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I *"""* accurate, terse I TIMELY I yOLUMN XXXIII " I HHuEir I ffl BEJNVALlDl I I auiihtoi* Wins Suit Against I 'sheriff; County Must Make Tax Refund I COrRT ENDS ON FRIDAY The special election held in the I tforlina school district last Septem *ber for the purpose of raising reve. I nue to retain vocational agriculture in the Norlina high school was held U invalid last Friday afternoon by I Judge Frank Daniel who was here presiding over Warren January | term of Superior court. irregularities in the returns were I the grounds on which the special I election, which authorized a six ' TTI-.i il cents levy, was touna uiisuunu. n,vi- ^ I dence was presented to show that v I the eection was carried by only one | I vote and that absentee ballots were J not accompanied by proper certifi. I rates or sworn to. and were handled I in an irregular manner. The validity of the election and I the levy were tested in the case of I A. B. Laughter, Norlina taxpayer, I against Sheriff \V. J. Pinnell, tax I collector. The fact that the election was I held invalid means that those citiI zens of Norlina in the special school I district who paid their taxes under I protest may reo.uire the county to I refund their money. The Norlina case brought to a close the January term of Warren county Superior court which resulted with a comparatively small number of the forty odd cases on the civil docket being removed. Warrenton Tobacco Market Ends Sales For Season Friday The Warrenton tobacco market closed the 1932-33 season last Friday. The offering on the closing day was small. I The Warrenton market maintained an average throughout the past season that compared favorably with other markets of the State. Farmers who exposed of their 1932 crop here received approximately twice as high prices as they did for the crop of 1931. According to figures released for the entire season, the Warrenton tobacco market averaged $10.30 per hundred. The year before the average was a little over $5 per hundred. There were 1.371,256 pounds of tobacco sold on the floors of the two warehouses here during the season. In money this amounted to $141,279.62. Philathea Class Sews For Red Cross The Philathea Class of the Warrenton Baptist church named for the late Mrs. V. L. Pendleton, for many years its president, has completed more than 80 hours of sewing for the Red Cross. The class met with Mrs. John I Bell for two meetings a week until the sewing which the class had volunteered to do had been completed. Machines were furnished by the following: Mrs. S. O. Nunn. Mrs. A. D. Harris Sr. and Mrs. John Bell. Thread and snaps were supI plied by Mrs. W. L. Wood and Miss Annie May Rodgers. Bias bindings and material of white collars were furnished by Miss Lottie Bell and Mrs. A. C. Blalock. Mr. Hecht of J Norlina, who was glad to do his bit, I furnished a Heatrola for heating the I rooms. iThe following were the members of the class who gave their time and energy to the work: Mesdames A. C. Blalock. W. M. Baird, J. S. Bell, George Robertson, B. P. Ter? rell, A D. Harris Sr., W. R. Wood, T. H. Coker, W. M. Gardner, WarIrea Morrisoette. E. C. Lovell, E. H. Hudgins, a. b. McCraw, James Coker. L. 0. Robertson, A. D. Harris Jr., and Miss Lottie Bell. Other than members of the class who joined in the work were Mesdames W. C. Bobbitt, John Rodgers, B. C. Hilliard, t. b. Gardner, Raymond Modlin and M. M. Drake. POLK TALKS TONIGHT ? - _ ""nam polk has accepted an invitation from the Macon Woman's club to make an informal talk cn his World Tour at the school auditorium tonight (Friday) at 7:30 o clock. His lecture in the library soon after his return proved most interesting and it is expected that many will be on hand to hear his talk tonight. SON BORN horn to Mr. and Mrs. Romeo Powell on Fricay, January 28, a j son-Thomas Hillard. MBUUW WAF DISCOUNT AND PE SAVES OVER $? Skinner Says Repeal of Law payer for the Benefit of Law Saves County Fr REPRESENTS COMMISSIOl The discount and penalty clause of the tax law has saved Warren county more than $5,000 a year in interest charges since its passage, John L. Skinner, member of the Board of County Commissioners and Secretary-Treasurer of the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners, says in an article prepared for the Warren Record this week, with reference to certain legislation in which the county com. missioners of the state are interested. Agitation for repeal of this law and for a eeneral revaluation of property instead of a horizontial reduction is meeting with the organ, ized opposition of