CAPITAL REPORTER
Raleigh, N. C„ Nov—The beer
boys are going to try for the jack
pot in the 1951 General Asembly.
They're going to try to put 3.2
percent brew in each and every
one of the 100 counties.
Via the grapevine comes word
that the beer barons are not sat
isfied with the local option vote
on sale of beer—they get beat too
often to suit them.
So they’re going to try to put
through a state-wide bill making
it legal to sell the 3.2 beer in eve
ry county. The first step, or per
haps in the preamble of the bill,
will be to get the 3.2 declared
"non-intoxicating." In other
words, they’ll say it's just about
as innocent as the “near beer-”
prohibition days.
Actually, I'm told, the beer be
ing sold in those North Carolina
counties which have legal beer
sales is very little if any above
the 3.2 percent alcohol mark.
And, if any of you have any
doubts that 3.2 beer won’t get
get folks to feeling pretty frisky,
ask some of the boys in service.
Most PX’s sell beer on army posts,
and it’s supposedly 3.2 percent.
But it does right well in the way
of making a lot of the boys feel
no pain.
The beer boys have contacted
most of the incoming legislators,
and reportedly are boasting that
they have enough of the lawmak
ers on their side to get the state
wide 3.2 beer sale through both
House and Senate.
The Governor last week said
in effect that grafting had been
j pretty aimmon in the Prison De
! partment for years, but that
breaking it up would take “at
i least two years."
He said breaking this up
would take "at least two years.”
He said breaking this up would
save the State millions of dollars.
He hit at critics of the admin
istration who, he said, “just want
to criticize but don’t offer any
I constructive criticism.”
The Governor maintained that
i his so-called "petty graft cam
paign” has saved up to some $5,
000,000 He did not cite other fig
ures, but said this saving has
| been made by abolishing free
meals at prisons, cutting down use
of telephones and state-owned
i cars, and in keeping state em
ployees from walking off with
hams, etc., from state farms.
As to prison graft, Capital Re
1 porter noted some time ago that
the State Bureau of Investigation
is quietly investigating prison
camps all over the State. There
have been some changes made in
'some of those camps recently.!
'and tikelv will be others.
Prison Director John Gold is j
' doing everything he can to clean
up the situation, but anyone fa
miliar with the situation knows
that it will take some time. After j
all, you can’t remake the prison i
system overnight, and some of
the goings on are so deep-rooted ’
that it will take quite a bit of
digging. Accusing a man of being I
a crook is one thing, but proving '
it on him is quite a different job. !
Back to beer, for a minute. The
North Carolina Division of the
U. S. Brewers Foundation has
been advertising a "Live and Let
Live” campaign lately. The ad
has been in a number of the
State's newspapers, and it praises
the work of the Malt Beverage
Division of the State Board of
I Alcoholic Control in keeping
beer-selling places "clean, orderly
land operating according to law."
C. A. Upchurch, Jr. has done a
good job in cleaning up the beer
joints. But it seems a little ironic
, that his praise must come from
the brewers.
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L. A. Martin of Lexington re
■ cently was named judge of the
Davidson County Cflurt. All of the
announcements I saw failed to
mention that he is a long-time
leader of the dry forces, and was
the ramrod of the 1949 Legisla
ture in trying to get through a
bill for a state-wide liquor refer
endum. He did block passage of
city votes on legal hooch, how
| ever, by forcing amendments on
! all such local bills. These amend
ments allowed a city liquor vote
only if the county did not call a
county-wide vote. All of the
counties called for votes.
A study of the 1949 farm in
come by states shows that North
Carolina is well down the list,
below the national average in
most instances.
For example: in cash from live
| stock and products, North Curo
| lina was 45th with an average in
I
Mickey Rooney faces Pat O’Brien in a dramatic moment from “The
Fireball,” the story of the roaring roller skating speedway which
arrives Thursday at the Watts Theatre. The Thor production, releas
ed by Twentieth Century-Fox, is the first to attempt to tell on the
screen the inside story of a champion of this I'ast-growing American
sport.
come per farm of $501. Nevada)
topped the list, with a $10,92(1
average per farm, and South Car- !
olma was last, with an average,
of $407 per farm. The national j
average was $2,5(11.
In cash farm income from
crops, North Carolina ranked
22nd with an average of $1,922:
per farm Arizona headed this!
list, with a $13,4111 per farm aver
age, and West Virginia was last ■
with a $219 average. The national |
average was $2,119.
In total cash farm income.
North Carolina was 40th with
an average per farm of $2,449.
Arizona was first with $18,717
, and West Virginia was last with
j $1,149. The national average was
$4,710.
