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bounty Chairman and Ex
ecutive Committee To
Meet At Bayview
TO PLAN CAMPAIGN
Meeting Is Primarily For Purpose of
Organisation; State Chairman
Mull in Charge
The first of the State Democratic
campaign activities in this section are
under way this week, with State Chair,
man O. M. Mull in charge. Tomor
row the county chairmen in the First
District with executive committeemen
will meet at Bayview, where plans will
bt formulated for carrying on the cam
paign in this part of the State. Other
pLrty leaders will attend the meeting.
While in this section, Chairman Mull
will talk with Senator Simmons, who
will probably make a formal statement
[fallowing the conference. The Sena
tor's place as National Committeeman
will be filledftvithin the next few days,
it is thought.
Governor McLean is advocating the
•election of Former Governor Camer
on Morrison, who announced his . can
didacy for the place some days ago.
An active campaign is being conduct
ed in behalf 'of the former governor.
Congressman John H. Kerr's hat is al
to in the ring. Josephus Daniels, who
served in this position for 16 years,
resigning after he became secretary of
the navy in Wilson's cabinet, is prom
inently mentioned.
State Chairman Mull is not making
statements, but he is said to be busy'
with a heavy volume of mail. He is
devoting his time to organization wdrlc
He will have his organization well in
hand by the time Governor Smith
nuke* his acceptance speech and will
b« in position to conduct an active
campaign during the fall months.
JULY REPORT OF
COUNTY AGENT
8-4-6 Analysis Fertilizer Is
Making Best Showing
In Tobacco Tests
In hi» report to the county com
missioners here yesterday, Agent
Brandon pointed out that 8-4-6 fer
tiliser was making: the beat tobacco
in the teata carried on by several
farmer* in cooperation with the dem
onstration work in thia county. Mr.
Brandon hsa visited all the farms
where demonstrations were started,
and he says that tobacco cultivated
by the hill method ia holding up bet
tar than that cultivated under the
mora common method. Not only is
the tobacco cultivated by the hill
method holding up during the hot
and dry seaaon, but it stood the rains
of a few weeks ago much better than
the tobacco grown under other con
ditions.
Th« agent'a report stated that 21
days were spent in field work and 5
days were given over to office work.
One hundred office conferences were
held during the month; 184 letters
were written and 59 telephone calls
were handled. In making forty-four
farm visits and handling \ other of
ficial duties, the agent traveled 816
miles. During the month 274 hogs
were treated for cholera and two
articles for papers were prepared.
Rev. and Mrs. Perry
Here From Texas
Rev. and Mrs J. M. Perry, of
Denton, Texas, are visiting friends
and relatives in this section for a
few days. Mr.. Perry was once pastor
of the Robersonville Christian
Church, resigning that pastorate to
accept a call from the church in
Texas. Before returning to Texas,
Mr. Perry will hold a short meeting
at Bethany.
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BORDER MARKETS
TO OPEN TODAY
Seven tobacco market*, compris-
ing a part of the Pee Dee tobacco
belt, opened today near the South
Carolina border today. Markets
in South Carolina are also open
ing today.
Hundreds of thousands of
pounda of tobacco were on the
floors yesterday waiting for the
cry of the auctioneer this morn
ing, and practically all last night
trucks loaded with the weed were
being driven to the markets.
No reports from the markets as
to the prices offered could be had
at noon today.
The markets, including Fair
mont, White ville, Lumber ton,
Chadbourn, Clarkton, Fair Bluff,
and Tabor, all in thia State, sold
last season 42,006,240 of the 117,-
585,607 pounds sold throughout
the area.
PAST WEEK HARD
ON MOONSHINERS
Federal Agent and Deputies
Capture Five Plants
Last Tuesday
Last week was a rather hard one
for moonshiners in this section. C.
F. Alexander, Federal Prohibition
agent with his deputies, succeeded in
capturing Ave plants last Tuesday,
two copper stills and three improvis
ed steam outfits. All the stills were
ccld and no liquor was found. The
officers destroyed about 6,000 gallons
of beer at the Ave plants. The raid
MM made along the border line of
Martin and Beaufort counties.
