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May Lengthen Session — Ap pointment last Friday of sub-com mittee of 18 men representing both houses in the legislature to study and make recommendations on the amount of money which North Carolina will spend during the next two years was done to shorten the session. . . The rule has been for the joint appropriations committee to go in to executive session after approp riation requests have been heard. This has required a great deal of time, what with approximately 85 men talking, studying, argu ing and sometimes just shooting the bull on favorite programs. The new approach should indeed save time if the full committee will accept the sub-committees recommendations. However, if it insists on doing its usual amount of bickering, then the sub-commit tee move will not shorten the sess ion but will lengthen it. In other words, deliberation by 18 men will not require as much time—unless the full committee insists on de liberating on deliberations pre sented to it. Long Battle — A money matter laden with political dynamite has finally reached the front pages. For years now businessmen throughout North Carolina have been wondering why they fre quently have to sacrifice from a few cents to a few' dollars on checks in order to get them cashed. If a mill in Hickory, for in stance, receives for goods a check for $50,000 written on a non-par bank, it costs the mill $02.50 to get the check cashed. The local bank does not receive the money, but the non-par bank does. If you receive any check written on what is known as a non-par bank, then it costs you to get it cashed un less you go directly to the non-par bank to get your money. Gurney P. Hood, state banking commiss ioner, is of the opinion that this exchange fee system—of non-par clearance charge—costs North Car olina people upw'ards of $2,000,000 per year. There are 10,568 par banks in the United States. There are 2,141 non-par banks. North Carolina has 240, or better than one-tenth of all the non-par banks in the na tion. Some non-par banks in the state are getting tired of the boookkeeping, bad public relations, and general messiness of the ex change fee system and are going par. A bill w'hich would put all banks in North Carolina on a par basis was defeated in the legisla ture last week. Although there are a number of small banks now on a par basis—Moyock on Curri tuck county, for instance—many of them say they can’t get along without the exchange fees. All the par banks want the non-par banks to come along and join their ranks. They maintain that the non-par banks can do all right ^without the fee system if tl > n<] out and promote their banks, lena more money, work more enthus iastically with their customers, and stop depending on exchange fees ‘"This0 legislature is apparently very much opposed to making non par banks bring to an end the ex change fee system. Nevertheless, the whole argument has politics overtones with big money involved and vou will hear more about it as time goes by. The current bat tle is merely a tempest in a tea P°For And Against — In l94S during the heat of the keir Scott Charles Johnson campaign for governor, some friends of Scott approached Gov. R. Gregg Cherry asking him if there was anything he could do for Scott. Cherry knew he was unpopular with a large segment of the pop ulation. He told them he could probably help Scott more by- mak ing a speech for Johnson. Rumoi had it that he was not for John son and was on the verge of com ing out for him. The Scott people were not so sure of Cherry’s un popularity. They were uncertain. The Johnson followers felt the same \^ayc So Cherry7 stay'ed out of the picture. Gov. Scott is refusing to com ment on pet legislation. He feels that to do so would hurt it. If the trend continues, you may find the governor making a public statement in favor of something he really doesn’t want in order to assure its being killed by the gen eral assembly. That’s the way he feels now; and yet the legislature is looking kindheartedly on his toll turnpike superhighway. It looks as if the legislature is will ing to go along with Scott on everything except higher taxes. Congressional Talk — There are two or three members of the legislature who may not be here next time because of an interest in going to Washington. Alonzo Edwards of Greene county, Julian Allsbrook of Roanoke Rapids, and L. H. Fountain of Tarboro are considered as likely' candidates for John Kerr’s seat in congress. Roy Taylor of Black Mountain, Zebulon Weaver, Jr., of Asheville, and R. Lee Whitmire of Hender sonville may be among those runn ing for the seat being vacated by Monroe Redden. Congressman Hamilton Jones of Charlotte is expected to have op position from one or more mem bers of the legislature. The talk in Charlotte is that Robert Lassit er, Jr., is being groomed for gov ernor sometime, but he may get sidetracked by congressional aspir ations. State Senator Hugh Horton of Villiamston is mentioned quite We Have PLENTY of the following Materials IN STOCK: Miss Elsie say she. CAN READ HER HUSB.VJIJ MIN'D LIKE A Book — But i'o think »T would BE Ml&HTv/ PULL READIN’ •/ • SCREEN DOORS • SCREEN WIRE • DRY FRAMING AND ROOFERS • CONCRETE AND CINDER BLOCKS • KILN DRIED FINISH PLYWOOD • SASH AND DOORS • BIRD & SONS SHING LES AND ROLL ROOFING • '/<” MASONITE • '/«” MASONITE PLAIN • Vs” MASONITE TEMPERED Broadway Builders Supply 139 Broadway—Black Mountain—Phone 3541 frequently as an opponent for Congressman Herbert to0 Big Change — H is ■ early to say definitely.bu ■ - point to a big turnover in o' congressional delegation resignations and otlu-rwi- uxt vear. Redden has already .