Hoover Sends Special
Message to Congress
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Requests Immediate Al-1
teration of the Law to
Facilitate Relief Of
Debtors
Washington, Jan. 11.?In a second
special message to Congress in as
many days, President Hoover today j
made a plea for emergency action in
revision of bankruptcy laws in order
to avoid present day wholesale forced
foreclosures.
The President asked specifically for
immediate alteration of the existing '
law to facilitate relief otf debtors who ,
rtn oniirfa fdT the ,
sees piwevuvu w WH.
purpose of readjusting their affairs ,
with their creditors. (
"Present processes of forced liqui- ,
dation," he said, "are proving utter- j
ly destructive to the interests of the ,
debtors and creditors alike. . .
"If allowed to continue," he said, ,
"misery will be suffered by thou- j
sands without substantial gains to j
their creditors insisting upon fore
closure in the hope of collecting part .
of the money owed them. (
"Under the existing law," he said, j
"either where majorities of creditors' <?
desire to arrange their equitable re- t
adjustment with debtors, their plans (
may be consummated without pro- v
hibitree delay and expense usually v
attended by obstruction of a minor- ^
ity of creditors who oppose such ^
settlement in the hope that the fear j.
of ruinous liquidation will induce t
immediate settlement of their j.
claims." r
The President made specific refer- j.
ence to railroads, saying* the cor- ^
porate re-organization provisions
should be applicable to the carriers s
and in such cases the plan for re- a
organization should not become ef- c
fective until such has been approved t
by the Inte state Commerce Com- u
mission. q
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Dr. Tayloe Dies a
At Washington i
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Washington, N. C., Jan. 12.?Dr. v
David T. Tayloe, Sr., 63 years of age, ?
died at 10:3b o'clock Tuesday night in a
the-Tayloe hospital here. He was f
taken to the hospital on Saturday and ?
a blood transfusion given him in an c
effort to prolong his life. He had
been in a coma since Monday night, j
He lias a widely known and greatly J
beloved physician.
Punreal services were conducted
at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at St.
Peter's Episcopal church by Rev.
Stephen Gardner.
Roosevelt Ends
Cabinet Rumors
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Declares That Not One <
Invitation Has Been Is- 5
saedSoFhr s
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New- York, Jan. 12.?The popular ^
game of cabinet guessing suffered a ^
set-back tonight when President-elect ^
Roosevelt declared emphatically that v
not a single invitation h*J yet been c
issued. ... HSt - '
jtiSal what's more," he added, ^
*.here is no telling when it will be j
/done.* ^ . a
/Roosevelt opened up on the cab- j
inet discussion by taking cognizance ;
of a Washington report which slid \
Miss Frances Perkins was selected for
the commerce portfolio instead of \
P secretaryship. '?]
all wrong," he laughingly j
-esident-elect indicated he \
low the precedent set by .
Wilson, who waited until 1
pefore his inauguration to
mnounce the official fam- }
/?Nothing has been done, how- ]
6Y2r," he explained. i
Close friends were of the opinion
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?ouuced singly sometime after
'?Sooaeveltfs departure from Warm
Sprags, Ga^ early in February.
^HiTdi^ with
a wave of the hand,
h jwfte of the firm
I the belief lliillltii that Senator
Thomas J. Walsh, of was
stated for the Attorney Generalship.
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and that tfctlabor place would be
' .-W soesevelt Spent several hours to
r| rail for agricultural relief with rep
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The Farmville
Rotary Club Met
Tuesday Night
Local Club Now In Con
test with The Ayden
Rotarians
The Farmville Rotary Club met on
ruesday night at 6:15 in regular ses
sion; after a very delightful chicken
iinner there was a business session
it which time a motion was made re
quiring all members to attend every
meeting of this quarter to the end
hat the Farmville Club would be the
vinner of an attendance contest now
joing on between Ayden and Farm
ville. Those failing to attend are to
>e taxed with the costs which may
'all on their Club by such failure.
Bill Smith was in charge of the
>rogram and presented Miss Alice
hoggins, who in turn presented "Miss
efficiency", alias Charles Rountree.