__ Wednesday, two copper stills were
found in Keedy swamp. One of the
stills had just been flred when the
operators arrived. The operator, a
Negro, wap warned by parties who
saw the officers pass on the road, but
even then the officers got near
enough to give chase. The operator
flred upon the officers, but he was
running too fast to take aim, and no
one waa hurt. The Negro lost his
pistol and one of his boots. At the
two plants, the officers found 600
gallons of beer and equipment.
Friday, the officers went into Ber
tie' county and with Sheriff Cooper
raided in the Quitsna section where
they found a mammoth plant esti
mated to have a capacity of 300 gal
lons. This still was well built, having
a brick furnace and equipment am
ple for a big business. About 760 gal
lons of beer were destroyed.
This plant was located on the
premises of Mont Pettiford, a color
ed man who was arrested by the of
ficers. Pettiford Jr. was also arrett
ed when evidence pointed to his con
nection with the still's operation,
Saturday, a plant was discovered
in the Bin* school district. The
kettle had been carried away, but
the officers found the cap worm,
seven barrels of beer, a few tools
and an empty keg with the owner's
name on it.
In the several raids, three arrests
were made and the cases are to be
investigated.
The officers started their work
this week by cstching Ben D. Bigg*
yesterday morning mixing sugar,
preparatory to manufacture. The
still had been removed from th
plant and only a few barrels, a half
bag of sugar and a tub of swe»:t
beer which the man was working on
at the time were found. The man
was so badly frightened when the of
ficers came up that he got bis direc
tions wrong and hopped in a spring.
Biggs was held for the next term of
Federal court convening in Washing
ton next October.
Carcass of Dead Mule
Found in Ditch Here
Sending out an odor that diaturbed
near-by residents for the past several
days, a mule's carcass was found yes
terday morning in a ditch near the
Blount Manufacturing Co.'* shop af
ter a broken search had been made by
the street-cleaning department mem
bers during the past two or three days.
\ esterday morning the body, waa found
and operations were started st once to
move it away.
While the mute's owner could not be
learned, it is thought that the animal
belonged to Howard Outterbridge, a
colored man living near here.
Bids for Building Windsor
Road To Be Opened Today
Bids for the construction of 22 road
projects and two bridges are being
opened in Raleigh today by the State
Highway Commission. The projects
call for the construction of 155.78 miles
of road.
In the liat of projects is included
the construction of a hard-surfaced
road from the Roanoke River bridge
to a point 2 1-2 miles thia aid* of
Windsor. The road from Aulander to
Ahoslde will also be hard-surfs—d. On
route 90, east of Columbia, 17 miles '
of road will be graded.
Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, August 7,1928
BUDGET PROBE
BY COMMITTEE
OF TAXPAYERS
Number Taxpayers Here
Yesterday Protesting
Higher Taxes
HOLD SESSION TODAY
Budgets Being Gone Over In Detail
By Committee and Members of
Both County Boards
The Board of County Commissioners
and the County Board of Education
in their meetings here yesterday
opened th*ir budgets for public in
spection a«d insisted that the investir
gators go into the items carefully and
point out every item where it is pos
sible to effect a saving. The commit
tee, composed of J. G. Statoja, C. C.
Fleming, Durward Everett, R. W.
Salshury and Eason Lilley, was busy
this morning going over the budgets
with two members from each the
school board and the county board.
Taxpayers frpm all parts of the
county went before the county com
missioners yesterday, asking that there
be no increase inrthe tax rate for the
current fiscal year. The commission
erf examined the budget and found
that the items in the budget were very
reasonable with the exception of one
or two which were thought to be high.
The county home costs were declared
too high.
The school budget was also gone
over in a general way. Most of the
items in the school budget arc fixed
by the State school law, leaving very
few items where alterations are pos
sible. Under the State system, it
would .doubtless require the labor of
an expert for weeks to make a thor
ough investigation, the system pro
viding numbers of classifications for
the various costs.
No rate lias been mentioned for the
county, and none will be placed until
every cost item has been given care
ful consideration.
Tentative reductions totaling ap
proximately $2,700 in the county's
budget today were suggested by the
committee of Ave men appointed by
the taxpayers league formed here
yesterday. The committee continues
to study the budgets, and it is ex
pected the study will continue the
remainder of the day.
The committee also suggested that
an auditor be hired to work full
time for the county.
TYPHOID SHOWS
INCREASE IN N.C.
