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E Ji, N. C, Nov. 5. North V uians read about election-day g. i and killings in Harlan Conu 1 y., and other spots around the itkm and shake their heads. Few: Tar Heels seem to realize tat we have a similar boiling sltu ;lon in at .least one county in our vn State. 1 , 'By the time you read this, elec on will be over and an probably i explosive situation In Sampson Dunty passed by without incident, scause of the good sense of lead 's on both sides. 1 But the -red . hot-' Democratic epublican fight there has ele ents that could . wind up with ood-Ietting incidents, as .a mat 1 of fact, one gang from south n Sampson sent word to some emocratlc ' leaders that they'd stter stay off: of Clinton's streets ection i day ;-,; and; particularly ection night if they valued eirTiid'e. It was a shoot (or cut) i sight threat, and these folks st week end were not intending 'go out on Clinton's streets after tc to see, whether or not . the 1 leaders meant what they said. ?son is, not the only North ua. county where such situa ns exist. There are several where e two parties are fairly evenly vided and feeling runs high ever often. But Sampson is red hot is year. , J - 4 s, , . There, have been charges and unter charges filling the air ives and newspaper, columns, te Republicans have . been "in" r,the last 12 years. Democrats ve had special investigators dig ng around. They have come up th charges of misuse of office d freenflowing liquor in the dry unty." ; . ;-::r','r',:;-.,-':' Among other things, it has been covered; that there are a number displaced persons who have reg ered to vote in Sampson. Most these KPs are reported living Republican landowners' farms, tf-they have registered as "In pendents"; This despite the fact it they (the DPs) are not Ameri a citizens, and. as non-citizens s not legally entitled to vote, rempers and feelings have been onlng high in Sampson. Extra ghway Patrolmen were ordered are for , election . day. And - it mldat be at aU surprising if - tore this reaches print you ar of some blood-letting in that inty over politics. , , s s b rhoughts in passing: The only icial "curtain" in this country the one In front of the election ith, so other folks cant see how a vote. Isn't that better, than the e elections" in : Iron Curtain mtries where they only have one te of officials for whom to vote? Americans generally don't seem realize how luckythey are. More .them exercise the right not to e than the right to vote.. The n who - stays home from the ila f lis at least into the "second ss" Itlzen category, and certain- no right to squawk about cles of his country, ' , . v i 'v tlantic and East Carolina 1 (state-owned but leased tvate operator) is slated to lose its VS.S. mail franchise on Nov. 21. That will mean a loss of revenue oi 'at least $75,000 per year on the Goldsboro-New Bern run, .' , It seems the management of the railway, ; under General Manager Edwards, has been1 too, penny pinching. And as a Yesult of many complaints from folks in the area about the service, Uncle Sam has put the snatch on the mail contract. The area now Will be served by mobile highway postoffices out of Rocky Mount. ' A&EC' President M.. -G. Mann says there 'doesn't seem to' be any chance that the mail contract can be salvaged for the railroad. Mann and others warned' Edwards of the posibility, but to no .avail.. U. S. Acting Postmaster Walter Myers already has set the machinery wor king for the mobile highway post offices, scheduled to take over in less than two weeks. Another case oi "penny-wise and pound-foolish". . - All the chatter about a reported statement from Charlotte that Gov ernor Scott will get out of politics when he ledvei office is just was ted breath. The Governor has par ried questions of his future ambi tions with , the .same answer for some time J ."My only plans right now are to go home to Haw River and rest," he says3;V:";;?.,..-.'i. Kerr Scott has talked about going home and tending to bis cows for a liiiopUal. Several folks tried to get. a doc tor to come to the scene, according to reports without any luck. , There was a lot of confusion, but no one could find a doctor who had refused to go to the scene. Doc tors who were reached and headed for1 the scene received conflicting reports that Other doctors already were there. " . , All in all it was quite a do-But it pointed to one thing. That,.' in Raleigh, , it sometimes is hard , to get a doctor when you need, one In a hurry. Various . suggestions have been made to remedy the Sit uation, with the Wake County Med ical Society ''taking the leijd. It probably wfll end with an interne on call 24-hours a day at Rex" Hos pital for such possible incidents. The incident's timing was bad for the medical profession, however as the American Medical Associa tion is sponsoring a multi-million dollar" campaign against so-called. sociauezd medicine. , .. But the