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f nur. fuiln THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER FRIDAY. Towns Concerned Over Lack Of Financial Aid From State Collections RALEIGH Extreme concern over the General Assembly's fail ure to enact any legislation to re lieve the pressing financial crisis of the State's cities and towns was expressed this week by the North Carolina League of Municipali ties. City Manager H. M. Cooksey of Thomasville. League president, de clared the current legislature "ap pears su wrapped up, in doing Some thing for rural areas that it has forgotten the citiens of cities and towns vWio pay mot of the State's taxes." Couk-ev decried what he termed ' the Legiskituie : .il.ii.iiiiig lack of understanding of the serious finan- ! cial prohleiii- laced by North Caro- ' lina's lijunii ipaiitie- and their many thousanc's of h.iraed citizen." His seli.'iiiieius were echoed by Mayor Ray Shute of Monroe, chair man of the League's legl-.lal i e coininillee. I Shute added that the League was! "very cuiiteined uvei the apparent , rural-urban -phi in the Lepi: la lu"e." and lie cpiv--'ed regret that such a situation has been permit ted by tlie Stale administration to develop. "We don't want that sort of thing," Shule said, "We realize that the urban and rural segments ot North Carolina must work to gether as a unit, for the welfare ol the entire State We believe forward-looking rural leaders agree ; with us. We dislike to see the ' Legislature or the administration j or any other agency play one side against the other. We are "sincere in warning the people of this State that such a policy will, in the long run. seriously hinder the general progress of North Carolina. We h lievc the problems of both sides should be considered and dealt wilh sympathetically, "The municipalities of this State certainly will not sit by idly and continue to get the short end of the deal every time they ask for legitimate help. The patience of urban residents is getting short. They are the state's heaviest tax payers and lhc are demanding to he included in any (Jo Forward' program. N State can go forward by holding back one great segment ot its population to the advantage ot another. We must all go forward together " Shule explained that the Joint Finance Committee had killed a j League-backed measure to revise the State's Schedule fi iprivilegel tax schedule to remove tax dis- criminations between local busi-j nes.ses anil to give municipalities! more leeway in levying privilege ! taxes. Adoption of the proposal I Mrs. Herman Francis, formerly of JOAN'S, and Mrs. Gporse Brown, Jr., formerly of BEA'S BEAUTY SALON THE OPENING of the Modern Beauty Salon GIFT AND ANTIQUE SHOP Located at 5 - POINTS m HAZELVOOD i Affording Plenty of FREE PARKING SPACE The Modern Beauty Salon offers you a maximum of loveliness at a minimum cost. You will be delighted with our natural looking wave to bring out the highlights of your personality. Our experienced operators offer you the best in facials and manicures. Better permanent waves, expert manicures, careful contour hair cuts, hair treatments, skin care ... all are features of a beauty shop that operates to please you and keep you looking your best! Phone 413-M For Appointments State Imports Fourth Of Milk Used Says Report RALEIGH (AP) North Caro lina imported nearly one-fourth of its fluid milk supply from other states last year. C. XV. Pegram, director of the dairy division of the State Depart ment of Agriculture said the milk cost approximately $5,500,000. A report issued by Pegram based on information from creameries and distributors under the milk audit law showed that wholesale milk purchases from other states totaled 78.799.151 pounds in 1948 or 14.918,500 pounds more than 1947 imports of 63,880,651 pounds. The percentage of out-of-state purchases to the total fluid milk supply was 25.5 per cent last year compared with 22 8 per cent the year before. Purchases of Grade A milk from North Carolina producers also in creased last year, th" report show id while the quantity of ungraded or "manufacturing" milk, used for conversion into other dairy pro ducts, declined. Pegram