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PAGE TWO Middleburg Meets Henderson On Court Tuesday Night Twin Bill WiD Draw Season’s Best Crowds Girls’ Game to Be El lington vs. Houghtal ing; Boys Will Be .Evenly Matched In important Game In County Title Race Middleburg meets Henderson high school here tomorrow night in the local gym ot 7:30 o’clock in two bas ketball games that will go a long way toward deciding the county cage title. The Middleburg girls, champions last year, are out to repeat their performance this season. They are undefeated in school circles, and will take on the local lassies, who boast of undefeated record against high school teams. Henderson and Middleburg con tested for the title last year with Middleburg coming out on top. The doubleheader will be the first games for Henderson against Vance county teams in regular season’s play. The visiting girls are headed by Miss Ellington, who has been an out standing forward on the team for the past two and Miss Hendricks, who has stamped herself as a capable assistant to Miss E.lington ii\ the point garnering department. Henderson girls pin their hopes on the ability of Miss Mary Florence Houghtaling to continue her goal shooting activities. It has been Miss Houghtaling’s work that has kept Henderson out front against high school teams thus far this season. The game promises to be one that will be bitterly contested from the opening whistle, the victory going to the one which produces the (best de fense. Middleburg boys are not as strong this year as they have been in past seasons, but Coach Yates has a team that will give Henderson a busy even ing if the locals get a victory. One of the season’s largest crowds is expected to witness the doublehead er that will be packed with thrills from the opening whistle. 1933—Adolf Hitler made German chance.lor. Stevenson Matinee 26c—Night 36 Children 10c TODAY TOMORROW &§'i|§ Added: March of Time and News of The Day WEDNESDAY “Say It In French” STATE Admission 25c TODAY ONLY Robert Wilcox, Helen Mack “GAMBLING SHIP” News Comedy Tom rr row—Tim McCoy Admission 30 a nd 15e B Will be added to all 1938 B I City Taxes I f Not paid on or before I Wednesday, Feb. Ist I We urge you to pay now and not wait | for the penalty. I S. B. BURWELL I ■ City Clerk. I ■ ; 3 > • ‘■i a 3 PHYSICAL ED CLASS CHANGES ITS DATES The men’s physical education class, which meets regularly on Tuesday and Thursday evening, will meet this week; on Wednesday and Thursday even ing, due to the Henderson-Middleburg basketball game Tuesday night. Mem bers were requested to note the change in the date of meeting. Ocean Fishing Here Liked. By 3ffismen Dally Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. ! Raleigh, Jan. 30. —Ocean sport fish ing along the North Carolina coast is I attracting more and more attention in the northern and eastern states, according to Raymond Camp, rod and gun editor of the New York Times and outdoor commentator for the Na tional Broadcasting Company net work. Camip, with Walt Wi.lis, hunting and fishing commentator for radio station WHN in New York City, have been hunting in Wayne county. ‘During the past year my broad casts have contained an increasing amount of material about outdoor sports in North Carolina,” Camp said. "We think North Carolina’s campaign to promote more sport fishing is one of the best in the country and the responses of sports men has been very good. Sport fish ing off your coast is undoubtedly go ing to be a major industry within the next few years, provided the Sports men are attracted your way. They ■ are already traveling across several other states to come all the way to j North Carolina for surf casting and sea fishing, due to the fact that sev j eral intermediate states have not j been as a.ert as North Carolina in 1 giving publicity to their coastal fish i ing.” ' Camp’s hunting and fishing broad , casts are sent out over a network of 23 NEC stations. j Wiliis also reaches a very large radio audience. He asked the news bureau of the advertising division here to tell him just when the drum or channel bass and blue fishing starts next spring. “The first night I broadcast the news that the drum and blues are running off the No:.!; Carolina coast, I wi 1 get hundreds of requests for additional information,” he said. "Last year he sent hundreds of sports fishermen to Mantco, Ocracoke, More head City, Beaufort, Wilmington, Southport and other points. It is al- I ready getting so that when fisher men think of drum they think of North Carolina. “Out West with the Hardys”— Stevenson today and tomorrow INSURANCE -• RENTALS Real Estate—Horne Financing Personal and courteous atten tion to all details. AL. B. WESTER Phone 139—McCoin Bldg. HfiNDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH MONDAY. JANUARY 30, 1939 SPEED EXPERTj By lack Sards Diversion Battle Holds Spotlight In Assembly (Continued from Page One.) dumped onto the floor of House and Senate. Plans for Showdown. Today both diversionists and antis are making final* adjustments in their battle lines, reviewing and checking on strategical moves, all the while continuing a hot artillery duel of statement and counter - statement, charge and cbunter-charge, insinua tion and ittnuendo. To clarify the situation for innocent and unbiased bystanders, if any, here is the text of the good roads bill: “It shall be the policy of this Gen eral Assembly of North Carolina that all revenue derived from gasoline taxes and automobile license fees shall be exclusively spent for the con struction and maintenance and admin istration of an adequate and depend able primary and secondary highway ip. B^B ni|M.tfrt mm BBS ig MB' Sim fiMSwr 1 0&BS jgjjlf Mwm BBjfiim | (kße W II ■ MKB&gffy- Hbß fSWPfI IPfQV' system within the State, and for the payment of the highway debt obliga tions, and there shall be no transfer of such funds to the general fund of the State of North Carolina. In Ranks of Anti’s. Arrayed behind this resolution is the anti-diversion army made up of a di versified group of organizations and individuals, who contend vehemently that special funds collected from a specific group for specified purposes l should be kept intact and spent wholly for those purposes. Efforts have been made by