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VOLUME LIV—NUMBER 16
Williamaton, Martin County, North Carolina* Thursday, February 22, 1951
ESTABLISHED 1899
Handle Nineteen
Cases In County
Court On Monday
.Several Defendants Sent
T» Hoads; $425 In
Fines Are Imposed
Judge R. T. Johnson and Solic
tor Clarence Griffin handled
nineteen cases in the Martin
County Recorder’s Court last
Monday. Holding the tribunal in
session until late afternoon. Judge
Johnson meted out several road
sentences and imposed fines in
the amount of $425. Several jury
trials held the court in session
longer than would have been the
case, it was pointed out.
Proceedings:
Judgment was suspended upon
1he payment of the cost when
Thomas J. Purvis was adjudged
guilty of an attempted assault
with a deadly weapon
Finding Collins Smith not guil
1y of assaulting a female, the court
ruled that the prosecution was
frivolous and malicious and not
in the public interest, and ordered i
Rosia. Lee Daniel, the prosecut
ing witness, to pay the court costs.
Pleading guilty of an assault j
with a deadly weapon, Annie *
Purvis was sentenced to jail for (
thirty days, the court suspending 1
the jail term upon the payment j
of a $10 fine and costs.
WjiIUt I iceman, pleading nut i
guilty of an assault with a deadly ■
weapon, was found guilty and .
was fined S10, plus costs.
Charged with drunken and hit
and-run driving, Thus. S. Grif
fin pleaded not guilty. Adjudged
guilty he was lined $200. taxed
with the costs and had his license
to operate a motor vehicle revok
ed for one year. He appealed to
the superior court.
Pleading guilty of violating the I
liquor laws, Tom LeRoy Pitt was
sentenced to the roads for six
months, Judge Johnson suspend
ing the road term upon the pay
ment of a $25 fine and costs. The !
defendant was placed on proba
tion for two years.
Charged with drunken driving,!
Willie Bullock caried his ease to!
a jury and was found not guilty 1
by the following jurymen: Geo. I
1, Cooper, E. S. Mears, Noah R. I
Hardison, Lester Keel, Russell
Griffin and F. U. Barnes.
Elmer Rodgers, charged with
larceny, was found not guilty.
Pleading guilty of the larceny of
$19 90 worth of soy beans from
Farmer Jack Roberson a short
time ago, John A. and Bookei T
Mizelle and Jas Andrews plead- j
i I guilty and were sentenced to!
the loads for six months. The road
rents were suspended upon the
payment of the court costs and re
imbursing the farmer for his loss.
The defendants are to remain of
good behavior for two years.
Charged with speeding 55 miles
an hour in a 35-mile speed zone,
Janies H L Jenkins of Williams
loii was fined $10, plus costs.
Maintaining he knew nothing
about an excess amount of liquor
being hid around his premises,
Harvey Perkins, alleged “big
man's” bootlegger was found guil
ty and was sentenced to the roads
for six months. The road term
was suspended upon the payment
of a SI00 fine and costs. The de
fendant is io violate no liquor
law during the next five years. |
Perkins admitted ownership of!
txyo pints of liquor, but maintain
ed he knew nothing about the
other six and une-haif pints found
on his property.
Jesse Mayo was tinea -Wo, plus
costs, and James Powell was fin
ed S35 and taxed with the costs
for operating motor vehicles with
out driver's licenses.
Pleading not guilty, Brad Bag
lc-y, charged with driving 55 miles
per hour in a 35-mile zone, was
found guilty and was fined $10,
plus costs.
Robert Everett, colored man
who recently completed serving
a 5-year sentence for beating a
jailer nearly to death in another
county, was sentenced to the roads
for six months for an assault with
u deadly weapon and an addi
tional six months for resisting
ai rest.
Pleading guilty of an assault
with a deadly weapon, Jesse
Jones was sentenced to the roads
for six months.
Carrying his case to a jury, J.