'Miss Efficiency" proceeded to show
he members of the Farmvilie Rotary
Jlub how one simple frock could be
ery appropriate for the street; and
rith one or two simple additions con
certed into a reception gown, and
hen, if the lady returned home in a
lurry, she could untie and retie one or
wo strings and make an appropriate
touse cleaning outfit; and then on a
noment's notice switch the blooming
hing into an evening dress for the
lance.
Irvin Morgan, Jr., then made a
hort talk on "looking ahead" and
tated that the best thing that we
ould do for the year 1933 would be
o put forth individual efforts to
itilize our time so that we could han
lle the general conditions facing us
oduy to the mutual advantages of
11 persons.
B^U Smith announced that the Pres
dent of Rotary International would
?e in Raleigh on January 30th and
irged that the Club attend the meet
ng in Raleigh 100 per cent; he also
nnounced that the intercity meeting
or this group district would be held
n Farmville on the second Tuesday
f February.
Son Born To
Libby Holman
Keir To $18,000,000 To
bacco Fortune Arrives
At Hospital
Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 11.?A son,
?otentiai heir to the $18,000,000 tobac
io fortune left by his late father,
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>nuui rcevnoius, was uuru w uwj
lolman Reynolds, one-time "Torch
Singer" of Broadway, at the Pennsyl
ania Hospital last night.
Both the baby and Mrs. Reynolds,
rho went through the ordeal of in
tictment following her husband's
ieath by shooting early last July,
vere reported to be in "satisfactory"
ondition.
According to earlier reports, the
>irth was not expected last night.
>Irs. Reynolds was at the hospital,
tccording to staff physicians, for a
?outine examination, and it had been
ndicated that the child would be
>orn in February.
Announcement of the arrival of
he Reynolds' heir was made by Dr.
Morris W. Vaux, Libby Holman's
personal physician, who said only
hat "Mrs. Reynolds had a baby boy,
x>rn at 6:48 p. m., and her condition
md that of the baby are sathrfac
?ry."
igncultural situation with former
Governor Harry H. Woodring of
Kansas, regarded as an expert on the
subject.
The nice thing about being a man
is you don't have to stay home after
you wash your head.
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* Reported in Jangle t jp-.
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Believed of his duties as governor of the state of New York at the begin
ning of the new year, President-elect Roosevelt is now giving his full time
to national problems, to the selection of men for his cabinet and in confer
ence with Democratic leaders mapping out a definite program to be put
into effect when he takes office, March 4. According to plans, Mr. Roosevelt
will go again to "Warm Springs, Ga., for a short vacation during February^
Turns Problem, ]
Senate Orders Scrutiny
Qf Federal Tax Refunds
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Refunds Of More Than
$5,000 Must Be Passed
Upon
Washington, Jan. 12.?Democrats
find independent Republicans united
in the Senate today to suspend its
rules and stimulate that all tax re
funds of $5,000 or more hereafter
must be passed on by a joint Congres
sional committee before being paid.
The proposal must receive House ap
proval to become effective. "
Before writing this provision into
the first deficiency bill at the sug
gestion of Senator McKellar, Demo
crat, Tennessee, the Senators beard
a lengthy discussion on the floor of
a recent abatement of $5,869,951 to
the estate of the father of Secretary
Mills, of the Treasury.
Senators McKellar and Norris, Re
publican, Nebraska, assailed this re
bate as indicating a necessity for a
change in the tax refund law. Nor
ris emphasized he was not charging
there was anything "wrong with this
transaction," but added:
"If we have a law whi^h permits
such a procedure (in the case of tax
refunds) then it certainly will lead
to corruption and ought to be
changed."
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WWII iiC <U1U JUVAOUCU vvuwuvivu
the law should he so changed that
a Secretary of the Treasury could
not pass upon a case in which he
had a personal interest, the Nebras
kan asserting Mills must have ap
plied for the refund or abatement
to himself as executor of his fa
ther's estate.