interpreted this as indi cating that more and more North Carolina milk producers "are real izing the wisdom of improving their facilities so as to meet the State's standards for Grade A milk." would have meant approximately $2,500,000 more in annual revenue to municipalities. Shute also was critical of the lack of action on a bill that would give municipalities one cent of the State's 6c tax on gasoline. This would give municipalities about $6,000,000 annually. The measure now is "bottled up" in the House Finance Committee, Shute report ed. The bill was introduced on January 17. Since then. Shute said, the bill apparently has "hit a stone wall". League officials pointed out that municipalities are entitled to sub stantial aid from gasoline revenues to relieve their burden in bidding and maintaining streets "which are used not only by urban residents but by farmers, tourists, through trucks and others," as well as by taxis, delivery trucks and other vehicles that rarely if ever leave the city limits American oilmen discovered oil in 1932 on the island of Bahrein in the Persian Gulf. FOXY PARADERS T - T x 'i v ,J, .s - - . - t V - ; 1 rr it. r"v - H - .J :-Ui i J if .. s.. $ ' " 'J TOGGED OUT IN RlDINO CLOTHES, Km mounted and torn afoot, Eng lish farmers from Worceiterthirt Mid GlouewUxshire parade through ! London's Piccadilly In protest against bill that waa aimed at banning : their fox hunting right. Aa a result, the bill waa defeated. (International) North Carolina News From The Wires of Associated Press and United Press Held For Child's Death ' A warrent charging Clarence and ! Kita Overman with the murd- of i their 2 . 2-year-old crippled daugh ter. Mary, has been sworn out in Ashboro by Randolph Sheriff Ben Morgan. The warrant said in part: "Clar- enre and Rita Schneider Overman 1 did unlawfully, willfully, and feloniously slay and kill one Mary Overman, aged 2Vi years." Kills Two Over $5 Debt Police Chief William 11. Ferrell " 1 : "....I- ted the .slaymgs of two other men! in an argument over a five-dollar debt he owed them. The officer quoted Jasper Jenkins as saying he shot the two Negroes in self-defense after he was attacked with a knife. He said Jenkins surren dered shortly after Richard Ardell and Leander Kelly, both 26-year-old Negroes, were shot to death. Church Buys Bus High Peak Baptist church of Burke county has purchased a bus to transport members to and from church services. RESTORE 'YOICKS' r - 1 ' " 4 Mi' Killed By Train A 45-yi ar-olcl woman met death when she stemicd into I he oath of a Southern Hallway passenger train at a crossing near Moores ville. The victim. Mrs. Marl ha lloncy- cutt, wife of a MiMiiesville luniber- man. apparently failed to bear the blasts ot a warnint; whistle witnes ses told police. Pickpocket At Church Police reported that a piekpock Wt attended services at the First j AKI' Church in Charlotte. Pocket hooks ol three members , , ,,.,, ,,,. ... from the cfiwir room while services were in session, officers said. No Legal Betting There'll be no election on legal izing pari-mutuel betting in near by Washington park, as far as the city fathers arc concerned. Lawyer Smashes Camera Attorney Sam J. Morris. re tained as lawyer for John Robert (Jacki Bridge,, in Kalcigh, dam aged the camera ol News and Ob server Slaff Pholner.ipher f.aw rence Woftord in an ( Ifoi t to keep him from get tin;; a picture ot his client, Wofford snapped a picture of Bridges as he va ; being taken into an anteroom in Wake County courthouse. The picture was good and wa publi hed on Pae one. A Lot Of Checking The Mechanieid Inspection Divi sion in- peeled 249.4t)'"i vehicles from January 1 through February 25, when ilu in peel ion program was abolished by act of the legis lature, the Molor Vehicles Depart ment reported. Tins was alinoit as many ve hicles as the division cheeked dur ing the entile hi t six month-; of 1943. when V.:,:MTi vehicles went throiifli the lane. Cow Has Rabies Veterinarian J. E. Heed in CJas tonia said lie will have to kill a cow who contracted rabies, a dis ease usually sinking only dogs and cats. "She paws the ground violent ly, foams at the mould and charges anyone who