Rep. L. H. Fountain
To Seek Reelection
Rep. L. H. Fountain of Tar
boro, Congressman from the
Second North Carolina District,
announced this week that h?
would seek renomlnatlon In the
May Democratic Primary.
The North Carolina Con
gressman In announcing from
his Washington office that he
would be a candidate for re
election said that he hoped to
file with the North Carolina
Board_fll_ElectIons in RalPiffh
by Wednesday or Thursday of
tbi*: week.
Kep. L. ^ ;v i was born
In Lei"-' - .oe County.
Noria CijOm>:ir-. on Aprll 23;
lPlo He is tne son of Sallie
(Barns) and the late Lawrence
H. Fountain. He Is married
t o the former Christine Dail
of Mount Olive, and they hav?
one daughter, Nancy Dail, age 6.
Fountain was educated in the
public schools of Edgecombe
County and at the University of
North Carolina, where he re
ceived his A. B. in 193-1
and his LL. B. in 193G. He
was admitted to the North Car
olina Bar the same year he
graduated from law school.
He practiced law in Tarboro,
N. C. until March 1942, when
he enlisted in the U. S. Army
as a private in the Infantry.
He rose through the ranks and
was released from the service
as a Major in the Judge Ad
vocate General's Office on
March 4, 1946.
Upon his discharge, Fountain
returned to his law practice
In Tarboro. Prior to the war
he had been eastern organizer
of the Young Democratic Clubs
of North Carolina, Chairman of
the Second Congressional Di
strict Executive Committee,
and Reading Clerk of the North
Carolina Senate from 1936 to
1941.
In 1947 he was elected to the
State Senate, where he served
until 1952 when he was elected
to the 83 rd Congress as Rep
resentative from the Second
North Carolina Congressional
District. He has been re
elected to each succeeding Con
gress.
Since his election to the House
of Representatives, Congress
man Fountain has served on the
Committee on Government
Operations, of which he is now
the fourth ranking Democrat
of the thirty-one member com
mittee and Chairman of the In
tergovernmental Relations Sub
committee, and on the thirty
three member Foreigh A/fairs
Committee, of which he is the
ninth ranking Democrat anj
Chairman of the Near East
Subcommittee.
Fountain is a Presbyterian
elder, and member of the Board
3f St. Andrews Presbyterian
College in Laurinburg, N. C.
He has been a member of the
Executive Committee of the
East Carolina Council of Boy
Scouts of America, of the local
State and National Bar Associa
ions, the Elks, Moose and Ki
vanis International. He Is also
i former Jaycee and received
he Distinguished Service
\ward (Man of the Year) of the
rarboro Junior Chamber of
Commerce in 1948.
Did Luther Hodges
Make Most Speeches
Of Any Governor?
Chapel Hill? Did Luther
H. Hodges make more speeches
In seven years than any other
man In the history of the world?
Until someone can offer doc
umentary evidence to the con
tray. the claim is here with
made that during his term as
Governor, Mr. Hodges rneked
up a world's record for
speeches.
When Prof. James Patton,
director of the Southern Histor
ical Collection, and editor of
the three large volumes of
"Messages, Addresses and
Public Papers of Luther Hart
well Hodges", handed over the
third and final volume last week,
tie granted that Gov. Hodges
ranks in comparislon with other
political figures? such as
Sovernors, for travel, for the
lumber of speeches, and for
:ime in office," said Dr. Pat
on. Gov. Hodges served a full
erm of his own and the major
5art of the term began by Gov.
A'illiam B, Umstead.
"Governor Hodges some
lmos made as many as three
speeches a day," said Prof.
Patton.
It may be the Demosthenes,
>f Abraham Lincoln, or Glad
stone or Chauncey DePew made
nore speeches than Luther
lodges. It may be that some
Uovernor of a state who served
ive or six terms in office in
a state where there is no limit
|of tenure may beat the Hodges
I record.
But a horseback view, at this
jtime, until contrary reputation
!can be shown, gives to Gov.
Luther Hodges, now Secretary
iof Commerce, the prize as the
,er, from the standpoint of the
; number of speeches.
Many of them are high In
j qualtiy, too. Not all are long
I speeches, some only a few
| paragraphs, although some are
speeches that took him thirty
or forty minutes to deliver,
j For length of speeches, Gov.
' Hodges couldn't compare with
j Adolf Hitler or Mussolini.
I They talked sometimes for two
or three days at a stretch.
| Nor could his efforts be com
| pared with a several day's fill?
j buster. But it is to his cre
] dit that his speeches are short
and to the point, as mid-20">
century speeches are ac
customed to being.
North Carolina
State To Be Host
Young Scientists
RALEIGH? North Carolina
State will be host to young
science students from 17 Tar
Heel counties for the 1964 North
Carolina North Central District
Science Fair March 21.