-aid he is quitting after this term. Go1 ressman Harold P. Cooley ressman naiuiu *••• .. * have formidable opposition. < h ressmen John Ken; and Kob Uoug ton are likely to drop o«t at any time. These possibilities, ] listed above, present a potent*, turnover greater than we h had in Washington in many yea . Wage-Hour Change ative sub-committees sometm os deal harshly with bills turned over to them for consideration anil commendation. This is their P' • ■ ilege; and the full commit ee can accept the alteration or kick it out the window. . —Turn to Page 4. this Sec. RIDGECREST . . . ramblings Elizabeth Waite, manager of the Baptist Book store, Fresno, Cain., Florida Waite, secretary depart ment of library work. Baptist Sunday School Board, Nashville, Term., June Cooper, manager Bap tist Book store, Huntington Bark, Calif., and Truett Myers, depart ment of sales and advertising, Sun day School Board, Nashville, spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Bate. The entire party with Mr. and Mrs. Perry Morgan were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Willard K. Weeks and Mrs. Bate Saturday evening at the Weeks home. , The Rev. Charles Jollay taught a class in religious education using t vt .^oul Winning Doctrines the text ; ° . Haptist church, $c.hA^SV«-j ' , the evangelistic cru an5 -o be conducted in Buncombe sai ' 1 v , ,v *>c (0 April h. C°Fn'-i Mac Burnett taught the l.ii e ela- Sunday morning men.- nit if n Might C M‘*ore substituting for \ i • ** * , f,„. who has been indisposed for » ^'Sofi^a^ng ser l , , Jenkin* and Miss D« *t« r inPAUanta' N L Perkins left Tuesday for Smithfield where he will be for ■*« *,„d° Mo. I—e' «K“; and little son deny, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Hutaix, 5aGu!asts of Mr. and Mrs. Paul burner over the week end were lr and Mrs. Robert !■ ree and heir son. Bobby, of W ilmington. Mrs. Lvnn Reger and little son, steven, are in Monroe, V t■■, ™r i visit with her parents. Mr. and M Pruning the apple orchards of he assembly is a major activity his week and is being done under he direction of Clarence Allison Willard K. Weeks, member of ;he faculty of the training school ndd in the First Baptist church, Greensboro, last week teamed up with another teacher, Jesse Dan iels state Sunday school secretary, if Nashville, Term., in a televis ion broadcast on Ridgecrest As sembly and Camp Ridgecrest for Bovs one day during the school. It * is reported there are 30,000 television sets within the territory of the Greensboro station. Mr and Mrs. Sam Weatherly have taken “Old Stagecoach House” and are happily domiciled there. At this house Ridgecrest Assembly was organized in 1907. Guests lodged there on the trip from Salisbury to Asheville du_ primitive days of "hor^. ! conch” travel before the y Railway pierced these ” 1; is a historical spot. ' :t was renovated, rente, modernized by its ow-.. Harris. Ted Jollay, Summers-.. s , .pent the week end with ents. the Rev. and Mr Jollay at "Hide-A-\Vav" This column proposes :i . T' clinic for Ridgecrest in May. say, ye neighbors? Shall 1 tend an invitation to the health department to . ■•n Mrs. C. W. Konrad and th, M,.. Faircloth Dixon SPCA Mountain will team up with J 1 looking after the health f 0UJ dogs. It will be easier than takini the dogs to the Black M .-■?'! clinic. _ It KIT KNS BOMB Mrs. Melvin Lance returns home last Friday after Bpe-ndine a month’s vacation in Florida .UCHITS POSITION Lawrence Parker left last for Detroit where he has accepted a position. MONUMENTS All Sue* and Designs $’> to $10,000 JOHN L). STRONG Asheville, N. C. — Phone 8232 Hendersonville Road Cel Delicious mWMORE WHEAT-HEARTS Ready in d Minutes CAROLINA'S HEALTH FOOD =F=a 75th Knn\vertar^ 75 Years of Service to the Nation mMr. Watson, come here. I want you." ( *Mr. Bell, I heard every word you said — distinctly!' ■ ■ ■ and the Telephone was horn! On March 10, 1876, in a boarding house in Boston, the telephone carried its first intelligible sentence. Alexander Graham Beil was about to try to send his voice over a new transmitter he had devised. His assistant, Thomas Watson, was in another room, holding a receiver to his ear. Suddenly, Mr. Bell upset the acid of a battery over his clothes. He called out, "Mr. Watson, come here; 1 waist you!*' An instant later Watson burst into the room, shouting, "Mr. Bell, I heard every word you said—distinctlyr n the 75 years since then, the Tele phone industry has grown up to transform our everyday pattern of living. For millions, the telephone has be come an indispensable aid—in business, government, the home, the farm, and in maintaining family and community ties. These 75 years have brought an amazing parade of advancements in communication —switchboards, cables carrying hundreds of wires on poles or underground, the vacuum tube, the dial system, coaxial cable and microwave radio relay for transmitting hun dreds of simultaneous calls or television programs, telephone service to ships and vehicles. Today America has 62% of the workfs telephones and enjoys the most and the best telephone service in the world . . . another great achievement of American ingenuity under a system of free enterprise and indi vidual incentive and reward. Each year the telephone becomes more useful, and more essential to the prosperity and security of the nation. Today it unites the country, playing a vital role in mobiliza tion and production for defense. Here in the South, more than 52,000 skilled employees and nearly 3Vi million Southern Bell telephones are on the job— more than twice as many as we had when World War II began. And there are four times as many Long Distance circuits. In all, we have built more than $670 million worth of new facilities in a little over five years, and we re still busy at the job. All this growth—and maintaining the financial strength to keep on expanding— will be increasingly important to the South and the Nation in the days ahead.—Southern Ml Telephone and Telegraph Company. 75 Years of Telephone Progress
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