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Your support of my candidacy for re-election to the More head City Town Commission is respectfully solicited. Sam C. Holloway Your vote for me as one of your Morehead City Town Commissioners in today's election will be greatly appreciated. G. E. (Gibbie) Sanderson D. J. HALL ? Respectfully requests your vote for his re-election as Morehead City Town Commissioner May 3 / Vote For JEQ CABWSR FOR RE-ELECTION AS TOWN COMMISSIONER \ May 3 Your Support Will Be Greatly Appreciated JASPER E. BELL ANNOUNCES HIS CANDIDACY FOR TOWN COMMISSIONER A man who believe* that Service to God and Humanity it the rent we pay for our time on earth. Herbert O. Phillip*. Ill A aatfre *f Mnifcwt Ckf uhom U rtmMtn hr the ?me* * Ma> ?r ??? head City ?eetrier'f C?4rt A Man With Training and Experience. Hood | (Continued from P*ge 1) ?lipped into in AFL meeting where * _ pallbearers union was formed ' with the intent of enforcing "closed , ?hop" funerals. Thii meant one WMal bury his own mother with -<>?? paving tribute to the union Hood exposed the secret plot and the pallbearers' union liad a quick case of rigor mortis with the public i ?uttry. The union disbanded after this one meeting. In IMS Hood exposed a labor union racket whereby union truck drivers extorted "*10 permits" from independent grocers who drove their own trucks to the pro duce yards. Hood found the docu mentary evidence by fishing in a trash barrel near the labor union's headquarters. His exclusive story ended the racket. Tracks Down Potatoes 'Q 1950 he exposed another ratket in Uniontown, Pa., where ' he was sent to investigate what was happening to government surplus potatoes being shipped there by the trainload. As it turned out. the scheme was devised by a Fair Deal Congressman who got the Sur plus Commodity Credit Corporation ' to ship surplus potatoes (and but ter) to Uniontown supposedly to feed the striking coal miners. Hood, however, traced these sur ; plus commodities, intended for re lief, to commercial channels. To nail down his findings, he first lo cated the train siding where the surplus food was being sold. After buying two bags of potatoes, he put them Into the Pittsburgh Press ?uto. The next problem was to prove where the potatoes came from since, without an invoice, a bag of potatoes looks like any bag. The problem required creating an inci dent to dramatize that government food was getting into private chan nels. Buys Two Bags Hood then went to the local poli ticians, showed his press card and announced that he had bought and put in his auto two bags of govern ment spuds. The politicians then did exactly what Hood wanted them to do ? they organized a mob and stormed the Pittsburgh Press auto and reclaimed the pota toes. While this was going on Hood I motioned to the Press photograph i er who snapped pictures of the politicians and their mob in the act. Publication of the exclusive illustrated story caused the U. S. j Department of ' Agriculture to clamp a surplus foood embargo on Uniontown. And the Congressman who had devised the scheme wu* defeated for TeOlwtlon; ?-f-i This year Hood broke a scandal in Pittsburgh by using the adding machine rather than the type writer. It started when he finished covering an eight-month trial of Communist leaders charged with sedition. There was much criticism that the long trial was too costly. Hood decided to learn the answer ? $75,000 ? and audited the costs from the judge's salary to witness fees. During the audit, he discovered that the two detectives wl*> made the arrests were paid $3.50 a day for the entire length of the trial although they were on the stand only one day. Hood investigated hundreds of routine trials and learned that the same witness fee padding took place. In many cases police collect ed witness fees when they had nothing to do with cases. Some cop? collected witness fees while vacationing in Florida. In all Hood revealed that" "fee featherbedding" by police officials had milked the taxpayers of *2,000.000 in 20 years. He had hroadened his audit to justices of the peace and constables and show ed widespread collection of pad ding expense accounts, mileages and even fake fees and fake hear ings. In all, Hood's "fee featherbed ding" expose has brought on an investigation by the District Attor ney and so far two fee grabbing culprits were sent to jail. Several more resigned. County commis sioners also cut their appropriation for fee payments and a judicial re view resulted in the streamlining of criminal court procedure. Official figures from Allegheny* County ? Pittsburgh is the county sest ? show that Hood's expose has saved the taxpayers *150,000 recently. Hood recently got world wide publicity when he received a com munique from Winston Churchill regarding the use of the World War II victory