1 Social Note — Mrs. Locke v raig
of Asheville was in Raleigh last
week visiting: with Mrs. J. Craw
ford Riggs. Although a majority
of the readers of this column hard
ly remember when Craig was gov
ernor, here his widow is hale and
heartv in this spring of Idol and
off on a visit with friends made
while she lived at the Mansion.
Coffee Shoppe — Observed in
I , quiet conversation while waiting
for their lunch in the Sir \\ alter
Coffee Shoppe last week were all
the state supreme court judges
save the top man. cane-swinging
Judge Stacey. He is seldom seen
with his assistants. They seldom
lunch outside their own group:
and almost invariably eat their
mid-day meal at the S&W or the
Sir Walter.
Among other prominent people
who may be seen lunching in the
coffee shoppe almost any day are
Mrs. J. C. B. Ehringhaus and Mrs.
J. M. Broughton.
Empty Houses — As service
camps expand in Southeastern
North Carolina, the housing
shortage increases. Anything with
four walls and a roof is accept
able.
THIS WEEK'S
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1949 CHEVROLET 4-I)oor
Sedan - Radio & Heater
Seat Covers _ S1295.0C
1949 CHEVROLET 2-Door
New tires, low miles $1325.00
1949 FORD 8, Custom 4-Dooi
Sedan, good tires, radio,
heater ...$1395.0<
1948 CHEVROLET SEDAN
Bargain_$975.0(
1950 FORD 1 Ton Stake
Dual wheels _ S1275.0C
1949 CHEVROLET 1 Ton
Pick-up, deluxe cab $1195.00
1947 FORD
Dump Truck _ $795.00
1941 CHEVROLET Vi Ton
Pick-up. new tires._ $525.00
1937 CHEVROLET Panel.
Cheap transportation $175.00
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McMURRAY
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Sales - Service
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i ne cunfii' • -
azine reports that at ( amp
ieune, newcomers stopped trying
to rent ‘‘those empty houses over
there," after it was pointed out
to them that the buildings are
used for training Marine ( orps
recruits in the tactics of house
to-house fighting.
Welcome Mat Dept. — Speak
ing f housing. Top Sail IVach re.ii
estate men down near Holly Rnlge
mailed letters to certain folks
around Raleigh last week telling
them they had been chosen to
receive without cost a parcel of
land right there on the big ponci
The catch was that recipients of
the gift had to take the letter
to the beach within four days to
stake out the claim and receive
other conditions for ownership. At
this writing, nobody to our know
ledge has seen fit to make the
trip.
The Hotel Sir Walter here is
rendering service men a fine ser
vice. Few of them in Raleigh for
the week end bring a bag with
them. Custom everywhere of
course is to require hotel guests
not having suitcases with them
to pay rent in advance. Instead
the Sir Walter is presenting the
service men with nice cards upon
registering and letting them pay
| wn l they check out.
i i.-iuess — Retail bus
inesses along the North ( arolina
South Carolina line for years now
have been losing business to the
Palmetto State because of the fact
that Tar Heels could go just across
the line and buy products without
paying the sales tax.
That situation has now been
cured, the South Carolina legis
lature having put on a sales tax
a few days ago. Georgia also put
on a sales tax this year.
North Carolina was one of the
first states to go into the sales
tax field. This year, 30 of the
48 states have a sales tax, and
1 I'ncle Sam is apparently thinking
of putting on one. Tennessee now
has a salae tax. Virginia is still
without one.
More and more states are swing
ing away from a tax on land as
the basis for their income and
are going heavily into the sales
and income brackets, which are
so sharply responsive to fluctua
tions in business. North Carolina
was a leader in this change and
its wisdom has been amply dem
onstrated. We are one of the very
few states that did not have to
raise taxes this year.
Movement — At a party given
for him last Saturday night by
his former associates in the State
Banking Commission, Gurney P.
Hood as casually as tying a shoe
lace ’ announced that a movement
was started “today”—last Satur
day—urging him to run for gov
ernor. His wife seemed more sur
prised than anybody else at the
gathering and chided the former
banking commissioner for not
letting her in on the surprise.