But when you consider that the
average North Carolina farm is
around 21 to 22 acres -among the
smallest in the nation on an aver- J
age—it is not surprising that the
"per farm" average is well down
the list. North Carolina ranks
second in the number of farms.
In summing up the situation,
the Institute for Research in So
cial Science at Chapel Hill notes
that the State has a long way to
go before "she can be considered
a reasonably well-balanced agri
cultural state."
"Our surplus land and surplus
energy could profitably be devot
ed to piore livestock in our farm
program," the institute says. "We
have excellent resourses for pro
duction of livestock and we are
making progress in this direction.
| Hut as long as our livestock ratio!
remains at the bottom in the
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United States it is evident that
we need to accelerate our pro
gress towards a better balance
between livestock and crops."
The defeat of Democrat Harry
Vander Linden as Catawba Coun
ty's representative in the legisla
ture is being attributed to legal
liquor. Vander Linden succeeded
in getting stores in, but he lost
this year to Republican Roy E.
Leinbaek, Jr., a preacher and a
dry.
E Gerald Lackey of Winston
Salem, president of the hf. C.
Motor Carriers' Asociation, has
written all members of his orga
nization expressing "great alarm"
at reports of speeding by trucks.
"1 urge each of you to check
every driver’s record for speed
or other violations upon the com
pletion of each trip, and to weed
out any known violators,” Lackey
wrote the truckers
"I urge you to consistency re
mind them of their responsibility,
and that speed violations will not
be tolerated
Lackey said further that this
"urgent matter” will he fully dis
cussed at the Asosciation s board
of directors meeting December II
Recent report have .shown that
trucks and buses have been the
biggest offenders at exceeding
the speed limit on state highways.
The National Tax Equality As
sociation NTEA which is back
of a radio advertising campaign
against cooperatives of all sorts
was the subject of a congressional
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'investigation this year The in
vestigation was made by a select
House committe, headed by Rep
Wrignt Patman of Texas
NTKA was one of four organ)
/.at inns studied by the House
group. All of the organizations
were purported to he small busi
ness representatives
But the House committee re
ported that "none of these four
organizations truly represent
small business, and that big-busi
ness monev contributions -from
U. S. Steel, Standard Oil, and
various public utilities, to cite
i illy examples—-encircle these or
ganizations."
In its lobbying report for the
first quarter of Pm). N TEA show
ed -id contributors of more than
1 .',00 each for the quarter Of
these Hi were public utility com
panies. For the third quarter, H
of a total ill such contributors
were public utilities companies
including Carolina Power and
Power and Light Company
In a summary, the committee
report said that NTKA claims tc
represent small business, but that
this claim is false or misleading
This is the same outfit that is
i sponsoring radio ads-or spots
i fighting cooperatives, and an
nouncing the ads as sponsored In
"local taxpaying merchants"
Pete: What's the difference be
tween a single man and a marriet
man?
Tony: What"
Pete: A single man has no hut
tons on his shirt, and .1 marriei
man has no shirt.
Wood pulp is the basis of 1)5
percent of all paper.
Now Is The Time
to go to
COURTNEY’S
For
FURNITURE
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ADMINISTRATION
Having This day qualified as ad
I ministrator of the estate 'if John
nie Jones, late of the county of
'Martin, this is to notify till parties
having claims against said esta.te
to present them to the undersign
ed within one vear from date
I hereof or this notice will he plead
|ed in bar of recovery
All parties owing any sum ti
the said estate will please pay
t he same at once
1950.
F H Harrell. Administrator,
Kstate of Johnnie Jones, de
ceased, Oak City. N. C
This the 25th day of Oetohei.
|oc 2ti no 2-9- 1H-22-30
notice oi administration
I North Carolina. Martin County:
, Having this day qualified as the
! Administrator of the estate of
Buev H J Burnett, this is to neti
I'v all persons having claims
I against said estate to exhibit them
| to me. o. m\ attorneys undersign
led. on or before the 19th day ot
Kart, her 1951 ot this notice '-. ill
dp pleaded r bar of any recovery
thereon.
Ail persons indebted to said es
tatf will please make immediate
settlement
The; the Itlth rlav of October,
1!).')()
Willie I!. Williams,
Administrator of the (estate r.f
Luev K, .1 Burnett
Johnson lSraneh, Attorriev!
no 9-16-23 HO
ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE
llaviny this day qualified as ad
ministratrix of the estate of
jGeoi*i*e C Jenkins, deceased of
Martin County, this i. to notify all
| persons boldine ctwins ayainst
said estate to present them for
payn ent . at or bef... the i-.Oth day
of October. 1951, or this notice
I will be pleaded in bar of their re
I eoverv All pt sons indebted to
I said estate are . -keel to make tm
[ mediate seitlrne it This the 20th
1 day of October. 1 aJO
Mattie L Jenkins.
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