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Southern Albemarle Association President Says Program of That Group Is Now Fully Recognized Says Credit Claimed By Interests Which Had No Part in Work Asks Voters of Region To Forget Differences and Act in Concert 'Continued from page one) ton miles of hard surface road, con crete. built in Tyrrell County from Columbia toward Port Landing: a road known as the Dillon road being worked by WPA labor from Columbia to Alligator River with the end in view that Alligator River will be bridged: five miles of surfacing on the road from Columbia to Swan Quarter: a road from Whale Bone to Oregon Inlet continuing to Hatteras at a later date: Mashoes road and at this late date the Greater Albe marle Association comes along and says to the State Highway Commis sion we want all of the above roads within the next five years. Well they will get them, and the Alligator Bridge and Croatan Bridge as well, but who is responsible for them? I'll tell you who: none other than the Southern Albemarle Association. Oh yes. we invite cooperation but we don't invite any hogging our program. To my mind our vice president for Hyde. Hon. P. D. Midgett, let one golden opportunity slip when he fail ed to tell Hon. A. J. Maxwell that the Works for France sm jmsuMM'; Miss Anne Morgan, sister of J. P. Morgan, the noted financier, sailed from New York for Europe to en gage in relief work as president of the American Friends of France. program he was talking about was the S. A. A. and not the G. A. A. And speaking about cooperation and good will I want to say that some time last December I was invited to attend a "Good Will" dinner at Elizabeth City, N. C„ by my good friend Hon. F. T. Horner, and several others of my friends in that good town, and after the dinner, when it came time for the speaking I noticed that my friend Mr. Midgett was at the speaker’s stand, or rather at the speakers table, and it made me feel proud for the first Are Your Farm Im plements in A-l Shape for This Year's Work? If not, bring them to Basinger’s for prompt and efficient repair work. The old implements can be made to last much longer by a few cents spent on repairs. For general repairs, welding, or whatever you need to fix it, we can do it. Basinger BODY AND MACHINE WORKS East Main Street Extended Plymouth MURDERER To Be Hanged! But is the right man taking the "13 Steps” to the gallows? Was it the condemned man who killed Agnes Herrick, wife of his friend? 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But no. this did not happen for he was introduced as the '‘President of the Greater Albemarle Association" and then talk about "Good Will" and "Cooperation." If any such thing ex isted it was a poor way of showing it. in so far as the two Associations are ocncerned cn the part of G A A. If the G. A. A. wants to cooperate with tire S. A A. then let them show their colors and endorse some one from one of the counties of Dare, Hyde, Washington -and Tyrrell for a place on the State Highway Commis sion. Do we have any one to reccom mend? Yes. several of them. What about Zeb Vance Norman. W. L. Whitley. John W. Darden. C. Wallace Tatum. C. Earl Cohoon. O L. Wil liams. Warren Watson. D. B. Fear ing. Roy L. Davis and a host of others that I will not name at this time. Has the S. A. A. cooperated in the past with the Counties North of the sound? well I think so. when the Al bemarle Bridge was completed, hav ing been build at a place over the pro test of the S. A. A., every county in the S. A. A., did its part in the cele bration by having a float and a re presentative number of people pres ent. The S. A. A. let bygones be by gones and joined hands in this big event. Let’s see what’some of the Coun ties in the Southern Albemarle have done to get roads in their respective locality. First Dare—Dare has built a bridge at the cost of $170,000 <in round fi gures) and was nine years in getting the State to take it over. Did the County lose in dollars and cents? Yes as a unit of government it did. for the State paid the County in actual cash and its equivalent the sum of only $150,000 making the County stand a loss of $20,000. Its people having paid tolls for nine long years to go across $125,000 to build the present road from Stumpy Point to the Hyde County line. Dare spent another $125,000 to build the present road from Manns Harbor to Hast Lake. And when the commission ap pointed by the Governor, to consider the claims of the Counties for roads came to Dare they said no, we do not owe them a penny. Second—Hyde. I understand that Hyde County spent $75,000 to build from the Hyde line to Dare, the dif ference in the cost of the Hyde end and the Dare end of the road being due to tire shorter distance from Hyde County line to the Dare line. Fur ther I want to call to the attention of the several candidates for gover nor that there is something like 10, 000 votes in the S. A. A. and I know a governor who was elected by rea son of his majority being 4,000 in the first primary and that has not been over 50 years ago either. But let's get back to the G. A. A. and the S. A. A. in the first place the S. A. A. does not charge any membership dues, and it has a membership of 30.000 and has a governing body of 200. fifty from each of the four coun ties and they are selected by the Bord of County Comissioners of each coun ty while the G. A. A. has a member ship of maybe 300 and has three di rectors in each county regardless of membership, and charges $7.00 a year membership. Please keep in mind the words of Abraham Iincoln for the people, by the people and of the peo ple—that is the slogan of the S. A. A. while the G. A. A says for the as sociation. by the association and of the association and its board