the di versionists to impeach the motives of their foe by reiteration of the charge that the anti-diversion cause is father ed by the “petroleum interests.” Friends of Diversion. These efforts, however, are refuted by a list of organizations which have openly announced their opposition to diversion, many of these being dis connected with or even inimical to*the petroleum group. |A partial list in cludes the Eastern} North Carolina Chamber of Comrrferce, the North Carolina Fetroleum Industries Com mitteee, the Portland Cement Asso ciation, the Travelers Protective As sociation, the North Carolina Auto mobile Dealers Association, the North Carolina Truck Owners Association and the Associated General Contrac tors. Oil Interests Helping. The petroleum interests have un dohbtedly contributed heavily to fi nancing the anti-diversion campaign, but Capus Waynick, former highway chairman and now High Point En terprise editor, wrote of the battle: “It is a fight in which every road user and road taxpayer is interested.” Hoey Leads Diversionists. Lined up on the other side, fa.vor ing diversion, is the powerful State administration, commanded by elo quent and popular Governor Clyde R. Hoey, ~ This group contends that gasoline should no more be exempted from the State sales tax than any other pro duct; insists that no real diversion is threatened beyond the application of this tax to gasoline and transfer of i the resulting funds to the general j fund in case of need; and lays great emphasis on the danger of shutting off the general fund from any high way fund aid in case of emergency. Its leaders have frankly admitted, however, that the entire budget policy for the next biennium is biased on an estimated need to transfer $7,000,000 from highway to general fund. Opponents point to this as flagrant and open diversion in view of the fact that there is now no contention or pretense of an emergency which might justify taking money from the road funds. Feverish Activity. Both sides have been almost fever ish in their activities for the last week. Legislators have been flooded with letters and telegrams from “back home” urging them to oppose all high way fund transfers. Practically every night the air has been filled with the torrid oratory of radio speakers op posing diversion. House and Senate members have been checked and re checcked, button holed and re-button holed. On the other side, the governor has lost not one opportunity to hammei away at the anti-diversionists and to state and re-state his position. In at least two public addresses last week, | one to a civic club in Burlington, the | other on the dedication of a new news j paper building in Asheville, he made it the principal item of his speeches. And that’s the background of the hearing which will be held Tuesday as the final stage of the diversion bat tle begins. How long the fight will last and, v/hat the ultimate result will be can not be predicted. Big Crowd for Hearing. There are certain things which are abundantly clear, however, For in stance, that the Tuesday hearing will be attended by a large, and perhaps tumultuous, crowd. Anti-diversionists are using every means in their power to whip up enthusiasm for the oc casion. Publicly they have made no predic tions as to the size of the crowd ex pected. but in private conversations they give sincere, if a trifle optimis tic, indications that they expect at least 5,003 to invade Raleigh and are hopeful the figure will go twice that high. They admit that weather con ditions may be a deciding factor on that count, and accordingly are mak ing no open boasts. Governor Has Final Say. After all this tumult and shouting have died, Governor Hoey will go be fore the Assembly, and on the air, in an effort to counteract all the ac cumulated effect of arfti-diversion ar guments before and during the hear ing. He is expected to re-state the po sition he has so often stated already, that there is nothing sacred about gasoline taxes, that they should be subject to sales tax as other products, that there need be no fear of trans fers in excess of the. sales tax amounts that care of the State’s highway sys • tem is safe in his hands, and that the i only way to balance the State’s budget is to authorize the $7,000,000 transfers in case of necessity. And when all is said and done, that final argument is likely to be de cisive of the outcome, for it is com pletely obvious and needs no argu ment that if the good roads bill is adopted, the legislators will be faced with the stern necessity of (1) rais ing revenue from new sources, or (2) cutting appropriations or (3) both, Anti-diversionists contend this is what the law-makers ought to do and brand the taking of highway funds as rather spineless following of the line of least resistance. Employees Os State Back Huge Lobby Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By LYNN NISBET Raleigh, Jan. 30. —Adverting to charges that the •‘Petroleum inter ests” arc financing the lobby against diversion of highway funds, an anti diversionist yesterday cal ed the roll of the various groups, associations and clubs which have resoluted or programmed against diversion, and then asked: ‘Who is financing the pro-diver sion campaign?” He went on to explain that the burden of the diversion fight is be ing borne by State officials and em ployees, whose salaries are paid out cf ,public funds, which in turn have been collected largely from the very same groups which are supporting the anti-diversion idea. Led by the Highway Users Confer ence, composed largely of the indus tries operating large fleets of trucks. Which are the identical industries contributing thfe major part of the revenue taxes, the anti-diversionists contend that they are being forced to finance both sides o»f the argument. Then, too, such groups as the Grange the Rural Letter Carriers, motor clubs, etc., are made up of the peo ple who pay millions in sales taxes, all of which goes into the general fund out of which salaries of the pro diversionists are paid. This may be ‘‘begging the ques tion,” but it is at least something to think about v/hile driving along burning gasoline the tax on which started all the fuss. Louehl'n ( ifv Taxi
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