CAPITAL REPORTER
Willis Smith’s failure to show
up at the Alamance County YDC
rally last Friday evening didn't
help things.
The rally was deliberately stag
ed at Governor Scott’s Haw River
farm in an effort to boost Smith’s
stock. Alamance is about evenly
• split between Democrats and Re
publicans, and some observers see
a likihood that the county's vote
could go to GOP standard-bearer
E. L. Gavin of Sanford, despite
the Governor's personal popular
ity.
Around the fringes of the crowd
of some 6,000 who ate barbecue
and listened to the speeches, there
was a distinct tone of disapproval
I of Smith's failure to be on hand.
Smith sent .a telegram of regret,
stating that he had a previous en
gagement with the State Bar As
sociation at Pinehurst. From the
reports of the bar meeting
Smith's dutv was to introduce the
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main speaker at the bar associa
j lion's annual banquet. The sena
\ tor-nominee was defended on all
sides for not appearing, but there
were a lot of folks present who
j seemed to think that it was more
! important to carry Alamance,
i County for the Democrats than it
! was to put on a dress suit and in
| troduce an outsider at a banquet.
I All of which comes back to
Uhis: the conservatives are in
! charge of the Democratic cam
paign. The liberals, who fought
them bitterly in the primary, are
calling for a united front and a
I big Democratic vote for Smith.
Governor Scott knd defeated-Sen
ator Frank Graham are doing all
they can to assure the party of a
bigger-than-ever majority in the
; general election.
I If the vote falls off, with the
' Republicans getting more than a
normal 21 to 30 percent of the bal
lots. it will be the conservative
faction which is to blame—no
matter how hard they may try to
pin it on the Scott-Qraham-Dan
iels group.
Fifst things should come first,
| but State Democratic Chairman
Everette Jordan, Willis Smith and
fellow conservatives apparently
consider the election in the bag
and not worth worrying about.
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rhey seem to be more interested
n a victory in the 1952 guberna
torial campaign.
* * *
School teachers will get the of
ficial woi d October 27 on the sup
plemental pay raise question and
it’s certain to be yes. Nearly three
weeks ago the Advisory Budget
Commission said that the pay
boost could be made if general
fund revenue continued at the
then present level through Octo
ber.
Revenue Commissioner Eugene
Shaw has indicated that his de
partment will have a pretty clear
picture of October collections by
October 27, when the Budget
Commission meets to continue its
study of requests for the next
biennium.
East week, Shaw announced
general fund collections for Sep
tember showed an increase ol
$932,602 over collections for the
same month last year. That was ;i
boost of 13.71 percent. Averagi
increase for the previous twt
months was 13.57 percent, whicl
brought the total increase for tin
first quarter of the fiscal year U
13.61 percent,-or more than $13,
100,000
This rate of increase—if it con
tinues—will mean that the Stab
will have a surplus of more thai
six and a quarter million dollar
by December. Add to that th
$800,000 the budget commissioi
declared surplus as of last Jun
30, and it runs the total to th
$7,000,000 needed to put some
thing in the pot for the teacher
Meanwhile, machinery is bein
set up for issuing the bonus checV
to the State's 26,000 teachers fi
a very Merry Christmas.
The Shennigans at the congre:
sional rallies are leaving the si
called political experts talking 1
themselves.
Conservatives are touting Bi
Umstead of Orange as a Candida
i tor governor in 1952. The exper
can’t make -up their miqris whet
| er this is a sounding out process
trying to get the Scott-led liberu
| to say who they’ll back—or whe
I her it’s a serious move to put Ur
r stead in the race.
Ilt could be a move to find o
whether or not the east-west ti
dition still is holding firm. If
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Dr. Gerald James, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J B. James of near Wil
liamston, and a graduate of Lm
eoln Chiropraetice College, Indi
anapolis, Indiana, is opening an
office m Dunn.
The young man moved to this
I section from Bethel when he was
| in the seventh grade. After fin
ishing high school he went to
Coyne Electrical School in Chica
go. Shortly after his marriage to
Miss Mac Belch of Merry Hill, he
entered the Air Corps, serving
most of 39 months as a flight en
gineer in North Africa and the
South Pacific. Following the war
he farmed with his father a year
and then entered the Indianapolis
college, completing a four and
one-hall'-year course in 36 months.
is, Uinstead would have one strike
’’ —at least—against him Reported
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willing candidates Secretary of i
State Thad Eures, State Treasur
er Brandon Hodges, Agriculture
Commissioner L. Y. Ballentine,
Highway Commissioner Henry
Jordan, and Asheville Publisher
D. Hiden Ramsey are keeping
quiet. The furore caused by a pre
mature and, according to Thad,
unauthorized announcement of
Eure's candidacy has died down.
