. :i-i -'.t" i . v -V ' ' - __ - . | ? ? ? > I ? ? MM ?\ ? ! m : : -I ' " n. I HI I ??? ni!."?r I - I I I"' M ?>. : 1 - T.'l1 . M . , - . ? ?? ' "" ! " 1 . ? * VOU TWENTY-FIVE FA?*VIUA WW OOBHTT, MM CA80UMA, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 19?4 NUMBER SEVEN . " I ? ., . . _ ... J ? 1 ? ' . ? - ? > . I > _ __ Allocate Funds For More head's Harbor Project Public Works Allot ments of $1,955,000 Formerly Made By Board Washington,. June 20.?Two alloca tions totaling $1,9550,000 for "devel opment of a deep sea port at More head City were today formally adopt ed by the cabinet public works board. Ordinarily, such allocations are not announced until approved by the President, but in the Morehead City case the President expressed his approval in advance. In fact the interest of President Roosevelt in the proposal was necessary to overcome strong objections to the proposal on the part of the War De partment board of engineers who will have charge of the improve ment to the harbor. The Morehead City proposal com prises two separate projects. A di rect grant of $1,555,000 was made to the War Department for dredging Beaufort Inlet and channel to More head City. ? All of this expenditure will be borne directly by the fed eral government. In addition, the board today ap proved a 4400,000 loan and gTant to the Morehead City Port Terminal Commission for the building of port terminals. Of this amount, $120,000 is a grant and the remaining $280, ?OOO-a-Ioaiv-to- be repaid hy the com mission with the taring power of Morehead City and the rentals of the State-owned Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad which operates from -Goldsborb'.to Beaufort pledged to supplement receipts from the port terminal warehouses to be erected, j Pldhs for deepening-of the chan nel dall for a' 80 foot channel for the entire distance of 2.2 miles. A combination of- jetties and sunken boats filled with concrete will be used | to keep"the channel open. ? - ' M The motion to approve tne ?i ore head; City projects was made in the board-today by a native North Caro linian, Turner,; W. Battle, who sits on the board as the representative of Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary I of Labor, to whom he is executive I assistant. There is also another North Carolina, member on the board, ; Assistant Solicitor General Angus D.' MacLean, who represents Attorney General Homer Cummings. --__Mrr_ Battle and Mr. MacLean, in .LjmjiMWtioa- with Senator Bailey "mid ?tt?; North- Carolina delegation in Congress and others have been working for more than a year on the Morehead City proposal which is expected to save hundreds of ' thousands of dollars annually to North Carolinians by reason of low ered freight rates. As a result of today's action work on the Morehead City development will begin at once and will be com pleted some time next year. The board did not act today on the $340,000 application for a loan and gant for Rex Hospital at Hal- ' eigh, but the granting of this project has been pledged by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, Public Works Administrator: ? A special meeting of the board will be bald tomorrow and Rex Hospital may be included in the projects acted upon at that time. If not, it will be acted upon at an early meeting. However, the board did act today upon several North Carolina pro jects. Projects approved today, sub ject to final approval by the Presi dent, included the following loans and grants: Spruce Pine, $16,000 for a water system; Spindaie, $62,000 for a sewer system; and Ruther ford County, -$164,000 for school buildings. The board also approved today $2,767,000 for ; a municipal electric plant at Greenwood, SL C., a project strongly opposed by the Duke Power Company. ^ I tion'bOl has carried with (fiOOgDOO, ? 000 for public works, attempts are bang made to speed up applications. ? . W; Cradle, of the North Quo ting Department of Public Instroc I tion,. was here today to look into ap plications for school bridings. He I was accompanied by R M. Allen, Vance County superintendent, who ? tap an application for $886,000 for ? tftaiiraua schools, and T. Fletcher Bulla, Randolph superintendent, who has an application for $8MM>00 for a naiali mhhi Other twmKwct applications for North Carolina ? school buildings include 1307,000 for Guilford Count*, $135^00 for Dur ' ham County*_and $40,000 for Wake To Start Buying Surplus Potatoes From N.C. Growers Now Compiling List Of Counties Where Pota toes Can Be Used Raleigh, June 20.?Mrs. Thomas O'Berry, state relief administrator, said today her organization would probably start buying surplus irish potatoes from North Carolina grow ers today. "We are ready to start buying any minute but had no reports of a sur plus yesterday," Mrs. O'Berry said. "We were informed this morning that all potatoes offered at Elizabeth City last night had not been sold arid farmers were holding them for $1.6(X "We cannot buy at that price but we try to pay enough for surplus products to give the farmers expens es and will probably start buying to 3ay." . Mrs. O'Berry said her offices were now compiling a list of counties where potatoes can be used and that she expected to send the most of them to counties in Piedmont and Western North Carolina. Ayden Plans a Big Songfnst Community Sing To Be Held at High School Sunday Afternoon At 5 o'Clock Greenville, June 21.?Preparations were nearing completion today for the community sing to be given at Ayden Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock under the auspices of the Ayden Woman's Club. The sing will be staged under the direction of Patrick Alderman, of Goldsboro, famed for his successes in this field of musical effort, and Woman's Clubs, members of other organizations and the public gener- _ ally, have been, given a cordial, in*, vitation to attend. The sing will be held' on the i campus of Ayden High School, tod ample seating space ..will. be. available , for several hundred people. Preparation for the sing has been under way by the Ayden Club mem bers for sometime, and it is being looked forward to as one of the out standing events of the county this summer. ' ______________ I Ywing People Close First Half of Term Church Services Held At Qamp Operated By East Carolina Diocese Washington, Nr C., June 19.? Camp Leach, the young people's camp operated by the Episcopal Church of the DHocese of East Carolina, end ed the first half of its two weeks' term with church services in the outdoor chapel Sunday. The camp is locate on the Pam lico river 14 miles below Washing ton, N. C., occupying one of the most beautiful and best equipped camp sites in this vicinity. This year there are more than a hundred campers and staff, headed by Rev. George Gresham,