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SURPRISE . . . Close friends of the Bfewer family here are still speechless oyer the highway sign scandal which almost took the life of one of those most prominently connected with it. They can hardly believe it has happened to friendly, carefree Kidd Brewer, the nearest thing in these parts to the adult, family-man ver sion of the All-American hoy. And yet there it is — one sur prise after another — shock on Shock. In general, sympathy around too-sophisticated Raleigh seemed to be with 'Brewer until the stony moved out of the $40,000 class and into the big-check payments mov ing to Brewer from a hardware •firm in Boone. When this develop ment hit the headlines, loss of face for Brewer came almost as sud denly as the first mention of the case from the Governor’s office. Now that it has all gone this far, Raleigh is ready for anything, for any announcement. Feeling here is there can be no more shocks. ISOLATED? . . . How the affair became so big and involved only three local people — Burch son and father and Brewer — is difficult for old heads here to understand. Wjith the thousands ofi people associated with highway construc tion and the thousands more on the State payroll, you would think one or two more would be directly or indirectly involved . . . but ap parently not. As of this past week end, it still looked — strange as it seems — like an isolated thing. But a whole lot of questions must still be answered. There is more than one person in Raleigh who thinks “more heads will roll" before “finis’ is written to the case.” GOT TO HIM? . . . The word we get from neighbors of the Brewer’s is that he had slept very little, had paced the floor like a caged animal for nearly two weeks before slash ing himself with razor blades. He finally broke. Who wouldn’t ? • Every street corner here is abuzz with what Brewer’s attorneys told him just before he slipped out of the conference and drove the six miles to his suburban home. Whep a trail of blood was found and it was announced that Brewer was missing, one Raleigh resident in directly close to the case .said: “It looks as if - got to Brewer." this, of course, proved incorrect — but it was a most interesting re action to the announcement. WHY NOT REX ? . . . Novv what' PARAMOUNT ” »mi. ■■•itA.itr jTv>.■<jvrnn NOW PLAYING The One, the Only, the Authentic, the Great movie about the sensation. "Hey, Let’s Twist99 Avenue Eleanor * STARRING Headliners of the ‘ Peppermint Lounge SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY "Madison was the real reason Kidd Brewer was moved from Rex hospital in Raleigh to Duke Hospital? And, under the circumstances, would it not have been better for him to be moved to Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill or Bowman Gray in Brewer’s hometown of Winston Salem ? s 1 NEXT . . . Now the next round could involve the Burch’s or the Minnesota Mining Co. It looks as if Kidd Brewer will be out of it for a season. The belief here, is that he will recover physicially before he does mentally. Before the apparent suicide at tempt, the Revenue Department was calling the shots; Now it. is a psychiatrist over at Duke Univers ity. He, and only, he will say when Kidd Brewer is able again to enter the fray. Meantime, watch for some inter esting — and rather unique deve lopments. HAND-SHAKING . . . Just before he began his speech to the National Association of Travel Organizations in Washington’s Willard Hotel last Week, Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges tore himself,away from the august group at the head table, and made a quick hand-shaking tour among 25 Tarheels. As of last week, only Dean Rusk seemed more of a fixture in the Kennedy cabinet than Hodges. He looks young, vigorous, full of health, makes a good speech — and still reads it so hurriedly you miss whole sentences. NEXT TIME . . . Fifth .District Congressman Ralph Scott is telling ambitious young Democrats of that section they can fight for the honor of succeeding him two years hence — but he would be very much obli ged if they would just leave him along this time. i And — we rather think they will. It’s no time to beat a conservative in a district which has just added Wilkes County to its listings. CAR SALES . . . New car sales in the State for this past December were 9,680 against 9,027 for the same month of 1960. Chevrolet led Ford — 2,424 to 2,078 . . . Auto sales in the nation for the first A Yacht for Haile Selassie — What Next? Well the good ole’ U. S. A. Gov ernment Brains in Washington must have stayed awake all night ten days of this year were av erging 17,668 per day — 18 per cent over the first ten days of 1961. NOTES . . . We had a nice letter from Harold D. Cooley . . . who said he has no gubernatorial am bitions ... is interested in con tinuing his work in the House as a “balanced Democrat” . . . We still say he would make a great Gov ernor . . . but no doubt will mfean more to the State and nation as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. But we DO have at least a half dozen House members who would run at the drop of a hat. Here’s a list: Basil Whitener, Alton Len non, Charles Jonas, Horace Korne gay, .Paul Kitchin, David Hender son, and Lawrence Fountain. Whitener has it wor9t as far as 1964 is concerned, with Lennon watching for 68 . . . and others . . . watching for an opening. Able men, too. to think up a justification to spend a million tax dollars on the new USS Orca (now referred to as a Yacht-Training Ship by the Ethi opian Navy.) A picture of the converted U. S. Navy seaplane tender appeared in yesterday’s Record next to Presi dent Kennedy's 1963 $92.5 billion budget he sent to Congress. Under the military aid program for Ethiopia, labor and overhead costs of almost one million dollars are being borne by the good ole’ American Taxpayer to convert the ex-Navy vessel into a yacht for em peror (of what for gosh sake) Haile Selassie. The new vessel will have a suite of rooms lined with gold wallpaper and paneled wood, two fancy tile baths and a private kitchen for the emperor (?). This gift we are so graciously contributing to the starving Eth iopian people should be well re ceived by the “man on the street there” as it will be in every com munity in the U. S. A. It just might take an “A” bomb to wake us up.— St. Augustine, Fla. Record If you're one of the millions of car owners who should get their cars serviced this week, here’s good news: t: ^ M GALAXIE . . . styling and performance leader of the full-size cars. Ford eliminates 10 out of 12 service stops required by most cars! 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