the commissioners. Mr. Skinner has been in Raleigh for several days in the interest of county legislation. He sets out the objects of the commissioners in the following article: "Acting upon your request I will try to give you a brief summary of the activities of the County Com missioners Association with reference to certain legislation in which we are interested. "More than three hundred county Make Preparations To Fight Menace Of Forest Fires Preparations were made to fight the annual forest fire menace at a meeting of the district forest war. dens of Warren county held in the court house on Tuesday afternoon. District Forester L. A. Carter of Windsor presided at the meeting and led the discussions, assisted by Chief Forest Warden J. R. Miller of Ahcskie. Assistant. Pltatp Pnrpsfpr films TT Flory of Raleigh gave the wardens a brief history of forest fire control work in North Carolina and other activities of the Department of Conservation and Development. Mr. Flory pointed out the need of fire control as the first step in forest culture and the need of State Forest for demonstration forests and scientific production of timber. Approximately 70 per cent of the total area of the State is forest land and this area is increasing an_ nually due to lands beings turned out and these lands growing up in threes. This, it was pointed out, increases the need of fire control. Mr. Carter stated that there are more brush burning fires in Warren county than from any other cause and urged that all farmers be cautioned to be careful with fire about the farm. Wardens attending the meetingwere E. H. Pinnell, county forest warden; W. T. Carter, Vaughan; A. L Nicholson, Macon; J. V. Shearin, Odell; D. L. Robertson, Marma. duke; S. W. Powell, Inez; S. E. Allen, Axtelle; Geo. L. Bender, Ridgeway; A. D. Hardee, Warrenton; E. C. Robertson, Marmaduke; J. D. Mustain, Warren Plains. Mrs. Pattie Avent Dies At R. Rapids Mrs. Pattie Avent, age 79, passed away Tuesday, January 24 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. May Carter, in Roanoke Rapids. Funeral services conducted by Rev. D. M. Sharp were held Thursday afternoon in the home. Interment was in Sunset Hill Cemetery, Littleton. Mrs. ^vent was before her mar. riage Miss Pattie Johnston of Littleton. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. May Carter of Roanoke Rapids, five sons, Ernest Avent of Battleboro, Spencer Avent of Faison, Waverly Avent of Whitakers, Zeb Avent of Hopewell, John Avent of Pine Ridge, and one sister, Mrs. T. W. Northington of Littleton. Mrs. Cora Phelps Dies At Macon The remains of Mrs. Cora Phelps were buried in the Henderson cem. etery Sunday afternoon following services conducted at the First Baptist Church in Henderson by the Rev. R. E. Brickhouse and Rev. H. A. Ellis. Mrs. Phelps died Saturday about 12 o'clock at the home of ner daughter, Mrs. J. M. Coleman of Macon. Mrs. Phelps was 77 years of age. Her health had been failing for some time and her condition became critical a few days preceding 1 her death. I . -i 'r 1RENTON, COUNTY OF WA NALTY CLAUSE >,000.00 ANNUALLY Would Penalize Small TaxBig Corporation; Present om Borrowing Money SfERS AT STATE CAPITAL i commissioners met in Raleigh Tues. day, January 17th, to present these matters to the General Assembly and the following resolutions were | "1. That the discount law has , i "1. That the discount law had , saved the taxpayers at least a mil- : lion dollars per year in interest on , borrowed money and should be re. ] tained. "2. That if after twelve years of effort, values had not been i( equalized that they never would be and that the cost of a revaluation , would be about a million dollars ] and that the same results could be . accomplished by a horizontal reduction in real values that would not ^ cost a cent. "3. That with a great reduction , in property the legislature must allow the counties to levy enough . to balance the General Fund Bud- . get. ] "4. That since our neighboring , states of Virginia and South Caro. , lina listed taxes January 1st that ( our dates should be changed to pre- , vent the enormous loss of property which is removed every year by (Continued on Page 6) Lack of Inspection Of Dairies Reflects Upon Local Hotel The absence of a town ordinance) compelling inspection of dairies reflects unfavorably on Hotel War. ren and restaurants of the town. This fact was pointed out yester- j day by E. P. Caruthers, district ] chief sanitary inspector, who grad- j ed the hotel B. Mr. Caruthers said j that it was unfortunate for a hotel , as nice as the one here to fall in the B class but