Senator Hale, Republican, Maine,
read from a memorandum submitted
to him by James H. Douglas, Assist
ant Secretary of the Treasury, ex
plaining the abatement The memo
randum was prepared by Adalbert
Christy, acting deputy commissioner
of internal revenue,
In substance, it said a large part
of the over-assessment was for fail
ure to credit State tax payments and
claims and also involved Federal
claims upon more than $1,000,000
transferred within two years of the
senior Mills' death, which the Su
preme Court recently held was not
subject to the levy,
' Norris contended this was "no ex
planation," but a memorandum
"signed by the acting deputy com
missioner, one of the under-officiajs
I of the Department?an appointee of
jthe man who has a personal interest
in the case investigated it"
McKellar's first effort to add his
amendment to th? bill, with its re
quirements that the joint Congres
sional Committee on Internal Reve
nue Taxation pass on the refunds,
was balked by a point of order raised
by Hale, and he then moved to sus
pend the rules.
Barely the necessary two-thirds,
52 to 26, voted the suspension, with
only two of the Democrats voting j
against it. The roll call on the
amendment itself showed 36 Demo
crats?all those in the chamber ex
cept Broussard, of Louisana?for it,
along with 11 of the independent Re
publicans and four Republican regu
lars: Capper, of Kansas; Howell, of
Nebraska; Robinson, of Indiana, and
Vandenberg, of Michigan.
The deficiency bill, carrying a to
tal of $31,761,535, "of which $28,000,
000 is for tax refunds, now goes to
the House for consideration of this
and other Senate changes.
3 Important Bills Are
Introduced in Legislature
Hold Short Session; Two
. Houses Meet Less than
Half an Hour Each
Raleigh, Jan. 12.?Proposals for a
state wide automobile drivers license
law, for reduced license fees, to pro
hibit "hitch hiking" and to ease the
burden of tax payers now in arrears
were introduced in the-General As
sembly today.
The two houses of the legislature
met less than half an hour each, but
members almost immediately began
attending committee meetings as
?? a/if!nn
many 01 uie fcruijy swung XXiW OCUUUI
for the first time.
Regulation of lobbyists was given a
favorable committee report when the
Ewin^ bill was approved by the com
mittee on propositions and (grievances.
It would bar lobbyists from the floor
of either house and would require
them to register on a legislative dock
et in the secretary of state's office.
Senator Corey of Pitt introduced
the bill prohibiting hi^ch hiking and
that calling for a drivers license law
with a fee of 75 cents for individual
The tax payers would be aided by
house measures of Morphew of Gra
ham, Spruill of Bertie and Douglass
nf Wale*, and hv Senator Bofirtran of
Ansom Postponement of foreclosure
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Negro is Sent
Back lo Jail
Rogers Remanded To
Jail After Heariiig On
Assault Charge
Greenville, Jan. 10.?Herbert Rog
ers. negro, was returned to jail yes
terday without privilege of bond fol
lowing preliminary hearing on a
charge of criminal attack upon a
white woman. The case was heard
before Magistrate C, 8. Rowlett, who
after' hearing the evidence, ordered
the negro held. The negro had been
in jail here since his arrest shortly
after the alleged attack took place
Christmas. .
The attack was made upon Mrs.
Mattie Walters of the Pactolus sec
tion "of the county. According to
the story of the crime, Mrs. Walters
was at home with, her children when
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nogers outae me wajr. uiw vuc iwun
through *n open window and attack
ed hpr. He threw her from the win
dow v*nd dragged her to a nearby
barn where he continued his assault.
News of the crime reached county
officials and Rogers was traced by ins
footprints about the house where
Mrs. Walters lived. . Upon being ar
rested- he stoutly denied the charge,
but Els voice was identified by Mrs
Walters as that of her assailanip The
e^ence , a^yeste^y'b hearing was
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OpensMoflday
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Judge Grady to Preside
At Two-Weeks' Mixed
Term
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Greenville, Jan. 12.?A two weeks'
term of Superior court will convene
here next Monday morning with
Judge Henry A. Grady of Clinton,
presiding . The first week will be de
voted to hearing civil cases and the
next to criminal.