Hot Weather One of Mail}
Reasons for Increase;
Epidemic in Lenoir
•Contributed largely to the hot and
dry weather, typhoid fever is increas
ing very .rapidly throughout the
State. Last week 83 new cases were
reported to the State Board of Health
at Raleigh. The number was greater
by 12 than that for the preceding week
and as compared with a corresponding
week of last year it was 13 greater.
A continued increase in the disease is
expected during this and next week,
when the peak will, in all probability,
be reached.
In Lenoir County alone, 30 cases
have been reported since the hot
weather set in, and county officials
there are making a concerted drive to
check the spread of the disease. One
dairy has been closed there and wa
ter from bathing ponds is being ex
amined. Four deaths caused from the
disease have been reported in that sec.
tion.
While no official check has been
made in thia county as to the number
of cases of the fever, it is understood
that the number is comparatively light.
This, 4s stated, is due to a very great
extent to the recent vaccinations made
ot more than 5,000 men, women, and
children. The number of cases is
smaller this year than it was last, and
all the caaea reported so far have
been where the subjects had failed to
take the treatment offered free of
charge a few weeks ago.
Parrot Talks for Smith
in Republican Household
Hartford, Conn., Aug. 4.—When the
clarion call of "Vote for A 1 Smith I*
ring* out in the home of Judge John
L. Bonee at all hours of the day and
night, both the judge and hi* wife
shudder, for both are stalwart Repub
licans, and the slogan is not of their
choosing.
A saucy green parrot fluttering about
in his cage is the source of their wor
ry. Recently the Bonees were away
from home for a few days, and in
their absence John M. Kinsella, a
friend of the family, but also a former
Democratic alderman, took care of the
bird and, incidentally, taught it the
►four words that it now repeats over
and awr>„i 4 ~t .
Judge Bonee has tried unsuccessfully
to have the parrot substitute "Hoover"
for "Smith."

FORM LEAGUE
OFTAXPAYERS
Citizens From Everey Sec
tion of County At Meet
Here Yesterday
Representative citizens from near
ly every section of the county met
at the courthouse here yesterday and
formed a taxpayers league.
The commissioners, the taxing au
thorities, welcomed the citiiens, say
ing it was the first time in many
years that the taxpayers have done
more than complain. *.
A committeed appointed by the
lepresentatives, are studying the
needs of the county and, it is under
stood they will offer suggestions in
solving the county's financial prob
lems in the most economical way
possible.
The committee's efforts toward
holding the rate at the last year's
mark might be possible, but not at
all likely since the increase is due
largely to an unusually large year in
the interest and sinking fund of the
county. A recent ruling of the At
torney General in a case in Pasquo
tank county, the commissioners can
not reduce the school funds below
the amount fixed by the educational
authorities. So it looks as if the rate
will be higher than last year, and
will continue that way until the next
time for re-assessing arrives, when
according to the suggestion of many
fair valuations shptrf? be made and
which, in effect a lower
rate. '
3 AMENDMENTS
BEFORE VOTERS
To Be Decided At Novem
ber Election; One Deals
With Tax Matters
Kaleigh, Aug. 7.—When North
Carolina voters go to the pollß on
November 6, they will be called upon
to determine the fate of three pro
posed amendments to the constitu
tioon, as well as too decide whether
the State shall be found in the
Smith and Gardner column, or the
Hoover, and Seawell rank.
One of the proposals would au
thorize the General Assembly to
classify all forms of property for
taxation purposes, another would au
thorize the erection of twenty
solicitorial districts in the State
separate and distinct from the pres
ent judicial circuits, and the third
would increase the pay of members
cl the legislature from the present
compensation of S4OO per session to
S6OO.
Involved in the tax classification
amendment is the proposal to au
thorize the law-making body to levy
taxes on intangibles. The proposed
amendment specifies that the rate of
taxation on real and personal prop
erty shall be "uniform within the
territorial limits of the authority
1.-vying the tax," but that "intagible
personal property may be classified
by the General Assembly which shall
prescribe a uniform raW" of tax
throughout the State for each class."
Proposals looking toward taxation
of the so-called intangibles have
been advanced from time to time in
the legislature in recent yearn, only
to meet defeat each time.