Busick Taylor was found not guil
l Continued on Page Eight)
Call Eighty-Two For
Pre-Induction Tests
P.-T. A. MONDAY
v*
The Green Wave Hanti of
Williamston High School will
present the program at the
Williamston P.-T. A. meeting
in the High School auditor
ium Monday evening. The
meeting will open at 7:30 and
the program will start at 3:00.
The band will present four
numbers including some to be
used in the concert of April 3.
and there will be numbers by
four ensemble groups. Any
one not desiring to attend the
business session is invited to
drop in at 8:00 for the band
program.
The first ensemble group
will be a clarinet quartet, in
cluding Sarah Manning,
Gloyden Stewart, Harriet
Ward, and Bo'hby Coburn. In
another clarinet group are:
Sally Roberson, Mary Caro
lyn Leggett, Jean McLawhorn
and Joyce Ann Cowan.
A trumpet quartet. Bobby
Clayton, Don Parsons. John
Rogers and Calvin Chesson or
David Davis will present a
number followed by a trum
pet trio, Raymond Roberson,
Marie Peele and Ralph Park
er or Mary Lib Britton. Jean
Mobley will serve as accom
panist. Mr. Herbert Carter
of E. C. T. C., Greenville, will
be here to judge the ensem
bles, if possible.
A Band Parents Club meet
ing is to follow the program.
Few Contribute
To Ward TV Fund
In answer to an appe al for funds
to help finance the purchase of a
television set for Ward 13 in the
Naval Hospital at Portsmouth,
several local people have made
contributions, Mayor Robt. Cowen
said yesterday.
Mrs. W. E. Old, former Wil
liamston resident, has promised:
the boys, most of them North Car- i
oltnans returned from Korea, that
she with the help of people in this
area would equip their ward with
a TV set. There are thirty-two
wards and people in Norfolk and|
other sections of Virginia and
North Carolina had purchased and
installed television sets in most
of them.
In addition to the television
project, Mrs. Old makes regular
visits to the ward, doing little fa
vors as a token of appreciation
for their part in Ihe Korean war.!
Her son, “Buster" continues in j
Korea. Others who would like to
work with Mrs. Old on the pro
ject are asked to make contribu
tions to Mayor Cowen or send \
them direct to Mrs. Old at Apt. C, |
700 Raleigh Avenue, Norfolk, Va. j
Would Abolish
Secret Sessions
A joint resolution putting the;
General .Assembly on record as
opposing tile holding of executive
-4ir secret—’sessions was intro
duced in the House this week by
Htp Joe Warren of Casweii.
The resolution was referred to
the Committee on Propositions
and Grievances, and it was pre
dicted freely that it would die in
committee.
Warren's resolution states:
"The General Assembly hereby
disapproves the practice of any j
committee of either House of the
General Assembly, or any commit
tees meeting jointly, holding so
called executive or secret ses
sions.”
The people back home don’t
like these executive sessions,”
Warren said. "They're raised more
fuss about them than anything
else.
“It's not democracy. Members
of the Legislature shouldn’t be
ashamed to let the folks know
what they’re doing about public
matters.
"I m not afraid for the people
to know how I stand on any issue
before the Legislature.”
Men Scheduled To
Leave Here Early
Friday Morning
-#
Fairly Certain Some of the
Group Will Be In Line
For Mareh Final
Eighty-two young Marlin Coun
ty men—fifty-seven colored and
I twenty-five white—have Decn
called to report for pre-induction
tests. Traveling in two special
busses, the group will leave here
early tomorrow morning for Fort i
Bragg, and if everything goes well |
they will return late tomorrow
evening.
A final induction call is pend
ing, and it is likely that some of
those passing the tests tomorrow
will be in line for final induction
on March 14.
The names of those called to
report for pre-induction arc listed
below, but several of the men arc
being transferred and actually no
more than 75 will make the trip
j from here tomorrow.