Fifty or more cases are on the cal
endar for next week's term but the
majority are expected to be disposed
of.
The criminal docket as usual after
the holidays is comparatively heavy,
but the major part of the cases are
of a minor nature and were expected
to be disposed of in rapid order.
The civil calendar, recently com
pleted by the local bar, follows:
Monday, January 16th.
Floye Myrtle Thigpen vs. Jefferson
Standard Life Ins. Co.; Smith Doug
las Co., Inc. vs. P. P. Cox and W. H.
Webb; Smith Douglas Co., Inc. vs.
N. C. Cotton Growers Co-operative
Asso.; Albion Dunn, Admr. vs. Gladys
Ethel Hudson et al; W. K. White
hurst vs. Pitt County Drainage Diet.
No. 2 (1st case on Tuesday); W. S.
White iurst vs. Pitt County Drainage
Dist. No. 2 (2nd case on Tuesday);
Blount-Harvey Co. vs. T. C. Sutton
and others; Dink Moore and others
vs. Industrial Bank of Richmond;
Wright Jones vs. T. M. Moore; L. E.
Jones vs. Edmond Letch vorth.
Tuesday, January 17th.
C. F. Harvey, Sr. vs. Robert Stokes
and wife; Martha Washington vs. C.
N. Nobles; Mrs. Lizzie Willoughby
vs. R. F. Butts; Town of Greenville vs.
J. F. Davenport and wjfe; R. $. Moye
et al vs. Town of Greenville; Mary E.
Andrews vs, Coca Cpla Bottling
Works; Greenville Oil & Fertilizer
Co, vs, J, B, Worthiagton and others;
Hood System Industrial Bank vs. J.
P. Davenport; Tripp Brothers Garage
vs, Maggie Stokes; KJngan and Co.
Inc. vs, J, L, Willjapis,
Wednesday, January 18tb,
Wealthy Owens, Admix, vs. E, F.
Edwards and others; Jobie Williams
vs, Forest and Knott; J, 0. Pollard
vs, ,W. D. Smith and others; General
Motors Acceptance Corp. vs, A, L.
and M, H. Sumrell; Charles Hines
vs. East Carolina Railroad Co.; First
National Bank of Ayden vs, Jimmie
Hardee and others; Greenville Bank
ing & Trust Co, vs. A. L. Garcia et al;
Mary Brooks Price and others vs. J.
C. Rasberry and others; Turnage
Bros. Co. Inc. vs. J. B. Patrick; Chas.
W. Priddy and Co. Inc. vs. S A. Con
gleton and Co. ?
Thursday, January 19th.
Paul McKeel vs. John Worrell;
Mrs. Aima P. Shewbrook and hus
band vs. Pitt Chevrolet Co. et al; F.
S. Royster Guano Co. vs. C. R. Cobb,
Admr.; V. C. Fleming and others vs.
G. C. Garris and others; Farmville
Oil & Fertilizer Co. vs. J. R. WortH
ington; Virginia Carolina Chemical
Co. vs. H. H. Craft; Farmville Oil '&
Fertilizer Co. vs. H. J. Jolly; Standi
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am Ull UO. 01 IN. J. vs. via xutiici
and others; State Bank & Trust Co.
vs. W. L. Nobles; Mrs. Pennie Flake
vs. Blount-Harvey Co. Inc.; Turnage
Bros. Co. vs. H. F. Worthington.
Friday, January 20th.
Dr. William Drewery vs. Mrs. Bet
tie Cox; P. R. Taylor and Co. vs. Mrs.
C. V. Cannon; Pilot Shoe Co. vs. Ogla
Saieed; State Bank & Trust Co. vs.
John F. Crawford; State Bank &
Trust Co. vs. John F. Crawford; John
Mitchell and others Trustees vs. John
B. Oakley and others; State Bank &
Trust Co. vs. B. S. Sumerell and
oters; John Mitchell and other? Trus.
tees vs. J. B. Oakley and others.