One argument advanced in sup
port of the proposal to make
solieitorial districts independent of
the circuits, in each of which at
present a judge and solicitor are
elected, is that additional judges can
then be appointed as necessary to
handle congested dockets, without
the necessity of adding a solicitor to
every added judge. Efforts in the
last two general assemblies to pro
vide for more judges have been
opposed on the ground that it could
not be done without creating new
solicitorshipß which, it way argued
were unnecessary, and would greatly
increase the costs of the judiciary.
The amendment to increase the
pay of legislators has been before
the voters a number of times in one
form or another during recent years,
but it has never mustered the neceH
sary popular vote for passage. .
v
Pasquotank County Has
Increased Tax Rate
Elizabeth City, Aug. fi.—Pasquo
tank County's tax rate for the fiscal
year 1928-29 is 17' cents higher than
for the preceding ((seal year. The
new rate as Axed by the county
commissioners it a recent meeting Is
$1.55 per fIOO of property valuation,
as compared with SI.BB.
An effort was mad* to hold the
rate down by cutting the school
budget but it came to *4oght when
Attorney General Dennis 0. Brant
mitt, in response to • request for a
luling, rendered an opinion that the
commissioners could not rwfalce the
school funds below the amount fixed
by school authorities.
Of the $1.55 tax, 89 cents repre
sents the levy for the county six
months' school current expense fund,
'and 51 cents is for the road bonds
(inking fund.
Williamston Has Chance
To Bid for Peanut Show
With the definite announcement
that the Eastern Carolina Peanut
Exposition will not be carried to
Chicago but will be held in this
section this year, it is expected that
several towns will make a bid for
the show within the next few days.
It is understood that the cost to
the town in which the show is held
will be greatly reduced this year
as a result of new arrangements
made by the committee in charge
of the exposition.
While no official action has been
taken in the matter, it is the opin
ion of many people here that the
1928 show should be staged in
SAYS GEORGIA
TOBACCO LOW
Local Man on Waycross
Market Says Prices Are
Lower Than Last Year ,
Averaging as low as $8.73 the 100
pounds and as high as $16.25 per 100
pounds, tobacco prices being paid on
the South Georgia markets will not ex
ceed on an average 12 centi, accord
ing to a letter from Mr. Theodore Has
sell, who is working on the Waycross
market. The price is falling behind at
least 6 cents, per pound, "in other
words, that much lower than the 1927
price," Mr. Hassell stated in his let
ter covering the first few days opera
tion of the markets in thaj, State.,
Mr. Hassell stated that the Ameri
can ami Imperial companies were buy.
tnjT'Vefy tittle, and tTiat th? Eiport,
I-'KKett & Myers were making fairly
large purchases. It must be remem
bered, Mr. Hassell pointed out in his
li tter, that the offerings have been very
poor, and that a higher average price
can he expected when that type of
tobacco is' sold. ,
ANNUAL MEET OF
PEANUT CO-OPS
Stockholders Will Gather
In Suffolk Tomorrow;
Several To Speak
'l'he Peanut Growers' Association
will hold its annual stockholders' meet
iiiK i" Suffolk, Va., tomorrow, in the
Academy o| Music building. This is
the seventh annual meeting of the
Peanut Growers Association. At this
meeting a resume of the past year's
work will he given, and plans for the
future of the association will be dis
cused in detail. ~*AII members of "the
association are expected to be present
and participate in the activities of their
organization.
Mr. T. B. Hutcheson, from Blacks
burg, Va., will make an address on the
"Economical Production of Peanuts,"
and Mr, A. W. McKay, of tire United
States Department of Agriculture, will
speak on "Present-Day Problems of
Cooperative Marketing." In these dis
cussions both sides of the agricultural
problem will be brought out. A dis
cussion of the production of peanuts
as well as the marketing of peanuts
will be gone into. >
The officers of the association wifl
hitve extensive reports to make, and a
meeting of the newly elected board of
directors will be held immediately af
ter the annual meeting.
Anti-Smith "Democrats"
To Meet At Raleigh
The so-tailed "Anti-Smith Demo
crats" will meet in Raleigh next Fri
day morning, at 11 o'clock, when they
will atKinpt to organize for effective
work af&inst Governor Smith in this
State. In the call issued by Rev., C.
A. Upcliurch, for the North Carolina
oiganization committee, it is said that
at! those Democrats who will not vote
for Governor Smith, as well as those
Democrats who are. determined to vote
and work against him are to be repre
sented in the Friday's Conference.