Joe Wolfe, executive secretary
of the N. C. Bankers Association,
had the day before reported on
what the annual meeting of the
bankers in Pinehurst this week
would be concerned with. However,
Gurney Hood Saturday night set
the stage for the chief topic of
VviAvrtv
conversation, at the four-day nn
ing of the bankers.
N’obody contacted
unm over the week
to know anything
‘movement’,, but it
started down the
which are neither par
That's where Hood ha'
This brings
I” guberna
three Wi.I
,f Durham;
and
by this col
end seemed
about the
could have
outer banks,
nor non-par.
been rest
ing since Scott turned him out
as banking commissioner
Political Activity
the “semi-announi
torial candidates t
iam B. Umstead
Brandon Hodges of As ev,.o
presently the state treasurer;
Gurney P. Hood, lately comm
ioner of banks, born in
and long-time residi ■ :
igb. In additiojt there
a movement for very a I
Krwin, supreme court .
Morganton, and so i
Thad Kure. Finally wt
Ray Boyd will run a
It begins to appear
will see more polite
than usual even for a •
ial year. For It. gover:
Rowe, able, young am
iormer senator ft
county, is running. Rov >
cessful business man. J<
Goldsboro
of Rnle
has been
...de Sam J.
justice from
talk a bo it
suspect Olla
1952
tivity
tator
likeable
Render
is a suc
ihn Lark
ins, the veteran irreprc-siblc sen
ator from Jones county may run.
J. V. Whitfield, repr< ntat
from Render may run (this will
undoubtedly hurt Roy Rowe); and
J.E. Pittman, law> < r, b
man and former senator from Lee
county is a candidate. Pittman is
able, middle of the road, and well
liked. His law partner,
Staton, was a public relations man
for Frank Graham, and will be
able to help Pittman considerably
with his campaign.
$165,000 — The state govern
ment is not only reaching out over
the state figuratively, it is spread
ing literally as well, and last
week completed negotiations for
the purchase of Mansion Park
hotel two blocks east of the cap
itol for $165,000. The old Mere
dith college building will be used
initially to house certain state
agencies, but will in time be
converted into another beautiful
state office building. This pur
chase was made possible by a
legislative enactment authorizing
the state to purchase land in an
ticipation of future needs. A con
siderably saving in money may be
thus achieved.
One of its residents is Frank
Guy, Statesville native who has
been a Mansion Park roomer for
25 years. He remarked last week
that he could tell folks he was
forced to move when the home
he had occupied for a quarter of
a century was sold for $165,000.
Guy, a bachelor who knows the
in’s and out’s of politics, is em
ployed in the state auditor's office.
He can send you into hysterics with
tales of by-gone days. Some time
he should write a book on "Rale
igh Confidential" or something.
His best story, which don’t do
to tell here, recounts how he first
met the late Gov. A. \Y. McLean
in all his dignity in a rest room
in the capitol—and the conversa
tion which followed about plumb
ing fixture and toilet facilities
VMIHII weir ill vAlSLirliUc l
State house in 1925.
Guy reports that the governor’s
dignity in the rest room that day
was never matched again by him,
or any governor since.
Fired — William T. Couch, who
during his 20 years at Chapel Hill
built the University of North
Carolina Press into one of the best
of its nature in the business, has
been fired as director of the Uni
versity of Chicago Press. Nobody
in this state seemed to know much
about the firing until they read
the current copy of Scene Mag
abine.
In this article, Couch says he
was turned out because he in
sisted on publishing a book,
“Americans Betrayed,” which tells
of hundreds of Japanese families
being moved out to California dur
ing World War II.
The book was written by Morton
Grodzins, a member of the staff
of the University of California.