Incident brought an ed itorial from a very conservative pa per, suggesting that socialized med icine might not be so bad; If things have gotten into. such a stage that) a doctor couldn't be found to go to the aid of a seriously injured man.. - And, then, Saturday niKht Presi dent Truman pointedly remarked that he would continue to fight for i i ... . a uauuiuu neaun insurance plan to help folks pay Jheir hospital auu uuciur U111S. r ...' A vigorous -and vicious attack on cooperatives of all kinds is being staged by an outfit that calls itself the "National Tax Equality Asso ciation" with headquarters in Chi cago. And the campaign now has 3 I some time.. But this corner thinks reached North Carolina has ipo rhe Jxc a r Jhe'U stay down on the farm Just long enough to get his second wind. He's been fighting too long to be happy in a rocking chair. " So here's a twin-barreled pre diction: " ! i I. Kerr Scott will 'be drafted by the liberal element of the Demo cratic party to run for office again after his term as Governor is end ed. ' ; 2. And the biggest plank in his platform will be public -develop- mn of flood control-soil conserva tion-power production public pro jects. . .f -.i yvrK' The governor, incidentally, came up with a nickname for L. V. Sut ton, CP&L company president. 'At his press conference, Scott casually referred to ' "my friend, tow Voltage Sutton", the reference was so casual that many reporters r- accustomed to listening to power discussion - , paid no attention toj the' remark.!.,, .,. v. .What the Governor may not have known is that he had bit on the same nickname tagged . on Sutton by members of his own corporat ion. CP&L linemen -.- like workers in many another outfit think the number one boss should come up through the ranks and learn the business the hard way. Sutton didn't do this, and the pole-climbers for some time (in private, of course, have referred- to their boss as "Low-Voltage" Sutton. v Raleigh newspapers and radio stations have been raising Vain with " the doctors. A . truck driver was injured in a crash near State College -and was pinned In his :SJU(i:i THESi cuRTm$ isi ths iuckiest peopli IN TH! WOBIO m -- j1 Ml V;': JN1JSA, according to a lobbvlna report iiled in Washington, draws its money from contributing power companies, nardware companies, fertilizer companies, and insurance companies. . .- . Listed among firms which con tributed "$500 or more", during the first three months of th'is year are Carolina Power , and Lieht Comn. any;, the Allison-Erwln Company of Charlotte, and the Smith-Douglass Company, Inc., of Norfolk, Va. The report - - f iled by NTEA Vice-President H. Vernon Scott shows the outfit's large contribu tors numbered 42 during the quar ter, for an average of about $934 each. , Ahysjay, a number of North Car olina radio stations now are carry ing spot announcements claiming eoperative corporations are not paying taxes. The cleverly worded' spots imply that the coops pay no wxes ai,,au, which, Is not true. i The announcements heard, here say they; are sponsored by "your' iwai taxpaymg merchants" or the "N. c, Merchants Association". However, at least one contract for me announcements is signed by a man named jsariing from Chicago, and at least one contract is with "NTEA". ,. .. - The spots charge that Congress upped individual income taxes bul let "specially privileged big busi nesses aim coops) get by with paying little or nothing on. their nuge corporation profits. (Ironically, the SDOts were rernr. aea in two versions -- one "Vnn. kee" and one "Southern edition", wuei-e me announcer speaks with a orawu The implicaUon that the rnnna uu noi pay taxes is untrue. A check shows thafthe coop pays every tax that Shy other corpora tion does, except when it comes to taxation' of income. ' - The entire aim of NTEA seems to oe to stir up feeling against the coops; to get more taxes put oh them; and to make more money for the agency which dreamed up the Idea and is staging the cam- paign. ,i . t One of Governor Scott'a closest advisors was given quite an honor recently. That was Mary White Scott, the Governor's wife. She was named N. C. Grange "Woman of the Year". , ThjB Grange citation summed it up pretty well. It told of her rec ognition . of the Importance, dig nity and satisfaction of gracious rural living. It told how she helped organize Grange . groups. It told how she has served as a church worker, as a school teacher, home-' maker, and mother "who has con tributed liberally to the advance ment of community and State." And It ended with describing her as a "modest, gracious, sincere, and lovable woman, whoso Ufa and work have reflected eredit upon all women in rural North Carolina." ft m n. t. . . w M I ? rN i 'mm iy3h-End Sped alls : Prices Good Tri. & Sat. Only MORE SPECIALS BOY'S 8 oz. DUNGAREES Sizes 4 - 16 $2.50 Value Special $1.98 MEN'S 8 oz. 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