that conditions ( could not remedied until the , town passes a law authorizing the j inspection of dairies. No cafe or ^ hotel, he said, can reach the A j class until the milk supply is , graded. ( The fact that the hotel was graded B rather than A does not mean < that the milk sold here is not pure i and of the finest quality, the in- , spector said. "Your milk here may < be the very best, but we inspectors ] have no way of knowing it unless it < is graded as such." 1 Mr. Caruthers said that Warren. I ton was one of the few towns of ] the state of its size that did not j have an ordinance to see that the i milk supply is looked into. He said analyze the milk is comparatively ] small. Milk inspection under the authori- < zation of the municipality usually ] meets with the approval of dairymen, the inspector stated, and does *.*4- vM.nvAnt ornoll Hiefrihnfnr.C frnm I ' pic VC1II/ OllXUll UlUUiwuvwtw ? ? ? ?? supplying their customers. "It simply lets the people know what they are drinking." Mr. Caruthers said that the in- j spection of milk had gone a long i ways towards eradicating diseases. < He said that in one town where < there was a slight epidemic of ty_ | phoid fever an investigation reveal- ( ed that it was brought about by 1 impure milk. "We found that every victim of the disease was on a j dairyman's route who had the fever ( in his family." The inspector said j that a great deal of typhoid fever ; used to be brought on by impure ] water, but that was seldom the I case now due to the fact that every < town saw to it that there was an I analysis of the water regularly. ] Hotel Warren came in for a good ; deal of praise from Mr. Caruthers. He said that Mr. Duke ran a nice i clean place?one to be proud of? 1 and it seemed a pity to give it a < sanitary rating of B just on ac- i count of the fact that the milk was ' not graded. I "The bad part about the hotel being graded B," he said, "is the i fact that traveling people read the < sanitary rating and are apt to sur- i mise that it resulted from unclean- i liness in the kitchen or elsewhere : rather than from the fact that the I milk has not been analyzed and < graded. DAUGHTER BORN Born to Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Wright of Warrenton on January j 27, a daughter?Sarah Lewis. i Miss Mary Prances Rodwell has been substituting for Miss Helen Thompson of the John Graham i faculty for the past ten days. Miss Thompson has been ill with flu. Friends are glad to learn that she' has recovered and returned to her work. mm RREN, N. C., FRIDAY, FEi LEE IS FREED ON WHISKEY C0UN1 Judge Rules That Possession Of Containers Not Evidence of Crime TWO ARE FOUND GUILT! The possession of containers similar to those frequently used bj bootleggers in handling and dispen. sing spirituous liquors failed tc convict Archie Lee, young white man of near Littleton, of running contrary to the Eighteenth Amendment and Volstead Act when he was arraigned before Judge W. W Taylor in Recorder's court on Monday morning. Lee was taken into custody bj Sheriff W. J. Pinnell, Deputy Law. rence Robertson and Constable Fate Weaver following an official visit to his home which netted the officers in the form of evidence several bottles and demijohns that contained some kind of liquid. In court Monday morning Deputj Robertson testified that he thought it was whiskey in the demijohns but said that he was not positive that it was. Sheriff Pinnell said that he knew there was a small quantity of whiskey in one of the containers which |hey found al the time of the raid, but he wa: not prepared to say definitely thai there was whiskey in either of the three demijohns which were offer, ed as evidence in court. Lee told the court that all the bottles and demijohns had hac whiskey in them at one time bui explained the situation thusly: He had been arrested and convicted ot a whiskey charge recently in Halifax and ordered to move out ol the county. He said when he came to Warren to make his home thai be brought the containers along because he could sell them at hall price. He said that the ones the of ficers seized had been rinsed and contained nothing more than water Judge Taylor ruled that the evi. dence was insufficient to convicl the defendant, but cautioned Let that the possession of such paraphernalia by one whe had heretofore been ensnared into the toil; 3f law on acocunt of whiskey arous. 