House Receives I
14 New Measures!
In Short Session
Measure To Reduce
Auto License Fees and
Others of Interest
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Raleigh, Jan. 12.?-The lower house
of the General Assembly held another
very short session this morning to
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receive fourteen new ouis.
Measures to reduce the fees of au
tomobile license, to allow home own
?eisatax exemption of $1,000, to al
low the local government commission
to try and arrange settlement for de
faulting municipaUtiea and counties
and to amend laws relating to fore
closure action on tax sales were put
tethe hopper.
Representative Johnson of Chatham
introduced the bill which would make
the minimum license fee tor auto
mobiles |5.00 instead of the present
$12.00, and. the graduated increase
would be at the rate of 20 cents rer
hundred Imtwd ht,60 rente, V-vS
County farm agents fit tobacco
growing counties are now cleaning
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Seek Change
Marriage Law
In This State
Legislative BUls Would
Do Away with Medical
Examination and No
tice
Raleigh, Jan. 10.?Dan Cupid may
be given a freer hand in North Caro
lina/
Two new bills now are before the
State General Assembly would loosen
the strong bands about marriage in
Tar Heelia, and their proponents
claim, produce more "home-made"
weddings and thereby increase reve
nue. - , .
The measures, proposed by Repre
sentative Wilson, of Caswell, and
Thompson, of Columbia, both repre
oatifiner fiivrHen /?nimfion. wnnld r#v
peal the physical examination re
quirement and the statute requiring
five days' notice of intention from
minors in lieu of parental consent.
Representatives Thompson and
Wilson claim the State's present strict
marriage laws are driving anxious
couples into border States.
The Tax Commission, in its bien
nial report, bore out their contention.
It pointed out that in 1920 the num
ber of marriage licenses issued in the
State was 29,754, but in 1921, when
a total revision of the matrimony laws
was made, the number dropped to
20,737.
After another revision in 1929, the
number of licenses continued to drop,
and for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1932, the total number of licenses
was only 12.212.
In the period covered the popula
tion of the State increased by more
than 20 per cent.
"We all know that the explana
tion is that, as a consequence of our
restrictive laws many North Caro
linians who marry cross State lines
into South Carolina, Tennessee or
Virginia, for that purpose." said the
State's Tax Commission in its report.
The Commission estimated this ?,
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resulted in great loss 01 revenue irum
licenses.
"A much more important consid- ,
eration is that our restrictive mar
riage law3 place no restriction what- ,
ever upon marriages?any point in
the State is within three hours of
auto travel to the State line?and
that under these laws it has become
the rule rather than the exception
that the legal record of marriages of
our own people is being made in
other States," the report declared.
"The next generation of North
Carolinians will have to go to Vir
ginia, Tennessee or- South Carolina
to find any legal record of marriage
of their parents.
Bill Important to
Property Owners
Measure Is Important
To All Property and
Home Owners
Raleigh, Jan. 12.?A bill of decided
importance to all property and home
owners was that introduced in the
house Wednesday to abolish deficien
cy judgments upon the foreclosure of
mortgages. It was introduced by Rep
resentatives Crews of Forsyth, Wat
son of Nash, Moore of Guilford, and
Rouse of Lenoir.
Though decidedly technical sound
ing in its phraseology, the bill in sub
stance would make it impossible for
the holder of a mortgage on any
property to obtain more than the act
ual piece of property involved under
the mortgage under foreclosure. Ac
cording to the present law,, a mort
gage holder may not only recover the
? nt nmnortv involved but may
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also ge? a deficiency judgment against
the mortgagee for the unpaid balance
due.
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Burial Association
Formed Here
The Farmville Mutual Burial Asso
ciation has been formed here, with A.
C. Monk as president, Jobn T. Thorne,
vice president and T. EX Joyner, sec
retary and treausurer, with offices in
the store of the Farmville Furniture
Company. r; -;V
The association, which anticipates
a membership of several thousand,
renders service in times of bereave
ment for a small fee placed in a cen
tral fund upon the death of a mem
ber'. The Farmville Furniture Com
pany is the official undertaking estab
lishment of the organisation.