White
llariy Otto Jarman, Jr., Whit
field Evans Mallory, Earl Ben
I jamin Forbes, Curtis Lee Thomp
I son, Clifton Ward Gurganus,
James Carroll Lilley, Golden Hor
ton Barber, Ernest McKinley
Cabi, James Haywood Williams,
William Harold Wynne, Ottis Ho
cll, John Wilson Marslender, Car
roll Eugene Price, Ralph Gray
Mendenhall, Melvin Gray Wil
i liams, Charlie Eugene Godard,
1 Jesse David Price, Jr., Bennie
i Clifton Williams, John Curtis
' Farmer, William Jennings Bryant
Reason, James Robert Williams,
! Thurman Ray Flanagan, Edward
| Lee Coltrain, Robert Alonzo Tay
lor, Jr., Cecil O’Neal Bowen.
Colored
Chas. Lindbergh Clemmons.
Calvin Jones, Robert Earl Bowen,
Andrew Fields, Columbus Rober
son, John Ben Roberson, Robert
Lewis, Cl/?"ence Earl Roberson,
Sylvester James, William Davis
Rogers, James Felton Brown, Ar
thur Lee Taylor, Askew Council,
Norman Lee Slade, Melvin
Bryant, James Earl Ruff, Wil
liam Austin Green, Alonza Dan
iel, Wallace Earl Davis, David
Garland Perry, Levy Glen Hill,
William I Price, Marvin Rudolph
Williams, Leodus Whitehurst,
Robert Bonner, Weldon Boston,
(Continued on page si*)
New Record F or
Crossing Ocean
A new record for crossing the
Atlantic—-seven hours and forty
eight minutes—was set recently
by a veteran commercial pilot,
Charles F. Blair, Jr. The forty-one
year-old American made the non
stop flight from New York to
London in a souped-up Mustang
fighter plant:. His average speed
was 450 miles per hour. The pre
vious record of eight hours and
fifty-five minutes for the 3,500
rnile flight was held by a four
engine Boeing StratocruLcr. A!
though he was aided by a 130- |
mile-an-hour tail wind, Mr. Blair I
.-aid, "I still didn't make the time
i expected to.”
Restoring Church
In Czechoslovakia
The famous Church of John
Huss, in Prague, is being restored
and made into a national shrine
of Czechoslovakia. The Bethlehem
Chapel, where John Huss preach
ed reform in the early fifteenth
century, is being restored with
government money. Archaeolo
gists have been working for more
than two years and have nearly
finished the restoration. The chap
el was believed to have been con
secrated in 1934. John Huss, a for- |
mer Roman priest, who helped
pave the way for the reforms of
Zwingli, Luther and Calvin, was
condemned for heresy and burned
at the stake at Constance, Switz
er land, in 1415.
Governor Outlines
Program for Town
And City Streets
Speaks To Town .:nd Coun
ty Official* fu Ahoskie
Yesterday Noon
I While pointing out that State
1 Senate Bill 120 or the measure in
troduced by Senator Junius Pow
ell and passed by the Senate a
few days ago could undermine
the primary highway system.
Governor Kerr Scott in an address
; to town and county officials of
| the First Highway District in
i Ahoskie yesterday declared that
| the present program was not fair
j to the cities and towns . of the
State.
Without saying so in actual
words, the Governor strongly in
timated that there was a sinister
motive behind the Powell bill
which would "steal" five million
dollars from the primary high
way fund, lie advanced the opin
ion thut the “hold-the-line boys"
in Raleigh had entered into an
agreement whereby the towns and
cities would help hold the line
and block all plans to aid educa
tion, hospitals, etc., and be re
warded with five million dollars
from the primary highway fund.