gels near her," Dr. Heed said. Neg ro Dives in Well A spectacular head-on dive into a 45-foot well ended the life of Benjamin Wicker, a 20-year-old Ne gro, at Osgood, eight miles north of Sanford. Sunday afternoon about 5 o'clock. One hundred persons watched the efforts to recover Ihc body, which was accomplished about 9 o'clock Sunday night. Court Room Fight A fight broke out in Charlotte City Police Court. When the combatants, a Negro man and a Negro woman, were separated, the woman was charged with assault. She had been in court to appear against aman whom she had charged with assault. But hei case will have to be tried in rounly court. Both Police Court Judeo E McA. Currie and' Solicitor John Mcfiae, Jr., witnessed the battle. Church Safe Rohbcd Officers described Hip 5 .inn cracking of a church safe at Fair mont as similar to a Lumberton safe-blirwlng job a month ago. Sheriff Willie Hrit tl,nHn . t "l ooiu inciC had been no arrests in either ease. "The drilling was exactly alike on both gafs," Sheriff Britt re ported. .-: j- i Redden Gets Lots Opinions On The Taft-Hartley Law Rep. Monroe M. Redden of llen dersonvllle, has plenty of constitut ents who not only listen to the radio, but also have political opin ions. This is evidenced by the num ber of replies, about 150 to date, (hat he has received answering LM questions asKed by radio commen tator Fulton Lewis, Jr., regarding the Taft-Hartley act. The com mentator asked his audience to send numbered answers to their congressmen. The story woven into the 150 messages, as Rep. Redden see-, it, is that the people feel that certain poitions of the Taft-Hartley ad are indicpennabie and mun be re tained. These include specifically t fie portion prohibiting secondary boy cotts and the one piotiibiim ; "feather bedding" on jobs. The messages are practically unanimous in urging retention ol the authority of the courts to en join strikes of a national character that affect the health and welfare of the people. Jailed For Baby's Death A 29-year-old divorcee was jail ed in Hutherfordton on charges of hanging her newborn infant daugh ter. Mary Keeter of the Mount Ver non community was transferred from the Kuthurf-.d hospital to the county jail five days after she allegedly gave birth to the child unassisted in an outside toilet. The baby girl weighed 9 pounds. Scott Not Interested Governor Scott made it clear he has no intention of stepping down as Governor in order to succeed .1. Melville Broughton in the V. S. Senate. He Packs A Wallop Police Officers J. E. Phillips and fi. B. Evans were xti'iincliiiu I,. force a drunken Negro into a Fay- etleville jail cell. The prisoner re sisted violently. Officer Kvans swung a haymaker. The Nemo ducked. The blow knocked two teeth from Officer Phillips mouth. Johnson Joins Securities Firm Charles M. Johnson, former Slale treasurer and gubernatorial candi date, has Joined the First Secui-i- i ties corporation of Durham as vice president. I Charles F. Jones, nresidenl of 1 (,hc corporation, said Johnson will! tisMime nis duties immediately and ! will continue to live in Raleigh, j ... . . I Tinned Under Wreck A driver lay pinned nine hour-, under the cab of his truck after il overturned three miles north of Win- ton-Salem. Discovered at 3 a.m. Bernard Newman. 20. of Fancy Gap, Va . was suffering from shock, 'expo sure, and head and hip injuries. ; His unloaded vehicle plunged down a 100-foot embankment on the Mount Airy highway. Catches 375 Cases Booze Constable O. D. Barrs, former Catawba County sheriff and now al. tached to staff of Sheriff P.av Pitts captured 375 cases of taxpaid whiskey east of Newton but with: the comment that "he didn't love publicity" Barrs declined t lv.v the exact location of the seiure. The whiskey is stored in Hick ory. Asheville Being Sued The city of Asheville is on trial in Buncombe Superior Court in a $50,000 damage suit filed by the mother of a traffic accident victim Mrs. Florence E. f .nwmiin rill,-,. ed the city with negligence in con nection with the accident April 24, 1947. in which hpr ir. daughter. Gay Bee. was killed. the complaint said the auto in W'hich the girl was rirlinu hn n taining wall after