3d a note of suspicion. Disturbing public worship was the 3ount which brought Andrew LyncI: ind Caesar Gaines before the court (Vfter a number of witnesses, in3luding a preacher, a deacon and laymen, testified that the conduct 3f the two young negroes was unDecoming and "caused members of ;he congregation from keeping theii minds on the text," a verdict of guilty was passed out and the de. fendants were each sentenced tc jail, assigned to work the roads for a period of three months. Other cases on the docket were jontinued for sundry and various reasons. Dr. W. F. Mustian Moves Office Here Dr. Wallace F. Mustain, who has practiced dentistry at Norlina fo: the past ten years, is moving his office to Warrenton this week, rfe will occupy the suite of offices ir the Harris-Allen building formerlj Dccupied by the late Dr. H. N Walters. Dr. Mustian is an outstanding of Hie? r\rrvfAQ<cnnn T-TP SPT*V ilL'lllUCJL WML lilij vavww*w>*< _ 3d as secretary-treasurer and presdent of the Fouth District Dental Society, and has given clinics and lectures before the local societies oi this and other states; also, the Chicago Dental Society. Several ar;icles bearing his name have been published in leading professional journals during recent years. During the Worlds War Dr. Mus. tian was the first Warren Countj boy on French soil. He served the duration of the war as a membei of the original First Division, and was wounded in action in the/ Argonne Forrest. His early schooling was received at Wise High School. He also received training at the A. E. F. Medican center Gondrecourt, France and Mount Vernon College, Baltimore. He received his degree, Doctor of Dental Surgery, from the University of Maryland in 1923, anc his Master of Science in Dentistrj from Northwestern University ir 1932. Dr. Mustian has taken pool graduate work at Northwestern anc Columbia Universities. Miss Julia Bullock of Norlin? visited Miss Mary Elizabeth Blacl on l uesuay cvcuuib. Mrs. G. H. Weston of Baltimore i: a guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Weston. The Thursday card club met this week with Mrs. G. H. Macon. BRUARY 3, 1933 I MRS. ALFRED J. EL . MERCHANTS POP [ Final Count i Mrs. A. J. Ellington 679,995 Miss M. R. Price 668,650 Mrs. L. C. Kinsey 439,525 I Mrs. J. E. Adams. 144,275 Miss Mary Drake 116,000 Miss Selma Overby 76,025 r Miss Lucy Leach 52,925 Mrs. N. M. Palmer 35,175 ) Mrs. E. E. Gillam 32,225 : Mrs. Frederick Williams.. 32,125 I Miss Jennie C. Alston 13,625 Mrs. S. G. Wilson 12,875 s Mrs. Frank Serls Jr 10,850 Mrs. Macon Aycock 10,850 Mrs. Sam Rivers 9,650 Miss Mary Ann Peoples.. 6,850 r Mrs. Claude Bowers 5,300 Miss Sadie King 2,875 i Miss Helen Frazier 1,650 Miss Elizabeth Peoples... 1,025 2,370,470 1 V r Mrs. Kate Williams Buried At Fairview | Tuesday Afternoon 1 The remains of Mrs. Kate White : Williams were laid to rest in Fair. ' view cemetery Tuesday afternoon > following funeral services conducted i at the Episcopal church at 3 o'clock ' by the Rev. B. N. de Foe Wagner. Mrs. Williams died Monday morning a little before 8 o'clock. She - was 76 years of age and had been 1 in declining health for some time, t Her condition became critical sev_ ' eral days oefore her death. 1 She is survived by five daughters and two sons: Mrs. B. B. Williams, C Mrs. Arthur Petar and Miss Kate : White Williams of Warrenton, ' Mis. Louis Scoggin of Louisburg; f * ir? t~i Tr>;?Uw-?/-lvwi. ' iviia. juim x ui uitin ui muuuuiiu, Walter Williams of Florida, ancl Bclton Williams of Petersburg. She ' also leaves three sisters: Mrs. Han nah Arrington of Warrenton, Mrs. Sue E. Pretlow of Franklin, Va.; ' Miss Mamie Beckwick of Peters. : burg, Va. Pallbearers were Howard Alston, W. G. Rogers, Boyd Massenburg, Dr. C. H. Peete, A. A. Williams, " Hugh White, Dr. T. J. Holt and Barclay Pretlow. , Before her marriage in 1881 Mrs. Williams was Miss Kate White, . daughter of Capt. John White and | [ Pracilla Jones. She was connected ; by b'ood with many of the older , families of WaiTen and enjoyed ; the esteem of those with whom she came in contact. Among those here from out of town for the funeral were Mr. and , Mrs. Louis Scoggin and sons, Louis, William and Herbert, of Louisburg; Mr. and Mrs. John Turman of . Richmond; Mr. and Mrs. Bolton j Williams and three children of Petersburg; Mr. Barclay Pretlow of Franklin, Va.; Mesdames T. F. Heath and Lunsford Long of Roanoke Rapids; Mesdames Victor ; Eppes and W. F. Craves and Mr. Edwin Peoples of Oxford; Mr. and j Mrs. Willis Blacknall and Misses Lucy and Mattie Hayes of Hendex. ; son; Misses Kate Ballard and Sue j Alston of Franklinton; Mrs. Lucy i Ellis of Kittrell; Mrs. J. D. Scott, r Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Petar, Mrs. . Ed Petar and Miss Lucy Sydnor Williams of Ridgeway; Mrs. Morton ; Alston, Miss Perry White, and Messrs. R. E. Ravis and Ed Faulk Alston of Inez. I ; Athletic Association Selling Show Tickets i The Athletic Association of the i John Graham High School, which is sponsoring the picture "Madame Butterfly" at the Imperial Theatre ' February 9.10, will benifit only by ! the sale of tickets which are pur' chased from its representatives, Mrs. ' J. B. Miller said this week. "So be sure to buy your ticket from one of the school girls," she urged. 