The Governor, in one of his
best talks, declared that he was
interested in all of North Carolina
and all the people, that he sin
cerely believed the towns and
cities were not getting a square
deal when it comes to building
and maintaining streets. However,
he explained that the problems
! was not to be met hy borrowing
from Peter to pay Paul. "If we are
to progress, we must look for ad
ditional revenue," the Governor
said .explaining that what was
good for one section or group was
good for all other grouns.
| “Industry with a quarter bil
j lioii dollar potentiality can be ex
pected to come to North Carolina,
and you can’t afford to stop the
progressive movement,” Scott
said, pleading with the officials
to maintain a progressive pro
gram, build roads, streets, im
prove the schools and churches
He said again that he was
against the Powell bill, but that
he favored helping the towns and
cities solve their street problems,
declaring that he would support
any plan whereby revenue could
be raised to finance the street
program. He pointed out that
the Farm Bureau in its recent
meeting in Asheville and the
State Grange had endorsed a pro
gram for streets and agreed to
support a plan for raising revenue
for that purpose.
The Governor sairl that an ex
tensive study had been made of
the problem by the street and
road commission, but so far the
backers of Senate Bill 120 had not
even bothered to contact that
commission or discuss the problem
with tile State Highway Commis
sion.
The Governor said he was
aware of the serious problems
towns were having in trying to fi
nance street construction and
maintenance with property taxes
while they were being called
upon to pay gas taxes for the
primary and secondary road pro
grams. ‘‘The towns and cities are
entitled to consideration; it is
only fair that they be given con
>deration," the governor declared
it was apparent that the Govcr
nor was speaking in the interest
(Continued from Page Six)
THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
Automobile accidents in
Martin County are averaging
almost one a day, and unless
♦he trend is checked there’ll
be one of the worst account
ings at the end of this year
ever in motor vehicle history.
The following tabulation*
offer a comparison of the ac
cident trend: first, by corres
ponding weeks in this year
and last and foi each year to
the present time.
7th Week
Accidents Inj’d Killed Dam’gc
1951 8 1 0 $ 1,825
1950 3 4 0 800
Cemparisoaa To Date
1951 45 10 0 9,785
1950 22 11 U 3,390
Continued Parity
Price For Peanut
Crop Is Doubtful
—•—
Senator Clialon I*. Ander
son Warns Cost May
Briiip I.ml to Program
Senator Anderson tD.-N. Mix.)
predicted this week that peanuts,
like potatoes, will disappear from
the government parity program
unless the cost to Uncle Sam is
cut quickly.
Parity is the price level fig
ured by the government to give
farmers a fair purchasing power.
Anderson, former Secretary ol
Agriculture, is a member of the
Senate Agriculture Committee,
which held a hearing today to con
sider a proposal by Senator Hocy
(D-NC) to increase 1951 produc
tion of peanuts to meet market
demands.
Only tin' Virginu-tvpe of Val
encias, the kind you cat, grown
mostly in the Carolinas, Virginias
and Tennessee, were reported in
short supply at this time.
The potato parity program end
ed with the 1950 crop.
Anderson said "1 think the pea
nut program is going to be killed
by Congress in two years unless
you get this fixed so it won't cost
$15 or $20 an acre."
Chairman Ellender (D-La) of
the Senate committee said the
group likely would consider the
bill in closed session later this
week. Rep, Abbitt (D-Va) urged
a peed anil said clearance of a bill
in thi' house is expected this week
Flake Shaw, of Greensboro, N
C„ representing the North Caro
lina Farm Bureau Federation, told
the Senate committee "we want
to grow more peanuts of the type
needed anil we want to put less
responsibility on the government.
We farmers believe you can do
anythong worth doing if you g >
at it the right way"
Earlier today, Agriculture De
partment officials said the 1949
peanut crop meant a loss of $40,
000,000 to thi' government through
Commodity Credit Corporation
payments and predicted the 1950
crop loss would be about $20,
000,000 or $30,000,000, in spite of
acreage reduction required by
I law.
| Anderson suggested also that
Alabama and Georgia be encour
aged to grow the edible instead
of the oil-type of peanuts, as it
is the latter which cost the gov
^ eminent money,
i '1 am anxious to give acreage
necessary foi the jumbo type of
Virginia-Carolina peanuts," An
derson said.
