itself was orderly. Soldiers main
tained throughout the empire, and the
situation is quiet.”
The majority of Tokyo public build
ings, however, were closed. The city
itself was orderly. Soldiers maintain
ed a close guard over the palace and
all government offices.
J?B36 —Elihu Vedder, American
painter and modeler, who resided in
Rome most of his adult life, born in
New York City. Died Jan. 29, 1923.
may be » narroyr bridge ahead and
Ihp warning sign may have been
knocked down in some manner.
Many things can happen to the
motorist who speeds along over a
strange highway.
It is always safest to drive care
fully, even on familiar roads. It
is absolutely necessary to drive
carefully on strange roads. The
motorist who fails or refuses to
follow this rule is courting dis
aster. if you do not know
the highway you are traveling,
be able to stop within a short dis
tance. Don’t allow a sharp < -ve
or a narrow bridge to come flying
towards you. . . .
Drive Carefully—Save a Lifei
I County Taxpayers I
Can saye money by paying their taxes now before I
extra penalty is added.
1 2% - PENALTY -2% I
Will be added to all unpaid tax accounts after
9 Monday, March 2 1
I urge you not tp miss this opportunity to pay-up
before additional penalty is added.
Call this office for any information concerning your taxes.
I J, E. HAMLETT, I
H Sheriff of V ance County I
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The Bible
A Newspaper |||»|p|
In Every ’ Jwf
Home.. .. I I
—said Benjamin Franklin, whose death on
April 17, 1790, we remember
If you asked the founder of a great library system what
reading matter you should place in your home, you
might expect him to hand you a sizable list of books.
But old Ben Franklin, father, of the free library system
of our country, being a man to put .first things first,
might have looked over the top of his glasses at you, and
repeated “a Bible and a newspaper in every home.”
franklin himself was Printer and Publisher _. . and an
advertising writer. He recognized, as you do, that good
advertising is NEWS. Back in 1780, when a ship came
to port with a consignment of India shawls and some
merchant announced this in the newspaper, you may
imagine that that item meant more to the ladies of the
day than the usual chronicle of somebody’s cow “lost,
strayed or stolen.”
\
An editor gathers up the news from all corners of the
globe, just as a merchant gathers up his stock of goods.
Then the story of both is carried in the newspaper.
Both mean a great deal to every, reader.
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