m - J: • *• • • JB AIM A - ' :l • ■ ■ ■ T i: IN FARMV1LLE ;; % ; *WM'»H' ><■»»♦♦♦♦»♦♦< »»»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ tAAAAtUii. J. rf.A ,t. .t. * -* i- -*• A i a '▼TTTTTTTTTTTTTVTTTTTTTTTT I BUY.... BANS I • ■•SELL.,, I IN FAHMVILLE Eyes which have seen the opening and organisation of a good many ses sions of the General Assembly saw nothing very u&tiBual about the open ing of the 1949 session. Typical is the sessions which holds its caucuses on Tuesday after the first Monday in January, convenes on Wednesday and elects its officers, meets in joint ses sion on Thursday to receive the in augural address of the Governor in inaugural years, adopts its rules be fore the week is out, receives its committee appointments early in the next week-and sees the introduction of the appropriation bills before the week is out — typical because those are the things that have to be done before a legislature can begin to con duct its regular business. The 1949 legislature' has done just that. Anti cipated contests for some of the of fices in both developed in only one instance in which J. C. Pittman won out in the race for President pro tern , at the Senate’s Democratic caucus. , Kerr Craig Ramsay of Rowan was , nominated for Speaker of the House 1 without opposition at the caucus of j House Democrats, and both caucuses j named the same people who served in ] 1947 to their other elective offices. , There being only_two Republicans in ; the Senate and 11 in the House, the s Democrats were naturally elected. In , his inaugural on Thursday, Governor • Kerr Scott revealed a multi-point , program of action. Most of the points j were generally received as forward- < looking, most of . them eall for the « spending of more money than has ever been spent before, and many of i them are, from the standpoint of j many legislators, controversial. The i rules adopted by the Senate repre- s sent no major changes from the 1947 i rules. Since 1941 the House has had \ the so-called “gag rule” governing i the removal of a bill from a commit- 1 tee and the aloption of a minority re- < port , of a committee. Whether the i House rules adopted this year mak- ( ing changes in this respect represent j significant changes is a matter on i which reasonable men have already ] differed. Monday’s committee ap- 1 pointments placed experienced men in the' chairmanship of the commit tees for this session. These commit tees, with their chairmen, are as fol lows: Appropriations—Pate, Senate, , Taylor of Wayne, House; Finance— , Rankin, Senate, Moore, House; Edu- . cation — Pittman, Senate, Edwards j of Greene, House; Roads — Ward, ] Senate, Hatch, House; Propositions ] and Grievances — Vann, Senate, Ga- t veness, House. Hie appropriation ] bills were introduced January 13. Governor Scott delivered his inau gural address on January 6, giving precedence in his program to round ing- out the all-weather road system. $2400 minimum salaries for teachers, state aid for school building construc tion, and general implementation of the Medical Care Program. A week later the money bills em bodying the recommendations of the Advisory Budget Commission were introduced. The Supplemental Appro priations Bill sets up $13,560,000 with which to pay teachers and state em ployees a salary raise of about 20% retroactive to November 1, 1948. The Appropriations Bill for the next bi ennium provides for salary increases at the same rate. On the same day the money bills were introduced Governor Scott sent a special budget message to the Leg islature carrying his comments on their provisions. He pointed out that the road appropriation for the next biennium falls far short of the a . mount needed for his program, and stated that he will prepare a special message on that subject. He also pointed out that the Appropriations Bill fails to provide the teacher sala ries and school building aid advoca ted by the State Education Commis sion and endorsed in his inaugural address. Discussing the Revenue Bill in his; budget message, the Governor noted! provision was made for reducing the | sales tax on farm machinery to the rate on industrial machinery, but that no provision was made for re moving the sales tax on meals or for adjusting license tax revenue between the state and local governments as he had advocated. He also drew at tention to the bill's proposal to low er corporate franchise taxes, thus cutting receipts $800,000 in the Com ing bienniunm. - With these major differences ap parent at the outset, it is reasonable to expect that considerable debate and amendment will be heard before the money Mils are enacted. Open salvos have been fired by the intro i _ 4» , oAvjftwftte hilTg designed to PS _ _ , Inaugural Photo This' photo j___ made by the U. S. Army Signal Corps, was the one selected by members ol the 1949 Inaugural Committee for use on the official Inaugural program. purposes under resolutions to be worked out later this session. This week three identical bills were in troduced undertaking to fix teacher, principal and superintendent salaries for 1948-49 at the minimUms recom mended b/ the State Education Com mission and endorsed by Governor Scott. Sales tax exemptions were asked for restaurant meals in line with the Governor’s program, as well as for fuel sold to fanners for agri cultural purposes. House Bill 7 pro posed a raise in the income tax ex empton for dependents from $200 to $600. A drastic form of the much-dis cussed statewide liquor referendum is proposed in Senate Bill 38, under which the voter would express him self on whether beer, wine and liquor would be banned in every county or whether itsA sale and manufacture j should be introduced into every coun ty, ending local option in any event, j Other bills would repeal the motor vehicle inspection law, launch the state on a program of general assist-1 ance to the needy, and require ad ministrative boards to file certain regulations