John C. Ls nn, associate director
ot the American Farm Bureau
Fereration, said tin federation re
cognizes the need to revise the
present peanut marketing quota
legislation and urged approval ol
changes before the planting sea
son starts. He said the Hoey lull
would do the job.
Under that bill, he said, " the
acreage allotment would be re
duced 300,000 acres below the
1950 national allotment. The Sec
retary of Agriculture would have
authority to add the necessary
acres of types in short supply,
and we believe that with the un
proved market situation with re
: gard to oil, coupled with this re
duction in mirage I rum 1950, llv
Commodity Credit Corporation
J could avoirl any great losses from
I the operation oi this program."
He outlined the major difter
(Continued on page sue)
Assigned To Camp
Stewart, Georgia
——
Entering tlie service it short'
time ago, Pvt. Thurman G. James,
brother of Mrs. Charlie Ward ol
Robersonville, was recently as
signed to Camp Stewart, Ga. In
a recent leUci he said that h<- wa.
getting along all right, but be
tween the lines il could be seen
that he missed the ole home a
bit, if not a gn at deal. Pvt. James
said hi was enjocmg the county
napers, and would like to hear
from other acquaintances in the
service and from friends back
home.
Mis address is: "Pvt. Thurman
G. James, 151st OPS D..t., 51st
AAA Brigade, Camp Stewart, Ga
To Start Red Cross
Drive Next Monday
*
Name Leaders To
Handle Drive In
Five Townships
Cliainnuii Ftlmmls Appeal*
For Support Of Tin*
l l.D.iT Ouola
Arrangements arc just about,
complete for launching the annual
Red Cross Fund drive in this
chapter. Chairman John Henry
Edwards and his co-chairman, ii.
P. Mobley, announced today.
In announcing the plans. Chair
man Edwards directed an urgent
ph a tv) all tlu people in the five
townships, constituting the Mar
tin County Chapter, appealing to
them toi support in raising the
$4,0o7 quota.
The drive is to be launched in
Williamslon's business districts
next Monday, and the campaign
will be extended into the residen
tial and rural areas a few days
later, Mr. Edwards explained
Solicitors named to handle the
canvass in Williamston's business
district are:
Messrs. David Moore, Edgai
Gurganus, D. It. Davis, N. C
Green. J Edward Corcv, D. V.
Clayton, James Bullock, Wheeler
Manning, Homer Barnhill, G. G
Woolard, J Paul Simpson, J. O.
Manning, Jr., C. B. Clark. Jr.,
W. 15. Gaylord, A J Manning.
Ernest Mcais, V J. Spivey, W. M.
Baker, M. L. Peel, Win. Everett
and James Bailey Peele
Professor Edgar J. Hayes is
heading up the drive among the
colored citizens here.
Chairman Edwards said this
morning that tie is naming can
vassers for the rural areas in Wil
liamston, that chairmen, already
named fin the othei townships,
will name their own co-workers.
The drive in the other townships
is being headed by the following
chairmen: Mrs. Camille F. Rawls,
Jamesville; Mrs. Irving Roberson,
Williams; Mis. J. Eason Lilley,
Griffins; A. B. Avers, Jr., Bear
Grass.
William.stun s Woman's Club
members have agreed to handle
the ranvass in the residential see
tions here it was explained. A
list, of then canvassers is to tie ;
worked out by the club and an
nounced later.
Mr. Edwards said that the chap
ter’s quota is slightly more this
year than last, lie explained that
the Korean war had increased de
mantis lot lied Cross services, that
the Dlootlmobilc program, going
into id feet in this chaplei the hit
ter part ol next month, call for
increased funds
Last year the chapter raised |
$2,095.-17, but the demands for Red
Cross service are much greater,
and the 1951 quota is recognized
as the absolute minimum to li
nance the operations during the
next twelve months.