of trus tees. I want to call to the attention of the several candidates for the House of Representatives in the Southern Albemarle that they are de pending on the voters of their res pective counties for their election, and that they should be very careful how they are weaned away from their first love for as sure as day follows night if they don't stick to the South ern Albemarle Association they may live to regret it—this is no threat but just the reading of the signs. Whose money is it. any way, that is being spent on the roads and bridg es in the State of North Carolina? The people's, that's whose, and let me tell you folks in the Southern Albe marle, a thing that you may not be aware of and it is just this. In 1951 the original $20,000,000 road and bridge, or should I say Road bonds will have been paid oil, and before another cent can be raised for High ways by a bond issue the people of the State will have to vote on it, and do you for one minute think that the people who have good roads all around them are going to vote to bond the State to build roads in this neck of the woods? No. not by a jug full. At one time I was opposed to building the Elizabeth City short cut and the Albemarle Sound Bridge but since looking at the matter from the stand point of means of travel I have changed my mind, and I now say let the State build roads and bridges to every village and hamlet in the State. Build roads so that the school children of the State can go to school in any and all kinds of Weather, for after all is said and done it is our money. Do you think that it is fair for one town to have 17 hard surface roads leading into it, when there are setions in Dare Coun ty where the people have to use gum boots to get out to the main high way? Of course you don't so let them build roads and bridges. I say let’s stop taking money out of the Highway funds and diverting it to the general fund. If the state needs more money for schools let them find some way to get it but for God’s sake spend the people’s money, that is derived from the gas tax and license plates, where it belongs, on the roads and bridges. We may be “Spy” Returns Debarking in Boston from the Ex can bion, Virginia Davis, 22, reveals that she was jailed for two days in Paris as a spy suspect, after losing her identification card, and when freed was warned to leave the French capital by spring. She is the daughter of Meyer Davis, swing maestro from Philadelphia. like the old colored lady who during a battle between the States was seen with a common old brush broom run ning a Union Soldier, and when told that she could not kill any one with that kind of a weapon said "well, at least I can show what side I am on." And that brings to my mind that fact that the Hon. J. M. Broughton will speak to the people of Hyde on March 11. and I wonder if my good friend and vice president of the S. A. A.. Hon. P. D. Midgett. won't try and forget that he is President of the G. A. A. for just once and tell Mr. Broughton that the program men tioned in all the papers, which quot ed Mr. Maxwell, was the S. A. A.'s. Again Mr. Broughton will be in Man teo on the night of March 18 and I can promise you that some one will let him know-that this is the S. A. A. program. Hon. Wilkins P. Horton knows of our program as he was our principal speaker on the 17th of last August when 1.500 people attended the meeting and that brings another thought, and it is just this—at the above mentioned meeting Senator Wililam Rodman also made a won derful speech and among olher things he said that all the Southern Albemarle Association had to do to accomplish its aims was to have con fidence in itself and that all these things would come its way. Has the S. A. A. been recognized by any of the leaders in the State? Let's see— at the meeting held in April. 1937. the Governor of the State was the principal speaker—at the meeting in Hyde County Hon. Lindsay C. War ren was the speaker: and again at the last meeting held in Manteo the Mon. W. P. Horton was the speaker. Does that mean anything? Also, that it is my earnest wish that in all the Counties of this wonderful section of ours the Southern Albe marle. that we lay aside any and all personal feeling and when the time comes to cast our ballot that we all can and wall vote as a unit for each and every candidate, both coun ty and State, that we know will work District Supervisor Ot Census Attends Course of Training I Preparing for Population Census, To Be Started On April 2nd D. W. Lupton. of Washington, sup ervisor of the Bureau of the Census for the first congressional district, re cently returned home from Atlanta, Ga. after attending a week's training conference conducted by Harvey B Mitchell. Assistant Director of the do away with factions, and make of ourselves one invincible force, so that future generations will arise and call United State;, Bureau of the Cen sus, the course having to do with the Agriculture. Population and Housing Census which is to begin April 2nd Over 125 representatives from eight states, including North and South Carolina. Georgia Florida. Alabama. Mississippi. Tennessee and Kentucky | attended the conference, which met in the Federal Room of the Old Post Office Building Mr. Lupton gives an enthusiastic account of his trip, stating that the Mayor and the City of Atlanta co for the interest of ins section and the interest of the State as a whole. Let's forget all little differences and us blessed Won't you folks in Hyde. Tyrrell. Dare and Washington do this. Just let the G A. A blow its j own horn for in all cases the fellow that blows his own horn is at the little end. operated to the fullest extent in mak ing the conference a success. 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