1 In addition to the Thursday and Friday night show there will be a matinee Thursday afternoon. Tick. . ets will be on sale in a day or so. Half of the proceeds from the sale of tickets handled by the high ' school girls will go to the Athletic Association. I r Mr. Burt Schlicter has accepted a ? r?r? Ttrifh "RriVihlff.'s I puoxuiv/li XlVil uuuw.vx w 0 ?0 ; Mr. John Drake of the Univer. [ sity of North Canlina spent the week end here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Drake. i Mrs. Hugh Norwell of Henderson : was a guest of Mrs. Sam Weldon several days this week. > Mrs. Nannie McNair of Tarboro was a guest of Mrs. Tasker Polk Sunday. ( Mr. J. Edward Allen was a visitor at Raleigh on Tuesday. Subscription Price, $1.50 a Yea LINGTON WINS IN ULARITY CONTEST Miss Martha R. Price Is In Second Position; Mrs. Kinsey Is Third | POLL IS OVER 2,000,000 With a grand total of 688,995 j votes, Mrs. Alfred J. Ellington is winner of the Merchants Popularity contest conducted, by The Warren ^ Record which closed on Wednesday . afternoon at 6 o'clock after seven ( weeks of voting. , Miss Martna Reynolds Price, with ] a grand total of 677,650 votes, is winner of the second prize. ( Mrs. L. C. Kinsey polled 439,525 , votes and will be presented with the | third prize. , Coming within the first ten group . in the order named are Mrs. J. E. : Adams, 144,275; Miss Mary Drake, ( 116,000; Miss Selma Overby, 76,025; Miss Lucy Leach, 52,925; Mrs. N. . M. Palmer, 35,175; Mrs. E. E*. Gil- | lam, 32,225; Mrs. Frederick Wil. i liams, 32,125. The three sets of china offered as j prizes to the successful contestants ] are at the office of The Warren | Record and Mrs. Ellington, Miss . Prices and Mrs. Kinsey are invited , to call for them at their earliest . convenience. . The Merchants Popularity contest began on December 16 with first count of votes announced in the December 23 issue of The War- j ren Record. This tabulation show- ] ed around 40,000 votes cast. The | number of votes cast showed an in- ] crease each week, with the excep- , tion of a slight dip the second . week in January, to begin climbing again until this week marked a reg- ( mar avaiancne 01 votes, me iinai ? week's vote totalled 1,003,015. The total vote cast was 2,370,470. j Each vote represented one penny t spent in cash with participating merchants. This means that dur- ( ing the contest tickets were given ? for slightly more than $20,000 in cash. When it is considered that t hundreds of persons trading with j these stores may not have asked ? for their ticxet and that none of j the grocery stores of the town par- j ticipated, it can be-readily seen that < cash purchases in the town over j this eriod greatly exceeded this ? sum. i The entire contest, so far as we j have been able to learn, passed off ( with a great deal of friendly rival- i ry but was singularly free from any \ hard feeling. Winners worked hard and not only they but the entire , list of candidates polled a highly ' creditable vote. The Warren Record takes this opportunity to thank the candidates, their friends who worked for them, and the following merchants for making this contest a success: Warrenton Department Store, Hunter Drug Co., Boyce Drug Co., Carolina Power & Light Co., Home Furniture & Supply Co., Cash Co., Alien, oon oc uo., rcoaweu uimners 1 Hardware Co., Miles Hardware Co., 1 Service Shoe Repair Shop, Harris ? & Gardner, Gillam Auto Co., Boyce Motor Service, Warrenton Service Station and Miss M. R. Burroughs. In addition we especially thank Boyce and Hunter Drug Stores for their courtesy in allowing us t,o place the ballot boxes in their stores and for the spirit of co-operation shown. 11,961 Bales Of Cotton Ginned There were 11,961 bales of cotton ginned in Warren county from the crop of 1932 prior to January 16, 1933, as compared with 16,891 bales ginned to January 16, 1932, figures received this week disclose. SI OPS SNEEZING WHEN STRAY HAIR IS REMOVED Princeton, Ky., Feb. 2.?Mrs. s lonnie Dickson, 48, a trained nurse who had sneeeed almost con. f tinuously fcr more than 120 hours, t had stopped sneezing and physi. e cians believed they had discovered a j the cause of all the trouble. t Mrs. Dickson stopped sneezing r last night. Dr. W. T. Mcrse, one of the phy. sicians wno attenaea mrs. uicaauu, said a stray hair was removed from * the woman's nose juJL the sneez. e iri<* abated thereafter. r i j Friends of Dr. JL H. Foster of s , Norlina are glad to learn that he * | has recovered from a case of 'flu. 1 j Mr. Sam Daniel of High Point, f I formerly of Littleton, was in town t Wednesday. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Stevenson ? and Miss Ruth Stegall and Mr. jFloyd Stegall of Warren Plains were visitors here Wednesday. t Mesdames Susan D. Williams and r H. L. Home of Rocky Mount were a visitors in Warrenton Monday. J -t MOST OF THE NEWS ALL THE TIME r NUMBER 6 ENFORCEMENT ACT REPEALED Special Enforcement Officer Edward Davis Loses Job As Result Action PROMISE OF CANDIDATE Edward Davis lost his authority ;o enforce the prohibition laws last Friday when the Senate stamped its Approval on the House Bill to abolish the act which appointed him ciiiuitcmcui omcer 01 warren county. The repeal of the law brought to a close 20 months of activities on the part of Mr. Davis and his deputies?John Carey Davis, Cary Wilson and G. Fleming. He was made a special officer of the county during the 1931 session of the general assembly which cloaked him with authority similar to that of the sheriff. He was appointed for a term of two years and began his work-^ May 1931. Since becoming a special prohieition officer of the county Mr. Davis and his deputies led an active crusade against whiskey. The special act has been the subject of discussion since it went into effect and is credited with having played a vital part in the past election. Following is the bill in part which was passed last week: Section 1. That chapter four hundred and sixty.one of the Public-Local Laws of 1932, being an act to appoint Edward D. Davis Special Enforcement Officer of Warren county for a term of two years, be ind is hereby repealed. Section 2. That all laws and :lauses of laws in conflict with this ire hereby repealed. Section 3. That this act shall be n force and effect from and after he day of its ratification. In the General Assembly, read hree times, and ratified, this the 17th day of January, 1933. Representative Dowtin, home for ,he week end, commenting on the epeal of the enforcement officer xct, said that there was nothing personal in the matter of the repeal, and that he believed that the special officer had diligently per. formed his duties. But the act was i bad one, he added, and said that pot only he and Mr. McDuffie had iledged the repeal during the campaign, but that Mr. Davis and Mr. "todwell, unsuccessful candidates lad made a similar pledge. Eight-Month Term For School Asked RALEIGH, Feb. 1.?An eightnonth school term for all the :hildren of North Carolina supportid by other than ad valorem tax, vas plunked down in the general issembly as a direct issue today, fully a week earlier than was exlected, when Senator MacLean, the luthor of the famous MacLean ichool law of the 1931 assembly and lis colleague, Senator Bailey, of Washington, introduced a resoluion which, if passed, would make t mandatory upon this legislature o provide that school opportunity vhere it is wanted. It means a viping out of thousands of special chool district lines, consolidations ind economies which will bring to he taxpayers at home who are iow paying for extended terms, reief, of at least $3,000,000, the inroducers of the bill claim. The senate which received this esolution, likewise in other ways lid a big day's work. It cut $20,000 from the salaries if the solicitors in the 20 North Carolina judicial districts, comprotiising with the reorganization comnittee by going only part of the ray with it in its recommendations or paring the prosecuting officers' alaries. It abolished the North Carolina lark commission and placed the duies of this board about whose oprations Senator Burgin said there ire floating unwholesome rumors, ipon the conservation and developnent board. It put Cumberland county, which ms at its heart one of North Caroina's oldest trading centers, Faytteville, on the scrip basis by auhorizing the county government to ssue scrip to its employes and for uch goods as it needs; scrip that s not to be issued for longer than 2 months and which is taxed 2 >er cent of its face value for every ime it transfers ownership. Delominations of the county's money hall not exceed $10. Mrs. John H. Kerr and Mr. Edvard Hall have returned to Wlarenton after spending some time it Washington with Congressman ohn H. Kerr.