If the Governor has a favorite,
he isn't letting it be known. And
all of the above-mentioned men
have been doing the rallies except
Ramsey, who has said nothing
and is laying low.
Some eyebrows were lifted
when Congressmen Bob Dough
ton and C. B. Deane told voters
to send Kerr Scott some men to
the legislature who would help
him carry out his program.
It sounded fine to Scott sup
porters on first glance, but a sec
ond look had the governor’s
friends wondering what good the
pleas were Most of the house and
senate members were decided in
the primaries, and general elec
tion will have little effect on the
makeup of the 1951 General As
sembly.
The Governor s announcemen
that Congressman Ertcl CarlysU
will lead a fight for flood eontro
and hydroelectric development o
the Cape Fear came as a surprise
The governor was credited witl
some astute maneuvering.
All in all, the rallies give th
appearance of some of the poll
I ticians seeing that Scott's popu
I larity is on the upgrade and try
ing to climb on the bandwagor
But one suspicious Scott sup
porter tabbed it as a “feint be
fore they (opponents of the go\
ernorl swing a roundhous
punch".
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Anyway, things should be in- (
tercsting politically speaking, |
around the Old North State for
some time to come.
* * *
Republican Gavin could have
rolled up quite a vote, possibly
won the election, with a different
sort of campaign. A great number
of Democrats in the State, who
supported Frank Graham, were
bitter about the type of campaign
[waged against the former UNC
! president. A lot of them were
talking about voting Republican,
others about writing Graham's
name on the ballot, and still others
about not voting at all.
A non-partisan campaign, such
as Gavin advertised, with an ap
peal to vote against bigotry could
| have put a Republican in the Sen
ate for the first time in many
years.
But Gavin apparently got »ome
bum advice from somewhere and
has used practically all of his
speeches to cuss the Democratic
administration, both State and Na
tional
Despite this, there still is a
strong possibility—from reports
from over the State—that the Re
publicans will run up their big
gest vote in years this November.
If they do, it will be the fault
of the conservatives—winners in
the primary—who still are on the
defensive about their campaign
methods and arc trying to discred
it the State administration via a
whispering campaign that is going
on right now. __
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NOTICE
Under and by virtue oi the power and authority vested in the undersigned by the laws o! North Carolina, and by the heirs oi R. W. Sals
bury and the heirs oi Laura E. Salsbury, the undersigned will oiler ior sale at public auction on Monday, December 4, 1950, at 10 o clock
a. m., at the Homeplace oi the late R. W. Salshury in the Town oi Hamilton, N. C.. the following property, to-wit:
One ten room dwelling house at the corner ol Liberty and l rout Streets in the
Town of Hamilton, IN. C.; one seven room dwelling house on Liberty Street in the
Town of Hamilton, IN. C.; 66 shares of common stock of the Farmer’s Lotion Oil
Company of Wilson, N. C.; 10 shares of Millner Stores, Inc., Raleigh, IN. C.
The undersigned will also oiler for sale at public auction on Monday, December 4, 1950, at 11 o'clock a. m., in Iront oi the Post Ollice
door in the Town oi Hassell, N. C., the following property, lo-wit:
One store house occupied by J. W. Eubanks anil located on three lots in the Town of Hassell, N. C.; one store
house formerly occupied by W. D. Bell in the Town of Hassell, IN. Cl.; two large warehouses loeuteil on the rail
road in Hassell, IN. C.; 175 acres, more or less, of far... land known as the “Johnson Far...” m ar the Town of
Hamilton, N. C. (40 aeres of cleared land and 135 acres of well-timbered land) ; 52 acres, more or less, of far...
land known as the “James Fur...” (20 acres of cleared land and 32 acres of well-limhercd land), located at Has
sell, N. C.; 585 acres, more or less, of farm laud known as the Home-place of the late Luura E. Salshury, locat
ed at Hassell, N. C. 1 Set Quartered Oak Bank Fixtures.
This the 10th day of November, 1950.
P. t. Salsbury, Administrator c. t. a. of R. W. Salsbury’s Estate.
P. L. Salshury, Agent for heirs of R. W. and Luura E. Salshury.