A few Harnett County farmers re
poif-an income of |200 an acre from
their tobacco crop this past season.
Introduce Bill to Tax All
Manufacturers in State
Measure Also Provides
Gross Receipts, Tax
for Banks, Etc.
Raleigh, Jan. 10.?A "Production
Tax Act" which will tax every manu
facturer of anything as well at, all
public utilities, including insurance
salesmen, commercial banks, newspa
pers, mines and storage warehouses
operated in North Carolina was in
troduced in the State Senate today.
Senator Hayden Clement, of Rowan,
chairman of the Appropriations Com
mittee and one of the leaders of the
anti-sales tax fight in the 1931 Sen
ate, startled his colleagues when he
sent forward the measure which would
levy one-half of the one per cent on
gross incomes ana receipts, rne burs
provisions does not apply to retail
businesses of any kind.
"We'must collect the revenue at
its sources, that of production." Sen
ator Clement asserted. "A produc
tion tax is a tax on activity, the
creation of wealth, the circulating
dollar. The best illustrations are to
be found in the income tax levying
on production from personal activ
ity, like the production tax on cig
arettes levied at the source of pro
duction. Commodities so taxed must
go into' all the world and collect the
tribute from all the people."
The measure lists thirty different
types of manufacturing carried on
in the State, and further specifies
each and every other kind of manu
afctured product whether set forth
or not in the bill is likewise includ
ed. Mi. Clement said^ that 3,790
manufacturing plants in this State
turn out 140 different products that
would be affected. The bill further
lists mining, quarries, production of
lumber, the manufacture of all bot
tle drinks and beverages, operation
of packing houses, newspapers, book
binderies, maintaining outdoor ad
vertising, marble yaids, operating
water, electric or gas plants, tele
phones, airplanes, tru'ck lines, steam
ship lines operated for profit, in
surance, commercial banks operated
for profit, operation of storage ware
houses for profit or handling goods
for distribution to chain stores or
sub-stations, and several thousand
oher items.
The tax of one-half of one per
cent would apply to the gross in
comes of all the businesses covered
by the bill. An exemption of $1,800,
on gross incomes or receipts is pro
vided.
Make Deep Cat
Passenger Rates
CP
Norfdlk Southern Rail
road Reduces Fares
Approximately 60 Per
Cent
Norfolk, Va., Jan. 11.?Reductions
in passenger fares amounting to ap
proximately 60 per cept were an
nounced today by the Norfolk South--. -v _
ern railroad between Norfolk and
North Carolina points and by the
Greyhound bus lines between Norfolk
and points outside the state to the
west and north.
The new tariff announced by the
Norfolk Southern, effective Januarj
15 for an experimental period ex
piring February 28, reduces the pas
senger fare from 3.6 cents per mile
to 1.5 cents. Should the new rate
prove effective in building up the
revenue and passenger traffic of
the railroad Traffic Manager J.
Dalton said, it will be continued in
definitely after the proposed expira
tion date.
The drastic reduction is designed
principally to meet bus competition,
Dalton said. It will apply on one
way travel between Norfolk and
Beaufort and Goldsboro, N. C., and
intermediate points, a total mileage
of~- approximately 350 miles.
For example, the present bus fare
from Norfolk to Elizabeth City is
$1.50, the present railroad fare $1.97,
the new rail fare 85 cents. Other
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cuts are in proportion.
Fare reductions on the Grayhound
bus lines run up to 25 per cent.
These reductions apply exclusively
on intersta&L travel, westward fo
Chicago al^v^the west coast and
northward to rww York, New Eng
land ,and the Great Lakes region
The cut does not apply, howevar,
from Norfolk to southern points.
Henry Gaston, 4-H club boy of Gas
ton County, made a net profit of
$83.88 on one-fourth of an acre of
snap benas and tomatoes which he
grew as a club project this past sea
son.
During a four-months period end
ing- December !, Madison Farmors, a
cooperative in Madison Co unpaid 0
to its farmer members $1,023.58; for
poultry and eggs alone in
handling other surplus produce.