Dr. Arthur W. Cooper of the
Department of Botany and Bac
teriology, director of the N. C.
CO-OP MEMBERS COOK
RINGS AROUND THE
AUTOMATICALLY
THE MEMBERS of Halifax Electric who have installed auto
matic ELECTRIC ranges have discovered the latest cooking fashion.
They have found that there's no soot, smoke or blackened pots and
pans with an ELECTRIC range ... its cool, too?heat stays in and
doesn't make the kitchen hot!
AND ....
^ They have found that an ELECTRIC water heater is safe, fast
and completely automatic, too!
WHAT'S MORE . ^
From now until April 30th, Co-op members who buy and install
their first electric range or electric water heater will get a $25
CASH BONUS for installing each of these pieces of equipment.
If they buy both - - they get $50!
Local appliance dealers have the particulars.
The Halifax Electric Membership Corporation
Enfield, North Carolina
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Rep. L. H. Fountain, right, Is shown bridge at dedication of new postoffice at
presenting flag to Postmaster W. K. Del- Norlina in December, 1961.
S. S. Applicants
Should Brina Proof
People in Warren County who
will?be?applying?for social
security benefits in the near
future should remember to
bring certain documents with
them which may very likely
speed up the processipgof their
claims, Clay Stone, field repre
sentative for social security,
said yesterday.
Stone said that applicants can
State Science Fair Committee,
announced today that the fair
will be held in the William
Neal Reynolds Coliseum from
7:30 a. m. to 4:30 p. m.
Junior and senior high school
students in the biological and
physical sciences will compete
for prizes in two divisions. Win
ners will be invited to partici
pate in (he State Science Fair
in April and a chance to win
ail expense paid trip to the
National Science Fair late this
year.
Students from Person, Gran
ville, Vance, Warren, Halifax,
Northampton, Orange, Durham,
Franklin, Nash, Chatham,
Wake, Johnston, Wayne, Moore,
Lee and Harnett counties are
eligible for North Central Dis
trict competition.
Many schools will hold local
science fairs to select entrants
for the district fair. In cases
where no local fair is held,
students may make direct ap
plication to the district fair.
Other N. C. State faculty
members serving on the science
fair committee are Dr. Grover
C. Miller of the Department of
Zoology, Dr. C. Leslie
WcCombs of the Department of
Horticultural Science, Dr. Ho
ward A. Petree of the Depart
ment of Botany and Bacterio
logy, and Dr. Maurice G. Cook
of the Department of Soil
Science.
Number Students
increased At
State College
RALEIGH?The number of
liberal arts students tripled
and women students doubled In
the February spring semester
registration at North Carolina
State to give NCS its largest
spring enrollment in history,
a total of 7,529 students.
The graduate school set a
new record, registering 1,201
students for work on master's
and doctoral degrees.
The spring enrollment was
announced today by the NCS
divisions of Student Affairs.
Students In the liberal arts
increased from 190 in the 1963
spring session to 551 this year,
continuing a trend established
last fall when 324 enrolled In
State's newest school.
The increase in the liberal
arts results from action by the
Consolidated University Board
of Trustees permitting N. C.
State to grant a Bachelor of
Arts degree.
With the Increase In the
arts program, liberal arts re
placed the graduate division as
State's fastest growing school.
Women students increased to
450 compared with 211 a year
ago. There were 308 women
many of them In engineering and
scientific fields?at State during
the fall semester. Typically
the fall semester is the largest
In enrollment at all colleges.
COULD STAND IT
She'd bought so many pets
he was about to move out.
rabbits, squirrels,
pigeons?all In the house. _
Me called her up from the
otflcc one day. "Listen," he
said, "I'm sending you a mon
key."
"A monkey in the house?
How about the ameU?"
"If I can stand it, he can."'
reduce the processing time on
their claims by bringing the
following things with them when
thev come to file their claims:
(1) Proof of age, such as
a birth certifica^old fam
ily Bible, or old life insur
ance policy; (2) a copy of one's
1903 tax return if one is self
employed; (3) 1963 W-2 form
(the statement of one's wages
from.one's employer); (4) alist
of one's employers during the
year, amounts each paid the ap
plicant and their addresses,
where one nas several employ
ees during the year.
"It will also help, "Stone con
tinued, "if you have the follow
ing dates in mind or written
down: your date of birth, wife
or husband's date of birth, date
of marriage, and dates or prior
marriages and divorces (or date
of death) of each. Bring birth
certificates of any children you
have."
Stone explained that the per
son who brings these items on
the first visit enables the social
security office to start hisclaim
without undue loss of time and
gets his checks coming sooner.
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