with the General Assem bly. SAILS FOR ENGLAND J. T. Windham, who is connected with the Imperial Tobacco company, will sail for England today (Friday)^ where he will spend 6 months visit ing the company’s factories. He and Mrs. Windham left Tuesday for Rich mond, Va., where Mrs. Windham will spend a few days before returning home. Homeless b At The Rotary Club -1 t The program Tuesday night was in charge of Plato Baas, who presented Newton Maenhout, hand instructor of the Farmville school, who spoke briefly on the subject of organizing a band and the progress of the local school band. In order to find out Just how much the dub members knew about band music, he passed out written musical test papers to be filled out-^the re sults to be announced later. The attendance prize was won by Jimmy Darden. WESLEY NEWS Wesley Community welcomes each newcomer into its neighborhood. We hope that you will feci at home here and we invite you to our church. Sun day School begins each Sunday at 9:46 a. m. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Nutt and: son, Jimmy, and Mr. and Mrs. Brewer and son, Amos, of Henderson ' were visi tors of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Fulford Sunday. Mr. Nutt is a brother of Mrs. Fulford, * Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Fulford and con, Robert Nelson, of Greenville spent the week end with their pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Fulford. We are glad to report that Mrs. Robert Fulford is improving after a recent illness. David Fulford and R. T. Norville were Goldsboro visitors Tuesday. R. K. Madd rey of Raleigh was a guest of Mrs. R. L. Fulford Friday afternoon. Mr. Maddrey* is a brother in-law of Mrs. FuMord. Miss Mattie Dail spent the week end with Miss Mary Tyson. , Those attending the Greenville sub-district meeting of the M. T. F. in Simpson Monday night were: Misses Mary, Sally and Addie Tyson, Frances and Doris Oakley, Elizabeth Naaney and Ora and Emily Mat thews and Amos Tyson, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Tyson and Miss Edna Boone. Mr. and Mrs. Dick May and Mrs. David Fulofrd motored to Hollyf Ridge Friday of last week to see Mrs. Walter Turner. Mm Turner is a sister of Mr. May and Mrs. Ful ford. WALSTONBURG CLUB CHOOSES PROJECT LEADERS Meeting with Mias Daisy Fields Tuesday afternoon, the Walstonburg Home Demonstration club filled out the year books and selected project leader^. ~ After the talk on the national and state organization of the homemak ing clubs by Miss Margaret McGow an, Greene county home agent, a salad course was served. ut Loaded Homeless but loaded with dough, a Uttle brown and white puppy of undetermined breed waitg patieftly for his master to _ reclaim him after being abandoned in a Chicago depot. Apparently con • • •• — - left nine dollar bills tied around science-stricken, the owner the pupfs neck. Local School Children Solicit Funds For March Of Dimes The 1949 March of Dimes cam-, paign for funds is now on and wilt continue until January 31. Aa has been the custom in the past the) Farmville school will conduct the | campaign in this community. Each grade has been assigned a quota and the children will act as collection a gents. „ East summer polio struck heavily in North Carolina and counted vic-j tims 4)y the hundreds. Convalescent' centers .were established and polio] victims were sent to these centers and received the best treatment a vailable. Thousands of dollars were sent to this state from the National] I Headquarters to be used here ih the i state in combatting this disease, and polioSjfecialists rushed to North Ow rolina from *11 over the United nations and it is an appeal that tugs at the very heart of every person. Pitt countians are naked to make their contribution as liberal as possi ble .so the National Foundation will Be prepared to take whatever action is necessary in the event another siege strikes. ' Principal Sam Bundy says, “Send your contribution to the Farmville school by your child. If you do not have children in school, give it to some child or mail it to me, and eredit will be given. The goal is for everybody to give something and | for each person to give as much as possible. This is * call from the children of this community and state, and half of all funds raised remain in Pitt county. Give now!” Organizations, as well as mtiiywlu als, axe urged to make a contaibu tton. This is a program in which everybody has a stake. Fsrtnville and Pitt county were fortunate last year, in that only a small number of cases were reported. But this sec ner. A rising vote of thanks was given to these two Masbns for their untiring efforts during the year 1948. District Deputy Grand Master Charles Gray of Robersonville then installed the officers for the 1949 year as follows? Worshipful Master, Herman Baker; Senior Warden, Sam D. Bundy; Junior Warden, joe P. Joyner; Senior Deacon, C. L. Iveyi Junior Deacon, Claude Joyteer; Stew ard, Joe Flake; Tiler, Gordon Lee; Secretary, Ronald Nichols; Treasur er, Fri Nash Warren. Past Master J. T. Bundy acted as marshall. Visiting Masons attended from, Greenville and Stantonsburg. Mrs. J. W. Parker Dies Sudden!)7 Funeral services for Mrs. Alice Harper Parker, whose work in pa triotic, fraternal and religious circles during the last 26 years brought her state-wide recognition, were held Monday morning at 11 o’clock in the Farmville Methodist church, conduct ed by the pastor, Rev. H. L. Davis, and two former pastors of the church, Rev. M. Y. Self of Littleton and Rev. E. R. Clegg of Siler City. Interment was in the family plot in Forest Hils Cemetery here. A widow of the late J. W. Parker, Mrs. Parker died suddenly about 5:30 Saturday afternoon wham she was reading and resting in her home. She had been in apparent good health arid her death was a shock to the com munity . A daughter of the late Jessie F. Harper and Nancy Jo Suggs, Mrs. Parker was a native