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(By Eula Nixon Gre^pwood)
RED CAR AND SUIT — A Wash
ington, D. C., news release said last
week that Robert R. Reynolds is hav
ing a car painted a blazing red for
use in his campaign to prevent Frank
Graham from returning to the U. S.
Senate for another four years. .The
report also declared that Reynolds is
having a suit made which will be
just as red as the car.
If Our Bob goes through with these
plans, he will attract more attention
than Candidates Wilis Smith and
Frank Graham. The car and suit,
it is presumed, will be employed by
Reynolds to add emphasis to his
charge that Graham has permitted his
name—the good name of Frank P.
Graham—to be used in Communist
front organizations.
The Senator must soon decide whe
ther he will deny these accusations or
merely ignore them. If he denies them
frequently enough, he will constantly
be on the defensive. If he ignores
them, a lot of people will jump to
the conclusion that they are true.' Rey
nolds has accumulated most of his am
munition and is expected to start
blasting at Smith and Graham with-^
in the next two or three days.
THE BOSS . . . Although Demo
cratic National Committeeman Jona
than Daniels has been too busy on his
Truman book to make many public
utterances within the past two or
three weeks, it becomes more appar
ent every day that Daniels is the
boss of the Democratic Party in
North Carolina. He is calling the tune.
Two years ago he was a writer, a
scribbler of articles for national pub
lioations, and » man who was regard
ed aa more of a resident of Washing
ton than of Raleigh.
Now he is captain of the team.
Within the short space of 24 months
he has moved ahead of men who for
years have looked to the day when
they would be in the front ranks of
the party.
COUNTY MANAGERS — Now
that Charles P. Green of Louisburg
has been named campaign manager
for Willis Smith, the drive Is on for
county managers, throughout * the
State.
Smith, who was a strong Kerr Scott
man two years ago, believes in speed
hnd it now looks as if he will go into
April with more than half of his
county managers named. Manager
Green’s first task had to do with go
ing throuh the hundreds of names
coming to Smith from all areas. In
some counties it is going to be im
possible to name one person as man
ager, so committees will he used. It
now looks, also, as if women will play
a tremendous sole in the Smith cam
paign.
Manager Green is 39 years old, is a
leading Baptist layman, was a colonel
in World War II, lis an attorney, and
is an alumnus of Wake Forest col
lege.
THE NORTHEAST—While North
eastern North Carolina is not noted
for its voting strength and heavy
population, it is always a section to
reckon with in any campaign. The
odds seem to be that Smith will take
it this time, for: Smith himself is a
native of Pasquotank county; his
wife’s sister, Mrs. Frank Wood, lives
in Edenton; and his campaign mana
ger’s wife is the former Mollie Hof
ler of Gatesville.
ADAMS . . . Hoover Adams, 30
year-old Dunn newspaperman, was
called to Raleigh last Friday, March
10, on the matter of handling Willis
Smith’s publicity. He said neither ,
yea nor my,, but Smith made it dea
that this reporter could have th
place if he wanted it If he caq je
Smith in the headlines to the sam
extent that he has Harnett county an
Dunn, the Raleigh attorney shout
entertain no fears about Ms' publicity
.. NOTES — John Temple Graves
Birmingham writer and lecturer, wil
be the featured speaker at the N
C. Merchants Association conventioi
to be held in Southern Pines at tjb
Hollywood Hotel .on May 8-9. Thi
State Highway -Patrol will plao
crosses at spots where fatal highway
accidents occurred. 1 . . Indication:
are that State employees are takinf
with a grain of salt Gov. Scott's ad
vice'to them to stay out of the forth
coming battles: . Last Friday, Gov
Scott had a long two-hotir luneheoi
with Jeff Johnson, who is managing
Sen. Frank Graham’s campaign. N<
doubt, they talked only about the
weather.
While state-wide attention is turn
ing swiftly to the Smith-Graham
Reynolds battle, there are a numbei
of local battles which, will prove mow
exciting. . . . Believe it or not, some
of the most bitter, root-hog cam
paigns, involving charges and coun
ter-charges, have involved candidates
running for seats on the Supepwi
Court bench.
KICKBACKS — Every couple oi
years 'or so while Kerr Scott was
Commissioner of Agriculture came
word from the front office that em
ployees of the State Agriculture De
partment should kick iii^with funds to
further the cause of the Democratic
Party. .There was no “or else” con
dition attached to the request which
came from Democratic Headquarters
down through Commissioner Scott’s
office to the employees, but the "or
else” wasn’t necessary. If Kerr Scott
objected, nobody heard about it.
This’ “kickback” business which is
now being “investigated” bythe SB)
should be nothing now to
..tear ymm.r'.
that he had affidavits and ■tjjeH tx
prove that in
ate told to “pay up or get out.”
statement made headlines sad
just more hoopla, to VMM a gentU
term. Of course this kickback prac
tice is bad, but it’s as old as politics—
and if the teachers’ orders’ were no!
as smooth as velvet-glove-on-the-iron
fist followed on the state level, jt waf
probably due to the fact that local
politicians are not quite as easy or
the uptake as those at the top.
The teacher kickback situation, ac
cording to the Governor, appears tc
prevail on countywide basis in threv
qr four counties and in some other
counties on a smaller scale. It has
been pretty general in Raleigh jobs
with the state, and nobody would be
surprised if the SBI. itself has not in
times past done, a little kicking-back.
The whole racket is part and pared
of politics, whether teachers or other
employees are involved; and a large
percentage of teachers and other
state employees now have their jobs
through political connections some
where. They just love politics when
it helps them out, but yell to high
heaven when they are called upon to
pay the fiddler.
OFF THE CUFF — Sanford pub
lisher Bill Homer is still being urged
to pull a Willis Smith on Congress
man C. B. Deane. . . but has notryet
decided whether to take on the Rock
ingham native in another of those
Eighth District heave-ho’s ....
A recent issue of CIO NewB says:
“Danger (1950) Ahead” and points to
the fact that in off years labor usual
ly loses out in Congress. In 1938,
71 labor-loving Congressmen were de
feated; in 1942, a total of 51 friendly
to-labor Congressmen went to defeat;
and in 1946, 49 liberal Congressmen
were turned home (and Taft-Hart
ley Act ms passed), and so labor is
professedly worried about I960,
is an off year. That is, not a
SECTION 20% — Despite the fact
that the past Legislature appropria
ted more for education than ever be
fore, the Division of Classroom
Teachers of the N. C. Education As
sociation is session with the parent
organization here last week a wired for
still higher pay for teachers (a start
ing salary of $266 per month) and
they cant get it without higher tax
es. That’s the way it looks now.
This is closely tied to section 20%
of the past Legislature’s Appropri
ations Bill. The section provides if
there is any General Fund surplus at
the end of this fiscal year (June SO)
it must be used to increase salaries
of teachers up to a maximum of
$2,400 to |8,600 per year. . . or shoot
$265 per month for beginners and
I $400 per month for experienced teach
I ere. So, unless the Attorney Gener
al rules otherwise on the law, all the
gurplus—if any—will go to teachers.
JUNIOR G. A,
The Junior Girls auxiliary of the
Baptist church met Friday at the
home of Mrs. J. W. Miller. They
were served refreshments consisting
of cookies and lemonade.
Rev. E. W. Holmes talked on the
subject, "Baptist Beliefs,” and led in
prayer.
NOTE OF (THANKS
I wish to express my deepest ap
preciation for the visits, flowers,
cards, gifts and other remembrances
given me during my recent illness.
Mrs. W. C. Wooten
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