That university said the Univer
sity of Chicago was behaving terri
bly in using the materials pre
pared by one of their staff mem
bers. There were probably other
reasons for their not wanting it
published. Couch went ahead any
way when it could not be ascer
tained that he was acting un
ethically or illegally. Anyway, the
main thing in which N. C. is in
terested is that their man Couch,
whom they had such a high re
gard for and hated so much to
lose five years ago, is now out
in the cold. He’d better have stayed
down here with us liberal peo'ple
and out of that rarefied atmos
phere which seems to envelop the
Univ. of Chicago.
HE NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD!
Lt. E. K. Brake of Camp Le
Juene spent from Thursday to Sun
day with Mrs. Brake and children,
Toni and Jerry.
tommy brown
CELEBRATES
birthday
Ton mv Br. wn, -on of Mr. and
M,. T K Brown, celebrated his
n• t hi : ini with a party at
Tut '.iav afternoon, May
T'.- children were attracted
hV Tommy's pony and spent most
,,f th. afternoon riding.
Following a good time of fur
ami frolic, birthday cake and ict
Ileum were served to the follow
no Kav (>m ne, Ann McSweeney
I in,la Slat:hews, Pricilla Morris
Dona ; Stu bs, Rhoda Ann Mor
.lane - Gresham Northcott
im'z Jones. Mack Kirkpatrick
Mai-"all Garland. Robin Corkran
Jun: r Jones, Rusty Lunsford
Sarah Jane Goodson, Bruce Knupp
Knupi B Pitsgerald
i t1 Wanda Ki ;pp Mrs. Browr
y Mn W. K. M<
Leai '■ . . M rs. Lea Mor
i and Mrs. Todd Knupp.
Tea And Tapic Hub Ha?
Monthly Meeting
The monthly bridge meeting a
the Tea and Topic Club was hel<
at the home of Mrs. E. S. Jack
-m, Blue Ridge, Friday night
May 11. When scores were adde<
Mrs. S. S. Cooley held high fo
the evening. Mrs. Carl I t icket
received the consolation prize, am
Mrs. W. W. White the bing,
award.
Those present were Mrs. R. 1
Greene, Mrs. A. F. Tyson Jr., Mrs
Roy Taylor, Mrs. Richard Oulahan
Mrs. White, Mrs. J. L. Holman Jr
Mrs. Cooley, Mrs. Otty Leemar
Mrs. John Ramsay, Mrs. Gordoi
Greenwood and Mrs. Trickett. .*
sweet course was served by th
hostess.
SHORT VACATION
Mrs. A. J. Pemberton and Mr
Douglas Jones left last week en
for a short vacation in Norfolk
Yh. Mrs. Pemberton will visit he
brother near Norfolk, and Mr.
Jones will visit her son an
daughter-in-law and grandsor
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Milbee an
Micheal.
PARENTS ILL
Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Tinney re
turned Friday night from Penr
sylvania where they were calle
due to the illness of Mrs. Tir
ney’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. .
Davis Bowman, who are both i
in St. Joseph’s hospital in Lar
caster, Pa.
KEY CITY EMPLOYEE
Miss Jeraldine Collins of Ruth
erfordton is spending the summe
with her sister, Mrs. Billy Step!
enson. She is employed at th
Key City Drug Store.
COMING HOME
Mr. and Mrs. Rush Whitesid
will arrive about June 15 frot
Philadelphia, Pa., where they hav
been spending the winter.
Uons Will fcp,lrt Q
State Convention n
Members ,,f .
who attended th<
at Winston-Sai,
report tonigl • - - j
meeting of the
Vista. Preside!
will preside, in
is program eha
1'ians are un
annual ladies mgh- ."/■ :
June 14 at the |; v
club house.
RODKHAl S (,iKvis
Mrs. \. I.. p, .
Mary hi. Ales}
dinner Monday .......
tain and Mrs. K H
will leave toda;. i ]
Kelley Field, San \
where Capt. ;
ed for Kuropean
air corps.
\ isrf in spri (i p'iVT
Mrs. I . I!. St
highway spent la>
Mr. and Sli .. .1 ,
small son in Spin. pi.
WEEK IN XU. To\\\
Mrs. E. M. lly
daughter, Jean
spending a wee. \.
Citv.
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