The aims of the conference as set
out in the call "to preserve our ideals
and self-respect and the unity and in
t grity of the southern democracy by
the defeat of the wet Tammany candi
date for President and the election of
dry, democratic Senatorial, Congres
sional, State and county nominees.
Thirty-four names were attached to
the call. *- * ■
Hearing for Roberts and
, Wells Being Held Today
Washington, Aug. 7.—Hearings for
H. B. Roberts and W. A. Wells, who
arc out on a $5,000 and $2,500 bonds
respectively, as the result of the
fatal accident on the Bath road sev
eral weeks ago, are scheduled for
todgjr.
Wells was released the day fol
lowing the crash, and Roberts was
released on bond, following his - re
covery at the Riverview hospital,
where he was taken with Miss Nan
nie Smith, Windsor girl, who lost her
life in the crash.
Williamston. Centrally located,
the town is in the" midst of a sec
tion that leads the United States
in the production of peanuts.
The two expositions, held in
Windsor and Ahoskie, were de
clared very successful, and the
show has reached that point where
it is on the regular schedule of
main annual events in this section.
No definite time for receiving
the bids has been announced, but*
it is the opinion of several here
that the people shduld get busy
and bring the 1928 show to this
town.
MUCH SUFFERING
FROM WEATHER
Farmers Having Trouble
Housing Tobacco On
Account Heat
\\ ith the thermometer equaling its
record nude in August, 1884, 600,000
New Yorkers crowded Coney Island
last Saturday afternoon in an attempt
to escape the heat. A violent thunder-J
storm, breaking intfte district there at
7:30 o'clock that evening, brought par
tial relief from the heat, which had
enveloped the city for days. The storm
bloke almost without warning and
caused a stampede of the 600,000 or
more at the bathing beach, overtax
ing all the transportation facilities and
resulting in at least one death when a
woman was pushed under the wheels
ill a Brooklyn-Manhattan train at one
of the stations. ' „
Reserves were called to handle the
mad rush of those who jammed their
way into the train treminals and bath
houses. The surf was soon deserted,
and in the rush several women fainted.
Ihe body ot the woman who was
pushed from a platform could not be
identified,
1 lit- blanket of beat which >titU-il'
the Fast caused deaths and prostra-'
tions to swell the total already ( piled |
up in two days of high temperatures.
In New York the heat was directly re
sponsible for two deaths and a score
of prostrations.
While the mercury stood at VI in
the northern city, the humidity was so
great that the heat was more severe
titan here, where the mercury stood
at 94 degrees in the shade. Farmers
busy housing their tobacco crops are
finding it hard to get labor for the
fit Id work, and many of the growers
are forced from the fields themselves
during the hottest part of the day.
HOME AGENT'S
JULY REPORT
Says Month Was Broken
Up By Camping and
State Meetings
Following "is the July report of the
coitnty home demonstration agent,
Miss Lora K. Sleeper, as submitted to
the bfiard of county commissioners at
their regular meeting here Monday:
The month of„July was well broken
up with the girls' camp at Camp Leach,
representing 11 clubs from the county,
and 31 girls attending. The State
farm and home makers meeting was
held in Raleigh from July 23 to 27, and
the State girls' . hort'course the week
following. Mi.4s Sleeper acted aij cloth
ing instructor while at Raleigh during
the girls' short course. Only two
meetings were held in. t|ie county dur
ing the month, one in Qak City and
on in Ange Town. 1,117 miles were
traveled during the month, 30 letters
written, 1 circular letter written with
10 copies circulated and 12 homes vis
ited.
Four girls from Martin County at
tended the State short cour»e in Ra
leigh from July 30 to August 4. Three
classes were permissible during the
week. The major project classes giv.
en during the week were food and
health, clothing and health, room im
provement, and poultry. Only two
subjects in this group could be taken.
Cultural courses were also offered,
consisting of music appreciation, con
ducted by Miss Fannie Buchanan;
and books and famous paintings by
Miss Maude Wallace. Two courses
given in recreation, and all girl* were
required to take at leasts ope recrea
tional course. There were approxi
mately 500 boys and girla from all
over the State in attendance at this
meeting. Tours were conducted dur
ing the afternoon for the boys and
girls. The number was divided into
four sections, or groups; one group
visited -the public buildings, while an
other visited the State nospital at Dix
Hill and the State penitentiary. The
boys and girl* in the have four
officers now for a State' federation of
Four-H club*. Dean Schaub con
ducted the business meeting for the
beys and girls Friday night.