The various ptinripals and
teachers in the colored schools are
pledging tiic new drive their sup
port, and Chairman Edwards . ys
that with all working tugi.thei
the goal can hi reached without
the slightest trouble. The leaders
hope to complete the drive and
have all the contributions in hand
by the middle of Match.
New Vaccine For
Whooping Cough
—.»——
A ih*w whooping cough vaccine j
was announced on January Jit by!
the Medical School ol Western Ito
serve University. The new vac
cine, developed by Di Louis I’d
lemur, professoi ol biochemistry,
was reported to have no injurious
side elfects The vaccine was pro '
duced by placing whooping cough
bacteria in a supersonic machine
and exposing them to it,000 cycles
per second of sound. When the
bacteria exploded, red cel is of
human blood were added. The
blood cells absorbed only the pro
tective properties ol tin bacteria.
Consequently, the vaccine was be
lieved to give complete immunity,
against the disease. j
I about ( uMi,u;n; ]
k---/
The preparation of tobac
co plavt beds is just about
completed in this county, ac
cording to reports reaching
here this week.
More than ninety percent
of the beds have been sown,
the reports adding that most
of the farmers, possibly sev
enty percent or more, arc
planting the disease-resistant
varieties.
A few plants have come up
in some areas where plant
ings were handled early.
Announce Essay
Contest Winners
In The Schools
I'inal* Are lleinp! Held In
Seliuols Mere ijut*t
Viul I'oniomat
Preliminaries in the county
wide essay contest arranged and
sponsored by the Martin County
Ministerial Association on the
subject, "The Truth About Bev
erage Alcohol", were completed
in the schools yesterday, and the
district winners will go into the
finals tonight and tomorrow,
Chairman K. It Shuller announc
ed
The contest attracted much at- I
tenth.n among the young people
in all the high schools with pos
sibly one exception. It was said
that principals and pupils coop
erated splendidly in nearly all the
schools, that in one place a teach
er reportedly challenged the
scientific facts, but jn all the oth
ers the findings were recognized.
Supported bv eleven churches
m the county, the contests have
and are making available to the
winners approximately $liiO in
cash prizes
While the chairman praised all
the schools lor their participation
in the program, independent re
ports declared that at least two
schools did an exceptionally good
job in preparing foi the contests,
that thirty or more participated
in the competition.
The names of the winners a'e
listed m order with priz.es of $10
to the first, $5 to the second, $3
to the third, $2 to the fourth and
$1 to the fifth, as follows
White
.Jamcsville: Nell Modlin, Mary
Hell l’adgctl, Shirley Harbor, Car
olyn Wallace and Hazel Gardner
Farm Fife: Joseph t.illey, Jo- j
soph Griffin, I’eggy 1 alley, Nan I
cy Gorkin and Hobby Ferry.
Hear Grass: Evelyn Cowan,
Willcttc Brown, Gerald Elks.
Grace Hogcrson and Geraldine
Bullock
Robersonville: Fatsy Roberson,
llestei Martin, Feggy Cherry, Del
pliia Raw Is, Jackie Ferry
Wilhamston: Ernest Taylor,
Betty l.ou Dudley, Mavis Savage
and Ernest Carraway
Oak City Mary Elizabeth Har
rell, Fynette Haislip, James Ste
wart and loan Leggett
( olured
Farmcle: Walter Davis, D. lores
Fyneh, Floyd Lanier, Feggy Mi
zollc and Gladys Teele.
Williamston: Shirley James,
Sadie Hill, Ernestine Finch, Mat
in Ormond and Kenneth Armi
(Continued on page six)
Heir To A Great
Fortune Passes
Daughlci ol Hetty Green, Mrs.l
Matthew Astor Wilks, died re- j
•e ntly <<t the age of eighty. Mrs. I
Will;,', like her mother, was one |
it the w in hi s riehent women.