going out of con- uoi. It alleged (hat a hole in the road caused the driver to lose ccyi- " vi nit- venicie. The city counsel denied that there was a hole. Jail Is Empty Rooms for rent reasonable! That was the sign posted on Ihc Pasquotank County jail as Jailor Johnny Anderson threw the doors wide open while awaiting new cus tomers. Jailer Anderson said it was the first time in more than i that the jail had been without at ied.il one occupant. Payment In Full A guilty conscience has resulted in the payment of another old debt. J. P. Walker, manager of a Dunn store .said that he had received a letter with 19 cents enclosed from a woman who said she'lifted" a head band from the local store many years ago. Harry Heilmann, former Detroit Tiger baseball great, and now a radio broadcaster on the Tiger games, also assist in h .i-i... DtroU Lions football games. Aggie Ace s!' - "i 1 ! ! - ' - m i w umi y---- l ll IBTT ( OI I.M.f ST Vf ION, Tew .1. It. Hampton, who ucni the Texjs ;"-irs to tli.- Southwest ( ooien-iii e n ils , - enuiilry title l.i I I ill. n in h.:s hi-, si-Ills set ml the i i, ill, i i hi e oiii -i.nle and Ixi-mne .ruts this siniii. He i.K.i! si linn-, l.,'l I 'll ami was unbeaten. The viv -foot, 111 poiiiid A" :!e has rim the two miles in Ice On Parkins Lot Starts Car Spree ST. LOITS i I I' l)i ivei less au- lo. phr.cil lag all over the river .front parking lot when a sudden drop in temporal lire created a half-inch ice cover. The skidding aulos didn't stop -until I hey hit ol her parked cars. Sonic1 were dented nil three sides when oilier vehicle-, converged on them. Informed of I he situation, the department ol streets sent a truck load of ashes to I he scene. The iruck slid into the lot broadside and crashed inlo four aulos. Deadly Gas f hv Makes lietter Coyote Trap KlNOSVII.l.K, Tex. il l'i King liaii'-h has developed a better coy ote trap. A small circular affair, (he (rap contains a .'Hi caliber shell loaded with cyanide ga The device is cocked, '-meau-d wilh hall -decayed meat and stuck inlo Hie ground, The coy oh1 miioMs I he meat, lugs al the device In get il out of the ground, the mechanism lires, and Ilu- cyanide gas goes clown his Ihroat. In one month alone Iho ranch counted 1 "ill dead coy oles.. Want Ads Itiins Ouick Results Indian Service Plai 'Open House' At Cher CHEROKEE. All divisions of the Indian Service will hold open house at Cherokee March 18, in observance of the 100th birthday of the United States Department of the Interior. On that day the public will be invited to visit the Reservation, and become acquainted with the work of the Indian Service. Guides will be provided to show visitors through the agency office : and explain the work there. Visi i tors will be invited to observe the teaching 'in the classrooms, to inspect the cooking and sewing loboratories, and to watch the weav ing and basket making classes at work. Most visitors will be inter r ited in seeing students at work in the wood-carving, furniture mak ing, art metal work and pottery departments at the central school. Kitchens, dining rooms and dormi tories will be open to the public, as well as the carpentry, plumbing, electrical and auto repair shops. The three-day schools on the reservation also will welcome visi lors. The dairy barn and the herd of milk cows which supply milk for the school children, the school hogs and poultry flock will interest many. The Soil and Moisture, Forestry, Agricultural F-xtension, Roads and I , , 7 HAVILAND CHINA Arlington Pattern E. J. LILIUS JEWELEK You by T.30 P tn. 11 at March phi sigrna Beta red by Sponsor 40 Mo dantS At Tickets On - Gibso Hie - rhar ... vi ni i3" Vinn?i - Beauty Shop payre PRIZES H,,..l,i. , on ' r:pwi their ,., . -.. .ns MeiiiiM.rs uf the ana chw acquaint i,.;. M """i-m, anil Crokeepl . Boundary J st Knterr,,-,.,. ' bv th u n .hit ; a u Frienit. "., Craft (.' ""perativ,. Rejects ABcjl A Pfopoi (,rfJ alive ...; ,. c-.iauuM.lnent ul .1 in 117 1. . ... W l in Whit e'He Was Council without The actioimasj the belie! tlla, JB1 ABC enabling with the cihztnrj. City Council William i, th( euiperor, would U .hiiuiii Mply (J was persuaded bylf cepi i ne larger reign. Ill