phrase "blood, sweat and tears." The Prime Min ister who replied through the Brit ish Embassy wss astounded to learn that Haod had traced the original use of the phrase to George Bernard Shaw who penned it in a Fabian Society eassy jit 1888. Hood, incidentally, went through the University without meeting Archibald Henderson, the subject o f his book. Then a friendship be gan in IMS, fire years after Hood left the campus. Hood is a versatile fellow. He his also acquired a reputation as pianist, composer, music critic, scenic and portrait photo|rapher. Whta a University of North Caro lina student he had a weekly piano ?Mgram over a Durham radio sta OM. His compactions include a four-part suite "Southern Son*." Ha also wrote the lyrips. In many primitive tribes a man tatarMSflM 1 6 speak to Ms mother L . m Negro News 31 First Graders Enroll At W. S. King School Settle Dudley? Reporter Morehcad City? The pre-school \ ?linic was held at the W. S. King i School Friday morning. Mr Mc- j Lendon. the principal said, "Thirty- 1 jne children were enrolled for the I next school term. I am certain that the enrollment will be larger when the parents receive their children's j | birth certificates." The Ladies Home Instruction j Club of Morehead City met at the home of Mrs. Gertrude Hester j Thursday night. The devotion was ' led by Mrs. Hester. The president, Vfrs. Ethel Allen, presided at the j business session. A program. House hold Hints, was given. The club will meet at the home I of Mrs. Marie Hester Thursday | night at 8 o'clock. \ birthday party will be given by the mem- ' bers for Mrs. Thelma Stamps. The Queen of the South, chap- j j ter 209, order of the Eastern Star j of Morehead City will meet tonight at the Masonic Hall at 7:30. The Willing Workers Club of j Morehead City met at the home of i Mrs. Mary Johnson recently. Social Notes Mrs. Clifford Wooten of More head City spent the weekend here. She is a graduate student at North Carolina State College of Durham. Mr. Alex Monroe of Salisbury visited his parents Mr. 'and Mrs. John Monroe of Morehead City during the weekend. Sgt. Alex Dudley Jr. of More head .City is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Dudley Sr., on a 30-day furlough. Sergeant Dud ley has just returned from the Far East. Mrs. Elsie Warnett of Morehefed City spent Monday in New Bern. Mrs. Marie Hester of Morehead ! City left Saturday for Newport I News, Va. Mrs. James Arthur Hester of Morehead City spent two weeks with relatives in Farmville. She returned Sunday. li ~ .1 AT LAST-AN AIR CONDITIONER WITH HO DR0 COOLING! . cool air ( ( comoufr 'j here! INTUMATIONAL . HARVISTH AIR CONDITIONER No mora cold chilli ... no mora drafts on the back of your neck. New International Harvester air conditioner coola the whole room . . . cools it fast . , . but never blows cold air at you! Come on in and asa this mr kind of air conditioner today! a Iks ONLY Mr C.iJMim r? ? AvaAsMs Is I.J.I. IW MAT A* MU AS COOl? AUTOMATICAUV I S QuiCTCtT Air CmMwm yea tmm kwy. Msm dtanrrki year SMfl immediate installation J. c. WHITTY & CO. I ... New Bern, N. C. The Etho Singers of Beaufort of the Social Elite Temple No. 706 are open for engagements. Anyone who would like the group to sing for them should contact the man ager, Mrs. O. W. Kirk, 903 Craven St., Beaufort, or Mrs. Hester Hobb. 307 Pollock St., Beaufort. On May 7 the group will appear at Kinston. May Day will be May 6, at the W. S. King School of Morehead City. The program will be an nounced later. More head City Hospital Admitted: Mr Walter Spencer. Piiwtown, Thartdajr. Discharged: William Ellison, Morehead City, Thursday; Mildred Pasteur, Beaufort, Thursday; Mrs William Branch and son, Morehead City, Friday; Mrs. Mary Courman, Morehead City, Friday; Mrs. Need ham Wiley. Morehead City, Fri day; Alonzo Bqcton. Beaufort. Fri day. Births at Morehead City Hospital: To Mr. and Mrs. William Eli Branch Jr., Morehead City, a soil. William Eli HI, Wednesday, April 27 OBITUARY ARTHUR GARFIELD BELL Arthur Garfield Bell, 48, died Monday morning at his home at 305 N. 13th St., Morehead City. Surviving are his parents. Mrs. Alice Pickett Bell. Walter Bell. , both ai Morehead City; three I brothers, Leroy of California; Cur tis Henry and Sylvester, both of Morehead City, and a sister, Mrs. Frma Louise Lassiter of Sclma Funeral services will be held at 2 30 Thursday afternoon at AMK Zion Methodist Church. Morehead City. Burial will be in Bay View Cemetery. Sweeten Thai New*! Santa Monica, Calif. (AP)? A news reporter finished taking a group of Brownie Scouts on a toua of the hew publishing plant and asked if there were any questions concerning the printing of a news paper. "Yes," the girls yelled. "Can we go back upstairs and put some nickels in the candy machine?" 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