Most ol her fortune came from
Her mother, whose finaneiai aru- |
men created many million dol
ars from realty investments and
ieeurity holdings in Wall Street i
md by her death in ltllti had!'
•cached a total of Si 100,000,000.
ifet Mrs. Wilks was raised by Mrs.
Urecn in austere surroundings.
Since 1920 she hail been a virtual
eeluse.
Hold The Liners
Given Tough Blow
In The Assembly
-^
K< iinx'iitutivc Vmlrrsoii
in The Fight For State
Kdiicution
-—■*
Raleigh The long-simmering
House exploded Tuesday in the
faces of the “no new tax, no new
spend" clique that has been in
nominal control of the lower
chamber up to now.
The fireworks came on educa
tion. And when the smoke cleared
away, the shaken conservative,
“hold-the-line” forces knew that
they had a tough fight, ahead.
Rep. Arthur Kirkman of Guil
ford touched off the shooting with
introduction of a resolution call
ing for the House to go on record
as favoring appropriation of suf
ficient money to operate the
schools, pay minimum fuel costs,
provide adequate and safe trans
portation for school children, pro
vide enough school books, and
pay teachers a minimlm of $2,200
to $2,100 for A certificate holders.
Rep. K. G. Anderson of Martin
was one of the 77 co-signers of
the Kirkman resolution calling
for a stand on appropriations for
i public schools. He voted against
postponing action on the bill un
til Thursday, and voted for sus
pension of the rules and immed
iate passage of the resolution by
the House.
Seventy-six other representa
tives had signed the resolution.
Kirkman said the folks back
home have the idea that the pub
lic school program is under at
; tack, and that they should be re
I assured of these minimum stand
ards despite the fact that they
are above Advisory Budget Com
mission recommendations.
He then moved for suspension
of the rules and immediate pass
age of the resolution.
Conservative forces— caught by
surprise at the move—immediate
ly began filabustering while try
ing to get votes against the mo
tion. KcjP E T. Bust of Cabarrus
moved to postpone action until
Thursday. Speaker Frank Taylor
whispered to supporters to "get
the boys to beat this motion (for
suspension of the rules)”.
Bust termed the move a slap
at Appropriations Committee
Chairman Larry Moore of Wil-,
son John Uinstead of Orange said
there was nothing unfair to any
one m the resolution, it just put
them on record as to the "debt
we owe the children of North
Carolina "
Moore saw the move as an eva
sion oi the rules, a slap at the
appropriations committee. Others
termed it "railroading tactics".
After about an hour of argu
ment, thi' motion to defer action
was defeated, (>0 to 51. Then came,
mon argument on suspension of
the rules. The vole on this was
(>2 for suspension and 10 against,
but it failed to pass because of a
House rule that calls for a two
thirds majority on votes to sus
pend rules.
Speaker Taylor—with obvious
robot -referred the resolution to
the Appropriations Committee.
While this was going on in the
House, the Senate took up a bill
calling for fire protection for per
sons confined in jails. Passed by
tbo House, thi' bill calls for some
one to la m oi near jails at al^
times m order to take care of
prisoners in ease of lire.
The bill passed its second read
ing, but on objection by Senator
J. William Copeland of Hertford
the bill was held over until to
morrow for its third reading.
Senators C H Dearman of Ire
dell, Wills Hancock of Granville
and Julian Allsbrook of Halifax
introduced a measure setting up
a minimum of $40 a month re
tirement pay for school teachers
and state employees. In addition,
they would be paid an extra dol
lar per month for each year of
service up to JO years.
Several school teachers visiting
the legislature were asked what
retirement benefits are now. They
said payments ran from $20 to $30
per month, but the retiring teach
er never knows what the payment
will be until she receives her first
cheek
Sen. Junius Powell sponsored
a bill calling for the establishment
of a North Carolina Turnpike Au
thority, which would be empow
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