Advertiser! WUI Find Our Col.
muni ■ Latchkey to Over 1,600
Homes of Martin County
ESTABLISHED 1898
TOWN FATHERS
REGULAR MEET
MONDAY NIGHT
"Go To Work Or Go To
Jail" Is Edict Issued
To Loafers
NO MAJOR PROBLEMS
Conaider Buying Additional Fire
Apparatus; Would Save $6,000
On Insurance Rates
In their regular meeting here last
"'Rht, the town commissioners, while
they dealt with no major problems,
discussed many minor ones and took
final action in a number of cases.
For more than an hour the officials
studied the insurance classification in
effect here and investigated the savin*
to be made possible by the purchase
of additional fire-fighting apparatus.
According to the figures advanced al
the meeting last night, a saving of ap
proximately so,ooo a year would be
efiected should the town purchase a
new truck and meet the requirements
of fire underwriting companies. The
ne v w equipment Will cost $12,500, a new
truck representing the greater part of
that amount, l'he members jot the
board stated that the needed additions
could be made provided that a substan
tial saving in insurance rates would
result. It Was agreed that an expert
from the insurance department at Ka
l.eigh be called doyvn here as soon as
possible, when the matter will be giv
en. another hearing.
While no deed has been drawn at
this time, a part of the lot upon which
the town's power and water plant "novy
stands was sold to tin; Virginia—Elef--
trit & Power to. for a S6OO consider,
ation. Ihe lot is to the rear of the
municipal buildings, Where the |)>wir*f "
Ct nipany plans to erect it,s sub-station.
"Go to work or go to jail" was is
sued for the benefit of those who count
it a misfortune. o toil in an unconi-
promising suiv 1 lie police were or
dered to Check up on the "sons of rest"
and carry them before the mayor,
where an w ill lie asked.
It might lie that the mystery o! living
high without working will be solved.
Yesterday there were J» men idle here.
A few days ago one of the town of
ficials counted SO persons who pre
ferred to lounge around rather than
exchange a fair day's labor for a fair
wage. With conditions gradually be
coming worse, the town officials' plan
'°, rigidly enforce the law,
and their order stated that the rigid
enforcement.would begin at once.
A report having to do with dogs run
ning at'large in the streets was asked
of the members of the police force,
and it was learned that the canines
running loose wilj have only a few
more days iif freedom, as there will be
built a pound for them. While no war
rants have been issued, it was stated
that several people were reminded of
the law and that tTie number of dogs
running loose has been de
cteased since attention of dog owners
was called to* the law affecting their
pets:
Several complaints were placed
fore the board, but Chief Daniel stat;
ed that the street force was busy clear
ing the weeds from the streets and
that additional complaints would not
be necessary.. The officer * was in.
structed to see the owners of vacant
lots, where weeds and trash are in
abundance and ask them to clean up
their premises. , >■
Permission to hold a dance the mid
dle of this mouth was refused Vander
bflt Respass, colored. The order
granting William Cook permission tu
hold a dance some time this 'month
was rescinded, and the commissioners
said no tnore dances for a while.
'1 he chief of police was ordered to
collect taxes from bread wagons and
fruit trucks. The tax of SSO imposed
last year will remain unchanged for
the bread wagons, and $25 a day will
be charged the operators of fruit
trucks, where the owners sell and de
liver all in one operation. This or
der does.not apply, however, to farm --
produce grown ami handled by the
fatmers themselves of this section. A
tax of SSO was ordered to be placed
on apple cat's.
The construction of a water line to
the new school building was mentioned
and it was learned that the material
had been ordered and that-tbe con
nection would be made not later than
the last of this month. The line will
ccnnect with the Haughton Street
mains. *
To Select National
Committeeman 24th
A Democratic national committee
man to succeed Senator Simmons, who
resigned a few weeks ago, will be se
lected August 24, when a meeting of
the State Democratic Committee will
be held in Raleigh.
Senator Simmons and State Chair
man Mull met in last night
in New Bern, but no reasons were giv
en for publication as to why the Sena
tor resigned the position of national